This page details Satoko Houjou's other appearances and involvement in Higurashi-related media outside the original story.
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Higurashi When They Cry Kai (anime)[]
In Reunion, many years after the events of Tsumihoroboshi, Rena remembers a time when Keiichi fell into Satoko's trap while entering the class room. The other four members of the club, including Satoko, are said to have died during the Great Hinamizawa Disaster.
Yakusamashi[]
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei[]
Saikoroshi[]
After Takano's defeat, the club has fun at a pool in Okinomiya and head home. Satoko warns Rika not to act so reckless when biking on the road and Rika winds up getting hit by a truck.
Rika wakes up in the school infirmary and is bewildered to see Satoshi standing by her side. Chie calls out to Satoko in the hallway and asks her to apologize to Rika, with Satoko sulkily saying that Rika is making a big deal out of getting hurt by her. Satoko half-heartedly apologizes, which confounds Rika since she's never treated her like this in previous worlds.
Rika continues to ponder the strange new world she's ended up in. Many people keep apologizing to Rika on behalf of Satoko, including Satoshi and Rena, whose name is now Reina. Rika realizes that she and Satoko were never friends in this world. Rika later learns that the dam project went through in this world, and Satoko and Satoshi have a good relationship with their mother and stepfather.
Rika seeks a way to return to her original world and finds some ancient Furude family documents, reading them at school. Satoko suddenly snatches them away and mocks the grimy state of it before throwing it to other kids. Rika tries to get her documents back and gets fed up with the way Satoko's been acting, deciding that she is not really Satoko. Rika punches Satoko and then hits her with a chair a few times. Rika then threatens her and says that if Satoko ever goes near her again, she will hurt her even more. Satoko starts crying, and Satoshi takes her to the infirmary as Rika gets reprimanded by the principal. Rika heads to the infirmary after, and the two girls reluctantly apologize to each other after Chie's encouragement.
Reina wants to start a games club and convinces Mion, Satoshi and Rika to join. Satoshi says that Satoko also wants to join and wants to try making friends with Rika. Rika considers staying in this new world despite the village sinking in half a year. She realizes that this world is meant to be a sinless one, where Satoko never killed her parents and never went through abuse, however Rika doesn't want to invalidate the happiness that everyone achieved in her original world.
Rika finally wakes up in her original world and is met with a crying Satoko, who's happy she survived the truck incident.
Hirukowashi[]
Rena falls under the influence of the Magatama of Fuwarazu, and Satoko and the club try to get the the magatamas back before she can cause chaos. Rena goes to meet Tomitake at the Furude Shrine, and Satoko uses several modified rockets as traps to knock him out.
Batsukoishi[]
Keiichi gets help from the Soul Brothers in regaining his drive to win club games. Tomitake creates a perverted fantasy where Rika and Satoko wear Angel Mort outfits and clean a window with their butts. Keiichi is rejuvenated and defeats the club the next day, with Satoko facing a punishment game by wearing a collar.
In the All-Cast Review session, Satoko and the club get revenge on Keiichi by putting him in fantasies of their own. Satoko gets shocked from seeing the fantasy of Keiichi and Satoshi and is knocked out by Rika with chloroform.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou[]
Outbreak[]
Hinamizawa is placed under quarantine due to a supposed virus outbreak. The club hears that villagers are calling the quarantine Oyashiro-sama's curse and are blaming Satoko for it and want to sacrifice her. Not only that, Rika has seemingly disappeared, leaving Satoko alone in the shack.
Villagers begin killing each other and the club plans to escape the village, but they learn that Satoko has been kidnapped by other villagers who plan to sink her in the swamp to appease Oyashiro-sama. The club successfully saves Satoko after killing some villagers and escape to Okinomiya with her.
Kamikashimashi[]
The club encounters more crazed villagers in Okinomiya and are saved by a girl named Une. Several villagers surround their hideout, and Satoko uses a remote-controlled car to divert their attention while everyone else escapes.
Une is discovered to be important to quelling the virus outbreak, with the club escorting her to the Sonozaki family's stronghold. Takano, empowered by Tamura, tries to get her hands on Une and captures her only to find Satoko wearing her clothes; the real Une swapped outfits with her. The group manages to defeat Takano.
When Rika resets the timeline after the end of the world, the club stops Une from carrying out her plan and induct her and Tamura into the club, making them do punishment games alongside Hanyuu.
07th Theater[]
During the competition in 07th Theater 2, the Higanbana team challenges Higurashi's world by sending Nafumi Shintani to play with the club.
Higurashi Gou and Sotsu[]
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Satokowashi
Satoko and the club in 1984
After the events of Matsuribayashi, Rika and Satoko continue to live their lives in Hinamizawa. In 1984, Rika and Satoko become middle schoolers and induct some new members into the club. At the clinic, Irie tells Satoko that her Hinamizawa Syndrome has been cured (with Rika hinting that Hanyuu had to do with it). At the Watanagashi Festival that year, Satoko is present for the Three Families declaring that the dam war is over and the curse is no more.
Rika and Satoko on a trip to an Okinomiya bookstore where Rika reveals her dream of attending St. Lucia Academy, and she wants Satoko to join her. Satoko doesn't like studying, but she accepts and feels like Rika will grow tired of it eventually.
Rika and Satoko study fervently, and when 1987 rolls around, both of them have successfully gained entry into St. Lucia. Rika gets used to life in this fancy high school while Satoko begins to struggle with her grades, still believing that Rika will grow tired of it. When Satoko falls under threat of being moved to the Special Class, the rift between her and Rika starts to grow wider.
