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* {{Determinator}}: It takes Neku [[PersonOfMassDestruction Neku]] a total of three times to fully take him down for good and even then he only fully relents when he realizes that [[spoiler:his timer is running out.]]
* CreepyGood: In ''Another Day'' and parodied. He no longer plays an antagonistic role, but he still makes some ominous statements to Neku about how challenging him to Tin Pin Slammer may end up the last game her ever plays... while also throwing his voice to give himself a dramatic echo that Neku is impressed by. [[spoiler: It may also apply to the version in the regular world, since he's the sinister leader of the Reapers but everything he's been doing was to ensure Shibuya doesn't get erased.]]
* CreepyGood: In ''Another Day'' and parodied. He no longer plays an antagonistic role, but he still makes some ominous statements to Neku about how challenging him to Tin Pin Slammer may end up the last game her ever plays... while also throwing his voice to give himself a dramatic echo that Neku is impressed by. [[spoiler: It may also apply to the version in the regular world, since he's the sinister leader of the Reapers but everything he's been doing was to ensure Shibuya doesn't get erased.]]
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Downplayed since he evidently enjoys seeing Shiki struggle with her jealousy issues, but he's the only Officer Reaper and GM with no plans of betraying his superiors. Instead he seems to show the utmost loyalty and respect towards Kitaniji.
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* KnightOfCerebus: While the two other Game Masters weren’t anything to sneeze at, they had plenty of quirks to offset their more menacing attributes. Konishi has no such qualities, being terrifyingly efficient, ruthless, and uncaring when it comes to her goals. Even [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Uzuki and Kariya]] are [[EvenEvilHasStandards visibly unnerved and disgusted by her acts of cruelty.]]
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* KnightOfCerebus: While the two other Game Masters weren’t anything to sneeze at, they had plenty of quirks to offset their more menacing attributes. Konishi has no such qualities, being terrifyingly efficient, ruthless, and uncaring when it comes to her goals. While she does have a fixation with planning and predicting outcomes, it merely emphasizes her cold, unfeeling, calculating personality. Even [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Uzuki and Kariya]] are [[EvenEvilHasStandards visibly unnerved and disgusted by her acts of cruelty.]]
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* ScreamingWarrior: [BrainwashedAndCrazy Under the influence of the Red Skull Pins,]] all their usual BossBanter is replaced by rampant roaring and screaming.
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** [[spoiler: Possibly subverted since their ultimate leader is some sort of angelic divine being.]]
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* DarkIsEvil: The vast majority of Reapers prefer darker, muted colors on their clothing and they all have those elaborate black wings. Minamimoto and Kitaniji add in some [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red accessories]] as well.
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* SuperMode: Unlike the other GM's, he doesn't fight exclusively in Noise form but rather alternates between his Reaper form and his Noise form throughout his boss battle.
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In "A New Day”, Neku is shot dead at Coco's hands, and after attempting and failing to prevent his murder, Joshua callously decides to leave Neku to his fate, declaring Josh doesn't need him anymore. All this is part of Coco's plan to get Neku back into the UG, the first step of a scheme that threatens far more than just Shibuya. The second step? Resurrect "Sho Minamimoto". Apparently to act as Neku's "partner ".]]
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In "A New Day”, Neku is shot dead at Coco's hands, and after attempting and failing to prevent his murder, Joshua callously decides to leave Neku to his fate, declaring Josh doesn't need him anymore. All this is part of Coco's plan to get Neku back into the UG, the first step of a scheme that threatens far more than just Shibuya. The second step? Resurrect "Sho Minamimoto".''Sho Minamimoto''. Apparently to act as Neku's "partner ".]]
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* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Despite their constant teasing and prodding of one another, they genuinely care for each other and work very well both off and on the field.
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* FunWithHomophones: Combines the Reapers' "route" designations with his math fetish to give mission instructions involving (square) [[JustForPun roots]].
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* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:A bizarre [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. Whenever somebody dies in the UG, [[NoBodyLeftBehind their body fades away and vanishes]]. However, while Minamimoto is found lying under one of his own garbage mounds, his body is perfectly intact. [[SequelHook And judging by the trailer]] for ''Final Remix'']]...
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* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:A bizarre [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. Whenever somebody dies in the UG, [[NoBodyLeftBehind their body fades away and vanishes]]. However, while Minamimoto is found lying under one of his own garbage mounds, his body is perfectly intact. [[SequelHook And judging by the trailer]] for ''Final Remix'']]...]]
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* RiddleForTheAges: At least for now. [[spoiler:Why did she rope Neku (and Beat) into another Reaper Game? Why is she so hellbent on having Neku participate in one just to continue it? Is she connected at all to Shinjuku being erased?]]
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* KickTheDog: Repeatedly with regards to Beat and Rhyme. She even uses her dying words to imply that Beat may have valued Rhyme above all else, but Rhyme didn't hold him in the same regard.
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** Days 3 and 4 of her tenure as Game Master are spent chasing Uzuki and Kariya for Rhyme's pin, which Konishi entrusted to them with the promise of a promotion if they kept the Players busy. When it's finally returned to be, he determines that it's a counterfeit, leading the Harriers to realize that she was BS-ing them about the promotion.
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* RedRightHand: Well "Black hand" may be more fitting and it isn't quiet his right one as [[spoiler:both of them change, once he goes Taboo]].
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* {{Hipster}}: Uzuki, in Another Day, just like [[NotSoDifferent Shiki, funnily enough.]]
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[[caption-width-right:164:"I've got everything you'll ever need. Seriously, I'm, like, not even lying."]]
Also known as the "Cute Reaper". Coco was originally introduced in ''Solo Remix'' as the face of the in-app store, allowing players to purchase in-game items with real money, before later becoming a guide in the social app ''Live Remix''. Coco makes her proper debut in the plot in ''Final Remix''.
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* AdaptedOut: Not Coco herself, but her shop is absent from the ''Final Remix'' due to her different role; its wares have been relocated to various other stores in Shibuya. When she first shows up in ''Final Remix's'' Another Day, she claims she helped Neku out a bunch of times in the past, whereas he and Beat don't remember her. This may be a reference to her shop being removed in ''Final Remix''; this version of Neku wouldn't know her.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In "A New Day”, Neku is shot dead at Coco's hands, and after attempting and failing to prevent his murder, Joshua callously decides to leave Neku to his fate, declaring Josh doesn't need him anymore. All this is part of Coco's plan to get Neku back into the UG, the first step of a scheme that threatens far more than just Shibuya. The second step? Resurrect "Sho Minamimoto". Apparently to act as Neku's "partner ".]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of "A New Day". She is the one who has created the Shibuya Noise.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:She shows up in ''Final Remix''[='=]s "A New Day", tagging along with Beat and Neku and mostly serving as something of a [[TheWatson Watson]]. Then they finally reach [=WildKat=], and Hanekoma reveals that the entire twisted Shibuya is a Noise created ''by Coco'', who immediately drops the friendliness and sets the [[TrueFinalBoss Dissonance]] [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Tapir]] on them.]]
* BorrowedCatchphrase: [[spoiler:She borrows Minamoto's use of "zeta" a few times, including when she somehow revives him.]]
* BribingYourWayToVictory: Sells special "Gourmet Rice Balls" that provide huge stat boosts, Crafting Material Sets for crafting items, and 100,000 Yen Pins. Aside from those, she mostly sells extra [=CD=]s. Averted in ''Final Remix'', where all of the above are found in the main stores during/after "A New Day".
* CanonImmigrant: Coco is ascended to canon in the Switch port ''Final Remix''.
* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler:Initially presents herself as nothing but a cutesy Reaper. However, when her true nature gets revealed, that gets flipped upside down, as shown when she gets a particularly scary expression on her face when she ''guns down Neku.'']]
* DeadpanSnarker: [[spoiler:After her true nature gets revealed, she shows an incredibly spiteful and sarcastic side to her.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:In the Secret Reports, Hanekoma speculates that Coco's power to create a Noise able to resemble Shibuya could only have been made possible if she was given the power by someone else.]]
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Turns out she is the one behind "A New Day". Who knew?]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: In "A New Day", she guns down Neku to have him participate in the next Reaper’s Game as part of her future plans.]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: [[spoiler:It's never revealed what her ultimate endgame is.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: And ''how!'' [[spoiler: As soon as her plans get exposed, she then proceeds to ''shoot Neku dead'', presumably to have him act as a part of her plans, and then proceeds to revive none other than ''Sho Minamimoto himself to act as Neku’s partner.'' Needless to say, she helps brings forward one hell of a WhamEpisode and the game’s DarkestHour.]]
* LeetLingo: She often peppers her dialogue with internet slang.
* LikeIsLikeAComma: Part of her [[ValleyGirl way of speaking]].
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: She actually fits in with some of the shopkeepers with her appearance, albeit younger looking than almost all of them, but you wouldn't think that she'd be a Reaper if it weren't for the standard black wings.
* ThePollyanna: She is a Reaper, needing points to survive the game, but she cheerfully looks out for every Soul and guides them before the Reaper's Game starts, and even opens up shop to support them (though it is hinted that it's another option for getting points).
* RiddleForTheAges: At least for now. [[spoiler:Why did she rope Neku (and Beat) into another Reaper Game? Why is she so hellbent on having Neku participate in one just to continue it? Is she connected at all to Shinjuku being erased?]]
* ScaryTeeth: [[spoiler:When her cover is blown by Hanekoma, she drops the sweet smiles in favor of cynical smiles showing sharp fangs.]]
* TokenMiniMoe: Among the rest of the Reapers who are commonly around their twenties, she sure looks young.
* ValleyGirl: "I totally have, like, sooo much awesome stuff. So, like, what are you lookin' for?"
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Getting her cover blown by Hanekoma shows how much of a bitch she really is that she gets a lot of evil-looking portraits to go with it.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Most of her hair is blonde, but some of the hair on her left is bluish.
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!!Coco Atarashi
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[[caption-width-right:164:"I've got everything you'll ever need. Seriously, I'm, like, not even lying."]]
Also known as the "Cute Reaper". Coco was originally introduced in ''Solo Remix'' as the face of the in-app store, allowing players to purchase in-game items with real money, before later becoming a guide in the social app ''Live Remix''. Coco makes her proper debut in the plot in ''Final Remix''.
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* AdaptedOut: Not Coco herself, but her shop is absent from the ''Final Remix'' due to her different role; its wares have been relocated to various other stores in Shibuya. When she first shows up in ''Final Remix's'' Another Day, she claims she helped Neku out a bunch of times in the past, whereas he and Beat don't remember her. This may be a reference to her shop being removed in ''Final Remix''; this version of Neku wouldn't know her.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In "A New Day”, Neku is shot dead at Coco's hands, and after attempting and failing to prevent his murder, Joshua callously decides to leave Neku to his fate, declaring Josh doesn't need him anymore. All this is part of Coco's plan to get Neku back into the UG, the first step of a scheme that threatens far more than just Shibuya. The second step? Resurrect "Sho Minamimoto". Apparently to act as Neku's "partner ".]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of "A New Day". She is the one who has created the Shibuya Noise.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:She shows up in ''Final Remix''[='=]s "A New Day", tagging along with Beat and Neku and mostly serving as something of a [[TheWatson Watson]]. Then they finally reach [=WildKat=], and Hanekoma reveals that the entire twisted Shibuya is a Noise created ''by Coco'', who immediately drops the friendliness and sets the [[TrueFinalBoss Dissonance]] [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Tapir]] on them.]]
* BorrowedCatchphrase: [[spoiler:She borrows Minamoto's use of "zeta" a few times, including when she somehow revives him.]]
* BribingYourWayToVictory: Sells special "Gourmet Rice Balls" that provide huge stat boosts, Crafting Material Sets for crafting items, and 100,000 Yen Pins. Aside from those, she mostly sells extra [=CD=]s. Averted in ''Final Remix'', where all of the above are found in the main stores during/after "A New Day".
* CanonImmigrant: Coco is ascended to canon in the Switch port ''Final Remix''.
* CuteAndPsycho: [[spoiler:Initially presents herself as nothing but a cutesy Reaper. However, when her true nature gets revealed, that gets flipped upside down, as shown when she gets a particularly scary expression on her face when she ''guns down Neku.'']]
* DeadpanSnarker: [[spoiler:After her true nature gets revealed, she shows an incredibly spiteful and sarcastic side to her.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:In the Secret Reports, Hanekoma speculates that Coco's power to create a Noise able to resemble Shibuya could only have been made possible if she was given the power by someone else.]]
