Episodes

Keiichi Maebara, a student who recently moved into the village of Hinamizawa, is invited by his new friends at school to join their club. But while searching for treasure at a garbage dump, he discovers the village is not as peaceful as it seems. || Keiichi moves to a peaceful village: he joins an after school club, meets four nice girls; life is pleasant. That is, until he discovers the village’s dark history. Source: HIDIVE

The Cotton Drifting Festival is coming up and everyone goes to have a day of fun. During the festival, Keiichi gets separated from everyone and he meets Tomitake the photographer again, who later tells him more about the shocking past of Hinamizawa. || Keiichi learns about the village’s guardian deity, Oyashiro, and what Tomitake and Takano call “Oyashiro’s Curse”. Source: HIDIVE

Delving further into the mysteries surrounding the village, Keiichi's paranoia grows after he starts to suspect that someone might be after his life. || Becoming more and more paranoid with each discovery he makes, Keiichi stays home from school to research the village’s mysteries. Source: HIDIVE

Unnerved by Rena and Mion's menacing behavior, Keiichi begins to distance himself from his former friends — but it might already be too late. || Keiichi’s paranoia reaches the tipping point as he gets a visit from Rena, and then both Rena and Mion. The police know what happened, but the mystery isn’t solved. Source: HIDIVE

Keiichi meets his friends in town to win prizes at a card game. Afterwards, at a restaurant, he is surprised to see Mion as a waitress, and even more surprised to find out it's not actually Mion. || Time rewinds and resets. Keiichi finds out that Mion has a twin named Shion and that they have a little secret. Source: HIDIVE

The day for the Cotton Drifting Festival has arrived, and during Rika's ritual performance, Keiichi is taken to see the sacred festival storehouse. || Keiichi learns about Oyashiro’s Curse. On the night of the festival, Shion takes Keiichi to meet Tomitake and Takano at the ritual tool shed of Oyashiro, and Takano theorizes. Source: HIDIVE

Keiichi indirectly confesses to Rika about sneaking into the forbidden shrine, and he fears his admission may have put Rika and Satako's lives in danger. || Rika seems to know more than she’s letting on. Shion blames herself for the village leader’s disappearance, and that may not be far off. Source: HIDIVE

The truth behind the recent incidents and the dark origins of Hinamizawa finally start to unravel as Keiichi and Rena decide to confront their suspect. || Rena and Keiichi suspect that Mion is behind the disappearance of Rika and Satoko. When they question her about it, they get a chilling response. Source: HIDIVE

When Keiichi's parents leave for Tokyo for a few days, Satoko and Rika offer to help him around the house and he learns about the mysterious disappearance of Satoko's older brother, Satoshi. || Time resets once again, and Keiichi is left alone for a few days while his parents go to Tokyo. Keiichi learns about the disappearance of Satoko’s brother, Satoshi. Source: HIDIVE

Satoko has been absent from school, and Keiichi starts to worry about her family situation after discovering the cause of her absence. || Satoko is mysteriously absent from school for a few days, and Keiichi investigates why. The reasons take him into dangerous territory. Source: HIDIVE

After strange encounters with Takano, Dr. Irie, and Inspector Oishi, Keiichi starts to question whether the previous night's incident actually occurred. || Confused when his friends say he was with them the night of the festival, Keiichi is more shaken by the fact that Satoko’s uncle is still hurting her. Source: HIDIVE

When Keiichi heads to Satoko's house and finds her in need of medical attention, he becomes convinced that Oyashiro-sama's curse may be the cause of all these recent misfortunes. || Keiichi goes to investigate why Teppei is still harming Satoko, only to find her extremely injured. After taking her to the hospital, they make some alarming discoveries. Source: HIDIVE

Four years ago, during the Hinamizawa dam incident, young police investigator Mamoru Akasaka comes to the village to investigate a child kidnapping, where he meets young Rika. || Four years ago, a police investigator named Mamoru Akasaka was sent to the village to investigate a kidnapping relating to the dam construction. Source: HIDIVE

Mamoru and Oishi discover some important clues, and head to the district of Takatsudo to continue the search for the Cabinet Minister's son. Little do they know, there are much more sinister forces at work. || Rika has a rather disturbing conversation with Akasaka, which he relates to Oishi a few years later. Source: HIDIVE

The events from The Cotton Drifting Chapter are retold from another point of view. After two years away from the village, Shion comes back to Hinamizawa. || Time rewinds to episode five but from Shion’s point of view, offering a look into the intricacies of the Sonozaki family. Source: HIDIVE

The recent incident at school has left Shion feeling very uneasy. She is able to muster the courage to call Satoshi, only to receive an apology from him. Something doesn't seem right. || When Shion is discovered to be living as Mion, she is taken to her family estate. After confessing a family insulting secret, Shion is forced to torture herself. Source: HIDIVE

When Shion decides to investigate Satoshi's disappearance, she meets Takano at the library, who tells her more about the dark history of Hinamizawa. The very next year, the past begins to repeat itself. || Shion learns that Satoshi has disappeared and looks deeper into the murders that span the last four years. Source: HIDIVE

Shion overhears a conversation between Mion and her grandmother and begins to suspect her family may be involved in the recent events. || Shion is convinced that her own family is responsible in some way for the numerous disappearances plaguing the village. With that in mind, she takes action. Source: HIDIVE

After questioning Headmaster Kimiyoshi for information about the previous murders and Satoshi's disappearance, Shion sets her sights on another one of the Three Great Families. || Torturing the village leader for information regarding Satoshi only leads Shion to confronting Rika about the murders. Source: HIDIVE

Shion tricks Keiichi into thinking that he may have put his friends in danger. However, when he figures out the truth, Shion is confronted by Keiichi and Rena. || Shion’s madness reaches its peak and she falls deeper into its clutches despite Keiichi’s heartfelt wish to save both her and Mion. Source: HIDIVE

After a day of summer fun, Rena goes to the garbage dump, where she begins to remember things from her troubling family background. || A water gun fight leads to the losers working the day at the Café owned by Mion and Shion’s uncle. However, Rena makes a painful discovery about her father’s girlfriend. Source: HIDIVE

Rena learns of Rina's plot, and a confrontation at the deserted garbage dump triggers another disastrous chain of events. || Rena investigates her father’s expenses and worries about him. Away from others, she has a conversation with Rina that goes downhill. Source: HIDIVE

While studying Takano's scrapbooks, Rena starts to uncover the the truth behind Oyashiro-sama's curse and Hinamizawa's dark past. || Rena discovers the truth behind the village’s “curse” and subsequently the truth about Oyashiro and what really caused the murders. Source: HIDIVE

By discovering the truth behind Oyashiro-sama's curse, Rena has become a target of one of the Three Great Families, and she decides to go into hiding. || When Mion makes a change, Rena loses the trust she had in her friends and she begins to fall victim to madness. Keiichi makes a strangely hopeful confession. Source: HIDIVE

Rena has returned, but not for the right reasons, as she causes a serious crisis at the school, and demands the police investigate the Three Great Families' connection to Oyashiro-sama's curse. What will become of Keiichi and his friends? || Fully giving in to the insanity, Rena is threatening the entire school. As the two friends fight, they may discover a way to someday become free of their entanglement. Source: HIDIVE