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[[folder:Shiki Ryougi]]
!!Shiki Ryougi
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokoKawakami (drama CD), Creator/MaayaSakamoto (all subsequent appearances)
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-->''"I can kill anything that exists - even if it's a god."''

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The protagonist of the series, she is a beautiful teenage girl who possesses the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception", a supernatural ability that allows her to see and bring into reality the inherent mortality of ''everything.'' She is peaceful and maiden-like in appearance, but fiercely determined, ruthless, and aggressive in manner.\\\

Shiki originally had both a male and female personality due to her upbringing as a member of the Ryougi clan. After recovering from a traumatic accident, Shiki discovers that she can no longer feel her male personality's presence while also feeling an uncomfortable detachment from her memories before the accident. While she knows that she is Shiki, she does not ''feel'' that she is.\\\

In the hopes of regaining her former identity, she puts on a cold façade that is somewhere between the thoughtful, quiet nature of the female persona and the blunt, dissolute male persona.
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* NinetiesAntiHero: She's definitely got the rough outlook and personality, the overpowered abilities, and borderline psychopathy. Plus the book was written in the 90s and takes place in the 90s. What makes her stand out though is her rather conservative attire.
* ActionGirl: Quite possibly the strongest fighter in the series. She's incredibly skilled with the knife and even without it, she can kick a lot of ass. And that's even without mentioning her Mystic Eyes, which allow her to kill virtually ''anything'' simply by cutting along its lines of death.
* ActionGirlfriend: Shiki is a KnifeNut with eyes capable of seeing how to kill even a god and the love interest of the NonActionGuy Mikiya. Mikiya can't help her in battle, but he does a good job acting as her MoralityChain.
* AllThereInTheManual: While Shiki's relationship with her parents in the present is said to be a bit distant, in the past, Shiki's relationship with her older brother and grandfather are heavily implied to be close (the former being confirmed in one of the pamphlets). While her relationship with her brother is a little fuzzier in the present, they're still somewhat implied to be close since he had a chat with her in the hospital post-coma, [[WordOfGod though according to Nasu]], [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments she calls him a NEET nowadays]].
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She is tall, dark-haired, beautiful and aloof.
* AngstySurvivingTwin: Though not a twin in the strictest sense, Shiki goes through something like this after she loses her male personality SHIKI.
* AnimalMotifs: Usually associated with cats. Mikiya says she reminds him of a rabbit, though.
* AntiHero: She fights the bad guys, but is far from a nice and heroic person by nature.
* ArtificialLimbs: Her left arm is prosthetic, built by Touko. Her original was twisted off by Fujino Asagami.
* AxCrazy: Due to her murderous impulses, she tries to feel a sense of living through killing.
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:She has a daughter with Mikiya in the DistantFinale, named Mana.]]
* BadassAdorable: Most notably when she goes all ''[[{{Tsundere}} dere]]'' for Mikiya.
* BadassBoast: ''"I can kill anything that exists - even if it's a god."''
* BadassInDistress: In the fifth chapter, [[spoiler:Shiki is captured by Araya at the Ogawa apartment, but she manages to escape by herself]].
* BadassTransplant: Her prosthetic arm is able to grab spirits.
* TheBerserker: When in battle, she is absolutely fueled by her bloodlust.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Often described as both "handsome" and "beautiful," although she definitely possesses a very feminine figure in the movies. In the novel she is described as looking and sounding fairly androgynous. In addition she uses [[{{Bokukko}} aggressive masculine pronouns]] as part of the masculine persona she adapts to compensate for SHIKI's loss.
* BloodKnight: Given the right opponent, Shiki is more than happy to engage in a good old-fashioned throwdown.
* BloodLust: ''"She bends down and touches the blood flowing on the ground; streaks it across her lips. The blood drips down and her body trembles in ecstasy. The first lipstick Shiki has ever worn."''
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: [[spoiler:She was seen covering herself in the blood of the victims of the murders of 1995-1996. However, she wasn't the killer.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The only way to describe some of the distinctions that she draws between 'murder', 'slaughter', and 'massacre'. ''All of these are completely different things to her.'' Only one is remotely okay for her.
* {{Bokukko}}: Ever since SHIKI's death, Shiki has used SHIKI's 'ore' to refer to herself to make Mikiya remember that SHIKI existed. At the very end of ''Murder Speculation (Part 2)'', having accepted herself and coming to terms with her past, she switches back to 'watashi'.
* BoobsOfSteel: Subverted. She is a skilled fighter with years of training and a variety of skills due to her dual-personalities, fights either with a knife or, on rare occasions, a sword, can see and cause the death of pretty much everything [[spoiler:and contains hidden in her subconscious one of the most powerful beings in the Nasuverse]]. She is also one of the least "endowed" women in the series, with her being labelled in the official bust comparison chart as "minuscule". Even the minor bust upgrades she's gotten over the years (due to her illustrator improving in drawing) still don't make her anything more than average at best.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: She might not show any desire to have been born in another century (or any desire, period, aside from [[AxCrazy the desire to kill]], really), but she's a warrior woman who only feels alive in a fight to the death, her weapons of choice are the tanto (knife) and katana (sword), she wears a traditional kimono whenever possible and she uses barely any modern conveniences (the lights and refrigerator in her apartment, and a phone she doesn't actually use).
* BoyishShortHair: She likes to keep her hair short, as suits her masculine image and behaviour. In the distant future, her hair has grown longer.
* BringMyRedJacket: And ''how''! Shorter than the usual BadassLongcoat, but it definitely counts.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Inverted, where it's Shiki as the Brooding Girl and Mikiya as the Gentle Boy.
* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler:It's revealed in the seventh movie that aside from being interrupted by Souren Araya, Shiki couldn't bring herself to kill Mikiya because he was everything both of her personalities wanted. Believing they could never get Mikiya, and rather than get Mikiya out of her life, ''she decided to get out of his'' and threw herself in front of a passing car. This, however, only got SHIKI killed while Shiki ended up in a coma for two years.]]
* ByronicHeroine: Morally neutral? Check. Largely concerned with personal interests? Check. Disrespect of common authority? Check. Defined by conflict, inner and outer? Definitely. Attractive? Check. Introspective loner? Check. Cynical and jaded? Definitely.
* TheCameo:
** In ''[[spoiler:VideoGame/FateExtra]]'', [[spoiler:as a hidden boss.]]
--->'''Shiki:''' [[spoiler:''Sorry, but you're gonna have to die. It seems that if I kill a hundred of you guys, I get to return to my home world.'']]
** She also appears in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' as both an Assassin and Saber Servant that can potentially serve the player as her Master (so long as one can manage to unlock her). Available only during the Kara no Kyoukai event.
* ChastityCouple: With Mikiya. However, in "Mirai Fukuin" [[spoiler:it's revealed that in the distant future, they actually do have a daughter, so eventually things change between them.]]
* ChekhovsGun: It is shown in the second chapter that [[spoiler:Shiki possesses a sword and [[ChekhovsSkill is trained in its use]] by her father]]; it is later used in the fifth chapter, [[spoiler:though it is broken in the end.]]
* ColorMotif: Blue. Her primary kimono is blue, her eyes glow a vibrant blue when her powers activate, and most of her fights take place under the dark blue skyline of the night. The color represents both masculinity and feminity, and fits a brooding yet heroic woman like Shiki.
* ContraltoOfDanger: Her voice is rather low, and she is certainly someone whom you should not mess with.
* ConvenientComa: A big part of the overarching story; what led to and what happens during the coma, and the repercussions after the awakening.
* CoolSword: Her family katana, Kanesada Kuji, has accumulated so much mystery over its 500-year existence that it can slice through barriers and Bounded Fields simply by being drawn. However, it's broken while killing Araya when he and Shiki crash into the ground after leaping off the Ogawa Apartment Complex.
* CreepyGood: Shiki is a bloodthirsty sociopath with an inclination for murder and the power to see the death of anything in existence. There's still no doubt that she's a good guy, even if it's all thanks to [[MoralityChain Mikiya keeping her in line]].
* CryCute: Positively Cry ''Adorable'' in the finale of the film series [[spoiler:when she thinks Mikiya died]].
* CurbStompBattle:
** Delivers an awesome one to the ghosts in the first movie.
** And also in the seventh movie against [[spoiler:Shirazumi, when she actually wanted to kill him. And she didn't just kill him, she [[UpToEleven destroyed his entire existence.]]]]
* CursedWithAwesome: When her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception activated for the first time, Shiki hated it and even tried to gouge out her own eyes. Once she learned how to control their power, her eyes have made her nearly invincible in battle.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Dark brown hair and eyes.
* CuteAndPsycho: Nasu refers to Shiki as a ''{{tsun|dere}}gire'', as a reference to ''yangire'', the Japanese equivalent of this trope.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has a rather dry sense of humor when talking to other people.
* DeathGlare: "It's ''said'' that you can kill someone just by looking at them, but Shiki definitely has the potential." Indeed, she shows a DeathGlare later that even makes ''[[ImplacableMan Souren Araya]]'' pale with fear (but this last bit is only mentioned in the novels).
* DefrostingIceQueen: Basically, her entire character arc revolves around her gradual defrosting by Mikiya.
* DespairEventHorizon: She comes close to crossing it in the seventh chapter, where, [[spoiler:thinking she lost Mikiya forever, she gives up on living after killing Shirazumi. A NotQuiteDead Mikiya finds and embraces her very shortly after.]]
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: As a result of both losing SHIKI and spending two years alone in a void during her coma, when she wakes up she struggles with a sense of emptiness and complete apathy towards everything. This is the main reason behind her cold, standoffish personality, as well as her taste for killing - fighting to the death is the only thing that makes her feel alive.
* {{Determinator}}: Shiki never lets things like major injury slow her down for long.
* DevotedToYou: Mikiya's dedication to Shiki is beyond belief. No matter how much she tried to push him away, even when she claimed to be a murderer, he wouldn't leave her alone. Not even attacking him with a knife affected his feelings for Shiki and he went to visit her at the hospital every week until she woke up from her coma.
* DissonantSerenity: Her reaction to finding a dismantled corpse? Calmly kneel down, touch the blood in the ground and use it to paint her lips.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: She seems to like her leather boots, but aside from that, she is always shown barefoot at her place and often shown barefoot in official artwork and such. It's mainly used as a sign of purity, especially in shots of her wearing a white kimono and with a sword in hand.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: She says multiple times that she hates sweets and cold food.
* TheDon: [[spoiler:In ''Mirai Fukuin'''s preface Shiki is now in her thirties, married and a mother. She seems to have come in terms to be part of a {{Yakuza}} family and she became the Ryougi family's head]].
* TheDreaded: Has this reputation towards the characters in both her series and [[VideoGame/FateExtra out]] [[VideoGame/MeltyBlood of it]]. Of note, Kirie and Fujino were afraid of her during their respective fights against her (and if ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' and ''Garden of Oblivion'' are anything, Fujino is ''still'' scared of her even after [[spoiler:Shiki saved her life in the third movie]]), and even ''Araya'' feels a sense of dread when Shiki makes her killing intent clear during their second bout together. Even Mikiya and Enjou, both of whom are explicitly in love with her, fear her to some extent (but not enough to dissuade them from loving her anyways). In the ''Garden of Oblivion'' light novel, Seo's entire group, including Azaka, the aforementioned Fujino, and Ouji, do a collective OhCrap when they see [[spoiler:a zombified Shiki, still retaining her skills and abilities, spotting them and realizing they have to go through ''her'' in order to survive.]]
* DudeMagnet: Mikiya, Enjou, and [[spoiler:Shirazumi]] are head over heels in love with her, and even those who aren't particularly romantically interested in her note that she's very beautiful.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Carries off this vibe, what with her being an aloof, bloodthirsty BloodKnight and SociopathicHero.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Touko flirts with her during their first meeting and says she is her type.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She has a taste for killing, but dislikes the way Fujino Asagami kills as she pleases and only goes to fight her when she kills someone uninvolved with her revenge.
* EyeScream: In the fourth movie, Shiki crushes her eyes when her mind cannot handle the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, but doesn't lose her vision. She tries to do it again later, but is stopped by Touko.
* FemaleFighterMaleHandler: She has this dynamic with Mikiya. Shiki is a KnifeNut with eyes that give her the power how to kill anything in existence while her boyfriend Mikiya is her MoralityChain who keeps her from crossing the line.
* GaussianGirl: When she and Mikiya first meet.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Shiki and her obsession with large knives.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The characteristic iridescent-blue glow is used in the movies as a shorthand to inform the viewers whenever Shiki activates her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. While this is a much rarer occurrence in the novels, several characters (including Enjou, Araya, Shirazumi, and Meruka Kuramitsu in ''Mirai Fukuin'') describe Shiki's eyes as glowing blue whenever she makes them see the lines of death.
* GoodIsOldFashioned: Shiki makes almost no use of modern conveniences except for refrigeration and electric light, almost never even answers her telephone (and she hasn't changed the answering machine's message from its default), wears traditional clothing whenever possible, seems most comfortable in Touko's ancient, run-down office, and is utterly disgusted by drugs and casual sex. Although gender is more or less a non-issue for her for personal reasons; she questions Enjou's sexuality in a completely neutral manner and [[CannotTellAJoke tries to]] make a vulgar joke when the Kokutou siblings bring up the possibility of her dating Azaka's female classmates.
* IcyGrayEyes: Shiki has the cold/dangerous variety of gray eyes, which turn icy blue when she activates her Mystic Eyes. Interestingly, in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'', she is one of the few characters whose eyes ''don't'' glow red (Demon) or blue (not demon) in the opening "Versus" screen of each battle.
* TheGrimReaper: Seeing as she can kill ''everything'' including intangible forces, beings who are already dead, and spirits. She's even explicitly called a "Death God" by Touko during Book/Episode 5, "Paradox Spiral." Her ability to kill ''anything'' gets taken to its logical/absurd conclusion in Future Gospel, where she [[spoiler:cuts the ''future''. A precognitive, Meruka Kuramitsu, had set up a perfect and inescapable trap that would definitely kill Shiki -- so she kills that possibility and, by extension, Kuramitsu's foresight.]]
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: After failing the first attempt to rescue Mikiya from Kirie Fujou and losing one arm in the process, she eats the a whole Häagen-Dazs box, which earlier she refused to touch when Mikiya brought to her.
* HeartbrokenBadass: In the seventh movie, when [[spoiler:she believes Mikiya is dead]].
* HeirToTheDojo: She was chosen as the next head of the Ryougi family because of her older brother's inability to manifest his second persona, but apparently lost the position after losing her own. [[spoiler:However, in the end she gained that position once more and ultimately succeeded as the new head.]]
* HeroesLoveDogs: For a certain definition of "[[NominalHero hero]]". While normally disinterested towards most people, she's rather affectionate towards dogs, as seen with how playfully fond she is of Seo's dog, Akira.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Most notably [[spoiler:sparing Fujino's life]] and giving Enjou shelter.
* HopeIsScary: One reason why her feelings for Mikiya initially lead her to trying to kill him. He's a normal person who always believed she was a good person herself - a constant reminder that because of her upbringing, misanthropic nature, and the world she came from, she can't be normal like she secretly yearns for. This threatens both her and SHIKI's stability.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: While her knife skills are fearsome, being on par with a fifth dan kendo black belt like [[Characters/FateStayNightHumans Taiga Fujimura]], her full potential is only revealed while she has a sword in hand due to a self-suggestion placed on herself. Araya speculates that she could have killed him instantly if not for her previous injuries and exhaustion from being trapped outside of space.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: After meeting Mikiya, Shiki started yearning for a normal life with him. This is essentially what her and SHIKI's "dream" boils down to. Touko in the fourth chapter bluntly reminds her not to dream about it as they come from the same 'side' of the world that belongs to magi and the supernatural.
* ImportantHaircut: In the fourth movie, she cuts her long hair before she proceeds to kick some ass now that she has resolved to not give in to death.
* InASingleBound: She can easily jump from one building roof to another.
* IneffectualLoner: Shiki by nature wants to be alone, and doesn't seek the company of other people. However, Kokutou is instantly drawn to her and his sheer persistance eventually wins her over, and Azaka also actually likes Shiki very much, if only they weren't in love with the same person.
* InnocentCohabitation: With Enjou when she lets him stay at her apartment.
* ItGetsEasier: The reason [[spoiler:Mikiya kept telling her not to kill Shirazumi]], and the probable source of her BlueAndOrangeMorality above.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: In the fifth movie, Shiki packs out a family katana, Kanesada Kuji, to confront her most dangerous enemy yet. Said sword is five hundred years old, acumulating enough history and thus Mystery (what powers magic in the Nasuverse) that it can slice apart Bounded Fields and barriers simply by being drawn from the scabbard. Subverted, however, when Araya realizes that it's not the katana itself that makes it so dangerous, but a self-suggestion Shiki placed upon herself to bring out the most of her fighting ability, merely triggered by wielding that particular blade.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: One time she fought in a really fancy dress, and technically she does all her fighting in various kimonos.
* KimonoFanservice: Of the CostumePorn kind. While the fanservice aspect of Shiki's wardrobe is never played up, there's no denying that she looks downright attractive in them.
* KimonoIsTraditional: She wears nothing but kimono, except for a red leather jacket over it. While not strictly traditionalist, she's incredibly conservative.
* KnifeNut: Unbelievably badass with it as well. Not that she has anything against swords, as shown in [[spoiler:her fight against Araya]].
* LadyOfWar: That beautiful form-fitting kimono is likely the last thing you'll ever see.
* LastOfHerKind: Zigzagged. While the Ryougi family definitely still thrive compared to the other three demon hunting families in the modern era, Shiki is the last of the Ryougi to have manifested a split personality through the family's paranormal methods [[spoiler: as her daughter did not inherit this trait unlike her]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: In the movies, a specific tune is usually associated with her.
* LickedByTheDog: In ''Oblivion Recorder'', Azaka's roommate's pet collie becomes attached to Shiki.
* LightningBruiser: Strong and fast enough to take on the animalistic cannibal Lio Shirazumi, who can move faster than the human eye and tear apart people with his bare hands.
* LimitedWardrobe: Shiki is shown to own three of the same jacket.
* LonersAreFreaks: She's isolated, alienated, desperately lonely, and not quite mentally stable.
* LossOfIdentity: After she wakes up from her two year coma, while Shiki knows she is Shiki Ryougi, she does not feel that she is due to being unable to connect herself to the "her" from her memories and losing her SplitPersonality.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: The reason why Shiki wanted Mikiya out of her life. Her growing feelings and desire to be normal threatened her grip on the world, given her rather misanthropic nature. She eventually tried to kill him [[spoiler:and when she realized she couldn't bring herself to do it, she tried to kill herself instead. To quote, she decided that if she can't make him go away, she'll make herself go away instead.]]
* LoveRedeems: Mikiya's love for Shiki is the reason why she represses her murderous impulses.
* MafiaPrincess: The Ryougi family are prominent {{Yakuza}}, although she is very indifferent to her family's business and doesn't particularly like or dislike it. What she didn't like was being groomed to be their future head.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: She appears to be completely apathetic to being hurt. Sacrificing her left arm appears to be a fair tradeoff for winning to her, and gnawing her own thumb off to get free doesn't seem to bother her either.
* MaskOfSanity: She's a [[AxCrazy murderous psychopath]] who finds pleasure from killing, but thanks to her detached and stoic demeanor, as well as [[LoveRedeems Mikiya's influence]], she often appears more sane than she actually is.
* MeaningfulName: ''Ryougi'' means "two equal sides of opposites", and while ''Shiki'' can be translated to "method" or "equation", it's more accurate to say that the name was derived from ''"Shikigami"''.
* MisanthropeSupreme: Growing up with a complicated case of SplitPersonality that gave her awareness of her other self's thoughts made Shiki realize from a young age how ugly humans can be. This led Shiki to hate and reject humans until Mikiya came along.
* MistakenForMurderer: [[spoiler:She is suspected to have a connection with the murders of 1995-1996. Her appearing covered in blood at the crime scenes doesn't make her look like an innocent. However, at the end the real culprit is revealed to be Lio Shirazumi.]]
* MuggleMageRomance: With Mikiya. One of the main conflicts at the start of their relationship was that Shiki couldn't believe someone of the world she came from could ever be with someone as normal as Mikiya.
* MultiGenderedSplitPersonalities: Shiki's entire bloodline is capable of developing this if a specific ritual is performed when they're infants, though she's the heir of the family rather than her older brother because he was unable to manifest his second personality. Shiki's male personality SHIKI was killed during the car accident that left her in a coma two years ago; a major plot point is Shiki accepting SHIKI's loss and moving on.
* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: Though not an actual sibling, Shiki does something like this for her male personality by adopting his masculine behaviour and speech patterns after losing him.
* NobleDemon: Shiki is a SociopathicHero BloodKnight with a bit of BlueAndOrangeMorality, but she has standards and a kind of sense of responsibility. She loves killing people who are worth killing, but dislikes killing those who won't effectively fight back.
* NobodyTouchesTheHair: She says she dislikes just thinking about someone else touching her hair. [[AllThereInTheManual Although, according to Nasu and Takeuchi in an interview in the movie pamphlets]], Kaname Ryougi, her older brother, was the only one she actually allowed to touch and fix her hair. Not even Mikiya was allowed this privilege.
* NominalHero: A firm anti-heroine. If Shiki's enemies weren't all evil, and if it wasn't for Mikiya, she would have no virtues at all.
* OfficialCouple: With Mikiya.
* {{Ojou}}: Technically. Her family had effectively retired from the task of demon hunting, but they remained wealthy landowners. Her actual tomboyish, blunt and aggressive personality for most of the series doesn't fit this at all, but before she lost SHIKI, the original female personality fit this perfectly.
* OneHitKill: Her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception allow to see the Lines of Death of anything that exists; cutting along these lines results in the death of the victim.
* OppositesAttract: With Mikiya. She's an aloof and ruthless SociopathicHero, he's a friendly and compassionate NiceGuy.
* OreOnna: Notably uses the ''aggressive-masculine'' [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns pronoun]] of ''ore'' to refer to herself in spite of being the portrait of a [[YamatoNadeshiko classical dignified Japanese lady.]] [[spoiler:She goes back to using ''atashi'' in the post-credits scene of the seventh movie, indicating that she had accepted both her past and present self.]]
* PetTheDog: Typically involving Mikiya or Tomoe Enjou, and very strange but still sweet viewed in the light of it being Shiki. [[spoiler:Her sparing of Fujino and relieving her of her agonizing appendicitis is a big example as well.]]
* PitbullDatesPuppy: Shiki is an aloof, bloodthirsty BloodKnight and SociopathicHero, while her love interest Mikiya is a sweet, incredibly patient and pacifist NiceGuy. Taken to its logical extreme when Shiki once puts a knife to his throat and threatens to kill him.
* PrettyInMink: Her jacket has a fur collar.
* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: Shiki was raised as a male to be a suitable heir to the [[{{Yakuza}} family business]], although Shiki herself was never really into it, especially after her male personality died and she met Mikiya, leaving her household to live by herself in an apartment.
* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: Shiki is a [[SociopathicHero borderline psychotic sociopath]] who, nonetheless, is one of the "good guys" because most of the people she fights are even worse. Her sidekick and love interest Mikiya, on the other hand, is a [[AllLovingHero compassionate and morally upstanding individual with whom everyone wants to be friends]]--including some of the villains Shiki has to fight later.
* TheSacredDarkness: For what is essentially the human personification of the GrimReaper, she manages to stay away from the typical villain tropes rather well, even getting a ThemeMusicPowerUp reminiscent of religious chanting. It helps that she is also [[spoiler:essentially a void goddess.]]
* ShatterpointTap: She uses her power this way, visualizing the weakpoints and mortality of her targets, then striking exactly at that point, or cutting along the lines, she obliterates them.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She loves the NiceGuy Mikiya, who has sworn to stay devoted to her and be by her side no matter what happens.
* SlasherSmile:
-->'''Shiki:''' Hmph. I see, you really are quite something. In that case... (''cue PsychoStrings'') '''...I'LL JUST HAVE TO KILL YOU!'''
* SociopathicHero: ''Both'' the Hero ''and'' the Sociopathic played up very much. It's weird.
* SplitPersonality: To a much more complicated degree than usual. It's not that they're a single personality that was split - [[SharingABody they were always separate entities that happened to occur in the same body]]. The Ryougi family has the supernatural ability of dual personalities, which resulted in Shiki having both a (dominant) female side and a male side. Shiki ends up losing her other personality after the car accident.
* TheStoic: Shiki usually has the same bored expression on her face. Her disinterest in other human beings started it, but it's [[spoiler:her connection to the Root]] that made her empty.
* StoryBreakerPower: Her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception allow her to "kill" pretty much anything - magic, emotions, ghosts, living people, etc. - and her powers work through projectiles, which just screams for a sniper rifle. Then we find out the full extent of her powers [[spoiler:through her third personality]] in the original epilogue to the novels. [[spoiler:It turns out StoryBreakerPower would be [[RealityWarper putting it lightly]].]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Her facial features and dark hair greatly resembles her beautiful mother's, as shown in official character artworks and in her mother's very brief appearance in the 4th movie.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Shiki is often very brusque, businesslike, and aloof, although she does reveal a much more human and compassionate side towards Mikiya.
* SuperSpeed: Fast enough to blitz through a barrage of enemies and dodge an explosion detonated at point blank range.
* SupportingProtagonist: In the fifth and sixth movies, where she takes a backseat to Enjou and Azaka, respectively.
* TechnicalPacifist: Limits herself to avoid killing in the end [[LoveRedeems for Mikiya's sake]].
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Whenever Shiki begins doing something particularly epic, a suitably epic background track starts up; the music used in these scenes changes from movie to movie, if not from scene to scene, but manages to stay relatively similar overall (the tracks from her showdown [[https://youtu.be/XS5-m2h0XGg?t=6m27s with Souren Araya]] and her fight [[https://youtu.be/dFssxP7AGs0?t=5m12s with Asagami Fujino]] are great examples).
* TomboyishName: The "Shiki" in Shiki Ryougi is a neutral name, hence (male) Shiki Tohno of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''.
* TomboyishVoice: She has such a low voice that she could easily pass as a teenage boy that hasn't broken his voice yet. The fact that she talks like a guy and doesn't exactly act like a lady doesn't help, not to mention her previous male personality acting like a normal teenage boy albeit inside a girl's body.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She is a tomboy almost to the point of being a girl in biology only... However, a lot of this is a conscious front put on as a memorial to her deceased male personality, and she still frequently displays her more feminine side. For instance, Shiki likes to wear fancy kimono. Also, she at first says she doesn't like ice cream since [[RealMenHateSugar her male personality loathes it]], but it eventually becomes her favourite snack.
* TookALevelInBadass: In her fight against [[spoiler:Souren Araya]], Shiki becomes exponentially more proficient and deadly once she gets her hands on a [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]].
* TouchTheIntangible: She has a magical prosthetic arm, made by Touko, that is able to touch spirits. This comes in handy when she fights Kirie's AstralProjection.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bottled water, of all things (it's the only thing we ever see in her fridge). She's also very much associated with strawberry Häagen-Dazs ice cream, even though [[RealMenHateSugar her male personality loathes it]]. As she comes to terms with his loss, however, this becomes Shiki's favourite snack.
* TranquilFury: Angry or not, Shiki always has the same stoic attitude.
* {{Tsundere}}: She can be gruff towards Mikiya, but there's no doubt that she loves him.
* TsurimeEyes: Sharp and menacing eyes, like Shiki herself.
* UptownGirl: Shiki's family are wealthy landowners while Mikiya belongs to the middle-class. Before her coma, Shiki lived in a [[BigFancyHouse large Japanese-style mansion]] with a grove of bamboo beyond the outer wall. Afterwards, she lives by herself in an apartment.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: If you hurt Mikiya, you are ''dead''.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Azaka. See Azaka's entry for more details.
* WhenSheSmiles: The first time she shows a genuine smile during the third chapter.
* {{Yandere}}: A very complicated example. When Shiki develops feelings for Mikiya, it threatens both her and SHIKI's stability because of her misanthropic nature and her frustration with knowing that she could never be normal like Mikiya. This culminates in Shiki trying to kill Mikiya with a knife when he refuses to get out of her life. [[spoiler:However, it's subverted as Shiki couldn't bring herself to kill Mikiya and tried to kill herself instead.]]

