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The time of Watanagashi draws near once more. /cry/ is open for the month of June, nipah~! Add it to /all/ in options as a spoiler-heavy board is hidden by default! //(⁀ᗢ⁀) \\



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 No.4[Reply]

Welcome to the new When They /cry/ board! You can post Higurashi content without worrying about spoiling things. By default this board won't be showing up on /all/ or the front page. You can post about Umineko and Ciconia, too, but you should use spoiler options on those for the time being. This is something we can figure out together.
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 No.1590

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I could have sworn I've seen this board before...
/cry/ is once again open!
Unfortunately I can't update the blotter due to a weird permissions error, but until then..
NOTE THAT WTC SPOILERS ON /cry/ ARE NOT SPOILERED!

 No.1591

"Blotter" sounds like some bri'ish insult

 No.1595

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guhuhujajajjagrraah *chokes on milk*




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 No.1666

>>1665
the witch of certainty? that's lambdadelta, also known as 34, also knowns as Miyo.

Get this sotsugou continuity crap out of /jp/

 No.1667

>>1666
Also known as Anomalous Spinal Cord Sample LD3105, who is Satoko.

 No.1668

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SATOKO?!
That other stuff though never happened, I thought we all knew this!

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>>1668
Ciconia never happened?

But Phase 2.....

 No.1670

Phase 2 will never happen.




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 No.1662[Reply]

It's hot out there, isn't it?
You know where it isn't hot? In my car.

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EEEEICONNNNNN

 No.1664

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Nfufufu. You might want to turn the AC up Maebara-san, because it's about to get hot in here.




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 No.1549[Reply]

In a perfect world, girls like me would not exist...
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 No.1561

why is this rena face so weird lookin

 No.1562

>>1561
she's peering into your soul so strongly that the world warps around her

 No.1568

yuck she's a cutter

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 No.1661

>>1562
thought that said she's peeing into your soul




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 No.1652

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very nice

 No.1653

cant read the posts but very nice, gonna have it on for a while

 No.1654

Huh, what is this magic?

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 No.1569[Reply]

this rika just bit me
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 No.1585

>>1569
Did it hurt?

 No.1655

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this miyao just bit me

 No.1656

>>1655
is that gonna give me splitzophrenia.....

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>>1656
Cute in the streets, blue in the sheets.

 No.1658

>>1657
AAAAAAAAA NO I DON'T WANNA BE CUTE BEING CUTE IS GAY




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 No.1628[Reply]

When they cry, I laugh.

 No.1650

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IT WAS ALL A DREAM! None if it happened!




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 No.1645[Reply]

Believing oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind!

 No.1646

One of my flaws is being aware of my flaws.

 No.1647

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I am always right, even when I'm wrong!

 No.1648

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THE WITCHES GOLDEN DREAM UH
IT'S MAGICAL GODAH CHEF
IM GONNA PISS IN FIRE
FOR MAGICAL BREEDING POWER

 No.1649

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>>1648
Yo! Master Crazy!




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 No.1643

the matrix is breaking down... we've had too many loops

 No.1644

It's like a Shaft Higurashi scene, which makes since with the Gousotsu style/artist. That would be cool to see, but NOT Gousotsu.




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 No.1629[Reply]

If Rena could have convinced the police to raid the clinic, it would have foiled Takano's plan.
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 No.1637

>>1634
Oh it's that PS2/PSP one right where Hanyuu's the mother oyashirosama and her daughter is the protagonist and something something I forget most of that game. Was her daughter even the protagonist...

 No.1638

>>1636
Aliens is sorta dumber than mythical spiritual entity.

 No.1639

>>1638
sotsugou just made it into a xianxia

 No.1640

>>1638
It's like spiritual panspermia
We have magical creatures, but they're from space

 No.1641

>>1637
If Hanyuu had gotten that abortion, everything would have been fine. It's all Hanyuu's fault.




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 No.1612

>>1611
>#100
>2:01:02
This is why VNs are scary and foreboding to get into.
>Higurashi #102 Matsuribayashi Alternate Ending + Creator Message + Missing PS2 CGs
>You acquire this final piece by going through all the pieces in a certain order.
I DIDN'T KNOW THIS!!!

