Higurashi When They Cry: Festival Accompanying Arc
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| I need all the questions answered. A lot of questions were answered but now I want to see all of them answered. Really good episode. |
| An alright episode, though the mystery is still unsolved, more questions need answered. |
| "Nothing is sweeter than your smile" |
| These last two episodes have thankfully returned the show to form. I was really nervous after episodes 2 and 3 pretty much wasted their run-times, but thankfully episodes 4 and 5 picked back up. Hopefully it stays this way for the rest of the season. |
jobocan said: windy said: and wtf was up with the nurse? in on it with the van people i guess? Don't forget that Satoko was hated by almost everyone in Hinamizawa and probably some other people out of the village, so maybe the nurse was just someone who hated her. Why did Satoko have to die(again)? I wanted to understand Rena's "message" too :( I have to say from my perspective, what you said doesn't add up to an extent about how the houjou family were disliked among the town probably even despisedenough to be killed,the initial reaction of the nurse was right after ooishi said that Satoko had blinked, judging by the expression of fear this led me to believe that she is either part of the organisation that had planned the attack or was some kind of undercover double agent in a sense and was under pressure knowing that if Satoko remembered what had happened with rika and talks about the situation about being followed with ooishi their operation would have failed/leaked, I mean that she would relay information on to her contacts with her life being at stake? I also got the impression of some sympathy which then supports my second theory as she seemed hesitant going through with everything. |
| So mad >_> stupid unknown organization. |
| Damnit, I felt as screaming with Ooishi. ''This is bullshit!'' I'm starting to think that Ooichi is somehow representing the viewer :P Fuck, man. So close, yet so far away. In the end, even if she had survived and told Ooishi, it wouldn't have solved anything. Rika would still be thrown into another universe. Here is was I got and my theory so far : a group from the Hinamizawa village, we''ll call it the group X are the cause of the bizarre incident (and they we're damn well equiped...). On the other end, there is a another group, the group Y, that try to escape that fate. In that group, we can count our youth (Rika, Rena, Keichi, maybe Mion) and other people like the doctor, Miyo, etc. So far, I don't think that Satoko has ever been part of that group, she always seem to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time. In the group X, I still can't figure whose part of it. I think we're missing too much information on that part, but I'm pretty sure that all the 20 people who are missing are part of the group X. Anyway, the way the group X seem to opperate is by poisonning people. The people in the town look like they all died like Keichi did in the first arc and like the photograph always dies (they probably also killed Satoko the same way). On the other end, Rika and Rena got stabbed to death. For Rena, I can understand the method, since she escaped what could be a poison or whatever it is. But for Rika, it's really odd the way she die. Each time, her body his dropped at the altar and killed there. Why is that? Are they trying to make a message? Fuck, I thought that episode would bring some answer, but it rose more questions. |
| «Time is passing so quickly. Right now, I feel like complaining to Einstein. Whether time is slow or fast depends on perception. Relativity theory is so romantic. And so sad.» - Kurisu Makise a.k.a. The Zombie |
| WHOA! The intensity of this episode was palpable! Seeing Ooishi flip out at the end really got me on the edge of my seat! "DON'T FUCK WITH ME!" I wonder why those "van people" murdered Rika and Rena... Was not expecting Satoko to die that way? That nurse had me VERY suspicious, I felt like she had some part in this. Seeing all those corpses after the great disaster was horrifying! Now when I think about it, why were all the kids in the school in the middle of the night anyways? Looks like we're gonna be having an answer arc! That makes me pretty damn happy! I don't understand Rena's message. Hope this all gets explained soon. Awesome episode! 5/5 |
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| Tbh this arc is somewhat boring, between the whiny kid and all. |
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| Conspiracies! Illuminati! Raptors! Government control over aaaaaall... |
| So we have mystery van people killing everyone for no reason and then the nurse killing Satoko? Once again we get more questions than answers. |
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| I love how Higurashi can continue to create and answer questions in later arc without getting to boring. Hopefully the van dudes are explained at some point. |
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| I felt really bad for Satoko, such a messed up episode for her :/. The scene where they showed everyone dead on the school floor was also really disturbing. Then there was Ooishi, once again getting there just a second too late. I swear hes probably the key to stopping it, the one time he gets there on time will be when everything changes. Rika should just tell him everything, maybe even *predict* some of the deaths before they happen so he'll believe her. But yeah, this was a great episode and chapter overall. I'm also not minding the slower pace of this season so far, it adds to the suspense. |
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| Satoko cannot catch a break. |
| I think Rena's message was that the gas leak that killed everyone was by those van people and not volcanic sulphur and possibly a reason to why Rika was killed. Poor Satoko 😭 |
| That was intense. Sadly Ooishi was one step behind there. I've seen those grey suits and that van so many times now lol. That nurse was in on it too. Can't wait to see how this unfolds. Next arc hype. |
| Really depressing arc. I was rooting for Satoko so hard but it was all for not. It'd be so great if this show ends with a happy ending and Rika finds a way to stop everything from going wrong. That's my dream at least :P |
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| Wait, if the disaster happened at midnight then why were all the kids at school? |
| Imma take a guess here and say they use Rika's organs as part of the "Disaster" thing. Also poor Satoko always becoming the victim. I kinda want her to become a psychopathic killer for once. |
 ayy lmao i dun jewed m'self |
| fuck those white van simps and that nurse better not have been apart of that heart failure |
| so falling from the bridge is the only way to survive the gaz... interesting, I wonder if it's just because that will make you lower than the gaz can reach or if there is another reason... |
