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Atsuki Saijo

Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (JP) Jason Liebrecht (EN)

"To look into the abyss is to know that the abyss looks into you."

The main character of Lux Pain. Family was victim of Silent. When brought back to life by surviving the operation to gain Lux Pain, he swore to have his revenge.

  • Alone with the Psycho: On two major occasions in the game and thankfully, he survives both.
  • Aloof Older Brother: Toward Natsuki and Nami.
  • Artifact of Doom: Apparently, the ring of his finger Gawain is said to kill the person it deems unworthy. It has killed too many people in the past but it chose Atsuki as it's wearer.
  • The Atoner: Atsuki thinks that the only reason he's alive is to get revenge on Silent and that he must atone for living. No matter what people tell him though, he doesn't listen.
  • Aura Vision: It allows him to see the Shinen inside people.
  • Badass: No matter what the situation, he can remain calm. That includes dealing with a serial killer.
    • Badass Bookworm: According to Ryo, he's really knowledgeable about certain topics allowing him to assert certain situations better.
  • Berserk Button: DO NOT CALL HIM A HYPOCRITE! You're going to regret it...
  • Big Eater: You know how many places he stops by to eat in one chapter? He must definitely have a big appetite to eat three times in one episode rapid fire.
  • Bishounen: Described in the game with having beautiful hair and a feminine face.
  • Broken Bird: He's already broken when the series start and has already hid his sorrow under a stoic front allowing him to do his mission without fail. But then comes Kisaragi...
  • But Not Too Foreign: The game implies that he's from Europe but has a Japanese sounding name.
  • But Now I Must Go: In the good ending.
  • Celibate Hero: Because of his personality, he doesn't want to deal with anyone around him. This is very noticeable with his interactions with Natsuki where he is shown to be outright annoyed whenever Natsuki keeps insisting the two will be married and comes up in a lot of his dialogue choices about romance in general.
  • Character Development: At the beginning of the game, Atsuki thinks only his mission is important. However, as the game goes on, people FORT comments on how his moral changes. Everyone around him also stats that he has gotten better at expressing his emotions.
  • Chick Magnet: He's got many of the girls in the game (minus Nola and Aya) swooning for him. Yayoi even asks him in her dating game how many people confessed their love to him. You can admit that there is a Chick Magnet or deny that there are any girls proclaiming their love to him.
  • The Comically Serious: You can only infer that he isn't laughing. However, in archive 1, you got to wonder if he is.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Fits this trope to a T.
  • Dead Little Sister: His main motivation for revenge against Silent.
  • Deadpan Snarker: The journal he has concerning everyone's character profiles has him come off as one.
  • Defrosting Ice King
  • Even the Guys Want Him: If it wasn't that obvious from his interactions with Akira.
  • Eyes of Gold: When he uses Sigma.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple: While he can be paired up with anyone in the game, many people pair him up with Akira if only because they have the most Ship Tease in the game.
  • Get a Hold of Yourself, Girl!: While Sigma is what brings people back to their senses; Atsuki clearly does this to Rui if you choose the right option shortly after Mako's death.
  • He Is Not My Boyfriend/She Is Not My Girlfriend: From his expression dialogue, he obviously denies having anything to due with Natsuki due to her age. However, the game applies that he reacts the same way if asked if he likes someone of the same gender (and the first assumption is Akira who he is seen with the most).
  • The Hero: Even if he is the quiet one everyone will listen to his advice.
  • Hollywood Atheist
  • Ho Yay: With Akira mainly, but he has some with with pretty much every guy.
  • Hypocritical Humor: He constantly mentions that Mika needs to stop eating so much and makes fun of her when she's in the hospital because he makes the assumption that she's only there for the free food. However given how Atsuki eats multiple times in one episode and Akira's comment in his dating game wondering how much Atsuki's belly can hold, you can realize where the hypocrisy comes in.
  • In-Series Nickname: Tardy King given to him by Akira.
  • Interrupted Suicide: Atsuki will always stop the suicide in time. Murder on the other hand is a different story...
  • It's Up to You: It would usually be always until episode 20 where the other FORT members actually do something. In that episode, he's just to make sure his friends aren't dead and save Nami from Graham.
  • Jerkass: Some of his dialogue options are flat out mean especially during the dating archives. The best known one is if you tell Mika that she should stop pursuing her dreams. She literally runs off crying if you do.
    • Ironically, being a jerk to Shinji is the only way for him to realize how much of a kid he is.
  • Jumped At the Call: Not by choice.
  • Kuudere
  • Late for School: As the game goes on, Atsuki is known for being late hence Akira dubs him the "Tardy King".
  • Laughing Mad: When Edward insults him by calling him a Hypocrite, let's just say his response is creepy...
  • Launcher of a Thousand Ships: In universe example as well as fandom. He has been paired up with Rui (by Mika and Honoka), Mika (by Razzly), Yayoi (by Takano), Natsuki, Akira (by Suzu, Inagaki, Nami and Akira's dad), and Hibiki (by Suzu). Fanon, he's paired up with everyone.
  • Magnetic Hero
  • Memetic Sex God: An in-universe example as a joke especially when you have all those archive scenes.
  • The Messiah
  • Mismatched Eyes: When using Sigma, his right eye turns gold.
  • Mistaken for Murderer: In the normal ending route, Akira thought that Atsuki was a serial killer walking down the street and decided to tackle him to the ground. Hilarity ensues as well as something else.
  • New Transfer Student
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the normal ending in which he fails to save Hibiki from his fate. This causes a lot of things to not happen. For example, Mika is never found, Shinji never wakes up from his coma, Nami goes missing according to Yayoi, Ryo is in a Heroic BSOD because of Hibiki's death and Aya and Rei clearly tell you that even though they caught Edward, the true villain cannot be captured because you didn't save Hibiki. And why is that? Because apparently, Hibiki had important info concerning Graham. (Turns out he doesn't but catching Edward when Hibiki is alive gets Graham out of his hiding place.) Also if you decide to Take a Third Option and save Yumiko but fail to save Hibiki, you can still move onto the good ending. However, you realize that because Honoka isn't at the hospital because she's killed and Ryo is at the bookstore because he locked everyone out during the witch hunt, you realize that body count in the hospital is much higher than it is in the good ending in which Hibiki is alive because he was able to stop the Silent infectee from harming the patients. Way to go, Atsuki.
  • Not So Different: From Hibiki but Atsuki seems to refuse to believe that. However given their backstory, it's very easy to see how they're similar.
  • Only Sane Man: When he's with the group.
  • Parental Abandonment
  • Perpetual Frowner: His default expression. When he does smile, it comes off as more of a smirk.
  • Plot Induced Stupidity: This almost causes Mika's death in the game and, depending on your choices, can kill Hibiki.
    • With Mika, she gets a phone call from someone and she rushes off to meet the person. While Atsuki reads her Sigma, do you think he could have dug deeper into her mind to find out who was calling her? This causes her to get captured by Lt. Tanaka and seriously injure Akira.
      • Also, when you know that the serial killer targets Mika, a smart person would know NOT to leave her alone. Not only does Atsuki leave her alone, he LEAVES his designated spot to go stop Silent infectees that weren't really dangerous compared to the one in the serial killer.
    • With Hibiki, he knows that that he is not evil, yet he lets FORT try to eliminate him. As a one-day friend, you think Atsuki would help him out. He doesn't and that results in Liu Yee being critically injured and Hibiki in the hospital.
      • Point: One-day friend hardly counts, even though Atsuki is slowly defrosting; he's still known even the rest of the Kisaragi gang for longer. Not to mention that a large portion of the time he's spent with Hibiki involves Atsuki thinking about how creepy/unnerving Hibiki is and Hibiki make pointed comments that go over Ryo's head but which Atsuki perfectly understands. Not exactly an atmosphere that fosters trust, goodwill, and/or protective feelings.
  • Psychic Block Defense: What he uses to prevent Hibiki from reading his mind and Edward from controlling it.
  • The Quiet One
  • Random Power Ranking: How does FORT do it?
  • Shipper on Deck: Depending on how you respond to Suzu in the last episode, Atsuki might support Ryo/Hibiki (or at the very least, not want to protest enough to disturb the clearly-unbalanced shipper).
  • Ship Tease: With everybody, but mostly Akira, Rui and Yayoi.
  • Shut UP, Hannibal: He does this to Edward before the boss battle.
  • Silver Haired Pretty Boy: Also gray and ash, but it's your choice.
  • Spell My Name With A U: Saijo or Saijou.
  • The Stoic: Characters describe him as being rather emotionless to many situations, so when he shows other expressions like anger or sorrow, the group will notice.
    • Not So Stoic: He has his comical moments of loosening up like when Ryo piled all of those books on him or archive one where you can infer that he was enjoying the party like everyone else was. Then there are those moments...see Laughing Mad.
      • In the normal ending route, Atsuki does not take Akira tackling him to the ground that well that the game implies that he practically demands for Akira to make it up to him.
  • Stoic Woobie: Despite all the crap that has happened to him, he hasn't shown any emotions. It's mainly because he surpassed them, but they haunt him in his sleep.
  • Straight Man: To everyone.
  • Stupid Sexy Flanders: He tends to be this for Akira, mainly.
  • Sweet Tooth: It's hinted to be one because he goes to Sweet Ring so much. Certain dialogue options also implies that he goes there just to get free cake.
  • Technically a Smile: There are only three instances in the game where he "smiles". The first is when he is fighting with Mika over the strawberry shortcake. The second one is forced on him by Akira in archive 1. The third one, which is the most disturbing of them all is Atsuki losing it when Edward calls him a hypocrite. Not only does he smile, but he laughs similar to Light...
  • Teen Genius: One of the smarter students apparently.
  • Telepathy
  • The Un-Smile: Mika comments on this and in archive 1, Akira decides to change that for the group photo.
  • Warrior Therapist: This is how Atsuki is able to change everyone in the game.
  • What Beautiful Eyes!: Everyone EXCEPT Akira comments on Atsuki's eyes.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: You want to start over with your life? Well, you got friends that love you and a potential love interest. Oh wait! You got to leave Kisaragi for your mission! Sucks to be you!

