History Characters / SpiritHunterNG

* {{Bishonen}}: Without his perpetual grimace, Akira actually [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/death-mark/images/8/83/NG_-_Bathroom_Mirror_1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20191011040915 looks quite nice]]. If he appreciates Kaoru's gothic lolita style, then she'll reply that he should try it for himself, since his face is pretty enough for him to look good in woman's clothing.

* {{Bishonen}}: He's a doe-eyed pretty boy with a gentle smile and slim body. It makes his cruel personality all the more surprising.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seiji is a mild-mannered young man with a [[{{Bishonen}} pretty face]] and soft voice. However, he's also the heir to the Yakuza who takes great pleasure from tormenting and blackmailing others.

* ArcVillain: Of Chapter 5, as the characters must summon and defeat it to win the penultimate round of Kakuya’ game.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Masaru offered up the Momoi Department people as sacrifices to summon Tsukuyomi and have it grant his wish. When he died along with them, he became Tsukuyomi itself, forced to live a life of torment until Akira and co. take care of him.

* ContraltoOfDanger: In contrast to the Urashima Woman's high-pitch, Kubitarou's voice is low and dangerous, which also contributed to her being mistaken for a burly man.

* TooDumbToLive: Confronting a murderous spirit as if she were an everyday criminal was perhaps not the smartest move in Ooe's book. [[spoiler:She promptly gets sliced to pieces by the spirit's katana, but a convenient time-loop brings her back to life. Twice.]]

* FatalFlaw: Impulsiveness. His inability to control himself ends up getting him in trouble multiple times in the game like when he confronted Hazuki and end up in a fight with Akira. [[spoiler: This also ends up killing him when he decide to check the well by himself, which unlike Akira who had someone with him to warn for Kubitarou's incoming attack, Maruhashi did not and end up headless.]]
* FatBastard: Subverted. He's an obese man with a range of [[{{Gonk}} gross expressions]] that is introduced harassing Hazuki. However, later it's revealed that he was simply over-enthusiastic about his new job as a (ineffectual) Yakuza lackey; he apologizes to Hazuki for his behaviour and is eager to help the protagonists in any way he can.

* MistakenForPedophile: His mansion contains evidence that he was stalking young girls, which naturally led Akira to question whether he was a pervert who got off on abusing kids. While that isn't the case, the truth isn't much better.

* DontLookAtMe: The reason the spirit begs people not to look inside the mansion is that [[spoiler:her body has been mutilated to a ghastly degree by Yakumo, and she's horrified at how she appears now.]]

* KillItWithFire: The way to pacify it is using incense to burn it alive, a fate, if you performed the necessary action beforehand, it outright ''enjoys'' after all its time spent agonizing within the Miroku mansion.

* DoesNotLikeMen: All of her victims are men, something that Ooe takes advantage of - assuming (correctly) that Peach doesn't kill women, Ooe serves herself up as a decoy so the male Akira can escape. [[spoiler:Though it's later shown that she doesn't bear a grudge against men in general - just that the people she's hunting down for revenge all happen to be men.]]

* HiddenHarasser: She makes no attempt to hide that she's stalking Akira and his companion from the second they enter the building. Throughout the investigation she can be seen just out of the corner of the eye, appearing briefly just to disappear as quickly.

* LosingYourHead: She appears to Akira as a being with three animal heads, one of which is holding a decapitated human head in their jaws. [[spoiler:The human head was Okayama's original head while alive, before it was decapitated by the men she would then make her victims.]]

* VigilanteWoman: A rare mix of this and StringyHairedGhostGirl. Rather than seek vengeance against the living in general, she restricts her murders to employees of the company who covered up the truth of the Momoi Department Store fire, where she lost her son. Her main targets are the 5/5 Club, consisting of President Noboru Ishimaru and his subordinates who embezzle money from the company, peep on female employees, and murdered her for getting too close to the truth. She also has a hatred of the police, who failed to do anything about the 5/5’s crimes, and will kill Ooe if she discovers that Ooe is a police detective.

* AnAxeToGrind: Her weapon of choice for decapitations is a large, menacing axe. This references the folklore hero Kintaro, who was known for carrying around a hatchet.

* IllGirl: Since youth, she's had a weak constitution, which caused her to focus more on her studies than on any physical hobbies. This came back to bite her as an adult when she died of an illness.

* NiceHat: As part of her gothic style, she always wears a swanky black beret with an opulent velvet bow.

* {{Kitsune}}: She's a flute-playing spirit with [[LittleBitBeastly fox ears]], who can manipulate other spirits and has a fondness for games. Unfortunately, said games have a tendency to put the competitors in grave danger.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Yashiki, the protagonist of ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'', was a gaunt, middle-aged man with amnesia and a proclivity towards the supernatural. Akira instead is a high-school brawler who's practically-minded and unfamiliar with the supernatural. This is shown most clearly with their respective spiritual files; Yashiki's notes are detailed and written like journal entries, whilst Akira's are crude, laconic scrawls.

* {{Foil}}: Yakumo can be seen as a dark mirror to Yashiki, the protagonist of ''VisualNovel/DeathMark''. [[spoiler:They are both heads of distinguished families with magical power who have made it their life-long mission to stop the rampage of a murderous doll spirit, the only difference being the lengths they went. Yakumo kidnapped and tortured young girls to make dolls that held their sorrow to create playmates for Kakuya for ten years. While Yashiki, or, more accurately, his true self Masamune Kujou, risked innocent lives by unsealing Mary, he never intentionally harmed anyone and only made the choice as otherwise, Mary's seal would be destroyed]].

