is the Higurashgi VN worth reading?
>>720235516I don't know. The girls are cute but I also heard it's pointlessly dark.
>>720235516yeah
>>720235610ToT
>>720235516satoko won
>>720235516no pubes????
>>720235516It's absurdly long and half of it is unfunny slice-of-life scenes.
>>720235610the last anime they released was like DBZ
>>720235939shitoko tourist piece of shit
>>720235516>vn by Ryukishi07>worth reading
>the ritual hoe>yeah but what is she holdingi still chuckle
>>720237080nigga you are posting shart's gate.
>>720237080>SciADV fag thinking his flavor of weeb shit smells better
>>720237080nope not worth, read it and snored through it and even fell asleep reading this shhit so right after that lil incident i dropped it loland yellow piss shit will forever be a shit
goddamn I love bloomers
>>720237293>furry nigger thinks he's above weebs for reading a weeb shiti jej
>>720237080>reddit:gate
dunno read a book or manga, never got the appeal of a vn
>>720236590This. I really liked the anime and gave the visual novel a try, but it was just hour after hour of after school games. It's no wonder the visual novel medium died. The remake-but-actually-sequel anime also left a bad after taste for me.
>>720237359they're nice
>>720235516The first 3 chapters are good. 4 is like half an hour long. 5 is abysmal. 6 is okay. 7 is whatever and I couldn't make myself to start 8th.
>>720237447this pic is pretty hot. ngl
>>7202374875 and 6 are the best, next to 3
>>720237627I just didn't care for the 10 hour long Shion's flashback in chapter 5, pacing was abysmal.
>>720235516Depends if you can handle 20 hours of nothing worthwhile happening on multiple occasions.
>>720237080>look we raided vndb, that means our kusoge is better!
>>720237235AAAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE NOT AGAIN NOT AGAIN
>>720237457>eat an apple or orange, never got the appeal of grapes
>>720237235Is new anime good? ok let's get real, how bad is it?
>>720238698it starts off like a meh rerun with a different ending to each chapter, then gets truly awful.
>>720238504SG actually is a lot better but keep coping I guess.
Satoko's Ojisan knows how to make her happy
>>720238830>but I guessGo back tranny
>>720238830>I have shit taste, copeok retard
>>720238698It's worth it for the memes.
>>720237080Based and true
People said to skip Kira, should I?
>>720240137It's mostly fun slice of life if you want more of it, and the first episode has some truly exceptional scenes.
>>720235516It's enjoyable and worth giving a try.
>>720238698It's outright terrible from a narrative point of view but it's also really fucking funny if you don't take it too seriously. It basically takes a fat shit on the original story and characters to further connect Higurashi to the overall WTCverse (while also somehow pissing on previously established connections) and push a strange proto-LambdaBern under the guise of SatoRika (which is technically the same thing anyway). The plot direction is piss and more than half of the second part (Sotsu) is spent pointlessly reiterating the previous part (Gou, which itself was also mostly spent pointlessly reiterating the original question arcs for the remake meme). However, the animation and music is pretty great. The openings and endings are great and look gorgeous. The girls and K1 are also peak sex as usual, further enhanced by Watanabe's artstyle, which I think was a pretty good fit. There's good eyecandy if you're that kinda guy (but not as much fanservice as the original).I can't call it good, but I can't say it doesn't have value. It's got substantial merit as probably the funniest "sequel" anime I've ever seen. It also brought us the wonder that is teenage Satoko. And it got Kiliu to make another doujin, so I can't hate it.The best time to have watched it, like with all trainwreck anime/manga, was with /a/ back when it aired. I'd still say it's worth watching though if you've 39 anime episodes worth of time to spare.
>>720235516It's fucking kino. I could talk about all the reasons I love it so much however it's mostly all spoiler talk. So just read it.
>>720238862i hope you get cancer, actual trannytokonigger
>>720241024boobtoko and seeing the college club for 17 seconds was nice, but I can't say it was worth it.
>>720235516Yes but only with the original sprites and pirated so that imbecile Hackishi07 doesn't get a cent.He made one (1) decent game in his entire stupid, talentless life just by sheer dumb luck. Just don't subsidize his garbage writing and painfully garbage sequels that retrospectively ruin his only decent work.
>>720238698>Is new anime good?Unironically better than original
>>720241024>>720241223fuck off and die trannytoko corders
>>720241050>>720241318I thought you went to prison? They give you /v/ posting privileges over there?
shitokonigger trannies will be newnigger /qa/niggers for eternity
>>720241268>original spritesExquisite taste
>>720237447I-I'm a grower
>>720235516yes, it's great
nu-trannytoko spammers are still at it and obsessed till this dayeven rikaniggers aren't this fucking obsessed LAMOOOOOOO
>>720235516When is Joseph Anderson streaming this again?
