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Are there any cool table top games for 7th expansion stuff? I just finished umineko for the first time and I feel like the setting would work really well for one.

beato

>>18593050
There was Umineko chess on Rokkenjima for a while.

>marrying a witch
>not choosing this tight knot of malice and perverted affection
Explain yourself Battler

>>18593050
There's a game called Tragedy Looper that seems to take inspiration from the When They Cry series.

>>18593436
It's because Erika lacks what Battler wants most in a partner.

Best girl

Can anyone refresh my memory on why Beato died at the end of Episode 5 but Battler didn't even though they both lost the will to live?

>>18593492
Looks cool, thanks for the help.

>>18593825
He could make her boobs being any size to his desire by just proclaiming it in red.

>>18593846
He didn't stop thinking, which is what makes one alive in metaworld, and with a little push from Dlanor reached the truth that allowed him to make a comeback.

>>18593833
Gaap's gaap

>>18593833
Her hairstyle always made me thing that she had an enormous, curly 80s bush down there. I don't know why.

So, what are the news thus far?

My steam Umineko (both question and answer) got a big update. Haven't been following the news here ever since the Zelda incident in January-February. What did I missed?

Why exactly was Lambda programmed to constantly spam her grab?

Best girl coming through.

>>18594763
Dar e?

>>18594763
>Yasu can't exist in any fragment without being a creepy eunuch
Fuck everything. I want Shannon to be real.

>>18594763
I love her so much.

>>18595135
>eunuch
was this ever confirmed? sounds like trolling to me

im glad everyone who shilled rosatrice fucked off and died

>>18595400
How new are you? He lost his dick as a baby when he was thrown off by Natsuhi. It's explicitly stated in the VN that he's unable to make love and many hints points toward the fact that he was born a boy.

>>18595400
It is, but anyone who spams that word is clearly shitposting.

>George dies a virgin
>Jessica dies a virgin
>Maria turns into the Cheshire cat; her body disappears and only her jaw remains
>Batora lives with some rich eccentric but they never married; probably a virgin because cripples don't have a functional dick
>Ange is still unmarried at 40, probably a virgin
Why are Kinzoのgrandchildren destined to be lonely virgins?

>>18595576
Yasu can still take it up the butt right?

Assuming that Yasu doesn't like lolis and Maria isn't completely straight, would it be possible for them to become lovers when Maria enters middle school?

Is Rosa a BEST enough mom to basically let a creepy eunuch into her daughter's bed every night in exchange for a shitton of gold? If she's willing to kill her entire fucking family for a billion yen card in EP2, I don't see why she'd have a problem with selling Maria's ass to her freak lesbian tranny friend. Especially if Maria likes it.

I honestly can see Rosa agreeing to that.

>>18595645
Can Yasu even get horny without genitals? Why the hell would she give Rosa all of her fortune just so she can finger Maria's butt or lick her armpits all night? That stuff is only enjoyable if you are turned on. Also, arousal overrides disgust. If there is no arousal, I can't imagine Yasu wanting to bury her face in Maria's ass.

I can see Yasu doing it just for Maria's sake, though. They really love each other and I'm sure Maria wouldn't judge her.

In fact, the only person Yasu could have been happy with was Maria. If only enuchXloli relationships were accepted, she wouldn't have blown up the island.

Can someone post the picture you get for beating Black Battler? I swear that motherfucker is invincible.

>>18593125
anon

>>18595576
>but they never married
Ryu was actually playing that though.

>>18596252
Yeah, he was too busy playing Zelda when a BeaBato shipper snuck in and wrote the line about them not being married.

>>18595693
Are you implying that a super cute loli like Maria can ever be disgusting? She is hecka cute, dude. Even if you have no lewd thoughts at all, there is nothing disgusting about Maria's butt.

>>18596212
ROSA

>>18596402
USHIROMIYAAA LOOOOOOOOOSA

>>18596325
>Yeah, he was too busy playing Zelda when a BeaBato shipper snuck in and wrote the line about them not being married
You actually managed to get half of the story. Girls in the team snapped and they didn't want Batora to get married.

>>18596212
BEATO

Ryu WHY

I was welling up when she and Yuuji died as the story detailed their gruesome deaths. But then I fucking cried when Meixue was shot and humiliated to death. I felt so empty when everyone else dropped like flies afterwards.

Why is Ryukishi such a master in surprises and evoking emotions and writing antagonists?

One more thing, was it really Meijiu who assassinated Ange? Fucking why

>>18593436
There's only one person worthy of being a husband of the Witch of Truth

>>18596713
Yes
Remember when during Season 1 he planned to kill Wayne when he was a hostage so he wouldn't hold Rose back?
Same reason but this time Ange was holding Butler back

>>18596713
>>18596944
>dumb fucks will actually read this thinking that they'll never be interested in RGD
>they'll eventually read it anyway and lament the fact that they got a ton of shit spoiled for them

Ange is lewd! Lewd! The teenage angst of a female human being! Humiliating!

Satoko is a kid, what a loser!

>>18597112
Is she a complete human being or just an ape?

>>18597101
Haven't read spoilers, I'm a good goat. Playing RGD as soon as I can, just taking a break from 07th Expansion for now with Fata Morgana after finishing Higurashi some weeks ago. The palette cleanser in-between Umineko and Higurashi was Steins;Gate and it sucked donkey's dong.

>>18597283
>Steins;Gate and it sucked donkey's dong
Never read the sequel
Steins gate is at it's worst maybe a 6/10
The sequel is a 1/10

>>18596834
What piece of evidence would he have presented to make yasu reconsider seppuko?

>>18597112
>>18597113
>the human condition itself is now a fetish
What happened to society?

>>18596834
>Miles Edgelord
"I hate you, Wright! Because you make me have all these feelings!" -Actual quote from the game.

>>18593436
>marrying Shitrika
Sorry but I have my honor as a man

>>18597318
>being best friends with a cute autistic loli who desperately needs love and protection
>commiting sudoku
Yasu was a fucking idiot.

>>18597383
'unnecessary. . . feelings', rather

what happened to zts, why hasnt he done anything for 07th since umineko?

>>18597432
He's done a lot of Umineko even years after it ended. He is probably just there for WTC5, almost positive. No worries anon.

