Comments on: Umineko no Naku Koro ni, episode 21 – Furniture with consciences

By: RP

RP — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:11:01 +0000

Heh, that would make too much sense. I guess she either wanted it to be kept a secret or she was being really cheap. Either way, it doesn’t reflect well on her.

By: Rika

Rika — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:25:44 +0000

To be honest the fact that Rosa left her own daughter alone by herself for 3 days (excluding Sakutaro) who had no choice but to buy her own food even when its late at night is very idiotic. Would it have killed her to at least get a babysitter for Maria while she’s off screwing around with her boyfriend in her holiday?

By: RP

RP — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:17:31 +0000

Ah yes, you’re right. First arc was ambivalent Maria. The second arc was the bad witch mention.

By: RP

RP — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:05:46 +0000

Yep, VN-free. Thanks for the compliment. To DEEN’s credit, I do think they’re trying to keep Rosa from being seen as a complete monster like say Satoko’s uncle in Higurashi. Because we do get to see happier moments of her and Maria interspersed in Maria’s memories. And in arcs past, we see that after each “bad mother” episode, she almost always returns to Maria apologetically, as if she realizes that she was wrong.

By: RP

RP — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:00:22 +0000

Excellent. I’m getting stir crazy. :p

By: RP

RP — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:59:59 +0000

Ange is Kyrie’s biological daughter? Ah yep, you’re right. I totally forgot about that. I assumed that since Ange had Battler’s look that she was also the child of Rudolf’s former wife.

By: RP

RP — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:57:32 +0000

That’s good to hear. I believed that they were separate people, but I was a little afraid that perhaps they might’ve done a bait and switch at some point.

By: Jubbz

Jubbz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:48:17 +0000

i think it was the second arc when Maria mentioned the whole BAD WITCH thing with Rosa.
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By: Etrien

Etrien — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:31:19 +0000

I applaud your humanizing Rosa in the summary~. I’ve always interpreted her as a miserable, self-loathing person with poor emotional control, who’s just so exasperated with her circumstances that she frequently does things she doesn’t mean to do. This doesn’t justify her treatment of Maria and she’s still very much a terrible mother, but at the very least I feel the VN portrayed her as a believably “human” character, whose flaws I could still sympathize with. I felt like the anime has more or less stripped away that humanity and just left a monstrous psycho-Rosa shell, so I’m glad to see someone that (I think?) isn’t familiar with the VN still finding human qualities in DEEN’s Rosa.

By: Shounen A

Shounen A — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:28:55 +0000

Another reason why Kyrie at least is not a villain somehow working through the grave with Kasumi to eliminate Ange: it would be really twisted if Kyrie wants her own biological daughter dead. Then again, this whole anime is twisted … Shounen A´s last blog ..Umineko no Naku Koro ni IV-III