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Year: 2006
Studio: 07th Expansion, Studio Deen
Category: TV

It is in the 58th year of Showa. The summer starts earlier than usual. In Jun, they’re enjoying the sound of cicada at noon and buzz of higurashi(*) in the evening.

Here, Hanamizawa Village, which locates on the rim of XX prefecture, is a small village whose popularion is less than 2,000. However, "it" repeats every year.

Hinamizawa Village Consecutive Unnatural Murders (1979 ~ 1983).

Every year, on the fixed day of Jun, one person dies and one person disappears. It is a death chain from the fight related to a big dam construction plan. The incident that was hidden in the middle of Showa revives.

It is whether a plot or an accident...or a curse?

The person who’s supposed to be there doesn’t exist.
The person who must not be there does exit.
The person whom you met last night doesn’t exit.
The person who is there doesn’t live.

The tragedy is inevitable? You can do nothing but succumb to it?

However, do not submit yourself to the tragedy.
It is only you that can face it.

(*) The higurashi is a kind of cicada. "Higurashi" literary means what makes it darker. It is named Higurashi because it begins to buzz when it gets dark. It appears earlier than other cicada, and it begins to buzz in Jun.

(**) This is based on a dojin (privately published) game by 07th expansion. The game is categorized into visual novel type game such as Kanon, Tsukihime, To Heart, etc. However, this game is one-way story while the story of a typical visual novel diverges by the player's choices.