Higurashi: When They Cry (2006) Web Series — Cast, Story & Where to Watch | MovieLinkBD

Higurashi: When They Cry (2006) is a animation, drama, mystery web series in Japanese. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Higurashi: When They Cry online in HD.

Higurashi: When They Cry — Storyline

After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had occurred in Hinamizawa. From this point on, horrific events unfold in front of Keiichi, as he soon learns his close friends may not be all that they seem.

Cast & Crew

• Starring: Soichiro Hoshi, Mai Nakahara, Satsuki Yukino, Mika Kanai, Yukari Tamura, Yui Horie

Higurashi: When They Cry — Series Details

Higurashi: When They Cry — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: The Hidden Demon Chapter – Part 1 – The Beginning (2006-04-05) — Keiichi Maebara, a student who recently moved into the village of Hinamizawa, is invited by his new friends at school to join their club. But while searching for treasure at a garb
• E2: The Hidden Demon Chapter – Part 2 – Secret (2006-04-12) — The annual Watanagashi Festival finally starts, and everyone has fun feasting and playing games. However, in the following day, Keiichi is interrogated by chief police officer, Ois
• E3: The Hidden Demon Chapter – Part 3 – Suspicion (2006-04-19) — Delving further into the mysteries surrounding the village, Keiichi's paranoia grows after he starts to suspect that someone might be after his life.
• E4: The Hidden Demon Chapter – Part 4 – Distortion (2006-04-26) — Keiichi's despair reaches its peak. After being captured and sedated, he wakes up restrained by Mion and Rena, and they attempt to inject him with a mysterious drug. Keiichi murder
• E5: The Floating Cotton Chapter – Part 1 – Jealousy (2006-05-03) — Keiichi meets Mion's twin sister, Shion; the two are so identical that Keiichi can hardly tell the difference between them. It is also revealed that Mion has a crush on him.
• E6: The Floating Cotton Chapter – Part 2 – Takano (2006-05-10) — During Rika's ritual performance at the Watanagashi Festival, Shion whisks Keiichi away to sneak into the forbidden shrine warehouse, where Tomitake and his friend, Miyo Takano, ar
• E7: The Floating Cotton Chapter – Part 3 – Lie (2006-05-17) — Keiichi asks Rika for help, but when she and Satoko disappear, he starts fearing for the worse.
• E8: The Floating Cotton Chapter – Part 4 – Wish (2006-05-24) — Keiichi and Rena suspect that Mion might be related to Rika and Satoko's disappearance, and confront her at her house. There, he learns from her about the burden she carries as the
• E9: The Cursed Murder Chapter – Part 1 – Elder Brother (2006-05-31) — Keiichi's parents leave for Tokyo for a few days. Helped by Satoko and Rika, who makes dinner for him, Keiichi learns about Satoshi, Satoko's older brother, and his mysterious disa
• E10: The Cursed Murder Chapter – Part 2 – Bond (2006-06-07) — Satoko is absent from school for a few days. After discovering that the cause of her absence is Teppei, her abusive uncle, who left Hinamizawa after his wife was murdered on the ni
• E11: The Cursed Murder Chapter – Part 3 – Boundary (2006-06-14) — Keiichi comes to the resolution that he must kill Teppei. After brutally beating him to death with Satoshi's baseball bat, he buries the body, and on his way back home, Keiichi bum
