Higurashi no Naku Koro ni – 8: Watanagashi – 4

So…sorry about the no-posts for Fate/Stay Night and Strawberry Panic!. I was traveling this weekend and didn't have time for it. Good news: moar killer lolis! This is the end of the arc, and it joins episode 4 in being totally creepy and hilarious at the same time. I've decided to add my running commentary in italics inside the summary, so you know how absolutely stupid Keiichi is. One question reigns supreme in my mind: what happened to poor Rika-chan?

Oooh. I forgot about that. Poor Rika-chan.

Rena visits Keiichi at home to find out that he's decided to not go to school for a while. Rena hands Keiichi her notes on the facts about Rika and Sakamoto's disappearance. She seems to know what's going on, and Keiichi comes clean about entering the storage shed. She tells him that Mion was pissed when she found out, and slaps Keiichi to scold him because no one else had done it yet. As Keiichi bends down to pick up the papers he dropped, he notices a letter telling Rika that the writer has some gourmet quality soy sauce, and that she should come over to get some. The writer? Someone from the Sonozaki family. Uh oh. Keiichi decides to go to Mion's place and apologize (Don't do it! You're gonna die!), to stop her from doing anything else. Before he can set out, Oishi shows up to cough up more info.

Rena and Keiichi jump into Oishi's car, and Keiichi tells him about the shed. Oishi and his men have been monitoring the Sonozaki residence, where Mion is still holed up. Unfortunately, they can't go in, because they don't have enough evidence. Rena goes into "Pissed off Killer Loli SEED Mode" and tells Oishi off for trying to get Keiichi to act as bait so that they can catch Mion. Keiichi just shrugs it off and goes to see Mion anyway (NOOOO!). Rena rings the doorbell of the huge compound, and Mion immediately pokes her head through the door and lets them in (Not Rena too ). Inside, Keiichi gets on his hands a knees to apologize. Mion accepts the formal apology, but not with the same formality, and gets told off by Rena, who still seems to be in "PoKLS Mode". Rena and Keiichi run through the evidence they have and present it all to Mion, accusing her of "hiding" Rika and Satako, and killing camera-guy and nurse-lady. Mion responds by laughing like some evil female villain (Get out now! You be fucked!). After the laughter stops, Mion gives up, and suddenly shifts to formal language to explain everything.

Mion explains everything that nurse-lady told Keiichi in the shed, including the demon blood thing. The Sonozaki family has the blood passed down, and every Sonozaki heir has the word "demon" in their name (demon=oni, but Keiichi says that the "Mi" in "Mion" is the same thing) and a demon somewhere on their body (there's a tattoo on her back in the OP). Mion offers to show it to them, and Rena refuses (Keiichi, WTF? Say something dammit!). Mion says that she's been involved in all of the murders in the past five years, either directly or not, and that the recent ones were all her, including Rika and Satako, who she confirms are dead. There was one person that she spared though: Keiichi. Mion resolves to surrender, and asks Rena to leave her and Keiichi lone for half an hour before that (here it comes…). Keiichi and Mion walk around the huge compound, and Mion admits that she and Shion both like Keiichi (she starts using the third person here). She asks if she can hold his arm, and he says she can (whoa there. She's hot and all, but she just killed 4 people! One of them was Rika-chan!). Mion tells Keiichi that Shion is still alive, which makes him happy (too happy…don't make her jealous!). Mion decides to show him everything, and he promises that no mater what, she'll always be his friend (WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!? She killed two little girls and you don't seem to care! GET OUT NOW!). Mion shows Keiichi where she did the murders, and her instruments of torture (You're still unfazed by this? You have SERRIOUS issues man. And what's with the third person stuff?). The duo head to the "prison" area, where Shion is in her undies in a tiny cell.

