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=== Main characters ===
;{{Nihongo|[[Keiichi Maebara]]|前原 圭一|Maebara Keiichi}}
:The protagonist of {{onikakushi}}, {{watanagashi}}, and {{tatarigoroshi}}. The son of a famous artist, his family recently moved to Hinamizawa after a violent incident event involving him in their hometown. 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 win some of the club activities.
;{{Nihongo|Rena Ryugu|竜宮 レナ|Ryūgū Rena}}
:Rena is a girl in the same grade level as Keiichi and the main female protagonist of the question arcs. She is very kind and takes care of Keiichi whenever possible, but is also naïve and is usually subject to light teasing by Keiichi. She is distinguished by her obsession with things she perceives as adorable, calling them {{Nihongo|''kāii''|かぁいい||a slurred form of {{Nihongo|''kawaii''|かわいい}}, meaning "cute"}}, which are usually [[Wikipedia:moe (slang)|moekko]] characters or items she finds while scouring the local dump. Whenever she sees something that grabs her attention, she proclaims {{Nihongo|"I'm gonna take it home!"|お持ち帰り〜|Omochikaerī}} and proceeds to try and do so, becoming virtually unstoppable during these intervals. She also utters the phrase {{Nihongo|''haū''|はぅ〜}} when excited or flustered, and has a habit of repeating phrases at the ends of her sentences, most famously {{Nihongo|''kana? kana?''|かな? かな?||lit. "I wonder, I wonder?"}}. This is also an onomatopoeia of the sound that higurashi cicadas make.
;{{Nihongo|Mion Sonozaki|園崎 魅音|Sonozaki Mion}}
:Mion is the oldest kid in Keiichi's class. As the elder, she is the class president and everyone looks up to her as the leader. Her social skills are on par with Keiichi, whom she highly respects as a friend and rival (though it is later shown that she is in love with him). She acts like a tomboy, and calls herself oji-san (meaning old man), but has a hidden girlish side. She is next in line to be the head of the Sonozaki household, one of the Three Families which holds tremendous influence in Hinamizawa. She is often seen with a holstered airsoft gun, even though she is never seen using it, and was removed in the PS2 adaption of the game; she is, however, very adept in the use of martial arts. She is notable as the only character that has never been driven to the extreme paranoia that causes the others to kill in the question arcs and the first two answer arcs. Her real name is actually Shion, as she was born second to the family, but due to sister swapping even at a young age, she was mistakenly taken as Mion and branded with the [[Wikipedia:Oni (folklore)|oni]] tattoo, ultimately causing her to stay as Mion. Mion also serves as leader of the after-school club consisting entirely of the main characters. She organizes a variety of strategy-based games for the members to play with penalties for any losers. Penalties usually involve wearing embarrassing or frilly outfits on the way home. Each game she organizes involves bending the general rules or using questionable and crude methods to win such as playing cards with a marked deck or using feminine wiles to discourage opposition.
:Satoko is a younger classmate in Keiichi's school. She has a distinctive style of speech, ending all of her sentences with ''~wa'', and is known for her boastful laugh. In spite of her young age, she seems to have an impressive arm strength and is quite clever in setting up traps, and likes to practice on Keiichi. Although her personality is quite energetic and mischievous during the events of the games, Satoko's past was full of trauma; she shoved her parents down a cliff because she was paranoid, caused by the Hinamizawa Syndrome, and she was abused by her foster parents (her aunt and uncle), and her beloved brother Satoshi disappeared
▲:Satoko is a younger classmate in Keiichi's school. She has a distinctive style of speech, ending all of her sentences with ''~wa'', and is known for her boastful laugh. In spite of her young age, she seems to have an impressive arm strength and is quite clever in setting up traps, and likes to practice on Keiichi. Although her personality is quite energetic and mischievous during the events of the games, Satoko's past was full of trauma; she shoved her parents down a cliff because she was paranoid, caused by the Hinamizawa Syndrome, and she was abused by her foster parents (her aunt and uncle), and her beloved brother Satoshi disappeared. And in ''Matsuribayashi-hen'', Irie suggested she killed her parents because she thought they would kill her, and so to her it was an act of self-defense. She was suffering from the Hinamizawa Syndrome at that time, and though Takano wanted to dissect her alive for study, Irie fought to save her life. She is one of the few characters to ever recover from Level 5 of the Syndrome, but has to take shots on a regular basis. Though she greatly misses Satoshi, and feels that by being strong he will return, she comes to regard Keiichi as her new {{nihongo|"nii-nii"|にーにー||a cute term for "older brother"}}, and once even regards Shion as {{nihongo|"nee-nee"|ねーねー||a cute term for "older sister"}}. She dislikes [[Wikipedia:kabocha|kabocha]], and confuses cauliflower with broccoli.
;{{Nihongo|Rika Furude|古手 梨花|Furude Rika}}
:Rika
▲:Rika is the main character in ''Minagoroshi-hen''. She is a younger classmate in Keiichi's school, and is in the same grade level as Satoko. Naturally, she is great friends with her, as they live together in the same house. She is revered by the villagers as the heir of the local shrine, and plays the role of a [[Wikipedia:miko|miko]] in the annual Watanagashi Festival. She has been the head of the Furude house since her parents died, but rarely attends town meetings due to her young age. While she does speak in normal context, she likes to say nonsense words such as {{nihongo|''mii''|みぃ〜}} and {{nihongo|''nipah''|にぱ〜}} and often ends her sentences with {{nihongo|''nano desu''|〜なのです||lit. "it is so"}}, which inflame Rena's passion for cute things. 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. 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 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. Prior to ''Matsuribayashi-hen'', she is the only one able to see Hanyu, who has been an "imaginary friend" to her all her life. Despite her young appearance, she seems to be quite fond of wine, as well as [[Wikipedia:kimchi|kimchi]], which she uses to silence Hanyu when Rika is in a bad mood; this works because both Hanyu and Rika's senses are linked together, though this seems to be redundant by Matsuribayashi-hen, possibly because of Hanyu's coming into the world. It is later revealed that Rika's death would cause an outbreak in Hinamizawa which everyone would go on a rampage of hysteria. Further on, she attempts to stop Takano from her killing spree by pulling her friends and others around her together.
=== Recurring characters ===
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:Kuraudo Ooishi is a veteran police investigator at Okinomiya who has vowed to solve the mystery of the Hinamizawa murders before his retirement, to avenge the first victim who he was friends with. 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, especially the Sonozaki family. He approaches one of the main characters to become his informant in several arcs, and is sometimes unwittingly responsible for triggering their paranoia
▲:Kuraudo Ooishi is a veteran police investigator at Okinomiya who has vowed to solve the mystery of the Hinamizawa murders before his retirement, to avenge the first victim who he was friends with. 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, especially the Sonozaki family. He approaches one of the main characters to become his informant in several arcs, and is sometimes unwittingly responsible for triggering their paranoia. However, he plays an integral role in aiding the protagonists during the last two answer arcs, ''Matsuribayashi-hen'' and ''Minagoroshi-hen''.
;{{Nihongo|Jirou Tomitake|富竹 ジロウ|Tomitake Jirō}}
:Jirou Tomitake is a freelance photographer who occasionally visits Hinamizawa (Around three times every year). 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 (Specifically the Hinamizawa murders). Ooishi and the police are suspicious of his true identity.
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