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Line 1: {{work}} {{Multiple Works Need Separate Pages}} [[File:gloriousep8_9027.jpg\|frame\|Welcome to Rokkenjima.]] Line 8 ⟶ 9: ''This is torture that will not end until you can believe in witches."'' }} '''''Umineko no {{color\|red\|Na}}ku Koro Nini''''' (''When the Seagulls {{color\|red\|C}}ry'') is a [[Kinetic Novel\|kinetic]] [[Visual Novel\|sound novel]] that takes place in 1986, on the island of Rokkenjima. The rich Ushiromiya family is gathering in order to discuss what will happen to patriarch Kinzo's inheritance, since he has been ill in recent days. While the arguments about the inheritance ensue, a typhoon traps all eighteen people on the island. The family then finds a mysterious letter from a person claiming to be Kinzo's alchemy councilor, the [[Witch Species\|Golden Witch]], [[The Divine Comedy\|Beatrice]]. Beatrice claims that she has been summoned by Kinzo to claim the inheritance, as the family has been deemed unworthy of it. [[Game Between Heirs\|Unless someone solves the riddle of the epitaph on her portrait]] [[Race Against the Clock\|before midnight on October 6th]] and becomes the family successor, Beatrice will claim everything that the family owns, including the ten tons of gold that Kinzo claims will be given to the successor. Line 20 ⟶ 21: Part of the ''[[When They Cry]]'' series, which also includes ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''. The series currently{{when}} consists of a [[Visual Novel\|sound novel]], a manga, and an anime. The sound novel is 8 Episodes in length, along with two fandiscs, ''Umineko no {{color\|red\|Na}}ku Koro ni: {{color\|gold\|Tsubasa}}'' (''When The Seagulls {{color\|red\|C}}ry: {{color\|gold\|Wings}}'') and ''Umineko no {{color\|red\|Na}}ku Koro ni: {{color\|aqua\|Hane}}'' (''When The Seagulls Cry: {{color\|aqua\|Feathers}}'') containing extra short stories called TIPS that don't fit into the main story. Each Episode is adapted into a manga, with the first four Episodes completed so far{{when}} and the last four (and ''Tsubasa'') still ongoing{{when}} publication. In addition, the anime adaptation by [[Studio DEEN]] spans 26 episodes, but only covers the first four arcs. The entire novel has also been ported to the [[~~PlayStation~~Play Station 3]] for a remake, complete with voice acting, remade sprites and CGs. The first four novels were released as ''Umineko no {{color\|red\|Na}}ku Koro ni ~ Rondo of Witches and Reason'', and the last four novels were released as ''Umineko no {{color\|red\|Na}}ku Koro ni {{red\|Chiru}} ~ Nocturne of Truth and Illusions''. In addition, a PC fighting game in the vein of ''[[Melty Blood]]'' has been released, entitled ''Ougon Musoukyoku'' (''The Golden Fantasia''), featuring ten of the characters from the novels. An Xbox 360 port, ''Ougon Musoukyoku X'', has also been released, featuring the ten characters, plus three more added to the roster. And an expansion to the PC version, ''Ougon Musoukyoku CROSS'', has also been released, featuring all the characters from the original and the Xbox port, plus three more characters, and three others set to be added as updates. Line 95 ⟶ 96: * [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] - The first tea party has the characters musing about how surprised they were about the "fact" that the story's a fantasy, rather than a mystery. {{quote\|'''Battler:''' "Hey, everyone, good job finishing 'Umineko no Naku Koro ni'! Man, I still didn't have a clue what was going on when the story ended!" '''Jessica:''' "So just what happened? Was that basically the '[[Downer Ending\|bad ending]],' where time runs out before the culprit can be exposed?"~~<br />~~ '''Maria:''' "Uu-. [[It's a Wonderful Failure\|Definitely a bad ending]]. Uu-."~~<br />~~ '''George:''' "That's right. Beatrice's letter, which Maria-chan read on the first day, did tell us in advance to solve the riddle of the epitaph. We were all so busy trying to protect ourselves and look for the culprit that we didn't even take a shot at it."~~<br />~~ '''Shannon:'''".........That's right. If we had actually tried to solve the riddle, I'm sure things would have ended differently." }} * [[Break the Haughty]] - {{spoiler\|Bernkastel/Erika's whole scheme in End of the Golden Witch leads to this against Beatrice.