VN/manga: Introduced when Keiichi spots Satsuko’s trap while still falling for another, introducing Satsuko’s prankster nature, Rika’s gentle teasing (the way she pats his head) and his relationship to both of them.Īnime: Introduced during the picnic where they show Keiichi’s teasing, little sister, relationship with Satsuko as well as Rika’s maturity and pretty much nothing else. It’s been a while since I watched the anime so I might remember it incorrectly but compare Satsuko’s and Rika’s introduction in the VN/manga with the anime and you’ll understand what I mean.
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We quickly learn about Keiichi’s connection to his friends which makes it really easy to emphazise with him when we see them starting to act weird.īut I’d argue that the first episode of Higurashi is a good place to show Deen’s greatest failing, that they don’t (at least at the time) understand how to build character. Like Kari said you can easily cut out most of the characterizations and the mystery in Higurashi and still have a good show and I think that’s because of how the first episode work.
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I think that hit most of the things that makes the two series different but I think there’s one other thing that separates the two series: Emotional connection. Looking at their library of anime, Higurashi being a great show is very much the anomaly, with both their adaptions of Fate/Stay night as well as Tsukihime basically being memes for how to NOT adapt a VN to screen. I honestly believe that the Umineko anime would have been a success if they had adapted Arcs 1-3 in 26 episodes (leaving Arc 4 to be adapted in a possible season 2) and allowed the plot to breathe a little instead of rushing everything so quickly.Īnd of course, there’s the fact that Studio DEEN is pretty incompetent in general. As such, it’s much easier to cut entire segments from the VN and still tell a complete story… Higurashi is just way less dense when it comes down to it.
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Umineko is full of mystery, character details, clues, important information, ect while Higurashi (while still very much being a mystery) leans more towards the horror and suspense genres.
I think it very much comes down to pacing. I’ve also seen the entire anime for both stories. While I haven’t read Umineko Chiru yet, I have read Higurashi to completion, as well as the Umineko Question arcs. Of course the fact that the Umineko anime’s sound direction is utter shit is a problem of its own. A lot of Umineko’s cast is established before even the first thrilling hook happens. Higurashi did okay focusing only on the main characters with additional characters getting little screentime / focus when the story focuses on them, but that doesn’t really work in Umineko. It also notably has a MUCH bigger cast of characters that ALL have a decent amount of focus on them around the same time. Ultimately the things that make Umineko unique are too important to the story as a whole to get shafted like that and still have it be a worthwhile watch on its own. Things that really do not connect to what makes Umineko worth experiencing. The main plot gets a fraction of the attention necessary to have it be engaging and interesting and they instead focused on entirely different things. With Umineko it felt like they didn’t really have an idea of what they were looking at, so they tried to appeal to the same crowd. With Higurashi you can cut out most of the characterization details and mystery and still have something worth watching, because the horror and overall narrative are more than engaging enough to make for a great watch. I’d say the main thing is the kind of story they are.
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