Category: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

And with this episode, a lot of the questions asked have been answered. The Hinamizawa-disease indeed produces hallucinations and makes the victim go paranoid, and every inhabitant of Hinamizawa suffers from it. The thing that keeps their disease quiet is surprisingly Rika herself. Once somebody distances him or herself from Rika, it starts to activate. Satoko killed her parents that way, and Rena smashed the windows of her school that way (I nearly forgot about that one). Luckily, Irie was able to save both of them before the disease became fatal. The death of Irie was planned all along by Takano, and Shion and Rena both freaked out because they left the village. I’m not sure what happened to Keiichi in the first arc, though. I mean, he wasn’t a resident of the village to begin with, was he? He just moved. How did he get the disease? The reason Oishi died in the third arc was probably how he ran into the Yamainu as they were trying to hack into the send-mast. As shown, they show no mercy to anyone. Probably because they know that an onslaught is about to happen anyway, so a few extra corpses never worry anyone. I’m suspecting that the ones who removed the corpse in that arc were also the Yamainu, to prevent Keiichi getting arrested and telling about Takano and how she gave him a ride. Satoshi probably went berserk himself, killing himself and his aunt in the process when he went away from the village at one time. (hence the money he saved, he was planning to leave the village all along and when he left, the disease took over). There are still a few questions left, though: – Why did Rika’s parents die? Did Rika become te queen carrier once her mother died? – Why is the send-mast necessary for Takano? I mean, she could just kill Rika and the disease activates. – What did Keiichi write on his note in the first arc and why was it so important that it had to be removed? – How did Keiichi get the disease? But the most important question left is: why did people survive? I originally thought that being isolated and unconscious was enough to be cured, but now that the existence of Rika is necessary to keep the disease at bay, then I do wonder how Keiichi, Rena and Satoko survived. The answer to this question will be crucial to escape the fate of dying over and over again. It’s a shame that the mystery and chaos of the first season is gone now, though fortunately this series made up for it with some powerful characters. I’m excited for the Matsuribayashi. It’s supposed to be the longest arc yet, and I’m really interested in how the creators were planning to end this.]]>

MAJOR spoiler ahead. This episode comes with the single biggest revelation of the entire series, so DO NOT read this entry if you haven’t seen it! Unfortunately, I was spoiled beforehand, but I do want to prevent others from this. This is a random sentence to fill up all the space in the blog-aggregators. This is another one. So, this should be enough. SO, Takano is indeed the big culprit. Obviously, the revelation didn’t have the impact because I’ve already been spoiled, but I’m glad that it comes relatively early in the series, and now it’s about to get really interesting. Not only that, but I can talk a bit more freely, without having fears of spoiling everyone. I also must praise Cos. He basically figured out most of the mysteries after only episode ten, and he even predicted that Takano was behind everything. Quite amazing, if you ask me. In any case, here’s a quick rundown on all the new information: – Takano was indeed the one who killed Tomitake by injecting him with an overdose of the disease, causing him to go in level 5. She indeed was getting rid of Tomitake’s body in the third arc, when Keiichi met her. – Takano never died. She just used a fake body that was found somewhere to cover up her death. – The Yamainu has been under Takano’s orders all along. – The sight of the dead Tomitake probably drove Irie himself insane (probably due to the disease). – Takano’s ultimate objective is awakening the Hinamizawa-disease within everyone. Strangely, she never mentions the use of Rika’s intestines. I’ve got lots of questions, though, after this. What was up with Irie in the first arc? What was different there, that didn’t cause him to kill himself? What were Tomitake and Takano doing in the festival shrine anyway? Why did Takano give Rena her scrapbooks? Actually, I think I can answer that last one: it was used as a cover-up. She’d just have to leak it to someone and the fake information about the aliens, it would distract from the theories about the disease, which only a few people knew about anyway. The thing I wonder about, though is what happened to these scrapbooks in the other arcs? The thing also is: Takano doesn’t seem to know about Hanyuu. If that’s the case, then why does every arc turn out different? Who causes the subtle changes for each world? Rika does have some influence in this, but definitely not all of it. I’m also interested in where this arc will go afterwards. Remember that we’re only at the end of the Watanagashi, which often is just the half-way point. In most arcs, it’s the second half that really got interesting. There’s another thing I wondered: will we ever get an answer about a question that was raised in the first arc? I’m referring to the letter Keiichi wrote. Why did Takano find it necessary remove parts from it? What exactly did Keiichi write? Will we also ever know how Rika’s parents and Satoko’s family died? And who removed Satoko’s uncle’s body in the third arc? There are so many questions that still need to be answered. Oh, and yes. Seeing Satoko get saved was so awesome. :)]]>

