Higurashi Q & A

[Dante of the Inferno]

Originally Posted by infectus

hum... but supposing she went to check on him why didn't she knock on the room's door even once instead of stand still the whole time?

I think Rena was just as curious to hear Oiishi's story as Keiichi was. Even if she couldn't make out everything Oiishi said (80's landline phones, afterall), Rena could still learn a lot from Keiichi's questions, especially the one pertaining to her. She probably knew it would only frighten Keiichi further if she suddenly knocked on the door during their conversation (since Keiichi would still be frantically wondering what Rena's story is, but be too scared to actually ask her about it - remember, the "outsider in a foreign land" mentality is already firmly planted in his mind).

[rogerpepitone]

I'm not sure; in Onikakushi-hen, Mion doesn't know about Tomitake's death. (She wouldn't joke about "We'll have you meet Tomitake's fate." if she did.) I doubt Rena does either.

[Yirba]

Originally Posted by infectus

hum... but supposing she went to check on him why didn't she knock on the room's door even once instead of stand still the whole time?

IIRC, Keiichi got mad at Rena earlier that day as they were walking home from school. Rena tried to find out from Keiichi what the matter was, but Keiichi had just yelled at her. Therefore, Rena was somewhat afraid of him and didn't want to actually talk to him. At least, that's my theory.

[Seronei]

Originally Posted by rogerpepitone

I'm not sure; in Onikakushi-hen, Mion doesn't know about Tomitake's death. (She wouldn't joke about "We'll have you meet Tomitake's fate." if she did.) I doubt Rena does either.

That is one point were the anime really screwed up as they don't show

Spoiler for VN spoilers from Onikakushi:

when Tomitake joined in at their club activity during Watanagashi and lost and they painted his face and shirt with a marker.

Meaning it's completely impossible to actually figure out they're not referring to his death.

[Yirba]

They didn't show that? (Can't remember.) It is an important scene necessary to tell what Mion actually means.

[Dante of the Inferno]

Originally Posted by Yirba

They didn't show that? (Can't remember.) It is an important scene necessary to tell what Mion actually means.

Spoiler for "The Needle and the Marker" Discussion:

Nope, never ever mentioned. Yet in the anime's defense, Mion never actually says anything about Tomitake during the final confrontation. Keiichi asks what they are going to do to him, and she says that it should be obvious. Given the anime's context, Keiichi immediately flashes back to Oiishi's account of Tomitake's death, thinking that he'll die the same way (even though Tomitake had no evidence of drug abuse). Later, in episode 25, it is revealed that the "needle" Mion pulled out was actually a marker, making reference to Keiichi's punishment game in episode 1.

While the details surrounding the events are not exactly the same as with the VN/manga, they do still effectively carry their intended message: Keiichi was in an unstable state of panic, and the marker (meant to be a way to lighten the mood) was what finally set him off.

[Yirba]

Ah, I see...

Irie should have warned Mion and Rena that Keiichi could be dangerous.

[Lawfer]

Is there a point in reading the 18 volumes released by Yen Press if you have already seen the whole animes (season 1, 2 + OVAs)? Or does the anime covered everything already?

Is HIGURASHI WHEN THEY CRY Atonement Arc Volume 4 the final book: http://www.yenpress.com/higurashi-when-they-cry/#V18

?

[RandomAvatarFan]

1) Yes. The manga includes some details in the VN that weren't covered in the anime. The entire story is covered, but you might get insight and/or start looking at the same scenes different ways. There's nothing that says you have to though, but "there's no point" is completely incorrect.

2) No. They are planning on releasing the Massacre chapter and Festival Music Chapter some time, I don't know when.

[Lawfer]

Originally Posted by RandomAvatarFan

1) Yes. The manga includes some details in the VN that weren't covered in the anime. The entire story is covered, but you might get insight and/or start looking at the same scenes different ways. There's nothing that says you have to though, but "there's no point" is completely incorrect.

2) No. They are planning on releasing the Massacre chapter and Festival Music Chapter some time, I don't know when.

Thank you.

[rogerpepitone]

Originally Posted by Lawfer

Is there a point in reading the 18 volumes released by Yen Press if you have already seen the whole animes (season 1, 2 + OVAs)? Or does the anime covered everything already?

Is HIGURASHI WHEN THEY CRY Atonement Arc Volume 4 the final book: http://www.yenpress.com/higurashi-when-they-cry/#V18

?

The manga released so far also includes two arcs (Yoigoshi-hen / Beyond Midnight and Onisarishi-hen / Demon Exposing) not in the anime.

[Yirba]

Yes, those arcs are original to the manga and were not featured in the anime, nor the original visual novels.

[Lawfer]

Originally Posted by rogerpepitone

The manga released so far also includes two arcs (Yoigoshi-hen / Beyond Midnight and Onisarishi-hen / Demon Exposing) not in the anime.

Do they add anything to the story?

[RandomAvatarFan]

Oh I forgot about those and those are the only manga I own at the moment.

Yeah, they do I believe. Neither of them are in the main story line, but they add a little bit of insight to Hinamizawa and the characters. Plus they're really entertaining and the adult form of a certain Sonozaki twin is awesome.

[Kishin]

Couldn't really think of where to ask this but I just finished reading the mangagamer version of Higurashi and the credit roll / SDF report on the I.I. was too damn fast for me to read.. does any1 know if there is a way to extract the image itself or know where to find a transcript online?

[Yirba]

You can use the ExtractData to extract the image files.

[Kishin]

worked perfectly, thanks!

[CrimsonMoonMist]

In the tweaking Higurashi wiki for the music patches for Kai

warning: with the way Mangagamer has been replacing the songs, you may end with duplicates or the wrong songs if you use this patch for EP8 in the future, just like if you use EP6 for EP7. Tread carefully.

Does this mean that I should delete the game after finishing an episode,
and reinstall and apply the patch for the next episode before beginning it,
or will just applying the next patch work fine?

Another question, does the translation pick up in quality at some point?
I mean, it's fine enough, the awkwardness of it did stop me from getting properly immersed in the beginning, but I got over it by the end of Onikakushi.
But I'd still like to know.

[PBsaffran]

Allegedly, the answer arcs (kai 5, 6,7,8) are much better. I'm sure many people here will confirm.

[Kishin]

there are always a few mistakes, occasionally I'd notice a spelling/grammar mistake and laughed to myself that their proofreader must have been skimming it, but it's nothing to take you out of the story. There may have been 1 time through all the arcs that there was a mistake that just did not make sense and made me think about it before moving on, which made sense in the next lines context but alone was gibberish.

And about the Kai episodes, each one is stand-alone, so they won't affect each other. As long as you do everything right the music patch shouldn't have any problems. At least to my knowledge. I think what they meant by that warning is that say, randomsong.ogg in ep7 might be replaced properly by the ep7 patch, but in ep8 it might be called somesong.ogg and the patch for ep7 wont work. If you use the proper patches, ep7 = ep7, ep8 = ep8, there shouldnt be a problem