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| Damn this is getting intense! Oishi was so close, if only Satoko hadn’t pushed the button. In hindsight, she had no way of knowing the murderers were within the hospital as well. Really liked this arc, Satoko was really close to uncovering the mystery of it all, this is the closest anyone’s gotten in any arc so far. Sucks that the arc ends, but let’s see if Satoko will retain her memories like Keichi did. Satoko is definitely my favourite character! She went so far to help her friend, and she has one of the saddest backstories from S1. |
| So close yet so far, Oishi-san. Damn it! Hopefully, we'll get to the reality of this in an upcoming arc. Here's my guess: Rena survived the previous (Arc 6 and S2 E1) as a result of what we saw earlier and fell down the river surviving the "attack". Lots of questions again but we've finally gotten proof that it's not a natural disaster (not that I suspected that either tbh). I wonder how falling down the cliff is an essential piece for this though but, boy, am I excited to see all this come out into the open! New arc next and sounds like it's going to be especially gruesome, huh... |
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| No blood episode is not Higurashi... Rika was die. |
Melcookie96 said: Imma take a guess here and say they use Rika's organs as part of the "Disaster" thing. I agree, though I personally think it has something to do with the fact that Rika is the host of Oyashiro-sama. Rena, next time you go running through the woods at night, don't forget your cleaver. I have a feeling that the goals of Ooishi mostly align with the goals of our protagonists, but I still can't stand the guy. Shaking a comatose girl is the exact sort of thing that ends up with people being completely uncooperative with the police. He needs to be fired stat. |
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| rip everyone Ooishi is always too late xD |
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ylight67 said: My guess is that, by Rena's message, Satoko certainly knew the "van people" were going to go after her, just as they were going after Rena to kill her, that's why she wanted to call the nurse asap, probably to inform Ooishi and also to ask for help, because she knew was in danger. Little did she know, the "van people" had agents among the hospital staff members too (like this nurse). Satoko might have also presumed that the "van people" had something to do with the disaster too, but we didn't get any hints for that. The van people are after Satoko. The nurse is just another person who hates the houjo family I think. |
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| Oh shit. Satoko is dead. Fuck those nurse. Dang Ooishi is late. Sigh |
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| wow Satoko really didnt deserve to die, she could have helped solving Rika's murder. oh well |
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| I half expected Ooishi to start beating tf out of Satoko after he started shaking her |
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| Ooishi is really the worst. ive never liked him but in this arc he is really awful. shaking unconscious Sakoto because she can't give him answers. then she passes away and he's just upset that he couldn't get the answers in time with no care for her. fuck this guy |
| So these van people are always after Rika, Rena and Keiichi I guess? Hmm can't really make much sense out of this yet. |
| The Great Hinamizawa Disaster again... Well at least we knew a little bit how Rika die.. Omg that's disturbing scene right there showing everybody is dead... I have a theory i think those van people are the 20 people who are missing like oshi said, just maybe Satoko-chan was supposed to be the solo survivor in this arc, but omg that fucking nurse killed her... It must be, that nurse seems so sus... Probably the nurse was part of the van people or she just hating the Houjou Family... Damn Oshi look so frustrated, he can't solve it 😔 |
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| poor satoko having to witness all that ): calm down oishi but lowkey hoping he'd make it in time that damn nurse |
| Oh shit! Oishi san almost solved the huge puzzle mystery behind Hinamizawa disaster. However, as Rika said, no shit could prevent the mystery to unpacked, at least on these arc.... Oh man, they finally revealed the whole new scenes including the death of everyone except Satako that helping much Rika for these timeline. What to surprised me that the whole Great Disaster was actually an intentional event using the death of Rika as their blames. But, as an outsider peoples took the whole event as a disaster, which was make their intentions success with the flawless. No wonder with their real purposes used that massacre, for now. Its still a hella mystery for me, because Satako lately death on the hand of that an unknown peoples that creeping behind her neck. Its literally really different from what i thought before. The theory among them as an aliens, still became my hot mark. The way they killed Satako at the hospital, means, that they already spreading among Japan. The great disaster awaits the Japanese people as a whole when Rika and the whole friends of her death miserably .... |
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| Man, this arc was just pure depression Jeezuz. This has been a question since season but, damn who the fuck are those white van motherfuckers. And also that nurse is very fucking sus. What the hell is happening in this damned village but, I love it and I can't wait to find out the answers. The way Rika was killed though is gruesome, I always hate seeing Rika's corpse but, what reason do they have by putting her there in that shrine thing. Everytime that happens the great hinamizawa disaster always follows. But, this time it was Satoko that survived instead of Keiichi. What could Rena's message possibly be, I wanna know. I liked that arc, very depressing but, had a lot of substance. |
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| I swear some people shouldn't comment at all instead of writing something this stupid... Lots of questions answered , lots of questions appeared.Still no info about Takano-san , not even how exactly she died , no proof of her death other than words. Rena knows something.People that killed everyone are working for government I guess? |
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Every time an arc ends: |
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| Super intense episode, I am glad it answered a lot of questions from previous arcs but it certainly brings forth many new questions as well. |
| Now I'm depressed. Why does Satoko have to go through all of this? And who are those guys with the van? It was a good arc, I have to say. This time Satoko was the only one who survived the disaster. Was it truly a natural disaster? And who was that nurse that was acting suspiciously? I'm betting that she was the one that killed Satoko. |
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