

Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. There is no choice but to give up trying.īut even so… please don’t give up. Someone who was alive last night is now dead, and someone who is here right now isn’t alive. Someone who wasn’t supposed to be there… is. Someone who was supposed to be there… isn’t. Is it a conspiracy? A coincidence? Or perhaps a curse? This series of deaths and disappearances is connected to the local resistance against a now-abandoned dam construction project.Ī murder during the construction, covered up by the local authorities, is being re-enacted year after year.

While there are fewer than two thousand people there, every year, ‘something’ happens.įor the past 4 years, someone has died, and someone else has gone missing. Hinamizawa, a small village in the Japanese countryside. The summer heat has arrived earlier than it does most years.īy day there are cicadas, and by night, the higurashi.
