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Rika is a good girl

remember when rica had a flat chest?
good times..

>>3879882

But she still has a DFC so yeah.

remember when ryuukishi was good?

>Remember when Rika was a sympathetic

I like her more then ever!

>>3879885
Hey Suigin, you haven't read Higurashi and probably not even Umineko. Just to remind you.

>>3879885
Ryuukishi will be ever good.

>>3879885

Yeah, the present is pretty nostalgic, huh?

>>3879896
yes I have

>>3879940
Except you don't know japanese.

>>3879943
translated of course

>Hey Suigin, you haven't read Higurashi and probably not even Umineko. Just to remind you.
>yes I have
Yes, he hasn't read Higurashi and probably not even Umineko.

>>3879950
There isn't any spanish translation, fool. You don't read VNs in English.

>>3879980
i dont speak spanish

>>3879885
>remember when suigin was tolerable?

>>3879982
Man, stop lying, look:

Hola Suigin, que tal estas?

See? You understood me.

>>3879988
i only understood hola and suigin

>>3879990
Well your Spanish is pretty good then. You don't need to be ashamed.

>>3879993
I only know
Hola
Si
No and taco

>>3879980
There's a spanish translation project. Original, not taken from the english translation

Oh suigin, so tsundere as always.

/r/ing that pic where Rika says she's going to get taller and have bigger breasts and then she sees Frederica and is amazed but then notices Freddy also has a flat chest

>>3879997
So you lied to me, you don't know what suigin means in Spanish. You lied to me so many times.

>>3880030

>>3881669
thanks

need more pictures of grown up Rika

>>3881871
good luck

>>3881871

>>3881901
dem legs

Bernkastel isn't Rika.

You're silly if you thought so.

>>3881901
I like adult catgirl Rika. I want more adult catgirl Rika.

>>3881928
cool denial bro

>>3881949
That's the only catgirl one I have, but have a similar one instead.

>>3881928

>implying anyone said anything about that

>>3881669

Hey !nipa did you ever find that other Rika + Satoko marriage pic?

>>3881928

Go read Saikoroshi-hen.

Bernkastel is Rika but Rika isn't Bernkastel.

>>3882891
Yes.

>>3882945
Sort of like this?

>>3883253
Bernkastel is the accumulation of memories from all the Rikas that have died over the past century that have become self-aware, as she says at the start of Minagoroshi-hen. Presumably Bernkastel was created when the amount of Rika's memories that Hanyuu deposited in the dimension with the fragments reached a critical mass. The scenario for a death of Rika's mind described by Bernkastel is probably what would happen if that accumulation of memories became too great to be housed in a human being.

What presumably happens when "Rika" arrives in a new world is that a copy of Bernkastel's memories replaces the existing Rika's memories (Rika can't recall anything from before she was playing her friends in Minagoroshi-hen or from before she was hit with a ball in Saikoroshi-hen). We can't be sure that she retains all of Bernkastel's memories, since in Saikoroshi-hen Hanyuu explains to Rika that the worlds appear as fragments in the realm of the gods and how they traveled between worlds by joining these fragments, which Bernkastel must have already known since she can manipulate them (but Hanyuu could be reiterating something Rika knew). Also, Bernkastel is aware of what happened in Minagoroshi-hen at the start of Matsuribayashi-hen, but the Rika in the world of Matsuribayashi-hen lacks that information (but that may be simply be an anomaly due to Hanyuu's powers failing).

However, the fact that Rika is aware that a version of herself exists in a higher dimension, that she says she isn't Rika when she's speaking to Rena in Tsumihoboroshi-hen (Bernkastel feels that way to an extent) and that she gives herself the name Bernkastel when inhabiting Rika's body in Saikoroshi-hen to distinguish herself from the original Rika indicates that the Rikas of the various worlds possess at least some of Bernkastel's memories. Conversely, in Minagoroshi-hen Bernkastel says that she only has the memories that Rika obtained from the various worlds, that she was born in the human world and refers to herself as Rika at one point. Based on that, as well as all the things she says in the tea parties in Umineko which make it clear she was born from the events in Higurashi, we can assume that Bernkastel views herself as an being that's a continuation of Rika rather than a completely separate entity, which supports a close connection between them.

When Rika dies, Hanyuu sends the memories from that world to join the accumulation of memories in that higher dimension and thus become part of Bernkastel. This would explain why Bernkastel retains the name that "Rika" came up with in Saikoroshi-hen and why the Rika in the world at the end of Saikoroshi-hen says that the version of her in the higher dimension no longer matters, since her memories won't be joining it when she dies.

So in conclusion, a copy of Bernkastel's memories and personality replace Rika's mind and then the experiences of that copy merge with Bernkastel when the Rika of that world dies. Bernkastel neither created Rika nor is she really a separate entity (since 'Rika' is simply Bernkastel's mind in a human body) until they diverge at the end of Saikoroshi-hen.

>>3883258
>>3883260
And this is the sign that warns you to stop thinking too hard about this shit.

>>3883258
>>3883260
Anti-fantasy: Rika has a split personality, which she calls Bernkastel, and the real world is that of Saikoroshi-hen, and all of the other arcs are just coma-dreams. Bernkastel manifests itself after she wakes up from the clinic, beats Satoko with a chair, and kills her mom. She also talks to shiny rocks in the shrine (Hanyuu).

Before Rika died for the first time she was a good girl. Then after 100 years of dying she became mean and cranky.

>>3883297
No need to tell me that theory. I was the one that came up with it you know.

All of Higurashi can be easily explained without the use of magic or witches.

The sinless world of Saikoroshi-hen is the only real world. Rika is obviously schizophrenic, displaying a large number of symptoms such as delusions (that she's the reincarnation of a god and that she has existed for over 100 years), auditory hallucinations (that a god speaks to her through an oversized marble, telling her to commit murder), as well as a lack of desire to form relationships and even substance abuse. Because of her loneliness after losing her friends due to her village being about to sink underwater, her warped mind imagines a series of worlds where the dam was never built and all her friends stayed with her in Hinamizawa. The fact her classmates are going crazy and killing each other in most of these imaginary worlds is her way of having revenge against them for bullying and ignoring her. It's not as if a divine moeblob, a mysterious lethal disease that's only found in a single village and a secret government conspiracy with unlimited resources out to turn that disease into a biological weapon could ever be real. The true tragedy of Higurashi is that her parents and doctor failed to send her to a psychiatrist while there was still time.

>>3881949
This is preferable.

>>3883525
What are you talking about? None of those other worlds happened. There's only been the one happy ending world.

Fucking mysteryfags, leave Higurashi be!