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Jhiday2010-12-21 02:15:32

EPISODE 6, Epilogue 1 : Wrapping everything up

Battler and Beatrice's wedding ceremony, mostly. They've finally found each other, and the witch can now be put to sleep.

Back to Ange and Featherine, as Ange has finally finished watching all this and is a bit miffed not to learn what eventually happened to her brother. But she's been a good reader, so Featherine thinks up a good reward for her.

In 1998, Ange and Hachijo finally part ways (on good terms), with Ange set on resuming her former course towards Niijima. Meanwhile, Amakusa has been on the phone with Okonogi all this time, and their talk is quite sinister indeed : while the elimination of Kasumi and her few bodyguards seems to have been agreed with the head of the Sumadera family (Amakusa has one of his favourite weapons in a black bag in the car truck, probably a sniper rifle), Ange is clearly talked of as a liability, with the implication that Amakusa should let Kasumi deal with her.

We know that's not what happened in EP 4, but combined with the "Died in 1998" listing for Ange, it's quite chilling.

EPISODE 6, Epilogue 2 : Preparations for a new game

Bernkastel seems to have lost herself after running from the wedding cathedral. She finds herself guided to a room... where Featherine is waiting for her. While Bern's not pleased at all with meeting her former master, after a while she concedes to read the tale a last time for her. However, since Bern "has no love", her perspective will be quite different. (Featherine's only stipulation is that she has to answer everything.)

How will Bern's turn at Game Master for the 7th game turn out ? Find out in EP 7...

Comments

Heatth Since: Dec, 1969

Dec 21st 2010 at 2:30:06 AM

Oh, lol. You posted the epilogue while I was reading the previous bit.

Anyway, this is an interesting epilogue as it takes the Happy Ending and trow it into the grounds is a new, much more sinister, Sequel Hook. The implication Amakuza killed Ange is not fun either.

Well, thanks for (finally) finishing EP6, I enjoyed much reading it. Hope you get on EP7 soon.

Btw, you said EP7 would start early next month. Just to know, have you already started/finished reading it, thus making it 'delayed' again, or you plan to blog as you read this time?

Jhiday Since: Dec, 1969

Dec 21st 2010 at 2:41:37 AM

I haven't even installed EP 7 yet. [tongue]

I do intend to liveblog it properly, but you never know in advance how it's going to pan out.

Heatth Since: Dec, 1969

Dec 21st 2010 at 3:32:04 AM

Cool. The coolest part of a Umineko livebloging is you can check people opinion while they are still reading (most of time people just post in the Internet the final conclusion), so I was worried you might have already read EP7 (I know I wouldn't be able to wait just so I could do a proper blogging =P). Hopefully you can stick to your plan.

BTW, I just read your previous commentary, saying you would post a WMG using EP6 reveals to rethink all previous episode. Are you going to post it here or in the Umineko WMG page?

Jhiday Since: Dec, 1969

Dec 21st 2010 at 5:04:13 AM

I think I know what went wrong with EP 6's "liveblogging" : I had too much time (thanks to holidays), and so went at it too fast. I don't have anytime for it during these holidays, and hopefully my working in January should allow me to break things up a bit.

(On the other hand, expect more of the "lots of short updates" style of EP 5 than the more condensed and coherent instalments of EP 1-4 and 6, where I had a lot more hindsight.)

The WMG should be posted in this thread, as it's basically a summation of everything I think I know so far, and thus a natural continuation of this liveblog. (And the Umineko WMG page is too full already anyway.)

Heatth Since: Dec, 1969

Dec 21st 2010 at 5:16:35 AM

Cool I will be waiting. For both the WMG and EP7, I mean. I like the "lots of shorts updates" style better, anyway so this is a plus to me. It gives you more time to deliberate at each scene so, while each update is shorter, there is more updates, making it bigger in text (at last was that way for EP5 and EP6, I think.