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!!!Voiced by: Creator/{{Chafurin}} (JP), Joe [=DiMucci=] (EN, Bang Zoom), Mark Stoddard (EN, Funimation)
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!!!Voiced by: Creator/{{Chafurin}} (JP), Joe [=DiMucci=] John Snyder (EN, Bang Zoom), Zoom, credited as Joe [=DiMucci=]), Mark Stoddard (EN, Funimation)
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: 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 induce the L5 of the Hinamizawa Syndrome after he was expelled out of the Hōjō residence by Keiichi, Rika, Akasaka, and Ooishi which is justified as 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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* 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.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Matsuribayashi-hen'', Tomitake tells the Bloodhounds trying to arrest her that she's deep into Hinamizawa Syndrome. It's debatable if her scratch marks came from simple stress and running through the wilderness, or her inoculation wasn't working properly, but Tomitake's intent was likely just to reduce Takano's punishment and give her a second chance at life.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:In ''Gou'', it’s shown that in multiple timelines where her plans fails she ends up going through with her suicide, being forced to shoot herself in the mouth, have her grandfathers research permanently rejected, and take all the blame for the planned massacre, however it can be difficult to have any sympathy for her since she murdered Rika’s parents, of which she dissected her mother’s brain with no anesthesia, and was planning genocide against a village that did nothing wrong to her.]]
* 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.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:In ''Gou'', it’s shown that in multiple timelines where her plans fails she ends up going through with her suicide, being forced to shoot herself in the mouth, have her grandfathers research permanently rejected, and take all the blame for the planned massacre, however it can be difficult to have any sympathy for her since she murdered Rika’s parents, of which she dissected her mother’s brain with no anesthesia, and was planning genocide against a village that did nothing wrong to her.]]
* 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.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:At At the end of ''Matsuribayashi-hen'', Tomitake tells the Bloodhounds trying to arrest her that she's deep into Hinamizawa Syndrome. It's debatable if her scratch marks came from simple stress and running through the wilderness, or her inoculation wasn't working properly, but Tomitake's intent was likely just to reduce Takano's punishment and give her a second chance at life.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:In ''Gou'', it’s shown that in multiple timelines where her plans fails she ends up going through with her suicide, being forced to shoot herself in the mouth, have her grandfathers research permanently rejected, and take all the blame for the planned massacre, however it can be difficult to have any sympathy for her since she murdered Rika’s parents, of which she dissected her mother’s brain with no anesthesia, and was planning genocide against a village that did nothing wrong to her.]]
life.
* AttackAttackAttack: Lampshaded [[PlayedForDrama in a serious manner]].[[spoiler:She 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.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:In ''Gou'', it’s shown that in multiple timelines where her plans fails she ends up going through with her suicide, being forced to shoot herself in the mouth, have her grandfathers research permanently rejected, and take all the blame for the planned massacre, however it can be difficult to have any sympathy for her since she murdered Rika’s parents, of which she dissected her mother’s brain with no anesthesia, and was planning genocide against a village that did nothing wrong to her.]]
* AttackAttackAttack: Lampshaded [[PlayedForDrama in a serious manner]].
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* 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.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:In ''Gou'', instead of faking her death like she does in most of the arcs. During the Nekodamashi-hen arc, she willingly surrenders on the night of the Watanagashi festival and gives up on her ambitions resulting in an early version of the original story's GoldenEnding. This is the first clue that she's not actually the BigBad this time around.]]
* 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.]]
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:In ''Gou'', instead of faking her death like she does in most of the arcs. During the Nekodamashi-hen arc, she willingly surrenders on the night of the Watanagashi festival and gives up on her ambitions resulting in an early version of the original story's GoldenEnding. This is the first clue that she's not actually the BigBad this time around.]]
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* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:The consequence of being She was tortured into pretty much ''insanity'' in the OrphanageOfFear from her childhood. It's heavily implied that she suffers from severe PTSD as a result.]]
As a result, she thinks nothing of committing mass murder just to prove her grandfather's theory.
* BigBad:[[spoiler:Is She's revealed to be this toward the end.]]
main perpetrator behind the Great Hinamizawa Disaster in multiple timeline.
* BitchInSheepsClothing:[[spoiler:She's 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.]]
story.
* BreakTheCutie:[[spoiler: Her backstory in a nutshell. She UsedToBeASweetKid, and then her parents died and she was sent to an OrphanageOfFear, where she was made to undergo Hell that no child should have to suffer through.]]
through.
* BrokenBird:[[spoiler:Everyone 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.]]
thesis.
