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* NotSoDifferent: In Tsumihoroboshi-hen, the narration notes that the way that Ooishi operates is actually pretty similar to the stereotypes of the {{Yakuza}}, embodied in the story by his [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]], the Sonozaki family.

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: In Tsumihoroboshi-hen, the narration notes that the way that Ooishi operates is actually pretty similar to the stereotypes of the {{Yakuza}}, embodied in the story by his [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]], the Sonozaki family.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: In Episode 11 of ''Sotsu'' [[spoiler:he accuses Satoko for being behind the Curse. Which is entirely correct, but only for this year and not for the overall incidents he's thinking of.]]
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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Normally, he's the opposite of this trope throughout the entire series. But in ''Gou'', he somehow comes down with L5 Hinamizawa Syndrome, and goes on a murderous rampage gunning down everyone at the festival.]]

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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Normally, he's the opposite of this trope throughout the entire series. But in ''Gou'', he somehow comes down with L5 Hinamizawa Syndrome, and goes on a murderous rampage gunning down everyone at the festival.]] [[spoiler:Satoko also turns him into one in ''Sotsu'', which ends similarly, only this time he also dies once Satoko reveals her true colors by [[BoomHeadshot shooting him in the head]].]]
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* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Ooishi isn't normally this in the regular timelines, but when he comes down with Hinamizawa Syndrome in ''Gou/Sotsu'', he becomes far more unscrupulous to get to the culprits who he thinks are behind the annual murders of Hinamizawa, playing both sides in the war between the village and Teppei and escalating the situation and then later shooting up the Watanagashi festival in ''Tatariakashi-hen''.]]

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* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Ooishi isn't normally this in the regular timelines, but when he comes down with Hinamizawa Syndrome in ''Gou/Sotsu'', he becomes far more unscrupulous to get to the culprits who he thinks are behind the annual murders of Hinamizawa, playing both sides in the war between the village and Teppei and escalating the situation and then later shooting up the Watanagashi festival in ''Tatariakashi-hen''.''Tataridamashi/Tatariakashi-hen''.]]

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* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:Ooishi isn't normally this in the regular timelines, but when he comes down with Hinamizawa Syndrome in ''Gou/Sotsu'', he becomes far more unscrupulous to get to the culprits who he thinks are behind the annual murders of Hinamizawa, playing both sides in the war between the village and Teppei and escalating the situation and then later shooting up the Watanagashi festival in ''Tatariakashi-hen''.]]



* DrinkingOnDuty: Ooshi's carefree attitude on the job does have him indulge in a drink every so often. He drinks with the thugs he arrests in Chapter 4 of Watangashi.

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* DrinkingOnDuty: Ooshi's Ooishi's carefree attitude on the job does have him indulge in a drink every so often. He drinks with the thugs he arrests in Chapter 4 of Watangashi.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: As much of a genocidal bitch she is at the end of ''Minagoroshi''. In ''Miotsukushi Omote'', she doesn't hesitate to inject Teppei with vaccine H170 to make his brain experience the L5 of the Hinamizawa Syndrome after he was expelled out of the Hojou's house by the Club which is justified as Teppei's abuse towards Satoko reminds her of the same ordeal she went through with the cruel director of the orphanage she was sent to.]]

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: As much of a genocidal bitch she is at the end of ''Minagoroshi''. In ''Miotsukushi Omote'', in the woods, she doesn't hesitate to inject Teppei with the vaccine H170 to make his brain experience induce the L5 of the Hinamizawa Syndrome after he was expelled out of the Hojou's house Hōjō residence by the Club Keiichi, Rika, Akasaka, and Ooishi which is justified as Teppei's his physical abuse towards Satoko reminds her of the same ordeal she went through with the cruel director of the orphanage she was sent to.]]
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* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:To the Sonozaki family, the Yamainu, and the false image of [[DiscOneFinalBoss Oyashiro-sama]] she created.]]

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* ManBehindTheMan: WomanBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:To the Sonozaki family, the Yamainu, and the false image of [[DiscOneFinalBoss Oyashiro-sama]] she created.]]
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* FireForgedFriends: With Akasaka after the events of ''Himatsubushi-hen.'' They start of not thinking much of each other, but after going through a dangerous fight to rescue the Minister's grandson from kidnappers together they become quite good friends.


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* FireForgedFriends: With Ooishi after the events of ''Himatsubushi-hen.'' Risking their lives together to rescue the Minister's kidnapped grandson makes them quite good friends.
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!!!Voiced by: Creator/MikiIto (JP), Creator/FuyukaOura (JP - young), Creator/KarenStrassman (EN, Bang Zoom), Creator/MallorieRodak (EN, Funimation)

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!!!Voiced by: Creator/MikiIto (JP), Creator/FuyukaOura (JP - young), Creator/KarenStrassman (EN, Bang Zoom), Creator/MallorieRodak (EN, Funimation), Creator/SarahWiedenheft (EN - young, Funimation)
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!!!Voiced by: Shizuka Okohira (JP), Creator/BarbaraGoodson (EN)

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!!!Voiced by: Shizuka Okohira (JP), Creator/BarbaraGoodson (EN)(EN, Bang Zoom), Pam Dougherty (EN, Funimation)
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* PsychopathicWomanchild: Despite many characters describing her as a mature adult woman working as a nurse for the Irie clinic, her personality is actually frighteningly childish when she mutters a lot of dark and scary subjects about Hinamizawa to everyone that most of them never asks for.

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* PsychopathicWomanchild: Despite many characters describing her as a mature adult woman working as a nurse for the Irie clinic, her personality is actually frighteningly childish when she mutters a lot of dark and scary subjects about Hinamizawa to everyone that most of them never asks for. [[spoiler: Her traumatic childhood shown in ''Matsuribayashi'' chapter would have shaped her into who she is now.]]
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: As much of a genocidal bitch she is in ''Minagoroshi''. In ''Miotsukushi Omote'', she doesn't hesitate to inject Teppei with vaccine H170 to make his brain go into L5 of the Hinamizawa Syndrome after he was expelled out of the Hojou's house by the Club which is justified as Teppei abusing of Satoko reminds her of the same ordeal she went through with the cruel head of the orphanage she was sent to.]]

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: As much of a genocidal bitch she is in at the end of ''Minagoroshi''. In ''Miotsukushi Omote'', she doesn't hesitate to inject Teppei with vaccine H170 to make his brain go into experience the L5 of the Hinamizawa Syndrome after he was expelled out of the Hojou's house by the Club which is justified as Teppei abusing of Teppei's abuse towards Satoko reminds her of the same ordeal she went through with the cruel head director of the orphanage she was sent to.]]
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** In ''Himatsubushi'', he's just a greenhorn. In ''Matsuribayashi'', he is refered to multiple times as a monster.

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** In ''Himatsubushi'', he's just a greenhorn. In ''Matsuribayashi'', he is refered referred to multiple times as a monster.
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!!!Voiced by: Creator/ToshihikoSeki (JP), Creator/DaveMallow (EN, Bang Zoom), Cody Savoie (EN, Funimation)

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!!!Voiced by: Creator/ToshihikoSeki (JP), Creator/DaveMallow Dave Mallow (EN, Bang Zoom), Cody Savoie (EN, Funimation)



!!!Voiced by: Creator/TakehitoKoyasu (JP - drama CD), Creator/DaisukeOno (JP - anime), Creator/PatrickSeitz (EN)

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!!!Voiced by: Creator/TakehitoKoyasu (JP - drama CD), Creator/DaisukeOno (JP - anime), Creator/PatrickSeitz (EN)(EN, Bang Zoom), Creator/AleksLe (EN, Funimation)
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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: [[spoiler:Just before the Final Operation, she realizes that because of her obstipation to continue the research on Hinamizawa Syndrome, instead of staying in history, her grandfather's research is going to be erased and forgotten, whether a cure is found or the Manual 34 is implemented]]. She is the only one who regrets it though.

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* NotQuiteTheRightThing: [[spoiler:Just before the Final Operation, she realizes that because of her obstipation obstination to continue the research on Hinamizawa Syndrome, instead of staying in history, her grandfather's research is going to be erased and forgotten, whether a cure is found or the Manual 34 is implemented]]. She is the only one who regrets it though.

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%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In most of the arcs.

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%%* * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In most of the arcs.arcs, he acts as a fairly reasonable police investigator even if he goes around spreading suspicions on those involved in the murderers.



* ClawingAtOwnThroat: In most of the arcs, he claws his throat out the night of the Watanagashi Festival [[spoiler:due to being injected with H173.]]



* DrivenToSuicide: In most of the arcs, he claws his throat out [[spoiler:due to being injected with H173.]]
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* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:She's the one killing Rika in most timelines, [[GasLeakCoverup setting off the Great Hinamizawa Disaster to preemptively stop the supposed resulting Level 5 outbreak. Minagoroshi-hen in particular has her personally killing the entire Club shortly beforehand.]]

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* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:She's the one killing Rika in most timelines, [[GasLeakCoverup setting off the Great Hinamizawa Disaster to preemptively stop the supposed resulting Level 5 outbreak. ]] Minagoroshi-hen in particular has her personally killing the entire Club shortly beforehand.]]

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* NoblewomansLaugh: Gets a classic one in the anime [[spoiler:after her AGodAmI speech]], yet it's somehow less disturbing than most of the protagonists' laughs.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: [[spoiler:Just before the Final Operation, she realizes that because of her obstination to continue the research on Hinamizawa Syndrome, instead of staying in history, her grandfather's research is going to be erased and forgotten, whether a cure is found or the Manual 34 is implemented]]. She is the only one who regrets it though.

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* NoblewomansLaugh: Gets a classic one in the anime [[spoiler:after her AGodAmI GodhoodSeeker speech]], yet it's somehow less disturbing than most of the protagonists' laughs.
* NotMeThisTime: ''Gou'' presents an interesting take on the trope: she readily admits to Rika that [[spoiler: she was intending on killing her and her friends]] as part of her plan, but she ended up getting cold feet and opting to [[spoiler: turn herself in]]. In her stead, the main villain turns out to be [[spoiler: a looping Satoko]] who was receiving outside help from a supernatural source.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: [[spoiler:Just before the Final Operation, she realizes that because of her obstination obstipation to continue the research on Hinamizawa Syndrome, instead of staying in history, her grandfather's research is going to be erased and forgotten, whether a cure is found or the Manual 34 is implemented]]. She is the only one who regrets it though.

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* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:She's the one killing Rika in most timelines, [[GasLeakCoverup setting off the Great Hinamizawa Disaster to preemptively stop the supposed resulting Level 5 outbreak. Minagoroshi-hen in particular has her personally killing the entire Club shortly beforehand.]]



* MsFanservice: She's [[HeadturningBeauty a fairly attractive human]] with [[BuxomIsBetter ample assets]] who wears a few revealing outfits, such as her nurse outfit. She also SleepsInTheNude and wears a BarelyThereSwimwear during the BeachEpisode. [[spoiler:This makes the fact she's the BigBad all the more shocking.]]

