In the village of Hinamizawa, Keiichi Maebara and his friends live their everyday lives peacefully and without incident. Having just moved to the town, Keiichi finds himself with no shortage of new friends. One of the youngest of this group, Satoko Houjou, plays many pranks on her friends and is always cheerful. But behind her smile lies a dark past, filled with personal heartache.

Despite all of the tragedy in her life, Satoko is still able to find happiness. Keiichi, who admires her resilient spirit, begins to think of himself as a brother figure and her protector. But when her uncle Teppei returns to town, Satoko begins showing signs of abuse. Keiichi longs to return his friend to her former happy self… so much so, that he starts to consider doing something drastic to keep her safe.

When Keiichi Maebara moved to the small village of Hinamizawa, he did not expect to make friends so quickly. Now Keiichi's days are spent having fun and playing games with his new companions, and his life couldn't be better. However, one day he sees one of his friends, the tomboyish Mion Sonozaki, working at a maid café. Deciding to tease her about it, his initial joking quickly turns to shock as the girl reveals that she is actually Mion's twin sister, Shion.

As luck would have it, both girls want to spend the annual Cotton Drifting Festival by Keiichi's side. But when Shion breaks the town's sacred rules and sneaks into a sealed shrine during the festival, dragging Keiichi along with her, things take a turn for the worse. Now, Keiichi and Shion find themselves in fear of being spirited away due to their mistake and must find a way to atone before it is too late.

The story of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is divided into a total of eight chapters: four "Question" arcs and four "Answer" arcs. Each chapter keeps the same main characters, but ends in a different way. However, each chapter gives valuable answers, hints, and clues to the previous one, while at the same time bringing forth even more mysteries.

The question arcs are:

- 1. [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Onikakushi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/8975)
- 2. [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Watanagashi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/2523)
- 3. [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Tatarigoroshi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/2524)
- 4. [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Himatsubushi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/2525)

The answer arcs are:

- 5. [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Meakashi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/2539)
- 6. [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Tsumihoroboshi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/2540)
- 7. [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Minagoroshi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/2582)
- 8. [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Matsuribayashi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/2602)

The side story arcs are:

- [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Onisarashi-hen](https://mangadex.org/titlea/2607)
- [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Yoigoshi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/2622)
- [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - Utsutsukowashi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/2616)
- [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Hirukowashi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/2771)
- [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Kokoroiyashi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/19298)
- [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Kataribanashi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/2773)
- [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei - Saikoroshi-hen](https://mangadex.org/title/23402)
- [Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jan](https://mangadex.org/title/2772)

A guest from the planet of happiness, the alien Takopi, arrives on Earth to spread happiness throughout the Earth and meets Shizuka, a girl who never smiles. Looks like she has problems at school and with friends... What will the simple-minded Takopi face? An amazing story begins!

A pure but unusual love story of a girl who ventures into femdom.

The anti-cybercrime section of Tokyo is on the edge. A man wearing a newspaper mask posts videos online predicting the worst crimes: rapes, assaults, fires...
The twist? The day after, his prophecies have been completed on the front of the TV news. Who is he?
How does he do this? What are his motivations, his ambitions? It's the start of a race against time which leads the inspectors to an empty seat in a cybercafe in the outskirts of Tokyo. But while the investigation is blocked, the popular support grows around this mysterious figure. Dropouts, employees tyrannized by their hierarchy, web users accustomed to chat and forums discussions: more and more are finding themselves included in his fight.

Decades ago, the tiny town of Hanaizawa was cut off from the rest of the world by an invisible wall, a wall that nothing living can pass through. The younger residents have grown up only knowing the outside world through what they see and hear in the media. These are the stories of their everyday lives, the good and the bad, as they live out their days in a tiny town that no one can enter and no one can leave -- a town which, by its isolated nature, is destined to fade away.

In order to treat his sister's mental illness, the young man Leo resorts to treatment through magic. There, he meets a magician, Oswald, who enters the patient's psyche in order to treat them. In a world filled with Madness, will they be able to save the patient's heart and get out alive...

One day, Nana, who has always wanted to get married, has a fateful encounter. Unfortunately, she had to endure violence since the marriage, so she decided to kill her husband and put his corpse in a freezer, but things aren't always like one want as she finds out when he comes back…

In the near future: A world renowned mathematician / physicist Francis Dullam loses his left brain hemisphere and retires from hard science to study dolphins. Several years later he comes up with the new thesis which is essentially a collection of dolphin footage. As the "thesis" is being severely criticized by the media, Ishii Mitsunari (a student living in America) discovers the idea hidden there, that will help to create the true Artificial Intelligence.
Motivated to create the AI first Mitsunari leaves for Okinawa to follow the footsteps of Dullam.

