Higurashi analysis, essays... and other stuff

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it's funny

I know all about how bad Ryukishi's writing is, and about how he consistently fails at foreshadowing
but I still manage to keep fangirling about his series...es.... anyway
IS THIS WHAT YOU CALL TRUE LOVE??? WELL, RYUKISHI!?!? IS IT????

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kiosuangelvip: The Soul Brothers, or Four Dark Heavenly Kings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0i0xAKORhI um yes please  best character in higurashi ok
kiosuangelvip: The Soul Brothers, or Four Dark Heavenly Kings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0i0xAKORhI um yes please  best character in higurashi ok
kiosuangelvip: The Soul Brothers, or Four Dark Heavenly Kings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0i0xAKORhI um yes please  best character in higurashi ok
kiosuangelvip: The Soul Brothers, or Four Dark Heavenly Kings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0i0xAKORhI um yes please  best character in higurashi ok

kiosuangelvip:

The Soul Brothers, or Four Dark Heavenly Kings


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0i0xAKORhI

um yes please 

best character in higurashi ok

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alasweneverdo: I justhad to Ootaka is a son of a bitch and this is a beautiful gif  it’s such a shame they cut his involvement in the end of tsumihoroboshi-hen because that was the first time we saw him as a REAL ASSHOLE of a character

alasweneverdo:

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Ootaka is a son of a bitch and this is a beautiful gif 

it’s such a shame they cut his involvement in the end of tsumihoroboshi-hen because that was the first time we saw him as a REAL ASSHOLE of a character

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higuneko-seacats-and-cicadas: milton.blush.jp/H-05.html

higuneko-seacats-and-cicadas:

milton.blush.jp/H-05.html

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irie isn't there because he's too busy drowning his sorrows in alcohol at a nudie bar
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bitethisurl:

what if irie was right and you really could just cut the evil out of someone’s brain

i mean im pretty sure thats not possible but it’s still a pretty interesting idea nonetheless

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amiawake: Rena: Shh, Mii-chan was falling apart. I just fixed her, so… Keiichi: Fixed her? How?
amiawake: Rena: Shh, Mii-chan was falling apart. I just fixed her, so… Keiichi: Fixed her? How?
amiawake: Rena: Shh, Mii-chan was falling apart. I just fixed her, so… Keiichi: Fixed her? How?

amiawake:

Rena: Shh, Mii-chan was falling apart. I just fixed her, so…

Keiichi: Fixed her? How?

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wolfgrl29: So, I apologize to Higurashi and Umineko fans all around the world, but I just realized that Rika and Bernkastel are the same person! I mean, granted, I did watch Higurashi before Umineko, but it’s kind of unforgivable that I didn’t catch on until I saw a comment on YouTube stating “Higurashi Bernkastel” and I had the nerve to think she did it wrong before it FINALLY clicked. I mean of course! She’s a fucking endless witch! No wonder why Okinomiya was plagued with such a never ending sequence of the same life. Holy shit… *mind blowing* So, if you’re as clueless as me, have no fear, I just cleared it up for you and saved you some embarrassment. oh my god ma’am you are really only embarrassing yourself further here actually… bernkastel is way different of an existence from rika…  It starts off in Higurashi with Rika being the trapped piece in a game forced to repeat until she gets the right outcome. During that time, you have to understand there is a separation of personas, the mature (and tired) Frederica Bernkastel and the 10 year old girl Furude Rika. During Saikoroshi-hen is when Rika finally separates herself from the witch Bernkastel.  Bernkastel herself states that she’s not Rika. Also, the title of “Endless Witch” belongs to Beatrice and Battler, not Bernkastel. Bernkastel is ONLY witch of Miracles. …ALSO THE STORY TAKES PLACE IN HINAMIZAWA. NOT OKINOMIYA OMG.  I think, next time you start to make deductions like this, you… either re-watch the series, check some wikis, or actually think about it a little further……… oh geez I feel bad though because you are being swarmed by higumineko fans right now aren’t you

wolfgrl29:

So, I apologize to Higurashi and Umineko fans all around the world, but I just realized that Rika and Bernkastel are the same person! I mean, granted, I did watch Higurashi before Umineko, but it’s kind of unforgivable that I didn’t catch on until I saw a comment on YouTube stating “Higurashi Bernkastel” and I had the nerve to think she did it wrong before it FINALLY clicked. I mean of course! She’s a fucking endless witch! No wonder why Okinomiya was plagued with such a never ending sequence of the same life. Holy shit… *mind blowing*

So, if you’re as clueless as me, have no fear, I just cleared it up for you and saved you some embarrassment.

oh my god ma’am you are really only embarrassing yourself further here

actually… bernkastel is way different of an existence from rika… 

It starts off in Higurashi with Rika being the trapped piece in a game forced to repeat until she gets the right outcome. During that time, you have to understand there is a separation of personas, the mature (and tired) Frederica Bernkastel and the 10 year old girl Furude Rika. During Saikoroshi-hen is when Rika finally separates herself from the witch Bernkastel. 