• E12: The Cursed Murder Chapter – Part 4 – Something Lost (2006-06-21) — Keiichi's mentality is shaken when his friends tells him that he was actually at the Watanagashi Festival with them and Satoko still bemoans her uncle's abuse, despite being sure a
• E13: The Cursed Murder Chapter – Part 5 – Apology (2006-06-28) — Keiichi goes over to the Houjou residence to ascertain Teppei's existence and finds Satoko in need of clinical help. At the Furude Shrine, Keiichi discovers Rika's disemboweled bod
• E14: The Time Wasting Chapter – Part 1 – Hinamizawa (2006-07-05) — Four years ago, during the dam incident, young police investigator Mamoru Akasaka comes to Hinamizawa to find leads to a child kidnapping. After hearing an enigmatic warning from a
• E15: The Time Wasting Chapter – Part 2 – Omen (2006-07-12) — Akasaka and Oishi find the kidnappers' hideout and rescue the boy. After discovering that their efforts were in vain because the perpetrators' demand was already conceded, he reali
• E16: The Detective Chapter – Part 1 – First Love (2006-07-19) — The events from Watanagashi-hen are retold from another point of view. Shion takes Mion's place in Hinamizawa and is lovestruck by Satoko's older brother, Satoshi, at their first m
• E17: The Detective Chapter – Part 2 – Distinction (2006-07-26) — Satoshi apologizes to Shion (still pretending to be Mion), and asks her to care for Satoko during the Watanagashi Festival. That night, his aunt is murdered; in order to cover for
• E18: The Detective Chapter – Part 3 – Demon's Blood (2006-08-02) — Upon talking with Ōishi, Shion finds out Satoshi has gone missing and decides to investigate further into the mysterious murders over the past four years. One day at the library, S
• E19: The Detective Chapter – Part 4 – Retaliation (2006-08-09) — Shion believes the Sonozaki family is connected to the acts of "demoning away" people in the village, especially that of Satoshi. She imprisons Mion in the dungeon and unintentiona
• E20: The Detective Chapter – Part 5 – Cold Hands (2006-08-16) — Shion has captured the village head and gets information about the town involving the previous murders and Satoshi. Later, Shion confronts Rika about the murders, leading to a conf
• E21: The Detective Chapter – Part 6 – Conviction (2006-08-23) — Shion tricks Keiichi in a phone call and later tricks the townsfolk in order to make Keiichi a murder suspect, however she quickly realizes that Oishi suspects her instead. When di
• E22: The Atonement Chapter – Part 1 – Happiness (2006-08-30) — Rena discover the true character of her father's girlfriend and grows a deep hatred for her.
• E23: The Atonement Chapter – Part 2 – A Place to Return to (2006-09-06) — Rena disposes of Rina and her lover Teppei, after discovering their plan to con her father. Discovered by her friends, she ends up getting support by them, and they help her hide t
• E24: The Atonement Chapter – Part 3 – File No. 34 (2006-09-13) — While studying Takano's scrapbooks, Rena starts to unveil the the truth behind Oyashiro-sama and Hinamizawa's dark past.
• E25: The Atonement Chapter – Part 4 – Earth Invasion (2006-09-20) — Keiichi tries to dissuade Rena, but is confronted by her with his own dark secrets. After confessing his past sin to his friends, he finds that he can recall events from Onikakushi
• E26: The Atonement Chapter – Part 5 – Retake (2006-09-27) — Rena's madness reaches the peak to the point of taking all the school children hostage. With the police's help and working together with the rest of the group, Keiichi manages to d

