| 1 | Names are in Japanese order (i.e. family name first, given name second). |
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| 3 | '''WARNING:''' due to the spoilery nature of the [[VisualNovel/ScienceAdventureSeries series]], '''All Spoilers Are Unmarked!''' |
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| 5 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 7 | !The Black Knights |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [[folder:Nishijou Takumi]] |
| 10 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroyukiYoshino (JP), Creator/ToddHaberkorn (EN) |
| 11 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takumich.png]] |
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| 13 | The main protagonist, a 17 year old second-year student at Suimei Academy who barely visits school in the first place. He spends most of his time playing Empire Sweeper Online, in which he is the most famous and powerful player (known as Lightning-Fast Neidhart). |
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| 15 | * ArtificialHuman: Quite literally a (real booted) figment of someone's imagination. In this case, that of the real Nishijou Takumi. |
| 16 | * AlternateSelf: He was created by the original Nishijou Takumi to become his new self, a healthy person to assume his new identity that isn't bogged down by a crippling disease, though he's only to do this if he can destroy Noah II. Takumi shares a number of traits with Shogun as a result, such as some retained memories, his biological bond with Nanami, dislike for green peas, both liking to draw often as well as play video games (evidenced by Shogun has a game console in his hospital room), etc. |
| 17 | * AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Willingly goes through and hell and back at the climax of the game for the sake of rescuing Rimi from harm, just because he's fallen in love with her that strongly. |
| 18 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He willingly gives up eternal peace with Norose's [[LotusEaterMachine Noah II]] for the sake of Rimi's safety and rescue, because she was the one to pull him out of his escapism tendencies and tried to help him in a situation where everyone wanted to harm and exploit him in order to use him for their own gain. |
| 19 | * BigBrotherInstinct: While he often finds her annoying and doesn't want her around, when push comes to shove and Nanami is in danger, he rushes off to her aid despite how terrified he is and fights his fear to help her, showing how much he really does care for her. |
| 20 | * CantStandThemCantLiveWithoutThem: His attitude towards "3-D" girls. |
| 21 | * CatchPhrase: |
| 22 | ** "Don't look at me!" as he hates being scrutinized and looked down upon by others for his hobbies and the way he carries himself. |
| 23 | ** "Whose eyes are those eyes?" is also a phrase that Takumi often would say to himself in his mind, before it appeared in the New Gen incidents and became known to the public at large, gaining memetic status. |
| 24 | ** "But I refuse!" is also a phrase Takumi is partial to and says decently often, as he makes it clear via using it and numerous other references that he's a ''[=JoJo's=]'' fan (as it's a reference to ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable''). |
| 25 | * CharacterDevelopment: He starts the story as someone who constantly closes him off from other people and the world at large, simply because he finds it too painful and doesn't want to believe that there's still hope for himself, that he can put himself out there and better himself as a person. He does this despite how much he desperately craves a real connection, someone that will genuinely care about him despite his flaws and how ugly he believes himself to be. But through his interactions with Rimi, who tries to pull him out of his shell despite his worsening situation, he grows to care for her and learn the happiness in opening yourself up to someone and forming a connection in the real world. He eventually overcomes his fear and paranoia, and fights to save one of the only people who ever gave a damn about him, despite how much pain it brings him. He's still weak hearted and scared, but he finally learns to live in reality. |
| 26 | * ChickMagnet: Subverted. He only runs into so many girls during the story because of NOZOMI's focus on shocking him into awakening as a Gigalomaniac. This leads him to cross paths with fellow victims of their experiments who were gathered at the same school, and most of the girls aren't romantically interested in him. |
| 27 | * ColdBloodedTorture: His battle against NOZOMI results in him nearly being impaled to death by stakes when fighting Suwa, be heavily bludgeoned and have his arm crushed by Seira delusions, nearly have his heart impaled by Norose, and then he's barraged by multiple delusion attacks from Norose to mentally break him into submission so he can obtain his CODE sample. This includes nearly being made to rape Rimi, being forced to endure Pole impalement torture for 3 days straight, and being cut in half and left to bleed out to death. Yikes. |
| 28 | * ClassicalAntiHero: He has intense social anxiety, isn't very brave, doesn't want to get involved in anything remotely dangerous, is frequently unpleasant, abrasive, and rather judgmental. He's very intelligent, but prefers to spend all his time on meaningless hobbies. Nevertheless, against all odds, he ends up becoming the hero that Shibuya needs above all else. |
| 29 | * ClonesArePeopleToo: While he was custom-made by Shogun to serve as his own ReplacementGoldfish, he's a rather different person and ultimately comes to accept that everything he experienced was real, and that he is a real person as well. |
| 30 | * DespairEventHorizon: After being constantly tormented for the entire game with NOZOMI constantly leading him to believe they'll kill him, forced to follow Shogun's orders to protect a hostage Nanami whose arm was cut off, and then being told that he's actually a fake human that's a clone of another, he tries to kill himself both by either running into moving cars and nearly strangling himself/slitting his wrist (depending on the delusion choice). He then heads to the Shibuya Scramble Crossing to be lynched by the GE Rate riled up crowd. |
| 31 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: After all of the suffering and torment he and the other girls suffered, Takumi and the others manage to save the world and survive, and can begin the road to healing from their trauma and lead normal lives again. Takumi and Rimi profess their love together and presumably begin dating afterwards. |
| 32 | * EveryoneHasStandards: He absolutely refuses to see his sister Nanami as [[LittleSisterHeroine anything resembling romantic]] and becomes disgusted with himself and snaps back to lucidity ''fast'' whenever his delusions start acting in that direction. |
| 33 | * FakeMemories: Specifically, his life from the age of maybe 12 or so until starting high school. More specifically, up until 12, his remembered life was identical to his creator and template, Shogun, but most of what happened after was crafted by Shogun to help prep his delusive powers. |
| 34 | * FlawedPrototype: He is Shogun's clone, a reclusive {{Otaku}} who does not want to concern himself with saving the world in the slightest. However, Shogun intentionally designed him to be that way in order to make him better at envisioning and real booting his delusions, as well as being a person with a type of personality that is more likely to awaken as a Gigalo. |
| 35 | * GeekPhysique: Takumi is very scrawny and skinny, he's very much out of shape, as noted during the several times he has to run away from murder scenes or being chased by police in the story, where he's constantly out of breath and exhausted as a result. |
| 36 | * TheGift: He was intentionally created by Shogun to be a Gigalomaniac, a human with the power to make his delusions into reality via the use of a DI-sword that sends antiparticles into other people's deadspots to create a shared reality between them. He inherits all of Shogun's delusional abilities as a result once he awakens, becoming one of the most powerful Gigalomaniacs among the cast. His unique imagination as an Otaku is also what allows him to bypass [[NoSelfBuffs the no healing rule]] that every other Gigalo can't overcome due to their own human instincts, which is what allows him to truly defeat Norose and save the world. A gifted Hikikomori indeed. |
| 37 | * GodlikeGamer: Takumi is this with ESO, dumping nearly all of his year and a half life into ESO alone and becoming the best player in the game as a result. |
| 38 | * GoodIsNotSoft: While he is fairly abrasive (when he has the courage to express his feelings) and decently selfish, he's still a kind person at heart. However, once he finally gets his act together and decides to battle NOZOMI to save the people he loves and to get them to stop antagonizing them, he does not hold back in the slightest. He turns around a delusion Suwa created to impale him with stakes back on him, leading to Suwa being impaled by the same weapons and dying as a result, and he ends up sending Norose flying into Noah II, killing him in the resulting explosion. |
