i watched the anime of umineko when i was a youngin and also have a few spoilers through oomfmosis but we are RAWDOGGING thsi shit

first impressions! battler is kind of a dork. not trusting that cousin. eva got that oujosama laugh, but i dont trust any of the adults. if im doing my math correctly, hes my age right? 17/18? hopefully i can finish this game in time. i like watching things when im the same age as the characters even if for anime that doesnt really matter. when i was 13/14 it was utena and madoka, when i was 15/16 it was avemygo and homestuck, so 17/18... i havent really got into any new things as a main interest actually but alot of my favourite characters are 17! like momoko from kamikaze girls, and momoko from menhera-chan, a good majority of yuri mcs isnt that a thing in a lot of oneshots i was thinking abt it while reading this amano shunita one. idk i dont really think abt what 7 year old navi was doing much so i think if i was 27 id be looking longingly of photos of me at the past. god i swear im not larping i just cant remember off the top of my head fuck werent the girls in green yuri 17? 5000 yen classmate i forgto its fucking abreviation. not helping my point. yuri espoir...Girlfriend Limited to 7 Days...childhood friends big love... in more soft boiled girls.both the mcs in the kuwabara manga being serialised right? i feel like bad mutt gf will probably get really popular lmfao. . (2 more months of being 17 and i have yet to amass reikao aura.) umm. the hundred line cast even though i just looked at playthroughs of eitos route.... wasnt being 17 and chosing a gender the premise of that scifi yuri from 2005 simoun? it was a solid 6.5/10 for me. precure.. OKAY POINT OVER LE DERP

hes just hooting and hollering. maria is really cute i remember liking her and the pink hijabi girl from ciconia when i was 12. doesnt she have ASD?

theyre all innocent worlded to the boot. bttsb to the coord. getting on that class division / gender role shit im noting it or whatever. THEMES AND SUCH

is jessica beatrice im so fucking confused i have a few spoilers for the game but the thing is i cant remember names for hte life of me. of things i remember is that maria has 11 toes bcs of a weird al animation the fuckinggggg komaeda vs gamzee rap battle artist made. isnt she dating yuri rpf with the creator of the natsuki vs nico one? thats really cute. hehehe.

ALL THIS BATTLER DUDE DOES IS HOOT AND HOLLER. lucky youuuuu.

aint that the truth.

FINALLY AT 12.00 I CANT WAIT TO SEE BEATRICE. i already knew abt shannon bcs 2 people said i was kind of like her

battler dont got internet is the way i will get thru this. why is reading kanji a requisite for being added to the character potrait hashtag WHATDATMEAN i knew abt the furniture part before but only vaugely. idk how serious they are being. im trying to gaslight myself but actually 5 spoilers ina 160 hour game is probably fine cant wait to find out why it cant be seen without love. it is deeply suspect how despite the fact all the servants have been introduced jessicas purple mother FORGOT HER NAME hasnt been added yet.

jeez i wish i played this in october instead of being depressed out of my mind ...

shes hereeeeeeeee

name drop... finally. battler notices the differences between men and women in the anachronistic hierarchy present in his family. come on now boy. ok just hashtag nooticed but while 3 of the servants have family crests natsushi and hideyoshi dont . what that mean, i mean they also married in but. yeah

okay 8.5 30 minutes of umi a day to keep the doctors away.

iive decided against my previous statement of downloading 7th expansion mod just for the previous sprites because i think i vastly overestimated how long ive spent so far in general, and these sprites are nice in their own way. suckers for moe will be suckers for moe... ill search up how obaasan looks after, okay? anyways eva brought up in text about the crest and the disparity there so stick a needle in that. currently at the time back scene where battler and the cousins look at the photo of beatrice aagain. cant wait for her to start talking about brian the dog, holy shit, game of the century,

marias doing the whole horror movie kid trope. babadook or something. beatricedook. ah, sorry, just some lighthearted weekend fun.

dont we all? wow this dude is chewing everybody out.