* ComplexityAddiction:[[spoiler:She's 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.]]
clones.
* CriminalMindGames: A somewhat strange example.[[spoiler:In 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.]]
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 Especially since she isn't ''really'' a victim]].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, Subverted, since she was faking her death]].
death.
* {{Determinator}}:[[spoiler:A 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.]]
godhood.
* DiscOneFinalBoss:[[spoiler:In ''Gou'', instead of faking her death like she does in most of the arcs. During the Nekodamashi-hen arc, she willingly surrenders on the night of the Watanagashi festival and gives up on her ambitions resulting in an early version of the original story's GoldenEnding. This is the first clue that she's not actually the BigBad this time around.]]
* BigBad:
* BitchInSheepsClothing:
* BreakTheCutie:
* BrokenBird:
* ComplexityAddiction:
* CriminalMindGames: A somewhat strange example.
* DeadlyDoctor: Although she's always one of the first two victims of Watanagashi, she isn't quite so helpless as you'd think.
* DesignatedVictim: Like Tomitake, in most arcs she goes missing on the night of Watanagashi, and is later found dead.
* {{Determinator}}:
* DiscOneFinalBoss:
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* DrowningMySorrows: After she learns that the research will be stopped, [[spoiler:indicating that she has crossed the DespairEventHorizon.]]
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* DrowningMySorrows: After she learns that the research will be stopped, [[spoiler:indicating indicating that she has crossed the DespairEventHorizon.]]
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* 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]]]].
* 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 loves her deeply and is determined to help Takano start anew with a better life once her plans are ruined in ''Matsuribayashi-hen''.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
** [[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.]]
* 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.]]
* HospitalHottie: Her outfit consists of a really short skirt and a pair of [[ZettaiRyouiki high black stockings]]. [[spoiler:Rare [[EvilIsSexy evil]] example, at that.]]
* 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]]]].
* 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 loves her deeply and is determined to help Takano start anew with a better life once her plans are ruined in ''Matsuribayashi-hen''.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
** [[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.]]
* 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.]]
* HospitalHottie: Her outfit consists of a really short skirt and a pair of [[ZettaiRyouiki high black stockings]]. [[spoiler:Rare [[EvilIsSexy evil]] example, at that.]]
to:
* EasilyForgiven: By Tomitake in the realities where he lives, even though [[spoiler:she 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.]]
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 These trees are her tactic of choice in [[{{Troll}} her trolling the cast]]]].
cast]].
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved:[[spoiler:To 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 loves her deeply and is determined to help Takano start anew with a better life once her plans are ruined in ''Matsuribayashi-hen''.]]
''Matsuribayashi-hen''.
* EvilLaugh: Like [[DysfunctionJunction most of the characters]], she gets one at some point.[[spoiler:A A truly epic one when she's revealed to be the BigBad.]]
BigBad.
* EvilWearsBlack:[[spoiler:When 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.]]
organization.
* FakingTheDead:[[spoiler:She 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.]]
out.
* ForScience:[[spoiler:While 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.]]
it.
* FreudianExcuse:The reason she’s so adamant about opposing [[PhysicalGod Oyashiro-sama]]? [[spoiler:After 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.]]
monster.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From sweet kid toBreakTheCutie to friendly but detached nurse [[spoiler:to [[TheSociopath sociopathic]], murderous researcher.]]
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 ''knew'' would be acting against her at the start of the arc]]''. Failure to acknowledge any of this leads to her downfall.]]
downfall.
* GodhoodSeeker:[[spoiler:The end of ''Minagoroshi-hen''.]] She wants to immortalize herself and her grandfather as "gods" by making people acknowledge the latter's research. Specifically, [[spoiler:it 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.]] god. Fast-forward to modern-day and Miyo [[spoiler:raves 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.]]
grandpa.
* GreenEyedMonster:[[spoiler:In 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.]]
reverence.
* HappilyAdopted: After[[spoiler:some some ''very'' nasty experiences at her OrphanageOfFear]], OrphanageOfFear, she was adopted by Hifumi Takano and was able to live a relatively happy life with him until he died. [[spoiler:Unfortunately 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...]]
research...
* HatesBeingAlone:[[spoiler:Her 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.]]
her.
* HeelFaceTurn:[[spoiler:But But only at the very end of the series. And in later arcs she continues to terrorize the heroes.]]
heroes.
**[[spoiler:Episode 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.]]
Disaster.
* HeroKiller:[[spoiler:She's 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.]]
beforehand.
