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I mentally promised myself to go over every detail carefully but once the episodes keep rolling in, it's a seamless journey. Just so engrossing, however as an apology these are glaring things I noticed (that I didn't before on my first watch). Some of these could be a reach but:

1. The story amasses fairy tales and things of wonder, credit to studio shaft's flair but could also be a very deliberate imposition of fantasy and awe over a very rational/calculative game like shogi

2. The story harmoniously and more often than so presents subaltern people at the crux of the narrative. Shogi is a game of inclusion and honesty, where people with ailments, disorders, disabilities, those in the face of poverty or crumbling, erratic households are at the forefront. It gives them power and it gives them acknowledgement

3. Shimada is hot. Shimada is hot. Shimada is eccentric. Shimada is what I want

4. Performative sports as a route to escapism being bad. Find community instead

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Please make me half as whimsical as her when I'm older

miss umino is simply akari as an older lady❤️

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Crossovers between my hyper-fixations surprise me so much because what do you mean there's a written short story about Hanekawa meeting Rei on her quest to find Oshino. And it has Sodachi. And Rei parallels Kyouko with Sodachi (and they have the same VA). And it's actually written so well and goes beyond fanservice with character revelations and comparisons. Nisio tends to permeate into all of my favourites, the last time he did it with CLAMP's xxxholic and I haven't recovered

GIST? READ TSUBASA LION. And adorn Nadeko and Mayoi in Umino sensei's art, meanwhile I'll be shaking uncontrollably about what I read and praying for an anthology on this

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If there's anything that keeps drawing me back to this behemoth of a visual novel, it's Sayaka Ohara's performance. Very few voice actors or actresses GET their characters to the extent she does, and her input is nothing short of brilliant

I am obsessed with Umineko ..never have I read such an intricately written and deep layered story that resonated so profoundly with me ...

Umineko not only breaks down and reconstructs a genre but also tells a very deep and complex story about the nature of love, escapism, self actualization and the nature of truth itself...even the Fate series didn't have me looking up as much stuff from Wikipedia than Umineko did ...I'm not exaggerating when I say it's one of the best postmodernist piece of fiction yet .

I keep coming back to umineko and finding more stuff to uncover about the plot and themes of this masterpiece ,in a way I have become the very thing the Vn criticizes ; a hyper obsessed nerd keen on breaking down and eating away at the story until it's all laid bare before me .

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I want to leave my thoughts on episodes 8-10 as expressive, and that it made me bawl my eyes out as much as the very first time I watched it. Episode 8 draws a hierarchy of power that exploits Rei, Kyouko the ardent @buser described as the illustrative sun and also the disruptive blazing storm that throws him in a turmoil

E10 returns that autonomy back to our dear Rei chan and I couldn't help but cry in unison with him. I've never seen anything get the triumph of valuation this aptly :')

This story tries to say something genuine and heartfelt, and it screams at me.

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We laugh, gather around the game and share our stories. It tells me to get out of my box and roll back the curtains — art shall flow in tenfold and banish isolation. Sangatsu shatters the structuralist depiction of family

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If umineko so good why no umineko 2?

There is, it's called hitagi end

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The fable of the parasite. The cuckoo that devours and nests. Rei kiriyama stretches himself amidst the meadows of that shame. Usurped from his family and feasting on the happiness of others, in pursuit of survival, is how this bird has lived — knowingly or unknowingly. Willingly or unwillingly

To share my love for this show as I trace through its nuances, I decided to place myself here. I adore Chica Umino sensei's craft and feel like it's a disservice for her brilliance to not be told or preserved