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* [[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.
* {{spoiler|[[Amnesiac Dissonance]]}}: "[[My God, What Have I Done?|What have I done?]] {{spoiler|I killed Rena and Mion!}}"
* [[Anti
* [[The Atoner]]: In ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen'' ("Atonement Chapter"), naturally.
* [[Bad Liar]]: Whenever he does anything that will get him in loads of trouble, he will act very guilty and his lies are horrendous, especialy in Watanagashi-Hen and Tatarigoroshi-hen.
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* [[The Messiah]]: In the later arcs.
* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: [[Averted Trope|NO, IT ISN'T!]]
* {{spoiler|[[My God, What Have I Done?]]: The first is that he realized what horrible things he had been doing back in his old life when he was shooting at children with a BB gun. He later confesses this to his friends, which leads him to remember Onikakushi and having an even ''worse'' case. Both of these occur in Tsumihoroboshi, or Atonement Chapter.}}
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Can't seem to catch on to Mion and (presumably) Rena's attraction to him. Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in ''Musubienishi-hen''.
* [[Odd Friendship|Odd]] [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: In ''Minagoroshi-hen'', {{spoiler|with Ooishi.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Villain Protagonist]]}}: In ''Onikakushi'' and ''Tatarigoroshi.'' More so in the former than the later.
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Houjou Satoshi's baseball bat.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: When Rena finds out some things about his past, she calls him on this. Also the catalyst for the Atonement Chapter having the name it has.
=== "[[I'm Taking Her Home With Me|Cute Mode]]" Rena Ryugu ===
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** 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.
* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: One of her [[Running Gag|Running Gags]].
* [[
* [[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.
* [[Genius Ditz]] (or possibly [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]): Compare her behavior at the end of episode 4 of ''Rei'' with her behavior in episode 5.
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* [[Verbal Tic]]: She has a case of Palilalia which is the ocasional repeating the last words of her sentences, most notable "kana, kana?" ("I wonder, I wonder?"). Done to very sinister effect in ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen''.
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: A billhook. Though some confuse it for a machete or cleaver, hence the nickname "Cleaver Girl."
* {{spoiler|[[Well
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]
* [[Woman in White]]
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* [[One of the Boys]]: Mion has trouble not just getting her feelings across to Keiichi but also getting him to really acknowledge her actual gender.
* {{spoiler|[[Only Sane Man]]: She's the only one in the cast without a [[Dark and Troubled Past]], and other than Rika, the only one who doesn't suffer from Hinamizawa Syndrome in the series (although it's hinted that she does in other Fragments).}}
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Red Oni to Shion's Blue. {{spoiler|But her ''true'' personality is Blue; she acts Red because it is expected from the "older twin" role she is forced to play}}. The archetype is referenced by her blue oni tattoo.
* [[Sibling Yin
* [[Shorttank]]
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Revealed to be the reason she likes Keiichi so much during the Eye Opening chapter.
* [[Spirited Competitor]]: Moreso than the rest of the club unless Keiichi or Rena get fired up.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Tall, Green-Haired and Bishoujo]]
* [[The Lancer]] / [[Team Mom]]: Was the group leader prior to [[The Hero|Keiichi's]] joining of the club, but directs the groups' activities even now. As the oldest member, she usually coordinates the abilities of everyone to [[The Strategist|maximum and frightening effect]] in and out of battle. Thus showing [[Brilliant but Lazy|her brilliance despite being the most laid back of the group.]]
* [[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.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: She's a tomboy, while her twin sister Shion is more feminine. {{spoiler|At least it appears as such. As noted under [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]], the two act this way because it is expected from them. Deep down, Mion is quite girly, while Shion is, [[Break the Cutie|well]], [[Yandere|you]] [[Ax Crazy|probably]] [[Kill
* [[Tomboyish Ponytail]]
* [[Twin Switch]]: Frequently with Shion. {{spoiler|As children, they switched ''permanently''}}.
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* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Warnings about tormenting cute things apply. She doesn't simply break or snap, she ''explodes''.}}
* [[Cain and Abel]]: The Cain versus Mion. {{spoiler|Though not as much as you are led to believe, since Mion and Shion genuinely love each other.}}
* [[Cold
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: To Satoko, as a promise she made to Satoshi. {{spoiler|And horribly screwed with in arcs where she goes insane.}}
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]
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* [[Foreshadowing]]: From Frederica Bernkastel's poem in ''Meakashi-hen'': "How many years will pass before she wonders if she really dropped them?"
