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Jul 26, 2020 @ 11:26am

[spoiler] so how did rika stop the "thing" at the end?

love higurashi but got little disappointed at this moment. her explaining in card games terms didn't help either

Last edited by Electric Forest; Jul 26, 2020 @ 1:26pm

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fllthdcrb

Jul 26, 2020 @ 12:43pm

Note: I wouldn't put that spoiler in the title. That makes the warning pointless.

Anyway, no one knows how she did it. I think the point is, it wouldn't be a miracle if it could be explained like that. If that's unsatisfying, well... *shrug*.

And I don't think the card game analogy is meant as a justification for it, but rather to explain why Hanyuu should be allowed to stay in the world. Well, I guess that part is arguable, but this is what I think.

Last edited by fllthdcrb; Jul 26, 2020 @ 8:33pm

Veltharis

Jul 26, 2020 @ 1:08pm

Pretty much what fllthdcrb said.

The card game analogy is less about how Rika manages to stop the bullet and more about the revelation she's come to about the nature of the "game" they've been trapped in, which is what enabled her to pull it off. A happy ending requires everyone to win, but the game is set up in a way to ensure that someone always loses. So Rika changed the game to make it so that nobody has to lose.

Simply put, she figured out how to accomplish a miracle.

There's a little bit of reasoning one could weave in from EPVI+ of Umineko, but even that would basically come down to "Magic!" and talking about the structure of the meta-narrative.

Last edited by Veltharis; Jul 26, 2020 @ 1:15pm