Скачать или смотреть ［anime］higurashi no nakukoro ni -Birth and Death-

物語
舞台は、某県鹿骨市にある人口2000人に満たない寂れた寒村である雛見沢村。かつては「鬼ヶ淵村」とも言われ、近隣の住人からは「人食い鬼の村」として恐れられた。

村人の連帯は昔から強固で、ダム建設による村の水没を村民の団結した行動で阻止したこともある。ダム戦争の末期より、村では6月の決まった日に一人死んで一人消える奇怪な事件が続いていた。「オヤシロさまの祟り」と言われ、廃れていたオヤシロさま信仰が復活しつつあった。

ダム建設計画の無期限凍結から5年後の、昭和58年。主人公である少年 前原圭一は、雛見沢村に引っ越してくる。彼は持ち前の明るい性格で、新たな学校や友人に打ち解けていく。委員長でゲーム狂の魅音、かぁいいもの好きなレナ、生意気だけど憎めない沙都子、愛らしいが一癖ある梨花らとの日常は、いつまでも楽しく平和に、永遠に続いていくと思われた。

この4年間に雛見沢で起こった不可解な連続未解決事件と、「鬼隠し」と呼ばれる謎の失踪事件についての噂を聞いた圭一は、かるい興味から事件について調べようとする。ところが、仲間たちは事件の存在自体を否定。圭一は偶然発見した雑誌から連続怪死事件が実際に起こっていた事を知り、仲間と村に対して疑念を抱き始める。

そして、「綿流し」と呼ばれる村祭りが行われた深夜、フリーカメラマンの富竹ジロウと、看護婦の鷹野三四が怪死を遂げてしまう。「オヤシロさまの使い」とも呼ばれ、連続未解決事件を執念深く追い続ける刑事の大石から、圭一は仲間達の隠された過去を教えられる。その後、仲間達は以前と全く違う顔を見せ始め、さらにはヒタヒタと背後にしのび寄る「謎の気配」を感じるようになる。綿流しの儀式を境にして、それまでの平和な日常は一転して悪夢のような様相に変化していく。

Story
The stage is declining poor village [dearu] [hiyokomi] Sawamura who doesn't come up to 2000 people in the certain prefecture [shikahone] city. It was said before, "Demon [ke] pool village", and was feared from the resident in the vicinity as "Village of the ogre".

The villager's unity has obstructed going under water of the village by the dam construction for a long time strongly in the action in which the villager united. A strange event that one person died in the village on the day when June was decided at the period after the war of the dam and one person disappeared continued. It was said, "Cursed about [oyashiro]", and the [oyashiro] belief that had gone out of use was reviving.

1983 after five years of freezing at indefinite period of dam construction plan. Keiichi boy Maehara who is the hero moves in [hiyokomi] Sawamura. He is an one's naturally cheerful character, and it is friendly with a new school and the friend. It seemed that it continued through all eternity indefinitely happily and peacefully Rena who liked game maniac's charm sound and [kaa;iimo] in the chairman and saucily in one habit [nashihana] and daily life [menai] [**] Miyako hating though it was pretty.

Keiichi who hears the rumor of the strange disappearance event that is called mysterious, continuous, unsettled event that happened by [hiyokomisawa] in these four years and "[Onikaku] doing" tries to examine the event from a light interest. However, companions deny the existence of the event. Keiichi knows the thing that the continuous mysterious death event has actually happened from the magazine discovered by chance, and begins to harbor distrust with the companion for the village.

And, freelance photographer's [tomitake] Jiro and nurse's hawk fields 34 accomplish the mysterious death at midnight when the village festival that was called "Cotton sink" was held. It is called, "Use of [oyashiro]", and Keiichi is taught companions' concealed past by detective who keeps persistently chasing a continuous, unsettled event Oishi. Afterwards, companions begin to show a face quite different from former, endure furthermore behind [hitahita], and come to feel "Sign of the mystery" that comes near. It changes radically on the boundary of the ceremony of the cotton sink in daily life when it is peaceful till then and it changes into a nightmarish aspect.