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Old 2012-12-24, 21:31   Link #31501
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Black Battler takes unusual pleasure in it though and in Forgery No. XXX sort of casts himself in the POV of the piece Battler. It'd be rather confusing if he were nevertheless innocent.

Not that you couldn't do what you described... but anyway.
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Old 2012-12-24, 22:03   Link #31502
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Black Battler takes unusual pleasure in it though and in Forgery No. XXX sort of casts himself in the POV of the piece Battler. It'd be rather confusing if he were nevertheless innocent.
In the end it's also a depiction of the limitless potential of how to fill Pieces. BlackBattler is, I would say, not the Piece but the way it is drawn...a more abstract concept, while Pieces are entirely hollow.

I think this also comments on how the way things are depicted on the gameboard is just limited by one thing, it has to be in order with outside elements. Maria's diary, Eva being alive, the truth being kept from Ange, those are limiters to how to draw Pieces and gameboards. All the elements where any evidence has been lost though is free to design however you want.
There is a truth of the gameboards, but they do not have to be The One Truth...as a human you are allowed to doubt even that.
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Old 2012-12-24, 22:06   Link #31503
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Black Battler takes unusual pleasure in it though and in Forgery No. XXX sort of casts himself in the POV of the piece Battler. It'd be rather confusing if he were nevertheless innocent.

Not that you couldn't do what you described... but anyway.
Well, Eva-Beatrice surely seemed to have fun in killing people over and over and we know if PieceBattler isn't the detective his point of view isn't reliable plus is possible to insert fantasy scenes in which BlackBattler instead than PieceBattler could have the starring role. Who knows, maybe BlackBattler could be introduced as Battler's split second personality as, if I'm not wrong, Battler suggested that a character could have a split personality more than once.

It'll be interesting also to think to an Ep 5 from Erika's point of view with an embodiement of the Natsuhi-culprit theory or a black Natsuhi or a Natsuhi-Beatrice running lose...
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Regarding all the ongoing talk about how shitty it is not to have a solution, I found it funny to go overthe Anti mystery vs Anti fantasy TIP again and comparing it with what was said about Mystery literature over the course of time.

I recommend everybody to read it again and consider it.
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Old 2012-12-25, 00:01   Link #31505
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Regarding all the ongoing talk about how shitty it is not to have a solution, I found it funny to go overthe Anti mystery vs Anti fantasy TIP again and comparing it with what was said about Mystery literature over the course of time.

I recommend everybody to read it again and consider it.
Him talking about it doesn't make it less shitty. Explaining what the Later Queen Problem is doesn't mean it becomes okay to write a story where you intentionally don't provide information. To say "Well, I could change the answer any time I want by writing something new" doesn't necessarily raise meaningful points, nor does it excuse lazy behavior, nor does it necessarily have philosophical relevance. What do I mean by this? I feel it does warrant my explaining further, so...

What he seems to be saying (or hinting at) in the TIP is something along the lines of "Suppose I wrote an answer, and later I changed it. Obviously, that might be right. But suppose I wasn't the one who wrote the new answer. What if some fan came up with an answer that seemed better than mine and everyone became sure that was what I really meant and that answer became 'truth?' Since that can always happen, can you really know 'the answer?'" He's right about this, but he's also wrong about its specific application to Umineko and he's ignoring a very important issue from a literary standpoint.

He uses the example of Higurashi. It should be immediately apparent that the difference he's discussing while writing about his prior work around the time he was partway into writing his current (for the time) work is that, at the time of that writing, Higurashi had an ending. Moreover, it had a rather definite ending; he points out that by the end of the final arc he's revealed who the culprit is and gone over most of their motivations. What he's suggesting is that later he could introduce "undiscovered evidence X" which suddenly proves the culprit's innocence and convicts a new culprit. He suggests we can go on doing this forever because of the uncertainty of truth in an anti-mystery setting.

He is wrong on two points:
  • His conclusion is nihilism. "Truth doesn't exist, therefore you must either reject the ability to know anything or at least partially embrace fantasy," which is essentially an argument for faith as the only counter to nihilistic thought. This is immensely narrowminded as it discounts the entire point of scientific rationality being about eliminating impossibility through self-correction with the understanding that you get increasingly closer to the most probably true outcome over time. In other words, the Later Queen Problem isn't actually a problem; it's the goddamn Scientific Method. Learning that Relativity is a better model than Newtonian physics does not make Newtonian physics a waste of time, nor does the possibility that something will replace Relativity make learning about it a waste of time. Should we learn in 2050 that the true culprit of Higurashi was Satoko all along... who gives a shit? Now we know. Of course his counter-argument will be that he could then prove she isn't the culprit and keep doing this forever. He's wrong, because...
  • Even a work of fiction is ultimately limited in this capacity in two critical ways. The first is that there is normally a finite amount of source information, so at some point it becomes impossible to keep revealing a "new" true ending. The second is that literature faces an insurmountable plausibility and credibility issue when it does this too often. The audience may tolerate a twist in the resolution, or even several... but if you go to great lengths to eliminate every subject and bring in a new character to blame... then do that again... then do that again... at some point the audience says "You know what? I don't care anymore." How long an author can keep doing this is highly dependent upon his own skill and the expectations of the audience. The author of a very silly comedy battle manga can probably pull it off for a long time, but sooner or later even his audience will grow bored.
Ultimately, every story is beholden to this, even the ones that aren't challenging the readers with obvious questions. Traditional-style mystery writers do not create a sporting "arithmetic" puzzle because of any particular belief that the world ought to be that predictable, but as an assurance to the reader that what is being read is worth bothering with. Promising self-contained evidence and a definitive answer is essentially not a factual conceit, but a literary one.

