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[[File:gloriousep8_9027.jpg|frame|Welcome to Rokkenjima.]]
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''This is torture that will not end until you can believe in witches."'' }}
'''''Umineko no {{color|red|Na}}ku Koro
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.
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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 [[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''.
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* [[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}}.
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*** [[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]]
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* [[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.
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* [[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]].}}
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* [[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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 [[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 [[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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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.}}
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