Natsuki Venefskuja

Voiced by: Minori Chihara (JP) Monica Rial (EN)

"Good morning, honey!"

The youngest of FORT, being thirteen years old. Has the power to track Shinen and is madly in love with Atsuki.

Nola Dobereiner

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (JP) Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN)

An expert hacker of FORT and Atsuki's main support in the game.

Liu Yee

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP) Christopher Sabat (EN)

Atsuki's partner in crime. He has different views from Atsuki's methods and won't hesitate to sacrifice one person to save many.

  • All There in the Manual: Apparently, the reason why Liu Yee is so harsh on Atsuki is because his previous partner was killed in a mission and Nola just sent Atsuki to replace him instantly. Apparently, he's still bitter about how FORT is fast with switching partners giving almost no time to grieve.
  • Aloof Big Brother: To Atsuki, though some interpret it as Ho Yay.
  • Arrogant Kung Fu Guy
  • Break the Haughty: After getting ambushed during his battle with Hibiki.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Out of everyone in this game, he would win.
  • Foe Yay: With Hibiki.
  • Jerkass: Goes to extreme lengths to piss off Natsuki and Hibiki.
  • The Lancer
  • Psychic Block Defense
  • Smug Smiler: One of his sprites has him smiling rather arrogantly and he usually gives this smile to Natsuki or Hibiki when he's trolling them.
  • Tall, Dark and Handsome
  • Tall, Dark and Snarky
  • The Only One Allowed to Kill You: He forces Atsuki out of the way to finish off Edward for revenge (and to prevent Atsuki from actually killing someone, which generally is a Sweeper's job).
  • Troll: To Natsuki and Hibiki but goes to the extreme when concerning the latter of the two. Forcing Hibiki to beg so he could help the people in the hospital during the witch hunt and then telling him that he was going to help whether Hibiki begged or not, which pissed him off.

Aya Nagashima

"I need a vacation..."

One of FORT's undercover members. She takes the roll of the police chief midway through the game in order to transport Lt. Tanaka back to FORT.

Kenzo Noguchi

The leader of PICUS. He is very strict and serious with newcomers. He's the guy who tends to push Aya in the right direction and has a huge crush on her.

Ray Platiere

Voiced by: Midorikawa Hikaru (JP) J Michael Tatum (EN)

The practical leader of FORT.

Kisaragi Students

Akira Mido

Voiced by Yuuichi Nakamura (JP) Robert McCollum (EN)

The martial artist of the school. He has a lot of teen angst from his mother's death to almost getting killed by a serial killer that results in himself closing his heart to everyone. Only after Atsuki befriends does he go through extreme Character Development and becomes one of the main characters that supports Atsuki.

  • And I Must Scream: Similar to Sayuri, he's very aware of losing his mind the second time. It gets to the point that he decides to isolate himself from his friends to avoid hurting them. When he confronts Atsuki about it, he almost loses it. Thankfully, Atsuki manages to snap him out of it.
  • Baka: Often called one by his friends.
  • Berserk Button: Do not insult Atsuki or hurt any of his closest friends.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Tries to do this on multiple occasions. More often than not, it fails. However, his most memorable one is saving Mika from the Serial Killer last year.
  • Big Man on Campus: It's hinted that he's one of the most popular guys in the school despite his grades. For one thing, he's always standing up for people who can't protect themselves and whenever he gets into a fight, everyone always looks toward him. Sayuri even calls him out and accuses him of being a Jerk Jock and snaps because Atsuki happens to be there when Sayuri tells him that.
  • Bishounen
  • Book Dumb
  • Calling the Old Man Out: Subverted. Akira is this close to calling him out, but because Atsuki interferes with removing his Silent and calming him down, Akira decides against it and leaves the restaurant, ashamed of himself.
  • Character Development: Went from an insecure thug with daddy problems to an insanely calm man who is willing to move forward in life.
  • Cool Loser: Sees himself as this but Sayuri states he's actually the Big Man on Campus.
  • Curtains Match the Window
  • Delinquent: His father considers him this.
  • Determinator: He was willing to go to extreme lengths to save Mika and when one of his friends is either in danger or insulted, he will stop at nothing to put that person in his or her place.
  • Designated Victim: Of Silent.
  • Distress Ball: A rare male example. He gets himself caught in situations that could very well kill him. If not for Atsuki, he could have died all of those times, and Silent counts making it a total of three times that Atsuki has to save him from getting killed. However, the two other times he gets into this situation is during last year's incident and during the Kisaragi Shooting where Atsuki couldn't get into the school to stop Yamato. Hibiki had to do it.
  • Dumb Is Good
  • Fan-Preferred Couple: With Atsuki. To be fair, there was a lot of Ship Tease with both of them with the normal ending of 19 sealing the deal.
  • Failure Knight: Thinks of himself as this despite protecting Mika from the Serial Killer last year.
  • Guy With No Respect: No one in the group treats him right, except Atsuki.
  • Heroic Bystander
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation: Feels useless if he can't protect his friends even if he did a good job at doing it.
  • Hidden Depths: Seems like your typical shounen hero type of guy until you dig into his psychological problems.
  • Honor Before Reason: For better and worse.
  • Hot-Blooded
  • Ho Yay: With Atsuki.
    • Archive 1 literally takes the cake. When asked if you support homosexuality, saying yes will have Akira taking his anger out on Shinji for agreeing with the girls DESPITE THE FACT that Atsuki said it first.
    • By rejecting the idea of two guys together, Akira will be rather happy as Rui comments on Akira acting weird toward Atsuki.
    • Finally at the end of the game he is hinted to be the only person that didn't forget Atsuki and did not need Rui touching his shoulder to remember his best friend.
  • Idiot Hero: A Deconstruction of this trope. Whenever he tries to do something, the situation almost always gets worse for Atsuki. The main example is Akira going to face the Serial Killer Lt. Tanaka directly and almost getting killed as a result.
  • Instant Waking Skills: Mentioning a pop quiz will get him to wake up in class instantly to complain.
  • Iron Butt Monkey: He gets his ass handed to him by Lt. Tanaka and gets to leave the hospital the next night. He gets shot in the shoulder by Yamato and gets out the day after with MINOR WOUNDS when the screenshot shows that he WAS indeed hit. And Silent infects him twice and instead of having a breakdown like many of the Silent infectees get when it is removed, he acts the same as usual...
    • And then when he mentions that Rui and Mika kicked his butt sending him to the hospital multiple times during childhood. Archive 1 proves that Akira has more tolerance to getting owned by Rui than everyone else. Poor guy...
  • Iron Woobie: Despite all the things he went through from his mother dying to almost becoming a victim of last year incident, Akira keeps going, but because of Silent, it has made him unstable.
  • Knight in Shining Armor: What people refer him as and it pisses him off.
  • The Lancer: To Atsuki somewhat.
  • Missing Mom
  • Mistaken for Gay: During archive 1, Rui gives a subtle hint that she doesn't trust what Akira said hence Akira trying to defend himself without using that word. Doesn't end well...
  • Mood Swinger: At the beginning, he'll be fine one moment and then angry the next. It gets better after the first Silent is removed.
  • Oblivious to Love: Until someone brings it up to him directly.
  • Oedipus Complex: Heavily implied since when reading his mind about his mother, he has a warm feeling...
  • Parental Abandonment: His mother is dead and his father treats him like crap. However, his relationship with his dad gets better thanks to Atsuki.
  • Platonic Life Partners: With Mika. He worries about her less and less due to a certain someone.
  • Real Men Are Waitresses: Akira almost got himself into this situation when he mixed up waiter with waitress.
  • She Is Not My Girlfriend: He doesn't like the idea of being shipping him with Mika who he sees as a sister.
  • Shonen Hair
  • Supreme Chef: Along with Yayoi.
  • That Came Out Wrong: On multiple occasions to the point where you wonder if he's doing this on purpose.
  • This Is for Emphasis, Bitch: Pulls this one on Sayuri (of all people) when she insulted him.

