Hi! I'm the anon who started reading Higurashi! I just finished Watanagashi and 😭 this episode was pretty tame compared to Onikakushi, I only got scared a bit when Tanako started explaining how the villagers used to dissect humans and ate them during the festival in the past... and then the last scene of the episode happened AND OH MY GOD. I want to go back to Rokkenjima!!
I know it's likely just Keiichi alucinating a bloody Mion is killing him or something but THE REVEAL SHE WAS DEAD TIME AGO AND COULDN'T HAVE STABBED HIM??? TAKANO BEING 24 HOURS DEAD BY THE TIME THEY ENTERED THE SHRINE??? so so scary
my only logic theory is that it was Shion who stabbed Keiichi. It had to be her since Mion was dead. But why??? Did she go crazy after all the trauma? I even went a bit paranoic and started thinking that maybe she was the evil one all the time and Mion was actually the "Shion" jailed and tortured. But even then I don't have any explanation for Takano! Maybe the person we met was someone else impersonating the real Takano, using her name while they are different people???

I got so scary, this is so unsettling. I tried starting Tatarigoroshi but the intro menu with the scary dark bridge and telling me it's the "Curse Killing Arc" with the worst difficulty... i have the feeling this will totally surpass Onikakushi in terms of horror and i'm a coward