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fandom.07th-expansion | # Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni Collection
| Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni Collection |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni Collection Volume 1
| Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni Collection Volume 1 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni Collection Volume 2
| Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni Collection Volume 2 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni Collection Volume 3
| Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Umineko no Naku Koro ni Collection Volume 3 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Higurashi no Naku Koro ni – Special Edition – Hinamizawa Village Serial Mysterious Deaths Case Private Investigation Files (tentative)
| Higurashi no Naku Koro ni – Special Edition – Hinamizawa Village Serial Mysterious Deaths Case Private Investigation Files (tentative) |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Higurashi no Naku Koro ni ～Naga・Aka～
| Higurashi no Naku Koro ni ～Naga・Aka～ |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Higurashi x Umineko Mobile Game
was a mobile social game crossover between and .
Development and Gameplay.
The creators solicited stories from users featuring elements of "Higurashi" and "Umineko", to be turned into story missions.
Players were able to experience the worlds of "Higurashi" and "Umineko", and get characters to join them by raising their trust level. There was a mode where players can join a battle between Beatrice, Bernkastel, Lambdadelta, and Virgilia.
| Higurashi x Umineko Mobile Game |
fandom.07th-expansion | # HiguxUmi Jin
| HiguxUmi Jin |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hikari no Sora no Qualia (song)
| Hikari no Sora no Qualia (song) |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hikaru Nihei
is the main protagonist of Hameln's Castanets. A bullied kid who takes out his anger on rabbits, Hikaru gets revenge when he meets the youkai Hameln.
Appearance.
Hikaru has short black hair covering one of his eyes, which are also black. He wears a red and white striped shirt, a black jacket, white shorts and white shoes.
Personality.
Hikaru is intelligent, however he sometimes looks down on his more inept classmates and demeans them. Hikaru derives a twisted satisfaction from abusing rabbits, turning sadistic and cruel after meeting Hameln when he plans to kill every classmate who ever bullied him.
Background.
Hikaru was one of the smartest students in his class and helped his classmates by teaching them note-taking strategies, however he started to be bullied by having his personal items destroyed since many kids thought he was full of himself. Never harmed physically by his bullies, Hikaru joined the animal raising committee and took out his frustrations on the rabbits, hurting them a lot but never killing them. Hikaru soon meets Hameln and allies with him to take revenge on his bullies.
Story.
Hameln's Castanets.
After another day of being bullied by having his notebook ruined, Hikaru does his private routine of abusing rabbits when Marie suddenly appears. Marie seems oblivious to Hikaru's acts and tries to touch a hurt rabbit when Hikaru stops Marie and yells at her, only for the girl to disappear just as quickly.
Hikaru thinks she was a youkai and is about to brush off the thought when Hameln appears. Hameln promises not to tell anyone of Hikaru's hobby and then talks about his ghost story. Hameln observes that though Hikaru tortures rabbits, he isn't really feeling better about getting bullied and offers the chance to get revenge if he cooperates.
Hikaru encounters his bullies in the hallway and throws rabbit feces at them, then runs to the music room. His angry bullies follow and are soon transformed into rabbits by Hameln's castanets. Hikaru procures his torture tools and goes to work.
The corpses of the 4 rabbits are found the next day, with 4 students also missing. Hikaru is ecstatic at the thought of getting away with killing every classmate who ever crossed him, and Higanbana appears to comment on his cruelty. Hikaru claims he hasn't really killed any humans but Higanbana says otherwise, and the boy is suddenly called to the teacher's room.
The teacher Imata tells Hikaru that they're getting rid of the rabbit pens due to the horrific incident and to stop kids from asking questions, as many of them are too young to comprehend what evil intent is. Imata also reprimands Hikaru for throwing away another girl's notebook. Hikaru gives a half-hearted apology, thinking it's Imata's fault that he was being bullied while Imata listened to the girl's complaints. Hikaru angrily asks Hameln to turn Imata into a rabbit, but he says his powers only work in the music room. Hikaru comes up with a plan to lure Imata to the music room.
That night, Hikaru and Hameln go to the staff room only to find Higanbana waiting for them. Hikaru makes a show of courage against Higanbana and tells Hameln to turn her into a rabbit, but Higanbana restrains the youkai. Higanbana claims that Hikaru doesn't really know what it means to kill and traps him in an imaginary world, forcing him to re-enact the murders of his rabbit-bullies except in human form. Hikaru screams in agony and profusely apologizes. Meanwhile, Hikaru's plan is revealed to be transforming the staff room into the music room by switching the nameplates, allowing Hameln to use his powers.
Higanbana kills Hameln and takes his castanets, while Hikaru thinks he's going to be killed as a rabbit. Higanbana instead plans for him to be tormented, transforming Hikaru into a rabbit and dropping him in a rabbit cage to be raped by the other rabbits inside.
After School.
In this dream world, Hikaru summons Hameln to act as a guardian spirit and battles Michiru and Sakunoshin.
| Hikaru Nihei |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hikaru Nihei/Sprites
| Hikaru Nihei/Sprites |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Himatsubushi
, also known as the Time Killing Arc in the manga, is the fourth story arc of the series and the fourth and final chapter in the "Question Arcs". It was released at Comiket 66 on August 13, 2004 and is followed by "Meakashi", the first chapter of "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai".
The original visual novel release of "Himatsubushi" includes the previous three story arcs, effectively acting as a full collection of the Question Arcs. This was also the case with the older MangaGamer release of "Higurashi". The current rereleased version by MangaGamer splits each Question Arc into a separate release.
Introduction.
"Himatsubushi~For You, the Final Mystery~"
"I now entrust you with all the mysteries hidden within Higurashi: When They Cry.However comical it may be, if you have reached any conjecture, then you have passed.This final novel is a meager reward for you."
"Conjecture is impossible. You have the right to reject this story."
Plot Summary.
In 1978, the village of Hinamizawa fiercely protests the government's plan to build a dam and destroy their home. When the Minister of Construction's son is kidnapped, the policeman Mamoru Akasaka visits Hinamizawa undercover to investigate the villagers' supposed involvement. He soon meets a young girl Rika Furude, who gives Akasaka an eerie warning: "Go back to Tokyo."
Release History.
Original Release.
"Himatsubushi" was released in physical format at Comiket 66 on August 13, 2004 in Japanese and published by 07th Expansion.
First English Release.
MangaGamer translated the entire Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Question Arcs into English and released it on December 15, 2009. Changes include:
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou.
This arc was rereleased with "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou" on August 17, 2014.
Second English Release.
MangaGamer retranslated this arc and released it individually on October 7, 2016. Changes include:
Ports.
"Himatsubushi" has been included in "Matsuri", "Kizuna" Volume II, "Sui", and the console version of "Hou".
Ports add a choice near the end that leads to a bad ending, and an additional scene at the very end that introduces Akasaka's daughter Miyuki. There is also a slight change in the beginning of the arc that inserts mention of Kakiuchi City.
Adaptations.
Manga.
The manga adaptation of "Himatsubushi" was illustrated by Yoshiki Tonogai and serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan magazine from February to November 2006. It was later collected into two volumes. Yen Press published them in English under the title "Time Killing Arc".
Notably, this arc is followed by "Yoigoshi" according to Square Enix's official reading order. Yen Press followed as such in the global numbering it gave to the volumes.<br>The entire arc was re-released as a single omnibus volume in Japan on April 17, 2009.
Anime.
The 2006 Higurashi When They Cry anime by Studio DEEN adapted "Himatsubushi" in Episodes 14 to 15.
Drama CD.
A drama CD adaptation was released on December 27, 2006 in a 3-disc set. It was rereleased on June 28, 2013.
Light Novel.
Kodansha released one volume adapting "Himatsubushi". It first released on February 5, 2008 and was republished on July 8, 2011.
Novel versions of "Himatsubushi" intended for junior students were published by Futabasha, consisting of two volumes. Both volumes released on July 30, 2021.
| Himatsubushi |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Himatsubushi-hen
| Himatsubushi-hen |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Himatsubushi-hen/TIPS
| Himatsubushi-hen/TIPS |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Himatsubushi-hen Manga Volume 1
Time Killing Arc Vol. 1 is the first volume of Yoshiki Tonogai's manga adaptation of "Himatsubushi" and the seventh overall volume of the manga adaptation of . The volume was released in English by Yen Press.
Publisher's Summary.
English.
"When the minister of construction minister's grandson disappears amid protests against the dam project in Hinamizawa, detective Akasaka is sent from the Tokyo Police to investigate. Posing as a tourist, Akasaka becomes fast friends with Rika Furude, and the little girl almost makes him forget that he's on a mission to find a kidnapper! But the sightseeing tour takes a sudden turn when Rika delivers a grave warning: Leave Hinamizawa...before you come to regret it..."
Afterword.
Ryukishi07.
"This "Time Killing Arc" is the fourth of the eight-part series, "Higurashi WHEN THEY CRY." it's the last chapter of the first half, unifying the four question arcs."
"The series known as "Higurashi" was made in an extremely unfriendly way. If I had to make an analogy, it might be something like eating the tough cuttlefish. It's not cut into bite-sized pieces to make it easier to chew. And this arc is the one that shoves that unfriendliness into the players' faces. Therefore, it's entirely up to the player to figure out how to eat it that might be the only point where the players have a little freedom, despite the game not giving them any options."
"In other words, it's just like this manga version. I hope you will chew to your heart's content, this bizarre world told and concluded by Rika Furude."
"I am deeply grateful to Tonogai-sensei, who fully depicted the world of the "Time Killing Arc" in a mysterious way. Please enjoy this last chapter of the question arcs in the "Higurashi" world."
Yoshiki Tonogai.
"Special Thanks"
"Original Story / Supervisor: Ryukishi07—sensei"
"07th Storming Party, Webmaster BT—san"
"Main Partner: M-e-san"
"Subpartner: Katou-san, Roman-kun"
"Thanks: Shiozaa—niisan, F-ki-sensei, Mamushi—san, Shinomiya—san, Morizono—san, Kurowashi—san, Kure—san, Hayashi—san"
"Editors: Nozaki—san, Koizumi—san "
"Yoshiki Tonogai"
| Himatsubushi-hen Manga Volume 1 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Himatsubushi-hen Manga Volume 2
Time Killing Arc Vol. 2 is the second volume of Yoshiki Tonogai's manga adaptation of "Himatsubushi" and the eighth overall volume of the manga adaptation of . The volume was released in English by Yen Press.
Publisher's Summary.
English.
"Following a lead on the kidnapping of the construction minister's grandson, Officers Ooishi and Akasaka spot a secluded outpost station that shows signs of recent traffic. A little poking around brings them face to face with the boy's abductors, and the criminals aren't going down without a fight. Once the boy is recovered, the dam project is put on hold, and it seems to be a happy ending for everyone. What could Rika's warning possibly have been about...?"
Afterword.
Ryukishi07.
A Story That Cannot Be Omitted
"Tonogai-sensei, thank you for breathing soul into the "Time Killing Arc"!"
"The original "Time Killing Arc" is only half as long as the other scenarios, but it's an important one that wraps up the question arcs, the first half of "Higurashi WHEN THEY CRY." tonogai-sensei took that and skillfully livened it up in a way that can only be done in manga, treating the timing and mood with care. I feel like I've given the hand of my daughter—the original story—to a wonderful husband."
"The "Time Killing Arc" serves as the fourth of the eight stories and is in an important fixed position, holding responsibility for the story's turning point. Actually, I hadn't thought of that when I started writing. In fact, when I finished the "Curse Killing Arc," I went immediately into writing the "Eye Opening Arc." The scene at the beginning of the "Eye Opening Arc" where Shion runs away was written before the "Time Killing Arc." The biggest reason for this arc is that I was swamped with my other job, and I couldn't spare enough time to release the "Eye Opening Arc.""
"And so I came up with the idea to write a short, curveball kind of episode whenever I had a minute. But when I finished it, it was far from a short, curveball story. It was a straight pitch right down the middle with a full count—an important episode that wraps up the question arcs. Unlike what I had originally planned, I can now say with confidence that this fourth story is absolutely indispensable."
"With this arc, we can finally turn back around in the long story that is "Higurashi WHEN THEY CRY." I wonder if you're all thinking of answers, like, maybe this is the truth... Or maybe this...? You can finally check your answers starting with the "Eye Opening Arc" and the "Atonement Arc." I hope you will all continue to enjoy the world of "Higurashi.""
Yoshiki Tonogai.
"SPECIAL THANKS"
"Original Story / Supervisor: Ryukishi07—sensei"
"07th Storming Party, Webmaster BT—san"
"Main Partner: M-e-san, Roman-kun"
"Subpartner: Katou-san, Shinomiya—san, Morizono—san"
"Thanks: F-ki-sensei, Kure—san, Hazuki—san"
"Editors: Nozaki—san, Koizumi—san"
| Himatsubushi-hen Manga Volume 2 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Himatsubushi/CG
| Himatsubushi/CG |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Himatsubushi/Summary
This page aims to provide a summary of the chapters in "Himatsubushi".
Song titles are in bold only when they are played for the first time.
Himatsubushi Day 1.
Background Music
Himatsubushi Day 2.
Background Music
Himatsubushi 2-2.
Background Music
Himatsubushi 2-3.
Background Music
Himatsubushi Day 3.
Background Music
Himatsubushi Day 3-2.
Background Music
Himatsubushi Day 3-3.
Background Music
Himatsubushi Day 3-4.
Background Music
Himatsubushi Day 3-5.
Background Music
Himatsubushi Day 4 (1985).
Background Music
| Himatsubushi/Summary |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Himatsubushi/TIPS
This page aims to provide a summary of the TIPS in "Himatsubushi".
| Himatsubushi/TIPS |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinako Mizumiya
is a character appearing in "High School Love Adventure".
| Hinako Mizumiya |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinako Mizumiya/Sprites
| Hinako Mizumiya/Sprites |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamatsuri Graffiti
was the twelfth event in . It is a event that ran from March 1, 2021 until March 10, 2021. The SR card "Five Musicians Singing" Kazuho Kimiyoshi was available to those who completed the event story.
While the SSR units associated with the event originally were in 5-star only, a rerun of the banner associated with the event on March 4, 2022 unlocked 6-star variants for them.
Boosted Units.
The following units increased event-related drops when brought into battle. They are units associated with this event.
All following units have a rarity of SSR.
The following unit was a reward for completing the event and has a rarity of SR.
| Hinamatsuri Graffiti |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa
is a fictional village that serves as the main setting of . It is a rural village with a population ranging from approximately 1200 people to 2000.
Description.
Overview.
Hinamizawa village, officially recognized as the Hinamizawa district of Shishibone City, is located in an unnamed prefecture in , adjacent to . "Hinamizawa" is also a common name for the several small rural settlements located in the outskirts of Shishibone city which are isolated from the other areas by the mountainous forest cover in that region. Initially, the village was an isolated and independent settlement but was later included as a part of Shishibone City administratively. The population of Hinamizawa village is estimated to be around 2,000.
Geography.
Hinamizawa is distant from urban settlements. It is located in a valley formed by a stream originating from a swamp called Onigabuchi in an inland area near the Sea of Japan.
Villages are scattered at the bottom of the valley, and the surrounding area is shrouded by deep forests, blessed with abundant nature. There are areas such as Takatsudo and Yagouchi in the mountains further away from the main Hinamizawa area, but there are few houses and some of these settlements are considered ghost towns.
Hinamizawa itself mostly consists of old, rural houses along with some newer buildings such as the Irie Clinic and Maebara mansion. Due to its location, Hinamizawa gets heavy snowfall in the winter and as a consequence, many characteristically thick thatched roofed houses can be seen.
The Okinomiya district is located down a steep slope from the Hinamizawa district, and the purchase of daily necessities is mainly carried out there. Hinamizawa itself doesn't boast many modern amenities such as restaurants, fast food outlets, vending machines, entertainment facilities, etc.
Administration.
A mayor is elected every year and a town council governs the village with regular meetings, however the Three Families (Kimiyoshi, Furude, and Sonozaki) are effectively the true leaders of the village.
History.
Hundreds of years ago, Hinamizawa was known as Onigafuchi Village, named such because of its proximity to a swamp called that was said to lead to Hell. Legend has it that demons emerged from the swamp and terrorized the humans, but with the mediation of the god Oyashiro-sama the humans and demons began to coexist and gave birth to humans with demon blood. The villagers soon considered themselves superior to other humans due to their demon heritage and knowledge, looking down on outsiders. The Three Families would come to govern the village, rumored to have the strongest demon blood out of all the villagers.
