[Spoilers] Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rewatch: Episode 2

Alright. I'll join in. Lemme watch episode 1, then I'll give episode 2 reacts. Note: While I have watched this before, it was when I was a teenager and it was mentally scarring for me. As in, I remember having nightmares for quite a while after. I only remember the really horrific scenes. Not the context. Even so... read at your discretion, in case you are spoiled (not that i'll include content from later episodes. more likely i'll comment how something else makes sense later, if I remember it).

... also I don't know why but I want to strangle the english VA. I don't know what about that voice pisses me off so much..... switching to subs after episode one.

Episode 2 Reacts

[00:24]- Holy shit that shot. What the hell DEEN? Btw, yes, this is animated by studio DEEN, the same people who brought "People die when they are killed".

[06:05] - (Rena explains what's going on with the cotton drifitng festival). (Next shot). "Where did Rena go?". Gee Keiichi I wonder. She was just here. It's almost like editing magic!

[07:22] - .... either nice animation or this guy is as casual about talking about murder as jack the ripper. Seriously, this guys only action when he talked about it, was to look up. Sorry if I find that a bit suspicious.

[07:32] - Oyashiro? Ya, something to look up that japan-desu! (Looks up Oyashiro).... so the only thing I got was a shrine in izumo, which is dedicated to the japanese god Okuninushi. Who from what I recall and the wiki page, is a god of medicine, the spirit world, and marriage. Soo.... no idea what bearing on the story that has.

[07:54] - Oh boy. More murders! Is this persona 4 or something?

[08:34] - If I suspected this to be a supernatural mystery, i'd say that the cotton balls here are the picking pool for Oyashiro-sama's victims.

[10:10] - ..... when a fat old man invites me to his air-conditioned car, I usually run the other way. Luckily, it hasn't happened till now.

[11:04] - Oh boy. People he just met are suddenly ded. what a coincidence! surely this has nothing to do with anything!

[14:03] - Ass. if you're going to hire him to be a mole, at least pay him! and damn that guilt trip.

[14:09] Wait, Okinawa police? why the hell is he out there and how does he have jurisdiction if they're near tokyo? Am I missing something?

[14:54] - wait.... wait they're talkin like Rena was abducted. was she? that'd mean.... Oyashiro is a actual, physical, presence? Oh boy that makes everything complicated as fuck.

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