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okay stopping here because this seems plot relevant! i mean, i played up until when they were discussing it on the beach, up to when shannon was there. cute.

i do this

okayyyy played alot of umi today i am apparently 11/20 from the episodes in umineko

poor maria... i suppose its a pretty common trope in anime but maybe this is another way umineko plays w the idea of fiction? maria is probably my favourite character so far apart from shannon and jessica.

originally, i assumed that once the clock struck 12, due to the red numerals, beatrice would appear. clearly, i was wrong. i cant pretend to be super empathetic to rosas whole plight for being a good mother, however im very interested in the continuing theme of how the family choses to exploit the women in power. so far... sorry if this is a funny comparison, but umineko reminds me of the play 'An Inspector Calls.' its compulsary to learn in year 11 (10th grade), and it was probably my favourite literature work to study, i got an equivalent of an A in it. Its basically about this upper class british family and their exploit of Eva Smith, who serves as a Jane Doe of the oppressed in society ( while the inspector does have a line saying there are 100s of eva smiths AND john smiths, i think misogny is a very impactful part of the play due to how the sons treat her, as well as the female casts alienation and lack of solidarity with her also being a theme.)

this will impact my further dislike of George too, sorry.

its been such a while since i watched ciconia playthroughs.. but i remember there being umi references there too. truth be told i just watched the hiru anime.

yeah hes greyed out hes so fucked. cant say i feel sorry for him if i remember the stuff i saw was true. packgod i heard youre 5'1. one may even say, in more anachronistic terms, rip bozo... rolf... get gud... scrub.. the things about the occult though, maria knows signs too, right? but marias like 9 i know vaugely mentally disturbed elementary students is kind of the writers mmo, though i think its probably manipulation, obviously maria couldnt kill all of them. beatrice. where are you bro.

okay i took a pause lmfao I CANRT TAKE THIS CG SERIOUSLY SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE SWOLLOWED A FROG.THIS THE CHICAGO GRIM REAPER. anyways u can see beatricwe in her eyes so wait i need to get my headphones the va is probably doing a bang up job

like in homestuck. anyways i think maria is possessed though beatrice does apparently have no solid form

she had it coming, i cant lie to you. eva is like a monumental ragebaiter though. battler if i were you i would not incentivise more of my families murders even if they were all fake and gay by an angry 1000 year old witch but you do you

rip hideyoshi you didnt do much except like your wife and have an annoying son as well as fake being osakan but you were nice. youre pleasant i guess. if you live or get brought to life and its found out you killed a billion baby kittens my bad. the thing abt playing umi w vague spoilers is that i know mad predators but i hang around them because icant remember. heterosexualism is kind of scary but i suppose this sequence is humanizing for eva. despite my profenity for white women due to my wish of finding a girl with a she-ra complex to help me, i cannot in good conscious lust after eva, due to the fact she is the borgeuoise. if i took t id probably look like hideyoshi though.

yep beatrice is pissed. goldenslaughterer is such a good track though. butterflies be damned my girl can make an entrance. i actually am starting to believe beatrice is more of a haunting the narrative character? though umi is apparently 160 hours/ twice homestucks length so im basically just 1/10ths in. sad we didnt get any more eva art but its nice to see a death cg.

full disrespect but george looks like a fucking horse.

