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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)
Objectionable content: Intense (graphic depictions of sex, drug use, or bloodshed)
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: 2889 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 880 votes (sub:762, dub:75, raw:10, ?:2, edit.dub:1, others:30
15 Spanish subtitled
6 Portuguese subtitled
3 Italian subtitled
2 French subtitled
2 German subtitled
1 Spanish edited dub
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 915 votes (sub:781, dub:91, raw:9, ?:4, edit.dub:1, others:29
19 Spanish subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
2 French subtitled
2 Italian subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 German subtitled
)
 Very good: 573 votes (sub:474, dub:73, raw:2, ?:1, others:23
12 Spanish subtitled
3 French subtitled
3 Korean subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Good: 259 votes (sub:219, dub:24, raw:5, ?:3, others:8
4 Russian subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Decent: 99 votes (sub:90, dub:5, others:4
2 Italian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 So-so: 50 votes (sub:42, dub:6, ?:1, others:1
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 28 votes (sub:17, dub:7, raw:2, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Weak: 32 votes (sub:27, raw:2, dub:1, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Bad: 24 votes (sub:19, dub:1, others:4
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Awful: 11 votes (sub:9, raw:1, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 18 votes (sub:17, dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 4640 users, rank: #90
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.495 (Very good+.49), std. dev.: 1.7288, rank: #198
Weighted mean: 8.403 (Very good+.40), rank: #183 (seen all: 8.58 / seen some: 7.54 / won't finish: 4.34)
Bayesian estimate: 8.400 (Very good+.40), rank: #87
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
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 13
Comment:
Based on a popular, amateur created murder-mystery computer game.
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Reviews:
    When They Cry DVD 6
    When They Cry DVD 2
    When They Cry DVD 1

DVD
    When They Cry - Box Set (DVD) 2009-08-25 (from $52.49)
    When They Cry - Complete Set (DVD) 2010-04-13 (from $29.99)
    When They Cry (DVD 1) 2007-06-05 (from $5.00)
    When They Cry (DVD 1) 2008-09-30 (from $17.81)
    When They Cry (DVD 2) 2007-08-07 (from $17.29)
    When They Cry (DVD 2) 2008-09-30 (from $16.99)
    When They Cry (DVD 3) 2007-10-09 (from $27.49)
    When They Cry (DVD 3) 2008-09-30 (from $16.99)
    When They Cry - Higurashi (DVD 4) 2007-12-04
    When They Cry (DVD 4) 2008-09-30 (from $17.99)
    When They Cry (DVD 5) 2008-02-05
    When They Cry (DVD 5) 2008-11-11 (from $17.99)
    When They Cry (DVD 6) 2008-12-23 (from $17.84)
    When They Cry + Artbox (DVD 1) 2007-06-05
    When They Cry + Box (DVD 1) 2008-09-30 (from $23.99)
Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 
Director: Chiaki Kon
Series Composition: Toshifumi Kawase
Original creator: Seventh Expansion
Character Design: Kyuuta Sakai
Art Director: Chikako Shibata
Animation Director: Seiya Numata (9 episodes
eps 7, 9, 12-13, 15, 19, 21, 23, 26
)

Director of Photography: Seiichi Morishita
Producer: Mika Nomura

Assistant Animation Director: Seiya Numata (ep 17)
Assistant Chief Animation Director: Seiya Numata (ep 12)
Color design: Shinji Matsumoto
Editing Assistant: Sayaka Mita
Ending Animation: Hiroshi Watanabe
Music Production: Akira Yoshikawa
Paint: Kozue Arai
Recording: Yukihira Oishi
Recording Assistant: Tomonari Tokui
Sound Effects: Takuya Hasegawa
Theme Song Arrangement:
Kazuya Takase (OP)
Tomoyuki Nakazawa (OP)
Theme Song Composition: Tomoyuki Nakazawa (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics: Eiko Shimamiya (OP)
Theme Song Performance:
Eiko Shimamiya (OP)
Hiroyuki Oshima (ED)
Rekka Katakiri (ED)
 
Mai Nakahara as Rena Ryūgū
Mika Kanai as Satoko Hōjō
Satsuki Yukino as
Mion Sonozaki
Shion Sonozaki
Souichiro Hoshi as Keiichi Maebara
Yukari Tamura as Rika Furude

Chafurin as Kuraudo Ōishi
Fumiko Orikasa as Rumiko Chie
Miki Itou as Miyo Takano
Toru Ohkawa as Jiro Tomitake
Toshihiko Seki as Kyōsuke Irie
Yu Kobayashi as Satoshi Hōjō

