[Anime] Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni

I really don't want to spoil anything, but don't bother making any theories about that ark. It gets "revisited" later on, but I won't say more since I feel that's one of the best surprise in the series.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Spoiler for episode 21 (and everything before). DON'T FUCKING READ UNLESS YOU'VE WATCHED EVERYTHING SO FAR OR YOU'LL SERIOUSLY REGRET IT, GO INSANE, AND ON A MURDEROUS RAMPAGE.

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When they first introduced Shion, I didn't like her much, compared to Mion anyway. But with that last arc, she certainly redeemed herself! I don't like her as much as Mion, but she's certainly one fine psycho. That she was acting with absolutely no regard as to her own life, shown no remorse when torturing people, or just plain killing them, and would have actually gotten away with it if not for that tiny little thing at the end, just makes the whole thing even better. She ranks somewhere with Kimbley from Fullmetal Alchemist, another favorite in my book.

That aside, this still leaves a few questions. Who killed Keichi in the hospital? Chances are it's Shion, but how she managed to stay alive is probably a bigger enigma. Also, Takano was burned the day before they got in the storehouse, I think, so that's a bit of a problem too. Then there's the whole "Where the fuck is Satoshi?" thing, assuming Mion wasn't lying at the end. Actually, now that I think about it, I'm just going to say all three is Oyashiro-sama's fault. Satoshi got killed because of his family (with Rika, the priestess, protecting Satoko from Oyashiro-sama), Takano got killed by Oyashiro-sama for... uh... some reason or another, and the one who led Shion and Keichi in the storehouse was Oyashiro-sama taking Takano's form, and the "Shion" at the end was, again Oyashiro-sama. There. It all makes sense. More or less.

Also I'd like to reiterate just how deliciously wicked Shion was. I love Higurashi no naku koro ni.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Ep. 23

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Rena is more serious about this than I thought. I mean, I knew she was going to do some killing, but I never expected her to cut two corpses into small pieces and then package those into nice little bags. She certainly does a good job once she gets started on something, I have to give her that. Though I don't really understand why she didn't just leave the corpses in that fridge or hide them somewhere in the dump. If no one ever goes there, what are the chances of someone finding the corpses?

Also, I loved it when she killed that bitch. The other guy wasn't as satisfying, despite Rena finally using her iconic weapon to split his skull in two.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Ep. 25

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Ok. What the hell is going on here? They start to give us what seems like answers in the last episode, but no, after all it's only the work of some conspiracy theorist. Who got killed 24 hours before she was last seen alive. And Keichi remembers the events of the first arc. And of course Rika is apparently possessed by Oyashiro-sama or whatever spirit. Oh, and did I forget that Keichi was apparently a serial killer before he moved to that village of crazies?

Would it really be that hard for the writers to give us answers?

Also, I suggest they call an exorcist for Rika. Then burn the whole place to the ground. Now I see why they wanted to build that dam and flood the place.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Ep. 25

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They might be fake. They might not be. At this point, the real question is, who the hell cares to take a guess? It might be parasites, alien parasites, spirits or perhaps tiny storm troopers under the control of Lord Vader, sent on the order of Emperor Palpatine himself, who received his orders from Satan Claus through the russian mafia. I'll wait until I've seen the last episode, at which point everything will either make sense or I'll simply go crazy trying to make some sense out of everything.

And no, I don't know who "Satan Claus" is either.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Ep. 25

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She is indeed Mion/Shion's mother. At one point one of the cops essentially confirms this by saying that the whole thing is "a personal problem between Ryuuguu Reina and your daughter".

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

In response to the above post, spoilers for the anime, possible spoilers for the games/manga:

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Those are all different stories. What happens is that in every story there's a "bad end", where some of the characters get killed, or where everyone dies in Hinamizawa (I hope I spelled that correctly). When that happens, everything restarts and something changes, leading to other events. Oyashiro-sama, or whatever the name of the god Rika can channel, seems to be responsible for this. So basically, everyone's stuck in a giant time loop until a "good end" occurs. What's unusual in the last arc is that Keichi manages to remember stuff that happened previously in a different timeline. Usually only Rika could do that. The last arc appears to end with a "good end", but we see that there is another restart anyway. Rika/Oyashiro-sama even mentions that there is another mystery in Hinamizawa. This is because, even though we do not see it, everything ends badly again. To be more specific, everyone in Hinamizawa dies just like in one of the previous arcs. The reasons for this is the other mystery Rika refered to.

Of course, this assumes I've managed to piece the whole thing together correctly.

FELIPE NO

I know Bigblah, but I was sorta pissed when I wrote this post and didn't bother changing it. He did (spoiler for 25)

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shoot one of those girls in the eye, though.

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Originally Posted by Sin Ansem

Oh, Finished the series!

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Last Arc is the best... but really sucks that it doesn't conclude EVERYTHING. So those of you who know the games... who's really behind the shit that went down and why?

Rika is much too cute.

Ok, if you really want to know...

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I haven't played the game, so I can't explain the whole thing. What I do know is that there are apparently 3 things going on in the village. First, there's the stuff tied to Oyashiro-sama, namely the restarts and Rika being able to predict some things, which I believe I've explained in a previous post. Next, there apparently is something known as "Hinamizawa Disease", which is responsible for all the crazies we get to see (Keichi, Shion, Rena). I'm really not sure about that though, since I haven't heard much about it.

And then of course, you have the one who triggers everything each time. That would be Takano. Major Takano, actually. It appears that she is an officer in the JSDF, Tomitake also being one, though of lower rank. In each arc, she has a disagreement with Tomitake, and ends up killing him then faking her own death. The guys we see going around in vans are apparently with her. She also seems to be responsible for the "Hinamizawa Disaster", where she gasses the whole town. The reason of her presence is apparently related to the Hinamizawa Disease, in fact, I think I remember reading that Dr. Irie is part of the research on this. I'd really like to go into more details about this, but unfortunately, I don't know much more and I don't have much time either.

And for those wondering, the deaths on the previous Watanagashi (or however you spell that) nights were actually coincidences. I think.

How ya doing, buddy?