Shinigami-sama ni Saigo no Onegai wo

@ losif: You forgot the the part where shizuka created his book.

The fact whether the book was completed or not before the murders was never revealed. Also Minamida recognizes Shizuka's intellect.

There are also a couple more issues that you missed.

The order of death was not clear except that Gou died before Hibiki (ch6 pg23) (the arrival of the shinigami is not always instantaeneous with death)(Also if it is a fact that Saaya did not lie then this proves that she arrived later after the murders because it makes it consistent that she did not know anything about the event)

The younger Minamida's first name was never mentioned.

The erasure of memory was never mentioned as something prohibited to shinigami's

Minamida and Shizuka's general appearance is very similar.

Who?Tell me who must i torture/threaten so i can meet with the mangaka and make him draw 10 more pages so i can satisfy my curiosity!!JUST TELL ME THE NAMES!

I brought this up to a friend and we thought hard about it. Our conclusions are that one of the requests must have been such a logical fallacy as to allow a rule contradiction while at the same time, not breaking them. The Chief is definitely at fault, Saaya is definitely guilty of something but the actual culprit, the one that murdered the Aida, is still unknown. So far we haven't been able to come up with any hypothesis which allows a 100% or even a 51% of possibilities of the culprit being identified.

I wish I knew if there was a way to edit comments.
Anyway, I'm thinking the position of the bodies at the Aida family's murder case is an important clue. I haven't detailed the order in which the Aida family died. Not sure if it's Tomoe, then Gou, then Hibiki or Gou, then Tomoe, then Hibiki or Gou, then Hibiki, then Tomoe.

I also fucking agree that the fucking Author should pull a fucking stunt like the fuck of Shizuka does to fucking publish a FUCKING ending to this fucking mess, FUCK!

@abos, although your deduction is good, it's wrong. The main point being that even if Shizuka weren't concious/willing to murder, IF Shizuka still commited the murder, he wouldn't be allowed to have a "last request". This was proven when Shizuka battled with the Chief Shinigami (Proven he didn't kill anyone) and as seen in the chapters were the twin evil spirit posess a girl, it's repeated that the girl must NOT be allowed to do the murder, implying she'd have to pay the consequences for the murder.

Now, although I don't have a concrete theory just yet, it is deductable that the cousin has some form of relation (Your theory about her wishing to become a shinigami is possible) and that the murder of the twin's mother is also a clue.

As I see it, it is important to have a timeline:

15 years ago: death of Aida Gou's cousin. Last request unknown. Aida Tomoe gets severe injuries, including leg incapacity and blindness.
13 years ago: death of Shiroha's and Kureha's mother. Planed by their father, Ichirou Houjou, alongside "Minamida".
10 years ago: Shinigami Saaya completes training in 6 months. First mission, Destiny: Dead of Minamida Azuma. Coma of Minamida Azuma. Last request: "Keep watch over whether or not I die." At this part, Minamida's younger brother was stuck in bed, with a weak constitution.
Saaya promises to "not lie" and to "never make a mistake", or she would send herself to hell.
9 months ago: murders of the Aida family. Only Aida Shizuka survives. Aida Tomoe's and Aida Gou's "last request" is not known. Aida Hibiki's last request is to "Inflict maximum punishment upon Shizuka!". Aida Shizuka's memories are erased, and a picture is taken of the scene, with him holding the murder weapon.
6 months ago - present: Aida Shizuka is sentenced to execution, but escapes. Murders of 7 people by Asami, including Shiroha. Murder of Kureha by Ichirou Houjou.
Incidents regarding Kuroneko, including him obtaining information on the Shinigami and the Shinigami-sama game, in which a girl named Sawako died. Minamida sends Shizuka the picture taken at the Aida family's murder scene. Minamida captures Shizuka.

Things I gathered so far:
Not sure whether or not Shinigami are allowed to commit murder. Chief Shinigami Ayame did say that it would be a simple task to kill Shizuka.
All of the Aida are ruled out to be the murderers.
The Houjo twins, Shiroha and Kureha, can't be the murderers.
Asami can't be the murderer, due to having a weak body at the time. Plus she didn't know Shizuka or Hibiki.
Minamida Azuma, in a coma for 10 years, can't be the murderer.
Gou's cousin, dead for 15 years, can't be the murderer.
Minamida and Ichirou Houjou, although they'd be very capable of the murders, they didn't know Shizuka, nor his family members.
Kuroneko, although capable of murder, it is mentioned at first that he didn't know Shizuka or Hibiki nor commited a murder before the Shinigami-sama game
Kuroneko's name is Murata Gorou.
Unnamed girl, referred to as "X", is a girl that is willing to kill for Minamida. Minamida says she's "one" of his pieces.
Shinigami Saaya was in charge of the Aida family's murder case. She LIKELY erased Shizuka's memories, and she granted a "last request" that COULD MEAN death for Aida.
From this and taking into account the incident in which Asami murdered 7 people, I deduce that a "last request" that can mean death is not punishable untill it causes said death. Either that or the Chief Shinigami Ayame is more involved than what can be seen.
Saaya is holding the secret to what happened at the Aida family's murder case. Something "she can't say."
Although stated as "ability unknown", Satsuki has the ability to erase memories, same as Saaya.
I haven't seen anywhere that says that a shinigami's prisoner is prohibited from murder. In fact, it is mentioned that prisoners can get involved in matters in which the Shinigami can't, precisely because they are not shinigami's.
Aida Gou said "Stop it Shizuka!".
Chief Shinigami Ayame can't access Shizuka's files.

