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>Despite this psychologically realist approach, Umineko is careful never to psychogise or medicalise its characters particularly. We never have to hear about Rosa's BPD diagnosis, or enter into the tedious details of whether Maria has a developmental disorder; their personalities are not reduced to inevitable outcomes of childhood experiences or psychiatric categories. They are psychologically real, not psychologically pigeonholed. It's funny to see this story called 'preachy' by some critics, since unlike many other visual novels and eroge (including many great ones), there's a distinct lack of 'superego' in Umineko; even the most troubled characters aren't held up to a social convention of the hypothetical healthy human being, institutional values and principles are not used as a reference for the good, and in all cases the human personality is presented simply as such and on its own terms, no matter how divergent and misunderstood are the contents of that personality. If Umineko is preachy, it's only because it's individual—it gives voice to personal values indifferent to and independent of normative standards, and does not kowtow to social morality as such even when the characters believe things that will be disagreeable to some readers, such as the ideas expressed during Rosa's abuse of Maria in EP4—or, of course, those expressed by Yasu in EP7. It is rather the clamorous forces of convention that are frustrated: the desire of the anonymous goats, and of Ange when she met Bernkastel, to punish Eva and besmirch the name of the Ushiromiya family for their perceived wrongs. Considering this, it's arguable that Umineko is the rare Faustian work in the grand style: beyond good and evil, eyes only on the infinite.

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>>17526045
God bless Battler. That just leaves the question of where Kyrie fits into that.

>>17170008
Eva hands down.

>>16374319
What gave you that idea?