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* {{Leitmotif}}: Little Ange has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJLOsoGXST8 Nuigurumi]] (stuffed animal) in Episode 8.
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* RapunzelHair: In ''Golden Fantasia'', her hair is twice as long as in the series, for some reason.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: Beatrice makes some remark about this in [[spoiler:Episode 8, when little Ange clings to Battler's leg while staring suspiciously at her.]]
-->'''Beatrice:''' Oh? I see, she may be 6 years old, but she's still a woman.
-->'''Beatrice:''' Oh? I see, she may be 6 years old, but she's still a woman.
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Battler's half-sister [[spoiler:(actually his full sister)]]. She was only six in 1986, and didn't go to Rokkenjima with the rest of her family due to flu. The one we see has grown up in [[BadFuture the world that stems from what really happened on Rokkenjima]] ([[MindScrew or something…]]).Rokkenjima]]. She started to learn some magic from Maria. After the third arc, she becomes Ange-Beatrice and in a deal with Bernkastel, agrees to travel back to 1986 Rokkenjima in order to change the events to make it so that everyone does make it back. She later on serves as Featherine's miko, which for the most part consists of reading Featherine the stories of Rokkenjima.
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Battler's half-sister [[spoiler:(actually his full sister)]]. She was only six in 1986, and didn't go to Rokkenjima with the rest of her family due to flu. The one we see has grown up in [[BadFuture the world that stems from what really happened on Rokkenjima]].Rokkenjima]] ([[MindScrew or something…]]). She started to learn some magic from Maria. After the third arc, she becomes Ange-Beatrice and in a deal with Bernkastel, agrees to travel back to 1986 Rokkenjima in order to change the events to make it so that everyone does make it back. She later on serves as Featherine's miko, which for the most part consists of reading Featherine the stories of Rokkenjima.
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Battler's half-sister [[spoiler:(actually his full sister)]]. She was only six in 1986, and didn't go to Rokkenjima with the rest of her family due to flu. The one we see has grown up in [[BadFuture the world that stems from the third arc]] ([[MindScrew or not… it's not very clear]]).what really happened on Rokkenjima]]. She started to learn some magic from Maria. After the third arc, she becomes Ange-Beatrice and in a deal with Bernkastel, agrees to travel back to 1986 Rokkenjima in order to change the events to make it so that everyone does make it back. She later on serves as Featherine's miko, which for the most part consists of reading Featherine the stories of Rokkenjima.
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Battler's half-sister [[spoiler:(actually his full sister)]]. She was only six in 1986, and didn't go to Rokkenjima with the rest of her family due to flu. The one we see has grown up in [[BadFuture the world that stems from the third arc]] ([[MindScrew well, maybe not…]]).or not… it's not very clear]]). She started to learn some magic from Maria. After the third arc, she becomes Ange-Beatrice and in a deal with Bernkastel, agrees to travel back to 1986 Rokkenjima in order to change the events to make it so that everyone does make it back. She later on serves as Featherine's miko, which for the most part consists of reading Featherine the stories of Rokkenjima.
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* ExactEavesdropping: In the manga only; in Episode 8, she overhears [[spoiler:Rudolf telling the truth to Kyrie about Battler's birth, during the game of hide-and-seek.]]
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* CheerfulChild: [[http://www.dm5.com/m106408-p3/ Ridiculously cute]] when she was 6. [[BreakTheCutie After that though…]]
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Starting from the end of the third arc, ''Umineko'' introduces characters from the year 1998 which are observing the game board of Rokkenjima, 1986. These characters cannot interfere directly with the game board, but help put into perspective the effects of the events on the island on the future. Naturally, '''major spoilers''' for the third arc onward.
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[[folder:Ange Ushiromiya]]
!!Ange Ushiromiya (縁寿)/Ange-Beatrice (Gretel)
!!!The final Endless Witch, Witch of Resurrection
!!!Voiced by: RinaSato
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--> "''Leave the jokes to your hairstyle.''"
Battler's half-sister [[spoiler:(actually his full sister)]]. She was only six in 1986, and didn't go to Rokkenjima with the rest of her family due to flu. The one we see has grown up in [[BadFuture the world that stems from the third arc]] ([[MindScrew well, maybe not…]]). She started to learn some magic from Maria. After the third arc, she becomes Ange-Beatrice and in a deal with Bernkastel, agrees to travel back to 1986 Rokkenjima in order to change the events to make it so that everyone does make it back. She later on serves as Featherine's miko, which for the most part consists of reading Featherine the stories of Rokkenjima.
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* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Substitute Parent]]: Eva, driven mad by grief for her son and husband, is neglectful, and emotionally and (it is implied) physically abusive. [[spoiler: Well, kind of. It's mostly Bern's fault.]]
* ActionGirl: Heck, she doesn't even need her magic to beat down a horde of {{Mooks}} in [=EP 3=], and that's just her introduction.
* [[spoiler:AmbitionIsEvil: Specifically, her ambition to literally exchange her life for learning the cold, hard truth of Rokkenjima causes her to reject the happiness she had before her family's deaths as an illusion. At least at first.]]
** [[spoiler:HeelRealization]]
* AngstComa: After denying the Stakes of Purgatory.
* AntiMagic
* AudienceSurrogate: In ''Dawn'', with Featherine playing the part of the AuthorAvatar.
* {{Badass}}: Plain and simple.
* BigBrotherAttraction: Some fans interpret her affection for Battler this way. Some bonus material such as [[http://umineko.wikia.com/wiki/Butterfly_Kiss_Episode1.5%E9%85%8D%E5%B8%83%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC this one]] don't really help.
--> Unlike back in onii-chan's time, girls nowadays send chocolates to even just normal friends.\\
[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial My chocolate is handcrafted, and for some reason I've shaped it into a heart, but don't overthink… there's nothing special behind it.]]
** {{Flanderization}}: The manga (and parodied in the "story so far" segments in Episode 6)
* BigNo: Cuts off Bernkastel's declaration of "[[color:red:This is the truth--]]" regarding the play that was just shown to both Ange and Lion.
