Line #7 Trivia/HigurashiWhenTheyCry


1	* ActingForTwo: Mion and Shion Sonozaki are played by the same voice actress in every iteration of the series -- Creator/SatsukiYukino in the original Japanese version, Creator/MeganHollingshead in the Bang Zoom! dub of the 2006 series, and Creator/MichelleRojas in the [=FUN=]imation/Crunchyroll dub of ''Gou'' and ''Sotsu''. This extends to live-action, where they're {{play\|ingTheirOwnTwin}}ed by Rika Nakai in the 2016 television drama.
2	* BonusEpisode: Accompanying the first season [=DVDs=] was Nekogoroshi-hen (Cat Killing Chapter), a single episode scenario based on a light novel.
3	* CashCowFranchise: ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' has become one of these, with the ever increasing fanbase in both Japan and the States, the manga, the anime and its [=OVAs=], the drama [=CDs=], and the overdose of merchandise.
4	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Due to a real life stabbing incident, Japanese news media claimed Higurashi as the culprit's inspiration giving a less than honest depiction of Rena's character.
5	* CreatorsFavorite: According to [=Ryukishi07=], Keiichi is his favorite character.
6	* CrossdressingVoices: Satoshi Houjou, who is male, is voiced by Creator/YuuKobayashi.
7	* TheDanza: Miyuki Sorimachi, whose first name is the same as her voice actress, Creator/MiyukiSawashiro.
8	* DirectedByCastMember: The English dub of ''Gou'' is directed by Creator/MichelleRojas, who voices Mion and Shion in the new dub.
9	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Happened to the anime for several years. Creator/{{Geneon}} licensed the first season and dubbed it (with [[Creator/BangZoomEntertainment BangZoom!]]), but had only released its first half by the time they went belly-up in late 2007. They later partnered up with Creator/{{Funimation}} to finish it, as part of their wider deal to handle several "orphaned" shows. A complete set of the entire first season came out in 2009, but sales were low, so when Geneon's license expired, Funimation stated they would not renew the rights themselves (something they did do for better-performing ex-Geneon shows), and any further seasons were out of the question. However, Creator/SentaiFilmworks (who had rescued the similarly-ill-fated ''Anime/RozenMaiden'') finally pulled ''Higurashi'' out of purgatory in 2015. In addition, they also picked up the ''Kai'' and ''Rei'' seasons. However, the follow-up seasons lack an English dub (something they were willing to spring for with ''Rozen Maiden'').
10	* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: ''Gou'' is the first animated adaptation of the franchise dubbed to Latin American Spanish, since neither the previous animated adaptations nor the games were brough there before.
11	* NoDubForYou: After years of [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes being stuck in limbo]], the anime was eventually picked up by Creator/SentaiFilmworks, who ended up giving this treatment to ''Kai'' and ''Rei''. [[HistoryRepeats Just like with]] ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero''. This may have to do with the show's lackluster sales for Geneon and [=FUNimation=], along with the its buzz dying down considerably in the years that followed.
12	* NoExportForYou: The Alchemist-owned (now Entergram-owned) ports, and their associated bonus content, along with the spinoff games, light novels, and the non-core manga, have never been officially localized outside of Japan. Mangagamer is currently in the process of retranslating and rereleasing the entire body of works which comprise the ''Hou'' version (the core eight arcs, Rei, and Hou), so those previously un-localized arcs are eventually going to come to the West, but the process has taken eight years from its initial Steam Greenlight listing until now (January 2020), or six years if you want to be more generous since the games passed Greenlight some time in 2014.
13	* TheOtherDarrin: The Funimation English dub for ''Gou'' and ''Sotsu'' uses a completely different cast from the 2007 Bang Zoom dub for the original season. The only returning actor is Creator/PatrickSeitz, but as a [[RemakeCameo different character]] (he voiced Mamoru Akasaka in the original season and Okonogi in ''Gou'').
