Maebara Keiichi

Maebara Keiichi is a character from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, and a wrestler in The Final Rumble.



Magician of Words
Maebara Keiichi is a young man who moved to Hinamizawa after living a dull life and came to know the wonder of true friendship. He came to know and cherish his friends Ryuuguu Rena, Sonozaki Mion & Shion, Furude Rika, Houjou Satoko & sometimes a goat.

More than that, Keiichi realized his true potential as the "Magician of Words", as his words were strong enough to tear fate itself like a paper and give hope to the witch of a hundred years.

But moving on to how he came to known the wonder of true friendship, he became one of the Soul Brothers along with Tomitake Jirou, Ooishi Kuraudo & Irie Kyousuke.

Season 5
After having to move back from the countryside due to a flood, he realizes he has been watching a bunch of those late night wrestling TV shows and decides he should give it a try himself.

Episode 9

To his surprise, he finds Ooishi there too, which of encourages him to try his best.

Debuts against Mitake Miyao and suffers defeat.

Episode 11

Keiichi spooks an hospitalized Ooishi before learning he thinks he's not cut for wrestling. Keiichi, enraged, tells Ooishi that he's not the Cloud he knows if he says such things as that, and he better stop disgracing their motto. Ooishi learns he must try again and no matter what, never give up.

Episode 12

Learning of the current situation and the followers of BANS from Ooishi, Keiichi is decided they will stop their way, or at least slow them down.

They can't defeat them, but nevertheless that didn't stop him.

Season 6
After learning of the death game and Tomy's death, Keiichi laments himself for being powerless to stop the tragedy, but decides he will do anything in his power to defy fate shall it one day a tragedy befall again.

Episode 1

Tries for Order of the Locker Room Master, but doesn't make it even close. Maybe he's not fit to lead a club after all...

Episode 2
Fought a match after a disagreement during their chess game with Wesker where he ran circles around him.

Proves himself superior both mentally and physically, naturally as he's a club member.

Episode 4

The Soul Brothers and J.O.B Squad play Fortnite together, with Zoomer winning. Keiichi exclaims once he learns the game, he won't be stopped, when Okabe berates him for shouting.

Presumably escaped thanks to Delta during BANS Army's assault.

Episode 5

12 years in the future, Maebara Keiichi has fancied himself as a detective to succeed Ooishi, who acts as his mentor and teaches ballroom dancing as well between helping The Final Resistance.

Fights a fellow ichi-named person too.

Episode 6

Stays behind as Ooishi goes on the raid.

Episode 7
Finds Okabe being hopeless and demands a match from him. Okabe rejects the offer saying that there's no reason to keep fighting, but Keiichi reminds him that even if they couldn't stop the tragedies, there still remains people dear to them, they must struggle and struggle, and eventually overcome fate! For the sake of all the good times they had in the locker room, they must keep on living for those that can't and defy destiny.

Along the way to the ring, Narihisago Akihito asks if The Janitor was captured from the raid, but after saying no, he leaves.

Okabe wins the match and regains his will to live.

Episode 10

During the Resistance Christmas Party, he commentates with Okabe on how everyone's regaining their heart, and their happy ending must be at grasp.

However... the demon's script was far from over. As the Troubleshooters turned on them and their allies started falling, Keiichi and Ooishi were locked away. When the doors opened, he came across the body of Okabe Rintarou and wondered... why did things ended up this way?

Episode 11

Eventually after escaping from the Resistance HQ, Keiichi and Ooishi laid low for a while, until they received a notice to regroup...

Episode 12

Now joining together with everyone at a nearby Angel Mort, they have a rumble to decide on the next leader of the Resistance. Keiichi, again, fails at being close to a leader.

Episode 13

The resistance travels to Coolsville where the forces of all factions are gathering for a final showdown.

Episode 14

They arrive at the Coolsville Arena. When Keiichi sees The Split, the fire in his heart rises over the ones who caused Okabe's to stop beating, and together with Ooishi, they don't hold anything back on them.

Episode 15

As Keiichi and Ooishi wait for their next booking, Vorgin, now reformed, attacks them claiming to be stronger (and have a bigger dick) than ever, and takes them 2-on-1. Same Vorgin as always.

Episode 17

Keiichi and the rest of the The Coomer Gang are the ones to tackle BANS as they support Date, stating that even if they couldn't prevent the death game, their friends will live on in their hearts. They are defeated, but in the nick of time Agent 49 manages to sing a song that dispel's BANS' grasp and sends him back to hell.

At the end of Suou Tatsuya's struggle, they reunite at the heart of the Cosmic Egg and Keiichi stated that the key to everything must be their hearts united as one. Keiichi accepts the coming of the universe carrying the will of their friends who didn't make it.

Season 0
A teen with too much aim for his own good. He lived in Hinamizawa but moved to Coolsville when they decided to make a damn out of the place.

Decided to participate in wrestling after a club's batsu game.

