Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni

Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni
Cover of volume 1 of Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni, published by Fujimi Shobo, showing Higanbana.
彼岸花の咲く夜に
Genre	Fantasy, Horror
Manga
Written by	Ryukishi07
Illustrated by	Ichirō Tsunohazu
Published by	Fujimi Shobo
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Monthly Dragon Age
Original run	May 2010 – November 2012
Volumes	6
Game
Developer	07th Expansion
Publisher	07th Expansion
Genre	Dōjin soft, Visual novel
Platform	PC
Released	Dai-ichi Yoru - August 13, 2011 Dai-ni Yoru - December 31, 2011

Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni (彼岸花の咲く夜に^?, lit. On the Night the Red Spider Lily Blooms), subtitled The Unforgiving Flowers Blossom in the Dead of Night, is a Japanese manga written by Ryukishi07 of 07th Expansion and illustrated by Ichirō Tsunohazu. It was serialized between the May 2010 and November 2012 issues of Fujimi Shobo's Monthly Dragon Age magazine. 07th Expansion adapted the manga into a dōjin visual novel series, with the first game released on August 13, 2011 at Comiket 80 and the second on December 31, 2011 at Comiket 81.

Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni takes place in an unnamed school setting and is composed of numerous self-contained short stories, each told from the perspective of a student or staff member from the school. These stories feature bullying as a major overlying theme, as each story's protagonist is depicted as being either a victim of bullying or a bully themselves. Higanbana revolves around a series of urban legends caused by supernatural beings called yōkai, each of which claims ownership of a particular "mystery" and kills anyone who tries to investigate it. There are a total of seven "mysteries" at the start of the series, with numerous yōkai fighting each other in an ongoing turf war for ownership of these mysteries, which is granted to the seven yōkai who emerge victorious in the conflict. The stories' protagonists interact with at least one of the school's resident yōkai, who force the protagonists to deal with the consequences of their actions regarding bullying.