Umineko - Chapter 1

this is really funny that they let you do this

DUDE what is this

bro drinking baja blast

fuck i dont know chess

wtf contract like madoka

why she got the freaky font

majoras mask reference

1986 reference

who the fuck is just called george

dude.

banger

? what she mean by this

this guy is gonna 100% be a protagonist of all time

kill

dude shut this thing up

nvm kill him

why this look like a final fantasy logo

kill

dude

kill

dude fuck off

a walmart goes crazy here

noting

very interesting that they're using rainy days as a motif of "unchanging days" here instead of what it was in higu

higuposting

I THOUGHT MAGIC DIDNT EXIST

Maria saw a Torii gate was missing on the way to the island im NOTING THIS

OST - Hope is a cool ass song damn

he's popping ult

hmmmm....

magic is real!!!!

wtf she SHOT ME

why does he have that sprite

die

LMFAOOOOOO THIS GUY

HOLY SHIT IT STHE THING

beatrice portrait 2 year ago....

SHOW THEM YOUR FONT BABE

very oyashiro-sama core... hmmm....

wtf sexism

why bro got elixirs

he has the temu witch setup

banger

"my kids and grandkids are all fucking chuds"

bro its more phrases from higurashi

its betting coins... all the way down....

jjk powerscaling ass

i am very surprised that this is all filled out so early

wokekichi strikes again

I am still very interested in what the Inciting Incident will be

I am assuming its either Kinzo's Death while everyone is here or some Beatrice shit all of a sudden

Because Higurashi has a very clear Moment where things start to go off the rails in chapter 1

i wonder what that will be here

i love the designs just literally spamming the shit out of the little crest

dont turn to face me

damn he literally just said shut up woman

wokekichi strikes again

oh yeah events that i need to pay attention to - 14 years ago i think rosa (?) was getting harassed at the house

last year they tried to force kinzo out of his room

eva killing herself if she lives to today lol

rthgak u krauss4 foir the reference

holy shit a cg already

they did this NVL mode thing before, I need to pay attention to if this is only ever done from kumasawa's perspective or not... interesting....

we love the wokeler

what

the clock jusat went back

wtf

[i apparently noted how much i liked the song Hope again lol]

beatrice origins

"it's obviously fake" most wrong guy ever btw

beatrice voice "okay now hit the second tower"

thank you chudlet

this is a cool little thing

good ass scene with the adults talking damn

what fucking miracle bro

kinzo is king crashout man

so yeah i need to hammer into my brain this is how magic works in this world

i wonder if this is what people mean by it being much more directly a riddle to solve from ryukishi

"You must also challenge it." is a really cool little thing

i really like kinzo going "lend me your full strength shannon, i need to spirit bomb summon beatrice"

RIDDLE EPITAPH thank fuck i thought they were just gonna hide this from me forever

oh that's a cute end card for the chapter like that and different from getting my screen shattered with a gun

cute

I am assuming that this is gonna be a key part of battler's character - it definitely seems that way. he seems really enamoured with some of the mysteries of the island after being gone for 6 years

wow interesting

wow inter

they are talking a lot about beatrice like the higurashi god

"she is the protector of this island and the wild"

also extremely The Tempest coded

i wonder how much intertextuality we will be seeing in this

why is this thing our takano

without love.... it cannot be protective...

waow like beatrice despawning

it cannot be seen....

chill out lmfao

child neglect world champion right here

yeah this is probably good

bro no way ur summoning a devil at 5pm

thats baby hours

omega, count every grain of sand in this desert

it is really funny that they have to like

spam "ushiromiya" on every name in the log

i know more chars will show up but like

its really funny

this seems good i think

witches are real and they told me to read to you

UUU UUUUU

interesting that we are no longer Battler POV for this scene...

oh wow

THE SHANNON STEAL IS INCOMING

interesting....

kinda And Then There Were None coded tbh

he believes..

what an odd little phrase

the 19th person doesn't know that they're mysteryfiends....

