The Magic Ending is fairly simple I think.

This is something that you can pick during the previous episodes, but it is much strongly hinted at during Episode 6 (where only Shannon, Kanon or Beatrice's love can survived, but not all three, and where the three of them being the same person is the solution to the puzzle Beatrice posed Erika) and Episode 7 (where Will attempted to put Shannon and Kanon in the same room and cannot). You can try to find the manga however you want (I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post scanlation here), but there are videos on youtube that plays the game's amazing soundtrack over the manga adaptation of Episode 8, which I greatly enjoyed.Īs for the culprit, Shannon and Kanon are indeed the same character, or at least that is strongly implied by the visual novel and outright confirmed by the manga. If you want to know what happened on Rokkenjima, then the manga adaptation of Episode 8 includes an entirely new arc that spells out the who, why and how of the mystery. The endings basically ask you whether you believe (or are willing to indulge) a very subjective truth (Fantasy Ending) or are facts (Mystery Ending, kind of?) the only thing you can digest? Maybe the Golden Land is real and it is their form of an afterlife, and though Ange cannot truly see them before her time it doesn't make them any less real or their faith in her any less powerful. Maybe all of it was coping mechanism by both Battler and Ange that helped them come to term with the loss of their family as well as the fact that despite everything their family still means so much to them. The battle with the goats is meant to say that truth is personal, and in a mystery story you owe it to yourself to work it out for yourself, that Ange's obsession with the facts blinded her to the truth, and when she looked at the answers for herself it turned out that it was much less meaningful than the truth she arrived at at the end. Yes, there are facts, and the facts are strongly implied in my opinion (more on that later), but the truth? What any of it means in the end, what do these things say about the heart of these characters (if anything), what happens after facts become mere dust, those things are for you to decide.

The answer the story arrives at is sometimes you have to make your own truth. First of all, the story is supposed to be open to interpretation.

Umineko when they cry figure