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| This whole thing sure was pointless. Anyway. |
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| And they all lived happily ever after! What a travesty. Honestly, this sequel didn't even need to be made. My biggest problem with Gou, when it was airing, had been that the real overarching mystery essentially was "Why did a Higruashi squeal need to be made?" And, it turns out it didn't. Honestly, this was one of the worst things I've ever seen, it took a crap on the original, and I'm now far less inclined to read or watch anything else Ryukishi07 has made. I will say though, I did quite enjoy coming into these threads and reading what everyone had to say each episode. For as bad as Gou and Sotsu where, I'm going to miss these threads. Catch you all another time hopefully. |
| Now, count up your sins! |
| Well, I loved Gou so much, but Sotsu was huge let down, recaps and no effort ending. Still I noticed, they opened some paths in ending to make even more Higurashi in future if they would like to. Overall Im disappointed and sad 😔 Gou 9/10 Sotsu 4/10 |
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| Best episode in whole Gou and Sotsu series, Hanyu vs Eua part was weakest part in episode, but all after that was nice and heartwarming :) |
"A half moon, it has a dark half and a bright half, just like me…", Yuno Gasai |
| Digimon 2020 was more disappointing. |
| Well the story is now over. Satoko and Rika had their epic battle, talked it out in words and agreed to take a break. Everything is well, and they shall loop again when they cry. 8/10. Dear You really won me over, and I have a much stronger desire to read Umineko! |
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| I really wish they showed more of everyone grown up. Maybe some university Hugurashi wouldve been sick!! Oh well, maybe they can try again if they continue it |
| Bruh? Like what? why did it end like that? what was the point of all this? Actually feel terrible with the whole 'lets-make-up-now-after-torturing-each-other-for-who-knows-how-many-years'. More Umineko references lol. also ED is nice but just ain't it for this anime. just why just why/10 |
| i cackled when satoshi woke up. my dude had like 0 relevance to the plot. this ending is basically telling me that rika and satoko's problems could have been resolved if they just talked to their friends?? theyre killing each other over and over bc they each have different dreams but then all they have to do is hear their friends say something along the lines of "sometimes friends need to be apart but its okay" and all of a sudden everything is fine and dandy?? bro like why didnt you guys go to your friends with your problems in the first place not sure i understand the bit about satoko's old self(?) returning to her body?? evil satoko let normal satoko back into her body but i thought normal satoko had been cast away? how does normal satoko even know what's been going on if evil satoko had been inhabiting her body this entire time? ending song was SO GOOD btw edit: came back here after 2.5 months to publicly shame myself for NOT RECOGNIZING the song played at the end. jesus christ |
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| The ending leak was real. Fuck this shit, there was no reason this ending was at all deserved. |
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| Well obvious, weird happy ending. Liked the continuation aka previous season, felt like it was leading to something major, but in the end it was all completely pointless ... Overall 5-6/10 and generous 6 in the end, duel of fates episode was something else. |
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| I like the fight, and the Umineko tease with the speech between Rika and Satoko. Hearing "You" at the end nearly broke me, that song is too Godly. Overall, while Sotsu for me started good (I LOVE ep 1 and 2) it just went downhill fast because of the number of recaps, even tho it still had some good original scenes. |
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| Man they tried so hard to appeal to nostalgia in the 2nd half. Not that I expected anything else out of this. They added the only nice thing of this whole installment (the "Dear You" arrangement) and obviously they had to moralfag us at the end about friendship and whatnot (as if the characters were not butchered enough) while simultaneous pandering with some more Umineko references. I legit rolled my eyes at that word-per-word parting of Rika and Satoko. Props to Teppei for being the most relevant male character coming out of Sotsu. Fitting as the nature of the character matches with the quality of the season. Anyway glad that this is finally over. 1/10 for me, won´t be caught again in another Higurashi installment. |
KaitonSep 30, 2021 10:49 AM
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| It's literally shit. Ryukishi07 became Hackishi07 if he was really in charge of the script. |
| anyone know the name of the song at the end of the anime (around the 18-19 mark) |