}} Line 105 ⟶ 106: * [[The Can Kicked Him]] - In the first arc, {{spoiler\|Hideyoshi's corpse is found in the shower with the water still running}}. * [[Cassandra Truth]] - Maria keeps trying to warn everyone about Beatrice, but no one believes her. * [[Casting Gag]] - Beatrice is played by [[Sayaka Ohara]], who is said to be the successor to [[Kikuko Inoue]]'s role as go-to-[[Yamato Nadeshiko]] actress--incidentally, Inoue plays Beatrice's mentor, Virgilia. (The [[~~PlayStation~~Play Station 3]] port adds ''Inoue's'' predecessor, [[Sumi Shimamoto]], but not in any way that could take the gag further, sadly, since she plays Kasumi Sumadera and not a witch.) * [[Cat Smile]] - Maria, when Rosa gives her Sakutaro for her birthday. ** And about half of Dlanor's expressions. Line 146 ⟶ 147: * [[Curtain Camouflage]] - Jessica in Banquet * [[Cuteness Proximity]] - The Stakes. {{spoiler\|Sakutaro}}. Result: [[The Glomp\|glompage]] and a lot of [[Squee]]. * [[Cycle of Revenge\|Cycle of Hatred]] - Too many to mention, to the point where there's even a character who exists as an incarnation of it. * [[Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy]] - {{spoiler\|Both [[In-Universe]] and invoked. In fact, it's largely the point of the final episode, which points out that the Ushiromiya family could not have been nasty to each other all the time and that the previous episodes more or less both showed the family at their worst and that said worst is more or less only the theories of a bunch of gossipers.}} * [[Dark Reprise]] - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAupQUUglkU goldenslaughterer] is already a pretty dark BGM to begin with, since it plays during the more cruel deaths, but it gets a darker and more intense remix as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euezX9D3aDE the_executioner] in EP7, which plays during the fight between Will and {{spoiler\|Bernkastel}}. Line 165 ⟶ 166: ** {{spoiler\|Well, Beatrice was acting when she trolled Battler to keep him on the path towards the truth, which meant when she was being nice she was acting like a troll who was acting like Beatrice.}} [[Xanatos Roulette\|She's that]] [[Magnificent Bastard\|kind of]] [[The Chessmaster\|girl]]. * [[Distant Finale]]: Episode 8's Hidden Tea Party. Decades later, {{spoiler\|Ange becomes a famous author under the alias "Yukari Kotobuki". Having become famous, she attracts the attention of Tohya Hachijo, who turns out to be two people, one of which was Battler, who lost his memories and regained them. Ange and Tohya meet, but Tohya couldn't associate himself with his identity as "Battler". In the end, Ange invites Ikuko and Tohya to the reopening of the Fukuin House to let Tohya come to terms with his past.}} * [[Doing inIn the Wizard]] - A [[Invoked Trope\|plot point]]. If Battler can Do In The Wizard, he wins his and Beatrice's game. Beatrice would, presumably, disappear in a [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\|puff of logic.]] * [[Doorstopper]] - The entire novel (all eight episodes) clocks at around 6 MB as a text file. Compare [[War and Peace]], which is around 3 MB. * [[Double Entendre]] - The entire {{spoiler\|wedding scene}} in EP6, particularly when {{spoiler\|Erika tries to forcibly put a too small wedding ring on Battler's finger after ''lubing the ring and his finger up with saliva'' and insists that she will shove it into "the deepest part."}} Line 171 ⟶ 172: *** [[Rape Is OK When It Is Female On Male\|"Are you scared? How cute!" "Where do you want it? Where do you want me to pierce you?" "...piercing it feels so good," "Come on, let me have another taste. Pleasure me all you can with that warm chest of yours!"]] * [[Drink Order]] - [[Spot of Tea\|Tea]]. Tea tea tea tea tea tea tea. Everyone drinks tea. Especially Beato, Lambda, and Bern (They are called "tea parties," after all, right?) But Bern usually specifies that she wants umeboshi (sour, pickled plum) tea. * [[Drunk with Power]] - Leading to a rampage of perversion in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160723133303/http://umineko.wikia.com/wiki/TIPS/Game_master_Battler%27s_tip this] spoilery sidestory (which takes place after Episode 5). ** {{spoiler\|Apparently Yasu's motivation for becoming Beatrice, specifically, the first taste of magic by being possessed by Gaap.