* BitingTheHandkerchief: In one of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ-QXwUWh44&feature=related endings]] of ''Golden Fantasia''.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: In the Trick ending, just before [[spoiler:shooting Amakusa]]. "Just by the presence of [[spoiler:this gun]], see how far Ushiromiya Ange's reasoning can take her. What do you think everyone…?". [[spoiler:Soon followed by a tagteam [[GratuitousEnglish "GOOD!!"]] with Erika.]]
* BreakTheCutie
* BrokenBird
* BullyingADragon: She is alone, unarmed, without her bodyguard, surrounded by an aunt who thoroughly hates her and seven of her armed henchmen. What does she choose to do? Insult said aunt and push every BerserkButton she can find on her. And she continues even as she is beat up on the ground (at first at least). [[spoiler:A few minutes later, the situation is reversed.]]
* CarCushion: During her escape from Okonogi's office.
* CharacterNameAlias: Gretel
* ChekhovsGunman
* TheChewToy: Seriously, the series for her can be summed up as "get your life ruined, make a contract with a witch, die a horrible death, be revived, rince and repeat."
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: In ''Ougon Musou Kyouku'', ''X'' and ''Cross''. And the manga.
** MagicSkirt
* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong:]] Or something… in Episode 8, Bernkastel states clearly that [[spoiler:Ange surviving her jump is a miracle that cannot possibly occur, implying that everything Ange did in Episode 4 was AllJustADream.]] But the 1998 part of Episode 4 can hardly be dismissed as just someone's imagination, let alone [[spoiler:Battler's, considering he knew nothing of Ange's situation, the Sumadera, Okonogi or Amakusa]]. Anyway, see MindScrew below.
* DeadpanSnarker
** "Leave the jokes to [[AnimeHair your hairstyle]]."
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest
** [[spoiler:Subverted to the maximum in EP 7.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: She attempts to throw herself off a building at the end of [=EP 3=] to be with her dead parents and brother, but Bernkastel stops her. She jumps anyway, but survives instead.
** However [[spoiler:she doesn't when she GoesMadFromTheRevelation after learning the truth of Rokkenjima.]] [[DeathIsCheap Not that it lasts long.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her entrance at end of [=EP 3=] ????, and later jumping out of the skyscraper and surviving [[spoiler: [[DeadAllAlong or so it seems]].]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: Has a brief one in [=EP8=].]]
** [[spoiler:EvilCostumeSwitch: The PS3 version gives her a dress fitting the name "Beatrice" during her little rampage.]]
* FountainOfYouth: She spends a good chunk of the eighth arc as her six-year-old self, symbolically representing her lack of ability to move on from the Rokkenjima murders.
* FutureBadass: The cute little six-year old grows up to be Ange-Beatrice, the Witch of Resurrection.
* GameBreaker: [[invoked]] The reason for the condition of not telling her name to Battler is that Lamdadelta considered her as this. She wasn't far from being right considering the effect of [[spoiler: her HeroicSacrifice.]]
* GirlishPigtails: The variation mentioned on the page.
* [[spoiler:GoMadFromTheRevelation: Upon learning the one and only truth of the Rokkenjima incident.]]
** [[spoiler:LaughingMad]]
* GratuitousEnglish: Have a nice dream. {{See you in hell}}.
* GreekChorus: With Featherine in [=EP6=].
* HairDecorations: Ange's pink double-orbs which aren't just for show and supposedly hold her magical power [[spoiler:which is, of course, just a delusion]]. They were given to her by Battler.
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]: As a last-ditch effort to snap Battler out of the funk caused by [[spoiler:him finding out that Asumu isn't his mother]] in [=EP4=].
** [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile]]
* HeroicBSOD: In [=EP7=] [[spoiler:when she finds out that, [[UnreliableNarrator according to Bernkastel]], her parents are heartless, greedy murderers, her mother doesn't care about her and only saw her as a way to keep Rudolf in line and also that Eva, who she had despised for twelve years because of the neglect and abuse she was put through, only acted cruelly to keep her from finding out this truth.]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Ange really seems to hang out with the wrong crowd. First [[spoiler:Bern]] and then [[spoiler:Featherine]]. Not to mention, apparently [[spoiler:Amakusa]]. And according to [=EP7=], even [[spoiler:her own parents]]. She also terribly misjudged [[spoiler:Eva, it would seem]]. Finally in [=EP8=], [[spoiler:she teams up with all the established metaworld villains, if only to fulfill her own needs. Needless to say, she is wary of them this time around]].
* IllGirl: When she was younger.
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcdOfBXVhtg entreat]].
* InterruptedSuicide: Her first meeting with Bern.
* IRejectYourReality: [[spoiler:After learning the truth and being told in red that it's the truth, she denies it anyway. Whatever it is, it's that horrible.]]
** [[spoiler:This becomes ''very'' important in the ending. See StoryBreakerPower below.]]
* KickChick: Ange almost exclusively uses kicks on ''Ougon Musoukyouku'', somewhat justified in that her hands are occupied with [[SpellBook Maria's diary]], which doesn't really makes a good weapon.
* {{Kuudere}}
* LethalChef: Implied in the TIP "Beatrice's White Day", [[ItMakesSenseInContext when Beatrice orders the Chiester Sisters to destroy Ange's pancakes.]]
-->'''Ange:''' That's me for you… I didn't know that over-cooked pancakes could explode. No wonder I had terrible grades in cooking classes.
* LonelyRichKid
* LongLostRelative: Although TheReveal is suitably shocking to Battler, the audience knows it from the outset.
* NoPronunciationGuide: French readers will likely read her name as "anj" (which is a real French name) ; it's actually pronounced "enjé".
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: In Episode 4 there are two incarnations of her, one with Battler on the gameboard of 1986 (if you suppose the meta-world is real), the other getting info and travelling to Rokkenjima in 1998. And in a weird take on the trope, her actions in the future impact her "piece" self in the past, rather than the opposite… Episode 8 is more ambiguous, as the gameboard seems to be out of time rather than in the past.
* MementoMacGuffin: Her barrettes, which were a prize Battler won for her.
