Umineko WHEN THEY CRY Episode 7: Requiem of the Golden Witch, Vol. 2

Umineko When They Cry (Manga English Numbering ) #17

by Ryukishi07, Hinase Momoyama (Visual Art)

Ten Years before the disastrous family reunion on Rokkenjima, a young servant named Yasu started working at the Ushiromiya mansion, where she first encounters the witch Beatrice. Their tenuous friendship utterly transforms the timid, clumsy Yasu and sets her on a path of cunning, deception, and murder...

Genres: Manga, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Supernatural, Comics Manga

662 pages, Paperback

First published August 22, 2012

About the author

Ryukishi07 (竜騎士07, Ryūkishi Zero Nana?, born November 19, 1973) is the pen name of a Japanese man originally from Chiba Prefecture who is well-known as the original creator for the idea of the visual novel series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni. He is the representative member of the group 07th Expansion. His pen name originated from the Final Fantasy series, "Ryūkishi" being the Japanese term for "Dragoon", and "07" goroawase for the name "Lenna". His illustration style is recognizable from the large hands he draws on people.

Reviews

[✨Rebel Fairy Hiatus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Trigger warnings: grief, love, loss, and pain.

The 7th game concentrates more on the storytelling, and you get it from 'true' point of view.

One thing this manga taught me is that there are three sides to the truth, and in this episode, we see it from another side.

This gives us a deeper perspective into the world, the characters, and to het to the why dunnit.

The bonds run deeper than they have first appeared, but will this reveal everything at last, or is the jigsaw still building itself?

Not too far from episode 8, where everything will be revealed.

True thoughts at vol 21.

[Henry Backingham · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story itself is quite great and interesting, but the actual soultions to the mysteries...lackluster, to say the least.

(*** SPOILERS AHEAD ***)

Basically the culprit has superpower, namely "infinite money" and so she can bribe any person and make them his accomplices. Stupid? Totally. Unfair and uninteresting? Doubly so.

And all magic tricks are explained with "meh, they were bought by culprit, they just lied".
Boring.

[Renan Fontes · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a heart-wrenching volume. Yasu's backstory is overwhelmingly sad at times, but also brilliantly detailed and layered. It's lengthy, but I loved the detailed glimpse we get into Beatrice's path. Yasu's struggle with identity is some of the absolute best stuff in the story. One of the strongest volumes so far. I have faith the manga can stick the landing.

[Nicole Mello · Rating 4 out of 5]

getting this entire backstory really fleshed out here is super fucked up and sad but also very real. which kind of makes it even more fucked up and sad. i genuinely can't wait to see where things are going with our poor new little beato. i want to protect everybody from kinzou so bad. quit being a monster, kinzou, jesus christ, you're the sinner here

[kerrycat · Rating 5 out of 5]

damn, these backstories are out of control

[Aglaya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Masterpiece

[Libbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

✨Writing a grouped review for the entirety of the manga and copy/pasting. I started reading this 6 months ago at the time of writing and read over a few months and don't remember specifics about every single volume except what I rated them ✨

Umineko has an intriguing premise and good execution which does a lot right. The author manages to create such eerie and scary atmospheres and have the reader on edge wondering what is going to happen next. I particularly enjoyed a lot of the locked room scenarios and discussions and explanations.

Where this manga fails is it's extreme repetitiveness. It wears down on the reader very quickly. As a result I'm not sure this is a manga I would recommend to many people.

I will eventually watch the anime, whilst a short run this may be something I'd be inclined to recommend more as the premise itself is well done.