The most important thing: Her cause of death. She was found burnt to death in a barrel.

Now, being burned makes it very difficult to identify someone, and it’s often only possible through dental records, which they might not have been able to find.

I’m thinking that Takano killed someone else, and faked her death. I’m still unsure why she’d kill Tomitake, other than to make the police conclude that the second body was hers, but I do think that giving Rena the book, containing the information about Oyashiro was part of her plan.

Only two episodes of the first series left!

So, if I understood it correctly, Rena’s suffering from Delusional Parasitosis, which means that she believes that she’s infected with parasites! Not only that, but she may also attempt to involve those around her in her theories! This means that Matrim indeed was right and Takano has just been taking advantage of Rena. I really have no idea what to believe in anymore.

Seriously, if this goes on, it might even be that during the first arc, Keiichi never went paranoid in the first place.

Heh, I love the twists and turns this arc is giving. ^_^

“It wasn’t identified as her body…”

Actually it was identified but by the dental records. It’s not impossible for Takano to have changed her dental records. though.

You don’t know if the gas disaster occurred in arc 1. What happened to afterwards in Onikakushi is never said. So it may or may not have happened.>>>It was my mistake,I tought that the police investigation was some time after Keichi’s death,but I was wrong.

>The only person that both K1 and Shion murdered is Rika
>in arc 2-5 and 3(and probably arc4).
It is never stated that Kei killed Rika. All he saw was Rika-chama’s dead body.

>K1 only murdered Mion in arc1 but there wasn’t any gas
> emanation after that.
You don’t know if the gas disaster occurred in arc 1. What happened to afterwards in Onikakushi is never said. So it may or may not have happened.

> Don’t you think Rena wouldn’t have noticed anything
> suspicious if the scrapbooks were fake? The second arc
> clearly showed that she has some sort of talent in
> things like these.
Try reading the TIPS.

Also is the scrapbook information really true? >>> Don’t you think Rena wouldn’t have noticed anything suspicious if the scrapbooks were fake? The second arc clearly showed that she has some sort of talent in things like these.

Irie did this by developing a cure for the disease, while Takano tried to find out his identity and the background behind Hinamizawa.>>>If Takano is an ex-scientist,why didn’t she help Irie then?And furthermore why did she go to Hinamizawa?And how did she know Tomitake so well,while he is looking like an army guy?

Keiichi was being followed by the men in the van because they spotted him while in disease-mode.>>>The men in the van where with Irie in episode 4 while entering in K1’s house.

How come she was alive after her dead body had been found in the second arc?>>>It wasn’t identified as her body…

since when did Rena know how to perform the Watanagashi?>>>it’s a local custom,only K1 didn’t know it.

Another question is why would Takano give such an important scrapbook to a teenager who is about to go berserk,and already went berserk in the past?I mean,Rena looks like the last person to put hopes in.
Also is the scrapbook information really true?It seems to match well with all the existing theories but isn’t a too easy way to learn the truth?Also it doesn’t explain Rika mysterious powers nor the fact that the houses weren’t involved at all in last year watanagashi murders.