The Deconstruction of Umineko – EP1 – Hideyoshi’s general involvement

Introducing “Deconstruction of Umineko” by EP which is basically entries where I’ll point out or try to make better sense of certain parts in each EP as I replay them. Right now I’m replaying Legend of the Golden Witch and I’ll report whatever I found strange, doesn’t click right or how some of these scenes may tie back to other EPS or scenes in the mystery. This Deconstruction of Umineko allows the readers to be able to follow reasoning in a more orderly fashion by EPs for those that wish for that. These entries are examples of quick reasoning which focus in certain scenes in order rather large events. We’ll deal with more complicated parts of this EP as I go along. Other future entries will deal with other EPSs following no specific order by topics that have already been selected or topics being requested as I mentioned before.

This is another of the how nicely “everything ties back” (which you’ll see plenty) in the story. This scene isn’t that crucial but it is nice to see how the mystery fits so well with other past (in this case future) EPs as you will see in some of these entries. The purpose (if you want to call it that) is to demonstrate how very consistent the author is with this mystery and how well implemented each EP is.

Hideyoshi is a guy that doesn’t get that much involvement in the story. We see him act friendly and act as the “nice guy” but even in the scenes he gets I don’t particularly see him as a crucial character, for those reasons his actions don’t always seem relevant.

I didn’t think much of this scene back when I was reading the novel or watching the anime but it is starting to make sense why Hideyoshi was so “confrontational” or “so prepared” back then when they were discussing Krauss’ position, the money they wanted to extort from him and hinting that Kinzo might be dead.

Hideyoshi spends a fair amount of time claiming how he investigated Krauss’s financial situation/etc and that he found that no one has lent any money to Krauss therefore it was very suspicious. This scene reminded me that this was because he already had doubts about Kinzo being still alive in the first place that lead him to act this way. As EP5 mentions he was the first who realized that Kinzo was dead, though I still think that Kyrie thought of it first but it was just Hideyoshi who shared it first with his wife leading to all siblings to band together against the “tyrant” of their brother.

So what does this simple scene tell us? That R07 in EP5 used that scene where Hideyoshi doubted that Kinzo was dead  and connected it to EP1 in which thanks to Hideyoshi the siblings investigated further whether what Hideyoshi suspected could be true or not by checking Krauss’ financial situation since embezzlement = Krauss in a bad position and embezzlement = possibly Kinzo being dead, hence something is up.

This easily explains why the siblings were so “ready” in EP1 and how Hideyoshi who was the first who believe that Krauss, who was keeping secrets from them, felt that it was a good opportunity to use this to put pressure on Krauss and get him to cooperate. Of course, they didn’t know that Krauss already got some dirt on all siblings including Hideyoshi himself.