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**The setting of an isolated island owned by a mysterious wealthy man who is already dead at the beginning of the story occurs in both ''Umineko no Naku Koro ni'' and ''And Then There Were None''.
**Both ''Umineko no Naku Koro ni'' and ''And Then There Were None'' feature a prophetic passage that ensuing murders line up with ([[The Witch's Epitaph]] in ''Umineko no Naku Koro ni'' and [[Wikipedia:Ten Little Indians|Ten Little Indians]] in ''And Then There Were None''.
**The way that the "truth" of ''Umineko no Naku Koro ni'' is revealed through [[message bottles]] mirrors how the truth of ''And Then There Were None'' is revealed in the epilogue.
**In {{requiem}}, ''[[Wikipedia:And Then There Were None|Ten Little Indians]]'' is directly referenced.
**In {{requiem}}, [[Gaap]] refers to herself as "U.N. Owen, a 495-year-old witch", a reference to U.N. Owen, an alias for the main antagonist of ''And Then There Were None''.
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