Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai


Higurashi: When They Cry – Kai

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Synonyms: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni 2, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni 2nd Series, Higurashi no Nakukoro ni 2nd Season, The Moment the Cicadas Cry 2
Japanese: ひぐらしのなく頃に解
English: Higurashi: When They Cry – Kai
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Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 24
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 6, 2007 to Dec 18, 2007
Premiered: Summer 2007
Broadcast: Fridays at 02:30 (JST)
Producers: Frontier Works, Sotsu, Movic
Licensors: Sentai Filmworks
Studios: Studio Deen
Source: Visual novel
Genres: HorrorHorror, MysteryMystery, SuspenseSuspense
Themes: GoreGore, PsychologicalPsychological
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 8.161 (scored by 258914258,914 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #4452
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #484
Members: 489,916
Favorites: 7,466

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Synopsis

In the small village of Hinamizawa, Rika Furude and her friends live together in relative harmony. Beneath this mask of peace, however, lies a hidden darkness, one that Rika understands all too well. In this eternal summer, she has been witness to unspeakable horrors. Every time the clock resets, Rika must try to find the villain behind these senseless deaths before tragedy strikes again. However, trying to decipher a mystery when only half the clues are present proves time and again to be disastrous, and each time she believes that things will change, she inevitably fails. As the annual festival approaches, Rika begins her descent from hope to despair in her struggle to break the chains of fate entangling them all.

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Background

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai adapts the last two chapters of 07th Expansion's eight chapter visual novel.

Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Okamura, Takema
Producer
Fukao, Satoshi
Assistant Producer


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"Naraku no Hana (奈落の花)" by Eiko Shimamiya
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Ending Theme

"Taishou.a (対象.a)" by anNina




Reviews

Mar 31, 2024
When the first season of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni ended, viewers were left with more questions than answers about the dark mysteries plaguing the village of Hinamizawa. Thankfully, the 2007 sequel series Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai picks up right where the psychological horror left off, providing a riveting and unrelentingly bleak continuation that cements Higurashi as one of the most disturbingly effective thrillers in anime.

From the moment Kai begins, it's clear the writers have no intention of letting up on the suffocating sense of dread and escalating brutality that made the first season so gripping. New arcs like Meakashi-hen start off lulling ...
Nov 14, 2020
Mixed Feelings
It's a bit better than the first season, since this is where the show starts to really begin to make sense and show its true colors, even offering a few touching moments. While this season's part of the narrative is told much more methodically and features more cohesion, more life lessons and character insights, it still has many of the problems of season 1.

Frankly, I don't really love this anime that much, but it seems like a lot of fans of it are kind of misreading Takano's character and why the author has tried to portray her as sympathetic. I always find it strange when ...
Nov 22, 2020
It’s about time I watched Higurashi Kai. I tried watching this on three separate occasions in the span of six years. I’ve been a huge Higurashi fan for a long time now, but I’ve always had trouble getting into this one. After the third attempt I accepted the fact that Higurashi Kai’s first episode kinda sucks. The first episode is a boring slog to get through with the constant talking, and it has this strange white filter that makes the visuals difficult to see. Which reminds me of another anime I don’t like very much, Boogiepop Phantom. Characters will talk for long, long periods of ...

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