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Originally Posted by chronotrig
Some of these are some of her hardest mysteries to solve, even though the 'answer' is the most obvious.
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This also ties into Poirot's constant mantra about how the murderer is always the most obvious person.
Who's the most obvious person in Umineko?
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Originally Posted by Oliver
That's one way it's possible. I think a more likely variant would be that in the early morning of the 4th, a lot of plans and motives -- possibly as much as six or ten -- exist, some of them involving murder, some not involving murder at all, and some accepting murder as an option when the opportunity presents itself.
By the time 5th rolls in, some of them are shelved away, because other actions make them impossible -- people die and can't follow up, crucial accomplices die so plans become unfeasible, people learn new information, motives become more or less appealing due to that information -- and several play out simultaneously. Sometimes it results in a different person doing something in each episode, and no single person or faction committing all the crimes within the space of one episode.
Somehow all those plans by seemingly unrelated groups have a singular root, which is Ryukishi's excuse for saying we can actually uncover all of them if we find it.
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So you're saying that Umineko is a bit like Murder on the Orient Express, but less unified and more convoluted? That is, EVERYONE is a culprit in some form or another?