!!SHIKI

Shiki's male personality that she lost after the car accident.
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* {{Bokukko}}: What immediately makes SHIKI stand out is that he refers to himself as 'ore', a very arrogant and masculine form, while Shiki refers to herself as the neutral/female 'watashi'. After SHIKI's death, Shiki starts using 'ore' to cope with SHIKI's death and to not forget him.
* DeathOfPersonality: He dies after the car accident, which gives Shiki a connection to death while she's still alive. [[spoiler:What's left is the hole that is her so-called "Third Personality."]]
* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:Shiki and Mikiya's daughter Mana views her mother's male personality as a "father". Despite being dead for a long time, Mana is aware of SHIKI having lived inside Shiki. She distinguishes SHIKI and Mikiya by calling the former "father" and the latter "Papa".]]
* GoOutWithASmile: He gave Mikiya one last smile [[spoiler:just before committing suicide]].
* HeroicSacrifice: Knowing Shiki could never become happy with him inside, SHIKI chose to die during the car accident so Shiki could finally live normally and be with Mikiya.
* PosthumousCharacter: While we do get to see him a couple of times in the chronologically first chapter/movie, most of his characterization comes from flashbacks and dialogue later in the chronology of the series.
* PsychopathicManchild: He has the speech and gestures of a child. He's also the one responsible for Shiki's murderous tendencies.
* RealMenHateSugar: He confirms to this teenage boy stereotype.
* RebelliousSpirit: He's the literal manifestation of Shiki's suppressed rebellious impulses.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red Oni to Shiki's Blue Oni. SHIKI is carefree with a free-radical nature, while Shiki is cold and brooding.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Indeed, having a girl with a male personality would give off this vibe. However, being the male personality between himself and Shiki, SHIKI's more outgoing nature helps contribute to the image of a tomboy with a feminine streak. During his "date" with Mikaya, he's seen enjoying himself in a more girly way by energetically running around, playing for stuffed dolls and checking out jewelry. He's also seen around wearing the same types of girly kimonos Shiki wears, and while not implied to be his choice, he doesn't exactly oppose wearing feminine clothing most of the time. Many of the traits Shiki has - her masculine traits, usage of male pronouns, etc. - are a front to specifically honor SHIKI's own personality.

!!「Shiki Ryougi」 '''*Spoilers*'''

A third personality Shiki is unaware of. Having always existed in the gap between Shiki and SHIKI, she hid her existence from both personalities. This personality is housed in the body rather than the other personalities housed in the mind.
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* AllPowerfulBystander: [[spoiler:She has nigh-omnipotence, but just doesn't care about anything so she hardly ever uses the power she possesses.]]
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Subverted. [[spoiler:She describes herself like she is the Void of Origin itself and states it is not incorrect to call her such, but WordOfGod states otherwise.]]
* CharacterFilibuster: The epilogue is basically just a half-hour straight of Shiki's third personality talking at length about the nature of the self and of Shiki's split personality with ''very'' occasional interruptions from Kokutou.
* DivineDate: She shares Shiki and SHIKI's love for Mikiya Kokutou while being something similar to a GodInHumanForm with RealityWarper powers. It's why she even bothers to show herself to him [[spoiler:and fixes Mikiya's leg without any comment or mention of it at the end of the epilogue OVA.]]
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Unlike normal Shiki, who wears non-traditional boots, this Shiki is barefooted, highlighting her serene demeanor.
* EmptyShell: She states she's essentially a hollow body without a soul or will of its own. The only reason why she can even speak is because of the Shiki personality giving her information of the outside world.
* GodInHumanForm: [[spoiler:She's essentially a goddess born from the void, living in a human body.]]
* TheOmnipotent: [[spoiler:She is the Origin of the Void, and claims to be capable of rewriting reality to her will by destroying it all and creating a new one. However, WordOfGod later downplays this, by stating that she is just the second most powerful being in the series under Archetype Earth, not counting Servant-like beings and Type Mercury.]]
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:She is capable of destroying and recreating almost all aspects of the world at will, such as when she fixes Mikiya's leg at the end of the series with a thought. However, since most of the world is equivalent to a story she's already read, she never feels any need to use her powers for anything but that.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: You can't know about her without giving away the biggest revelations of the epilogue.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Unlike Shiki, she is this in full. She's graceful, serene and soft-spoken and wears a much more elegant kimono than Shiki.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mikiya Kokutou]]
!!Mikiya Kokutou
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentaroIto (drama CD), Creator/KenichiSuzumura (anime), Creator/EriKitamura (Child in the sixth movie)
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-->''"I guess it can't be helped. I'll bear your sins in your place."''

