History TearJerker / HigurashiWhenTheyCry

** There is one loop where after her defeat, Takano is forced to kill herself [[spoiler: and she succeeded]]. As a result of recurrent nightmares, she would eventually deflect from Tokyo. Her genuine breakdown over the realization that she never had any associates and was used as a hapless pawn is greatly upsetting.
** Satoko is at first taken aback by her uncle's sudden remorse over his actions, but instead of letting that deter her, she decides to use him as a pawn in her plan.

** There is one loop where after her defeat, Takano is forced to kill herself [[spoiler: and she succeeded]]. As a result of recurrent nightmares, she would eventually deflect from Tokyo. Her genuine breakdown over the realization that she never had any associates and was used as a hapless pawn is greatly upsetting.

** Surprisingly enough the show somehow makes you feel bad for ''Teppei'' of all people. After having nightmares of [[spoiler: his multiple deaths in the different loops due to Satoko's looping]], he realizes that he was an awful excuse for a human being and caretaker and attempts to reconcile with his niece. However, him offering her a handshake only triggers her trauma. Understandably, Teppei backs off and goes to leave hoping that his next meeting with his niece would be different.

** Surprisingly enough the show somehow makes you feel bad for ''Teppei'' of all people. After having nightmares of [[spoiler: his multiple deaths in the different loops due to Satoko's looping]], he realizes that he was an awful excuse of a human being and caretaker and attempts to reconcile with his niece. However, him offering her a handshake only triggers her trauma. Understandably, Teppei backs off and goes to leave hoping that his next meeting with his niece would be different.

** Surprisingly enough the show somehow makes you feel bad for ''Teppei'' of all people. After having nightmares of [[spoiler: his multiple deaths in the different loops due to Satoko's looping]], he has a realization of being a terrible human being and attempts to reconcile with his niece. However, him offering her a handshake only triggers her trauma. Understandably, Teppei backs off and goes to leave hoping that his next meeting with his niece would be different.

** The loops where Satoko tries to force Rika to choose between her (and Hinamizawa to an extent), or the academy. If Rika chose to not make one, Satoko would then kill herself undoubtedly leaving her best friend to be traumatized.

** In the original timeline, Satoko seemed to have resigned herself to her situation at St. Lucia's and drifting apart from Rika. But when she first loops back to 1983, it's clear how devastating the whole experience really was to her. She almost breaks down immediately when remembering how Rika treated her, and just barely holds herself together by desperately assuring herself it was all just a long, horrible dream and the real Rika would never do anything like that.

* Episode 21: Even after looping back to 1983 and having a heart-filled conversation with Rika, the events play out the same with Satoko pushing Rika aside when she started to get involved with her groupies. It is apparent that Rika never ''did'' intend on making the promise empty and rightfully points out that Satoko had denied her assistance due to her assuming she'd do it out of pity. Unfortunately with her mental state worsening, Satoko obviously does not take what she said in consideration and [[spoiler: drops the chandelier killing herself and Rika]]. This would [[HowWeGotHere lead]] to the events of the second episode of ''Gou''.
** Speaking of which [[spoiler:all of the girls who saw Satoko drop the chandelier are now traumatized for life. You can't help but feel sorry for the groupies who realized that it was because of ''them'' that Satoko killed herself and Rika.]]

* Episode 21: Even after looping back to 1983 and having a heart-filled conversation with Rika, the events play out the same with Satoko pushing Rika aside when she started to get involved with her groupies. It is apparent that Rika never ''did'' intend on making the promise empty and rightfully points out that Satoko had denied her assistance due to her assuming she'd do it out of pity. Unfortunately with her mental state worsening, Satoko obviously does not take what she said in consideration and [[spoiler: drops the chandelier killing herself and Rika]]. This would [[HowWeGotHere lead]] to the events of the second episode of ''Gou''.

