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I want to cuddle Mion.

I just finished Higurashi and I have a few questions I'm still confused about. Planning to read Umineko next.

What's the deal with Frederica Bernkastel?

Are Rika and Hanyuu literally retarded? The latter is literally a ghost, there's no reason she couldn't have found out useful information to help break the cycle. Finding out who killed Tomitake and Takano would have been easy, especially since Rika herself acknowledged that that was probably something really important, but they never bother with that.

Rika has also gone through enough loops to memorize the triggers for her friends going crazy, but she still can't stop them? For Onikakushi-like worlds, it should have been easy considering her connections with the clinic, just have them call in K1 for a shot by telling them he's infected.

Why was Mion so quick to confess to Keiichi that her family didn't have anything to do with the mysterious murders in Tsumihoroboshi, but she doesn't even try explaining that/reasoning with Shion in Meakashi until the very end? Before she gets mindbroken, it seems like she's playing dumb, and even tells Shion that Satoshi is probably at the bottom of the well.

Why does Shion die in the credits of Tatarigoroshi? Was it just supposed to throw you off despite having no real relation to anything?

Is there anything else besides the main 8 arcs considered canon or worth reading?

Also, Mion was the cutest.