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>If she knew it was a guarantee, she wouldn't have been nervous.
I'm not saying she was completely confident. She doesn't need to be. Even with Hanyuu telling her everything works out she still hesitates and gets frustrated in the beginning of Matsuribayashi in spite of Hanyuu actually motivating her there. But she also isn't depressed and clearly had hope. The characterization tracks between the beginning of Minagoroshi and the beginning of Matsuribayashi, which is my point.

>So if you say that your character goes to school it doesn't mean that you should expect your audience to think they want to graduate and get job prospects out of it, no, you have to spell it out for some reason, gotcha.

This is a goal that's making her leave everything behind and drop the goals and dreams she mentioned before about just wanting to live happily there with her friends for a very particular school with very special rules and conditions. Yeah, you need a very clear explanation to take a sudden turn like that. You keep trying to reduce this to a normal choice, when the whole plot exists because it's not a normal choice.

>There's no scene of her learning why Satoko is abscent, just like how she didn't know that Satoko had been moved to the underachiever class since otherwise she wouldn't have asked her out at the time, since Satoko had to attend the session.

Yeah, but she's actually missing for several days there. It's different from Rika just not following Satoko all day around. Both Meguri and GouSotsu Another End show her being aware of the prison. And not being aware at all is just unbelievable considering Satoko's disappearance.

>Because she said she wanted to go to experience high society since it's the opposite of the hick experience she's had for 100 years? Why even bring this up?
Because it shows she considers Okinomiya still too close to the experience from the loops, otherwise the conflict wouldn't exist and she'd just go to a school in Okinomiya.

>"HOW COULD THEY ABANDON THE VILLAGE LIKE THAT?"
What. Lot's of people were surprised Mion couldn't even appear for the big festivity of Hinamizawa and some expected an answer. But then there was just nothing. In the end, this was just a badly written story that twists characters as necessary to create conflict. So, she's there just fine for the happy epilogue. But St.Lucia can't even have vacations otherwise Satoko's break down would make zero sense.

>because everyone knows that real life and education is like that
You can't say this while arguing St.Lucia, as portrayed in the anime, is reasonable. It exists to create conflict, even ignoring elements from the original Higurashi that would certainly bother Rika (like the religious focus).

>You literally used it to claim Rika's goals were hollow, because at no point does the anime show otherwise.
As portrayed in the anime, the only high society she's talking about is the school itself. That's why I call it an empty shell of a dream. That's why you have Mion just suggesting her going to Gogura afterwards even though no one had to go to St.Lucia before Gogura. Rika isn't aiming for anything beyond high society in school. It's a badly written and empty dream that only exists to cause conflict. You're the one adding all this about her aiming to become rich and influential and join that high society even though it's nowhere in the script.

>I don't know why do you keep fixating on this line as if a) you know exactly how long she's referring to and there isn't such thing as an enjoyable place (st lucia) and a boring place (a hospital) and b) that it shows that Rika doesn't care about staying in Hinamizawa like you keep claiming, much like that 2005 interview implied.
You keep making it sound like she was just bored from the hospital, when she speaks in general terms. She doesn't like staying in any one place for long.

>Doesn't sound like a hick life to me.
I mean, Okinomiya is right there. You can be a business owner without leaving Hinamizawa. And there are business in Hinamizawa in anyway too.

>What consequences?
She's directly being responsible for destroying the village's culture, and yet all the conservative people go right along with it, and even still love her in spite of her abandoning the village for years. The old man praising her name in Reiwa would be young adults back in 83 and yet they still speak about her with reverence like she hadn't abandoned the village for a long time now and they have reason to be inheriting the culture of their parents? It's all badly thought out and just a way to have a Rika free from connections who can just kill herself without a second thought but without actually suffering consequences from that life style.