This episode is clearly one of those building-up episodes. There wasn’t really a sign of mystery, but instead it focused on the political roots of the story, in order to save Satoko. Basically, Keiichi gets the support from the village council, the Sonozaki-family and eventually the city council. Pretty straightforward, but things are about to get interesting: the Watanagashi is only one or two days away, Satoko is about to be saved and she’s also about to reach the point beyond recovery. I liked some of the details in this episode, by the way. Most of all, it seems that there isn’t a grudge against the Houjous after all; it seems that everyone thinks that someone might have a grudge left, which is what keeps these rumours alive. We also finally see Mion and Shion’s parents do something, other than just sit next to their grandmother. Oh, and it seems that there actually were a few worlds in which Keiichi didn’t transfer. It would be interesting to see them. Apart from that, there’s not much to say about this episode. I do, however, keep wondering why nobody finds it strange that Rika sometimes switches to a voice of a middle-aged woman…]]>

The second season of Higurashi has really become way more consistent than the first one. The first season frequently switched between awesome and annoying every few episodes, but right now, the series has been given a lot more time to build up. This has both negative and positive effects. The bad ones are: – This isn’t the roller-coaster-ride that was the first season. The plot went nearly twice as fast as it’s going now. – The twists have less impact. Because they’re so far apart, the different plot-twists and turns aren’t as frequent any more, and the focus on mystery has declined significantly in the second season. Yet again, I don’t see any reason to write a summary for this episode, since there were only a few events that developed the plot. Because of this, though, the focus on the characters has increased dramatically, and there are almost no bad moments left. There may be less surprises, but instead of that this series now has the chance to continuously build up for its characters, without any annoying interruptions. This episode showed this yet again. Seeing an army of more than sixty people, all stretch out their hands towards the abused Satoko was awesome. Regarding the new information: we get to know a bit more about Satoko’s disease. Interestingly enough, the symptoms Rika describe come surprisingly close to the disease that the others who went berserk have: she’ll feel as if everything is assailing her. In a panicked state, she won’t be able to reason anymore. Once she gets something in her head, this won’t change. This explains her behaviour in Arc 3 a bit more. Even after her uncle died, she still was in a panicked state at the time, so the shower-incident happened. Afterwards, she freaked out for real when she found out that Irie killed himself. The question remains: is Satoko’s disease THE disease? Why is Satoko the only one who’s getting treatment, even though Keiichi, Shion and Rena have been shown to also go berserk? Could it actually be that either Rika or Satoko is the original source of the disease, and that the two of them have been spreading it unconsciously? If this was the case, it would explain the Hinamizawa-disaster: the Yamainu take Rika’s guts and use them to give every villager an overdose of the disease. The syringe also doesn’t instantly cure the disease; it just calms down the symptoms. It does make sense. After using the syringe, it would have been easier to reason with the different people.]]>

I can hardly believe it, but this arc has been getting significantly better with every successive episode. Just imagine what could happen if this continues. ^_^ I won’t do an extensive summary for the episode, since there was hardly any new information we didn’t know before. This was one of these episodes that were completely focused on the characters. It’s entirely focused at one thing: Satoko’s uncle returning. This time, it’s not only Keiichi who wants to do something, but everyone tries to save Satoko somehow. Because in this arc, everyone trusts each other completely, Keiichi manages to convince Shion to not go out and kill Satoko’s aunt. If this would have been in one of the earlier arcs, she would have never spoken about her thoughts, and gone off to kill Satoko’s aunt, just like Keiichi and Rena did in the past. Oh, and Rika was awesome. Her mood fluctuates throughout the entire episode. She ended the episode confident, only to have this confidence slapped back at her with the arrival of Satoko’s uncle. She then went to the same despair of the previous arc, only to realize at the end of the episode that she really wanted to save Satoko. Her ideas are quite interesting, by the way. She believes that a tragedy can be avoided if none of the main characters (as in Keiichi, Rena, Mion, Shion and Satoko) kills anyone. Still, this happened in the previous arc as well, and yet Rika died. But then again, she was as distant as ever from everyone. It really looks like she’s putting her trust in the others for this arc, which might be able to avoid the tragedy. But we need to wait till the Watanagashi to make sure. One thing that I realized in this episode as well was how much Keiichi has changed, and learned subconsciously. He was an idiot in the first three arcs, and yet he’s the most mature person among the main characters.]]>

