Higurashi is one of the most popular visual novels out there after Steins Gate, and already received several anime adaptations. Right after the village's traditional festival, one person always ends up dead, and another always disappears. Long story short, Higurashi is the story of a bunch of kids in a remote Japanese village, where a curse is supposedly happening every year.

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It's also regularly used in anime, games and novels such as Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko ( Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl) or Denpa Teki na Kanojo. Originally, denpa means 'electromagnetic waves' in Japanese, referring the theories that some people could receive these waves and be influenced by them.

You could as well call it the mind screw genre. Hidden scenarios and routes, changing title screens, unreliable narrators. Mundane and cute everyday life stories that slowly tread into bizarre territory is the bread and butter of Denpa novels. DDLC, Doki Doki Literature Club, is arguably the most popular visual novel out there, and yet the genre is part of, Denpa visual novels, is wildly unknown.īesides the fact that its original release on PC (Steam) was free, DDLC managed to rise to stardom thanks to its psychological horror and gruesome twists.

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