Finals suck and Higurashi

Freshman in college.  Finals are unfun as usual, although honestly, so far they’re not much harder than high school, so either I had a really hard high school life, really easy college experience or things just haven’t gotten hard yet.

Either way, I still had alot of stuff to do, and my game/anime time was limited.  Of course, that didn’t stop me from watching anything completely, but I didn’t write anything mostly because I felt that if I was writing something, it should be on my essay.

So anwyay, I’m writing today and I think I’ll talk about a longtime favorite series of mine, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.  Before I get into that, I should add a note so that you know where I’m coming from.  When I was 9 years old I first saw The Ring, I think it was in 1999 or I might have been 10 and saw it in 2000, either way I wasn’t very old, and the movie creeped me out alot, pretty much ruined the horror genre for a few years after, before I slowly started getting back into it.  Even then I still got scared pretty easily and couldn’t sleep the night I saw some movies.

(tl;dr Your Mileage May Vary)

Anyway, back to Higurashi; I first watched it back in May of this year (2008), one of the first few series I watched, as I only started anime back in April of the same year.

I sought it out for one reason, this picture: (since it’s technically a spoiler the thumbnail is not the actual image)

HA HA HA indeed!

The picture just looked so awesome.. I had to find it.  And find it I did, it’s a fairly prestegious anime and wasn’t hard to find at all.  So, I started watching it, not really knowing much more than what the picture told me.  And man, it was really pretty cool.  At the start I couldn’t watch more than a few episodes at one time, not going to lie, its kind of a creepy show.  With it’s heavy paranoia themes, my naturally paranoid self looked over my shoulder more than once while watching it.

The intro of the first episode gives a clear impression of what kind of anime you are watching.  But by the time it swung back around to that, I thought I was watching some comedy slice-of-life, which just made much more fascinating.

The second season was alot more infodump than I would have liked, but it definately explained alot of what was going on..  and since it is adapted from a series of visual novels, they didn’t have much like the first season left to work with.  But still pretty decent

Anyway, I’d definately recomend Higurashi as a must see for all anime fans.