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Anonymous Sat Jan 8 21:54:43 2011 No.6778527 [Reply] [Original]

Did anyone ever figure out the Witch's Epitaph? Japanese or otherwise?

1. The key is confirmed to be 11 characters long, all part of the english alphabet.
2. The first verse of the epitaph has almost nothing to do with Beatrice's death on Rokkenjima.
3. It is humanly possible to solve the epitaph from only reading up to Episode 2, but provided you have the following:
A. Extensive Knowledge of Asian Geography
B. Japanese Settlements and migrations in the World War II/Showa Era
C. Fluency in the English language(This would be a hindrance for the intended native Japanese audience)
D. Fluency in Japanese, especially kanji.
E. Chinese Pinyin conventions and basic characters.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 21:58:43 2011 No.6778542 One of the English fans guessed Taiwan

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:01:43 2011 No.6778551 Taiwan theory is pretty old, so yes it was solvable. Quadrillion was really obvious to be the key.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:10:43 2011 No.6778568 No, it's fucking random as hell and unsolvable. If you read every bit of information in the game so far, before it gave you the answer, there is no possible way for you to solve that retarded epitaph.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:12:43 2011 No.6778582 Lot of Japs figured it, not many westerners did but there were some.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:13:43 2011 No.6778584 >>6778568 It was already solved before ep6

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:14:43 2011 No.6778586 Taiwan, subway station, Qilin, quadrillion, anagram, LORDU(shiromiya). Now pull a few levers on the contraption to make the indicator point in another direction, which points the way to the underground VIP room with the gold.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:20:43 2011 No.6778602 I have no knowledge of Taiwan at all. i guess only few can pull it off.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:23:43 2011 No.6778609 The best part is, figuring this out is utterly irrelevant to the plot, feels good Ryukishi.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:24:43 2011 No.6778610 I really wanted to solve this, but I'm terrible at japanese so no way I'd get that wordplay as well as no knowledge of Japanese history to know about their relation with Taiwan, the areca nuts, etc

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:24:43 2011 No.6778617 Taiwan theory faggot. We've known about it for two years.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:29:43 2011 No.6778628 File: 9 KB, 235x215, kinzo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ushiromiya = behind the temple temple = church behind the church is the underground passage to the gold why solve the dumb epitaph? when you didn't even need to.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:50:43 2011 No.6778691 >>6778628 KINZOOOOOOOOOOO

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:55:43 2011 No.6778707 YOU COULDN'T SOLVE THE EPITAPH THEREFORE THIS IS A BULLSHIT MYSTERY AND NOT SOLVABLE BY EPISODE 4! Except not really, solving the epitaph does not help you with the mystery. At all.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:57:43 2011 No.6778715 i never actually figured out the answers to the closed room games they been doing, including the ep6's logic error.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:58:43 2011 No.6778723 >>6778715 You and Ryukishi share something in common, then.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:58:43 2011 No.6778725 >>6778715 Yes, well... Shkanontrice, a.k.a. Yasu.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 22:59:43 2011 No.6778729 >>6778725 so all the solution goes for that?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 23:03:43 2011 No.6778749 >>6778729 Of course, because without love it cannot be seen.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 23:05:43 2011 No.6778759 File: 112 KB, 1920x1080, 1293341568206.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6778749 >>6778723 dont give me that much credit. im just slow.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 23:17:43 2011 No.6778809 >>6778715 Well, it's not like any of them happened anyway.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 23:32:43 2011 No.6778863 >>6778809 its the journey that counts, not results.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 23:43:43 2011 No.6778911 >>6778863 If only that journey existed.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 23:50:43 2011 No.6778951 >>6778527 Fairly sure yeah, at least I REMEMBER somebody offering up a similar theory. The issue was that solving it required knowledge of Japanese history AND English in order to solve it. In other words, a utterly crazy riddle.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 8 23:59:43 2011 No.6779006 >>6778527 Googling "Umineko Taiwan epitaph" leads to people talking about solutions to the epitaph which are very close to the actual soloution all the way back from episode 5

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