

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.
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1.The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 1 - The Beginning
6.705-04-200624mKeiichi 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 treasure at a garb...

2.The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 2 - Secret
8.512-04-200624mThe annual Watanagashi Festival finally starts, and everyone has fun feasting and playing games. However, in the following day, Keiichi is interrogated by chief police officer, Ois...

3.The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 3 - Suspicion
8.519-04-200624mDelving further into the mysteries surrounding the village, Keiichi's paranoia grows after he starts to suspect that someone might be after his life.

4.The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 4 - Distortion
8.026-04-200624mKeiichi'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. Keiichi murder...

5.The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 1 - Jealousy
4.003-05-200624mKeiichi 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 him.

6.The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 2 - Takano
4.010-05-200624mDuring 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 Takano, ar...

7.The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 3 - Lie
5.017-05-200624mKeiichi asks Rika for help, but when she and Satoko disappear, he starts fearing for the worse.

8.The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 4 - Wish
6.024-05-200624mKeiichi 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 carries as the...

9.The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 1 - Elder Brother
6.031-05-200624mKeiichi'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 mysterious disa...

10.The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 2 - Bond
6.007-06-200624mSatoko 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 murdered on the ni...

11.The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 3 - Boundary
6.014-06-200624mKeiichi 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, Keiichi bum...

12.The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 4 - Something Lost
6.021-06-200624mKeiichi'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 being sure a...

13.The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 5 - Apology
6.028-06-200624mKeiichi 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 disemboweled bod...

14.The Time Wasting Chapter - Part 1 - Hinamizawa
4.005-07-200624mFour 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 warning from a...

15.The Time Wasting Chapter - Part 2 - Omen
6.012-07-200624mAkasaka and Oishi find the kidnappers' hideout and rescue the boy. After discovering that their efforts were in vain because the perpetrators' demand was already conceded, he reali...

16.The Detective Chapter - Part 1 - First Love
7.019-07-200624mThe 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 their first m...

17.The Detective Chapter - Part 2 - Distinction
7.026-07-200624mSatoshi 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 cover for...

18.The Detective Chapter - Part 3 - Demon's Blood
7.002-08-200624mUpon 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 library, S...

19.The Detective Chapter - Part 4 - Retaliation
7.009-08-200624mShion 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 unintentiona...

20.The Detective Chapter - Part 5 - Cold Hands
6.016-08-200624mShion has captured the village head and gets information about the town involving the previous murders and Satoshi. Later, Shion confronts Rika about the murders, leading to a conf...

21.The Detective Chapter - Part 6 - Conviction
7.523-08-200624mShion 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 instead. When di...

22.The Atonement Chapter - Part 1 - Happiness
6.030-08-200624mRena discover the true character of her father's girlfriend and grows a deep hatred for her.

23.The Atonement Chapter - Part 2 - A Place to Return to
6.006-09-200624mRena 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 her hide t...

24.The Atonement Chapter - Part 3 - File No. 34
6.013-09-200624mWhile studying Takano's scrapbooks, Rena starts to unveil the the truth behind Oyashiro-sama and Hinamizawa's dark past.

25.The Atonement Chapter - Part 4 - Earth Invasion
6.020-09-200624mKeiichi 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 Onikakushi...

26.The Atonement Chapter - Part 5 - Retake
7.027-09-200624mRena'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 manages to d...
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