Because of their demon blood, the villagers also had periodic bouts of hunger for human flesh. Oyashiro-sama permitted them to capture humans from other villages and take them back to Onigafuchi to be ritualistically sacrificed and consumed in events that would come to be known as Watanagashi. Oyashiro-sama's worship continued for hundreds of years, with the villagers believing that they could never leave the village for long for fear of being cursed by their god. It was believed that if Oyashiro-sama wasn't appeased, his anger would manifest as miasma erupting from Onigafuchi. In the Meiji Era, Onigafuchi would be reformed into Hinamizawa, and their cannibalistic past would be almost forgotten. Hinamizawa's name came from the same river that flowed through the village, which existed even when it was known as Onigafuchi Village.
In "Matsuribayashi", it is revealed that the demons were real, with Oyashiro-sama originally a member of the demons known as Hanyuu. Hanyuu became regarded as a god and fell in love with the heir to the Furude Shrine, producing a half-human child Ouka Furude. However, Hanyuu's presence caused a parasitic virus to spread throughout the humans, causing them to grow dangerously violent from paranoia. In order to make the villagers calm down, Hanyuu decided to become the object of their suspicion and masqueraded as a demon, being sacrificed by Ouka. The villagers still believed that Hanyuu was Oyashiro-sama, unaware that they really did kill their god. The virus stayed native to the region and would be researched by Hifumi Takano and later the Irie Clinic for medical and military purposes, where it would be given the name Hinamizawa Syndrome,
In the 1970s the Japanese government began preparations to build a dam in Hinamizawa, and the villagers began to oppose it as the dam being built would mean Hinamizawa would be flooded, and they would be forced to move somewhere else. There were many protests and acts of sabotage, and it became difficult for police to handle because the villagers would always provide alibis for each other. It wasn't until the dam construction foreman was killed that the government finally put the project on hold. The death of the foreman would be the start of "Oyashiro-sama's curse". Meanwhile, the dam project's suspension would be celebrated with a monument built sometime before 1981.
Real Life Model.
Hinamizawa was inspired by the real-life Japanese village of Shirakawa-go. Many backgrounds used in the original version of "Higurashi" are filtered photographs taken by Ryukishi07 and his friends when they visited the village.
| Hinamizawa |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa/Backgrounds
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa (episode)
| Hinamizawa (episode) |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Branch School
The is a school in Hinamizawa attended by the main cast of and where the Club plays most of their games.
Description.
The school is not a formal school and is located in a building rented from the Hinamizawa Forestry Service. As such, there is construction machinery parked nearby. The entire class totals about 30 students from grades elementary to middle school.
A garden is located in the back where the teacher Chie grows ingredients for curry.
History.
There used to be a larger, proper school in Hinamizawa that became dilapidated and was closed down during the dam conflict, being merged with the one in Okinomiya. Because of how far the other school was, the Onigafuchi Guardians rented a building from the forestry service to use as a schoolhouse which became opposed by the government. Rumiko Chie was a teacher for the other school and came to teach in the new school despite warnings from the Board of Education and was even suspended for it.
After the end of the dam conflict, the Onigafuchi Guardians and the Three Families negotiated with the government again and allowed the school to begin proper operation. The principal of the old Hinamizawa school would also become the principal of the new school.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Branch School/Backgrounds
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Bus Stop
is the prototype version of . It has had many official releases in various formats.
Per , this page considers the visual novel adaptation introduced in as the primary source.
Plot Summary.
Two students living in Hinamizawa, Rika Furude and Mion Sonozaki, rest at a bus stop during a rainy day and wait for the bus to arrive. Some employees soon join them, who are working on a project that will build a dam in Hinamizawa but result in the village's destruction. As the group makes their acquaintances, they talk about a phenomenon related to the strange deaths of dam project employees, the "curse of Oyashiro-sama."
Development History.
"Hinamizawa Bus Stop" was first written in approximately 2000. It was one of many stage plays Ryukishi07 wrote and submitted to a theater company, but it was rejected. Only two copies of the original script existed: one sent to the company and another given to a theater friend. The story was about an hour long and horror-focused; it centered around two characters, Rika Furude and Mion Sonozaki, that hung out at a bus stop in the rain.
When Ryukishi's brother Yatazakura gave him the idea to make a novel game, Ryukishi took the original "Hinamizawa Bus Stop" script and made many changes into the "Higurashi" story known today, with one of the most notable differences being Rika becoming younger than her prototype version and Mion becoming older. Another character Arakawa who appeared in the play had his role reused for Jirou Tomitake in the final "Higurashi" story proper. The manga-exclusive arc "Yoigoshi-hen" additionally had a plot inspired by "Hinamizawa Bus Stop" and reused the Arakawa surname for the character Ryuunosuke Arakawa.
Release History, Adaptations, and Ports.
Manga.
The manga adaptation of "Hinamizawa Bus Stop" was illustrated by Tomozo and serialized in Square Enix's Big Gangan magazine from October 2011 to July 2012. It was later collected into a single volume.
PC.
"Hinamizawa Bus Stop" was released in visual novel format in "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou" on August 17, 2014. People who bought copies of "Hou" on the website Toranoana could get a physical copy of the original, unmodified "Hinamizawa Bus Stop" script.
Stage Play.
A stage play adaptation of the script was produced by Shingidan in 2015.
Console.
"Hinamizawa Bus Stop" released as part of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou (console) on July 26th, 2018 for the Nintendo Switch and January 24th, 2019 for the PlayStation4. The console version of "Hinamizawa Bus Stop" featured voice acting, CGs, and new character art done by Tomozo.
| Hinamizawa Bus Stop |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Bus Stop/CG
| Hinamizawa Bus Stop/CG |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Bus Stop (VN)
| Hinamizawa Bus Stop (VN) |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Bus Stop (manga)
The single-volume manga is an adaptation of "Hinamizawa Bus Stop", the prototype script of that was originally written by Ryukishi07 as a stage play. This is the last non-spinoff "Higurashi" manga volume to be released and has not been published outside Japan.
The script was later adapted again as a visual novel in . The console port under the same name introduced character sprites done by the same artist as this manga in the same style.
Publisher's Summary.
"「ひぐらしのなく頃に」制作前に竜騎士07が書き上げた幻の演劇台本を、ともぞが満を持してコミカライズ!!"
"某地方の山奥…。その村外れにあるバス停留所「雛見沢(ひなみざわ)停留所」…。女子高生の梨花(りか)は、後輩の魅音(みおん)と共にこの場所を訪れる。雛見沢でのダム建設を巡り絡み合う人間模様。そして語られる地域に根付く“オヤシロさま"の祟り。待ち受けるのは惨劇か、それとも…!?"
Chapters.
The Sound of Rain (雨音 Amaoto).
Rika Furude, Mion Sonozaki, Katsumi Tonegawa, Kazuya Arakawa, and Mitsuru Yoshimura meet each other at a bus stop in a rainy day. The group argues about the Hinamizawa Dam project. Yoshimura brings up Oyashiro-sama's Curse.
The BEGINNING OF the Curse (祟りノ始マリ Tatari no Hajimari).
Rika, Arakawa, and Yoshimura inform Tonegawa about the original story of Oyashiro-sama and the tragedy of Kondo Yoshiyuki in November of the previous year.
The Past ERASED (消サレタ過去 Kesareta Kako).
The group discusses the tragedies of Kakinuma, Katou, and Mori, which have not been widely reported. Yoshimura claims to be planning to investigate the truth behind Oyashiro-sama's curse. Rika warns that he will die too.
Was SOMEBODY WATCHING? (誰カ見テタノ? Dareka Miteta no?).
Yoshimura and Mion discusses her trip to Tokyo earlier. Two policemen arrive at the bus stop and inform the group that the bus won't come and a street murder has happened in the city.
"To be", "To" not be (「いる」「い」ない "Iru" "I"nai).
Yoshimura evokes Arakawa's memories related to Oyashiro-sama's Curse when they are the only two people at the bus stop.
Trauma... (トラウマ… Torauma...).
Yoshimura evokes Arakawa's painful memories when he was a student, leading to the latter clawing his own throat.
I'll KILL YOU... (殺シテヤル… Koroshite yaru...).
Mion confronts Yoshimura for being suspicious but suffers immense pain.
FRIENDS... (トモダチ… Tomodachi...).
Okano and Hoshino arrests Yoshimura and come back with Hiroaki Nitta, Kasumi Hotoda, and Teruhiko Oda to explain the situations.
The Truth of the Curse (祟りノ真実 Tatari no Shinjitsu).
Rika confronts Nitta's group and exposes their true agenda.
If it's US BOTH... (二人ナラ… Futari nara...).
After the death of Rika, Mion kills everyone in Nitta's group for revenge.
Visual references.
This adaptation of the stage play script includes various references to the main "Higurashi" series that don't have to do with the story itself.
| Hinamizawa Bus Stop (manga) |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Bus Stop (stage play)
is a stage play adaptation of Hinamizawa Bus Stop, the prototype to , produced by Shingidan.
| Hinamizawa Bus Stop (stage play) |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Dam Project
The was a government plan to build a dam in Hinamizawa, which would've resulted in the village being flooded and the eviction of over 2000 people. The conflict between the villagers and the government would come to be known as the Dam War. Though the project was cancelled, its resolution resulted in the phenomenon known as Oyashiro-sama's curse being created.
History.
Japan was facing issues with transportation infrastructure, electricity, and flood control, and there were many dam projects in other places to assist with that. In the 1970's, the government began plans to build a dam in Hinamizawa due to it having the right conditions and terrain for such a thing. The project started small, as it originally was just a way to control erosion. Soon the dam reached a massive area, and if it were built, it would've resulted in a massive area up to Yagouchi being flooded.
The villagers began protesting against the government and formed the Onigafuchi Guardians. Protests against the government appeared as sabotage of construction equipment by putting sugar cubes inside engines and later attacking construction personnel. The police were unable to properly arrest anyone since there were no witnesses; due to the villagers' strong sense of unity, they would make cover stories for each other. However, there were some villagers that were paid by the government to move out of Hinamizawa, and these villagers formed a pro-dam faction led by Satoko Houjou's parents. The pro-dam faction was ostracized by the villagers, with the Houjou family treated especially badly.
Resolution and Aftermath.
In 1978 the Minister of Construction's son was kidnapped for ransom, and it seemed as though the Three Families and the Sonozaki family were behind it. The police investigated and managed to rescue his son, however it was enough for the dam project to halt construction. The project would become cancelled indefinitely the following year in 1979 when the dam construction foreman was murdered. Several people ganged up on him after a drunken dispute and bludgeoned him to death, then dismembered his corpse and each hid a piece. Every perpetrator except the ringleader was soon arrested, the latter having disappeared along with one of the arms.
One day in 1980 the Houjou couple died while on vacation from falling off a cliff, and only the husband's body was found. The similarity with the previous year's incident where someone died and someone disappeared made villagers believe that Oyashiro-sama's curse was claiming those who were involved with the dam project. Although the threat of the dam was gone, the villagers still ostracized the Houjou family for their support, even after the couple had died. The curse struck again in 1981 when Rika Furude's parents were made victims, as though they were part of the Onigafuchi Guardians they had a neutral stance on the matter.
True Nature.
The kidnapping incident was actually masterminded by the organization Tokyo. They financed the creation of the Irie Clinic so they could research the virus Hinamizawa Syndrome, which was endemic to Hinamizawa. The agitation in the villagers caused by the dam war was theorized to result in many villagers becoming terminal patients of the disease, and so they pulled strings behind the scenes to cancel the project. The kidnapping of the Minister's son was done by Tetsurou Okonogi, leader of the Mountain Dogs who masqueraded as an unrelated party. The various deaths and disappearances in later years were all carried out by the Mountain Dogs under the guise of a curse.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Escape Scheme
| Hinamizawa Escape Scheme |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Fighters
| Hinamizawa Fighters |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Syndrome
is a term coined for the sudden mental issues arising in former residents of Hinamizawa after the Great Hinamizawa Disaster and the series of murders and stigmatization that followed.
Origin.
Before World War II, Hinamizawa Syndrome was used to describe the homesickness developed in villagers who left the village, as they believed they could never leave for fear they would be cursed by their god Oyashiro-sama.
After the Great Hinamizawa Disaster, in which the entire population living in Hinamizawa was killed overnight by volcanic gas, there were a series of ritualistic murders and suicides being carried out by relatives of Hinamizawans. It was widely believed that the Disaster was Oyashiro-sama's wrath given form, and survivors were doing whatever they could to stave off his anger.
The manga-exclusive arc "Onisarashi" shows that many elderly people were especially devout, with Aki Kimiyoshi shown decorating her house with lots of charms and drowning puppies to pass on the negative karma her family would be receiving onto them. Other incidents of people killing their entire families before committing suicide themselves received widespread media coverage, and so people from Hinamizawa became stigmatized, not helped by rumors and legends of the villagers being descended from demons. People with similar surnames to the Three Families were even targeted and attacked by civilians, as they were said to be the most demonic out of all the villagers.
True Nature.
Hinamizawa Syndrome is also the name given to a parasitic virus endemic to Hinamizawa and has persisted in the region for hundreds of years.
True Origin.
Hinamizawa Syndrome is believed to have originated in the distant past when Hanyuu and her people came to Hinamizawa. Hinamizawa Syndrome's symptoms caused villagers to become violent from paranoia, giving rise to the idea that they were "demons." With the sacrifice of Hanyuu under the assumption she was a demon lord, the villagers calmed down in their paranoia and stopped suffering from Hinamizawa Syndrome, however the virus persisted in the region. The faith known as Oyashiro-sama was soon propagated by the villagers as a way of preventing symptoms from breaking out.
Discovery and Research.
Over the years, Hinamizawa Syndrome became less effective than it originally was due to how strong the belief in Oyashiro-sama was, however that didn't mean carriers were completely immune to the virus. Modern-day cases of Hinamizawa Syndrome arose in the 1940s, where several Japanese soldiers fighting in World War II that came from Hinamizawa were beginning to show erratic behavior. Hifumi Takano, an army physician, examined these soldiers and discovered the existence of the Hinamizawa Syndrome parasite. He believed this was a remarkable discovery, a parasite that could control human emotions, and sought funding to research Hinamizawa Syndrome for military applications but his request was denied; not only did the army not have the time and money to devote to research, they also thought he was insane. Dr. Takano later committed suicide, with his research notes inherited by his adoptive granddaughter Miyo Takano, who sought to continue his research.
The Self-Defense Force had actually refused research into Hinamizawa Syndrome when Dr. Takano was around due to strong evidence it was responsible for triggering the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, and the higher-ups believed it would cause problems with China if the true cause were revealed. The SDF had renewed interest in the virus and wanted to fund research under their new weapons development project, the Alphabet Project. After gaining additional support from her old friend Koizumi, Takano received funding from the SDF and joined with Kyousuke Irie to open a clinic in Hinamizawa and begin research. The organization Tokyo later provided additional funding.
Characteristics.
Transmission.
Research showed that the pathogen causing Hinamizawa Syndrome could only be found when the patient was alive, and even then only through lobotomization. Procuring live subjects was thus very important. The unique climate of Hinamizawa contributed to keeping the virus under control.
The virus is transmitted through the air and through bodily fluids. It is very easy to get infected by the virus, however symptoms do no manifest unless one goes far away from Hinamizawa or becomes emotionally unstable.
Stages of Infection and Symptoms.
There are five stages, or levels, of infection, however the first three Levels are inconsequential so long as the patient remains emotionally stable and lives a normal life.
Level 4 (L4) is considered critical condition. L4 patients will begin to notice Hanyuu, able to sense her presence and at times hear her. Examples are shown in arcs like "Minagoroshi" when Tomitake is able to hear Hanyuu throwing a tantrum.
Level 5 (L5) is the terminal stage, which is difficult to return from without medicine or proper mental help. L5 patients will develop itchiness in their lymph nodes and so will begin scratching their necks. The syndrome affects the frontal lobes of the brain and induces doubt, making the patient develop a persecution complex and see hallucinations which usually manifest as formication, the sensation of maggots crawling in their skin. Patients will claw at their skin and throats to get rid of these imaginary bugs, which often results in them clawing their throats open and killing themselves through excessive blood loss. Even with the current medicine developed to combat the syndrome, it is unlikely for a terminal patient to recover below the L3 stage.
