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1The character page for ''Literature/{{Shiki}}''. There are an awful lot of them, so this list will probably not cover them all.
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5!Protagonists
6These characters could be considered the protagonists of the show.
7
8[[folder:Natsuno Yuuki/Koide]]
9[[quoteright:147:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/natsuno_yuuki.png]]
10->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KoukiUchiyama (JP), Creator/JerryJewell (EN)
11
12One of the main protagonists, a 15-year-old boy who was forced to move to Sotoba, and needless to say, he ain't happy about it. He's one of the first ones to become aware of the Shiki.
13----
14* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler: He comes back as a Jinrou, a powerful sub-species of Shiki in both the anime and manga whereas he remained dead in the original novel]].
15* ArchEnemy:
16** To Masao, though it's one-sided on his part as Natsuno mostly finds him annoying.
17** On a much serious note, he's this to Tatsumi as the latter assisted in Megumi killing Tohru, enforced the kill to survive mentality to the newly risen Shiki, [[spoiler: including Tohru who would become one himself]] and was the one who planned [[spoiler: to have him killed by Tohru himself]]. The feeling of contempt between these two gets stronger [[spoiler: when Natsuno himself returns back as a Jinrou, the same species as Tatsumi]].
18* BackFromTheDead: In the manga and anime, [[spoiler:he returns as a Jinrou]].
19* BadassNormal: Bashes a Shiki in the head with a shovel when it threatens his friends.
20* BigBrotherInstinct: After he befriends Akira and Kaori he starts to care for them in a "surrogate big brother" way.
21* BigDamnHeroes: He rescues Akira from being killed by Iwao Maeda after he was left tied to the support beam (By Tatsumi) of the house in which Iwao has taken residence. Natsuno arrived just in time, too, as said shiki was moments away from feasting on the child. After saving Akira, Natsuno brought him to a hospital outside of town to recuperate safely.
22** Natsuno also brought Kaori to the hospital after she destroyed her newly-turned father.
23* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:He returns as a powerful Jinrou.]]
24* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Purple hair and eyes.
25* DaywalkingVampire: [[spoiler:He eventually returns as a Jinrou, which is essentially a vampire that can walk under sunlight.]]
26* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:After becoming a Jinrou.]]
27* DecoyProtagonist: He gets a relatively large chunk of focus during the first half of the story. [[spoiler:And then he dies. Even after [[SparedByAdaptation returning as a Jinrou in the manga and anime]], he rarely appears again.]]
28* {{Determinator}}: Even though he's completely outclassed in a fight against [[spoiler: Tatsumi, he continues fighting until he's able to force Tatsumi into the deep pit where they both meet their end]].
29* DoNotCallMePaul: He dislikes being called by his first name.
30* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:After he becomes a Jinrou.]]
31* {{Expy}}: His character is similar to [[Film/CastleFreak1995 John Reilly.]] Both are aloof men who end up being amongst the first to find the supernatural, [[spoiler:and take them down at the cost of their lives.]]
32* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Melancholic.
33* GenderBlenderName: He doesn't like being called by his given name Natsuno because he thinks it sounds feminine.
34* HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason why [[spoiler: Tatsumi sends Tohru to kill him]].
35* HeroicBastard: His parents are in a CommonLawMarriage, which makes Natsuno an illegitimate child in the legal sense. While aloof, Natsuno still remains a relatively decent person.
36* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: While he isn’t the main protagonist, he dies early on, but comes back, and then dies for good at the end.]]
37* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tohru. Tohru and his family are one of the few people he’s openly nice to.
38* HunterOfHisOwnKind: [[spoiler: Even after he becomes a Jinrou, he still aids in the effort to stop the vampire infestation in Sotoba, culminating in him killing Tatsumi and himself in the end]].
39* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: He’s not a very open person, but once you personally know him, you’ll understand he’s not a bad person. Especially prominent with the Mutou family, the Tanaka siblings, and Ritsuko.
40%%* MrFanservice
41* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: He's named after Kiyohara no Natsuno, a nobleman and politician in the early Heian period.
42* NotSoAboveItAll: Although he's one of the first people to really start investigating the vampires, [[spoiler: once he learns that his best friend Tohru has become one he immediately loses all will to fight and suggests that Toru feed on him instead--''until he dies!'']] Sure, [[spoiler: he comes back as a werewolf]], but he had no way of knowing that would happen at the time.
43* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: The anime implies and manga outright confirms that he was the one who killed Iwao Maeda via burning him alive by sunlight. The same Iwao was the one who killed his family after he came back as a Shiki, tormenting Motoko, his daughter-in-law, by leaving her as the sole survivor, and was about to attack Akira when the boy was tied up]].
44* RealMenWearPink: His pink sneakers.
45* RedHerring: Near the beginning of the series, Natsuno starts showing signs of lethargy and tiredness, the exact symptoms of a Shiki bite. Turns out it was just exhaustion.
46* RedOniBlueOni: The blue oni to Masao and Tohru's red.
47* RidiculouslyAliveUndead: [[spoiler:He rises as a Jinrou/Werewolf, which is a type of Shiki that is more of an enhanced human than a vampire.]]
48* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:ZigZagged. He doesn't come back as a Jinrou in the original novel. Then again, he still dies at the end of the anime.]]
49* TheStoic: He rarely loses his cool.
50* SugarAndIcePersonality: Natsuno is aloof to most of the villagers, but cares deeply about Tohru, Akira, and Kaori. He tries to send Akira and Kaori away, but they end up coming back to help him. [[spoiler:After finding out that Tohru has become a Shiki, he lets him feed on him without much of a fight and even suggests trying to run away together. He later ends up saving Akira from Iwao and helping both him and Kaori escape from their village before the final confrontation.]]
51* TakingYouWithMe: In the manga and anime, [[spoiler:he pushes himself and Tatsumi into a deep pit. In the anime, he blows both up with sticks of dynamite while in the manga they are impaled by rocks at the bottom of the pit.]]
52* TechnicolorEyes: Natsuno has blueish-violet eyes.
53* WillfullyWeak: [[spoiler: As a Jinrou, he has heightened senses and abilities. However, he must feed on blood in order to gain access to these abilities least he gets weaker. As Tatsumi can attest, Natsuno has only been eating human food, thus was easily outmatched by him. He does feed on some blood when he hypnotized Seshirou, but even then he's still outmatched by Tatsumi]].
54[[/folder]]
55
56[[folder:Toshio Ozaki]]
57[[quoteright:167:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ozaki_toshio.png]]
58->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToruOkawa (JP), Creator/DavidWald (EN)
59
60The director of the clinic in Sotoba. He is baffled by the mysterious deaths and swears to solve the case and protect his village. He is one of the first people to discover the existence of the Shiki, and ends up taking pretty extreme measures against them.
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62* AgentMulder: Oddly enough, the village's man of science is one of the first to think the epidemic may be supernatural.
63* AntiHero: He desires to rid the monsters plaguing the village and will see it through, even if it hurts someone.
64* BadassLabcoat: He's seen wearing his labcoat at all times.
65* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:He outs the Shiki by [[ISurrenderSuckers pretending to surrender to them]] and tricking Chizuru into going on a date with him to get her to the Buddhist shrine so she can FreakOut and get a bunch of people to escort her away, allowing them to feel for themselves her lack of a pulse and body temperature.]]
66* ChildhoodFriends: He has been friends with Seishin since childhood.
67* CynicismCatalyst: His repeated failures in saving the villagers from the Shiki eventually lead him to [[spoiler:experiment on his newly turned Shiki wife when she rises.]]
68* EurekaMoment: After Yuuki asks him wether Megumi really died, he jokingly replied with her maybe having come back as a zombie or vampire, a statement that makes him realize that maybe it isn't an epidemic after all.
69* {{Expy}}:
70** Of Jimmy Cody and Matt Burke from ''Literature/SalemsLot'', and to a lesser extent Professor Van Hellsing from ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''. A man of science and doctor who discovers the existence of vampires in his area, who uses his skills to combat and exterminate them.
71** Outside of vampire media, he shares some similarities with [[Film/ReAnimator Herbert West]]. Both face numerous zombies attacking them and cohorts and have no qualms about their methods, even if it hurts someone.