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* MsFanservice: She's [[HeadturningBeauty a fairly attractive human]] woman]] with [[BuxomIsBetter ample assets]] who wears a few revealing outfits, such as her nurse outfit. She also SleepsInTheNude and wears a BarelyThereSwimwear during the BeachEpisode. [[spoiler:This makes the fact she's the BigBad all the more shocking.]]
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!!!Voiced by: Creator/{{Chafurin}} (JP), Joe [=DiMucci=] (EN)

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!!!Voiced by: Creator/{{Chafurin}} (JP), Joe [=DiMucci=] (EN)(EN, Bang Zoom), Mark Stoddard (EN, Funimation)



!!!Voiced by: Creator/ToruOkawa (JP), Creator/KyleHebert (EN)

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!!!Voiced by: Creator/ToruOkawa (JP), Creator/KyleHebert (EN)(EN, Bang Zoom), Creator/JohnBurgmeier (EN, Funimation)
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: As much of a genocidal bitch she is in ''Minagoroshi''. In ''Miotsukushi Omote'', she doesn't hesitate to inject Teppei with vaccine H170 to make his brain go into L5 of the Hinamizawa Syndrome after he was expelled out of the Hojou's house by the Club which is justified as Teppei abusing of Satoko reminds her of the same ordeal she went through with the cruel head of the orphanage she was sent to.]]

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* ForScience: [[spoiler:While Irie has taken some questionable actions (namely dissections of living peoples' brains), he at least [[WellIntentionedExtremist genuinely wants to solve mental disorders.]] Takano actually just cares about the research itself building fame over anyone benefiting from it.]]



* ForScience: [[spoiler:While Irie has taken some questionable actions (namely dissections of living peoples' brains), he at least [[WellIntentionedExtremist genuinely wants to solve mental disorders.]] Takano actually just cares about the research itself building fame over anyone benefiting from it.]]

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In most of the arcs, he claws his throat out due to being injected with H173.]]

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In In most of the arcs, he claws his throat out due [[spoiler:due to being injected with H173.]]



* TheGunslinger: He's a veteran sniper.



* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler:Especially evident in ''Matsuribayashi-hen''. Despite everything Miyo did to him and to the people of Hinamizawa, he is willing to get her help after she was defeated.]]



* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:He's a veteran sniper.]]
* OfficialCouple: With Miyo Takano. [[spoiler:Yes, even after she tries to kill him.]]

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* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:He's a veteran sniper.]]
* OfficialCouple: With He's dating Miyo Takano. [[spoiler:Yes, even after she tries to kill him.]]Takano.



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. [[spoiler:She genuinely loves Tomitake and isn't really eager to kill him, but that never stops her from making him the victim of "Oyashiro-sama's curse".]]
** Played ''very'' straight, however, with [[spoiler: her grandfather, whom she still loves even when evil...in fact, he is the primary motivator behind her becoming evil to begin with.]]

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. [[spoiler:She genuinely loves EvenEvilCanBeLoved: [[spoiler:To prove her grandfather's research, she kills Rika's parents, Tomitake, and the entire Hinamizawa village in many fragments. Despite this, her boyfriend Tomitake and isn't really eager to kill him, but that never stops her from making him the victim of "Oyashiro-sama's curse".]]
** Played ''very'' straight, however, with [[spoiler: her grandfather, whom she still
loves even when evil...in fact, he is the primary motivator behind her becoming evil deeply and is determined to begin with.help Takano start anew with a better life once her plans are ruined in ''Matsuribayashi-hen''.]]


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* KickTheMoralityPet: [[spoiler:She genuinely loves Tomitake and isn't really eager to kill him, but that never stops her from making him the victim of "Oyashiro-sama's curse" in all the fragments.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Familial love example. [[spoiler:Takano loves her adoptive grandfather more than anything in the world and couldn't forgive society for ridiculing his research to the point he was pushed into commiting suicide. Proving her grandfather's research and being immortalized with his memory are the primary motivators behind her going to inhuman extremes in her Hinamizawa Syndrome research, culminating in her planning the massacre of the Hinamizawa village.]]
* LoveRedeems: Implied by the ending of ''Matsuribayashi-hen''. [[spoiler:Takano's plans are ruined and she's going to be arrested, but Tomitake steps in by declaring Takano needs to take treatment for the Hinamizawa Syndrome. Even though he knows Takano was going to kill him, Tomitake tells Takano he's going to help her reform and start again.]]


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* TearsOfRemorse: In the ''Gou'' anime, [[spoiler:Takano cries as she confesses to Rika that she was planning to kill her and her friends until she decided to give up for some unexplained reason.]]
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!!!Voiced by: Creator/MikiIto (JP), Creator/FuyukaOura (JP - young), Creator/KarenStrassman (EN)

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!!!Voiced by: Creator/ToshihikoSeki (JP), Creator/DaveMallow (EN)

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** [[spoiler:Episode 17 of ''Gou'' has Takano doing this at the beginning, where she tearfully begs for Rika's forgiveness stating she ''planned'' to kill her and her friends but, for some unspecified reason, she has given up her plan and is going to testify against the faction of Tokyo that planned to start the Hinamizawa Disaster.]]


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* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:Her first full appearance in ''Gou'' shows Takano doing everything she can to atone for the actions she was ''going'' to take against Rika and the others, and even begs for Rika's forgiveness. Tomitake explains Takano has revealed Tokyo's plans to cause the Hinamizawa Disaster and is testifying against the faction that would've caused it all. Though when Rika asks why Takano changed her mind, Takano vaguely states Rika wouldn't believe her.]]
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* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:The ''Matsuribayashi-hen'' manga is ostensibly a prequel that follows her closely, chronicling how she became obsessed with the research on the Hinamizawa Syndrome, as well as how she was involved in every event leading up to the current arc resolution.]]
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->[[center:[[Characters/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/HigurashiWhenTheyCryProtagonists Protagonists]] | '''Supporting Characters''' | [[Characters/HigurashiWhenTheyCryMinorCharacters Minor Characters]] | [[Characters/HigurashiWhenTheyCryMiscellaneousCharacters Miscellaneous Characters]]]]
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* ChekhovMIA: For most of the story, no one has any idea of where Satoshi disappeared to the night of the Cotton-Drifting Festival. [[spoiler:In the Matsuribayashi-hen, Shion discovers Satoshi is in a coma in Irie's clinic and he'll need to stay like that at ''least'' until there's a real cure for the Hinamizawa Syndrome.]]

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* ChekhovMIA: For most of the story, no one has any idea of where Satoshi disappeared to the night of the Cotton-Drifting Festival. [[spoiler:In the Matsuribayashi-hen, Shion discovers Satoshi is in a coma in Irie's clinic and he'll need to stay like that at ''least'' until there's a real cure for the Hinamizawa Syndrome. He actually recovers in Miotsukushi's epilogue.]]
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!!Minor Characters
[[folder:Rumiko Chie]]
!!Rumiko Chie
!!!Voiced by: Creator/FumikoOrikasa (JP), Sam Carr (EN, Bang Zoom), Creator/MacyJohnson (EN, Funimation)
!!!Portrayed by: Hitomi Miwa (film)
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The female teacher of Keiichi's class, who is a parody character of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'''s Ciel-senpai (permission for her usage was given by [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Type-Moon]]). The voice actress for her character in the anime series is the same as the voice actress for Ciel from the Tsukihime anime. Going along with the parody, her favorite food is curry rice, just like Ciel.
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* BerserkButton: Don't you dare insult curry in front of her. It won't be pretty. Sometimes she can hear an insult even when she's not in the room!
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: She has blue hair and blue eyes.
* {{Expy}}: She's clearly based on Ciel from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', and Type-Moon even granted permission to 07th Expansion to do so. She seems to be more specifically based on Ciel-sensei, the version of Ciel that appears in ''Tsukihime'''s "Teach me, Ciel-sensei!" segments; she even wears the same pendant.[[note]]Unlike Neko Arc, her status as just Ciel in a teacher's uniform or as a separate character is not quite confirmed. At least one story in Kagetsu Tohya seems to suggest Ciel-sensei is a separate character, which would make Chie an Expy of an Expy.[[/note]] If that wasn't enough, in ''Higurashi Daybreak'', many of Rumiko's moves are direct references to some of Ciel's moves from ''Melty Blood''. In the ExpansionPack, one of Rumiko's alternate outfits is Ciel's nun outfit and, if the player uses this costume, she will talk very much like her ''Tsukihime'' counterpart.
* HotTeacher: Parodied in Kira with Keiichi "sketching" her as punishment game in the Soul Brother's delusion.
* MyNaymeIs: Her name is oddly spelled "Lumiko Cie" in the French version, most likely to make her PunnyName more obvious.
* PunnyName: Her name in Japanese order is Chie Rumiko. If you combine "Chie" and "Ru", you get "Chieru", which sounds very similar to the Japanese pronuncation of [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Ciel]]'s name.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Unfortunately, there's generally little she can do.
* {{Schoolmarm}}: She's the only teacher at the school the main characters attend, which isn't surprising since Hinamizawa is a rural village and the school is a one-room schoolhouse with a single class of children of different ages. Keiichi is impressed that she manages to teach a class full of students from different grades. Higher grade students are also expected to teach to lower grade ones during free study periods, effectively raising the number of teachers.
* SeriousBusiness: Curry, both cooking it and respecting its history. Rena says she's a tyrant when it comes to curry.
* SternTeacher: In the visual novel, Rena states that Rumiko would not hesitate to discipline her students who had crossed the line with harsh methods, such as hitting them with a wooden ruler. This is never brought up in the anime, where she's generally nice to her students.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Curry, which is yet another indication that she's an {{expy}} of Ciel.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is dark blue, which is another trait she has in common with Ciel.
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[[folder:Tatsuyoshi Kasai]]
!!Tatsuyoshi Kasai
!!!Voiced by: Creator/FumihikoTachiki (JP), Creator/SteveKramer (EN)
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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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* RedBaron: "Shotgun Tatsu". Do ''not'' mess with this guy!
* RomanticRunnerUp: According to Shion, her father, Kasai and Akane had a LoveTriangle in their youth. Kasai lost but stayed close to Akane as right-hand man. It didn't end so badly for him at all since he does get to watch over Shion.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: He wields a shotgun during [[spoiler:the assault on the Irie clinic]] in ''Matsuribayashi''. A single slug from it tears a massive hole through the door and the table the guards were using as cover, scaring them shitless. A second shot gets them all to surrender [[spoiler:except for one]].
* SunglassesAtNight: He is ''always'' seen wearing sunglasses.
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[[folder:Kumagai Katsuya]]
!!Kumagai Katsuya
!!!Voiced by: Shumpei Otani (JP), Kyle Hebert (EN)
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A police officer in Okinomiya who assists Ooishi in his investigation.
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* StraightMan: He plays the calm ByTheBookCop to Ooishi's BunnyEarsLawyer. Often times being the level-headed {{Foil}} to Ooishi's boistrous antics.
* TheWatson: Ooishi often explains what's on his mind to Kumagai in the process letting the audience know what the police know. It's especially prominent in the TIPS where no protagonists are present for Ooshi to play off of.
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[[folder:Teppei Houjou]]
!!Teppei Houjou
!!!Voiced by: Katsuhisa Hoki (JP), Creator/SteveKramer (EN)
!!!Portrayed by: Riki Takeuchi (film), Tomohiro Waki (drama series)
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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.
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* AbusiveParents: He's [[EvilUncle Satoko's uncle]], but ends up as her direct guardian in some arcs, making him a parental figure. Not only does he treat Satoko like crap and hits her, one of the TIPS flat-out states that if she had been a few years older, he would have had no qualms about abusing her sexually too. It doesn't end well for him.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He gets by Keiichi and Rena in Tatarigoroshi and Tsumihoroboshi respectively for tormenting their loved ones, but in Miotsukushi, Takano injects him with H173 to induce the [[ClawingOnesOwnThroat final stages of Hinamizawa Syndrome]]. He'd been abusing Satoko earlier in the arc, so no tears are shed.]]
* ChildHater: Taken to truly repulsive levels in Tatagoroshi and Minagoroshi-hen.
* EvilIsPetty: While he's depicted as a despicable person all through, the ''Gou'' season exaggerates his pettiness at the beginning of episode 12 when he vandalizes a roadside shrine and pees on the torii shrine gates off-screen
* EvilUncle: He has a history of beating his niece and nephew Satoko and Satoshi. He's not even their real uncle. His older brother was their stepfather.
* HateSink: He clearly was meant as someone who the audience wants to suffer, and does.
* {{Jerkass}}: '''All''' the time. Even in episodes where he isn't doing anything morally reprehensible, he's still an asshole.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:In Tatarigoshi, Exorcism, Tsumihoroboshi, and Miotsukushi-hen, he's killed by one or several members of the club either to free Satoko from his abuse or to get back at him for him and Rina extorting money from Rena's father.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: His presence always signifies things getting unpleasant. [[spoiler:Lampshaded by Rika in the Massacre Chapter: in any world where Satoko's uncle returns to Hinamizawa, Rika feels she might as well give up at trying to fight against any circumstances.]]
* LoanShark: One of his activities, with the help of Rina.
* OhCrap: That's how most normal people react to [[spoiler:putting the light on and seeing what was a cute teenage girl 2 seconds ago, brandishing an axe ready to cleave your head in two. Or seeing a furious teenage boy charging at you with a baseball bat while screaming like a banshee.]] He doesn't have the time to say it out loud in either scenario though.
* OutlawCouple: According to Kasai, he is a pimp and uses his lover Rina to swindle men out of their money.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Whenever he's killed, it's because someone found his actions so horrible, they thought he no longer had the right to live.
* TheyKilledKenny: Dies quite a lot, mostly to his own evil acts biting him in the ass.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Rika considers his return to Hinamizawa to be one of the worst possible omens for a new timeline. In timelines where he comes back to the village, his presence - in particular his destabilizing influence on Satoko - invariably dooms any and all efforts at making things better. It gets to the point that when he appears in ''Minagoroshi'', Rika considers simply killing herself to save herself some heartache, as she is convinced that despite the fact that the timeline has had some excellent turns of luck thus far, his mere presence in the village has doomed it beyond any hope of recovery.]]
* VigilanteExecution: Vigilante action (for NASTY child abuse and badger games) is the common motive in his many deaths throughout the arcs.
* WouldHurtAChild: As long as he has someone to hit, he's not picky about the age. He also [[spoiler:kills Rika]] in an unseen world.
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[[folder:Rina Mamiya]]
!!Rina/Ritsuko Mamiya
!!!Voiced by: Creator/KyokoHikami (JP - drama CD), Creator/MisaWatanabe (JP - anime), Jean Smart (EN)
!!!Portrayed by: Aya Sugimoto (film), Rei Yoshii (drama series)
[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higu_rina_4354.png]]

