Another Character Song Volume that was out on 7 October, 2010. Character songs are pretty decent if you actually gave them a try. And well, yes that was how Hocchan started on her path to singing too. She sang character songs and soon, she released her first album. Okay back to the topic before I [...]
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Several episodes ago, I wondered if Umineko would ever be able to develop their characters as richly as Higurashi had. I was very skeptical then, simply because of the much larger cast they had to work with. And while I feel safe in saying that Umineko will never do as good a job (although to be fair, Higurashi also had a 2nd season to work with), it's definitely made some leaps and bounds in filling out its characters over the last few episodes.   [...]
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Episode III-V of Umineko no Naku Koro ni, “queening square”, begins in the guest house where everyone has been holed up in, and people are alarmed that Rosa and Maria have gone out and have not returned yet. Some are also annoyed that they went out without locking the door behind them. Rudolph [...]
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A very solid episode this time, and instead of the chaos of the past few episodes, it was surprisingly slow-paced as it showed the aftermath of what happened in the previous episode, as well as develop the current storyline even further. The past few episodes also completely changed how you should look at this game [...]
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[ episode II-III: week square ] [ episode II-IV: skewer ]   Fail. I just now realized Beatrice's portrait was changed since the beginning of episode II.
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I'm a bit late, I know ...New Beatrice ! Eva Beatrice. An unexpect turn of event, Eva solved the epitaph and became the new Golden + Endless witch, the new Beatrice. Even if the predecessor doesn't lost her magical power, I'm pretty sure they're weaker.I was shocked to see how Eva Beatrice can be so violent toward Rosa and the little poor Maria ... but ...hey is this still Umineko ? Where is
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Geez, I don't even know where to begin. I can't tell if we're getting any real clues, or the story is just meant to mess with us and throw as many random events as possible. Anyway, let's try to put some pieces together.
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Holy crap! How many extra dimensions can a story get within just one arc? Turn the chessboard upside-down? How about reaching into a completely different dimension to find an extra side of that chessboard hidden! With this episode I’m really starting to see Ryukishi07’s brilliance as a writer, and it was by far the best episode [...]
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Episode III-IV of Umineko no Naku Koro ni, “isolated pawn”, continues from the previous episode where Eva had just found the gold. Eva is not the only one who figured out the inscription and found the gold, however. Eva is surprised by the arrival of Rosa, who congratulates her about finding the gold [...]
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Sparkly battle is sparkly~
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[ episode II-I: middle game ] [ episode II-II: early queen's move ]   If you don't give me a treat, I'll trick you!
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Here we go ! SevenLoad video so if it doesn't appear, just refresh ^^I'm not going to comment this since I'm pretty busy lately, I'm going to put as soon as possible review on Kampfer and Nyan Koi (still in raw). I skip Railgun, Queens Blade and white album ('cause I won't watch those).But, Enjoy the episode
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To be honest, I didn't really find Moetrice's and Beatrice's battle to be that interesting. But things took a much more interesting turn once that battle was over.
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I've gotten lazy with posting about Umineko in a timely manner. So to that end, I'm going to be extremely brief about this episode to catch up to 14, which was personally, my favorite episode of the season so far.
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Whoa, talk about turning the chessboard upside-down. This episode pulled a lot of things that I suspected that the creators were saving for much later. This episode seems to be the real start of this series.With this episode, this show gained a whole new dimension. So yeah, Battler finally started to look beyond the illusion [...]
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Episode III-III of Umineko no Naku Koro ni, “positional play”, begins with the Beatrice of the present and the Beatrice of the past facing each other in the garden. The present Beatrice is respectful enough towards her former teacher, but there is an irreconcilable difference in opinion: the previous Beatrice had repeatedly taught her [...]
