Higurashi When They Cry: Festival Accompanying Arc
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| Mmh, I would lie if I say that I didn't see it coming. Deep down inside I always found Takano suspicious. But know almost everything makes sense. |
| That something was up with her was sure for a time now. This thing with the corpse in the drum being dead long before Takano always went missing, was suspicios all the time. But I have to admit, I didn't think that she was the evil mastermind behind this. So, what is this Yamainu-Group? Is it some sort of military secret service, or are they some sort of private terror organization? |
| So that explains the clawed out throat and mysterious disappearance. Very interesting episode. |
| Woooooooaaaaaahhh... Well, that somehow explain a lot of thing and one of my theory. But I didn't expected her to have that much power and wit. That is such an elaborate plan she made. It really make me understand Ooichi plea when he was so much upset in the first arc of this season. He said that he can't accept to let the Hinamizawa bizarre murders end this way, because he simply never believed in that tale. With every villagers dead, the truth will forever be unknown. I hope he'll make the link between Jirou death and what Rika told him earlier. I don't know why I never expected Jirou to be part of some kind of big organization. Now that I think about it, it totally make sense. I mean, it was really odd that a random photograph was always dying from the Hinamizawa curse when all the other murders where meaningful in some ways. Now, it's also all clear why Rika is killed each time. It's simply because she knows. The way they leave her body in such a bad state is also probably to make people believe that it is due to the curse. It confirm also that the Hinamizawa curse is that disease, or whatever it is, that Satoko has which make her hallucinate. I thought a bit about it and that explain the incoherence from the Satoko arc in the first season. Keichi killed the uncle on the road, but the day after, he learn that he's still alive. That mean that he never really killed the uncle, but just imaginated it, hence the incoherence. It also explain why the doctor Irie suicide in some of the arcs, when he hear about Jirou death. He understand immediately that they have been betrayed and don't want to wait for her thugs to come kill him. |
| «Time is passing so quickly. Right now, I feel like complaining to Einstein. Whether time is slow or fast depends on perception. Relativity theory is so romantic. And so sad.» - Kurisu Makise a.k.a. The Zombie |
| Holy shit...The sexy Takano is the antagonist! WHO FUCKING KNEW?! WHAT A PLOT TWIST! It's always the girl with the sexiest voice who's evil. So it looks like Takano has her own task force who disposed of Rika, Rena, and Tomitake in the previous arc! So that's who those van people were! Still don't understand why she's so willing to kill herself in that steel drum. Guess we will find out! We still don't know how the uncle came back to life in one of the earlier arcs. Excellent episode! My favorite one this season! 6/5 |
| what. a. complete. shock. :ooo i wouldnt have guessed... ever! |
| wat?? |
| What a bitch.After everything that happend she ruins it. Can she plz burn to death for real? |
| i knew it! she was way too suspicious! but oooh things are finally making sense. like the whole disease thing, and in that alternate reality where keiichi killed teppei, she'd just come back from dumping tomitake's body :ooo connections are being made! |
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| RAHRR!!! TAKAAAAAAAAAAAANO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh that bitch.... |
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| Wow, so it was Takano all along, I should have seen that coming honestly. From the beginning shes been portrayed as a crazy bitch who practically orgasms at the very thought of Oyashiro's curse and all the people who have suffered from it. Her being behind it all honestly makes a lot of sense. But damn was this a good episode, so many questions were answered. I really have no idea how Rika is gonna go about stopping Takano from killing her though. The only way I can think of is that she'll have to reset to another world and prevent Takano from killing Tomotaki, maybe by killing Takano herself. Of course, she still has to figure out that Takano is the one behind it all first... I have a feeling we're about to find out why this chapter is titled *Massacre*. |
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| Holy sh*t it all make sense now. I love how they connect all these little tiny details from the first season. Really makes the build up and finding the reason why that much more satisfying. |
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| So it was her this time. I thought it might be. |
