When They Cry: Complete Box Set - Horror Mystery Anime Series for Collectors & Fans - Perfect for Binge-Watching & Gift-Giving

This Anime is based on a visual novel adaption from 7th expansion which first came out in comiket 62 august 10th 2002, and the squeal arcs where released up until 2006 comiket 70. There is a full English adaption out for this visual-novel from mangagamer and as of now you can also get the first arc free on your Ipod/Iphone and Ipad via Itunes. Also you can download demo from manga gamer.com for the 1st arc. The link for the game/visual novel is provided below[...]What an I say about this series That I do not like... If there is only one thing it's the animation done by "studio deen" and it's so obvious where it falls flat but the series as a whole with it's story telling, sense of mystery and horror elements kick all of that out the window so I can care less if the animation drops a bit here and there. Not once in the entire time that I was watching this was I bored, EVER, I genially cared about every single character that came along "even the main villain of the series" This is one of the few series, That I can recommend to anyone that I personally and not feel weird about it, It is one of the few though that I do wish where Funimation would please finish off the (series) please just do it already Leaving off at a huge disarray of 29 episodes not brought over is not a good thing to do and people will go the other way if need be.This anime is about a guy named Keiichi Maebara who has moved to the country side with his parents in small town called Hinamizawa a small town with a population around 2000.He adapts pretty quickly since he had a reason for wanting to leave his old home town but I will not spoil that for you. He makes friends with one of the main heroine's "Rena Ryugu", who has a fascination with cute things and quote "wants to take them home", since the town is so small everyone goes to the same school not matter what grade you are in so he is friends with mainly "females" but still it doesn't fall into the harem territory unless you want it to. Something called "Oyashiro's curse" "the local deity there, has been taking place for the past five years, It is where some one dies and some one disappears from existence, but why who is doing this and for what reason? I would say more about it but that's no fun at all, that's for you to see. The town is dipped in traditional Japanese culture all over the place from the festival of departed souls to main head family and being ousted for what your family did even though your child, even with all of these barriers it is still so enjoyable to watch.The main focus of the series if you watched the videos is the violence and murders but why is it happening what is the rational behind it? Also why does the story it's self (resets) every five to six episodes as well but play out differently? For some this might be a bit of set off but for others it adds more to the mystery of the series. If you truly want to find out why this happening or why people descend in to madness and kill their best friends for so little reasons.. then this is up your ally. This is in a true sense a good style of Japanese horror, even the creepy cicadas that "cry" or play their song set up a certain mood for things that are going to happen to break one's psyche. Now for those that are squeamish or hate the site of gore then venture far away from higurashi, it is not for the faint of hear or weak spirited. I hope this review was helpful, even though the series is no longer licensed try to obtain a legal copy if at all possible.