History Main / CicadianRhythm

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' (literally translated as "When Cicadas Cry") has, appropriately enough, this trope in just about every episode.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', the cicadas chirping is the most vivid thing Shiki remembers of the day [[spoiler:he was killed, brought back to life, and brainwashed to forget it]]. He even compares [[spoiler:his own]] dead body to a discarded cicada shell.

* ''VisualNovel/EverlastingSummer'' has yet another ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' reference, complete with a similarly creepy storyline and ominously misheard/JapaneseRanguage charater names.

* ''DokiDokiSchoolHours''

* ''{{Potemayo}}'' - Guchuko shows her usual patience by putting up with this racket for about 2 seconds before she uses hypersonics to stun the cicadas ... and shatter glass, set off car alarms, cause dogs to freak out, etc etc. You don't mess with Guchuko.

* In ''{{Tsukihime}}'', the cicadas chirping is the most vivid thing Shiki remembers of the day [[spoiler:he was killed, brought back to life, and brainwashed to forget it]]. He even compares [[spoiler:his own]] dead body to a discarded cicada shell.

-->-- Posted to [[ImageBoard 4chan's /a/]] on April 15, 2006

* Seen in a flashback in {{Karin}}, where the cicada was used as a visual aid for bloodsucking. In case that wasn't already pretty obvious from the blood...

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' (literally translated as "When Cicadas Cry") has, appropriately enough, this trope in just about every episode.

* ''Anime/{{Lucky Star}}'' uses this trope a few times, a cicada seemingly dying, breaking its hypnotic trance on a sleeping Konata and starting the next scene. The aftermath of its death is the center of another scene opening, featuring other smaller bugs breaking the dead cicada into pieces to take to their nest.

* ''ManabiStraight'', pictured above.

[[quoteright:320:[[ManabiStraight http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cicada-quiet_9057.jpg]]]]

* The Endless Eight episode of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' features this. Haruhi insists that catching cicadas is part of a perfect summer. She also insists on releasing them, after. Kyon says that releasing them feels like opening Pandora's Box.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat'' has a joke about cicadas in the first episode, with Puppycat grabbing one off a tree and yelling at it to shut up.

* Manga example: ''[[{{Yotsubato}} Yotsuba&!]]'' - Lampshade hung in the first chapter, at the start of summer vacation when Yotsuba climbs a telephone pole and pretends to be a cicada. Shows up again with her obsession with ''tsukutsukuboushi'' bringing the end of summer.

* Many of ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'''s summer episodes use these as episode openers; most notable of all, an ImageSong for one of the characters pulls a slow pan up a tree for no other reason than to portray the cicada on its side.

* Pops up in the Summer Episode of ''ShugoChara'', complete with CloudCuckooLander Su clinging to a tree and imitating a cicada. For some reason.

-> "Don't know if this is a thing everyone knows but me, BUT WHAT THE HELL IS THAT NRRRWHRRRR NRRWHRRRRR NRRRWHRRR SOUND IN THE BACKROUND OF EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ANIME IN EXISTENCE."

->-- posted to [[ImageBoard 4chan's /a/]] on April 15, 2006

-->'''Cicada:''' [[AC:whowantstomakeamillionbabieswithme whowantstomakeamillionbabieswithme whowantstomakeamillionbabieswithme...]]

** More noticeable in the anime (because it's [[MostAnnoyingSound so persistent) is the distinct difference in chirping between day and night. The evening through night is when the higurashi cry.

* On the East Coast of the United States, a few cicada species do show up yearly, so they can be heard, but they tend to stay away from developed areas. They don't come in the same plague-like droves that the 13 or 17 year cicadas do. They're not as loud so people don't hear them. Now when the 13 or 17 year cicadas show up, you '''will''' hear them. If a tree is full of them, they can be as loud as jackhammers, [[UpToEleven sometimes louder]]. Pray for the people who own said tree, because they have to deal with it ''24/7''. You only have to drive by it. The last Invasion of the Cicadas[[note]]Yes, it must be capitalized. It's an event. There's a reason they're also known as locusts.[[/note]] on the East Coast was in 2004. The [[DeepSouth Bible Belt]] and Rust Belt got their own Invasion of the Cicadas courtesy of 13 year Brood XIX in 2011.

