Episode
Higurashi: When They Cry: The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 4 - Distortion
Overview
Keiichi's despair reaches its peak. After being captured and sedated, he wakes up restrained by Mion and Rena, and they attempt to inject him with a mysterious drug. Keiichi murders them before taking his own life by clawing his throat.
Details
- Series
- Higurashi: When They Cry
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2006-04-26
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 4 - Distortion is Episode 4 in When They Cry of Higurashi: When They Cry. It aired on 2006-04-26. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 3: The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 3 - Suspicion
Delving further into the mysteries surrounding the village, Keiichi's paranoia grows after he starts to suspect that someone might be after his life.
Episode 5: The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 1 - Jealousy
Keiichi meets Mion's twin sister, Shion; the two are so identical that Keiichi can hardly tell the difference between them. It is also revealed that Mion has a crush on him.
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The annual Watanagashi Festival finally starts, and everyone has fun feasting and playing games. However, in the following day, Keiichi is interrogated by chief police officer, Oishi, about a crime that occurred at the night of the festival, and he starts fearing the villagers might be involved in this and other similar incidents, like Oishi suspects.
Episode 6: The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 2 - Takano
During Rika's ritual performance at the Watanagashi Festival, Shion whisks Keiichi away to sneak into the forbidden shrine warehouse, where Tomitake and his friend, Miyo Takano, are waiting. However, after learning about the other pair's fate, he starts to worry about his and Shion's safety.
Episode 1: The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 1 - The Beginning
Keiichi Maebara, a student who recently moved into the village of Hinamizawa, is invited by his new friends at school to join their club. But while searching for treasure at a garbage dump with Rena Ryugu, he discovers the village is not as peaceful as it seems.
Episode 7: The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 3 - Lie
Keiichi asks Rika for help, but when she and Satoko disappear, he starts fearing for the worse.
Episode 8: The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 4 - Wish
Keiichi and Rena suspect that Mion might be related to Rika and Satoko's disappearance, and confront her at her house. There, he learns from her about the burden she carries as the heir of the Sonozaki family, and tries to dissuade her to surrender herself without success.
Episode 9: The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 1 - Elder Brother
Keiichi's parents leave for Tokyo for a few days. Helped by Satoko and Rika, who makes dinner for him, Keiichi learns about Satoshi, Satoko's older brother, and his mysterious disappearance on the night of last year's Watanagashi.
Episode 10: The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 2 - Bond
Satoko is absent from school for a few days. After discovering that the cause of her absence is Teppei, her abusive uncle, who left Hinamizawa after his wife was murdered on the night of Watanagishi, but recently has returned, Keiichi decides to intervene.
Episode 11: The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 3 - Boundary
Keiichi comes to the resolution that he must kill Teppei. After brutally beating him to death with Satoshi's baseball bat, he buries the body, and on his way back home, Keiichi bumps into a suspiciously acting Takano.
Episode 12: The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 4 - Something Lost
Keiichi's mentality is shaken when his friends tells him that he was actually at the Watanagashi Festival with them and Satoko still bemoans her uncle's abuse, despite being sure about having him dead. His confusion grows when he tries to unsuccessfully find the truth.
Episode 13: The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 5 - Apology
Keiichi goes over to the Houjou residence to ascertain Teppei's existence and finds Satoko in need of clinical help. At the Furude Shrine, Keiichi discovers Rika's disemboweled body, and Satoko believes that Keiichi is the culprit and flees. After fruitlessly trying to convince her that he is not the murderer, disaster strikes the town of Hinamizawa.