}} * [[Duct Tape for Everything]] Line 185 ⟶ 186: * [[Evolving Credits]] - The witch portrait changes each arc (default-Beatrice, then [[Zettai Ryouiki]]-Beatrice, then {{spoiler\|Eva-Beatrice}}); the fourth arc simply shows all three portraits in reverse order. Starting in the third arc they also added 15 new characters to the opening and changed the positioning of four others to reflect their relationship. By the fifth arc, {{spoiler\|Erika}} now has a portrait in the opening, and by the seventh, all of the previous portraits {{spoiler\|plus Battler's and Wright and Lion's}} are seen. * [[Expy]] - [[media:Battler_Sprite.jpg\|Battler]] and [[media:BeatriceFormal.jpg\|Beatrice]] bear more than a passing resemblance to [[media:adell_artwork.jpg\|Adell]] and [[media:Rozalin.jpg\|Rozalin]] of [[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]. ** [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FFr_CL_FHPk/SnHEzCNZS4I/AAAAAAAANEU/nvlVYXIc1eo/s400/umineko05-00090.jpg Bernkastel] and [http://static2.animepaper.net/upload/thumbs/wallpapers/Higurashi-No-Naku-Koro-Ni/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dwallpapers_Higurashi-No-Naku-Koro-Ni_jigoku-shonen(1.33)__THISRES__67684.jpg Rika]{{Dead link}}, though this is intentional, given {{spoiler\|Bernkastel is all the incarnations of Rika Furude who never made it past June of 1983}}. * [[Extreme Doormat]] - Kanon verges on this with his whole "furniture" ideology, but it's subverted-ish in the end of "Turn of the Golden Witch," {{spoiler\|when he admits he's in love with Jessica}}. ** Played straight with Genji, who barely shows any emotions. Line 192 ⟶ 193: * [[Failed a Spot Check]] - One or two of the riddles, most notably the Kanon-in-the-closet one from EP6 seriously relies on this ({{spoiler\|It's not that there's ''no body'' in the closet - it's that the body is now inhabited by Shannon or Beatrice rather than Kanon}}). * [[The Fair Folk]] - While they're called "witches" and have all the traditional trappings, their existence, playing with reality and fiction and following seemingly nonsensical rules, has many similarities. * [[Fair Play Whodunnit]] - This work is somewhat [[Tsundere\|bipolar]] towards this trope. The very first trailer started with the words "No [http://www.diogenes-club.com/knoxrules.htm Knox]. No [https://web.archive.org/web/20070626121005/http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/vandine.htm Dine]. No [[Clueless Mystery\|Fair]]". Then it begins with a fairly normal mystery plot which flies out of the window as witches and other magical beings keep appearing. But upon rereading earlier episodes it becomes obvious that all revelations were hinted at. In Episode 5 a new character is introduced {{spoiler\|whose name is Ronald A. Knox backwards, who gives the possibility that the Knox rules are true in the game, scolds the reader for getting distracted from the mystery by the fantasy elements and outright states that the author wants the reader to solve it on their own}}. Beatrice herself actually states that {{spoiler\|the novels follow the Knox decalogue}} as early as EP2 when she and Battler are arguing over hidden doors; most people don't notice this the first time around. Episode 7 {{spoiler\|follows Episode 5's trend and introduces an [[Anthropomorphic Personification\|incarnation]] of Willard H. Wright (the real name of S.S. Van Dine), who shows up to 'bury' Beatrice and reveal her heart. In layman's terms, he solves most mysteries and undeniably proves that the story is indeed a [[Fair Play Whodunnit]].}} Line 223 ⟶ 224: * [[Gambit Pileup]] - Most non-magical explanations for the murders in any given arc require multiple murderers, often working at cross-purposes, and different ones for each arc. * [[Game Between Heirs]]: The successor to the Ushiromiya family's headship and fortune (which includes ten tons of solid gold) seemed to be locked and set in stone and then a letter from the [[Magnificent Bastard\|resident witch]] arrived, announcing that the spoils have been made fair game to anyone who can solve the Witch's Epitaph, a long riddle which incidentally, details a ritual requiring human sacrifice. Mind games (and [[Anyone Can Die\|lots and]] [[Kill'Em All\|lots of murder]]) ensue. * [[Generational Trauma]]: The Ushiromiya clan all suffer one way or another the consequences of the traumas of current patriarch Kinzo. The man was emotionally abused while growing up, forced to become the head of the family after practically every other male adult died in the 1928 Tokyo earthquake, and roped into an arranged marriage he disliked and only consummated to get heirs, but none of the children he had with his legitimate wife was good enough to him. It's implied that the man joined the Imperial army during WWII less of a patriotic feeling and more to get away from his wife and children. Abroad he met his true love, but because of the times, he couldn't divorce his wife and had to keep her as his mistress until she