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This Week in Anime - Is Higurashi Gou as Terrifying as the Original?

but you're totally missing out on a HUGE amount of context that lowers the enjoyment. Not only will watching this spoil the original series

Rena turning out to ACTUALLY be there to murder him was a HUGE twist for those who understandably assumed in the original arc Rena was innocent / not plotting anything at that point.

jenthehen wrote:

Rena turning out to ACTUALLY be there to murder him was a HUGE twist for those who understandably assumed in the original arc Rena was innocent / not plotting anything at that point.

How was that a "huge twist" exactly? if you've read/watched the og story you would know from ep1~3 (ESPECIALLY EPISODE 3) that Rena was going crazy /L5 (like in Tsumihoroboshi-hen), how did you miss the stuff in ep3? it was so obvious.
So no, the old fans didn't feel a "huge twist" in episode 4 unless they forgot most of the story (so they're like newcomers in a way lol).
The only "twist" for the old fans was the stuff in episode 2

Yuma39 wrote:

jenthehen wrote: Rena turning out to ACTUALLY be there to murder him was a HUGE twist for those who understandably assumed in the original arc Rena was innocent / not plotting anything at that point. How was that a "huge twist" exactly? if you've read/watched the og story you would know from ep1~3 (ESPECIALLY EPISODE 3) that Rena was going crazy /L5 (like in Tsumihoroboshi-hen), how did you miss the stuff in ep3? it was so obvious. So no, the old fans didn't feel a "huge twist" in episode 4 unless they forgot most of the story (so they're like newcomers in a way lol). The only "twist" for the old fans was the stuff in episode 2

But *was* Rena actually crazy? spoiler[It's still a little unbelievable that someone coming at you with the intent to kill would fail to do so when stabbing you a dozen times in the gut. She may well have been trying to talk Keiichi down after he freaked out on her peeling apples or something. So far, both interpretations are within the realm of possibility, since we know it's not exactly easy to just talk down someone at that stage.]
(Spoilered because this series is best to be safe with.)

Either way, I do like the reversal.

Cellphones pretty much make the horror genre null-and-void anyways.

jenthehen wrote:

but you're totally missing out on a HUGE amount of context that lowers the enjoyment. Not only will watching this spoil the original series

And the only things of importance it spoils are the time loop-ish aspect of the story,

jenthehen wrote:

but you're totally missing out on a HUGE amount of context that lowers the enjoyment. Not only will watching this spoil the original series

You say this but most of the people watching this are newcomers and many of them are enjoying it without any complaints

And the only things of importance it spoils are the time loop-ish aspect of the story, Rika Is Important, and Hanyuu Exists. But it very deliberately leaves out all of the context surrounding them and how they relate to other aspects of the story. Rika even goes as far as saying that she knows the rules of Hinamizawa as well as the culprit who kills her but doesn't actually state what either of them are. Because that would be an overwhelming amount of information for new fans, so it leaves them unmentioned. Now, that could very well change later, but that's for later

I do hate this sentiment, which is wrong anyway. Isn't nice to know that help is always 10 minutes away?
What if you need it right now? Well, at least they can record your death sounds.

When devising horror in the age of mass communication, keep it, use it, play off it.

I think the faster pace of Gou takes away some of the terror from it. Not all of it, but the lengthier slice-of-life interludes of the original series made it much more difficult to guess when the knife was about to fall.

ThatGuyWhoLikesThings wrote:

jenthehen wrote: but you're totally missing out on a HUGE amount of context that lowers the enjoyment. Not only will watching this spoil the original series And the only things of importance it spoils are the time loop-ish aspect of the story,

Why are you acting like that isn't the most important and hugest reveal in all of Higurashi Kai? Everything in Higurashi and Kai leads up to that moment.

It's actually slower believe it or not. Episode 1 was 98% the same in both, the material in episode 2 of the original was actually spread pretty thinly over episodes 2 and 3 of Gou, and episode 4 was dramatically different between each version.