After 10 years is higurashi still worth watching?
You've been watching Higurashi for the last 10 years?
What the fuck is wrong with you?
>>140518540
It's one of the best entry-level horror.
S2 however was dissapointing.
As much as Utawarerumono, Haruhi and NHK no Youkoso.
>>140518540
S1, yes. S2, not so much, but you can't stop since S1 was so original. You could also 'play' the VN if you have extra 1000 hours and get off on telling people to "READ THE VN/LN".
No. Read the VN instead.
>>140518760
>>140518887
Found the secondaries
>>140518887
>>140519079
Like clockwork
>>140519079
>2016
>reading
VN, manga or anime?
>>140519373
yes
>it was worms making everyone crazy
Everytime
Why are elevens so bad at closure.
>>140518865
Haruhi and NHK are worth watching. Underwater Ray Romano not so much.
The first season sucked but it had a top 10 ever OP
The second season was pretty good until the final arc
>>140518540
It was never worth watching in the first place, it was always on par with Elfen Lied in the "edgy shit that got popular with pleb teens" category.
I would still her horns.
>>140518540
>>140518760
>>140518887
>>140519373
Read the VN
>>140519737
The VN is garbage don't bother
Read Umineko ep 1 - 4 instead
>>140519783
Read Umineko instead
>>140519950
>>140519783
What if I watch the umineko anime instead
>>140519970
Don't. I repeat, do not.
>>140519938
GLOB GLOB I LOVE SEMEN
>>140519990
What could possibly go wrong.
>>140519970
>>140519970
VNfags feel completed since they get to go muh (chinkanese double translated) source matreal and call you a pleb
>>140520121
The Umineko anime really was terrible though
If you don't feel like reading the VN then you can read the manga that was pretty good
>>140520119
Indeed
Why are people so adverse to reading VNs? It's not like you have anything better to do with your time. And the experience is usually much better.
I had forgotten it existed until OP posted this thread
>>140519687
For you.
>>140519783
This guy gets it.
>>140520425
Some people here do have better things to do, though. A lot of people do have jobs/school/Uni/whatever, and don't want to dedicate a their free time for a month or so to one story.
>>140520647
>A lot of people do have jobs/school/Uni/whatever
And they have downtime where they spend 4+ hours after they're finished mindlessly browsing the internet doing nothing. That's the same shitty excuse that people give when they say they don't read in general. Spending an hour max a day reading isn't hard.
>>140520647
>A lot of people do have jobs/school/Uni/whatever, and don't want to dedicate a their free time for a month or so to one story.
Why has /a/ turned into a shitty, normalfag safe place?
>>140520647
No you don't.
>>140520578
>implying I haven't fapped to all of Golden Smurf's stuff
>>140521298
Why are you blogging on 4chan and not blogging about how cool you are on Facebook?
>>140521366
>implying i'm not doing it.
>>140520425
If I knew it was worth the 10000 hours, but I can't take a word of an anonymous voice on the internet. Most of VN/LN crowd are elitist cunts or/and complete autists, and vast majority of /a/ are carriers of terminally shit taste. I'd need some proof and unfortunately VN isn't format that can rise interest with screenshots or webms.
>>140521471
>If I knew it was worth the 10000 hours
You do realize you can start reading something and then drop it if doesn't hold your interest, right?
>>140521676
Reading is hard work.
>>140520228
It's cause unlike Higurashi, Umineko really was made to the a work of literature.It was specifically made to be something you could read rather than watch. That said they could have done a better job on the anime.
>>140521471
Well if the VN has a decent manga adaptation or a decent looking anime you can just check out a few screen shots from the manga or some well animated scenes from the anime, and see if those seem interesting enough to check the VN out. If the anime looks halfway decent, even if it's a shit adaptation , then the visuals can at least draw you in. Higurashi has a pretty okay looking anime, so that works.
Sadly Umineko's animation isn't even pretty to look at and looks like dogshit. The manga has some pretty good visuals though, so somebody could just post screen shots of the manga to garner interest.
My daughteru is the cutest.
