At the start of the week I had no idea what to write about in my blog post that was until I started watching the seventh episode of Higurashi: When They Cry. The silly title aside the first six episodes of this show were relatively interesting. You had a young protagonist that recently moved into this peaceful, rural village and it seemed innocent enough until he uncovered a string of murders and disappearances. These tragedies starched back four years and all of them occurred on the evening of the Watanagashi Festival. One thing leads to the other and he finds himself the target of several attacks until on episode six when he dies. Needless to say I was surprised that the main character was killed off this early so I was curious as to how the story will progress from that point on. What was truly surprising was that the story just reset. I thought it was going to be retold from the perspective of another charters but as I continued watching some the events didn’t add up. This story was not the same story as the one I have seen before and that confused and intrigued me. The arc ended in a gruesome death and the episode after that the same thing happened again. The only consistencies I had found are that they all take place in the village and that they are all set after the Watanagashi Festival. I decided to do some research about the show and then it all made sense. The show is based on a choose- you-own-adventure game by the same title. Each arc represented a play though of the game with different choices resting in different endings. I have not yet finished the season and there is a second season so hopefully at the end it will all come together and make sense.