Umineko no Naku Koro ni

[Xrlderek]

Umineko no Naku Koro ni takes place in the year 1986, during the time frame of October 4 and October 5 on a secluded island named Rokkenjima (六軒島, Rokkenjima). The head of a wealthy family named Kinzo Ushiromiya, who lives on and owns Rokkenjima, is near death, and eight of his family members arrive on the island to discuss how Kinzo's assets will be divided once he is dead. Also on the island are three family members who live there, five of Kinzo's servants, and his personal physician. After the eight family members arrive, a typhoon traps them on the island and shortly after people start to get mysteriously murdered.
[Taken from ANN]

Thought I'd start this thread early. The starting date is listed as 02.07.2009 but I am not sure if it is confirmed or not ( I am too afraid of spoilers to search around too much ). This will obviously be of great interest to those who liked Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. It is made by the same people. This also is an adaption of a visual novel.

I am currently reading the visual novel ( a complete translation patch recently came out( for everything of the game that is currently out ), and it is great so far. But lets not discuss the visual novel in this thread. Anyway, I am really looking forward to this.

[Lucifus]

From Higurashi No Koro's guys eh? Definitely caught my interest.

Gonna have to hold judgement till i see er though.

[Xrlderek]

Here is a trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYOWHOOAefY


Edit: Replaced it with the subbed trailer.

[Nadouku]

Nice. I'll probably be interested in this series!

[Pandadice]

i haven't seen Higurashi, but the more I see of this the more interested I get. I'll probably end up checking it out.

[Marik]

[CoalGG]​ When​ the​ Seagulls​ Cry​ -​ 01​ [090E1882].mkv

Coalguys & gg doing a joint, wow.

[Nadouku]

Oh, good lord, this episode was so confusing when they introduced all of the characters. At least, the only person I seem to identify with is Battler because he reminds me of Keichii, except more perverted.

[Xrlderek]

Well, that was fast-paced but I liked it. I love the OP and the ending, especially the ending.

[animus]

What's the significance of highlighting just na in the OP karaoke?

[Board of Command]

What's the significance of highlighting just na in the OP karaoke?

I think they were just mimicking the style of the title, but I don't know if the red character there is "na".

[Buffalobiian]

I'm definitely sticking with this, unless it turns out to be complete shit. It's been too long since I've seen something remotely dark and creepy.

On a scale of 1-to-10 I give Maria a 15 for annoyance. Heck, I wanted to hit her so bad, even though it felt a bit bad after Roza did it.

I bet the two who received the scorpion charm (Battler and Jessica) are the only two who won't get killed off.

I like the OP well enough, but the ED...argh.

It was good for the first 20 seconds. The music was good, and I liked his slow, deep singing. The music picking up later was fine, but his transition into a crazed lunatic turned me off.

(edit: alright, I tried listening to it a few more times. If I leave it in the background, it's sort of fine. Like I said before, the music's pretty alright. My distaste returns as soon as I pay attention to his voice however.)

[shinta|hikari]

Despite being a loli, Maria really ticked me off. I was really cheering for Rosa when she was smacking her around, and got really irritated that she still won't shut up. I kept screaming "harder! faster! stronger!" in my head, hoping the unnerving sound ceases. Well, at least the show is doing it intentionally. I would drop a show in a heartbeat if it featured such a character without knowing how annoying it can be.

[Xelbair]

Yes BoC - the red character is 'na' in hiragana.

[Marik]

uu~ uu~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_POy7...eature=related

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[gg]​ Umineko​ no​ Naku​ Koro​ ni​ -​ 01​ [07A3E315].mkv

Bye bye CoalGuys. Re-encoded and with some typo/tl fixes. Also I decided to do the cool kids things where you don’t properly label your v2’s. Feels good.

Btw, the 2nd sub-track was made by a bro who played the game. Hopefully you will enjoy his hard work.(?)

We're releasing it under the romanized name so we can get more downloaders. ^o^! || Bye bye CoalGuys, you won't be missed.

[Buffalobiian]

What happened? That was a fast breakup.

[Marik]

I'm guessing that Mango-chan and Koda, just can't get along.

I decided (maybe I didn’t decide) to join gg for umineko because subbing alone is fucking tiring (for those who thinks we have o9k staff, no fuck you). I’m tired of tling/encoding/timing/doing-everything by myself. I’ll see if I can be fucked to do something by myself this season, but I highly doubt it.

Hopefully gg does it seriously, without the trolls and such.

[Nadouku]

That's pretty sad news, but oh well.

[Xrlderek]

The second subtrack contains a major spoiler that is also uneeded + many minor spoilers. I suggest not using it. Also, the blog comments has numerous spoilers, and I wouldn't put it past gg to put spoilers in announcements..

[KitKat]

Well, there's no way I can't watch this one seeing as how I liked Higurashi so much. I think they'll have a hard time topping that one though, because half the brilliance of Higurashi was that it was so unexpected, and you were never sure what was real and what was misdirection. The first episode certainly did cram in a lot of character introductions that I'm sure I'm not going to remember, but it did a decent job of setting the stage.

[Lucifus]

I'm sure it'll be a blast. I'm putting my trust into the Higurashi guys.

I liked it thus far, but I do share the sentiments of how annoying that sound the kid made became; but the second that B raised her hand to her, I wanted someone to put a bullet in her head. -__-