higurashi no naku koro ni 12 (tatari goroshi-hen 4)
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I’m just d-y-i-n-g. K1 is killing both this arc and me.
(If there is an Oyashiro-sama, we’d have a beach fanservice episode STAT. I can’t imagine another series so desperately needing some symmetrical docking fanservice.)
Continuing from the previous episode, Takano “jokes” about burying a body. She overtakes Dynamite Natsumi for the title of “Worst Joke Timing” award. Yet, from what we’ve seen from Takano’s personality, she’s not the joking type. K1 should know this.
(Also, since we’re approaching the halfway mark, will they change the OP/ED?)
“I am… The Joker!”
Because Takano seems to know a bit too much about K1’s extracurricular activities, he wonders if he should have killed her too. At the end, he mutters something about hoping that “Oyashiro-sama would hold a wet T-shirt contest kill Takano.”
Is this the best service shot they can muster for the ladies? Not that this anime has sparkling males like Ouran or even The Third… the options include one very, very clueless young boy, one overweight cop, one crappy photographer, and one doctor who may be listed on some sex offender registry. Probably the most pathetic collection of male characters since Magikano.
In quite possibly the creepiest part of the anime, K1 goes to school all happy. He’s proud that he just killed another human… even Shinn went through more emo than K1 here after Shinn downed Meyrin and Athrun. But the creepy part is that everyone thinks that K1 went to the Watanagashi festival…
Rika asks him if he saw her perform, which she asked one once before (and lied about). Mion even tosses in a, “That baka Shion was flirting with you (and now she’s in my underground jail).”
I wasn’t sure if it were just Mion and Rena “playing along” or “covering something up” but everyone seemed to be getting into it… this “K1 was at Watanagashi festival.” K1’s confused; I’m confused. We need to get Mulder and Scully on this. The truth is out there.
(Now every time I hear “penalty game,” I keep thinking of nails through the hand. This may or may not be worse than forcing someone to watch Koi Koi 7.)
… lost my train of thought for a second here… goooooooooooal! Wait, that’s not it…
The odd part is that everyone really behaving like he was at the Watanagashi festival (and it sounds almost like what happened in the Watanagashi arc). K1 even won some sort of stuffed animal, yet didn’t give it to Mion. Dude never learns. It’ll be hilarious (I mean more hilarious, since it’s pretty hilarious already) if K1 dies at the hands of Emo Mion at the end because he didn’t give Mion this doll rather than because he upset Oyashiro-sama somehow by killing Satoko’s uncle.
With all this talk of K1 at the festival, even I’m getting weirded out. I’m starting to doubt my own truths in life now, like “the Earth is round,” “meido are superior to kangofu (but only slightly),” and “up up down down left right left right a b select start.” Or was it b then a. See? Doubts!
K1 goes around asking everyone, “Uh, do you remember where I was last night?” He sounds like any typical drunk frat boy who was celebrating last night, well, I guess they don’t need a reason to get hammered everynight… “Dude… where’s my cell phone? And did you see that skank Joel was with at Steve’s party night?”
(Rika is still adorable. I want more rikaisms… “bou bou!”)
Everyone seems to having a good time, except for Satoko. Her uncle… came back home! K1 makes an awkward situation even more awkard and confusing my cornering Satoko with, “He [her uncle] didn’t come back right?” K1’s thinking “OH SHI- I KILLED ONIZUKA!”
By the way the rest of the Killer Loli SOS Brigade is looking at K1, I’m guessing they’re involved somehow. In any case, you can bet that every one of them knows that K1 killed (or at least tried to kill) Satoko’s uncle last night.
Doesn’t K1 look like a drug addict here?
To help K1 take his mind off his troubles, Rena and Mion agree to perform some hawt girl-on-girl action for K1 take K1 out on a “treasure hunt.” I’m guessing their either digging up Colonel Sanders or Satoko’s uncle.