Satoko sets up a trap in the main building, hoping that it will remind Rika of her childhood, but she winds up hurting one of her friends. Satoko is found out and locked in a jail cell in the school to think about her misdeeds. Satoko cries and regrets that she ever agreed to follow Rika's dream, wishing to go back and restart everything.
Satoko is freed after a few days and receives a letter from Mion, who wants the former games club members to reunite. Satoko and Rika leave school and return to Hinamizawa for a bit, playing games with Mion, Keiichi, and Rena like old times. After the festivities, the group plans to go to Angel Mort for dinner to meet Shion but Satoko says she'd rather walk around the village alone for a while.
Satoko visits the Sea of Fragments and encounters a horned woman
Satoko strolls around Hinamizawa until nightfall and sees how much everything's changed: the school is going to be demolished, the Houjou residence is still empty, and her and Rika's old shack has collapsed. Satoko then goes to the ritual storehouse, remembering that she climbed into it as a child a long time ago, and hears a sound emanating from it. She enters the ritual storehouse and sees an object fall out of the Oyashiro-sama statue. What Satoko touches it, she suddenly enters the Sea of Fragments with a mysterious woman standing before her.
The teenage Satoko returns to her child self in 1983
The woman seems to recognize Satoko from another world and offers to bestow her with the power of time-looping. Satoko will be able to keep her memories when she dies, and though there will be a cost, the woman will accept payment from entertainment. Satoko doesn't understand but is soon sent back to 1983. She repeats the Matsuribayashi world and in 1984 hears from Rika about her dream. Satoko changes her answer from last time and says she isn't interested in studying for entrance exams.
After seeing Rika's displeased reaction, Satoko reluctantly decides to study with her, but it's not a final answer. She decides to try and make her study as little as possible by getting Rika to join an exhaustive club game, though Rika still tries to study late that night. Satoko and Rika talk it out where Satoko shows her concerns that even if she gets into St. Lucia, she's going to struggle with her studies and fall behind. Rika promises to help Satoko if that happens, and they hug.
The two girls enroll into St. Lucia however Satoko still falls behind and blames Rika for breaking her promise. She tells Rika about this the next morning, however Rika claims that Satoko refused her help first. Satoko hugs her and says that she won't let Rika deceive her again, activating a trap that drops the chandelier above them and kills them both.
Satoko prepares to throw herself into the road in one loop
Satoko loops into new Matsuribayashi worlds and keeps trying to convince the Rikas in them not to go St. Lucia. Every time, Rika refuses to falter in her dream to go to St. Lucia, and Satoko kills herself afterwards to enter new loops. The horned woman watches Satoko as she does this, drawing much entertainment from her.
Satoko is taken aback by the Fragment where Keiichi kills Mion and Rena
Satoko doesn't understand why Rika wants to go to St. Lucia so badly, and the horned woman tells her about Rika's own experiences being stuck in Hinamizawa and traveling through Fragments. The woman summons the Fragments comprising Rika's journey and allows Satoko to view them. She does so, spending a hundred years to watch Rika's journey. In one Fragment, Satoko enters the basement of the Irie Clinic and bids farewell to her comatose brother. Satoko finishes viewing the Fragments and determines she must break Rika's will and make her want to stay in Hinamizawa. The woman is pleased and arranges it so that Satoko will travel to the same Fragment her Rika goes to, so long as Rika dies first. Satoko professes that her great love for Rika will cerainly make her lose.
Satoko travels to a Fragment where the club is playing games in Okinomiya and uses her powers to cheat at Concentration, repeatedly looping until she obtains a perfect victory. Later, Satoko asks the horned woman for a name. The woman allows Satoko to pick a name for her, and Satoko grunts audibly while thinking of one. The woman laughs and decides that her name will be "Eua". Satoko points out that some people like Keiichi, Rena, and Shion are able to remember some things from previous Fragments, and Eua tells her that non-looping humans with a close relationship to loopers will accumulate memories from previous loops. These memories grow stronger the more a looper loops, and they cannot be reverted.
Satoko's loops inadvertently cause Teppei to remember things from previous Fragments. In another loop, Satoko is horrified to run into Teppei while walking home from the store and puts on a fake smile. Teppei however helps Satoko by picking up her dropped bags and gives her some donuts he won at a parlor, asking if he can come over another time with more prizes. Teppei leaves and Satoko goes home, pondering this strange interaction.
The next day, some delinquents harass Satoko in Okinomiya and Teppei arrives to stop them. Teppei is taken to the police station and released by Ooishi since Satoko vouched for his innocence. Satoko meets Teppei outside and walks with him, where Teppei talks about the "dreams" he's been having and asks Satoko if she'd like to start over. Teppei promises to be a better uncle to her and offers his hand, but Satoko remembers a bad memory of Teppei hitting her and cowers in fear. Teppei takes that as a "no" and leaves, wishing her well and hoping that he and Satoko can talk some other time.
It's shown that Takano has also started to remember things from previous Fragments. Satoko and Rika go to the Irie Clinic later for the former's regular checkup. Satoko takes an ink blot test with Takano, and they talk about how Takano is planning to quit her clinic job. Satoko compares Takano's situation to ingredients for soup stock and says that they can be reused in different ways.
At the Watanagashi Festival, Satoko secretly watches Takano and Tomitake talking about how the "final operation" has been cancelled. As a result of Satoko's influence, she's created a world where Takano doesn't carry out the Great Hinamizawa Disaster, and the rules of Rika's tragedy no longer exist. Satoko doesn't want to forgive Rika for wanting to abandon the village as Oyashiro-sama's priestess, and Eua says that Satoko will take on the god's name and carry out her own curse.