Authors who make fewer promises, who raise fewer questions, have a right to answer less and are subject to less scrutiny about ambiguities. "Truth" is not necessarily their objective. In a story about a man's trip to the bank, a mysterious woman he runs into along the way isn't necessarily something that demands an answer. It can act as a source of wonder of course, but it isn't a literary necessity that the author actually identify this person.

Where Umineko runs afoul of this is in cloaking itself in mystery trappings, making affectations of facts and truth being important, touting the value of rationality, and then refusing to actually follow through on confirmation and then reveling in the unsatisfactory approach it took to these things. Had it not styled itself in the manner it did, some of these things would not be that important. Ultimately, a lot of the things I do care about are things I would not care about if the story presented itself philosophically and thematically as something different. You can kill a man in front of the narrator in a war story and not expect me to want to know where that shot came from, because the story is asking me to think about its meaning in a context other than a rational exploration of causes. If you have the narrator rant about those causes immediately after it happens, of course I want to know! And more important, I'm trusting that you as the author are going somewhere with that point.

Resolution itself isn't even necessarily the point. I'm okay with No Country For Old Men. It's a matter of execution and expectations, and I think Ryukishi is trying to hide behind this notion that he was somehow doing something philosophically when I don't believe he actually tried very hard at that kind of thing. I know exactly where he could have taken his points, and I am obligated to fault him for not doing so properly. That's literary criticism and you can disagree, but I don't think my point is invalid and I do think there are significant weaknesses in the story from a literary standpoint, primarily in the second half.

I might have been kinder on Chiru had it been hammering home from the start something along the lines of: "So, you've seen all the evidence already... yep, that's all of it. Can you guess the culprit? You can? Are you sure? After all, there are a number of explanations and there are many things missing. You don't even have a motive. ...You're still sure? Then there's something I want to show you... not facts; we don't have any more of those. But there is still something you haven't yet seen, and it may change your mind..." Essentially, had Chiru been a true "anti-mystery" bookend to the first series's "anti-fantasy" segment, providing an answer to a different question and not concerning itself with the mystery themes it had already tread, I might be inclined to think "Hmm, maybe he's right that saying 'you need to answer X' isn't really the point here, because that was all to make a greater point he's shown me in Chiru."

Now, some of you might well say that what I described is what Chiru is. I think at times it tries to be this, and I think those are the better moments in it. But I do believe it's too hung up on the elements that were laid out before, too focused on information that it really didn't need to give us, and ultimately it feels a bit halfassed and wastes a lot of time. If he didn't want us to have a certain answer and wanted us to be okay with this, Chiru is the point where he can say "OK, I want to present to you this thought through the second half of the story, and see if by the end 'what I want out of this story' is different than it was at the end of Alliance when you were cheering for Battler to strike down the witch." That's essentially Battler's transformative arc between the end of Alliance and the midpoint of End... but the journey becomes muddled and interrupted and distracted. I really, really wanted to follow Battler through the rabbit hole from anti-fantasy to anti-mystery (and maybe to some other point beyond both), but Ryukishi made him too unapproachable, too dissociated. Losing the meta-level dynamic that had carried the series so well ultimately harmed it greatly.

So I don't really want an "arithmetic puzzle game," as he puts it, but I do want a work of literature that is actually worth my time to read and that walks with me to a satisfactory conclusion. Episodes 1-4 gave me that and a ton of promise for what was to come and episodes 5-8 did not deliver. I wouldn't fault Chiru for being "something else," as long as it led me to a coherent and clear point (not necessarily a factual one) using ep1-4 as a proper contrast. It didn't do that; in fact, it toyed with those very same expectations pretty much the whole way through. I'm dissatisfied because it was neither a meaningful explanation of facts and proofs nor a philosophically interesting meditation on the importance of truth in a situation where critical facts are unrecoverable. Either would've worked; treading a middling ground does not.
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Old 2012-12-25, 00:25   Link #31506
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And by this you've shown me that you have not the slightest clue what the anti-mystery genre is about. Either that or your stance is so rigid that Umineko is simply not your cup of tea, because it sees merrits in that what you refuse as pure nihilism.
You see only chaos and destruction in this but Ryukishi saw the endless potential this brings to a genre that was said to have run out of ideas almost 100 years ago.

Going back to that TIP, you are exactly one of those people who approach the world with te idea that everything is a step closer to the truth. I say that we are basically just stumbling about and have to choose what we believe and THAT is what Umineko is about.
You are approaching things in expectation of the conclusion...but honestly, that conclusion might never come.
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Old 2012-12-25, 00:27   Link #31507
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In regards to Yasu's character in general, I've been following this recently. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...UtKwtM754/edit
It's a liveblog/analysis / reread of EP 1 that heavily tries to focus on seeing things from Yasu's perspective, and while a bit unstructured, offers some really interesting insights on who she was as a person, as well as pointing out a lot of seemingly random bits in the narrative that take on a whole new meaning with hindsight.
Sorry for bringing up an old post (and not to mention makes it kinda oot too)... but does anyone have the continuation of this? This provides to be quite entertaining and some points actually broaden my views towards this series.

....I especially like that part where he keeps downplaying George. It really remind me on why I stopped trying to re-read the whole series.
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Old 2012-12-25, 01:20   Link #31508
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And by this you've shown me that you have not the slightest clue what the anti-mystery genre is about. Either that or your stance is so rigid that Umineko is simply not your cup of tea, because it sees merrits in that what you refuse as pure nihilism.
You see only chaos and destruction in this but Ryukishi saw the endless potential this brings to a genre that was said to have run out of ideas almost 100 years ago.
You didn't read what I actually put up there, and just stopped when you saw the world "nihilism" without actually trying to put any effort into addressing the criticism. I fully concede you can disagree with because I'm commenting on why something does not stand up for me. It makes your response no less hilarious though, because you proceeded to ignore my point that I don't even care if he wants to specifically address all the facts he's presented, as long as he does what he does intend to do competently (which he did not do to my satisfaction, and personally I believe he did not do period).

