Satoko Houjou

Satoko Houjou is one of the main characters from the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni franchise.

Satoko is the younger sister of Hōjō Satoshi and the insinuator of the events that took place in Tatarigoroshi-hen, Tsukiotoshi-hen, and, to an extent, Minagoroshi-hen.

In the AWA fics, Satoko is a student at the AWA Academy and is part of Class 5.

Appearance
Satoko has blonde hair and, depending on the media, she has pinkish magenta eyes. She is a petite girl, though taller than Rika in manga, and has sharp canine teeth. She wears a black headband most of the time.

On school days, Satoko wears a green dress with a yellow tie or bow, a white sailor collar and black stockings with brown shoes. On her free days, she wears a pink, sleeveless collared shirt, denim shorts, a belt and pink sneakers similar to Keiichi's sneakers.

When Satoko transforms into a magical girl she wears a playful yellow dress which is very decorated.The dress has many patterns and a large yellow bow on its back. The outfit is bright, with long socks and a yellow ribbon, yellow wristbands, yellow shoes with light sanding and a big bow at an angle on her head.

Personality
Satoko has a distinctive style of speech, ending all of her sentences with 'wa' which, at times, is grammatically incorrect. In spite of her young age, she is quite clever in setting up traps, and likes to practice on Keiichi.

She dislikes japanese pumpkin, and cannot tell the difference between cauliflower and broccoli, because she is colorblind.

Trivia

 * The kanji of her name means, literally, "sand-capital-child."
 * In Tsukiotoshi-hen, it was revealed by Rika that Satoko always eats Japanese style breakfast, usually rice with miso soup.
 * It is suggested that Satoko has extraordinary strength for someone her age, as shown in Tatarigoroshi-henwhen she shoved Keiichi twice across the room after he harmlessly petted her, and later even pushed him off of a bridge; however, another theory is this could be due to an adrenaline rush, rather than extraordinary strength.
 * In the anime-only arc Yakusamashi-hen, it is shown that Satoko can detect sounds like a cat. She was able to hear a Yamainu member's leg graze a trap she set in the middle of the night.
 * Originally, Satoko and Rika were supposed to appear on the cover of Meakashi-hen's fourth volume, but Yutori Hōjō (the artist of Watanagashi-hen and Meakashi-hen) dropped this idea and changed the cover characters to Shion and Satoshi.
 * Satoko has the highest number of individual sprites in the original sound novels; most other characters have twenty or fewer sprites, while Mion and Rena have around fifty apiece, and Satoko has sixty-four.
 * Her casual sprite in the original Visual Novels show her wearing a satchel behind her hip.