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fandom.07th-expansion | # Requiem of the Golden Witch/Colored Text
This page contains all the red truths and blue truths for the episode, contextualized and arranged by chapter.
Prologue.
Will takes on a case where some SSVD aides try to arrest a maid for murder. Will believes the maid is innocent.
Chapter 1: The Murder of Beatrice.
Will is summoned to a special fragment of Rokkenjima by Bernkastel, who asks him to solve the mystery of Beatrice's murder. Will is not allowed to leave until he does.
Tea Party.
Bern shows Ange and Lion the events of what really happened on Rokkenjima, revealing Kyrie and Rudolf to be the ones responsible for killing their family.
Will arrives and refuses to accept that Kyrie and Rudolf were the culprits.
Bern becomes the Game Master and decides to open one last game.
| Requiem of the Golden Witch/Colored Text |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Requiem of the Golden Witch/Summary
This chapter presents an alternate reality where Battler does not come to Rokkenjima, the Golden Witch does not exist, and the mystery child from nineteen years ago becomes the heir of the Ushiromiya family. This story is told through the perspective of two new characters: Willard H. Wright, who uncovers several truths behind the legend of the Golden Witch including Beatrice's true identity; and Lion Ushiromiya, whose existence holds the source of everything presented thus far. While no deaths occur in the game itself, the Tea Party features a scenario showing how the murders may have played out from a non-magical standpoint.
Prologue.
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Characters appearing
The Murder of Beatrice.
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Rosa Confesses.
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Ushiromiya Kinzo.
Background Music
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Salo Republic.
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Characters appearing
The Witch Who Came from the Sea.
Background Music
Characters appearing
The Birth of Beatrice.
Background Music
Characters appearing
Ghost Story of the VIP Room.
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Here is the Culprit.
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A New Life.
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The First Friend.
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Days Enraptured.
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New Days.
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A New Element.
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Days of Trials.
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Sprout of Love, Root of Love.
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Journey to the Golden Land.
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The Day the Witch Revived.
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Breakdown of the Witch's Illusion.
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Tea Party.
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| Requiem of the Golden Witch/Summary |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Requiem of the Golden Witch/TIPS
SSVD.
One of the Repentance Enforcement Agencies under the direct supervision of the Great Court of Heaven. Responsible for the 8th District.
It has a long history, even among the other enforcement agencies, and is known for its strict and fundamentalist attitude.
Many say that they do not keep up with the times, but they are also highly praised by some for continuing to preserve the basis of the law's spirit to this very day.
It is traditional for their Head Inquisitor of Heresy to inherit the name "Wright".
| Requiem of the Golden Witch/TIPS |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 1
Requiem of the Golden Witch Vol. 1 is the first volume of Eita Mizuno's manga adaptation of "Requiem of the Golden Witch" and the 33rd overall volume of the manga adaptation of . The volume was released in English by Yen Press in an omnibus format with Volume 2 and Volume 3.
Publisher's Summary.
Japanese.
"「ベアトリーチェを殺したのは誰？」魔術師狩りのライトこと異端審問官のウィル、右代宮家次期当主の右代宮理御の二人が魔女の死の真相と六軒島連続殺人事件の謎に挑む。竜騎士07×水野英多が贈る「うみねこ」シリーズ新解答編、開幕！"
English.
"The time for logical debate and magical feints has come to an end; the revelation of the truth about Beatrice the Golden Witch is at hand. To facilitate this, game master Bernkastel has chosen Will Wright the Mage-Hunter to step onto her board and answer a single question: Who killed Beatrice? Joining him in the game is Lion Ushiromiya, Krauss's firstborn and heir, whose role is a mystery in its own right. Will's line of questioning draws together the stray strands from all the previous games, twisting them into a thread of truth, revisiting Kinzou's first encounter with the young Beatrice and working through the legends that have since sprung up around her..."
Afterword.
Ryukishi07.
"Hello I am Ryukishi07"
"First of all, thank you for pickign up the first volume of Episode 7 of the manga adaptation of Umineko When They Cry. My deep thanks go out to Mizuno-sensei and everyone else involved in putting out the book."
"In Episode 7, we begin to see the answers to a number of mysteries comes to light. When originally writing the material, I remember undergoing quite a bit of strain checking for logic errors and debating how much of the answer to reveal... (laughs)"
"But enough about my side of things. I just hope that you are able to enjoy Episode 7 in this different form from the original visual novel. Also, we've got a number of new characters to watch. Going into it, I had only a few concerns: Will had to be cool! Lion had to be androgynous! And clair had to be..."
"Whoops, I'd better hold back on that for now... (laughs) I can't wait to see how Mizuno-sensei draws Will and the others going about their duties!"
Eita Mizuno.
"I am Eita Mizuno, the artist in charge of Episode 7."
"Will and Lion make their first appearance in this one, so I was a bit nervous taking that on, but I'll do my best to make their qualities shine!"
"By the way, I had always imagined Will's "girlfriend" (ha-ha) Diana as a slim Siamese, but then I found out she's supposed to be a white Persian... Will, with a fluffy Persian cat...? I think...I like it! (ha-ha)"
"Anyway, hope to see you in Volume 2!"
"Special Thanks!"
"Creator/Supervisor: Ryukishi07-sama, the staff of 07th Expansion"
"Editors: Yumura-sama, Horii-sama, Koizumi-sama"
"All the assistants"
"& You!"
| Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 1 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 2
Requiem of the Golden Witch Vol. 2 is the second volume of Eita Mizuno's manga adaptation of "Requiem of the Golden Witch" and the 34th overall volume of the manga adaptation of . The volume was released in English by Yen Press in an omnibus format with Volume 1 and Volume 3.
Publisher's Summary.
Japanese.
"金蔵が語った、海の向こうから来たベアトリーチェ。幼少の楼座が出会った、九羽鳥庵のベアトリーチェ。いずれも殺されずに生涯を閉じた二人のベアト。では「殺されたベアトリーチェ」とは一体誰なのか…？ 魔女ベアトリーチェに心酔する真里亞とそれを否定する朱志香。彼女達の証言が新たな真実を紡ぐ…！"
English.
"The time for logical debate and magical feints has come to an end; the revelation of the truth about Beatrice the Golden Witch is at hand. To facilitate this, game master Bernkastel has chosen Will Wright the Mage-Hunter to step onto her board and answer a single question: Who killed Beatrice? Joining him in the game is Lion Ushiromiya, Krauss's firstborn and heir, whose role is a mystery in its own right. Will's line of questioning draws together the stray strands from all the previous games, twisting them into a thread of truth, revisiting Kinzou's first encounter with the young Beatrice and working through the legends that have since sprung up around her..."
Afterword.
Eita Mizuno.
"Hello, I'm Eita Mizuno.Volume 2 has Maria and Jessica come to the fore, so it was really a lot of fun to draw!"
"Episode 7 happens to feature a high number of characters from other episodes who rarely appear otherwise. So every time I get to draw a flashback scene and one of theose rare characters shows up, I can't help but get excited.I'll be looking out for a chance to draw more of them! (ha-ha)"
"See you in the next volume."
"Special Thanks!Creator/Supervisor: Ryukishi07-sama, the staff of 07th ExpansionEditors: Yumura-sama, Horii-sama, Koizumi-samaAll the assistants& You!"
| Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 2 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 3
Requiem of the Golden Witch Vol. 3 is the third volume of Eita Mizuno's manga adaptation of "Requiem of the Golden Witch" and the 35th overall volume of the manga adaptation of . The volume was released in English by Yen Press in an omnibus format with Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Publisher's Summary.
Japanese.
"ベアトリーチェを殺したのは誰か？ そして、殺されたベアトリーチェとは誰か？ 数々の証言と今までのゲーム盤から、その真実に辿り着いたウィル。明らかになった事件の裏にある驚愕の真実を受け入れた時、「真犯人」がその姿を現す。果たしてその犯行に至る過程とは…？"
English.
"The time for logical debate and magical feints has come to an end; the revelation of the truth about Beatrice the Golden Witch is at hand. To facilitate this, game master Bernkastel has chosen Will Wright the Mage-Hunter to step onto her board and answer a single question: Who killed Beatrice? Joining him in the game is Lion Ushiromiya, Krauss's firstborn and heir, whose role is a mystery in its own right. Will's line of questioning draws together the stray strands from all the previous games, twisting them into a thread of truth, revisiting Kinzou's first encounter with the young Beatrice and working through the legends that have since sprung up around her..."
Afterword.
Eita Mizuno.
"Hello, I'm Eita Mizuno.In this volume, we finally broached the topic of Lion's gender, but there are plenty of things in the world thwat you don't really need to know, heh-heh. See you in the next volume!"
"Special Thanks!Creator/Supervisor: Ryukishi07-sama, the staff of 07th ExpansionEditors: Yumura-sama, Horii-sama, Koizumi-samaAll the assistants & You!"
| Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 3 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 4
Requiem of the Golden Witch Vol. 4 is the fourth volume of Eita Mizuno's manga adaptation of "Requiem of the Golden Witch" and the 36th overall volume of the manga adaptation of . The volume was released in English by Yen Press in an omnibus format with Volume 5 and Volume 6.
Publisher's Summary.
Japanese.
"かつて真犯人が「ヤス」と呼ばれていた10年前の六軒島――…。「ヤス」は魔女ベアトリーチェと遭遇し、数奇な運命を辿っていく…。"
English.
"Ten years before the disastrous family reunion on Rokkenjima, a young servant named Yasu started working at the Ushiromiya mansion, where she first encounters the witch Beatrice. Their tenuous friendship utterly transforms the timid, clumsy Yasu and sets her on a path of cunning, deception, and murder..."
Afterword.
Eita Mizuno.
"SPECIAL THANKS!"
"Creator/Supervisor: Ryukishi07-sama, the staff of 07th ExpansionEditors: Yumura-sama, Horii-sama, Koizumi-samaAll the assistants,"
"& You!"
| Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 4 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 5
Requiem of the Golden Witch Vol. 5 is the fifth volume of Eita Mizuno's manga adaptation of "Requiem of the Golden Witch" and the 37th overall volume of the manga adaptation of . The volume was released in English by Yen Press in an omnibus format with Volume 4 and Volume 6.
Publisher's Summary.
Japanese.
"かつて六軒島で使用人として過ごしていた、六軒島連続殺人事件の真犯人ヤス。やがて、その身を「魔女ベアトリーチェ」と変えた真犯人は、親友･紗音の淡い「恋」に気付く。その恋は、二人の運命を大きく変え、遠からず起こる惨劇への引き金となるのだった…。"
English.
"Ten years before the disastrous family reunion on Rokkenjima, a young servant named Yasu started working at the Ushiromiya mansion, where she first encounters the witch Beatrice. Their tenuous friendship utterly transforms the timid, clumsy Yasu and sets her on a path of cunning, deception, and murder..."
Afterword.
Eita Mizuno.
"SPECIAL THANKS!"
"Creator/Supervisor: Ryukishi07-sama, the staff of 07th Expansion"
"Editors: Yumura-sama, Horii-sama, Koizumi-sama"
"All the assistants,&& You!"
| Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 5 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 6
Requiem of the Golden Witch Vol. 6 is the sixth volume of Eita Mizuno's manga adaptation of "Requiem of the Golden Witch" and the 38th overall volume of the manga adaptation of . The volume was released in English by Yen Press in an omnibus format with Volume 4 and Volume 5.
Publisher's Summary.
Japanese.
"六軒島殺人事件まで、あと２年――。右代宮家の屋敷に設置されたベアトリーチェの肖像画と謎の碑文。戦人の帰りを待つベアトリーチェは自身の復活を賭け、碑文の謎の解明に挑む。黄金の奇跡は起こるのか!?"
English.
"Ten years before the disastrous family reunion on Rokkenjima, a young servant named Yasu started working at the Ushiromiya mansion, where she first encounters the witch Beatrice. Their tenuous friendship utterly transforms the timid, clumsy Yasu and sets her on a path of cunning, deception, and murder..."
Afterword.
Eita Mizuno.
"Special Thanks!"
"Creator/Supervisor: Ryukishi07-sama, the staff of 07th Expansion"
"Editors: Yumura-sama, Horii-sama, Koizumi-sama,"
"All the assistants,&You!"
| Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 6 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 7
Requiem of the Golden Witch Vol. 7 is the seventh volume of Eita Mizuno's manga adaptation of "Requiem of the Golden Witch" and the 39th overall volume of the manga adaptation of . The volume was released in English by Yen Press in an omnibus format with Volume 8 and Volume 9.
Publisher's Summary.
Japanese.
"『あなたに最後に会えて良かった』｢六軒島殺人事件｣の犯行動機を語り終えた真犯人は、そう理御に言い、自身への引導をウィルに託す。今、ウィルの手によって魔女のゲーム全ての謎は解かれ、魔女幻想は終焉を迎えようとしていた。"
English.
"With the epitaph solved and the true culprit revealed, all that remains is for Will Wright the Mage-Hunter to take down the witch's illusion and expose the truth about the events that have brought such a tragedy to Rokkenjima. As each game is broken down and shattered in turn, the mystery of Beatrice is at last put to rest. But the witches who have so relished piling torment upon torment on the Ushiromiya family can hardly let this story end peacefully...There is yet another tragedy to relay, but who could be moving the pawns this time...?"
Afterword.
Eita Mizuno.
"SPECIAL THANKS!"
"Creator/Supervisor: Ryukishi07-sama, the staff of 07th Expansion"
"Editors: Yumura-sama, Horii-sama, Koizumi-sama"
"All the assistants & YOU!"
| Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 7 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 8
Requiem of the Golden Witch Vol. 8 is the eighth volume of Eita Mizuno's manga adaptation of "Requiem of the Golden Witch" and the 40th overall volume of the manga adaptation of . The volume was released in English by Yen Press in an omnibus format with Volume 7 and Volume 9.
Publisher's Summary.
Japanese.
"真犯人の正体、その切実な想いを理解し全ては終わったはずだった。しかし、理御と縁寿の前で唐突に新たなゲームが幕を開き、今までにない幸せな展開を迎える。今度のゲームの犯人は？ 共犯者は？ このゲームの結末は一体――…!!?"
English.
"With the epitaph solved and the true culprit revealed, all that remains is for Will Wright the Mage-Hunter to take down the witch's illusion and expose the truth about the events that have brought such a tragedy to Rokkenjima. As each game is broken down and shattered in turn, the mystery of Beatrice is at last put to rest. But the witches who have so relished piling torment upon torment on the Ushiromiya family can hardly let this story end peacefully...There is yet another tragedy to relay, but who could be moving the pawns this time...?"
Afterword.
Eita Mizuno.
"SPECIAL THANKS!"
"Creator/Supervisor: Ryukishi07-sama, the staff of 07th Expansion"
"Editors: Yumura-sama, Horii-sama, Koizumi-sama"
"All the assistants & YOU!!!!"
| Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 8 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 9
Requiem of the Golden Witch Vol. 9 is the ninth volume of Eita Mizuno's manga adaptation of "Requiem of the Golden Witch" and the 41st overall volume of the manga adaptation of . The volume was released in English by Yen Press in an omnibus format with Volume 7 and Volume 8.
Publisher's Summary.
Japanese.
"「このゲームに、ゲームマスターは存在しない」。新たなゲームが紡ぐ衝撃の展開。残酷な真実は、ベアトリーチェも理御も逃さない。エピソード７「Requiem of the golden witch」堂々完結――。"
English.
"With the epitaph solved and the true culprit revealed, all that remains is for Will Wright the Mage-Hunter to take down the witch's illusion and expose the truth about the events that have brought such a tragedy to Rokkenjima. As each game is broken down and shattered in turn, the mystery of Beatrice is at last put to rest. But the witches who have so relished piling torment upon torment on the Ushiromiya family can hardly let this story end peacefully...There is yet another tragedy to relay, but who could be moving the pawns this time...?"
Afterword.
Ryukishi07.
About Umineko When They Cry
"Hello I am Ryukishi07."
"Thank you for reading the final volume of Episode 7 of Umineko When They Cry! This means only Episode 8 is left. This very long journey will soon come to an end. Thank you to everyone who's been following all along and to Mizuno-sensei and the editors! I would really appreciate it if you stuck with us to the end."
"Would it be too forward of me to get you all to agree that the way Mizuno-sensei drew Will and Lion is just fantastic!? Not only do I love them in the mains tory, I have to admit I'm enraptured by the chill post-volume bonus strips about Will, Lion, and Claire. I love them so much I almost wish Mizuno-sensei could keep going after this, just drawing them like that! Thank you, thank you for this wonderful series, Mizuno-sensei!"
"You'll have noticed that many answers were provided to the Umineko story in this arc. But finding the right balance of giving out major answers and holding some back to see the readers' theories about the remaining mysteries was a major challenge for me when I was originally writing this material. I think it must have been just as hard for Mizuno-sensei to depict this in the comic medium. Again, I must express my gratitude for this herculean task. Thank you so much, Mizuno-sensei."
"Also, the full cast of characters in Episode 7 is considerable, even by this story's standards. I'm sure it must have been a huge challenge to draw so many different characters."
"I am certain that of all the episodes of Umineko, Episode 7 must have been one of the most difficult to depict visually. So there's no way I can possibly express my full gratitude to Mizuno-sensei for handling it with such incredible skill, grace, and love! I'm very happy about the decision to give this one to Mizuno-sensei."
"I'd also like to repeat my thanks to you readers for coming so far on this journey with me. I hope I'm able to speak to you again in the final volume of Episode 8! Thank you all!"
Eita Mizuno.
"Well, it's the final voluem of Episode 7! When I first received the offer to draw this series, I wondered if I was really up to the task, but the more I drew, the more I came to love the characters and developed a deeper appreciation for the themes of the story. In the end, I'm very happy that I got to draw this manga."
"I'm both happy that I had this opportunity and grateful to Ryukishi07-sensei, the staff of 07th Expansion, the editors and assistants, and everyone else who was involved."
"But of course, the greatest thanks of all go to you, the readers and fans!!"
"Eita Mizuno"
| Requiem of the Golden Witch Manga Volume 9 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Reset
Reset is a new song written especially for the Missing Promise / Konomi Suzuki album. It was performed by Konomi Suzuki; who is signed to MAGES. The name of the song was first revealed on 21st August, 2021. The song was written and composed by Shinquo Ogura and arranged by Arata Umehara. It was released as the B-side of Missing Promise / Konomi Suzuki on 25th August, 2021.
Lyrics.
Album Version.
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External Links.
Translation:
| Reset |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Resonant Fragments
Resonant Fragments is an insert song created for the 2021 Pachinko Game P Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Meguri. It was performed by Ayane; who also performed many of the console opening songs beginning with Nageki no Mori. The song was written and composed by dai, the long time composer for the When They Cry series. The song was released as the B-side of Fukisokusei Entropy / Ayane on 6th February, 2021.
External Links.
Translation:
| Resonant Fragments |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Responsibility
| Responsibility |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Retake
| Retake |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rethabile
| Rethabile |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rethabile Eenentwintig Africacommonwealthrealm
is from ACR South Africa and the leader of the Gauntlet Knight squad Squad 601.
Profile.
"From ACR South Africa"
"A member of the June 1st King's Tour Memorial Squad of the ACR Royal Aerial Knight Corps"
"A princess from the ACR Royal Family and the 21st in line to the throne. All of the Royal Family's princes and princesses are supposedly talented Gauntlet Knights with extremely high P3 levels, but she's the only one who has been seen flying in the public eye."
"Since she displays genius-class P3 levels, has been given the best of educations since infancy, and has the aptitude of an Aerial Augmented Infantry prodigy, many call her the strongest ace in the southern hemisphere."
Appearance.
Rethabile has brown haired tied into locks and wears a red and yellow headband with a mall crown on top. She also wears a red jewel on her forehead and a neckband with another red jewel on it. Additionally, Rethabile wears a yellow dress and white boots. Her Gauntlet resembles a tank and is painted in camouflage colors.
Special Abilities.
Aerial Princess Knight (SS)
"She has been prepared since birth to stand in the front lines as a member of the Royal Family, fighting and building a legend that will be completed upon the event of her death. Furthermore, her Aerial Augmented Infantry aptitude is proportional to the 1.7 billion credit budget that the ACR Royal Family invested into her training."
Aptitude for Antl-G 8MS (SS)
"She refuses to let anyone approach her aptitude for movement and ignoring the laws of physics. By her own initiative and at a lime of her choosing, she's able to change whether she's at close-range or long-range, attacking or defending. Naturally, she earned a gold medal in the Stunt Flying Competition at the Battle Standard Festival of Peace. "
Support from the Entire ACR Military (S)
"The entire ACR military is always in a position to support their Royal Family's flying princess. In the skies over Africa, her victory is certain."
"The support she receives from behind comes in many forms. Missiles, information, and even chocolate candies will surely come flying towards her, if she asks for them."
Story.
Rethabile is first introduced in Chapter 2 alongside her squad mates at the International Battle Standard Festival. She later accepts the Public Bath Oath. In Chapter 10, the Gauntlet Knight aces talk about the rising worldwide tensions, and Rethabile suggests thee may be some criminal organization causing all of it.
In Chapter 12, Rethabile's squad faces off against the AOU Atlantic Fleet, where Rethabile tries convincing them to retreat. It doesn't work, and after an initial exchange of gunfire, Rethabile goes to the bridge of the flagship "Roger Jamison" and leaves behind some unarmed warheads. The fleet is thus forced to return to port to have them removed, peacefully resolving the situation.
In Chapter 16, Rethabile joins Miyao's Order of the Public Bath and is appointed as Master.
Chapter 18 later has Squad 601 facing off against ABN forces above the Mediterranean Sea.
In Chapters 19 and 20, after the explosion incident at the IPMA HQ, Rethabile arranges a meeting with her brother Cyril, who was asked to by LATO to become a provisional director but refused; he may have information about the perpetrators behind the incident. In Chapter 22, Rethabile goes to meet with Cyril but he is assassinated right before her eyes. In the next chapter, Rethabile and her squad suppress the drone revolt. She starts to wonder if Cyril was actually involved in some international conspiracy.
