Higurashi When They Cry: Abducted by Demons Arc
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| I guess Mion and Shion are both dead now. I'm still not 100% sure what is going on yet, though. |
| That solves the puzzle except for 1 thing, who the hell appeared right b4 keichi in the hospital back on the earlier eps?? SPLAAAT :X |
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| Wow, she is one very disturbing girl xD and I just love the facial expressions she sometimes has xD |
| Shion is insane. I liked this arc though. |
| OMG so it was Shion who did all that!!! I can't believe she killed Sataco... i mean i can but the whole time she was doing it the quote, "I'm leaving Sataco up to you Mion." although it wasnt Mion... but yeah she LOST it!!! she killed Mion!!! that sucks!!! it makes alot more seance now that we know it was Shion and not Mion. . . Mion was so desperate to save Sataco... i cant believe she was stabbed so many times!!! interesting though!!! its cool how everything worked out... how she killed her Grandpa and the Rika killed herself... and it was cool how Shion died at the end haha... anyway great epi!!! =D |
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| So about the thing with Kei getting stabbed at the hospital... this episode didn't tell us anything about that, but could it have been the ogre within shion that killed kei? shion had said in the torture room that the next time he saw her corpse it would be controlled by the ogre. i mean she did fall off the side of the building, but if you looked at her at the hospital she was covered in blood. so i'm guessing she killed kei? correct me if i'm wrong...just curious about what happened to him. |
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| holy shit holy shit that's quite a bit of blood. AWESOME episode and EPIC arc. lol i dunno why but the whole trade-role business that Shion conducts in this arc is truly clever. Also, Shion officially wins the retarded face contest anyways I am also curious who is it that stabs keiichi in the hospital, seeing that Mion fell down the well and Shion fell down the building (both are very unlikely to survive, unless through resurrection T.T) Crono_Maniac said: If the ending confused you, it's just because you haven't seen the arc in Kai that introduces Mion and Shion's other sister, Nion. You see, they were actually triplets, not twins. Nion is the one who kills Keichi at the end due to events outlined in the Japan-only DS game. lol no offense, but for the company that thought of this, I applaud for their stupid idea. When the plot is unexplainable, include yet another person to commit the crimes. And next to cover the plot you're gonna have "Rion" or something. As far as I'm concerned, that being a hallucination is fine by me. |
coolwolfNov 2, 2010 7:27 PM
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Crono_Maniac said: If the ending confused you, it's just because you haven't seen the arc in Kai that introduces......blahblahblahpotentialspoiler I really, really hope you're wrong and you didn't seriously just spoil that for me. For fucks sake. This isn't the Kai discussion board. Why are people even bringing the events that take place there here. UGH. |
| This episode was a bit gore-heavy, but thats probably why it was so enjoyable >:D |
| I definitely remember Shion being in her own clothes after she fell out of the hospital and died. So if it was Mion who tries to kill Keiichi at the end of episode 8 then why was she in her normal clothes? Did she change them with Shions corpse? I don't really get that part, unless they just made a mistake. |
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| love this :D it really ties everything together except the one in the hospotial, maybe it was a dream like some say. can't wait to finish this series, does anybody know more of these kinds of anime? we need more anime's like this ^^ |
| God damn, I am so getting creeped out by this, I shouldn't be watching this at 3:00 in the morning in complete darkness........I better not hallucinate. |
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305 said: Crono_Maniac said: If the ending confused you, it's just because you haven't seen the arc in Kai that introduces......blahblahblahpotentialspoiler I really, really hope you're wrong and you didn't seriously just spoil that for me. For fucks sake. This isn't the Kai discussion board. Why are people even bringing the events that take place there here. UGH. There is no Nion he is just trolling. Great episode btw |
Ni Paaa ^_^ |
| Great episode, I am all confused about weather it was Mion or Shion that was the possessed one now :/ |
| Um... I think I'm officially scarred for life after this episode. |
It's not breaking in if the door is unlocked. |
| EPIC episode! This chapter is probably going to end up as my favorite out of the entire show, they tied up plenty of things real elegantly. And even though Shion was playing Mion, it worked very well with the other chapter which told the same story but from a different angle. |
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| Certainly this arc tied a lot of the stories together... but it hasn't entirely solved some of the mysteries of the series for me lol I guess I'll just keep on watching. |
| Great episode, but geez Shion went psycho for a guy like Satoshi? Idk why but damn Shion he isn't worth it, moping around and daydreaming all the time it annoyed me. |
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| it just goes to show you, Yandere doesn't pay. |
Mr_DaftPunk said: Great episode, but geez Shion went psycho for a guy like Satoshi? Idk why but damn Shion he isn't worth it, moping around and daydreaming all the time it annoyed me. This fact annoyed me too, I really couldn't sympathize with Shion's feelings of revenge because I don't understand what she saw in him. her motivation was just so simple and one dimensional, all there was that got things going, was the pat on the head. On the other hand, the weak relationship could also have been intentional, to show that Shion just thought she was in love, when there was really nothing there, and the feeling wasn't mutual. Those thoughts alone, though, were able to drive her into doing the things she did. If that's the message the author intended, then kudos to them. And despite a few unanswered questions, this arc was really tied up nicely. Also: Scumbag brain, reminds her of his last words, after the point of no return. |
