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Originally Posted by scwizard
Except that Zepar and Furfur symbolically imply that cross dressing is indeed involved :O
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Can I just say it was a red herring? Can you see any hints about cross-dressing in EP1-4 at all?
Ryukishi07 knew that Shkannon theory was popular, he knew that he had to store up some popular but false theories in order to prolong the game. He left a particular blindspot in EP5 such that it was not Erika's but Batter's point of view when all the people showed up and latter just declared that Battler's point of view was not reliable in EP5. It was indeed a dirty trick because he seemingly crashed Shkanon theory but left a small space.
In EP6, he made it seemed like Shkanon theory was actually the truth. In fact, it was true, but only in EP6 (not crossdressing, but mere creating scenes which Yoshiya seemed to be alive). But he knew that people would put this theory in use in other episodes as well. If he used Erika's point of view for the parlor scene, then Shkanon theory was crushed. And he intentionally did not explicitly declared it right or wrong as he knew it would spur great discussion. It was really his dirty trick.
He successfully diverted many readers to believe in a full-on Shkanon theory indeed. Such a cunning guy!
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For those who believed in Battler being the culprit, wish you good luck!!
The first time I read "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", it was awesome since the clues were well planted actually. But any latter writers who wanted to copy this plot would just be cheating readers. And sorry, not enough clues pointing to Battler was the culprit as well.