As we previouslyexplained,Square Enix and Yoko Taro’s gacha gameSinoalicewill be holding a collab event with the new 2020Higurashianime. ASinoalicelivestream was held August 21 detailing the collab. We translated everything from the stream below.TheHigurashicollab event onSinoalicewill launch on August 25. The event’s story will featureSinoalicecharacters Pinocchio and Aladdin getting involved in Hinamizawa. A short trailer was published for the collab:
Higurashi x Sinoalicecollab event Trailer
The collab will add multipleHigurashicharacters. K1 will be available just by logging in. Meanwhile, the others will be obtainable in the gacha or other means: Rena, Mion, Satoko, Rika, and Hanyuu:
All theHigurashicharacters will be fully voiced.
A lottery campaign is also being held to win a brand new orignalHigurashi x SinoaliceRena t-shirt:
The artworks for Rika and Hanyuu will be revealed soon on Twitter. They’re doing those special tweets where you need to click the button at bottom retweet it and unlock the pictures. For now, Satoko’s artwork was revealed:
Next up, new artwork by Akio Watanabe, the character designer of the newHigurashianime, were revealed. These are special artwork for the new anime adaptation. Goods for the new anime were also announced, face towels, mugs, pens, etc:
The stream in itself was fun as it featured Mafia Kajita, M.A.O, Eri Kitamura, and Rika Tachibana. If you’re into seiyuu, you may catch up theHigurashicorner on theSinoalicestream yourself, starting the the 1:12:30 timestamp:
Needless to say, all of this concerns the Japanese version ofSinoalice, though this collab might come to the global version some months later.
The newHigurashi No Naku Koro Nianime adaptation will start airing on October 1 in Japan.
The first chapter ofHigurashiis available for free onSteamuntil a vaccine for Covid-19 is found. You can read more on Ryukishi07 and 07th’s Expansion’s legendary series withour past coverage.