| My brain has just been fucked. I thought Tanako had something to do with Tomitake's death but never thought all of this was her doing. I'm 10/10 excited to know how the rest of this goes. |
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| To think I liked that woman! This is the happiest timeline so far but now it's going to fall apart. If this is ruined the odds that Rika will be in a situation in which she can change circumstances like this are slim to none. I already know the ending outcome of this season due to accidentally reading the description of the third season but I have no clue how it's going to come about. Especially with thirteen episodes left. How many days after the festival does Rika usually die? That would give me a better time frame. :/ |
| "It's a tragic misunderstanding that could have been easily avoided if he just finished his sentence in time!" — Richard Watterson (The Amazing World of Gumball) |
| Never saw that coming until like 5 minutes before the reveal when she kept referencing 'if we die'. So this is pretty much the biggest Mystery in Higurashi solved, can't think of anything else. |
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| Well that was one hell of a revelation. O_O It explains so much. I now know what was in her trunk during Keiichi's murder. |
| Holy shit... and it makes perfect sense. It makes so much sense that I can't believe I didn't see it coming. I'm honestly not even sure how there's gonna be thirteen more episodes of this; things are really coming together now. But I guess they're still miles away from defeating the antagonist since Furude doesn't have the slightest clue how Takano is involved. So glad I stuck it out through some of the stuff I didn't like about this show in S1, this is getting pretty riveting now. |
| shiit , ooh takano you crazy ass girl wow |
| Ahhh. There we go. I was very curious what Takano “joked” about having in her trunk with the Uncle killing arc in season 1. I think I enjoy this season more because I’m really interested in the real truth. Before I was interested in the deaths. This series also makes you care for the characters. They definitely feel more fleshed out. |
LycanSep 24, 2019 9:18 AM
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| DAMNNNN SO IT WAS TAKANOOO!!! I knew something was off, we got such a happy resolution with a Satoko in the beginning of the episode, I knew it was too good to be true. This show loves to juggle hope and despair. A lot of interesting revelations this episode.... - The cause of Oyashiro’s curse seems to indeed be some type of virus/disease that is transferred through injection (there are levels to it as well as Takano mentioned Tomitake would be at Level 5, ie. the terminal stage, when he awoke) - Takano Miyo and the Yamainu are the orchestrators, urged on by Takano’s childhood dream? being fulfilled (she definitely has some obsession with Hinamizawa and Oyashiro) - Tokyo has several opposing factions: one that wants Hinamizawa Syndrome to continue (Takano etc.) ; and one that wants to dispose of it (Tomitake)... As far as Takano and Tokyo’s motivations, those are still up in the air. Very significant episode, let’s see how this unfolds! As an end note, really satisfying end for Satoko. Seeing how much she struggled in this season and the last, it was very enjoyable seeing how brave she was ! Definitely my favourite character ! |
| So Takano is benind everything? |
| Even Rika could not predict this :O Takano is scary af |
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| Five must be a lucky number. In the Railgun universe, reaching level 5 makes you the talk of the town. In the Hinamizawa universe, reaching level 5 also makes you the talk of the town! On a more serious note, even though I'm pretty certain the pigeons are about the hit the fan, at least Rika got some good insight into how to prevent the immediate dangers to her friends so that in future arcs she can focus on the existential danger. Also, it's always interesting to see how deeply the scars of WWII penetrate Japanese culture. To this day, it's a common trope for the military to be behind evil projects sacrificing people for some greater cause, often a cause associated with scientific experimentation of some kind. |
| Every day you can read a book or watch some anime is a good day! |
| always thought that woman is a shady bitch. i swear man if the time resets again im going nuts |
| Wow, that was shocking. Totally wasn't expecting Takano to be the bad guy. not |
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| Tch. I suspect this Takano from the start. I tried not to believe it, but here it is. But even so, dang, Takano was so hot. Geez |
RegulusXJun 28, 2020 12:06 AM
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| I KNEW IT WAS TAKANO! Things were finally good and they saved Satoko and now things will become horrible again. |