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An unassuming OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, he is the male protagonist of the series. After initially seeing Shiki in the [[SnowMeansLove snow]], Mikiya confronts her and becomes her {{only friend}}. He becomes more and more attracted to Shiki as she confides in him until an accident leaves Shiki in a coma for two years. After crossing paths with dollmaker Touko Aozaki, he drops out of college to work for her as an investigator.\\\

After Shiki awakens from her coma, Mikiya finds he still has feelings for her and vice versa. Their relationship continues to grow throughout the remainder of the series.
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* ActualPacifist: His Origin is "one that will never hurt others, more so than anyone else."
* AllLovingHero: He's a compassionate and morally upstanding individual able to bring out the best of people, including those like [[SociopathicHero Shiki]]. He can easily listen to what other people say with an open mind while also letting others view him as very non threatening so they're more likely to open up. As a result he's able to easily make friends with pretty much anyone he wants. It's to the point that even when [[spoiler:Shirazumi]] has reached his breaking point of sanity, he notices that he hasn't fully lost it yet likely just due to Mikiya being present as he still recognizes him as a person who legitimately was always trying to help.
* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:He and Shiki have a daughter named Mana in the DistantFinale.]]
* BadassPacifist: He's no fighter, but he still gets plenty of awesome moments just with an sheer amount of determination and courage. Other characters note how Mikiya is actually very strong despite being so normal thanks to his unbreakable will alone.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Inverted, where it's Mikiya as the Gentle Boy and Shiki as the Brooding Girl.
* ChastityCouple: With Shiki. However, in "Mirai Fukuin" [[spoiler:it's revealed that in the distant future, they actually do have a daughter.]]
* CluelessChickMagnet: Mikiya attracts plenty of ladies, but since [[SingleTargetSexuality his sights are firmly set on Shiki]] he doesn't even notice it. Although to be fair, aside from Shiki and Azaka, Mikiya doesn't interact much with his other suitors (Kirie, Fujino, Seo) and didn't realize the effect he had in them with only one meeting. [[spoiler:Even his daughter seems to have an ElectraComplex for him.]]
* {{Determinator}}: In the seventh movie, [[spoiler:Shirazumi crushes his leg and then, just to be a complete dick, stabs it as well. And then, after refusing to take a drug that will prevent him from dying due to the effects of another drug, Shirazumi stabs Mikiya ''in the face''.]] This doesn't stop Mikiya from limping on said leg and then clawing his way to Shiki.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:In the seventh chapter/movie.]]
* DistressedDude: In the first movie, his soul is captured by Kirie Fujou and Shiki has to save him.
* DoggedNiceGuy: To Shiki, to an insane extent, though he doesn't have a stalker vibe to him. He's incredibly patient with Shiki and nothing she tries to do will keep him away from her for long.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Or at least [[spoiler:Shirazumi]] does, according to WordOfGod.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: When he was in high school, it was obvious to everyone that he had a crush on Shiki. When one of his friends asked him if they were dating, Mikiya responded with a SpitTake and the usual SheIsNotMyGirlfriend talk.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Loses an eye in the last chapter/movie courtesy of Shirazumi.]]
* FemaleFighterMaleHandler: Mikiya is a NonActionGuy, so his girlfriend Shiki is the one who fights the superpowered individuals they come across. Still, Mikiya provides essential moral support for Shiki, which is the one thing keeping her from becoming a homicidal killer.
* TheFettered: For God's sake, in ''Remaining Sense of Pain'' he [[spoiler:shelters a [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]] from street justice so he can turn him over to the police instead, even though he's viscerally disgusted (see the ScaryShinyGlasses example below).]] Later, he opposes killing [[spoiler:Shirazumi]], who is already a SerialKiller more similar to a savage animal than a human being, despite the fact that [[spoiler:Shirazumi]] had ''told Mikiya himself'' that the next time they meet he wouldn't be able to restrain his urges to murder him.
* FirstPersonSmartass: On occasion, in the novels.
* GoodIsDumb: His niceness usually leads him to do very stupid things. He even says he gets called an idiot a lot. On the other hand he is a competent researcher and detective and has no lack of book smarts.
* InnocentBlueEyes: He has blue eyes and he's the most good-natured and compassionate character in the cast.
* KindheartedCatLover: He briefly takes care of a cat in ''Extra Chorus''.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch:
** To Shiki. Having Mikiya by her side is what maintains her mostly stable while dealing with her loss of sense of self and the death of her split personality. [[spoiler:When she thinks Shirazumi killed Mikiya, Shiki decides she doesn't care about anything anymore, murders Shirazumi and falls over to the ground with no intention to get up again. Mikiya then claws his way back to her and promises to not leave her alone ever again.]]
** While it's less obvious, he is also this to [[spoiler:Shirazumi. Mikiya was his OnlyFriend and the only person who truly cared about him, but Shirazumi didn't realize how much Mikiya meant to him until it was too late. After he believes he killed Mikiya, Shirazumi snaps completely and goes more AxCrazy than he already was.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: He fell in love with Shiki Ryougi [[SnowMeansLove the moment he first saw her that snowy night]]. [[spoiler:He wasn't aware it was her third personality that he met, but that didn't change anything.]]
* LoveMartyr: He knows very well that Shiki is a complicated and dangerous woman with a lot of issues, but absolutely nothing, not even ''her outright trying to kill him'', will keep Mikiya from staying by Shiki's side whether she wants it or not.
%%* {{Megane}}
* MoralityChain: The only reason Shiki doesn't go around killing people is because she understands that she would break Mikiya's heart if she betrayed his trust. [[spoiler:Shirazumi knows this and tries to break the chain by threatening her about killing him. And it works; once he (incorrectly) tells Shiki he killed Mikiya, Shirazumi is diced into half a dozen pieces before he even ''hits the ground''. ]]
* MoralityPet:
** Mikiya is the only one who can bring out SociopathicHero Shiki's human and compassionate side.
** Also, Shirazumi is usually mild around Mikiya, acting like his old self only towards him.
* MuggleMageRomance: With Shiki. Mikiya knows they come from very different worlds and she's anything but normal, but he still loves her and wants to be with her.
* NiceGuy: Kokutou is a really decent, polite and patient guy, and a devout Zen Buddhist.
* NonActionGuy: Mikiya sticks to investigation and information gathering, which he is very good at, and leaves all the fighting to [[ActionGirlfriend Shiki]].
* ObliviousToLove: He's clueless to any girl aside of Shiki falling for him. It's not as bad as other examples because he barely got to meet most of those girls more than once, but it is surprising he hasn't noticed his sister's affection for him is clearly not platonic.
* OccultDetective: Since he didn't want to go to college without Shiki, Mikiya got a job as an assistant investigator in Touko's pseudo-detective agency that pursues cases with supernatural or abnormal elements.
* OfficialCouple: With Shiki.
* TheOneGuy: The only recurring male character among the protagonists.
* OnlyFriend: To Shiki [[spoiler:and Shirazumi]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Even though he is willing to protect him, Mikiya is disgusted with Keita Minato after the latter confessed that he and his gang had raped Fujino.
* OppositesAttract: With Shiki. He's a friendly and compassionate NiceGuy, she's an aloof and ruthless SociopathicHero.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: When he met Shiki, he was just an extremely normal high school student with exceptionally average grades who got himself involved in some weird stuff when he fell in love with a girl with a male split personality who could be a murderer. After Shiki ended up in a coma, Mikiya didn't want to go to college without her after graduating high school and started working under Touko as an assistant investigator.
* PeekABangs: As of the 7th movie. [[spoiler:Justified as it covers the eye he lost.]]
* PitbullDatesPuppy: Mikiya is a sweet, incredibly patient and pacifist NiceGuy, while Shiki is an aloof, bloodthirsty BloodKnight and SociopathicHero.
* ReallyDeadMontage: [[spoiler:In the seventh movie. Subverted in that he was NotQuiteDead.]]
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: His Origin is Normalcy, which makes him normal to the extreme.
* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: He's SociopathicHero Shiki's gentle and compassionate sidekick who is always trying to bring out the best of her and stop her from going too far on her enemies.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: The third movie after [[spoiler:Keita Minato confesses how he and his gang repeatedly raped Fujino Asagami]].
-->'''Mikiya:''' ''You. Shut up.''
* SecretKeeper: After [[spoiler:finding Shiki standing in front of a headless corpse, he didn't tell the police, deciding to believe she isn't the SerialKiller]]. Also, [[spoiler:he promises Shiki's Third Personality to not tell Shiki about her existence and powers]].
* SiblingYinYang: With Azaka. Mikiya's Origin is Normalcy; Azaka's is Taboo.
* SingleTargetSexuality: He loves Shiki and no one else. He even claims that he wouldn't mind if Shiki were male.
* SophisticatedAsHell: "''She is either an eminent virtuoso, or just a big weirdo.''"
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Even the official manga translation can't seem to decide if it's "Kokutou", "Kokuto" or "Kokutoh".
* SupportingProtagonist: While the main character is really Shiki, a chunk of the story is told in his point of view. He also serves as this to Shizune Seo in her side of the story in ''Future Gospel's'' ''Möbius Ring'' storyline.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The people he works with are morally neutral at best, while Mikiya is the most moral character in the series.
* UnableToCry: Mikiya says he couldn't cry even if he wanted to. He believes that crying is a "special" action that makes the person whom you are crying for "special" in return. Because he instinctively attempts to live a "normal" life as his Origin dictates, it is impossible for him to shed tears for someone unless they are truly special to him.
* UnbrokenVigil: During Shiki's two year coma, Mikiya goes to visit her every week. This even earns him the nickname "Puppy-kun" among the hospital staff.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: Mikiya doesn't care about what makes Shiki abnormal; be it split personalities, eyes that see death, [[spoiler:committing murder or being the incarnation of the Origin itself]]. He will love her and stay with her no matter what.
* UnfazedEveryman: A completely normal guy working for a magus. Nothing out of the ordinary there...
* WeirdnessCensor: Doesn't have one. In fact, Touko found it odd that he was able to find her and ask her for a job; given that she had spells around her office to make people ignore her.
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[[folder:Touko Aozaki]]
!!Touko Aozaki
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KikukoInoue (drama CD), Creator/TakakoHonda (anime)
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/KnK_Touko.jpg]]

Touko is an extremely powerful sorceress who masquerades as a puppet maker and occasionally a designer of buildings. Together with Mikiya, she runs a pseudo-detective agency that pursues cases with supernatural or abnormal elements.\\\

She is a powerful magus, able to reproduce parts of a body that can be used in place of the part that was lost. This proves useful as she can not only reproduce the part to perfection, but can augment it with her magic as well.\\\