>>720241024This is pretty much my opinion ver-batim, I honestly can't even believe its a real thing. The redemption episodes on the fucking UNCLE were the icing on the cake. Ah yes lets humanize this child beater
>>720241529whys it so blurry
>>720241771spooky countryside village
>>720241705>The redemption episodes on the fucking UNCLE were the icing on the cake
>>720235610It's not pointlessly dark. It's actually the opposite - it's the most tasteful violence I've seen in a story of this type, because it serves the greater message of good people falling to their baser instincts, or if that's too secular of an interpretation, good people being forced to make bad choices because of complex social AND biological factors.
>>720241771RTX
Wait so is the VN worth reading or not? All I've understood from this thread is that the creator is loser faggot (why?) and the anime sucks
>>720241771R07's trademarked "SOVLFUL" filter in Photoshop.
>>720242116The og anime is good
>>720235671I'm afraid I'll mistakenly get the censored version
>>720235939>>720238862>>720241024How hard did Teppei fucked her?
>>720235516The story has lofty high points (most of which appear in the first three episodes) and ridiculously weak low points (most of which appear in the last two episodes). The grand mystery is a bit of a letdown and works only on a moment to moment basis. On the other hand, R07 excels at character-driven drama and does a good job creating unnerving atmosphere in the Question Arcs. Overall I think it's worth it despite its unevenness and disappointing ending - I enjoyed it and I'm not even that invested in Japanese media in general. It's very long but you're already here so it's not like you have anything better to do with your time.
>>720242116it's worth reading if you can enjoy the slower start that focuses more on slice of life and getting to know the cast before the darker themes start. I'm not gonna deny that the pacing is a weak point. I'd say at least try out chapter 1 and see if you like it.Also people call the author a loser faggot mainly because of the dumb decisions he's made the past handful of years. Particularly milking Higurashi with shitty continuations/spinoffs and throwing Ciconia (newer WTC entry) in a ditch for like 6 years with no sign of ever returning.
>>720242116Fuck yesHonestly the first three arcs are amazing horror, the only similar stuff I could find was Chaos Head. In that sense I'm desperate for more.
>>720242116I'm going to give you a serious answer and you need to read my reply carefully and not chimp out like some /v/ posters do when a When They Cry novel is discussed.Higurashi is an amazing and thought-provoking work of art. I think Umineko is better but I love both novels dearly.It is not perfect and the biggest flaw is absolutely the pacing. Keep this in mind, if you can work through it, good, if not, oh well, you should move on to other novels or games that you actually enjoy.I recommend you read in Japanese.Even if you play in English, use the original sprites and backgrounds as designed by the author. Do not use mods which introduce new fanfic graphics that destroy the mood of the original work.
>>7202374877 ending is kino above kino
>>720242116Every chapter follows this structure:>first 15 hoursnothing happens, just endless MC inner monologue, after class games, slice of life slop>last 5 hoursactual plot, but you can just watch the anime for itThere are 8 main chapters + 2 bonus + however many more fan translated
>>720237080It's peak midwit writing
Please do not deplore yourself.Even if the world does not forgive you, I will forgive you.Please do not deplore yourself.Even if you do not forgive the world, I will forgive you.So please tell me.What will it take for you, to forgive me?-Frederica BernkastelThis poem and the "I'm sorry" scene at the beginning of the first chapter set the mood so fucking well. I genuinely had chills during this part. The sound design with the cicadas screaming and the constant THWACK sound is brilliant too.
>>720242708there's only one chapter that reaches 20 hours and it's the final one. the rest are like 10-12 besides the 4th one.
>>720242708Filtered by basic introspection and whimsical spirit of youth.
>>720242116Yeah it's much better than the anime adaptation since it's hard to translate a VN. The anime original anime did a good job though. If you've seen that then reading the VN will be boring. If you read it make sure you play a version with the music track digital network.
>>720242904>the music track digital network.the what?
>>720242708literally not true at all i just finished reading for the first timeyes some parts go on way too fuckin long (looking at you chapters 5 7 and 8)but i loved every single line of dialogue even in the scenes that were too longi usually mash a to skip text in games because its schlocky but i never ever did that for higurashi, i was always interested to hear what everyone had to saythe only time i skipped dlg was chapter 8 during "that" section however thats by design obviously lol>>720242232all versions of the anime suck desu
>>720235516WHERE ARE MY FELLOW EPISODE 6 CHADS?ALL RISE FOR THE BEST VN EPISODE!