14	** Keiichi: Creator/GrantGeorge --> Creator/KhoiDao
15	** Rena: Creator/MelaLee --> Creator/EmiLo
16	** Mion and Shion: Creator/MeganHollingshead --> Creator/MichelleRojas
17	** Satoko: Creator/JennieKwan --> Creator/BrittanyLauda
18	** Rika: Creator/RebeccaForstadt --> Creator/ApphiaYu
19	** Satoshi: Creator/DarrelGuilbeau --> Creator/CaseyMongillo
20	** Kuraudo: John Snyder --> Mark Stoddard
21	** Jiro: Creator/KyleHebert --> Creator/JohnBurgmeier
22	** Miyo: Creator/KarenStrassman --> Creator/MallorieRodak
23	** Kyosuke: Dave Mallow --> Cody Savoie
24	** Rumiko: Sam Carr --> Macy Anne Johnson
25	** Mamoru: Creator/PatrickSeitz --> Creator/AleksLe
26	** Teppei: Creator/SteveKramer --> Creator/BryanMassey
27	** Oryo: Creator/BarbaraGoodson --> Pan Dougherty
28	** Kiichiro: Kyle Hebert --> Creator/MikePollock
29	* PromotedFanboy: Half of the cast of Gou’s main characters in the english dub ([[Creator/ApphiaYu Rika]], [[Creator/BrittanyLauda Satoko]], [[Creator/EmiLo Rena]]) are themselves fans of the Higurashi series.
30	* RealitySubtext:
31	** The Hinamizawa Dam Conflict is based very loosely on the events surrounding the construction of the Miboro Dam near Shirakawa (the village that served as the setting for the Sound Novel backdrops and whose designs were used in the anime) in the late 1950s. The construction of the dam necessitated the flooding of four villages, consisting of over 200 homes that housed some 1200 people. The force relocation sparked intense protests from the villagers that sometimes turned violent. However, unlike in ''Higurashi'', the construction of the dam was ultimately completed and the villages were submerged.
32	** A blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment from ''Gou''. Following the TimeSkip, Satoko wanders around Hinamizawa and overhears a couple of farmers talking about how they're going to be tearing down the old schoolhouse on account of its age. This mirrors the fate of the real building in Shirakawa that served as the schoolhouse, which was demolished (along with the Irie clinic) not long after the original Sound Novels were first released.
33	** The Hinamizawa Gas Disaster was inspired by an actual disaster that happened at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster Lake Nyos in Cameroon]], where a massive amount of Carbon Dioxide was released from the lake and created a toxic cloud of gas which suffocated over 1700 people and 3500 livestock. The major difference here is that the Gas Disaster in Hinamizawa was actually [[spoiler: a cover-up by Takano and the Mountain Dogs when they committed genocide of the entire village in most of the timelines. In fact a major clue that this was a cover up was the fact that Onigafuchi Swamp didn't turn red after the disaster.]]
34	* ReferencedBy:
35	** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' has an episode titled "When the Cicada Calls", which contains a couple of other references to ''Higurashi''. This has also caused some theorizing that the plot of the show was partially inspired by ''Higurashi'' due to the similarities.
36	** Rena's weapon makes an appearance in ''VideoGame/DisgaeaDimension2''. The series (possibly Umineko as well) gets referenced in the episode 7 preview.
37	* TouristBump: The town Hinamizawa is based off had to make a new wall in their shrine because fans put too many things on theirs.
38	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
39	** The sound novels were originally supposed to be one long game, but they decided to break it up and go with an [[StoryArc arc system]].
40	** A few years before Higurashi's first arc Onikakushi-hen "On was published, [=Ryukishi07=] wrote a short story named "Hinamizawa Teiryuujo" (translated as Hinamizawa Bus Stop) with Rika Furude and Mion Sonozaki as the main characters with completely different personality traits from their Higurashi counterparts. Several characters such as Rumiko Chie, Miyo Takano and Kasai were also parts of the short story with different names and roles. When Higurashi's first story arc was officially released, [=Ryukishi07=] had made many alterations of his short story into Higurashi we know today.
41	** Tatarigoroshi-Hen was meant to be the final question arc as evident by the All-Cast review in that chapter and [=Ryukishi07=] himself said that he started working on Meakashi-Hen right after this arc was finished. However he had some trouble writing Meakashi-Hen at the time and decided to add in Himatsubushi-Hen before he managed complete Meakashi-Hen.
