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Is old age the true final boss of the WTC series?

>Asumu's parents die of old age
>Battler comes back
>Rokkenjima fucking explodes

>Koizumi dies of old age
>Takano gets cornered
>Hinamizawa is destroyed by a "gas eruption"

>Leader of the GDS dies of old age
>elders take control and corrupt the organization
>the GDS fucks over Primavera

I wonder if 160 year old Robo-Okonogi will show up in Ciconia and cheat death forever.

Ryukishi07, who was interested in video games, anime and manga, studied at a vocational school that specialized in art. During that time, he wrote doujinshi. During his time in college, he tried to write manga and novels, but he came to realize that "No matter your passion for something, without skill, you can never make it as a professional." One day, he met with a colleague from a theatre troupe, and he was inspired to write a play called Hinamizawa Bus Stop (雛見沢停留所 Hinamizawa Teiryūjo) which he submitted to a contest that he later lost.

One of Ryukishi's younger brothers, who was inspired by the success of Type-Moon's visual novel Tsukihime, suggested that he and Ryukishi create their own sound novel. Ryukishi would ultimately restructure Hinamizawa Bus Stop into the episodic visual novel series, Higurashi When they Cry.
After graduating from the vocational school, he dreamed of becoming a video game developer, so he focused on finding a job at a video game manufacturer. However, none of his attempts at this were successful. Reluctantly, he took up a position at a menswear store, from which he got inspired, but after a few months, he tentatively took up an offer for a civil service position based on the civil service test that he had taken during the job search.

In a 2012 interview with Damien Bandrac for the Journal du Japon, Ryukishi07 said that:

Initially, my audience was otaku who attend Comiket, which are a very small fraction of Japanese otaku, themselves a small part of Japanese people in general! I never thought for one second that I could be read, published, edited at the other end of the planet, in France... As for Higurashi, I never thought that people outside Japan might be interested. Umineko in particular is a text that even Japanese people can have difficulty reading. So, to imagine that foreigners have made the effort to read it, understand it, and translate it, is an indescribable happiness to me.

His writing has been described as alternating between "macabre scenes and schoolboy humor". He has said that, "a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's spirits, for example, with a fun scene... Before writing a scene of pure despair, we must go through scenes of hope. And indeed, when I write, all of this amuses me very much."