A woman who appears in Rena's life in ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen''. She is the lover of Teppei Houjou.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:She's killed by Takano and the Yamainu after sneaking into the Irie clinic in Miotsukushi.]]
* BareYourMidriff: She wears a tube top that exposes her belly.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: When Rina confronts Rena about the fact that she doesn't like her, and Rina puts on a pretty convincing act about how she genuinely loves Rena's father. Rena falls for it and starts to reconsider her view on Rina before she overheard her and Teppei badmouthing her father.
* BlatantLies: "I'm pregnant. And since I'm a Christian, I can't have an abortion."
* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
** In the scenarios where she steals money from the Sonozakis, her mutilated corpse is found washed in the sewers. Her nose and ears were cut off, one nail was driven through each of her finger joints, and her belly was slit open.
** In ''Tsumihoroboshi'', [[spoiler:Rena cuts her stomach open and beats her to death with a pipe.]]
* DistinguishingMark: A red star-shaped tattoo on her belly. Useful for identifying her mangled, rotted corpse.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In case you don't spot her right from the beginning, the first TIP of ''Tsumihoroboshi'' after she appears tells us her name and her work: the same as Teppei's mistress who was killed horribly three arcs earlier. Woops. [[spoiler:In other words if she dies early, Teppei Houjou returns to Hinamizawa.]]
* GoldDigger: In Tsumihoroboshi-hen, she's only dating Rena's father to extort money from him.
* HateSink: Like Teppei, she's made unsympathetic and hateable so we feel more bad for [[spoiler:Rena]] when the latter kills Rina as revenge for scamming her father.
* KarmicDeath: In ''Tsumihoroboshi', [[spoiler:she's extorting money from Rena's father, which ends in Rena brutally beating her to death with a pipe.]]
* MeaningfulName: 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?
* OutlawCouple: With Teppei. Together they swindle men out of their money through intimidation and blackmail schemes.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Major hint that there's something not right about her.
* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: It has struck again. Poor Rena's dad.
* TattooedCrook: She's Teppei's partner in crime and has a star-shaped tattoo on her midriff.
* TooDumbToLive: In ''Tsumihoroboshi''. [[spoiler:Rina is lured by Rena to an abandoned junkyard where no one can hear her scream. A junkyard that Rena comes by every day to look for treasures and she thinks she's got the upper hand on Rena. She learned the hard way when Rena beat her to death with a pipe.]]
** In ''Minagoroshi'', [[spoiler:you learn that her potentional death can be caused by her attempt at swindeling the yakuza]].
* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler:The motive for her death in the 6th novel.]]
* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:Once Rena outs her as a GoldDigger, she starts strangling her while laughing about how cursed her life has been from her parents' divorce to now. Rena manages to grab a pipe and furiously starts bludgeoning her with it. Now that Rena has the upper hand, she tearfully begs for her life, but only further enrages her by using the name "Reina".]]
* WouldHurtAChild: She doesn't have qualms with seriously attacking Rena when the latter realizes hers and Teppei's scam.
%%* YouGottaHaveBlueHair
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[[folder:Akane Sonozaki]]
!!Akane Sonozaki
!!!Voiced by: Creator/KikukoInoue (JP)
[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higu_akane_6792.png]]

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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%%* ActionMom
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Green hair and eyes, which her daughters got from her.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: She got married to a Yakuza boss from outside the village, which led to the {{Fingore}} mentioned below and changing the kanji in her name to remove the "oni".
* DoesNotLikeSpam: She claims to hate shiitake mushrooms as much as liars.
* {{Fingore}}: Akane had to rip off her own fingernails due to her feud with Oryou over marrying a guy the clan didn't approve. Unlike Shion, she can laugh it off now.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Her WeaponOfChoice is a katana. Mion must have got it from somewhere.
* KimonoIsTraditional: She's a YamatoNadeshiko who is always dressed in a kimono.
* MarryForLove: She married an outsider of the village of her own choice instead of letting Oryou choose her husband for her.
* MissingMom: She's rarely on screen due to her estrangement. Like Shion, she lives in Okinomiya instead of Hinamizawa.
* NiceGirl: While she's calm and collected, in ''Meakashi'', she does held concerns for Shion's wellbeing as she gets [[spoiler:her three nails ripped off painfully]] and is quite warm and welcoming to Keiichi in the manga version of 'Minagoroshi'' as she hilariously willing to have him marry either Mion or Shion if he wants to.
* OddFriendship: Forms a friendship with [[spoiler:Ooishi]] in ''Matsuribayashi'' despite the years of hatred between them, thanks to [[spoiler:Ooishi realizing the Sonozaki family had nothing to do with the construction manager's death]].
* OddNameOut: She's the only female of her family not to have the character for oni in her name. She used to, but had to change the spelling of her name when she was disowned.
* RedBaron: The "Demon Princess of Shishibone".
* ShipperOnDeck: She assumes that Keiichi's determination to save Satoko from Teppei in Minagoroshi means that they're a couple. When corrected by Mion, she offers him either of her daughters and invites him to start calling her "Mom", only to get smacked by both Mion and Shion.
* SilkHidingSteel: Oh, you'd better believe it. Despite coming across as calm, controlled, kindly, and even-tempered, Akane is a strong woman and when she puts her foot down, even Mion and Shion don't dare to cross her.
* {{Yakuza}}: Her husband is a crime boss.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Fits the trope to a T, from her traditional kimono garb, to her calm-yet-controlled personality, to her wiliness and resourcefulness in the face of hardship. Even her daughters respect her strength.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has green hair, which her daughter obviously inherited from her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kiichirou Kimiyoshi]]
!!Kiichirou Kimiyoshi
!!!Voiced by: Masaaki Tsukada (JP), Creator/KyleHebert (EN)
[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higu_kimiyoshi_3627.png]]

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.
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* MeaningfulName: The characters for "Kimiyoshi" can be rearranged to form the character "oni".
* ShipperOnDeck: In Miotsukushi-hen, [[spoiler:he supports Keiichi and Mion.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hifumi Takano]]
!!Hifumi Takano
!!!Voiced by: Kazumi Tanaka (JP)
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hifumi_5254.jpeg]]

A scientist who devoted his entire life to researching a disease he calls Hinamizawa Syndrome, which he thinks could shake the entire scientific knowledge about the human brain. However, his research is shunned and mocked by the academic world.
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* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: His first name is written 一二三 (one two three). [[spoiler:Then Miyoko became Miyo (三四 three four).]]
* DrivenToSuicide: When he realized he was [[SanitySlippage going senile]] in his late years.
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler: The ''one'' timeline where Miyoko's parents survive and Hifumi's endless efforts in researching Hinamizawa Syndrome pays off is the one portrayed in ''Outbreak''... where the Japanese government uses his research as basis for turning Hinamizawa Syndrome into a ''weapon of biological warfare''.]]
* AGodAmI: A rare case where it's not a megalomaniac rant. He just thinks that if his research is acknowleged, he will become some kind of eternal being, just like a god. The problem is, his beloved granddaughter [[GoneHorriblyWrong took it a bit too seriously.]] His final letter to her really didn't help though (see UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom below).
* JustInTime: Had he come to the orphanage only a day later, [[spoiler:Miyoko would probably have died with her head in that latrin.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: To Miyoko.
* PosthumousCharacter: Died several years before the start of the story.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: You don't understand the first time (because it seems irrelevant in that arc), but [[spoiler:the first TIP of ''Minagoroshi'' is his [[DeadManWriting suicide letter]] to Miyoko. He tells her that he coudn't become a god and that she must become one in his stead.]] Worst. Will. Ever.
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!!Supporting Characters
[[folder:Satoshi Houjou]]
!!Satoshi Houjou
!!!Voiced by: Creator/MitsukiSaiga (JP - drama CD), Creator/YuuKobayashi (JP - anime), Creator/DarrelGuilbeau (EN)
!!!Portrayed by: Toshiki Seto (drama series)
[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higu_satoshi_5078.png]]

