Higurashi no Naku Koro ni / When They Cry

[ray1301]

I started watching this last night. The first 4 eps were somewhat interesting.

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but now at ep 5 i thought they would retell the story from someone elses point of view. Which would have been really cool.
But its the same plot, just different events. It doesnt sync up with the first 4 eps at all.
Is there reasoning behind this? Ive kind of lost interest now. Since it no longer makes and sense.

Hahaha, it doesn't make ANY sense until season 2. Then all questions will be answered.
But honestly, it doesn't need any answering. Just take it for what it is.

Keep watching my friend.  You'll be glad you did.
Honest truth, it's one of my all-time top favorite animes, ever.

Agreed.

[kenshin-dono]

there are 3 or 4 groups tha tstarted doing the DVD sets, but none did the middle part, for some reason that is unknown to me.

really too bad this series is probably getting relegated to back burner status till that comes about then or the 2nd season comes out stateshide which i dont even know if it got licenced yet

[ray1301]

Thought there used to be a larger Higurashi thread...anyway, the Rei OVA wasn't as bad as I thought, the first episode is the off putting one, but the rest are just as good.

Episodes 2-4 has a good story.
Episode 5 was interesting in a way, the best part of it was

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Rena's "USO-DA!" out breaks! similiar to episode 2-4 there is one scene with her when she talks about the dismembered murdering, crazy Rena is awesome and scary

[Havoc10K]

what are you saying ? Rena is awesome in any form, especially in a bikini

/drool

[kenshin-dono]

coulda sworn i had asked this before but cant find the answer now

not Rei, but there apears to be another oav

http://bakabt.me/torrent/130698/Higurashi_no_Naku_Koro_ni_Nekogoroshi-hen_(Special)_Hauu.html

this doesn't even show up on ADB
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=animelist&adb.search=higurashi&do.search=search

ive noticed a lot of specials and other things dont show up on ADB, is there a better site for looking at everything released for a series? myanimelist seems ok
http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?q=higurashi

so anyway.. that OAV, where does it fit into the regular viewing? after season 1? season 2?

im starting to think there wont ever be any DVD complete for Kai so im considering saying f it and gettin the regular tv version so wanted to sort out where this oav sat

also are there any OTHER specials or extras i may be missing? i notice myanimelist shows some kinda dvd specials 1 min each or something

[Havoc10K]

you askem me that in a PM, l'll answer you here as well for others to know, you don't have to watch this SPECIAL episode, it doesn't bring anything new to the series but you can sit and enjoy the Can Killing Chapterwich in the game is unlockable after beating a few arcs.

if you drink heavy stuff ... share with us please :]

[kenshin-dono]

oh ya thats right, went and looked looks like that oav fits in anywhere after the first season. heh tnx.

ADB is not very reliable for extras and some one shot oav's ive noticed, thats really weird

[dbml]

So... thanks to the freeleech I decided to get this, which everyone has raved about. After 8 episodes and two resets, I think that's enough for me to say this is easily one of the worst series I've ever seen.

There's so many things that make this series complete shit. It's not mysterious in the slightest. The comedy is ridiculous and not funny at all. No, that doesn't make the murders and the beatings any more disturbing, it just makes them feel out of place.  The characters are childish as hell... I wish they'd all stay dead, permanently. There was nothing for me to enjoy. Dumb characters, boring plot, terrible comedy... and of course the grotesque murders... that I felt nothing for, because I hated the characters so much. Ugh.

Complete waste of time. Dropped for good.

Oh, wait. There was one good thing about it. The opening song was fantastic. That bumps this series from a 1/10 to a 2/10. Hoorah.

[Havoc10K]

yeh the OP song is awesome, but l would like to tell you something about this series, this IS a mystery show, unless you watched second season first, the reason why we who did enjoy this show love it is the way Rika tries to fight whats comming every time, this show is like Umineko but it's a completely diferent level of story, the first season IS confusing but without it second season makes no sense, l recommend watching them both in 2 go's

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each 2-3 episodes are a chapter, one chapter is one world Rika awakens as the old Rika, what she tries to achieve is surviving the day of her fated death, she travelled through more than a thousand worlds in wich she died one way or another, additionally, most of the world have one of her friends kill someone or die for one reason or another, the reason this is happening is due to the parasite in all of the villages, Rika's presence in the village suppresses the parasite's activity to a minimum, however there are events that trigger them to act, making their hosts=humans act violently and murder. this is explaned in more detail in l think eps 10-13, but don't remember, l'm not gonna say how this is ending, but the ending starts right about in the last 3 chapters and it's rather surprising for Rika, the mystery is solved for viewers really early in second season, and after the second half of the first season.