** It honestly seems like Nekodamashi-hen is just one big TraumaCongaLine for Rika. Every loop she enters, she gets killed by a loved one who comes down with the illness. [[spoiler: Rika manages to get Akasaka to stay in Hinamizawa instead of go with his wife to the hot springs like he did in Minagoroshi-hen, and he kills her. Sonozaki Akane kills her and the entire Sonozaki clan, including Mion, in the next loop. Village Chief Kimiyoshi bounds RIka away and takes her to a boat, just to simply cast her overboard with a heavy stone rock tied to her foot, in the next loop. And in the last loop, Keiichi goes insane with Hinamizawa Syndrome and murders everyone at Angel Mort, including Rena, as Rika watches Rena try to invoke the same pattern before where they were able to talk each other down from the edge, only to be struck so mid-sentence by Keiichi with Satoshi's bat. And as Rika's fingers slip silently to "one", the audience is reminded that after this loop, Rika once again, only has one final chance to beat fate and give herself back that happy ending where she got to grow up once more.]]

** When Satoko is sent to solitary confinement, she incorrectly assumes that Rika told the teacher what she had done not knowing that it was one of Rika's GirlPosse. With that, Satoko has a full mental breakdown and cries uncontrollably finally wondering why she said yes those years ago.

* Episode 20: In an effort to get Rika to remember the good times in Hinamizawa, Satoko stages a trap involving bowls so she could surprise Rika. Unfortunately, that results in her unwittingly causing [[spoiler: one of the girls' foreheads to bleed]], and Satoko is forced to endure [[spoiler: solitary confinement]] until she learned the error of her ways. Even when she and Rika [[spoiler: have a reunion with the rest of the game club]], it is otherwise bittersweet because it meant that once it was over, Satoko would be back to her hellish life at St. Lucia.

** It also shows that despite growing physically, [[spoiler: Satoko]] is still mentally stuck as a child, her obsession with making traps no longer being charming and her NoblewomansLaugh being criticized by her peers as unbefitting of the academy. While Rika and her friends are maturing, [[spoiler: Satoko]] appears to be the only one staunted.

* Episode 19: The episode is just one, large TraumaCongaLine for [[spoiler: Satoko]]; she ''does'' successfully attend [[spoiler: St. Lucia]] with Rika, but after the opening ceremony, her grades fall, and Rika ends up gradually meeting up with a group of girls who snobbishly speak behind her back. Worse, [[spoiler: Satoko]] is given the option of either attending remedial classes in order to improve, or [[spoiler: leaving]] no strings attached. Worse, when Rika does notice that her friend was suffering, she offers to assist her in her classwork, but because of her stubborn pride, [[spoiler: Satoko]] declines her offer as well as her invitation to a tea party. With her mental state deteriorating, [[spoiler: Satoko]] comes to resent Rika under the belief that she ruined her life by not honoring the promise the two made.

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* Episode 19: The episode is just one, large TraumaCongaLine for [[spoiler: Satoko]]; she ''does'' successfully attend [[spoiler: St. Lucia]] with Rika, but after the opening ceremony, her grades fall, and Rika ends up gradually meeting up with a group of girls who snobbishly speak behind her back. Worse, [[spoiler: Satoko]] is given the option of either attending remedial classes in order to improve, or [[spoiler: she could leave]] no strings attached. Worse, when Rika does notice that her friend was suffering, she offers to assist her in her classwork, but because of her stubborn pride, [[spoiler: Satoko]] declines her offer as well as the invitation to a tea party. With her mental state deteriorating, [[spoiler: Satoko]] comes to resent Rika under the notion that she ruined her life by not honoring the promise the two made.

* Episode 18: With the events of season 2 resolved, [[spoiler: Mion]] leaves the club after graduating thus leaving Keiichi to pick up the mantle. With the way that Hinamizawa has changed after its tragedies, the only person who appears to have some issues with this is [[spoiler: Satoko]] especially when Rika tells her that she wanted to [[spoiler: enroll at St. Lucia]] ergo leaving the village. All this change could explain why [[spoiler: Satoko]] became the second looper and desired some return to normalcy...even if it meant driving her best friend back to her endless suffering.

** [[spoiler: That said, it's not hard to feel bad for Satoko in this loop. Consider all that this girl has been through - her parents are dead, her brother is missing, and she's been horribly abused and treated like an outcast for most of her life. It's not hard to imagine that she saw Rika wanting to leave as abandoning her. She even breaks down in tears during the "ritual" and asks why she and the others weren't able to make Rika happy.]]

