Hinamizawa is a small village, with your normal average, every-day villagers. However, Hinamizawa was never normal. Each year, during the night of the Watanagashi festival, one person dies and another ends up missing. Some say that the missing person was 'spirited away'. These are the effects of Oyashiro-sama's curse.

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