If you haven’t seen Eve no Jikan, you won’t understand this. If you have seen it, you will. And this will probably help with a lot of confusion that the show leaves in the minds of a lot of people. Then again, it’ll also add to the confusion. This discovery of mine compelled me to think new things about the show and the things it’s explored. Also: second season plzkthx.

I’m sure you’ve all seen this screenshot. This is from the last episode of the OVA series, featuring the unedited article of the original Tokisaka Incident. I originally thought that the name, Tokisaka Incident, was derived from the fact that the incident occurred a place called Tokisaka. While I was checking through signs to be typesetted for the EnJ movie, I noticed the article once again. This time, I paid more attention to it. On a random urge, I visited the Eve no Jikan website (http://timeofeve.com/) and checked the Character page. The character page lists whether characters are humans or robots and I thought it was odd how Akiko was listed as unknown, so I did a bit of checking.
Upon comparing the photo of the girl in the article with Akiko’s photo on the website, I realized that Akiko is the said girl. The kanji caption underneath the image is blurred (by the creators) so I couldn’t really tell when I first saw it, but after looking at it very closely, I figured it that this is what it says:
常坂アキコちゃん
Translated, that reads: Tokisaka Akiko-chan. In other words, the 5 year old girl that was injured was Tokisaka Akiko. The incident was actually named after the person involved, not the place.
Yeah, just wanted to share.