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| − | |japanese = 前原 伊知郎 (Ichirou)<br>前原 藍子 (Aiko) |
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| − | |job = Artist (Ichirou) |
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| − | |appears=[[Onikakushi]] |
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| − | |jpnva=[[Wikipedia:Yasunori Matsumoto|Yasunori Matsumoto]] (Ichirou)<br>[[Wikipedia:Naoko Matsui|Naoko Matsui]] (Aiko) |
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| − | {{nihongo|'''Ichirou Maebara'''|前原 伊知郎|Maebara Ichirou}} and {{nihongo|'''Aiko Maebara'''|前原 藍子|Maebara Aiko}} are the father and mother of [[Keiichi Maebara]], respectively. |
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| + | * [[Ichirou Maebara]], Keiichi's father |
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| − | == Profile == |
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| − | + | * [[Aiko Maebara]], Keiichi's mother |
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| − | ''My father is a painter, and the main reason we moved to Hinamizawa was to set up his studio in a peaceful place away from the city.'' |
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| − | ''My mother is a housewife, but she sometimes goes with my father to Tokyo to help (manage?) with his work.'' |
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| − | ''She is also a good cook and loves mystery novels?'' |
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| − | (Translated from the [http://www.oyashirosama.com/web/character/index.htm#chara09 2006 anime website].) |
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| − | == Appearance == |
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| − | Ichirou and Aiko do not have sprites in any version of the visual novels. |
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| − | Their appearances in the anime and manga adaptations all greatly differ from each other. |
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| − | Ichirou maebara manga.png|Ichirou in the ''Higurashi'' manga. |
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| − | Higu2020ep3 preview (6).jpg|Ichirou in ''[[Higurashi Gou]]'' |
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| − | Higu2020ep4 preview (1).jpg|Aiko in ''[[Higurashi Gou]]''. |
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| − | </gallery> |
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| − | == Personality == |
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| − | Ichirou and Aiko are very supportive of Keiichi. ''[[Tsumihoroboshi]]'' shows that <span class="spoiler">they felt guilty about partially contributing to Keiichi's shooting incident by not being aware of his struggles and tried hard to rectify this mistake.</span> |
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| − | == Background == |
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| − | Keiichi's family used to live in Tokyo. Hoping to start a new life, they moved to [[Hinamizawa]] in 1983 after buying an empty lot and building a mansion there. ''Tsumihoroboshi'' reveals that <span class="spoiler">they did it after an incident where Keiichi shot at kids with a BB gun.</span> |
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| − | == Role in the Story == |
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| − | === [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Question Arcs]] === |
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| − | ==== [[Tatarigoroshi]] ==== |
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| − | The credits say that Ichirou and Aiko die on 6/22/1983 in the [[Great Hinamizawa Disaster]]. |
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| − | === [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai]] === |
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| − | ====[[Meakashi]]==== |
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| − | The credits say that Ichirou and Aiko reside in Tokyo as of 2004, two decades after Keiichi's death from acute heart failure. |
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| − | ====[[Tsumihoroboshi]]==== |
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| − | The Great Hinamizawa Disaster leaves the fate of Ichirou and Aiko after Rika's death unclear.<ref>''[[Tsumihoroboshi]]'' TIP 14: [[The Demon's Script]].</ref> |
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| − | ====[[Matsuribayashi]]==== |
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| − | [[File:HiguIchirou1982.png|thumb|Ichirou visiting the village in the ''Kai'' anime.]] |
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| − | In the [[Connecting Fragments|Fragment]] named "Preview of lots for sale", which is unlocked after "The fourth sacrifice" and hence implied to take place at some point after the [[Oyashiro-sama's Curse|Curse]] in 1982, Ichirou visits Hinamizawa and encounters [[Hanyuu]] and [[Rika Furude]], who convince him to move to the village. |
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| − | ==Trivia== |
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| − | *Ichirou and Aiko are named after [[Ryukishi07]]'s own parents.<ref>[https://youtu.be/_QMl5FSrswM?t=263 Excerpt from Akihabara Geeks]</ref> |
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| − | *The design for Aiko in the ''Higurashi'' manga was contributed by [[Karin Suzuragi]].<ref>[[Alone in the Dark: An Interview With the Creators of Higurashi When They Cry]]</ref> |
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| − | *Aiko's comments on perfect crimes are referenced to in [[Umineko no Naku Koro ni (series)|''Umineko no Naku Koro ni'']]. |
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| − | {{Quote|The beginning, of course, is especially important. If there is no beginning, then the story never starts. ...Nothing happened, so there wouldn't even be an incident. Detectives wouldn't be called, so there wouldn't be any mystery. There would be no mystery, so there would be no solution. ...In other words, it would be the ultimate perfect crime.|Aiko talking to Keiichi about perfect crimes in ''[[Tatarigoroshi]]''}} |
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| − | {{Quote|...It's just like the words of the main character's mother in a novel I read recently, called ''Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni''. |
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| − | Every story needs to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Eliminating that 'beginning' is essential for the perfect crime.|[[Battler Ushiromiya]]'s inner monologue in ''[[Legend of the Golden Witch]]''}} |
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| − | ==References== |
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Latest revision as of 02:08, 15 August 2022
Inexact title. See:
- Ichirou Maebara, Keiichi's father
- Aiko Maebara, Keiichi's mother