* MindScrew: Yes, this series is a giant MindScrew ball, but Ange's tribulations in 1998 in particular are ''really'' hard to follow. In Episode 4, just after Eva's death she jumps off a building but survives, and she goes on a trip with her bodyguard, questioning various people and finding bits of information about Rokkenjima, before going there herself [[spoiler:and being killed by said bodyguard.]] In Episode 6, she is alive again, back to a few days before going to Rokkenjima, in the house of a person she isn't supposed to have met that day; after which she goes to Rokkenjima again, [[spoiler:and is supposedly killed by Amakusa again.]] In Episode 8, she is ''somehow'' back at the top of the building, jumps off again [[spoiler:and kisses the concrete, implying that she ''didn't'' survive the jump in Episode 4 and 6.]] But in the ending [[spoiler:she is back at the top of the building ''again'' and this time decides not to jump, thus living happily ever after.]] Good luck making sense of all that in an anti-fantasy perspective.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:In [=EP8=], she pulls a FaceHeelTurn and nearly destroys the Golden Land that Battler and Beatrice created together in order to obtain the truth. However, [[HeelRealization she eventually realizes the damage she is causing by throwing away her only chance at happiness]], and teams up with Battler and Lambdadelta to keep Bernkastel from completing that damage.]]
* MysteriousProtector: An oddball female, non-romantic example.
* OffToBoardingSchool: Eva placed her in St. Lucia Academy, the same school [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Shion]] escaped from.
** BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: The school itself isn't that horrible; the girls in it, however…
* OrphansOrdeal
* ParentalAbandonment
* PerpetualFrowner
** WhenSheSmiles: Noted by Amakusa in the sixth arc.
* PlotCoupon: The key Battler gives her in the eighth arc.
* PsychicPowers: Ange communicated with pre-Rokkenjima Maria through Maria's diary. [[spoiler:From a mundane perspective, all she really did was read through the diary and imagine that Maria was talking to her through it.]]
* RapunzelHair: In ''Golden Fantasia'', her hair is twice as long as in the series, for some reason.
* RedemptionQuest: Ange eventually decides that this is her purpose for going back to Rokkenjima.
* ReplacementGoldfish: It seems that Eva to a certain extent tried to use Ange as a replacement for George, but when Ange couldn't measure up, she got hit with Eva's frustration from that.
** Not true. From the beginning, Eva acknowledged that she couldn't be a replacement for Ange's parents to her anymore than Ange could be a replacement for George, but that they should try to be happy regardless. And then [[spoiler:Bernkastel]] [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor came into]] [[KickTheDog the picture]]...
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Her reason for traveling back in time was to change the events of 1986 so everyone could come back, [[spoiler:but it's ultimately subverted: by the end of the series, most of the people who were on the island are dead and nothing will change that.]]
* SignificantAnagram: In the hidden Tea Party of Episode 8, [[spoiler:decades later, she becomes a famous fantasy author, "Yukari Kotobuki" (寿 ゆかり). Considering "Yukari" can also be spelled as 縁, if you do that and switch it around with 寿, you get "Ange" (縁寿)]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Ange, Anje, Anju, Enje, Enjye, it's all been seen. In addition, the translators had a debate on how to spell [[spoiler:her alias "Yukari Kotobuki"]], debating on whether to preserve the wordplay in the original Japanese in the translation or keep it as it is without an explanation.
* StepfordSnarker
* [[spoiler:StoryBreakerPower: Her witch powers evolve into this near the end of the eighth arc during the fight with Bernkastel. Just like Battler's fervent denial of the existence of magic affords him [[AntiMagic Endless Nine]], Ange's [[IRejectYourReality refusal to accept everyone's deaths]] causes her to realize her power as the Witch of Resurrection and [[BackFromTheDead bring]] [[BackForTheFinale everyone]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome back]], even making them immune to the [[LanguageOfTruth red truths]] that stated that they died. This culminates in a unified assault that [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu finally defeats Bernkastel]].]]
* StrangeGirl: Considered this way by her class.
* SummonMagic: Ange can summon the [[AssistCharacter 7 stakes and Sakutarou]] to fight for her on ''Ougon Musoukyouku''.
* SurvivorGuilt
* TallDarkAndBishoujo
* TheWatcher: Featherine delays Ange's arrival on Rokkenjima (and eventual [[spoiler:real-world death]]) so that she could observe Battler's game and read it to her.
* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:Actually subverted if you take an anti-fantasy stance: all she's doing is metaphorically going back to 1986 to find out what happened.]] However, for this point of view it's hard to explain [[spoiler:how she learned said truth, since in the epilogue she says she never met Tooya Hachijou (who had Eva's diary).]]
* TryAndFollow: Ange appears to have a penchant for this. She does it on at least two separate occasions, although on the first one, she really was, initially, DrivenToSuicide.
* [[spoiler:UnexplainedRecovery: ''[[DeathIsCheap Three times]]'', as a matter of fact.]]
* UnwittingPawn: To Bernkastel in [=EP4=] and [=EP8=].
* YouCantFightFate: Ange helps even knowing that going back in time to help Battler won't fix her own timeline: just the one that Battler will now go to. [[spoiler:But in the end she can't fix his timeline either. And while Battler does survive the events on Rokkenjima, Ange doesn't meet with him until many years later.]]
* YaoiFangirl: PlayedForLaughs in her and Virgilia's ending in Ougon Musou Kyoku CROSS and in the [=TIP=] "Angel of 17 Years".
* [[spoiler:YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:]] As of [=EP6=], [[spoiler: a large conspiracy has been revealed that places Ange in the middle of this: Okonogi is working for the main Sumadera family and had been tasked to eliminate Kasumi and her branch, and hired Amakusa for this job specifically. Ange was to only be protected until Kasumi could be brought out into the open and eliminated. Amakusa killed everyone present when Ange went to Rokkenjima, killing Ange last as she had been regarded as a liability if she were to live any longer.]]
** Even in the meta-world, she gets this.
--> [[spoiler:'''Bernkastel''': Go back to being scrap meat.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki
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[[folder:Jūza Amakusa]]
!!!Voiced by KojiYusa
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Ange's bodyguard in 1998. He was assigned to guard Ange by Eva, but was later fired because he was flirting with her. He is apparently blacklisted in France.
