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Forzare no Naku Koro ni (When They Cry: Higurashi Liveblog)

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  • CommandoDudeCommandoDude
    CRIMINAL SCUM!
    Really? I thought it was the lighter.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Silly CommandoDude. Everyone knows you can't light water on fire with just a lighter :P
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-08-09 07:14:28
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    IT IS THROUGH SHEER FORCE OF HATE

    MY SOUL BURNS SO HOT WITH THE FLAME OF RAGE THAT MY BODY BURNS AS WELL
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    also


  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-08-09 12:59:20
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    FORZARE NO NAKU KORO NI, PART 8
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    QUADRUPLE POST FUCK YEAH

    Apparently toggleboxes break YouTube embeds, so I'm removing them from part 8.
  • CommandoDudeCommandoDude
    CRIMINAL SCUM!
    OMG YES.

    Shout out to motherfucking GUNDAMS?

    Shit is fucking win.
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I figured that that was probably what that was.
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!
    protip: If you use the html embed code from Youtube instead of the url you can toggle it.


  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Sweet, thanks.  Fix'd.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    -fluttershy yay-
  • DYREDYRE
    Gundam reference made me lol.

    Also that was a hell of a game of tag.

    Screw the murder plot, I just want to read about Keiichi overthinking more children's games.
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-08-09 14:46:43
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    It was pretty epic.

    He apparently thinks he's a manipulative mastermind like Light or L, but really he's just trying too hard.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    I just want to read about Keiichi overthinking more children's games.

    I would love to have Keiichi play yugioh with me.
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I'm sure you would, Vorpy
  • CommandoDudeCommandoDude
    CRIMINAL SCUM!
    Ehyoooh!
  • DYREDYRE

    Forzare, another suggestion for the liveblog:  .jpg images plz.  Even though normally I'd say .png is better since .jpg looks like shit...  The first page of this topic is like 110MB, which is sorta ridiculous.  And having them as .jpg won't look that bad, but will probably make everything load a lot faster and use less bandwidth and whatnot.

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    k
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    In other news, I've just discovered Dear You.

    my god how many of these are there
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    TRIPLE POST GO

    I've decided to take a new tactic with my liveblog.  So far I've only posted the beginning of Onikakushi-hen, where it's still silly.  For those posts, I'd write my mockery as I went, which kind of interrupted the flow of the story.  As I got closer to where the arc takes a more serious turn, I realized that doing it this way would absolutely kill the suspense, and I do want to be able to enjoy the VN as much as I can.

    So I've decided that I'm going to play through at least the first chapter, then go back with screencaps and write the commentary.

    It's pretty interesting going through this arc with the knowledge that [Keiichi is the one going insane, and there's nothing suspicious about Mion and Rena.]  It's still creepy, but in a different way.
  • evilnekoevilneko
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    >:l
  • StormtroperStormtroper
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    inorite

    halp
  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-08-10 07:32:21
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Okay, I just finished reading Onikakushi-hen, so I'm just gonna post my thoughts while they're still fresh.

    WARNING: SPOILERS FOR ONIKAKUSHI-HEN AND TSUMIHOROBOSHI-HEN

    I'm not really going to compare the arc to the anime arc, because I think I watched those episodes back in November, and I don't remember details. There were one or two scenes that I do think I remember having a bit more impact in the anime, though, most notably the scene where Keiichi slams Rena's fingers in the door towards the end.

    I definitely thought the experience was quite different, reading this chapter with the foreknowledge that Keiichi was the one with Hinamizawa Syndrome. When I watched Onikakushi the first time, most of the creepiness came from the sense of paranoia; you never knew who you could trust, what was wrong with Rena or Mion, or what their plan was. I definitely found it just as creepy reading the VN version, but for different reasons. I could see how genuinely hurt Rena and Mion were by Keiichi's sudden changes, and imagining what that would be like, for a person you considered one of your best friends to turn on you so suddenly in such a terrifying way was really powerful.

    The first half of the arc (maybe more) was just devoted to silly club shenanigans, and I thought this was where the arc wa weakest. I don't remember if I thought the anime had a similar problem, but I felt that first section dragged quite a bit. The games and such were definitely fun to read, and I laughed out loud quite a bit, but they seemed more like filler than anything.

    As soon as the Watanagashi festival rolled around, and Tomitake was murdered, I thought it really picked up. It held my interest all the way through to the end, and it managed to be quite creepy, in large part thanks to the soundtrack.

    That said, my biggest problem with the arc would probably be the music. Whenever it was supposed to be ominous or scary, I think it worked, for the most part. But during any of the more slice-of-life scenes, the music was kind of bland and repetitive, and it got really, really old after a while.

    The translation was serviceable. It wasn't bad, but I did notice quite a few typos. During the second to last scene, when Keiichi calls Ooishi from the telephone booth, the text seemed to have some trouble with perspective. Sometimes it was first-person from Ooishi's POV, sometimes it seemed to be an omniscient narrator.

    The last scene, with the pseudo-police report thing, was pretty cool.

    All in all, though, the good definitely outweighed the bad, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'll definitely keep reading, especially seeing as Onikakushi was probably my least favorite arc in the anime.
  • nohaynicklibrenohaynicklibre
    Kichigai birthday!!

    In other news, I've just discovered Dear You.

    my god how many of these are there
    You say


  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-08-11 11:09:40
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    To be honest, I'm kind of debating how much of a good idea this LB was, as opposed to something that I actually find so bad it's good.

    It's fun and all, but the Higurashi sound novels are something I want to legitimately experience and enjoy, and that's much more difficult when you factor the liveblogging into it.
  • All NinesAll Nines
    Has friends besides tanks now
    Just don't go full retard as far as I did and liveblog something that's irredeemably creepy.
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