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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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* [[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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