Higurashi manga thread

[theacefrehley]

Originally Posted by Level E

Spoiler:

Kaidan takes places in the same world as Higurashi, but long before the events in Hinamizawa. It is set in middle school in Shishibone (the city where Takano's burnt body is found in Higurashi in June 1983).

Does it have any ties with Higurashi?
Well, here's the list of characters (taken from the jp wiki).
I'll let you decide:


宮島 友宏（みやじま ともひろ）
主人公の少年。3年A組。際立った夢もなければ覇気もない、今時の中学生。



宮島 優花(みやじま ゆか)
友宏の叔母。鹿骨署の刑事。一見、朗らかで優しいお姉さんであるが、大酒飲みで怪力である。



博之（ひろゆき）
友宏の同級生。



亨（とおる）
友宏の同級生。



田無 美代子（たなし みよこ）　残念！主人公じゃないよ～
3年B組に在籍する少女。クラスの中で浮いているらしい。
鷹野三四という名は、田無美代子が高野一二三を継ぐものとして自ら名付けたもの。　
祭囃し編参考。　アニメ・ファンにはまだ内緒だよ～　バラサナイデネ

佐藤 理恵（さとう りえ）
3年B組に在籍する少女。美代子と犬猿の仲らしい。



Short answer: no

田無 美代子（たなし みよこ）　残念！主人公じゃないよ～
3年B組に在籍する少女。クラスの中で浮いているらしい。

well
not main character, but she's still there

[kitedragon]

Originally Posted by Shion's Sanity

My gosh...maybe the teddybear was behind it all along.O_O

Remember Shion's original thoughts on why Satoko is so depressed?

[Shion's Sanity]

Because of her Nii-Nii?

[Graskell]

Chapter 3 of Utsutsukowashi-hen is up. I think I might be starting to see why this is called the "reality breaking" chapter...

On the other hand, there is a version Yoigoshi chapter 4 up as well, but the file seems to be corrupt. Has anyone gotten it to work?

[theacefrehley]

Finally got to read the end of Yoigoshi

What I suspected since the beggining wasn't wrong

Spoiler:

About the sword-woman being Shion

But that was not completely true
Nice little twist they pulled in the end

Benny and Aortic
this one is already in your e-mails

[Aortic]

Thanks for your translations once again Ace!

Sorry about Yoigoshi, that's why we didn't announce the release officially.

Benny's on vacation and gets back Sunday or Monday, so he'll probably re-upload it then.

[Graskell]

Fair enough. I'll be looking forward to it then.

[Benny1]

whee, I've got all of the translations for Yoigoshi-hen. Thanks, theacefrehley, you're completely ridiculous >_>, I've never seen something get translated that fast.

Chapter 4 was fixed, I apologize for that, and Chapter 5 is now up!

Enjoy yourselfs ;o.

I start editing for... Tsumihoroboshi-hen too, soon! What a suprise! I hope you'll enjoy that chapter too ;o.

[StrayChild]

How come chapter five is so short?O_O

I hope we get to see more chapters with Tomitake translated, since he's one of my favorite characters. And more of the arc with Natsumi. I'm eager to see what happens. That's true of the other original manga-only arcs too, but the Natsumi one hasn't got any new chapters in a while.^^;

[Aortic]

Just a short chapter, nothing amiss! >_>

[StrayChild]

Are you being serious? Your eyes are shifting!

[Benny1]

Chapter 5 is indeed short. Chapter 6 is coming up when I feel like it. School starts soon, and I want to wait for a tankobon before I release anything from volume 2... (7 and above).

The tankobon goes on sale on August 27th, depending on how quickly I can acquire certain things I shouldn't have, I could edit with that quickly.

[StrayChild]

tankobon?O_o

I eagerly await it. It's an interesting arc.

[Benny1]

a Tankobon is the bound volumes of manga, usually much higher print quality than the magazine scans, due to higher quality paper and printing, and they actually tend to make many pages much easier to edit. If you recall the enormous big color spread at the start of this, those were decolorified and changed to only have the chapter name in the tankobon. To get an idea of how different the quality is, look at chapter 1, then chapter 2.

[Sonozaki Shion]

I can't wait for more translated scans to come for Onisarashi-hen, Yoigoshi-hen and Utsutsukowashi-hen. Keep it up. ;]

[Benny1]

I hate to say it, but it looks like you guys are going to need to wait a good long while for more Onisarashi-hen, as Aortic will be very busy with school. No more of Utsutsukowashi-hen is released as of yet, I believe, too.

Yoigoshi-hen will come, I'm starting edits for Tsumihoroboshi-hen right now, actually.

[Aortic]

That notwithstanding, I haven't heard from our translator for a month and a half either.. T_T

[Rasuberi]

I just recently finished reading Yoigoshi hen, which was pretty nice. Don't really know what I should say, but it was pretty fulfilling of a side-story. Probably because Mion is my favorite character...

In any case, it sounds like you guys are having translator problems perhaps? I was wondering if you might need any more help since I COULD do translating. I'm a lazy girl, but maybe I'd change that for the sake of Higurashi, since it is Higurashi after all. I'm starting school soon, however, all I'm learning in school will be Japanese anyways so I can just pretend translating is part of my studies anyways. : D Just tell me if you do need anything~

[Selic]

Gah, you're making me even more impatient for more chapters of Yoigoshi-hen to be released.

[BanditKing]

Originally Posted by Rasuberi

I just recently finished reading Yoigoshi hen, which was pretty nice. Don't really know what I should say, but it was pretty fulfilling of a side-story. Probably because Mion is my favorite character...

In any case, it sounds like you guys are having translator problems perhaps? I was wondering if you might need any more help since I COULD do translating. I'm a lazy girl, but maybe I'd change that for the sake of Higurashi, since it is Higurashi after all. I'm starting school soon, however, all I'm learning in school will be Japanese anyways so I can just pretend translating is part of my studies anyways. : D Just tell me if you do need anything~

well did you consider the early arc that other group left them on limbo? like Onikakushi, Watanagashi and Tatarigoroshi.I thought the manga did alot better job then the anime did but sadly its not all translated.its been like 2 month since the last chapter of onikushi,11 months for watanagashi and 7 month for tatarigoroshi.