Michiru is a happy child who loves to skate. During her childhood, she meets Leon, a cute innocent boy. They begin to ice dance together. But as she has a conflict with her mom, she plans to run away with Leon. Leon, considering the danger, declines Michiru. Hurt by this, Michiru runs away by herself. Finding out that Michiru has run away, Leon and others search for her, finding her in the skating rink. But the Michiru they find standing in the rink no longer has the smile that the old Michiru had!?

"My body is female, but inside I am male." High school student Ryuu, while struggling with dysphoria and acceptance, meets Jin, a man who loves clothes, and his life starts to change.

Demolish clothes that are "obvious" and "discomforting"!! A rugged style fashion story!

"I woke up in the hospital with nothing but fragments of memories from my life up to now. There was a man standing by my bed, who introduced himself as my lover. But one of my few recollections is of being left for dead in a snowy field by this very same man...

Still, he looks like the only one who can provide me with the answers I need. Who the hell is he? What was the real relationship between the two of us?"

Shota meets loli with wings, the conservative society don't approve of this... and now they are in trouble!

There's a new student at St. George International School, and soon he becomes one of the most talked-about students. Even though it's an international school in Tokyo, Japan, the new student (Yonogi Dai) is a Japanese boy. Dai was raised in the US and recently came to Japan for the first time.

Dai turns out to be a distant person, uncaring about other people and those who want to be his friends. He looks quite cute and gentle but he's actually unsocial and can be harsh. Jerry Morton who's very popular and well liked among the student just wants to ignore this cold Dai, but being the kind hearted (and nosy) boy that he is, he begins to approach Dai.

Jerry and Marty and their other friends soon find out that indeed Dai is rather difficult to deal with, but it doesn't take long before Dai becomes their friend. However, sometimes when they feel that Dai is getting closer to them he would say or do something that shows that he doesn't really think them as his close friends.

The story then begins to unfold itself. Dai's new friends start to discover the truth about the mysteries surrounding Dai. Why he's in Japan, about his family, about Ken in the States who seems to be the only one he's having personal contact with, and about his relation to a very famous game, "Sabbath Child". They discover the real Dai just like Dai discovers his true friends in life, and also himself along the way.

Reiko, Kazu and Yukari are three childhood friends with a good relationship. Reiko, the self-proclaimed older sister of the group, tells herself that they are like family, and throws away
her love for Kazu. As for Yukari, she also has feelings for Kazu. Thus, one day, the relationship between the three begins its gradual descent into madness... A shocking psycho-love story between young people begins!!

Age 41, Oh Joong Seok. A man who did all kinds of misdeeds and put his life on the line for the organisation to gain the highest position. But who knew the end of his life would be so miserable… Joong Seok’s ‘virtuous living’ project starts now, one by one.

Large mysterious alien ships have been looming above Japanese towns for three years, filling the sky. Everything changed three years ago. And yet, nothing has changed.
No weapon used against the invaders' ships had any success, beyond destroying part of Japan and leaving its economy in shambles. JSDF is fighting a guerrilla battle against the aliens all over Japan. America is joining the 'war' effort with more aggressive tactics, dividing Japan over the pacifist principle laid out in Article 9 of the Japanese constitution. But this may just be the mundane story of young high schoolers.
"No matter what happens, I won't back down.
At least not until this world filled with lies and deceit crumbles away. The real threat to humankind is not invaders, but me."

From ANN:
Many good things are linked with water, but not here. From the murder of a small child whose body was never found, to the creatures that lurk in the depths. All the tales are linked to water, and each conclude with a shocking end.

From Wikipedia:
A manga version of Koji Suzuki's book Dark Water, illustrated by Meimu. Just like the book, it's a collection of short horror stories linked to water.

In this world, when human beings reach the age of 12, their bodies gradually change to the genders they wish to be. And by the time they are 14 years old, their appearances change to reflect their genders. But by spring of my eighteenth year, I am still without a gender...

Left to himself at an early age in the slummiest parts of today’s Japan, Kiichi learns how to survive on his own. As a teenager, how can he adapt to a society whose rules he rejects? Unless he creates his own rules… Kiichi, a raw icon of strength and integrity, stands alone against the world’s injustice and becomes an unforgettable character.