Credit & source for the art.

For me, the color is always Black & Blue.

A month ago I released an English patch for the Umineko Portable 1, a PSP port of the VN and now I’ve released a patch for the second game. The first game has episodes 1 and 2, and the second one has episodes 3 and 4. Now the entire Question Arcs are playable on PSP and PS Vita.
This patch uses translation from the Umineko Project and was made without using AI.
Those PSP games got really cool cover art by the way.

Maria and Sakutaro were never seen again

Artist 1 : https://x.com/lostack3

Artist 2 : https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/1380435

Artist 3 : https://www.tumblr.com/levenlyne1/733231184691249152/im-taking-all-of-them-home-actually

I speedran downloading every piece of Beatrice art ever made so I'm still catching up on the side characters. Next will be Maria

Artist 1 and 3 : https://miss-fleischwolf.tumblr.com/post/692848804284727296/more-umineko-art-my-twitter

Artist 2 : https://www.pixiv.net/users/2299490

In my haste I used up all of my pictures of them violently kissing at the last toxic yuri post, I will find more however.

Artist 1-2 : https://bsky.app/profile/milkoosagi.bsky.social

Artist 3-4 : https://bsky.app/profile/soresono88.bsky.social

Artist 5 : wiped their online presence

is it possible?

5 years ago I read the first 5 Manga, I enjoyed it but fell off because life is life. I have a faint memory of what’s going on, who the characters are and their motivations but I’m definitely forgetting a lot. What’s the best way to get a refresher? Is it best to just start over?

ignore the furniture this ain't about him

Magical Ghoda Chef : https://www.pixiv.net/users/2299490

I've been working for a while on continuing a Rust Windows/macOS/Linux implementation of the ENTERGRAM "shin" engine, aka the engine powering the console versions of the 07th Expansion games (and other games, see here: https://vndb.org/r?f=fwshin- ). This project was started/worked on for years by DCNick3, https://github.com/DCNick3/shin who also is responsible for most research available on the internet on this engine and its file formats, so huge thanks to them as none of this would exist without them!

At this point the engine can run all the console exclusive/with console exclusive content from 07th Expansion:

- Umineko no Naku Koro ni Saku ~Nekobako to Musou no Koukyoukyoku~ (Switch release both 1.0 and 1.03)

- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hō (Switch release, version 2.0 including the Origin DLC)

- Gensou Rougoku no Kaleidoscope (also known as Gerokasu, Switch release)

- Gensou Rougoku no Kaleidoscope 2 (also known as Gerokasu 2, Switch release)

I'm not personally planning to support other games, but given the code supports engine iterations from 2018 to 2025 it should be easy to do for games in that time period.

From all my *very nitpicky* testing Umineko and Higurashi run flawlessly including all the menus and anything else that might require special attention in the engine, everything is supported. The Gerokasu games *should* also work perfectly but I'm less confident since I've not read them yet, will playtest soon.

The engine also supports loading translations and mods, I've personally tested the English fan translation for Higurashi and Umineko; and it supports streaming any relevant text through a websocket for Japanese learners.

You need files extracted from the Switch game, the readme explains how to do it.

As a note: this was accomplished by reverse engineering and reimplementing the behavior of the original engine through a LLM. My work process has been letting the LLM reverse the assembly code from the Switch executables and reimplement it, and manually testing everything against the games running on my actual console until it all worked and looked correctly (I know Japanese which also helped a lot).

Download/readme: https://github.com/AuroraWright/shin

Feel free to report any issues or just behavior differences compared to the originals on the repo.

So I had seen edits around with comments saying similar stuff to Erika Furudo being the murderer. I actually haven't even met her yet, I'm at the start of episode 3, so I just took her being the actual culprit for granted so I was in the mindset of not being as careful because I knew the big "reveal".

I would keep googling random stuff which hadn't revealed anything significant yet but today i googled "Smartest characters in Umineko" knowing it probably wasn't a good idea, and the AI summary told me among the rankings was "Sayo Yasuda (Beatrice/Shannon)" with the reason being; she's behind the illusions and the closed room mysteries, my soul left my body and i hit refresh, then in that spot it just said Beatrice.

But I'm pretty sure i messed up and the AI had some truth to it. It was also referring to Battler as a she so I'm hoping instead it messed stuff up and I'm still in for a surprise.

Just wanted to share my frustration, curiosity got the better of me and now i know to tell my friends to be really careful about being spoiled.

"Santa isn't real because uhhh i uhhh, he just isn't okay!"

