History Characters / AkumaNoRiddle

* InformedDeformity: The lyrics of her ending-credits song describe her as "ugly," or "unsightly." Aside from her sharp teeth, Nio doesn't look any different from the other girls.

* OutOfFocus: She spends so much time being the arbitrator that she has to remind Meichi that she is a part of the game too. Even Tokaku and Haru seem to forget this fact, and instead believe that Nio has found away around the rules when she comes to kill Haru.

* HoYay: With Meichi Yuri. Nio is clearly enamored with her, and adopted the surname "Hashiri" (fast, in a hurry) due to all the running around she was willing to do for her.
* LikesOlderWomen: Implied. Due to her ShipTease in the manga with the chairwoman, Meichi Yuri.

* ShapeShifter: For all intents and purposes, despite lacking the ability to physically transfigure herself into another person, Nio can hypnotise people into perceiving her as a virtually identical copy of another person.

* OutOfFocus: She spends so much time being the arbitrator that she has to remind Meichi that she is a part of the game too.

* ManInWhite: He works in a white suit.

** [[spoiler:Kills out of sexual pleasure,]] scissors being her WeaponOfChoice, and playing in a DeadlyGame taking place in high school? Yup, sounds like [[VisualNovel/DanganRonpa Genocider Syo]].

* LovingBully: It's implied that Otoya loves to bully Mahiru and Shiena because she actually attracted to them, and bullying them is (in a twisted way) her attempt to be friends with them. Although considering she is a [[spoiler: psychotic serial killer that takes sexual pleasure in killing people]], its likely that in her [[spoiler: wrapped]] mind, she believes that bulling someone is the same as flirting with them.

* PsychoLesbian: [[spoiler:AxeCrazy serial-killer who kills for pleasure.]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: While all the girls are assassin (save for Haru) [[spoiler:Otoya is the only one who is a SerialKiller.]]

* AdaptationalJerkass: A minor example. As opposed to the manga where Chitaru always knew that Haru wasn't the assassin, Angel's Trumpet, and acted entirely as Tokaku's ally, Chitaru in anime believed that Haru was Angel's Trumpet and tried to [[spoiler: kill her during the play, before she realized the truth]].

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* {{Expy}}: Her character looks like [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Sayaka Miki]], but her overall personality is pretty much [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura Akemi]].

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Along with EarnYourHappyEnding and EverybodyLives.

->'''Voiced by:''' Ayaka Suwa (Japanese), Morgan Berry (English)

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:In the end, she and Haru go to distribute diplomas to the rest of their classmates.]]

[[spoiler: The manga mentions that Haru has a special ability called the Queen Bee, which allows her to gather protectors. Tokaku is implied to be under the effect of this ability. In the anime, Haru is from a clan where "Primers" like herself gather people for protection. The Class Black game is meant to be a trial for her, something that she is already aware of from the beginning. The reward that she wants is to leave the clan and have a normal life.]]

* TheDeterminator: [[spoiler:After getting fatally shot by Tokaku in the manga's Chapter 46 (in the same attempt as in the anime to prove Tokaku's free will), she somehow still manages to gather enough presence of mind and strength to try preventing a heart-broken Tokaku from [[TogetherInDeath committing suicide]].]]

* GirlishPigtails: To go with her attitude.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:In the end, she and Tokaku go to distribute diplomas to the rest of their classmates.]]

[[spoiler:She is the eighth person to go after Haru, requesting money as her reward. Her final goal is to build a villa for her parents when they get old.]]

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Her biological parents were neglectful and nearly let her die. Seems almost fair that her adoptive parents killed them and took her in. On the other hand, turning one's adoptive daughter into an assassin isn't good parenting either, but Isuke still loves him.]]

* PsychoLesbian[=/=]DepravedBisexual: Isuke apparently gets turned on by a drugged Haru, after seeing that she's covered in scars.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue:
** [[spoiler:Apparently, she winds up vacationing with her parents in the Caribbeans, still a little sour about not owning the beach they're on.]]
** In manga version, [[spoiler: we do get an addition scene where it's revealed that Isuke is now with Haruki, as she calls Haruki to check up on her. Isuke's mom, taking back by Isuke's kindness (or at least as nice as Isuke can get), comments on her attitude. Isuke states it's because of her love for Haruki, and it can't be helped]].

[[spoiler: She's the second to attempt to assassinate Haru, requesting to quit her job as a reward.]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:Kouko is last seen trying to escape her organization.]]

[[spoiler:She is the famously cruel assassin Angel's Trumpet, whom Chitaru entered the class looking for, and is the fourth to attempt to assassinate Haru, but later stabs herself with Chitaru's dagger during the school play. She was originally thought to be dead, but the final episode revealed that she is alive and well. Her wish was to leave Class Black with Chitaru.]]

