>get recommended by fricking everyone that this is a good mystery VN. >"DUDE METAVERSE MAGIC"

>get recommended by fricking everyone that this is a good mystery VN
>"DUDE METAVERSE MAGIC"
>"OH YEAH, YOU CAN'T SOLVE THE EPITAPH WITHOUT KNOWING YOUR CHINESE CHARACTERS"
>"NO, ALL THOSE LOCKED ROOM MURDERS ARE IRRELEVANT, WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IS THAT EVERYONE JUST GOT BLASTED BY A SHOTGUN AND ALL THE INTERESTING SETUPS WERE JUST THE CULPRIT'S IMAGINATION"
UMINEKO FRICKING SUCKS
The meta commentary about mystery and seeing Battler try to pull solutions out his ass was interesting, but this shit was NOT worth the time it took to read it

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >EVERYONE JUST GOT BLASTED BY A SHOTGUN AND ALL THE INTERESTING SETUPS WERE JUST THE CULPRIT'S IMAGINATION
    Sounds like you didn't "get" the end to that tea party. It's only one interpretation of what might've happened (or I should say more likely than the rest of them).

    I do agree that it's overly long due to alot of repeated dialogue and meandering inner monologues. The best part about the VN is the soundwork and OST.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >doesn't understand the metaverse
    >doesn't understand that the epitaph being practically unsolvable is a clue in and of itself
    >believed someone else's explanation
    You are incompetent!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Say it in red, you mutiliated b***h

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    lmfao i love VN threads on Ganker, they're peak top tier content. VN recommendations are always very hit or miss, op, sometimes you're get GREAT recommendations and sometimes it just won't be your thing. It's the same thing for me, I love romance VNs and sometimes they're good and sometimes they're shit. You just gotta roll with the punches. I get the green texts though, I do that shit while I'm playing bad VNs too

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      SEGGS WITH RAIN

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I am the only person in existence who likes the gameplay of Baldr sky and thinks the fricking vn part is a boring drag.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        the vn part is good and the gameplay is legit 10/10 though, god hand tier

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm about to read this nice girl's VN, should I be worried? And yes, Umineko does suck, since the whole plot is a troony sperging out.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      what vn?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Subahibi or Subarashiki Hibi.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this wasnt me but the app is saying it is. are you my little brother???

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Excuse me?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          i know where you live

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      No, it's kino and she is best girl

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I have seen some of her pictures and I can already tell I'm going to love her.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The only good parts of that VN are chapter 3 and scenes with her in it. Nothing to worry about, she's cute.

          >double
          THIS IS A PROPHECY.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The only good parts of that VN are chapter 3 and scenes with her in it. Nothing to worry about, she's cute.

          kek, nice

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It's settled, I'm destined to read this VN and see what makes her the best girl.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The only good parts of that VN are chapter 3 and scenes with her in it. Nothing to worry about, she's cute.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    keep coping homosexual

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Higurashi being a complete shitpile from the moment K1 becomes a protestor for children's rights at City Hall to the end was enough to ensure I never read another R07 work ever again
    >lmao dude trained soldiers that knock out Akasaka and Ooishi get beat by kids with Home Alone traps
    frick off

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      But anon, you forgot the power of friendship!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      good thing I never touched Higu

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's so fricking bad that I can read another mystery VN with the same kind of rural setting (Raging Loop) that also has a questionable ending but not be mad at it because it's great in comparison.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I heard that Gnosia had some inspiration from Raging Loop and I was planning to give the latter some reading, it does look better in comparison and it doesn't seem to have Ryukishi's hack writing.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Gnosia is a great underrated vn. I'm happy it's nichie and the quick gameplay to get through the time loops is perfect. Unique art and everything.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Gnosia is a great underrated vn. I'm happy it's nichie and the quick gameplay to get through the time loops is perfect. Unique art and everything.

            Not playing your troonyge

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You're okay with an alien virus that makes people go insane but draw the line at human error?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Who said I was okay with it? I said the entire thing from the Satoko Arc to the end was dogshit.
        But yes, an alien virus is LESS moronic than trained special forced losing in a fight to moronic kids with hole traps and trash can traps.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Well to be fair Rika has probably seen the soldiers' movements a thousand times so she could reasonably come up with a strategy to counter them.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            No, I'm sorry, it's just moronic.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Sounds like you're looking for realism in writing that is far from it. Perhaps Love Plus is more your flavor of VN? Not trying to bash of course. Everyone has their own tastes.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I'm pretty sure they had never fought them before up to that point because the other shards until then were all the same shit
            but it's still fricking moronic, one of MANY moronic things
            >You can just enjoy the clowns milling about
            >the clown was me, wasting my time reading it
            BRAVO

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's a shame because the idea of the time loop and the hate plague had a really interesting set up.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        In any story where it is not clear if it's mundane or magic (supernatural) causing things it always ends up being magic because it's too easy and convenient to write.
        Even that EVN The Sekiemeiya or whatever where they jack off how 'serious' the mystery is and tell you to take notes and shit ends up having it be about magic portals

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I prefer when it's magic but done well. Don't recommend me any because me saying that ruins the point of me reading it.

          Half assed mundane/magical solutions like Higurashi just boils my piss.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            well don't worry. I don't recommend The Suckimeiya because it sucks. The characters are written like robots that were programmed to do nothing but expose and over analyze everything
            >"Hello," said Bob
            >Before Jim acknowledged Bob, he took stock of the room. The brown was a brown that...*insert 5 paragraphs here about the room*
            >"Hello," returned Jim, 5 pages later.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Anon, I suggest you play Raging Loop. It proves your hypothesis wrong.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Guy Raging Loop is about fricking magic users causing trouble all over the world, and this incident just being one of many.
            and I actually LIKE the ending unlike most anons

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            raging loop is the perfect example of an interesting setup/story with a fricking stupid magic explanation.
            I like it overall but you can't tell me the ending was handled that well.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Loop's problem is the exact opposite. The fact the wolf game WASN'T magic bullshit made it infinitely worse.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Anon, the wolf games we see never happened .
                Yes, they were bringing/brought back the actual deadly version of the festival that had been benign for so long, but what we see in the game was all part of the Spider prostitute's Hex; a dream where she could re-do it over and over and over to find the solution that ended in summoning that monster God.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Rec me some good mystery VNs where you can actually deduce the answers through logic and evidence bros
                Doesn't matter if they're linear, just so long as I can make it a game of playing detective myself

                Spider prostitute makes Rika look like a fricking 200 IQ genius with how ridiculously incompetent she made out to be after that reveal

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I don't think there's really any, man. Maybe Ace Attorney, but Ace Attorney relies on some Rube Goldberg type shit.
                Maybe Ouka Sabaki/Master Magistrate? Pretty grounded and a good VN to boot. Then there's Cartagra/SnK1 and 2 I suppose.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Ouka Sabaki/Master Magistrate
                Never heard of it, looks neat

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It's good. I unironically liked the 'bad route' which is fully fleshed out.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Rec me some good mystery VNs where you can actually deduce the answers through logic and evidence bros
                You can try my game. It's short and free:

                https://max-stern.itch.io/mistalone

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Danganronpa unironically

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I got some of them right ahead of time. The ones I remember tricking me were
                See Saw
                Hopeman and the Spear
                Strong Toilet Paper

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Many DR murders are impossible to solve until the trials, because you're given more information. I wouldn't call them good mysteries.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Thats true, but its supposed to make the game feel more interactive. you asking questions and firing truth bullets or whatever is supposes to feel like solving the mystery in real time, so you can self insert. i dont think it makes it a bad mystery, its just a different kind.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                YTTD is just about the only thing I can think of. It's less mystery and more drama due to how its Main Game works, but it's still a good read nonetheless.
                Its last part isn't out yet, though.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      ch 7 was fine, it's the final chapter's second half that drops the fricking ball with how it defeats the villain.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i love R07 and his vns but this particular part was too much for me. unironically home alone in something that isnt supposed to be a comedy. i literally loled when i realized it was sctually what was gonna happen. the cope is that the bloodhounds or whatever werent actually a combat specialized group but still very hilarious. Higu and umi are still amazing to me overall and the point isnt to be ordinary, its supposed to be out there and more about the human element than the rational one.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I like the idea of the yamainu actually being weak in a direct fight and more built for undercover shit, but frick did Ryukishi take it too far

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah but even the pencil pushers for the Special Forces are peak physically fit and can fire guns correctly.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah wasnt defending it just mentioning what i remember. I was pissed and laughing during the home alone segment

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You mong, based Okonogi threw the fight against Mion because he knew they had already lost.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The only genuinely bad part was the start of episode 2 because I don't like romance in general and shannon and george are the worst characters (especially shannon).

