History Main / CicadianRhythm

* In addition to the sounds, ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' also has "Chirp" as WrittenSoundEffects at the edge of the screen, just to emphasize the sound.

* Used in ''Anime/SteinsGate'' as a possible reference to ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' (since steins;gate started as a visual novel too, this is highly plausible).

* In ''Anime/{{Potemayo}}'', Guchuko shows her usual patience by putting up with this racket for about 2 seconds before she uses hypersonics to stun the cicadas ... and shatter glass, set off car alarms, cause dogs to freak out, etc etc. You don't mess with Guchuko.

* Manga example: ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' - Lampshade hung in the first chapter, at the start of summer vacation when Yotsuba climbs a telephone pole and pretends to be a cicada. Shows up again with her obsession with ''tsukutsukuboushi'' bringing the end of summer.
* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' (literally translated as "When the Cicadas Cry") has, appropriately enough, this trope in just about every episode. Although it's worth noting that the anime takes place in June, not the time frame given, and that a Higurashi is a particular type of cicada that comes out in early summer. More noticeable in the anime (because they're so persistent) is the distinct difference in chirping between day and night. The evening through night is when the higurashi cry.
* ''Manga/DokiDokiSchoolHours''

* Many of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'''s summer episodes use these as episode openers; most notable of all, an ImageSong for one of the characters pulls a slow pan up a tree for no other reason than to portray the cicada on its side.
* The anime adaptation of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'''s Endless Eight arc frequently features the sound of cicadas, due to taking place during summer vacation. Haruhi insists that catching cicadas is part of a perfect summer, and she also insists on releasing them, after. Kyon says that releasing them feels like opening Pandora's Box. The interesting theme here is that in Eastern mythology, cicadas represent reincarnation and the soul leaving the body to start over again, which perfectly describes [[GroundhogDayLoop the Endless Eight]].
* ''Manga/LuckyStar'' uses this trope a few times, a cicada seemingly dying, breaking its hypnotic trance on a sleeping Konata and starting the next scene. The aftermath of its death is the center of another scene opening, featuring other smaller bugs breaking the dead cicada into pieces to take to their nest.
* The really fast opening shots in episode of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' that shows Suzaku and Lelouch as children during the war contains a brief flash of one. In the DVDCommentary, one of the creators of the show talks about how an artist went all to all the trouble of going out and photographing a dead cicada to make sure to draw it correctly. It was disappointing when it was reduced to a two second frame.
* Averted in ''Literature/{{Gosick}}'', when Japanese exchange student Kazuya points out that one major difference between the summer in the European FictionalCountry of Sauville and Japan is the distinct lack of cicadas.

* Parodied in ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''. Kenshin and Sanosuke were tailing Yahiko in one episode, checking up on some form of suspicious activity they thought he was doing. Yahiko catches on, and when he turns around to look, Sanosuke and Kenshin duck behind a rooftop and [[NobodyHereButUsBirds start imitating cicada sounds to try and convince Yahiko that there's nothing out of the ordinary going on]]. Yahiko calls them out on it by saying it's the wrong season for cicadas.
* Parodied in the anime of ''Manga/MuromiSan'' with a blatantly fake voiceover of "buzz-buzz" noises instead of the usual cicada stock recordings.
* Used in ''Anime/SteinsGate'' as a possible reference to ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' (since steins;gate started as a visual novel too, this is highly plausible).
* ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'': A cicada appears at the beginning of Ao's flashback in the first episode of the AnimatedAdaptation, to clarify it was summer when the events of the flashback happened, especially since the scene immediately before and after the flashback is clearly in the first days of April.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon|1}}'', cicada calls can be heard in the background of the Flounder Heights stage. During Splatfests, which take place at night, crickets replace them.

* ''VisualNovel/EverlastingSummer'' has yet another ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' reference, complete with a similarly creepy storyline and ominously misheard/JapaneseRanguage character names.

