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Canada's pride and glory.
First for March 5th 1994
>>22199833I wonder how she feels having her tits on the front page for all to see.Also now I need to work on making a finished version.
>>22199839>>22199810I've got an USO sighting at Col de Vence, France, on March 5th 1994, but the only resources available are old French paper and it is virtually scrubbed from the Internet. Doubtful Ryukishi is aware of an extremely obscure UFO sighting that appears nowhere in English literature.Exploring the rabbit hole, Col de Vence appears to be a funny place with rocks appearing from nowhere and stuff:https://listentotheearth.net/public/midim/rock-falls-col-de-venceAgain, it could be a good answer for the date, if not for the fact that it is so damn obscure.
Ah~ reading another vn after Ciconia feels good. Makes you appreciate actually good writing and translation again.
>>22199847I don't understand how her hips are so fucking fat.
>>22199867I think it's just her dress, though I wouldn't be surprised if she's just as voluptuous down bellow as she is up top.
>>22199865
>>22199852What's the other dates? Maybe we could link it to other UFO sightings.
>>22199884Her neck highly bothers me.
>>22199877She's actually a fat cow living off syrup with that corset squeezing her.
>>22199881why doesnt miyao tell miyao he looks dumb in that
>>22199894Still looks better in it than Jayden
>>22199882>>22199852June 30 1908, Tungunska:http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5686713/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/russians-add-new-twist-old-ufo-myth/
>>22199891This seriously looks like someone edited her hips to be wider, but it's just her normal look.
>>22199907I thought the same when I first saw someone post her sprite.
>>22199910heh
Uh oh. Somebody tell him about 22:18
>>22199852I'm beginning to think that it's either an in-Universe date or some really obscure Japanese event like the solution to the Epitaph.
>>22199903December 5, 1872 is the discovery of Mary Celeste.
Dedicated Selcom orgy servers.
>>22199903>>22199932Assuming the date assigned is the date the Wisdom was found, it could be that they found both Wisdoms in the Tungunska crater and on the Mary Celeste. That'd make sense. Wisdom must be found somewhere, and must have been found at some point in time.The issue for that theory is that I can't find an event of that level for March 1994.
Been a while since I had a tear in my eye while reading a VN. Thanks, Christmas Party.
>>22199949The gauntlet knights are celebrities basically. I'm sure people have carefully crafted models to be as close to them as possible. I bet you can download a Chloe mod and fuck her in selcom! She's not even aware of this humiliation going on, but I bet millions of people have fucked her! An unaware slut!
>>22199960Which guantlet knight's models would see the most use?
>>22199971Miyao without question. He would probably have numerous variants, like Saber clones
What sort of idiot showers in their clothes?
>>22199988delete that anon you're ruining the magic
For what purpose?
>>22199833Fuck guys i cant endure anymoreI finish ciconiaIt's never end neverFuck it was a tortureAleays speak speak speak about nothing in this fucking bathroom meanwhile the narrator made all masterpiece dialogueWhy fuck why And now there are data im the archive i cant read themI cant endure anymore i need to study Pls tell me what of them are important for the story
>>22199991Won't need magic once>>22199833 is finished.
>>22200004The important one is unlocked by reading all of them.
>>22199953Space Shuttle Columbia had launched the day before for a mission concerning microgravity. By 5th, I assume it was already on orbit. (?)
>>22200004>>22200000ERIKANTRICE THEORY:Kanon and george are the culprit in all games (including bern's game)Kanon is erika this explaine why she dudnt see yasu's body in the wardrobeYasu is a tomboy and battler isn't gayThis thread us called 07th expansion so isnt off-topic!!!
>>22200012Thanks but i prefer kill myself than read again useless shit meanwhile the narrator tell all the important thingsTell to me what happened!!!
>>22200015How does this tie into George being a member of the illuminati?
>>22200019.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................no
How far am I into Phase 1 if I'm at the part at which the Christmas party is getting organized?
>>22200019Miyao is the bad guy, and is separate from Meow. Together, they are the King of Ridicule. They pull it off by having Miyao stand on Meow's shoulders then wearing the fancy suit over themselves so they seem like a tall adult.
>>22200014>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-62>The MEPHISTO team reported that they had gathered good data with their directional solidification furnace. During the day, the team troubleshooted a problem discovered on the previous night with a troublesome "Seebeck measurement." This electronic signal measured changes in the microstructure of a solidifying metal, and was conducted on one of three experiment samples of bismuth-tin. Other measurement techniques were used on the two remaining samples later in the mission; both these samples operated nominally. That could be it. They found or produced a Wisdom in orbit, and it was called by the date of its discovery.
>>22199960>implying she isn't completely aware of it and produces videos while using someone else's avatar herself
>>22200023George is the culprit So he become a witch and the leader of three kings faction.There are 3 faction:STONE AGE:want ww4 for destroy civilizationMemebrs:3 kings,4 traitorsWitch:georgeSTATUS QUO:want stop ww4Members:bath orderWitch:berncastleEVOLUTION:want ww4 for made humanity evolve to god'levelMembers:LATO, translatorswitch:lambda
>>22200030It's easy to tell how far you are. Just use the clock that appears at the end of each chapter. The game ends at the end of the track.
>>22200050Oh, for some reason I thought it would go on for longer.
>>22200032Thanks anon thanks anonYou save my lifeThanks you are an hero
say what you want about ciconia, at least theres noone here as annoying as irie or george
>>22200002So you can see her lovely frills blowing while she's flying.
>>22200063And there's also nobody as fun as Beato or Rena.
>>22200063I want people instead of speaking about useless shit made for lose time and justify 40$ price start to speak about important things like the narrator do!!!Cmon no killings before the end!!!!
>>22200072beato was not even in ep1 and rena didnt get good until ep6
>>22200078Beato might as well have been there in ep1. You could feel her all throughout it <3
>>22200039This sounds plausible. Will keep it as main theory until something else comes.
>>22200072I always tried to make myself to like Rena because she's the face of Higurashi and what got me into it. But I think she's only great in Tsumihoroboshi. Though, the delusions with her in Onikakushi are top notch.I think Ryukishi is way better with world than character. Not that the characters are deficient but they are all subservient to the world and mystery.
Why did they translate WAU~ as WOW
What are the numbers 18721205=5×61×6138119080630=2×3^3×5×17×4157Is like cheese riddleDate is too a simple solution
>>22200134Yes but he took the dates in consideration too. The Tunguska event and the discovery of Mary Celeste are really particular dates. It would be too much of a coincidence.
>>22200072Beato is boring af though
>>2220013419940305=5×7^4×11×151
>>22200130I strongly disagree. For me his greatest strength in writing has always been his complex and relatable characters.
>>22200141If tell to you many diffrrent date and you will find many different important event
>>22200134Maybe it doesn't mean anything. I remember back in the day I thought there was some hidden meaning to the probability of Lion's fragment occurring, looking up all sorts of patterns.
>>22200141That. The Tunguska event and the Mary Celeste are both really famous events, especially in some occult circles. If the dates were for something like a random person born or a really minor event, it would be a shaky premise, but Tunguska and Mary Celeste? Nah, there's something to it.Maybe those weren't the dates of discovery, but it certainly means something.
>>22200141while looking at the tunguska wiki page>Science fiction writer Stanisław Lem, in his first science fiction novel The Astronauts (1951) (film adaptation 1960 as First Spaceship on Venus), explains the Tunguska event as the crash of an interplanetary reconnaissance vessel from a Venusian civilization.>Stanislaw
>>22200164He must have started reading sci-fi for inspiration.
>>22200185speaking of references, anyone else pick up on koshka being named after the call of duty sniper? r07 is an admitted cod superfan
someone summarize ciconia
>>22200196Rose Guns Days meets strike witches.
>>22200072To be fair you do have a point for now, even though it was somewhat the same in Higurashi and Umineko in part 1.No one has really left a mark yet. Though, I guess they should be able to actually shine now after Christmas.
>>22200149What kind of namefag calls himself after a thread?
I love Rena!
>>22200196We, super humans are the only military that matters.We, super humans will not kill or die because we're the ones who decide the battlefield, walls of peace yada yada.Surely the adults don't want to go to war, right?Oh shit they actually do what the fuck.Well we won't kill nor die, fuck em adults.Oh fuck if we don't kill we'll get demoted and can't fly anymore. Damn old men.Well, better kill now, nothing I can do.Oh fuck we're also dying now.Also, lots of other groups doing shady shit in the background.End of phase 1.
>>22200196walls of peace walls of peace walls of peace
>>22200204I swear Naima's one of those CPPs. Her sudden shift in personality was a clear giveaway.
>>22200164Lem was a physician too so the reference is clear.
>>22200218I'm pretty sure it says in her bio that she has multiple personalities and they use meds to control it, she's also unstable.Though, that doesn't necessarily mean she's a CPP.
Wait, is this the hell Lambda mentioned being stuck in when she was talking about Logic Errors in Umineko?
>>22200164>Stanislaw LemIf it's really a callback, Ryukishi has excellent taste. Stanislaw Lem is arguably one of best SF writer of all time. The Cyberiad is still a book I reread occasionally.
Is Jayden a reference to Jaden Smith?
I payed $50 Aussie dollars for that? Jesus Christ. MUH WALLS OF PEACEMUH OLD BALD FAT MENMUH ACRONYMS
>>22200247>AussieDeserved.
>>22200247t. 1 bit goat.
>>22200196WALLS OF PEACEWALLS OF PEACEWALLS OF PEACE
Any news on Umineko Saku?
>>22200247Get fucked aussie, your country probably got nuked in WW3
http://web.alfredstate.edu/faculty/weimandn/miscellaneous/ascii/ascii_index.html
>>22200204>>22200218she clearly has CPP because competent-battle-naima refers to regular naima as if she was a different person. unless she is randomly referring to herself in first person, which doesn't fit her character.
>tfw no australian ciconia charbros..
>>22200286CPP means having those different personalities straight from the time you were born though.Naima gets meds and shit, she might have developed her personalities during training instead of being born with them.
>>22200286She also declares that she doesn't believe in god, despite saying otherwise shortly before.
>>22200276That's not how ASCII works.
>>22200276
>>22200226That was my first thought at least. Is this her trying to escape a logic error?
Jester can't be the mom because her scenes with toujirou. She talks about "cheating" and refers to the ex-wife (iirc? i might be mixing up dialogue from seshat), which wouldn't make sense if she was the ex-wife.
>>22200226The hell in this case was referring to the factory, right?
>>22200353The one skinning people alive and then leaving only their brains to bring them to paradise, yes.
>Those gifs of weapons firing
CiCOOOOOOOOOOOOOONIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>22200372fucking kino, laughed my ass off
>>22200349Well, yes. I don't even know how you could somehow surmise that Jestress is the mom. It makes zero sense. Have you read what those two say to each others? The Jestress had close to zero interaction with Toujirou in the past, Toujirou never even saw her face before, and he has an ex-wife. Which is probably Takano going by the "Ark" stuff.Jestress can't be the mom. Where the hell does that theory come from.
Man the piracy rate of this must off the charts, $40 and a streaming blockade ala' Persona 5.
>>22200349>>22200410Jestress was Toujiros ex before she "ascended", became more than human, and assumed the Jestress persona. Not really sure how you are confused about this, they all but directly state it.
all the debate about who miyaos mother is when the answers staring us in the face
>>22200446so it's okonogi.......
>>22200444You're probably confusing with Takano. Takano is the ex-wife that decided to fuck off doing her own things, deciding to "stop being a piece" and "transcended her own mortality" or something (remember that she's canonically dead in-universe, and indeed fucked off to do her own things). The ex-wife that works on the ark project, the one who's dead, Takano.You somehow switched the two in your mind.
>>22200461but we saw her hold toujirou at gunpoint in the end of the game to recover something. though that might have been a past event.
>>22200446>Takano impregnated Tomitake
>>22200480Such is love.
>>22200479There's no reason to believe Toujirou and his ex-wife are on friendly terms even if he wants to see her again.The Jestress face reveal honestly felt like the first time Toujirou ever saw her face, I doubt it's her.
Pretty slow and boring compared to Higurashi/Umineko first parts. Was hoping we'd get more payoff than we got but oh well. Pirating the next phase.
>>22200461I'd have to reread his scenes with the Jestress, but I remember him alluding to their past together more than just a handful of times. Hell, the only reward he asks for when the kings ask him what he wants is to see Jestress face again, and when he does he starts acting all nostalgic again. I don't think she is Miyao's mom considering the Post-Credit scene makes it extremely clear that his mother was a scientist and Vier Dreissig/ Takano just fits in perfectly, but I think Jestress and Toujirou having known each other a long time ago is made extremely clear
>>22200498Personally I'm suspecting she might be a clone of someone he knows or something along those lines.
Old men, are the future.
So why was a solar warhead fired at the area around where Hinamizawa is during the WW3? Is it all connected?
>>22200509God wanted to get rid of Oyashiro-sama
>>22200496This i pray god for make this shit end.Cmon no deaths until the end just teenagers drama in a bathroomThe only interest dialogue were made by narrator.
>>22200498then what did jestress mean when she called his advances cheating? cheating on who? >>22200506it gave off that kind of impression. as if jestress had the same face as his wife but is a different person. it's all rather confusing.
>>22200498Yeah, reread those scenes. Sure, Toujirou allude to having known Jestress for a long time. Because she's Jestress, the weird jester/secretary of the Three Kings. Who even know when he met her for the first time? But he has never seen her face, he wants to fuck her but she doesn't want to, and they both acknowledge that in the sort of adult ways long professional acquaintances can have for each other.They allude to no love, no shared history beyond that.I think you're confusing the "ex-wife" sentences for what is obviously meant to be Takano. The transcended death/mad scientist/Ark project are pretty big tells.As to why Ark should be a big tell, Takano is working primarily on... a temporal ark. That is IIRC pretty much called a temporal ark by the VN before Toujirou even says that his ex-wife is working on the Ark. That's a pretty big clue.
Plus, he's Tomitake and she's Takano. Could it be any more obvious?
I really hate these shitty nude edits.
>>22200541In the beach scene, one can almost hear the sound of a torrent gushing from Valentina's crotch when she talks to Toujirou. What an absolute Chad.
>>22200556I'm really proud of our Tommy. I wonder if Cloud,K and Iri also became chads.
tomitake should go back to scratching his throat out.
Takano and Jestress look pretty similar, what if they're the same due to CPP stuff
>>22200566Jestress looks a lot cuter and younger, and has a different nose and face shape with chubbier cheeks, no offense to Takano's womanly beauty. And it can't be a fake face, since she had to re-scan it right there in real life to take off the mask in VR.
So I'm guessing the three factions are going to be the Pieces VS. Player 1 VS. Player 2The Three Kings are the leaders of the piece faction, and they are trying to prevent the end of civilization, possibly because it would mean the ultimate end of what is the game board they live on? Seshat is working under the Three Kings but it seems like she also has a goal of calling back the players. If we assume they are Bern and Lambda, Lambdas pieces would be the Translator faction and Bern the Gauntlet Knights? Specifically Miyao and Koshka.
>>22200588>it cant be a fakeshe couldve gotten a face from anywhere
>>22200601If seshat is calling bern and lambda, who is she trying to wake up at the end of phase1?
>>22200566I think it's more likely that Jestress is a (younger) clone of Takano. That could explain why she's working for the Three Kings, and why Toujirou so desperately wants to fuck her, or at least see her face.Looking at that >>22200588, the younger clone theory is plausible.
>>22200601Three Kings are trying to destroy civilization, but let the tiniest amount of mankind live on and buy more time by going from stone age to super tech again. I'm guessing if civilization gets too far it brings about that factory hell, or calls back the players. Which the Kings want to prevent for the sake of humanity.
Has anyone uploaded Umineko Saku yet? I don't care if it's in japanese, but I'd like to have it for preservation purposes.
>>22200612Unless the famed DragonKnight07 is pulling a masterful play, that's her flying around in real life with a gauntlet. Can't fake a face in real life.
Remember kids, drugs are bad.
>>22200613Maybe a Game Master to oversee their abandoned board shrouded in darkness, who in turn will make it possible for the 2 Players to take their place again? Right now it really doesn't seem like any meta-beings are involved at all, and since you can't have a game without a Game Master it makes sense that'd be the highest priority for anyone that doesn't want to go along with the Three Kings' plans of resetting civilization yet another time.
>>22200641Wow, we better not take drugs.
>>22200601The factions so far, unsorted, seems to be: 3 Kings + Jestress (Jestress has a secondary agenda), Seshat who is independent since her Order splintered from the 3 Kings, Toujirou, Mom (whoever or whatever it is), the Translators/Order of the Eternal Ark, and the poor pieces represented by the Order of the Public Bath.Each of their goals, save for Public Bath, are unclear at best. Even the Three Kings are not well understood.The Three Kings says they want to shape humanity's future by culling 99.9% of it, to get it on the right track and possibly to prevent "Them" from creating hell on earth, or something. Not clear on particulars.Seshat wants to save humanity from "Them", doesn't care about the Three Kings's plan for destruction of the human race, but isn't really supporting it. She's just in the guideline because the time isn't right for saving the human race right now.Toujirou, I have no idea. He has a plan with "Mother", potentially one with his ex-wife, is manipulating Miyao for some reasons, and all that... for something.Mom seems to care about Miyao, and yet built him in order to... potentially kill someone? Or do something? Unclear.Takano's Translators are seeking knowledge from Beyond and keeping the Ark safe. Potentially to use it themselves. Takano doesn't seem to care about anything save knowledge and the Ark, and has a plan, but her plan is very remote and disconnected from seemingly everyone else.
>no WH progress meter for SakuFeelsbadman
>>22200709which is the ninth prime chivalric order again? seshats order? they tried to invite miyao at one point in the story.
>>22200709Toujirou's plan is involved with Takano somehow, maybe the other way around. The teaser at the end makes that much clear with the two screwing about into eachother's business. Seshat has a connection with the SuperLab too, having that wisdom.
>>22200725Ninth prime chilvaric order is the Three Kings
>>22200733Hey, wait a second. Don't go calling him Toujirou and making me use that name too. He'll always be Tomitake, nobody else.
>>22200733We really should try making a chart with everyone's connection to factions.Seshat was dealing with one of the underground lab's traitors after all.
>>22200725The Ninth Prime Chivalric Orders are the knights of the Three Kings. Their military force. They also seem to be subdivided because there are something like 81 (? I dunno don't recall) chivalric orders in all, but the Ninth Primes are the primary forces of the Three Kings. They also seem to be constituted entirely of Gauntlet Knights, for some reasons.Seshat is the Grand Master of the Prometheus Order, who splintered from the Ninth Prime Knight Orders at... some point. Probably because of a philosophical difference. Now she seems to be half independent. She doesn't answer to the Three Kings any more, but obviously doesn't overtly fight them.
>>22200725Ninth Prime are the Gauntlet Knights reporting directly to Jestress, which might or might not use them to further the Three Kings' goals.>>22200709I figured at least Seshat was in cohoots with Takano and the Order of the Eternal Ark. They don't really tell us anything about their connection, but it makes sense to me with Seshat constantly using Knowledge from there and prosecuting Dr Gray after he tried to leak details from the lab to the LATO.
>>22200752>there are something like 81 (? I dunno don't recall) chivalric orders in all,76 anon, same number of tarot cards that exist when you count both Major and Minor Arcana.
>>22200709The three kings say that they want to prevent the 'end' of civilization that is inevitable once humanity progresses to a certain point, by resetting it each time. They didn't say anything about humanity's future, just ensuring the survival of it.
