God do I love Higurashi. I've been setting off finishing it for quiet some time, mostly because I could never find the time to watch it without the risk of my parents walking in on a disturbingly violent scene, but now that I tend to watch my anime at night before I go to sleep I've rediscovered why I gave it a 9 on MAL in the first place. Who can't love a show where you can make merchandise like this:
But really, I absolutely love the way this show is set up. The people who are my friends tend to think that I really abhor violence or that I don't like scary movies, but obviously they don't pay attention to the anime I watch. I mean half the reason I like Higurashi is because it dares to be so violent, despite how cute and innocent the characters may seem.
I tend to like the rush horror movies give me and with Higurashi, it has a great underlying story. Like, I just finished episode 21 where there is basicly a repeat of an arc that happened earlier in the series (those who've seen the series know what I'm talking about) but from a different perspective, which was really neat and really showed that everything in this series isn't what it seems.
It's sad to hear though that the anime doesn't follow the game and actually makes the characters seem slightly more heartless in the anime (Shion for example: in ep. 21 she was actually supossed to survive the inital fall, come to her senses, and then die by ending her own life, with a famous line that I shall not quote for spoiler reasons) I really wish I could speak Japanese and had a region 2 PS2... :[
...And doing a little more googling it seems the french company Editions-Anima wants to include one of the Higurashi games on the 6th disk or give it a seperate release... YES!!!!!!!! Thank god out of all the languages I decided to take in middle school and highschool it was french! That'll give new incentive to learn it and learn it well. *does happy dance* So what if it'll 4 years until I can get my hands on it and there are no plans to release it in the near future? As long as I know I can get the game somewhere I'm happy. :] <3
And a final thing. I've noticed quite a few AMVs for Higurashi featuring the song I'm listening to right now. The idea is stellar, it's just the exacution falls flat on it's face. I mean, I don't think I've seen a single Higurashi video that didn't have subs, more or less any effects... and it's sad to see too!
This is probably the best one I've found so far (bare in mind I haven't looked very hard) that doesn't use Animal I Have Become:
I take that back, this one is:
Either way, it's still hard to find a good Higurashi video.
And yes I am up at an ungodly hour, but I screwed up my sleeping pattern because I wasn't feeling good yesterday and I slept till 5 in the afternoon. To get myself back to my normal patterns I have to basicly stay up all night and go to sleep early the next night. But I won't rest until I've watched the rest of Bokura ga Ita and listened to ART&R's discussion on it.
Well, I'm gonna go type up the review of Battle Angel I wrote (by hand) last night and this morning for Hey Hey Anime and then get ready for church (If I was catholic, confession would sure be interesting, lol). See ya!
-Midori
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