>ange made a fortune with sakutaro
Savage. Worst girl.

>>18597412
this desu, in their confrontation at the end of ep 4 Battler could have at least told yasu that killing younglings because of a sin he committed is bullshit. Maybe if he told her that he'd pick his loved one and every one else over himself she would have just murdered him instead of everyone on the fucking island.

>>18597442
Have the composers for WTC been revealed yet? Is there a staff page on the site anywhere like there was for trianthology?

>>18597312
At its peak Steins;Gate was just discount Zero Escape that I was able to predict at every single turn from the mile away (prolly after obtaining Umineko superpowers, but that's another talk). What really turned me off, and that probably does sound weird on /jp/ board, is the devotion to the worst otaku pandering filth I'm trying to avoid after turning to the more obscure stuff some time ago. I can take a bit of tasteful fanservice like in Ryukishi works with joy, but when like the half of screentime is dedicated to "dude 2ch moe traps akihabara comiket cosplay jojo references LMAO" it makes me feel physically sick.

What makes Ryukishi's writing so real and heartwarming? He repeats himself a lot ("it's only natural") and sometimes explains things like three times in a row using different words (sometimes even the same words!). He's not a perfect writer by any means. But somehow, I enjoy his writing style more than any other, and I'm a pretty avid reader.

How is this possible? He's a fantastic storyteller, but why does his kind of shit writing also add to the experience?

>>18597432
zts has been worked with the HiguUmi sound team when some dude in charge of a mobile game hired the main Umineko/Higurashi composers and told them to make music similar to the one they made for Umineko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoCurvz2DTc
When the Umineko fighting game got released on steam the official 07thexpansion twiter mentioned how a match between dai and zts would be fun to watch
Nothing confirmed, but they still seem to be in touch so more UNTZ is not out of the table

>there is a RGD manga
Is it actually good? I'm still sad because the Higanbana manga was a steaming pile of shit.

>>18597847
I heard it skipped the entire soy sauce war arc so it sounds like shit

>>18597765
his prose is trash (in an endearing way), his pacing is wonky, but he understands structure and his characters have depth.

>>18597765
Good writing is more than just brevity of the wit. War and Peace is considered to be the greatest literary achievement in the history and well, Ryukishi's wordiness is nothing compared to the times Tolstoy starts spilling over absolutely mundane things.

>>18597443
it's nearly canon that in the trick ending she end being an adult porn actress to fill the void in her life.

>>18597951
Tolkien is also a pretty mediocre writer. I don't give a shit about the leaves in those trees, just go on with the damn story!

>>18597965
that style of writing is super comfy though.

>>18597857
I don't know if that is true, but I noticed it also expanded on some scenes. I was curious how the manga handled the scene with Miguel and Rose, and I noticed there were more lines being said that I didn't recognize in the original.

>>18597112
Ange is such a pervert. She told her other aunt to take a dump behind a tree. And she also told Amakusa to buy her toilet paper. She also got diarrhea all over the place according to EP5 Battler.

The fact that someone as edgy and proud as Ange is indirectly acknowledging the fact that she needs to wipe her ass with toilet paper is just mindblowing. Is she too innocent to realize what she's implying with that comment? Or is she lewd enough to intentionally bring up such a shameful fact without a care in the world? Either way, Ange is lewd.

>>18597998
and she acts so proud and edgy but she is just a worthless human, i pity her.

>>18597998
It's both. Ange is not a pervert, so she doesn't realize what her words are implying. But at the same time, she doesn't think it's a big deal. If you asked Ange if she poops, she'd probably reply with "of course I do, are you stupid?". Only a real pervert like Rena would blush and look away without replying.

>>18594763
That's a really cute fanart.

>>18598047
Cute girls farts too? i want to bully them for that!

>>18597947
>even a walking piece of shit with no morals has been brainwashed by bullshit fake morality into not finding lolis attractive
Literally how. Satoko isn't even flat anymore, what the fuck is Teppei smoking?

I want to destroy Ange's shitty attitude, she needs to know her place as a woman, is for her own good!

>>18598104
He's suffering from normielitis. Being a lolicon just doesn't match his self-image

>>18597952
No it isn't. You just pulled that out of your ass.

>>18598329
>skinny Ange
Ryukishi's original Ange wasn't chubby or anything, but she certainly wasn't a skinny whore. There was something cute about her round face and Jooji-like body in the original art.

>>18598441
True, fat angry Ange is best Ange!

>>18598458
That's not how belts work. Did she take lessons from Tetsuya Nomura?

>>18598458
Ange is so beautiful, but she's actually not a normie at all. She literally spent her teenage years without a single friend. Pathetic! She is probably a pervert too, since she was unable to interact with any boys her age in her all-girls school. I bet she rubs her hairy pussy every time she thinks about Amakusa.

>>18598104
I wonder how Satoko feels about being an oppai loli. She just a prankster kid, and yet she's got cute little tits. Awkward! I bet she feels like a loser because RenaとMion have much bigger breasts that can actually bounce. She probably has absolutely no idea that her older friends have super hairy pussies. She can't even imagine that pubic hair is a thing. Lewd!

>>18597871
his prose isn't trash, it's just not great.
as a certain japanese reader pointed out, he is a very good writer all around, but nothing especial in terms of prose besides his extensive vocabulary and occasional amazingly written narrative sequences.

his repetitiveness mostly happens in a scene that is meant to be either meta-comical ("NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG AS LONG AS WE ARE ALL TOGETHER, IMMA RIGHT COUSIN?" x20 for the sake of death flag lols, or "THEY NEEDED A LOT OF MONEY RIGHT NOW" for the sake of overdramatic tone to a sequence that would probably be very boring otherwise, since it's such a long finance-related infodump, or "LET'S ALL BE HAPPY TOGETHER FOREVER, COUSINS, AND HOPE EVERYTHING GOES ABSOLUTELY RIGHT" which was aknowledged to be Meta Battler getting comfy with his family just for Beatrice to break in literally just after and point that out and begin the game) or just actually to emphazise the emptyness of certain characters and thoughts, which also serves as plot devices here and there.

