Angel's Egg & The Man Who Shattered Time | Genshin Impact Theory

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Genshin Impact draws inspiration from a multitude of sources, both established and obscure. From Fullmetal Alchemist to Nuclear Engineering, the game integrates various ideas to enrich its world and characters.

With that being said, I recently found what I believe to be the single most fundamental and crucial source of inspiration behind the narrative that propels Genshin's world: a 1985 OVA titled "Angel's Egg" by the legendary Mamoru Oshii. Trust me when I say that if you're even remotely a fan of Genshin Impact, you will definitely want to hear the story behind this anime... Because that story is what we are currently playing right now.

Dainsleif and Paimon have long been recognized as major characters in Genshin. However, their significance to the story is set to grow even further from this point onward, with the key to understanding them lying in a seemingly inconspicuous Rtawahist student named Layla and a book released in patch 4.5, titled "Perinheri".

Fun fact, this video was originally supposed to be 25 minutes long 🙂

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Check out Part I if you stumbled upon this one first!:    • Teyvat: King Irmin's Great Lie | Gens...  
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Timestamps:-
The Dream Yet to Be Dreamed (0:00)
The Moons who loved the Star of Daylight (3:14)
Angel’s Egg (8:41)
The Eye of the Crimson Moon (15:40)
Music & Samsaras (23:26)
Nightingale (26:50)
The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies (34:51)
Filianore, the Princess of Sunlight (38:05)
Nine (51:05)
FIGHT! (1:03:46)
Red (1:07:57)
The Tale of the Mirror, the Palace, and the Dreamer (1:15:22)
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Spoiler Warnings:-
Movie:
Angel's Egg
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Genshin Impact:
Archon Quest: Masquerade of the Guilty
Khaneri'ah Chapter: The Dream Yet to Be Dreamed
Anything before Version 3.0 in Genshin is fair game
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Honkai: Star Rail:
Companion Mission: A Knight Stranger
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Anything from Honkai Impact 3rd is fair game
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#genshinimpact #dainsleif #paimon
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*Select clips courtesy of Pixabay & Adobe Stock
*This video was heavily inspired by VaatiVidya's video on Filianore:    • Dark Souls 3 Lore ► Angel's Egg & Fil...  

All Comments (21)
  • Does this mean Dainsleif will be the winner in the final battle against the Traveler? Or perhaps he already won that battle. Many times over since the Abyss Sinbling calls him their enemy. This is actually really cool.
  • @thelostyaksha
    A wise man once said part two will be 25-30 mins max
  • @EmperorMist
    my man cooking a whole gourmet table in a restaurant
  • @TheOVJM
    I got chills when you talked about Fischl and Paimon being the same person and remembered that Fischl is shortened from fischlein meaning small fish, or exactly what Paimon is called.
  • @lexical450
    Please don't stop making these "long ass movies", you're one of the few GI lore channels that goes the extra mile and it's so indescribably interesting. Thank you for your hard work and can't wait for 4.6.
  • @DrakeWurrum
    Wait a minute... The way you phrased it as "the three moons were sisters of the night" Sisters of the night... mother? Sisters of darkness? Or perhaps a dark moon? Now it clicks. The moon has 4 phases: Waxing, full, waning, and new. Ancient myth might not even record the new moon as one of the moons - it'd just look like empty darkness, and empty night sky. Finally the theory that the moon sisters are the four shining shades actually makes sense to me. The fourth one is just empty darkness
  • @tealjarven9484
    Layla also falls asleep on her orb when in party setup. This could also parallel the egg
  • @279moo
    I imagine the dropping of perinheri was INSANE for you
  • @RukkhaRukkha
    You know... 6 months ago when you said that you had a lot to say about Layla while running in the desert... I had no clue you meant THIS much.
  • @moss_soft
    Teyvat potentially being a "dream world" finally helped me to understand why Nahida could visit dreams (and read thoughts in the gameplay) and why [redacted] could harvest dreams for the Akasha. When you are dreaming (sleeping) you are not creating a "separate" dream. It's still a part of the original one. Another layer of it. And if this dream is so big that it has different living beings in it that could also dream. And is sustained by lets say a Tree. An avatar of a Tree who has access to information circulating in the original dream surely can gain access to smaller ones.
  • Wow. Just Wow. Minsleif is gonna go through the stages of grief with this one knowing that her husbando is actually evil or something!
  • @figureviews
    Fuck I knew it, Dainsleif was talking about Paimon at the Travail trailer.
  • @chester9787
    53:29 There are actually three characters with this split personality: Layla and "night" Layla - dream Amy and Fishl - daydream Furina and Focalors - self-deception (little oceanid dreamed of becoming a human and she achieved her goal after deceiving everyone and herself) And all three may correlate with what the Pale Princess is doing right now.
  • @jairverplaats153
    Angel's egg getting referenced was something i was not prepared for. What a feast
  • @Zarozian
    The dream must end someday. Teyvat is a paradise merely shielding humanity from the far crueler world beyond the firmament and below.
  • @ShirouE
    I WATCHED THE ANGEL'S EGG WHEN I WAS A KID HOLY SITIIGIFOFOGOFOF You blew my mind good sir.
  • @Skylight-nn9cl
    I never expected someone to be more convincing than Ashikai and Roozevelt, but DAMN BOI YOU THICC! 😤 I'm glad you brought in the Dark Souls stuff because I had recently noticed it myself when looking up lore videos for that game, and all that stuff from the animated movie was so interesting. You're definitely solving the entire story for Genshin, no doubt. Great job! Also, since you decided to talk about Arlecchino... MAN, if you saw the leaks of her boss design, you're gonna like what's coming with those red eyes. 4.6 is gonna bring the lore!
  • @multiumx7896
    Me watching this masterpiece of theory "If this is madness I don't wanna be sane"
  • @VeraldoAncodini
    Great video. Tenshi no Tamago is an amazing movie, I wish more people see and understand it. I don't think Genshin's story will end like in its many inspiration materials, I bet that they're baiting us with these sources of inspiration only to twist the plot when we least expect it.
  • @dasytaylor
    6:25 "The Traveler!" - "The Sun!" - "Oh, right" Man I was grinning throughout the whole Dark Souls lore explanation, I knew nothing about that game but the connections blew my mind