r/umineko • u/H00ston • 1h ago
Art Mangatrice is the greatest thing ever (no spoilers)
This is the ideal way to draw Beato, refined but still looks like she's unhinged enough to bite Battler without reason or warning.
I'm on episode 2 of the Higurashi VN and everything kind of clicks into place and it becomes obvious that Umineko is Ryukishi's 2nd series.
They're both great, but Higurashi's experience once you get halfway into the episode is just pure dread with no break from the mystery, despite each episode being less than half the length it's still heavier to read because you don't have someone like Beato or Erika to be the lovable villain; they break up the reader's tension without harming the narrative's greater scope. I do think these long sections of isolation and paranoia work for Higurashi though.