* ''WebVideo/EatYourKimchi'' (filmed in UsefulNotes/SouthKorea) has a video about how annoying cicadas are, though the sound effect is written as HEEEEEGH. They use actual cicada sounds, which ''are'' really annoying.

* A cicada appears at the beginning of Ao's flashback in the first episode of ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'''s AnimatedAdaptation, to clarify it was summer when the events of the flashback happened, especially since the scene immediately before and after the flashback is clearly in the first days of April.

* Mentioned in the Literature/OrlandoFurioso, Canto VIII, stanza 20:
-->Nor any note is heard in wood or grass,
-->Save the bough perched Cicala's wearying cry,
-->Which deafens hill and dale, and sea and sky.

Most Europeans will be baffled by a cicada initially, and even moreso by their chirping noises, as they're not a common bug found in that part of the world. Many learn of cicada's for the first time through Anime (where they can be seen and heard constantly) or Video Games that feature them (usually to catch or as part of the scenery).

* This occasionally crops up in Australian media, as Cicadas are very widespread, and are almost constant during the early evenings. Like everywhere else, they appear in the hot summer (and late spring) months. However, being the Southern hemisphere, they're most common in November, December, January and February.

** The yearly cicada species living in the Chicago region, however, are always obnoxiously loud. Always.

It is August. Or rather the last day of July to the first day of September, A.K.A: "Forgotten Summer Vacation Homework time".

How do we know? Because distinguished anime artists and sound designers show us an EstablishingShot with this green, noisy, [[ShapedLikeItself bug-eyed bug]] striding a tree with the student yawning in a distant window....all the while chirping like crazy. Although sometimes we see an extreme closeup of the goggle-eyed critter in an AspectMontage -- whereupon it normally falls off the tree to show that even it has fainted from the heat.

* Averted in ''LightNovel/{{Gosick}}'', when Japanese exchange student Kazuya points out that one major difference between the summer in the European FictionalCountry of Sauville and Japan is the distinct lack of cicadas.

* WebVideo/EatYourKimchi (filmed in UsefulNotes/SouthKorea) has a video about how annoying cicadas are, though the sound effect is written as HEEEEEGH. They use actual cicada sounds, which ''are'' really annoying.

* Parodied in Manga/RurouniKenshin. Kenshin and Sanosuke were tailing Yahiko in one episode, checking up on some form of suspicious activity they thought he was doing. Yahiko catches on, and when he turns around to look, Sanosuke and Kenshin duck behind a rooftop and [[NobodyHereButUsBirds start imitating cicada sounds to try and convince Yahiko that there's nothing out of the ordinary going on]]. Yahiko calls them out on it by saying it's the wrong season for cicadas.

* The anime adaptation of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'''s Endless Eight arc features features the sound of cicadas, due to taking place during summer vacation. Haruhi insists that catching cicadas is part of a perfect summer, and she also insists on releasing them, after. Kyon says that releasing them feels like opening Pandora's Box. The interesting theme here is that in Eastern mythology, cicadas represent reincarnation and the soul leaving the body to start over again, which perfectly describes [[GroundhogDayLoop the Endless Eight]].

* The anime adaptation of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'''s Endless Eight arc features this. Haruhi insists that catching cicadas is part of a perfect summer. She also insists on releasing them, after. Kyon says that releasing them feels like opening Pandora's Box. The interesting theme here is that in Eastern mythology, cicadas represent reincarnation and the soul leaving the body to start over again, which perfectly describes the Endless Eight.

* The Endless Eight episode of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' features this. Haruhi insists that catching cicadas is part of a perfect summer. She also insists on releasing them, after. Kyon says that releasing them feels like opening Pandora's Box. The interesting theme here is that in Eastern mythology, cicadas represent reincarnation and the soul leaving the body to start over again, which perfectly describes the Endless Eight.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'', cicadas calls can be heard in the background of the Flounder Heights stage. During Splatfests, which take place at night, crickets replace them.

