Hey guys, long time no proper talk?? I'm currently watching Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kaku. I never heard of it before, and I think because I watched the original Higurashi anime series in 2012 before the OVA was made, but today I finally discovered it so I'm talk a bit about what I think about this OVA.
Well first off, I think it's better to watch the whole anime series before watching this OVA as you don't really get to know the characters in the OVA as the story goes straight in as soon as the OVA starts. I myself haven't seen the anime in 3 years so I have forgotten most of the plot so without looking at any reference, I will try my best with this review.
So basically the story is set in 1983(I believe) and there is a virus and a whole village is blocked off from the whole area. No contact, no food or water, or telephones. People are scared, and some have no idea what is going on and want to escape, but there are external people stopping them from escaping. If they are caught trying to escape, or heard to want to escape, then they are usually killed.
Well let me tell you, this OVA is not for the light hearted, neither is the anime. There is quite graphical violence as we have weapons + blood which = gore. Shall we get back to the story?? Well the main protagonists are Keiichi, Mion and Rena, all of which are on a mission to escape from their village. Mion can be seen as the first character to take action and slice up some folks from the village. TBH I haven't seen any anime quite like Higurashi, even like Attack on Titan, there's a different feel to the type of gore they show, I guess you can say that I haven't quite found anything recent which has matched it yet, though maybe I'm just not looking far enough.
And well I won't revel anymore of the story-line, but you can see that there's quite a lot of potential for this OVA. As it is set before the actual anime takes place(I believe anyway, no research from me sorry), it really sets the scene of how they wound up where they were in the anime. Can't wait for the next episode, but why is it taking so long to release?? Maybe I'm missing something here, I'm just at 30 mins of the OVA, so that's all from my 30 minutes of knowledge. Well anyway, I'd give it a 8/10, it's a real must watch for any Higurashi fan, or anyone who loves a bit of anime gore with an interesting back story. I guess you can relate the virus story-line with the zombie stories which also include the release of a virus, though here we have people killing each other with a sort of knowledge of it happening. Anyway, g2g, really want to watch the rest of it haha. so good >< bye!!
*Ok edit, I realised that the story takes place after the anime series ended as Rika has the adult woman voice and talks to everyone without the problem of them not knowing. It makes sense too that everyone seems to have experience in fighting and survival from the previous events in the Higurashi anime.