* [[Future Badass]]: In the manga- only arc Yoigoshi-hen. However, {{spoiler|She was being possessed by Mion, making ''her'' the true badass despite the staggering disadvantage of being ''dead''}}.
* [[Green
* {{spoiler|[[Ignored Epiphany]]}}: Her reaction to realizing she just {{spoiler|crucified Satoko}} was, number one: {{spoiler|wetting herself}}. Number two: Saying "Oh, what the hell". In the VN, it's expanded upon: {{spoiler|She realizes that she forgot her promise to Satoshi, it's just that she felt it was already too late to atone, and she had no choice but to continue what she was doing.}}
* [[Image Song]] - "Futari no Birthday" and "Ienai Kotoba", along with Mion.
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* [[Laughing Mad]] :In Meakashi and Watanagashi.
* {{spoiler|[[Love Makes You Crazy]] [[Love Makes You Evil|And Evil]]}} : ''Meakashi-hen''. Enough said.
* {{spoiler|[[My God, What Have I Done?]]: After torturing Satoko to death she remembers that Satoshi asked her to take care of his little sister and that while she gave up on Satoshi coming back and went for revenge, Satoko never lost faith. Has a straight example in the Massacre chapter after recalling what she did.}}
* [[Off to Boarding School]]
* [[The Rashomon]]: ''Watanagashi-hen'' was told from Keiichi's point of view, and Shion retells it in ''Meakashi-hen''. {{spoiler|Sorta. They actually ''are'' different ways of playing out the same sequence, but a few details differ such as who knocked over the bike and had someone come to their rescue.}}
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Blue Oni to Mion's Red. {{spoiler|But her ''true'' personality is Red; she acts Blue because it is expected from the "younger twin" role she is forced to play}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Serial Killer]]: Unlike other arcs, her murders occur over the course of days. Visionary type combined with revenge sub-type due to Hinimizawa syndrome.}}
* [[Sibling Yin
* [[Sixth Ranger]] {{spoiler|/ [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]] in some early arcs.}}
* [[Spanner in The Works]]: See the trope's page for details.
* [[Star
* [[Start of Darkness]]: Subverted with the "distinguishment scene". It is so in arcs where she snaps but not in arcs where she doesn't.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Tall, Green-Haired and Bishoujo]]
* [[The Chick]]
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: The girly girl. {{spoiler|At least it appears as such. See Mion's entry for details.}}
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* [[Does Not Like Spam|Does Not Like Pumpkins]]
* [[Drop the Washtub]]: A preferred prank. She can summon them ''anywhere''.
* [[Entendre Failure]]: Presumably because she's one of the [[Token Mini
* [[Hair Decorations]]: She nearly always wears a black hairband.
* [[Genki Girl]]
* [[Image Song]]: "Sukisuki Nii Nii".
* [[Morality Pet]]: To different character in different arcs, most notably Irie.
* {{spoiler|[[My God, What Have I Done?]]}}: You might miss it and you won't understand it at the time, but it happens at the end of ''Minagoroshi'' chapter {{spoiler|when she realizes that her parents weren't trying to kill her and she didn't need to push them off the cliff.}}
* [[
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Boy, does poor Satoko get it bad. Her mother, father, aunt, and brother all died or disappeared, and her uncle skipped town.
** That last one ''really'' isn't a bad thing.
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* [[Technicolor Eyes]]: Pink and in some versions, Red.
* [[The Smart Guy]]: The "Trap Master" of the group. She can [[MacGyvering|make weapons and traps out of anything]]. Her expertise even allows her to understand and figure out the things others make, such as {{spoiler|[[Chekhov's Skill|quickly concluding that the bomb Rena created was hidden in the rain gutter on the roof.]]}}
* [[Token Mini
* [[Trap Master]]: It's her club title. {{spoiler|She can make traps that can catch trained soldiers off guard!}}
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: {{spoiler|First, her parents die due to a tragic accident. Then, she and her brother are forced to move in with her abusive aunt and uncle. Then, her aunt is killed by her brother, her brother disappears a few days later, and her uncle abandons her.}}
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* [[Expy]]: Featherine Augustus Aurora from [[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]].
* {{spoiler|[[Gods Hands Are Tied]]}}: In fact, she even goes so far as to describe herself as "{{spoiler|a powerless god}}".