[[spoiler:In Episode 6, he apparently betrays Ange. It seems that Ange was a "liability" and he doesn't really care about what happens to her. The only order given to him was to dispose of Kasumi.]]
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* BadassLonghair
* {{Bishounen}}
* [[spoiler:BodyguardBetrayal:]] In Episode 4 [[spoiler:he is the one who kills Kasumi and her mooks, as well as Ange.]] It was only made clear in Episode 6 since the credits of Episode 4 just mentionned "died in 1998".
* BodyguardCrush: Okonogi suspects him of having this for Ange in Episode 6. He promptly denies anything of the sort. [[spoiler:And indeed, a crush he has not; see above.]]
* ChivalrousPervert: He was initially fired by Eva because even though he was instructed not to talk to Ange, he not just talked, but ''tried to flirt with her''.
* CreepyCoolCrosses: He wears one conspicuously as a fastener for his coat. There are also some on the soles of his boots in the anime design.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In his defense, it was in a ChaseScene.
* {{Expy}}: Some EpilepticTrees have popped up that he's supposed to be a redoing of one of the [[TheMenInBlack Yamainu]] named Hibari 13 (An odd one, as in the game, he was a character without a sprite), due to his name, which is made with the kanji for "Thirteen."
** [[spoiler:Heck, Hibari13's appearance has been confirmed in Matsuribayashi-hen Manga volume 7. [[http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/8500/hikurashimachiri07062.jpg And guess who...]]]].
* [[spoiler:HoistByHisOwnPetard:]] In the trick ending.
* HotBlooded: According to his character notes.
* KojiYusa
* {{Leitmotif}}: Monochrome Clock
** LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn
** BreakingTheFourthWall: "You don't like M. Zakky, lady?"
* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* NoodleIncident: Whatever got him banned from France.
* PeekABangs
* PersonaNonGrata: According to Ange, if he's caught back in France, he'll be arrested.
* [[spoiler:PrettyLittleHeadshots:]] [[spoiler:Too bad for him, Ange did her research about guns.]]
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Supposedly, his job before Okonogi hired him was training Blackwater troops.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy
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[[folder:Kasumi Sumadera]]
!!!Voiced by: AtsukoTanaka ''(anime)'', SumiShimamoto ''(PS3)''
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Kyrie's younger sister. She was forced to marry Kyrie's previous fiancee when Kyrie ran away and married Rudolf, so Kasumi has never forgiven Kyrie for it. After Kyrie dies, Kasumi takes out her frustrations on Ange, since she's Kyrie's daughter.
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* ArrangedMarriage
* AtsukoTanaka: Anime only. Also voices Kyrie.
* AxeCrazy
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Kyrie's Abel.
* DeadlyEuphemism: If she says she wants to make you some matcha, then (a) she does not mean that literally, and (b) you might want to [[AxCrazy run in the other direction]].
* [[EvilUncle Evil Aunt]]
* LaughWithMe
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhXTGvBJFAk Over.]] You'd better run.
* TheOtherDarrin
* SinsOfOurFathers: Mercilessly beats up Ange due to a grudge over how Kyrie treated her.
* StepfordSmiler: Type C.
* [[spoiler: PrettyLittleHeadshots]]: Fourth arc
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Despite leaving quite an impression, she only appears for a small portion of Episode 4, where she is killed [[spoiler: by Amakusa]]. After which she is never seen and barely ever mentionned again. And she ''still'' manages to have some CharacterDevelopment in that short span.
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: Well, a 50-something year old girl.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Well she definitely ''looks'' the part… but you know the rest by now.
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[[folder:Tetsurō Okonogi]]
!!!Voiced by: JurotaKosugi ''(anime)'', KenNarita ''(PS3)''
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An old business partner of Hideyoshi's. [[spoiler:After the Rokkenjima incident]], he was one of the few people Eva still trusted (although the term "trust" is being generous). After she died, he was put in charge of her company until Ange could take the reigns on her own. Ange approaches him in order to learn more about Eva, whom he says he does not think is the Rokkenjima murderer. He hired Amakusa, who was indebted to him for undisclosed reasons, to serve as Ange's bodyguard and protect her from the Sumadera family.
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* {{Expy}}: Of the ''other'' Okonogi from ''{{Higurashi}}'' (who may or may not be the same person).
** {{Homage}}[=/=]MythologyGag
* TheOtherDarrin: Odd considering his first voice actor from the anime voiced Okonogi from ''{{Higurashi}}''
** That's because in the PS2 version of Higurashi (which came out before Higurashi Kai's anime version), Okonogi was voiced by Ken Narita, but the anime used Jurota Kosugi. As a result, a strange situation occured where Kosugi voiced Okonogi in animated productions, while Narita voiced Okonogi in all game productions.
* PointyEars: For some reason.
* YouOweMe: Okonogi is evidently pretty good at this. It's part of the reason Amakusa is rehired to help Ange, and Amakusa speculates that the reason for his being hired for this was in order for Okonogi to later be able to get some favors from Ange.
** Also supports the idea that he is the same Okonogi from the Hinamizawa incident and Amakusa was one of the men that worked for him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Professor Ootsuki]]
!!!Voiced by: Takayuki Kondo
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A college professor who is a member of the Rokkenjima [[ShoutOut Witch Hunt]], a group of occult enthusiasts who attempt to look at the Rokkenjima murders from an occult perspective. Ange interviews him in order to learn more about the Rokkenjima incident.
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* GentlemanAndAScholar
* MrExposition
* OccultDetective
* ShoutOut: His group, the Witch Hunt, is a shout out to the group of fansubbers who translate the VN series into English.
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[[folder:Masayuki Nanjō]]
!!!Voiced by: Akihiko Ishizumi
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Doctor Nanjo's son. A rather reclusive person who has tried to move on with his life after the Rokkenjima incident, but who has had trouble doing that thanks to a badgering news media that he believes has dragged his father's reputation through the dirt. He had a daughter, but she was [[IllGirl terminally ill]] and died at a young age. It's from him that Ange learns about the mysterious letters that were sent to surviving relatives of the Rokkenjima victims.