>>22200410>Toujirou never even saw her face beforeWhen she showed him her face, he said it reminded him of when they first met
>>22200725The 9th Order is the group of 4 traitors across the Gauntlet Knights in the factions, which is why they were periodically contacting Jestress about Miyao's shit, plus one of them killed Rethabile's brother.One of them also sent Miyao an email asking him to join up with them.
i swear the shitstorms from the pony theory and r07's umineko solution of 'figure it out yourselves lmao' weren't as bad as the shitposting now
>>22200814The internet has changed a lot in just 10 years
>>22200814Political autism was a lot more localized to certain places 10 years ago than it is now, where it just gets into everything and having a mental illness is considered cool
>>22200822how does it feel even a genuine boomer like ryukishi is more ahead of the times than you lot
>>222008144chan and /jp/ are a lot worse now than they used to be.
>>22200733I don't think Wisdom is particularly tied to the SuperLab. Seshat even says that calling that stuff "Wisdom" is foolish and only done by traitors (i.e SuperLab). I think it is implied that the SuperLab decided to indulge in Wisdom and call those artefacts exactly that, but they were known far before."Wisdom" is probably why the Three Kings and Seshat's Orders are so powerful. They probably found it in the past age with wondrous powers, which gave power and influence to the Three Kings and their purpose. Then Takano came and said "fuck it", your artefacts are Revelations from God, and we can study them and become Gods ourselves, just apply some science! Then she created the Translators/Order of the Ark and became in effect heretical.When Seshat shuts down the Wisdom brought by Gray, she just did what her order did for centuries or possibly millennia: hiding the strange otherworldly artefacts from public knowledge, and hoarding them.
>>22200808>One of them also sent Miyao an email asking him to join up with them.Was it really for Miyao though? This could be another character like Chloe for instance. If anything, considering how the Grand Master of the Ninth order called Miyao a fool, it is hard to believe they would invite Miyao to their cause.
>>22200814maybe last thread, but what's so bad about this one so far?
Maybe meow is the traitor. It fits with the 'i love you' from toujirou.
>Miyaokastel shows Miyao the vision of the meat factory>Something that Miyaokastel experienced>Perspective character has a mother, father and big brother???????
>>22200853Grenntexting is responsibility, not a luxury! And fudge your SCP jibber jabber.
>>22200853Real wacky stuff happens with Meow. I'm calling it.
>>22200853Yeah, but I can't put it into the big picture. That meat factory simply doesn't fit clearly into the overall narrative. Was that before now, and then everything is a virtual reality? But what of the SuperLab? Takano? Wisdom? And Father and Mother?You're welcome to try. If you can explain to me how it can work with the rest, that'd be absolutely wonderful.
>>22200867That's a Sega brand you're appropriating mon dieu!
>>22200868He said it was a memory of a future that will happen if he does nothing to prevent it, so whoever experienced that comes from that future to undo it
Translators are all digitalized people sifting through data on kizuna (the internet).
>>22200868If we go off of this line >>22200226And then also the scene with the disembodied voice talking about children of man, implication that it hasn't happened yet, and that this is another prophecy in line with all the others. It only makes sense if this knowledge is coming from a past iteration of the gameboard in another fragment, and maybe Lingji's death is guaranteed like Kinzo's. Which sucks because the way she latched onto Miyao's ideals so conservatively was cute as fuck and her throwing those away was very fucking sad and would've been a good mother for Miyao's heterosexually produced children.
>>22200867Meow isnt real, he just pretends to have multiple identities because he cant admit he is a humongous faggot
>>22200835yeah I meant last thread and to an extent a bit of the first one, guess the more vapid morons are asleep now>>22200817>>22200824>>22200822/pol/shit was always around but usually was modded away as OT from other boards though, and the social media boom doesn't involve 4chan - imo it's just the mods and admin team being tossers, the moderation is somehow simultaneously more and less strict nowadays>>222008393K mole probability: Miyao/Meow > Gun > Chloe > catgirl > supergenius > Koshkaif Gun is the mole then 100% Stan is as well
>>22200892ryukishi apparently likes killing off cute chinese women
>that one autist that puts sans in the Umineko universe>and ships him with Auaurora
>>22200886feeling this pretty strongly. I think ciconia's on some heavy Lain shit
>>22200874>Marica played Chrono TriggerI thought attractive girls didn't play vidya
>>22200900Please keep your butthurt politics out of an 07th expansion thread, kudasai. We aren't there to discuss Trump, no matter how much you want to.>>22200892That's certainly a valid interpretation. I wonder if that has anything to do with Takano's temporal Ark? Say, someone in the dystopian future travelled back in the temporal Ark to prevent it, and kill Miyao, or something.
>>22200904At least he didn't kill the cutest Chinese girl.
>>22200898Call me insane, I think Miyao and Meow are really, physically different people. It's a retarded enough twist to work and the factory hints at it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBrPllRrw6c>The circle of gauntlet knights singing the christmas song getting smaller and smaller>That one kero that goes "thank you for letting me die human"This shit was heavy desu
The file tag for Ark lab guardian sprites is "ene" anyone have an idea of what that could stand for?Also any guesses why Lingji seemingly had one of their gauntlets in her fight with Miyao? She seemed to have a target he was keeping her from.
Is it a coincidence that the world went to shit IMMEDIATELY after miyao started thinking that humanity needed a catastrophy to make them appreciate peace? He had that nightmare and the earthquake happened right afterwards iirc.>>22200924>>22200892Was physical time travel ever a thing in wtc? Because i doubt it will be outside of metagame shenanigans.I think the evil-miyao conversations are already in that realm because they never directly influence the story.
>>22200968>She seemed to have a target he was keeping her from.I'm not sure if she was really going after anyone in particular, she just didn't want to fight Miyao. As for why she pulled the Ark Gauntlet out of her ass we'll probably get that in Phase 2. >>22200973Higurashi had physical time travel in the sense that Rika's mind was getting dropped into other timelines where people sometimes happened to have memories of other fragments. Miyao's internal conversations don't look like they're happening in any kind of meta removed from the world, they look like they're happening in some region of Miyao's selcom implant that his mother can try to protect him from using keropoyo.
>>22200973>Is it a coincidence that the world went to shit IMMEDIATELY after miyao started thinking that humanity needed a catastrophy to make them appreciate peace?Very, very valid point. Let me think about it some more. The issue with your idea is that it doesn't make sense in the overall narrative, because that would validate the VR metastory, but then the VR metastory as it is is thoroughly incompatible with Three Kings, Seshat, Wisdom, Takano, Mother and Father.If Miyao is really the unconscious Game Master of a virtual reality, then the Three Kings and Seshat are unnecessary. Wisdom makes only a small amount of sense. Takano doesn't fit. And what about the "programming" of Mother and Father? Did they program the game master of a VR? Why? What does it even mean? Why would it even be an issue?I can't easily validate any VR interpretation because Ryukishi was a fucking bitch, and while certaintly hinting at it, constructed a story that made it difficult to consider seriously.The joke before the release was that Ryukishi would make everything a VR in Cicona. I still can't believe that he answered that by "sure, I did, look at that, but 65% of the story makes absolutely no sense if you consider that idea seriously :^)".
So I hope you've realized that Ciconia is literally going to turn into Devilman by the end.>instead of building up to the outbreak of World War IV, the game is about the entire earth gradually being undone by all of humanity's mistakes while people fail to understand what's even happening and go on with their lives even after a third of the global population is wiped out in a single day>Satellites growing wings and bombarding the earth from above like angels exacting divine retribution>Blue Jayden's whole design and apparent horns growing out of his head>Miyao's idealism being nearly identical to and as unchanging as Akira's with the Gauntlet Knights being Devilmen
What does Koshka smell like?
>>22200747I tried making a chart, if someone wants to improve upon my shitty skills with paint, please go ahead.
>>22200932>the factory hints at it.How?
>>22201089There's a father, a mother and an older brother all distinct from the person whose perspective we're seeing out of.
>>22201086I can't believe it took me seeing this chart to make the connection between the name's order and the myth of Prometheus.I didn't even make the "Oh, it's Lambda?" connection when Jestress took off her mask because I have face blindness.I might be retarded.
>>22201095Doesn't spooky!Miyao say it's something that happened to them before though?If Miyao is really just a program implanted into the body of the real one, then Miyao's body might have had a family, and the meat factory scenario might be what was done before he was installed.Just like it can be a vision of a hell already lived by the spook, who isn't necessarily Miyao, or even human.
keropoyo is the ultimate mastermind. why? because this fucker is installed in everyone's brain and knows everything. you heard it here first
>>22201078Brain juice.
>>22201086That's an excellent idea, but it lacks many things. The Ninth Prime Chivalric Orders are only subordinates to the Three Kings - Jestress has an additional agenda of revenge and/or redemption, though subordinate to the 3Ks. The Grand Order of Prometheus was a splinter group and nominally seems, at least, to let the 3Ks be. The 3Ks absolutely despise the Translators and consider them the highest grade of traitors. This is possibly shared by Prometheus. Toujirou has connections to both the 3Ks, Prometheus, but also (probably) the Translators through his ex-wife.Also add the 4 3 Ks traitors inside the Public Bath, and the possibility that Lingji is connected to the Translators because of her golden gauntlet.Shit, I'll possibly make a chart myself tomorrow when I'm home.
>>22201086The three kings aren't part of the 9th order, though, they preside over the 76 orders, then there's Tojirou's Order of Wisteria and the Order of Prometheus, which Seshat betrayed. The 9th Order is just the Gauntlet Knight traitors that report to Jestress as far as we know at this point.
>>22200134You can also read them in japanese using goroawase. But, dates are much more realistic solutions.
>>22200267Witch Hunt start translating Umineko Saku a while ago.
Was Saku uploaded anywhere?I'd rather not have to wait at least a week for my physical copy.
Sketched Satoko's casual outfit.
>>22201207also tried some variations with stockings and thighhighs.
>>22201030I'm not sure why these ideas would be incompatible.miyao potentially being able to affect large scale events like that doesn't necessarily make him a game master either.
>>22201207Smurf, that's so last week, now do some Ciconia, please. There's the Chinese princess that is muchas gusta, and also the Brazilian babes that are 100%. And the Jestress is an absolute cutie. Please live with your times.
>>22201214Shorts and stockings makes me want to commit a crime
Hey anons, I wanted to practice a little bit photoshop so I made some Keropoyo stickers for Telegram.https://t.me/addstickers/Keropoyo1Also here's the link for the original files so you guys can use them here or in any other site.https://mega.nz/#!v54DRCxL!Zo0AvKQpIkzwl76xgN9rYE-gVjiiNyZVJ7sRV_bpiO0You guys can also try to improve them some of the ones I've made are kind of crappy.
>>22201245nice try illuminati
>>22201223haven't taken the time to read ciconia beyond the demo yet, gotta get on it.
Miyao is broken player piece, someone else will be the actual player piece once the player arrives.
>>22201245Will I be able to uninstall them?
>>22201255Why would you want to know that?Are you implying that keropoyo should be uninstalled?
So I guess psycho Miyao is the loop remnant?
>>22201245
THE GUNHILDETRICE THEORY:GUNHILD was a second secretary, a level-C knight baited like maya and raped.she hate this corrupted world and create the three kings to destroy it.how can a level C become S with hardworking?cmon ahahahhahahahhahahahha hardworking in AOU where all your future is decided at your born!!!!she find a wisdom and obtain the power to destroy the world!!!
>>22201245Great job anon
>>22201289Yeah, it's Meow from the future where humanity is rounded up in the factory to avoid the need of a physical earth to survive, since the one they have is fucked beyond repair The threat of a World War and the Walls of Peace mean nothing and it's just a distraction from how the earth is dead.
>>22201268keropoyo references to pepe?
Meanwhile, over at Umineko Saku.
>>22201314Ouch. That's a forbidden meme. Please post your disgusting memes to reddit or twitter. We don't accept those memes here.
>>22201317If he actually made it into a game that's cool and all but it's kind of a decade too late
>>22201317It's Virgilius! Erika can't compare to this man.
>>22201317ERIKA=KANON CONFIRMED!!!!
How long would it take to read all of Higurashi?Aren't they pretty short compared to Umineko?
>>22201346higurashi is a tiny bit longer than umineko actually
>>22201349Rly? You mean the 8 original arcs right?That's weird for me Higurashi felt way shorter than Umineko, maybe it's because I enjoyed it more than Umi on the latter arcs.
>>22201349Hm, I always heard Higurashi is a lot shorter.I never read any of them and was thinking about starting some time soon, but since I ship out for military training in January I'm not too sure if I can actually finish it all in time
>>22201214since I was at it, didn't do the first pose yet.
>>22201367They're both in the territory of many dozens of hours
>>22201317Is there any synopsis the fuck Saku is even about?How can there veen be a sequel after "lol books" endings.
>>22201358>>22201367Question arc of Higurashi is shorter than the question arc of Umineko, but the answer arc is way, way longer because of 7 and 8
>>22201314the game is filled with references to modern politics so probably
>>22199833I want to hate fuck Rosa so bad
>>22199925Oh shit.
>>22201544>>22199925elaborate?can't find anything concrete about loannis or his revelation.
>>22200218Its pretty fucking obvious dude.
>>22201566>he doesn't know
>>22200410You're pretty stupid.
>>22201317Is Saku uploaded anywhere?I ordered a physical copy thinking it'd get here in time, but it's estimated to take at least another couple days, and I don't want to have to pay for both digital and physical like I did for Ciconia.
>>22201572Inaccurate. You Have a penis dubs confession. << I'm pl yo ng
>>22200356Ange's anges can't compare to chloe's
>>22201642Like if you agree.Choo choooooooo @#
>>22201642but is her pussy as hairy as Anges?
>>22201594p-please no bully
>>22201667Popsicle!
>>22201629>Is Saku uploaded anywhere?I've been looking but haven't seen any uploads yetPlease upload yours when you get it anon
without love, it cannot be seen
>>22201686>Please upload yours when you get it anonIt's still going to be several days for that.
>>22199833and doneI liked it, but not as much as ep1 of higurashi or umineko, guess it's due to a matter of preference: I liked the more grounded, murder mystery plot and down to earth setting plus the fact that a lot more information was kept hidden at first. music's better than higurashi so far at least.I didn't dislike the characters (except jayden who's really annoying and unlikeable and I'm glad his presence was greatly reduced in the latter half of the story) but they really couldn't click with me, doesn't help that like half the script is political and military discussion rather than character focused like the other half is. previous wtc did have that but nowhere near as much of course. outside of Warcat, Mole and the 3 public bath order captains, the rest of the gauntlet knights felt more like fluff, basically finishing each other's sentences for the most part in a big circlejerk about the morality of what a wall of peace supporter should be and doing their quirks over and over without getting many dialogue lines, like the love triangle girl trio. I'm awaiting future chapters to get them to know better.the TIPS however made me like Warcat and Mole more as they showed a lot of personality and relatability. Boosted my opinion of Koshka and Gunhild especially. I think the first TIPS should've been in the main story.also is it me or does this one not follow past wtc's loop mechanics and instead just goes through like a traditional story structure? I got that from the preview at the end.
Anybody have the lyrics for the opening song?
>>22201706Time to ship Koshka x Miyao
>>22201689This is the line that made me finally break down crying.
lewds when?
>>22201767Get the fuck away from Miyao!
>>22201767He looks so fucking creepy
what do you anons think of technology like the Selcoms?
>>22201818it actually sounds like something humanity would use after smartphones.
https://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag&word=キコニアNot much fanart yet...
>>22201818Forcibly installing clippy in everybody's subconscious is so something humanity would do. Also Selcom porn
>>22201706Ryukishi hasn't been able to finish a game in one release since Umineko ended. Every single Season of Rose Guns had part of the previous season attached to it and only went through a little more than half of the current season before ending. Rose Guns Season 4 ended up being kind of rushed in part due to this and in part due to the Dreaded Japanese Cold.Phase 2 will more likely than not have the rest of Phase 1, and then start Phase 2.
>>22201833i wanna draw something today
Do you think Higurashi is still worth reading even if I'm already spoiled on some of the bigger reveals like that one character whose name I can't recall right now actually being Hanyu, who is an alien and also the Game Master that gains powers by making people believe in conspiracies, Rika retaining her memories when she jumps from board to board, and alien parasites being involved with killings at some point?Or would it ruin too much of the suspense? Like half the fun I have reading denpa stories and mystery novels is trying to make sense of it all and figure things out for myself, so I really don't know
>>22201833>pixivHaven't you heard? They're all using twitter instead now for some reason
>>22201845yeah but they still also upload their twitter stuff to pixiv for extra hits and higher quality image. artists aren't restricted to one site.
>>22201842The nuns are cute. CUTE! Higurashi is the heaviest character driven game of the series spoilers aren't as relevant.
>>22201840chloe titty
>>22201842Higurashi is always worth reading. I'm even contemplating re-reading the whole thing at some point. For me the appeal is less in the mystery and more in the setup. By the time they get to the happy ending, you're fully invested in the characters and all they've been made to endure and you feel the joy of the miracle. It's a beautiful story
How come nobody notices that the character and team profiles have a NEXT button and a bunch of pages beyond the first? Are they blind?
did you guys see this?https://twitter.com/soggysadboi/status/1180642730008969217seems this guy was working on ciconia as an editor but none of it got used, so the script remains mostly unedited.
>CPPs supposedly have their split personalities from very early on in their lives proportional to their P3 levels>This entire Siblings' Day TIPAlright what the FUCK is the deal with Meow
>>22201881Miyao's denial about his faggotry
I can't tell if Ryukishi knows what Marica means or not. I wanna say he does but on the other hand it wouldn't make sense for a Spanish-speaking character to deliberately tell people to call her that, and it also could be that this is where he wants to put in Rika's name in, just like Frederica and Erika, without knowing what it means.
>>22201842Yeah just read em. Even after you know the twist, they're very effective in their atmosphere and buildup.
>>22201867I hated it. Not that it was bad but I absolutely hate unambiguously happy endings.
>>22201897I think its just the jap obsession with shortening everything into a nickname.
>>22201870I did notice.
>>22201878I didn't see this, thanks. That's great work on his part. Though it sounds like he's not staff but just some guy unsatisfied with the script. How do you figure he's with 07th or WH? Aside from having the tools to make this
>>22201897He named another character literally four.Don't think too much about it.
>>22201881are naima and rukh cpps?
Some interesting stuff from the OP lyrics>Is it a punishment for living>or else, the advent of twilight>It is not human, and without consciousness>So perhaps there are no means to fight against it>It was truly a beast>The purpose itself? Or just the messenger?>Everything dances upon its palms. Even wisdom and even strength.> In other words, memories of eternity...>Let us put an end to the repeated eternity>I am the arranged heretic
>>22201909Even after knowing they're just game pieces meant to be locked away in a state of disuse forever? Or even if you don't count that, the fact that an endless number of worlds have the bad endings and Rika is just selfishly feeling happy with the one that didn't? You gotta look outside the picture.
>>22201842You're already a lost cause if you didn't read Higurashi first.
>>22201845It's really terrible because Twitter has no proper search function. What the world came to be...
>>22201751
>>22201694Please Anon, if you upload it, don't be like the stupid dumbass Nugget who only uploaded Higurashi Hou's extra arcs. Upload the entire thing, if you could. Thank you very much, I'll be waiting warmly.
>>22201946You mean some artists don't bother tagging their posts, since you can search pictures only and sort them by date. But nearly all artists have a site other than twitter anyhow.
>Koshka literally means "cat">Lilja meows and literally goes "nipah" at one point>but Warcats has the Bernkastel emblemWhat did Ryukishi mean by this?
>>22201957lilja has beato faces.
>>22201897Well anon, Marica even tought marica is mostly used as an insult in spanish, it can be also used as the hypocorism(?) of the spanish name María.Being honest here Ryukishi should have done more research because the name Maricarmen is also an hypocorism of the name María del Carmen, so it's kinda weird because she is giving her nickname name another nickname name.On *Pic related* you can find nicknames for María del Carmen.
