Line #155 Characters/ForestOfDrizzlingRain


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3	!Original Game
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5	Characters introduced in the original game, manga, and light novel.
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7	[[folder:Shiori Kanzaki]]
8	[[quoteright:138:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/73890.jpeg]]
9	A young woman who serves as the protagonist of the story. Having lost her parents, she decides to travel to Azakawa Village, where they used to live, to find out more about them.
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11	* AllLovingHero: She's friendly, kind, and extremely selfless.
12	* ChekhovsSkill: In the remake, it is briefly mentioned that she was on the basketball team in her school. [[spoiler:She uses her skills to throw a pager up a well so Mochizuki can see it and rescue her, and even attributes it to her prior playing.]]
13	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Though never made explicit, Suga, whom she grew up with and made a [[DealWithTheDevil promise]] with the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit to protect, is her ImpliedLoveInterest. In the remake, the matchmaking farmer outright ponders employing his services to hook them up.
14	* GenerationXerox: Implied. Her parents [[ChildhoodFriendRomance were close friends as kids]], and her ImpliedLoveInterest is her own childhood friend Suga.
15	* HearingVoices: She often hears whispers from the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit constantly reminding her of her [[DealWithTheDevil promise]].
16	* HeroicSacrifice: In Ending 6 of the remake, [[spoiler:she offers herself up as a sacrifice to the Forest God, letting herself be eaten in return for him sparing Miyako and stopping the Taking Spirit from threatening the outside world]].
17	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Shiori's family used the power of the nightstone on her to make her lose all her memories of the village. Used on her again by Suga in Ending Two.]]
18	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Due to [[spoiler:her LaserGuidedAmnesia]], she has no idea about [[spoiler:her past in Azakawa, something which Suga definitely remembers]].
19	* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: When they were children [[spoiler:growing up together in Azaka Village]], Shiori was a tomboy, whereas [[spoiler:Suga-kun]] was very sensitive.
20	* OlderThanTheyLook: Shiori is a young adult but ingame she looks more like a highschool student. Her youthful look is amplified by her laid-back outfit and slighty naive behavior.
21	* PrimaryColorChampion: A heroic young woman who wears a yellow shirt, blue shorts and red sneakers.
22	* ThePromise: She made one [[spoiler:with the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit]] to [[spoiler:protect Suga from her]].
23	* SpannerInTheWorks: Her coming to Azakawa is one for the government official, since her family used to own the manor and can override their wishes.
24	[[/folder]]
25
26	[[folder:Koutaro Suga (spoilers)]]
27	The manager of the museum. He is mute, and can only communicate through memos.
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29	* BarrierMaiden: In one ending, this becomes his fate. Since the spirits fear him, he must always remain in the museum, guarding the forest.
30	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Though never made explicit, Suga, whom Shiori grew up with and made a [[DealWithTheDevil promise]] with the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit to protect, is her ImpliedLoveInterest. In the remake, the matchmaking farmer outright ponders employing his services to hook them up.
31	* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all the hell we went through just for being related to the Stone Guardian his curse is finally lifted and he regains his voice. Not just that, but Shiori is back in his life and his work as a stone mason is getting recognition around the village.
32	* JerkassFacade: He is very rude, constantly requesting that Shiori leaves, only giving her unsatisfying answers and in general being unfriendly. Justified, she is in extreme danger, [[KeepingSecretsSucks but he can't tell her about it]], so [[ShooTheDog he tries to bully her away from the village]]. This jerkass act starts breaking when Shiori helps him save the museum from demolition.
33	* KeepingSecretsSucks: He hates having to avoid telling Shiori about her past, in part because it involves her forgetting about their childhood together.
34	* LethalChef: Shiori has the opinion that his cooking “tastes like ashes”.
35	* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: When they were children growing up together in Azaka Village, Shiori was a tomboy, whereas Suga was very sensitive.
36	* ThePromise: He is indicated to have made one with the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit, although the details are not clear.
37	* ShooTheDog: He tries to be mean to Shiori so that she will leave the village and not fall victim to the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit or remember the [[DealWithTheDevil promise]] she made with her.
38	* TheSilentBob: Suga doesn't speak, using short notes and meaningful looks to get his point across.
