Wickedly unique, wickedly scary and importantly, wickedly entertaining. Higurashi delivers alot for most anime viewers will enjoy.
To start things off, Higurashi is about a town who is under the influence of a demonic god and a curse, but all is not as it seems. The anime follows the paths of the 5 main characters, Keichi, Mion/Shion, Rena, Satoko and Rika. An almost harem group but again, like i said, all isn't as it seems.
Higurashi is all about the violence, scare tactics, torture, brutality, paranoia, curses etc. This anime is impressive in the way that outside its all cute and pretty, but inside its all doom and gloom.
The story is made up of several arcs, the first half are 'question' arcs, stories that don't make much sense until the 'answer' arcs in the second half come along. But yet, this unique direction in story-telling isn't strong, the sense of deja-vu and confusion are this anime's main flaws unfortunately, despite alot of the questions making sense, theres oh so much more, and the stories overlapping each other with the curse does get annoying and almost forgettable towards the end.
However, despite the somewhat less-than-polished storyplot, the stories are huge fun to watch, lots of atmosphere and tension as well as the obligatory shock value. The shock value is one talking point in the anime, there's something discerning about playing 'russion-roulette' (:P) with a knife by yourself, or cutting your whole fingernails off, or even the occasional child abuse, but all of this is for entertainment value and it delivers effectively and with honour. Too brutal? Maybe, but its stuff like this which makes animes like Elfen Lied and Akira such stand-out animes from the rest, if shock value is one way to make these animes more special, im backing them 100%.
Overall, a shocking anime that delivers alot, but fails to live up to the storyplot.
Overall: 8.5/10
Grade: A-
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