Rika Furude

Rika Furude, also known as R, is the main protagonist from the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni series.
== Charactah Account ==
A younger classmate in Keiichi's school, who is in the same grade level as Satoko. Naturally, she is great friends with her, as they live together in the same house. She is the Miko of the Shrine of Oyashiro-sama, and some of the villagers revere her as a prophet. She has been the head of the Furude family since her parents died, but rarely attends town meetings due to her young age. Rika is the only one who can see Hanyuu, whom everyone else thinks is an imaginary friend.
Rika often seems wise beyond her years. In Himatsubushi-hen, Rika accurately predicts the deaths of several people including herself, to the bewilderment of Mamoru Akasaka. Outside of these moments, Rika has an overtly "cute" and childish personality, often saying nonsense words and making cat sounds. She typically refers to herself with the pronoun "boku" to enhance her "cute" mannerisms.
When alone or with Hanyuu, Rika's cute personality disappears and she adopts a much more cynical nature. She stops using the pronoun "boku" in favor of "watashi" and, in the anime, her voice drops to resemble an adult woman. She also frequently uses mature language. Seeing as this is the way Rika speaks in internal monologues, it can be assumed that this is Rika's true personality. 
== 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 Kaku: Outbreak
* 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
=== Light Novels ===
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gaiden: Nekogoroshi-hen
=== Manga ===
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou: Comic Anthology
* 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 Meguri
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei: Hoshiwatashi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei: Oniokoshi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei: Saikoroshi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Himatsubushi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Hirukowashi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Kataribanashi-hen Comic Anthology EX
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Kokoroiyashi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Onikakushi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tatarigoroshi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Watanagashi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Yoigoshi-hen
* Hinamizawa Teiryuujo: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Genten
* Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode X: Rokkenjima of Higurashi Crying
=== Video Games ===
* Higurashi Daybreak
* 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 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: Onikakushi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tatarigoroshi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Tsumihoroboshi-hen
* Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Watanagashi-hen
* Higurashi When They Cry Hou
* SINoALICE
== Trivia ==
* Rika's habit of ending her sentences with "nano desu" is changed to "sir" in Yen Press' official manga translation. The same applies to Hanyū.
* Prior to the new anime series, out of all the characters, Rika has died the most number of times. When They Cry Wiki is not going to try to calculate if another character – Arg! Spoilers There be! Arg! – surpasses her.
* Rika has not survived in any arc prior to Matsuribayashi-hen and Miotsukushi-hen.
* While it is never shown in the series, Rika confirms in Minagoroshi-hen that even she has succumbed to Hinamizawa Syndrome and gone mad in some worlds, though she was then overpowered and killed. This leaves it unclear whether she has ever actually committed murder (not counting her suicide in Meakashi-hen). Even though she had supposedly killed her mother in Saikoroshi-hen in order to escape that world, as even Rika herself believed that she had, it turned out to all be a dream created by Hanyū.
* Rika is fond of wine and kimchi, often purposely getting drunk and eating spicy food to either bother or block out Hanyuu through their mysterious connection to experience each other's senses. In the manga version of Matsuribayashi-hen she suggests she will make eating spicy foods the "punishment game" should Hanyuu lose.
* As it was shown in the Saikoroshi-hen manga, the name of Rika's favorite wine is "Bernkasteler B..." (the rest of the name cannot be seen). The full name of the wine is probably "Bernkasteler Badstube," a riesling wine produced in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany. Ironically, the label of the wine says "Riesling Spätlese" (late harvest riesling in German). Riesling wines are always white, but the wine that Rika drinks is red.
* Besides their appearances, Rika holds several similarities with Bernkastel from Umineko no Naku Koro ni
** Bernkastel's weapon is a scythe. In Higurashi Daybreak Kai, Rika wields a similar scythe.
** The two are voiced by Yukari Tamura. As such, Rika's True Personality voice is the same as that of Bernkastel.
** Rika and Bernkastel share a love for wine and spicy food.
** It has been stated in an interview with the author that she is the personality of the 100-year-old witch Rika separated herself from in Saikoroshi-hen and is the crystallization of only the cruelest parts left over from the 100-year-old witch.
* Rika makes a cameo appearance in the Umineko Pachinko game during the Twilight of the Golden Witch portion of the game. This is done by getting a Featherine combo which will turn Bernkastel into Rika during the scenes.
* Rika's school uniform for the original Visual Novels and their manga and anime adaptions is the suspender skirt uniform. When she reaches middle-school age, then high-school age, in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gō, she wears the "sailor" fuku uniform then a St. Lucia uniform, respectively.
* In Hinamizawa Teiryuujo, "Hinamizawa Bus Stop", a manga based on Ryukishi07's original scripts for Higurashi no Naku Koro ni written a few years before the release of Onikakushi-hen, she is older than Mion, and they both wear a school uniform similar to Rena's.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Furude Rika at Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Wiki
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