Kanon T - T i really liked the guy. but no death potrait? he did resign himself as furniture.

one of my cousins had six toes and i really really wanted six toes too i thought it would be an interesting gimmick.

this isnt nitpicking but something about the way umineko is written is rather funny to me... i dont know how to verbalize it. is it the reiterations?

okay, kanons dead. poor guy. if i recall correctly, the golden land is when the yellow hair and purple hair yuri shows up, right? this is a bit embarassing, but the last time i watched the umineko anime was when i was 12 or so after checking all the art of them macking on one another. perhaps covid was a blessing...since i cannot remember one single thing, because i was basically a shut in beforehand, and was still a child, i can watch these lillies bloom again and again! yayyyyy!i think beatrice said they had six,right? so two more dead. my prediction is obaasan and the doctor... i think the children will obviously stay alive, though maybe itd be some cruel twist on marias life. i find the kyrie line very odd though. while it makes sense that the servant would have a line mocking them, i feel like the 'all there is to it' thing is a bit crazy to me... or maybe i just want to see her because i enjoyed her, and want her to have more plot relevance.

natsushi is so fucked its not even funny. i interpeted it wrong apparently its THREE people needing to be gone. i retract my previous statement i think chapter 20 or even earlier will be beatrice.

girls be 40 something and 18 and their oppositions be 9

ELEVEN THIRTY THE GOLDEN WITCH ill leave it here but thank god . rip to obasan... its really the final hour for them. jeez. i know hes only done it twice but its really jarring when battler compares the mauled corpses of his loved ones to food. i had to stifle a giggle at marias singing, sorry.this is surely the worst mothers day of jessicas life.

okay finally at the tea party! ill play this part first, okay! also i forgot to save for quite a while. im trying my best not to look up umi stuff online, because i want this to be as blind as it can possibly be, but apparently this tea party is crucial! i remember when i was younger, our school made us do a tea party for the senior citizens of our town. i was asking questions about the war...i needed to be less blunt.

please imagine this site as a wonderful tea party! i dont have any strong feelings on tea that isnt joshanda, but i love alot of biscuits, and tea cakes are my favourite treat. final thoughts. battler is kind of an ass!!!!!!! dude! BEATRICE IS REAL HOW CAN YOU BE THIS STUBBORN!! i feel so bad for sayo... i want george gone. i think maria will be very very interesting, im very partial to familiar abuse narratives, and feel compassion for her pure wish to be loved genuinely. if you were a lonely child, youd believe in kind witches too, okay!!!! jessicas pluckiness is very endearing to me,,, her and her mothers dynamic getting better was nice.

okay did something so rewarded myself w 10 more umi tokens. its actually killing me how much of a wojak ''it just is, okay!' battler is. beatrice is literally right in front of him. cmon now man. also beatrices voice is more deeper than i expected , but i dig it!

how hopefully irrelevant to the golden land and the idea of fiction in umineko... how unrelated... i really like the ??? segment purple witch girl is super cute cant wait to see her w blondie. thanks alot man

i fucking hate george pure animal hatred he only reminds me of people who have done me wrong STOP MAKING ME READ HIS INNER MONOLOGUE I HOPE HE DIES AGAIN FUCK YOU GEORGE

Sayo.... who the fuck is Lanon though.

overall i think sayos isolation is such a heartbreaking part of her character. its also really upsetting how seemingly she seems to be the target of both female characters rage. idk much abt eva so far, though oomf really likes her, and there are literally 7 chapters so im sure she has more depth, natsushis behavior towards shannon thats so cruel... perhaps im too anthybrained w this though but maybe its kind of a reverse nanami/anthy situation with sayo reminding the women of their own angst or something like that bleh. still want george gone though. jessica im begging u to shut up.

sayo... my beloved. we finally got a scene w beatrice and kinzo. they said 'without love it cannot be seen' like 4 times

i must admit, first of all, that i am sorry, women. despite the fact jessica does at least, not on the surface, remind me of a stuck up prissy male like george,i still think this is a little pathetic, and it makes me a bit upset when kanon is like Yeah Jessica Ojousama I Dont Know About This School Stuff I Was Seven When They Took Me Out. Ive never listened to music ever. . its okay, i dont really hate straight women, promise.

brit jessica...

i didnt really feel strongly about kanon previously but i think im beginning to get him alot more and his mentality. its hard to get out of defeatism like that. and while ive been led to believe this may actually be literal, i understand what hes sayin. I suppose that compared to George Jessicas pursuit of Kanon getting autonomy does not seem to be motivated a bit by ego or childishness, though Jessica is plenty childish. I have to kind of side with Kanon on him noting their differences, sorry.

