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* FriendlyFandoms: On good terms with the NipponIchi and PuellaMagiMadokaMagica fandoms.
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** There's also the fact that, you know, he's a child abuser.
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** There's also the fact that, you know, he's a child abuser.
** It's really telling just how hated he is when during the 08/2013 character poll, Teppai didn't even get on the list (there were 18 characters on the list) considering that he's a relatively major character.
** It's really telling just how hated he is when during the 08/2013 character poll, Teppai didn't even get on the list (there were 18 characters on the list) considering that he's a relatively major character.
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** The cicadas at first, and for a long time until you become desensitized by their ubiquity. But when they shift between day and night cries, or break a period of silence, the aural bombardment begins again.
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*CompleteMonster: See Higurashi [[Monster/VisualNovels here.]]
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* MarySue: Keiichi's hotblooded defiance of fate steals a lot of focus in Minagaroshi-hen, alternating with every character gushing how he courageously gets implausible results with boneheaded comments. Cranky old Onryu herself can't help her admiration for a boy who explicitly threatened her with graphic violence.
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* Tatarigoroshi-hen is labelled "[[BlatantLies The Shortest Scenario]]" in the VN. In the anime, it's an episode longer than the previous arcs.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Above all else, the anime series' main theme and moral seems to be about the importance of having a good [[{{Abusive Parents}} child protection program.]] The recurring theme of child abuse and the slogging bureaucratic "attempts" to fight (and in one memorable case, actively ''ignoring'' it) are the genesis of several slaughters [[spoiler: and the main tragedy itself.]]
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Above all else, the anime series' main theme and moral seems to be about the importance of having a good [[{{Abusive Parents}} [[AbusiveParents child protection program.]] The recurring theme of child abuse and the slogging bureaucratic "attempts" to fight (and in one memorable case, actively ''ignoring'' it) are the genesis of several slaughters [[spoiler: and the main tragedy itself.]]
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* MagnumOpus: Either Tsumihoroboshi-hen or Minagoroshi-hen are often considered the best novels of WhenTheyCry.
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* MagnumOpus: Either Tsumihoroboshi-hen or Minagoroshi-hen are often considered the best novels of WhenTheyCry.Franchise/WhenTheyCry.
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* EndingFatique: After the VN's Watanagashi-hen ''could have'' ended on a dramatic high note, Keiichi says it best:
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* EndingFatique: After the VN's Watanagashi-hen ''could have'' ended on a dramatic high note, Keiichi says it best:
--> '''Please, somebody end this case. This extremely cruel, pitiful and sad case...please end it.
--> '''Please, somebody end this case. This extremely cruel, pitiful and sad case...please end it.
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* MemeticPsychoPath: While much of the cast does in fact go crazy at some point, Rena seems to get the worst of it in terms of exxageration, often being falsely labeled as a {{Yandere}}.
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** There's also the fact that, you know, he's a child abuser.
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** Unfortunately, this is TruthInTelevision Japan, where child abuse is seen as a "family problem".
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* TheScrappy: Teppai for being a scumbag to the point of being unentertaining (unlike more malicious characters like [[spoiler: "Trollkastel" and Takano]]. It gets so bad that in a series that's very much against violent solutions, his deaths are often cheered on by the fans.
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* TheScrappy: Teppai Teppei for being a total scumbag to the point of being completely unentertaining (unlike more malicious characters like [[spoiler: "Trollkastel" and Takano]]. It gets so bad that in a series that's very much against violent solutions, his deaths are more often than not cheered on by the fans.
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** The many deaths of Teppai also get cheered on by most. See TheScrappy below for why.
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* ShipTease: The rule of thumb (more or less) is that there will be ShipTease between Keiichi and the main female character of the arc. In ''Onikakushi'' and ''Tsumihoroboshi'' it's Keiichi×Rena; in ''Watanagashi'' and ''Meakashi'' it's Keiichi×Shmion; in ''Tatarigoroshi'' and ''Minagoroshi'' there is slight teasing for Keiichi×Satoko (though less romantic and more brother-sister like). Keiichi and Rena are usually shown to have [[RedOniBlueOni some kind of complementarity]] in most arcs though.
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* ShipTease: The rule of thumb (more or less) is that there will be ShipTease between Keiichi and the main female character of the arc. In ''Onikakushi'' and ''Tsumihoroboshi'' it's Keiichi×Rena; in ''Watanagashi'' and ''Meakashi'' it's Keiichi×Shmion; in the alternate PS2 final chapter its Mion; in ''Tatarigoroshi'' and ''Minagoroshi'' there is slight teasing for Keiichi×Satoko (though less romantic and more brother-sister like). Keiichi and Rena are usually shown to have [[RedOniBlueOni some kind of complementarity]] in most arcs though.
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* MagnumOpus: Tsumihoroboshi-hen or Minagoroshi-hen are often considered the best novels of WhenTheyCry.
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* MisaimedFandom: Remember kids, according to this fandom it's a-ok to [[spoiler: beat defenseless little girls to almost death]] because you find them clingy and annoying. Nevermind that this is [[spoiler: a {{Yandere}} tantrum from the culprit instead of a HatePlague-caused hallucination]], and that [[spoiler: the little girl's brother found out and [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom was MOST pissed off]]!]], nooooooo...
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* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Satako post Meakashi-hen.
* TheScrappy: Teppai for being a scumbag to the point of being unentertaining (unlike more malicious characters like [[spoiler: "Trollkastel" and Takano]]. It gets so bad that in a series that's very much against violent solutions, his deaths are often cheered on by the fans.