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Turns out she is the one behind "A New Day". Who knew?]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: In "A New Day", she guns down Neku to have him participate in the next Reaper’s Game as part of her future plans.]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: [[spoiler:It's never revealed what her ultimate endgame is.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: And ''how!'' [[spoiler: As soon as her plans get exposed, she then proceeds to ''shoot Neku dead'', presumably to have him act as a part of her plans, and then proceeds to revive none other than ''Sho Minamimoto himself to act as Neku’s partner.'' Needless to say, she helps brings forward one hell of a WhamEpisode and the game’s DarkestHour.]]
* LeetLingo: She often peppers her dialogue with internet slang.
* LikeIsLikeAComma: Part of her [[ValleyGirl way of speaking]].
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: She actually fits in with some of the shopkeepers with her appearance, albeit younger looking than almost all of them, but you wouldn't think that she'd be a Reaper if it weren't for the standard black wings.
* ThePollyanna: She is a Reaper, needing points to survive the game, but she cheerfully looks out for every Soul and guides them before the Reaper's Game starts, and even opens up shop to support them (though it is hinted that it's another option for getting points).
* RiddleForTheAges: At least for now. [[spoiler:Why did she rope Neku (and Beat) into another Reaper Game? Why is she so hellbent on having Neku participate in one just to continue it? Is she connected at all to Shinjuku being erased?]]
* ScaryTeeth: [[spoiler:When her cover is blown by Hanekoma, she drops the sweet smiles in favor of cynical smiles showing sharp fangs.]]
* TokenMiniMoe: Among the rest of the Reapers who are commonly around their twenties, she sure looks young.
* ValleyGirl: "I totally have, like, sooo much awesome stuff. So, like, what are you lookin' for?"
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Getting her cover blown by Hanekoma shows how much of a bitch she really is that she gets a lot of evil-looking portraits to go with it.]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Most of her hair is blonde, but some of the hair on her left is bluish.
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The people in charge of the Reaper’s Game and its many machinations, the Reapers are the ones who deal out the missions for the Players to complete.
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* AffablyEvil: Many Reapers are pretty friendly for people who regularly erase the souls of the dead from existence.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneofExistence: How most Reapers get recruited and what some of their goals are. Players who do exceptionally well are offered the chance to become Reapers, and Reapers who do exceptionally well can be promoted to Officers, giving them a chance to become Composer and/or even [[spoiler: ''Angels.'']]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Needless to say, there is very little trust among the Reapers. Sho plans to take out the Composer to become the next one in place, Konishi, when handed the opportunity, schemes to take out Kitaniji in order to secure a spot as Conductor, and Kitaniji himself brainwashes the Reapers under his command to further his goals of complete mind control.
* DeathInAllDirections: Some particular Reapers have the ability to spray the battlefield with a bombardment of energy projectiles to chase after you. Uzuki, Sho, and Kitaniji are the most frequent offenders when it comes to this.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: Reapers have black, angular wings. However, rather than being bat wings, they're hard-edged and have no feathers or webbing whatsoever, looking more like a wing skeleton made out of iron.
* HalfheartedHenchman: Some of the Support Reapers are lazy, incompetent slackers. [[spoiler: For one of them, this is a good thing, as he ends up the only NPC in all of Shibuya who escapes the AssimilationPlot just because he ditched work one day.]]
* InTheHood: The lower-ranked Reapers are often seen sporting hoods throughout the game, with the Reapers in question never letting them down.
* MesACrowd: Many of the Reapers have the ability to project their Shadow onto the alternate plane to help take down Noise (or groups of Players) by themselves if they have to.
* OneWingedAngel: High-ranking Reapers have the ability to transform into a [[TheHeartless Noise]] form for combat. Higashizawa becomes a giant ram, Minamimoto a lion (though unlike the others he alternates between his Noise and Reaper forms during the battle), Konishi a tigress, and Kitaniji a [[ScaledUp snake]]. [[spoiler:The latter truly takes the cake, though, as he then pulls a OneWingedAngel ''of his OneWingedAngel form'', fusing with Joshua -- [[RuleOfSymbolism who was doing a]] CruficiedHeroShot -- to become a five-headed dragon that takes up the majority of both screens.]]
* PowerGivesYouWings: It's explained that a Reaper's supernatural power is contained in their wings. When they shift over to the RG, their wings vanish, making them essentially normal humans until they return to the UG. Interestingly, Support Reapers (the ones who create walls) don't have any wings at all, while all Harriers (who create Noise and occasionally attack Players personally) do, suggesting that Support Reapers are stuck on wall duty because they don't have any other powers.
* PunchClockVillain: Most of the rank and file Reapers are nice guys, and the protagonists even make friends with some of them. They are just doing their job, which just happens to be erasing people from existence. If they fail at it, ''they'' get erased. So there's some motivation there. Reapers were once players themselves, who were granted the option of becoming Reapers due to their powers of Imagination. It's one career option in the afterlife.
* {{Shinigami}}: The Reapers were called "Shinigami" in the original Japanese. They forgo Psychopomp work in lieu of setting up elaborate games that give dead people a second chance at life.
* StandardEvilOrganizationSquad
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In direct contrast to [[FireForgedFriends Neku and his partners]], who gradually learn to trust one another and backup each other, most of the Reapers are constantly at each other’s throats, and, if the opportunity arises, won’t hesitate to backstab one another if it means their goals can be reached quicker.
* TrappedInVillainy: The Reapers are mostly PunchClockVillains, but they do point out that if they don't erase players, then ''they'' get erased instead.
* WouldHurtAChild: Considering how most of the participants in the Reaper’s Game consists of a large majority of teenagers and they have next to no problem with exerting deadly force against them when their job requires them to, they definitely quality as this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Uzuki and Kariya]]
!!Koki Kariya and Uzuki Yashiro
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/WEWY-Kariya1--article_image_small.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:200:"Alright. Game on."]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/200px-Uzuki.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:200:"That is so whatever!"]]
-> Kariya is voiced by Creator/AnriKatsu (JP) and Andrew Kishino (EN)
-> Uzuki is voiced by Creator/SatomiArai (JP) and Creator/KateHiggins (EN)
A Harrier Reaper duo who do a lot of the ground work during the Game. Kariya is always laid-back and relishes his job, making a game out of everything with Uzuki, who is almost constantly on edge.
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* AffablyEvil: Kariya is a pretty cool guy so long as he isn't being forced to do his job. Uzuki isn't so bad herself when she's less on edge.
* AlliterativeName: Koki Kariya.
* AlmightyJanitor: Kariya is actually one of the most powerful Reapers around. To the point even ''[[HotBlooded Beat]]'' is insecure about fighting him at first. Although he's only an [[AlmightyJanitor Almighty Janitor]] because [[spoiler:[[ShipTease he wants to hang out with Uzuki]]]].
* AlphaBitch: Uzuki has massive shades of this, being incredibly prone to mocking and insulting the Players.
* AnimeHair: Kariya. It's... hard to describe; it's like he combed and styled the front of his hair and then left the back of it a mess. Visually, it seems to be a combination of a slicked-back style and an afro.
* AntiVillain: Certainly Kariya, who's laid back, on [[FriendlyEnemy friendly terms]] with the heroes, and even helps them out on occasion. [[spoiler:When Neku prepares to erase Kariya and Uzuki after their possession, Beat stops him on the grounds that neither of them seem like fundamentally bad people.]]
* BigBad: Uzuki in Another Day. [[spoiler:She was being used by Higashizawa the whole time, though]].
* BlankWhiteEyes: Uzuki gains these when she's ''significantly pissed off''.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The two of them get hit with this as Week 3 progresses due to the effects of the Red Skull pin and you’re forced to fight them yet again. They’re somehow even ''more'' tougher than [[ThatOneBoss when you first fought them]], to the point that they’re even able to activate their own [[CombinationAttack Fusion attack.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: Kariya has refused several promotions because he prefers working on the field. Beat is rightfully afraid of fighting him.
* CardCarryingVillain: Kariya is very aware of the role he's meant to play in the Reaper's Game. See the quote under PunchClockVillain.
* CoolShades: Kariya wears a cool-looking pair of orange-tinted shades.
* CantCatchUp: After Uzuki's defeat, she reveals that the reason she's so desperate to go up on the ranks [[spoiler:is because she feels guilty for Kariya refusing his own promotion just so he could keep hanging out with her]]. In her own words:
-->'''Uzuki:''' [[spoiler:I don't wanna be your freakin' ball and chain!!!]]
* CuteAndPsycho: Uzuki has shades of this, being very fond of smiling and giggling as she’s handing your ass to you on a silver platter.
* TheDarkChick: They ''both'' qualify.
* DeadpanSnarker: They can be seen constantly quipping on the various strange circumstances happening in the game and on the other characters. They even engage in SnarkToSnarkCombat with each other.
* DecliningPromotion: Kariya is more powerful than his rank suggests, and it is revealed that he has been doing this for a while.
* {{Dismotivation}}: Kariya intentionally avoids a promotion so he can relax and hang out with Uzuki. [[BrilliantButLazy Which does NOT mean that he isn't any good at his job.]]
* DualBoss: You eventually end up fighting both of them at the same time.
* EnigmaticMinion: Kariya is a BrilliantButLazy example of this trope. He frequently turns down promotions within the Reapers, prefers to spend time in the fields instead of lounging around in the Dead God’s Pad unlike the head Reapers, and will even go out of his way to provide helpful information and items to Players. Suffice to say, this frustrates the hell out of Uzuki.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: They're both appalled when [[spoiler:Konishi gives them the false Rhyme pin.]] Kariya in particular is disgusted and gives Neku and Beat a sincere apology for not having seen through the deception himself, then gives them his own Reaper pin in spite of the punishment this might incur. Even Uzuki says sorry for having screwed with them the previous day, since it was all for nothing.
* EvilCounterpart: All of Kariya's attacks are supercharged versions of Neku's psychs.
* EvilLaugh: Uzuki is very prone to doing this, especially when it comes to messing with the Players.
* FriendlyEnemy: Kariya, especially during Beat's rough week. Beat actually worries that Kariya's helpfulness might cause his erasure, as the higher ups do not tolerate treason.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Like the heroes, Kariya and Uzuki share a light puck when they're fighting together; this lets them put up a fight against Taboo Noise.
* GigglingVillain: Again, Uzuki.
* GoGetterGirl: Uzuki is relentlessly ambitious and hungers to rise through the Reapers' ranks.
* GracefulLoser: More in regards to Kariya, but Uzuki will follow if she must. When Neku and [[spoiler:Beat]] defeated them, they were willing to hand over what the Players wanted, [[spoiler:before it turned out to be fake]], which not even the Harriers knew.
* HairTriggerTemper: Uzuki gets angry ''very'' easily, but her biggest triggers involve anything that may cost her chances at a promotion.
* HaveANiceDeath: If you lose to them during their boss fight:
-->'''Kariya:''' So Uzuki, how 'bout that ramen?\\
'''Uzuki:''' I smell a promotion!
* {{Jerkass}}: Uzuki towards the players; she's a bit of a suck-up towards her superiors and is only genuinely friendly with Kariya. She lampshades this herself.
-->'''Uzuki:''' I'm not shooting for any Miss Nice awards!
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Neku, and ''Beat'' (in fact, ''especially'' Beat, who insisted they be spared) never really call out Kariya and Uzuki on erasing Rhyme, or even hold a grudge against them after the fact. Though they were AffablyEvil {{Graceful Loser}}s shortly before and willing to hand over the Rhyme pin. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact that it's their job (they were ordered to set a trap for Players) and it's what keeps them alive. Otherwise, they're {{Punch Clock Villain}}s.]]
* LastNameBasis: Everyone calls Kariya by his last name.
* LazyBum: Kariya is this to a T, to the point that he isn’t above trying to bribe Neku with ramen just to avoid battling him in Tin Pin Slammers in Another Day.
* LaughablyEvil: Their interactions together are often quite funny.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NIOjg7noHg "Rush Hour"]] accompanies most of their appearances in ''Solo Remix''.
* LetsGetDangerous: By themselves, the two aren’t too much trouble and can be taken care of relatively easily. [[DualBoss Until they]] [[MirrorBoss decide to pair up,]] [[ThatOneBoss that is.]]
* MellowFellow: Kariya isn't phased by much, and remains upbeat and mellow throughout most of the game.
* MirrorBoss: The pair have a fusion attack and a light puck and have attacks that mimic some of the ones you can get from pins.
* NiceGuy: Kariya.
* OfCorsetsSexy: An odd example with Uzuki, considering it's over a turtleneck.
* OppositesAttract: Despite their opposite personalities, they're very close friends with a bit of ShipTease. The Noise Report describes them as operating like "two halves of a whole".
* OralFixation: Kariya's dango, to the point he is referred to as Lollipop by Beat.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: In "A New Day", seeing Uzuki complain about work while Kariya is gunning for a promotion is the first sign that Shibuya's layout isn't the only thing that's gotten scrambled.