I'm not sure Ryukishi means what you seem to think he means. If you want to talk platitudes about the "endless potential" that Ryukishi saw but was apparently too incompetent to actually bring forth in his own work, that's really unacceptable. You seem to genuinely believe - or at least are trying to say - that he is a Good Writer making Important Points, yet you are doing nothing but empty name dropping and offering smug suggestions that people go back and look at things without telling them what they're supposed to be looking for. I can no longer tolerate this. It isn't fair to people who throw opinions and suggestions on the line - even stupid ones that they know are stupid - to have people dancing around ever making a point while being so excessively critical of other people that they can't even be assed to read what they write.

If you have a point, then make it. If you want to defend the work, then defend it. If you believe it has done something genuinely praiseworthy, explain what about it deserves praise. If you think it's altering genres, what genre is it altering and how and why is what it's doing admirable? If I don't understand anti-mystery, how about you get off your ass and explain how you define it and why it's important? These are the points on which an argument must turn. If you won't engage them, there's no point in engaging you. We're already quarreling, so it's not like it'd suddenly get ugly if you presented your point in full (and honestly, why should you care what I say?).

If all you're saying is that Ryukishi is observing some things about mysteries and criticizing them... uh, so have lots of people. He isn't special and his ideas are not new. And that by itself is fine. What he does with them is what matters. His work is what he has "done" in that respect. If you want to defend that, go right ahead. If you want to compare it to other works, don't assume we've read them and go in-depth. Maybe you're right. Maybe you're wrong. If you're going to be intentionally vague, how am I ever going to know?

You are not a professor and we do not get assigned homework. Stop saying "I recommend rereading this TIP and comparing it to x and y" and make the comparison yourself. That is unbelievably patronizing and lazy. Make your point and stand behind it, then we can have a discussion about it. I know you're capable of this because you have done so in the past. You really appear to want to say something that you think is important with respect to his earlier essay regarding his objectives for his work. Say it then. But if my position remains that I don't think he actually met his objectives, you cannot just dismiss me as someone for whom the work clearly was not intended. That's not how it works. I already read it and I'm entitled to form an opinion about it. I'm nobody special, but who the hell are you?
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Old 2012-12-25, 03:17   Link #31509
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Say it then. But if my position remains that I don't think he actually met his objectives, you cannot just dismiss me as someone for whom the work clearly was not intended. That's not how it works. I already read it and I'm entitled to form an opinion about it. I'm nobody special, but who the hell are you?
Now let's not get aggressive. I apologize if my message was so short that it kinda seemed like an attack on you, that was not my intention.
My problem is that I have often started laying out my position, or wanted to initiate a discussion on what I think could be considered one of the core merits (which is not the same as the intention of the author) of Umineko as a whole. Every time I did that I was either ignored or it seems I expressed it too cryptically, which I am sorry for then.

I'm researching mystery and suspense literature on a cultural comparative level for almost 3 years now, so I assume I have kind of lost the ability to speak of this topic without expecting too much knowledge of my partners in conversation. I should try to better myself in that department, there you are correct.

To make it short, because I'm a little short on time now, I think Umineko is deeply lodged into a very difficult history of genre development in Japan. I understand that especially people outside Japan cannot be expected to know this kind of background, but just as well Umineko can't be blamed to base itself on a background for which it was at least partly constructed. The Western audience was not an immediate aim.

The development of mystery literature in the West within the mainstream is rather easily structured. After Classical Mysteries in the sense of the Golden Age classics (Carr, Queen, Christie etc.) had been deemed old fashioned they were pretty much replaced by hard-boiled fiction and then by the modern police thriller. There is more going on on the independent book-market, but mystery as a puzzler in English fiction mainly exists only as a callback to the Golden Age.
In Japan the classical, orthodox mystery (honkaku misuteri) kept on existing, even though social-critique mysteries (shakai-ha misuteri) started emerging (similar to hard-boiled in the West. But those were not the only ones, next to it exists a large range of different sub-genre to mystery, which never really caught on on the English-speaking market.
There is a huge assortment of research done on mystery fiction in Japan and Ryukishi also seems to draw largely from Kasai Kiyoshi, a famous critic and analyst who released a series of books on topics, themes and literary as well as social commentary in the genre.
For that reason alone I think it is hard to speak about Umineko "in a Western context", because it is removed from many things that the meta-text (not the meta-narrative) refers to. This does make Umineko a locally limited story, but I think it doesn't actually limit it's possibilities.

The term Anti-Mystery in itself, as used by Ryukishi, is a term that was coined in Japan by the critics and philosophers Sato Shinji and Haniya Yutaka, to refer to the 3 Big Strange Novels, Dogura Magura (which creates a perspective-riddled loop-narrative that defies a solution), The Mansion of the Black Death (which goes into the detective being being able to form a 'perfect solution' that is not the 'truth') and An Offering to Nothingness (which brings up the story-within-a-story meta-structure and is therefore often likened to Umineko). It was used to refer to a style of mystery novels that used the form of a reasoning-based mystery story (suiri shousetsu) to criticize this subgenre.
You are therefore correct when you say that Umineko was not the first to do this, but it was among the first (if not the first) to actually include the reader as a narrative device into the text and that's what makes it fascinating for me. Due to the meta-narrative being bound to our world we are connected to the narrative itself and become a powerful influence on the way we and others view the text.

In that sense, likening the comparison Ryukishi made in the aforementioned TIP to science is wrong, I think. This is not about denying the progress of science, it is denying the absoluteness of human made truth, which is not the same as denying truth in itself.
Jaques Lacan, a french philosopher and psychoanalyist (who is often used in analysis of mystery literature), divided reality and real into two separate realms. Reality is that which we construct, the momentary truth that we built from the evidence we have at our hands, the real is that which exists around us, the culmination of everything in the world. No human can have access to everything and in a narrative the author is God and decides which elements of this real we have access to.
Even if our solution is wrong in the grand scheme of things that does not make it wrong at this very moment. Or to liken it to prosecution, sentencing somebody based on evidence is not wrong, but it can always turn out later that the evidence was incomplete, faked or just analyzed in a wrong way.