"Bring it, bitch!"

Mika Nozaki

Voiced by: Mikako Takahashi (JP) Kate Oxley (EN)

The school’s reporter. She knows everything about everyone and is always informed about the latest scoop. She is a childhood friend with Akira, Ryo and Rui.

  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Kyosuke.
  • Big Eater: Atsuki wonders if she gets injured so she can get free food in the hospital.
  • Book Dumb: Or really retarded.
  • Break the Cutie: Basically, she was targeted by last year's killer but unlike Akira, she wasn't traumatized at the fact that she could have been killed. Said killer goes after her again this year constantly stalking her (when Atsuki reads the R. Shinen of the killer) and then someone else pretending to be the killer, tries to murder her. If it weren't for Mako Taking the Bullet for her, Mika would have been said victim. This event however traumatizes her to the point where her Genki Girl persona disappears completely and she literally breaks down during those two episodes. However, her resolve to find the killer perked her up. Of course, shortly after, the serial killer goes after her AGAIN and almost succeeds Because it is Atsuki's fault for letting her leave her designated spot if Akira and Nami didn't save her. You would think this is the end of her torture but the Big Bad has other plans for her. When Mika decides to find Rui's 'lover', she gets herself kidnapped by Graham and goes missing. Only if you get past the normal ending does she return Infected by Silent sent to capture her best friend. When it's removed, she goes back to her normal self.
  • Curtains Match the Window
  • Cute Bruiser: Toward Kagami in her archive 'date'.
  • Designated Victim: She was targeted in last year’s incident and survived thanks to Akira. She is targeted again by the same killer multiple times in game and results in Mako’s death.
  • Damsel in Distress: She is often targeted by the serial killer multiple times to the point where you realize that the killer is doing this on purpose. Also Graham targets her so she can capture Rui and bring her to him.
  • Doting Parent: Judging from episode 18 and 19, Akira describes her parents as loving and worry about Mika a lot.
  • Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male): One of her scenes in the archive is her thinking about Kyosuke and delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on him after she wished him to be careful since there were a lot of people getting killed and she didn't want him on the list and he rejected her advice and called her an idiot.
  • Dumb Is Good
  • Fan-Preferred Couple: With Shinji.
  • Foe Yay: With Kyosuke.
  • Genki Girl
  • He Is Not My Boyfriend: She reacts strongly to Razzly teasing her about Atsuki but it doesn't stick. Mention Kyosuke though and she'll flip.
  • Hot Scoop/Intrepid Reporter/Going for the Big Scoop: Yes, Mika can hold herself in situations but she just attracts the more dangerous suspects that she's trying to bring to justice. Of course, she knows that this job was dangerous and she knew what she was doing when she became a reporter. Doesn't stop her from needing to be saved by Atsuki or Akira.
  • It's All My Fault: She feels like it's her fault that Akira is distant originally and when she brings it up, Akira snaps at all. She thinks it's her fault again for Mako's death and no one can change her mind, so she decides to get the killer in prison instead.
  • Jerkass: Toward Shinji and Kagami.
  • Knowledge Broker: To a certain extent but then it reveals that she gets the information from Shinji and flaunts it around like she's the one that got the information.
  • Late for School: Only in episode 1. Every other times, she tends to skip.
  • Les Yay: With Rui mainly, but also with Yayoi.
    • The best example with Rui is in episode 20 when she's taken over by Silent. In her mind, she calls Rui her princess.
  • Platonic Life Partners: With Akira because at the end of the game, she's hanging out with Shinji.
  • Plucky Girl: Her defining feature. It's to the point that Atsuki says that Silent can't affect her because she's so determined to get over all the negative emotions in her heart.
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: With Shinji.
  • School Newspaper Newshound: As Rui puts it, "She knows everything about everyone."
  • Shipper on Deck: She is probably the biggest shipper of the group. She firmly supports Atsuki/Rui or any guy that believes can be with Rui. She also ships Kenichi/Inagaki to Akira's horror.
  • Sitcom Arch Nemesis: With Kyosuke.
  • Ship Tease: With Shinji and Kagami.
  • Slapstick Knows No Gender: She's the only female character of the group to be constantly abused by Rui. And it's funny.
  • Sweet Tooth: Obviously.
  • Yaoi Fangirl: She supports Akira’s dad with Inagaki, much to Akira’s horror.
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Rui Yamase

Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (JP) Brina Palencia (EN)

The school's fortune teller. She is known for being 100 percent accurate in her readings. She is the younger sister of Yui Yamase. She is also considered the toughest girl in the school.

  • Badass: She's described as one of the stronger characters in the entire school. However...
    • Badass in Distress: She always end up in terrible situations and doesn't have the chance to show her strength. To be fair, the first time a gun is pointed at her, the second time a thug comes into her store and tries to kidnap her right there and the final time the whole city is in chaos when they try to find her and try her as a witch. Naturally, she is saved the first time, manages to get out the second time to warn Atsuki and hide in a place where no one dares to look until the chaos passes.
  • Boobs of Steel
  • Break the Cutie: It begins when she keeps seeing her customers killing herself or someone else in her fortune teller. It gets to the point where she thinks she loses her powers because her reading's are inaccurate. When Mako is stabbed protecting Mika and dies in the hospital two days later she thinks it's her fault for not giving that person her person to prevent the tragedy. Said tragedy makes her sister changes drastically to the point where Yui asks her if she'll find the killer. This foreshadows the bad ending of her killing Lt. Tanaka amongst other people in the police station. Since Rui is known for her accuracy in her predictions, she breaks down at the mention of her father (amongst all the drama going on with Yui. Thankfully, it's not Atsuki that gets her out of her depressed state. It's Yayoi who snaps her out of it.
  • Character Development: Not as much as other characters, but she does become more understanding.
  • Cry Cute
  • Cute Bruiser
  • Darkskinned Blonde
  • Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life: In her archive scene, it's revealed that Rui doesn't know what to do with life once she finishes high school. She knows that Mika will continue to be the world's best reporter, but she has no idea what she's good at except fortune telling, which she definitely doesn't want to do for the rest of her life given how depressing many of her fortunes are. She considers flower arrangement or a baker, but given her personality, it's very easy to laugh at. Not a good idea for Atsuki to do though.
  • Disappeared Dad
  • Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male): She will constantly beat up, harass and sometimes humiliate the guys of the group if they say something insulting to her (as shown in archive 1). Mika is not immune to her abuse either but fortunately, Atsuki is.
  • Foreshadowing: Her powers allow her to see events that will happen later in the game. One of the most noticeable examples is when she tells Atsuki and Akira that she visioned her older sister killing someone. Akira doesn't think that's going to happen. Unless you get the bad ending, Yui does kill the Serial Killer as well as many people in the police station in a fit of rage.
  • Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Rui loves them so much that she can tell if someone doesn't like them. This is most noticeable when Rui could obviously tell that the present that Atsuki gave her was bought from Mika. This is because "Saijo isn't the type of person to get her something like this." Ironically, it's this love that allows her to remember Atsuki and restore the memory of him to her friends.
  • He Is Not My Boyfriend: She isn't pleased when people tease her about liking Atsuki and flat out denies anything between them.
  • Heroic BSOD: Multiple times and she recovers because of Atsuki and Yayoi at different times.
  • Late for School: She like Atsuki is late often and unlike Atsuki, she has to sprint to school.
  • Les Yay: With Mika and Yayoi.
  • Meganekko: She doesn't need these glasses though as she can see just fine. They are just for fashion.
  • Oracular Urchin
  • Parental Abandonment: Her father was killed in the line of duty and her mother is rather sickly. It's also to be noted that her relationship with her sister isn't as good as it should be.
  • Princess Curls
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: While both are loud when they're angry, Rui is prone to be the sympathetic one (due to her powers) of the two while Yui is apathetic.
  • Seer: Her main power.
  • Shipper on Deck: Supports Akira/Mika, Shinji/Yayoi, Ryo/Sayuri and herself with Atsuki.
  • Ship Tease: With Atsuki.
  • The Big Girl: Despite being the same height as Shinji.
  • Tsundere: Type A to practically everyone. Type B to Atsuki and Yayoi.