Queen Carrier.
Dr. Takano theorized the existence of a queen carrier parasite that inhabited firstborn women of the Furude family, connecting it with religious beliefs that shrine maidens had psychic powers and could calm people's souls. The existence of the queen was proven when it was discovered that patients getting near it would develop a substance in their brains that would calm them and reduce symptoms. Not only that, the health of the queen carrier seemed to affect infected persons as well; Rika Furude, the current queen was being researched by the clinic and developed a fever for a few weeks, and the clinic had a highly increased number of visitors during that time. This correlation reinforced the idea that the queen carrier was important to the stabilization of Hinamizawa Syndrome.
It was thus assumed that going too far from the vicinity of the queen carrier would cause patients to develop terminal symptoms. If the queen carrier died or left the village, then it was likely that every single infected villager would jump to terminal stages within 48 hours. This was the conclusion reached after examining cases of entire communities going insane and committing suicide after the deaths of religious leaders, with incidents happening over the span of 48 hours. There was no way to prove this theory true or false, and due to Hinamizawa's population encompassing over 2000 carriers, a contingency plan has been created for the worst-case scenario.
Medicinal Applications.
The first successful vaccine to treat Hinamizawa Syndrome was C103, which suppresses the production of a certain hormone and thus prevents transmission of the syndrome. It was tested on Satoko Houjou and helped her go down to L3 levels, though it had to be injected three times daily. C117 was developed later, however its differences from previous developments are unclear due to it being a prototype. The most recent vaccine C120 only requires two injections per day. Using this medicine when one is not infected will result in fever, rashes, dilation and hallucinations.
While researching the mechanisms behind how the syndrome controls a host's brain and induces derangement and paranoia, the H170 series of reagents was developed. H170 forces the brain into a state of agitation, and so when injected into a syndrome patient it makes the pathogen become unstable and makes them jump to L5. While it was created with the purpose of forcing certain reactions in patients to better test the exact mechanisms behind the syndrome pathogen, it also has a secondary military application as befitting the goal of the Alphabet Project. Its most recent development is H173.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Syndrome (episode)
UraHigu.
A scene from 12th episode of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai, where Ooishi and Kumagai get shot by a sniper. Then, a bonus scene is shown, where a movie set is mimicked; the "director" announces that the next scene to be shot will be Rika's bath, and the dead characters get up.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Teiryujo
| Hinamizawa Teiryujo |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Village Council
| Hinamizawa Village Council |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Village Oyashiro-sama Investigation Record Evidence
is a booklet that recreates Miyo Takano’s Document 34 scrapbook as it appears in the original story.
It was first advertised in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Famous Scene Investigation File 100 and was produced in made-to-order quantities, available for purchase by those who contacted an email address printed in the book. The book is contained inside a bag that says "Evidence".
Contents.
The book features various TIPS and scrapbook sections from the visual novels reprinted to look like notebook paper and documents. There is also a photograph of Takano and Tomitake included.
| Hinamizawa Village Oyashiro-sama Investigation Record Evidence |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa Walker February 2007
This is a special edition of Hinamizawa Walker that released as a two-sided booklet in Gemaga February 2007. It is a feature-length booklet about and "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Matsuri", containing an interview with Ryukishi07, comments from various staff members about "Matsuri"'s artwork and scenarios, and comments from the 2006 anime staff and manga adaptation artists.
| Hinamizawa Walker February 2007 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinamizawa school
| Hinamizawa school |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinase Momoyama
is an artist responsible for the "Minagoroshi" and "Dawn of the Golden Witch" manga adaptations.
| Hinase Momoyama |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinata Kirihara
is a character appearing in "High School Love Adventure".
| Hinata Kirihara |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hinata Kirihara/Sprites
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hirasaka
is the main setting of "Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni". It is a fictional rural Japanese village that is also a gateway to Hell.
Description.
At the entrance to the village is a wash basin next to six Jizo statues. People who enter the village are expected to stop there and wash their hands, to cleanse themselves of impurities. A community center was built in the village sometime after the containing resources such as food and electricity. In "The First and the Last Gift", Lambdadelta notes how similar the location is to Hinamizawa.
Hell is environmentally similar to Hirasaka, but the differences are in the wildlife, the agriculture, and the strange phenomena, closely resembling that of mythology. The most obvious difference between regular Hirasaka and Hell is the presence of two suns in the sky. Hell seems to be isolated from the rest of the world, given that radios no longer work. A mist river resembling the permeates the landscape, blocking off some areas from access. Going near or entering this fog will induce headaches. Human-faced flies called gakiban swarm around, attacking humans and devouring food supplies. Lifeforms who eat the food that grows in Hell will become wild beasts.
Trees and bushes will transform their leaves to become razor sharp, harming anyone who walks through them. Cutting the leaves will release a foul stench. Apparitions of naked women can appear in these forests calling for help, enticing would-be saviors and causing them to hurt themselves. Giant demons, or Oni, can be seen roaming the landscape and will crush unsuspecting people.
Piles of corpses can be found scattered around. Guardians of hell can revive these corpses, forcing them to fight and kill each other repeatedly. Some corpses can become datsuebas, attacking the living and stripping their clothes off so they can be cleansed. Humans who have become demons can transform and grow to grotesque sizes, however they will regain their normal forms when under the protection of special charms within houses. These charms can also ward off the various horrors of Hell.
At the mountain is a place called Hell’s Cauldron, where the deceased are tortured by demons. They are torn apart, stabbed, and crushed eternally. A massive, multi faced demon resembling an stands watch over the area, shining light from its eyes intermittently.
History.
Hirasaka used to be written as 比良坂, exactly the same way as , the slope leading to Hell in Japanese mythology. Hirasaka was regarded as a sacred place where only ascetics could freely travel. Those who were unbelievers would be transported to Hell overnight if they entered the village. The villagers maintained strict religious precepts to prevent others from going to hell, however as the times changed, many people left the village because they grew tired of these precepts.
Much of Hell's history has been documented in a picture book titled "Tales of Hell", supposedly an account of a man named Yohei who was sent to Hell and escaped after praying for his parents and revering them. It is indeed possible to escape Hell through prayer, which seem to manifest as bright, glowing fireflies.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hiroaki Nitta
is a character that appears exclusively in "Hinamizawa Bus Stop".
Appearance.
In the PC version of "Hou", Nitta's sprites are Kyousuke Irie's sprites colored yellow.
In the console port, Nitta has short brown hair and wears glasses. He also wears a lab coat and a blue-and-white striped tie.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hiroaki Nitta/Sprites
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hirohumi Inoue
is a character appearing in "Kokorokuzushi".
Profile.
From Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Complete Analysis Book:
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Wakaba's mysterious stepfather.
He belongs to the Mountain Dogs unit of the Irie Institute and lives with Wakana. He became Wakana's adoptive father by pretending to be her relative because he was ordered by his superiors to take care of Wakaba, who had lost her parents.
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謎多き若葉の義父
入江機関・山狗部隊に所属しており、若菜とともに暮らしている。両親を失った若葉の面倒を見るよう上から命令されたため、親戚と偽って若菜の養父になった。
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hiromi Kano
is a character appearing in "Kokorokuzushi".
Profile.
From Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Complete Analysis Book:
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Daughter helping mother.
She dropped out of junior high school to help her mother, Tomoyo Kano, with her work. She is currently unemployed and is at the same age as Mion Sonozaki. It seems that she sometimes takes care of the younger Wakaba Inoue.
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母の仕事を手伝う娘
母親である鹿納知代の仕事を手伝うために、中学校を退学。現在は無職で、年齢は園崎魅音たちと同じ。年下の猪上若葉の面倒を見てやることもあるようだ。
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hiroshi Kuzumi
is the main protagonist of Okamikakushi. He is a 15 year old boy who moves to the city of Joga with his father and his younger sister, Mana. Many people usually call him "Hiro" or "Hakase", which means professor. He is voiced by Yū Kobayashi in the anime.
Character History.
In the anime, he first moves to a city called Jouga.
After he moves to his new home, he meets Isuzu, who falls in love with him and latches onto him.
The next day, he goes to school and is greeted by all of his classmates, except for Nemuru, who tells him that his existence is very annoying. After school, Hiroshi's two best friends, Isuzu and Kaname, gives him a tour of the city and tells him about the hassaku oranges and the festival that is about to happen.
The next day, one of the students that greeted him was absent. Nemuru tells him that he transferred. As the story progresses on, he learns that more and more people died, including Isuzu's older brother, Issei. He meets more residents including a lady named, Kaori, and Sakaki, a man who is searching for something.
One night, he observes a Fallen being slain by a group of murderers and tells Sakaki, a man he met at Kaori's house about it. After Issei's death, Isuzu begins to skip school. Hiroshi is bothered by this and tries to talk to her, only to be turned away by Isuzu's mother.
Isuzu calls Hiroshi that night and asks him to meet her at a park. He goes, only to be attacked by a Fallen Isuzu. The group of murderers appear and Nemuru Kushinada is revealed to be one of them. Isuzu fights Nemuru, only to be defeated by her and brings Hiroshi to an unknown area.
She confesses her love to him and tells him that she doesn't wish to be killed by Nemuru and jumps off the building. She is then caught by the masked murderers and Hiroshi tries to follow them but is stopped by Nemuru. He asks what is going on but she knocks him out wih her scythe. He wakes up in his bedroom the next day and realizes that both Isuzu and Nemuru are absent from school.
Kaname tells Hiroshi about her theory about the Jouga wolves. At night, Sakaki contacts Hiroshi and tells him to meet at an abandonned shrine. Sakaki tricks him and locks him in the shrine with a bound Nemuru. Hiroshi asks Nemuru about Jouga's secrets and she tells him everything he needs to know. He frees her, but Nemuru was on the verge of becoming a Fallen.
She manages to stop herself and both their fathers frees them. After all those events, the Hassaku Festival occurs. Hiroshi and Kaname goes to the festival but is ruined but the arrival of the girl Issei kissed. She is later killed by Nemuru and her acolytes. Sakaki arrives and exposes the secret of the Jooga wolves to the crowd.
The wolves turn on him and Kaname but Nemuru and Isuzu intervane. A man from the Vigilance Commitee member tells the whole crowd about Sakaki's plan to drown the whole city in water. Hiroshi, Kaname, Isuzu, Nemuru, and her acolytes rush up the stairway to get to the dam controls.
Hiroshi and Kaname continues to go up the stairs while Isuzu, Nemuru, and her acolytes take a shortcut to the controls. After Nemuru's group disables the controls, Isuzu follows a trail of blood created by an injured Sakaki, but only to get shot on the knee by him. The whole group arrives and Sakaki threatens to shoot Isuzu. Hiroshi tries to protect everyone but is beaten and push aside by Sakaki.
Nemuru, then offers herself to get shot on a deal that Sakaki will not kill everyone. Before he could do anything, Kaori and the other priestesses arrive to stop him. Kaori tells Sakaki to shoot her if he wants to destroy the city. Sakaki attempts to shoot Nemuru instead but Kaori takes the shot. She drags him down the river below and dies with him. After those events, Hiroshi concludes that the city is peaceful again, but not for long as he knows that the people who left the city will tell everyone about Jouga.
Upon Isuzu and Kaname rapidly telling Hiroshi to call Nemuru by her first name, not by her last name, he says it for the very first time and Nemuru becomes best friends with them. Six months after the Hassaku Festival, Hiroshi, Nemuru, Kaname, and Isuzu meet at the Jouga ice-cream parlour and talks about some events in the past such as Nemuru visiting Hiroshi's house dressed in a Uraesu costume and Hiroshi being invited to a cafe and forced to dress as a maid for an interview. Hiroshi then remembers his encounters with Nemuru and Isuzu and how they changed throughout the story.
Physical Appearance.
Hiroshi has black hair, has a pair of square glasses, and his eye colour is purple. He is seen as a very timid character.
He usually wears his school uniform which consists of a white T-shirt and pants and brown shoes.
Relationships.
Mana Kuzumi.
Hiroshi and Mana are very close siblings. Mana is usually annoyed by Hiroshi always helping her get down small steps.
Isuzu Tsumuhana.
Hiroshi and Isuzu are close friends. Isuzu is in love with Hiroshi and is always with him when they are on their way to school.
Kaname Asagiri.
Hiroshi and Kaname are close friends. She helps him know more about the city and talks to him a lot about the legend. Kaname likes to talk to Hiroshi's dad about the legend of the Joga wolves and visits his house often to give Hiroshi's dad her notes.
Nemuru Kushinada.
Hiroshi and Nemuru's relationship took off with a rocky start. At the beginning of the series, she thinks his existance is annoying. Later on, it is revealed that she was trying to protect him by killing all of the humans that are addicted to Hiroshi's scent. When Hiroshi and Nemuru are trapped in a warehouse, she attacks Hiroshi but is able to stop herself from kissing him. At the end of the series, Hiroshi says Nemuru's first name for the first time and Nemuru joins Hiroshi's group of friends.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hiroyuki
| Hiroyuki |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hirukowashi
is a extra arc. It is based off of the "Higurashi Daybreak" fighting game as its name puns on and was first released with "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei" at Comiket 71 on December 31, 2006.
Introduction.
"Hirukowashi ~The Strongest Pursuer of Love~"
"This is a tale of a peculiar dispute over the precious jewels, the Magatama of Fuwarazu - jewels capable of granting mutual love, that befalls the club members. People who haven't played Higurashi Daybreak can enjoy this too. (＾ω＾)ノ"
"For other pairings, please enjoy Higurashi Daybreak~!"
Plot Summary.
The Magatama of Fuwarazu are an ancient artifact that can bring love to whoever holds them. When the artifact is unsealed and Rena Ryuugu accidentally swallows one of the beads, the Club attempts to get it back as she relentlessly pursues the holder of the other bead.
Characters.
Main Characters
Release History.
Original Release.
"Hirukowashi-hen" was first released with "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei" at Comiket 71 on December 31, 2006.
Hou.
"Hirukowashi-hen" was rereleased with "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou" at Comiket 86 on August 17, 2014.
Hou+.
"Hirukowashi-hen" was rereleased with "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou+" on January 28, 2022 .
Ports.
This arc has been ported in "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kizuna Volume II", "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sui", and the console version of "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou".
The console ports feature a different version of "Hirukowashi-hen" which was titled "Alternative Hirukowashi-hen" in "Kizuna" Volume II. This alternative version has many changes:
Adaptations.
Anime.
The 2009 anime OVA series by Studio DEEN adapted Hirukowashi in Episode 5. It was released on August 21, 2009.
Manga.
A manga adaptation of "Hirukowashi" was illustrated by Rechi Kazuki and serialized in Square Enix's Gangan Online platform from March 26, 2009 to September 24, 2009 with 7 total chapters. It was later released as a single volume on December 22, 2009.
| Hirukowashi |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hirukowashi-hen
| Hirukowashi-hen |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hirukowashi-hen/CG
| Hirukowashi-hen/CG |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hirukowashi-hen (manga)
| Hirukowashi-hen (manga) |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hirukowashi-hen Chapter 1
is the first chapter of the "Hirukowashi-hen" manga adaptation.
Summary.
1983, Hinamizawa. In the ritual storehouse, Hanyuu tells Rika Furude about how the seal on the Magatama of Fuwarazu has been broken. An incense burner was used to seal them away, and now that one of the legs is broken, the seal has broken as well. The Magatama, passed down since ancient times, were sealed off by Heaven and have fallen into the village somewhere. If they don't recover the Magatama, then a horrific tragedy will occur.
Rena Ryuugu and Keiichi Maebara go treasure hunting at the junkyard. Keiichi was asked by Rena to go treasure hunting with her, with Keiichi falling over exhausted after digging. Rena refreshes him by feeding him tea and cookies. Keiichi admires Rena's niceness and remembers that during club games earlier that day, Rena gave him a helping hand despite the club having rules encouraging ruthlessness. Rena seemed like she genuinely wanted to have fun with everyone.
The day ends, and Rena tricks Keiichi into helping her go treasure hunting again tomorrow by making a concerned face and wondering if he'll really only help if she makes more cookies. Keiichi accepts it however, and comments that he doesn't see Rena smiling often at club.
