Utsutsukowashi-hen (現壊し編, Reality Breaking Chapter) is an abandoned manga-only prequel to Meakashi-hen. The story focuses on Sonozaki Shion at her all-girl school St. Lucia Academy. It introduces  Kosaka Mizuho. It stopped after only three chapters despite the promise to continue.

Chapters

Chapter 1: Sympathy

Chapter 2: Misunderstanding

Chapter 3: Comrade

Disappearances and Deaths

Trivia

  • Utsutsukowashi-hen is often counted as the answer.png.png arc, because it's subtitled as Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai. However, ideograms are different. Actual Answer Arcs are written as ひぐらしのなく頃に解, where 解 (Kai) means: "answer.png.png, key, explanation, solve, understanding". While Utsutsukowashi-hen's subtitle is written as ひぐらしのなく頃に怪, where 怪 (Kai) means: "mystery, suspicious, wonder". Therefore, it seems to be a small joke of the author, giving the readers another riddle to solve, instead of the answer.png.png.

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