Yayoi Kamishiro

Voiced by: Atsuko Enomoto (JP) Monica Rial (EN)

The school's main artist. She is known for being able to draw anything by a simple description. She is the older sister of Nami Kamishiro and is on the depressed side that gets better eventually.

  • Aborted Declaration of Love: Double subverted in Yayoi's dating game, she is the only character to actually confess her feelings to Atsuki. However, she quickly takes it back and leaves the area soon after embarrassed that it slipped.
  • Armor-Piercing Slap: Does this to Rui to snap her out of her Heroic BSOD before talking her out of it.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: And how.
  • Break the Cutie: It's mainly due to Silent but being jealous of her little sister causes her to shun herself from everyone. She was thinking of committing a group suicide with a bunch of students...but they killed themselves without her and she panicked. After Atsuki finds her, she's talking to herself about she's all alone. And when she thinks about killing herself, you can INFER that she had a knife somewhere to kill herself. Once Silent is removed, she has the biggest character development that helps Rui out of her jam.
  • Cain and Abel: This almost causes her death.
  • Character Development: She has the biggest character development out of all the characters. Starting as a quiet, seemly perfect girl, after confessing her suicidal tendencies she decides to change herself. She becomes assertive to the point of being unrecognizable from the beginning of the game where she usually kept it to herself.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Where do I begin?
    • When your friends start yelling and you mention monkeys (and wanting a pet monkey in the process)...you know something is wrong.
      • In the same archive 1 scene, when Rui beats up on all the guys except Atsuki, she mentions how everything is like whack-a-mole and that she would join if she didn't forget her hammer...
    • If that wasn't bad enough, in game, when Rui calls Atsuki "Tardy King" (nickname came from Akira because he noticed that Atsuki is always late for class) she decides to downgrade Atsuki's 'rank' to Private Tardy...ouch...
  • Completely Missing the Point: Multiple times.
  • Fiery Redhead: Subverted. Her sister is this while she is rather quiet.
  • Happily Adopted: Subverted at first when Atsuki first finds out about that her real parents were dead and the parents she have now are not her real ones. She seems to resent that because of Silent. Then Double Subverted after you remove Silent.
  • Get a Hold of Yourself, Girl!: To Rui in episode 12.
  • Interrupted Suicide: By Atsuki.
  • Meido: Hinted that she was dressed up as this during the Cultural Festival last year.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: When she comes to her senses that she almost killed herself and almost leaving Nami alone in the world.
  • Nice Girl
  • Parental Abandonment: Her real parents are dead and she and Nami are adopted. However, Yayoi feels like she isn't the loved one of the two.
  • The Resenter: Toward Nami and is the reason she tries to kill herself.
  • Ship Tease: With Atsuki.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang
  • Supreme Chef: Her cookies basically explains why everyone fights over them.
  • Team Mom: She's always there to support the group (particularly Rui and Mika) when their spirits are down and will always stand up for them.
  • Took a Level in Badass: After Silent is removed, she changes her view on things and says what she believes in. An example is slapping Rui when she talked about killing herself in her Heroic BSOD and then standing up to Yamato when he threatened to shoot Rui.
  • Yamato Nadeshiko:Played with. Calm and quiet (because she's depressed, not because she's mature). Long and straight brown hair instead of black. She becomes assertive only after Character Development. Still shows signs of it afterward.
  • You Gotta Have Red Hair

Ryo Unami

Voiced by: Naoki Koshida (JP) Todd Haberkorn (EN)

The school's 'professor', who is a fan of history. He runs the bookstore next to Atsuki's apartment Tohodo. He is best friends with Hibiki Kiryu.

  • Adorkable
  • Beware the Nice Ones: He's rarely angry, but when he is, look out!
  • Bishounen
  • Brutal Honesty: Too many occasions to count, and most of them are to his friends.
    • The first time you meet him, he literally calls Rui and Mika dumb.
    • To Takano, he clearly states when he's talking about anything but history that he is distracted way too easily.
    • To Akira, he calls him a freak when Akira is dumb enough to practice Tai-chi in front of the school.
    • To Hibiki, he clearly calls him a pervert for commenting on Ai's looks.
  • Chick Magnet: Compared to the other guys, Ryo seems to attract far more attention from the girls than anyone else (not counting Atsuki). This includes the two girls that constantly stand in front of his door. This might be another reason why Hibiki left.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: At times but not taken to the extreme, like Yayoi.
  • Completely Missing the Point: Not as bad as Yayoi, but damn.
  • Curtains Match the Window
  • Dandere: He talks a lot to his friends but is rather shy when handling strangers.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple: With Hibiki.
  • Genius Ditz: While really smart, people consider him very clumsy with everything else. The most prime example is Ryo has a tendency to lock himself out of his bookstore, leaving his keys and book bag inside.
  • Gentleman and a Scholar: The only thing he's not good at is talking to people unless it has to do with the subject of history.
  • Hands-Off Parenting
  • Ho Yay: With Hibiki, to the point that they might as well be a couple. He also gets some with Atsuki.
  • Hypocritical Humor: He calls Hibiki a Chivalrous Pervert for calling Ai beautiful and that's what he does when he wants to attract the ladies. However...he has his own horde of fangirls that are attractive to him.
  • Informed Ability: He doesn't look like the type, but he knows martial arts. Too bad he doesn't demonstrate it in the game at all.
  • In-Series Nickname: Often called the Professor by some students because of his knowledge but because the only people that seem to speak to him in the game are his friends, we never hear anyone actually say it.
  • Late for School: Stated in episode 1 but the reason he's late is he tends to lock himself out of Tohodo leaving his book bag inside. He has to wait for either Ai to open the door or someone else to force it open.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: From everyone until Takano is killed. It's to be noted that he's the only character not involved with any of the major events until then since Atsuki is the main character and is involved with everything, Akira gets himself involved in almost every situation that could get him killed, Yayoi is infected with Silent, Mika is involved to uncover the truth and drags Shinji along with her (but he also involved in hacking into FORT's data base), Rui is indirectly involved with everything until Graham targets her and Hibiki is involved with PHALANX.
  • Man In Black: In contrast to Hibiki's Man in White.
  • Master of the Mixed Message: With Hibiki to the point where you wonder if he's just oblivious or he's doing it on purpose.
  • Nerds Are Sexy: Fanon certainly thinks he is as well as the girls that find him attractive and Hibiki.
  • Never Got To Say Thank You: Takano dies before Ryo is able to thank him for showing him the wonders of learning as a child. Ryo takes it pretty hard.
  • Nice Guy: Most of the time.
  • Only Friend: To Hibiki which crosses over into Living Emotional Crutch territory.
  • Parental Abandonment: His grandfather died and the minute that happened his parents kicked him out because Ryo decided to chose to inherit Tohodo. Hibiki mentions that Ryo changed because of this.
  • Real Men Love Cute Animals/Boys Love Stuffed Pandas: Ryo is quite fascinated with pandas. Atsuki can comment on how feminine that is.
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Boy and Girl: With Ai and Hibiki in some cases.
  • Selective Obliviousness: He does not seem to notice that Hibiki has a crush on him and doesn't seem to understand why he's upset when he called him a pervert for commenting on Ai's looks.
  • Ship Tease: Gets a lot of it with Hibiki.
  • Stoic Spectacles
  • Strong Family Resemblance: According to Inagaki, he looks very much like his grandfather before he passed away.
  • Team Dad: He's always giving the moral support of the group when Yayoi fails to do so. Very evident whenever someone ends up in the hospital as well as when the group start fighting amongst each other.
  • Teen Genius
  • Viewers Are Geniuses: He tends to rant about real life authors and real life mythological tales with surprising accuracy.
  • Will They or Won't They?: With Hibiki.
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Shinji Naruse

Voiced by: Tsubasa Yonaga (JP) Greg Ayres (EN)

"You can't press the restart button in real life..."

The school's hacker and main troublemaker. He is known for having one of the highest grades in the school but this allows him to get away with trauncy, hacking and berating of the teachers.

