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| I sure do hate studying. Welp, time to train for years to be a master marksman. Ohohoho~ how clever I am. I just don't... Why? Or here's another idea, use that pile of money to pay someone to do your homework. Is that not convoluted enough for you? Just absolutely anything other than extended torture. Such a train wreck. |
| So like... how did Satoko inject H-170 into Mion without her noticing? Welp, most of the mysteries have been solved now at this point. We not only see the gun at the end of Watadamashi, but also at the end of Nekodamashi when Rika (almost) corners Satoko. Teppei is helping Satoko now for some inexplicable reason, so the ending Tatadamashi (anime) can easily be put together. Honestly, the only mystery remaining now is how this thing even has a higher mean score than the OG Higurashi. |
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Hulio said: When you see ppl talking about a case in your country in the middle of nowhere lol. I remember this case, there were a lot of attacks, ppl were medicated with anti-hiv cocktails. Well, safer than in Rio where there was a time they were stabbing people randomly in downtown ._.Ohmena said: Smh.Most of them didn't notice LOL "[...]She said that she only realized that she had been wounded by a needle when she saw the aggressor skewer another woman's body on the same sidewalk, moments after skewering her." (google translated) Well people are different and might just disregard it. Like being bumped but at the same time stabbed with the needle. Guess it was a small then, no way they wouldn't notice something the size of in the episode xD Personally, I think I would always notice if someone came to poke me. |
| Wow, Mion's arc. It's been a while, huh? Let's see if Higurashi When Nothing Happens can surprise me. |
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Animesh5877 said: They actually even weren't experimenting it. It's an "old" drug which was supposedly discarded, but Takano saved it. I doubt they were doing extra experiments on it without Irie or Tomitake finding out.Well the drug was developed by Takano Miyo and they never needed to use it in any other form than the syringe as they were experimenting it in the lab, so they never needed to use it any other way. And they even developed that thing in different forms as well like to spread through gas and all. When was this?If you refer to GHD, then that's just plain gas. If they had something like that, then there would be no need to kill Rika in the first place. Also what comes to Satokk putting the H173 in the drink instead, there's no need to use the needle for it, all it does is making it more difficult to handle. Or rather, there would be no need for the syringe at all if that was the plan. |
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| -"So... are we gonna explain how Satoko managed to inject a fully awake Mion in the middle of the street at daylight?" -"Nah, let's better skip the scene because we have no idea how to explain such absurdity." -"Gotcha." Anyways... instead of injecting her, let's just imagine Satoko somehow managed to put the syringe's content into Mion's drink. Assuming one can still get the HS symptoms by consuming said content orally, that is. Overall, better than the previous three episodes but still kinda redundant (and stupid) in a way. Satoko getting the gun could have been easily speculated and even if the studio really wanted to show how she got it, there was no purpose in spending more than half the episode's runtime on that matter. |
| even drug addicts know where to conceal used syringes instead of dumping in front of a vending machine. |
| So maybe there wasn't a switch in Watadamashi, it was really all Mion's doing and not Shion's? I really hope so, I'm desperate for something new lol. |
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| Great episode! Teppei slaving for Satoko is weirdly entertaining lmao. That scene at the beginning with Rika and Hanyu was pretty sad. Oh shit it's confirmed, Mion finally got afflicted with the syndrome. I know it's fucked but I am also curious like Satoko on what kinds of affects it will have on Mion, what kinds of paranoia will she have which lead to her locking up Keiichi, I really look forward to that. I wonder how Satoko managed to inject her though, I hope they explain that next episode or something. Either Satoko put it in the drink if that's even possible or Mion is really just that thicc and she didn't feel a thing lmao. |
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| I'm wondering how Satoko injected Mion without her noticing. Getting shots for me feel just as bad as a pinch so it can be easy to just ignore or brush it off. Anyway, it's kind of amusing seeing Satoko with a gun and it's nowhere near as edgy as it is with someone like Shadow the Hedgehog. Maybe it's because the thought of a little girl shooting is scarier than an anthropomorphic animal. On another note, mayne I cannot get enough of the OP |
| Now we got to see how Satoko got the gun and it's quite funny how the Uncle change from the bad guy to a comedy relief character lol So Mion is the next one huh, alright let start the madness |
sKyBlazer08 said: I wonder how Satoko managed to inject her though, I hope they explain that next episode or something. Either Satoko put it in the drink if that's even possible or Mion is really just that thicc and she didn't feel a thing lmao. Oh yeah now that you mention it how did she do that ? It's kinda puzzling how she can inject the stuff without Mion noticing |
