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>>49558674 (OP)when they see tbp
>>49558674 (OP)They way they're looking at me hurts so much but it's also very sexy...
>>49558674 (OP)Another /07/ shitty post, another plague of shitty pics and people defending crap, here we fucking go!
And you will always come back, let's fucking goooooo!
>>49559040I mean, is gonna to be worth the wait to see "people" like you truly cry, when the true shows about how Hackysi07 is at this rate, shit of man...
>>49558674 (OP)need Shion to look at me like this
>>49559331I like her angry expression
phase 2 is going to be delayed again...
>>49560924>https://07th-expansion.fandom.com/wiki/Higurashi_Gou_SP_Live_Talkyou absolute fucking idiot, there is NO PART of the interview you linked where Ryukishi07 says he was "shocked they locked Satoko in a prison at St.lucia". All he said was that he was "surprised" and that the scene was "exaggerated", yet he laughed it off with the host 3 seconds later.
Also, in the same interview:
>The VA keep asking staff, "how does it end", and some time ago one of the Passione staff straight up told them the ending of the show. No one believed him. Ryukishi wouldn't say whether it's a happy end or a tragic end, but he said it was a proper conclusive end. Metaphor: the golf ball will properly enter the hole.It's almost like Ryukishi wrote it...
>Well yeah. There is a character [Satoko] who has such intent. They want to crush Rika's will thoroughly. >In the previous higurashi, Rika was the secret protagonist... So this time, the hidden protagonist is Satoko.>I just wanted to break Rika and the audience's heart in a fell swoop.He absolutely intended and wrote Satoko and Rika's characters like that in Gou.
Also, he confirms the plot hinges on the misunderstanding between them at St. Lucia.
The interview you linked to prove your point actually confirms quite the opposte. How can you look at EVERYTHING he said and think all he did for Gou was give "a loose script"? He absolutely intended and wrote the foundation for Satoko and Rika's dynamic. Notice how he has been distancing himself from Reiwa, yet he continues to produce content based on Gou and Sotsu?
>You say this and yet you think ripping out the guts of someone is seen as romanticThere is literally every single other scene in Gou and Sotsu you retard. Either you skipped to violent ones only or you genuinely refuse to interpret any of the romantic moments (which there are many) as romantic because of your bias.
Yet again, let me also bring up the Higurashi Sotsu reading drama ENTIRELY written by Ryukishi07 where Satoko said "she already has Rika eternally" (in terms of love). I wonder why you don't want to comment on that?
Nobody liked shitsugou. You've spent multiple days trying to convince people it was good cause it's popular with people on twitter and "youtube meme videos". Which is just lies anyway.
>>49561889>No one actually liked it anyway!Good to know you ran out of arguments. Regardless of whether you personally like Sotsu and Gou, it is unarguable SatoRika is canon, as just proven by you.
>>49561948>youtube meme videos prove my pointPFFT haha. You're so retarded.
You retreated from "it's good" you retreated from "it's popular". Now it's just "canon canon canon".
But I already proved Meguri is better canon too. Now it's a circular argument. You gonna go back to "it's popular"? Will you ever post your amazing proof, your meme vidoes?
>>49561604>Higurashi Sotsu reading drama ENTIRELY written by Ryukishi07 where Satoko said "she already has Rika eternally" (in terms of love).He's totally become fixated with turning her into Lambda hasn't he
>>49561984Except Meguri literally has SatoRika too lol, quite a lot infact, so I don't get why you're bringing it up? Like, if you prove Meguri is better, you are just proving my point, so thanks. I'd love to see you try to prove how Meguri somehow doesn't push SatoRika just like the anime.
>>49562014What I don't like is a fecalbrained faggot like you that accepts out of character actions for the sake the "theme" or "plot" or "ship" or whatever you want to call it.
Sotsu is complete out of character trash. Meguri at least attempts to bring the character back into focus, for everyone, but especially poor Rika and Satoko.
When I see you pushing shitsugou for the sake of your fetish it just sickens me. That's all.
>>49562027Ok then... get sick I guess? Even though you are clearly exaggerating? What do you want me to tell you? Again your personal opinion doesn't really change the objective truth that everyone, Ryukishi included, are pushing for SatoRika, and it has been made indubitably canon. That's all.
>>49562041The whole story is a bunch of shit. Yuri is like a little strawberry that Ryu puts on the shit cake. And since you love strawberries you eat the shit cake.
At least with Meguri, if we're going with this metaphor, the chef looks at the recipe at the end and tries at the last minute to change the ingredients back to the original recipe of love and hope.
You really don't care about Higurashi do you? You at least don't give a damn about the characters.
>>49562049I do care about Higurashi, I just like Satoko and Rika's pairing, too. They're not mutually exclusive. You seem to hate the "newer story" since you just see it through a biased lens since the start.
What I've been trying to tell you, and something that seems like you've finally gotten to terms with, is that SatoRika is canon, and that there are zero valid arguments against it, outside of the subjective "i dont like this story bro the anime and manga is sooo trash", which still doesn't disprove it. That is literally all. Still, I applaud you for finally stopping coping and accepting the truth.
Lmao are you seriously talking to yourself just to cope about your ship?
>>49562109>cope about your shipYou are the one coping, read literally all of the above
I think I've been trolled.
Nobody likes Sotsu that much, and the way he talks is all off. You're that bored eh.
>>49562167I mean, if it makes you feel any better, you can just keep telling that to yourself.
I am dead serious about SatoRika, I would not have spent this much time.
Listen I'll talk to you directly here: You should honestly just take a break, your level of cope and denial is getting unhealthy, I don't know how you managed to go from "only the VN is canon" to "Satoko said she loved Keiichi"(familial love and out of context mind you) to "actually Meguri is more canon than the anime" to "actually the story is just bad" to "you are just trolling". It's worrying.
He actually thinks he's talking to one person oh no no no
>>49562373You all equally cope as hard and say the same shit so it basically counts as one person
>>49562373lol he thinks I'm satokeifag
>>49562013miyo who? 34? the author forgot! now brb doing another theater play
Ange is having sex with multiple men as we are speaking
>>49563003Why is the guy in this video white?
