#it's obviously not as competent as umineko and it'd be crazy to suggest this

[onewholivesinloops]

one of the things that makes the umineko cast work so well is that they're very tightly written in terms of how they parallel each other but also how they parallel yasu first and foremost and i've always felt like that's an approach sotsugou tried to replicate with the higurashi cast and satoko

#it's obviously not as competent as umineko and it'd be crazy to suggest this #but it's also unfair to pit them against each other in terms of quality when one is ~100h sound novel and the other is an anime #anyway the most obvious and interesting is satoko and rika being narrative foils #but besides that the takano focus in the last episode of gou is all about drawing parallels between her and satoko #it's satoko inheriting the takano role so this exists to emphasize how similar they truly are #there's oniakashi rena and wataakashi mion which are all about drawing parallels with satoko's character arc albeit in different ways #even teppei in tatariakashi isn't meant to be seen as a character as much as he's a symbol #there's so much nuance in terms of what teppei stands for in terms of being the fantasy of the father figure she wishes she could've had #but he's also a mirror of her 'worst' self #even hanyuu's focus in the beginning of kagurashi can be drawn back to satoko's motives #i think sotsugou makes the most sense when you parse it as being the satoko show before anything else #i think this is something the original does with rika too but it's also a little different #the original isn't as rika centric #even if she's the hidden protagonist and the true heart it's still an ensemble story #but sotsugou feels like it's a love letter for satoko in the same way umineko is one for beatrice #not that this means the other characters don't matter it's just that everything is kinda about them? #not sure if this makes sense but it does in my head and i can write so many words about all the parallels #gamo.txt