i got spoilers for umineko from a fucking touhou video.. i didnt know jessica was cosplaying and sung pettan in the og one though hehe

exam done.,. umi time! okay so first off ch 2 is alot more fastpaced... and beatrice is a effin delight

end of that chapter... beatrice really is an interesting force considering shes just doing this to see how it all plays out. truly just for the love of the game.

i remember a nezumiVA - shoutout marcie hobbs in 2022 i was stuck in pakistan for like 4 months and i mass downloaded her video essays to watch during power outages as well as the entire snapcub sonic real time fandub- noted that ryushiki was inspired by ace attorney. which tracks.

while i hope we get a deep dive into rosas upbringing or her relationship with the absentee father - even though rosa seems to be the youngest by a fairly big margin and is stressed that obviously doesnt negate child abuse... and child abuse she does with wreckless abandon. shes like the lebron james of slapping and verbally assulting her nine year old. while i suppose it plays into child anime character traits with the whole uuu thing being very weird in canon with rosa having no friends at school, sometimes it gets a bit ridiculous - shes nine years old rosa! also side note its really funny that rosa chides maria for wanting a halloween costume and saying that they all have to be well dressed for the family function like half of the people there dress like they had done an armed robbery in the nearest wunderwelt. obviously time continium doesnt count because george says otaku slang like tsundere which didnt get penned until the 2000s from 2ch as well as jessica cosplaying from the touhou franchise despite the fact Umineko supposedly takes place in 1986, which, while predating bttsb's creation by 2 years and the usage of lolita fashion as a roundabout term in a magazine by 1, it was a time where the modern concept of lolita fashion was forming. i guess jane marple and emily temple cute were also there at the time, but still.... not as much as the girls in umineko wear it!! dressing like u have a lifetime supply to metamorphosis, luckyyyyy! XD

i do not wish to spoil myself anymore but the sweet sweet cat called curiousity came scratching, and apparently umineko designs did reference many outfits from Gothic Lolita Bible. this isnt just umineko, despite not remembering much of ciconia due to it being more than half a decade and me being Literally Twelve when i got into it ( released a chapter in 2019 then fucked off for the rest of eternity as well as made said chapter a hefty amount more than the previous installments ) i remember naima and the black catgirl and the black catgirls yuri love rival were dressed in sweet and gothic lolita respectively. people seem to dig umis designs more though.

i know kyrie and eva talk here as well but i forgot to take screencaps for them pien. seesaws amirite

marias relationship with her mother really does hurt though. they are really the only people they have, and rosa constantly mistreats her - but how is maria supposed to know that? the conversation with kyrie and her breaking down on the bed does show that shes aware of her misdoings, but i struggle to feel empathy for those people. i think you should always try and give your child the most loving upbringing they can have due to how terrifying and unsightly the world can be, theres really no point feeling sorry for yourself and not changing.

it was unfortunately really really funny to me when beatrice showed up after rosa previously blaming her abusive behavior on a witch to her clearly disabled child whose special interest is the occult. get ready to start talking to anthy himemiya,buddy. its interesting how in this new - loop? post scratch umineko? beatrice seems to be alot more forward in her involvement with others as well as editing the narrative to suit her own goals, with her just appearing after kyrie.. get a mention of rudolfs ex wife as well. wow look at that thigh crest, how peculiar. the new outfit is cute too!

gives off a bit of a putamayo look, haha.

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16.05 DOES BATTLER EVER LEARN... the sayo beatrice confrontation was really really great. In episode 8 of umineko they talk about the philosophy a level concept of verification princible

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who couldve guessed lmaooo. anyways this time rosa is still alive! so far im on episode 11, and she seemingly is still the lebron james of child abuse. keeping up with the family seemingly having some latent cannibalistic desires with the whole turkey omurice speal, though i guess the party thing makes more sense. maybe battler is just kind of a weirdo? i mean hes an actual real weirdo. ill let some of the stuff he says slide bcs its a ryushi game. is there anything youd like to say to women, battler?

