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Originally Posted by Chron
On the one hand, he was using Umineko to create a highly successful franchise by relying on the interest generated by his successful Higurashi series to generate more success and the typical greed-related stuff.
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I would've thought the more cynical option would be to give it a similar ending and similar themes to Higurashi. Y'know, stick to what you know works.
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Originally Posted by Chron
On another hand, you have the possibility that he created a mystery, and then decided to neglect to reveal the answers just to make a terrible point and just stick it to the reader, and those that actually thought about the mystery he presented.
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Making a point to the reader is "cynical manipulation". You hear dit here first.
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Originally Posted by Chron
Alternatively, you have the possibility that "the mystery" was all a bunch of nonsense deliberately set up to lure in mystery genre fans in order to justify his bizarre, unsubstantiated, and outright nonsensical "anti-mystery" faux-genre.
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You were told it wasn't a mystery in the introduction. You'd be accusing him of reverse psychology here.