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''Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni'' (''When the Fireflies Glow'') is a 4 volume manga written by Ryûkishi07 and drawn by Koike Nokuto (known for ''6000'' and ''Kuromachi'') in the seinen magazine Monthly Action between 2016 and 2018. While it is related to the ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'' series and the initial setting is reminiscent of both ''Higurashi'' and ''Umineko'', the story this time leaves out the murder mysteries, being instead a survival horror with more overt supernatural elements, but more realistic visuals and character designs. Another notable difference is that all the characters are adults − the youngest one, Yue, is 19 years old, while Yukito and the cousins are in their mid-20s.

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''Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni'' (''When the Fireflies Glow'') is a 4 volume manga written by Ryûkishi07 Creator/Ryukishi07 and drawn by Koike Nokuto (known for ''6000'' and ''Kuromachi'') in the seinen magazine Monthly Action between 2016 and 2018. While it is related to the ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'' series and the initial setting is reminiscent of both ''Higurashi'' and ''Umineko'', the story this time leaves out the murder mysteries, being instead a survival horror with more overt supernatural elements, but more realistic visuals and character designs. Another notable difference is that all the characters are adults − the youngest one, Yue, is 19 years old, while Yukito and the cousins are in their mid-20s.
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* BackFromTheDead: Zig-zagged in a weird and horrible way. It seems like "death" works in a peculiar way in that "dimension". Notably shown in chapter 6 [[spoiler:when Nobuteru succumbs to his wounds. Yukito successfully ressuscitates him… several times, but Nobuteru keeps dying and coming back to life. At some point he seems to die for good, but when ogres come to dig him up from his grave he wakes up again, only to be killed again by the giant ogre.]] As for Grandma, [[spoiler:her soul died, but her body started to move again as a sort of seemingly unkillable clothes-ripping demon.]]
* BittersweetEnding: On one hand [[spoiler:Teruya, Terumi and her child and Yukito manage to escape from Hell and to rebuild their lives.]] On the other hand [[spoiler:the parents are DeaderThanDead, Takano can't return to the human world because she was DeadAllAlong, and Yue [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence chooses to remain in Hell to pray for the souls in pain.]]]]

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* BackFromTheDead: Zig-zagged in a weird and horrible way. It seems like "death" works in a peculiar way in that "dimension". Notably shown in chapter 6 [[spoiler:when Nobuteru succumbs to his wounds. Yukito successfully ressuscitates him… him... several times, but Nobuteru keeps dying and coming back to life. At some point he seems to die for good, but when ogres come to dig him up from his grave he wakes up again, only to be killed again by the giant ogre.]] As for Grandma, [[spoiler:her soul died, but her body started to move again as a sort of seemingly unkillable clothes-ripping demon.]]
* BittersweetEnding: On one hand [[spoiler:Teruya, Terumi and her child and Yukito manage to escape from Hell and to rebuild their lives.]] On the other hand [[spoiler:the parents are DeaderThanDead, Takano can't return to the human world because she was DeadAllAlong, and Yue [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence chooses to remain in Hell to pray for the souls in pain.]]]]pain]]]].



* LeftHanging: We never learn [[spoiler:what happened to Yue's mother nor why she disappeared.]]

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* LeftHanging: We never learn [[spoiler:what happened to Yue's mother nor why she disappeared.]]disappeared]].
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* BugsHeraldEvil: The characters being transported to the bizarre, hostile world is heralded by a host of fireflies floating around the place.
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''Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni'' (''When the Fireflies Glow'') was written by Ryûkishi07 and drawn by Koike Nokuto (known for ''6000'' and ''Kuromachi''), in the seinen magazine Monthly Action between 2016 and 2018. It is complete with 4 volumes. While it is related to the ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'' series and the initial setting is reminiscent of both ''Higurashi'' and ''Umineko'', the story this time leaves out the murder mysteries, being instead a survival horror with more overt supernatural elements, but more realistic visuals and character designs. Another notable difference is that all the characters are adults − the youngest one, Yue, is 19 years old, while Yukito and the cousins are in their mid-20s.

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''Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni'' (''When the Fireflies Glow'') was is a 4 volume manga written by Ryûkishi07 and drawn by Koike Nokuto (known for ''6000'' and ''Kuromachi''), ''Kuromachi'') in the seinen magazine Monthly Action between 2016 and 2018. It is complete with 4 volumes.2018. While it is related to the ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'' series and the initial setting is reminiscent of both ''Higurashi'' and ''Umineko'', the story this time leaves out the murder mysteries, being instead a survival horror with more overt supernatural elements, but more realistic visuals and character designs. Another notable difference is that all the characters are adults − the youngest one, Yue, is 19 years old, while Yukito and the cousins are in their mid-20s.
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* AlternateContinuity: The Takano of this series is apparently from a different timeline than the one in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' − the prologue takes place in the year Shouwa 58, which seems to indicate that this Takano never went to Hinamizawa. Seeing that [[spoiler:she has all 20 flags in her box]], she probably doesn't share Higurashi!Takano's backstory either.

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* AlternateContinuity: The Takano of this series is apparently from a different timeline than the one in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' − the prologue takes place in the year Shouwa 58, which seems to indicate that this Takano never went to Hinamizawa. Seeing that [[spoiler:she has all 20 flags in her box]], box]] and goes by the first name "Miyoko", she probably doesn't share Higurashi!Takano's backstory either.
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The manga got a French release by Komikku in May 2018.

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The manga got a French release by Komikku in May 2018.
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* MinimalistCast: The seven Tadamuras are literally the only characters in the story (save for a couple of {{Posthumous Character}}s [[spoiler:and Takano Miyo]]). Everyone else in the village has vanished. [[spoiler:And to make things worse, the three brothers die or get zombified in the span of a few chapters, leaving alive only four humans and Takano (who may or may not still be human).]]

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* MinimalistCast: The seven Tadamuras are literally the only characters in the story (save for a couple of {{Posthumous Character}}s [[spoiler:and Takano Miyo]]).and Takano). Everyone else in the village has vanished. [[spoiler:And to make things worse, the three brothers die or get zombified in the span of a few chapters, leaving alive only four humans and Takano (who may or may not still be human).]]

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