* TheScrappy: Teppai for being a scumbag to the point of being unentertaining (unlike more malicious characters like [[spoiler: "Trollkastel" and Takano]]. It gets so bad that in a series that's very much against violent solutions, his deaths are often cheered on by the fans.
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** Not to mention that the arc where she is the central character is the turning point of the series.
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* HellIsThatNoise: The organ riff of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv3MqnhWhec Shiritori no Itadaki ~ Blanc Pur]] in ''Minagoroshi'', which sounds appropriately like a funeral music. When it starts playing you just know something bad is going to happen. Hell, that music pretty much marks the end of the HopeSpot in that arc [[spoiler:when Tomitake is cornered and about to be injected with the H173.]]
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* HellIsThatNoise: The organ riff of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv3MqnhWhec Shiritori no Itadaki ~ Blanc Pur]] in ''Minagoroshi'', which sounds appropriately like a funeral music. When it starts playing you just know something bad is going to happen. Hell, that That music pretty much marks the end of the HopeSpot in that arc [[spoiler:when Tomitake is cornered and about to be injected with the H173.]]
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* ItWasHisSled: Rika's [[spoiler:stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop, people die in this series and they come back to life, Rika has NotSoImaginaryFriend who is a God, the HatePlague]], Mion has an identical twin sister, [[spoiler:Satoshi is alive]].. Pretty much everything about this series is well-known.
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* ItWasHisSled: Rika's [[spoiler:stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop, people die in this series and they come back to life, Rika has NotSoImaginaryFriend who is a God, the HatePlague]], Mion has an identical twin sister, [[spoiler:Satoshi is alive]].. Pretty much everything Everything about this series is well-known.
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* {{Moe}}: Rena, Rika and Satoko. Rika is well aware of that and uses her cuteness for her advantage numerous times. Hell, she even won the 2007 Saimoe Tournament.
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** A more straight, and even more sugary, example is Kokoroiyashi-hen. It has a TearJerker in it but then it goes straight back to the diabetes.
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** Hanyū's VerbalTic "Au au au !" becomes "Mééé euuuh !" [[hottip:*:pretty much untranslatable, but it basically expresses a childish and embarrassed protest]], which is incredibly cute and fitting; similarly, Rika's [[UnsoundEffect "Nipah~~*"]] becomes "Ehéééé~~*".
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** Hanyū's VerbalTic "Au au au !" becomes "Mééé euuuh !" [[hottip:*:pretty much untranslatable, [[hottip:*:untranslatable, but it basically expresses a childish and embarrassed protest]], which is incredibly cute and fitting; similarly, Rika's [[UnsoundEffect "Nipah~~*"]] becomes "Ehéééé~~*".
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** Shion tries her hand at being this in Musubienishi-hen, disguising herself as her sister to manipulate Keiichi into pretending to be her boyfriend and hero. At least until she resigns from her mischief for that point due to remorse when Keiichi blows her cover and realizes who she really is.
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** Shion tries her hand at being this in the first half Musubienishi-hen, disguising herself as her sister to manipulate Keiichi into pretending to be her boyfriend and hero. At least until she resigns from her mischief for that point due to remorse when after Keiichi blows her cover and realizes who she really is.is, after which she really opens up to him in tears after hearing him say "That's why... this one's on me..." before his loss of consciousness.
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** Shion tries her hand at being this in Musubienishi-hen, disguising herself as her sister to manipulate Keiichi into pretending to be her boyfriend and hero. At least until she resigns from her mischief for that point due to remorse when Keiichi blows her cover and realizes who she really is.
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* TheWoobie: '''Everyone.''' ''Especially'' Satoko.
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*** Since each episode focused [[FanService on]] [[ShipTease very]] [[ParodiedTrope dif]][[MagicalGirl ferent]] [[HeartwarmingMoments elements]], it is very difficult to have one definite opinion about the whole OVA. Especially the at last episode is rather different from the first three, being more serious and closer to the feeling of the original. Cue discussions which of the episodes are good and which aren't.
** The OVA's in total are this. A lot of fans hate the lack of horror in most of them, despite the fact that [[spoiler:the Endless June is finished and thus there's no HatePlague or drama]].
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*** Since each episode focused [[FanService on]] [[ShipTease very]] [[ParodiedTrope dif]][[MagicalGirl ferent]] [[HeartwarmingMoments elements]], it is very difficult to have one definite opinion about the whole OVA. Especially since the at last episode is rather different from the first three, being more serious and closer to the feeling feel of the original.original series. Cue discussions which of the episodes are good and which aren't.
** The OVA's in total are this. A lot of fans hate the lack of horror in most of them, despite the fact that [[spoiler:the Endless June is finished and thus there's no need for the HatePlague or drama]].
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* [[Awesome/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Crowning Moment Of Awesome]] - Many times, especially during the answer arcs.
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* CryForTheDevil - Is it even possible to feel anything but disgust for [[spoiler:Takano]] after the end of ''Minagoroshi''? After reading ''Matsuribayashi''… Yes… yes it is.
** You can also cry for [[spoiler:Shion]] at the end of ''Meakashi''. The anime [[CompressedAdaptation rushes it]] but her inner monologue at the end of the sound novel is a bona-fide TearJerker. The music really doesn't help.
** You can also cry for [[spoiler:Shion]] at the end of ''Meakashi''. The anime [[CompressedAdaptation rushes it]] but her inner monologue at the end of the sound novel is a bona-fide TearJerker. The music really doesn't help.