* HospitalHottie: Her outfit consists of a really short skirt and a pair of [[ZettaiRyouiki high black stockings]]. [[spoiler:Rare [[EvilIsSexy evil]] example, at that.]]
* 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!).
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved:
* EvilLaugh: Like [[DysfunctionJunction most of the characters]], she gets one at some point.
* EvilWearsBlack:
* FakingTheDead:
* ForScience:
* FreudianExcuse:
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From sweet kid to
* GenreBlindness:
* GodhoodSeeker:
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: [[spoiler:One of the indicators that she's not the innocent victim she appears to be.]]
* GreenEyedMonster:
* HappilyAdopted: After
* HatesBeingAlone:
* HeelFaceTurn:
**
* HeroKiller:
* HospitalHottie: Her outfit consists of a really short skirt and a pair of [[ZettaiRyouiki high black stockings]].
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* 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]].]]
** [[spoiler: This ultimately ends up averted in "Gou", where it’s shown that in some of the timelines where her plan fails, it leads to her shooting herself out of despair and being forgotten about like her grandfather]]
* 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.]]
* 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 induce the L5 of the Hinamizawa Syndrome after he was expelled out of the Hōjō residence by Keiichi, Rika, Akasaka, and Ooishi which is justified as 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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 woman]] with 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.]]
* 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]].]]
** [[spoiler: This ultimately ends up averted in "Gou", where it’s shown that in some of the timelines where her plan fails, it leads to her shooting herself out of despair and being forgotten about like her grandfather]]
* 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.]]
* 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 induce the L5 of the Hinamizawa Syndrome after he was expelled out of the Hōjō residence by Keiichi, Rika, Akasaka, and Ooishi which is justified as 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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 woman]] with 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.]]
to:
* IronicEcho: Not exactly a quote, but the scene near the end of ''Matsuribayashi-hen'' where [[spoiler:her her bullet misses Hanyu]] Hanyu very closely echoes the scene near the beginning of the arc where [[spoiler:"God"'s "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]]. {{Determinator}}. It can be interpreted that [[spoiler:her 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.]]
anyone.
* KarmaHoudini:[[spoiler: She tries to kill an entire village over and over again, and what does but at the end of ''Matsuribayashi-hen'', she get? Treatment gets 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 Hanyu offering to forgive Takano of all her sins. [[TheFarmerAndTheViper Then she tries to kill Hanyu.]]]]
sins.
**[[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]].]]
** [[spoiler: This ultimately ends up averted in "Gou", where it’svillainy]].
* KarmicDeath: In ''Gou'', it's shown that insome of the multiple timelines where her plan plans fails, it leads to she ends up going through with her shooting suicide, being forced to shoot herself out of despair in the mouth, have her grandfathers research permanently rejected, and being forgotten about like take all the blame for the planned massacre, however it can be difficult to have any sympathy for her grandfather]]
since she murdered Rika's parents, of which she dissected her mother's brain with no anesthesia, and was planning genocide against a village that did nothing wrong to her.
* KickTheMoralityPet:[[spoiler:She 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.]]
fragments.
* 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 induce the L5 of the Hinamizawa Syndrome after he was expelled out of the Hōjō residence by Keiichi, Rika, Akasaka, and Ooishi which is justified as 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.]]
to.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Familial love example.[[spoiler:Takano 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.]]
village.
* LoveRedeems: Implied by the ending of ''Matsuribayashi-hen''.[[spoiler:Takano's 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.]]
again.
* ManipulativeBitch:[[spoiler:The 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.]]
Family.
* MeaningfulRename:[[spoiler:After 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.]]
obvious.
* MentorArchetype: Her main role in the story before[[spoiler:being being revealed as the BigBad]] BigBad is to inform the heroes of the legends of Hinamizawa and help them in defeating the conspiracy.
* MilkmanConspiracy:[[spoiler:BigBad BigBad or not she's still just a nurse when it comes down to it.]]
it.
* MoralMyopia:[[spoiler:She's 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.]]
nuisance.
* MsFanservice: She's [[HeadturningBeauty a fairly attractive woman]] with 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 This makes the fact she's the BigBad all the more shocking.]]
* KarmaHoudini:
**
** [[spoiler: This ultimately ends up averted in "Gou", where it’s
* KarmicDeath: In ''Gou'', it's shown that in
* KickTheMoralityPet:
* KickTheSonOfABitch:
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Familial love example.
* LoveRedeems: Implied by the ending of ''Matsuribayashi-hen''.