39	* SinsOfOurFathers: The Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit's hatred for the first Ogami-san/Stone Guardian is so great, she cursed him and everyone in his bloodline to have short and miserable lives. And Suga just happens to be his last known descendant.
40	* TheSpeechless: Due to the [[DealWithTheDevil promise]] he made with the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit, he lost the use of his vocal chords, and writes on his memos to communicate. He does manage to call Shiori “Shii-chan” in the GoldenEnding, but goes back to his memos afterwards.
41	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In the Bonus Scenario in the 2022 remake, even though he's regained his voice, he hasn't talked in 10 years and he's pretty shy himself, so he's more comfortable using memos.
42	* VisibleSilence: Suga's text windows are completely empty, without even a single ellipsis. However, he does get speech bubbles with these.
43	* WalkingSpoiler: The reveal that he is the scary man who chases after Shiori and Sakuma with a sword, and that he was the boy who played with Shiori in the past, make him this.
44	* YouShallNotPass: In certain endings, he will attempt to make a LastStand against the spirits. Whether or not they survive this depends upon your choices and what you've collected.
45	[[/folder]]
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47	[[folder:Miyako Sakuma]]
48	A standoffish schoolgirl whom Shiori encounters in the museum. She's also the daughter of the Azakawa Village mayor. Despite this, she gets no respect from her peers or the adults, who look down on her. She in turn dislikes the village and wants nothing more than to see the big city.
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50	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The remake reveals that the reason she keeps skipping school is that the other kids and even one of her teachers bullies her, despite being the daughter of the village mayor.
51	* AmbiguouslyGay: The 2022 remake implies she has a crush on Shiori. She's the only person she's nice to, blushes around her and even gives her a DeclarationOfProtection in Ending 6.
52	* AffectionateNickname: Shiori calls her Sakuma-chan ("Miko" in the English translation).
53	* AscendedExtra: In the original game, her main role was to set off the plot by being the DamselInDistress so that Shiori can search for her. She did have some character, but it was not fully elaborated on. The remake devotes much of the exploration of Azakawa Village to Shiori bonding with Miyako, and expands on her chronic truancy as her being [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer bullied by the other villagers]] and finding comfort with the one person to show her kindness.
54	* BigDamnHeroes: In every ending except a few in the remake, she and Mochizuki [[spoiler:open the well and rescue Shiori (and Suga, if he is with her) just when the Kyoto Obake/Taking Spirit and/or the Child spirits are after them]].
55	* TheCynic: Has a negative view of the world, and she often says how unfair it is or how injustices are around every corner. This is also deconstructed in the 2022 remake, as this attitude has left her with very few friends.
56	* DamselInDistress: She gets kidnapped by the Kotori Obake (original game)/[[spoiler:God of the Forest]] (remake) after the museum segment, forcing Shiori and the others to go rescue her.
57	* HearingVoices: She starts to hear the voices of the spirits halfway through, along with the voices of the night glowstones. The 2022 remake shows [[spoiler: it's the God of the Forest's doing]].
58	* InsufferableGenius: Deconstructed. Although Sakuma is indeed very smart for her age, her overall bitterness and cynicism give her a very poor social life and she didn't have any friends before Shiori came to the village.
59	* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:In the 2022 remake, she is manipulated by the God of the Forest into hearing voices so she'll enter the forest and abduct her.]]
60	* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: In the 2022 remake she says something along these lines to Shiori about her relationship with Suga.
61	[[/folder]]
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63	[[folder:Officer Yousuke Mochizuki]]
64	A local officer whom Shiori first encounters when going to the village.
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66	* BigDamnHeroes: In every ending, he and Sakuma [[spoiler:open the well and rescue Shiori (and Suga, if he is with her) just when the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit and/or the Child spirits are after them]].
67	* TheDitz: Though he means well, he can be pretty scatterbrained and not good at his job. The remake shows him constantly being one step behind Miyako when she is skipping school, and pretty hapless at finding her.
68	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He is a cop who tries his best to aid Shiori. When [[spoiler:Sakuma]] goes missing, he tries his best to find her. In the remake, despite constantly tracking down Sakuma whenever she skips school, he also shows sympathy when she is being picked on by others and honestly wants to help her.