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* MotiveDecay: The BigBad, [[spoiler:Miyo.]] [[spoiler:She's trying to prove her foster grandfather's work is right, but she also wants to become/destroy/ snub her nose at God, and she wants to a world where she'll be loved and she wants to know how Hinamizawa syndrome works and…( See WMG for "In Tsumihoroboshi, why did Takano give Rena those documents") ]]
** In the last arc, Nomura even lampshades that Takano doesn't really know what she wants. [[spoiler:In the end, Takano realizes that far from making people acknowledge her grandfather's research, the Irie institution is only going to erase it. So she decides to cast "Oyashiro-sama's curse" to at least pretend being a god when burrying the research. It would also become the proof that people actually read the research and took it seriously.]]
** In the last arc, Nomura even lampshades that Takano doesn't really know what she wants. [[spoiler:In the end, Takano realizes that far from making people acknowledge her grandfather's research, the Irie institution is only going to erase it. So she decides to cast "Oyashiro-sama's curse" to at least pretend being a god when burrying the research. It would also become the proof that people actually read the research and took it seriously.]]
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* HarsherInHindsight: Rena is nearly strangled to death by Rina Moriya. She's [[VisualNovel/HiganbanaNoSakuYoruNi not the only person who was strangled]].
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* WorldOfWoobie: You will have a hard time not sympathizing with at least once character here.
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* FridgeBrilliance: [[Fridge/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Has its own page.]]
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The anime is far more popular than the sound novels or even manga, as expected.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ''Everyone'', since each arc shows a different character through a different lens and allows the reader to see through their thoughts.
* {{Anvilicious}}: Above all else, the anime series' main theme and moral seems to be about the importance of having a good [[{{Abusive Parents}} child protection program.]] The recurring theme of child abuse and the slogging bureaucratic "attempts" to fight (and in one memorable case, actively ''ignoring'' it) are the genesis of several slaughters [[spoiler: and the main tragedy itself.]]
* BrokenBase: Somewhere, a community is divided whether to use the PS2 or original graphics.
** Or between the original BGM and the [=MangaGamer=] ones.
** A bigger broken base is Higurashi Kira. Most of the fans are enraged that it is only pointless FanService lacking any plot, not any of the horror they wanted. Many others still love Kira because it's Higurashi
*** Since each episode focused [[FanService on]] [[ShipTease very]] [[ParodiedTrope dif]][[MagicalGirl ferent]] [[HeartwarmingMoments elements]], it is very difficult to have one definite opinion about the whole OVA. Especially the at last episode is rather different from the first three, being more serious and closer to the feeling of the original. Cue discussions which of the episodes are good and which aren't.
** The OVA's in total are this. A lot of fans hate the lack of horror in most of them, despite the fact that [[spoiler:the Endless June is finished and thus there's no HatePlague or drama]].
* CargoShip: Chie x Curry, Rena x Kenta-kun.
* CrackPairing: In Hirukowashi-hen Rena/Tomitake, [[LesYay Takano/Rena]], Ooishi/Rena (OVA Only), Irie/Rena (Game Only).
** Keiichi/Oryō (OVA) takes the cake.
* [[Awesome/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Crowning Moment Of Awesome]] - Many times, especially during the answer arcs.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny - At the first episode of the Tatarigoroshi-hen, Keiichi gets a phone call from Satoko about some kind of trouble. Thinking there's a big fight fight, he then speeds to school on his bike, brandishing a golf club, and gets ready to lay the smackdown... Only to find himself in the middle of a baseball match. All that she wanted was Keiichi to replace a player...
** Even more hilarious is, 99% of the time, his weapon of choice is a baseball bat. [[{{DontExplainTheJoke}} Which would have actually made sense.]]
* [[Heartwarming/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming]] - The fact that those moments seldomly happen and are a very big contrast in comparison to the very dark atmosphere usually takes them to TearJerker levels.
** A particularly notable CMOH comes towards the end of the first season, where [[spoiler:Keiichi and the rest of the club members give Rena a tender, heartfelt speech in the junk yard about how they are friends and will always be there for each other.]]. The notable part? [[spoiler:The speech takes place after they enter the junk yard and find Rena dismembering two (admittedly awful) people she killed. To top it off, this is followed by all of them disposing of the body parts together]].
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome This is part of the reason why the show is so terrifying at points. The soundtrack is particularly epic in ''Kai''. See [[AwesomeMusic/WhenTheyCry its own page]].
* CryForTheDevil - Is it even possible to feel anything but disgust for [[spoiler:Takano]] after the end of ''Minagoroshi''? After reading ''Matsuribayashi''… Yes… yes it is.
** You can also cry for [[spoiler:Shion]] at the end of ''Meakashi''. The anime [[CompressedAdaptation rushes it]] but her inner monologue at the end of the sound novel is a bona-fide TearJerker. The music really doesn't help.
* EarWorm: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPLO4tnvNko The opening of Kira]] will be stuck in your head for a few days, whether you like it or not. As if it wasn't bad enough, having the characters nodding their heads on the beat adds an ''Eye Worm''.
* EnsembleDarkHorse - Rena may be the most iconic character, the most commonly related to the show, and her popularity may dwarf the true protagonists', but she's truly relevant in only two chapters. Still, the creator seems to have taken this in stride; see WolverinePublicity.
** To be honest, she's a pretty crucial role in almost all the arcs/chapters. She's also the mascot of the series.
** Not to mention that the arc where she is the central character is the turning point of the series.
** If you're talking about Rika as the main character than Rika is pretty damn popular too. If you're talking about Keiichi then its to be expected, he's not a female character after all.
