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View Poll Results: Higurashi Episode 17 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 35 | 44.30% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 31 | 39.24% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 11 | 13.92% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 1 | 1.27% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 0 | 0% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 1 | 1.27% | |
Voters: 79. You may not vote on this poll |
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2006-07-31, 14:03 | Link #41 |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Poland
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Good episode, even with that low budget (watching this reminded me of one Shinobuden episode, where ninjas were explaining how anime series are made, too many moments with characters looking “cool”). I have to admit, this one changed my opinion about Shion, now she looks more like a pure, innocent girl who has sometimes problems with controlling her own emotions, after watching this I like this character much more (well earlier it was more like: "die Shion, die" - I had something similar with Miss Wednesday/Vivi from One Piece). Scene in torture room, where she openly declared her feelings, without any backing down, was one of the best I have seen. Great character, good episode. Now, I don’t understand few things:
1. Mion also was helping her, why wasn’t she punished? 2. How did they made up? (I think the only way for Mion would be to do the same thing to herself what Shion did). 3. Why, during Watanagashi Mion was the one, who said she didn’t forgive Shion? 4. I think, Watanagashi is a chapter where Shion started to believe that Satoshi is dead and Mion and Oryou are responsible for killing him. What made her believe that? |
2006-07-31, 15:15 | Link #42 |
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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I guess we can nearly safely assume now that Shion was pretending to be Mion in eppisode 8.
With the words saying things like, "thats when the demon awoke in me". It is looking even more that Shion was the insane one. This epecially confirms the idea that Mion has never killed anyone like she said in chapter 3. |
2006-07-31, 17:15 | Link #43 | |
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Lostblue Thanks for the info about the sound novel. i think it would it make an awsome book, since in books you cant see anything you would visualize the deathes and as we all know the human imagination is pretty messed up. Thats funny i would watch Higurashi first then watch Haruhi afterward to offset the depression.
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2006-07-31, 18:22 | Link #44 | ||
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: SoCal
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The game isn't visual at all. The sound effects + BGM really plays a part to the mood of the setting. It really lets your imagination do the talking. Quote:
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2006-07-31, 23:00 | Link #45 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Gnawing away at Rokkenjima
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At this point I'm just about positive that Mion and Shion switched roles for some reason between episode 17 and the start of Watanagashi-hen. I've made some more detailed posts about this in the general discussion/theory thread if you would like to read them. |
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2006-08-01, 00:23 | Link #46 |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
Age: 43
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What creeped me out and made a powerful blast of emotional thriller on me was the "oni & psycho" music played to emphasize Shion's trauma and horror at performing the kejime. It brutally struck me when hearing the noise....
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A powerful and ominous episodes; one of Higurashi's at its finest. Ironic coming from a guy like me that never has had played the game before. After reading the TIPS for Meakashi-hen coupled with this episode and the previous one, I can start piecing how Wataganashi rolled to its haunting unfolding. I have also make use of my knowledge gathered from Himatsubushi-hen. Spoiler:
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2006-08-01, 14:30 | Link #47 | |
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show needs triggers for things to happen. For instance: Spoiler:
It appears that these triggers cause specific individuals to act in a way contrary to their usual nature. I think we're actually going to get an idea that there's someone behind all this who has a very specific purpose and reason for what they're doing. I've had some ideas about who and why but it's not gelling quite yet. But many of these events serve as big distractions from something else I'm feeling.
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2006-08-01, 15:59 | Link #48 | |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
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1. Someone is putting a sense of distrust among certain villagers of Hinamizawa to be conflicting with others. 2. The single murders happening at each year are steps, or more properly fuses, engineered to spark a chain reaction that culminates in a grand murder. 3. Seems that this grand murder culminates with Rika's death in the year 1983. However, what I disagree on what Garten posted was that he/she proposes that Hinamizawa is connected to another dimension or Rika herself has the ability to see beyond dimensions of the same place and reality, explaining her supernatural talent to foretell future events. That theory sounds campy and without mentioning farfetch'd. I feel if there's something supernatural working through Rika as its avatar, then its possible for me to assume that Rika can read the variable permutations happening at future timelines. I also think that the master culprit or culprits is endorsed with a grand array of psychology, sociology, and cultural folklore regarding Hinamizawa to better understand the behavior of a close-ranged community that the village is. In that way the master culprit can predict and calculate taking into thought which people are highly vindictive and which can be influenced to act as the decoy or scapegoat. Now another question arises: If there's no doubt whatsoever that the murders are cause of human intervention at 100%, then which murders had the real culprit had a hand on and which others were committed by those people holding grudges? What I'm now positively certain about is that the murder streak did not happen by chance. The master culprit knew what he/she was doing and preparations were planned and made within an established time frame of expectancy and anticipation. |
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2006-08-01, 16:31 | Link #49 |
Dansa med oss
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Near Cincinnati, OH, but actually in Kentucky
Age: 36
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That's a lot like what I've been thinking, too. This whole thing plays out too conveniently to be coincidence, and the 'ZOMG Oyashiro-sama is real!!1' idea is just way too convenient - especially for a story that loves confusing people so much.
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2006-08-02, 15:55 | Link #50 |
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shion has be pushed over the edge...i mean ripping fingernails off O.o that is going too far...the sickos >.< i think mion saved shion...maybe her punishment would have been death instead...and it was shion who suggested to spare her life instead...
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2013-06-14, 18:20 | Link #55 |
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Lately the episodes are starting to tear me up on the inside as so many people are being abused and mistreated who just doesn't deserve it.
And it is probably only going to get worse with more abuse and more deaths. Last edited by Pengu; 2013-06-14 at 18:38. |
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