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| Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Meguri ひぐらしのなく頃に巡 | |
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| Manga Release Date(s) | Japanese
English |
| Light Novel Release Date(s) | October, 2020 |
| Previous Arc | Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu |
| Following Arc | TBA |
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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Meguri (ひぐらしのなく頃に巡, When the Cicadas Cry: Tour) is the currently ongoing Tomato Akase's manga reconstruction of the anime arcs Gō and Sotsu, starting with Satokowashi-hen. It is advertised as a different solution from the anime.
Plot[]
Satokowashi-hen[]
Satokowashi-hen opens with the basic manga conclusion to Matsuribayashi-hen. Hanyū appears faded, and even Rika admits that the others have forgotten about her. Hanyū confesses that her power is fading, and she leaves Rika wishing that she follow her destiny and see the world outside of Hinamizawa. As Rika and Satoko enter their middle school year, Rika becomes intrigued with Shion's school, St. Lucia Academy. She invites Satoko to join in her dream, but Satoko demurs, and Rika spends nights and days preparing for the exams. By June, 1984, Mion graduates and Keiichi and Rena take over the Club. To Satoko's irritation, they change the rules to disallow cheating in order to accommodate the addition of the younger students. She misses Mion, and Rika often skips meetings to study. Observing her, Satoko finally relents and decides to accompany her, over the objections of the now adult Shion who warns her of St. Lucia's stifling formality.
Rena and Keiichi graduate, Rika and Satoko continue to study, and in April, 1987 they matriculate into St. Lucia. Rika quickly makes friends[1] while Satoko falls behind academically. Rika tries to maintain contact with Satoko, but Satoko's academic struggles force their separation, and over the year take their toll on Satoko. Facing a second year of separation, Satoko confronts Rika on her behavior to which Rika reminds her that they are no longer in Hinamizawa. Satoko attempts to return to that spirit by laying a trap for Rika which backfires by injuring her. As punishment, Satoko spends a very long time alone in a room with nothing but stacks of remedial coursework.
She emerges to find a letter from Mion in her room inviting her to reunion of the Club. She and Rika are picked by Mion and driven to Hinamizawa where they Rena and Keiichi. Rika falls back into being dotted upon by the rest, but Satoko remains noticeably silent. They encourage her to relax, but she finds herself distant from then then hears a voice complimenting how amusing she is as she finds herself in the Realm of Time Fragments. Eua asks her if she wishes to return to June, 1983. She makes Satoko experience a montage of Rika's past existence which includes her own deaths. Satoko vomits. Eua renews her offer and reminds her that different choices lead to different futures.
Satoko accepts and experiences a number of existences, some described below, none of which end happily for her. A montage of fragments, which include episodes of their deaths, follow that lead Eua to conclude that while Rika achieved happiness after just a hundred years, Satoko cannot. Satoko concludes that to enjoy that period of June, 1983 required the tragedy. She eagerly welcomes the opportunity to continue looping and entertain Eua.
Oniakashi-hen[]
Volume 02 cover
Satoko injects Rena with H-173. Rina repents her exploitation of Rena and her father, but under the influence of the Hinamizawa Syndrome, Rena murders and dismembers her. Satoko's first method to obtain H-173 results in the internal exposure of Takano as she tries to inject Jirō. Their apparent disappearance concerns Rika, since it breaks the Rules, and it leads Ōishi to approach Keiichi at school, which inflames Rena's paranoia. She inwardly concludes, as she argues with Keiichi over lying, that Oyashiro-sama remains unsatisfied with the murder of Rina; she must murder Keiichi. She genially offers his mother to cook dinner for him when she and his father have to be absent. When she returns to her home, her drunken father attacks her, believing she is someone else. As he apologizes, she vows that she must protect him and her family.
Rena puts together her apparent box of implements like a wrapped presentation. She makes her way to the Maebara House perserverating, "I have to do my best!" She hugs him, smiles, and thinks that now is the time to begin the fifth year of the Curse of Oyashiro-sama. Meanwhile, Rika rushes to Keiichi's home only to see the bloody bodies of him and Rena lying on his floor through the window. She returns to her home, dejected, to be eagerly greeted by Satoko, who tells her that dinner is ready. Whilst Rika tries to figure out what happened, and what she can do, Satoko happily explains how she stole the H-173 from Takano and injected Rena. To Rika's further shock, Satoko stabs her in the neck. She then stabs herself while complaining how much it hurts. Satoko awakens in the Realm of Time Fragments where Eua sits at a table with tea and cookies. While she compliments Satoko she begins to warn her, but Satoko quickly accepts that she took risks that she will now avoid. She knows that she can continue to loop after Rika if Rika dies first. She plans to use the opportunity to gather weapons and a better way to have H-173. As she takes a cookie, Satoko assures Eua that her plans are "rock solid." Eua smiles and giggles as she raises her tea and corrects Satoko that her plans are "inevitable."
