[Malintex_Terek]

Originally Posted by imac2much

A small point:

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After watching all of the anime, we know that Rika is faking her cuteness all the time... she is in fact extremely old (hundreds of years?). We also know Satoko is the master of manipulation and traps. I don't know about others, but this kind of lowers my view on both of these people, because they seem to be living a big lie their entire life. Rika is just acting cute all the time to manipulate people right? Oh well, if I don't consider such details, I like them more, but if I do think about it... I like them less than Shion :/ It might be more excusable with Satoko, since we never know straight up if she's manipulating everyone (and it's assumed that she isn't) but in Rika's case we KNOW she's just acting in every arc...

Uh,

Spoiler:

You couldn't possible understand the mental exhaustion Rika's probably gone through, stuck in a child's body for a hundred years. Even then, it's impossible for her to have held up such an immature act for so long without people close to her noticing; in all odds, how she's acting is her own honest sincerity; she still loves her friends even if they end up killing/killed, and I don't think she could lie to them (with lying being a theme in Higurashi) for so long.