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Keiichi Maebara has just moved to the very small town of Hinamizawa. He's making friends and enjoying life, until the day he learns of a grisly murder that took place in the little village. His friends won't tell him any details, which adds to his unease. At the town's yearly festival, he learns that there has been a death on that night every year for 4 years all attributed to the Curse of Oyashiro-sama, a punishment for those who supported the dam project that would have put Hinamizawa underwater. Another death occurs and a policeman asks Keiichi to help investigate what he suspects is murder. He informs Keiichi that not only is there a death every year but someone goes missing. He warns him not to tell anyone. Keiichi only becomes more suspicious, especially when he overhears someone talking with his friend Rena about how the Curse would demand 1 more person. He confronts Rena and she acts like a completely different person, accusing him of lying, as if she knows he's helping the police. As Keiichi's paranoia mounts, he learns that Rena was listening in on a phone call between him and the police officer.

The further embroiled in the investigation he becomes, the more Keiichi's suspicions about his new friends grow. Their strange behavior only gives rise to more questions. Keiichi's paranoia reaches a fever pitch... with good reason. Assaulted by one terror after another, he nears the inevitable, bloody solution to the series of mysterious deaths caused by "Oyashiro-sama's Curse"!

Rena has taken extreme measures to protect her and her father's happiness, but such drastic actions have terrible consequences. When her friends learn of her crimes, they feel no revulsion toward Rena, but rather a sense of regret that they hadn't been able to help her and avert this tragedy. But even if they had sensed Rena's desperation, would her classmates' pity have transformed itself from sentiment into action? Hadn't they had the same opportunity to prevent tragedy a year earlier, when Satoshi Hojo was suffering abuse at home, and failed to prevent his desperate act of murdering his aunt? How much can Rena afford to trust in a place like Hinamizawa?

Based on the evidence detailed in Takano's notebook, Rena believes she's uncovered the truth behind Oyashiro-sama's curse and the mysterious deaths in Hinamizawa! But though Rena's theory fits perfectly with Hinamizawa's dark history, it is difficult for Keiichi to believe such an outlandish tale, especially given Takano's fascination with the occult. However, Rena cannot be diverted from her obsession with the plot she believes will inevitably destroy the village. Will her mounting paranoia cause her to take drastic action once again?!

In Onisarashi-hen, a former resident of Hinamizawa named Natsumi is introduced and her life after the Hinamizawa disaster is explored. A year has passed since Natsumi's family moved to the city from the mountain village of Hinamizawa. Natsumi has become acquainted with her new life, surrounded by friends, living peacefully from day to day. But a special breaking news report one day will change everything. A toxic gas disaster has occurred at a rural village. And the village that got caught in the disaster is Hinamizawa, where Natsumi's family used to live. Shocked by the incident, Natsumi's grandmother tells her 'this is Oyashiro-sama's curse.' What is this 'Oyashiro-sama's curse' that grandmother is speaking of...?

Five years before Keiichi Maebara moved to Hinamizawa, inspector Mamoru Akasaka was sent from the Tokyo police to investigate the kidnapping of another officer's grandchild. The investigation leads him further and further into the greater mystery surrounding Hinamizawa and Oyashiro-sama's curse.

Following a lead on the kidnapping of the construction minister's grandson, Officers Ooishi and Akasaka spot a secluded outpost station that shows signs of recent traffic. A little poking around brings them face to face with the boy's abductors, and the criminals aren't going down without a fight. Once the boy is recovered, the dam project is put on hold, and it seems to be a happy ending for everyone. What could Rika's warning possibly have been about . . . ?

Twenty-three years after the terrible Hinamizawa Disaster, five strangers are drawn together to the abandoned mountain village by fate. One of them claims to be Mion Sonozaki, who was supposed to have died in the incident that claimed the lives of all the villagers. But only one thing is certain: Oyashiro-sama's curse did not die with the village. Will these five be able to survive the night?

Twenty-three years after the terrible Hinamizawa Disaster, five strangers are drawn together to the abandoned mountain village by fate. One of them claims to be Mion Sonozaki, who was supposed to have died in the incident that claimed the lives of all the villagers. But only one thing is certain: Oyashiro-sama's curse did not die with the village. Will these five be able to survive the night?

Another instalment in the chilling horror set in a rural town in Japan.One year after his disappearance, the police are no closer to finding Satoshi or solving his aunt's murder, and Shion is quickly running out of patience. Dressing alternately as 'Shion' and 'Mion', she positions herself as close to Keiichi as possible. Given that he too entered the forbidden Saiguden with this year's victims, Shion suspects he will be the next to be "demoned away." Shion hopes her actions will spur on the true murderer, so that when the serial killer does attack Keiichi, she will be ready.

Rena Ryugu has made lots of great friends since returning to Hinamizawa a year ago. But the happiness of playing with her classmates can hardly make up for the sadness she feels at home. Her father's new lover spends more and more time at their house, making Rena feel that she is no longer as needed as she was when her mother first abandoned her father for another man. Rena thought that coming back to the village would end the curse that tore apart her family and her mind, but she can't shake the feeling that more heartbreak is in store . . .

After reliving the events leading up to the tragedy in Hinamizawa again and again, Rika notices that things are strikingly different this time around. Key events that drove her friends to madness and self-destruction in earlier incarnations are resolved, and Rika suspects that her classmates are beginning to remember the horrors that resulted from choices made in those previous lives.Though the change in her friends gives Rika hope, some people in town will never change. When Satoko's uncle returns, the bruises on the little girl's body are proof of his cruelty. Will a tragedy Rike did not forsee rekindle the madness in Hinamizawa?

