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Tsubamegaeshi-hen
燕返し編
Information
Orignal Release Date July 7, 2010
Artist Yamada J-ta
Number of Chapters 14

Tsubamegaeshi-hen (燕返し編, Swallow Counter Chapter) is a manga only arc and part of the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jan series. The story is told from the viewpoint of Maebara Keiichi who plays mahjong with the club and slowly succumbs to the Hinamizawa Syndrome as he finds out more about the dark side of Hinamizawa.

Plot[]

Just like in every other world, the Hinamizawa School club plays games after the classes are over. In this world, Keiichi requests that the club play mahjong. During the mahjong games where he always loses, Keiichi becomes more and more stressed which twists his perception of the events, and he starts to show the symptoms of the Hinamizawa Syndrome. Irie Kyōsuke notices the changes and starts to treat him with the C-120 medicine which prevents the sequence of Onikakushi-hen. However, Keiichi befriends various people through mahjong: Takano Miyo, Ōishi Kuraudo and Akasaka Mamoru. They reveal the history of Onigafuchi and the series of mysterious deaths which worsen his condition. After discovering the deaths of Takano Miyo and Tomitake Jirō on the night of the Watanagashi Festival, Keiichi reaches the Level 5 stage of the Hinamizawa Syndrome which initiates the tragic events of Tsubamegaeshi-hen.

Chapters[]

Chapter 1: Nightmare[]

Chapter 2: Suspicion[]

Chapter 3: Advice[]

Chapter 4: Means[]

Chapter 5: Seeing Through[]

Chapter 6: Curse[]

Chapter 7: Cheating[]

Chapter 8: Illusion[]

Chapter 9: Determination[]

Chapter 10: Distrust[]

Chapter 11: Disease[]

Chapter 12: Inspiration[]

Chapter 13: Fate[]

Chapter 14: Cherished Desire[]

Disappearances and Deaths[]

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

Disappearances[]

Deaths[]

Trivia[]

  • The name of the arc, Tsubamegaeshi, comes from a high-level cheating technique in Riichi Mahjong, where one stacks the bottom of their own wall with a complete hand, usually a Yakuman hand, and in the middle of the game, swaps their own 14-tile hand with the pre-stacked complete 14-tile hand from their wall during their turn. It is usually very hard to use it in an actual match, as the large movements when lifting your wall are very hard to hide.
  • This technique was featured in a scene in Minagoroshi-hen, where Ooishi shows off this technique to Keiichi and his friends.

Winning is a sin?


Losing is a punishment?


You can not run away from it, but…

Frederica Bernkastel

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