Wataakashi-hen[]
Volume 03 cover
Satoko continues to pile cookies on her plate in a colored panel as she explains her plans to Eua. She notes that since she can remember, things she obtains, with floating fragments that contain a guns, a vial of H-173, and the case of vials, she can always obtain provided the world does not change. A large colored panel with Shion and Mion reprising their position in the original anime but clothed announced the title of the new chapter. The caption, with red kanji read:
- アナタの罪も、Your sin/crime,
- ワタシの愛も、My love,
- 双[2]りの罰も、Our punishment,
- 溶け会い、Blending together,
- 崩れ堕ちていくー And crumbling down. . .
Rika lies dead from a knife wound to her throat at the start of the chapter. With Rika dead, Satoko sneaks into the clinic, sets up an elaborate trap for Takano to kill her, taking her keycard to enter a forbidden room with a code-locked suitcase. Satoko guesses what the code is, gets it wrong, and kills herself. She then repeats this process as many times until she correctly guesses the code to the suitcase containing H-173 injections. After getting the code right, Satoko wakes up in the realm of fragments and chats with Eua, telling her that everything is under her own control and that it’s only a matter of time before she finds the legendary blade Onigari no Ryu-ou. Afterwards, everything proceeds as usual in the Watadamashi-hen equivalent of the arc.
After Keiichi discovers that there are two moons during the set up of the watanagashi festival, Shion invites her twin sister over to her apartment to have a strategy meeting, where they discuss how Mion could win Keiichi’s heart, with Shion giving her twin sister tips on how to win a boys’ heart. During their bonding, Satoko pays a visit to Shion’s apartment, however, since the twins both have their hairs down, it makes it impossible for Satoko to differentiate who is who. After taking a bath and sedating the twins, Satoko decides to inject the H-173 into one of them randomly, not knowing who it would affect. Later it is revealed that the one injected with it was Shion.
The next day, the afternoon before Watanagashi, Satoko finds the Onigari no Ryuou and throws it into the Onigafuchi. Meanwhile Shion and Mion are talking to each other on the phone, during their phone call, however, Kasai comes into Shion’s apartment to hand her a meal and a stun gun. Later, at the Watanagashi, as Rika performs the sacred ritual dance, Mion notices Shion and Keiichi sneaking off to somewhere, but doesn’t react to it, having to find out later that her and Keiichi snuck into the ritual tool shed. As the Watanagashi ends, the twins spend the night at the Sonozaki house, wearing the same clothes. To get information out of Keiichi regarding about the break in incident, Mion decides to talk to him on the phone as Shion. To get better into the role, she pulls her hair down, looking exactly like her.
Being injected with H-173 and hearing her own voice, figure, and lookalike in another room, Shion has an existential crisis, losing track of who is who and if she is Mion or Shion. Shion then reflects and comes to the conclusion that everything bad that has happened to the Sonozaki family is because of Shion. She then takes it upon herself to eliminate the problem by killing who she thinks is “Shion”, but in actuality, it was Mion.
Later, Shion tries to get information out of the great family members, Kimiyoshi and Oryō, killing them. She does the same to Rika on her way to home. Noticing that Rika is missing, Satoko takes it upon herself to sneak into the Sonozaki residence, checking out the torture chamber in a chance to find Rika’s dead body. Via the security cameras, Shion notices Satoko’s presence and confronts her, only to have a mental breakdown as she realises that she is “Shion” and that her task was to protect Satoko. Satoko tries to use this vulnerability against her, only to be killed by Shion with a shot to the head, as Shion realises that the being in front of her is a demon and not Satoko. Afterwards she then kills herself by scratching her neck.
In the fragment realm, Eua and Satoko talk about the events that unfolded, notably that this fragment of Shion had taken a different turn than the usual. Eua reassures her that it’s a natural phenomenon, because Satoko is slowly changing the timeline of all fragments with her looping and changes.
Tatariakashi-hen[]
{Save Point!}
Satoko and Eua decide to open a lesbian bookstore and café that serves pastries to keep Hanyū quiet. [Citation Needed – Ed.]
Manga Episodes[]
Satokowashi-hen[]
- Satokowashi-hen, Part 1
- Satokowashi-hen, Part 2
- Satokowashi-hen, Part 3
- Satokowashi-hen, Part 4
Oniakashi-hen[]
- Oniakashi-hen, Part 1
- Oniakashi-hen, Part 2
- Oniakashi-hen, Part 3
Wataakashi-hen[]
- Wataakashi-hen, Part 1
- Wataakashi-hen, Part 2
- Wataakashi-hen, Part 3
Differences between The Anime and Manga[]
- Significant Differences: there are a lot of differences story-wise in the manga adaptation, many just from the extra detail manga can provide.