interesting... So, mr ryukishi is signalling that we should be constantly thinking about motives - "flipping over the chessboard" is how we can actually think about and understand contradictions in the minds of these characters.... i will keep this in mind. also this is kyrie's ult

also really funny "my reasoning will just fall apart but i'm certain it's true"

woah rudolf

uh

natsuhi you good

maria deadass has that real shit on her

i know battler wasn't gonna die right away but its nice to be sure

wait bro night 1 has SIX deaths???? i was not ready for 6 i thought it'd be like 4 omfg

or like 2

uh oh

so what thats:

Krauss

Rudolf

Rosa

Kyrie

Gohda

1 more we gotta see

very interesting that the georgelers are unscathed

and that natsuhi was possibly supposed to die but didn't

so what does that mean?

Eva and her Husband being alive is kinda suspicious for her? But that's like, WAY too obvious. If this is an actual pattern though, this suggests that a human chose them for a reason (either they did it or are being set up)

BUT

Natsuhi being alive because of a charm kinda suggests that it was magic that killed them all???? but where is more of this blood??? did gohda just clean it up and not tell anyone????

#whathemeanbythat

cute scene

coulda said this shit before your sons were killed but yk yk

uh

this is probably good

uhhhhhhhhh
holy moly OST - goldenslaughterer is kinda crazy

i like this little line as battler subconciously trying to solve a mystery here

:(

:((((((

deeply evil shit

damn a cg for this?

mystery genre commentary

"man eva is super suspicious but i dont think she knows that im so sneaky"

damn i like this battler is cool

what are we DOING here dude

so that's talking about the conversation that Keiichi has with his mother during Tatarigoroshi (Ch 3) I think?

If I remember right, that one is about eliminating a "mystery" occurring alltogether from making it find out nobody finds out about the crime in the first place?

so the fact that the bodies were found is the issue over all else

NANJO FORGOTTEN

HUH???

Is this written by maria??????????

okay maria being a sick little freak who writes stuff like that is becoming more likely, you don't get an evil fisheye lense image unless ur insane and evil

chhudling :(

okay its definitely evil i think

OST - Core is extremely YTTD coded for that first half wtf i like it a lot

what a cool fucking guy

no fucking shot she got the mion sonozaki blicky on her

wait this is chekov's gun fuck off

They are really really trying to push this "binary choice" thing - they are spamming "Either the 19th person exists, or it doesn't", "Beatrice exists, or doesn't", "the gold exists or doesn't", "it's either magic, or humans".

Really interested to see how this will evolve.

will the story turn into "One of these is correct, pick your side", or will it be "There is a secret 3rd option/compromise" that exists"? Intriguing to see

clues

there is red goop on natsuhi door

there is red goop that drew on the garden shed door (kinzo and maria are the only ones who know magic enough to draw the circle)

there is no location that is obviously the crime scene

there is a reason why the heads and faces were smashed in

there is a reason why those people were chosen (setting up kinzo and eva? random?)

very higurashi as well - keiichi wanting anyone to tell him the truth

worked by his side is interesting

ghost....?

also is she destroying their faces because she's jealous of them existing and being able to be real in the human world? because she can't be seen?

dont follow evil butterflies.... noted....

"magic isn't real" chuds in shambles rn

WITHOUT LOVE IT CANNOT BE SEEN

fnaf 1

huh????

beatrice hates him because he can't see her, and therefore doesn't confirm her existence?

very higurashi once again

she's just a little sad......

ace attourney mf

this is fucking AWESOME this scene rocks

"gotcha, magic isn't real, show me some cold hard proof"

she will play touys with me :D

interesting, so maria wanted to be unique so badly that she tulpa'd herself

RACIST BATTLER - CANCELLED

he's saying the servants only believe in her because Kinzo is influencing them? interesting

POPPING ULT

Battler is trying to insist that Beatrice was definitely trying to prove her existence, so doing it at the middle of the night is stupid? i mean i guess he's real...

Okay so I need to be thinking about why the hell they did the crime EXACTLY then too - i guess that makes sense, with the murder happening without anyone finding them UNTIL morning

i love u chessboard...

