Higurashi no Naku Koro ni/Characters: Difference between revisions

His arc is "Onikakushi-hen." ("Spirited away by the demon" in the dub)

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Eye variation. The anime and the Mahjong game are the only continuities in the series that display him with purple eyes, though occasionally a manga color will show him with purple.

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Strong believer of this and proud of it.

* [[I Wished You Were Dead]]: ''Tatarigoroshi-hen''.

* [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: In Tatarigoroshi.

** And he even got a nosebleed at fantasizing at Rika going to a brothel in one of the TIPS.

* [[The Messiah]]: In the later arcs.

Her arc is ""Tsumihoroboshi-hen." (Atonement in the dub)

* [[Agent Mulder]]

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Able to snap the rope that has her tied up with ease. Can wield the billhook without any difficultly also. And probably brought home the statue of Col. Sanders<ref>the KFC mascot</ref> that's bigger than she is without any assistance.

** When [[Hilarity Ensues]] she doesn't hesitate to hit her friends, and she's thrown tables a few times when things get rough. She's apparently quite strong.

* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Remained very loyal to her father after her mother betrayed/cheated on him, and as shown in ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen'' she is willing to go to [[Murder Is the Best Solution|extreme lengths]] to protect him.

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: She discovered that her mother cheated on her father. While her parents were finalizing their divorce, she {{spoiler|attacked her classmates while suffering from Hinamizawa Syndrome.}} {{spoiler|She then attempted suicide and was treated with medication and therapy}}. She and her father then moved back to Hinamizawa to start a new life.

=== "[[Team Mom|Club Leader]]" Mion Sonozaki ===

==== Voiced by: [[Satsuki Yukino]] (JP), [[Megan Hollingshead]] (EN) ====

'''Mion Sonozaki''' is the oldest classmate in Keiichi's class. As the elder, she is the class president and everyone looks up to her as the leader. Her social skills are on par with Keiichi, whom she highly respects as a friend and rival (though it is later shown that she has a crush on him). She acts like a tomboy, but has a hidden girlish side. She is next in line to be the head of the Sonozaki household, one of the Three Families which holds tremendous influence in Hinamizawa. Her position as heir is marked by an oni tattoo on her back.

Her arc is "Watanagashi-hen." (Cotton Drifting in the dub)

* [[Break the Cutie]]: However, compared to the others, she doesn't have as much of a [[Dark and Troubled Past]], and is one of the more psychologically well-adjusted characters in the cast.

* [[Bokukko]]: To the point of using ''ojisan'' ("old man") as a first-person pronoun.

* [[The Tease]]: In the manga especially, she has quite a few moments of this in the beginnings of different arcs.

* [[Tsundere]]: A unique type. She neither acts terribly tsun nor dere, but has the classic signs of denying her attraction or her desire for things. Note that since her "nice side" is the dominant personality, she has slight type B leanings.

* [[Tomboyish Ponytail]]

* [[Twin Switch]]: Frequently with Shion. {{spoiler|As children, they switched ''permanently''}}.

Her arc is "Meakashi-hen." (Eye Opening in the dub) Legendary for its infamy. [[You Have Been Warned]].

* {{spoiler|[[Attempted Rape]]: No, she's not the recipient. When she is getting ready to torture Keichii in Meakashi-hen/Watanagashi-hen but decides she might spare his life instead, it's implied this is going to happen. Rena and Oishi show up before she tries anything however.}}

** Note that in the VN version of Meakashi-hen, this was never implied, nor did it ever happen. {{spoiler|She already knew she was cornered, and just tased Keiichi and went off switch with Mion one last time.}}

* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]]: '''GOOD''' '''''GOD'''''.

* [[Yakuza Princess]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Green Hair]]

* [[Yubitsume]]: What she had to do to gain forgiveness from her grandmother for running away from her boarding school.

Her arc is "Tatarigoroshi-hen." (Curse Killing in the dub)

* [[Badass Adorable]]

* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]: ''Especially'' in the first ''Higurashi: Rei'' episode.

Her arc is "Minagoroshi-hen." (Massacre)

* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Rika at one point laments her small breast size (due to not being done with puberty yet), and a DVD extra has her do a [[Skinship Grope]] of Mion.

* [[Badass Adorable]]

* {{spoiler|[[Immortal Immaturity]]}}: {{spoiler|While she says she's mentally hundreds of years old, it becomes clear that it's not true. Instead, she's actually grown desperate rather than truly growing old. While she does not act her apparent age (somewhere around nine to eleven) it's clear that she's really still pretty childish.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Lady Drunk]]: A bit of a disturbing example. [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] or not, she ''is'' physically a prepubescent girl. In large part it's a way for her to pick on Hanyu.}}

* [[Miko]]

* {{spoiler|[[Not Growing Up Sucks]]}}

Her arc is "Matsuribayashi-hen." (Festival Music)

* {{spoiler|[[Angel Unaware]]: An inversion. First, Oyashiro is definitely stated to be a god. However, it becomes ambiguous when she defines what appears to be a god in the setting. All in all, she ''may'' have originally simply been a human who ascended to godhood by dying for the sins of others.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]}}: See [[Immortal Immaturity]] below.

