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Higurashi: When They Cry – SOTSU Anime Previewed in 2nd Video
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The live-streamed "Watanagashi 2021 Higurashi Channel" event debuted the second promotional video for Funimation is streaming the video as the "official trailer 3" with English subtitles:
The CD single for "Missing Promise" will go on sale on August 25 in two different editions.
Higurashi: When They Cry – SOTSU will Ayane, who performed two ending theme songs for Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU, will perform the new show's opening theme song "Analogy."
The Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU premiered on October 1, and the 24th and final episode of Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU aired on March 18. Funimation delayed due to the effects of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the production schedule.
The anime's second episode revealed the series' true title as Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU on October 9. Funimation reported the title as the series' "true" title "that the creators intentionally did not reveal to the world until Episode 2."
Returning cast Yui Horie is playing Hanyu.
Ryukishi07 and Mobile Suit Gundam 00) is returning as the composer for the series.
A manga adaptation by Young Ace Up service on October 2.
The first Higurashi: When They Cry television anime series aired for 26 episodes in 2006, and the When They Cry II: Solutions (Sentai Filmworks most recently released both anime on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in 2016.
Sources: Live "Watanagashi 2021 Higurashi Channel" Nicholas Friedman)
Update: Corrected Funimation's link to new video. Thanks, MCAL and NezumiVA.
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