A few weeks ago one of my most favorite new anime "Higurashi no naku koro ni" got licensed by geneon. For those that don't know what this series is about allow me to explain.

Hinamizawa is a fictional rural Japanese town which is the setting of the series. A few years ago, a dam was about to be constructed in Hinamizawa, causing the townspeople to react to this, since if the dam is to be built, the whole town will be submerged underwater. Eventually, the dam project was cancelled, however, news of a murder of a dam engineer spread across town, and there hasn’t been a resolution on who… or what did it.

However, after that incident, a chain of bizarre deaths happen on the night of the village’s Watanagashi (Cotton-Drifting) Festival every year for four years, wherein people who supported the dam project end up dead or missing. Townspeople believed that the town’s deity, Oyashiro-sama, has been causing these deaths, hence talk of a so-called “Oyashiro-sama’s curse” has been spreading across town.

A fifth incident will most likely happen again…

Keiichi Maebara, a newcomer to the village, together with his friends, are about to find themselves getting caught in these strange events surrounding the festival and the village deity…

As the series progresses, questions about the village’s mystery will be presented.

Is the curse for real and is really a work of Oyashiro-sama?
Who is Oyashiro-sama? Does he/she/it even exist at all?
Who or what is causing all these strange killings and disapperances?
What does being “demoned-away” mean?
Are there people involved with the chain of bizarre deaths? Are those people from the village?

There are just some of the questions the series will make the viewers thinking about.

Now that you have an idea what the series is about, are you ready to delve in to the mystery?

For more information check out the wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higurashi_no_naku_koro_ni

There are lots of spoilers in the article so beware. Anyeays I hope everyone will at least check out the series and judge for themselves whether they like it or not. I've personally come to love it a lot.

My brother watches it and he laughs at the bloody parts. I watched some of it, and I laughed.

I have such a horrible sense of humor.

I saw about 5 episodes of this.

It was pretty cool, but craaaaazy.

This anime is awesome!

But the first episode beginning...I didn't expect that.