In a middle school in Shishibone city, Tomohiro Miyajima and his group of friends are busy studying for an exam. One day, in search for a thrilling mystery as well as easy money, they take several donation boxes and fabricate a curse to scare everyone: “Ohone-sama’s curse”. After scrawling 骨 (bone) all over the chalkboards and spreading rumors of the curse, the donation boxes are quickly filled and the curse becomes a major legend of the school. Of course, only Tomohiro and his friends knew the curse was fake. It wasn’t possible for anything to happen. That is, until they receive a donation of 50,000 yen and a letter to go with it, reading: “Please curse Tanashi Miyoko.”

Keiichi Maebara has just moved to a seemingly peaceful new town. He’s making friends and generally enjoying his life until one day he learns of a grisly murder that took place in the little village. His friends won’t give him any details which only adds to Keiichi’s uneasiness. After learning at the town’s annual festival that a death has occurred on that night every year for the past four years, Keiichi is drawn into a web of intrigue to help unravel the mystery of these murders. Things only get more dangerous when he learns that some of his new friends may be involved!

An officially published anthology series for Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, created by several artists based upon reader submitted stories, and complied into volumes by Ryukishi 07. The first two volumes draw their primary inspiration from question arcs, while the latter volumes draw inspiration from the answer arcs.

The story of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is divided into a total of eight chapters: four “Question” arcs and four “Answer” arcs. Each chapter keeps the same main characters, but ends in a different way. However, each chapter gives valuable answers, hints, and clues to the previous one, while at the same time bringing forth even more mysteries.

The question arcs are:

1. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni – Onikakushi-hen

2. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni – Watanagashi-hen

3. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni – Tatarigoroshi-hen

4. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni – Himatsubushi-hen

The answer arcs are:

5. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai – Meakashi-hen

6. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai – Tsumihoroboshi-hen

7. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai – Minagoroshi-hen

8. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai – Matsuribayashi-hen

The side story arcs are:

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni – Onisarashi-hen

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni – Yoigoshi-hen

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai – Utsutsukowashi-hen

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni – Hirukowashi-hen

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni – Kokoroiyashi-hen

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni – Kataribanashi-hen

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei – Saikoroshi-hen

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Each year, the Ushiromiya family gathers at the secluded mansion of its patriarch, the elderly Kinzo. It has been six years since Battler joined his cousins at the annual event, but their happy reunion is overshadowed by worsening weather and an eerie premonition from his youngest cousin. When their parents’ conversation turns to the division of the inheritance upon Kinzo’s imminent death, Battler and his cousins reminisce about the stories their parents teased them with as children-tales of the witch, Beatrice, who haunts the island’s forest. But when people start dying unnatural deaths, Battler can’t help but wonder…

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This chapter of the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni series, called the “Mahjong” chapter, is related to a “dramatic mahjong” game being released for the PSP in November 2009. This time, Keiichi (a boy who moved to the small village of Hinamizawa), finds himself drawn into a special mahjong course at his school.

It’s been almost a year since Natsumi and her family moved from the town of Onigafuchi. Her grandmother, a native of Hinamizawa village, fears that they will be cursed for abandoning the mountains, but Natsumi has never been happier, making new friends and enjoying school life. When a terrible gas explosion in Hinamizawa wipes out everyone in the village, her grandmother is convinced it is the wrath of the village god, Oyashiro-sama. Natsumi’s family has never taken Grandmother’s beliefs seriously, but her devotion to Oyashiro-sama has taken a frightening turn. Have the old woman’s fanatical convictions gone too far?

In the twenty years since the Hinamizawa disaster, the small village has become a literal ghost town. Terrible rumors about the mysterious gas leak that claimed hundreds of lives have kept even the most curious at bay. But on this night, fate has led five strangers to the abandoned mountain hamlet-among them a certain Mion Sonozaki. As the footsteps of the living echo through the abandoned halls of Furude shrine, the sleeping demons of Hinamizawa stir once again…

The Curse Killing Arc…The Time Killing Arc…As each incarnation of the terrible events in Hinamizawa unfolds, Rika Furude must watch as her friends descend into madness and despair, knowing the only fate that awaits her is death. With the unique ability to see all of these worlds, Rika desperately searches for the common links between them that will help her stop the cycle and give her and her friends a happy future beyond June 1983. But with less than a month before the cotton drifting in her current life, will Rika be able to change destiny in time?

At St. Lucia Academy, the body of a male teacher has been discovered in the pool. The girl who found him, Mizuho Kousaka, is a shy bullied student who seems relatively unaffected by her discovery. After all, this isn’t the first time she has seen a corpse. In order to teach Mizuho to stand up for herself, a girl named Shion Sonozaki befriends her and the two become inseparable, as they both share traumatic pasts. But when another body is found, Mizuho comes under suspicion for murder.