69	[[/folder]]
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71	[[folder:Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit (spoilers)]]
72	!Tsuyu Kanzaki (Remake)
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74	A vengeful ghost who haunts the forest in Azakawa Village. She makes promises with children who enter the forest, then absorbs them inside her when they fulfill their promise.
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76	The 2022 remake reveals her name is Tsuyu Kanzaki, an ancestor of Shiori.
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78	* TheAssimilator: The 2022 remake shows this is what happens to the children she kidnaps, absorbing them inside her womb.
79	* BigBad: Has been kidnapping and murdering children for a long time and she's also the reason for Shiori having LaserGuidedAmnesia and Suga's miserable life, and is the one who abducts Sakuma (at least in the original game).
80	* BigBadEnsemble: In the remake, still has about the same role as in the original game, except here the God of the Forest is the one who turned her into an evil spirit and kidnapped Sakuma as part of his plan to overthrow her and force Azakawa Village back under his oppressive rule.
81	* DealWithTheDevil: She makes “promises” with children who wander into her forest, and her promises always end with the children being killed and transformed into her minions.
82	* JerkassToOne: Sweet-talks children into entering the forest, but is particularly callous towards Suga, calling him names and saying he deserves to suffer. Justified, as he's the descendant of the first Ogami/san/Stone Guardian who is the reason she became the way she is.
83	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The 2022 remake reveals this is what happens to her when Suga and Shiori use the glowstone. She forgets about her grudge and ascends to the afterlife. Unfortunately she also forgets about her child as well.
84	* LoveRedeems: A familial version, since her love for her son helps her pull a HeelFaceTurn.
85	* NamedByTheAdaptation: Her real name was never given in the original, but the remake gives her the name Tsuyu Kanzaki- connecting her to Shiori Kanzaki as her ancestor.
86	* NotMeThisTime: In the 2020 remake, she wasn't the one behind Sakuma's disappearance. Sakuma faked her kidnapping to get the villagers to stop attacking Shiori and then got captured for real by the God of the Forest.
87	* RevengeByProxy: Wants to make Suga suffer just because he's the descendant of the man who ruined her life.
88	* StringyHairedGhostGirl: As a ghost, she has the appearance of one, kills anyone who enters her forest, and was the victim of a man (the first Ogami-san/Stone Guardian) who killed her family and turned her into a SexSlave.
89	* ThePromise: She makes these with the children who enter her forest, although in context it is more of a DealWithTheDevil. She often [[HearingVoices speaks to the children]] to remind them to fulfill the promise.
90	* ThePowerOfHate: The White Child claims that the Taking Spirit is only kept going by her hatred of the Stone Guardian for his perceived betrayal.
91	* RavenHairIvorySkin: Before she died she had black hair, pale skin, and was considered beautiful.
92	* RevengeBeforeReason: Wants to torture the Stone Guardian (and later his descendants) as revenge for allegedly betraying and killing her baby. Even after she finds out that the God of the Forest set them up, she openly states that she doesn't care because it doesn't change the fact that she died.
93	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Her immediate priority after becoming a vengeful ghost (when she's not kidnapping children) is to get revenge on the Stone Guardian for his perceived betrayal. After he dies, she continues to torture his descendants.
94	* TookALevelInJerkass: Upon her becoming a vengeful ghost, she's considerably darker and more violent than she was when she was alive. Considering the tragic circumstances behind her death, however, this is understandable.
95	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In the remake, she asks the Stone Guardian- her brother- to kill a snake because it frightened her. Said snake happened to be a god, which proceeds to curse them both and ruin their lives.
96	* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Is completely obsessed with avenging her family and her cruel fate even though the man behind it is long gone. In the 2022 remake the White Child says that no matter how much she tortures the Stone Guardian's descendants and absorbs children, she'll never be satisfied.
97	* WalkingSpoiler: Her backstory and true nature as a TragicMonster are not revealed until the last part of the game.
98	* WeUsedToBeFriends: In the remake, she was friends with the Stone Guardian before the God of the Forest cursed them both.
99	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Back when she was an ordinary woman, the Stone Guardian had fallen in love with her and had her husband and unborn baby killed. This caused her to go insane and kill herself, returning as a vengeful ghost who kills children to fill the void left by her own lost baby.
