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== Understanding the story ==
{{Notice|This section contains '''MAJOR SPOILERS''' for the eight arcs listed in the above section. While the spoilers are marked, we still recommend that you experience all eight of the above arcs before continuing. '''Read at your own risk'''}}
''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni'' is a story that follows a small group of friends, informally called [[the club]], as they experience the dark underbelly of their rural village, [[Hinamizawa]]. This story is divided into '''EIGHT ARCS''' which were released as part of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (sound novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' and {{kai}}. Seven of these eight arcs, {{onikakushi}}, {{watanagashi}}, {{tatarigoroshi}}, {{meakashi}}, {{tsumihoroboshi}}, {{minagoroshi}}, and {{matsuribayashi}}, cover roughly the same period of time in June 1983. '''AT THE END OF EACH STORY ARC, THE NARRATIVE RESTARTS TO THE BEGINNING OF JUNE.''' As such, any event that occurred in one arc is not guaranteed to happen in another. These are ''not'' different perspectives on the same story. Rather, they are all different
A majority of the canon ''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni'' experience exists solely in these eight arcs. There does exist a ninth arc, {{saikoroshi}}, which begins immediately after the ending of the eighth arc, {{matsuribayashi}}. Regardless of its potential canonicity, ''Saikoroshi-hen'' ends with its protagonist, Rika, in the world of ''Matsuribayashi-hen'' and no fragment-hopping takes place. There are two possibilities for how this occurs: Rika escapes from the world of ''Saikoroshi-hen'' and returns to the world of ''Matsuribayashi-hen'' or the entirety of ''Saikoroshi-hen'' was a dream that Rika experienced while in a coma. It is not made clear in the text or in any interviews which of these is accurate.
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