Higurashi: When They Cry

Higurashi: When They Cry 2006

ひぐらしのなく頃に

★ 7.7TMDB 0h 24min 2 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.

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S1·E1 The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 1 - The BeginningApr 5, 2006 · TMDB 7.6Keiichi 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 searching for…S1·E2 The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 2 - SecretApr 12, 2006 · TMDB 8.5The annual Watanagashi Festival finally starts, and everyone has fun feasting and playing games. However, in the following day, Keiichi is interrogated by chief police…S1·E3 The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 3 - SuspicionApr 19, 2006 · TMDB 8.5Delving further into the mysteries surrounding the village, Keiichi's paranoia grows after he starts to suspect that someone might be after his life.S1·E4 The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 4 - DistortionApr 26, 2006 · TMDB 8.0Keiichi'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 mysterious drug.…S1·E5 The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 1 - JealousyMay 3, 2006 · TMDB 4.0Keiichi 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 Mion has a crush on…S1·E6 The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 2 - TakanoMay 10, 2006 · TMDB 4.0During Rika's ritual performance at the Watanagashi Festival, Shion whisks Keiichi away to sneak into the forbidden shrine warehouse, where Tomitake and his friend, Miyo…S1·E7 The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 3 - LieMay 17, 2006 · TMDB 5.0Keiichi asks Rika for help, but when she and Satoko disappear, he starts fearing for the worse.S1·E8 The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 4 - WishMay 24, 2006 · TMDB 6.0Keiichi 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 about the burden she…S1·E9 The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 1 - Elder BrotherMay 31, 2006 · TMDB 6.0Keiichi'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 brother, and his…S1·E10 The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 2 - BondJun 7, 2006 · TMDB 6.0Satoko 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 his wife was…S1·E11 The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 3 - BoundaryJun 14, 2006 · TMDB 6.0Keiichi 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 his way back home,…S1·E12 The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 4 - Something LostJun 21, 2006 · TMDB 6.0Keiichi's mentality is shaken when his friends tells him that he was actually at the Watanagashi Festival with them and Satoko still bemoans her uncle's abuse, despite…S1·E13 The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 5 - ApologyJun 28, 2006 · TMDB 6.0Keiichi goes over to the Houjou residence to ascertain Teppei's existence and finds Satoko in need of clinical help. At the Furude Shrine, Keiichi discovers Rika's…S1·E14 The Time Wasting Chapter - Part 1 - HinamizawaJul 5, 2006 · TMDB 4.0Four years ago, during the dam incident, young police investigator Mamoru Akasaka comes to Hinamizawa to find leads to a child kidnapping. After hearing an enigmatic…S1·E15 The Time Wasting Chapter - Part 2 - OmenJul 12, 2006 · TMDB 6.0Akasaka and Oishi find the kidnappers' hideout and rescue the boy. After discovering that their efforts were in vain because the perpetrators' demand was already…S1·E16 The Detective Chapter - Part 1 - First LoveJul 19, 2006 · TMDB 7.0The 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 brother, Satoshi, at…S1·E17 The Detective Chapter - Part 2 - DistinctionJul 26, 2006 · TMDB 7.0Satoshi apologizes to Shion (still pretending to be Mion), and asks her to care for Satoko during the Watanagashi Festival. That night, his aunt is murdered; in order to…S1·E18 The Detective Chapter - Part 3 - Demon's BloodAug 2, 2006 · TMDB 7.0Upon talking with Ōishi, Shion finds out Satoshi has gone missing and decides to investigate further into the mysterious murders over the past four years. One day at the…S1·E19 The Detective Chapter - Part 4 - RetaliationAug 9, 2006 · TMDB 7.0Shion believes the Sonozaki family is connected to the acts of "demoning away" people in the village, especially that of Satoshi. She imprisons Mion in the dungeon and…S1·E20 The Detective Chapter - Part 5 - Cold HandsAug 16, 2006 · TMDB 6.0Shion has captured the village head and gets information about the town involving the previous murders and Satoshi. Later, Shion confronts Rika about the murders,…S1·E21 The Detective Chapter - Part 6 - ConvictionAug 23, 2006 · TMDB 7.5Shion tricks Keiichi in a phone call and later tricks the townsfolk in order to make Keiichi a murder suspect, however she quickly realizes that Oishi suspects her…S1·E22 The Atonement Chapter - Part 1 - HappinessAug 30, 2006 · TMDB 6.0Rena discover the true character of her father's girlfriend and grows a deep hatred for her.S1·E23 The Atonement Chapter - Part 2 - A Place to Return toSep 6, 2006 · TMDB 6.0Rena 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 them, and they help…S1·E24 The Atonement Chapter - Part 3 - File No. 34Sep 13, 2006 · TMDB 6.0While studying Takano's scrapbooks, Rena starts to unveil the the truth behind Oyashiro-sama and Hinamizawa's dark past.S1·E25 The Atonement Chapter - Part 4 - Earth InvasionSep 20, 2006 · TMDB 6.0Keiichi 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 can recall events from…S1·E26 The Atonement Chapter - Part 5 - RetakeSep 27, 2006 · TMDB 7.0Rena'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 the group, Keiichi…

Cast

Soichiro Hoshi
Soichiro Hoshi Keiichi Maebara (voice)
Mai Nakahara
Mai Nakahara Rena Ryuuguu (voice)
Satsuki Yukino
Satsuki Yukino Mion Sonozaki / Shion Sonozaki (voice)
Mika Kanai
Mika Kanai Satoko Houjou (voice)
Yukari Tamura
Yukari Tamura Rika Furude (voice)
Yui Horie
Yui Horie Hanyu (voice)
Chafurin
Chafurin Kuraudo Ooishi (voice)
Toshihiko Seki
Toshihiko Seki Kyousuke Irie (voice)
Miki Ito
Miki Ito Miyo Takano (voice)
Takuo Kawamura
Takuo Kawamura Katsuya Kumagai (voice)
Fumiko Orikasa
Fumiko Orikasa Rumiko Chie (voice)
G
Gen Nakano Rena's father (voice)
Naoko Matsui
Naoko Matsui Aiko Maebara (voice)
Megumi Matsumoto
Megumi Matsumoto Daiki Tomita (voice)
Fujiko Takimoto
Fujiko Takimoto Suguru Okamura (voice)
Toru Okawa
Toru Okawa Jirou Tomitake (voice)
Satoshi Tsuruoka
Satoshi Tsuruoka Komiyama (voice)
Masaaki Tsukada
Masaaki Tsukada Passerby (voice)

Details

First air date
Apr 5, 2006
Last air date
Dec 18, 2007
Seasons
2
Episodes
50
Episode runtime
24 min
Network
Kansai TV, Tokai Television Broadcasting, AT-X, BS11
Status
Ended
Studios
Studio Deen
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese

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