When They Cry

Keiichi Maebara has recently moved to the quiet town of Hinamizawa, where his days are filled with school and games with his new local friends. The peaceful routine starts to fracture when he discovers information about a murder connected to the town. From that point, increasingly horrifying events make Keiichi question both Hinamizawa and the people closest to him. Friends who once seemed ordinary begin to appear less trustworthy than he assumed, while the town's hidden violence steadily intrudes on his everyday life. The mystery unfolds through a series of different scenarios that revisit its characters and unsettling events from changing perspectives.