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Originally Posted by kari-no-sugata
PS Regarding the mystery itself, I think some people were overly focused on the "rules" of mystery writing (particularly detective fiction) yet the story for the film did not have a proper detective role and was also written to be a film and not a novel. More importantly, remember that Irisu got involved with this project late in the game - she says that Hongou studied the genre and "should have" followed the various rules. She does not state for certain that Hongou did in fact follow those particular rules - I dont know how well the subs conveyed this but it seems fairly clear to me in the Japanese.
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I believe that's just a figure of speech? I'll be very disappointed if the solution is that the author cheated by not follow the rules. Houtarou's explanation about the first person perspective and flashlight is kind of ok, but I still feel cheated before that was shot down.