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"Small bombs" born from the visual novel series Umineko no Naku Koro ni, where the protagonist suggested in the mistery where a masive murder scene was found with the victims intestines out of their stomachs and a halloween party meal in the table was carried out by the culprit feeding his/her victims "small bombs" in their meals.

Origin

"Umineko no Naku Koro ni" is a visual novel series about mistery and murder, the plot takes place in the family reaunion of the Ushiromiya family of 1986 in the family island "Rokkenjima " where all the family and servants are killed in October 4 and 5; since there is a typhoon in the island, none can enter or escape the island.

The protagonist is Battler Ushiromiya, son of Kinzo's second son Rudolf. Battler has not been to the annual Ushiromiya conference in six years due to living with his maternal grandparents ever since his mother Asumu died, and even took his mother's maiden name instead of Ushiromiya. When his grandparents died, he went back to living with his father, his second wife Kyrie, and their daughter Ange, his half-sister. Once on the island, Battler once again becomes acquainted with the legend of the golden witch Beatrice who supposedly lives in the naturally dense forest on Rokkenjima. A portrait of her lies in the entrance hall of the Ushiromiya family mansion, and a puzzling epitaph is written below the portrait. Rumor has it on the island that Beatrice gave ten tons of gold to Kinzo in the past to restart the Ushiromiya family after being crippled in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. It is said that whoever solves the riddle of the witch's epitaph will receive the gold and be the next successor to the Ushiromiya family.

The "game" starts when the typhoon begins, starting with the murder of six people on the island. If the witch's epitaph cannot be solved, people will continue to die in mysterious deaths, following the outline given by the epitaph itself, until the witch Beatrice ultimately revives. After this comes to pass, Battler is the only one left alive who does not believe in witches or magic, and as such the door to the "golden land" (as stipulated on the epitaph) cannot be opened. Beatrice takes Battler and herself to a parallel dimension, Purgatorio( a meta-world), which is able to oversee events on Rokkenjima.

The main topic of the game is to solve the riddles of the game and the "Epitaph of the Witch", Battler must attempt to explain all of the mysterious events on Rokkenjima from the standpoint that they are caused by a human, and Beatrice attempts to explain everything with witches and magic.

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The theory was ridiculous enough to stand out by itself, and has been quoted as a "deus es machina" theory, where people blame everything on the small bombs, and sometimes crosses into other fandoms as well.