72* FormerTeenRebel: Was one as a child and inspired Seishin [[spoiler: into still hating the village later on in his life when he was on the verge of giving up]].
73* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Choleric.
74* FriendToAllChildren: Episode gives us a PetTheDog moment where he is seen attending an injured child.
75* GoodIsNotSoft: Toshio acts as the BigGood of the series and he also doubles on being a borderline DestructiveSavior. His method of learning about how to kill the Shiki? [[spoiler: Putting his wife-turned-shiki through cold-blooded torture to find the way to permanently kill them.]]
76* HeWhoFightsMonsters: As he slowly loses more and more villagers to the plague, his psyche begin to deteriorate, resulting in his appearance becoming haggard and strained. Eventually he resorts to [[spoiler:experimenting on his wife when she rises as a Shiki in an attempt to either cure the plague and, failing that, to find the most efficient means of killing them.]]
77* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:He pretends to take Chizuru out on a date to expose her as a Shiki to the villagers and lead her to her death.]]
78* IAmNotMyFather: He ''hates'' the idea of becoming like his father who he hated. [[spoiler: He eventually does.]]
79* IdenticalStranger: He somewhat resembled Akira as a teen.
80* IgnoredExpert: No one believes him about the vampires. [[spoiler: Until he outs them, anyway.]]
81* MeaningfulName: His name means ''agile hero'' or ''sagacious hero''.
82* TheMedic: He's the doctor of the town's local clinic.
83* NominalHero: There are hints in both the manga and anime that he sought to save the village because he viewed it as more of a game than out of a genuine desire to save anyone. [[spoiler:This is highlighted by his brief comment at the end of the anime where he says he "lost" when the village was burned down.]]
84* NoSympathy: In the manga, he relishes in the fact that his mother [[spoiler:was brutally murdered by a Shiki]], thinking she deserved it for being [[MyBelovedSmother an overbearing mom]].
85* TheParagon: Toshio becomes a rather dark take on this when [[spoiler:he drives the villagers to riot against the Shiki]].
86* PermaStubble: Has a 5 o'clock shadow that gives him a toughen look.
87* PetTheDog: He has a few moments such as being friendly to children, and mourning over the loss of his loved ones.
88* RedOniBlueOni: The cranky and daring Red Oni to Seishin's calm and composed Blue Oni. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boJ36l1llMc&hd=1 the second opening of the anime]], where a red specter rises from him whilst a blue rises from Seishin.
89* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The gruff and sarcastic Manly Man to Seishin's gentle and polite Sensitive Guy.
90* ShockValueRelationship: He married his wife out of spite for his parents who hated her.
91* SlasherSmile: He makes a quite unhinged smile in Episode 18.
92* TheSmartGuy: He has his suspicions that the thing that's killing the village is weirder than normal as soon as his ''first appearance'', but he doesn't connect the dots until Natsuno talks to him.
93* SmokingIsCool: He's usually seen smoking, which helps making him look cool.
94* StakingTheLovedOne: [[spoiler:When his wife rises, he literally stakes her... among other things. Although as the manga makes it clear, while he didn't actually love her due to marrying her during his rebellious youth, but what he felt besides knowing he wasn't all that close to her is left unknown.]]
95* WasItReallyWorthIt: [[spoiler:Ends up asking himself something along these lines after his own actions bring about the destruction of his village when he was trying to save it.]]
96[[/folder]]
97
98[[folder:Seishin Muroi]]
99[[quoteright:178:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/muroi_seishin.png]]
100-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazuyukiOkitsu (JP), Creator/JohnBurgmeier (EN)
101
102A monk at the local temple in Sotoba, as well as the author of several famous novels. He is friends with Toshio since long, and befriends Sunako briefly after her arrival to town.
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104* AgentScully: Not completely skeptical about the existence of the Shiki, but he still takes longer to convince than Toshio.
105* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:He dies and rises as a Jinrou.]]
106* BungledSuicide: Attempted suicide once in the past:
107** In the manga, he attempted suicide since [[spoiler:he can never truly leave the village as long as people force and expect him to be a monk whether he wants to or not.]]
108** In the anime, he attempted suicide because [[spoiler:he desperately wanted to be free of the traditions and the weight of his family and the temple, but could not bring himself to leave.]]
109* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:Muroi is much more violent and assertive when he rises as a Jinrou, as Ookawa finds out firsthand.]]
110* ChildhoodFriends: He has been friends with Ozaki since they were kids.
111* DaywalkingVampire: [[spoiler:At the end of the series, he becomes a Jinrou, a type of Shiki immune to sunlight.]]
112* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:He betrays the village and joins the Shiki after deciding that Ozaki has gone too far in his methods to eradicate the Shiki.]]
113* {{Expy}}: Of Father Callahan from ''Literature/SalemsLot'', a man of of faith who is losing it. And who ultimately [[spoiler: betrays the heroes and loses his faith. But unlike Calahan, who in a bit of circular storytelling redeems himself and regains his faith in Franchise/TheDarkTower, Seishin's story is linear. He stands by his new alliegances and principles till the end]]. Also he shares Ben Mears’ role as an author.
114* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phlegmatic.
115* GoodShepherd: Played with. Seishin is genuinely a good-natured and compassionate individual, but he's secretly depressed, hates the village and finds that he could not escape, as people expect him to be a monk when he doesn't want to. He ends up empathizing more with Sunako and the Shiki because they are more similar to him and able to understand his feelings more than any human in the village.
116* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler:He abandons Toshio and the other villagers to join the Shiki and protect Sunako, but considering the GreyAndGrayMorality this story is based on, it's hard to tell whether he's a {{Face}} or a {{Heel}}.]]
117* {{Hypocrite}}: He disowns Toshio for staking his wife in the name of being against murder. Then, he [[spoiler:kills Tomio Ookawa with a hatchet as the former is about to stake Sunako in the burning church in the end of the series.]]
118* InterspeciesFriendship: A human who generally enjoys his chats with Sunako, a shiki. [[spoiler:Though he himself becomes a shiki near the end.]]
119* MoralityPet: To Sunako who treats him with kindness believing the two of them aren't so different.
120* MostWritersAreWriters: He's an author who writes novels.
121* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:After he rises as a Jinrou, his irises turn red.]]
122* RedOniBlueOni: The calm and composed Blue Oni to Toshio's cranky and daring Red Oni. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the second opening of the anime.
123* RidiculouslyAliveUndead: [[spoiler:He rises as a Jinrou/Werewolf, which is a type of Shiki that is more of an enhanced human than a vampire.]]
124* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The gentle and polite Sensitive Guy to Ozaki's gruff and sarcastic Manly Man.
125* StoicSpectacles: He's a composed young man who wears a small, half-framed style of glasses.
126* SympathyForTheDevil: Through his conversations with Sunako, he comes to the conclusion that he and the Shiki [[NotSoDifferentRemark aren't that different]] and that he has more in common with them than he does with the other villagers.
127* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: [[spoiler:At the end of the story, Seishin talks Sunako out of committing suicide. He tells her that she doesn't have to feel the need of atoning for her sins because she isn't human and since he's now like her, they can now wander the earth together.]]
128* YouAreNotAlone: [[spoiler:He uses a variation of this trope to try and get Sunako out of her despair after her encounter with Tomio in an attempt to bring her out of the burning church alive]].
129[[/folder]]
130
131!Villagers
132The residents of Sotoba. '''WARNING:''' Some of the characters below become Shiki, so highlight spoilers at your own risk.
133
134!!!Koide/Yuuki Family
135
136[[folder:Yuuki]]
137->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeEndo (JP), Creator/MikeMcFarland (EN)
138
139Natsuno's father.
140----
141* AgentScully: Refuses to heed his son or the Tanaka siblings' warning that something is '''very''' wrong in the village.
142* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Natsuno's death and his wife's absence does a number on him. He fortunately gets better in the end.]]
143[[/folder]]
144
145[[folder:Azusa Koide]]
146->'''Voiced by:''' Ayano Ishikawa (JP), Creator/AnastasiaMunoz (EN)
147
148Natsuno's mother
149----
150* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:She disappears midway and never returns. She will reunite with her husband later.]]
