Series

Higurashi: When They Cry

2006★ 7.72 seasons

After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had occurred in Hinamizawa. From this point on, horrific events unfold in front of Keiichi, as he soon learns his close friends may not be all that they seem.

Cast

Featured cast

Soichiro HoshiKeiichi Maebara (voice)

Mai NakaharaRena Ryuuguu (voice)

Satsuki YukinoMion Sonozaki / Shion Sonozaki (voice)

Mika KanaiSatoko Houjou (voice)

Yukari TamuraRika Furude (voice)

Yui HorieHanyu (voice)

Episodes

1The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 1 - The BeginningKeiichi Maebara, a student who recently moved into the village of Hinamizawa, is invited by his new friends at school to join their club. But while s…24 min

2The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 2 - SecretThe annual Watanagashi Festival finally starts, and everyone has fun feasting and playing games. However, in the following day, Keiichi is interrogat…24 min

3The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 3 - SuspicionDelving further into the mysteries surrounding the village, Keiichi's paranoia grows after he starts to suspect that someone might be after his life.24 min

4The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 4 - DistortionKeiichi's despair reaches its peak. After being captured and sedated, he wakes up restrained by Mion and Rena, and they attempt to inject him with a …24 min

5The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 1 - JealousyKeiichi meets Mion's twin sister, Shion; the two are so identical that Keiichi can hardly tell the difference between them. It is also revealed that …24 min

6The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 2 - TakanoDuring Rika's ritual performance at the Watanagashi Festival, Shion whisks Keiichi away to sneak into the forbidden shrine warehouse, where Tomitake …24 min

7The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 3 - LieKeiichi asks Rika for help, but when she and Satoko disappear, he starts fearing for the worse.24 min

8The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 4 - WishKeiichi and Rena suspect that Mion might be related to Rika and Satoko's disappearance, and confront her at her house. There, he learns from her abou…24 min

9The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 1 - Elder BrotherKeiichi's parents leave for Tokyo for a few days. Helped by Satoko and Rika, who makes dinner for him, Keiichi learns about Satoshi, Satoko's older b…24 min

10The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 2 - BondSatoko is absent from school for a few days. After discovering that the cause of her absence is Teppei, her abusive uncle, who left Hinamizawa after …24 min

11The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 3 - BoundaryKeiichi comes to the resolution that he must kill Teppei. After brutally beating him to death with Satoshi's baseball bat, he buries the body, and on…24 min

12The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 4 - Something LostKeiichi's mentality is shaken when his friends tells him that he was actually at the Watanagashi Festival with them and Satoko still bemoans her uncl…24 min

13The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 5 - ApologyKeiichi goes over to the Houjou residence to ascertain Teppei's existence and finds Satoko in need of clinical help. At the Furude Shrine, Keiichi di…24 min

14The Time Wasting Chapter - Part 1 - HinamizawaFour years ago, during the dam incident, young police investigator Mamoru Akasaka comes to Hinamizawa to find leads to a child kidnapping. After hear…24 min

15The Time Wasting Chapter - Part 2 - OmenAkasaka and Oishi find the kidnappers' hideout and rescue the boy. After discovering that their efforts were in vain because the perpetrators' demand…24 min

16The Detective Chapter - Part 1 - First LoveThe events from Watanagashi-hen are retold from another point of view. Shion takes Mion's place in Hinamizawa and is lovestruck by Satoko's older bro…24 min

17The Detective Chapter - Part 2 - DistinctionSatoshi apologizes to Shion (still pretending to be Mion), and asks her to care for Satoko during the Watanagashi Festival. That night, his aunt is m…24 min

18The Detective Chapter - Part 3 - Demon's BloodUpon talking with Ōishi, Shion finds out Satoshi has gone missing and decides to investigate further into the mysterious murders over the past four y…24 min

19The Detective Chapter - Part 4 - RetaliationShion believes the Sonozaki family is connected to the acts of "demoning away" people in the village, especially that of Satoshi. She imprisons Mion …24 min

20The Detective Chapter - Part 5 - Cold HandsShion has captured the village head and gets information about the town involving the previous murders and Satoshi. Later, Shion confronts Rika about…24 min

21The Detective Chapter - Part 6 - ConvictionShion tricks Keiichi in a phone call and later tricks the townsfolk in order to make Keiichi a murder suspect, however she quickly realizes that Oish…24 min

22The Atonement Chapter - Part 1 - HappinessRena discover the true character of her father's girlfriend and grows a deep hatred for her.24 min

23The Atonement Chapter - Part 2 - A Place to Return toRena disposes of Rina and her lover Teppei, after discovering their plan to con her father. Discovered by her friends, she ends up getting support by…24 min

24The Atonement Chapter - Part 3 - File No. 34While studying Takano's scrapbooks, Rena starts to unveil the the truth behind Oyashiro-sama and Hinamizawa's dark past.24 min

25The Atonement Chapter - Part 4 - Earth InvasionKeiichi tries to dissuade Rena, but is confronted by her with his own dark secrets. After confessing his past sin to his friends, he finds that he ca…24 min

26The Atonement Chapter - Part 5 - RetakeRena's madness reaches the peak to the point of taking all the school children hostage. With the police's help and working together with the rest of …24 min

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