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A few years later, I decided to try watching the show again, with the hope that I might find something to like now that I wasn't just watching it 'just because it was on.' In the end, it isn't the unwatchable slog I used to think it was, but it's still a concept that works really poorly as a tv show, even if was great as a game. Some of the other shows I saw back then, like Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop, are still among my favorites, but Umineko wasn't one of them: it seemed like a tedious, confusing, and pretentious waste of time to me, and I didn't get why the other people were so into it.and I also wasn't happy that we kept watching it, week after week, for several months. Back in high school, when I was first getting into anime, it was one of the first shows I watched, at my high school's anime club. I have a complicated history with Umineko. This murder mystery soon evolves into a battle of wits between Battler, another grandchild, and the being calling herself Beatrice, with Battler desperate to prove that the crimes occurred without supernatural intervention as the sequence of arrivals and murders is repeated via a cyclic timeline. The survivors are left to frantically try to determine whether there is indeed a 'Beatrice' or whether one among them was the culprit, a task made more difficult by the apparently physically impossible circumstances of some of the murders.

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The youngest grandchild, Maria, brings a mysterious letter from a 'Beatrice' to the dinner table, leading some to speculate that an additional person is hiding somewhere on the island that night, a series of gruesome murders occur. Kinzo refuses to see his family upon their arrival, and soon, a storm strands everybody on the island and leaves them without phone service. The members of the wealthy Ushiromiya family arrive on their private island of Rokkenjima to discuss what should be done with the inheritance of their terminally ill patriarch, Kinzo. It wasn't fixed for quite a long time, although the official English release has the correct name. As with Higurashi, the red 'Na' (な) is an official part of the title, but it isn't possible to reproduce this in all of the input fields that this site uses.įor years, most English-language digital sources of the show and the game humorously misspelled the name of a trio of 'human weapons' known as the Chiester Sisters (named after the firearm) as the 'Siesta Sisters' because of a mishearing. The game was called a 'sound novel' rather than a visual novel, since a lot of the atmosphere is established via music and other sound effects. Either way, it's not crucial that you've seen Higurashi before starting this show. A police officer seen in this show strikingly resembles Oishi Kuraudo from that show, although it's unknown if they're meant to be the same character lastly, Maria is seen watching a videotape of what appears to be an episode of Higurashi on two occasions.

The witch Bernkastel, a major character in this show, very briefly and confusingly shows up in Higurashi. It's supposedly set in the same universeas When They Cry - Higurashi, but the connection is pretty tenuous. Notes: Based on a game by 07th Expansion.

Related Series: When They Cry - Higurashi (Same Universe)Īlso Recommended: When They Cry - Higurashi, Gosick, Ace Attorney

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Length: Television series, 26 episodes, 24 minutes eachĭistributor: Currently licensed by Nippon Ichi Software America.Ĭontent Rating: TV-MA (Graphic Violence, Profanity, Fan Service) AKA: うみねこのなく頃に, Umineko No Naku Koro Ni (Japanese), When the Seagulls Cry, When They Cry III

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