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>>44898859
The actual issue is that this cop out answer that should've have only existed to explain the different events of each episode's family conference actually makes Umineko completely meaningless since it means every story detail in-universe is just the ramblings of a fanfic and/or otherwise unconfirmed tellings of a mentally damaged person. You can't say you like or dislike any Rokkenjima character becauase we don't know what they actually are like thanks to that cop out. Hideyoshi could've been a cartwheeling circus clown for all we know. All because Ryukishi had an abrupt change of mind from his Higurashi days where he flat out thought that not giving the answers to mysteries was pointless (then went back on his word once again and showed the answers in the manga anyway, making Umineko even more pointless).

>>43441020
>I outright posted dialogue showing she was positive though
I already addressed that here >>43440034. And how exactly can you claim she shouldn't be nervous considering, for the 3rd time, she knows that her odds were getting a once-in-a-lifetime event to happen twice in a row?

>She talks about high society in the context of the school
How does that not apply to what I said? She considers that school to also be high society in itself.
>She's going to a school isolated in the middle of a forest, with no weekends or vacations, where they need authorization to leave campus
Which they get and Rika happily enjoys their meetup with her friends, showing that she still cares about them. I'm not sure why do you keep trying to dodge that fact, as well as that this is an entirely expected reality due to education.
>None of her other friends are in a similar situation
Mion literally cannot attend watanagashi because of her new school, so yes, education also affected her schedule to meet up with her friends, which is entirely realistic. Just because Rika is in a more estranged place doesn't change things as much as you want them to be.
>I'm referencing her talking not enjoying staying in the same place for long, which comes out when she talks about disliking staying in the hospital. Like I said, St.Lucia is a completely closed environment.
I already told you it's an entirely different scenario when someone knows they have to go to school, quit trying to be so desperate here. Also, again, unlike the hospital where she's just stuck there bored out of her mind, Rika enjoys her time at St Lucia and has tea time with those whom she's trying to fit in with. Quit it with the disingenuous comparisons already.

>And like I pointed out, in Gou/Sotsu itself there's no goal beyond the school.
There is no hint that there was no goal beyond the school outside of the Ryukishi interview that contradicts even Reiwa. You go to school to pursue opportunities in higher education and job prospects, that's a given, a story doesn't need to point that out. Ryukishi changes his mind constantly, remember that his philosophy in Higurashi (pic related) is the complete opposite of the one in Umineko regarding not having to show the answers (which he then changed again for the manga and later supplementary Umineko VNs).

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>>43077802
It's not the first time he's changed his philosophy.

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>>36585575
No it doesn't. Even back in Higurashi Ryukishi was already thinking this way. He's not against answers by any means. Hell, he said Ciconia won't be about presenting a mystery for the reader to solve, which I presume means that everything will be answered conclusively by phase 4 rather than having WTC6 be the Ciconia answer arcs.

>>22145926
wasn't ryukishi all about ambiguity and letting the reader decide their own truth for umineko? guess he had a different opinion back then in the higurashi days?