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Higurashi Comic Bot

ひぐらしのなく頃に

Septapus-style comic strips from your Discord chat, powered by When They Cry sprites

Example comic strip generated by the Higurashi Comic Bot

An actual comic generated from Discord chat messages

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What Is This?

The Higurashi Comic Bot watches your Discord chat and, on command, grabs recent messages and turns them into a comic strip. Each person in the conversation becomes a random character from Higurashi: When They Cry — with real visual novel sprites, real VN backgrounds, and speech bubbles styled after the classic Septapus webcomic format.

Characters are randomly assigned each comic — you never know who you'll be. The bot detects emotion from your message text (say something angry and your character looks angry) and renders shout bubbles when you TYPE IN ALL CAPS.

Commands

Prefix: !  or  @Higurashi Comic Bot

CommandWhat It Does
!comicGenerate a comic from the last 5 messages
!comic 3Generate from the last N messages (max 8)
!comic @userGenerate a comic from a specific user's recent messages
!comichelpShow help in Discord

Characters

Six characters from the Higurashi visual novel, each with multiple outfits and expressions. 271 sprites total from the original game. You get a random one each comic.

Rena
Ryugu Rena
57 sprites
Mion
Sonozaki Mion
95 sprites
Shion
Sonozaki Shion
58 sprites
Rika
Furude Rika
14 sprites
Satoko
Hojo Satoko
30 sprites
Keiichi
Maebara Keiichi
17 sprites

Emotion Detection

The bot reads your message text and picks the right facial expression automatically. Just talk naturally.

happy — lol, haha, nice, yay, love angry — mad, hate, rage, wtf sad — cry, sorry, miss, rip surprised — what, wow, omg, no way scared — help, afraid, oh no thinking — hmm, maybe, idk embarrassed — blush, shy, umm evil — hehe, kukuku, ohoho

How It Works

Layout
Septapus-style grid — 2 or 3 columns with a header banner showing the cast
Backgrounds
255 authentic Higurashi VN backgrounds — one randomly selected per comic
Conversation Panels
When two people talk back-to-back, they may appear in the same panel facing each other
Shout Bubbles
ALL CAPS or excessive exclamation marks get spiky, jagged speech bubbles

Roadmap

● Live

Higurashi Comic Bot

Comic generation from your Discord chat — fully operational 24/7.

○ Planned

Miko — The Tianmu Bot

The Comic Bot will evolve into Miko, a broader Tianmu community bot. Comic generation stays as a core feature, with new capabilities tied to the church and Good Works Project. Features TBD.

Part of the Good Works Project by the New Tianmu Anglican Church.
Running 24/7 on the Tianmu server. Built with Python, discord.py, and Pillow.