>>22201957It's a prequel to Umineko starring Lambda and how she came to love Bern.
the walls of peace, the walls of peace, the walls of peace, the walls of peace, the walls of peace, the walls of peace, the walls of peace, the walls of peace, the walls of peace, the walls of peace
>>22201979military is necessary war is bad, military is necessary war is bad, military is necessary war is bad, military is necessary war is bad, military is necessary war is bad, military is necessary war is bad,
>>22201957All of the Gauntlet Knights are in Berns faction
>>22201979>>22201998I want to die, but not kill.
>>22199833This edit just covers up to her bra. Without the bra support her tits are actually fatter.
>>22201909>unambiguously happy endingWhat? You were supposed to read Saikoroshi afterwards. Skipping it is like skipping both tea parties of EP8.
>>22201897https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgpH-8W-Eyc
>>22201916he's been talking up announcing this since before ciconia was even out. like "if all goes well i can announce something special today" and then delaying that repeatedly. there's also the change count and planned release date. all this stuff seems prepared very soon after the game came out. you'd have to be a dickhead to talk up your editing pass if it was only made in like a week.
>>22202051they would probably sag down almost to her navel
>>22202095too big
Why does Chloe need such a lewd body if they don't even make babies anymore? On that note Ciconia dove pretty deep into that test tube baby concept. I'm impressed. I hope the future phases go just as far with the scifi as the first one did.
>>22202109You can still make babies, it's just really strictly regulated.Besides, you can probably have VR sex.
>>22202115Can girls have dicks and feel with them in VR? If so, it's not so gay for Jayden.
>>22202119You can't even shake hands in VR.
>>22202115Sex is also something I'm surprised it hasn't dealt with, and I'm starting to think that's deliberate. The stork euphemism is used so extensively that it's like they don't know.
>>22202109Chloe is a designer baby specifically made to attract copulation. This is my theory I spent many hours working on it.
>>22202129I thought that was just because the Christmas server was too backed up and barely functioning. I'm sure you can fuck if you limited the people and paid for a dedicated server.
>>22202109she spends all her free time masturbating which made her tits and hips grow massive
>>22202140I'd like to hear you go indepth on your theory.
>>22201349literally no it isn't
Isn't Marika a Japanese name? Surely she knows it means faggot but finds it funny and it's easier for Japs to say than spelling out her entire name.
>>22202210You're not the original voice SJ, <%
i want to get into the WTC series but there's like a dozen different versions of every gameare there any definite editions i should get or anything?
>>22202210She's dropping hints for Valentina but it's not working.
I want her to peg me.
>>22202210Keropoyo should filter it out really
>>22201317It's male Erikanon hu?
>>22202210It might as well be, though the tonic syllable in Japanese would be on Ma. Given that the Spanish don't seem to have the same interpretation of the word Marica, just like Mexicans don't have the same interpretation of the word correr, I think it's actually supposed to be pronounced as it is.It could be one of those nicknames that are actually valid and used back in the day, but have now been discouraged due to them sounding like a bad word.I just put the tonic syllable on 'ca' to get around this issue.
>>22202221Higurashi doesn't have a full definitive version, just two mangagamer releases that both get flak here for some very justified reasons. I don't know if the newer one is worse for other reasons, but I chose the older one for the same reasons as Umineko. There is this but it's WIP https://kaisernet.neocities.org/higurashi/ if it's ever finished, it should become the definitive version. Bless this anonUmineko is basically a matter of preference. There's the originals translated by WH, and the newer ones that change the sprites and add voice acting. Arguably, the newer sprites are less expressive and the voice acting interferes with the tone of the writing at many points. Personally I prefer the original for these reasons, but some people (fags) swear by the newer stuff.
>>22202235>the most restricted girls are the most fun when they let looseWho would've thunk it?
>>22202235i want her to forcefully demand sex from me and continue riding and belittling me after the 3rd load
r07 has confirmed! 50% of Phase 2's script wont be "Walls of Peace". He felt he may have hit readers over the head with a bat a little too much, so this time it'll only be 40%!Instead, he'll be increasing the amount of repetitive circle jerk political talk in its place! Up to 60% of the script!
>>22202302All while laughing the whole way through. It's like fucking the Joker.
>>22202311It reminds me of some of the Byakuya Rinne scenes from Euphoria.
>>22199833Just finished. Easily the weakest out of the three first parts, but I'm a bit mystery biased.Felt like 10-20% of this was literally restating the same thing twice and fictional news reports.
>>22202349Don't forget supporting the Wall of Peace or exposition about how this world works.
>>22202349it lacked horror imo
how will humanity survive this, especially when everyone's IQ drops?
>>22202288>but some people (fags) swear by the newer stuff.You can spot the "I only found out about Umineko years after it ended" goats from this.Pretty much no one who was following along from the start would call the PS3 sprites or the VA an improvement.I thank Ciconia for having neither since it'll serve as a nice filter, same goes for Saku.
I want to extract the script to find just how many times they mentioned walls of peace.
>>22202364I'm fully expecting at least one line in which the now rampaging humans are likened to goats.
>>22202362Idk, I was pretty horrified at how repitive things got and how little I cared about literally any of the characters except makybe Koshka.
will we have to wait a full year for ep 2?
>>22202365original sprites with VA is still the best way to go
>>22202365The sprites are an abomination but I'm torn on the VA. Sometimes the performances are fantastic and I think I could get used to it, but other times it just reduces what was originally a tense and creepy scene into something dorky and goofy.
>>22202362The meat factory scene was pretty fucking horrifying.
>>22202398It was just too detached from the real world to be scary though.Umineko's grotesque horror (like the first tea party) was at least fitting with the narration and featured specific characters that made it disturbing beyond a simple "Oh no gore"
>>22202398absolutely. but i wanted more.
>>22202210Just call her Cagando Rika.
>>22201368And did all her expressions, too.
So when we eventually get a voiced version who do you want to voice who?
I hope he gets his bath with Miyano...
>>22202466I hope we get to see Seshat's bottom completely.
>>22202483Check the Character Data after finishing the game.
>>22202483It's in the character tips, and it looks terrible
>>22202483we do, she is actually an alien
>>22202371
>>22202362Has about the same amount of horror as the average Umineko episode except episode 1.
>>22202464Satoshi/Kanon's voice actor for Miyao.
>>22202288looking at the sprites i like the ps2 ones the best i think. no idea about music and voice acting and that stuff, dont think i really care too muchso should i just get the games on steam then? i looked at like a flowchart with all the different arcs and console ports and stuff and how they are interconnected and it looked confusing as fuck
>>22202496why did you post this
>>22201317No fucking way. Ryukishi actually did it. The madman.
>>22202521Ignore the flowcharts for now. There's Higurashi, Higurashi Kai, Umineko, and Umineko Chiru, each respectively making up WTC1-4. There's a lot of side content but all of it is supplementary to those 4 parts. Some releases will divide each of those components into 4 episodes since that's how it's formatted. I don't know if the quality of the steam release is up to par though, those came years after I'd finished older releases.
>>22202521For Higurashi, you're better off just reading the 8 original arcs, then you can read the console ones after.
>>22202365My only issue with this statement is that voiced Erika is literally the ideal way to experience Erika because the casting choice was perfect in every single way. And Sayaka Ohara as Beato would probably be iconic if the anime wasn't so terrible
wowowowowowowowow!!
>>22202612She's just the most delightful ray of Iraqi sunshine there's ever been
>>22201642I think the Ushiromiya's still win out overall though.
>>22202051She's still got the corset propping them up though.
>>22202521>>>22202288 #>looking at the sprites i like the ps2 ones the best i think.The thing is, liking them aesthetically has nothing to do with this. I kinda like them too, in a vacuum, but they absolutely fail to do their job in the VN itself. The original sprites are the only ones with appropriately subtle facial expressions. The other ones exaggerated the faces too much and it's immersion breaking when they are reused to portray different emotions but loom weird because they lost the subtlety.
So is Jayden really a marica? He's in love with a girl.
>>22202719I wouldn't say they fail, but they do their job half-assesly and make some mistakes. Apologists don't know what they are missing, so they'll defend those sprites and backgrounds for their successes, not realizing that the originals did it even better and barely made any mistakes.
>>22201207Excellent work on her figure. You did a good job of capturing her proportions, making her look reasonably curvy while still clearly retaining that preteen cuteness. Thighs look nice and soft, shoulders are cute and slender, breasts aren't too big but are definitely there. You even managed to make the classic poses look natural. The clothes also came out nice. I particularly enjoy how the shorts came out, with all the details on the seams, pockets, pouch, etc.
>>22201968>Marica even tought marica is mostly used as an insult in spanish,Did she? I don't remember.
>>22202575>reading the shitty console arcs not written by Ryuukishi and only available with PS2 art>skipping the actual canon epilogue to the story and resolution of Rika's character developmentSeriously?
>>22202753calm your ass, I just forgot to mention Saikoroshi.
https://twitter.com/07th_official/status/1180658908601315328According to Ryukishi, the majority of the feedback he'd gotten about Umineko and Higurashi indicated that people found the series interesting about 3 episodes/chapters in. For Ciconia most of the feedback that's been reaching him indicates that it's pretty interesting already. https://twitter.com/07th_official/status/1180327532760948736Also, the game's been selling out at the usual places about as quickly as his past games. Not bad for over 3000 yen.
>>22202722Jayden is what we call here a "bicurioso".
>>22202769That's nice and all, but Phase 2 when?
So, after reading the profiles... apparently Mariana has a bunch of alters with a toxic relationship, nobody in the main royal family gives a fuck about Rethabile and the Iraqi loli is suffering slight brain damage every time she takes drugs.And I was worried about Hideyoshi being a smoker. How the fuck can these characters reach a happy ending?
Marica means sissy.Maricón means faggot.And mariconazo means big fucking faggot.
>>22202783miyao's gender has been solved
>>22202783well I think the scale goes this way anon:Mariquita/Mariquilla=SissyMarica=PussyMaricón=FaggotMariconazo sounds bad, I don't like that word.
>>22202776>happy endingThe fuck is that?
Miyao is a good boy. Meow is probably harmless. Jayden could be a surprise antagonist as a cheap plot twist. But Gunhild is the most likely to be an illuminati spy. Unless Chloe is the spy, because she doesn't seem to enjoy flying or have a personality suited for the military. Suspicious. The other two are red herrings.Mariana is obviously a spy too because she suggested that they share friend lists and shit.Etika's backstory is vague as fuck, so he's probably the COU illuminati.
any idea if there is some meaning behind the sport uniforms sub colors? Satoko got a red one in the anime, that's about the only difference between each versions, besides tones/saturations.in the anime, only the twins and boys seems to have blue ones.There also the fact Alchemist usually changed stuffs so that it makes a bit more sense (like Shion's outfits being more summer ones), but they didn't change Satoko's here. And it doesn't seems to be age related since young boys have blue ones too.
>>22202819Jayden's too much of a potato to be evil. Gun can't be a spy because she values her sister. Chloe is a Canadian and too incompetent to be a spy.
What's with all the hints pointing to Miyao being some sort of robot? He's the only one that has his fatigue measured in percentages, what the fuck?
>>22202798Maricarmen confirmed big titty. Not like it needed confirmation
>tfw the ages of the characters went back to being a mystery you can solve by logic and deductionI liked that in Higurashi.Going by their profiles, Lingji is probably 16 at most, while Ethiopian Bern is like 13?
Has anyone had a problem with sounds not working? I just got up to after Chloe's training and my game has stopped playing sound entirely. I closed the game and restarted, restarted my PC, and loaded other saves and the game doesn't play any sound at all.
What was the point of this?
>>22202833Reds are virgins.Blue are used goods.
has anyone here been following the nihonjin reception of ciconia? I think it'd be interesting to see whether they're getting hung up on similar topics as /jp/ and who their favorite walls of peace are at the moment.
>>22202865Canada is the smugest when it looks down on people. It's a Canadian thing.
>>22202776>Higurashi: Good/Happy ending>Umineko: Bittersweet ending>Ciconia: Bad/Tragic ending
>>22202865I think that's either foreshadowing of Chloe being the traitor or having DID or Cat girl being the traitor.
>tfw too old to be a tulpamancer>tfw too old to split into alters>tfw too old to learn how to play an instrument>tfw too old to multitask like crazy>tfw too old to learn moonrunes
>>22202398I'd say it was the most fucked up scene I've read from Ryukishi so far. The BGM choice was superb and it made me think of the scene whenever it started playing later on.
Anyone else think that the shapes associated with the various "wisdoms" may be the key to an enigma as retarded as the Golden Epitaph?If you look up the wiki pages for the Small Stellated Truncated Dodecahedron (19080630) , as well as the Triakis Icosahedron (18721205), you can see that there's all sorts of numerical indexes associated to such shapes, as well as relationships between various complex shapes (like every truncated version of a polyhedron being considered a 'dual' of its normal version).Am I reading too deep into the shapes he chose to represent those objects?Surely, he didn't choose to make them such specific polyhedrons just because a cube would be boring, right?
>>22202879>implyingWe're getting a Bittersweet happy ending. With nearly the entire human race extinct, but still kicking after nuclear winter.
>>22202883n e u r o p l a s t i c i t y
>>22202879Higurashi: Good/Happy ending but if you think about it, only a small part of the characters are able to be happy, not all fragments reach that point, also Rika is forced to shoulder a really heavy burdenUmineko: Yeah it's bittersweetCiconia: I think it's going to either be really fucked up or be really pretty, like something like a world reset or something similar, I feel it's going to be hard to have a middle point, at least for now.
UMINEKO IQ TIER LIST130+: Eva, Kyrie, Erika120-129: Rosa, Sayo, Kinzo, Genji, Ikuko110-119: George, Battler, Ange, Nanjo100-109: Kumasawa, Rudolf99-: Krauss, Natsuhi, Gohda
>>22202819>But Gunhild is the most likely to be an illuminati spy.no, my wife is just a harmless mad scientist at most. stop this slander immediately.
>>22202891This made it all the more unsettling for me.
UMINEKO IQ TIER LIST1000+: Krauss99-: Everyone else
So if Higurashi was about changing the future and Umineko was about accepting the past, what will Ciconia be about?
>>22202909>ange that high
>>22202898>tfw no brainfucking guro doujins of Iraq loli
What if all WTC games happen in similar worlds and Ryuukishi just fucking buried Mion and Keiichi's descendants under a sea of glass.
>>22202920Ciconia is taking control of your life back
>>22202920Protecting the present.
>>22202919I swear they better mention a moon hotel at some point.
>>22202920Starting from scratch to begin a new future.
>about 60% of the characters could have a split personality>VR>avatars that can be swapped aroundI don't know if this could be good or bad.
impregnation is the most holistic fetish
So the virus that makes people lose their inhibitions is Hinamizawa Syndrome for sure.
>>22202942>>22202944>>22202946All seem valid
>>22202909I have 153 IQ and I'm definitely not as intelligent as Erika.Your list is a bit flawed.
>>22202924Bad self-esteem reduces your IQ to double digit. She's the smartest but also the dumbest.
>>22202957I'm double digits and I'm smarter than Erika. Maybe your IQ test is wrong.
>>22202920Forgetting the past and letting the illuminati bring about the end of humanity.
>>22202920Accepting what you can't change
>>22202920the conditions for the possibility of human agency
>>22202947I fucking love this setting. I'll be livid if it ends after 4 episodes.
bros why did Lingji have to die
>>22202920The human condition of Chloe.
>>22202988ryukishi felt intimidated by a strong chinese woman
>>22202992everybody's human condition*
>>22202982Has there been any confirmation that it's gonna be 4 phases total? Or is there still a chance that "4 phases" is just referring to WTC5 and that there might be a WTC6 with 4 more afterward?
>>22202988tomi-taken out
>>22202719would you say I should just download the original higurashi episodes from somewhere?is the translation of those up to par or would I need to do some fucking around and search for patches?
>>22202864Just as an update, I fixed this problem by removing the envdata file from the saves folder and then all the sound came back.
>>22202864you have to press m
>>22203001WTC5 is going to be 4 games. Obviously nothing has been said about WTC6.
>>22203005Kek, now its his turn to kill after dying in every chapter of higurashi!
>>22203018No, I tried that.
>>22203024So ther could still be a Ciconia kai/chiru equivalent.
>>22203034Yes, remember that the answer arcs have always been considered separate numbered entries. Umineko is WTC3, Umineko Chiru is WTC4.
>>22202918What really got to me was when Miyao started thinking similar stuff to that during the Christmas party. I have every expectation that he is going to be the cause of something really messed up. The other Miyao is going to be replacing him for a reason after all.
>>22203009The original episodes of higurashi were never fan translated. There's two english releases, the old mangagamer version which released as the question and answer arcs, and the new mangagamer/steam release which goes episode by episode. There's a very recent project to translate the originals but only ep1 is finished
I get that CPPs don't always want to "come out" about their condition, but it seems bizarre to me that no one uses the infinite expanse of VR to manifest each personality as its own avatar, instead of still being forced to be a single body carrying both.When Miyao and Meow were arguing with eachother during 'girl talk' in the Bath and pantomime-fighting in a single body, I kept asking myself why they wouldn't just separate since it's VR.
>>22203009The old Mangagamer releases are a mess. Just download the Steam versions from somewhere and make sure they are intact and haven't been patched or anything like that. You are only missing the naked Satoko sprite that appears for like5 minutes, which is a shame but it's better than dealing with the old releases and the mess of music and spun replacements it entails.If there's any way to avoid the Steam update that replaced all the music in the question arcs, all the better. If you find a relatively old upload of the Steam version, it might come without that cursed February update.
>>22202924how can Ange show off her hairy teen pussy like that, does she have no shame?
>>22203049I think that mostly has to do with how Meow makes her presence known very randomly while Miyao is the one in control. When they've properly switched Meow gets her own avatar, otherwise it's like Miyao is just there talking about the Walls of Peace and then suddenly Meow wants to admonish Jayden for being into girl with big tits without warning.
>>22203049miyao is just pretending to be retarded
>>22203048>>22203060oh, so i dont even really have much of a choice then.guess I'll just read the new mangagamer release then and hope the final episode is out by the time i get to it
>>22202924She's probably muttering creepy things while getting bullied!Ange cursing her classmates and saying the stakes are going to kill them!But they won't!Because they don't exist!No one will save Ange's boobs!Ange!
>>22203060Also, you could read the old Mangagamer release of Matsuribayashi (arc 8) if it's not out yet on Steam by the time you finish the rest. The old translation was decent by the time they got to that arc. Just make sure to find a clean copy without any graphic patches and just apply the "music" and "sound effect" patches from the wiki to more or less fix Mangagamer's hot mess. The sound effect patch is important, don't skip it.After that, you could download Saikoroshi and its fan translation. It's a great finale for the series and was never officially translated, so there is no bullshit and the translation is pretty decent if a bit stiff.It took me ages to type all this, so I hope it's useful.
>>22203081thanks a lot, yeah, it definitely helped
Manga when?
>>22202988Because she's actually one of the four spies.
>>22203061The bullies forced her.Her pussy should be a lot more hairy, she's not fucking 12. So I bet she was shaving it for the first time out of curiosity and got tired of it halfway through. She had no idea that her bullies would expose her naked body the very next day!
>>22203067Matsuribayashi probably won't be done until late 2020 based on the pace of the previous releases. I read the old version and it wasn't bad enough to stop me from loving Higurashi. The question arcs did feel like they were using a lot of stock assets, but that just made the answer arcs sweeter
>>22203075Ange late at night finding herself fantasizing about what happened earlier!Ange's roommate noticing her masturbating and crying at the same time and calling her a pathetic freak!