| This arc answered a lot of lingering questions from the first couple of arcs. One thing still remains unclear: what exactly is this oyashiro-sama's curse? |
| Well that 80% solved my questions for this arc, but still am totally confused about: Who was under Keiichi bed in the hospital? An illusion? A doppleganger? A near dead Shion? Is Satoshi still alive or not!?!? Everyone except Rena dies. Why? McDonald or Burger King? |
| Wow, I understand everything now. But at the end where someone stabs Keiichi, I have NO IDEA who that is. And it's freaking me out. I mean, if Shion and Mion died, who was that? Or did Mion survive the fall into the pit? (that would explain why she was so bloody).. but even then, why would Mion kill Keiichi? The murders might have made her go crazy though, or maybe even the demon 'transferred' into her lol. I actually liked the Watanagashi arc a lot.. I found it really interesting because of the switches between Mion and Shion. And I don't like Rena to be evil because then I think of Nagisa and it just doesn't fit XD GREAT ARC<3 |
belial said: hmm... surprising.. I was expecting them to explain the last scene of this arc [when Shion kills Kei]. I mean, after all this and after knowing that Shion got out of there like that, I was expecting something less logical for the 'corpe' of Shion outside the hospital than to the killing of Kei. I mean, I couldn't explain the 'Shion's body' dead in from of the hospital, but I though Shion could had get Mion's body back so she could fake her own death and remain alive. Even if what you said up there it's true ... there's a big BUG on this story, when she was getting back to her room she was with Mion's clothes, but at ep 8 she's dead with SHION's clothes. Unless someone changed her clothes after she died, this is a bug on the story, and there was no point on changing her clothes. they could have left Shion's body the mistery, and end this ep with her killing Kei. Shion's body could have been explained with many possible explanations, Shion's killing Kei... hallucination sounds like a lame excuse =XXX Edit: Ohh .. and why did she let Kei alive and then decided to kill him? What was that part on the hospital supposed to mean when Shion is alone 'hallucinating'? Was the dough of the curse? as Mion told her no one on the village was doing it, she was getting afraid of the curse? "I can't be here anymore" <- this would sound right if her death was suicide, but she fell, so it's not like she wanted to die =x "I did it in time" .. what? convinced herself that 4 ppl had to die from the Curse? since when was there a time limit? isn't this one a bit off, no really explanation why the hell whould she say this "Praise me Satoshi-kun" <- bleh, this was not the reason to kill Kei, Mion was already dead, so killing Kei for revenge would be pretty pointless. Oishi: "We found the bodys of every single person who disappeared in that well" <- Does this mean they found Satoshi there too? Mion could have been lying to Shion back there. I would believe more in this than Satoshi being killed by someone else than the 3 family's o.O Looking at the end of ep 8, it does look like Mion, the blood, the clothes, though she talks like she is Shion and Mion would never kill Kei [I think o.O], and even if it was Mion, there was still no reason to kill him =X I am definitely too late for this explanation, but oh well... 1. That whole thing with the clothes doesn't really matter, as this isn't just a retelling of watanagashi-hen from Shion's perspective. There are some small differences that show enough to conclude that this should be considered a completely separate arc from Watanagashi-hen that just plays out similiarly. 2. Shion killed Keiichi because she was being driven insane by Oyashiro-Sama's curse, so at this point it wasn't about revenge, just about feeding the demon within herself. 3. Shion also thought, as a result of her insaneness, that Oyashiro-Sama was following her around, and that he was eventually going to kill her. This means that when she said "I made it on time!" She meant that she managed to kill Keiichi before she herself was killed. You know, this is why I really don't like the Higurashi anime, it just leaves out large pieces of information that are necessary to understand what the hell is going on. Although, Kai may be better than this series, I don't think I can live with watching it after seeing how much they have mangled the first six arcs from the game, and they seriously have mangled it. I remember when I first watched this series after I finished the game, and I was shocked when they had quite literally completely cut out several hours of content, including some truly vital explanations for the towns history and the character motives. Not to mention the fact that about 60-70% of the game is just the Main Character's inner dialogue, which just does not go well with anime. |
| Such a great arc! It wrapped up a lot of things I had questions about. Whew. Crazy ride though. |
| I'm definitely going to make a horror AMV with this ep . |
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| Loved this arc. Shion was very messed up. xD |
| As I was watching the arc where the story happened (can't remember the name) I always had in mind from a certain point in the arc that it might not be Mion but Shion. After the scene where Shion spares Keiichi's life I thought to myself "It must be Shion". I have no idea why I thought it was Shion at the time but I thought that they switched somehow. It came to me that in a previous episode it has been said by Mion that Shion is a really sadistic person and Mion is a kind one. Even though it might have been said in a laughing matter it might have pointed to this scenario. |