- Satokowashi-hen:
- Rika makes much more of an effort to maintain contact with Satoko at St. Lucia.
- Rika's friends are a little less outwardly dismissive of Satoko until she plays her prank.
- Satoko's prank injures Rika.
- Rika tries bolster Satoko to her friends by describing her traps which they reveal to the teacher after Satoko's prank. This leads Satoko to believe Rika informed on her.
- Satoko falls into the Realm through her initial tour of Hinamizawa; in the anime she is led to the Saiguden.
- "Times are a Changing!": Eua reveals Rika's "hundred year" experience to Satoko. The initial worlds Satoko returns to are very different than depicted in the anime:
- 1. Satoko confronts Irie about Satoshi; he confesses what happened. She does not accompany Rika to St. Lucia. Rika's taxi is hit by a truck and it is implied that Satoshi's condition worsens.
- 2. Satoko tries St. Lucia, fails to impress others, leaves to then discover Satoshi's condition worsened and Irie transferred with him to an institute in Tōkyō. She returns to the home she shared with Rika only to have the roof cave in.
- 3. Satoko convinces Rika to stay to wait for Satoshi to improve. Years pass and in high school Satoko notices Rika's longing. She agrees to allow Rika to travel on a vacation, only for something to happen to her plane.[3]
- 4. Satoko fails St. Lucia's exam, insults Rika, and finds herself alone in Hinamizawa. Told by an unnamed physician that Satoshi will never improve, she cuts her wrists.
- 5. Depicts Satoko strangling Rika and committing suicide at the end of their return to Hinamizawa.
- "Get Up! Come on Get Down with the Sickness!": Satoko's initial method to obtain H-173 is different.
- Satokowashi-hen:
- Oniakashi-hen:
- Rena and Rina meet at the start of the story in the morning as Rena leaves for school. Rina is seen carrying Rena's drunk father, unlike in the Anime where the two only meet later on in the story.
- Satoko does not inject H-173 into Rena in the nurse's office, instead she encourages Rena to solve her problem and promises to accompany Rena on her way home. This is different from the anime, where Satoko secretly injects H-173 into Rena and doesn't talk to her whatsoever.
- After walking home with Satoko, Rena spends some time alone thinking on the garbage dumping site, before being greeted and pulled on the collar by Rina.
- Rina reflects on her own childhood and realises Rena and her are the same. The next day, Rina meets with Rena inside of the truck on the garbage dumping site by herself and apologises for her actions, telling Rena she admitted to her Father that she was only playing him, and agreed that they both need to work together to get this problem solved. Rena doesn't accept her apology, but thanks her for making her Father feel happy and special, even if it was temporary.
- In the anime, Rina was invited to the truck by Rena. Later on, she suggested the idea of silently leaving her Father before being killed by H-173 Rena.
- Rena catches Keiichi looking at a newspaper, she begins panicking, because she believes Keiichi will think of Hinamizawa less if he finds out about the murders.
- This is different from the anime. In the anime, H-173 Rena starts panicking when she notices Keiichi reading the newspaper, because it makes her think Keiichi knows that she murdered Rina.
- In the manga, Rena remembers murdering and dismembering Rina, frightening her a bit. This doesn't happen in the anime.
- A scene is shown with Rika confronting Tomitake about the watch dogs and how Takano's mental health is unstable and that Takano needs his help. This scene is not present in the anime.
- In the night of the Watanagashi, Satoko breaks into the Irie Clinic, setting off fireworks and traps, before snatching the H-173 syringe away from Takano. Takano and Tomitake are then taken away by the watchdogs.
- Later on, on her way home from the festival, Rena falls into Satoko's trap, getting her limbs tied by a rope and a bag put over her head. Satoko then injects the H-173 into her.
- This is different from the anime, because, as mentioned before, Rena receives the H-173 injection way earlier on in the story.
- Later on, near her home, H-173 Rena meets up with a happy Rina. Rena then takes her out at the construction site at night-time before murdering her.
- Rena spends an all-nighter hiding all the dismembered body parts within a single night. In the anime, Rena needed more than one day to hide all the body parts.
- In the manga, Rena explores Keiichi's home to get a good feel of his house, checking each room on the second floor out and seeing what equipment it has. After getting a good look at his home, Rena leaves calmly and silently.
- In the anime, Rena heads up to Keiichi's room before hearing him talk with Ooishi on the phone about Rena. After hearing this, Rena storms away from the house in a panic.
- Keiichi's mom tells Rena about them going away for a few days just as Rena asks if Keiichi is coming to school that day. In the anime, Keiichi's mom and Rena meet at the supermarket first and later on have a phone call regarding their absence in the following days.
