That said, I am convinced that PA is one of the best mystery shows ever created.
****SPOILERS BELOW****
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Except not quite here.
Just a fair warning so you don't have any regrets: I won't divulge the details just yet, but what I will say in the meantime, is the basic answer to the mystery.
***READ AT YOUR OWN RISK...SERIOUSLY, THIS TIME***
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That theory that I conceived in my last blog entry?
It's almost right on the ball.
I kid you not. I'm proud to say that for the first time ever, I've pretty much solved a mystery (and a very difficult one at that.) Lil' Slugger IS in fact a figment of Tsukiko Sagi's imagination. I won't say why, but I will say the number 1 in the old man's equation indeed does apply to Lil' Slugger.
How?
Because the paranoia is produced by ONE person (in this case, Tsukiko Sagi) and then, it spreads like a sickness, as I reasoned in my previous blog entry. The paranoia grows stronger and stronger, which explains why eventually, Lil' Slugger began killing people instead of just knocking them out. (Of course, that's all metaphorical. In actuality, everyone except Ushiyama and Hirukawa was knocked out by THEMSELVES, and not Kozuka.) Ultimately, the paranoia acts like a virus; it starts out small-scale, and then it infects everything.
Hence the title: "Paranoia Agent." Dun dun dunnn!
All in all, the last 4 episodes are great and I will be certain to review them in detail when I have more time. "Paranoia Agent" has been a real blast and I do hope that Mr. Satoshi Kon makes something else that's just as diabolically ingenious in the near future. Or else... *raises bat*