Fans of the When They Cry (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) anime series will be happy to know that in Australia, anime distributor Siren Visual have lead the pack in their plans to release the second season – Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai as a Japanese Dub/English Subtitled release in May 2012 after a successful release of season one last year. You can now place a pre-order on the companies official website HERE, with a sale price of $49.95 AUD.
Do note that the current listed release date is INCORRECT, it is due for release in May, not March unfortunately.
On a hot summer day in 1983, a transfer student named Maebara Keiichi comes to a peaceful rural village in Hinamizawa. There he befriends his classmates Rena, Mion, Rika, and Satoko. Just as Keiichi is beginning to assimilate into simple rural life, he stumbles upon the dark history of Hinamizawa – every year for the past four years, one person has been murdered and another has gone missing on the day of the Watanagashi Festival.
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Kai is an unnerving story of rural folklore and small-town psychosis steeped in brutal violence and horrific sadism. Cute and funny one minute, sinister and twisted the next, When they Cry broods with a unique psychological malaise.
