ShakuganXIII
Hacked on fire
Is the anime cannan to the visual novels?
The next thing i wonder about which I'm not sure if it's Studio Deen screwing up or it's how it's supposed to be is when the letter appears on the table in Kinzo's study. Nanjo, Genji, and Kumasawa are standing against the wall, but my problem with this scene is. After the letter appears on the table and Natsuhi already has her gun up maria just happens to walk from Natsuhi's side of the room to the side the servents are on. So shouldn't this make her innocent and why is she being sent out of the room if she's not even near the table when letter first appears.
Maria walks up behind natsuhi after she's already taken her eyes off of the maria and the rest, so when maria pointed out the letter she could have dropped it there b4 hand then went to go talk with the rest, which is why natsuhi cant consider maria innocent, not sure if thats exactly how it happend in the game, since it doesnt really explain where the characters are, maria could have been talking from across the room in the game for all i know lol
There's some problems with your theory in a few respects. I'm not sure how valid this is in regards to the visual novel sense not sure placement of characters
Okay so lets say maria put the letter on the table. Where the servents and nanjo where standing they should of surely seen the letter get placed or seen it before Natsuhi did. They should know that if Natsuhi sees it there would surely be some recourse. So why did none of them grab it and hide it. Now this is playing the odds in a sense that if none of the three against the wall where in on the plot they'd surely act to hide it so they won't get sent out or he suspected. Though you could also argue that they just as well didn't want to be caught in the act of hiding it, but you figure with their lives on the line they may just risk it.
So in the case of assuming all of the three saw the letter or not I figure they must be accomplices to the crime or else they'd of tried to hide it. They must of figured they'd be fine going out for they on killers side.
Though Nanjo, Genji, and Kumasawa die. I forget the exact red text on this scene. Though I figuring that if going with the Nanjo allows Kanon to fake his death. That ethier kanon=shannon or Kanon is capable pulling off dressing up as beato to trick maria. Kanon just double crosses Nanjo, Genji, and kKmasawa.
Sorry this is a pretty long theory, but with how anime layed it out this is how i think episode 1 was done.