The year is Showa 58.
When someone violates the forbidden taboo hidden within the mysterious Watanagashi Festival, celebrated in the peaceful village of Hinamizawa, the "everyday life" of transfer student Keiichi Maebara is tainted by the "unreal" in an instant, never to return to normal...!?
With a fresh approach that explores a multitude of possibilities, this story combines multiple mysteries to take its horror to an entirely new level!
This June, the heat arrived earlier than in any year before. Cicadas buzzed noisily at midday, and evening brought the chorus of higurashi cicadas.
Shikotsu City, XX Prefecture. Hinamizawa, a remote village in the prefecture.
In this village of fewer than 2,000 people, something happens every year:
The Hinamizawa Serial Deaths and Disappearances
(1979–1983)
On the same date each June, one person dies and another disappears.
A chain of deaths woven around a struggle over a massive dam project.
A strange incident hidden since the middle of the Showa era comes back to life.
A conspiracy? An accident? Or a curse?
Someone who should have been there has disappeared.
Someone who should have died has appeared.
The person you met last night is dead.
The person here now is dead.
Is tragedy inevitable? Is giving up the only choice?
Don't give up.
You are the only one who can fight back.
Really super pretty