Just then, Rena is suddenly struck by lightning and collapses, and Keiichi tends to her as she starts choking. Rena calms down and says she choked on something, with Keiichi wondering if something actually fell from the air. Rena says she's fine now since the pain went away, and bids farewell to Keiichi and goes home. Keiichi also goes home, still feeling anxious. Rika and Hanyuu search the junkyard later that night for the Magatama, with Hanyuu sensing its energy. Rika says they can't search since it's too dark, and decides to leave it for tomorrow.
The next day at school, the club notice Rena sitting by herself quietly and wonder what happened. Satoko Houjou says Rika had to stay home for some shrine business. Keiichi wonders if it's related to what happened to Rena yesterday. Mion Sonozaki asks if he knows anything, but Keiichi ignores her and asks Rena if she's hurt anywhere. Rena ominously says she has a pain in her heart that won't go away, even if she goes to the infirmary, and mutters that even Oyashiro-sama won't be able to help. The club is shocked, and Rena suddenly exclaims her pain is because of love. The club becomes confused. Rika and Hanyuu enter the room and realize that Rena swallowed the Magatama. They wonder what kind of comedy awaits them.
Comparisons to Source Material.
This chapter adapts Day 0, Day 1, and part of Day 2 of the visual novel.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hirukowashi-hen Chapter 2
is the second chapter of the "Hirukowashi-hen" manga adaptation.
Summary.
Rika swears that she'll protect the treasure of Furude Shrine. The Magatama of Fuwarazu were sealed in the sky a hundred years ago, but now they've been unsealed and fell to the ground, causing Rena to fall in love. Rika tells Hanyuu she's confident Rena has the red magatama. There are two magatamas, one red and one white, and whoever holds the red one falls in love with the holder of the white one. Rena therefore has fallen in love. Rika worries that Rena will blow up the school if they don't do anything. The invisible Hanyuu goes up to Rena and confirms she has the red magatama, and is shocked to find it's inside her. When Rena swallowed it, the magatama dissolved and so its power is inside her, but there's a ritual they can use to pull it out. All they need to do is bring the red and white magatamas together.
Rika is frustrated that Hanyuu can't do anything to find the white magatama even though she created them and argues with her. Keiichi notices Rika standing in the hallway and pulls her inside the classroom, with Satoko asking what she knows about Rena's condition. Rika explains everything to the club and shows them a scroll, with the club commenting on the magatamas looking like fur seals.
The club wonders how they'll even find the holder of the white magatama. Mion tries to ask Rena directly, but Rena instead punches her several times. Rena then says she's going to leave early and quickly runs away. Satoko springs a jump rope trap to trip her, but Rena runs past and breaks it. Rumiko Chie appears and tells Rena not to run in the halls, but Rena confuses her by inviting her to her wedding party while running past her, leaving school.
The club chases after Rena. Rika says she has an idea of where she's going, and guides everyone to the Furude Shrine. There, Rena is snuggling up to a surprised Jirou Tomitake and asking him to teach her all about cameras. Rena then reaches inside of her shirt, shocking the club members, but then she pulls out some photography books that she used for studying. Tomitake becomes infatuated with her. The club worries about Takano finding out, but Miyo Takano herself shows up. Tomitake tries to say it's not what it looks like regarding Rena, but Takano suddenly gets a look of jealousy.
Comparisons to Source Material.
This chapter adapts Day 2-1 and part of Day 2-2 of the visual novel.
| Hirukowashi-hen Chapter 2 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hirukowashi/CG
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hirukowashi/Summary
The club struggles to recover the Magatama of Fuwarazu when Rena swallows one of the magatamas and unconditionally falls in love with the holder of the other magatama.
Plot Summary.
Keiichi and Rena walk and talk together. During club games that day, Keiichi had some bad luck, but Rena helped him at the last moment. Keiichi still came last though, and the punishment game was to be held Sunday. Keiichi thinks about how much Rena helped him even though club rules encourage ruthlessness. Rena says she helped because she felt like it, and would like him to return the favor. Keiichi opts to go treasure hunting with her.
Satoko is looking around for Rika so they can go shopping. Meanwhile, in the ritual storehouse, Hanyuu asks Rika to look at a broken incense burner. The burner was used by Rika’s ancestors 200 years ago to seal something dangerous away, and now that it’s broken, the seal is as well. Rika asks how dangerous this item is, and Hanyuu shows her a scroll. The scroll describes how the Magatama of Fuwarazu, two jewels of hell left behind by savage gods, could cause pandemonium if they appeared in the world of man by possessing people and turning them into demons. Rika takes this to mean they’d cause a Hinamizawa Syndrome outbreak. Hanyuu says they were sealed beyond the sky, far away from the human world, so now they’ve fallen into the village. Rika muses that it’d be fun to play with first since it has wonderful power. Hanyuu reminds her of how it can be used for evil, and Rika agrees that they need to stop Takano from getting it.
Rena and Keiichi go treasure hunting at the junkyard and take a break to have some tea and cookies. Keiichi realizes how much fun he’d had with Rena, and the two soon prepare to go home, with Rena having found nothing. Keiichi agrees to do treasure hunting again if Rena makes more cookies. Rena expresses how happy she is to be with Keiichi even if she finds nothing. Tomitake and Takano suddenly appear and tease the two about going on a date. Seeing how cute Tomitake and Takano are acting, Keiichi and Rena note how they seem mismatched with opposite personalities, but they really like each other.
Just then, something hits Rena in the head. She starts choking, and Keiichi worries over what to do. Tomitake and Takano tend to her, but Keiichi believes one of them threw something at Rena. Rena calms down and explains that something fell from the sky into her mouth, and she swallowed it. Her stomach was feeling weird afterwards, but now it’s okay, and assures everyone that she doesn’t need a checkup. Tomitake and Takano leave, and Keiichi walks Rena home.
Late at night, Hanyuu and Rika search all over the junkyard, having checked all over the village and using Hanyuu’s ability to sense the energy of the Magatamas. The Magatamas are a red and white magatama, and if you give one to someone then they’ll reciprocate your love. Rika thinks it’s wonderful, but Hanyuu says they’re still dangerous since the villagers would start a war over it, and that a group of men once killed each other over a single woman. Riks still looks forward to having fun with them before sealing them back away. The two of them soon find a jewel box that looks like it would hold the magatamas, but it’s empty. Hanyuu’s radar can only sense the box and not the magatamas themselves. They figure Rena might have picked them up since they look like small seals. Rika decides to ask Rena about it tomorrow and do more research on the scroll.
At school, the club notices that Rena seems to be sick. Rena asks to be left alone and starts staring out the window, and Mion determines she must be in love. Keiichi says she might be sick since she swallowed something that fell out of the sky while treasure hunting yesterday, but he doesn’t know what. Mion and Satoko don’t believe him. Rika’s ears perk up and she asks Keiichi to elaborate. Rika summons the invisible Hanyuu, and she confirms that Rena indeed swallowed the Magatama. There’s no way to get it out since it’s not even in magatama form anymore, and its powers now reside in Rena. If they bring together the red and white magatama at Furude Shrine, then they can perform a ritual to remove them.
Rika says they can bring Rena by the shrine later, but Hanyuu reminds her that they still don’t have the white magatama; Rena swallowed the red one, and now all she can think about is the holder of the white one. Rika gets angry at Hanyuu for making such a dangerous object, and Hanyuu retorts that her ancestors should’ve made more offerings to strengthen the seal. Rika and Hanyuu start fighting.
Unable to see Hanyuu, Keiichi interrupts Rika’s flailing about so the club can ask her about Rena. Rika explains everything to them and shows them the Magatama of Fuwarazu scroll. The club speculates that the magatamas look like seals since fur seals may have existed in Japan for hundreds of years. They also voice surprise that Oyashiro-sama made these despite being a god who torments people, and Mion says he was originally a god of marriage. The Furude Shrine even used to sell marriage charms.
The club asks Rena who she’s thinking about so they can find the holder of the white magatama. However, Rena refuses to answer and beats everyone up. Satoko chastises Mion for trying to ask her directly. At Hanyuu’s urging. Rika points at some books Rena’s reading, and the club finds she’s reading some photography and camera catalogs, meaning she’s fallen in love with Tomitake; Rika complains that Tomitake is a key person in every world despite him wandering around all the time. Rena suddenly gets up and leaves school, wanting to spend time with Tomitake. Mion asks Tomita and Okamura to stop her but they refuse since they’re afraid of her punches. Satoko activates a jump-rope trap, hoping to stop Rena before she leaves school, but she tears up the rope with her bare hands. Chie tells Rena to stop running in the halls, and Rena confuses her by inviting her to the upcoming wedding reception.
The rest of the club leaves school to go find Tomitake. Hanyuu uses her “ghost energy radar” to detect Tomitake and Takano at the shrine grounds, and Rika relays this to the club. The club rushes to get there before Rena, with Rika wondering if Takano would activate her final plans if she broke up with Tomitake.
When the club reaches the shrine, they find Takano and Rena flirting with Tomitake, the latter seemingly enjoying it. Rika is amused by the sight and considers trying out the magatamas on Keiichi and Akasaka next time. Keiichi tries to make Rena snap out of it by saying her feelings aren’t real, but Rena is convinced she really loves Tomitake. Mion makes Tomitake come to senses by reminding him that Takano is his partner, but Takano asks him to be more specific. Rena says Takano is just his friend, which frustrates her. Rena appeals to him by offering to become a model and wear nurse outfits for him, and Tomitake faints from excitement as Takano finally has enough and leaves.
Satoko finishes setting her traps and launches several homemade rockets at Rena. While Rena is distracted, Keiichi drags Tomitake’s body behind the assembly hall to find the magatama. They do a full body search but can’t find it anywhere on him. Hanyuu isn’t able to sense it either. She explains that the Magatama of Fuwarazu stimulate the brain’s love receptors to make it secrete the same chemicals as when you’re in love, thereby creating false feelings of love. Even if Tomitake doesn’t have the white magatama anymore, the effects will still be active.
The club realizes that Rena must be searching for the new holder of the white magatama. Rika wakes up Tomitake by spraying him with a hose, and he starts believing the entire thing was a dream. They ask about the magatama, and Tomitake says he did find a white seal key chain at the dam site and gave it to Takano just now. The club determines that Takano is headed for the swamp, with Rena already chasing after her.
Takano vents her frustrations about Tomitake falling for a girl younger than him and reflects on her own dishonesty; she likes to refuse Tomitake whenever he asks things just to tease him. Rena suddenly shows up and starts disparaging Tomitake as well, and Takano starts to warm up to her. Rena says she loves Takano, much to the latter’s shock. Rena says she wants to do a real Watanagashi with Takano and claims she doesn’t really like men, seeing all the sidelong glances she gives them, and wants to call Takano her big sister. The club shows up and says that Rena’s just speaking nonsense, but Takano ignores them and starts hugging Rena, having agreed with what she said.
Hanyuu confirms that Takano has the white magatama. Rika worries about the Great Hinamizawa Disaster occurring the next night. Mion asks Takano to return Rika’s white seal keychain and says it’s a precious Furude Shrine treasure. Keiichi chastises her for giving away too much info, and Takano refuses and decides to keep holding onto it, now that she knows it’s a treasure.
Takano prepares to go off together with Rena to analyze the magatama and taste it, and the club become even more determined to get it back. Takano runs away as Rena blocks the club from going after her. Aware that a close range attack will be bad, Mion instead pulls out a pair of model handguns and shoots Rena with BB bullets. However, Rena catches them all in midair and says she’s not impressed that Mion would shoot at kids’ faces; Keiichi starts to feel sick as she says this. Satoko asks Keiichi to do something with his speech, and he goes on a massive rant about the life systems in shoot-em-up games. Rena is incredibly confused by it. Rika sees that Takano was right to kill Keiichi with a single bullet in "Minagoroshi", otherwise his last words would’ve ruined the emotional impact. The group then realizes that Takano is gone, as they were also entranced by Keiichi’s rant. However Rena stops obsessing over Takano, meaning she doesn’t have the magatama anymore. They decide to find Takano anyway to ask what she did with it. When they catch up to Takano and tie her up, they discover she dropped the magatama. They then tell Rena about the Magatama of Fuwarazu’s powers, and she becomes concerned about her true feelings. Mion sees she really likes someone, but Rena refuses to tell her.
The club searches until dark to find where Takano dropped the magatama, but to no avail. Rena apologizes for causing everyone trouble, but Mion says it’s alright and that she was just unlucky. They decide to quit searching for the day and go home. That night, Keiichi gets a phone call from Rena’s father, who says Rena suddenly ran out of the house earlier and didn’t come back. Keiichi sees the white magatama was picked up, and gathers with Mion, Rika, and Satoko to search Rena’s room. They’re all surprised to see Rena’s room full of junk, with Keiichi comparing it to Mion’s room full of comics.Looking at Rena’s desk, they find a bunch of books dedicated to mahjong and figure out where to go.
At the mahjong parlor, Rena is playing against Ooishi and Akasaka, and doing very well. Rena says she hasn’t been playing mahjong long and just read a bunch of manga so she could be with Ooishi, and snuggles up to him. Ooishi is happy to be playing alongside Rena. Akasaka gets fired up at seeing Rena’s skill.
Hanyuu says Ooishi has the white magatama. Rika asks him about it, and he affirms he picked it up earlier and forgot to bring it to the lost and found. Mion says that magatama is the reason Rena’s acting like this, and Keiichi again chastises her for giving away too much information. Ooishi declares he’ll relinquish it if they beat him in mahjong. Rena says she won’t let Ooishi lose so she can continue to be his partner, and Keiichi repeats what Rena said earlier about not wanting someone else to control her feelings, and swears to rescue her.
Keiichi takes a seat at the mahjong table, forming a team with Akasaka and the club against Ooishi and Rena’s duo. Hanyuu says Keiichi and Akasaka are at a disadvantage since they don't know each other very well and it’s a short match; Rika suggests having Hanyuu look at Ooishi and Rena’s tiles, but she refuses since it’d be cheating. Rika makes her do it anyway.
Hanyuu announces that Ooishi has a jumbled mess of a tile hand and Rika relays this info to the others, but Ooishi is able to make a winning hand anyway. They realize that he purposely kept his tiles disorganized to confuse his opponents. After some more back and forth, the club sees how good Rena is at mahjong now. Rena is amazing for trying to match her tastes to the person she likes. Most people would try to get someone to like the things they like, but Rena’s tried to match the same interests as Tomitake, Takano, and Ooishi. A good couple tries to step into each other’s worlds a little bit, rather than meeting halfway. Rika sees that herself, Satoko, and Mion are all guilty of trying to pull others in, but it was Mion in the first place who approached Keiichi to join the club, and never let anyone else join when they asked. Mion feigns ignorance and says there was no real reason for that. Rena would make a great wife in the future.
As the mahjong game winds down, Rika concludes that Rena is the kind to make her own destiny without relying on someone else. Everyone wants to make their own destiny with their own strength, and if you start thinking that some can’t do that, it’s admitting to yourself that you can’t either. Rika sees that in all of her one-hundred years, she hasn’t quite learned the lesson Rena taught her, whose big smile was only for the person she settled on.
In the end, Keiichi and Akasaka win. Ooishi thanks Rena for hanging out with him and tells her to come back once she’s an adult. Ooishi prepares to hand over the white magatama, but he slips and causes it to fly into Keiichi’s yawning mouth, who swallows it. Satoko holds Keiichi back as Mion punches him in the stomach, but he doesn’t spit it up. Rika asks if they’re too late, and Hanyuu explains the magatamas get dissolved and absorbed once they enter someone’s mouth, but they have 30 minutes until then. Now that they have the red and white magatamas together, they can undo the curse at Furude Shrine.
The club brings Keiichi and Rena to the shrine. Satoko says it was a fun day despite everything, but Mion says she doesn’t like the ending, drawing some suspicion from Satoko. Rika prepares the prayer and has Keiichi and Rena pray. Rena thanks Keiichi for saving her, having heard his conviction even when her mind was clouded. Rena worries the magatama will take effect and make her cling to him, and Keiichi nervously says it’s unfair to have her feelings played with and directed at him. Rena calls back to the discussion about her earlier and says she also tends to drag people into her world, referring to treasure hunting. Keiichi says it’s a good memory for him though, and wants to hang out with her until she finds someone she truly wants to go treasure hunting with.