Akane Tomonaga as
Girl (ep 26)
Nurse (ep 12)
Receptionist (ep 3)
Akiyo Kanada as Toshiki Inukai
Atsushi Kakehashi as Delinquent 1 (eps 5, 16, 18)
Daisuke Ono as Mamoru Akasaka
Daisuke Sasaki as Matsuda's son (ep 20)
Eiji Miyashita as
Delinquent 3 (eps 16, 18)
Store owner (ep 5)
Subordinate (ep 17)
Eriko Matsushima as Old person A (ep 3)
Fujiko Takimoto as Suguru Okamura
Fumihiko Tachiki as Tatsuyoshi Kasai (eps 17, 19)
Fuzuki Kun as
Middle-aged lady (ep 9)
Old person B (ep 3)
Gen Nakano as
Man (ep 24)
Referee (ep 9)
Rena's father
Katsuhiro Oota as News caster (ep 14)
Katsuhisa Houki as Teppei Hōjō
Keiichi Sonobe as Hondaya (ep 14)
Kentarou Tone as Teppei's friend (ep 10)
Kikuko Inoue as Akane Sonozaki (ep 25)
Kousei Hirota as Mion's father (ep 14)
Kujira as
Landlady (ep 9)
Tamae Nanjou (ep 17) 
Manabi Mizuno as Child (ep 26)
Masaaki Tsukada as
Kiichirō Kimiyoshi
Passerby (ep 16)
Megumi Matsumoto as Daiki Tomita
Miki Suga as
Commentator (ep 8)
Rena's mother
Misa Watanabe as Rina Mamiya (eps 22-23)
Naoko Matsui as Aiko Maebara
Naoya Uchida as Sato (ep 14)
Nobuyuki Kobushi as
Coach (ep 11)
Wireless voice (ep 26)
Yoshiro Sonozaki (ep 22)
Riichi Nishimoto as
Man A (ep 25)
Man B (ep 15)
Risa Mizuno as Yukie Akasaka
Satoshi Tsuruoka as
Investigator (ep 8)
Komiyama (ep 26)
Master (ep 22)
Policeman (ep 4)
Shinnosuke Tachibana as
Man B (ep 25)
Villager (ep 4)
Shizuka Okohira as O-Ryou (ep 14)
Shouto Kashii as Makino (ep 14)
Suzune Okabe as
Man A (ep 15)
Store manager (ep 17)
Takashi Oohara as Delinquent 2 (eps 5, 16, 18)
Takuo Kawamura as Katsuya Kumagai
Yasunori Matsumoto as Ichirō Maebara
Japanese companies 

Animation: Studio DEEN
Broadcaster:
AT-X (2006-05-27)
Chiba TV (2006-04-05)
Kansai TV (2006-04-04)
TV Saitama (2006-04-05)
TVK (2006-04-08)
In-Between Animation:
ARP (ep 03)
Echo
Gonzo (ep 13)
Studio Lagoon (ep 15)
Tanto (ep 02)
Music Production: Frontier Works
Paint:
Echo
J.C. Staff (ep 07)
Production Cooperation: Studio Izena
Recording Studio: Studio T&T
Sound Effects: SOUNDBOX
Sound Production: Dax Production
English staff 
ADR Director: Kristi Reed
Translation: Mitsuyo Vicky Umene
ADR Script: Kristi Reed
Executive producer: Katsuhiko Tsurumoto
Assistant Production Coordinator: Christen Bennett
Associate Casting Director: Mami Okada
Casting Director: Kaeko Sakamoto
Co-Producer: Mami Okada
Dialogue Editing:
Marco Bustos
Ollin Saurez
Engineering Assistant: Jeff Prosser
Post-Production Assistant:
Barry Weir
Chris Tilton
Peter Mullen
Production Coordination: Charles Ohta
Production manager: Megumi Kunisada
Re-Recording Mixing: Marco Bustos
Sound Supervision: Patrick Rodman
Spotting: Tetsuya Fujita
Subtitling: Clark Cheng
Supervising Producer: Yukio Kusumoto
English cast 
Grant George as Keiichi Maebara
Kelli Kassidi as
Mion Sonozaki
Shion Sonozaki
Mela Lee as Rena Ryugu
Minx Lee as Satoko Hojo
Reba West as Rika Furude

Darrel Guilbeau as Satoshi Hojo
Patrick Seitz as Mamoru Akasaka

Alison James as Rina Mamiya
Barbara Goodson as
Keiichi's Mother
Oryou
Suguru Okamura
Dave Mallow as
Irie Kyosuke
Keiichi's Father
Jason C. Miller as Yoshiro Sonozaki
Joe DiMucci as Detective Oishi
Karen Strassman as
Miyo Takano
Taiki Tomita
Kyle Hebert as
Jiro Tomitake
Katsuya Kumagai
Keichirou Kimiyoshi
Mike McFarland as Sato (ep 14)
Sam Carr as Teacher
Steve Kramer as
Tatsuyoshi Kasai
Teppei Hojo
English companies 
ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment
French staff 
French cast 
Dubbing Director: Thomas Guitard
 
Alexandre Coadour as Teppei Hōjō
Alexandre N'Guyen as Satoshi Hōjō
Bruno Meyere as Jirô Tomitake
Christèle Billault as Miyo Takano
Damien Da Silva as Mamoru Akasaka
Fanny Bloc as Satoko Hôjô
Gabrielle Jeru as Rika Furude
Geneviève Doang as Mion / Shion Sonozaki
Gérard Surugue as Commissaire Ôishi
Jessica Barrier as Rena Ryûgû
Lily Baron as Oryō Sonozaki
Matthieu Morel as Kyôsuke Irie
Sophie Legrand as Mère de Keiichi
Thomas Guitard as Keiichi Maebara
Yann Guillemot as Kiichirou Kimiyoshi

French companies 
Distributor: Anima
Dubbing: WanTake
 
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