Shinigami rules:
Shinigami are to preserve "order."
Contradictions are a "sin" for shinigami.
Shinigami must complete a "last request" to their maximum capabilities.
A "last request" can't grant "murder" or "resurrection".

Clue I'm missing: everything Saaya said, quoted exactly as in the story.
Doing a skim reading, I wasn't able to find all of Saaya's words. I could only find the part where she says that if the Aida brothers came close to finding the truth, it'd be a matter of just "erasing it again". I do remember she said that she didn't know anything, but an exact quote would be better.

This is as far as I got. Up to everyone interested in finding out the truth to find any mistakes/parts I forgot, add their own found facts or their own hypothesis.

Wait, what? NO, Fuck you, I won't use my brain, I read mangas to avoid exactly that.

Man the ending was confusing as hell, some has so much dialogue that you could not catch up

...What is this I don´t even... Just...No. This is wrong, I would´ve rather find out Godzilla was the mastermind behind it all than THIS ending. God help me if I ever find the one responsible for this ending IRL I swear I´m going to yell at him, roll over the floor in agony and cry helplessly at what he did with my hopes and expectations put in this manga during a whole year and a half!

It's interesting to leave the conclusion to readers as the crime mistery story. But, I don't like it if it has fantasy element in the story because it is possible for something impossible can happen.

Bad story, bad ending. Because of the supernatural powers and interference of the shinigami, pretty much every solution anyone can think of it automatically called into question.

The last clue isn't even a clue at all. There are so many possible scenarios where supernatural wishes (two no less!) are used to cause someone to be murdered that the case is literally unsolvable.

@abos

nice deduction. I completely agree with that.

oops sry for the double post i meant NOT knowing anything.

Heres a thought. Couldn't she simply erase her OWN memory. That way she wouldn't be lying about knowing anything.

Ladies and gentleman this is what we called being "ROBBED" of an interesting manga, yet again a good manga was rushed to finished and the ending was something that will leave people bothered for a good while.

We should put an "axed" tag in these situations, for the users who didnt read this yet.

I hope the author releases some kind of extra chapter or dies in agony...

@Ampere Lol'ed a lot at your comment.

Who the hell axed this manga!? It was so good! Man, I'm mad. Still... I think this was a pretty solid way to end this, at the least. If you have only a chapter to make an ending, and you do what you can with what you have, you should definitely be applauded.

@verne dont break your head about this manga. I doubt that even if you find the culprit. It still be not for 100% if it is the real one or not.

This manga is an epic troll manga. Realy ad a TROLL FACE TAG TO IT.

Hahaha! Nice last chapter! LOL. For a last chapter to be non-conclusive yet somehow, I feel like it was a really good last chapter. Gotta find time to actually solve this myself...

Where is a Sherlock when you need one?

What Shinzuka didn't tell her is that he secretly requested the help to assist.

Who's willing to die and use their last request for another chapter to find out who the real culprit is??? Anyone?

Yes, I'm talking about you!
Make sure to wish for a great ending.
That's the most important part.



Oh yeah almost forgot to mention that the effect if Hibiki's last request was probably Shizuka losing his memory.

w8 a minute though, if wat according to asami is true, then could it be tat all or most of the deductions by shizuka is false now??
Also ,pls tell me tat there is a epilogue somewhere!!!!?????

The true answer to everything is that the father's little sister was actually Kuroneko who was a woman at the time but then wanted to become a man so he orchestrated a catastrophic car accident that blinded Shizuka's mom in order to fake his own death and collect the life insurance money for a sex-change operation with the assistance of Shizuka's dad who was also in on this plan because he was locked in an incestuous relationship with Kuroneko (okay which I guess isn't technically incestuous because they're not actual siblings but cousins and that sort of thing is okay in Japan or something but more on that later in the following case study) but sometime along the road Kuroneko decided he wanted to become a woman again and began cross-dressing which really ticked Shizuka's dad off because he had a really huge fetish for bald effeminate dudes and this caused a huge conflict in which Kuroneko killed Shizuka's whole family but also revealed the true nature of the father's infidelities to everyone which horrified Shizuka's father so much that he used his Last Request to erase everyone's memories while Shizuka's mother's last request was something about eating a really good raspberry pie.

AND BECAUSE OF THIS MANGA'S ENDING NO ONE CAN REFUTE MEEEE!!!

I don't understand how that could be the final chapter... it was very inconclusive... :<

this was good all up till the ending.