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* TheCaretaker: To his daughter while she was still alive.
* DeadLittleSister: His daughter.
* {{Paparazzi}}: Is particularly angry with them (similar to Eva)
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sabakichi Kumasawa]]
!!!Voiced by: Hideyuki Umezu
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Chiyo Kumasawa's son. He is a fisherman who fishes off the coast of Niijima. He is another one of the people Ange talks to in order to try to understand what happened on Rokkenjima.
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* BigFun
* EyesAlwaysShut
* MeaningfulName: A "saba" is a type of mackerel.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Captain Kawabata]]
!!!Voiced by: Daisuke Matsuoka
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The captain of the speedboat that went to and from Rokkenjima. He is the one who takes Ange to Rokkenjima.
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* AscendedExtra: Kawabata actually appears since [=EP1=], has the captain of the boat that takes the family to Rokkenjima, but it was not until [=EP4=] that he got an actual portrait and a name. Subsequent appearances of him use his actual portrait.
* [[spoiler:TheMole: Ange accuses of him being this in the Trick Ending. Then she shoots him.]]
* PunnyName: His name contains the kanji for "river".
* RedemptionQuest: Seems to consider taking Ange to and from Rokkenjima as a type of this as atonement for what had happened there 12 years prior.
** [[spoiler: Unless you go with the trick ending, that is.]]
** FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Think about it. [[spoiler:In Episode 4 and 6, Ange is killed on the island; in the Trick Ending, ''he'' is killed by her. And in the Magic Ending she supposedly doesn't go back to Rokkenjima.]] You have to feel pity for the poor guy.
[[/folder]]
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[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Ange Ushiromiya]]
!!Ange Ushiromiya (縁寿)/Ange-Beatrice (Gretel)
!!!The final Endless Witch, Witch of Resurrection
!!!Voiced by: RinaSato
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--> "''Leave the jokes to your hairstyle.''"
Battler's half-sister [[spoiler:(actually his full sister)]]. She was only six in 1986, and didn't go to Rokkenjima with the rest of her family due to flu. The one we see has grown up in [[BadFuture the world that stems from the third arc]] ([[MindScrew well, maybe not…]]). She started to learn some magic from Maria. After the third arc, she becomes Ange-Beatrice and in a deal with Bernkastel, agrees to travel back to 1986 Rokkenjima in order to change the events to make it so that everyone does make it back. She later on serves as Featherine's miko, which for the most part consists of reading Featherine the stories of Rokkenjima.
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* [[AbusiveParents Abusive Substitute Parent]]: Eva, driven mad by grief for her son and husband, is neglectful, and emotionally and (it is implied) physically abusive. [[spoiler: Well, kind of. It's mostly Bern's fault.]]
* ActionGirl: Heck, she doesn't even need her magic to beat down a horde of {{Mooks}} in [=EP 3=], and that's just her introduction.
* [[spoiler:AmbitionIsEvil: Specifically, her ambition to literally exchange her life for learning the cold, hard truth of Rokkenjima causes her to reject the happiness she had before her family's deaths as an illusion. At least at first.]]
** [[spoiler:HeelRealization]]
* AngstComa: After denying the Stakes of Purgatory.
* AntiMagic
* AudienceSurrogate: In ''Dawn'', with Featherine playing the part of the AuthorAvatar.
* {{Badass}}: Plain and simple.
* BigBrotherAttraction: Some fans interpret her affection for Battler this way. Some bonus material such as [[http://umineko.wikia.com/wiki/Butterfly_Kiss_Episode1.5%E9%85%8D%E5%B8%83%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC this one]] don't really help.
--> Unlike back in onii-chan's time, girls nowadays send chocolates to even just normal friends.\\
[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial My chocolate is handcrafted, and for some reason I've shaped it into a heart, but don't overthink… there's nothing special behind it.]]
** {{Flanderization}}: The manga (and parodied in the "story so far" segments in Episode 6)
* BigNo: Cuts off Bernkastel's declaration of "[[color:red:This is the truth--]]" regarding the play that was just shown to both Ange and Lion.
* BitingTheHandkerchief: In one of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ-QXwUWh44&feature=related endings]] of ''Golden Fantasia''.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: In the Trick ending, just before [[spoiler:shooting Amakusa]]. "Just by the presence of [[spoiler:this gun]], see how far Ushiromiya Ange's reasoning can take her. What do you think everyone…?". [[spoiler:Soon followed by a tagteam [[GratuitousEnglish "GOOD!!"]] with Erika.]]
* BreakTheCutie
* BrokenBird
* BullyingADragon: She is alone, unarmed, without her bodyguard, surrounded by an aunt who thoroughly hates her and seven of her armed henchmen. What does she choose to do? Insult said aunt and push every BerserkButton she can find on her. And she continues even as she is beat up on the ground (at first at least). [[spoiler:A few minutes later, the situation is reversed.]]
* CarCushion: During her escape from Okonogi's office.
* CharacterNameAlias: Gretel
* ChekhovsGunman
* TheChewToy: Seriously, the series for her can be summed up as "get your life ruined, make a contract with a witch, die a horrible death, be revived, rince and repeat."
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: In ''Ougon Musou Kyouku'', ''X'' and ''Cross''. And the manga.
** MagicSkirt
* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong:]] Or something… in Episode 8, Bernkastel states clearly that [[spoiler:Ange surviving her jump is a miracle that cannot possibly occur, implying that everything Ange did in Episode 4 was AllJustADream.]] But the 1998 part of Episode 4 can hardly be dismissed as just someone's imagination, let alone [[spoiler:Battler's, considering he knew nothing of Ange's situation, the Sumadera, Okonogi or Amakusa]]. Anyway, see MindScrew below.
* DeadpanSnarker
** "Leave the jokes to [[AnimeHair your hairstyle]]."
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest
** [[spoiler:Subverted to the maximum in EP 7.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: She attempts to throw herself off a building at the end of [=EP 3=] to be with her dead parents and brother, but Bernkastel stops her. She jumps anyway, but survives instead.