In another loop, Satoko sneaks into the Irie Clinic and steals a syringe of H173, looping repeatedly to brute-force the code to its briefcase. With this, the preparations for Rika's trap are complete. Satoko states that only the world she chooses with Rika will be the only world she accepts.
Onidamashi/Oniakashi
Satoko sets up a trap for Keiichi in the classroom, but he manages to disarm it. The club later plays a game where they do a scavenger hunt across the school for a marker. Satoko claims victory and Rika rewards her with a gift box, which turns out to be a trap. Satoko is punched across the room, with a red K.O. stamped on her face. When Rena goes to rest in the infirmary after the scavenger hunt, Satoko injects her with H173 as she sleeps, stating her intent to create a Hinamizawa where everyone can be happy and says to blame Rika for this. She later watches from atop a cliff as Rena kills Rina at the junkyard.
At school, Satoko sees that Rena's Hinamizawa Syndrome is progressing since she complains of scratching her neck. Rena starts to act weirdly around Keiichi since she believes he knows about Rina's murder and is planning to kill him. Keiichi voices his concerns to Rika, but she tells him to trust in whatever Rena says, thinking this world is just like Onikakushi. This ultimately results in Keiichi and Rena trying to kill each other when the latter gets into his house, with Keiichi brought to the hospital.
When Rika learns of this, she suddenly leaves school, goes home, and commits suicide with a knife. Satoko follows, confirms she's dead, and then kills herself with the same knife.
Watadamashi/Wataakashi
Satoko returns to the Sea of Fragments after her suicide, where she and Eua watch another Fragment of Rika and Hanyuu speaking. Satoko sees that Rika is still acting strong and resolves to try harder now that she controls the curse.
A teenage Satoko practices sharpshooting piles of rocks
In the next world, Satoko goes to Teppei's house, who is still reformed, and helps him get money from betting on horse races. They clean the house afterwards, and Teppei gets drunk as a celebration. Satoko learns that he has an address book that his mean friends are listed in. Satoko takes some money and goes to Flower Road to meet one of these friends Kawauchi, who sells Satoko a gun. A flashback to a previous loop is shown where Satoko goes to Mion for help in learning how to shoot guns. Mion gives her a model gun, and as years pass Satoko practices and improves her aim with firearms.
Satoko plays with the club in a competition at the Okinomiya toy store and manages to get a flawless victory in Concentration, going out with Mion to buy some celebratory drinks. While Mion is distracted at a vending machine getting the drinks, Satoko injects her with H173.
Satoko takes part in a curry competition and later watches Mion disguised as Shion visit Keiichi's house. During the Watanagashi Festival, while waiting for Rika's dance to begin, Mion complains that Keiichi and Shion are nowhere to be found. Satoko says they must be having a fun time together somewhere else. Mion starts to scratch her neck.
Mion's insanity grows and she kills Shion that night, believing that she's responsible for causing Keiichi to become a victim of the curse. Mion soon kills Oryou and and then Kiichirou after inviting him over, wanting to protect Keiichi at all costs and stop the masterminds behind the curse. At school, Mion grabs Rika when no one is looking and chokes her to death, then dumps her body in a septic tank. The students soon notice Rika's missing and search all over the school but to no avail, and the police are soon called.
Satoko shows some worry that Rika still hasn't been found after all this time and decides she needs to ask the source herself. She gets an empty soy sauce bottle from home and goes to the Sonozaki estate, taking advantage of a flyer advertising free soy sauce from the Sonozakis. Mion sees her on the cameras and gets suspicious, concealing a gun in her robe. Mion welcomes Satoko inside and asks why she's worried about soy sauce when Rika is missing. Satoko claims she was hiding and came home afterwards, but Mion believes Satoko has an ulterior motive and was sent by someone else.
Mion pulls out her gun and attempts to shoot Satoko, but the girl pulls out her own gun and shoots Mion in the side. She then shoots Mion's hand when she tries to reach for her gun and asks again where Rika is. Mion madly confesses that she killed Rika herself and threw her in the septic tank at school. Satisfied by her detailed response, Satoko shoots Mion in the head and kills her. Assured of Rika's death, Satoko shoots herself in the head and falls over dead.
Tataridamashi/Tatariakashi
In the Sea of Fragments, Eua warns Satoko that if she dies before Rika, then Satoko will be sent to a Fragment where Rika doesn't exist. Satoko is surprised but promises not to disappoint.
In the new world, Satoko comforts a saddened Rika, who complains of nightmares. Satoko says these nightmares may be a sign from Oyashiro-sama, punishing her for wanting to leave Hinamizawa. Satoko tells Rika to think of all the things that make Hinamizawa great and hugs her when she cries, grinning with glowing red eyes during it. Satoko's eyes frequently glow red as she carries out her plans.
Keiichi attempts to make dinner and almost burns his house down, prompting Satoko to jump in and save the day. Hearing that Satoko used to have an older brother who disappeared, Keiichi swears to protect her and act as her knew big brother. During a barbecue celebrating the Hinamizawa Fighter's win in a baseball match, Shion starts acting nice to Satoko as her Nee-nee.
Satoko spends time playing with Teppei and his friends.
After the barbecue to celebrate their baseball game victory, Satoko tells Rika she's going shopping for dinner but actually goes to Teppei's house to play mahjong with his friends. After the game, Teppei's friends comment on how much he's changed, and Teppei swears that he'd give his life for Satoko. Alone, Satoko asks Teppei if he really would die for her and asks a favor. They go to the Houjou residence in Hinamizawa and are seen by a villager, who Teppei scares off. Satoko tells Teppei that she's being bullied by everyone in Hinamizawa because of her parents' involvement in the dam war and cries. Teppei embraces her and apologizes for not knowing about it beforehand. Satoko asks if they can live in the village for a while.