42	** It's uncomfirmed, but according to the [[https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/2000118-anime-and-manga-toonami/61973944?page=3 Gamefaqs Message Boards]] from back in March 2012, ''[[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Higurashi: When They Cry]]'' was originally scheduled to air on Cartoon Network's Creator/{{adult swim}} block (presumably around 2008). Plans fell through because the company dubbing it at the time, [[Creator/NBCUniversalEntertainmentJapan Geneon Entertainment]], shut down before it was completed. Creator/{{Funimation}} would later complete the dub and release the remaining episodes on DVD, but poor sales presumably canceled plans to air the anime in America.[[note]]It should be noted that compared to ''Anime/{{Elfen Lied}}'', the series would've had less censorship problems with Standards and Practices.[[/note]]
43	* WordOfGod: According to [=Ryukishi07=] during SP Live Talk regarding ''Gou'', he was shown the storyboards with St. Lucia's Academy's "self-study rooms" and Satoko in a "jeresy" and have approved the script. When the episode was colored and animated, he was surprized those being jail cells and an orange jumpsuit. It's unclear if Passione decided to add some style for Satoko's ThroughTheEyesOfMadness or have misinterpreted something.
44
45	!Poems by Frederica Bernkastel ([=Yen Press=] Manga Translation):
46	[[foldercontrol]]
47
48	[[folder:Abducted By Demons Arc:]]
49	[[AC:Onikakushi-hen A]]
50
51	--> Please don't be sad.\
52	Even if the world doesn't forgive you, I will forgive you.
53
54	--> Please don't be sad.\
55	Even if you don't forgive the world, I will forgive you.
56
57	--> So please tell me.\
58	What should I do so that you'll forgive me?
59
60	[[AC:Onikakushi-hen B]]
61
62	--> Do you know wherein lies the sin?\
63	It wasn't in partaking of the fruit of the tree.
64
65	--> Do you know wherein lies the sin?\
66	It wasn't lending an ear to the serpent's enticements.
67
68	--> Do you still not know wherein lies the sin?\
69	Therein lies your sin.
70	[[/folder]]
71
72	[[folder:Cotton Drifting Arc]]
73	--> I cannot quench your thirst.\
74	Because you who want the truth will not acknowledge it.
75
76	--> I cannot quench your thirst.\
77	Because the truth you hope for doesn't exist.
78
79	--> Even so, I want to quench your thirst.\
80	Because I am the one who left you in the desert.
81	[[/folder]]
82
83	[[folder:Curse Killing Arc]]
84	--> I was the most unhappy.\
85	Because I knew that this maze had no exit.
86
87	--> He was the next most unhappy.\
88	Because he didn't know that this maze had no exit.
89
90	--> The other masses weren't unhappy.\
91	Because they didn't even know that they were in a maze.
92	[[/folder]]
93
94	[[folder:Time Killing Arc]]
95	[[AC:Himatsubushi-hen A]][[labelnote:†]] In this poem, Bernkastel wonders if she will gain a ''kishi'' (きし) – a knight (騎士) or a bank (岸) – that will save her, or the opposite, a ''shiki'' (しき), time of death.[[/labelnote]]
96
97	--> What is it that I seek?\
98	Perhaps a knight from a far-off land.
99
100	--> What is it that I seek?\
101	Perhaps a bank to help me crawl out of the eternal swamp.
102
103	--> I seek but one thing: will I gain a timely rescue, or a time of death?\
104
105	[[AC:Himatsubushi-hen B]]
106
107	--> Who is the culprit you ask?\
108	Obviously the point of this story is to find that out
109
110	--> Who is the suspect, you ask?\
111	Do you even know what crime is?
112
113	--> Who is the culprit?\
114	Who is the culprit who will kill me!?
115	[[/folder]]
116
117	[[folder:Eye Opening Arc]]
118	--> "I dropped her beads in the sand", the girl cried.\
119	The girl searched the desert for a hundred years.
120
121	--> "Maybe I didn't drop them in the desert, but in the ocean", the girl wept.\
122	The girl searched the seafloor for a hundred years.
123
124	--> "Maybe I didn't drop them in the ocean, but in the mountains", the girl wept.\
125	[[{{Foreshadowing}} How many years will it be before the girl questions whether she really dropped them at all?]]
