Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu Episode 7 Discussion

Hulio said:
And which ones are these?
When ever someone mentions this I start thinking about the Ibaraki flashback scene, and there wasn't any meaningful difference.

For other not easily pinpointed parts I would need to rewatch Deen and reread the VN, which I'm not going to do at this point.

Well it was the best chapter so I'll definitely eventually read it again.. But what are these good Sotsu expansions?

Well you definitely don't feel like that guy, but it's peculiar we get the usage of these terms only from one side of the aisle.

Well... I guess there was a short time when we could try speculating things. But those haven't been around for a long time. There's really barely been any room for speculation.

Personally I don't see why bashing negative points is any worse as a comment/argument than praising the positive parts. It's not as if the negative parts/pointing them out are inherently worse because they are about the negatives.
Maybe it makes some people feel bad, but what about it.. We're supposed to make everyone feel good?

And this really goes both ways. Not pointing at you specifically, but that's how it is in general, and especially was.

If only did I ever want this show to surprise me and not be what I was expecting, lol.

Danpmss said:
Yo, my bad for taking so long. Life isn't going too easy on me, I barely have time to maintain text heavy discussions for more than a day per week honestly lol

Let's say that the Deen anime rushed through those aforementioned 7 or so minutes displayed in Sotsu with her backstory, family relations and just how much this is hurting her in 2 minutes or so haha

The "show don't tell" in those seven minutes are much better of a representation and a legit and welcomed adaptation expansion than the blazing fast summary Rena gets in a timeframe the OG anime adaptation, it's a given.

(while in the VN, kinda difficult to forget, it's a maddening spiral of frustration that slowly drives him to a breaking point).

Sotsu managed to get us this very intimate side of Rena towards her family just, a LOT better, similar to how the the VN buildups usually go for.

Danpmss said:

You are generalizing, there's clearly more thought put into this than it seems, not that it matters, you are missing my point. This series has its flaws, I point the ones I find myself. You are arguing a strawman as well, nobody is calling this a masterpiece (I myself point out several lacks in execution in big chunks of text, why don't you check my posts before implying I'm a fanboy blindly defending this). I'm explicitly talking about the few people in here every week shitting on this anime, sometimes accidentally shitting on the OH so sacred OG series they so much love, since several portions are straight adapted from the VN, since the first anime skipped a lot of stuff including essential characterization, which said doomposters don't even try commenting upon either because they don't know, as they never touched the source material, or because they are just trying to blindly hate on EVERYTHING that may come from this.

Do tell me, how ironic do you think it is to me, someone going as far as to screenshot and quote from the source material and properly analyzing side by side character threads every week while doing my theorizing with other folks in other social media platforms, when I see people writing this amount of unfounded criticism while having the shitty anime adaptation as a 10/10 and favorite on their lists?

At least my 10 for this is temporary to combat the 1/10s this gets gratuitously, and is subject to change to even a 3-4/10 in case this sucks, I don't sincerely this a perfect score because I think it has little to no flaws. Then again, I wasn't even talking about you (hell, I don't remember discussing with you, and yet you assumed yourself to fit the doomposting criteria), but if the shoe fits, I guess that's on you.

You aren't free from being called a doomposter just because you initially hated a thing btw. It's more about how you address the series in your posts than what you think of it yourself, and from the moment you are actively just shitting on it with literally nothing new to add, to the point of complaining about inconsistencies that aren't there and that any people with knowledge about the series can point you why is it now, you ARE doomposting about it.

The same way someone ignoring anything else and deeming it perfect with no criticisms to be said, praising it and glorifying it without batting an eye to anything else, they are fanboying flatterers, just as binarily blind, like little kids making boys vs girls competitions since you can only be in one of those sides. You know how stupid the reply comment above yours sound when trying to parallel me as following suit?

And yours, implying the very same?

MaverickIceman said:

No wonder people said anime communities have gone to shit. So glad I left this toxic community. It's worse than Reddit and Twitter combined.

Danpmss said:


Agreed. This one series was a pain in the ass to theorize about, particularly.

MaverickIceman said:

Danpmss, your posts are among the toxicity I was referring to. Arguing with people by attacking them even though they weren't attacking you as a person (merely attacking the show), coming up with unfounded criticisms that hold no grounds yet continuing insisting you were in the right without compromise or thought. Don't agree with me; I was criticizing you too and the entire MAL community. So glad I left for Anilist. Much more peaceful there without this kind of drama.

I only came back to check this particular thread out of morbid curiosity what kind of toxic reply I'd get. lol See you again in another month or more.