This rule thing is very Higurashi too.

The rule is: If you can't explain something in human terms, then it has to be the work of Beatrice.

Which means, any character can cloak what they're doing as a witch's work by making it unsolvable/unexplainable in human terms.

Cool idea.

Really cute scene, I gotta figure out what this means now...

clues

there is red goop on natsuhi door

there is red goop that drew on the garden shed door (kinzo and maria are the only ones who know magic enough to draw the circle)

there is no location that is obviously the crime scene (dining room has some blood but so does hallway)

there is a reason why the heads and faces were smashed in

there is a reason why those people were chosen (setting up kinzo and eva? random?)

there is a reason why the death happened at that TIME - everyone was asleep - night is the least impressive/magical time for a murder to happen. {So why did they do it then, if wanting to make it look like magic death?}

These are the points I can tie together rn

Oh battler thinks that the culprit wants people to solve it for them - maybe to swoop in and steal the money after everyone finds it? Interesting

i love him he's so moe

Natsuhi had the key, but couldn't he buzz people in and out? I'm sure this will not be overlooked, but, hmm...

Getting death note'd in 1986 is crazy holy

so this means one of these must be true:

He was never in the room in the first place (When Natsuhi was in, he was already gone. Illusion)

He never left the room in the first place (Hidden somewhere in it)

He left the room in another way instead (Servants lying about hidden door/magic/nobody knew)

Eva is lying about this reciept (It didn't exist/lying about the fact it was at the perfect height or something)

The door can open in a manner that doesn't release the paper (Swings the opposite hings/slides up or something stupid)

I think it must be one of these, but i must be missing something

HOLY crashout cg

is everyone in this game just gonna be constantly crashing out

i heart diagramslop

he's so fucking cool

okay i am really excited for this guy to pop off i like battler a lot

his mom dies and he starts spamming this shit lmfao

WOOO MY THEORIES

NOO MY THEORIES HOW CAN I MISS HIM LITERALLY JUST RUNNING OUT WHEN THE DOOR OPENS

EITO AOTSUKI MAN THAT YOU ARE

god he's so cool

GOD HE'S SO COOL (DANGANRONPA)

plot cancered at such a young age... so sad...

they dont make representation for bad bitches with inhalers anymore

she's so getting killed with this lock it in

its real believe me its real believe me its r

family guy.... title drop... holy

.

just like higurashi...

beatrice as a convenient truth is a pretty cool idea. not my battler though, he would never

bro called the demon that teleports you "Gap" ok dude

without x, y cannot be seen

pretty neat idea - beatrice is not quite a person, so we need to count her as such. might come up later. hmmm.

this is an interesting question but realistically I think both the servants think that they are pawns (furniture) and Kinzo thinks of EVERYONE as such. Considering that he needs to take a risk to resummon beatrice, everyone is worth the same to him.

Maybe he counts himself as the king? Being a unit that he cannot allow to die? He wants to see her face after all. Maybe he's crazy enough to put himself in check to have the possibility of checkmating them?

cute.,... its so cute even if they'll die...

actually so dead goodbye one of you

or these two will get torn apart because it's night two

anyone could have drawn the circle...

is this another locked room mystery what the fuck

WHY IS THE KEYHOLE UPSIDE DOWN

wait yeah did kinzo give them this? or is it trying to suggest they posted it from the inside

slowly opened the door (ddlc)

AIEEEE A LOCK AIEEEE ITS IMPOSSIBLE

yeah that's probably good. that's on the door of eva's room

wait this happened midday not during the night???

without getting close, it cannot be cut....

welp

it's soooo sus....

oh

they find someone in a hot bath in higurashi is this a refference

yeah thats definitely maria huh

barely an hour...

battler crying for others.... cute... but what does he actually believe...

he's so COOL even if he's crashing out

DUDE CHILL

GAME THEORY: the doors are bleeding.

dude wtf fastest lock in of all time

diagramslop.... my beloved...

