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 miko in the annual Watanagashi Festival. She becomes the head of her house surpassing her parents, but rarely attends town meetings at a young age. While she does speak in normal context, she likes to say nonsense words such as and and often ends her sentences with , 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 befriends Hanyū beyond her imagination. Despite her young age, she sometimes drinks wine and eats kimchi to try silencing Hanyū. Their connections eventually linked together, though it seems to be redundant by Matsuribayashi-hen, possibly because of Hanyū's arrival. It is later revealed that Rika's death would cause an outbreak in the village which everyone would go on a rampage of hysteria. Further on, she reasons with Takano. 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. She is very kind and takes care of her friends, but is also naïve and usually subject to light teasing. She is distinguished by her obsession with things she perceives as adorable, calling them , which are usually moekko characters or items she finds while scouring the local dump. Whenever she sees something that grabs her attention, she proclaims and proceeds to try and do so, becoming virtually unstoppable during these intervals. She also utters the phrase when excited or flustered, and has a habit of repeating phrases at the ends of her sentences, most famously . She was born in Hinamizawa under her real name, , which was used normally while living with her parents until they moved to Ibaraki Prefecture because of her mother's career until a year before the events of