Si1verR0se said: iiKrina said: before anyone falls for the 'happy ending' of satoshi waking up just remember, we know that he is supposed to wake up all the time and be extremely violent so he is strapped into the bed at all times. it is literally impossible for that scene to have actually happened. this show doesn't even know its own lore. Actually no, do you forget that Irie said that "Syndrome is gone" around 16-17 episode of Gou? He will wake up but already cured. SotsuGou kinda consistent within its own sometimes Just skimmed through episode 17 of Gou again, Irie says "I will be back someday to continue treating Satoshi and put a definitive end to HS". Later Tomitake also says Irie "Will be back because the village still needs a medical clinic, as well as a cure for HS". So no I don't think it was 'cured' just yet. But please correct me if I'm wrong. |
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| You know I really hated this ending but then I saw Hanyuu wrecking that annoying ass Eua and Teppei happy ending so I will just ignore everything related to Rika and Satoko. lmao |
Zerity said: anyone know the name of the song at the end of the anime (around the 18-19 mark) Dear You by Dai |
NocturnSunshower said: Only slightly less bad than Danganronpa 3. Overall not worth it. wow this is the first time i've heard of someone else disliking danganronpa 3 lol, gg |
| 柵の向こうには 本当に狼などおらぬのか |
Umineko-chad said: Zerity said: anyone know the name of the song at the end of the anime (around the 18-19 mark) https://youtu.be/AqyKkcwd-rY thank you kind sir |
iiKrina said: Si1verR0se said: Actually no, do you forget that Irie said that "Syndrome is gone" around 16-17 episode of Gou? He will wake up but already cured. SotsuGou kinda consistent within its own sometimes Just skimmed through episode 17 of Gou again, Irie says "I will be back someday to continue treating Satoshi and put a definitive end to HS". Later Tomitake also says Irie "Will be back because the village still needs a medical clinic, as well as a cure for HS". So no I don't think it was 'cured' just yet. But please correct me if I'm wrong. He was kept in a medically induced Coma so he shouldnt have randomly woken up like that. .... At least not without Irie and bunch of other workers restraining him to make sure he doesnt claw his throat out. |
iiKrina said: NocturnSunshower said: Only slightly less bad than Danganronpa 3. Overall not worth it. wow this is the first time i've heard of someone else disliking danganronpa 3 lol, gg I'll throw in my hat, DR3 was hot garbo. |
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SkyhighCFC said: This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but I actually liked this ending? It definitely wasn't perfect, and I didn't like the bs they pulled in the EUA vs Hanyuu fight. I also didn't like the fact that Satoko didn't really face any real consequences in this ending. Sure she won't see her "friend" for like what? 3 years? But that's not really a consequence considering all she's done if you ask me. Despite those 2 issues though, this ending really surprised me. I genuinely thought they would go full "power of friendship" mode with the ending and have Satoko and Rika end the series as perfect friends like they were before all this even started, or even lovers. That ending would have pissed me off beyond belief. But they actually shocked me by going with an ending where, yea they're cooler with each other now, but they definitely don't see completely eye to eye now. If they weren't going to go with the full dark ending like I knew they wouldn't, I think this is the best alternative. Overall though, SOTSU as a whole has been disappointing...especially the last 5 or so episodes. Not everything was bad, but man they REALLY could've done so much better with this premise. How can you like this ending? It makes no sense for Rika to forgive. At all. At any rate I won't even give sotsu the benefit of the watch, from spoiler reactions it is just exactly how leaker leaked so I don't have to watch this garbagio. |
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Enerccio said: SkyhighCFC said: This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but I actually liked this ending? It definitely wasn't perfect, and I didn't like the bs they pulled in the EUA vs Hanyuu fight. I also didn't like the fact that Satoko didn't really face any real consequences in this ending. Sure she won't see her "friend" for like what? 3 years? But that's not really a consequence considering all she's done if you ask me. Despite those 2 issues though, this ending really surprised me. I genuinely thought they would go full "power of friendship" mode with the ending and have Satoko and Rika end the series as perfect friends like they were before all this even started, or even lovers. That ending would have pissed me off beyond belief. But they actually shocked me by going with an ending where, yea they're cooler with each other now, but they definitely don't see completely eye to eye now. If they weren't going to go with the full dark ending like I knew they wouldn't, I think this is the best alternative. Overall though, SOTSU as a whole has been disappointing...especially the last 5 or so episodes. Not everything was bad, but man they REALLY could've done so much better with this premise. How can you like this ending? It makes no sense for Rika to forgive. At all. At any rate I won't even give sotsu the benefit of the watch, from spoiler reactions it is just exactly how leaker leaked so I don't have to watch this garbagio. Wait for the manga, I doubt much will change, but it will at least be a little better than this. |