It boils down to the question, what is a fair game and who are actually the opponents.
If we readers among each other are opponents, as in the case of most classical mystery stories, then the author is obligated to present all clues necessary to reach the intended solution, because else it could happen that no winner comes out in the end. In that case the author is merely the judge of a race.
If the author is our opponent, wouldn't it be like hacking of your legs at the beginning of a race to ensure that your opponent has a definite chance of winning? This is just my opinion, so people who prefer the classical mystery where the chance to win is definitely given are entitled to their concept, but I think Umineko's take on a game between the reader and the author casts this into a new light not often considered before (because before the advent of the internet author-reader communication was limited).

If people actually answer to this post I'll gladly reply or even take this to another place. If not I'll just gladly stop
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Old 2012-12-25, 03:54   Link #31510
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I'm dissatisfied because it was neither a meaningful explanation of facts and proofs nor a philosophically interesting meditation on the importance of truth in a situation where critical facts are unrecoverable. Either would've worked; treading a middling ground does not.
I enjoyed reading such a comprehensive explanation of your opinion, but here is where mine diverts. I am in no way stating that Umineko is a perfect piece or that no mistakes were made, but I wasn't as unhappy with the middle ground. I WAS a little annoyed that I had to go to the internet to discuss the more specific possible solutions to some of the mysteries (though I am willing to except that maybe he wanted to spur discussion over the mysteries, there certainly was a lot about how this was the fun part of mystery novels in Umineko, and I just don't know anyone else reading it), but I thought 7 rapped up the mystery pretty well and 8 taught me the lesson about truths I had never really thought of.

I suppose the difference is that I am willing to accept things like the flimsy motives (either as me not being made to understood or them being genuinely flimsy) because I felt knowing the motive of the gameboard was good enough, even if it sucked for a real life reason. I guess this is where all criticism runs into opinion. I enjoyed the novel enough and thought it had some fresh ideas (maybe just my lack of experience) that I can forgive the remaining problems. I can even justify them by saying something like "well, the point from the start was you can only truly solve games" (though I'd be making it up). You are disappointed because you thought it could have been amazing, and I am happy because I thought it was great

Of course obviously you still thought it was pretty good yourself, otherwise you wouldn't stalk the halls of this forum like the well-read inquisitor you are. (Oh god, I guess that makes me early Battler, all heart and no brain).
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Eva-Beatrice is sort of a different person.
I said this some time ago already, in the manga Ange states Evatrice is THE Black Witch.
A chain that is passed down from one person to another which can only be seen with love instead of hate.

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Sumadera Kasumi, huh...the life you followed was similiar to mine.I too suffered with bullying from Eva Oba-san that she'd rather call education and discipline, telling me to act proper like her.I'm sure that made Eva Oba-san suffer herself as well.Just like Sumadera Kasumi is now.I'm sure Rosa Oba-san was too....
People thrust the pain they were made to bear onto others.Otherwise, they can't escape from their own pain.Since Eva Oba-san had to taste the pain of being the eldest daughter of the Ushiromiya Family, she pushed that pain onto her younger sister Rosa Oba-san.And Rosa Oba-san pushed her own anger onto Maria Onee-chan.
That's why Maria Onee-chans magic was so amazing....she did not push her own anger onto anyone.She healed everything with magic and filled the world with happiness....I don't know for how long that pain and sadness has been passed and pushed from one person to another but those chains were severed by Maria Onee-chans magic.
I see....then Eva Oba-san too...the truth is that maybe she was a being I should feel sympathy for.Now that I understood the magic I can see....she's just like me.The shade of a sad person who lost the family and carries a deep scar in the heart.
Perhaps I was the only one in the world who could comprehend her and should become her ally,no...?
And yet, being so young I behaved as though she killed my family and come back home alone.I wonder...if I shouldn't have fixed that attitude?
Eva Oba-san certainly had nothing left anymore.That's why she could only howl and cry in order to forget her pain and sadness even if for a while.That's why...the black witch taught her how to howl.That witch certainly possessed Rosa Oba-san as well.I should not have hated Eva Oba-san.The one I should hate is the Black Witch.Eva Oba-san who was nothing but the target of my hate in my life...is becoming a "Human Being" I can understand.
If a proper Witch who knew white magic were near Eva Oba-san maybe she could have been saved.
*Image of Maria appears*
Wasn't that....supposed to be me....?
I learned from Maria Onee-chan a magic that makes people happy.If I had saved her with that magic...wouldn't we have built a future with a completely different relationship?I've been hating Eva Oba-san.That's why I could not notice the Black Witch by her side, since I didn't have love for Eva Oba-san.I couldn't see her....
Evatrice: My what is it?Can you see me?

The Black Witch Appears.


Kasumi: Do you hate me?I hate you too.
Ange: I can see it...Just like me she was forced to have an unreasonable life.Gasping with the pain of the thorn that can't be removed, can't be healed, the shape of Kasumi Oba-san is...
Evatrice: Hey!Sumadera Kasumi take a look will you?The former you is over there!Your mood is clear right?It's very pleasant to do what was done to you to weaker people isn't it?
Ange: The Black Witch!
Evatrice: The only thing that can warm you while you freeze on a snow field of anger and sadness is the hatred!Go, scream!?
How about burning yourself in the flames of hatred!?
Kasumi: ANGEEE USHIROOMIYAAA IF I DON'T HATE YOU I CAN'T GO ON LIVING!!
Ange: The Black Witch that takes advantage of unhealed anger and sadness...I can't forgive her!

