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Yutori Hōjō
is a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft visual novel series produced by 07th Expansion that comprises the first two entries of the ''When They Cry'' franchise. The series focuses on a group of young friends living in the fictional village of Hinamizawa and the strange events that occur there in 1983. The games are built on the NScripter game engine and the Microsoft Windows operating system. The first game in the series, ''Onikakushi-hen'', was released in August 2002, and the eighth and final game in the original PC series, ''Matsuribayashi-hen'', was released in August 2006. While the first four games carried the overall title ''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni'' and are considered the first entry in the ''When They Cry'' franchise, the next four games were produced under the title ''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai'' and are considered the second entry. A bonus fan disc called ''Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei'' was released in December 2006. In addition to the origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rena Ryūgū
is a fictional character in the Higurashi When They Cry, ''Higurashi When They Cry'' series. Born as , she adopts the name "Rena" upon moving back to her hometown of Hinamizawa following a mental breakdown. Whilst on the surface, she adopts a naive, cheerful, and innocent persona, Rena is perceptive, strong-willed, and reacts strongly to being lied to. In some arcs, her traumatic background and staunch belief in the curse of Oyashiro culminate in her committing violent crimes. Rena is regarded as a mascot character for 07th Expansion. Her image has substantially inspired the ''Moe (slang), moe'' genre, as well as ''menhera'' and ''Glossary of anime and manga#yandere, yandere''. Development and design According to series creator Ryukishi07, Rena "embodies the world of the story like no other character, a girl trying to be normal in a world that won't allow it". She will kill if she believes she has no choice and is capable of deflecting suspicion under an innocent façade. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayStation 3
The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). It is the successor to the PlayStation 2, and both are part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. The PS3 was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, followed by November 17 in North America and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia. It competed primarily with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. The PlayStation 3 was built around the custom-designed Cell Broadband Engine processor, co-developed with IBM and Toshiba. SCE president Ken Kutaragi envisioned the console as a supercomputer for the living room, capable of handling complex multimedia tasks. It was the first console to use the Blu-ray disc as its primary storage medium, the first to be equipped with an HDMI port, and the first capable of outputting games in 1080p (Full HD) resolution. It also launched alongside the PlayStation Network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yen Press
Yen Press is an American manga, graphic novel and light novel publisher co-owned by Kadokawa Corporation and Hachette Book Group. It published '' Yen Plus'', a monthly comic anthology, between 2008 and 2013. In addition to translated material, Yen Press has published original series, most notably Svetlana Chmakova's '' Nightschool'' and a manga adaptation of James Patterson's ''Maximum Ride''. History Yen Press was founded in 2006 by former Borders buyer Kurt Hassler and DC Comics VP Rich Johnson. In July 2007, it was announced that Yen Press was to absorb ICEkunion, a Korean publisher that had been publishing manhwa in the United States. While the manga titles bearing ICEkunion's label would continue to be sold in stores, subsequent printings would bear the Yen Press logo. Hassler assured fans, "We plan to pick up all the existing CEkuniontitles...We're going to continue everything, so fans shouldn't worry. None of these series are going to fall into a void." The first is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadokawa Shoten
, formerly , is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing based in Tokyo, Japan. It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013. Kadokawa publishes manga, light novels, manga anthology magazines such as '' Monthly Asuka'' and '' Monthly Shōnen Ace'', and entertainment magazines such as '' Newtype''. Since its founding, Kadokawa has expanded into the multimedia sector, namely in video games (as Kadokawa Games) and in live-action and animated films (as Kadokawa Pictures). History Kadokawa Shoten was established on November 10, 1945, by Genyoshi Kadokawa. The company's first publication imprint, Kadokawa Bunko, was published in 1949. The company went public on April 2, 1954. In 1975, Haruki Kadokawa became the president of Kadokawa Shoten, following Genyoshi Kadokawa's death. On April 1, 2003, Kadokawa Shoten was renamed to Kadokawa Holdings, transferring the existing publishing businesses to Kadokawa Shoten. On July 1, 2006, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Square Enix
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational holding company, video game publisher and entertainment conglomerate. It releases role-playing video game, role-playing game franchises, such as ''Final Fantasy'', ''Dragon Quest'', and ''Kingdom Hearts'', among numerous others. Outside of video game publishing and development, it is also in the business of merchandise, Arcade game, arcade facilities, and manga publication under its Gangan Comics brand. The original Square Enix Co., Ltd. was formed in April 2003 from a mergers and acquisitions, merger between Square (video game company), Square and Enix, with the latter as the surviving company. Each share of Square's common stock was stock swap, exchanged for 0.85 shares of Enix's common stock. At the time, 80% of Square Enix staff were made up of former Square employees. As part of the merger, former Square President (corporate title), president Yoichi Wada was appointed the president of the new corporation, while forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuna Kagesaki
