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However, behind the scenes, cracks were beginning to form. [Specify factors contributing to the downfall, e.g., controversy, scandal, personal struggles, etc.]. As the pressures mounted, Momota's online presence began to unravel, culminating in a very public collapse.

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: Momota brings a vulnerability to the role that anchors the more fantastical sci-fi elements in a sense of real dread.

Given the information available up to my last update in April 2023, I couldn't find a widely recognized public figure by the name of Emiri Momota associated with an event known as "The Fall of Emiri" in 2021. If this pertains to a niche topic, a fictional story, or a less publicized event, more specific details would be helpful.

Then, the unthinkable happened. He didn't make it out of the group stage.

Tokyo in 2021 moved with the pale dignity of a city learning to breathe again. Streets hummed at a distance, like a remembered song. Masks had become part of people’s faces, and Emiri found them oddly comforting: anonymous seams that let her observe without being observed. She worked evenings at a record store that smelled of vinyl and lemon oil, and days she studied old maps at the municipal archive, tracing roads that had been rerouted, rivers that had been buried, houses that no longer existed. In maps she saw the memory of the city, layers of decisions like pages peeled away.