My Dumb Thoughts on Higurashi- Watanagashi Part 2
a continuation of my reaction to Watanagashi. you can find part one and my Oni reaction at #dumb-thoughts-series
You know a chapter's gonna be good when it starts with sad music.
Oh, wow you’re right Keiichi, that was a quick day.
STOP! Keiichi, stop it. You sound like Kaname Date. You’re doing something wrong with your life.
(in all seriousness, I don’t care too much, just finding it wild how extreme it is compared to Oni)
TOMITAKE!!!!!! Oh how I’ve missed you.
*me realizing I never gave Tanako a voice* oh um uhhhh – F it, you’re British now!
Ohhhhh! I got tricked cause they swapped the opposite way from what I thought! So the key thing was likely a trick for Mion to meet him as Shion, thus giving context to how she could do the huddle thing and her talk with Ooishi. Also, super recontextualizes the who would you save discussion. (Maybe the bento was Mion too, but not super sure until they confirm it).
Yeah, I guess closed off elitists could come to be interpreted as oni by neighbors… I can tell you my neighbor is! *slaps knee*
I agree with Keiichi {{shudders}}, not sure how the kidnapping= specifically someone from Hinamizawa is the culprit. Like abstractly the Oyashiro-Sama sacrifice, sure, but that seems flimsy.
“Babe you don’t understand, they were giving me the deep lore!”
Tip on sacrifice: hmm well following that logic, it would seem some part of the murders is what’s angering Oyashiro-Sama…
Tip on ritual instruments: Ah so Tanako’s gonna steal the raft thing eh? That sounds like a good idea that can’t have any possible repercussions.
Happens to see the New Silent Hill F trailer on Twitter: Wait WHAT?!
Congrats Ryukishi07. Hope it comes out well. (also, no wonder Ciconia is taking so long)
The gang single handedly destroys and immediately saves several food vendors. Ramsey would be proud.
And just like clockwork, Keiichi has become an idiot sandwich.
That moment when you realize you’re in a secluded cabin with a person you barely know and a metric ton of torture equipment:
I know the gang’s about to jump you, but this is one of the few times you should legit be comforting Shion, like that’s not the kind of thing you can just shake off dude. Also, I give the Silver voice back as a good luck charm. (I’m gonna headcanon that the Sonozaki family has a “hedgehog” accent, but Shion has been slowly losing it)
“We haven’t found Satoko yet.”
NO Nonono you don’t get to do that game.
The minute Keiichi tries to lie to them, the gang’s like:
Police Tip: I swear if they sautéed Satoko… don’t do my kid dirty like that.
Went back to Oni to see if I missed a mistake from Rika’s performance, but instead got real uncomfortable with how much they referenced and compared food with the cotton
Mion and co. are late for school. You could say they… Gotta go fast :)
Woo! Satoko is safe and still twerp-y as ever.
Mion looks at you like this WDYD?
Ah Mion came from the school of “I know you’re lying but I want you to tell me”
Mion crime family confirmed! And as the heir no less.
Tomitake and Tanako can’t catch a break, can they?
Oh, wow Keiichi you are just the worst. Coulda just asked if she wanted to run away but noooooo. It had to be about you.
Oh, that’s Kimiyoshi. Honestly kinda surprised Rena and Satoko’s families weren’t part of the big three, especially since I swore Furude Was mentioned as separate earlier. (turns out it was the Furude shrine and the three fam squads.)
Sorry Keiichi, you're apparently not politically important enough to disappear.
Hey I’m with you Satoko. Pumpkins… kinda gross.
The class has started the first japan Branch of the Fight Club…. Wait a minute. That works way better than it should.
Keiichi: Who be… Scooby-Doo?
Hm, I wonder what the chances are Rena was in Mion’s street gang, since I think she still would have been in Hinamizawa then?
Shion: having a guilt-ridden mental breakdown
Tip: Oh, so everyone already knows they’re just being polite, are they?
NO! You can’t do this again.
I had a feeling that kind of thing was going on with Satoko’s family, but it’s pretty uncool of you to say it like that Mion.
Keiichi, why must you be weird even when you’re mourning?
I thought for sure this convo was going to have Rena be like “It’s not your fault Keiichi… because I killed her 🙂”
Kuma-chan: ~Ooishiiiii~ did you make someone piss themselves in your car again??
