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Old 2013-02-09, 11:09   Link #31861
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I imagine it's mostly just a matter of reality not matching up to expectations.

Ten tons of gold is a very large quantity. It's also an extremely valuable quantity. So you assume it must take a ton of physical space. But gold is very dense, so it doesn't take up as much as you'd figure. And Kinzo's gold is monetary gold (presumably), which is bullion, which tends to be 99% pure metal (gold used in jewelry and whatnot would not be this pure).

By contrast, Fort Knox's bullion reserve has about 4,500 metric tons and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has about 7,000. Combined, that's about 8% of all gold that has ever been mined.

Also a random fun fact, but most gold bullion ingots are very small. Kinzo's are repeatedly portayed as appearing somewhat large, especially in the anime and manga, but a 1kg gold bar is fairly small (it would basically fit on your open hand). The size of bars most people imagine for Kinzo's stash would actually be a more appropriate size for silver, which is less dense.

EDIT: Which isn't to say the RSI or whoever couldn't have melted it down and intentionally recast it in 10-100kg bars for whatever reason, since that is apparently what happened with it. A 100kg gold bar would be decently big, but I can't imagine Rosa trying to carry one for long while running.

EDIT EDIT: Also by a conservative estimate, if Kinzo's bars were 10kg, each would be worth a quarter of a million dollars or so. Although I think the price of gold was (relatively) higher in the mid-80s, it's gone down a little recently.

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Ha ha, Kinzo doesn't even have 10 tons of gold, or Battler is lowballing its value in End. He suggests it's 20 billion Yen. On 10/03/1986 the value of gold was $430/oz (yes, they recorded this that precisely), which is about 72,463.6 Yen at 1986 exchange rates. That's 276,000.64 oz, which is only 8.625 tons (or 7.654 metric tons).
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Old 2013-02-09, 15:09   Link #31862
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Also a random fun fact, but most gold bullion ingots are very small. Kinzo's are repeatedly portayed as appearing somewhat large, especially in the anime and manga
Don't forget this, it may fall under lolfightinggame, but still...


Headcanon: Rosa has super strength. If a 1kg gold bar can fit in a hand, then she has to be super strong to life one like that.
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Old 2013-02-09, 15:52   Link #31863
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An ingot that size is like what... 500-600kg? Rosa works out. She works out like crazy.
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Old 2013-02-09, 16:17   Link #31864
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That must be why Maria cries a lot when Rosa beats her... And now I've noticed a consistency error: the one-winged eagle crest is mirrored in the ingot and the CG.
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Old 2013-02-09, 18:31   Link #31865
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I think no one among the manga authors had a clear idea about how big the 'mountain' of gold should have been. In End it's taller than Battler, in Banquet chap 11 the mountain is tall around as much as TeenagerEva on her knees... but then in another scene it seems taller than Eva herself...

I guess not even Ryukishi bothered about digging into those details. After all the point is that there's a huge amount of gold but how much space it takes is never mentioned.

The 'funny' side is that since that gold shouldn't have taken much space in Ep 7 the Italians could have hidden it in boxes or something like that instead than clearly show them to the Japanese and discharge the closed boxes.

Wikipedia has a page about goldbars, how big they should be and how much they should weight, if someone wants to have fun calculating how much space Kinzo's gold should take.
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Old 2013-02-09, 19:17   Link #31866
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Wikipedia has a page about goldbars, how big they should be and how much they should weight, if someone wants to have fun calculating how much space Kinzo's gold should take.
This appears to be the standard for international ingot sizes. Thus, each ingot should be 12kg and measure about 250mm long, 70mm wide, and 35mm high. Let's assume "10 tons" is metric tons; there are therefore approximately 834 bars total. Let's make it an even 840.

Let's assume Kinzo stacks them 12-tall (meaning 70 bars per layer) and "square" (35x35 though it isn't actually square because the ingots aren't). The pile would be 8.75m long, 2.45m wide, 0.42m tall. If we make it taller by making it 20-tall (42 bars per layer) it'd be 5.25m long, 1.47m wide, and 0.70m tall. To even break 1m in height would require the pile be about 29 bars tall, which only gives 29 bars per layer, which is 3.75m long and 1.12m wide.

