How Higurashi Scares Us

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Higurashi is a fantastic horror series, but its scares are often discredited as being little more than skin-deep. In this analysis, we'll untangle the series' cultural context and underpinnings in psychology, sociopolitical commentary and national trauma. • Support the channel through Patreon: / bessyt • Find my tip jar at Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/butterflyswimmer • Follow me on Twitter: / bess__yt • Music used (all unattributed tracks are from the OST for the Higurashi console games): • Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Tomoyuki Nakazawa, Kazuya Takase, Eiko Shimamiya • Taishou a - inazawa, Dequar String Quartet • Shinobiyoru kehai • Kourin to Seitan to • Oyashiro-sama • Furuki omoi • Hitori • Remember • Urameshikodama • Soul Scour - dai • Taidou～Kodou-Colors- • Tsuisou no Despair Inst Ver. • ○Kareta rakuen • why or why not - Oshima Hiroyuki, bermei.inazawa, Dequar String Quartet • Watanagashi • Dream Music Box • Minna, Inakunatta • Matsuri - dai • Shikkoku no Saidan Inst Ver. • Conviction - dai • Sorayume - dai • Kage - dai • LIVE - dai • Video sources: • Footage from Showa Era Japan: • • Video • / huntleyfilmarchives • • Nostalgic Footage | Japan 80s HD | Pa... • Footage of Ryukishi07: • Old Ryukishi07 Interview • Footage from Siren: • [PS2] FORBIDDEN SIREN - All Cutscenes • Footage from Fatal Frame: • FATAL FRAME All Cutscenes (Game Movie... • Portraits from a Psychiatric Ward: • Video • Anti-war protest footage: • Anti-war protest as Japan introduces ... • Things Not to Say to Someone With a Facial Disfigurement: • Things Not to Say to Someone With a F... • Sources: • Inside the Well of Loneliness: Towards a Definition of the Japanese Horror Film: http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/dis... • Pruett, C. (2010). The anthropology of fear: learning about Japan through horror games. Interface, 10, 9. • Torrey, E. F., Yolken, R. H. (2003). Toxoplasma gondii and schizophrenia. Emerging infectious diseases, 9(11), 1375. • Owen, P. R. (2012). Portrayals of schizophrenia by entertainment media: a content analysis of contemporary movies. Psychiatric Services, 63(7), 655-659. • Davey, G. (2008). Psychopathology: Research, assessment and treatment in clinical psychology. British Psychological Society. • Menezes, A., Moreira-Almeida, A. (2010). Religion, spirituality, and psychosis. Current psychiatry reports, 12(3), 174-179. • Friedli, L. (2000). A matter of faith: Religion and mental health. Journal of Public Mental Health, 2(2), 7-13. • https://www.rethink.org (for stats on hearing voices) • Furnham, A., Murao, M. (2000). A cross-cultural comparison of British and Japanese lay theories of schizophrenia. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 46(1), 4-20. • Ando, S., Yamaguchi, S., Aoki, Y., Thornicroft, G. (2013). Review of mental‐health‐related stigma in J apan. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 67(7), 471-482. • Totsuka, E. (1990). The history of Japanese psychiatry and the rights of mental patients. Psychiatric Bulletin, 14(4), 193-200. • On Hotokukai Utsunomiya Hospital: http://www.yoshabunko.com/medicine/Me... • A brief note on the history of psychosurgery in Japan: https://thejns.org/focus/view/journal... • Mennen, F. E., Kim, K., Sang, J., Trickett, P. K. (2010). Child neglect: Definition and identification of youth's experiences in official reports of maltreatment. Child abuse neglect, 34(9), 647-658. • Stoltenborgh, M., Bakermans‐Kranenburg, M. J., Alink, L. R., van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2015). The prevalence of child maltreatment across the globe: Review of a series of meta‐analyses. Child Abuse Review, 24(1), 37-50. • Davies, G. M., Beech, A. R. (Eds.). (2012). Forensic psychology: Crime, justice, law, interventions. John Wiley Sons. • Bosmia, A. N., Griessenauer, C. J., Tubbs, R. S. (2014). Yubitsume: ritualistic self-amputation of proximal digits among the Yakuza. Journal of injury and violence research, 6(2), 54. • Fusé, T. (1980). Suicide and culture in Japan: A study of seppuku as an institutionalized form of suicide. Social Psychiatry, 15(2), 57-63. • Yoshida, T. (1981). The stranger as god: the place of the outsider in Japanese folk religion. Ethnology, 20(2), 87-99. • Jamrozik, A., Oraa Ali, M., Sarwer, D. B., Chatterjee, A. (2019). More than skin deep: Judgments of individuals with facial disfigurement. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13(1), 117. • Stats on suicide in Japan came from: https://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/databa... • Sato, M. (2006). Renaming schizophrenia: a Japanese perspective. World psychiatry, 5(1), 53. • Huge thanks and credit to users LAMBDADELTO and むつひがしチャンネル for all the Higurashi visual novel footage. • #Higurashi #WhenTheyCry #Horror

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