She is the sister of [[VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru Aoko Aozaki]].
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Short, blue hair in the novels and long red hair in the movies to make her look more like her [[Characters/{{Tsukihime}} sister]].
* TheArchmage: Touko is one of the most skilled modern magi of the Nasuverse. She has an unusually high amount of Magic Circuits for an Aozaki member, but like the rest of her family, her Circuits are of excellent quality. Coupled with her natural gifted body, she is also a master of rune magic and puppetry, the latter being the reason why she is on the list of magi that are designated to be sealed.
* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:Her greatest achievement as a doll maker was the development of a process to make perfect copies of herself that will awake when the current her dies. As one of the Toukos dies in "Paradox Spiral", this means either she ''was'' a copy up till that point in the story, or became one afterwards... assuming the "original" Touko wasn't already long dead. Touko herself suggests it doesn't really matter, pointing out since her other selves are all perfect copies, she can't even prove that the "original" her is / was any more real than the "artificial" her anyway.]]
* BadassBookworm: Knowledgeable in ''loads'' of fields. It's noted in ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' that she's ''single-handedly'' responsible for reviving the entirety of modern Rune Magecraft by researching the Futhark runes and rediscovering Primeval Runes from the Age of Gods.
* BadassLongcoat: She wears an orange longcoat in the fifth chapter, which makes her look more badass when she faces Araya and [[spoiler:kills Cornelius]].
* BenevolentBoss: Although she's not good about paycheques. That said, she hauls Mikiya and Shiki out of trouble a few times apparently for no reason other than that they work for her.
* BerserkButton: She's usually pretty calm, but if you call her a "dirty red," calm turns to TranquilFury and you're dead. It's her policy. It is also amusing to note that since the fifth movie came out, calling her a "dirty red" or simply mentioning that name on certain {{Imageboards}} bears a similar result to saying [[JustForFun/CandleJack Candleja-.]] [[Literature/FateStrangeFake Francesca]] made it a point to push the button with all deliberation just to see what she'd do. Answer: brutally murder her, then proceed to kill another dozen copies and torch half as many safehouses.
* BodyBackupDrive: [[spoiler:As a genius dollmaker, she figured out how to create perfect copies of her own body and mind, which awaken when her current "container" is destroyed.]]
* ButNowIMustGo: Decides in the last chapter that she's been hanging around one area too long and moves on.
* CainAndAbel: With Aoko, the Abel who (unintentionally) stole the rights of the Family Head of Aozaki Clan. Touko entered the Clock Tower academy to get her revenge on her, making her the Cain. Let's just say the rivalry between the sisters has gotten [[MoralEventHorizon rather bad]] a good few times in the past.
* TheCameo: She has been seen in ''VideoGame/FateExtra''. Along with her [[SarcasmMode beloved little sister]] [[Characters/{{Tsukihime}} Aoko]] -- '''in the very same room, no less.'''
* ChristmasCake: Touko is about twenty-seven or twenty-eight. She was a high school student during a fad for pop-a-point pencils (in TheEighties) and the parts of the story in which she appears take place between 1998 and 1999.
* CloningBlues: Inverted. [[spoiler:Cornelius is utterly horrified to find out she has multiple copies of herself, as he realizes he's been unable to tell when he's been dealing with a copy or the "real" her. Touko herself sees no distinction, as the copies are all perfect ones physically and mentally (thanks to a magic HiveMind), so as far as any given Touko is concerned, all her copies ''are'' her. By the time of ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'', her copies have progressed in complexity to the point of being able to pass DNA testing.]]
* ColorCharacter:
** In compounds the 橙 kanji in her name means orange (and can be read as Tou___). Alba calls her 橙色の魔術師, ''the Orange Magus''.
** Her family name contains the word for "blue" (Ao), which is the reason why she aimed to get the primary color title of "blue" in London.
* ColorMotif: Mikiya mentions that Touko always seems to wear something orange as a rule. In the movies, she is wearing orange earrings, a necklace with an orange stone, orange painted fingernails and occasionally an orange coat.
* ContinuityNod: She was the creator of the glasses that Shiki Tohno wears in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', as well as Shirou Emiya's [[spoiler:new body]] in the True End of ''Heaven's Feel'' in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''.
* CoolBigSis: Acts this way towards Mikiya and Shiki. [[SiblingRivalry Not so much towards her]] [[CainAndAbel actual sister,]] though.
* CreepyGood: Although she is the boss through which our heroes are employed, Touko has an uncomfortable tendency to find amusement, if not outright ''viciously laugh'' at the irony of human suffering rather feel compassion.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Has red hair and eyes in everything but the original novel release.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: When Touko gets behind the wheel in the third movie, Mikiya's reactions tell us that she's like this. We find out in the 5th movie that she never went to driving school, which explains a lot.
* EccentricMentor: She almost never has the money to pay her apprentices because she has a habit of making impulse purchases of weird things. There's also the massive collection of doll parts... and just about everything else about her.
* EldritchAbomination: Has a series of suitcases filled with increasingly terrifying shadow monsters, with the strongest we see having a multi-limbed shoggoth looking thing inside it that ''eats'' her enemies alive. [[spoiler:She herself edges towards HumanoidAbomination, as she's created an endless series of BodyBackupDrive copies that will replace the current her with the exact same personality and memories, one after another, the second the latest her dies, much to the existential horror of those unlucky enough to find out.]]
-->'''Cornelius:''' Then was the you I've been dealing with this entire time... no... are... are you real?\\
'''Touko:''' Really now... what's the point of a question like that when [[HiveMind I'm the one you're asking]]!
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Dirty Red", which is a way of mocking her and saying she plays second fiddle to her little sister. God help you if you dare to call her that, though. In "Paradox Spiral", she kills a longtime colleague simply for the crime of calling her her hated college nickname, and even let's slip since college she kills ''every magus'' who calls her that.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: At her core, this is what she boils down to (especially if you take into account her actions and personality in ''VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru'' as effectively the BigBadFriend of that story). She may be an apathetic magus, but she'll be damned if Shiki or the Kokutou siblings will end up the same.
* ExistentialHorror: [[spoiler:Her BodyBackupDrive brings up existential questions of what it even means to be "real" if you can be perfectly replaced. And while she doesn't really give a damn, ''VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru'' reveals it's to the point the original Touko ''willingly'' let her first duplicate kill her ''years'' ago, just to get around a {{Geas}} that kept her from trying to kill her sister again a few years early.]]
* TheGlassesComeOff: Invoked. With her glasses on, she's comparatively nice, thanks to an enchantment on them that implements the equivalent of self MindManipulation. When they're off, she's much ruder.
* HiveMind: Exploited to implement her BodyBackupDrive concept. [[spoiler:Her untold number of copies are all being fed memories and experiences through a magical connection from the current her. So as soon the current Touko dies, the next Touko wakes up with the same mind, abilities, and memories to continue right where the last her left off.]]
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: [[spoiler:Thanks to what basically amounts to BodyBackupDrive by means of one-to-one copies of herself that automatically awake when the current her dies, she can't be killed by any conventional means... not that the existential angst over realizing you can die and still be perfectly replaced is any less horrifying.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Like many magi. Oh, she ''understands'' human feelings and pain. She is just so ''clinical and logical'' about it that she just ''doesn't care.''
-->'''Shiki:''' Are you... human?
-->'''Touko:''' I'm a magus.
* LosingYourHead: [[spoiler:In the fifth chapter, Araya decapitates her and [[AndIMustScream keeps her head alive so that her next body doesn't activate]].]]
* LossOfIdentity: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Touko at one point created an exact duplicate of her body, down to the last detail, which made her realize that her own individuality was completely meaningless, as that body could exist as her on its own. She links it to her consciousness and sets it to wake up the instant her current body dies, so it quite literally is her, complete with memories, and she sees no meaningful difference between that body and any other body she might make and use.]]
* TheMasquerade: She is allegedly an architectural draftsman and toy designer. Her workplace is one of the main settings; not only is this not all she does, ''she's barely ever shown doing it at all''.
* {{Meganekko}}: Sometimes, when she has her glasses on. When they're off she tends to get... unpleasant. Was a straight example when she was younger.
* MerlinAndNimue: She teaches Azaka magecraft at Azaka's insistence.
* MoneyDearBoy: InUniverse, it's her main reason to establish a paranormal detective agency. However, by the time of ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'', she was offered a fortune to collaborate with the masterminds behind the Snowfield Holy Grail War, only to turn them down no matter how much cash she was offered. This might have something to do with the fact Francesca, one of said masterminds, made it a point to push her BerserkButton, though Francesca herself believes she would have been more receptive had the request been worded to appeal to her interests.
* NighInvulnerable: [[spoiler:Permanently killing Touko is next to impossible. Once her body dies, her soul and memories are transferred to a puppet that is absolutely identical to herself, and the first thing she does when she wakes up is making another body, with ''Paradox Spiral'' being the one exception because she was in a rush. The only way to stop her is to either kill all her bodies, destroy her soul or incapacitate her without killing her, which is what Araya does.]]
* NominalHero: Not as obvious as Shiki, but Touko is not a heroic or benevolent person by nature and only acts for her own benefit. She only appears like a good guy because she's dealing with people way worse, she's genuinely fond of Shiki and the Kokutou siblings, and her little sister isn't around.
* OccultDetective: She works as an investigator for cases with supernatural or abnormal elements.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: She's a supernatural detective because it's the best way to make ''a truckload of money'' with her skills, not out of any sense of justice or decency. And oh, [[ItAmusedMe it helps to kill the boredom of day to day existence.]]
* OutOfFocus: She's a major character in the first five movies, but her role is greatly diminished afterwards.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue Oni to Aoko's Red Oni.
* RenaissanceMan: She is, in name or in fact, an architectural draftsman, toy designer, bunraku puppet theatre techie, magus, detective, and speech therapist. Her specialization in both runes and puppetry as a magus is noted to be an outlier in ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' with how she's managed to excel at both more than anyone has in decades.
* RetiredMonster: She's much more laid back, if no less twisted or ruthless, than she was back in her high-school days.
* SealedGoodInACan: [[spoiler:Has a short tenure as one in ''Paradox Spiral'', where Araya rips out her heart but keeps her head alive to prevent her fail-safe duplicate from awakening.]]
* SiblingRivalry: With Aoko. Unlike other examples of this trope, this is taken in an uglier direction, lasting for years and splitting the two apart, the crux of it being [[spoiler:Touko wanted the "Blue" title and the magic skill that Aoko had]].
* SiblingYinYang: With Aoko. Aoko is much more cheerful and outgoing while Touko is more reserved.
* SmokingIsCool: Like a chimney. Just try finding a shot of her ashtray where it's not full of cigarette butts.
* SociopathicHero: Even moreso than Shiki. She's a magi after all, so nearly complete LackOfEmpathy and disregard for human morals is to be expected from her.
* SquishyWizard: She's one of the most powerful magi in the world and an expert puppet maker, but doesn't appear to be very good when it comes to physical combat. Lampshaded when Araya comments Touko herself once told him that a puppet user loses in the moment its puppet is defeated.
* TranquilFury: When she's absolutely pissed, Touko will calmly tell you what you did to invoke her ire and proceed to kill you in cold blood.
* TsurimeEyes: Has eyes that slant slightly away from her forehead, to signify her maturity in comparison to the younger Shiki and Mikiya.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Azaka Kokutou]]
!!Azaka Kokutou
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukariTamura (drama CD), Creator/AyumiFujimura (anime)
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-->''"I have a confession. I love special things."''

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Mikiya's younger sister, who is obsessed with him. She becomes an apprentice of Touko due to her rivalry against Shiki and is talented in the magic of [[PlayingWithFire ignition.]]\\\

Azaka actually likes Shiki and vice-versa, but both of them have trouble expressing it due to the fact that they have feelings for Mikiya. She is short-sighted, easily-agitated, and impulsive, but is good-natured at heart and a more-than-competent combatant. She is the protagonist of the sixth movie.
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* ActionDressRip: In her fight against Ouji.
* ActionGirl: The sixth movie shows what she's made of when she shows off her skills as a KungFuWizard.
* AllThereInTheManual: How she first met Touko was only briefly touched upon in the pamphlet that came with the sixth movie. Apparently, they met each other during the period when Shiki was still in her coma and that [[VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru Tobimaru Tsukiji, Aoko's]] [[ChildhoodFriends childhood friend]], was somehow involved.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Not to her actual brother, but Shiki treats Azaka more like an annoying little sister than a real love rival.
* AscendedExtra: Her role in the sixth movie is greatly expanded compared to in the novel, where Shiki received at least equal focus.
* BadassAdorable: Sure, Shiki may be charming and beautiful, but Azaka-chan fits this trope better as she acts in a more cutesy fashion.
* BigBrotherAttraction: She has a crush on her older brother. It stems from her Origin of Taboo, a natural attraction to that which is forbidden.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Openly states that she's in love with Mikiya, her blood-related brother - ''[[EstablishingCharacterMoment during her self-intro narration, no less]]''. She even left home, had their uncle adopt her, and enrolled at Reien Ladies' Academy in hopes that their time apart would lead Mikiya to view her as a woman rather than his little sister.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She hates anyone who gets close to Mikiya. This is why she can't stand Shiki.
* ADayInTheLimelight: She is the protagonist of the sixth movie.
* EnemyMine: With Misaya Ouji in ''Garden of Oblivion''. The novel reveals that [[VitriolicBestBuds they still don't get along well even though they're technically allies now]]. Though this is can be seen as an improvement compared to their previous relationship.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Her feelings for Mikiya are quite obvious. Shiki knows about them and is quite sure she isn't the only who has noticed them. Azaka's interactions with Seo in ''Extra Chorus'' pretty much confirm this. Of course, [[ObliviousToLove Mikiya has no idea of her feelings]].
* FoeTossingCharge: Performs one of these against [[spoiler:the big demon flower controlling Ouji]]. She even finishes it off with her best approximation of a [[Anime/GunBuster Super Inazuma Kick]].
* GirlishPigtails: When she was a child, making her look identical to young ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'''s Rin.
* GirlyBruiser: Her fighting style includes hand-to-hand combat.
* GirlyRun
* HopelessSuitor: No matter how hard Azaka tries, Mikiya is unlikely to ever see Azaka as more than his cute sister.
* HotBlooded: Azaka is a very energetic, extroverted and passionate person, fitting a magus whose talent is PlayingWithFire. She also is quick to anger when her friends are harassed or mistreated. Or when she sees her rival in love, Shiki.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: She admits she has a natural attraction to things that are "special" or "forbidden". Stems from her Origin of "Taboo".
* {{Kawaiiko}}: Azaka-chan is a slightly older than usual example, but oh so very cute nevertheless.
* KungFuWizard: Her style of combat. Anyone [[WrongGenreSavvy expecting her to be]] [[GlassCannon a worthless warrior]] in close combat [[SquishyWizard because she practices magic]] is in for a ''very'' rude surprise.
* LastNameBasis: Her schoolmates call her by her last name, including Fujino and Ouji.
* LittleSisterHeroine: She's Mikiya's cute little sister who has a huge incestuous crush on him and often challenges his actual love interest.
* {{Nephewism}}: During her self-intro narration, she mentions she had their uncle adopt her in hopes it would make Mikiya stop thinking of her as his sister. In the novels however, her explanation for having her uncle adopt her in the first place was due to her [[IllGirl poor health as a child]]. Her parents must have thought that letting her live there would improve her health since her uncle's place had a cleaner and healthier environment than the city they lived in.
* PlayingWithFire: She is able to learn ignition spells due to her inborn ability of triggering spontaneous combustion.
* PluckyComicRelief: Compared to the other characters, Azaka is pretty comical. Most of the scenes in which she's around are the most light-hearted moments in the series.
* PluckyGirl: While she can be hot-tempered, not a lot of things can get this girl down.
* RebelliousSpirit: Her Origin is ''taboo'', so she has a natural urge to do what she's supposed not to.
* SiblingYinYang: With Mikiya. Mikiya's Origin is Normalcy; Azaka's is Taboo.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Ever since she can remember, she has only been interested in Mikiya.
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Azaka is strong enough to pin down ''Shiki''.
* TechnicolorFire: Her flames are a mix of various shades of blue, green, purple, white and red.
* TrickedOutGloves: She wears a Mystic Code, Salamander Skin Gloves, given to her by Touko in combat to make up for her subpar spell-weaving skills.
* {{Tsundere}}: Sweet type. She's usually pretty nice and friendly to everyone and very affectionate to her brother. She only becomes harsh and hostile around Shiki. She's still able to admit that she actually likes her well enough, it's just that since she views Shiki as her rival she can't be too friendly towards her.
%%* TsurimeEyes
* UnknownRival: She sees Shiki as her ultimate rival for Mikiya's affections. Shiki, however, doesn't take her seriously and only treats her like a minor nuisance.
* VitriolicBestBuds: As revealed by WordOfGod, Azaka actually respects Shiki, and is quite fond of her; the feeling is mutual on Shiki's part. The girls understand each other enough to laugh at and finish the punch line of each-other's jokes, and marvelously complementing each other in abilities on the battlefield. The ''one'' thing, however, that prevents them from actually openly admitting their friendship to one another is their mutual love for Mikiya.
[[/folder]]

!Major Characters
[[folder:Daisuke Akimi]]
!!Daisuke Akimi
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HirokiTochi

Mikiya's cousin and the police inspector in charge of 1995-96 murder spree investigation.
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* AgentMulder: He seems to believe in the supernatural, but he never actually finds anything conclusive.
* FriendOnTheForce: To Mikiya, apparently trusting his cousin enough to discuss confidential investigation details with him.
* NiceGuy: It almost seems to run in the family.
* ShipTease: Gets a bit with Touko, and even apparently went on a ''date'' with her, but it ultimately doesn't seem to go anywhere.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tomoe Enjou]]
!!Tomoe Enjou
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TetsuyaKakihara
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-->''"Ah, I wish this spiral was a paradox..."''