** Tomitake is one as well.
* EpilepticTrees - If we go by Saikoroshi-hen's continuity (in ''Rei''), Rika mutters to Hanyuu at one point that [[spoiler:she should return to being Rika Furude and stop being the witch [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Bernkastel]]]].
* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler:Miyo Takano]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop - "Stick by your friends, even if they've brutally murdered some adults and are now attempting to blow up the school."
** A more positive example that you don't see stated outright is that while you should certainly stick with your friends, it's okay to keep things from them that they don't need to know. Otherwise no one would be friends because they couldn't bear to tell others about the mistakes they've made.
* FridgeBrilliance: [[Fridge/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Has its own page.]]
* FridgeLogic: The secret ending for Matsuribayashi [[spoiler:where Takano never loses her parents]] would logically turn the story into a downer ending, though granted one with few to no deaths. It goes like this: [[spoiler:She never meets her grandfather and thus never tries to research Hinamizawa syndrome, thus she never sets up the clinic. The anti dam project group does not have the clinic's backing anymore and thus the village is submerged before Keiichi or Rena ever move in. Hinamizawa residents tend to get deranged outside of the village, though granted this would only happen to some individuals. Even if the dam project is halted, the disease is still there and people like Satoshi would get arrested. One of the group of friends would also probably go crazy since apart from the last two arcs one of them usually snaps.]]
* FunnyAneurysmMoment[[spoiler:/Foreshadowing]]: [[spoiler:In Watanagashi-hen (episode 5 of the anime), Mion explains that she's the nice, pleasant twin, whilst Shion is mean and nasty. Then in episode 8, we find out that it's the other way around (Mion is evil, Shion's the victim) and THEN in Meakashi-hen, we find out that Mion was right all along]].
** The first dialogue between Tomitake and Keiichi sounds very weird after ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen''.
-->'''Tomitake:''' What is she doing in such a place?\\
'''Keiichi:''' Beats me. Maybe she's checking up the body she has cut in pieces and burried here?
* GrowingTheBeard: Watanagashi-hen is often considered this point.
* HarsherInHindsight: Rena is nearly strangled to death by Rina Moriya. She's [[VisualNovel/HiganbanaNoSakuYoruNi not the only person who was strangled]].
* HellIsThatNoise: The organ riff of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv3MqnhWhec Shiritori no Itadaki ~ Blanc Pur]] in ''Minagoroshi'', which sounds appropriately like a funeral music. When it starts playing you just know something bad is going to happen. Hell, that music pretty much marks the end of the HopeSpot in that arc [[spoiler:when Tomitake is cornered and about to be injected with the H173.]]
* HoYay - Notable in Keiichi's "K" persona in ''Kai''. On the other side of the fence, the official artwork and such often exploits the fact that, out of the core seven characters, only one of them is a guy for all it's worth.
** There's also a bunch of LesYay between the female cast members. The animators take advantage of this in their anime-only scenes, and official arts.
* IncestSubtext: Shion and Mion, no thanks to the artists.
* ItWasHisSled: Rika's [[spoiler:stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop, people die in this series and they come back to life, Rika has NotSoImaginaryFriend who is a God, the HatePlague]], Mion has an identical twin sister, [[spoiler:Satoshi is alive]].. Pretty much everything about this series is well-known.
** Also the infamy of the Eye Opening chapter.
* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler:Shion]] in both ''Watanagashi-hen'' and ''Meakashi-hen''. She gets better in other arcs.
* {{LesYay}}: Several pieces of official art. Usually revolving around Mion & Shion (first season) or Satoko & Rika (sometimes with Hanyuu; second season). Also behaviors throughout the series.
* MagnificentBastard: [[spoiler:Miyo Takano]]
** Also, [[spoiler:Nomura]].
* MagnumOpus: Tsumihoroboshi-hen or Minagoroshi-hen are often considered the best novels of WhenTheyCry.
* MemeticMutation: Their laughs.
** On Hanyuu in the last arc: Why can't anyone her horns?
*** [[UnusualEuphemism I'd her horns.]]
*** They're handlebars.
** U SODA?
** [[ImTakingHerHomewithMe Omochikaeri~]]
* MemeticMolester: Rena's going to [[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe take you home!]]
* {{Moe}}: Rena, Rika and Satoko. Rika is well aware of that and uses her cuteness for her advantage numerous times. Hell, she even won the 2007 Saimoe Tournament.
* MoralEventHorizon - The Shion arc is a veritable LensmanArmsRace of inexcusable acts starting with [[spoiler: Onryu]] ordering the ColdBloodedTorture of Shion during the "distinguishment scene" and culminating a few episodes later, with the brutal murder of Satoko. Even more so, [[spoiler: Miyo]] in Minagoroshi-hen after she caps an 11 year old girl in the head after playing mind games with her (and after promising to spare her life before she executed another member of the [[TrueCompanions protagonist clique]] in front of the poor little girl's face).
* MotiveDecay: The BigBad, [[spoiler:Miyo.]] [[spoiler:She's trying to prove her foster grandfather's work is right, but she also wants to become/destroy/ snub her nose at God, and she wants to a world where she'll be loved and she wants to know how Hinamizawa syndrome works and…( See WMG for "In Tsumihoroboshi, why did Takano give Rena those documents") ]]
** In the last arc, Nomura even lampshades that Takano doesn't really know what she wants. [[spoiler:In the end, Takano realizes that far from making people acknowledge her grandfather's research, the Irie institution is only going to erase it. So she decides to cast "Oyashiro-sama's curse" to at least pretend being a god when burrying the research. It would also become the proof that people actually read the research and took it seriously.]]
