A Forest of Higurashi

A sideblog focused on Higurashi: When They Cry. Main blog is @albino-troll-ninja. Profile art by me

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Higurashi TEN - Collected Links

So I figured I'd do a little bookkeeping and put links for everything I've posted related to my role-swap AU, Higurashi When They Cry - TEN (ひぐらしのなく頃に転), in one place so that anyone new to the AU can look through everything in a reasonable order.

The Cast

The Games Club The Takano Clinic The Rest of the Cast

The Question Arcs

Chapter 1: Seigoroshi-hen (Calmness Killing Chapter) Chapter 2: Tsuminagashi-hen (Sin Shedding Chapter) Chapter 3: Dokukoboshi-hen (Poison Spilling Chapter) Chapter 4: Rikakushi-hen (Motive-Hiding Chapter)

TIPS

Tip #1: Notes On The Curse (Chapter 4 TIPS) Tip #2: An Idle Conversation in the Sea of Fragments (Chapter 8 TIPS)

Other Information

34 Random Facts About The AU A Brief Character Note on Akasaka and Teppei An Interlude

[ambrosii4]

She’s so crazyyyyy love her

[lunamagoria]

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To the madlad who added these two as a Duckduckgo easter egg:

1: why

2: thank you

3: you forgot hanyuu's horns

4: please add rena

[yurikishi07]

welcome back everyone

new higurashi anime project announced , no further details yet.

Happy Watanagashi

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[digicure]

i hate having a cold. im going to draw rena so my cold can get worse

[recursivewitch]

I've never read Homestuck but there's a type of media that I call "a Homestuck" and I think it's a useful categorization. The main criteria are:

long enough that the time investment is a serious barrier to entry

irrevocably changes your personality

brings something genuinely unique to the table. there is no real substitute for reading/playing/watching it in its entirety

Fate/Stay Night is a Homestuck. Worm is a Homestuck. When They Cry is a Homestuck.

Undertale has cultural impact similar to a Homestuck at first glance, but the fact that it's a pretty short and accessible game means that you don't get the particular mix of sunk cost fallacy and an intimate experience with a piece of media that results in you needing to connect with others who have already put in the time investment. You can buy your friends Undertale and expect them to play it if they're not too busy; telling a friend to read Homestuck is giving them a quest that, if accepted, will spark an odyssey. to read someone's Homestuck is an act of love without true equivalent.

[nopanamaman]

girl and her backup

[vapidsoup]

living in hinamizawa must be so fucking funny. its june 1983, youre hanging out with your friends in some fuckass village with zero (0) formal education institutions and being like yeah man im so hyped to go to the watanagashi festival and play the ring toss. hopefully nobody dies from the blood curse for the fifth consecutive year :/ anyways do these cicadas ever shut the fuck up or

[nosieposie]

Housewarming party at Mion's first flat (⁠>⁠▽⁠<⁠)⁠ﾉ*⁠.⁠✧

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HiguMei x Haruhi Crossover Thoughts: The Story

(Thanks to @neon-z for the link to the Reddit thread containing the translation)

I'll admit, the fact that it's Mei and thus the plot is inexorably tied to Mei characters and Mei mechanics puts a damper on the crossover for me, as I simply don't care about them. But besides that, I'm... happy?

Naturally, I'm comparing this to the Haruhi/Higurashi crossover fic I wrote over a decade ago (wheeze), primarily with regards to things like "how does the SOS Brigade get involved?", and it tickled me how much little details line up with the ones I came up with oh-so-long ago - particularly the inciting incident of "Haruhi wants to check out Hinamizawa's ruins to investigate the supernatural", though Mei is more explicitly ghosts while Cries wasn't as explicit. (Probably because I was younger and working with more generalized life experiences). And I'm a big fan of the Haruhi story - it's stuff like this that reminds me just how good Haruhi (as a character and as a work) can be.

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HiguMei x Haruhi Crossover Thoughts

Okay, the Mei Higu/Haruhi crossover cards are basically everything I'd want them to be... well, these are at least. If I played Mei, I'd probably actually whale for the first time in my life for that Rika/Yuki card.

I feel like I would really like this one if they didn't have Rika go for the red witch eyes. Kinda ruins the Nagato vibes, TBH

And hey! Kyon! Didn't expect to see you in any of these cards! And I definitely didn't cut this one off deliberately because come the fuck on, Mei, no sir!

Anyway, this is just what I got from the HiguMei Twitter account. If anyone can send me the rest (there's more, right?) of the cards, I'd be very grateful. (And a translation of the storyline, too - I want to see how Mei fucks the crossover up handles Haruhi in Hinamizawa differently than my teenage self did.

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So Higurashi Mei’s crossed over with CLANNAD…

…I know it’s not likely given that CLANNAD is specifically a VN first and foremost and not just a 2000s anime touchstone, but the possibility of Mei crossing over with Haruhi Suzumiya feels extremely possible and I don’t know how to feel about that

[xrbadex]

so like

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The noise I made when I saw this…

[hojosatoshi]

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Well, the Silent Hill f news sure is something. Got me interested in a Silent Hill game, for one. And hey, this means we're gonna be getting more eyes on WTC, so here's hoping for more fans in the future!

[tsuisou-no-despair]

I’m not someone who often reads things and has them resonate with them, but this… this hits.

[dummy-dot-exe]

by 銀髪商會