* PetTheDog: When push comes to shove, the pair show that they can be genuinely decent people. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Not only are they disgusted with the revelation that Konishi gave them a fake Rhyme pin,]] but Kariya actually goes out of his way to provide Neku and Beat with his own key pin to make up for not noticing the deception, and Uzuki legitimately apologizes to them for leading them on a wild goose chase the day beforehand.
* PunchClockVillain: Both of them are just doing their job and for treat it as such. They even called out how screwed up the Reaper's Game had become once it gets extended.
-->'''Beat:''' Quit screwin' with us!\\
'''Kariya:''' Um, villain? Screwin' with you is my job.
* RecurringBoss: They're fought several times, both singularly and as a duo.
* RedOniBlueOni: Kariya's the blue (calm and laid back, also very affable), Uzuki's the red (easily excitable and easily angered). [[spoiler:In "A New Day", Kariya ends up red while Uzuki turns blue.]]
* SaveTheVillain: Neku and Joshua can step in to save Kariya and Uzuki from a losing battle again errant Noise. The former is grateful and gives the heroes his sincerest thanks; the latter, well, ''[[UngratefulBitch does not]]''. [[spoiler:After their final defeat towards the end of the game, Neku and Beat make the decision to spare them both.]]
* ShesGotLegs: Uzuki, as showcased in her character art.
* SleevesAreForWimps: Kariya. Serves as a possible indication as to how strong he really is.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: See above. They appear frequently, but aren't always antagonizing the heroes.
* {{Tsundere}}: Uzuki, mildly, towards Kariya. It's heavily implied that part of the reason she wants to advance her career is so she wouldn't have to hold Kariya back, who's implied to have declined his promotion because he wanted to stay at her level.
* UngratefulBastard: Uzuki complains if Neku saves her from Taboo noise, while Kariya is relatively appreciative.
* UnholyMatrimony: They don't get married, but one of the later conversations reveals that [[spoiler:the reason Kariya doesn't advance through the ranks isn't just laziness, it's also so he can be with Uzuki. Her reaction hints this isn't unwelcome]]. Although [[spoiler:she still strives to advance herself so that then Kariya could advance with her, and she wouldn't feel like she's dragging him down]].
* VillainousFriendship: Despite their conflicting work ethics, they are both willing to cede a good point made by the other and are almost always seen hanging out together. They're also very much in sync with each other during battle.
* VillainsOutShopping: During Week 2, they can be seen out in Shibuya playing Tin Pin Slammer together while Minamimoto has them on standby.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They seem at odds with each other at first (more on Uzuki's part, who's flustered by her partner's mellow attitude, than Kariya), but it's eventually revealed that they're pretty good friends.
* WeaponOfChoice:
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Kariya with the orange and Uzuki with the pink. Lampshaded by Beat.
-->'''Beat:''' Whatchu want, Pinky?\\
'''Uzuki:''' Hey, leave my hair out of this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Higashizawa]]
!!Yodai Higashizawa
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/WEWY-Higashizawa2--article_image.jpg]][[caption-width-right:300: "Welcome to my kitchen!"]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see Ovis Cantus]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ovis_cantus.png[[/labelnote]]]]
-> Voiced by Kenji Takahashi (JP) and Creator/TravisWillingham (EN)
Acting as a proxy Game Master for Kitaniji on the first week (Shiki's chapter). He chooses to hide himself from the players until the 7th day and attempts to pound them to pieces with his immense strength.
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* BattleInTheRain: What his boss fight takes place in, complete with DramaticThunder and everything.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:The REAL Big Bad of Another Day, having used Uzuki and the Black Skullers to "purify" Tin Pin]].
* BoisterousBruiser: Has some shades of this, especially during his boss fight.
* TheBrute: The most straight-forward of the Game Masters, who relies on his size and strength to see him through battle.
* {{Determinator}}: The winning condition for the final day of the first week allows him to be able to give up without being erased, but he chooses to fight to the death instead.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Sorry, bucko, [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle game's not over yet]].
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Has glowing eyes for some reason. His food puns added in with his interest in Shiki don't help alleviate the crepe factor.
* EnergyAbsorption: Can regain health if players attack him at the wrong time.
* EvilLaugh: He’ll let out a laugh at times before attempting to tenderize you into a bloody pulp.
* EvilTastesGood: He loves making food-based puns.
* FamousLastWords: "In... indigestible! I lost? Well done...young lady..."
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Of Another Day, ironically enough, with Shooter and Shinji Hashimoto as the True Final Bosses]].
* GeniusBruiser: As Konishi herself states, Higashizawa excels at tactics, intel, willpower, decisiveness, performance, and his Player Erasure rate, to the point that only three Players are left by the end of Week 1. He’s also very adept at emotional and psychological manipulation, as shown when he exploits [[StepfordSmiler Shiki’s]] Entry Fee to make her fall into a HeroicBSOD.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Since it's possible he was unaware of the scheme Kitaniji was concocting, he treats his defeat by Neku and Shiki with a great amount of respect and dignity, unlike the other Game Masters that take up the mantle after him.]]
* HannibalLecture: To Shiki regarding [[spoiler:her jealousy issues]].
* HaveANiceDeath: "Another fine entrée."
* TheHeavy: He does most of the Black Skullers' work in Another Day. [[spoiler:He did this so he would end up with the pins in the end, wishing to take them from everyone in Shibuya]].
* LargeAndInCharge: The largest of the Game Masters and the only one besides the final boss whose Cantus form takes up both screens simultaneously in the DS version (the Noise forms of the other [=GMs=] simply take up one screen and use shadows of themselves to take up the other screen if they have to).
* LargeHam: When fighting.
-->'''Higashizawa:''' WELCOME TO MY KITCHEN!
* MonochromaticEyes: Has pure white eyes, which tends to just make him a little unsettling to behold.
* MrExposition: Only in Another Day.
* ShockAndAwe: Can summon orbs of electricity that damage players on contact and call forth lightning bolts from above that can stun you if you’re not careful.
* SinisterShades: To play up his intimidating appearance and contrast his pure white eyes.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:In Another Day. He wanted to purify Tin Pin as one of the three original masters]].
* VocalDissonance: He apparently sounds like a booth babe in Another Day, or at least Neku confuses him for one before actually seeing Higashizawa in person. [[SayItWithHearts His speaking with notes and hearts is done to exacerbate this.]]
* WakeUpCallBoss: He's the first boss who can't be safely overwhelmed with brute force. Instead, you have to make sure to dodge his attacks when fighting him, or else you'll end up another fine entrée.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:His motives in Another Day. See The Starscream entry above. He sees the error of his ways once he's beaten, though]].
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"You're dead. Don't you know?"]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He is apparently ''20 years old.'' The somewhat "youthful" design of his shoes gives this away via implication, but the lower half of his body is rarely seen in the game itself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Minamimoto]]
!!Sho Minamimoto
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sho-minamimoto1.jpg]][[caption-width-right:225:"This is my Game. And I only allow two things. Flawless calculations... and beauty!"]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see Leo Cantus]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/leo_cantus.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here for spoilers]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/taboo_minamimoto.gif[[/labelnote]]]]
-> Voiced by Takayuki Fujimoto (JP) and Andy Hirsch (EN)
The Game Master on the second week (Joshua's chapter). Minamimoto is a considered a "loose cannon" by the other Officers because he prefers to work by his own rules, rather than those of the game. He's called that for good reason, too: He's crazy and working against the interests of his co-workers. [[MadMathematician He's also quite fond of math]].
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''Another Day'', he's batting for your team this time.
* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:Comes back both at the tail end of the final week, and in the Epilogue in ''Final Remix''.]]
* BackFromTheDead:
** [[spoiler:After he is erased at the end of week 2, he sets up a Taboo refinery to bring himself back as a Taboo Noise.]]
** [[spoiler:At the end of "A New Day", he is resurrected again by Coco, evidently to serve as Neku's partner.]]
* BadBoss: While he is an incredibly effective Game Master when it comes to erasing Players, Sho is a pretty terrible leader in just about everything else. It even gets to the point that several Reapers die to the Taboo Noise that HE created, not that he particularly cares.
* BadassBoast: Searching some of his junk piles will reveal notes that have him boasting about, among other things, being more awesome than gravity and air.
* BadassBookworm: The dude trash talks people with math and kicks everyone's asses for the fun of it.
* BerserkButton: Sho has never gotten angry in the main story. However in Another Day [[spoiler:he's generally angry and drops his usual speech pattern when Ken Doi humiliates him in front of Shooter and the others in regards to Tin Pin. He storms off claiming he's better than Ken Doi. Really odd given how crazy he is in the main story.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He’s a hammy [[MadMathematician math fetishist]] with a penchant for leaving random junk as huge trash heaps in the middle of the street and claiming them to be works of art. Needless to say, he’s treated as a weirdo by both the Reapers and Players alike. However, he is also regarded as a top-class Reaper with one of the highest Player erasure streaks in the game and is also responsible for the creation of the [[EliteMooks Taboo Noise]], who turn out to be a major threat and causes the deaths of several Reapers and Players due to this.
* BigBadWannabe: He's genuinely a major threat, [[spoiler:being responsible for the Taboo Noise]] and having designs on the Composer's job, but when they come into conflict it quickly becomes apparent he's no match for them.
* BishonenLine: [[spoiler:Let's just say that Minamimoto is even ''more'' good looking as a [[HopelessBossFight Taboo]]]].
* BrokenAce: Konishi describes him as being perfect in all fields except leadership because of his refusal to work with others. He also has to do everything perfectly or get angry when it doesn't go as planned. In Another Day, we see what happens [[BerserkButton when he fails epically.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Plays by his own rules, attacks both Players and Reapers, and generally causes havoc for everyone in the UG when he's a Game Master. Despite this, he has one of the highest Player erasure records in Shibuya's UG.
* CameBackStrong: After blowing himself up and using a Taboo Noise refinery sigil to reforge a new body for himself, he comes back WAY stronger than before, claiming to have power that exceeds even that of the [[PhysicalGod Composer’s]] and then proceeds to take on both [[PersonOfMassDestruction Neku]] and [[BoisterousBruiser Beat]] without breaking a sweat.
* CatchPhrase: "SOHCAHTOA" (this is actually a pun on the Japanese phrase "''Sō ka?''", meaning "I see", "Is that so?", et cetera), "So zetta slow!" ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zetta- "zetta"]] is the prefix for 10^21, or a '''''sex'''''tillion) "CRUNCH! I'll add it to the heap"... he's got a lot of these.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has a small moment of snark during Week 1 when meeting Higashizawa for the first time.
-->'''Higashizawa:''' You do me a great honor, sir. Watch! I will turn this week’s fracas into a fricassee!\\
'''Minamimoto:''' You planning to erase them, or EAT them?
* {{Determinator}}: Not even blowing himself up was enough to stop him from coming back in a stronger form in order to become the Composer once and for all.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His showing up late to a meeting and using nicknames on everyone, including his boss, gives some idea of how little regard he has for authority.
* EvilGenius: Uses his prodigious math skills to create the rule-breaking Taboo Noise and give himself a Taboo Noise form.
* EvilIsHammy: Incredibly so. Almost every time he appears on screen, he’s loudly and enthusiastically shouting for everyone in the vicinity to hear.
* FaceOfAThug: In ''Another Day'', Neku is afraid that he might mug him if he gets too close. He turns out to be a pretty nice guy despite still being an InsufferableGenius, though.
* FacialMarkings: His "whiskers".
* TheFightingNarcissist: He’s very obsessed with the concept of beauty and what he perceives it to be, which usually includes his works of “art” or himself.
* FlunkyBoss: Sends out several Taboo Noise before attacking directly, and typically has a few out most of the time, usually attacking the partner on the other screen.
* FormulaicMagic: Again, using math to help create the Taboo Noise.
* FunWithAcronyms: [[CatchPhrase "SOHCAHTOA"]].
* GeniusBruiser: Has been described as an absolute prodigy when it comes to his craft and he also packs quite the power in addition to his intelligence.
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:After he comes back in his Taboo form, he starts getting a very bad case of this, to the point that he even proclaims to have power equal of that to the Composer. However, [[PhysicalGod Joshua]] [[CurbStompBattle puts a stop to that real quick.]]]]
* GoodWithNumbers: A math fetishist with his love of numbers taken UpToEleven. ''Everything'' involving his schemes can be calculated and manipulated by his use of math. To activate his Level ''i'' Flare, he recites pi.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: [[spoiler:Its very obvious in Another Day that he has issues with Ken Doi. Beside trying to impress him, he doesn't react well to failure. Of course a few hints can be seen in the main game where he's such a perfectionist that even a small mistake will get him rather agitated.]]