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The central character of the fifth movie, he is a high school student who crosses paths with Shiki Ryougi after she saves him from a group of bullies. He hides out in Shiki's apartment after admitting to her that he was forced to [[SelfMadeOrphan kill his parents]] because of his recurring dreams of getting killed by his mother.
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* AccidentalPervert: During a montage, he walks past an open doorway and can see Shiki changing. He looks visibly annoyed, and shuts the door.
* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:He's actually a puppet created to repeat the real Enjou's death.]]
* AudienceSurrogate: According to WordOfGod. Probably qualifies as ThisLoserIsYou given his status as TheWoobie.
* BadassNormal: He has his moments. Namely, delivering a gruesome EyeScream with no regrets, cauterizing a gaping wound without hesitation, and [[spoiler:challenging Araya head-on, even knowing he stood no chance]].
* CombatPragmatist:His first attack in self-defense? A gruesome EyeScream. The light novel extends it, as in there the first thing he does is ''jam a can into an enemy's mouth then punch it in''.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The real Tomoe Enjou is long dead. The one we see in the movie is a mere replica. When he [[DiscoveringYourOwnDeadBody finds his own preserved brain]] he [[LaughingMad does not take it well]].]]
* DeathSeeker: Partially brought about by his Origin, Worthlessness.
%%* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Described in the novel as having very feminine features to the point that he is often mistaken for a girl.
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:''"I was here..."'']]
* FirstPersonSmartass: Tends to snark a lot in his internal monologues in the novels.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Once he realizes exactly ''what'' he is. At first, it seems a SenselessSacrifice, but he did bring with him the Kuji-no-Kanesada, which allowed Ryougi to fight at her absolute best and defeat Araya.]]
* InnocentCohabitation: With Shiki when she lets him stay at her apartment.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Upon meeting Mikiya, Enjou immediately realizes what is going on between him and Shiki. He takes it surprisingly well, believing that even though he loves her, Mikiya is the one she needs. He still considers them to be an odd pairing, though.]]
* LastNameBasis: Only his parents and the thugs at the beginning of the movie call him by his first name. Shiki always calls him by his last name, and he always calls her by her last name, too.
* LostInTranslation: His quote up there sounds a lot less [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords ridiculous]] in Japanese.
* LoveAtFirstSight: He says he fell in love with Shiki the moment he first saw her. [[spoiler:Araya says he simply imprinted such feelings in Enjou's mind, but Enjou says it makes them no less real in his own perception.]]
* {{Matricide}}: He claims he killed his own mother when she tried to kill him. It's a bit more complicated than that, naturally. [[spoiler:To sum it up, what Enjou killed was a puppet of his mother created to repeat their deaths. Enjou's real mother [[MurderSuicide killed herself after she killed her husband and the real Enjou.]]]]
* TheRunaway: He ran away from home after he thought he killed his own mother. Shiki then takes him in and lets him stay at her place.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Araya only lost because of Enjou's love for his family.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Tomoe Enjou is an ArtificialHuman, as he himself confirms when he finds the BrainInAJar with his name on it. The real one was killed off long ago.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Unlimited]] [[http://tinyurl.com/2uge4l9 Haagen-Dazs]] [[MemeticMutation Works!]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shizune Seo]]
!!Shizune Seo
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaIguchi
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Azaka's roommate in the Reien Girls' Academy, and a woman who can predict the future through her eyes. She has a cameo appearance in the sixth movie, but her role is expanded upon in the Future Gospel epilogue.
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* AscendedExtra: Once just a cameo character in the sixth movie, Seo goes on to become one of the focus characters and main narrator in ''Future Gospel'', and once again takes the helm as the narrator and main protagonist of the ''Garden Of Oblivion'' novel and [[DramaCD drama CDs]].
* BlessedWithSuck: Her precognitive ability has only given her grief and a pessimistic outlook in life due to being unable to avert disasters she sees when it really matters and because said visions only come to her at random. It wasn't until she meets Mikiya that she's convinced to change her mindset for the better and with renewed hope.
* BookDumb: She's bad at studying and at exams, despite the fact that she could easily use her power to know the answers beforehand.
* BoyishShortHair: Her hair is very short, though she's not typically tomboyish at all.
* BrainyBrunette: Subverted. She's a top student of her school because of her precognitive ability, not because she's good at studying.
* ChekhovsGunman: She's mentioned by both Azaka and Mikiya separately in the 6th and 7th movies respectively and makes a last minute appearance near the end of ''Oblivion Recorder''. Her story is finally told in the side story, ''Future Gospel''.
* EarlyBirdCameo: She briefly appears at the end of ''Oblivion Recorder'', but the circumstances surrounding her as well as her precognitive abilities aren't elaborated on until ''Future Gospel'', the events of which happened many months prior to ''Oblivion Recorder''.
* FirstNameBasis: Mikiya calls her by her given name, which initially makes her blush. She later asks him to call him by his given name, too. She also calls her two best friends, Naomi and Azaka, by their given names while they call her by her last name.
* {{Foil}}: To Meruka Kuramitsu, also known as Mitsuru Kamekura. Both individuals have similar precognitive abilities that have made them unhappy with their lives and have given them despair over living. The difference is that Seo cannot control the visions she sees (they appear randomly) and believes that the future can't be altered no matter what, while Kuramitsu has an additional ability that helps him achieve the visions he sees. Seo tries to live her life normally despite her powers and even tries to use these visions to save a life, while Kuramitsu uses his for a living by bombing targeted places. Their character developments also fall under this category, with Seo learning, after a pep talk from Mikiya, to live a happy life despite her powers since the future is something she realizes isn't concrete, and therefore uncertain and worth living, while Kuramitsu learns the same lesson the hard way via an encounter with Shiki.
* HopelessSuitor: She develops a crush on Mikiya, but realizes that she can't possibly hope to be as close to him as Shiki is.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: She has complicated feelings towards her precognitive abilities in that while some of the visions she sees can benefit her in some way, [[BlessedWithSuck she also gets to foresee possibilities of very unfortunate incidents and disasters in her visions that she usually has little power of changing to avert them,]] with the added "bonus" that said visions only come to her randomly and without warning. She also doesn't tell other people about her ability out of fear of being ostracized for it.
* LastNameBasis: Her two best friends, Naomi and Azaka, call her by her last name, even though she calls them by their given names.
* LimitedWardrobe: She only has her school uniform, since her father doesn't send her any clothes to Reien Academy. The outfit she wears in ''Future Gospel'' is borrowed from her friend Naomi.
* ProphecyTwist: Lampshaded by Mikiya. [[spoiler:She predicted that Mikiya would die if he gets close to Shiki, he would get killed. [[LostInTranslation In a strange sort of pun]], it turns out that she was referring to his "eye".]]
* {{Seers}}: One of three in ''Future Gospel''.
* SpoiledSweet: Though the Seos are wealthy winemakers, Seo remains a sweet girl who prefers to live as simply as possible and never flaunts her wealth to anyone.
* YouCantFightFate: She firmly believes in this, until she meets Mikiya.
[[/folder]]

!Villains
[[folder:Souren Araya]]
!!Souren Araya
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JojiNakata
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A former Buddhist monk who has lived for around 300 years and a previous acquaintance of Touko from the Mage's Association, he is a major antagonist of the series who appears during the fifth movie.

Though he may be an average magus at face value, he is highly skilled in the creation of Boundary Fields. Over the course of the series, he sets into motion an elaborate scheme involving awakening supernatural powers in others in order to further his own goal of reaching the Origin.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:As Souren Araya dies, we learn that he was so torn up about being unable to save people he at least wanted their deaths to be known and recorded.]]
* BadassBaritone: Being voiced by Creator/JojiNakata makes this a given.
* BadassLongcoat: He always wears a black coat.
* BareFistedMonk: He started out as one.
* BarrierWarrior: Has the ability to manipulate boundary fields, which he can wield offensively.
* BeatStillMyHeart: [[spoiler:Rips Touko's heart out of her chest.]]
* BigBad: Arguably the main antagonist of the series seeing as he's pretty much responsible for everything bad that happens to Shiki after she meets Mikiya in high school.
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:He easily defeats Shiki the first time around and disintegrates Enjou before he even gets to land a blow]].
* TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: He tells Touko that he forgot his reasons for pursuing the Origin a long time ago. [[spoiler:Subverted when he tells Touko his motives as he dies.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: Inverted. Despite being one of the most important characters in the series, he only appears in the fifth movie. If we're counting flashbacks, then he also appears in a few in the seventh movie as well.
* EvilPlan: [[spoiler:Collect and record the deaths of people, and reach the Origin so he can end the world to prevent more meaningless deaths.]]
* GeniusLoci: His experimental apartment complex.
* HarmfulHealing: In the third movie, he repairs Fujino's cracked vertebrae and restores her sense of feeling. Yes, this is an ''evil'' act.
* HiddenEyes: Unlike most examples, we get a few good shots of them, but most of the time they're obscured by shadows.
* ImplacableMan: His Origin of ''stillness'' should give you an indication of just how implacable he is. [[spoiler:This Origin bites him in the ass later, when, on the ground with a broken sword sticking in his chest, ''but'' with his dream of reaching the Origin a few feet away (Ryougi having been knocked unconscious by the impact), his body refuses to move.]]
-->'''Araya:''' ''I see... truly my Origin is stillness.''
* KungFuJesus: One of his arms has a Buddha's remains grafted onto it, making him nearly unkillable when combined with the power of his Origin.
* LastNameBasis: Nobody calls him by his given name. He also calls Alba by his last name for most of the time.
* ManBehindTheMan: He is the catalyst of villainy in most villains in the series.
* ManipulativeBastard: To pretty much everyone, but especially [[spoiler:Lio Shirazumi]]. "Helping" Fujino Asagami by healing her turned her into a murderous person, and giving Kirie Fujou access to a second body leads to a series of suicides, all to make them clash against Shiki and help him find the Spiral of Origin.
* MeaningfulName: In Buddhism, the collective unconscious of humanity, its will to survive, and therefore the "collective pool of humankind's selfishness", is called ''Arayashiki''. Touko points out [[spoiler:the {{Irony}} of ''Araya having the very same name as that which he detests.'']]
* NighInvulnerability: Nigh indestructible [[spoiler:due to his Origin of "Stillness" and having a Buddha's remains grafted onto his left arm - combined, these were even able to block the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. For a little while, at least.]] Not only that, but in the original novels, he still had a considerable lifespan left ''after Shiki pierces him in his death dot.'' That's typical Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} logic -- the longer something has existed and the more magically powerful, the longer it will take to "die" completely when killed. There's some Dead Apostle Ancestors who have been dead for ''millennia'' and still exist.
* NoCureForEvil: Subverted. Araya is very good at healing. He repairs Fujino's cracked vertebrae. That was not a nice thing to do.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: More like 300, but who's counting?
* SnowMeansDeath: Snow begins to fall shortly after he dies.
* StartOfDarkness: A flashback/dream shows him standing in the aftermath of a bloody conflict 200 years ago, looking at the corpse of a little boy who got caught up in it. He resolves that since he cannot save anybody, he will at least collect and record the deaths of people.
* TheStoic: He is always serious and barely shows any other emotions.
* SuperSpeed: Shown to be able to dodge a bullet after it has been fired.
* TragicVillain: When Touko calls him pathetic, she means it [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathos in the original sense.]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: His reasoning for wanting to eradicate what he considers a CrapsackWorld.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His ultimate goal is to reach the Origin so he can end this world so there can be no more meaningless deaths. To achieve this, he will make as many sacrifices as he sees necessary.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kirie Fujou]]
!!Kirie Fujou
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikiIto (drama CD), Creator/RieTanaka (anime)
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-->''"Can you fly?"''

\\
A member of the Fujou clan, she appears as the antagonist of the first movie. As a child, she was stricken with a terminal illness and has been bedridden ever since. Her powers grant her the ability to unconsciously perpetuate the Fujou Building Suicides, which are the main focus of the first movie.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Kirie Fujou kills herself when she has nothing left to live for anymore. The characters seem to feel bad for her at least.]]
* AnimalMotifs: The butterfly, in reference to her [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth all the death themes surrounding her character]].
* AntiVillain: She's responsible for the deaths of all the girls who jumped from the Fujou Building, but when we meet her physical self, Kirie isn't that evil at all. She's portrayed as a pitiful IllGirl who (by her own words) didn't realize she was causing harm to others and everything she did was in order to get rid of her loneliness.
* AstralProjection: Kirie is able to control a ghostly version of herself above the Fujou Building while her real self is still at the hospital.
* BlessedWithSuck: Possesses unnaturally robust fortitude, however, this sadly only prolongs her life rather than giving her the power to overcome her sickness.
* BlindingBangs: Her eyes are usually covered by her hair, which complements her StringyHairedGhostGirl looks.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She's jealous of Shiki because she has a crush on Mikiya.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:She ends up committing suicide by jumping from the Fujou Building because [[SuicideIsPainless she wanted to revive the feeling she had when Shiki killed her spiritual counterpart]].]]
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Reinforced by her blindness even.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: She has long black hair and ghostly pale skin, making her look like a StringyHairedGhostGirl.
* EtherealWhiteDress: She's only seen wearing a white hospital gown, giving her AstralProjection an even more ghostly appearance.
* FriendlessBackground: She never had the chance to make friends due to being hospitalized from a young age.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:In the movies, we see her smiling as she throws herself off the Fujou Building.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved: She wished to have someone who would be as loving and devoted to her as Mikiya is to Shiki. Knowing she could never have that, [[{{Yandere}} she tried to steal Mikiya's soul]].
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: She claims she made the girls jump from the building because she wanted to have friends who would float with her.
* IllGirl: Bedridden with a terminal illness.
* LastOfHerKind: The last of her clan. [[spoiler:[[AllThereInTheManual Supplementary materials]] pertaining to ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' reveal that the maid twins Hisui and Kohaku belong to a branch family.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: She fell in love with Mikiya when she saw him at the hospital when he was going to visit Shiki every week.
* LovingAShadow: After having seen Mikiya's devotion towards Shiki from his everyday hospital visits during the two year period she was in a coma, Kirie fell in love with the ''idea'' of the devoted Mikiya rather than Mikiya himself, having lost everything but her life at this point while being left with the desire for someone who would always be by her side like Mikiya for Shiki.
* ObliviouslyEvil: She claims she only wanted the girls who fell from the Fujou Building to notice her existence, not to kill them.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her parents were killed in a car accident years before the eyes of the first movie.
* PsychicPowers: Has access to a spiritual counterpart and MindControl.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches the back of her knees. The ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' enemy based off of her is even named "Rapunzel".
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Kirie appears as a ghostly figure with long black hair at the Fujou Building, but that's just an AstralProjection.
* VillainousCrush: Sort of. While it's heavily implied to be a case of her being in love with the idea of him rather than him himself, she has a crush on Mikiya and captures his soul to force him to be with her forever.
* {{Yandere}}: She captures Mikiya's soul because she desperately wanted someone as devoted as him to be by her side forever.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fujino Asagami]]
!!Fujino Asagami
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MamikoNoto
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-->''"Bend."''