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* GirlishPigtails: Also sports a cute pair.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:She and Chitaru are alive, and she seems to be trying to patch things up between them.]]

[[spoiler:In the anime, she's poisoned by Hitsugi just before Haru receives her assassination notice. After she's sent to the hospital, Nio explains that by the time she recovers, her 48 hours would have been up, so she's expelled in advance. Her abilities as an assassin are unknown. The manga reveals that she wanted her reward to be decided by the other members of her organization.]]

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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: See PlayfulHacker.

[[spoiler:She is the third to attempt to assassinate Haru, requesting to have her family fed for the rest of their lives as a reward.]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue:
** In the anime's version, [[spoiler:Haruki gets a job as a construction worker, and judging by the equivalency exam instructions she has with her, she also plans to send herself and her siblings to school.]]
** In the manga's version, it revealed that [[spoiler: Haruki is now dating Isuke, and possible engaged to her as evident by the rings the couple are wearing on their right hands]].

A calm, pleasant member of Class Black who happens to know about topics that the others may not know about. For some reason, she has a speaking pattern that's used mostly by the elderly. [[spoiler:She acts as class rep after Kouko's expulsion]].

[[spoiler:She is the seventh student to be expelled out of Class Black, after asking to be able to age and die like a normal person (by being cured of her Highlander Syndrome). Once again, the class is left without a rep.]]

* MayDecemberRomance: Is often ShipTease with Kouko, even though she is [[spoiler: old enough to be her grandmother, maybe even great-grandmother]].

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:She visits the grave of her dead loved one for the last time, saying she's going to stop looking at the past and apparently accepting her form of immortality.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:The reason she doesn't want to be immortal is because she fell in love with someone who aged without her, left her for someone who ''did'' age and eventually died. In the end she comes to terms with it and decides to live her long life to the fullest.]]

Class Black's most energetic student. [[spoiler:She's actually a notorious serial killer dubbed the 21st Century's Jack the Ripper, known for killing her victims brutally for pleasure.]]

[[spoiler:She's the first to attempt to assassinate Haru, requesting life-long serial killer insurance as a reward. She is also the only assassin (so far) to return after being expelled.]]

[[spoiler:In episode 10, she breaks out of her prison and makes another attempt to kill Haru. However, she is captured by Sumireko and is "invited" to her tea party. She is seen back in jail near the end of the anime's finale, planning her next escape though admitting that it will be years in the making.]]

** LovingBully: It's implied that Otoya loves to bully Mahiru and Shiena because she actually attracted to them, and bullying them is (in a twisted way) her attempt to be friends with them. Although considering she is a [[spoiler: psychotic serial killer that takes sexual pleasure in killing people]], its likely that in her [[spoiler: wrapped]] mind, she believes that bulling someone is the same as flirting with them.

** Between Otoya's long black hair, spider motif, [[spoiler:PsychoLesbian tendencies, and being a serial killer who kills for pleasure]], she's the spitting image of [[VisualNovel/AtlachNacha Hirasaka Hatsune]].

* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:She mainly targets women, and she's killed enough times to warrant a nickname.]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:She's back in prison and waiting until she's released.]]

[[spoiler:She attempts to assassinate Haru during the play, thinking that she is Angel's Trumpet when in reality the person she's looking for is Hitsugi, but never sends a notice since she is not doing this as part of Class Black competition. She drinks a vial of Hitsugi's poison after Hitsugi stabs herself with Chitaru's dagger. Like Hitsugi, she was thought to have died, but is revealed to have survived in the final episode.]]

* AdaptationalJerkass: A minor example; As opposed to the manga where Chitaru always knew that Haru wasn't the assassin, Angel's Trumpet, and acted entirely as Tokaku's ally, Chitaru in anime believed that Haru was Angel's Trumpet and tried to [[spoiler: kill her during the play, before she realized the truth]].

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:Still bedridden thanks to drinking that poison, but Hitsugi tells her she can start rehab soon.]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: According to the wiki she's ''15''. Compared to Isuke and Haruki, who are 19 and 18, she looks older.

[[spoiler: She is a subordinate of the chairwoman Meichi Yuri and a member of the Kuzunoha clan, a family of assassins and rivals of the Azuma clan. In the end she also tries to assassinate Haru by disguising herself as Tokaku in order to confuse her, but the real Tokaku defeats her by fatally stabbing her. The reason why she failed was because she wasn't really trying to kill Haru and just wanted to test her Queen Bee abilities.]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:Stays in Myojo Academy with Meichi. In the manga she also begins a new class black.]]