The magatama’s effects start taking hold, and Keiichi and Rena pray even harder. Keiichi says it’s an annoying treasure, but Rena says it’s actually wonderful, and that some people just need a little push to admit they like someone. Unclear if it's really the magatama’s power or not, Rena then says she loves Keiichi. Keiichi tells her to just be true to herself. Rena agrees, and thinks that if the magatama’s powers don’t go away, then no matter how brave her words are, they won’t tell Keiichi anything.
Hanyuu tells Rika about Rena’s love confession, which irritates her for some reason. Rika is thankful that Mion and Satoko didn’t hear it. Hanyuu says Onigafuchi was a very small world, and so she created the Magatama of Fuwarazu to make something wonderful happen to them for once. Rika gets annoyed and threatens to eat kimchi.
The ritual finally ends, and everyone goes home. The next day at school, Tomitake shows up and asks Rena to model for him like she promised. Rena fights off his advances, and Takano then shows up to accept her offer of being a big sister. Rika sadly watches, unable to do anything else.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hirukowashi (manga)
The single-volume Hirukowashi-hen manga is an adaptation of the namesake VN arc. It has not been published outside Japan.
Publisher's Summary.
"雛見沢に伝わる秘宝・フワラズの勾玉のせいで、レナが恋に落ちてしまった!! 暴走するレナ、助けようとする圭一たち、役に立たない羽入!! 竜騎士07原作による、やりたい放題ひぐらしコメディ!!"
| Hirukowashi (manga) |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hitotsu Dake Negai wo Kanaete Ageru
| Hitotsu Dake Negai wo Kanaete Ageru |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hitotsu no Inochi
| Hitotsu no Inochi |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hojo Satoko
| Hojo Satoko |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hojo Satoshi
| Hojo Satoshi |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hojo Tamae
| Hojo Tamae |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hojo Teppei
| Hojo Teppei |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Holy Mother
The is the founder and leader of Polaris. She appears in "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei".
Appearance.
The Holy Mother appears to be a middle-aged woman and has a mole under her left eye. She's always seen wearing a cloak and hood.
Personality.
The Holy Mother seems caring and understanding, and always has a calm face.
Background.
The Holy Mother founded Polaris to be a place where domestic violence victims and those who have been hurt by communication can live together as a large family. They've since moved to Hinamizawa, comprising half of its population in 2019, which is causing animosity with the villagers due to Polaris's background and antisocial beliefs.
Role in the Story.
Oniokoshi.
The Holy Mother is seen in person for the first time when Canopus and members of the Ring of Stars inform her that preparations for the next day have been completed. The next day, on the night of the Watanagashi Festival, Kisaku goes missing and his aide is found dead by supposed suicide. Many assume that Polaris was responsible for masterminding it.
The Ring of Stars later invade Keitarou's house to murder his grandparents and execute him, declaring him a threat to the world. Keitarou wonders if the Holy Mother ordered this, but he doesn't get an answer. Keitarou and the Ring of Stars die when Keitarou's house burns down, with the police discovering that the group had left Polaris and so are being treated as acting independently.
Hoshiwatashi.
Keitarou is invited to attend Polaris's festival and meets the Holy Mother. She thanks Keitarou for trying to understand Polaris and become friends with them. Marutake, who had also been invited, thanks her for letting him take pictures.
On the night of the Watanagashi Festival, Kisaku goes missing and Rika is murdered, leading many Hinamizawans to assume Polaris masterminded it. An angry mob begins storming the Polaris settlement, with Sakiko intent on interrogating the Holy Mother to find out where her father is. Keitarou, Inori, and Kururu find the Holy Mother holing up in a church with many other members. Keitarou tries convincing them all to run away or else they'll die, but the Holy Mother refuses. When Inori is scolded by her mother for becoming "corrupted", the Holy Mother consoles her and says that even if Inori runs away, she'll still be a member of Polaris. Keitarou and Inori proceed to escape as the Hinamizawa mob starts breaking into the church. The Holy Mother prays with some of the remaining members and is ultimately killed.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hope (song series)
hope is a leitmotif for the franchise. Initially a BGM track featured in Legend of the Golden Witch, it later spawned various successive renditions and arrangements with and without vocals—with many used in the later installments of the series.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi
is the second arc in the "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei" manga. It was written by Ryukishi07 and illustrated by Tokiya Seigo, and was serialized in Monthly Big Gangan from November 25, 2021 to September 25, 2022.
Synopsis.
"In the first year of Reiwa, Keitarou Maebara moves from Tokyo to Hinamizawa. He is excited about his new life in Hinamizawa as he gets to know the children of the former club members. Then one day, he meets a mysterious girl named Inori, and another girl who calls herself Kururu contacts Keitarou... Oyashiro-sama's curse transcends time and generations, and will happen again in the world of Reiwa...?"
| Hoshiwatashi |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi-hen
| Hoshiwatashi-hen |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 1
is the first chapter of "Hoshiwatashi-hen".
Summary.
A boy cradles a bloody wound in his throat as people kill each other with weapons amidst a burning village. The boy narrates that he loved Hinamizawa and all his friends and people in it, and was glad to hear that "she" loved it too. He takes the hand of a bloodied girl in front of him.
Keitarou Maebara is woken up by texts from his friend and his mom calling him. Keitarou heads downstairs and greets his mom and his grandparents good morning. He says he had a weird dream while on TV, the news reports on allegations about a congressman misappropriating political funds. Keitarou is excited to see his father Keiichi on TV as his mom complains that the whole family would be having fun in Hinamizawa if not for their troubles. Keitarou hopes his father isn't going to take the blame for all these rumors since he's the secretary. Keitarou finishes breakfast and heads outside.
Keitarou narrates that it is June 2019, the first year of the Reiwa Era in Hinamizawa Village. It's been 3 weeks since he moved to Hinamizawa from Tokyo. As Keitarou greets an elderly villager on his way, he continues that his dad used to live in Hinamizawa, and though his family moved to Tokyo after becoming a congressman's secretary, they still return every year; Hinamizawa's a second hometown for Keitarou. Hinamizawa was always a traditional thatched-roof village, but in recent years it's become a tourist attraction, and there are talks of turning it into a World Heritage Site. Keitarou truly loves Hinamizawa.
Keitarou sees his friend in the distance and dons a sneaky grin. He hides in a bush, and when Kihiro Ryuugu walks past, Keitarou jumps out and frightens him. Kihiro sighs at his prank. Keitarou says he saw him coming and wanted to give him a morning greeting from behind, but Kihiro yells he's lying. The boys banter as they walk, with Keitarou claiming he waited in that bush all night to surprise him. Kihiro takes some time to think about it and yells he's lying again. Keitarou says he might try that for real next time, and Kihiro shows concern for his wellbeing.
Keitarou introduces Kihiro Ryuugu as his best friend and the son of his dad's friend, Aunt Rena. Rena got married and left Hinamizawa for a while, but got divorced and moved back with Kihiro. Aunt Rena loves cute things, but she is very sharp; Kihiro is also very intuitive, but it takes him a while to figure things out. Keitarou enjoys playing pranks on him.
The boys walk up to their meeting spot, where two girls are talking about grabbing bags. Keitarou calls out to the girls, Tamaki and Sakiko, and greets them good morning. Tamaki asks Keitarou to be her guinea pig and suddenly grabs his balls. Sakiko says she might be doing it right as Keitarou gets angry, chiding Sakiko for making Tamaki do weird things again. Tamaki says she wants to grab her future husband's heart and is practicing on Keitarou. The boy asks her to let go and then lies on the ground cradling his manhood, saying that Tamaki doing that might make her husband sterile. Kihiro interrogates Sakiko, who denies putting Tamaki up to this. Kihiro yells she's lying and punches her in the face.
Keitarou introduces Sakiko Kimiyoshi, another one of his dad's friend's children, from Aunt Satoko. Sakiko had heard about Rena Ryuugu's deadly punches and sees the new generation inherited them. Keitarou says they're all in their second year of middle school while Sakiko is a third year. She's the sole daughter of the Kimiyoshi Family, one of the Three Families of Hinamizawa. Aunt Satoko married into the Kimiyoshi family and now runs a souvenir shop, with Sakiko helping out from time to time. At work, Sakiko speaks like a proper lady, but outside she's very outrageous and is good at flattering people and teasing boys.
Tamaki is shocked that Sakiko tricked her and apologizes to Keitarou. Keitarou weakly says there's no hurry since she's already popular with the boys, then threatens to end the Sonozaki Family if she tries that ever again. Keitarou narrates that Tamaki Sonozaki is yet another daughter of his dad's friend, Aunt Mion. Tamaki is the sole daughter of the Sonozaki Family, another one of the Three Families. The Sonozakis are run by Aunt Mion's mother, or Tamaki's grandmother Akane. Aunt Mion is next in line to be the head, and after that it will be Tamaki. Ever since she was a kid, Tamaki has gone on about getting married and having lots of kids.
The group chats as they walk. Keitarou says that even though he lived in Tokyo, he considers himself Hinamizawan from the bottom of his heart. He loves spending time with his friends like they were family, and he feels like he belongs. Keitarou enthuses about how happy he is to be in Hinamizawa. Kihiro, Sakiko, and Tamaki share the sentiment.
The group boards a bus, where an elderly man greets Keitarou and talks with him about his father's work. Everyone is looking forward to Keiichi returning to Hinamizawa, with the man telling Keitarou to ask for help if he needs it. The kids talk about his father being a big name in the village and how he's working to get Hinamizawa recognized as a World Heritage Site. Sakiko says if Keiichi becomes a congressman, he could use bribery to get that done, and Keitarou takes offence to the assumption his dad's corrupt.
Keitarou narrates that Hinamizawa used to have a branch school, but it's since closed down. They all take a bus to the middle school in Okinomiya. At school, Keitarou bursts into the classroom and greets good morning to everyone, getting a few replies. As Keitarou talks with some of his classmates, his friends observe how Keitarou has made many other friends in the 3 weeks he's spent here. Kihiro wonders if Keitarou is just making friends for underhand reasons, and Keitarou jokes that this is part of his world domination plan.
Keitarou laughs at Kihiro falling for his pranks again and seriously says that his father always said the most important thing was harmony among people. Keitarou agrees, saying it's about adding to his number of friends and declares he will make everyone in class his friend. Keitarou tries to demonstrate this by greeting a kid sitting in a nearby desk, but he turns away. Unfazed, Keitarou attempts to make friends with another kid and notes how he was staring at Sakiko's neckline, asking him to show more of that passion.
After class, Keitarou prepares to leave and walks the hallways alone, lost in thought. He tried to talk to other people, but some of them ignored him, making him wonder if he did something wrong or if Sakiko is spreading rumors about him. Just then, a girl walks out from the classroom in front of Keitarou, and they lock eyes. Keitarou sees she's in a lower grade and is someone he's never met before. He thrusts his hand out and starts introducing himself, but the girl jumps back in fright. Keitarou apologizes for the awkward intro and tries to make small talk, but the girl keeps stepping backward towards a flight of stairs. Keitarou notices and tries to warn her, but the girl trips and falls down them. Keitarou rushes down to help her and sees other students watching from behind the corner. Keitarou tells them to call the nurse, but they do nothing; Keitarou wonders why they're just standing still. The girl starts to cry and Keitarou picks her up to bring her to the nurse's office.
The nurse checks the girl and diagnoses that she's bleeding and has a sprain, but her bones are alright. Keitarou says he startled her and made her fall down the stairs and didn't suffer any other injuries. An assistant appears and asks the nurse Gato for a talk. Gato tells the girl to rest for a while and avoid physical activity before leaving.
Left alone with the girl, Keitarou is confused about the situation back there, wondering if he did something to the girl he wasn't aware of or if this was another one of Sakiko's schemes. Startling the girl just by calling out to her went beyond shyness. Keitarou apologizes to the girl and asks if they can be friends, introducing himself again. The girl remains silent, and Keiichi's speech about harmony among people replays in Keitarou's mind as he wonders what to do.
The girl finally begins to say something but is interrupted by another group appearing, led by a pigtailed girl who thanks Keitarou for bringing Inori to the nurse's office. Keitaou doesn't know her either, but he accepts the compliment. The other girls that came with the newcomer check on Inori, and Keitarou sees they're the same girls who were watcing on the stairs. Inori speaks with them, and the boy wonders why he's the only person she won't talk to then. Keitarou offers the girls some help, but they ignore him and leave the office. Inori gives him one last look and a bow before leaving. Keitarou is still confused, thinking Inori has some reason she couldn't talk to him and was communicating the best way she could.
The pigtailed girl asks if Keitarou if he's worried about Inori and teases him about wanting to take advantage of a quiet girl. The girl teases him some more, and Keitarou wonders how she knows his name in the first place. The girl says the Mawbara name is well-known in Hinamizawa. Keitarou asks if she lives in the village anyway since he enver saw her on the bus. The girl introduces herself as Kururu and says she gets driven to school by her parents. Keitarou introduces himself as well, and Kururu continues to tease him to the point of annoyance. Keitarou gets angry, and Kururu suddenly takes a picture of him with her smartphone.
After school, Kururu sees Keitarou off and hopes they can go home together sometime. Keitarou makes that a promise while Kihiro watches. Kihiro says Keitarou is picking up friends like a dog picks up scraps. The boys rejoin Tamaki and Sakiko at the school gate. Kihiro's face turns serious as he tells Keitarou they need to talk about the children in Hinamizawa. Sakiko puts on a grim face as she says Hinamizawa is no longer the village Keitarou knows. Inside her parents' car, Kururu scrolls through pictures of Sakiko, Tamaki, and Keitarou on her phone. As Tamaki and Keitarou look concerned, Sakiko says Hinamizawa is different because "they" came.
| Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 1 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 2
is the second chapter of "Hoshiwatashi-hen".
Summary.
Keitarou asks who "they" are, and Kihiro says they had to talk about it eventually now that he's moved. Tamaki explains that Hinamizawa has been suffering from depopulation, dropping from 2000 to 500. Two years ago, it was about to become a ghost town, but then people from the Polaris Family Society showed up. Sakiko pulls up Polaris's website on her phone and shows it to Keitarou. As he reads about their beliefs that misfortune comes from society forcing people to make bonds and that they only communicate with people inside their family, he remembers how Inori reacted to him. Sakiko adds that they take in domestic violence victims. She's sure Keitarou has seen some kids at school who ignore him and give weird stares when he tried to talk to them. Tamaki says Polaris members ignore even simple greetings, which the elderly Hinamizawans can't stand. Sakiko's dad and grandpa are especially mad.
Sakiko says that 500 members of Polaris are in the village, which Keitarou is shocked to hear; half of the village belongs to that cult. Since Hinamizawa is about to become a World Heritage site, the villagers don't want to cause any problems that could jeopardize it. Keitarou is confused since he hasn't seen any Polaris members around the village, and Tamaki says they all live in a community near Yagouchi. Kihiro remembers that Keitarou mentioned a girl who was being driven home by her dad, and says she must be with Polaris too since they all do group dropoffs and pickups. Keitarou says that Kururu was talking to him normally, as opposed to Inori being oddly terrified; he figures it must do with domestic violence. Keitarou is certain he can make friends with them, but Sakiko interrupts him and says he cannot get involved or he'll be cursed by Oyashiro-sama. Tamaki and Kihiro chide her for her joke, and Sakiko chuckles.
The group leaves school on the bus. At home, Keitarou lies in bed and ruminates on Polaris and Sakiko's complete hatred of them. He searches up Polaris on his phone, getting results about Polaris lawsuits and cults. He finds a video about a "ritual to honor the Holy Mother" and watches. In the video, some Polaris members lead their Holy Mother around Hinamizawa, with a caption saying that the Holy Mother stays in the community as her followers tend to her personal care. Keitarou thinks this video was taken secretly by someone who dislikes Polaris. Reading the comments makes him grow more and more suspicious of Polaris. He wonders why Kururu and Inori were so different in they way they acted, thinking there's different circumstances between members, or maybe Inori is more devout. Keitarou then gets a text from Sakiko asking him to come to Smile Shop tomorrow.
At Smile Shop, Aunt Satoko welcomes Keitarou and Kihiro and gives them some new rice flour donuts, made from Hinamizawa-grown rice. Tamaki and Sakiko come out wearing yukatas, advertising that they're made right here in the village and can be rented. Keitarou sees that Sakiko called him here just to record a video for the shop. Satoko hands Keitarou another box of donuts as thanks for his help. Since Hinamizawa is becoming a tourist destination, she needs Smile Shop to become different from other stores if it's to prosper. Sakiko sends the boys outside to wait while she gets changed.
