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That's what pisses me off. If it wasn't important why he made the readers think about that for four long years?
He made use speculate about the mystery, he enforced us to do so over and over, he even used Featherine as a way to berate those who don't try to reason.
Whodunnit, howdunnit, whydunnit. These concepts were repeated ad nauseam! And he never planned to reveal them in the end, or rather he wanted us to think about those and speculate about those until our head would blow just to tell us in the end that "it isn't that important".
Ah, yes it was his "grand plan", but I don't really feel like thanking him for toying with me and wasting my time.
It would have been better if Umineko was openly stated to be some artistic work or pure entertaining instead of a "game".
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In fairness, if Ryukishi's angle here is to make us about as emotionally invested as Ange and then aim his point at both us and her (ignoring the validity or problems with the message for this point in time, please), than it does have an effective "Silent Hill" crap going on.
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I just can't believe that Malkuth was right all along, there was the whole forum against him and now people are just saying what he was saying one and a half year ago.
Did you completely forget him?
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...ch#post2703378
http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...=89677&page=17
Here, please read, it's tragically funny how prophetic was what he wrote, and how funny how he was the first to mention David Lynch when no one didn't even consider the chance that Umineko would follow that style and now everyone is doing the same.
And how pathetic the people that tried to defend the series (me included) look now.
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Eh, not
really. From what I see he was arguing shit like "It's literally impossible to drive conclusions that aren't shown to you" or "magic pretty much exists, why is Battler arguing it?" Come on, Ryukishi didn't fuck up THAT bad.
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Beatrice can go jump in a lake. The world, even the literary world, does not revolve around singular sad girls. Not that you'd know it from all the Beatrice/Maria/Ange pity parties.
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Unfortunately, in Japan, there's entire literary genres that revolve around exactly that. It's called Utsuge, and it's not even restricted to visual novels. Not Ryukishi's conceit since he grew up in such a culture.