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Rika and Satoko love each other, why can't we?

>>38952022
I like both, desu.

>>36969252
having both of these around would turn anyone into a pedo

>>35911414
And yet we're still stuck with this one. If this gets sunk then I shall praise Sotsugou for being the slayer of shipfags everywhere, but I'd be surprised.

>>35863172
I just told you, I'm not! It's fine! It's going to be a great and interesting chapter, a turning point of Sotsu just like it was for Gou.

The answer certainly can't be just that R07 lied and Satoko injected Ooishi with no twists, no changes, nothing interesting going on behind the scenes. That degree of lameness couldn't happen after all this buildup towards the crucial answer to an arc that combines both of Satoko's original arcs.

Surely we'll learn what really was Satoko's plan for this fragment, which will be interesting and unexpected, yet fitting. Perhaps even instilling the slightest feel of a well thought out mystery that has been largely absent. We'll get a satisfying explanation as to how Ooishi's syndrome developed without H173 and R07 didn't simply lie about that. We'll have moments of well-handled character development for all actors involved, not just cheap and cutesy Satoko/Teppei fanservice thrown in there. We'll get to know whether Keiichi hallucinated Ooishi as Teppei in the anime and also come to understand why Satoko was so fucking pissed off at Rika's phone call in the manga. Everything will fall in to place beautifully, even explaining the differences between anime and manga.

There's nothing to worry about. It will be good.

>>34937328
This is the closest thing you'll ever get.

>>34750189

>>34731396
It's only natural for the best girl to be the most powerful, K1 is one lucky man.

>>33782454
I mean, yeah. That is the best solution.

From the beginning this whole antagonism between Satoko and Rika has been pretty dumb. The whole story is just them failing to communicate to the point where it escalates beyond mortal realm. And the foundations for that conflict still feel shaky. Yet ultimately they both want the same, simple thing. To live happily. And now Satoko is doing a great job of completely fixing the shitty Hinamizawa that Rika wanted to escape. Rika could be happy there even without the heartbreaking... actually happy, not forced manipulation. Damn, I want a story where Satoko and Rika are working together as loopers.

>Everyone is entitled to happiness.
>The difficult part is accepting that.
>Everyone is entitled to happiness.
>The difficult part is fulfilling that.
>I, too, am entitled to happiness.
>The difficult part is working out a compromise.
Isn't it about time to work on that compromise, Rikastel? There are no enemies you need to defeat in the perfect world Satoko made for you. Everyone gets happiness. Just accept yours.

I'm sad that the story had to unravel this way, turning Satoko into a crazy psycho lesbian yandere witch.
Now I want 4 cours worth of wholesome adventures of Looper Friends RikaSato cooperating to fix everything wrong in the world with their powers.

>>33157902
Rika x Satoko and Shion x Satoko chillposting are fine to me.
/a/ tier ACK-keks ship wars are complete cancer though.

>>32996187
>that's all I have
(Excluding lewds and anime screenshots)

>>32924501
"Good character design" would be the cop-out answer.

I think it has to do with how they relate to and interact with the other club members. It if was just a RikaSato SoL show in some big city school with other kids of their age, their characterization wouldn't be as pronounced. And of course there's the subject matter of Higurashi itself. The events they go through, that's probably the most important factor. You get to experience the tragic consequences where nobody could protect them. And then back to their happy smiles. That sort of thing tickles your mirror neurons in wrong ways, ways we didn't evolve to handle.
In short, I think it's more about their surroundings and interactions with others than any specific character trait.