I think I’ll make one last post here before starting episode 7. And fittingly, I’ll talk a bit about my future expectations. We talked a bit in the episode 5 podcast how there’s probably going to be a character representing Van Dyne’s 20 rules of detective fiction and how Umineko breaks several of them so far. With the Ura Tea Party claiming Bern as the next Gamemaster, this now perfectly sets up the appearance of this character we assume to exist. The reason for that is twofold. One, Bern is presented to us as someone that wants to destroy Beato’s gameboard in the most shameful way possible. So what better way than to introduce a character that has some arbitrary set of rules with which said character can point out how much this story sucks? And the second part is kind of more a “in particular”, as Bern warned that she lacks love, and if you all remember, one of the rules was that love has, for the most part, no place in detective fiction.
Now the other prediction I’m going to make actually only works if the “unconfirmable” theory of “Battler is the author from episode 3 onward” turns out to be correct. However, first off I also have to assume that Battler does not suffer some kind of amnesia, but that he was fully aware of what happened. I basically kept thinking “Why would Battler continue to write these stories?” And the answer I came up with is basically the same reason he made this planned logic error. While for the Battler on the Gameboard Beatrice did make actions he didn’t plan, for the Battler outside everything as the author even that was planned. However, he wants people to figure out the truth. And he wants to create a tradition that the truth isn’t just said, but instead proven by telling a new story. Once someone does that, even the Author-Battler will have succeeded in reviving Beatrice, since if a different author tells the story of Beatrice, Author-Battler cannot predict Beatrice’s every move. So it is actually possible that we will see another author shift with the seventh episode.
Well, see you in the episode 7 thread~