Higurashi: When They Cry
"It's not paranoia... if they really are trying to kill you!"
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.
Season 1 Episodes
E1
Keiichi Maebara, a student who recently moved into the village of Hinamizawa, is invited by his new friends at school to…
E2
The annual Watanagashi Festival finally starts, and everyone has fun feasting and playing games. However, in the followi…
E3
Delving further into the mysteries surrounding the village, Keiichi's paranoia grows after he starts to suspect that som…
E4
Keiichi's despair reaches its peak. After being captured and sedated, he wakes up restrained by Mion and Rena, and they …
E5
Keiichi meets Mion's twin sister, Shion; the two are so identical that Keiichi can hardly tell the difference between th…
E6
During Rika's ritual performance at the Watanagashi Festival, Shion whisks Keiichi away to sneak into the forbidden shri…
E7
Keiichi asks Rika for help, but when she and Satoko disappear, he starts fearing for the worse.
E8
Keiichi and Rena suspect that Mion might be related to Rika and Satoko's disappearance, and confront her at her house. T…
E9
Keiichi's parents leave for Tokyo for a few days. Helped by Satoko and Rika, who makes dinner for him, Keiichi learns ab…
E10
Satoko is absent from school for a few days. After discovering that the cause of her absence is Teppei, her abusive uncl…
E11
Keiichi comes to the resolution that he must kill Teppei. After brutally beating him to death with Satoshi's baseball ba…
E12
Keiichi's mentality is shaken when his friends tells him that he was actually at the Watanagashi Festival with them and …
E13
Keiichi goes over to the Houjou residence to ascertain Teppei's existence and finds Satoko in need of clinical help. At …
E14
Four years ago, during the dam incident, young police investigator Mamoru Akasaka comes to Hinamizawa to find leads to a…
E15
Akasaka and Oishi find the kidnappers' hideout and rescue the boy. After discovering that their efforts were in vain bec…
E16
The events from Watanagashi-hen are retold from another point of view. Shion takes Mion's place in Hinamizawa and is lov…
E17
Satoshi apologizes to Shion (still pretending to be Mion), and asks her to care for Satoko during the Watanagashi Festiv…
E18
Upon talking with Ōishi, Shion finds out Satoshi has gone missing and decides to investigate further into the mysterious…
E19
Shion believes the Sonozaki family is connected to the acts of "demoning away" people in the village, especially that of…
E20
Shion has captured the village head and gets information about the town involving the previous murders and Satoshi. Late…
E21
Shion tricks Keiichi in a phone call and later tricks the townsfolk in order to make Keiichi a murder suspect, however s…
E22
Rena discover the true character of her father's girlfriend and grows a deep hatred for her.
E23
Rena disposes of Rina and her lover Teppei, after discovering their plan to con her father. Discovered by her friends, s…
E24
While studying Takano's scrapbooks, Rena starts to unveil the the truth behind Oyashiro-sama and Hinamizawa's dark past.
E25
Keiichi tries to dissuade Rena, but is confronted by her with his own dark secrets. After confessing his past sin to his…
E26
Rena's madness reaches the peak to the point of taking all the school children hostage. With the police's help and worki…
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