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| So the big mystery has finally been solved, the culprit has been revealed. I was actually reading a spoiler about this a while ago, so I'm glad it's finally out. So many things make sense now. |
| This show is honestly brilliant. Season 1 puts you into the headspace of the villagers and makes you think all the weird things that are happening actually are from divine entity. When Takano called the villagers idiots and inferring they will doubt the autopsy reports, I imagine she may have also been referring to us as the viewer. Until now, we were too wrapped up in the idea of mysticism sold by the show in season 1. Now as we pull back the curtain, we are seeing the true nature of Hinamizawa. Some things are still strange though and may not rule out supernatural influences. Rika and her magical friend are obvious tells that the scope of this story does not disallow the supernatural, so there may be another layer to the mystery that has yet to be uncovered (was it really coincidental that everyone Keichi condemned died from the "curse"?) |
| Finally fucking Teppei got arrested... Wow oh my god finally we learn how Tomitake-san die... All this time Takano is very sus, we didn't knew anything backstory about her and now she showing her true color... |
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| damn, didn't know takano was that badass. poor tomitake - rip my guy so happy for rika and satoko though!! but poor rika - this world will also not end well ): |
| Its blowing my mind! Two different parts, but everything just interconnected pretty well. Like i said before, the world really revealed the identity of the real culprit behind a certain mystery happened when the festival has been held successfully. Before reached that shit. Its good to seeing Satoko finally had an encouragement and strong will to beat her wrong mind about that shitty uncle. Yeah, no shit. All of their effort, even using the whole village resource, Satoko safety was their ultimate goal, and be glad its reached her heart! Goddamn, i hope its really became her lesson that she needed all the help, and everyone already changed their mind, so at the end she finally changed her mind too. Solid end, its like Rena end that eventually success to be persuaded by Keiichi. But on these world, its Rika's time to actually opening the damn heart of Satoko! Congratulations, Rika! However, oh shit! The sign has not been erased. I am almost forget tje critical point of the story. Yeah, the story behind Oyashiro-sama curse. Its really just a hand-made incident by a bunch of an unknown peoples from an unknown organizations called Yamainu, that commanded by, Takano Miyo. Yeah, its actually Takano Miyo. That bitch put the parasite into Tomitake body and made him died like a suicidal action! The Hinamizawa syndrome. Irie sensei knew something off and might be in danger in the next day, together with Rika as their observation. Damn shit that were a great revelations! The whole new thing already bloomed. Could they prevented this part, and avoided the great disaster of Hinamizawa? Rika must be protected at all cost! |
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| Ngl, I was already spoiled before that Takano was the mastermind but, holy shit the execution is so fucking good. Takano has always been a suspicious person, especially in Tatarigoroshi when she was driving at night with Tomitake's bike and as we see here she indeed have Tomitake's body in the trunk. Takano is all kinds of fucked up though, what kind of fucking dream is that. We saw glimpses of it but, she's definitely a devout believer of Oyashiro-sama and she wants to make the curse real. The coming episodes will be fucking good, let's go. |
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| I knew it , this lady faked her own death and that body in her car was Tomitake. Everything makes sense now. |
| I hate everyone equally |
| Damn I always thought she was just ironically sketchy, looks like spades really are spades. |
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| Well, she was a suspicious character from the get-go. It's not a shocker that she's the mastermind of all of this. I either thought it was her or the school teacher. And yeah, fuck the uncle. Hope he gets injected. |
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| That damn bitch she even loved Joirou and wanted him to join her.... things getting pretty interesting tho. |
| Takano was suspicious ever since she was shown driving with Tomitake's bicycle in the last season. Her motive remains still mysterious though. She wants people to believe in the curse but then she makes the villagers die anyway. So why even bother to create the rumour about the curse? Maybe she wants to fool people in Tokyo instead. That talk about the vaccine reminds me - Satoko is probably taking the same vaccine. She probably has Hinamizawa syndrome. Glad we got a name for the disease. |
| Damn was not expecting that. |
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