>>495630032025 and people stil doing this 2009-2013s "look at my waifu" shit...
daily satorika appreciation, remember that it's fully canon and confirmed by Ryukishi
>>49561889the only person I've known who liked sotsugou is a delusional literally autistic tranny who never read higurashi vns, which is about what it takes to enjoy that crap
>>49567588Sounds about right.
Probably the guy in this thread. All he can do is argue about author intent and "canon". He ignores all talk about quality and popularity and tries to direct it into his endless canon arguments. It's so crazy obnoxious.
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>>49567176Ah, nah, fuck you, cracka piece of shiet
>>49567863Don't make me say it
>>49567810>popularitySatoRika is the most popular pairing in the modern Higurashi english fanbase
>>49568279Yes yes sure
Source: Your unamed anime forums, unamed twitter posts and unamed "youtube meme videos"
>>49568288Literally just look around man, I don't know what to tell you. If you actually put in the smallest amount of effort, you can look around in the EN community (outside of your echo chambers) and see that it's literally everywhere. Twitter, YouTube, Main Discord servers, hell even TikTok, it doesn't matter, you'd see mostly SatoRika if you searched for either Satoko or Rika.
>>49568371Rena x Keichi is higher on google suggestion list, according to your logic that makes it more popular
>>49568529(me)
Forgot the fucking screenshot, why do I even bother talking and proving something to schizos tho?
>>49568529>>49568534And keichi and mion is even higher btw, the best girl can't stop winning
>>49568371>look around it's literally everywhere>that everywhere? well it's just everywhere! I refuse to provide an exampleUltimately you're always falling back on this. This argument has gone in a circle for days. And so anon was right, you're a delusional autistic literal tranny.
As expected of a sotsu enjoyer.
>>49568529why are you bringing rena into this? its about satoko and rika you autist. who cares if rena is higher in the results? also it's not about just the google results, as i said look literally anywhere and you'll see what i mean
>>49568582how exactly do you expect me to provide an example? i knew you'd say something like this desu. the best example is for you to open any app and search higurashi and scroll for like 15 seconds at max
>>49568150when the terf says ywnbaw (your valid)
>>49568583nigger, you said it's most popular pairing in the entire fucking fanbase and you provided a screenshot of suggested google search results as a proof
we can do that too, you know. and suddenly your proof is worthless, as if there were any doubts to that
>>49568588>I knew you'd ask for proof!Yeah obviously.
Scrolling youtube right now, all I see is gore shit from sotsu, some old nipah compilation and some retarded anitubers.
Scrolling pixiv I see all kinds of different stuff (if I turn off AI which is just weird fetish shit)
Scrolling Higurashi tags both English and JP for like 30 seconds and I see tons of cute art, one JKtoko finally with Rika in the background?
You're psychotic. I'm not going to humor tiktok.
This shipper is the kind of guy that probably clapped like a seal when he saw Satoko rolling around in the mud pretending to be abused to trick her friends.
Literally throwing mud all over the severity of her abuse in Tatarigoroshi.
Just the lowest of the low like Sotsu for such artificial reasons.
>>49568603>looks up keichi againyou must be autistic, again why are you bringing keiichi into this LOL. there's not even a "keiichi x satoko" result, what is even the point of doing that?
>>49568607I said EN community and you scroll through fucking pixiv? The japanese site?
Also you have to look for rika or satoko art as I said, obviously you're not gonna see satorika art if you search just the fucking series name.
you have to be doing this deliberately because holy shit
>>49568627This has to be some ragebait trolling, my autistic anon can't possibly be this retarded
>>49568631I thought that too but he's been at it for days. The whole last thread was him arguing with the satokeifag about "canon" relationships. It's a genuine retard.
>>49568607literally the 3rd fucking result on a new account, i like how you look everywhere but twitter
>>49568648*Scrolling Higurashi tags both English and JP for like 30 seconds
I did use Twitter.
It's odd I don't see that one for some reason...
Bro that's Jul 15 2022. What are you doing? Are you trolling or not?
>>495686481. nobody gives a shit about the "EN community"
2. I hate to go to bat for the satokeifag
But you're just lying.
Look at the likes, not the weird twitter curation of specific keywords at the "top" list.
Who cares which crappy ship is most visible this much
>>49568669>Also you have to look for rika or satoko art as I said, obviously you're not gonna see satorika art if you search just the fucking series name.If you search "higurashi satoko" you will find that post as one of the top results, are you acting like a retard on purpose? do you know how the Top tab of twitter works?
but fine, if you look at the LATEST tab you'll see a post from fucking YESTERDAY about it you have NO excuses
I finished my replay of Ciconia.
It was ok second time round, shame the coward could not finish making the rest.
>>49568702Bro some nobody is reposting a mei card and an anime shot with two likes who cares?
>>49568702He can't defend sotsu in quality so he has to do this roundabout dance to prove it was popular in the "EN community" to try and prove it's worth.
I think we should talk about boobs and the bras the girls wear instead.
>>49568768This is getting really pathetic tranon.
I mean I believe you when you said it was the third result. I say you're lying about it's popularity. That top page for your specific keywords doesn't mean anything, likes are what matter here.
>>49568739>He can't defend sotsu in quality so he has to do this roundabout dance to prove it was popular in the "EN community" to try and prove it's worth.I've shown that it's canon & confirmed by even Ryukishi and now I'm showing you that it's all over the EN community too, which were your 2 biggest arguments
>>49568784Sorry but you're only ever going to convince yourself with this argumentation.
In fact I believe it's less popular than I did before looking through twitter tags. You're trying your hardest to see what you want to see.
>>49565285Women can't resist the BWC
>>49568793If you want to keep ignoring literally all of the posts from the EN community then that's up to you. Maybe we haven't interacted with the community in the same way then, or you just haven't at all, which would explain why you manage to think it's "not popular".
>>49568768>search up higurashi satoko>first result is gay jujutsu kaisen art
>>49568807I don't think you know what literally means.
Your own webm had you "literally" scrolling by non ship art, then stopping before non ship art to focus on the one you're trying to build a nonsensical point around.
>>49568818you are absolutely fucking retarded, the video was to show how it was the 3rd/4th result, fucking read
>>49568768algorithm is personalized for you, based on your previous browsing history
>>49568825At two likes lol. It's just some dude posting anime screencaps. Maybe it's you.