Now this was an intriguing episode. It still spends its time building up, though this arc is indeed promising to become really special. Especially Rena was awesome. 🙂 The episode starts with Keiichi, Shion, Satoko, Rena and Rika, polishing up old rubbish, which they plan to sell during the village festival in an auction. Mion enters the room, with the message that there’s even more stuff coming in, which doesn’t fall well with Keiichi, who has been labelled as the leader of the auction. Mion then shows a couple of Ohagi. When Rena gives one to Keiichi, he seems to believe that she’s made one before, while in fact, she never has. This triggers Rika to force Keiichi to tell about this “dream” he’s been having, about what happened in the first arc. Of course, it’s no dream at all, but parts of his memory from previous timelines. A bit later, when they’re dusting off the furniture that Mion brought in, it’s Rena’s turn: she tels about her memories from the sixth arc, where she killed her father’s mistress. Interestingly enough, in this timeline, her father has again relationships with that woman. The same murder was avoided, though, when Rena told her story to Mion, instead of keeping it to herself. Mion managed to convince Rena to change her father’s ways. Shion also hints that she was having the same thing, where she remembered what she did in the fifth arc. Again, she told this to Mion. That night, Rika evaluates this with Hanyuu. Everyone seems to be instinctively avoiding actions that would have caused a tragedy. Rika has become really confident because of this, though Hanyuu has her doubts. They then discuss Rika’s recurring death; Rika seems to believe that it comes from someone outside of the village. They come with an interesting deduction: Tomitake and Takano’s death indirectly leads to Rika’s death. For Takano and her companions (Irie? Tomitake?), Rika and Satoko are valuable for research, so she will take effort to protect them. With Takano gone, the protection is also gone. Interestingly enough, they’ve got the power to do so as well. Rika reckons that if Tomitake and Takano survive, she will too. The next day, Rika visits the hospital. According to Irie, she seems to have gone out with Tomitake. Rika just knows that they’ve gone to the equipment chamber, for making an inspection before they break in at the Watanagashi. Tomitake’s first name seems to be Jirou, by the way. Rika manages to reach the two of them while they’re still messing with the locks, and she offers them a look inside. Interestingly enough, Takano starts fangirling; something she didn’t do in the second and fifth arc. ^^; There is just one condition: Tomitake and Takano have to increase protection, since they’ll be killed. At least, according to Rika. When Takano starts to describe the rituals that were used to praise Oyashiro-sama, Hanyuu starts getting angry at her, suggesting that a lot of the rumours about him are just urban legends. We then switch to a very interesting conversation between Tomitake, Takano and Irie. Irie speculates that Rika may be suffering from paranoia, though Takano reckons that there was some truth in her eyes. Tomitake says that Rika wants more bodyguards around, and he can do that much, but he wonders how he’s going to explain this to Tokyo. Takano then finally describes the guys in uniform: the Yamainu. And fair enough, when Rika tests it out on the unfortunate street punks, the Yamainu indeed come to protect her. But first we switch to the next day, where Keiichi and the others are back at the toy store, searching for more junk to sell. Oishi is there too; apparently he has a day off. He makes a small bet, promising some rare dice if Mion succeeds to throw 3 1’s, three times in a row. Mion succeeds, after Oishi tells her how to do it, and the dice are hers. Oishi suggests that she’d do well in a gambling parlour. Rika comments on how strange it is that Oishi is getting along with everyone, when yet another unexpected guest arrives: Akasaka. Interestingly enough, in this time, he did listen to Rika, and he managed to save his wife. The reason he’s in Hinamizawa is because he’s on vacation with his wife and daughter, who are now perfectly fine. With this, Rika has gained another ally, since Akasaka really believes that Rika saved his family. Rika is now full of confidence, though Hanyuu is still pessimistic. Who will turn out to be right in the end? Well, then. The most important scene for the plot was definitely the conversation between Tomitake, Takano and Irie. It confirmed that the three of them are indeed allied with each other, and that they’ve all got the ability to command the Yamainu, just like the head of the Sonozaki-family. I first believed that