* {{spoiler|[[Physical God]]}}: But only in ''Matsuribayashi-hen''. {{spoiler|It appears to be a significant step down on the power scale.}}

* [[Purple Eyes]]

* {{spoiler|[[Self-Made Orphan]]: As part of the deal to allow her people to live in Hinamizawa, she allowed herself to be set up as a scapegoat and killed by her daughter via ritual butchering. As her daughter was also the daughter of one of the village priests, this brought unity to the two factions.}}

* [[Sweet Tooth]]

=== Satoshi Houjou ===

==== Voiced by: [[Mitsuki Saiga]] (JP - drama CD), [[Yuu Kobayashi]] (JP - anime), Darrel Guilbeau (EN) ====

'''Satoshi Houjou''' is Satoko's older brother, who disappeared a year before the story began. It's eventually revealed that {{spoiler|he killed his aunt to protect Satoko, but then succumbed to Hinamizawa Syndrome and was taken to the Irie Clinic's basement, where he remains in a coma}}.

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: He was ''very'' protective of Satoko.

* [[Bishonen]]: Quite handsome along with Keiichi.

=== Kuraudo Ooishi ===

==== Voiced by: [[Chafurin]] (JP) ====

'''Kuraudo Ooishi''' is a veteran police investigator at Okinomiya who has vowed to solve the mystery of the Hinamizawa murders before his retirement, due to personal reasons. Due to his uncouth tactics and the lengths that he goes to in order to solve the mystery, he is looked upon as a nuisance by the villagers. He approaches one of the main characters to become his informant in several arcs, and is sometimes unwittingly responsible for triggering their paranoia.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Mr. Delicious, since his name sounds like "oishii", the Japanese word for "delicious".

* [[Inspector Javert]]: He's usually right, though, like in {{spoiler|Tatarigoroshi-hen}} and {{spoiler|Onisarashi-hen}}. {{spoiler|But he's completely wrong in the most important way in that he thinks the Sonozaki's are behind everything. This keeps him from approaching the only person in the group that never goes insane.}}

=== Jirou Tomitake ===

==== Voiced by: [[Tohru Ookawa]] (JP), [[Kyle Hebert]] (EN) ====

'''Jirou Tomitake''' is a freelance photographer who comes to Hinamizawa occasionally. He gets along well with Miyo Takano because of their similar interests in photography. Despite being only an occasional visitor, he seems to know a fair amount about Hinamizawa's past. Ooishi and the police are suspicious of his identity.

=== Miyo Takano{{spoiler|/Miyoko Tanishi}} ===

==== Voiced by: [[Miki Ito]] (JP), [[Fuyuka Ooura]] (JP - young), [[Karen Strassman]] (EN) ====

'''Miyo Takano''' is a nurse at the village clinic who has a keen interest in Hinamizawa's past and culture, recording all her speculation in notebooks. At times, her storytelling can be very mysterious and chilling she seems to enjoy putting people on edge. In the first six arcs, she consistently disappears on the night of Watanagashi, and an incinerated body thought to be hers is found in the mountains.

{{spoiler|It turns out that she is the mastermind of the events taking place in Hinamizawa, and wants to murder Rika and set off Hinamizawa Syndrome in the whole town so she can prove her grandfather's research. Since her will and manipulations are so strong as to affect the people in the village both directly and indirectly, she in fact fakes her death through the first six arcs of the story (the corpse in the barrel being a stolen corpse), and murders Rika in three of the arcs.}}.

* {{spoiler|[[A God Am I]]}}: The end of ''Minagoroshi-hen''.

** Specifically, {{spoiler|it was influenced by a comment her grandfather offhandedly made, saying that if his research proves fruitful his legacy will live forever, like that of a god.}} Fast-forward to modern day and Miyo {{spoiler|raves about how if she proves her grandfather's research is true, and re-inspires fear of Ooyashiro-sama in the process, she will in effect '''''become''''' Ooyashiro-sama and live forever with her grandpa.}}

=== Kyousuke Irie ===

==== Voiced by: [[Toshihiko Seki]] (JP), Dave Mallow (EN) ====

'''Kyousuke Irie''' is the head doctor of the village clinic. Initially interesting in being a doctor just for the money, he became devoted to the field of psychosurgery after a head injury changed his father's personality. Despite his young age and the fact that he has a severe maid fetish, he is highly respected in the community. He cheerfully makes house calls and seems to truly care about everyone's health. He has (half-jokingly) admitted that [[The Jailbait Wait|he wishes to marry Satoko when she is older]], but is not above chasing after Rika when she is wearing one of the uniforms from the restaurant ''Angel Mort''. In addition, he is the manager of the village's baseball little league team, the Hinamizawa Fighters. {{spoiler|It is later revealed that he works under Miyo, where he is trying to find a cure for Hinamizawa Syndrome while not knowing of his employer's true desires}}.