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the greatest ragebaiter of our time

and there goes kanon... finally have at leasst 2 of beatrices bishoujo minions from the op. beatrice has anime girl satan working for her this white girl ihas goals and ambitions bro. The Devil From The Bible, lend me your power... we are up against 16-18 year olds.. im really warming up to kanon as well, its a pity. the ,ajority of fanart i see is of sayo, and while i vaugely remember why that is probably the case, shoutout kanon... anyways, episode 11 does show kenjis will too... overall, very excited to see how it goes this time around, and if we actually get to see golden land this time.

the way the music sways in this part is so fucking good

18.06 kanons eyes are the same colors as beatrices minions, with his death declared in red... its so fucking over kanoncity.

battler always has to go running his mouth now in this timeline theres going to be some dumb human centipede bullshit where they check in on the servants and their intestines spell out the entirety of the boy who cried wolf fable with the lines battler this is about you you rinne amagi looking dumbass and im a witch just straight up me beatrice witch magic mahou shojo i am a witch me yes me beatrice nineteenth guest

poor obaasan. she said the title! im going to be honest, im a bit taken aback. i really assumed that maybe my pre-built dislike of rosa would maybe due to fandom misogyny, and while i did bat for other characters like maizono back in the day, maybe i just had a worse attachment to rosa because she reminded me of my mother... however! rosa just kind of sucks! and its very entertaining. obviously in a household as oppresive as the uroshiyama household, as well as being a fairly young single mother, its obvious how she got that way, but oh my god...goddamn furniture, right?

anyways, battler finally believes in beatrice! maria declaring herself to be a witch is very suspicious. i retract my possession theory for now though the repeat of the laugh is confusing. why is the laughing declared in red as well?

SAYO FINALLY STOOD UP FOR HERSELF MY GOAT. im not very fond of george for reasons previously mentioned but the focus on love.. noted. however, its 16.00 but still no declaration of death for the three of them. ill resume tomorrow, and refine my commentary! otsu!

okay! i need to update this alotttt more, im on chapter 3 episode 9 - to summarize!

considering where we left off, for a while i thought this was from rosas perspective, but nope, beatrice! we are also introduced to og beatrice, beatwice. beatone? this isnt clever in the slightest. also, while im typing, i know her actual name, but when i made this joke, i didnt, so suck it, cablechewers....god, her voice actor did an amazing job, each time she says battler you can tell shes filled w absolute hatred. i dont have any strong opinions on the devils rn, but out of all of beatrices nfts, i like levi the most, because crying girls with no good points are really moe.anyways, it shows how the old beatrice was very kind , but unlike current beatrice, who can seemingly rewind bodies at will, she could only momentarily stop the fate of the vase beatone broke... hope that isnt forshadowing...

we start off with more focus on eva, including a flashback confirming how patriarchal the uroshiyama household is. eva talks to her past self in between both her dream - male supremacists should die, so right eva - and first off! i am somewhat sure that this is beatrices doing, that she is reanimating her past self in the same way she did w kanon. isnt is suspicious how specifically only shannon, eva and beatrice herself have the family crest actually tattooed on their body?

i am pleasantly surprised with how humanizing umineko is, im glad i didnt watch the anime again - even though evas a larger than life oujosama whose kind of an asshole, it definetely makes sense why she turned out that way in such a suffocating enviroment. hideyoshi seems pretty nice, all things considered, and while he has some eyebrow raising comments, id say compared to the rest of the male members of the family, espically kinzo akio splinter ushiromiya, hes like. well i wouldnt die for him and he seems kind of stupid but i guess that when ur entire family gets wiped in the war via bombing iirc u kind of let alot of things slide. why does george act like that actually two loving parents and hes still a choy sud.