>>140518540
I was told to read the VN but from what I've gathered by lurking it looks like dogshit.
>>140519596
How can anyone argue furry ainus is not worth watching. Season 2, fine, but the first season?
>>140523406
>umineko
>work of literature
And then you'll tell me witches exist
I think it would be nice if Rika and K1 got together even though it's basically a crack pairing, since he's the only one who can understand the bullshit she's been through.
>>140523750
It's advertised as a "sound novel". The graphics aren't the focus of it.
>>140524179
I'm not talking about the graphics.
>>140520013
I dropped this on 17th ep or so but OH DESIRE is an amazing song and a gift to humanity.
After 10 years is Rika still worth fucking?
hau au
au u
ha hau au au
hau ua
hau au
nanodesu
Time for WIDE?
>reading higurashi
my fucking sides.
The anime is well-made. There's no need to spend fucking days at this
It never fucking was.
>>140529415
>you wouldn't know that because you haven't read the VN.
true
So if it's a masterpiece you're actually telling me that I fucked up by watching the anime and destroyed my VN experience? feels bad
>charact design
d-dropped
>>140529702
not
>backgrounds
>d-dropped
Pick yourself up and get back to clicking through the VN
>>140529702
If the ham hands designs aren't your cup of tea, try the version with the PS2 sprites.
>>140529702
>Not liking mitten hands
Plebs can go home now.
>>140523676
Funny you say that. My daughteru is also the cutest.
The anime was a generous 2/10, read the VN.
>>140521234
Got more?
>decide to watch this
>accidentally download Kai
>watch 2 episodes before I realize it's not the first season
Did I spoil much for myself?
>>140531169
You should be fine.
>>140531169
No, the entire first season goes nowhere. All that you have to do is watch the first arc and realize there's time loops after it
>>140531388
Stop ban evading
>>140531465
>>140531688
Stop shitposting every thread.
I miss the time when higurashi was relevant
>>140532865
Well, isn't Tatarigoroshi-hen coming out on Steam soon-ish? That'll sure give it back some relevance.
Why is she so perfect?
Rena day soon...
>>140518540
Yes.
Daily reminder thatHanyuu a shit and Takano best girl
Also "Read the VN" posters have autism.
>>140532977
There was also this recently.
>>140533216
The VN has its moments but its mediocre and poorly written for the most part. Like Umineko and other R07 works.
>>140519687
>>140520578
>>140521234
how did you post blank images?
Why is Hanyuu sohorny?
>>140533664
>blank images
What? Can't you see them?
>>140533963
It's a direct correlation to the viewers; she makes people horny by being horny.
Is this the series that started the trend using metaphors to make everything sound more complex and intellectual as if they were gods?
Rena was the best girl, and deserved Casey's FIESTA
>>140534163
So is she always horny?
>>140518573
idk why but i found this funny
>>140518540
Read the VNin FRENCH
>>140534886
Looks like Hanyuu should lay off the sweets
Started rewatching it a few days ago.
The Mion/Shion arcs are still the worst.
>>140535383
the artist goofed on that, yep.
Read the VN
Accept no substitutes
>>140535438
Fuck you, I'm reading the manga.
>>140535383
It's a lighting trick
>>140535507
>anime only scum
>>140535488
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdEwKBM7jsw
Listen to what you're missing.
You can't even hear the cicadas or the wacky sound effects, that's basically criminal.
>>140535634
>this isn't in the soundtrack CD
A fucking crime this is.
>>140535663
Meakashi-hen showed pretty well how Shion went insane
>>140521298
>having a life
So wasting your time sucking up to others for future gain is more meaningful than reading a VN. t. Normalfag
>>140536338
You say that but not following Tomitake was still stupid as fuck
>>140536493
He's b& all the time. He's b& so much that I get banned in his place. Crazy Rika hating mods.
>>140518540
worth reading
>>140518760
Don't even get me started on S3
>>140537055
Man I don't know. Maybe she could've gotten Satoko to set up like a million traps centered around her shack, stole a gun and then just waited. Then she doesn't even have to survive, just find out who the attackers are.
