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* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: ''Everyone'', since each arc shows a different character through a different lens and allows the reader to see through their thoughts.

* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: Higurashi Kira? Just another fanservice [[OVA]], yawn. They're milking the franchise.. Oh wait.. {{spoiler|Satoshi's awake?!}}

* [[Anvilicious]]: Above all else, the anime series' main theme and moral seems to be about the importance of having a good [[Abusive Parents|child protection program.]] The recurring theme of child abuse and the slogging bureaucratic "attempts" to fight (and in one memorable case, actively ''ignoring'' it) are the genesis of several slaughters {{spoiler|and the main tragedy itself.}}

** A bigger broken base is Higurashi Kira. Most of the fans are enraged that it is only pointless [[Fan Service]] lacking any plot, not any of the horror they wanted. Many others still love Kira because it's Higurashi

*** Since each episode focused [[Fan Service|on]] [[Ship Tease|very]] [[Parodied Trope|dif]][[Magical Girl|ferent]] [[Heartwarming Moments|elements]], it is very difficult to have one definite opinion about the whole OVA. Especially the at last episode is rather different from the first three, being more serious and closer to the feeling of the original. Cue discussions which of the episodes are good and which aren't.

** The OVA's in total are this. A lot of fans hate the lack of horror in most of them, despite the fact that {{spoiler|the Endless June is finished and thus there's no [[Hate Plague]] or drama}}.

* [[Cargo Ship]]: Chie x Curry, Rena x Kenta-kun.

* [[Crack Pairing]]: In Hirukowashi-hen Rena/Tomitake, [[Les Yay|Takano/Rena]], Ooishi/Rena (OVA Only), Irie/Rena (Game Only).

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] - At the first episode of the Tatarigoroshi-hen, Keiichi gets a phone call from Satoko about some kind of trouble. Thinking there's a big fight fight, he then speeds to school on his bike, brandishing a golf club, and gets ready to lay the smackdown... Only to find himself in the middle of a baseball match. All that she wanted was Keiichi to replace a player...

** A particularly notable CMOH comes towards the end of the first season, where {{spoiler|Keiichi and the rest of the club members give Rena a tender, heartfelt speech in the junk yard about how they are friends and will always be there for each other.}}. The notable part? {{spoiler|The speech takes place after they enter the junk yard and find Rena dismembering two (admittedly awful) people she killed. To top it off, this is followed by all of them disposing of the body parts together}}.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] - Rena may be the most iconic character, the most commonly related to the show, and her popularity may dwarf the true protagonists', but she's truly relevant in only two chapters. Still, the creator seems to have taken this in stride; see [[Wolverine Publicity]].

** To be honest, she's a pretty crucial role in almost all the arcs/chapters. She's also the mascot of the series.

** Not to mention that the arc where she is the central character is the turning point of the series.

** If you're talking about Rika as the main character than Rika is pretty damn popular too. If you're talking about Keiichi then its to be expected, he's not a female character after all.

** Tomitake is one as well.

** A more positive example that you don't see stated outright is that while you should certainly stick with your friends, it's okay to keep things from them that they don't need to know. Otherwise no one would be friends because they couldn't bear to tell others about the mistakes they've made.

* [[Fridge Logic]]: The secret ending for Matsuribayashi {{spoiler|where Takano never loses her parents}} would logically turn the story into a downer ending, though granted one with few to no deaths. It goes like this: {{spoiler|She never meets her grandfather and thus never tries to research Hinamizawa syndrome, thus she never sets up the clinic. The anti dam project group does not have the clinic's backing anymore and thus the village is submerged before Keiichi or Rena ever move in. Hinamizawa residents tend to get deranged outside of the village, though granted this would only happen to some individuals. Even if the dam project is halted, the disease is still there and people like Satoshi would get arrested. One of the group of friends would also probably go crazy since apart from the last two arcs one of them usually snaps.}}

* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]{{spoiler|/Foreshadowing}}: {{spoiler|In Watanagashi-hen (episode 5 of the anime), Mion explains that she's the nice, pleasant twin, whilst Shion is mean and nasty. Then in episode 8, we find out that it's the other way around (Mion is evil, Shion's the victim) and THEN in Meakashi-hen, we find out that Mion was right all along}}.