died in childbirth. His legitimate children were raised under various levels of parental abuse on his side, having to bear western names, and developed several unhealthy coping mechanisms themselves: Krauss tends to go towards risky business to the point of getting frequently conned, Eva is a perfectionist that tried to compensate not being taken in account due to [[Heir Club for Men]], Rudolph is a womanizer, and Rosa, the most abused child, gets herself involved with unattainable men and abuses her own kid in turn. His grandchildren are slightly better adjusted due to most of them not being outright abused (and the one who actually ''is'' has developed quite creepy coping mechanisms), but they still feel under the heavy eye of their grandfather and their parents' neuroses. {{Spoiler\|And let's not talk about how he raised his illegitimate daughter in such a way she never knew Kinzo was her father, so he could sexually abuse her due to her strong resemblance to her mother, and how the child born from that relationship has to be raised hidden from him to avoid getting the same fate...}} * [[Genre Busting]] - Fantasy? Mystery? One with elements of the other? {{spoiler\|Nope! Try "romance with fantastical mystery Jungian-psychological elements".}} * [[Genre Shift]] - Or so Beatrice would ''like'' you to think as she piles more and more fantastic elements into the murder mystery. Line 305 ⟶ 307: * [[Karma Houdini]] - The third arc casts {{spoiler\|Eva as one responsible for most of the deaths, and she shoots Battler when he confronts her over this}}. Then in the [[Bad Future]] we learn that the subsequent police investigation {{spoiler\|cleared her completely, leaving her with the entire family fortune. She is still considered the villain by the general public, though, and spends the rest of her life in torment.}} According to the Tanabata side story, {{spoiler\|Eva ''was'' willing to care for and love little Ange as her own daughter, but Bernkastel poisoned their relationship for her own amusement.}} Then the seventh and eight arcs pretty much confirm that {{spoiler\|Eva is, in fact, a [[Silent Scapegoat]], hiding the truth of Rokkenjima to keep the public from desecrating it, as well as to protect Ange, who she fears would [[Go Mad ~~From~~from the Revelation]].}} * [[Kick the Dog]] - When {{spoiler\|Rosa tears up Sakutaro}}. ** {{spoiler\|Bernkastel}} has a lot of them. In the VN, there are ''multiple troll sprites'' for this character. Line 335 ⟶ 337: * [[Light Is Not Good]] - The main antagonist, Beatrice, is nicknamed "The Golden Witch" and is said to appear as [[Butterfly of Death and Rebirth\|a flock of golden butterflies]]. So what does she do the every arc? Oh, only sadistically kill off the entire cast. * [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] - Starts off with the Ushiromiya family, their servants, and Kinzo's physician for a total of eighteen people [[Closed Circle\|trapped on an island during a storm]] and goes up from there as Beatrice starts bringing in more of her associates (justifying it as the magical world gaining influence over the game). All the new witches, demons, servants, and [[Bad Future]] characters bring the count to about 40. ** Lampshaded to hell and back in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160723133303/http://umineko.wikia.com/wiki/TIPS/Game_master_Battler%27s_tip this] [[Breaking the Fourth Wall\|Fourth-wall shattering]] TIP from EP6. * [[Locked Room Mystery]] - [[Invoked Trope\|Invoked]] many times and taken by some characters as evidence that murders were committed by the Golden Witch rather than by a human. * [[Limited Wardrobe]] - With Kanon and Shannon exempted, most of the characters in the VN are only ever seen in one outfit, even in flashbacks, when it is also noted that these are their formal clothes that they're wearing for the family conference. The anime largely averts this trope in the flashbacks, but it still keeps them in the same outfits through multiple days, even though, logically, everyone should have known that they would be staying more than one day and packed a change of clothes. Line 391 ⟶ 393: * [[Never Trust a Trailer]] - The anime's next-episode trailers are full of blatant lies and out-of-character behavior. They're hilarious. {{spoiler\|Except the last one.}} The trailer before the release of the first game opened with the words "No Knox, No Dine, [[Clueless Mystery\|No Fair]]". {{spoiler\|Episodes 5 and 7 introduce incarnations of the Knox and Van Dine rules respectively.