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Well, that part isn't unique to the manga; it's in the VN too. And I don't think the point is that the black witch is actually meant to correspond to Eva specifically; the black witch represents the concept of 'black magic' (people trying to make themselves happy by pushing their pain on to others) itself, and it's implied that Ange only sees this witch as Eva because she is still the person that Ange most associates with that kind of hatred.

In fact, in the VN it's flat out stated that the black witch is not Eva herself. It's just a representation of the destructive hatred of Eva, Kasumi and humanity in general.

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Up until now, .........I've hated Eva oba-san the whole time. ...So I didn't notice the black witch beside her. ......Without love, it could not be seen. I did not......have any love for her...... So now, finally... .........I'll glare at the black witch, ......the one I truly should hate.

"......Oh. .........Whaat's this? You can see me? Uffufufufufu...!"
"...............I can see you. ......The one I should've hated wasn't Eva oba-san. ......It's you."
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".........Next is you. ...........The black witch. ......By now, I think even the fact that you look like Eva oba-san is inexcusable to her."

"Fu, ......fuffufufufufu. ...If my form still looks like Ushiromiya Eva, that means you still haven't been able to forgive 'me' inside yourself."
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Even if our solution is wrong in the grand scheme of things that does not make it wrong at this very moment. Or to liken it to prosecution, sentencing somebody based on evidence is not wrong, but it can always turn out later that the evidence was incomplete, faked or just analyzed in a wrong way.
Believe me, I'm entirely aware of that. I question, however, whether you understand the difference between "complete understanding" and "a more complete understanding." If you did, you would recognize that science itself denies the absoluteness of human truth, as does the legal system. There's a reason we rejected lost continents for tectonic drift without complaining, or why we accept that the burden to have a courtroom full of ordinary people decide what truth is in an accident case is merely "who is more likely than not to be right?"

It is possible to criticize the mystery genre in particular ways in light of this kind of understanding or merely in challenge to the type of understanding the genre presents. But that's not by itself what I'm talking about. My question is more what is the point that's being made in the text about this and how well does it follow through on making that point.

It's not sufficient (for an author; it's sufficient for you) to merely say "here's a genre work that is critical of the genre." What is it criticizing? Is it right? What exactly does it want me to think about? Looking at Umineko through this lens, I think I can see the various points the author did want to provide this sort of running dialogue... but I also fault the answers he did and didn't provide. I honestly don't think it's really fair to compare it to the examples you've given (although I've not read most of them), because I think we're dealing with an author who at best tried to convey some of these better-explored-by-others notions to an audience he knew would be largely less familiar with them. That may not have been his original intention up until Turn came out.

The point is, whatever he did do, I'm not convinced he did it well. You're speaking here very generally, so it's difficult for me to point to a specific example of a thing you think he did do well and explain why I agree or disagree (as I don't think he did everything badly). But my point is that if you're arguing that he wrote the work in a manner that only someone like you could fully appreciate it... then he still failed even if you appreciate it, because he had other readers and he wasn't very good at warning those people away. In fact, it seems like he tried very hard to win them back at the cost of compromise.
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It boils down to the question, what is a fair game and who are actually the opponents.
If we readers among each other are opponents, as in the case of most classical mystery stories, then the author is obligated to present all clues necessary to reach the intended solution, because else it could happen that no winner comes out in the end. In that case the author is merely the judge of a race.
If the author is our opponent, wouldn't it be like hacking of your legs at the beginning of a race to ensure that your opponent has a definite chance of winning? This is just my opinion, so people who prefer the classical mystery where the chance to win is definitely given are entitled to their concept, but I think Umineko's take on a game between the reader and the author casts this into a new light not often considered before (because before the advent of the internet author-reader communication was limited).
The problem here is that you seem to be referring to this over and over as something that is either akin to a game or was meant to be viewed as such. Now, maybe that is the expectation of some of the more mystery-genre-educated readers in one very specific segment of the fanbase, but I somewhat doubt that was the case for all of his readers even in Japan. It seems he realized that as well, as he did something relatively early on to shift gears and either appeal to one of these audiences more or to shut another one out (I don't pretend to know which was which). I don't know his exact intentions, of course, so I have to guess based upon what was actually published.

More to the point, I also don't care. If his goal was to introduce a genre and dialogue about it, he didn't do enough of it. If his goal was merely to write a satisfactory story, I wasn't particularly satisfied. I can see bits and pieces of the story that could have been, but I have no idea if it's the story he would have done or if this was his intention all along. I was fine with his limited-scale criticism on the genre by the end of Alliance, but in End and Dawn he reduced it to a caricature of itself and kept beating up on it when I'd already long since gotten his point. Maybe a lot of readers didn't, but I think it was made competently by ep4 or so.

I was expecting him to do something with that from that point on. And at times he seemed to be teasing that spectacularly (at least in parts of Requiem and Twilight). The more experimental, ephemeral, uncertain and criticized parts of ep7 were in fact my favorites, like Will's investigation, the stage play, or the Tea Party; parts that convey "information," like the interviews, submarine story, or Yasu narration, were largely groaners. I wanted to see some Young Kinzo stuff, but mostly to get a sense of his motives. I really didn't need an origin story for the gold, especially not a ridiculous one. Now, it would've been interesting were that story significantly challenged to make a point (would you accept such a ridiculous thing if this was its origin, but if not, why would you accept it really existing 40 years later?), but we get like one panel to even touch upon that very intriguing idea.

Maybe that's something he wanted to do, but it doesn't appear he did. Whatever his ultimate objective was, however, he seems to have pursued it in opposition to writing a coherent overall story. He took too many of his enjoyably-crafted literary devices away from us and what he replaced it with was often less complex and not very well challenged. Roles became more stark, characters became less approachable and apprehensible, and he ignored a large chunk of complexity until Twilight, where I feel he just didn't do enough. Again, there could have been a point intended in doing this; it isn't wrong to break up the main interaction dynamic halfway in, but you have to be doing something with that. I get his plan to some extent but I don't think he executed it, and then it got patched up in a very strange way.