The "it was only natural" thing is probably the only legit one, and it isn't even that much of a big deal to deal with desu (I didn't even notice until people in here pointed it out, and iirc it was quite tweaked by the new translation, much like some other overused and/or mechanical translation choices.

now, the pacing in other hand could have been more consistent (there are parts that it drags quite a bit even if information is important, and other times that it is just way too fast for my tastes, like some bits of EP8 after the goats broke in Rokkenjima).

now, to mention again what that same anon said and that I agree completely, Ryukishi has absolute dominance of storytelling elements (especially narrative traps and other layered fragments' presentation inside his story), character building and overall setup and atmosphere of his tales.

In those regards he is in some other level as a writer. Makes his flawed prose basically irrelevant compared to all of what his composition becomes at the end.

And that's why I think even if I were to find a typo from him in a work of his, I wouldn't actually mind that, much (actually I would, very much so, because of OCD issues, but you get my point)

>>18598934
I would just add that the entirety of EP7 is probably the most well written prose he ever achieved thus far... in the terms that, it's actually superb to read in many instances, which is something lots of people in the japanese forums also commented about besides the usual controversy the implicit nature of the Episode had caused in both our side and theirs.

That one EP had pure poetry in some segments, and truly shows his passion for theater too.

Any news about the new stuff btw
I've heard we are getting WTC5 and EP9 soon.

>>18597947
makes me wonder if he actually tried to pleasure himself with her body before reaching that conclusion

fuck teppei

>>18597952
>she end being an adult porn actress
t. Bern

>>18598934
I just realized I missed a ")"...
REEEEEEEE

Damn it.

>>18598191
>she needs to know her place as a woman, is for her own good

Women who doesn't understand her place is useless, no good at all!

>>18598191
>>18599101
Kinzo and Krauss, please get out

>>18599108
t. Desilusional Eva.

WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED BROS??? PART 8 WAS SHIT I WASTED MY FUCKING LIFE DOING THE WHOLE SERIES!!!

>>18599258
the deus ex machina and overall silliness turned off a lot of people.

maybe that's why we got one huge bittersweet ending with Umineko just after (which was great, but still...).

but I don't think the last arc was that bad desu, it's just that the previous arc was THAT good, and this one was a... "fine" conclusion.

people say the PS2 version is better, go check that out if anything.

>>18599258
Read the manga version of Episode 8.

>>18599258
>battle of golden land
>shit

>>18599312
This anon is right. The question arc is a lot better than the answer arcs.

>>18599358
>The question arc is a lot better than the answer arcs.

They complete each other, and Answer arcs are way more complex in every single aspect (Question arcs are more of a gigantic collection of foreshadowing).

Also, Question arcs make no sense without the Answer Arcs, naturally.

I wouldn't put any of them above the other half

You can only analyze Umineko as a whole anyway. Without EP8 you wouldn't ever figure out what the fuck was going on all along with the meta elements (and that shit is like, explained in the very last minutes).

Lambdabesta.

>>18599423
I think he is talking about Higurashi in this post, anon.

But again, I'm all confused since you guys are using "parts" and "arcs", and not Episodes or hens.

>>18599441
To be fair, what he said goes to Higurashi as well, except the meta aspect is revealed earlier than Umineko's

>>18599434
Lambdabusta

Umineko Part 8 was 12 hours of JUST

Who cares about the tranny eunuch?
Ryukishi will give us the Desilusion of Zelda (real woman with womb) on WTC 5!

I wonder if we will have a BotW reference in there.

Imagine Ryukishi putting like, 900 hidden golden butterflies during the scene transitions or something, and if we get all of them, we get to see a Goat-kun shitting gold bars or something.

>>18599468

Beaotodelta.

>>18597773
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoCurvz2DTc
This is fucking good. Best non-umineko zts track I've heard. Has zts done anything else like this or his big 8 from umineko? Anything like dead angle/discolor?
The trance stuff I've heard of his is decent but nothing compares to his work on umineko.

>>18599563
>Has zts done anything else like this or his big 8 from umineko?
not really, maybe this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKMRLrSZK8 but I'm not even sure if he was involved in this one
>Anything like dead angle/discolor?
Sadly no

>>18599434
Best witch.

>>18600137
Breast witch.

>>18596530
ANON

>>18597965
Also have any of you heard about Oblomov? It's another classic staple of Russian literature, the novel about the man so lazy and whose existence is so meaningless, it takes 170 pages for him to just get out of bed. It's really really boring novel actually, and was a real dread to read for 16yo me, but it reminds me that written word shouldn't always be fun to accompany the topic unfolded by the author. That post >>18598934 pointed out that repeated nature of some of the scenes in Umineko is usually the way to strenghten the themes and exposition. Higurashi is mostly the same, and even if sometimes it made my eyes roll explaining yet again the situation about the dam conflict, and the curse, and Hinamizawa customs, it served the purpose, usually as a buildup to something or to show the outlook on the subject from the eyes of another character. When people are saying me that Umineko and Higurashi should be cut by whatever percent it triggers me beyond the measure as to lose the subtlety and the structure of Ryu's stories is equivalent to losing heart.

>Ushiromiya crest on the underwear
What did she mean by this

>>18600477
That she even borrowed Jessica's underwear.

>>18600902
That's so sweet. Why have I never seen this before?

>>18600902
>>18600976
agreed, it's pretty adorable. where did you find it?

>>18600510
Can you even imagine "borrowing" someone's underwear? Erika's perversy knows no bounds.

>>18600204
Breast sandwich

>>18600477
I want to RAPE Erika!

>>18601074
This is rape-free zone kiddo

>>18601125
>Goat: "Tryng to solve mysteries is a waste of time... It's better to stop thinking because you don't know if it's solvable..."
>Will: "THAT'S THE ONE THING I REALLY CAN'T STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!!!!"

Will is the true Ryukishi self insert.

>>18601198
>Will is the true Ryukishi self insert.
Is Ryuu S. S. Van Dine?
Is Ryuu 130 years old?

>>18601260
tbf, Van Dine is quite changed when it comes to his own heartless rules in Umineko, since he aknowledges as a flaw to ignore the heart of a whydunnit.

And one thing is to change in the meta world, which apparently has some other perception of time and space compared to our own. I don't think he would have changed his mind about his mindset while still alive for some more decades.

