

 _This post is split into two parts. This post is completely spoilers so I
didn't bother to put under spoiler tab. But, I tried to give a spoiler-free
title because I don't want someone getting spoiled. The post discuss the
events in the 2nd season of Higurashi. Here the Oyashiro-sama's "curse" refers
to cycle of life and death experienced by the Hinamizawa residents_.

Part II of post: [How and when was Rika Furude
born?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/62786/how-and-when-was-rika-
furude-born)

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In the 2nd season, we get to know about
[Hanyuu](https://whentheycry.fandom.com/wiki/Furude_Hany%C5%AB) who is the
true incarnation of Oyashiro-sama. She has the ability to manipulate space-
time to create alternate dimensions, parallel to the original Hinamizawa. This
power is the cause for the eternally repeating June of 1983. Every time Rika
dies, Hanyū uses her ability to escape whatever world they are presently in.
The two then arrive in an in-between dimension. Eventually, a new Hinamizawa
is generated where Hanyuu and Rika enters into it and a new chance is created
to prevent Rika from dying.

If Hanyuu can foresee everything and can create worlds in order to create a
chance for Rika to prevent her death, why can't she just create a world where
Rika never existed? In this case, this cycle would never had occurred and
Hinamizawa residents wouldn't had faced the consequences. Why is Rika so
important to Hanyuu?


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Is it possible to avoid "Oyashiro-sama's curse" in any way? (spoilers)