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Arg! Tsumi horobo shi-hen (罪滅し編, Atone ment Chapter), is officially the answer.png.png arc for Onikakushi-hen in Higurashi no Na ku Koro ni, although it follows a very different plot. It was released on August 14, 2005 as the second game in the Higurashi no Na ku Koro ni Kai series. This arc is preceded by Meakashi-hen and followed by Minagoroshi-hen (In the anime it is followed by Yakusamashi-hen.)

This arc introduces the idea that there is nothing demonic or supernatural happening in Hinamizawa since Hinamizawa Syndrome causes the insanity. The Three Great Houses, who worship Oyashiro-sama as a god, do not want the information released since it could diminish the god's image. Takano still appears at the Watanagashi Festival 24 hours after the time of death of her body without an explanation. This arc presents the events in Oni kaku shi-hen from another view which reveals that Keiichi suffered paranoia-induced hallucinations that made him only think people were trying to kill him. Thus, the syringe he saw in that arc was merely a marker.

Plot

Instead of Maebara Keiichi becoming a victim of the Hinamizawa Syndrome, Tsumihoroboshi-hen is told mostly from the perspectives of Keiichi and Ryūgū Rena as she succumbs to it which include additional symptoms that did not happen to Keiichi in Oni kaku shi-hen.

Tsumihoroboshi-hen reveals additional information about Rena's past and Keiichi's reasons for moving to Hinamizawa from Tōkyō. The arc looks like it has a good ending, but after completing the game, the player gets an additional TIP (Demon's Script) which shows the story's true ending. This additional information was left out from the first season of the anime, but it was revealed in the second season's first episode Saikai. The manga has Furude Rika tease the reader that he had his "happy ending" but decided to turn the page.

Anime Episodes

Disappearances and Deaths

All deaths and disappearances are listed only as they are told in Tsumi horobo shi-hen. Spoilers are only for the individual arc, not the overall series. Arg.

Disappearances

Hōjō Satoshi: disappears in June 1982.

Deaths

Mamiya Rina: receives several severe beatings from a lead pipe wielded by Rena. She tries to escape from Rena by climbing up a mountain of junk but falls and breaks her neck. In the anime and manga adaptations, Rena slashes her open stomach then beats her to death.
Hōjō Teppei: Rena buries a large axe into his forehead at the trash heap. In the anime adaptation, Rena murders him with her hatchet.
Tomitake Jirō: kills himself on the night of the Watanagashi Festival (June 19, 1983) by clawing his throat out.
Takano Miyo: is hanged on the night of the Watanagashi Festival (June 19, 1983) in the mountains of the Gifu Prefecture. Her corpse is found burned in an oil drum.
Irie Kyōsuke: mysteriously commits suicide right before the Great Hinamizawa Disaster (GHD).
Furude Rika: is brutally murdered by disembowelment in front of the shrine on June 25, 1983.
Everyone in Hinamizawa: apparently wiped out on June 26, 1983 due to the gas disaster. In the anime adaptation of Kai, Rena, who is in police custody, is the sole survivor.
Some People Who Use to Live in Hinamizawa: start showing erratic behavior right after the GHD. Some die mysteriously, while others commit suicide in strange ways.

Live Action

The 2009 movie Higurashi no Na ku Koro ni Chikai (Shrill Cries of Summer Reshuffle) is based off Tsumihoroboshi-hen.

Trivia

During this arc, when the perspective shifts from Keiichi to Rena, the text changes from the default white to a bright pink. As the story progresses, Rena's text color slowly turns darker, showing her mental state. The color eventually becomes a blood red. This same text color was used in Umineko no Na ku Koro ni's "Red Truth" and may have been what inspired the idea.

Question Arc

At the first time, I do my best to try again against the inevitable tragedy.	In the second time, I become disgusted towards the inevitable tragedy.	The third time, disgust is overwhelmed into painfulness. But by the seventh time, this all becomes a farce comedy. Frederica Bernkastel

See Onikakushi-hen.

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