/jp/ - Otaku Culture

People who hold nothing but disdain for Kinzo but are overly eager to forgive Beatrice have failed the Rorschach test of empathy that is Umineko.

>It's very rare that you encounter a prose work whose fundamental idea is so perfectly expressed that the mere act of engagement with the text forces an engagement with its theme in absolute terms. This is why Umineko is expressively perfect—it's a work whose thesis is self-demonstrating: from the moment the reader starts to wonder what the answer to the mystery is, it's already too late. You will be forced to consider a truth that will always remain contested, that will never reach a consensus, and no matter what your thoughts are, you will display nakedly not the facts of the Rokkenjima incident but only your own 'eyes of the heart'. Umineko no Naku Koro ni doesn't only express and develop its extraordinary idea but rather completes it—trusting, finally, that the disposition of your spirit will permit you to see not an emptiness without truth, but the transparent fullness of truth, like that deep blue ocean which becomes no less abundant for how easily the water slips through your fingers. After all—without love, it cannot be seen.
Do you agree with him, /07/?

I wish I could get a serious discussion about Umineko going, like in the good old days.