>>22203048I think Meow was just fucking with him and only wanted to scare him into disappearing for a time into the subconscious so she could be dominant and fuck around in the outside world with her boyfriend.
>>22202947>avatars that can be swapped aroundi wonder if this was used already. this seems really annoying to spot.
>>22203113Nevermind the quote, I fucked up.
>>22201317Erika/Virgilus catfight when?
>>22203089You're welcome. Also, to make sure you have the correct music in the Steam question arcs, look up "silver mirror" or "digital network". Those are some of the most iconic tracks, so if you hear them it means you don't have the crappy music "update".
>>22203136all right, will do. i think i'm downloading the original unpatched releases, but i'll definitely double check once it's finished. thanks again!
>>22203102asian genes
>>22203034>>22203041If that is the case then I expect there to be some kind of loop. No way the end of humanity is going to be dragged out for 8 episodes when the 1st one completely and utterly fucked it over.
>>22203152>Asian genes>Massive tits
Finished. I didn't expect it to be so good considering how negative the thread has been. The finishing scene was absolutely breathtaking and very, very sad. Sasuga.
I feel like the earthquakes and the Spiritum under the crystal sea are foreshadowing for something in the futureI remember reading one theory before the game released about Spiritum being human souls and it would make sense in the japan deposit, did any mass death incident happen in the LATO region?
>>22203049Because not everyone gets along with their alters or has enough control to be active at the same time. Many people, especially those who developed this condition from trauma, tend to switch randomly and have never met their alter(s) directly. It takes years and a lot of effort to achieve voluntary switching and co-consciousness, depending on how receptive the alters are. And you still risk being called crazy or people assuming your alters must be cartoon villains without common sense. It's easier to just pretend to be the same person to the outside world and avoid trouble.It's probably different in Ciconia because developing DID from a young age and learning to work together is one of the requirements for becoming a competent gauntlet knight, so they must be good at it. But something about Miyao tells me he's a weird exception in many areas.
>>22203172The final scene was great, though a lot of it felt like incomplete glimpses of future developments, like a preview of Phase 2. I don't think this first phase was bad or anything. I just found the heavy focus on politics and social issues to be rather dull and drawn out. Some of it was good, like Tojirou's lectures on information gathering, but a lot of it was pretty repetitive, especially the walls of peace bit.I would've preferred to see more interpersonal relationships and character development, since that's always been a hallmark of ryukishi's works. I get that there's a need to prioritize worldbuilding first given the setting, but I'm sad that a good half the cast only got basic development. Plus if there's no time loops then that really hinders the ability to flesh out the multi-faceted characters we've previously enjoyed. Take Lingji for example. She got a decent amount of screentime this phase, but there still wasn't much character development by WTC standards, and if she stays dead then that's all her character will ever amount to.
>>22202947How are avatars made? Do they look at their own bodies from every angle in a mirror and send that info to their selcoms in order to create perfect replicas of their outside appearances?Does that mean Chloe probably has a naked avatar of herself based on her real naked body?
>>22203236I think for sure there's going to be loops again. Everything's irreversibly fucked and over half the cast is dead. If it does continue at all into the next phase (which I don't think it will), then it will only be the first chapter or two and then the new loop will start.
>>22203244She's a canon closet pervert, so there's no way she'd use a fake nude body for her nude avatar. If she's gonna use that avatar to do kinky shit online, she's gonna scan her real body.
To think this shit all started with a kid moving into a secluded town and spooky shit started happening. I can't wait to see how absolutely fucking crazy the last couple of phases are going to be.
>>22203172>how negative the thread has beenAll I've seen is the occasional Uminekuck seething about Walls of Peace and how it's not paced like a horror movie
Also, the sheer amount of youth pandering is offputting. Outside of a few exceptions like Tojirou, the adults are a bunch of greedy morons who look like they're ripped straight from faceless man doujins, while the kids are all mature, idealistic, and oh so more enlightened about the value of peace and how the world works. Previous faceless baddies were handled better. Ange's classmates were ridiculously cruel, but they at least had some realistic motivation, having been punished for their autistic classmate's slacking off.
>>22203267Bullying doesn't need a motivation like that. The pleasure of seeing a human being humiliated is motive enough. Especially if she's an attractive girl.
>>22203267It seems to be a recurring lamentation from Ryukishi that many good things in life only exist in youth. Is he ok?
>>22203267>t. 50 year old boomer
>>22203267Well all the faceless baddies we've seen are the top guys that are war hounds so obviously they're going to be scumbags.
>>22203267>forgetting Brokonogi
>>22203267>tfw Mammon and her sisters bullied Luci-ass-neechan in the exact same way when she lost to Kanon in EP3, including repeating words of self-humiliationMammon is a hypocrite. She was actually cheering for the the bullies and laughing to herself while Ange read a letter admitting how much of a shit she is.
>>22203267>t. Ange's classmates
Cyrils location could only have been leaked by these people:>miyao/meow>rethabile herself>keroAnd in the kings meeting before his assassination they explicitly stated that miao led them to their target.It's meow isn't it?
>>22203267I wonder if he's planning on developing the adults side of the story to a greater extent in the next chapters.
>>22203315Meow doesn't exist. Miyao just sperged out and lied to Jayden about his personality, and then it all kind of went out of control.
>>22203267There's definitely some rough parts in Ciconia, but I don't think it's fundamentally different from Higurashi and Umineko. I remember finding the club activities cringe and boring in Higurashi, and the first half of Umineko's first episode really slow. Ryukishi was never perfect, especially in its first episode. The story afterwards always more than made up for it.Sure, I'd have preferred less Wall of Peace and power of youth stuff and weird characters doing weird faces in that episode. Going by Ciconia's ending, there are definitely methods to Ryukishi's madness.
The scene where Tomitake makes Miyao kill Lingji instantly made me think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgiESzLrCHcFanart of Tomitake doing the Gendo pose when?
>>22203315If I had to bet on it, Miyao leaked the info without knowing it, likely through his contact with toujirou or as a function of keropoyo. Rethabile seems most unlikely, and Meow doesn't seem to be interested in the geopolitical game board. Can't write her off though
>>22203267>oh so more enlightened about the value of peace and how the world worksDid you completely miss the how consistently Miyao's order was shown to be completely naive? Miyao even thought that the planet dying meaning that the war wasn't going to take off was a good thing. And the game ends on Lingji, by far Miyao's biggest non-homo supporter, completely losing her faith in everything and putting on that Ark gauntlet.The only adults that are shown to be complete bastards like that are these overly decorated military vets, who have pretty much no place in the world and were made obsolete overnight by miracle tech both on and off the battlefield, but even then they're abusing what power they have to take full advantage of them, and for the most part the children are going along with that without taking a stand for themselves. This is what being a piece pretty much means in Ciconia's context, and why Miyao trying to get off the chessboard is a straight metaphor for trying to overcome his social structure. I feel like you probably also hated Persona 5 if you happen to have played that, if this went over your head here as well.
>>22203301I just find it weird how Ryukishi is going so in on the whole "kids are the main characters" thing, when he already pointed out how that mindset is favored by adolescent kids looking to indulge in a power fantasy. How many times in the story are adults portrayed as out of touch and incompetent? It's always up to the kids to clean up their messes because they're the special ones.
>>22203304it's all calculated. Okonogi is playing Chloe's ally because she's the piece that allows the AOU to control Koshka and Lilja, and regaining her trust is the key to making Gravemole perform at full capacity.
>>22203315can we assume that Kizuna itself is a secure technology? of course, "man in the middle" is kind of a boring solution to things, so i think it would be secure, but maybe some other possible conversation leak gives it away
>>22203267we did see some adults that weren't fuckwits. like cyril, some of the captains/admirals, or the people that died in the LATO meeting.
>>22203267>the adults are a bunch of greedy moronsOkonogi and all the spriteless adult soldiers are sympathetic. Imagine being cucked out of using incredible futuristic technology, including flying through the sky unaided, because you were born too early. It's obvious that they're all sad about it and they resort to talking shit about gauntlet knight because they don't want to admit they are missing out on something amazing.Okonogi was always a bit of a dick, but he's not evil in any of his incarnations. He's more like Kyrie or Takano, taking advantage of opportunities and making the necessary sacrifices along the way. But he's a chill guy if unprovoked and has a sense of honor. Just don't get between him and a a whole bunch of money.The old guy from the prologue doesn't seem like a bad guy either. There's a reason Okonogi had to go into internal monologue to talk about what happened to half the kids in the propaganda video. The old guy probably doesn't know what the others do behind his back and has good intentions.
What was Haworthia about again?Could it be related to some of the crazier stuff in Ciconia?
>>22203315Kero is compromised somehow, going by the last evil Miyao scene. Possibly by Mother and/or Toujirou.Now it isn't certain that whoever compromised Kero is in league with the Three Kings.
>>22203267You are just salty because you can't use a mental tablet for shit and R07 won't sugarcoat the truth.
>>22203378Haworthia was about trying to settle a new planet after the earth was rendered unusable. It's pretty obvious where the overlap is with the final WTC5 concept.
>>22203292No, he's just Japanese
>>22203382Kero is very obviously compromised by Seshat, who can use him to hack very advanced security systems without mental strainIt's possible it actually uses processing power from the brain of every single user to be able to hack stuff
ryukishi....phase 2....
>>22203382well the leaked cyril info was used by the 3K to assassinate him. but maybe i'm looking too hard at this particular case. maybe it was rethabile's servants or they put surveillance on all of them.
>>22203352>Chloe's profile>She has codes to electrocute Asuka and Koshka if they get out of control but has never used them because they would beat the shit out of her in person and leave her naked in front of Okonogi's officeFucking bullies.
>>22203368Okonogi in Ciconia is actually completely based for once. Chloe even has a crush on him.
All done, that ending was gorgeous. Dunno why they shoved all of those slice of life tips at the end though instead of having them unlock throughout the story, I expected a bigger bombshell than what #16 actually was.
>>22203341You're right. They do a good job of portraying that mindset as idealistic, even having other gauntlet knights contest it on several occasions. I'm not even criticizing the themes, just saying that I feel they come on a bit strong, especially at the beginning.>And the game ends on Lingji, by far Miyao's biggest non-homo supporter, completely losing her faith in everything and putting on that Ark gauntlet.That was a nice part, but it felt kinda glossed over. She goes from being his most devout supporter to being the first to rescind the "don't kill" policy.>>22203368Fair point. It's understandable why they'd be hostile towards the kids. Okonogi's actually a great example of what I would've liked to see more of, an adult who's flawed and still dickish, but not downright stupid or evil.
>>22203415I think Ryukishi probably wanted to put the fragments between chapters as usual, but someone talked him out of it. Can't imagine he made that kind of retarded decision by himself when he already figured out the correct solution at the start of his career.
>>22203315Considering that Seshat seemed to see "through" Miyao's eyes into the bath, as opposed to just know about the information itself, it seems more likely that either the bath room is "bugged", or that keropoyo itself is.Seshat showed that she was able to appear on an overlay while the order's room was in the background, it makes it look like she can just spy on whatever, as opposed to just having info relayed to her.
Anyone else find it ironic that this simultranslated vn features a cast of characters all speaking different languages getting translated in real time?
>>22203435it's thematically appropriate for sure
>>22203431The kids actually acting like kids got shafted in favor of more scenes of repetitive circular group think.
>>22203415>>22203431Yeah, these could've worked great had they been implemented properly. Now it feels kinda like they replaced the tea party with tsubasa.
>>22203417>That was a nice part, but it felt kinda glossed over. She goes from being his most devout supporter to being the first to rescind the "don't kill" policy.At first I thought Miyao lost it and started attacking everyone in brainwashed rage. That's what evil Miyao seemed to imply, with the "Here we go" and everyone instantly losing faith in Miyao. I thought the Christmas Party was a nice way to obfuscate the truth, but what was really happening was Miyao's programming being triggered somehow and him attacking his former allies.The fight between Miyao and Lingji doesn't quite fit that interpretation though.
>>22203415yeah, i'm not even sure what to think about tip16
>>22203417>She goes from being his most devout supporter to being the first to rescind the "don't kill" policy.Naime and Rethabile go before she does, and she has Aysha crying into her ear before she gives the order. Even though Aysha was the first person to want to disobey the order, after Lingji gave it she acknowledged how hard it must've been for her to say that. Definitely did not gloss over it.
>>22203412Directly contraddicts the fragments too.She has used the codes multiple times, and both Ilija and Koshka know not to mess with with Chloe when she gets serious with them.Or maybe they mean that "Chloe" never used them, while Chloevil did.
>>22203435At least it isn't machine-translated... or is it?
Ciconia Okonogi is based as fuck. I like how he's not a background character anymore.They really did a good job of making all the Okonogis feel different and yet similar.
>>22203461Would you rather read a Kizuna tanslated Ciconia?
>>22203464Soon we'll have enough Okonogi for everyone, it'll be an Okonogi singularity!
>>22203474Post it
>>22203464how would you rank all the Okonogis?
>>22203471No I *kerokero* don't.
Hinamizawa disaster took place in summer, Rokkenjima massacre took place in fall, the end of the fucking world takes place in winter.
>>22203475
What do the kings mean by "tools of murder have now reached into a dimension such as this"? Is it a metaphor or are they literally in the meta and that's how the gauntlets summon and store weapons?According to Momotake's profile, he has the ability to send an enemy into the dimension container by cutting them with his sword. Are pocket dimensions going to be a big part of this?
>>22203492What would the child of this be like?
>>22203460How is this complete nut so fucking cute?
I love this face.
>>22203507not only a potato body but a potato brain aswell
Geez, fragment 12 makes me doubt the whole split personality plot
This part of the OP just has to be related to the Miyao from the future
>>22203537I want to tear off that rag.
>>22203417>>22203464exactly, he may be a boomer and he may be flawed but he is by no means stupid or incompetent. He's been a military man for decades and probably doing more shit we don't even know about.Okonogi is based as fuck
>>22203507I bet she'll show her hair at the end of the last episode.
>>22203551shell die anon
>>22203565I hope she's not blonde or some stupid shit.
it would be extremely painful
>>22203565l-lewd
>>22203551She was happily married at 9 to a sultan with 5 other wives. But he fucks her exclusively.
>>22203565Yeah. I want to see Ayasha, Rukhi, and Fatma's hair as well.
>>22203507>>22203537Will she still say 'wow' while you're fucking her?
>>22203537I can't imagine her looking better than this. Any hairstyle or color would ruin her cuteness.Is Ryuukishi trying to give me a cancerloli fetish? I can't see her ass, but I bet it's really obscene to the eye. So why is it that not seeing her hair feels better than seeing it?
>>22203581Wowowowow!
I wonder about the meaning behind Ciconia.We know that the Ciconias are a metaphor for natural birth, and there is some focus on the question of baby vat/natural birth. Why is that question so essential to the narrative that Ciconia is named, well, Ciconia? Looking at first phase, it certainly doesn't seem that way. No emphasis on racism against Ciconia born humans, no implication that they are better or lesser, or that humanity is dying because of baby vat, or anything of the like.Why, then, is Ciconia Ciconia.
>>22203595The appeal of the unknown. Once you know that's it, but so long as you don't see it you can IMAGINE
>>22203565Hardly. That would piss off all the 3.5 muslims reading the VN. In Islam, it's not allowed for a woman to show her hare to anyone but the husband.
>>22203605>tags: drugs, mindbreak, bbm
>>22203606desu umineko and higurashi didn't really have much to do with the plot of their games either, so i doubt ciconia means much
>>22203606Why Umineko is Umineko then?
>>22203606You could use your autism on more productive stuff like trying to piece together the mystery
>>22203606i think the mother will appear in ep 2 and then we can start tackling these questions. for now it's hard to say. it's also weird how they keep talking about miyao is "still sleeping" together with the fetus image.>>22203619>>22203621ciconia seems to be a stronger motif than higurashi and umineko were for their games.
>>22203621>>22203619The seagulls are a metaphor for the new dawn that never come because everyone die. That's a pretty omnipresent theme all over Umineko. The goal is to hear the seagulls cry again, somehow. Easy.The Higurashi are literally crying everywhere in Higurashi.But Ciconia...? They're not crying, not even metaphorically. The metaphor they represent is made explicit quite quickly, but that metaphor has also almost no bearing on the narrative. That's strange.
>>22203648the ciconia cry when the babies are delivered
>>22203606the concept of generational/familial bonds and what happens when a society doesn't have them seems to have some thematic significance at least. the "we have no legacy to pick up, and non to pass down"- mentality of humans raised in tubes will definitely be given more focus.
>>22203648It probably has something to do with Miayo being a program., and his whole complex about Sibling's Day.
>>22202235can Rukhi be classified as loli or no
>>22203606>humans can be mass produced through technology>talks about how they are made in much greater number than what would be needed>game is called for you, the replaceable onesI dont know but there must be a connection here
>>22203672probably not. ryukishi is just incapable of drawing non-pudgy faces.
>>22203672I don't think so but make her strip so we can be sure.
>>22203681She's pretty sure even with high heels, but you're probably right.
>>22203612But she's no woman, she's an immature loli brat.
>>22203648Look up the sounds storks make. It sounds like a machine gun.
The fucking AK47 shooting animation
>>22203725All the 3D animations in this game made me laugh.
Humiliation no naku koro nee.
>>22203700in islam you are a woman at 6
>>22203731The bullet and drone aiming ones were alright.All the "flying" and missile ones weren't that bad either.But those low-poly rifles appearing at the bottom in a CoD-esque way was just too hilarious.
>>22203731>>22203725funny how one of the most elaborate animations were the hands in tip1.
>>22203725>>22203731>we hired these 3d animators so we had to raise the prise to $40
>>22203704holy shit is trueThat's kind of creppy.
quit discussing anything past the warning guys
18721205 decimal1000111011010100110110101 binary11DA9B5 hexadecimal19080630 decimal1001000110010010110110110 binary12325B6 hexadecimal19940305 decimal1001100000100001111010001 binary13043D1 hexadecimalhex the first is 11 the second 12 and the last 13 so the first 2 letters are numeration all of them have a letter before last digit.
Does Kizuka filter out Japanese honorifics?
>>22203771They are offensive to a great many people, so they will obviously be filtered, yes
>>22203747they had to be stock animations, because I doubt they out here 100 years into the future firing a fuckin' ak47 and an rpghow much did you pay for that r07? are you happy? do you like wasting money?I still can't find anything that would justify that much of a jump in cost. If he said $15-20 an episode, I'd forgive him, but fuckin' $40. Absolute madlad. Maybe he knows how much his fans like sucking his dick that he knows he can get away with it.
>>22203648the whole point is that they DONT cry, and that's why the nation is so fucked
>>22203704https://youtu.be/9YPM3rNfZNIFuck. So this is why they were chosen for a story about war and designer babies.
>>22203761ok lets talk about how much Jayden wants to shag Miyaos bumhole
>>22203786Nothing wrong with eugenics.
>>22203791https://youtu.be/PkxxA34C-Hg0:47 No kidding.
>>22203800Can you blame him? Lots of people wanted to do that to him the moment we saw his design.
>>22203768given that all of these numbers can be read as dates, and we even have historic events corresponding to those days that link thematically to the story, you're probably overthinking this.