| First half of the episode was vomit inducing. Second part at least acknowledged that Mion was the only one to not fall into HS paranoia. Now Satoko can inject people magically from a distance and/or without them feeling a thing. Sugoi~~ is there anything this little shit cant do? Why doesnt she just magically break Rika as well by resurfacing her worst memories every night? She can do that right? Higurashi was never an orthodox mystery but at least realism and physical limitations were a thing for Takano. Now nothing matters. |
Ajax750 said: Bio said: I sure do hate studying. Welp, time to train for years to be a master marksman. Ohohoho~ how clever I am. I just don't... Why? Or here's another idea, use that pile of money to pay someone to do your homework. Is that not convoluted enough for you? Just absolutely anything other than extended torture. Such a train wreck. You almost got the point of the show but then used it as criticism lol. The point is that people learn in different ways, you are supposed to notice this contradiction. The point is that people learn in different ways. For Satoko, she just needs the motivation to do it and at St. Lucia's she didn't want to study. Since Satoko would rather stay in Hinamizawa forever to run away from her problems/flaws, she has the motivation to study a 100 years of fragments and train with the gun because she's crazy smart when she's motivated and tries. Do you feel there is a reasonable motivation here? I like math and don't like writing. I would not choose one hundred years of equations over a five page paper. That's crazy. That's blatantly crazy. Is Satoko supposed to just be crazy? I guess, but it's not very satisfying when the series was built around syndrome driven insanity. And that's without getting into why she even thinks this is the way to her goal. My friend sure is traumatized by her experiences in Hinamizawa. What if I gave her more trauma? And made it possible for her to connect me to that trauma. Yes, that would surely make her want to spend a happy life with me there. I am the best friend. |
Si1verR0se said: Don't forget that good Rina is also cannon from the previous arc.Now we have to wait for good Rina, Okonogi, Yamainu, Banken and Nomura |
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| OK, so I take it the events of the first half with Satoko took place during the arc towards the end of Gou where she reconnected with her uncle because of his memories of the other Fragments, and based on this coming off the back of the new perspective on Rena's arc it's clear that said reconnection indeed took place at the beginning of Gou's second arc. It's definitely typical for Ryukishi07 to utilise non-linear writing to some degree, especially when the supernatural side of the When They Cry series comes to the forefront, so that isn't too surprising really; indeed, the introduction of the world disconnected from time where "Eua" resides and where Satoko checks in can make it a little tricky to keep track of what is and isn't real and when certain things happen (I had that issue at times with Umineko's comparable elements). And then we get to the twist for Gou's slightly-adjusted take on the Sonozaki arc: that it was Mion injected with Hinamizawa Syndrome and not Shion (and that there were absolutely no Fragments where Mion became afflicted before this). Presumably that means no switcheroo takes place this time like happened in the original, as that wouldn't make sense. As for the how of Satoko was able to inject Mion in broad daylight, the fact that we have yet to see it actually happens means one of two things: either the show is holding off this reveal until later in this arc or for a later arc (which would make sense if it turns out she spiked Mion's drink with it, as it would be the first time we would know that someone could become infected with Hinamizawa Syndrome if they ingest the virus, rather than having to be injected with it), or that specific detail is not relevant to the narrative that Gou and Sotsu are trying to tell. In my opinion, I think it's more likely to be the latter, as the focus for this seems to be specifically on the fact that this is the first time Mion is ever actually afflicted with Hinamizawa Syndrome: beyond the fact that Satoko made it happen, it doesn't strictly matter whether she injected Mion or spiked her drink, as that bit of knowledge doesn't make a difference in terms of the unique circumstance of this arc. The only thing that makes me think we may have it explicitly confirmed later is that we do see Satoko directly inject Rena during the first arc of Sotsu, though in that case seeing that was that arc's way of confirming that it was her and not Keiichi infected. Whatever the case may be, I do think the context clues are strong enough to discern that Satoko managed to spike Mion's drink with the syringe, as she comes to the decision to do so while Mion is at the vending machine and the camera briefly cuts to a shot of the used syringe discarded directly in front of the vending machine. And everyone zeroing in on this to criticise this episode (and all of Gou and Sotsu in general) honestly feels like nitpicking more than anything else. |