Episode 12

Participates in Beat The Clock challenge, being the loser of the 6th fastest match.

Episode Extra

The Dark Web Rumble
Since TFR closed, joined a promotion suggested by a nurses' friend.

Episode 2

Met with a cop named Ooishi Kuraudo who gently offered him a cool AC'd ride home after the match.

Episode 3.5

Teamed up with Ooishi for his birthday and fought the rest of The Club as batsu game!

Episode 4

Joined a match full of weirdly popular guys.

Episode 5
The full Soul Brothers assemble for the first time, and take on The Club at full power!

Episode 6

Fights some weird dudes who go on about some Zero.

Season 7
A young man who decided to change from his dull life and become a wrestler. He's acquainted with a few girls who also live in the city, a girl who steals kyute things, the daughters of one of the more prominent families in Coolsville, a trapmaster and a shrine maiden who recently moved.

He's also friend with a bunch of guys whose convictions are so strong, they declared themselves brothers of soul.

Episode 1

Steals a package from The Methé as challenged by Okabe Rintarou, but then challenges him to fight in the ring... as they are now gonna have to defend themselves from the package's owners!

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K, along with Cloud, Irie, and Tommy, force a challenge upon Okabe to recruit him as the 5th Soul Brother To be a Soul Brother is to share a single heart!

To understand the power of moe!

And to truly appreciate each other as a person! As such, he must become Tommy, become Cloud, K, Iri. Okabe understand his challenge, and accomplishes it!

Beatrice putting on her socks! Power in her underwear! Kyrie's huge melons! And Satoko's belly and chest! Impressively destroying such a mere challenge, the Four Dark Heavenly Kings are now five, introducing Okarin!

Episode 3

Date Kaname has a meeting with the Soul Brothers in search of a way to become even a bit closer to as good as Okabe in taking pictures like that. However, Ooishi receives news from Akasaka on Date's side of the investigation, and Date has no option but to take him to a hostess club as repayment...

Just then The Okonogis begin to give a meeting regarding the recent murders, when the Gas Chamber begins giving a "backstage concert". Preoccupied with the contents of the meeting, Okabe asks the soul brothers to unite against the band!

Episode 4

Due to Keiichi's great display, Dumbledore is impressed and decides to stay outside the ring to end the match in a draw.

After the meeting, the soul brothers disassemble and with both alone, Okabe seems like he wants to tell Keiichi something, before a security guard interrupts saying that the champ Rakesh has gone missing and asks for help on the search.

Episode 5

As everyone gives up on the search, Okabe wonders if they should help Kaidou Shun, but Keiichi says there's a reason they shouldn't other than Mion being his friend, he has a feeling they didn't really do it.

As Okabe is about to tell something to Keiichi, Tomitake runs in saying Date got in a match for peeping on the girls' locker room.

BCW.pngEpisode 6
Okabe finally reveals the truth to Keiichi:

This worldline was created from a drawn out struggle in the post-apocalyptic 2032, where Okabe himself had died, but was able to keep his memories due to "Reading Steiner".

Keiichi trust Okabe immediately as a Soul Brother, and the two guess that they must all have memories of their past life that they need to awaken. They decide to inform the rest of the Soul Brothers, and to eventually find a way to awaken the lost memories of everyone to stop the world from heading to the same fate.

However, it also seems like Ooishi has gone mad and attacked Date...

Episode 7

Keiichi dreams a strange dream, images of a ruined world flash before him. He is woken up by Okabe, not understanding what his dream was really about.

Date defeated the maddened Ooishi, who returned to normal, who takes Date's SSR mags as payment.

Episode 8

As Okabe and Keiichi discuss Date getting attacked by Ooishi again for cheating in Mahjong, a mysterious person appears and asks them to listen, for he will reveal the truth. The truth about everything.

Episode 9
After the capture of Furio Tigre by Akasaka Mamoru and The Bogdanoffs by Ooishi and Date, The Okonogis thank Keiichi and Okabe for their vital part on helping with their capture.

Okabe can hardly believe there was an entire organization with their same goal as preventing the future he saw, but it is not over yet, as one of the heads of the organization, Sminem, is still missing.

Keiichi thinks that not everyone can grasp just how serious the situation really is, and tries to put it into words:

TFR... BCW... they were just being put against their own friends!

Being scripted by demons behind the scenes... Booking... forcing storylines... creating their twisted story... but they miscalculated. Miscalculated that the ending had already been seen!

Fate is as fragile as wet paper! So, demons... That's all for tonight! The tragedy was overcome! Because the path to the happy ending is unyield!

Everything's gonna change before it heads into that sinful world! Because when the fate they had read is evaded... The demon's script will be torn to pieces!!!

Off-Season 8
Episode 32

With a clash between Jacopo's team, The J.O.B Squad, and The Soul Brothers, a decisive victory is achieved by Okarin going maddo scientist after Keiichi's elimination.