>>49568828>on a new account
>>49568836so you're telling me a new account has completely unrelated fujo JJK art show up as the first result for 'higurashi satoko'?
>/jp/ arguing about twitter
>/jp/ using twitter screenshots and opinions to validate their statements
oh how mighty have fallen
>>49568775Nothing there yet for the brats.
>>49568856The shitsugou lover has to use "it's popular on english twitter" as his final argument for that crap's worth.
>>49568867There's no final argument, I already proved that it's been confirmed as canon, also by Ryukishi. I'm just adding onto that.
I'm gonna miss the sperg thread...
I can't believe Ryu debunked SatoRika
>>49569176what is trannybane?
>>49569176>might be considered a yuri>to call it a "same sex relationship" would be betterDon't forget how he wrote or atleast approve with no issues Satoko and Rika's character in Gou and Sotsu. Also don't forget the Higurashi Sotsu reading drama ENTIRELY written by Ryukishi07 where Satoko said "she already has Rika eternally" (in terms of love)
This ONE INTERVIEW is invalid.
>>49569176It's funny how much you have to preface everything when trying to say two characters are friends actually in media. Is it that hard to say they're best friends no romantic love involved?
>>49569555They aren't just best friends, there is in fact romantic love involved
I've had this file sitting in my folders for a while now. Does anyone know what the sound is? Trying to follow the link results in some MiMe error
You come home from a long day at work, exhausted and tired, thinking about your loving wife Rena only to open the door to find your wife hiding herself behind some curtains face flushed.
What do you do next?
>>49570372Kill all squished ai image using loser cucks.
>>49569176As hard as it is to accept this confirms SatoKei
daily satorika appreciation
>>49570701>might be considered a yuri>to call it a "same sex relationship" would be better>higurashi sotsu reading drama written by ryukishi where satoko said "she already has Rika eternally" in terms of love
>>49570706It's time to let it go anon, the interview debunked you
>>49570708Let it go anon, the anime, Meguri manga, All of Ryukishi's statements and interviews around the anime, the drama he wrote debunked you
>>49570372>loving wife>Rena
>>49570711They debunked me by confirming SatoKei, it's time to let go and move on for me and you.
>>49570717He never even confirmed SatoKei, you're just trolling. Keiichi wasn't even said anywhere in that screenshot
>>49570723You need to read between the lines.
>>49570726A real gr*id would complain Rena doesn't have a large male ass with cellulite.
Which WTC girl wins the twerk off and what music are they listening to
>>49570741Tronpei and Yasu because trans girls are blackcoded
Kanye West, Coltrane idk
>>49570735I don't like it when she turns evil
We've all seen Ratka
Now get ready for...
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/131511839
Shut the fuck up with your petty squabbles and enjoy the Watanagashi festival!
Happy father's day too.
>>49571109>happy fathers dayDo you think there are any fathers here?
>>49572464Seems to be more of an uncle thread.
>>49573047Mion is not that popular around here really
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/9437432/#q9437526
Are you still here, my friend? I've been reading your post over and over for years wondering what had become of you.
Please don't tell me you got married... or that you have kids!? now...
We're supposed to be in this together forever...
Please, tell me.
>>49573265>I've been reading your post over and over for yearsHah gaaaaaaaaay
>>49573158Her big fat country-grown tits and ass were pretty popular a thread back though.
I've been away from the franchise for a while. Has there been any news or leaks on Ciconia chapter 2? It's really the only thing I care about at this point, getting answers
Also what is Ryu's obsession with spines?
>>49570871Does this artist hate Mion? He's drawn every main club member making the rounds with K1 except her.
>>49574261>Has there been any news or leaks on Ciconia chapter 2?Heh nice joke
>>49574261>Has there been any news or leaks on Ciconia chapter 2?
>>49574261Like I always say, if you just want the ending I believe very very strongly that it's been spoiled. Nakao Boushi is a huge Higu fan, he was credited as Ciconia's director. He wrote MYTH which is like a love-letter for old WTC. It takes a lot of meta twists and turns and ends up overlapping with Ciconia incredibly closely at the end.
Though you can probably easily guess what is happening with the stuff you get form shitsugou and the factory.
>>49573667I dislike large tits and asses because it reminds me of how small my penis is and how I could never properly handle a girl like Mion
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>>49574685Oh, very very interesting. How does the sotry of Myth end? I'm very curious
>>49574999Mion is a nice girl, I think she's willing to accommodate you in that situation
>>49574999Mion is more of a SPA girl than a SPH one, she might tease you about it at first but if she knows that it seriously bothers you she would only treat it with kindness and love
>>49575040>sotrystory- fuck
>>49575040Booting it up again to grab screenshots I'm realizing I probably don't get most of it.
It feels unfinished in some places, surreal and strange, but it's got a lot of heart so I recommend trying it if you like WTC.
I'm talking very broadly here. It's actually interesting as it's written. But basically the protagonist lives in a static world, a modern world you'd find in the 90s, and an almost utopia. He finds a magic door and crosses a barrier into a very rural very friendly Higurashi-like world. And since it's a world inspired by Higurashi it's very friendly but everything goes wrong after a certain date. After experiencing loops he discovers the Higurashi-like world is being used by witch like being who enacts the tragedy for a certain reason.
In the next act is discovering there's a whole system of these worlds all interconnected in a dreamlike way, like how he found a door into Higurashi land. This part is very reminiscent of how Umineko seems to work. Many different gameboards, and they have different stories and the Asgard world has people with Norse myth names who administer to these, killing the worlds, looping them, or letting them be at their leisure.
In the final act it resembles Ciconia not in story, but in the shape of what I believe Ciconia's meta world is. After moving through different worlds modern, scifi, and back to the Higurashi-like world they discover the truth that the whole meta world system is an AI program. The world ended long ago, they're just former humans recorded into the computer. Odin is the admin program, and her gods (or witches) are humans that are given tasks to make the world an interesting place to live. Enact strange stories and such, forever, eternally in their prison of the computer program that houses their minds, all that is left of humanity after the nukes fell. Odin doesn't want to live out this farce forever so she attempts to shut everything down and end the world. She thinks that in destroying the virtual world the real creator will come back and fix things. Odin just wants to meet her "God".
