Ultimately Ryukishi wanted to leave elements of the mystery and story not explicitly laid out so there was still room for theories even after he revealed the main strokes.

Did that work out? Well, he walked it back by putting solutions to everything in My Confession and the Episode 8 manga, so probably not.

But it's an interesting approach, and at least when I was reading it first, while the episodes were being released one at a time twice a year, I didn't mind at all. The difference in mindset between people who had months and months to do nothing but speculate and those who could move ahead after a few hours of reflection seems like it makes a big difference there.

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Just killing time until the world ends.

Umineko playthrough topic 4

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