 He met with a colleague from a theatre troupe and he was inspired to write a play called , which he submitted to a contest that he later lost.His younger brother, Yatazakura, inspired by the success of Type-Moon's visual novel "Tsukihime", suggested that he and Ryukishi create their own sound novel.Ryukishi restructured "Hinamizawa Bus Stop" into the episodic visual novel series, "Higurashi When They Cry".