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>>33521851
My main criticism of Ciconia is that it's just very dull. In Episode 1 of Umineko we have a traditional orthodox murder mystery in the vein of And Then There Were None where all the the characters and their motivations are introduced to us before they're slowly picked off one by one by what is seemingly an outside force. Then Episode 2 comes around and it does the murder mystery again, but focusing on Rosa's character instead of Natsuhi this time round and it delves deeper into meta aspects like the logic battles between Beato and Battler that the reader can actually figure out for themselves if they want to. It's much more immediately compelling and enjoyable and Battler has like a clear goal and motivation and cool moments that make you root for him.

Whereas in Ciconia there are like 20 characters immediately dropped on us, whose motivations of "we must protect the walls of peace!" really just aren't as compelling as Battler's initial aims of denying magic, and then events just happen to these characters. They're strung along by secret societies that they don't know about and so there's no interesting conflict and drama like there was with Battler and Beatrice, it's just boring things happening to boring characters with boring motives who are entirely unaware of what's actually going on. But not in an interesting cat and mouse way, like when people were cornered in a conspiracy like in Higurashi or Umineko.

>>33141314
>"There's nothing wrong wrong with sleeping in the same bed at this age, Batto-chan!"

>>33058584
Ange

So what's the shortest amount of time it would take to drive Ange to suicide? Is it possible to do it in a single sentence?

i'm so lonely