Satoko, don’t look through the window!
In this episode we get a really different take on the Hinamizawa Disaster, with a lot more detail. I’m not sure how Satoko survived, like Keiichi once before, but there must be something about that bridge, or else its not even gas at all that kills them. It’s almost like everyone was lured to the school somehow to be killed. But it couldn’t have been quick as they all look like they died horribly. Poor Satoko had to see her friends like that :( We’ve seen them all dead in different ways before, but now we see mass carnage–that first glimpse of a pile of dead children was particularly disturbing.
Satoko’s discovery of Rika was handled very effectively as well–we know what’s coming, and we see those crows and know what it means before Satoko comes around the corner. After all the shocking discoveries, Oishi couldn’t get much out of her. But don’t be so rough with the lolis, Oishi-san! So an all-around good episode and a great introductory story arc to get us back into the brutal happenings in Hinamizawa.
I know you want answers, Oishi-san, but please don’t be too rough with the lolis.
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Getting a close view of the aftermath of the disaster for the first time, seems to raise more questions than it answers! I assume that Satoko (or Keiichi earlier) survived by being swept downstream, away from whatever happened. But, the scene at the school was odd: why would all the students have been there, dressed in their usual clothes, when it seems that the disaster must have occurred late at night?
And what’s the deal with the men in the white van? Back in Onikakushi-hen, I thought that they were Sonozaki family goons (or hallucinations!), but that isn’t very likely at this point. I think it’s significant that they were apparently working with Dr. Irie in Onikakushi, and that Irie either commits suicide or is killed just before the disaster. We shall see!