Tip about Names: *quickly goes into Oni to see if “Reina” is written with the demon character*
Permission Denied tip: oh shoot! I prepared for Oryou to have an Amy voice, but now there’s another Sonozaki I have to deal with? I guess the councilman is knuckles? Sure. (and incase anyone says anything Keiichi is unofficially Shadow so councilman Sonozaki can’t be Shadow)
*Mion not showing up for school*
Keiichi: Oh, it’s probably nothing
Keiichi, please for the love of god…
Wow Rena’s a true-blue detective.
I feel like we’re past suspecting someone from Hinamizawa Rena.
Who would they meet to go get soy sauce, and not be suspicious about food from? Well thinking about the cast the only person I can think of is Mio—
Oh No! Keiichi’s been infected by Rena’s repetition disease, repetition disease.
Keiichi… the phone ringing…Stop Monologuing in real time and pick it up! He is so Shadow.
Another surprisingly rad new BGM… not sure how well it fits here but I like it.
They really just hit me with a
Okay… so Shion is probably killing/disappearing the leaders one by one so they can’t make her/ Keiichi disappear, and she’s probably been Pretending to be Mion since the day after Watanagashi. That’s my guess.
Tip about tattoo: Aw excellent Now all we have to do is look at their bac-…Curses! if only they weren’t always directly facing us!
Rena, you have been surprisingly reliable this timeline. Thank you for keeping keiichi humble.
I hate how much this conversation hurts.
I’m honestly surprised how straight forward this reveal is.
The true Mion… weirdly looks like Shion. Like they clearly used one of Shion’s face sprites for this.
This is a lot of really depressing history.
So you’re saying Mion’s Grampa soylent greened a whole bunch of people either on accident or on purpose.
Worst timing on an achievement ever. * Mion tracing the horrid history of discrimination and trials of the village and her part in them*
I can’t believe so much of this is because of a freaking doll (supposedly)
Keiichi gets to live by the power of sheer sincerity.
I can’t believe they brushed over that she killed her grandma too. Wonder what that was for.
Hey at least you got to live this time buddy… dammit.
This is straight up Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival
For the first time in his life, Wata Keiichi has turned down being horny… I’m so ProUD OF HIM
They even had their own secret version of the swamp. That’s dedication.
So Rika had a syringe of the magic drug, meaning she likely knew it was Mion doing this, and that she was risking her life. *Sips lemonade with suspicion*
A lotta zombies running around this joint, aren’t there. Like Mion could be explained as a mental breakdown from Shion, but Takano doesn’t have a twin as far as we know.
Oh, hey it’s a Silent Hill Regret MonsterTM. It’s in a hospital and everything!
Satoko! You’re safe now!! I’m so happy.
“There’s probable a Satoko chapter coming up”
*sweats looking at the next chapter*
Oh and here’s TOMITAKE!!! Ayyyy!!!
Why must the adults be so weird about the gang? Why?
“This chapter played right into what the players probably were thinking”
That said, I did think with this being so early, it does kinda make it unlikely to be the answer at least not for everything. Mion was very careful to say she was related to every murder, but not that she did them afterall.
God the Sonozaki twin theory is worded so weirdly, but I think I get it. The theory is that they were working together to take down the three fam squads, w/ Shion able to go off and murder while Mion was helping search. Then when the police came Mion was supposed to either hide in the well, later escaping to meet up with Shion, or die there and let the bloody history end.
Also no, he got stabbed because he was a shit to Mion, like What? Is the sin breaking a heart?
I can’t believe this over 70 hour game has the nerve to tell you to go back and read chapters again immediately after each one. (Maybe I’ll look at Oni again after I finish Chapter 4, but that’s a maybe)
I kinda hope that the killer is not only a person, but someone we’ve already met. Like even if it's set up really well, I don't want the ultimate answer to be “Got you! The entire time it was a demon you only just met” *narrows eyes at the girl on the chapter 7 cover*
Well this was fun. I enjoy all the pieces Wata puts down, even if I missed a lot of them.
My one question that I’m not sure the game will cover is the point of divergence for the timelines, because like how did Keiichi come to be in the club at least three days before Oni
Also I feel extremely validated by the fact Keiichi never returned the maid outfit.
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