Satoko's older brother, who disappeared a year before the story began.
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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Often did this to Satoko and Shion, the latter stunned at herself for how easily such a simple gesture made her fall for him, and somewhat developed feelings for Keiichi when he imitated this behavior.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Subverted - while he was ''very'' protective of Satoko, a repressed part of him was also tired of protecting her from their aunt and hearing her constant whining.
* {{Bishonen}}: Quite handsome along with Keiichi.
* ChekhovMIA: For most of the story, no one has any idea of where Satoshi disappeared to the night of the Cotton-Drifting Festival. [[spoiler:In the Matsuribayashi-hen, Shion discovers Satoshi is in a coma in Irie's clinic and he'll need to stay like that at ''least'' until there's a real cure for the Hinamizawa Syndrome.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: His disappearance is a major part of what sets off the killers in three of the four question arcs fueling Keiichi's paranoia (Onikakushi), Shion's grief (Watanagashi and Meakashi) and Keiichi's protectiveness (Tataragoroshi).
* ColorBlindConfusion: Shion was partly amused and partly exasperated by his inability to distinguish broccoli from cauliflower.
* DumbBlonde: A rare male example. Satoshi has a reputation for being somewhat air-headed and unfocused.
* FamilyThemeNaming: '''Sato'''shi, older brother of '''Sato'''ko (though the kanji are completely different).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: From Frederica Bernkastel's poem in ''Meakashi-hen'': "How many years will pass before she wonders if she really dropped them?"
* FreakOut: [[spoiler:The day of the Watanagashi festival in 1982, Satoshi finally snaps and murders his aunt to prevent her from abusing him and Satoko any further. He fulfills his plan to buy Satoko a giant stuffed bear for her birthday, but as Irie is driving him home, the last of his sanity is finally shed and he begins to hallucinate and see his aunt's face in nearby drivers and pedestrians. This forces Irie to take him to the clinic and begin treating him for Level 5 Hinamizawa Syndrome.]]
* IllBoy: According to Dr. Irie, his mental and physical health is slowly declining from all the stress both in and out of home.
* ImageSong: "Yellowsick". Ironically, he has one of the most energetic and hot-blooded image songs of the cast.
* JerkassBall: As his emotional and physical health decline, he quits the Hinamizawa Fighters and becomes bitter toward Mion (actually Shion), as his contempt toward her family spreads to her despite all the time they'd spent bonding. When Shion later starts beating Satoko for being overly dependent, he assumes that she's just taking part in the village's discrimination against them, despite later admitting that she'd never done so.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: [[spoiler:He killed his aunt in order to protect Satoko. In large part it was due to Hinamizawa syndrome, though.]]
* TheLostLenore: His disappearance causes no small amount of grief for Shion. [[spoiler:In ''Meakashi'', [[LoveMakesYouCrazy it makes her go crazy]]]].
* NiceGuy: Usually nice and kindhearted, even moreso than Keiichi.
* PresentAbsence: Satoshi went missing a year before Keiichi moved to Hinamizawa. The mystery of what happened to him and how his disappearance affects the emotional state of his little sister Satoko and Shion who loved him are prominent elements in the tragedies of almost all arcs.
* PromotionToParent: Satoshi steadily becomes more and more of a caretaker to his sister, almost from the time she was born. Satoko has trouble bonding with the men her mother meets and emotionally pushes them away, resulting in Satoshi trying to serve as mediator. When both of their parents die and they wind up in the care of their abusive aunt and uncle, Satoshi is forced to endure their abuse and constantly come to Satoko's rescue.
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:A notable aversion. Despite the stress of everything that's going wrong in his life, Satoshi is remarkably adept at keeping up appearances, with only his coach, Irie, knowing how much he's suffering. When he finally snaps, it is not in small measures, but [[FreakOut in one sudden outburst.]]]]
* TechnicolorEyes: Pink.
* TraumaCongaLine: Satoshi's mother falls in and out of relationships constantly, resulting in emotional trauma for Satoko (and likely Satoshi too) that eventually makes her refuse to trust in anyone but her brother. Then their parents come out in support of the dam project, resulting in the entire village ostracizing the whole family. Then their parents wind up dead in an accident. Then Satoshi and Satoko wind up in the care of an abusive aunt and uncle and Satoko's emotional outbursts start getting worse. Satoshi, worn to exhaustion with school and a part time job, confides in his coach that he feels his emotional and physical strength crumbling. [[spoiler:He finally snaps, murders his aunt, and is overcome by Level 5 Hinamizawa Syndrome.]]
* VerbalTic: He often utters "Muu~" when troubled.
* WouldHitAGirl: He hits Shion, although justified since he did it to save his sister Satoko from her beatings. [[spoiler:He also bludgeoned his aunt to death.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kuraudo Ooishi]]
!!Kuraudo Ooishi
!!!Voiced by: Creator/{{Chafurin}} (JP), Joe [=DiMucci=] (EN)
!!!Portrayed by: Tetta Sugimoto (film), Shinobu Tsuruta (drama series)
[[quoteright:265:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higu_ooishi_9112.png]]

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.
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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Normally, he's the opposite of this trope throughout the entire series. But in ''Gou'', he somehow comes down with L5 Hinamizawa Syndrome, and goes on a murderous rampage gunning down everyone at the festival.]]
* AdaptationalJerkass: InUniverse example; In ''Onikakushi-hen'' and ''Watanagashi-hen''; he's a pleasant person to talk to Keiichi and gives helpful infos to him about Hinamizawa and the mysterious incidents but in ''Tatarigoroshi''-hen, he's a downright asshole who never hesitates to squeeze Keiichi's shoulders literally painful enough to intimidate him and as he interrogates Keiichi while his fellow men dig up [[spoiler:Teppei's corpse]] in the forest, he throws muddy waters on him to force the truth out of him. Keiichi wishes he dies which is by coincidence granted as he suddenly disappears as he rescues Satoko.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: In ''Gou'', under the paranoia-induced influence of the Hinamizawa Syndrome, he goes on a rampage and shoots everyone to death at the festival, with the exception of Rena.]]
* BatterUp: In ''Gou'', [[spoiler:he goes L5 at the end of Tataridamashi and beats Rika to death with a bat.]]
* CryLaughing: In Matsuribayashi when he learns that [[spoiler:the Sonozakis have nothing to with the annual murders, relieving his animosity toward them.]]
* DirtyOldMan: It's more apparent in the manga and [=VNs=], but he really does have a strong interest in porn, gentleman's clubs, and brothels.
* DrinkingOnDuty: Ooshi's carefree attitude on the job does have him indulge in a drink every so often. He drinks with the thugs he arrests in Chapter 4 of Watangashi.
-->"Beer is best when you drink on the job!"
* {{Foil}}: Old, perverted, and usually implementing a very signature brand of ObfuscatingStupidity, to Akasaka's more young, straightlaced, and straightforward persona. He also foils a little bit against Kumagai, his relatively straightlaced assistant who is much calmer and better at negotiation, whereas Ooishi intentionally puts people off with his brash attitude.
* GallowsHumor: There's a bit of an on-going dark joke between Ooishi and anybody he has visiting to investigate the Tomitake murder where he'll end a conversation with, "Have a nice year!" in reference to the serial Watanagashi murders. It shows up repeatedly in the Onikakushi-hen TIPS.
* InspectorJavert: 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 Sonozakis are behind everything. This keeps him from approaching the only person in the group that never goes insane.]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Asakasa in ''Himatsubushi-hen'' and [[spoiler:Keiichi]] in ''Minagoroshi-hen''.
* KnightOfCerebus: In most arcs, he signals the end of comedy, or a [[FromBadToWorse sharper dive into tragedy]], not always in his first appearance, but in his first confrontation with the arc's protagonist. Lampshaded by Dr. Irie.
** Played with in ''Gou'', where [[spoiler: he's directly responsible for at least one of the tragedies taking place. Case in point, in ''Tataridamashi-hen'' when it finally seems like things are starting to get better, he goes crazy and shoots everyone to death at the festival.]]
* ItsPersonal: The dam construction manager who was the first murder victim was a {{Mentor}} to him. Once he finds out he was murdered and suspects the Sonozakis of it, he becomes determined to crack the case. [[spoiler:However, as noted, this actually works against him because he starts looking for links between events that just aren't there, which impedes his effectiveness.]]
* TheLastDance: Although not dying, Ooishi is coming up on his mandatory retirement age and is slated to leave the police force within a year. The summer of 1983 represents his final chance to solve the mystery of Oyashiro-sama's curse before his imminent move to Hokkaido to be near his elderly mother.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HN8tmCoKwM "Big Bear".]] Also, "Dancers 5" in ''Himatsubushi''.
* MentorArchetype: The "old man". Ooishi's father died in a bombing just after the end of World War II, and Ooishi spent the few years after that reluctantly arresting starving people who bought rice on the black market. While he was chasing one, a guy who looked just like his father punched him and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech scolded him in front of everyone.]] He started to consider that man as a second father.
* MrExposition: Ooishi has been investigating the murders from before the game started and as such fills Keiichi (and the audience) in on numerous details of the case and Hinamizawa's history.
* MyGreatestFailure: His inability to solve the Hinamizawa murders [[spoiler:and the eventual disaster that almost inevitably befalls the village]] serves as this for Ooishi in most of the endings.
* NeverTheObviousSuspect: [[spoiler:Invariably, if Ooishi winds up in close contact with someone in an arc, that person will either succumb to psychotic madness and go on a killing spree in short order or, in the case of ''Tatarigoroshi'', will have already begun their descent into insanity. ''Minagoroshi'' even highlights this as an obvious pattern. As it turns out, this is simply coincidence and Ooishi is not, in fact, responsible for any aspect of Hinamizawa Syndrome.]]
* NotSoDifferent: In Tsumihoroboshi-hen, the narration notes that the way that Ooishi operates is actually pretty similar to the stereotypes of the {{Yakuza}}, embodied in the story by his [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]], the Sonozaki family.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: 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.
* OddFriendship: With Keiichi in ''Minagoroshi-hen'' and Akane Sonozaki in ''Matsuribayashi''.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In ''Gou'' [[spoiler: he comes down with L5 of the Hinamizawa Syndrome and goes on a murderous rampage, which has not happened in any of the arcs throughout the entire series.]]
%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In most of the arcs.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Whenever he contacts someone in the main group one-on-one, they either will go or already are going insane (Keiichi in Onikakushi and Tatarigoroshi, Shion in Meakashi, and Rena in Tsumihoroboshi), which makes him an obvious candidate as the force behind the Curse of Oyashiro-sama. This is actually a false lead, meant to draw attention away from the *other* constant trend in the stories: that Tomitake and Takano always die the exact same time and way, which is the actual clue to the real mastermind.]]
* {{Retirony}}: In the arcs where he is killed, due to the short time limit that he has to solve the case before he retires.
* SignatureLaugh: Nfufufufu!
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He doesn't realize it, but his actions frequently wind up just making a given arc worse and making it so that there's really no one sane left for [[spoiler:Rika]] to get help from. Particularly egregious in [[spoiler:Onikakushi-hen]], where he's arguably the ''cause'' of [[spoiler:Keiichi]] going off the deep end, but he also exacerbates [[spoiler:Keiichi's and Rena's]] jumps off the cliff in Tatarigoroshi-hen and Tsumihoroboshi-hen, no matter how much help he might turn into near the end of the latter. And his consistent mistrust of the Sonozakis makes it impossible for anyone to trust [[spoiler:the one reliably sane person]] in the group. [[spoiler:Rika expresses contempt for him and Takano (even before learning that the latter is the BigBad) in ''Minagoroshi-hen'' for constantly triggering her friends' paranoia.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jirou Tomitake]]
!!Jirou Tomitake
!!!Voiced by: Creator/ToruOkawa (JP), Creator/KyleHebert (EN)
!!!Portrayed by: Masashi Taniguchi (film), Yuuma Ishigaki (drama series)
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higu-tomitake_766.png]]

