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Higurashi: When They Cry
It's not paranoia... if they really are trying to kill you!
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Soichiro Hoshi
Keiichi Maebara (voice)
50 eps
Mai Nakahara
Rena Ryuuguu (voice)
50 eps
Satsuki Yukino
Mion Sonozaki / Shion Sonozaki (voice)
50 eps
Mika Kanai
Satoko Houjou (voice)
50 eps
Yukari Tamura
Rika Furude (voice)
50 eps
Chafurin
Kuraudo Ooishi (voice)
17 eps
Toru Okawa
Jirou Tomitake (voice)
5 eps
Miki Ito
Miyo Takano (voice)
8 eps
Toshihiko Seki
Kyousuke Irie (voice)
10 eps
Yui Horie
Hanyu (voice)
24 eps
Naoko Matsui
Aiko Maebara (voice)
6 eps
Yasunori Matsumoto
Ichiro Maebara (voice)
2 eps
Fumiko Orikasa
Rumiko Chie (voice)
7 eps
Eriko Matsushima
Elderly A (voice)
1 eps
Takuo Kawamura
Katsuya Kumagai (voice)
8 eps
Megumi Matsumoto
Daiki Tomita (voice)
6 eps
Fujiko Takimoto
Suguru Okamura (voice)
6 eps
Kun Fuzuki
Elderly B (voice)
2 eps
Atsushi Kakehashi
Delinquent 1 (voice)
3 eps
Takashi Oohara
Delinquent 2 (voice)
3 eps
Kentaro Tone
Teppei's friend (voice)
1 eps
Eisuke Asakura
Newscaster (voice)
1 eps
Satoshi Tsuruoka
Komiyama (voice)
5 eps
Akane Tomonaga
Girl (voice)
4 eps
Risa Mizuno
Yukie Akasaka (voice)
2 eps
Aki Kanada
Toshiki Inugai (voice)
2 eps
Daisuke Ono
Mamoru Akasaka (voice)
2 eps
Shizuka Okohira
Oryuu (voice)
4 eps
Kujira
Tamae Houjou (voice)
2 eps
Miki Suga
Rena's mother (voice)
4 eps
Gen Nakano
Rena's father (voice)
7 eps
Keiichi Sonobe
Hondaya (voice)
1 eps
Eiji Miyashita
Delinquent 3 (voice)
4 eps
Shouto Kashii
Makino (voice)
3 eps
Naoya Uchida
Sato (voice)
1 eps
Suzune Okabe
Doctor (voice)
3 eps
Kohsei Hirota
Mion's father (voice)
1 eps
Satori Ohta
Newscaster (voice)
1 eps
Masaaki Tsukada
Kiichirou Kimiyoshi (voice)
5 eps
Shinnosuke Tachibana
Man B (voice)
3 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Higurashi: When They Cry actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Higurashi: When They Cry reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had occurred in Hinamizawa. From this point on, horrific events unfold in front of Keiichi, as he soon learns his close friends may not be all that they seem.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Yasutaka HyugaProducer
- Mika NomuraProducer
- Hiroyuki OmoriProducer
Writing
- Rika NakaseWriter
- Fumihiko ShimoWriter
- Toshifumi KawaseWriter
- Masashi SuzukiWriter
Direction
- Daisuke TsujiDirector
- Yusuke OnodaDirector
- Shigeru UedaDirector
- Hideki TakayamaDirector
- Shunji YoshidaDirector
- Isao TakayamaDirector
Music
- Kenji KawaiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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