| 39 | * HeroicBSOD: He has two during the course of the story. The first is after chapter 6, when he thinks his sister is dead. The second is after the revelation that he's an ArtificialHuman. |
| 40 | * HeroProtagonist: He's the main protagonist and though he very much doesn't seem like it at first, he ends up coming into his own and becomes the unexpected hero the world needed to stop Noah II by the end. |
| 41 | * {{Hikikomori}}: Takumi spends most of his time in his own house (a tiny container on a roof). He does go to school once in a while, but he has managed to invent a chart which allows him to graduate with minimal attendance if he simply keeps following its schedule. |
| 42 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: He calls nearly everyone knows except for Misumi, Ban and Hatano by their first names with no honorifics despite barely knowing most of them for longer than a month. His social anxiety and desire to be left alone leads to him brushing off people without trying to be mean often as well. |
| 43 | * InSeriesNickname: Has three of them: Takkii, Taku and Takumi-shan. They are used respectively by Seira, Rimi/Misumi and Kozue. |
| 44 | * {{Irony}}: Despite being probably the weakest willed and most easily frightened member of the cast, he's the only one that's able to overcome his issues unlike the other Gigalomaniacs, and as a result rise to the occasion to stop Noah II from plunging the world into endless bliss. |
| 45 | * ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: Takumi was chosen (or rather, created) by Shogun to become an awakened Gigalomaniac that will save the world from Noah II. The downside is that this results in him living out a fake existence as a clone of someone else, who is persecuted for 2 months straight by NOZOMI and Shogun, both of which are trying to mentally torment him into awakening. This also results in over 10 innocent people murdered, his sister being kidnapped as well as her arm being chopped off, the entire city leveled by a massive earthquake that kills thousands, the only girl besides Nanami that he loved and who also reciprocated his feelings gets kidnapped, and Takumi himself nearly gets mentally destroyed beyond repair in a climactic battle with Norose for all his troubles. [[EarnYourHappyEnding At least he gets to live happily after surviving that nightmare of a situation.]] |
| 46 | * {{Jerkass}}: He's selfish, rude, and has a lot of entitlement issues. He grows out of this by the end though. |
| 47 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Similar to the two above tropes, despite his abrasiveness and other flaws, deep down he does care for the people close to him and truly doesn't want to harm anyone. It takes his mind breaking situation and an literal earthquake to pull him out of his flaws enough for him to put a stop to the conspiracy plaguing Shibuya. |
| 48 | * LoopholeAbuse: Takumi discovers that by embracing his unique existence as a delusionary human and dulling his sense of pain, he can remake his body into one that can regenerate, essentially bypassing the [[NoSelfBuffs no healing]] rule that Gigalos normally can't overcome, which is what lets him become practically invincible and able to defeat Norose. |
| 49 | * LoveEpiphany: When Shogun reveals to him the truth of the New Gen murders and NOZOMI conspiracy, and everything Rimi did to help him survive the situation, he realizes how much he cares for her and that he truly loves her, which he feels strongly enough about that he's able to awaken and obtain his DI-sword then and there. |
| 50 | * MeaningfulName: The kanji characters for his name can translate to "Lightning-Fast Neidhardt blossoming the snake." Neidhardt is obvious, blossoming refers to how his DI-sword and personality (as revealed in the [=NoAH=] version of the game) is named/represents a Water Lily Stem as he opens up to people (blossoming) and moves forward after resolving himself (the stem). The Snake alludes to the serpent he creates with his delusions to smite and destroy Noah II at the end of the game. Said Snake also represents Takumi repeating the original sin from the story of Adam and Eve, as Adam rejected paradise for the sake of the woman he loved because of the temptations of a Snake, so does Taku in destroying Noah II with the power of a Snake that represents his deepest desires, all for the sake of Rimi. |
| 51 | ** Neidhardt was confirmed by the writer, Naotaka Hayashi, to have a double meaning of "Knight of the Heart", which represents that while Takumi is a slave to his desires, that same heart is also what gets him to finally man up in the climax of save the world when no one else had the power to do so. |
| 52 | * MessianicArchetype: Takumi is praised as a messiah after he uses his Gigalo powers to out Hazuki as the New Gen culprit (which in the eyes of the publc, appeared to be a "miracle" as he literally broadcasted her memories onto the electronic screens in the Shibuya Scramble Crossing), and people begin worshipping him. Though this is shortlived as he soon calls them out on their hypocrisy for making him a pariah not long prior to this. Takumi does end up being the one to save the world and humanity from Noah II though, and nearly dies to achieve this goal in the process. For bonus points, his creator was a Godlike near omnipotent being who created him to suffer and save the world, and who he is also one in the same as in body and mind, much like Jesus and God in the holy trinity. Takumi was also born of a "virgin" and through unconventional means, much like Jesus as well. |
| 53 | ** Lastly, Takumi suffered for 3 days straight in a delusion (through Norose's impalement torture), and also dies at the end of said delusion, but after that delusion, he essentially becomes an invincible god through his power and saves the world, and then reaches "heaven" (reaching the blue sky with Rimi). This mirrors how Jesus was crucified for 3 days straight and died, then ascending into heaven and reuniting with the holy trinity, becoming God once more. |
| 54 | * MrImagination: Deconstructed. His detachment from reality goes up to the point where he could be diagnosed with schizophrenia. But this works to his immense benefit once he finally awakens as Gigalomaniac. |
| 55 | * MyGreatestFailure: Takumi considers failing to save Nanami at O-Front to be this. He's misled into believing briefly that she's alright but then realizes that she was tortured and had her arm chopped off because of what happened, and he blames himself for her getting involved in this because he wasn't strong enough to help her. |
| 56 | * MyGreatestSecondChance: When he's offered a chance to save Rimi after failing to save Nanami a couple of weeks prior, Takumi steps up and takes it, fighting tooth and nail to save the girl he loves, and succeeding this time around. |
| 57 | * NerdsAreVirgins: Grimm constantly pokes fun at him for this, as Takumi does want to get laid but has accepted he'll never find a girlfriend. He does end up falling in love with and dating Rimi at the end of the game though, so perhaps there's hope for him yet. |
| 58 | * NoSocialSkills: As if his shut in tendencies, horniness and social anxiety didn't make it clear, he barely can hold a conversation when the topic is about anything he isn't knowledgeable or interested in, or when around people he's not comfortable with, he completely fails at being social. |
| 59 | * OfficialCouple: At the end of the game, Takumi and Rimi finally express their love for one another, and presumably begin to date afterwards during the reconstruction of Shibuya. |
| 60 | * {{Otaku}}: Takumi, having no interest in real-life world, spends a lot of his time immersed in games, anime and manga. He also possesses a collection of figurines. |
| 61 | * PornStash: Has a huge folder of eroge art on his computer, though it gets erased once his computer hard disk is reset after the second big Shibuya quake in the middle of the story. He's greatly saddened by his loss. |
| 62 | * ProperlyParanoid: He ends up being this multiple times. Yua really did have ulterior motives in getting close to him, Rimi actually did brainwash most of his class into thinking she was a classmate all along and had alterior motives for getting close to him (though they were in his best interests), and Shogun truly was trying to shock him into awakening as a Gigalo. |
| 63 | * ProudToBeAGeek: Subverted, Takumi makes an effort not to talk about his anime/otaku interests around most people as he knows they will likely shame him for it. He gets very chatty and excited when around people that won't shame him for it though, like Yua and Rimi. |
| 64 | * RefusalOfTheCall: Takumi spends the entire game running away from the New Gen incidents in order to avoid being caught up by them and potentially targeted by the perpetrators. However, the very reason the New Gen incidents are happening in the first place and center around Takumi specifically is solely because multiple people are trying to use them to frighten and scare Takumi into awakening as a Gigalomaniac and obtaining his DI-sword so he can settle things with NOZOMI, for better or worse. |
