Satoko is the only trap expert.
Using completely obvious traps to fool this supposed private army... The decoy pitfall was so pain stinkingly obvious I thought the army were blind.
They're unorganised because they didn't have time to plan. Operation 48 hours forced them to rush. Nomura was getting impatient.
But apparently they shit themselves at the sound of a loli acting tough doing her evil speech... Besides the fact that they can't shoot for shit for what I like to refer as 'the James Bond syndrome'
Seeing the club members fall victim to Hinamizawa Syndrome would just be repetitive. During the first season we didn't know who to trust. Everyone seemed out to get you. But with the second, we know who the real enemy is.
Different events caused different people to go crazy, you didn't know who would be the next person to fall to the syndrome unlike Kai where everything in the story is extremely predictable.
Actually Takano wasn't the result of everything. Several incidents happened on their own.
She was the result of the hostess being killed so the syndromes condition escalated more so without her presences and the result for the majority of chapters happening in the first place when she killed Rika.
So you want episodic? How boring.Making everything all tie together to form one huge story is 10 times more interesting.
It's not episodic, Mushishi is episodic. One large story would have been nice if it wasn't so mind numbingly dull.
I face palmed after reading this line. the first season was hell of a lot more repetitive.
Seriously... 'the gang' goes to people to complain about Satoko being bashed by her uncle... next episode 'the gang 'goes with more people to complain about Satoko' rinse and repeat until that tiresome arc finally came to an end.
Formula
club member goes crazy -> club member kills people -> club member dies
It used that formula the entire season. It would be lame if they just continued doing that without ever advancing the plot.
That's what made Higurashi no naku koro ni so good to me.
Not once did we see Rena go mega berserk in Kai with her cleaver like the first season. Something that has become a staple image of the series to just go missing because for this conveniently placed 'vision' of the past that she has been lacking the other thousand or so times Rika has lived through the scenario.
Violence isn't everything.
The reasons and psyche of the person who wants to commit the violence is though. Which again was more entertaining in the first season.
More like subconsciously remembered their sins in past worlds. But you'd know that if you paid attention.
More like conveniently remembered their sins to wrap up the whole series with making the plot hole of somehow not remembering all the other times they committed it.
Higurashi has always (first season included) been part slice of life. It was never fully dark. You think the story is bad? Higurashi has one of the best stories out there. But it's hard to notice that when you only care about violence. Sorry, but Higurashi isn't some shallow crap that relies on violence to be entertaining. It's much more than that. Perhaps you would have enjoyed it more if you actually paid attention instead of only looking for violent scenes.
Yes slice of life should fit well in the first season to go with the 'lah lah lah everything is good in this supposed lovely town... Then came the darker aspects of the town that were enshrouded in mystery.
Higurashi no naku koro ni had a very good story, something strong enough to keep the viewer immersed even though the events were only a few episodes long. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai had an awful and generic story, explaining stuff that could have been left out, destroying all the aura of mystery around the town and dragging on too long.
I would have enjoyed it more if it stayed true to its first season. Imagine Dragon Ball Z without the action, imagine Shigurui without the violence. When something so strong suddenly goes missing or is toned down then aye this of course is going to annoy. |