100	[[/folder]]
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102	[[folder:The Ghost Children]]
103	The “children” of the Taking Spirit. Made up of both the people inside the dungeon who the Obake killed and the various children who were victimized by the Obake, they serve as her minions.
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105	* DeaderThanDead: In Ending 6, despite already being spirits, the Forest God kills them and the Taking Spirit.
106	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In Ending 1, due to Suga and Shiori using the glowstone. Without their grudges keeping them bound to the land, they ascend to the afterlife.
107	* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Their “skin” ranges from red to pure black, to indicate them as malevolent spirits.
108	* UndeadChild: They are the spirits of the children who were warped by the Taking Spirit into becoming her “children”.
109	[[/folder]]
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111	[[folder:The White Child Spirit (spoilers)]]
112	The son of the Taking Spirit. He was murdered by the first Stone Guardian prior to the events of the game, and is repeatedly encountered as a white spirit who wishes to reunite with his mom.
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114	* AdaptationalIntelligence: In the original game he speaks in baby talk and simple words. In the 2022 remake he's much more eloquent.
115	* BigGood: He acts as a guide to Shiori and Suga, helping them to achieve his personal mission of purifying his mom.
116	* CheerfulChild: Even after everything he went through, he never stops smiling or gives up hope that he will reunite with his mother.
117	* HeroicSacrifice: Happens to him in the 2022 remake.
118	** In Ending 3, when the spirits of the dead children tear the Taking Spirit apart, he tries to save her only to be killed by them as well.
119	** In Ending 1, Shiori and Suga are forced to use the glowstone to ward off the spirits of the dead children. The White Child is aware this not only will result in the Taking Spirit and the ghost children forgetting about their grudges, but she and him will forget about each other. All he can do is to wish to be reunited with his mother in the next life.
120	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In Ending 1, due to Shiori and Suga using the glowstone. While he loses all memories of his mother and she forgets him as well, he's happy because she won't be hurting anyone anymore.
121	* LightIsGood: Unlike the malevolent red and black spirits, he is pure white to signify his benevolence.
122	* TragicDream: All he wants is to be reunited with his mother. Unfortunately their meeting is short and either he's forced to watch her to be torn apart by the spirits of the dead children or is forced to lose his memories about her.
123	* WalkingSpoiler: Explaining his significance spoils the tragic backstory of the Obake.
124	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Admits in the 2022 remake that he allowed his mother to kill children so that she'll have company. But after realizing that she'll never be satisfied and will continue hurting others, he decides she had to be stopped.
125	[[/folder]]
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127	[[folder:Kenji, Midori, and Keiichiro Kanzaki]]
128	Shiori's parents and grandfather, respectively. The former two died in a traffic accident, and their death is what sets Shiori off on her journey. They turn out to have some connection to Azakawa Village.
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130	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Kenji and Midori, Shiori's parents, met as children.
131	-->'''Kenji Kanzaki:''' (''in his childhood diary'') Midori went for a swim while I was fishing. She was scaring them off, so we had a fight.\
132	'''Shiori Kanzaki:''' Midori? Mom...? So they were together since childhood.
133	* ParentalSubstitute: Ever since Kotarou's father died, Keiichiro took care of him and raised him as his foster father.
134	* WhyCantIHateYou: Even though Keiichiro adopts Kotarou, he secretly resents him for being related to the Stone Guardian and being indirectly responsible for Shiori losing her memories. However he also admits it's not Kotarou's fault.
135	[[/folder]]
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137	[[folder:Government Official]]
138	A government official and representative of the Azakawa Village council. He visits Suga to convince him to allow them to demolish the museum.
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140	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the 2022 remake he's more willing to listen to Shiori and his desire to improve Azakawa Village is genuine, instead of doing it for the money.
141	* AgentScully: Dismisses the story of the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit and the Ogami-san/Stone Guardian as ancient tales.
142	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Was so fixated in trying to convince Suga to demolish the museum that he forgot to tell the buyers it was in the middle of nowhere.
143	* {{Greed}}: In the original game, all he cares about is making money.
