#Irie Kyousuke

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Irie and Keiichi from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou 🔪

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Some older pen doodles of a few higurashi when they cry peeps!!

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Higurashi When They Cry Hou Ch. 3 Tatarigoroshi pt. Final

I'm doing things slightly different here.

The following takes place between parts 17 and 18 of my playthrough. The interview with Keiichi is a post-credits scene, but because of the amount of screenshots I took during the credits and the typing I did for some of the stuff coming up I figured to treat it as a separate thing. A nice little denouement. I really hope tumblr doesn't murder the quality of the screenshots here. Italicized words are my own interjections and not what is written on screen. I tried my best with some of the later parts.

Basically during this part and the credits I kept mashing the screenshot key.

"I made him seem like a very good person. I'll need to make him into a terrible criminal in the end."

"Apparently you're supposed to call disasters like the Great Hanshin Earthquake severe disasters. Still it's a terrifying operation plan. Though I guess sterilization operations are like this. I need to think hard so it's realistic."

"Jirou Tomitake A mysterious old man with the role of an extra yet still popular. He won't be doing much for a while.

Miyo Takano I made this character seriously suspicious. Seems kind of like the last boss. Maybe she should be to one to take the punches in the end. I need to make her so bad even coach would punch her. Maybe a full transformation in the end is in order.

Kuraudo Ooishi A Completely enigmatic man, though I'll admit he's convenient. Maybe he'll turn trustworthy in the end after clearing up the misunderstandings?

Katsuya Kumatani A completely enigmatic man, though I'll admit he's convenient. Maybe he'll turn trustworthy in the end after clearing up the misunderstandings?

Why is Kumatani and Ooishi's the same?

Kyousuke Irie I made him seem like a very good person. I'll need to make him into a terrible criminal in the end.

Rika Furude A convenient character who can't help but garner popularity. If Satoko doesn't get more popular with this, then she might not be able to make a comeback. Speaking of suffering, maybe Mion has it worse (pained laugh). A mysterious girl, in a way. The incarnation of the curse theory?????"

"Hinamizawa Village Gas Disaster In Memoriam List Apparently you're supposed to call disasters like the Great Hanshin Earthquake severe disasters. Still it's a terrifying operation plan. Though I guess sterilization operations are like this. I need to think hard so it's realistic.

Reina Ryuugu (spelling?) Passed away in the great Hinamizawa disaster. May she rest in peace.

Mion Sonozaki Passed away in the great Hinamizawa disaster. May she rest in peace.

Oryou Sonozaki Passed away in the great Hinamizawa disaster. May she rest in peace

Satoko Houjou Went missing during the great Hinamizawa disaster???

Teppei Houjou Went missing during the great Hinamizawa disaster???

Ichirou Maebara, Aiko Maebara, Daiki Tomita, Suguru Okamura, and Kiichirou Kimiyoshi Passed away in the great Hinamizawa disaster. May he rest in peace. (I didn't feel like typing it out five times)

Rumiko Chie Went missing during the great Hinamizawa disaster???

Yukikazu Kameda Went missing during the great Hinamizawa disaster??? I have no recollection of who Kameda is whatsoever."

"Tatsuyoshi Kasai I wonder if he really has a thing for Shion, that would be so cute if he did, hau u.

Shion Sonozaki The more minor of the twins always gets more popular, but to think it would still hold true. Maybe it's fate, or maybe coincidence. You're okay to think of watanagashi considering the suicide, though."

"Keiichi Maebara Did he just end up going crazy in the end? My condolences I suppose. Keiichi really never dies in a good way. Am I not allowed to laugh?

Diagnosed with a severe mental disorder… Mental disorder, what!? But with so many terrible things happening, people will break. You must never forget that feeling. We all live because we have a heart to live with. If we forget that, we are just living puppets. Remember you're alive and have a soul.

The more minor of the twins always gets more popular, but to think it would still hold true. Maybe it's fate, or maybe coincidence. You're okay to think of watanagashi considering the suicide, though."

This is the end of the story related text. The rest is credits for the episode. I think this is written from the perspective of whatever is actually behind the Hinamizawa/Oyashiro curse. The first part, about making him a villain again was shown way back at the very start of the series before the title card of Onikakushi.

""Higurashi: When They Cry" Serial Murder Novel Number 3: Tatarigoroshi A mysterious old man with the role of an extra yet still popular. He won't be doing much for a while.

