/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I don't get all the rage for the ending of this series. I mean Ryukishi said that you could solve the game in EP1-4 and frankly most of /jp/ got the core mysteries down before EP5:

We deduced that Shanon and Kanon are the same person
We deduced that there were 'three' Beatrices
We deduced that one of the Beatrice was sexually assaulted by Kinzo because OH DESIRE.
We deduced that the magic scenes and characters were metaphors.
We deduced that not everyone's perspective is valid.

After EP5
We deduced that there was an explosion.

And then the rest if the answer arcs told us what we already figured out. The only things that we didn't see coming was the Submarine, Battler surviving, Nazi gold and the cluster fuck that is Rudolph and Kyrie.

Ryukishi said that the answer arcs won't be straight up answers. He said (and I'm paraphrasing here) that you could find the answers in EP1-4 but for those that weren't sure of the answers they reached he'd have EP5-8 solidify the answers. For example if the answer was apple, and you the reader got as far as realizing that the answer is red, round and edible, the answer arcs won't say "Its an Apple" it'll say "you're on the right track". And like listed above /jp/ pretty much got the core parts.

The running theme of the Answer Arcs was the biggest hint. It didn't hint at the answer, it hinted at how the questions was supposed to be attacked. "Without love it cannot be seen" was the biggest hint there. In the story focusing on the the "how dunnit" was "looking without love" since it didn't factor in human emotion and motive and that's where /jp/ started tripping. Instead of focusing on the motive and the perpetrators, we got caught up on how exactly each character died and then we got pissed at the seemingly impossible puzzles.

I think Ive finally figures out who the killer was. I got the idea for who it was and I'm currently replaying EP 1-4 with a pen and paper and jotting shit down. The person who I think is the culprit fits for EP2 but I'm not sure the person fits for the other episodes or maybe Ryukishi changed the culprits for the other ones and I have to find them out too.

It actually occurred to me while watching the second arc in the anime with my sister and she said "Hey, why is that scene important, it doesn't 'fit' with the others" and then I replayed EP2 to look at it closer and it clicked, then I fast forwarded to a scene concerning a death in EP4 and that clicked and with those two pieces in mind I'm fucking going for the gold.

The reason I have high hopes or this is because it makes the most sense with the least amount of assumptions and way out there speculations. But anyway the reason fr this thread is to see if anybody has come close or as close as I have or if they have a tidbits they think are important. I don't wanna say who I think it is because I want to see if someone came up with the person independently without any prodding from me.

>>5000835
or this guy

So now I'm seriously gonna start trying to figure out who the murderer is. I'm just wondering if there's anyway to rip out the translation of EP1-4 from the game and put into a word document so its easier to reference? Opening the game and holding down ctrld till I reach the part I want is a pain when I coult just ctrl f (key word) search in a word document.