Higurashi: When They Cry
Overview
Maebara Keiichi settles into the tranquil village of Hinamizawa, filling his days with school and carefree games alongside his new friends. But this peaceful facade soon cracks. One day, Keiichi discovers that a murder once took place in the village. From that moment, terrifying incidents begin to unfold around him, and he comes to realize that the friends he holds dear may be hiding far more than they reveal.
Episodes
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1
The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 1 - The Beginning
Keiichi Maebara has just settled into Hinamizawa, and his classmates quickly welcome him into their club. While hunting for treasure with Rena Ryugu a...
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The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 2 - Secret
The yearly Watanagashi Festival kicks off, and a joyful time is had by all with food and games. But the next day, Keiichi finds himself questioned by ...
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The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 3 - Suspicion
Keiichi digs deeper into the village's secrets, and the more he uncovers, the more his paranoia takes hold. A creeping dread settles over him as he be...
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The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 4 - Distortion
Keiichi sinks into utter hopelessness. Having been seized and drugged into unconsciousness, he comes to find himself bound at the hands of Mion and Re...
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5
The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 1 - Jealousy
Keiichi encounters Shion, Mion's twin sister, and is struck by how indistinguishable the two are. Their identical appearance leaves him struggling to ...
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The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 2 - Takano
As Rika performs her sacred dance at the Watanagashi Festival, Shion pulls Keiichi away to slip into the sealed shrine storehouse, where Tomitake and ...
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The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 3 - Lie
Keiichi reaches out to Rika for assistance, but when she and Satoko suddenly vanish, his anxiety spirals as he dreads the worst possible outcome.
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The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 4 - Wish
Keiichi and Rena grow suspicious that Mion may be connected to Rika and Satoko's vanishing, so they go to her home to confront her. Once there, Keiich...
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9
The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 1 - Elder Brother
Keiichi's parents head off to Tokyo for a few days, leaving him on his own. Satoko and Rika pitch in to help, with Rika preparing his meals. During th...
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The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 2 - Bond
Satoko has been missing from school for several days. When Keiichi learns the reason—her abusive uncle Teppei, who had fled Hinamizawa after his wif...
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The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 3 - Boundary
Keiichi makes up his mind: Teppei has to die. Using Satoshi's baseball bat, he beats him savagely until Teppei is dead, then buries the body. As Keiic...
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The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 4 - Something Lost
Keiichi's grip on reality begins to slip when his friends insist he was with them at the Watanagashi Festival—yet Satoko continues to grieve over he...
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The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 5 - Apology
Keiichi visits the Houjou house to confirm whether Teppei is really there, and discovers Satoko in urgent need of medical care. Later, at the Furude S...
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The Time Wasting Chapter - Part 1 - Hinamizawa
Four years back, during the dam conflict, up-and-coming police investigator Mamoru Akasaka arrives in Hinamizawa chasing clues about a kidnapped child...
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The Time Wasting Chapter - Part 2 - Omen
Akasaka and Oishi track down the kidnappers' hideout and successfully rescue the boy. But their relief quickly fades when they learn their efforts wer...
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The Detective Chapter - Part 1 - First Love
This arc revisits Watanagashi-hen through a different perspective. Shion steps into Mion's role in Hinamizawa, and upon first encountering Satoko's ol...
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The Detective Chapter - Part 2 - Distinction
Satoshi offers an apology to Shion, who is still posing as Mion, and begs her to look after Satoko during the Watanagashi Festival. Later that night, ...
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The Detective Chapter - Part 3 - Demon's Blood
After speaking with Ōishi, Shion learns that Satoshi has vanished and resolves to dig deeper into the string of mysterious murders spanning the past ...
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The Detective Chapter - Part 4 - Retaliation
Shion grows convinced that the Sonozaki family is behind the villagers being "demoned away," particularly in Satoshi's case. She locks Mion in the dun...
