Synopsis
Father Furude, voiced by Yūsei Oda, first appears in "Tatarigoroshi-hen." He is the father of Rika Furude and head of the Furude family, the hereditary keepers of Hinamizawa's shrine traditions. As head of the household he was responsible for the Saiguden, the sanctuary at the heart of the village's rites, and strictly forbade his young daughter from entering it.
In "Himatsubushi-hen," after finding part of Oyashiro-sama's statue broken, he wrongly believed Rika had snuck into the Saiguden and spanked her, though the real culprit was Satoko Houjou. The "Saikoroshi-hen" manga later shows a further-along timeline where Rika, worn down by repeated loops and already resigned to losing her parents, enters the sanctuary again and is caught by her father — a scene hinting at how distant she had grown from both parents despite reliving the same events over and over.
During the village's dispute over the proposed dam, he held to a strict neutrality, refusing to back either side, which drew resentment from some residents: Shion Sonozaki read it as mature restraint, while Mion Sonozaki felt he only deepened Hinamizawa's unrest by not joining the protesters. Hoping to help cure Satoko's family illness, he later consented to Rika serving as a test subject for Kyousuke Irie and Miyo Takano, whose research into Hinamizawa syndrome centered on the "Queen Carrier" trait passed down through the women of the Furude line, including Mother Furude.
When Rika's health worsened and Mother Furude demanded the experiments stop, he instead negotiated a three-month extension with Takano — a compromise that cost him his life: on Takano's orders, the Yamainu poisoned him so his death would pass for natural heart failure.