So basically I think the entire WTC world is a virtual program, the witches are humans with admin rights, perhaps one of the witches in particular is the true admin like Featherine. The factory scene is the lingering memory of their "processing". They're brains and spines in jars. The goal is to make interesting stories at the end of the world since there is nothing really else to do with the last remnants of humanity that has perished.
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>>49575107Fascinating
But it still feels a little nihilistic for a WTC story. Even in Uminkeo where Ange gets cancer, there is this undercurrent of hope in the future and next generation. I feel like the meta narrative must be subverted somehow, otherwise even the purpose of the program is pointless
Trying to get copies to be the originals is a sisyphian task, but an interesting one, as Nier Automata and Westworld(TV) show. Even if copies can be considered human, they can't be the originals, no matter how hard an attempt is made
What is the ultimate outlook of MYTH? What answer does it come up with I guess is what I'm asking? is it hopeful or bittersweet?
>>49575164My thoughts too. Ultimately I think that's the skeleton of the story.
Odin doesn't get her wish, she dies as the K1 stand-in MC chooses the path of continuing their stories forever. As a record for humanity's existence. It made me really sympathetic to the girl who wanted to end the world. So it's very bittersweet in the end. But more than that it's very dreamlike, very surreal. I'd compare to Lynch even. And also pretty rushed.
Now if it were old Ryukishi when he first wrote Ciconia I can see a whole number of ways to make it hopeful. Like how he made the magic end hopeful. However modern Ryukishi who thinks sotsu can be a happy coming of age cause it was all like a dream in the end I can't see him making it satisfying as he is.
Say they all did exist inside a simulation. So what? The way K1 stood up at the end of Tsumihoroboshi and declared he wouldn't be played with, if he or someone else were to do that again... I'd be filled with hope.
>>49575191Agreed. The story needs more hope, especially already being post ww3/possibly post 4
I kind of understand the living record of humanity, but I'd as soon take the Eva route and have biological proof and let the individual humans decide what to do. Let it all end or persist as people in an imperfect world.
Allowing it to stay in this dreamlike flux is like choosing Instrumentality, understandable but flawed I think. But given no other option perhaps the lesser of two evils. Still, the Matrix/Eva option of letting each and ever person decide their future is best I feel
Thank you for the synopsis, it's nice to know the director has worked with games like this before, though I won't lie, I wish his 'answer' (to life, or the nature of humanity) was different. Makes me think of Aldia from Dark Souls "No matter how tender or exquisite, a lie will remain a lie"
The stronger question I wonder is, confronted with this question, would humanity accept it as an option, or allow their own destruction, especially given the severity of the factory world
>>49575199I like that Alida quote too.
I wouldn't say the end was Nakao Boushi's "answer" to anything though. It felt very odd, very surreal, like they ended up in a bad end. It wasn't presented as a choice between truth and illusion it was more like a choice between a very slow death and a blaze of glory. Though i think your reflections are still pertinent to Cicionia, since that is the kind of question between truth and illusion is one Ryukishi is always interested in.
I enjoyed the Umineko chapter 8 and magic ending though I have some contrary thoughts.
At this point though I have to wonder if Ryukishi has gone too far down the magic path if you know what I mean, to write this kind of story. There must be objective truth. You must leave the LCL. If a devil kills you, revives you, and wipes your memory the sin must still exist.
And really, how does everyone's medically induced multiple personality disorder factor into this? That's the x factor that makes me really want to read on with Cicionia.
>>49575227Well said
Maybe that's why I'm so curious about the next chapters. Because I think he must have some 'answer'. Higurashi, the power of the bonds between people can reshape fate. Umineko, love transcends all borders, even death itself, and shapes a golden future. Ciconia then must have some answer beyond the comfort of a lie we tell ourselves after we become our own gods, or so I think at least
I like how you phrase it, feeling like a bad end. It gives me Normal Route vibes. Like the dissatisfying conclusion to Undertales normal route. The catharsis of the Pacifist or True route is missing. The crescendo hasn't been revealed
The parallel processor thing intrigues me too. Also Koshka's whole Pandora deal. It also reminds me of The Evil Within. A core 'processor' to maintain the illusory world. But even that explanation feels incomplete in Ciconia's world.
And even with all of that said, the whole 'war is hell' vibe from the story, mixed with a coming of age tale, almost makes me think the nature of reality is going to be a side plot to the main thrust of the story.
To put it in Umineko terms. The digital world feels like a Red Truth. The Pandora/multiple personality disorder part feels like a Blue Truth, and the 'true' points that connect it all, their bonds or the truth of humanity, or what have you, feel like a Golden Truth
>>49574658>Hackysi07 calmly watching the"fireworks" in Israel while eating his Happy Meal
>>49576096he dislikes all war
>>49576247May as well write Ciconia Phase 2 like the movie Spaceballs at this point, specially that is confirmed that a sequel for that film is gonna to happen (youยดre welcome) (?)
daily satorika appreciation, remember that it's the most canon ship :)
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>>49576335How do you see it ending? Coming of age story mixed with war is hell. Bit of The Fox and the Hound energy perhaps
I'm assuming they erase the factory world future from possibility, but at a cost. Bit like Steins Gate
Or do you think they'll go the route of having the factory world be the 'real' world, and everything else is a sim? If that's the case how do they escape the nihilism of such a story?
At this point I'll accept fanfic
>>49577480Leave the When They Cry rights to a more competent writer, and not one who only cares at this point in writting bad romances plots as a excuse...
>>49577480Fuck sake, the hack really cares about how much money get for suckers at this point...
People like you falling with his trap of "dont wanna because real wars happens" and this Satoko VS Rika shit are the other reasons why this francise is into the shitter 5 years for now...
>>49574999No one here actually has a small dick. It's all just LARPing.
>>49577480So, by those imbecile ideas, the saga of Dune (to put the easiest example here) shouldnยดt exist because the books are based of a writer who did militar stuff, right?
>>49577480More like "in the grim darkness, there is only war" kind of vibe.