She has to find herself in some situation where it's obvious that the protection isn't doing their job.
>>140537930
She gave up and stopped caring. The right situation doesn't matter when she didn't give a shit
>>140518540
Watched s1 for the first time this year actually. I was entertained. It was fun, so I would say yes.
Has anything anime-related happened after Outbreak? Has Deen finally admitted they were just yanking our chain with that whole 1/? episodes shebang?
>>140538079
>vlcsnap
Stop corrupting my mistress.
>>140520647
>A lot of people do have jobs/school/Uni/whatever
I blame moot
>>140538185
>vlc
Hey, at least it isn't heroin.
>>140538497
delete this
>>140521234
>>140519687
Reminds me of why I have a Hanyuu folder but no other Higurashi folders.
>>140538578
no sextoko folder?
>>140538741
Sextoko is good, but there only a few images of her scattered in my big miscellaneous folder.
>>140539298
Yes.
All from the same artist too.
>>140535490
Don't know why Rena always has a cleaver. She seems more skilled with a pipe.
>>140538855
>>140539298
>>140539350
ho boy...
How could I forget.
>>140539350
Might as well post a few more.
>>140519687
Hanyuu a shit
A shiiiiiiit!
>>140539764
>>140539802
Artist? I can't into runes.
Umineko > Higurashi
But then again Umineko scratches a really specific mystery itch of mine with closed rooms and shit, so feel free to ignore me
Higurashi's great though
>>140539866
They're both pretty great in their own way.
>>140523676
>>140530501
Sextoko is made for fucking
>>140539847
Saucenao.
>>140539961
I am angry.
>>140534208
Nigger that's been a thing since forever
>>140539961
Made for loving. Both sexually and paternally.
what year is this
>>140540711
I'd like to see a spin off of K1 and Satoshi hanging out casually and being bros
>>140541371
Bromance is always welcome. Unfortunately those guys have never interacted directly have they.
Until he comes back Mion has to be the second guy in the group.
Best character with character song coming through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg5XSYF-i8M&index=199&list=FLbWlbTfKCXgZpVyQht3vNtQ
>>140542760
>implying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojKu64NP4fM
>>140542905
Was going to post that one.
Special mention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a124EIWjlog
>>140542602
>>140542760
>>140542968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FytHqw7E5LA
Why not the best of all three's worlds?
>>140542760
>>140542905
>>140542968
>>140543108
You fella's all have good taste but I'm afraid it all ends there with this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVW9y9Z9UoE&index=485&list=FLbWlbTfKCXgZpVyQht3vNtQWish I could find a download/torrent for the single
I am going to MARRY Rika!
>>140543287
>>140543362
I challenge you both to a deathmatch
>>140542602
Very nice.
>forgetting 2nd best song
I should be ashamed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqXiN2Bih4I
>>140543562
I'm at a loss for how to do that over the internet though.
I really should get around to playing the VN one day.
![[CMS] Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira 04 [BD][Hi10P 720p-FLAC][8DF15FEA].mkv_snapshot_22.44_[2015.09.17_19.11.14].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/69PUabd.jpg "[CMS] Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira 04 [BD][Hi10P 720p-FLAC][8DF15FEA].mkv_snapshot_22.44_[2015.09.17_19.11.14].jpg")
Prettiest smile in the world.
I'd die a thousand deaths just to see that smile.
Best Everything
![[CMS] Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira 04 [BD][Hi10P 720p-FLAC][8DF15FEA].mkv_snapshot_23.14_[2015.09.17_19.11.45].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/VUIO9Cp.jpg "[CMS] Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira 04 [BD][Hi10P 720p-FLAC][8DF15FEA].mkv_snapshot_23.14_[2015.09.17_19.11.45].jpg")
And it's not just the smile. That blush is a killer.
I bet she'd blush like that too when she's embraced by a loved one.
>>140545416
Why does she sleep at bus stops? That can't be safe.
>>140546049
Missed her bus?
Mion best girl
>>140546049Because she knows she's not going to die before her time.
>>140546637
>any complaints!?