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Is Beatrice trying to act young? She looks better in her usual dress.I just finished watching the second game (episodes 6 - 11) and it's one hell of a ride. All I can say is Beatrice is a super sadist! Her killing methods were cruel and her actions in episode 11 were extremely sickening. It's really sad to see Battler helpless in front of her.In this game, there were 2 Battler. One was playing the game and the other one seemed to be observing the game and arguing with meta-Beatrice. I've always been supporting Battler and frankly, I'm quite disappointed with his attitude in this game (the one who is playing). In the first game, he rejected the existence of magic right to the very end, but in the second game, he gave up halfway and accepted the presence of Beatrice and magic in front of Maria. Surprisingly, the one who fought back in this game was Rosa. Sadly, she lacked the willpower of Battler in the first game to fully reject the Beatrice. However, her perseverance did manage to motivate Battler to challenge Beatrice to another game. The second game was so one-sided that I couldn't help but to acknowledge Beatrice's power. I'm trying to think of some scientific explanations but the only one I can think of now is illusion, which is not very scientific.Players:Battler (with the help of Bernkastel? hmm.. I seriously didn't see how she had meddled with this game) vs Beatrice Rules of the game:- When Beatrice speak of the truth, that sentence will be displayed in Red letters. This is to prevent Battler from arguing that there's not enough information or evidence.- When Beatrice tells the truth, she will use red, but she does not bear the responsibility of establishing the fact by showing proof.Dying Order:1. Krauss, Natsuhi, Eva, Hideyoshi, Rudolf and Kyrie- They all died in the Chapel with candies and cookies stuffed in their stomachs. (eek.. the thought of it makes me feel like puking!)2. Jessica and Kanon- They were ambushed by Beatrice, who summoned her legion of goat butlers against them. Kanon used his power as a furniture to fight off the butlers until Beatrice summoned her two Stakes of Purgatory, Asmodeus and Satan, who successfully killed Jessica and Kanon.- Beatrice left Jessica's body in the locked room but made Kanon's body disappeared.Hmm.. furniture has very interesting powers.AsmodeusSatan3. Chiyo and NanjoThe servants stumbled across Kanon, who was severely wounded but apparently still alive. Kanon told them that Rosa was the one who attacked him. However, it was soon discovered that this Kanon was a duplicate created by Beatrice. The fake Kanon attacked the servants, killing Nanjo and Chiyo before being destroyed by the other servants.4. Gohda, Shannon and GeorgeGeorge, Shannon, and Gohda were retrieving Natsuhi's room key from her corpse, when Beatrice ambushed them. They immediately ran off and managed to reach Natsuhi's room. When George and Shannon were trying to retrieve Natsuhi's magical mirror from a locked box, Gohda was killed by Beelzebub. Beatrice then confronted George and Shannon. Empowered by Natsuhi's mirror, Shannon attempted to defend herself and George, but they were both killed by Beatrice.BeelzebubMahou Shoujo?Conclusion of the second gameRosa and Maria went to the Chapel to take one of the gold bars. Meanwhile, Genji brought Battler before Beatrice. In exchange for an explanation on how Beatrice used her magic to commit the crimes, Battler was enslaved and humiliated by Beatrice before being killed by her goat butlers. Kinzo was also killed by the goat butlers. Rosa and Maria were also ambushed by the goat butlers and were killed as they tried to escape. In another dimension, Beatrice tortured Rosa mentally into accepting her as a witch. In the end, Rosa gave in. Just when Beatrice thought that her plan was perfect, Battler entered the dimension. Having regained his will to fight Beatrice, he challenged Beatrice to another game.Battler looks so pathetic! Apparently, that pink stuff is the tongue of Eva. (*puke*)Yea! Battle's willpower is revived!Afterthoughts:For the second game, Genji is the most suspicious character. The reason is obvious - he's the only one who survived! Not only did he survive, he's also serving Beatrice. How and why he helped Beatrice is not yet revealed but I'm pretty sure that he's involved in the killings somehow.Anyway, as we all know, Battler did submit to Beatrice, became her furniture and got killed. So I'm just wondering if Beatrice did answer Battler's questions. (p_q) I guess she did since she promised to. Even though she's a super sadist, she has been honoring her words so far.I believe the next game will be more interesting as two more witches will be joining in the fun. One is Bernkastel, who (according to Beatrice) was already meddling with the second game, and the other is Lambdadelta, who bears a grudge against Bernkastel and so is joining Beatrice's side.BernkastelLambdadelta
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You're one hell of a Butler.
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Episode III-II of Umineko no Naku Koro ni, “gambit”, begins at 9:04PM with Rosa claiming that she is responsible for the death of the Beatrice that had lived in a hidden mansion about twenty years ago. The young Rosa was running away from her parents and had believed in Beatrice the witch at the [...]
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I personally love those series in which you can never be sure what to expect, which is exactly the case in Umineko. Even after being spoiled that Beatrice was going to die I still loved how this episode played out. Seriously, can this series get even more intriguing? In this episode, we learn that Beatrice indeed [...]
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