Is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu is a TV series from Summer 2021 by Passione Co., Ltd.: 15 episodes, about 5.8 hours in total, finished, 6.74/10 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
- 15
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 5.8 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 2021
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Passione Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 6.74/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- coming of age, drama, gore, friendship, gaming, mythology, horror, magical girl, mystery, psychological, revenge, school, seinen, superpowers, 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 · drama · friendship · gaming · mythology · horror · magical girl · mystery · psychological · revenge · school · seinen · superpowers · supernatural · thriller · time travel · tragedy · urban fantasy · yuri.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu?
- About 5.8 hours for all 15 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 8 evenings.
- How many episodes does Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu have?
- 15 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu finished?
- Yes, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu is finished (15 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu listed?
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu is on AniList (id 131149) and MyAnimeList (id 48488); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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