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

dude he has two ults this is awesome

literally said "i want to hit her so bad" out loud 1 sec bfore

dude they have like isaac items what are you meant to do

interesting, it can like, give you a flip the chessboard moment. it's just symbolic of thinking differently.

I love when we get formatting

dude its like higurashi fucuuuuckkkk

UHHHH

HE'S AURAFARMING POP OFF

DUDE

RESPECTFULLY you arent doing anything

uh

UHHHH

HOLY SHIT

I have some interesting thoughts about where the story might take us now - mainly that we may be in reboot territory like higurashi

OST - Requiem goes insane

I DONT TRUST YOU YOU FUCKER

damn he REALLY cares about this shit uh....

when the UMINEKO naku koro ni...

holy..

limbus reference

#yep

why are we not trying to show off two of these kills? kanon sure, but why not magic circle for kinzo?

the toeler

without seen it cannot be rare

huh....................... why stab these 4, and not the first six (that we know of)

this is kinda the nail in the coffin for me. We are doing Higurashi bullshit where it's a different roguelike run every time.

We MIGHT be doing some nonsense with reviving people but you do NOT kil half your cast just to not do more of it

OST - Mind goes nutty

BIGASS CLOCK DUDE

tear the limb and kill

goddamn it it's way too obvious to be any human it's literally gotta be magic

wait did she always have a fang

cute

is it just christian heaven? hm,mmm

the story of umineko will be more and more people going "maybe rosa had a point damn"

very much expecting a like, wake up and near everyone is dead. it feels like we are nearing the end now

"dude shut up you are killing the vibe"

you are acting actually insane dude no

he is about to be killed and he is still in "i want to solve the puzzle :D" mode

WOOOO ULT

the theory "they haven't shown off its possible, so they must be bluffing" is an interesting take. they do not need to show off to u that bad

"wait what dude i didnt actually mean it"

hmmm

mini ult

nvm big ult

he is losing his MIND and so am i

oh that's really cute that he was fixated on it. interesting, i wonder what that says about him as a person that he used to be so happy to think like this - it seems a really combative way to be thinking all the time

"please stop spamming my ult it's not cool anymore"

i'm liking these sorts of chats a lot

Interesting. the "same thing occurs more than once" and this whole thing is pretty obviously going to be how we do chapters here, much like Higurashi. Higurashi explained this concept near the end, but I wonder how Umineko will tackle it. Extremely interested in this.

yeah this is exactly my thought - we have been told that Beatrice is highly emotional, and should probably treat her as a wild card right now. we do not know how she functions or what her goal is other than "kill everyone to revive"

WAIT FUCK WE HAVENT OPENED THE LETTER YET SHIT

like magic WOOOO ITS ALL FUCKED

or like a ritual that Kinzo knows how this shit works but nobody else does i suppose

uyhhhhh fuck dude its all so fried also he hit mini ult

i think it's cute that he likes kyrie so much without admitting it. she made a huge impact on him at the very least.

why are we powerscaling the door

scorpion upscale

incredibly powerful image

it does call to question why kinzo would not commission a painting of beatrice for his room. weird.

is this talking about how Beatrice might kill all of them, but the ritual will not be completed properly, so she cannot get checkmate? "rushed and never completed" is a really interesting way to phrase it after all.

Is it just how Kinzo's own goals were rushed and he couldn't see Beatrice in this timeline? Hmmm

NEVER MIND LMFAO

holy finally

thank you beatorice...

deified is crazy

huh

i mean i guess you need to be dead to be revived but he's talking as if she is a human, not a demon alive for a 1000 years like Kanon suggested

the marriage was without love so it ca

interesting, i look forwards to see him explored more later

cute idea but like kanon had a knife spawned in him dude

i like the idea of it being infectious - i wonder if this will be expanded on in any future loops. I can easily see any of these pairs choosing to try it. Or even Battler trying magic to save everyone

this is a really weird and stilted line i feel. very odd. oh well, i am sure they will expand on this in future

