Matsuribayashi-hen

Matsuribayashi-hen
Developer	07th Expansion
Publisher	07th Expansion
Arc Type	Answer
Released	December 30, 2005 (INCORRECT)
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Chronology
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Matsuribayashi-hen (NIHONGOOOO, The Nip Chapter) is the eighth arc of the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni series as well as the fourth and final arc of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai. It is told from a variety of perspectives due to its unusual style of story progression.

Plot

Matsuribayashi-hen opens at the an orphange and follows four girls, Eriko, Tomomi, Kikuko, and Miyoko as they attempt to escape from the facility and seek refuge in the Yurigaoka House of Love and Mercy. During the escape, Miyoko stumbles across a phone booth and uses it to call Hifumi Takano and begs him to help her. Shortly afterwards, Miyoko is found by orphanage workers and is returned to the facility. She quickly realizes that the other three girls had been captured as well and all four of them are tortured for their disobedience. Hifumi eventually shows up at the orphanage and rescues Miyoko. Hifumi adopts her and Miyoko takes the name Miyo Takano.

After this prologue, Ryukishi07 speaks directly to the reader who is then taken to the "Connecting pieces" screen. In the "Connecting pieces" screen, the reader goes through several specific TIPS scenarios, some of which are immediately available to read and others can only be read after a certain other one is read. Below are all of the connecting pieces separated into tiers. All of the "Tier One" pieces must be read before the pieces in a later tier. The "Tier Two" pieces have only one prerequisite before they can be read. The "Tier Three" pieces have two or more prerequisites before they can be read.

Tier One Operation Dam Construction Withdrawal Irie Kyousuke Tomitake Jirou A local explanatory meeting Houjou Satoshi Houjou Satoko

Tier Two Blah

Characters

Outsiders

• Miyo Takano
• Eriko
• Tomomi
• Kikuko

Mentioned

• Hifumi Takano
• Koizumi
• Haruyama
• Mochizuki

Deaths and Disappearances

All deaths and disappearances are listed only as they are told in Matsuribayashi-hen and apply only for the individual arc, not the overall series.

Trivia

• Matsuribayashi-hen is the chapter with the greatest number of different perspectives in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. Among them are Miyo Takano, Kyousuke Irie, Jirou Tomitake, Hanyuu.