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.
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In the first six arcs, he is consistently found dead of suicide on the night of Watanagashi, triggering many of the events that follow.
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* AdaptationalUgliness: His facial features are slightly more weathered in Gou.
* AfraidOfNeedles: He always averts his gaze from injections, [[spoiler:leaving him oblivious to Takano faking his inoculation to Hinamizawa syndrome.]]
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: He has brown hair to go with his brown eyes.
* DesignatedVictim: Like Takano, in most arcs, he is found dead on the night of Watanagashi.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In most of the arcs, he claws his throat out due to being injected with H173.]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: [[spoiler:Irie calls him "Risa-san"]] As a subversion, this conveniently serves to hide their connections to the reader in the early arcs.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: He can hear [[spoiler:Hanyu's fuss]] in the shrine storage. Meaning that [[spoiler:he was already at least at level 4 of the Hinamizawa syndrome at that time.]]
* FriendlySniper: He's a good guy who is also a skilled sniper.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: [[spoiler:Called out on this by the Mountain Hounds when sniping on a moving vehicle while on rough terrain.]]
* InformedDeformity: He is visibly ripped, yet in ''Matsuribayashi-hen'', Takano views him as plain looking with a bit of a belly.
* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler:Especially evident in ''Matsuribayashi-hen''. Despite everything Miyo did to him and to the people of Hinamizawa, he is willing to get her help after she was defeated.]]
* MrFanservice: Is shown as being ripped; the first episode of the ''Rei'' OVA has him shirtless due to it being the PoolEpisode of the anime, and he even stops a missile with his pecs.
* NiceGuy: His most defining trait is just how kind he is.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:He's a veteran sniper.]]
* OfficialCouple: With Miyo Takano. [[spoiler:Yes, even after she tries to kill him.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: It's mentioned in several arcs that Jirō Tomitake is not his real name, but we never learn what it is.
* WeaponOfChoice: Camera. [[MemeticMutation "TOMITAKE FLASH!!!!"]] [[spoiler:His weapon is actually a sniper rifle.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He usually dies too early to get any kind of development.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Miyo Takano]]
!!Miyo Takano[[spoiler:/Miyoko Tanashi]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/MikiIto (JP), Creator/FuyukaOura (JP - young), Creator/KarenStrassman (EN)
!!!Portrayed by: Ayako Kawahara (film), Rie Kitahara (drama series)
[[quoteright:155:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higu_takano_5877.png]]

