Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

ひぐらしのなく頃に

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Titles

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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

	Higurashi When They Cry - Question Arcs
	Le sanglot des cigales ~cycle des énigmes~
	Higurashi - Quando piangono le cicale - Archi di domanda
	Gdy zapłaczą cykady
	Когда плачут цикады Kogda plachut cikady
	Khi Ve Sầu Khóc
	寒蝉鸣泣之时出题篇 Hanchan Mingqi zhi Shi Chuti Pian

Aliases

When the Cicadas Cry, 寒蟬鳴泣之時, 暮蟬悲鳴時

Play time

Very long (50h from 323 votes)

Developer

07th Expansion

Publishers

07th Expansion & Alchemist & Taito Corporation & Seams & KAGA CREATE & MangaGamer & ENTERGRAM & Inside-cap & 07th-Mod
Pbsaffran & Seams
MangaGamer & Seams & Sonozaki Futagotachi & anonl & 07th-Mod
Hanbing Hanhua She & ycx Studios Hanhuazu
Hanbing Hanhua She
-07- & Otorhin & VienDesu Porting Team
Higurashi Eternal & 0Mateus
Hoshi Translation
Bir İsen
Margus
CTH Translations
dailyrana
UVNT & OniUA
WJ-Collect

Relations

unofficial (13)

Alternative version

[unofficial] Ogranichenie

[unofficial] Canadian Higurashi

Shares characters

[unofficial] Onikakushida yo! Dokuro-chan

[unofficial] Gyakuten Higurashi Saiban ~Curry Naru Gyakuten~

[unofficial] Hinamizawa Kaiki Navigator Tsumikegare

[unofficial] Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Fun

[unofficial] Futago ga Ii ne★

[unofficial] Take Rena Home

[unofficial] When Glitch Cry

Sequel

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai

Same setting

[unofficial] Higurashi no Naku Koro ni ~Ikiutsushi Hen~

[unofficial] 5Nights no Obieru Koro ni

Side story

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Console Arcs

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jan

[unofficial] La neige

[unofficial] Higurashi no Naku Kisetsu ni

Links

Wikipedia (en), Wikipedia (ja), Wikidata, VNStat

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[DB-ANN] Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (TV Series, 2006)

Description

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni takes place during June 1983, at a fictional rural village called Hinamizawa, which has a population of approximately 2000. The main character, Keiichi Maebara, moves to Hinamizawa and befriends his new classmates Rena Ryugu, Mion Sonozaki, Rika Furude, and Satoko Hojo. Keiichi joins their after-school club activities, which consist mostly of card and board games (and punishment games for the loser, usually him.) Hinamizawa appears to be a normal, peaceful, rural village to Keiichi. However, the tranquility abruptly ends after the annual Watanagashi Festival, a celebration to commemorate and give thanks to the local god, Oyashiro-sama. Keiichi learns that every year for the past four years, one person has been murdered and another has gone missing on the day of the Watanagashi Festival. Keiichi himself soon becomes drawn into the strange events surrounding the Watanagashi Festival and Oyashiro-sama. In each story arc, he or one of his friends become paranoid, and a crime is committed. Usually, the crime involves the murder of one of their own friends. While it seems impossible to tell their delusions apart from the mystery of Hinamizawa, slowly the truth is revealed.

[from Wikipedia]

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (proper) is the first set of stories, including the "Question" arcs.