>>49558674 (OP)Does someone know what happen to the translator team "Witch Hunt" after Ciconia Phase 1?
They leave Hackysi07 in secret as a shadow protest or what?
>>49578182After Sotsugou nothing was the same.
>>49578667"i dont like seeing 2 girls kiss"
>>49577480I don't see how the story could be anything but the factory world being real and it being a simulation.
I guess the ending will be finding some way for humanity to free itself and escape from this world. Koshka is the answer, somehow.
>>49578182I think they're just waiting for phase 2.
>>49574261>>49575107If the epic reveal behind everything supernatural in WTC is "it's the Matrix," the series is much better off dead.
>>49578799You've never read Umi either, Sotsutranny? Makes sense.
>>49577856>dont wanna because real wars happensI'm confused. Did you respond to the wrong person or something? I'm fine with a war story, hell I'd find it kind of interesting
It's a nice setup for the title itself. Sacrificing the next generation to keep the old in power. So the storks cry
>>49577935rude. When did I say anything about not wanting a military plot?
>>49578872I feel like it must be only a possible future. If it's the actual foundation of the game world then hope has died and evil has already won, which I don't see them going for, even in a war is hell story
>>49579010Yeah pretty much. It would also make every story in the series retroactively pointless and hopeless. It'd be like a vr game trying to replace reality. Those stories always end with reality being the preferential choice to the escapism. It's why I have to assume it's somehow just metaworld fuckery and not the reality of the situation
>>49578872>I think they're just waiting for phase 2."Ok guys, lets us wait more that 5 years like retardeds, while this idiot of a writter does some nonsense like go to Konami and make a nu-Silent Hill game. It will worth the wait, I promise guys."
>>49579010we came a long way from Bern is a cat and Lambda is a cake, all the way to Bern is 01000010 01100101 01110010 01101110 01101011 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101100 and Lambda is 01001100 01100001 01101101 01100010 01100100 01100001 01100100 01100101 01101100 01110100 01100001
>>49579535>Imagine only care about fucking (in all the sense of the world), with Rika/Bern and Rika/Lambda shit when this was suposse to be the WTC francise:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aHsekhCfLM
Ciconia is never getting finished, and good riddance I say.
>>49576335spaceballs is fun but umineko already felt a bit like wtcballs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1azNXcUcEs
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>>49581850>our ai guy disappears>/vn/ now has the sexy ai artno...
>>49581890the guy posting these is a /vn/ regular
>>49582449I want to fuck Shannon gently
Did /07/ frens go to touhoucon?
Being in rural Nagano Prefecture really makes me want to replay the first episode of Higurashi. It took me something absurd like 60 hours to read years ago because it was the first piece of substantial Japanese writing I had tackled, I wonder how fast it would go now
>>49581890>the sexy ai arthello sir
>>49585740>he fell for the /v/ psyoplol
daily satorika appreciation, remember that it's canon
>>49587999this image is focused on her feet but my eyes are drawn to Rena's butt
>>49588436you're supposed to start at the feet and advance there, its why the thighs are so thick
>>49588436The Golden Ratio draws your eyes in a spiral
It's confirmed this is getting a free online release, so new higurashi story by R07 soon.
>>49575107Hm... Interesting. Never looked into that VN, but it does seem to follow all speculation born from the Factory scene possibly being the real world in Ciconia.
I don't think it's actually what R07 is planning though, especially with him years ago talking about Featherine being a character who realized she was in a story and could control others by creating her own stories. Even Eua even had a 4th wall breaking line in the anime (and also a much bigger one in Higurashi Mei, in a story written by R07 himself). So, I doubt the actual "meta" would be grounded into computers.
>>49589520It seems to be an obsession for some japanese media, and plenty of other media too, but it really sticks out to me. Like in Fate Extra, the way the lore is written, humanity will only survive to reach the stars if they essentially upload themselves as digital magic beings in the 'age of will', while those who wont will be stuck on Earth
Or in Pantheon. To a digital being, the works of other UI's or 'superusers' as I like to call it would appear as magic.
It's kind of like that classic quote 'Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and sufficiently understood magic is indistinguishable from science'
Featherine and the witches could be demigod planeswalkers observing a multiverse, or they could be digitized humans given admin privileges, Featherine herself could be a higher sort of AI to oversee everything else, a librarian or theatergoer if you will. The difference is very thin with the information we have
> Like picrelSpoilers for Pantheon S2
Honestly it's basically how I imagine a less war story more scifi oriented Ciconia would go
>>49586171/v/ does love its slop, too
>>49589610>Featherine and the witches could be demigod planeswalkers observing a multiverse, or they could be digitized humans given admin privileges, Featherine herself could be a higher sort of AI to oversee everything else, a librarian or theatergoer if you will. The difference is very thin with the information we haveHow about a better version, wich is the serious version of the old joke "make anime real"?
>>49589506>satoko and rika paired up togetherand people still try and say ryukishi isn't trying to push satorika
ok. but im acc so glad that we're still getting satoko and rika stuff in new material !! it shows that they also want to go in this direction !! can definitely see these 2 have some moments in this story :3
>>49591176anon they've ALWAYS been paired up together they live in the same goddamn house what the fuck are you talking about
Please anon, this is my last try, would anyone have a specific art of Will and Lion playing badminton that isn't pic rel or the Goldan Fantasia CG?
>>49591183yeah? exactly my point? they want us to interpret it as romantic because it is
>>49591250so are you just sitting in here constantly pretending you like yuri or...
because no one not baiting is pulling out the :3 on fucking 4chan
>>49591262well, i do love yuri i just also like getting reactions out of people lol! but anything i do personally say about satorika is true though. it is canon and ill keep fighting for that. if you get mad at obvious bait, though, thats your fault, and i think you have in the past...
> Wouldโve made way more sense for lambda to be Takano and more interesting too.
> had to blow that out of the water because Higurashi doesnโt have a consistent fanbase without gratuitously violent scenes involving his loli-bait characters trying to rip each other apart
Really R7? this is how you ruin your franchise?
>>49591262I think it's a genuine animeonly sotsuloving pyschopath.
Look at the effort he tries to go to try and convince us that the ship is popular on english twitter
>>49568768I think it's pretty clear he hasn't read Umi either, he's got no idea who Bern and Lambda are.