i forgot if this was the kanon shannon house

yes

kinzo's private island does not look too good in 2026 huh

crashout time

HIGURASHI REFERENCE

yeah its just higurashi power system

so the note was just saying the note itself is the second twilight? weird

then kinzo is the 4th (head got)

kanon got his stomach got

The witch's epitaph is quite a lot like the Watanagashi fucking everything up in higu too

banger

wait thats really funny

HUH. damn this is wild

holy crashout

holy aura

fighting with an 8 year old is so good

holy banger

holy

damn good point, you send out 3 people for the killer to kill lol

holy fake dgafer

welp

when the umineko no naku koro ni 2

BIG ASS FUCKING CLOCK

:((((((((((

its gonna be a fun time seeing how woke ryukishi is and how feminist his take on witches are

mini ult

INTO BIG ULT

if the culprit was in the room - it makes sense for them to make it look like it came from outside

and versa

begging to change your theory is cute

waow become a demon like higurashi

magic to cause domestic argument goes nuclear tbh

oh that shouldnt be happening. uh oh.

uhhhhhhhhhhhh

i mean the goal could be to get you out the room

thats pretty bad too

this is just like higurashi chapter 8

you literally will lose this fight what

#yep

extremely obvious, and it's meant to be

wtf FUCKED UP CG

YEAH THIUS IS PROBABLY FINE

WITHOUT FEELINGS IT CANNOT BE SAVED

what the FUCK are we doing

#1 anti magic guy

DUDE

FUCK

OST - Dead Angle GOES INSANE

holy shit

HOLY

lowdiffed im afraid

yeah this is extremely christian heaven

HE'S HITTING THE HIGURASHI YES

she's just actually here????

holy shit they're withholding the sprites these bitches

this scene and a lot of this second half has felt very zero escape 999 to me

GET OUT MY FUCKING FACE

what the fuck dude

and of course they spam you with like a hundred baffling facts after the fact, it wouldn't be ryukishi otherwise

not found?????

interesting that maria is the narrator for chapter 1 because i do not fucking trust her. unreliable narrator is a possibility for these questions that arise as a result of "dude the butterflies are here and stabbed kanon"

only maria's jaw????? huh????????

DUDE THEY ARE FUCKING HIGURASHI POSTING AGAIN I CANNOT HANDLE THIS

Everyone but battler accepted it??? huh????

the gold piece is real....

WOOOOOO AFTER CHAPTER DISSCUSSION HAS RETURNED!!!! I MISSED YOU

iconic, i loved in higurashi everyone was saying "dude i died in such a fucked up way its not fair"

now who will be our Tomitake?

okay i am immediately suspicious of this. "miricales wont happen if you dont believe" is a rika thing, and we still have the Bernkastle thing from Higurashi to resolve. Is this suggesting Rika will be a witch????? uhhhhh

ACTUALLY OOMF

"uh. guys. you're taking the easy way out. what got into all of you?"

wait this is really cool we're getting an actually interesting after party that directly follows on from the story, and quite frankly, seems more combatative than the main story?

"is that too much...?" i really like him desperately trying to rationalise this to ANY extent this is awesome

me and the person I have been playing against have named such as "Device-posting". If you say "it had to be humans who used x sci fi or convoluted Device to kill someone", they get you now.

BANGER LINE "BRO THERES SO MUCH CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE"

It appears as though we are taking a similar stance to Witch on the Holy Night.

Anything is magic if you cannot explain it. Subsequently, if you can explain it, then that means it isn't "True Magic". Interesting.

okay we are just spamming higurashi posting holy shit

DOUBLE ULT

WHAT

WHY ARE YOU HERE I ASSUMED IF WE DIDN'T SEE YOU IN THE CHAPTER WE ARENT GETTING A SPRITE AFTER IT WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK DUDE WHAT ARE WE DOING

fictional being??? wtf?????

magic will fall short against him, interesting

it can be seen but it cannot exist

FREAKY. THESE QUEERS IN MY MEDIA????

dude she's hitting the sprite

AIEEEEE DONT POWERPOINT TRANSITION MEEEE

DEVICE POSTING

without crack it cannot be shot

WHY DOES SHE HAVE A FIGHTING GAME SPECIAL

THIS IS FUCKED UP WHY DID SHE RESPAWN THOSE GUYS TOO

are we just in the Golden Land right now??? just this is straight up canon and real???

