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When They Cry (Franchise)
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When They Cry is a media franchise that primarily consists of Visual Novel games. It is composed of three subseries, which are largely independent of one another, but do share some vague recurring concepts and elements: Higurashi: When They Cry (and its Expanded Universe) Umineko: When They Cry (and its Expanded Universe) Ciconia: When They CryThe series is written by independent game developer Ryukishi07 of 07th Expansion. Ryukishi wanted to make a visual novel that stuck with people after they played it. For inspiration, he looked to one of the industry's pioneers, Key/Visual Arts. Studying their games, he noticed that they all followed a basic structure. The games began with comedy and introduction of the characters and the basic concepts of the world; then the player got to know the characters; then something tragic happened to make the player cry just as they'd gotten to care about the cast, accompanied by revelations of the true nature of the world and what had really been going on the whole time; then the story culminated with a miracle to Earn Your Happy Ending. Ryukishi decided that he wanted to make a game like that, too... but he didn't want to (just) make his audience cry like Key did.He wanted to scare them.So began When They Cry. It is a Series Franchise where the primary installments are Visual Novels, called "sound novels" due to their linearity. However, the expanded universes of Higurashi and Umineko encompass anime adaptations, spin-offs, manga, extra side arcs in Visual Novel format, mangas, console games, and various other media. It is broken up into a series of supernatural murder mysteries, which are further broken up into individual games, each covering one story arc. Generally, these arcs are marked by time starting over from a certain point with the dead members of the cast brought back to life for mysterious reasons. The series itself is probably most well known for the sheer amount of Cute and Psycho characters in it’s cast (hell, the trope page image shows Rena Ryuugu). | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Multiple times, in fact. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Wishing that friendship, happiness and peace would last forever is certain to summon a Knight of Cerebus. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The TIPS as well as different arcs that are unique to one medium only. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: The golden rule for the games is pretty much: don't trust anything you see/read/hear until you go through the answer arc (Higurashi) or until something is confirmed that you can trust it (Umineko). In Umineko, anything the main character sees with his own eyes, (as in, is narrated in first person) is the gospel truth. Similarly, anything presented with red text is the gospel truth. Anything that does not fall into one of those two categories may or may not be true, and in fact may not even be such than the statement "That scene really happened that way" is true or false. In Higurashi this is used a lot in the question arcs, simply put, in any of the first 3 novels, from the point where it begins to get weird or scary, it means the main character is hallucinating, being fooled, or anything of the like. | |
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Multiple Endings | |
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Multiple Endings: In Umineko, you are given the choice between a "trick" ending and a "magic" ending at the very end. In Higurashi, this may be the case if you consider Matsuribayashi (the original ending) and Miotsukushi (the PS2 ending) to be equally valid. Some of the Higurashi arcs in later installments also gain multiple endings. For instance, there is an alternative ending to the Cotton-Drifting/Eye-Opening duo of arcs in which Keiichi guesses correctly that it is in fact Shion who is torturing everyone and imprisoning him, not Mion. It has just as poor an ending for Keiichi (ie, still dead), but the subsequent events take a very different turn. | |
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Cute and Psycho | |
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Cute and Psycho: As a general rule, the cuter the girl, the more disturbing The Reveal is going to be. | |
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Hidden Heart of Gold | |
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Mion and Shion's Abusive Grandparent, Oryou. Oryou has a Hidden Heart of Gold. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: Just because you're a youngster, don't think for a second that your safety is guaranteed. Child characters are just as likely to be killed as adult characters in this franchise. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: Higurashi: Rika's "mii" (the sound a kitten makes) and "nipaa" (a Japanese onomatopoeia for smiling) Hanyuu's "hau au au" whenever she gets scared or upset. Hanyuu mentions that she heard the sound from a porn video and thought it sounded cute in an episode preview. Umineko has Maria's "uu-". This isn't just a random noise, however, since Maria believes that it's a spell for happiness. The sound of it irritates Rosa to the point that she'll hit Maria for saying it too much, and it's one of the reasons why other children bully her. | |
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Recurring Element | |
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Recurring Element: The two games have a supporting character, some themes, and being a "Groundhog Day" Loop murder mystery in common. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
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Death is Cheap: Initially it seems this way, since the "Groundhog Day" Loop is in effect, but in both series, it's subverted. The characters may be alive and kicking again at the beginning of each arc, but their selves who died in the previous world are actually dead for good. Played with, discussed, and even further subverted in the cases of Higurashi's Rika and characters in Umineko's meta-world. | |
