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Yasu is a pretty emblematic of the problems with Umineko. Ryukishi at first seemed like he had something to say about gender identity and sexual orientation with that character, but then it just...doesn't go anywhere beyond being a backstory for the Shkanon solution (Which many people still don't even accept as an answer to the Game Boards. Let's not even get started on Prime). Is Ryu criticizing transgenderism with Yasu? Trying to endorse it as an acceptable way to live that Yasu was sadly unable to embrace because of social values in the 1980's? Or maybe Ryu's trying to say gender is as illusory as Kanon and Shannon's existence?
I have no idea, and its not because Umineko is some postmodern masterwork. It just teases these really interesting ideas and then because it offers no conclusion to many of its plot points...it goes nowhere with them.
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