Something of a cultural gap between Asia and the West because cicadas appear every year in the former while many cicada broods in North America cycle at absurdly long intervals (13 and 17 years being common). Thus, children in some areas may not have been exposed to this particular occurrence until midway or later in childhood. However, there are various other cicada species that emerge every summer in the West (most notably the Tibicen/Dog Day cicada) but said species do not emerge by the hundreds like Magicicadas. [[note]]There are, however, places where multiple broods overlap. May God have mercy on the souls of the people living there.[[/note]]

* On the East Coast of the United States, a few cicada species do show up yearly, so they can be heard, but they tend to stay away from developed areas. They don't come in the same plague-like droves that the 17 year cicadas do. They're not as loud so people don't hear them. Now when the 17 year cicadas show up, you '''will''' hear them. If a tree is full of them, they can be as loud as jackhammers, [[UpToEleven sometimes louder]]. Pray for the people who own said tree, because they have to deal with it ''24/7''. You only have to drive by it. The last Invasion of the Cicadas[[note]]Yes, it must be capitalized. It's an event. There's a reason they're also known as locusts.[[/note]] on the East Coast was in 2004. The [[DeepSouth Bible Belt]] and Rust Belt got their own Invasion of the Cicadas courtesy of 13 year Brood XIX in 2011.

* This occasionally crops up in Australian media, as Cicadas are very widespread, and are almost constant during the early evenings. One difference however, is that they appear in the hotter months, which are November, December, January and February.

* On the East Coast of the United States, a few cicada species do show up yearly, so they can be heard, but they tend to stay away from developed areas. They're don't come in the same plague-like droves that the 17 year cicadas do. So they're not as loud and people don't hear them. Now when the 17 year cicadas show up, you '''will''' hear them. If a tree is full of them, they can be as loud as jackhammers, [[UpToEleven sometimes louder]]. Pray for the people who own said tree, because they have to deal with it ''24/7''. You only have to drive by it. The last Invasion of the Cicadas[[note]]Yes, it must be capitalized. It's an event. There's a reason they're also known as locusts.[[/note]] on the East Coast was in 2004. The [[DeepSouth Bible Belt]] and Rust Belt got their own Invasion of the Cicadas courtesy of 13 year Brood XIX in 2011.

* On the East Coast of the United States, a few cicada species do show up yearly, so they can be heard, but they tend to stay away from developed areas. They're don't come in the same plague-like droves that the 17 year cicadas do. So they're not as loud and people don't hear them. Now when the 17 year cicadas show up, you '''will''' hear them. If a tree is full of them, they can be as loud as jackhammers, [[UpToEleven sometimes louder]]. Pray for the people who own said tree, because they have to deal with it ''24/7''. You only have to drive by it. The last Invasion of the Cicadas[[hottip:*:Yes, it must be capitalized. It's an event. There's a reason they're also known as locusts.]] on the East Coast was in 2004. The [[DeepSouth Bible Belt]] and Rust Belt got their own Invasion of the Cicadas courtesy of 13 year Brood XIX in 2011.

* ''AnimalCrossing'': They appear in the summer months. You can, of course, catch the cicadas and sell them (like catching any bugs that reside on trees, it's tricky), or put them in your house so your character can have this trope year round.
* It wouldn't be summer in ''[[HarvestMoon Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town]]'' without the scream of cicadas, especially around the Harvest Goddess' lake.
* ''TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' has Sand Cicadas hanging out in [[ShiftingSandLand the Lanayru Sand Sea]], usually clinging to tall, thin objects in lieu of trees.
* You can hear them outside in the summer months in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', especially late at night (since your window is open, it seems).

* Parodied in Manga/RurouniKenshin. Kenshin and Yahiko were tailing Sanosuke in one episode, checking up on some form of suspicious activity they thought he was doing. Sanosuke catches on, and when he turns around to look, Yahiko and Kenshin duck behind a rooftop and start imitating cicada sounds to try and convince Sanosuke that there's nothing out of the ordinary going on. Sanosuke calls them out on it by saying it's the wrong season for cicadas.

** Cicadas exist all over the United States. The Apache Cicada of the southwest is a yearly event for most of the summer, and they sound like a long, constant LOUD (One of the loudest insects on the platet) buzz. It's a bit like having tinnitus, only less musical.