144	* HateSink: In the original game, he only appears in one scene near the beginning, but establishes himself as a SmugSnake nonetheless. In said scene, he informs Suga, the manager of the local museum, that the government plans to demolish the museum to make room for land development. He proceeds to be rude and disrespectful to Suga, outright telling him he does not care if Suga ends up jobless, then when Sakuma objects, he tells her that her father would support the demolishment. Finally, when Shiori tells him that she is the heir to the museum and can shut him down, he rudely expresses disbelief before storming out in a huff. This is averted with his remake version, who improves by the end.
145	* {{Jerkass}}: In his one scene, he establishes himself as a jerk by needlessly antagonizing Suga, Sakuma, and Shiori, and he represents a group that intends to tear down the museum to make way for new developments.
146	* KickTheDog: Tells Suga that he doesn't care if demolishing the museum leaves him without a place to live.
147	* NoNameGiven: He is only called Government Official in the text boxes.
148	* SuitWithVestedInterests: He wants to shut down the museum/old mansion in order to make way for new developments, and dismisses Suga's desire to keep it open as clinging to silly superstitions and the old ways.
149	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Even though he's unpleasant, he really thinks he's doing what's best for the village. In the 2022 even after his resort plan is cancelled, he decides to find less harmful to get profit.
150	[[/folder]]
151
152	[[folder:The First Ogami-san/Stone Guardian (spoilers)]]
153	A man from a generational line of stone masons creators of the glowstones that protect Azakawa Village. Though revered as a hero, he is in fact the one who indirectly created the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit.
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155	The 2022 remake reveals he's an ancestor of Suga and the older brother of the Taking Spirit.
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157	* AdaptationalHeroism: In the original game, he was the GreaterScopeVillain responsible for turning an innocent village girl into the BigBad via his system of sex-slavery and was a HateSink with no redeeming qualities. The remake turns him into a victim of a curse/manipulation by the God of the Forest who regrets what he did so much that he pleads to have his memories erased.
158	* AdaptationalJobChange: In the original game he was the leader of the village. In the 2022 remake he's a stone mason and the creator of the glowstones.
159	* BigBrotherInstinct: In the remake, the reason the events of the game happened? All he wanted was to protect his sister from a snake.
160	* DemonicPossession: In the remake, he falls victim to this courtesy of the God of the Forest, acting possesive of Tsuyu and killing her husband and unborn child.
161	* EvilCounterpart: To Suga. Both are stone masons and were very protective of a certain girl. They got also cursed for trying to protect her. But while the Stone Guardian blames Tsuyu for it, to the point that he erases his own memories, Suga is faithfully loyal to Shiori and instead blames himself.
162	* GreaterScopeVillain: In the original game, he is the one responsible for turning the unnamed woman into the Kotori Obake, as he killed her family, falsely accused her of crimes, then imprisoned and raped her. This is averted in the remake, where he is cursed into doing this by the God of the Forest, who is in an active BigBadEnsemble with the Taking Spirit.
163	* HateSink: In the original game, he is responsible for turning an innocent woman into the [[BigBad Kotori Obake]], as he had her imprisoned on false charges, killed her whole family, and raped her. However, this is averted with his remake self, who is made somewhat more sympathetic.
164	* ItsAllAboutMe: In the remake, when the DemonicPossession wears off and realizes what he did to Tsuyu, he only feels bad for himself and not what he did to her.
165	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the remake, he does this to himself with the glowstones.
166	* NeverMyFault: In the remake, he blames Tsuyu for him killing her husband and children, stating that if he hadn't tried to help her, he would not have gotten cursed by the Forest God and had to do such things to seek his forgiveness.
167	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Killed a snake for frightening Tsuyu. Said snake happened to the the weakened god of the village, which proceeds to curse him into falling obsesively in love with Tsuyu and kill her family.
168	* PosthumousCharacter: He is dead as of the actual story, but his creation of the Taking Spirit remains.
169	* SmallTownTyrant: In the original game, he ran Azakawa Village and would force the wives and children of convicted criminals into slavery, while hiding behind his image as a benevolent protector. The Kotori Obake was one such woman who ended up his victim. His remake counterpart, on the other hand, averts this due to being a mere stone mason.
