History Headscratchers / HigurashiWhenTheyCry

** Also, there not being ''a single mention of that gun'' in either the Higurashi or Kai VNs, not in the tips nor in the main story, doesn't help. The manga shows it in action a little, but still doesn't seem to explain it. Do people just think ''that'' is some kind of cute accessory?!

** The Yamainu’s protocol for the Hinamizawa disaster is explained more in the VN. Should anyone escape the death by gas that awaits most villagers for whatever reason, they are to be gunned down and reported as “missing”, since it really isn’t possible to present bodies with gunshot wounds as victims of natural disaster. Thus it’s likely Satoko ran into the Yamainu and got killed after leaving the bridge. As for Shion, [[spoiler:it might be a cover-up murder by the Yamainu but it’s not impossible to believe that she did commit suicide - she lost her family and friends in just one day.]]

** Seconded, but extended across the entire series. I only watched the [[AdaptationDecay anime]] and so might be missing crucial material from the games, but what kind of dumb-ass rules do these worlds follow? A children's aid society that directly asks an abused child over the phone if they are abused, with the reported abuser within earshot of the phone? After repeated complaints from the entire community about said abuse? (Surely no cultural ValuesDissonance is THAT vast and/or senseless, bureaucratic politicking be damned!) Would (as the above troper mentioned) the gang really be able to cope so well against hordes of trained assassins? Would the PowerOfFriendship actually be enough to make friends immediately gloss over the fact that a mentally unstable companion had killed and dismembered a person and happily hide the body? Wouldn't someone who was knowingly caught in a time loop be willing and able to exploit the benefits which that caused instead of clamming up into alcoholism and depression? RuleOfDrama be damned, a common sense wouldn't hurt the tension or believability now, would it? I call IdiotPlot, with outstanding NightmareFuel and ParanoiaFuel garnishes to keep it interesting!

** Because that means that the world accepted her theory. Remember, it all started when some official looking people laughed at her (adopted) grandfather's theories about the queen carrier. She was desperate to proof this as correct. By approving the KillEmAll plan because Rika dies they pretty much accepted this theory as fact. And that was the plan to overcome her: Pretend Rika had been dead for a week without anybody going crazy. This is a (fake) proof that the theory is wrong and gets the plan cancelled. Btw, the theory is really wrong, as the arcs where Rika died early have shown.

*** Actually, there's a video floating around Website/YouTube that shows what the class really sees. She doesn't have [[MemeticMutation horns to]] and she has short hair. Still got purple hair though. Which raises the question, [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair why does anime have such abstract hair colors in the first place?]]

* In the end of Tatarigoroshi-hen, there is a list of both dead and disappeared villagers from Hinamizawa. Some of the disappearances are either explained or hinted in later arcs [[spoiler:such as Teppei's body being relocated to another grave like in Tsumihoroboshi-hen, or Ooishi being killed by the Mountain Hounds in Minagoroshi-hen]], but is there any explanation to what happened to Satoko aftert she pushed Keiichi from the bridge? Additionally, why would Shion [[spoiler:commit suicide]] in this chapter?

*** Thank you, this troper came back to say they just finished their re-read and had somehow forgotten that entire thing. Though, it's not much of a stretch to say that Ooishi may have experienced some level of HS regardless of this, as it would be more curious if he didn't, since he spends so much time in Hinamizawa, and has shown some erratic behavior consistent with the symptoms.