In Chapter 25, Rethabile attends Miyao's Christmas party while encouraging her fellow Gauntlet Knights to fight with everything they have, as they're all being watched by analysts due to suspected sabotage.
| Rethabile Eenentwintig Africacommonwealthrealm |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rethabile Eenentwintig Africacommonwealthrealm/Gallery
| Rethabile Eenentwintig Africacommonwealthrealm/Gallery |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rethabile Eenentwintig Africacommonwealthrealm/Sprites
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| Rethabile Eenentwintig Africacommonwealthrealm/Sprites |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Reunion
UraHigu: Insurance Agent.
An adult Rena points out to Ooishi that he grew old. Ooishi replies that they both did, and then Rena suggests introducing him and his police friends to a good insurance company.
| Reunion |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Revelations (song)
"For the album, please refer Revelations (album)"
Revelations is an insert song for the Umineko no Naku Koro ni series. It plays in Twilight of the Golden Witch, the final installment of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru. The track was composed and arranged by xaki, performed by IZNA and written by Amiry.
The instrumental version of the track was first released on 31st December, 2010 as a part of Umineko no Naku Koro ni xaki works "xwerk". The version with vocals used as an insert song in the game was only released later on 13th August, 2011 in a titular single album.
"Revelations" was later featured in a couple of other albums such as Music of the Golden Witch.
External Links.
Translation:
| Revelations (song) |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Revenge
| Revenge |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Reverse A Chessboard
is one of the nine songs in the ROKKENJIMA in LOVE album.
It is Kyrie Ushiromiya's image song.
| Reverse A Chessboard |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Revive
is one of the nine songs in the ROKKENJIMA in LOVE album.
It is Beatrice VS Virgilia's image song.
| Revive |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Reward/Sprites
| Reward/Sprites |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rewinding
| Rewinding |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Richard
| Richard |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Richard Maiougi
is Stella Maiougi's brother and the Consigliere of Primavera, managing their money and forming business contracts.
Profile.
"Primavera's chief of staff and safekeeper, and more importantly, its actual leader. If Madam Rose was the spiritual leader, he was the practical leader.<br>Without him, Primavera could not have been as cunning as it was.<br>He was known as a ruthless moneylender, but he really wasn't. He was just wearing a mask of coldness on his warm heart in order to protect his friends. That is, of course, if you returned the money you owed him on time."
Appearance.
Richard has blue hair and wears a blue and yellow coat over a gray kimono.
Personality.
Richard may act serious and ruthless, but he still has a soft heart and relies on cheat sheets with pre-written threats when making deals with others. He often disagrees with Rose's plans but continues to support her anyway.
In "Last Season", Richard becomes truly ruthless after Stella and Yuuji's deaths, making proper threats and actually carrying them out.
Background.
Richard's parents were moneylenders, and he picked up the skill from them. Richard also had two younger sisters, Stella and an unnamed other one, and after their parents' deaths Richard sought to take care of them the best way he could.
After Richard's other sister and husband died, Richard started caring for their son Yuuji.
Story.
"Season 1".
Richard is introduced in 1947 as the Consigliere of Primavera, frequently shown making deals and business contracts. When Butler asks Primavera to hold a party for him, Richard decides to go along with Rose's plan to hire local Japanese businesses instead of contracting with their regular foreign ones.
After Caleb takes over City 23 and Amanda becomes Madam of Primavera, Richard becomes targeted due to his knowledge of where Primavera's money is. He and Cyrus manage to escape with Yuuji to an unknown location.
"Season 2".
Richard and Cyrus are revealed to be hiding with Meijiu in Chinatown. After reuniting with Rose they begin formulating a plan to stop Caleb, which involves Richard going to Primavera and taking Amanda hostage; the plan succeeds and Caleb sends a strike force led by Maurice to rescue her. Amanda cooperates with Richard and pretends to be threatened by him however it doesn't work. Richard soon defends the club in the ensuing firefight.
In 1948, Richard continues acting as an advisor to Rose and attends several talks with the GDS. He keeps pushing for Rose to open the employment agency as soon as possible.
"Season 3".
In 1949, Richard convinces Alfred to become his friend and stop backing Davis Degawa so Primavera can get rid of him. He also starts to form a friendship with Keith.
After Stella is killed and Yuuji is gravely injured during Gabriel's "Operation: Great Justice," Richard holds a funeral for her and starts falling into despair.
"Last Season".
Richard meets with Gabriel and is given documents that implicate the GDS in Stella's death; unbeknownst to Richard, these were forged by Gabriel. Richard starts to truly believe that the GDS were responsible until Yuuji suddenly regains consciousness. Gabriel then arranges for Yuuji to get poisoned and die, and Richard is there to witness his son's horrible death.
Consumed by anger and sadness, Richard takes advantage of Rose's absence and makes himself the leader of Primavera, aiming to take revenge on the GDS by assassinating Meijiu and Zilong. He convinces the two of them to come to a restaurant for a meeting and plans to frame their deaths on a third party; Richard arranges a body double to be attacked on the way to the restaurant by Battalion to maintain the illusion of a third party. However, the plan to kill Meijiu and Zilong ultimately fails when Alan interrupts the meeting.
In 1950, Richard plans to attack GDS bases on the anniversary of Stella's death and wipe them out completely. He also starts purging those he believes to be traitors or won't ally with him, even targeting his former friend Leo. On the anniversary day, Jeanne's group arrives to challenge Richard's fighting force at a graveyard, and Richard and Cyrus engage Rose and Leo. Richard ends up running away as Cyrus stays behind to fight them.
Richard then meets Butler and learns of Gabriel's involvement in Stella and Yuuji's deaths, going to GHQ to confront him. A shootout ensues, and Richard is killed; Butler then uses Richard's gun to kill Gabriel.
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is one of the main characters of . She is a member of the Hinamizawa after-school games club and a shrine maiden who works at the Furude Shrine.
Profile.
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"Rika is Keiichi's junior and in the same school year as Satoko."
"She is very quiet and reserved for her age, which makes her almost the polar opposite of Satoko. However, the two of them can often be found in each other’s company. Whenever Satoko is in tears after losing against Keiichi, it is Rika who cheers her up. When Satoko wins, Rika comforts Keiichi instead. When Keiichi teases Rena, Rika comforts her."
"In fact, Rika comforts whomever is in need of comfort. She seems happy with it."
"The only daughter of the family that runs Furude Shrine. Is in the same grade, and lives in the same house, as Satoko. She plays the role of shrine maiden in the Watanagashi Festival, which is held every year in June. She's cute like a little kitten, and always brightens up a room. But she has a strange air about her, and sometimes she can be calm and collected in a manner that belies her age."
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Appearance.
"Also see Rika Furude/Gallery and Rika Furude/Sprites"
Rika Furude appears as a petite pre-pubescent girl with violet eyes. She has straight long hair down to her waist and patsun bangs, although the Steam version has replaced it with a . Her hair color mildly varies across adaptations ranging from shades of azure to indigo. She carries herself with grace, bearing a calm and gentle disposition exuding innocence—defined by her tareme eye shape. Often, she will sport a bright smile, accentuating it with a "Nipah". Rika distinctly resembles her deceased mother—particularly her eyes and her hair.
At times, she catches people off guard when her face takes on a rather apathetic and condescending expression along with a deeper voice—all of which make her seem uncharacteristically mature far beyond her years that people begin to doubt whether she is the Rika they know. When she becomes like this in and , her irises assume a red-blazing tone.
All adaptations which feature a more grown-up version of Rika portray her as a slender, elegant young woman. In and , her height is shorter than average as a teenager.
Personality.
As expected of a girl her age, Rika Furude has a cutesy and childlike personality. She likes to pat people on their head when they're feeling down and often says things like and . Rika often uses her cuteness to her advantage, manipulating classmates to gain easy wins in club games. She also has a habit of making cat sounds. In Japanese she uses the pronoun "boku" (ボク) when referring to herself. Rika has a habit of saying "nanodesu", which in the manga is translated by having her say "sir" at the end of many of her sentences.
Anecdotes from Rika's mother in "Himatsubushi" describe a younger Rika as being very distant and bored during recess and school. Rika's apparent disinterest in her mother caused her to hit Rika on the head at times.
Rika dedicates a lot of time to practicing the Watanagashi ritual dance, even though it's physically taxing on her.
"Minagoroshi" shows that when by herself or with Hanyuu, Rika completely drops her cutesy and child-like personality and displays a much more cynical, mature, apathetic, serious and occasionally hostile personality, developed as a result of her 100 years of traveling through the Sea of Fragments. The difference between her personalities is exemplified in the Japanese text since Rika uses the pronoun "watashi" (私) in her mature persona, which is generally done by adult women. Voiced works such as the anime and console ports portray this aurally by showing Rika speaking with a deeper voice when in her mature persona. This serious, or , as it is often called in side materials, can be considered Rika's true personality as her cutesy personality is merely a facade she puts up when with others. She tends to be abrasive and insulting towards Hanyuu and to others she has shown her true nature to, like Shion in "Meakashi" and Rena in "Tsumihoroboshi". Over the years, Rika began treating Hanyuu more rudely. Because of their linked senses, Rika sometimes bullies Hanyuu by eaing spicy food and drinking wine. Mature Rika at times feels like she's disassociating from the innocent Rika.
Background.
The Furude Family has long served as priests and shrine maidens for Hinamizawa's god Oyashiro-sama. Female family members were subject to much honor by villagers. It was believed that if firstborn daughters were born to the Furude Family for eight generations in a row, then that eighth generation would be Oyashiro-sama's reincarnation. Rika Furude was that eighth generation, becoming greatly beloved by the villagers as Oyashiro-sama's reincarnation and messenger. The villagers' praise of Rika was to a point where at a young age, she was allowed to take candy from a store without paying for it.
1981 marked the third year of Oyashiro-sama's curse. Rika's parents were the victims, with her father dying of an unknown illness and her mother drowning herself in the Onigafuchi Swamp to placate Oyashiro-sama. Rika became the only known living member of the Furude Family. The mayor of Hinamizawa legally adopted Rika and serves as her guardian, however Rika lives alone in a disaster relief shelter near the shrine. After the fourth year of the curse in 1982, where Satoko's aunt died and brother disappeared, Satoko began living with Rika.
"Minagoroshi" reveals that Rika's status as the eighth generation allows her to interact with Hanyuu, the true form of Oyashiro-sama. Hanyuu acted as a mother figure to Rika ever since she was born and taught her skills such as cooking. It is also revealed that Rika is believed to be the queen carrier for the Hinamizawa Syndrome disease that is endemic to Hinamizawa and willingly does research with the Irie Clinic to find a cure. If Rika were to die, then every villager infected with the syndrome would exhibit terminal symptoms and cause chaos within 48 hours. Unbeknownst to Rika, Miyo Takano plans to kill her and make this chaos a reality, enacting the Great Hinamizawa Disaster. Takano is responsible for many of Rika's deaths in various worlds. With Hanyuu's power, Rika travels to new Fragments, or timelines, every time she dies to try and prevent her own death and earn a happy ending.
In , Rika attends St. Lucia Academy with Satoko several years after Takano's defeat. A rift between Rika and Satoko develops when Rika starts making new friends and leaves Satoko behind academically. In 1988, Rika dies and is brought back to June 1983, forced to relive the time loops again.
Relationships.
Overview.
The Club
The Three Families
Other
Satoko Houjou.
Rika and Satoko are longtime friends, living together after Satoshi's disappearance. Satoko understands Rika more than anyone else thanks to the interaction between the two, although she has difficulty understanding certain things, especially in "Tsumihoroboshi"'s TIPs where Rika seemingly speaks to herself late at night.
Both are very concerned about each other's well-being. Rika will even protect Satoko with her own body, as shown in "Meakashi" when Shion attacks Satoko at school. This is also shown throughout "Minagoroshi" where Rika is desperate to try to save Satoko from Teppei's mistreatment.
Due to the contempt for the Houjou couple due to their support for the dam project in Hinamizawa, Satoko suffers from strong ostracism from the village, which Rika tries to mitigate by staying by her side. Despite this, Rika is aware of how much Satoko depended on Satoshi and believes it is one thing she cannot fix herself. Until "Minagoroshi", Rika was one of the few people besides Kyousuke Irie and Miyo Takano who knew that Satoko needed regular injections so that she doesn't succumb to Hinamizawa Syndrome; everyone else, including Satoko, believed that she was taking experimental remedies, until the truth was revealed to them. Rika has been cooperating with them exclusively to help Satoko recover.
On the other hand, the relationship of the two receives a great focus on "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou", especially in the arcs of "Nekodamashi-hen" and "Satokowashi-hen" which reveals that after the events of "Matsuribayashi-hen", Rika shares the dream to study together at St. Lucia Academy with Satoko. With much effort and dedication, the two manage to enter the school, but their relationship begins to deteriorate as Rika's popularity and intelligence keep her busy with new friends, while Satoko is unable to keep up with the demands of the school and finds herself increasingly distant from her best friend. After a misunderstanding resulted from Satoko's attempt to reconnect with Rika through a trap that ends badly, Satoko encounters an unknown entity and is empowered to go back in time after death like Rika used to do. After discovering Rika's 100-year struggle to escape her fate in 1983, Satoko becomes determined to prevent Rika from going to St. Lucia Academy in 1987 by any means necessary.
Keiichi Maebara.
Keiichi appreciates Rika's kindness, and Rika seems to respect him. Their relationship develops such that in "Tsumihoroboshi", when Keiichi becomes the first person to start remembering events taking place in other worlds, Rika starts to believe more in Keiichi.
The extra arc "Miotsukushi-hen" develops a different relationship between Keiichi and Rika. Rika discovers that for being forgiven by her in "Tsumihoroboshi's" world, this Keiichi was able to solve his problems with his past and gained an unparalleled resolution to solve the problems that usually caused the tragedies of the previous arcs.
Other Club Members.
Rika is sometimes a target for Rena's affections when she enters kyute mode.
Rika loves playing club games with Mion. "Minagoroshi" shows that Rika is especially fond of Mion because over the many worlds, Mion rarely repeats the same club activities.
Mamoru Akasaka.
Rika has been attached to Akasaka ever since they met in 1978. Rika seems to act cold towards Akasaka by warning him to go back to Tokyo and then seemingly stalking him while cutting the lies of every phone he goes to, however she had well-meaning intentions in wanting to save his wife from death.
"Minagoroshi" shows that Rika greatly values Akasaka as an ally since he's one of the few people who knew of Rika's premonitions of the future.
Role in the Story.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Question Arcs.
Onikakushi.
Rika Furude is first introduced comforting Keiichi when he gets hit by Satoko's trap. Rika is established as a caring and supportive young girl. Two days later, Rika and Mion tell Keiichi about the Hinamizawa dam project, explaining that it was cancelled when the village fought against it. Later, Rika plays with Keiichi in his induction into the games club through a game of Old Bachelor. Two days later, Rika returns from a private meeting in the school's staff room, and the other club members explain that Rika is part of the committee for the Watanagashi Festival. The club then plays a card game where they write down penalties on paper slips and draw them when they lose a round. Rika winds up having to wear a set of cat ears and act like one.
The night of the Watanagashi Festival, Rika plays with the club in stall games, later playing with Tomitake. During the main event, Rika performs the watanagashi ritual dance as the club watches amidst the crowd. The club members say that Rika's been practicing hard the last few days. After the ritual, Rika and the other club members punish Tomitake by writing on his shirt.
Three days after the festival, Ooishi explains to Keiichi that Rika's parents died on the third year of Oyashiro-sama's curse, with her father dying from an unknown illness and her mother drowning herself in the swamp shortly after. Keiichi begins to grow suspicious of Rika and his friends.
When Keiichi gets ahold of a bat and claims to be practicing his swings, Rika takes notice and tells him not to lose it.
In the manga, when Keiichi, Rena, and Mion die, Satoko bawls her eyes out the next day. Rika comforts her and says they'll see them again.
Watanagashi.
Rika plays with the club at a game tournament in Okinomiya, where she uses her cuteness to snatch an easy win at a fishing game. At the tournament's end, everyone except Mion receives toys as prizes. In the next few days, the club plays Sympathy and partakes in a curry cooking competition. At Angel Mort, Rika joins in Keiichi's plan to humiliate the otakus there as revenge for Shion's treatment.
At the Watanagashi Festival, Rika performs the ritual dance. The next day, Keiichi goes to water the curry garden at school and runs into Rika, who seemed to be hurt. Rika acts like nothing is wrong and asks Keiichi if he did anything bad on the night of the festival. Keiichi is afraid since he believed nobody knew about him, Shion, Takano, and Tomitake trespassing into the ritual warehouse that night. Keiichi feigns ignorance and Rika begins to leave when Keiichi calls out to her, wanting to tell her about what really happened. Keiichi struggles to figure out what to say, and Rika starts talking bout the ritual warehouse.
Rika says that on the night of the festival, a cat snuck into the warehouse. The cat couldn't restrain its curiosity anymore and was frightened by the many things it saw. Keiichi comes to understand that the cat Rika is referring to is Keiichi himself, and he asks what the cat should do now. Rika says the cat should just keep meowing any everything will be fine, but Keiichi says there was a dog who wanted the cat to admit to sneaking inside. Rika smiles and says she'll protect the cat, and that all the dogs are just misunderstanding. Rika gives Keiichi a headpat, and he starts crying and apologizing. Rika tells Keiichi to forget about Tomitake and Takano, and to just forget everything he knows. She declares that even though they died, Keiichi had nothing to do with them. Keiichi asks about Shion, and Rika replies that the big sister cat, Mion, is angry, so they should leave her alone for a while. Rika says they should stop having club for a while. She begins to leave but gives Keiichi a parting message that if the misunderstanding dog tries to bite the cat, then Keiichi should tell her; this dog should be the same one who bit the mayor. Seeing how frightened Keiichi is again, Rika apologizes for scaring him.
That night, Keiichi calls Rika's house to ensure she's alright, thinking she'll disappear or be killed because Keiichi told her about the trespassing. Rika's residence doesn't pick up despite Keiichi's repeated calls, and his worried thoughts turn to horror when he learns Satoko lives with Rika, and she didn't pick up either. Keiichi, Rena, and Mion go to the shrine and find their bikes aren't there, and decide to check Rika's shack just to be sure. Rena goes to find a key to the shack as Mion holds a ladder for Keiichi to climbs and knock on the second floor window. Mion ominously mentions that Satoko is cursed, and she might be the reason Rika disappeared.
Rena returns with the key, and the trio inspect Rika's home but find nothing. Villagers start crowding around since Mion spread word of Rika's potential disappearance, and they all search the village but to no avail. Later, Ooishi tells Keiichi that Rika had the lock to the ritual warehouse replaced a year ago since the old lock was difficult to open; this made it easier for people to break into the warehouse. Rumors say that villagers gave punishment not only to the people who broke into the warehouse, but also to Rika and the mayor for enabling it to happen.
The next day, Rena shares her deductions that Rika and Satoko must have gone somewhere to get soy sauce since she noticed their big soy sauce bottle was missing. The day after that, Rena determines that Mion is responsible for their disappearances. Mion put out flyers saying that the Sonozakis were giving away soy sauce, and Rika went to the Sonozaki main house that night to refill her soy sauce bottle but never came back. Mion called Satoko and told her to come over since Rika was already eating dinner, and Satoko did so. Keiichi and Rena go to confront Mion with this information at her house, and she confirms that is is the correct order of events. Mion confesses that she did torture and kill Rika as punishment for the lock, throwing her corpse into a well afterwards.
At the hospital, Ooishi tells Keiichi that when the police recovered the corpses of Mion's victims, they found a syringe on Rika's corpse.
Tatarigoroshi.
Rika and Satoko go to Keiichi's house to stop him from burning his house down making dinner. As Satoko cooks dinner for them, Rika tells Keiichi that Satoko is happy to be doing it and talks about how Satoko had a good relationship with her older brother Satoshi, whom Satoko called Nii-nii. Rika brings up Satoshi again while eating dinner, and Satoko wonders where he is now. After dinner, Rika tells Keiichi to go along with Satoko's teasing every now and then since Keiichi could work as a replacement for Satoshi.
Rika calls Keiichi to help the club during a baseball game. Two days after that, in an unusual sight, Rika arrives to school without Satoko, saying she might be late. Satoko still doesn't show later, and the club asks Rika what happened. Seeing Rika's silence and the unpleasant atmosphere, Keiichi begins to feel uneasy. Rika brings a bento for Satoko despite her absence and keeps doing this for the next few days, still acting calm despite seemingly knowing something about Satoko's situation. Satoko finally comes back to school after three days and Rika happily hands her a bento, but becomes sad again later when Satoko goes home instead of playing club games.
The club asks Rika more about her living situation with Rika, who explains how she's considered the mayor's daughter. They tell Chie about the situation with Teppei and she informs the child consultation center, who sends the Houjou residence a call. Rika later tells Keiichi that Satoko denied abuse was happening, explaining Satoko's prior history of faking an abuse call with her stepfather.
Rika and the other club members take Satoko to the festival for Keiichi. The next day at school, Rika and the class talk about how fun the festival was and all the things Keiichi did there, which confuses him since he never attended the festival to kill Teppei.
A few days later, Satoko and Keiichi head to Rika's shack to retrieve clothes for the former and discover Rika's naked corpse in front of the Furude Shrine. Crows were feasting on the girl, her intestines cut out of her.
At the bridge, Satoko recalls a time of falling into the ritual warehouse, breaking the Oyashiro-sama statue inside, and causing Rika to get punished by her father for it.
Himatsubushi.
A young Rika meets Mamoru Akasaka when he visits Hinamizawa in 1978 to investigate a kidnapping. Rika quickly takes a liking to Akasaka and, upon hearing he likes to take pictures, calls him "Tomitake Mk. II". Rika joins Akasaka on his tour of Hinamizawa and takes him to the Furude Shrine. Akasaka shows belief that the dam protests are too violent and Rika asks him how they should save their village when they can't live anywhere else. Akasaka realizes that this isn't a problem an outsider can solve easily and apologizes.
