This page details Teppei Houjou's other appearances and involvement in Higurashi-related media outside the original story.
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Console-Exclusive Arcs[]
Tsukiotoshi[]
Teppei takes Satoko back to live with him in Hinamizawa. Keiichi, Shion, and Rena team up to take care of him. On the night of the Watanagashi Festival, the three bait Teppei outside and kill him, however Satoko witnesses the event.
Miotsukushi Omote[]
This arc is set in an alternate world taking place after Minagoroshi.
Teppei returns to Hinamizawa after Rina's disappearance and tries to take Satoko back to live with him, but some villagers try to stop him. Rika goes to Satoko's house and tries to fight Teppei and his lackeys while telling Satoko she doesn't need to take the abuse. Teppei fights back but runs away when Ooishi and the police draw near.
Teppei runs through the woods and meets Takano, who shoots him in the shoulder and knocks him out. On the night of the Watanagashi Festival, Teppei is discovered as the victim of the fifth year of Oyashiro-sama's curse, having been injected with H173 and made to kill himself by clawing his throat out.
Higurashi Gou and Sotsu[]
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Satokowashi
After the events of Matsuribayashi, in 1988 Satoko gains Eua's power and starts looping through 1983 Fragments, which inadvertently causes Teppei to start remembering things from previous Fragments because of his connection to her. He has several "nightmares" of being beaten to death by gangsters and wakes up one morning wondering what he's doing with his life.
Teppei goes to a pachinko parlor and wins some prizes, watching a man and his daughter enjoying themselves. Teppei drives to Hinamizawa and shows some appreciation for the higurashi before inspecting the run-down Houjou residence. He walks through the village and runs into Satoko alone, who drops her grocery bags and puts up a nervous smile at greeting her uncle for the first time in a while. Teppei picks up Satoko's bags and hands them back before giving her a donut prize he won earlier, a nervous smile also on his face. Teppei asks if he can visit at other times with pachinko prizes and Satoko reluctantly agrees.
The next day, Teppei jumps in to save Satoko when she goes to Okinomiya and gets harassed by several delinquents. Teppei is arrested after the scuffle and is taken to Okinomiya PD, where Ooishi shows some slight confusion as to Satoko and many other bystanders claiming he actually protected his niece. Teppei scoffs at the idea he would do nice things like that, and Ooishi sends him off after reminding him that things would be different if Satoko didn't vouch for Teppei.
Satoko meets Teppei outside the station, and they walk and talk together. Teppei explains the bad dreams he'd been having lately and asks if Satoko would like to try again with him. He promises not to hit Satoko anymore and to stop hanging out with his horrible friends, offering his hand for a handshake. Satoko is about to take it but remembers a previous time of Teppei being abusive and cowers in fear.
Seeing her reaction, Teppei accepts that Satoko won't forgive him yet and bids farewell, hoping they can have a good talk the next time they meet.
Satoko finishes her preparations for Rika's trap and thinks she can make good use of Teppei's reformation.
Wataakashi
In this world, Satoko goes to Teppei's house, who is still reformed and trying to be nice to Satoko, and helps him earn a lot of money from betting on horse racing. They clean the house afterwards where Teppei gives Satoko some of his winnings and gets drunk. He tells Satoko that he stopped hanging out with his mean friends, but he still has an address book where they're listed under fake names. Satoko uses this information to purchase a gun from one of them.
Tataridamashi/Tatariakashi
In the beginning of Tataridamashi, Teppei is introduced cussing out a woman when she bangs on the door to his apartment. Teppei is shown to take prescriptions.
After the barbecue, Satoko plays mahjong with Teppei and his friends, earning some of their respect. Teppei goes on about how he cares for Satoko and will give his life for her, and Satoko asks him for a favor. They go to the Houjou residence in Hinamizawa, where Satoko tricks Teppei into thinking she's being bullied by everyone in the village and wants to live here for a while. Teppei comforts her and agrees. Meanwhile, news of Teppei's return spreads across the village, and many people think he's still the same vulgar person he was before.
Teppei worries about Satoko going to school by herself, fearing that people will attack and bully her on the way, but Satoko promises she'll be fine so long as Teppei is home waiting for her. Later, when Teppei sees Satoko dirty and roughed up (from rolling around in dirt by herself), he thinks someone beat her up and runs outside, but Satoko stops him. Satoko worries that Teppei will cause a commotion and give the child consultation center a reason to actually separate them, wanting to just live a happy life with him. Teppei cries and hugs her.
The next day, Teppei sees Satoko sitting in a corner by herself and "worrying" about being bullied by her class. Satoko says that even the teacher is in on it when Chie knocks on the door. Teppei yells at Chie and claims Satoko has a cold, then sends her away. The child consultation center calls the house later, and Satoko explains the situation to them while telling Teppei that the village is lying to them.
