Higurashi Kai Episode 8 Discussion / Poll

[Klashikari]

Originally Posted by Sorrow-K

Hence why I think the universe is probabilistic. There are certain things that can happen, like Teppei's return or Akasaka saving his wife, that seemingly don't depend on other variables but only happen in some (but not all) universes. Rika obviously has a certain degree of control over what happens in a given universe, but it's fairly clear that there are a number of things she can't control and in a lot of circumstances, she has no choice by to rely on her luck. And, in this world, it was good until Teppei turned up.

Well, in fact, i was more likely talking about the environment, which is utterly not possible to control, of course.
Everything is rather something similar to a check point in a gamere, whereas each reload will simply recreate the given "world" with the recorded informations done by the "player" (Rika), and using variables for uncontrolled point (thus... the REST )

Well then, not late this time, here is the analysis of the week, but a bit shorter this time considering the content of this episode.
Episode 8 : Analysis

Next week : EPIC !

[FlareKnight]

Am interested what's going to happen next time. Certainly seems Keiichi is going to try and impress yet again. I can see him lobbying at least the school together. Either to try and convince those social workers again or taking Satoko away from her uncle.

It does take something to keep your cool in a situation like Shion freaking out. Not bad keeping his speech going even after getting smacked in the head with a chair. Last thing they needed was Shion getting on a rampage since it would've no doubt sent things into an even worse situation.

[Cheezy]

Originally Posted by Omfgbbqwtf

Next episode looks interesting too, seems like they are going for an all-out march towards.... somewhere.

Towards Teppei's house.

[Animexcel]

Wow, this one is really interesting. I agree that Keiichi is getting awesome now, and I was surprised that Rika snapped too. If only we could put all these characters in the Jerry Springer show.

[dspr8_rugged]

OMG on that sig.

I noticed that Kameda is on the preview for the next episode... and hell, he's eating sweets.

Seriously, K1 sure doesn't need a bat all the time to solve things. Never thought he was such a smooth talker. Now I wonder if he can do it with girls... in "another" manner. Anyway, that's just random thinking.

[Animexcel]

Originally Posted by dspr8_rugged

OMG on that sig.

[Darklightz]

Originally Posted by dspr8_rugged

Seriously, K1 sure doesn't need a bat all the time to solve things. Never thought he was such a smooth talker. Now I wonder if he can do it with girls... in "another" manner. Anyway, that's just random thinking.

Keiichi can be a pretty convincing guy...when he's not consumed by paranoia himself that it.

[Sterling01]

The whole reason he was picked to do the auction thing was because he's a "Magician with Words"

[rogueblade]

Well that episode was... magical. I mean, it was just plain old-school awesome. Just so intense and well done.

The preview for next episode looks similar, as well - but there seems to be an all-too familiar scene in there which suggests that it may well end badly...

[littletomatoes]

This might be a little off topic but: shouldn't it be really easy for rika and Hanyu to find out who is the mastermind? After all hanyu could just float around and follow one of the "janitors" or men in green and see who is commanding them. I'm perplexed as to why they had not tried this.

[Kang Seung Jae]

Originally Posted by littletomatoes

This might be a little off topic but: shouldn't it be really easy for rika and Hanyu to find out who is the mastermind? After all hanyu could just float around and follow one of the "janitors" or men in green and see who is commanding them. I'm perplexed as to why they had not tried this.

1. Hanyuu isn't all-powerful.

2. They never expected the "janitors" as the reason for the disaster.

3. They already got enough on their hands trying to stop Rule X from happening.

[Mystearika]

woow keiichi is really getting cool, i cant wait to next week

[MrZombie]

Originally Posted by Kang Seung Jae

1. Hanyuu isn't all-powerful.

2. They never expected the "janitors" as the reason for the disaster.

3. They already got enough on their hands trying to stop Rule X from happening.

It's not that Hanyuu's not all powerful, it's that she's a chicken. She would never hang around with Rika as she waits for death because she'd be too afraid to watch what happens.

[Blick Winkel]

Greetings, a long 4th dimmension lurker and Higurashi fan here
Another great episode, Rika's scene at the clinic made my jaw dropped really hard, but I have translation question:

Spoiler for Rika at clinic:

Rika's plea for help at clinic "issho no onegai nano desu": should it mean "it's the wish of my life" (to which version I'd incline my ears) or rather "we share the same wish" (as translated by Hauu~ )?

[Phar]

Originally Posted by Blick Winkel

Greetings, a long 4th dimmension lurker and Higurashi fan here
Another great episode, Rika's scene at the clinic made my jaw dropped really hard, but I have translation question:

Spoiler for Rika at clinic:

Rika's plea for help at clinic "issho no onegai nano desu": should it mean "it's the wish of my life" (to which version I'd incline my ears) or rather "we share the same wish" (as translated by Hauu~ )?

You're right. It was a mistranslation.

[kingsky123]

just curious... what was rena's response to the 1500 second?

[rimaa]

Rika going crazy and telling Takano and Irie how they're going to die was a well done scene.

Cant wait to see next weeks ep

[Rias]

Originally Posted by kingsky123

just curious... what was rena's response to the 1500 second?

Rena is scary when she is mad

Spoiler:

1500 seconds? That takes too long!! If it's me then it would take less than 1000 seconds!! Instead of blabbing on like Shii-chan, I would just keep quiet, get out the classroom, and excute the plan!!

[FlareKnight]

Well I guess it does take time to get from the school to Satoko's place. If your serious killing the guy shouldn't be all that complicated I guess. Important lesson of course to not broadcast your killing plans to people.

[raikage]

Originally Posted by MrZombie

We've been over this already. Teppei coming back means this world is a dead end. Every single time.

But that flies in the face of the current "YOU have the power to change destiny!" vibe that's going on.

Of course, this arc will undoubtedly have a bad ending since there's one more chapter to go -- but that doesn't mean that they can't get Satoko away from her uncle.

And that could very well happen in this arc -- they've spent so much time on "Rule X" in the past chapters; about each other main character going insane -- that perhaps now they'll focus more on who's killing Tomitake/Takano/Irie.