8.1/1098 votes#1 - Onidamashi-hen: Demon-Deceiving Chapter, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2020
Keiichi spends his day accompanying his friends. He, Mion and Rena are on a tour to the village. Afterwards, he retrieves the statue of a fast food restaurant mascot because Rena finds it 'cute'.
Director: Hijiri Sanpei
Writer: N/A
8.1/1079 votes#2 - Onidamashi-hen: Demon-Deceiving Chapter, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/2020
Keiichi goes with Rena to retrieve the Colonel so she can take him home with her. Later, Keiichi and his friends have fun at the festival and watch Rika performing the ritual.
Director: Chikayo Nakamura
Writer: N/A
8.4/1075 votes#3 - Onidamashi-hen: Demon-Deceiving Chapter, Part 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2020
Hinamizawa's darkest secrets begin to unfold as Keiichi talks with the local detective.
Director: Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Writer: N/A
8.8/1087 votes#4 - Onidamashi-hen: Demon-Deceiving Chapter, Part 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2020
Keiichi grows more suspicious of Rena. The next day at school, Rika encourages Keiichi to be brave. Keiichi feels guilty and tries to return to normal life. That same evening, his parents leave town for the night, leaving him alone, and Rena wants to come over to cook dinner for him.
Director: Fujiaki Asari
Writer: N/A
8.0/1065 votes#5 - Watadamashi-hen: Cotton-Deceiving Chapter, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2020
Keiichi and his friends attend a game competition at a Sonozaki family owned shop. As a consolation prize for the event money, the store owner gives dolls to everyone except Mion. Keiichi gives his to Mion as he sees no value in keeping it. Later, Keiichi and his father meet at the cosplay restaurant. There, Keiichi meets Shion and confuses her for Mion, due to similar appearances. She proclaims that she is actually Mion's twin sister. Keiichi believes she is Mion pretending to be effeminate.
Director: Fujiaki Asari
Writer: N/A
8.2/1065 votes#6 - Watadamashi-hen: Cotton-Deceiving Chapter, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2020
Keiichi learns about the yearly murders from Shion, Miyo, and Jiro. At the festival, Shion drags Keiichi away from Rika's dance and the two run into Miyo and Jiro, who are breaking into the ritual tool shed. They decide to go inside to look at it with Miyo.
Director: Yonpei
Writer: N/A
8.4/1063 votes#7 - Watadamashi-hen: Cotton-Deceiving Chapter, Part 3
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2020
Inside the sacred shed Keiichi learns about the dark origins of the Hinamizawa village and the Festival. The day after he finds out that Miyo, Jiro, and the village mayor have gone missing.
Director: Chikayo Nakamura
Writer: N/A
8.4/1062 votes#8 - Watadamashi-hen: Cotton-Deceiving Chapter, Part 4
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2020
Rika has suddenly gone missing and Satoko coldly suspects Keiichi, who was the last one to talk with Rika, but Mion says that she saw Rika speaking with some men in construction uniforms. While looking for Rika, Mion pulls Keiichi away from a locked silo and indirectly informs Keiichi that Rika is trying to kill people and that she needs to put an end to string of murders occurring, which is being led by the Three Great Families.
Director: Takashi Ikehata
Writer: N/A
8.0/1058 votes#9 - Tataridamashi-hen: Curse-Deceiving Chapter, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/2020
Keiichi makes a bet to the club that he can cook better than Satoko. The same night, he attempts to fry some vegetables but nearly burns down his own house. Rika and Satoko arrive to put out the fire and Satoko prepares her own dish. Rika explains to Keiichi that Satoko is taking a liking to cooking for him since it reminds her of when her older brother, Satoshi, used to wait for her meals.
Director: Yasunori Goto
Writer: N/A
8.4/1057 votes#10 - Tataridamashi-hen: Curse-Deceiving Chapter, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/2020
Keiichi learns more about Satoko's painful past, which causes him to care for her even more.