151[[/folder]]
152
153!!!Mutou Family
154
155[[folder:Tohru Mutou]]
156[[quoteright:157:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tohru_mutou.png]]
157->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto (JP), Chris Burnett (EN)
158
159A kind 18-year old boy and Natsuno's best friend.
160----
161* AntiVillain: After he returns as a Shiki, Tohru really hates being an undead monster and still acts like the same gentle guy he was as a human. He only kills humans because Tatsumi is forcing him to by threatening to kill his family if he doesn't do it and his HorrorHunger is too much for him to control it.
162* BackFromTheDead: Megumi kills him early in the series and he also becomes a Shiki.
163* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Light brown hair and eyes.
164* DirtyCoward: Tohru kills people because he's terrified of dying himself. He feels bad about it, but not enough to simply refuse to kill.
165* DueToTheDead: After [[spoiler:he kills Natsuno]], Tohru starts to leave a single flower outside of Natsuno's window every night to commemorate [[spoiler:Natsuno]]'s death.
166* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Natsuno. With a bit of HoYay.
167* KillTheCutie: A sweet and honest young man who generally brought out the better in just about everyone he knew and is one of the first characters to get killed. This also borders on BreakTheCutie because of what he’s forced to go through next.
168* KillTheOnesYouLove: He's forced by Tatsumi to kill his best friend Natsuno.
169* LikesOlderWomen: If his attraction to Ritsuko is anything to go by.
170* ManlyTears:
171** Cries every time [[spoiler:he bites Natsuno.]]
172** And over [[spoiler: Ritsuko suffering because she refuses to drink anyone's blood]].
173* NiceGuy: He's a genuinely sweet teenager whom was loved by a lot of people. Even the local {{Jerkass}} Masao likes him. Makes the TraumaCongaLine he goes through all the more tragic.
174* NonMaliciousMonster: He suffers from the guilt some new Shiki face of murdering humans for sustenance and still maintains his gentle demeanor.
175* OurVampiresAreDifferent: He eventually rises as a Shiki after being bitten and killed by Megumi.
176* PunchClockVillain: Doesn't like being a Shiki, and mostly sucks blood just to stay alive and to keep Tatsumi from coming for his family.
177* TheMole: [[spoiler:After Natsuno comes back as a Jinrou, Tohru gives him valuable information on what the Shiki plan to do with the village.]]
178* RedOniBlueOni: He is emotional and supportive red to Natsuno’s blue.
179* SecretlySelfish: Gets called out on this by both Megumi and Ritsuko after he becomes a Shiki. He doesn't want to admit how inhumane his actions are and try to justify them by saying he has no choice. The fact that Ritsuko refuses to kill humans herself leads him to having a VillainousBreakdown.
180* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Ritsuko.]]
181* TragicVillain: He maintains his gentle personality after he becomes a Shiki, but gets also the all consuming bloodlust. He hates what he does, but can't help himself and is torn by guilt.
182[[/folder]]
183
184[[folder:Takeshi Mutou]]
185->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YasuakiTakumi (JP), Creator/ChuckHuber (EN)
186
187Tohru's father, whom also works at the clinic.
188----
189* GoodParents: He's portrayed as a loving father towards all three of his children. [[spoiler:He refuses to be involved in the hunt after learning it'd involve hurting his son again.]]
190* NiceGuy: Just like his son, he's a very courteous individual.
191* OptOut: Ditches the Shiki hunt.
192* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Loses his son very early on. [[spoiler: He also lives to the very end.]]
193* StrongFamilyResemblance: An older version of his sons.
194[[/folder]]
195
196[[folder:Shizuko Mutou]]
197->'''Voiced by:''' Izumi Sawada (JP), Jennifer Green (EN)
198
199Tohru’s mother.
200----
201* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Like her husband, she outlives her eldest son. [[spoiler:Her fate is unknown.]]
202* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Vanishes after her oldest’s funeral.
203[[/folder]]
204
205[[folder:Aoi and Tamotsu Mutou]]
206-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaSaito (Aoi, Japanese), Creator/TrinaNishimura (Aoi, English), Creator/YasuakiTakumi (Tamotsu, Japanese), Creator/JessieJamesGrelle (Tamotsu, English)
207
208Tohru's younger sister and brother.
209----
210* BreakTheCutie: The deaths of their older brother shatters them.
211* NiceGuy: Both are very trusting of Natsuno and it's clear he enjoys having them around as much as Tohru himself.
212* SatelliteCharacter: They rarely show up without Tohru being involved somehow.
213* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Like with their mother, they inexplicably vanish at the end of their brother's funeral.
214[[/folder]]
215
216!!!Tanaka Family
217
218[[folder:Kaori Tanaka]]
219[[quoteright:161:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kaori_tanaka.png]]
220->'''Voiced by:''' Haruka Nagashima (JP), Creator/AlexisTipton (EN)
221
222A friend of Megumi and later Natsuno. She and her brother Akira are some of the first characters to make connections between the recent deaths and the mysterious new family. She is kind-hearted, but easily scared.
223----
224* ActionSurvivor: She's a run-of-the-mill young girl that has no powers to face against the supernatural, [[spoiler:yet she still manages to get out alive.]]
225* AnimeHair: Her braids end in flowers. [[spoiler:They end up undone near the end of the series.]]
226* BatterUp: She beats [[spoiler:her undead father]] to death with a baseball bat.
227* BreakTheCutie: First her best friend dies out of the blue... later her new friend, with whom she found out the truth behind the recent deaths in her village, dies after she and her brother try to save him. Then [[spoiler:her father dies and she is informed of it by her ex-best friend, who is in fact her father's killer. Her mother also ends up dying and later her brother disappears, leaving her thinking that he is ''also'' dead. Poor Kaori goes AxCrazy when her undead father tries to kill her and brutally beats him to death.]]
228* BrotherSisterTeam: With Akira.
229* ChildhoodFriends: She claims to be Megumi's childhood friend. However, the feeling is one-sided and Megumi actually dislikes Kaori.
230* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Brown hair and eyes.
231* DespairEventHorizon: She goes through one after [[spoiler:her parents die, Akira disappears and she presumes he is also dead... and then she has to kill her father again. While she and Akira reunite at the end, she never seems to really get much better.]]
232* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: She ends up ditching her braids and lets her hair loose. Maybe in a way to represent how she [[InnocenceLost lost her innocence]].
233* {{Expy}}:
234** She's very similar to [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} Kirsty Cotton]]. Both are ordinary young women that get wrapped up in a major life-or-death situation against the supernatural, [[spoiler: lose their fathers, and end up as one of the few survivors. Both also become extremely dishevelled signifying how they’re past the DespairEventHorizon.]]
235** She also shares similarities with [[Film/ReAnimator Megan Halsey.]] Both are young women that end up entangled with zombies, [[spoiler:with their fathers becoming one of them, losing a close male ally, and digging deeper in. Unlike Megan, Kaori lives to the very end.]]
236* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:One of the few characters to make it out of Sotoba alive.]]
237* GirlishPigtails: She wears her hair in a pair of braided pigtails. Though she loses them when she starts to give into despair.
238* MadnessMantra: "Megumi-chan is going to come and kill me. Megumi-chan is going to come and kill me. Megumi-chan is going to come and kill me."
239* NiceGirl: She's very nice and friendly.
240* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: Is nothing but kind and considerate towards Megumi, and is by far the most heartbroken when she dies(besides her parents). How does Megumi repay her friendship? By going out of her way to ruin her life.]]
241* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:Kills her father when he rises as a Shiki.]]
242* RavenHairIvorySkin: Has black hair and fair skin, which isn't too pale like the Shiki.
243* RefusalOfTheCall: Really doesn't want to dig too deeply into what's going on or dredge up memories of her dead friend. Too bad [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive the caller knows where she lives]].
244* StakingTheLovedOne: [[spoiler:After discovering her father turned into a Shiki, Kaori applies a baseball bat to his head multiple times, and when that doesn't kill him, she gets out a pickaxe to finish him off. She then proceeds to shove his unrecognizable corpse into a closet for good measure.]]
245* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: More or less the tomboy to Megumi's girly girl.
246[[/folder]]
247
248[[folder:Akira Tanaka]]
249[[quoteright:122:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akira_tanaka.png]]
250->'''Voiced by:''' Keiko Kawakami (JP), Creator/LuciChristian (EN)
251
252Kaori's younger brother and a friend of Natsuno. He discovers the existence of the Shiki early on and tries to out and fight them throughout the series.
253----
254* ActionSurvivor: Like his sister, he's an ordinary young boy with no powers. [[spoiler:And in the anime and manga, he lives to the very end.]]
255* BigBrotherWorship: He really looks up to Natsuno as an older brother figure.
256* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:What Tatsumi does to him after he tries to kill Iwao. It takes Natsuno rescuing him.]]
257* BrotherSisterTeam: With Kaori. He always tries to make her go along with him.
258* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Brown hair and brown eyes.
259* HotBlooded: He's pretty gung-ho about his Shiki fighting duties and refuses to leave the village when things start to go south.
260* JumpedAtTheCall: He readily sets out to fight vampires after being convinced that they are behind all that has been happening in the village.
261* NeverFoundTheBody: In the original novel, [[spoiler:his fate remained unknown]].
262* NiceGuy: He's a very friendly kid.
263* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Natsuno saved him in the anime and manga, but his fate remained unknown in the original novel.]]
264* TooDumbToLive: Yes Akira, go alone into a creepy abandoned house to stake some vampires. I'm sure this will go well for you.
265* WrongGenreSavvy: His attempts to stop the Shiki and criticism of the villagers' failure to listen to him hint at this.
266[[/folder]]
267
268[[folder:Yoshikazu Tanaka]]
269-> '''Voiced by:''' Hayato Nakata (JP), Creator/PhilParsons (EN)
270
271Kaori and Akira’s father.
272----
273* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Despite turning into a Shiki, he’s still portrayed as a loving father and his children are devastated by his death.]]
274* HenpeckedHusband: Sachiko gets frustrated with him a lot.
275* SacrificialLamb: His death proves to be a massive turning point that tells Kaori and Akira that they’re in deep danger.
276[[/folder]]
277
278[[folder:Sachiko Tanaka]]
279-> '''Voiced by:''' Keiko Aki (JP), Linda Leonard (EN)
280
281Kaori and Akira’s mother.
282----
283* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She’s stern, but she loves her kids and husband. [[spoiler:They’re all freaked out when Yoshikazu is found dead.]]
284[[/folder]]
285
286!!!Ookawa Family
287
288[[folder:Tomio Ookawa]]
289[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2dee1382c39025cd4c7121ec84ef010f.jpg]]
290->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KoujiIshii (JP), Creator/RBruceElliott (EN)
291
292The owner of the village liquour and bottle shop. A huge man who is quick to begin hunting the Shiki once their existence is uncovered.
293----
294* AbusiveDad: He tends to hit his son [[spoiler:when his son is alive]], especially when his mom was telling on his son. [[spoiler:He also enjoys killing his son in the manga far too much.]]
295* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:In the manga it's revealed he enjoys killing people. The fact that Shiki aren't considered human allows him to kill people without being judged, and shows that he was quick to use any excuse to kill people as long as Ozaki wasn't around. One such case was the temple, where he killed everyone who lived there.]]
296* AnimeHair: Seriously crazy hair that curves upwards in three prongs.
297* BondVillainStupidity: [[spoiler: Once he has Sunako at his mercy, rather than killing her on the spot, he gives a ReasonWhyYouSuckSpeech to her, which gives Seishin enough time to rescue her.]]
298* DopeSlap: Often administers one to his son Atsushi.
299* {{Foil}}: To Megumi and Tohru's fathers. Both are portrayed as loving towards their children and are distraught over their sudden deaths and the idea of them having to be killed twice while Tomio was always portrayed as an AbusiveDad.
300* HotBlooded: He's loud and hot-headed.
301* JerkAss: Arguably the biggest out of all the human villagers due to his abusive tendencies and massive temper.
302* JerkassHasAPoint:[[spoiler: His verbal beatdown of Sunako isn't exactly wrong, the Shiki would have been welcome in the village had they not murdered most people there. In the end, her actions lead to both the village and all of the Shiki except herself and Muroi getting burnt down.]]
303* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He kills Seishin's family when the monk joins up with the Shiki. Muroi returns the favor.]]
304* KnightTemplar: In the anime, [[spoiler:he kills a human who was under Shiki hypnosis, believing that he was a Shiki collaborator. He is also part of the group that killed Seishin's family after it became clear he was helping Sunako. Subverted in the manga at first, where he doesn't harm the hypnotized humans even after being stabbed by them, but then [[DoubleSubversion double subverted]] with his slaughter of the people at the temple in the manga.]]
305* NumberTwo: Effectively becomes this to Toshio after the latter [[spoiler: rallies the humans to start rioting against the Shiki.]]
306* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:He kills his own son after the latter rises as a Shiki.]]
307* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Delivers a speech to Sunako in the climax where he proceeds to completely deconstruct her [[WasItReallyWorthIt goals and motivations]] that ends up utterly [[DespairEventHorizon destroying her self-conviction]].]]
308-->[[spoiler:''You little murderess, you don't deserve my mercy. In this world there are crimes too depraved to ever be forgiven. There are certain unstated rules for living in a village, rules that go back far too many generations to count. Outsiders are welcome as long as they adapt to village ways. We're a community here, we work together, we protect each-other. In a village, the young don't die before the old. These simple rules keep places like Sotoba alive through the years. But you and your family has torn that apart. I'm going to send you back to the hell you came from. You'll never rise up again Shiki!'']]
309* StakingTheLovedOne: [[spoiler:He literally does this to his own Shiki son after the latter kills Ozaki's mother, claiming it's his duty as a father to punish his son for his evil deeds and return him to rest. Subverted in the manga, which makes it clear he killed his own because he ''enjoyed'' it.]]
310* TheUnfettered: Ookawa is utterly devoted to wiping out the Shiki when they get outed in the anime, taking control of the mob from Toshio and showing little remorse for the often innocent people he kills in his goal.
311* UnusualEyebrows: His eyebrows resemble steam or flames rising upwards.
312[[/folder]]
313
314[[folder:Atsushi Ookawa]]
315[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ookawa_atsushi.jpg]]
316->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenichirouMatsuda (JP), Creator/ChrisRager (EN)
317
318The son of Tomio.
319----
320* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:After being cornered by the villagers in the clinic, he begs his father for forgiveness and mercy. Determined to exterminate the Shiki by any means necessary Tomio ignore his son's pleas and puts a permanent end to him with a stake.]]
321* BigOlEyebrows: He inherited his father's big eyebrows.
322* {{Gonk}}: He has cartoonishly huge lips and eyebrows.
323* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:After terrorizing the village as a Shiki and murdering Dr. Ozaki's mother as a warning to the remaining humans he is effortlessly captured and executed in the clinic by his own father.]]
324* OurVampiresAreDifferent: After being killed he rises as a Shiki and takes to the lifestyle disturbingly quickly.
325[[/folder]]
326
327!!!Ozaki Family
328
329[[folder:Takae Ozaki]]
330[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ozaki_takae.jpg]]
331->'''Voiced by:''' Kaori Yamagata (JP), Pam Dougherty (EN)
332
333Toshio's obnoxious mother and Kyouko's mother in-law.
334----
335* MakeAnExampleOfThem: [[spoiler:She is killed off by the shiki late in the story and has her dead body left at the clinic to serve as a warning to the surviving villagers.]]
336* ObnoxiousInLaws: She's constantly getting into arguments with Kyouko and treats others rudely.
337* RichBitch: She's quick to flaunt her family status and likes to boss people around.
338[[/folder]]
339
340[[folder:Kyouko Ozaki]]
341[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ozaki_kyouko.jpg]]
342->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukoMizutani (JP), Creator/JamieMarchi (EN)
343
344Toshio's wife who owns an antique store.