Thus, [blue]Ryukishi most likely isn't Van Dine[blue]

Even because [red]There are testimonies who saw his dead body, thus confirming he is indeed not among the living[red]

In commemoration of Higurashi’s 15th Anniversary this month, an interview with Ryukishi07 has been published on Dengeki Online. The interview goes into heaps of detail, with Ryukishi giving his thoughts on all the milestones Higurashi has achieved in it’s 15 year lifespan, starting from his initial draft of the Hinamizawa Bus Stop stageplay, going all the way through to the international Steam Release and recent TV drama. It’s quite an interesting read, but it’s way too lengthy for us to translate all of it, so if you can’t read Japanese we recommend chucking it through Google Translate and skimming through at your own leisure.

Toward the end of the interview, he begins to talk about his current work on the series and future plans. We’ve provided a rough translation of the last three questions below. Be sure to give us your thoughts in the discussion below!

Higurashi Hou in 2014 was your most recent addition to the series. Is there any chance you’ll will write more Higurashi in the future?

I have no plans to continue Higurashi at the moment. It may be a cliche, but I can only say “I’ve moved on from Hinamizawa”. However, that doesn’t mean I won’t ever write for it again. At the Hinamizawa pilgrimage tour last year, I prepared a script featuring Keiichi and Satoko. I can’t say for sure, but maybe someday I will write for Higurashi again. If that day comes, I hope you’ll support me once more.

What about the latest entry in the When They Cry series that spawned from Higurashi?

Up until now I’ve mostly been working on it in my free time, as a way of taking a break from my outside work. Now that all my outside work has been completed, I can finally buckle down and work on it properly. I am now beginning to name the characters, and will be drawing illustrations of them soon.

Like with Umineko, it’s much easier to write the characters once I’ve given them a name and face. When I wrote Higurashi, the scenario was already complete before I drew any illustrations of the characters.

In Rose Guns Days and TRianThology, I had various other illustrators help draw the characters, but this time I’d like to once again try drawing all the characters myself. I’m sure it will be difficult, but I plan to stick to it. I will do my best to make sure the game is ready to be released next year.

Please give a final message for all the fans of Higurashi.

Thanks to all the fans who have supported over Higurashi’s long life. Thank you very much. I don’t think we could have come this far in 15 years without everyone’s support. I am currently working hard on the next When They Cry game, so I would be happy if you continue to support our work in the future. I look forward to continuing to work with you all.

https://whentheycry.miraheze.org/wiki/When_the_Game_Ends

>Zepfur

>>18598934
>his prose isn't trash, it's just not great.
by visual novel standards? sure. compared to serious literature? it's trash, alright.

>>18601501
I like the protagonist already!

>>18601559
It's the first episode of Higu and he got significantly better with years, even in Kai compared to the first arc.

>>18600976
>>18600993
It's by Hikusa.

Here's another favorite of mine.
http://hikusa.kagamine-len.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sob_.jpg

>>18601748
B R A V O N O L A N

you're right of course, higu ep1 isn't a fair representation of r07s ability as a writer.

>>18601792
more like higurashi's english fan translation isn't a fair representation of ryukishi's ability as a writer

>>18601497
>but this time I’d like to once again try drawing all the characters myself

>>18601800
>fan translation
There was only one for Onikakushi and it was sadly much better than the two official translations.

マリアのお尻の穴！えっち！はずかしい！

>we're getting cucked by fucking zelda
>WTC 5 never
>even if, by a miracle, ryukishi releases WTC 5 this year, we still have to wait translations
JUST
Lear Japanese is not an option, I don't even know English properly yet

>>18602373
>even if, by a miracle, ryukishi releases WTC 5 this year, we still have to wait translations

>>18602425
>/jp/, /v/ and /a/ will be flooded with spoilers

>Beato was gender fluid the whole time
So are Battler and George gay?

>>18602553
I can't wait to personally spoil anti-pedo anon in one of these threads as I enjoy WTC5.

>>18601559
>60fps
Why the fuck does it tell you the fps in the middle of the game?

>>18603006
you're misunderstanding anon. in higurashi fps is the fap counter for the given scene, the higher the more fappable. it's crucial information.

>>18603016
Oh, I see. My bad. Rena is human, so her very existence is so pathetic and humiliating that it's not surprising that the scene gets a rating of 60fps.

>>18601497
>Outside work
>Inb4 is just his excuse for admittedly having played Zelda for a whole month while trying to work

I so want this new work of his to be another one with Spike Chunsoft, specially if it as the dynamic trio (includes Kodaka & Uchikoshi)

>>18601497
>this time I’d like to once again try drawing all the characters myself. I’m sure it will be difficult, but I plan to stick to it.
WTC5 confirmed to be awesome.

>>18601497
This was back in August. It's already been half a year since this interview.

http://www.07hokan.net/

Loads and LOADS of charming, low quality Higurashi fanart from the mid 2000s, when the main 8 arcs were still being released.

The site will probably disappear one day, since it's old as fuck. You should preserve all the pictures you like as soon as possible.

>>18603604
It's time bois
Let's get some free memes

>>18593847
Here's a custom umineko sheet made by another anon. Also, if you have tabletop simulator on steam, I think there is another umineko inspired mod

>>18600458
My friend is a huge fan of Russian history and read me some passages from that very book. Small world.

>>18603431
>Uchikoshi, Kodaka, Ryukishi collaboration
It'd be such a beautiful disaster, I want it to happen for the sake of memes

/v/ mods are deleting umineko threads!

>>18604234
Repeat this in red mods

Umineko threads are technincally vidya because they do posses an element of gameplay in part 8!

>>18604234
/v/ is cancer rn, umineko threads where the only good thing in that board.

>>18601559
His writing style is pretty neat. Very action packed and to the point. I feel your complaint is more about the translation or you liking rosed baroque prose.

>>18604276
H-hey, I like my chuuni purple prose in Dies Irae and Nasu stuff. It makes it funnier and fancy.

>>18604297
A fight in Dies irae takes five hours to read, or more... It's the total opposite style of writing action scenes.

Who /magic/ here?