Keitarou asks if Sakiko was acting strange, and Kihiro says it's her way of being considerate after the tense atmosphere yesterday. Kihiro reminds him that nobody thinks highly of Polaris, not even Sakiko. The mention of Oyashiro-sama's curse makes Keitarou recall Hinamizawa's past, and how the deaths and disappearances were all coincidences. Keitarou says this is the Reiwa era so it's just a legend, but Kihiro tells him it happened last year. On the night of the Watanagashi Festival last year, one person died and another disappeared; it was just a coincidence since the person died of illness, but the one who disappeared was a member of Polaris. Kihiro also says that some villagers think Oyashiro-sama's curse has reawakened because of Polaris's presence.
Kihiro insists that Keitarou needs to stay away from Polaris, even though he likes making friends with everyone. Everyone is worried that he'll get hurt. Keitarou understands why Polaris is disliked, but surely the villagers should've known what Polaris was like before they moved. Sakiko suddenly appears and threatens to harm Keitarou if he says that in front of Tamaki.
Keitarou is taken aback, and Sakiko sighs. She says that Tamaki's grandmother Akane was the one who decided to let Polaris in. Sakiko's dad and grandpa objected, but Akane promised that the Sonozaki family would handle any issues. As such, the people Polaris came, hid themselves in the back of the village, and Akane's attempts at speaking up amounted to nothing. The villagers are blaming the Sonozakis for it, so they've lost their unifying power; Akane's physical health has detiorated, and Tamaki is surely feeling pained deep down.
Sakiko admits she wasn't acting very mature yesterday, but she couldn't stand the thought of doing anything with Polaris. Sakiko says she has no right to tell Keitarou who he can or cannot make friends with and smiles. With his friends' support, Keitarou is confident he can make friends with Polaris. He gets a text from his mom asking him to go to the store for ingredients.
Keitarou goes to Seventh Mart. He and another lady reach for some eggs, but the lady recoils, and Keitarou apologizes; he figures she's also a Polaris member. The shopkeeper appears and chats with him a bit, but Keitarou keeps worrying about the lady. The shopkeeper notices and asks if anything happened. He explains he has to trade with Polaris as part of his job and that they earn livelihood by cultivating crops in Hinamizawa and points out some vegetables.
Keitarou buys his stuff and leaves the store, seeing the same lady walking around. He wonders if Polaris has any rules about going to the supermarket when he sees Inori calling the lady "Mom" and helping with her groceries. Keitarou is surprised and calls out her name, startling the two of them and making them drop their bags. Keitarou apologizes for the sudden outburst, but Inori's mom gives him a weird look and hugs Inori as she says she's okay. Keitarou remembers the domestic violence thing and goes to help pick up their groceries. Keitarou gives them his own eggs and introduces himself, apologizing for scaring Inori yesterday and causing her to get hurt. He also gives them the Smile Shop donuts as a gift.
Keitarou begins to leave, but Inori thanks him for all of his help, struggling to get the words out. Her mom reminds her she cannot speak to people of the "polluted world" and that she's in pain because of it. The Mikazukis drive off, leaving behind the donuts. Keitarou wonders if Inori would speak to him if Polaris's customs weren't a thing.
Keitarou reinforces his desire to become friends with Inori. Lying in bed at home, he wonders if it would be wrong to get in contact with Inori just for that reason. Suddenly, he gets a call from Rika, who is lying in a hospital bed.
| Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 2 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 3
is the third chapter of "Hoshiwatashi-hen".
Summary.
The Three Families meet with a Polaris representative. Mayor Kimiyoshi says they’re in a critical period that will determine if Hinamizawa becomes a World Heritage Site and doesn’t want any trouble, and asks what the Holy Mother is feeling. The Polaris rep says she feels the same, but the mayor’s son Kisaku asks to speak to her directly. The rep denies it and reminds him that Polaris wants to avoid contact with outsiders as much as possible, and asks if that’s really such a problem. An elderly Irie watches the meeting nearby.
Another elder gets angry at Polaris for not offering simple greetings and dumping trash illegally, and the rep asks if he has proof of the latter. The rep says Polaris just wants to coexist peacefully with Hinamizawans. Kisaku gets angry at the thought of coexisting with people who only care about their own rights, and the mayor calms him down. The rep says if that’s the case, then all of Polaris should be able to join the town council. Some elders are taken aback, but Mion says that per the local government act, they cannot deny entry into the council, especially when half of the population is Polaris. All of Polaris has the ability to vote for one of their own in the next mayoral election. The rep chastises Kisaku for his hate of idealism and says that Kisaku’s in the position he is now "because" of Polaris’s idealism, and they can stop that treatment at any time.
After the meeting, some elders worry about the possibility of a Polaris member becoming mayor and wish that Rika were back. Kisaku asks Mion how Akane is doing since she didn’t attend again, and Mion says she’s still giving orders and is well mentally. Kisaku demands to know why the Sonozakis aren’t doing anything to get rid of Polaris and accuses them of losing their love for Hinamizawa. Mion retorts by saying that Kisaku is a nobody who never even attended the Hinamizawa Branch School and is still trying to lecture her about loyalty. Back then, Kisaku bragged about how wonderful the Okinomiya school was, and if he had attended the Hinamizawa school, he may have had a nice senior-junior relationship with Satoko before they ever got married. Kisaku thinks about how wonderful that might be but is also enraged by Mion’s teasing.
Meanwhile, Keitarou is excited to get a call from Rika. Keitarou asks how she's doing after her fall, and Rika asks if he ran into any problems ever since moving to Hinamizawa. Keitarou’s face falls as he asks if she’s heard about the Polaris Family Society. Rika also gets a sad look and glances at her Ekusurika Jewels, which have two broken beads. Rika already knew about Polaris from Mayor Kimiyoshi and is certain that Keitarou wants to make friends with them. Keitarou is saddened that Polaris members don’t react whenever he tries to talk to them and is at a loss for what to do. He wants to show them the joy of communication and feels like his identity is at stake, especially when it comes to “that girl”. Keitarou corrects himself and says he’s talking about a Polaris girl, but Rika teases him about it.
Rika asks Keitarou to consider it from Polaris’s point of view, and that before making friends with them, he should understand how they feel about Hinamizawa. The next day at school, Keitarou starts handing out paper surveys to Polaris members and shows one to his friends. The group takes a look at the biased questions asking how they feel towards Hinamizawa and is dubious it will actually work. Keitarou asks them to offer a counterproposal rather than just disagreeing with him all the time and falls to the ground defeated. Tamaki compliments the survey and asks everyone what they like about the village; Kihiro likes it because the four of them can be together. Even though Hinamizawa might not be very special, being able to talk like this is fun. Keitarou knows that the village’s greatest treasure is the people living in it and remembers their solidarity during the dam war, and wonders why Polaris doesn’t want to get more involved.
As the group leaves school, they talk about the village’s bad qualities: it’s out in the countryside even though that was a positive point earlier, and it’s smaller so there’s fewer encounters. Sakiko asks Tamaki about the possibility of getting the Sonozakis to open a village groom contest. Keitarou and Kihiro are considered as participants, but Keitarou says that romance between the group can’t happen.
In the hallway they run into a girl chastising a Polaris girl for not saying thanks for the first girl doing most of her homework. Kururu appears to defend the Polaris girl and apologizes on her behalf. Keitarou calls out to her, and Kururu acknowledges him, Tamaki, and Sakiko. Kururu teases Keitarou as the others watch with interest, and Keitarou remembers that she’s the only Polaris member who’s willing to talk to others. Kururu says communication is indeed not allowed with outsiders, but her dad actually joined the group while Kururu’s just along for the ride, so she doesn’t believe in them too strongly. Keitarou asks her what Polaris members think of Hinamizawa, and Kururu replies by asking what he’ll do when he gets an answer. Keitarou just wants to become friends with Polaris after learning their point of view, and Kururu then asks what benefit Hinamizawans have from befriending them.
Keitarou struggles to answer, and Kururu says everyone was considerate of them at first, but things went wrong because of their doctrine. Kururu teases him again about just wanting to get close to Inori. Keitarou reinforces his belief to befriend them and thinks the Holy Mother’s rules are wrong. Kururu says some people think it’s okay to have rules like that. She personally thinks Hinamizawa has a country feel to it and looks like a place for poor people. Keitarou gets angry after more of her teasing and chases her through the hall.
The group bids farewell. Kururu looks at a survey Keitarou gave her and crumples it up. She goes to Inori in a classroom and tells her about Keitarou and his friends, and how suspicious they were. Inori stays silent and Kururu hugs her, promising that her dad will protect Polaris from Hinamizawans, and that Kururu herself will protect Inori. Keitarou opens his locker and finds some returned surveys, only for his spirits to fall when they all say negative things about him and the village. One person especially dislikes how Hinamizawans smile when talking to each other, but when they see a member can’t speak, they get angry and sigh. Keitarou begins to accept how mistaken he was.
The next day, the Polaris mass school dropoff happens as usual. Inori’s mom drops her off and says they need to do festival prep when she gets home. Kururu’s dad, the Polaris rep from earlier, reminds her to keep an eye on the kids around her, as the villagers are on edge right now. Kururu sees Inori staring at something in her locker, and she pulls out a letter written by Keitarou. Inori asks what she should do.
| Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 3 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 4
is the fourth chapter of "Hoshiwatashi-hen".
Summary.
The chapter begins with a flashback. In a city apartment, Inori cowers in fear as her abusive father beats up her mother. One night, Inori's mother wakes her up to tell her they're running away. Inori notes how her mother always shrank down no matter what Dad did to her, until now. They walk around and travel on buses and trains, seeing all sorts of new places; Inori thought the magic would disappear if she asked where they were going. One day, Inori and her mother meet Polaris's Holy Mother. Mrs. Mikazuki says she read their book on how it was okay to run away, and thinks herself a bad mother for not noticing Inori's suffering and always doing what her husband said. The Holy Mother takes her hand and says they don't need to suffer anymore now that they've severed a negative bond.
Inori moves to Polaris's residence and is introduced to Kururu and her father. Inori admires the kind friends, peaceful people, and her mother's newfound smile, feeling truly happy to be living there. Inori wishes she can keep living peacefully in Hinamizawa.
The present day. Inori tells her mom she's going over to Kururu's house, and her mother asks to borrow two eggs from the Isshikis. Inori's mom says she made a mistake taking a gift form outsider, the egg carton she got from Keitarou earlier lying in the trash.
As Inori walks, some Polaris members talk about how Hinamizawans are throwing around false accusations and might be trying to pick a fight. Inori meets Kururu and some other Polaris kids under a tree; they all received Keitarou's surveys and responded to them. The kids are worried that they violated the doctrine, and Kururu says to keep this a secret for now and to tell her about future problems. Inori pulls out the letter she gained from Keitarou and reads it aloud.
Keitarou apologizes for startling Inori the other day, not knowing anything about Polaris or their struggles. He wants to know why Polaris doesn't communicate with outsiders and how to stop being scary, and expresses his desire to become friends with Inori despite that. Inori says Keitarou is kind and that he must be trying hard to understand someone like her, but she's still scared to believe in him.
Inori asks Kururu what she thinks. Kururu says Keitarou is the son of Keiichi Maebara, a very influential person in Hinamizawa, and is friends with the Sonozaki and Kimiyoshi kids; if they can get Keiichi on Polaris's side, he'll be very valuable.
Keitarou heads to school the next day and reminds his friends about their goal for Watanagashi tomorrow: the Four-Demon Fire Fight. Kihiro says it used to be the Three-Demon Fire Fight. Keitarou is fired up, wanting to get payback for the humiliation he suffered five years ago. Kihiro gushes over how Keitarou had to wear a maid outfit for a punishment years ago, and still has pictures backed up.
Keitarou asks if he can invite Polaris kids over to Watanagashi, with Sakiko exasperated at the obvious question. She doubts they'd be allowed to participate, but Keitarou wants to show them that Hinamizawa is full of heart. He says he won't try to force it if the club members don't agree, but he'd be happy if they went along with it. The group is shocked at how different he's acting.
Sakiko asks why it can't just be the four of them, and the atmosphere grows dark. Keitarou is aware they hate Polaris, but he doesn't want to exclude them since they all live in Hinamizawa. Tamaki says its been five years since Keitarou came to the village, and she wants him to be able to have fun this year without worrying about anything. Keitarou knows that Polaris people are hurt from interacting with other people, but he wants to let them know the option is there; inviting them to the Watanagashi will be a big step forward.
Tamaki and Kihiro agree with Keitarou's sentiment, but Sakiko remains silent. She asks if Kururu is included among the invited kids. Keitarou says he plans to, and Sakiko begins badmouthing her when Kururu herself sneaks up behind her. Keitarou gets ready to ask her but Kururu interrupts and asks him to meet her alone behind the school, quickly running off. Tamaki is flustered at the thought it's a love confession. Keitarou still plans to ask Kururu to come to the Watanagashi and get her to invite other kids. Sakiko says to do whatever he wants, but she still doubts anyone besides Kururu would accept the invitation. She faces away from Keitarou as she says that if Polaris kids really did come, then Keitarou could change Hinamizawa's current situation.
Keitarou heads behind the school alone, after reminding his friends not to follow him. Kururu meets him and starts teasing him, causing Keitarou to back her against the wall in anger. Kururu points out that Inori is nearby, and Keitarou turns to see her watching from under a tree.
Meanwhile, some Polaris members look at some graffiti and dead crows, apparent vandalism committed by Hinamizawans. They're shocked that Hinamizawans worship the god Oyashiro-sama and mention having a festival of their own tomorrow. The villagers plan to clean up the graffiti and report it to interpersonal relations before anyone else sees. They address themselves as the Ring of Stars and promise to protect Polaris.
| Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 4 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 5
is the fifth chapter of "Hoshiwatashi-hen".
Summary.
Tamaki, Kihiro, and Sakiko are exited to go to the Watanagashi Festival tomorrow since Aunt Shion is supposed to be coming too. They're still waiting for Keitarou to rejoin them.
Inori struggles to say something to Keitarou and hides behind a tree. Kururu encourages her, and Inori asks if Keitarou would like to come to Polaris's festival. Kururu explains that tomorrow they're having a festival at the Polaris settlement full of feasting and fun, and it's an important festival to them. Keitarou is excited to go, but then he realizes it's going to happen at the same time as Watanagashi. Kururu says it starts during the day and goes on through the night. Kururu asks if he already has plans, and after looking at Inori, Keitarou smiles and says he doesn't. He bids farewell to Inori.
Keitarou tells Tamaki, Sakiko, and Kihiro about it, who are very shocked. Kihiro asks if he could at least come to the final Watanagashi, and Tamaki remembers he invited other Polaris kids to theirs, but Keitarou says tomorrow's festival is important to Polaris. Sakiko is saddened that Keitarou broke his promise, and he says they could do it next year. Keitarou is excited to get to know Polaris better, but Sakiko says she was an idiot for trusting and pitying Polaris, and voices surprise that even Keitarou got taken in by them.
Keitarou tries to downplay the situation since it sounds like he's fully a member, but Sakiko asks if he belongs to Hinamizawa or Polaris. Keitarou argues that Polaris are also citizens of Hinamizawa and questions Sakiko's earlier support of him making friends with them. Sakiko says she never supported that and was just watching over him. Sakiko wonders why Keitarou is getting angry like this and decides to get angry herself, yelling that she doesn't care about Polaris at all and doesn't want to get involved.
Sakiko turns around to head to the bus, and Tamaki follows her. Keitarou starts speaking to Kihiro, but he says he needs to be with Sakiko now. At home, Keitarou wonders why his friends were rejecting his decision so much, even though they liked Kururu. He believes nobody understands Polaris and is sure they're just like everyone else. Just then he gets a call from Rika and tells him about what he's doing. Keitarou admits he messed up for breaking his promise of five years, but he still wants to attend Polaris's festival since he may not get another chance to understand them. Rika asks Keitarou to go and tell her everything he learns about Polaris, confident he can discover the truth. Rika ends the call and hopes Keitarou can be a catalyst for harmony with Polaris this time.
