History Headscratchers / UminekoWhenTheyCry

* If we're to take Battler's direct testimony as more or less truth in the first arc; then Maria knows how to write pentagrams, crappy Hebrew, the ArsGoetia; the 4 Archangels, etc. and keeps Scorpion Amulets. This level of knowledge requires intense study, especially for a nine-year old. Even if this stuff is mumbo-jumbo...who on earth taught this to her? It likely wasn't her mother; she can't stand that Maria is fascinated by the stuff.

** It's also not just sex reassignment surgery. She could never bear children. She could never sire children. She has severe nerve damage in her genitilia. All the money in the world could just mask that...at least, to her.

*** Yes. Exactly. Battler really doesn't give a damn about what happens in the Meta World as long as he can prove that the Game Board murders didn't involve magic. Then it gets even more fun when he starts using blue text, which with schrodingers box, rewrites reality as long as it's not denied in red.

** No. Battler only has to prove it's possible for a human culprit to carry out the crime. In this case, there would be two simultaneous truths, 'small bombs were made by some unknown method X' and 'small bombs were made by magic' which would exist at the same time due to the fact that until one of them is proven, both are true like a Schrodinger's Cat experiment.

* A lot of theories are discussed in the WMG using the Knox Decalogue, I discovered TvTropes not so long ago so I wanted to know, how did you guys managed to discuss theories before episode 5 and the introduction of Knox Decalogue in Umineko? I know that Know decalogue is a real life thing btw.Wasn't the WMG really messy back then?

** When Maria brings her toys outside, she also talks to them as if they were real people, which not only makes people think of Maria as an oddball but also makes Rosa believe it will reflect badly on her as a parent. In the visual novel it's also mentioned that Maria takes her toys to school with her and talks to them during class, which of course the teachers would have issue with. Maria being left at home alone probably has something to do with ValuesDissonance: in Japan parents aren't so paranoid about their children being by themselves, even though it's still acknowledged that Rosa shouldn't be ditching Maria as much as she is. As for the child services thing, Rosa has told Maria never to call them or get their attention since she doesn't want them finding out how bad a parent she is.

** I always thought that Beatrice was Virgilia's title. However, I was under the impression that Virgilia is not her actual name but also [[MeaningfulName a title of sorts:]] [[DivineComedy someone to guide our hero through hell and purgatory and to Beatrice in the end-which is why I can accept BAAYYATREEECHAAAYY instead of the pronunciation of Beatrice most non-Italians would be familiar with.]] The further the series goes, the more obvious it gets with it's references to The DivineComedy, so it's not unreasonable to think this is the case. But I guess this belongs more on WMG...

* Why do people consider kakera-theory and author-theory mutually exclusive? The existence of [[DCComics Earth Prime]] doesn't make any of the other DC universes less real.

* In the visual novel, the voice of the Man from 19 Years Ago is described as being like a boy's voice that hasn't broken yet...so in the PS3 version, why did they have him being voiced by Creator/DaisukeOno, who clearly makes him sound like an adult man?

** The story takes place in the eighties and in Japan, which has very conservative ideas about gender (and probably would have been even more conservative about them during the eighties). Even if Sayo considered that as an option, it would probably have been incredibly difficult to actually get themself some surgery.

** As the Troper above pointed out, Kinzo was an avid fan of the occult, and had huge collections of books on the topic in his study. after [[spoiler: Sayo Yasuda became the new head of the family]] he was in a prime position to give Maria access to Kinzo's vast library.