anon-chan · 3mo
It's funny how lots of people agreed that Battler being weird and wanting to grop his family in the first 2 episodes but abandoning that behavior post episode 2 can be explained by those episodes being written by Sayo who just wrote Battler like they remembered him when he was like 11. Maybe also related to some kind of coping mechanism as Sayo and Battler's romantic relationship would also be incestuous.
But then Ryukishi went and said he regretted the way he wrote Battler in the first episodes of Umineko and that he wished he could rewrite that
he didn't do it on purpose he really just wrote him like that 😭 the fandom saved that man
I feel like Ryukishi is the kind of writer where his highs are so great that when he slips up, his devoted fans interpret things in the best faith possible and practically fix up his mistakes for him... The true magic of the relationship between author and reader, haha.
I feel like you can see this in how people have this charitable reading of EP1/EP2 Battler, but when it comes to the mistakes Ryukishi made while writing less popular characters like George, people read it much less charitably