- Rika talks to the girls about Keiichi's recent absent days and paranoid behaviour, telling them that he is feeling very anxious about this town and its history.
- In the manga adaptation, Rena goes to the home depot store after hearing that Keiichi will be home alone, getting materials for her main target. In the anime, however, she goes to the home depot store before murdering Rina. Most likely because of Rina being her main target in the majority of the arc in the anime instead of Keiichi.
- As she buys potential weapons, Rena has disturbing visions of all the ways she could murder Keiichi with them.
- Rena's dad beats Rena up when she returns home from school that day, before hugging and apologising to her.
- Rika notices Keiichi and Rena already dead when she runs by his house that night to check how things are going.
- In the anime, Rika only finds out about Keiichi and Rena's death the next day at school.
- In the manga, Rika comes back home that night depressed. Shortly afterwards, Satoko admits to her everything she did to destroy the fragment, before stabbing her with a knife to death. Then Satoko kills herself as well.
- In the anime, Rika kills herself alone during school hours. Following Satoko doing the same upon discovering her body.
- Oniakashi-hen:
- Wataakashi-hen:
- "Take the Gun, Leave the Canolis!": Satoko's plan to obtain a gun and then H-173 is different.
- They do involve murdering Takano.
- There are scenes in the manga adaptation where Mion and Shion talk on their way to Angel Mort.
- After discovering that there are two "Mions" in the manga adaptation, the twins silently communicate with each other that a "strategy meeting for Keiichi's heart" is later happening in Shion's apartment. Later that day, Mion goes to Shion's apartment and they hang out.
- In the manga adaptation, Satoko invites herself over to Shion's apartment.
- Satoko does not know who she injects in the manga, as the twins both have their hair down and wear the same clothes when they were sedated.
- In the manga, Shion is the one to receive the H-173, unlike in the anime where Mion received it.
- In the manga, Kasai visits Shion's apartment to hand her dinner. During his visit, he gives Shion a stunt gun. This is different from the anime, where Kasai only gives her the stuntgun after giving her a ride to the Sonozaki residence.
- In the manga, Mion notices Shion and Keiichi sneak off into the woods during Rika's ritual performance, but doesn't do anything about it. This is different than the anime, where Mion didn't know about Keiichi and Shion sneaking off.
- While on the telephone with Keiichi, Mion pulls her hair down to get into the "Shion" role better. The two twins wear the same Kimono. In the anime, only Mion wears the Kimono, with Shion wearing her casual clothes. Likewise in the anime, Shion is the one talking to Keiichi on the phone, not Mion.
- In the manga, Shion ends up interrupting Mion's phone call and hangs up for her. Mion isn't frightened, but rather confused by her actions. This is different from the anime, where Shion hangs up the phone in a panic after she notices Mion is listening to her phone call.
- Shion ends up killing Mion, whereas in the anime, Mion kills Shion.
- During Shion's identity crisis, flashbacks from Meakashi-hen make an appearance, featuring Satoko's dead body after being tortured and Shion jumping off of the apartment block.
- It isn't confirmed exactly how Shion killed Mion in the manga adaptation, but there are bloody wounds on her head. In the anime, Mion kills Shion by strangling her.
- As Shion disposes of Mion's body, childhood memories of younger Mion and Shion appear in the manga.
- In the manga, there are blood stains on Oryō's body, indicating she was probably stabbed to death. In the anime, however, Oryō dies due a cardiac arrest.
- Shion attacks Rika after school in the manga. She also first stuns her with her stun gun before strangling her. In the anime, Mion attacks Rika during recess and strangles her.
- Rika is also directly thrown into a manhole leading to the septic tank in the manga, whereas in the anime, she is forcefully stomped into the toilet to reach the septic tank.
- In the manga, Satoko sneaks into the Sonozaki residence armed with a gun and explores the underground torture chamber. This is different than the anime, where she was invited in by Mion and killed outside in the garden.
- Because of this change, Shion notices Satoko in the underground torture chamber via the cameras, and not at the house's front gate like in the anime.
- As Shion confronts Satoko, Satoko drops the humble act of coming to get soy sauce before shooting Shion in the manga. In the anime, Satoko continues the act until shooting Mion.
- In the manga, Shion physically tackles Satoko down and disarms her.
- In the manga, Satoko gets killed by Shion. In the anime, Satoko kills Mion.
- Shion also comes to the conclusion that there is a demon inside of Satoko and kills her to get rid of it.
- "Take the Gun, Leave the Canolis!": Satoko's plan to obtain a gun and then H-173 is different.
- Wataakashi-hen:
Trivia[]
- Just like in Kai, the characters remember previous fragments in the manga adaptation.
- In the flashback to younger Shion and Mion, the two are imitating the pose they do in the Home Video release to the anime arc.
Gallery[]
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