Higurashi no Naku Koro ni 『ひぐらしのなく頃に』

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Retake (Chapter: Atonement, Part 5) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 26 - Aired 09/26/2006

With her madness at its peak, Rena holds her friends and schoolmates hostage and threatens to kill them all with a homemade bomb planted on the roof of the school. Working together with the police and his friends, Keiichi defuses the bomb. Keiichi and Rena have a final confrontation on the roof, Keiichi armed with Satoshi's bat and Rena with her cleaver. Rena gradually regains her sanity until she defeats Keiichi, though she is unable to bring herself to kill him. Rena reconciles with her friends. Though tragedy has been averted through Rena's atonement, the constant time loops have yet to lift; however, there is now hope for the future.
Earth Invasion (Chapter: Atonement, Part 4) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 25 - Aired 09/19/2006

Rena learns that Mion moved the bodies from where they originally hid them. Rena's faith in her friends is shattered and she begins to go insane. Keiichi tries to stop Rena, but she confronts him with his own dark secrets. He confesses his past sin to his friends, and finds that he can recall events from Onikakushi-hen, particularly his own paranoia and murder of Rena and Mion. This strengthens his understanding of Rena's situation and he resolves to prevent such tragedies from occurring again. He apologizes to Mion.
Document 34 (Chapter: Atonement, Part 3) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 24 - Aired 09/12/2006

While studying Takano's scrapbooks, Rena discovers that Oyashiro, who is worshipped by the Three Families that run the village, doesn't actually exist. She discovers that the problem is a virus causes its victims to go berserk. This disease caused all the murders. As a result, she is being hunted down by people who appear to stop at nothing to keep this information a secret.
Place to Return (Chapter: Atonement, Part 2) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 23 - Aired 09/05/2006

Rena confronts Rina about their plan scam her father. Rina tries to kill Rena, who slashes Rina's belly with a shard of glass and beating her to death with an old pipe. Rena witnesses Teppei putting his and Rina's plan into motion and splits his head open with her cleaver. While disposing of the bodies, she is caught by her friends who, to her surprise, offer their unwavering support to keep the incident a secret.
Happiness (Chapter: Atonement, Part 1) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 22 - Aired 08/29/2006

Rena meets her father's girlfriend, Rina, who turns out to be working with Teppei. When she learns that they plan to rip off her father, Rena forms a deep hatred for them and plans revenge.
Condemnation (Chapter: Eye Opening, Part 6) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 21 - Aired 08/22/2006

Shion tricks Keiichi in a phone call and later tricks the townsfolk into believing Keiichi a murder suspect. She quickly realizes that Oishi suspects her instead. She brutally murders Satoko, whom she has been holding captive. Then she remembers to her horror that one of Satoshi's last requests was to keep Satoko safe. This drives her deeper into madness. Shion lures Keiichi to the dungeon and tortures him. She knocks him out with her taser. Mion tells her that their grandmother may have approved of Satoshi. Shion switches clothes with Mion and pushes her down the well. She and Keiichi are rescued. Shion starts to hallucinate. She visits Keiichi and gravely wounds him. Shion hastily returns to her apartment by scaling the side of the building, and slips and falls to her death.
Cold Hands (Chapter: Eye Opening, Part 5) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 20 - Aired 08/15/2006

Shion captures the village head and gets information about the previous murders and Satoshi. Shion confronts Rika about the murders, leading to a confrontation between the two. Shion injects Rika with the syringe that Rika had brought for her. Rika commits suicide by stabbing herself repeatedly in the head. Shion invites Satoko to her house.
Revenge (Chapter: Eye Opening, Part 4) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 19 - Aired 08/08/2006

Shion believes the Sonozaki family is connected to the acts of "spiriting away" people in the village, especially in the case of Satoshi. She imprisons Mion in the dungeon and unintentionally kills her grandmother. Shion pretends to be Mion the next day and confronts Keiichi about the previous night's encounters, which Keiichi still denies.
Oni's Blood Line (Chapter: Eye Opening, Part 3) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 18 - Aired 08/01/2006