Satoko goes back to Rika's shack that night and puts on a sad face, telling Rika that she's getting her things and living with Teppei from now on. The club becomes convinced that Satoko really is living with her abusive uncle now, with Rika thinking this is just like previous worlds. While walking home from school, Satoko rolls around in dirt and tricks Teppei into thinking she was beat up. Teppei angrily rushes outside to find whoever did this to her but Satoko stops him, telling him that she really wants to live a happy life with him and doesn't want anything to damage that. Meanwhile, the club starts rallying the village to protest the child consultation center.
The next day, Satoko tells Teppei that even Chie is bullying her, and he chases away the teacher when she visits. Later they get a call from CWS, and Satoko explains to them that no abuse is happening while convincing Teppei that the village is lying to the center. The next day at school, Satoko tells the club that nothing is wrong and fakes a mental breakdown, but during the process her eyes change from normal to red suddenly. Eua watches this and says Satoko has now become a witch.
Satoko heads home from school and stops Teppei from almost burning the house down when he tries to cook dinner. Satoko reminds him they can't let CWS find reasons to separate them. Later, Teppei brings Ooishi home to get his help with Satoko's situation, and she explains things to him. Satoko is surprised that Teppei believed her lies and is going this far to help her. She puts Ooishi and Teppei to sleep using sleeping pills in their tea, then injects Ooishi with H173. As Ooishi begins developing symptoms, he spreads rumors across the village that Teppei is doing bad things, believing the Sonozakis will target him for the next year of the curse.
Ooishi secretly dumps trash in front of the Houjou residence, which leads Teppei to believe the villagers are increasing their hostility. Satoko tries to calm him down and Teppei hugs her, apologizing that his bad temper has caused them so much harm. Cracks begin to form in Satoko's psyche as she hugs Teppei back and continues to be happy while cooking dinner for him.
Ooishi brings Harayama to the Houjou residence after much encouragement from Keiichi's protest, and the social worker confirms no actual abuse is happening. Ooishi gains responsibilty of the situation from Harayama and tells Teppei and Satoko they should stay inside all day during the festival, in case they get targeted for the next year of the curse.
Satoko puts Teppei to sleep using an overdose of sleeping pills. She calls Rika and lies to her about Teppei being arrested by police, having said the same to Keiichi. The night of the festival, Teppei suddenly wakes up while Satoko is preparing for Rika to come over and pick her up. Satoko confirms that Teppei really did enjoy living with her and prepares to kill him with her gun, however Satoko's human side suddenly takes control and narrowly avoids shooting Teppei. Satoko wrestles with herself and tells Teppei to run as she tries to avoid killing him.
Satoko's human and witch sides clash in the Sea of Fragments. The human side doesn't want to kill anyone anymore, expressing that she really loves Rika but went wrong somewhere along the way. The witch side thinks the other is simply hanging on to past memories and insists she is the true Satoko Houjou. The human side tries to run but Eua stops her, finding great enjoyment in seeing what they've created. Satoko realizes that Eua knew about this all along, and the witch side seemingly kills the human.
The witch side gains control of Satoko's body and kills Teppei by shooting him in the head. She then beats his corpse with Satoshi's bat, spraying blood everywhere. Satoko takes a shower to wash off all the blood and puts on a new outfit, just in time for Rika to bring her to the festival.
Satoko pulls Keiichi away in private during Rika's dance and asks him to come to her house so she can give him somehing that belonged to Satoshi. At the Houjou residence, Keiichi is asked to wait inside the room where Teppei was killed and sees his bloodied corpse when he turns on the light. Satoko knocks out Keiichi with the bat and then fakes crying, luring Ooishi over who was watching the house. Satoko lies that Keiichi forced her to leave the festival and killed Teppei on orders from Rika. Ooishi is convinced that he's solved Oyashiro-sama's curse and leaves with the bat.
Satoko goes back to the festival, where Ooishi has killed several people including Rika. Satoko acts smug and Ooishi declares that she's the real mastermind, but Satoko shoots him in the head and kills him. Rena is horrified from watching the sight. Satoko ensures Rika is dead by shooting her in the head, and then shoots herself.
Nekodamashi and Kagurashi
Satoko and Eua watch Rika and Hanyuu's conversation in the Sea of Fragments, where Satoko learns Rika can remember her deaths now and learns about the Onigari-no-ryuuou, a sword that can kill loopers. In the next world, Satoko heads to the ritual storehouse and finds the sword lodged inside the Oyashiro-sama statue. While pulling it out she accidentally breaks off a small piece of the sword and trips, cutting herself on the cheek. Satoko hides the sword somehow. When Akasaka arrives, Satoko convinces him that Rika is infected by parasites before injecting him. The deranged Akasaka soon takes Rika hostage and blows up the shack with gasoline, which Satoko and the club watch from behind a police barricade.
In the next few worlds, Satoko continues to manipulate people against Rika. After a deranged Akane kills Rika, Satoko manages to dodge her katana swings and shoots Akane in the head before killing herself. Satoko also watches Kiichirou drown Rika in the swamp, pulling out a stopwatch and timing her to guarantee she drowned. The next loop has Satoko injecting Keiichi and sending him on a rampage in Angel Mort while playing dead. After Keiichi kills Rika and gets tackled by riot police, Satoko gets up and taunts Rika before killing herself again.
In Rika's next loop, Satoko is the deranged one, having injected Rika with painkillers and tearing out her guts as part of a watanagashi ritual. Satoko claims that Oyashiro-sama has made her his new shrine maiden since Rika wanted to leave the village. Satoko alludes to having sacrificed the other club members as she pulls out Rika's intestines with her bare hands. Rika says she wants to apologize, and Satoko hugs her.