* {{Narm}} - Sakoto's FreakOut in Tatarigoroshi-hen is difficult to take seriously when she somehow manages to knock the much-larger-than-her Keichii across the entire room with one shove.
** It's more believable in the manga and VN where she just knocks his hand away.
* NauseaFuel - often accompanies the NightmareFuel.
** Then there's the part where [[spoiler:Satoko actually throws up.]] The sound was [[NauseaFuel very convincing.]]
* NeverLiveItDown: Rena. [[spoiler:The only arc in which she was ''truly'' crazy was Tsumihoroboshi-hen, what with the stalking and poisoning in Onikakushi-hen being hallucinated by Keiichi.]] In the other arcs, she's only mildy bipolar and not really all that psycho.
** Shion's usually a decent person, but [[spoiler:her RoaringRampageOfRevenge in Watanagashi-hen/Meakashi-hen was [[NightmareFuel so horrifying even by the standards of the series]] that she will be forever known as "That [[AxCrazy psycho]] {{Yandere}} chick who [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured everyone to death]]."]]
* NightmareFuel - A whole ''fucking'' '''lot'''. (Enough to have [[NightmareFuel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi its own page]])
* ShipTease: The rule of thumb (more or less) is that there will be ShipTease between Keiichi and the main female character of the arc. In ''Onikakushi'' and ''Tsumihoroboshi'' it's Keiichi×Rena; in ''Watanagashi'' and ''Meakashi'' it's Keiichi×Shmion; in ''Tatarigoroshi'' and ''Minagoroshi'' there is slight teasing for Keiichi×Satoko (though less romantic and more brother-sister like). Keiichi and Rena are usually shown to have [[RedOniBlueOni some kind of complementarity]] in most arcs though.
* ShipToShipCombat: Between "[=KeiMii=]" and "[=KeiRei=]" shippers, but it stays mild.
* TastesLikeDiabetes - The beginning of each arc. After that...
** A more straight, and even more sugary, example is Kokoroiyashi-hen. It has a TearJerker in it but then it goes straight back to the diabetes.
* SpecialEffectFailure: The passages where the girl's eyes shift to "split pupils" in the LiveActionAdaptation are a bit… conspicuous.
* TearJerker - [[TearJerker/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi And HOW.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many fans regard [[spoiler:Satoshi's reappearance]] in ''Kira'' as a pointless yaoi OneSceneWonder.
* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: Bipolar murder mystery anime on PCP.
* TheUntwist - [[spoiler:The manga arc ''Yoigoshi-hen'', which is in a Great Hinamizawa Disaster timeline, features a woman claiming to be Mion, but characters point out that Mion died 20 years ago, and "Mion" is shaken when she meets another major character who bears an uncanny resemblance to Satoshi. She even delivers a monologue that resembles Shion's speech in ''Watanagashi'' ("I'm the demon inside Mion!" etc. etc.). Yes, she's actually Shion. It's a bit different from ''Watanagashi'' though; Mion's ghost actually possesses Shion for most of the story.]]
** More generally, [[spoiler: the fact that Miyo Takano is the BigBad. She was so suspicious from the start that various fans were sure there'd be some other explanation for it. Nope, as it turns out.]]
* WhatAnIdiot - In the anime, after Keiichi [[spoiler:is almost killed by Shion posing as Mion, he narrowly gets away after being warned by her that if he sees her again, he shouldn't come near her. The next night, she comes and throws pebbles at his window. Being the kind of character he is, Keiichi goes down and talks to her. Naturally, she promptly stabs him]]. In the game and manga, this scene is played out in a somewhat more believable way.
** Also, in both that and Watanagashi-hen. [[spoiler:"YES! You've caught me, I'm the psychopathic murderer! Now, before I surrender to the cops outside, will one of you please follow me alone into this underground soundproof torture chamber?"]]
** [[spoiler:Rika, after finally escaping an everlasting cycle of paranoia, murder, torture and death, abandons all caution and and gets hit by a truck. Starting the entire goddamn thing all over again.]]
** [[spoiler: Irie-sensei not realising that Takano was just a bit [[MadScientist amoral]] and for that matter the BigBad of the series, given some of her less... subtle statements showing a certain lack of regard for ethics, as revealed by the flashbacks in Matsuribayashi-hen (Though granted, she had a [[{{Blackmail}} lot over his head]] and he might not have thought he could have done anything useful and gotten away with it).]]
** In Tatarigoroshi, [[spoiler:Mion perfectly knows what Keiichi was doing during the night of the festival, so she probably asks Rena and Rika to do as if he had gone to the festival as an alibi. Fine. Then they tell Keiichi to come to the trash field, probably to explain the whole deal to him. It doesn't occur to either Rena or Mion to explain him at least the basics while nobody is around; like the ''entire way'' back from school.]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong The rest is history.]] Granted, they couldn't guess it would turn ''that'' wrong, but they still had absolutely no reason to wait so much to tell him anything.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: It isn't despite the cheery beginning atmosphere of every episode, the cute faces and the flowers... It's more like NightmareFuel - or a BlackComedy.
* TheWoobie: '''Everyone.''' ''Especially'' Satoko.
* [[spoiler:WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Miyo Takano, as well as every main character who suffers from Hinamizawa syndrome.]]
* {{Woolseyism}}: The French version of the sound novel doesn't hesitate to take a few liberties with the original text, and they usually work extremely well.
** Hanyū's VerbalTic "Au au au !" becomes "Mééé euuuh !" [[hottip:*:pretty much untranslatable, but it basically expresses a childish and embarrassed protest]], which is incredibly cute and fitting; similarly, Rika's [[UnsoundEffect "Nipah~~*"]] becomes "Ehéééé~~*".