** There's also a bunch of [[Les Yay]] between the female cast members. The animators take advantage of this in their anime-only scenes, and official arts.

* [[Incest Subtext]]: Shion and Mion, no thanks to the artists.

** Also the infamy of the Eye Opening chapter. To put it into analogies, "Eye Opening" is to Higurashi what [[Soul Nomad|the "Demon Path" is to Soul Nomad]].

* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: {{spoiler|Shion}} in both ''Watanagashi-hen'' and ''Meakashi-hen''. She gets better in other arcs.

* [[Les Yay]]: Several pieces of official art. Usually revolving around Mion & Shion (first season) or Satoko & Rika (sometimes with Hanyuu; second season). Also behaviors throughout the series.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Their laughs.

** On Hanyuu in the last arc: Why can't anyone her horns?

*** They're handlebars.

** U SODA?

* [[Moe]]: Rena, Rika and Satoko. Rika is well aware of that and uses her cuteness for her advantage numerous times. Hell, Rika even won the 2007 Saimoe Tournament for crying out loud.

* [[Motive Decay]]: The [[Big Bad]], {{spoiler|Miyo.}} {{spoiler|She's trying to prove her foster grandfather's work is right, but she also wants to become/destroy/ snub her nose at God, and she wants to a world where she'll be loved and she wants to know how Hinamizawa syndrome works and....( See WMG for "In Tsumihoroboshi, why did Takano give Rena those documents") }}

* [[Nausea Fuel]] - often accompanies the [[Nightmare Fuel]].

** Then there's the part where {{spoiler|Satoko actually throws up.}} The sound was [[Nausea Fuel|very convincing.]]

* [[Never Live It Down]]: Rena. {{spoiler|The only arc in which she was ''truly'' crazy was Tsumihoroboshi-hen, what with the stalking and poisoning in Onikakushi-hen being hallucinated by Keiichi.}} In the other arcs, she's only mildy bipolar and not really all that psycho.

* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] - The beginning of each arc. [[It Got Worse|After that...]]

** A more straight, and even more sugary, example is Kokoroiyashi-hen. It has a [[Tear Jerker]] in it but then it goes straight back to the diabetes.

* [[The Untwist]] - {{spoiler|The manga arc ''Yoigoshi-hen'', which is in a Great Hinamizawa Disaster timeline, features a woman claiming to be Mion, but characters point out that Mion died 20 years ago, and "Mion" is shaken when she meets another major character who bears an uncanny resemblance to Satoshi. She even delivers a monologue that resembles Shion's speech in ''Watanagashi'' ("I'm the demon inside Mion!" etc. etc.). Yes, she's actually Shion. It's a bit different from ''Watanagashi'' though; Mion's ghost actually possesses Shion for most of the story.}}

** More generally, {{spoiler|the fact that Miyo Takano is the [[Big Bad]]. She was so suspicious from the start that various fans were sure there'd be some other explanation for it. Nope, as it turns out.}}

** Also, in both that and Watanagashi-hen. {{spoiler|"YES! You've caught me, I'm the psychopathic murderer! Now, before I surrender to the cops outside, will one of you please follow me alone into this underground soundproof torture chamber?"}}

** {{spoiler|Rika, after finally escaping an everlasting cycle of paranoia, murder, torture and death, abandons all caution and and gets hit by a truck. Starting the entire goddamn thing all over again.}}

** {{spoiler|Irie-sensei not realising that Takano was just a bit [[Mad Scientist|amoral]] and for that matter the [[Big Bad]] of the series, given some of her less... subtle statements showing a certain lack of regard for ethics, as revealed by the flashbacks in Matsuribayashi-hen (Though granted, she had a [[Blackmail|lot over his head]] and he might not have thought he could have done anything useful and gotten away with it).}}

* [[The Woobie]]: '''Everyone.''' ''Especially'' Satoko.

* [[World of Woobie]]: You will have a hard time not sympathizing with at least once character here.

 

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