2010-06-20, 11:29 | Link #11321 | |
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Unfortunately, googling does not seem to support this guess.
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2010-06-20, 12:59 | Link #11322 | |
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2010-06-20, 17:10 | Link #11326 |
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Since the discussion seems to have petered out, here's a different thought to chew.
We have solid hints to think that all the sibling businesses have financial troubles, including Krauss. However, the way their troubles are described, none of them are in an immediate danger, which is supported by the timing constraints they list when proposing their agreement.
So why, when Krauss tells them he is aware of their financial troubles and the reasons they need extra money, they seem to back off, at least temporarily? Krauss knowing their weak spots does not actually allow him to exploit them. All he can do is deny giving them money, but he was planning to do that anyway. His own position remains just as weakened as it was after telling them he knows. Do they really back off, or do they always actually press on to discover Kinzo's death?
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2010-06-20, 17:28 | Link #11327 |
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Well, some of the siblings' descriptions come from their family meeting and may just be a front. I wonder if things are much worse than they make it out to be though, for each and every sibling. I know some people who are basically risking their necks to grow their business and they'll never tell you just how bad it really is until the repo people show up one day. (Yes, bad memories. )
And we know Eva does press on to try and see if Kinzo is dead, even when people have been found dead. Eva is definitely the spearhead of the Blackmail-Krauss conspiracy. Maybe it's not 100% to do with money? Desire for the headship for the headship's sake, perhaps? |
2010-06-20, 17:39 | Link #11328 | |
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...wait, minor eureka. The outside phone line is out not to prevent calling police, which would do no good in the typhoon anyway. It is out to prevent the siblings from pulling the carpet out from underneath Krauss by making a phone call that would trigger a tax audit of his business while he is unable to oversee it personally, while he is trying to think of a method to prevent them from making that accusation in the future! Really, what the police would do, teleport in?
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2010-06-20, 18:00 | Link #11330 | |
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But a meta-police officer, policing the activities of witches, now that would be highly amusing.
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2010-06-20, 18:05 | Link #11331 |
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yeah... that would be amusing! After Erika and Featherine I was thinking that we might get an insert of Akasaka or Ooishi or something. Like you say though there isn't much room for an extra character on the gameboard. That is unless there is a testimony in 1998, or someone like Nanjo were an undercover cop...
EDIT: If he is one though I can just imagine him blowing a whistle every time he cites the Dine rules. Wright is gonna be awesome if this is true!
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2010-06-20, 18:22 | Link #11332 | |
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The idea has been proposed that Nanjo is actually replaced by his own granddaughter, which is quite ridiculous, but replacing one balding fat old man with another balding fat old man is fairly sound, and creating a role for a balding fat old man to step into out of nothing is only a Kinzo Phantom Conspiracy scale problem, which has been shown to exist. Reminds me of that story arc in House M.D., where an old man who never received a medical education successfully pretended to be a viable candidate for a position in House's group mostly by the virtue of having observed sufficient medical activity in his otherwise non-medical job. Unfortunately I don't remember any hints to support the existence of a character that replaces Doctor Nanjo, which is sort of a shame as it would have been a neat plot twist. P.S.: Why would replacing Nanjo be justified? That's easy enough. A balding fat old man who is willing to pretend to be a doctor convincingly and confirm any deaths or give false reports about Kinzo's health will in many cases be easier to find than a real doctor willing to do the same.
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2010-06-20, 19:08 | Link #11333 | |
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2010-06-20, 19:31 | Link #11335 |
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Well, that I can agree with -- but with the things Nanjo seems to be doing, being an undercover cop would push the limits of 'undercover', so if something of the sort happens, he probably is something else.
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2010-06-20, 19:36 | Link #11336 |
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Uh... there is a text code in episode 6 for a character that hasn't appeared yet. At first we thought his name was Light, but then we thought it might be referencing the character in the TIPS named Wizard Hunting Wright (Willard Huntington Wright) which Van Dine would be a pseudonym for.
Link here for the code: http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...postcount=8289 If we do get Van Dine rules though I hope their in blue or gold instead of red because it'd be hard for me to think it'd be applicable in the red.
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2010-06-20, 19:36 | Link #11337 |
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The script for Ep6 contains code blocks apparently meant to support a new magical or meta character sprite (and TIPS) but no such sprite is actually present. The code blocks are not being used. It is probable that the character was meant to appear in the end of Ep6 like Ange shows up in the end of Ep3 and was cut for time, but nothing has so far been revealed.
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numalias LIG_Isyou,%0 : inc %0 ... numalias LIG,40 .... numalias LIG_start_number,%0 ;ライトの表情の番号の開始 numalias LIG_DefA1,%0 :inc %0 ; numalias LIG_last_number,%0 :inc %0 ;ライトの表情の番号の終端 ... numalias ma5_LIG_btn_lsp,%0 : inc %0 ... numalias ma5_LIG,%1 : inc %1 ... if %BtnRes = ma5_LIG mov %r_hyouji_cha_ma,ma5_LIG : gosub *r_cha_hyouji_ep5_2 : seplay 9,1001 : print 1 ... if %r_hyouji_cha_ma = ma5_LIG : gosub *r_cha_LIG_ep6_2 ... ; mov ?r[6][ma5_LIG][condition],1
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2010-06-20, 20:01 | Link #11338 |
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Well, there's a Dr. Nanjo in 1998 who claims he had a father who was also a Dr. Nanjo and that his father died on Rokkenjima. Sure, you can call 1998 into question too, but that's a long way to go to set up a lie, especially 12 years later.
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2010-06-20, 20:14 | Link #11339 | |
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There's no good hints to assume this is what in fact happened, but there is still room for the author to mess with it without upsetting much of anything.
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2010-06-20, 20:21 | Link #11340 | |
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Now if you want to argue he's some kind of yakuza assassin or something, maybe, but generally the police don't go around killing old men so they can impersonate them.
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