When Rika wakes up, she finds herself in a new loop where nothing bad happens. She tells Satoko about her dreams, with Satoko saying that she shouldn't fear them anymore.
Rika throws a surprise birthday party for Satoko at the school. When Rika pulls out a wrapped present resembling a certain box, Satoko reflexively ducks down. Seeing nothing happening, Satoko laughs and says she can recognize a trap from anywhere, but Rika soon reveals that this box, the trap box used after the scavenger hunt in previous worlds, is just a regular present. Rika had also gained memories of Satoko killing her in Tataridamashi/Tatariakashi's world somehow.
When Rika questions why she thought it was a trap, Satoko laments that she's been found out like this and shoots Rika before killing herself. Throughout the next few loops, Satoko attacks and kills Rika several times while ranting to her about how Rika caused this tragedy because she dreamed of going to St. Lucia. Rika retorts that she's tried to help Satoko study and just wanted to try new things. Rika and Satoko's battle spans several loops and locations, eventually reaching a world where Rika and Satoko battle on the school roof with Satoko wielding Satoshi's bat.
Satoko is given a superpowered form by the Onigari-no-ryuuou
Rika and Satoko reinforce that both of them only ever wanted to be with each other, however Satoko wanted them to stay in Hinamizawa. In the next loop, taking place inside the ritual storehouse, Rika takes the Onigari-no-ryuuou fragment and slices Satoko with it. Satoko sees she was careless, and when a powered-up Rika tries to attack her again, the setting changes to the junkyard where Satoko attacks Rika with the Onigari-no-ryuuou itself. Satoko herself gains a powered-up form resembling Eua's outfit and battles Rika again in an epic superpowered battle, destroying much of the enviroment.
Rika blocks Satoko's sword swing with her fragment and ends up reforming the artifact, creating an energy blast that sends both flying. The girls rush to take control of the completed sword and stumble over each other throughout many more fragments. Finally, on a rainy bridge, the girls fight over the sword again with Satoko suggesting they die together. Rika says they should just remake the universe then, and Satoko smiles at her. Rika ultimately gains the Onigari-no-ryuuou and stands above Satoko preparing to finish her off. Satoko accepts her immiment erasure and says Rika will make some better friends at St. Lucia.
Rika discards the sword and starts beating up Satoko, saying that she's cared about Satoko for a long time and could never get tid of her. Satoko fights back, still unwilling to go with Rika to St. Lucia, and the two of them end up lying in a river, back to their teenage selves. The rest of the club recovers them. While driving, the club takes note of how cold Satoko and Rika seem to be acting to each other. The group espouses that maybe Satoko and Rika need to spend some time apart even though they are friends, and Satoko and Rika slowly grab hands.
It becomes apparent that Satoko and Rika have ended up in a new world very similar to the Matsuribayashi one. Rika prepares to head off to St. Lucia by herself while Satoko stays behind. Satoko sees Rika off at the train station, saying she will eventually chase after her. They swear to reunite when something else cries.
Satoko goes back to Hinamizawa and is met by Shion and Teppei, who are excited to have a good dinner. Satoko scoffs at them and says she will hand Satoko back over to herself and go chase after Rika; Satoko's witch self seems to disappear and the human Satoko comes back in control, who gives a hearty laugh at Shion and Teppei's plans.
Higurashi Gou (manga) and Meguri[]
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Satokowashi
Satoko and Rika on their first day in St. Lucia.
After the events of Matsuribayashi, Satoko and the rest of the club continue living happy lives in Hinamizawa. Rika becomes inspired to enroll in St. Lucia Academy so she can apply everything she's learned from her friends. She asks Satoko to join her in St. Lucia, but Satoko initially rejects it since they're still elementary schoolers. Seeing how seriously Rika is taking her studying, Satoko decides to join her. Shion learns about this and gets mad since she doesn't want Satoko going to St. Lucia, but Satoko convinces her that she'll do her best.
Years pass, and Satoko and Rika successfully gain entry into St. Lucia in 1987.(Satokowashi-hen Manga Chapter 1) Rika makes some new friends and Satoko joins in their discussions, however Satoko doesn't endear herself to them when she talks about traps. Satoko starts getting bad test grades, and one day is called away by a teacher right when Rika asks her to go on a walk with her. Rika promises to wait for Satoko until they finish.
The teacher places Satoko into remedial classes. When Satoko enters the remedial classroom, one girl tells her that the school values reputation above all else and that Satoko will get placed into special remedial classes and lose all her free time if she doesn't shape up. Once Satoko finishes her lessons for the day, she goes back to the classroom where Rika was, however one of Rika's friends lies to her that Rika already went back to her dorm. Satoko leaves, and Rika enters the classroom later to find nobody there.
Satoko gets frustrated with remedial classes.
Satoko tells Rika that she'll be in supplementary classes and Rika and her friends offer help, but Satoko says it's not necessary. Over time, Satoko continues to study and gets frustrated, confronting Rika one day and saying that her friends are deceiving her. Rika defends her friends and says this is no longer the Hinamizawa school, which prompts Satoko to say that Rika's real dream was to live like a princess. She storms off when Rika gets sad and asks why she's like this. Rika's friends start to badmouth Satoko afterwards, but Rika stops them and says that Satoo really is her best friend.
Satoko accidentally knocks out Rika with a trap and runs away.