At the shrine, Rika takes Akasaka to the outlook and says the dam project will definitely fail, and Hinamizawa won't sink. Akasaka asks why she thinks that, and Rika mysteriously says it has already been decided, regardless of what Akasaka does. Akasaka is confused as to Rika's apparent confidence, and she suddenly tells him to go back to Tokyo. Rika tells Akasaka to go back to Tokyo or else he'll regret it, coming off as a completely different person than the cute girl Rika was acting like a minute ago. Akasaka thinks she's been possessed and asks Rika who she really is, but the girl laughs in response. Akasaka sees some other villagers watching them nearby who don't seem to find anything wrong with the situation. Rika falls over and gets up, going back to her old self. Akasaka asks if she really just told him to go back to Tokyo, but Rika has no idea what he's talking about.
Akasaka tries to call his wife the next night and finds that every phone he goes to has had its wires cut, with Rika following him, seemingly the perpetrator. Rika says it's already too late, and Akasaka takes this to mean it's too late for visitors to call. Rika takes Akasaka to the Furude Shrine and confirms she already knew Akasaka's true purpose for coming to Hinamizawa, just like everyone else in the village. They look at the impromptu Watanagashi Festival being held and go back to the outlook, where Rika starts telling Akasaka of the future. Rika lists the names of those who will die on Watanagashi in later years, ending with Rika's own death. She wishes she could live a happy life with her friends.
The "Mother's Diary" TIPS describe Rika's mother's frustration at Rika being treated as Oyashiro-sama's reincarnation and Rika's apparent coldness towards her. She's allowed to take candy from a store without paying for it, even Oryou dotes on her, and Rika shows good cooking skills at school despite Mrs. Furude never teaching her anything like that.
Akasaka reunites with Ooishi in 1985 in and learns that every death Rika predicted came true. Rika's brutalized corpse was found next to the donation box of the Furude Shrine around noon on the day of the Great Hinamizawa Disaster. After the state autopsy, her remains were entrusted to one of the shrine's followers to be returned to her family grave when the quarantine on the Hinamizawa area was lifted.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai.
Meakashi.
In 1982, Shion disguises as Mion and goes to school to berate Satoko for always relying on Satoshi. She beats up Satoko and prepares to hit her with a chair when Rika shields Satoko and begs Mion to stop. Later, Rika tries to cheer up Satoko and asks if she'll feel better if her evil aunt disappeared, saying it has already been decided.
In 1983, a few days after the Watanagashi Festival, Shion disguises as Mion again and inquires Rika about people breaking into the warehouse that night. Rika says that if the trespassers feel bad about it, then they should be fine. "Mion" takes offense to Rika's passiveness and grabs her by the collar, asking if she understands just how sacred the ritual warehouse is supposed to be. Rika knows that two cats have already been punished and two cats are remaining, but she wants to forgive those two. Shion is still angry that she won't do anything and Rika says that Oyashiro-sama doesn't get angry when people enter the warehouse. Shion refuses to believe that Oyashiro-sama is fine with trespassing and says he cursed Rika's father, but Rika says the god had nothing to do with that. Shion slaps Rika bit and then lets go of her, who begins crying. Shion confirms that the trespassing happened because Rika allowed the lock to change and says Kichiirou has already been punished, disappearing as a result. Shion supposes that the Furude family will deal with Keiichi later and leaves Rika by herself.
Later, Rika heads to Mion's house to retrieve soy sauce and is met by a disguised Shion again, seemingly forgetting how Mion treated her earlier. Shion plays along and escorts Rika inside the kitchen, preparing to get the sauce when she notices Rika standing very close to her. Shion thinks Rika seems like a different person when Rika suddenly sprays her with something, knocking her to the ground. Rika straddles Shion and procures a syringe, preparing to inject her with it. Shion struggles and Rika sprays her some more, accidentally inhaling some of the substance herself. Shion uses this chance to overpower her and takes the syringe, injecting Rika with it. Rika starts convulsing and sweating, struggling to keep her balance. She mutters "Hanyuu" and starts coughing as Shion voices her intent to torture Rika in the underground chamber. Shion prepares her taser and Rika grabs a knife, saying she won't give Shion the satisfaction of killing her. Rika starts repeatedly slashing her own throat with the knife before tearing it open and falling over dead. Shion throws her corpse in the well afterwards.
The epilogue shows Rika attending school happily with Shion in her ideal world.
Tsumihoroboshi.
Rika and the club play in a water gun fight at school, with Rika as one of the losers. As punishment she wears an Angel Mort outfit while at the establishment two days later.
Rika and the club play club games without Rena one day and want to play mahjong, but they find some of the tiles are missing. They change plans and go to the junkyard to do treasure hunting, but Rika says the place is haunted and jokes about being able to see ghosts since she's a shrine maiden. The club goes anyway, and they stumble upon the dismembered corpses of Teppei and Rina, whom Rena killed earlier. Rena explains herself, saying that none of her friends ever bothered to help Satoshi last year when he was going through a similar ordeal. Rena puts some blame on Rika, saying that her word carries a lot of weight in the village yet she did nothing; Rika only sympathized with Satoshi and pretended to be his friend. Rika admits it, acting mature and saying she didn't know how to save Satoshi, so she could only give consolation.
The club reinforces their friendship with Keiichi's encouragement, as they're the only ones who knows about Teppei and Rina. Rika joins hands with them and tells Rena that she accepts her, as she wasn't afraid to dirty her hands to do what she needed to do. Rika forgives Rena's sin and hopes she can forgive her too and accept her as a friend. The group buries Teppei and Rina's corpses in a forest soon after.
Four days later, Rena keeps staying home from school. Keiichi wonders what to do and Rika tells him that he can listen whenever Rena wants to talk. As her friends, it's important for them to be there for her. A few days later, Rena goes to the junkyard to be by herself at night and Rika suddenly appears. Rena thinks she isn't really Rika but some otherworldly creature and asks who she is. Rika giggles in response, saying Rena is one of the few people who've penetrated her disguise and that she hasn't called herself Rika in over 100 years.
Rika knows Rena is afraid of something and says she came to help her, pulling out a syringe. Rika offers to inject Rena with this and make her feel better, but Rena believes it was the same drug that killed Tomitake. Rika promises that it's a different drug. Rena asks what she plans to do and Rika says she used to try giving injections by force, but it never worked so she's letting Rena decide. Rena vehemently refuses to take the injection and swears to fight to the end. Rika accepts, saying this world is going to end anyway. She says she's lost interest in "this" Rena Ryuugu and Hinamizawa and hopes to get along with the next Rena. Rika says she used to try really hard to fix problems when they occurred, but she got tired of it. Rika wishes Rena the best and leaves, laughing and amused over this conversation.
The next day, Keiichi talks to Rika, Satoko and Mion and confesses his past about how he used to shoot at little kids in his old city. Rika wonders why Keiichi told them this, as they can't give forgiveness; he has to get it from the kids he attacked. Rika says there's a difference between things you should confess and things you shouldn't, and after you're forgiven you shouldn't keep confessing. The club members treat Keiichi as their friend and don't really care about what he used to be like since he's clearly different now. Rika compliments Satoko for being a strong girl when she used to be weak.
Keiichi starts crying and then recalls memories from "Onikakushi"'s world, where he killed Rena and Mion. Keiichi confesses this fact to Mion, that he beat her to death but Mion is confused and says that never happened. Rika however asks Keiichi if he really does remember, and Keiichi laments never being able to forgive this sin. Rika pats his head and forgives him, saying that noticing sins he committed in a previous world is an unbelievable miracle. Rika says Keiichi should now understand what Rena is going through. Keiichi promises to save Rena, and Rika decides to put some more faith in this world after giving up last night. Satoko is confused as to what they're talking about, and Rika says that someday Satoko should remember that Keiichi risked his life for her one time.
A few days later, Rena takes the school hostage by tying up the class and threatens to blow it up. Keiichi starts searching for the bomb while Rika manages to get free from her bindings and distracts Rena before she can attack Keiichi. Rika says this isn't the first time she's helped Keiichi like this and regrets that Keiichi could've made it last time if Rika tried harder. Keiichi doesn't understand but he accepts Rika's help. Rika grabs a mop and takes a fighting stance against Rena, saying she's died hundreds of times before so there's nothing to fear now. Rena attacks with her hatchet and Rika parries her blows, ultimately losing because of her small stature and getting knocked to the side. Rena chases after Keiichi and Rika escapes the school after freeing the other students, where they watch Keiichi and Rena's duel on the school roof. Rika says that this sight is something she's never seen before, believing that Keiichi can truly break the maze of tragedies.
The final TIP "The Demon's Script" reveals that Rika died on the day before the Great Hinamizawa Disaster.
Minagoroshi.
An unknown narrator speaks to the reader about the many worlds Rika's traveled to over her 100 years and the Rules X, Y, and Z that persist in each one. The narrator says they were born from Rika when she gave up trying to break these rules. Rika is nearing the end of her mental lifespan, not helped by Hanyuu losing her powers over time. In the next world, Rika will only have two weeks.
In the manga, shortly after Rika's death in "Tsumihoroboshi", she wakes up in an unknown space. An entity similar to Rika in appearance and calling herself Frederica Bernkastel appears, educating Rika about the many Fragments and the Rules.
Rika wakes up in a new world alongside Hanyuu and struggles to remember what she was doing. She sees that the club was playing behind the shrine and Rika fell off a tree branch and rolled down a hill, but she can't remember anything that might've happened leading up to it. Hanyuu tells her that there's only two weeks until the festival. Rika attempts to recall what happened in the previous world: after Rena was arrested, Rika was given a checkup at the clinic and walked home afterwards. Her memories are fuzzy since she has trouble remembering things before violent deaths, but Rika knows that someone covered her mouth with a handkerchief and knocked her out.
The club tends to Rika's injuries but she insists she's alright. Keiichi is relieved that she's okay and Rika talks to him privately, despite Hanyuu's negativity, to see if he can remember anything form previous world again. Rika asks if he remembers climbing on the school roof, but he has no idea what she's talking about.
Rika and Satoko go to the Irie Clinic for Satoko to get her regular injection. Rika speaks with Irie after and hears that Satoko's condition is getting better, but she's still L3 negative and will never recover from her critical state. Rika is saddened at the thought Satoko will never be cured in her lifetime but trusts that Irie will continue his work towards a cure. Irie says they'll be doing another test with Rika at the end of the month.
After the checkup, Rika and Satoko join the club at a games competition in Okinomiya. Rika becomes depressed at the thought she cannot enjoy life properly as Rika Furude and confides with Hanyuu over this. Rika thinks about how Mion rarely plays the same club game twice in the many worlds she's been to, but the Okinomiya tournament has a low chance to occur and is like fate when it does. Seeing that the rules are the exact same, Rika regrets holding on to that small hope. Keiichi notices Rika's sadness and asks what's wrong. Rika says they've already done this before and admits that school is torture, listening to the same things every day. Keiichi says games is different since they're not predetermined, but Rika says otherwise. She predicts that when the names are drawn, each club member will be separated with Keiichi playing Billionaire. Keiichi sees that this is what Rika calls "fate" and is encouraged to smash it to pieces.
The club members draw lots, with Keiichi surprised that Rika's prediction came true; Rika thinks Mion rigged this box to ensure the club members would be separated. She accepts her fate of playing the fishing game like in previous worlds and informs Keiichi that the store owner will have his group play the Game of Life. Sure enough, the store owner pulls out the game, further showing Keiichi that Rika's predictions are coming true. Keiichi remembers hearing about Rika being Oyashiro-sama's reincarnation, and Rika says shes seen this world before. Keiichi declares he will break fate and stands up, telling the store owner that he owns the Game of Life and knows everything about it. He asks the store owner to pull out a different game since it wouldn't be fair, and he agrees.
Rika is surprised that Keiichi succeeded in playing a different game, and Keiichi notices Rika never wanted to play the fishing game. He encourages her to go back, and Rika tells her group she wants to play something else. The group agrees, and Rika promises to herself that she'll use these two weeks to overcome her fate.
After the tournament, everyone except Mion receives dolls as prizes, with Mion feigning disinterest in Keiichi's doll. Hanyuu asks Rika if she remembers, and the player is given a choice here. The first choice has Rika remembering that Keiichi not giving Mion the doll caused a tragedy, resulting from his complex relationship with Mion. Rika pokes Keiichi and is about to say something but Keiichi says he knows and gives Mion the doll without encouragement. Rika is surprised again since Keiichi might remember previous worlds after all.
The second choice is Rika standing by and watching because she wants to believe in Keiichi. Rika hopes that the strong emotion of Keiichi regretting the decision prior will reach him. Keiichi gives Mion the doll regardless. Hanyuu says it may just be a coincidence, but Rika truly believes Keiichi made a miracle because he remembers something in his heart, even without his past memories.
Keiichi becomes chosen to work as an auction director for the Watanagashi festival, and Mion brings him ohagi to celebrate. Keiichi feels like something is mixed in with the ohagi and that he's received ohagi from Mion before, but Mion says this is the first time. Rika comments on this and tells Keiichi that if he's remembering getting ohagi before, then it definitely happened. She encourages Keiichi to not feel mistaken if he ever gets deja vu like that. Rika asks what happened before, and Keiichi explains that Rena and Mion gave him ohagi when he stayed from school, and he found a needle in it; the same events from "Onikakushi"'s world. Keiichi believes that this ohagi is safe however, but Rika asks what he'd do if he really did find a needle in it. Keiichi insists that Mion would never put a needle in it, and Rika apologizes for asking that before smiling. Later, Rika hears from Rena that her dad found a new job and that she had a dream about killing his girlfriend. Rika says it definitely wasn't a dream.
That night, Rika goes to have a drink to herself, believing that this world is definitely a good one. All of her friends are remembering things from previous worlds and averting tragedies. Rika wonders who would benefit the most from killing her, as all the villagers love her. Hanyuu says they should get Irie's help, and that Tomitake and Takano's deaths might have to do with Rika's death. Rika remembers trying to avert their deaths in the past by telling them about it, but they never listened. Rika gave up on them just like she gave up trying to prevent her parents' deaths. Rika considers getting the help of Takano and Tomitake as well, despite disliking the former and finding the latter useless because of his infrequent visits. Rika remembers how at one point she tried running away from the village and hiding in the forest, but she only made it to July. Rika goes to sleep and remembers Rena's advice of talking to other people; Rika considers getting Keiichi's help as well, but he never listened in previous worlds.
The next day, Rika goes to the shrine and finds Takano and Tomitake trying to break into the ritual warehouse.
When Satoko's uncle comes home and starts abusing her, Rika gives her the strength to stand up for herself and call for help. Later, the club learn of Rika's plight and try to help her, but they are all murdered by Takano in the end. Rika is tortured alive by Takano as the spirits of her friends watch, and they all encourage Hanyuu to get involved as well.
Matsuribayashi.
Rika looks over several fragments to piece together the variables needed for her happy fragment, and in the end the rest of the club become more prepared in fighting Takano.
In the final confrontation, Takano shoots Hanyuu, but Rika freezes time and grabs the bullet, ending the cycle of sin that was present for so long.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rika Furude/Other Appearances
This page details Rika Furude's other appearances and involvement in "Higurashi"-related media outside the original story.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei.
Saikoroshi.
Rika gets hit by a truck and is sent to a new Fragment that is "sinless;" Hinamizawa Syndrome doesn't exist, and all of her friends are much different people than as she knows them. Rika is still able to communicate with Hanyuu through an artifact inside the Furude Shrine, and she struggles to find a way back to her own world while learning more about this one.
Rika bides her time by naming herself as a witch, Frederica Bernkastel. She comes to believe that Frederica had "overwritten" the Rika that lived in this world and is a separate being.
Rika eventually discovers that the reason she can't see Hanyuu in this world is because she is not the 8th consecutive female generation in this world; her mother is, and her body contains a Fragment that will allow Rika to return home, however Rika must kill her and then herself. Rika is faced with the choice of doing that and returning to the world she knows so well or staying in the sinless world and living a happy life.
Rika soon wakes up in her regular world, having been put into a coma for a while because of the truck accident. She talks to Hanyuu and determines that she really did kill her mother, remembering the sensation. Hanyuu suggests that it was all a dream instead; regardless, Rika has learned not to take her own life for granted.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou.
Outbreak.
At the end, the club escapes Hinamizawa's chaso and plan to go to Okinomiya, but Rika stays behind.
Kamikashimashi.
Rika and Hanyuu explore the abandoned Irie Clinic and discover Tomitake tied up in the basement, who explains that Takano masterminded the outbreak. When Rika and Hanyuu try to leave the village later, they are stopped by Tamurahime no Mikoto.
Une reveals her goddess form and succeeds in destroying the world. However, Rika and Hanyuu loop back to before the outbreak happened and capture Une and Tamura, forcing them to become part of the club.
Hinamizawa Bus Stop.
A prototype version of Rika appears.
Manga and Console-Exclusive Arcs.
Yoigoshi.
In this world, Rika and other classmates died when Rena took the school hostage and made it explode.
When Mion goes to Hinamizawa in 2006 and searches for a scroll in the ritual warehouse, Rika's spirit appears and reveals it to her.
In the visual novel version, Arakawa sees a vision of Rika's brutalized corpse when he visits the Furude Shrine.
Miotsukushi.
In this alternate world set after "Minagoroshi", Rika wakes up in yet another world and retains her memories of Takano killing her. However, Hanyuu has mysteriously disappeared.
Rika struggles to figure out what to do in this world and decides to trust Keiichi with the knowledge she's been traveling through many worlds. Keiichi and Rika work together when their friends start to develop problems similar to what they faced in the prior worlds. Rika and Keiichi tell Shion and Kasai about Rina's scheming, they try to convince Rena to talk with her dad, and they save Satoko from Teppei when he tries to take her back with him.
On the night of the Watanagashi, Rika and Keiichi find Hanyuu floating in the river and take her back to Rika's shack. The next morning, Hanyuu suddenly disappears again.
Hanyuu gets shot and Rika tearfully watches her die.
Miotsukushi Omote.
In this alternate world set after "Minagoroshi", Rika wakes up in yet another world and retains her memories of Takano killing her. However, Hanyuu has mysteriously disappeared. Rika's actions in this arc mirror that of the original "Miotsukushi".
On the night of the Watanagashi, Rika looks into the river and is distracted looking at her reflection before falling inside.
It is revealed that Hanyuu was disguised as Rika the entire time in this world. The real Rika was sleeping inside of the ritual warehouse.
Kokoroiyashi.
After the events of "Matsuribayashi", Rika and the club prepare for summer vacation. However, Rika becomes concerned that she doesn't know how to act like a real child after 100 years. Hanyuu suggests they go on a trip outside of Hinamizawa, but Rika is content with staying in the village. Later, Akasaka calls and asks if she could come to Tokyo, but Rika says she'll think about it. Soon, the entire club and village find out about the Tokyo trip. At the clinic, Rika asks Irie if it'll be fine for her to leave since she's the queen carrier, but he says she should be alright since her readings destabilized, and so she can leave the village for a while. At Hanyuu's insistence, Rika agrees to go. The club is excited however Shion forces Irie to stay in the village and manage the clinic. The club decides to sneak out in the middle of the night to go to Tokyo without adult supervision, and then call their parents later.
The club meets up at the Sonozaki main house and use the underground torture chamber's passage to leave Hinamizawa. They end up at Satoko's trap mountain, where Keiichi gets ensnared. Rena and Mion plead Satoko to tell them how to get him down but she doesn't remember, and Hanyuu reminds Rika that this is actually a different trap mountain, the one Satoko made when she was still living with her parents and uncle. Rika tells Rena and Mion to stop pestering Satoko since she doesn't remember, and they apologize. They soon free Keiichi.
The club takes shelter in an old hut and set up a mosquito tent. Rika becomes nostalgic as she remembers a similar event from early in her childhood before she started looping, with Hanyuu watching her and her parents from outside the tent. Hanyuu sings a lullaby as she sleeps.
The next morning, the club continues walking and soon reach the edge of the village. Hanyuu asks Rika to hold her hand as they walk, and once they leave Hinamizawa, Rika suddenly trips as the rest of the club become unable to see Hanyuu. The club assume Hanyuu got lost in the woods and go off to look for her while Rika looks back to see Hanyuu still in Hinamizawa's bounds. Hanyuu explains that she's unable to leave Hinamizawa while Rika can go anywhere, and she wanted her to realize this. Rika cries since she doesn't want to be without Hanyuu, and Hanyuu says that in order for Rika to grow, she needs to learn to separate from her parental figure. It's not death however, as Rika can still return to Hinamizawa and meet with Hanyuu again.
The rest of the club returns, and Rika tells them that Hanyuu went home and that they should go on without her. As they continue walking, Rika begins crying again and realizes that she really is a child. They soon reach Nagoya Station where Ooishi is waiting for them, as he's already heard about the club sneaking out. Everyone soon gets into his car and ask Rika to follow, as they need to get home to Hanyuu. Rika appreciates her friends looking out for her, and soon heads back to Hinamizawa to reunite with Hanyuu.
A year later, in spring 1984, Rika goes to Tokyo alone, with Hanyuu speaking to her on the phone.
Higurashi Rei (manga).
Oniokoshi.
35 years after the events of "Matsuribayashi", an adult Rika has begun travelling the world. She was given an item called the Ekusurika Jewels by Hanyuu, a magic bracelet that lets her loop 3 times, one for each bead on it. In 2019 Rika gets admitted to the hospital after a fall, and gets a call from Satoko explaining that Mion was murdered and Keiichi has gone missing, the second occurrence of an apparent revival of Oyashiro-sama's curse.
Unable to do much on her own because of her injury, Rika decides she'll entrust Keiichi's son Keitarou with averting this tragedy and hangs herself, expending one of her beads.