>>22203856Cheese problemThis is a WTC cant be so easy
I can't wait for Ryukishi to fully takedown humanity as hard as he did the Japanese in RGD
So let's try to recap. Hopefully this is mostly right.God, "they" or "them" left behind a transcript of the future apocalypse in the form of the Revelations of Saint Ioannis. They're also supposedly monitoring humanity closely, and possibly left behind strange artefacts with bizarre powers called "Wisdom". Such artefacts have a date for name, which could be a clue toward their date of discovery (Tungunska and Mary Celeste) or something else.An illuminati-like group forms with that knowledge. Those are the Three Kings. They seek to prevent this future by killing all of humanity, and hopefully starting back with some worthy survivors. They almost succeed with WW3 but were thwarted in the end by 8MS.Prometheus splinters from that. They want humanity to win against "them", but aren't opposed to the Three Kings' plan. At some point, Toujirou becomes involved with both Prometheus and the Three Kings, apparently solidly in Prometheus' camp. He schemes something with Mother involving the creation of Miyao.Ark is created, led by Vier. She seeks to translate the tech given by "them" and protect the Ark, or possibly use it for herself. Ark is considered highly heretical by the Three Kings, and probably Prometheus too, because of their use of Wisdom. The Three Kings try to shut it down, but fails, repeatedly.The Three Kings, Prometheus, and Ark all have Gauntlet tech. Given the nature of Gauntlet tech being relatively new in-universe, it could be that Gauntlet tech is inherently a "them" technology, maybe something brought by Wisdom.At some point the Geroy 4 Research Center becomes involved, which means, by association, at least a part of the AOU millitary has ties to either the Three Kings, Prometheus, or Ark. Or first hand knowledge of "them". They're also trying to hatch a plan for humanity by creating "Pandora", which could be the only one able to survive/continue to exist (?) when "they" come. Pandora is Koshka.Somewhere along the lines, Gunhild becomes a high level member of that particular conspiracy, possibly backed by/spying for the Three Kings.
So Gannet wants the dominatrix to "play" with hef? What a kinky girl. I bet she enjoys humiliation
>>22203904Wait, did this shit happen IRL?
>>22203955Yes, to an American soldier after the war was lost.
>>22203946>Prometheus splinters from that. They want humanity to win against "them", but aren't opposed to the Three Kings' plan. At some point, Toujirou becomes involved with both Prometheus and the Three Kings, apparently solidly in Prometheus' camp. He schemes something with Mother involving the creation of Miyao.Jestress(probably Mother) also has that goal thoughIt seems like she has a scheme beyond the Three Kings endgame but it doesn't seem she is allied with PrometheusAlso Seshat seems to have at least some ties to ArkOther than that your post seems correct
Yeladot Shavit foursome with femdom!
What chapter was the meat factory in again?
>>22204107They will snip your foreskin
What's there /v/?
>>22204157Is this loss?
Why does the king on the right have Krauss' green brooch and the one in the middle Hideyoshi's feeding tubes?
>>22204157a irrevocable n-word pass
So what's everyone's favorite song from the OST? (other than either of the Apoclypsis because that's cheating)For me its:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hAwgMM2gNo&list=PLeKSx7u-0kRiJqH14dswC-lHh8Nuu0APx&index=8
>>22201317>ponumineko majaan confirmed
>>22204128If they do it without anesthesia, I might just cum a little>>22204157The Stand Arrow.
>>22204164https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJSsPliUKxk
>>22204164https://youtu.be/IQrXrJoooWI
>>22204179I love this one so much. It just feels SO damn dark. It almost makes me feel sick.
>>22204164https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4U7Qhiek6c
>>22204186it's stock music
>>22204164If this isn't your top song, don't even @ mehttps://youtu.be/B52JwM4dB1o
>>22204179I'm still surprised this is a free music track. In fact, while I don't think Ciconia OST was bad, it lacked something... and I realized most of the OST was done by Xaki and Pre-holder + new faces like Amacha.Even dai somewhat underperformed. His lack of powerful and emotional tracks felt way more lacking than zts' absence imo.
>>22204201I don't like it all that much but I love where it was used, especially during the Christmas Party while the Gauntlet Knights are starting to be broken down by the faction analysts
>>22204200https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoFAbnFETtISo is this, and its fucking incredible in the context of the VN.
>>22203946> the Revelations of Saint IoannisWhich is the IRL biblical Book of Revelation, in case you haven't noticed. A lot of the events in Ciconia, especially the "kid's meal disasters", match up to things in Revelation.
>>22204035>Jestress(probably Mother)Jestress is not.Please reread that passage, in particular. "Your son" in a carefree manner but not "our son", "What's the name of your son again?", "Stop hitting on me, that's cheating with your wife". Jestress is not Mother. She only brings the subject to laugh at Toujirou.
>game didn't end with "I'll probably be dead by the time you read this. To the one reading this, please uncover the truth. That is my only wish. Mitake Miyao"0/10
>>22204267>RevelationsOh yeah, the book made by John the Nutter. I just love how in the end just goes out of his way to say "Original Content, Donut Steel" with threats of all kinds of gruesome shit. He's quite imaginative, I'll give him that.
>>22204267they said it was going to match the events by 80%>>22203946>but were thwarted in the end by 8MS.so by 34? didn't she create 8MS? i always assumed that "them" refers to the players and god is something else entirely.and there might be other stuff worth noting, like the creating of kizuna.
>>22204308>game didn't end with wowowowo walls of peace uuuu-uuu nipah meowmeow *sparkle* au-au-au don't die don't kill meow0/10 for sure
Naima is a treasure. Wow!
>>22204327Do you think she has hair, or did they just shave it clean?
>>22204353a potato inside and out
What exactly is "The end of civilization"?The reaping festival/factory happens after "The end of civilization", but humanity is still alive at that point, so the event that starts the factory has to be something different from human extinction, and it has to be an event that is going to happen after the ending of Phase 1>>22204269In the scene future Miyao tells Miyao to kill the three kings it also says "My adorable Miyao, your goal is to stop this <hell>"That has to be his mother and that sounds very similar to what Jestress wantsMy personal theory is that Jestress is a clone or a different version of Takano, and one of them is their motherI'm probably wrong about this, but since Miayo's mother remembers the factory and pic related makes it sound like there is more stuff going on about her existence, it seems safe to assume that there are multiple versions of her mom in the story, maybe time travel is a factor
>>22202456Guess it was Satoko day for me, did her gym outfit too.>>22202742Thanks. always nice to see people appreciating the details.
>>22204269>>22204357Here's the very obvious hint that Takano is indeed Toujirou's ex-wife. By very obvious, it's all but spelled that Toujirou has a TRAITOROUS wife that works with a HOLY ARK and graduated from DEATH and is doing WHATEVER she wants.It also, coincidentally, happens that Takano is a traitorous person that graduated from death and is doing whatever she wants with her holy ark.>My personal theory is that Jestress is a clone or a different version of Takano, and one of them is their motherYeah, Jestress definitely has a connection with Takano, I think, potentially one is the clone of the other, and I'd wager to guess Jestress is the clone. Which is why Toujirou absolutely wants to see her face and is enamoured with her. It's like a younger version of his ex-wife.
As someone who actually knows politics and conspiracy theories Ryuukishi's take on them is very underwhelming. It's clear he only has a normie level understanding of history and how conspiracies work. He shoved in the literal Illuminati who acts as cartoon supervillains with all sort mind control superpowers. He also introduced a faction of scientists which may as well be wizards, showing he has no idea how science works and that scientists/geniuses are regular human beings. There is only a single smart commentary he made, and that's explaining the concept of controlled opposition.I seriously wonder why he suddenly became so interested in politics. Most of the story seemed to be an excuse to explain his views on society, but they're all very entry-level.
The three kings are a red herring and you're stupid if you think otherwise.
>>22204392the Three Kings are an actual faction but the real endgame is Tomitake vs Seshat vs Takanolast phase is all the squads teaming up with the power of friendship and killing God
>>22204397Actually, the endgame is Miyao and Jayden being gay in space as the earth dies beneath them
>>22204405Blue body = factory VR worldThat's bad so it will never be the endgameAt best Miayo will fall for the VR meme and Koshka will become the real protagonist
>>22204417Gay is always the way, anon.
What if the factory world is actually ideal, anons? They talk about not wanting to have a body and live in VR a few times.
>>22204442a virtual world might be ideal, but the physical hardware of the factory VR world was far from perfect, and I'm sure there were better ways to do it than melting skin and ripping spinal cords, so that God must be kinda evil
>>22204369You're welcome. To be honest, I'm usually focusing mostly on the lewd aspects, but even then the details really do sell it.Very cute gym version by the way. Once again, the thighs look great, especially that little dip right below her crotch where you see it curve in. The shading on the shirt does a good job of accentuating the curves of her stomach and chest while still looking somewhat loose.
>>22204157the secret ryukishi lewd stash
>>22204442yeah the idea itself doesn't sound bad. but the horror scene and the comparisons to hell seem to make clear what ryukishis stance on the matter is.
>>22204454>God must be kinda evilGod apparently created shitposters as a failsafe against groupthink so I think he just has a sense of humor
So who released the hunger virus, hacked the drones and hacked to 4d printers to make strange cylinders with wings able to disable 8MS?
>>22204357>What exactly is "The end of civilization"?You're not asking the right question: what is 'civilization'? Civilization is the society, the state, communal groups that exist to protect individuals from the struggles and harshness of reality. So long as two individuals can come together, it can be considered civilization. The point is that if humanity is reduced to such a low number and reaches extinction, civilization dies.
>>22204481
>>22204484It's too convenient that they said that she was a pro at such hacking. It must be a red herring.
>>22204484That face always does things to me.
We got every reappearing character but Bern and Amakusa. It's obvious that Bern will reappear, but is there any chance for Amakusa to?
>>22204493you're thinking with your dick here anon
>>22204502I want to fuck the Canadian but I want her to remain pure so that she doesn't trick me.
>>22204481IIRC, the hunger virus and the hacked drones were explicitly told to be Three Kings stuff. They even congratulated themselves afterwards, but were unhappy it didn't kill all of humanity.The 4d printers are another thing entirely. I don't see the Three Kings having that kind of know-how, Ark could have maybe done it but they have no reasons for, and Prometheus is unwilling to take direct part in the apocalypse. Could be one of those three, could be a fourth faction, could be "them". We have no definite answers.Given the connection with Miyao, maybe it was Mother? But I have absolutely no argument for that.
>>22204483I know thatI'm asking what the fuck could trigger the arrival of "them" to earth and the creation of the factory that inserts every single human into eternal VRThey say the end of civilization triggers it, but the factory scene still has loads of people aliveThe logical conclusion is that the Three Kings reset civilization because civilization advancing too much attracts "Them" So right after the end of Phase 1 something must happen that makes a bunch of otherwordly beings/aliens notice Earth and invade it to plug everyone into VR
>>22204517>Ark could have maybe done it but they have no reasons forIt seems like Ark translators have wildly different reasons for doing what they do, with the same overarching theme of wanting to achieve God's wisdom. This seems to be implied by the fact that Vier didn't seem to be all in on Mario's 'dignity' thing, but also didn't care.
>>22204497at least your eyes are up there
>>22204376there is something strange about this thoughMother created "Miyao" to prevent the factory from happening by programming him to kill a certain personThe one person who makes the most sense to be the target is Takano, who seeks trascendence, who also is the most likely person to be the motherMiyao is also very suspiciousWhen was he replaced with a murder program?In the Embryo?When exactly did Future Miyao get in there?What exactly is Future Miyao?He wants to stop Miyao and his goal of killing someone to stop the factory, but he doesn't seem evil and tells him that if he wants to save everyone he should let himself be replaced by himHe also has the blue body which based on the Ark scientist being ageless and Jayden at the end it should mean he somehow comes from a future where Miyao got factory'd, and it doesn't sound like he likes the factory so it makes no sense for him to go back to the past to stop Miyao from preventing the factory from happening
>>22204369Do you plan on doing a towel sprite?
>>22204555Every part of Chloe's body is appreciable. >>22204369Super, super cute.
>>22204161what the hell is hideyoshis feeding tubes
I haven't read ciconia but i love reading all the discussion in this thread because it makes the game seem so crazy
Naima's wow > Lilja's meowIf you disagree with me, speak up now to be granted a merciful death. Otherwise, I'll "forcibly extract" all of your internal organs.
>>22204591Has anyone talked about this yet?
>>22204591Best girl
Love the reference to TOMITAKE FLASH!
>>22204607Lingji's normalness >
There is a tone shift, right? I really like the lore and worldbuilding here, but is that all we get this episode? I have no idea how far I am, but the Russian broad is getting torn open right now
thanks Marie
>>22204481>>22204517the hunger virus itself was done by the 3K but iirc there was someone who released something in order to help stop it from spreading. it isn't known who did it.
>>22204612Koshka being cute is a natural fact that is understood by all. Nothing to discuss there. It probably has something to do with pandora, but that's a no brainer right there.>>22204641You still have quite a bit to go. Also there isn't a sudden tone shift. That doesn't mean shit doesn't go bad, but it's more gradual this time around.
>>22204607Meow is boring. Wow is fun.
>>22204606It's actually really boring and repetitive
>>22204561Those are excellent questions. That's also why, although I can understand the basics, I can't put the big picture together. Those questions are fundamental roadblocks on the path toward solving Ciconia.>>22204591Look at this. What exactly is she talking about? Is she aware of the prophecy? Does she want to be put into VR, assuming that's the prophecy's end? Why? What about Pandora? What is it?Assuming VR: maybe Pandora is the capacity of keeping previous memories when plugged into the machine? But that's really underwhelming, and I wouldn't count it as a victory.
>>22204164For me it's thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCNSxMlYgJA
there is not a single girl in this game i would not impregnate
>>22204721what about boys?
>>22204721Haha more like everyone. I bet all the guys have a female split personality too haha, gender doesn't matter amiright.
>>22204721Naima can't be impregnated. Probably.
>>22204735Yeah
>>22204721Jestress is practically perfect in every way. Lingji is the second classiest girl after her. I'd smash Valentina too. The others are kind of meh.
>>22204735Don't make fun of her, she hates having a dick and not being able to live her own life.
>>22204164this one by far.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1u-yP-lTqkxaki's tracks were pretty nice in general. dai was underwhelming on the other hand.
>>22204750Hey we don't know for sure yet that Miyao/Meow's body has a dick. Miyao could be the dominant personality in a female body.
>>22204748>The others are kind of meh>not wanting to fuck that pink pussyNegro-chan's got the lambdaest personality too.
>>22204756I mean, the original personality tends to be hidden away in favor of an alter that grows up to become the "main". It's possible that "Miyao" is really a girl and something made her resurface.
>>22204754>dai was underwhelmingTo be fair, the story didn't quite call for a super melancholy dai song yet. Just lighter stuff in the same vibe.
So is Lingji really a princess or is that guy just kissing her chink ass because he's too into the samurai role?
>>22204785yes
>>22204785>ywn kiss the super pathetic arse of a proud slant-eyed chink
>>22204785game to be banned in china for depicting a future without the prc
>>22204785They refer to her as a princess (as opposed to a Princess).
>>22204780wrong! there's always a place for a dai song like that.
By the way, Pandora is added to the post ending character screen.
>>22204785Imagine kissing the ASS of a human being just because she's female and has a pretty face. How low can you fall?
>>22204727im down to fuck any boy in selcom so long as they use a cute avatar
So, in a nutshell, what Ryukishi just did was take the franchise into full science fiction, laid out his upgraded narrative torture kit, and walked away from the table to let us stare at it for several months. I'll never get tired of that maniac. He's the best
>tfw nobody noticed the remix of the Sakunoshin theme from Higanbana in the Okonogi Collage tipI'm disappointed.
>>22203244This is a VERY important question.
Okay time for the most important topic of Ciconia:Which faction's character's last names do we know by now?From what I remember:>Miyao>Gunhild>Lilja>Lingji (possibly)>Rethabile>Chloe>>22204812Depends how low her butt is.
I've always been into science fiction shit, but the technology in Ciconia is blowing me away with all the possibilities.The madman did it again.
>>22204840>implying i can even remember half their first names
We got cucked out of a penguin loli when she turned out to be mentally 100 years old.We got cucked out of the fanservice maid of Irie's dreams because she turned out to be a male eunuch.I fucking hope Gunhild isn't a robot or some shit.
>>22204845I hope there will be at least one erodoujin that uses the tech creatively instead of pain old boring sex.
>>22204845Mind-machine VR interfaces and brain implants are somewhat of a staple of recent sf, but it was done reasonably well there. At least Ryukishi is on the cutting edge of the genre there.What really blew my mind is the 8MS. I don't remember of anyone who did full-on ecosystem-supporting environmental nanomachines in a SF story before.
>>22204867I hope there will be at least one erodoujin period.
Alright, so who owns the brain+spine extracting factory? The civilization if everything proceeds without any interference?
Flatter than the Siberian plains
>>22204867you will get only one generic 12 page doujin on titfucking chloe and you will like it
>>22204878Fragment 16 seems to suggest that God or "god" is planning this outcome. I hope Ryukishi doesn't tip the fedora
>>22204885Her missing tooth is so cute. Specially in those sprites where she's smiling
>>22204867>>22204873I guarantee with certainty that there won't be a single one. Maybe one or two mediocre Pixiv pictures after a few years. And all of them with shaved pussies of course.For some reason, hentai artists won't touch VN characters unless they get an anime adaptation. No matter how shitty, it'll be enough for at least 10 doujins.
>>22204890It's probably just >muh Gnosticism. Japanese media loves to use that motif for some reason.
>>22204893Missing teeth are cute on preteen lolis. This bitch literally lost it during a fist fight with a drunk Russian guy.
>>22204903That's even cuter. I wish I was the guy she beat up
>>22203244I bet she has to state at her wrinkly butthole in order to add that part to the nude avatar and produce amateur selcom porn.
>>22204899If it's popular enough I wouldn't be surprised if an anime gets made. I hope it's a good adaptation if it does happen, but deep down I know it'll be shit.
When's Phase 2fucking cuck not doing comiket Releases anymore
The last page of Keropoyo's profile is fucking hilarious.
>>22204910Both Ryuukishi and DEEN have given up on anime adaptations after the disaster that was Umineko.
>>22204760This. She's the absolute best.
>>22204917Hopefully early 2020. Probably mid or late 2020
Have you watched the best abridged series made yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fT8q9IgRJA&list=PL2Wr--dAykGC7cEYC6CVO4fwjK6AC4SL5
>>22204910It's impossible for a WTC game to get a good anime adaptation. Too much information is told through narration.
>>22204760>Negro-chanWhich one?
i was supposed to write a paper today but i ended up masturbating about 4 times
>>22204949I hope that this doesn't take a decade to finish. If I hit 30 by the time it's done, I'll be pretty pissed.
>>22204980I've been doing that a lot lately. Find anything good?
>>22205076my mind is a powerful engine on its own
>>22205003It shouldn't. Higurashi and Umineko took 4 years each.
>>22205079Who did you fantasize about then?
>>22205079You know it's probably a good thing we'll never get to experience Selcoms. All that VR porn would be the end of us.
how much of the original witch hunt script is changed on the steam version?
>>22205088With releases every 6 months like clockwork. I'll be surprised if we get the next episode by Summer comiket.
>>22203800Yeah... Gonna need a doujinshi of Meow and Jayden, but Meow switches mid-coitus so Miyao has to take the D.
>>22205088anon it should be obvious from the usual subject of this thread
I think I'm in love with Koshka.
>>22205140Ange? Lambda? Erika? Chloe? There's plenty of "usuals"
So who all is confirmed dead?
>>22205093>/jp/ selcom server
>>22203725>>22203731
Ange's only friends are imaginary! What a fucking loser!!
>>22205379me at the left, bottomless.
so this game tanked from the really shitty writing right
>>22204164The instrumental version of Empty Sky is definitely my favorite track, gave me the same vibe that umi's feelsy tracks did
Meow is lucky that their body is that of a skinny faggot and she can pass for a girl with some makeup.Still, I'm predicting some fucked up situation where drunk guys try to rape her in a dark alley at night and they beat the shit out of her for "being a crossdressing faggot" when they see the dick. Then Miyao wakes up in the hospital with his face all stitched up and Meow is nowhere to be seen.
