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>>39310483
I think the magic scenes added a lot to the Answer arcs if only because their presence emphasised that the story is really about the way that Ange relates to her family. Umineko is fundamentally a work about alchemy: Beatrice (the 'family alchemist') raising the Ushiromiya clan to a higher spiritual state using the philosopher's stone—which she introduces as love in EP2. The mixture of perspectives on the family depicted are all relevant to that. The decadent and corrupt images of the family gradually move towards tenderness and forgiveness, but also more comic and fantastical scenes; you get to live in the whole range of memories and possibilities that are represented by the family. That we continue to interpret and reinterpret the family even in EP8 matters because how Ange chooses to interpret the true nature of her family affects whether or not they can be 'resurrected'.

>>36765607
Ange...

https://youtu.be/hCrxuOeZXo4