In the next world, Rika calls Keitarou from the hospital and talks with him about the Polaris cult. Rika tells him to be careful around them and to listen to what villagers say.
Hoshiwatashi.
Rika calls Keitarou from the hospital, having expended two of her beads now, and talks with him about Polaris. Rika says that Keitarou needs to consider Polaris members' point of view on Hinamizawa and understand how they feel if he wants to become friends with them.
Higurashi When They Cry Kai (anime).
Rika hosts the preview at the end of each episode barring the final one with Hanyuu even before the latter's debut in the story itself.
Yakusamashi.
Rika holds conversations with Hanyuu throughout the arc while the latter is not perceivable by others. In Yakusamashi-hen Part 4, Rika is kidnapped by people in uniforms and murdered in front of the Furude Shrine.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Mei.
Rika is introduced in Chapter 1.
It is revealed in Chapter 8 that this Rika is actually a doppelganger created by the tsukuyami. After the fake is defeated, the real Hanyuu appears and says that the real Rika was taken away to another world.
In Chapter 9, Kazuho travels to an alternate 1983 world where the dam project was completed. She discovers that Rika died in 1978 in this world, and a girl named Ayaka Furude is the head of the Furude family.
Super Dimension Academy Z.
is an alternate version of Rika Furude who appears in the event Super Space-Time Academy Z. She is an android who assists her partner K1, an alternate version of Keiichi, as a space police officer.
Lady Mii wears a green and gray shirt and skirt that exposes part of her midriff. She is shown to wield a laser sword. Mii does not seem to understand humans and doesn't mind using mind-control to prove a point.
In Lady Mii's world, a volcanic eruption in 1983 eradicated most of humanity when the gas spread to other countries, reducing the population to the ten-thousands. 1000 years later, Lady Mii and K1 joined a space federation whose goal was to rebuild humanity and restore Earth to its former state.
K1 and Lady Mii are first introduced when Kazuho and company wake up one day to find themselves in a spaceship. The girls are all confused and K1 explains that they were all reborn from DNA samples taken from the last remnants of humanity. Satoko wonders if Mii was created from the original Rika's DNA, but Mii says they have no data suggesting a person like that ever existed. Lots of information has been lost in the years past.
Mii explains that the group all have chips embedded in them that can be used to control them, like all clones do. She demonstrates this by making Nao and Miyuki act like rabbits and make grunting noises, which Shion notes sounds more like monkey noises. Suddenly, the group is transported to a recreation of Hinamizawa, where K1 and Mii leave them behind, saying they're going to study the group in their "natural habitat".
That night, everyone except Kazuho goes crazy and starts attacking each other. K1 and Mii reappear and reveal that the true cause of the disaster long ago was not volcanic gas but a virus that was spreading all across the universe, one that makes victims lose their reasoning and act impulsively. The duo aimed to create a vaccine from natural resistance and eventually discovered Hinamizawa, using tech to revive Kazuho who has the antibody.
Kazuho wants to help cure the galaxy, but K1 goes on about how much money he wants to make from selling the vaccine and how much effort he put into making it happen. Lady Mii captures Kazuho and cackles, planning to put Kazuho into isolation and study her. Mii is about to inject her when Hanyuu appears and attacks the android with a laser blast. K1 recognizes Hanyuu as a space police officer. Hanyuu orders for his surrender but K1 orders Mii to fight. However, Mii sustained too much damage from the attack and soon shuts down.
Hanyuu tells Kazuho that this world definitely exists within the Sea of Fragments. Kazuho soon wakes up in her normal life in 1983 and realizes that the superhero show she and her friends were watching on TV earlier had a similar plot to her "dream".
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rika Furude (HBS)
is a character appearing in "Hinamizawa Bus Stop" and a prototype version of Rika Furude from the main story.
Appearance.
In the PC version of "Hou", Rika's sprites are the namesake main story character's sprites colored blue. The console version uses the design from the manga, which looks like an older version of the namesake main story character.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rika Furude (disambiguation)
Rika Furude may refer to:
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rika Furude Assassination Plan
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Riku Furude
is the adopted heir to the Furude family. He appears exclusively in "Kotohogushi-hen".
Profile.
"A young priest of the Furude Shrine who lives with his retired father."
"He is a gentle and kind young man who is not very knowledgeable, but has a strong heart."
"He has an unusual obsession with shrine maiden costumes...?"
Appearance.
Riku has black hair and dark yellow eyes. He wears a white kimono with beige hakama pants.
Personality.
Riku is very dimwitted, but he is compassionate about others. Riku has a fetish for miko outfits, owning many different kinds and keeping them in his closet. There are times where Riku gets very serious, taking advantage of his usually carefree personality to get things done.
Background.
Riku was born in Onigafuchi Village. As a baby, his parents died when the village was attacked by a Grifys. Yeasomul, known to the villagers as the god Oyashiro-sama, rescued Riku and gave him to survivors, who believed the baby was her reincarnation. Riku was adopted by the head of the Furude family and raised as a Furude. 20 years later, Riku would become the priest of the Furude Shrine, living there by himself while his father lived in town. One day, Riku meets Yeasomul and begins developing a relationship with her.
Relationships.
Hanyuu/Hai-Ryun Yeasomul Jedha.
Riku and Yeasomul start out as uneasy friends, with Yeasomul being put off by Riku's idiocy and attempts to make her wear miko outfits. Riku gives her the nickname of Hanyuu since her full name is difficult to understand. Over time, Riku and Hanyuu fall in love with each other and eventually get married.
Riku is aware of Hanyuu's issues with being a "demon" and concerns over their child becoming a Grifys, with Riku always reassuring her that things will turn out fine in the end.
Shino Kimiyoshi.
Shino is Riku's childhood fried and acted like a big sister to him. Shino and Riku are the few people who are aware of Hanyuu's horns and keep it a secret.
Story.
Kotohogushi-hen.
Riku is introduced trying to peek on Yeasomul as she's bathing in a spring. He gets chased away by a wild bear, which Yeasomul wrestles with and kills when they roll into a river. Yeasomul tells Riku not to tell anyone of he's seen, and then realizes she's naked. Riku acts pleased by the sight and Yeasomul knocks him out in anger.
Riku regains consciousness and continues to make small talk with Yeasomul. Yeasomul sees that Riku is completely unfazed by her horns, which the priest has noticed just now. Riku and Yeasomul introduce each other, and Riku gives her the nickname of "Hanyuu" since her full name was too hard to understand. Hanyuu reluctantly accepts it. Riku then notices that Yeasomul's foot is wounded and brings her to his village to treat it, using a hidden path so they avoid running into other villagers.
Hanyuu lives with Riku for a month, finding solace in spending time with him. Hanyuu is worried about other villagers seeing her horns and causing a commotion, and Riku provides her with a monk hood to cover her horns with. He also suggests changing her clothes entirely from her black garments to something else and then unveils his closet full of miko outfits. Riku begs Hanyuu to try one on, but she's disturbed by the fetishistic nature of these outfits and hits him. Over the next few months, Riku and Hanyuu's relationship develops; Hanyuu sometimes makes dinner for him when he comes home from village assemblies while Riku still tries to make her wear an outfit, with Hanyuu burning all of them one day.
After three months, Hanyuu's still hiding out while Riku's convinced the villagers she's a traveling foreign monk recovering from injuries. Riku says Hanyuu should hang out with everyone at the next festival since nobody's ever seen her face and are getting suspicious. Hanyuu however explains that she needs to leave for a mission and may not come back for a while. She explains several aspects of Ryuun history to him, and Riku asks if she's currently happy in this world. Their talk is interrupted by Riku's father arriving, with Hanyuu and the old man recognizing each other. Hanyuu sends Riku away and later learns that Riku was the baby she saved years ago.
Hanyuu completes her mission and returns to Furude Shrine heavily wounded. Riku embraces her as she returns, with Hanyuu confident that she really does love Riku. They continue to live together for two years. One day, Hanyuu angrily tries to find Riku since she had no choice but to wear a miko outfit left out for her as she was bathing. After their bickering, Hanyuu and Riku watch the Onigafuchi scenery together, where Riku asks if he may have a Ryuun living inside him. Hanyuu is confident he doesn't, having taken several measures to ensure Riku couldn't demonify.
Riku asks Hanyuu what she'll do once she gets rid of all the Grifys. Hanyuu is lost in thought regarding her future with Riku when he suddenly confesses his love for her, having promised to do so if she ever wore a miko outfit. Hanyuu runs away and cries, believing that Riku is lying and that she'll only bring him nothing but pain because she's a demon. Riku catches up to her and says she still loves her anyway, with Hanyuu finding it incredulous that he gave his confession while she was wearing a ridiculous outfit. Riku promises to reflect on that and Hanyuu reciprocates.
Riku and Hanyuu get married, with Shino summoned by Riku to teach Hanyuu how to do chores and be a housewife. Three months later one day, Shino and Hanyuu talk and eat sweets while Riku presents a new miko outfit and gets beaten unconscious. Later, Riku learns from Shino that Hanyuu is pregnant. He goes to Onigafuchi Swamp to find his wife seemingly trying to kill herself and stops her. Hanyuu is worried that their child will be born with horns and cause them strife, and Riku assures her that he'll protect them both.
Several months later, Hanyuu suddenly goes into labor while at the shrine. Riku and Shino help her during the ordeal, with Riku confirming that their newborn daughter is hornless. They settle on the name Ouka, and later Riku gives Ryuun-Ohc the nickname of Ryuuou.
Sometime later, Hanyuu overhears Riku arguing with the village council over rumors that the foreigner living in Furude Shrine was a demon. Riku angrily insists that the foreigner is wearing a hood to hide scars from her injuries, scaring the council into believing it due to his sudden anger. Later, Hanyuu informs Riku she must go on another mission to exterminate a Grifys in another village. Riku asks her to stay, mentioning some times in the past where he saw her staring into space and got worried. Hanyuu muses about the meaning of life and death to a Ryuun, and Riku shows concern over what would happen to her if she died. Hanyuu promises to return and gives him a necklace that will allow him to communicate with her telepathically, in case of an emergency.
Hanyuu goes to the village to engage the demon, having learned that some bandits were attempting to raid this village by posing as demons only to be killed by a real one. After they battle, Hanyuu begins to deliver the finishing blow when she notices it's wearing the same necklace Riku has. Hanyuu’s attack falters and she gets beat up a lot as a result. Hanyuu can't believe that Riku has demonified, having taken every single measure she could to prevent it and never sensed anything from him.
The demon reveals that he is a Putus and was the same demon who attacked Onigafuchi 20 years ago, becoming a free body when he died. He wanted to get revenge on Hanyuu by possessing Riku, knowing that she would despair over being forced to attack the man she loves. Hanyuu resolves herself and apologizes to Riku, pledging to become a demon herself and take in everyone's sins. She fights back against the demon and almost defeats it, prompting the demon to try to leave his body and inhabit another one. However, Riku manages to regain some control and stops the demon from leaving, then communicates with Hanyuu using the necklace and tells her that no matter what, he'll always love her. Hanyuu returns the sentiment and Riku tells her to take care of Ouka as Hanyuu delivers the final blow, killing both Riku and the Putus.
The Onigafuchi villagers, still believing Riku married a demon, discover his corpse amongst several dead bandits the next day, believing that he and his wife were trying to prove their innocence and died protecting the village. The baby Ouka is adopted by the Kimiyoshis and Sonozakis and raised as atonement.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rina Mamiya
is a hostess who's dating Rena Ryuugu's father. She first appears in "Tsumihoroboshi".
Profile.
"With her gorgeous appearance and smell of perfume, she's great at picking up men. Although she looks very shady, she seems to be involved with Rena's father."
Appearance.
Rina has pink hair and red eyes. She wears a yellow top and has a red star tattooed near the front of her hip. She also wears pink jeans. The PS2 version exchanges Rina's jeans for a blue skirt. Although it is not visible on her sprites, Rina has long fingernails.
Personality.
At first, Rina seems like a nice woman if a little abrasive at times and is always wearing a strong perfume. In reality, she is very crass and intimidating. She is always looking for men who might have deep pockets and manipulates them into spending it on her and swindling as much of it as she can.
Because Rina relies on intimidation so much, she doesn't seem to have any backup plans for when it fails, as seen in "Tsumihoroboshi" where she begs Rena to stop as she's being beaten up.
Background.
Rina was a hostess at the club Blue Mermaid and was dating Teppei Houjou, joining him in loan sharking and badger games where Rina dates other men and has Teppei accuse them of stealing his girl and then blackmailing them for money. After seeing how much Rena's dad had to spend, Rina started dating him in an attempt to claim another badger game victim.
Relationships.
Teppei Houjou.
Teppei and Rina became lovers sometime after the death of the former's wife in the fourth year of Oyashiro-sama's curse and moved in together at an apartment in Okinomiya. The two make money through gambling and badger games/marriage fraud scams.
Although they make gross public displays of affection, they yell vulgarities at each other a lot. Rina is also not entirely faithful to Teppei and won't hesitate to abandon him if she ever finds someone better, something she's even said in front of his face.
Rena Ryuugu.
Rina is dating Rena's father in "Tsumihoroboshi", and so the two of them start to know each other better as Rina spends more and more time with her dad. Rina treats Rena kindly but doesn't do much else.
While they may appear to be on good terms, Rina's relationship towards Rena is not genuine as she's only dating her dad just to get at his money. She knows Rena doesn't approve of her, and when Rena explicitly tells her this Rina drops her kind facade and starts acting like her true, vulgar self.
In , Rina begins to sympathize with Rena's situation since she was also raised by a single parent and tries to break things off with her father.
Tatsuyoshi Kasai.
Rina refers to Kasai as "General Manager" and is intimidated by him. Both work for the Sonozakis in some capacity, and Kasai is very aware of what Rina's schemes are like.
Role in the Story.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Question Arcs.
Tatarigoroshi.
Rina's mutilated corpse is discovered at the very beginning of the chapter by some Hinamizawan villagers. The TIP "East Round Three" shows Ooishi's investigation into her murder, which reveals her real name as Ritsuko and that she worked as a hostess at the bar Blue Mermaid, which was owned by the Sonozaki family. Rina stole protection money and drugs from the place at a grand scale and was killed for it, with the police thinking there had to have been another man involved since it's rare for a single woman to get their hands on yakuza money. It's then revealed that she was Teppei's girlfriend from Okinomiya, and that her death is what caused him to return to Hinamizawa to live with Satoko.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai.
Tsumihoroboshi.
Rina makes her first proper appearance and is introduced at Angel Mort talking to a waitress, annoyed that she can't get a seat due to the Dessert Festa. Rena sees her and they exchange pleasantries, with Rina buying some cakes for Rena and her dad. Over time Rena thinks about Rina's relationship with her dad and how Rina has been spending the night at their home more and more often and has started leaving her belongings there. Eventually their entire living room is redecorated, with Rena starting to feel unwanted.
Rena goes to a coffee shop later where she overhears Rina talking with Teppei to two other men and collecting loan money from them. She also overhears Rina's plans to swindle her father by pretending to need money to get rid of her ex-boyfriend. Rina leaves the store to cash a check, unaware that Rena was listening to her. As Rina leaves she runs into Kasai and bows to him, with the latter and Shion telling Rena about how she and Teppei do marriage fraud scams a lot. After doing some investigation, Rena remembers that Rina was planning to move into an expensive apartment in Okinomiya and discovers she had gotten her dad to pay the entire down payment for it.
Rena struggles to come up with a plan to deal with Rina, and she comes home one day where Rina and her dad say they have something to talk about. Rena dodges it by saying she has to go to the junkyard for treasure hunting with friends and runs off. Rina follows her to the junkyard to find her alone and tells her that she and her dad have been thinking about their future, and Rena flat-out says she won't allow them to get married. Faced with this cold rejection, Rina reveals she always knew Rena didn't like her with how she always ran away when she saw her. They exchange vitriol for each other when Rina suddenly claims that she's pregnant. She's Christian and so she can't abort it, and if for some reason Rena's dad breaks off the marriage then it'll cause trouble. Rena yells that she overheard Rina talking with Teppei at the shop and knows of her plans.
Knowing that they're alone at the junkyard where nobody else can hear them, Rina starts strangling Rena and attempts to kill her. She says her plan would've worked if Rena weren't snooping around and doesn't mind killing her, as Rina was going to disappear anyway after she got her dad's money. Rena grabs a piece of glass and cuts Rina's wrist with it, making her let go and yell in pain. Rena then starts beating her with a pipe, and Rina tries to escape only to fall down a mountain of junk and die from breaking her neck.
Rena kills Teppei later and makes to dispose of Rina and Teppei's corpses by chopping them up and hiding the pieces, which leads her to be found out by the club when they come to the junkyard and find the severed limbs. The club helps Rena dispose of the corpses by burying them in a forest, which Mion later moves to somewhere else using her Sonozaki influence since there was a development project to be done in that forest.
Minagoroshi.
It is shown that Rena's dad was spending a lot of money on Rina when he visited the bar, which Rena discovered after checking his bank account. After conversing with Mion and then her dad, Rena had the remaining money moved to her own account and is now solely responsible for it, avoiding the tragedy that would've resulted from Rena's dad continuing to see Rina.
In the TIP "Before the Flight", Rina prepares to run away to Sapporo by plane and receives a plane ticket from one of her lackeys as they discuss a money deal. The TIP ends as soon as they see a group of cars stopping at Rina's apartment with lots of intimidating men pouring out of them. The next TIP "Wet Blanket" has Teppei returning to Hinamizawa after Rina's apparent disappearance, starting the arc's central conflict. Shion later mentions that Rina was murdered, with the police suspecting Teppei as the culprit and surrounding his house in advance.
Other Appearances.
Miotsukushi (Omote).
In this alternate world set after "Minagoroshi", Rika attempts to avert the situations that lead to her friends' problems. She overhears Rina and her lackeys talking at the library about their plans to steal money from the Sonozakis and informs Keiichi about it, saying that Rina will be murdered and lead to problems for Satoko if they don't do something. They tell Shion and Kasai about Rina's plans, asking them to stop her without killing her. Shion takes their concern into consideration and tells them that she overheard Rina and Teppei talking about a new badger game target, Rena's father. Rika and Keiichi then tell Rena about Rina's true colors and convince her to talk to her dad about it.
Rina's money-stealing scheme is thwarted since the locks to the Sonozaki safe were changed, meaning the keys she stole were worthless. Kasai threatens Rina non-verbally and transfers her to a different, worse-off bar. Rina's frustration grows when Rena's dad suddenly cuts off all contact with her, with a Sonozaki lawyer saying their engagement was off. Rina drunkenly walks through the village and comes across the Irie Clinic, deciding to break in and steal any money it may have.
Rina successfully sneaks into the clinic and enters the basement floor, becoming horrified when she enters a room containing human brain and spinal cord specimens in jars. Takano appears and calmly walks toward the intruder. Rina grabs a nearby gun and threatens to shoot Takano with it, but the nurse pays no heed to her and goes on about how these specimens will lead her to paradise and wisdom. Rina has no idea what she's talking about, and Takano quickly pulls out her own gun and shoots Rina in the shoulder. Rina loses consciousness as Takano tells her she's been researching a new drug and injects her with it. Rina dies with foam erupting from her mouth.
A few days later, Shion informs Keiichi that Rina's corpse has been discovered; she swears that the Sonozakis had nothing to do with it. At the Watanagashi Festival planning meeting, Rika hears some elderly villagers talking about Rina's death. She was found in a drainage canal behind some Okinomiya apartments and looked like she died from choking on mud.
| Rina Mamiya |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rina Mamiya/Sprites
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rina Satou
| Rina Satou |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rintaro Okabe
is a character appearing in in the "" collaboration event From the Future.
Appearance.
Okabe has short black hair and yellow eyes. He wears a white lab coat over a white shirt. A red pen is in his shirt pocket.
Personality.
Okabe is a self-proclaimed mad scientist and is prone to fits of maniacal laughter. He has delusions of grandeur and likes to gives nicknames to others. Not only does he call Kurisu "Christina" and Luka "Lukako", he calls Miyuki "Sidetail", Nao "Mini-Christina", Rika "Frederica", and Satoko "Satonorichalcum".
Okabe has a lot of knowledge about "Higurashi"'s world as a fan of the game and shows confusion at the many things that are different, like Miyuki being a teenager instead of a child and the existence of tsukuyami.
Okabe will sometimes show a compassionate side.
Background.
In Okabe's original world, he built a VR machine allowing anybody to enter the world of any video game. He and his friends enter the world of the game "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni" and wind up traveling to a supposedly virtual Hinamizawa.
Role in the Story.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Mei.
Okabe puts the finishing touches on his VR machine, the "PhoneWaveRevision (Name subject to change) VR". He explains to Kurisu and a newly-arrived Luka the plan to enter the "Higurashi" world, showing off a rereleased version of the game that came with Rika and Satoko telephone cards. When they put on the VR helmets, Okabe briefly enters the Sea of Fragments where a voice tells him to stay away.
The trio enters Hinamizawa in June of 1983, with Okabe amazed since the machine worked better then he expected since everything feels so real. However, he has no idea how to get out, which results in Kurisu getting angry and beating him up a bit. The club hears the commotion and breaks them up. They ask who these new visitors are, readily accepting their story of traveling here from another world.
Okabe tries to leave the virtual world by calling Daru on his smartphone and activating the VR app, but it doesn't work. Kazuho gets a message from Tamura and takes the lab crew alongside Miyuki and Nao to a payphone to talk with her. Tamura explains that those three have come to this world through a gap between worlds created by a foreign object, a tsukuyami, and they need to defeat it otherwise the world will fall apart. However, they can only defeat it by using objects from the same world as them, and Kurisu reveals she still as the Rika and Satoko telecards, which are transformed into Role Cards.
Satoko, Rika, and Satoshi appear and overhear the conversation. Satoko is saddened at the thought she'll have to say goodbye to her Nii-nii in order to protect the world, and Okabe tries to console her since it's not an easy choice. Satoko agrees to it after Satoshi's encouragement, and the group sets off to deal with the tsukuyami. They go to the Furude Shrine where Okabe declares a Hinamizawa branch of the Future Gadget Lab after seeing everyone's interest, and they soon fight tsukuyami.