>>720235516Uooohhh
>>720242116Same reason why FF7 was good and the new one is an abomination: japs that are absolute retards sometimes get lucky accidental genius and make exactly one good thing in their entire life. And since they are complete retards, misunderstand their own work and the things that made it good, and pull out the biggest humongous turds ever known to mankind as sequels/remakes/what-have-you
>>720242034Yes, that's usually the core of suffering porn>I'M INSANE NOW EVERYONE MAKE TERRIBLE DECISIONS
imagine yanking those shorts down as a prank. that'd be so funny.
>>720242116Retards will tell you it takes about 4 hours of reading SoL for the game to hook you in all the way. You have to realize that key parts to solving the mystery are hidden there and these brainlets that weren't paying attention didn't beat the game.
>>720235516breedka
>>720244836I agree, although some club games don't really offer too much while others can be pretty important.
>>720244836You have to be next level imbecile to pretend you ""solved"" magic illness, supernatural deity does the noises mystery before the reveal, you poser clown.At least the people enjoying the SoL parts are just normal, not autistic retards. Also r07 took a big steaming shit on you le mystery solving dimwits in his second VN. Garbage VN, but I liked that he dissed you autistic morons this hard at least.
>>720236780>shitoko
>>720243047There's multiple soundtracks. The one that has the theme named "Digital Network" is the best one.
>>720245163I got every single killer and accomplice right, who was alive and dead when and where, and I correctly got that Oyashiro sama was an entity that actually existed but was benevolent in nature, thus, it cursing people should be fake, same thing for the great hinamizawa hoax and all the death reports that didn't make sense for a gas leak that silently killed people overnight. Most of this with just the first 4 chapters, then confirmed every remaining suspicion with the 5th. The only thing I failed to properly solve was the true nature of the curse being a disease. Cope, brainlet.
A lot less bitching about the gays and the genders in this thread than I expected. Do we just reserve that for the other Ryukishi threads?OP the games are good. Reading the manga is definitely different but is also faster so if you only care about "the plot" you can do that instead.
>>720242824You mean Steins;Gate yes.
>>720246340Serious question:Does LGBBQ have ANYTHING to do with the VN?
>>720237080BASED
>>720246660with Higurashi? nah
>>720246660Satoko and Rika are gay lovers.
>>720242708>first 15 hoursjesus hell no wonder I didn't had the patience to just read the paranoia narrative while expecting for a single choice to some day appear
>>720246660The spinoff material has some fairly shocking content, spoilered just in case.
>>720246340That particular discussion only ever happens for Umineko, although anyone bringing it up on this board is going to be laughed off from now on due to Joseph Anderson BTFOing the entire argument by proving with the text that Sayo is a woman.If a contarian midwit like him is right, you must be on some strong shit to deny reality.
>>720246182Thanks for spoiling whatever you wrote, I would have hated reading whatever cope you put in there by accident.
>>720241676He's not going to, too problematic for his faggy snowflake audience
>>720248486>by accidentNTA but what? If he spoilers a spoiler, how is that a cope? He's replying with spoilers so he hides them, how is that cope? What fucking sense does that make?
>>720235516nothing "when they cry" is worth anyones time
This thread is a prime example of why we need the IP counter back.
>>720235516best vn. the story works unlike umineko
>>720246182How on earth did you work out the existence of Yamainu let alone specifically that they're Miyo's lackeys? It's almost completely obfuscated from the reader until like chapter 6.
>>720240137Kira directly foreshadows decisions that would result in SotsuGou.
>>720248740if you think this is bad, you should see the 07th general
>>720248778he didn't but the yamainu is mentioned first in chapter 3 i think
>>720235516I want to plap her and lick her tummy so bad
>>720248778They are very well hidden and it is pretty bullshit that there aren't more explicit clues, but take note of the "gardeners" and "forestry workers" popping up at inconvenient moments. And also at the very end of chapter 1 where you see them come out of their van seperately to Irie's people from the clinic.
>>720246182RETARDanyone could've figured that outIt's the alien virus shit that feels dishonest + the existence of yamainu before chapter 6. KYS
>>720248374Keiichi's wife and girlfriend
>>720248778The mysterious vans around Hinamizawa are noted several times, though who commands them is probably impossible to guess.
>>720248390>only for UminekoAre we pretending that Ciconia is imaginary?
