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Old 2011-01-06, 19:09   Link #21351
witchfan
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I personally find appeals to morality quite weak when it comes to this story. I don't have any reason to care about intruding the lives of fictional characters, and if Ryukishi wanted to convince me (and the rest of the readers) to care, he wasn't very successful. Besides, if that was the point he was trying to make, "Without Love, it cannot be seen" are terrible arc words (how about "With Love, it cannot be seen").

I mean, I know how everyone hates Bern for being a nasty troll, but she's really just having fun with fiction here.*

It would be fine if he was trying to make a philosophical point about tragedy in general, but I don't really feel this from Umineko. Throughout the tale, we've always been talking about the tragedy, the culprit. It's way too specific to have any sort of generalisable value.

*e- at the very least, to her, a witch who can travel between kakera, a specific kakera is no more than fiction.

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