these guys worked directly under the Sonozaki-family, but they seem to be stationed in Tokyo. This scene also increases the change that it was indeed Irie who came to save Keiichi in the first arc. Interestingly enough though, Irie doesn’t die in every arc, unlike Tomitake and Takano. We know the guy died in the third and seventh arc, and I suspect that he died in quite a few other arcs, but there were arcs in which he survived. This seems to suggest that his death is handy, but not vital for the killer to carry out its plan of capturing Rika’s intestines. This episode also confirmed a theory I’ve been having ever since the sixth arc: with every arc, Keiichi and the other do get closer together. This episode really showed that they start to trust each other more and more, and they tell each other more and more things that they would have kept secret in the first arc. They may not remember things directly, but something tells me that indirectly, they keep getting better at avoiding tragedies that were caused by them. I also wonder about one thing: does Rika know about the Hinamizawa-tragedy? I’d say no, because she’s been dead every time before it happened. But I wonder whether Hanyuu witnessed it and told Rika. I’m going to make a prediction about that one: what if Rika will indeed succeed in not to get killed during this arc? That does mean that she’ll witness the Hinamizawa-tragedy. Obviously, that’ll cause her mission to fail and reset for the final arc, the Matsuribayashi one, where the story can finally be resolved, since Rika will finally know the truth with it. I also loved the emphasis on the characters that was featured in this episode. I especially loved Rena (hence why she’s one of my favourite characters ^^;) and Takano definitely surprised me when she started fangirling.]]>

And finally the second season can really get started! Even though the previous arc was not very exciting, the time that focused on Rika’s despair built up perfectly for the current arc. The main focus of this episode was to give Rika hope again to keep trying to change her fate, and it works out greatly. 🙂 The episode begins with the confirmation that Rika indeed has been reborn in the same timeline over and over, and there’s also a new revelation: the Oyashiro-sama in Rika uses Hanyuu in order switch back time. She also isn’t in Rika’s body throughout her life, but only appears at a certain period of time. In this arc it was two weeks before the Watanagashi, in the fourth arc it was at least five years before the current time-period. Rika also doesn’t know who is after her, though he or she indeed is partially the reason why every arc ends up different. Interestingly enough, Rika also claims that on the night of the Watanagashi, a third person will die, along with Tomitake and Takano. Did she refer to herself, and was it just a bad translation, or does a third, unrelated person really die along with them? Anyway, the main character of this arc: Rika. The co-main character is Keiichi. We also see Hanyuu for the first time, and she’s just like a little kid, despite being hundreds of years old. Rika is surprised that she only has two weeks left before the Watanagashi, which is just too little time to prepare. She tests whether Keiichi remembers, but it fails again. I suspect that Hanyuu will be the important side-character for this arc. Interestingly enough, Hanyuu claims that nobody has noticed her, which is in contrast with the tips, where Keiichi’s father did see her. Could it be that Hanyuu only is visible for the first X years of her life? We then switch to the local hospital, where Satoko has just received an injection. She seems to be sick, suffering from a disease. Irie has been working on it to cure her, but it’s likely that she’ll never be healed. Takano is also helping in this. Then we switch to the game at the toy-store, from arc 2. It seems that Rika has been playing this one for every arc, though we just didn’t get to see it. I do wonder, though, why the doll didn’t trigger Shion to freak out in the other arcs. Anyway, something interesting happens here: Rika tells Keiichi that she can predict the future, just like she did with Akisaka. Interestingly enough, Keiichi actually takes her seriously, and tries to help her. He forces the game that has been played to be changed, and he gives the doll to Mion, instead of Rena. This gives Rika enough motivation to try and change her fate again, unlike what she did in the previous arc. Well then, the biggest question of the episode: is the disease Satoko is suffering from THE disease, or another rather nasty one. If we can get the answer about this one, and it turns out to be true that Irie really is trying to cure THE disease, then a lot of questions will be answered. In that case, Irie most definitely knows something, and he has indeed been trying to cure people, and he was killed because he knew too much. This also hints that Takano is somehow involved with him, and that she knows about his research. This episode also yet again shows how close Keiichi is with his friends. H never even questions Rika’s story for a bit, and he actually believes her, just like how everyone was so supportive to Rena when she committed her murder. (By the way, did she still do it in this arc? Sh did it in the third arc, so perhaps she’s been doing it for every arc, though I think that that woman is just like Satoko’s uncle and Shion: sometimes they’re there, and other times, they’re not. I suspect that the real killer has been controlling this. The question remains: why?). One thing I do hope for in this arc is a bigger role for Rena. Both she and Rika are currently my favourite characters in this series, and I’d love to see the mysteries that surround her being solved. Especially the one of why she was being chased in the previous arc, and why she freaked out in the third arc, and turned perfectly normal after that.]]>