we do get more insight w the type of shit rosa was going thru growing up, as well. if i recall correctly, with the other flashback, the oldest rosa can be is 35, with her having maria in her very early 20s. in the flashback, eva was debating going to college, so it is pretty unfortunate how phrases like - why doesnt rosa just fucking die? - seem to be flying around willynilly. obviously this is her inner conscious and i have a bad internal dialogue too, but i feel a bit bad for rosa.

george kills the mood of every scene he is in im keeping this part short its nice to see battler remincise also beatrice once again shows up to talk to maria and do the trick properly like how her master did with the vase w maria, but with a rose this time! beatrice seemingly was a normal girl, so i wonder if we get anymore on the witch training maria is undergoing. also i really hope george gets thoroughly dissected bcs the shannon george situation is not romantic to me in the slightest it was like genetically engineered to make me mad.

not much to say abt the possibility of the 19th person chapter except that its okay if ronove gives off annoying bishie vibes and also the establishing of both devils proof and hempels raven, as well as the flashback between 1976 n the confirmation of the hidden mansion, with beatrice asking who she is, and ronove confirming for her since shes pissed at battler. also rosa killed beatrice onto next story

with the flashback, i kind of assumed it was eva at first, but this goes back to my talk abt beatrice info! we see her go through a few motions, here, which is a delight. this also goes in with new rosa information - or continuing on with what we already knew, that rosa seemingly has been getting the short end of the stick which caused her to become the lebron of child abuse on her 9yo lolita fashion autistic daughter through inferiority complex, maybe. anyways, the picture that gets painted of the original beatrice, whose 19 iirc - actual beatrice is said to look in her early 20s if i also remember correctly, but still an 1000 yo witch, 19yo beatrice from what i understand is a vessel or homuculus, i forget homoculus is not a meme word, im sorry for laughing when they kept on saying it. anyways, its creepy as fuck what kinzo was doing, jail. its so sad seeing her so happy to finally be free. also i love birdcage girls. i love them so so so much.

the cg w kinzo being burnt.. thank god. i feel very bad for kanon n shannon for being team tagged to their demise by the sibling nfts. fortunately i find beatrices anger at shannon in particular very interesting.

i think once starting this chapter i have realised something. that ryushiki really loves saying - like a puppet thats strings have been cut-, its like a mantra. he has said it, on record, 3 times in the same episode.

oh wow! i kind of assumed she was the same as gohdah and not fellow kinzo furniture, but i was so wrong, so wrong in fact i had repeatedly used profanity i was duped as they said very much so.SHE WAS A WITCH TOO. i guess its kind of cute, in a way, due to her always looking over everybodies sholdiers. i wonder how this counts to them dying, though... im kind of confused, i hope once we find her corpse there is future elaboration .

i cant believe witches did nine eleven. anyways, beatrice - kills - her former master, but not without her coming back to guide her again. obviously not a fakeout bcs it would be insane in halfway through rondo of the witch and reasoning the witch Fucking Dies. also, i forgot to put it here, but gohdah dies via the siblings, her name is virgillia, okay!

up to umineko ch 12! anyways, ch 10 mostly consisted of chewing beatrice out... shes getting more sullen, its kind of cute. this puppy is literally me.