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Hand Sliding Down the Glass | |
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Hand Sliding Down the Glass: Combined with Bloody Handprint in the first arc, when we see Keiichi's bloodstained hand slide down the interior of the phone booth where he's calling Ooishi from. | |
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Painting the Medium | |
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Painting the Medium: In Umineko, anything said in "Red text" is true. Don't ask me how the concept of red text makes any sense to people speaking out loud, but that's how even they refer to it. Blue text also eventually gets a special rule attached to it. In the anime, when red or blue text is being used it appears in front of the person speaking. | |
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Badass Family | |
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Badass Family: The Sonozakis and the Ushiromiyas, respectively. | |
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Lucky Charms Title | |
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Lucky Charms Title - The red "Na" in Naku Koro ni is officially part of the title, as is the red "b" in Higurashi Daybreak and the red "C" in the franchise title, When They Cry. | |
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Hate Plague | |
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In Higurashi, several characters (including Rena) believe that the murders are being carried out by the village's local god Oyashiro-sama. Oyashiro-sama does exist, but has no involvement in the murders; they're actually caused by a disease that makes people violent and paranoid and eventually becomes a Hate Plague. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Bernkastel and Lambdadelta are basically a villainous version of the Rika-Satoko duo, with Lambda also looking like a young Takano (as well as having the same voice actor and a similar Meaningful Name). | |
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Imaginary Friend | |
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Witches and other magical beings to some extent in Umineko can only be seen by certain people since from a mundane perspective, many of them are Imaginary Friends. | |
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Magical Girl | |
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Ayakashisenshi-hen (妖戦�編, Demon Battling Chapter): Rika and Satoko find themselves in another alternate reality where Rika is a Magical Girl. Unfortunately, everyone are slowly becoming brainwashed minions of "Tokyo Magika". | |
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Tsundere | |
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Tsundere: Rosa can't decide whether she loves her daughter or wishes she was never born. | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
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Saikoroshi-hen (賽殺�編, Dice Killing Arc): The epilogue. Rika falls into a coma and wakes up in a Wonderful Life scenario, only instead of wishing herself out, she's wished out the Dysfunction Junction of the cast. What didn't kill them, though, once removed, appears to have made them horrible, miserable, selfish people. | |
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Arc | |
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Arc: The repetitions. The main games and anime are divided into "Question Arcs" and "Answer Arcs", each of the latter corresponding to one of the former but using different perspectives to solve various mysteries. | |
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Alternate Universe | |
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Yoigoshi-hen (宵越�編, Beyond Midnight Chapter): A manga-only Alternate Universe to Tsumihoroboshi-hen. In 2006, 23 years after the Hinamizawa Disaster, a new group – including a woman claiming to be Mion Sonozaki – meets in abandoned Hinamizawa. This Chapter appears in a third Higurashi DS-port game, with a new character added. In the overall manga series, it is counted as Volumes 9 and 10, placing it in between the two halves of the greater story. | |
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Doing In the Wizard | |
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Doing In the Wizard: Both Higurashi and Umineko introduce supernatural concepts that are later revealed to have more mundane explanations behind them, though each series does this in different ways. In Higurashi, several characters (including Rena) believe that the murders are being carried out by the village's local god Oyashiro-sama. Oyashiro-sama does exist, but has no involvement in the murders; they're actually caused by a disease that makes people violent and paranoid and eventually becomes a Hate Plague. In Umineko, Battler's goal in the "games" he plays with Beatrice and the other witches is to break "the illusion of the witch" (AKA the argument that the murders were all caused by supernatural forces) and explain the murders with one or several human culprits. The Core Arcs later offer more mundane explanations for the magical elements that were introduced in the Question Arcs. As for the witches and the Meta-World, whether or not they actually exist is pretty much left for the reader to decide. | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job: Is more-or-less guaranteed to happen to at least one character in an adaptation. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Higurashi's arcs always begin cute and light-hearted and end… less cute and less light-hearted. Umineko follows a similar pattern in the first four arcs, but much less so in Chiru. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Umineko has Maria's "uu-". This isn't just a random noise, however, since Maria believes that it's a spell for happiness. The sound of it irritates Rosa to the point that she'll hit Maria for saying it too much, and it's one of the reasons why other children bully her. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: Pity the poor character who actually remembers all the different murders. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Musubienishi-hen (���編, Affinity Chapter): Keiichi gets caught in a Love Triangle with Mion, Rena and Shion. | |
