Oct 252024
Last year, I made some solid progress in Higurashi and reached Chapter 5 in October.
Unfortunately, I unintentionally took another year-long break, so it’s taken me this long to get to the next chapter.
But now I have, so it’s time to talk about Higurashi When They Cry Chapter 6: Tsumihoroboshi.
The past two chapters have had different viewpoint characters, and this one splits most of the story between Keiichi and Rena. We learn a lot more about Rena’s past and have some truly emotional, heartfelt moments, and then…
Then things really get interesting.
While reading this chapter, there was a point where I believed Higurashi had finally given me all the answers and explained everything, revealed what was really going on. But then I began to get suspicious. It was a little too neat and tidy.
What followed was the most intense build-up of paranoia since the first chapter. I went back and forth so many times on what I believed, and that made it all the more interesting to read. It’s hard to say anything much about this chapter without spoilers, but suffice it to say that I still have many, many questions.
It might have left me with a lot of questions, but this is one of my favorite parts of Higurashi so far. The atmosphere and sense of paranoia was incredible, and it was a great choice for this time of year.
Of course, if you haven’t played Higurashi yet, you’ll want to start from the beginning. But if you’ve played up through Chapter 5 like I had, you won’t regret moving on to Higurashi When They Cry Chapter 6: Tsumihoroboshi. I can’t wait to see where it goes from here.
Playing from the beginning sounds like a lot. But spread out over many years, like yourself, maybe more doable?
I’d say so. Although I’d recommend not taking quite as much time in between chapters as I do… because I tend to forget what happened and need to refresh my memory.
This makes me wanna go back and watch the anime, I just remembered it being SUPER violent and messed up. But at least I was kinda right when I remembered there was a parasite or something involved. ([potential spoiler removed])
Actually… well, I’ll leave it at that so I don’t have spoilers in my comments section.
I tried really hard to watch the anime, but found it confusing and weird, especially when one of the characters was a member of the demon yakuza or something out of nowhere?
I definitely never made it out of the “question” arcs and I think I ended up Wikipedia’ing it just to find out what the heck was supposed to be going on.
Sometimes I want to give the newest anime a try though…
I’m guessing things like that make a lot more sense in the visual novel, where they have hours upon hours to slowly explain everything and show the characters’ inner thoughts and things, compared to an anime. Although the “demon” part was still left very ambiguous and mysterious in that chapter of the question arcs.