When They Cry: Complete Box Set (Viridian Collection) |  | Artist: Mela Lee
Actors: Minx Lee, Kelli Kassidi, Grant George, Kristi Reed
Studio: Funimation Prod
Category: DVD
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 6,332
Format: Widescreen, Color, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Japanese (Original Language), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 6
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 650 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: 704400087431
UPC: 704400087431
EAN: 0704400087431
ASIN: B00358MG7O
Release Date: April 13, 2010
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 19
 When they Cry September 11, 2009
Frederica Bernkastel (Meta-World)
28 out of 30 found this review helpful
This is what i've been waiting for, a complete release of one of my favorite series ever. The packaging is pretty top notch too, with a (menacingly) stylish outside cover to house your three thin packs. The story is anout a boy named Keiichi Maebara and his life in the village he just moved to, Hinamizawa. There he meets his friends Mion, Rena, Satoko, and Rika. There are many morals in the story you can spot if you look hard enough, like the impotance of trust and friendship. Now don't get me wrong if you think this is another sappy, "moe", slice of life, etc. You will be caught off guard by the spilling of blood, heartless murder and bone-chilling laughter. If gore and violence is a turn off, then this isn't the best choice to make. But if you're willing to make the sacrifice of not being able to sleep for a few days, then "When they Cry" is right for you!
Absolutely Shocking but Awesome at the same time! October 12, 2009
Richard Meeks
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This anime is by far one of the most unique and orginal ones I have ever seen. The story is so deep and vast that you will probably have to watch it a 2nd time through to find out the true details. I got this while at an anime convention in Dallas, TX and I saw it at a Funimation Booth. I decided to give it a try because the synopsis sounded interesting and I am very glad I did. The story is set in 1983 in a village outside of Japan. The series revolves around a re-occuring 8 main characters that are vastly connected to one another. What will blow your mind though is how the story has been "spliced" if you will, into various fragments and is told through each characters point of view. The sets of episodes that focus on one exact sub-story of the main story are called "Arcs" and will restart to a new after so many episodes. In the beginning you will be drawn to a certain arc but will only be confused as the characters that were killed or left at the end of it, all of a sudden reappear and the story resets for the next one. What is revealed though is that they are actually taking places at different perspectives and it will all come together in the end to reveal the true story of why these things have been occuring/past occuring (Still with me? ^^).
The characters also are so well potrayed that at many moments I found myself and my friend (whom I watched it with) actually cheering at certain parts for the main hero of that arc. It is a great anime but a very violent and dark one at that. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR CHILDREN OR CERTAIN PEOPLE FOR THAT MATTER. Each arc will always start off slow but will build up to a bloody conclusion or shocking ending. I was amazed at just how deep they went with the violence of these children for such a setting. Some may be turned off by the story but if you are into mysteries, love horror, and enjoy character developement and deep stories than definitely check this out.
Innovative murder mystery series with a real twist November 18, 2009
Zack Davisson (Seattle, WA, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"When They Cry" ("Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni" or "When the Cicadas Cry," a colorful term meaning the summertime in Japan when the cicada's cry can be almost deafening) is one of the most unique adaptations I have seen of the Japanese computer game-type known as a visual novel.
Visual novels (although in the case of "Higurashi no Naku Koro" it was called a "sound novel" due to its use of mood-setting music and sound effects) are kind of like "Choose your own adventure" books for the computer. Players get a standard plotline that can be resolved in different ways based on conversations they have with other characters and choices they make in the game. In the case of "When They Cry," the game was a murder-mystery where the killer and victims could be any number of people depending on how the game was played. The anime for "When They Cry" replicated this by making a series of story arcs, each which resolves the main story in a different style.
The basic set-up is always the same. Five friends live in the small village of Hinamizawa home of the summer festival known as Watanagashi where bits of cotton are floated down the stream to do away with bad memories. Keiichi is a young boy who has recently moved to the village, where he quickly befriends a group of four girls, Rena, Mion, Satoko, and Rika. Things start out innocently enough, but slowly Keiichi learns of a local legend of a village curse by someone named Oyashiro, and that every year on the Watanagashi festival someone is murdered and someone disappears forever.
The twenty-six episode box set has six story arcs, "Spirited Away by Demons, "Cotton Drifting," "Curse Killing," "Time Killing," "Eye Opening (Actually "Cotton Drifting" told from a different point of view) and "Attonment." Each story arc starts on a sunny day on the way to school, and ends with bloody murder. The plots can vary quite wildly, with only a few elements linking together each of the story arcs.
When you first watch "When They Cry," this can be somewhat disconcerting. At the end of one episode all of the main characters are thrown down wells or chopped up into pieces, only to have them whole and healthy at the beginning of the next story arc with no mention of what you have just watched. Once you get into the rhythm of the series, this cycle becomes comfortable and it is fun wondering who will be the killer and who will be killed this time around. There is even a little meta-joke in the series, as the friends are members of a club who play a game like Clue, trying to guess who the killer, location and weapon will be in the game.
There is a sharp contrast between the cutesy character designs and the foul play that eventually ends the story arcs. With the first episode, I was almost annoyed at the characters because they seemed like every fluffy bunny stereotype of anime girls you could possibly imagine. This only made it more fun however when the baseball bats started swinging and the blood started flowing. The series really took me by surprise when it made its dark turn.
The story arcs aren't entirely separate. Each one introduces some new elements of the characters that might be carried over into the next story arc, like Mion's twin sister, Shion who appears to complicate the situation. Even if the story doesn't flow, the character development does.
Good series but not the norm October 19, 2009
M. Ghigliotty
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some people may be drawn to the series because of the way the characters are drawn; I would recommend that these people do a little research about the series before purchasing it. This series has a fairly dark storyline and some very gory scenes. I would recommend this to those that like to think about the story as it progresses. I think that this is a great series as it deviates from the norm quite a bit and has a well thought out plot. I will definitely purchase the second and third seasons if they release them in the states, until then I guess I will have to watch the fan subs.
A Mysterious Horror Ride Full of Fun October 12, 2009
Phobia (Massachusetts, USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The story of Higurashi (When They Cry) is extremely interesting, you start off with Keiichi moving to Hinamizawa, making friends and then the paranoia slowly begins. The Watanagashi festival begins the plot movement and it quickly whisks you away on a psychological ride that is sure to leave you on the edge of your seat. The episodes are arranged in a unique fashion that leaves the watcher asking for more, it may seem at first like there is no reasoning to it, but as the episodes go on you start to make sense of what is going on and why it was placed that way. If you watch this anime, you must be able to stomach gore, as the whole series somewhat resembles a murder mystery only more gory.
I personally loved this series, it's rare that a series keeps me on the edge of my seat and leaves me wondering what will happen next. Higurashi really did that for me and left me unable to stop watching until I got the answers I wanted. It's a great anime for the horror lovers collection or mystery lovers collection. So if you love that feeling of not knowing what is going to happen, go for this anime, you won't regret it.
It is recommended if you watch Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni (When They Cry), that you watch Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai because "Kai" explains and concludes what happened in "Ni". Though "Kai" hasn't been released to the United States yet. There also are a couple of OVA's that haven't been released to the United States yet, though they aren't really essential to watch.
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