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The Detective Chapter - Part 5 - Cold Hands
Shion apprehends the village chief, extracting details about the town connected to the earlier killings and Satoshi. Afterward, she corners Rika regar...
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The Detective Chapter - Part 6 - Conviction
Shion deceives Keiichi during a phone call, then manipulates the villagers into suspecting him of murder. But her scheme backfires when she notices Oi...
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The Atonement Chapter - Part 1 - Happiness
Rena uncovers the real nature of her father's girlfriend and is filled with intense loathing toward her.
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The Atonement Chapter - Part 2 - A Place to Return to
Rena kills Rina and her lover Teppei after uncovering their scheme to swindle her father. When her friends find out, they rally around her and assist ...
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The Atonement Chapter - Part 3 - File No. 34
As Rena pores over Takano's scrapbooks, she begins to piece together the hidden truth about Oyashiro-sama and the grim history buried within Hinamizaw...
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Reunion
In 2007, Mamoru Akasaka and his assistant travel to the deserted town of Hinamizawa, where they meet Officer Oishi. The three remain haunted by the Gr...
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The Disaster Awakening Chapter - Part 1 - Tag
In June 1983, the club plays a round of "zombie tag." Heading home afterward, they encounter Irie, Tomitake, and Takano, who explain to Keiichi the an...
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The Disaster Awakening Chapter - Part 2 - Powerlessness
Satoko grows concerned about Rika's worsening depression and attempts to talk to her, but Rika keeps insisting nothing is wrong. Later that night, Sat...
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The Disaster Awakening Chapter - Part 3 - Pre-established Harmony
The Watanagashi Festival arrives, and once more Rika misses her chance to warn Tomitake before his death. Afterward, Satoko becomes certain that a str...
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The Disaster Awakening Chapter - Part 4 - The Great Hinamizawa Disaster
Satoko is stunned when Rika conceals her, allowing the killers to drag Rika away in her place. Forced to watch Rika die and the rest of the village sl...
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The Massacre Chapter - Part 1 - Law of the Labyrinth
Rika starts a fresh world alongside Hanyū, yet she grows weary of watching her friends repeat the same choices that drag them toward disaster. Just a...
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The Massacre Chapter - Part 2 - How to Change Destiny
Moved by Keiichi's support and noticing her friends beginning to steer clear of repeating their past errors as fragments of what they might have done ...
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The Massacre Chapter - Part 3 - Fluctuation
Teppei's arrival throws Rika's plans into disarray, and just as in "Tatarigoroshi-hen," he starts mistreating Satoko. Keiichi and the others resolve t...
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The Massacre Chapter - Part 4 - Negotiation
The battle to rescue Satoko from her uncle's mistreatment presses on, yet they hit a wall—Satoko refuses to speak out against him, bound by reasons ...
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The Massacre Chapter - Part 5 - Confrontation
Keiichi’s efforts to rescue Satoko drive him into a direct clash with the village’s elders, including the head of the Sonozaki clan. While the gov...
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The Massacre Chapter - Part 6 - A Strong Will
In the end, Rika finally convinces Satoko to reach out for help, and she breaks free from Teppei's grasp. Yet just as the village begins to believe it...
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The Massacre Chapter - Part 7 - Hinamizawa Syndrome
Upon discovering a hint of the villain's treachery, Rika comes clean with her friends about the Hinamizawa Syndrome and her own ties to it. In the mea...
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The Massacre Chapter - Part 8 - Finale
Rika watches helplessly as her friends fall one by one, each dying to shield her. Takano performs a live dissection on Rika—no anesthesia, exactly a...
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The Festival Accompanying Chapter - Part 1 - Miyo
Fragmented flashbacks unveil Takano's history, interweaving scenes from her brutal upbringing with moments when she first crossed paths with the resea...
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The Festival Accompanying Chapter - Part 2 - Wriggling
Takano's tale unfolds further, revealing how she came to meet her adoptive grandfather and her resolve to carry on his legacy. Several years down the ...
