To find not even the true culprit, but the truth itself, you must dig deep through layers and layers of storytelling, which seem conflicting and contradictory at first glance, but trust me, it all makes sense, it will all click into the right place once you found the answer, and this ride is wonderfully rewarding.Ī ride you do alongside the characters, by the way. And it is the task of the reader to find out who it is, what drives him and what all these fantasy scenes are about. And yet while the closed-room mysteries seem fantastic, every crime is solvable by the application of rational thinking.
Soon enough demons and witches bleed into the story, keen on convincing the reader that they are responsible for each gruesome murder. The barriers between mystery and fantasy begin to blur. But there are two sides to the story, just like to the epitaph. all this ensues as the whole cast gets picked off one by one by an unknown murderer. Panic, reasoning, heated confrontrations, murder. The epitaph itself is supposed to be a riddle made by Kinzo that leads to a treasure of gold that is hidden somewhere on the island, but if you read it literally, it describes an occult ritual in which everybody on the island will get sacrificed in order to revive his dead mistress. The brilliant but mad patriarch Kinzo is about to die, his children are bickering about the inheritance, but then the letter signed by Beatrice, the Golden Witch who is said to rule over the island at night, appears and challenges the Ushiromiya's to solve the riddle of her epitaph till midnight of October the fifth. It starts out relatively straight-forward. You may say that 8 novels with together twice the wordcount of "War and Peace" is a little too much to tell the story of just two days, but Umineko begs to differ. What happened? That simple question is what Umineko is all about. The typhoon passes two days later, and with the return of both the seagulls and the boat that was supposed to bring the family members back home, nobody was found alive. For the yearly family conference of the filthy rich Ushiromiya clan 18 people gather on a mansion on the secluded island of Rokkenjima that is cut off from the world by a typhoon soon afterwards. Umineko's setting is inspired heavily by Agatha Christie's "And then there were none". By the way, it is the second installment of the "When they Cry" series, with the first one being the widely acclaimed "Higurashi - When they Cry", if anyone here has heard of that one.īut what is Umineko about anyway? Well.
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It is written by a Japanese author under the pen-name Ryukishi07, originally as a series of Visual Novels, but it was also adaptated into a terrific Manga version and a pretty terrible and rushed Anime that succeeds spectacularly in ridding the first four novels of every shred of nuance. Even as someone who wasn't really all that much into Fair-Play-Whodunnits I became really, really hooked afterwards, which is an accomplishment in itself. While GRRM's world is a deconstruction of the classic Fantasy Setting, making it less black and white and more raw on emotions, Umineko takes the classic genre of the Detective story in the vein of Agatha Christie, deconstructs it viciously and then reconstructs it as a love-letter to the genre. I start out with this because I think the intelligence behind "Umineko no naku koro ni" or "When the Seagulls cry" is similar in a lot of ways, even though the stories couldn't be even more different. It's an intelligent story that doesn't treat the reader as a fool who needs everything offered to him on a silver plate, but instead asks us to challenge the characters and find out the motivations which drive them.
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why do you love A Song of Ice and Fire? Well, for me, the reason is mostly the sheer megalomania of GRRM having created a whole world full with complex layered characters with deeply interwoven fates. If not, I'm gonna try and explain what this story is about right here. Hopefully some people have given "Umineko no naku koro ni" a try in the meantime. The last thread disappeared during the forum roll-back quite some time ago and I never got myself to revitalize it. This is the second attempt of mine to talk about or introduce one of my all time favourites to you guys here.
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