>>720249159No one cares about Ciconia. Not even its creator.
>>720235516Why did the japs decide that the "wearing nothing but a shirt and underwear" look was appropriate for exercising?
>namefag>34 results>maybe more when not using it>it's also a TetoschizoNo suprise there.
>>720248965>>720249001>>720249105Is there ever any point where they pop up to do suspicious stuff that ISN'T observed only by, say, K1 or Rena as they're mid-schizo attack? When they were properly revealed I was like, wait, these guys are actually real? Maybe I'm just forgetting, been a while since I read but I definitely remember being surprised that they were actually real.
>>720248390Surprising to hear him say that, how did his chat react? kek
No.t. Finished the first 4 chapters and realized ryukishi07 is a fucking hack.
>>720249361Hinamizawa Syndrome only exaggerates and obfuscates, it can't create things out of nowhere.Except for the needle, which really annoys me because it's the sole rulebreaker, it was early in the story so Ryukishi was probably still figuring out the rules
>>720249361I can't remember if they were really present in the early parts of a chapter. I think their van hanging around was a detail that Keiichi noticed earlier on, and then it even nearly ran him over.
>anons itt still think hinamizawa syndrome is realCute. You failed the game though.
>>720249601wasn't the needle just hot sauce that Mion put in the food as part of K1's punishment for skipping school?
I want to bend miyao over
>>720249601the needle was hallucinationtesting i hope my spoiler tag works
>>720249601I was gonna say, that and Rena staring down K1 with a hatchet feels like it breaks the rules of HS quite a bit so I had a hard time retroactively figuring out what I was supposed to work out was actually happening.I'm still annoyed at the tip that shows the Yamainu covering for the fake phone number. Rena is HS'd out the wazoo at that point and is an unreliable narrator while the tip is using a standard narrator to portray the events of the Yamainu explaining why the phone number is out of service, which is really unfair to the reader imo. I finally thought there was some credence to the idea that there are shady actors up to no good, and the game seemed to be telling me that I shouldn't believe that because the unreliable narrator thinks it while the omniscient one is showing me an event that disproves it.>>720249643Irie and the Yamainu appear outside of K1's house at the end of ch1, which I took to definitely be him going crazy. In retrospect it was probably actually happening.
What color is broccoli anons?
>>720235516Higu, Umi, S;G, Fate and more. Yeah they are worth reading.
>>720250105Probably half of those at most are worth reading.
>>720250025Mion and Rena talked about calling the "director" there, so despite K1 being full schizo I think most readers would believe that someone really was there to get him. I guess you could argue that doesn't definitively prove what was true in the other scenes, but it was still ch.1.
>>720235516>>720242116You zoomers are useless. Play games and form your own opinion. Don't come crying to 4chan for recs
>>720250079Were the hojos colorblind or just mentally deficient?
>>720250428K1 is still the narrator at that point and could have hallucinated them calling Irie "director", no? Unless they call him that at any other point in the story, but I seem to remember them mostly calling him coach or teacher. This might vary based on which translation is being referenced.I legitimately don't know this one, there's a lot of "this actually happened" and "this was hallucinated" that I have worked out in ch1 but this is one of those details where I can't tell if I was supposed to take that at face value or not even with the full story context.
>>720242116Yes but it has pacing issues, when you start the VN you'll have to sit through 4 hours of kids hanging out and playing board games until the festival happens and the plot finally begins. It's all build up but it'll be really boring to get through. And pretty much every arc will repeat this structure. That said by the time you've made it to the first festival you'll be hooked.
>>720237080>troons;gateYou have no leg to stand on.
>>720235516its good, skip umineko & ciconia.
>>720250865That gets into translation discussions and what words were specifically said, which I'm not really knowledgeable on. I think the word they said for "director" depends on context and it can mean manager/coach too. Unsurprisingly, schizo K1 chose the worst-sounding one. Either way they definitely called Irie, the villlage doctor, over because he was going Satoshi 2.0 and Irie of course brought the yamainu knowing Keichi was going L5
>>720251303Yeah I'm also only passingly familiar with the translation quirks with coach/teacher/director which probably muddies the water a lot. As for Irie and Yamainu being called there, I think only K1 sees them, and I took that on my first reading as Mion actually putting in a house call out of genuine concern (which turned out to be neither what K1 thought was happening nor what was actually happening). It's tricky to do unreliable narrators right but in a mystery especially it made me feel like I just couldn't solve anything because so much can just be waved away as your narrator having schizo AIDS.In theory if R07 had the "rules" figured out from the outset I think it would have worked well but as it is it feels pretty unfair. Still a better mystery than Umineko though.
