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>>15710412
>author says X is the truth

>>15509257
And Mion killed everyone in ep 2 of Higurashi.

>>14890946
>I find the book's logic faulty, it does bring a point that a detective and reader could be tricked into finding the wrong culprit.
To expand on that point, it's also something Ryukishi07 wrote about concerning anti-mystery and anti-fantasy and is reflected equally in Higurashi. If all the evidence is presented and the story points to a culprit and then, in a later sequel, it's revealed with the same presented evidence, but with added light, that the culprit is really someone else, what does it mean? Ryukishi07 dubs this the anti-mystery.

A good example is Shion and Mion. In ep 2 of Higurashi, Mion is clearly shown to be the culprit and even confesses that she is the culprit. But what if ep 5 were never released? By that point, the reader assumes that Mion is clearly the culprit when she is innocent. This is an equal point of whether or not Eva killed anyone other than Natsuhi and Krauss, as the Rosatrice theory states, or whether she killed everyone afterwards. Same thing with Yasu and with Kyrie. I still personally think that Ryukishi07 purposefully made Kyrie the 'true' culprit and left it as that. The anti-mystery like with Mion in Higurashi, but without a follow up.