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Umineko has lots of genuinely bad parts. Ange's entire section of the story, for example.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I liked it becauase I was self inserting as her for some reason. The environment also felt comfy and the imaginary friends felt like they were my friends.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >man is named Battler
    >doesn't battle anyone

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the fighting game exists.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Battler is literally me. The battle isnt physical. Wait. This is a bait into getting me to admit something that makes me vulnerable. heehee. I see through you.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I thought the bad end was interesting because it effectively contracticted the entire message of the game, hinting at another deeper layer.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    troony shit is always pushed loudly

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Umineko is actually about fricking your lonely and HOT auntie and taking responsibility

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      it's the hime cut she isn't hot without it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      only decent post in this asylum thread

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        battler will never ever frick you rosa give up already

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Beatrice is overrated

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Umineko is just a really long cope apologist story. Believing magic means surrendering to self-delusion and escapism. The real message is: you're too weak to face the truth, you will always be too weak, so why not take the magic pill? It's either that or suicide according to the BS false dichotomy that's been presented here. Any way you slice it, that's what magic means, it's just coated with sugary euphemisms.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      so its 07th shitting on his audience?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No, on the contrary, he truly believes that's a perfectly healthy and responsible message to make in his story. Why try to face your demons and come out on top when you can just use '''''''''''''''''''magic'''''''''''''''''''' to make things go away? What could go wrong? It's not like this will totally come back to bite you in the ass in the future when your brain is incapable of keeping the illusion alive. Like what happens with Maria: eventually she would be unable to delude herself away from the hard, cold truth that her mother was neglecting her in favor of dick and she would snap. The coping mechanism of magic only makes things worse in the long run.

        The actual point is that if the "truth" isn't useful to your psyche then there is no reason to know it or accept it. You may have autism.

        Low IQ take, my friend.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Embarrassing projection. Just because you can't control your thoughts and emotions without external stimulus doesn't mean that nobody else can.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The actual point is that if the "truth" isn't useful to your psyche then there is no reason to know it or accept it. You may have autism.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I never understood why people argue so much about the "it's cope delusions" vs. "It's going through life in good faith" or however else you want to call it.
      I think it's just easier to say that knowing the truth can be painful, and doesn't always offer the closure to feel worth it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What is easier at first might not be what's healthier in the long run. Also the author frames magic as clearly being the ''enlightened'' path, while truth seekers can only be bitter, paranoid and depressed (like Ange and Erika).

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          truth seekers that only care about who and how are bitter, at least from Umi's narrative

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah, but the author goes out of his way to stablish a false dichotomy between truth and magic. Notice how all the truth seeking characters are framed as failed, pathetic losers or bitter psychos. Is it not possible to overcome your traumas without resorting to escapism? You can't face reality without turning into an edgy suicidal detective? Ridiculous.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Why is escapism bad inherently bad if you can maintain it?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Fundamentally? Because it's the same as accepting weakness and giving up on real self-improvement.

                And besides that, odds are that you won't be able to maintain the illusion for long, and the more you try to, the more you distance yourself from reality and other people, creating even more problems that you have to force your brain to accommodate or ignore. The more you hold on to the illusion, the more explosive and damaging will be the inevitable snap, the falling of your house of cards, and you will have no more pillars to sustain yourself.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >giving up on real self-improvement
                The only thing that matters here is your happiness. This can be achieved by working, thinking, or both.
                >odds are
                Nope, there is no proof that you can't create your own reality and maintain it in your head. You don't even have to distance yourself from others if you don't want to.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                treating escapism as a long term solution is the problem, but I think it's okay to acknowledge that you can't handle something right now and will face it later.
                I think that would be a better message, since harping on something without the ability to do anything about it is just you making yourself sick over it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, but there is nothing at the end of Umi that suggests that magic was transitory for Ange. On the contrary, the epilogue reinforces and rewards the views she upheld through most of her adult life.

                not surrendering to weakness, it can be the opposite. i know it isnt how its portrsyed in umi, but having irrational hope in the face of misery and tragedy to be a beacon of light for yourself and those around you is different. Believing and hoping you CAN improve even when its not reasonable, that sort of thing. Like having faith you will be able to fight off a pack of wolves surrounding you and your family even though you probably wont be able to when there are no other options.

                I agree with you there, but that's not exactly what happens in Umineko. There is a difference between avoiding hard truths and reality and having hope in the unknown, even against all odds. I don't want to get into specifics because it's been a long time since I've read Umi, and it will take a long time for me to build up a solid case with prints and everything, but the gist of it was that Ange had access to the truth in Eva's diary but chose to ignore it because it was painful to deal with. All the last part of the meta-adventure is about preventing the truth from the diary from coming out, after all.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Fundamentally? Because it's the same as accepting weakness and giving up on real self-improvement.

                And besides that, odds are that you won't be able to maintain the illusion for long, and the more you try to, the more you distance yourself from reality and other people, creating even more problems that you have to force your brain to accommodate or ignore. The more you hold on to the illusion, the more explosive and damaging will be the inevitable snap, the falling of your house of cards, and you will have no more pillars to sustain yourself.

                If you want to see where delusion leads look at trannies.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                What about them? Most people are probably too connected to the external world to create magic, but some can be whatever they want and live perfectly happy lives. The fact those individuals have a penis then becomes your problem to cope with.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                There's no magic, and that's why delusion can't be viable long term. You can believe as hard as you want but reality will repeatedly intrude upon your fantasies, and you'll run yourself ragged trying to keep up the illusion.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                (NTA) I think i believe in the x variety of magic. Believing the currently impossible sometimes makes things possible. will to power, kind of. I think theres a middle ground between "i believe there are people who can shoot lasers with magic spells" and "There is only cause, and effect. every action can be predicted and understood and has no greater meaning beyond their physical form".

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              See people like you keep getting hung up on the truth versus magic thing. Angie is explicitly fully aware that her parents murdered almost everyone else. The difference between truth and magic in the meta sense is Angie choosing to believe that despite how shit her parents and other family members could be that didn't invalidate the good they did as well.
              In universe it was the difference between

              Angie being unable to accept that contradiction and defaulting to either.
              >Aunt Eva was a shit my parents were good therefore Eva lied even in the journal
              Or
              >Everyone in my family was a shit without exception

              Even for someone like Erika her being able to say Red that her boyfriend cheated doesn't actually mean anything because Witches can say Red for any individual or multiple universes (it's why they can use red on Leon who usually doesn't exist) meaning that there's a chance she breaks up with him and kills herself for no reason (at least in some realities)

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >The difference between truth and magic in the meta sense is Angie choosing to believe that despite how shit her parents and other family members could be that didn't invalidate the good they did as well.

                If the ending actually focused on that aspect, I might actually enjoy it. It's a beautiful universal message: despite most of us being horrible people, we might still choose to love and forgive (but not condone the evil actions, of course), and remember people not only from their bad side, but also their good side. That being said, that's not what happens at the end of Umi, when Ryukishi goes full on magic moron.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Why would you even consider that dead people that you loved may have committed misdeeds? If they're not around to commit any more then it makes more sense for them to be perfect in your head.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                the effects of those dead people's misdeeds might not die with them

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Not my problem since they don't exist

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                but they do

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                but they don't doe

                >I think for myself
                >that's why I contextualize everything around this cool japanese VN I've read once

                It was an experience of mine

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not advocating that anyone should be brooding about that all the time, but simply acknowledging that the people you loved were real human being with flaws (sometimes big flaws) is just reasonable, don't you think?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It's not reasonable if it doesn't benefit you more than believing that they were perfect beings to look up to

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Then you're crating unhealthy, unrealistic, unachievable expectations for role models and damaging yourself.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                If striving for perfection isn't something you want to do then you shouldn't do it. Maybe you're happier being perfect right now, or maybe you're happier being average. That's for you to decide before you leave my consciousness and disappear into the sea of nonexistence.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It kinda did. I read it 8 years ago, but that's what I got from it at least. You are focusing on "magic" too much.
                It's not like Ange brainwashed herself, she just chose to ignore the murder bullshit and focus on remembering her relatives as a family. What good will it do to her if she finds out who killed who and why. It's not that important, so she chose to move on.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Damn I picked some image from buffer. Should sleep some more.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >despite most of us being horrible people, we might still choose to love and forgive (but not condone the evil actions, of course), and remember people not only from their bad side, but also their good side

