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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
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- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni takes place during June 1983 at a fictional rural village called Hinamizawa. The protagonist, Keiichi Maebara, moves to Hinamizawa and befriends his new classmates Rena Ryugu, Mion Sonozaki, Rika Furude, and Satoko Hojo. Hinamizawa appears to be a normal, peaceful, rural village to Keiichi. However, the tranquility abruptly ends after the annual Watanagashi Festival, a celebration to commemorate and give thanks to the local god, Oyashiro-sama. Keiichi learns that for the past four years, one person was murdered and another went missing on the day of the Watanagashi Festival. Keiichi himself soon becomes drawn into the strange events surrounding the Watanagashi Festival and Oyashiro-sama. In each story arc, he or one of his friends become paranoid, and a crime is committed. Usually, the crime involves the murder of one of their friends. While it seems impossible to tell their delusions apart from the mystery of Hinamizawa, slowly the truth is revealed.
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The Characters Of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni [adding more soon]
MAIN CHARACTERS
Keiichi Maebara (前原 圭一, Maebara Keiichi) - Keiichi is the main protagonist in the first three "question" arcs. The son of a famous artist, his family recently moved to Hinamizawa after an unfortunate event involving him in their hometown. His charisma and remarkable talent for speech making allow him to easily make new friends and become popular in the village, not to mention win some of the club activities. Early in the story, in the Onikakushi-hen and Tatarigoroshi-hen arcs, he is the one affected by the paranoia and driven to commit murder; however, the inner strength and unshaken belief in his friends he acquires in the other arcs are one of the keys to solving the mystery. Eventually, he is even able to recall some of the events of the past repetitions. When he is in need of a weapon, he wields Satoshi's old baseball bat. It is later revealed in the story that before arriving at Hinamizawa, he was the perpetrator of a series of crimes involving shooting little children with his toy gun.
Rena Ryugu (竜宮 レナ, Ryūgū Rena) - Rena is a girl who returned from Ibaraki to Hinamizawa one year ago, and is in same grade-level as Keiichi. She has an obsession with things she perceives as cute—generally, these things are not considered cute by others. Every now and then, she goes treasure hunting in the town's trash heap, searching for 'cute' things to collect, and upon finding something "cute", it's difficult to stop her. She has a habit of repeating words at the ends of sentences, most famously kana? kana? (かな? かな, lit. "I wonder? I wonder?") and when finding something cute, she says Haū! Omochikaerī! (はぅ〜! お持ち帰りぃ〜! lit "Haū! I want to take it home!"). When in "Take it Home" mode, she comically becomes stronger and faster. Despite this disarming trait, Rena is shown to be amazingly observant and perceptive about the things around her (in Watanagashi-hen, she was able to deduce that both Rika and Satoko went to the Sonozaki house by looking through the contents of their fridge and a flier). According to Mion, while Rena might seem cute herself, people should be careful not to anger her as she becomes quite scary when angered. She is especially sensitive about the topic of Oyashiro-sama; in Tsumihoroboshi-hen, her delusions about the god's true nature go so far as to make her take the school hostage, trying to unreasonably force a police investigation into the matter. When she needs a weapon, she uses a large cleaver that she found at the trash heap (in the anime) or a toolshed (in the manga). Her real given name is Reina (礼奈).
Mion Sonozaki (園崎 魅音, Sonozaki Mion) - Mion 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, and calls herself oji-san (meaning old man), 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. She is often seen with a holstered airsoft gun, even though she is never seen using it, and was removed in the PS2 adaption of the game; she is, however, very adept in the use of martial arts. She is notable as the only character that has never been driven to the extreme paranoia (on screen) that causes the others to kill in the question arcs and the first two answer arcs. Her real name is actually Shion, as she was born second to the family, but due to sister swapping even at a young age, she was mistakenly taken as Mion and branded with the family tattoo, ultimately causing her stay as Mion.
Shion Sonozaki (園崎 詩音, Sonozaki Shion) - Shion is Mion's identical twin sister, who currently resides in Okinomiya. In spite of their di0 Comments 244 weeks
I have to say i was confussed at first but then... i got totaly addicted to it haha how many ways can this guy die xD
Rena, Mion, Shion, Rika, Satoko & Keiichi~<3
Satoko!
My fave character is Rika, Rena or Shion
Nipah~!
my anime! XD
Higurashi is one of the best animes i've ever seen
this anime is aswome! it as one surius story to it!
I love Higurashi. Especially Cleaver Girl. I mean Rena! Omishikarii!!!
Just watched all of this in one sitting. Absolutely amazing anime, really gripping storyline. <3 Rena, Mion and Satoko =)
i love this much.
nippah!
hey anyone want to do my new higurashi no naku koro ni quiz try it plz
KEICHII ROCKS!
Hinamizawa is an actual rural village in Japan. It's not a fictional place.
I like the way the entire story falls into play with the many changing results.
Best program ever <3<3<3