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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (TV) Reviews
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
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Title(s): Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
When They Cry - Higurashi
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)
Creator: Seventh Expansion
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Thriller
Age Group: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Vintage: April 4, 2006
Status: Completed
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.
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Interesting beginning, interesting end
Written by Mooneh on August 23, 2010 at 7:18 AM
Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 3
Entertainment: 3
This has a pretty good story. The whole series is divided in archs of about 4 episodes. Some archs are better than others depending on your taste: some are more horror, others thriller or even detective. Most archs take place at the same time but some events are altered which causes the outcome to change.

The dialogue is really well voiced. You can easily feel a change in atmosphere, subtle hints or threats.

More realistic art might have improved the effect of this anime but other than that I have no remarks on animation. Some scenes had some very fitting effects.

I was really shocked after watching the first and the last arch. Most of the others were good as well but a few were too realistic for my taste and didn't really fit in with the others.
11 out of 11 people found this review helpful.
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