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Old 2012-12-11, 01:11   Link #31336
chronotrig
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Originally Posted by Renall View Post
Granted, to know Kinzo's personality to know that Natsuhi is contradicting it we needed to see all those other scenes of Kinzo where he's establishing his personality... none of which happened either. Damn.
Maybe it helps to see the magic scenes as testimony. After all, there are plenty of mystery novels where many of the clues come from comparing witness testimony, which can always be filled with lies. The only difference is that Umineko forces you to figure out which scenes are testimony, and who's telling what parts.


To apply that in this specific case, we have conflicting testimony on what Kinzo's personality is. Therefore, one of those scenes must contain a lie. The fact that Kinzo left the epitaph as a way to determine his successor sort of kills the credibility of the Natsuhi scene, so we're forced to think of why that lie was created.
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