“… and then at Steve’s party, that green haired chick started making out with that redhead! It was hawt. You should have came. Finals are for losers and electrical engineers. Oh what was I talking about… oh, yeah, bro, did you see my cell phone?”
Passing up a threesome (for like the umpteenth time), K1 decides he “has better things to do” than accompany two cute females out on the town. Yet another K1 mistake… he tells Rena but not Mion. The green eyed monster is going to be fearsome.
Rena looks adorable!
I’ll call this the, “Don’t you dare lie to me K1” face.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni‘s ability to make their female characters go from too-adorable to too-creepy is just amazing. I just loved this exchange with K1 saying that he’s going to the clinic and will get a receipt for Rena. Then Rena adds… “Ii desu… make sure you get one. I’ll check tomorrow.” I was hoping K1 would wet his pants, but, alas.
K1 finally does something quasi-intelligent… he goes to see Irie, the doctor who loves Satoko a bit too much. He asks him if it is possible that another him is running around, having fun, scoring with Shion, while he’s stuck doing the dirty work. Of course, since doppelgangers aren’t exactly covered in the annuls of modern medicine, Irie ends up patronizing K1 a bit, which causes K1 to meltdown…
… and admit that he killed Satoko’s uncle. Way to go. Plan a perfect crime, then admit to it. Sadly, we don’t get much of an emo facial distortion out of K1. Pity.
Irie, with a possible murderer in his examination room, decides its best to play along with K1. But, obviously, K1 is becoming more and more dillusional claiming to have killed Satoko’s uncle, yet he’s alive. “I felt the impact of my bat striking his head!” He thinks he’s trapped in some Sunrise anime. Look! It’s Mwu! He’s back! Irie decides to leave to fetch K1 some tea…
… only K1 overheards Irie ordering his staff to drug K1’s tea. K1’s a complete and utter mess right now. I think he’s the craziest character in this series. Not only that, he’s killed more people in this series thus far than any other character… Rena has some catching up to do.
He snaps. Again. Meanwhile, we overhear that Takano has been found dead… fun times! She apparently was burned. I’m guessing that the Killer Loli SOS Brigade treasure hunt found witches along with their corpse.
He decides to go dig up the corpse, to make sure, you know, it’s there. First he talks about some perfect crime, and now not only is he confessing, he’s going back to the scene of the crime. Huge no-no. Worse yet, Oishi is there to greet him! Good times! I loved how Oishi is dripping in vileness here… “Please, keep digging your hole. Don’t mind us. Just think of us are more trees in the forest.” Then he orders his policemen to abuse K1 a little bit… too bad this is pre-Rodney King or else K1 would be suing the crap out of the Hinamizawa police department.
(I’m wondering how Oishi got there… was he tipped off by Irie? Did he tail a 14 year old boy because he’s out of clues… I wouldn’t put it past him… sneaky bastard.)
Just gotta love how effortlessly random police dude tosses K1. Whoosh! There he goes. I mean, a slender man, around 130-140 pounds should be able to toss another slender man, around 130-140 pounds, without any effort right? Just like tossing a softball? How tough can it be?
Oishi continues laying the smackdown on K1. This is sure a fun arc. First we get only trace amounts of Shion, then we got a good dose of child abuse, and now we’re getting police brutality. If the goal of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni was to entertain me with blissfully delightful killer lolis, it is failing right now. Watching K1 squirm and descend further into his own insanity can be entertaining, but doesn’t carry the same impact or entertainment value that Machete Rena or Tough as Nails Mion has. Based on the build-up from the two previous arcs, I’m very disappointed about the lack of killer lolis in this arc. It’s like if Mai Otome suddenly became serious (or if Sunrise took my offer to write for them… there’s no way I can pump out the same unintentional comedy that they did the last few episodes) or Da Capo suddenly had Asakura and Nemu asking, “Wait, we’re brother and sister… maybe we should think this over.” The fun’s over. K1 killed it.