>>22205527Their society seems way too PC for that sort of thing to ever happen.
>>22205112Not much, mostly fixing typos and the rare awkwardly phrased sentence. They also removed boku/warawa clarifications because it's stupid for normies and weebs already know all about it in the first place. Duct tape was more accurately translated as packing tape. And they removed the green text grimoire because it wasn't really needed and took you out of the story a bit.Overall, it's a good version but I prefer the original with its animated rain and shit, even if the translation was slightly less polished. It was still a superb translation practically identical to the steam one. The biggest differences would be Chiester being called Siestas during the question arcs and the epitaph being worded a bit differently in the question arcs too.
>>22205543>society is a PC hellhole>but it's ok because you can chat up an elementary schooler inside your brains, become friends, and share nudes or have fun in VR, and nobody will ever know unless you piss her off somehow and she tells on you as revengeSeriously, selcom sounds like the ultimate communication tool. Absolute privacy.
>>22205557itll get regulated soon enough
>>22203179>did any mass death incident happen in the LATO region?Cortes invasion which lead to a massive plague that may have wiped out 70% of the population at least and human sacrifices
>>22205565>possibly there are already people who were impersonating others using their avatarsWowowowow!
>>22205527That guy I know has six other personalities, five of which are girls. And from what they told me (I'm not really friends with them), they feel pretty awkward in their body and one of them straight up doesn't like being dominant and just stays in the background or sleeps. They have mental images of themselves and their own mental voices.But I guess Meow doesn't need that, since she's always been allowed to be out and her body can pass for a girl. Her mental self-image is probably just their real face.
So apparently Ishak is a drug addict...
>>22205577chuunishit lol
So the general consensus is that it's easily the worst first episode ryukishi has written, right? Because hot damn is the prose stale as shit and the storytelling ungodly repetitive. The lack of any real pop like Umineko or Higurashi 1 have is also gonna make it a pretty hard sell to casuals.
>>22205605My friend is not a chuuni, he's had this crap for 20+ years.
>>22205618Your friend's a chuuni, Anon. Sorry to break it to you like this, but that's not how MPS works.
>>22205616I think it's his best, actually. I've always found R07's down to earth prose pretty comfy. Call it mediocre or whatever, I prefer it to most other writing styles.I like all the characters so far, the girls are hot as fuck and the setting alone is amazing. I guess he still repeats himself quite a bit, and the music is nothing spectacular yet outside a few tracks. But this is hitting all the right buttons and is everything I ever wanted in a 07thExpansion novel.I'm a huge Higurashifag and I keep ranting about how people don't appreciate it enough because they watched the anime or whatever. But honestly, R07 has been improving with every work so far. Even Higanbana and RGD have parts where they surpass Umineko, IMO. The settings and worldbuilding in particular keep getting better and better, and Ciconia's world is probably my favorite in any VN (we'll see how it develops).
>>22205637nah that anon is a chuuni with made up friend
>>22205637You have no idea what you are talking about and you know it.
>toujirou and miyao's last name is mitake>for toMITAKEshit...
>>22205616absolute struggle to get through with any enjoyment petering out the longer it went
>>22205637It works differently depending on the person and how it came about. Don't talk of if you don't know shit about the subject and have no experience with actual people who have this condition.You are probably thinking of people who qualify for a "disorder" diagnosis because they have trouble communicating with each alter and it interferes in their everyday life. Or maybe the opposite, tulpafaggots who make up alters and pretend to have given themselves DID on the internet. Neither of those examples have anything to do with what we're talking about. The first is a person with serious mental issues and crazy alters resulting from trauma. The second is an autistic faggot who fakes this shit because he thinks it's cool to have a mental condition.My friend was born with it and deals with it very efficiently now, so he's technically not "diseased". Doesn't mean he's a turboautist making shit up. Educate yourself.
>>22205683>born with itYou should donate your friend to CPP research, in the name of guiding humanity down the right path.
Like a puppet ____________________.
>>22201154>Toujirou has connections to both the 3Ks, Prometheus, but also (probably) the Translators through his ex-wife.We don't know that last part. We only saw a preview.
So what's the deal with the cagandos? Why does Valentina look like Beato?
i swear I didn't have a budding fetish for humiliation before coming here
"How do I delete you"Everything related to keropoyo is hilarious.
>>22205572You know I took that screenshot because of the face value joke of Chloe being lewd again, and the implications of it and what you just said flew over my head.
>>22205616Been playing it for a while and I don't mind the prose, but it doesn't feel like a WTC game at all. I don't know why he didn't just call it something else.
>>22205750The game would have been a lot better if he replaced some of the conversations between the group reaffirming the same thing with the sol scenes from the fragments.
Have they ever fucking seen each other outside VR? How do we know they all look like their avatars?
I can hear komm susser todd playing in the background amidst the screams.
>>22205783They saw each other irl at the very start at the festival.
>>22203045The other Miyao already failed anon. The murder program is going to murder.
Whatever happened to that Lambdafag twitter artist? It's like every trace of him vanished one day.
>>22203167I believe it's going to be 4 episodes for end of humanity and a big ol game over where everyone fucks everything up and humanity goes extinct.Then WTC6 is Miyao getting replaced by the program, people actually not being game pieces and so on, then everything still goes to shit but this time it's not a gameover and two people survive.
>>22205616Those are some heavily rose-tinted glasses there buddy, episode one of Higurashi made me want to gouge my eyes out at some points with how slow it was. I do Umineko's was overall stronger, but this one generated some emotional responses that neither entire VN got out of me, mostly of the horrified and depressing kind. Highest highs by far if a little slow, but that slowless is part for the course with Ryukishi. I'll never treat boredom as a valid criticism for a narrative. It's always better to go overboard than risk plot holes or insufficient characterization/worldbuilding
>>22203350>How many times in the story are adults portrayed as out of touch and incompetent?The same amount of time the kids themselves are.There's plenty of times the adults are also portrayed well, like Ret's brother or anyone striving for peace, like the people from LATO or the admirals.
>>22203415Mariana is totally a dude, right?
>>22204810Only the last six characters are added after you finish the fragments, you already have acess to all characters info during the first war I think.
>>22205912It's just her special ability flairing up.
Anyone got the sauce on how the mangagamer got the better side of the deal with R07 with Ciconia?Some anon pointed the story out to me, but I forgot.
>>22205527>Meow is lucky that their body is that of a skinny faggot and she can pass for a girl with some makeup.You mean Miyao is lucky that his body hasn't grown tits so he can still pass for a guy.
I remember reading somewhere that some ww1 pilots knew each other from contests and meetings before the war broke out, wonder if that's where R07 got the idea from
>>22205986Not so rare when in ciconia you have a 50/50 chance of either being flat as a washboard or tits so big you need to do daily back exercises to live normally.
>>22206011life is unfair. The busty get bigger while the flatties get smaller.
>>22206027Goddamn I want to DESTROY Ret until she makes the Ciconia cry.
>>22203167Where did Ryukishi say there wouldn't be a time loop?At the end of First Phase humanity is pretty much dead. I could see Second Phase going forward with the reaping and the aftermath, but by Third Phase the loop will be assured. The story cannot really go on after everyone is dead forever, unless Ryukishi is willing to kill 95% of its cast and continue with one or two survivors for three entire episodes.In all likeliness, though, Second Phase will be a timeloop.Also remember that Takano said something to the sound of "We find wisdom between this world and the next, and this one is almost finished". Future Miyao also implies something like that, just like Koshka.Now, it could be that the timeloop happens because everyone is injected into a VR simulation in the future, if they aren't already inside a VR sim in First Phase.
>>22203167>when the 1st one completely and utterly fucked it over.We still have seven billion to go, though I agree they probably won't drag it out for eight episodes, maybe four at most.
>>22206074I don't think so, the time loop can wait until all four episodes are done easily.Just because we're set on the path to destruction doesn't mean it'll all happen in a single phase.
>>22205660Anon...>mitake toujirou>tomitake jirou
>>22206074He said that there wouldn't be a catbox because people figured out the mechanics of the gameboard in relation to the existence of the catbox. This lack of a catbox likely means that Phase 1 to 4 will be one continual stream. Alt-Miyao might be in a loop but he likely won't see his perspective.>At the end of First Phase humanity is pretty much deadNot really, only 3.5 billion out of 10 billion are dead. WW4 hasn't yet happened yet. By Phase 4, I doubt there'll be even a a few thousand left.
>>22205707>observers>one with blue hair is called maRICA
>>22206114They're dead, Jim. All of them.The only survivors among the youths are Koshka, Miyao, the filthy Jews who turned coat immediately, and possibly one or two more, though that's not certain.Ryukishi sure could create a story with that vastly reduced cast, but most probably there will be a reboot at least mid-second phase. Probably even earlier.
>rika wants to fuck satoko>mion says she wishes she was born a boy>keiichi gets hard when hes wearing a dress and thinking about older men fucking him>'nooooo why is ciconia for homos'you secondaries really think it started here?
umineko ep 1 > ciconia ep 1 > higurashi ep 1
>>22205981if this is true fuck this, mangagamer are awful and their freelanced translations of higurashi suck shit
>>22206159Miyao is a girl though
>>22206159>rika wants to fuck satokoPffttt. As if. They might sleep in the same bed but that's it.
>>22205549I see, I'm gonna read the og version sometime. Sounds worth it.
>>22200015The true
>>22206297Sorry wrong pic
It begiiiiiiins.
>>22200933>That one kero that goes "thank you for letting me die human"I teared up.
>>22206325This violate knox!!!!
Has anyone extracted the cgs/backgrounds? Sprites are fine too
>>22199833>>22199988I'm moving to Canada.
>>22206328>ground impact in 5 seconds;_;7
How do I delete keropoyo's sprites from the game?
>>22206348what did you just say bitch
>>22206325Bern confirmed official support of Ark 2XXX.
FORESHADOWING
>>22206348Need to find a way to recompile the arc.nsa file after replacing certain sprites.
>>22206325Having a tea party with my fellow mad researchers!
>>22206348You can find arc repack tools on github.GARbro should work just fine.Just extract, replace the sprites with blank images saved in .png, and then repack.
>>22200933>Thank you for not making me kill
>>22206348How dare you.
>>22206346>Please, dodge this! Don't let it hit you!
>>22206373>>22206348Or better yet, with Pepe pictures. That'd give one or two maidos a heart attack, and would be a whiff of fresh air from old, fun /jp/.Shit, if I have the time I'll do it. Already has significant experience with *onscripter.
>>22206376FUCK ;_;
>>22206384>Pepe picturesKek! Based!
>>22201245Nice! I thought we'd need something like that.Good job, anon.
>>22206408Yeah. By the way, if you want some old /jp/ atmosphere, read the /v/ thread right now. They're having a laugh and having fun. >>>480597014I wish we still had that sort of mentality, but it was destroyed half a dozen years ago.
>>22206302No problem. It's still dumb.
>>22206417Why?1bitArgumentSo for you eva culprit in 3 games but not in the second isnt dumb?
>planet is dying while the big factions, whose worldviews and goals are basically mutually exclusive, are too busy playing politics to do anything about it>main characters are a group of teenagers who first get to know each other in a casual setting and are then made to fight each other to the death for goals they realize they never really believed in
>>22206422I'm not talking about theories at the moment.The picture is pretty bad.
>>22206432
>>22206438Ok sorryI use telegram
>>22206422Accomplices can change.
>>22206432Image think that all ciconia isnt a virtual reality game
>>22206457Honestly, if he pulls a "It was all a simulation!", I'd be kind of disappointed. I hope he's just hinting towards that to disprove it later on.
>>22206454Accomplices cant kill peopleIf you kill someone you are a culpritIn my theory in all games even the 5th and the bern's gameThe culprits are the sameGeorge(for obtain 2 billion yen card and kill his parents) and kanon (for ravange)And the accomplices are the sameGenji (for loyalty) nanjo and kumasawa (4th game money during ange story)
>>22205616The only "general consensus" we have so far is that "it's good", because most people don't throw a fit when something isn't paced like a thriller, and also haven't conditioned themselves to think that anything not paced like a thriller is written like shit.
>>22206159I thought you were just shitposting the first time you around, but you're actually serious aren't you? No, Rika doesn't want to fuck Satoko. Mion is insecure about her sexuality and flip-flops between pretending not to be a girl and trying to get K1 to notice her by putting him in embarassing situations, K1s comment on the way being in a dress makes him feel is a parody of the tropes of the genre, and as evident by the fact that he doesn't fold over and turn into a masochist who loses club activities on purpose to get punished by cute girls, he maintains a healthy desire to except his own dominance.
>>22206465>AnonymousHumanity destroy the planet during ww3So they create matrix and wait until the planet was recover.In the matrix humans will expirience many different world destruction for made them hate wars when they will exit and return in the world.
>>22206477sorry but theres literally no way to explain around keis (or ryukishis) raging hardon for force femcope
>>22206503moving the goalposts cope. yikes!
Can we trade the stupid fucking erikatrice poster away to get humiliation anon back? This faggotry is like 20x worse than rosatrice posters.
>>22204561>Mother created Miyao to prevent the factory from happeningis this an assumption? or was it stated the purpose of the program was for stopping that "hell"? and what was anti-miyao's purpose then? wasn't he the one who showed her that factory scene and was trying to stop it?also this >>22200226 and its mention of "certainty" makes it seem like he is related to lambda or is lambda herself.i need to extract the script somehow because there a bunch of things i'd like to check. for example all the prophecy lines.
>>22206477>a parody of the tropes of the genrecan you really say that when every game is filled with more homo than the last? next you'll tell me will x lion was a parody
>>22206509Thanks anon This give me hopeBecause people hate you when you have right
>>22206523I never said anything like that. anon was pushing his batshit cumbrain reading of higurashi and I told him to fuck off - that's all I want to accomplish here.
And Satoko's towel mode, about done with the sketch part of Satoko's spritset with that.
>>22206547
>>22206539Are you Spanish
>tests the waters with jokes about kei x satoshi>will x lion canon>angel of 17 years even ships battler and rudolf>rgd illustrated by literal yaoi artists>SNIFFF miyaos sweat is so nice>homo date scene in ep 1>my stupid cute son! lets bathe together againfags win again, get ready for four games of based homo kamige
>>22205616What? This was the best one.He really improved his pacing and the story is pretty good.
>>22206558Italian
>>22206561very based post
>>22206579based on what?
>>22202920Shaping the present.
>>22206640Me. That post was based on me, inspired by me, built on my lifestory.
>>22206659based homochad
>>22206551
>>22206700you really should consider toning down the rate at which you post progress pictures, or I prophesize that you'll start being treated as annoying foreign object by a majority of anons, and chances are it'll never be the same after that. Don't be an attentionwhore, it doesn't pay off.
>>22206700I'm getting an overpowering doujin feeling from all of them, especially the coloring.It's like these drawing ooze sex, like their prime raison d'etre is arousing the viewer.
>>22206719artfags are always welcome
>>22206727what a stupid thing to say
>>22206567Are you Beatrice?
>>22206753If you know the true solution about the mistery you become a with......so Yes
>>22206733the thread is moving so fast we couldnt possibly get any more content in here! better chase off the single fanartist in here
>>22204267Not only the disasters. If you count every named/important gauntlet knight, except the LATO ones, you get the 24 that's always mentioned in the book. And the ones from LATO conveniently have trumpet designs.The throne of God is also supposed to appear near a "sea of glass".The 4 riders of the apocalypse = 4 traitorsThe thing not!Takano wants to open lets you "sleep" in there for 1000 years, just like the dragon that wants to destroy the planet. During the 1000 years Jesus is supposed to rule over the earth, probably what the three kings want.There are still tons of things I have no idea about. The 7 churches mentioned in the book don't really fit anywhere, there are 5 nations and 9 ace teams as far as we know. The seven spiritual figures are also still missing, but I imagine they will show up whenever the world ends as the "One like the Son of Man" (so Jesus) reaps the earth. If that wasn't obvious enough, just after that an angel reaps "the vine of the Earth" and throws it into "the great winepress of the wrath of God... and blood came out of the winepress... up to one thousand six hundred stadia." (14:17–20)
>glass seaSo I guess you could say... It's a sea of fragments?Get it?!
>>22206786Miyao wanted to get 7 Masters for his Order if the Public Bath, could those be the "churches"?He only ended up getting 6 if you don't count Keropoyo as the secretary, but considering that appears to be pretty much equivalent to Seshat I'd definitely count it.
>>22206792>Spiritum are human souls>Scientists managed to capture their consciousness and place them in VR-like scenarios, like lone island murder mystery or village horror slaughterhouse
>>22204164I'm surprised this one seems to be pretty unpopular.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpjHnfoVSkI absolutely love the instruments and it just feels so ominous, but in a lighter manner than the theme for the 3Ks.
>>22206813>to kage
>>22206813For some reason the soundfont reminds me of PS1-era Final Fantasy.
>>22206805Wow, that would be an amazing way to retroactively ruin every single thing he's ever written!
>>22206819I'm just fooling around. Surely R07 wouldn't do something on that level of retarded, would he?
>>22204157A lot of folks say the grinder scene was scary but for me it was just icky, angeburger 3.0 of gross horrorThis though, this was unsettling in a very lovecraftian sense - similar to LOST's vault, can't wait to have something totally mundane in here (or maybe it's the Matrix of the world, with everything outside the underground lab being a part of it?)
>>22206804This would also throw an interesting spin on the traitor question, since someone representing a church probably isn't also going to be one of the 4 riders. Not that it matters much, none of the leaders is a prime candidate anyway.Another interesting thing of note, the 1st of the 3 woes that are the beginning of killing off humanity has a part about locusts being summoned who are "being commanded not to harm anyone or anything except for people who were not given the "seal of God" on their foreheads" and who are being described as having a human appearance (faces and hair) but with lion's teeth, and wearing "breastplates of iron"; the sound of their wings resembles "the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle".Sounds awfully familiar to Miyao's order of gauntlet knights.One thing that throws all of this into chaos is the entire "Throne of God" thing. Nothing similar to that appeared yet in the story, if it isn't something lame like the military bases on the glass sea. The problem here is that Ryukishi pretty much follows the events in chronological order, stopping right before the 3rd woe while the Throne of God appearing is one of the first things that even happens, way before the world goes to shit.
>>22204785She's a 'princess' because the '姬/ji' in her name stands for 'princess'Unlike our African Princess that's actually a part of a hilariously old-fashionably named royal family
>>22206700Ooishi next on the line?
>>22205080They were also released on Comikets, unlike Ciconia
>>22206864he's in progress.
>>22206869Ciconia was planned to release on Comiket too, but got delayed. Maybe it won't get delayed next time. Surely.
>>22206871Pure chad aura
>>22206877The question arcs cast's sprites are all more or less started.
>>22203606I think it'll either be tied specifically to Myao (contrasting him with general population and going in detail about his parents' plan) or maybe abolishing the practice of factory births entirely.
>>22206860again, reminder that the events probably won't match the book by 100%, but only 80%.
>>22204157It's the Rokkenjima cat-box.
>>22206547Draw her like the original sprite, you won't, you're too scared.
>Ciconia physical is 3500 yen>Ciconia digital is 4350 yenwhat the fuck
>>22206821Nope, you hit the nail right on the head!All chessboards are real games that humanity makes because they're stuck in VR hell.
>>22206942Is that catgirl Umineko Saku's stuff?
>>22206961Yeah, from "Our confession" which is old stuff that was supposedly turned into a novel.
>>22206942>mfw only 700 rublesFuck yeah regional pricing>>22206953Nah.
>>22206764I'm giving my honest opinion because I want that anon to stick around.
>>22206975>live 15km from Russian border>have EU prices in euros because hell yeah common market>friends flex on me with shit like thisjust annex us pls
>>22206985I’m not some newfag, been around for a while.
