QUOTE (Y - Why @ May 22 2009, 10:23 AM) as a higurashi-fan i had to read through all of your posts to see what other people think about the dice-killing chapter. so i just registered here to write something myself^^
if you didn´t see higurashi + kai + first two eps of rei you shouldn´t open the spoilers
my oppinion is that maybe rika is going insane like keiichi did in the first chapter of season one. i think he imagined most of the scary moments because of his high level of hinamizawa syndrome. so mion and rena maybe said sometimes things for fun, that actually scared him in his state of illness - they never wanted to make him feel that feared...
we all know what happened in the end. maybe this time the same thing happens to rika. the moment rena looks so scary... just imagination?
if you look at it from a neutral point of view, what she says is not scary at all, just like the most things mion and rena told keiichi...
the way hinamizawa is like this in the dice-killing chapter may be a result of the last few minutes of kai. remember the woman talking to miyo... she looked like a grown-up-rika who just wanted to give miyo a happy future after she herself found a world worth living in. i can`t answer how such a rika can go back in time... but it may be possible somehow^^
and because miyo`s parents didn`t die lateron, she had no reason to meet takano-sensei at all. so no takano miyo, which means no plan to kill rika to become oyashiro-sama herself, or whatever her plan was...
it would also explain why the clinic isn`t called irie clinic (which actually was controlled by miyo through irie), but takano clinic, because hifumi was in a way the leading reseacher regarding the hinamizawa syndrom.
why oyashiro-sama`s curse didn`t occure even once... that is a thing i don´t understand myself. maybe we can figure it out sometime
Y-Why
I has played the game
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