If you put it on a 1m tall pedestal and displayed the pile lengthwise (so the bars are seen side-on), it would look reasonably impressive, but the pile still can't be that huge. If you square it off it could be about 2m by 2m by 1m or so. It would not tower over anybody unless it was stacked enough that it wouldn't be much more than 1m to a side, which is not that impressive.

Incidentally, each bar would be worth ¥27,898,640 or $165,550.91. The total value of the entire pile is ¥23,434,857,600 or $139,062,764.40. As of Friday, the value of the pile would be $540,633,114.
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Old 2013-02-09, 21:02   Link #31867
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70 bars per layer is 8*8 or 9*9, not 35*35.
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Old 2013-02-10, 02:09   Link #31868
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Even though
Spoiler for spoiler from EP 5:
, something just doesn't seem to add up regarding them supposedly
Spoiler for spoiler from EP 5:
.

Please keep in mind that my argument is based on the manga adaptation. Excuse my paranoia regarding spoilers, even if I'm doing a scientific discussion. It is my personal belief that the stakes
Spoiler for spoiler for theory purposes:
. As evidence for my argument, I bring in the concept of sectional density. In summary, sectional density is a measurement of the theoretical destructive potential of a piercing weapon. However, this formula is only ever practically used for relatively low velocity piercing weapons (such as spears, darts, etc). The formula for calculating SD is ((weight)/(diameter^2)). Diameter is measured from the widest point of the business end of the weapon in question (the pointy end). The units used for diameter are inches for future reference.

Based on the manga, the stakes appear to be about 1-1.5 feet long and weigh about 1 pound. The business end appears to have the width of a typical cross bow bolt, which is usually about 0.37 inches. Plugging these numbers in, we get (1)/(0.37^2) = (1)/(0.1369) = 7.305.

7.3 doesn't seem very large, but put into appropriate context, those numbers are horrifying. A result greater than 0.9 is
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. An example weapon with this number, are some ice age era darts that have been found, nick named "mammoth killers". A heavy for example has a SD of about 2. An example of a weapon with a SD of over 7 is the WW1 "trench spike". This little terror is essentially a specialized dagger (varying from 1-1.5 feet long and being anywhere from 1-1.4 pounds) that was
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. Alas, they're pretty rare now a days.
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Old 2013-02-10, 03:22   Link #31869
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Isn't the grip a problem? "Trench spikes" had handles. The "stakes" don't.
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Old 2013-02-10, 03:26   Link #31870
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Well, the stakes "aren't suited for killing" in the way that, like, a pencil isn't suited for killing. It's almost certainly possible if you put enough effort into it, but it's pretty out-of-the-way, method wise. Freak accidents aside, human skulls are known for being pretty sturdy, so it's just far easier to think they're being shoved into pre-existing wounds (pretty much confirmed as of OC) than being the result of successful normal stabbity action. Also considering that we can reasonably assume, as early as Natsuhi's death in Legend, that the culprit has a gun and is using it. If they're actually paperweights, even moreso, since they probably wouldn't even be particularly sharp at the point ... pretty interesting, though, is that they're always described as being wide, conical, sorta drill-like, and the manga follows that, but in the anime they look much more stab-worthy and sharp.

Anyway, the sectional density stuff is pretty interesting - it's the sort of thing most people are vaguely aware of as a concept (i.e, it's way easier to, say, break the skin with a syringe than with a fork), but I never knew there were formulas for it and everything. I was wondering where you're getting some of your references numbers from, though, since a cursory google search turned up results that were almost entirely about bullets, and I couldn't find anything (well, not anything really quickly...) about comparative destructive ability.
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Old 2013-02-10, 09:37   Link #31871
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If the killer were, say, Battler, it'd be more understandable to think the stakes could be used as actual murder weapons. But the proposed killers tend not to be that strong. Plus, even if you successfully stabbed someone in a place other than the head, it would hardly cause their death in any reasonable amount of time. You'd either have to stab them multiple times or in a critical area (not always seen in cases of, say, knee gouging) or in the head, which doesn't happen in every case. And both of those are fairly difficult with a heavy object unless someone's already incapacitated, especially for a supposedly frail person.