EVA SOLVED THE EPITHET ANMD BECAME THE WITCH. i was a bit off since beato and eva seem to be arguing based on beato feeling pretty cornered. itsa bit funny to see her so worried and crying... killing people in bizarre ways is problematic medias...? But yeah evawitch both worries original eva, whose incredibly sick, and beato... it actually is killing me how disinterested lambdade lta n berkenstel are when eva is crowned. the fact the song which plays when eva gets the ring is called happiness of marionette... also the sister dynamic between her and rosa is really, really tense, its surprising to hear that apparently they trust eachother the most out of the siblings. hideyoshi seems like a good guy.

okay up to ch 15! to summarize! beva - beatrice eva - and eva are two different people, which she makes excessively clear by basically threatening her and saying that while george and hideyoshi are safe the rest will be killed for the rest of the nights. shes evas wish to be a witch as a child as well as her bitterness and stubborness, which explains why she comes up w these childish torture methods. anyways, everyones starving because they didnt get any rest last night on account of rosa and maria being murdered, which occured half a day ago, meaning that everyone is also starving. kyrie and rudolf go, as well as hideyoshi, with guns, of course, because that was helpful to natsushi... jk lul

we are seeing a softer side of beatrice. shes really drilling in the lonely witch side of her, and she does seem to care abt the game w her and battler, with her wondering abt battler eating the cookies ronoe is making... the glutton.ronoe also answered for beatrice when she was out sulking when battler pulled the hypothetical that eva couldve murdered them w hideyoshi as an accomplice. seemingly beva doesnt really get along w beatrice that well due to her telling her to tone the murders down as well as admitting her halloween murders were kind of on a whim and wanting to make sure the murders r more dignified, as well as noting that when all the family is cooped up together like this, their desperation to not believe in witches is at a all time high.

it is also revealed that guns due to their heavy anti magic power are to witches and also are able to wound them! this is batted away by the fact that she summons levi and belphegor.. levi yay! its a bit funny to see rudolf and kyrie talk to them while theyre actively try to kill them. rudolf is kind of a chauvinist, isnt he? i think kyrie is really misguided when shes blaming asumu with the whole i was in a relationship w him before! i dont blame rudolf! because its clear the dude is unfateful... we are getting more about ange though. there was a convo w either rose or natsushi where she refers to daughters, i initially thought i misread it, but is ange a girl? regardless, 18 years of envy killing the literal envy demon aside - both of them die, not by the og demons, but by these adorable rabbit servants!!!!! awww!!!!!!!! awwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!

hideyoshi is also killed, thoughb she seems a bit more regrettful over it, whilre also estabalishing shes different from eva and that the gold belongs to her. beva is really establishing herself as a problem considering how she treats beatrice as well, calling her a hag and the like. anyways, thats where we left off.

ep 16! they find the bodies of the deceased after eva starts screaming for hideyoshi, with only george, jessica, battler, eva, krauss and natsushi alive. george and battler have a big weep abt their feelings, with battler noting down ange again, and how shes 6 years old currently. six years like how long its been here.. im writing down my previous notes, but wow they really up her foreshadowing in the latter parts of the chapter. we get more information on what virgilla considers to be a real witch, and how even an endless witch like beatrice is still a apprentice. being a witch is to make humans happy, too... while the other cousins are cooped up in their rooms, while getting coffee, george mourns shannon, and starts seriously sympathizing w kinzo. beatrice responds to this in an attempt to use her powers for good, and actually brings shannon back to life, likening it to hades and persephone... unfortunately this lasts for all of 30 seconds because Beva is really utilising her catchphrase of - die forever - which is so cruel even beatrice is speechless... she also uses the chiesters to kill krauss and natsushi, all while eva is making coffee. eva is terrified of beva, and links her to both her childish cruelty and greed upon seeing that gold. when the seagulls cry, none shall be left alive.

ch 17! this is long, and unorthodox compared to the other chapters. at this point, jessica is very convinced that eva murdered her parents, with her and eva getting into a huge fight during the whole ordeal, in which jessica ends up blind due to eva shooting her, masterful gambit. this does not bode well for her hysteria, and when shes getting patched up by nanjo, the scene where beva just silently shows up made me giggle, im so sorry nanjo, i have no strong opinions on you other than the fact you hang out w mad predators to see how their mind work, but other than that, its cool you have a sick grandchild i guess. jessica can hear the murder outside, but cannot see it, and beva threatens her while doing so. during this, her mind drifts towards kanon... BEATRICE GREATEST WINGWOMAN OF ALL TIME throws her a bone here, and her and kanon briefly reunite, with kanon guiding her out, with both of them apologizing for thei mutual cowardice. ronoe also allows it when he sees him sneak out while bevas torturing nanjo, sure, why not, with kanon thanking beatrice. anyways, when beva finds out abt this, she loses her shit, however beatrice stands her ground. the chiester sisters repeatedly try sewing her heart, but beatrice continues to live, smiling even when bleeding out, proclaiming she has become a true witch.

