The usual set up of Takano and Tomitake getting killed is present just like Rika has exactly anticipated. The doctor was also killed as well, and there's a stalker on the loose that's observing Rika and Satoko. Satoko then asked a police investigator to get a patrol guard to protect the, but as the investigator was leaving, he noticed mysterious men breaking into some sort of radio tower. He started to question them but got shot in the end.
Hmmm, I wonder what purpose that radio tower will serve.
Episode 5 ends the anime original chapter, the Yakusamashi-hen. Just to note this chapter was supposed to fill in the minor details that were left out in the first season. And not to mention build up upon Rika's real role in all of this.
Spoiler :
Overall, this episode ended with EVERYONE dead. Though a few points to consider:
- Who exactly are those mysterious men, and who sent them?
- Why does it have to be Rika that have to get killed?
- The gas incident did happen yet Satoko was able to escape from it by falling off the rope bridge. Sounds familiar? It should!
- Rena knows something as Satoko dreamt her final actions before getting killed by those same mysterious guys.
- Nurses are evil!
Satoko dies from a "heart attack"....yeah right!
Next episode starts the Minagoroshi-hen which is part of the Answer arc which "answers" the Tatarigoroshi-hen (episodes 9-13 of Season 1) which also serves to answer a lot of the other lingering questions presented before.
And Hanyuu makes her first real appearance! \o/ Well, it starts off in some strange midpoint between worlds. It almost looks like she's trying to pick which one to go to. Rika falls into one of them and it's the one where Mion (or Shion.. I lost track.. @_@) wreaked havoc on everybody. However, it seems that Keiichi can bend destiny as he gives the doll to Mion instead of Rena this time. During the other answer arc, she said that "it could've all been avoided if he just gave her the doll."
Crisis has been avoided and Rika is a little less emo. We're getting somewhere!
It seems that Hanyuu is affected by things that happen to Rika. Seeing how Rika can eat a lot of spicy food but Hanyuu appears to be the one going through the torture.
Anime News Network wrote:Higurashi no Naku Koroni Live-Action Film in 2008
Higurashi no Naku Koroni, the psychological suspense franchise that started with a self-published dōjin game, will be adapted as a live-action movie for 2008. The franchise has already spawned drama CDs, manga, anime, and novels. Ataru Oikawa (Tomie movies) will direct this film which will screen at two theaters in Tokyo at first. Source: animeanime.jp
Well, at least it going to be a lot better than the ones made by the same guys who did those live action porn versions of Haruhi Suzumiya and Fate/stay night!
Episode 7 was DAMN GOOD, and it's definitely setting up to go either ways! Couple keypoints that needs to be emphasized:
Spoiler :
- Keiichi, Rena, and Shion were able to avoid going to their paranoid, psychotic state from their respective chapters by being able to talk to someone about it. Supposedly they have dreamed what they "could have done" which in fact "already happened" in their chapters.
- Akasaka's wife was also spared thanks to actually listening to Rika's advice.
- Rika makes a theory that if Tomitake and Takano were able to avoid their deaths, she will be spared. With that in mind she did warn those two about it and later security was beefed up a bit.
- And what did you know! Those mysterious guys in green are watching over Rika!
Why am I getting a nagging feeling that these events that may favor Rika will make her too overconfident to a point she'll lose her guard?
Episode 8, and yes sh*t is starting to hit the fan!
Spoiler :
- Guess who's back? It's Satoko's abusive, good-for-nothing uncle! Like what happened back in Tatarigoroshi Chapter (episodes 9-13 of Season 1), Satoko refuses to admit to the welfare agency that she's being abused since she considers it as an atonement for making her brother Satoshi disappear.
- This pissed off Rika a lot (just look at her deranged faces which by the way doesn't look corny like last season) since her dependence on Akasaka and those "mysterious" guys in green ended be useless due to various circumstances; Akasaka was at a hot springs resort with his wife, and the guys can't intervene because the police tagged the uncle and Rina Mamiya (remember her from the last chapter in the Answer arc of Season 1?) got killed so any movement from these guys will only bring in more suspicion.
- So it's all up to Keiichi and the gang. But first when Shion heard about this, she was ready to kill the uncle. Interestingly enough, Keiichi is the one who stopped her from doing it. So you can say that the uncle's upcoming murder has been adverted.
- The gang then went for the frontal approach and went to the welfare office directly. This ended up being being a bust since the officials got no clue what's going, and they didn't give them a straight answer. Hope seems lost until Rika told them to keep on pushing harder.
So in a way, most (or should I say all) of the events in the Question arc that lead to the upcoming destruction has been adverted. Well they still have to get Satoko out, but there's still the lingering questions of what caused the disaster, and who killed Rika (or better why does Rika has to be killed).
(though I miss lots of important things.. >.>)
I like laughter ;DD