Director: Takahiro Majima, Chikayo Nakamura
Writer: N/A
8.0/1056 votes#11 - Tataridamashi-hen: Curse-Deceiving Chapter, Part 3
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/2020
After Satoko's panic attack, Keichi, the club, and the rest of the class are desperate to ensure her safety.
Director: Oyunam
Writer: N/A
8.2/1053 votes#12 - Tataridamashi-hen: Curse-Deceiving Chapter, Part 4
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/2020
Following Keiichi's lead, everyone head to the child guidance centre to try and save Satoko.
Director: Yasunori Goto
Writer: N/A
8.6/1057 votes#13 - Tataridamashi-hen: Curse-Deceiving Chapter, Part 5
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/24/2020
To save Satoko, the village of Hinamizawa unite in protest at the child consultation centre.
Director: Fujiaki Asari
Writer: N/A
8.8/1065 votes#14 - Nekodamashi-hen: Cat-Deceiving Chapter, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/2021
Rika receives a visit from Hanyuu and is told about an artefact, the holy sword Onigari-no-ryuuou.
Director: Hironori Aoyagi
Writer: N/A
8.1/1059 votes#15 - Nekodamashi-hen: Cat-Deceiving Chapter, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/2021
Rika makes a decision; Rika and the club members visit a toy store in Okinomiya.
Director: Toshikatsu Tokoro
Writer: N/A
8.3/1054 votes#16 - Nekodamashi-hen: Cat-Deceiving Chapter, Part 3
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/2021
Mysterious goings-on disrupt life in a small town.
Director: Takahiko Usui
Writer: N/A
8.4/1054 votes#17 - Nekodamashi-hen: Cat-Deceiving Chapter, Part 4
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/2021
Rika arrives in a world without tragedy, where she is free from Oyashiro-sama's curse.
Director: Yasunori Goto
Writer: N/A
8.0/1054 votes#18 - Satokowashi-hen: Village-Destroying Chapter, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/2021
A year after escaping near death, Rika reminisces about Hinamizawa; Satoko receives some surprising news; Rika decides she wants to go to St. Lucia Academy.
Director: Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Writer: N/A
8.0/1051 votes#19 - Satokowashi-hen: Village-Destroying Chapter, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/2021
Rika tells Satoko about a dream she's been keeping secret for a long time; Satoko is confused.
Director: Takahiro Majima
Writer: N/A
8.5/1054 votes#20 - Satokowashi-hen: Village-Destroying Chapter, Part 3
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/2021
Rika gets the life she's longed for at St Lucia Academy, but Satoko struggles.
Director: Fujiaki Asari
Writer: N/A
9.0/1058 votes#21 - Satokowashi-hen: Village-Destroying Chapter, Part 4
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/2021
Mysterious goings-on have disrupted life in a small town.
Director: Tomoko Hiramuki
Writer: N/A
8.6/1048 votes#22 - Satokowashi-hen: Village-Destroying Chapter, Part 5
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/2021
Satoko no longer wants to suffer, and begins a lonely battle to realize her own dream.
Director: Mitsuki Kitamura
Writer: N/A
8.5/1048 votes#23 - Satokowashi-hen: Village-Destroying Chapter, Part 6
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/2021
Satoko finds out that some non-looping people retain a fragment of memory from the loops she lived through. One of those people is her uncle Teppei.
Director: Toshikatsu Tokoro
Writer: N/A
8.2/1049 votes#24 - Satokowashi-hen: Village-Destroying Chapter, Part 7
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/2021
Satoko tries again by using Miyo, who now also retains memories from previous loops.
Director: Satoshi Saga
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW Season 1
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New kid Keiichi Maebara is settling into his new home of peaceful Hinamizawa village. Making quick friends with the girls from his school, he's arrived...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Onidamashi-hen: Demon-Deceiving Chapter, Part 1" is the best rated episode of "Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 98 votes. Directed by Hijiri Sanpei and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/2020. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Onidamashi-hen: Demon-Deceiving Chapter, Part 2".