** It honestly seems like Nekodamashi-hen is just one big TraumaCongaLine for Rika. Every loop she enters, she gets killed by a loved one who comes down with the illness. [[spoiler: Rika manages to get Akasaka to stay in Hinamizawa instead of go with his wife to the hot springs like he did in Minagoroshi-hen, and he kills her. Sonozaki Akane kills her and the entire Sonozaki clan, including Mion, in the next loop. Village Chief Kimiyoshi bounds RIka away and takes her to a boat, just to simply cast her overboard with a heavy stone rock tied to her foot, in the next loop. And in the last loop, Keiichi goes insane with Hinamizawa Syndrome and murders everyone at Angel Mort, including Rena, as Rika watches Rena try to invoke the same pattern before where they were able to talk each other down from the edge, only to be struck so mid-sentence by Keiichi with Satoshi's bat. And as Rika's fingers slip silently to "one", the audience is reminded that after this loop, Rika once again, only has one final chance to beat fate and give herself back that happy ending where she got to grow up once more.]]

** In a scene almost reminiscent of the ending of Onidamashi-hen, it’s now Fall as evidenced by the fallen autumn leaves and Keiichi is in the hospital, where no one refuses to tell him where Oishi or any of his friends save for Rena, who has been visiting him, are. Rena finally tearfully discloses what happened: [[spoiler:After Keiichi was attacked at Satoko’s house, Oishi went into the crowd after Watanagashi, shot and murdered Shion, Mion, Rika, and Satoko. And Rena witnessed it all. The episode and the whole arc ends with Rena tragically lamenting over why this is the result of all their hard work to cross the finish line.]]

* When Shion beats Satoko in episode 16. Satoko's just a little kid. She and her family have been shunned by all the people in the village except for a few people, and now one of her friends (Shion disguised as Mion) is beating her up and telling her to suffer and die alone. Regardless if Satoko was a crybaby or if spilling your lunch isn't a good reason to cry, considering what she and her brother were going through, she doesn't deserve to be screamed at that the world would be a better place if she was dead. And even worse, the fact that everyone thought it was Mion was just more salt in the wound in that one of their closest friends is actually screaming at Satoko to die for being a selfish, repulsive monster. It feels like one of those moments when someone actually blames a rape victim for being raped. Thing is, Satoko actually takes Shion's comments about how "crying won't solve your problems, it only makes you a burden to your brother" to heart, she demonstrates this much later in the arc when she's showing her strength towards Shion's torture. In the visual novel, after Satoko dies, Shion points out that Satoko had become mentally stronger than her, because she never gave up hope on seeing her brother again again whereas Satoshi "was dead to Shion in her mind" which made the [[HatePlague "demon"]] take over her body. Shion continues praising Satoko's strength in a later arc (Minagoroshi-hen), after she has become her loving surrogate older sister.

* Thanks to their medium, the visual novels add an extra level of tragic and terror in several instances, because in the editions without voice acting, the lines are colour-coded so the reader can tell who is speaking. The narration (in first-person) is usually in white, but for example in Tsumihoroboshi, it starts getting pink after a while to show Rena's SanitySlippage, and ends up crimson red. The red text is used in earlier chapters to indicate the narrator has gone off the deep end as well.

* When Shion beats Satoko in episode 16. Satoko's just a little kid. She and her family have been shunned by all the people in the village except for a few people, and now one of her friends (Shion disguised as Mion) is beating her up and telling her to suffer and die alone. Regardless if Satoko was a crybaby or if spilling your lunch isn't a good reason to cry, considering what she and her brother were going through, she doesn't deserve to be screamed at that the world would be a better place if she was dead. And even worse, the fact that everyone thought it was Mion was just more salt in the wound in that one of their closest friends is actually screaming at Satoko to die for being a selfish, repulsive monster. It feels like one of those moments when someone actually blames a rape victim for being raped.

** If you've gotten used to the violence and death at this point, you might not care much that Shion and Kasai might be dead. After all, everyone is always okay again in the next world, right? Right? Then you remember that this is the final world.

* Higurashi Gou episode 9 begins with the introduction of [[spoiler: Teppei, Satoko and Satoshi’s abusive uncle, so all of the wonderful moments shared with the group— the dinners shared between Rika, Satoko, and Keiichi, the games they played, the wonderful barbecue they had; the promise Irie, Shion and Keiichi made to always keep Satoko smiling and to never make her cry—are all for naught, as the episode ends with Teppei forcing Satoko back into her family home.]]

* [[ToThePain FINGERNAIL. PUNISHMENT.]] That is all.