>>720251303>>720250865>>720250428Fuck, chapter 1 is such a well thought out sequence
>>720251303>spoilerYou actually blew my mind with that, I never thought about that when giving over the unsolved mysteries in retrospect. It's simultaneously a red herring and a massive clue. That's actually really clever, although perhaps a little scuffed in translation.
>>720251729It's my favorite chapter in the whole thing in a vacuum, I have my nitpicks but it is incredible how well it slots into the overall story considering I doubt R07 really had a clear vision for the overarching narrative at that point. K1 slamming the door on Rena's fingers and her standing outside of his window crying is top 3 one of the most memorable and sad scenes in any VN I've read to this day.
>>720250079>>720250745I thought this was a poorly localised joke. Is it really just that the Hojo family are perpetually colorblind?
>>720251678For the most part I think Onikakushi does it well. Knowing that Mion/Rena were really just in over their heads at their friend going down Satoshi's path from the year before recontextualizes a lot of their actions. They WERE kinda retarded for pulling pranks on K1 when he was clearly flipping out, but they also had no clue what was happening either. Continuing the fun club days and ignoring the dark village history was all they could think to do.
>>720252070I mostly wanna know what was happening in the scene where K1 hallucinates Rena chasing him with a hatchet. Was she actually carrying a baguette or something? I'm still just nitpicking, overall yeah all of Mion and Rena's sequences are recontextualized really well as you go through the story and it really tugs at the heart strings. R07 managing to build on chapter 1 so well is really great "not quite planned out but it worked out well" writing, right up there with Shion existing at all as a character.
>>720235610People only say this because of the anime and it's the most popular version of the story. The anime is actually fucking terrible.
Post more sextokoNOW
>>720252309It's very awkward, but there is actually a reason why Rena has that axe. See if you can figure it out with clues from the rest of the story, hau~.I'll post the answer if nobody guesses it in five minutes.
>>720252574Wait, but is she actually holding that hatchet while talking to K1 in that scene even though she knows he's starting to act crazy like Satoshi? Is she stupid?
>>720252309I think Rena following him with a hatchet ties into what Mion and Rena were really feeling during Oni. Rena is basically autistic at the best of times so even her well-intentioned actions can make her seem like a schizo.I actually DO think part of that scene was a hallucination. At some point Keiichi is running away with all his energy but Rena is always somehow walking behind him. But initially she really did follow him home out of worry. At least thats how I see it.
>>720252574Weren't they supposed to go treasure hunting ot am I misremembering it?
What's the best way to play it nowadays?With Umineko there are like 4 different fan patches that change the sprites, add dubbing, lipsync and shit.Is there something similar with Higurashi?
>>720252550MOGGED
Here's the answer:First of all, Rena was actually carrying the axe.She was using it to clear out trash from the dump.The reason Kei freaks out is because she remembers what he says about the dump excursion previously and feels guilty for her outburst too. She's trying to reconcile by laughing and goofing around.If Kei wasn't L4 then he would be calling her a weirdo and laughing too, but he's running away because he thinks she's brought the axe for HIM, which is technically actually true (lol), just not in the way he thinks.Rena interprets this as a sign that he's still hurt so she tries to use her language of love, which is being persistently and cheerful... bad combo for L4 Kei.
Higurashi if it was good
>>720252907Oh that tracks. I can't remember where she's coming from or where she's heading in that scene but it seems pretty believable that she was heading to or from the dump. It ties in with the first jumpscare in ch1 where Rena appears behind K1 with the hatchet as he's reading the newspaper clippings too so that makes sense.
>>720252719use 07thmod. It gives sprites, backgrounds, music, voice acting etc. from all the releases.
>>720252646>>720252669I always saw it as she really did have the axe and is having a moment like she does in part 3 where she flips out and starts screaming about Oyashiro-sama until Mion punches her. Like she sees what's happening to K1 and is in a state of mania because her religious delusions have come real again, that said she definitely didn't want to actually hurt him, that was K1 misunderstanding what was going on.But also Ryu07 didn't have everything narrowed down so well in the earlier chapters, if you ask me. An example is K1 calling Mion in chapter 3 asking her to take care of Satoko, and Mion starts crying asking why he's asking the exact same thing Satoshi did - even though it was actually Shion who got that call originally. And Shion pretending to be Mion in this instance makes almost no sense at all. That and details about all the dead bugs and smell of sulfur in the air at the end of that chapter which don't really have any explanation other than hallucination I suppose.