Shion finds out Satoshi has is missing and decides to investigate further into the mysterious murders over the past four years. Shion meets Takano at the library. Takano tells her more about the history of Hinamizawa and its dark past. The story skips ahead one year to the present. Keiichi brings back memories of Satoshi to Shion
Responsibility (Chapter: Eye Opening, Part 2) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 17 - Aired 07/25/2006

Satoshi apologizes to Shion (still pretending to be Mion), and asks her to care for Satoko during the Watanagashi festival. Satoshi murders his aunt the night of the festival for abusing Satoko. Shion is suspicious that he is the culprit, but provides an alibi for him when detective Oishi questions him. In the process she reveals that she isn't Mion, but her twin sister Shion. Shion's family finds her when Oishi checks out her story, and she is taken back to their family estate to answer to her grandmother for the trouble she has caused. Satoshi is missing after these events.
First Love (Chapter: Eye-Opening, Part 1) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 16 - Aired 07/18/2006

The events from Watanagashi-hen are retold from Shion's point of view. For generations the Sonozaki family has murdered the youngest of newborn twins as they are seen as bad luck. When Mion and Shion are born, they decide to send Shion away to boarding school. Shion escapes and returns to Hinamizawa with the help of her caretaker, Kasai. Shion pretends to be her sister and gets a job with her uncle. Shion learns about Oyashiro's curse from Mion and the mysterious deaths. Shion meets Satoshi, a classmate of Mion's, who mistakes her for Mion. Shion takes a liking to Satoshi. Satoshi is a member of the Hojo family, and his parents were victims of Oyashiro's curse for supporting the construction of a dam that would have flooded the town. Satoshi and his younger sister, Satoko, were taken in by their aunt and uncle after their parent's death. Their aunt and uncle resented them because the rest of the village shunned them for their parent's support of the dam. Shion goes to school in Mion's place in order to try and cheer up Satoshi. When she fails she takes out her anger on Satoko, who she sees as the root of Satoshi's problems. She beats Satoko up. Rika, Rena and Satoshi try to stop her. Shion learns Satoshi despises her family
Sign (Chapter: Time Wasting, Part 2) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 15 - Aired 07/11/2006

Akasaka and Oishi find the kidnappers' hideout and rescue the kidnapped boy. They discover that their efforts were in vain because the perpetrators' demands had already been met. He realizes the real meaning behind Rika's words.
Hinamizawa (Chapter: Time Wasting, Part 1) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 14 - Aired 07/04/2006

Four years ago, during the dam incident, young police investigator Mamoru Akasaka comes to Hinamizawa to investigate a child kidnapping. He hears an enigmatic warning from a younger Rika and becomes suspicious of some of the townsfolk.
Apology (Chapter: Curse Killing, Part 5) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 13 - Aired 06/13/2006

Keiichi goes to the Hojo residence to ascertain Teppei's status and finds Satoko in need of medical help. At the Furude Shrine, Keiichi discovers Rika's disemboweled body. Satoko believes that Keiichi is the culprit and flees. Satoko comes to the conclusion that he is possessed by Oyashiro. Keiichi fruitlessly tries to convince her otherwise, and Satoko forces him off a bridge. Disaster strikes the village of Hinamizawa: a gas leak kills thousands of residents. Keiichi survives the fall from the bridge and the gas leak.
Lost Item (Chapter: Curse Killing, Part 4) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 12 - Aired 06/20/2006

Keiichi is shaken when his friends tell him that he was actually at the Watanagashi festival with them. Satoko's uncle is still abusing her, though Keiichi thought he had killed him. He gets even more confused when he unsuccessfully tries to find the truth.
Borderline (Chapter: Curse Killing, Part 3) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 11 - Aired 06/13/2006