345----
346* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:She is tortured by having cuts made all over her body and getting injected with powerful chemicals to discover a weakness. Afterwards she gets put out of her misery with a stake to the heart.]]
347* SmallRoleBigImpact: She gets introduced near the middle of the story, gets a few scenes, some dialogue and character development and is [[spoiler:killed off just a few episodes later after turning into a Shiki.]] However, she provides vital information to Dr. Ozaki which allows him to discover how to effectively fight back against the Shiki and allows the humans to begin hunting them.
348* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: [[spoiler:After dying she revives as a Shiki and is experimented on by the doctor to find their weaknesses. Afterwards she is killed for good by having a stake driven through her heart.]]
349[[/folder]]
350
351!!!Shimizu Family
352
353[[folder:Megumi Shimizu]]
354[[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shimizu_megumi.png]]
355[[caption-width-right:230:[[labelnote:Click here to see her as a shiki]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shikimegumi_shimizu640x960_1.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
356
357->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HarukaTomatsu (JP), Creator/TiaBallard (EN)
358
359A village girl who hopes to one day leave Sotoba and create a career for herself in the city. She has an unrequited crush on Natsuno, who finds her annoying and cannot stand her. Megumi is one of the first victims of the Shiki and is also the first to rise.
360----
361* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original novel, Megumi is more humanized and conflicted, and does not commit some of the evil deeds that she does in the manga and anime adaptations, whereas in those she is a CardCarryingVillain.
362* BackFromTheDead: The first villager to rise as a Shiki.
363* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She dreamed of being accepted by the people who lived in the "European" castle with open-arms. She got her wish.
364* BerserkButton: Do NOT insult Yuuki in front of her. Masao found out the hard way.
365* BilingualBonus: Megumi, Mega-Me, doubles as a lame pun.
366* CardCarryingVillain: In the manga and anime. She ''willingly'' antagonized the village for her amusement and selfishness. Most of the others only did it to survive or were strong-armed into it. She has no such excuse and it was because of Shiki like her that the villagers came down so hard on the Shiki as a result.
367* ChildhoodFriends: With Kaori. But she doesn't really like to be associated with her.
368* ClingyJealousGirl: She hates it when people get close to Yuuki. After turning into a Shiki, she starts taking [[MurderTheHypotenuse extreme measures]] to keep people away from him.
369* TheCorrupter: After she turns [[spoiler:Kaori's father]] into a Shiki, she incites him to kill his own family under the possibility that they will also become Shiki and join him.
370* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:By the end of the series, particularly in the anime. She is hit by a truck in all versions, is impaled by five stakes in the novel and manga, and has her arm crushed before being completely ''run over by a tractor'' in the anime.]]
371* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Pink hair and eyes. Noticeably, her parents have normal hair colours, which may suggest hers is dyed.
372* DaddysGirl: If her father's reaction is anything to go by, she loved him a lot.
373* ADayInTheLimelight: She is the main focus of the first episode of the anime.
374* DeathByIrony:
375** [[spoiler:Gets run over by the same tractor that splattered her with mud in the prologue.]]
376** [[spoiler:Getting distracted by seeing an imaginary Natsuno in the manga and novel is what allowed her to get hit by a truck and get five stakes shoved into her chest.]]
377* DeathGlare: Gives one to Masao in Episode 14, over him being happy [[spoiler:Yuuki might not come back as a Shiki.]]
378* DefiantToTheEnd: Rather than [[spoiler: the pitiful, tearful death she receives in the anime, the original novel and manga has her just tell the villagers to back off and let her go to the city. She then walks to the town line and is just about to cross it before the villagers stake her in the back.]]
379* DyingDream: [[spoiler: After the villagers catch up to her and proceed to finish her off. She hallucinates finally making it to the city.]]
380* ElegantGothicLolita: She's into Japanese Goth/Punk lolita fashion.
381* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Despite her flaws and villainy, her parents very clearly loved her and Kaori cared for her a lot despite the feeling not being mutual.
382* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Evidently, she was on good terms with her parents prior to her death.
383* EvilIsPetty: She kills Yuuki's best friend because Yuuki likes him more than her. Not to mention how she starts to mess with Kaori's life just because she and Yuuki became friends.
384* TheFashionista: She likes to dress up with stylish dresses, shoes, makeup, and hair accessories. However, the other villagers think she's way overdressed for their backwater village, making her hate them all for having no fashion sense.
385* ForTheEvulz: She often mocks those who refuse to kill like Masao and Tohru, and in Episode 13, she can be seen skipping around with a smile on her face saying how making someone she hates miserable makes her feel good.
386* FreakOut: She cries and screams when she find out that [[spoiler:her beloved Natsuno Yuuki, might not come back as a Shiki]]. It doesn't last long, thanks to Masao setting off Megumi's BerserkButton, earning him a ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend's DeathGlare, TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, and a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
387* GenreSavvy: Particularly after rising as a Shiki. [[spoiler: Not enough to hightail it out of the village fast enough when things hit the fan, but still.]]
388* GirlishPigtails: She has a twintails hairstyle, which goes well with her bratty and capricious personality.
389* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:She dies while happily dreaming of being in the big city in the manga and novel.]]
390* HiddenDepths:
391** Unlike other dramatic teenagers who are self-absorbed pricks (like Masao), Megumi doesn't seem to want to be a self-absorbed prick to people and keeps her contempt largely to herself (until she becomes a Shiki anyway).
392** In the original novel, Megumi actually has some internal conflict as a Shiki, not liking what she has to do and wishing she had remained human, and with her dark side taking over almost literally [[SuperPoweredEvilSide described as such]]. [[AdaptationalVillainy The manga and anime has none of this.]]
393* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Her motivation at the start of the series.
394* {{Irony}}: In her human life, she was always complaining about living in the small village and wanting to go out and live in a big city. Then she dies and turns into a Shiki, gaining the freedom she long sought for, but can't leave because the Kirishiki won't allow her to be part of the Big City Unit which captures people to feed the Shiki in the village, so she takes out her frustrations on the villagers instead. This winds up backfiring big time when [[spoiler:the villagers strike back, and by the time things have gotten so bad for the Shiki, only ''then'' does she decide to flee to the city, only to barely make it to the city limits before she is caught, staked, and put down for good, dying in the small village she always hated.]]
395* ItsAllAboutMe: A central trait of her's is her inability to see beyond her own wants and needs.
396* {{Jerkass}}: Self-centered, spoiled and condescending. She may have some moments of kindness after becoming a Shiki, but they're few and fair.
397* KarmicDeath: Yeah her death is pretty harsh, but she was pretty much the instigator for the Shiki attacks and freely committed a lot of heinous actions as well. So she did pretty much have it coming.
398* MadLove: She has a huge crush on Natsuno, who makes it clear he only finds her annoying. In response, she frequently chases after him and spies on him behind bushes.
399* MurderTheHypotenuse: The reason why she kills Tohru is because she wants Natsuno to herself and she's jealous of Natsuno's [[AmbiguouslyGay fondness]] of Tohru.
400* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: She gave a good beating to Masao when he insulted Yuuki in front of her. Just watch the end of Episode 14.
401* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: After hearing the Shiki must get rid of Natsuno because he's aware of their existence, Megumi wants to be the one to kill him and tries to intervene in Tohru's mission so he doesn't get to kill Natsuno before her. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her, Tohru bites Natsuno first and Megumi gives up on killing Natsuno.]]
402* OurVampiresAreDifferent: She rises as a Shiki, which makes her essentially a vampire.
403* ParasolOfPrettiness: In the first episode, she's seeing walking around the village with a parasol.
404* PeacefulInDeath: In the novel and manga, she comes to a peaceful state as she dies. Not so in the anime.
405* PetTheDog:
406** Megumi is arguably one of the absolute least sympathetic characters in the series, but even she gets one of these when she [[spoiler: first begs Tatsumi not to kill Natsuno and then offers to kill him so Tohru won't have to]].
407** In the novel, it was shown toward the beginning that she did hold some residual affection for Kaori due to their childhood friendship, and it was Kaori not being able to understand her dreams that angered Megumi to the point of taking the action that led her to becoming a Shiki. [[spoiler: She also initially protests when she is told to attack Kaori's family. The trope becomes subverted immediately afterward once she is informed that Kaori has "come between" her and Yuuki by resident ManipulativeBastard Tatsumi.]]
408* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Masao.
409-->"Shut up you creep! How can scum like you rise up when Yuuki was cremated?! He deserved to be here instead of you! Why don't you take his place and die?! Just shut up. Yuuki should've risen up and become one of us, he would've climbed the ranks right away-straight to the top! He wouldn't be a bottom feeder like you."
410* RedEyesTakeWarning: After she becomes a Shiki.
411* RevengeByProxy: After getting some influence from Tatsumi, Megumi goes to kill Kaori's father to make her pay for getting close to Natsuno.
412* RoseHairedSweetie: She's a self-centered brat and a {{Yandere}}, but she's girly, romantic and cheery. Well and truly averted after she becomes a Shiki.
413* SlasherSmile: The one she has when she kills Tohru is a good example.
414* StalkerWithACrush: She has a habit of watching Yuuki from his window while hiding in the bushes.
415* TeensAreMonsters: She's one of the few teenagers to rise as a Shiki and definitely one of the most monstrously evil.
416* TranshumanTreachery: She takes to being a Shiki very fast, enjoying both the power and freedom it brings. Plus having very little qualms about attacking the villagers.
417* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: More or less the girly girl to Kaori's tomboy.
418* TookALevelInJerkass: After rising up as a Shiki, Megumi becomes more malicious, openly expresses her disgust of the village and becomes a dangerous {{Yandere}} over Yuuki.
419* UndignifiedDeath: In the Anime at least, Megumi spends her final moments tearfully trying to convince the villagers not to kill her, it doesn't work and she's ran over with a tractor multiple times, even after this she's still weakly pawing at one of the villagers(who rightly notes that they've maybe dragged it on for too long) as he puts her out of her misery.
420* UngratefulBitch: Kaori is nothing but nice to Megumi when she's alive and is grief-stricken by her death, when Megumi rises as a Shiki she does whatever is possible to make Kaori's life a living hell.
421* VirusVictimSymptoms: After her visit to the Kirishikis's manor, she quickly falls very ill much to the confusion of the doctors as she didn't show any signs of it beforehand, much more so when they can't find the cause of blood loss. She's virutally bedridden afterwards and dies not long afterwards.
422* {{Yandere}}: After rising as a Shiki, she kills Tohru because, as his best friend, Natsuno likes Tohru more than her.
423[[/folder]]
424
425[[folder:Takeo Shimizu]]
426[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/char_34501.jpg]]
427->'''Voiced by:''' Hiroaki Ishikawa (JP), Cole Brown (EN)
428
429Megumi's father who is left heavily distraught after his daughter's untimely death.
430----
431* EveryoneHasStandards: He's shocked by how Tomio has no shame in killing [[spoiler:his own son]]. This contrasts how he had a good relationship with his daughter before her untimely death.
432* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:He was a member of the group of villagers who attacked the shrine and murdered Seishin's mother under the suspicion that she was in league with the Shiki. Unlike Tomio he manages to survive the finale and leaves the village with his wife.]]
433* KnightTemplarParent: He'd certainly kill a woman if said woman was his daughter's killer.
434* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He is shown to still be alive at the end of the series, meaning he survived both Megumi's rise as a Shiki [[spoiler:and her eventual second death at the hands of the villagers]].
435* PapaWolf: He deeply cared for his daughter and is horrified when she dies. [[spoiler:Later when Dr. Ozaki reveals her killer to him he immediately takes his revenge by driving a stake through her heart.]]
436[[/folder]]
437
438!!!Others
439
440
441[[folder:Ritsuko Kunihiro]]
442[[quoteright:187:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ritsuko_kunihiro.png]]
443->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NozomiSasaki (JP), Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard (EN)
444
445A nurse at the Ozaki Clinic and Toshio's right hand. She's kind and gentle to everyone, and works hard to help people get better. She has a dog named Taro and is the object of Tohru's affection.
446----
447* AnimeHair: Her hair twirls around like a spiral.
448* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler:Delivers these to Tohru about his motives and why he's been going along with the attacks. It works enough that he spares her coworker.]]
449* BackFromTheDead: She dies and rises as a Shiki near the end of the series.
450* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Green hair and eyes.
451* EvilDetectingDog: Has one in Taro. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she opts not to listen to his warnings and ends up killed for it.]]
452* HeroicWillpower: [[spoiler: Her refusal to drink blood as a vampire.]]
453* ImprobableHairstyle: It defies gravity in more ways than one!
454* IncorruptiblePurePureness: [[spoiler:Not even turning into a Shiki and feeling the need to drink blood to survive could corrupt her and she chooses to die instead of becoming a murderous monster.]]
455* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Some Shiki bite her and she dies again and for good after being exposed and staked.]]
456* NiceGirl: Quite possibly the kindest character in all of Shiki. [[spoiler:So nice, she adamantly refuses to kill her coworker.]]
457* OurVampiresAreDifferent: She rises as a Shiki.
458* ReluctantMonster: She rises as a Shiki, but refuses to become a "monster" [[spoiler:and prefers to die of starvation and stay dead than to kill another human being.]]
459* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She's going steady with Tohru, one of her coworkers' eldest son and he shown to be nothing but kind. [[spoiler:At least until everything goes to hell, though she's able to reel him in.]]
460* ThouShaltNotKill: She completely refuses to kill people. [[spoiler:Even after becoming a Shiki she refuses to kill in order to survive and chooses to die of starvation instead.]]
461* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Tohru.]]
462* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:So sweet and pure that when she rises she chooses to die of starvation and stay dead than to kill another human being.]]
463* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Not her, but rather her dog. [[spoiler:After Ritsuko gets bitten and Ozaki returns her home, he's nowhere to be found.]]
464[[/folder]]
465
466[[folder:Masao Murasako]]
467[[quoteright:118:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/masao_murasako.png]]
468->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinyaTakahashi (JP), Creator/ToddHaberkorn (EN)
469
470An obnoxious high school second year. Prone to whining and moaning about his lot in life despite others being much worse off.
471----
472* AintTooProudToBeg: In the anime, [[spoiler: he's so terrified at the prospect of dying that he begs for help from his sister-in-law, though of course she kills him instead]]. It's arguably the most sympathetic he's been all series.
473* AssholeVictim: Seems to get this treatment in the manga. He starts off this way in the anime too, but ultimately the focus gets less and less on the "asshole" part and [[JerkassWoobie more and more on the "victim" part]].
474* AttentionWhore: It's implied it comes from his home life, where he's being neglected in favour of his nephew. In fact, Tohru's sister accuses him of being one.
475* BackFromTheDead: Another Shiki victim who rises.
476* BeadyEyedLoser: Virtually ''no one'' likes him.
477* ButtMonkey: Particularly after [[spoiler: he becomes a Shiki]].
478* CampStraight: He acts in effeminate ways, which frequently get coded as gay; but the only people he expresses anything resembling romantic interest in are female.
479* DirtyCoward: According to just about everyone who interacts with him.
480* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: He has sallow-looking skin and brownish-black hair, [[spoiler: both as a human and as a Shiki]].
481%%* EmoTeen
482* {{Foil}}: Variously functions as a foil to Tohru, Natsuno, and Megumi.
483* {{Gonk}}: In contrast to many of the male characters, whom border from cute to pretty, Masao isn't exactly that.
484* HarmlessVillain: Despite all his bad qualities, he apparently couldn't bring himself to kill innocent humans, which Megumi bitches him out for. Subverted in the manga, where he was more than willing to turn his family members into his slaves starting with his ''niece'' in order to survive, only to get a knife stabbed into his head and a speech that describes the kind of person he is from his sister-in-law before she kills him.
485* HiddenDepths: He's essentially a JerkassWoobie masquerading as a StrawLoser.
486* InnocentlyInsensitive: Most of his dialogue consists of his acting this way.
487* ItsAllAboutMe: Various characters have accused him of having this worldview, depending on the version.
488* {{Jerkass}}: A jerk to pretty much everyone except Tohru.