| Hahaha Sotsugou never fails to disappoint. Did Satoko really take until highschool until she learned how to properly use a fucking BB gun? Did Eua also give Satoko the power to inject someone with a syringe without them noticing while they are fucking awake? Did they actually acknowledge the fact that Mion never killed anyone in the original arc and how they consciously butchered her entire character in Watadamashi? I thought for sure that Ryukishi just forgot about it like he did about how the virus works. |
| Im starting to not care about this show anymore. It's just boring and I don't like Satoko as a villain, doesn't do anything for me. |
| she did not just abuse her powers to learn how to use a gun and then have her gun practice reverted with her to that point in time! such abuser of the power lol and all cause of her being selfish |
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| Maybe one if the reasons Gou Sotsu seems to be how it us is how Ryuukishi wrote it. From interviews and the VN end of episode segments. I get the impression that Ryuukishi is a writer who creates his story as it progresses, rather than writing with a very specific outcome in mind. Who picks up certain traits or get influnenced by others as he writes. Gou - and Sotsu seem to written with a specific ending in mind - whatever it is. |
| oh no! we are near in Mion's shooting spree!! 5/5 |
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| episode shows the bad girls, Satoko and Eua clearly have an advantage over the good girls - Rika and Hanyu. Another episode of Satoko doing evil things.. and so that's how she got the gun. Uncle is being manipulated, but he's still lucky to have all that money - looks like Satoko only took a small portion of the prize money to pay for the gun. |
| This show is so dopey. |
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| So much repetition... |
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| Hope you won't be disappointed. mikzflava said: Not necessarily, and I kinda doubt it.I am guessing Satoko was somehow succesful because it wasn't her first time attempting to inject Mion in that scene, hence how she knew all the answers to the card game. Still though that's some ninja type skill to pull off. It's more likely that she repeated the card game specifically so many times she remembered everything instead of doing the whole fragment. Also for a story point, it would be just weird to give us a scene where she injects Mion which she "supposedly" did dozens of times before while failing? at it. Not to mention it would be extremely boring way of doing this. |
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Jin_uzuki said: I guess this episode confirms that Mion has the fattest ass of the Higus, since she didn't notice being injected in broad daylight. H173 also works intramuscular now. In comparison, I guess Rena has a flat ass since Satoko went all the trouble of chosing intravenous. Sotsugou delivering the hardest lore I guess. The real question is now: Which higus got injected via ass and which ones got injected intravenous? I'd say Ooishi, Akasaka and Akane were definitely ass ones. Lol I really like the way you put it, funny stuff. This was a good episode, I didn’t know how much I’d like getting answer arcs for Gou but I’m finding myself interested. Wholesome Teppei is something that’s weird but I’m also happy to see, and seeing how Satoko learned to use a gun was cool, nothing like waifus and guns, that’s what I always say. |
| noo not mion :( Well at least they explained why she was the way she was in higurashi gou instead of just a random reveal that mion is all of the sudden eligible. Not that the latter was expected but after what happened to rena, this isn't super unpredictable by any means either Satoko just gets worse and worse to me. Poor mion |
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| I wonder. Did Rena cure or surpass the effects of L5 HS at the end of Tsumi? Im sure she did right, she was getting treated and everything. Wouldnt this stop Takanos plans? Now Irie and the rest should be aware that there is someway to come back from terminal or near terminal HS. (Assuming that Takano hadnt already killed him of course.) |
Chargecoulomb said: Didnt Takano already execute her plans tho? I wonder. Did Rena cure or surpass the effects of L5 HS at the end of Tsumi? Im sure she did right, she was getting treated and everything. Wouldnt this stop Takanos plans? Now Irie and the rest should be aware that there is someway to come back from terminal or near terminal HS. (Assuming that Takano hadnt already killed him of course.) And if she is truly under HS as the game implies, then 1, 2 or 10 people surpassing/being cured of HS wont change anything for her. |
Chargecoulomb said: As Ssjokg mentioned, at that point the operation was already underway.I wonder. Did Rena cure or surpass the effects of L5 HS at the end of Tsumi? Im sure she did right, she was getting treated and everything. Wouldnt this stop Takanos plans? Now Irie and the rest should be aware that there is someway to come back from terminal or near terminal HS. (Assuming that Takano hadnt already killed him of course.) Also, even if Irie actually found a cure, I doubt that would have changed anything. If it was cured, it would be cured in the utmost secrecy, and at this point Takano was all about deitifying the research. And the only way for that was to make a disaster big enough that it couldn't be silenced. |
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