Shion Sonozaki

Shion Sonozaki, also known as Shii-chan and Nee-Nee, is one of the main characters from the Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni series.
== Charactah Account ==
Mion's identical twin sister, who currently resides in Okinomiya. Unlike her twin, she is girly and somewhat cold. In spite of their different personalities, she and Mion often switch places, and it can be difficult to distinguish between them. She was sent by the Sonozaki family to a private boarding school, but escaped and returned to live near her hometown, where she lives with Kasai. She was in love with Satoshi, and blames the Three Families of Hinamizawa for his disappearance. She works as a waitress at the Angel Mort restaurant and is the manager's assistant for the Hinamizawa Fighters little league team.
Despite her being seemingly more girly and refined than Mion, thanks to schooling at St. Lucia, she is incredibly shrewd, cold, manipulative, and delinquent, more so than Mion. She hated St. Lucia, calling it a "factory for manufacturing ladies" and got in trouble with the administration numerous times for various misdemeanors. To escape, she studies all of the school's security systems, guard schedules, and behaviors of the administration staff, to the point where she manipulates them by propagating a rumor of her having a love affair with a male teacher. In Watanagashi-hen, she enjoys angering Mion and making her jealous by taking control of Keiichi whenever she has the chance. In Meakashi-hen, when the motorcyclists attack her, she is capable of mapping out how to ruin their reputations in numerous ways to create the most entertaining and interesting outcome for her own enjoyment. Also in Meakashi-hen, Shion easily manipulates the whole village of Hinamizawa. When Furude Rika, Hōjō Satoko, and Kimiyoshi Kiichirō go missing, Shion exploits the resulting paranoia to her own advantage in order to lure all of her targets to their deaths in perfect fashion and fulfill her own "promise" to Satoshi.
Despite being cold to hating Satoko in some arcs, Shion also has the capability to become fiercely protective of her. In Minagoroshi-hen, when the club members were trying to plan out how to save Satoko from her abusive uncle, Houjou Teppei, she threatens to kill everyone who stands in her way of killing Teppei, even those whom she cared for, and only calms down when Keiichi allows her to bash his head with a chair. In this arc and possibly others, Shion is willing to die for Satoko. Later in Minagoroshi-hen, when she pleads to Takano to kill her but spare Satoko, Takano agrees and kills Shion by shooting her in the head, but later kills Satoko after she answers a question.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai Specials
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sotsu
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Special: Nekogoroshi-hen
=== Manga ===
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Matsuribayashi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Meakashi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Minagoroshi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Tsumihoroboshi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai: Utsutsukowashi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei: Oniokoshi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tatarigoroshi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Watanagashi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Yoigoshi-hen
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode X: Rokkenjima of Higurashi Crying
=== Video Games ===
* Higurashi Daybreak
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jong
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kizuna: Daiichikan Tatari
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kizuna: Dainikan Sou
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kizuna: Daisankan Rasen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kizuna: Daiyonkan Kizuna
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Matsuri
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Mei
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Himatsubushi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Matsuribayashi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Meakashi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Minagoroshi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tatarigoroshi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tsumihoroboshi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Watanagashi-hen
* Last Period
== Trivia ==
* Shion and her sister's age appears fluid given the sources. However, Japanese students enter high school at the age of 15 and university at 18. Since 1983 marks Mion's last year before graduating and entering high school, which is confirmed in Satokawashi-hen, this would make her prior to her birthday in July in the original Visual Novels and their anime and manga adaptations. The live-action adaptations pushed up the ages of the characters. When They Cry Wiki will use the original age of the original Visual Novels.
* Shion is a bit of an anti-hero since she is both a protagonist and an antagonist, though her murders were committed under the influence of the Hinamizawa Syndrome and arguably not out of her own malice.
* Since Shion has a liking towards teasing and playing pranks on others, especially Mion and Keiichi, she is often noted as the internet meme Luv or troll of the Higurashi series. Also, the "Shi" in "Shion" is also spelled the same as "shi", so fans celebrate "Shii's Day" on April 1, which is also April Fool's Day, as a homage to her name and unique personality.
* Similar to Satoko's case, Shion is not described as scratching her throat even when she reaches L5 in most media, though she commits suicide this way in the console-exclusive bad end of Meakashi-hen.
* In Higurashi Daybreak, Shion often says "Ora ora ora!" when attacking. This is a reference to Juutarou Kujou from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, in which he yells whenever he does a quick combo chain.
* Shion has an irrational fear of canned foods. When she was younger, Kasai used to tell her stories about canned foods containing human meat. Mion finds joy in teasing her about this.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Sonozaki Shion at Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Wiki
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