* InsufferableGenius: He puts the "pomp" in "psychopomp". And the "psycho", too, for that matter.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Sho is incredibly self-centered and obsessive when it comes to his own interests and does not give a damn about anyone else whatsover, even when it comes to the other Reapers.
* JerkAss: Sho is, to put bluntly, a huge dick. [[ItsAllAboutMe He cares about no one but himself]], constantly insults both Reaper and Player alike, and is also the cause of several deaths in the game due to his brewing of [[EliteMook Taboo Noise.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:On the last day of the game, he gets "crunched" and chucked under a junk sculpture rather like the ones he was so fond of making. It's implied that he's not dead, though]]...
* {{Kiai}}: His [[CallingYourAttacks battle cries.]] "SINE! COSINE! TANGENT!"
* LargeHam: Incredibly hammy, especially when he’s talking about his works of art and mathematics.
* LaughablyEvil: Even when he’s planning to kill what is essentially God and causing chaos in Shibuya, he still manages to be quite entertaining and hilarious with his antics and eccentric quirks.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://youtu.be/SSTdSscfgJ8 "Transformation".]] When he comes back in his Taboo form, this is replaced with [[https://youtu.be/sfk59B4HnEA "Transformation (Transformed)".]]
* LightningBruiser: Is able to FlashStep at high speeds as well as deal out large chunks of damage, along with having incredibly durable defenses due to his absorbing of Taboo Noise. His Taboo Form boss fight takes this UpToEleven, as not only is he is even more powerful and faster than before, but he’s even able to regenerate health as well.
* LonersAreFreaks: Works alone and is generally regarded as such by Konishi and Uzuki.
* MadMathematician: It's how he operates and is his Game Master quirk (whereas Higashizawa's quirk was all related to food). He's a prodigy with mathematics. See his other trope descriptors.
* MarkedChange: [[spoiler:Taboo Minamimoto, who gains more black discoloration on his skin before he reveals this]].
* MarkOfTheBeast: [[spoiler:Taboo Minamimoto]] has this.
* MouthfulOfPi: Currently the page picture, at ''156 digits''. The incantation for a Level ''i'' Flare, at that!
* MutualKill: The aforementioned Level ''i'' Flare. [[spoiler:As a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' MythologyGag, "Level x" spells hit all targets with a level divisible by x, ally and enemy alike; ''i'' is the square root of -1, and so a Level ''i'' spell will target everything. Minamimoto uses the psych ''after'' he's lost his boss fight, which means his erasure is imminent; Neku only survives because Joshua pushes him off the roof of Pork City before the Flare can go off, and Joshua himself has to hop to Another Day in a parallel world to avoid taking the hit.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:A bizarre [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. Whenever somebody dies in the UG, [[NoBodyLeftBehind their body fades away and vanishes]]. However, while Minamimoto is found lying under one of his own garbage mounds, his body is perfectly intact. [[SequelHook And judging by the trailer]] for ''Final Remix'']]...
* NiceGuy: [[spoiler:Surprisingly in Another Day where he's very helpful toward Shooter and the group coming in and pulling a BigDamnHeroes moment by giving Shooter the ultimate Tin Pin he made himself.]]
* NiceHat: Also known as Pi-Face's Cap, its slick, [[IncrediblyLamePun calculated]] style can turn you into a zetta math whiz (probably). [[spoiler:He loses it when he turns Taboo, and you can pluck it off his corpse([[AmbiguousSituation ?]]) on the final day.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:In his pursuit of the Composer, he outs Konishi's hiding spot on the final day of her mission. Without him being there, it was possible that Neku and Beat wouldn't have found her and been granted the opportunity to clear their mission.]]
* NotAsYouKnowThem: [[spoiler:He's a straight up good guy in ''Another Day''.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: See BerserkButton above but [[spoiler:if Sho has to drop his speech pattern then you know something is wrong.]]
* PantheraAwesome: His [[OneWingedAngel Noise form]] Leo Cantus.
* ThePerfectionist: Everyone is based on perfect calculations, especially how fast he'll erase you.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The end of week 2 seems to conclusively establish him as Neku's killer. Then it's revealed at the end of the game that it was really Joshua.]]
* RedRightHand: Well "Black hand" may be more fitting and it isn't quiet his right one as [[spoiler:both of them change, once he goes Taboo]].
* ShadowArchetype: Can be considered this to both Neku AND Joshua. His single-minded obsession with himself and distaste for cooperation is quite similar to early game Neku’s own attitude in the beginning and his intelligence and overall superiority complex, as well as total disregard for human life when it comes to his plans, is also quite reminiscent of Joshua. However, unlike Neku and Joshua, [[CharacterDevelopment who both learned to improve themselves for the better and to expand their horizons,]] Minamimoto has no such revelation and remains a crazy son of a digit right to the end.
* ShootingSuperman: [[spoiler:Firing a bullet at Joshua in the RG doesn't count, as he didn't know the Composer could still use some of his powers at that vibe. ''Emptying the rest'' in his direction, after seeing the first one halt in midair, does.]]
* SloganYellingMegaphoneGuy: Sort of. He tends to yell his catchphrases through a megaphone. [[spoiler:Until he swaps it for Def Märch's microphone]].
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:To Joshua, who actually says he enjoys having such a loose cannon around.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: After his boss fight, he activates his Level ''i'' Flare in an attempt to Erase both Neku and Joshua, knowing full well that this will Erase ''him'' as well.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: An incredibly handsome young man who even [[BareYourMidriff bares his midriff]] after coming back in his Taboo form.
* TeleportSpam: Makes liberal use of this in both his boss fights, to very frustrating effect.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Tells the Reapers to standby and to not lay a hand on the Players and even saves Neku and Joshua from a Taboo Noise’s surprise attack in order to save them for himself to defeat.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: An InUniverse example. The only one who understands his nonsensical junk piles is himself.
* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler:In Another Day, Sho's attitude toward Ken Doi is to get him to acknowledge that he's just as knowledgable about Tin Pin as he is. Given how Another Day pretty much confirms that they're father and son, it would make sense.]]
* WildCard: He's not loyal to either the Composer or the Conductor; he's loyal only to himself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Konishi]]
!!Mitsuki Konishi
[[quoteright:203:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mitsuki-konishi1.jpg]][[caption-width-right:203:"I'll need to work up a new strategy... Adjust for the longer term... Good thing I never make mistakes."]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see Tigris Cantus]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tigris_cantus.png[[/labelnote]]]]
-> Voiced by Creator/HitomiNabatame (JP) and Lara Cody (EN)
The Game Master on the third and final week (Beat's chapter). She first appears to be utterly loyal to Conductor Kitaniji, but is much more interested in climbing the corporate ladder.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''Another Day''. She's just another random Tin Pin Slammer rival who happens to be one of Beat's teachers. She seems to care for him, and hopes that he and Rhyme will make up.
* TheBaroness: Very cold and calculating. The other Reapers nickname her the "Iron Maiden" for a reason.
* BerserkButton: Very intolerant when it comes to idiocy, as shown in her later interactions with [[IdiotHero Beat.]] During the final day, she outright ''explodes'' when she’s had enough of his dialect.
* BoobsOfSteel: Inverted; she's the bustiest character in the game, but more of a MasterOfIllusion than a fighter. [[spoiler:She never fights in her base form and goes OneWingedAngel for her boss battle.]]
* CastingAShadow: Seems to have some control over this aspect, as shown when she is revealed to have been hiding in Beat’s shadow throughout the entirety of Week 3.
* CatchPhrase: [[AllAccordingToPlan "Just as I predicted."]] Which also becomes her [[spoiler:FamousLastWords]] later on.
* CatGirl: Her Cantus form which, unlike the other Game Masters, has an obviously feminine appearance.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of her interactions with [[IdiotHero Beat]] have her playing this role, with her getting some truly scathing insults in towards him.
* DidntSeeThatComing: For all of her insistence that everything is going according to plan, Beat points out that she sure has to deal with a lot of "unforeseen circumstances".
* DopplegangerAttack: Is able to summon clones of herself to attack and defend against foes, to the point that they can kill you in a rush attack if you’re not careful enough.
* TheDragon: To Kitaniji.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:Some quips and lines, not to mention Konishi's own behavior hints that she's been planning on betraying Kitaniji since a long time.]]
* EnragedByIdiocy: As made apparent by her interactions with [[IdiotHero Beat]], she really doesn’t tolerate stupidity.
* FamousLastWords: "[[spoiler:Your sister's memories of you: they were YOUR entry fee. Hers was something else. You must not have been very dear to her. Hee hee... That look on your face. It's just... as I pre... dicted...]]"
* FemmeFatalons: Has long black nails. Hard to notice at first.
* {{Foil}}: To Beat, in many ways. Whereas Beat is a loudmouthed IdiotHero with a penchant for [[LeeroyJenkins charging into a fray with no plans]] and being fiercely devoted and protective of the people he cares about, Konishi is a calculating ManipulativeBitch who always tries to plan two steps ahead of everyone else and will [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstab just about anyone to achieve her goals.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Unlike most of the other villains, who each have their quirks that prevent them from being seen as irredeemably evil, Konishi lacks any sort of redeemable quality that would dull her villainous edge. She's purely in the business for her own reasons and almost all her actions as a Game Master are extraordinarily calculating and cruel.
* FourIsDeath: Her HP is 4444, taking the "Reaper" designation to a [[FourEyesZeroSoul logical]] [[UpToEleven extreme]].
* GigglingVillain: Is very prone to mockingly giggling at you during battle.
* TheGlassesComeOff: She takes them off right before getting into fighting mode. It's her ''eyes'' that glint menacingly instead.
* HateSink: Konishi is completely devoid of sympathetic qualities, and most of her actions in Week 3 end up earning the players' hatred.
* HaveANiceDeath: "Just as I projected!"
* HiddenInPlainSight: Tied to her [[MasterOfIllusion powers over shadow and illusion]]. [[spoiler:The 2nd mission she issues to Neku and Beat is to find her within 6 days, while she hides in a single location. On the final day, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain thanks to Minamimoto, it's revealed that she was hiding in Beat's shadow the entire time.]]]]
* HotTeacher: In Another Day, she's one of Beat's teachers.
* HourglassHottie: Though the majority of the character designs in this game include having thin waistlines, Konishi actually happens to be one of the only characters with enough of a bust to invoke this trope.
* IceQueen: To say she's [[KickTheDog cold-hearted]] would be an understatement. She's pretty much the most ruthless character in the game, especially towards Beat.
* {{Jerkass}}: She outwardly shows respect for Kitaniji and shows cold professionalism to her Reaper colleagues, but the truth is that she views everyone else as tools to be used and feels nothing for the terrible things she does.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The last phase of her fight amounts to Beat and Rhyme teaming up to finish her off]].
* KickTheDog: Repeatedly with regards to Beat and Rhyme. She even uses her dying words to imply that Beat may have valued Rhyme above all else, but Rhyme didn't hold him in the same regard.
* KnightOfCerebus: While the two other Game Masters weren’t anything to sneeze at, they had plenty of quirks to offset their more menacing attributes. Konishi has no such qualities, being terrifyingly efficient, ruthless, and uncaring when it comes to her goals. Even [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Uzuki and Kariya]] are [[EvenEvilHasStandards visibly unnerved and disgusted by her acts of cruelty.]]
* ManipulativeBitch: Once she takes charge as a Game Master, she spends the majority of her time manipulating just about everyone that's still in the UG. [[spoiler:Her ultimate goal is to become the Conductor and is using everyone - Players, Reapers, even other Game Masters and her superior, Kitaniji - to reach this goal.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: She seems to have the power to bend light, and one of her battle backgrounds [[AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield looks like the game crashed]].
* PantheraAwesome: Her [[OneWingedAngel Noise form]] Tigris Cantus.
* PersonalityPowers: Is without a doubt one of the most underhanded and scheming Reapers in the game. Coincidentally, her illusion-based powers fit her quite nicely.
* PuzzleBoss: Unlike the previous Game Masters, you can't just wail on her and hope to win. The game provides a subtle hint towards beating her though.
* RealityWarper: How her illusion powers come off as, changing the battle screens to fit the next phase of her boss fight.
* {{Sadist}}: Some of her interactions with [[BoisterousBruiser Beat]] paint her in this light, with her outright saying that she will enjoy watching him squirm and struggle in the face of certain death.
* SexySecretary: Basically fulfills this role for Kitaniji.
* SmugSnake: Because of her intelligence, arrogance, and pride, she takes a lot of pleasure messing with [[IdiotHero Beat]], only to end up losing to him and Neku.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:To Kitaniji once her true motivations are revealed. See Manipulative Bitch above.]]