It took me a while before I found out that a new fansub group called Ni-paa~ released this episode on Animesuki. I’ve been so used to the fact that Tokyo Toshokan lists all available fansubs that I didn’t realize that there are sometimes exceptions. I never understood what was so great about this Ni-paa~, by the way. It’s just a random word to sound cute, same with the “Uguu~” and all other variations. The only phrase I’ve found that actually worked was Akazukin’s Zukkyun, because it actually had a deep meaning in her backstory. Anyway, about the episode: I loved it. This is exactly the kind of Higurashi that I originally fell in love with, and finally this anime picks up its mystery-roots again, and it starts introducing and answering questions again. I originally thought that Rika was to be proven wrong, by some kind of miraculous act from Satoko, but that turned out completely wrong. I originally thought that this would be a Rika-arc, but guess what: Satoko is the actual main character. Rika plays the part of the vital character, while Oishi is the main side-character in this arc. Rika’s going to have to wait till the next arc to be proven wrong. After a long recap of the previous episode, she realizes that her murderers are about to kill her, so she hides Satoko from them. The murderers turn out to be the guys in uniform, the people working under the Sonozaki-family, but now under the control of the real killer. They were after something in her stomach. Satoko runs into her after everything is over, though she didn’t wait long enough for the killers to go away, so they notice her. They start to chase her, until the bridge, from which she falls, just like Keiichi in the third arc. And yes, this in fact means that she survived the Hinamizawa-disaster. To make things even better, she doesn’t lose her consciousness after falling, and wanders into Hinamizawa, just after the great disaster took place, and people are busy to collect the bodies. Satoko then wanders to the school, in which the entire population of the village seems to have been dumped. They all look like they’ve been brutally murdered from the inside, or that they were in the middle of awakening from the disease at the point of death. Satoko then goes into a mental shock, and gets taken to the hospital in a nearby town. Oishi (who happened to be away at the time of the disaster) then goes to visit her, and quickly sees that she doesn’t respond to anybody. He tells her something interesting, though. Rena’s hat was found, bloodied, quite a distance away from Hinamizawa. Oishi suspects that Satoko knows some key elements to this mystery, though he leaves her alone. However, when he mentions Rika’s name, she reacts for a split second. The nurse says that this is just a subconscious reaction, and that she didn’t really awaken or anything. She looks worried, though. Especially a close-up of her hints at her significance in this scene. Oishi then returns to the police station, where he talks with a colleague about another one of his colleagues who disappeared. I suspect that that’s the guy who got shot at the previous episode. When he hears that the guy was about to do stuff relating Furude Rika, Oishi suddenly remembers that Satoko and Rika lived in the same house. He then realizes that Satoko didn’t turn out the way she did because of the Hinamizawa-disaster, but because of the things that happened to Rika. Okay, this isn’t exactly right, but this does make him go back to the hospital. He’s too late, though. The nurse seemed to work for the killer as well, and the killer’s henchmen have started to appear in the hospital. Satoko actually awakens, and imagines Rena, running away from the same henchmen, and getting killed, with her hat being the only thing that remains. She gets killed before Oishi reaches her, though. Probably via an overdose of medicine. The episode ends with Oishi screaming because of this loss. The most interesting thing in this episode for me was definitely Rena escaping, because it ruthlessly shattered the theory I’ve been having that Rena was able to survive in the sixth arc because her disease was rendered useless. This arc suggests that the sixth arc wasn’t the only one in which she received Takano’s scrapbooks. We’ve never seen her much in this episode, but we just don’t know what happened to her, and she may have been doing quite some interesting things while the attention was focused on other characters. In fact, this could have happened in the second, third and fifth arc as well, simply because we don’t get any information about what happened to the individual victims. The big question is now, why did Rena survive? Now the following is just a