489* MadLove: Implied to have a crush on Megumi, who is obsessed with another man and insults him and beats him up on a regular basis.
490* MissingMom: Masao is the ''only'' teenager in Sotoba--and one of the only younger villagers in general--who doesn't seem to have a mother.
491* MotorMouth: He rarely goes quiet unless it's upset.
492* OurVampiresAreDifferent: He eventually rises as a Shiki.
493* TheResenter: Towards both his nephew and Yuuki.
494* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Tohru and Natsuno's blue. He is also blue to Tatsumi and Megumi's red.
495* SissyVillain: Although how much of a "villain" he is probably depends on your interpretation.
496* SpoiledBrat: In the manga it's implied that he grew up as this, but now his nephew receives the attention he used to.
497* StalkerWithACrush: His behavior toward Megumi shows signs of his being this.
498* TheUnfavorite:
499** He seems to be felt like he was treated like this by his family, to the point they [[spoiler: let him die all alone while they look after his nephew]] and then later seem to have completely forgotten that he was [[spoiler: one of the Shiki's casualties to avenge]]. Although he does more-or-less seem to bring it on himself, and at least in the manga it's revealed that he used to be the favorite before his nephew came along.
500** His resentment towards Yuuki is rooted in his jealousy over how fast Yuuki and Tohru became close friends and over the fact that Megumi is obsessed with him.
501* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: He honestly can't understand why girls like Megumi would ever fall in love with cold cool guys like Yuuki.
502[[/folder]]
503
504[[folder:Nao Yasumori]]
505[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/417218_raw_shiki_23mp4_snapshot_1106_20110602_184833.png]]
506->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikiIto (JP), Creator/CynthiaCranz (EN)
507
508A young woman who moved in Sotoba several years ago after marrying Mikiyasu, another friend of Dr. Ozaki and Seishin. Begins to show the symptoms of a Shiki bite early on and quickly succumbs to it.
509----
510* AlcoholicParent: Not the Yasumoris, but her own family.
511* AllForNothing: She thought killing her entire family would eventually turn them into Shikis and they would be together forever, but they didn't rise up. All of the actions she did were meaninglessness.
512* BackFromTheDead: Another Shiki victim who rises.
513* ADeathInTheLimelight: The first OVA reveals information about her life prior to the beginning of the series. [[spoiler:And she dies by the end of it.]]
514* FaceDeathWithDignity: In the anime, [[spoiler:Nao smiles at Hasegawa when he gives her a MercyKill]].
515* HappilyAdopted: The Yasumori family happily treated her like she was already family.
516* HatesBeingAlone: Nao desperately wants to have her family by her side. So much so that she killed all of them hoping they could join her as Shiki. Sadly, none of them rose up.
517* HeelRealization: In the manga, [[spoiler:when facing death at the hands of the villagers]], she realizes that she is no different from the {{serial killer}}s and murderers she once denounced. In the anime, in the same situation, she realizes how horrible it was to kill her entire family hoping in vain they would return as Shiki.
518* {{Irony}}: She escapes from her AbusiveParents and finally finds a loving family in Sotoba, only to have it all taken away from her when none of the others rise when she kills them. And she knows that it's her own fault, too.
519* InelegantBlubbering: She is rather sensitive.
520* KillTheOnesYouLove: She ends up killing her husband, son, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, father-in-law and mother-in-law because she wanted to try and turn them into Shiki like her. Unfortunately, none of them rise up and Nao starts breaking down when she realizes she killed the only people who ever loved her.
521* MercyKill: [[spoiler:In the anime, Hasegawa mercifully stabs her so she doesn't die in agony when the villagers leave her to be burned in the sunlight.]]
522* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After she kills her entire family and none of them returns as a Shiki, Nao comes to deeply regret what she did to them and realizes that not only did she end up alone anyway, but she destroyed the only happiness she ever had.
523* OffingTheOffspring: A more sympathetic version. She kills her own son in a failed attempt to turn him into a Shiki.
524* ParentalAbandonment: Her real parents were addicted to alcohol and gambling. They ended up practically committing fraud and ran off somewhere. They left without her when she was six years old.
525* OurVampiresAreDifferent: She rises as a Shiki.
526* SelfMadeOrphan: Her in-laws were pretty much her parents and killed them only because she believed they would come back.
527* TeenPregnancy: Was about 18 when she had her son.
528* TranshumanTreachery: Whilst most of the Shiki are guilty of this, Nao is a particularly good example. She goes after her family before anyone else, hoping that they will rise too so that she won't be alone anymore.
529[[/folder]]
530
531[[folder:Kanami Yano]]
532->'''Voiced by:''' Tamako Nohama (JP), Creator/StephanieYoung (EN)
533
534Owner of the restaurant Chigusa. She lives with her mother Tae.
535----
536* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Despite losing her mother and being betrayed by her childhood friend, she manages to live to the very end.]]
537* AgentScully: Thinks what Motoko is saying is crazy. [[spoiler:Until her own mother dies and rises up.]]
538* DisappearedDad: Her dad died when she was young.
539[[/folder]]
540
541[[folder:Motoko Maeda]]
542[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mm_syqhhzsq.jpg]]
543->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatomiSakamoto (JP), Dana Schultes (EN)
544
545A young extremely neurotic, xenophobic, and unhinged housewife from lower Sotoba and Kanami's childhood friend.
546----
547* BreakTheCutie: Her children dying while no one listens to her and finding out [[spoiler: Kanami’s mother has risen]] utterly breaks her.
548* CloudCuckoolander: She's not quite right in the head, being very paranoid (which ironically proved to be a case of ProperlyParanoid).
549* ChekhovsGunman: While she never was the most minor character even in the beginning, a few would suspect that, in the end, it's her actions that will arguably be the most meaningful and impactful of all, probably being the only to really matter, and that she'll be the one to [[spoiler:destroy Sotoba and decisively decide it's fate]].
550* ChildhoodFriends: With Kanami. [[spoiler:But they eventually fall apart when Motoko subconsciously unwittingly betrays Kanami and Tae to the villagers, leading to Tae's death at their hands and Kanami leaving the village. They never met each other again, as Motoko herself stayed in the village and died after this and Kanami survived. ]]
551* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Blue hair and blue eyes.
552* CuteAndPsycho: Motoko is pretty cute and charming at her best times and maximum composure. Even when intensively worrying, she's still cute, but she becomes increasingly worrying, creepy, disturbing and downright horrifying the further she goes in that direction.
553* ADayInTheLimelight: She gets her own episode dedicated to her story and overall role in events.
554* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Upon learning she was right about the outsiders being the cause of her suffering all along, she soaks a majority of Sotoba in gasoline and burns it to the ground, laughing about how she finally beat the "old man" who was the catalyst for her children's deaths by destroying the village he called home.]]
555* DieLaughing: [[spoiler:She only has an extremely sinister grin and goes "I win" as she douses Sotoba in flames.]]
556* DissonantSerenity: She frequently slips in it at her worst, in a stark contrast to her usual jittery self, the two being her polar extremes. It becomes permanent after the [[spoiler:death of her son and she remains completely unfazed and detached even amidst the ensuing slaughter.]]
557* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:In the end, after losing her entire family to the Shikis, she sets herself on fire along with the village, though her actual thoughts and intents while doing this is debatable.]]
558* HeroicBSOD: Regularly goes through it, it mostly being her normal state.
559* InsaneEqualsViolent: Averted, as Motoko is one of the most unviolent characters, never having killed anyone, while also arguably being the most mentally deteriorated.
560* MadnessMantra: "Damn you old man..."
561* MamaBear: Attempts to protect her children from harm. While it’s sadly rendered useless, she attempts to find and kill their murderer, none other than her father-in-law Iwao.
562* NervousWreck: Oh so very much, it's her defining trait, from constant worrying and panicking, to nervous jittering and twitching and, in manga, chewing her fingers when especially anxious, to physically harming herself in a crazed panic.
563* ObnoxiousInLaws: She really doesn't get along with her husband's parents, though her relationship with him isn't what you'd call a happy one.