Shion is excited to see Keiichi, and she crawls up to him. Keiichi tries to tell her everything is going to be okay, but Shion spots Mion and starts to freak out and scream (told ya. You be fucked.). She says that if Mion hates her so much, she should just kill her now. Mion just smiles, and promises to…after she kills Keiichi. She picks up a large rock and knocks him out (I FUCKING TOLD YOU!). Keiichi wakes up strapped to a table, with Shion still screaming in the background. Mion finally comes out and says that the demon has a hold of her, and that the real Mion was holding the demon back. Unfortunately, the demon has complete control now, and she describes what she's going to do to him: put a nail in every finger joint. That's just for starters. Keiichi begs her for two things: Shion's release, Mion's freedom, and his life spared. Oops, that's three. Too bad the demon must kill Shion out of jealousy, because Keiichi likes her better. And the demon doesn't want to give up Mion's body. The demon gained control when Keiichi gave the doll he won to Rena instead of her, and it got worse when he started to find more interest in Shion. The demon starts to bring the hammer down, but Mion manages to stop herself just in time. The sounds of the police trying to force their way in start, and Mion retreats, somewhat in control of her mind now.

A few days later, Rena stops by Keiichi's place to find out that he's moving away, and she's the only one left. Later that night, Keiichi hears pebbles hit his window, and looks out to find Mion (Don't do it!). He quickly runs out to meet her (for the love of God…). Mion starts to get a little freaked out, and it seems that she can't hold the demon back any longer. She starts to do the freaky killer loli laugh again, and as Keiichi gets closer to see if she's okay, she stabs him in the gut (I swear you're the stupidest person alive…well you were anyway.). She starts laughing like a lunatic, and says that she's finally killed them all. After Keiichi collapses, it cuts to Oishi standing over a body. It's Shion's. Mion pushed her out the window of her apartment. Oishi goes to visit Keiichi at the hospital (you got lucky foo) and tells him some startling information: they found the well where Mion stashed the bodies, but Mion's body was there as well. She had died the night Oishi raided the compound. They also found out something interesting about nurse-lady's body. She had been dead for 24 hours before they found her, which means that it wasn't her who took Keiichi and Shion into the shed. Oishi leaves, and as Keiichi ponders what the fuck had just happened, a blood soaked Mion grabs his hand and says that she's taking back his wish. She pulls out a hammer, and slams it home. Oh teh noes!

Keiichi wins the "Stupidest Anime Character of All Time" award for this…she was trying to kill you, why the hell did you go outside?!? I laughed the whole time though, it was more funny than scary. Keiichi=teh funneh. Ah well. Hopefully Rika-chan won't die in the next arc, although it looks like she is the bad guy this time. I probably won't do SP! this week, because I'm lazy, and I didn't have time to do it. I might do F/SN though, because it was awesome. Here's the short versions for now:

Strawberry Panic! – 8

• It's raining
• Nagisa lends her umbrella to a little girl from Le Rim named Kagome
• The Le Rim Student Council/Transformation Club/Mystery Club helps Kagome and her bear return the umbrella
• Tomao tries to get Nagisa to share her umbrella, and is foiled by Shizuma and Chiyo-chan before succeeding
• Hikari knows Yaya likes her
• Le Rim people run around, loose umbrella
• Nagisa gets her umbrella back, adds Kagome to harem
• Funny scene with Shizuma and Amane sharing an umbrella

Fate/Stay Night – 21

• Emiya tries to take on Goldie, gets pwned
• Saber tries to take on Goldie, gets pwned
• Goldie's real name is Gilgamesh
• Emiya tries to use Caliburn, gets pwned
• Emiya traces Sabers sheath, they pwn Gil, he runs
• Emiya has dream about Saber's death by her daughter (Mordred)
• Emiya tries to convince Saber to stay
• Emiya teaches Saber how to cook
• Emiya and Saber kiss (OM TEH G!!)
• They might have done more than that…
• Emiya visits priest dude
• Priest dude summons Lancer, his Servant
• Lancer stabs Emiya