#Takano Miyo

[gachupons]

私とあなたは今夜、出会わなかった。

You and I never met this night.

[clubpenguinkiller]

nurse takano's fun fact!

[rontra]

first of all the fact that im alive proves that god is a pussy. second of all im going to contract a terminal illness and die in the mountains to create a mystery that will haunt you for the rest of your miserable little life. third of all i have a medical license the sexy nurse thing is just for kink reasons

[mrbeadyeyedfrosty]

[daisymels]

[cuterefaction]

Quick Higurashi sketch. Takano and Tomitake being worrying and dysfunctional couple goals.

[soumuchforthat]

it's always takano tuesday

[paulimiel]

photographer takano doodles! i feel like she would end up enjoying nature photography from spending so much time with jirou. but of course we all know what she likes taking photos of the most

[trashcan-train]

Takano: my plan is flawless they will never catch me i will become a god

Keiichi: hey can i put my bike in the trunk

Takano:

Takano: it's................full.............................

[astralynxx]

two recent takano drawings… i love this freak

[spiralmatai]

[mio-nika]

[darkveracity]

Does Hinamizawa Syndrome Actually Exist?

Keiichi, Shion, Satoshi, Satoko, and Rena all develop extreme paranoia and resort to violence in various timelines

This is just what happens when a young person under extreme stress feels powerless and desperate and goes without food or sleep or healthy social interactions for a long time. All of them have internal justifications for their actions that make sense to them and feel like there's no other choice. Hinamizawa Syndrome functions as a metaphor for all the broader forces that put them in this situation and bear partial responsibility for their actions but precisely because it's a metaphor it's not actually required to explain anything

Satoshi struggles violently when they stop sedating him

Yeah because you kidnapped him and strapped him to a table in a scary looking medical facility. Anyone would be terrified and fight to get away under those circumstances!

Patients have similar delusions (paranoia, footsteps following you, maggots in your throat)

This should actually be expected regardless of Hinamizawa Syndrome since paranoid delusions are very culturally mediated and Hinamizawa has legends about all of these. It's not any more meaningful than American schizophrenics commonly believing that the CIA is spying on them

Hifumi Takano saw many men from Hinamizawa go insane during the war and tear out their own throats

Did he check at what rate non-Hinamizawan soldiers lost their minds and killed themselves after the stress of committing war crimes? Isn't this just selection bias at work? The unique manner of death is interesting but not conclusive beyond their local culture having an approved method of suicide

Irie vivisected the culprit of the dam murder and saw evidence Takano attributed to the disease. Later Irie drilled a hole in Rika's head and Takano vivisected her mother as supposed 'Queen Carriers' and they again saw what they believed to be evidence of Hinamizawa Syndrome

However they never did any controls to check that what they saw wasn't true of all humans or unique to their few victims. A few vivisections with no controls that no one else can attempt to replicate for ethical reasons performed by a scientist with the kind of strong motivation to find evidence that leads to confirmation bias doesn't constitute proof

Irie developed a drug that controls Hinamizawa Syndrome symptoms and a vaccine for the disease. Takano developed a drug that induces symptoms

Anti-psychotics and anti-anxiety drugs both already exist as does drug-induced psychosis. It's totally plausible that they just invented new drugs in these standard categories. Irie supposedly developed a vaccine but Takano was inoculated and still developed symptoms under extreme stress so it's not clear that it's effective

At one point Irie and Takano make the dubious claim that Rika's health controls the health of the whole village and when she's sick everyone gets sick at higher rates

I'm pretty sure this has to be confirmation bias or reverse causation. The whole queen carrier theory is nonsensical anyway and it's canon that the part about her death driving the whole village insane is wrong. It's true that Rika's family has been passed down through firstborn daughters for eight generations straight but that only takes us back a couple hundred years and Hanyuu lived 1000 years ago. What does Takano think happened in generations where the firstborn child didn't have kids or where the main family died out and it went to a cousin or what have you. Rika could easily disprove the whole thing if she just went digging around in the Furude archives and drew a nice family tree

It's somewhat implausible for so many kids in the same area to be at risk of psychosis

This type of mental health issue is very genetic and Hinamizawa is the kind of isolated village where everyone is distantly related. It's more than possible

[rontra]

hello,,, 👉👈 i saw your old takachie art a little while ago and i just want to say i have been thinking about it ever since... as a fellow takano kissing women truther thank you for your service o7

GOD that was such an ERA.... i miss them

[levenlyne1]

Takano

[daisymels]