* ManipulativeBitch:
* MeaningfulRename:
* MentorArchetype: Her main role in the story before
* MilkmanConspiracy:
* MoralMyopia:
* MsFanservice: She's [[HeadturningBeauty a fairly attractive woman]] with ample assets who wears a few revealing outfits, such as her nurse outfit. She also SleepsInTheNude and wears a BarelyThereSwimwear during the BeachEpisode.
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* 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 changed the kanji in her surname so this wouldn't be too obvious). She's willing to throw people's lives away and even weaponize the Syndrome as long as Hifumi's research is validated.]]
* 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 changed the kanji in her surname so this wouldn't be too obvious). She's willing to throw people's lives away and even weaponize the Syndrome as long as Hifumi's research is validated.]]
to:
* 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]] Hanyuu's identity when they meet face-to-face in front of the latter's shrine.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman:[[spoiler:She 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 changed the kanji in her surname so this wouldn't be too obvious). She's willing to throw people's lives away and even weaponize the Syndrome as long as Hifumi's research is validated.]]
* NeverASelfMadeWoman:
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* NoblewomansLaugh: Gets a classic one in the anime [[spoiler:after her 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 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).]]
* 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 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).]]
to:
* NoblewomansLaugh: Gets a classic one in the anime [[spoiler:after after her GodhoodSeeker speech]], 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]] friends as part of her plan, but she ended up getting cold feet and opting to [[spoiler: turn herself in]]. in. In her stead, the main villain turns out to be [[spoiler: a looping Satoko]] Satoko who was receiving outside help from a supernatural source.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing:[[spoiler:Just 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]].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 Just like how her adoptive grandfather's name is written as one (一), two (二), three (三).]]
* NotMeThisTime: ''Gou'' presents an interesting take on the trope: she readily admits to Rika that
* NotQuiteTheRightThing:
* NumericalThemeNaming: The kanji for her name uses the kanji for three (三) and four (四).
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* 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. [[spoiler: Her traumatic childhood shown in ''Matsuribayashi'' chapter was the factor in this but it turns out her hedonistic taste for dark subjects is actually a facade to cover up her own vulnerabilities and is willing to find someone like Tomitake to reach out to her.]]
* 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]].
* 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. [[spoiler: Her traumatic childhood shown in ''Matsuribayashi'' chapter was the factor in this but it turns out her hedonistic taste for dark subjects is actually a facade to cover up her own vulnerabilities and is willing to find someone like Tomitake to reach out to her.]]
* 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]].
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* OrphansOrdeal: She was sent to an OrphanageOfFear after her parents died, witnessing and suffering lots of horrors there. [[spoiler:She She got so throughly broken that she went ''insane'' and became the BigBad with time.]]
time.
* PluckyGirl: Enough will to[[spoiler:alter alter fate itself]].
itself.
* ProperlyParanoid: Midway through Matsuribayashi, she admits to Tomitake that[[spoiler:the 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.]]
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.[[spoiler: Her traumatic childhood shown in ''Matsuribayashi'' chapter was the factor in this but it turns out her hedonistic taste for dark subjects is actually a facade to cover up her own vulnerabilities and is willing to find someone like Tomitake to reach out to her.]]
her.
* SmiteMeOhMightySmiter:[[spoiler:She She challenges God to give her a better life or kill her. A subsequent lightning bolt narrowly misses her.]]
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 foreshadowing her PlayingWithSyringes and other overt sadism]].sadism.
* PluckyGirl: Enough will to
* ProperlyParanoid: Midway through Matsuribayashi, she admits to Tomitake that
* 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:
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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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.
* TheWomanBehindTheMan: She's behind [[spoiler:the Sonozaki family, the Yamainu, and the false image of [[DiscOneFinalBoss Oyashiro-sama]] she created]].
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.
* TheWomanBehindTheMan: She's behind [[spoiler:the Sonozaki family, the Yamainu, and the false image of [[DiscOneFinalBoss Oyashiro-sama]] she created]].
* 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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* TearsOfRemorse: In the ''Gou'' anime, [[spoiler:Takano 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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* TookALevelInKindness:[[spoiler:Her Her first full appearance in the ''Gou'' anime 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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* TraumaButton:[[spoiler:After After watching Hifumi's research getting mocked and desecrated, she'll essentially revert to a crying child whenever she relives the experience.]]
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* {{Troll}}:[[spoiler:She She manipulates several characters into going paranoid and berserk out of sheer amusement.]]
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* TsurimeEyes: Her narrowed eyes are one of the indicators that she's not the innocent victim she appears to be.