>>18604403
maria's 'I know my mom loves me but I can't make a rational argument for it so it's alright to just ignore the facts and believe what I want to'? and 'I'll codify my feelings into certain modes of behavior and use those 'spells' to create the outcomes I hope for' - type magic? sure.
magic in the sense that 'shit happens because we live in a world full of supernatural unknowable bullshit so you should just accept that and sink back into the mud'? fuck no.

ultimately, /truth/ is the only viable option.

>>18603604
What's with half of them being about Hanyuu's tits

>>18604234
>/v/

>>18604899
Because Hanyuu has nice tits.

>>18605730
I wanna fuck oyashiro-sama!

>>18604782
People will cope how they will.
I know Ryu has worked as a CPS worker but it still blows me away how he nailed a lot of the abused child mindset. As an addict in recovery, I've met a ton of people who struggle because they never grew out of those childhood coping habits. Some are either delusional (Maria's magic obsession) or set themselves up for failure, having impossible expectations of themselves, which perpetuates the self-devaluing that children learn to handle the fact that their needs aren't getting met. The world being awful is harder to accept than viewing yourself as flawed and having it be your own fault (Satoko thinking she needs to stay strong for Satoshi, enduring mistreatment)

>>18605793
How many shrine visits would it take? How much would you have to donate in order to fuck a god?

>>18604234
Dumb goat janitors

>>18600902
This is fucking heart warmingly adorable.

Is this true?

>>18604241
You are not worthy of challenging the mods instead I will answer answer your demands with this.

[Red] The mod side of the game has no obligation to respond to statements not made in blue. [Red]

>>18606164
I have heard about ZUN telling Ryukishi he should make his own game.

>>18601045
How's this for a breast sandwich?

>>18606370
Too much special sauce, but I'll give it a pass for lambda.

>>18606451
I'm glad you found it acceptable.

>>18606227
Nihihihi, alright then. I'll make my counter argument then.
<Blue> The Umineko No Naku Koro Ni series has been distributed for sale on the PlayStation 3. Under the product classification where Umineko No Naku Koro Ni is sold the product is listed as a video game. Therefore, Umineko No Naku Koro Ni is allowed to be discussed on /v/, because it is technically a video game as well as being an audio novel. If the general public accepts it as a video game then it is a video game!!<Blue>

I'm under the impression that in the magic ending for Umineko the man claiming to be the former Battler is putting on an elaborate ruse and is simply another face of Beatrice pulling yet another disguise stunt.

>>18608378
Rosatrice Beatrice?

>>18608409
no, lion

>>18608378
>Yasu survived 1985, took on a new identity and got off on turning the crime she committed into a number of stories, when she was contacted by Ange she felt like she could relive the thrill of being close to getting caught one more time
>she fed her as much information as she she could without outright stating that she was the culprit, betting that in the end even Ange would choose an illusion she could live with over reality
>finally, it was the time of the confrontation between Ange and Ikuko. She had already found a trump card for this occasion: Tohya Hachijo
>the brother she presented Ange with was a paid actor by the name of Akimura Zuzuku, whom Ikuko/Yasu commissioned to help her with this final bit of magic
>right before the credits, as "Battler" rolls up to Beatrice's portrait at the orphanage, Ikuko leans in close to Ange's ear, and whispers: "(red)Ushiromiya Battler is fucking dead!"

>>18608567
it seems more probable he'd be the one playing battler assuming he did indeed survive, given the family resemblance and maybe lolplasticsurgery

>>18608619
>kill the love of your life
>"he'll live on through me"
>get plastic suregery
>become battler

>>18608630
or could just be a vengeful and sick fuck that had an otherwise perfect plan to kill all Ushiromiyas ruined when Eva managed to solve the epitaph at just the right time to survive, necessitating the need to elaborate upon an illusion to both challenge and torment Ange and Eva. Eva was tormented until the day she died, and didn't seem to beat Beatrice since she never went public and her diary was acquired by a potentially unwitting tool of Lion, assuring that so long as Lion could control Tohya Lion would remain victorious. Ange managing to defeat Beatrice felt up in the air to me in both endings, and with Hou on the horizon, it feels like Umineko isn't done fucking with people at all. Maybe I'm just dumb though.

>>18608804
I'm just having fun imagining melodramatic twists. Imo it's fairly unlikely that R07 is going to pull a complete 180 in Beatrices characterization, because having an evil mastermind like that would defeat the purpose of the narrative. It would be pretty fun to see people lose their shit if he did subvert the whole story though, especially if he pulled it off gracefully.

>>18608567
>rolls up
LMAO

>>18609667
D-does that way of describing it not work in English? Or do you just like the mental image?

>>18609888
Nah, your English is fine. I just find the mental image funny.

Fuck that one copypasta for making me think of wheelchair Battler as something funny. You know, the one with the cake and the cat.

>>18608567
I never realized how cute creepy eunuch's hat is.

>>18609990
>not a single mention to the meta world fights
Nigga

>>18609990
>not using the old faces for this
NIGGA

>>18610304
>少女
Creepy eunuch.

Do any of you find Yasu cute?

>>18610440
Daily reminder that this flaming homo is a fantasy character that looks and acts nothing like the real Lion would.

I think Yasu and Lion are both pretty cute, though.

>>18610440
Of course.

>>18610440
I want to lick Yasus whole body

Where it was confirmed that Rena went from L5 to L2 after fighting Keiichi on the schoolroof?

>>18610440
>Beatrice CastigLIONi
>LION Ushiromiya
>紗代 translates into silk substitute
Was Sayos existence an illusion created by Sakutarou, in order to protect the true culprit, Mariatrice, all along?!

>>18610629
Is all of Umineko the fever dream of a comatose Satoshi as he dreams that he's a stuffed animal that belongs to an abused loli because he could never give Satoko the teddy bear?

Satoshi looks fucking stupid in that yellow outfit, by the way.

>>18610656 Desu I have no idea what R07 was thinking when he named all of these characters in accordance with the lion theme in ep7. It's just utterly random, unless you are right and we were in the mind of a comatose Satoshi with Hinamizawa syndrome all along.

