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Higurashi will Take you on an Unforgettable Ride with its Complex, Haunting, Mysterious, Scary Paranoia filling Setup
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Horror anime has a tendency of looking like a terrible comedy. The execution manages to be sluggish, lacking any oomph in its performance, including a sense of assurance. This goes to make the frightful moments fly ove…
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Hinamizawa is a village frozen in time, and I’m not just talking about it’s isolationist principals. It’s the kind of small town where everyone knows everyone, and most family names can be traced back for centuries. Despite belonging to a family of outsiders, new resident Keiichi Maebara has had no…
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__I am including the whole anime series from 2006-2013.__
Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni. Also known as When They Cry was originally produced as a Visual Novel in 2002 by independent doujinshi writer Ryushiki 07 and would release the entire story in chapter format from 2002-2006 and in the year of final…
Read full review on AniList →A fun but desensitised and dumbed down interpretation of the source material
__[NOTE: Basically everything I say in this review also applies to Kai]__
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is obviously a pretty big deal to me, to say the least. So how have I not rated this above even an 80, let alone a 90 or at a 100?
It's right there in the title, of course. The original VN is one of…
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The cute smiles you see and the warm moments they share, *are just a facade*.
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Higurashi is a popular 2000s horror Anime (& probably VN too), probably because of its subversion of CGDCT elements that it uses to make one compelling horr…
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# Preface
This review contains spoilers for "Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni" and it's sequel: "Higurashi Kai". While the spoilers are all marked, I recommend watching the show before reading any reviews. It should be no surprise that, by this rating, I highly recommend the show. If the gore is keeping y…
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Warning this review may contain spoilers.
First impressions, so we got this town with these mysterious deaths that happens once a year.
Seems interesting enough so let's see how this goes. Also this probably one of the first horror anime I have ever watched.
Story, 7/10
So the story of higurashi…
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