im skipping over some stuff but the grand majority of this chapter is attempting to deny the existence of beva by positing that eva was the real killer behind it, with hideyoshi being an accomplice - this is helped by the fact that the cigars in kyries corpse r hideyoshis, which helps explain why she went even though she wasnt peckish at all and thought the whole plan was kinda stupid dumb since she wanted to corner him - all the witches n ronove join in to help u w this, w battler even calling beva an imposter - 2021 was 5 years ago i have to move on - also beatrices sad sprites are so cute shes like a misbehaved doggy... however beva comes around guns blazing with a bunch of red statements abt how it couldnt have been eva, and how there are only 18 humans, with eva being next to battler even while jessica was out which counts as an alibi, also theres a really nice cobweb visual for it. however, this time beatrice steps up w a statement that disproves witches that only witches can say. out of respect, battler covers his ears for what is kind of suicide for her - and with this, we get a scene of eva gunning down battler...

ch 18 continues w beatrice and battler confirming eachothers existance, as well as battler finally going to the golden land. maria is pretty nonchalant w her whole heh told you thing, and even the furniture is here! everyones on equal ground, eledgedly. its surprisng krauss of all people is chill w jessica being in a relationship w kanon. eva and natsushi hug it out, also i saw a card of them in marimite uniform recently. kyrie continues to be w her bum ass husband, even joking when the topic of 'free love' that hed probably elope w the girl battler chose. kyrie man divorces cant be that hard. everyone is having a great time, kinzo even got the stick out his ass to talk to battler to ask him and beatrice to sign the contract for golden land, which battler previously denied. this is all merry and good, with virgillis asking beatrice to proclaim herself to be a good witch. whats that ominous cackling noise. oh my god her sprite looks so funny.

theres a kind of feigned oujosamaness that beatrice puts on here, obviously we dont get a reason why but i do call bullshit. anyways, battler on estrogen punches thru the wall and tells him not to do it, absolutely dodging each attack like a badass from the servants. we dont get any name, but its kind of obvious with the style and reference to mom and dad its ange, which is confirmed in the credits, and is basically the joke for the tea party, and is hammered in more at the unhuman section.

speaking of the tea party, we get another hirugarashi reference for the road! the for - eva joke really got me rolling. we also get that classic beating the shit out of the girl you love part. its great, anyways, lamdadelta granted beatrice this power and despite not picking up the fact its ange she is making is extremely clear to beatrice that shes the one who runs this rodeo, and threatens her w her miserable past. teaparty of the unhuman picks up and gives us more of a backstory behind ange! shes 18, and is from the distant year of...1998. eva is still alive but is sick mentally and physically, and is tabloid fodder to boot. shes become incredibly imbittered and decides to make a child miserable to compensate, sending eva to a private school and depriving her of most luxuries, as well as giving her all her wealth in an act she thinks to be the cruelest of cruel actions. ange is pretty straightforward and they have an obvious mutual dislike of eachother, and ange wishes to see her family again. i forgot if i mentioned this but angie is berkchans apprentice in witchdom, a title ange has already internalized after being labelled as one at school, and shes completely unfazed w the idea of being the next golden witch. when shes ontop of a rooftop, wishing to see her family again, when berkchan shows up and asks her to help, even if its just to revive a single relative, she has no regrets at all. we end it w her doing a flip like we saw in the op. onto ch 4!