[Game] Umineko - Spoilers, Theories, Interpretations

[littlegal100]

Originally Posted by ijriims

Why all the hate on George??


You know, I don't hold any prejudice against fat people wearing glasses.

Yeah I've been noticing a lot of George hate since EP6...

I mean don't get me wrong he did become unlikable to me thanks to EP6 although (for me atleast) He's still not bad as a person.

[Jan-Poo]

I guess that's because unless you want to accept the idea that there's no culprit (which apparently I'm the only one ready to accept) you need to imagine someone among the 18 is.

That however means someone is a psychopath murderer, which means someone is a lot worse than how normally appears.

George is a good scapegoat, nobody likes him to begin with, there are a few hints about him being a dick, and then you can easily imagine he's even more of a dick than it was actually shown.

Plus... as an universal rule, the guy/girl that stands in the way of the main couple is bound to get hated more than Adolf Hitler and Cruella Demon alltogether.
Unfortunately George is confirmed to stand in the way of Battler and Beatrice; that's not an enviable position.

That's more than enough to point the finger to George, claim he's the culprit, and treat him as such.

[Renall]

I'd love to point the finger at somebody else, if anybody worked quite so well. Hideyoshi is underdeveloped, Jessica has too much exculpatory evidence to sort through, Battler is the protagonist, and Maria is nine. Doesn't leave us with a lot of options.

[Jan-Poo]

Kyrie is a nice culprit, no wonder Bernkastel picked her.

The problem is I never seen any hint of her being particularly interested in wealth. It seems to me she's always been obsessed about monopolizing Rudolf and nothing else.
She did had many ideas about how to get money from Krauss, but that seemed more like she wanted to help Rudolf getting out of his financial problems.

Then again the same reasoning could be done about George... or about everyone really...

[Leafsnail]

Originally Posted by Redriel

So, body means now "letter"?

If you want to be a little more plausible, Erika's body is the one carrying the letter.

I guess the thing on her head could be her "seal"? It never really made any sense for her to wear it (I mean, it's just a lent set of clothes, right?).

Originally Posted by Renall

Erika cannot be the first letter or master key or whatever:

Furudo Erika had no influence on any of Beato's games before now. She does not exist in the worlds before this one, nor does she influence them.

The letter was radically changed in the chiru arcs then? Or she just hadn't been aknowledged as that kind of entity before.

Originally Posted by Renall

They're all basically irredeemable jerks except Battler, unfortunately.

I kindof disagree - Genji seems to sacrifice himself in episode 1 and 2. I mean, think about episode 1 -

Kumasawa is a very likely accomplice.
Nanjo is a very likely accomplice.
Maria is almost certainly an accomplice.
The killer is on the loose outside.
Genji decides to go out with them all anyway.

So... I'd probably have him down as "Not a jerk", heh.

Lesse... George's main obstacles to being the culprit is that he stays with Battler for pretty much the whole time in episode 1. And episode 2, iirc. Aaaand episode 4 (he couldn't be forcing people to read a script from the guesthouse... could he?). And he's a confirmed murder victim in episode 5. So... yeah.

Hideyoshi's main obstacle to being the culprit is being a confirmed victim of the first twilight in episode 2.

[Jan-Poo]

I kindof disagree - Genji seems to sacrifice himself in episode 1 and 2. I mean, think about episode 1 -

He might be the perfect loyal servant (almost) but he's a quite morally questionable character.

[ijriims]

Well, don't you all know Genji was a robot, therefore he said he was a furniture from the beginning.

Hey, Kinzo just said he was in the engineering team during the war as well

[cmos]

Originally Posted by Leafsnail

Genji

Did you read ep7? Because he's truly the 'father' of Shkannontrice. He lied to everyone and made it possible for her plan to exist.



And this is another matter I wish Ryu would explain to us. Who is Genji? Why he is so "loyal"? Why he's a furniture? How did Kinzo met him? The same, but to lesser extent concerning Kumasawa. Well, you could probably say that she's just long-working servant, but it's still strange. At least we got small amount of info about Nanjo.

[Jan-Poo]

Did I miss something? I don't think Genji himself ever stated that he's furniture.

[CainSonozaki]

Originally Posted by ijriims

Why all the hate on George??


You know, I don't hold any prejudice against fat people wearing glasses.

on top of whats been said, theres also his "creepy" expressions since ep 4 and most notably in 6 (check the tea party when he responds to hideyoshi telling him to value his wife over his parents).

Of course if you suspect george have to kinda question shanon (which many people do, im wondering myself as well) as well i mean wtf, what kind of woman finds jealousy anger and some sort of illogical combination superiority/inferiority complex (the way he felt superior to everyone else and looked down on woman thinking theyd just flock to him but felt inadequate when "inferiors" like BAttler were more liked) being the main reason for his development as charming?