** However [[spoiler:she doesn't when she GoesMadFromTheRevelation after learning the truth of Rokkenjima.]] [[DeathIsCheap Not that it lasts long.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her entrance at end of [=EP 3=] ????, and later jumping out of the skyscraper and surviving [[spoiler: [[DeadAllAlong or so it seems]].]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: Has a brief one in [=EP8=].]]
** [[spoiler:EvilCostumeSwitch: The PS3 version gives her a dress fitting the name "Beatrice" during her little rampage.]]
* FountainOfYouth: She spends a good chunk of the eighth arc as her six-year-old self, symbolically representing her lack of ability to move on from the Rokkenjima murders.
* FutureBadass: The cute little six-year old grows up to be Ange-Beatrice, the Witch of Resurrection.
* GameBreaker: [[invoked]] The reason for the condition of not telling her name to Battler is that Lamdadelta considered her as this. She wasn't far from being right considering the effect of [[spoiler: her HeroicSacrifice.]]
* GirlishPigtails: The variation mentioned on the page.
* [[spoiler:GoMadFromTheRevelation: Upon learning the one and only truth of the Rokkenjima incident.]]
** [[spoiler:LaughingMad]]
* GratuitousEnglish: Have a nice dream. {{See you in hell}}.
* GreekChorus: With Featherine in [=EP6=].
* HairDecorations: Ange's pink double-orbs which aren't just for show and supposedly hold her magical power [[spoiler:which is, of course, just a delusion]]. They were given to her by Battler.
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]]: As a last-ditch effort to snap Battler out of the funk caused by [[spoiler:him finding out that Asumu isn't his mother]] in [=EP4=].
** [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile]]
* HeroicBSOD: In [=EP7=] [[spoiler:when she finds out that, [[UnreliableNarrator according to Bernkastel]], her parents are heartless, greedy murderers, her mother doesn't care about her and only saw her as a way to keep Rudolf in line and also that Eva, who she had despised for twelve years because of the neglect and abuse she was put through, only acted cruelly to keep her from finding out this truth.]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Ange really seems to hang out with the wrong crowd. First [[spoiler:Bern]] and then [[spoiler:Featherine]]. Not to mention, apparently [[spoiler:Amakusa]]. And according to [=EP7=], even [[spoiler:her own parents]]. She also terribly misjudged [[spoiler:Eva, it would seem]]. Finally in [=EP8=], [[spoiler:she teams up with all the established metaworld villains, if only to fulfill her own needs. Needless to say, she is wary of them this time around]].
* IllGirl: When she was younger.
* ImageSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcdOfBXVhtg entreat]].
* InterruptedSuicide: Her first meeting with Bern.
* IRejectYourReality: [[spoiler:After learning the truth and being told in red that it's the truth, she denies it anyway. Whatever it is, it's that horrible.]]
** [[spoiler:This becomes ''very'' important in the ending. See StoryBreakerPower below.]]
* KickChick: Ange almost exclusively uses kicks on ''Ougon Musoukyouku'', somewhat justified in that her hands are occupied with [[SpellBook Maria's diary]], which doesn't really makes a good weapon.
* {{Kuudere}}
* LethalChef: Implied in the TIP "Beatrice's White Day", [[ItMakesSenseInContext when Beatrice orders the Chiester Sisters to destroy Ange's pancakes.]]
-->'''Ange:''' That's me for you… I didn't know that over-cooked pancakes could explode. No wonder I had terrible grades in cooking classes.
* LonelyRichKid
* LongLostRelative: Although TheReveal is suitably shocking to Battler, the audience knows it from the outset.
* NoPronunciationGuide: French readers will likely read her name as "anj" (which is a real French name) ; it's actually pronounced "enjé".
* MeanwhileInTheFuture: In Episode 4 there are two incarnations of her, one with Battler on the gameboard of 1986 (if you suppose the meta-world is real), the other getting info and travelling to Rokkenjima in 1998. And in a weird take on the trope, her actions in the future impact her "piece" self in the past, rather than the opposite… Episode 8 is more ambiguous, as the gameboard seems to be out of time rather than in the past.
* MementoMacGuffin: Her barrettes, which were a prize Battler won for her.
* MindScrew: Yes, this series is a giant MindScrew ball, but Ange's tribulations in 1998 in particular are ''really'' hard to follow. In Episode 4, just after Eva's death she jumps off a building but survives, and she goes on a trip with her bodyguard, questioning various people and finding bits of information about Rokkenjima, before going there herself [[spoiler:and being killed by said bodyguard.]] In Episode 6, she is alive again, back to a few days before going to Rokkenjima, in the house of a person she isn't supposed to have met that day; after which she goes to Rokkenjima again, [[spoiler:and is supposedly killed by Amakusa again.]] In Episode 8, she is ''somehow'' back at the top of the building, jumps off again [[spoiler:and kisses the concrete, implying that she ''didn't'' survive the jump in Episode 4 and 6.]] But in the ending [[spoiler:she is back at the top of the building ''again'' and this time decides not to jump, thus living happily ever after.]] Good luck making sense of all that in an anti-fantasy perspective.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:In [=EP8=], she pulls a FaceHeelTurn and nearly destroys the Golden Land that Battler and Beatrice created together in order to obtain the truth. However, [[HeelRealization she eventually realizes the damage she is causing by throwing away her only chance at happiness]], and teams up with Battler and Lambdadelta to keep Bernkastel from completing that damage.]]
* MysteriousProtector: An oddball female, non-romantic example.
* OffToBoardingSchool: Eva placed her in St. Lucia Academy, the same school [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Shion]] escaped from.
** BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: The school itself isn't that horrible; the girls in it, however…
* OrphansOrdeal
* ParentalAbandonment
* PerpetualFrowner
** WhenSheSmiles: Noted by Amakusa in the sixth arc.
* PlotCoupon: The key Battler gives her in the eighth arc.
* PsychicPowers: Ange communicated with pre-Rokkenjima Maria through Maria's diary. [[spoiler:From a mundane perspective, all she really did was read through the diary and imagine that Maria was talking to her through it.]]