None of these criticisms are about Umineko and its relationship to the mystery genre. These are about Umineko solely as a work of fiction in isolation. Obviously you're claiming it's a work of fiction with things to say about a genre, and I don't deny it. But I'm honestly not seeing what it actually says that's so impressive, and apparently you're the only person who has enough background to know. So by all means, tell me. I just don't know that it will do much to alter my perspective on the overall work, because what you're talking about and what I'm talking about don't appear to really be the same issues. Still, perhaps I'm missing the point that he actually did make, and you can convince me he did so competently, even if I don't like it.
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Old 2012-12-25, 11:27   Link #31514
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Regarding all the ongoing talk about how shitty it is not to have a solution, I found it funny to go overthe Anti mystery vs Anti fantasy TIP again and comparing it with what was said about Mystery literature over the course of time.

I recommend everybody to read it again and consider it.
That's not the problem as far as I'm involved. I can accept Ryukishi didn't want to give us the solution for what happened to Prime, honestly I wish he'd played it better so that readers would have had at least the same info as Ange but I can accept he wanted to make a point of how, not existing red truth in the real world, we might never get to know it.

My problem is with the gameboard world.
He gives us a solution for it and the solution is the culprit is Yasu. This solution have a point in reference to the meta layout, it has a motive but... if we look solely the gameboards the motive becomes way too weak.

To make things clearer: I could have figured Kyrie wanted to kill Asumu to get Rudolf but I would have never figured out Shannon, who have already two people courting her, wanted to kill everyone in such an elaborate manner due to holding a grudge about a promise Battler made when he was 12.

I'm not saying she couldn't, just that there weren't elements enough to think that she would do this. It feels as if I went to talk to a medieval time man and wanted him to guess I've a computer at home. Once I'll tell him I've one he can believe I've a box that's not magic but that can show me pictures, audio and datas from other places but it's hard he would guess it and, even if it did, it would be more like trying out a fantasy answer to him that making a guess or a reasoning using logic.

As if this wasn't bad enough some things in the dynamic of his solution still seems not to make sense.

I'm fine with him not presenting all the elements to the solution as long as I could figure them out.

In Ep 1 Shannon wasn't really in the shed? I could have thought at it, I could have figured out Hideyoshi was an accomplice, I could have figured out whatever Battler saw that made him think there was a body there could have actually be something else.

In Ep 2 I could have figured out that the stomachs had been carved to hide the people had been shot. In Ep 3 there's also some rambling about how it's better if a witch doesn't use guns which could be viewed as a hint about how, when a witch uses guns, she has to hide this fact with tricks.

However I can't figure out how Yasu managed to play the role of Shannon and Kanon for 3 years, the first of them surely without accomplices.
I offered a solution that, for me, could work but... there's nothing in Umineko to support or deny it, especially in the first 4 episodes, and it's not minor problem to prove if ShKanon was possible (In fact I reasoned it out after Ep 7, when I learnt about how Yasu created her fantasy friends).

Ryukishi invited us to try and find the solution to Umineko, he even said we could have done it after Ep 4, Chiru being all extra hints, so I think, in his own mind it was possible to reach the solution he intended without waiting for additional info and that he didn't plan to create a late queen problem however when I watch Umineko I feel that in some things I'm like a first grade who's presented with an equation by an older kid.
To him it can be pretty easy to solve it but, for me, I miss the necessary knowledge and if that kid was a teacher he should know he handed me a problem I couldn't solve.

Ironically in Ep 8 manga version when George and Jessica makes the same quiz they did to Ange in the visual novel, Ange choses the wrong answer as expected.

It's not that she hadn't thought at the answer, it's that with her knowledge she could find the right answer only out of random luck and not out of reasoning.

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To make it short, because I'm a little short on time now, I think Umineko is deeply lodged into a very difficult history of genre development in Japan. I understand that especially people outside Japan cannot be expected to know this kind of background, but just as well Umineko can't be blamed to base itself on a background for which it was at least partly constructed. The Western audience was not an immediate aim.
Yes, it can entirely be that part of me being a member of the western audience stop me from understanding some base points of Umineko that are really simple for the Japanese audience.
I can completely accept that I would have never managed to solve the epitaph. I would have never figured where Kinzo's beloved hometown was witht he first 4 episodes, in the atlas we've here there's no info about railways and anyway part of the quiz involved kanji and my Japanese knowledge is way too low to make things work.

If that's why I'm unsatisfied by some parts of Umineko who instead seem very clear and simple to a Japanese audience well, I guess there's no way around it.

It's nobody's fault if I wasn't Umineko's intended audience.

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For that reason alone I think it is hard to speak about Umineko "in a Western context", because it is removed from many things that the meta-text (not the meta-narrative) refers to. This does make Umineko a locally limited story, but I think it doesn't actually limit it's possibilities.

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It boils down to the question, what is a fair game and who are actually the opponents.
If we readers among each other are opponents, as in the case of most classical mystery stories, then the author is obligated to present all clues necessary to reach the intended solution, because else it could happen that no winner comes out in the end. In that case the author is merely the judge of a race.
If the author is our opponent, wouldn't it be like hacking of your legs at the beginning of a race to ensure that your opponent has a definite chance of winning? This is just my opinion, so people who prefer the classical mystery where the chance to win is definitely given are entitled to their concept, but I think Umineko's take on a game between the reader and the author casts this into a new light not often considered before (because before the advent of the internet author-reader communication was limited).