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The main focus of the third movie, she is a classmate and friend of Azaka's. Fujino is secretly a killer and her murders are seemingly a way of giving her inner peace. She has the ability to bend space/objects with her mind and later gains [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling clairvoyance]], allowing her to bend objects without needing to see them.
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* AbusiveParents: Her stepfather from her mother's second marriage is mentioned to care little for her well-being and [[ParentalNeglect neglects her]]. [[spoiler:He even specifically requested Touko to kill her while calling Fujino a monster.]] On the other hand, her mother clearly loves her dearly as shown in the few flashbacks we have of her, while not much is known about Fujino's biological father [[spoiler:outside of him being responsible for attempting to seal her powers away as a child without knowing of the side effects it would eventually have on her]].
* AdaptationDyeJob: Had black hair in the novels, while the films give her very dark purple hair.
* AffablyEvil: She's generally polite towards others (especially in regards to Mikiya), but she also happens to be a mass murderer.
* AntiVillain: She's an unrepentant murderer, but Fujino remains one of the more sympathetic characters in the series. [[spoiler:Good thing Shiki decides not to kill her.]]
* ArcVillain: ''The'' most powerful telekinetic master in the ''entire Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'', bar-none; and yet the TragicVillain of but one chapter in its multiverse of sagas.
* AxCrazy: She only gets to this point because she couldn't complete her revenge and kill Keita Minato. Touko surmises that she would have stopped if she had been able to do it, but Keita unfortunately escaped, causing her to go crazier the longer she can't find him and her sense of pain remains.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She fell in love with her sempai Mikiya because he helped her after she sprained her ankle during a track meet when she was in junior high school.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Fujino is noted to be a model student, kind to classmates and never causing trouble at school, but she is also just as dangerous as Shiki is.
* BlindSeer: She loses her eyesight after her fight with Shiki, but the clairvoyance she got in exchange for it pretty much makes up for it.
* BrokenBird: A sorrowful person who has known almost nothing but either apathy or pain - and several people use this to victimize her.
* BullyHunter: Taken UpToEleven. Basically, Fujino is to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil sexual abuse]] what [[Film/InglouriousBasterds the Bear Jew]] is to the Holocaust.
* TheBusCameBack: After a brief cameo she makes her return in ''Future Gospel''. She ends up talking Miyazuki out of suicide and later spends Christmas with Azaka and Seo.
** She is also, of all things, a limited-time summonable hero in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''.
* TheCameo: She briefly appeared in the beginning of movie 6.
* CatchPhrase: '''Bend'''.
* {{Clairvoyance}}: She gains this ability near the end of the third movie at the cost of her eyesight going bad.
* CuteAndPsycho: She's cute, nice and just as dangerous as Shiki is.
* ADayInTheLimelight: She was the main focus for [[http://www.mangatraders.com/view/file/126296/page/15 Mirai Fukuin "Daylight"]], a manga sidestory where she helps out Miyazuki, a friend of one of the Fujou suicide victims.
* DeathGlare: Upon activating her psychic abilities.
* DissonantSerenity: Due to her lacking sense of pain, she is apathetic while being raped. Later when she is on the hunt for Keita, she mercilessly bends her victims without feeling too affected by it.
* EvilFeelsGood: While she tries to deny it, she actually enjoys killing.
* ExtremeDoormat: As a result of her [[FeelNoPain inability to feel pain]], Fujino has no reaction to being hurt and won't fight back no matter how much others abuse her. She was even repeatedly raped by a gang because of her passivity and unwillingness to tell anyone about the absence of pain.
* FanDisservice: The scenes of Fujino being abused and raped by the delinquents.
* FeelNoPain: She can't feel the sensation of pain, but she keeps this a secret from everyone else so they don't think she's abnormal. It turns out that the lack of pain was the result of [[spoiler:her father medicating her as a child to seal her psychic powers before they got out of hand]].
* FirstTimeFeeling: Ever since she can remember, Fujino has never felt the sensation of pain. She starts getting her sensation back in fits after one of the gang hits her with a baseball bat. When another tried to stab her with a knife, she found she wanted to live despite the pain, awakened her powers and killed everyone else in the room. The injury worsens and causes her to lash out with her abilities [[spoiler:though it turns out there was never a stab wound - she has an agonising abdominal disease that's slowly killing her]].
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From a normal and passive model student to a terrifyingly powerful telekinetic with endless reserves of rage.
* GlassCannon: She might be the strongest psychic in the ''Nasuverse'' but her body is fragile and couldn't keep up with Shiki. [[spoiler:Furthermore, with her appendicitis in its chronic state, Fujino is practically a time bomb waiting to explode]].
* GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler:That thing above about her father sealing her powers? Yeah, turns out that ended up ''increasing'' them when they finally unlock.]]
* HandicappedBadass: After the the Broad Bridge incident, Fujino loses her eyesight and has to walk with a cane if not using the limited omniscience her psychic abilities can grant her.
* HateAtFirstSight: Instinctively, towards Shiki, who's mostly indifferent. In her narration in the novel after first meeting her, Fujino mentions that she personally has nothing against Shiki herself, but that she could sense a similar bloodlust in her that she detests hence her dislike of her.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Though she still finds killing enjoyable, Fujino is no longer a killer and even talks a fellow student out of suicide in ''Future Gospel''.]]
* HimeCut: She has blunt bangs, bra strap length sidelocks, and waist-length straight hair, conveying her status as a member of a powerful family.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Why she hid her insensitivity, and why according to herself she hunts down the remaining gang members.
* IllGirl: [[spoiler:Her abdominal pain is not caused by a knife wound, as she initially believed, but by a terminal case of appendicitis. In addition to this, she is stated to suffer from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromyelitis_optica Devic's disease]], which causes significant impairment to her eyesight near the end of ''Remaining Sense of Pain''.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: She brutally murders the gang that raped her. As gruesome as their deaths are, it's still very, ''very'' difficult to feel sorry for the men who raped her.
* LastOfHerKind: The last of the Asakami clan, though the Asagami branch (where her stepfather comes from) continues to thrive.
* MindOverMatter: Has the ability to telekinetically make anything, from metal to stone to human bodies, ''bend'' just by thinking it.
* NoPronunciationGuide: The anime makes an audible distinction between her original main family name 浅神 and the branch family name 浅上. Both are pronounced Asagami in the novel, but Shiki calls the former Asakami in the anime.
* NotSoDifferent: A rare case where the hero says this to the villain. Shiki keeps telling Fujino how similar they are as well-intentioned but equally sociopathic {{Serial Killer}}s with supernatural abilities, though Fujino doesn't want to admit it till the end of their fight.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Outright stated by WordOfGod to be ''the'' most powerful telekinetic-user in the entire Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}. In the climax of her movie, she brings down a suspension bridge just to get Shiki.
* PowerAtAPrice: During her fight with Shiki, Fujino gains clairvoyance at the cost of her damaging her eyesight and going nearly completely blind.
* RapeAndRevenge: She tears apart the gang that repeatedly raped her after she recovers her sensation.
* RapeAsBackstory: She was repeatedly raped by a gang. She killed them after one of them tried to attack her with a knife which would have killed her. Right at that time, her sense of pain comes back, making her believe that she really was stabbed [[spoiler:though as it turns out, it was the appendicitis that caused her to suffer like this.]]
* RapunzelHair: She has waist-length hair.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Though it's when the red becomes combined with ''green'' that you need to make peace with your gods.
* SempaiKohai: She has a crush on an old sempai from when she was in junior high school. Ironically, she does not know that he is Azaka's brother.
* ShowerOfAngst: Takes a shower at the beginning of the movie when Mikiya lets her stay at his place for the night.
* SquishyWizard: Fujino brings down ''an entire bridge'' with her telekinetic powers to crush Shiki, but once Shiki closes the distance [[spoiler:and Fujino's agony becomes unbearable]] she is helpless to defend herself.
* StealthMentor: She attacks Miyazuki with her powers, in order to help her with her SurvivorGuilt in ''Mirai Fukuin "Daylight"''.
* SuperpowerLottery: When her eyesight begins to fail her, she gains clairvoyance to make up for it. Combined with her telekinesis, she can potentially bend (and break) ''anything, anywhere''. Shiki even [[LampshadeHanging complains about it]] to Touko after the battle.
* SympatheticMurderer: As gruesome as her murders are, it's very hard to not sympathize with Fujino given the [[RapeAsBackstory circumstances that led]] [[FeelNoPain to her becoming a murderer]].
* TeenGenius: She is noted to be one of the best students at her academy.
* TragicVillain: Considering the circumstances around her such as her inability to feel pain and being gang raped, her descent into mass murder wasn't even her own fault. [[spoiler:Even ''Shiki'' expresses pity for Fujino and pulls a PetTheDog moment by saving her life by ending the appendicitis.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has purple hair.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cornelius Alba]]
!!Cornelius Alba
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KojiYusa
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Appearing in the fifth chapter as an antagonist alongside Souren Araya, he is the Director of the Sponheim Abbey and an old acquaintance of both Araya and Touko from the Sorceror's Association.\\\

He has an inferiority complex regarding Touko and sided with Araya in order to defeat her to prove his superiority. In terms of raw power and ability, he is technically more powerful than either of his colleagues, but lacks the finesse and versatility to make the most of his strength.
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* TheArchmage: According to WordOfGod, he's by far one of the strongest non-[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Servant]] magi we have ever seen, with a 500-year old bloodline and more Magic Circuits than Araya and Touko combined. Unfortunately, he doesn't get to show this off.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:If he were any less horrible, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath what Touko did to him]] might have crossed the MoralEventHorizon.]]
* AxCrazy: Cornelius Alba is a whole lot of crazy, but with sorcery instead of an axe.
%%* BadassLongcoat
%%* BloodKnight
* TheCameo: Shown for just a moment in ''LightNovel/FateZero'', episode 18, using the aforementioned fire skills to torch a village.
* CardCarryingVillain: Anime only. The novel gives him more depth.
* ColorMotif: Red. He's remarkably [[RedIsViolent violent]], passionate and prone to burst out in anger. He also likes PlayingWithFire.
* TheDragon: To Araya, in the fifth movie at least.
* DrivenByEnvy: The root of his hatred of Touko.
* {{Expy}}: Basically the most repulsive parts of [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] and [[Literature/AClockWorkOrange Alexander De-Large]] rolled into one humanoid mass; combining the arrogance and loud fashion sense of both. He even goes as far as to gleefully sing ''Bethoven's 9th Symphony 4th Movement,'' the favorite tune of Alex from Film/AClockWorkOrange, when he [[spoiler:tried to murder Mikiya in a chillingly sadistic torture scene.]]
* FamousAncestor: A direct descendant of renaissance scholar (and in Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'s AlternateHistory, magus) [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cornelius_Agrippa Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim]].
* HeroesLoveDogs: Inverted. He's a villain, but he has a Doberman familiar that he cares about a great deal. This trait of his, however, is absent in the ''Paradox Spiral'' OVA.
* HimeCut: RareMaleExample.
* InformedAbility: In the anime, anyway. Alba is an absolute top tier magus, but Touko doesn't engage those abilities and crushes him almost effortlessly.
%%* {{Jerkass}}
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Araya gave him Touko's still-aware head after he "killed" her. Alba proceeds to play with it like a toy, mutilate it, and insults it before he destroys it...and its destruction flips Touko's consciousness into a shiny new body, with which she gruesomely murders him. Good riddance, you son of a bitch.]]
* LargeHam: His display of hatred toward Touko is over the top.
* LastNameBasis: Touko and Araya call him by his last name most of the time, but they occasionally switch to his given name. Alba calls both of them by their last names.
* {{Leitmotif}}: A waltz accompanied by a eerie-sounding flute, befitting his obsessive nature hidden beneath a façade of class and elegance, named Magician in the compilation soundtrack. A more sinister reprise can be heard in Spiral of the same soundtrack.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has long platinum blond hair and he looks rather youthful for his age.
* ALoveToDismember: [[spoiler:With Touko's severed - [[AndIMustScream but still living and aware]] - head.]]
* MadScientist: A co-creator of Araya's baffling death-trap of an apartment complex.
* MarionetteMaster: Alba is responsible for the puppets in Araya's apartment complex experiment. When Shiki and Enjou investigate the complex, she is attacked by the puppets.
* NiceHat: Nifty red tophat.
* OlderThanHeLooks: He's fifty years old, but he has the appearance of "an agreeable youth in his twenties."
* PlayingWithFire: Has the ability to incant eight lines in under two seconds and create a fire blast of over 1000 degrees, and then simply shout "Repeat!" to instantly do it over again. The author compares him to a fighting game character who fights by spamming super moves at will. Only shown in the original novel, though.
* PsychoForHire: Araya needs him for his skills in puppetry. That Cornelius is batshit insane is something he just kind of deals with.
* RedIsViolent: He goes out of his way to "play" with Touko's severed head and later with Mikiya, by repeatedly smashing the latter's head against a wall.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: According to WordOfGod, Touko's "pizza crackers".
* VainSorcerer: Though he's really an old man, he uses his magic to give himself the appearance of a handsome young man. His real appearance comes through when he get upset however.
* {{Yandere}}: He had feelings for Touko and sought her acknowledgment, but couldn't handle being outclassed by her both in rune magecraft and puppetry, which earned her the title of "Red", something he wanted for himself. The only reason he helps Araya is because he was promised to fight and kill Touko.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Misaya Ouji]]
!!Misaya Ouji
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NanaMizuki
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Misaya is a senior at Reien Girl's Academy and known to be strict but fair. She has the power to control "fairies" thanks to Satsuki Kurogiri, and clashes with Azaka in ''Oblivion Recorder'' after Shiki and Azaka are tasked to investigate a series of memory losses caused by fairies.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:She accidentally killed Hideo Hayama during a struggle when she confronted him about what happened to Kaori Tachibana. The movie, however, says that Hayama died from a heart attack in the middle of their argument and Ouji was just made to think that she killed him.]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: Has blond hair in the novel, while her hair is lavender in the movie.
* BrotherSisterIncest: In the novel, [[spoiler:she's brainwashed by Kurogiri to believe that he is her brother and that she is in love with him so he can use her in his plans more easily. Though it may actually have been true, since she is adopted and it's revealed that Kurogiri really did have a sister.]]
* TheBusCameBack: In the ''Garden of Oblivion'' novel and [[DramaCD drama CDs]], Ouji returns and joins up with [[EnemyMine Azaka]], Fujino, and Seo as a main character trying to survive the ordeals Seo keeps seeing in her visions.
* TheCameo: In the eighth movie, she makes a brief cameo appearance.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Her hair and eyes are lavender in the movie.
* FirstNameBasis: She calls Kurogiri by his given name with the "-sensei" honorific. She also calls Kaori Tachibana by her first name, whom she was very close to.
* DarkMagicalGirl: Is it any wonder she's voiced by Creator/NanaMizuki in the movie?
* LastNameBasis: She and Azaka call each other by their last names. In fact, no character ever calls her by her given name.
* MemoryWipingCrew: [[spoiler:Wants to do this by stealing everyone's memories of what happened to Kaori Tachibana so as to cleanse them of the "sin" of the event.]]
* NoblewomansLaugh: Only once, but what a laugh it is. It's awesomeness is even [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshaded]] in the Blu-Ray box's interview. Can possibly overlap with LargeHam.
* {{Ojou}}: Her family is an elite family and her father is the school's chairman. The name "Ouji" tells it all.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler:Attempts to do this to all the girls of Class D in order to punish them for their treatment of Kaori Tachibana, believing as a devout Catholic that they will go to Hell for committing suicide.]]
* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches down to her hips.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After finding out what happened to [[spoiler:Kaori Tachibana]] the resulting vengeance is ''not pretty'' at all.
* SempaiKohai: She's Azaka's sempai.
* StudentCouncilPresident: She's the student council president of Azaka's school.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has lavender hair.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Satsuki Kurogiri]]
!!Satsuki Kurogiri
!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/RyotaroOkiayu
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Appearing as an antagonist in the sixth movie, he is a Magus known as ''God's Word'', and the substitue English teacher of class 1-4 in Azaka's school. He has the ability to manipulate others through words alone.
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* ChangelingTale: [[spoiler:He was kidnapped by fairies at the age of 10, who made him lose all his past memory and cursed him so that he could still store future memories in his brain, but could not retrieve those memories and recognize them as his own.]]
* CompellingVoice: Has the ability to [[MindControl control people's minds]], as well [[spoiler:to restore people's memories by retrieving them directly from the Akashic Records via his mastery of the Universal Language. This is, in fact, the reason why he can "restore" even those memories that are permanently gone from a person's mind, like the parts of Shiki's memory that SHIKI took away as he died, or Azaka's recollection of the exact moment she fell in love with Mikiya]].
* CunningLinguist: The only sorcerer in the world to be able to speak the ancient ''Unified Language.''
* DemotedToExtra: Though he is the major focus as well as the primary villain of the sixth chapter and the one who orchestrated the events at Reien Academy, his role in the movie is largely as an antagonist for Shiki to fight. [[MemeticMutation Isn't it sad,]] [[NamesTheSame Sacchin?]]
* EvilFeelsGood: He does everything in the 6th movie because he enjoys "killing time" that way. In the novel, his motivations are slightly more complex: [[spoiler:having had his ability to remember his own life taken away by fairies, he instead attempts to form his own identity from the memories ''others'' have of him, which he can retrieve; Azaka even observes that, like the fairies who abducted him, Kurogiri seems to have no concept of morals at all]].
%%* FourEyesZeroSoul
* GoOutWithASmile: In the novel, after [[spoiler:Ouji stabs him]], Kurogiri smiles consciously for the first time (having staunchly refused to recognize his constant half-smile as an expression of joy before), after arriving at some incomprehensible epiphany on the brink of death.
* IdenticalStranger: Shiki and Azaka are surprised by how much Kurogiri resembles Mikiya Kokutou. It's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] that the characters in "Kokutou" can also be read as "Kurogiri".
* LastOfHisKind: The last person capable of speaking the ''Unified Language''.
* LossOfIdentity: [[spoiler:He was kidnapped by fairies at the age of 10 and cursed so that he is unable to comprehend any new memories or experiences since then as anything but impersonal data. He enlists the help of Misaya Ouji in an attempt to regain his sense of identity by collecting the memories his students have of him and feeding off of them.]]
%%* {{Megane}}
* ParentalAbandonment: Literally. After [[spoiler:he was returned from the fairies subsequent brain damage]] caused his parents to consider him a freak and give him up for adoption.
* PhenotypeStereotype: Averted. Although his name is Japanese, he was in fact born in the United Kingdom. His name was changed after he was adopted by a Japanese national.
* PsychopathicManchild: As a result of the fairy curse, he perceives human morality and behavior in the manner that a 10-year old would.
* RedBaron: Is known by such aliases as ''God's Word May Day'' and ''Master of Babel: Unified Language Master.''
* ScaryShinyGlasses
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His second name is "Godot Word" in the official subtitles.
* TheUnfought: In the anime at least. He gets into a small scuffle with Shiki, but what happens to him afterwards is unknown. [[spoiler:In the novel, he dies at the hands of Ouji.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lio Shirazumi]]
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-->''"April 1995. I met her."''