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, and [[TheGadfly she seems to enjoy putting people on edge]]. Unlike the other villagers, she opposes the almighty Oyashiro-sama.
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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.
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:An interesting take on a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type II]]. Exposing the truth about the Hinamizawa Syndrome for the sake of her adopted Grandfather's legacy, someone whom she viewed as a savior, is hardly what you could call "evil." But with the abuse she took in the OrphanageOfFear before being adopted and the subsequent repeated brushing off of her Grandfather's research, desperation and insanity take hold and drive her to do gradually less savory acts in pursuit of her goal.]]
* AttackAttackAttack: Lampshaded [[PlayedForDrama in a serious manner]]. [[spoiler:She keeps sending in the Yamainu to attack an entrenched enemy on their territory no matter how many casualties they take nor how demoralized they are. Any sensible commander would have done a tactical retreat to regroup at the very least.]]
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:The consequence of being tortured into pretty much ''insanity'' in the OrphanageOfFear from her childhood. It's heavily implied that she suffers from severe PTSD as a result.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Is revealed to be this toward the end.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:She's a nurse who acts kind and pleasant on the surface until it was revealed that she is the main villain responsible for much of the chaos in the story.]]
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Her backstory in a nutshell. She UsedToBeASweetKid, and then was made to undergo Hell that no child should have to suffer through.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Everyone who supported her in her life died - first her parents, in a train accident; then her grandfather, in suicide due to the onset of senility; and finally Koizumi, from old age. Koizumi's death also put a 3-year deadline on her research because nobody else was taking it seriously, after which it would vanish into obscurity. This twisted her personality and psyche, making her ready to do ''anything'' to prove her grandfather's thesis.]]
* ComplexityAddiction: [[spoiler:She's aware that [[FakingTheDead her decoy corpse]] is a day too old given when she was last seen in public, but decides to use it anyway to make things more mysterious even though it could spoil her plans. By the time the body's time of death comes up, the arc's protagonist is often too shaken up by other events to think about it rationally, and will come to odd conclusions like coming back from the dead or alien clones.]]
* CriminalMindGames: A somewhat strange example. [[spoiler:In ''Tsumihoroboshi'', she gives an increasingly-unstable Rena a book of notes for the girl to pore over. These notes, somewhat surprisingly, contain some accurate details about what's actually going on in Hinamizawa (like the Okonogi Gardeners not being who they seem, or the fact that Hinamizawa Syndrome is being researched in the Irie Clinic) - details that Takano, as the plan's mastermind, knew were true. However, the books also contain a significant number of wildly inaccurate statements and also serve as one of the triggers that cause Rena to succumb to Hinamizawa Syndrome. Given that Takano had nothing to gain from making Rena fall into psychosis, it appears she simply did this to amuse herself while she waited for the right time to enact her plan.]]
* DeadlyDoctor: Although she's always one of the first two victims of Watanagashi, she isn't quite so helpless as you'd think. [[spoiler:Especially since she isn't ''really'' a victim]]. Plus, her weapons of choice in ''Higurashi Daybreak'' are syringes.
* DesignatedVictim: Like Tomitake, in most arcs she goes missing on the night of Watanagashi, and is later found dead. [[spoiler:Subverted, since she was faking her death]].
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:A villainous example. Takano is so traumatized by her youth, so grateful to her grandfather for saving her, and so agonized by the disrespect to his work, that she resolves she will make the world see his brilliance, thus immortalizing him forever. Her will to do this is so strong and unbreakable, it drives the entire plot and it takes virtually the entirety of the cast, along with a few strokes of good fortune, to stop her. After learning that she's the BigBad, Hanyuu reluctantly acknowledges that her strong will that made most of the arcs go her way puts her near the realm of godhood.]]
* DissonantSerenity: To contrast all other [[AxCrazy infected]] [[UnstoppableRage ones]].
* DrowningMySorrows: After she learns that the research will be stopped, [[spoiler:indicating that she has crossed the DespairEventHorizon.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: Right near the start of the very first chapter of the game, Onikakushi, you come across Miyo when Rena and Mion are showing Keiichi around Hinamizawa. She's simply mentioned as the third of three people (along with two extras) the trio run into who is named and briefly described by the girls to demonstrate how everyone in Hinamizawa know all about everyone else- she doesn't even make an on-screen appearance or have any lines ascribed to her. Except in the manga version, where she ''does'' make a physical appearance.
* EasilyForgiven: By Tomitake in the realities where he lives, even though [[spoiler:she attempted to kill him. Seeing her in a defeated, pathetic state probably helps, it's difficult to hate someone in that position. Not to mention that Tomitake is more aware of Takano's sad past and motivations than other characters.]]
* EpilepticTrees: A perpetrator of these InUniverse. They range from the clearly correct (the prevalence of the "oni" character in the Sonozaki and Kimiyoshi family names), to the plausible but unprovable (the possible alternate spelling of "Oyashiro"), to the clearly insane (a UFO crashed in the swamp and Oyashiro was an alien doctor!). [[spoiler:These trees are her tactic of choice in [[{{Troll}} her trolling the cast]]]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. [[spoiler:She genuinely loves Tomitake and isn't really eager to kill him, but that never stops her from making him the victim of "Oyashiro-sama's curse".]]
** Played ''very'' straight, however, with [[spoiler: her grandfather, whom she still loves even when evil...in fact, he is the primary motivator behind her becoming evil to begin with.]]
* EvilLaugh: Like [[DysfunctionJunction most of the characters]], she gets one at some point. [[spoiler:A truly epic one when she's revealed to be the BigBad.]]
* EvilWearsBlack: [[spoiler:When she's revealed to be the main villain, Takano wears a completely black military uniform due to her position as a major of the Tokyo organization.]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:She fakes her death in each arc on the night of the Watanagashi festival in order to divert attention away from her plot to kill Rika and enact Emergency Manual 34. While the burned corpse is identified as her through dentition, careful examination reveals that it's just a day too old for when she was last seen, though shit has usually hit the fan by the time anyone figures this out.]]
* FreudianExcuse: The reason she’s so adamant about opposing [[PhysicalGod Oyashiro-sama]]? [[spoiler:After losing her parents, she had to live in a hellish OrphanageOfFear. She was rescued from the orphanage and raised by a loving, kindly old man and now wants to prove his research, no matter what. Unfortunately, the trauma she already had from the orphanage led to her taking a few things that her grandfather said the wrong way, which, combined with people treating her grandfather's thesis as garbage, as well as her underlying selfishness and 'us-vs-them' mentality, led to her becoming a heartless monster.]]
* ForScience: [[spoiler:While Irie has taken some questionable actions (namely dissections of living peoples' brains), he at least [[WellIntentionedExtremist genuinely wants to solve mental disorders.]] Takano actually just cares about the research itself building fame over anyone benefiting from it.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From sweet kid to BreakTheCutie to friendly but detached nurse [[spoiler:to [[TheSociopath sociopathic]], murderous researcher.]]
* GenreBlindness: [[spoiler:Boy, does she ''ever'' catch a case of it in the end. Alluded to in AttackAttackAttack above, while the entrenched enemy in question is [[JustAKid a group of schoolchildren]], they also happen to be [[TheHero the protagonists]]. Who also have a sort-of-PhysicalGod on their side ''[[VillainBall whom Takano had actually met with and thus KNEW would be acting against her at the start of the arc]]''. Failure to acknowledge any of this leads to her downfall.]]
* GodhoodSeeker: [[spoiler:The end of ''Minagoroshi-hen''.]] Specifically, [[spoiler:it was influenced by a metaphor from her grandfather, 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 Oyashiro-sama in the process, she will in effect ''become'' Oyashiro-sama and live forever with her grandpa.]]
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: [[spoiler:One of the indicators that she's not the innocent victim she appears to be.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:In the climax of Miotsukushi, he starts spewing hatred at Rika for being seen as divine from birth as Oyashiro-sama's reincarnation while she and her grandfather had to claw their way up just to try getting such reverence.]]
* HappilyAdopted: After [[spoiler:some ''very'' nasty experiences at her OrphanageOfFear]], she was adopted by Hifumi Takano and was able to live a relatively happy life with him until he died. [[spoiler:Unfortunately the trauma from her time at the orphanage eventually caught up with her, and she became willing to go to extreme methods to continue her adopted grandfather's research...]]
* HatesBeingAlone: [[spoiler:Her desire to immortalize herself and her grandfather is out of a pathological desire to never be alone again. She also tries to keep Tomitake on her side as her plans commence, even desperately offering herself from head to toe in Matsuribayashi, because she knows that the Yamainu and Nomura only have financial interest in her.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:But only at the very end of the series. And in later arcs she continues to terrorize the heroes.]]
* HospitalHottie: Her outfit consists of a really short skirt and a pair of [[ZettaiRyouiki high black stockings]]. [[spoiler:Rare [[EvilIsSexy evil]] example, at that.]]
* ImageSong: "Bon Karma".
* IronicEcho: Not exactly a quote, but the scene near the end of ''Matsuribayashi-hen'' where [[spoiler:her bullet misses Hanyu]] very closely echoes the scene near the beginning of the arc where [[spoiler:"God"'s lightning bolt narrowly misses Takano, immediately after she asks God to either give her a better life or kill her. Since she was spared, she took this as a sign that she is meant to live, and as a result, she became something of a Determinator]]. It can be interpreted that [[spoiler:her bullet missing Hanyu is a sign that Rika and Hanyu's determination to live has finally reached the same level as Miyo's will to live on that day. However, it didn't miss on purpose. [[CompressedAdaptation Although the anime does not show this]], Hanyu stops time and realizes that the bullet won't miss. Then Rika starts moving, despite time being stopped, and ''grabs the bullet'', moving it so that it won't hit anyone.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: She tries to kill an entire village over and over again, and what does she get? Treatment for a disease that it wasn't well-established she had (though current evidence points to yes) and a good cry in her lover's arms. While in that chapter she didn't manage to kill anyone, she's still responsible for the death of Rika's parents and generally being an amoral researcher. It's particularly JustForFun/{{egregious}} in the worlds where Rika fails, Takano succeeds in murdering everyone in Hinamizawa, and she gets away with it scot-free aside from possibly dying of her own free will as part of the cover-up.]] It actually makes sense in context a bit with [[spoiler:Hanyu offering to forgive Takano of all her sins. [[TheFarmerAndTheViper Then she tries to kill Hanyu.]]]]
** [[spoiler: The author's notes at the end of the last VN actually invokes this, with the author saying that he had gotten tired of stories where the BigBad being punished wraps everything up, which is also reflected in Takano's monologue about how the world always seeks to find a scapegoat to pin blame upon and how all conflicts need a "loser" in order to be resolved. Takano is spared in order to reject this nihilistic view and to end the cycle of suffering for everyone, including her who [[BreakTheCutie suffered greatly before turning to villainy]].]]
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:To the Sonozaki family, the Yamainu, and the false image of [[DiscOneFinalBoss Oyashiro-sama]] she created.]]
* ManipulativeBitch: [[spoiler:The biggest in the series. She manipulates Keiichi, Rena, and Shion with both her scrapbooks, the Oyashiro Curse and faked her own death in order for them to succumb to Level 5 and throw a giant suspicion on the Sonozaki Family.]]
* MeaningfulRename: [[spoiler:After being adopted by Hifumi Takano, she changes the kanji in her name to follow his NumericalThemeNaming. She later changed the "Taka" in his surname meaning "high" to a homonymous kanji meaning "hawk" so him being her motivation wouldn't be as obvious.]]
* MentorArchetype: Her main role in the story before [[spoiler:being revealed as the BigBad]] is to inform the heroes of the legends of Hinamizawa and help them in defeating the conspiracy.
* MilkmanConspiracy: [[spoiler:BigBad or not she's still just a nurse when it comes down to it.]]
* MoralMyopia: [[spoiler:She's motivated by devotion to her adoptive grandfather, yet complains about Irie's shaky support for her plans and outright kills Rika's mother for opposing her experiments on Rika, viewing ''their'' familial attachments as a nuisance.]]
* MsFanservice: She's [[HeadturningBeauty a fairly attractive human]] with [[BuxomIsBetter ample assets]] who wears a few revealing outfits, such as her nurse outfit. She also SleepsInTheNude and wears a BarelyThereSwimwear during the BeachEpisode. [[spoiler:This makes the fact she's the BigBad all the more shocking.]]
* NaughtyNurseOutfit: Irie once notes that since she is a doctor she isn't supposed to wear a nurse outfit (with an impressive ZettaiRyouiki to boot), but she does just for the hell of it. Mion and Shion also tease her and Tomitake about their "foreplay" with that kind of outfit.
* NayTheist: She studies myths, religion, and the occult, but doesn't actually believe in any of them. In fact, she ''hates'' the local god Oyashiro-sama and will do anything to bring them down, in part because of her DarkAndTroubledPast. In Matsuribayashi, she notes the irony that she denies Oyashiro-sama yet has no doubt about [[spoiler:Hanyuu's]] identity when they meet face-to-face in front of the latter's shrine.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: [[spoiler:She became devoted to her adoptive grandfather's research to repay him for saving her from an OrphanageOfFear. After his research was unfairly ridiculed, she became a top-tier doctor just to further his studies and salvage his reputation. She's willing to throw people's lives away and even weaponize the Syndrome as long as Hifumi's research is validated.]]
* NiceHat: Her nurse's cap. Also, [[spoiler:her ''epic'' special forces beret.]]
* NightmareFetishist: Her personal hobby is researching the spooky legends about Hinamizawa's demon heritage and the old rituals involving eating people, human sacrifices, and curses from the town's EvilGod.
* NoblewomansLaugh: Gets a classic one in the anime [[spoiler:after her AGodAmI speech]], yet it's somehow less disturbing than most of the protagonists' laughs.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: [[spoiler:Just before the Final Operation, she realizes that because of her obstination to continue the research on Hinamizawa Syndrome, instead of staying in history, her grandfather's research is going to be erased and forgotten, whether a cure is found or the Manual 34 is implemented]]. She is the only one who regrets it though.
* NumericalThemeNaming: The kanji for her name uses the kanji for three (三) and four (四). [[spoiler:Just like how her adoptive grandfather's name is written as one (一), two (二), three (三).]]
* OfficialCouple: She's dating Tomitake.
* OrphansOrdeal: She was sent to an OrphanageOfFear after her parents died, witnessing and suffering lots of horrors there. [[spoiler:She got so throughly broken that she went ''insane'' and became the BigBad with time.]]
* PluckyGirl: Enough will to [[spoiler:alter fate itself]].
* ProperlyParanoid: Midway through Matsuribayashi, she admits to Tomitake that [[spoiler:the Yamainu are only as loyal as she pays them, and Nomura just took advantage of her while she was vulnerable while seemingly not even giving her real name, so Tomitake is probably the closest thing to an ally that she actually has. Sure enough, the Yamainu were actually bought out long ago by Nomura, who never truly cared about the validity of her research and just wants her dead as a scapegoat when the operation to kill Rika fails. It's Tomitake who steps in at the end to save her and offer another chance at life.]]
* PsychopathicWomanchild: Despite many characters describing her as a mature adult woman working as a nurse for the Irie clinic, her personality is actually frighteningly childish when she mutters a lot of dark and scary subjects about Hinamizawa to everyone that most of them never asks for.
* SmiteMeOhMightySmiter: [[spoiler:She challenges God to give her a better life or kill her. A subsequent lightning bolt narrowly misses her.]]
* SoftspokenSadist: She enjoys making people uncomfortable in casual conversation, typically with her lurid fascination with the curse. Soon after introducing herself to Keiichi, she advises him to come to her clinic so she can give him [[AfraidOfNeedles BIG shot]] [[spoiler:foreshadowing her PlayingWithSyringes and other overt sadism]].
* StepfordSmiler: Unstable type. She isn't as sane and friendly as her affable smiles would make others think.
* TraumaButton: [[spoiler:After watching Hifumi's research getting mocked and desecrated, she'll essentially revert to a crying child whenever she relives the experience.]]
* {{Troll}}: [[spoiler:She manipulates several characters into going paranoid and berserk out of sheer amusement.]]
* TheUnfettered: [[spoiler:She is capable of doing pretty much anything, no matter how heinous, in order to prove her grandfather's thesis and "become a god".]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Whether it's intentional or not, she's partially responsible for causing Rena and Shion to go off the deep end by giving her the scrapbook.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler:The sweet girl who collected flags and loved to go out with Dad and Mom? Yeah, she grew into a horrible bitch after she was tortured in the orphanage. Although she still was a sweet child when with Dr. Takano, and it's only after his death ''and'' his research is mocked that she goes off the deep end.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Started in Matsuribayashi-hen when Rika was falsely reported as dead for 48 hours and it just got worse after she was beaten.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:To most of Hinamizawa, she’s a kindhearted nurse with a weird hobby. She’s actually the direct leader of the MilkmanConspiracy controlling the town.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Her past [[spoiler:(and the fact that she is the BigBad)]] makes her this.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Her childhood at the orphanage was a living hell. The man who saved her was her kind adoptive grandfather. That's why she's going to prove his thesis about the Hinamizawa Syndrome and shut up the people who mocked her grandfather, being willing to have the entire Hinamizawa village massacred to achieve it.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:This woman ''disembowels'' a little girl after executing her friends in front of her.]]
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[[folder:Kyousuke Irie]]
!!Kyousuke Irie
!!!Voiced by: Creator/ToshihikoSeki (JP), Creator/DaveMallow (EN)
!!!Portrayed by: Koutaro Tanaka (film), Tomohiro Kaku (drama series)
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The head doctor of the village clinic. Initially interested 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.
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He has (half-jokingly) admitted that [[TheJailbaitWait 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.
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* {{Bishonen}}: He's noted to be quite good looking.
* CharacterExaggeration: Him being a ComedicLolicon is more pronounced in the anime adaptation. In the VN and manga he has an attraction to younger women and a {{Meido}} fetish, but he doesn't actively perv on the girls quite as much as in the anime.
* ComedicLolicon: He tends to express an attraction towards Satoko (and sometimes Rika), and it's always PlayedForLaughs.
* CreepyPhysical: To quote Irie, "It's good to be a doctor... because I get to touch the skin of young people many times, and I can turn them into my slaves with a little injection." Off-putting sense of humor for a doctor.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: He has brown hair and brown eyes.
* DeadlyDoctor: [[spoiler:He performed psychosurgery on unwilling patients in the past, although he had good intentions. Patient consent wasn't required at the time.]]
* DomesticAbuse: Figures a lot in Irie's backstory. [[spoiler:After his father suffered a traumatic brain injury, he began to act abusive toward Irie's mother. The two ended up hating each other, a fact that Irie regrets]]. This serves as a major motivator for, among other things, [[spoiler:joining work with Takano on Hinamizawa Syndrome]].
* DrivenToSuicide:
** [[spoiler:In Outbreak, he hopelessly realizes that the parasite spread too fast and is infected himself so he AteHisGun right in-front of Rika Furude.]]
** He's also claimed to have committed suicide near the end of [[spoiler:Tatarigoroshi-hen]], and by extension any arc in which [[spoiler:the Great Hinamizawa Gas Disaster]] occurs. Given the circumstances explained in some of the later arcs, however, [[spoiler:these are at least as likely to be cases of NeverSuicide]].
* HospitalHottie: For a doctor, he's quite young and handsome.
* LargeHam: When he goes into a Keiichi-esque nonsensical rant about Maids in ''Matsuribayashi''. [[spoiler:''[[MoodDissonance In the middle of a life-or-death situation.]]'']]
* {{Meido}}: His fetish. '''''MAID IN HEAVEN!'''''
* NiceGuy: Perverted tendencies asides, Irie is a compassionate doctor who cares about everyone's wellbeing and other than willing to find the cure for the Hinamizawa Syndrome, he's willing to defend Satoko from her abusive uncle as seen in the Minagoroshi chapter. He also seemed to be the only adult figure in the village who ever attempted to give Satoshi some peace of mind.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He always listens to the main characters' worries about what's going on and helps them if possible. Unfortunately, when he figures out what's going on, it's not always to the benefit of the character telling the story...
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He's one of the few people who knows about the HatePlague, and he's the actual reason Satoshi went missing. Keeping these secret ends up propagating fear of the annual "curse", and Meakashi in particular could have easily been avoided if he'd just been upfront with Shion.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:In his past anyway. May have had good intentions but his medical practices were ruthless. See DeadlyDoctor above.]]
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[[folder:Mamoru Akasaka]]
!!Mamoru Akasaka
!!!Voiced by: Creator/TakehitoKoyasu (JP - drama CD), Creator/DaisukeOno (JP - anime), Creator/PatrickSeitz (EN)
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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.
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The fourth arc, ''Himatsubushi-hen'' (Time-wasting), is dedicated to him.
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* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler:In ''Matsuribayashi-hen''.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Hoo boy. When he finally reappears, he proves instrumental in taking down the BigBad.
* ChekhovsGunman: Appears as the mostly hapless protagonist of "Himatsubushi-hen", seemingly only to show off what happened during the Dam Conflict, [[spoiler:as well as Rika's mysterious ability to predict the future tragedies. He finally comes back at the end as a badass to help save everyone.]]
* FairCop: He's a morally correct and friendly police investigator.
* {{Foil}}: Young, straightlaced, and straightforward to Ooishi's older, perverted, and more wily persona.
* FutureBadass: [[spoiler:In the worlds where his wife dies.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtyE3kUIeLY And a pretty cool one.]]
* HiddenBadass: Though he'd [[RetiredBadass hung up his coat in university]], Akasaka uses his ([[AlwaysSomeoneBetter nearly]]) unparalleled mahjong skills to [[GrewASpine assert himself]] during Ooishi and his friends' attempt to {{hustle|r}} the rookie out of money.
* IronicName: ''Mamoru'' means "to protect" in Japanese. [[spoiler:He fails to protect both his wife and the entire town of Hinamizawa. However, it's subverted in "Matsuribayashi-hen" when he finally manages to do it; or at least, in the latter case, he plays a critical role in the effort.]]
* LikeADaughterToMe: He views Rika as the living portrayal of his ideal daughter.
* MyGreatestFailure: His inability to solve the Hinamizawa murders [[spoiler:and the eventual disaster that almost inevitably befalls the village]] and consequently his failure to prevent [[spoiler:Rika's]] death serves as this for Akasaka in most of the endings.
* RedemptionQuest: Himatsubushi-hen ends with Akasaka swearing to search for the truth behind the mysteries of Hinamizawa, [[spoiler:mainly Rika's murder,]] to atone for [[spoiler:not listening to Rika's warnings which resulted in both his wife's and Rika's deaths]].
* TookALevelInBadass:
** In ''Himatsubushi'', he's just a greenhorn. In ''Matsuribayashi'', he is refered to multiple times as a monster.
** And learned the [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Falcon Punch]] during the Level Grinding. [[spoiler:He punches a bulletproof windshield, causing it to shatter.]]
** In the VN, [[spoiler:he doesn't only shatter the windshield, he ''destroys the entire van'' with his punch!]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Oryou Sonozaki]]
!!Oryou Sonozaki
!!!Voiced by: Shizuka Okohira (JP), Creator/BarbaraGoodson (EN)
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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. Shion call her "Oni-baba" ("demon granny").
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Shion suspects that she was the mastermind in Satoshi's disappearance.
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* CovertPervert: According to the preview for Kai episode 18, she's an active dominatrix.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Motive for the "distinguishment" scene.
* EvilMatriarch: Shion and Akane call her ''Onibaba (demon granny)'', what more do you need to know? Hey! She even has the voice of [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Rita Repulza]] so why not? [[spoiler:In reality, she's not actually evil, just a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.]]
* GruesomeGrandparent: She treats her granddaughter Shion like garbage because the Sonozakis ostracize younger twins. [[spoiler:The worst thing she did to her was forcing her to rip off her own fingernails.]]
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Oryou may have come off as an unforgivable cruel lady in the early arcs but she's not without kindness when she helps Keiichi and the others [[spoiler:rescue Satoko from her abusive uncle.]] in 'Minagoroshi'. [[spoiler:She stubbornly turned down the Club's appeal to end her ostracization on Satoko, but Rena notes afterward that she never actually seemed mad at Keiichi's hostility. Shortly afterward, Akane gives them Oryou's approval, explaining that her position made her feel like she couldn't just relent without a third party like Keiichi putting pressure on her.]] It's also implied that she really loves Shion despite her harshness on her as it's required for her to put on a tough facade as the head of the Sonozaki family. Matsuribayashi reveals that [[spoiler:she makes ohagi for the dam director's grave every year despite him being public enemy #1 during the dam conflict.]]
* InformedKindness: She acts as a [[GrumpyOldMan Grumpy Old Woman]] whenever she appears and her mistreatment of Shion and the Houjou children make her look cruel. According to Mion and Akane, Oryou just pretends to be a worse person than she really is to keep up appearances as the leader of the Sonozaki. Akane actually tells Shion that Oryou is quite nice to her in private even though Oryou disowned her for marrying a man she did not approve of. Of course, since the audience doesn't get to see that and only has Mion's and Akane's word about Oryou's softer side, Shion's view of her as a heartless "oni old hag" is the main image one gets of her.
* MeaningfulName: "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.
%%* NeverMessWithGranny
* ParentalMarriageVeto: She and her daughter got into a SwordFight when Akane decided to marry an outsider of the village. Because of this, Oryou disowned Akane and forced her to change the spelling of her given name to remove the "oni" kanji.
* PetTheDog: When she gives her support to Keiichi in ''Minagoroshi-hen'', and later in ''Matsuribayashi-hen'' when it is revealed that she was pulling the strings on [[spoiler:Keiichi, of all people -- she put real estate up for sale for the explicit purpose of having an energetic outsider kid like him move in and clear up the village resentment against the Hojou family.]]
* PlausibleDeniability: She's carefully indirect with her phrasing at formal family and village meetings, and alert family members carry out her "wishes". Unless she personally gets her hands on something, she knows nothing of the details of operation. She teaches Mion to function this way as head of the family.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Her position as the family head of a yakuza family and her hatred towards outsiders and the Houjou family makes her a prime suspect for the murders and disappearances during the Wataganashi festivals. She in fact actively encourages this for the sake of holding the scary reputation of the Sonozaki family. The truth of the case of that the Sonozakis are innocent and the real culprit is Takano.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: In Kira episode 3, she warns Keiichi [[IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer not to make Mion cry]], and later encourages Mion to take the initiative with Keiichi while assuring her that she's plenty feminine despite her TomboyAngst.
* SlaveToPR: [[spoiler:She actually does love her daughter and Shion, plus she forgave the Houjou family long ago, but she has to keep up appearances.]]
* SureLetsGoWithThat: [[spoiler:A policy she has in place. If anything mysterious happens and it's credited to the Sonozakis, she acts like she is responsible without confirming it. Nastily deconstructed as [[RedHerring this causes]] [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom a lot of problems.]]]]
* {{Tsundere}}: In public, she's always harsh, but in private she cares a lot about her daughter and granddaughters.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Major offender of this trope; the Sonozaki family's policy of making them look tougher than they really are bites everyone in the ass by causing them to become incredibly suspicious and cause distrust in the OnlySaneMan of the club. Oryou's actions are the primary cause of the Cotton Drifting/Eye Opening chapters. Her SureLetsGoWithThat attitude is a cause for Ooishi being one himself, which causes her to be indirectly responsible for the Spirited By the Demon and Atonement chapter. Her stubborness towards not cleaning up resentment towards the Hojou siblings is a contributing factor in their problems with the HatePlague.]]
* YouGotSpunk: [[spoiler:Has this opinion of Keiichi after he threatens to split her head open if she doesn't give her support to rescuing Satoko from Teppei.]]
[[/folder]]