You think this is what ep9 will have in store for us? Satoshi dreams of the many Rokkenjima catboxes to come. Just like Akasaka became the key to Rikas future, Satoshi attempts to save the Ushorimya family. He marries Shion, who is the true heir to the Sonozaki clan, thus becoming their new leader. He wants to use this power to change the course of destiny. But somehow or another, he gets entangled in the world of crime and his personality is corrupted, he ends up cheating on Shion with Rosa. Satoshi quickly realizes what he has done, that he himself is making the nightmares he had come true. He is disgusted with himself, and he decides to abandon her with his child.

>>18610793
Satoshi, man of agony - that is the only name I have for you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGI1XWx1szM&index=400&list=WL

The absolute best

Imagine you are Ange, you are past your family, have tons of money and someone to manage it for you. Entire world is full of possibilities
Whats next in order for me...?
What a wonderful track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJawfHBygPY
This was never used right? it's sound so familiar.

>>18607417
Please allow me to speak, let it be said that [Red] Regardless of listing, A product must first meet the definition of game before it can be considered a video game. [Red]

>>18613711
Please allow me to speak, let it be known that the accepted definition of a game is as follows.

[Red] A form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck. [Red]

Furthermore let it be known that [Red] The majority of the Umineko No Naku Koro Ni series contains no elements of skill, strength, or luck that will allow you to influence the progression of the novel's storytelling [Red]

Therefore the Umineko No Naku Koro Ni series as a whole cannot belong on /v/ unless you can prove its validity as a game.

>>18613726
Sorry to ruin the fun but whether visual novels are game or not, VN threads are allowed on /v/ since the dawn of time

Sorry for the stupid question but what are those "buildings" in the rose garden called?
The resting area where George confesses to Shannon in EP1 for example.

>>18613905

>>18613905
a gazebo

>>18613924
>>18613925
Thank you very much.

>>18613711
>>18613726

[Red]Unless the specific topic has been banned, "secondary" threads, (that being, threads directly related to vidya) are allowed by Moot's words! The image presented was a sticky previously posted on /v/! [/Red]

[Blue]Accepting your definition, Umineko may not qualify as a game, however, Golden Fantasia definitely meets the requirements! And Umineko no Naku Koro Ni, being the mother series for Golden Fantasia, would fall under the category of "secondary" allowing its threads to be posted on /v/![/Blue]

Forgive my crazy argument... It's all finished now.

>>18603604
The humiliation of a literal cute!

Nice thread in a alive board.

>>18612815
Naka is a song recurring from the Higurashi days. There have been like 5 versions of it over the years and one of them was used in a prank the same comiket uploader that replaced almost all of Higanbana's music with played for RGD

Please post that Ange reaction with "go to hell" or something.

>>18618344

>>18618401
Thank you. Here's a cute Dlanor as a reward

Lambdadelta is cute and stronk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiHA7Aw2GiE

https://twitter.com/07th_official/status/973900203206914049

>Everyone, is it Roostros? I am losing ... (; w;)
Well, I want to suppress the feeling of wanting to catch a roaste tag and I will return to writing business from today. Also I will try my best to leave my heart to 23rd city and go home!
Actually, there are a few larger announcements next week.
Please continue to support us!

>Actually, there are a few larger announcements next week.

WHAT'S IT GONNA BE

>>18619370
Could it have something to do with another 07th Expansion Party? The last one was held a year ago on the 1st day of April.
The announcements could just be more information about RGD stage play, but I can be a bit hopeful for news on WTC5 or that new Umineko chapter.

*farts*

>>18619370
The beginning of the tweet is talking about some Rose Guns Days stuff.

The other half is promising some announcements for next week.

And you guys probably know the fucking hype when Ryu has a new announcement. for example, the openings for Iwaihime and TRT just a while ago.

>>18620331
Forgot to add, he is talking about major announcements, and this normally means about 07th Expansion exclusives, or VNs he is writing for other people.

>>18620331
Man, if we could get an opening and character art.
Would be amazing.

>>18619370
>roaste

alright time for my yearly ritual
Did the Trianthology OST album get uploaded anywhere
Did Haworthia get uploaded anywhere
Should I just kill myself

>>18620944
>Did the Trianthology OST
Yep
>Did Haworthia
Yep

>>18597101
I’ll read it when MG eventually ports it, and by that point I will have forgotten everything. Thankfully, memory tends to white out irrelevant information.

Well, Ryukishi is not bald as I expected, and also has colored hair.

What is life-

BAKAAAAAAAAAA

>>18624086
DOUUSHITA NO BATORAAAAAAAAAAA

>>18623300
Ryuu-chan looks cheerful and healthy and that's the most important thing.

Cute!!!

>>18624389
Natsuhi is pure and innocent

>>18624391
Yes! she is the best and purest of all, i love her!

>>18623300
What's the deal with Ryukishi always making that pose in every picture? You know, the ham hands thing.

>>18623300
Meijiu is the best of them all. 10/10 cosplay.

>>18624389
>secretly kills an innocent woman and mutilates a baby to escape from an undesirable situation
>"Natsuhi is pure and innocent"

>kills a bunch of rich bastards to take revenge for all the shit they did to her
>"CREEPY EUNUCH LMAO"

>>18624563
>""""her"""""
>nuking a entire island because he have no dick
>"muy love"

>>18624510
Life imitating art.

>>18624578
It's like your going out of your way to be as insensitive and generalizing as possible.

>>18624658
Almost as if that anon is trying to bait for responses. Or joking.

I was not ready for this.

>>18624764
is that a mobile version?

>>18624684
SPOILER

Yuki is basically Xion from Kingdom Hearts.

>>18624684
Fuck, I want to read SubaHibi again. Especially that chapter. I can't get enough of the piece of shit version of Houjou Satoshi.

>>18624770
No, it's a "Port of Alchemist’s PS3 versions of Umineko", but only first 4 chapters seem to be available.
I am aware that the second arc is out there and I downloaded it as well.

The human dignity of Ushiromiya Ange! Lewd!

>>18624684
I'm forever disappointed that the twist wasn't that he was sexually abused by his mother, because a lot seemed to be pointing to that in the invention chapter.

>>18624812
>"Oh, look at that couple over there... I wish I could throw acid at the girl's face and torture her boyfriend to death."
So fucking real, man.