 No.1613

>>1612
>I DIDN'T KNOW THIS!!!
Me neither... bleh

 No.1614

>>1612
>>1613
you guys didn't know? i recall it being hinted at in one of the final notes, a tiny piece of interactivity in a sound novel

 No.1615

>>1614
It's been a while, so I guess it's possible that I did it. I remember looking back at the pieces and doing some changes in the order, but I don't think I remember an alternate ending thing... or do I? I'm not sure. I never fully trusted his words since the things he said in the epilogue commentary were often misdirections or things that didn't seem to mean much in the story.

 No.1627

I remember going through the scenes in the special order made it obvious this was the way they were meant to be read; the flow was greatly improved.




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 No.1589[Reply]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH
DEEEEEEEEEEESIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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¿

 No.1623

Huh?

 No.1624

>>1594
i made this image like 15 years ago
cant believe anons are still reposting it

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>>1599
The bottle is my friend. It is no less of a friend than you, and it has stood by my side even longer than you have.




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 No.1616[Reply]

What a fool you are, Rika. I'm a god. How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
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>mfw I remember anything related to sotsugou

it hurts so much, the ptsd is real

 No.1620

>>1619
It's OK to be debbie downer.

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>>1619
¥this guy doesn't know about yenning

 No.1622

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That is not Satoko... it's someone that looks like her but it's side story fiction of a what-if scenario that has no relation to the original creation with the same name.

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>>1622
If only he could have been awake in time to help her. Sadly, no. You only get Satoko the god.




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 No.1556[Reply]

I've read through the first four VNs twice now and I'm about to start the answer arc. Here are my thoughts. I'm not gonna return to this thread until after I get through the next four VNs.

It's really difficult to come up with hypotheses. When the VNs reach the omake scenes of the characters commentating on events and giving their opinions, what they say feels like it's light-years ahead of my thinking. I don't think I have any uncommon insights into background events, I only have a scattered summary of what I saw and mostly took at face value. I really want to go see other people's thoughts during their first-time reads because I don't know how they could have possibly figured stuff out.

My hypotheses:
¥ The main question the VNs pose is: "Is this all the work of humans, or is there something supernatural going on?". I believe there are supernatural things going on. There really is an Oyashiro-sama who can cause the volcanic gases to emerge if he is angered, Rika knows certain things about the future including how people will die, and demons exist and have magic powers. That doesn't mean I take the whole story about 'transcendents' as fact. Regarding demons: Demons are a mental presence that can wax or wane in strength, and can be resisted when they are weak. When they are strong, they change your values, making you a violent predator of mankind.
[s yen]¥
Someone on Kissu said something about guessing that some characters are in cahoots. I think maybe Tomitake was asked by Ooishi to help out with the latter's private investigations. That's why he takes pictures of Keiichi in VN 1 and why in VN 2 he guards the door for Miyo and co when they're inside the storehouse. Basically the things that Tomitake is inclined to do anyway (befriend Miyo, visit Hinamizawa for photography) benefit Ooishi so why not ask him for info on top, or to steer events Ooishi's way.[s yen]

Things I am actively confused about:
¥ What's the meaning of the second set of footsteps that Keiichi hears in VNs 1 and 3?
[s yen]¥
When Keiichi is getting his fur seal keychain back from Angel Mort, that's when Shion tells him about the epic tale of the Hinamizawa Dam War. Keiichi at the time is under the impPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>1567
>I read through all of the answer arcs in a sort of mad rush that lasted from the weekend before this to last Friday night. I really did enjoy inhabiting that world. The intensity of a VN experience is so high
Nice! Yes, that's the best way to experience them and I can't agree any more with the intensity thing.

>Is everyone going to just forget that the Sonozakis have a torture room with implements that are actively maintained?
I just saw it as a combination of the Japanese "don't rock the boat" thing and the idea of powerful families having a bit more leeway to do whatever they want. You could also interpret it as a misinterpretation since the whole story is about paranoia and seeing things that aren't there. It's not a pitchfork used to tear out intestines, it's just a pitchfork to gather hay. Or something. Or it could be one of those things left as a physical reminder of the family's dark past to avoid repeating those mistakes. There's a lot of ways to excuse it away I think.

