Backlog Dialogues
The podcast that digs you out of your backlog before it buries you! We cover long running media series week by week, with discussions on characters, themes, and anything else that catches our interest.
Current Project: When They Cry
- It's Graduation Day, but it seems that we still aren't any closer to solving the mystery? That's ok, someone else is - Eva has put together an answer to the epitaph, and in response, she ascends! A pawn promoted to a queen, but what does it all mean? #backlogdialogues #umineko #whentheycry
- We have reached our final course, with a special guest lecturer! Virgilia is here to show us that the world of magic is much deeper, and wilder, than we ever expected. But how will learning about magic help us in our Mystery curriculum? #backlogdialogues #whentheycry #umineko
- When we say history repeats, what you should take from that is to look to the past, so that you can avoid the same mistakes in the future. Rosa must learn that her actions have consequences. But it's not like the woman she let fall would come back. Would she? #backlogdialogues #umineko #whentheycry
- Also, this week is our 150th Episode! For a podcast about working through Backlog heavy series, that's a pretty hefty Backlog of our own! Better start listening now, it's only gonna get longer! #backlogdialogues #fomo
- Welcome to the new semester. Remedial Mystery courses don't seem to have helped so far, so let's try a different angle. We start by looking at another significant piece from this tale. Eva has a lot hidden inside, so this week we'll peek behind that veil. #backlogdialogues #umineko #whentheycry
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- It really feels like we should have done this Minilog earlier, wasn't Higurashi the one with all the Twin antics? Anyways, this week we're discussing Migi and Dali, a genre defying farce that settles on being a suspenseful mystery. Oh, so that's why we're covering it now. #backlogdialogues #migidali
- Welcome back, humans. I must say, that was a poor showing. Just a little proposal of magic and you crumble. Honestly, you should be grateful I still allow this "God cast" to go on. Ah, well, such is the price of fighting boredom. Feel free to keep struggling. #backlogdialogues #umineko #whentheycry
- Another bottle. The message inside reads: You cannot surrender to the witch. There is no peace there, only horror. The witch is insatiable, and will never be satisfied. Resist. Fight back. Don't give up, even as the pain compounds. Please. It's our only hope. #umineko #backlogdialogues #whentheycry
- The witch has offered you a glimpse into the magic world, and challenges you to see if you can refute it. New impossibilities crop up, demanding you explain them. But as long as you have the skill, the wits, and the new tool given to you, you should do ok, yes? #backlogdialogues #umineko
- Once more, murders have broken out on the Island and the game is officially afoot. But we know how this works. There cannot be anything paranormal here, just acts of humans, like Halloween themed murder and... laser swords... and goat monsters? Wait, what? #backlogdialogues #umineko #whentheycry
- It's time for the game to begin once more. The witch has returned, and has changed her opening move entirely. Are you ready to contend with her both in the game, and in the tale itself?
- If you wish to win in a game, you should probably learn the rules and pieces first. This week, we take a moment to look at the lives of a few of those pieces - the young lovers and the pain their differences in status cause them. #backlogdialogues #whentheycry #umineko
- What makes history? Is it what is written? What is passed between people? The layers of story from one generation to the next? This week, our minilog is Pentiment. A strikingly unusual looking game that asks what's under the surface, and how did it shape that surface? #backlogdialogues #pentiment
- So, these Humans wish to review the game after losing so badly? Very well, this Witch will be happy to guide you. But, A "God"Cast? What GOD influenced this? Remember, as you recount the telling of the tales, you're in the domain of Magic, not Divinity. #backlogdialogues #umineko #whentheycry
- To you who have found this tale, I ask of you only this. Believe in the Witch. Believe in her power. You've read all that she has done. Believe. Please believe, or it will never end. #backlogdialogues #umineko #whentheycry
- Two in an embrace One in a dark place One body in flames Three carrying blames Five the Twilights spare But still the Curse Ensnare As the clouds leave the sky And the gulls resume their cry Were any left alive? #backlogdialogues #whentheycry #umineko
- Despite ample warnings from the merciful Witch, disaster strikes the family conference. In the wake of the first move, the remaining vic- ahem, family members flail about for answers. Perhaps young Maria knows something? She seems quite pleased with herself. #whentheycry #umineko #backlogdialogues
- When one sits down to dinner at a family conference, there is rules of decorum to follow. The line of succession will be reflected in seating. The servants will be impeccable. The letter from the witch will be held until dessert. Wait, what was that last one? #BacklogDialogues #WhenTheyCry #Umineko
- This week, we start another When They Cry. Another Mystery, and a mystery needs its players to introduce. But holy CRAP does Ryukishi07 not hold back on the number of Dramatis Personae in this one. Let us set sail for a mysterious island - be careful not to fall.
- As we enter this season of magic and chills, Backlog Dialogues is back! After a well deserved rest, we have returned with the next work in the oeuvre of Ryukishi07. Join us as we travel to the shrouded island of Rokkenjima and get ourselves HYPED to discuss the story of the Golden Witch...
- We're still on break while we work on Umineko, but just in time for Watanagashi, here's a bonus episode about an adaptation of Higurashi that you might not know about - the 2016 Live Action! Regional Idols and Character Actors put together a surprisingly good albeit incomplete version of the story.
- When you're alone in the dark, don't listen to the voices that draw you to harm, but instead relish the connections you can make. This season's final #Minilog is Undertale, the kind game that also puts you through hell. We discuss the influence it had on us, and what it has to say. #backlogdialogues
- It's time for one last look at Higurashi. We've reached the end of one tale, and it's time to take one last moment to discuss what this final tale tells us about one's character, about choice and will, and how it will inform what comes next. #higurashi #backlogdialogues #whentheycry
- A human doesn't get to choose A god doesn't get to live If I had to decide which to be I might be trapped in the what if. I'm glad to be here with you. The god inside me must go. But we will be together, my friends. #whentheycry #backlogdialogues #higurashi
- Rika is still trapped. As she disconnects from her human identity and falls more into the persona of a witch, she suddenly finds herself at a choice she didn't want. What is more real, the world she finds herself in, or the world she came from? #higurashi #backlogdialogues #whentheycry
