Is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou (Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW) is a TV series from Fall 2020 by Passione Co., Ltd.: 24 episodes, about 9.2 hours in total, finished, 7.21/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged horror, psychological, thriller, tragedy and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 24
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 9.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2020
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Passione Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.21/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- coming of age, demons, detective, drama, gore, gaming, mythology, historical, horror, mystery, psychological, reincarnation, school, seinen, supernatural, thriller, time travel, tragedy, urban fantasy, violence, yuri
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale.
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More like this: coming of age · demons · detective · drama · gaming · mythology · historical · horror · mystery · psychological · reincarnation · school · seinen · supernatural · thriller · time travel · tragedy · urban fantasy · yuri.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou?
- About 9.2 hours for all 24 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 12 evenings.
- How many episodes does Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou have?
- 24 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou finished?
- Yes, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou is finished (24 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou listed?
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou is on AniList (id 114446) and MyAnimeList (id 41006); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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