Hell, I think you'd get more use from flipping the stake over and just using the handle as a blunt instrument.
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Old 2013-02-10, 10:34   Link #31872
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Even though
Spoiler for spoiler from EP 5:
, something just doesn't seem to add up regarding them supposedly
Spoiler for spoiler from EP 5:
.

Please keep in mind that my argument is based on the manga adaptation. Excuse my paranoia regarding spoilers, even if I'm doing a scientific discussion. It is my personal belief that the stakes
Spoiler for spoiler for theory purposes:
. As evidence for my argument, I bring in the concept of sectional density. In summary, sectional density is a measurement of the theoretical destructive potential of a piercing weapon. However, this formula is only ever practically used for relatively low velocity piercing weapons (such as spears, darts, etc). The formula for calculating SD is ((weight)/(diameter^2)). Diameter is measured from the widest point of the business end of the weapon in question (the pointy end). The units used for diameter are inches for future reference.

Based on the manga, the stakes appear to be about 1-1.5 feet long and weigh about 1 pound. The business end appears to have the width of a typical cross bow bolt, which is usually about 0.37 inches. Plugging these numbers in, we get (1)/(0.37^2) = (1)/(0.1369) = 7.305.

7.3 doesn't seem very large, but put into appropriate context, those numbers are horrifying. A result greater than 0.9 is
Spoiler for potential spoiler of EP5 by proxy:
. An example weapon with this number, are some ice age era darts that have been found, nick named "mammoth killers". A heavy for example has a SD of about 2. An example of a weapon with a SD of over 7 is the WW1 "trench spike". This little terror is essentially a specialized dagger (varying from 1-1.5 feet long and being anywhere from 1-1.4 pounds) that was
Spoiler for potential EP 5 spoiler by proxy:
. Alas, they're pretty rare now a days.
I think the problems with the stakes can be that they likely aren't sharp, that they might not be so strong not to break should they used in such way (was it ever mentioned of which material they're made?) and that to get stabbed so deeply with apparently one single blow you need quite a good amount of strenght.
So maybe using the 'stake shooting gun' Battler theorized existing or if you're as strong as him, you might get a successful kill but I doubt Yasu is that strong and I'm not sure Knox would allow the existence of a stake shooting gun.

So, even if a stake might theoretically kill, I think the solution offered in Our Confession is the best one.

The stake becomes the way to hide the true way in which the victim had been killed. After all the novel says that magic involving guns is weak so it makes sense that Beato is trying to hide the fact she used guns by making it look like she used stakes.
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Old 2013-02-11, 12:34   Link #31873
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I noticed that the anime had a nice depiction of the crest of the ingot. The impression of the OMK design is that the crest was intentionally a one winged eagle... but the anime shows almost a faded on the side opposite the wing, as if the engraving had been filed off... or not stamped correctly, as was the case in EP7.

I really think the anime is better than what everyone gives it credit for. Has anyone watched it recently?

A lot of things that were red in the VN were taken out... but I think having them made it more confusing and gave the wrong impression.

Take EP4 for example:
Battler Ushiromiya has a sin. Because of this sin, many people on this island had to die. All die, none survive.
That can't be right, because in EP4, we also have a world in which Eva had survived... a world that the American release makes a point of mentioning that it is in fact not an extension of Banquet.
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Old 2013-02-11, 13:26   Link #31874
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I think the fact that pretty much everyone who watched the anime without reading the VN thought it was a terrible disappointment compared to Higurashi is pretty good proof that it was definitely a failure.

I highly doubt you would have gotten anyone saying the Umineko VN wasn't as good as Higurashi just after EP4's release, after all.
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I first discovered anime . I must say that it was good enough for me to get interested in the series. Then I read the VN and was blown away how awesome it actually was.
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Old 2013-02-11, 16:53   Link #31876
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Yeah, I don't think many people would have picked up the source material if their introduction to it was a complete failure of an adaptation.

