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>>18045484
Newt is pretty good. He can be really fucking stubborn, though. He loved the shit out of Higurashi, but kind of missed the point of the story for being a massive Mionfag. If only Mion, her love interest and her sister had survived at the end, he would have considered it a happy ending. He didn't give much of a shit about Rena or any other character that ever wronged Mion in some way.

Thanks to his Umineko LP I realized that the ending of EP5 (before the Tea Party) is probably the best in the series.

For some reason, I never understood Battler's "it's all useless, isn't it?" line, why he repeats it a couple of times and Natsuhi's over the top reaction to it. I just assumed that he said it for no reason, since it's his catchphrase. And that Natsuhi was surprised because Battler got fed up with the scheme and decided to defend her at the very end.

But after rewatching that part, it's really obvious that Battler is saying his catchphrase with the voice of the man from 19 years ago and that Natsuhi is terrified at the realization that Battler was the creepy guy on the phone. The bomb detonates at that time, killing the people that faked their deaths in the first twilight and ending the tale. I don't know why I just assumed that piece Battler was defending Natsuhi, when meta-Battler is fucking dead at that point and can't control his piece.

I still think that Sayo is the person on the phone during the first call, because it happened a few weeks before the conference (I'm pretty sure she bribed the relatives during the conference itself) and Natsuhi said that the voice sounded like that of a middle school boy or a girl pretending to be a guy. She was conviced that the person was male when they introduced themselves as the baby from 19 years ago and Battler started doing the voice.

I wish the PS3 version didn't use Battler's voice actor for the first phone call. The description of his voice doesn't make any sense. Yet another proof that Umineko is a better experience if you play it as the author intended, without any patches or "updates". At least for the first time.