Umineko: When They Cry/Nightmare Fuel



Umineko no Naku Koro ni IS part of the When They Cry series, so it is no surprise that you would encounter Nightmare Fuel.


 * The murders of the first twilight of the sixth game definitely qualify.
 * Pretty much anything involving Maria. Period. Someone should file down those fangs.
 * The end of the first tea party, when Battler denies the existence of Beatrice and the happy tea party everyone was holding in the Golden Land ends abruptly as Beatrice shows herself and tells Battler that if even one person doesn't believe in her, then her magic doesn't work. And then everyone around him has their flesh shredded and begs him to believe in her in order to bring everything back. And the audience gets no sleep that night...
 * The manga makes it worse. Shannon's death was already a Tear Jerker, and now George is begging Battler to take his words back while Shannon screams "IT'S BECAUSE YOU DON'T BELIEVE YOU DON'T BELIEVE AAAAAH" and her face explodes off.
 * Erm....First Twilight? HAPPY HALLOWEEN FOR MARIA. Yeah.
 * Think the anime version of it is bad? At least most of it was censored. The manga version, however, is left uncensored in all of its gruesome glory. The fun starts at page 16 and just keeps on going until page 21. Good luck getting any sleep after that. Or eating anything after that.
 * THAT IS NOT RED JAM.
 * Episode 2 has made my sister become terrified of candy.
 * Really, all of Chapter 2. It's just so violently bipolar. And then we have that chapter's tea party. Beatrice forces Arguably Crosses the Line Twice in the anime as watching  is grotesquely hilarious.
 * The way the Satanic Goats kill . Although, they don't show you directly in the anime, you can hear them being squished to death.
 * I found pretty much all of the last five minutes of episode II-V in the anime scary as hell. When I caught the first glimpse of the goat butlers coming down the hall, she actually thought they were the ghosts of the dead Ushiromiyas for a second. Or the bit where those slender arms come through the door to caress Gohda's face and kill him while their owner giggles with the voice of a little girl. Beatrice never struck her as creepy until now.
 * That was actually Beelzebub, the Stake of Gluttony. And she happens to be incredibly cute when she's not killing people. The VN's make that clear that the Stakes love doing their job, but they're completely different when not killing people.
 * Episode 2-4: Yay, shirtless Kanon! Un-yay, And as if that wasn't bad enough, he then
 * The worst part has to be
 * Dear god, fourth arc. . As if it isn't enough having Maria, who's become increasingly sympathetic through the arcs, the end of that scene makes it look like she was . It was darn creepy is what I'm saying!
 * While I found it to be disturbing (seriously, she !), I also, for some reason, thought that it made Maria look a lot more sympathetic.
 * This is how bad Umineko is: a lot of the violent stuff is shown on-screen, and TV networks in Japan had to CENSOR IT. Higurashi, where's your god now?
 * Y'know what? Rosa, in particular, seems to get the truckload of this. Her death in the third arc was just as sadistically messed up as the tea party in the second. . It almost makes me forgive how she treats Maria.
 * The original novels managed to make the Scare Chord scary again. * shudders*
 * I just finished Episode 3, and would like to add the face that makes at the end. Having been used to DEEN's exaggerated facial contortions, it was just... * shudder*
 * The fate of the First Twilight victims in the first arc is pretty bad, too. Just being killed is horrifying on its own, but to have your face ripped off so you can't be recognized? (shudder).
 * And while we're at it, though it's subtle, the First Twilight victims of the fifth arc plays on a certain Adult Fear: Specifically,
 * Close to the end of episode three Jessica is temporarily blinded in an accident and the doctor is treating her wounds. Then he goes out of the room and meets . Jessica is left alone in the room and she hears doctor begging for mercy and being killed, followed by the killer screaming that after 's done playing with the doctor's corpse, will go get Jessica. The possibility of being left handicapped, alone and helpless so close to killer, who know that you're there, is way too much for me.
 * ...Yeah, I'm probably going to feel really dumb for putting this here, but was I the only one whose blood ran cold when she saw "You are incompetent!"? Poor Battler's already breaking down and you get a wonderful shot into the confused state of his mind at that point, and then that line comes at you out of nowhere! It's a weird thing to be scared of, but the idea of an insult like that being stated as absolute truth, I dunno, for some reason, it terrified me.
 * If I may interject, red text can be worked around (example: it never states if you were ALWAYS incompetent or if it was just that one moment of stupidity). Now, if this same sentence was said in GOLD (which cannot be worked around, and is THE absolute truth) instead of red... yeah, my stomach would probably keel over, too. Although the concept itself scares me pretty badly.
 * To be fair, that's the fan theory on how gold works. There's been no confirmation on that.
