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- Region：Japan
- Type：OVA
- English name：Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei / Higurashi: When They Cry – Rei
- Official name：ひぐらしのなく頃に礼
- Chinese name：寒蝉鸣泣之时 礼
- Other names：寒蝉鸣泣之时 第三期(OVA) / 暮蝉鸣泣时礼
- Premiered：February 25, 2009
- Status：Finished Airing
- Tags：Suspense / Horror / Seek novelty / Source Gal
- Original author：竜騎士07 / 07th Expansion
- Director：川瀬敏文
- Scenario：川瀬敏文
- Storyboard：川瀬敏文 / 斉藤哲人
- Co-director：吉田俊司 / やしろ駿(山口祐司)
- Studios：Studio DEEN(スタジオディーン)
- Production cooperation：デジタルネットワークアニメーション
- Copyright：(C)2009竜騎士07 / 雛見沢御三家
- Family：Higurashi: When They Cry
- Rating：16+
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei
At first all is just fun and games for the club members, but soon the situation becomes much more involved and tense.
Rika feels strange and more and more distant, and begins to sense that the same tragedies of the past will reoccur, understanding that destiny is something that cannot be changed.
She now has to decide, either to get involved by trying to avoid those old mistakes, or simply to give in to a tragic destiny.
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EP1 - Shame Exposing Chapter
When he realizes he forgot to pack his bathing suit while rushing to meet his friends at the pool, Keiichi borrows a pair of trunks from Mion's uncle, who claims that these trunks have the magical ability to make women attracted to whoever writes their name on them and wears them for three hours. Mion hears from her uncle that he had made a mistake in describing the abilities of the trunks, and that the person whose name is written on the briefs will fall in love with the wearer, meaning Keiichi, who had written his own name on them, will fall in love with himself. The girls try to talk him into taking the trunks off. Keiichi thinks it's a trick so they can force him to wear an embarrassing pair of trunks they provided. The girls rally everyone at the pool to chase him down and retrieve the trunks by force, even going as far as turning Keiichi's only supporters (Tomitake, Oishi, and Irie) against each other to fight over wearing the trunks for themselves. Finally, the trunks are removed before time runs out. The naked Keiichi still refuses to wear the girls' embarrassing trunks.
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EP2 - Dice Killing Chapter Part 1
Now that she and her friends are finally free from the eternally repeating tragedies of June 1983, Rika has a new lease on life. While biking with her friends, Rika carelessly collides with an oncoming truck and is apparently killed; when she awakens, she finds herself in another Hinamizawa. However, this world is quite different from other worlds in the past: Keiichi, Takano, Irie, and Hanyuu are nowhere to be found; she is no longer close friends with anybody. Satoko is particularly hostile. The dam project that threatens to flood the town is still underway and none of the successive tragedies she witnessed countless times happened at all, meaning Satoshi and her own parents are still around. For the first time in the story, Rika has no idea what to do.
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EP3 - Dice Killing Chapter Part 2
Rika makes contact with Hanyuu, who tells her that for her to return to her old world, she must find and dispose of a piece from her old world that prevents Hanyuu from entering this new world. This is what prevents Rika from reincarnating. If this piece turns out to be a person, for instance, she must kill that person. She is initially eager to find the item and return to her old world, especially when she responds to Satoko's bullying by assaulting her. Shortly afterward, Rika experiences what life with a mother is like, and begins building a new friendship with Mion, Rena, and Satoshi, as well as making peace with Satoko. Rika now feels it's all a matter of deciding which world she would rather like to stay in until she learns that her mother, who is revealed to be the reincarnation of Oyashiro, not Rika, is the item she must dispose of.
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EP4 - Dice Killing Chapter Part 3
Rika becomes torn between remaining in this new world that knows no sin and where everyone is living contently, or killing her mother and returning to her old world. She learns that she does not have much time to act. Rika decides to fight for what she wants to live for. The next thing she knows, she awakens from a coma in her old world and happily reunites with her friends, the other world having apparently been a dream. Rika concludes she must have killed her mother to regain consciousness. Unbeknownst to her, the dream was developed by Hanyuu to teach Rika that people need to work past personal hardships in order to make life worth living.
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EP5 - Daybreak Chapter
During a picnic with Keiichi, Rena accidentally swallows one of the mysterious Fuwazaru Magatama which falls from the sky, and begins acting lovesick. Rika explains that the seal on the magatama has been broken, and that whoever possesses the red magatama will fall blindly in love with anyone holding its white counterpart. Everyone reasons that Rena must have swallowed the red magatama and sets out to stop her and find the white magatama. It winds up in the possession of Tomitake, then Takano, and finally Oishi, each of whom gradually come to accept her love under the magatama's curse. Keiichi manages to obtain the magatama after beating Rena and Oishi with Akasaka in a game of mahjong. Oishi fumbles it and Keiichi ends up accidentally swallowing it as well. Rika lifts the curse before Keiichi can fall under its power, and Rena returns to normal. Rena, who is grateful to Keiichi for helping her, expresses her feelings toward him, though she isn't sure if it's part of the magatama's power. Tomitake and Takano still appear to be infatuated with Rena and fight over who gets to keep her.