Preparations for the Watanagashi go underway, with some villagers thinking the curse of Oyashiro-sama is going to target Polaris this year if it were real. Keitarou bikes to Yagouchi, having never been there ever since he and his friends explored the vacant place as kids. When he gets there, he admires the housing, revived fields, and clothing worn by the residents; he thinks the house are Western style additions onto the old ones and the clothes are ancient European. Kururu and Inori greet him, also wearing Polaris garments. Kururu says it's their everyday clothes while they're in the village.
The girls give Keitarou a tour, where they see people pouring into an auditorium building. A woman talks to Kururu, and Keitarou introduces himself to her, thinking she's Kururu's mom. The lady giggles, and Kururu explains that they treat Polaris as one big family and refer to other adults as Mother or Father no matter what. Keitarou is surprised the lady talked to him, and Kururu says he's being treated like a guest since they told everyone else about him earlier; their doctrine allows it. Keitarou asks if there's anything he shouldn't do to scare the other villagers.
They enter the auditorium, where a huge crowd waits before the Holy Mother. She addresses the congregation and announces that festivities will now begin. Villagers start playing music and dancing. Kururu explains that Polaris is fundamentally Puritanical, so they don't smoke or drink except on festival days, where they do the latter. Keitarou sees some kids playing competitive games, and Kururu says it's typically forbidden since it counts as conflict but they also allow it during festivals. Keitarou is excited to join.
Keitarou plays some games with other Polaris kids and gets tired. Kururu shows him to the food table, where a delicious lineup has been prepared. Keitarou eats some food and compliments it. A nearby lady asks if that's disgusting, but Keitarou happily says he would join the festival every day if there were food like this. The lady accepts his compliment, not reacting emotionally at all. Keitarou is confused by that. A girl comes up to ask Kururu and Inori something, but shrinks when Keitarou addresses her. Keitarou realizes what's up and says he needs to use the bathroom, leaving the girls to speak.
Keitarou is distracted by a sudden camera flash, and a man holding a camera sees he isn't a Polaris kid judging by his clothes. He introduces himself as freelance writer Marutake. He isn't a member of Polaris, but he got permission from the Holy Mother's aides to cover the festival. Marutake says he was investigating Hinamizawa at first because they're becoming a World Heritage site, but after hearing about the Polaris situation, he wanted to show people that Polaris isn't as bad as they seem. Keitarou is happy to get a comrade who feels the same way he does. The outburst draws attention from some villagers, so Keitarou and Marutake go behind a building to talk more privately.
Marutake is surprised that Keitarou is so supportive of Polaris despite being form "that" Hinamizawa. Keitarou asks what he means, and Marutake says Hinamizawans don't really like Polaris, to the point of harassment. He shows him a picture of vandalism against Polaris, which Keitarou can't believe. Marutake wouldn't be surprised if Hinamizawans really did do it, and explains the dam war to Keitarou. The villagers developed a strong sense of unity, but grisly incidents kept happening that they referred to as Oyashiro-sama's curse. Last year, the curse even happened again during Watanagashi. Keitarou can't believe that, as last year the person died from illness. Marutake believes that some people in Hinamizawa nowadays want the curse to resurface and get rid of Polaris. If the curse did happen, the villagers would believe Oyashiro-sama was angered and would have an excuse to stand behind their god. Marutake begins to explain what angered Oyashiro-sama as Keitarou watches in shock.
Meanwhile, Aunt Satoko is happy that Keitarou's going to be attending the Watanagashi for the first time since he returned, but Sakiko explains he went to the Polaris festival. Kisaku appears after finishing a call with someone about tonight's preparations. He asks Sakiko about Keitarou going to Polaris and gets mad, thinking the cult is taking advantage of children now. He gives Sakiko a slap on the back and promises that they're going to drive Polaris out of Hinamizawa and open Keitarou's eyes. Kihiro and Tamaki arrive, telling Sakiko the three of them can have fun at Watanagashi and gloat to Keitarou afterwards. A sad Sakiko agrees.
| Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 5 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 6
is the sixth chapter of "Hoshiwatashi-hen".
Summary.
The Watanagashi Festival begins. At Shishibone University Hospital, Rika thinks about last year's curse and wonders what will happen this year. She already knows there is no curse but is sure ill-intentioned people are going to use it to their advantage. This time she's warned Keiichi, Mion, and Kisaku, but she still doesn't have all the pieces to avert the tragedy and thinks Polaris contains one of them. Rika knows Keitarou must be at the Polaris festival by now; she still can't trust them fully, but understanding them may be necessary to avert the tragedy.
At the Polaris festival, Kururu calls out to Keitarou, who's lost in thought about what Marutake told him. Kururu says she and Inori were called to do something, and that Keitarou's about to see something really precious. As Kururu and Inori leave, Keitarou wonders what they're about to do when Kururu's father suddenly appears behind him and introduces himself. Keitarou is intimidated by his presence. Kururu's father mentions Keiichi's influence in Hinamizawa and wonders aloud why his son would come to a Polaris festival.
Their conversation is interrupted by applause. Inori, Kururu, and other girls are doing a folk dance. Keitarou watches and is mesmerized. After the dance, Keitarou praises Kururu and Inori's dancing and outfits. Inori's mom appears, and when she sees Keitarou, her face falls. Inori says he's a guest of Polaris today, but her mom still remains silent and leaves. The Holy Mother then appears and tells Keitarou not to think badly of her. Many members of Polaris are here because they're wounded and lost to despair. The Holy Mother praises another girl's dancing and says everyone clearly practiced hard for it, and says these things take time. She thanks Keitarou for being friendly to all of her children and for trying to understand them. Kururu's father and Keitarou exchange glances, and Keitarou introduces himself as Kururu and Inori's friend. Kururu's father asks Kururu if it's true, and though she's surprised, she and Inori affirm it. Kururu's father tells Keitarou to enjoy himself and then leaves.
The music starts up again, and Kururu takes Keitarou's hand and tells him to join in on the dancing. Inori takes his other hand and smiles. As the kids dance, Marutake happily takes some pictures. Meanwhile, at the Watanagashi, Tamaki, Kihiro, and Sakiko finish playing some stall games, with Tamaki accepting some prizes that Kihiro won. Nearby, Rena, Shion, and Satoshi call out to them and notice that Keitarou's not with them. Tamaki is about to explain when someone suddenly says they heard Keitarou went to the Polaris festival. Kihiro turns and tries to look at who said that, but sees nobody around. Talk of Keitarou being with Polaris starts spreading among the villagers, and they start to believe he's betrayed Hinamizawa.
Back at the Polaris festival, Keitarou, Inori, and Kururu sit together and eat. Keitarou praises Inori's cooking and suggests cooking something for her in return, but remembers that Polaris members can't receive gifts. Kururu corrects him and says they can't take gifts from outsiders. Keitarou still wants to pay them back somehow. Inori thanks him for coming, as she never imagined someone from Hinamizawa could understand them. Inori explains that she and her mom ran away from her dad, who was a terrifying man. They could never get away, but after learning the Holy Mother's teachings, that it was okay to cut ties with your family and escape toxic bonds, they were able to escape. However, once they entered the outside world, Inori and her mom realized they were afraid of other people as well.
A flashback occurs to when Inori and her mom were on a bus at Hinamizawa. An old man talks to them and asks if they're tourists, but Inori and her mom say nothing. The old man thinks they're going to where Polaris is and says they can't be trusted. He wonders if Inori's mom was abused by her husband and asks why she didn't just talk it out with him.
Inori knows there are good people in the world, but she's still scared and isn't good at interacting with other people. Keitarou nods in agreement. Inori felt comforted by Polaris's rule that she didn't need to interact with outsiders but knew outsiders wouldn't understand it, and tries to thank Keitarou for trying but starts coughing. Kururu gives her some tea as Inori says she hasn't talked this much in a long time. Kururu tells her story as well: her mother was extremely abusive, so she and her father ran away. Keitarou can't imagine a guy as intimidating as Kururu's father being an abuse victim, and Kururu says her mother was just that horrible. Kururu then teases Keitarou for wondering why she's so cute and energetic despite being abused, and Keitarou insists he wasn't thinking that at all.
Keitarou thinks to himself that it was true, thought; every time he thought about Polaris's members being abuse victims, he thought about Inori and Kururu both. Kururu says she and her dad became the people they are now after joining Polaris, and Inori says Hinamizawa is a beautiful village and wants to live a quiet life here forever.
Keitarou now understands why Polaris prohibits communication: they don't want to force it on people who've been driven to despair. Society makes a big deal out of communication, with breaking it off still considered a bad thing. People pained by communication live in a painful world, but deep down they aren't rejecting communication since they can still enjoy it, even if it's only on a festival day. Keitarou knows the people of Polaris have been hurt, but they still people, and he believes they really can understand each other.
At the Watanagashi, Tamaki poses for a cotton drifting photo as Kihiro sets the scene and Sakiko tries to get a good shot. A crowd of villagers suddenly appears around the kids as they ask if Keitarou really sided with Polaris.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 7
is the seventh chapter of "Hoshiwatashi-hen".
Summary.
The Polaris festival ends. Keitarou thinks that the Watanagashi Festival must also be ending right then and plans to have a proper talk with his friends tomorrow. Meanwhile, his friends are talking with a crowd of panicked villagers. Marutake speaks to the Holy Mother and thanks her for letting him come and take photos, hoping they'll be of use.
Keitarou thanks Kururu and Inori for letting him come to the festival. He understands Polaris more and hopes the people of Hinamizawa can understand too. Kururu says the village hates them though and talks about all the harassment and graffiti Polaris's been getting. The villagers seem to want to drive Polaris out and keep saying they'll be killed by Oyashiro-sama. Keitarou is shocked to hear this, and Inori sadly says Polaris has been forced to abandon several other places in the past, and they don't want to run anymore. Keitarou promises to do what he can to get the villagers to understand. Kururu calls him naive and says that someone like him who just moved in recently has no business talking about that. A shadow falls over Kururu's face as Inori gives her a concerned look, and Kururu laments that they have to complain after they properly showed Hinamizawa their way of life.
Keitarou knows that deep down, Kururu invited him to the festival because they want to reconcile with Hinamizawa, and mentions that his father Keiichi is very influential. Keitarou promises to talk to his dad when he moves here about Polaris. Kururu and Inori exchange a glance and voice support for his idea. Keitarou prepares to leave on his bike, and Inori gives him a farewell bow. Keitarou thinks that starting tomorrow, the Polaris kids will go back to not talking to him, but he's content with Inori seeing him as a friend.
Meanwhile, Kihiro tries to call Keitarou on his phone but gets a busy signal. As he, Tamaki, and Sakiko walk home, they talk about how all those villagers were concerned about Keitarou's connection to Polaris. Kihiro thinks to himself that it was actually hostility. Sakiko says they're just on guard since he might've been taken in by Polaris, but then gets fed up and yells that Polaris must be inciting Hinamizawa to make a move. If the villagers actually do something, then all the hard work her grandfather and father did will go to waste. Tamaki calms her down and says to believe in Hinamizawa's people. the Three Families forbade fighting with Polaris, and the villagers wouldn't really do anything to ruin their chances of becoming a World Heritage Site. Kihiro adds that Uncle Keiichi is returning soon and could lead Hinamizawa in the right direction. Sakiko sighs and compliments Tamaki and Kihiro for comforting her despite her being the older sister-type. Sakiko plans to brag to Keitarou tomorrow morning about their festival prizes.
Keitarou calls Rika on his phone and tells her that the people of Polaris are just like them. He mentions that Hinamizawans appear to be harassing Polaris and talks about all the pictures Marutake showed him. Rika ponders this: she wonders if there really are Hinamizawans who hate Polaris that much and would defy the Three Families just to drive them out. Just then, Mayor Kimiyoshi drives up to Keitarou in a car and asks why he didn't come to the Watanagashi. Keitarou claims he had other business to attend to, and a creepy smile arises on the mayor's face when he asks if it had to do with Polaris. Keitarou gets unnerved by the atmosphere and hears other people murmuring in the mayor's car. The mayor yells that Polaris is a dangerous cult and that they're just stringing Keitarou along and harassing Hinamizawa. Keitarou yells back that Polaris doesn't want to do anything to antagonize them and that Hinamizawa is really the ones doing the harassing, but the mayor doesn't accept it and says Oyashiro-sama must be outraged. Keitarou quickly bikes away in a panic.
Keitarou gets home and sees a lot of notifications on his phone. He wonders if his friends talked to anybody else about him attending the Polaris festival and tries to reaffirm his belief that the villagers are the ones causing trouble. Keitarou thinks back to how the mayor was acting and worries if he's being treated as an enemy of the village because he sided with Polaris. He thinks about everything Marutake said and is sure they can fix everything if they just talk it out. Keitarou checks his texts to see his friends bragging about the Watanagashi, and then sees a message from Kihiro asking to talk. Keitarou sends a reply that they'll talk tomorrow.
Keitarou goes to sleep and is woken up late at night by a call from Sakiko. A panicked Sakiko says he might not have heard anything since he went to the Polaris festival, and Keitarou asks her what's going on. Sakiko yells that her dad's gone and that nobody's seen him since the end of the Watanagashi; he was demoned away. Keitarou is about to say it's like the curse of Oyashiro-sama, but Sakiko finishes his sentence. Keitarou notices that it sounds like there's another voice coming from behind Sakiko. Sakiko says someone must be benefiting from her dad's disappearance, and Keitarou thinks she's suspecting Polaris. Keitarou says to calm down since someone is supposed to die in Oyashiro-sama's curse, but Sakiko says someone "did" die. As an angry mob of villagers behind Sakiko raise weapons, a crying Sakiko says Rika was killed.
Rika is shown in her hospital room with bloodstains everywhere. The third and final bead on her bracelet shatters. A narrator says the curse of Oyashiro-sama will be reborn in the Reiwa Era.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 8
is the eighth chapter of "Hoshiwatashi-hen".
Summary.
A crying Satoko calls Keiichi and tells him that Rika was murdered at her hospital, plus Kisaku still hasn't come home. Mayor Kimiyoshi also calls some people and says that nobody, not even Irie, saw Kisaku anywhere. Satoko realizes that with Kisaku's disappearance and Rika's death, they must have been the target of Oyashiro-sama's curse and can't believe it.
Keitarou can hardly believe Rika was killed either. Sakiko explains that her mom was listed as Rika's emergency contact, and that the police said Rika was stabbed to death. Old memories with Rika flash by as Keitarou wonders just who would kill her, and why. Sakiko asks the same thing and crudely suggests Polaris was behind it, since Keitarou sympathizes with them. Keitarou has a moment of realization and asks Sakiko where she is and who's with her.
Sakiko is with a mob of angry villagers. She tells Keitarou she already knows that Polaris was behind these incidents and believes they got rid of Kisaku and Rika to break the villagers' spirits. Sakiko says she should've realized sooner what they were doing and that they need right away to get rid of Polaris. Sakiko ends the call and rallies the other villagers to follow her to Polaris's village.
Keitarou opens his window to see many other houses in the village lit up, and the flickering of flashlights; the villagers are indeed heading towards Polaris. Keitarou gets dressed, checks to see his mom still sleeping, and gets onto his bike. Keitarou wonders how the villagers could possibly suspect Polaris in all of this. Suddenly, he gets a call from Tamaki. Tamaki already knows what's going on and Keitarou asks her to make the Sonozakis do something, but Tamaki sadly says that's not possible. The Sonozakis or the Kimiyoshis didn't organize the villagers, yet they still took up arms. Tamaki thinks the Sonozakis have little influence now because of the times. Keitarou says she can still do something since the Kimiyoshis are dealing with Kisaku's disappearance. Tamaki says she was told not to leave her room until morning, and that even if a Sonozaki tried to stand up to the villagers now, they might not be safe. Keitarou doesn't understand.
Tamaki asks where he is right now, and Keitarou demands to know why she asked that, worrying that she'll turn him over to the villagers. Tamaki explains that everyone already knows he went to the Polaris festival and consider him a traitor, and that he's in real danger now. She says not to get involved with Polaris anymore and Keitarou calls her a coward, saying that he wants to help Polaris since they're members of the village. He wants the villagers to understand that Polaris is afraid to open up to others and ends the call. Keitarou intensifies his pedaling and wishes for Kururu and Inori to be safe.
