#Maebara Keitarou

[rougeprunea]

ひぐらしのなく頃に令  鬼熾し編

Higurashi: When They Cry Rei: Demon-Kindling Chapter

[bitchoftruth]

kururu turns evil in this shocking twist, and in another shocking twist i finish the manga and actually feel overall positive about it. final thoughts on Oniokoshi at the end of this post.

inori and kururu march in, with some other polaris members, bind up the maebara family.

and accuses him of wanting to destroy the world.

and then they proceed to brutally murder his grandparents. Keitarou is like, hey, thats not cool, and if your holy mother ordered this well thats not cool either. But kururu shuts him up

she really hated those club games huh

honestly its ahrd to explain everythign thats going on. a lot of what polaris says makes no sense with no context of whats going on, which i dont have yet. just know that kururu is completely fucked up.

keitarou tries to appeal to inori instead. inori says, what i am interpreting in plaintext, that she and the other kids did want to talk to him, but that made them scared of him. also, they got HS i guess (inori also scratches her neck in an earlier bit, though less bloody-ly)

and then they uh, all start to scratch in unison

and then they burn down. the house.

and then they all die. yay!

cut forward to the kids finding out , and rika kills herself to start the next loop.

that makes sense, as we always were told the star people were an extremist group.

To me this seems like a story about how a cult/group hysteria mixes with HS, in the end. Althoguh the group scratchign was a bit comical, the idea that a whole group, already prone to paranoi, would enable eachother to further atrocities, makes sense to me.

though in this sense, it feels like there isnt mcuh of a mystery left. I will be reading the other manga eventually, which is the next loop, I remember I enjoyed what I read of that one more.

I didn't dislike this manga, actually I liked it more than I thought I would in the end, the concept is actually interesting, and the characters, well I dont love them btu I suppose they grew on me some. If the manga was more willing to let them step out of their paretns shadows, they have potential enough.

I reserve full judgement until I red the next loops manga, im not sure if thats the end of the story, it seems like there would be a third loop manga. but i dont think any was announced yet.

[witch-of-illusions]

Keitarou, Kihiro, Tamaki and Sakiko Gou/Meguri Manga art style drawn by their Artist Akase Tomato!

[dreamy-rabbit]

Sakiko being a good Big Sister tm

[witch-of-illusions]

I’m not sure that feeling will last for long tho...

Kihiro is really a cutie

Fake tears NEVER work in Higurashi lmao (except with Satoshi in Meakashi awwww)

Tamaki is such a cutie too aw

No doubts Rena would have tried to take all of them home when they were babies ahah

Awww Mama Mion watching over the children <3 About that image, some days ago I read a really funny comment like ‘’See Keitarou? All of this would be yours if your father didn’t lose his mind’’ or something like that lmao

You can bet they are teasing Satoko about which one is Broccoli and which one is Cauliflower ahahhaha I wonder if Sakiko can distinguis about them lmao

Ugh the fact that Satoko’s husband looks like Okonogi, the way he smiles...I have a bad feeling about him. He’s also like the only new spouse that Ryukishi make us to see clearly and who has a face, because Mion’s husband isn’t shown at all and obiovusly neither Rena’s ex husband, you can kind of see Keiichi’s wife but not her face...I think there’s a reason for which Ryukishi made a different decision about him.

[witch-of-illusions]