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>Maybe if one exclusively judged it as a mystery genre work
Which is what it is, for the most part. I'll admit I avoid all information about the contents of works I read to a fault. I didn't know why it should be good. I didn't even know there were going to be witches before it was mentioned in EP1 as I didn't read a synopsis.

I enjoyed the fantasy scenes, they were fun to read but the story goes to great lengths to crush your hope for magic to exist in any situation, like Maria's.

The story falls apart as soon as Ange is introduced at Ep3. epilogue. Until then you can interpret the series mythology as the first episode being real and the rest being continuation for it, Game 1 Batora going to the purgatory after being killed. But that's not the case as in Ep3 and Ep7 the real story is introduced.

Game 1 was the most compelling in the first place as it seems. I kept hoping that at the end they would pull a bait and switch, after all of the talk about magic not being real with Ange and Maria, this would only apply inside the gameboards. In Game 1, Maria saves Natsuhi with the scorpion etc. In the epitaph they use 黄金の郷 -> 里 -> 真里亞 -> Maria is the key to the golden land. She actually chooses who dies in Game 1, like giving the scorpion charm to Natsuhi on the first night. The first game is the only one that puts effort into the supernatural aspects. That plot goes nowhere. Instead RK07 treats you like Maria and hammers into your head how magic isn't real. There's no payoff to theories.

But in Ep3 the bomb plot is revealed and even the first game didn't happen. There's no magic. Like soulja boy said "There ain't no point to the damn game haha".

>Your take is only marginally more insightful than claiming it is pointless to read fiction, because it never happened...
It's not the same at all. The VN spends SO SO MUCH time on the mystery after the point where an observant reader is confident on the killer but treats the reader like someone that doesn't get it until the end of EP6. I'll confess I didn't realize Shanon=Kanon until that point as it wasn't mentioned anywhere that it was the first time they were working on the island at the same time which apparently was the case, and it was too much to consider someone would keep the act up for longer times, which they didn't considering canonically that was the first time both Shanon and Kanon had shifts at the island at the same timeIt's also weird that George takes Shkanon on vacations and proposes to him without noticing he's a trannyThe clearest hint to this is at the start of Ep1 when Batora wants to fondle Shannon's breasts but she freaks out because they're not real, so people that didn't binge read it could have theorized this, sure

Out of character count and so on so I lost as many plot threads as Ryukishi but w/e
~~Also I get bad vibes from the MC and the Beatrice being gay lovers so I can't see their love~~

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