As Sakiko and the villagers march, Irie walks up to them and tries to stop them. Sakiko tells him all about Kisaku and Rika, and some villagers profess how they want to make Polaris pay. Irie yells at them to stop and asks if they have any proof, and that if they were involved then it's the courts' job to bring justice. Someone points out that Irie treats Polaris people at the clinic, and others ask if he's on their side. Many of the villagers scratch their heads. Irie doesn't reply and instead says that the police will arrest everyone if they do this, and lose their shot at Hinamizawa becoming a World Heritage site.
Irie asks Sakiko if Satoko knows she's out late, and Sakiko says he never told her. She couldn't possibly talk to her mom when she's grieving over Kisaku and Rika, and she has no choice if she;s to protect Hinamizawa. Sakiko scratches her head as she goes on about driving Polaris out. The other villagers join her, and Irie notes that with how everyone looks and is acting, his prediction was right. There's nothing he can do now at this point.
At the Polaris village, Inori is woken up by her mom speaking to Kururu at the front door. Kururu says they need to get to the Holy Mother right away. She says a mob of Hinamizawans is coming, and Canopus and the Ring of Stars are handling it. Kururu's father Canopus and other Polaris members meet the Hinamizawa mob and ask if they're here n Mayor Kimiyoshi's orders. Canopus takes note of all the weapons everyone brought and says he's willing to talk, and he's prepared to deal with any threats. Canopus pulls out a voice recorder as proof, but Sakiko smacks it out of his hands and crushes it with her foot. Sakiko demands to know where he's keeping Kisaku and if they killed him like they did Rika, and Canopus is shocked. He had no idea Rika was killed, but the villagers don't believe him. Canopus orders the Hinamizawans to leave immediately, but Sakiko grabs a pitchfork and hits him in the head with it, knocking him to the ground. Sakiko asks to see the Holy Mother so she can ask her herself about Kisaku. Keitarou keeps pedaling.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi-hen Chapter 9
is the ninth chapter of "Hoshiwatashi-hen".
Summary.
Sakiko and the crazed Hinamizawa mob invade the Polaris settlement, wanting to find the Holy Mother and get her to reveal what she knows. Keitarou reaches the settlement as well and sets out to find Inori and Kururu. Some villagers call Sakiko over to a house to see something important, and they find a table with bloodstains on it. They assume Kisaku was killed here, and a Hinamizawa man brings in a Polaris woman who lives there. The man demands to know where she took Kisaku when they killed him, but she remains silent. Sakiko finds a button inside of the table and says it looks like it came from Kisaku's dress shirt, and starts crying. The group begins to believe Kisaku was really killed, but the Polaris woman says they're wrong and that the bloodstains came from a chicken they slaughtered. The button might have been left over from when the table was used as a desk. Sakiko sees that the woman can talk after all. The woman tries to run away but Sakiko stabs her to death with her pitchfork, swearing that she'll kill every single Polaris member.
Kururu, Inori, and Inori's mother run away from a Hinamizawan wielding a hatchet, who believes they have something to hide. He finally catches up to them, but Keitarou arrives just in time and knocks him over, making him drop his hatchet. The man tries to attack Keitarou, and in a panic he picks up the dropped hatchet and kills him. They hear other Hinamizawans yelling that Kisaku was murdered, and Kururu grabs Keitarou and takes him with her group. Meanwhile, Keitarou struggles with the fact he killed a fellow Hinamizawan.
The wounded Canopus heads into a house with some Hinamizawans and douses himself in gasoline. He announces that his soul will be the foundation of the world before setting himself on fire. Some other Hinamizawans see the ensuing blaze and develop more hatred for Polaris for killing their comrades, scratching their heads as they say this. Chaos erupts as Hinamizawa and Polaris kill each other: some Polaris members are taking up weapons while scratching their necks, while other Polaris members join hands in prayer yet are attacked by Hinamizawans.
Keitarou's group reaches the church, where other members are praying before the Holy Mother. The Holy Mother asks why Keitarou is here, and he explains that everyone in Hinamizawa was acting weird and formed a mob, and he wanted to do something about it. He remembers that they were setting houses on fire and warns everyone that they're not safe in the church, and can escape into the mountains until the police arrive. However, the Holy Mother says they won't run. Keitarou is shocked and reminds her that they'll die otherwise, and that she should be ordering everyone to run away as the leader, but Inori's mom and Kururu chastise him for speaking to the Holy Mother like that. Keitarou can't accept this since it means he killed a Hinamizawan for nothing, and wants to do something to help everyone else escape. He yells that it's all wrong, and the Holy Mother says he's correct, but that won't bring them happiness.
Keitarou pleads with her again since he doesn't want his friends to die, and Inori's mother then asks why he's determined to get involved with them. She says Inori's changed since she met him and has been tainted with expectations of the outside world. Inori tries to speak out and says she won't run, but her mom turns away and starts crying, saying that Inori needs to pull herself together. The Holy Mother addresses Inori and says that Polaris is always shining in the sky, and that it won't disappear even if the clouds are blocking it. She says that no matter where she goes, she'll always be a child of Polaris, so she must do what she can find happiness.
Suddenly, the Hinamizawa mob starts banging on the barricaded church door. Kururu tells Keitarou to take Inori and head out the back as she stays behind. Keitarou and Inori worry about her, but Kururu says they won't get her here. She says that as Miaplacidus and a member of the Ring of Stars, it's her duty to fight for Polaris. Keitarou and Inori run as the barricade finally breaks. Hinamizawans pour in as Kururu and other Polaris members pick up weapons, with Kururu yelling that Polaris won't put up with them any longer.
Keitarou and Inori reach the back door, and hear noises from the other side. Keitarou picks up a shovel and prepares himself to kill again. He tells Inori to run when he opens the door so they can catch them by surprise. Keitarou opens the door and charges outside, only to see Sakiko with her pitchfork. Both of them are surprised to see each other, and Sakiko asks why Keitarou is protecting Polaris and trying to kill her when they killed her dad. Keitarou lowers his guard and tries to explain, but Sakiko calls him a traitor and slashes his throat.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi-hen Final Chapter
is the tenth and final chapter of "Hoshiwatashi-hen".
Summary.
Some Polaris members pray with the Holy Mother as Kururu and others defend the church from the invading Hinamizawans. Keitarou cradles his neck wound and falls back inside the room as Inori quickly locks the door. An angry Sakiko tries to break it down. As Inori tends to him, Keitarou wonders why everything turned out like this and laments that he'll die without doing anything. He weakly tells Inori to escape, but she pokes his nose and starts crying. Inori is about to say something when the Hinamizawans finally break in and kill her with an axe strike to her head. Sakiko gives one last look at the dying Keitarou and moves on.
Keitarou remembers Inori saying how happy she was to be in Hinamizawa and wonders why nobody in the village wanted to grant her wish. Many Polaris members including the Holy Mother and Kururu are shown dead. Keitarou wonders if it's important to be talking all the time, and thinks his dad could be the Prime minister by now, and even Keitarou could become Hinamizawa's mayor. Keitarou thinks he never would have let Hinamizawa do what they did otherwise and wonders if this is really what the village is like. Keitarou takes Inori's hand and dies. The next morning, Tamaki, Kihiro, and their mothers meet up with Satoko. Satoko cries, and then the group sees a blood-covered Sakiko and other villagers returning.
News of the Polaris massacre spreads across Japan. Some of Keitarou's friends worry since he never answered their messages they sent the day of, and the regret that he was killed. A video plays recapping the history of Hinamizawa and Polaris: Hinamizawa was on the verge of becoming a World Heritage site, but then the villagers suddenly massacred 500 of their own members. Most of the villagers took part in the slaughter, and the inherent camaraderie they share will make it hard to identify who was actually responsible.
Hinamizawa used to be known as Onigafuchi before the Meiji Era, and the villagers had an idyllic view. Some believe they were actually manipulated into committing this atrocity by their god Oyashiro-sama, with arrested villagers claiming that the victims incurred Oyashiro-sama's wrath by killing his priestess. Indeed, the priestess Rika Furude was murdered the day of the incident in the hospital where she was admitted, with the video linking to another video for that topic.
The video then changes topic to focus on the victims Polaris. The Polaris Family Society was founded as an organization for domestic violence victims, and the founder the Holy Mother was revered by members. Polaris had strange precepts that forbade communication with outsiders, leading them to form a unique community. Polaris saw themselves as one big family and avoided communication with the outside world, leading them to change residences several times. An anonymous person living in a town Polaris once lived in gives testimony about their experiences: once talks with Polaris broke down, they started sending people cat and mouse heads. The neighborhood association started making moves to get them out, and during this time, some Polaris members murdered an entire family and burned their house down. There was no evidence the Polaris members were under orders, and so the Holy Mother was acquitted.
The video narrator says Polaris pretends to be weak, but they have a cunning and frightening side to them. Before the incident, Polaris had a festival, and there was one boy among them who wasn't a Polaris member but enjoyed the festival anyway; Marutake's pictures of the festival are displayed. The boy K-kun was the son of Mr. M, who had influential power in Hinamizawa and was expected to return to the village after becoming a member of Parliament. The video questions why K-kun was a victim of the incident despite being a Hinamizawa member, and if the people of Hinamizawa really did kill him. The video implies that Polaris invited an outsider like him and murdered him for some reason, and that since Polaris has a history of causing incidents to protect their community, Hinamizawa must have had some reason to commit atrocities in turn; Polaris may not be a mere victim.
The video says that whatever the case, the old Hinamizawa is gone. They ask viewers to please uncover the truth.
| Hoshiwatashi-hen Final Chapter |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi-hen Volume 1
is the first volume of "Hoshiwatashi" and the third overall volume of "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei".
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hoshiwatashi-hen Volume 2
is the second and final volume of "Hoshiwatashi", and the fourth overall volume of "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei".
Publisher's Summary.
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"In this Higurashi When They Cry traditional sequel, can Keiichi Maebara's son Keitarou avert the tragedy?!"
"When the Watanagashi Festival and Polaris Festival are set to occur on the same day, the conflicted Keitarou decides to attend the Polaris Festival. There, Keitarou meets a writer named Marutake, who tells him that one villager died and one person from Polaris disappeared on the day of the Watanagashi Festival last year. He also learns that some villagers called it "Oyashiro-sama's curse"... The rift between the people of Hinamizawa Village and Polaris slowly grows wider, and there is a disquieting air in the village...Will a tragedy arise once more in Hinamizawa?! Hoshiwatashi-hen ends here!"
「ひぐらしのなく頃に」正統続編前原圭一の息子・圭太郎は惨劇を止められるのか――!?
綿流しの祭りとポラリスの祭りが同日に開催される事になり、迷った圭太郎はポラリスの祭りに参加する事を決める。そこで丸竹というライターと出会った圭太郎は、昨年の綿流しの祭りの日に村人一人が死に、ポラリスの人間一人が消えた事を聞く。そしてそれは『オヤシロさまの祟り』であると言う雛見沢村民もいる事を知った…。雛見沢村民とポラリスとの溝は少しずつ広がっており、村には不穏な空気が漂っていた…。再び雛見沢に惨劇は起きてしまうのか――!? 「星渡し編」これにて完結!
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| Hoshiwatashi-hen Volume 2 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni
is a manga written by Ryukishi07 and illustrated by Nokuto Koike. It was serialized in "Gekkan Action" from December 25, 2015 to February 24, 2018 and was later collected into four volumes.
Chapter 0 of the manga was published in the December 25, 2015 issue of "Gekkan Action"; while it wasn't included in the book volumes, it is available for free on the official site.
A prologue story named "The First and the Last Gift", which features characters from , was included in the book "" published on December 18, 2015. Notably, this title was called the "latest work in the '~Koro ni' series", its logo is in the same format as those of the main titles in the "When They Cry" franchise, and the dust jacket of the second volume features Bernkastel. On this basis, this wiki considers this title as a spin-off of the "Umineko" series.
Synopsis.
"Yukito Tadamura, who has been leading a self-absorbed life without working, visits his father's hometown Hirasaka Village for his grandmother's funeral."
"He is reunited with his cousins and uncles in this depopulated village, and the funeral seems to have gone off without a hitch. That night however, his grandmother's body goes missing."
"This is only the beginning of the "mysterious events" to occur in this village."
Plot Summary.
In 2016, the Tadamura family heads to their home village of Hirasaka to attend their grandmother's funeral. Though there's some animosity between the family members because of issues with Grandmother's lottery winnings, they pay their respects regardless. Yukito Tadamura and his half-sister Yue Tadamura especially are not doing so well since their father used up his share.
Late at night, while appreciating the glowing fireflies, Yue witnesses her grandmother's body being dragged out into the wilderness by some unseen force. When the family awakes in the morning, they discover that not only has Grandmother's body disappeared, but two suns shine in the sky, none of the electricity or water works, and a strange fog has begun to gather around the area. They soon find themselves trapped in a hellish landscape and struggle to survive.
Concept and Development.
"Hotarubi" was a revived version of Natsu no Kagerou, a cancelled video game project Ryukishi worked on.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni Volume 1
Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni Volume 1 is the first volume of the manga "Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni".
Publisher's Summary.
Japanese.
祖母の葬式で帰省した過疎化が進むその村で、主人公とその親族が巻き込まれる「怪異」。それはこれから始まる「生き残りゲーム」の序章に過ぎなかった――。「ひぐらしのなく頃に」「うみねこのなく頃に」の竜騎士07が紡ぐ新たな世界を、新世代シリアスホラーの旗手・小池ノクトがリアルタッチで描き出す、日本の寒村を舞台にした「～頃に」シリーズ最新作
Chapters.
This volume includes the first five chapters of the story.
| Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni Volume 1 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni Volume 2
Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni Volume 2 is the second volume of the manga "Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni".
Publisher's Summary.
Japanese.
一夜で消えた祖母の遺体、頭上に昇る2つの太陽、村を牢獄のように囲う不可侵の霧、家々を襲う人頭蝿…。祖母の葬式で訪れた平坂村で主人公・忠村幸人とその親族が巻き込まれた怪異は、この地が【地獄】と化したことで引き起こされたものだった！飢えと渇きと化物の恐怖が幸人達を襲う！！究極のサバイバルホラー第二弾！！！
| Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni Volume 2 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni Volume 3
Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni Volume 3 is the third volume of the manga "Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni".
Publisher's Summary.
Japanese.
一夜で消えた祖母の遺体、頭上に昇る２つの太陽、村を囲う不可侵の霧、家々を襲う人頭蝿、そして巨人。主人公・幸人が祖母の葬式で訪れた平坂村は名実共に【地獄】と化した。絶望に包まれながらも生存者の少女を見つけたことで一同は希望を抱くが…!? 飢えと乾きと化物の恐怖が迫り来る、究極のサバイバルホラー第三弾!!
| Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni Volume 3 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni Volume 4
Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni Volume 4 is the fourth and final volume of the manga "Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni".
Publisher's Summary.
Japanese.
一夜で消えた祖母の遺体、頭上に昇る２つの太陽、村を囲う不可侵の霧、家々を襲う人頭蝿、そして巨人。主人公・幸人が祖母の葬式で訪れた平坂村は名実共に【地獄】と化した。ついに脱出のヒントを手に入れた幸人たちは地獄の最奥部へと足を踏み入れるが…!? 飢えと乾きと化物の恐怖が迫り来る、究極のサバイバルホラー完結巻!!
| Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni Volume 4 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hou
| Hou |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Houjou Residence
| Houjou Residence |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Houjou Satoko
| Houjou Satoko |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Houjou Satoshi
| Houjou Satoshi |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Houjou Tamae
| Houjou Tamae |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Houjou Teppei
| Houjou Teppei |
fandom.07th-expansion | # How To Eat Mountain Food 10 Times More Fun
was the sixth event in . It is a camping-themed event that ran from November 18, 2020 until November 27, 2020. The SR card "Happy Camper" Shion Sonozaki was available to those who completed the event story.
Boosted Units.
The following units increased event-related drops when brought into battle. They are units associated with this event.
All following units have a rarity of SSR.
The following unit was a reward for completing the event and has a rarity of SR.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # How To Walk Rokkenjima
| How To Walk Rokkenjima |
fandom.07th-expansion | # How to Change Destiny
UraHigu.
Keiichi is selling items at the booth. While the rest of the club praises him for being able to sell everything, they notice that there was the ebony dice set left.
| How to Change Destiny |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hōjō Satoko
| Hōjō Satoko |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hōjō Satoshi
| Hōjō Satoshi |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Hōjō Tamae
| Hōjō Tamae |
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