Coincidentally, every time you reply to my posts, I'm reminded again of how great you are. (Princess Tutu icons are also excellent!)
Aha, thank you! I really enjoy talking to you, so I'm glad to hear that. (And yes, Princess Tutu is also excellent. ♥)
I just... really needed to read that one immediately.
I'll be honest, this is exactly the reaction I was hoping for with that description.
(I will take all the weird Umineko content you want to share!)
All right, let me see what I have! This is probably going to be a lot of links, but I figured you could just check out the ones that interest you. As far as official content goes...
There's a handy wiki page listing all the extra TIPS out there, many of which have translations on the wiki. (Most or all of the ones included in Tsubasa probably also have translations on YouTube somewhere.) I think I've linked you a good chunk of them already, but you should be able to find the rest there.
Answer to the Golden Witch is a really interesting interview between Ryukishi07 and a fan from shortly after EP8 was released. If discussion of Ryukishi07's creative choices and the Japanese fandom's reaction at the time interests you, it might be worth checking out.
There's also an official Umineko fighting game, Golden Fantasia, which is... honestly very cool! I mean, I can't properly appreciate the gameplay because I'm terrible at fighting games, but it has beautiful sprites and backgrounds, and a lot of great details in the characters' movesets and animations. Here's a short video showing everyone's ridiculous super moves—if nothing else, I'd recommend looking at Erika's because it's amazing—and here's a playlist of the story mode routes, which are short and often cracky. I've only played about half of them myself, but of those, the Shannon/Black Battler and Erika/Dlanor routes are my favorites for being, respectively, a surprisingly fascinating character study and the hardest I've ever laughed while playing it. Jessica/Kanon, Dlanor/Virgilia, and Will/Kanon are also delightful.
From what I've seen, there's a bunch of official Umineko image songs out there. I'm not familiar enough to recommend any of them except "Declaration of Love", the work of art that is George's official image song (yes, really), but they're probably not too hard to find. The fourofficialsoundtrackreleases also have some bonus tracks—this one is my favorite, personally.
And... as of last fall, there are some crazy people making an official English dub of the visual novel??? To be released in the form of a free patch for the VN that also includes the PS3 graphics, along with a free audiobook adaptation featuring the same cast. The Kickstarter to fund the project has been worryingly delayed by red tape for a while, but hopefully it will still happen. They've released an excerpt from the audiobook with added visuals—and an amazing dub of the anime OP, "One-Winged Bird"—to preview some of the VAs, and I'm really impressed so far. I recommend giving it a look; if for no other reason, then because Battler's English VA does an excellent job at this:
As for fan content... I'm not the best source of Umineko fic recs, because my "to-read" list is several times the length of my "read" list, but out of what I have read:
Letterblade has written a handful of Umineko fics—two Will/Lion, one Eva-centric), all of which are great.
ncfan seems to be the big author everyone recommends; I've barely made a dent in their works so far, but all the ones I've read are great. (I especially liked this Kyrie/Asumu fic.)
And Anweyr has recently written a couple very silly, very NSFW one-shots that make me laugh a lot.
On the fanart front, here's some I liked. (On the off chance you're not already familiar, be aware that browsing Pixiv at large without filters will probably result in porn thumbnails on your screen.)
hikukastel is probably my favorite Umineko artist. Some of my favorites by them:
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Aha, thank you! I really enjoy talking to you, so I'm glad to hear that. (And yes, Princess Tutu is also excellent. ♥)
I'll be honest, this is exactly the reaction I was hoping for with that description.
All right, let me see what I have! This is probably going to be a lot of links, but I figured you could just check out the ones that interest you. As far as official content goes...
There's a handy wiki page listing all the extra TIPS out there, many of which have translations on the wiki. (Most or all of the ones included in Tsubasa probably also have translations on YouTube somewhere.) I think I've linked you a good chunk of them already, but you should be able to find the rest there.
Answer to the Golden Witch is a really interesting interview between Ryukishi07 and a fan from shortly after EP8 was released. If discussion of Ryukishi07's creative choices and the Japanese fandom's reaction at the time interests you, it might be worth checking out.
There's also an official Umineko fighting game, Golden Fantasia, which is... honestly very cool! I mean, I can't properly appreciate the gameplay because I'm terrible at fighting games, but it has beautiful sprites and backgrounds, and a lot of great details in the characters' movesets and animations. Here's a short video showing everyone's ridiculous super moves—if nothing else, I'd recommend looking at Erika's because it's amazing—and here's a playlist of the story mode routes, which are short and often cracky. I've only played about half of them myself, but of those, the Shannon/Black Battler and Erika/Dlanor routes are my favorites for being, respectively, a surprisingly fascinating character study and the hardest I've ever laughed while playing it. Jessica/Kanon, Dlanor/Virgilia, and Will/Kanon are also delightful.
From what I've seen, there's a bunch of official Umineko image songs out there. I'm not familiar enough to recommend any of them except "Declaration of Love", the work of art that is George's official image song (yes, really), but they're probably not too hard to find. The four official soundtrack releases also have some bonus tracks—this one is my favorite, personally.
And... as of last fall, there are some crazy people making an official English dub of the visual novel??? To be released in the form of a free patch for the VN that also includes the PS3 graphics, along with a free audiobook adaptation featuring the same cast. The Kickstarter to fund the project has been worryingly delayed by red tape for a while, but hopefully it will still happen. They've released an excerpt from the audiobook with added visuals—and an amazing dub of the anime OP, "One-Winged Bird"—to preview some of the VAs, and I'm really impressed so far. I recommend giving it a look; if for no other reason, then because Battler's English VA does an excellent job at this:
As for fan content... I'm not the best source of Umineko fic recs, because my "to-read" list is several times the length of my "read" list, but out of what I have read:
On the fanart front, here's some I liked. (On the off chance you're not already familiar, be aware that browsing Pixiv at large without filters will probably result in porn thumbnails on your screen.)
And some other fun stuff: