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Rokkenjima needs more polls! So here’s one for our Higurashi fans to mull over. Which is your favourite Higurashi chapter? Please share your reasons why in the discussion below!
Meakashi for sure. While I loved the mysterious feel before that, Meakashi gives you the start of answers that in a lot of way bring more questions, but gives you your first real feel for just how far this goes. It is the arc that cemented Higurashi as favorite of mine.
My absolute favorite arc is Tsumihoroboroshi! While I love the arcs that came before and the arcs that would come after, Tsumihoroboroshi displays the themes of Higurashi most prominently, in my opinion. It has the best blend of horror and hope, and focuses on my favorite character, Rena.
This is a tough question. I voted Tsumihoroboshi, because it’s the turning point–in a way it’s the arc that the weight of all the previous arcs is riding on. And boy, does it deliver.
But I also love Minagoroshi. Rika’s battle against despair is incredibly riveting to me, and the way the other characters have learned from their mistakes and band together to save Satoko only to lose it all at the end is a gut-punch every time.
BUT I think Meakashi is the arc that works the best as a “standalone” story. I love how it’s like a Greek tragedy, with Shion getting revenge on all the wrong people.
For now, I have to give my vote to Minagoroshi. Seeing everyone band together to fight against fate and save Sakato is super inspiring and invigorating, but the pure despair you feel at the end of that chapter is just delicious, mmmm.
Meakashi-hen for sure. It was this chapter that made me fall in love with Higurashi, both in the anime and then all over again in the VN.
Here are my top three…
First places goes to Minagoroshi for me. Satoko is one of my favorite characters and it was really awesome to see how things played out there. Then there was the ending of that chapter… It really stuck with me.
Then there’s Tatarigoroshi for the questions arc in general. This is basically the end of the questions arc (I, maybe harshly, view Himatsubushi as little more than a filler/bonus chapter), so we’ve accumulated a lot of knowledge and then learn something rather interesting at the end of the chapter.
Finally, I suppose Onikakushi, since it was the introduction to the series and just hooked me right from the start.
I am actually not much of a Satoko fan, but I do like this arc a lot too. When it comes to the question arcs it may be my favorite. Tatarigoroshi really kind of turns the story in a very different direction and really makes you reevaluate the conclusions you were heading towards.
Tatarigoroshi is both my favorite and least favorite Higurashi arc that has a novel (otherwise, Onisarashi is my favorite). While other arcs got me into it, none of them hit my emotions as hard as Tatarigoroshi did. Getting to know Satoko and caring about her and then finding out just what a horrible situation she’s in is the only time I’ve ever cried while reading the series (besides the reverse scene in Minagoroshi where she fights back and Rika is so happy that she’s saved).
And then I love Natsumi so much as well as her original arc, where it has the usual Higurashi build up and the twist at the end (though most people KNOW the twist getting into it.)
I love Onisarashi! The first time I read it, I was totally unspoiled, and I actually thought that the clues I saw, the the direction of the blood spray in a certain scene, were actually mistakes on the illustrator’s behalf! The twist was actually strangely cathartic, on that end.
It’s a shame En Kito didn’t illustrate any more of the manga, because the art in that one is my favorite.
Minagoroshi hands down, although Tsumihoroboshi is a close second. These two arcs made me really love Higurashi as a series and just had me wanting more from Ryukishi07. Minagoroshi with learning more about Rika and the battle against fate and Tsumihoroboshi being the turning point to learning more to the story.
Why, Meakashi but Minagoroshi is a second favourite, too. I really like Meakashi’s intensity, the subtle answers it gives, yet doesn’t give too much away and learning more about Shion, the Sonozaki family and a little bit about the village was interesting. As for Minagoroshi, I was very impressed with its meticulous and well-detailed answers to many of the mysteries presented and Rika’s story and feelings in that one were conveyed well. And the battle against fate was done in a very good, emotionally intense manner.
Back when I first watched Higurashi I would have been inclined to say Meakashi, but now that I’ve had a lot of time to sit and think about the series as a whole I would have to agree with others on here and say Minagoroshi. Thinking about the two most climactic scenes in that arc still makes me emotional even now, even though I’ve only gone through the arc once compared to the multiple times I’ve gone through Meakashi. It’s when things really start to fall into place, and sets up perfectly for the finale in Matsuribayashi (also somewhere in my top 5).
Tsumihoroboshi-hen was legit! Rena was man insane and stuff! She was corrupting Hinamizawa and was about to destroy the school! She despised everyone and Keiichi was all like “Rena, BELIEVE ME!” and "She was all like “SHUT UP KEIICHI!”.