Onikakushi : Disturbing but fascinating... Very well-written texts and top-notch sound design. The creepy and frightening atmosphere is cleverly conveyed through the writing style itself. I am extremely curious to see what happens next since Ryūkishi07 has set up the interweaving of a hallucinating number of threads: power (political), group persuasion (crowd psychology), hallucination (psychiatry), curse (religious), micro-social balances in Hinamizawa (symbolic interactionism), legend (anthropology), Japan's attitude to war and modernization (history). All this with only a dozen characters and a restricted geographical framework, but for a hundred hours of reading.

Watanagashi : The monstrous duality... Higurashi is above all a dive into the abyss, true depth psychology. The villain, the antagonist, the monster... Artifact of an individual carried away by Evil. Perhaps these categories take us away from the essential...

Tatarigoroshi : With Dostoevsky, Ryukishi07 is one of the only authors that was brave enough to fully venture into the conquest of the monstrous duality. Keiichi and Raskolnikov, two young men premeditating a murder they deem legitimate and necessary. And so they plunge, deeper and deeper into the abyss... But no crime escapes punishment; otherwise, it would be perfect (Keiichi and his mother even make explicit mention of this).