When They Cry - Higurashi (TV)
Alternative title:
Cuando las cigarras lloran (Spanish)
Higurashi no Naku Koroni (Japanese)
Higurashi: When They Cry
Hinamizawa, le village maudit (French)
When They Cry
When They Cry - Higurashi no Naku Koroni
Когда плачут цикады (Russian)
ひぐらしのなく頃に (Japanese)
쓰르라미 울 적에 (Korean)
Objectionable content:
Intense
Plot Summary:
On one hot summer day in 1983, a transfer student named Maebara Keiichi comes to a peaceful rural village in Hinamizawa. There, he befriends his classmates Rena, Mion, Rika, and Satoko. Accepted as a full-fledged member of the "club," Keiichi and the gang plays all sorts of activities ranging from card and board games to hide-and-seek. But just as Keiichi was beginning to be assimilated in simple rural life, he stumbles upon the dark history of Hinamizawa. As Keiichi dives deeper into the mystery, he finds that his new found friends may not be all what they claim to be.
User Ratings:
4555 ratings have been given [details]
Running time:
24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes:
26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
2006-04-04 to 2006-09-26
Release dates: We have 17
Opening Theme:
"Higurashi no Naku Koro ni" (ひぐらしのなく頃に) by Eiko Shimamiya
Ending Theme:
"why, or why not" by Hiroyuki Oshima feat. Rekka Katakiri
Official website:
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni @ Studio DEEN (Japanese)
テレビアニメ「ひぐらしのなく頃に」公式ホームページ (Japanese)
Links: We have 4
Trivia: We have 14
Comment:
Based on a popular, amateur created murder-mystery computer game.
Reviews:
When They Cry: Rei Blu-Ray (Aug 7, 2016)
When They Cry Blu-Ray (Apr 15, 2016)
When They Cry - Part 2 (Feb 3, 2012)
When They Cry - Part 1 (May 22, 2011)
When They Cry DVD 6 (Feb 14, 2009)
When They Cry DVD 2 (Aug 20, 2007)
When They Cry DVD 1 (Jun 23, 2007)
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| Blu-Ray (Region A) |
| When They Cry - Season 1 Complete Collection (Blu-Ray) 2016-03-15 (from $57.85) |
| DVD (Region 1) |
| When They Cry - Box Set (DVD) 2009-08-25 |
| When They Cry - Complete Set (DVD) 2010-04-13 |
| When They Cry - Season 1 Complete Collection (DVD) 2016-03-15 (from $46.31) |
| When They Cry (DVD 1) 2007-06-05 |
| When They Cry (DVD 1) 2008-09-30 |
| When They Cry (DVD 2) 2007-08-07 |
| When They Cry (DVD 2) 2008-09-30 |
| When They Cry (DVD 3) 2007-10-09 |
| When They Cry (DVD 3) 2008-09-30 |
| When They Cry (DVD 4) 2007-12-04 |
| When They Cry (DVD 4) 2008-09-30 |
| When They Cry (DVD 5) 2008-02-05 |
| When They Cry (DVD 5) 2008-11-11 |
| When They Cry (DVD 6) 2008-12-23 |
| When They Cry + Artbox (DVD 1) 2007-06-05 |
| When They Cry + Box (DVD 1) 2008-09-30 |
| DVD (Region 4) |
| When They Cry - Part 2 (Eps 14-26) (DVD) |
| When They Cry - Part 1 (Eps 1-13) (DVD) 2011-02-18 |
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Director: Chiaki Kon
Series Composition: Toshifumi Kawase
Storyboard:
Chiaki Kon (5 episodes eps 1, 3, 15, 25-26 )Hidetoshi Namura (eps 5, 9, 19) Hiroshi Watanabe (eps 7, 13) Katsumi Terahigashi (ep 17) Masakatsu Iijima (4 episodes eps 6, 10, 20, 24 )Minefumi Harada (ep 14) Naoyuki Kuzuya (4 episodes eps 2, 8, 12, 18 )Sōma Ōgami (ep 23) Tomokazu Kougo (eps 16, 22) Yamato Han (eps 11, 21) Yuji Hiraki (eps 4, 25)
Episode Director:
Chiaki Kon (eps 1, 11, 26) Daisuke Tsuji (ep 22) Daisuke Tsukushi (ep 19) Isamu Takayama (7) Isao Takayama (ep 7) Kyuichi Ishikawa (10; eps 4, 10, 16) Matsuo Asami (eps 12, 18, 24) Mujin Shako (ep 21) Osamu Sekita (6; ep 6) Seung Hui Son (ep 5) Shigeru Ueda (ep 13) Shunji Yoshida (ep 17) Takeshi Yoshimoto (9) Tomoko Hiramuki (ep 23) Tsuyoshi Yoshimoto (eps 3, 9, 15) Yuji Hiraki (8; 5 episodes eps 2, 8, 14, 20, 25 )
Music: Kenji Kawai
Original creator: Seventh Expansion
Character Design: Kyuta Sakai
Art Director: Chikako Shibata
Animation Director:
Atsuko Takahashi (4 episodes eps 5, 11, 17, 23 )Kouichi Motomura (ep 1) Masahisa Koyata (ep 3) Minefumi Harada (4 episodes eps 4, 10, 16, 22 )Nobuyoshi Souzaki (5 episodes eps 2, 8, 14, 20, 25 )Seiya Numata (9 episodes eps 7, 9, 12-13, 15, 19, 21, 23, 26 )
Sound Director: Hozumi Gôda
Director of Photography: Seiichi Morishita
Assistant Animation Director: Seiya Numata (ep 17)
Assistant Chief Animation Director: Seiya Numata (ep 12)
Color design: Shinji Matsumoto