170	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The whole village, both back when he was alive and in the present day, reveres him as a hero who protected the village and its children from the Kotori Obake. However, he was really a tyrant who [[SinsOfOurFathers had the wives and children of criminals sold into sexual slavery]], and the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit was one of his many victims. This is retconned in the 2022 remake.
171	* WeUsedToBeFriends: In the remake, friends with Tsuyu before the God of the Forest cursed them both.
172	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: In the remake, he is out to destroy Tsuyu, but it's only because he got cursed for trying to protect her from a snake, something that wasn't even in his control.
173	* WouldHurtAChild: Killed the unborn child of the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit/Tsuyu.
174	* {{Yandere}}: He lusted after the woman who would become the Obake (his sister, Tsuyu, in the remake) so much that he slaughtered her whole family to get to her.
175	[[/folder]]
176
177	!Remake Characters
178
179	Characters introduced in the remake.
180
181	[[folder:Villagers]]
182	The inhabitants of Azakawa Village.
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184	* TheMatchmaker: One of the farmers really wants to find a husband for his eligible granddaughter, and also ponders the possibility of [[ShipTease booking Shiori up with Koutaro]].
185	* ScatterbrainedSenior: The owner of the store is a nice lady who was a friend of Midori, and mistakes her daughter Shiori for Midori herself.
186	[[/folder]]
187
188	[[folder:Ayuko Yokohata]]
189	A little girl who is always getting lost.
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191	* CheerfulChild: She is usually very chipper and playful, and wants to spend time with Shiori, whom she looks up to as a big sister.
192	* DamselInDistress: She regularly gets lost following the voice of the Taking Spirit, and Shiori finds herself having to rescue her. The events of the third day are set off by her vanishing and the whole village organizing to look for her.
193	[[/folder]]
194
195	[[folder:Mr. Yokohata]]
196	-->Don't tell me... you're the one who's been dragging Ayuko around, huh!?
197
198	Ayuko's father who's recently returned with his daughter to the village. He's always trying to look out for her, but she always keeps vanishing. He is suspicious of Shiori for being an outsider and suspects she is trying to kidnap Ayuko.
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200	* AscendedExtra: From one of Suga's childhood bullies in the original to a paranoid single father who constantly antagonizes Shiori for being an outsider in the remake.
201	* HeelFaceTurn: He eventually realizes Shiori is trying to protect his daughter, not kidnap her, and stops treating her so harshly.
202	* InspectorJavert: He believes that, since Shiori is an outsider who is always seen with his frequently vanishing daughter, that she must be kidnapping her, and antagonizes her whenever he shows up. He refuses to believe that she could be rescuing her.
203	* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: He and his friends used to bully Suga, and while he has grown up to be a loving single father, he is so protective of his daughter that he immediately accuses the outsider Shiori, who is always rescuing her, of kidnapping her and acts very unpleasant towards her.
204	* StrugglingSingleFather: Ever since his wife left him for the man she was cheating on him with, he has tried to raise Ayuko alone, and the stresses of that, the village not exactly being all that accepting of single parenthood, and Ayuko constantly disappearing from his watch have made him paranoid.
205	* UngratefulBastard: Shiori always rescues his daughter, Ayuko, from the reach of the Taking Spirit, but because she is an outsider to the village, he thinks she is the one abducting Ayu and antagonizes her every time he sees her.
206	[[/folder]]
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208	[[folder:Tamaki]]
209	Miyako's trainee teacher. He's a very cynical man who doesn't particularly like the villagers, and picks on Miyako. In childhood, he was the ringleader of Koutaro's bullies.
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211	* AscendedExtra: From just one of Suga's childhood bullies in the original to Miyako's SadistTeacher and a recurring character in the remake.
212	* HeelFaceTurn: By the end, he has grown a little less of a cynical SadistTeacher.
213	* SadistTeacher: He was a bully as a kid, and one of his friends speculates that he has become just as cruel to his students. He is certainly not pleasant to Miyako, giving her as much of a hard time as her fellow students and outright saying if something happens to her, no one will care enough to help her.
214	[[/folder]]
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216	[[folder:The God of the Forest (spoilers)]]
217	-->Yes. Humans are selfish beings. Always breaking your “promises”. You ravage. You sin. But it’s never enough. Screaming, and always so selfish. You don’t even acknowledge your betters. You sinful humans. I will devour you.