!!Minor Characters
[[folder:Rumiko Chie]]
!!Rumiko Chie
!!!Voiced by: Creator/FumikoOrikasa (JP), Sam Carr (EN, Bang Zoom), Creator/MacyJohnson (EN, Funimation)
!!!Portrayed by: Hitomi Miwa (film)
[[quoteright:145:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higu_chie_3182.png]]

The female teacher of Keiichi's class, who is a parody character of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'''s Ciel-senpai (permission for her usage was given by [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Type-Moon]]). The voice actress for her character in the anime series is the same as the voice actress for Ciel from the Tsukihime anime. Going along with the parody, her favorite food is curry rice, just like Ciel.
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* BerserkButton: Don't you dare insult curry in front of her. It won't be pretty. Sometimes she can hear an insult even when she's not in the room!
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: She has blue hair and blue eyes.
* {{Expy}}: She's clearly based on Ciel from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', and Type-Moon even granted permission to 07th Expansion to do so. She seems to be more specifically based on Ciel-sensei, the version of Ciel that appears in ''Tsukihime'''s "Teach me, Ciel-sensei!" segments; she even wears the same pendant.[[note]]Unlike Neko Arc, her status as just Ciel in a teacher's uniform or as a separate character is not quite confirmed. At least one story in Kagetsu Tohya seems to suggest Ciel-sensei is a separate character, which would make Chie an Expy of an Expy.[[/note]] If that wasn't enough, in ''Higurashi Daybreak'', many of Rumiko's moves are direct references to some of Ciel's moves from ''Melty Blood''. In the ExpansionPack, one of Rumiko's alternate outfits is Ciel's nun outfit and, if the player uses this costume, she will talk very much like her ''Tsukihime'' counterpart.
* HotTeacher: Parodied in Kira with Keiichi "sketching" her as punishment game in the Soul Brother's delusion.
* MyNaymeIs: Her name is oddly spelled "Lumiko Cie" in the French version, most likely to make her PunnyName more obvious.
* PunnyName: Her name in Japanese order is Chie Rumiko. If you combine "Chie" and "Ru", you get "Chieru", which sounds very similar to the Japanese pronuncation of [[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Ciel]]'s name.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Unfortunately, there's generally little she can do.
* {{Schoolmarm}}: She's the only teacher at the school the main characters attend, which isn't surprising since Hinamizawa is a rural village and the school is a one-room schoolhouse with a single class of children of different ages. Keiichi is impressed that she manages to teach a class full of students from different grades. Higher grade students are also expected to teach to lower grade ones during free study periods, effectively raising the number of teachers.
* SeriousBusiness: Curry, both cooking it and respecting its history. Rena says she's a tyrant when it comes to curry.
* SternTeacher: In the visual novel, Rena states that Rumiko would not hesitate to discipline her students who had crossed the line with harsh methods, such as hitting them with a wooden ruler. This is never brought up in the anime, where she's generally nice to her students.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Curry, which is yet another indication that she's an {{expy}} of Ciel.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is dark blue, which is another trait she has in common with Ciel.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tatsuyoshi Kasai]]
!!Tatsuyoshi Kasai
!!!Voiced by: Creator/FumihikoTachiki (JP), Creator/SteveKramer (EN)
[[quoteright:185:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higu_kasai_4170.png]]

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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%%** BadassBeard
%%** RetiredBadass
%%* CoolShades
* RedBaron: "Shotgun Tatsu". Do ''not'' mess with this guy!
* RomanticRunnerUp: According to Shion, her father, Kasai and Akane had a LoveTriangle in their youth. Kasai lost but stayed close to Akane as right-hand man. It didn't end so badly for him at all since he does get to watch over Shion.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: He wields a shotgun during [[spoiler:the assault on the Irie clinic]] in ''Matsuribayashi''. A single slug from it tears a massive hole through the door and the table the guards were using as cover, scaring them shitless. A second shot gets them all to surrender [[spoiler:except for one]].
* SunglassesAtNight: He is ''always'' seen wearing sunglasses.
%%* {{Yakuza}}
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kumagai Katsuya]]
!!Kumagai Katsuya
!!!Voiced by: Shumpei Otani (JP), Kyle Hebert (EN)
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kuma_sifuku_3.png]]