** Satoko is given a ''very'' elevated speech full of subjunctives and more or less obscure words, and uses the distant pronoun "vous" to adress everyone. Her nickname to Satoshi "Nii-nii" is also adapted as "Totoche".
** In lieu of "Kei-chan", [[TheGadFly Mion]] usually calls Keiichi "p'tit gars"[[hottip:*:pronounce "ptee gah"]] ("lil' guy") while [[TheTease Shion]] calls him "mon cœur" ("sweetheart"). They do call him "Kei" sometimes, but not often.
* WorldOfWoobie: You will have a hard time not sympathizing with at least once character here.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ''Everyone'', since each arc shows a different character through a different lens and allows the reader to see through their thoughts.
* {{Anvilicious}}: Above all else, the anime series' main theme and moral seems to be about the importance of having a good [[{{Abusive Parents}} child protection program.]] The recurring theme of child abuse and the slogging bureaucratic "attempts" to fight (and in one memorable case, actively ''ignoring'' it) are the genesis of several slaughters [[spoiler: and the main tragedy itself.]]
* BrokenBase: Somewhere, a community is divided whether to use the PS2 or original graphics.
** Or between the original BGM and the [=MangaGamer=] ones.
** A bigger broken base is Higurashi Kira. Most of the fans are enraged that it is only pointless FanService lacking any plot, not any of the horror they wanted. Many others still love Kira because it's Higurashi
*** Since each episode focused [[FanService on]] [[ShipTease very]] [[ParodiedTrope dif]][[MagicalGirl ferent]] [[HeartwarmingMoments elements]], it is very difficult to have one definite opinion about the whole OVA. Especially the at last episode is rather different from the first three, being more serious and closer to the feeling of the original. Cue discussions which of the episodes are good and which aren't.
** The OVA's in total are this. A lot of fans hate the lack of horror in most of them, despite the fact that [[spoiler:the Endless June is finished and thus there's no HatePlague or drama]].
* CargoShip: Chie x Curry, Rena x Kenta-kun.
* CrackPairing: In Hirukowashi-hen Rena/Tomitake, [[LesYay Takano/Rena]], Ooishi/Rena (OVA Only), Irie/Rena (Game Only).
** Keiichi/Oryō (OVA) takes the cake.
* [[Awesome/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Crowning Moment Of Awesome]] - Many times, especially during the answer arcs.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny - At the first episode of the Tatarigoroshi-hen, Keiichi gets a phone call from Satoko about some kind of trouble. Thinking there's a big fight fight, he then speeds to school on his bike, brandishing a golf club, and gets ready to lay the smackdown... Only to find himself in the middle of a baseball match. All that she wanted was Keiichi to replace a player...
** Even more hilarious is, 99% of the time, his weapon of choice is a baseball bat. [[{{DontExplainTheJoke}} Which would have actually made sense.]]
* [[Heartwarming/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming]] - The fact that those moments seldomly happen and are a very big contrast in comparison to the very dark atmosphere usually takes them to TearJerker levels.
** A particularly notable CMOH comes towards the end of the first season, where [[spoiler:Keiichi and the rest of the club members give Rena a tender, heartfelt speech in the junk yard about how they are friends and will always be there for each other.]]. The notable part? [[spoiler:The speech takes place after they enter the junk yard and find Rena dismembering two (admittedly awful) people she killed. To top it off, this is followed by all of them disposing of the body parts together]].
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome This is part of the reason why the show is so terrifying at points. The soundtrack is particularly epic in ''Kai''. See [[AwesomeMusic/WhenTheyCry its own page]].
* CryForTheDevil - Is it even possible to feel anything but disgust for [[spoiler:Takano]] after the end of ''Minagoroshi''? After reading ''Matsuribayashi''… Yes… yes it is.
** You can also cry for [[spoiler:Shion]] at the end of ''Meakashi''. The anime [[CompressedAdaptation rushes it]] but her inner monologue at the end of the sound novel is a bona-fide TearJerker. The music really doesn't help.
* EarWorm: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPLO4tnvNko The opening of Kira]] will be stuck in your head for a few days, whether you like it or not. As if it wasn't bad enough, having the characters nodding their heads on the beat adds an ''Eye Worm''.
* EnsembleDarkHorse - Rena may be the most iconic character, the most commonly related to the show, and her popularity may dwarf the true protagonists', but she's truly relevant in only two chapters. Still, the creator seems to have taken this in stride; see WolverinePublicity.
** To be honest, she's a pretty crucial role in almost all the arcs/chapters. She's also the mascot of the series.
** Not to mention that the arc where she is the central character is the turning point of the series.
** If you're talking about Rika as the main character than Rika is pretty damn popular too. If you're talking about Keiichi then its to be expected, he's not a female character after all.
** Tomitake is one as well.
* EpilepticTrees - If we go by Saikoroshi-hen's continuity (in ''Rei''), Rika mutters to Hanyuu at one point that [[spoiler:she should return to being Rika Furude and stop being the witch [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Bernkastel]]]].
* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler:Miyo Takano]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop - "Stick by your friends, even if they've brutally murdered some adults and are now attempting to blow up the school."
** A more positive example that you don't see stated outright is that while you should certainly stick with your friends, it's okay to keep things from them that they don't need to know. Otherwise no one would be friends because they couldn't bear to tell others about the mistakes they've made.
* FridgeBrilliance: [[Fridge/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Has its own page.]]