Keiichi decides that he must kill Teppei. He beats him to death with Satoshi's baseball bat and buries the body. On his way back home, Keiichi bumps into Takano.
Bond (Chapter: Curse Killing, Part 2) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 10 - Aired 06/06/2006

When Satoko is absent from school for a few days, Keiichi discovers that it is because of Teppei, her abusive uncle. He left Hinamizawa after his wife was murdered on the night of last year's Watanagashi festival, and has only just returned to town. Keiichi intervenes.
Older Brother (Chapter: Curse Killing, Part 1) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 9 - Aired 05/30/2006

Keiichi's parents leave for Tokyo for a few days. Helped by Satoko and Rika, who make dinner for him, Keiichi learns about Satoshi, Satoko's older brother, and his mysterious disappearance on the night of last year's Watanagashi festival. He decides to act as a surrogate brother to Satoko and investigate Satoshi's disappearance.
Wish (Chapter: Cotton Drifting, Part 4) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 8 - Aired 05/23/2006

Keiichi and Rena suspect that Mion is behind Rika's and Satoko's disappearance, and inform detective Oishi. Keiichi and Rena confront Mion at her house because the police don't have enough probable cause for a search warrant. Mion admits that Rika and Satoko came over to her house the night they disappeared. She asks to have a private talk with Keiichi before the police arrest her, and she lures Keiichi to a torture chamber. He sees Shion in the dungeon before Mion knocks him out. Mion prepares to torture Keiichi, but hears a noise and assumes Rena brought the police and tasers Keiichi unconscious. Keiichi and Shion are rescued from the torture chamber and Mion escapes. Keiichi is visited by Mion who stabs him in the stomach. He is gravely wounded and taken to hospital. Keiichi learns Shion has fallen to her death from her apartment. Oishi asks Keiichi if he was certain it was Mion Sonozaki that attacked him. He confirms it. Oishi reveals Mion's body was found dead at the bottom of the well the same day Keiichi and Shion were rescued. Oishi also reveals Miyo Takano, who was burned to death on the night of the festival, had actually died 24 hours beforehand. After Oishi leaves, Mion appears and presumably kills Keiichi.
Lies (Chapter: Cotton Drifting, Part 3) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 7 - Aired 05/16/2006

Rika shows knowledge of Keiichi's actions on the night of the festival, and in a metaphorical conversation promises to help the 'little kitty cat who did something bad' on the night of the festival by making the 'big dogs' aware the 'kitty cat' had no bad intentions, and alludes to the fact that Mion is angry with Shion over what happened. She also warns Keiichi that if the same 'dog' who bit the village leader tries to bite him, he should tell her. That night Keiichi learns the village leader has gone missing. Shion tells Keiichi that she confessed to the village leader about what they did. Shion thinks it's her fault that Oyashiro's Curse got him because he had promised to help them. Keiichi believes Rika is also in danger. Keiichi, Rena and Mion go to Rika and Satoko's home to find them, but they have gone missing. Keiichi talks with Detective Oishi. His account of the village leader's activities before disappearing contradict Shion's claim that she confessed. Shion has been missing ever since the festival. Shion calls Keiichi that night, and he confronts her about who she really is. He hears maniacal laughter before she hangs up the phone.
Takano (Chapter: Cotton Drifting, Part 2) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 6 - Aired 05/09/2006

Keiichi learns about the curse of Oyashiro. During Rika's ritual performance at the Watanagashi festival, Shion whisks Keiichi away to sneak to the ritual tool shed of Oyashiro, where Tomitake and his friend, Miyo Takano, are waiting. Tomitake stands guard while the others look inside. They find dozens of torture tools. Takano explains the significance of the ritual tool shrine and the Watanagashi festival. Her theory is that the villagers of Hinamizawa are continuing an age-old tradition of sacrificing people to Oyashiro. Shion and Keiichi promise not to tell anyone they entered the shrine. Keiichi becomes disturbed when he is questioned both by Mion and Detective Oishi about the whereabouts of Shion, Tomitake, and Takano on the night of the festival. Keiichi learns from Shion that Takano was found burned to death and Tomitake committed suicide by clawing at his own throat. Keiichi starts to wonder about Shion's safety as well as his own.
Jealousy (Chapter: Cotton Drifting, Part 1) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 5 - Aired 05/02/2006

