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REVIEW: Umineko When They Cry Episode 6: Dawn of the Golden Witch Volume 3 GN 15




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Mr. Dent



Joined: 06 Jul 2014
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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 11:55 am Reply with quote
Hooray! I always love reading your Umineko reviews, and Episode 6 has one of the best climaxes in the series. Now you know why everyone was so quick to defend Zepar and Furfur's Love Trial! It's one of those things that kinda need context to not feel like a waste of time. I imagine it must have been frustrating for people reading Umineko the first time through the manga.

Next up is Episode 7, my absolute favorite Episode. I look forward to seeing how everyone responds to the tonal shift. (The solutions, too, of course!) spoiler[As well as Bernkastel's terrifying Tea Party!!!]
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Double Mangekyo



Joined: 17 Aug 2011
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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 2:18 pm Reply with quote
This one was pretty fun to read.
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What we may be seeing in each arc is not what actually happened, but someone's perception of it.

Unreliable narration in full effect. Wink
Although... Let's go back to the world of 1998, Ange's own journey for the truth.
From episodes 4 and 6 we learned:
- The first two games' stories were found at sea, in message bottles, after the whole incident took place. Supposedly written by one "Maria Ushiromiya", they inspired others to write their own iterations of the occult tragedy.
- Now in ep.6 we find out that author Touya Hachijou/Witch of Theatre Featherine wrote the stories of games 3, 4, 5 and 6! All this time we've literally been reading a story within a story! (minus the bits that take place in 1998) All we know for certain is that Eva survives the incident and never speaks of what happened on the island to anyone.

Looking back, the change in narrators is actually very apparent. From episode 3 onward Beatrice is written as something much more than just an evil antagonist out for amusement, unlike ep.1 and 2.

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While it would be a bit of a let down to have everything turn out to have taken place in Battler or Ange's tormented mind, it does seem possible that somehow all of the games reveal a truth as seen by one of the players.

No chance for a letdown then.

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Also of interest this volume is the repetition of the number 19.

Aside from what you listed out, if you remember from episode 5, it's also associated with the age of a certain unnamed individual.
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maximilianjenus



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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2017 5:13 pm Reply with quote
and now we reach the turning point ; all clues have been laid out (they were since episode 4 ended, but more is better) episode 7 is oging to start giving answers for real now; so if you want to to solve/make theories, this is the best time, there's no turnign back when episode 07 starts.

Before this, umineko was a mentally challenging/hard series, thinking on the solutions and how everything works; now, the mental challenge will be mostly gone, but it will be emotionally challenging, I found the rest of the magna very hard to read because of that.
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