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| So does this mean Satoshi only ran away?? since the old hag accepted him? I really liked the gore in this episode but I can't understand if Shion died falling, who killed Keichi in the hospital? |
| How does Kei die? |
| Another 5. It would be nice for some verification of Satoshi. He could be behind it all. Then again cwblackbeard makes a very good point. What about Rena? |
RPGX_OmegaApr 14, 2013 5:06 AM
| why is everyone confused about the ending? shion fell off the building and died AFTER she stabbed keichi. not before. |
| IT ALL MAKES SENSE |
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BigSimo said: Hahaha.No.why is everyone confused about the ending? shion fell off the building and died AFTER she stabbed keichi. not before. |
| Mm, that hospital thing is bothering me too. Both Shion and Mion were supposedly dead by the time Keiichi was in hospital after being stabbed by Shion, so who was it that appeared then? Shion, you're a crazy bitch. But you do make some funny faces. |
90s J-rock was our aesthetic peak. |
| This is what happend in my opinion.. I might be wrong. The person at the hospital was Shion!! Shion that appeared at the hospital was covered in blood.. Could it be that she just survived the fall? They were confused because they thought Mion was doing all the killings and that she stabbed Kei and cause Shion to fall from the building. But they found Mion's body in the well and realized she was already dead when Kei was stubbed and Shion was "murdered". So the fake one was Shion's dead body. Either it was Shion and seemed dead but she wasn't (maybe she is really a demon) or it was something that looked like her and the real shion survived and immediately run off to kill keiichi.. Anyway the show is awesome so far! |
| I hate the word “fate.” Birth, encounters, partings, success and failures, fortune and misfortunes in life. If our lives are already set in stone by fate, then why are we even born? There are those born to wealthy families, those born to beautiful mothers, and those born into the middle of war or poverty. If that’s all caused by fate, then God is incredibly unfair and cruel. Because, ever since that day, none of us had a future and the only certain thing was that we wouldn’t amount to anything. - Takakura Shouma |
Maioula said: They found Shion's corpse in the place of her fall.Oishi said it himself.This is what happend in my opinion.. I might be wrong. The person at the hospital was Shion!! Shion that appeared at the hospital was covered in blood.. Could it be that she just survived the fall? They were confused because they thought Mion was doing all the killings and that she stabbed Kei and cause Shion to fall from the building. But they found Mion's body in the well and realized she was already dead when Kei was stubbed and Shion was "murdered". So the fake one was Shion's dead body. Either it was Shion and seemed dead but she wasn't (maybe she is really a demon) or it was something that looked like her and the real shion survived and immediately run off to kill keiichi.. Anyway the show is awesome so far! Mion died before Keichi's death. Shion died before Keichi's death. If you want an answer: |
ssjokgJun 20, 2013 2:58 AM
| I see... I thought that maybe Thank you for your answer :) |
| I hate the word “fate.” Birth, encounters, partings, success and failures, fortune and misfortunes in life. If our lives are already set in stone by fate, then why are we even born? There are those born to wealthy families, those born to beautiful mothers, and those born into the middle of war or poverty. If that’s all caused by fate, then God is incredibly unfair and cruel. Because, ever since that day, none of us had a future and the only certain thing was that we wouldn’t amount to anything. - Takakura Shouma |
Maioula said: I see... I thought that maybe Thank you for your answer :) Hmmm... you are |
| Holy fucking shit! I am in love with this anime. This right here is why I started watching anime. I'd have never seen anything like this in western television. Fucking brilliant. |
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| Shion is the queen of crazy facial expressions. Too bad she broke her last promise to Satoshi. And died. Damn it, Keiichi. If you only gave the doll to Mion, all of this could have been avoided. And this episode ends this arc. It answered most of my questions, but there's still things I don't get: If Mion fell into the well and Shion fell off the hospital, who the heck killed Keiichi in the hospital? It could be a hallucination though. This arc doesn't explain the entire Takano thing. And I guess the clothes thing is an error or something. |
I’m always searching for something, for someone. This feeling has possessed me I think, from that day… That day when the stars came falling. |
Fireego said: If Mion fell into the well and Shion fell off the hospital, who the heck killed Keiichi in the hospital? It could be a hallucination though. This arc doesn't explain the entire Takano thing. And I guess the clothes thing is an error or something. It's all explained in Kai. ...what clothes thing? Tsun2Yan said: That whole thing with the clothes doesn't really matter, as this isn't just a retelling of watanagashi-hen from Shion's perspective. There are some small differences that show enough to conclude that this should be considered a completely separate arc from Watanagashi-hen that just plays out similiarly. |
ikazuuyrAug 14, 2013 12:28 AM
StormSky92 said: So the answer to how Kei got stabbed in the hospital was not revealed. Jeez, that is really driving me crazy. And I wonder if what Mion said at the end was true, then how did Satoshi disappear. Is it not all being done by the Sonozaki family after all? So many questions I want answers to. Kei |
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