In 1988, Satoko winds up getting placed into special remedial classes. She tells Rika about this one day and says nothing else. Satoko's frustration grows even more, and she starts longing to spend more time with Rika. She then thinks that by setting a trap for Rika, she can make her remember the good old days. Satoko sets up a washbasin trap in St. Lucia's main building that Rika activates when she picks up a card. Although Rika seems pleased when she picks up the card, she soon gets knocked out when a washbasin falls on her, drawing blood. Satoko starts panicking and runs off, and one of Rika's friends sees her go.(Satokowashi-hen Manga Chapter 2)
Rika regains consciousness in the infirmary where a teacher demands to know who did this to her, but Rika covers for Satoko and says she doesn't know. Rika's friend tells the teacher in private however, and she later goes to Satoko's dorm and finds trap materials. As punishment, Satoko is sent to a prison cell and made to do stacks of workbooks. Satoko thinks Rika ratted her out and starts crying. Meanwhile, a week later Rika asks the teacher where Satoko went and asks to see her. The teacher says that normal students aren't allowed to visit those in remedial lessons and to have faith in her.
Satoko spends a long time working on her books, at one point imagining Rika coming in and helping her. She begins wishing that she didn't try to help Rika remember old times and regrets not listening to Shion's warnings. After apparent months, Satoko finishes her work and leaves. Satoko returns to her dorm to find a letter from Mion, who wants the club to reunite in Hinamizawa. Satoko and Rika wait at the school gate for Mion to pick them up. Rika tries calling out to her, but Satoko ignores her.
Satoko is overwhelmed by the memories of Rika's journey.
Mion arrives and brings Rika and Satoko to Hinamizawa, where they reunite with the adult Keiichi and Rena. Suddenly, Satoko is brought to the Sea of Fragments by Eua.(Satokowashi Chapter 3) Eua knows that Satoko wants to know why Rika wanted to leave Hinamizawa so much and forces her to gain all the memories of Rika's journey through the Fragments. Satoko doesn't understand, and Eua explains the nature of Fragments being created by different choices, and promises that Satoko can keep looping and making different choices until she's satisfied. Satoko decides to follow Eua, not seeing any other choice.
Eua sends Satoko back to June 1983. At the Furude Shrine lookout, Satoko confirms if all of her memories are true by asking Rika about Hanyuu, to which Rika is excited that she remembers. Convinced she really did experience 100 years, Satoko asks Irie about Satoshi's real condition during her next clinic visit. Irie takes her to see Satoshi in the basement and apologizes for hiding this from her, but Satoko understands his reasons.
Years pass, and Satoko spends her time happily in this new world, making regular visits to Satoshi with Shion. When Rika goes to St. Lucia alone, Satoko sees her off at the train station. Satoko and Irie stop at the clinic on their way back, where a doctor informs Irie that Satoshi's condition has worsened. As Satoko waits in fear, a receptionist gets a call and tells her that Rika died in a car crash.
Eua becomes amused and sends Satoko to a new loop. Satoko remembers what she said about choices and takes a different approach, this time going with Rika to St. Lucia. While there, Satoko tries to keep Rika away from her new friends, which results in Rika getting angry and seemnigly cutting ties with her. Satoko continues to get bad grades and withdraws from school.
Back in Hinamizawa, Satoko sees that Satoshi is gone from the basement, being told that his condition worsened and Irie had him moved to a research institute. Satoko goes to rest in her and Rika's old shack, which collapses and kills her because of snow buildup.
Satoko is broken after countless failed loops.
In the next loop, Satoko convinces Rika to stay in Hinamizawa so they can wait for Satoshi to wake up together. Years pass and they go to a different high school, but Satoko sees how listless Rika is. One day she allows Rika to go off on a trip by herself, however her plane crashes soon after.
Satoko loops countless more times, but they all end in tragedy: the Irie Clinic burns down; dying with Rika when the shack coollapses; accidentally killing Rika after an argument. After all of this, Satoko has gotten fed up and accepts that if she wants to live in 1983, then a tragedy must occur. Eua affirms this, and Satoko decides she doesn't need to practice how to be happy for Satoshi anymore and lets go of him. Satoko takes a Fragment showing the club being happy and crushes it, professing that the world she chooses will go on forever.(Satokowashi-hen Manga Chapter 4)
Satoko is excited at the prospect of Rika ultimately killing her.
Satoko and Eua talk about how they will do loops going forward. Eua sees that Satoko plans to create her own tragedies but informs her that since Hanyuu disappeared, the pathogen causing Hinamizawa Syndrome has changed, so rumors and agitation won't make people go insane anymore. Satoko knows that H173 can still be used to induce symptoms. Eua makes it so that Rika will lose her memories leading up to her death, and Satoko adds another stipulation: if Satoko dies before Rika, then the game ends. Eua is surprised that she would impose restrictions on herself, but Satoko espouses how she wants it to come down to Rika making the choice of killing her best friend and live with those memories forever. Satoko says she will lose the ability to loop if Rika kills her first, and Eua then tells her about the Onigari-no-ryuuou being a sword that can kill loopers. Even though Rika is the only one who knows where it might be, Satoko is convinced she still has the upper hand.
At this point, Satoko sees that she still doesn't know the horned woman's name. The woman asks her to think of one, and when Satoko grunts audibly, Eua decides to use that as her new name.
Satoko chokes Rika to death in secret to begin the loop.