                That is the message. You can blame either r07 or the readers for not getting it in the VN but the manga makes it explicit that Ange is well aware her parents are the killers.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Then I blame Ryukishi for failing to convey that message clearly, because the VN conveys a very different message. Is it possible that Ryukishi backtracked due to criticism and decided to tone down the pro-escapism elements in the manga?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                In the VN Ange also acknowledges the truth, then she falls into meta-oblivion or something and Battler has to bring her back. When she comes back she takes the magic pill and decides to ignore the truth, because ''magic is real'' and they are all happy in the golden land and everyone who disagrees is a heartless dumb goat.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                That sounds moronic.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      thats kinda what i got from it, but not exactly with the same conclusion. sometimes believing in the irrational or having hope where there should be none is a noble thing.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I'm sorry but I have to disagree. I don't see anything noble about surrendering to weakness because the truth is a hard pill to swallow. I believe that in the real world nothing good can come out of that.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          not surrendering to weakness, it can be the opposite. i know it isnt how its portrsyed in umi, but having irrational hope in the face of misery and tragedy to be a beacon of light for yourself and those around you is different. Believing and hoping you CAN improve even when its not reasonable, that sort of thing. Like having faith you will be able to fight off a pack of wolves surrounding you and your family even though you probably wont be able to when there are no other options.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I never really understood the motivation behind the perpetrator in Umineko. Sayo was upset over having a crippled body, plus some other stuff about love involving Battler, George, and Jessica, so he/she...freaked out and decided to go on an overly elaborate suicidal killing spree? The frick?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      idk I didn't read the manga which apparently is a required reading

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What does the manga explain?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Supposedly it says who "actually" committed the crime and explains the whole yasu deal

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            And who was it? Explain it to me.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I'm just aware that is is supposed to explain all that. I don't actually know what happens in the manga.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It explicitly shows how each murder is committed and does more damage control for the series' theme (something something don't use real tragedies for entertainment).

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            So who was behind it all?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Basically
      Yasu having their dick/vegana destroyed meant they didn't think they were lovable. They also learned they wanted to frick their cousins aka commit incest just like Kinzo. Then finally Battler coming back and they couldn't decide between Joji and Battler they decided to just kill everyone.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Right, but it just seems like a bit of an overreaction is all.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Unironically they say it was the shittiest possible solution to their problem. Especially because 07th has stated their chosen partner would accept them regardless

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The family is full of terrible people, and the servants who weren't rape enablers bullied Sayo. I'm not sure why the cousins (besides Battler) needed to die, though. My first thought would be "jealousy" but it's not like Maria's had an especially great life.
          I'm not saying that this justifies blowing up the island, by the way, but I can see why a battered, impulsive, and unstable mind might jump to "all these fricking people need to go NOW" when presented the option.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They are the new head of the family
      They can so whatever they want with their property (relatives)

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    filtered

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Like what happens with Maria: eventually she would be unable to delude herself away from the hard, cold truth that her mother was neglecting her in favor of dick and she would snap. The coping mechanism of magic only makes things worse in the long run.

    We even see that happening in the meta-narrative. I don't remember which chapter, but it's the one where magic girl Maria goes bananas on her mother and torture-kills her repeatedly when she is forced to face the reality of what was happening. Something similar (although obviously without the magic elements) would have happened in real life if Maria lived long enough for that, because coping mechanisms are not healthy in the long run. Ryukishi is a hack, a terrible writer. The premise of Umineko was great and I wanted to enjoy it, but he does nothing of value with it.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    books for homies that haven't read a book

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      books dont have music and ost

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I have no idea why westerners latch onto Umineko so hard compared to the Japanese

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ryukishi is a hack, he isn't even that popular in Japan, or at least Umineko doesn't have the same success.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Didn't nips turn on Umineko hard in the last chapter or two?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They realized Ryukishi is a hack that can't write stories worth shit.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        pretty sure that's just a copypasta

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Isn't it obvious? The weak minded and weak willed love to hear what supports their own delusions and fantasies, no matter how self-destructive that is in the long run.

      >giving up on real self-improvement
      The only thing that matters here is your happiness. This can be achieved by working, thinking, or both.
      >odds are
      Nope, there is no proof that you can't create your own reality and maintain it in your head. You don't even have to distance yourself from others if you don't want to.

      >Nope, there is no proof that you can't create your own reality and maintain it in your head. You don't even have to distance yourself from others if you don't want to.

      Good luck with that, buddy. I see you in the suicide statistics.

      >The only thing that matters here is your happiness. This can be achieved by working, thinking, or both.

      The only way you can achieve happiness in the long run is to build that on solid ground.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >muh statistics
        >solid ground
        This is why you can't use magic. You can't see yourself as an outlier. You're not one in a trillion and as such you think like a normalgay. You're too weak to take risks.

        There's no magic, and that's why delusion can't be viable long term. You can believe as hard as you want but reality will repeatedly intrude upon your fantasies, and you'll run yourself ragged trying to keep up the illusion.

        How so? Anything can be explained by magic with the devil's proof since there is no red truth or personified literary guidelines saying that you can't.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          (NTA) I think i believe in the x variety of magic. Believing the currently impossible sometimes makes things possible. will to power, kind of. I think theres a middle ground between "i believe there are people who can shoot lasers with magic spells" and "There is only cause, and effect. every action can be predicted and understood and has no greater meaning beyond their physical form".

          I believe in esoteric occultist shit to a degree but you're failing to grasp the basics of it if you think you can completely disregard reality and make up your own instead of using those processes to influence it.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >occultist shit
            You don't even need that. You can make up your own truths when they're convenient to you.

            >This is why you can't use magic. You can't see yourself as an outlier. You're not one in a trillion and as such you think like a normalgay. You're too weak to take risks.
            >it will totally work out for me, though, because I'm special

            Again, see you in the statistics.

            Soulless

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Yet the inconvenient truth will still come back to affect you.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Not if I use my imagination

                >You don't even need that. You can make up your own truths when they're convenient to you.

                This is what post-modernism has done to society. They truly believe this shit.

                Why should I live by your social rules? Why is my truth worth less than your collective truth? The answer is that it isn't. I am free and you are a slave.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Imagination is subjective. Reality is objective. You can cope all you want until reality intrudes upon it. But it will.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Your perception is objective. Your interpretations of said perception are subjective. Only you can interpret your own perception, however, so it effectively is objective but changes based on your thoughts.
                Nothing can exist outside of your mind.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                My perception OF things is subjective, but what I'm perceiving is not. Because I perceive a rock one way does not make it not a rock.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                How do you know what it is for sure? Do you trust your senses that much? Only your conscious mind can be trusted to work in your favor.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                As someone with a mental illness I know your mind and senses can lie to you, that's why I try my best to operate based on concrete facts.

                What you're advocating is a bad road to go down full of nothing but disappointment.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Your mind playing tricks could be the "objective" state. It could also be a further muddled state of an already muddled reality. The only thing you can know for certain is that you can think, and because you can think you can decide what is real and what isn't.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You can't do that, that's merely a delusion.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You're conflating social rules with truth. Truth exists outside yourself, weather you like it or not. Your infantile notions of freedom, ironically, are what keep you imprisoned in your own delusions that can only cause you suffering in the long run.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >imprisoned
                What a meme. Delusions let you turn anything into something good. You can morph the world as you see fit and be logically consistent in doing so using the catbox, devil's proof, solopsism, etc.
                You keep assuming that I'm suffering but that simply isn't the case. Maybe you can imagine it as such and make it so.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I can't even begin to imagine how conceited someone has to be to believe they can outrun reality with silly mental games. Like the other anon said, reality always finds a way to intrude itself against your will, and no matter how good at lying to yourself you are, you're always doomed to lose in the end. I was just joking about the suicide statistics at first, now I'm legit concerned. No matter how fricked up you think your life is, you can face reality, anon. I believe in you.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Maybe I can. My point is that I can choose what I want to deal with and what I want to create whenever I want, and that the chains of the normalgay "reality" do not bind me.
                You can't lose until you give up thinking.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >My point is that I can choose what I want to deal with

                You really can't, though.

                >You can't lose until you give up thinking.

                Wait, so you're not even into post-modern philosophy? you're basing the principles of your life around a second rate japanese visual novel for teens? How old are you?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >You really can't, though
                Except I can. I'm doing it right now. You're not some homosexual on the internet but actually one of my demon nee-sans playing devil's advocate who I'm debating with.
                >philosophy
                I think for myself based on my own thoughts and experiences. I'm not "into" anything.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I think for myself
                >that's why I contextualize everything around this cool japanese VN I've read once

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >the chains of the normalgay reality do not bind me
                this makes for a good pasta, I genuinely lol'd

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                nta but you should check out

                tangentially related and since you are le erika furude based you might enjoy it

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >You don't even need that. You can make up your own truths when they're convenient to you.