Teppei tries to cook dinner and almost starts a fire. Satoko reprimands him since they don't want the child consultation center to take notice, and Teppei says he just wanted to make something nice for her. The next day, Teppei goes shopping and runs into Ooishi and Kumagai, and asks them for help. Teppei takes Ooishi home and explains Satoko's situation to him. Ooishi decides to help as he's convinced Teppei isn't actually abusing Satoko. Satoko later puts Ooishi and Teppei to sleep using sleeping pills in their tea, and injects Ooishi with H173.
Ooishi, now developing symptoms of Hinamizawa Syndrome, begins framing Teppei for doing horrible things like destroying a statue at the Furude Shrine and peeing on the gate, spreading rumors across the village that Teppei is up to no good. He also convinces Teppei that the villagers are after him by dumping garbage in front of his house. Teppei sees the sight and hugs Satoko, regretting that his bad temper has caused so much harm to his family. Satoko hugs him back for once.
Ooishi brings the social worker Harayama to the Houjou residence so he can confirm that no abuse is happening. Teppei and Satoko watch as Harayama conducts his inspection, and he concludes everything is fine. Harayama gives Ooishi control of the case and leaves. Ooishi tells Teppei and Satoko they may become the next victims of the curse and tells them to stay home while the festival is going on.
Teppei gets knocked out for a day when Satoko puts an overdose of sleeping pills in his tea. The day of the festival, Teppei suddenly wakes up with a headache, which inconveniences Satoko since Teppei should've been taken away by police according to her plot. A delirious Teppei asks what's going on and Satoko asks what he felt about the time he spent together. Teppei says he really was happy living with Satoko despite the horrible person he was, and Satoko draws her gun and attempts to shoot him. However, Satoko's human and witch sides start fighting for control of her body, the first gunshot missing Teppei. The human Satoko tells Teppei to run away as he watches in confusion.
The witch side ultimately gains control and shoots Teppei in the head, killing him. Satoko proceeds to beat his corpse with a bat, spraying the room with blood. Keiichi arrives later and is knocked unconscious by Satoko. Satoko then manipulates the Hinamizawa Syndrome-infected Ooishi into believing Keiichi killed Teppei on Rika's orders as part of the curse.
Kagurashi
After Rika and Satoko's final battle, they return to a post-1987 world where Teppei is still a good person. Teppei is last seen planning dinner with Shion and Satoko.
Higurashi Gou (manga) and Meguri[]
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After the events of Matsuribayashi, in 1988 Satoko gains Eua's power and starts looping, soon trapping herself and Rika in an eternal 1983 loop.
Tataridamashi/Tatariakashi
When Teppei suddenly returns to Hinamizawa in 1983, Satoko assumes he’s still abusive and evil and plots to cause a tragedy by getting abused. However, Teppei is soon revealed to be reformed due to Satoko having a close connection with him and her looping causing him to remember previous Fragments. Satoko changes her plans and tricks Teppei into thinking that the entire village bullies her because of the dam war, and hints that he needs to get help from Ooishi. Meanwhile, Satoko tricks her friends into thinking Teppei is still abusive, and when the club visits the Houjou residence later, Teppei yells at them while Satoko is shown with fake bruises, further convincing them of Satoko’s story.
Teppei brings Ooishi to the Houjou residence, and he and Satoko convince the detective of what’s going on. Ooishi offers to help and stays a while for some drinks, and the adults fall asleep. Satoko takes advantage of this to inject Ooishi with H173. Satoko manipulates Ooishi when he wakes up by claiming that she and Teppei will become the victims for this year's curse of Oyashiro-sama. Ooishi begins developing symptoms of Hinamizawa Syndrome as he become further convinced of Satoko's story.
Meanwhile, the club are successful in rallying the village to save Satoko, and so the child consultation center calls the Houjou residence. Teppei picks up first but Satoko takes it and calls out for help, tricking Rika into thinking the same events as Minagoroshi have just happened. Satoko tells Teppei that Ooishi's on the way, and asks him to clean the bathtub while she goes out for groceries. As Teppei happily does so, Satoko suddenly kills him by shooting him in the head.
Satoko beats up Teppei's corpse and cuts out his intestines, leaving him in the bathtub. When Ooishi and Harayama visit, Satoko claims that Teppei actually threatened her and pretended to be nice when Ooishi met him earlier, and ran away after the child consultation center called. Satoko fully convinces Ooishi into thinking the village is after her and Teppei by giving him a scroll supposedly taken from the shrine and containing hers and Teppei's name in it, along with the names of the previous curse victims.
The night of the festival, Satoko calls Ooishi for help and leaves the phone unhooked, and then leaves with Keiichi for the festival. Ooishi rushes to the Houjou residence in fright and discovers Teppei's brutalized corpse and Satoko's bloody clothes nearby, thinking Rika really has captured her as a sacrifice to the curse. The deranged Ooishi takes a bat that was also left behind and heads towards the festival.
Higurashi Rei (manga)[]
Oniokoshi[]
By 2019, Teppei appears to still be living in Hinamizawa.