Because im bad at making a summary, the following is taken from Wiki. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni takes place during June 1983, at a fictional rural village called Hinamizawa (雛見沢, Hinamizawa?) (based on the village of Shirakawa, Gifu, a World Heritage Site)[12] [13], which has a population of approximately 2000. The main character, Keiichi Maebara, moves to Hinamizawa and befriends his new classmates Rena Ryugu, Mion Sonozaki, Rika Furude, and Satoko Hojo. Keiichi joins their after-school club activities, which consist mostly of card and board games (and punishment games for the loser, usually him.) Hinamizawa appears to be a normal, peaceful, rural village to Keiichi. However, the tranquility abruptly ends after the annual Watanagashi Festival, a celebration to commemorate and give thanks to the local god, Oyashiro-sama. Keiichi learns that every year for the past four years, one person has been murdered and another has gone missing on the day of the Watanagashi Festival. Keiichi himself soon becomes drawn into the strange events surrounding the Watanagashi Festival and Oyashiro-sama. In each story arc, he or one of his friends become paranoid, and a crime is committed. Usually, the crime involves the murder of one of their own friends. While it seems impossible to tell their delusions apart from the mystery of Hinamizawa, slowly the truth is revealed. In my opinion it's worth your while. Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological thriller
Yeah, probably my favourite anime for when I actually watched it. I was a tad confused when I was new to the series by the whole "WTF they died and now they're back in the next episode?!" until I cottoned on that it followed story arcs and had question and answer episodes. I started watching it at the start of this year, but had seen it around before. I passed it up as a childish anime, just going by how the characters looked and knowing nothing of the storyline, so I wasn't interested at first. That just proves that it can be deceiving on the eye.. and the whole don't "you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover" thing. I'm glad I actually went back and checked it out, proving my thoughts wrong and actually enjoying it. I just love all the gore, crazy laughing loli's, etc. xD I started watching the second series when it came out, but stopped at around episode 4, just down to pure laziness. I don't know if I'll ever get back to it, seeing as I've kinda given up on anime. But, yeah, I recommend it for everyone to watch if they want a gripping storyline. It's awesome.
Same here I was confused but then someone explained to me the whole Arc thing It's a great anime and it's kind of addictive.