No collar around her neck.
http://www.outskirtsbattledomewiki.com/index.php/8-character-profiles/2200-character-profile-bernkastel
http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Bernkastel
http://vsbattles.wikia.com/wiki/Furude_Rika
Why?
>>140518760
> entry-level horror
Higurashi was a horror?
>>140547047
I know she's absolutely adorable, but don't say lewd things about my daughteru.
>>140547047
>No collar around her neck.
>>140547165
>don't say lewd things about my daughteru
>says the man with a daughteru while posting the literal image of his lewd request
Heh heh heh.
The irony is palpable. Women should all be wearing collars around their necks. Except for the one you love.She should be putting a collar on your neck.
>>140547182
The only thing missing is for her to be in a doghouse and to be chained.I'm unsure if it's lewder if she's not naked.
>>140547165
>Satkoko as a daughteru
I can't imagine how many deadly traps you'd fall in on a daily basis.
>>140547331
Now now, It's just a punishment from one of the silly games they all play. Nothing lewd about it.It's very cute though.
>>140547359
Indeed
>>140547359
Just imagine having to wake up and the first thing you see is a bunch of transparent wires all over your head, all connected to traps.
With Satoko smirking in the closet, anxiously waiting for you to escape her new masterpiece, already anticipating every single possible move but secretly wishing you rise up to the challenge.
>>140547359
>Satoko sets up an elaborate trap
>"Daddy, come here real quick!"
>Walk in to the room
>Trip over a rope, land on a soft matress
>Satoko falls on top of you, hugs you
>"Happy Father's Day!"
>>140547532
>springs trap
>leg gets pulls up to the ceiling
>bounces a bit until you stabilize and stop moving
>she kisses you on the forehead spiderman style
>>140518760
>horror
Although I've always wondered if you can sharpen your knife with the fang of a girl.
>>140547929
>>140547359
>>140547532
>>140547635
>/a/ is getting so old, it has switched from big brother fantasies to parental ones
I somehow find this funny.
>>140547982
I've personally always viewed my imouto as both a brother and somewhat of a parent in some ways.
Both brotherly love and fatherly love is cute.
>>140547982
Actually, strangely enough, Satoko was my daughteru before I even met my waifu.
>>140548141
Your desire to protect her simply overwhelmed you.
>>140548199
Yup. I want to do whatever I can for her.
>>140548269
Whatever, huh?
>>140548315
>>140548365
Yup.
>>140548394
Makes me want to test how far I can make you do 'whatever'.
>>140547775
>that head patting habit
>>140531030
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=10669208&type=all
But I can't find
>>140520578
on either *booru or his pixiv.
>>140548549
>mfw I tried doing that to my imouto and just puffed her cheeks and told me that she didn't want me to treat her like a cat, but still lets me pat her head whenever
>>140535634
Not hearing the wacky sound effects might make Higurashi tolerable
>>140548740
Hey, hair caressing feels great. If there's a behaviour I'm glad humans and monkeys still share, it's precisely that.Shame it feels different when I'm consciously doing it to meself ;_;
>>140531169
I actually made it to the last episode of Kai before realizing that it wasn't the first season.
>>140547746
Popsicles!
>>140549678
Popsicle?
Popsicle...
Satoko doesn't get Popsicle because the Sonozaki own the Popsicle stand in Hinamizawa.
Sometimes I wonder if anyone would be friends with Satoko if Rika wasn't her friend.
>>140518540
Man, there's something about Higurashi and Umineko, and any of Ryukishi's work specifically that really just stuck with me. It's one of the few weebshit-related things that I still think about years after I finished reading them, moreso than anything else. There's a certain charm to them that I can't seem to find anywhere else.
Does anybody feel similarly?
>>140550035
only bullies
>>140550172
Yes it is pretty unique even 10 years later, I guess it is because it manages to blend many genres and works that manage to do that always become classics at least to me
>>140550172
It's emotion. Whatever Ryukishi lacks in prose and repetitiveness, he makes up with it in emotion and reliability.
