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It’s October—a.k.a. Halloween month—which means it’s time to pre-game for the big day! Lots of us are spending the month watching our favorite creepy films, TV shows, and anime. If you’re in need of some big scares, we’ve got series for you! Some are super-fresh, …Read more »
When it comes to a series like Higurashi, it’s best to go in as blind as possible. That’s one of the key reasons the production committee behind the ongoing Higurashi anime—which continues in the form of Higurashi: When They Cry – SOTSU—isn’t keen on letting …Read more »
Is Silent Hill coming back at last? We… have no idea. Depending on who you ask, there’s a new game on the way. Or two games. Or there’s a Dutch indie game dev who’s secretly a highly-advanced CG character created by Hideo Kojima. Frankly, we haven’t …Read more »
The saga of the new Higurashi: When They Cry anime continues on July 1 with the premiere of Higurashi: When They Cry – SOTSU, and a new trailer debuted during the Wataganashi 2021 Higurashi Channel event. It didn’t take long for Funimation to follow up …Read more »
When the new Higurashi: When They Cry – SOTSU anime premieres on Japanese TV, it will do so with double the content for excited fans. The official website announced plans for the continuation to kick off on July 1 with a broadcast that will include …Read more »
Higurashi: When They Cry continues its celebrated return this summer with a new series. The SOTSU arc will add new twists and turns to the already twisty-turny revival of the horror classic. Equally twisty and turny, though, is the series’s life outside its own boundaries. From cameos …Read more »
Anime can take you to all sorts of different places — from alternate dimensions to the distant past. Sometimes, though, the best settings are the least presumptuous. Take these small-town anime, set in rural spots you won’t find on any map. These low-key settings let …Read more »
We’ve all got a soft spot in our heart for our favorite cute anime girls. And when it comes to our Best Girls, we’re willing to forgive a lot. But let’s face it: there are some girls in anime who could absolutely destroy us, and …Read more »
This October marks the debut of the new Higurashi anime, which is officially titled Higurashi: When They Cry – NEW in English. Funimation has the simulcast lined up for an October 1 premiere, so the second promo is back with fresh English subtitles. The original …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: On the surface, the rural village of Hinamizawa seems practically idyllic. Despite its minuscule scale, that’s certainly the impression Keiichi Maebara gets when he moves there, but it doesn’t take long for the horrifying secrets of the town to come bubbling to the …Read more »
It’s June in 1983, and Keiichi Maebara has recently moved from Tokyo to Hinamizawa—a rural village steeped in superstition and inhabited by a tightly knit but relatively small population that’s quietly grown slightly smaller over the past few years. Initially, everything about Hinamizawa agrees with …Read more »
Rika may or may not be the reincarnation of the deity Oyashiro-sama, but if she is, it doesn’t save her from a gruesome murder. At the beginning, she asks us, the reader, who will kill her. In a continuation from the story started in the …Read more »
The first volume of the Time Killing Arc opens with a horrific murder in 1985. From there, without explanation, we’re taken back to 1978. Tokyo police detective Akasaka is being sent to Hinamizawa, despite the fact that his wife is about to give birth. And …Read more »
At the beginning of the Demon Exposing Arc , Natsumi is a nice, normal girl who lives with her mother, father and grandmother. By the end the family is filled with horror and not everyone is still alive. Natsumi is having a good day at …Read more »
Several people are in a house in the cursed village of Hinamizawa during a stormy night. One of them gets murdered and the murderer is among them. In Hinamizawa, this sort of awful thing was bound to happen. Arakawa came to Hinamizawa to write about …Read more »
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