Higurashi doesn’t have that, but it is somewhat similar how people can turn into demons in it. Some people said that since Tsukihime had vampires, the next big thing would have werewolves.Many other people were doing that with Tsukihime, although 07th Expansion didn’t really realize this at the time. In Japan, when something popular comes out, many people jump on the bandwagon to try imitating that success.With both the ability to write and program between them, he felt that they were invincible.After hearing Ryukishi’s idea for creating a sound novel, BT went along with it, but later confided that his reaction was, “I thought you’d gone crazy.” He thought it would be an utter failure, but couldn’t bring himself to tell Ryukishi.Earlier, Ryukishi had written a stage play and he suggested they could convert it into a video game.and Ryukishi’s younger brother said, “Hey, we can use this too.”

At this time, Tsukihime had just come out from Type-Moon.

2 years on, Ryukishi met BT, who ended up being the main engineer behind Higurashi.

These are all examples of how spur of the moment and unplanned the whole process of creating Higurashi was.

Ryukishi advised the audience that “If you’re gonna come up with a name, don’t come up with anything silly, because it’ll stick!”.

The name “07th Expansion” was decided since it was like the different expansions released for TCGs.

Next, Ryukishi ending up doing illustrations for the Leaf Fight TCG.

It was only meant to be a temporary name.

Ryukishi decide to base it off the Dragon Knight class in Final Fantasy, and the “07” came from a reading of Reina from Final Fantasy since he liked that character.

He was extremely sleepy and confused, so he asked “…Right now?” His friend told him that the deadline was now.

His friend called him up in the middle of the night, and asked what Ryukishi07 wanted his pen name to be.

Early on, he was making a manga with a friend, and had left the manuscript with him.

He might still find something that suits him even more.

Script writing may not even be his true calling yet.

If he’d become a chef instead, he’d be making omelets for us all now.

He could have very well ended up a different sort of creator.

He never could have imagined that a decade later, he’d be here writing sound novels.

At the beginning, he’d felt an impulse to create something, but couldn’t tell what.

Although he calls himself a “script writer” now, he didn’t always want to be.

After surprising the audience by hopping out from behind a screen, Ryukishi07 sat down and began the panel to loud applause. In this one, Ryukishi07 went over the history of 07th Expansion’s creation, as well as all the hard work and crazy stories that went into the creation of Higurashi. And finally, here’s the first panel from Friday.

Ryukishi07 when they cry