126	[[/folder]]
127
128	[[folder:Atonement Arc]]
129	--> The first time, I think to myself, Well it's only this once.\
130	The tragedy I couldn't avoid.
131
132	--> The second time, I am shocked that it happened again.\
133	The tragedy I couldn't avoid.
134
135	--> The third time, it goes beyond shock to agony.\
136	Once it reaches seven, it starts to become a comedy
137	[[/folder]]
138
139	[[folder:Massacre Arc]]
140	[[AC:Minagoroshi-hen A]]
141
142	--> I wished to know the world outside the well.\
143	So I crawled up from the bottom of the well.
144
145	--> I wished to know the world outside the well.\
146	So I climbed on, no matter how many times I slipped and fell hard on my back.
147
148	--> But I realized.\
149	The more I climb, the farther I fall, and the more it hurts.
150
151	--> When my interest in the outside world matched the pain in my whole body.\
152	I finally understood the words of the Frog Prince.
153
154	[[AC:Minagoroshi-hen B]]
155
156	--> Please tell me what happened on this night.\
157	If I must describe it, I'd have to say it's like [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat a box with a cat tucked inside.]]
158
159	--> Please tell me what happened on this night.\
160	As long as it's possible, no one knows if the cat in the box is alive or dead.
161
162	--> Please tell me what happened on this night.\
163	The cat in the box was dead.
164
165	[[AC:Minagoroshi-hen C]]
166
167	--> What kind of world waits outside the well?\
168	Is it worth the suffering that I must pay to find out?
169
170	--> What kind of world waits outside the well?\
171	Is it alluring enough to risk falling again and again to get there?
172
173	--> What kind of world waits outside the well?\
174	I will try to find out and enjoy the pain of my falls.
175
176	--> After all of that, it's sure to be a wonderful world..\
177	Even if it turns out to be the bottom of the well.
178
179	--> The resolve to see the world outside of the well is the key to a new world.\
180	Whether I escape the well or not,\
181	I know I'll make it to a new world...
182	[[/folder]]
183
184	[[folder:Festival Accompanying Arc]]
185	[[AC:Matsuribayashi-hen A]]
186
187	--> Everyone has the right to live in happiness.\
188	The hard part is accepting it.
189
190	--> Everyone has the right to live in happiness.\
191	The hard part is acting on it.
192
193	--> Even I have the right to live in happiness.\
194	The hard part is the compromise.
195
196	[[AC:Matsuribayashi-hen B]]
197
198	--> We will take back all the happiness\
199	from then till now.
200
201	--> A hundred years of happiness for me.\
202	And a thousand years for you.
203
204	[[/folder]]
205
206	[[folder:Dice Killing Arc]]
207	[[AC:Saikoroshi-hen A]]
208
209	--> Bread fell down from heaven.\
210	Some lamented loudly that the bread was not meat.
211
212	--> Meat fell down from heaven.\
213	Some lamented loudly that they preferred the bread.
214
215	--> God came down from the heaven.\
216	He will make water fall down for a time\
217	until everyone knows what will make them happy.
218
219	[[AC:Saikoroshi-hen B]]
220
221	--> Long, long ago\
222	in the days when gods appeared to men...
223
224	--> Bread fell down from heaven.\
225	Some lamented loudly that the bread was not meat.
226
227	--> Meat fell down from heaven.\
228	Some lamented loudly that they preferred the bread.
229
230	--> God came down from the heaven.\
231	He will make water fall down for a time\
232	until everyone knows what will make them happy.
233
234	--> Rain fell down from heaven.\
235	Everyone lamented loudly that their clothing became wet.
236
237	--> Flames fell down from heaven.\
238	Everyone lamented loudly that their houses had been burned.
239
240	--> God came down from heaven.\
241	He will make nothing fall from heaven\
242	until everyone knows what will make them happy.
243
244	--> Nothing fell down from heaven.\
245	Some lamented loudly that God had forsaken them.
246
247	--> All manners of things fell down from heaven.\
248	Some lamented loudly that God should be more selective in what he sent.
249
250	--> Boulders rained down from heaven.\
251	Now the lamentations finally ceased.
252
253	--> Rain fell down from heaven.\
254	Passing travelers expressed their gratitude.
255
256	--> "God, we thank thee for the unexpected weather.\
257	Now we can carry on our long journey and enjoy the break from the monotony."
258
259	--> God saw them off without a word.
260
261	--> As it should be. Gods and dice are best when silent.
