Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
TV Show • 2006 • Horror
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Early summer, Maebara Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However, when he starts to become suspicious that Ryūgū Rena, Sonozaki Mion and the others that Keiichi trusted may be deeply involved in successive murders that occur every summer, the situation around Keiichi gradually starts to turn. As if the girls' characters had completely changed, a sewing needle is found in his food, he is chased by mysterious men, and is involved in an accident that could have killed him. He could no longer trust anyone, and then one mystery leads to another, bringing out a shockingly bloody ending.
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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The entire third arc revolves around a young girl's abusive home situation.
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Is someone stalked?
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In a non-sexual/non-romantic way.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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there are multiple scenes where a character is strongly fixated on memories that they experienced that others didn't, and they try to convince them that they didn't happen.
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yes - a character experiences domestic violence at home by a family member.
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A main character's abusive step-father is has an alcohol, tobacco, and gambling addiction.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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The uncle of one of the main characters is an alcoholic, this is a recurring plot element.
In the third season a child appears to be drinking wine while alone in her room.
In the third season a child appears to be drinking wine while alone in her room.
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Are there bugs?
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Several people hallucinate maggots coming out of their skin.
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Assault
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yes. a character is kissed without his consent early in the series. a different character is regularly abused at home, but it isn't specified if there is any sexual abuse due to lack of detail. there is a different scene where a female character is verbally sexually harassed and threatened by men on the street.
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Is there pedophilia?
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The doctor/baseball coach wants to marry an underage character when she becomes an adult.
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Is someone restrained?
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In at least one arc, a main character is tied to a post and tortured.
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Bodily Harm
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Is someone tortured?
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Multiple instances. Someone is threatened with having nails driven through their fingers, a child is restrained and stabbed repeatedly, and a character is forced to pull out her own fingernails.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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One character is forced to remove her fingernails, we see it, it's graphic, later on, another character claims she also removed her fingernails but we do not see the act, just the aftermath. Hands and fingers are often threatened visually in the series, in a previous arc a character threatens to nail someone's fingers, and in a later arc is seen doing so to a different character. The fingernails is the most graphic.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Not shown on screen, but it is mentioned that someone's face has been crushed by a vehicle.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Mentions, no characters participate but it's talked about semi-frequently.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Rena talks about cutting herself with a razor in the last arc of the first season
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Is someone stabbed?
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Character is stabbed in the stomach but lives.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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It happens off screen, but a woman falls down the stairs and dies
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Does someone fall to their death?
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There are numerous instances of characters falling to their deaths.
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Is someone burned alive?
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We don't see the act but it's referenced frequently and once or twice we see the corpse.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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A corpse with a bashed in head is briefly shown. The teeth on the corpse are broken and chipped. This sequence was censored for the TV broadcast version
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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The main cast are children and teens. Both of the children die quite brutal deaths.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
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Family
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Multiple characters have died. At one point late in the series a character has to choose whether or not to kill her mother, it is not revealed whether or not she actually goes through with it.
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Does someone cheat?
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yes. a character's mother is possibly cheated on. it's not specified but is implied.
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Is someone possessed?
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**Minor SPOILERS**
Whether or not someone is possessed while committing various horrific acts is a key part of the mystery of the show early on.
**MAJOR SPOILERS**
Characters however, are not actually possessed by a malevolent entity. They are experiencing a biological condition somewhat similar to rabies that makes them intensely paranoid and violent. There IS also a positive spirit/ghostly entity present in the story that some characters occasionally see hear.
Whether or not someone is possessed while committing various horrific acts is a key part of the mystery of the show early on.
**MAJOR SPOILERS**
Characters however, are not actually possessed by a malevolent entity. They are experiencing a biological condition somewhat similar to rabies that makes them intensely paranoid and violent. There IS also a positive spirit/ghostly entity present in the story that some characters occasionally see hear.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Brief. Nothing graphic is shown
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Gross
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Same character as in the VN in chapter 3, does so in an episode in arc 3, no visual but she grabs at her face and backs up. Noise is heard and some spit is seen around her mouth. Easy to skip.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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One of the characters wets herself after killing another character, and a puddle can be seen forming at her feet. Another character can be shown wetting herself after being brutally murdered.
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yes, spitting/vomiting
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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yes and no - there is a secondary police/detective character in this show but he is usually depicted as a neutral character rather than a hero.
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Medical
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Multiple characters are forcibly given injections, and another uses a regular medication that is injected.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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A clinic is one of the main settings in the show.
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Not necessarily electro-therapy, but one character gets attacked with a taser/stun-gun, causing her to fall to her death.
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Several characters, including in one arc a graphic depiction of a young girl doing so. Another character is repeatedly referenced as having overdosed but it's hinted at that he was killed and the death was made to look like an overdose.
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Some commits suicide successfully—although the circumstances around it are different than those who usually die by suicide
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A character scratches repeatedly at her neck and wrists in some arcs. However, this is mostly due to hallucinations that maggots are crawling beneath her skin, and not intended as self-injury
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Debatable whether or not this constitutes "mental" illness. There is indeed a disease within the series that affects the minds and causes characters to act erratically and violently, though the illness is an outside force that can be caught and contracted by any person were they to spend enough time in the town, can be isolated and contained via a specific medicine, and is generally treated like a biological contagion by outside forces.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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One of the main characters suffers from PTSD due to domestic violence in her household. She is also seen having a panic attack.
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Yes, minorly used during tense close-ups.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Does a pregnant person die?
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It happens off screen, but we’re told about a character’s pregnant wife falling down the stairs and dying
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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yes, a male character loses a bet and has to wear a dress and is teased by his friends.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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yes and no - in one scene, a character is physically and emotionally bullied by a friend. the friend believes that she is stupid. she has trouble differentiating broccoli and cauliflower and that is what initiates the bullying scene.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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I believe what the above comment is getting at, is that as the entire cast, and for that matter the whole TOWN, are killed at some point or in the series, and as such, yeah, probably. From a practical standpoint however, no character that is explicitly queer, and confirmed as such on screen (given that this is an anime, even when some queer coding is present, nothing is ever really confirmed or 100% undeniable) is killed.
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There is a scene during Meakashi-hen when a group of thugs attack Shion and one of them has a Swastika haircut. Nothing anti-semitic is done or said during that scene other than that, though
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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An adult man talks about wanting to marry a young girl when she grows up, but (thankfully) nothing comes of this
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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Several characters are implied to be in sexual relationships. A restaurant where one of the characters works has the servers dress in sexualized costumes. Casual sexualization of the female characters occurs throughout the series.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Depends on how far you watch, the original series is ambiguously unhappy in it's ending. Season 2 rectifies that.
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
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In the Rei OVAs, a little girl is seemingly hit and killed by an oncoming truck. The scene cuts to black just before she is hit. It is later revealed that she only imagined being hit
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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There are multiple bloody scenes, particularly in the first season. Standout scenes include several violent murders with a bat, brief shots of mutilated or bloody corpses, a child stabbing herself in the head repeatedly, and a character being forced to pull her fingernails off. Not all of these scenes are extremely graphic, but they are intense.
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