Ciconia on my steam is also pretty cheap but I payed for mangagamer version and I don't regret it.
>>22206942Steam cut is pretty huge, especially for indie games since the lowest cut, 10%, is only applied if you sell toncrap of copies so mostly only AAA games can achieve that.And I assume MG get a small cut too, so 800 yen difference doesn't seem that excessive if you ask me.
>>22207079>Steam cut is pretty hugephysical cut is much bigger dudethis is why everyone were celebrating steam for having "low cut" few years ago
>>22207079>10%Welp, it is worse than I thought. It is actually 20%>Normally, Valve takes around 30 percent of all game sales on Steam, with some exceptions for games from smaller developers in its Steam Direct program. That will remain the case for the first $10 million in sales a game maker or publisher earns. For all sales between $10 million and $50 million, the split goes to 25 percent. And for every sale after the initial $50 million, Steam will take just a 20 percent cut.
>>22206942The catslut is part of Ciconia?
>>22206860>Throne of GodHow many wings did the 4D printed objects have again?Because the "Thrones" of God have 6 and are cylinders
>>22207093-> >>22206967>>22207018if you live in CIS region you should be able to ask someone from russia to buy shit for you
>every time Toujiro's ringtone went off
>>22207079This.
>>22202883>tfw too old to learn how to play an instrument>tfw too old to learn moonrunesDon't be like that, anon! You can do it!
>>22207118This. I've just picked up a guitar half a year ago. I still can't play for shit, but at least now I can play some simple melodies and ITAOTS.
>>22206547Looks great. even remembered to change her hair/ remove her hairband. Actually wait, is that entire sprite drawn from scratch? Doesn't look like any of the parts are shared with the previous ones. If so nice extra effort.
>>22206700The gang's all here
>>22207101Pretty sure they also had 6 wings, but weren't they supposed to fuck over the oceans of the world? That would fit rather with one of the "star" in the book since one of them does exactly what the wierd space objects are supposed to do.I'm thinking that, atleast chronologically, the "Throne of God" is the public bath VR room. It has a view on the Sea of Glass and it also fits with the line about 24 elders (Gauntlet Knights) surrounding it.But this begs the question, who is "God" then? The obvious answer would be evil Miyao since he gets "born" there, but I have a feeling that's not the case. He feels more like a messenger to me than the God the Illuminati revere.
i wanna squeeze jestress' butt
>>22206384please share when you are done
>>22207108What was that again?
>>22206027Explain kashka and the Finn in front of the Jews and the French potato.
>>22206027Where is Jayden on that list
miau miau miau miau :DDDDDDDDD
>>22204690no u
>>22207382why do finnish people have to be like this?
>>22207382what a faker, wowowow!
>>22207382She dead?
>>22207196> Doesn't look like any of the parts are shared with the previous onesJust the face was kept, the rest is indeed from scratch.
>>22207465Well, a lot of people are implied to be. But so far, the only confirmed are:Lingji, Maya, and Comrade Mario
>>22207482>MarioFucking ryukishi always killing the best boys.
>>22205527God I hope so. Fuck that selfish cunt.
>>22207482Comrade ;_;
>>22207382God I hope she gets punched by Chloe at the end.
>>22206325Her face is the best. I'd come all over her. God Bless R07.
So what are those tubes the kings have attached to their bodies? Is that what keeps them alive?
>>22207656I don't think the blue girls would appreciate that, unless your semen is wisdom
anyone know how to extract the script from the game? a well ordered save file could be useful too.
Lilja + Koshka obviously = Bern. One is super happy nipahnipah and the other is violent and rude. Plus Koshka literally means Cat
>>22207682nipah :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Update on Chloe edit.
>>22207465Hopefully
>>22207606>>22207619Don't be sad because he's gone. Be happy we even got to know him. Besides, it was his choice to begin with and we must respect that.
>>22207717You need to change the face sprite to the Chloevil one.
>>22207846Let's all go get our dignity back too!
>>22207855Way ahead of you
>>22206384Looks like someone already did.Though they did it when the demo came out, dont know if they made a full version or even uploaded it anywhere.https://twitter.com/poutchouli/status/1169460771409059840?s=19
>>22206840I didnt find it scary. Was like baby's first stroggification scene.
>>22207897It wasn't so much the gore as the way it was presented. The perspective made it seem very personal and familial, and there was a sense of finality to it worse than most mad-science bullshit where people are put into jars or made into robots or something. Only their nervous systems were saved, and there was clearly some error in the automated process causing inequalities in pain felt and machine treatment. Who's to say whether you'll be a few inches too short for what a crusher is expecting and it'll chop you to mincemeat instead of preserving you?
>>22207918>Who's to say whether you'll be a few inches too short for what a crusher is expecting and it'll chop you to mincemeat instead of preserving you?It's possible preventing this was why they were getting so thoroughly analyzed.
>Okonogi can make a losing Miayo defeat the CQC expert who is using a Gauntlet made with Translator tech in a single punchWhat is his deal?Is he human?
>>22207991>ToujirouThere's clearly several levels of bullshit conspiracy technology beyond what the public and even most militaries are aware of. Seshat's control over Kizuna was enough to utterly overwhelm the highest levels of national security and she managed to somehow incapacitate two Gauntlet Knights in an instant with her own weird arm. Most of what the people in Vier's lab are working on is also like magic compared to surface tech.
>>22202382either that or half of one
What's with the indian chick? She doesn't need to sleep and is supposedly a great parallel processor, and yet she doesn't bother entering the public bath server. I think she only showed up once at the beginning when she was invited.
>>22204164https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGxMgobgAVUGood RGD vibes
>>22207208After going through Revelation again, I am fairly sure R07 wasn't kidding about this being the plan. And I don't think it's in a vague way, but in a way that we should be able to map events/places/pieces to concrete roles in it.A sea of glass is mentioned again in Revelation 15:2.>And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.I could totally see this being after a battle over the sea of glass. What follows is also curious (Revelation 15:5-7)>After these things I looked, and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. And out of the temple came seven angels, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure bright linen, and having their chest girded with golden bands. Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever.One of the main features of our blue people is the golden band across their chests. And these gauntlets they are carrying are gold. Coincidence, maybe, but based on the one with Jayden's head in the ending I could still see them being "angels".Additionally, I thought that this bit about the Whore of Babylon was interesting (Revelation 17:9-11).>"Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is one of the seven, and is going to perdition.Five fallen kings... well, there's five nations. "One is" will be one of our behind-the-scenes people. And this business about the eighth being one of the seven would definitely fit with the whole multiple personality stuff going on. Maybe Miyao. And this eighth-but-seventh is the beast, who's important to the overall sequence of things.>>22206860We should remember that everything that isn't A3W is unknown, and there's the whole bit about our opponent being fully prepared. Maybe the Throne of God stuff happened in the prelude to the current world.
>>22200226The hell Lambda was talking about in Umineko was Miyoko's childhood.
>>22208207I don't get itis this suppose to be funny?Is this suppose to be ironic?Please fuck off either way
>>22208207Where's love in your theory? What does it mean for characters?
>>22208136Gonna have to be more specific, mac.>She doesn't need to sleepNobody needs to sleep, technically.
>>22208214This.
A dick only make it better.
Meme theory: after entering this game of three players Bern split into three(the three members of Grave Mole) and Lambda did too(Mother, Jestress and Takano)The third player lies in the 1000 year box that Seshat opens at the end of Phase 1, and she plans to use that person to bring back "those two"(Bern and Lambda, the other players)>>22204691That scene happens while she is about to get gunned down by anti-gauntlet troopsMaybe she keeps some memories of past loops like Rika did and that is her condition, and in that scene she can't wait to die so she can enjoy a fresh body that hasn't been destroyed by years of surgeryMaybe Pandora's Box represents the knowledge of past timelines, you could use "the knowledge of past worlds that could be used to save humanity" as a metaphor for Hope inside the box(brain)The higher ups are probably aware of loops(Three Kings, Tomitake and Miyao's Mother all know about things that are about to come) and having extra knowledge by extracting memories from people whose memories don't reset across loops is a major resource to be exploited, which is why they want more girls like her>>22206510I think it's a safe bet the <hell> Miyao's mother talks about is the factory, since the factory scene happens right after the conversation about Miyao being a program made to kill a certain person>and what was anti-miyao's purpose then? wasn't he the one who showed her that factory scene and was trying to stop it?Maybe after the ending of Phase 1 and all the talk of abandoning bodies Miyao(and Jayden) get plugged into the factory(which explains the blue bodies) and for some reason went back in time to ensure Miyao allows the factory to existHonestly I don't know, Anti-Miyao is one of the most mysterious characters in the plot, extracting the dialogue of his scenes would be real useful
>>22208263Jayden is a healthy young man.
>>22208231I'm saying that she's rude for not saying hi once in a while when she could literally do it at any time.
>>222082266 years ago battler arrive at rokkenjima and find a cute shy girl that love mistery novel like him.the fell in love each others but time pass and battler must return at home.so battler promise to send letters to her but he cant do directly because kinzo is aliveso battler made an agreement with shannonhe will send letters to her and her will give its to yasu.but the fat man is jealous George thought that the letters were really for shannon so destroyed them.this is LOVE NOT MUH BATTLER FORGOT HER!!!!
>>22208214>>22208260erika didnt saw shannon,kanon,yasu body in the wardrobeand shkanontrice fags cant explaine this
>>22204392>>22204397The three kings are just LARPers and have nothing to do with the actual plot.
cunnyconia
The Witch of Foreknowledge.
>>22208314You called?
Okay, pardon me asking, but who is this esl who keeps shitposting?What's his deal?
>>22208267>I think it's a safe bet the <hell> Miyao's mother talks about is the factory, since the factory scene happens right after the conversation about Miyao being a program made to kill a certain personno that 's not what i meant. that is indeed a safe bet. i was talking about whether the intent behind creating miyao was to prevent this hell. basically, whether that's what miyao mother wanted. whether miyaos murder program was created to stop the hell, because it could also be the opposite.also, from the ending it sounded like the mothers goal was something more selfish.
>>22208319I never finished Dies Irae because while the SoL with childhood friend was excellent I got tired of the oh-so-serious edgy shounenshit writing. These guys are just the main character and his friend from some kind of parallel timeline who achieved godhood, right?
>>22208320mei discover the real true about umineko and i called this ERIKANTRICE.:george and kanon are the culprit is every gameskanon isnt shannonand erika =kanon explaine 5th and 6th gamesso now i post it here for made people know about the trueisnt shitposting!!!!
>>22208320He's some loser from ABN Italy who forgot to update his Kizuna.
>>22208295How is it possible for Erika to exist on Rokkenjima 6 years ago, if she was a "random" stranger whose ship was nearby?
>>22208335No on all accounts. None of those guesses are even remotely close to the truth
>>22208343fuck off italy isnt of ABN pope isnt a cuck that betrayl god and join with jews and arabs!!!the north italy is indipendent and under beatrice control!!!
Miyao "Demolisher of Peace" MitakeMiyao "Schrödinger's Genitalia" MitakeMiyao "Chuuni in the Closet" MitakeMiyao "Kids' Meal Prize" MitakeMiyao "Cat still in the Bag" MitakeMiyao "Daddy's Pet" MitakeMiyao "Prodigy in Homosexuality" Mitake
>>22208335I had the exact same theory when playing DIBut not really, the MC and his friend just were manipulated while growing up to end up being similar to both of them to make the finale more flashy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBrPllRrw6cAnyone figured out of the lyrics of this yet?
>>22208348There's a point in the game where you get a bunch of news from all over the world and one of them mentions "ABN Italy"
>>22208345erika is just a personality of yasu like kanon!!yasu love mistery booksand she dream many times to be a detective!!!
>>22208356yes i knowbut AOC JAPAN AND COA JAPANso maybe italy is like japanall umineko is full by italiansit will be strange if there arent italians in the game
>>22208357There are no alternate personalities in Umineko. They are Yasu's tulpas at most. It's just a single person thinking of herself as different people in her head, having absolute control because it's just role playing.
>>22208357How is it possible for her to gain detective authority then? It contradicts the very foundation of the genre.
>>22208348Beatrice is now a cagando from Brazil, she's not Italian anymore.
>>22208347>>22208352huh, guess the conclusion might still be interesting then? I'll give it another try one of these days if you think reading Marie and Rea's arcs is worth it.
>>22208364Почему every little nation is so obsessed with being mentioned in books, movies exc?
I wonder if Miyo Takano's collection of country flags will come into play.HMMMMMMMMMMMMM...
Make AOU Great Again!
>>22208378How?
You know, Miyao Mitake sounds suspiciously similar to Miyo Takano
>>22208378It's already great, what are you on about?
>>22208381WALLS OF PEACE!
>>22208374>ПочемуЧё?
>>22208368ronove say about lambda's game:"this game doesnt had love"because in this game yasu ravange was on natsuhi not battlergeorge is the culprit he made murders and erika accomplices accuse natsuhi for destroy the most important thing for natsuhi reputation>>22208365yasu=erika=kanon one body 3 personality
I wouldnt mind watching Maricarmen cagando
>>22208374People want to see their nation represented. I don't. Every time my nation shows up, it's to talk about how trash it is. Ciconia is the only game where it's positively spoken of.
>>22208371brazilians are all italians like all south americans>>22208374italy is the greatest country in the world
>people seriously saying that it's witches again and Bern or Lambda or Battler will literally appearUnless there's some Earth-shattering revelation in the last data fragment that I haven't read, that's just bullshit. They're separate stories, leave them like that.
>>22208364You should get out more.
>>22208386Reported for dissent*Kero Kero!*
So apparently the glass sea is a huge spiritium field too. I WONDER if they are burning human souls for fuel. Maybe Evil Miyao is a soul that got mixed up with his during a dressig conversion of spiritium.What if the sea of fragments is actually just the glass sea and all the souls are trapped there reliving alternate universes over and over again? The witches are souls who reached a high enough level of consciousness to swim around at will and enter other realities.
>>22208387Sry kizuna malfunction brёh
>>22208399watch ciconia's tipsthere is space for another nation!!!!
Why the fuck didn't Ryukishi put the fragments between chapters?They could have seriously helped pace out the WALLS OF PEACE sections, made the characters more likeable and fleshed out the world more
>>22208343Ha! What a *kerokero* loser, poyo!
>>22208373Kasumi's and Kei's routes are easily the worst part of DI. They are really just not all that great.They still have some cool parts, mostly when they spend time developing members of the LDO and pretend Ren's love life doesn't even exist, but they simply don't even touch upon the main antagonists or their goals. It's like they just end halfway through the route.
>>22208396I mean, humanity is clearly tapping into higher dimensions to make this technology work. Maybe they accidentally fucking with the meta beings (who shouldn't even call themselves witches in the first place).Reminder that Hanyuu's tribe originally came from a higher dimension and they just incarnated in physical tridimensional bodies to mingle with the villagers. It's been a thing since Higurashi.
>>22208374I guess they get lonely and want recognition,
>>22208416FUCK OFF!!!i will spoil yougunhild is the culprit!!!!muh i was raped by this society and i want destroy it!!!
>>22208395South Americans are the descendants of native Americans and rapist Spaniards. Shame on them.Meanwhile, today's Spaniards don't have a single drop of rapist conquistador blood in them.
>>22208396why not? they keep referring to the board and players and concepts like that. i think it's very likely we'll see the two witches in ciconia eventually. >a promise of "certainty"this also seems to refer to lambda.
>>22208396>that's just bullshit. They're separate stories, leave them like that.that's up to Ryukishi, not usPlus there is more than enough fuckery going on in the story to let them be part of it, and they promised they would be back
>>22208431south america become indipendent from spain and italy invade them with millions immigrants
>>22208431>today's Spaniards don't have a single drop of rapist conquistador blood in them.the LATO girls awaken any trace left in my blood if you know what I mean
Jestress is obviously Vier Dreissig using an outdated avatar from when she cut her hair short.
>>22208452but im Jestress?
So if Grave Mole is Bern split into three, which part did Chloe get? The other two are just cats or whatever.
>>22208295making shitty memes doesn't validate your crack theory.
>>22208452like erika with bercastlevier is just a pawn of jestress=lambda
Report this italian guy to the religious police in the name of peace and harmony! *wink* *sparkle*
>>22203378Organics Automata = Environmental 8MS = 8 Million Kami (as a cultural belief) Current Earthlings (read: Humans) are fucking up their planet in exactly the same way as the UN in Haworthia did-- right down to the "This Planet is not dying, it's already dead" motif. Phase 2 and beyond, 8MS will manifest as a character kinda like the Internet/Singularity manifested as Lain in Serial Experiments Lain. "Wisdom" could literally be artifacts or impressions left behind by the species that left earth when there was still a single super-continent-- but maybe that's connecting things too literally when it's supposed to be more of a thematic thread?
>>22208463Rika's compassion and Bernkastel's sadism
Considering the last part with Seshat and Jestress, I was thinking that it really was Lambda and Bern. They're chasing each other.Could Mozart still be alive?
>>22208465dont argument like 1bit goats doesent make you right!!!
>>22208476That's great, thank you. Anything more in depth for the other two?
>>22208454You look very nice, miss!
>>22208411Maybe it's because the main story is already a rollercoaster of serious scene > comical scene > serious scene > comical scene. Adding the tips would tip it too far towards comedy.Or maybe it was done that way to keep the world mysterious until the end. They keep referring to 8MS and other shit that doesn't get explained until later, and this seems intentional to preserve the air of mystery, so maybe showing the tips early would reveal too much about the technology or make the tips incomprehensible because you still don't know what they are talking about.Or maybe the tips never happened in the Phase 1 reality and are just fragments of a past world.
>>22208470never i am a catholic fanatic that never go to church and i will always fight for defent the teachings of the catholic holyest book THE DIVINE COMEDY!!!
>>22208452that actually sounds possible. but we did have that scene in the ending with jestress physically chasing an unknown GK. unless that scene is a lie.
>>22208411So that the weakest anons wouldn't get to the 16th fragment.
>>22208449>inb4 she's a tranny with a humiliation fetish and loves being called marica because it reminds her of when he was bullied in school for being a faggot
>>22208470the religious special corps secret police youtube channel! secret police fan merchendise! secret police annual convention! secret police mobile game! boardgame! trading cards! patreon stretch goals and tier rewards! Make sure to be in the second tier or higher, or we'll know! if you're tier 12 or higher you can become an organizer for our information network!
Ok, so we have:-Witches-Parallel worlds-Pocket dimensions-Half the cast has two or more personalities-Virtual reality that perfectly emulates sight, sound and temperature-Regular drug consumption-You can choose to never sleep-People can communicate with anyone, anywhere, anytime with just their mindJesus Christ, and I thought Umineko was insane.
Maybe Marica thinks it's funny when foreigners curse unknowingly.Or maybe she's of Japanese descend.Or the negative connotation of the word was lost.
>>22208527Maybe she just thinks its cute
>>22208493I read the divine COMEDY and it didn't make me laugh even once. I only chuckled a bit when that dude got thrown around by a tornado or whatever.What a crappy comedy.
>>22208442chloe's first time anal
>>22208519I love them.
Fucking hell, this Takano expy better be important later on. I wanted her to have a Misato role, but turns out she's a total psycho again.
>>22208519Cute!
>>22208542why be a Misato knock off when you can have your own SCP facility
>>22208534comedy in old italian mean different a thing!divine comedy is bible 2.0 without jewish shitcmon catholic is the best religioneven the most saint man go to purgatory and the most evil sin is the betrayl!!
>>22208441That's just similar themes. Maybe it's just me, but I'd really rather it be its own separate story. Like Umineko was a separate story from Higurashi. Sure, there were references and such, but it stood completely as its own thing, with its own universe and cast of characters. Also, you already have a not!Takano/Lambda.