is a manga artist, born on March 3, 1973, best known for being the author of the manga '' Chibi Vampire''. Her work has been published under four different names: (professionally published non-pornographic comics, except for ''Sakura no Ichiban''), (same characters but different readings; only in ''Taishō Komachi Jikenchō Sakura no Ichiban!''), (spelled with different kanji) when drawing CG's for PC games, and when drawing hentai Hentai () is a style of Pornography in Japan, Japanese pornographic anime and manga. In addition to anime and manga, hentai works exist in a variety of media, including artwork and video games (commonly known as ''eroge''). The developme ... manga or HCG's for PC games. In the bonus comic strips at the end of volume 3 of her work Hekikai no AiON, she refers to herself as , suggesting that her real name begins with "K" and ends with "ya". List of manga work as Yuna Kagesaki () * (1 volume) * (1 volume) * (11 volumes, plus a spinoff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
En Kitō
is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. While working as a dōjin artist, she was in charge of the key drawings for the adult game ''Heart de Network'' (Euphony Production) in 2000. After releasing several one-shots in commercial magazines, she began serializing two manga (written by Ryukishi07) based on the ''Higurashi When They Cry'' visual novel series, ''Onisarashi-hen'' and ''Utsutsukowashi-hen'', in ''Comp Ace'' (Kadokawa Shoten) from 2005 to 2007. In the July 2008 issue of ''Comp Ace'', she started work on a manga based on ''Valkyria Chronicles'', and completed the series in the May 2010 issue. She is a big fan of the '' Breath of Fire'' (Capcom is a Japanese video game company. It has created a number of critically acclaimed and List of best-selling video game franchises, multi-million-selling game franchises, with its most commercially successful being ''Resident Evil'', ''Monster ...) series of role-playing games, and her dōjin activities mainly revolve arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshiki Tonogai
is a Japanese manga artist from Shiga Prefecture, Japan. He is notable as the illustrator of one of the ''Higurashi When They Cry'' manga adaptations, ''Time Killing Arc''. He is also the creator of ''Doubt'', which was completed in February 2009. He followed up the ''Doubt'' series with two spiritual sequels, ''Judge'' and ''Secret'', all connected by the recurring appearance of the iconic Rabbit mask from ''Doubt''. ''Doubt'' has been published in the US by Yen Press Yen Press is an American manga, graphic novel and light novel publisher co-owned by Kadokawa Corporation and Hachette Book Group. It published '' Yen Plus'', a monthly comic anthology, between 2008 and 2013. In addition to translated material, ... in its entirety in two volumes in April and July 2013, and the entire six-book series of ''Judge'' and the three-book series of ''Secret'' have been published by them as well. They have also been published in various countries in Europe. Tonogai is a former assistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jirō Suzuki
is a Japanese manga artist. She is the writer and illustrator of the manga ''MAGiMAGi'', and has provided illustrations for the manga adaptations of the ''Tatarigoroshi-hen'' chapter in ''Higurashi When They Cry'' and the ''Turn of the Golden Witch'' chapter in ''Umineko When They Cry''. She is also one of the character designers for the 07th Expansion 07th Expansion is a Japanese dōjin circle specialized in the creation of visual novels. They started out drawing for the trading card game ''Leaf Fight'', but are better known for creating the game series ''When They Cry (other), When T ... game '' Rose Guns Days'', designing several characters including the main character Leo Shishigami. References External links * Manga artists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{manga-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Suzuragi
is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. She writes mainly for anthologies of video games published by Square Enix and Ohzora Publishing. Since 2005, she has serialized four manga based on the ''Higurashi When They Cry'' visual novel series, ''Onikakushi-hen'', ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen'', ''Matsuribayashi-hen'', and ''Saikoroshi-hen'', in '' Gangan Powered'' and '' Monthly Gangan Joker'' (both published by Square Enix). In 2007, she serialized a special comic based on '' Wild Arms XF'' from the November to March issue of ''Dengeki Maoh''. In January 2008, she was in charge of illustrations for ''Seifuku Musume'', published by Shueisha and Super Dash Bunko. In the same year, from the August issue of '' Monthly Shōnen Rival'', she serialized ''Out Code: Chōjō Hanzai Tokumu Sōsakan''. Works illustrated * '' Busin 0 ~Wizardry Alternative Neo~ Yami ni Ikiru Majo no Shukufuku'' (2004) * ''Higurashi When They Cry'' series ** ''Onikakushi-hen'' (2005) ** ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen'' (2006) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayStation 4
The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Announced as the successor to the PlayStation 3 in February 2013, it was launched on November 15, 2013, in North America, November 29, 2013, in Europe, South America, and Australia, and on February 22, 2014, in Japan. A Eighth generation of video game consoles, console of the eighth generation, it competes with Microsoft Gaming, Microsoft's Xbox One and Nintendo's Wii U and Nintendo Switch, Switch. Moving away from the more complex Cell (microprocessor), Cell microarchitecture of its predecessor, the console features an AMD APU, APU from AMD built upon the x86-64 architecture, which can theoretically peak at 1.84 teraflops; AMD stated that it was the "most powerful" APU it had developed to date. The PlayStation 4 places an increased emphasis on social interaction and integration with other devices and services, including the ability to play games off-console on PlayStation Vita an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nintendo Switch
The is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. Released in the middle of the Eighth generation of video game consoles, eighth generation of home consoles, the Switch succeeded the Wii U and competed with Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One; it also competes with the Ninth generation of video game consoles, ninth generation consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S, Xbox Series X/S. The Switch is a Tablet computer#Gaming tablet, tablet that can either be docking station, docked for home video game console, home console use or used as a handheld game console, portable device, making it a Video game console#Hybrid video game consoles, hybrid console. Its wireless Joy-Con controllers function as two halves of a standard controller and alternatively as individual controllers, featuring buttons, directional analog sticks for user input, motion sensing, and tactile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
