In comic relief end pages of the manga, his cluelessness to Mion's interests is one subject for humor. Shion makes Mion's interests clear, much to Keiichi's surprise. It is heavily implied in the arcs in all media that both Rena and Mion have crushes on him. In the manga, Mion and Shion's mother, Sonozaki Akane, happily announces that she approves of him and invites him to marry either of her daughters over their embarrassed protests, Keiichi seems shocked. Thus, he appears embarrassed by Shion clutching his arm. In the Sound Novels, Keiichi will make frequent suggestive jokes, but he does not pursue the issue. In the anime and manga, he appears quite innocent and never pursues a relationship with Rena, Mion, or Shion. These games seem to always involve him wearing embarrassing costumes such as a dress with a short skirt, a cat-maid costume, and swimming trunks with a ridiculously suggestive swan goose neck and head.įor his part, Keiichi frequently teases the girls suggestively however, Higurashi is not a 'harem' story where the main male character struggles with a number of girls vying for his affections. In the manga, he declares Mion's punishment games to be 'sexual harassment,'. Since he suffers from Hinamizawa Syndrome in that arc, he imagines the ohagi contains needles. Satoko spends hours designing and setting up traps just to humiliate him while Mion gives him tabasco sauce filled ohagi in Onikakushi-hen.

Mion and Satoko seem to be especially fond of teasing him. Even Hanyū has a moment of triumph in a game against him. Keiichi often ends up being the butt of the jokes in the club's activities, he's usually forced to take the 'penalty,' and the girls like to pick on him. When in need of a weapon, he is often seen with Hōjō Satoshi's baseball bat however, on one occasion in Tatarigoroshi-hen he wields a nata in an attempt to kill Satoko's uncle 'for the second time.' Contrary to Rena and Mion's comments in Onikakushi-hen about how Keiichi is not athletic at all, he actually is quite skilled in baseball and had frequently gone to a batting practice center with his father before he moved to Hinamizawa. However, in subsequent arcs, he gains inner strength and faith in his friends, enough to change the fate of Hinamizawa, as he is able to remember the events of previous worlds through similar events, which helps Rika to defeat fate. Likewise, he also kills Hōjō Satoko's uncle, Hōjō Teppei and contemplates killing Takano Miyo in Tatarigoroshi-hen. In Onikakushi-hen, paranoia drives him to believe that his friends are trying to kill him, which leads to his murder of Sonozaki Mion and Ryūgū Rena.

As a result, many of his friends believe that they must be quite rich however, their house was only built large so that it would also contain his father's art gallery and allow for visitors. He and his family live in a large house, dubbed the 'Maebara Mansion' by many of the villagers, built on property bought from the Sonozaki family. Keiichi is the son of a famous artist, Maebara Ichirō, and his wife, Maebara Aiko, who recently moved to Hinamizawa after an array of unfortunate and awful events in his hometown. It is confirmed in the visual novels that his birthday is in April, making him the same age as Mion for a couple of months each year. While his exact age is never explicitly stated, he is implied to be 14/15 in most media (or around 17 in the live-action adaptations) since he is a grade below Mion, who is facing her final year at their school before entering high school. He is a very sociable, charismatic boy with a lively attitude, and his talented tongue allows him to fit in the town quickly and make new friends. Other than Akasaka Mamoru in Himatsubushi-hen, he is the only male protagonist. He acts as the villain in Tsukiotoshi-hen. He serves as the protagonist of four Question Arcs: Onikakushi-hen Watanagashi-hen Tatarigoroshi-hen and Taraimawashi-hen. Maebara Keiichi (前原圭一) is one of the protagonists in the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni series. COOL ni nare! ~Keep on Our Love~ and Overload

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