When They Cry - Higurashi (TV)

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[ related to Higurashi no Naku Koroni (manga) ]

Related anime:
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (live-action movie) (alternate retelling)
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Gaiden Nekogoroshi-hen (OAV) (spinoff)
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Kai (TV) (sequel)
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Rei (OAV) (sequel)
Higurashi: When They Cry (manga)

Alternative title:

Cuando las cigarras lloran (Spanish)

Higurashi no Naku Koroni (Japanese)

Hinamizawa, le village maudit (French)

The Moment the Cicadas Cry

When Cicadas Cry

ひぐらしのなく頃に (Japanese)

쓰르라미 울 적에 (Korean)

Genres: drama, horror, mystery, psychological, thriller

Themes: harem, moe, troublesome kids, twins

Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)

Plot Summary: On one hot summer day in 1983, a transfer student named Maebara Keiichi comes to a peaceful rural village in Hinamizawa. There, he befriends his classmates Rena, Mion, Rika, and Satoko. Accepted as a full-fledged member of the "club," Keiichi and the gang plays all sorts of activities ranging from card and board games to hide-and-seek. But just as Keiichi was beginning to be assimilated in simple rural life, he stumbles upon the dark history of Hinamizawa. As Keiichi dives deeper into the mystery, he finds that his new found friends may not be all what they claim to be.

User Ratings: 2607 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: 810 votes (sub:711, dub:59, Spa.sub:14, raw:10, Por.sub:6, Ita.sub:3, Fre.sub:2, Ger.sub:2, edit.dub:1, Spa.edit.dub:1, ?:1)

Excellent: 818 votes (sub:722, dub:63, Spa.sub:15, raw:7, ?:2, Por.sub:2, Ita.sub:2, Fre.sub:2, Ger.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, Rus.dub:1)

Very good: 517 votes (sub:442, dub:51, Spa.sub:10, Kor.sub:3, Fre.sub:3, raw:2, Por.sub:2, Rus.sub:2, ?:1, Pol.sub:1)

Good: 227 votes (sub:196, dub:19, Rus.sub:3, ?:3, raw:3, Spa.sub:2, Rus.dub:1)

Decent: 91 votes (sub:83, dub:5, Ita.sub:2, Spa.sub:1)

So-so: 42 votes (sub:34, dub:6, Pol.sub:1, ?:1)

Not really good: 24 votes (sub:16, dub:4, Spa.sub:2, raw:2)

Weak: 31 votes (sub:26, raw:2, dub:1, Spa.sub:1, ?:1)

Bad: 22 votes (sub:17, Spa.sub:3, Por.sub:1, dub:1)

Awful: 11 votes (sub:9, raw:1, dub:1)

Worst ever: 14 votes (sub:14)

Seen in part or in whole by 4171 users, rank: #97
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.511 (Excellent-.48), std. dev.: 1.7223, rank: #170
Weighted mean: 8.418 (Very good+.41), rank: #178 (seen all: 8.60 / seen some: 7.58 / won't finish: 4.49)
Bayesian estimate: 8.414 (Very good+.41), rank: #75

Running time: 24 minutes per episode

Number of episodes: 26

Episode titles: We have 26

Vintage: 2006-04-04 to 2006-09-26

Releases: We have 17

Opening Theme:

"Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (ひぐらしのなく頃に)" by Eiko Shimamiya

Ending Theme:

"why, or why not" by Hiroyuki Oshima feat. Rekka Katakiri

Official website:

Funimation's Official When They Cry Website

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni @ Studio DEEN (Japanese)