Keiichi discovers Mion has an identical twin sister named Shion. Keiichi also discovers that Mion has a crush on him, and so does Shion.
Disturbance (Chapter: Spirited Away by the Demon, Part 4) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 4 - Aired 04/25/2006

Rena pays Keiichi a visit and begins acting strangely, prompting Keiichi to succumb to his paranoia and hurt her. Distressed by Keiichi's behavior, Mion attempts to apologize for keeping so many secrets about Hinamizawa from him, but he coldly rebuffs her. Later, Keiichi is being followed by Rena. He demands to know who caused all the murders and disappearances; Rena simply replies that it is all the work of Oyashiro. Keiichi escapes from Rena and finds himself being chased by a mysterious group of men, who knock him out. When he awakens, he is subdued by Rena and Mion, who attempt to inject him with a syringe. In self-defense, Keiichi beats Rena and Mion to death with Satoshi's bat. He calls Oishi and tells him the murders were caused by Oyashiro, and then Keiichi, who is sure that Oyashiro is behind him, claws out his own throat. The next day, Keiichi is found dead. The police also find the bodies of Mion and Rena, and they find out that Keiichi was the one who killed them.
Suspicion (Chapter: Spirited Away by the Demon, Part 3) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 3 - Aired 04/18/2006

Growing increasingly paranoid, Keiichi calls in sick for school to avoid his friends and delve deeper into the mysteries of Hinamizawa. Oishi takes Keiichi to Angel Mort for lunch, and he tells him that all of the victims of Oyashiro's curse are related to his group of friends. That night, Rena and Mion visit Keiichi and give him a box of ohagi as part of a club activity. One of the ohagi contains a needle. Keiichi is convinced that that Rena and Mion are out to get him. Keiichi arms himself with Satoshi's baseball bat when he returns to school the next day. His friends reveal that Satoshi had displayed similar paranoid behavior before he disappeared.
The Secret (Chapter: Spirited Away by the Demon, Part 2) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 2 - Aired 04/11/2006

During the annual Watanagashi festival, Keiichi is informed by Tomitake and a mysterious woman, Takano, about "Oyashiro's curse". A series of murders and disappearances has occurred on the night of the festival for the past four years and are all supposedly caused by the curse of Hinamizawa's guardian deity, Oyashiro. The next day, Keiichi is interrogated by a police detective, Oishi, and learns that Tomitake committed suicide by clawing out his own throat, while Takano has gone missing. He becomes Oishi's informant. Keiichi notices changes in Rena and Mion's behavior and suspects them of hiding something from him. He too is accused of keeping secrets because of his ties to Oishi. Keiichi delves deeper into the history of the curse with Oishi, and learns that one of the victims was Satoshi, a boy who had apparently transferred out of school in Hinamizawa before Keiichi arrived. At that point, Keiichi realizes that Rena has been eavesdropping on him the whole time.
The Beginning (Chapter: Spirited Away by the Demon, Part 1) Edit this episode

Season 1, Episode 1 - Aired 04/04/2006

Keiichi Maebara moves to the rural village of Hinamizawa and befriends four girls—Rena Ryuugu, Mion Sonozaki, Satoko Hojo, and Rika Furude. He joins their after-school club. Life is peaceful until Keiichi learns from a man named Tomitake about a murder in Hinamizawa's past. He also learns about a dam construction project which had been proposed by the government five years earlier. The project met with protests and was withdrawn. When Keiichi asks Rena and Mion about any incidents relating to the project, they refuse to speak about it, which makes him suspicious. He gets even more suspicious when he finds a newspaper article about the dam project manager being dismembered. He learns that one of the killers is still at large.

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