If not for the story, then for the loli's, this show is worth watching for the Loli's alone

[Cypher]

yeh the OP song is awesome, but l would like to tell you something about this series, this IS a mystery show, unless you watched second season first, the reason why we who did enjoy this show love it is the way Rika tries to fight whats comming every time, this show is like Umineko but it's a completely diferent level of story, the first season IS confusing but without it second season makes no sense, l recommend watching them both in 2 go's

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each 2-3 episodes are a chapter, one chapter is one world Rika awakens as the old Rika, what she tries to achieve is surviving the day of her fated death, she travelled through more than a thousand worlds in wich she died one way or another, additionally, most of the world have one of her friends kill someone or die for one reason or another, the reason this is happening is due to the parasite in all of the villages, Rika's presence in the village suppresses the parasite's activity to a minimum, however there are events that trigger them to act, making their hosts=humans act violently and murder. this is explaned in more detail in l think eps 10-13, but don't remember, l'm not gonna say how this is ending, but the ending starts right about in the last 3 chapters and it's rather surprising for Rika, the mystery is solved for viewers really early in second season, and after the second half of the first season.

If not for the story, then for the loli's, this show is worth watching for the Loli's alone

what you wrote between "the reason" and "every time" is a spoiler on its own IMO, you can't tell that if you started the show unless you reach the end of the first season.

Wait.... you want to convince dbml to repick the show by SPOILING one of its biggest surprises to him?!

[dbml]

Hah. All those spoilers just confirmed my reasons for dropping it. I even thought Umineko was better than this garbage... at least the characters in that were slightly interesting. I hated every character in Higurashi, except Shion. Loli's? Seriously? Loli's do not turn a terrible series into a good one. I can't handle sitting though 26 episodes of rancid shit comedy and stupid resets. Nty.

[Cypher]

Well, this anime does need a big warning sign saying "does not attempt to explain itself during first season", also I believe a character being "childish as hell" fits if the character itself was indeed a child.

There are only two things that can let someone bear the first season:
- Looking forward to the next murder, regardless of character love/hate.
- Coming up with one's own explanation of what the hell is going on.

It's what I'd tell someone who saw at least the first chapter to let them keep watching, or simply advice them to stop watching if they don't want to do what I suggested.

Anyway sorry you had to waste your time without being forewarned, as you can tell the only ones who liked this show were the ones who've managed to bear watching the whole thing.

[Monkemon]

I freeleeched this too and sort of liked it, the first 13 episodes were not that good but the last half of the series was a little better, though the last episode let me down. Not that interested in checking out the second season do not want to invest another 24 episodes on a series I moderately enjoyed.

[Cypher]

I freeleeched this too and sort of liked it, the first 13 episodes were not that good but the last half of the series was a little better, though the last episode let me down. Not that interested in checking out the second season do not want to invest another 24 episodes on a series I moderately enjoyed.

Strange... It was the hint made during the last scene of the last episode in season1 that made people (at least me) hooked up immediately to the second season, did you miss the hint or was it the hint itself that let you down? In case someone did miss the hint in that episode, it is pointed out clearly in first ep of season2.

[Havoc10K]

l didn't mean to spoil too much for him, but since hes set on dropping this good series l don't want to bother stopping or convincing him anymore, l decided l will not be agitating ppl to watch anything this year, l wil lalso not recommend anything to anyone.

l'm only saying, this is a great show, umineko is it's copy but isn't as good as this one, not even close, the mystery for the viewer is explained during the first season only in small bits and hints, however the majority is explained in S2 (KAI)

tehre are a few things explained in the special, and some stuff in the OVAs (REI)

this show is definitly not crap.

if you don't like the show and want to share it with others just post "I didn't like this show, cuz l didn't get it at all" period.

[dbml]

if you don't like the show and want to share it with others just post "I didn't like this show, cuz l didn't get it at all" period.

Seriously Havok, STFU. If I don't like I series, I'm going to say what I don't like about it... so hopefully I can keep other people from wasting their time watching it. If someone watches it anyways and they enjoy it, more power to them.

All the things that I think make this series garbage.
- Weak cast of characters. They seemed very cookie-cutter to me.
- Childish acts by childish characters = headache.
- Absolute rancid comedy. Didn't find any of it funny in the slightest.
- It's NOT mysterious! I didn't feel any sort of desire to find out why things happened in the series, which is not a good sign for a mystery. That's probably due to my hatred of the characters and not caring about what happened to them.
- Resets = worst idea ever, as it forces people to sit through a full 26 episodes of garbage before anything starts to become clear. It's not a series for the impatient, like myself. And then another 26 episodes for full resolution? Nu uh. No, just no.
- The murders, while interesting... are nothing special. They're short, few and far between... and honestly, didn't make me feel a thing.
- Did I mention that the story and the reason behind everything is completely ridiculous? Yeah, forgot to mention that.