>>49591359"ruin your franchise"
It's been so long since I've actually seen a Satorika tard here that I'm starting to look at Satokei more favorably lol
>>49591393True.
I find it cute how Rika herself shipped it. Taught Satoko how to cook for him.
>>49591372I mean yeah
Higurashi had fanservice before and it was a little cringy albeit endearing. It was nothing like Gousotsu though. That was completely alienating for anyone who wasnโt a pedo/gore freak
>>49591423>(literally just 2 girls holding hands and almost kissing)>anyone who watches this is a pedo!!
>>49591423If you want Satoko to be a murderer and torutrer of her friends and make fun of the way she was abused (which before had been taken bvery seriously) you might just be a satorika shipper (retard). But you can't say you're a fan of either Satoko or Rika.
Remember the way she randomly tried resisting herself out of nowhere only for it to never be addressed? Total schizo story.
>>49591446>only for it to never be addressed?kinda like her brotherly love for Keiichi...
>>49591440Yes their entire relationship is just shallow loli-bait for desperate weirdos like you. The worst part is itโs not even written very well.
>>49591446and she does it for fucking teppei of all people
TEPPEI
like ignoring the whole schrodinger's rapist thing, none of her friends mattered as much to her as the uncle who's been a good guy for ONE fragment out of thousands
>>49591460excuse me but how the fuck is it shallow? satoko and rika's relationship is shallow??
>>49591462> tfw a criminal scum who beats children and hangs out with whores is written with more nuance than one of the central antagonists and has a more fleshed out redemption arc tooYou donโt hate shitsugou enough
>>49591467In sotsu yes. You will die on that hill over and over. It takes a multifaceted and nuanced relationship from the original and makes it insipid and one dimensional yandere nonesense.
Like for instance even if you were actually a yurifag for those two, the scene where Satoko "peeps" into Rika's entire 100 year memories is done with no change to her attitude. Satoko looks at Rika and realizes she's been suffering and hiding things for a hundred more years than she realized and she just goes "oh, okay"
It's BAD. And you have bad taste for defending it.
>>49591467Edgy & volatile =\= deep and meaningful. Itโs simply just bad writing anon.
>>49591484> the scene where Satoko "peeps" into Rika's entire 100 year memories is done with no change to her attitude. Satoko looks at Rika and realizes she's been suffering and hiding things for a hundred more years than she realized and she just goes "oh, okay"Iโm not a huge Satoko fan but even I knew that this response was completely out of character for how we know her from OG higurashi. No fucking way sheโd ever react like that to finding out what Rika went through. They completely killed what made her likable and realistic.
Are Satoko fans the ones who have suffered the most out of the fanbase?
So Ciconia taking place in a simulation while the factory is the "real world" Matrix-style is actually a prevailing theory? That's what I came up with the one time I read it when it came out. Like Ciconia is just a game to determine whether humanity would need to be guided or figure its own shit out or something. It makes sense Ryukishi wants to just cancel Ciconia since it seems like he has some weird fetish for withholding solutions from people. I was reading the Minagoroshi manga recently and there was a little blurb that made it seem like he was seething and crying that he actually had to explain anything. If everyone can actually figure out what's going on, that probably takes away all the gratification away from him.
>>49591533>weird fetishMore like a debilitating all encompassing need for approval. That's why he lashed out by making his critics GOATs. He must be so worried about criticism for what he's planned in Ciconia he can't even write.
>>49591484You completely missed the entire point of that scene and her entire character arc. It's only shallow because you're looking at it with the depth of a puddle.
>>49591467>excuse me but how the fuck is it shallow?I would explain how much of a fucking idiot you are, but considering the sorry mental state of internet users like you nowdays, why should I care at this point...
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>>49591446Almost like parallel processors from Ciconia. Imagine Meow turns evil
Or Rika and Bernkastel
Satoko was fighting being the piece of Lambda
>>49592054AKA you can't explain how it's shallow. You can say many things about Sotsugou but the bond between Satoko and Rika certainly is NOT shallow.
>>49591472Gou/Sotsu tries to completely ignore any Teppei/Rina connections even though they had been together since the previous year.
Also, the whole thing about Teppei always dying early and him realizing that leading to his redemption is a complete lie. If he isn't killed by the main cast he was still alive in the early 00s at least, just moved to Tokyo.
>>49592099The why and how that bond was in the last anime was shallow as hell tho.
>>49591559>He must be so worried about criticism for what he's planned in Ciconia he can't even write.Another one of THE MANY REASONS why Hackysi07 shouldnยดt be the writter of WTC anymore.
To bad the motherfucker still insist to this day...
>>49591559Probably he cannot writte Ciconias because (beside suck at world building writting of course), Ryukishi07 cannot comprehend how put politics in a history really works, thus why nowdays the writter is a pedobait right now.
>>49591533Motherfucker had a problem to balance within put lore and nonsense "mysteries", that is not even "funny" anymore...
>>49591533The one big thing against that theory people ignore is that the "God" in the factory seems to talk like the virtual world would be completely different reality and do away with stuff like hunger or differences between people, which obviously suggests the factory's virtual world isn't a simulation of reality.
>>49592443It's also spoken of by blue Miyao that it is a future that must be prevented. So it seems less like the meta world and more like the bad end condition that needs to be solved, like the true culprits of Umineko or Higurashi
This doesn't necessarily mean it's impossible for the factory world to be the 'real world' of the setting, but it would make the solution so much more convoluted.
Blue Jaiden at the end seems to be trying to convince Miyao that the world they're in (likely a sim in its own right, but not the nightmare scenario of the factory world) is the one he wished for, wars fought in vr rather than real life to avoid real death
>>49592471Whatยดs the point to solve a lie of which in reality, is a beginning rather than an end?
>>49592443It's just like the Golden Land in Umineko. They can't reach it because Battler doesn't believe. It's not possible because Miyao exists.
>So, what if I wasn't here?! If I just disappeared, would the world be at peace?! Would the weird, insane things stop happening?!>That's right.
>>49592630>That's right Miyao, I want mediocrity...
