Say It In Red | Episode 06: Higurashi Chapter 5: Meakashi

Say It In Red

This week, Sara and Runa look through the eyes of Shion Sonozaki in the first game of the Answer arcs, Higurashi: Meakashi. The Spring of 1982 arrives and brings with it a daring escape from Catholic School, covert grocery trips through town, and the glimmer of a gremlin's first love. In this volume we'll also finally see exactly what happened to Shion, Mion, Keiichi, and the others during the Watanagashi chapter - do we learn all the facts of the incident, though, or do we simply learn which questions we should really be asking?
Higurashi no naku koro ni: Meakashi (2004) follows Shion's perspective through events roughly the same as those in the Watanagashi chapter, revealing her innermost thoughts, her suspicions, and her actions in both 1982 and 1983. After escaping from an extremely rigid catholic boarding school, Shion hides out in a Sonozaki owned apartment building with the help of her driver Kasai. At first she only intends to lay low and, with Mion's help, pose as Mion to work part time for money to support herself for a while... but then she meets Satoshi, a kind and clumsy boy who catches Shion completely off guard.
If only their lives had been peaceful.
If only their families had been gentle.
If only Hinamizawa and its history didn't loom so ominously in Shion's mind...
With all the new information in the Meakashi chapter, we can outline Shion's actions with certainty and clearly map out the mysterious events of the Watanagashi chapter. Is that really all that we need to understand, though?
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Content Warnings for this Episode:
00:19:33 to 00:20:10 - Fingernail Torture
00:32:30 - forced syringe/needle injections
00:32:35 - Graphic Suicide Mention
00:48:30 - Fingernail Removal/Torture
01:36:56 to 01:40:21 - Suicide, Throat injury, self-inflicted injuries, fingernail trauma, forced injections, poisoning, Details of character death