              This is what post-modernism has done to society. They truly believe this shit.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >This is why you can't use magic. You can't see yourself as an outlier. You're not one in a trillion and as such you think like a normalgay. You're too weak to take risks.
          >it will totally work out for me, though, because I'm special

          Again, see you in the statistics.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You got memed on anon. Higurashi and Umineko are dogshit but you need to get through them in order to play the third entry in the franchise, Ciconia no naku koro ni.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      phase 2 in 10 years, please look forward to it.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If anyone wants to understand the meaning of Umineko, I suggest reading this blog post:

    https://blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-asia/the-umineko-review

    It's easily the most in-depth literature critique of Umineko ever written.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      reading someone elses take of umineko is the best way to absolutely not understand umineko. the whole point of r07s works is for each person to derive their own meaning from it. it something you can discuss, but suggesting someone do anything but find their own understanding by reading is against the spirit of the vn to begin with.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >it something you can discuss, but suggesting someone do anything but find their own understanding by reading is against the spirit of the vn to begin with.
        your logic makes no sense. if discussions are fine, it is inevitable that somebody will bring up a fact that is new to you, changing your perception of the work.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          that has nothing to do with what i said at all. the point is that if you dont understand you need to think it over yourself and read the vn or you literally didnt get it. Discussion is a multi-actor process, not reading someone elses thoughts and trying to take them as your own. you are being an autistic contrarian, but just look up any higu or umi interview and he says the same thing. if its illogical then so is R07

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Not him, but having formulated your own understanding of a work doesn't prevent you from reading about the interpretations of others and thus expanding your own horizon. Surely you're not that arrogant to suggest that it's impossible that someone, somewhere, is capable of insight that went over your head.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              yeah, discussion is nice and all like i said. the anon said " if you dont understand umi, read this". It just goes against the spirit of the story.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >console art
      >shitty quote at the beginning
      no thanks, the only 'in-depth' umineko discussion I've seen has been on Ganker and maybe a little on /jp/.
      No youtube video or shitty article from someone who just finished the VN has ever been good or impressed me as much as some autists have on here.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Just read this. It doesn't go too deep into the meaning of Umineko. It just details Ryukishi being a hack. Comparing visual novels to actual novels is a mistake.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It explained R07's intent with the story, which was to solve two problems that don't exist. Those are:

        1) Critique classic detective fiction (ignoring all later developments)
        2) Criticizing the death of the author, believing authorial intent matters above all else (only he gets to decide what truth is allowed).

        Although silly, those make a lot more sense than the conventional view of a pro-escapism message being introduced out of nowhere.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You could always just google an R07 interview or read the authors notes if you want his actual intent.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            But then he wouldn't get an opportunity to advertise his blog on Ganker like a homosexual.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      umisisters...he can't be getting away with this...

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I'm not reading that shit.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >NOOOO LET ME PEAK MY NOSE INTO EVERY LITTLE CROOK AND NANNY
        >G-grow up!
        What a little b***h.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >another false dichotomy
          umitrannies are utterly deranged, not a surprise to see them gravitate to this shitpile of a vn

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            ya seeth?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >potentially large scale terrorist event
        >NOOOO YOU CAN'T INVESTIGATE BECAUSE IT MIGHT HURT THE FEELINGS OF THE SURVIVING FAMILY MEMBERS
        >THE TRUTH DOESN'T MATTER, WHAT MATTERS ARE THE FEELINGS FROM THE VICTIM

        Umineko is SJW progressive trash at it's core lmao

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          this post would be a lot more true if the right wing in the USA didn't suck the dick of Saudi Arabia constantly, who killed a US reporter and did 9-11, so I don't believe you when you say "hurrrr find the troof"

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    why did R07 write such a long VN about a troony coping

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Because Ryukishi is a hack. Reading Umineko was a huge mistake and I'm probably going to wash that off by reading better VNs like Subahibi.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >probably going to wash that off by reading better VNs like Subahibi.
        Please do not hype yourself up this much for it. It has one good chapter and a few good scenes outside of it. Subahibi excels at schizokino and expecting anything more than that will cause you to have a bad time, unless you know jack shit about philosophy and are impressed by random quotes and the authour jacking off how well-read he is.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Couldn't be worse than Umineko. I didn't read Umineko expecting schizo shit, this time it will be different, hopefully.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Stop thinking too hard about it and get to reading then, you little shit. Take note that chapter 1 is nonsensical bullshit until after you finish it. If you think about dropping it there try and make it to chapter 2/3 so you can give it a fair judgement.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If you thought the endings to Higurashi and Umineko sucked then I wouldn't expect much from the ending of Subahibi. It turns into a generic anime happy ending at complete odds with the rest of the VN.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Well I assume it would at least make sense unlike what Ryukishi decided to do with Umineko or that new Higurashi anime. I swear to God Ryukishi can't write endings worth shit.

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There is nothing wrong with escapism. Escapist fantasies are several times better than real life, and the negatives of them are very exaggarated.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Everyone had tea and incest until Kinzo's suicide island bomb accidentally misfired due to water damage from the typhoon, prove me wrong.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    dumb goat

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it's time to read the superior r07 vn.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >JAPANESE ARE BAD
      >oh hey a cool fight scene and villain
      >BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT THE JAPANESE SUCK?
      I tried but it never hooked me like higurashi/umineko/higanbana, even ciconia has a better start for frick sake.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        keep reading until the end of season 2 at least
        the first two arcs suck

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Visual novels are gay weeb shit. you got what you paid for

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      thank you for this valuable insight you useless Black person

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      zero dollars for dozens of hours of entertainment and deep philosophical pondering
      bretty good deal

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I honestly can't tell if he's a clueless 13 yo that read the first thing that made a big impression on him, a late stage troon or a really good troll. That's why I love Umineko threads.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      im literally battler. seethe.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Without cope it cannot be seen.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Isn't Battler a gigantic moron?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Sometimes fighting battles that may seem hopeless makes you look more foolish. That doesnt make the cause any less just! Hey, i think my name might be a bit fitting after all.. nihihi

          Without cope it cannot be seen.

          eh? I dont think i get it. what does it mean?

          When's the Umineko hollywood adaptation w/ Battler played by Ryan Gosling?

          eh? i dont watch western films that often... i was never really into the western obsessionbour grandfather had. I could always play myself!

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Shut up you FRICKING gay!

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        When's the Umineko hollywood adaptation w/ Battler played by Ryan Gosling?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Zendaya as Beatrice

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nihi.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The only redeeming quality of Umineko, the superb soundtrack. And Krauss.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >HURRY SPONGEBOB THE MUSIC'S GETTING FASTER

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Regardless of which 07th works you think are good or shit, do you think he'll ever write anything new that's decent?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ciconia is good.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I can't say whether it is or not, but I can say that it only has one part out and it's been 3 fricking years.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He's doing a sequel with the protagonists of the previous series' kids, there's no backing out once you reach that degree of hackery.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Technically he's not the one writing it(at least I don't think?) but it shows he's willing to continue milking Higurashi past a fricking gacha and the shitty new anime.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      RGD and phase 1 were both good. Loopers could have been good if it was longer.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        isn't RGD like a decade old?

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >doing shrooms while listening to melancholic and moody tracks from Umineko

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I prefer the 'thinking music' when I'm high. The melancholy stuff usually makes me way too sad by bringing up memories of the past.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        *posts far (flat) all up in yo shi*

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          We can always compromise with some UNTZ instead.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is this any good? It looks comfy but nobody really talks about it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      no one really talks about it much since it's just a collection of short horror stories. i did find it pretty fun so if that seems interesting to you give it a try

      also it not being wtc

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      it s composed of seven little stories if i remember correctly
      setting is interesting
      there is like 3 stories i enjoyed a lot
      one chapter is completly garbage
      art and music are cool

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What's the real reason Ciconia 2 has yet to see a release?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nobody bought it. R07 wrote a dark mecha story and slapped the WTC label on it to get more sales, which didn't work.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >which didn't work
        It worked great. I have had Ciconia burning in the back of my thoughts for three years now.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Are you Rikagay? He's the only person I've seen care enough about Ciconia to think about it.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            No, I'm a Yasudagay.
            I only check in on WTC threads infrequently, not enough to have been a declarative namegay.
            But I had a whole document about Ciconia and the alters I think I've identified.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >But I had a whole document about Ciconia and the alters I think I've identified.
              Hand it over.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Can't, lost it in early 2021.
                I do remember a few.
                Mari and Carmen are separate sisters. Mari is bubbly and cheerful, Carmen is suspicious and distrustful.
                Momotake has a female alt named Momo. She is very unhappy with their masculine body.
                Naomi had a male alt but he was "killed", causing (or through) brain damage. She now lives a half-life, incomplete, and she dresses somewhat masculine in compensation, this is a reference to Ryougi Shiki.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nobody knows really. Ryukishi claims that 2020's events struck way too close to what he was writing so he held it back but there's probably more to it than that. The project is far from dead though (pic related). Once he finally releases two I'm sure that three and four will come pretty quickly after.