[[spoiler:She intentionally waited until all of the other assassins (aside from Nio) had finished their attempts before she started her own, because her wish was to prove that she was the strongest by killing Haru herself. She and Haru are the only students who are aware of Class Black's true intention. In her episode, she is revealed to be a cyborg.]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue:
** In the anime's version, [[spoiler:she is back in her mansion in good condition and plans to take up cooking.]]
** In the manga's version [[spoiler: she is last seen living with Banba, who is now her maid]].

[[spoiler:Shinya is the ninth person to attempt to assassinate Haru, on the same night as Isuke. According to Nio, they don't have any sort of reward in mind, since Mahiru already has her "relic" from Haru (the strap).]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:While appreciating the view from a hilltop, Mahiru tells Shinya that she won't be needing her for a while.]]
** In the manga's version, [[spoiler: Mahiru is last seen living Sumireko as her live-in maid]].

The unknown chairwoman of Myojo Private School and responsible for the creation of Class Black. She monitors both the deadly game and the entire academy. Nio served as her mouthpiece during the assassins' meeting. She is also a [[spoiler:former participant of the group. She lasted for six days as another primer candidate.]]

[[spoiler:In Episode 11, Nio introduces Tokaku and Haru to her in the tower building. There, Meichi tells them the real intention of Class Black as a trial for Haru to see if she can be the "Primer" for her and Meichi's clan.]]

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* JapanesePronoun: Each one uses a unique pronoun.

* JapanesePronouns: "Atashi".

* UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian: She was raised in a Christian orphanage [[spoiler:that doubled as an assassin training facility.]]
* JapanesePronouns: "Watashi".

* {{Bokukko}}: See JapanesePronouns.

* JapanesePronouns: "Boku".

* {{Bokukko}}: See JapanesePronouns.

* JapanesePronouns: "Boku".

* JapanesePronouns: "Atashi".

* JapanesePronouns: "Washi", a pronoun that (as far as anime goes) is used mostly by old men. Shiena comments on this while they prepare for the play, saying that it doesn't fit Suzu's role. [[spoiler:It turns out she has a [[OlderThanTheyLook reason]] for using it.]]

* JapanesePronouns: "Atashi".

* JapanesePronouns: "Watashi".

* JapanesePronouns: "Uchi".

* JapanesePronouns: "Watakushi".

* JapanesePronouns: Mahiru uses "watashi". Shinya uses "ore" and occasionally "ore-sama".

* JapanesePronouns: "Ore".

* JapanesePronouns: "Boku".

* JapanesePronouns: "Watashi".

* AdaptationalVillainy: As opposed to the manga where Chitaru always knew that Haru wasn't the assassin, Angel's Trumpet, and acted entirely as Tokaku's ally, Chitaru in anime believed that Haru was Angel's Trumpet and tried to [[spoiler: kill her during the play, before she realized the truth]].

* BigSisterInstinct: Chitaru seems rather protective of Hitsugi and is almost never away from her side.

* TheResenter: [[spoiler:Towards Angel's Trumpet for killing her mentor's daughter. In the finale she hasn't fully forgiven Hitsugi for what she did.]]

* TheBusCameBack

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* * SempaiKohai: The manga at one point implies he's the Kohai to [[spoiler: Kaiba's]] Sempai. [[spoiler: Kaiba]] even calls him ''[[ShipTease cute]]''

* SmallRoleBigImpact: After accidentally-winning a game where the winner is granted one wish of any kind in the OVA[[spoiler:, he reveals his wish to be for all of Class Black's students to be able to graduate. It apparently doesn't go unnoticed]].

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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:Haruki gets a job as a construction worker, and judging by the equivalency exam instructions she has with her, she also plans to send herself and her siblings to school.]]

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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:She is back in her mansion in good condition and plans to take up cooking.]]

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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: [[spoiler:Apparently, she winds up vacationing with her parents in the Caribbeans, still a little sour about not owning the beach they're on.]]

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* AdaptationalVillainy: As opposed to the manga where Chitaru always knew that Haru wasn't the assassin, Angel's Trumpet, and acted entirely as Tokaku's ally, Chitaru in anime believed that Haru was Angel's Trumpet and tried to [[spoiler: kill her during the play, before realized the truth]].

* MeaningfulName

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* AffectionateNickname: In the manga, some of her younger siblings call her Ha-chan.

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* DulcineaEffect: She's pretty quick to risk death and openly declare her intentions to a room full of killers for a girl she's only recently met. [[spoiler: Justified as she is implied to be influenced to do so by Haru's Queen Bee power.]]

* Expy: Her character looks like [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Sayaka Miki]], but her overall personality is pretty much [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura Akemi]].

* {{Trigger}}: See WeakenedByTheLight.

* JapaneseChristian: She was raised in a Christian orphanage [[spoiler:that doubled as an assassin training facility.]]