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>>46309421

To me, Lion's purpose in the narrative is to be Sayo's imagined ideal of what she could've been had it not been for the cliff, which is why Lion's so comically perfect and doesn't really get much development beyond EP7. Willard and Lion is like Battler and Sayo, had things been "perfect" so for me, it makes sense that they don't get much after EP7, they're just a fantasy of Sayo's. EP7 is the chapter where the whole truth is revealed for most of those that were paying attention, like how in classic mystery novels the truth is revealed near the end of the book. However, EP7 is subtle about it and still makes you think, and EP8 still comes after it because Umineko is much more than just it's mystery and Ange's conclusion is what the entire VN builds up to. Lion and will are metaphorically necessary I feel but I don't really mind them serving that purpose and not getting much else beyond that.

I do get what you mean though, EP7 and EP8 are extremely different from the other 6 chapters, and EP8 especially drops a lot of nuance in comparison to 7. Even if I really love EP8, it's hard for me to deny when people consider it one of the weaker chapters despite still being great, unless it's for the wrong reasons like feeling ''attacked'' by the goats and such, or feeling like nothing mattered. It kind of depends on you though and how much Ange's story matters to you in comparison to say, Battler's. Though I do really love EP7's tea party and how it follows into EP8's halloween party. When Bern shows Ange Kyrie and Rudolf murdering everyone, she dares her to believe it. And then, in EP8, Battlers shows her the halloween party and dares her to believe the opposite, making her eventually realise that what she chooses to believe about the incident matters more than what really happened. The conclusion she (And the reader) draws reveals more about you and her than the truth itself, her love for her family lets her move forward and the only way for her to know anything about the truth by demonstrating said love.

>>46146725
There'd be something wrong with you if you didn't.
Being detail-oriented and autistic are /07/th culture.