| 65 | * ShrinkingViolet: Takumi goes out of his way to avoid contact with other people as much as humanly possible. He actively tries to make himself not stand out at school and "become like the air" so [=DQNs=] and the like won't bother him. He has severe social anxiety which makes it hard for him to hold any type of conversation, and tries to convince himself into thinking 3D girls are disgusting so he's less inclined to interact with them. |
| 66 | * SignatureLaugh: ''"Fuhihihi"''. |
| 67 | * SplitPersonality: Subverted. Takumi starts to think he had one that was responsible for the New Gen killings. He was wrong, but there is another version of him in a different body. |
| 68 | * SuperLoser: He's a rude, selfish shut-in with the power to make delusions real. Near the end he even embraces it and sneers at the adulation of the crowd after catching the killer. In his eyes, he's a loser through-and-through no matter how they want to look at him. |
| 69 | * TakingTheBullet: In the [=NoAH=] version of ''Chaos;Head'', he does this for Sena believing that he's invincible because of a cheat code he was told that would be activated. It doesn't work. |
| 70 | * ThisLoserIsYou: He is an [[{{Hikkikomori}} unbelievably reclusive]] and paranoid Otaku who hates people, preferring the company of fictional, 2-D girls, and has some embarrassing delusions. He gets better as the story progresses. |
| 71 | * ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: He is a self-described disgusting, delusional, {{otaku}}, {{hikikomori}} who is approached by [[HaremGenre several beautiful girls]] all with a mysterious connection to a series of murders going on in Shibuya. This makes it extremely hard to tell where the events of the series lie on the line between paranoid hallucination and supernatural strangeness -- if there is in fact any separation between the two at all. |
| 72 | * TomatoInTheMirror: He's really a delusional existence created by Shogun, the real Nishijou Takumi. |
| 73 | * TookALevelInBadass: He does by the end. After being a wimpy, paranoid {{Hikikomori}} for almost the whole story, and gradually coming out of his shell, he summons his DI-sword, saves the other girls from the earthquake and Suwa, and confronts [[BigBad Norose Genichi]] in a battle of minds and will, destroying his global LotusEaterMachine in the process. |
| 74 | * TrademarkFavoriteDrink: He's almost always downing Coca-Cola whenever he can. |
| 75 | * UltimateGamer386: Takumi in a nutshell, having maxed out his level ages ago and known as a paragon of justice among ESO's playerbase. He even makes enough money in game that he can make a decent living off of RMT (Real Money Trading). |
| 76 | * UnreliableNarrator: Some of what happens is altered by his or other peoples delusions, so he ends up seeing things that are not there. For instance, Rimi killing someone, the very first thing he sees of her, did not actually happen. |
| 77 | * WeirdnessMagnet: He seems to draw all of these weird girls to him as well as the murders centering around him. This is because he's [[TheChosenOne been chosen by Shogun and Norose]] as they need him for differing reasons to achieve both of their own goals. |
| 78 | * WrongGenreSavvy: Sometimes he thinks of himself as a character in an RPG and acts accordingly, when he is actually the main character of a {{Horror Visual Novel|s}}. |
| 79 | [[/folder]] |
| 80 | |
| 81 | [[folder:The Demon Girl / Sakihata Rimi]] |
| 82 | !Sakihata Rimi |
| 83 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EriKitamura (JP), Creator/CarrieSavage (EN) |
| 84 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rimich.png]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | A second-year student in Takumi's class, who claims to be Takumi's friend. She is a person who gives Takumi [[LivingEmotionalCrutch emotional support]] during the terrifying events he becomes wrapped up in, despite the fact that he doesn't remember befriending her. |
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| 88 | * AccidentalMurder: In ''Chaos;Head [=NoAH=]'' she accidentally kills Sena during her character route because Kozue attacked her before she could undo the delusion she'd placed on Sena. |
| 89 | * AffectionateNickname: She always calls Takumi "Taku." This is to differentiate between the two people she knows who call themselves "Takumi." |
| 90 | * CatchPhrase: "Bishi!/Snap!" Which she uses as a sort of sound effect for her classic salute poses. |
| 91 | * ColdBloodedTorture: In ''Chaos;Head [=NoAH=]'', it's revealed that for an entire year, Rimi was sliced, starved, waterboarded, as well as many other unseen forms of torture by Norose in order to make her awaken as a Gigalomaniac, to the point where she created multiple personalities for herself to escape the suffering. |
| 92 | * CooldownHug: Rimi delivers one to Takumi when he starts having a breakdown on a middle of a road. |
| 93 | * TheConfidant: She becomes the only person Takumi can go to for confiding in about his fears regarding New Gen. While she plays dumb to knowing about the truth, she still comforts him and provides emotional support to soothe him during this incredibly difficult time in his life. |
| 94 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Pink hair and pink eyes. |
| 95 | * DamselInDistress: Zig-zagged. She starts off seeming to be Takumi's enemy, before become his greatest ally and protector for a majority of the plot, before she gives herself up to keep him safe and ends up being rescued by him from Norose's clutches at the end of the game. |
| 96 | * DeathOfPersonality: The crux of her entire backstory. [=NoAH=] reveals that at a young age, Rimi lost her parents in a car accident, which orphaned her and eventually landed her in the custody of NOZOMI, who proceeded to begin torturing her to awaken her as a Gigalomaniac. The many years of inhumane torture were too much for her to handle, to the point that she began killing her heart (as in, mindwiping herself of her memories) in order to endure the pain, creating a new personality of herself every time. She's more or less a personality born of a delusion just like Takumi. |
| 97 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: She's the most fleshed out girl in the common route and actually gets first person perspective in her ''Chaos;Head [=NoAH=]'' route which no other girl does. (Science Adventure typically allows the Deuteragonist to have this privilege for most of the mainline entries, whereas the other girls of their respective casts never get the privilege of.) |
| 98 | * FirstGirlWins: As the first girl to appear in the plot, she is the one who ends up getting together with Takumi romantically in the end. |
| 99 | * GenkiGirl: Subverted heavily. Though she tries hard to put on this persona, it's really just a ruse to hide her trauma and terrible past to prevent the people she cares about from worrying about her as she tries to help them. It's also her way of coping with her sorrow. |
| 100 | * GoodAllAlong: Though initially seem as a wicked “demon girl”, she reveals herself as a kind soul looking out for someone she loves. Also, she never perpetrated the New Gen murders. |
| 101 | * HairAntennae |
| 102 | * HairIntakes: Her hairdo has two "cat ears". |
| 103 | * TheHeroine: Played mostly straight. She actively goes out of her way to try and undermine NOZOMI and Shogun's efforts to mentally torment Takumi, and actively helps him, to the point where she actually defends Takumi from certain death when Sena tries to kill him, and manages to fend her off, saving his life. |
| 104 | * IWorkAlone: She tries to take everything onto herself, including saving Nanami from Norose, prolonging Shogun's life and keeping Taku out of danger. She hides so many secrets from Takumi to do this, trying to keep him safe, but in the end it backfires on her when she gets captured trying to stop Norose instead, and Takumi has to rescue her. |
| 105 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She fights so hard to keep both Shogun and Takumi safe throughout the course of the game. |
| 106 | ** Shogun she wants to keep alive for as long as humanly possible as use of his delusions, as well as Takumi's use of delusions and real booting drain his life further, leading to his inevitable death. |
| 107 | ** She wants Takumi not to be antagonized and tormented by New Gen, as she sees a lot of herself in him, and she wants him to be happy and safe from the unfair dangers that he's being forced to face. |
| 108 | * InsistentAppellation: She refers to Shogun as "Takumi" and the delusion copy as "Taku." |
| 109 | * LastKiss: Played straight in the common and bad endings, where she kills Takumi so Shogun can live for a little bit longer. Subverted in the true ending, where she can't go through with it and spares him, saying she wants him to live and to spend more time with him. |
| 110 | * LegFocus: Takumi's delusions often love to make note of Rimi's legs and thighs and how alluring they are to him, even if she's not aware of their appeal herself. |