theory, but could it be that Rena knew quite a bit about what was going on in the different arcs? What if the sixth arc was the only exception for this, whn she was too much distracted by her disease which awakened too early? She managed to survive back then because her disease was indeed already cured, but what if she just saw all of her friends going berserk and dying, right before her eyes? I can imagine that this would cause an even bigger trauma than with Satoko in this episode, and that she quite simply forgot all about it, which is why the killer let her live: she didn’t pose a threat anymore. The next episode should really start the second season off, where the final two arcs will be told in nineteen episodes. Unfortunately, I’ve already been spoiled about the identity of the real killer and the role of Rika’s companion, but there remain enough questions that still need to be answered, especially the whats, hows and whys of everything. Arc 8 should deal with the whats and hows, while arc 9 (in the anime, not the game) should deal with the hows, if I recall correctly. Overall, I do like the past arc. Not only did it introduce some new questions, and answered others, it was a good build-up to the next arc. We now know a bit of what’s going on inside Rika’s head, and that she’s pretty much in despair, and that she doesn’t want to do anything. Let’s see if she still thinks that way in the next one. :)]]>

With this episode, I’m beginning to understand this arc a bit. It’s one of these cases where the disease isn’t really triggered for anyone, so the turn of events are just what would go on if nobody did anything unpredictable. Meanwhile, the time is filled with random games, and Rika’s despair. Satoko seems to be the only one who acts differently because of it. Tis episode yet again didn’t give us any new information, it just confirmed things more. Irie indeed is doomed to die. The real villain is indeed controlling the Sonozaki-family from the shadows, and Tomitake indeed clawed himself to death, because of the disease. One interesting thing to note is that Rika said he would be killed, instead of suicide, which makes me suspect that the killer forcibly awakened the diseases in them. Something also tells me that these guys in uniforms were messing with the electricity house as a step to set off the great Hinamizawa-disaster. Still, I finally know the answer to one of the smaller questions raised in the first season: Remember when Keiichi and Shion felt that they were being watched? It turns out that they were the henchmen of the Sonozaki-family after all. It seems that they’ve been collecting information for the real killer all along. We already know that they’ve received training, so I imagine that you can only spot them if you really pay attention, which is what Satoko has been doing in this episode. Rika is also way too caught up in her own despair. Keiichi didn’t remember everything without any reason. I think that for the past arcs, she’s been trying to manipulate the wrong things. While she tried to cure the individual victims, she also could have gone after Tomitake, Takano and Irie in order to protect them. Somehow, she didn’t do that. While typing this entry, I’ve also been wondering something. Why did Irie have the cure for the disease in the third arc, and why did Rena and Mion have it in the first arc? It’s been a long while since we saw these arcs, but I can very well imagine that the culprit killed Irie because he formed too much of a threat. I also finally remembered that Irie didn’t die in every arc: he lived in the first one.]]>

I’m not too happy to see that the fansubbers released this episode on a Saturday. While it’s nice to see that Higurashi is still getting out fast, Saturday remains my busiest day of the week, with five series that have to be blogged, and I have no intention to increase that number to six. Especially considering the time it takes to create an average Higurashi-entry. So if future releases of Higurashi will be coming out on Saturday, expect my entry of it to appear on Sunday. Anyway, about the episode: I think it’s clear now that this is the slowest arc so far. This episode focused yet again on random games, while some scenes featured Rika’s despair of getting killed again. I’m afraid to say it, but I fear that this is going to be one of the lesser arcs of the series, because it hasn’t been written by the original writers and it can’t give too much away, or else it’ll ruin the next arc as well. While the previous episode looked a lot like the first episode of the fifth arc, this episode looked a lot like the first episode of the third arc. I do hope that the next episode will focus on the Watanagashi, instead of going to the toy-store we saw in the second arc. There was only one piece of new information, so I won’t bother with a summary. But at least we now know that Rika’s partner is some kind of spirit. I’m not sure whether this girl was the same one that we see in the OP, but she seems to inhabit the same body as Rika. I do hope that the rest of the arc will be more exciting than this episode. It would, for example, be the perfect chance to show Keiichi’s past, which was left out in the sixth arc according to the people from Animesuki. I’d love to see such a tragedy in animated form.]]>