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This thread got dumped at 8th page?

Last post on 17/06/2006?


I'm speechless. Maybe mysterious, thought provoking anime series don't appeal to most of the forumers here.

Oh well, since it's already like this i just wanna tell that this series just ended recently and the reason why i dig back this thread from Hinamizawa Dump Site is just to offer spoilers/explanations for those who watched the anime until end yet still very blur blur about the whole thing.

For anyone seeking THE WHOLE TRUCKLOAD WORTH OF INFORMATION ABOUT HIGURASHI, feel free to dig through animesuki.com forum under Higurashi sub-forum.

Anyone who wanted to know some specific stuffs concerning this series but unwilling to get themselves information overload from the above forum feel free to ask me here. I'll try my best to give my answers based on my newfound knowledge gotten from there.


Who is Oyashiro-sama? Hu Hu Hu.........

By your post i'm unsure if you already know everything that you need to know about Higurashi or you only depended on the anime. Obviously i don't feel like explaining everything to someone who already knew it.

Assuming you're the anime-only person, i can simply said the supernatural aspect of Higurashi is NOT the main point for the incidents that happened in Hinamizawa. The supernatural aspect only there to justify why they're 6 resets in the anime (and 8 in the game). That's all. And maybe a little bit of here and there which might change a bit of the story but still DO NOT affect the final outcome of any particular arc.

The MAIN POINT for Hinamizawa tragedies always lies on logical aspect. The different of behaviours, decisions, events which determined the ending for poor old Hinamizawa town. But, what the gamers/anime viewers saw are not always the truth. For example Arc 1. We totally follow the stories behind the eyes of Maebara Keiichi. By simple observation we all knew how unstable Keiichi minds in that arc. So it's hard to determine which are the truth and which are delusions.

BTW, to make things easier for me & the would-be-questioner, i prefer if direct questions are asked to me specifically of you want spoilers. Any other type of ambiguous posts will be treated as merely discussions.

NVM, i can understand your sentiments as an anime-watcher only. No need to feel sorry for it. The anime is an inferior and a flawed product as compared to the Sound Novel. That's why i'm glad to help ppl to understand more about Higurashi in this forum.

Although i'm even happier if one's willing to help themselves into animesuki forum. The mysteries of Hinamizawa are really well thought out and entertaining in brain teasing way yet too many details, depth, and especially EMOTIONS had been left out in the anime. Yes, if the anime follows the Sound Novel truthfully, it will be mysterious, horror AND ALSO emotions roller-coster rides type of anime.

As a bonus for higurashi fans:

http://hinamizawa.e-n-m.net/releases


As for comparative ranking:

Sound Novel>Drama CD>>Manga>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Anime.

Enuff said. The manga do captures the essence of Higurashi way better than the anime counterpart.


Kei was supposed to be a really cool character, except in arc. 1 where he was doomed to f*ck'd everything up. He's really an interesting, cool & "magician-of-words" character in the rest of the arcs. But what happened in the anime? They give Kira's seiyuu to voice Keiichi (yes, Kira from anime that starts with "Gun" and end with "SEED") and our kewl main male character turned this anime into "EMO-KIRAshi No Naku Koro Ni" which really screwed up his character potrayal for anime viewers.

Ask anime viewers which character they like the least. Majority will vote Kei"EMO-KIRA"chi for what he was potrayed in the anime. Ask gamers & others who knows Higurashi past what the anime had to offer them, who is their favourite No.1 character and majority will answer.......................Keiichi. What a total difference of results.

Yes, this is one of the big flaws in the anime which i didn't expect to rant about it in this post.



BTW, to understand what's behind the "Magician-Of-Words", feel free to download Tatarigoroshi manga and read it. Better yet, compared the the Tatarigoroshi of the anime. Sigh.

Just to clarify something, the above manga link is for the english translated version.

