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Umineko no Naku Koro ni - Episode 2 Discussion / Poll

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My expectations... Humm.
Since the first episode of anime covered about 5~ ish Visual Novel chapters, I'm hoping for a slower development on these episodes. Judging from the episode names at animenetworks, I can say I'm very very excited and I've got much better expectations about this one.

I just hope this one won't be as fast paced. With introductions and what not done hopefully pacing goes down to a more normal level.

I have a feeling it's not going to be as I expect...

Hope my intuition is wrong.

I think they'll slow down the pace for this episode - the only reason why the 1st was so rushed was because of the characters' intro...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kazuki_Kun (Post 2500447)

Spoiler for Kihihihihi:

Pleasant. xDDD

*looks at the kihihihi pic*
Okay. I now seriously remember how creeped out I was while playing Legend of the Golden
Witch for the first time.

It seems that this episode finished at the revealing of the first twilight.

AGH... at least I know what to expect this time.
Thanks Archer. Yes, that's both positive and negative. XDDD
DAMMIT I WANNA SEE IT ALREADY!!!

Spoiler for The moment you've all been waiting for.:

Return of the shadows!

I'm fine with this...I don't need to look at their poor faces with a zoom. As long as the first tilight happens and isn't peeped out like Eva it's okay

*sees picture*
....TERRRRRRRIFIC. ;_;

Golden Slaughterer survived :D Awesome.

FACES! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Well, at least it was not as detailed as the comic but still... :uhoh:

Anyhoo, they used good number of VN BGMs in this episodes.
Coupled with butterfly SE, that sure was enjoyable for these who experienced VN.
And... that was Highrashi anime that Maria was watching, wasnt it? :heh:

EDIT:
Gave it a 8 for effective usage of VN musics.
Gotta admit that story pacing is still crammed over limit, but this time around they did what they could do I suppose.

it's not censored... is it? I think I can see blood D:

*which is a good thing*

Whaaaaaaaaat...nine year old Maria watches Higurashi

And it's calming to hear that more then one BGM survived I'll enjoy this episode for sure

This is seriously great that they kept a lot of music/sounds.
(edit: OH MAN.. I seriously gotta stop looking at this thread. Spoiling myself. XD)

Spoiler for Higurashi:

I remember hearing at least:

sasorinoharawata
Closed My Heart
goldenslaughterer
Also that clock sound that chimes in the 'show everyone before twilight' scene.

Unfortunately they didn't use 犯行の予告状読み上げ（ラック眼力） for the letter reading :(

This episode was again a skip / fast forward fest that I couldn't exactly stomach it completely...

so far

Spoiler for Episode 2:

-Letter scene went extremely fast: none of the adults tried to harass Maria regarding the letter, and they weren't exactly "shocked", barely surprised at the sight of this.
-Maria was really abnormal during the letter, I think the manga wasn't that exaggerated.
-Adults rushing at Kinzo's study was short but definitely OK (I was expecting much more enraged attempt).
-The discussion between Kyrie and Battler was fine as well and they didn't dramatize too much Rudolf bombshell announcement though it is still underplayed.
-The ingot scene was completely mauled: Krauss leads Natsuhi in a locked room, he unveils the ingot and boum, eyecatch.
-After the eyecatch, Natsuhi is seen the corridor and Jessica joins her and out of consideration, gives her the scorpion talisman (anime watchers won't understand why Natsuhi was in such shape unfortunately).
-George and Shannon scene was shorten to its minimal content: George giving the ring to Shannon. Of course, since Battler's comic scene with Shannon was altered, the whole "this is an order" doesn't make sense here.
-Shannon is suddenly already at the mansion, and the episode shows all characters whereabouts.
-Quick jump at morning period. Kanon discovers that Gohda isn't at the kitchen yet and the phones are out of service.
-Natsuhi wakes up and had put the talisman at the door knob. Genji comes and report the problem regarding gohda's absence and the phones, then we see the door completely messed up (the whole door, not only the knob).
-They kept the scene between Natsuhi and Kinzo to its almost full content.
-Genji intercepts her as she leaves with Eva, saying there is a problem with the garden storagehouse.
-The adults are shocked to see a giant magical circle on the storagehouse.
-Kids are still in the mansion but they notice genji rushing in and telling something to nanjo.
-Kids are curious and chase after them, and they notice the whole scene: the corpses in the storagehouse...
Battler's cries was absolutely shortened: it didn't even last more than 10 second, and George ask if there are only 5 corpses, but hideyoshi says there is a sixth one. End of the episode

Will post a proper opinion once the raws are up, but this episode is REALLY not any better in pacing...
The only thing that pleasantly surprised me in this episode was the fact they used Golden Slaughterer for the last scene. Aside of this, the Drama CD just overwhelm the rest with ease.

EDIT: here we go: Episode 1-2: Screencaps, Summary and comments