* {{spoiler|[[God Was My Co
* [[Horned Humanoid]]
* {{spoiler|[[Hot Mom]]: In the past}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Misapplied Phlebotinum]]: For every arc until the last she is undetectable to anyone that is not named Rika or in the later stages of Hinamizawa syndrome. [[Fridge Logic|It apparently never occurred to Rika to utilize her invisible ghost spy to do anything like figure out who killed Tomitake]].}}
** {{spoiler|Then again, Rika is still quite the child, even though it sometimes seems otherwise. And quite pessimistic at that, with the whole "what's the point" attitude.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Not
* [[New Meat]]: After she joins the club, Mion calls her the "newbie".
* [[Only Known By Their Nickname]]: Most people call her {{spoiler|Oyashiro-sama}}, people who know her call her Hanyu, but her real name is {{spoiler|Hainryun Ieasomuru Jieda. She got the nickname of Hanyu because her husband couldn't memorize her full name.}}
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* [[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.}}
* [[
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: His drawling accent, casual manner and crude humor put people off their guard. Unfortunately, it makes him come off as arrogant and causes distrust in him.
* [[Odd Friendship|Odd]] [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: With {{spoiler|Keiichi}} in ''Minagoroshi-hen''.
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* [[Abusive Parents|Abusive Grandparent]]: Treats Shion like garbage. [[Sarcasm Mode|Best grandmom ever!]]
* [[Cold
* {{spoiler|[[Crack Pairing]]: Ends up as [[May
* [[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.)}}
* {{spoiler|[[May
* [[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]]
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* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Unfortunately, there's generally little she can do.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Curry.
* [[Two
** Higher grade students are also expected to teach to lower grade ones during free study periods, effectively raising the number of teachers.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]
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* [[Honey Trap]]: And how. {{spoiler|It ends ''badly'' for her}}
* [[Gold Digger]]
* [[Gorn]]: In a series full of [[Family
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Rena took the "i" out of her name to signify the removal of all "ickyness" from her life. Could it really be a coincidence that Rina is nothing ''but'' horribleness?
* [[Outlaw Couple]]: With Teppei.
* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: Major hint that there's something not right about her.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Despite her bitchy behavior she is ''rather'' good-looking.
* [[Tattooed Crook]]
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]
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'''Natsumi Kimiyoshi''' is a girl whose family used to live in Hinamizawa. After the Great Hinamizawa Disaster, her grandmother starts acting strange, setting off a horrific chain of murders {{spoiler|which Natsumi is actually responsible for}}.
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* [[Blood
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: In the original ([[PS 2]]) Miotsukushi-hen, she pops up briefly as a nod to people who had read Onisarashi-hen.
* [[Country Mouse]]: Okinomiya is a bigger town than Hinamizawa, but this sort of dynamic still plays pretty strongly when she moves to the city.
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* [[I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me]]: Before Akira admits he likes her too, her apparently [[Unrequited Love]] was largely full of this dynamic.
* {{spoiler|[[I Am a Monster]]}}: At the end of Someutsushi-hen. Ends about as well as {{spoiler|Shion's}}.
* {{spoiler|[[My God, What Have I Done?]]}}: "Help me... Toudou... he... [[
* [[New Transfer Student]]
* [[Odango Hair]]
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'''Chisato Saeki and Tamako Makimura''' are two of Natsumi's friends. Both of them first appeared in the Onisarashi-hen manga and were given expanded roles (especially Chisato) in the DS remakes of that arc, Someutsushi-hen and Kageboshi-hen. {{spoiler|In the latter arc, Chisato is attacked and hospitalized by Natsumi. Later, she meets Natsumi in the hospital. Although the two struggle for a bit, Chisato is able to calm Natsumi down.}}
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* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Tamako. Really, her hair's purplish, but Natsumi (although her hair's greenish-blonde) actually fits [[Shy Blue
* [[Blush Sticker]]: One of Chisato's standard expressions in the DS.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Tamako.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Tamako's is commented on the manga omake. "Tama" means round. The manga artist wonders if her name is so because she's roly-poly.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Chisato in spades.
* [[Romantic Two
** [[Lesbian Jock]]: Chisato. Though she apparently used to have a crush on Akira, her childhood friend.
* [[Those Two Guys]]
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* [[Curtains Match the Window]]
* [[Domestic Abuse]]
* {{spoiler|[[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Yae feels no remorse for killing Takumi until Mion proves to her that he intended to get a real job and turn over a new leaf by speaking to him from beyond the grave and finding an employee's notice on his body.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Sympathetic Murderer]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Unreliable Narrator]]}}
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