THEY GOT BATTLER NOOOO

UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH this is spooky as shit what the hell

i like this line, "a hundred years of mystery cliches is all you are"

UHHHH DUDE IM SORRY I DIDNT MEAN IT PLEASE DONT TURN TO PASTE

wait wearing off??? just because battler doesn't believe, she's going to/wants to unrevive everyone????

makes sense, they weren't exactly alive last we saw them

JESS GAMING IM SO SORRY

DUDE.

JESS FUCK NO

dude he's crashing out

WHAT THE FUCK MAN WHAT THE HELL ITS OVER????

god i have some thoughts what the hell

OST - Prison strip holy shit this goes insane, this reminds me a lot of Higu Chapter 6's "Night when the Invisible Scares You"

welp. here's our main set of mysteries to solve. I have to find more but i'll see what i think, i need time to sort my thoughts out

huh there's more????? i thought that was gonna be our little avengers postcredit scene and thats it

ABGFUOAEBGIUJHBAEGOUAEGF

OOMFIE WHY ARE YOU HERE

WHY ARE YOU HERE OOMFIE

YOU WERE MEANT TO BE LIKE A CHAPTER 7 THING NOT A CHAPTER 1 THING WHAT

I WAS SURPRISED AT BEATRICE, THIS IS WAY MORE

WELL YEAH THAT WOULD BE HER NAME HUH

3rd witch spotted

is Lambdadelta supposed to be Takano? "Winning an endurance contest" kinda makes me think that, though the rest isn't really there. After all, in Higu, she didn't actually kill everyone in like, 3/5 timeloops. Definitely not "Without fail". But that's the kind of thing a miracle can solve

ENDLESS KILLING HOLY MOLY

also bernkastle's powers are more problematic for Beatrice than her own? wtf

"fragments" yeah dude you think you're so fucking cute don't you. die.

Huh. Some really interesting things to note here. Obviously we have the Higuposting first and foremost, but Beatrice is happy with any roll? Whatever happens, she's fine with it?

I guess that makes sense.

Revive or not, she seems immortal. As long as she is entertained and has fun, it will be a good time for her.

But, nothing inside her? What's her actual goal then? Is it just having fun? Reviving? She doesn't seem too bothered that her magic didn't hold together.

also she is a husk of a person it seems, or at least is completely divorced from ideas such as "endings" if we're going off this "nothing but zero" idea. this idea of "infinite" is also why Bern cannot win i guess. her power is to see and endure new fragments over and over and over. if you can never escape, then yeah, she'd have a shit matchup.

also im wondering if Maria could be Lamdadelta - everyone around her died, she's cruel as fuck and the game described her and Beatrice as "a pair of witches"

something to think about

"dont kill me please :("

WHY DID YOU TURN TO FACE ME

WHY ARENT YOU TALKING IN QUOTATION MARKS ANYMORE

UHHH

interesting. are they saying that Beatrice is a concept then? Like, she is the "desire to be seen by others" or something adequately abstract? hmmmmm

this is very Higu. i got rules to solve.

sounds very similar to Higu. Some rules and actions are constants. Solve them to figure out this world and its tricks

fuck she's back to being a spectator... no...

spooky

cruelest witch in the world???? how are you planning on fighting back against Beatrice? Making her surrender???? scary

WHAT THE FUCK MAN THIS GAME IS FUCKED

oomfie boomfie...

NOOOOOOO IM SORRY I LOVE YOU I SHOULDNT TRY AND EXECUTE YOU

this will be important

welp

dude

WELL THATS CHAPTER 1. TIME TO WRITE UP THE CRAZY AND STUPID QUESTIONS AND THEORIES

okay Maria Theory is the main one i am subscribing to

okay then for the rest of questions and stuff--