>>18623300
How likely do you think it is that we'll get an anime now?

>>18625032
"What are you implying,baka!"

>>18625156
I think Ryukishi is done with anime adaptations. I doubt he'll ever work with Deen again after the Umineko fiasco.

I can't get over how laughably awful the Umineko anime was. Like seriously, how could the director look at her work and not feel embarrassed? It's a shitfest of misplaced music, unintentionally funny faces, terrible character introductions, ugly designs, drama that fails to make the viewer feel anything and a nonsensical plot that makes no sense. I can't understand how the adaptation ended up like that without it being intentionally bad as a parody.

>>18625170
Ignore and report.

>>18625424
And then, 6 years later, they bomb us with Rakugo, a fucking masterpiece of an adaptation with amazing meta elements and visual symbolism.

Literally what the fuck, it's too ironic.

>>18625919
Deen is a very inconsistent company and it blows my mins.

>>18625919
Rakugo was made by a completely different staff though so it's hardly comparable to Umineko. And DEEN has made good stuff before Umineko as well, like Trust & Betrayal and Angel's Egg for instance

>>18625955
mind*

So what's Iwaihime about anyway? There's virtually nothing about it in english, and when I looked into it I saw a girl being raped by a caterpillar?

>>18619370
>Announcements next week
>Spike Chunsoft is also announcing stuff next week
Imagine a game written by Uchikoshi, Kodaka and R07.

Don't cry Erika!

>>18626341
We are all waiting for a game with the dynamic trio, someone already mentioned above iirc

>>18594501
what zelda incident?

>>18613711
>>18613726
2smol

>>18623300
alan's outfit is the true 10/10

>>18623300
>no faceless whore#2
Why live?

>>18628733
Please allow me to enlarge.

>>18628913
thank you

>>18628682
Ryuu decided to play Zelda for a month and dropped writing at that. He apparently managed to control himself (or at least was trying) according to a february tweet.

Just finished umineko.
Higanbana higurashi or rose guns days next?

>>18629065
Higurashi.

>>18629065
Higurashi. People say that you should be reading Umineko only after Higurashi, but it's a great experience the other way as well: seeing how Ryuu's writing and structure has had evolved from one to another. And there are some narrative traps that work both ways too.

>>18629092
>>18629098
Thanks anons. Now i bounce to avoid spoilers, see you in a few months.

wish there was something st patrick themed shit for umineko. like green haired character sprites or something along those lines ladwares.

>>18629103
If you are going to download the old releases instead of waiting ages for Mangagamer's new releases, make sure to patch the shit out of them to fix their mess. I recommend leaving the original graphics alone, but for god's sake, make sure to patch the music AND the sounds.

>>18628923
Let it be known that you are most welcome.

>>18629224
These omake are always great.

>>18629224
The curly curls of Ushiromiya Ange's マン毛! Lewd!

>>18624764
This whole scene sends chills down my spine every time I read it, it elevated Rosa to being one of my favorite characters.

I always liked how Yasu pictured nice old Kumasawa as a beautiful young woman. Wish we'd gotten to see more of their relationship.

>>18629741
Did it elevate her to majo-hood? Is Rosatrice your favourite character?

>>18629777
Yes, Black Witch Rosatrice has completely surpassed all other witches. I can claim this with certainty!

How strict was Natsuhi's mother?
Waiting her husband to come home and walking up the kids to welcome him, such a dedicated wife

>>18629823
She is the ideal and pure wife.

>>18629823
No sex until after their first kid.

>>18629775
if ronnove is the same kinda deal for genji, I'm curious just how much he had to do with Rokkenjima going sky high, or how much he influenced the events that unfolded.

>>18630233

>>18630233
>>18630238
don't speak foreign unless its Japanese.

>>18630233
Does that mean what I think it means? Is Mion literally humiliating herself by saying the A-word?

>>18630272
don't read Higurashi unless it's French

>>18630343
I think that's one of her lines, yes.

If Teppei literally forces Satoko to work her skinny little ass off carrying beer bottles and throwing out the trash, what excuse do the child services have to not believe that she's being abused?

>>18630362
I heard that the translation is perfect and that the translator is a huge fan of Higurashi who managed to license all the music that Mangashit had to cut out. Does it have the minigames and the staff room sections that were cut from the question arcs?

>>18630378
Yes. I don't even care about the minigames, but good localization makes the dialogues flow so much better and less clunky.

Is the Umineko English translation better than Higurashi? I only read the former

>>18630397
The Umineko translation is really good. That's why I'm sad that Mangagamer picked up Higurashi back in the day. Because of them, fans stopped translating the original novels halfway through the second arc.

>>18630366
Is it shameful for a loli to have a skinny little ass?

>>18630539
Girls use the bathroom to take a shit too!?

How scary is Higurashi? I really cannot handle horror at all, but I was gifted the first two chapters on steam.

I watched the terrible anime adaptation back in middle school, but I don't remember much from it except the ending.

>>18630925
The first two chapters are pretty unnerving, but that's really it. I don't remember any jumpscares or anything like that.

I actually enjoy the anime, but it's a fucking shit adaptation of a fantastic novel and it's a waste to have the anime spoil everything for you when you could just read the novel.

Use the original sprites, no questions asked. You'll thank me later.

>>18630539
Yes. When an ass is really big and lewd, it's supposed to be sexy. Men are supposed to look at it with lustful eyes. But when a young girl like Satoko has a skinny, undeveloped ass that isn't meant to be attractive, that's really humiliating. Her ass isn't supposed to be sexy yet, it's just a stupid-looking pair of butt cheeks whose only purpose is to protect her shithole when she sits down somewhere.

Satoko's ass is supposed to be a 100% disgusting part of her body, with no sex appeal at all. And that's ironically pretty humiliating and lewd, which makes it sexy in a twisted way. Nobody except Irie or Rena actually lust after Satoko's skinny little ass in a way that would make her feel sexy or proud of her body. Most people lust after her skinny little ass because it's such a pathetic, disgusting, humiliating part of her body that disgraces her dignity and contrasts with her cheeky personality.