I'm a little sleepy. Maybe I haven't been getting enough sleeping and gaming with all my heart. Or maybe I just want to play ragnarok online Oh, puritan, hah, hah, moe!

Scenario: Ryukishi07 Hello, I'm ryukishi07. It was a fierce battle this time, like it always is.

Partner in Crime: Yatazakura You really did a good job this time!! Let's put out the best stuff brothers can manage! (I might be wrong on this one?)

Scirpting: Yatazakura Thanks for everything again!

4U You're another one I always rely on. Thank you for everything you do."

"BT Your kind encouragement encourages me. Thank you so much.

Scripting Language: Me finding this scripting language was how it began. I wouldn't be here today without it.

Still, I'm really sleepy. The fatigue of a thousand years as they say. I may be doing this for fun, it's hard on my body. But it's nothing as long as i can get your thoughts and reactions!

4U I took so much of your time, so I'm sorry I'm late again. Gotta go debug more"

"BT You're another one i always rely on. Thank you for everything you do.

Production Yat Looks like he's got the hang of it. He was very fast on the clean up this time.

Graphics: Ryukishi07 Part of me wants a good artist, but having to trust someone else with it scares me too much (I can completely empathize with the creative idea of "only I can do this!)

Background location: Kameya Without your generous help, Higurashi would not exist. All those beautiful backgrounds are yours.

Yato Sakura Without your generous help"

"Ryukishi07 Without your generous help

Tsubaki Hey, this is totally nepotism, isn't it? Well, let's put that off as a joke

LRRP: Kameya You are a god. Sorry fo the weird abbreviation LRRP. I look foward to working with you and Daisuke in the future.

Jika Thank you as always, to hru. ab it stuc kin ro, tho ugh if brother unit e we'll be invinicible! Let's do our best!"

"Amamizu/Scarlet Thank you as always to hru.ab itstuc kin (The same thing is written for Amamizu and Scarlet here, and I admit I kind of gave up trying to figure out what's written there. "Thank you as always tohru? a bit stuck in?)

Music and SFX The Music studio Without beautiful music the world wouldn't turn. The main theme is important. It's a vital factor.

Dream Island Development Room Being able to mess with things from my house is a pretty huge plus.

Escateli~na Being able to mess with things from my house is a pretty huge plus."

no love for Koji. Awww.

"Minigames: BT Thank you so much for alwasy submitting great minigames. Give me some advice when adjusting them. Personally, I'd rather tsubaki in a ruse(?) s picture not be excessive I wonder why he doesn't understand?"

I wonder if the original release way back in the day had minigames in it? Like the club activities are playable games maybe? I'm now envisioning a significantly worse version of this game existing because it has something like the fucking awful gambling minigames from a Leisure Suit Larry just crammed in there.

"Homepage 07th Storming Party Still, I'm really sleepy. The fatigue of a thousand years as they say. I may be doing this for fun but it's hard on my body. But it's nothing as long as I can get your thoughts and reactions! Me finding this scripting language was I began. I wouldn't be here today without it.

Created by: Pride is fighting under your own flag. So I hope you understant why i don't want to "use my flag to make something weird. if you don't like it then raise a flag or two of your own." I hope this becomes a work to be proud of for life."

"Directed by: I'm ryukishi07. The path here has been a long one. But we're only midway through! The real stuff is still to come! I'll work harder than ever!"

Trying to decipher these and making sure I had them correct was a surprisingly annoying process. No one else on the entire rest of the internet seems to have bothered trying to decode what it all said. The steam forums especially were less than helpful. Just a bunch of people arguing six years ago about the veracity of what it says, and whether it counts as spoilers or MangaGamer "screwing with the plot." I do apologize for some of the attempts on my part basically just falling apart, but try as I might I just couldn't think of a way to make the letters available make any sort of coherent sense.

I mentioned it before, but I'm fairly positive that everything before the game credits is the entity behind the events of Higurashi remarking on the pawns they have available to toy with. Everything at the credits until the end title card there I'm sure was just Ryukishi07 having fun with it.

Gonna be honest with you here, I liked it, but not quite as much as chapter two. A reddit post I saw while trying to decipher the credits bits summed it up best: "Keiichi is cringe."

Gotta work towards a good ending. Can't just give it to your audience.

Let the god child drink!

Yeah, you're gonna have to address the body count of a thousand people eventually.

