if the idea was to make me wish i had stopped at ch 4, the one actually excellent and satisfyingly conclusive chapter, then mission accomplished i guess. really underwhelming waste of some good characters. some scenes strewn around that i do like is what keeps me from dismissing it as garbo outright but its such a lecture-y and self-satisfied slog to read through so much of the time that it exhausted any real emotional connection i could've made with this on the whole. i guess there rly is a fine line btwn when ryukishi07 is just relaying to you how much you should understand that he cares vs when he just cares, no bullshit, no overfixating on any sense for subtlety or delicacy. higurashi as the latter remains way more dear to my heart, not free of any specks of bullshit ofc but i'll take every single problem it has for what its worth over almost any "great" part of these arcs.

Reviewed on Jan 18, 2023


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