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mixed feelings overall but at least i can rest easy on this 🐻

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yup I’m back with more problems 💀 anyway here’s another thing that bothered me: why was the last thing we saw of rika was her parting conversation with satoko on the train??? like something abt rika being completely absent from the Happy montage at the end while all her friends together was just ridiculously out of place for higurashi considering the whole thing revolved around her before lmao

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also dare I ask…how even did this miracle (and what thing even Was the miracle ??) come about…before it was abt friendship and believing and everyone doing their part to MAKE the miracle happen aka narratively EARN it while this was abt…naruto magical girl fight?

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this was abt ep 14 and now after ep 15…what I said still stands 💀

honestly this climax felt very cheap to me lol. like the dialogue essentially reduced the last 30-something episodes to satoko’s frustration over studying, and while i understand irl academia is often inaccessible and ableist, this writing isn’t exactly helping me as a viewer sympathize with satoko, considering the lengths she went to, allegedly “bc of studying”

some ppl have said well that’s just what they’re saying so it’s obviously not what they mean! subtext!!

then ok why did not only this ep, but this entire SERIES (gou/sotsu), waste the times they could’ve had Legitimate Conflict between satoko and rika bc of even the stuff that happened BEFORE st. lucia? like satoko knows everything abt rika looping thru june 1983 for 100 years now - if she had expressed resentment toward rika bc of rika never telling her abt the looping, hiding the truth abt hinamizawa syndrome from her for so many worlds, never telling her abt where satoshi has been all along, etc., then this would have been a LOT more believable (and INTERESTING??). but no, we’re still just talking abt st. lucia and studying

and same w rika, like why wasn’t she more like “hey why are you murdering our friends over and over with no remorse for them lol” when they were fighting

also if the fight was gonna be this interpersonal and emotional, then what was the point of showing the original satoko “die” and be replaced by witchoko? bc that setup allows the audience to feel no sympathy or remorse for witchoko when finally confronted with the consequences of her actions and permadeath. like what exactly in the canon rn should be giving me, the viewer, pause when rika is on the brink of permakilling satoko… nothing, bc of the split with witchoko lol. but it also would’ve been impossible to Not split satoko and witchoko bc satoko would be irredeemable if she was truly the one killing everyone with no external influence. so if we’re just killing her evil counterpart (assuming the implication is the original satoko is already gone forever, which is what the writing suggests to the audience) then???? who cares?????? this is just a huge disservice to satoko’s character and story :/

like i just feel like this writing has rly undermined the tragedy of gou and sotsu (and frankly the original), and tragedy is one of the most central themes to higurashi. and before anyone comes here to be like “but in umineko—” or “but in ciconia—” let me stop you right there, bc higurashi was higurashi first before either of those, and clearly to make higurashi fit into those properties we’ve essentially had to break the rules of the world of higurashi and that’s just Bad Writing and a huge disservice to the original series

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also as much as I was mmmmm about breaking the rules of the world of higurashi for this sequel, I think the bigger issue is when you break established rules of a world with little to no explanation or purpose. yes, higurashi is a mystery story but that doesn’t mean you can break the logic of the world with no explanation - especially when the original mystery (specifically of rika’s death) wasn’t even actually that supernatural or fantastical (it was murder and a virus)

gou/sotsu continually downplayed universe-rule-shattering moments that outright contradicted the original (rika looping again, hanyuu doing…whatever she was doing, witchoko, the rest of the cast being so insignificant, satoshi waking up, etc.) and were chalked up to just unexplained ✨magic✨ or were just so brushed over (such as my recent realization that rika and eua just…never meet so rika never even realizes that someone Bigger than satoko is giving her powers who may have manipulated her aka turning her into witchoko?) that the acknowledgement/explanation is forgettable

tl;dr - the more I think abt this show the less it makes sense and that makes me sad

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GOOD JOB LADS

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i can't believe teppei had a better redemption arc than satoko

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satoshi after he goes home and sees satoko and teppei getting along

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me, watching higu gou.sotsu: god i wish i gave a damn about umineko

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OKAY HOLD. wasn’t a big part of the stakes in the original higurashi (esp matsuribayashi-hen) was that rika was limited in her ability to loop?? every fragment, she was waking up closer and closer to watanagashi—losing precious time to try to find her killer before fate would happen. plus, hanyuu flat out said she had no more power to send rika through loops if matsuribayashi-hen didn’t work out. so how did hanyuu suddenly have the power to allow rika to loop again, not once, not twice, but…for infinity???? based on rika and satoko’s parting conversation in sotsu?????? NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE

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best addition

higurashi gou/sotsu could’ve been an email

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ALSO am I dumb or since when has St. Lucia been in tokyo/so far from hinamizawa that it required the entire shinkansen to get there

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higurashi gou/sotsu could’ve been an email

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so are the um*neko stans happy now?? a while ago y’all couldn’t leave higu alone so 😗

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also everyone in the “nah satoko’s conflict is about WAY MORE than studying!!!” camp…..how do you feel now 🤡🤡🤡?

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gou/sotsu is only newcomer friendly bc of how it literally doesn’t fit into the rules or tone of the original 💀 like yeah if you watch gou/sotsu first then maybe this is all fine and dandy but if you watch/read the original first then this is just weird as hell lmao

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can we pretend this never happened