“Rika Furude relives a cursed summer in Hinamizawa, desperately trying to prevent recurring tragedies and break fate's cycle.”
Higurashi: When They Cry – Kai
ひぐらしのなく頃に解
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Synopsis
Rika Furude relives a cursed summer in Hinamizawa, desperately trying to prevent recurring tragedies and break fate's cycle.
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.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 102 sampled reviews
What 102 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.80 · some divergence
5.6 pts
Recommenders 8.9 · others 3.3
↓ 0.58
Running avg · Jan 2008 → Apr 2025
- 10 “If you watched Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and are thinking about watching Higurashi no Naku koro ni Kai, you definitely should. The series is really incomplete without watching both of them. I loved...”
- 9 “ah sorry to start out with an opinion, but i will anyway. Higurashi Kai was my favorite anime, and even series of Higurashi. The outstanding summary of why Furude, Rika lives only in June 83 and...”
- 10 “I am not actually quite close to finishing this anime but i really enjoyed it and i also didnt know there was a continue from higurashi no naku koro ni. I loved the mystery and that out of it weird...”
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- Format 24 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 9h 36m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2007 – Dec 2007 Summer 2007
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-1721 catalog
Produced by
- Frontier Works Producer
- Sotsu Producer
- Movic Producer
Licensed by
- Sentai Filmworks Licensor