  • Adorkable
  • Beware the Nice Ones: While he's far from nice, if you pay attention to his overall expression when he's first introduced, it's very creepy.
  • Child Prodigy: In terms of hacking.
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment: See The Internet Is for Porn.
  • Cute Shotaro Boy
  • Deadpan Snarker: He's the most sarcastic one of the group. Taken to the extreme when someone is in the hospital.
  • Disney Death: In the good ending, he wakes up after episode 19. Otherwise, get the normal ending, and this does not apply.
  • Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life: Subverted. Aoi thinks that Shinji has no idea what he's going to do after high school. Shinji considers being a surgeon, but gave up the idea after the thought of accidentally killing someone if something were to go wrong. Given what he's good at, it's safe to say what he plans to do in the future.
  • Even the Guys Want Him: Is it just me, or does he attract older man like Yuzi and Naoto?
  • Hands-Off Parenting
  • He-Man Woman Hater: A very minor case. According to Atsuki, Shinji is always complaining about women in general and how they're annoying. Given the girls he hangs out with, it's no wonder he thinks this. He never says it out loud though. In fact, he only complains about Mika to Atsuki in his dating game and since it's Mika that makes him have this view point of woman, it's very justified.
  • Hikikomori: A more minor example. When he's not at school or hanging out at the internet cafe, he shuts himself up in his room...and this is more times than not since he's usually skipping.
  • Idiot Hair
  • Ill Boy: Atsuki states that he has a bad stomach. As a result, he doesn't do well in sports and gets beaten up easily during martial arts practices with Akira.
  • Informed Ability: Akira clearly stated that Shinji does know martial arts but compared to everyone else, he's pretty bad because of his height.
  • Insufferable Genius
  • Intergenerational Friendship: With Yuzu and Naoto but can be considered Shotacon because of the dialogue between them...very Squick.
  • The Internet Is for Porn: Literally. This is his punishment for trying to hack into FORT's database. Let's just say he's not impressed. The girls on the other hand...
  • Jerkass Facade: Really goes over the top to be a jerk but his friends can see through his facade (most of the time).
  • Kubrick Stare: He has a rather nasty one in those rare creepy moments. You'll know when you can't see his pupils.
  • Name's the Same: Of Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion. They both have problems with their parents.
  • Nerds Are Sexy
  • The Napoleon
  • Older Than They Look: He looks to be 13 but he's certainly 17.
  • Parental Neglect: His parents are rarely home. When they are home, they seem to ignore him. When Aoi tried to talk to them about Shinji skipping school, their response was "Let him do what he wants." It doesn't help that he tends to have no food in the house.
    • When Shinji's mind was crushed, he was in a coma. During this time, his parents DID NOT come back to see him. Shinji states that his friends (Atsuki, Akira, Ryo, Rui, Mika and Yayoi) saved him. Aya comments though that ONLY parents tend to be the reason why someone is saved from their mind being ruined.
  • Playful Hacker
  • Save Scumming: Defied in series. Shinji's quote is that life isn't like a video game so you can't start an operation over if you accidentally killed them. This causes him to fear hospitals as a result.
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: With Mika.
  • Shorter Means Smarter
  • The Smart Kid
  • Social Services Does Not Exist: Subverted and played straight. People are aware that Shinji's parents don't pay any attention to him and Aoi even goes out of her way to talk to them. They kick her out of their house and tells her that Shinji can "Do whatever he wants." However, Shinji doesn't change that is suppose to show that he does want something to be different but simply can't because he feels that no one cares hence his distrust toward adults.
  • Spanner in the Works: Takano's murder would have been easily covered up and FORT wouldn't be able to find out who killed him if Shinji didn't hack into their system and found additional info about AMS Bank that even FORT didn't know about. This almost gets him killed but this just proves what a deadly hacker he is to put two and two together.
  • Stepford Snarker
  • Teen Genius: School in general is considered a piece of cake.
  • Tsundere: He's type A toward everyone and prefers the taunting method. However, only with Atsuki does he go deredere a little.
  • Unknown Rival: To both Hibiki and Nola. The former in school due to being better at him in math and computers and the latter for her hacking skills.
  • Why Did it Have to Be Hospitals?: He's scared because he wanted to be a surgeon, but then he thought about the consequences of failing an operation and how you can't restart a person's life.
  • You Gotta Have Purple Hair

Hibiki Kiryu

Voiced by: Kenji Nojima (JP) Eric Vale (EN)

"We're not much different from each other, Saijo."

The school's math whiz who has similar powers to Atsuki. He left Kisaragi a year prior to study aboard and came back recently. His caretaker is the School Nurse Honoka Hino.

  • The Ace: Described as an intelligent student that is better with math and computers than Shinji, which would make him the smartest student in the school. But...
  • Always Someone Better: To Shinji.
  • Ambiguously Gay: He has an obvious crush on Ryo, hits on him but goes unnoticed by the other, he gets jealous when the person that Ryo is working with is someone as young as Ai and he gets his kicks from stalking Atsuki.
  • Anime Hair: So very much.
  • Anti-Hero/Anti-Villain: In series example, he would be considered an Anti-Villain but to the player, it's obvious that he's an Anti-Hero.
  • Badass: This is the guy that is able to fight one on one with Liu Yee who is one of the most powerful members of FORT.
  • Bishounen
  • Break the Cutie: Before he was even introduced, he was technically broken when you get some pieces of information from his past (parents dying in a car accident, being emotionally unstable, isolated from his peers and apparently having a unrequited love unreturned. Then when he gets back to Japan, he tries to play hero and help people out...and then FORT targets him because he murdered Yamato and is considered too dangerous. Things go down from there when Liu Yee almost kills him and he's abandoned by the one person that he thought cared. He then falls into a comma and depending on the route...
    • Kill the Cutie: In the normal ending, he's dead if you don't stop Honoka. Otherwise, he gets better.
  • Can't Get Away with Nuthin': He kills Yamato for the sake of saving Rui and everyone in the cafeteria. He ends up getting targeted by FORT and almost killed as a result and depending on the ending depends if he's killed by Honoka or if he lives.
  • The Chew Toy: His life in this game is terrible.
  • Chivalrous Pervert: Subverted. Ryo thinks he is this when Hibiki comments on how cute the new manager of Tohodo, Ai Handa is. Hibiki however says this with a depressed look.
  • Clingy Jealous Guy: He has shades of this especially when he meets Ai for the first time.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Toward Ryo mainly just to annoy the heck out of him.
  • Defusing the Tykebomb: Defied in the series. Atsuki's chance to actually help him out is denied because FORT thinks the best way to handle Hibiki is to kill him. As a result, Liu Yee gets injured and they almost lose the true culprit of SILENT. Lampshaded in the normal ending where Ray says that if Hibiki didn't die, then they would have had gotten their target.
  • Despair Event Horizon: Hinted to have almost crossed it in his backstory until Honoka and Ryo pulled him out of it. However, he seems to have fallen into it again because of his frustration of Ryo not noticing his feelings.
  • Even the Guys Want Him: Shinji's quote about him pretty much sums it up. "I admit he's handsome but that's it."
  • Everyone Can See It: A lot of characters seem to notice Hibiki's apparent crush on Ryo. Ranging from Suzu cheering for them to other characters questioning their relationship. Even Atsuki seems dubious at one point according to the profile he keeps of each character. Then again, he eventually falls into the role as Suzu (against his will, but still...to get something out of Atsuki is an amazing feet.)
  • Expy: Despite Lux Pain coming out before this game, Hibiki shares many traits to N from Pokémon Black and White.
  • Fearless Fool: He has shades of this especially when Yamato takes the school hostage and the first thing he does is run into the school to save everyone. The rescue mission is successful but the aftermath isn't.
  • Foe Yay: With Liu Yee.
  • Good with Numbers
  • Heel Face Turn: Switches to Atsuki's side if he's saved. However, even if he switches side, FORT doesn't care but decide to leave him alone since he loses his powers.
  • Ho Yay: With Ryo to the point where it might as well be canon. He also has some moments with Atsuki.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: When it comes to Edward, he's pretty dumb.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: The reason he leaves to study aboard in America. Doesn't really work though...
  • Intelligence Equals Isolation: It's hinted as a major problem in middle school. What Shinji tells you about Hibiki beside his looks also hints at it.
  • Killed Off for Real: In the normal ending.
  • Like Brother and Sister: Thinks of Honoka as this or as a motherly figure.
  • Love Makes You Crazy: His affection for Ryo drives him a little crazy but in order to control the urge, he leaves Kisaragi without telling him so he wouldn't have to worry about the consequences. However...
  • Man in White: In contrast to Ryo's Man In Black.
  • Mad Mathematician: "I love math. It's beautiful in it's simplicity."
  • Parental Abandonment: His parents died in a car accident. This causes him to become emotionally unstable until Honoka came along to take him under her wing.
  • Not Good with People: Type II.
  • Not So Different: From Atsuki. Hibiki is basically what happens when you don't have the right support in life and have different motives for power.
  • Pure Is Not Good: Ryo describes him as a pure individual. However, that seems to be far from the case.
  • Sanity Slippage: Implied after he kills Yamato but snaps out of it rather quickly.
  • The Sixth Ranger
  • Stalker with a Crush: Played for laughs when it concerns Atsuki. Just how did he manage to get Atsuki's number if a.) Atsuki NEVER gave him the number and b.) Ryo doesn't have a cellphone?
  • Stepford Smiler: An obvious type A with a hinted type B and C but type C is later subverted and justified.
  • Stepford Snarker
  • Strange Boy
  • Teen Genius: When it comes to math.
  • Telepathy: Not as strong as Atsuki's but still strong enough to kill someone.
  • Tyke Bomb
  • Unlucky Childhood Friend: In a sense toward Ryo.
  • Unwitting Pawn: And this is all because of Edward using him into furthering his plans.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: All he wanted to was save Rui. This almost ends badly on his part.
  • Will They or Won't They?: With Ryo.
  • Wimpification: Hit the most by this but justified as his state of mind is very fragile.
  • Yandere: Justified and subverted. Ryo was one of the few people that befriended him during middle school when no one approached him. In his mind, Ryo is the only person that matters, and that's why he gets jealous when he sees that Ryo's new co-worker is a young woman. However, he never attempts to Murder the Hypotenuse and in the end tries to pull off a I Want My Beloved to Be Happy but that didn't go well.
  • You Gotta Have Cyan Hair

