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: 256 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 16 votes (sub:14, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 23 votes (sub:20, dub:3)
 Very good: 32 votes (sub:28, ?:1, others:3
3 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 61 votes (sub:54, dub:3, raw:2, others:2
2 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 40 votes (sub:32, raw:2, dub:2, others:4
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 So-so: 24 votes (sub:18, raw:3, dub:1, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Not really good: 21 votes (sub:19, dub:1, others:1
1 Tagalog dubbed
)
 Weak: 18 votes (sub:17, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Bad: 9 votes (sub:9)
 Awful: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (sub:4)
Seen in part or in whole by 503 users, rank: #1904 (of 7090)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.148 (Decent), std. dev.: 2.3422, rank: #4914 (of 7102)
Weighted mean: 6.090 (Decent), rank: #5002 (of 7102) (seen all: 6.19 / seen some: 5.99 / won't finish: 2.71)
Bayesian estimate: 6.159 (Decent), rank: #4429 (of 5355)
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
Scenario: Fumihiko Shimo (ep 02) 
Screenplay:
Fumihiko Shimo (eps 2, 4)
Toshifumi Kawase (eps 1, 3)
Storyboard: Hideki Tachibana (OP, ED)
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 (ep 4)
Hiromitsu Hagiwara (ED)
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

Animation producer: Keiichi Matsuda
Color setting: Takeshi Mochida
Editing: Masahiro Matsumura
In-Between Animation: Chieko Senoo (ep 1)
Key Animation:
Hiromitsu Hagiwara (ED)
Hironori Tanaka (OP)
Kyoko Kametani (OP)
Mariko Emori (OP)
Mika Takazawa (OP)
Ryouichi Nakano (OP)
Satoshi Harayama (OP)
Takenori Tsukuma (OP)
Takumi Yokota (OP)
Tomoko Sugimoto (OP)
Yuki Komatsu (OP; ep 1)
Theme Song Performance:
Mai Nakahara (ED)
Mika Kanai
Satsuki Yukino (ED)
Yui Horie
Yukari Tamura
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
Juurouta Kosugi as Okonogi
Katsuhisa Houki as Teppei Houjou
Miki Itou 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
Animation Production: Studio DEEN
Film Editing: Imagica (ep 1)
English staff
English companies
(none)
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks
English cast
(none)

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