After the monsters' defeat, Satoshi disappears, and the lab crew disappears soon after since the world line has been restored. Okabe wakes up back in his lab to find Daru working out some bugs in the VR machine. Kurisu and LUka wake up, with Kurisu finding that the telecards are gone. Okabe asks Daru where the "Higurashi" game case is, but he insists it's not a real game. Okabe begins to think that it might not exist since the events inspiring it never happened, and those girls must have done something to cause that. Okabe compliments his new lab members for their success.
| Rintaro Okabe |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rintaro Okabe/Sprites
| Rintaro Okabe/Sprites |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Riria Nunokawa
is a member of the Local Community Service Club in "Iwaihime". She works part-time as part of the idol group Flower High School under the stage name Riria Kurusu.
Relationships.
Overview.
LCSC Club Members
| Riria Nunokawa |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Riria Nunokawa/Sprites
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Risa Asaki
| Risa Asaki |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Ritsuka Furude
is one of the main protagonists of "Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Oni". She is Ryou Sonozaki's friend.
Appearance.
Ritsuka has blue hair in a hime cut.
Personality.
As a child, Ritsuka was very playful and hyperactive. She has a habit of saying . As an adult, Ritsuka can't handle alcohol very well.
Background.
As a child, Ritsuka was part of the Hinamizawa games club and played with Ryou, Souhei, and Seiji.
Role in the Story.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Oni.
In 1923, a young Ritsuka plays tag with Ryou, Souhei, and Seiji at Furude Shrine. Ryou loses and is made to enter the shrine's ritual storehouse at night alone, but Ritsuka and the others join her anyway. Ritsuka says she can allow it since she's a Furude family member. Inside the storehouse, they discover a picture scroll behind the Oyashiro-sama statue talking about "demon descending".
15 years later in 1938, Ritsuka has become an adult and serves as the Furude family's priestess. Souhei reunites with the club when he returns to the village, but notices that some villagers don't like Seiji hanging out with Ritsuka. The group attends the Watanagashi Festival that night, where Ritsuka performs a ritual dance. When Souhei sees that other villagers are leaving instead of doing the cotton drifting, Ritsuka explains they had to postpone it due to wartime supply shortages.
The group drinks sake together afterwards. Souhei asks his friends to join him tomorrow, wanting to know everything that happened since in Hinamizawa since he left.
| Ritsuka Furude |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Ritsuko
| Ritsuko |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Ritsuko Mamiya
| Ritsuko Mamiya |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Ritual Storehouse
| Ritual Storehouse |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Ritual storehouse
| Ritual storehouse |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Road to Pasta Queen
was the fifth event in . It is a cooking-themed event that ran from November 5, 2020 until November 14, 2020. The SR card "Sincere Chef" Rika Furude 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 April 5, 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.
| Road to Pasta Queen |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rokkenjima
is a fictional island that serves as the main setting for . It is privately owned and inhabited by the Ushiromiya main family and staffed by several servants.
Description.
Rokkenjima is a small island located off the coast of Tokyo in the Izu archipelago. It measures about 10km around. The majority of the island is covered with a dense forest, with the exception of areas of land developed by Kinzo for the mansion. To get to there, the Ushiromiya family takes a plane to Niijima airport followed by a boat ride to the island.
In addition to the guesthouse and the rose garden, the images of the paths and stairs from the harbor to the island are also based on the Kyu-Furukawa Gardens.
History.
In the distant past, the island was referred to by the name . A story whispered among fishermen holds that this name is a mispronunciation of . It was whispered that the island was a gathering place for evil spirits, who were then later sealed by a shrine built by a travelling shugenja.
In "Requiem of the Golden Witch", it is revealed that the island was used in World War II as a military base for the Japanese army. It was meant to serve as a launching point for the navy's Kaiten torpedoes, but was never supplied with them due to the nation's poor financial state, and eventually forgotten by the military command. In 1944, Kinzo was stationed on the island as a soldier when the island came into contact with a submarine containing soldiers from the Italian Social Republic. It is during this incident where he met Beatrice Castiglioni and acquired the legendary ten tons of gold. A gunfight eventually broke out between the Japanese and Italians over the possession of the gold, leaving Kinzo and Beatrice as the only survivors.
The island was then purchased by Kinzo from the Tokyo metropolis utilizing his connections with the GHQ. It was acquired under the pretext of establishing a military base, but then converted into Kinzo's own personal island. The island was then developed, with the mansion constructed in 1952. Kinzo's wife and children moved onto the island with him, and the residence of the island eventually shifted to Krauss's family.
After the events on October 5, 1986, the island was repossessed by the Tokyo Metropolis and sealed off from the public.
| Rokkenjima |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rokkenjima Investigation File
is an art booklet that was released at the el segundo Dorado fan event on May 22, 2011. It contains rough sketches for various characters and previews of character designs, among other things.
| Rokkenjima Investigation File |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rokkenjima Mass Murders
| Rokkenjima Mass Murders |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rokkenjima Massacre
| Rokkenjima Massacre |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rokkenjima Shrine
The Shrine is a location on Rokkenjima that used to have a mirror sealing Beatrice's power.
It is also a stage in "Golden Fantasia".
Description.
The shrine is located on a cliff on the island and overlooks the ocean. There used to be a torii gate leading up to it.
History.
Long ago, when Rokkenjima was called Akujikishima, a traveling shugenja built the shrine with a special mirror inside to contain the many evil spirits that were inhabiting the island, which also had the effect of sealing the Golden Witch Beatrice's power and preventing her from truly reviving. Sometime before 1986, Beatrice spoke to Shannon and convinced her to destroy the mirror, allowing her to regain her power. Soon after, a purple thunderbolt was said to have destroyed the cliff, with the torii gate and the shrine falling into the ocean.
In "Requiem of the Golden Witch", it is revealed that the shrine was actually destroyed by the real, human Beatrice to test the explosives retrieved from Kuwadorian's basement to ensure they worked.
| Rokkenjima Shrine |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rokkenjima Shrine/Backgrounds
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rokkenjima affection = Symphonic Fantasy "Infinite Witch"
is one of the nine songs in the ROKKENJIMA in LOVE album.
It is Chiyo Kumasawa and Virgilia's image song.
| Rokkenjima affection = Symphonic Fantasy "Infinite Witch" |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rokkenjima incident
| Rokkenjima incident |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rokkenjima no Arukikata
is a series of 07th Expansion staff interviews published by Toranoana. 4 interviews were released in total.
| Rokkenjima no Arukikata |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rokkenjima no Arukikata EP1
| Rokkenjima no Arukikata EP1 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rokkenjima no Arukikata EP2
is the second interview in the Rokkenjima no Arukikata series. It was published in Toratsu's 130th issue, the March 2008 issue and released on February 25, 2008. It concerns "Turn of the Golden Witch'"s development.
Transcript.
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さて、再び虎通の誌面に「なかせ方」シリーズとして帰ってきたのですが、改めて定番としてのスタートということで、昨年のコミックマーケットはいかがだったでしょうか?という所から始めさせていただきたいのですが。
竜: 全体的な手ごたえとして一般の方が増えたなぁという感覚がやはり大きいのですが、それでもコミックマーケットのブースに来ていただける方というのは歴戦のツワモノの皆様。なので(笑)、ひぐらしの時と変わらずに楽しく参加させていただきました。
八: 僕も冬はちょっと難しいですが、EP1発売の夏は参加させていただきましたね。
竜: 夏男だからねぇ。
また昨年の夏は本当に暑い、冬は本当に寒い開催でしたね。
BT: 今回の冬は本当に寒くて、あと季節柄空気が凄く乾燥していたので売り子さんが大変そうでした。
竜: 皆、喉にきちゃったんですよ。私も最後尾看板を渡した後に列の整理をしていたらガラガラになっていました。daiさんは寝込んじゃいましたし。
dai: はい。年明け一週間をインフルエンザで過ごしました(苦笑)。
竜: そのせいもあってか、07th Expansionでは手洗いうがいを推奨していまして、それでも倒れてしまったのは、きっと彼オリジナル療法のアルコール殺菌を推奨しすぎたためではないかと(笑)
健康志向、ひいては円滑な制作体制の維持のためでもあるんですね。
竜: もちろんですね。マスターアップ前の急場は本当に誰かが倒れたらアウトだし、皆自分の持ち場を生かすことで精一杯ですから。クオリティを追求しようと思ったら、とにかく健康でないといけないなぁと思っています。どうしても狭い環境で制作をしているので、一1人が風邪でも引くと一気に全員にうつってしまうということもありますし。
健康に気遣う職場というのは素晴らしいですよね。
BT: フフフフッフ(一人含み笑いを始め次第に笑みが大きくなる)
八: どうしたの?
BT: あっすみません、ちょっと防虫剤の事を思い出しちゃって(笑)
竜: ああ、あれは酷かったなぁ。
何かあったんですか?
竜: BTさんにカメラとか湿気に弱い備品用に乾燥剤を買ってきてとお願いしていたんですが、何を勘違いしたのか樟脳(防虫・防腐剤として用いられる)を買ってきちゃって、家の中が独特の凄い匂いで満ちてしまった事があって。
BT: とても耐えられないような凄い香りになったんですよ。
八そのタイミングで住んでいるところに工事が入ったりして。
竜: もう樟脳とペンキのダブルパンチに近くの工事の爆音とかで...。トリプルパンチの凄い時期でした。
健康志向といえば、某社様の真相解明読本も拝読させていただきまして、IceboxにハーマるBTさんや、某乗馬機に乗る皆様というのが非常に微笑ましかったのですが。
BT: Iceboxが売ってないんですよ!
竜: まぁ、冬だしねえ。それでも今は某NEXとか相変わらずですね。
BT: 昨年冬のトレンドは春雨ですよ。
竜: 夜中に作業とかしていると、とにかくお腹が空いてくるので何か食べたいんですけれど、おかしやラーメンは体重的にも健康的にも考えてしまっていたんですが、BTさんが春雨関連食品に着眼して、もうあるだけあらゆる種類を買い込んできたんですよ。ところが基本的に春雨は春雨なので、味付けは色々あっておいしいのですがベースが変わらないので、だんだん心を蝕んできてしまって(笑)
八: その前は健康クッキーを買ってきていたねえ。
竜: 毎回修羅場の度にブームやマイフェイバリットが生まれるんだけれど、過ぎてみるとそれがトラウマになっているという。
いったいそのブームの火付け主はどなたなんですか?
竜: 修羅場が始まって07th号が漂流を始めると、最初錯乱しはじめるのがBTさんなんですよ(笑)解明読本にも書いてありますが、お菓子を頭の上に乗せて'ヒー!うめえ!!"と、か言いながら踊り始めて。皆がやめろ、気を確かにしろ!!って止めるんですよ(笑)
変わらず和気調々とした07th Expansionの皆様でとっても嬉しいです。
竜: 本当に古くからのメンバーと一緒ですし、あと何よりdaiさんが来てくれると職場が引き、締まるんです。ずーっと篭って作業を続けていると、徹夜明けの学生みたいに、ある人は漫画を読み、ある人はTVを見て、ある人は転寝をしているような状況になってしまう中で、「次は何をしましょうか?」って言ってくれるdaiさんの存在というのは本当にありがたいです。うみねこになって一番意識しているのは各メンバーの持ち場という部分で、今までは次はあの作業、その次にこの作業という具合に分割された工程を全員でワラワラとやっていたんです。今回のEP2は過酷な状況だったんですけれど、それを乗り越えられたのは各担当が持ち場でベストの意識で作業に入れたからだと思っています。夏明けに私がインフルエンザで寝込んでしまって、その後もモチベーションが戻らなくて2007年の9月から後の一ヶ月を全く無駄にしてしまった事もあって、本当に取り掛かりが難しかったんですよ。
虎の穴のスタッフとして、また全国のユーザさんに対して失礼な質問だと思うのです。が、ずっと走り続けてきた07th Expansionに、一度のみ一作のみ出展を止めようとお考えになったことはなかったのですか?
竜: それは全くありませんね。ある意味で自由な時間というのは諸刃の物で、一度慣れてしまうと次もその自由に流されてしまうかもしれない。そういう意味ではEP2ではなく、EP1の初期で「ひぐらしのなく頃に礼」からすぐに「うみねこのなく頃に」に入れたことは、もしかすると最大の成功だったのかもしれません。
制作に関する熱意は本当に感じ入る所があります。何時のインタビューでしたか『家族で沖縄旅行に行くんですよ』とおっしゃっておられたのが、今回こういった形(紗音・譲治)で帰ってくるとは思いませんでした。
竜: おお一懐かしい、タイムカプセルみたいですね。ちょうどその折に沖縄の写真を山ほど撮ってきて、それが冒頭の沖縄のシーンに繋がってきているんです。まさか、首里城前の風景にうみねこのタイトルロゴが出てくるとは誰も思うまい(笑)
あのシーンは作品中で最初から定められたものだったんですか?
竜: 完全に決め撃ちというわけではないですね。ひぐらしの頃からの習慣でどこかに行く度に必ず写真を撮るようにしていて、都会・田舎・住宅地・おしゃれな喫茶店であるとか今では莫大なライブラリになっているのですが。そこから作品のイメージとすり合せてシーンを形作っています。いつどんなシュチュエーションが必要になるかわからないのでで、素材になりそうな物はとにかく何でも撮ってます。
シーンのイメージやプロットが上がってからロケハンにいくものではないのですか?
竜: 何と言うか奇抜なシュチュエーションであればあるほど、必要になった時に探すと間に合わないんですよね。例えば座敷牢のシーンが急に必要になった時にすぐに用意って、やっぱり難しいじゃないですか。なので先回りして座敷牢のあるような場所を探しに行くか、そもそも無いという事で別の何かで代用するかしかないんです。昔は私が『こんなシーンが欲しいんだけど』と言う度に八咫桜さんが探してきてくれたんだけど、ひぐらしはテーマ的に夏の物語だったので春・秋・冬の印象が少しでも残る素材というのは全て使えなかったんでかなり大変だった気がしますね。
思い出してみると「ひぐらしのなく頃に」での園崎家拷問室とか中々取れるものでは無いですね。
八: あれは最初のロケハン地での農具部屋の写真が主なものになっています。座敷牢の格子も、最寄りの古い神社の格子だけを写真に取ってそれを暗く加工したものですね。
竜: あと警察署のシーンとかは、会議室のような真っ白な部屋の蛍光灯やがっしりしたガラスの灰皿で雰囲気を作るとか工夫はしています。まさか警察署に入っていって写真取りまくるわけにはいかないですからね。
ではいよいよ本編のお話に入りますが、「うみねこのなく頃に」のEP1・EP2を通してプレイさせていただいて顕著に感じるのは「ひぐらしのなく頃に」とは随分異なったミステリに対するアプローチ、推理"という”思考法"に対するユーザへのアプローチが異なってきたのではないか?と思うのですが、その辺りはいかがでしょうか?
竜: まず初めにこの場をお借りして以前お話したことを一つ訂正しなくてはならないんです。ひぐらしの本当に初期の頃にあまり本は読んでいません"とお答えしたことがあったんですが、何だか私が全く本を読んでいないという印象が一人歩きしているようで...(苦笑)。講談社さんにインタビューを受けていた折に、本の名前を言ったら作者名と過去作品がソラで言える様な方達に囲まれていて、お相手が奈須きのこさん、インタビュアーが渡辺浩弐さんとまた読書家の方達ばっかりだったので。こんな人たちに囲まれて本を読んでいるなんて絶対に言えないなぁと思っていたもので、その折にあまり本は読んでいないと応えてしまったのですが、100冊ぐらい読んでいる人が趣味の欄に読書と書くことが許されるなら、和書・外国書・文庫含めてそれよりは遥かに読書をしているほうだと思います。
その上で先ほどの質問に戻らせていただくならば、「ひぐらしのなく頃に」という作品はミステリ風に仕掛けてはあるんですけれども、その中のジャンル分けでも”社会派ミステリ”に近いものだと思うんです。けれど物語の登場人物達は"本格派ミステリ"的な考え方をしており、そこから生まれる社会の皮肉としてのギャップが面白いのではないか、世の中はパズルじゃなく現実的な色んな人の悲劇や悲しみという思いが事件を形作っていくのではないかという考えを基に構築されているんです。
対して「うみねこのなく頃に」はジャンル的に"パズル・ミステリ"や"本格派ミステリの思考法を"意識"しているんです。ここで気をつけて頂きたいのは文字通り"意識している"ということで、この物語が“本格派”として描かれているのか、ファンタジー満載の"アンチ本格派”として描かれているのかという所はユーザさんに推理していただきたいと思っています。単純にジャンルが異なるのでアプローチが違うと感じられるのかもしれませんね。
そのアプローチの方式の下地が“古き良きド・テーマである所の孤島の連続殺人”という前回のコメントに含まれたものなんですね。
竜: そうですね。近年良く見かけられるような様式美の物語ではなくて、例えば江戸川乱歩先生の作品に出てくるファンタジックな物語の隠し扉”や、怪人20面相の絶対見破れないほど高度な変装”とか、完全に手なづけられていて隣人を殺して帰ってくる蛇”、マンションの雨樋を伝って上ってきたオランウータンとかね。19世紀から20世紀のミステリってもの凄くジャンルの幅が広いんですよね。日本では”本格”が一人歩きしている観がありますが、その反対の"変革"であり、叙述"であり、ひぐらしの根幹である"社会派"も一つのジャンルですね。
"社会派ミステリの特徴としては、ある事件がリアルに描かれるんだけれども、ヒューマンエラー、世論による弾圧、捜査方針の変更、冤罪や鑑定ミスという様々な現実に起こっている物事が有り得る事実”として描かれるんですね。昔、ひぐらしで鷹野三四の焼死体に対する死亡推定時刻の真偽を公表した折に、警察が死亡推定時刻を間違えるというのはミステリとしてアンフェアだ!と一部の方が言っておられた事があったのですが、それがアンフェアになりうるのは本格”ミステリ嗜好の方に限る条件でもあったんです。先ほど江戸川乱歩先生のお名前を出したのですけれど、乱歩先生の作品って凄く幅広いジャンルなんですよ。怪人がいて、孤島にさらわれた青年の不思議な話があって、都会の闇を闊歩する化け物、それが狙うのは価値の高い骨董品だけ、果たして犯人が化け物の怪奇ミステリなのか、それとも化け物に偽装した知能犯による本格ミステリなのかそれとも…と、読者は最後の最後まで物語の根幹であるどちらかもしくは、そのどちらかですら無い、もっと別な何かなのかを必死に考える。私はこの世界観を作ってみたいというのがありました。うみねこで提案した『推理は可能か不可能か』というのは正にこの部分を指すのかと思っています。『この作品はいったい何のジャンルなんだ?』という所を考えて欲しいと思います。
テーマとジャンルについて伺わせて頂いた上でもまだ問わなければなりません。それはどうすれば僕はこの「うみねこのなく頃に」という盤面に勝利できるのか?そもそもルールは何なのか、勝利・敗北条件は生なのか死なのか、何が真なのか何が偽なのか、ミクロな一つ一つの殺人を回避する物語なのか、マクロな惨劇を回避する物語なのかを未だ掴みきれないというところにあるんですけれども。
竜：今、私が答えてしまうことは簡単なのかもしれませんが、それをお答えすることは出来ません。作品の楽しみ方を狭めてしまうような事はもちろんまだ言えない所にあるものだと思っています。例えばRPGだって最終的な答えはボスを倒すことにあったとしても、そこに辿り着くまでの枝葉があってこそのゲームであり、楽しみ方押し付けない方法だ。と思っています。だからどれを解かなくてはいけない。何が勝利条件なんだという部分というのは設けていないです。
もしスコアをつけるならばその幾つもの謎に気づき、それに挑んだ人のほうが点数は高いでしょう。「ひぐらしのなく頃に」を作っていた頃に頂いた同じ問いにお答えした折に、『あなたが謎に思ったものを書き出し、それに対する答えを書き出したその文字数が、貴方の点数になります」とお答えしたことと変わらないと思います。これが勝ち負けではなく楽しみ方のお話になると思います。それでも勝ちと負けという二つのベクトルでのシンプルなお答えが欲しいという方ならば、それは第一話で提示した一番シンプルな問いである"魔女を否定し続けるか、否かということに尽きると思っています。多くの皆様は意外と防御が味かな所があって、『魔女いるじゃん!?」と認めた上で化けの皮をはがそうとしているのでファンタジー論にいってしまうんだと思うんです。でも考えてみるとEP1の頃にどれほどの人が魔女の犯行を信じていたんでしょうか?
