When They Cry - Higurashi (TV)
Related anime:
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Gaiden Nekogoroshi-hen (OAV) (spinoff)
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Kai (TV) (sequel)
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira (OAV) (side story)
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei (OAV) (sequel)
Alternative title:
Cuando las cigarras lloran (Spanish)
Higurashi no Naku Koroni (Japanese)
Higurashi: When They Cry
Hinamizawa, le village maudit (French)
When They Cry
When They Cry - Higurashi no Naku Koroni
Когда плачут цикады (Russian)
ひぐらしのなく頃に (Japanese)
쓰르라미 울 적에 (Korean)
Objectionable content:
Intense
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:
4259 ratings have been given [details]
Running time:
24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes:
26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
2006-04-04 to 2006-09-26
Release dates: 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
Official website:
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni @ Studio DEEN (Japanese)
テレビアニメ「ひぐらしのなく頃に」公式ホームページ (Japanese)
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 14
Comment:
Based on a popular, amateur created murder-mystery computer game.
Reviews:
When They Cry - Part 2 (Feb 3, 2012)
When They Cry - Part 1 (May 22, 2011)
When They Cry DVD 6 (Feb 14, 2009)
When They Cry DVD 2 (Aug 20, 2007)
When They Cry DVD 1 (Jun 23, 2007)
News: Show:
Weekly Wrapup 1/Jan - 7/Jan (Jan 9, 2012)
Siren Visual Announces Two Acquisitions (Dec 29, 2011)
Funimation Confirms Some Geneon Licenses Have Expired (Aug 17, 2011)
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira's 'Magical Girl' Promo Posted (Jul 21, 2011)
Funimation's Higurashi, Familiar of Zero Licenses Expire (Jun 11, 2011)
Anime Central to Host Hetalia's Shirohata, Nomura (May 11, 2011)
Higurashi, Persona, Bunny Drop, Smuggler Promos Streamed (Apr 29, 2011)
North American Anime, Manga Releases for February 2011 (Jan 15, 2011)
Sakura-Con Announcements (Apr 8, 2007)
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| DVD (Region 1) |
| When They Cry - Box Set (DVD) 2009-08-25 |
| When They Cry - Complete Set (DVD) 2010-04-13 |
| When They Cry (DVD 1) 2007-06-05 |
| When They Cry (DVD 1) 2008-09-30 (from $18.07) |
| When They Cry (DVD 2) 2007-08-07 (from $26.98) |
| When They Cry (DVD 2) 2008-09-30 |
| When They Cry (DVD 3) 2007-10-09 (from $8.88) |
| When They Cry (DVD 3) 2008-09-30 (from $35.71) |
| When They Cry (DVD 4) 2007-12-04 |
| When They Cry (DVD 4) 2008-09-30 |
| When They Cry (DVD 5) 2008-02-05 |
| When They Cry (DVD 5) 2008-11-11 |
| When They Cry (DVD 6) 2008-12-23 |
| When They Cry + Artbox (DVD 1) 2007-06-05 (from $35.98) |
| When They Cry + Box (DVD 1) 2008-09-30 |
| DVD (Region 4) |
| When They Cry - Part 2 (Eps 14-26) (DVD) |
| When They Cry - Part 1 (Eps 1-13) (DVD) 2011-02-18 |
Director: Chiaki Kon Series Composition: Toshifumi Kawase Storyboard: Sōma Ōgami (ep 23) Episode Director: Isamu Takayama (7) Kyuichi Ishikawa (10) Matsuo Asami Osamu Sekita (6) Takeshi Yoshimoto (9) Yuji Hiraki (8) Music: Kenji Kawai Original creator: Seventh Expansion Character Design: Kyuta Sakai Art Director: Chikako Shibata Director of Photography: Seiichi Morishita Assistant Animation Director: Seiya Numata (ep 17) Assistant Chief Animation Director: Seiya Numata (ep 12) Color design: Shinji Matsumoto Editing: Masahiro Matsumura Editing Assistant: Sayaka Mita Ending Animation: Hiroshi Watanabe Key Animation: Akiko Nakano Ayako Nozawa Hidetoshi Namura Hirofumi Masuda (OP) Inosuke Naitou Kan Ogawa (OP; eps 9, 17, 26) Katsuya Yamamoto Kenji Tojo Kyoko Sugiyama Maki Murakami Megumi Yamada Miyako Tsuji Ryo Kobayashi Seiya Numata (4 episodes eps 13, 19, 23, 26 )Taeko Oda Music Performance: Hideyo Takakuwa (Flute) Music producer: Akira Yoshikawa Paint: Kozue Arai Recording: Yukihira Oishi Recording Assistant: Tomonari Tokui Sound Effects: Takuya Hasegawa Theme Song Composition: Tomoyuki Nakazawa (OP) Theme Song Lyrics: Eiko Shimamiya (OP) | Mai Nakahara as Mika Kanai as Souichiro Hoshi as Yukari Tamura as Chafurin as Fumiko Orikasa as Miki Itou as Toru Ohkawa as Toshihiko Seki as Yu Kobayashi as Akiyo Kanada as Atsushi Kakehashi as Daisuke Ono as Daisuke Sasaki as Eriko Matsushima as Fujiko Takimoto as Fumihiko Tachiki as Katsuhiro Oota as Katsuhisa Houki as Keiichi Sonobe as Kentarou Tone as Kikuko Inoue as Kousei Hirota as Manabi Mizuno as Megumi Matsumoto as Misa Watanabe as Naoko Matsui as Naoya Uchida as Risa Mizuno as Shizuka Okohira as Shouto Kashii as Takashi Oohara as Takuo Kawamura as Yasunori Matsumoto as | |||
Animation: Studio DEEN Broadcaster: AT-X (2006-05-27) Chiba TV (2006-04-05) Kansai TV (2006-04-04) TV Kanagawa (2006-04-08) TV Saitama (2006-04-05) Music Production: Frontier Works Production: "When Cicadas Cry" Production Committee Frontier Works Geneon Universal Entertainment (Geneon Entertainment) Sotsu Agency Production Cooperation: Studio Izena Recording Studio: Studio T&T; Sound Effects: Sound Box Sound Production: Dax Production | ||||
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 Engineering Assistant: Jeff Prosser 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 | Grant George as Mela Lee as Minx Lee as Reba West as Darrel Guilbeau as Patrick Seitz as Alison James as Barbara Goodson as Darrel Guilbeau as Dave Mallow as Grant George as Jason C. Miller as Karen Strassman as Kelli Kassidi as Kyle Hebert as Lori Petty as Mike McFarland as Patrick Seitz as Reba West as Steve Kramer as | |||
ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment Distributor: FUNimation Entertainment (license expired) Siren Visual Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand) Licensed by: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. (expired) | ||||
Dubbing Director: Thomas Guitard | Alexandre Coadour as Alexandre N'Guyen as Bruno Meyere as Christèle Billault as Damien Da Silva as Fanny Bloc as Gabrielle Jeru as Geneviève Doang as Gérard Surugue as Jessica Barrier as Lily Baron as Matthieu Morel as Sarah Bouché de Vitray as Sophie Legrand as Thomas Guitard as | |||
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