She is distinguished by her obsession with things she perceives as adorable, calling them kāii ( かぁいい, a slurred form of kawaii ( かわいい), meaning "cute"), which are usually moekko characters or items she finds while scouring the local dump. She is very kind and takes care of her friends, but is also naïve and usually subject to light teasing. Rena Ryūgū ( 竜宮 レナ, Ryūgū Rena) Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (Japanese) Mela Lee (2006 anime), Emi Lo (2020 anime) (English) Played by: Airi Matsuyama (film), Minami Kato (TV series) One of Keiichi's friends and the main female protagonist of the first three "question" arcs. It is later revealed that Rika's death would cause an outbreak in the village which everyone would go on a rampage of hysteria. Their connections eventually linked together, though it seems to be redundant by Matsuribayashi-hen, possibly because of Hanyū's arrival. Despite her young age, she sometimes drinks wine and eats kimchi to try silencing Hanyū. Prior to Matsuribayashi-hen, she befriends Hanyū beyond her imagination. She believes she has lived over 100 years by the time of Tsumihoroboshi-hen, but continues to act like a child in order not to alarm her friends. In reality, she is being reborn in a 'new world' at some random time before or during June 1983, and in most of the worlds she is the only one to remember the previous lives. She also likes to describe events using sound effects, such as "The cat was going 'nya nya' and 'scritch scritch'" or saying "Clap! Clap! Clap!" when clapping her hands. "it is so"), which inflame Rena's passion for cute things. While she does speak in normal context, she likes to say nonsense words such as mii ( みぃ〜) and nipah ( にぱ〜) and often ends her sentences with nano desu ( 〜なのです, lit. She becomes the head of her house surpassing her parents, but rarely attends town meetings at a young age. She is revered by the villagers as the heir of the local shrine, and plays the role of a miko in the annual Watanagashi Festival. She is in the same grade level as Satoko and they live together in the same house. Rika Furude ( 古手 梨花, Furude Rika) Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (Japanese) Rebecca Forstadt (2006 anime), Apphia Yu (2020 anime) (English) Played by: Aika (film), Hinata Honma (TV series) One of Keiichi's friends and the main protagonist of both the fourth and final "question" arc and all the "answer" arcs, as well as the ultimately true main protagonist of the entire series. It is later revealed in the story that before arriving there, he grew weary of school, due to his ostracism from having a genius level intelligence, and was the perpetrator of a series of crimes involving shooting children with a BB gun to cope with his immense stress which ended after he accidentally shot a young girl in an eye. Before fighting, he wields Satoshi's old baseball bat. Eventually, he is even able to recall some of the events of the past repetitions. Early in the story, in the Onikakushi-hen arc, he is affected by paranoia after hearing about a dam mutilation murder case and Oyashiro's curse which driven him to murder Rena and Mion who are trying to help him and dies from clawing his own neck inside a phone booth, but the inner strength and unshaken belief in his friends he acquires in the other arcs are one of the keys to solve the case. His charisma and remarkable talent for rhetoric, which earns him the nickname "Magician of Words," allow him to easily make new friends and become popular in the village, not to mention winning some club activities. The son of a famous artist, his family recently moved to Hinamizawa after a violent incident event involving him in their hometown. Keiichi Maebara ( 前原 圭一, Maebara Keiichi ) Voiced by: Sōichirō Hoshi (Japanese) Grant George (2006 anime), Khoi Dao (2020 anime) (English) Played by: Gōki Maeda (film), Yu Inaba (TV series) The main male protagonist of the first three "question" arcs. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Main Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai main characters as seen in the anime adaptation (from left to right): In Yoigoshi-hen, Akira Otobe appears around in the forest near the deserted village. In Onisarashi-hen, Natsumi Kimiyoshi is the visitor of Okinomiya. The manga characters also appear in the first adaptation. The supporting characters also appear in some arcs, including the soon-to-be-retired detective Kuraudo Ooishi, freelance photographer Jiro Tomitake, female nurse and counter-intelligence force leader Miyo Takano, and the clinic's head doctor Kyosuke Irie. Each characters mostly appear in every arc, including Keiichi Maebara, along with his female friends, Rena Ryugu, Mion and Shion Sonozaki, Satoko Hojo and Rika Furude. Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel later adapted into various anime series, manga, light novels and films.
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