Anyway, once more i'm promoting for everyone to go download the manga esp. Tatarigoroshi hen and then read it. In the 4 chapters alone we were presented with TWO moments when "Magician-Of-Words" at works there. Feels like watching like two totally different characters right? The anime showed NONE of it. In the game, Kei did use this l33t technique while talking about the topic of "moe" which stunned and left the whole classroom speechless. Too bad i only saw the raw for that scene so i can't understand it but there were LOTS of text lines. I'm really really interested on the content of his "moe speech".

Anyway no need to say whether "Kei > Rena" or "Rena > Kei". "Kei x Rena" FTW!!!
They're the puuurfect Higurashi couple, kana kana?

Their "Heaven Or Hell" AKA "The Proposal" scene in Tsumihoroboshi hen was epic.

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Atleast when you "cheat" and play the game BGM for the rooftop scene while watching that scene the anime. Yeah, that's super cool.

Short spoilers for the Curse Of Oyashiro-sama, gas leak incident AKA Great Hinamizawa Disaster, and whatever relevant based on the posts after my previous post.



BTW, i have a request for anyone that had download the manga from the link above. Can you share the 4th chapter of Watanagashi-hen to me? I can't download using rapidshare provided there. Thx in advance.

My long post below mostly directed to the newbies of Higurashi world who missed the 1st season before but getting interested now because of the upcoming new season.

To say in a simple term, each scenario in Higurashi is an independent reset of each other (i use this term loosely to avoid spoilers). Think of it like you playing a h-game/dating sim/visual novel (like Kanon and FATE/stay night to name a few). Just like in those game you choose a path to get to the particular girl ending, but in Higurashi you have 4 different linear scenarios which then divided in to Questions and Answers chapters.

There are total of 8 chapters in Higurashi, namely;

Question chapters
1.Onikakushi-hen (Scenario 1)
2.Watanagashi-hen (Scenario 2)
3.Tatarigoroshi-hen (Scenario 3)
4.Himatsubushi-hen (Scenario 4)

Answer chapters
5.Meakashi-hen (Answers for Scenario 2)
6.Tsumihoroboshi-hen (Answers for Scenario 1)
7.Minagoroshi-hen (Answers for Scenario 3 & basically the answers to most of the mysteries in Higurashi)
8.Matsuribayashi-hen (Indirect answer for Scenario 4 & the path for best ending in Higurashi)


The 1st season of anime version of Higurashi already covers the first 6 chapters of Higurashi (Onikakushi until Tsumihoroboshi). The upcoming new season of Higurashi supposedly covers the remaining 2 chapters which are Minagoroshi-hen & Matsuribayashi-hen.

One word of serious advice. NEVER EVER watch the new season of Higurashi without watching the previous season first. Unlike some anime like Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha which you can just start watching Strikers without watching the previous 2 seasons, doing the same thing with Higurashi equals to reading the scene in Conan/Kindaichi manga when the criminal is revealed before reading the mysterious scenes that happened before that.

The best way to enjoy Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni is by.....urm......mastering Japanese language and playing the actual game. After that then go watch the anime & realised how Studio DEEN had bastardised the 1st season anime (but hopefully not the 2nd season).

OK, the 2nd best & more practical way is:
1. watch the 1st season of the anime
2. go to animesuki.com Higurashi forum to dig out more informations regarding the first 6 chapters while trying your best to avoid those last 2 chapters spoilers.
3. watch the 2nd season Higurashi anime when it's out.
4. Go back to animesuki.com Higurashi forum and go read all the spoilers to your heart content.

Trust me, the reason why i STRONGLY suggest to read animesuki forum for those who only watch the Higurashi anime because the anime only show so little aspect of Higurashi game. The anime mostly shows the terror & gore factor while skipping most of the mysteries & thinking factor which is the true charm of Higurashi world which you can only know by playing the game or look out for those informations on the internet.


Phew, i've been away from this forum for a few months and someone just had to dig this thread for me to write a long post in it today .

I just saw t3h trailer for Higurashi Kai at youtube.



Oooooh, really can't wait for the appearance of "H".

This post has been edited by elfenrir: Jun 17 2007, 03:29 AM