Rika Furude

Intro Rika Furude is one of the main characters of Higurashi When They Cry. She is a member of the Hinamizawa after-school games club and a shrine maiden who works at the Furude Shrine. As expected of a girl her age, Rika Furude has a cutesy and childlike personality. She likes to pat people on their head when they're feeling down and often says things like "Nipah" (にぱー！, onomatopoeia for a big grin) and "Mii" (みー, lit. meep). Rika often uses her cuteness to her advantage, manipulating classmates to gain easy wins in club games. She also has a habit of making cat sounds. In Japanese she uses the pronoun "boku" when referring to herself. Rika has a habit of saying "nanodesu", which in the manga is translated by having her say "sir" at the end of many of her sentences. Anecdotes from Rika's mother in Himatsubushi describe a younger Rika as being very distant and bored during recess and school. Rika's apparent disinterest in her mother caused her to hit Rika on the head at times. Rika dedicates a lot of time to practicing the Watanagashi ritual dance, even though it's physically taxing on her. Minagoroshi shows that when by herself or with Hanyuu, Rika completely drops her cutesy and child-like personality and displays a much more cynical, mature, apathetic, serious and occasionally hostile personality, developed as a result of her 100 years of traveling through the Sea of Fragments. The difference between her personalities is exemplified in the Japanese text since Rika uses the pronoun "watashi" in her mature persona, which is generally done by adult women. in The Dino Subjects series, Rika tamed and Velociraptor name Blue from Jurassic World, they call her the Blue Stripe Raptor and became Rika's Rider.