There's a decent chance that'll happen, yeah. I was never super interested in Higurashi because the anime has given it this reputation where people put it on lists like "Top 10 Most FUCKED UP and TWISTED Anime That Will Make You PUKE and SHIT YOUR PANTS!!" and focus on the moe anime girls going crazy and murdering each other or whatever, as opposed to anything else in the story. People act like it's pure shock value horror. Which really didn't sound like my thing! When, like, the original VNs of Higurashi and Umineko don't even show the gore lol. Reading Umineko is really driving home how much more these stories have going on beyond just shocking the reader.

It'll probably be quite some time before I can read Higurashi, though. I'm reading Umineko with Anthony (who's the one who pestered me to read it all year) by putting it on our TV through my Steam Deck dock, which means we're getting through like an hour or two of reading a day, tops. Though eventually I might start reading more of it on my own to get through it faster. We'll see.