My point is that I'm willing to say that Ryukishi probably did work with the creation of it, maybe not as close as the manga, but close enough that perhaps certain changes may have been intentional.

Check out Kanon's anime death in EP1. Watch it. By the time Nanjo and Battler come in, the stake isn't even piercing Kanon. I already gave mention about the appearance of the gold ingot, how it even appears unfinished. The map of Rokkenjima in EP4, Watch the preview for the third episode (It plays WorldEnd, and is narrated by Shannon). I was in tears.

My point is that it's possible that some changes in the anime could actually be an additional clue, like how we've been viewing changes in the manga, as opposed to an absolute screw up.
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Old 2013-02-11, 17:07   Link #31877
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I noticed that the anime had a nice depiction of the crest of the ingot. The impression of the OMK design is that the crest was intentionally a one winged eagle... but the anime shows almost a faded on the side opposite the wing, as if the engraving had been filed off... or not stamped correctly, as was the case in EP7.

I really think the anime is better than what everyone gives it credit for. Has anyone watched it recently?

A lot of things that were red in the VN were taken out... but I think having them made it more confusing and gave the wrong impression.

Take EP4 for example:
Battler Ushiromiya has a sin. Because of this sin, many people on this island had to die. All die, none survive.
That can't be right, because in EP4, we also have a world in which Eva had survived... a world that the American release makes a point of mentioning that it is in fact not an extension of Banquet.
Well, that red works for the game, not for Prime... but funny enough Eva is dead in EP 4's Prime (or Ange's world or whatever you want to call it).

Anyway the anime isn't completely bad... the problem is they really cut a lot of the plot from it, not just in terms of red but also of character relations.

I could accept them making the mysteries easier due to anime lenght, after all the anime is far shorter than the VN, is when they start cutting the characterization that for me it started failing.

Beato and Battler's interaction is definitely not good enough in the anime and Beato's chara loses a lot of her charm.

After reading the visual novel I got a completely different impression of Battler, Beato and their relation compared to the one I got after I had merely watched the anime.

There's even a fanmade ending for Ep 4 that's better than the ending of Ep 4 itself and Ep 3 manga version in many points is much better than Ep 3 anime.

The anime has its good points, of course, and some scenes are pretty good but, all considered it seemed to focus much more on the gory element than on the plot and if you consider that part of the gory scenes were covered up in the tv version to show them only in the dvd you've even that becoming a problem for the tv version.

There's to say things might have improved in Chiru, personally I considered the anime of Higurashi Kai much better than the one of Higurashi so there was a chance that the second series of Umineko would have been of better quality but I guess Umineko got too little love to push Deen to risk making a second anime series.

We'll see if things will change in the future.
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Old 2013-02-11, 18:08   Link #31878
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I think Ryukishi mentioned somewhere that the anime held some extra hints for careful viewers. My biggest problem was more of characterization/character portrayal issues. Last episode being probably the worst case.
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I think Ryukishi mentioned somewhere that the anime held some extra hints for careful viewers. My biggest problem was more of characterization/character portrayal issues. Last episode being probably the worst case.
Well, he was at least of the opinion that EP1 was so broken down to he most important elements that it became too easy to solve. In some interviews he actually seemed afraid that the anime adaptation would give away everything.

He also said that he revealed the whole truth to Ohara Sayaka, the voice-actress of Beatrice, and some partial gameboard elements to Shannon, but left all the other voice-actors in the dark.
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Old 2013-02-11, 22:41   Link #31880
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If I remember correctly, the biggest fail in the anime was something like "Everyone beside Eva and Battler are dead" at the end of Banquet when discussing Nanjo's death. Unless "Beatrice" does not count as a part of "everyone" or "human" and is essentially a ghost... or they really went with Battler's EP4 theory (which was actually never really disproved, not even by Lambda in EP4-???TP of the VN, if I remember correctly).
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