Watching the people of Hinamizawa rally together to liberate her friend Satoko - once shunned by the village, now defended by it - gave Rika hope that she too could defy fate and curb her tragic demise. But when the bodies of Takano and Tomitake are discovered, Rika begins to see that chance slipping away. Not knowing who to trust, but not wanting to put anyone else in danger, Rika pulls away from her friends. But as her experiences in this world continue to diverge from the norm, Rika clings to the hope that the events that lead to her murder might also change. She has the will to change her destiny, but will that be enough to defeat whoever - or whatever - wants her dead?

When her parents are killed in a terrible train accident, a young Miyo Takano is sent to live at an orphanage deep in the mountains. Little does she know that her parents' deaths are just the beginning of her hell; the institution is run by a group of greedy, cruel men who care nothing for the grief-stricken girl. Subjected to abuses beyond imagining, Miyo and her roommates plan to escape, despite rumors of the terrible punishments that befell past runaways . . .

The truth of the serial murders in Hinamizawa is revealed at last in the final arc of the bestselling series! When her parents are killed in a terrible train accident, a young Miyo Takano is sent to live at an orphanage deep in the mountains. Little does she know that her parents' deaths are just the beginning of her hell; the institution is run by a group of greedy, cruel men who care nothing for the grief-stricken girl. Subjected to abuses beyond imagining, Miyo and her roommates plan to escape, despite rumors of the terrible punishments that befell past runaways...

Over the course of a hundred years, Rika relived her brutal murder over and over again through countless fragments before finding the world where she could live in peace. But even without the threat of certain death hanging over her head, this world is fraught with dangers. When she's in a terrible accident, Rika wakes up to find herself in the nurse's office-however she's not in her peaceful new world, but rather in an alternate June 1983! Rika is desperate to find a way back to her ideal fragment, but it may require her to do something drastic... The thrilling continuation of Higurashi WHEN THEY CRY!

After suffering unprecedented disasters in World War II, Japan accepts the American and Allied Forces' terms of unconditional surrender. Now the citizens of a ruined nation, the people of Japan come together amid an influx of influences and immigrants and--cunningly, carefully--survive...This is the unrecognizable Japan to which the sharpshooting, sweet-talking womanizer Leo Shishigami returns three years after the war. Against this backdrop, in the spring of 1947, everything is set into motion when Leo meets Rose Haibara, the Madam of Club Primavera...

True salvation...there is no answer to that.With Alfred out of the picture, a new force emerges into the power vacuum--and Leo's new "friend," ex-serviceman Caleb, is at the center. Though the Caleb family's motives seem well-intentioned--providing welfare for repatriated Japanese soldiers--its "donation" practices include shaking up the whole town for exorbitant fees! And when this new threat arrives at Primavera's doorstep, a whole new conflict begins...

The Cotton-Drifting ArcShion, a girl claiming to be Mion's younger sister, takes control of Keiichi's life. The story progresses like a love comedy set at the restaurant Angel Mort. But as the night of the Cotton Drifting Festival approaches, the story takes a dramatic turn. . .for the worst.

At the Cotton Drifting festival, Shion persuades Keiichi to sneak into a sacred storehouse with Miyo Takano and Jirou Tomitake. If anyone found out what they did, all four of them are likely to be killed or sacrificed for Oyashiro-sama's Curse. Takano and Tomitake are found dead that night, and he and Shion are worried that they will be made sacrifices, but instead Kiichirou Kimiyoshi and Rika disappear.Keiichi dicover that Shion had actually been missing since the day after the festival, despite his having had several phone conversations with someone he thought was her since then. He figures it was Mion and confronts her with Rena. She confesses everything, agrees to show Keiichi and takes him to the Sonozaki family's underground torture chamber, where she had kept Shion locked up, and chains him up to torture him in front of her. The police get there before she can kill him, but she runs away, warning Keiichi never to approach her again.

In this new re-telling, Keiichi, the new boy in the small mountain village of Hinamizawa, learns that his friens Satoko had a brother who disappeared. She's never fully recovered, so Keiichi is encouraged by fellow club member Rika to take the place of Satoko's brother in her life until her brother gets back. Keiichi and Satoko's bond gets stronger and stroger as he discovers how smart and resourceful she is but he also learns about Oyashiro-Sama's Curse, which allegedly claimed Satoko's family as its victims......

After a year at boarding school, Shion Sonozaki flees the oppressive institution and secretly returns to her hometown in the mountains, telling only her twin sister Mion of her arrival. Though the Sonozaki family has kept the sisters apart to prevent conflict over who would become the next family head, Mion and Shion have remained close - close enough that Shion can easily impersonate her identical twin. When Shion encounters Satoshi Hojo in town, he is completely taken in by her 'Mion' disguise. And Shion is quite taken with him... As she spends more time as 'Mion', Shion learns that Satoshi's kind face masks a terrible pain. His parents were one of the few couples in Hinamizawa to support the controversial dam project. When the construction was put on hold, the Hojo family was seen as an enemy of the town, and Satoshi's parents were the second pair of victims claimed by 'Oyashiro-sama's curse'. Forced to move in with his abusive in-laws, Satoshi and his sister Satoko are at the mercy of his aunt's temper...