Is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai (Higurashi no Nakukoro ni 2nd Season) is a TV series from Summer 2007 by Studio Deen Co., Ltd.: 24 episodes, about 9.6 hours in total, finished, 8.16/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 9.6 hours for the run, 12 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
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
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 9.6 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 2007
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Studio Deen Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 8.16/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- comedy, mythology, detective, drama, gore, fantasy, friendship, gaming, harem, historical, horror, military, mystery, politics, psychological, revenge, school, seinen, supernatural, thriller, time travel, tragedy, urban fantasy, violence
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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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai?
- About 9.6 hours for all 24 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 12 evenings.
- How many episodes does Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai have?
- 24 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai finished?
- Yes, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai is finished (24 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai good for a group?
- Yes. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai listed?
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai is on AniList (id 1889) and MyAnimeList (id 1889); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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