US Name Change for Higurashi?

I don’t like to jump to conclusions and start rumors but this just seemed strange to me to not pass along. Everyone probably knows by now that the anime being hinted at in ANN’s current Geneon license contest is Higurashi and the first five clues so far have been pretty straightforward: 26 episodes, Summer of ’83, based on a PC game, etc. But the sixth one is more “puzzling” than its predecessors.

The words “English Title” seem to indicate Higurashi might get the same treatment that Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien got with “Rumbling Hearts”. Forumites on AoD and ANN are wondering whether the contest runners screwed up the space distribution since the most likely alternate title would be “WHEN THEY CRY”. BUT…that doesn’t fit into a 3-5-3 phrase structure. So it’s probably “THE [blank] CRY” or “WHY [blank] CRY” with the middle word being plural and mysterious. Longshots I thought of include “see lolis die” and “big psych out”. That is, if the wording is in fact 3-5-3 and not 4-4-3.

I guess we’ll all find out the North American marketing name late Monday evening. Whatever the name ends up being, it’s a good thing I finished downloading the series this weekend. Now I have to actually resume watching it – I left off at episode 3…