/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>22736192
Umineko had a lot of issues, not every one being DEEN's fault; a lot of people read 'sequel to Higurashi' and expected more of the same, but the only murderloli of seacats is inconsequential; not helping were the fans hyping up certain scenes, even when it was obvious DEEN would not deliver; also, the main axle of the story - the meta - is a muddy subject even for VN-readers, and it is hard to entertainingly present two people standing around and arguing - you can do it short-term, but if it's a huge part of the story it becomes harder to not make it stale
that said the last one is on DEEN, as is the fact that the audience couldn't empathize with the characters - even if the cast was much bigger than Higurashi's (17 humans + at least 5 magic characters in questionarc alone vs 6 major charas in Higu)
and that's not mentioning the QUALITY, censorship, wonky sound direction and other problems
Higurashi wasn't great but it hit a goldmine with its horror vibe and """gore"""", in Umineko the former flies out the window by EP1's Tea Party and the latter is just lackluster as we don't see the kills, only the effect (plus the victims are 50% boomers and not cute girls)

>>22735129
Rokka is really underrated as an anime, the only thing that sucks balls there are the ending (and the rest of the source material) and the somewhat obvious identity of the villain - the pacing was really nice, though some more ADD folks would find it slow and overdrawn
It got fucked by launching when it did

>>22742314
obviously she does since she still has a ton of lines = a lot of yen to earn
also I think she really liked the role too