If people actually answer to this post I'll gladly reply or even take this to another place. If not I'll just gladly stop
I sense a wide knowledge behind your post, one I wish I have and that I find very interesting but that, often I find hard to follow as mine is much more limited and, often, the works and authors you mention make no sense to me as I don't know them and I can't find their work here.

For example you've gotten me definitely curious about 'An Offering to Nothingness' but sadly this book hasn't been translated it so I can't really use it to improve my judgement of Umineko.

So it's not that I don't want to answer to your posts or that I find them boring, it's simply you're talking of something I don't know, I can't get to know as of now and over which therefore I can't reply.

Any chance you can further semplificate things for people who can't get such a wide mystery knowledge or is it asking too much?
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Old 2012-12-25, 13:22   Link #31515
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Is this just a coincidence or intentional of Ryukishi?

When the Incidents occured, in terms of Zodiac is was the time of Libra.
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It is pretty unusual for them to express anger, but when they do it is usually a storm.

They are often very psychic, have curious presentiments, and would make very devout spiritualists, theosophists, and occultists.

They have little regard for the value of money.

LIBRA is the zodiac sign of Partnership, these people's nergies are focused on melding and combining with others; they are at their best in personal relationships.

They are often accused of being two faced. Beneath that charming exterior they are very self centered, and insist on getting their own way.

As lovers these people are the most quintessential romantics among the zodiac. Venus ruling, they have an idealistic view of love and togetherness.

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Well, that part isn't unique to the manga; it's in the VN too. And I don't think the point is that the black witch is actually meant to correspond to Eva specifically; the black witch represents the concept of 'black magic' (people trying to make themselves happy by pushing their pain on to others) itself, and it's implied that Ange only sees this witch as Eva because she is still the person that Ange most associates with that kind of hatred.

In fact, in the VN it's flat out stated that the black witch is not Eva herself. It's just a representation of the destructive hatred of Eva, Kasumi and humanity in general.
I get what you mean, just seemed odd to me that the Black Witch was within Kasumi yet still had the form of Evatrice.
You see, it just kinda made sense to me that she first appeared after Eva solved the Riddle then things going haywire in EP 3.
As in:
Eva solving the Riddle caused the Black Witch to possess people thus causing the deaths of Rosa onwards.
Of course just a speculation:

Kyrie and Rudolf suspected Eva of having solved the Epitaph and took Hideyoshi to question him perhaps even threatening him to tell the location, however he didn't know and they went to kill him.
Would it be too farfetched to say:
Yasu tried to put an end to them resulting in their deaths but Hideyoshi having been killed by them, this being why during the battle Hideyoshi was absent while Leviathan and Belphegor battled them, because he wasn't a target of Yasu.
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I get what you mean, just seemed odd to me that the Black Witch was within Kasumi yet still had the form of Evatrice.
You see, it just kinda made sense to me that she first appeared after Eva solved the Riddle then things going haywire in EP 3.
As in:
Eva solving the Riddle caused the Black Witch to possess people thus causing the deaths of Rosa onwards.
Of course just a speculation:

Kyrie and Rudolf suspected Eva of having solved the Epitaph and took Hideyoshi to question him perhaps even threatening him to tell the location, however he didn't know and they went to kill him.
Would it be too farfetched to say:
Yasu tried to put an end to them resulting in their deaths but Hideyoshi having been killed by them, this being why during the battle Hideyoshi was absent while Leviathan and Belphegor battled them, because he wasn't a target of Yasu.
Because I guess that's how Ange sees her.

If Maria had been around the Black Witch would have had proabbly the form of her mother.

Honestly I doubt Eva truly solved the riddle in Ep 3. I think she was handed the solution by Yasu. After all in Our Confession Beato showed the room of the gold to Krauss and Natsuhi. It's possible this time she did it with Eva hiring her as accomplice but something went wrong.

Maybe Rosa saw them and tried to blackmail Eva or something. Eva believes Shannon/Yasu is aiming only to make a game but Yasu doesn't trust Rosa and so with Maria's help she lead her out and kill her. However, when Maria sees her mom is dead she complains and, for fear Maria will tattle things out she's forced to kill her as well.

Kyrie however gets suspicious Eva knows something they don't and think that interrogating Hideyoshi is the easiest way. They lure him out with an excuse then Kyrie takes the gun Hideyoshi was holding (when they left the house it was Hideyoshi and Rudolf who had the guns but later Hideyoshi hands it to Kyrie to carry the things she was supposed to carry), plannning to force an answer out of him. I think there's a huge chance Yasu killed them, possibly in front of Hideyoshi, he complained with her as he too believed it was supposed to be a play and ended up killed by a dying Kyrie either because she believed him to be an accomplice or because he ended up on the fire line between Kyrie and Yasu (it would be the same ending Leviatan met and in the manga it was heavily implied Hideyoshi was shot on his back by Kyrie's gun while he was in front of Eva-Beatrice, while scolding her).
From this moment Eva is starting to doubt things. His agreement with Yasu but also the people on the insland.
It's also possible Eva doesn't know who Yasu was supposed to be, maybe he only talked with her through the phone like Natsuhi does in Ep 5 so, to Eva, everyone can be 'Beato' which would explain why, once George is found dead, Eva doesn't grab Shannon and kills her a second time.

However there's no way to prove who died first, if Hideyoshi or Eva and Kyrie so your explanation is also possible.
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It's not that she hadn't thought at the answer, it's that with her knowledge she could find the right answer only out of random luck and not out of reasoning.
I think that is one of the points that goes along with Umineko and is at least what I can draw from it as a creative resource. In terms of riddles you have to know the level of knowledge your opponent possesses in order to create a fair challenge, but reality does not provide fair challenges. That is why I also think that Umineko has a lot more to say about fictionality and literary fairness than commenting on the moral question of these.

