Chiru had my favorite Umineko episode by far - Episode 5, it just stunned me in every aspect and I loved it, especially the addition of Erika Furudo, an extremely entertaining and great character, it had everything that made the first Umineko great but focused more on the characterization, and that's no problem for me since I always enjoyed the characters more than the mystery, I loved every new character like Featherine, Erika, Dlanor, Wilhard, Lion, Claire, and more and the returning characters like Beato, Battler, Ange, Lambda, Bern and the entire Ushiromiya family are just as good as I remember them, improved and fleshed out even more, although I did enjoy the first 4 chapters over the last 3 chapters of Chiru, Chiru is still an amazing VN in it's own right.
The mysteries, characters, soundtrack, story, I loved every element of it, the pacing was excessively slow and it did feel padded or dragged on at times but my overall experience was so good it doesn't affect my score in the slightest.