* RapunzelHair: In ''Golden Fantasia'', her hair is twice as long as in the series, for some reason.
* RedemptionQuest: Ange eventually decides that this is her purpose for going back to Rokkenjima.
* ReplacementGoldfish: It seems that Eva to a certain extent tried to use Ange as a replacement for George, but when Ange couldn't measure up, she got hit with Eva's frustration from that.
** Not true. From the beginning, Eva acknowledged that she couldn't be a replacement for Ange's parents to her anymore than Ange could be a replacement for George, but that they should try to be happy regardless. And then [[spoiler:Bernkastel]] [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor came into]] [[KickTheDog the picture]]...
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Her reason for traveling back in time was to change the events of 1986 so everyone could come back, [[spoiler:but it's ultimately subverted: by the end of the series, most of the people who were on the island are dead and nothing will change that.]]
* SignificantAnagram: In the hidden Tea Party of Episode 8, [[spoiler:decades later, she becomes a famous fantasy author, "Yukari Kotobuki" (寿 ゆかり). Considering "Yukari" can also be spelled as 縁, if you do that and switch it around with 寿, you get "Ange" (縁寿)]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Ange, Anje, Anju, Enje, Enjye, it's all been seen. In addition, the translators had a debate on how to spell [[spoiler:her alias "Yukari Kotobuki"]], debating on whether to preserve the wordplay in the original Japanese in the translation or keep it as it is without an explanation.
* StepfordSnarker
* [[spoiler:StoryBreakerPower: Her witch powers evolve into this near the end of the eighth arc during the fight with Bernkastel. Just like Battler's fervent denial of the existence of magic affords him [[AntiMagic Endless Nine]], Ange's [[IRejectYourReality refusal to accept everyone's deaths]] causes her to realize her power as the Witch of Resurrection and [[BackFromTheDead bring]] [[BackForTheFinale everyone]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome back]], even making them immune to the [[LanguageOfTruth red truths]] that stated that they died. This culminates in a unified assault that [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu finally defeats Bernkastel]].]]
* StrangeGirl: Considered this way by her class.
* SummonMagic: Ange can summon the [[AssistCharacter 7 stakes and Sakutarou]] to fight for her on ''Ougon Musoukyouku''.
* SurvivorGuilt
* TallDarkAndBishoujo
* TheWatcher: Featherine delays Ange's arrival on Rokkenjima (and eventual [[spoiler:real-world death]]) so that she could observe Battler's game and read it to her.
* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:Actually subverted if you take an anti-fantasy stance: all she's doing is metaphorically going back to 1986 to find out what happened.]] However, for this point of view it's hard to explain [[spoiler:how she learned said truth, since in the epilogue she says she never met Tooya Hachijou (who had Eva's diary).]]
* TryAndFollow: Ange appears to have a penchant for this. She does it on at least two separate occasions, although on the first one, she really was, initially, DrivenToSuicide.
* [[spoiler:UnexplainedRecovery: ''[[DeathIsCheap Three times]]'', as a matter of fact.]]
* UnwittingPawn: To Bernkastel in [=EP4=] and [=EP8=].
* YouCantFightFate: Ange helps even knowing that going back in time to help Battler won't fix her own timeline: just the one that Battler will now go to. [[spoiler:But in the end she can't fix his timeline either. And while Battler does survive the events on Rokkenjima, Ange doesn't meet with him until many years later.]]
* YaoiFangirl: PlayedForLaughs in her and Virgilia's ending in Ougon Musou Kyoku CROSS and in the [=TIP=] "Angel of 17 Years".
* [[spoiler:YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:]] As of [=EP6=], [[spoiler: a large conspiracy has been revealed that places Ange in the middle of this: Okonogi is working for the main Sumadera family and had been tasked to eliminate Kasumi and her branch, and hired Amakusa for this job specifically. Ange was to only be protected until Kasumi could be brought out into the open and eliminated. Amakusa killed everyone present when Ange went to Rokkenjima, killing Ange last as she had been regarded as a liability if she were to live any longer.]]
** Even in the meta-world, she gets this.
--> [[spoiler:'''Bernkastel''': Go back to being scrap meat.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki
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[[folder:Jūza Amakusa]]
!!!Voiced by KojiYusa
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Ange's bodyguard in 1998. He was assigned to guard Ange by Eva, but was later fired because he was flirting with her. He is apparently blacklisted in France.
[[spoiler:In Episode 6, he apparently betrays Ange. It seems that Ange was a "liability" and he doesn't really care about what happens to her. The only order given to him was to dispose of Kasumi.]]
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* BadassLonghair
* {{Bishounen}}
* [[spoiler:BodyguardBetrayal:]] In Episode 4 [[spoiler:he is the one who kills Kasumi and her mooks, as well as Ange.]] It was only made clear in Episode 6 since the credits of Episode 4 just mentionned "died in 1998".
* BodyguardCrush: Okonogi suspects him of having this for Ange in Episode 6. He promptly denies anything of the sort. [[spoiler:And indeed, a crush he has not; see above.]]
* ChivalrousPervert: He was initially fired by Eva because even though he was instructed not to talk to Ange, he not just talked, but ''tried to flirt with her''.
* CreepyCoolCrosses: He wears one conspicuously as a fastener for his coat. There are also some on the soles of his boots in the anime design.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: In his defense, it was in a ChaseScene.
* {{Expy}}: Some EpilepticTrees have popped up that he's supposed to be a redoing of one of the [[TheMenInBlack Yamainu]] named Hibari 13 (An odd one, as in the game, he was a character without a sprite), due to his name, which is made with the kanji for "Thirteen."
** [[spoiler:Heck, Hibari13's appearance has been confirmed in Matsuribayashi-hen Manga volume 7. [[http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/8500/hikurashimachiri07062.jpg And guess who...]]]].
* [[spoiler:HoistByHisOwnPetard:]] In the trick ending.
* HotBlooded: According to his character notes.
