Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

This time is a psycho one. How can an anime be psycho? Imagine that there are cute little girls (about 6-12 years old). You know all of them. You play with them everyday. Imagine that you are new guy on that village, and you hear about some fishy rumors and you end up with suspecting your friends. Imagine that since the day you suspecting your friends, they always bring a HUGE knife, but they said that they still want to be your friends and don’t want to lose you, while they’re STILL carrying the knife. Imagine that you could be stabbed from your back anytime.


And then, imagine that you kill them by smashing their head with baseball stick!

Synopsis:

Maebara Keichi is a new boy in a village called Hinamizawa. Keichi is just an ordinary boy, he used to using his free time with his friends at the club.

The club’s member:

-Ryuugu Rena. She is actually also a transfer student. She’s transferred because she causes an incident by breaking the entire windows in her school. But she seems to have a caring personality.

-Sonozaki Mion. She is a member of the ruler family of the village. Therefore she supervises and takes care everything happened in the village. She is actually tomboy.

-Furude Rika. She is younger than Keichi. She is a member of the priest family. She is just so cute, but sometimes she is like another person, saying something deep and mysterious.

-Houjou Satoko. She is Rika’s classmate. She is a naughty cheerful girl. But it seems she had some incident regarding his brother, Satoshi.

One day, Keichi figures out that there was an incident in that village. A man was mutilated, but his friends don’t tell him the truth about it. And there is also a curse by Oyashiro-sama, which curses everybody who leaves the village. And every year there is always some people who are spirited away during the Watanagashi.

Keichi is very confused, because his friends are definitely hiding something. Then a police officer comes to him, and asking for information regarding the incident and the curse. He also tells Keichi about the background of his friends, and tells him to be careful.

That makes Keichi scared and cautious. He started to suspect his friends, and put the worst scenario that he would be killed. So he should gather information, and keep himself safe.

I rate this anime 3.5 stars.

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is an anime with new genre, because it mixed loli anime with thriller.

This anime will end by 4 episodes, but it will start all over again with the same setting, the same time line, the same character, but with a different scenario. When we watch this anime, we should gather information and think about the fact so that we know the truth of that village’s history and about oyashiro-sama’s curse.

Sorry that I couldn’t give you much synopsis, because it will end up as a spoiler. But this is a great anime. Watching it makes me fall into the darkness. It breaks my heart seeing that cute girls to be cold blood killers or victims.

You can only watch it on crunchyroll ( http://www.crunchyroll.com ) or veoh.com ( http://www.veoh.com ), because it’s licensed already.


By the way, lately the sequel of this anime is released, titled “Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai” , But you wouldn't understand unless you watch Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (without Kai) first, so enjoy^^