>>720253141thanks bwo
>>720253158>That and details about all the dead bugs and smell of sulfur in the air at the end of that chapter which don't really have any explanation other than hallucination I supposeAnon...
>>720252907Now that we have it out of the way, what do you gather happens in Tatarigoroshi with Teppei's missing body and supposed Keichi's lookalike?
>>720252741Nope.
>>720249351She has dick?
>>720253323NTA, Mion moved the body and didn't tell K1, and the group try to come up with an alibi for him because they know what he did but they don't tell him. That chapter has great emotional beats but man do the characters act stupid in it.
>>720253158Shion pretending to be Mion on the phone doesn't seem that crazy, she also answers the phone with something like "Sonozaki residence" and Keiichi assumes it's Mion. She could've also done it with the intent of messing with him, but then he starts talking about Satoko and the festival. Shion goes along with it to hear what he's going to say, until she breaks down over the situation mirroring Satoshi the year prior.
>>720235516Ugly visual novels have NO EXCUSE to look so fucking bad.
>>720253480He was too fucking schizo to get that they were making an alibi for him. The worst part is that the girls planned to spell it out to him after school one day but at that point he didn't trust them and didn't go.
>>720253323This one also has a clear answer when you have full story context.The body was removed by Sonozaki associates on the order of Mion. Kei did not cover his tracks at all during this chapter, he only thought he did because he was delusional.The Kei lookalike was not a doppelganger, that's another misinterpretation by a delusional Kei. The gang simply made fake ironclad alibis.
>>720253158>An example is K1 calling Mion in chapter 3 asking her to take care of Satoko, and Mion starts crying asking why he's asking the exact same thing Satoshi did - even though it was actually Shion who got that call originally.It's clear that he was making things up on the go and has written himself into a corner on more than one occasion. He tries to amend those little incongruities by introducing the concept of Fragments, which might be extremely similar, yet vary on minor points. It's the same thing with episodes 3 and 5 not being perfectly in accordance with each other.
>>720253570B-but so kawaii?
This thread looks pretty BLACKED on my screen bros...
>>720253323Really? Lol that one's obvi, everyone in the club is covering for Keiichi, which is why that scene is hilarious, he's too stupid/paranoid to catch on that they are all covering for him.As for teppei, satoko thinks he's around still cuz she's crazy and sees him in places he's not when she's l4/l5 like when she thinks the principal is teppei.
Is the anime good? I see a lot of people saying that the anime is terrible and that the visual novel is good
Shion approaches you with questionable intent.
>>720253570another brainlet filtered by soulful original graphicsstick to your shitty console generic weeb graphix next time
>>720239571>Worth it for the memesEh.... Debatable and I'm leaning towards not. Like there is something about memes on a horror anime that cannot be lived retroactively. Like the weekly threads and shit posts are something on another level that live with you every time you look back at an anime.Like how many anons would even understand the correlation between Another and pie memes without having lived through the weeks of fuckery
>>720253676I think the onus is on the people who aren't going crazy who can recognize that he's acting like Satoshi to calmly explain to him what their plan is, they do that with Rena in ch6 (though it doesn't stop her from going schizo). I dunno I was just bothered by how easily they could have reeled him in by just talking to him candidly. Dumb anime girls.
>>720253871The original anime is good but no replacement for the VN. It does some interesting stuff and I liked it as supplemental viewing after reading the VN.
>>720253871The old DEEN anime was enjoyable enough on its own but very flawed as an adaptation, some chapters are pretty rushed and important plot points get dropped. Enough that they needed an anime-original arc in the second season to fix stuff. But it did have good sound/atmosphere which is pretty important for Higurashi.VN is the better way to get the full story, manga isn't bad either.
>>720253871Love the novel, tried to watch the anime, bounced off fast. I love reading however I don't watch much TV so that might be why.
>>720254084It's neither the first nor last time when solving R07's mystery necessitates an assumption that everyone involved is clinically retarded. It's even more pronounced in Umineko.
>>720254542At least Umineko has an explanation for why "everyone involved" is stupid.
>>720235516Sir, it's a sound novel.
>>720241024tldr Paizuritoko
What would DarksydePhil think of Higurashi?
>>720255284isn't he a adhd gamer? I think the first slice of live scene would filter him.
>>720255284>WOOOOOW I'M PRESSING BLOCK WHAT THE FUCK
>>720255284"Oh wow the camera's been on the whole time huh?"
>>720255696Kek
>>720235516No, lol
>>720252010Hojo liked explosives so much that their eyes are collectively shit. Shogun 2 can't be wrong.
