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Name: Satoshi
Surname: Houjou
Age: 17
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Purple
Relatives: Unlce (Teppei), Satoko (younger sister)
Best Friend: Mion
Seiyuu: Yuu Kobayashi
He Loves: Satoko, Playing baseball
He Hates: who hurts Satoko
Quote: "mmmmmh..."

 

Satoshi is a character that in the first part of the story appears only through the eyes and the story of the others, because he's considered disappeared before the night of the Watanagashi, and no one knows where he could be (or if he's alive).

He's color-blind. We can see this aspect o him when he's buying broccoli at the supermarket, because he can't distinguish their colors than the ones of the cauliflower. In the development of the story we'll realize that Satoshi isn't disappeared or dead, he's alive but in a coma.

MEAKASHI-HEN



Satoshi appears in order to defend from a gang, a girl that he thinks could be Mion.
He succesfully save her but he doesn't realize that she's not the Mion that he knows, she's her twin sister: Shion.

Satoshi doesn't take care of that situation, and when Shion starts to go to school only because of him, because she falls in love with him, Satoshi understands that she's not Mion.
He decides to doesn't say nothing to Mion and to Shion too, waiting for a clarification from one of the girls.

In that arc of time he spends a lot of time together with Shion, that understands how deep and big is Satoshi's heart and how she desires her happiness.
Day by day, Satoshi and her become more than friends, but he can't understand his feelings because of his pain.
Satoshi's parents were supporters of the consturction of a dam that should had to destruct Hinamizawa, so one of the most important family of Hinamizawa, the Sonozaki's, was cause of their "apparent" accidentally death (the real culprit is Satoko).

Satoshi is smart and strong but he always stays alone, trying to become a falling star for Satoko and doesn't feel her sad because of their parents' death.
In a first period all the things were ok and Satoko and Satoshi were adopted by their uncle and their aunt, but those people didn't like him and Satoko, so when the uncle started to bullish her, Satoshi started to become crazy.
Hinamizawa's syndrome hit him and all his world has changed.

I loved playing Baseball, but after Satoko's sadness and the troubles with the uncle and the aunt, he stoppet to play it.

Satoshi's personality became nervous and always depressive. He quited all his hobbies and even her feeling for Satoko changed bit a bit, because he understood that his sister was becoming a burden to him and his fragile mind.

He tried to explain the situation to Mion and after her to Rena, but the only answer he got was that the real culprit was Oyashiro-sama. Yes, the Hinamizawa's syndrome.
Knowing Shion he started to feel better, but he decides to kill the aunt just the night of Watanagashi, and because of it, he asks to Shion to keep Satoko with her that night.
Shion did it but she knew that Satoshi's plane was something different than the strange explaination that he gave to her. The profe is the fact that tomorrow Ooishi started to investigate about the death of the aunt and Satoshi was the first under investigation.
Thanks to her and the alibi that Shion constructet lying for him, Satoshi remains free.

But some day after their last moment together, when Satoshi show her the plushie that he wanted to buy for Satoko, he disappears.
He totally disappears and since that day no one knows nothing more about him and his situation.

The realty is that Irie-sensei abducted him in his clinic in ordeer to study better the Hinamizawa's syndrome and to save him from death.
Shion finds the truth only at the end of Kai,

OTHER ARCS: KAI & REI


Kai is the explaination of Satoshi's real condition and he real meaning of the situation for him.
Satoko, Shion, the fear for the Hinamizawa's syndrome, all.

In Rei we can see the simple and quiet life of Satoshi and all the other character.
Keiichi doesn't exist, so he's at the school with Rena (that obviously is Reina), Satoko, Mion and Rika.
His presonality is the same, he's alwyas serious and mature.
We can be sure of it because when Rika kicks Satoko, Satoshi won't become crazy for her, he's quiet and sweet with Rika.

MANGA


Meakashi-hen is his and Shion's manga and it was realized some years ago, in 2007.
It's very deep and complete, looking at it we can know a lot of things about Satoshi and understand better what's in the anime series is censured.
It's really romantic and touching, every arc is realized with nice drawing and intense dialogues.
Unluckily, the end is the proper of the arc, Shion's death...
Anyway it's very great and who loves Shion and Satoshi have to read it! If you're interested, please, have a look.

GAMES & DRAMA CDs



A character song for Satoshi and a dedication from Satoko, that in his and her song sings "GO GO nii-nii!!" and "daisuki nii-nii".
Obviously, it's another kind of drama that explains better Shion's feelings and days and it's Yours, a collection of melodies and Shion's version of "Dear by You", called Conffesion.
The cover shows us Satoshi that is awaken and Shion that cries tears of happiness and surprise. Also, the Version for PS2 of Higurashi contains the final images about them together and Satoko with her bear plushie, so there we can see the happy ending that we all are waiting for Shion. :)

 
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