Cotton Drifting is the second of the Higurashi When They Cry arcs, each of which consists of two volumes; Volume 1, which is beautiful cute and makes you love all the characters, and Volume 2 which is bloody violent and murderous horror. (If you're looking for the *actual* first volume of the series, go get Higurashi When They Cry: Abducted By Demons Arc.) While it may sound a bit like a nasty trick to play, the supernatural murder mystery that plays out is made all the more compelling by spending an entire volume getting to know the characters involved in the tragedy to come. Though that's not to say Volume 1 will leave you enturely unprepared; the author drops so many little hints and clues through the story that it's well worth a second read once you've seen the end!
The basic story of the Higurashi "Question Arcs" follows Keiichi Maebara, a Japanese high schooler who recently moved to the small town of Hinamizawa where a brutal tragedy is about to take place. In the Cotton Drifting arc the story has been reset to the beginning and takes a sort of "alternate path" to the tragedy that focuses on Keiichi's best friend, the boistrous tomboy Mion Sonozaki. In Volume 1 he meets up with her in a...compromising situation, but she claims she's actually SHION, Mion's twin sister! The situation that follows is as complicated as it is funny, with just a few light hints of the visceral horror that's coming in the next volume...
If you can take adowably cute AND brutally violent in the same story, go ahead and pick up Cotton Drifting Vol 1 AND Vol 2 right now. They tell a complete story between the two of them and you WILL need the second as soon as you're done with the first! It's a vicious mystery (for my money the most complex of all the arcs) that gives you a lot of clues but no definitive answers until much later in the Higurashi series, but that just makes it all the more addictive.
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