Reviews

EDIT: So, Higurashi Gou's last arc nearly ruined the entire thing for me but the ending of the season, although somewhat uneventful, was better. This series, up until yesterday, was probably my least favorite anime. Would I recommend this? If you have seen 2006 or Kai, or read any of the visual novels beforehand, then yes I do recommend it (although I dislike it). Anyway, the series as a whole went from many different ratings for me, at first it was ok, then it went bad, then it got even worse with the third arc, the fourth arc was perfect and nearly saved the series as a whole, and then the last one we just had, I thought it was pretty terrible but the ending, as said, makes up for it even if it was a little uneventful. Anyway, with that being said, I'm going on for way too long. Have a good one and thanks for reading my boring ass review.

Higurashi Gou is the fourth season of the Higurashi series (if you didn't know Rei existed, LOL) and I am a massive fan of the original series, I've read a lot of the manga, I've read SOME of the visual novels (yeah, not a vn person), I've seen the 2006 anime, Kai, Rei, Kira (sadly), Outbreak, and even some of the special shorts like Ura-Higu and stuff along the lines.

Unfortunately, Higurashi Gou is, up until ep. 13, a repeat of the original series with minor changes except one big one being the ending changed. Most of the time the ending of the first 3 arcs is bland as all hell or just funny. This entire series only had 6 episodes I enjoyed, 14-19. Everything else is just bad imo.

I feel like nobody is talking about the advertising. The way this was marketed was as a reboot, this could possibly mislead new fans of the series...I also recently learned you have to read all the visual novels to make Higurashi Gou enjoyable in any way. I'm not sure how true this last part is so please take it with a grain of salt, but if that's the case, god damn.

The storyline is sort of the same as the original Higurashi up until the 4th arc (the only good one) with mild changes and, as said, the one big major change being the endings. It's also confusing, I am trying my best to not spoil this if you couldn't tell but, certain things are never explained. What made the original Higurashi very very fun was the fact that there was mystery, you could form your own theory about it. There was things to base your theories off. With Higurashi Gou, it's almost completely gone.

Higurashi Gou DOES have 2 more episodes left after this week's Thursday but I'm sure it won't be able to redeem itself anytime soon. It's already past the point of no return and, when it was good, it was only for 6 episodes.

Overall, Higurashi Gou is not that good in my opinion. Obviously, YOU can like it, but as a person who considers Higurashi's manga and the 2006 anime important to myself, I have the right to explain how much I dislike Higurashi Gou, so please don't spam my comments. The same thing happened with Elfen Lied so I had to delete that review.