Takuya Inoue

A quiet student that is often bullied by other students. He resents the smart and confident students and tends to write bad things in a notebook about them hoping something bad will happen to them.

Sayuri Makino

A quiet girl that is known for reading and hanging out at Pumpkin Witch. She is an early target of the serial killer but manages to escape. However, that fateful encounter changes her personality with each episode...

Kisaragi Teachers

Honoka Hino

The school's nurse who gives moral support to all of her students. She is one of the loved teachers due to her looks and her personality and also the youngest. She once worked in the hospital but quit due to a certain incident. She helped console Hibiki Kiryu into enjoying school again and literally adopted him. However, behind the smile lies a dark secret...

Aoi Matsumura

The language teacher that makes sure that everyone enjoys school to their fullest. As one of the oldest teacher, she is strict when it comes to the rules and tries her very best for everyone to get along. She is in love with Takano (who she constantly yells at).

  • Beware the Nice Ones: She looks to be the kindest teacher of the bunch, but when you push the wrong buttons, look out!
    • Atsuki, Akira, Mika, Shinji and Takano know she's very scary when she's mad.
  • Christmas Cake: She's one of the older teachers at the school and she's very interested in love, but she's in love with her job as a teacher than to find a boyfriend.
  • Her Heart Will Go On: She admits to being in love with Takano and then decides to move on because he would hate to see her cry.
  • The Immune: Does anyone notice that when Graham speaks to anybody, they get infected by Silent. Notice how when he talks to her, she is perfectly fine with no Silent infection to fight afterward?
  • Love Freak: She always thinking about students falling in love and how wonderful the experience might be. She often thinks that Atsuki and Rui are dating as a result.
  • Love Hurts
  • Luminescent Blush: The expression she has often.
  • Moe: In universe example.
  • Nice Girl: Until you piss her off.
  • No Sense of Direction: She gets lost often.
  • Older Than They Look: She looks to be Honoka's age (24) or younger. She's one of the older teachers at the school being 32.
  • Princess Curls
  • Rapunzel Hair
  • Shrinking Violet: At first glance...until...
    • Berserk Button: Do or say the wrong things and she will blow up on you.
  • Shipper on Deck: For Atsuki/Rui.
  • Stern Teacher: The only one who seems to take her job seriously because: Honoka tends to tease her student about stuff not related to school, Takano tends to skip class to focus on his OD experiment, Yamato is downright cruel and tends not to do his job correctly, Arthur is rather sickly and is not at school often and Naoto is just a substitute teacher.
  • Sweet Tooth: Which leads to...
  • Tsundere: Type A toward Takano only.
  • Will They or Won't They?: With Takano. They don't but Aoi admits that she was in love with him.
  • Yamato Nadeshiko: Tries to be one but fails miserably.
  • You Gotta Have Peach Hair

Arthur Mays

Voiced by: Kazutoshi Hatano (JP) J Michael Tatum (EN)

The art teacher that came to Kisaragi from America. Normally very shy and soft-spoken, he is often depressed and discouraged. He is Atsuki's target when he enters Kisaragi.

Reiji Takano

The history teacher at the school and the one who takes his job the least seriously. He is often seen running around with a machine that tracks OD. He is often yelled at by Aoi and Ryo but ignores him for the sake of his research. By pursuing his research...things do not end well for him.

Tadashi Yamato

The math teacher at the school and most hated. He treats all of his students with disrespect except Hibiki (because he can keep up in his messed up class) and won't hesitate to call them out. He loves guns more than anything else.

Naoto Hidaka

A freelance photographer who has been taking pictures of unique places and things. Recently after taking pictures of war, he decided to settle down and take pictures in Kisaragi, becoming a substitute teacher in the process.

  • Camera Fiend: He's not anywhere without his camera. He uses it to take pictures of the supernatural. Nami does not like this though.
  • Cool Teacher
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: When they found his body, his face was ripped off.
  • Expy: He comes off as a certain photographer from a certain psychological series.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: With Shinji but can be seen as Parental Substitute or Shotacon.
  • Keet
  • Killed Off for Real: No one saw it coming.
  • Knowledge Broker: According to Atsuki, Naoto was working for the government trying to uncover something in Kisaragi.
  • Going for the Big Scoop: When he heard about the supernatural things about Kisaragi, he decided that he had to check it out. It doesn't go well when a certain Siamese Cat is involved.
  • Lolicon: A lot of the students think he's a pedophile because he takes pictures of young girls.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: He has everyone but Graham fooled.
  • Parental Substitute: Shinji probably sees him as a parental figure since his parents ignore him. Naoto doesn't seem to mind that one bit. However, later subverted when it turns out that he was using Shinji to get information on Graham and is later killed because of it.
  • Sanity Slippage: Hinted to be completely losing it before he disappears. Later on, he turns up dead.
  • Shotacon: He spends an awful a lot of time with Shinji to the point where you got to wonder if he's coming on to him. He treats him to dinner and spends the night at his place...

Kisaragi Police

Yui Yamase

Voiced by: Masumi Asano (JP) Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN)

Rui's older sister and a dedicated cop of Kisaragi. Unlike her partner Mako, she is very strict with the law and chooses the safety over the people over the opinion of a person.

  • Alliterative Name
  • Break the Haughty
  • Christmas Cake: While outwardly saying that she doesn't want to go out with anyone (particularly boring/quiet men), when Atsuki reads her mind, it states that she and Mako were going to get married and talking about their men.
  • Defective Detective: She would have a better time solving her cases if she didn't YELL AT EVERYBODY!
  • Does Not Like Men: According to Atsuki's data, he states that her attitude toward the men in the police station is that of extreme dislike. Her preference of men may be hard to define simply because she may not be interested because of someone else.
  • Fair Cop
  • Faux Action Girl: Similar to Aya but with worse consequences. She's a cop but she actually panicked when the Serial Killer first attacked Sayuri instead of being patient and helpful like Mako was. To make it worse, near the end of the game, she too gets captured by Silent infectees.
  • Heterosexual Life Partners: With Mako.
  • Hypocrite
  • I Need a Freaking Drink: After her breakdown.
  • Jerkass <-> Jerk with a Heart of Gold
  • Lady Drunk: She drinks more often than anyone else in the game and is rather cynical when she's not drunk.
  • Lawful Stupid
  • Les Yay: With Mako.
  • Lethal Chef: According to her profile.
  • Married to the Job: Rui says that after their father died, Yui dedicated herself to being a cop to follow in her father's footsteps. However, this has caused her to be distant from their sickly mother and Rui as well.
  • Ms. Fanservice
  • Police Are Useless
  • MAAAKKOOOOO!
  • Shaggy Dog Story: The bad ending if the player is stupid enough to not remove her Silent.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: While both are loud when they're angry, Rui is prone to be the sympathetic one (due to her powers) of the two while Yui is apathetic.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: She's the tomboy.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: After Mako's death, she becomes deadest on finding the killer going as far as to threaten Atsuki with arrest because he's wondering around and threatening to take Mika's only opportunity to become a reporter away. This leads to...
    • Driven to Suicide: Hinted that she planned to kill herself after everyone else.
    • Love Makes You Crazy: She is willing to kill Lt. Tanaka to satisfy the hatred in her heart.
    • Murder Is the Best Solution: To get back at Lt. Tanaka. She defied the police rules to steal a gun to do it.
    • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Rui outright states that Yui was so determined to get the guy that killed Mako that she would resort to fortune telling which she didn't believe in.
    • Yandere: She would kill Lt. Tanaka also to avenge Mako's death. In Rui's fortune, in the bad ending, she won't hesitate to kill anyone who stands in her way on her path of revenge.
  • You Gotta Have Orange Hair

Mako Ando

"I'll buy you a cup of ramen one day when I'm not on duty."

