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Originally Posted by Eryops

Hanyuu was corporeal when she and Rika spoke to Ichirou but incorporeal again afterwards. There's no reason to think she can't switch between the two states at will.

Hmm.. I see. But when was this again? I can't recall..

Originally Posted by izmosmolnar

Spoiler for :

Yeah that's for sure, but what I am interested in finding out is why was the opposition weak here? Was it because in normal worlds the Tokyo groups stirs up trouble between the two groups, perhaps in order to gain time? We haven't seen any hard evidence which supports that so far, and my initial response was that they wouldn't even interfere, because it could endanger their secrecy, plus they are kidnapping the minister's son anyway so why bother with it.
If I am not far from the truth, we gonna find out soon anyway, but I really like to speculate about that. Actually that's the reason why I liked the first Higurashi series more, as it gives you so much to speculate about, while I didn't particularly enjoyed quite some episodes in the Kai series (like yeah let's unite Voltron throughout 3 episodes, in order to gain Satoko's freedom from her vile scheming Uncle! Plus all of Takano's past didn't really left me with much to think about. I actually felt an urge to skip those parts)

Spoiler for ep2:

Could it be because that the Hinamizawa Syndrome didn't exist, therefore they don't have that RAGE caused by it to drive their actions of opposing the dam?