Bernkastel herself states that she’s not Rika.

Also, the title of “Endless Witch” belongs to Beatrice and Battler, not Bernkastel. Bernkastel is ONLY witch of Miracles.

…ALSO THE STORY TAKES PLACE IN HINAMIZAWA. NOT OKINOMIYA OMG. 

I think, next time you start to make deductions like this, you… either re-watch the series, check some wikis, or actually think about it a little further………

oh geez I feel bad though because you are being swarmed by higumineko fans right now aren’t you

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Anonymous asked: When the novels come to explain certain events (Sonozaki black market during the war, the war in general, and politics during the beginning of Matsuribayashi-hen) do you think any of it is Ryukishi's own opinions on these topics?

Well. Considering how Ryukishi wasn’t exactly alive during most of that, I think he does a pretty good job of summarizing the events from a factual point of view. I don’t really think his political opinions factor much into it, but I think he does a pretty good job of depicting the political ideas at those times. There’s the side that wants to focus on Japan’s defense industry in order to build them up as a power after their defeat in WWII, and there’s the side that wants nothing to do with that but would rather focus on the growth of the country overall. 

Needless to say this story focuses on the political faction that wants a weapon to scare people with, but also does a lot with liberal ideas in the story as well. The morality of the research, who they are researching their theses on, etc. Left and Right wing issues are talked about quite a lot.  

I don’t think Ryukishi’s own political opinion is reflected in the story. It would have to be inherently leaning one way in order to show bias, and frankly, he does a splendid job at exploring all sides of the political map in this VN. 