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Curse^S 3.0 Homicide^S 3.0 No Opening Movie 3.0 Psychological Horror 3.0 Suspense 3.0 Unoriginal Soundtrack 3.0 Kinetic Novel 2.9 Friendship 2.9 Episodic Story 2.9 Denpa^S 2.9 Madness^S 2.9 Murder Mystery 2.9 Ambient Sounds 2.9 Group of Friends 2.9 Thriller 2.9 Summer 2.9 Photographic Backgrounds 2.8 Death of Heroine^S 2.8 Death of Protagonist^S 2.8 NVL 2.8 Yangire Heroine^S 2.8 Male Protagonist 2.8 No Sexual Content 2.8 Violence 2.8 Descriptions of Violence^S 2.8 Festival 2.7 Horror^S 2.7 Mystery 2.7 Fear of Death 2.7 80's 2.6 Shouwa Era 2.6 Twin Sisters as Heroines^S 2.6 Unreliable Narrator^S 2.6 Detective Work 2.6 Multiple Protagonists^S 2.5 Disappearance 2.5 Other Perspectives 2.5 Student Heroine 2.5 Student Protagonist 2.5 Multiple Route Mystery^S 2.4 Traditionalist Family 2.4 School 2.4 Police 2.3 Shinto Shrine 2.3 Student Club Member Heroine 2.3 Fictional Modern Day Japanese Countryside 2.3 Varied Title Screens 2.3 Loli Heroine 2.3 Bokukko Heroine 2.2 Miko Heroine 2.2 Ponytail Heroine 2.2 Non-sexual Child Abuse^S 2.2 No Event CGs 2.1 Japanese Mythology 2.1 Bloody Scenes^S 2.0 Child Abuse^S 2.0 Class President Heroine 2.0 Confinement^S 2.0 Desperation 2.0 Domestic Violence^S 2.0 Existential Crisis^S 2.0 Flashback 2.0 Kidnapping^S 2.0 Natural Disaster^S 2.0 Orphan Heroine^S 2.0 Student Club Member Protagonist 2.0 Suicide^S 2.0 Torture^S 2.0 Waitress Heroine^S 2.0 Twins as Support Characters^S 1.9 Torture Chamber^S 1.9 Past 1.8 Corporations^S 1.7 Temple 1.7 Food Discussions 1.7 Heroine with Shorts 1.6 Asian-style Manor 1.6 No Romance Plot 1.6 Yakuza Heroine^S 1.6 Mischievous Heroine 1.5 Yakuza^S 1.5 Discrimination^S 1.5 Heroine with a Fang 1.5 No Sense of Direction Heroine 1.5 Police Officer Protagonist^S 1.5 Transfer Student Protagonist 1.5 Heroine with Tights 1.5 Protagonist with Voice Acting 1.2 Baseball 1.0 Comedy 1.0 Daughter Support Character^S 1.0 Forced Auto-Read Sections 1.0 Non-explicit Nudity Only 1.0 Slice of Life 1.0 Slice of Life Comedy 1.0 Protagonist with a Face 0.9 Tsundere Heroine 0.9 Naked Sprites^S 0.8 Few Choices^S 0.8 Censored Text 0.8 Mahjong as Story Element 0.8 Cannibalism^S 0.7 Ojousama Heroine 0.7 Jump Scares^S 0.5

By waffletown654 on 2020-11-15Vote: 9

<report>Higurashi completely changed my perspective on horror.

The first four chapters--the question arcs--are definitely horror stories. The format is interesting, because each chapter can stand alone as its own short horror tale, but reading each chapter concurrently creates something more than the sum of its parts: a gripping mystery. As you read Higurashi's question arcs, you will find yourself getting sucked deeper and deeper into the lore of the small village, Hinamizawa, and into the secrets that the characters are hiding--the protagonist included.

While the Higurashi anime adaptation is famous for its gory horror, I find that the visual novel's most suspenseful and climactic moments are... Read more »

0 comments 8 points

By zany25 on 2022-04-12r26024Vote: 10

I will admit that I am horribly biased when writing this.
Like deliriously biased.
Review can loosely apply to both question and answer arcs, I'm just lazy
SPOILERS for the question - answer arcs.

Higurashi was the first visual novel I ever read, and it introduced me to the entire medium of visual novels. It was also my first horror anime, my first horror manga, it's been ten years since I first sat huddled watching the opening and looking up the mangagamer vn it was based on with its clunky sprites and text errors. I dug through the series in high school, I have the entire manga series on my childhood bookshelf, and I definitely caved and picked it up again now as an adult with the... Read more »

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0 comments 3 points

By vanse on 2021-07-23Vote: 8.5

<report>This is a combined review of ‘Higurashi no Naku Koro ni’ and ‘Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai’. Both were played with the 07th Mod attachment.

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Higurashi tells the story of a group of individuals whom fate had decided to toy with. Trapped within a village of madness and an unending maze of stagnation, they struggle desperately in search of a light at the end of the tunnel. But all their efforts were for naught – denied by the cruel shackles of their world. To even have a chance of defeating their fate, they must first tread an arduous journey to learn the true nature of their fate – and more importantly, what it means to trust another.