* On the East Coast of the United States, a few cicada species do show up yearly, so they can be heard, but they tend to stay away from developed areas. They don't come in the same plague-like droves that the 13 or 17 year cicadas do. They're not as loud so people don't hear them. Now when the 13 or 17 year cicadas show up, you '''will''' hear them. If a tree is full of them, they can be as loud as jackhammers, [[UpToEleven sometimes louder]]. Pray for the people who own said tree, because they have to deal with it ''24/7''. You only have to drive by it. The last Invasion of the Cicadas[[note]]Yes, it must be capitalized. It's an event. There's a reason they're also known as locusts. The Pilgrims in 1620 arrived a couple years after that region's brood had emerged, and so for the first decade or so, spring was normal, until one year, catching them completely by surprise, '''millions''' of these THINGS emerge from the ground and make this hideous noise, they thought it was a biblical plague of locusts, and that name stuck even though they're completely unrelated to actual locusts.[[/note]] on the East Coast was in 2021. The [[DeepSouth Bible Belt]] and Rust Belt got their own Invasion of the Cicadas courtesy of 13 year Brood XIX in 2011.

Most Europeans will be baffled by a cicada initially, and even moreso by their chirping noises, as they're not a common bug found in that part of the world. Many learn of cicada's for the first time through Anime or Video Games that feature them as a game mechanic.

It is August. Or rather the last day of July to the first day of September, aka Forgotten Summer Vacation Homework time.

How do we know? Because distinguished anime artists show us an EstablishingShot with this green, noisy, [[ShapedLikeItself bug-eyed bug]] striding a tree with the student yawning in a distant window. Although sometimes we see an extreme closeup of the goggle-eyed critter in an AspectMontage -- whereupon it normally falls off the tree to show that even it has fainted from the heat.

There is more of a knowledge gap than a cultural gap between Asian and western countries. Even though they are quite common in much of the Americas, most North Americans mistake the sound of the common summer cicada for crickets, even though their calls sound nothing like each other. It's when periodic cicadas emerge that cicadas make the news, despite them being a completely different species (Magicicada). That species has synchronized its life cycle into several 13 or 17 year broods. Unlike the yearly emergence of late summer or Dog Day cicadas, magicicadas broods emerge in vast numbers in the spring along North America's east-coast. They only live for about two weeks, during which they are present ''en'' '''very great''' ''masse''. Thus, children in some areas may never hear of cicadas unless a periodic cicada brood emerges in their area. There are even a few places where multiple broods overlap. May God have mercy on the souls of the people living there.

* On the East Coast of the United States, a few cicada species do show up yearly, so they can be heard, but they tend to stay away from developed areas. They don't come in the same plague-like droves that the 13 or 17 year cicadas do. They're not as loud so people don't hear them. Now when the 13 or 17 year cicadas show up, you '''will''' hear them. If a tree is full of them, they can be as loud as jackhammers, [[UpToEleven sometimes louder]]. Pray for the people who own said tree, because they have to deal with it ''24/7''. You only have to drive by it. The last Invasion of the Cicadas[[note]]Yes, it must be capitalized. It's an event. There's a reason they're also known as locusts. The Pilgrims in 1620 arrived a couple years after that region's brood had emerged, and so for the first decade or so, spring was normal, until one year, catching them completely by surprise, '''millions''' of these THINGS emerge from the ground and make this hideous noise, they thought it was a biblical plague of locusts, and that name stuck even though they're completely unrelated to actual locusts.[[/note]] on the East Coast was in 2004. The [[DeepSouth Bible Belt]] and Rust Belt got their own Invasion of the Cicadas courtesy of 13 year Brood XIX in 2011.

** They are ''especially'' prevalent in the southern East Coast states, namely Florida and Georgia, where the constant chatter of cicadas is commonly associated with images of sweltering, humid summer days.

It is August. Or rather the last day of July to the first day of September, a k a Forgotten Summer Vacation Homework time.