It's not paranoia... if they really are trying to kill you!
S01E09: The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 1 - Elder Brother
Keiichi's parents leave for Tokyo for a few days. Helped by Satoko and Rika, who makes dinner for him, Keiichi learns about Satoshi, Satoko's older brother, and his mysterious disappearance on the night of last year's Watanagashi.
Overview
After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had occurred in Hinamizawa. From this point on, horrific events unfold in front of Keiichi, as he soon learns his close friends may not be all that they seem.
Episodes
S01E01 The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 1 - The Beginning
April 5, 2006 6.7 24 min
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 with Rena...
The annual Watanagashi Festival finally starts, and everyone has fun feasting and playing games. However, in the following day, Keiichi is interrogated by chief police officer, Oishi, about a crime that occurred at the night...
S01E04 The Hidden Demon Chapter - Part 4 - Distortion
April 26, 2006 8.0 24 min
Keiichi's despair reaches its peak. After being captured and sedated, he wakes up restrained by Mion and Rena, and they attempt to inject him with a mysterious drug. Keiichi murders them before taking his own...
S01E05 The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 1 - Jealousy
May 3, 2006 4.0 24 min
Keiichi meets Mion's twin sister, Shion; the two are so identical that Keiichi can hardly tell the difference between them. It is also revealed that Mion has a crush on him.
S01E06 The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 2 - Takano
May 10, 2006 4.0 24 min
During Rika's ritual performance at the Watanagashi Festival, Shion whisks Keiichi away to sneak into the forbidden shrine warehouse, where Tomitake and his friend, Miyo Takano, are waiting. However, after learning about the other pair's...
S01E08 The Floating Cotton Chapter - Part 4 - Wish
May 24, 2006 6.0 24 min
Keiichi and Rena suspect that Mion might be related to Rika and Satoko's disappearance, and confront her at her house. There, he learns from her about the burden she carries as the heir of the...
S01E09 The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 1 - Elder Brother
May 31, 2006 6.0 24 min
Keiichi's parents leave for Tokyo for a few days. Helped by Satoko and Rika, who makes dinner for him, Keiichi learns about Satoshi, Satoko's older brother, and his mysterious disappearance on the night of last...
Satoko is absent from school for a few days. After discovering that the cause of her absence is Teppei, her abusive uncle, who left Hinamizawa after his wife was murdered on the night of Watanagishi,...
S01E11 The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 3 - Boundary
June 14, 2006 6.0 24 min
Keiichi comes to the resolution that he must kill Teppei. After brutally beating him to death with Satoshi's baseball bat, he buries the body, and on his way back home, Keiichi bumps into a suspiciously...
S01E12 The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 4 - Something Lost
June 21, 2006 6.0 24 min
Keiichi's mentality is shaken when his friends tells him that he was actually at the Watanagashi Festival with them and Satoko still bemoans her uncle's abuse, despite being sure about having him dead. His confusion...
S01E13 The Cursed Murder Chapter - Part 5 - Apology
June 28, 2006 6.0 24 min
Keiichi goes over to the Houjou residence to ascertain Teppei's existence and finds Satoko in need of clinical help. At the Furude Shrine, Keiichi discovers Rika's disemboweled body, and Satoko believes that Keiichi is the...
S01E14 The Time Wasting Chapter - Part 1 - Hinamizawa
July 5, 2006 4.0 24 min
Four years ago, during the dam incident, young police investigator Mamoru Akasaka comes to Hinamizawa to find leads to a child kidnapping. After hearing an enigmatic warning from a younger Rika, Mamoru becomes suspicious of...
Akasaka and Oishi find the kidnappers' hideout and rescue the boy. After discovering that their efforts were in vain because the perpetrators' demand was already conceded, he realizes the real meaning behind Rika's words to...
S01E16 The Detective Chapter - Part 1 - First Love
July 19, 2006 6.0 24 min
The events from Watanagashi-hen are retold from another point of view. Shion takes Mion's place in Hinamizawa and is lovestruck by Satoko's older brother, Satoshi, at their first meeting together. But after discovering about the...
S01E17 The Detective Chapter - Part 2 - Distinction
July 26, 2006 6.0 24 min
Satoshi apologizes to Shion (still pretending to be Mion), and asks her to care for Satoko during the Watanagashi Festival. That night, his aunt is murdered; in order to cover for Satoshi, Shion reveals that...
S01E18 The Detective Chapter - Part 3 - Demon's Blood
August 2, 2006 6.0 24 min
Upon talking with Ōishi, Shion finds out Satoshi has gone missing and decides to investigate further into the mysterious murders over the past four years. One day at the library, Shion meets Takano, who tells...
S01E19 The Detective Chapter - Part 4 - Retaliation
August 9, 2006 6.0 24 min
Shion believes the Sonozaki family is connected to the acts of "demoning away" people in the village, especially that of Satoshi. She imprisons Mion in the dungeon and unintentionally kills her grandmother. Shion pretends to...
S01E20 The Detective Chapter - Part 5 - Cold Hands
August 16, 2006 6.0 24 min
Shion has captured the village head and gets information about the town involving the previous murders and Satoshi. Later, Shion confronts Rika about the murders, leading to a confrontation between the two. Once night falls,...
S01E21 The Detective Chapter - Part 6 - Conviction
August 23, 2006 7.0 24 min
Shion tricks Keiichi in a phone call and later tricks the townsfolk in order to make Keiichi a murder suspect, however she quickly realizes that Oishi suspects her instead. When discovered by Rena and Keiichi,...
S01E23 The Atonement Chapter - Part 2 - A Place to Return to
September 6, 2006 6.0 24 min
Rena disposes of Rina and her lover Teppei, after discovering their plan to con her father. Discovered by her friends, she ends up getting support by them, and they help her hide the bodies, but...
S01E25 The Atonement Chapter - Part 4 - Earth Invasion
September 20, 2006 6.0 24 min
Keiichi tries to dissuade Rena, but is confronted by her with his own dark secrets. After confessing his past sin to his friends, he finds that he can recall events from Onikakushi-hen, even though they...
Rena's madness reaches the peak to the point of taking all the school children hostage. With the police's help and working together with the rest of the group, Keiichi manages to defuse a homemade bomb...
