Here's some videos that I have started to compile.
These vids try to explain how the games link together.

Silver Case シルバー事件 Lunatics Kill the Past part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ba_sAneAM
Killer 7 Kill the Past ending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O6XV3ocKXg

Kitano Smith wrote:
I really don't think that killer7 has plot points that are only understandable if you've played Suda's previous games.
In other words, killer7 does not tie in terms of plot to previous games. At least not in terms of internal plot logic.


True. Most of the spiritual themes in Killer 7 are nothing more than red herrings. They are just common thematic threads that carry over from every game.

I can't stress that enough. Knowing how many arguments I've gotten into for believing them to be irrelevant to K7's plot.
http://killer7.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=494
http://killer7.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=610

There were many other instances, but they happened at other forums.
Which is why I never discuss about Killer 7 outside of this website.
It does have references, like the pulsating moonlight or the appearance of Ed McAllister and his reference to Garcian's briefcase, amongst a number of others but those are otherwise totally unrelated to previous games.

The moon pulsating is just a fragment of Garcian's past, that represents the moment he left Emir behind at the UH rooftop.

The moon references the Moonlight Syndrome.
Which is why the entirety of Killer 7 is way out of whack, and random as fuck.
The brighter the moonlight. The more that the light will influence the sanity of the human mind.

The full moon represents the same exact thing in Moonlight Syndrome, Silver Case & Flower, Sun & Rain.
So I have no reason to believe that it would mean something else entirely for Killer 7.
Especially since every level in Killer 7 started with an image of a Full Moon.
Only a couple of levels in FSR had a bright full moon.
Silver Case started off with a full moon, has another stage (Sumio Kodai's case) in the middle that directly references Moonlight Syndrome, and SC finally ends with another Full Moon stage.

Moonlight Syndrome only has 3 stages with a full moon, and they all occurred during the final half of the game.

Ed McAllister's appearance is just so that you know that something's up with Garcian. How the hell does someone from that Hotel know Garcian if it's the first time Garcian ever enters the building? (this would be the right moment for a "...NOT" joke, but it's a lame one so I won't use it.... NOT!)
The Ed McAllister/briefcase reference is either directed towards the japanese audience, or/and at the very least, an inside joke amongst the GHM staff. Nothing important that I need to know.


Ed went missing after FSR so it turns out that he ended up at the Union Hotel, lol.
Ed is just hinting that Garcian isn't who he thinks he is.
Much similar to how Sumio Mondo wasn't really who he said he was either.

It could also relate to the metempsychosis theme that is heavily prevalent in K7.
(As well as SC & FSR.)
A transmigration of the soul between hosts.
It could imply that the person inside Garcian's body is actually Sumio, but it's all just speculation I've read from a Japanese K7 site that was based off of the original Devil Summoner game.
There's a guy named Kyoji Kuzunoha who dressed exactly like Garcian.
In DS, Kuzunoha's body was given to the main character after they both died during the same day.
Death gave Kuzunoha's body to the main character because it wasn't time for him to die yet. (The main character's body was fubared, so he was given Kuzunoha's as consolation.)
The remainder of the game revolves around Kuzunoha trying to get his body back from you.

In this picture of Kuzunoha
http://www.dokuganryu.com/scans/megaten/devil/02.jpg
You can clearly see an aura of a young boy emanating from him.
That's the main character.
Some people in Japan believe that Sumio is using Garcian's body as an outer shell.

Course I don't really think it's true because Garcian is in NMH.
Although the logic behind the theory does make sense.


The TV, with every persona inside means quite simply that those personas aren't even real people to begin with. It may or may not be a reference to Moonlight Syndrome, but who cares? It doesn't matter.
I see all of those things as idiosyncrasies, if you will - not plot points.


IMO, the tv medium in Killer 7 is actually a conclusion to the ending of Moonlight Syndrome.
MS never actually tells you why Mika Kishi is stuck inside the tv. (In fact the MS ending is the only time in the game that the tv ever gets focused on.)

The only hints that we have to go on are
1. Mika was present during the ending credits. She hugs Ryo Kazan.
2. We later see Ryo lying around dead or unconscious sitting in front of a tv & still holding on to Kyoko's head contained inside a brown bag.
(The brown bags in Killer 7 are supposedly the heads of the Smith Syndicate.)
3. You can clearly see Mika Kishi tapped inside Ryo's tv.

