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Originally Posted by vendredi
I'm hesitant to characterize them as travelers to the same degree; I've argued in the Maria thread that Umineko seems to smack much more strongly of Catholic elements rather than the Buddhist ones in Higurashi, and I don't think Ryukishi07 would recycle the same mechanic so strongly.
I'm more of the opinion is that the Meta-world is exactly how it's presented, a place where Beatrice pulled in the first Battler that allows Beatrice to either:
a)view various different kakera
or the one I prefer,
b)present a depiction of alternate events (not actually viewing different realities, but Beatrice either simply conjuring up an illusory vision of events, or perhaps simply "resetting the island" - turning back the clock, bringing people to life, etc.; hence the description of the events as her "gameboard")
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The way Bernkastel was talking about it to Ange, it really seemed to me that it was more the "a" explanation.