      Nobody bought it. R07 wrote a dark mecha story and slapped the WTC label on it to get more sales, which didn't work.

      This isn't true.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Honestly something striking "way too close" is just a good thing, it makes it more relatable to the reader

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Either someone he knew died of the virus or he was being painfully japanese and having too much consideration for everyone else in relation to the pandemic.
          The third option is that he needed an excuse to get time to write but I highly doubt it. He has gone on record saying that he is very strict with the deadlines he sets for himself.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Come October it will have been longer since Ciconia's release than all of seacats 1-8.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I know that. What are you trying to say?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                What sort of strict deadline goes on for 3 years?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The point is that the deadline was cancelled for either the reason he gave publicly or something else that he is keeping hidden.

                Can't, lost it in early 2021.
                I do remember a few.
                Mari and Carmen are separate sisters. Mari is bubbly and cheerful, Carmen is suspicious and distrustful.
                Momotake has a female alt named Momo. She is very unhappy with their masculine body.
                Naomi had a male alt but he was "killed", causing (or through) brain damage. She now lives a half-life, incomplete, and she dresses somewhat masculine in compensation, this is a reference to Ryougi Shiki.

                >this is a reference to Ryougi Shiki
                Huh, interesting. I always forget that ryukishi was/is a nasugay.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I am just frustrated seeing all this higurashi spin-off trash that's been put out since and hardly a peep about Ciconia.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Prease understand and wait patiently, ryukishi is a very busy man

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The longer we go without anything substantial on Ciconia the more I doubt Ryukishi's initial explanation of pushing back phase 2.
        I just don't buy it anymore, I think even he thought Ciconia would be on the horizon when the recent Higurashi anime came out, considering the handful of random namedrops that were in it.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    DDLC > UmiBlack person

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >dude what if kimi to kanojo but NO SEX
      Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >No sex
        Instant 10/10, sexcucks forever coping

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i remember laughing about that joke game when it came out then when i first came to Ganker and /vg/ a couple weeks back i was actually flabber ghasted that ddlcgeneral exists. im a literal brony and i dont autistically latch onto something that short lived and cringe

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I didn't even touch Umineko because after I finished Higurashi's 4th episode I knew ryukishi is a fricking hack and can't write a mystery worth a frick.

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Umineko falls appart because Rukishi bit more than he could chew. If he made a more straightforward, unpretentious story like what was presented first it could have had a smoother development and a satisfying payoff. Just a based moron having to THINK to save his family from sadistic witches in a surreal meta-game. The moment you're asked to sympathize with Beatrice, it's all downhill from there...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Just a based moron having to THINK to save his family from sadistic witches in a surreal meta-game.
      This, so much this. Chapter 1 is the most kino from that rollercoaster that is the game for this exact reason, shame it couldn't stay that way for long

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I just wanted more hype Battler ENTER moments.

        >aunt is being tortured in an endless satanic banquet
        >ENTER
        >tit sandwitch line
        >grabs Beatrice by the head and smashes her against the table

        When Battler turns into a wizard he never does cool shit again.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Because at that point Battler completely cucked out to her and worships the floor she walks on.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Ange I know Beatrice is responsible for repeatedly murdering and torturing our family members in increasingly sadistic ways, but please understand, I forgot about some silly promise I made when I was a little kid

            That's not just moronic, that's infuriating.
            inb4 that was just the meta-narrative, so none of that (which comprises 98% of the VN btw) matters :^)

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    My favorite chapters were 1 and 6, everything else was either dull or actively annoying and bad. Chapter 1 has the best atmosphere and the best pure "mystery" since there's no magic bullshit yet. 6 has easily the best debates, main characters, and my favorite tracks. Nothing else comes close for me other than those two. I don't get the love for Umineko, the majority is just dull.

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >>>/u/
    >>>/r/
    Wrong board
    Wrong board
    >>>/y/

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      UUUUWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    filtered

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      t. Ange

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I am not a femcel.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Are you George then?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I am not a fat groomer.

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Can we all agree that Umineko went mostly to absolue shit past chapter 5?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      7 was great. 6 and 8 were made for morons that couldn't figure shit out and morons still complained and needed the manga to spell it out for them

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the japanese as a collective have never written a good mystery

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Japs have this weird thing where they can't not write in tropes and yet they're the only ones that can write decent things.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        To say a statement like that, you must be rather well read.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >and yet they're the only ones that can write decent things.
        >I've never read a real book in my life, by the way

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Think hard about how many engaging books there actually are. Not well written ones, engaging.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            N-Gaging in what sense?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >and yet they're the only ones that can write decent things
        Anon I am a weeb as much as anyone else on this shithole and even I know this is a huge exageration at minimum

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why is that?
      You know, that sounds like a good mystery, anon.

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      why is maria so fricking fat

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Magic

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Tricking that little moron into giving you magic blowjobs.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Because she's constantly stuffing her dumb face with candy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      only decent post in this asylum thread

      Rosa erotic

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I played/read it back when it got originally released.
    It was a fun ride all things considered, but Ryukishi really shat the bed with it, and I wouldn't recommend starting it.

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. Take Maria, for instance. Everyone threats her like a larping autistic moron and that severely impacts her options in life. What she chooses to believe in her own mind has no effect in reality. Even R07 acknowledges this when the stakes are incapable of killing for Ange when Ange herself isn't capable of killing. Her delusions don't exist outside her own mind, it's just a coping mechanism.

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >get recommended by fricking everyone that this is a good mystery VN
    Umineko isn't mystery VN. Never was.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I hate you and people like you

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He's right, though.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah you also first read umineko a couple years ago but pretend to be an oldgay that was there from the start.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >I'm le epic oldgay and I should automatically win the argument for it :^)

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Thanks for proving me right.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Oh, the irony kek

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Whatever helps you cope with being an eternal newbie.

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Read this with doorway of summer playing in my head, I laughed.

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >EVERYONE JUST GOT BLASTED BY A SHOTGUN AND ALL THE INTERESTING SETUPS WERE JUST THE CULPRIT'S IMAGINATION"
    No the servants besides Gohda was killed by a shotgun, 5 of the family members were killed in various ways and the rest died in the explosion or drowned and lost his memory except for Eva.

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >this thread
    ryukishi cultists are fricking embarrassing

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >says a gay posting a picture of some literal who manga trash

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >He doesn't recognize that reaction image
        The state of newkeks

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Sorry, I stopped browsing Ganker back in 2010 and don't recognize your stupid shit.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Oh wow, totally le epic oldgay who doesn't know shit about the board talking shit about mangas he's never read.
            Totally got me then dog

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >seething this hard
              >those filenames
              >can't even spell properly
              frick off moron

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, go ahead and try to pick apart minute details in my post, the matter of the fact is you don't lurk and you look like a moronic newbie. Please lurk more before posting, you do remember that much right, le ebin oldgay?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                fricking have a nice day already you pathetic piece of shit god you are embarrassing

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >gets btfo
      >resorts to shitposting
      every time with anti-magicgays

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >says a gay posting a picture of some literal who manga trash

        >muh magic makes me a woman because I said so
        shouldn't you be attending your dilation session? your sisters on discord are waiting!

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >he doesn't understand how magic works

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            yes magic in umineko is an allegory for troonyism

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              You wish

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >he literally does not understand and has to filter everything through his diseased 2022 idpol brain

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >beato fumo
          wtf I want one

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      All you clowns do is shitpost in a thread about an author you supposedly hate. It's pathetic.

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    IIIIEEEEEE

    KORE WA DAIKIRAI tbh WA

    MOU YADA YADA YADA

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      JUST READ THE FRICKING TEXTBOOK YOU DUMB b***h

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      NOOOOO RYUKISHI DON'T BUTCHER MY CHARACTER
      I DON'T WANNA BE EVIL I DON'T WANNA FORGET ABOUT NII NII
      IIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I had the same vibe about Higurashi.
    >Dude, just keep watching it'll all make sense.
    I watched the anime though.

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Uhh what? Sounds like another braindead tard filtered by umikino.

