Himatsubushi-hen

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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
~Himatsubushi-hen~
Himatsubushi-hen cover
Developer(s) Flag of Japan 07th Expansion
Publisher(s) Flag of Japan 07th Expansion
Platform(s) PC
Release date August 13, 2004
Genre(s) Dōjin, Visual novel
Mode(s) Single player
System requirements OS: Windows Vista/XP/2000/Me/98, 400 MHz Pentium II, 128 MB RAM, 8x CD-ROM Drive, 400 MB of HDD space, DirectSound, DirectX 8.0a or higher, 640x480 Full color display

Himatsubushi-hen (暇潰し編 Time Wasting Chapter?) is the title of the fourth game of the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni series and additionally is the last game of the "question" arc, spanning a total of four games. It was first released on August 13, 2004 at Comiket 66. Later, a manga was adapted from this part of the story. Finally, in the anime series, Himatsubushi-hen spans the episodes fourteen and fifteen of the first season.

[edit] Plot

As the player made through the first three chapters, they will have all the pieces of the puzzle at hand. Now it is time to put them together. Himatsubushi-hen is a prequel to the first three chapters. In contrast to the first three chapters, this chapter is shown through the eyes of Mamoru Akasaka and occurs years before the previous chapters. He is a young elite police investigator from Tokyo who came to investigate a kidnapping of a politician's child. Little does he know that he has stepped foot into a village that holds dark secrets. This chapter focuses mainly on Rika Furude as being the key part of the mystery.

[edit] Manga

The Himatsubushi-hen manga illustrated by Yoshiki Tonogai was first serialized in the Japanese manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Gangan. Later, the individual chapters were collected into two bound volumes published by Square Enix.
Himatsubushi-hen Vol. 1 Himatsubushi-hen Vol. 2
Vol. 1: ISBN 978-4-7575-1741-7
Vol. 2: ISBN 978-4-7575-1825-4

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