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Originally Posted by Crontica

So far we the viewers have been spoon-fed that the culprit is Beatrice. I mean just look at her! With a neon sign on her head and the proof to boot.
With no other explanation in sight we are forced to believe whats in front of us for the time being

Spoiler for Umineko Theory:

What if the time hasn't come for the culprit to appear?
Take a look at the mindfck that just happened in this ep for example.

In this world the riddle got solved by Eve leading to Beatrice giving up her name.
Because Meta-Beatrice stumbled onto this world and saw what happened she also gave up her name aswell.
( Why did Meta-Beatrice have to do that? After all, Meta-Beatrice and Beatrice are on different Timescales she could have easily used the doppelganger trick to keep her title, or did she choose the latter in order to destroy whatever logic Battler has left )

Now back to the theory, could it be that they haven't stumbled unto to world where the true culprit is yet. Maybe the culprit is another Meta-Beatrice that got her personalty twisted beyond repair, that may satisfy the "supernature mystery" as you've stated but the human mystery / nature mystery are left unchecked.

If i remember this right in order for Battler to win this game he must find the culprit without suspecting the 18 individuals (As you see him defending Kannon / Shannon in the latter eps ) A pretty suicidal move to begin with when beatrice just pulled a mindfck move by showing that she no longer alive.

Forcing Battler to go back and find the 19th culprit unless they are saying that the culprit is Chibi-Eve creating a nice 18/19 Paradox Which almost solves the human mystery aspect but battler would be treading on thin ice with this one.

As for the nature mystery im completely clueless on this one, the episodes so far have not explored the island yet.

PS: Do you think if Kyoani got ahold of Higurashi / Umineko the adaptation would be brilliant or the latter?

Well in fact we are being SO spoonfed it is Beatrice, that there should emerge at least a bit of awareness that it could be a big red herring.

And concering your breakdown of what the game is about there is one little misunderstanding.
Battler's job is not to prove that there is no murderer among the 18 people, he is free to go and suspect any one of them, hell he is free to do whatever he likes, his one and only goal is to prove that the murders on Rokkenjima in 1986 during the 3 days that Beatrice describes as the gameboard, were done without the use of magic and without the help of a supernatural being like a witch.

Of course he does not want the culprit to be one of his dear relatives or the servants who have been so nice to him, this is the very flaw that he carries around which gives Beatrice so much room to attack.