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    is this a fun game OP?
    is it like phoenix wright can I solve the mystery before the game tells me?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's not really a game but you are encouraged to solve the mystery before the answer becomes obvious.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You can but the game will never explicitly tell you what actually happened.

        no its shit
        mystery is bullshit and entirely hinges on lame wordgames
        troony servant goes schizo and attempts kill its entire family
        the 8 episodes is mainly meta-homosexualry with the author going nuts at the end because his boyfriend(the real author) died

        It's a story with a mystery setting and not really a mystery tbh

        Guess I'l play it and try to solve the mystery. Hopefully I can talk about what I think in a thread like this when I'm done. It's kinda wild people still talk about this game.
        Wish me luck anons.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          If you haven't been spoiled yet especially in this thread you must be a fricking moron so good luck.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I read the OP, my post and replies to my post I didn't really think I'd have anything worth talking about. so I ignored the rest of the thread. Thanks anon.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Godspeed anon it's a helluva ride.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Get out of here my dude. Play the version with voice acting. Its objectively better.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You can but the game will never explicitly tell you what actually happened.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Bernkastel literally tells you what happened and Ange just b***hed out.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          anons here have a hard time to accept she s right

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      no its shit
      mystery is bullshit and entirely hinges on lame wordgames
      troony servant goes schizo and attempts kill its entire family
      the 8 episodes is mainly meta-homosexualry with the author going nuts at the end because his boyfriend(the real author) died

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        and you wonder why are you are still a virgin incel

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          no need to thank me

          >with the author going nuts at the end because his boyfriend(the real author) died
          What

          authors friend was the actual writer, umineko goes from shit to irredeemable burning garbage after he died(ep 5 onwards)

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Take your meds.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              why are you projecting all your baggage on me?
              see

              [...]
              >muh magic makes me a woman because I said so
              shouldn't you be attending your dilation session? your sisters on discord are waiting!

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                take your meds and frick off nobody wants you here

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >all this seething
                you alright m8? need some titty skittles?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >with the author going nuts at the end because his boyfriend(the real author) died
        What

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          he's one of those homosexuals that think ryukishi's friend bt was the real author

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Headcanon from 2010. He helped r07 with the website and coded debugging(?) solutions.
          Here is how it started:
          >morons read poorly written summaries of ep 6
          >hurr durr umineko is grimdark now because BT is dead
          >Actually, BT was the REAL WRITER ALL ALONG, despite some people noting that the story is going a different route when ep 4 was translated

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's a story with a mystery setting and not really a mystery tbh

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It absolutely is a mystery. Why lie so blatantly?

  52. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's impressive how hard this game filters morons. Bravo Dragonknight.

  53. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >umineko thread
    >full of mental illness
    seems about right

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Mentally ill anti r07 shitposters yeah.

  54. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >game where a deranged, pathetic troony commits homicide-suicide
    >gets put on a pedestal by the SJW troony community as a pro-trans rights work

    Do they lack any sense of irony? kek

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      yasu is not a troony

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yasu is a troony.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Oh, she's a troony alright.

          nope

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I mean Yasu has an excuse for having a fricked up gender identity, but he was still a mutilated guy who assumed an idealized female identity as his 'true self'

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              sag
              Nowhere was it ever stated yasu was a guy.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >but he was still a mutilated guy
              Fanfiction.
              Yasuda's default configuration is unknown. They could have been a mutilated woman just fine. It really doesn't change the facts.
              They are a eunuch with a mass of scar tissue where their genitals should be. You cannot call them "trans" because they don't assert any gender for themselves; they were raised as a girl and thought they were a girl for a time, but the conclusion they actually came to is that they are neither male or female, only "furniture", less than human.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It does. Yes the penis/vag was mutilated but his DNA would still have an X or a Y chromosome which influenced how his body developed. Bone density, muscle density, skeletal development, etc.

                It'd also influence how his brain developed. Male and female brains are not the same.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                go back to r*ddit you fricking moron

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >reddit
                Huh?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >he tells me to go back to plebbit when he's the moron who assumed having mutilated genitals makes you a sexless blob of a human

                You need to go back.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You need to come back.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                the game

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >he tells me to go back to plebbit when he's the moron who assumed having mutilated genitals makes you a sexless blob of a human

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Having been deprived of the gonads in infancy, their body is accordingly too androgynous to identify, even for a trained doctor. Sure, their DNA has chromosomes, but they never got any appropriate dosage of testosterone or estrogen, and so their bone density, muscle density, skeletal development, and brain development are all warped and nonstandard to the point of poor identification.
                QED, you cannot actually say Yasuda is a mutilated man or a mutilated woman. Furthermore, it does not matter which one they were, because in both cases they are still not trans.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Sure, their DNA has chromosomes, but they never got any appropriate dosage of testosterone or estrogen
                I don't think mutilating a girl's vegana stops them from going through puberty

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It does when their ovaries are ripped out by jagged rock.
                Remember: Yasuda was so violently gored that it was a miracle they survived at all. It was not a simple snip of the dick. It was not a minor wound. It was a brutal injury that was almost unthinkable to recover from.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                And yet she has no visible scard, has all her arms and legs and eyes and shows no motor disabilities...

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                umineko is not an eroge you pervert

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >And yet she has no visible scar
                What? Their lower body is ravaged with a scar. Yasuda literally doesn't have genitals.
                >has all her arms and legs and eyes and shows no motor disabilities
                Because the injury was upon their torso.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >It does when [headcanon]

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Hypothetical, not headcanon. I'm the one saying we don't know, and we don't know.
                Saying declaratively the other way is equally "headcanon".

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Are you moronic? It's outright stated that the surviving the fall was miraculous and that it rendered Yasu infertile. The only way for that to happen would be for her or his genetic organs to be destroyed

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yes, that does not necessarily include ovaries you moron

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It does in a baby and when it's explicitly stated that they became infertile and suffered a wound that was miraculous to survive from. If it was just the vegana that was damaged they wouldn't have been outright infertile. Pretty sure artificial insemination was already a thing in the eighties if not vaginoplasty after all.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Literally headcanon

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                How the frick did you slog through umineko while being so incapable of deriving the correct conclusions from the evidence presented to you?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yasu isn't even female you fricking moron, you're pulling shit out of your ass. Even in your fictional universe, going so far as to say that artificial insemination being a thing in the 80s proves Yasu lost "her" ovaries is so fricking moronic I shouldn't even be responding to you. Bait.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                do you kiss your mother with that mouth

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Yasu isn't even female
                Prove it.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Thanks for proving you have no reading comprehension buddy. The point was never about Yasu being female, it was that either male or female, the accident would have left them sexless and incapable of going through puberty in order to develop an actual gendered body.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not saying Yasu was written to be trans. I'm saying that's how it came out. I don't think the author could have predicted the insanity of modern day idpol.

                I don't doubt the damage was pretty severe and did result in lessened testosterone production, but he's still a man at the end of the day. Even eunuchs end up with masculine traits.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                have a nice day redditor nobody will ever take you seriously

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Nice projection homosexual.

                >then why does 99% of readers assume yasu was a male?
                They don't.
                Not everyone is moronic. Just you, for thinking this statistic that you made up on the spot is in any way reflective of the When They Cry fanbase.

                His name was Lion, dude.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                go back already man tired of seeing your shitty posts

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >His name was Lion
                And Lion is not expressly identified as male or female either. So this is indicative of absolutely nothing.

                if i ask any of my friends who read umineko what gender yasu is they're gonna answer male, what the frick is this new cope that we don't know yasus gender when everyone already knows its male this isn't even up for debate
                i feel like obsessed umineko autists got so bored of talking about the same thing they started inventing new shit just for the sake of arguing

                First of all you don't have any friends. Second of all if you did have friends who actually read the VN, they would only hedge with a muttered "probably" and never make declarative statements.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                As we can see here, the average troon will is in danger of suffering a mental breakdown at the slightest challenge to their worldview:

                You need to come back.

                [...]
                You need to go back.

                go back to r*ddit you fricking moron

                They are very fragile creatures. When exposed to the real world, their survival rate falls drastically. On the next chapter, we will explore their dilation habbits...

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Don't bother with your meds just have a nice day already.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >meds meds meds meds meds
                Why do burgers do this? Do they actually think most people take meds? Is this because they are slaves of the US Pharmaceutical oligarchy?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                "Meds" is Twitch/Discord lingo. Now you know where the people who use it are from.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                "Meds" is Twitch/Discord lingo. Now you know where the people who use it are from.

                >Black folk don't know memes
                Meds is Ganker, just as schizo is Ganker. Accordingly:
                Meds. Now. Schizos.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                No it isn’t. It’s what secondaries think of Ganker and it’s users, it’s an outsider meme.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                [...]
                >Black folk don't know memes
                Meds is Ganker, just as schizo is Ganker. Accordingly:
                Meds. Now. Schizos.

                Imagine caring and not just using what you like/making your own shit up. Tribal brain.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                What does this even mean?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I meant

                [...]
                >Black folk don't know memes
                Meds is Ganker, just as schizo is Ganker. Accordingly:
                Meds. Now. Schizos.

                and

                No it isn’t. It’s what secondaries think of Ganker and it’s users, it’s an outsider meme.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I don’t like it. Did you miss my point entirely?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You don't like it because of who you associate it with and not for legitimate reasons.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Your fanfiction holds no water.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Why are you trying to argue with someone using troony logic, anon? Might as well debate politics with a dog...