In that sense it is largely different from 'An Offering to Nothingness', more on that later though. Ange even says that no matter how many countering truths people create in the end, she will create her own Golden Truth and keep her family with her, she does not condemn the witches in the end, she merely says that she will no longer commit to being their plaything. In the end, she creates as much a 'fantasy' or a fictionalized account of real events as the witches do, only her version is her's and her's alone.

Coming back to fairness. Fiction can be fair, that is correct, but reality will not care for playing fair, providing you with clues and hints. But where "AOtN" flat out denied mystery fiction as a form of entertainment, Umineko goes for the fictionality of everything by claiming that reality is always just a construction from the imperfect knowledge we have of the completeness of existence around us. That is why I enjoyed Chiru just as much as the first four arcs, because it played with that and even took it a step further.

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For example you've gotten me definitely curious about 'An Offering to Nothingness' but sadly this book hasn't been translated it so I can't really use it to improve my judgement of Umineko.
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Any chance you can further semplificate things for people who can't get such a wide mystery knowledge or is it asking too much?
I wouldn't call my mystery knowledge wide, it's still lacking in several areas, even people who are far more advanced in their research than me still admit that they are merely attempting to built a larger understanding of a genre that might not even be one cohesive genre.
In that context I have to say, I like rules like those of Knox and Van Dine, but I love it even more to dismantle them and understand why exactly they were used, what they meant in their respective context and in the end turn them on their head. In the end the Eiserne Jungfrau does not control reality by forbidding certain elements, they can merely test if the real world allows their rules to exist.

I don't have to find a groundbreaking novelty in a work to find it fascinating. Merely the playing around with elements that are taken for granted might be enough to spark my interest.
In classic mystery fiction the angle of the legend-motive was used by the culprit to spread suspicion into every possible corner and push attention away from him or herself by using a well-known supernatural narrative. In Umineko it rather seems to be that one person (guilty or not) tried to gather all guilt into him/herself to give life to a supernatural tale that did not exist prior to this.

In that way I understand why it is often compared to 'AOtN'. You can read this plot synopsis (part of it was taken from a Japanese blog because I didn't remember all specifics) if you want.
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But where "AOtN" flat out denied mystery fiction as a form of entertainment, Umineko goes for the fictionality of everything by claiming that reality is always just a construction from the imperfect knowledge we have of the completeness of existence around us.
Ryukishi wrote about this in Higurashi.

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If I said that this is a story that complies with Rule Z of the Higurashi Story, I think those of you who are familiar with it will understand. I think that our daily lives are overflowing with rule Z. We take the statements of people who say only what is convenient for their own interests, interpret them in a way that is convenient for us too, and then act based on that forced understanding.... We cannot look at things objectively. All we can do is... warn ourselves that everything is adapted for the convenience of whoever told us, and strive to look at things with a level head.
So, what is one way of overcoming this Rule Z? We turn the chessboard around.

Let's flip the chessboard around on Ryukishi. What could he be trying to do by not presenting us with a "strong enough" motive by the one who confessed- the one who was supposed to have orchestrated this all?

Could it be that Ryukishi wants us to continue searching then? Want to see what I see? I see discussion for a series which ended two years ago continue on without end. I bet this is exactly what he intended.

I believe there is a truth to what KNM says, when he talks about a difference between a "the official truth" and "the hidden truth" I believe that there is a truth that Ryukishi kept hidden.

Where is the evidence for this? Where in the story is it?

It's in Prime.

It's on the Meta-Level.

The highest Meta-Level there is: our hearts.

The truth lies inside everyone of us. Without love the truth cannot be seen. But how then are we supposed to find the truth?
Let's look at EP2. Their guts, their abdomens, all that was apparently cut open. It was really the culprit's way for looking for the truth inside their hearts. Again, see where Kanon gets staked according to the TIPS? In fact let's look at all the arcs 1-4...He's almost always stabbed in the chest... the heart! Yasu is gouging out his own heart to search for the truth!

This is again echoed in EP7 during the Tea Party. How does Bern find this truth? From gouging out every single piece of Claire's body, and Ange in EP8 tried creating a truth from her own blood.

The answer is literally flowing within our own veins. We are Prime.

Actually, I was going for something a little more serious about the Rule Z thing, but something distracted me and I lost it.
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So speaking of prime, a while back the idea of what happened in prime interested me and I decided to see if I could reason it out.

Looking at the Episode 1 tea party the cousins are talking about, what a shame looks like it's a fantasy story when I thought it would be a mystery. So if we use some reasoning based on what we already know we could conclude that this the cousins reacting to the story that was just told. After that Battler tries to prove it was a mystery and tries to solve Yasu's mystery. Using this infomation it wouldn't be hard to reason out that the 2nd games meta scenes are just Yasu and Battler having a debate over Yasu's mystery.

Since we know land was the actual third story instead of banquet I'm going to rule that out... for now. However Ryukishi stated in an interview that land's puzzles were broken up between 4-6 so let's use that information. Perhaps after Battler got done with the story and truly thought about it finally solved the riddle. We could also assume this Vergilius character might be someone like Erika who just washed up on the island. Battler than lays the smack down on this Vergilius character. Later Yasu admits his/her condition to the cousins however the cousins are still all in love with each personality so they have some form of duel, not to the extent of the meta obviously, and George ends up winning.

Meanwhile someone solves the Epitah and decides to kill everyone, let's say Rudolph and Kyrie cause that's an easy one to make. Battler gets called out by Rudolph so Rudolph can try and convince him to join them and gibbly garbably goop happens and Battler ends up running off with Yasu, Eva survives the attack and becomes a scapegoat for whatever reason (Maybe instead of Rudolph and Kyrie it was George and that's why Shannon left him or perhaps this Erikaish character as shown in the 6th game.) Later on Battler writes forgeries and we already know the rest.
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You make it sound like the stories contained any of the events of what happened on Prime. That's a fairly baseless assumption, aside from Eva and Battler living.
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