| 111 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: She becomes this for Taku, being the only person that's able to comfort him as NOZOMI and Shogun try their hardest to mentally break him. Eventually he grows so attached to her that he ends up rescuing her when she can't be there for him anymore due to sacrificing herself to keep him safe. |
| 112 | * OfficialCouple: At the end of the game, Takumi and Rimi finally express their love for one another, and presumably begin to date afterwards during the reconstruction of Shibuya. |
| 113 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Rimi gets serious and sad, you know that things are bad. Subverted in that, this is her actual personality that she tries to hide with her GenkiGirl attitude, to make Taku think everything is okay and to distract him from the New Gen situation that she knows the truth of. |
| 114 | * RescueRomance: She presumably starts a relationship with Takumi after he literally blows up a god machine for her and rescues her from Norose's clutches, despite all of the suffering he had to go through to achieve this. |
| 115 | * RoseHairedSweetie: Rimi fits this trope surprisingly well, despite initially appearing to be a cold-blooded killer. Aside from having the hair color, she also shows signs from all of the three personality traits (cheery, strong and sweet) that characters of this trope possess. She also gets bonus points for having a blue-haired love interest, Takumi. |
| 116 | * ShipTease: Many people notice her and Takumi spending a lot of time together and being really nice to each other, to the point that people like Misumi start asking when they'll get busy together. |
| 117 | * StepfordSmiler: She's genuinely very cheerful and tries to play the role of resident Genki Girl, but it's all to hide the trauma she's endured and to keep Takumi from discovering the AwfulTruth about his existence and role in NOZOMI's conspiracy. |
| 118 | * ThrowTheDogABone: She's rescued from certain death by Takumi, and a literal God Machine is destroyed all for her sake. She may have lost the man who saved her life (Shogun), but Takumi and her finally get to live happily ever after together after all the hardship, without NOZOMI hanging over both of their heads. |
| 119 | * UndyingLoyalty: She fights so hard for the sake of both Takus. For Shogun she does all she can to extend his life by stopping Takumi from awakening as a Gigalomaniac, and for Takumi she does all she can to protect him from Shogun and NOZOMI trying to target him and scare him into awakening for the sake of his state of mind as well as to keep him safe and happy. |
| 120 | * WalkingSpoiler: The only thing known about her at the beginning is that she is a mysterious “demon girl” who was at the scene of the third New Gen murder and appears to be the New Gen perpetrator. The revelations of who she really is coincide with the truth of the New Gen killings. |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
| 122 | |
| 123 | [[folder:Nishijou Nanami]] |
| 124 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Ui Miyazaki (JP), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (EN) |
| 125 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nanamich.png]] |
| 126 | |
| 127 | Takumi's younger sister and a first-year student in Suimei Academy. Because Takumi lives on his own, she makes occasional visits to his container house to check how he's doing. |
| 128 | ---- |
| 129 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Despite the fact that Nanami's visits to her brother's apartment and her occasional attempts to make him go outside (which sometimes work) are out of her concern about her brother's well-being, he firmly believes this to be the case. |
| 130 | * FingerInTheMail: Happens when she gets kidnapped. Although instead of a finger, it's her whole hand. |
| 131 | * LittleSisterHeroine: Several 'Delusion' events play up this angle, such as the indirect kiss scene. |
| 132 | * ProperTightsWithASkirt: Marks her as more clean and responsible compared to her slob of a sibling. |
| 133 | * {{Tsundere}}: She often mocks her brother for being a sloppy [[{{Hikikomori}} recluse]], but shows herself to truly love him when she gets captured, as she calls his name and wants to see him again. |
| 134 | [[/folder]] |
| 135 | |
| 136 | [[folder:Kusunoki Yua]] |
| 137 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiakiTakahashi (JP), Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard (EN) |
| 138 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yuach.png]] |
| 139 | |
| 140 | A third-year student at Suimei Academy, who, after a warm introduction, is revealed to be following Takumi around. She's investigating New-Gen murders on her own for personal reasons. |
| 141 | ---- |
| 142 | * AngstySurvivingTwin: |
| 143 | ** Her twin sister [[ThemeTwinNaming Mia]] died in the "Group Dive," the ''first'' First Gen incident. Yua then launches her own investigation into Mia's death. She suspects Takumi is involved in the First Gen murders and pretends to befriend him under the ruse of being a [[GamerChick girl otaku]]. When Takumi finds out her true intentions, she [[NotHerself doesn't take it well]]. |
| 144 | ** ''Chaos;Head [=NoAH=]'' reveals that she is actually Mia, and Yua died in her stead after volunteering to go to a group offline meet up to make a good first impression on her behalf. That, coupled with years of neglect from their parents as Mia, her parents forgetting about "Mia" who was believed to be dead, and Mia blaming herself for Yua's death, caused her to believe she was Yua and develop a split personality. It also gave her enough mental trauma that seeing a delusion of her dead sister claiming that she took on a false persona is enough to push her past the mental brink to obtain a DI-sword and awaken as a Gigalomaniac. Angsty is correct. |
| 145 | * BespectacledCutie: Invoked, as she uses her cute, shy glasses-girl persona to get closer to Takumi for the sake of extracting information from him. |
| 146 | * ClosetGeek: Whilst appearing to be a normal honor student, she keeps up with the latest anime and starts to buy the collectible figures, whilst maintaining her flawless image. However, her geek side turns out to actually not be a ploy to earn Takumi's trust, as her route in [=NoAH=], the intermissions we get to see her room showing her many manga volumes, and her saying that she wants to go shopping with Takumi again after he forgives her in the final chapter make it clear she does actually like anime. |
| 147 | * CuteClumsyGirl: In the anime, she frequently gets into accidents involving Takumi, though only when acting as a cute girl. When she drops the act, it goes away. |
| 148 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Serious-mode Yua has a habit of emphasizing sentences by repeating them several times in a row with slightly different phrasings. |
| 149 | * IdenticalTwinIDTag: She wears glasses while her twin sister Mia did not. In her route, she also tells Takumi that Mia had a brown spot on her under her breasts that she doesn't have and pulls up her shirt to show him, only to reveal the spot that gives her away as Mia. |
| 150 | * InspectorJavert: Becomes convinced that Takumi is behind the New-Gen murders due to his supposed split-personality. |
| 151 | * PsychologicalProjection: She continuously push the idea that Takumi has some kind of split personality when in actuality she is the one with one and is refusing to accept it. |
| 152 | * StalkerWithoutACrush: Yua initially tries to deceive Takumi into believing this is the reason she was stalking him at the beginning of the game, wanting to get to know him better and befriend him. It's revealed at the end of Chapter 1 however, that she approached Takumi with the intent of investigating him to discover if he was truly the New Gen culprit or not. |
| 153 | * StalkerWithACrush: Following off the above trope however, it's revealed through later scenes with Yua on that that wasn't a complete lie, and she was really concerned about him and wanted to help him however she could. But her grief and feelings towards her sister took priority in why she approached him. She does apologize for this at the end of the game, Takumi forgives her, and the two agree to go and pick up that figurine that Yua ordered at the beginning of the game when their current predicament is over. |
| 154 | * TwinSwitch: Yua states in her route that she and Mia would occasionally switch places to get each other out of having to attend things that they didn't want to go to. The two had switched places on the night of the Group Dive murder, and Mia's intense guilt over unwittingly sending her sister to die in her place caused her to have a breakdown and start living as Yua. |
| 155 | * TwinThemeNaming: ''Yu''a and ''Mi''a, "you and me." Also foreshadows that the reveal that Yua was actually the one who died in the Group Dive murder, and Mia has been living as her. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:Aoi Sena]] |