* XanatosGambit: She attempts this near the end of the game. [[spoiler:She lets Minamimoto pass through the barrier, in exchange for him making her his Conductor if he manages to usurp the Composer's position. If he fails, she hopes that Kitaniji will be injured enough that she can finish him off and take his spot]]. It fails, since [[spoiler:not only does she die fighting Neku and Beat, but Joshua defeats Minamimoto]].
* WitchWithACapitalB: Beat and Neku call her this multiple times throughout the story, and [[KickTheDog with]] [[ManipulativeBitch good]] [[SmugSnake reason.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: As you can see by her image on the right, her stockings and dress ranks her somewhere between A and B on the scale, which is between "Thigh Highs" and "Above the Knee", respectively.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kitaniji]]
!!Megumi Kitaniji
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Kitaniji1.jpg]][[caption-width-right:225:"Any and all specifics are decided by the Composer. That is His exclusive and incontrovertible right."]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see Anguis Cantus]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anguis_cantus.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here for spoilers]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/draco_cantus.png[[/labelnote]]]]
-> Voiced by Shane Johnson (EN)
The Conductor and direct superior of the Reapers. Because the Composer has long been absent, he has asserted control over the Game, and makes sure that everyone, Player and Reaper alike, play by the book. However, it hasn't stopped him from imposing his own "penalties" on Neku for violating the game's rules.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''Another Day''. He's just another random Tin Pin Slammer rival, and has no real role in the story. [[spoiler:He's actually the mayor in that world, but he's somehow still subordinate to [[AlmightyJanitor Joshua]].]]
* AlasPoorVillain: In the end, you can’t help but feel bad for him once you realize that all he was doing was [[spoiler:trying to ensure that Joshua didn’t destroy the city he loved above all else, to the point that he was willing to put his entire existence on the line for it.]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:His entire scheme was conceived as an alternative to having Joshua erase Shibuya]].
* AssimilationPlot: [[spoiler:Kitaniji's ultimate plan.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He’s the Composer’s right hand man as well as head of the Reapers and he has the skills to show it.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Is never seen out of his snake-themed suit and is not one to be messed with when it comes to battles.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:He's the true culprit behind Neku's continued entrance into the Game, the Games gradually getting more rigged against him, and ultimately the Red Skull pins. This was all done in an effort to stop the Composer, a separate villain in the context of the story, from destroying Shibuya]].
* BigNo: After losing, more over the fact that [[spoiler:since he lost his game, Shibuya will be erased]].
* {{Determinator}}: It takes Neku a total of three times to fully take him down for good and even then he only fully relents when he realizes that [[spoiler:his timer is running out.]]
* DiscoDan: Wears distinctly disco-inspired clothing and has an unhealthy fixation on the past. ''Solo Remix'' onwards use a disco remix of "Deja Vu" as his first battle theme.
* TheDragon: The strongest Reaper, and thus second-in-command of the Game after the Composer. [[spoiler:Usually. During the events of the story, Kitaniji and the Composer are competing over the fate of Shibuya, thus making both of them competing central villains]].
* DualBoss: [[spoiler:A brainwashed Shiki fights alongside him]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:After being defeated, he gracefully accepts his deletion and tells Neku that Shibuya is in his hands]].
* FamousLastWords: "[[spoiler:Another Player Pin!? Why do you have two? I only gave you the one! ...Ha ha. Of course! Neku... It's up to you now.]]"
* GenderBlenderName: "Megumi" is a unisex but feminine-sounding name. Lampshaded in the manga.
-->'''Konishi:''' But sir! What if [Minamimoto] dredges up old memories of people teasing you because of your girly name?\\
'''Kitaniji:''' Konishi... Salt. Wounds. Stop.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:After his final defeat at the hands of Neku and his partners, he graciously accepts that he lost to Joshua and congratulates Neku for beating him.]]
* HaveANiceDeath: "Game, set, match!"
** As [[spoiler:Draco Cantus it's "Now Shibuya will be saved."]]
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: As a foil to Neku, his are always around his neck. A subtle hint [[spoiler:that his plan involves false unity]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He ran the Reaper's game as both the Conductor and Composer (in the real Composer's absence) for the entire game. However, he himself was in a game with the Composer complete with his own timer of thirty days. After the final boss, the timer runs out, losing him the game and erasing him.]]
* KnightTemplar: He does love Shibuya, but his method of improving it is a bit extreme, to say the least.
* {{Leitmotif}}: In ''Solo Remix'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKwJZd76p70 "Satisfy"]].
* LoopholeAbuse: Particularly when he [[spoiler:removes all the other players in an attempt to make Neku unable to win]].
* MouthOfSauron: He acts as the second-in-command and spokesperson for the Composer.
* OhCrap: He's noticeably rattled when things start going wrong, particularly [[spoiler:his failure to destroy Neku's pin, Joshua arriving, and his final loss]].
* RedOniBlueOni: To Neku's Blue. Again, check the positions of their headphones.
* SequentialBoss: [[spoiler:First fought in his normal form with a brainwashed Shiki before entering his Noise form Anguis Cantus. Immediately after, he uses Joshua to turn into Draco Cantus, the Final Boss]].
* ShadowArchetype: Can be seen as this to Neku, what with both of them wearing [[HeadphonesEqualIsolation headphones]] and having a mutual dislike of other people, seeing them as inherently flawed and worthless. However, whereas Neku [[CharacterDevelopment learns to fully embrace Shibuya, faults and all, and appreciate other viewpoints and ideologies]], Megumi flat out rejects them, instead trying to force his will on others in an attempt to achieve total conformity.
* SharpDressedMan: Wears a rather nice snake-themed suit.
* SinisterShades: A given considering he's the Conductor and the BigBad.
* ScaledUp: Anguis Cantus and [[spoiler:[[SequentialBoss Draco Cantus]]]].
* TimeStandsStill: ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Time, be still!"]]''
* TitleDrop: A variation of the Japanese version's title (''It's a Wonderful World''), though not directly. [[spoiler:His assimilation plot has everyone under the effects of his pin give a mind-controlled speech, ending it with "What a wonderful world such would be."]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: His reasoning on why he employed the Red Skull pins to unite the denizens of Shibuya into a HiveMind. [[spoiler:Considering the [[KillEmAll alternative of what were to happen if he didn’t attempt this]], you can see where he’s coming from.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: His favorite clothing brand is Hip Snake, which fittingly specializes in retro-styled attire.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Offers this to [[spoiler:Neku at the end of the game, asking him to take off the Player Pin preventing him from being brainwashed and embrace total conformity. Neku, however, [[ShutUpHannibal promptly tells him to shove it.]]]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:He was actually playing his own game with Joshua, the Composer, to determine the fate of Shibuya. And if Joshua wins, Shibuya is destroyed. And guess what? Neku was playing on Joshua's side. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Oops]]]]!
* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler:Deems Neku this after his first boss fight, and consequently gives him a quick summary of what's been going on in Shibuya since he entered the UG - namely, that the Composer is ''not'' "the man [Neku] envisions" and that Kitaniji is responsible for what Neku thought the Composer was doing.]]
[[/folder]]
The people in charge of the Reaper’s Game and its many machinations, the Reapers are the ones who deal out the missions for the Players to complete.
Go [[Characters/TheWorldEndsWithYou here]] for the main character page.
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[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Reapers as a whole]]
* AffablyEvil: Many Reapers are pretty friendly for people who regularly erase the souls of the dead from existence.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneofExistence: How most Reapers get recruited and what some of their goals are. Players who do exceptionally well are offered the chance to become Reapers, and Reapers who do exceptionally well can be promoted to Officers, giving them a chance to become Composer and/or even [[spoiler: ''Angels.'']]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Needless to say, there is very little trust among the Reapers. Sho plans to take out the Composer to become the next one in place, Konishi, when handed the opportunity, schemes to take out Kitaniji in order to secure a spot as Conductor, and Kitaniji himself brainwashes the Reapers under his command to further his goals of complete mind control.
* DeathInAllDirections: Some particular Reapers have the ability to spray the battlefield with a bombardment of energy projectiles to chase after you. Uzuki, Sho, and Kitaniji are the most frequent offenders when it comes to this.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: Reapers have black, angular wings. However, rather than being bat wings, they're hard-edged and have no feathers or webbing whatsoever, looking more like a wing skeleton made out of iron.
* HalfheartedHenchman: Some of the Support Reapers are lazy, incompetent slackers. [[spoiler: For one of them, this is a good thing, as he ends up the only NPC in all of Shibuya who escapes the AssimilationPlot just because he ditched work one day.]]
* InTheHood: The lower-ranked Reapers are often seen sporting hoods throughout the game, with the Reapers in question never letting them down.
* MesACrowd: Many of the Reapers have the ability to project their Shadow onto the alternate plane to help take down Noise (or groups of Players) by themselves if they have to.
* OneWingedAngel: High-ranking Reapers have the ability to transform into a [[TheHeartless Noise]] form for combat. Higashizawa becomes a giant ram, Minamimoto a lion (though unlike the others he alternates between his Noise and Reaper forms during the battle), Konishi a tigress, and Kitaniji a [[ScaledUp snake]]. [[spoiler:The latter truly takes the cake, though, as he then pulls a OneWingedAngel ''of his OneWingedAngel form'', fusing with Joshua -- [[RuleOfSymbolism who was doing a]] CruficiedHeroShot -- to become a five-headed dragon that takes up the majority of both screens.]]
* PowerGivesYouWings: It's explained that a Reaper's supernatural power is contained in their wings. When they shift over to the RG, their wings vanish, making them essentially normal humans until they return to the UG. Interestingly, Support Reapers (the ones who create walls) don't have any wings at all, while all Harriers (who create Noise and occasionally attack Players personally) do, suggesting that Support Reapers are stuck on wall duty because they don't have any other powers.
* PunchClockVillain: Most of the rank and file Reapers are nice guys, and the protagonists even make friends with some of them. They are just doing their job, which just happens to be erasing people from existence. If they fail at it, ''they'' get erased. So there's some motivation there. Reapers were once players themselves, who were granted the option of becoming Reapers due to their powers of Imagination. It's one career option in the afterlife.
* {{Shinigami}}: The Reapers were called "Shinigami" in the original Japanese. They forgo Psychopomp work in lieu of setting up elaborate games that give dead people a second chance at life.
* StandardEvilOrganizationSquad
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In direct contrast to [[FireForgedFriends Neku and his partners]], who gradually learn to trust one another and backup each other, most of the Reapers are constantly at each other’s throats, and, if the opportunity arises, won’t hesitate to backstab one another if it means their goals can be reached quicker.
* TrappedInVillainy: The Reapers are mostly PunchClockVillains, but they do point out that if they don't erase players, then ''they'' get erased instead.
* WouldHurtAChild: Considering how most of the participants in the Reaper’s Game consists of a large majority of teenagers and they have next to no problem with exerting deadly force against them when their job requires them to, they definitely quality as this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Uzuki and Kariya]]
!!Koki Kariya and Uzuki Yashiro
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/WEWY-Kariya1--article_image_small.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:200:"Alright. Game on."]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/200px-Uzuki.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:200:"That is so whatever!"]]
-> Kariya is voiced by Creator/AnriKatsu (JP) and Andrew Kishino (EN)
-> Uzuki is voiced by Creator/SatomiArai (JP) and Creator/KateHiggins (EN)
A Harrier Reaper duo who do a lot of the ground work during the Game. Kariya is always laid-back and relishes his job, making a game out of everything with Uzuki, who is almost constantly on edge.
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* AffablyEvil: Kariya is a pretty cool guy so long as he isn't being forced to do his job. Uzuki isn't so bad herself when she's less on edge.
* AlliterativeName: Koki Kariya.
* AlmightyJanitor: Kariya is actually one of the most powerful Reapers around. To the point even ''[[HotBlooded Beat]]'' is insecure about fighting him at first. Although he's only an [[AlmightyJanitor Almighty Janitor]] because [[spoiler:[[ShipTease he wants to hang out with Uzuki]]]].
* AlphaBitch: Uzuki has massive shades of this, being incredibly prone to mocking and insulting the Players.
* AnimeHair: Kariya. It's... hard to describe; it's like he combed and styled the front of his hair and then left the back of it a mess. Visually, it seems to be a combination of a slicked-back style and an afro.
* AntiVillain: Certainly Kariya, who's laid back, on [[FriendlyEnemy friendly terms]] with the heroes, and even helps them out on occasion. [[spoiler:When Neku prepares to erase Kariya and Uzuki after their possession, Beat stops him on the grounds that neither of them seem like fundamentally bad people.]]
