Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou: Difference between revisions

| image = [[File:new_higu_anime.jpg|x400px280px]]

| runtime = October 1, 2020 - ongoingMarch 18, 2021

{{nihongo|'''''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou'''''|ひぐらしのなく頃に業|lit. ''When the Cicadas Cry Karma''}}, licensed in English as '''''Higurashi: When They Cry - New''''', is a 2020 sequel to the {{higurashi}} visual novel and [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (anime)|2006 anime]] created by Studio DEEN. The new project, animated by [[w:Passione (company)|Passione]], began airing on October 1, 2020. A sequel, titled {{sotsu}}, was announced on March 18, 2021.

The story was initially marketed as a remake of {{higurashi}}. On one hot summer day in 1983, a transfer student named Maebara [[Keiichi Maebara]] 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 "[[The club|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.

Eventually, the story was revealed to be a sequel rather than a remake. [[Rika Furude]], the hidden protagonist of the original story, is forced back into the cyclical June of 1983, despite her success in {{matsuribayashi}}. Rika endeavors to discover why she is being tormented again and learns the dark truth about what occurred after she previously escaped the endless loops of Hinamizawa.