| 159 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HitomiNabatame (JP), Creator/ClarineHarp (EN) |
| 160 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/senach.png]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | A third-year student at Suimei Academy, who seems to [[PerpetualFrowner frown perpetually]]. She's often seen walking around Shibya with a huge sword, although [[InvisibleToNormals people aren't really bothered by it]]. |
| 163 | ---- |
| 164 | * AccidentalMurder: Accidentally kills her father in the Crying Sky ending. |
| 165 | * ActionGirl: Like the other Gigalomaniacs, but she is the most ready to pull out her DI-sword and fight. |
| 166 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Downplayed. Her hair is darker in the anime. |
| 167 | * BerserkButton: Do NOT mention her father in front of her, or you will regret it. |
| 168 | * CatchPhrase: "Is the scenery your eyes perceive the real thing?" She usually uses this phrase to gauge whether or not the other party is a threat, as she notes to herself in ''Chaos;Gate'' (the short story crossover where she meets Okabe from ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate''.) |
| 169 | * {{Chickification}}: Sena is presented as a very knowledgeable Gigalomaniac who escaped from a research facility as a child and can easily defeats NOZUMI porters on her own, but her efficiency decays in the last chapters and she suffers from TheWorfEffect when confronting Rimi or Suwa. She also dies in most of the character routes. |
| 170 | * DisappearedDad: Her father disappeared 6 months prior to the beginning of the game after her mother and sister died. |
| 171 | * {{Dominatrix}}: Takumi views her as one due to how scary and unfriendly she is. One of the questions that triggers Sena's route is admitting that he likes "being stepped on", and one of the first scenes of said route involves her dragging him to the NOZOMI corp. building by putting a giant chain on his neck. This being up being averted, as her coldness toward others is part of her family issues and DarkAndTroubledPast. |
| 172 | * IWillFindYou: The entire reason she's come to Shibuya is to find her missing father who was responsible for the deaths of the rest of her family, and extract revenge upon him for what he did. |
| 173 | * MsExposition: Due to being the most knowledgeable on the science behind Gigalomaniacs (presumably because she read the minds of NOZOMI researchers during the few months she was at Ark Heart Medical after her mother's deaths as she awakened to her powers), she often does Uchikoshi-style exposition dumps to explain to Takumi how Gigalomaniacs exactly work. |
| 174 | * NomDeMom: She uses her mother's maiden name. This is because she refuses to treat her father as her parent after his actions resulted in killing half of her family, and she refuses to associate with him. |
| 175 | * PerpetualFrowner: She does smile when embarrassed, but otherwise keeps a cold front as part of her general stoic-ness and focus on her mission. |
| 176 | * RavenHairIvorySkin: Her design which makes her pretty attractive. |
| 177 | * RevengeBeforeReason: Despite the fact that she knows Noah II is near completion and is a far bigger threat that she should be taking care of, she continues to desperately search for her father so she can kill him for revenge instead, as that goal is far more personal to her and is a higher priority to her as a result. |
| 178 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: More heavily emphasized in her [=NoAH=] route where she gets into an embarrassing situation with Takumi and is easily flustered. In general however, she tends to constantly maintain a stoic front to hide her true feelings about how fragile she is after witnessing half of her family's traumatic murders, as well as running from her emotions with a wall of logic about how the world is run by electrical impulses and devices instead. She even has a ShoutOut to Literature/{{Sha|kuganNoShana}}na. |
| 179 | * SupportingLeader: She has a personal tie with the NOZOMI organization, so she ends up being a major mover of the plot. She always tries to target and take down any porters she can find doing indiscriminate mind control experiments on the residents of Shibuya, shaking them down or leads on finding her missing father. |
| 180 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Her popsicle named Crunchy-kun. It is revealed that she loves them so much in part because she wants to be the lucky winner of a prize shown on some sticks; the winner earns a free second popsicle. |
| 181 | [[/folder]] |
| 182 | |
| 183 | [[folder:FES / Kishimoto Ayase]] |
| 184 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuiSakakibara (JP), Creator/StephanieSheh (EN) |
| 185 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ayasech.png]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | A third-year student at Suimei Academy. She plays in a band called "Phantasm" with a stage name "FES", whose songs lyrics appear to describe the events of recent murders. |
| 188 | ---- |
| 189 | * {{Bookworm}}: She constantly talks about the Gladioul Saga, a high fantasy epic that predicts the current events of the seven Gigalomaniacs in Shibuya. |
| 190 | %%* BoyishShortHair |
| 191 | * BungledSuicide: She tries to jump from the schoolroof of Suimei Academy in Chapter 6, and is only saved because Shogun real boots a flowerbed just in time to catch her fall and save her life. Following this, she is drawn to Takumi even further than before, believing him to be the one who saved her life. |
| 192 | * ColdBloodedTorture: A form of Chinese water torture was done to her in her backstory. |
| 193 | * DrivenToSuicide: She tries to jump from the schoolroof of Suimei Academy, because she's so overcome with despair at being able to gather the Black Knights, and her now believing that Gladioul's imminent awakening is something she cannot stop anymore. Thankfully she's rescued before that can fatally injure her, and manages to play her role in stopping the activation of Noah II (Gladioul in her words) before it can come to pass. |
| 194 | * EmotionlessGirl: As a result of her torture and mental institute confinement, as well as her warped perception of the world, she has an incredibly hard time expressing feelings towards other people, and mostly maintains a stoic demeanor like Sena does. |
| 195 | * InterruptedSuicide: Shogun uses his delusionary powers to create a flowerbed which breaks her fall after she attempts suicide by jumping off the roof of the school, after reading Takumi's thoughts of desiring a flowerbed to be there to save her life. |
| 196 | * MysticalWhiteHair: A hint of her being the most spiritual and eccentric character in the setting. |
| 197 | %%* ProperTightsWithASkirt |
| 198 | * ReiAyanamiExpy: MysteriousWaif, EmotionlessGirl with DarkAndTroubledPast, is one of the haremettes for the male hero, eventually hospitalized, and is even part of the current page image. |
| 199 | * TheStoic: She has a stoic expression on her face which rarely changes. |
| 200 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: She's distant, quiet and serious around most people. She does seem to have an interest in Takumi and shows more emotion when she is with him. |
| 201 | * SweetTooth: Ayase's route reveals that is rather fond of chocolate. |
| 202 | * WhenSheSmiles: She always bears an air of sadness and distance about her wherever she goes as the result of her trauma. However, at the end of the game, when Takumi finds her and rescues her after having awakened as a Gigalomaniac, she smiles, grateful that he listened to her song and is working to help fight against Gladioul like she wanted all along. |
| 203 | [[/folder]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | [[folder:Orihara Kozue]] |
| 206 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyumiTsuji (JP), Creator/KaraEdwards (EN) |
| 207 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kozuech.png]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | A second-year transfer student that transfers into Takumi's class. She appears as a very quiet and sensitive girl to strangers, but to people who know her, she's a very happy and a bit childish girl. |
| 210 | ---- |
| 211 | * AccidentalMurder: She accidently kills Sena after losing control of her DI-Sword her route in ''[=NoaH=]''. |
| 212 | * BeautifulTears: She often cries and tears up a lot whenever she interacts with people, because of how uncomfortable she is around others due to her trauma. However, people seem to find that cute about her and feel bad for her as a result. |
| 213 | * BerserkButton: Do not try to harm her or bring up mirrors around here. She will go ballistic if you do. |
| 214 | ** She doesn't take kindly to those who make an enemy of her. The instant she decides someone's a "bad guy" she'll be tearing into them with her Di-Sword. |
| 215 | * BewareTheQuietOnes: Kozue rarely talks to anyone and can't bring herself to actually speak aloud in the slightest. If you anger her or get on her bad side, you will regret it immensely. She doesn't hold back against beating down and slaughtering those she considers to be "bad" in her eyes. |
