A press release from D-Techno reported a collaboration with the CLANNAD multimedia franchise , through the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni ( Higurashi: When They Cry ) franchise smartphone game , titled Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Mei. . The collaboration inspires a special event that will be available within the app in Japan from August 13 to 27 this year.
The game is based on the new animation project by Passione Studios and features a completely new and original story written by Kanou Kiichi , in collaboration with Ryukishi07 . The installment was released in September 2020 in Japan for iOS and Android, and there are no global launch plans to date.
The first season of the franchise's new project premiered in Japan in October 2020 and ran for a total of twenty-four episodes, with Funimation in charge of its distribution in the West. A second season premiered on July 1 with a one-hour special that includes the first two episodes. Finally, the series is based entirely on a set of visual novels whose first installment was released in Japan in 2002. From there multiple adaptations to manga, anime and live-action projects started.
Sinopsis de Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou
On a warm summer day in 1983, transfer student Maebara Keiichi arrives in a peaceful rural town in Hinamizawa. There, he befriends his classmates Rena, Mion, Rika, and Satoko. Accepted as an official member of the "club," Keiichi and the gang engage in various activities such as card and board games, as well as hide and seek. But just as Keiichi was starting to get used to life in the countryside, he came across the dark story behind Hinamizawa. As Keiichi unravels this dark mystery, he discovers that his new friends may not be what they appear to be.
Source: Official Twitter Account
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