Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
I guess the childless detective's family wasn't the worst possibility for Nao. Probably a lot better than two students, one of whom sees dead people to boot...

The case of the high police official managing to sweep everything under the carpet would have seemed unlikely to me, but after the Senkaku incident I don't anymore doubt the power of the Japanese officials to silence their sorry excuse for a free press.
Withholding information is one thing (Senkaku incident), but I'd put silencing free press as another (that journalist didn't need any more info from the police to write the story. She simply isn't allowed to write period.)

Interesting how they're talking about a culprit who's acting in the physical realm for the ghost. I can't see any hints being dropped at all, but I do hope that it was secretly foreshadowed in some form. The worst case scenario would be some random who has no connection to the main characters whatsoever. The whole Nanase Miyuki murder incident was "out of the blue" enough as it is.