Satoko is sent back to her teenage body in 1988, right as the club reunion is about to start. After a round of club games, the club plays hide and seek. Satoko takes Rika to hide in the school house, where they both express how happy they are to be with the other. Satoko hugs Rika and chokes her to death while crying, wishing to do all sorts of fun things with their friends. After seeing that Rika is dead, Satoko breaks a window and uses a glass shard to slit her throat, giggling during it.(Satokowashi-hen Manga Chapter 5)
Onidamashi/Oniakashi
In 1983, Satoko is introduced setting a trap for Keiichi in the classroom. The club has a scavenger hunt to find a marker, and Satoko claims victory. Rika gives her a present that is actually a boxing glove trap that stamps a K.O. on Satoko's face. (Onidamashi-hen Manga Chapter 1)
Satoko snatches an H173 syringe out of Takano's hands and throws a firecracker in her face
Rena and Satoko go to the infirmary together, where Satoko seems aware of Rena’s problems with Rina. The night before the festival, Satoko sets a trap at the Irie Clinic while going for a checkup. Satoko happily attends the Watanagashi Festival with the club. Afterwards, she sneaks into the clinic, right when Takano and the Mountain Dogs are preparing to inject Tomitake, and activates her trap. The lights in the clinic suddenly turn off, and Satoko throws firecrackers everywhere to disorient everyone. Tomitake escapes and Satoko snatches the H173 syringe right out of Takano’s hands. Takano is confused as to the entire ordeal, and is soon arrested by the Bloodhounds.
Satoko waits for Rena as she’s walking home from the festival, and springs a trap that causes her to trip and get tied up with rope. Satoko sneakily puts a bag on Rena’s head and injects her, then cuts the ropes binding her and runs away. Rena heads home and starts developing symptoms, soon killing Rina and disposing of her.(Oniakashi-hen Manga Chapter 1) At school, Satoko relishes in the fact she’s created her “ideal” June 1983, where she has fun with her friends and where tragedies occur.
The deranged Rena soon attacks Keiichi in his house. Rika sees the aftermath and worries her actions haven’t done anything, but continues to press on. At home, Satoko suddenly tells Rika that she stole H173 from Takano and injected Rena. Rika is confused, and Satoko suddenly stabs her in the throat with a knife. After killing her, Satoko kills herself as well, ecstatic that she’s succeeded in rewriting fate. Meanwhile Keiichi survives and learns about Satoko and Rika’s death afterwards. In the Sea of Fragments, Eua chides Satoko for making some risky moves, and Satoko assures her that she’s already got a proper plan.
Watadamashi/Wataakashi
Satoko spends countless loops practicing. She kills Rika at home as soon as they loop, kills Takano at the clinic with a noose trap and steals her keycard to access an armory, and then brute-forces the code to the briefcase containing H173 syringes. Satoko also practices her marksmanship skills, and by the end can now easily obtain guns, sleeping pills, and H173.
Satoko is shocked to see the twins with similar appearances
Satoko and Rika loop into a new world and participate with the club at a games tournament in Okinomiya. In this world, Mion falls in love with Keiichi and gets advice from Shion on how to handle it. The day before the festival, Satoko heads to Shion’s apartment with the intent on injecting her (with Rika noting this is the first time in any world Satoko has ever gone to hang out with Shion) and is surprised to see Mion and Shion wearing similar outfits and hairstyles. Regardless, Satoko knocks them both out with sleeping pills and injects one of them with H173, wanting to see which twin will become a “demon”.(Wataakashi-hen Manga Chapter 2)
The day of the Watanagashi Festival, Satoko obtains the Onigari-no-ryuuou and throws it into Onigafuchi Swamp, then goes off to enjoy the festival with the club. Meanwhile, Shion is revealed to be the one injected with H173, and at the Sonozaki estate that night she kills Mion by hitting her head on a table corner. Shion has an identity crisis and believes she really is Mion, and starts acting accordingly.(Wataakashi-hen Manga Chapter 2)
“Mion”'s insanity causes her to kill Oryou and Kiichirou in secret, and she kills Rika during school by choking her to death and disposes of her body in a school septic tank. Satoko goes home to find that Rika’s not home yet and begins to grow concerned. Unsure if Rika’s dead or not and not wanting to die carelessly, Satoko calls Mion’s house to tell her about Rika’s disappearance. Satoko then calls Keiichi to tell him the same thing and then prepares a gun and giant soy sauce bottle, intending to search the Sonozaki underground ritual storehouse while her friends are preoccupied with Rika.
Satoko checks the underground well but isn’t able to tell if Rika’s body was thrown into the tunnel. Satoko intends to start a search of every inch of Hinamizawa for Rika, just to be absolutely sure. She then hears Shion and Keiichi in the saferoom. Shion notices Satoko on the cameras and goes to confront her with a revolver in a corridor, not believing Satoko’s excuse of coming for soy sauce. Shion asks if she’s also been cursed by Oyashiro-sama when Satoko suddenly shoots her in the side. Satoko demands to know where Rika is, and Shion starts to think she’s not really Satoko.
Satoko and Shion face off
Shion fights with Satoko and manages to pin her to the ground. Before Shion can shoot, she remembers Satoshi telling her to take care of Satoko a year ago and begins crying, and asks to have Satoko return to her. Satoko realizes she injected Shion and sadly says that she gave up on Satoshi coming home, and thinks she’ll be much happier this way. Satoko breaks free and grabs her gun, but the angry Shion shoots her in the head, killing her. Shion then cries and recalls many more memories with Satoko, finally clawing her throat out and killing herself.