* FridgeLogic: The secret ending for Matsuribayashi [[spoiler:where Takano never loses her parents]] would logically turn the story into a downer ending, though granted one with few to no deaths. It goes like this: [[spoiler:She never meets her grandfather and thus never tries to research Hinamizawa syndrome, thus she never sets up the clinic. The anti dam project group does not have the clinic's backing anymore and thus the village is submerged before Keiichi or Rena ever move in. Hinamizawa residents tend to get deranged outside of the village, though granted this would only happen to some individuals. Even if the dam project is halted, the disease is still there and people like Satoshi would get arrested. One of the group of friends would also probably go crazy since apart from the last two arcs one of them usually snaps.]]
* FunnyAneurysmMoment[[spoiler:/Foreshadowing]]: [[spoiler:In Watanagashi-hen (episode 5 of the anime), Mion explains that she's the nice, pleasant twin, whilst Shion is mean and nasty. Then in episode 8, we find out that it's the other way around (Mion is evil, Shion's the victim) and THEN in Meakashi-hen, we find out that Mion was right all along]].
** The first dialogue between Tomitake and Keiichi sounds very weird after ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen''.
-->'''Tomitake:''' What is she doing in such a place?\\
'''Keiichi:''' Beats me. Maybe she's checking up the body she has cut in pieces and burried here?
* GrowingTheBeard: Watanagashi-hen is often considered this point.
* HarsherInHindsight: Rena is nearly strangled to death by Rina Moriya. She's [[VisualNovel/HiganbanaNoSakuYoruNi not the only person who was strangled]].
* HellIsThatNoise: The organ riff of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv3MqnhWhec Shiritori no Itadaki ~ Blanc Pur]] in ''Minagoroshi'', which sounds appropriately like a funeral music. When it starts playing you just know something bad is going to happen. Hell, that music pretty much marks the end of the HopeSpot in that arc [[spoiler:when Tomitake is cornered and about to be injected with the H173.]]
* HoYay - Notable in Keiichi's "K" persona in ''Kai''. On the other side of the fence, the official artwork and such often exploits the fact that, out of the core seven characters, only one of them is a guy for all it's worth.
** There's also a bunch of LesYay between the female cast members. The animators take advantage of this in their anime-only scenes, and official arts.
* IncestSubtext: Shion and Mion, no thanks to the artists.
* ItWasHisSled: Rika's [[spoiler:stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop, people die in this series and they come back to life, Rika has NotSoImaginaryFriend who is a God, the HatePlague]], Mion has an identical twin sister, [[spoiler:Satoshi is alive]].. Pretty much everything about this series is well-known.
** Also the infamy of the Eye Opening chapter.
* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler:Shion]] in both ''Watanagashi-hen'' and ''Meakashi-hen''. She gets better in other arcs.
* {{LesYay}}: Several pieces of official art. Usually revolving around Mion & Shion (first season) or Satoko & Rika (sometimes with Hanyuu; second season). Also behaviors throughout the series.
* MagnificentBastard: [[spoiler:Miyo Takano]]
** Also, [[spoiler:Nomura]].
* MagnumOpus: Tsumihoroboshi-hen or Minagoroshi-hen are often considered the best novels of WhenTheyCry.
* MemeticMutation: Their laughs.
** On Hanyuu in the last arc: Why can't anyone her horns?
*** [[UnusualEuphemism I'd her horns.]]
*** They're handlebars.
** U SODA?
** [[ImTakingHerHomewithMe Omochikaeri~]]
* MemeticMolester: Rena's going to [[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe take you home!]]
* {{Moe}}: Rena, Rika and Satoko. Rika is well aware of that and uses her cuteness for her advantage numerous times. Hell, she even won the 2007 Saimoe Tournament.
* MoralEventHorizon - The Shion arc is a veritable LensmanArmsRace of inexcusable acts starting with [[spoiler: Onryu]] ordering the ColdBloodedTorture of Shion during the "distinguishment scene" and culminating a few episodes later, with the brutal murder of Satoko. Even more so, [[spoiler: Miyo]] in Minagoroshi-hen after she caps an 11 year old girl in the head after playing mind games with her (and after promising to spare her life before she executed another member of the [[TrueCompanions protagonist clique]] in front of the poor little girl's face).
* MotiveDecay: The BigBad, [[spoiler:Miyo.]] [[spoiler:She's trying to prove her foster grandfather's work is right, but she also wants to become/destroy/ snub her nose at God, and she wants to a world where she'll be loved and she wants to know how Hinamizawa syndrome works and…( See WMG for "In Tsumihoroboshi, why did Takano give Rena those documents") ]]
** In the last arc, Nomura even lampshades that Takano doesn't really know what she wants. [[spoiler:In the end, Takano realizes that far from making people acknowledge her grandfather's research, the Irie institution is only going to erase it. So she decides to cast "Oyashiro-sama's curse" to at least pretend being a god when burrying the research. It would also become the proof that people actually read the research and took it seriously.]]
* {{Narm}} - Sakoto's FreakOut in Tatarigoroshi-hen is difficult to take seriously when she somehow manages to knock the much-larger-than-her Keichii across the entire room with one shove.
** It's more believable in the manga and VN where she just knocks his hand away.
* NauseaFuel - often accompanies the NightmareFuel.
** Then there's the part where [[spoiler:Satoko actually throws up.]] The sound was [[NauseaFuel very convincing.]]
* NeverLiveItDown: Rena. [[spoiler:The only arc in which she was ''truly'' crazy was Tsumihoroboshi-hen, what with the stalking and poisoning in Onikakushi-hen being hallucinated by Keiichi.]] In the other arcs, she's only mildy bipolar and not really all that psycho.