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                yasuda was a male on birth did you even read the VN

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Did you? Because that was never stated.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                then why does 99% of readers assume yasu was a male? is everyone moronic and you're smart?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >then why does 99% of readers assume yasu was a male?
                They don't.
                Not everyone is moronic. Just you, for thinking this statistic that you made up on the spot is in any way reflective of the When They Cry fanbase.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                if i ask any of my friends who read umineko what gender yasu is they're gonna answer male, what the frick is this new cope that we don't know yasus gender when everyone already knows its male this isn't even up for debate
                i feel like obsessed umineko autists got so bored of talking about the same thing they started inventing new shit just for the sake of arguing

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Source for that statement you just pulled out of your ass?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The only people that assume that are trannies. The only thing that can be reasonably inferred from the VN is that Yasuda was a girl and was either insecure about it due to the accident destroying her genitalia and/or womb or, ,as Lion, because she didn't develop a very feminine body.
                Even these occlusions are up to interpretation of course, however there is no real evidence for Yasuda being female besides the gender ambiguity which is explained due to the reasons stated above

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Did you? The only real indicators we have for Yasu's gender is that regardless of how they're raised they're insecure about it and that Nanjo and Genji feared that Kinzo might end up raping Yasu.
                The first clue doesn't specify anything and the second makes it very likely that Yasu was a girl considering Kinzo is only ever shown to be attracted to women.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Oh, she's a troony alright.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      seethe, chud

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Then he 42%'s himself 2 years later.
        The End.

  55. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Japanese family
    >George
    >Rudolf
    >Maria
    >Jessica

  56. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >disliking higurashi (watching it)
    >on episode 22 of the first part
    >"riku takes down soldiers & also everyone is evil because of an alien virus."
    ...?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >dislike something
      >don't drop it by 3 episodes
      Your opinions on it are irrelevant because you're a moron

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        nah, I'm watching it with my girlfriend. it was that or elvis.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          How'd she react to the finger nail scene.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            boredom

            >fell for the 3D trap
            Opinion discarded even more. Now go back normalgay

            i'm too far in, sorry

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Just so you know, Higurashi is mostly bad, VN or not. Same with Umineko actually. It has a few scenes which are amazing, and the rest is dull or bad.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                but I just downloaded the other 80 episodes I've not seen yet

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You're in for a fun time ignore the moron.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                24 episodes in and I'm having a boring time!

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Cool keep me updated I just subbed to your blog

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                ok but you have to create the threads

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I actually really like Higurashi though. The end of chapter 6 is one of the peaks of all VNs I've read. I'm just saying that most scenes are dull, which they are.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                ok

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >fell for the 3D trap
          Opinion discarded even more. Now go back normalgay

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Higurashi had a kingdom hearts crossover?

  57. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >umineko thread
    >it's full of poltards

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >everyone I disagree with is a poltard
      shut up troony

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >everyone who disagrees with me is a troony
        where is your chin

  58. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    When confronted with simple questions about the reality that surrounds him, the troon expresses deep confusion and anxiety. Some of them start barking in incoherent transpeak...

  59. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That is why you play the fighting game and do not bother with the plot because at the end it is a major dissapointment of LOST's ending scale.

  60. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i get the distinct impression that umi was written in reaction to the fact that the major reveal near the end of higu broke mystery genre conventions, and the criticism really needled him. so he made a classic agatha christie setup and let it play out multiple ways. cool. i didnt really care for it but it was fine.

    but then after reaching this goal he wanted to really show he could transcend beyond the rules of the whodunnit, to show that the caring about genre rules is a mistake. but he cant, hes not that good of a writer. so the further you go on the more the metaverse becomes shitty shonen action drama stage. the finale asspulls a bunch of rules out of nowhere that have no set up, to reach unearned payoffs.

    he seems keenly aware and embarrassed of this so he has to write in his critics as goats trying to destroy his world. "y-you just didnt understand it!" no. i understood it perfectly fine. the more it goes on the less i care about the characters, the setting, the plot or the themes. its a bloated meandering mess that you couldnt finish properly. if higu's sin was breaking whodunnit rules, umi's sin is breaking the contract between the reader and the author.
    i wish him luck with ciconia but im not going to read a word of it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >i get the distinct impression that umi was written in reaction to the fact that the major reveal near the end of higu broke mystery genre conventions,
      Was it the Rika stuff?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The combination of Hanyuu being an actual supernatural force, breaking Knox's 2nd, and the nature of Hinamizawa Syndrome as a "device X" that could not possibly be predicted, breaking Knox's 4th.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Maybe I'm just not good for detective stories; because I don't mind supernatural explanations so long as they're interesting and consistent.

          But the reveal of Hanyuu being a god thing and the Hinamizawa Syndrom being Evil Science Juice was like the absolute worst of both worlds. I still can't believe he managed to frick it up that hard.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        specifically i think he got a lot of people pointing out to him that hinamizawa syndrome violated knox rule #4

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      NOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T SAY THESE THINGS
      UMINEKO IS A MASTERPIECE,YASU SAYS TRANS RIGHTS, AND I AM A WOMAN
      GET HIM SISTE-ACK!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      ciconia is enjoyable anon

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >ciconia
        will never ever be finished
        ryukishi realized it was a waste of time because it didn't make money so instead he's gonna milk higurashi dry until he dies

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >the finale asspulls a bunch of rules out of nowhere that have no set up, to reach unearned payoffs.
      Such as?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        i was most upset with the entire we gotta save lambda from the heretofore unmentioned council of evil metaverse overlords oh thank god ultimate dragon god not-hanyuu saved the day with a deus ex machina. but the further you get past the major identity reveals the worse everything gets.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          nobody was talking about the mobile game

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >heretofore unmentioned council of evil metaverse overlords oh thank god ultimate dragon god not-hanyuu saved the day with a deus ex machina
          What the frick are (you) talking about?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            sorry maybe they were planning on eating bern? really the entirity of Twilight of the Golden Witch just pissed me off

            try to understand when the goat said "none of this matters" i really identified with that, and as a consequence ive forgotton most of the plot and characters because i thought it had such a strong start and an awful finish. the only things that i remember are broad strokes of melodrama that pissed me off.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Nothing you're saying makes any sense. How does umineko filter mongoloids like you so often? Can you people even read?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                That's funny coming from VN readers. I've probably read more books this year than you've read in your entire life.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Cool story Ganker.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Huh? What does that have to do with you clearly having no idea what you're talking about? You have to be shitposting.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Read bible.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                hi maria

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >if maria was still alive she would be older than most of Ganker

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >ive forgotton
                Nah, you are just baiting for (you)s. You haven't read umineko.

                its been several years since i read umi and no im not going to have perfect recall of the finale between bern lambda and 'Featherine Augustus Aurora' beyond it was extremely moronic.
                im not sure why you have to pretend that isnt in the vn but ok.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Why would you go on the internet and tell lies?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >ive forgotton
              Nah, you are just baiting for (you)s. You haven't read umineko.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          moron talking shit about umineko has no idea what he's talking about. What a surprise.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Well, Japan is a very strict collectivist society where you have to just shut up and follow the rules, so it's no wonder some japanese try to escape reality or defy rules as a way to vent their feelings. In this case, the author tried to do just that with the mystery genre, something he was not capable of doing successfully because he doesn't understand why the ''rules'' became ''rules'' and that they were already successfully broken many times by competent authors.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >makes his ''badass'' character confront and humiliate his ''goat critics''

      Ah yes, I too remember when Tolkien broke the 4th wall in Return of The King and made Aragorn give a speech about how the fantasy genre should be taken seriously as literature in front of an orc army (a stand in for his critics in the academia).

  61. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ciconia second phase fricking when? Or now Ryukishi would say that he can't release anything because of war in Ukraine?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >ciconia second phase when
      hope you enjoy higurashi for the rest of your pathetic life

  62. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ryukishi reminds me of a japanese George Lucas (Hideo Kojima): he has a good eye for style, aesthetics and characters, but can't be trusted to write a script if his life depended on it. All style, little substance.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      But George actually has good taste in waifus.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      kojima is japanese you dumbass

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      As complicated as umineko is i just don't think this follows. Think whatever you want but r07 executed a difficult story concept pretty well.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Think whatever you want but r07 executed a difficult story concept pretty well.

        Said no one. Ever.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I said it and so did he : )

  63. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I will never understand why people are so desperate for (you)s. At least on reddit numbers go up.

  64. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it's a hype visual novel, just vibe with the ost and twists and turns, drogonnig07 can suck it with the muh mystery purease solve it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      thanks for the insight only took 400+ posts for a real intelligent post

  65. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nihi.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      do not lewd the rabbits

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Nihihi

  66. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This entire thread is just one guy baiting for attention and samegayging. have a nice day, my dude

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      All of Ganker is just one guy yes I'm replying to myself and no we won't kill ourselves yet

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Some troons display advanced signs of schizophrenia, so it's better to avoid eye contact and slowly walk backwards:

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        source

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          it's trash don't bother

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Asahi Mizuno.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            it's trash don't bother

            code, prostitutes

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              URGY-420

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                wtf i love sucking wiener now!?