That part where Takano is running in the woods, alone, with nothing but the clothes on her back and the muddied worthless lifelong work of her grandfather. Hanyuu just asks her why did she do it? And Takano just answers that she wanted a place in the world where she could be wanted.
That came so much from the heart. You could just feel the emotion itself leap out of the story and touch you.
I love Ryukishi and all his work. They touch me like nothing else in fiction does. He hits all my fetishes, all my nihilism, my suffering, my emotions, my desires, my wish to be happy and my need to be loved.
He just has it all.
>>140550035
No. Social pressure and all that. Nobody would want to be associated with a member of those dirty Houjous.
>>140518540
No. Try the VN if you haven't done that already anon.
Or the manga. That's really good too actually.
>>140550374
The final chapters in the VN are something unique
>all these dead posts
Good thread.
>>140518540
of course S1 was great and the culmination of the arcs leading to the climax in S2 makes it rank up there in masterpiece tier IMO. it's a series i rewatch every few years because it's so great
>>140519582
>Worms
>Parasites
>Nanomachines>MGSV was just Medic's fever dream of his Hinamizawa syndrome
>>140550334
Looking back on it, one of the things I really liked about his work was how he could make you change the way you looked at a character, through things like showing their past and describing the situations that they were thrust in, and making formerly irredeemable characters more sympathetic and relatable.
Notable examples from umineko were Natsuhi and Eva.
Ham fists best fists
>>140519582
Not just the elevens. There's no satisfying way to resolve a premise like Higurashi. I don't think it's ever been done. The best way to go about is to explain as little of the "how" as you can get away with.
>>140550785
I honestly think it's the reason why Higurashi is liked more than Umineko. Every new episode, you found out more about a character and it changed everything you knew about them. I still find Higurashi absolutely brilliant that it's basically a harem story filled with obvious cliche characters with cliche archetypes. Dense boy goes to a new school and is surrounded by girls who all want to hang out around him. You got the tomboy, airhead genki girl, the silent loli and the bratty loli.
Then you get an episode to focus on each characters while advancing the plot more and more. They all have their problems, something they want or have lost, something that makes them flawed but still idealized in the only way anime can be.
That's why it's so great when the gang gets together in ep 8. It's so satisfying.
>Notable examples from umineko were Natsuhi and Eva.
You should add Kyrie to that list. She's the most misunderstood character in Umineko and everyone just sees her as this psychopathic murderer who can only think rationally who would femdom you. It's so sad people can't see her heart.
>>140550926
>There's no satisfying way to resolve a premise like Higurashi.
>Higurashi ends with a -2 death count in an endless slew of murders and everyone but the main villain ends up happy.
>>140551033
>being alone is lonely.jpg
FTFY
>>140551081
>tautology
Thank you Sherlock.
>>140550334
That scene is perfect
What's funny though is that I might've found a few of the lines and actions cheesy if I saw them in something else. But Higurashi makes it work perfectly fine. Probably because I genuinely care about the characters in this, unlike most other fiction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuY_v9k9W0E&index=25&
>>140551263
It's because it destroys cynicism. Optimism, although weak, like friendship, will always defeat cynicism. This is why Higurashi works so well as a THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP story.
It's cliche as fuck but what actually makes it work is that Ryukishi brings down friendship to its most ugly truth; that it doesn't exist, we don't really care about anyone and just want to have fun. Rena completely shits on everyone including herself. Mion did nothing to save Satoshi, Rika did nothing, Rena did nothing, Satoko did nothing and drove Satoshi into a deeper depression.
And then, a shining hope. A glimmer of light. Optimism. NO! It might be right but it's not correct. Cynicism is weak, the easy path! Optimism is truth. Friendship is strength!
It has to be corny but said with such passion to destroy cynicism.
I have this deep sadness where I secretly desire someone to shove a finger at my face and say NO, YOU'RE WRONG, BE HAPPY, BE OPTIMISTIC. And Higurashi is that. Ryukishi is that. And I fucking love it.
I guess the right word I'm trying to convey in my rambling is 'earned'. Higurashi earned its optimistic message and emotion because it overcame cynicism and that resonates more with people.
