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Originally Posted by SpiritofTheNaiker

Spoiler for My hypothesis about it:

Could be possible, instead, that Watanagashi-hen and Meakashi-hen are not the same world from multiple points of view, but just different worlds, with nearly the same plot but different villains?

Spoiler for Watanagashi/Meakashi:

You're right that they're different worlds. I was not aware of it for some time but even in the anime you see some details which are different. For example, in Watanagashi it seems Shion and Keiichi don't know Takano wants to sneak into the Saiguden until they see Takano and Tomitake are at the door trying to open it. In Meakashi, Takano tells Shion earlier that they want to sneak in. Also in Watanagashi Rika's syringe is found with her, while in Meakashi it probably went somewhere else.

But in the sound novel as well as in the afterword to the Meakashi manga there's no doubt left that the killer was Shion all the time in both scenarios.

Originally Posted by Seronei

Spoiler:

It's stated that Rika gave up all hope on her parents surviving, so presumably in any of the worlds we're shown she just doesn't care about her parents. She just wants Satoko to survive, if she also refused the experiments they had no reason to kill her parents but it would lead to Satoko dying.

You're right there. After all, I think I'm just unhappy that Rika's parents who are really strong characters in my opinion (or, at least, have a great potential which unfortunately is neglected), are treated poorly by the storyline once they're dead. There's hardly any mention of them later on. Her father is really courageous, I think, because he opposes Oryou Sonozaki and tells her to stop bullying the Houjou family. Probably he knows that he will looked down upon for showing his sense of justice. But it doesn't seem to be a big deal anyway, he just spoke his mind and has to take the consequences, that's the way the plotline deals with it. On the contrary, in Minagoroshi-hen Keiichi is praised like a messiah for helping Satoko in a similar fashion, although there is no danger for him, and convinces anyone although he doesn't even act considerately (I don't like his talk with Oryou about Satoko because there are many reasons why Oryou should forgive Satoko and help her, but Keiichi hardly comes up with these reasons but prefers threatening Oryou, saying he will smash her head etc. - sorry for getting off the topic). I also like Rika's mother very much as a character, who is passionate as a mother although we know Rika doesn't love her very much, because Rika thinks Hanyu is her real mother.

Originally Posted by GabrieliosP

Spoiler for No, you're wrong:

No, Rika says in Minagoroshi-hen that Mion never went insane. Also, Frederica says that at the very start of the game:





Shion is the culprit in both Watanagashi-hen and Meakashi-hen, so they're the same story told in different points of view with minor changes.

Sorry, but where are these screenshots from? This isn't the Manga Gamer version, right? I certainly would remember this nice picture. In the version I got, the character design is very primitive in comparison.