Artist 1 : https://x.com/song78z

Artist 2 : https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/111515551

Artist 3 : https://www.tumblr.com/kiddokori

Artist 4 : https://www.tumblr.com/eizneckam/search/umineko

Hello. I'm new to Umineko, and, even though I've been interested in it for quite a while now, the thing that always stops me from getting into Umineko is gore.

Now, while I definitely can tolerate a certain amount of gore, I'm not that big of a fan of it, and I prefer to be prepared and know what to expect. So, how bad actually is it? Is it worse than, for example, the IT movies, the Supernatural TV show, or the Lord of the Mysteries Donghua? If so, by how much? Mainly asking about the anime, since I've heard the VN is tamer.

Thanks in advance, and sorry if it's a dumb question.

It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve returned from Japan so I hadn’t gotten a chance to get all my Umi-stuff in one spot.

I had a chance to go see Episode 7 BUD Umi Stage. I don’t have the words. It was incredible to see it. I didn’t see the second half of Episode 7 (they split it into two parts) I don’t think I would have been able to handle it. I’d feel like Ange watching the “truth” inside the Cat Box.

We stayed in Ikebukuro, so I had to go to the eeo pop-up shop in the Parco. I couldn’t find it at first. I went to the floor that the website said and it was all fashion. It took us a few to realize that there’s also P’Parco about a block away.

Hit up a couple Book Offs and Surugaya to scour for manga and CDs. The gaaps are closing in my Umineko manga collection.

My final day in Tokyo, we were traveling through Shinjuku station and I wasn’t looking for it, but I found the eeo pop up that had just opened that day! I thought I was marked safe from buying more Umi-merch.

Hello again r/umineko! Let's play another logic game!

Rules:

• I am the Game Master. My goal is to convince humans that "magic" is real through this logic game.
• As the GM, I know the solution to my game. Thus, I can use red truths just like Beatrice!
• Those of you interested can be the Human. Your goal is to deny my "magic" using blue truths. You can provide your blue truths in the comments section of this post.
• Humans can also ask me for repetition requests. But take note that I can decline a request at my discretion.
• However, I am required to respond to a blue truth, as long as it is valid.
• If I fail to counter a blue truth, the game ends and the humans win!

Scenario (all are red truths):

• There are only 5 characters in this game: Natsuhi, Erika, Eva, Kyrie, and Rosa.
• The game takes place inside a guesthouse. The guesthouse has exactly 5 guestrooms, one for each person.
• Natsuhi hands out a room key to the other 4 guests. Therefore, each guest has the key to their room.
• Because Natsuhi is the host, she has a master key to every guestroom.
• After dinner, everyone went to their rooms.
• Erika knows Natsuhi has the master key. Since Erika's room was next to Natsuhi's, Erika monitored Natsuhi by pressing her ear against the wall adjacent to Natsuhi's room. She kept this up all night without sleeping.
• The next morning, Eva was heard screaming in the hallway.
• Natsuhi, Erika, and Kyrie quickly rushed to the hallway and saw a horrified Eva staring at a door.
• The door was painted with an eerie magic circle from some red liquid.
• They tried to open the door but it was locked. So Natsuhi used her master key to unlock the room.
• When they went inside, they found Rosa dead, a stake pierced her forehead.
• Rosa's key was later found inside her pocket.
• Erika, who spent all night listening to Natsuhi's room, did not hear Natsuhi's door open after Natsuhi went inside.

So, how did Rosa die?

After finishing Alliance of the Golden Witch, a friend and I got stubborn and decided to systematically analyze all of the mysteries of Umineko, trying to solve as much as we could using only the first four episodes.

We built a website to host our work, catalogued all the character profiles, red truths, tips, wrote a complete question arc theory which we’re very satisfied with!

Our theory doesn’t just try to give answers to the mysteries, but it also tries to explain what is Umineko, how the hierarchy of its world works, and get as far as it can using the clues the story gives us.

You can read it here:

https://endless-speculation.online/

The rest of the website is mostly there for reference, the main attraction is our overarching theory.

We’re particularly interested in people poking holes in our reasoning, asking tricky questions, and challenging our claims!

A few guidelines:

1)Please do not tell us if we’re right or wrong!
2)Avoid giving us information or hints from beyond Episode 4. We’d like to figure things out ourselves!
3)Be careful with questions that might directly lead us to the answer! Think of your goal as making us squirm without leading us to the truth!
4)Asking a trick question to set us off the path is not only allowed, it’s encouraged! It makes dodging answers easier!

We are super interested in knowing what people think about this!

Challenge our blue truths!

Spoiler warning: Our theory was thought out with only information up to EP4, but we suspect we have correctly deduced a lot of things. We also accidentally picked up some details through osmosis. Please treat this theory as full spoilers. I would personally not like to read it without having finished Umineko.