}} A [https://web.archive.org/web/20130916045554/http://www.alchemist-net.co.jp/new-project/ website] version. Alchemist announced a Umineko project, but used different characters drawn in the Umineko portrait style. This all turned out to be a joke and the characters were for their new game [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXI6BVSOJrM Galgun], but at the same time they announced [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zez-F8ilASs Rondo of the Witch and Reasoning] * [[Nightmare Face]]: Really gets ramped up in the [[~~PlayStation~~Play Station 3]] remake; they generally involve shadowy brows, [[Glasgow Grin\|extremely wide grins]] and bugged-out eyes. [[media:beatrice_grin_330.gif\|Beatrice provides a comparison the PC and [[~~PlayStation~~Play Station 3]] sprites.]] * [[Noblewoman's Laugh]] - Beatrice is prone to these, and Maria's giggling sometimes morphs into it as well. Lambda has her "O-ho-ho-ho-ho!" in the [[Visual Novel]] as well. * [[No Body Left Behind]] - The Stakes are some of the few characters NOT to leave gruesome corpses. Unless they're the ones doing the killing, but that's another matter... Line 441 ⟶ 443: * [[Recursive Canon]] - {{spoiler\|1=Revealed to be the case in EP8.}} ** Also parodied, in episodes 2 and 3 Maria watches an episode of [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]. * [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] - Both the Stakes and Chiesters, as well as Lambdadelta (but only in the anime and [[~~PlayStation~~Play Station 3]] remake). * [[Redheaded Hero]] - Battler and Ange later on. * [[Relationship Upgrade]] - {{spoiler\|Jessica and Kanon}} in EP6. Line 460 ⟶ 462: * [[Scare Chord]] - A [[Hell Is That Noise\|rather terrifying]] one. * [[Scenery Porn]] - ''Ougon Musou Kyoku'' has most possibly the most detailed and beautiful battle backgrounds EVER, especially the Meta World ones. * [[~~Schrodinger~~Schrödinger's Cat\|Schrodingers Cat]] - A recurring motif. Used by Virgilia and Battler to explain why the fantasy scenes happen: as long as the detective can't see them, there's a possibility that it either happened, or it didn't happen. And that in a [[Closed Circle]], two theories (or more) have the same weight of truth until the closed circle is broken. ** Catbox is also used as a metaphor for {{spoiler\|what really happened on Rokkenjima. The only one said to be able to open it is Eva, since she was present. She however chose not do so for the sake of Ange.}} * [[Science Destroys Magic]] - This is the witch's defense for why they don't use magic openly: People don't believe in it anymore which undermines its effectiveness. The validity of the argument is intentionally ambiguous. Line 482 ⟶ 484: ** It's implied that {{spoiler\|three other characters are really the same person}}. * [[Spoiler Opening]] - In each arc the opening animations change, most notably the portrait. The second animation set shows {{spoiler\|Beatrice's Human Form}}, and the third set shows {{spoiler\|Eva-Beatrice, Virgilia, and the Siestas}}. The fourth one shows all three portraits, {{spoiler\|another Siesta, and Maria's witch outfit.}} ** The opening of the [[~~PlayStation~~Play Station 3]] port is very bad with it. Showing quickly important scenes without context may not be bad enough, but showing characters whose very existence are a big surprise for first time players make sure a good part of the mood of the first few episodes are completely changed. * [[Spoiler Title]] - ''End'' and ''Requiem''. * [[Spooky Painting]] - Beatrice's portrait. Line 500 ⟶ 502: * [[Talking Is a Free Action]] - Gleefully averted. In the first arc, Kanon {{spoiler\|has a long rant about how he's going to kill himself and ruin Beatrice's plans, but she sics a Stake on him before he gets around to acting on it}}. There's also an awful lot of people [[Killed Mid-Sentence\|dying in the middle of trying to say something important]]. The anime, on the other hand, fell a victim to this trope with a Jessica falling to the ground in a bullet time and talking at the same time. ** Played straight later in the novels, Battler's debate with Beato at the end of the fourth arc and the trial at the end of the fifth arc last a minute each. * {{spoiler\|[[~~Talking~~Inner ~~to Themself~~Dialogue]]}}/{{spoiler\|[[Acting for Two]]}} - It takes more than half the series for the readers to realize that these tropes are in effect whenever {{spoiler\|Shannon talks to Kanon}}, but in Episode 7 this fact [[Fridge Brilliance\|becomes obvious]]. Also, no matter how you look at it {{spoiler\|Beatrice is [[Acting for Two\|Acting For Many]] in both the Meta-World and the piece-world.