
after Sayo Yasuda became the new head of the family he was in a prime position to give Maria access to Kinzo's vast library. As the Troper above pointed out, Kinzo was an avid fan of the occult, and had huge collections of books on the topic in his study.It's made pretty clear that Maria's interest in the occult is her own. Aside from EP8, where Kinzo was portrayed as a doting grandfather largely for Ange's benefit, he hardly acknowledged her. There's nothing to indicate that Kinzo taught her.Maria explains that in EP 7 that the reason she studied so much of the occult was so that she would have a unique knowledge of something that others could ask their advice about.In the early 80's, the "New Age" fad had boomed into a cottage industry, so not only were they getting republished, many more books were written about them.

The occult "celebrities" from 1880's-1920's were highly prolific writers: Samuel Mathers, Israel Regardie, Dion Fortune, and of course Alistair Crowley.
#Yasu umineko how to
Her Hebrew is crappy because she doesn't really know the language but instead, memorized how to 'draw' the magic circles from books. For starters, the Scorpion Amulet is hinted to be a simple toy, not a genuine charm.

Even if this stuff is mumbo-jumbo.who on earth taught this to her? It likely wasn't her mother she can't stand that Maria is fascinated by the stuff. This level of knowledge requires intense study, especially for a nine-year old. If we're to take Battler's direct testimony as more or less truth in the first arc then Maria knows how to write pentagrams, crappy Hebrew, the Ars Goetia the 4 Archangels, etc.

Does the reveal of Tooya Hachijou & Ikuko Hachijō being the writers of episodes 3 to 6 invalidate what happened in those episodes, especially the fantastical elements? It's jarring to think that the characters we know are just fictional caricatures in-universe or that none of what happened in the Meta World matters in the end.
