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rai/ayu;
I totally understand where you're coming from. But a standard TV season in Japan is 26 episodes. DEEN doesn't make the rules - it just has to play by them. The two options were:
1) Not show all the arcs, leave a little bit of a cliffhanger, and hope the ratings are good enough to justify another season, or
2) Give horrible short shrift to the arcs, cut out reams of important exposition, and generally make a crappy show, but get everything in.
Generally, DEEN chose the former, which was in my opinion very much the right choice. Yes, the anime did not go as deep as the game, but it couldn't. The formats are different. It just wouldn't work - same as why Peter Jackson couldn't include everything from the LOTR novels in the movies. He would have ended up with three eight-hour-long, extremely boring movies. One format does not translate easily into another. Something has to give. That's just how it is. The fact that the Higurashi anime was good, compelling, and enjoyable says that they made just about the right choices in what had to give way, and where.
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