* BigBad: Uzuki in Another Day. [[spoiler:She was being used by Higashizawa the whole time, though]].
* BlankWhiteEyes: Uzuki gains these when she's ''significantly pissed off''.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The two of them get hit with this as Week 3 progresses due to the effects of the Red Skull pin and you’re forced to fight them yet again. They’re somehow even ''more'' tougher than [[ThatOneBoss when you first fought them]], to the point that they’re even able to activate their own [[CombinationAttack Fusion attack.]]
* BrilliantButLazy: Kariya has refused several promotions because he prefers working on the field. Beat is rightfully afraid of fighting him.
* CardCarryingVillain: Kariya is very aware of the role he's meant to play in the Reaper's Game. See the quote under PunchClockVillain.
* CoolShades: Kariya wears a cool-looking pair of orange-tinted shades.
* CantCatchUp: After Uzuki's defeat, she reveals that the reason she's so desperate to go up on the ranks [[spoiler:is because she feels guilty for Kariya refusing his own promotion just so he could keep hanging out with her]]. In her own words:
-->'''Uzuki:''' [[spoiler:I don't wanna be your freakin' ball and chain!!!]]
* CuteAndPsycho: Uzuki has shades of this, being very fond of smiling and giggling as she’s handing your ass to you on a silver platter.
* TheDarkChick: They ''both'' qualify.
* DeadpanSnarker: They can be seen constantly quipping on the various strange circumstances happening in the game and on the other characters. They even engage in SnarkToSnarkCombat with each other.
* DecliningPromotion: Kariya is more powerful than his rank suggests, and it is revealed that he has been doing this for a while.
* {{Dismotivation}}: Kariya intentionally avoids a promotion so he can relax and hang out with Uzuki. [[BrilliantButLazy Which does NOT mean that he isn't any good at his job.]]
* DualBoss: You eventually end up fighting both of them at the same time.
* EnigmaticMinion: Kariya is a BrilliantButLazy example of this trope. He frequently turns down promotions within the Reapers, prefers to spend time in the fields instead of lounging around in the Dead God’s Pad unlike the head Reapers, and will even go out of his way to provide helpful information and items to Players. Suffice to say, this frustrates the hell out of Uzuki.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: They're both appalled when [[spoiler:Konishi gives them the false Rhyme pin.]] Kariya in particular is disgusted and gives Neku and Beat a sincere apology for not having seen through the deception himself, then gives them his own Reaper pin in spite of the punishment this might incur. Even Uzuki says sorry for having screwed with them the previous day, since it was all for nothing.
* EvilCounterpart: All of Kariya's attacks are supercharged versions of Neku's psychs.
* EvilLaugh: Uzuki is very prone to doing this, especially when it comes to messing with the Players.
* FriendlyEnemy: Kariya, especially during Beat's rough week. Beat actually worries that Kariya's helpfulness might cause his erasure, as the higher ups do not tolerate treason.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Like the heroes, Kariya and Uzuki share a light puck when they're fighting together; this lets them put up a fight against Taboo Noise.
* GigglingVillain: Again, Uzuki.
* GoGetterGirl: Uzuki is relentlessly ambitious and hungers to rise through the Reapers' ranks.
* GracefulLoser: More in regards to Kariya, but Uzuki will follow if she must. When Neku and [[spoiler:Beat]] defeated them, they were willing to hand over what the Players wanted, [[spoiler:before it turned out to be fake]], which not even the Harriers knew.
* HairTriggerTemper: Uzuki gets angry ''very'' easily, but her biggest triggers involve anything that may cost her chances at a promotion.
* HaveANiceDeath: If you lose to them during their boss fight:
-->'''Kariya:''' So Uzuki, how 'bout that ramen?\\
'''Uzuki:''' I smell a promotion!
* {{Jerkass}}: Uzuki towards the players; she's a bit of a suck-up towards her superiors and is only genuinely friendly with Kariya. She lampshades this herself.
-->'''Uzuki:''' I'm not shooting for any Miss Nice awards!
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Neku, and ''Beat'' (in fact, ''especially'' Beat, who insisted they be spared) never really call out Kariya and Uzuki on erasing Rhyme, or even hold a grudge against them after the fact. Though they were AffablyEvil {{Graceful Loser}}s shortly before and willing to hand over the Rhyme pin. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact that it's their job (they were ordered to set a trap for Players) and it's what keeps them alive. Otherwise, they're {{Punch Clock Villain}}s.]]
* LastNameBasis: Everyone calls Kariya by his last name.
* LazyBum: Kariya is this to a T, to the point that he isn’t above trying to bribe Neku with ramen just to avoid battling him in Tin Pin Slammers in Another Day.
* LaughablyEvil: Their interactions together are often quite funny.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NIOjg7noHg "Rush Hour"]] accompanies most of their appearances in ''Solo Remix''.
* LetsGetDangerous: By themselves, the two aren’t too much trouble and can be taken care of relatively easily. [[DualBoss Until they]] [[MirrorBoss decide to pair up,]] [[ThatOneBoss that is.]]
* MellowFellow: Kariya isn't phased by much, and remains upbeat and mellow throughout most of the game.
* MirrorBoss: The pair have a fusion attack and a light puck and have attacks that mimic some of the ones you can get from pins.
* NiceGuy: Kariya.
* OfCorsetsSexy: An odd example with Uzuki, considering it's over a turtleneck.
* OppositesAttract: Despite their opposite personalities, they're very close friends with a bit of ShipTease. The Noise Report describes them as operating like "two halves of a whole".
* OralFixation: Kariya's dango, to the point he is referred to as Lollipop by Beat.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: In "A New Day", seeing Uzuki complain about work while Kariya is gunning for a promotion is the first sign that Shibuya's layout isn't the only thing that's gotten scrambled.
* PetTheDog: When push comes to shove, the pair show that they can be genuinely decent people. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Not only are they disgusted with the revelation that Konishi gave them a fake Rhyme pin,]] but Kariya actually goes out of his way to provide Neku and Beat with his own key pin to make up for not noticing the deception, and Uzuki legitimately apologizes to them for leading them on a wild goose chase the day beforehand.
* PunchClockVillain: Both of them are just doing their job and for treat it as such. They even called out how screwed up the Reaper's Game had become once it gets extended.
-->'''Beat:''' Quit screwin' with us!\\
'''Kariya:''' Um, villain? Screwin' with you is my job.
* RecurringBoss: They're fought several times, both singularly and as a duo.
* RedOniBlueOni: Kariya's the blue (calm and laid back, also very affable), Uzuki's the red (easily excitable and easily angered). [[spoiler:In "A New Day", Kariya ends up red while Uzuki turns blue.]]
* SaveTheVillain: Neku and Joshua can step in to save Kariya and Uzuki from a losing battle again errant Noise. The former is grateful and gives the heroes his sincerest thanks; the latter, well, ''[[UngratefulBitch does not]]''. [[spoiler:After their final defeat towards the end of the game, Neku and Beat make the decision to spare them both.]]
* ShesGotLegs: Uzuki, as showcased in her character art.
* SleevesAreForWimps: Kariya. Serves as a possible indication as to how strong he really is.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: See above. They appear frequently, but aren't always antagonizing the heroes.
* {{Tsundere}}: Uzuki, mildly, towards Kariya. It's heavily implied that part of the reason she wants to advance her career is so she wouldn't have to hold Kariya back, who's implied to have declined his promotion because he wanted to stay at her level.
* UngratefulBastard: Uzuki complains if Neku saves her from Taboo noise, while Kariya is relatively appreciative.
* UnholyMatrimony: They don't get married, but one of the later conversations reveals that [[spoiler:the reason Kariya doesn't advance through the ranks isn't just laziness, it's also so he can be with Uzuki. Her reaction hints this isn't unwelcome]]. Although [[spoiler:she still strives to advance herself so that then Kariya could advance with her, and she wouldn't feel like she's dragging him down]].
* VillainousFriendship: Despite their conflicting work ethics, they are both willing to cede a good point made by the other and are almost always seen hanging out together. They're also very much in sync with each other during battle.
* VillainsOutShopping: During Week 2, they can be seen out in Shibuya playing Tin Pin Slammer together while Minamimoto has them on standby.
* VitriolicBestBuds: They seem at odds with each other at first (more on Uzuki's part, who's flustered by her partner's mellow attitude, than Kariya), but it's eventually revealed that they're pretty good friends.
* WeaponOfChoice:
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Kariya with the orange and Uzuki with the pink. Lampshaded by Beat.
-->'''Beat:''' Whatchu want, Pinky?\\
'''Uzuki:''' Hey, leave my hair out of this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Higashizawa]]
!!Yodai Higashizawa
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/WEWY-Higashizawa2--article_image.jpg]][[caption-width-right:300: "Welcome to my kitchen!"]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see Ovis Cantus]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ovis_cantus.png[[/labelnote]]]]
-> Voiced by Kenji Takahashi (JP) and Creator/TravisWillingham (EN)
Acting as a proxy Game Master for Kitaniji on the first week (Shiki's chapter). He chooses to hide himself from the players until the 7th day and attempts to pound them to pieces with his immense strength.
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* BattleInTheRain: What his boss fight takes place in, complete with DramaticThunder and everything.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:The REAL Big Bad of Another Day, having used Uzuki and the Black Skullers to "purify" Tin Pin]].
* BoisterousBruiser: Has some shades of this, especially during his boss fight.
* TheBrute: The most straight-forward of the Game Masters, who relies on his size and strength to see him through battle.
* {{Determinator}}: The winning condition for the final day of the first week allows him to be able to give up without being erased, but he chooses to fight to the death instead.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Sorry, bucko, [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle game's not over yet]].
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Has glowing eyes for some reason. His food puns added in with his interest in Shiki don't help alleviate the crepe factor.
* EnergyAbsorption: Can regain health if players attack him at the wrong time.
* EvilLaugh: He’ll let out a laugh at times before attempting to tenderize you into a bloody pulp.
* EvilTastesGood: He loves making food-based puns.
* FamousLastWords: "In... indigestible! I lost? Well done...young lady..."
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Of Another Day, ironically enough, with Shooter and Shinji Hashimoto as the True Final Bosses]].
* GeniusBruiser: As Konishi herself states, Higashizawa excels at tactics, intel, willpower, decisiveness, performance, and his Player Erasure rate, to the point that only three Players are left by the end of Week 1. He’s also very adept at emotional and psychological manipulation, as shown when he exploits [[StepfordSmiler Shiki’s]] Entry Fee to make her fall into a HeroicBSOD.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Since it's possible he was unaware of the scheme Kitaniji was concocting, he treats his defeat by Neku and Shiki with a great amount of respect and dignity, unlike the other Game Masters that take up the mantle after him.]]
* HannibalLecture: To Shiki regarding [[spoiler:her jealousy issues]].
* HaveANiceDeath: "Another fine entrée."
* TheHeavy: He does most of the Black Skullers' work in Another Day. [[spoiler:He did this so he would end up with the pins in the end, wishing to take them from everyone in Shibuya]].
* LargeAndInCharge: The largest of the Game Masters and the only one besides the final boss whose Cantus form takes up both screens simultaneously in the DS version (the Noise forms of the other [=GMs=] simply take up one screen and use shadows of themselves to take up the other screen if they have to).
* LargeHam: When fighting.
-->'''Higashizawa:''' WELCOME TO MY KITCHEN!
* MonochromaticEyes: Has pure white eyes, which tends to just make him a little unsettling to behold.
* MrExposition: Only in Another Day.
* ShockAndAwe: Can summon orbs of electricity that damage players on contact and call forth lightning bolts from above that can stun you if you’re not careful.
* SinisterShades: To play up his intimidating appearance and contrast his pure white eyes.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:In Another Day. He wanted to purify Tin Pin as one of the three original masters]].
* VocalDissonance: He apparently sounds like a booth babe in Another Day, or at least Neku confuses him for one before actually seeing Higashizawa in person. [[SayItWithHearts His speaking with notes and hearts is done to exacerbate this.]]
* WakeUpCallBoss: He's the first boss who can't be safely overwhelmed with brute force. Instead, you have to make sure to dodge his attacks when fighting him, or else you'll end up another fine entrée.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:His motives in Another Day. See The Starscream entry above. He sees the error of his ways once he's beaten, though]].
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"You're dead. Don't you know?"]]
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He is apparently ''20 years old.'' The somewhat "youthful" design of his shoes gives this away via implication, but the lower half of his body is rarely seen in the game itself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Minamimoto]]
!!Sho Minamimoto
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sho-minamimoto1.jpg]][[caption-width-right:225:"This is my Game. And I only allow two things. Flawless calculations... and beauty!"]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see Leo Cantus]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/leo_cantus.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here for spoilers]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/taboo_minamimoto.gif[[/labelnote]]]]
-> Voiced by Takayuki Fujimoto (JP) and Andy Hirsch (EN)
The Game Master on the second week (Joshua's chapter). Minamimoto is a considered a "loose cannon" by the other Officers because he prefers to work by his own rules, rather than those of the game. He's called that for good reason, too: He's crazy and working against the interests of his co-workers. [[MadMathematician He's also quite fond of math]].
