Why not have a teenage idiot and a magical pet? Higurashi I guess diverged in its second episode by starting out introducing Hanyuu, but was then another really boring episode with zero murdering, so… nah. I watched the original. Whatever differences in this one, I simply don't care about, and it hasn't given me […]
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