Rose is super cute, but I can't take her seriously after she was stripped naked in public TWICE, her fat plump ass exposed for everyone, friend or foe, to see. How can the characters take her seriously and root for her when they've literally seen her hairy 40s pussy and the place she poops from? The memory alone should be enough to make them lose all respect for Rose. Human girls look stupid naked.

Rika is so cute

Why is there such a sharp divide between the West and the East regarding Umineko? VNDB has the two games in its top 10 while on EGS you have to scroll down to the 300s IIRC to find Banquet.

>>18631278
Japan fanbase hated EP8

>>18631278
Out of curiosity I found the list of all the chapters. 中央値 is the score. The first PS3 port is actually the highest rated one with 85 points, while Episode 8 only has 60 points, which is pretty bad

>>18631278
Bad ending

>>18630925
I'd call them suspenseful more than anyhting with some creepy parts, but honestly Higurashi nothing like a real horror

>>18631856
EP1, 3 and 5 are pretty much horror for the most part. Maybe 5 a bit less

>>18631278
Japs having bad taste, more news at 11

>>18631856
It's more horror than 90% of other horror anime/manga series.

>>18631936
Well 90% of anime and manga is also an irredeemable trash so it lines up

Why is Mion such a womanchild? Ange is just a year older than her and she's already jumping off building, being sulky and telling people to kiss her ass. Meanwhile, Mion is playing board games with two preteen lolis and two literal autistic wrecks.

>>18632252
Ange is so autistic even her tulpas are autistic. Mion is a cool alpha girl. Well not exactly alpha since that's Shion, but pretty close.

>>18632252
>jumping off buildings
Being suicidal is childish and pathetic.

>being sulky
What a fucking crybaby. Get your shit together, Ushiromiya Angste.

>telling people to kiss her ass
Just having an ass is shameful enough, but Ushiromiya Ange had to go the next step and actually bring up the subject. Holy shit, that's pathetic. She has literally become a subhuman. I mean, why is Ange considered cool for telling someone to kiss her ass? It implies that kissing her ass is an unpleasant thing. It implies that her ass is something disgusting. Fucking edgy bitch is literally humiliating herself. She's not being a "badass" in any sense of the word. If anything, she's being a bitch.

Meanwhile, Mion has a lot of real friends (literally and figuratively), doesn't give a shit about their age or their level of autism and is genuinely cool despite walking around with a smelly human ass. That takes real presence and real badassery. She's fucking perfect without being a Mary Sue.

>>18632341
>you'll never move to a beautiful village, meet four cute girls and eventually develop such a strong friendship that none of you care about the fact that the others also have smelly human butts
Why even live?

The human condition of Ryuugu Rena! Lewd!

>>18632433
The best thing about this is that Rena would blush if you said someting about having an smelly butt

>>18632252
If ange wanted to commit suicide why didn't she tried being an porn actress? Maybe she could liked it and if not she just killed herself.

>>18632341
>>18632433
>>18633563
>>18633710
God just shut the fuck up already. Stop plaguing every single WTC thread with this ridiculous shitposting over and over.

Sonozaki Mionのbeau petit cul! Lewd!

>>18630233
>>18630238
>méeeeeeeuhhhh


French version meilleure option

>>18634167
Fuck off Ange.

Anyone got the love/hate truth changes comic with ange, eva, and battler?

>>18636344
The only thing I want to see from a french Higurashi is a "menage a trois". K1xMionxShion, K1xRenaxMion, K1xSatokoxRika, K1xMionxSatoshi, etc...

I couldn't give two shits about the rest desu

>>18636876

>>18636914
You are missing the best one, TeppeixSatokoxSatoshi.

Tbh, French version is overrated by our fandom. I remember there being some typos here and there, as well as some of the same mistranslations from the first manga gamer release.

It's overall a solid good translation, but not near as perfect as people in here -which I suspect samefagging- claim to be.

>>18636954
>TeppeixSatokoxSatoshi
You mean Teppei selling their bodies to faceless old men or making them fuck on camera so he can sell the video to perverted old men? Satoko would never be able to look at her brotherのface again! Awkward!

>you will never see Satoko literally working her skinny little ass off for the viewers
>as opposed to figuratively

>>18632252
When did Ange ever tell anyone to kiss her ass? As far as I can remember, she only told her yakuza aunt to elegantly take a dump behind a tree.

Still pathetic, though. She said it as if it was a perfectly normal thing. She didn't imply that it was something that only her aunt could do. She said it as if taking a shit was something completely normal that everyone does, including herself. Humiliating! The teenage angst of Ushiromiya Ange!

>>18633710
Japan doesn't have an exact "adult age". It depends on what you want to do. And it has been like that since the Meiji era.

For example, you can do porn at 18 but can't drink alcohol until you turn 20, which is the age at which you are considered a full adult. That's why Lion can't become the family head until he is 20. But you can do a lot of stuff way before that age. For example, girls can get married at 16 (that's why Shannon is planning to marry George).

All of the above is worthless now, though, since a few days ago the laws were changed to be more consistent with gaijin shit. Now you can be a full adult at 18, but girls can't marry at 16 anymore. They have to be 18.

>>18636931
why the fuck would they draw a new caracter just for this page?
Why not use Maria as an example or something?

>>18637257
That's Sakutaro without the dumb onesie.

>>18636954
I agree that it isn't 100% perfect if you compare it to book translations standard, but for french videogame/anime/manga translations standard even the fact that it was translated directly from japanese is incredible. And it was done by a single dude. I can't really complain about a few typos or mistranlations when for once we have a way better translation than the english version. Not to disrespect the translator because he did a pretty good job too in his own way, but try to compare Higurashi's french translation (translated directly from Japanese) to Higanbana's french translation (translated from english), they're on a completely different level.

>>18636954
>>18637720
but I still agree that since a french translation project like this is so rare, the french community tend to overestimate it a little.

What is it about this series that makes people want to humiliate the female characters? It it because they are very human and realistic? Is exposing the humanity of a cute anime girl really that lewd?

>>18637720
We also have a project like this: full Russian translation of Higurashi from Japanese, made by one dude, also rewritten on RenPy with different sprite and music sets included. The difference is, as a translations it just sucks, an unreadable overwritten trash where all characters started talking like they put on fedoras and swallowed a thesaurus. I was really mad reading that.