| 216 | * BreakTheCutie: Oh boy, was she ever broken alright. In ''[=NoAH=]'' she gets a second dose of it by the Noah II-influenced students, leading her to go on a killing spree. |
| 217 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: Heavily subverted. She used to be innocent, but years of being exposed to the thoughts of people unwillingly, being gang-stalked by people using mirrors to awaken her and giving into her darker emotions have made her fairly unhinged despite her attempts to try to act normal and innocent. |
| 218 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She says some pretty odd things (like how much she wants to kill people) and has a different thought process than most people. |
| 219 | * CuteAndPsycho: For a CuteMute, she sure seems awfully indifferent to the idea of killing people (mainly {{Asshole Victim}}s), and got her sword in the first place so she ''could'' kill. |
| 220 | * CuteClumsyGirl: Initially, she comes across as this. |
| 221 | * CuteMute: At first. Then she starts telepathically sending messages to Takumi, and her personality shines from there. |
| 222 | * TheDitz: She is ''very'' clumsy and constantly trips and falls, often barreling straight into doors as well. She acts all carefree and happy go lucky like she's a small child, though it goes hand in hand with her warped mentality that was born of all her trauma at such a young age. |
| 223 | * ElectiveMute: She chooses not to talk due to her past leaving her weak-willed, but talking via Telepathy doesn't feel like normal communication to her and is much easier, so she sticks to that instead. |
| 224 | * InSeriesNickname: She calls herself ''"Kozu-pii"'' and encourages everyone to refer to her as such, rather than her formal name. |
| 225 | * NewTransferStudent: How she is introduced. She recently transferred to Shibuya thanks to NOZOMI pulling some strings after she was involved in an incident where 3 students had their arms lopped off, so she moved to escape the rumors. |
| 226 | * ShrinkingViolet: She actively tries to avoid talking to most people and usually cries when approached by people she doesn't like. The only people she properly talks to (through telepathy) are Takumi and Sena. |
| 227 | * TheQuietOne: Kozue rarely talks to anyone and can't bring herself to actually speak aloud, but in the few times she chooses to communicate with someone, she uses telepathy in order to convey her thoughts to others, which reveals her true bubbly personality and warped way of viewing the world in full. She only does this for the people she's closest to as she doesn't want people to find out about her ability after seeing how it negatively impacted her relationships in her home town growing up. |
| 228 | * ThirdPersonPerson: Not only that, but she also speaks of herself in third person by using a nickname, "Kozu-pii". |
| 229 | * TogetherInDeath : In her route in Noah she and Takumi are shot by Suwa and die from their wounds after killing him, sharing a DyingDeclarationOfLove for each other. |
| 230 | * VerbalTic: She addresses most people she knows with the honorific of "Shan" rather than "San", likely due to an accent. |
| 231 | [[/folder]] |
| 232 | |
| 233 | !Other Characters |
| 234 | |
| 235 | [[folder:Shogun]] |
| 236 | !The Real Nishijou Takumi |
| 237 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TsubasaYonaga (JP), Creator/VicMignogna (EN) |
| 238 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shogunch.png]] |
| 239 | |
| 240 | A mysterious figure who occasionally interacts with Takumi. He is shown to be an old man in a wheelchair. Eventually reveals himself as the real Takumi, who created the protagonist as a clone of himself to save the world from the Noah II. |
| 241 | ---- |
| 242 | * TheAtoner: Him creating Takumi and trying to force him to awaken is all in the goal of destroying Noah II to atone for all of the suffering it caused many people due to him accidentally creating the method that gave birth to it. |
| 243 | * BigBad: Subverted. Though Takumi initially believes him to be the mastermind of the New Gen murders, he is actually trying to stop them. |
| 244 | * BigGood: While he isn't a leader of an organization, he's still the primary force that opposes NOZOMI. |
| 245 | * TheChessmaster: Uses his delusional powers, quietly bringing together the Black Knights, and his understanding of how people think to turn his clone into an even better Gigalomaniac than himself to save the world. |
| 246 | * EvilOldFolks: Subverted, as he is not actually the one behind the New Gen killings, and in fact his scheme was entirely bent to stopping them. He also is actually 17 years old. |
| 247 | * TheExtremistWasRight: While giving his Delusional clone some nasty social anxiety and paranoid delusions was a cruel thing to do, he turned out to be right in that it was the only way that Takumi could have overcome the RapidAging problem he had, and the normal BlessedWithSuck aspects of Gigalomania. Plus, given how TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening is ''required' for Gigalomania, he really didn't have a choice except to make Delusional Takumi miserable. |
| 248 | * GoodAllAlong: After spending most of the story looking like the BigBad, he reveals himself as the BigGood who was training Takumi to take on the true villains, Norose and NOZOMI. |
| 249 | * GoOutWithASmile: In the Blue Sky or AA ending, he dies smiling, after having achieved his goal of atoning for Noah II by having Takumi destroy it, while holding Nanami's restored hand. |
| 250 | * LukeIAmYourFather: Thanks to his powers, he is a TrulySingleParent of the playable Takumi, having used his Gigalomaniac powers to create a young, healthy clone of himself he genuinely cares about. |
| 251 | * MyGreatestFailure: His creation of [=Ir2=] led to the Noah II experiments that caused all of the seven Gigalos in Shibuya to be tortured/tormented in order to obtain their powers, as well as basically having the world on the brink of being brainwashed into bliss for eternity. He laments this and is trying to prepare his delusional creation Takumi, to save the world and atone for his mistake. |
| 252 | * NotMeThisTime: Late in the story, he reveals that he didn't mastermind the kidnapping and blackmail plot that culminated in the O-Front incident, despite it otherwise falling perfectly in line with his agenda of awakening Delusion Takumi's Gigalomaniac powers. Though not explicitly stated, the clues left behind during that incident strongly imply it to be Suwa's handiwork. |
| 253 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Only Rimi and NOZOMI know him as the real Nishijou Takumi, Delusion Takumi doesn't find out the truth about him until the end of the game and refers to him as "Shogun" for most of the plot. |
| 254 | * RapidAging: He is actually the ''real'' Takumi Nishijou, who is suffering from accelerated aging due to overuse of his powers. He therefore created our Takumi to take his place and do what he can no longer do himself. |
| 255 | * ShootTheDog: His entire, mind-breaking interaction with Takumi is to awaken his Gigalomania - because that power ''requires'' trauma, he literally could not avoid traumatizing Takumi if he wanted Takumi to come into his own powers. He's genuinely apologetic and sympathetic once Takumi finally does tap into them. |
| 256 | * SuperpowerDisability: Shogun is easily the strongest Gigalomaniac in the story due to using his powers practically from the day he was born and having immense experience with them as a result. The downside is that this has caused his body to weaken significantly to the point where he's physically crippled. This can happen to any Gigalomaniac that abuses their powers, which is why Sena encourages everyone not to overuse them. |
| 257 | * StealthMentor: Shogun's actions to drive Takumi into a corner were to awaken his powers as a Gigalomaniac. |
| 258 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His accidental real booting of the equation "[=Ir2=]" was what allowed NOZOMI's scientists to start the Noah II experiments and led to the current situation of it nearly dominating the entire world. |
| 259 | * WalkingSpoiler: Talking about his character in any capacity would involve spoil the biggest twists in the story, given his relevance to the narrative. |
| 260 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: His attempts to break Takumi make him not much better than NOZOMI, but unlike them he's trying to awaken Takumi in the hopes that he'd be able to destroy Noah II, and is willing to help anyone who needs his delusionary powers in a pinch. |
| 261 | * YoungerThanHeLooks: Shogun, despite appearing as an old man, is a high school student. This is because of his RapidAging. |
| 262 | * YourDaysAreNumbered: He only has less than a few months to live at the start of the plot due to his overuse of delusions and state of his worn down body finally catching up to him. He finally passes away at the end of the story. |
| 263 | [[/folder]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[folder:Misumi Daisuke]] |
