Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

In June 1983, Keiichi Maebara moves to the remote village of Hinamizawa and quickly befriends a group of girls at the small local school. As the annual Watanagashi festival approaches, he learns about a series of mysterious deaths linked to the village's guardian deity, Oyashiro-sama. His friends begin to act strangely, and summer turns into a nightmare. Ryukishi07's Higurashi is a horror mystery told in chapters, inviting the reader to work out what is really happening.