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[parappaya]

I dont think she likes KFC.

[bbbutterfingers]

kase-san and morning glories!

[daisymels]

rena doodle

[roziist]

congats

[roziist]

congats

[zer0i7]

Old one. I never got around to drawing the matching Satoko Sotsu piece.

[onewholivesinloops-deactivated2]

gousotsu being the mirror reflection of sotsugyō - the opposite of graduation - is very interesting to me. it's a fascinating naming scheme because it's about satoko's attempt to escape from graduation, the graduation into adulthood, and how her healing/recovery has gone backwards.

[onewholivesinloops-deactivated2]

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Looking at the latest part of chapter of Meguri feels like it’s giving so many clues towards the outcome while keeping everything so secretive as well. I have to wonder how it will turn out, but I’m already noticing little moments which seem to back up Gou! Manga Rika’s “I won’t let the dice decide my fate” and such. The calendar feels like such an important clue, especially since the text at the bottom appears to change depending on the panel. One which has the kanji for one of the branch school students, Tomita, and the tofu shop (according to Google, but that I’ll wait for official translations on!), has me wondering if the idea for the ending is instead of it focusing purely around the two, it focuses around every single person in the school. At minimum, the club. Whatever the case, Rika seems to have some plan in mind. The second one seems to match up 1:1 with Akarigurashi. Which leaves a lot to be wondered about. I wonder if this four page chapter might actually be one of our biggest hints to the different conclusion from Sotsu?

It does make me wonder how the ending between Satoko and Rika will be. But I do feel a tad more confident in the fact that it will be different. How? Zero idea! But I’ll definitely be reading till the end.

[onewholivesinloops-deactivated2]

Sotsu Tatariakashi is such a deeply relatable and resonant arc. It’s really interesting to me. Teppei tries to become a better person for Satoko’s sake even though his motive for doing so is a fundamentally selfish one (not wanting to die a pathetic death alone without anyone by his side), which is why he takes it upon himself to try to atone for his wrongdoings and become someone she can genuinely consider family. But the reality is that none of this is enough to erase the severe consequences his abuse had on her so the climax of the arc being Satoko coming to the painful realization that no matter how lonely she feels deep down and how much guilt she feels for going this far to obtain her “perfect world” (which isn’t helped by the fact that she’s presented with this extremely cruel and seemingly perfect what if situation that she cannot bring herself to let go of her goals for and embrace because of her trauma) she really can’t move past his abuse and the resentment therein, which is why she shoots him in the head and bashes his corpse in one of the most emotionally cathartic moments in the series. Like taking everything literally, it’s Satoko committing murder by shooting Teppei in the head, which is of course damaging. But looking at it more allegorically, it’s like if Satoko imagined a world where she shoots her abuser in the head because even if he’s changed she still hates him and can’t forgive him for everything he’s done. This is very understandable and she’s very valid for feeling this way, but this still traumatizes her and she has to kill her emotions to be able to handle it. I don’t really consider Teppei much of a character even in the context of Gou/Sotsu even though I get the angle of everyone being capable of becoming better - I see him as more of a symbol of what Eua is putting Satoko through, and as a symbol of the conflicting wants and needs of children like Satoko are going through when trying to cope with the reality of abuse.

[ohmytrancy]

redraw of that particular frame in the first higurashi anime op °˖✧˖°

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[onewholivesinloops-deactivated2]

I don’t think Reddit has ever had a correct take on Sotsugou or Satoko but I gotta hand it to whoever made these two memes back when the show was airing because they were spitting facts

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[springdation]

they’re looping, your honour.

[hesbianhojo]

The Beginning of my SatoRika AU “Alternate Graduation” Part 2

Part 1

[yuri-usagi]

gochiusa X higurashi