Maebara Keiichi is The son of a famous artist, his family recently moved to Hinamizawa after an unfortunate event involving a gun in there home town. His charisma and remarkable talent for speechmaking allow him to easily make new friends and become popular in the village. Although often affected by the paranoia, and sometimes too hasty to jump to conclusions, his inner strength and belief in his friends are one of the keys to solving the mystery.
When he moves to Hinamizawa he gains the friend ship of 5 girls.There names being Mion Sonozaki,Shion Sonozaki,Rika Furude,Satoko Houjou and Rena Ryuuguu.
He enjoyed there company and eventually joined a club. They played all kinds of games.To make the games more interesting though the loser has to play the punishment game, and sadly enough Keiichi loses quite often.Most of the time they just make little doodles on his face or make him wear a dress.
Hinamizawa appears to be a normal, peaceful village to Keiichi. However, the tranquility abruptly ends after the annual Watanagashi Festival, a local festivity to commemorate and give thanks to the local god, Oyashiro-sama. Keiichi learns that for the past four years, one person has been murdered and another has gone missing, never to be seen again.And it repeats just the same.
Bizarre incidents begin occuring after the festival.Weither it be His friends turning into paranoid pyschopaths or people seeing things that arn't there. Someone thats close to Keiichi almost always goes insane.
However after a certain period of time. Everything starts over back to the peaceful times of playing games at the club at school. No one really knows what it is an infinte loop with infinte conclusions. The only one who seems to know that its happening is Rika Furude.The reincarnation of Oyashiro-sama.