Kinzo’s scenes are still pretty campy, but a lot more sympathetic now.
By ‘sympathetic’, I mean in the sense of ‘genuinely seems like a real human person who recognizes he did something terrible and regrets it from the bottom of his heart’, and NOT that it excuses any of his actions.
In other Episodes his chief interest seems to be to ‘win’ the roulette and capture Beatrice for himself once again, but here he’s much more remorseful. Regretting all the ways in which he ruined multiple peoples’ lives can never undo the damage he caused. But in EP2, at least (more than any other Episode) he does seem to truly wish to apologize, if nothing else.
That theme of being able to forgive people, even people who have done awful, terrible things, is a major one in Umineko. Because of that, I think it’s important to look at even the worst characters in an unbiased light, and be able to acknowledge their good points just as much as the bad.
Besides, if Yasu can make peace with him in the Golden Land, then even Kinzo deserves to at least be looked at through a sympathetic lens. Perhaps his EP2 portrayal was Yasu attempting to do just that, even though he was the figure in her life she had the most reason to hate from the bottom of her heart.
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