*sad trombone* Although I must say I do like the idea of playing as a protagonist other than Keiichi. Let the lunkhead go do something else, it's Shion's time to shine.

Keiichi aside, I liked Chapter Three: Tatarigoroshi, it was a severly depressing read at points, but it did provide some interesting mysteries towards the end. Why don't the dead stay put in Hinamizawa, what is puppeting the bodies around, and for what purpose? Why in this particular go-around was there a deadly volcanic gas that killed everyone in the town shortly after Watanagashi? Who were the twenty that disappeared? Satoko and Teppei were certainly two of them, but who were the other eighteen? Is it the masterminds of the cult? What is the importance of the woman who died at the start of the chapter, and did she really have any importance to the plot? I know there was the implication she was involved with the Sonozaki crime syndicate, but overall her entire subplot just vanished towards the middle of this chapter. Who killed Rika and why did they do it in a way similar to the murdered woman at the start of the chapter?

This chapter does however lend greater strength to the supernatural killer angle. Deliberately so, I'd say, since Chapter Two: Watanagashi leaned more hevily on the human angle to justify the killings.

Also:

"The shortest scenario," bullshit. This was just as lengthy as chapter two! It might seem shorter in my playthrough/readthrough, but that's only because I didn't want to be posting a bunch of screenshots and discussions about domestic violence. I felt it would be tonally at odds with my often lighthearted comments about the VN.

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no i cannot sew a custom maid outfit for my r.e.d. megatron because then i would have something in common with kyousuke irie

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Higurashi: Dice Killing Chapter 1

Rika gets to have that pool party she was excitedly demanding at the end of Festival Accompanying. And for whatever reason, Hanyu doesn't get to join the party.

The opening poem by Frederica Bernkastel reminds me of an excerpt from the Bible. In Exodus 16, the Israelites complained to Moses how they had no food and were going to starve in the desert. In response, God sent a great flock of quails to serve as meat for them to eat, and every morning, the dew would turn the soil into an edible substance they called manna. Exodus has the recurring story of the people complaining over every little thing and being quick to forget everything God has done for them.

The poem itself is a reference to what the Dice Killing arc ultimately is about. But I'll save the details for the recap.

After overcoming everything, Rika definitely feels invincible. She's living her life entirely carefree and having zero caution whatsoever. And the universe won't let her get away with anything.

Rika wakes up to find herself in a bed in the school nurse's office and much to her shock, Satoshi is here to greet her.

And Rika realizes that she died in that traffic accident and was sent back in time. With Satoshi here, that means at the latest, it's June 1982. Later, she sees Rena is also attending school, meaning the date is somewhere between April and June 1982.

But the first hints that there is something wrong come when Satoko acts completely indifferent to her. Then Rika realizes she can't detect Hanyu's presence. And it's especially apparent something is wrong when Dr. Irie Yamamoto walks in to see her.

Yamamoto takes Rika to the clinic to give her a proper checkup, and upon walking in, the old folks refer to her as Rika-chan rather than Rika-chama. And then Rika realizes there is TRULY something wrong with this world when she realizes she's in the Takano clinic rather than the Irie clinic.

At this moment, Rika probably felt this is a hopeless "The villain wins" world. Since she's had to loop back again, Rika has probably been thinking about how she has to go through everything again to prepare for June 1983. But this discovery means much of the dynamic is completely different.

The first thing she asks is whether or not Irie is here. And there is no Kyousuke Irie. But then she finds out there is also no Miyo Takano either. Takano clinic refers to Hifumi Takano, not Miyo.

And with further inquiries, Rika finds out that Okonogi likely isn't here as well and Yamamoto doesn't know what Hinamizawa Syndrome is.

Rika was probably trying to figure out her options to prepare for her inevitable rematch with Miyo Takano, only to discover this world doesn't have any of the necessary components for that conflict to even happen.

And the final shock to her system comes when she asks today's date and Yamamoto tells her that it is currently June 1983.

So with the first chapter done, we have the setup to what this arc is about. Every world has followed roughly the same scripts with light variances right up until reaching June 1983. Rika has relived the same life for 100 years, but now she's facing a world completely outside anything she's ever experienced.

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Who killed Rika

Rika notably turns up dead in Tatarigoroshi, but it's implied that she dies like this in every timeline except when she's killed by Shion. The day after she dies gas erupts killing everyone in the villiage, again, except in the timeline where Shion kills her.

