As of 2025, the 2021 event content for Nagito Shinomiya is still accessible but with caveats:
This meta-narrative broke the fourth wall, suggesting that Shinomiya wanted to lose. By winning, he lost his purpose. The route ends with him walking into a foggy forest, never to be seen again in the main story. This "bad ending" is widely considered the most emotionally devastating piece of writing in the 2021 visual novel landscape. nagito shinomiya 2021
In a gut-wrenching cutscene, Shinomiya reveals that he has been manipulating probability for years by storing "bad luck seeds" inside his own body. The 2021 event forced him to expel these seeds, resulting in a graphic physical transformation. Fan forums erupted. Social media clips of his breakdown—laughing while bleeding from his eyes—went viral across Twitter and Bilibili. As of 2025, the 2021 event content for