Umineko: When They Cry: Difference between revisions

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''This is torture that will not end until you can believe in witches."'' }}

 

* [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign]] - If the letters on the blood runes in the original visual novel are actually supposed to be Hebrew, it is really sloppy Hebrew. The manga writes out the actual letters, evidently.

** [[Lampshaded]] in ''End of the Golden Witch''

** The blood pentacles (runes have nothing to do with this) actually are [[Shown Their Work|scanned straight from a copy of the ''Key of Solomon'']], and using the correct meanings to boot, so the inaccurate Hebrew is accurate occultism.

* [[As the Good Book Says...]] - Each of the blood runes has scrawled on it a Bible quote in Hebrew.

* [[Book Ends]] - In the sound novel, the OP for EP 1 plays in the credits of the Trick Ending in EP 8.

* [[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.

'''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 />

* [[Deconstruction]] - Blatantly one of the mystery genre.

* [[Defeat by Modesty]] - Kanon against Lucifer in the anime. He slashes a nice, clean, boob window onto her shirt.

** [[Don't Explain the Joke|It's funny because]] Lucifer represents the [[Seven Deadly Sins|sin]] of [[Pride]].

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]] - Rather common in the sound novels.

* {{spoiler|[[Hijacked by Ganon]]}} - Taken to [[Beyond the Impossible]] levels as {{spoiler|Bernkastel and Lambdadelta successfully usurped the villain's role and are aiming for the role of the ''hero'' as well too by means of invoking [[Decoy Protagonist]]}}.

* [[Hit Me Dammit|Hit Me, Dammit!]] - [[Chivalrous Pervert|Battler's]] reaction when Shannon almost ''does'' let her feel him up on the basis that [[Extreme Doormat|she's not supposed to refuse any request from a guest]].

'''Jessica:''' Why the hell are you ''thanking'' me? }}

* [[Homage]] - To ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''. Many occurrences. For instance, Maria is shown watching clips from the show, and Kanon uses Rena's cleaver.

** Remove the color tints and special effects at the end of EP4 and you get {{spoiler|Battler trying to speak but choking halfway. How Narm.}}

** ''Dawn'' has a particularly interesting case and even lampshades it. Erika picks a fight with Maria over the fact that Maria claims Beatrice made candy appear from an empty cup. It escalates to the point where {{spoiler|Maria and Erika have a Truth battle to determine whether or not this candy trick was an act of magic.}} It's a [[Wizard Duel]] meets {{spoiler|bickering over candy with a 9 year old}}.

* [[Mythology Gag]] - 34 sympathizes with Eva's "unfortunate childhood a bit".

** Maria's letter to whoever discovers the bodies at the end of EP1 is nearly identical to the one Keiichi wrote in ''Higurashi'''s ''Onikakushi-hen''.

* [[Switched At Birth]] - {{spoiler|Battler is <s>implied to be</s> Kyrie's son}}.

* [[Take That, Audience!]] - A rather unsubtle one in EP8 towards the readers. {{spoiler|A seemingly endless bunch of goat-headed creatures making [[Epileptic Trees|hilariously stupid theories]] and demanding answers from the creators.}} Some even took this quite offensive. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in-story.

* [[Take Up My Sword]] - In EP5, Battler {{spoiler|becomes the Endless Sorcerer after Beatrice is killed by Erika}}

* [[Taking the Bullet]] - In the third arc, {{spoiler|Belphegor does this to protect Eva-Beatrice}}.

** {{spoiler|In Beato and Battler's case, this is subverted massively in Episode 3, but appears to be true in Episode 4 anyway.}}.

** {{spoiler|1=Battler even talks about it in EP5.}}

* [[Umbrella of Togetherness]] - George and Shannon do this in the first arc when the typhoon hits.

* [[Understatement]] - Episode 22's title in the anime, "Problem Child". In regards to ''Maria''. For some context, that's the one where she {{spoiler|kills her mother over and over and over. Hard not to cheer for her though, considering that Rosa is the [[Memetic Mutation|BEST MOM EVER]].}}

* [[Wham! Line]]:

** Episode 6:

** Episode 7:

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]] - Rosa's daughter, Maria. One of the kanji in her name is essentially a cross, {{spoiler|she's known as the Witch of Origins (who, according to the visual novel, "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|holds the motherly magical power to give birth to 1 from the sea of zero]]"),}} and is usually the first one to know exactly what's going to happen before everybody else.

* [[Which Me?]] - There are about ''twelve'' different versions and variations of the Beatrices. Eleven if {{spoiler|Shannon and Kanon are separate people}}, but that's still one hell of a lot. Some of them have their own names ({{spoiler|Ange}}-Beatrice is usually known simply as {{spoiler|"Ange"}}, unless some distinction between 1998 and meta-1986 needs to be made), some have last names that are applicable (Beatrice Castiglioni), and some of them simply have fan-created names, because otherwise, you wouldn't be able to figure out who someone was referring to (Moetrice, suit![or sometimes, piece!]Beatrice, Beatroll, etc.).