07th Expansion's Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is an incredibly violent murder mystery involving moe girls in the 1980s. Despite the bizarre conceit, it was very good and managed to get a huge fan following. It went from a doujin sound novel series to a two season anime and also recieved several manga adaptations and two film productions. The first season even managed to get licensed by Geneon and picked up by Funimation several months ago.
According to ANN, now you'll have a chance to play the original game. Follow through the jump for more info.
Announced at Anime Expo, MangaGamer.com has licensed the first eight parts of Higurashi, which should include the four question chapters and four answer chapters from the original release. MangaGamer says they will be releasing the first part in October and releasing the next part two months later.
As Higurashi is niche even in its own market, being a murder mystery in a market where the general idea is to always stick it in. It'll be interesting to see how it does, because then we might see bigger eroge and other types of games getting translated. Well, at least I hope it does, because I wouldn't mind having an official version of Tsukihime or Fate/Stay Night on my hard drive.
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