  67. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    umineko sucks

  68. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Umineko glorifies escapism and self-delusion, it's basically the Anti-Evangelion, and everyone that likes it are worse for it. Weak willed people that want to hear that ''it's okay to be weak''. Pathetic. Frick magic, I reject that crutch.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Sorry, but 2D and fiction is many times better than the hell hole that is real life. If you didn't think so either you'd go outside instead of discussing it. Escapism is and always will be better, and that's the message of Umineko. It's just objective truth.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      that's a lot of projecting

  69. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    magic is real

  70. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Does it matter if Yasu is female or not when the whole point of the VN is to headcanon as much shit as you want as long as it makes you feel better?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It really doesn't. But these Black folk can't talk about anything without filtering it through their caveman /misc/speak to check for wrongthink and [ENEMY TRIBE]'s ideology.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Finally a smart post. Why do you think the author went out of his way to make the sex of Yasu ambiguous in the VN? Because it goes with the theme of the catbox. He WANTED you to speculate and debate and create your own headcannon, like in so many aspects of a vague story that is 99% unreliable narration. There is not much to conclude about the story, it's mostly a mirror where people see what they want to see. It would be genius if Ryukishi didn't backtrack and frick everything up in the last chapters by giving it, unambiguously, a pro-escapism overarching message.

  71. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >but this shit was NOT worth the time it took to read it
    Of course it didn't, in what planet a 70+ hours VN is worth reading?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      a VN you like, homosexual

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        a VN I like is paced well, short, and to the point. That's why Ghost Trick is my favorite VN, it even has gameplay to boot.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >ghost trick
          >vn
          i have NEVER seen anyone call ghost trick a vn. gameplay is too lengthy to be considered one, even vndb agrees

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You haven't? The puzzles itself are pretty short compared to the trials of an AA game, it does use gameplay to move around more though, I would categorize it as a hybrid, half VN, half Adventure game. 999 and AA games also skirt that line, but not as much as Ghost Trick I think.

            Rec me some good mystery VNs where you can actually deduce the answers through logic and evidence bros
            Doesn't matter if they're linear, just so long as I can make it a game of playing detective myself

            Spider prostitute makes Rika look like a fricking 200 IQ genius with how ridiculously incompetent she made out to be after that reveal

            Ghost Trick is a great mistery. I also recommend Return of the Obra Dinn but that's not a VN.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >paced well short and to the point

          looks like a 15 years old's standards after he has read what "good writing" is supposed to be on some goodreads review
          I know because I once held the exact same opinion as you do, you'll grow up I hope

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I just value my time that's all. I never said those qualities equate to good writing, just that these are the types of VN I like instead of multiple dozens of hours spent on uninteresting bullshit, maybe if you read more of those long winded VNs you like so much your reading comprehension will improve.

  72. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine seething online over a visual novel because your life sucks so much and you need an outlet.

  73. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Rosa is Beatrice.
    >Why?
    Because I love her and think the story is better this way.

  74. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    whatever happened to that italian guy he had some really good theories

  75. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What's the difference between the VN & the series? I find it hard to believe the first chapter of the VN is the first episode of the series. It's like 12 hours vs. 20 minutes.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The first four chapters of the VN is the entire anime series. So half of the VN.
      Don't watch the anime, by the way. It sucks.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What makes it suck in comparison? Not what makes it a bad adaptation, but why do you think the writing quality is worse than the VN?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Anime/movie adaptations are always the interpretation of the cliff notes by someone that's not the original author.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You really didn't answer my question.
            >Adaptations bad!
            What nuance was lost in the adaptation?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              That wasn't me, by the way.
              >Adaptations bad!
              You don't understand. In this case that's absolutely true. You cannot adapt something as gargantuan as Umineko into a 24 (26?) episode anime. Not only do you lose multiple red truths and details needed to solve the mystery, but due to the compact nature of the anime the pacing is shoddy, the plot goes everywhere, and you're simply not given enough time to digest anything. Plus, the anime itself just looks like ass. Then there's the matter of narrator shenanigans, but that's more of a meta issue that you wouldn't get if you haven't been exposed to the series. Etcetera etcetera, that's just off the top of my head. Granted, I do think an anime would work, but in Umineko's case its direction and overall 'feel' is subpar at best and a travesty at worst.
              If you absolutely can't get into the VN, then read the manga. We do NOT talk about the anime. We never talk about the anime. There's a reason nobody will ever recommend the anime.
              The anime does not exist. That's always been the sentiment in the community.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >The first four chapters of the VN is the entire anime series.
        That's not true at all though.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It does cover the first 4 episodes though. Extremely poorly but there was an attempt.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            The anime covers the first 6 arcs, then follows it up with another series that covers the rest.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              We are talking about umineko you stupid frick.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I wasn't trannoid. Umineko is shit.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                have a nice day you stupid frick.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >come to Umineko thread to talk about something that isn't Umineko
                How moronic can you be?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The anime is godawful, watch it after you read the VN for a laugh.

  76. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why the frick did he do it?
    No seriously why would he ever be "accomplice" and not spill the beans about what's actually going on/who yasu is when he's a canonical coward. Same with Kumasawa.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      broo moneeyyy

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You ever read a detective fiction? The doctor and the servants are always in on it.

  77. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    To me the whole troony fanbase thing is really gross and bothers me a lot, it’s obvious to me that Yasu isn’t supposed to be depicted as a “valid” queer but rather a mindfricked piece of shit. Maybe this is just wishful thinking, but I personally never saw the VN as trying to promote the Post-Modernism cope shit, but rather used it as a means to satisfy more casual readers from a much sadder reality as well as exist as cope fuel for Ange, who I feel like non-mystery readers are supposed to be represented by. The 8th chapter really just plays as a veiled goodbye to the wishful thinking of the players who took the time to solve the mystery, and additionally act as a cope that most readers now even consider a happyish ending.
    I feel like Ryukishi succeeded in creating a character driven mystery story that shines bright on its own, and I feel like the way it was executed was nothing short of genius.
    That said, a lot of the non-game related interactions like the ones with Ange and the battle after chapter 7 and other things like that are really cheesy and take away much of the raw emotion that the games as well as meta-verse commentary/exchanges manages to build.
    Ange and everything related to her story was utterly moronic, and took away much from what could’ve been an perfect story.
    Those flaws are what are to be expected with anime/manga/VNs/JRPGs, but even still it feels tragic that those Japanese weirdisms had to manifest itself within this as well, especially because I really did enjoy Umineko.
    What do you guys think?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      didn't read I think ur a gay

  78. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The only VN that I've liked is Monster Girl Quest.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's not a VN, that's a Male Rape Simulator.

  79. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I fell for the "higurashi is a good vn" meme too. It started interesting enough but the author threw everything in the garbage. Head my warning and avoid it, you will save yourself a lot of time.

  80. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ryukishi07 is a fricking hack. He doesn't know how to write

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He can write really well, but he's subversive for the sake of it.
      Half of Umineko is "Ah, s you thought this but actually..."

  81. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Recent plotge EVNs on Steam:
    >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249260/Birth_ME_Code/ (final plot-related free DLC out later this year)
    >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1228600/Blankspace/
    >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1961740/Charmareians/
    >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1568920/Clean_Slate/
    >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1820720/The_Divine_Deception/
    >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1338940/Head_AS_Code/ (remake)
    >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1271300/Methods_The_Detective_Competition/ (free DLC out sometime this year)
    >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1020030/Quantum_Suicide/
    >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1432500/The_Sekimeiya_Spun_Glass/
    >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1513120/The_Zodiac_Trial/

    Upcoming plotge EVNs on Steam:
    >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1728290/Decide_4_God/ (finale to the Abime series)
    >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1041270/Exogenesis_Perils_of_Rebirth/ (never ever)
    >https://store.steampowered.com/app/1287170/Thiefs_Roulette/ (waiting on console ports of all things)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Some of those have seriously atrocious art

  82. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I got really into Higurashi a while back.
    Tried going through Umi too, but I lost motivation partway through, and I don't know if I'd read more R07 VNs.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      try higanbana
      it s very short

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I've heard that and RGD are shorter stories, I'd be willing to try them out at some point.
        I'd try Ciconia too if it would actually come out beyond one part. Maybe reading it as things are released is a better experience.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It definitely is. Half the fun of R07 works is speculating with others when a new installment comes out.

  83. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    100% not a mystery and shame on the people that lied to you about it.

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