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[saxsongs]

[The video starts with a handsome young man, smiling at the camera.]

Hello, fellow otherworlders! My name is Ren Jinguji. I come from a place called Japan, on planet Earth. I'm an idol, so my talents at saving worlds are rather limited, but I'm going to try my best anyway.

[That's a quick introduction, but he does have something to say while he's here.]

So, I think several of us have been to "other worlds", similar to this one. I think it might be a good thing to get a bit of an idea just how many of these worlds there even are.

[Who knows, people might find others who they hadn't even realized had been there.]

The world's I've visited are called Prismatica and Avalon. That's already two that aren't this place.

Prismatica had a system that was rather similar to here, where touch was involved, but as a world it was quite different. Avalon, on the other hand, was like straight from the tales of King Arthur... but with an addition of technology.

[Those are mostly just simple summaries. He will likely elaborate if asked.]

So, what are your world hopping experiences?

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[saxsongs]

It's a pleasure to meet other idols. What agency are you with, if you don't mind me asking?

Mine is the Shining Agency.

[Who knows, maybe they know each others' agencies.]

[paradiseunboxed]

[bold of you to assume Nagisa pays attention to other agencies]

It's a pleasure to meet you as well.

I'm with Cosmic Productions.

[saxsongs]

[W o w.]

Hmm, I haven't heard of that. It's likely we're from different worlds, despite being from Japan. A shame.

[paradiseunboxed]

I haven't heard of the Shining Agency either, so you may be correct.

How strange. I was given to understand that divergent timelines normally had much greater differences.

Compared to differences such as who won this or that war, or whether this or that inventor died, doesn't a different roster of idol agencies seem trivial?

Perhaps that's only to be expected.

Given an infinite variety of possible alternate universes, the vast majority must be worlds that are nearly identical save for tiny, even negligible differences.

Then again, perhaps there are more differences between our Japans to be discovered. After all, we've only discussed idol agencies so far.

[saxsongs]

The difference could also very well be if either of us comes from a different time. I'm from the 21st century myself.

Otherwise, there's really nothing strange about the Japan I come from that would need to be highlighted.

[paradiseunboxed]

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What a coincidence, I'm from the 21st century as well.

I'd say that there's also nothing that strange about the Japan I come from too, but I don't know for sure.

After all, any characteristics that you'd find strange would seem quite normal to me.

[saxsongs]

That's a good point.

Maybe we should just compare notes about our Japans at some point. Just to see if we find glaring differences.

[paradiseunboxed]

That sounds like it would be quite an interesting exercise.

I'd like to hear more about what the idol industry is like in your world, too.

[saxsongs]

Likewise. Maybe we'll learn something interesting from each others' stories.