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I think sometimes it’s forgotten that Irie is a pretty scary person too. He doesn’t really think about the moral implications of things unless he thinks about the research he’s performing. Acknowledging that Takano has a point, he readily goes along with the idea of vivisecting a live human being for the research and only for the research purposes. But he’s internally bothered by it, because his moral compass says “no”. And yet he still goes along with it while remembering that without doing this surgery, the research will never advance. He thinks of Takano as being “the devil” for arranging the vivisection, … but then remembers that she’s doing it on his “ok”. He is the one sitting at the end of the table with his fork and knife while she prepares the main dish.  And it’s really only until someone he knows is about to be vivisected when his moral compass starts spinning all over the place and he actively fights against Takano to stop it.  He understands that he is a hypocrite for fighting for Satoko’s life, but not the other one.  And he still doesn’t believe that his actions as a neurosurgeon were ever wrong, nor that ignoring the consent of the patient makes the act any less wrong.  He would readily separate pieces of the frontal lobe of someone with a few emotional problems instead of seeing if therapy was possible, but vivisecting someone who is about to die makes him squirm inside.  Let’s just say his idea of ethics is a bit skewed. 
I think sometimes it’s forgotten that Irie is a pretty scary person too. He doesn’t really think about the moral implications of things unless he thinks about the research he’s performing. Acknowledging that Takano has a point, he readily goes along with the idea of vivisecting a live human being for the research and only for the research purposes. But he’s internally bothered by it, because his moral compass says “no”. And yet he still goes along with it while remembering that without doing this surgery, the research will never advance. He thinks of Takano as being “the devil” for arranging the vivisection, … but then remembers that she’s doing it on his “ok”. He is the one sitting at the end of the table with his fork and knife while she prepares the main dish.  And it’s really only until someone he knows is about to be vivisected when his moral compass starts spinning all over the place and he actively fights against Takano to stop it.  He understands that he is a hypocrite for fighting for Satoko’s life, but not the other one.  And he still doesn’t believe that his actions as a neurosurgeon were ever wrong, nor that ignoring the consent of the patient makes the act any less wrong.  He would readily separate pieces of the frontal lobe of someone with a few emotional problems instead of seeing if therapy was possible, but vivisecting someone who is about to die makes him squirm inside.  Let’s just say his idea of ethics is a bit skewed. 
I think sometimes it’s forgotten that Irie is a pretty scary person too. He doesn’t really think about the moral implications of things unless he thinks about the research he’s performing. Acknowledging that Takano has a point, he readily goes along with the idea of vivisecting a live human being for the research and only for the research purposes. But he’s internally bothered by it, because his moral compass says “no”. And yet he still goes along with it while remembering that without doing this surgery, the research will never advance. He thinks of Takano as being “the devil” for arranging the vivisection, … but then remembers that she’s doing it on his “ok”. He is the one sitting at the end of the table with his fork and knife while she prepares the main dish.  And it’s really only until someone he knows is about to be vivisected when his moral compass starts spinning all over the place and he actively fights against Takano to stop it.  He understands that he is a hypocrite for fighting for Satoko’s life, but not the other one.  And he still doesn’t believe that his actions as a neurosurgeon were ever wrong, nor that ignoring the consent of the patient makes the act any less wrong.  He would readily separate pieces of the frontal lobe of someone with a few emotional problems instead of seeing if therapy was possible, but vivisecting someone who is about to die makes him squirm inside.  Let’s just say his idea of ethics is a bit skewed. 
I think sometimes it’s forgotten that Irie is a pretty scary person too. He doesn’t really think about the moral implications of things unless he thinks about the research he’s performing. Acknowledging that Takano has a point, he readily goes along with the idea of vivisecting a live human being for the research and only for the research purposes. But he’s internally bothered by it, because his moral compass says “no”. And yet he still goes along with it while remembering that without doing this surgery, the research will never advance. He thinks of Takano as being “the devil” for arranging the vivisection, … but then remembers that she’s doing it on his “ok”. He is the one sitting at the end of the table with his fork and knife while she prepares the main dish.  And it’s really only until someone he knows is about to be vivisected when his moral compass starts spinning all over the place and he actively fights against Takano to stop it.  He understands that he is a hypocrite for fighting for Satoko’s life, but not the other one.  And he still doesn’t believe that his actions as a neurosurgeon were ever wrong, nor that ignoring the consent of the patient makes the act any less wrong.  He would readily separate pieces of the frontal lobe of someone with a few emotional problems instead of seeing if therapy was possible, but vivisecting someone who is about to die makes him squirm inside.  Let’s just say his idea of ethics is a bit skewed. 
