/a/ - Animu & Mango

>Get hype

Are you trying to start this thread by getting us to bully you? Anyway, seems pretty different from Ryukishi's previous works, but I wonder if he'll actually a satisfactory story this time.

>>882857

Its a VN and most of the routes have been animated already. There are manga and anime only routes too. This is not part of Higurashi, this is a new VN series in the same family. The developer just uses "When They Cry" to identify a particular family including Umineko and Higurashi.

>>882860

How come Higurashi is Ryukishi's only VN series to recieve an anime adaptation?

I had expected Umineko to recieve one back when it was popular, did that effort get undone by the financial crisis or something?

>>882865

I could have sworn that Umineko got an adaptation. Maybe I'm remembering wrong.

>>882865

>>882869

Umineko was animated in 2009 in 2 cour.

I had heard that for When They Cry 5, the playstyle would switch to an open world. No idea how that's supposed to work.

>>882963

I hope it is a straight-up kinetic novel like most of Umineko and Higurashi. Ryubro tried to add gameplay elements into Rose Guns Days, and in my opinion it didn't work very well. But if we manages to pull off an "open world" visual novel, then it could be great. I just wonder what connections it will have to past games. We see kakera floating around everywhere near the end of the teaser, I am wondering if some dimensional hopping, and perhaps certain persons of the witchy persuasion, might be involved.

>>882850

>bad cg

>shit character design

>zero effort put into animating anything for their teaser

After the disaster that Umineko was I doubt I have any hope for this to be a decent series. I'll give it 3 episodes.

>>884405

>Umineko

>Disaster

I can't tell if you're trolling, a secondary, or someone with shit taste. Your lack of understanding of Ryukishi's style doesn't help me draw any conclusions.

>>884405

I wouldn't call Umineko a disaster but it was confusing and jarring with no resolution due to time constraints, whereas Higurashi took time to flesh things out at the cost of production value.

>>884594

>no resolution

The whole point of Umineko was that you can't solve every mystery. Some thing are just beyond humans' ability to know and will forever be open to a wide variety of possible interpretations, none of which anyone will be able to prove with adequacy. The problem is most people wanted a "mystery" solution to the murders, when the point of the series was that you can't know if it was mystery or fantasy. You can't even know if, following the mystery interpretation, Shkanon was originally a boy or a girl. That's sort of the point of the whole thing, which lots of people didn't seem to get, as they just wanted "mystery" solutions for the murders, and for everything else involving the metaworld to be spelled out, instead of the much more ambiguous ending that we got. But the ambiguity was the entire point of the VN.

>>884561

I think it was a joke, he said "3 episodes" implying he watched the anime.

>>886374

I'd be a bit more inclined to think of your idea of him simply giving up and shifting the genre if he hadn't already done something similar with Higurashi. In Higurashi, it is initially set up as a horror-mystery type theme, but as the plot goes on it ends up being about the characters and the relationships between them, especially the value of friendship. Umineko does the same thing, first presenting the setting as the most classic murder-mystery type story, then unravelling it as being a character-driven story.

If you're looking to define Umineko as a something other than a character-driven story, then the real definition would be that it is a metafictional analysis of the mystery genre and its readers, along with comentary about the fans and their expectations. The whole damn series is an analogy about that. Mistaking it for a detective story is a mistake on your part, and not being able to look deeper than the objective details shows that you didn't pay enough attention, which is constantly warned about throughout the series in the phrase "without love, it cannot be seen".

Aside from the fact that your analysis is incorrect, I'll add that the role of the detective, played by Battler in the first 4 EP's, never once sees Shannon and Kanon at the same time. The only time people see them in the same room together is if: a)They are aware that Yasuda is both Shannon and Kanon and accept that, which is limited to the staff of the mansion, and b)If the scene is a fantasy/magical sequence, which doesn't corporeally happen. Go back and read the sound novel again and you'll find that these rules are absolute

The OP for Umineko Saku also came out at the same time for Ciconia, they are both going to go on sale simultaneously. It features a new witch, or something.