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Originally Posted by Jan-Poo
In my opinion the abuse of furtuitous coincidences in a story is a lot worse than the overuse of a particular device, especially when the coincidences cannot be explained if not by a precise design of the author, and therefore it's a sort of deus ex machina. This is even worse when you're dealing with a "mystery" where you're supposed to use reasoning and logic, and therefore by logic you shouldn't consider plausible that a series of events that clealry follow a design are just coincidences.
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I don't think it's abused in Higurashi though. Weird coincidences are like a trope the horror genre uses to invoke the fear of the unknown. If you knew what happened, and it made sense it wouldn't be creepy. Like in real life weird coincidences sometimes happen too that are creepy like that.
I guess it's just preference. But that's always how I thought of that scene.