Higurashi: When They Cry

ひぐらしのなく頃に

Keiichi Maebara, a recent transfer student in the remote village of Hinamizawa, spends carefree afternoons playing games with classmates Rena Ryūgū, Mion Sonozaki, Rika Furude, and Satoko Hōjō. When he learns that a string of murders and disappearances has struck the village every year during the Watanagashi Festival — each tied to the local deity Oyashiro-sama — the friends he thought he knew begin to act strangely, and Keiichi cannot tell whether the danger is outside or sitting right beside him.