>>720249316america schools was like this until the 70s when sexual assaults became common from (((teachers)))
>>720235516Yes, even if you have already been spoiled by the anime.
>>720249316Because lightweight clothing that doesn't interfere with movements is ideal for exercise.
>>720255364The slice of life in Onikakushi does a fantastic job at turning away most normalfags that need to get into the gritty suspense right then and there. Even if it did dive into it head-first, he probably wouldn't be interested in reading what's essentially a book.
>>720256410>School segregation declined rapidly during the late 1960s and early 1970s.merely a coincidence of course
>>720241529It takes place in shirakawago?
>>720235610>The girls are cute but I also heard it's pointlessly dark.The VN is one of the most hope-pilled stories out there, it is overwhelmingly idealistic.It was the anime that made it infamous as a shitty slasher series.
>>720258238No, it's set in a fictional village, loosely based on Shirakawa.I'm surprised you'd recognise it from a shitty landscape pic with a filter on it.Do you live there?
>>720235939
Serious question and I want serious replies only.Why are there so many female fans of Higurashi?For Umineko I understand the appeal. Women like mysteries and stories where women take a leading role.But Higurashi seems way too fanservicey.
>>720235516what an insanely erotic image
>>720235516I watched the Anime, was a pretty fun mystery show. 7/10 I wish they make Umineko anime, i'd watch that, but i heard its unfinished and bad. Im not wasting 100+ hours on a lame visual novel presentation, even if the story is good i'm not doing this giga loser shit behavior.
>>720258771You sorta answer this yourself. HR has many women in a "leading role" plus the culprit / main antagonist is a woman
>>720258771Ryukishi understands female psychology
>>720258771Higurashi is also extremely female centric. Keiichi isn't really that important in the grand scheme of things. Also Rika is extremely, EXTREMELY cute.
>>720258630is that miki from hell teacher nube?
>>720258771I don't have an answer but I'll have to back this up with my anecdotal experience, that I've met 5 girls in my life who were fans of Higurashi, and I've never met any other guys who were into it.
>>720258857How many hundreds of hours have you spent reading 4chan sir
>>720258771i know this is going to be hard to believe, but the majority of people on the planet are not politically or socially minded and care very little for the perception of contemporary problems that loud niches whine aboutevery single woman i have ever met has either not known what fanservice means or doesnt carepanty & stocking has a lot of crude humor fanservice so on and so forth but all my female friends love itfanservice is not the barrier to entry you think it is, its only a barrier to the loud minority of people youll see talking about nerd stuff online
>>720259993Smoking bad for you. See Lisa Lisa.
>>720258771https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITRBJLK-6PEI found the thesis of this video quite illuminating on this matter. Perhaps in an unintentional way. But it is revealing all the same.
>>720259880yes
>>720258771most of the important characters in Higurashi are also women. Him being the only teenage boy in the class is part of the plot.
>>720260481thanks
>>720258771All these replies talk about superficial factors.The honest truth is that reading in the 21st century is seen as a feminine hobby and R07's works are highly regarded.Every single visual/sound novel that your average /v/ poster has heard of has many female fans, more than your average game (if you consider these kinds of software novels games, anyway).
>>720260559It's (initially) got the trappings of a harem anime, which I can't see as being popular with girls. But if I had to guess the horror/gore draw is stronger than the harem repel
>>720260702You're welcome.
>>720258771tiktoksource: my sister
>>720241771Blurring it makes it harder to tell it's a real image with an edge detector used on the buildings and nothing more
Why is the anime so different?
>>720262101deen?
finished the first 2 arcs. when does it get good with a payoff?
>>720237470i want mion to sit on my face
>>720262335If you aren't hooked by chapter 3 it may just not be for you.
>>720262335if you dont like it now, you wont like the rest of the storybut if you decide to keep reading try really hard to figure out the mystery of the next chapterepisode 3 is a fan favourite for a reason
>>720245073Sex with rika's thighs
>>720235516is it true higurashi shows loli pussy
>>720262396>>720262416I'll give chapter 3 a go. if it doesn't grab me, then I'll grrrr
Why did this bitch fell in love with a random guy just cause he head patted her?
>>720262875Satoshi represents everything that both the Sonozaki family and the St Lucia are not.