お茶会にしか出てこなかったですもんね。
竜：でもEP2が終わってみると皆完全に魔女の存在を認めている、もしくは認め始めている。あれだけベルンカステルがお茶会の折に魔女の存在を信じちゃいけないといっていたにも関わらず意識が切り替わっている現実。これがサウンドノベルとしての「うみねこのなく頃に」で初めて挑戦できたゲーム性だと思うんです。それはつまり魔女に屈服するか否かという選択をするかしないかというゲーム性ですね。屈服しない人たちは最後まで魔女に抗い続けて人間的な犯行を立証し続ける。屈服した人たちはファンタジーとして楽しんでいただけると思うんです。
ちなみに僕個人は、魔女の存在は在る。しかし犯行は人間の犯行であるというスタンスで楽しませて頂いているのですが。
竜：それは羽入的存在説ですね、超自然的な存在は居るが惨劇は人間であるという、つまり超自然的な観測者の存在は疑わないが犯行は別という考え方で、ひぐらし出身者には多くおられるようですね。
出身者としてはその位置づけを考えてしまいますね、その考えにゲームマスターである竜騎士さんはもう気づいておられて、それすらトリックなのではないか?と悩んでしまって。そもそもルールはどこにあるのか?思考への取掛かりは何所なのかと悩んでしまったりしていますね。
竜：竜：昔のRPGって結構そんなものだったと思うんです。例えば某有名RPGの海というのがどんどん狭くなっているというお話を聞いたことがあるんです。ストーリー主導型になる前のRPGって、広い世界を自由に渡り歩いて主人公達が成長する物語で、その所々に関門的な中ボスや謎があって、それを一つ一つ繋げてゆく事に楽しみを見出せたんだと思うんです。
昔のRPGは、例えば中盤に船が使えるようになると行ける所が多すぎて何をやってよいのか解らなくなって挫折してしまうそうなんです。見知らぬ大地を歩いて見知らぬ町を見つけるあのワクワク感を0から探す旅。それが今の位置”の「うみねこのなく頃に」だと思うんです。ただ読むだけのサウンドノベルであり、得点もGAMEOVERの文字も何も出るわけではないのに、物語に対して挫折する方と物語に抗う方が出てきてくださるという挑戦的なテーマを作りたかったというのがあります。
僕は丁度今波止場を出て途方にくれているところです。
竜：その所在無さも楽しんで欲しいです。だけどこのインターネット時代には、手引きとして色々な人の推理や解明読本のような本が出ている。色々な人の色々な発想を見ているうちに突破口がひらけてくるかもしれない。向き合った謎を人に話し、またそこから違った視点での判断を聞き、新たな可能性に進む。そんなコミュニケーションによる集合知性がひぐらしから続くこのゲームの謎への最良な取り掛かりではないかと思います。その上で屈服した人が負けではなく、ファンタジースタイルとリアリティスタイルの二つのコミュニティが独自の考えでそれぞれの物語を進展させることも大切なことだと思っています。ただ作品のスタイルが非常に挑戦的になっているので、『屈服したら負け』ですよ、どれだけの人が屈服しないでリアルとしての犯行を信じられるかふるいにかけていますよ。貴方は何所まで耐えられますか?』という世界観はジャケ裏から提示させていただいていますよね。
なるほど。
竜: ひぐらしに比べて本当にうみねこは親切だと思います。二話の時点からベルンカステル様がお茶会にお越しいただいて、こういうゲームですよと説明して下さっていて、ベアトリーチェも口では酷い事を散々に言いながら「わらわを否定してみろ」と懇切丁寧に遊び方を指示してくれているという。ものすごいツンデレなゲームなんです。
例えばそのゲームシステムのルールとして、2日間の間、全員が生き残るのが必要な、んだろうかと疑ってしまうんですよね。
竜: 全員が生き残るというのはひぐらしを継承しているだけですよね。そもそもひぐらしで全員が生き残らなくてはならなかった理由というのは、ひぐらしのテーマが連帯・連携だったからなんですよ。全員で仲良く突破しようという世界観だからこそ求められたことだったわけです。だから仮にうみねこで全員死なないでクリアしようという条件を探るならば、なぜ全員死なないというルールが必要なのかという世界観を探る必要がある。ひぐらしが友情・連帯・全員による勝利による誰も死なない世界という括りだったならば、うみねこの世界の括りは何所にあるのか何なのかを探る事が必要ですよね。
それこそが盤面のルールなんですね。
竜: この世界では何を探ることが目的なのか、本当にカンの良い方ならばこの世界での勝利条件というのは何なのだろうな?と考え、ある程度ご自身の考えに至っているのかとも思います。ひょっとすると全員で生き残るというひぐらしの世界の括りと、うみねこの世界の括りを比較すると……。これ以上申し上げるとつまらなくなってしまうのかもしれません。最終話のラストの絵はもう浮かんでいるので、どういうふうな広がり方で最後に向かうのかを考えているんだけど、本当に今が多分一番楽しい時期なんだと思うんですよ。すべての答えが出てしまって、仮に二日くらいで全編をプレイするよりも、ドキドキしながら、色んな人と話しながら一話一話追っている時が一番楽しいんだと思うんですよね。
トンチンカンな質問ならば恐縮ですが今回の赤文字のデバックは結構大変だったんではないですか?
BT: それほど大変な部分ではありませんでした。タグのように囲んで文字を赤に指定して表現するだけなので、作業的にもそんなに大きなものではなかったです。
竜：セリフの前にキャラクターの表情を変えるぐらいの違いでしたね。それよりも場面に合わせて文字の表示速度を調整するほうが実は大変でした。体感でパッと解るものではないので、あっちのほうが大変だったな。
文字の表示速度といえばやっぱりつるぺったんに勝るものは無いのかもしれませんね。
竜：あれは今回丁度うちのスタッフで流行った物で、それが余りに流行りすぎて「Silver Forest」さんに11月ごろかな?結構ギリギリの時期にメールでお願いしたんですよ。その折には全く面識は無かったのでメールでラブレターをお送りしたんですが、本当にすぐにご快諾いただけて、『じゃあやっちまえ!!』という気持ちで作ったんです。BTさんが結まってる頃だったけど、時間を空けてもらって某動画風に作ってくれとお願いして3日ぐらいで力作を仕上げてくれたんですよ。
某動画風という画面上の決まりの中に先ほどおっしゃっていた文字制御で製作したんですね。
竜: 元々今使っているツールというのが、サウンドノベルを作るためのツールでアクションゲームを作るための物ではなかったので、最初に作ったものではすごく処理が重くなるし、文字が二列ぐらいしか出せなかったんで大改造したんです。
BT: Nscriptの新しい機能にデモ命令というものがあって、それを使うとかなり早く画面の描画処理ができたので、上手く弾幕のような感じが出せたと思います。
竜: あのやり過ぎ感は素晴らしかった(笑)
やっぱりあのシーンでの某東方のコスプレというのは。
竜: EP1が終わった時から魔理沙っぽいといわれていたので、魔理沙ですが何か?と(笑)
竜: このあたりのユーザさんとのコミュニケーション感は大事にしたいと思っているんです。
富竹フラッシュとか。
竜: 譲治は自分で描いていたころから富竹っぽいなとは思っていたので(笑)、そういう面白さというか公式による二次ギャグとかは好きで取り入れています。
質問を戻させていただいてEP2のキャラクターについて伺わせていただきます。丁度今が第二回人気投票期間中ということもあってすごく気になるんですが、まず何故に郷田9位かと。
竜: 人気投票はひぐらしの頃から特定の傾向があったのですが、トータルの人気が出てくるのはゲームが完全に終わった後だなと。ゲームの途中では直前の作品、一番旬なキャラクターの印象が強すぎて本当の人気は計れないなと思いますね。前回は夏妃がすごく人気があったと思ったら今回は郷田の人気が上がっている。裏を返すと次回作で今まで全然スポットの当たっていないキャラクターに注目すると人気が上がる可能性はありますね。
悔しいですが、今回の郷田は自らの誇りを知るカッコよさが好感度高かったですね。前回が嫌な感じだっただけに。
竜: 嫌な奴の良い所というのはやっぱりポイントが高いですよね。印象が逆転すると本当に好感度が一気に上がるもので、面白いですね。
逆に紗音ラブな僕としては何故に11位かと。
竜: 彼氏持ちはツライですね(笑)それは彼氏持ちのカップルキャラクターの宿命なのかも。しれません。そのあたりフリーで謎を秘めた美しい魔女達の人気ぶりが大いに補ってくれていると思いますよ。その中でも彼氏どころか旦那が居る夏妃の人気が何処まで行けるのかというのはすごく興味深い所で、EP1の後の人気投票で上位に入ったときは嬉しかったですね。
EP2でEP1よりはっきりした夫婦間のやりとりの中でも、蔵臼と夏妃に関してはすごく好感が持てましたが、竜騎士さんが描きたいこの作品での夫婦というのはどのようなものですか?
竜: これはハードボイルド作品ではないので夫婦の間に理想を感じて欲しい。人を好きになって結婚して子供が産まれるから社会は成り立っているわけで、皆が皆独身を貫い。ていたら国が終わっちゃうわけですしね。うみねこという作品は親族というテーマとして、家族・血族に関しても大切に見てますし、夫婦仲に関してもちょっとドライではあるかもしれないけど、悲観的には書いていないつもりです。もしハードボイルドに描いたらもっとリアリティあふれる家庭内別居のような表現をしたのかもしれません。ひぐらしではそれを描いて、レナの父親、母親という存在や、沙都子の叔父叔母という家庭問題をリアルに描いた部分があります。うみねこではそれがテーマではないわけで、一見財産問題で、ギスギスしている一族なのにわりと模範的な夫婦が居る。もっとドロドロしたものを書くなら両方とも浮気をしていて離婚間近とかのほうがそれらしい感じにはなるのかもしれません、で謎の娘が当主の隠し子みたいな(笑)
絵羽・秀吉夫婦や、留弗夫・霧江と違って難しい関係なのかなと思われていた蔵臼・夏妃の仲が以外に暖かくて好感がもてました。
竜: あるWebサイトさんでずーっと蔵臼・夏妃の漫画をひたすら描いて下さっている所があって、すごくラブラブな二人でね。楽しませていただいているんです。夏妃の人気はこういう方のおかげなのかもしれません。
BT: 戦人の人気を見ていると、女性のユーザさんや主人公属性を好きになってくれている。
一般ゲームユーザが多いのかなとも思いますね。
竜: そうだね、もうちょっと偏りがあるならばもっともっと煉獄の7姉妹が上にいくんじゃないかな?と思うんだけどね、これくらいの順位(20位外)で収まっているのがおかしいくらいですからね。空気読まずにやはり単独首位がサタンかアスモデウスで、金髪ツインテールが時代の流れなのかと、そのまま1-7位独占とかでも面白かったけどね(笑)
そんな人気の煉獄の7姉妹を遥かに押しのけて今回急上昇の楼座について伺いたいこのですが、あえて壁に触れます。1日目夜、礼拝堂に他の兄弟達と一緒に楼座も居た。それなのにその後の表現がぼかされている理由はなんでしょう?
竜: さーて、何故なんでしょうね(笑)。誰にも聞かなかったから答えなかったんじゃないですか? あの場所には兄弟全員とベアトリーチェが居たわけでしょ。その後兄弟全員死んじゃってベアトリーチェ様がお姿を現さない以上ねえ。誰も知らないんじゃないですか。誰も知らないなら楼座は礼拝堂になんて行かないで部屋で寝ていたんじゃないですかねぇ。そのあたりはどうなんでしょうか(笑)。皆さんが違和感を持たれたらそれが第一歩です。そこから何かが積みあがっていくものだと思います。
今回は前回の夏妃のような立ち居地で楼座に対するクローズアップがあったので、印象が強いですね。元に戻りまして、時の人気に嫉妬を隠せないですね。
竜: あれは熊沢の人気の一つだと思うんですよ。先ほどの煉獄の7姉妹も一人一人じゃなくて7姉妹という一つの括りだったらもっと上にいっただろうし、熊沢票と鯖の票が合わささったらどこまで上がっただろうかと考えるとちょっと面白いですね。
そして戦人、ベルンと人気を二分するベアトリーチェ様がついに色々な場面で光臨しておられますが、違和感に対する質問として、魔女として非常に恐ろしいベアトリーチェと、金蔵に対して哀切の情を見せるベアトリーチェ。人に二面があるように魔女にも二面があるとしても、非常に違和感をがあるのですけれども。
竜: 面白い推理ですよね。ベアトリーチェには複数の人格があるとか、異なるベアトリーチェが存在するのではないかとか、掲示板に書き込んでくださった方がおられましたね。面白い推理ですよねという以上はまだ語れないですね。
EP1とEP2の立ち絵の違いも要素としてはあるのかもしれません。
竜: 外からやって来るので、外着みたいのはないのかなぁとゴスロリ本とかで勉強してました。服装に詳しい方とかがご覧になると、凄い方だとメーカーまで特定されますね。最初に楼座の服が・・のロングジャケットですよねというのが来たときには驚いた。次が嘉音の黒のコートで本当に即バレでした。本当はゴスロリの服装に関してはローゼンメイデンぐらいしか知識がなくて、しかもよくよく調べるとそれすらゴスロリではなかったりして。本当に幅が広くて服の世界も大変だなと思いました。ベアトリーチェに関しても色々組み合わせて形作っていくうちに面白くなってきたんで、次は何にしようかと考えてますね。毎回違う服で、ベアトリーチェの衣装を見ただけでEP幾つかわかるとかだといいな。と思いますね。何より江草さんにベアトリーチェを描いてもらうと我々のモチベーションが上がるんですよね。キービジュアルの力って強いんだと思い知らされました。
そして魔女というと今回同じぐらい印象が強い異界の魔女のお二人。ベルンカステルとラムダデルタですが、すごいインパクトですね。
竜: 魔女勢はすごいですね。TOP10にラクラクで下手するとTOP5に入ってきそうな感じですが。計らずもこのTOP10に入ってきた魔女の人数が幻想の侵食度を表しているのかもしれません。抗う戦人が孤高に立って居るけど戦人が落ちると上位をほぼ幻想勢が、覆ってしまう。まさに今の順位はうみねこの世界観の体現なのかもしれません。
前回は隠しお茶会の中だけに現れていたのでファンサービス的なものなのかなと思っていたのですが。
竜: 実はファンサービスと言いながらも見つけて欲しいものだったんですよ。そんなに意地の悪いコマンドじゃないつもりだったんですが、いつか誰かが見つけてくれるだろう、ネットで気づいた人が見つけてくれるだろうというものにしたかったんですね。けれど意外に気づかないでスルーしてしまう人が多かったので、EP2にあたってシステムを変えたいとBTさんと相談して大立回りの末にああいった形に切り替えてもらったんですね。
BT: 仕様を変更する。マスターキーの数は5個(笑)
八: 今赤で言った(笑)
BT: そんなに無茶な変更ではなかったですし、私としてはお茶会がバンバン人の目に触れるというのは個人的に嬉しいことだったので全くオールオッケイでした。
竜: BTさんが大好きな魔女勢が一杯で。
BT: もう裏お茶会をメインにしてください(笑)
本編にも侵出してきそうな勢いですね。
竜: お茶会も立派な本編なんだよね。
今本編とおっしゃられたお茶会、EP2の所々に出てきている戦人とベアトリーチェの対話は上位存在を意識させる位置づけが垣間見えますが。
竜: 私から語るものではないのかもしれませんが、一つ上の世界の存在に見受けられますね。皆が目の前の事件でああだこうだと話している所を俯瞰的に見て話し合う戦人とベアトリーチェが居る。下位世界にとっては現実なんだけど、上位世界にとってはまるで、お芝居の世界の物語のように見えている。上位観測者が複数居る世界観。しかもその世界が複数、何かある世界であることは間違いないですね。ひぐらしは多磨世界であるという話の説明にシュレディンガーの猫の話をしたかと思うんですが、この中で良く頂上的な観測者の話をしたかと思うんです。ドラマじゃないんだから我々の世界には観測者っていないじゃないですか。世界を同時に知ることの出来る神の目というのが観測者であり、そういうレイヤー層に関す……うーん、中々言いづらいですね。多層世界の新たな表現と思ってくださってもいいし……。まだこれ以上はいえないようです。悔しいなあ、あと一年たったら色々言えると思うんだけれども。ただ、お茶会に関してもう一つだけいえるならば、あれは決して読まなくて良いおまけではなく、本編の一部であることは間違いないですね。ただそれが地続きの世界なのかどうなのかは読みながら探っていって欲しいと思います。
では食い下がってもう一つだけ、ベルンカステルとラムダデルタの二人はひぐらしのニ人に……。
竜: 良く似ていますね(笑)。
ひぐらしをプレイしていない方からすると新キャラ登場!!というような。
竜: それくらいの感覚でよいと思います。うみねこを楽しむのにひぐらしの全プレイが必須ということになるとそれはそれで大変ですので、ファンサービス半分、雰囲気のリンクが半分という所でしょうか。ひぐらしのセーブデータを持っている人が楽しめる要素のように「受け止めてもらえると嬉しいです。よくあるじゃないですが、前作のセーブデータがあると見える世界とか、それぐらいのものとして受け止めて欲しいです。
今までの流れからしても今回は「魔女の要素が本当に深い作品だったんですね。
竜: 名前がTurn of the Golden Witchですからね。ずっと魔女のターンっていうことで(笑)
さすがに魔女のターンだけあって、現実・人間派を駆逐せんばかりのインパクトでしたね。
竜: EP1で魔女を否定する人間での最大の根拠は魔女が居ない事でした。魔女が居ないならば誰かがそれを偽装したに違いないという考え方だったので、そのトップの論拠となるシュチュエーションにすべて魔女が現れるという形としてお届けしたんです。別のインタビューでお答えしたと思うのですが、うみねこのなく頃には、ほとんど全てが製作の数ヶ月~半年前のユーザさんの推理、疑問に対する提示とトリックで作られているんです。だからユーザの心のよりどころを探し出しては潰してゆくというすごくサディスティックなシステムなんですね。だからEP2はEP1の感想を書いた人へ宛てた物であり、同時に彼らが作ったものでもあるんですよ。例えば顔が潰されているからという疑念に対して顔を潰さない死体が存在したり。だからもしかすると次は検死できていないという条件を押さえた上で全ての事件の死体に対してベアトリーチェが赤字説明を入れるかもしれない。でも今悩んでいるのはベアトリーチェの赤すら疑われているので、それを誰に保障させるかが悩みどころですね。
では詰めとしていくつかのガジェットに関する一問一答をお願いしたいと思います。
【設問1】今回の盤面のルール、それに対する解読の指針とは?
竜: 北極星のように輝く何か、それを見つけ出すことが一番の近道だと思います。ただ魔女派か人間派か、それが定まらないと見つけることは難しいのではないかと思います。
【設問2】碑文にある'最愛の魔女ベアトリーチェの一文から鑑みるに碑文を作らせたのは金蔵のはずなのにこの事件がおきているのは何故?答えを知っているなら解き明かしてしまえばよいはずでは?
竜: チェス版理論ではないけれど、じゃあ何でこんな碑文を書いたの?"ということになりますよね。本当に誰にも渡したくないのだったらヒントを書く必要すらないんです。クイズというのは人を試すために、試練というのは人をいじめるための方法であると同時に、それをパスする人を探す方法でもあるんですね。金蔵はこのクイズを出して、誰かに解いて欲しいと思っているのかもしれない。チェス版思考によると金蔵は隠した黄金を隠しきって死ぬ気はないらしい。あんな意味深なものを書いている以上誰かに解いて欲しい。あんなロビーの真ん中に置いているんですしね。
しかも本編中に何度もこの謎を解いてくれと促されている。そのわりに幾つも事件が起こってしまって碑文の謎からぶれてしまっている。
竜: 身内がどんどん死んでいって気にしている暇がないですね。でも二話重ねてこれだけの事件が起こっているからこそ、犯人探しよりも碑文に意味があるのではないかという発想が生まれているわけで、現実問題として傍らで殺人事件が発生しているのにノコノコと宝探しは出来ないですよね。ただEP1の時点でこの謎を解けというのは絶望に近いです。私は答えを知っているからこうやって繋がるんだよというのが解りますが、ノーヒントで解けというのはあまりにも酷い。EPごとに少しずつヒントが出てくると思います。
【設問3】EP2では最初の事件の犠牲者がEP1の犠牲者と異なりましたが、それはなぜ?
竜: あくまでひぐらしの法則によると、プレる情報は必然ではない。共通項のみが必然である可能性がある。ということは最初の6人は固定ではない。しかし6人という数字は固定である。このあたりでひぐらし戦線の方は様々に考えることができるのかもしれません。ただしその事実が意味のあるものなのか無いものなのかはわからないですが。
【設問4】なぜ回収の期限があるのでしょうか?
竜: なぜでしょうか。ただ少なくとも10月5日の晩には毎回物語は終わる。事件が続いて警察が来て、物語は21世紀へ、となってもいいはずなのに。
【設問5】利子の回収が始まる瞬間、つまり契約満了のKEYとは何なのか、金蔵が指輪を投げた瞬間なのでしょうか?
竜: どうなんでしょうか。事件は何時から始まっていたんでしょうねえ。最初の事件は10月5日の早朝、10月4日の深夜であることは描かれている。ではそのスタートはどこでしょう。碑文が書かれたときでしょうか。
【設問6】煉獄の7姉妹に関して、EP2の第一の事件は大食があたるかと思いますが、抗が存在しなかったのはなぜでしょうか?
竜: ベルンカステルも言っている通り、ベアトリーチェは時々無駄な手を指しますからね。ラムダデルタは直球なので読みやすかったんですが、様式美にこだわるベアトリーチェに通じるかは解らないですねぇ。時々結果よりも手段が楽しくなることがあるようですし。
竜: 何もかもを疑える。けれどもそのどこかには必ずベアトリーチェの目的があるはずです。毎回殺人事件が起こる、そして皆殺しにしているという所は一致している。けれどベアトリーチェは遊び心やふざけた一手でごまかしている。
完全犯罪はツンデレではないんです。解けない密室に必ず何かのヒントが残されている本格ミステリこそがツンデレなんですよ。現場に必ず何かの証拠が残っているんですから。闇に葬られた迷宮事件とかこそ完全なアンチツンデレなんですね。
「うみねこのなく頃に」は、一見0%の正解率とか言っているんだけれど、実は幾つかのヒントを残して、『なんで解いてくれないのよ』というあたりがツンデレたる所以なのかもしいれません。碑文がある事で金蔵は誰かに解かせたい、不特定の誰でもいい、嘉音にすら"家具であってもお前が解いてもよい'といっている。今回EP2で一番ベアトリーチェに一矢報いたのは実は戦人じゃなくて、実は紗音なんです。あなたなんて知らない"あの言葉にベアトリーチェは憤怒した。だから皆に信じて信じて~、構って構って〜と言っていまるベアトリーチェは一番ツンデレさんと言えますね、郷田さんのステーキを食べてみんな満足して帰っちゃったら魔女は寂しくて仕方ないのかもしれません。そんなツンデレなお話なんですよ。
【設問7】先ほどから1-2年後には話せそうだなとおっしゃっておられましたが、作品の最終的なイメージはもう固まっておられるのですか?