* TheUnfettered:[[spoiler:She She is capable of doing pretty much anything, no matter how heinous, in order to prove her grandfather's thesis and "become a god".]]
god".
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:[[spoiler:Whether 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.]]
scrapbook.
* UsedToBeASweetKid:[[spoiler:The 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.]]
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* VillainProtagonist:[[spoiler:The 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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* VillainousBreakdown:[[spoiler:Started Started in Matsuribayashi-hen when Rika was falsely reported as dead for 48 hours and it just got worse after she was beaten.]]
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity:[[spoiler:To To most of Hinamizawa, she’s she's a kindhearted nurse with a weird hobby. She’s actually the direct leader of the MilkmanConspiracy controlling the town.]]
town.
* WalkingSpoiler: Her past[[spoiler:(and and the fact that she is the BigBad)]] makes BigBad make it difficult to talk about her this.
in detail without spoilering the two final arcs.
* TheWomanBehindTheMan: She's behind[[spoiler:the the Sonozaki family, the Yamainu, and the false image of [[DiscOneFinalBoss Oyashiro-sama]] she created]].
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds:[[spoiler:Her 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.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild:[[spoiler:This woman She ''disembowels'' a little girl after executing her friends in front of her.]]
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* MsFanservice: She's [[HeadturningBeauty a fairly attractive woman]] with [[BuxomIsBetter ample assets]] 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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* {{Retirony}}: In the arcs where he is killed, due to the short time limit that he has to solve the case before he retires.
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* {{Retirony}}: In Averted in most arcs; [[spoiler:while most of the arcs where he is killed, due to rest of the short time limit cast dies in the lead-up to or the events after the Great Hinamizawa Gas Disaster, Ooishi is one of the few that relatively reliably stays alive]]. In Tatarigoroshi-hen and Someutsushi-hen, [[spoiler:he goes missing]], but his death is still unconfirmed even then. Most of the time, he has and Akasaka do what they can after [[spoiler:the disaster]] to [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture encourage someone to solve the case before he retires.what they couldn't]].
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* 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.]]
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* 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.reputation (she changed the kanji in her surname so this wouldn't be too obvious). She's willing to throw people's lives away and even weaponize the Syndrome as long as Hifumi's research is validated.]]
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* IWasQuiteALooker: If you saw a picture of her when she was younger, you'd be able to tell immediately where the Sonozaki family got their looks from. As a youth she looks like the splitting image of Mion/Shion albeit more serious and distant.
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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Matsuribayashi-hen'', Tomitake tells the Bloodhounds trying to arrest her that she's deep into Hinamizawa Syndrome. It's debatable if her scratch marks came from simple stress and running through the wilderness, or her inoculation wasn't working properly, but Tomitake's intent was likely just to reduce Takano's punishment and give her a second chance at life.]]
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]]. She looks visibly more rotund in uncharacteristically baggy clothes when she returns to the clinic with Tomitake in the epilogue of ''Sotsu.'', ''Sotsu'', though whether that actually means pregnancy is never stated.
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* NiceHat: Her nurse's cap. Also, [[spoiler:her ''epic'' special forces beret.]]
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* StrongerThanTheyLook: While Keiichi's not heavy, Irie's easily able to drag him by the collar with "strength [he] couldn't have imagined him having."
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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.]]
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* 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]] many [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom a lot of problems.]]]]problems]]]].
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:In ''Gou'', it’s shown that in multiple timelines where her plans fails she ends up going through with her suicide, being forced to shoot herself in the mouth, have her grandfathers research permanently rejected,and take all the blame for the planned massacre, however it can be difficult to have any sympathy for her since she murdered Rika’s parents, of which she dissected her mother’s brain with no anesthesia, and was planning genocide against a village that did nothing wrong to her.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:In ''Gou'', it’s shown that in multiple timelines where her plans fails she ends up going through with her suicide, being forced to shoot herself in the mouth, have her grandfathers research permanently rejected,and rejected, and take all the blame for the planned massacre, however it can be difficult to have any sympathy for her since she murdered Rika’s parents, of which she dissected her mother’s brain with no anesthesia, and was planning genocide against a village that did nothing wrong to her.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:In ''Gou'', it’s shown that in multiple timelines where her plans fails she ends up going through with her suicide, shooting being forced to shoot herself in the mouth out of despair, mouth, have her grandfathers research permanently rejected,and take all the blame for the planned massacre, however it can be difficult to have any sympathy for her since she murdered Rika’s parents, of which she dissected her mother’s brain with no anesthesia, and was planning genocide against a village that did nothing wrong to her.]]
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