a band that Yae respects and appreciates but soon his career eventually disintegrated when all of his team members chose to settle down for family life and stable jobs and as a result, struggling to write music and failing, he grew bitter, depressive and resorted to drinking alcohol to cope which then he physically abuses Yae multiple times whenever he gets drunk or upset about minor things. After he is found murdered, it is discovered that he was remorseful for his treatment of Yae and planned to fix things once they returned from Hinamizawa as revealed by Mion summoning his spirit as the medium. Mifune is the antagonist of Yoigoshi-hen. Mifune is a renegade member of the Sonozaki family who was the confidant for Akane Sonozaki's husband. He was the one who organized her assassination by ordering a sniper which failed but she later died after being hospitalized shortly before the events occurs. He had her assassinated so that he will find the Sonozaki's heirloom, a gold ornate bell before Mion, the true heir to have the head position for himself. He and his henchmen kill Mion as she, Akira and Arakawa are cornered by them inside the Sonozaki household but because it was Mion's spirit possessing Shion's body only Mion heals Shion's body to revive her before she left her body and Shion ultimately kills Mifune after he was about to gun down Akira who finally found the heirloom. Himatsubushi-hen Mamoru's daughter who is rescued after Yukie's accident. It is said that she is seven years old, and so far she is the only character to have her age said outright. Mamoru sees a resemblance to the approximately five-year-old Rika in her. She, like any child, is very energetic. She is shy, which is shown when she meets Ooishi. She always addresses her father as "Papa", and is frequently shown worrying about him. She only appears in the Himatsubushi-hen manga epilogue and in Higurashi Kizuna Sō, although there is a picture of her in the anime when Akasaka shows it to Ooishi. She may be named after her mother. A teenage Miyuki is one of the protagonists of the 2020 smartphone game Higurashi When They Cry Mei. Kizuna Characters first introduced in (Nintendo DS). Kagebōshi-hen A new chief inspector and Madoka's older sister based in the fictional city of Kakiuchi, Aichi Prefecture investigating the strange occurrences involving former residents