Introduced in the second movie as an older schoolmate of Mikiya who dropped out of school because he 'found something he wanted to do,' and takes on a much larger role in the seventh movie.

-->'''Voiced by''': Creator/SoichiroHoshi
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:How his death is treated after Mikiya finds his corpse in the novel.]]
* AmbiguouslyBi: WordOfGod claims that Shirazumi has an affinity/obsession for the Anima: literally a preference for the feminine qualities of a male personality. In this regard, Shirazumi fell for Shiki's male personality SHIKI but based on the personality's feminine traits. It's also possible that he has a gender identity disorder. WordOfGod also claims that although Shirazumi and Mikiya had a simple senior/junior relationship, Shirazumi once viewed it as an obsessive friendship bordering on unrequited love. Also, though he is described as normally hating men and women alike, Shirazumi considers Shiki an exception having viewed her as neither one or the other. Despite all this, both Shiki and Mikiya note that his outward behavior and attempts to appease both of them seem to be a front to convince either of the two to become 'special' with him.
* AnimalMotifs: Large Predatory Cats. Araya mentions it's a shame that his name is one character off from being Lion. When Aozaki is discussing him, documentaries about lions are airing on her TV, and she specifically compares his origin of consumption to ravenous carnivorous animals tearing prey apart.
* AnArmAndALeg: Shiki cuts off his left arm. In the movie, [[spoiler:she also gives him the full Obi-Wan treatment during their final battle, chopping off all of his remaining limbs before she kills him (in the novel, she merely "kills" his limbs with superficial slashes at their lines of death)]].
* AxCrazy: Around five thousand different kinds of crazy.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Has a strong attachment to Mikiya because he was his OnlyFriend and the only one who encouraged him when Shirazumi abandoned school. The film makes Shirazumi more focused on Shiki, so unlike the novel, this is not developed.
* {{Bishounen}}: The crew of the animated films describes him as one. He's certainly [[http://i.imgur.com/mIebL.jpg beautiful]]...when he's not looking like a total lunatic, that is. His 1995 appearance also counts. (Especially in the manga).
* BloodLust: He constantly licking up blood in a disturbing fashion to help highlight how AxCrazy he is.
* ChekhovsGunman: In the second movie, he got a brief mention and a small meeting between him and Mikiya, and Shirazumi is seen briefly talking to Shiki, who doesn't even bother to remember/use his name. He doesn't get a major role until the seventh movie.
* CorruptTheCutie: Rather than to kill him immediately, Shirazumi tries to bring Mikiya to his side as well. He plays up the idea that he and Mikiya are responsible for pushing Shiki into such a desperate state, as a means of corrupting him and even poisons Mikiya with drugs to give him no choice but to become "special" like him in order to survive. Mikiya, [[TheFettered being who he is,]] doesn't give in.
* CreepyCrossdresser: He styles his hair like Shiki's, and wears a dress to resemble her. It also doesn't help the fact that he's batshit insane. The fact that he's terrifying in a rather silly looking skirt says ''a lot''.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: His hair and eyes were originally brown. They later changed to golden blonde hair and golden eyes.
* DeadpanSnarker: In his high school days.
* DespairEventHorizon: After [[spoiler:believing he killed Mikiya]], he snaps completely. [[spoiler:Mikiya was his LivingEmotionalCrutch, but Shirazumi did not realize it until Mikiya "died".]]
* DudeLooksLikeALady: InUniverse. A key plot element of the seventh movie is [[spoiler:Shirazumi being able to pass for Shiki]], albeit at night and from a distance. Even Mikiya admits that he has ambiguous features. Combined with a GenderBlenderName.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Only visible for a few seconds during his [[TheCameo cameo]] in the second movie (it's easier to spot on the Blu-Ray release), but he definitely has them. Like Shiki's, [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow they're matched to his hair colour]]. He's lost them by the seventh movie.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Shirazumi is first mentioned in the second/first chapter (''Murder Speculation Pt.1'') when Mikiya tells Shiki that one of their upperclassmen is dropping out of school because "he found something he wanted to do".[[note]]This dialogue takes place after Shirazumi's fourth murder and just before the "Singing in the Rain" scene.[[/note]] The movie adaptation does one better and actually shows Shirazumi interacting with Shiki and Mikiya, although he is always partially obscured.
* FinalBoss: As the main antagonist of the final movie, [[spoiler:he is the true culprit behind all of the grisly murders in the city.]]
* {{Foil}}: Playing against Shiki and Mikiya, of course.
* ForcefulKiss: Forces one to Mikiya in order to make him swallow a drug.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He was just a socially withdrawn guy until he committed murder for the first time and Araya awakened his Origin. Shirazumi then became a mass-murdering, cannibal SerialKiller that is more like a group of beasts than a human being.
* HealingFactor: Is shown to have the ability to regrow limbs.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Has a moment of this after "killing" Mikiya. Afterwards, he decides to accept his role as a monster and finally succumbs to his Origin.]]
* HellishPupils: He has reptilian/feline's pupils as a result of being the reincarnation of several carnivorous animals.
* HorrorHunger: Can't expect much else from someone whose Origin is ''consumption.''
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: When he has Shiki at his mercy, he knocks her down, drugs her, chains her to the floor and tears open her kimono before drooling all over her.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: After being rejected by Shiki, he decides to seek out a schoolmate who was known for bullying others over arcade games in hopes of beating him up, thus proving that he isn't weak. [[spoiler:It backfired when he accidentally [[StartOfDarkness killed him]]... and then he was inspired to hide the evidence by devouring the body]].
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: The beginning motivation of Shirazumi's StartOfDarkness. While Shirazumi never blamed Shiki for rejecting him, he still internalized Shiki's words in which she described him as a weak person. Where Shiki wishes to have a normal life to be with Mikiya (whom outright has a normal life, no matter what he does), Shirazumi seeks to be special in a way that makes him stand out and makes his existence matter. By the time we see him... and as the rest of the tropes illustrate... he's ''[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor special]]''.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Ultimately, this is why he wants to find someone like him; he wants to have companions in his madness. He's after Shiki because he believes she is the only one who is "naturally" like him, with Mikiya simply holding her back. Shirazumi went as far as to use special drugs to make people like him, but all attempts failed.
* ImAHumanitarian: His Origin of Consumption causes him to gain cannibalistic instinct, which at first causes him to try to get rid of a corpse by eating it and becoming worse when he fully awakens to it.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: How he feels about Shiki. His goal is to turn her into a complete homicidal maniac like him so that they can be together. Unfortunately she's taken, so he decides to "kill what's holding her back" to get her to "come around".
* KnifeNut: And how!
* LastNameBasis: He's never called by his given name. Shiki and Mikiya go by his last name. Shirazumi himself calls Shiki by her last name most of the time, and in the case of Mikiya, Shirazumi goes from "Kokutou-kun" to "Kokutou" and then to "Mikiya".
* LecherousLicking: The infamous scene in which he salivates over Shiki...[[{{Squick}} dear god.]] It's genuinely impossible to tell if he intends it as a sexual threat or physical one. Could be both. Either way, it involves way too much saliva.
* LimpAndLivid
* LockedIntoStrangeness: His first appearance suggests that he's not a natural blond, and that his exposure to magic might have changed his hair as it's known to do in other parts of the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Dear god, ''yes!'' While Shirazumi certainly starts out fairly normal, his obsession for Shiki causes him to become more and more ''insane''.
* ManipulativeBastard: Heavy emphasis on the ''bastard.''
* MeaningfulName: As Araya said, "You were one letter away from being a lion."
* MurderMakesYouCrazy: [[LoveMakesYouCrazy Love]] drove him to his most horrifying extremes, but it was his first kill (when he met Araya) that truly saw Shirazumi ''snap''.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After Mikiya (seemingly) dies, Shirazumi realizes that he killed his OnlyFriend and the only person who truly cared about him.]]
* NeverMyFault: Part of his moral dilemma was his inability to accept his actions after he first killed someone. Also, after believing he [[spoiler:killed Mikiya]], even though he is upset about it, he insists that it wasn't his fault.
* NotGoodWithRejection: He did NOT take it well when Shiki rejected him because he was "weak". He murdered upwards of a dozen people to cope. Later, [[spoiler:he "kills" Mikiya when the latter definitely refuses to join his side]].
* NotSoDifferent: Believes that he and Shiki are fundamentally similar, and that [[MoralityChain Mikiya]] is the only thing holding Shiki back from a murderous existence. Inversely, in the novel Shiki describes his smile as ''[[AxeCrazy being similar to her own.]]''
* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: Strong enough to ''shatter'' the blade of a knife. [[Manga/BlackLagoon Roberta]] would be proud.
* PastLifeMemories: Araya had opened him up to his Origin, giving him access to the memory of all of his past lives; mostly carnivorous animals.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Kind of. They're more orange/yellow than red, which means they also count as SupernaturalGoldEyes.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: His StalkerShrine.
* RousseauWasRight: [[WordOfGod Nasu himself]] describes his character as someone that is both [[DracoInLeatherPants sympathetic]] yet [[MoralEventHorizon despicable for his actions]].
* SecretDiary: Possessed one that later serves as a ChekhovsGun. Apparently it mostly composed of his descriptions of [[StalkerWithACrush what Shiki was doing]], his feelings for her and also for his OnlyFriend Mikiya.
* SempaiKohai: He is Shiki and Mikiya's senpai.
* SerialKiller
* SlasherSmile: And a damn terrifying one at that, complete with pointed carnivore's teeth.
* TheSociopath: A little bit before he finds his Origin, but afterwards? He's there. Willingly.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In some translations, his name is spelled as Leo and Rio.
* SplitPersonality: To a degree. The novel describes Shirazumi's mentality as two separate personae: the ''old'' Shirazumi Shirazumi who held an attachment towards [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Mikiya]], and the ''murderous monster/bloodthirsty killer'' that was born out of his initial love for Shiki (see {{Yandere}}). He even lampshades it in his diary and realizes that the cause of this is Mikiya. The film makes Shirazumi more focused on Shiki, so this isn't developed.
* StalkerShrine: The walls of his apartment room are covered with photo collections of Shiki. Could this guy get any more disturbing?
* StalkerWithACrush: He has been obsessing over Shiki ever since he met her. He comes complete with a disturbing StalkerShrine.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: His brown eyes turned golden as a result of his awakened origin.
* TheyWereHoldingYouBack: Shirazumi plays up the idea of killing Mikiya as a means of removing Shiki's MoralityChain. This is more than likely a bluff to goad Shiki into becoming a murderer, as Shirazumi never truly intended to harm Mikiya. [[spoiler:Shirazumi still ends up "killing" him when Mikiya rejects him and gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. And unsurprisingly, it works as Shirazumi expected and Shiki kills him.]]
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Mikiya outlines the true nature of his killings as a breakdown, in an attempt to put some sense into him. ''It backfires''.]]
* VillainousCrush: He has an obsessive crush on Shiki and feels a similar disturbing attraction towards Mikiya too.
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about him without revealing his role as the villain of the seventh movie and [[spoiler:the real person behind the murders of 1995-1996]].
* WeCanRuleTogether: Shirazumi talked up both Shiki and Mikiya to convince at least one to join him. Unfortunately for him, he was rejected by both.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: And how!
* {{Yandere}}: It looks that way on the surface, but surprisingly averted. While part of Shirazumi wanted to kill Shiki, it wasn't out of love - it's due to the violent impulses caused by his Origin of Consumption.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Meruka Kuramitsu]]
The main antagonist of the novel Future Gospel: recalled out in summer. Unsatisfied with a normal life that he can predict with 100% accuracy, he is a "bomber-for-hire" who uses his ability to avoid capture.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkiraIshida
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* DeadpanSnarker: When it comes to dealing with the very energetic Mana.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Inverted; Mitsuru doesn't like to be called by his old alias "Kuramitsu".
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Shiki didn't expect that a near mythical bomber would actually be a 14-year old kid.
* EyeScream: Shiki permanently damages his right eye, sealing off his precognition abilities for good.
* FantasticTerrorists: A "bomber for hire". The fantastic aspect comes from Kuramitsu's ability to see the future — in fact, this is why his bombings are always successful and leave neither collateral damage, nor any traces to lead the police back to him.
* FarEastAsianTerrorists: Briefly was one as a bomber-type terrorist.
Mana calls him by his first name "Mitsuru" while adding the -san honorific.
* {{Foil}}: To Shizune Seo, his fellow precognitive psychic-user. See her entry for more details.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After Shiki disables his eyes in an ambush]], he turns his life around, giving up the bomber stint to live a more quiet life.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: He became a bomber because he couldn't stand living a normal life that he could predict with 100% accuracy. So he decided to use his powers for something more exciting.
* ImprobableAge: Kuramitsu was only 14 during his stint as a near mythical bomber.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: In the future, he's 26 years old and hangs around the 10-year-old Mana.
* MadBomber: His main specialty. While not actually crazy, he makes a living from bombing, as he gets paid from his clients.
* MagicalEye: He possesses a right eye that can see the future, while his left eye can see "the path" to achieve that future.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Meruka Kuramitsu" is a nickname based on a comic character he liked, and a SignificantAnagram of his real name Mitsuru Kamekura.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Mana. His pessimistic behavior is usually counter balanced by Mana's curious and cheerful disposition, and Mana usually requires so much attention that he doesn't really have the time to feel down.
* {{Seers}}: He has the ability to predict the future with 100% accuracy. Unfortunately, the fact that his predictions are 100% accurate means that the future has a definite existence, and Shiki can kill anything that exists. Shiki even comments that if his power was the "weaker" Precognition displayed by Seo, he probably would have actually stood a better chance of killing her since the future would still be uncertain enough that Shiki couldn't kill it.
* SignificantAnagram: His alias is an anagram of the Japanese phonograms of his real name. Mi-tsu-ru Ka-me-ku-ra → Me-ru-ka Ku-ra-mi-tsu.
* StarvingArtist: In the future, he's a struggling picture book author who ended up deep in debt. He was only saved thanks to Mana convincing her parents to give him a job as a detective.
* StoppedCaring: Thanks to his ability to predict the future with 100% accuracy, he submits to the idea that his life is absolutely worthless, hopeless, and pointless since he knows what's going to happen to the future without fail. [[spoiler:Ironically, when Shiki gets rid of his precognitive abilities, the loss of his ability to predict the future actually gave him renewed hope to live, even though he's struggling with living in the present compared to how he lived in the past where he considered himself dead inside even though his life was relatively better materially.]]
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: His eyes have the power to see the future and the path to it; just to make clear they are special, they are the color of gold. After Shiki kills his power, his right eye turns grey.
* ThatManIsDead: In the future, he states Meruka Kuramitsu disappeared from the world when Shiki defeated him. The one living now is Mitsuru Kamekura.
* WorkOffTheDebt: He had to begin working for Shiki to pay off his debts.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In the future, Mitsuru claims his life has been filled with nothing but failure ever since he lost his power to see the future and he's worthless. Mana tells him she can see he's a good person and there's still plenty of things he can do.
[[/folder]]

!Other Characters
[[folder:Akitaka Suzugiri]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Makoto Yasumura

A servant working for the Ryougi family and Shiki's personal butler. He mainly appears in the second movie and has short appearances in the fourth and fifth movie, delivering Shiki her sword in the latter.
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* SatelliteCharacter: He doesn't have much characterization beyond being Shiki's servant. He also barely appears in the story, since Shiki has left the Ryougi residence.
* TheStoic: Always serious and no signs of emotions.
* {{Yakuza}}: He was once a former yakuza until the Ryougi family hired him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gakuto]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Kenji Takahashi