* KojiYusa
* {{Leitmotif}}: Monochrome Clock
** LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn
** BreakingTheFourthWall: "You don't like M. Zakky, lady?"
* LongHairedPrettyBoy
* NoodleIncident: Whatever got him banned from France.
* PeekABangs
* PersonaNonGrata: According to Ange, if he's caught back in France, he'll be arrested.
* [[spoiler:PrettyLittleHeadshots:]] [[spoiler:Too bad for him, Ange did her research about guns.]]
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Supposedly, his job before Okonogi hired him was training Blackwater troops.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kasumi Sumadera]]
!!!Voiced by: AtsukoTanaka ''(anime)'', SumiShimamoto ''(PS3)''
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Kyrie's younger sister. She was forced to marry Kyrie's previous fiancee when Kyrie ran away and married Rudolf, so Kasumi has never forgiven Kyrie for it. After Kyrie dies, Kasumi takes out her frustrations on Ange, since she's Kyrie's daughter.
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* ArrangedMarriage
* AtsukoTanaka: Anime only. Also voices Kyrie.
* AxeCrazy
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Kyrie's Abel.
* DeadlyEuphemism: If she says she wants to make you some matcha, then (a) she does not mean that literally, and (b) you might want to [[AxCrazy run in the other direction]].
* [[EvilUncle Evil Aunt]]
* LaughWithMe
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhXTGvBJFAk Over.]] You'd better run.
* TheOtherDarrin
* SinsOfOurFathers: Mercilessly beats up Ange due to a grudge over how Kyrie treated her.
* StepfordSmiler: Type C.
* [[spoiler: PrettyLittleHeadshots]]: Fourth arc
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Despite leaving quite an impression, she only appears for a small portion of Episode 4, where she is killed [[spoiler: by Amakusa]]. After which she is never seen and barely ever mentionned again. And she ''still'' manages to have some CharacterDevelopment in that short span.
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: Well, a 50-something year old girl.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Well she definitely ''looks'' the part… but you know the rest by now.
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[[folder:Tetsurō Okonogi]]
!!!Voiced by: JurotaKosugi ''(anime)'', KenNarita ''(PS3)''
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An old business partner of Hideyoshi's. [[spoiler:After the Rokkenjima incident]], he was one of the few people Eva still trusted (although the term "trust" is being generous). After she died, he was put in charge of her company until Ange could take the reigns on her own. Ange approaches him in order to learn more about Eva, whom he says he does not think is the Rokkenjima murderer. He hired Amakusa, who was indebted to him for undisclosed reasons, to serve as Ange's bodyguard and protect her from the Sumadera family.
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* {{Expy}}: Of the ''other'' Okonogi from ''{{Higurashi}}'' (who may or may not be the same person).
** {{Homage}}[=/=]MythologyGag
* TheOtherDarrin: Odd considering his first voice actor from the anime voiced Okonogi from ''{{Higurashi}}''
** That's because in the PS2 version of Higurashi (which came out before Higurashi Kai's anime version), Okonogi was voiced by Ken Narita, but the anime used Jurota Kosugi. As a result, a strange situation occured where Kosugi voiced Okonogi in animated productions, while Narita voiced Okonogi in all game productions.
* PointyEars: For some reason.
* YouOweMe: Okonogi is evidently pretty good at this. It's part of the reason Amakusa is rehired to help Ange, and Amakusa speculates that the reason for his being hired for this was in order for Okonogi to later be able to get some favors from Ange.
** Also supports the idea that he is the same Okonogi from the Hinamizawa incident and Amakusa was one of the men that worked for him.
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[[folder:Professor Ootsuki]]
!!!Voiced by: Takayuki Kondo
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A college professor who is a member of the Rokkenjima [[ShoutOut Witch Hunt]], a group of occult enthusiasts who attempt to look at the Rokkenjima murders from an occult perspective. Ange interviews him in order to learn more about the Rokkenjima incident.
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* GentlemanAndAScholar
* MrExposition
* OccultDetective
* ShoutOut: His group, the Witch Hunt, is a shout out to the group of fansubbers who translate the VN series into English.
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[[folder:Masayuki Nanjō]]
!!!Voiced by: Akihiko Ishizumi
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Doctor Nanjo's son. A rather reclusive person who has tried to move on with his life after the Rokkenjima incident, but who has had trouble doing that thanks to a badgering news media that he believes has dragged his father's reputation through the dirt. He had a daughter, but she was [[IllGirl terminally ill]] and died at a young age. It's from him that Ange learns about the mysterious letters that were sent to surviving relatives of the Rokkenjima victims.
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* TheCaretaker: To his daughter while she was still alive.
* DeadLittleSister: His daughter.
* {{Paparazzi}}: Is particularly angry with them (similar to Eva)
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[[folder:Sabakichi Kumasawa]]
!!!Voiced by: Hideyuki Umezu
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Chiyo Kumasawa's son. He is a fisherman who fishes off the coast of Niijima. He is another one of the people Ange talks to in order to try to understand what happened on Rokkenjima.
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* BigFun
* EyesAlwaysShut
* MeaningfulName: A "saba" is a type of mackerel.
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[[folder:Captain Kawabata]]
!!!Voiced by: Daisuke Matsuoka
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The captain of the speedboat that went to and from Rokkenjima. He is the one who takes Ange to Rokkenjima.
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* AscendedExtra: Kawabata actually appears since [=EP1=], has the captain of the boat that takes the family to Rokkenjima, but it was not until [=EP4=] that he got an actual portrait and a name. Subsequent appearances of him use his actual portrait.
* [[spoiler:TheMole: Ange accuses of him being this in the Trick Ending. Then she shoots him.]]
* PunnyName: His name contains the kanji for "river".
* RedemptionQuest: Seems to consider taking Ange to and from Rokkenjima as a type of this as atonement for what had happened there 12 years prior.
** [[spoiler: Unless you go with the trick ending, that is.]]
** FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Think about it. [[spoiler:In Episode 4 and 6, Ange is killed on the island; in the Trick Ending, ''he'' is killed by her. And in the Magic Ending she supposedly doesn't go back to Rokkenjima.]] You have to feel pity for the poor guy.
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