Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Cuando las cigarras lloran - Penalidad del amor (Spanish)
ひぐらしのなく頃に煌 (Japanese)
Genres: comedy, supernatural
Themes: parody
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Wacky hijinks abound as Rika finds herself in a parallel Hinamizawa in which Tokyo is made of superpowered henchman and Rika herself is a magical girl. After returning to her regular Hinamizawa, Rika finds that the time line has not completely straightened out, as her younger self from 4 years prior has accidentally come to the future.
User Ratings: 275 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 16 votes (sub:14, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
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 Excellent: 23 votes (sub:19, dub:4)
 Very good: 38 votes (sub:34, ?:1, others:3
3 Spanish subtitled
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 Good: 69 votes (sub:61, dub:4, raw:2, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
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 Decent: 42 votes (sub:35, raw:2, dub:1, others:4
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
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 So-so: 25 votes (sub:19, raw:3, dub:1, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 French subtitled
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 Not really good: 23 votes (sub:21, dub:1, others:1
1 Tagalog dubbed
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 Weak: 17 votes (sub:16, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
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 Bad: 9 votes (sub:9)
 Awful: 9 votes (sub:9)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (sub:4)
Seen in part or in whole by 535 users, rank: #1950 (of 8784)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.186 (Decent+), std. dev.: 2.3022, rank: #6100 (of 8906)
Weighted mean: 6.121 (Decent), rank: #6229 (of 8906) (seen all: 6.22 / seen some: 6.04 / won't finish: 2.96)
Bayesian estimate: 6.179 (Decent+), rank: #5561 (of 6766)
Episode titles: We have 4
Vintage: 2011-07-21
Release dates: We have 4
Opening Theme:
"Happy! Lucky! Dochy!" by Yukari Tamura, Mika Kanai, and Yui Horie
Ending Theme:
"前代未聞☆ミラクルチェンジ (Unprecedented Miracle Change)" by Mai Nakahara (ep 01)
#2: "前代未聞☆ミラクルチェンジ (Unprecedented Miracle Change)" by Yukari Tamura and Mika Kanai (ep 02)
Insert song:
"100%マジカルスター☆ (100% Magical Star)" by Yukari Tamura, Mika Kanai, and Yui Horie (ep 02)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hideki Tachibana
Series Composition: Toshifumi Kawase
Script:
Fumihiko Shimo (eps 2, 4)
Toshifumi Kawase (eps 1, 3)
Storyboard:
Hideki Tachibana (OP, ED; eps 1-4)
Episode Director:
Hideki Tachibana (ep 4)
Masahiro Sonoda (ep 2)
Toshiyuki Kato (eps 1, 3)
Unit Director: Hideki Tachibana (OP, ED)
Music:
Kenji Kawai
Tomoki Kikuya
Original creator: Ryukishi07
Character Design: Tomoyuki Abe
Art Director: Chikako Shibata
Chief Animation Director: Tomoyuki Abe
Animation Director:
Akiko Matsuo (eps 1, 4)
Hideki Tachibana (ED; ep 4)
Hiroshi Tomioka (OP; eps 1, 3)
Tomoyuki Abe (eps 2, 4)
Sound Director: Hozumi Gōda
Director of Photography: Akira Shimozaki
Producer:
Mika Nomura
Satoshi Fukao
Satoshi Nagaoka
Takema Okamura
Yoshito Danno

2nd Key Animation:
Chieko Senoo (ep 3)
Hiroshi Yakou (ep 4)
Inosuke Naitou (ep 3)
Kaisen (ep 1)
Kenji Kanie (ep 3)
Mitsutaka Koshigo (ep 1)
Noriyoshi Sasaki (ep 3)
Shinya Yamada (ep 1)
Tatsuya Miki (ep 1)
Tomoko Shimizu (ep 1)
3D Work:
Kana Imagaki (Umidori; eps 1-4)
Keisuke Inoue (Umidori; eps 1-4)
Kiyono Watanabe (Umidori; eps 1-4)
Toshirō Hamamura (Umidori; eps 1-4)
Yūki Himoto (Umidori; eps 1-4)
Yuki Kuribayashi (Umidori; eps 1-4)
Animation producer: Keiichi Matsuda
Art Assistant: Tomohiro Morishita
Assistant producer:
Atsunori Yoshida
Toshio Okada
Background Art:
Akane Iwakuma (Ogura Kobo; ep 4)
Akina Sanjō (Ogura Kobo; ep 4)
Chigusa Orishiba (Studio Kanon; ep 4)
Dae Han Choi (Hyoin Entertainment; ep 4)
Hiromasa Ogura (Ogura Kobo; ep 4)
Ji Hye Lee (Hyoin Entertainment; ep 4)
Koji Nagasawa (Ogura Kobo; ep 4)
Masanori Nishiyama (Baku Production; ep 4)
Mayumi Okawa (Studio Kanon; eps 1-4)
Riko Sudo (Ogura Kobo; ep 4)
Seiko Yoshioka (Ogura Kobo; ep 4)
Shinobu Yamaguchi (Studio Kanon; eps 1-3)
Shiori Nagaoka (Studio Kanon; eps 1-3)
Shomi Tonegawa (Ogura Kobo; ep 4)
So Jeong Lee (Hyoin Entertainment; ep 4)
Su Hun Park (Hyoin Entertainment; ep 4)
Sung Mok Kwon (Hyoin Entertainment; ep 4)
Takayuki Kotani (Baku Production; ep 4)
Yoshiteru Mizuno (Studio Kanon; eps 1-2)
Yukako Ogawa (Studio Kanon; eps 1-3)
Color design: Takeshi Mochida
Color setting:
Hitomi Kawashima (eps 1, 3-4)
Takeshi Mochida (eps 1, 3-4)
Tomoe Nakagawa (ep 2)
Editing: Masahiro Matsumura
Editing Assistant: Yuki Koike
In-Between Animation:
Asuna Imahashi (eps 1, 3-4)
Ayaka Shibamoto (eps 1, 3-4)
Chie Iwasa (eps 1, 3-4)
Chieko Senoo (eps 1, 3-4)
Kōji Nobuhara (ep 1)
Mutsumi Omote (eps 1, 3-4)
Sachiyo Takada (ep 4)
In-Between Check:
Ai Asari (eps 1, 3-4)
Ryūichi Akahori (eps 1, 3-4)
Insert Song Arrangement: Sizuk ("100% Magical Star☆;" ep. 2)
Insert Song Composition: Shunryū ("100% Magical Star☆;" ep. 2)
Insert Song Lyrics: Saori Kodama ("100% Magical Star☆;" ep. 2)
Insert Song Performance:
Mika Kanai ("100% Magical Star☆;" ep. 2)
Yui Horie ("100% Magical Star☆;" ep. 2)
Yukari Tamura ("100% Magical Star☆;" ep. 2)
Key Animation:
Akiko Matsuo (eps 1, 4)
Atsushi Saitō (ep 3)
Ayako Nozawa (ep 1)
Chie Mishima (ep 2)
Eiji Fukuyama (ep 2)
Eiji Tominaga (eps 3-4)
Hatsumi Takahashi (ep 2)
Hideki Tachibana (ep 4)
Hiromitsu Hagiwara (ED)
Hironori Tanaka (OP)
Hiroshi Tomioka (eps 1, 3-4)
Hiroshi Yakou (ep 3)
Hisashi Ishii (ep 2)
Ikumi Saitou (ep 2)
Keiko Ishii (ep 2)
Ken Takahashi (OP)
Kyoko Kametani (OP)
Manabu Shioda (eps 1-2, 4)
Mariko Emori (OP)
Masako Sato (ep 3)
Masumi Kōketsu (ep 2)
Megumi Koike (ep 2)
Mika Takazawa (OP; eps 1, 3-4)
Naho Kozono (ep 4)
Nobuhiro Arai (eps 3-4)
Ryouichi Nakano (OP; eps 1, 3-4)
Ryūhei Aoyagi (ep 1)
Satoshi Harayama (OP; eps 1, 3-4)
Shinobu Nishioka (ep 4)
Takayuki Noguchi (ep 1)
Takehiro Nakayama (eps 2, 4)
Takenori Tsukuma (OP)
Takumi Yokota (OP)
Tatsuya Miki (eps 3-4)
Tomochi Kosaka (OP)
Tomoko Sugimoto (OP)
Tomoyuki Abe (ep 2)
Toshinari Yamashita (ep 2)
Tsukasa Sorimachi (ep 2)
Yasuhiro Ito (ep 1)
Yasuyuki Kai (ep 2)
Yoshikazu Fujiwara (ep 1)
Yuki Komatsu (OP; eps 1, 3)
Merchandising Director: Yuka Matsumoto
