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Originally Posted by Marion
Whole thing is the detective normally narrates a story, such as Battler does. We aren't narrating Umineko. And I think a reader's viewpoint can be easily swayed depending on how they feel about a certain character.
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It is not particularly necessary for the detective to narrate a story. It is a bit unusual for the detective to not even be a character in the story, but it's been done before and far more unusually than "the reader is the detective." There have been mysteries where the victim was the detective, etc. There have also been murder mysteries with no victim, no crime, and so forth. The elements are not indivisible.
Remember, ep6 appears to
have no detective, and the only person who seems all that interested in what's actually happening is us, the readers. And we're really in a better position to evaluate everything than anyone on the board, meta-, or meta-meta- level in-story is.