Editing: Masahiro Matsumura
Editing Assistant: Sayaka Mita
Ending Animation: Hiroshi Watanabe
Key Animation:
Akihito Asai Akiko Kumada Akiko Matsuo Akiko Nakano Akio Watanabe Akira Kasahara Akira Kobayashi Ayako Nozawa Chie Nishio Chuji Nakajima Emiko Shimamura Goro Taki Hideaki Nakano Hidemi Yamashita (Nakamura Production) Hideo Nakamura Hidetoshi Namura Hirofumi Masuda (OP) Hiroki Tsuji Hironobu Kobayashi Hirotaka Nii Hiroyasu Oda Inosuke Naitou Jun'ya Kikuchi Junko Nonaka Kan Ogawa (OP; eps 9, 17, 26) Katsuya Yamamoto Kazuya Nakanishi Keiko Motoya Kenichi Iino Kenji Kuroyanagi Kenji Tojo Kenzo Koizumi Koichi Hoshino Koji Iwaki (Snow Light Staff) Kouichi Motomura Kumi Hirai Kumi Kobayashi Kyoko Sugiyama Kyouko Yasuda Maki Murakami Makiko Fujiwara Makoto Iino Megumi Yamada Megumi Yamazaki Mikihiko Ando Minami Tokunaga Mitsuru Nakata Miyako Tsuji Motoichi Murakami Noriko Yamashita Nozomu Fujii Osamu Yamamoto Ryo Haga Ryo Kobayashi Ryosuke Kimiya Ryota Honma (Nakamura Production) Sakiko Yoshida Sanae Narasaki Satoshi Kubo Seiya Numata (4 episodes eps 13, 19, 23, 26 )Shigeru Ishii Shin Komatsu Shinichi Wada Shinya Uchida Shouichi Funaki Shouji Endo Taeko Oda Taiichi Nakaguma Takashi Tezuka Takeo Tominaga Takeshi Morita Tatsuya Shiraishi Tomohiko Abe (Nakamura Production) Tomokazu Shimabukuro Toru Yoshida Tsutomu Shibuya Wataru Hasegawa Wataru Yamamoto Yoshie Kimoto Yoshio Mizumura Yoshio Usuda Yoshito Suzuki Youichi Ishikawa Yuji Kikuta Yumie Wada Yūya Furuta (Nakamura Production)
Music Performance: Hideyo Takakuwa (Flute)
Music producer: Akira Yoshikawa
Opening Key Animation:
Akiko Kumada Chiaki Ima Chuji Nakajima Keiko Shimizu Miyako Tsuji Sanae Narasaki Shinya Uchida Youichi Ishikawa
Paint: Kozue Arai
Recording: Yukihira Oishi
Recording Assistant: Tomonari Tokui
Sound Effects: Takuya Hasegawa
Theme Song Composition: Tomoyuki Nakazawa (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics: Eiko Shimamiya (OP)
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Animation: Studio DEEN
Animation Direction: Echo (ep 3)
Broadcaster:
AT-X (2006-05-27) Chiba Television (2006-04-05) Kansai Telecasting Corporation (2006-04-04) Television Kanagawa (2006-04-08) Television Saitama Co., Ltd. (2006-04-05)
In-Between Animation:
ARP (ep 03) Echo Gonzo (ep 13) Phoenix Animation Studio Lagoon (ep 15) Tanto (ep 02)
Key Animation:
Echo Nakamura Production Phoenix Animation Seigasha Snow Light Staff Studio Liberty Studio Mark
Music Production: Frontier Works
Production:
"When Cicadas Cry" Production Committee Frontier Works Geneon Universal Entertainment (Geneon Entertainment) Sotsu Co., Ltd.
Production Cooperation: Studio Izena
Recording Studio: Studio T&T
Sound Effects: Sound Box
Sound Production: Dax Production
special effects: Southern Cross
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ADR Director: Kristi Reed
Translation: Mitsuyo Vicky Umene
ADR Script: Kristi Reed
Executive producer:
Eiichi Takahashi (Sentai release) John Ledford (Sentai release) Katsuhiko Tsurumoto
Producer:
Eric P. Sherman John Ledford (Sentai release) Kaeko Sakamoto Manabu Kameya Midoriko Omori Satoshi Fujii
Assistant Production Coordinator: Christen Bennett
Associate Casting Director: Mami Okada
Casting Director: Kaeko Sakamoto
Co-Producer: Mami Okada
Disc Authoring: Joel McCray (Sentai release)
Engineering Assistant: Jeff Prosser
Menu Design: Larry Koteff (Sentai release)
Packaging Design: Larry Koteff (Sentai release)
Production Assistant:
Annie Nguyen (Sentai release) Christen Bennett Crystal Ruiz (Sentai release) David Beltier E.W. Rector, III (Sentai release) Emily Nicolas Jose DeArmas (Sentai release) Kathy Li Kim Bui Kjell Doucet (Sentai release) Mark Fujita Ned Gayle (Sentai release) Shannon Reed (Sentai release)
Re-Recording Mixing: Marco Bustos
Sound Supervision: Patrick Rodman
Spotting: Tetsuya Fujita
Supervising Producer: Yukio Kusumoto
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch (Sentai release)
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ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Distributor:
FUNimation Entertainment (license expired) Section23 Films (North America) Siren Visual (Australia & New Zealand)
Production: Sentai Studios (Sentai release)
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