 * Episode 5 isn't as bad with this, but there are still some moments of this happening. First off, Bernkastel's technique to goad Battler into playing another game is seen as underhanded and downright cruel, even by Lambda. Bern's idea of getting him to continue to play is showing him this same event so that he can witness the horror.
 * It's even worse after reading Witch's Tanabata, and figuring out that Pretty much, all of Bern's acts of cruelty is enough to make you cringe at what she's capable of if she stops playing around...or swoon.
 * Oh, and there's all of Dlanor's moments of temporary insanity. ""
 * The manga makes it so much worse. The...smile? on her face when "GREAT EQUALIZER IS THE DEATH!" is declared is the stuff of nightmares.
 * I couldn't play EP 5 after dark thanks to the mystery man from 19 years ago. I never knew when he'd end up calling Natsuhi again and just what he'd have her do next while watching her from the shadows, close enough to know if she so much as stirred from the bed she was ordered to lie down in until morning... * shudder*
 * Christ, the game of "hide-and-seek". Just the fact that she had to sit in a dark closet and listen to being killed after finally letting himself cry over  was bad enough, but then the room goes unnaturally silent... Did the killer leave? Is he hiding somewhere else in the room? Is he standing outside of the closet door, waiting for her to come out?
 * "There's no face! There's no face!" Might be Narm if it were spoken, but when it's just written...
 * Listen to the drama. It's not just cause it's written that it's terrifying and Tear Jerking.
 * In the Ep6
 * What Episode 6 lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality.
 * Even worse is when you realize the sheer extent of how much a Fate Worse Than Death it is.  Just think about all that for a second. One must wonder how he managed to stay sane after all that.
 * Lambadelta's reaction makes that worse.
 * Now in comic form!
 * Even worse is Bern
 * The second one of these sequences is particularly disturbing:
 * The manga refuses to be left out of the fun - some scenes that weren't even mildly scary before become bona fide Nightmare Fuel. Chapter three alone has two instances, and no doubt there are more later on. (That second example is particularly terrifying; it's the only scene I know of that puts the "doom" in Paper Fan of Doom.
 * I can't help but think there's an Awesome Face behind that fan.
 * The manga is famous for exaggerating Beatrice's expressions, almost to the point of Narm so most of the time, they are either that or they are this trope. This one, meanwhile, straddles the line between the two rather well.
 * Virgilia with her eyes open. Jesus christ.
 * As the picture on the page indicates, on the few occasions Maria's facial expressions in the anime aren't ridiculously exaggerated to the point of unintentional hilarity...they can actually be downright terrifying.
 * For me, the one time Maria's creepy faces in the anime actually scared me was the one that comes right after
 * Then again, Maria herself is pretty terrifying on many occasions...
 * Fourth arc. Eva.  Shotgun. BOOOOOM!! AAAAAAAAHHHH!!
 * "Have a nice dream. See You in Hell."
 * UOOOOOH I WANT TO SEE YOUR SMILE AGAIN, BEATRIIICEEEEEEEEEE
 * Putting oversized dentures in your mouth isn't going to make things better Beatrice
 * The most horrifying thing for me is that
 * It is bad enough that the above about is true but what makes it worse
 * Manga-version of the scene with Rosa brutally tearing Sakutaro apart absolutely terrifies me. And Rosa doesn't leave it at that, oh no. Then she has to shove the remains in Maria's face and say "Sakutaro is dead now." It gets even worse when it switches to Maria's perspective, and we see Sakutaro's severed human head being dangled in front of her.
 * The goats, or rather the lack thereof. By the end of the sixth its clear that the goats aren't simply generic demonic henchman, but rather people/witches cosplaying. Meaning, that all of the horrible things they do are actually being done by things that look and probably once were human.
 * Even the fighting game has one of sorts. Try activating the Metaworld in the hallway stage where Beatrice's portrait is. You'll be suddenly greeted by a line of goat people all staring at you when the background shifts, many of them blood stained.
 * In EP7
 * A little visual of what it would look like face to face! A Nightmare Face at its finest.
 * In episode 4, try this page:  I don't want to sleep after seeing this page.
 * In Dawn, when it's revealed who the murderer of that arc is.
 * After Battler surrenders in EP 2, the narration invariably refers to him as "the furniture." This is back when Beatrice's toothy grin was frightening rather than charming, and she's grinning it the whole time, as she literally leads him around on a chain. It. Is. Terrifying.
 * The PlayStation 3 port massively ups the trollfaces. Here's a delicious heart-stopping sample:
 * Some of Beatrice's anime troll faces would count as this.
 * Jessica's night in the VIP room in EP 7.
 * The view of Kanon sticking his fingers in the bullet wound in his chest.