We can pretty much all guess what K1 and Oishi find out… there’s no body.
Seeing how there seems to be one more episode to this arc, is this arc salvagable? Yes, but we need a good dose of killer lolis. Quick, nurse, 100ccs of Emo Rena! While the premise of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is still a winning one (who doesn’t like gleeful mass murdering 13 year olds with the melonpan of a 18 year old), that’s what the series needs to provide to be successful. It’s like making a Gundam series, only it doesn’t have any mobile suits in it. What’s the point? It’s betraying its heritigage at that point. An arc focusing on K1’s dementia just isn’t the same.
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I’ve come to the ultimate conclusion that despite your particular frustration in this arc for focusing more on Keiichi than the other killer lolis, you secretly harbor a fascination for him. The number of Keiichi pics betray you, especially the one of him coming into class with that goofy smile and that girly handwave. lololol
Have a safe trip, BTW.
It really is amazing how poorly K1 handles just about any situation, isn’t it? “I have to plan the perfect murder! I’d better ask everyone I know for advice!” “What? No, thanks for the offer to hang out with me in public and establish a good alibi, I’m going to… do… stuff.” “Your uncle mysteriously didn’t show up last night after leaving for strange reasons, right?” “Hmm… I sloppily murdered someone, and now all you people seem to all be feeding me a story I can use if someone asks me where I was… are there two of me!?!?!”
Boy, does he ever deserve the death he’s heading towards this arc.
It’s arguable that the previous arcs were also focused on K1’s dementia. There were severe gaps in his perception of the world. He makes things up that aren’t there, like the people that came to his house right after he slaughtered Rena and Mion.
I was totally thinking the same thing about the random police guy hurling K1. Maybe he was possessed by Oyashiro-sama and given super-policeman strength?
Da Capo suddenly had Asakura and Nemu asking, “Wait, we’re brother and sister… maybe we should think this over.†The fun’s over. K1 killed it.
ROFL.
Despite the lack of killer lolis, this episode isn’t that bad. What happened to your hype meter for higurashi btw?
You keep saying it as if there is no more to this series then melon-pan, there was plenty of good stuff in this episode just not threesome shaped. (dammit now you got me actually expecting it to happen!)
theres one positive thing about this arc…. and that are droopy-tan(takano because of her eyes) and mr.delicious (oishi because of his name)
oh and one little spoiler: the next arc is a prequel to arc number 1,2 and 3 and will contain less killer loli than this here.
“Just gotta love how effortlessly random police dude tosses K1. Whoosh! There he goes.”
Well it has consistency at least. Satoko was able to push him away so easily too, clearly he’s only an outershell of a human with no organs (and clearly, no brain either) thus making him surprisingly light and throwable!
I agree with FubaredByAnime: Your melonpan withdrawal has left you searching for K1 fanservice, even posting alluring caps (bed, navel exposure). I sense a shift — maybe the Keiichi sadism has trumped the emo face search. Actually, that seems to be true of all posters. If only Mion had driven that nail into his pinky joint… at this point, we can only dream.
Oishi playing the bad cop was great, where’s your Miranda now K1?
“K1 should know this.”
LOL you mst be joking
Altough the girls are the major visual appeal of Higurashi, one must admit: you just have to know how does this arc end! That’s basically why I like this series so much so far; gotta love a good mystery.
And for the love of god, what magazine (or whatever) are those pictures from?!(the one on the top with the Higurashi Lolis and a previous one of the SOS Dan Girls with Yuki in a bikini) I must know!!!
oh and one little spoiler: the next arc is a prequel to arc number 1,2 and 3 and will contain less killer loli than this here.
^ Yeah, but there won’t be any K1 (yeah, it’s that important) either. This brings mixed feelings. Do we want to see a replacement K1? Also, i hear that Rika may never go Killer Loli OR emo. :(
>> And for the love of god, what magazine (or whatever) are those pictures from?!
