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>>39532339
Satoko's reason for wanting to loop(escapism) was pretty good in the manga and it felt more like how she should react, but her reason for creating tragedies is weak, which is the basis for how this situation started with Gou.
If this is the main conflict for Meguri, I'd rather it show Rika's perspective in trying to save her mentally fucked friend, rather than showing off Satoko's murder spree and general insanity.

>>39386813
Well, we at least go Rika angry at the end of the Gou manga, so Tomato presumably will address it rather than just shove it all under the carpet like the anime did.

>>39348888
>It doesn't matter what they had because they're just fluff rather than a key plot point, especially now that Satoko doesn't even have a motivation.
She goes crazy because she loses hope for the future. We actually see for example her giving up on Satoshi rather than it just being something handled off-screen.

She give sup on the future, so she wants an eternal 83, which she ends and restarts with tragedies, yes, due to craziness, including a clear suicidal tendency, and to entertain Eua.

Really, it makes more sense than her anime plan, where everything would be much more direct if she were causing tragedies in 84, once Rika declares she wants to go to Saint Lucia. 83 had little reason to exist in the anime aside from the idea of pseudo-remakes.

>I really don't see anything that would be compelling regarding Rika's perspective.
I mean Rika's perspective from this point on. We easily could get Satoko creating new loops with repeated culprits that lead to reveals that indirectly explain the early arcs, rather than just seeing the early arcs again for very simple answers that can't really carry stories on their own.

>>39200009
>>39200038
Tomato probably could have done something like what the Sotsu/Mei tie-in story did and make part of Satoko's craziness come from what she saw in the loops, like Rika being happy when Satoshi disappears.

However, it was clear from the start that the manga really didn't want people blaming either Satoko or Rika, so we ended up with this where neither really do anything wrong and Satoko just breaks due to being unable to accept random tragedies.

It does mean there's really not "point" to Witch Satoko, she isn't really "right" in any way, but it does save both the original Satoko and Rika from being blamed for this conflict.

My biggest question right now is if we'll see Rika breaking in a similar way...

>>39200079
We don't really know how the pacing/spread of the story will be handled after Rika is killed. It could still swing back to Rika's side.

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>>38861373
I think that could have worked fine if the show had focused more on how she had been wounded further by it all. But in the end it seemed to be going with "She was always like this".

The manga might be actually going with Satoko's actions bringing the worst in Rika though.

>>38693220
We might still get a different version of all that in Meguri.

>>38033617
>even though this is even the promo image for Meguri given with the upcoming Hou+
What upcoming hou+????? it's already OUT no? and it's shitoko's shitty fucking ST.lucia arc. IT'S ALL THE SAME SHIT and shitmato baited us with rika knowing who is HER PERPETRATOR AND WILL DO NOTHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE THEY ARE CUNTS THEY JUST WANT TO SHILL SOME MORE SHITOKO TIDDIES AND MAKE HER MORE POPULAR and i know how marketing works. Fuck this business. look at his twatter how it's full of shitoko drawings and shitoko retweets. no love for the original at all who started the whole higurashi fun. sheep being sheep go figure

>>37910410
Uhuh, and then she realized that the little shit is the one who caused everyone to go crazy in the first place.