| I am seriously hoping the next installment is an Umineko anime reboot. Gou could potentially serve as a smooth transition from Higurashi to Umineko, if done correctly. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. |
 ☆☆☆ "There's a huge difference between one and infinity. However, compared to the difference between existence and non-existence, one and infinite are nearly the same. I am the child destined to become the best witch... no... The greatest Creator in the world...!" -Maria Ushiromiya ☆☆☆ |
| I really hope not. |
| I hope not. Hints here and there are fine. But an outright tie to Umineko will be awful. Will end up running Higurashi and it will be relegated to "Berns happy origin story". Higurashi makes sense as a game between Bern and Lambda rather than an origin story. Besides I see no logic error here. Which Bernkastel was supposedly dealing with after her GM basically gave up. There's no big contradiction in Higurashi as far as I'm aware. Rika didn't find a solution to an impossible Question. The only big question is why she didn't use Hanyuu to find the real culprit. Witch shenanigans is overrated. No sane studio will be available to adapt Umineko without making some big compromises. Umineko would take at least 50-60 something episodes unless they start skipping important details. Which is one of the reasons deens adaptation failed. Umineko can becoming extremely boring If you loose track of the mystery. It doesn't even have slice of life stuff to fall back on like Higurashi. Umineko will probably never get a good anime adaptation. I guess we'll have to see. They might as well continue from where Deen stopped. |
ChargecoulombFeb 5, 2021 3:44 AM
| Personally I wouldn't see any reason for 2nd season, nor see the reception for it. Just can't believe this would be successful enough for that, but if the Japanese like it after all, well then I guess anything is possible. EndlessMaria said: Emphasize "if done correctly"Gou could potentially serve as a smooth transition from Higurashi to Umineko, if done correctly. Which is why I don't want to see Umineko reboot by this studio. |
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D4rknova-Gazio said: I have a strange feeling they are setting it up or a second season i certainly would not complain at all since this show is amazing to hell to all the people who say this anime is shit it aint. Season 2 later on this year i would appprove of that completely! For the moment I'm withholding judgement until the series finishes, So far many new questions have been raised with this series. I'm pretty curious to see where it goes from where I'm at, Especially since I've seen the old series and read the VN. |
| I sure hope so. The latest arc has been very interesting and I'd love to see more of it. |
| I could see it going either way, but right now I'm leaning toward a "yes" (could be wrong though). -Gou only has five episodes left, and we are on the last arc of the series. -That gives only five episodes to not only explain what led us to the end of Nekodamashi-hen, but also (hopefully) give us answers to Oni/Wata/Tatari-damashi. AND in that same amount of time they have to have a conclusion to the storyline that wraps things up and makes sense. I'm really not sure if that is feasible at this point. -There was the "leak" that part of this season would be called "sotsu" but this never happened. It could have been a false leak, or it's possible there really will be an S2 announcement with that title post-Gou. I think it's possible that this arc is just a backstory leading us back to the present, and then we might get a second season of actual "answer arcs." It just depends how rushed or planned out the series is, I guess. I'll always take more content, so bring on an S2. (I really doubt it's a backdoor Umineko tease thing though.) |
Gar_Logan said: Imo we reached the answer arcs in Nekodamashi, even though it raises even more questions in-between, that isn't uncommon from answer arcs at all. This last arc beginning looks pretty much like the "motive" of the culprit, like takano's backstory in matsuribayashi.I could see it going either way, but right now I'm leaning toward a "yes" (could be wrong though). -Gou only has five episodes left, and we are on the last arc of the series. -That gives only five episodes to not only explain what led us to the end of Nekodamashi-hen, but also (hopefully) give us answers to Oni/Wata/Tatari-damashi. AND in that same amount of time they have to have a conclusion to the storyline that wraps things up and makes sense. I'm really not sure if that is feasible at this point. -There was the "leak" that part of this season would be called "sotsu" but this never happened. It could have been a false leak, or it's possible there really will be an S2 announcement with that title post-Gou. I think it's possible that this arc is just a backstory leading us back to the present, and then we might get a second season of actual "answer arcs." It just depends how rushed or planned out the series is, I guess. I'll always take more content, so bring on an S2. (I really doubt it's a backdoor Umineko tease thing though.) (What I was trying to say is that once they explain Satoko's method to make the intented characters go terminal, everything about the question arcs is answered by then. They don't need to hand-in-hand explain each arc, there's enough information. I prefer it open to interpretation, with enough clues to make a conclusion.) Sure, it's almost over, but all the other arcs had at maximum 5 episodes, so it can end in these 5 episodes, or not. Perhaps the "setsu" thing is a plan of a 2nd season which was depending on how well Gou would be received. Btw I don't like the pacing of Gou at all, one of the things that mostly annoy me is the forced cliffhanger in the end of every episode. But I guess they're uncapable of keeping series interesting nowadays without this method. It's pretty cheap and becomes annoying. |
rafaelfserafimFeb 15, 2021 7:13 PM