** Shion's usually a decent person, but [[spoiler:her RoaringRampageOfRevenge in Watanagashi-hen/Meakashi-hen was [[NightmareFuel so horrifying even by the standards of the series]] that she will be forever known as "That [[AxCrazy psycho]] {{Yandere}} chick who [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured everyone to death]]."]]
* NightmareFuel - A whole ''fucking'' '''lot'''. (Enough to have [[NightmareFuel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi its own page]])
* ShipTease: The rule of thumb (more or less) is that there will be ShipTease between Keiichi and the main female character of the arc. In ''Onikakushi'' and ''Tsumihoroboshi'' it's Keiichi×Rena; in ''Watanagashi'' and ''Meakashi'' it's Keiichi×Shmion; in ''Tatarigoroshi'' and ''Minagoroshi'' there is slight teasing for Keiichi×Satoko (though less romantic and more brother-sister like). Keiichi and Rena are usually shown to have [[RedOniBlueOni some kind of complementarity]] in most arcs though.
* ShipToShipCombat: Between "[=KeiMii=]" and "[=KeiRei=]" shippers, but it stays mild.
* TastesLikeDiabetes - The beginning of each arc. After that...
** A more straight, and even more sugary, example is Kokoroiyashi-hen. It has a TearJerker in it but then it goes straight back to the diabetes.
* SpecialEffectFailure: The passages where the girl's eyes shift to "split pupils" in the LiveActionAdaptation are a bit… conspicuous.
* TearJerker - [[TearJerker/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi And HOW.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many fans regard [[spoiler:Satoshi's reappearance]] in ''Kira'' as a pointless yaoi OneSceneWonder.
* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: Bipolar murder mystery anime on PCP.
* TheUntwist - [[spoiler:The manga arc ''Yoigoshi-hen'', which is in a Great Hinamizawa Disaster timeline, features a woman claiming to be Mion, but characters point out that Mion died 20 years ago, and "Mion" is shaken when she meets another major character who bears an uncanny resemblance to Satoshi. She even delivers a monologue that resembles Shion's speech in ''Watanagashi'' ("I'm the demon inside Mion!" etc. etc.). Yes, she's actually Shion. It's a bit different from ''Watanagashi'' though; Mion's ghost actually possesses Shion for most of the story.]]
** More generally, [[spoiler: the fact that Miyo Takano is the BigBad. She was so suspicious from the start that various fans were sure there'd be some other explanation for it. Nope, as it turns out.]]
* WhatAnIdiot - In the anime, after Keiichi [[spoiler:is almost killed by Shion posing as Mion, he narrowly gets away after being warned by her that if he sees her again, he shouldn't come near her. The next night, she comes and throws pebbles at his window. Being the kind of character he is, Keiichi goes down and talks to her. Naturally, she promptly stabs him]]. In the game and manga, this scene is played out in a somewhat more believable way.
** Also, in both that and Watanagashi-hen. [[spoiler:"YES! You've caught me, I'm the psychopathic murderer! Now, before I surrender to the cops outside, will one of you please follow me alone into this underground soundproof torture chamber?"]]
** [[spoiler:Rika, after finally escaping an everlasting cycle of paranoia, murder, torture and death, abandons all caution and and gets hit by a truck. Starting the entire goddamn thing all over again.]]
** [[spoiler: Irie-sensei not realising that Takano was just a bit [[MadScientist amoral]] and for that matter the BigBad of the series, given some of her less... subtle statements showing a certain lack of regard for ethics, as revealed by the flashbacks in Matsuribayashi-hen (Though granted, she had a [[{{Blackmail}} lot over his head]] and he might not have thought he could have done anything useful and gotten away with it).]]
** In Tatarigoroshi, [[spoiler:Mion perfectly knows what Keiichi was doing during the night of the festival, so she probably asks Rena and Rika to do as if he had gone to the festival as an alibi. Fine. Then they tell Keiichi to come to the trash field, probably to explain the whole deal to him. It doesn't occur to either Rena or Mion to explain him at least the basics while nobody is around; like the ''entire way'' back from school.]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong The rest is history.]] Granted, they couldn't guess it would turn ''that'' wrong, but they still had absolutely no reason to wait so much to tell him anything.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: It isn't despite the cheery beginning atmosphere of every episode, the cute faces and the flowers... It's more like NightmareFuel - or a BlackComedy.
* TheWoobie: '''Everyone.''' ''Especially'' Satoko.
* [[spoiler:WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Miyo Takano, as well as every main character who suffers from Hinamizawa syndrome.]]
* {{Woolseyism}}: The French version of the sound novel doesn't hesitate to take a few liberties with the original text, and they usually work extremely well.
** Hanyū's VerbalTic "Au au au !" becomes "Mééé euuuh !" [[hottip:*:pretty much untranslatable, but it basically expresses a childish and embarrassed protest]], which is incredibly cute and fitting; similarly, Rika's [[UnsoundEffect "Nipah~~*"]] becomes "Ehéééé~~*".
** Satoko is given a ''very'' elevated speech full of subjunctives and more or less obscure words, and uses the distant pronoun "vous" to adress everyone. Her nickname to Satoshi "Nii-nii" is also adapted as "Totoche".
** In lieu of "Kei-chan", [[TheGadFly Mion]] usually calls Keiichi "p'tit gars"[[hottip:*:pronounce "ptee gah"]] ("lil' guy") while [[TheTease Shion]] calls him "mon cœur" ("sweetheart"). They do call him "Kei" sometimes, but not often.
* WorldOfWoobie: You will have a hard time not sympathizing with at least once character here.
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