Silver Case concludes what happened to Ryo & Rumi after Moonlight Syndrome.
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In Silver Case, during Jan. 29, 1999 during midnight.
(SC actually begins during the same duration of time that Moonlight Syndrome ended.)
Ryo Kazan goes apeshit insane & went on a killing spree. One of his targets was Tetsuguro Kusabi.
Later on in SC, Tetsuguro shoots Ryo about 5 times.
However the final shot actually came from Rumi Touba.

Rumi is later killed by Tetsuguro, because she failed to comply with his orders.
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Killer 7 shows to you the final conclusion to Moonlight Syndrome
The meaning behind the tv & what actually happened to Mika Kishi.
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In Killer 7 we later find out that
The Smith Syndicate are all dead, & we actually transmigrate their souls into Emir through the use of the tv as a medium.

This also explains how Mika was able to hug Ryo during the credits.
She was actually a corporeal spirit, who may have been using Rumi's body as a host.
Just like how the Killer 7 utilize Emir's body as the main host in order to exist in the physical plane.
So in effect it's not that K7 is referencing Moonlight Syndrome.
Killer 7 is actually closing the final chapter in the Moonlight Syndrome game.
(The only loose thread left from MS is Yayoi Itsushima/Hanayama herself.)

because of their experience with Suda's previous games, so they will naturally pick the similarities and thus even theorize about killer7's relation with previous games even if in reality there isn't one.

Most people in Japan can't really decide whether or not K7 should be grouped up with the other games.

I think the main reason why anyone would believe that Killer 7 relates to the other games is because of the hand book.
Hand in Killer 7 actually has the title "Kill the Past" on it.
http://www.killer7.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/handinkiller.jpg
http://www.killer7.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/handinkillerback.jpg
Kill the Past was a catch phrase that originated in Moonlight Syndrome, but was later expanded upon in Silver Case.

Although it should be noted that Silver Case 25 Ward actually starts an entirely new arc called "Kill the Life"
Implying that Killer 7 is actually the final chapter of "Kill the Past"
Which would make sense, since it was actually Killer 7 that finally (indirectly) explains what happened to Mika Kishi after she died in Moonlight Syndrome.
As can be seen from the MS ending. Mika can also traverse the physical plane like the K7.
She too is also confined inside a tv.
The tv is used as a medium between astral planes.
That's all information about MS that you can only attain by playing Killer 7.

As far as I know, the only thing outside the game you really need to understand to figure it out, is US<->Japan politics.


True. I wish there were more people like you who understand as much as you do about K7's plot.
While the red herrings in K7 do have a meaning & a purpose.
(For the overall theme of Suda's games "Kill the Past")
They do not have any actual relevance to the core that is Killer 7's plot.
Which was a game that had a politically focused plot.
(The other Suda games don't focus on politics.
Silver Case kinda does, but Silver Case's theme differs depending on what case you're currently on.)
Killer 7 takes place in an alternate reality that is separate from the main series.

Moonlight Syndrome= The origin
Silver Case= The main plot
Flower, Sun, & Rain= Plot device that relates to every single game.
Killer 7= Alternate reality

Here's Flower, Sun & Rain being mentioned in Silver Case.
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I forgot to scan the part when he says "The answer is in Kamui."

In FSR, Tetsuguro tells Sumio that it's time to come back to reality.
After Tetsuguro says "Come back to reality."
The graphic style of FSR all of a sudden changes into a typical Silver Case interface.
Implying that SC is the Reality.

In NMH we constantly hear the Touchdown bros. talking about coming back to Paradise.
Paradise or dream often refers to Flower Sun & Rain.
FSR= Paradise/Dream
It's where you run off to in order to forget your past.
(Although in reality FSR is just a man made island containing a factory that mass produces silver eyes, by cultivating them through a rare breed of a hyena.)

If Moonlight Syndrome were to be referred to through some kind of code name.
I would guess it to be "Nightmare", because that is what the Moonlight says after Ryo agrees to the contract with Mitra. In order to lengthen Mika Kishi's life span.
Nightmare would be a fitting name, because not only does it relate to reality & dream.
Nightmare also aptly describes what the full effect of the Moonlight Syndrome actually is. (A nightmare in the physical plane.)

I can't honestly say what Killer 7 would be, because that game doesn't make any goddamn sense outside of the political arc.
Regardless of how many K7 fans may think otherwise.