竜: 何時というのははっきりとはいえないんですけれど、すでに物語全体の構成と最後のシーンにいたるまでのイメージは固まっています。読者の皆様の流れや悩みに対して答えてゆきたいと思っていますし、自分の答えとは別の、皆様が期待している答えも作ろうと思っています。今一緒に読んでいるライブ感を大事にしたいと思っています。
「ひぐらしのなく頃に」と比べて全体的に話の展開が速い印象をうけるんですけれども、今回も物語としては出題と解答という形式は今回も踏襲されるのですか?
竜: うみねこの展開は速いですね。いきなり最初にラスボス的な人物が出てきたり。これが終わったら結婚するんですよねというフラグが立ったり。やはり近年の読者を意識している部分はありますよ。ただ、解答編がなんと呼ばれるものかは決めていません。解と題をつけるかどうかはわからないです(笑)。
ではEP3で語られるものとはどのようなものになるでしょうか?
竜: EEP1で世界観と人物紹介。EP2では敵と味方と、するべき事が語られた、次はいよいよ戦いになると思います。戦人は今回やり込められたけど、敵はわかったし、するべき事も解ってきた。でも戦いといってもBattleという意味じゃなくて、敵を信じるか否かという知的闘争なものになるといいなと思います。
ではいよいよ次は戦人のターンですかね?
竜: と思ったらフルボッコにされて黒のリリアナで、『ズン、チャンチャ、ズン、チャンチャで終わりとか(笑)
竜: 私は読者の期待を常に裏切りたいと思っています(笑)
ありがとうございました。本当に申し訳ありません。今日はせっかく皆様に来ていただきながらどうしてもシナリオとルールのお話が主眼になってしまいました。
竜: daiさん次のEP3では20曲僕の曲が入りますとか言おうよ(笑)
dai: 頑張ります(笑)
竜: 実際、スクリプトの演出部、改行に関する目配せや、嘉音・紗音の戦闘シーン、何より黄金の蝶なんかは、八咫桜さんが基礎スクリプトをつくってくれていました。
八: 演出部での見せ方は少しずつですが増えてきていると思います。Nscriptで出来る演出としてはかなり頑張ったかと思います。これ以上になると本格的なエンジンを借りてきてカスタマイズするしかないのかなと思います。
竜: BTさんは本当に全てやってくれているよね。掲示板、スクリプトから健康管理まで。
BT: 色々とやりました。つるぺったんの仕事が一番楽しかったです(笑)
では本当に最後に魔女に立ち向かうユーザの皆様へのアドバイスか、次回作への豊富をいただけますか?
dai: 物語のアドバイスは私から申し上げるのは僭越なので、一曲でも良い形で皆様にお届けできるといいなと思います。
八: EP3はまた奇想天外な演出を一つでも込めていけたらいいなと思っています。よしチェ
ス盤をひっくり返すぜ!とかを演出で出来るかなとか(笑)。
BT: 次回作は黒山羊さんが溢れる六軒島を生き残るサバイバルホラーで、デッドライジングみたいに(笑)。
竜: 次回は黒山羊無双で。
八: 黒山羊も擬人化で、
プレイヤーキャラは選べるんですか、戦人とか、裏キャラでベルンとか(笑)
BT: 今のところ選べる仕様になっています(笑)
BTさんがおっしゃると何処まで嘘かわからないのが恐ろしいですよ(笑)
BT: と冗談はさておいて、一番今日のインタビューで思ったのは筆者さんが悩まれているのを見て、うらやましかったです。すごく楽しんでいらっしゃるなって、私自身は、誰も真犯人も全て知ってしまっていますので、そういった楽しみ方が出来なくて…
竜: 今回のうみねこに関しては、07th Expansionの皆と漫画の編集部さんには全てのネタバレはしていますね。わずかな表現ですらネタをしらないと矛盾する恐れがあったんで。
BT: 悩んで苦しんで考えていらっしゃる姿を見て、こうやって楽しむものなんだなということを改めて認識したような気がします。
竜: 今回はスタッフが一番楽しめないのかもしれません。
BT: EP3が出てしまうと、また状況が変わるので、EP2が楽しめるのは今しかないと思うんです。リアルタイムで悩める楽しさを感じて欲しいなと思います。
竜: 毎回毎回新しいヒントが出て、一番楽しめるのは今しかない。この瞬間の連載を楽しんでいただける今を楽しみにして欲しいと思います。
皆様ありがとうございました。
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rokkenjima of Higurashi crying Volume 1
Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode X: Rokkenjima of Higurashi crying Volume 1 is the first volume of "".
Publisher's Summary.
"親族会議のため、六軒島へ1日遅れてやってきた青年・右代宮戦人は、上陸直後から奇妙な状況に遭遇する。鳴り響く祭囃し、様子のおかしい親族の面々。「竜宮レナ」 「園崎魅音」 などと名乗る、見知らぬ少女たちも現れて――。次々と起こる不可思議な出来事に困惑する戦人の前に、やがて “黄金の魔女” が姿を現す!?"
| Rokkenjima of Higurashi crying Volume 1 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rokkenjima of Higurashi crying Volume 2
Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode X: Rokkenjima of Higurashi crying Volume 1 is the second and final volume of "".
Publisher's Summary.
"『ひぐらし』 『うみねこ』 をコラボした、EpisodeXの完結巻！ “黄金の魔女” の挑戦を受けた戦人は、謎の究明に奔走する。豹変した親族、碑文に刻まれた不可解な詩。徐々に真相へ近づく中、ついに最後の晩を迎える……。"
| Rokkenjima of Higurashi crying Volume 2 |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Role Card
are cards that allow people to gain the strength necessary to battle tsukuyami, either through transforming or manifesting weapons.
Most Role Cards are inspired by storybook or movie characters but can also take the form of outfits worn by other people, as seen in the Steins;Gate event where Satoko and Rika use Role Cards inspired by Rintaro Okabe and Kurisu Makise respectively.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Role Cards
| Role Cards |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rondo of the Witch and Reasoning
is a port of the "Umineko no Naku Koro ni Question Arcs" for the PlayStation 3 by Alchemist. It was released in Japan on December 16, 2010.
Promotion and Release.
Alchemist, who previously ported to consoles, would once again work with 07th Expansion for this new port. The game was first teased on August 13, 2010 in a cross-promotion with when a page showing "Gal Gun" characters in the style of "Umineko"'s witch portraits went up on Alchemist's website. Subsequent portraits were revealed on later dates, with a reveal that Alchemist would announce their new game at Tokyo Game Show on September 14, 2010. There, it was revealed that Alchemist would be doing a console port of "Umineko"; Takahito Ekusa, who previously did the PC version's portraits, would be designing new artwork primarily for female characters while FFC would be designing new artwork primarily for male characters.
It was also revealed that the voice cast was almost the same as the cast from the , and that the PC version's original soundtrack was completely reused and remastered. A new opening theme, Senkyou no Igrēja, would be composed by Chiyomaru Shikura.
On Alchemist's website, an interactive game and contest called was held where people could answer difficult riddles and win prizes. Some hints were provided on the website pixiv.
Story Arcs.
The port includes an entirely new character sprite set with additional poses and expressions, the addition of CGs, additional visual effects, the addition of voice acting, and a new opening video. The story is identical to the original source material, with some changes and censorship:
CGs and Videos.
New character sprites may be found on the respective character pages. See the following pages for CG galleries:
Staff.
Voice Actors.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Ronoue Genji
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Ronove
is a demon butler who serves as Beatrice's head furniture. He first appears in "Banquet of the Golden Witch".
Appearance.
Ronove wears a black tuxedo coat with the One-Winged Eagle on his sleeve over a white shirt, black pants and black shoes with a red cravat. He has short black hair, a black mustache, and a monocle.
Personality.
Ronove is very playful, often poking fun at his master when they least expect it. Even so he displays devotion to following his master's orders and won't hesitate to unleash his power.
Ronove is also shown to be brave, as in "Twilight of the Golden Witch"he offers to stay behind and fight off the goats when they attack Rokkenjima.
Abilities.
Ronove specializes in creating magical barriers for both offense and defense, generating strong ones to both deflect attacks and launch enemies backwards. He can also use a special barrier that returns damage back to the attacker. In "Dawn of the Golden Witch", Ronove is capable of creating high-class red barriers that prevent opponents from escaping, that not even Leviathan could dispel due to his rank as a great demon. His meta super in Golden Fantasia shows that Ronove has a demonic side to him that he keeps under wraps. His SP attack, "Innocent Rose" shows he can create magical roses to attack his opponent or act as a barrier against projectiles.
In regards to other abilities, Ronove has the power to instantly kill people with the snap of his fingers, though it is not clear if Beatrice later places a restriction on this or Ronove purposefully holds himself back. As Beatrice's furniture, Ronove also has the ability to use red truth and revive people, but only for a short period in the latter's case.
Ronove has impeccable cooking skills and is shown to even run a sort of cooking show in The Seven Sisters' Valentine.
Background.
Ronove was summoned by Beatrice to act as her servant and used Genji Ronoue as a vessel, taking a form based off of him.
From an anti-fantasy perspective, Ronove was created as an imaginary friend by Yasu, who based him off of Genji.
Role in the Story.
Banquet of the Golden Witch.
Ronove makes his first appearance, becoming a sit-in for Beatrice whenever she and Battler are fighting. Though he serves as Battler's opponent for some parts he is unable to make any moves without Beatrice's approval. Later in the story Ronove becomes EVA-Beatrice's Furniture after Eva solves the epitaph. He mainly appears to inform her of Beato's wishes and to help her to become a great witch.
When Kanon and Jessica are escaping, he spots them and lets them escape while EVA-Beatrice is distracted with playing with Nanjo's corpse.
Alliance of the Golden Witch.
Ronove is summoned by Goldsmith and gives Jessica her test, where it's revealed that Genji is his vessel. He then battles Jessica, fending off her rapid punches with magic barriers, holding out until Gaap takes care of her.
"End of the Golden Witch".
In the ????, he arrives to assist Battler after he becomes the Golden Sorcerer.
Other Appearances.
Golden Fantasia.
Ronove is a playable character, able to create barriers and block attacks. His special ability is "Counter Boost," which increases damage of counter hit. He has story modes with Virgilia, Battler, Beatrice, EVA-Beatrice, and George.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rosa Ushiromiya
is Kinzo Ushiromiya's youngest child and the mother of Maria Ushiromiya. As the youngest Ushiromiya adult, she has very little say at the family meetings and is poorly respected by the other adults.
Appearance.
Rosa is a young and beautiful woman who has sandy brown hair with a . The length of Rosa's hair varies between different adaptations. In the visual novels, her hair falls past her shoulders. However, in the various manga adaptations, her hair can reach past her waist. Her eyes are black in the original PC version and light brown in the and . She has fair skin and appears to be somewhat more flat-chested than other women, as well as very thin.
She wears a long, black, country-styled gown, combined with what appears to be a long dark red skirt, a white shirt under her coat, and long black boots with medium heels. The One-Winged Eagle family crest is embroidered in gold on her oversized white tie.
In the console version, Rosa's casual attire consists of a blue navy vest over a white, wide-sleeved shirt with matching blue navy pants.
Both the anime and the manga adaptations shows that, as a teenager, Rosa wore a checkered red-and-black skirt and wore her long hair in pigtails. She wore a blue vest over a white, long-sleeved shirt.
Personality.
Since her absent lover abandoned her when she gave birth to Maria, she's had to raise her up by herself and work overtime in her company. She is seen as a calm and loving person who is also very quick-tempered and violent, especially towards her own daughter, whom she physically and verbally abuses on multiple occasions. Despite her very violent tendencies, she tends to regret her choices and feels bad about what she does, often apologizing to Maria by crying with her and accepting her daughter's imaginative interpretation that Rosa herself had been possessed by "the Black Witch". Rosa even goes so far as to define Maria as her only ally in the world.
Even though the other siblings and their spouses find her to be very dumb, naive and an easy target because she's the youngest, she is shown to be rather intelligent and manipulative actually, as she is the only one besides Eva to solve the epitaph on her own (and indirectly helping her sister find it before her by pointing out a key detail that Eva herself was overlooking) and in the "Turn of the Golden Witch" she keeps separating the servants from the rest of the survivors, pretending to be concerned about them and pushing suspicion onto them; for this very reason, in this Episode she emerges as a dictatorial, resentful and vindictive figure, unable to trust others unless she is sure of earning something without taking any risks. Rosa's treatment of the servants can also be seen as a result of extreme paranoia, given that Rosa has experienced numerous betrayals of trust at the hands of her siblings at a young age and thus always expects the worst from people. Rosa also seems well aware that Battler has inherited Rudolf's fondness for beautiful women, using it to her advantage during her aiding the young boy in solving the epitaph during "End of the Golden Witch" by lightly flirting with her nephew and making him promise to give her a share in case he succeeds in finding the gold before anyone else.
Throughout all the games, it's implicitly stated that the origin of her violent mood swings is not only due to the abandonment of her daughter's father but also from the cruel treatment that her parents, her brothers and sister reserved for her when she was still a kid and it is often shown more than once that Rosa has a veiled profound resentment and hatred for all of them. The hatred she feels for her older siblings is explored extensively in the second game where, after getting over the initial scare and shock of finding their bodies, Rosa has no problem appearing subtly pleased with their deaths in front of her nephews and she's constantly obsessed with how badly they had treated her in the past. All of this eventually led to her being tortured in the Tea Party; being physically forced to ingest their severed body parts and their blood to fulfill her childhood wishes of punishing them.
As demonstrated in the second and fourth games, Rosa is volatile and will lash out at others at the slightest doubt or provocation when she finds herself in a situation where she has power over other people in more disadvantaged positions than her own. This seems to echo what Eva always did to her. In these situations, she also subconsciously speaks in a venomous manner like her older siblings when she expresses her real thoughts towards her family and servants.
Her ambiguous nature is further deepened so much that, even with her poor tolerance, her emotional frailties and her serious unsolved psychological problems, in her moments of tranquility Rosa is able to effectively project a very kind and calm aura of herself with which she is partially able to deceive most other of her relatives including Battler, who initially saw her as the most peaceful and mature of the family's parents.
Rosa is also greatly affected by her status as a single mother in an oppressive society like Japan, in which women like her are looked down upon, perceiving how everyone forces her to always and only put her daughter first at the expense of her own needs and desires. Because of this, she is very obsessed with her public image both as a woman and as a mother, so when she loses control and punishes Maria for one of her tantrums or neglects her, she tries to do it discreetly and so that no one suspects anything.
Her daughter, neighbors and employees seem to believe that, like her brother Rudolf, she is very fickle in romantic relationships because she regularly starts relationships with many men and gets engaged only to soon break up with them. Because of her very stressful and tiring lifestyle, a part of her started to dream of a life in which she is so rich that she doesn't even need to work, spending her time traveling and relaxing in hotels and spas and completely free from any responsibility.
Due to the way she was raised and abused by her own family, as well as her inability to replicate the academic achievements of her older siblings, Rosa also developed low self-esteem (for example deeming herself often not very smart and incapable as her parents and siblings always describes her), as well as a certain level of cynicism about her own ambitions and a general self-contempt, that its only worsened in the years following the abandonment of Maria's father and her other many unsuccessful romantic relations.
Similar to Natsuhi and Eva, Rosa is also characterized by a certain amount of pride; very often during the beginning of the games she always tries to hide her complicated relationship with Maria so as not to give the rest of the family further excuses to attack her. Her pride can be seen also in categorically refuses to talk about her financial difficulties in front of her daughter so as not to involve Maria into her problems. It is also confirmed that, beyond her suffering from the stigma of Japanese single mothers, combined with the fact that she lives in the 80s when the babysitter system in Japan was considered something unthinkable, Rosa left Maria alone at home and forbidding her to come out for preserve her good image as a mother and not attract further negative judgments on both her and Maria.
What nobody knows is that, apparently, the reason why Rosa is so determined to get her share and use it to repay her debt is because she hopes that by doing so Maria's father will come back to them only to give her daughter the opportunity to finally meet him. However she also knows that it is very unlikely, if not almost impossible, that this scenario happens and her real goal is to put an end to one of her greatest regrets and to be able to give herself and her daughter a bright future. However, she is also, understandably, very resentful of her daughter's father and is prone to outbursts of anger when she is confronted unfavorably with him. Furthemore, one of her biggest fears is find out he left her to start a new life and family with another partner.
In the "Twilight of the Golden Witch" manga, a glimpse of Rosa's childhood is shown where she was very sensitive and empathetic. She suffered cruel abuse at the hands of her parents and siblings and had many dolls and stuffed animals as her only friends, explaining why she spoiled Maria by buying new toys to make her happy. If what Beatrice reveals in the second Tea Party is to be believed, Rosa as a child often wished to be an only child and found herself dreaming several times that very horrible things happened to Krauss, Eva and Rudolf, pointing out a further resemblance to Maria who does the same with her in order to deal with her abuses.
Sometimes, probably because of her lonely childhood spending by growing up in Rokkenjima without any friends, Rosa is very aware that she has never been able to become completely an adult mentally, as she often points out in the first Episodes.
She also feels immense shame when Maria behaves in a childish way, whether it's talking about magic and witches in public or treating her toys as a real living friends; this behavior makes Maria the object of bullying at school and reminds Rosa of her father Kinzo. It becomes worse when only the name of Beatrice becomes a source of debate and discussion due to the fact that it awakens traumatic memories buried in her psyche that have to do with the witch.
In any case, the beginning of the troubled relationship between her and her daughter is mainly due to her own constant feeling of hatred and self-loathing, combined with the feeling that her whole life is a failure due to her problems and regrets, which Rosa, unconsciously, seems to project them onto Maria (whose social problems and difficulties behaving like a normal child alienate her from the rest of the other children and make Rosa herself a target of her older siblings and Japanese mentally restricted society) because of their numerous similarities.
Rosa can be judged as a very resilient person because, although she often gives in to her darker emotions when she unleashes them on Maria, it is noteworthy that she took charge of raising Maria alone despite all the adversities that she has faced throughout her entire life. With the Ushiromiya family's many problems, Rosa wants to try to be a better mother and build a happy future with Maria.
Abilities.
Being a fashion designer, Rosa has a certain skill and competence in both drawing and sewing, considering that neither Maria nor Ange doubted that she was able to create Sakutarou. Also, according to Ange, Rosa herself has made a good part of the outfits she wears.
Officially she doesn't seem to specialize in a particular fighting style like Krauss and Eva or is as skilled and experienced as Rudolf and Kyrie with firearms. However, Rosa has proven not to be an opponent that should be underestimated. In fact, the source of her strength is her unexpressed fury that emerges when Rosa believes she and her daughter Maria are in danger, an emotional state that in the Meta-World allowed her to kill several Goat Butlers using just a gold bar and a fountain pen; with a Winchester rifle, she is able to not only keep up with a witch of Erika's level, but even puts her in a difficult situation much more easily than both any other human being and witches in "Twilight", including Battler.
Background.
Being born as the youngest by far of the four Ushiromiya siblings and growing up on Rokkenjima, Rosa never had anyone to play with. Whenever she tried to play with the young servants, her brother Rudolf would flirt with them and take them away. In short, she had a very lonely childhood and only had numerous porcelain dolls and a rabbit doll (Uu-tan) to play with. Being a child among her already adult siblings, she was an eyesore that her siblings could not comprehend. One day, Rudolf took her doll and ripped it to shreds, a mistake that she would also make to her daughter one day. Rosa spent her childhood surrounded by frequent physical abuse by Krauss, verbal and psychological abuse by Eva, and every form of bullying by Rudolf, ending with the constant terror that Rosa felt towards Kinzo.
As a young adult, she had a lover who later on became Maria's father. When her lover was about to leave overseas hoping to make a career by signing a loan to finance his trip, he tells her that he will come back for her; she believed him for a while, and because of this she would show Maria a picture of him and her on the beach. However, he never returned, and Rosa was then forced to become a single parent for Maria; whenever she would ask her who her father was, Rosa would avoid the topic. Once, when Maria asked her where the picture she showed her was and drew a picture of it, she had a violent outburst, showing early signs to her mood swings. This ended up pushing Maria even further into the occult due to Maria thinking she never had a father and that she was a virgin baby, thanks also to the visit of a priest who told the story of the birth of Jesus in her nursery school. Rosa also had to start working very hard to raise all the money needed to pay off the debts derived from that loan in her last 9 years.
Due to the numerous traumas suffered as a child in their hands, Rosa has also distanced herself considerably from all her siblings so much that, except for Krauss and his family when she takes Maria to Rokkenjima for the holidays, they and their families have the opportunity to see her and Maria only once a year because of the conference.
At some point, Rosa started her company Anti-Rosa. She takes a lot of work trips, resulting in Maria staying home alone to take care of herself. However, many of these trips are actually Rosa secretly going on small vacations to lavish locations with her supposed boyfriend.
With all this build up of stress, Rosa has since suffered from mood swings. She would be calm and happy to Maria in one scene, and in the next would then abuse her for the childish way she acts, especially if Maria is acting particularly difficult or acting extremely creepy.
Relationships.
Overview.
Ushiromiya Family
Meta-World
Maria Ushiromiya.
Maria is most likely the only point of reference in Rosa's affections, not only by virtue of being her only child but also because she is Rosa's only true ally against the whole world. Unfortunately for Maria herself, this also means being the only person with whom Rosa can feel free to vent the vast amounts of stress, anger and sadness that have always tormented her over her entire life. Although Rosa is very abusive when she is angry and also negligent towards her daughter when she is tired, she feels both a lot of guilt and deep shame for it, deeming herself an incapable mother at times and consequently trying to make up for it by making promises with Maria she will eventually forget, or spoils her daughter by buying her numerous toys and candies. Despite her true feelings for her daughter being questioned multiple times, in the end it is shown that Rosa will do anything to safeguard both Maria's health and her future.
Kinzo Ushiromiya.