[J the Drafter]

Genji has stated he's furniture.

[ijriims]

Originally Posted by Jan-Poo

Did I miss something? I don't think Genji himself ever stated that he's furniture.

In EP2, inside servant's room, after Rosa and the rest went for checking Nanjo and Kumasawa's "bodies"

[Marion]

Originally Posted by Jan-Poo

Kyrie is a nice culprit, no wonder Bernkastel picked her.

The problem is I never seen any hint of her being particularly interested in wealth. It seems to me she's always been obsessed about monopolizing Rudolf and nothing else.
She did had many ideas about how to get money from Krauss, but that seemed more like she wanted to help Rudolf getting out of his financial problems.

Then again the same reasoning could be done about George... or about everyone really...

The fact that he has fiancial problems and needs money can be her motive, which fits with EP 7. She clearly knows about it, as seen in EP 5. Even if she apparently says that Rudolf never told her in EP 2.

[Jan-Poo]

That's one point I disagree with.

The financial problem could be a motive if the people involved had either the choice to kill or to be in financial problems.

But this is not the case. With the bank account alone even splitting it into four parts all of the siblings financial problems would be solved.

If the objective was to pay the debts, there was absolutely no need to kill, that problem was solved already.

And if their objective was the get all the goods for themselves, then that's not because they were pressed by the circumstances, but because of pure greed.

[Steampunk Librarian]

Originally Posted by Jan-Poo

That's one point I disagree with.

The financial problem could be a motive if the people involved had either the choice to kill or to be in financial problems.

But this is not the case. With the bank account alone even splitting it into four parts all of the siblings financial problems would be solved.

If the objective was to pay the debts, there was absolutely no need to kill, that problem was solved already.

And if their objective was the get all the goods for themselves, then that's not because they were pressed by the circumstances, but because of pure greed.

That problem isn't solved for Krauss though seeing as he is embezzling and hiding a dead body. Most definitely, Krauss has everything to lose with Kinzo's death. Not that it makes him a culprit, but maybe he is being blackmailed by people who have nothing to lose? >_>

[Jan-Poo]

Well yeah, Krauss is a different case. We only have his word in a non confirmed scene that he's about to get a lot of money to pay his debts, his financial problems could be worse than expected.

However in the case of the other siblings we know that they are just aiming to 250 millions each. and that was repeated many times so chances that this is false are dim.

Still in Krauss case I see very little point for him to destroy his own house, and he'd have a lot of problems explaining that to Natsuhi and Jessica.
In case he really is in a desperate financial situation then it's more likely that he planned to die and bring everyone with him rather than get the money and run.

[Will Wright]

Originally Posted by Jan-Poo

Well yeah, Krauss is a different case. We only have his word in a non confirmed scene that he's about to get a lot of money to pay his debts, his financial problems could be worse than expected.

However in the case of the other siblings we know that they are just aiming to 250 millions each. and that was repeated many times so chances that this is false are dim.

Still in Krauss case I see very little point for him to destroy his own house, and he'd have a lot of problems explaining that to Natsuhi and Jessica.
In case he really is in a desperate financial situation then it's more likely that he planned to die and bring everyone with him rather than get the money and run.

Krauss is my culprit, and double Shkanon are his accomplices.
My theory is that Krauss went "I want to destroy Kinzo's empire...AND START MY OWN TO PROVE TO HIM I'M AWESOME. ALSO NATUSHI YOU TRIED TO KILL OUR ADOPTED CHILD. NOT COOL. I'M KILLING YOU. JESSICA YOU ARE WORTHLESS. KILLING YOU TOO."

Then planned to destroy everything to fake his and Double Shaknon's deaths, then use the gold(we have seen him have gold before, he said he bought it from someone, but we have no evidence of that. For all that we know he could have found the real gold ages ago) to build the Krauss boxing empire.

He would be like Rocky, except he would be a murderer. And rich. Forever.

[Jan-Poo]

Forever?

No matter how many gold ingots you give to Krauss, he could lose them all before you can say "space tourism?!".

[ijriims]

In case anyone who has not read it, I am reposting this from image thread to this thread

Originally Posted by Volcanic

Spoiler for Spoiler on EP8, possibly:

A few pictures are better than thousand words.

All credits go to shroedinger

[Will Wright]

Originally Posted by ijriims

In case anyone who has not read it, I am reposting this from image thread to this thread



A few pictures are better than thousand words.

That's perfect. My life is better after reading that.

Also, do we have any evidence that Krauss really lost money with SPACE TOURISM other than Natushi saying that? She was shocked that he lost money in the first place. MAYBE IT'S ALL PART OF HIS PLAN.

Or maybe I'm just a Krauss fan and I'm trying to make him look like God.