| We learned about the "Sotsu" name from a listing for Gou itself, so unless it was a discarded title or something like that, it must be part of Gou's schedule. We also have AT-X's website listing an episode 25 too even though Gou is supposed to have only 24 episodes, so I think Sotsu actually existing is still likely. Chargecoulomb said: Besides I see no logic error here. Which Bernkastel was supposedly dealing with after her GM basically gave up. There's no big contradiction in Higurashi as far as I'm aware. Rika didn't find a solution to an impossible Question. The only big question is why she didn't use Hanyuu to find the real culprit. I think Gou did introduce the logic error, even though it wasn't really a thing the original Higurashi. Lambda when explaining the logic error of Bern's origin game to Erika said that it was like a sugoroku board game where the beginning and ending were connected, with no actual final goal. That description didn't really fit the original Higurashi, but Gou has actually brought it up. Back in episode 14, Rika questioned fragment Hanyuu about what was the point of it all. Even if she wins and escapes from 1983, she might one day just wake up there again, back in 1983. Hanyuu had no answer. Basically, according to Gou, there's no real victory condition and even when surviving Rika is still stuck in the loop, which lines up with the broken board game where the beginning and ending were connected mentioned in Umineko. That said, what will be very telling regarding whether this ends up as Bern's actual backstory or if the connections will remain blurry is how they will handle that Featherine-like character shown in the opening. |
NeonDZ said: We learned about the "Sotsu" name from a listing for Gou itself, so unless it was a discarded title or something like that, it must be part of Gou's schedule. We also have AT-X's website listing an episode 25 too even though Gou is supposed to have only 24 episodes, so I think Sotsu actually existing is still likely. Chargecoulomb said: Besides I see no logic error here. Which Bernkastel was supposedly dealing with after her GM basically gave up. There's no big contradiction in Higurashi as far as I'm aware. Rika didn't find a solution to an impossible Question. The only big question is why she didn't use Hanyuu to find the real culprit. I think Gou did introduce the logic error, even though it wasn't really a thing the original Higurashi. Lambda when explaining the logic error of Bern's origin game to Erika said that it was like a sugoroku board game where the beginning and ending were connected, with no actual final goal. That description didn't really fit the original Higurashi, but Gou has actually brought it up. Back in episode 14, Rika questioned fragment Hanyuu about what was the point of it all. Even if she wins and escapes from 1983, she might one day just wake up there again, back in 1983. Hanyuu had no answer. Basically, according to Gou, there's no real victory condition and even when surviving Rika is still stuck in the loop, which lines up with the broken board game where the beginning and ending were connected mentioned in Umineko. That said, what will be very telling regarding whether this ends up as Bern's actual backstory or if the connections will remain blurry is how they will handle that Featherine-like character shown in the opening. Wouldnt that make Rei worthless? The entire point of dice killing that was Rika living as Furude Rika instead of Fredrica Bernkastel. As far as we know Bernkastel already existed in Rei. |
| In my opinion, I doubt it. There's a possibility but I don't see it happening as of right now. |
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Chargecoulomb said: Wouldnt that make Rei worthless? The entire point of dice killing that was Rika living as Furude Rika instead of Fredrica Bernkastel. As far as we know Bernkastel already existed in Rei. I kind of feel like Gou is pretty much treating Rei as non-canon. Saikoroshi does start with references to the swimming pool story which had oddities like Takano popping up and then at the end Hanyuu's monologue seems to imply Rika would forget everything that happened. Then in Gou itself, there have been no references to Rei, and Rika continuing to leap between different worlds goes directly against Rei's conclusion where Rika discards the name Bernkastel because she realizes that jumping and choosing between worlds is something in the realm of gods, and she is just a human, but then speculates that her old persona might still exist in a higher plane. Nothing about that resolution has been acknowledged in Gou, even though it'd fit fairly easily in the scenes where Rika interacted with fragment Hanyuu. In fact, Rei Hanyuu wanted Rika to learn to be a normal human,and said if she died again she'd accept it, but in Gou fragment Hanyuu talked about teaching Rika to live as someone who goes between worlds and how she wasn't just a "fledging" anymore and could do it by herself now. Basically, the complete opposite. |
NeonDZFeb 16, 2021 11:21 AM
thereIwasnt said: Doesn't need to be a whole season. It could just be an OVA episode, in the same vein as Rei E1/5 or Kira. It was part of a tv listing, so if it exists it will air right after Gou. It could be just a couple of episodes though, yes, like maybe renaming the series' final episodes just for story reasons (Sotsu means Granduation, so it could be just some kind of epilogue). |
EndlessMaria said: looks like you may be right. Umineko or Gou season 2 incoming. When They Cry is getting a stage presence at AnimeJapan a week after Gou ends. Seems super likely nowI am seriously hoping the next installment is an Umineko anime reboot. Gou could potentially serve as a smooth transition from Higurashi to Umineko, if done correctly. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. https://www.reddit.com/r/Higurashinonakakoroni/comments/lmp66c/higurashi_will_have_a_stage_in_animejapan_2021/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share |
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SparkleDuck said: EndlessMaria said: looks like you may be right. Umineko or Gou season 2 incoming. When They Cry is getting a stage presence at AnimeJapan a week after Gou ends. Seems super likely nowI am seriously hoping the next installment is an Umineko anime reboot. Gou could potentially serve as a smooth transition from Higurashi to Umineko, if done correctly. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. https://www.reddit.com/r/Higurashinonakakoroni/comments/lmp66c/higurashi_will_have_a_stage_in_animejapan_2021/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share Now that's something to nipah about! What a time to be alive! |
| ☆☆☆ "There's a huge difference between one and infinity. However, compared to the difference between existence and non-existence, one and infinite are nearly the same. I am the child destined to become the best witch... no... The greatest Creator in the world...!" -Maria Ushiromiya ☆☆☆ |
| I mean I wouldn't mind seeing more of Higurashi... |
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