262	[[/folder]]
263
264	!Poems by Frederica Bernkastel ([=MangaGamer=] Translation):
265	[[foldercontrol]]
266
267	[[folder:Onikakushi-hen:]]
268	--> Don't be sad.\
269	The world may not forgive you, but I forgive you.
270
271	--> Don't be sad.\
272	You may not forgive the world, but I forgive you.
273
274	--> Tell me.\
275	What must I do to earn your forgiveness?
276	[[/folder]]
277
278	[[folder:Watanagashi-hen]]
279	--> I can't satisfy you.\
280	Because what you want is the truth.
281
282	--> I can't satisfy you.\
283	Because the truth you want doesn't exist.
284
285	--> But I still want to satisfy you.\
286	Because it's all my fault.
287	[[/folder]]
288
289	[[folder:Tatarigoroshi-hen]]
290	--> The frog in the well was happy.\
291	Because he wasn't interested in the outside world.
292
293	--> The frog in the well was happy.\
294	Because he didn't have anything to do with the outside world.
295
296	--> And you were happy, too.\
297	Because you didn't know what happened outside the well.
298	[[/folder]]
299
300	[[folder:Himatsubushi-hen]]
301	--> Who's the suspect?\
302	The story is about finding that out, right?
303
304	--> Who's the suspect?\
305	Do you know what the suspect did in the first place?
306
307	--> Who's the suspect?\
308	Who's the suspect that's going to kill me?
309	[[/folder]]
310
311	[[folder:Meakashi-hen]]
312	--> She dropped her beads in the sand. So the girl cried.\
313	For one hundred years, she searched the sands.
314
315	--> They might be in the ocean, not in the sand. So the girl cried.\
316	For one hundred years, she searched to ocean.
317
318	--> They might be in the mountains, not the ocean. So the girl cried.\
319	[[{{Foreshadowing}} How many years will pass before the girl wonders if she really dropped them?]]
320	[[/folder]]
321
322	[[folder:Tsumihoroboshi-hen]]
323	--> The first time, I would try harder to avoid\
324	the inevitable tragedy.
325
326	--> The second time, I would be disgusted by\
327	the inevitable tragedy.
328
329	--> The third time, my disgust would turn to anguish.\
330	The seventh time, I'd be laughing by then.
331	[[/folder]]
332
333	[[folder:Minagoroshi-hen]]
334	[[AC:Minagoroshi-hen A]]
335
336	--> I wanted to know what's outside the well.\
337	So I tried to claw my way up from there.
338
339	--> I wanted to know what's outside the well.\
340	So I continued to climb even when I fell and injured myself.
341
342	--> I finally realize.\
343	The higher I climb, the more pain I feel when I fall.
344
345	--> When my curiosity toward the world and my pain became equal...\
346	I finally understood the meaning of the frog in the well.
347
348	[[AC:Minagoroshi-hen B]]
349
350	--> Please tell me what happened this night.\
351	This is like [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat a box with a cat inside.]]
352
353	--> Please tell me what happened this night.\
354	I don't even know if the cat is alive or dead inside the box.
355
356	--> Please tell me what happened this night.\
357	The cat in the box is dead.
358
359	[[AC:Minagoroshi-hen C]]
360
361	--> What's outside the well?\
362	Is it worth fighting for?
363
364	--> What's outside the well?\
365	Is it worth getting hurt for?
366
367	--> What's outside the well?\
368	I'm going to fight and get hurt to find out.
369
370	--> I'm sure what's waiting is a beautiful world.\
371	Even if I get to the bottom of the well again.
372
373	--> The key to the new world is my willingness to get out of here.\
374	Even if I get out or not,\
375	I will eventually get to the new world...
376	[[/folder]]
377
378	[[folder:Matsuribayashi-hen]]
379	[[AC:Matsuribayashi-hen A]]
380
381	--> Everyone is entitled to happiness.\
382	The difficult part is accepting that.
383
384	--> Everyone is entitled to happiness.\
385	The difficult part is fulfilling that.
386
387	--> I, too, am entitled to happiness.\
388	The difficult part is working out a compromise.
389
390	[[AC:Matsuribayashi-hen B]]
391
392	--> Because from now on,\
393	I'm going to live a much, much happier life.
394
395	--> I'm not going to compromise with just this.\
396	We'll retrieve all the happiness we missed.
397
398	--> 100 years worth for me.\
399	1000 years worth for you.
400	[[/folder]]
401

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