

By the end of ''Matsuribayashi'', he and his men don't even bother paying lip-service to obeying her and just flat-out ignore her orders (which, to be fair, were completely outrageous by that point given how badly the Mountain Dogs had lost the battle). * DragonWithAnAgenda: Holds a deep-seated contempt for ] and considers her an incompetent commander. * CombatPragmatist: As befitting of a special operations unit that doesn't specialize in tactics, the Mountain Dogs tend to use trickery and dirty tactics to win. * BloodKnight: He's eager to put his combat skill into use, and laments that he ended up in a covert unit. * AdaptationalNiceGuy: A mild example of it in one scene in the anime when compareed to the visual novel: ] * AnimalThemeNaming: Despite being called the Jackals, titles within the organization are bird-themed. Headed by Okonogi, they serve as TheMenInBlack for the majority of the arcs. They are actually called the Yamainu ("Jackals" or "Mountain Dogs", depending on the translation), but they look more like janitors than anything else. * ]: ] ] ] !!Tetsurou Okonogi !!!Voiced by: Creator/JurotaKosugi (JP - drama CD, anime), Creator/KenNarita (JP - games) ] ]. The duty of the generals was too heavy for you."'' * TreacherousAdvisor: ] * WalkingSpoiler: As the one who leads ] down the path to being the BigBad, she is this by itself. >''"Takano Miyo, you talked a big game, but you were a foolish girl. * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives this out in Ayakashisenshi-hen after learning of Takano's failure to defeat Rika and Satoko and take over Hinamizawa. And that's probably for the better, because given her actions in ], whatever she was planning to do in the actual ''Higurashi'' canon is perhaps ]. * MysteriousBacker: ]) advisor.]] * NothingIsScarier: Outside of her plans for Hinamizawa and being a ManipulativeBitch, ''nothing'' is known about Nomura. * ManipulativeBitch: She convinces ] by taking advantage of her emotional state, and probably not only her. * KarmaHoudini: ** ] ** Subverted in Miotsukushi-hen ] * KnowWhenToFoldEm: ] * LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Appears only at the end of ''Matsuribayashi'''s ], and she doesn't even have a sprite in the original sound novels. * GreaterScopeVillain:] ** ] * HiddenAgendaVillain: ] * IHaveManyNames: She uses a different alias for each of her contacts, such as "Maizawa", "Watanabe" and "Takagi". Makes you wonder if this isn't the first time she's done this. * BitchInSheepsClothing: ] * DissonantSerenity: Every time she speaks, regardless of what kind of carnage of murder is going to happen or ''is'' happening on the other end of the phone line, it's done with the same eerily calm tone.

Unfortunately, there's far more to her than that. !!Other Characters ] !!Nomura !!!Voiced by: Creator/RieTanaka (JP) ] A woman from the organization 'Tokyo' who serves as Takano's contact outside of Hinamizawa.