I think sometimes it’s forgotten that Irie is a pretty scary person too. He doesn’t really think about the moral implications of things unless he thinks about the research he’s performing. Acknowledging that Takano has a point, he readily goes along with the idea of vivisecting a live human being for the research and only for the research purposes. But he’s internally bothered by it, because his moral compass says “no”. And yet he still goes along with it while remembering that without doing this surgery, the research will never advance. He thinks of Takano as being “the devil” for arranging the vivisection, … but then remembers that she’s doing it on his “ok”. He is the one sitting at the end of the table with his fork and knife while she prepares the main dish.  And it’s really only until someone he knows is about to be vivisected when his moral compass starts spinning all over the place and he actively fights against Takano to stop it.  He understands that he is a hypocrite for fighting for Satoko’s life, but not the other one.  And he still doesn’t believe that his actions as a neurosurgeon were ever wrong, nor that ignoring the consent of the patient makes the act any less wrong.  He would readily separate pieces of the frontal lobe of someone with a few emotional problems instead of seeing if therapy was possible, but vivisecting someone who is about to die makes him squirm inside.  Let’s just say his idea of ethics is a bit skewed. 
I think sometimes it’s forgotten that Irie is a pretty scary person too. He doesn’t really think about the moral implications of things unless he thinks about the research he’s performing. Acknowledging that Takano has a point, he readily goes along with the idea of vivisecting a live human being for the research and only for the research purposes. But he’s internally bothered by it, because his moral compass says “no”. And yet he still goes along with it while remembering that without doing this surgery, the research will never advance. He thinks of Takano as being “the devil” for arranging the vivisection, … but then remembers that she’s doing it on his “ok”. He is the one sitting at the end of the table with his fork and knife while she prepares the main dish.  And it’s really only until someone he knows is about to be vivisected when his moral compass starts spinning all over the place and he actively fights against Takano to stop it.  He understands that he is a hypocrite for fighting for Satoko’s life, but not the other one.  And he still doesn’t believe that his actions as a neurosurgeon were ever wrong, nor that ignoring the consent of the patient makes the act any less wrong.  He would readily separate pieces of the frontal lobe of someone with a few emotional problems instead of seeing if therapy was possible, but vivisecting someone who is about to die makes him squirm inside.  Let’s just say his idea of ethics is a bit skewed. 
I think sometimes it’s forgotten that Irie is a pretty scary person too. He doesn’t really think about the moral implications of things unless he thinks about the research he’s performing. Acknowledging that Takano has a point, he readily goes along with the idea of vivisecting a live human being for the research and only for the research purposes. But he’s internally bothered by it, because his moral compass says “no”. And yet he still goes along with it while remembering that without doing this surgery, the research will never advance. He thinks of Takano as being “the devil” for arranging the vivisection, … but then remembers that she’s doing it on his “ok”. He is the one sitting at the end of the table with his fork and knife while she prepares the main dish.  And it’s really only until someone he knows is about to be vivisected when his moral compass starts spinning all over the place and he actively fights against Takano to stop it.  He understands that he is a hypocrite for fighting for Satoko’s life, but not the other one.  And he still doesn’t believe that his actions as a neurosurgeon were ever wrong, nor that ignoring the consent of the patient makes the act any less wrong.  He would readily separate pieces of the frontal lobe of someone with a few emotional problems instead of seeing if therapy was possible, but vivisecting someone who is about to die makes him squirm inside.  Let’s just say his idea of ethics is a bit skewed. 
I think sometimes it’s forgotten that Irie is a pretty scary person too. He doesn’t really think about the moral implications of things unless he thinks about the research he’s performing. Acknowledging that Takano has a point, he readily goes along with the idea of vivisecting a live human being for the research and only for the research purposes. But he’s internally bothered by it, because his moral compass says “no”. And yet he still goes along with it while remembering that without doing this surgery, the research will never advance. He thinks of Takano as being “the devil” for arranging the vivisection, … but then remembers that she’s doing it on his “ok”. He is the one sitting at the end of the table with his fork and knife while she prepares the main dish.  And it’s really only until someone he knows is about to be vivisected when his moral compass starts spinning all over the place and he actively fights against Takano to stop it.  He understands that he is a hypocrite for fighting for Satoko’s life, but not the other one.  And he still doesn’t believe that his actions as a neurosurgeon were ever wrong, nor that ignoring the consent of the patient makes the act any less wrong.  He would readily separate pieces of the frontal lobe of someone with a few emotional problems instead of seeing if therapy was possible, but vivisecting someone who is about to die makes him squirm inside.  Let’s just say his idea of ethics is a bit skewed. 
I think sometimes it’s forgotten that Irie is a pretty scary person too. He doesn’t really think about the moral implications of things unless he thinks about the research he’s performing. Acknowledging that Takano has a point, he readily goes along with the idea of vivisecting a live human being for the research and only for the research purposes. But he’s internally bothered by it, because his moral compass says “no”. And yet he still goes along with it while remembering that without doing this surgery, the research will never advance. He thinks of Takano as being “the devil” for arranging the vivisection, … but then remembers that she’s doing it on his “ok”. He is the one sitting at the end of the table with his fork and knife while she prepares the main dish.  And it’s really only until someone he knows is about to be vivisected when his moral compass starts spinning all over the place and he actively fights against Takano to stop it.  He understands that he is a hypocrite for fighting for Satoko’s life, but not the other one.  And he still doesn’t believe that his actions as a neurosurgeon were ever wrong, nor that ignoring the consent of the patient makes the act any less wrong.  He would readily separate pieces of the frontal lobe of someone with a few emotional problems instead of seeing if therapy was possible, but vivisecting someone who is about to die makes him squirm inside.  Let’s just say his idea of ethics is a bit skewed. 