>>22208523>tfw not sleeping effectively doubles your awake lifespan but the drugs fuck up your body so you die youngStill better than being awake for the same amount of time but spending half of it as an old man. We were born in the wrong timeline.
>>22208493>>22208551I'm pretty sure saying the Divine Comedy is a holy book is some sort of heresy in Catholicism.
>>22208534Idk I found Dante conveniently fainting whenever the author got stuck writing a way out pretty funny.
>>22208551>divine comedy is bible 2.0 without jewish shitIt's literally an old fanfic with a selfinsert Gary Stu that hangs with his idol that lived in antiquity. that has his friends in Heaven and folks he didn't like in HellLiterally a primary schooler's journal, only with his real name and not any D'Arkness Rose business
What if the kings are just BRAINS in jars that have been kept alive for hundreds of years and can only communicate through VR?
>>22208394And what country are you from?
>>22208527What does it mean?
>>22208573What if everyone is just brains in jars, and the whole world is VR?
>>22208374My country is never featured in anything. There's still a slight chance it will happen in Ciconia, but after reading it, I'm not so sure anymore...
>>22208542I don't think the doctor died, they just killed his body and gave him an unaging artificial one.Reminder that androids and robots are mentioned at one point during the demo tips. They are a thing.
>>22208542Don't you think her lazy eyes are cute?
>>22208563>>22208570pope confirmed is canona true catholic never read the biblenew testament ok there is jesusbut the old is fucking shitjust jews that genocide innocent people larping that god want it.
>>22208573They were talking about previous kings that orchestrated WW3. They can't be older than 100 years, then.
>>22208559>We were born in the wrong timeline.I dunno about that. Their seems pretty fucked up.But then again, they have Miyao.
>>22208570t. has never read the divine comedy wowowowow!
I finished the game like 2 days ago, but it's only now sinking in how huge Phase 1 was. In roughly 12-15 hours of text, Ryukishi had to 1. set up the world and its technology2. set up the politics and individual nations, as well as their cultural values3. introduce a fuckhuge number of characters4. convincingly bring about Armageddon and burn it all down within the same EpisodeWhat the fuck was he thinking? All things considered, it was a bit clumsy and repetitive at times (when is r07 not a bit clumsy though), but he fucking did it. The more I think back the more I feel like something was staring me in the face that I didn't quite absorb. There was so much crazy bullshit, a spiderweb of cults, lovecraftian influences, etc, that I feel like the wool got pulled over my eyes-- especially when you consider everything is Miyao's fault somehow. It's like he had the characters moralize about war and peace and politics only to say "HAHA FUCKERS, YOUR IDEALISM DOESN'T MEAN SHIT", which is such a huge gamble after investing so much time into "walls of peace" talk. There's plenty to speculate about, but I'm also afraid this isn't the type of story that lends itself well to speculation. The only thing I can really say is Phase 2 when?
>>22208573So why do they have to die?
>>22208592but its true
>>22208573The Kings are reptilians, thats why they wear the maskThe coards are voice modulators so they sound human
>>22208605If I cut their tails off, will they die?
>>22208570This. It's just a power fantasy where Dante's enemies are conveniently sent to hell, his senpai is in purgatory and heaven is boring as shit and also a ripoff of the dragon ball kaio planets.
>>22208597Yeah. Ryu did such a great job.
>>22208601Just ignore Dante's self insert, baka. The reason the divine comedy is considered a literary milestone is how the planes of hell, purgatory and heaven mirror each other and how the story of Dante's journey gives you a holistic view of what it means to be human in the Christian tradition, from the lowest to the highest a person can be capable of.
>>22208575"Marica" is another way of calling people with the name "María" but nowadays is mostly used as que spanish equivalent of pussy/faggot/sissy...A lot of people just think in the negative conotation of the world but "Marica" is valid as a nickname.The problem is that is valid for the name "María" and not "Maricarmen", this is when shit gets funny, because Maricarme is a nickname form of the name "María del Carmen" that should be Maricarmen's true name, Ryukishi didn't do enought investigation about spanish names.
>>22208615einstein idea of shape of universe is equal to dante's shape of universe in divine comedy
>>22208597He delayed Ciconia from summer Comiket, so I guess he also won't be able to make it in time to the winter Comiket. Next August, then.
The kings might be reptilians, yes.But Seshat was clearly talking about ARCHONS during that scene at the hotel with the black security guard. She said that WW4 was necessary to set humanity back a few hundred years and let the survivors restore civilization again, because if it stagnated or got totally destroyed ((THEY)) would come harvest and devour all the souls, killing the cycle of reincarnation for good.She's trying to cause a world war right now because militiaries still don't have the power to completely obliterate every single human on Earth. If they kept developing new military technologies, WW4 would cause a complete human extinction and ((THEY)) would come to feast.
>>22208646george is just fat and incel not a reptilian
>>22208623https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariko_KagaStill better than this. Caga Marico...
>>22208570it's funny that this is an opinion which is parroted at universities around the world because "lol, Dante was a NERD just like us" is less threatening than actually having to engage with the ideas he presents moew moew moew!
>>22208479>They're chasing each other.I thought she was chasing Koshka
>>22208659Ok, this is pretty funny, and yeah some Japanese names are pretty funny.
>>22208653Makes me think
-koshka and lilja are both class 1 criminals-lilja was a ace trainee before her arrest-liljas personality changed considerably after imprisonment, presumably due to experimentation-lilja has an ability called clay girl, and that's also what the researchers call her brain.intredasting
>>22208679i will not join in your murderbut i think battler must die
LMAO at the twitter SJWs criticizing Ryuukishi because "DID never works that way" or "congenital DID doesn't exist", not realizing that they are completely wrong and it's R07 that did his research.I can't wait for someone to come out as a "CPP", making them nuke their accounts in a hurry because they don't want to lose virtue points.
>>22208623I mean. People can name their children whatever they want, even if it's confusing.And I have met people who provide a totally irrelevant nickname for themeselves.Although I'm not from the region in question. I just think it might be plausible.
>>22208664>ideas he presentsYeah we know, the pope and some nobles are wankersGod forbid people that read a shitton of literature actually know something about it>>22208632wonder how much of the delay was due to the simultaneous release>>22208691>twitter in charge of recognizing fiction doesn't have to correspond with realityand water is wet
>>22208691I have friends with DID. Ryukishi did come really close, twitter faggots will always be wrong.
>>22208646Are archons supposed to be ethereal entities that trick you into going towards their light when you die, or do they have repulsive alien bodies and live in the moon?It's weird how there's no mention of humanity exploring space.
Thoughts on pic related?
>>22208646>Seshat>she shat>CAGANDO IS REAL
>>22208691Why do you care?
>>22208718they mention that the war and the reconstruction after it caused space travel to be forgotten
>>22208691Twitter breeds insanity by design. Human being were not meant to communicate with a characterlimit of 280 in an environment that rewards impulsive emotional outbursts.
>>22208719billions of what?humans, bits, marshmallow?
>>22208747breads
>>22208687>clay girl>her name is LiljaSHE'S A STAND IN FOR LILITH, ADAM'S FIRST WIFE WHO WAS MADE FROM CLAY LIKE HIM.She was a bitch and rebelled, giving birth to a bunch of demons. That's when God erased her from the Bible canon, and took one of Adam's ribs to make Eva.Lilja is Lilith: a human woman made of clay, not a genetic clone subservient to Adam.Want more proof? She looks like fucking Asuka from Evangelion, clearly an intentional reference.
>>22208747No. The concept of numbers itself.She sucked the blood of billions.
>>22208699Yeah of course anon, I was saying that half joking, but I also wanted to clarify that fact for the people that think that "Marica" can only mean faggot/pussy....
>>22208747fragmentsShe is Lambda, and the "blood" is her feeding on the suffering of billions to avoid boredom
>>22208691They can't fathom the idea of someone coping with their brain defects without making a huge deal out of it and crying about how traumatic it is online.
>>22208754uh, that sounds plausible. yep. nice going anon.
>>22208754>Chloe straight up kills a Biblican matronsasuga leaf-sama
>>22208747She survived through sacrifice of billions of people. That level of reasoning should be possible for Anon.
>>22208754interesting. clay girl is very likely a reference to lilith. nice going anon.>Want more proof? She looks like fucking Asuka from Evangelion, clearly an intentional reference.not really. she looks like a crazy finn with two cinnamon buns on her head.
>>22208764im gonna roll with this for now
>>22208730Because they are making fun of Ryuukishi for accurately portraying high-functioning congenital DID, thinking it's something he made up.
>>22208764but ciconia is soo fucking booring
>>22208623>The problem is that is valid for the name "María" and not "Maricarmen", this is when shit gets funnyR07 just want a "Rika" in this game, logic be damned.
>>22208786image waste time to live in a death planet instead of go to mars
>>22208691Twitter loves to blame shit on traumas, so the idea of someone just having that shit from birth triggers them even though it happens in real life.
>>22208787She looks like Shiki Ichinose but blonde and flat.
>>22208623I know people literally named "Marilo" in their birth certificate, even though that's supposed to be a nickname for Maria de los Dolores. Maricarmen could very well be her actual name.
>>22208719"I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement."-Revelation 17:6
>>22208754HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
Maricagando
>>22208646>because if it stagnated or got totally destroyed ((THEY)) would come harvest and devour all the souls, killing the cycle of reincarnation for good.But that's not how it works.Archons FORCE YOU into reincarnation, they make you return to life without knowledge of your past lives in an infinite cycle of hells.Without archons, you'd theoretically be able to trascend the cycle of reincarnation and keep your memory of past lives, leading to the path of enlightenment.
>>22208691It's the fault of tulpafaggots (Yasu included) for pretending to have people inside their heads. Now twitter faggots believe that anyone who genuinely has that is a tulpafaggot and only traumatized people with troublesome acquired DID exist.
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>>22208872This is adorable! Best girl and cutest drawing
>>22208872This is disgusting! Worst girl and shitty drawing
Rethabile has a pink negroid pussy and a Lamda-like personality.She's clearly her piece.
>>22208872Neutral. Okay girl and non-descript drawing.
>>22208882I love it when goats think Erika was actually looking inside the real world wardrobe and actually shot at it with a gun.
>the Sayo expy is a nutcase
>>22208892knox 2nd:It is forbidden for supernatural agencies to be employed as a detective technique.erika is kanon this explaine it without magic or meta shit
>>22208899who are you quoting?
>>22208892That part of the theory was so good that I took it as the right explanation.
>>22208909Me. He's quoting me, I'm sitting next to him.
>>22208913what erikantrice or shkanontriceshe detective she cant see lieshe didnt see nothingwhy because kanon was inside her she is kanon
>>22208872I will solve this, she is indeed the best girl in ciconia
>>22208918<GOOD>
>>22208754Ok that sounds outrageous enough for me to invoke my inner kabbalist > ADAM'S FIRST WIFEFactually false, Lilith is a demon. The misconception that she was Adam's first wife comes from misunderstanding of Zohar where it's said that she tried to seduce him.
>>22208923I mean Erika pulling out a gun and blasting the closet.
>>22208936inside there was nothing>muh is just metashe was the detective and detective cant see lieerika think that she was real and when battler said that's make 17 humansshe disappier because she wasnt an human
Why does the fragment narration pretend AOU isn't a dystopia?To unlock them you already watch everyone die and get crushed in an existential crisis about being mass produced replaceable soldiers
>>22208952For some reason I suspect the "tips" screens were accidentally pushed to the end instead of unlocking periodically-- especially considering they're referenced in the main episode before we even get to read them. Who knows.
>>22208947How do you explain the letter in Episode 5?
>>22208962erika can become kanon in every moment and put the letterkanon position was never said with red!!!!
>>22208952Because it's written from the perspective of characters who've only ever lived in that society and been indoctrinated with it while they were still just machine grown fetuses?Also Gunhild seems perfectly aware of how fucked most of their society is.
>>22208925The mystery of Erika's virginity!
>>22208973She had a boyfriend, anon. No virginity for you.
>>22208969Aysha as well. They both have smelled the piss of the rest of the world.
>>22208962>Before the family conference, Erika, George, Jessica, Maria, Nanjo, Gohda, and Kumasawa left the mansion and moved to the guesthouse.>Of those who remain, only Krauss, Natsuhi, and Genji were in the second floor corridor, while all others were in the dining hall.erika moved in the guesthouse become kanon and place the letter!!!
>>22208983Not if I retroactively erase her boyfriend from existence!
>>22208961you mean maybe Ryukishi couldn't figure out how to program it somehow? it seems like such a simple thing.
>>22208962>>22208994>all others were in the dining hall.>Not a single person in the dining hall...no, there's a simpler way to say it. Among all those inside the mansion at 24:00, not a single person placed that letter in the corridor.red trueshannon=kanon was inside the mansion how can yasu put the letter in shkanontrice?the only solution is one of the people in guesthouse have another personality so kanon=erika!!!
>>22209002Another possibility is that maybe they felt to irreverent for the story he was trying to tell, so they decided to dump them at the end as a bonus? There's no way to know for sure, but I think they would've been a welcome aside from all the military/news talk. 07th is a fucking enigma sometimes.
>>22209020Some are good as the post-game content - especially 13-15 as Tea Party and 16 as ????Some SoL scenes must've just not flown well enough with the story, especially since they seem to be set before the main story
>>22209007Wrong. There was no letter. Lambda's thorough web of red makes it all but impossible for one to appear there. The people in the dining hall simply conspired against Erika, telling her that such a letter arrived when in reality Yasu just gave them the ring. Shannon and Kanon were in the room at the time. There's no way they couldn't have known about this. And yet Erika didn't know.
Chloe's 40 terabyte downloaded porn folder.
>computer stopped working last month>can't read ciconia on my phone because uploading the thing on youtube is apparently forbiddenTo live is to suffer.
>>22209038i solve the 5th game:culprit:georgeaccomplices:erika,genji,nanjo,kumasawageorge say "hey guys erika is soo bored make a fake murder for make her happy"after the discover of the corpse she make them moved and kills them, kils is father ,kills krauss and himself.erika accuse natsuhi for destroy her reputation!!!revange complete>There was no letterknox 2nd
>>22209049I bet Chloe makes most of her own porn
>>22208882>Complaining about different culprits. that's only an issue because you're treating this like a puzzle and not like a story. The different accomplices make more sense thematically. The whole point was that everybody on the island is a flawed human being who could be driven to murder under the right circumstances. Having a single killer is only appealing to those who want a neat and tidy answer to the closed rooms, regardless of whether it fits into the context of the plot.
>>22209051There's phone version of onscripter, no? Might give it a try
>>22209076> The different accomplices make more sense thematicallyyes but eva is the culprit 3 timesif in 1st=eva,2nd=rosa 3rd=natsuhi 4th everyoneok but not eva culprit in all the games eccept the 2nd cmon!!!!!the same culprit that commit the same crime in different waythis made you think he cant do it something!!!if you kill people=culprit
>>22209069>Knox's 2ndWhat about it?Knox's 9th: It is permitted for observers to let their own conclusions and interpretations be heard.That's exactly what's happening here. The observers (those in the dining hall) are presenting their interpretation (a lie they all agreed on) to the detective.No supernatural agencies at work.
>>22209093Eva kills in Episode 3 because it was written by Tohya, who at the time believed Eva was the culprit due to his incomplete memories of that day.
What an absolute legend. You think we'll see more of Mario?
>>22209118Nah, next loop Luigi will perfect the machine insteadThe only reason why it's allowed to get finished is because one of the players wants it to anyway
I know it might be fun to just entertain whatever new theory since it feels like the only thing you could possibly do to keep Umineko theorycrafting alive (since we already got the solution and a plain declaration that there was no trickery whatsoever in it), but could you at least not reply to this guy?He's posting facebook macros, low quality twitter memes, and keeps shitting up every thread with this.We're not on /a/, you're /jp/sies and you should know better than this.Ignore and move on, stop engaging with an off-board, possibly off-site parasite.
>>22209074I bet she downloads videos of others using her avatar.
>>22209103this in an insult to the reader cmon waste of mental energybut ok if the letter exist or not this not change my theory!!!!!you cant deny erikantrice with this!!!!try again
>>22208623Isn't it only for certain spanish countries, or pretty much all of them and Mexico? Because if it is the former, it doesn't really matter if it sounds like faggot for spanish if it is a normal first name for the Mexican.I ask that because apparently, Quebec French and France French are quite different in that regard.
>>22209111if it is true this is disgutingcmon i cant belive that ryukishi allow this!!!!burocracy that shkanontricee faags belivewhy you dont like same culprits and same accomplices in all the games!!!!this make the solution more difficult to find!!!
>>22209131thread quality has been spiraling downwards in general even for the ciconia side. probably because for some reason, this is the only place where you can discuss this vn.
>>22209149Please stop.Stop writing like this, stop pretending to be retarded, just stop.It's not funny, it's not new content, it's not worthwhile discussion.You're a blight.You lower the thread quality just with your presence.Cease.
>>22209142>Isn't it only for certain spanish countriesI think it's for all of them but there are more popular variants of marica/fag depending on where you are, like joto
>>22209131You're right. Sorry about that.
Wait a second...Miyao talks about Kid's Meals....what you can find on kids meals? Exactly! a Flag, do you know who loved to collect Kid's Meals flags?, exactly!! Takano.Anons, I think Miyao kids meal obsesion is something genetical.
>>22209183u mad!!!argument find something that deny erikantrice theoryi belive in my theory with all my heart2 years for complete it!!!!!!so stop to be an 1bit goat and fight!!!
>>22209131the solution of the manga is fakeis like belive in magic!!!!i will not stop think!!!!!p.s=proof that you are a better poster
>>22209233I thought of unhappy meal from subahibi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvq31YeQm-8
>>22209299Oh I also thought about it, but because of the PTSD I decided to forget about the connection.
>>22209299what kind of unhappy meal was there in subahibi? I only remember the roof picnic
>>22209455Ignore "the best" part, it's coping.
>Takano's Grandfather studied christianity, and his research caused his death>Fukuin House, a christian orphanage ruined Yasu's life, also Maria's life was ruined by religion too>Gabriel was a christian and ruined everything>God literally is the gamemaster in Ciconia and left a message about how he would destroy humanity in the vatican archivesWhat the fuck Ryukishi
>>22209466oh right, dude holy water lmao
Here you go you nerds. https://animebytes.tv/torrents.php?id=61850
If I didn't enjoy it why am I looking forward to phase 2 and still thinking about it.
>>22209508Because the story has massive potential with all the crazy shit happening in the backgroundnow that the worldbuilding is mostly over and that the walls of peace are an old concept that won't get brought up again, only part left of the story is the politigal intrigue,crazy shit and apocalypse
>>22207717gif when
>>22209488>animebytesYou realize youv'e posted something that'll get you more confusion than sadpanda, right?
Why do /v/ threads always devolve into "muh editor"
>>22209474Takano killed himself because his dreams were shattered and he was suffering from dementia, so he chose to commit suicide before his mind was completely gone. Now, his Christian beliefs gave Miyo weird ideas about being immortalized by history, and also his death traumatized the fuck out of her.Sayo wasn't a proper Christian either, she just got her own ideas about the afterlife after being raised in a Christian orphanage. She believed in some sort of world after death, or at least hoped for it, that's what set her off when she was stuck in a crossroads.
>>22208519I wish I was clever enough to come up with stuff like this to make a new OP.
>>22209488can you give me an account too
>>22209602If you don't know how to get an AB account maybe you shouldn't be browsing this website.
>>22209488But my account got disabled for inactivity again
>>22209612>>22209602Meh, I don't have an AB account either. Just wait around a little, somebody will put it on nyaa or whatever.
>>22209565Because you discord trannies wont stop Xboarding and content policing generals.
>>22209541Good idea.