CITAZIONE
i love how any eerie anime with a girl killing someone reminds people of higurashi.
ooooooo a mecha, this is soooooo like gundam.
seriously, its the first episode, don't compare it to other good/great animes out there then all you will do is sell the potential of this one short.
as for myself i enjoyed this very much and had a couple of wtf moments.
Its a bit more then 'girl kills people = Higurashi'
We have one guy in a group of moe girls, a 'mystery' theme, graphic violence (which makes this show scream 'Higurashi' more then anything else), heck even the opening flash-forward sequence like the beginning of all the Higurashi arcs.
All that and its based on a mystery/horror visual novel, just like Higurashi.
Its perhaps a bit more then 'it has girls and death, its Higurashi'
I dont see why people are getting their panties in a twist because other people are seeing similarities in a show and drawing reference to shows with similar themes, its natural to compare something new with something familiar, it gives you a frame of reference.
if nothing else, whinging about people posting their first impressions of a show in a thread about a shows first episode seems pretty pointless, nee?