If you haven’t played Episode 8 yet and wish to avoid spoilers, don’t watch it.
It focuses on the events of Episode 8, and teases the new scenarios with Piece and Flauros. Now, Entergram finished the opening sequence using the song, and we got to see and hear it for the first time. The last song, sung by Sasaki Rico, was announced with Umineko Saku, but was still unpublished. They asked fans to keep supporting the franchise, and buy Umineko Saku, so maybe it could happen one day.įollowing up next, the discussion switched to the music aspect of Umineko Saku, and how it has four different opening theme songs: Senkyou no Igreja, Inanna no Mita Yume, Occultics no Majo, and Kasane Awase no Nekobako. Kyoko Namikawa and Sayaka Ohara said they’d love to see some kind of prequel one day, showing the lives of the Ushiromiya adults before the family conference. There’s no character he ever disliked too. Looking at Umineko again after all these years, he likes how they have typical adult problems. Hideyoshi, the aunts like Eva, Rosa, Natsuhi, etc. Now though, he likes the family’s adults the most. I can confirm this as during a conference in France in 2012, Ryukishi said his favorite character was Episode 1-4 Beato. So at first he liked Battler and Beato the most. He mentioned that when you write a story that long, your favorites tend to change a lot. Next up, Ryukishi07 shared his own favorite Umineko characters.
Ryukishi said “it’s a really fun but really mean story”. One of the new stories of Umineko Saku voiced for the first time here has a focus on Virgilia and Kikuko Inoue’s eternally 17 years old joke. Back when they recorded the anime it was really fun, especially when they voiced things like the Beato vs Virgilia duel. It’s pretty hard to choose, but she’d say master Virgilia.There’s also how she respects Kikuko Inoue a lot. Sayaka Ohara then spoke of her other favorite characters besides Beato. Ryukshi himself would love more anime to happen, and he jokingly said he’d be so hyped he might write a new Episode specifically for it. Which prompted her to answer that she’s still waiting for Episode 5-8 to get an anime adaptation, and how every fan is waiting for it. Ryukishi added Beato is the character with the widest range of voices he has ever written, with how she can be cute, scary, funny, etc, and praised Sayaka Ohara for making Beato into such an iconic character. She really liked it and found Beato ultra cute. She did partly voice the Valentine episode for a Drama CD in the past, but now it got fully voiced. Sayaka Ohara can’t really pick one, but she really likes the Valentine event, which is one of the additions of Umineko Saku, so she voiced it recently.
Next up, they chatted about their favorite characters and scenes in Umineko. Ryukishi07 said the seiyuu for Piece and Flauros will be revealed at a later date and they’re purposefully keeping it secret for now. There’s also the setup time and the media interviews they did to take into account. Entergram is a small company, so it’s likely they could only loan the studio for a short amount of time. The stream was held in a special studio reminiscent of the meta world in Umineko and lasted for around 45 minutes, which is pretty short for these types of Japanese streams. Kyoko Namekawa acted as the stream’s MC, she’s the seiyuu of Kasumi Hotoda in the game adaptation of Hinamizawa Bus Stop in Higurashi Hou, and acted Kasumi in the Higurashi stageplay too. She was cosplaying her on the live stream. Sayaka Ohara is the seiyuu of Beatrice in Umineko. Ryukishi07 doesn’t really need an introduction if you clicked on this article in the first place. He’s also the writer of a new ADV coming this December, Kaleidoscope of Phantasm Prison, also known as Gensou Rougoku no Kaleidoscope or Gerokasu. Ryukishi07 is the main author of Higurashi, Umineko, and Ciconia. Entergram held on September 10 a live stream featuring Ryukishi07, Sayaka Ohara, and Kyoko Namekawa.