Music Director: Mitsuhiro Iwata
Music producer:
Akira Yoshikawa
Gō Wakabayashi
Paint:
Chisato Tsumotani (Studio Deen; eps 1, 3-4)
Kozue Arai (Studio Deen; eps 1, 3-4)
Mizuho Yamada (ep 2)
Tomoe Nakagawa (ep 2)
Paint Check:
Hitomi Kawashima (eps 1, 3-4)
Takeshi Mochida (eps 1, 3-4)
Tomoe Nakagawa (ep 2)
Photography:
Akira Shimozaki (Megumi; eps 1, 3-4)
Asahiko Koshiyama (Megumi; eps 1, 3-4)
Maiko Nakai (Megumi; ep 4)
Takashi Honda (Megumi; eps 1, 3)
Tamami Arai (Megumi; eps 1, 3-4)
Yoshitaka Mōri (ep 2)
Yutaka Nagaushi (ep 2)
Planning:
Eiji Orii
Takehiko Aoki
Takeshi Oikawa
Production Advancement:
Takeshi Toda (ep 2)
Toru Miyakoshi (ep 1)
Yūichirō Kikuchi (eps 3-4)
Production manager: Kazuomi Senoo
Prop Design: Tomochi Kosaka (ED)
Recording Adjustment:
Hideaki Kizawa (Studio T&T; eps 2, 4)
Kōhei Ōishi (Studio T&T)
Sound Effects:
Kenji Koyama (Sound Box; eps 1-3)
Takuya Hasegawa (Sound Box; ep 4)
Sound Production: Natsuki Fukuda (Dax Production)
Special Effects: Takeshi Saito (eps 1, 3-4)
Special Thanks To: 07th Expansion (all staff)
Theme Song Arrangement:
DY-T (ED1-4)
Hiroyuki Maezawa (OP)
Theme Song Composition:
Hiroyuki Maezawa (OP)
Yūki Nonaka (ED1-4)
Theme Song Lyrics:
hotaru (OP)
Yumiko (ED1-4)
Theme Song Performance:
Mai Nakahara (ED1)
Mika Kanai (OP; ED2)
Satsuki Yukino (ED3)
Yui Horie (OP; ED4)
Yukari Tamura (OP; ED2)
Video Editing:
Ayato Yasuda (IMAGICA; ep 3)
Kazuta Hattori (IMAGICA; ep 1)
Nozomi Suzuki (IMAGICA; ep 2)
Tomomasa Sano (IMAGICA; ep 4)
Yoshiaki Kimura (IMAGICA; eps 1-4)
Mai Nakahara as Rena Ryugu
Mika Kanai as Satoko Hōjō
Satsuki Yukino as
Mion Sonozaki
Shion Sonozaki
Sōichiro Hoshi as Keiichi Maebara
Yui Horie as Hanyuu
Yukari Tamura as Rika Furude

Chafurin as Kuraudo Ōishi
Fumihiko Tachiki as Tsuyoshi Kasai
Fumiko Orikasa as Rumiko Chie
Jūrōta Kosugi as Okonogi
Katsuhisa Houki as Teppei Houjou
Miki Itō as Miyo Takano
Rie Tanaka as Nomura
Shizuka Okohira as Oryou Sonozaki
Toru Ohkawa as Jirou Tomitake
Toshihiko Seki as Kyousuke Irie
Yousuke Akimoto as Principal Kaieda
Yu Kobayashi as Satoshi Hōjō

Tooru Sakurai as Otaku A (ep 3)
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
Big Owl (ep 2)
HEBARAKI (ep 3)
PRA (ep 3)
Studio Liberty (ep 1)
Studio Luna (eps 1, 3)
Studio Wombat (eps 1, 3-4)
3D Work: Umidori (eps 1-4)
Animation Production: Studio DEEN
Animation Tools: Animo
Background Art:
Baku Production (ep 4)
Hyoin Entertainment (ep 4)
Ogura Kobo (ep 4)
Studio Kanon (eps 1-4)
In-Between Animation:
Anitus Kōbe (ep 4)
Big Owl (ep 2)
Digital Network Animation (ep 4)
E-cho (eps 1, 3-4)
Nakamura Production (ep 2)
Wafū Animation (ep 1)
In-between Check: Digital Network Animation (ep 2)
Music Production: Frontier Works
Paint:
BEEP (ep 2)
Big Owl (ep 2)
E-cho (eps 1, 3-4)
Photography:
Megumi (eps 1, 3-4)
Production: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira Production Committee
Production Assistance: Digital Network Animation (ep 2)
Recording Studio:
Aoi Studio (eps 2-4)
Studio Mausu (ep 4)
Studio T&T (eps 1-4)
Toei Audio Visual Art Center (eps 1, 3-4)
Sound Effects: Sound Box
Sound Production: Dax Production
Special Thanks: Type-Moon
Video Editing: Imagica (eps 1-4)

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