Yui's partner and a cop well known in Kisaragi. She is known for being a strong yet sweet women that is willing to listen to anyone for info on the serial killer.

Lt. Tanaka

An inferior officer to Yui and Mako. He is very clumsy and admires both women for their tough nature.

Kisaragi Residents

Nami Kamishiro

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (JP) Cherami Leigh (EN)

A young eleven year old girl with the power to communicate with animals. She is Yayoi's cheerful younger sister and is the first person that Atsuki meets in Kisaragi. Her guardian is a big Spanish Mastiff named Melody.

  • All of the Other Reindeer: Toma states she is bullied for her powers but seems unaffected. This seems to be untrue though because at one point in the game, she stated that she hated humans and this is after they treated Melody poorly.
  • Berserk Button: Which leads to...
  • Break the Cutie: Near the end of the game when she started taking care of the cat Mint, it suddenly disappeared on her. You spend the entire episode 19 searching for the cat that is infected by Silent. Mint is already dead though, so Nami ends up grieving for the poor cat...and then the witch hunt happens. She doesn't hide from the people that are after her. She stays with Melody who goes off to find the one who caused it. This results in Graham destroying Melody's mind literally killing off the poor dog. She goes into an Unstoppable Rage that is not enough to stop Graham and this results in her getting captured and used for his sick game but thanks to Atsuki, she is saved before Graham could 'merge with her'.
  • Bullying a Dragon: See All of the Other Reindeer. It's a miracle that Nami has been able to hold her powers back against the kids that bullied her. This explains why she's always hanging out with the high school students
  • Cain and Abel: Almost results in Yayoi's death.
  • Cheerful Child
  • The Cutie
  • Deliberately Cute Child: A minor example. She uses her looks to get away with minor offenses and it annoys the heck out of her sister.
  • Fiery Redhead
  • Free-Range Children: Justified that her parents have no idea what she's doing. Her sister knows and tries to prevent this but Nami doesn't listen.
  • Happily Adopted: Compared to her sister, she's happy to have parents that took them both in. However, she is annoyed that she has the smallest room in the house.
  • Hidden Depths: She seems like an ordinary cheerful girl...until you break her down psychologically.
  • Humans Are the Real Monsters: Her view on humanity as a whole. Atsuki just happens to change it.
  • Just a Kid: Many of the adults she hates comment on how she won't be able to stop them because she's a kid. She deals with them by using Atsuki.
  • Little Miss Badass
  • Precocious Crush: On Atsuki.
  • Shipper on Deck: She ships herself with Atsuki especially in her dating game. However, more than once, she doesn't seem to mind Atsuki being with Akira especially when she asked Atsuki why he chose to bring her to Sweet Ring to "go out".
  • Sibling Yin-Yang
  • Speaks Fluent Animal: Her powers.
  • Token Loli
  • The Worf Effect: Despite having Mother Nature on her side, she still lost against Graham. To be fair, Atsuki said the battle was very close and the conclusion could not be seen.
  • You Gotta Have Red Hair

Toma Kamada

Nami's classmate that is rather quiet and reserved. Once Silent is removed, he gains the power to read the thoughts of people and uses it to protect Nami in anyway.

  • Blessed with Suck: Shortly after Silent is removed, he gains the power to read other people's minds. The first thing he does is check what his friends think of him. Turns out they only want him around to get candy and he runs off crying.
  • Cute Shotaro Boy
  • Not Himself: Nami says this when he gets in trouble with the police.
  • Telepathy

Kenichi Mido

Akira's father who runs Sweet Ring. He lost his wife and refused to go to her funeral. He treats his son like dirt to cope with the loss but as Akira starts to mature because of it, he slowly opens up to his son again.

Kyosuke Kagami

A "private investigator" (information broker in the JP version) that takes low paying missions for information. He often trades info with Mika by means of tricking her (and it usually fails because she tends to leave as soon as she gets her info.) He received a specific mission to find a person online named Pinkie who suddenly disappeared from the chat room.

Mei-Lin Fong

A Chinese woman that came from China to run a store on her own. She has the power to quickly change her Shinen based on her mood. She quickly falls for Atsuki because they are alive. She is the daughter of a powerful family in China called the Red Tigers that are surprisingly telepaths like FORT. The major difference is that they are willing to protect Mei-Lin at any cost.

Ai Handa/Lida

The replacement manager of Tohodo. She's a risk taker, quitting her job before Ryo approved of her. She is able to memorize the call number of any book very quickly, Within a week, she memorized every book that was in Tohodo earning her a the job. She encourages Ryo to get out more and hang out with his friends and worries for him often.

  • Blue Eyes
  • Cool Big Sis: Functions as one for Ryo.
  • Demoted to Extra: She is only seen in the character archive scenes. While she speaks in the actual game, her sprite is never shown.
  • Genki Girl: So very much.
  • Romantic False Lead: Hibiki assumes that Ai is perfect for Ryo and decides to let her take care of him when he leaves. Turns out she's more interested in Ryo hooking up with a guy and is very much hinted to be a Ryo/Hibiki shipper in the same scene.
  • Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: With Ryo.
  • Shipper on Deck: It's very hinted but she seems to support Ryo/Hibiki very much but neither of them caught it due to Ryo being very selective and Hibiki being jealous of her. She also ships Atsuki with Ryo if only he would stop paying attention to books.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Just being the person that became Ryo's new assistance was apparently the final straw that made Hibiki go to America.
  • You Gotta Have Green Hair

Razzly Portmen

A reporter at SEAGULL whose job is to broadcast the latest news. While she tends to care about her looks and seem vain, she is a strong, kind women who looks after Mika due to her recklessness.

Shunichi Inagaki

A retired musician that decided to take it easy in the Deep Sea of area 4. He takes care of Kyosuke and worries for his well-being. He has a huge crush on Kenichi Mido.

Aran Tsuji

A man that owns the arcade known as TOYBOX. He has a very nerdy appearance is and is experience with video games. However, he is prone to mood swings and often takes his anger out on the customers and police that come visit him.

Suzu Kano

"Ah, a stud and a stud. That's true romance right there."

A nurse that works at Shinsei Hospital. She is best friends with Honoka and tends to fantasize people in romantic situations. This has caused rumors to spread about other people.

  • Bunny Ears Lawyer: All she talks about is romance and yaoi whenever you talk about her, so it makes you wonder what she did in episode 20 when it appeared that Honoka was doing most of the work.
  • But Not Too Foreign: Her character design makes it seem like she's from Korea.
  • Fan Girl: Of romance.
  • Hospital Hottie
  • Love Freak
  • One of Us: She's a Yaoi Fangirl and pictures Ryo and Hibiki together...like the fanbase does.
  • Yaoi Fangirl: To the extreme. Hibiki is her main victim though as she's willing to pair him up with either Atsuki or Ryo.
    • In fact, she spends most of the last episode trying to figure out if Hibiki and Ryo are going out and which one was the Seme. Eventually, she'll ask on Atsuki's opinion. You can say who confessed first (which determines who tops) or you could just reject the whole thing entirely resulting in her turning her attention to YOU.

Yumiko Sakai

An old lady that owns the movie theater South End in area 4. She is wise and observant but loses hope instantly when the situation is desperate. She loves seeing people smile when they watch movies.

