Ryukishi07: Just Do Whatever The Hell You Want
Higurashi’s character designs were always a little weird — exactly what kind of dress is Rena supposed to be wearing? — but I’ve just started Umineko on some guy’s recommendation and it’s getting way far out there. Kyrie on the right there is wearing some kind of goth tie, a trenchcoat, and a tie clip. I’m pretty sure I met her at DragonCon once. Well, at least the men just have strangely colored suits.
The Rena clone/moe girl Maria’s design is so weird I assume he’s going to explain it – she seems to carry around a huge purse all day and she’s wearing a black crown(????) at a jaunty angle – but she’s also suffering from a new kind of anime age, where she’s claimed to be 9 but is actually written as a retarded 5 year old. She’s only said one complete sentence so far, and it was repeating someone else.
Well, at least the story seems interesting, though it also looks like it’s going to get unhealthily meta later on. And he only repeats everything twice, which I think puts him near the top of visual novel writing.
edit: And he thinks absinthe is bad for you or something? I thought everyone had gotten over that in the 90s?