The magazine picture looks like its from the Japanese NewType magazine. It’s a pity they look better in that picture than they usually do in the show…
Actually, I think it is quite possible for the policeman to do it. A few hours ago, in school, a classmate of mine lifted up another, placed the other’s legs on the table for support befotre twirling him for one round. (Ok, theyr just playing, there’s no Oyashiro in my sch.) However, I find the Satoko pushing K1 part ridiculious.
:commenting of the magazine image at the top of the page:
Rika sure seems interested in Rena’s ass there. And who could blame her?
I was half expecting K1 to admit to killing Teppi during the classroom scene. When he didn’t I was thinking that he might not be that stupid. Then he goes and admits it a few minutes later…. and then tries to dig up the corpse. Instead of, you know, going to Satako’s home to see if her uncle is still there.
There’s something I noticed that may end up meaning nothing. When Keiichi asks Satako if her uncle disappeared yesterday she answers back by mentioning several mean things he did to her that day. One of them being throwing food at her. She then says “I was the one who had to clean up the mess! I did! Me!”, after which she starts crying. Now if we take this at face value the mess she’s talking about is the food. However, when I look at it it seems to me she’s confessing to something. If that’s true it leaves me with two explanations.
The first one being that Satako killed her uncle and K1 either imagined the whole thing or Teppi managed to get away from K1 during the attack (remember he did get away from him only to have K1 magically appear in front of him after he slipped down a side of a hill) The “mess” in this case refers K1’s botched murder attempt. The second explanation is that K1 did kill Teppi and Satako is covering up for him. By moving the body to a safer hiding spot and telling the others to lie about K1 being at the festival.
>oh and one little spoiler: the next arc is a prequel to arc number 1,2 and 3 and will contain less killer loli than this here.
^ Yeah, but there won’t be any K1 (yeah, it’s that important) either. This brings mixed feelings. Do we want to see a replacement K1? Also, i hear that Rika may never go Killer Loli OR emo.
More SPOILER:
From what I’ve heard, the next arc is only 2 eps long as well. I guess the producers want to focus more on killer loli or twilight zone arcs, so they shorten the really “boring” ones. lolol
I think you may find some symmetrical docking here:
(NSFW, H doujins!)
http://210.135.90.6/~mansion/higurashi.html
Hopefully.
Enjoy, those who are old enough to see this :D
>>Also, i hear that Rika may never go Killer Loli OR emo.
Well of course she wouldn’t if K1 isn’t there. She only does in his perception. There’s clearly nothing wrong with her.
Crud. I just heard what the final showdown is going to be. I won’t say much, but just know that it will end simularly to the first Silent Hill and the end of Siren. At the end of all this madness, there may be fewer survivors than once thought. Seriously, this ending is going to be craaaaaazy whacked out.
i just have to say this. i aenjoy this blog, just as much as the actual series. i’m laghing myself shitless here!
In case no one has seen it: http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~da.....urashi.htm
So, someone scouted a real location on which to base Hinamizawa, then some otaku who’d played the game found the real town and took some pictures. There’s a similar site somewhere for the town in “Onegai Teacher”.
»I just heard what the final showdown is going to be. I won’t say much, but just know that it will end simularly to the first Silent Hill and the end of Siren.«
The alien-ending?
Anyway: The end of episode 13 is typical for Higurashi: WTF?
Side pointless note after fifteen days.
[[ I mean, a slender man, around 130-140 pounds should be able to toss another slender man, around 130-140 pounds, without any effort right? Just like tossing a softball? How tough can it be? ]]
It is certainly possible if you know Aikido. I practice Aikido and I’ve seen it before, it’s a question of style and the way to do it, even with people heavier than you. In fact, with people heavier it’s pretty spectacular. Just remember what Spike said about the flow of water, that’s basically the basics of Aikido.
I love how you commenting series and use other anime series as an example xD