Higurashi Ch. 2 Watanagashi Spoiler-Free General

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[quote=“Karifean, post:4, topic:42”]
Man these reaction posts are so much fun to read

Personally, I loved the scene in the shrine this time around. How Keiichi and Shion both just keep getting more and more terrified and Takano on the other hand gets more and more gleeful. It’s hilarious.

I think the all-you-can-eat event was the first time Keiichi met the real Shion, wasn’t it? Or am I forgetting something…

NotKyon:
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Oh dammit should not have opened that spoiler

Expected though. Not surprised on that.

I really liked the Mion-Shion shenanigans, and Shion stole my heart. <3

The only thing I have any inkling on the solution on is whether or not is Takano’s death.

Takano is a nurse, right? The corpse was burned and one of the TIPS mentions that dental records were used to identify the corpse. I think Takano mixed up the dental records to fake her own death, possibly because she knew that she’d be “targeted” by Hinamizawa after sneaking into the shrine storehouse. (whether that be the residents or the village or the “true culprit” hinted at the Tea Party). This has to imply that Takano was involved with another corpse (and its death unless she procured the corpse from the morgue or something). The only missing person(s) that corpse could be, assuming they were mentioned in the story beforehand, is one of the people who was “demoned away” as part of the previous incidents.

…Wait, didn’t they say that the dental records were from three years ago? Could that be a clue that the woman who fell from the observation platform years ago (Satoko’s mom?) is the corpse here? That’d bring into question how she could have survived the fall and captured by Takano afterwards though, and that would be pure speculation. (Might have gotten the order of the “curse” killings and Onikakushis wrong).

Also, seeing as there were rampant murders and kidnappings going on after Watanagashi, I think there are two possible implications:

1. The “true culprit” didn’t commit any crime in Watanagashi (this chapter), or their crimes were interrupted (so their plan to demon away someone on the night of the Watanagashi didn’t work out, and possibly only one of the Jirou-Takano murders were committed by the “true culprit”, in which case I will be going with Jirou seeing as that’s consistent with Onikakushi)

2. The reason Jirou and Takano were victims in Onikakushi was not that they infiltrated the storehouse, but something else.

One other thing: Could it be that Keiichi was stabbed by the “true culprit” at the ending but since Keiichi is convicted that the true culprit is Mion, the true culprit appeared as Mion to Keiichi.

Next up is Rika! Her whole speech about the dogs and the cats was pretty cryptic, but I guess what she means to have said was that she was planning to protect Keiichi because, if she didn’t, she knew that the real culprit, Mion, along with the rest of the Sonozaki family, would get caught (she did say, after all, that the dogs were in trouble). That being said, I think she went to Mion’s house for more than just soy sauce; she went their with a specific intent. That syringe that was found in her skirt pocket points to only one thing: the suicide-inducing drug. She went there, planning to take care of Mion after all! But, for some reason, Mion was able to one-up Rika and get to her before she could cause any damage… Perhaps it has to do with a certain idiot telling a certain someone who was pretending to be a certain Shion Sonozaki that he told everything to Rika

That’s a pretty reasonable explanation. What does that tell us about Onikakushi though?