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The Multiverse | |
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The Multiverse: The sea of Fragments. Each Fragment represents an alternate reality, and there are quadrillions of them. The Groundhog Day Loops in both series actually use this. | |
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Invisible to Normals | |
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Invisible to Normals: For most of Higurashi, Hanyuu can only be seen by Rika. She eventually takes on a more solid appearance and starts going to school with the other characters. Witches and other magical beings to some extent in Umineko can only be seen by certain people since from a mundane perspective, many of them are Imaginary Friends. | |
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The '80s | |
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The '80s: Higurashi takes place in 1983, while Umineko takes place in 1986. | |
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Switched at Birth | |
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Switched at Birth: In Umineko Rudolf somehow switched the children of his wife Asumu (who was stillborn) and of his mistress and current wife Kyrie (who gave birth to Battler), making it look like Battler was Asumu's child. In Higurashi, it's not exactly a case of switch at birth, but rather of a Twin Switch gone wrong Shion took the place of her sister for a special event and received the Oni tattoo by mistake, forcing her to become Mion for the rest of her life. | |
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Social Services Does Not Exist | |
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Social Services Does Not Exist: Ryukishi07 himself used to be a social worker, and in Higurashi he apologizes in a side note for playing this trope straight in regards to Satoko's situation. In Umineko this is averted, but Rosa tries to keep them away so they won't find out that she's not a very good parent towards Maria. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Outbreak: A story arc of when the world government finds out about the Hinamizawa Syndrome. Pretty much as serious as the original arcs. | |
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Whodunnit to Me? | |
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Whodunnit to Me?: The whole plot of Higurashi is about Rika finding out who kills her in every single world; in Umineko, the final riddle Beatrice gives to Battler in Alliance of the Golden Witch is to find out who kills him even though he is the last person alive on the island. | |
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Cast Herd | |
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Twilight of the golden witch. The "Battler, Ange and Yasu Arc." The final arc, in which Battler and Beatrice create a special last game in order to help Ange reach the truth. Features the return of virtually the whole Cast Herd, the first appearance of six-year-old Ange, yet another new text color, and Multiple Endings. Nocturne of the Truth and Illusions. Gives the Chiru arcs the same PS3 treatment that Rondo gave the first four arcs. | |
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Bad Future | |
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Bad Future: Himatsubushi-hen, Yoigoshi-hen, and Onisarashi-hen and its spinoffs, as well as simply the endings for most of the other arcs for Higurashi. Ange's part in Umineko shows a future where only her aunt Eva came back alive from Rokkenjima and pretty much ruined Ange's life. | |
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Decoy Protagonist | |
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Decoy Protagonist: In Higurashi, the real protagonist turns out to be Rika Furude. | |
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The Ditz | |
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Hanyuu's "hau au au" whenever she gets scared or upset. Hanyuu mentions that she heard the sound from a porn video and thought it sounded cute in an episode preview. | |
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Story to Gameplay Ratio | |
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Story to Gameplay Ratio: The original computer games' is 1:0. They're more or less novels; the only trait that could merit calling these "games" is the fact that they happen to be software. The video game console ports and installments for Higurashi add the slightest bit of gameplay to decide what path you're stuck on for that reading and in the second and third games in the DS remakes, determine your ending in some arcs. Umineko doesn't get any gameplay added to it in its remakes, and the only choices the player can make are in EP8 during the puzzle minigame and towards the end, which determines one of two endings to the series. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Higurashi's own notable one is Chie-sensei, who is a Homage to Ciel from Tsukihime. | |
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Expy Coexistence | |
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Expy Coexistence: Bernkastel and Lambdadelta are basically a villainous version of the Rika-Satoko duo, with Lambda also looking like a young Takano (as well as having the same voice actor and a similar Meaningful Name). Jessica shares many traits with Mion. Maria is a young Rena in more ways than one. Amakusa is one of Higurashi's Men in Black called Hibari 13. Featherine, who is made to make the readers wrack their brains over a (probably non-existent) connection with Hanyū. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In Higurashi, it's the warning alarm that everything is about to go horribly wrong. In Umineko it signals a change in the chemistry between Beatrice and Battler but it's also a clue that someone's testimony can't be taken seriously. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Ryukishi07 is fond of putting his characters through the wringer. This just makes it all the more worth it when the happy ending is finally achieved in Higurashi. | |
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