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When They Cry/Awesome Music


Higurashi no Naku Koro ni / When They Cry 1 & 2

Umineko no Naku Koro ni / When They Cry 3 & 4

Opening and Ending Themes

This wouldn't be a proper listing of all the awesome music in Umineko without getting into its epic opening and ending themes.



Dai

Dai is the music director for the When They Cry series, so unsurprisingly, several of the awesome tracks in the series also come from them:


  • Happiness of Marionette
  • "umaretekite kureta arigatou" ("Thank you for being born")
    • And as of Episode 6 it has been epically remixed in Rebirth
  • Ride On.
  • Mortal Stampede - simply epic.
  • Tsubasa was mindblowingly awesome. The vocal version is the ending theme for Episode 5, but when you change those vocals to electric guitar you get a different but equally awesome remix.
  • Endless Nine aka "Battler gets dangerous". Featuring Ominous English Microsoft Sam!
  • Dancing Pipe from Episode 3.
  • The often forgotten OTHER piece from Episode 3's climax - the one that isn't Tsubasa, but is just as good: Lost Paradise. (Or is that Paradise Lost?)
  • Revolt from Episode 4.
  • Umineko is also so good at this that it makes piano-driven pieces into epic CMOA. See Answer (just wait about 40 seconds if you don't hear it) and dir.
    • Answer got EXTENDED by about 40 seconds in the Play Station 3 version.
    • For more piano-y goodness, EP6's "Life".
      • Another really wonderful one from the same game is ALIVE. There's a third track too in this game called "Rebirth." You noticing a pattern here?
  • Promise, from Episode 5. Given it's less Crowning Music of Awesome and more Crowning Music of Tear Jerker, if you know why...
  • A great remix of happiness of marionette (with some Promise thrown in) called engage of marionette
  • Final Answer from Episode 5.
  • Still from Episode 5 is JUSTICE, which notably plays when Battler revives and ascends to the rank of Endless Sorcerer in the the Hidden Tea Party.
  • Sakutaro's theme, Sakutarou no Ganbarimonogatari, which incorporates a marimba version of Door to Summer and happiness of marionette for a BGM so adorable that just listening to it will give you diabetes.
    • This troper's sister was listening to the song, and had a random person who had never even heard of Umineko come over and say, "That... is the happiest song I have ever heard."
  • dai's half of the OST, "musicbox Blue", has a load of tracks that weren't used in the games yet at the time of its release; several of them have shown up in the games since, so the others may yet be used. Please, please let Oku and Black knight be among those that get into Twilight of the golden witch.
  • Similarly, the previously unreleased track Mata Umarekawaru Hi Made (until the day we're reborn), a beautiful mix of Umaretekitekurete Arigatou and happiness of marionette.
  • A song which title makes me wonder if it isn't a thank you to all the readers of Umineko: Thanks of all people
  • From episode 6 we have the beautiful yet sad Loreley


ZTS

The doujin music composer ZTS also makes several tracks in Umineko, and they have the trademark of making at least one incredibly epic piece per episode.



Luck Ganriki


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Other composers


Nakanai Kimi to Nageki/Aganai no Sekai/Gensou

Doujin, but these music videos' (and their B-tracks') distribution is so commonplace among the fandom that they're somewhere between Fanon and Canon.

  1. The last cycle
  2. Not so sugar sweet now, is it?
  3. (it should go without saying to watch Kai before this)
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