Since her birth Rosa has had a very neglected relationship with her father, as the few times Kinzo interacted with her was only to scold and punish her. Their relationship was further strained when, as revealed in "Banquet of the Golden Witch", Rosa had witnessed the death of Beatrice as a child, whom Kinzo knew, and blamed herself for her death. Rosa trembled at the thought of what her father would do if he found out and her stress grew as an adult when Rosa directly challenged Kinzo's authority as the head of the family by choosing Maria's name by herself. This offended Kinzo so much that he has avoided any kind of contact with Maria since then.
Krauss Ushiromiya.
Krauss is Rosa's oldest brother. The "Turn of the Golden Witch" Tea Party shows that when she was a child, Krauss would hit his younger sister and break her toys for seemingly no reason. As adults, Rosa is very resentful of Krauss because he refuses to help her financially by giving her her share of the family inheritance. During family conferences she is particularly targeted by her brother, which causes Rosa to quickly lose her temper.
Eva Ushiromiya.
Eva is Rosa's older sister. When Rosa was a kid, Eva lied to her a lot, making fun of her because she thought that Rosa was stupid for believing her and even would get Rosa into a lot of trouble with the rest of the family with her cruel pranks. The "Turn of the Golden Witch" Tea Party shows that Rosa often dreamed of cut Eva's tongue off by biting it when her sister would torment her, like when she celebrated her 9th birthday and Eva constantly teased her by telling her that she had no friends to invite and she would be all alone celebrating at her party.
As an adult, Rosa tries to maintain a polite attitude with her sister however she's often targeted and disrespected by Eva even when she does nothing wrong, which, as shown in the episodes, fuel the repressed hatred and contempt that Rosa feels for her. When given the chance, Rosa doesn't hesitate to use Eva's predicaments and problems to her own advantage, shown in "Banquet of the Golden Witch" when they both solve the epitaph and Rosa blackmails Eva, promising to be silent about the discovery of the gold in exchange for guaranteeing she gets a legitimate share. This is also shown in "Requiem of the Golden Witch"'s Tea Party, where, during the start of the Rokkenjima Mass Murders, Rosa refuses to cover for her sister and Hideyoshi when they accidentally kill Krauss and Natsuhi and insists that they be arrested.
Rudolf Ushiromiya.
Compared to Krauss and Eva, Rudolf seems to be the only sibling with whom Rosa has a peaceful relationship. However, as shown in the "Turn of the Golden Witch" Tea Party, as kids Rudolf would do the same things to Rosa that Krauss and Eva did. The "Twilight of the Golden Witch" manga adaptation shows a brief flashback to Rosa's childhood where Rudolf would also deprive her of friends to play with among the young servants and destroyed her precious stuffed rabbit in front of her.
Role in the Story.
Legend of the Golden Witch.
Rosa is introduced when the family meets at the airport. Maria finds a wilted rose in the garden and wants to care for it and winds up losing track of it. he can't find it later, Rosa hits her and leaves her alone in the rain to search for it. After realizing her mistake, she runs back out and embraces Maria, profusely apologizing.
Rosa is later killed on the first twilight with her head smashed in, which was impossible to recognize despite her clothes.
Turn of the Golden Witch.
Rosa and Maria are on the train headed for the air station where Rudolf, Eva and their respective families are waiting for them, however Rosa alters when an elderly lady gives an excited Maria a candy and cannot resist the temptation to slap her daughter and scream at her when Maria refuses to return the candy. After calming down once she got off the train, Rosa buys Maria a pumpkin candy, which she later smashes out of frustration when Maria keeps talking about witches and halloween's origin to the other relatives. Soon, Beatrice appears and uses magic to restore Maria's candy, much to Rosa's shock; she hands them a letter, telling them not to open it until the right time.
Rosa becomes the only adult to survive the first twilight and leads the rest of the survivors. She becomes extremely suspicious of the servants, separating them from the rest of the family and taking control of the master keys. Ultimately, she and Maria survive the entire ceremony, heading to the chapel to retrieve a gold bar; they're surrounded and killed by the Goats while trying to escape the island.
In the Meta-World, Rosa is tortured by Beatrice, who feeds her food made out of her family: a Bloody Krauss made from his blood, a salad made from Eva's tongue, a pie wrapped in Rudolf's face, and finally Maria's head, oven-baked with apples. Battler eventually arrives and saves her from her torment.
Banquet of the Golden Witch.
The adults start talking about the letter from this supposed 19th person Beatrice and what to do with her. As their discussion goes on, Rosa becomes increasingly disturbed, revealing that she had killed Beatrice. After calming down, Rosa begins to explain.
Meeting Beatrice
In 1967, she had a fight with her mother, both over her low grades and because one of her tutors revealed her secret to the latter; she ran through the forests of Rokkenjima, having heard of the legend of a witch living within. Eventually, she found the hidden mansion Kuwadorian and discovered Beatrice living there. She and Beatrice became friends and talked about how Kinzo would visit her every few days, among other things.
Rosa lamented how Beatrice seemed to know nothing about the outside world and took her out of Kuwadorian. As they scaled a cliff to go to the beach, Beatrice fell off and died. Shocked, Rosa ran back to the mansion and kept this a secret. Ever since this incident, Rosa blamed herself completely for Beatrice's death; this also strained her relationship with her father to a certain degree, as she once was frightened when Kinzo would call her.
The Second Twilight
The next day, the adults move to the guesthouse after the first twilight. Rosa manages to solve the epitaph, but reaches the gold room too late, as Eva got there first. She congratulates her sister on finding the gold and Eva asks her to keep it a secret. Later Rosa is sacrificed again by her own sister-turned-witch EVA-Beatrice. She is brutally and repeatedly killed and resurrected with bizarre magic, and both in the anime and manga adaptations, Maria is tortured alongside her before finally being killed by Beatrice.
Alliance of the Golden Witch.
Rosa was sacrificed once again by Kinzo when he summons demons and witches in the dining hall. While trying to get a grip on her situation, Rosa attacks her father with a chair only to get killed by Chiester 00 with a golden arrow smashing her head. In the anime, her throat is slashed open.
In the 1998 scenes, Ange, through reading Maria's diary, learns of Rosa's complex relationship with her.
Sakutarou's Birth
On Maria's birthday, Rosa and her daughter celebrated it in a family restaurant. As a present for her daughter, Rosa gave her the doll Sakutarou. Sakutarou became Maria's best friend since Rosa is always working away from home, leaving her all alone at home.
On one occasion, however, she told her daughter that she would be away on a business trip; it was actually a meeting with her siblings Rudolf and Eva, on the topic of what they could do to make Krauss share the inheritance. Not wanting to drag her daughter into something that only concerned the siblings themselves, Rosa didn't take Maria along (despite Rudolf suggesting that she did) because she hated talking about the gold in front of her. When Rosa returned from her supposed business trip, Maria discovered the hotel receipt, which she then snatched away.
Sakutarou's Death
One night, Maria lost the key to their home. When Maria went to the police, the police contacted her company, Anti-Rosa, to which her employees told the police that she was on a date with her boyfriend in Sapporo, Hokkaido. When she returned home, she was faced with a child welfare officer; after violently sending her out, Rosa started to blame Sakutarou as the reason for all this, as she's told Maria time and time again not to take her stuffed animals out in public. She rips Sakutarou apart and smashes one of the bunnies from Maria's ceramic bunny band collection.
Later on in the Meta-World, Rosa is tortured for a long time by Maria, who repeatedly and savagely kills and revives her with Beatrice's help as revenge for her past abuse and destruction of Sakutarou; as she's suffering, Rosa keeps assaulting Maria with verbal abuse, ultimately screaming that she has hated Maria since the day she was born because she's a constant reminder of the man who abandoned Rosa.
Much later, Ange visits Maria and Beatrice in the Golden Land, trying to convince her cousin that this Golden Land is an illusion by reviving Sakutaro despite Rosa denying his existence after tore him apart (making it impossible for even Beatrice to revive him). During the discussion, Maria briefly conjures up an image of a happy Rosa in an attempt to convince Ange that in the Golden Land Rosa is always a good mother to her.
End of the Golden Witch.
Rosa, along with the rest of the parents, is a witness to Battler's victory when he manages to find gold thanks to the suggestions of the new guest Erika Furudo. Later, feeling slightly chilled, she leaves the rest of the group to go to sleep. Died in the first twilight.
Dawn of the Golden Witch.
As part of the love trial, Rosa is murdered in the parlor by Kanon. who delivers a supersonic strike. Later, Erika tries to examine her corpse.
Requiem of the Golden Witch.
Rosa is interviewed by Will and retells the story of when she met and killed Beatrice. She reveals that she had called Genji that night, who swore her to secrecy and promised to take care of things. It is also revealed that the Beatrice she met was the human Beatrice and Kinzo's illegitimate child.
In the Tea Party, after refusing to comply with Eva's plan to cover up the accidental murders of Natsuhi and Krauss, she was killed by Kyrie by a shot to her head. There was an unused bullet in Rosa's rifle, which threatened Kyrie's plan.
Twilight of the Golden Witch.
In Bernkastel's game, Rosa is killed on the first twilight.
In the battle in the Golden Land, Rosa fights against Erika and manages to keep up with her teleports, almost shooting her.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rose
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rose Garden
The on Rokkenjima is located in front of the guesthouse. A nearby garden storehouse keeps tools within it.
The Rose Garden and the storehouse are featured as stages in "Golden Fantasia".
Description.
The Rose Garden has a large row of rose bushes and an arbor in the center. It was inspired by the Kyu-Furukawa Gardens.
The storehouse meanwhile was built away from the rose garden and hidden from view due to its ugly appearance.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rose Guns Days
| Rose Guns Days |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rose Guns Days (manga)
The manga adaptation of "Rose Guns Days"" "was supervised by Ryukishi07 and illustrated by several artists, who differ from season to season. It first began serialization with the adaptation of Season 1 by Soichiro, which released in the September 2014 issue of Square Enix's Gangan Joker magazine. The manga was later collected into "tankōbon" volumes. Two spinoff series, "Aishuu no Cross Knife" and "Fukushuu wa Ougon no Kaori", have also been released.
Yen Press has licensed the manga for official English release. Seasons 1, 2, and 3 have been released thus far.
Volume List.
Rose Guns Days: Aishuu no Cross Knife.
is a spinoff manga. It takes place in 1946 and focuses on Wayne Uedera trying to save his friend accused of murder.
Rose Guns Days: Fukushuu wa Ougon no Kaori.
is a spinoff manga. It takes place in 1946 and focuses on Rose Haibara before she became the Madam of Primavera.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rose Guns Days (novel)
| Rose Guns Days (novel) |
fandom.07th-expansion | # Rose Guns Days (series)
is a Japanese dōjin visual novel series produced by 07th Expansion.
The first entry, ', was first released at Comiket 82 on August 11, 2012. Successive entries were released at each Comiket with the final game, ' being released on December 31, 2013 at Comiket 85.
A fan translation was created by The Witch Hunt. MangaGamer briefly licensed the Japanese version for sale and use with Witch Hunt's patch.
Official Introduction.
"1944.""World War 2 for Japan ended abruptly. A massive disaster hit the whole island and left Japan in a devastating shape. The US-China Alliance proposed an unconditional surrender from a humane standpoint and the Japanese government accepted. The war for Japan ended then."
"In order to restore the country that was still in a devastating shape, the US-China Alliance stationed themselves in Japan. Japan was split into two, not in a clear north and south division, but like a complicated chess game at a municipal administration level, to prevent Japan from becoming the stage of a new war between the United States and China. The two countries tried to reform Japan quickly as if they were competing to show their power."
"As a result, Japan was able to get back on their feet from the rubbles in a matter of few years. However, the towns governed by China and the United States were modified in their own unique way, and Japan no longer looked like what it used to be."
"Because of the massive immigrants entering the country from two sides, the Japanese people became a minority. The people who lost their homeland had to live in a foreign land called Japan."
"The homeless race, the Japanese. However, by gathering together, they continued to live, cunningly and vigorously."
Gameplay.
"Rose Guns Days" is an action drama visual novel, and as such conveys its story primarily through text-based narration and dialogue supplemented by visual and audio elements such as character sprites, background music, and sound effects. It is described as a "sound novel" by 07th Expansion, owing to the game's greater focus on creating atmosphere through audio elements rather than visual aspects.
Besides advancing text, "Rose Guns Days" has some interactive gameplay elements. At certain points of the story, the player may choose a location for the characters to visit for story-relevant scenes, however the order does not matter, as all locations will be visited regardless to advance the story.
"Rose Guns Days "also features minigames that occur during fight scenes. Fight scenes have "Attack" and "Defense" portions, marked by blue and red backgrounds respectively. "Attack" portions require the player to mouse over and click white targets that appear as a timer winds down. Hitting at least 3 targets will enable the player to perform a finishing move and move to the next segment. "Defense" portions require the player to mouse over white targets that appear, no clicking required. Points are given for successful attacks or defenses. During Attack portions, the player may continue attacking for more points as long as there's time left.
When the finishing move is activated, the player must choose from one of six playing cards; choosing cards with higher values will yield more points. If the timer runs out, a score penalty is given and the section resets. After the fight ends, a "K.O." will appear on screen, and the player's score will be calculated. Various emblems are awarded based on how well the player does. The higher the score, the harder minigames get; there will be more targets to clear in Defense portions, and less time will be given during Attack portions.
The player may skip minigames by hitting the spacebar, instantly using the finishing move, or disable them entirely before starting the chapter.
Story.
"Rose Guns Days "is set in an alternate world history where Japan loses World War II because of a natural disaster. Facing occupation by the American and Chinese armies and assorted mafia groups, Japanese people are thus on the verge of becoming a minority in their own country. The nightclub Primavera, owned by Rose Haibara, attempts to improve quality-of-life and preserve Japanese culture, and in the process becomes an organized crime syndicate.
As years pass, Primavera becomes a well-known nationalist group, and in the future the current head of Primavera Jeanne Amakawa is interviewed to determine how Primavera got to where it is today.
Release History.
Original PC Release.
Each installment of "Rose Guns Days" was released at Comiket. Each successive installment contained prior seasons.
On August 31, 2016, a compilation titled Rose Guns Days The Best released, featuring all 4 seasons and a new short scenario.
Smartphones.
The series was ported to iOS and Android by aibee. "Season 1" released in both a paid regular version and a free lite version on November 9, 2012. "Season 2" released on May 10, 2013.
Adaptations.
Manga.
A manga adaptation of the series was serialized in various Square Enix magazines and later collected into 12 total tankobon volumes, encompassing all four seasons. Two prequel spinoff manga were also released, Aishuu no Cross Knife, and Fukushuu wa Ougon no Kaori. Yen Press has licensed the manga for official English release and currently have only released Seasons 1, 2, and 3.
Light Novel.
The novel adaptation of "Rose Guns Days" was written by Ryukishi07 and Makoto Fukami of "" fame and illustrated by ｓｅｒｏｒｉ. Only two volumes have been released from 2013 to 2014 covering "Season 1". The novelization has likely been discontinued.
Stage Play.
A stage play adaptation of the series was produced by Shingidan, adapting all 4 seasons.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rose Guns Days (series)/Music
Upon completing Last Season, the reader is able to access the Music function and listen to every music track in the story.
The music files can also be found in the game's BGM folder. Information on when each track is played in the story may be found in the Plot Summary pages for each season.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rose Guns Days (stage play)
A stage-play adaptation of "Rose Guns Days "was produced by the theater group Shingidan and directed by Masami Itō.
Cast.
Characters grouped under play of first appearance.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rose Guns Days -The Best-
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rose Guns Days 10th Anniversary Commemoration Anthology
is an anthology manga celebrating ' 10th anniversary.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rose Guns Days Sorrowful Cross Knife
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rose Guns Days The Best
Rose Guns Days The Best is a re-release of . It includes all content from to "Last Season" and a new special scenario. It was released on August 31, 2016, the same day "TRianThology ~Sanmenkyou no Kuni no Alice~" was released.
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fandom.07th-expansion | # Rose Guns Days The Best/Plot Summary
"Rose Guns Days The Best" contains every Season and a new Special scenario where Julie goes back in time to meet the Primavera members of the past.
See below for plot summaries of previous seasons:
Special.
Primavera, 1947. Stella Maiougi and Meryl Tanashi tend to a guest who looks very drunk and might throw up. Rose Haibara asks the guest Julie Hayashibara if she feels alright, and Julie wakes confused as to where she is. Stella says this is Club Primavera, thinking that maybe Julie lost her memory from being drunk. Rose introduces herself, and Julie realizes that she’s speaking to her grandmother in her prime. Julie wonders how she could have traveled back in time from 2016 but puts the thought aside and thinks that if this really is 1947, then she has a once in a lifetime opportunity to interview the founding members of Primavera. Cyrus Saimura and Richard Maiougi soon arrive, with Julie excited to meet them. Meryl is intrigued that Julie knows them all so well, and Julie says they’re the hardest working people in Japan. Rose meekly accepts her compliments, and Leo Shishigami and Wayne Uedera appear. Julie is surprised to see how similar the young Wayne looks to Toratsugu but feels a different vibe from him.
Julie introduces herself as from the Hong Kong Daily News. Leo compliments Julie for her looks, and Julie wonders if a time paradox could occur if he continued any more. Julie determines that this really is 1947, the year Madam Jeanne started and a while before the “Days of Roses and Guns” began. Julie says she wants to interview the group, but Richard shows confusion since he’s never heard of Hong Kong Daily. Julie remembers aloud that the newspaper company wasn’t formed until 1995, and when Stella asks what she means by that, Julie tries to backpedal and say she was talking to herself. The others begin to catch on but Wayne thinks Julie is still drunk and speaking nonsense. Rose stares at Julie, mentioning that her eyes resemble her mother’s eyes. Leo says Julie looks more like Rose. Rose asks Julie if they met before, and the others begin to notice the similarities between the two.
Julie reveals that she indeed came from 2016, much to Meryl’s surprise. Richard thinks she’s telling the truth since her clothes are much nicer. Julie pulls out her driver’s license as further proof, and Richard and Cyrus think it’s much too elaborate for a joke and must have been made with advanced technology. Rose asks how Julie went to the past but she doesn’t know. The others ask Julie if she knows who’ll win in boat racing and boxing the next day, and Stella asks who she’ll marry in the future. Julie hesitates, since Stella died in 1949 because of Gabriel’s plans and never got to marry. Rose tells everyone to stop pestering Julie and asks what the world is like in 2016. Everyone speculates on the future, but Julie agrees that Wayne’s interpretation is correct: technology advanced, the streets are crowded, and the buildings are taller, but the rich are still rich and the poor are still poor.
The group asks if Julie brought anything else from the future, and she explains she has a smart phone. Stella and Meryl play with the camera and the beauty app, trying it out on Wayne much to his annoyance. Leo comments that if they had such a device combining radios, cameras, and computers, maybe they wouldn’t have lost the war. Cyrus wonders if the future is full of more terrible weapons, and Julie explains that as of the 21st century, the US Armed Forces are developing unmanned weapons. This is the kind of tech that would allow someone to remotely control a weapon from miles away like it were a regular day job. Richard hopes for an age where wars come to an end, but wars like this that won’t hurt anyone are also nice. Julie stops speaking right there, not wanting to crush their hopes. 20th century wars had many civilian casualties as a result of fighting between soldiers, but the 21st century was full of terrorism and unmanned weapons. Common incidents included weddings being bombed on accident.
Rose asks if the future has hope, and Julie says it does; there are many things in the future, but there is especially hope for those who believe in it. Rose hopes that over time, people’s emotional scars from war will heal and that Japan will make peace with China and the US. Julie muses that though physical documents may fade over time, digitized memories will always stay. Rose wishes that Julie’s generation could be stronger if her own were sturdier, and Julie sees the Madam understands that the future is one where past scars will remain forever. Julie tells Rose not to worry, as even though she was bullied in school for being full-blooded Japanese, she has a lot of Chinese and American friends. They have the potential to get along with everybody in the future, especially with language translator devices.
Julie sees how much Wayne is devoted to Rose and thinks about how he’ll continue following her ideals all the way into the future. Wayne notices Julie staring at him and asks what’s going on, with Julie commenting on how cute he is in front of Rose. Wayne takes offense and says he’s going to be a big shot one day comparable to Leo and Cyrus, and Julie says he will. She calls him Advisor Uedera and says he’s the reason Primavera still exists in 2016. Cyrus is amazed at that future promotion while Julie explains that Wayne becomes an advisor to the Japanese brotherhood association and the consigliere to the greatest Japanese mafia group. Wayne says he doesn’t want to be part of a mafia group and would rather protect Rose. Meryl asks who Wayne marries and if he has children.
Julie suddenly starts feeling dizzy, realizing that her time limit is over. Leo thanks her for the talk and says he’ll tell his child to name his own grandchild Julie. Julie’s consciousness fades, and when she awakes she finds herself back in the present. Toratsugu says they’ve arrived at their destination, and Julie remembers that she was returning home after dinner with Madam Jeanne and drank a lot; that discussion with Primavera’s past members must have been a dream. Julie asks Toratsugu if they’re living their lives well enough to make their ancestors proud, and Toratsugu says not to worry about that. Young people given the chance to live for themselves is a privilege, and even the advisors used to romp around like they do. Julie understands that learning from history is important, but they shouldn't be compelled to follow along with what people of the past did.
Julie promises to do her best and gets an email on her phone, a game notification from Toratsugu asking for reinforcements. Toratsugu asks Julie if she'll help but she ignores him. He gets another email from Julie, this one containing the modified image of Wayne from the past. Toratsugu gets confused since he doesn’t remember ever wearing clothes like this. Julie feels heartbroken, missing her chance for the scoop of a century. Even though the people of the past had such strong hopes for the future, Julie is doing trivial things like sending reinforcements for a game. Julie wonders if she’ll be able to expose her heart to her own children 50 years in the future. Julie thanks her grandmother and Jeanne for what they did and decides to send the Wayne image to Jeanne and Advisor Uedera.
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