Episode
Higurashi: When They Cry: The Festival Accompanying Chapter - Part 3 - The Beginning of the End
Overview
Hanyū watches silently and hopelessly as the cruel events occur during the dam incident, while she and Rika eagerly await the arrival of the one person who will be the key element to bring an end to the enemy's intentions.
Details
- Series
- Higurashi: When They Cry
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 2007-10-23
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
The Festival Accompanying Chapter - Part 3 - The Beginning of the End is Episode 16 in When They Cry: Kai of Higurashi: When They Cry. It aired on 2007-10-23. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 15: The Festival Accompanying Chapter - Part 2 - Wriggling
Takano's story continues, including how she met her foster grandfather, and her determination to continue his work. A few years later, Takano and Hanyū have a very heated confrontation at Oyashiro-sama's shrine.
Episode 17: The Festival Accompanying Chapter - Part 4 - Strategy
In order to save Satoko, who is terminally infected with the Hinamizawa Syndrome, Rika offers herself as a test subject for Irie and Takano's research. More light is shed into the deaths of Satoko and Rika's parents, and its involvement with the legend of Oyashiro-sama's curse.
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Episode 14: The Festival Accompanying Chapter - Part 1 - Miyo
Takano's past is revealed in disjointed flashbacks, some of them showing her harsh childhood, while others to the time when she became involved with researchers of the Hinamizawa Syndrome.
Episode 18: The Festival Accompanying Chapter - Part 5 - The Final Piece
More details about Satoshi's past are revealed, including the reason for his disappearance. Rika and Hanyū make their final preparations for the impending struggle against destiny.
Episode 13: The Massacre Chapter - Part 8 - Finale
One after another, Rika's friends are killed while trying to protect her. Takano dissects Rika, but does so without anesthesia, as requested by the latter in an attempt to carve the identity of the culprit behind all the Hinamizawa murders in her mind and prevent the events from this and past worlds from repeating themselves. The villagers are rounded up at the school and gassed to death, while an ecstatic Takano proclaims her ascension to godhood.
Episode 19: The Festival Accompanying Chapter - Part 6 - Opening
Hanyū is physically introduced into the world as a transfer student to the Hinamizawa school, but forgets her role. After a brief meeting with Takano and Tomitake, she remembers the past worlds and informs Rika about the enemy's intentions.
Episode 12: The Massacre Chapter - Part 7 - Hinamizawa Syndrome
After getting a clue of the villain's betrayal, Rika tells her friends the truth behind the Hinamizawa Syndrome, and her connection with it. Meanwhile, the enemy moves on with their plan, eliminating any opposition.
Episode 20: The Festival Accompanying Chapter - Part 7 - Trap
Rika gather her allies and start to make plans, while obtaining more information about the enemy and those supporting their ambitions.
Episode 11: The Massacre Chapter - Part 6 - A Strong Will
At last, Rika persuades Satoko to ask for help and she is freed from Teppei. However, just when the village seemed to be relieved from its eternal cycle of hatred and death, the real enemies start to act, just like they did in previous worlds.
Episode 21: The Festival Accompanying Chapter - Part 8 - 48 Hours
False information regarding Rika is spread by Oishi's group at the precinct, leaving the villain's crew in disarray, and racing against time to prevent their plans from being foiled.
Episode 10: The Massacre Chapter - Part 5 - Confrontation
Keiichi's struggle to help Satoko forces him to confront the village elders, even the leader of the Sonozaki family. As the government succumbs to the pressure of Keiichi and his allies', Satoko's condition is also at its limit.
Episode 22: The Festival Accompanying Chapter - Part 9 - Offense and Defense
Finding that Tomitake is captured, Irie rushes to escape and ends up meeting with Shion and her bodyguard, Kasai, on their way to the Sonozaki Estate. However, by accepting their help, he ends up unintentionally revealing Rika's hideout to the enemy.