}} * [[Tangled Family Tree]] - And ''how''. It's revealed in EP7 that {{spoiler\|Kinzo had a daughter with Beatrice I, and then had ''another'' daughter/son [[Parental Incest\|with that daughter]]. Said second daughter/son is in a relationship with at least two of Kinzo's grandchildren. Gender ambiguity actually being a plot point here. You do the math.}} * [[Tempting Fate]] - "Unless messing up sets off {{spoiler\|a trap that blows up the island}}, of course." You just ''had'' to say it, {{spoiler\|Beato.}} Line 511 ⟶ 513: * [[Time Travel]] - Ange is an interesting case. It is not clear when or where the Meta-World is, but Battler and Beatrice's fight takes place in 1986; Ange lives in 1998 and with Bernkastel's assistance reaches the Meta-World. One way of explaining this is that since {{spoiler\|Episodes 1 and 2 (sans Meta-World sequences) were found as message bottles after 1986, all Ange is doing is metaphorically going back to 1986 and trying to find out what really happened. In such a case, this probably counts as a subversion}}. * [[Title Drop]] - Over and over again by Battler. "When the seagulls cry" refers to when the typhoon is over and everything's safe. It's also used at the very end to give the body count. Er... perhaps "survivor count" might be a better description. * [[Took a Level Inin Badass]] - In EP 4, {{spoiler\|both Jessica and George - formerly [[Damsel in Distress\|damsels in distress]] give Ronove and Gaap a run for their money.}} In EP 2, there's {{spoiler\|Shannon. In the first arc she seems to be a generic shy [[Moe]] [[Meido]] archetype who becomes cannon fodder early on. Cue the second arc when she stands up to the witch who's supposedly killing everyone and basically tells her that because she gets enjoyment from seeing them squirm, she's not going to react to give her the satisfaction. Not to mention the [[Barrier Warrior\|barrier powers]]...}} Battler, who was level grinding throughout the entire series so far, and boy does it show in the later ones. Line 528 ⟶ 530: * {{spoiler\|[[The Un-Reveal]] - The reader ''never'' learns what ''really'' happened on Rokkenjima. They are only ever given hints to reason the answer for themselves. The reason given in-game is that by never revealing the truth, Ange's hope for a miracle that everyone survived can never be denied.}} * [[Unexplained Recovery]] - What happens when {{spoiler\|a new game begins}} after the last, in which {{spoiler\|[[Everybody Dies]]. Or at least a majority of the cast.}} * [[Updated Rerelease]] - Like [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni\|Higurashi]], it has a remake on a [[~~PlayStation~~Play Station 3\|Sony console]]. * [[Unreliable Narrator]] - A key part of the plot. It's explicitly stated that anything not in red text is liable to be false. What is in red text? [[Mind Screw\|...Not very much...]] ** Episode 5 {{spoiler\|spells out what can and can't be taken as reliable - For episodes 1-4, only scenes that piece Battler narrates, For episode 5, only scenes that Erika narrates (which are very few)}}. Line 537 ⟶ 539: * {{spoiler\|[[Villain Based Franchise]]}} - Subverted in that {{spoiler\|Bernkastel wasn't a villain in [[Higurashi]]}}. * [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] - The original [[V Ns]] allow you to "execute" characters to see how they died. * [[Viewers Are Geniuses]] - In order to understand what the [[Doing inIn the Wizard\|show really is about]], you need to pay attention to a lot of small details such as where the characters get hurt ({{spoiler\|in different places in the fantasy and real scenes}}), where do they die, who talked about fantasy, etc. * [[Wasted Song]] - ''Ougon Musoukyoku'' uses songs directly taken out of the game, like goldenslaughterer or haze and worldend dominator, which usually last for about at ''least'' five minutes, on a game where the average match doesn't lasts more that 3 minutes, which means you won't hear all of the song unless you deliberately pause the game. * [[Weirdness Censor]] - In the anime, almost no attention is drawn to Maria's [[Creepy Child\|cackling, odd foreknowledge, and general sociopathy]] by other characters (the biggest example is probably the [[Mood Whiplash]] above). In the manga, Battler reacts with proper dread at her mysterious statements most of the time, and while he tries to laugh it off in the visual novels, he ''does'' find it troubling. 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