How long have you been sitting there, motionlessly... Read more »

0 comments 3 points

By Sclane321 on 2023-03-18Vote: 10

<report>Higurashi is a wonderful experience in more ways than one, once you're on the edge of your seat trying to make sense of the horrifying incidents that happen in it, and at last you're crying for the characters who even you yourself didn't understand when you grew so close and attached to

I'm gonna be honest with you, i don't enjoy horror stories, but Higurashi really wasn't just a horror story, every horrible incident or horrifying moment feeled earned as I just grew to know and finally love it's diverse cast of characters, and even in the starting arc where you know next to nothing about them, it manages to showcase each character's core personality traits and foreshadow some of the most... Read more »

0 comments 1 point

By edgeyboi on 2022-01-20r80821Vote: 6.9

<report>This review will not mention the synopsis or try to introduce the characters since vndb has a rather good spoiler-free version of that.

Instead, it will include a subjective evaluation of the game, with priority as followed:
plot > characterisation > storytelling techniques > enjoyment >>>> voice acting/sound effect
Visuals are mostly pleasing for the MangaGamer (no lip sync) and PS3 (flatter but with lip sync) since I used the 07th mod.

Question Arc: 6.85/10

Overall, all question arcs served well as prologues to the mystery... including the Himatsubushi arc, which I personally considered as a long TIP rather than an arc in itself. More on that later.
One small issue I had with all the... Read more »

0 comments 1 point

By Blossomfall on 2024-03-27Vote: 9

<report>An absolute masterpiece, ryukishi (the author) truly is a good writer. Just skip the anime and go straight to the vn, if you care about deep and intricate characters, and stories about relationships between them you will not regret it. If you only started this series just because you heard it was "cute lolis killing eachother" and you want to see gore I recommend just watching the anime, as the vn is extremely long and has a lot of slice of life moments. I also personally don't find it that gory, while the scenes that are gory are extremely brutal, they aren't that many, especially in these first games, and a lot is left to the reader's imagination.

Overall i really recommend it, but keep... Read more »

0 comments 0 points

By Lambdadeltum on 2023-02-02Vote: 10

I loved the anime based off of this story, but when I visited the source material—this entry—I was delighted.

There was something about this visual novel that captured the true spirit of Higurashi. It wasn't the horror, the suspense, nor was it the mystery.

It was its ability to make me feel joy in just seeing the characters goof off and then make me feel dread with each passing hour as I read these three chapters. I was already familiar with the characters, but this visual novel made me love them further. I cannot tell you just how much I adore them. The characters, even the side ones, manage to make the first part of every chapter more endearing.

One of the most common criticism you... Read more »

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0 comments 0 points

By quplet on 2022-12-02Vote: 3

Higurashi When They Cry, oh boy where do I even start.

If I had to describe my experience with Higurashi in one word it would be a very heavy "disappointing". But that doesn't even come close to the horrible mixed bag of feelings I have for this title.

I'll start off with some positive I guess. I loved, and I really do mean this, *loved* arc 1. The first half was boring, but I gave it a pass for being an introduction to the story and was willing to look past it and enjoy the rest it had to offer. And the rest it offered was genuinely some of the best thriller I've ever experienced. Chaos;Head might be the only other one to come close. It had my blood pumping with adrenaline, my butt on... Read more »

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2 comments 0 points

By Laogui on 2023-06-29Vote: 3

The pacing in this is terrible holy shit.

I'm not even talking about the long Sol scenes itself, but mostly how the themes change so frequently.

A good example of it would be watanagashi I believe.

Creepy moment over takano nerding out and explaining to you the lore of the village, then the next day, you'll pass through another 3 hours of random slice of life scenes till the story starts to pick up, tatarigoroshi and the other chapters tried to address this by making the Sol shorter, giving a simple glossary explanation when these scenes picked up, but that isn't enough.

A constant state of tension should be maintained to get you on your tip toes I believe, I get it's more mystery than... Read more »

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3 comments 0 points

By hansfranz77 on 2021-01-13Vote: 4

<report>FYI: This is a review for the 4 question arcs of higurashi, steam version chapters 1 - 4 only.

This thing is the furthest from "well written" i might have ever played or even seen. (I need to think about that once i'm finally done with all of it). I honestly have no idea how this series got the great standing it has these days in the west. But despite its age this is "modern writing" as in plot driven writing of the worst possible kind.

There is nothing too stupid or over the top to pull out of left field, in favor of the all encompassing "plot" for this thing. With no setup, believability or rationality on any end. Even if the plot involves Keiichi the protagonist going utterly mental... Read more »

16 comments 0 points

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