A police officer in Okinomiya who assists Ooishi in his investigation.
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* StraightMan: He plays the calm ByTheBookCop to Ooishi's BunnyEarsLawyer. Often times being the level-headed {{Foil}} to Ooishi's boistrous antics.
* TheWatson: Ooishi often explains what's on his mind to Kumagai in the process letting the audience know what the police know. It's especially prominent in the TIPS where no protagonists are present for Ooshi to play off of.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Teppei Houjou]]
!!Teppei Houjou
!!!Voiced by: Katsuhisa Hoki (JP), Creator/SteveKramer (EN)
!!!Portrayed by: Riki Takeuchi (film), Tomohiro Waki (drama series)
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higu_teppei_285.png]]

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.
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* AbusiveParents: He's [[EvilUncle Satoko's uncle]], but ends up as her direct guardian in some arcs, making him a parental figure. Not only does he treat Satoko like crap and hits her, one of the TIPS flat-out states that if she had been a few years older, he would have had no qualms about abusing her sexually too. It doesn't end well for him.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:He gets by Keiichi and Rena in Tatarigoroshi and Tsumihoroboshi respectively for tormenting their loved ones, but in Miotsukushi, Takano injects him with H173 to induce the [[ClawingOnesOwnThroat final stages of Hinamizawa Syndrome]]. He'd been abusing Satoko earlier in the arc, so no tears are shed.]]
* ChildHater: Taken to truly repulsive levels in Tatagoroshi and Minagoroshi-hen.
* EvilIsPetty: While he's depicted as a despicable person all through, the ''Gou'' season exaggerates his pettiness at the beginning of episode 12 when he vandalizes a roadside shrine and pees on the torii shrine gates off-screen
* EvilUncle: He has a history of beating his niece and nephew Satoko and Satoshi. He's not even their real uncle. His older brother was their stepfather.
* HateSink: He clearly was meant as someone who the audience wants to suffer, and does.
* {{Jerkass}}: '''All''' the time. Even in episodes where he isn't doing anything morally reprehensible, he's still an asshole.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:In Tatarigoshi, Exorcism, Tsumihoroboshi, and Miotsukushi-hen, he's killed by one or several members of the club either to free Satoko from his abuse or to get back at him for him and Rina extorting money from Rena's father.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: His presence always signifies things getting unpleasant. [[spoiler:Lampshaded by Rika in the Massacre Chapter: in any world where Satoko's uncle returns to Hinamizawa, Rika feels she might as well give up at trying to fight against any circumstances.]]
* LoanShark: One of his activities, with the help of Rina.
* OhCrap: That's how most normal people react to [[spoiler:putting the light on and seeing what was a cute teenage girl 2 seconds ago, brandishing an axe ready to cleave your head in two. Or seeing a furious teenage boy charging at you with a baseball bat while screaming like a banshee.]] He doesn't have the time to say it out loud in either scenario though.
* OutlawCouple: According to Kasai, he is a pimp and uses his lover Rina to swindle men out of their money.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Whenever he's killed, it's because someone found his actions so horrible, they thought he no longer had the right to live.
* TheyKilledKenny: Dies quite a lot, mostly to his own evil acts biting him in the ass.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Rika considers his return to Hinamizawa to be one of the worst possible omens for a new timeline. In timelines where he comes back to the village, his presence - in particular his destabilizing influence on Satoko - invariably dooms any and all efforts at making things better. It gets to the point that when he appears in ''Minagoroshi'', Rika considers simply killing herself to save herself some heartache, as she is convinced that despite the fact that the timeline has had some excellent turns of luck thus far, his mere presence in the village has doomed it beyond any hope of recovery.]]
* VigilanteExecution: Vigilante action (for NASTY child abuse and badger games) is the common motive in his many deaths throughout the arcs.
* WouldHurtAChild: As long as he has someone to hit, he's not picky about the age. He also [[spoiler:kills Rika]] in an unseen world.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rina Mamiya]]
!!Rina/Ritsuko Mamiya
!!!Voiced by: Creator/KyokoHikami (JP - drama CD), Creator/MisaWatanabe (JP - anime), Jean Smart (EN)
!!!Portrayed by: Aya Sugimoto (film), Rei Yoshii (drama series)
[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higu_rina_4354.png]]

A woman who appears in Rena's life in ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen''. She is the lover of Teppei Houjou.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:She's killed by Takano and the Yamainu after sneaking into the Irie clinic in Miotsukushi.]]
* BareYourMidriff: She wears a tube top that exposes her belly.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: When Rina confronts Rena about the fact that she doesn't like her, and Rina puts on a pretty convincing act about how she genuinely loves Rena's father. Rena falls for it and starts to reconsider her view on Rina before she overheard her and Teppei badmouthing her father.
* BlatantLies: "I'm pregnant. And since I'm a Christian, I can't have an abortion."
* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
** In the scenarios where she steals money from the Sonozakis, her mutilated corpse is found washed in the sewers. Her nose and ears were cut off, one nail was driven through each of her finger joints, and her belly was slit open.
** In ''Tsumihoroboshi'', [[spoiler:Rena cuts her stomach open and beats her to death with a pipe.]]
* DistinguishingMark: A red star-shaped tattoo on her belly. Useful for identifying her mangled, rotted corpse.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In case you don't spot her right from the beginning, the first TIP of ''Tsumihoroboshi'' after she appears tells us her name and her work: the same as Teppei's mistress who was killed horribly three arcs earlier. Woops. [[spoiler:In other words if she dies early, Teppei Houjou returns to Hinamizawa.]]
* GoldDigger: In Tsumihoroboshi-hen, she's only dating Rena's father to extort money from him.
* HateSink: Like Teppei, she's made unsympathetic and hateable so we feel more bad for [[spoiler:Rena]] when the latter kills Rina as revenge for scamming her father.
* KarmicDeath: In ''Tsumihoroboshi', [[spoiler:she's extorting money from Rena's father, which ends in Rena brutally beating her to death with a pipe.]]
* MeaningfulName: 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?
* OutlawCouple: With Teppei. Together they swindle men out of their money through intimidation and blackmail schemes.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Major hint that there's something not right about her.
* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: It has struck again. Poor Rena's dad.
* TattooedCrook: She's Teppei's partner in crime and has a star-shaped tattoo on her midriff.
* TooDumbToLive: In ''Tsumihoroboshi''. [[spoiler:Rina is lured by Rena to an abandoned junkyard where no one can hear her scream. A junkyard that Rena comes by every day to look for treasures and she thinks she's got the upper hand on Rena. She learned the hard way when Rena beat her to death with a pipe.]]
** In ''Minagoroshi'', [[spoiler:you learn that her potentional death can be caused by her attempt at swindeling the yakuza]].
* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler:The motive for her death in the 6th novel.]]
* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:Once Rena outs her as a GoldDigger, she starts strangling her while laughing about how cursed her life has been from her parents' divorce to now. Rena manages to grab a pipe and furiously starts bludgeoning her with it. Now that Rena has the upper hand, she tearfully begs for her life, but only further enrages her by using the name "Reina".]]
* WouldHurtAChild: She doesn't have qualms with seriously attacking Rena when the latter realizes hers and Teppei's scam.
%%* YouGottaHaveBlueHair
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Akane Sonozaki]]
!!Akane Sonozaki
!!!Voiced by: Creator/KikukoInoue (JP)
[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higu_akane_6792.png]]

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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%%* ActionMom
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Green hair and eyes, which her daughters got from her.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: She got married to a Yakuza boss from outside the village, which led to the {{Fingore}} mentioned below and changing the kanji in her name to remove the "oni".
* DoesNotLikeSpam: She claims to hate shiitake mushrooms as much as liars.
* {{Fingore}}: Akane had to rip off her own fingernails due to her feud with Oryou over marrying a guy the clan didn't approve. Unlike Shion, she can laugh it off now.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Her WeaponOfChoice is a katana. Mion must have got it from somewhere.
* KimonoIsTraditional: She's a YamatoNadeshiko who is always dressed in a kimono.
* MarryForLove: She married an outsider of the village of her own choice instead of letting Oryou choose her husband for her.
* MissingMom: She's rarely on screen due to her estrangement. Like Shion, she lives in Okinomiya instead of Hinamizawa.
* NiceGirl: While she's calm and collected, in ''Meakashi'', she does held concerns for Shion's wellbeing as she gets [[spoiler:her three nails ripped off painfully]] and is quite warm and welcoming to Keiichi in the manga version of 'Minagoroshi'' as she hilariously willing to have him marry either Mion or Shion if he wants to.
* OddFriendship: Forms a friendship with [[spoiler:Ooishi]] in ''Matsuribayashi'' despite the years of hatred between them, thanks to [[spoiler:Ooishi realizing the Sonozaki family had nothing to do with the construction manager's death]].
* OddNameOut: She's the only female of her family not to have the character for oni in her name. She used to, but had to change the spelling of her name when she was disowned.
* RedBaron: The "Demon Princess of Shishibone".
* ShipperOnDeck: She assumes that Keiichi's determination to save Satoko from Teppei in Minagoroshi means that they're a couple. When corrected by Mion, she offers him either of her daughters and invites him to start calling her "Mom", only to get smacked by both Mion and Shion.
* SilkHidingSteel: Oh, you'd better believe it. Despite coming across as calm, controlled, kindly, and even-tempered, Akane is a strong woman and when she puts her foot down, even Mion and Shion don't dare to cross her.
* {{Yakuza}}: Her husband is a crime boss.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Fits the trope to a T, from her traditional kimono garb, to her calm-yet-controlled personality, to her wiliness and resourcefulness in the face of hardship. Even her daughters respect her strength.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has green hair, which her daughter obviously inherited from her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kiichirou Kimiyoshi]]
!!Kiichirou Kimiyoshi
!!!Voiced by: Masaaki Tsukada (JP), Creator/KyleHebert (EN)
[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/higu_kimiyoshi_3627.png]]

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.
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* MeaningfulName: The characters for "Kimiyoshi" can be rearranged to form the character "oni".
* ShipperOnDeck: In Miotsukushi-hen, [[spoiler:he supports Keiichi and Mion.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hifumi Takano]]
!!Hifumi Takano
!!!Voiced by: Kazumi Tanaka (JP)
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hifumi_5254.jpeg]]

A scientist who devoted his entire life to researching a disease he calls Hinamizawa Syndrome, which he thinks could shake the entire scientific knowledge about the human brain. However, his research is shunned and mocked by the academic world.
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* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: His first name is written 一二三 (one two three). [[spoiler:Then Miyoko became Miyo (三四 three four).]]
* DrivenToSuicide: When he realized he was [[SanitySlippage going senile]] in his late years.
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler: The ''one'' timeline where Miyoko's parents survive and Hifumi's endless efforts in researching Hinamizawa Syndrome pays off is the one portrayed in ''Outbreak''... where the Japanese government uses his research as basis for turning Hinamizawa Syndrome into a ''weapon of biological warfare''.]]
* AGodAmI: A rare case where it's not a megalomaniac rant. He just thinks that if his research is acknowleged, he will become some kind of eternal being, just like a god. The problem is, his beloved granddaughter [[GoneHorriblyWrong took it a bit too seriously.]] His final letter to her really didn't help though (see UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom below).
* JustInTime: Had he come to the orphanage only a day later, [[spoiler:Miyoko would probably have died with her head in that latrin.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: To Miyoko.
* PosthumousCharacter: Died several years before the start of the story.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: You don't understand the first time (because it seems irrelevant in that arc), but [[spoiler:the first TIP of ''Minagoroshi'' is his [[DeadManWriting suicide letter]] to Miyoko. He tells her that he coudn't become a god and that she must become one in his stead.]] Worst. Will. Ever.
[[/folder]]

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