Umineko Thoughts: Episode 2, Chapters 6-10

I’m struggling to come up with something to write here that isn’t just WAAAAA WHAT IS HAPPENING. Chapter 10 was a wild ride, that made… sticking to my convictions somewhat difficult. Aside from that, with 8 more deaths it looks like we’re following the epitaph script again, which is probably bad news for the rest of the people on the island.

• Well then. At this point I’m either forced to either accept an unreliable narrator or that magic is real and present in the story. I think I’ll go with the former for now, but I’m unsure what that means for the rest of the game. If I can’t rely on what I’m being told to be factual, where can I go from there?

• The stakes the 7 non-initial sacrifices are killed with are also… personified women? sure Beatrice, whatever you say. I do find it interesting that the two sins, Lust and Wrath, make sense for Jessica and Kanon respectively. At some point I’ll go back and check if the Ep1 stakes matched similarly…

  • also, it looks as though at least the two sins we’ve seen have the Ushiromiya crest on their clothing. So far I’ve been taking that to mean ‘blood relative of Kinzo or a close servant’ but if it turns out that there are seven of them I might have to rethink that… hmm. It would make sense for them to be close to Beatrice, I suppose.

• Was the chapel always on the island? So far most of the differences between the events of the two chapters have just spiraled from a few changes in the initial conditions, but this seems dramatically more than that. The background art that was shown makes it look huge.

  • The first chapter talked about how every door could be opened by a servant’s master key, except Kinzo’s office. But the chapel door has a separate key, which would contradict that? Unless they mean just in the mansion itself.
• What was going on with that scene before midnight? Rosa was there, in the chapel, but seemingly has no memory of that after the night? It’s unlikely that that was some shared dream by one of the characters. They were all accepting Beatrice’s existence, which feels like something they would remember and bring up.
  • Is it possible that that scene occurred in the meta tea party world, with the meta versions of those characters? It feels… unlikely but it’s the only way I can make it make sense for now. But it’s always been clear so far when we’ve been in the meta world… hmm
• The more I read, the less I understand… By now I feel like the events of episode 1 are, if not explainable with my current understanding, at least plausible, whereas this feels utterly unknowable… but wow am I enjoying it :)