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Originally Posted by Archer

Because it assumes that magic doesn't exist, period.

Most of the Umineko fandom seem to take the meta-world for granted, since it's not required for the game to question the meta-world. I don't think that's right.

I've been reading what Ryuukishi's been saying at the moment, and I believe that he's purposely avoiding the main issue of "what are witches?" I take it that it's up to the reader to solve this mystery, and that mystery begins with a simple thought process: what is magic? If we believe what we see, we might end up with the Higurashi-style ending.

If we don't, then I see Umineko ending "outside of the meta-world", and in the actual real world, which doesn't allow for the magical or the supernatural. My theory has to do with that. However, most of english-speaking fandom would believe that such a thing isn't possible, and questioning the meta-world's existence doesn't have any reasonable logic or evidence behind it (Most of the attention in the story thus far have been on the gameboards and the meta-world, so we've gotten accustomed to it).

Are you saying that the english speaking people aren't open to new theories? Of course we are! That would be very interesting!
I actually had a crack theory about the Meta-World awhile back.

Spoiler for CRACKY CRACK THEORY:

All the witches and demons are real people, and Battler was knocked out after EP1. They use technology they got from the future with Time Travel to make a new "gameboard" and make Battler think it's really "magic." (Well, not MAGIC, since Battler doesn't believe in that. You know what I mean)
They could also be the murderers, or they could be people who knew about the murders and grabbed Battler before he died so they could use him in a game. They want him to think, and also want to distract him so he doesn't lose hope, because they are really worried about him otherwise. They are good people, but they have to act like sadists out of pity for Battler. Beatrice, the ringleader, has the most pity for him, and her good nature begins to show in EP3 and EP4, but she has to "get back in character."
The Meta-World is really just a huge mansion, and Beatrice, Ronove, etc are Time-Travelers with epic technology.

More epic crack xD