Review of Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak

Ahhhh, the last of the Higurashi stuff (at least until the 2020 Remake comes out, but Corona screwed over a TON of anime including Evangelion 4.0 so...yeah, who knows when we'll get to see those shows.) What an...interesting note to end on. Well, the story isn't BAD, but it's nothing great. Basically, it's a zombie apocalypse in the Higurashi universe, kind of reminds me of Resident Evil 4 weirdly with the evil villagers and parasites and all that. It's ok for what it is...I guess, but they could've done SO MUCH more with it. The art looks nice, a bit of a step up from the laststuff we saw ('Rei' & 'Kira'). But it still looks familiar enough to be too weird. Also love the fact the insane versions of characters like Keiichi and Rena come back in terms of the looks.

The songs themselves are okay. I liked the end credits theme, though I believe once again the same songs from the series' soundtrack are used, but as usual they're used appropriately and non-excessively.

Overall, not a great OVA, but not the worst. It's passable. I kinda just feel like at this point they just wanted to get something Higurashi-related out there so they could renew some interest in the fanbase. Hopefully when the 2020 (maybe now 2021 or later) Higurashi remake comes out, we'll have new fans come into the franchise and there can be some new, better OVAs, who knows.

Good for Higurashi fans (maybe), otherwise, it's not really worth watching. It just kind of...exists.