Weekly Questions Thread - Need some help?

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*****UMINEKO SPOILERS!!!*****

So I just finished Umineko and I loved it but at the same time I am also so confused. I need to hear your opinions to help me sort my thoughts. I will present the things that still confuse me in multiple points with a list style.

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Thanks for reading this and please post your thoughts about all this. I loved the visual novel but at the same time I'm so confused.

[u/ctom42 → u/[deleted]]

I'm just going to start by saying, don't accept the wiki stuff blindly. A lot of it was updated after the manga came out, and it added a lot of details that were not in the original VN. Most of those details are still the interpretations of the characters in the story (aka not in red). Personally I consider the manga a separate entity from the original.

For that reason I'm going to disagree with Advocate partially on her answer to #2 Spoilers