A collection of 3 separate short stories that follow the events of Higurashi proper(kind of)
The first is a genuinely strong follow up to Rika as a character, forcing her to confront her own sins which she is not made to do in the original. The inherent contradiction and selfishness of her choice is addressed her, in a fascinating way.
The second (I don't remember names sorry folks) is a short set up to daybreak, with Rena having swallowed a magic love device and getting wrapped up in the antics of Tomitake, Takano, and Ooishi. This is standard higu SOL hijinks you can expect, it's not great but overall pretty cute. The ending is very sweet and I'm a sucker for Rena and Keiichi's dynamics, what can I say! Features the best "Keiichi rants about game design" bit in the series, Mion is canonically fantastic at Touhou, good stuff here.
Third is just slop, it was cut from Chapter 5 (I believe) for being bad, and thrown in here as just an extra thing. Keiichi dreams about how he wants to sexually harass all the girls it's real bad all.
The fourth, and most unexplainable is the staff room where the 07th expansion team brainstorms on how to right umineko, deciding it should be a mix of rozen maiden, Otokojuku, touhou, and Dragonball, before descending into basically just Rozen Maiden fanfiction. Fucking insane, read this with a group (we did the whole series teehee) and had to play interpretor from the banks of my memory 4 years ago when they censored each name by removing half of it.
Overall, interesting experience. Good stuff here I can recommend outside of the third one lmao
The first is a genuinely strong follow up to Rika as a character, forcing her to confront her own sins which she is not made to do in the original. The inherent contradiction and selfishness of her choice is addressed her, in a fascinating way.
The second (I don't remember names sorry folks) is a short set up to daybreak, with Rena having swallowed a magic love device and getting wrapped up in the antics of Tomitake, Takano, and Ooishi. This is standard higu SOL hijinks you can expect, it's not great but overall pretty cute. The ending is very sweet and I'm a sucker for Rena and Keiichi's dynamics, what can I say! Features the best "Keiichi rants about game design" bit in the series, Mion is canonically fantastic at Touhou, good stuff here.
Third is just slop, it was cut from Chapter 5 (I believe) for being bad, and thrown in here as just an extra thing. Keiichi dreams about how he wants to sexually harass all the girls it's real bad all.
The fourth, and most unexplainable is the staff room where the 07th expansion team brainstorms on how to right umineko, deciding it should be a mix of rozen maiden, Otokojuku, touhou, and Dragonball, before descending into basically just Rozen Maiden fanfiction. Fucking insane, read this with a group (we did the whole series teehee) and had to play interpretor from the banks of my memory 4 years ago when they censored each name by removing half of it.
Overall, interesting experience. Good stuff here I can recommend outside of the third one lmao