Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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Oniakashi-hen: Demon-Revealing Chapter, Part 1
Jul 1, 2021
Rena becomes increasingly frustrated with her father's affections for Rina, a showgirl at a gentleman's club frequented by her father. Satoko begins her plan to trap Rika in Hinami
Oniakashi-hen: Demon-Revealing Chapter, Part 2
Jul 2, 2021
Rena purchases tools at a local hardware store and places them in her hideout at the Dam Construction Site. Rina visits Rena's house and is delighted when Rena suggests that the tw
Oniakashi-hen: Demon-Revealing Chapter, Part 3
Jul 8, 2021
After witnessing Keiichi speaking with Oishi outside of school, Rena becomes convinced that Keiichi knows about her crime.
Wataakashi-hen: Cotton-Revealing Chapter, Part 1
Jul 15, 2021
After watching Rika express her continued resolve to escape her fate to Hanyu in the Sea of Fragments, Satoko awakens alongside Rika in a new world. In need of a more reliable murd
Wataakashi-hen: Cotton-Revealing Chapter, Part 2
Jul 22, 2021
Mion begins to develop feelings for Keiichi. Posing as Shion, she delivers a dinner box to him to thank him for giving her the doll. While working at a games shop one evening, Mion
Wataakashi-hen: Cotton-Revealing Chapter, Part 3
Jul 29, 2021
Mion lures Kimiyoshi to the Sonozaki mansion and violently tortures him to obtain information about Oyashiro's curse. The next day, Mion overhears Rika telling Keiichi that the wor
Tatariakashi-hen: Curse-Revealing Chapter, Part 1
Aug 5, 2021
In a new loop, Rika tearfully confides in Satoko about her "nightmares." Satoko suggests that the nightmares may be messages from Oyashiro and encourages her to stay in the village
Tatariakashi-hen: Curse-Revealing Chapter, Part 2
Aug 12, 2021
Satoko continues deceiving her friends and her uncle by posing as a victim of abuse.
Tatariakashi-hen: Curse-Revealing Chapter, Part 3
Aug 19, 2021
Satoko stops attending school and continues convincing Teppei that she is being bullied by the village. Keiichi and the others begin protesting outside of Child Welfare Services. W
Tatariakashi-hen: Curse-Revealing Chapter, Part 4
Aug 26, 2021
Keiichi continues to lead protests outside of Child Welfare Services to save Satoko. After seeing Keiichi's determination, Oishi suspects that he has been tricked by his friends in
Tatariakashi-hen: Curse-Revealing Chapter, Part 5
Sep 2, 2021
After beating her uncle to death, Satoko showers to clean the blood off of herself and attends the festival with Rika and the others. During Rika's dance, Satoko lures Keiichi away
Kagurashi-hen: God-Entertaining Chapter, Part 1
Sep 9, 2021
Hanyu reminisces about her past and her relationship with Rika in the Sea of Fragments. Satoko overhears Hanyu telling Rika about a sword hidden inside in the ritual storehouse tha
Kagurashi-hen: God-Entertaining Chapter, Part 2
Sep 16, 2021
Eua overpowers Hanyu and forces her to watch Rika's death at the hands of Keiichi and Satoko in two separate fragments. While purchasing a present for Satoko's birthday in a new wo
Kagurashi-hen: God-Entertaining Chapter, Part 3
Sep 23, 2021
Rika and Satoko begin to fight to the death across numerous loops.
Kagurashi-hen: God-Entertaining Chapter, Part 4
Sep 30, 2021
Rika begins punching Satoko, telling her that she could never live in a world without her.