>>49592443Huh, interesting. The only other "theory" I bothered coming up with is that Gunhild's sister isn't an actual separate person since there's already precedent for Meow calling Miyao their "brother." The 'traumatic experience' or whatever the fuck caused the Gunhild personality to develop and Toujirou swooped in to recruit her. Maybe I'll read it again and pay more attention but why bother. Honestly the idea that literally any character can potentially just have another hidden personality is pretty thought-terminating for me.
>>49592804I think if we had gotten phase 2 things would be more solid. Imagine making theories about Umineko for years with only episode 1 and 2, or Higurashi with Onikakushi and Watanagashi.
>>49592905Yes but wasn't there some quote where Ryukishi said Phase 1 was so long because they wanted to get a majority of the Question stuff out of the way to leave more room for Answer stuff? I feel like you should be able to grasp a lot of it with just what we have.
What do the servants actually do, anyway? The mansion has three people on a good day.
>>49592942Yeah, but it was supposed to have 4 Phases. So it's not even half of the story yet.
>>49593038Cleaning the mansion, washing clothes, preparing food? It's a freaking mansion, so the size by itself would require servants to upkeep it.
>>49593099Unused rooms accumulate filth very slowly. Kinzo built a tremendous house for reasons nobody can guess. Maybe his ideology was Maid in Heaven.
>>49593149I always thought it was funny how much the story puts emphasis on locking up the windows at night. As if they just unlock all the windows every morning for no reason. I guess they're just "making sure they're locked" (???)
>>49593250I wouldn't put it past father to ask for such a ridiculous order.
>>49593149>Unused rooms accumulate filth very slowly.I guess it depends on where you live. When I travel for one week and return home usually it needs to be all cleaned up to get rid of dust, and the house is all closed.
>>49593250BECAUSE I DEMAND IT. WHAT OTHER REASON IS THERE?
Keep the monsters out! Out! They come at night! UheaaAAHHAHAEOOO
>>49592156the producers of the anime didn't read the vn and were working with a couple of bullet points Ryukishi generously provided
>>49594167To be fair, Ryukishi07 doesnยดt even know what to make for WTC since then, so...
>>49593553He had the scorpion symbol on his study door handle. The dude was legitimately afraid of demons coming to get him. To his credit, he finally let a witch in and instantly died.
DEEN Marathon in 20
https://theatre.kissu.moe/kiss/cry
>>49558674 (OP)Now, hear me out about at real theory about the forgotten Ciconia VN...:https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Old_Ones
>>49592156Why did Ooishi move to Hokkaido?
Okay is ciconia anywhere close the level of umineko and higurashi..?
I didn't read it yet because most of ryukishi's writing after that that I've read has been kind of lackluster..
>>49598741Ciconia is great, yeah.
>>49598741It's just chapter one so I think you should compare it to other chapter ones. I think it's better than Legend of the Golden Witch, not as good as Onikakushi. But I'm a huge Oni fan.
>sits on your face
>Auauauauauau!!!!!!
>>49598063He actually talks about it in the main story. He's planning to move there after retiring in the next year. I think his mother lives there or something?
>>49598741I think R07 kind of messed up the dynamics of the main trio among themselves (although their interactions with OTHER characters are good, just not the main trio by themselves), but If you like the political conspiracy aspect of late Minagoroshi and the 1st half of Matsuribayashi there is a lot to enjoy there after it moves on from the cast introduction parts at the start.
>>49600377Just switch the "main trio" to Grave Mole at this point.
Who would you rather have a war story star? Swede, gay and gayer.
Or the Finn, the Ruskie and the Canadian.
>>49598741>I didn't read it yet because most of ryukishi's writing after that that I've read has been kind of lackluster..most of it has been good
kaleidoscope and loopers were mid. anything involving higurashi has been bad
higanbana, rosegunsdays, haworthia, ciconia, hotarubi are all great
>>49598741Depends on what you like about Higurashi and Umineko. If it's good characters, music, and a small-scale story, then not really. If you like being confused as fuck then it still has plenty of that.
Let's heat it up for the month y'all!
daily satorika appreciation, remember that it is canon (you cannot prove it wrong)
>>49603988I want to smack those bags
>>49604568doesn't mean it's not canon
>>49604841No I'm not arguing. Just the way you run away from discussion about quality is funny.
Go on, keep clapping like a seal at your favorite simplistic yandere story.
>>49603988Smells of blond twink cum
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>>49604526I'm glad someone else gets it. I wanna bat them around like one of those arcade games where you have to punch the ball super fast
>>49604886You say the "quality" is bad because you see it through a biased lens. You don't like Satoko and Rika's pairing, so obviously you're gonna dislike it. Whether you think it's "low quality" or not doesn't really matter as it still makes SatoRika canon for all of main Higurashi
>>49605319Yeah I guess you could put it like that. I have a bias from reading the original Higurashi and loving it.
You can't have that OG VN bias if you want to enjoy the new one note yandere slop.
>>49605273Yes I get it... I swear I'm not a sadist but they start to look like punching bags at a certain size and pose.
>>49605159luckiest guy in Hinamizawa (being with Shion overpowers the constant hardship of the Hojos)
>>49605772krauss is too lucky...
>>49605783Shion deserves a baby for every year she waits for him to wake up honestly
>>49605684There's literally a bunch of satorika moments in the original VN too...
>>49605987Really?
Maybe one day you can read it and understand how important overcoming abuse is to their story and how insanely evil Satoko faking her child abuse to her friends is.
>>49605945Just one per year? Seems kinda low, Sonozaki girls can handle much more
>>49606002Why do you use external stuff like that when talking about the canon story and characters themselves?? And I have read it
https://x.com/07th_official/status/1937099874954330595
The new booklet's online version is out. And, yeah, if anyone was wondering, even though it's not branded Gou/Sotsu, R07 clearly wrote Satoko as Gou/Sotsu Satoko.
It's kind of hilarious R07 is now making jokes out of Rika and Satoko using their looper abilities and losing their humanity when he was trying to so hard to defend gou/sotsu as a human story.
Aside from that, it actually officially confirms Ichiro Maebara's job and some of his past, although it should have been pretty obvious.