Satoko reawakens in the Sea of Fragments, having lucked out in dying after Rika. Eua shows her a Fragment of Rika’s corpse in the septic tank. Satoko reflects on her plans in this loop and comments that Shion’s development of terminal symptoms was different than in previous worlds. Eua informs her that the more Satoko loops, the more she accumulates small changes that cannot be undone.(Wataakashi-hen Manga Chapter 3)
Tataridamashi/Tatariakashi
Teppei reforms and apologizes
In this new world, Satoko intends to create a tragedy by being abused by Teppei and inciting the club to rescue her. After going to Keiichi’s house and helping make dinner, starting a sibling relationship with him, Satoko runs into Teppei on the way home and goes with him to the Houjou residence. There, Teppei profusely apologizes for abusing her and wants to make it up any way he can. Unbeknownst to Satoko, her looping was causing Teppei to remember previous Fragments, which causes him to want to reform after having "nightmares" where he died. Satoko asks Teppei to stay at the Houjou residence with her and changes her plan, intending to make herself the tragic heroine. At some point, Satoko also experiments with injecting Hinamizawa residents with minute dosages of H173.
Satoko goes to school the next day and convinces the club she’s really being abused by Teppei. When she goes home alone, Satoko fakes some bruises and convinces Teppei that everyone in school and the village is bullying her because of her parents leading the pro-dam faction years ago. She hints that Teppei needs a reliable detective in order to save her, leading him to talk to Ooishi for help. Keiichi and the club come to the Houjou residence later to check up on Satoko and are chased away by Teppei. That night, Satoko calls Shion and asks her to come to school tomorrow, needing her to become the trigger that convinces Keiichi to start protesting the child consultation center.
At school the next day, Satoko fakes a panic attack. She psyches herself up by remembering all of the abuse Teppei did to her in previous worlds and successfully convinces Shion and the club, finding solace in how everyone watches out for her. When she goes home she finds Teppei talking to Ooishi and begging for his help in protecting Satoko. Satoko vouches for Teppei’s innocence and claims that the child consultation center was part of a ploy to harass the Houjous. Ooishi agrees to help, and Satoko asks him to stay for drinks. Ooishi obliges, and while he and Teppei are sleeping after drinking later, Satoko injects Ooishi with a full dosage of H173. She wakes him up and lies that she believes Rika is going to sacrifice her and Teppei as the victims for this year’s curse of Oyashiro-sama since Rika and the villagers still resent the Houjous for the dam war. Ooishi believes her and promises to do what he can.
When the child consultation center is convinced to call the Houjou residence, Satoko takes the phone from Teppei and yells for help, prompting Ooishi and Harayama to visit. Meanwhile, Satoko lies to Teppei that she was calling Ooishi for help, and directs her uncle to clean the bathroom while she buys groceries. Teppei is happy to oblige, and is killed when Satoko shoots him in the head. When Ooishi and Harayama finally arrive, Satoko lies to them that Teppei was abusing her the entire time and pretended to act nice, and ran off after the consultation center called.
Satoko mutilates Teppei's body and leaves it in the bathtub, and switches out her bloody casual clothes for a new outfit. Ooishi has become convinced that Teppei disappeared because he's a victim of the curse, and rushes to the Houjou residence when Satoko suddenly calls him to help. Satoko leaves with Keiichi to enjoy the Watanagashi Festival as Ooishi enters the Houjou residence to find Teppei's corpse with his entrails torn out, Satoko's bloody clothes on the floor, and a bat. Fully convinced that Rika is the mastermind behind the curse, Ooishi reaches L5 symptoms and heads to the Watanagashi Festival bat in hand, and wreaks havoc when he kills Shion and Mion. Satoko tries to stop Keiichi from helping Rika, but he breaks away and fights Ooishi, disappointing Satoko a little. Meanwhile, villagers that Satoko injected earlier begin reaching L5 symptoms and attack and kill each other. Satoko retrieves her gun from under the stage stairs and kills Ooishi, shoots Rika in the head for goof measure, and kills herself in front of Rena. The horrified Rena relays all of this to Keiichi in the hospital later.
Nekodamashi/Nekoakashi
Satoko explains her experiment
Back in the Sea of Fragments, Satoko explains her experiments with dosages of H173, and how native residents of Hinamizawa only need a little bit of it to reach L5 symptoms, while people like Ooishi will require full dosages. Satoko orchestrated events in the previous world so that the stress of Ooishi suddenly attacking Rika during the festival will cause infected villagers to all go L5 at once. Entertained, Eua then educates Satoko about how her loops will cause people close to her to remember previous Fragments and possibly change their disposition.
Satoko continues causing tragedies in subsequent worlds. She causes Rika to die because of infected club members, Akane, Akasaka, Oryou, Kiichirou, Keiichi's mother, and even the entire school class. Satoko even seemingly injects herself in one world and performs the watanagashi on Rika with a knife. Satoko tearfully does this while asking why Rika wants to leave Hinamizawa so much and abandon her friends, and says that Oyashiro-sama will forgive her sin. Rika accepts it and promises to stay in Hinamizawa with everyone.
Satoko kills the club after accidentally being revealed as a looper
In the next world, Rika tearfully confides in Satoko about her "nightmares", and Satoko consoles her and says they're just dreams. They spend days playing games with the club happily, just as Satoko wanted. Rika and the club then throw a surprise birthday party for Satoko later, with Satoko shocked that she forgot about her own birthday after looping for hundreds of years. Rika gives Satoko a teddy-bear present wrapped in a box, which Satoko mistakes for a boxing-glove trap from a prior world and ducks instinctively. Satoko quickly gets back up and says she can recognize traps from anywhere, but Rika reveals her present and asks how she knew it used to be a trap.
Satoko draws her gun and kills Rika, and then kills the rest of the club members. When Rika returns to the Sea of Fragments, she's able to remember Satoko killing her, and Hanyuu reveals that she gave Rika this power for one-time only. Hanyuu also informs her of the Onigari-no-ryuuou being a sword that can kill loopers.
Rika heads to the next world where Satoko happily asks her to get ready for school, unaware of Rika's newfound knowledge.
Akarigurashi
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