/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I've been going through the archives to see everyone's reactions on Umineko Episode 8, and honestly' it's been pretty funny. Just about every comment I see hating on the ending has been the same "WHERE IS THE ANSWER" and "HE CALLED US GOATS" or "IT WAS NEVER A MYSTERY???". And I'm like, what? I read the VN and had no issue with the story at all, I loved it in fact. The goats is a huge one I still see complaints about even now and I really don't understand it. Even back in what, the first episode tea party, R07 wrote how the bottle detailing the "events" of what happened made its way shore and from there was being theorized on. That was continued through the subsequent chapters and Episode 4 delved into how theorizing on tragedies ruined the lives of the survivors (Eva and Ange), I never got why people took it to such heart that R07 was talking about the readers when it felt more like it was about those in the future that kept damning members of the Ushiromiya family as the culprit. This wasn't some massive left turn he threw in the story like some people think it was, it's been built up from the beginning.