218
219	A god-like entity of Azakawa Village. It resents humanity due to being forgotten by humans, reducing him to a small snake. The snake ran into Tsuyu Kanzaki, frightening her and asking the Stone Guardian to kill the snake. Afterwards the god cursed them both and ruined their lives.
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221	* TheBadGuyWins: In Ending 6 he succeeds in reclaiming the forest by exterminating the Taking Spirit and eating her descendant, Shiori.
222	* BigBadEnsemble: He's responsible for the curse that drove the Stone Guardian to madness and kill Tsuyu, resulting in the creation of the Taking Spirit, and kidnapped Sakuma as part of his plan to overthrow Tsuyu and force Azakawa Village back under his oppressive rule.
223	* TheCorruption: The God of the Forest's influence manifests as tempting his victims (though HearingVoices) with power and strength, at the cost of losing their sanity.
224	* DisproportionateRetribution: Tsuyu was frightened by him, so the Stone Guardian killed him to protect her. His response? Drive the Stone Guardian insane so he'll kill Tsuyu's family, driving her into despair. Even Sakuma lampshades how disproportionate it was:
225	-->''...No normal person would think a small snake would be a god!''
226	* DivineIntervention: He can speak in the minds of people, manipulating or overwriting their actions. One of the most significant things that he did is to convince the Stone Guardian to make Tsuyu's life a living hell, for the sake of revenge.
227	* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The true mastermind behind all the supernatural horror afflicting Azakawa Village is that white snake who appears for only a few minutes, briefly kidnaps Sakuma, and is promptly killed by Suga.
228	* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: The more worshipers a god has, the greater their power. But since most people in the modern era don't believe or worship him like they used to anymore, he's been reduced to a tiny snake.
229	* TheGreatSerpent: A giant white snake.
230	* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: Remember the snake that imprisoned Sakuma? He's the reason things are so bad in Azakawa Village.
231	* HistoryRepeats: Long ago he was killed by the Stone Guardian to protect his sister Tsuyu. In the present he's killed by Suga to protect Shiori. Made more fitting in that they are their descendants.
232	* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: When Tsuyu died and became the Taking Spirit, nobody dared to come to the forest again, resulting in the God of the Forest not receiving sacrifices and to be forgotten completely.
233	* ItsAllAboutMe: He doesn't seem to care how much suffering he causes by forcing the population of Azakawa Village to remember him.
234	* JerkassGods: He used to have young girls sacrificed to him and threatened to flood the village if he wasn't fed sufficiently, and is the one who told the Stone Guardian to kill Tsuyu's family just to punish them for killing his physical body, thinking he was just a snake. Everything that happens in the game is his fault, and in Ending 6 he has Shiori sacrifice herself to him.
235	* KarmaHoudini: Manipulates the Stone Guardian into doing his evil bidding and transforms Tsuyu into the Taking Spirit. But since the culprit was never revealed publicly, he got away scot-free. And in Ending 6 he reclaims the forest, which is what he wanted all along.
236	* NeverMyFault: In Ending 6, he blames Tsuyu and her brother for all the misfortune they suffered, even though he was the one who engineered it in the first place, while accusing them of being the ones PlayingTheVictimCard. He then says that Shiori, Miyako, and the villagers suffering because of Tsuyu killing their children is their fault for not worshipping him, instead of his fault for turning Tsuyu into the Taking Spirit.
237	* SatanicArchetype: His schemes give him a strong resemblance to Satan. He's a prideful {{Narcissist}} who was cast down from his exalted position because of how he treated his subjects. He then appears in the form of a snake and covertly speaks to mortals in their dreams to tempt them with power, only to subject them to hellish torment once they are under his thrall.
238	* SecretlyDying: Is on his last legs due to having no followers to pray for him, which is why he resorts to kidnap Sakuma. He finally fades away in Ending 1.
239	* SnakesAreSinister: He is a white snake god who is behind all the misery afflicting Azakawa Village.
240	* ToServeMan: Prefers young girls as {{Human Sacrifice}}s. Shiori finds it the hard way in Ending 6.

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