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We also have the introduction of another essential element of Umineko: The Red Truth. We have the introduction of Purgatorio, or ‘The Meta World’, and Battler’s battle with Beatrice to prove that the murders weren’t committed through magic. I know it’s a big ask, but it isn’t really until this episode that Umineko begins to reveal what it’s really all about. Time for my thoughts on Episode 2! This one’s a doozy, and for most people trying Umineko I insist that they at least read Episode 2 before dropping it. I should have realized it was referring to later verses of the epitaph.Īlso, Battler getting owned in red is my new favorite scene. In retrospect, it was basically waving the reason Nanjo and Shannon disappeared in my face the whole time: That was probably obvious from Episode 1 to someone who’d actually read all of Higurashi…ĮDIT: Going back through my confused tweets and notes I made while reading… there’s some impressive foreshadowing going on here. I also did not expect Bernkastel to be Furude Rika, I thought she was just an expy of her. (There’s also the possibility that magic is real, and Battler really is incompetent. So at least, explaining how I can see impossible things would be a start, I guess… An unreliable narrator taken to its logical extreme. It would really only explain what I can see through the characters’ eyes.īecause this is Ryukishi, I can only see what a character sees, even if what they see and hear isn’t necessarily what’s really happening. If her entire existence could be explained as a hallucination caused by some kind of gas, that would certainly fit, but it feels too easy to be it… not to mention, for that to fit, there still has to be a real person committing the murders in her name. And when Genji stabbed one, something definitely happened to the room, as if a spell broke… Beatrice always appears after her butterflies, even in the purple world(?). I’m also noticing this pattern of the butterflies seemingly closing off a specific area from the laws of the real world. I’m also… slightly worried about what loopholes exist being lost in translation, should I be? It was translated before the Answer arcs, so the translators were probably just as confused as I am… The key here has to be loopholes in her red text, but I have no idea what they could be.
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This basically summarizes my opinion on EP2.