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• E1: Reunion (2007-07-06) — Mamoru Akasaka, with an assistant, visits the abandoned town of Hinamizawa in the year 2007, and meets with Officer Oishi. They still wonder about the Great Hinamizawa Disaster tha
• E2: The Disaster Awakening Chapter – Part 1 – Tag (2007-07-13) — Back in June 1983, the club participates in a game of "zombie tag". On their way home, they run into Irie, Tomitake, and Takano, who tell Keiichi about the yearly murders known as
• E3: The Disaster Awakening Chapter – Part 2 – Powerlessness (2007-07-20) — Satoko worries about Rika's depression and tries to confront her about it, but Rika continues to deny anything is wrong. In the middle of the night, Satoko is woken by Rika arguing
• E4: The Disaster Awakening Chapter – Part 3 – Pre-established Harmony (2007-07-27) — The day of the Watanagashi Festival comes, and once again Rika fails to warn Tomitake of his imminent death. Later, Satoko is convinced that a mysterious man is following her and R
• E5: The Disaster Awakening Chapter – Part 4 – The Great Hinamizawa Disaster (2007-08-03) — Much to Satoko's surprise, Rika hides her before letting her murderers take her away. After witnessing Rika's demise and the death of the remaining villagers, Satoko fights despera
• E6: The Massacre Chapter – Part 1 – Law of the Labyrinth (2007-08-10) — Rika begins a new world with Hanyū, but is getting tired of seeing her friends commit the same acts that lead them to terrible mistakes, until Keiichi proves to her that people can
• E7: The Massacre Chapter – Part 2 – How to Change Destiny (2007-08-17) — Influenced by Keiichi's encouragement, and the fact her friends are starting to avoid doing the same mistakes again by remembering glimpses of what they could have done, Rika decid
• E8: The Massacre Chapter – Part 3 – Fluctuation (2007-08-24) — Rika's plans are hindered by the appearance of Teppei, who much like in "Tatarigoroshi-hen", begins to abuse Satoko. Keiichi and the rest of the gang decide to find a way to releas
• E9: The Massacre Chapter – Part 4 – Negotiation (2007-08-31) — The fight to save Satoko from her uncle's abuse continues, but they stumble on a dead end because she is reluctant to denounce him, for her own reasons. Rika realizes that despite
• E10: The Massacre Chapter – Part 5 – Confrontation (2007-09-07) — Keiichi's struggle to help Satoko forces him to confront the village elders, even the leader of the Sonozaki family. As the government succumbs to the pressure of Keiichi and his a
• E11: The Massacre Chapter – Part 6 – A Strong Will (2007-09-14) — At last, Rika persuades Satoko to ask for help and she is freed from Teppei. However, just when the village seemed to be relieved from its eternal cycle of hatred and death, the re
• E12: The Massacre Chapter – Part 7 – Hinamizawa Syndrome (2007-09-21) — After getting a clue of the villain's betrayal, Rika tells her friends the truth behind the Hinamizawa Syndrome, and her connection with it. Meanwhile, the enemy moves on with thei
• E13: The Massacre Chapter – Part 8 – Finale (2007-09-28) — One after another, Rika's friends are killed while trying to protect her. Takano dissects Rika, but does so without anesthesia, as requested by the latter in an attempt to carve th
• E14: The Festival Accompanying Chapter – Part 1 – Miyo (2007-10-05) — Takano's past is revealed in disjointed flashbacks, some of them showing her harsh childhood, while others to the time when she became involved with researchers of the Hinamizawa S
• E15: The Festival Accompanying Chapter – Part 2 – Wriggling (2007-10-16) — Takano's story continues, including how she met her foster grandfather, and her determination to continue his work. A few years later, Takano and Hanyū have a very heated confronta
• E16: The Festival Accompanying Chapter – Part 3 – The Beginning of the End (2007-10-23) — Hanyū watches silently and hopelessly as the cruel events occur during the dam incident, while she and Rika eagerly await the arrival of the one person who will be the key element
• E17: The Festival Accompanying Chapter – Part 4 – Strategy (2007-10-30) — In order to save Satoko, who is terminally infected with the Hinamizawa Syndrome, Rika offers herself as a test subject for Irie and Takano's research. More light is shed into the
• E18: The Festival Accompanying Chapter – Part 5 – The Final Piece (2007-11-06) — More details about Satoshi's past are revealed, including the reason for his disappearance. Rika and Hanyū make their final preparations for the impending struggle against destiny.
• E19: The Festival Accompanying Chapter – Part 6 – Opening (2007-11-13) — Hanyū is physically introduced into the world as a transfer student to the Hinamizawa school, but forgets her role. After a brief meeting with Takano and Tomitake, she remembers th
• E20: The Festival Accompanying Chapter – Part 7 – Trap (2007-11-20) — Rika gather her allies and start to make plans, while obtaining more information about the enemy and those supporting their ambitions.
• E21: The Festival Accompanying Chapter – Part 8 – 48 Hours (2007-11-27) — False information regarding Rika is spread by Oishi's group at the precinct, leaving the villain's crew in disarray, and racing against time to prevent their plans from being foile
• E22: The Festival Accompanying Chapter – Part 9 – Offense and Defense (2007-12-04) — Finding that Tomitake is captured, Irie rushes to escape and ends up meeting with Shion and her bodyguard, Kasai, on their way to the Sonozaki Estate. However, by accepting their h
• E23: The Festival Accompanying Chapter – Part 10 – Bloody Battle (2007-12-11) — Irie, Kasai, and Shion head to the clinic to rescue Tomitake. Irie finally unveils to Shion where Satoshi disappeared to and the others deal with the enemy assaulting the mountains
• E24: The Festival Accompanying Chapter – Part 11 – End (2007-12-18) — The rest of the Yamainu concede defeat, but Takano is unwilling to surrender. After learning Nomura in Tokyo planned to use her as a scapegoat, she flees into the mountains and has

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Higurashi: When They Cry have? 2 season(s) with 50 episodes.

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