This review contains spoilers
---This applies to the overall package (this + Chiru)---
It was an experience that can probably never be replicated. I don't consider it flawless. In fact, there are quite a few problems I can think of. But, what it manages to do despite those flaws - is creating a story so cathartic and so brilliant with an insanely good cast that nothing else can compare. The emotional highs, the philosophical and meta-commentary, the themes of truths, lies and their significance, the open-ended finish to so many elements which ends up leaving room for so much interpretation, the way everything comes together in the penultimate arc, and the way the finale gives a perfect, albeit controversial, ending.
Umineko made me a better, wiser, and happier person. It's an 11/10 and I will forever be grateful to it for all the things it has taught me.
It was an experience that can probably never be replicated. I don't consider it flawless. In fact, there are quite a few problems I can think of. But, what it manages to do despite those flaws - is creating a story so cathartic and so brilliant with an insanely good cast that nothing else can compare. The emotional highs, the philosophical and meta-commentary, the themes of truths, lies and their significance, the open-ended finish to so many elements which ends up leaving room for so much interpretation, the way everything comes together in the penultimate arc, and the way the finale gives a perfect, albeit controversial, ending.
Umineko made me a better, wiser, and happier person. It's an 11/10 and I will forever be grateful to it for all the things it has taught me.