Shōko Hida

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**Shōko Hida** (飛騨 しょうこ *Hida Shōko*) is a side character in *Happy Sugar Life*. She is Satō Matsuzaka's coworker who considers her to be a good friend since they spent time together hanging out with guys as they both searched for their one true love.

## Appearance

Shouko has dark purple hair that has bangs are parted in the middle and swept outwards with the length of her hair reaches slightly past her shoulders at most as the longer part of her hair is sectioned to her left, purple colored eyes and a beauty mark underneath her left eye.

She is often seen wearing her school uniform outside of work, which consists of a thigh-length purple dress with a pink necktie. Depending on the season, her uniform's white sleeves can vary in length.

## Personality

Shouko is a generally easygoing and laid-back person who has been born into a rich family, she acts like a good student, but in reality, she spends most of her time hanging out with guys and she would prefer a happy and normal family rather than a rich one.

Shouko also cares a lot for people, for example, she regularly gives Asahi Kōbe food as he tirelessly searches for His younger sister Shio Kōbe and also does her best to try to support Satō Matsuzaka and defend her from Taiyō Mitsuboshi's claims of kidnapping. While she is the most mentally stable out of all the characters, she is also extremely naive and unprepared to confront the true, corrupted nature of other characters. This causes Shouko to question Satou after meeting her aunt despite their friendship, and her naivety ends up betraying Satou's trust, of which she deeply regretted. Regardless, the depth of Shouko's affection for her friends is genuine, as shown through her wholehearted support for Asahi and Satou working hard for the one they love and her insistence on saving Satou from continuing to do immoral things out of her love for Satou.

## Background

Shouko comes from a rich family and seemingly fulfills the role of a perfectly studious daughter for them. She works at the same cafe as Satō Matsuzaka and spends her free time hanging out with guys in order to escape her family, because while they are wealthy, they are not the happy, orthodox family she wishes for them to be. Because she and Satou sought to find their one true love, they both became friends and spent their time with guys together. After Satou found someone to devote her heart to, Shouko supported her relationship but still pursued guys in search of her own "prince".

When she ran away from Taiyō Mitsuboshi, she met Asahi Kōbe as she was staring at a poster of Shio Kōbe. He asked her if she knew Shio, to which she dismissed. Suddenly, Asahi collapsed in front of her and she brought him to the park, where they talked about how much Shio meant to Asahi. From then on, their nightly meetings in the park began, and Shouko would always find Asahi sleeping underneath a bench in the park. She took pity on him and gave him food to eat, and gradually learned more about Asahi through their conversations. She admired both Asahi and Satou because of their perseverance in working hard for the person they love. When Asahi prepared to leave the city to find Shio, she noticed how distraught and hopeless he felt and confessed to him.

After discovering that Satou had kidnapped Shio and took photo evidence with her phone, Shouko confessed to Satou and poured her heart out to her in an attempt to convince Satou to change her ways. Unfortunately, due to Shouko's previous betrayal of Satou's trust after meeting her aunt, Satou resorts to killing Shouko and stabs her in the throat; she dies not long after, struggling weakly before going limp in Satou's arms.

In preparation for the destroying of evidence that she and Shio were ever in her apartment, Satou redresses Shouko's body after having washed her clothes, leaving her sitting on a chair in a secluded room. She is discovered by Asahi, who becomes utterly devastated before confronting Satou in a fit of rage; in the manga, he does so before Satou's aunt sets the apartment building ablaze, closing her eyes and cleaning her neck as a means of apologetic sorrow, whereas in the anime, he does not do so, the fires already having surrounded her corpse.

## Relationships

### Satō Matsuzaka

Shouko considered Satou to be her best and dearest friend. They two often hanged together despite attending different high schools and picked up cute boys together. However after Satou's interest only becomes providing and spending time with Shio, Shouko, who was unaware of this, assumed that Satou had a boyfriend but the latter would not tell her anything else. Shouko's mission became to be close to Satou and have her trust her and while Satou is hesitant, she eventually gives in and allows Shouko to visit her "home." Unfortunately, any possible trust Satou had for her was shattered when Shouko questioned Satou after the odd meeting of her aunt. Until her death, she regretted her actions and seemed genuine that she would not alert the police after finding out Satou has Shio and taking a picture. However, by this time, the trust of their friendship was broken and Satou had no problem killing her friend if it meant keeping Shio safe.
### Asahi Kōbe

Shouko met Asahi one night in the park, finding him sleeping under a bench and after noticing how thin he was, offers him a snack. They slowly began to become friends as Asahi explains the missing girl is his sister Shio and that he is looking for her. Shouko offers a listening ear to Asahi as he tells her his family history and Shouko brings him snacks. Asahi comforts Shouko after she expresses how she hurt her friend's (Satou's) feelings to which Asahi replies that she is still a good person and that bad-hearted people would not feel bad about such a thing.

After Asahi gets a "lead" on Shio, he prepares to leave town, but Shouko, knowing that the person who gave him the lead was lying and tries to convince him stay and to take care of his own health and happiness first. However, Asahi cries, saying reuniting his family is the only happiness he knows. Shouko applauses his care for his sister and makes him promise that once he has his happiness he smiles with all his heart. Shouko kisses him goodbye and wonders out loud why she is envious of the one Asahi cares so much about, implying she has feelings for him. Shouko thinks that Asahi is not her type at all but it would be okay if he were her prince. This is the last time Asahi sees Shouko alive.
He is deeply upset upon discovering her body, fueling his hatred for Satou for killing such a good person.
### Taiyō Mitsuboshi

Shouko originally, like the other girls at work, thought Taiyou was a very attractive and nice guy. This changes once she comes to visit his house and finds his room covered with Shio Kōbe's missing person flyers and realizes how unstable Taiyou actually is, with his obsession of being "cleansed" by Shio.
## Etymology

* The name **Shōko** means "evidence" (しょうこ) in Hiragana.
* Shouko's surname **Hida** means "to fly" (飛) (**hi**) and "dappled grey horse" (騨) (**da**).

## Trivia

* Shouko is the only character among the main cast to not exhibit signs of mental instability or experience trauma.
* Shouko comes from a rich family.
* Shouko tells her parents that she studies a lot only to hang out with guys.
	+ Though she hangs out with guys a lot, it is not clear if she sleeps with any of them like Satou does as she has criticized Satou's habit of sleeping with men.
* Shouko appeared to have romantic feelings for Asahi Kōbe.

## Gallery

### Anime

Shouko and Asahi KōbeShouko offering Asahi a snackShouko taking picture of Satō Matsuzaka and Shio Kōbe together