  • Guide Dang It: Trying to remove her Silent is more difficult than saving Hibiki from Honoka! The problem with her Silent is that you have to read her mind in EPISODE 7. This is the episode where Yayoi goes missing and you have that time limit to save her or it's game over. To prevent this, go in all the locations where Yayoi would go The Tower where the group suicide took place and the Production Art to find Arthur. After that, you go find Nami at Pumpkin Witch (because that place is the place you least expect anyone important to be). Nami tells you all the places you should visit. You only need to go to one of them (Sweet Ring or Rainbow Hill) before choosing TOYBOX where you'll find Nami again who isn't giving up on Yayoi. At this point, Yayoi will be in the Yuhigaoka House area. Instead of going there directly, you'll have plenty of time to go to the POLICE STATION and talk to Mako who talks about going to get some info on the serial killer. Follow her to SOUTH END and read Sakai's mind. After you do all of this, whenever South End is opened in episodes after that, you just go there, use memory and read her mind. Once Lt. Tanaka is captured, you can remove her Silent and save her life as well as make South End still accessible in the game.
  • Keeping Secrets Sucks: This is why she's infected with Silent. She knew that Lt. Tanaka was the serial killer but decided not to tell the police last year because she was in denial that a nice man like him was a killer. Hiding him also would make her a criminal as well because her suspicions were clear.
  • Never Found the Body: If you fail to remove her Silent, she simply disappears leaving no trace of her behind. It's creepy...
  • Older and Wiser

Yuzi Okura

A strange man that works at Yuzu. He often changes his store to fit his taste...which is very bad. He has a bad time at managing things and is often taken advantage of. His only friend is Shinji and he respects him greatly.

  • A Friend in Need: He's willing to do anything for Shinji. Even selling his store that he practically lives in and inherited by his family to some stranger claiming that Shinji is in danger.
  • Artistic License Economics: He doesn't manage his money...or his store well. I mean, he gives his store to Nola because she's a pretty girl that said that Shinji's life was in danger. An Epic Fail when you realize how stupid Nola's story is.
  • Chew Toy: Whenever you meet him, something bad always happens.
  • Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: He brings this up to Atsuki because some guy was hitting on him. Depending on your answer, you can freak him out even more or convince him that he isn't gay.
    • And despite this, the way he talks about Shinji is too suspicious.
  • Gonk
  • Intergenerational Friendship: With Shinji but look at Shotacon.
  • The Scrappy: In universe example. Girls seem to hate his guts simply because he's an idiot and unintentionally pisses them off. Yayoi unintentionally refers to him as an unlikable person and even Shinji who is his only friend apparently is annoyed by him.
  • Shotacon: The way he acts around Shinji is suspicious.
  • Too Dumb to Live: At times.

Hiroshi Tazaki

An abusive animal caretaker that neglects feeding his animals. No one stops him because there is no definite proof that he abuses them.

Kunio Hoshino

A man that works at Day & Night. He is all about cleanliness and hates kids with disrespect over anything. While he's polite toward Atsuki, he has demonstrated his dark side toward him.

  • Jerkass: Who goes up to a little kid for touching the screen door of the convenient store and yell at them until they cry?
  • Kick the Son of a Bitch: While he's not a likable person, according to Yayoi, people were cheering when he beat up Tomoyo when she came to his store and insulting him for having no taste.
  • Neat Freak
  • Put on a Bus: Once Atsuki removes his Silent, Liu Yee takes him away somewhere. Where? No one knows because you don't hear about him again. Not like anyone else cares because Kyosuke takes over Day & Night soon after.
  • Unstoppable Rage: Anger management problems!
  • Would Hit a Girl: If it's Tomoyo, then all is fair and games.
  • You Are What You Hate: He hates filth more than anything but in reality, he himself is a filthy human bastard.

Shigeru Enokida

A cheerful man that works at the post office mainly cleaning the entire place from top to bottom. He takes care of Melody in Nami's place and worries for her safety. He has a doll called K-Chan.

Tomoyo Hirooka

A rich women that owns the Civic Hall. She only cares about men with money and discards everyone else that she considers useless. She constantly Atsuki do to his looks rather than his money.

  • Abhorrent Admirer: To Atsuki to the point where Atsuki in the game dialogue actually seems to try and avoid her at all cost (as there are multiple options to run when he sees her and decline her offer). This is why Atsuki is almost thrilled that she's not chasing him anymore when she goes after Yuzi of all people.
  • Gold Digger/Only in It For the Money
  • Greed
  • Jerkass: So much. Most noticeably with Rui and how she regards her a fake because Rui WOULDN'T GIVE HER THE FUTURE SHE WANTED. Also with Yuzi when she realized that he had no money and discarded him to go back to hitting on Atsuki.
  • Money Fetish: So much.
  • Rich Bitch
  • Stalker with a Crush: While she isn't a stalker and her crush is fake due to wanting money, it's to be noted how she makes advances on Atsuki whenever he sees her.
  • Uncanny Valley Makeup

Katsuhisa Hamana

A thug that causes trouble for people around Kisaragi. He is prone to Silent infections because he can't think on his own.

  • Dumb Muscle
  • Evil Is Dumb: Who is stupid enough to cause a scene in a restaurant much less a fortune telling store?
  • Jerkass: And how.
    • I can name a few. Coming into Sweet Ring and yelling at Nami for bringing a dog into the store and threatening to sue the place. (Akira gets his Crowning Moment of Awesome in this scene where he successfully forces him to leave without losing his temper.)
    • Threatening to hurt Atsuki on multiple occasions.
    • Threatened to kill Rui. This does not end well for him when Rui throws a crystal ball in his face (shattering it) and Kei distracted him until Atsuki arrived.
  • The Soulless/Empty Shell: Atsuki claims in Episode 19 that Katsuhisa is finished because Silent infected him too many times and his personality by default is that of a monster.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Well, he did try to kidnap Rui and when she retaliated, he did try to hurt her.
  • Would Hurt a Child: If Akira wasn't there to stop him, he would have hit Nami. He also attacked Kei when he defended Rui.

Kei Tono

"I'm...me..."

A mysterious boy that pledges loyalty toward Rui and swore to protect her from the darkness. He is actually Atsuki's childhood self before tainted by the cruel reality of the world. They separated when Rui tried to read their minds. He witnessed Mika's brainwashing by Graham and later merged with Atsuki after succeeding in protecting Rui.

Kisaragi Animals

Melody

A Spanish Mastiff that follows Nami around. Melody is very protective of Nami and will go to extreme lengths to keep her safe.

Mint

A Siamese cat that was abused by Tazaki. Nami took the cat in and nursed it back to health only for him to disappear. This cat has been rumored to drive people into insanity to who sees it.

  • Animal Assassin: Tazaki got what was coming to him.
  • Animal Battle Aura: It's so powerful that Atsuki was injured by how negative it was.
  • Cats Are Mean: Subverted. While not mean, Mint will kill people that try to hurt Nami.
  • Cat Scare: Literally what drives people ballistic.
  • Intellectual Animal
  • Killed Off for Real: Not really a spoiler. Nami is in denial that the cat was dead all along but others saw Mint as a ghost that made people go crazy. Only by Atsuki removing the Silent from Mint does Nami accept the fact.
  • Knight Templar: Toward Nami because she was the only person that actually cared for him.
  • Talking Animal: While it seems the cat is talking, Mint is just using Telepathy to speak to Nami and Atsuki.

Villains (BEWARE OF SPOILERS)

Lil

Voiced by: Asami Imai (JP) Brina Palencia (EN)

A mysterious girl that has a connection to Arthur Mays. At age ten, she dies due to her parents neglecting her but even then, she continued to smile. While she doesn't hold any ill will toward anyone, she has an Original Silent that Atsuki must eliminate.

Edward Steiner

Voiced by: Banjo Ginga (JP) Bill Jenkins (EN)

An old man who runs the AMS Bank as well as a writer for the famous novel, Phantom. He is wise and knowledgeable despite his old age. However, some characters can't help but question his character. 

Turns out he's the leader of the rival organization of FORT known as PHALANX whose ultimate goal is to co-exist with Silent. He does cruel things such as tricking Hibiki into joining PHALANX, destroying Shinji's mind (almost killing him in the process), kill Takano by forcing him to commit suicide and almost successfully manipulated Ryo. However, thanks to Atsuki wearing him down in battle and Liu Yee finishing him off, his plans have been put on halt for eternity and PHALANX has disbanded thanks to his death.

Graham Miller

Voiced by: Showtaro Morikubo (JP) John Burgmeier (EN)

A mysterious man that claims to be a spy. While no one takes him seriously, he seems to intrigue those that he talks to And all he talks to go insane. He wants to merge with the Shinen pool of Kisaragi and to do that, he needs to combine with both Rui and Nami's body and soul.

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