>>720263010Good morning, all Satoshi team baseball is worse than my cricket team yes I am afraid it is true to say cricket is simply better, But there must be some main upon your time because Shion is most worstest character
>>720258771Higurashi is even more focused on the girls than Umineko, in terms of screentime the cast is overwhelmingly female. Keiichi doesn't even get his own sprite until the second half of the novels.Keiichi is still important as the protagonist of course but the girls are the ones making things happen. Out of all the stories I would say only Tatarigoroshi is primarily focused on Keiichi and male experiences.>Higurashi seems way too fanservicey.The anime plays up the fanservice just like it plays up the bloodshed. The only real fanservice in the VN is the Angel Mort stuff and some of the punishment game penalties, which is all basically an extension of R07 using Keiichi as a mouthpiece to talk/joke about otaku and doujin culture shit.
>>720235516honestly? no. I tapped out half way through #7 and it really doesnt have any answers, its all mystery with no payoff. the real problem is that its verbose as fuck, theres huge huge paragraphs detailing every individual scene so the progression is just slow as fuck.
Good night Higurashi bros
>>720263348you tapped out right before the game literally gives you all of the answers fyi
>>720263572when, v7 or v8? cause v7 so far is just about satoko and its not particularly interesting, they're just rehashing the same shit about teppei being evil
>>720262875A lot of it was right place at the right time, considering Shion was resentful of her family and just escaped a shitty all-girls school(prison), and here comes this cute boy that swoops in as her knight in shining armor
>>720235516she cute who is this
>>720264779the last like 25% of 7 reveals basically every mystery
>>720250079Correct!
>>720235516Lust provoking image
>>720236590It's way more than half.
>>720236590>>720267637and this is why I read the manga instead. fuck VN padding
>>720235516no. watch the first two seasons, and literally do not engage with any other r07 shit. its not worth it, and its fucking retarded. (the swimming bonus episode was lulz, and the "hey rika, dont take your new life for granted" bonus episode was ok, but fuck everything else.)
>>720235516OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
>>720270370>they're eating her!>then they're gonna eat me!>
don't open
>>720271293oh no... shouldn't have clicked that..
>>720271293awww shit here we go again
>>720237080>make post shitting on the topic of the thread>include an image from a different property in the post>all the replies are "WELL THE THING IN YOUR IMAGE SUCKS"This place is so predictable it's boring.
>>720238698The ending is a great ending to watch together with other people.
>>720241024>It also brought us the wonder that is teenage Satoko. And it got Kiliu to make another doujin, so I can't hate it.patrician post
>>720248390Curious how that midwit "proved" that exactly
reminder that the biggest satoko fan is a fat mexican
>>720272087make sense, they love fucking their little sisters.
>>720262615https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKOKne8IPZ8
>>720237080>Shit;Gate>worth reading
>>720274469I never got the appeal of S;G when Higu is so much more fun to read in comparison.
>>720275805S;G in a lot of ways is a celebration of otaku culture of the 2000's. And Okarin mirrors the otaku growing out of their manchild phase to become a responsible adult.
>>720276543It would've been nice if the fanbase ever grew out of their manchild phase too.
>>720276853>S;G fans>not being manchildrenAsking for the impossible there.
>>720238698Gou was ok, it wasn't as good as the originals but it wasn't terrible per seSotsu was just bad, few episode might qualify as "so bad it's good" but otherwise it just ruined the original story, the most enjoyable thing about it was discussing the trainwreck on /a/ with other AnonsBasically, if you liked the original VN/series just ignore it or consider it a work written by a completely different author that just didn't know any better, you can still jerk off to Satokos fat tits without going through the heap of shit
>>720249734I hate that this makes sense for Mion to do and I hate the consequences this prank has
>>720251303The Steam release actually has the original Japanese dialogue really easy to find in StreamingAssets/Scripts.They say they called the 監督, translated as manager.
>>720238698If you want to laugh: go for it, the manga is okay at least.>>720255203This.
I played the Switch version with a translation patch, it took 300 hours of my life but I would happily go back and do it again.
>>720253963I get your point, but some of this is timeless
>>720279252How are you that slow? I read the eight chapters in 152 hours.
>>720279639Dumbfuck, the Switch version is the entire thing including all dlcs and is unskippable
>>720280343>Unironically reading bonus chapters not written by ryukishi now you're wasting your life.
>>720280787You are low IQ
>>720280787>unskippable
>>720280940>>720280981You can keep on kvetching. My statement remains true.
>>720281256The lower attention to detail on her hair makes it look a little plasticy.
>>720270370why are you crying
>>720281182It's factually false, just admit you didn't know and you're dumb because you didn't listen even after I told you. Dumbfuck
>>720282426nah, you can suck a bag of dicks.
>>720282658I accept your concession and bending over to take my cock
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