>>140551504
>>140551632
Well said anon. I can agree with that.
Someone in the comment sections in one of my videos pointed out that Higurashi is pretty much a shounen story. A damn good shounen. Maybe that's obvious to some but I honestly didn't start reading the VN with the idea that it would be that.
Anyway, regardless, I ended up loving it too.
>>140552463
Oh yeah, for sure. That's also one of the strengths of Ryukishi. He starts off with a very simple premise and ends up somewhere completely different. Higurashi starts as a typical SoL harem story, then goes into horror and mystery, only to come out full shonen.
Umineko is the same way.
>>140544930
>>140552801
>okay Yukain, I know we've made you speak in a low voice, but could you go even lower now but still keeping the same tone of voice
>>140518540
Umineko is far better to be honest, but you should read both. Just do Umineko first because it's easier for Higurashi to let you down and prevent you from wanting to read another work from r07.
>>140518540
It's an experience. I still need to get around to playing the VN's though.
>>140519079
You mean tertiaries, retard.
Anyone who consumes Japanese media with translations is a secondary by definition.
>>140555673
>>140555747
>>140555823
>Not 585KB
You had one job.
YAMETE
>>140519582
>being this stupid
Oh well
>>140527034
fucking hell why is this funny
>>140534637
>literally hon hon hon
>ITT: Retards.
>>140518540
it is the only anime to have actually scared me
>>140558043
You're not funny and Megan doesn't appreciate your humor, either.
hi mom
ABANDON THREAD
>>140559277
Would ram day and night.
>>140559418
ok
>>140550035
Nope
> 92 [deleted]
Bravo /a/.
>>140546830
I wish the first season had the same art style as the OVAs.
>>140561818
it's about budget too, Kira looked way better than the rest thanks to it.
i remember seeing a box set of this series in the store with risque loli art and thinking
is anyone really willing to bring this up to the counter?
>>140561934
I would bring up loli eroge to the counter and high five the shopkeeper
>>140561925
Season 1 looks like hot garbage dude.
I love how Kira have Rena looks like an actual teenager and not a stupid looking moeblob.
>>140561972
no you wouldn't
>>140561884
stupid sexy Rena.
>>140562202
They sexualize themselves!
Except Rika, you just can't do that, she's too pure.
>>140562202
Yeah mate, the waifufags did it.
>>140563092
Reminder that this never happened and was all in K1's head and that Rika would probably maybe never do that.
>>140563092
I want to stick my dick into that.
>>140563402
So, basically, you're saying that we're raping your inner-child? Just, fucking your brains to a bygone era?
>>140563126
>missing the point
>>140563402
>childhood
was higurashi that long ago?
>>140563605
10 years, Anon.
>>140563605
The post might be just barely old enough to post on the site, even then only if he considers the teenage years as "childhood".
>>140563402
>>140563525
Slimy fingers just touching your innocent brain, perverting it, making it realize a truth that you never wanted to accept. Molding it into something you don't know and don't want to find out.
>>140563567
Repeat after me.
It-Never-Happened-And-Also-Never-Will.
All good? All good. Pic related. Rika can see through everyone's bullshit.
>>140563605
It's celebrating its 10th anniversary, so you tell me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5UfIRmkv28
>august 2006
So long ago.
>VN was celebrating its 10th anniversary a few years ago
>now the anime is doing the same
Time passes by without you noticing.
>>140563685
Or, the most obvious, just a bullshit exaggeration in an attempt to drive pity and discussion about nostalgia.
>>140563828
I was talking about the poster, dumbass. I use masculine pronouns about anons by default.
>>140563828
I just like to cynically assume all positions. It's somewhat sickening that it happens to be correct. If you mean, why I said it when I could have said nothing? I dunno.
>>140563900
>he doesn't use neutral pronouns.
>>140563929
Fuck off back to Tumblr.
I'm thinking of buying When They Cry on DVD. Never watched it too much.
>>140563972
>tumblr invested neutral pronouns
Alright Xe.
>>140564025
Right back at you with that comment.
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