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=== Mamoru Akasaka ===

==== Voiced by: [[Takehito Koyasu]] (JP - drama CD), [[Daisuke Ono]] (JP - anime), [[Patrick Seitz]] (EN) ====

'''Mamoru Akasaka''' is a young police investigator at the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo. He befriended Rika while investigating a case in Hinamizawa four years ago, all due to a prophecy about his wife which came true; he, however, just brushed it off as coincidence.

=== Teppei Houjou ===

==== Voiced by: Katsuhisa Hoki (JP), [[Steve Kramer]] (EN) ====

'''Teppei Houjou''' is Satoko and Satoshi's uncle/foster father. He and his wife were forced to take care of Satoko and Satoshi after the death of their parents, but they abused them. He left Hinamizawa after Tamae's death, and currently lives in Okinomiya. According to Kasai, he is a pimp and uses his lover Rina to swindle men out of their money.

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=== Oryou Sonozaki ===

==== Voiced by: Shizuka Okohira (JP), [[Barbara Goodson]] (EN) ====

'''Oryou Sonozaki''' is Mion and Shion's grandmother and head of the Sonozaki household. She appears to be a very harsh old woman and is considered the most powerful person in Hinamizawa. Both Mion and Shion call her "Oni-baba" ("demon granny").

* [[Abusive Parents|Abusive Grandparent]]: Treats Shion like garbage. [[Sarcasm Mode|Best grandmom ever!]]

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: The "distinguishment" scene.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Motive for the "distinguishment" scene.

* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Her granddaughters call her ''demon granny'', what more do you need to know?

** {{spoiler|In reality, she's not actually evil, just a [[Jerkass]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Fingore]]: Again, standard punishment among the Sonozakis. First she had that done when young, then she forced Akane to do it when she didn't like her choice in men, and ultimately makes Shion go through it. (And as a bonus, Mion does it on her own.)}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Oryou" contains the character "oni", as do all the names of the Sonozaki heirs. Oryou's daughter Akane (Mion and Shion's mother) used to have an "oni" in her name, but was forced to change the spelling when she was disinherited for marrying an outsider.

* [[Never Mess with Granny]]

=== Rumiko Chie ===

==== Voiced by: [[Fumiko Orikasa]] (JP), Sam Carr (EN) ====

'''Rumiko Chie''' is the female teacher of Keiichi's class, who is a parody character of ''[[Tsukihime]]'''s Ciel-senpai (permission for her usage was given by [[Nasuverse|Type-Moon]]). The seiyu for her character in the anime series is the same as the seiyu of Ciel from the Tsukihime anime. Going along with the parody, her favorite food is curry rice, just like Ciel.

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=== Tatsuyoshi Kasai ===

==== Voiced by: [[Fumihiko Tachiki]] (JP), [[Steve Kramer]] (EN) ====

'''Tatsuyoshi Kasai''' is an employee of the Sonozakis, who looks like a secret agent. He was more active in the past, but has settled down to become Shion's caretaker.

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=== Rina{{spoiler|/Ritsuko}} Mamiya ===

==== Voiced by: [[Kyoko Hikami]] (JP - drama CD), [[Misa Watanabe]] (JP - anime), Jean Smart (EN) ====

'''Rina Mamiya''' is a woman who appears in Rena's life in ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen''. She is the lover of Teppei Houjou, and together they swindle men out of their money through intimidation and blackmail schemes. Her real name is Ritsuko, but she uses Rina as a fake name.

=== Akane Sonozaki ===

==== Voiced by: [[Kikuko Inoue]] (JP) ====

'''Akane Sonozaki''' is Mion and Shion's mother. Although one of her daughters is still the family heir, Akane herself was disowned after marrying someone of whom her family disapproved.

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=== Kiichirou Kimiyoshi ===

==== Voiced by: Masaaki Tsukada (JP), [[Kyle Hebert]] (EN) ====

'''Kiichirou Kimiyoshi''' is the head of one of the Three Families and the official village chief of Hinamizawa. He seems to be a kindly old man, but is vehement in his hatred for Hinamizawa's enemies. {{spoiler|As this includes Satoshi and the rest of the Houjou family, he is killed by Shion in ''Watanagashi-hen'' and ''Meakashi-hen.'' In ''Minagoroshi'' it's revealed that he actually has nothing against Satoshi at all but couldn't publicly state it, eventually supporting Keiichi's efforts to protect Satoko}}.

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* {{spoiler|[[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]}}: {{spoiler|complete with [[Fake Memories]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Unreliable Narrator]]}}

=== Akira Toudou ===