Reading another thread reminded me of a confusion I had once I read the official answer to the story: Now as much as I love the story, the whole Yasu/Sayo is both Shannon and Kanon thing.... is weird at best and pretty stupid at worse. Stupid in "how was this done in practice" I mean. It's interesting from a thematic and character perspective. That aside my main problem with it is: Was there actually any real hints of this through EP1-4? That Shannon and Kanon was the same person I mean? The most I've se...

TLDR; I acknowledge Shkanontrice is the canon solution. However, there are numerous logic errors with the red truth that frankly frustrate the hell out of me. I feel these all deserve acknowledgement because the red truth's objectivity is fundamentally called into question. This allows for me to make theories similar to Shkanontrice for different people that kinda-sorta line up with a subjective view of red truth at the end of the day. But it's better doing that in my opinion than going with the red truth ...

After a long, long time I finally finished the 8 books. Does anyone else feel like the answer arcs were much worse than the question arcs? Reading when they cry 4 made me quite mad, so I'm writing this rant here to get it out of my system. Long text ahead! Book 5 was the first episode that left me with a sour taste in my mouth. The middle of the book was fine, but the extremes were pretty bad. It was annoying how the beginning invalidated Battler's development and Ange's sacrifice at the end of book 4. Ba...

So I was going through some of my "why is this a thing" notes from Umineko and it reminded me of a question: Why on earth was Kumasawa staked by Leviathan/the stake of Envy in both EP1 and 2? I can't think of anything related to her that connects with a sin of envy in any way? Or am completely forgetting something? The closest thing I can think of/theorise would be that she might have some envy in regards to agency? There are... 1 or 2 scenes in EP1 where she internally comments about not being able to ...

I finished the game and decided to check some theory videos on YouTube and I notice they use the Manga to solve the crimes in the first 4 chapters of the VN. I am not sure why they are using the Manga here, I never read this Manga (literally finished the VN last night) I am sure it's good but these answers contradict everything the VN teaches us. By Chapter 5 we are introduced to the Knox Ten commandments. These commandments are used against Battler, they are a legit weapon/defense in this story, Dlanor w...