Mikiya's high school friend whom he has contact to even to this day.
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* FriendInTheBlackMarket: Mikiya's BestFriend from high school is the reason why Mikiya has better knowledge of the Tokyo drug market in 1999 than his cop cousin Daisuke in chapter seven (granted, Daisuke is in the homicide division, not narcotics). Gakuto also fixes Mikiya up with weed and LSD.
* HiddenDepths: Given that he associates himself with Keita, and one of the drug dealers knows Gakuto personally, it's implied that Gakuto is a FunctionalAddict.
* LastNameBasis: He and Mikiya call each other by their last names.
* LovableJock: He used to be a member of his high school's judo club and he's a pleasant fellow to talk to.
* NiceGuy: He's nice person and he's willing to lend Mikiya money in exchange for helping him finding his kohai Keita.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Keita Minato]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShintaroAsanuma

A former kohai of Mikiya and Gakuto and a member of a local street gang who repeatedly gangraped Fujino Asagami until she has awaken her power in the third film. As the only survivor of her onslaught, Fujino's prime priority is to kill him, so no witnesses are left.
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* FirstNameBasis: Pretty much everyone who knows him calls him by his first name.
* LeaveNoWitnesses: He's the only one who escaped Fujino's first onslaught, so she tries her best to track him down and kill him, so she wouldn't be pinpointed as a murderer.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He and his pals gangraped Fujino on a regular basis and they tried all different kinds of methods of violence to draw a different reaction from her. He also says that it was rather boring to rape her, due to her lack of emotional reactions, but when one his pals hit her with a baseball bat on her back and accidently caused her sensation of pain to return, just reminiscing about the moment of her "acting human" gives him [[EvilFeelsGood happiness]] after all the fear he has experienced.
* SenpaiKohai: Was Mikiya's and Gakuto's kohai in school.
* SoleSurvivor: He's the only one to survive Fujino's first massacre and he continues to survive throughout the third film/chapter.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Due to escaping the crime scene as the sole survivor, Fujino tries to track him down by interrogating his friends and associates, killing all of them in the progress and turning her into a sadistic serial killer.
* UsedToBeASweetChild: Implied. Gakuto says that Keita was really fond of Mikiya and hung around him a lot. All we see from him is being a gang member, a rapist and drug addict.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kaori Tachibana]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EriKitamura (uncredited)

A first-year student and schoolmate of Azaka and Ouji who prior the events of the sixth movie was apparently assaulted by fairies and tried to commit suicide by burning the school's old facility.
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* AddledAddict: [[spoiler:After Hayama forced his drug on her to shut her mouth, she became addicted to drugs, and the withdrawal symptoms cause her to hallucinate about fairies. She also lost weight and became pale due to the drug abuse.]]
* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler:The end of movie reveals that she survived her suicide attempt, despite the entire school building being burnt down.]]
* TheCameo: In ''Future Gospel'' which chronologically takes place between ''Remaining Sense of Pain'' and ''Overlooking View'', she can be seen with Ouji walking across the screen in the foreground when Seo is talking with Naomi. This scene happens months before her suicide attempt.
* DrivenToSuicide: The police think that she tried to commit suicide, but her classmates claim that she was apparently assaulted by fairies. [[spoiler:Turns out she couldn't handle becoming a drug addict and really tried to commit suicide.]]
* FirstNameBasis: Only Ouji calls her by her given name, due to how close they are.
* FullNameBasis: Azaka always calls her by full name. They aren't classmates, so Azaka isn't familiar with her.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:She accidently saw Hayama doing drugs, which forces him to shut her mouth by making her addicted to drugs just like him.]]
* LastNameBasis: Hayama calls her last name like all teachers do.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Ouji sees her like a little sister.
* PlayingWithFire: She causes the school's old facility to burn down with her attempted suicide.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:She never saw fairies. It was all her hallucination from the drugs and withdrawal symptoms, and she was really DrivenToSuicide because she couldn't handle being a drug addict. The end of movie also reveals that she survived the arson.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Accidently discovering Hayama's drug abuse cause a series of events, which include her own attempted suicide, Hayama's death and Ouji obtaining magecraft who tries to kill Kaori's classmates with her powers.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: She's a crucial part behind the mystery of the sixth movie, so most of the mystery's resolution is tied with her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hideo Hayama]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Yuuichi Ishigami

An English teacher of Azaka's high school who vanished after the incident with Kaori Tachibana prior to the events of the sixth movie.
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* AddledAddict: He's a drug addict and can't do his everyday life without it. [[spoiler:When Kaori Tachibana accidently sees him doing drugs, he forces her to become one herself to keep her mouth shut. His own abuse of drugs also causes him to die from a heart attack when he tries to kill Ouji.]]
* EvilUncle: He's the younger brother of Ouji's father.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:After being discovered of abusing drugs, he keeps Kaori Tachibana's mouth shut by making her a drug addict himself. When Ouji confronts him about the truth, he tries to kill her.
* HollywoodHeartAttack: [[spoiler:When he tries to kill Ouji, he dies from a heart attack caused by his drug abuse and hits hard on his head.]]
* {{Nepotism}}: He's a former criminal and only got his job at the school because he's the chairman's younger brother.
* {{Yakuza}}: His way he dresses in school and his criminal profile suggest that he is one.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mana Ryougi '''*Spoilers*''']]
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Mana_3223.png]]
Introduced in the epilogue to Future Gospel: recalled out summer, she is Shiki and Mikiya's daughter.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HisakoKanemoto
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* AllLovingHero: Mitsuru notes Mana tends to like everyone too easily.
* CheerfulChild: She's a cute and lively young girl.
* DaddysGirl: She adores her "papa" so much that she doesn't want to share him with her mother. Though if official artworks are anything, she and Shiki seem to have a close mother and daughter relationship with each other despite this.
* DisappearedDad: When thanking to Mother Mifune for her service in behalf of SHIKI, she refers to SHIKI as her "father". For context, Mother Mifune told that SHIKI was going to die which was a big relief for him.
* ElectraComplex: Her wish is to defeat her mother so she can have her "papa".
* FirstNameBasis: She refers to Mitsuru by his first name, adding the -san honorific, which shows that they are rather close to each other. When she addresses him by his old alias to tease him, she calls him by his alias's last name "Kuramitsu" instead.
* InnocentBlueEyes: She got the blue eyes of her father and also seems to have inherited his kind-hearted and friendly nature.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: She likes to hang around Mitsuru, who is 16 years older than her.
* MafiaPrincess: As Shiki once were, Mana is one as Shiki herself accepted her family business and became the next head.
* MuggleBornOfMages: She did not inherit her mother's abilities, nor any abilities of the Ryougi family.
* NomDeMom: She uses her mother's surname. Considering her father is just an average person compared to her mother's heritage and current position, [[TheMaidenNameDebate Mikiya probably married into the Ryougi, not the other way around]].
* PrecociousCrush: Implied to have a crush on Mitsuru, [[LikeParentLikeSpouse who also resembles her father in some way]].
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Mitsuru. His pessimistic behavior is usually counter balanced by Mana's curious and cheerful disposition, and Mana usually requires so much attention that he doesn't really have the time to feel down.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Mana looks like her mother Shiki, with the eye and hair color of her father. She also closely resembles her aunt, Azaka, too.
%%* TsurimeEyes
* WalkingSpoiler: Since she's Shiki and Mikiya's daughter introduced in the epilogue, it's difficult to talk about her without giving away the ending of the series.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears black thigh-high stockings.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mother Mifune]]
A famous and accurate FortuneTeller of Future Gospel who gave predictions to Shiki and SHIKI in the past.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Kujira}}
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* BlindSeer: In ''Möbius Link'', which is set ten years after the events of the entire series. It should be noted that along with her now blind eyes, her precognition powers have also significantly waned over the years.
* CoolOldLady: She was popular by teenage girls, she isn't afraid of anyone, and Mana really likes her.
* {{Foil}}: To Mekura Kuramitsu. While Kuramitsu used his precognition for crimes, Mother Mifune is entirely motivated to help people with her power. Mitsuru realizes himself when she learns why she's still doing fortune telling despite being unable to see the future anymore.
* FortuneTeller: What she does for a living with her power. She usually gives advice for love and life.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: She is named after a RealLife clairvoyant, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chizuko_Mifune Chizuko Mifune]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She's only known as Mother Mifune. Her real name is never revealed. Also, she left that name behind long before 1998, so every time she's called by that name in the story, she will note how nostalgic it is to be called like this name again.
* {{Seers}}: One of three in ''Future Gospel''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Naomi]]
-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SaoriOnishi

Shizune Seo's friend at Reien Academy who lends her Seo some clothes at the beginning of ''Future Gospel''.
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* ExpositoryHairStyleChange: She changes her hair drastically during her two appearances in ''Future Gospel'', yet Seo recognizes right away.
* FirstNameBasis: She's called by her first name by Seo, but calls the latter by her last name.
* MuggleBestFriend: She's one of Seo's best friends, but unlike Azaka, Naomi is just a normal girl.
* OnlyOneName: Only her given name is known.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her parents live in Hong Kong and they don't give her permission to leave Reien Academy during the summer break.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ririsu Miyazuki]]
A character introduced in Future Gospel Extra Chorus. A student from Azaka's school whose friend was one of the suicide victims in Overlooking View.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RisaTaneda
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* AllThereInTheManual: Her first name was only mentioned in the ''Garden of Oblivion'' novel.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Toward her friend Yuuko Andou.
* BullyingADragon: Acted like a complete [[{{Jerkass}} jackass]] to Fujino after their introductions to each other, and [[CallBack even brings up the murder cases Fujino was the culprit of during the events of movie 3]]. Of course, she completely regretted it once Fujino confesses about the latter and decides to teach her a harsh [[SinkOrSwimMentor lesson]] about valuing her life...
* GirlishPigtails
* InterruptedSuicide: She was about to kill herself when Fujino arrived to stop her and give her the will to live on.
* ItsAllMyFault: She believes Yuko killed herself because of something she said to her.
* {{Meganekko}}
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She realizes that her action, after a chain of unfortunate events that came to Andou, was the last straw that pushed her friend to suicide.
[[/folder]]
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** And also in the seventh movie against [[spoiler:Shirazumi, when she actually wanted to kill him. And she didn't just kill him, she [[UpToEleven destroyed his entire existence.]]

* BlessedWithSuck: Her precognitive ability has only given her grief and a pessimistic outlook in life. It wasn't until she meets Mikiya that she's convinced to change her mindset for the better and with renewed hope.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: She has complicated feelings towards her precognitive abilities in that while some of the visions she sees can benefit her in some way, [[BlessedWithSuck she also gets to foresee possibilities of very unfortunate incidents and disasters in her visions that she usually has little power of changing to avert them]]. She also doesn't tell other people about her ability out of fear of being ostracized for it.

* TheBusCameBack: After a brief cameo she makes her return in ''Future Gospel''. She ends up talking Miyazuki out of suicide and later spends Christmas with Azaka and Shizune.

* TheBusCameBack: In the ''Garden of Oblivion'' novel and [[DramaCD drama CDs]], Ouji returns and joins up with [[EnemyMine Azaka]], Fujino, and Shizune as a main character trying to survive the ordeals Shizune keeps seeing in her visions.

* ParentalAbadonment: Her parents live in Hong Kong and they don't give her permission to leave Reien Academy during the summer break.

* TheDreaded: Has this reputation towards the characters in both her series and [[VideoGame/FateExtra out]] [[VideoGame/MeltyBlood of it]]. Of note, Kirie and Fujino were afraid of her during their respective fights against her (and if ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' and ''Garden of Oblivion'' are anything, Fujino is ''still'' scared of her even after [[spoiler:Shiki saved her life in the third movie]]), and even ''Araya'' feels a sense of dread when Shiki makes her killing intent clear during their second bout together. Even Mikiya and Enjou, both of whom are explicitly in love with her, fear her to some extent (but not enough to dissuade them from loving her anyways). In the ''Garden of Oblivion'' light novel, Shizune's entire group, including Azaka, the aforementioned Fujino, and Ouji, do a collective OhCrap when they see [[spoiler:a zombified Shiki, still retaining her skills and abilities, spotting them and realizing they have to go through ''her'' in order to survive.]]

* TheGrimReaper: Seeing as she can kill ''everything'' including intangible forces, beings who are already dead, and spirits. She's even explicitly called a "Death God" by Touko during Book/Episode 5, "Paradox Spiral." Her ability to kill ''anything'' gets taken to its logical/absurd conclusion in Future Gospel, where she [[spoiler:cuts the ''future''. A precognitive, Meruka Kuramitsu, had set up a perfect and inescapable trap that would definitely kill Shiki -- so she kills that possibility and, by extension, Meruka's foresight.]]

* HeroesLoveDogs: For a certain definition of "[[NominalHero hero]]". While normally disinterested towards most people, she's rather affectionate towards dogs, as seen with how playfully fond she is of Shizune's dog, Akira.

* CluelessChickMagnet: Mikiya attracts plenty of ladies, but since [[SingleTargetSexuality his sights are firmly set on Shiki]] he doesn't even notice it. Although to be fair, aside from Shiki and Azaka, Mikiya doesn't interact much with his other suitors (Kirie, Fujino, Shizune) and didn't realize the effect he had in them with only one meeting.

* SupportingProtagonist: While the main character is really Shiki, a chunk of the story is told in his point of view. He also serves as this to Shizune Seo in her side of the story in ''Future Gospel's'' ''Mobius Ring'' storyline.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Her feelings for Mikiya are quite obvious. Shiki knows about them and is quite sure she isn't the only who has noticed them. Azaka's interactions with Shizune in ''Extra Chorus'' pretty much confirm this. Of course, [[ObliviousToLove Mikiya has no idea of her feelings]].

* AscendedExtra: Once just a cameo character in the sixth movie, Shizune goes on to become one of the focus characters and main narrator in ''Future Gospel'', and once again takes the helm as the narrator and main protagonist of the ''Garden Of Oblivion'' novel and [[DramaCD drama CDs]].

* {{Foil}}: To Meruka Kuramitsu, also known as Mitsuru Kamekura. Both individuals have similar precognitive abilities that have made them unhappy with their lives and have given them despair over living. The difference is that Shizune cannot control the visions she sees (they appear randomly) and believes that the future can't be altered no matter what, while Meruka has an additional ability that helps him achieve the visions he sees. Shizune tries to live her life normally despite her powers and even tries to use these visions to save a life, while Meruka uses his for a living by bombing targeted places. Their character developments also fall under this category, with Shizune learning, after a pep talk from Mikiya, to live a happy life despite her powers since the future is something she realizes isn't concrete, and therefore uncertain and worth living, while Meruka learns the same lesson the hard way via an encounter with Shiki.

* SpoiledSweet: Though the Seos are wealthy winemakers, Shizune remains a sweet girl who prefers to live as simply as possible and never flaunts her wealth to anyone.

The main antagonist of the novel Future Gospel: recalled out in summer. Unsatisfied with a normal life that he can predict with 100% accuracy, he is a bomber who uses his ability to avoid capture.

* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Shiki didn't expect that a near mythical bomber would actually be a 14 year old kid.

* FantasticTerrorists: A "bomber for hire". The fantastic aspect comes from Meruka's ability to see the future — in fact, this is why his bombings are always successful and leave neither collateral damage, nor any traces to lead the police back to him.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After Shiki disables his eyes in an ambush, he turns his life around, giving up the bomber stint to live a more quiet life.]]

* ImprobableAge: Meruka was only 14 during his stint as a near mythical bomber.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: In the future, he's close to 25 years old and hangs around 10-year-old Mana.
* MadBomber: His main specialty.

* WorkOffTheDebt: He had to begin working for Mikiya to pay off his debts.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: She likes to hang around Mitsuru, who is 15 years older than her.

* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Mitsuru.

* TsurimeEyes

* BlindSeer: In ''Mobius Link'', which is set ten years after the events of the entire series. It should be noted that along with her now blind eyes, her precognition powers have also significantly waned over the years.
* CoolOldLady
* FortuneTeller: What she does for a living with her power.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: She is named after a RealLife clairvoyant, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chizuko_Mifune Chizuko Mifune]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She's only known as Mother Mifune. Her real name is never revealed.

[[folder:Ririsu Miyazuki]]
A character introduced in Future Gospel Extra Chorus. A student from Azaka's school whose friend was one of the suicide victims in Overlooking View.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RisaTaneda