>So on paper it's a happy ending but there would be any number of other timelines that end in mass murder or at least misery for the kids.
Yep, lots and lots of misery. If/when you watch Gou/Sotsu this sticks out quite a bit and it's part of the reason people hate it.

>In VN 6 with the rooftop fight?
I don't remember the exact timing, but that was the moment I was thinking of, yes. It was certainly quite an emotional climax and it took so long to reach it. Sadly the anime didn't do it justice, but then there was probably no way it could have unless they gave the whole scene at least two episodes. The anime's SoL stuff is really fantastic, though. I think we could stream Higurashi again next year.
You should watch Higurashi Kira, though, as it's like a huge celebration of them finding their happiness with a bunch of wacky antics.

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some more stuff I thought of.
Akasaka's the spitting image of my IRL brother. I thought when I saw him, good thing my brother's alive and well because if he was dead I would not have been emotionally prepared to suddenly see someone who looks so similar.
Akasaka's victorious moment in VN 8, protecting Rika from five mountain dogs while the commander Okonogi hangs back, was over the border of believability but still earned and deserved.

the You song was something I first heard in the Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga medley (which itself is something I learned about from the Automatic SMW video of it, anyway it's at around 4:30 in). That was a bit of a headfuck, "How did such an old VN reference that nico nico video... oh, it's the other way around!"

The final TIP in VN 8 set up a sequel hook with the mention of the sword with three tips. I assume Rei or Hou will get into it.

 No.1575

>>1572
>the You song
Each main character has their own vocal version of it, by the way. They're very nice and very emotional. Very very beautiful things. Although you may know this already if you know of stuff like the Nico Nico medley since the songs come up once in a while on anime radio stuff and so on. Some guy uploaded them with lyrics on youtube a while back, but they got taken down. Someone else probably uploaded them again, though, I hope. There's like hours of 'You' versions. Rena's is very good at making me cry.

 No.1577

>>1567
>all of the timelines have a claim of being real.
they're not quite timelines, they're fragments/kakera, worlds that exist separately in this infinite sea of them and what hanyuu does is transfer rika from one to another
it's closer to parallel universes and not a literal time loop like those of other stories, rather the fragments that fail are ruined and that's that as you said, gotta move on
they're also everpresent in umineko and you should absolutely read saikoroshi because it's a super important epilogue and this is relevant there as well
>When I learned that the parasite theory was the one that was actually true I was a bit disappointed, I was hoping that the main conspiracy had supernatural elements.
personally, i wasn't a fan of the shadow government twist. it bothered me that the true villain (or at least the source of takano's power) ended up being an outside organization able to whip out a body double with matching teeth to use as bait or gas the entirety of the village
i felt it went against the village-level theories both natural and supernatural, it's still not my favorite twist out there although you still can't change it without changing the entire story
in any case things get exponentially more supernatural in umi, even in retrospect, and gousotsu kind of goes further though it still was a massive unsatisfactory disappointment
>Is everyone going to just forget that the Sonozakis have a torture room with implements that are actively maintained?
they're my friends and that's obviously in the past

umi is workable in that you can still figure out a number of tricks without uncovering the true culprit, and from the looks of it people had actually figured out one of the biggest reveals apparently by EP3 already (the crystalized term appears in /jp/ and /a/ towards late 2009/EP5), but it's going to kick you in the face so no, you can think about it but no need to get too invested

tangential to the above, here's a thread i came across of people recounting their experiences on the two boards, even linking to warosu:
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.1578

sigh




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 No.1339[Reply]

She was just playing by the rules.
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Imagine Hojo Satoko. Cute!

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>>1517
Eugh.

 No.1520

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Houjou Satoko is super duper mega cute.....!!!

 No.1538

>>1339
Hehe
>>1340
I agree!!

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Satoko, tanjoubi omedetou!




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