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''Another Day'', he's batting for your team this time.
* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:Comes back both at the tail end of the final week, and in the Epilogue in ''Final Remix''.]]
* BackFromTheDead:
** [[spoiler:After he is erased at the end of week 2, he sets up a Taboo refinery to bring himself back as a Taboo Noise.]]
** [[spoiler:At the end of "A New Day", he is resurrected again by Coco, evidently to serve as Neku's partner.]]
* BadBoss: While he is an incredibly effective Game Master when it comes to erasing Players, Sho is a pretty terrible leader in just about everything else. It even gets to the point that several Reapers die to the Taboo Noise that HE created, not that he particularly cares.
* BadassBoast: Searching some of his junk piles will reveal notes that have him boasting about, among other things, being more awesome than gravity and air.
* BadassBookworm: The dude trash talks people with math and kicks everyone's asses for the fun of it.
* BerserkButton: Sho has never gotten angry in the main story. However in Another Day [[spoiler:he's generally angry and drops his usual speech pattern when Ken Doi humiliates him in front of Shooter and the others in regards to Tin Pin. He storms off claiming he's better than Ken Doi. Really odd given how crazy he is in the main story.]]
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He’s a hammy [[MadMathematician math fetishist]] with a penchant for leaving random junk as huge trash heaps in the middle of the street and claiming them to be works of art. Needless to say, he’s treated as a weirdo by both the Reapers and Players alike. However, he is also regarded as a top-class Reaper with one of the highest Player erasure streaks in the game and is also responsible for the creation of the [[EliteMooks Taboo Noise]], who turn out to be a major threat and causes the deaths of several Reapers and Players due to this.
* BigBadWannabe: He's genuinely a major threat, [[spoiler:being responsible for the Taboo Noise]] and having designs on the Composer's job, but when they come into conflict it quickly becomes apparent he's no match for them.
* BishonenLine: [[spoiler:Let's just say that Minamimoto is even ''more'' good looking as a [[HopelessBossFight Taboo]]]].
* BrokenAce: Konishi describes him as being perfect in all fields except leadership because of his refusal to work with others. He also has to do everything perfectly or get angry when it doesn't go as planned. In Another Day, we see what happens [[BerserkButton when he fails epically.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Plays by his own rules, attacks both Players and Reapers, and generally causes havoc for everyone in the UG when he's a Game Master. Despite this, he has one of the highest Player erasure records in Shibuya's UG.
* CameBackStrong: After blowing himself up and using a Taboo Noise refinery sigil to reforge a new body for himself, he comes back WAY stronger than before, claiming to have power that exceeds even that of the [[PhysicalGod Composer’s]] and then proceeds to take on both [[PersonOfMassDestruction Neku]] and [[BoisterousBruiser Beat]] without breaking a sweat.
* CatchPhrase: "SOHCAHTOA" (this is actually a pun on the Japanese phrase "''Sō ka?''", meaning "I see", "Is that so?", et cetera), "So zetta slow!" ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zetta- "zetta"]] is the prefix for 10^21, or a '''''sex'''''tillion) "CRUNCH! I'll add it to the heap"... he's got a lot of these.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has a small moment of snark during Week 1 when meeting Higashizawa for the first time.
-->'''Higashizawa:''' You do me a great honor, sir. Watch! I will turn this week’s fracas into a fricassee!\\
'''Minamimoto:''' You planning to erase them, or EAT them?
* {{Determinator}}: Not even blowing himself up was enough to stop him from coming back in a stronger form in order to become the Composer once and for all.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His showing up late to a meeting and using nicknames on everyone, including his boss, gives some idea of how little regard he has for authority.
* EvilGenius: Uses his prodigious math skills to create the rule-breaking Taboo Noise and give himself a Taboo Noise form.
* EvilIsHammy: Incredibly so. Almost every time he appears on screen, he’s loudly and enthusiastically shouting for everyone in the vicinity to hear.
* FaceOfAThug: In ''Another Day'', Neku is afraid that he might mug him if he gets too close. He turns out to be a pretty nice guy despite still being an InsufferableGenius, though.
* FacialMarkings: His "whiskers".
* TheFightingNarcissist: He’s very obsessed with the concept of beauty and what he perceives it to be, which usually includes his works of “art” or himself.
* FlunkyBoss: Sends out several Taboo Noise before attacking directly, and typically has a few out most of the time, usually attacking the partner on the other screen.
* FormulaicMagic: Again, using math to help create the Taboo Noise.
* FunWithAcronyms: [[CatchPhrase "SOHCAHTOA"]].
* GeniusBruiser: Has been described as an absolute prodigy when it comes to his craft and he also packs quite the power in addition to his intelligence.
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:After he comes back in his Taboo form, he starts getting a very bad case of this, to the point that he even proclaims to have power equal of that to the Composer. However, [[PhysicalGod Joshua]] [[CurbStompBattle puts a stop to that real quick.]]]]
* GoodWithNumbers: A math fetishist with his love of numbers taken UpToEleven. ''Everything'' involving his schemes can be calculated and manipulated by his use of math. To activate his Level ''i'' Flare, he recites pi.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: [[spoiler:Its very obvious in Another Day that he has issues with Ken Doi. Beside trying to impress him, he doesn't react well to failure. Of course a few hints can be seen in the main game where he's such a perfectionist that even a small mistake will get him rather agitated.]]
* InsufferableGenius: He puts the "pomp" in "psychopomp". And the "psycho", too, for that matter.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Sho is incredibly self-centered and obsessive when it comes to his own interests and does not give a damn about anyone else whatsover, even when it comes to the other Reapers.
* JerkAss: Sho is, to put bluntly, a huge dick. [[ItsAllAboutMe He cares about no one but himself]], constantly insults both Reaper and Player alike, and is also the cause of several deaths in the game due to his brewing of [[EliteMook Taboo Noise.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:On the last day of the game, he gets "crunched" and chucked under a junk sculpture rather like the ones he was so fond of making. It's implied that he's not dead, though]]...
* {{Kiai}}: His [[CallingYourAttacks battle cries.]] "SINE! COSINE! TANGENT!"
* LargeHam: Incredibly hammy, especially when he’s talking about his works of art and mathematics.
* LaughablyEvil: Even when he’s planning to kill what is essentially God and causing chaos in Shibuya, he still manages to be quite entertaining and hilarious with his antics and eccentric quirks.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://youtu.be/SSTdSscfgJ8 "Transformation".]] When he comes back in his Taboo form, this is replaced with [[https://youtu.be/sfk59B4HnEA "Transformation (Transformed)".]]
* LightningBruiser: Is able to FlashStep at high speeds as well as deal out large chunks of damage, along with having incredibly durable defenses due to his absorbing of Taboo Noise. His Taboo Form boss fight takes this UpToEleven, as not only is he is even more powerful and faster than before, but he’s even able to regenerate health as well.
* LonersAreFreaks: Works alone and is generally regarded as such by Konishi and Uzuki.
* MadMathematician: It's how he operates and is his Game Master quirk (whereas Higashizawa's quirk was all related to food). He's a prodigy with mathematics. See his other trope descriptors.
* MarkedChange: [[spoiler:Taboo Minamimoto, who gains more black discoloration on his skin before he reveals this]].
* MarkOfTheBeast: [[spoiler:Taboo Minamimoto]] has this.
* MouthfulOfPi: Currently the page picture, at ''156 digits''. The incantation for a Level ''i'' Flare, at that!
* MutualKill: The aforementioned Level ''i'' Flare. [[spoiler:As a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' MythologyGag, "Level x" spells hit all targets with a level divisible by x, ally and enemy alike; ''i'' is the square root of -1, and so a Level ''i'' spell will target everything. Minamimoto uses the psych ''after'' he's lost his boss fight, which means his erasure is imminent; Neku only survives because Joshua pushes him off the roof of Pork City before the Flare can go off, and Joshua himself has to hop to Another Day in a parallel world to avoid taking the hit.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:A bizarre [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. Whenever somebody dies in the UG, [[NoBodyLeftBehind their body fades away and vanishes]]. However, while Minamimoto is found lying under one of his own garbage mounds, his body is perfectly intact. [[SequelHook And judging by the trailer]] for ''Final Remix'']]...
* NiceGuy: [[spoiler:Surprisingly in Another Day where he's very helpful toward Shooter and the group coming in and pulling a BigDamnHeroes moment by giving Shooter the ultimate Tin Pin he made himself.]]
* NiceHat: Also known as Pi-Face's Cap, its slick, [[IncrediblyLamePun calculated]] style can turn you into a zetta math whiz (probably). [[spoiler:He loses it when he turns Taboo, and you can pluck it off his corpse([[AmbiguousSituation ?]]) on the final day.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:In his pursuit of the Composer, he outs Konishi's hiding spot on the final day of her mission. Without him being there, it was possible that Neku and Beat wouldn't have found her and been granted the opportunity to clear their mission.]]
* NotAsYouKnowThem: [[spoiler:He's a straight up good guy in ''Another Day''.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: See BerserkButton above but [[spoiler:if Sho has to drop his speech pattern then you know something is wrong.]]
* PantheraAwesome: His [[OneWingedAngel Noise form]] Leo Cantus.
* ThePerfectionist: Everyone is based on perfect calculations, especially how fast he'll erase you.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The end of week 2 seems to conclusively establish him as Neku's killer. Then it's revealed at the end of the game that it was really Joshua.]]
* RedRightHand: Well "Black hand" may be more fitting and it isn't quiet his right one as [[spoiler:both of them change, once he goes Taboo]].
* ShadowArchetype: Can be considered this to both Neku AND Joshua. His single-minded obsession with himself and distaste for cooperation is quite similar to early game Neku’s own attitude in the beginning and his intelligence and overall superiority complex, as well as total disregard for human life when it comes to his plans, is also quite reminiscent of Joshua. However, unlike Neku and Joshua, [[CharacterDevelopment who both learned to improve themselves for the better and to expand their horizons,]] Minamimoto has no such revelation and remains a crazy son of a digit right to the end.
* ShootingSuperman: [[spoiler:Firing a bullet at Joshua in the RG doesn't count, as he didn't know the Composer could still use some of his powers at that vibe. ''Emptying the rest'' in his direction, after seeing the first one halt in midair, does.]]
* SloganYellingMegaphoneGuy: Sort of. He tends to yell his catchphrases through a megaphone. [[spoiler:Until he swaps it for Def Märch's microphone]].
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:To Joshua, who actually says he enjoys having such a loose cannon around.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: After his boss fight, he activates his Level ''i'' Flare in an attempt to Erase both Neku and Joshua, knowing full well that this will Erase ''him'' as well.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: An incredibly handsome young man who even [[BareYourMidriff bares his midriff]] after coming back in his Taboo form.
* TeleportSpam: Makes liberal use of this in both his boss fights, to very frustrating effect.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Tells the Reapers to standby and to not lay a hand on the Players and even saves Neku and Joshua from a Taboo Noise’s surprise attack in order to save them for himself to defeat.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: An InUniverse example. The only one who understands his nonsensical junk piles is himself.
* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler:In Another Day, Sho's attitude toward Ken Doi is to get him to acknowledge that he's just as knowledgable about Tin Pin as he is. Given how Another Day pretty much confirms that they're father and son, it would make sense.]]
* WildCard: He's not loyal to either the Composer or the Conductor; he's loyal only to himself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Konishi]]
!!Mitsuki Konishi
[[quoteright:203:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mitsuki-konishi1.jpg]][[caption-width-right:203:"I'll need to work up a new strategy... Adjust for the longer term... Good thing I never make mistakes."]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see Tigris Cantus]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tigris_cantus.png[[/labelnote]]]]
-> Voiced by Creator/HitomiNabatame (JP) and Lara Cody (EN)
The Game Master on the third and final week (Beat's chapter). She first appears to be utterly loyal to Conductor Kitaniji, but is much more interested in climbing the corporate ladder.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''Another Day''. She's just another random Tin Pin Slammer rival who happens to be one of Beat's teachers. She seems to care for him, and hopes that he and Rhyme will make up.
* TheBaroness: Very cold and calculating. The other Reapers nickname her the "Iron Maiden" for a reason.
* BerserkButton: Very intolerant when it comes to idiocy, as shown in her later interactions with [[IdiotHero Beat.]] During the final day, she outright ''explodes'' when she’s had enough of his dialect.
