Yuki The Snowman

Higurashi in the only power of friendship anime I respect.

In life, we experience  pain.  Betrayal.  Abuse.   Hopelessness.  Lost. Suffering.  Depression.  Anxiety.  Whatever. The point being is this: life is brutal.    However – the support of (true) family and friends can helps ebb our pain. With their help, we can push forward and grow better day-by-day.

07^th Expansion and Studio Deen’s Higurashi no Naku Koro ni show us how the power of friendship  can pull  us up through our darkest Moments.  Moments that make us believe we’re hopeless. Movements  that makes feel that there’s nobody who can understand what we are going through.

This is where the beauty of Higurashi comes in.

The main cast (Rena, Shion, Mion, Satoko, Rika, and Keiichi) are suffering from various degrees of pain.  Rena suffered from trauma of bullying and her mother cheating on her father.  Shion is the Sonozaki family’s blacksheep, thus straining her relationship with her love ones.  Satoko…poor Satoko.  Keiichi suffers from the guilt of his past sins.  And Rika with despair and hopelessness.  They all believe that nobody understand htier pain and suffering, until they reached out to their friends at one point in the series.
Example: Keiichi reaches out to Rena whom was suffering from paranoia.  She believed that nobody understood her pain and took it out on her friends.  Keiichi opened his heart to her, allowing her to express her pain to him.   Keep in mind that in a different world of Higurashi (long story), Keiichi murdered Rena – whom he believed was trying to kill him.  Rena in reality was literally reaching out to him, knowing that he was going through the same paranoia that she experienced years prior.

“The Power of Friendship” of anime  is so cheesy and Higurashi is one only anime that I’ve personally experienced the troope executed right with realistic themes such as child abuse and mental health.  Higurashi teaches us that we have a support system and that we must never allow ourselves to think that we are suffering alone and that people do not understand what wer’re going through.

With that said, I hope you enjoy this very raw, unedited, poor grammar freewrite.   Tell me in the ocmments if you too are a fan of Higurashi and appericate its usage of the power of friendship as a narrative.