I think sometimes it’s forgotten that Irie is a pretty scary person too.

He doesn’t really think about the moral implications of things unless he thinks about the research he’s performing. Acknowledging that Takano has a point, he readily goes along with the idea of vivisecting a live human being for the research and only for the research purposes. But he’s internally bothered by it, because his moral compass says “no”. And yet he still goes along with it while remembering that without doing this surgery, the research will never advance. He thinks of Takano as being “the devil” for arranging the vivisection, … but then remembers that she’s doing it on his “ok”.

He is the one sitting at the end of the table with his fork and knife while she prepares the main dish. 

And it’s really only until someone he knows is about to be vivisected when his moral compass starts spinning all over the place and he actively fights against Takano to stop it. 

He understands that he is a hypocrite for fighting for Satoko’s life, but not the other one. 

And he still doesn’t believe that his actions as a neurosurgeon were ever wrong, nor that ignoring the consent of the patient makes the act any less wrong. 

He would readily separate pieces of the frontal lobe of someone with a few emotional problems instead of seeing if therapy was possible, but vivisecting someone who is about to die makes him squirm inside. 

Let’s just say his idea of ethics is a bit skewed. 

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Attention to anyone who has the Higurashi VN!

http://higurashifix.wikia.com/wiki/Sprite_and_BG_Patches

As you may know, earlier this year Megaupload was taken down. This means that quite a few of these links are now broken and that some of these patches are unavailable. 

My request is that anyone who has the files for the patches, please upload them to mediafire or another reliable filehosting service and post the link online! Or if there are links to these same patches on mediafire, please help out and edit the page! 

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amiawake: x3x what. but. nothing happened. Well. I guess hugs happened. But. … What. rIKA NO

amiawake:

x3x what. but. nothing happened.

Well. I guess hugs happened. But. … What.

rIKA NO

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Anonymous asked: Do you think Takano was just for becoming obsessed in becoming a "God" (make her grandfather a "God") by her later actions? Like, once she meets Nomura and starts to risk other lives.

…..??? She … what 

Ok hold on let me …decipher the meaning of your sentence. 

Was she just in … becoming obsessed in becoming “God” by her later actions? Or… Ok hold on, I can understand what you’re saying, but let me think about this a little. 

One interpretation of your question is “were her actions just (as in, respectable) when it comes to her ascension of god”, in which it’s fairly arguable that by her logic, she would’ve been going the right way in garnering enough respect from fear to essentially be “God”. 

The other interpretation I can think of is “was Takano completely obsessed with becoming “god” once she meets Nomura”. The answer to that is that she pretty much was obsessed with becoming ‘God’ when her research started taking off. 

Let’s take a look at some of the things she says in the manga. I don’t have the VN handy right now, and the manga by Suzuragi is extremely reliable and close to the VN. 

This is right before they are about to dissect the first sample in 1978. She already has her sights set on achieving her goal to be a god. This became more desperate once Koizumi died and the research lost its backing, so once she meets Nomura and gains support she starts to really accelerate her plans to erase everyone and become “God”, or Oyashiro-sama in this case. 

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I am a quality Higurashi poster of course, and that’s exactly why I haven’t done legitimate analysis in a while somebody give me a topic to analyze and I’ll do something idk

I am a quality Higurashi poster of course, and that’s exactly why I haven’t done legitimate analysis in a while

somebody give me a topic to analyze and I’ll do something idk

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renahhchen:

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ruriair: This is what I love and find so heartrending about Takano, really… Her strong will and determination are really impressive, she’s an incredibly capable and strong person, but she’s convinced herself she has to be some kind of unstoppable success machine that won’t be hindered by things like personal feelings, and that makes her such a sadly isolated person. It’s not as though she went through life never having people who loved her and who she also loved, but for most of it, because of the traumatic experiences and setbacks she was constantly faced with, she pretty much believed the only person she could ever actually rely on in tough times was herself and her own will, and that’s a very lonely kind of life to live. And it’s how she ended up so lost.
ruriair: This is what I love and find so heartrending about Takano, really… Her strong will and determination are really impressive, she’s an incredibly capable and strong person, but she’s convinced herself she has to be some kind of unstoppable success machine that won’t be hindered by things like personal feelings, and that makes her such a sadly isolated person. It’s not as though she went through life never having people who loved her and who she also loved, but for most of it, because of the traumatic experiences and setbacks she was constantly faced with, she pretty much believed the only person she could ever actually rely on in tough times was herself and her own will, and that’s a very lonely kind of life to live. And it’s how she ended up so lost.

ruriair:

This is what I love and find so heartrending about Takano, really… Her strong will and determination are really impressive, she’s an incredibly capable and strong person, but she’s convinced herself she has to be some kind of unstoppable success machine that won’t be hindered by things like personal feelings, and that makes her such a sadly isolated person. It’s not as though she went through life never having people who loved her and who she also loved, but for most of it, because of the traumatic experiences and setbacks she was constantly faced with, she pretty much believed the only person she could ever actually rely on in tough times was herself and her own will, and that’s a very lonely kind of life to live. And it’s how she ended up so lost.

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what if I just became a higurashi social justice blog…

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