The suspects:

Keiichi Maebara

Out of his mind due to Hinamizawa syndrome, but we follow him for the narrative without any gaps big enough have committed the murder. Almost impossible for it to be him

Mion Sonozaki

Leads a yakuza group, but has no reason for killing Rika and most suspicion around the family should be alleviated due to the body disposal area of their murder basement being devoid of the victims of Oyashiro-sama's curse Almost certainly not her

Rena Ryuugu

Symptoms of Hinamizawa syndrome have been shown to act up at times and also she's featured heavily on covers even when not being particularly important in the story which could mean there's some hidden significance to her. Also this

Very unlikely it's her

Satoko Houjou

Queen of traps and deception, but Rika dies in every timeline and Satoko seems indisposed long before her death in Tatarigoroshi. I find it hard to believe she commited murder both under these conditions and the conditions of other timelines. Souldn't be her

Shion Sonozaki

Yes she killed those people in Watanagashi, her killing Rika under such different circumstance to such different results doesn't seem like her. Not her

Kyousuke Irie

Introduced in the same chapter as The Great Hinamizawa Disaster he presides over an unusually large clinic. His background is shrouded in mystery and he has an outsized role in the story, taking on many parts which could have been given to other characters. Even though his actions in the story have yet to fill out his role, his intentions seem mostly benign. Possibly him

Miyo Takano

I think she's faking her death, the autopsy time of death doesn't match up and she was only identified by a dental implant. I think the car that Ooishi checked the plates of before he went missing was her, but I don't know how she could disappear a pair of cops. Meeting Keiichi in her car in Tatarigoroshi confirmed she almost certainly killed Tomitake and used the corpse in her trunk to fake her death. I don't know why she's doing this. She seems to be just an ardent lover of occult lore and her backstory with Tomitake checks out so she's not lying about that. However most of her character remain shrouded in mystery. Likely did it

Chances a culprit killed Rika

Takano: 70%

Irie: 25%

Rena: 3%

Someone else on the list: 1%

Wild card: 1%

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Irie Kyousuke from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is a trans man!!

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was reading tatarigoroshi and doodled my beloved irie while internet was out

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Irie Kyousuke from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou 🔪

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POV: you are kuraudo ooishi

no spoilers in tags please! only partway through meakashi ^_^

[tsuisou-no-despair]

Your role swap au is really cool! Also I appreciate you hitting Irie with the Anti-Pedo Beam

Thanks! (And there was no way I wouldn't be breaking out the Anti-Pedo Beam - one of my big complaints about Higurashi as a whole is that Irie's got interesting character bits wrapped up in... *gestures*. Stripping that away and using the workable core of the character is the least I could do!)

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Higurashi When They Cry Hou Ch. 8 Matsuribayashi pt. 25

Research is going well

I do apologize if you don’t like Irie, the next chunk of fragments feature him in a pretty significant capacity.

I know in the grand scheme of things it’s really small potatoes by comparison, but talking to Rika about how they need her precious spinal fluids, and want to drill a hole in her head behind her parents back seems a bit sketchy to me. You have to lay the groundwork if you want to ease someone into a potentially dangerous procedure I know, but it just really seems like they’re being a bit shady with this two pronged approach to coerce Rika’s dad into agreeing.

This is fascinating to me, that this priest, who is dedicated to the worship of Oyashiro, himself has doubts about the whole “Rika is the reincarnation of Oyashiro” thing.

It must bother Takano to be kind of disregarded like this. Fictional character, etc etc, but I know I get annoyed when people brush me off like that at my job, so I wager that these small annoyances probably play into her willingness to gas the two thousand odd inhabitants of this village.

Irie, why on earth would you think that? You know for a fact that you’re doing some work for the government and that Takano herself handpicked you to because of your research into brain diseases. Why on earth wouldn’t she know about it?

I really enjoyed this interaction, the cold and clinical take down of Irie was exhilarating to read. Just such a complete devastating blow to his ego was incredible. I’m sure it was meant to be viewed as Takano stepping over the line, but her callous disregard for Irie and what she views as petty objections was great. Part of me wonders what it would’ve looked like if Irie did call her bluff, would she just keep on researching without a face for the Irie Institute? Or would she have gotten one of the other brain surgeons from their list and been like “yes, this is Kyousuke Irie” during their meetings with Tokyo?

I enjoy the smug look on Takano’s face with the original art. It’s so much more condescending than her looks in the console or remake art styles.