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A: The entire Ushiromiya family is symbolic of a life, death, and rebirth theme. And their bird is like a Phoenix. I dont know if thats intentional
K: I think Ryukishi intended that sort of imagery.

A: Im also thinking about how Ryukishi drew characters the way he wanted. He seems to do very little without ulterior motive. The clothes the characters wear on the game board look like how a child remembers things. My memories of adults from my childhood are a jumble of colors and most of them are fairly bright. Look at Krauss; his suit is a mismatch of red jacket and pants with a blue shirt and a yellow tie, maybe this isnt one memory but several a dark brown suit misremembered as red, the under shirt and tie from another outfit cobbled together in an incomplete jumbled memory. What if the sin is Battlers perceived guilt about something that happened. Maybe his sin was he caused everyone and himself to die 6 years ago. Guilt strong enough to keep a soul bound to earth for 6 years. Not survivors guilt precisely but more of a if I had been better at X smarter when Y happened maybe everyone would be okay. A dead soul chewing through incomplete and garbled memory looking for an explanation of tragedy and with that explanation release onto either the next life or some sort of paradise. Early Battler refuses to see a great many things. He clings childlike to the idea that no one in his family is capable of evil, and is tortured for it but as he starts truly thinking and lets go of some of his naivety the torture stops and things seem to be getting slowly less awful.
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