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== Profile ==
=== Background ===
Ooishi was born and raised in [[Okinomiya]]. His real father was killed when the Nagoya plant he was working at was bombed during World War II. Ooishi did not get along with his father, but still missed him greatly. In the time after the war he was set to persecute people buying food illegally on the black market. There was a severe food shortage, and he was not proud of what he was doing. At that time he met a man who became like a second father to him. In the anime, he refers to this man as his father when it is revealed that the man was the [[Minor characters in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni#Construction Manager|manager of the dam construction project]]. During a fight provoked by his employees, whom he'd been scolding for drinking on site, the man lost control of his temper and viciously counter-attacked them. He was lynched and dismembered by those employees. He was considered the first of the annual victims of the curse, and
Ō\Ooishi will stop at nothing to solve the serial murders, and believes the entire village to be in on it, with the Sonozaki family at the center. Due to this, he is hated by most of the village, particularly [[Mion Sonozaki]], who firmly believes in her family's innocence. Even though
In arcs where we witness him going into retirement, he takes his elderly mother and they move back to the city of her youth. He has long wanted to fulfill this wish of hers. Most sources say this was in Hokkaido, one or two manga arcs specify it as Sapporo.
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=== Appearance ===
During his police duty he wears a cream-colored suit and a black collared-shirt with a red tie and suspenders. Due to the summer's heat, he doesn't wear his suit jacket, only keeps in his hand. In the visual novels, his shoes are dark brown but in the [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (anime)|anime]] they are white. He also has a watch on his left hand.
=== Personality ===
He is an avid fan of mahjongg and is occasionally seen playing with Keiichi. The victim of the first murder in Hinamizawa was a friend Ooishi often played mahjongg with and his death is what leads Ooishi to investigate the yearly murders.
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*Despite his appearance, Ooishi is quite skilled in wrestling and hand-to-hand combat.
*One of Ooishi's main weapons is a gun, and even though he seems skilled with one, he admits in ''[[Himatsubushi-hen]] ''that he has actually never fired a gun before.
*The brand of the cigarette which
*Despite appearing in nearly all of the original sound novels, Ooishi has one of the lowest numbers of individual sprites, and unlike all of the other characters, his sprites are not denoted by moods, but simply as "oisi1," "oisi2," and so on.
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