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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kaku ~Outbreak~ Trailer Posted
posted on by Egan Loo
The official Niconico channel for the Higurashi Project began streaming a trailer for the new Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kaku ~Outbreak~ anime on Tuesday.
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The new anime adapts the short story "Higurashi Outbreak" by Higurashi no Naku Koro ni creator Ryukishi07 (07th Expansion). Toshifumi Kawase, the series script supervisor of the previous Higurashi anime projects and the director of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei, is helming the new anime. Souichiro Hoshi, Mai Nakahara, and Satsuki Yukino are reprising their roles in the voice cast.
"Higurashi Outbreak" is set in the same Hinamizawa village of the previous stories. The village has been completely sealed off due to a mysterious virus in 1983, and Keiichi Maebara and Rena Ryūgū deal with the outbreak.
07th Expansion's original Higurashi no Naku Koro ni visual novel software revolved around murders that coincide with an annual festival in a quiet rural village. The software inspired two television anime series, several video anime projects, two live-action films, and manga adaptations by several artists.