If I wanted to watch a good mystery, I'd watch Monster. If I wanted to see gore and murder, I'd watch Elfen Lied or Memnosyne. For comedy, GTO. At best, Higurashi is average in all categories. Except for maybe being annoying, it's up there with that. Overall, a very bad series.

[Lord of Fire]

if you don't like the show and want to share it with others just post "I didn't like this show, cuz l didn't get it at all" period.

Seriously Havok, STFU. If I don't like I series, I'm going to say what I don't like about it... so hopefully I can keep other people from wasting their time watching it. If someone watches it anyways and they enjoy it, more power to them.

All the things that I think make this series garbage.
- Weak cast of characters. They seemed very cookie-cutter to me.
- Childish acts by childish characters = headache.
- Absolute rancid comedy. Didn't find any of it funny in the slightest.
- It's NOT mysterious! I didn't feel any sort of desire to find out why things happened in the series, which is not a good sign for a mystery. That's probably due to my hatred of the characters and not caring about what happened to them.
- Resets = worst idea ever, as it forces people to sit through a full 26 episodes of garbage before anything starts to become clear. It's not a series for the impatient, like myself. And then another 26 episodes for full resolution? Nu uh. No, just no.
- The murders, while interesting... are nothing special. They're short, few and far between... and honestly, didn't make me feel a thing.
- Did I mention that the story and the reason behind everything is completely ridiculous? Yeah, forgot to mention that.

If I wanted to watch a good mystery, I'd watch Monster. If I wanted to see gore and murder, I'd watch Elfen Lied or Memnosyne. For comedy, GTO. At best, Higurashi is average in all categories. Except for maybe being annoying, it's up there with that. Overall, a very bad series.

I watched the whole first season in one go and I disagree with pretty much all your 'weak points'. I might agree that there is little mystery behind it all, though I don't know exactly what the second season will show me, so I'll leave that point as undecided for now.

I liked how this was almost a polar opposite of Umineko. The latter is extremely serious and has a huge sense of mystery surrounding it. Higurashi is very comical  and a lot of things appeared to have been explained before the second season could answer anything (though I wouldn't be surprised if there's more to it than what we've seen thusfar).

[Havoc10K]

the biggest mystery is not the resets, cuz they arent resets,

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it's only similar to umineko hwere there are resets, in Higurashi, Rika is REBORN in a different world with every death she takes, that is not a mystery, what is a mystery is something quite different, your waste of time on this isn't something new to me, your STFU don't make impressions anymore, you forget that characters are KIDS, and the yact like KIDS

so l say to you, STFU and if youre dropping it, drop it. Don't waste your time arguing about it.

it's not murders that are the point of this show, if thats what you thought, you are wrong.

if it's annoying you, leave it alone, of others want to watch this show it's their choice, and it's nothing for you to decide unless you watch it fully, it's like with elections, if you don't vote, you have NO RIGHT to criticize the governmet.
so if you didn't watch it fully you have no Right to criticize, if you drop it, just drop, we don't care.

[dbml]

Aw, did someone just get butthurt because I'm hating on one of their favorite series?

Just as you're allowed to rave about how good the series is, I'm allowed to say how shitty it is. I'm just giving an opposing viewpoint on a clearly well-liked series. People can take what they want from what I say. If they choose to watch it, that's their call. All I can hope is that some people heed my warning and avoid it, so their brain doesn't turn to mush from what they would endure.

It's probably the second worst series I've ever started watching. Props to anyone who finished this crapfest.

[Monkemon]

I freeleeched this too and sort of liked it, the first 13 episodes were not that good but the last half of the series was a little better, though the last episode let me down. Not that interested in checking out the second season do not want to invest another 24 episodes on a series I moderately enjoyed.

Strange... It was the hint made during the last scene of the last episode in season1 that made people (at least me) hooked up immediately to the second season, did you miss the hint or was it the hint itself that let you down? In case someone did miss the hint in that episode, it is pointed out clearly in first ep of season2.

The mystery was not the problem, I just had some of the problems that dbml had, though they did not bother me as much. I can live without seeing a second season and truthfully I read Havoc10k's spoiler above and thats enough for me. I think the entire series would have been best if it had kept itself in a frame of 26-30 episodes but that is just my opinion.