| 266 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeOno (JP), Creator/JoelMcDonald (EN) |
| 267 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/misumich.png]] |
| 268 | Takumi's classmate and friend at school- his OnlyFriend, in fact. Tries to be supportive of Takumi, but finds himself irritated with his friend's odd habits and pessimism. |
| 269 | ---- |
| 270 | * {{Expy}}: Of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'''s Itsuki Koizumi, as the male friend of the protagonist who tries to help them but often makes them groan with his odd personality. They even share a voice actor. |
| 271 | * HandsomeLech: He is quite handsome, and often trying to snatch pretty girls for himself. This annoys Takumi, who has no care for '3d girls'. |
| 272 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: While he is certainly familiar with the New Gen murders, he is the only character to be completely unaware of the conspiracy that drives the murders, and that his friend Takumi has gotten himself wrapped up in it. |
| 273 | * OnlyFriend: The only guy that the reclusive {{Hikikomori}} Takumi will tolerate. Though this slowly changes once Rimi becomes involved. |
| 274 | [[/folder]] |
| 275 | |
| 276 | [[folder:Seira Orgel]] |
| 277 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Akane Domonaka (JP), Creator/JamieMarchi (EN) |
| 278 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/seirach.png]] |
| 279 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote: Click to see her ''Awakening'' outfit.]][[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/seiraawakech.png]] [[/labelnote]]]] |
| 280 | The main heroine of the [[ShowWithinAShow fictional anime]], ''Blood Tune''. Takumi's number one girl, despite not being real. |
| 281 | ---- |
| 282 | * AscendedExtra: Ends up being far more relevant in ''Love Chu Chu'' than she is in the original game. |
| 283 | * ClimaxBoss: An army of realbooted Seira delusions serve as the final obstacle for Takumi before he can confront Norose in the common route. They start out as a genuine threat, managing to pummel Takumi within an inch of his life and continuously respawning no matter how many he kills. Takumi finally overcomes them by acknowledging that Seira was never anything more than an anime character. |
| 284 | * EnemyWithout: As Takumi becomes more and more willing to come out of his shell, her delusive self becomes more desperate to keep him a {{Hikikomori}}, until she outright tries to kill him than let him go and leave her behind. |
| 285 | * ImaginaryFriend: Being the favorite "wife" of slightly deranged Takumi, she eventually started to manifest herself to him as a delusion. [[EnemyWithout This becomes unfortunate as said delusions become increasingly real]]. |
| 286 | * MagicalGirlWarrior: Has this role within her show, and is also dressed much like a magical girl heroine. |
| 287 | * PerverseSexualLust: Is the object of this for Takumi. |
| 288 | * PinkHeroine: She has pink hair and is the main heroine of her ShowWithinAShow. |
| 289 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: She heavily encourages Takumi to stay in the "2D world" over the 3D world and encourages more of his bad {{Hikikomori}} habits. This is {{downplayed}} in the sense that the Seira in Takumi's head is really just a manifestation of his weak willed thoughts and desire to isolate himself and escape from the pain in his reality, as the real Seira character in the in-universe Blood Tune anime does not actually know Takumi. |
| 290 | [[/folder]] |
| 291 | |
| 292 | [[folder:Ban Yasuji]] |
| 293 | ->'''Voice by:''' Creator/KazuyaIchijou (JP), Creator/JohnSwasey (EN) |
| 294 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bahch.png]] |
| 295 | A detective sent to investigate the New Gen murders. |
| 296 | ---- |
| 297 | * BigGood: The main person among the cast investigating New Gen and actively trying to solve it to prevent more murders, even going against his higher up's orders to find the truth. |
| 298 | * EyesAlwaysShut: His right eye is almost always closed, giving him a Series/{{Columbo}}-esque appearance. |
| 299 | * InsistentTerminology: Inverted, as he always refers to Gero-froggy as ''anything'' other than that, leading to others constantly correcting him. |
| 300 | * InspectorLestrade: He spends much of the story chasing after Takumi, thinking he might be responsible, but is well-intentioned and does discover several clues pointing towards the true culprits. |
| 301 | * SacrificialLion: Near the end, he is betrayed and murdered by his own sidekick. |
| 302 | [[/folder]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | [[folder:Suwa Mamoru]] |
| 305 | ->'''Voice by:''' Makoto Yasumura (JP), Creator/ScottFreeman (EN) |
| 306 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/suwach_7.png]] |
| 307 | The assistant of Ban who is sent to help him investigate the New Gen murders. Unfortunately, he is also one of the culprits. |
| 308 | ---- |
| 309 | * CoDragons: He and Hazuki Shino serve as this to Genichi, carrying out the New Gen murders as part of his EvilPlan. |
| 310 | * CuteAndPsycho: A pretty-faced sidekick to a detective on the outside, a SerialKiller on the inside. |
| 311 | * TheDogWasTheMastermind: The clueless [[TheWatson assistant]] of the detective was actually one of the culprits behind the murders the detective was investigating. |
| 312 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: Suwa isn't a Gigalomaniac, but being a Noah II porter allows him to use delusion powers to fight Gigalomaniacs and commit crimes. |
| 313 | * {{Fanboy}}: Of ''Spark Wars'', the in-universe version of ''Franchise/StarWars''. |
| 314 | * FauxAffablyEvil: His friendly demeanor doesn't change much when he is revealed as a SerialKiller, but his kind words sound much more hollow. |
| 315 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Not long after Takumi's encounter with the "Shogun" wearing a Darth Spider mask, Suwa mentions to Ayase that he is a fanboy of ''Spark Wars''. |
| 316 | * TheHeavy: Along with Hazuki, he is the one directly carrying out the New Gen murders on behalf of [[BigBad Norose]]. |
| 317 | * KillerCop: He works in law enforcement, personally aiding a detective, and is also one of the New Gen perpetrators. |
| 318 | * MadLove: He and Hazuki have been dating for 4 years and look out for each other. They're also both fanatical serial killers and are willing to stoop to any low for their religion. Suwa especially causes much more grief and murder than Hazuki without even a shred of regret. |
| 319 | * TheMole: He is actually a member of the very conspiracy that orchestrated the New Gen murders, sent to throw the police off their trail. |
| 320 | * SerialKiller: As one of the perpetrators behind the New Gen murders. |
| 321 | * TheWatson: Acted as this to Ban, always asking him for info about everything so the audience can get exposition. Key word being [[TheMole 'acting']]. |
| 322 | [[/folder]] |
| 323 | |
| 324 | [[folder:Momose Katsuko]] |
| 325 | ->'''Voice by:''' Creator/{{Kujira}} (JP), Creator/WendyPowell (EN) |
| 326 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/momose_6.png]] |
| 327 | The CEO of the investigation company Freesia and a friend/informant of Ban who tells him whatever she finds out about the New Gen case. |
| 328 | ---- |
| 329 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: In the Sena Route of ''Chaos;Head [=NoAH=]'' it is revealed via TheStinger that she's actually an agent of the Committee of 300, and it is heavily implied that she assassinated both Takumi and Sena after they destroyed [=NoAH=] II because [[TheyKnowTooMuch they knew too much about the Committee's true nature]]. |
| 330 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: While she has no problem killing off Takumi and Sena, she can't bring herself to do the same with the baby that was with them. |
| 331 | * HonestCorporateExecutive: She is the CEO of Freesia and by all means on the side of the heroes, using her connections to combat the conspiracy within Shibuya. |
| 332 | * TheInformant: She is the one who gives Ban whatever info she finds about the New Gen murders, as well as the greater forces behind them, like [[MegaCorp NOZOMI]]. |
| 333 | * InSeriesNickname: Momo-chan, given and used by Ban. |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[folder:Shino Hazuki]] |
| 337 | ->'''Voice by:''' Noriko Aoki (JP), Creator/MonicaRial (EN) |
| 338 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hazukich.png]] |
| 339 | A nurse at the local hospital. Also secretly one of the culprits behind the New Gen murders. |
| 340 | ---- |
| 341 | * BattleaxeNurse: She uses her medical tools to carry out some of the New Gen murders, such as digging out one victim's brain with a spoon, piece by piece. |
| 342 | * CoDragons: She and Mamoru Suwa serve as this to Genichi, carrying out the New Gen murders as part of his EvilPlan. |
| 343 | * CrossPlayer: She pretends to be a guy who shares a lot of Takumi's sexual interests while playing with him on ESO. |
| 344 | * CuteAndPsycho: Green-haired HospitalHottie on the outside, SerialKiller on the inside. |
