HnNKn theories: Onikakushi/Tsumihoroboshi-hen (H-theory), Watanagashi/Meakashi-hen (Twins theory) September 25, 2006
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Onikakushi-hen Episode AnalysisThe function of Episode 1:
Episode 1 is easily dismissed as an introductory chapter. However it should not be dismissed as it contains a crucial event that ANSWERS the HUGE question in Episode 4! Of course after HEAVY support from other question and answer arcs. I will say it again in bold: ONIKAKUSHI-HEN EPISODE 1 ANSWERS ONIKAKUSHI-HEN EPISODE 4!
The function of Episode 2:
Episode 2 functions as a counter-check for the Hallucinogen theory for Rena’s case.
Function of Episode 3:
Episode 3 is an introduction to the manner the main bulk of questions will be be asked in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.
Function of Episode 4:
This episode shoots questions at the viewer like bullets from an MG and is heavily narrative towards the end. Solving these questions is crucial to solving the mysteries behind Onikakushi-hen.
Main theory: The Hallucinogen Theory
Main point for H-THeory:
At the beginning of episode 3 Keichii was injected by Dr Irie for a “cold”. This is strange, as the average patient would be given pills or syrup. Moreover, Keichii was more or less faking the cold to avoid Rena for the day.
I believe the drug injected contained a hallucinogen. Notice that everything only went haywire after he was injected.
Digression H-Theory Question 1: Why would Dr Irie inject Keichii with a Hallucinogen?
Answer 1: As an experiement because he is weird. This was my initial answer and my weak support would be that he is a strange guy since he is paedophillic and also suicidal (Tatarigoroshi-hen).
Answer 2: This answer is stronger and the support is found within Onikakushi-hen itself. Dr Irie made a MISTAKE and injected Keichii with the wrong medicine. He subsequently sent some men in a van to kill Keichii but failed. In the end, he sent Mion and Rena as the “advance scout party” before his men because he knew the drug was taking effect. And true enough, Rena and Mion were killed.
Support for H-Theory 1: Rena
The loophole to this is that Rena behaved rather freakishly by going USOOODDAAA in episode 2 BEFORE Keichii was injected. My counter to this is that Rena behaved in a normal way a human being would behave when he/she is angry if u watch her carefully. She only started behaving NOT like a human being from episode 3 onwards.
Further support is drawn from Watanagashi-hen. From Watanagashi-hen we know that Rena is intelligent, caring and sane, and that Keichii was not injected by anything. Thus she is incapable behaving like a total and complete psycho as shown in episode 3 onwards.
Why did Rena become psycho? Well she didnt really become psycho, but was perceived as psycho by Keichii. I believe Keichii became more wary of Rena after all the information Oishii has been feeding him. This is quite a crucial event and I believe the timing is critical.
Support for the H-Theory 2: The needle
If you watch carefully, there is no blood in the rice after Keichii, apparently, bit into the needle. Also later, the needle could not be found. Thus the needle could not have existed.
Support for H-Theory 3: Stains on the wall
There were no stains at all when he went in to find the needle, even tho he made a big mess beforehand.
Counter/Loophole for H-Theory Support 2 and 3:
Keichii’s mother could have came in to clean up the place. However note that she rushed off to Tokyo so this could not have happened. If Keichii cleaned up the place himself, I he would not have wondered where the needle was, as he would have already found it.
Support for H-Theory 4: Mion
This is added as I did not watch Meakashi-hen, coz I more or less wrote up this theory when watching episode 9. Support is drawn from Meakashi-hen. We know from Meakashi-hen that Mion is a kind and caring person, so it is not possible for her to become amazingly freakish as well.
Counter for H-Theory Support 4: Shion
Well it couldnt be Shion either because she doesnt know anything about the club activity I believe.
Onikakushi-hen H-theory RATIONAL Answer
Well from Keichii’s eyes we see that he was held down by Rena and injected by Mion.
This is not possible. Support is drawn from Tatarigoroshi-hen. Rena has not shown signs of super-human strength at all. The only girl that has demonstrated this is Satoko. Also from Tatarigoroshi-hen, we can see that Keichii is a strong bastard capable of pumelling a man to death.
This event indicates the nearing of the final stage of the hallucingoen.
Why was Keichii being punished? Because he failed to complete the club activity homework given to him, but instead did something else to it.
How was Keichii punished? Well putting a syringe through his arm is really inconsistent with the kinds of punishment he has been getting.
Support is drawn from Onikakushi-hen episode 1. Mion was going to punish Keichii by drawing something on his face again. That’s right, what Mion took out was not a syringe, it was a MARKER.
When Mion took off the cap from the “syringe”, she was actually taking the cap off the marker.
This backed by how the police could not find a syringe in Keichii’s room. This is juz a very random guess now, but i believe the manager searched Keichii’s room and found some note at the back of the clock. Now the writer of Higurashi wants us to think that he removed the syringe, but since there’s no syringe in the first place all he actually did was remove the middle part of the note that is a threat to him. If Keichii glued the marker to the back of the clock, the manager removed it for some reason which I cannot predict now.
Keichii beat Mion and Rena to death through fear of being injected.
Later, Keichii clawed his throat out because the drug was actually not a mere hallucinogen and had arrived at its final stages. He kept mumbling about Oyashiro-sama because the information was fed to his brain and distorted by the drug.
END OF H-THEORY
Note that the H-theory actually is a very good support theory to the point that Rika is somehow connected to the clinic and that Rika was the one who killed Tomitake. This is drawn from Meakashi-hen as well.
Watangashi/Meakashi-hen “Twins” Theory (Fragmented, will edit when I have time)
Now I dont think its such a simple case of Mion getting possessed by a demon and walking out of the underground chamber to get Keichii. I believe Mion fell into a deep coma to the point that the police believed she was brain dead even if she got revived. This made the police think that Mion was dead, and it was thus reported.
Mion and Shion have demonstrated a very close relationship in Meakashi-hen. There is some evidence in the real world that twins are linked to each other and sometimes can tell where the other is or what she/he is doing.
To put it simply the point to this theory is that: When Shion hit the ground, the shock that she was dead was too much for Mion to accept and she somehow got jolted awake from her coma. She then realised that it was Satoshi/Keichii that was the root of all her sorrows, probably from somehow reading Shion’s memories when she died.
This is demonstrated by how Keichii’s assailant said that she “wanted to give Keichii a chance”. However it is impossible for the assailant to be Shion, because she was in Mion’s clothes. So Mion muz have somehow had Shion’s memories shocked into her brain and come to the conclusion that she had to kill Keichii to avenge her sister. Also if u notice from Onikakushi-hen 4 that when Shion died she did not have the streaks of red down her forehead that Keichii’s assailant had.
To this point there has been no support at all from any episode, so I will present one that somewhat solidifies this theory. If I did not notice this I would have merely accepted that Keichii did indeed die of “chronic and acute heart failure” and not made this post.
Remember that part when only Sonozaki Shion heard the banging in the festival house? It could be because Mion was banging somewhere at home and the combination of her adrenaline, fear and the atmosphere of the place somehow caused her to link back to what Mion was doing. Mion was probably cursing at how she just recently got her stupid sister out of trouble, and yet she is getting herself into trouble again.
The reason that Shion could not pinpoint exactly what the banging sound was is because she was never given the chance to fully hone her “powers” with Mion because they were seperated from birth.
To further solidify this theory I will look out for any instance that Mion and Shion demonstrate this link in Tsumihoroboshi-hen.