Also, Mion is writing a manga where she pairs herself with Keiichi, but in order to hide their identities Keiichi is just called "Kei" (่), pairing him with a "Mii" also with a different kanji (็พ), but Shion suggests just outright going with "Kei" and "Mii" with the real kanji, but Mion is too embarrassed to do that but then gets motivated and restarts it.
No Takano, but surprisingly Nomura appears. She sends Okonogi to disguised to buy doujinshi at the event and it turns out she's Ichiro's fan.
>>49611024>R07 clearly wrote Satoko as Gou/Sotsu Satoko.The day before Satoko's birthday as well, we're never getting the original Satoko back are we?
>>49611024>R07 clearly wrote Satoko as Gou/Sotsu Satokoi remember when people tried to argue sotsugou wouldn't damage satoko's character irreparably and we'll totally get the original satoko just as much as this new one!
those were the days...
>>49611024>R07 clearly wrote Satoko as Gou/Sotsu Satoko.I think I'm going to murder Ryukishi. I wish I was dead, I can't take this anymore... The Satoko I know and love is dead and gone, and in her place is a crude mockery of the girl I loved. If I could give my life to save hers I would, but she's gone and the only person to blame for this is Ryukishi. He has to suffer he needs to fucking die
>>49611024>making jokes out of Rika and Satoko using their looper abilities and losing their humanity when he was trying to so hard to defend gou/sotsu as a human storygod i fucking hate the ryukishichrist
fucking kill him, smash him into a puddle of blood i don't care
>>49611024>R07 makes a funny little joke story for Watanagashi >Satokofags act like it's 9/11
>>49611218They don't seem to be finding it funny to me.
>>49611084>>49611216Based.
Total Ryuukishi Death.
>>49611218Rikafag here, his comedy is just demonically twisting the knife into his own characters. Fuck him with a rake.
I get so many boners when I read Ciconia bruh
>>49611024Cannot wait for the hack to retcon all of WTC at this point, to be honest.
>>49611682The boner of the skeletons of the billions of dead souls in the crystal world of Ciconia, I bet?
>>49611056>>49611061>>49611084Wow, people are still in shock about this? I thought it was obvious that part it was written by the hack a LONG TIME ago...
>>49611024What, you tell me that Ryukishi07 was a shitty writter all this time, the acusations of the japanese haters where true, and the actual western "fans" are a bunch of morons?
Next you tell me that fire can burn and water is wet...
>>49611024Motherfucker doesn't even make competent booklets anymore.
>>49611584How's your sister doing?
>>49611024>>49611061>>49611084Someone should tell this motherfucker that different personalities are different people, therefore he should write sotsugou and original satoko as different characters
see if he argues against that
>>49612406anon I think that Rikafag is still in jail
>>49605159How do you know what that smells like?
>>49612504You don't have to know the smell to know that Shion would smell of it using existing knowledge.
>>49612371yes saar ryukishi always bad writter
we always hate
nevar make a gud ding
>>49612406No way don't accuse me of being that.
I actually like Bernkastel.
He's never been able to address my arguments for her.
what killed the /07/th expansion threads?
>>49614109it was mostly Rikafag and their shameless racebaiting and falseflagging
>>49612414There is outright a scene where Rika talks like Dark Rika/Bern and Satoko talks like Lambda, with the rest of the club commenting they feel like completely different people.
>>49614493Fuck, didn't mean to post yet. Anyway,it's just kind of weird R07 keeps insisting on them splitting and such when the whole point of Gou/Sotsu clearly was being able to write their dynamics in a Higurashi context and clearly it's what most people got out of the show too, even if they don't like it.
>>49612414There is outright a scene where Rika talks like Dark Rika/Bern and Satoko talks like Lambda, with the rest of the club commenting they feel like completely different people. It's just kind of weird R07 kept insisting on them splitting and such in interviews when the whole point of Gou/Sotsu clearly was being able to write their dynamics in a Higurashi context and clearly it's what most people got out of the show too, even if they don't like it. And now you have R07 himself writting these dynamics even in post-Sotsu works. The whole justification for it all ends up feeling like just an excuse, since obviously can't say he just wanted to bring the Bern/Lambda dynamic to Higurashi so he had to make up all this stuff about a human lesson to Satoko... only to proceed to write both Satoko and Rika as witches in content like this.
>>49611024>Ichiro Maebara's jobIt's loli doujinshi, right?
>>49614547Just like Lambda loses her playfulness being forced into sotsu, Bern loses a certain something being forced into sotsu Rika.
>>49614725Well, not loli specifically, but hentai doujinshi. He tried to present himself as a painter in Hinamizawa for his family's image's sake but was actually part of a famous doujinshi group (and even after they split up he was big enough to sustain his family and buy that mansion just from the sales of his solo doujinshi works).
Happy Birthday to the best niece in the world!
>>49614854>tfw ywn buy a mansion by drawing hentai in 80s japan
>>49611024Serious question here, does Ryukishi even know how much people despise Gou? Is he doing this shit on purpose at this point or has no one sent him death threats yet?
>>49615353Gou/Sotsu related merch sold pretty well in Japan in spite of the fan complaints about the show. It was still getting new merch until a couple of months ago. Gou/Meguri also did much better than all other recent manga spin-offs (although, of course, you could argue the selling point was DEVIATING from Gou/Sotsu).
Mei's bigggest revenue bump was when they tied into the whole St.Lucia plot for the first time.
>>49615579Where are you seeing Mei revenue? I'm interested in how each event did.
I am feeling very merciful recently.
>>49616185Someone used to post Sensor tower rankings here. I saved some rankings, but couldn't find the one I was talking about with a quick look.
>>49616440Oh, found another one. This one actually noted the corresponding banners too. I remember this because they stopped the Fragments of Memories series for a long time likely due to the first few doing so badly. But then later on they just went back to them anyway.
>>49616455just looking at this you can really see the sotsu fatigue, not even a year after and that shit stayed a straight line when eua and the witches came out
>>49615579>Gou/Sotsu related merch sold pretty well in Japan in spite of the fan complaints about the show.Because quite simple, when the original anime/VN went out, they donยดt have that kind of substantial merch.
>>49616627Good point. Honestly, cute wtc merch is cute wtc merch.
>>49615106thanks aunt trooppei