| 345 | * TheDogWasTheMastermind: The cute nurse who seemed to be a minor character and 'Grim', Takumi's MMO partner, is one of the New Gen killers. |
| 346 | * DrivenToSuicide: Kills herself after Takumi identifies her as the killer. |
| 347 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Her friendly demeanor doesn't change much when she is revealed as a SerialKiller, but her kind words sound much more hollow. |
| 348 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: At the beginning of the story, Grim asks Takumi if he finds Girls who wear Glasses more attractive than others. Depending on Takumi's Answer, she may or may not wear Glasses, hinting that she and Grim are actually one and the same person. |
| 349 | * {{GIRL}}: [[GenderFlip Gender flipped]], as she pretends to be a guy as Grim when playing the MMO Empire Sweeper Online. |
| 350 | * TheHeavy: Along with Suwa, she is the one directly carrying out the New Gen murders on behalf of [[BigBad Genichi]]. |
| 351 | * HospitalHottie: Also a {{Meganekko}}, to an extent. |
| 352 | * MadLove: She and Suwa have been dating for 4 years, with Hazuki carrying their unborn child. They're also both fanatical serial killers and are willing to stoop to any low for their religion, including dissecting the fetus growing within her and shoving it into a man. |
| 353 | * TheMole: She is one of the culprits behind the New Gen murders despite point as a harmless nurse. |
| 354 | * SamusIsAGirl: As Grimm, her ESO handle, she pretends to be a guy. |
| 355 | * SerialKiller: As one of the perpetrators behind the New Gen murders. |
| 356 | [[/folder]] |
| 357 | |
| 358 | [[folder:Hatano Issei]] |
| 359 | ->'''Voice by:''' Creator/KenjiHamada (JP), Creator/ChuckHuber (EN) |
| 360 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hatanoch.png]] |
| 361 | A homeless man repeatedly encountered by Takumi and his friends. Is actually Sena's father and one of the scientists behind the creation of NOAH II. |
| 362 | ---- |
| 363 | * AbusiveParents: |
| 364 | ** Subverted. He initially only used his wife as a labrat to better her life and prevent her from grieving over the loss of their baby daughter, but it all goes horribly wrong once Norose and NOZOMI end the experiment and she's forced to face reality, going insane from it and killing herself. |
| 365 | ** He is also inadvertently responsible for traumatizing his daughter enough for her to awaken as a Gigalomaniac, and she was taken to Ark Heart Medical for months before she escaped, though this was not of his own volition. |
| 366 | * ArchnemesisDad: To Sena, who hates him for putting her and her mother through the Noah II experiments and being responsible for the deaths of her mother and baby sister. |
| 367 | * TheAtoner: He wants Sena to survive and to be punished for causing the deaths of half of his family. He succeeds when he protects Sena from being shot to death by Suwa and dies in the process, telling her where Noah II is so she can pass the message on to Takumi. |
| 368 | * BrokenPedestal: Is this to Sena, who used to think the world of him. |
| 369 | * DisappearedDad: He went missing for half a year after the deaths of Sena's mom and sister, becoming homeless in Shibuya looking for a place to die. Sena is out to find him and get revenge on him for the sake of her dead family. |
| 370 | * EarlyBirdCameo: He can be seen as a unnamed homeless man at various places in Shibuya before he is introduced proper. |
| 371 | * MadScientist: He participated in a project that put his wife under mind control to make her believe her dead baby was still alive, which eventually led to her going crazy and committing suicide. |
| 372 | [[/folder]] |
| 373 | |
| 374 | [[folder:Norose Genichi]] |
| 375 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentaMiyake (JP), Mark Stoddard (EN) |
| 376 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/norosech.png]] |
| 377 | The head of the NOZOMI Group and the true main antagonist. Serving 2 members of the Committee Of 300, and the true mastermind behind the New Gen murders, he seeks to complete the Noah II device and use it to eliminate free will, creating a utopia with himself overseeing it. However, he actually seeks to betray the Committee and use Noah II to free the world from their tyranny as well. |
| 378 | ---- |
| 379 | * BigBad: Serves as the head of the NOZOMI Group, the representative of the [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Committee of 300]], and the mastermind behind the New Gen murders, with the goal of completing [[LotusEaterMachine Noah II]] and using it to bring the world to eternal peace by eliminating suffering and negativity. |
| 380 | * TheChessmaster: He orchestrated the murders with the specific intent of traumatizing Takumi into manifesting his Gigalomaniac powers, and even his enemy Shogun ended up unwittingly aiding him in his plan for opposing reasons. |
| 381 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: He is the president of NOZOMI who uses his company and immense power to perpetrate a string of gruesome killings as part of a plan to use a MindControlDevice to control humanity. |
| 382 | * TheFaceless: He makes his first appearance as early as Chapter 3, but for a decent chunk of the game he's only shown from the back and his true identity isn't properly revealed until much later. |
| 383 | * TheEvilsOfFreeWill: He believes that humanity can only achieve peace once he has used [[MindControlDevice Noah II]] to strip them of their free will and bring them under his control. |
| 384 | * FauxAffablyEvil: For the most part, he's a remarkably polite and composed man, even as he looks down on everyone else around him and masterminds some truly horrific human experimentation without batting an eye. While his mannerisms do get more unhinged once he fully reveals his true colors, he very rarely loses his composure outright. |
| 385 | * GreaterScopeVillain: |
| 386 | ** Subverted in the original game. He initially is vaguely built up as a benefactor/superior to Shogun who is in the background, but Shogun is GoodAllAlong while Genichi is the one directly orchestrating everything. |
| 387 | ** Played straight in ''VisualNovel/ChaosChild''. He is the one behind the Shibuya earthquake and MassEmpoweringEvent that drives the plot, but he is dead by then. The primary villains were sent by the Committee to clean up his mess. |
| 388 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: When Takumi fails to destroy NOAH II, Norose smugly reveals that he is the only person that is able to get close to the machine. Takumi ends up abusing this information by throwing his D-Sword, impaling Norose and sending him flying into NOAH II with it, destroying it in the process. |
| 389 | * ManOfWealthAndTaste: He is a villain who wears a fancy suit and is very rich, owing to his position as head of [[MegaCorp NOZOMI]]. |
| 390 | * NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: While he claims good intentions, in that he wants to create a utopia by mind-controlling humanity to quash their [[HumansAreBastards primal urges]], the fact that he's a StrawNihilist pursuing his goals to horrific extremes fueled by [[AGodAmI a god complex]] make him just as bad as the humans he despises. While Takumi does express doubts over whether destroying Naoh II is the right thing to do, not a single one of Norose's co-conspirators or underlings ever claim any lofty ideals, instead being motivated by pure selfishness or psychopathy. |
| 391 | * {{Portmanteau}}: '''[[Creator/GenUrobuchi Gen]]''' [[Creator/GenUrobuchi Urobu]]'''[[Creator/GenUrobuchi chi]]''' (with an added "i"). |
| 392 | * PredecessorVillain: To the New New Gen culprits in ''VisualNovel/ChaosChild'', as they are committing the murders according to the original ones he orchestrated. |
| 393 | * SlasherSmile: Frequently pulls these out after being revealed as the true villain. |
| 394 | * TheStarscream: He plans to betray the Committee and control the world himself. He even betrays his own co-conspirators who provided him with financial and political backing and joined him in his mutiny against the Committee. |
| 395 | * StrawNihilist: He believes that humans are hard-wired to be in conflict with each other, and thus the only way to achieve peace is to brainwash all humanity. |
| 396 | [[/folder]] |
| 397 | |
| 398 | !Love Chu Chu Exclusive |
| 399 | |
| 400 | [[folder:Erin-Fray Orgel]] |
| 401 | -> '''Voiced by:''' Emiri Kato |
| 402 | [[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chlccerinorgel.jpg]] |
| 403 | Seira's feisty little sister hailing from the anime ''[[ShowWithinAShow Blood Tune]]''. She's come to life to pester Takumi about her sister. |
| 404 | ---- |
| 405 | * BreakoutCharacter: In-universe, Erin is just as, if not more popular then Seira, to the point that she's the favorite character of [[VisualNovel/SteinsGate Daru]] (who often gets in heated debates with Neidhart over whether Seira or Erin is better) and is cosplayed as by a maid in ''VisualNovel/ChaosChild.'' She even got a spin-off anime. |
| 406 | * LittleSisterHeroine: What she is in ''Blood Tune.'' |
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