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: She contrasts a lot with [[spoiler:Mary Kujou]], the BigBad and [[spoiler:fellow talking doll]] from VisualNovel/DeathMark. Kakuya wears traditional Japanese garb and talks like a child, while [[spoiler:Mary wears ElegantGothicLolita and speaks formally]]. Kakuya is openly presented as the BigBad, while [[spoiler:Mary provides guidance to the player throughout the game on the behalf of her deceased master, the BigGood, and is only revealed as evil in the last half-hour]]. Kakuya forces the protagonist to act by taking Ami hostage and personally naming spirits for him to take down, while [[spoiler:Mary wipes the protagonist's memory and manipulates him with lies and half-truths]]. Both Kakuya and [[spoiler:Mary Kujou]] have some form of love for their game's protagonist, but Kakuya's "love" is a childish, clingy jealousy and [[spoiler:Mary]]'s love is a monstrous, sadistic lust. Finally, Kakuya is fully capable of movement, while [[spoiler:Mary can only move her head and arms and spends most of the game sitting on the same couch]].

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Momo Kuruse's most recognizable asset is her striking silver hair - so striking, in fact, that people don't realize she and raven-haired Kaoru are the same person once she removes the silver wig.

** Kakuya appears as a doll-like human, her features beautiful but stiff and unnatural. At the end of the game, [[spoiler:when she forces herself to "grow up", her body distorts into something that's still recognisably human - and is more curvaceous to represent her desire to do "grown-up" things to Akira - but its face is mutated, the skin is cracked, it has claws for hands, and it has one arm and one leg too many.]]

* FriendOnTheForce: Once Akira lets her in on what's going on with the spirits, she agrees to help him out and pulls some strings so that he can investigate the Killer Peach without having to deal with the other police.

* AntiHeroTeam: All of the playable cast are societal outcasts in one way or another, and are amoral, anti-social, or some combination of both. Kaoru is the nicest of the lot, and she still has little qualms with breaking curfew and sneaking into forbidden areas to satisfy her supernatural mania.

!Spirits

* AdvertisedExtra: As with Hanayome before her, The Urashima Woman is the spirit that was featured the most in promotional artwork, and even received a novella that expanded on her character. In the game proper, she has no connection to the protagonists or the story as a whole, as opposed to the spirits that come after her.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Kubitarou is quickly established as a nasty spirit due to its modus operandi being the murder and decapitation of people's pets.

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!!As a whole:

* {{Foil}}: She contrasts a lot with Mary, the fellow talking doll from VisualNovel/DeathMark. Kakuya wears traditional Japanese garb and talks like a child. Mary wears ElegantGothicLolita and speaks formally. Kakuya is the BigBad, while Mary provides guidance to the player throughout the game on the behalf of her deceased master, the BigGood. Kakuya forces the protagonist to act by taking Ami hostage and personally naming spirits for him to take down. Mary [[spoiler:wipes the protagonist's memory and manipulates him with lies and half-truths]]. Both Kakuya and Mary have some form of love for their game's protagonist, but Kakuya's "love" is a childish, clingy jealousy and Mary's love is [[spoiler:a monstrous, sadistic lust.]] Kakuya is fully independent, while Mary can only move her head and arms and spends most of the game sitting on the same couch.

* AnimalMotifs: The crane. Specifically, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crane_Wife The Crane Wife]], of Japanese folk tales. Defying this motif and [[spoiler:painting her legs yellow so she can be a duck instead]] is how to pacify it.

** Ban, the shady investigative journalist, dons a waistcoat and tie, a shirt with rolled-up sleeves, and LennonSpecs.

* LennonSpecs: He has a pair of black spherical sunglasses that mark him as an unconventional, shady person.

* AndIMustScream: She was awake when [[spoiler:Kakuya possessed her, and so was aware of putting her own mother in a coma and trapping her brother in a PocketDimension.]]

* {{Foil}}: She contrasts a lot with Mary, the fellow talking doll from VisualNovel/DeathMark. Kakuya wears traditional Japanese garb and talks like a child. Mary wears ElegantGothicLolita and speaks formally. Kakuya is the BigBad, while Mary provides guidance to the player throughout the game on the behalf of her deceased master, the BigGood. Kakuya forces the protagonist to act by taking Ami hostage and personally naming spirits for him to take down. Mary [[spoiler:wipes the protagonist's memory and manipulates him with lies and half-truths]]. Kakuya acts out because of a childish jealousy towards the protagonist, while Mary [[spoiler:orchestrates tragedies for the protagonist and other innocent people because of a monstrous hunger for fear and despair]]. Kakuya is fully independent, while Mary can only move her head and arms and spends most of the game sitting on the same couch.

* {{Foil}}: She contrasts a lot with Mary, the fellow talking doll from VisualNovel/DeathMark. Kakuya wears traditional Japanese garb and talks like a child. Mary wears ElegantGothicLolita and speaks formally. Kakuya is the BigBad, while Mary provides guidance to the player throughout the game on the behalf of her deceased creator, the BigGood. Kakuya forces the protagonist to act by taking Ami hostage and naming spirits for him to take down. Mary [[spoiler:wipes the protagonist's memory and manipulates him with lies and half-truths]]. Kakuya acts out because of a childish jealousy towards the protagonist, while Mary [[spoiler:orchestrates tragedies for the protagonist and other innocent people because of a monstrous hunger for fear and despair]]. Kakuya is fully independent, while Mary can only move her head and arms and spends most of the game sitting on the same couch.