Board Thread:Fan Speculations/@comment-108.207.229.253-20140328054734

I've only seen the anime and haven't read the manga... but Johan's claim to have been responsible for the death of the three doctors never made sense to me.

They opened and ate from a sealed package of candy as a totally random act. There's no way he could have planned that ahead of time, or known that they specifically would eat from it. I find it more likely that their eating of the poisoned candy was an unplanned accident, and Johan was just trying to mess with Tenma's head by claiming to have done it on behalf of Tenma. In fact, I don't think Johan was the one who poisoned the candy at all, or even knew about it at the time.

Which brings me to the question of who was the intended target of the poisoned candy. It was in a sealed package which had been sent to Johan with all the other gifts from the public. The answer seems obvious to me: someone from Johan's past saw the news about the Lieberts, realized what happened, and was trying to poison Johan to finish him off (and perhaps Anna as well). My first guess would be Poppe, or perhaps someone else involved with 511 Kinderheim. 