Jin_uzuki said: The moral of the story is uuuuuuuuuhhhh You can disembowel your bestest of best friends and still be able to kiss and make up in the end because you're friends who need to understand each others' boundaries. Also punch them in the face when they complain about studying for math. |
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SkyhighCFC said: Chargecoulomb said: 1/10 extremely disappointed. Higurashi fans got nothing Umineko Fans got nothing Yuri fans got nothing A complete and utter waste of time. This disappointment is an utter cancer on WTC. Passione should be ashamed about making this, and Ryuukishi should be ashamed he wrote this mess. This destroyed Rika and Satoko for what? NOTHING! No witch ending, no Yuri ending. Nothing. Absolutely fucking nothing. This is a shame. A real shame. After everything, Passione has the balls to play dear you at the end of this travesty. You think a yuri ending would've been appropriate considering all the shit Satoko has done in this series? It would definitely not feel justified imo Of course not, Im saying that nobody got anything out of this. Not even the Yuri fans. |
Hey, at least Disney would have thrown the bad guy off a cliff or something. |
Thats not the right song, there are many differnt versions of "you", that version is from Higurashi no naku koro ni Outbreak if I remember correctly. I'm currently looking for the name of this version as well. |
| ryu07 really went and wrote a terrible fanfic of his own creation lmao |
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Kurotaku-sama said: Thats not the right song, there are many differnt versions of "you", that version is from Higurashi no naku koro ni Outbreak if I remember correctly. I'm currently looking for the name of this version as well. I dont think its out yet https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1NABSgiM4IM While it does, I heavily reccomend anyone to listen to dear you Kizuna |
ChargecoulombSep 30, 2021 11:39 AM
Kurotaku-sama said: Thats not the right song, there are many differnt versions of "you", that version is from Higurashi no naku koro ni Outbreak if I remember correctly. I'm currently looking for the name of this version as well. ima try and find it as well, i forgot that this song was played during higurashi |
| Felt like a disaster throughout honestly Dear You always remains in my heart though no matter how many years pass I hope they adapt all umineko games and make a total joke out of them now |
 "Only one with the courage to shoulder the burden of their own fate can be called a hero.." |
| By the time Keiichi, Rena and Mion showed up I had already forgotten that this series used to have more than two main characters. I'm so tired of Satoko and even Rika to an extent, I wish the writers actually used this wonderful cast of characters and did something more interesting, both in the latter half of Gou and the entirety of Sotsu. I know people complained about the bizarre tone-shift in Ep. 14 (I agree btw, that magical fight felt very out-of-place), but for me this one was even more strange. All these traumatic loops and suddenly after a fistfight everything is settled and somehow these two aren't mentally unhinged and sakura trees blossom while happy times ensue. The resolution certainly felt undeserved and rendered the whole reboot/sequel/??? pretty much pointless. Also, showing Satoshi waking up and nothing else regarding him was straight-up cheap. 3/10, mostly because of the abundant recaps. |
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Chargecoulomb said: Kurotaku-sama said: Thats not the right song, there are many differnt versions of "you", that version is from Higurashi no naku koro ni Outbreak if I remember correctly. I'm currently looking for the name of this version as well. I dont think its out yet https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xa9SMx_UWfQ While it does, I heavily reccomend anyone to listen to dear you Kizuna I heared already all versions but in my opinion Dear You and You ~Arigatou~ are the best. |
| Hanyuu defeated Eua and peace has been brought back to Hinamizawa. I pretty much guessed right that Rika and Satoko would go their separate ways and Rika would attend St Lucia on her own. I did not expect that they promised each other to keep in touch eventually after an eternal fight in loops. In the end it seems that Looper Satoko eventually left this world behind but I am not sure. a bittersweet ending. The concept of 2 friends looping is pretty much an unexplored territory. I mentioned in the other thread that I could make the concept better than R07 and I will try my best to deliver, even if it can take years before I have something to show. |
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