* BoobsOfSteel: Inverted; she's the bustiest character in the game, but more of a MasterOfIllusion than a fighter. [[spoiler:She never fights in her base form and goes OneWingedAngel for her boss battle.]]
* CastingAShadow: Seems to have some control over this aspect, as shown when she is revealed to have been hiding in Beat’s shadow throughout the entirety of Week 3.
* CatchPhrase: [[AllAccordingToPlan "Just as I predicted."]] Which also becomes her [[spoiler:FamousLastWords]] later on.
* CatGirl: Her Cantus form which, unlike the other Game Masters, has an obviously feminine appearance.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of her interactions with [[IdiotHero Beat]] have her playing this role, with her getting some truly scathing insults in towards him.
* DidntSeeThatComing: For all of her insistence that everything is going according to plan, Beat points out that she sure has to deal with a lot of "unforeseen circumstances".
* DopplegangerAttack: Is able to summon clones of herself to attack and defend against foes, to the point that they can kill you in a rush attack if you’re not careful enough.
* TheDragon: To Kitaniji.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:Some quips and lines, not to mention Konishi's own behavior hints that she's been planning on betraying Kitaniji since a long time.]]
* EnragedByIdiocy: As made apparent by her interactions with [[IdiotHero Beat]], she really doesn’t tolerate stupidity.
* FamousLastWords: "[[spoiler:Your sister's memories of you: they were YOUR entry fee. Hers was something else. You must not have been very dear to her. Hee hee... That look on your face. It's just... as I pre... dicted...]]"
* FemmeFatalons: Has long black nails. Hard to notice at first.
* {{Foil}}: To Beat, in many ways. Whereas Beat is a loudmouthed IdiotHero with a penchant for [[LeeroyJenkins charging into a fray with no plans]] and being fiercely devoted and protective of the people he cares about, Konishi is a calculating ManipulativeBitch who always tries to plan two steps ahead of everyone else and will [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstab just about anyone to achieve her goals.]]
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Unlike most of the other villains, who each have their quirks that prevent them from being seen as irredeemably evil, Konishi lacks any sort of redeemable quality that would dull her villainous edge. She's purely in the business for her own reasons and almost all her actions as a Game Master are extraordinarily calculating and cruel.
* FourIsDeath: Her HP is 4444, taking the "Reaper" designation to a [[FourEyesZeroSoul logical]] [[UpToEleven extreme]].
* GigglingVillain: Is very prone to mockingly giggling at you during battle.
* TheGlassesComeOff: She takes them off right before getting into fighting mode. It's her ''eyes'' that glint menacingly instead.
* HateSink: Konishi is completely devoid of sympathetic qualities, and most of her actions in Week 3 end up earning the players' hatred.
* HaveANiceDeath: "Just as I projected!"
* HiddenInPlainSight: Tied to her [[MasterOfIllusion powers over shadow and illusion]]. [[spoiler:The 2nd mission she issues to Neku and Beat is to find her within 6 days, while she hides in a single location. On the final day, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain thanks to Minamimoto, it's revealed that she was hiding in Beat's shadow the entire time.]]]]
* HotTeacher: In Another Day, she's one of Beat's teachers.
* HourglassHottie: Though the majority of the character designs in this game include having thin waistlines, Konishi actually happens to be one of the only characters with enough of a bust to invoke this trope.
* IceQueen: To say she's [[KickTheDog cold-hearted]] would be an understatement. She's pretty much the most ruthless character in the game, especially towards Beat.
* {{Jerkass}}: She outwardly shows respect for Kitaniji and shows cold professionalism to her Reaper colleagues, but the truth is that she views everyone else as tools to be used and feels nothing for the terrible things she does.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The last phase of her fight amounts to Beat and Rhyme teaming up to finish her off]].
* KickTheDog: Repeatedly with regards to Beat and Rhyme. She even uses her dying words to imply that Beat may have valued Rhyme above all else, but Rhyme didn't hold him in the same regard.
* KnightOfCerebus: While the two other Game Masters weren’t anything to sneeze at, they had plenty of quirks to offset their more menacing attributes. Konishi has no such qualities, being terrifyingly efficient, ruthless, and uncaring when it comes to her goals. Even [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Uzuki and Kariya]] are [[EvenEvilHasStandards visibly unnerved and disgusted by her acts of cruelty.]]
* ManipulativeBitch: Once she takes charge as a Game Master, she spends the majority of her time manipulating just about everyone that's still in the UG. [[spoiler:Her ultimate goal is to become the Conductor and is using everyone - Players, Reapers, even other Game Masters and her superior, Kitaniji - to reach this goal.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: She seems to have the power to bend light, and one of her battle backgrounds [[AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield looks like the game crashed]].
* PantheraAwesome: Her [[OneWingedAngel Noise form]] Tigris Cantus.
* PersonalityPowers: Is without a doubt one of the most underhanded and scheming Reapers in the game. Coincidentally, her illusion-based powers fit her quite nicely.
* PuzzleBoss: Unlike the previous Game Masters, you can't just wail on her and hope to win. The game provides a subtle hint towards beating her though.
* RealityWarper: How her illusion powers come off as, changing the battle screens to fit the next phase of her boss fight.
* {{Sadist}}: Some of her interactions with [[BoisterousBruiser Beat]] paint her in this light, with her outright saying that she will enjoy watching him squirm and struggle in the face of certain death.
* SexySecretary: Basically fulfills this role for Kitaniji.
* SmugSnake: Because of her intelligence, arrogance, and pride, she takes a lot of pleasure messing with [[IdiotHero Beat]], only to end up losing to him and Neku.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:To Kitaniji once her true motivations are revealed. See Manipulative Bitch above.]]
* XanatosGambit: She attempts this near the end of the game. [[spoiler:She lets Minamimoto pass through the barrier, in exchange for him making her his Conductor if he manages to usurp the Composer's position. If he fails, she hopes that Kitaniji will be injured enough that she can finish him off and take his spot]]. It fails, since [[spoiler:not only does she die fighting Neku and Beat, but Joshua defeats Minamimoto]].
* WitchWithACapitalB: Beat and Neku call her this multiple times throughout the story, and [[KickTheDog with]] [[ManipulativeBitch good]] [[SmugSnake reason.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: As you can see by her image on the right, her stockings and dress ranks her somewhere between A and B on the scale, which is between "Thigh Highs" and "Above the Knee", respectively.
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[[folder:Kitaniji]]
!!Megumi Kitaniji
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Kitaniji1.jpg]][[caption-width-right:225:"Any and all specifics are decided by the Composer. That is His exclusive and incontrovertible right."]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see Anguis Cantus]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anguis_cantus.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here for spoilers]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/draco_cantus.png[[/labelnote]]]]
-> Voiced by Shane Johnson (EN)
The Conductor and direct superior of the Reapers. Because the Composer has long been absent, he has asserted control over the Game, and makes sure that everyone, Player and Reaper alike, play by the book. However, it hasn't stopped him from imposing his own "penalties" on Neku for violating the game's rules.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In ''Another Day''. He's just another random Tin Pin Slammer rival, and has no real role in the story. [[spoiler:He's actually the mayor in that world, but he's somehow still subordinate to [[AlmightyJanitor Joshua]].]]
* AlasPoorVillain: In the end, you can’t help but feel bad for him once you realize that all he was doing was [[spoiler:trying to ensure that Joshua didn’t destroy the city he loved above all else, to the point that he was willing to put his entire existence on the line for it.]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:His entire scheme was conceived as an alternative to having Joshua erase Shibuya]].
* AssimilationPlot: [[spoiler:Kitaniji's ultimate plan.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He’s the Composer’s right hand man as well as head of the Reapers and he has the skills to show it.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Is never seen out of his snake-themed suit and is not one to be messed with when it comes to battles.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:He's the true culprit behind Neku's continued entrance into the Game, the Games gradually getting more rigged against him, and ultimately the Red Skull pins. This was all done in an effort to stop the Composer, a separate villain in the context of the story, from destroying Shibuya]].
* BigNo: After losing, more over the fact that [[spoiler:since he lost his game, Shibuya will be erased]].
* {{Determinator}}: It takes Neku a total of three times to fully take him down for good and even then he only fully relents when he realizes that [[spoiler:his timer is running out.]]
* DiscoDan: Wears distinctly disco-inspired clothing and has an unhealthy fixation on the past. ''Solo Remix'' onwards use a disco remix of "Deja Vu" as his first battle theme.
* TheDragon: The strongest Reaper, and thus second-in-command of the Game after the Composer. [[spoiler:Usually. During the events of the story, Kitaniji and the Composer are competing over the fate of Shibuya, thus making both of them competing central villains]].
* DualBoss: [[spoiler:A brainwashed Shiki fights alongside him]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:After being defeated, he gracefully accepts his deletion and tells Neku that Shibuya is in his hands]].
* FamousLastWords: "[[spoiler:Another Player Pin!? Why do you have two? I only gave you the one! ...Ha ha. Of course! Neku... It's up to you now.]]"
* GenderBlenderName: "Megumi" is a unisex but feminine-sounding name. Lampshaded in the manga.
-->'''Konishi:''' But sir! What if [Minamimoto] dredges up old memories of people teasing you because of your girly name?\\
'''Kitaniji:''' Konishi... Salt. Wounds. Stop.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:After his final defeat at the hands of Neku and his partners, he graciously accepts that he lost to Joshua and congratulates Neku for beating him.]]
* HaveANiceDeath: "Game, set, match!"
** As [[spoiler:Draco Cantus it's "Now Shibuya will be saved."]]
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: As a foil to Neku, his are always around his neck. A subtle hint [[spoiler:that his plan involves false unity]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He ran the Reaper's game as both the Conductor and Composer (in the real Composer's absence) for the entire game. However, he himself was in a game with the Composer complete with his own timer of thirty days. After the final boss, the timer runs out, losing him the game and erasing him.]]
* KnightTemplar: He does love Shibuya, but his method of improving it is a bit extreme, to say the least.
* {{Leitmotif}}: In ''Solo Remix'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKwJZd76p70 "Satisfy"]].
* LoopholeAbuse: Particularly when he [[spoiler:removes all the other players in an attempt to make Neku unable to win]].
* MouthOfSauron: He acts as the second-in-command and spokesperson for the Composer.
* OhCrap: He's noticeably rattled when things start going wrong, particularly [[spoiler:his failure to destroy Neku's pin, Joshua arriving, and his final loss]].
* RedOniBlueOni: To Neku's Blue. Again, check the positions of their headphones.
* SequentialBoss: [[spoiler:First fought in his normal form with a brainwashed Shiki before entering his Noise form Anguis Cantus. Immediately after, he uses Joshua to turn into Draco Cantus, the Final Boss]].
* ShadowArchetype: Can be seen as this to Neku, what with both of them wearing [[HeadphonesEqualIsolation headphones]] and having a mutual dislike of other people, seeing them as inherently flawed and worthless. However, whereas Neku [[CharacterDevelopment learns to fully embrace Shibuya, faults and all, and appreciate other viewpoints and ideologies]], Megumi flat out rejects them, instead trying to force his will on others in an attempt to achieve total conformity.
* SharpDressedMan: Wears a rather nice snake-themed suit.
* SinisterShades: A given considering he's the Conductor and the BigBad.
* ScaledUp: Anguis Cantus and [[spoiler:[[SequentialBoss Draco Cantus]]]].
* TimeStandsStill: ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Time, be still!"]]''
* TitleDrop: A variation of the Japanese version's title (''It's a Wonderful World''), though not directly. [[spoiler:His assimilation plot has everyone under the effects of his pin give a mind-controlled speech, ending it with "What a wonderful world such would be."]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: His reasoning on why he employed the Red Skull pins to unite the denizens of Shibuya into a HiveMind. [[spoiler:Considering the [[KillEmAll alternative of what were to happen if he didn’t attempt this]], you can see where he’s coming from.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: His favorite clothing brand is Hip Snake, which fittingly specializes in retro-styled attire.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Offers this to [[spoiler:Neku at the end of the game, asking him to take off the Player Pin preventing him from being brainwashed and embrace total conformity. Neku, however, [[ShutUpHannibal promptly tells him to shove it.]]]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:He was actually playing his own game with Joshua, the Composer, to determine the fate of Shibuya. And if Joshua wins, Shibuya is destroyed. And guess what? Neku was playing on Joshua's side. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Oops]]]]!
* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler:Deems Neku this after his first boss fight, and consequently gives him a quick summary of what's been going on in Shibuya since he entered the UG - namely, that the Composer is ''not'' "the man [Neku] envisions" and that Kitaniji is responsible for what Neku thought the Composer was doing.]]
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