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>>36809365
Okay now, you want it the hard way don't you.
>There's literally no way to get that Higurashi is a series of time loops
The very fact that the whole world resets for each chapter is already a clue for you. It's cleverly hidden as a common game mechanic, but nowhere does the VN ever refer to these chapters as 'routes'.
Other than that, Rika's very accurate forecasts of future events in Himatsubushi, and her ominous remarks about 'worlds' in Tsumihoroboshi and Meakashi are strong hints for a time loop story.
>all of the characters are actually hallucinating because of a magic Hinamizawa-based disease
As I said, you can't literally pin down every facet, but you can in fact figure out that the curse is a disease. Irie literally tells Keiichi that he's sick in Tatarigoroshi.
Also there are four instances of syringes being used in the story, in Onikakushi before Keiichi murdered Rena and Mion, in Watanagashi when Ooishi talks about Rika's corpse, and then in Meakashi and Tsumihoroboshi where Rika literally tells Rena and Shion that she can 'cure' them with it.
Beyond that you can figure it out using small hints or adding the common symptoms of the curse together.
>and a super secret nationalist government agency
Well there are instances of strange people who're never mentioned in the SoL bits in multiple chapters, so once you've figured out that a village conspiracy is out of the question by Meakashi you should've connected these men to some other affiliation. You also find out that the Sonozakis haven't kidnapped the ministers grandson around that point, so the very professional kidnapping has to be associated with some organization other than them.

All in all higurashi a very complex, at parts intentionally incoherent mystery, but in the same way it's a fascinating and very solvable one. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Pic related are you, falling down at the riverside of Hinamizawa in awe of the complexity of its mystery and failing to connect the dots.