![]() On top of that, there are plenty of other unrelated visual novels that each have their own unique charms and distinctions, and there are plenty of manga and anime adaptations (some better than others) that have truly set the series as one of the success stories of the doujin scene, reaching fame and even being mainstream in the anime world. Millions of people around the world now know and love the various works of 07 th Expansion, not just limited to Higurashi but also with the other installments of the When They Cry visual novel series, those being Umineko When They Cry and Ciconia When They Cry. The most obvious distinction now is that he is no longer a nobody: The modern TV anime of Higurashi When They Cry, the Gou and Sotsu arcs, are trending towards the top of the anime popularity charts this season. He would have still been writing Higurashi at the time, probably planning out the ending.ġ9 years later, Ryukishi07 (we still don’t know his real name) has written and done a lot. He and his circle of family and friends known as 07 th Expansion still kept plugging on, spending hours upon hours to see his story through to the end, even if it took him longer than a university degree’s worth of time. Yet he still had the spirit to give away free copies of future games to those who would give him feedback by email. He had no expectations, and it was warranted: Higurashi no naku koro ni: Onikakushi-hen sold only 5 copies at the summer Comiket of 2002, and he approached and was turned down by many a store afterwards. (Oh yeah, it was also some kind of weird murder mystery with some occult stuff, who cares amirite?) In August 2002, an 29 year old former social worker sat down at his designated booth in the Tokyo Big Sight convention centre to sell a little CD that contained the fruits of his work on a dinky old PC, an NScripter visual novel with terrible sound equalization and some hilariously bad character art. Content warning: Bloody picture and gory description.
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