Not So Serious Anime Reviews

Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni

Introrwhatever

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I mean, hello and welcome to this post you actually bothered to read! If you've made it this far, I applaud you. I'm about to make a total dumbass out of myself.

*SPOILERS OF COURSE U DUMBASS!*

Plot

When They Cry, or Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni...
Whoa, hold the fricking phone right there! Now I don't know about you, but When They Cry is not the proper translation of that title into English! No, it should be When the Cicadas Cry. See, now we don't even know what is exactly crying. It could be Umineko for all we know because "Seagulls" is a subcategory of "They". Hell, everything is a subcategory of "They"! You just know it's going to be good when they can't even translate the title properly! And forever will my Blu-ray covers be lacking the word Cicadas... I cri

Anyways, the story is about a baseball bat toting fella known as Keiichi Maebara. Oh, guess what! Spoiler alert! Screw Keiichi! He ain't the protagonist even though the story focuses on him throughout almost all of the first season! Guess who's really in charge of this story? Rika Fricking Furude! Yeah, that's right. The loli who stabs herself in throat with a knife repeatedly, (more on that later) is in charge of the story. Sounds like a horrible idea if I've ever heard one. Anyways, back to our bad ass friend Keiichi.

After fucking up his life in the city he moved down to the shit hole in a valley called Hinamizawa, which I pray I spelled the name right. Anyways, the village is full of weirdos who may or may not want to kill you and all your friends. I swear to God not one person is an ordinary human being.

Anyways, every year the village holds what is otherwise a friendly festival called Watanagashi. But then you learn the name can mean entrails... And that the entire village may or not have crossbred with a race of powerful demons. Well, that explains a lot now, doesn't it? But no! That's not the truth! That's just all a myth! Get tricked!

This happy time of year becomes even less appealing when you realize murders have occurred the last four years on this same date. As expected, nobody knows why. Poor Keiichi managed to move here just in time to get stuck on the middle of this shitstorm.

The first season has the first six arcs of the story divided into 6 chapters which are all equally depressing and nonsensical. But don't worry! Season two will clear all that up in a jiffy! Just try not to have your brains explode on the walls behind your couch as you watch the first season, unable to comprehend this complicated story line!

As expected in this harem gone wrong, the one responsible for killing everyone out of paranoia is usually someone Keiichi knows as a friend. Which means it's a girl. Except for the two times it was himself. Oh, did I say "two times?" Yes I damn well did! That's right! There be some weird time loop shit going on. So screw what you thought about this anime not being cool. Because it just became fricking amazing! (Sorry to those of you ignored the warning about spoilers and just ruined the entire first half of the show for you. But I warned you. And it's from 2005 or some shit so you have no right to complain).

The whole ordeal revolves around Oyashiro-sama's Curse. He's the shrine god of the village and he lacks any understanding on freedom of movement. Basically, he gets very PO'd when people try to leave his village and makes them paranoid. He also enjoys stalking people and watching over them while they sleep like a perv. Everybody takes his curse way too seriously. All the murders are thought to be the work of the Curse because the police couldn't give less of a shit to investigate this creepy ass town. Oh, but SPOILER ALERT, he doesn't fricking exist! Sort of… More on that later!