#without getting into the esoteric pseudognostic realitywarping deeplore attached to the reference

[pochapal]

as someone who is currently also in the process of a first time umineko read(on episode 6) but went in having read higurashi, it's kind of complicated. there is a really overt "hey it's just like in my higurashi !" thing at the end of episode 1, but at the same time, the reason why it matters is a lot more complicated and wouldn't really be something you'd get until 1) much further into umineko, and 2) much further into higurashi. it's initially framed as the same thing being redeployed but is actually a commentary on similar themes that can't be easily explained without knowing both. or at least that's how I see it so far.

in that case if there's a common framework being deployed in both texts once i get to it (and i manage to identify it myself) i guess it'd be fine to tell me that it ties into higurashi without necessarily telling me *why* that's the case, particularly if the thing is thematically important to the understanding of the story in some way. i'm getting the sense that this is an important thing that i need to be clued in on but that i might miss and also nobody can signpost me to because that would spoil stuff so i don't envy you all trying to talk around this thing in my askbox lmao. for what it's worth i'll just try to go through episode 1's final chapter with extreme scrutiny once i reach that point and then someone can go "this here is the higurashi thing" when i come across it. i do appreciate the heads up though!