564* OnlySaneWoman: Amazingly, despite generally being pretty much bonkers, she was also at the same time one of the most rational people in the village as she was the only one to correctly blame the deaths on suspicious new arrivals when everyone else were completely trusting and she was also the only one to make a wise decision to take a more active stance in their defence against Shikis and lock up inside the house when she learned about them, instead of passively sitting, waiting for wonders to happen.
565* TheParanoiac: That's pretty much her cue.
566* ProperlyParanoid: She was completely right about not trusting outsiders and Kirishikis being the ones to blame. She was also right when she thought that Shikis are going to come for them and prompted to lock herself with her son in a bathroom.
567* SanitySlippage: Motoko was severely unhinged and unstable even from the beginning, but her condition only worsened as people around her started to die. As her usual, Motoko always seems to be in a half-crazed state, having intense constant paranoia, numerous fears and obsessions and frequent twitchy shrunken eyes, while remaining somewhat detached, shifting from twitching in panic to uncanny calmness and serenity, speaking in monotone with a blank face, but still having crazy eyes. As a side effect, she also seems to be mostly numb to physical pain. Ironically, while she seems to be the most unstable, she still probably is the most "sane" in some sense and less violent of the villagers as she's one of the few to never actually kill anyone, human or Shiki, and her increased overall paranoia, suspiciousness and awareness also allowed her to deduce the nature and cause of deaths in the village relatively early on all by herself, being pretty much the only known person to do that.
568* TwitchyEye: Very frequent. That's her normal defining type of behaviour.
569* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: After losing her entire family and what little scraps of the sanity she had, Motoko sets herself and the village on fire, commiting suicide and burning it down, along with the large chunk of its surroundings.
570[[/folder]]
571
572!The Kirishikis
573A mysterious family who move into the Kanemasa mansion at the start of the series. They are the original Shiki group.
574
575[[folder:Sunako Kirishiki]]
576[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kirishiki_sunako.png]]
577->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiYuuki (JP), Creator/CheramiLeigh (EN)
578
579The young daughter of the Kirishikis. In reality the progenitor of the rest of the Shiki in the village.
580----
581* AffablyEvil: Sunako usually shows herself as very polite and friendly to those she doesn't want to attack, such as Seishin. Sometimes it's easy to forget she is trying to kill all the humans in the village.
582* BerserkButton: She does not like to be addressed as "Sunako-chan" (Miss Sunako in the dub). Anyone who attaches that [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] with her name risks her wrath.
583* BigBad: The leader of the Shiki and the reason behind the events of the series. Masterminds the plan to turn Sotoba into Shiki Heaven.
584* BlackEyesOfEvil: She has creepy hollow black eyes, emphasizing her inhuman nature.
585* {{Bookworm}}: She confesses so to Seishin, expressing her great admiration for his novels.
586* ChurchgoingVillain: Whenever she takes a break from leading the usurpation of the village, Sunako visits the local church where she quickly befriends the priest Seishin. When things get bad for the Shiki and the humans start killing them, her first impulse is to go to an abandoned church and ask God for forgiveness and protection.
587* CreepyChild: Her major case of BlackEyesOfEvil combined with her cutesy voice and ElegantGothicLolita fashions open up a big ol' box of creepiness.
588* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Sunako was originally a beloved daughter of a well-off family. One day, she was bitten by [[GreaterScopeVillain a vampire Western noble]], who was a guest of her family, and died. After she rose as a Shiki, her family kept her confined and sent her servants to feed upon. After some time, she finally escaped her "refuge" and, after discovering her family had moved, went on a journey to find them. For many years, she searched to no avail. As time passed, and decades went by, Sunako realized that, by now, all of her family must have passed. She lived many years alone, but slowly created a family of Shiki. However, they had to keep moving or were hunted.]]
589* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:In the show's climax she is confronted by Tomio who proceeds to give her a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbal smackdown]] that ends up mentally destroying her and her will to live. The only reason she didn't burn in at the church was due to Seishin bailing her out.]]
590* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: She has long dark hair and ghostly pale skin, which is a befitting for an undead.
591* ElegantGothicLolita: She mostly wears different kinds of Lolita fashion with accessories. Her "Queen of Hearts" dress was actually [[https://lolibrary.org/items/ap-queen-trump-op designed by the real-life Lolita brand Angelic Pretty.]]
592* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Even though her plan is to kill and replace all the villagers with shiki, she's capable of unselfish love and genuine devotion to her family.
593* FamilyValuesVillain: Everything she does is for the welfare of her family.
594* FemmeFatalons: She has long red nails.
595* {{Hypocrite}}: Perhaps her most driving flaw, she wants to be trusted and accepted, but doesn't trust and accept in turn. This leads her to act rashly and to jump to conclusions about others. [[spoiler:As Tomio points out, had she just ''tried'' a diplomatic solution then, just maybe, [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot a lot of tears and bloodshed could have been prevented]]. This is also reflected in her breakdown after the villagers fight back, she caused the deaths of plenty of innocent people yet clearly couldn't handle suffering the same fate.]]
596* ImprobableHairstyle: Like Ritsuko's, her hairstyle doesn't seem to be affected by gravity.
597* InterspeciesFriendship: She admires and gets along well with the human priest Seishin.
598* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:She decides to stay and die in the fire when her plan and the village burn around her. Seishin arrives and convinces her to escape with him.]]
599* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Downplayed. Despite all the people who die because of her, she gets out alive in the end. But she loses everyone she ever cared about save Seishin, and although she seems to get past her DespairEventHorizon, it's likely she still won't be able to forgive herself for her sins.]]
600* LackOfEmpathy: She is genuinely sad that she had killed many people, but she spends the majority of her mourning time finding excuses for herself and her actions, and never even tries to minimize the deaths. She's the one who planned to slaughter an entire village, and to kidnap random innocent people from the next city, just so she could have a village of her pawns to keep her company.
601* MoralityPet: To Tatsumi. His only redeeming trait is his genuine loyalty, affection and admiration to Sunako.
602* AMotherToHerMen: She genuinely cares about her Shiki underlings. She refuses to run away right away [[spoiler:after Ozaki exposes the Shiki to the village]] because she doesn't want to abandon the newly turned Shiki.
603* NeverMyFault: Her defining trait. She constantly makes up excuses over the deaths of the people she and the others are responsible for.
604* NonActionBigBad: She's the leader of the Shiki, but her body is that of a fragile little girl. She could never stand a chance against a group of humans and she knows this. [[spoiler:In the climax, Tomio would have easily killed her if not for Seishin's intervention.]]
605* {{Ojou}}: She gives off this image, being a young girl with sophisticated manners living in a huge mansion. It's later revealed she was a legitimate example when she was human.
606* TheOlderImmortal: She's the oldest of the Shiki in Sotoba.
607* OurVampiresAreDifferent: She's a Shiki, which is essentially a vampire.
608* ParentalSubstitute: She serves as a mother figure to Chizuru rather than the other way around.
609* ThePollyanna: Until things start going sideways, she's never seen without a smile.
610* PunchClockVillain: How she sees herself, she has nothing personal against humans and even befriends one but believes that killing them is the only way she can survive.
611* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Despite her appearance of a 13-year-old girl, she's at least two centuries old.
612* ReligiousVampire: She's fairly religious and wrestles with the hypocrisy of being a vampire who kills people to survive when murder is a great sin. She also makes several references to Literature/TheBible, especially Cain and Abel.
613* UndeadChild: She may look like a little girl, but she's actually the leader of the Shiki and is at least two centuries old.
614* VampireLolitaArchetype: Sunako was turned into a vampire at a young age, lived for two centuries, her family tried to house her but moved without telling her, leaving her by her lonesome. She loves to dress in Lolita clothing, has long hair and, though she poses as the daughter of the Kirishiki family, is really the head vampire. Even though she's trying to kill all humans at a village, she's a sympathetic AntiVillain whose goal is creating a place where she and her kindred can live peacefully. She also manages to form a close friendship with the town's priest.
615* VillainousBreakdown: Goes through one as [[spoiler:the Shiki hunts get closer to her location, trying to justify her actions to herself as she attempts to avoid death.]]
616* TheWomanBehindTheMan: She's the real leader of the Shikis.
617* WomanChild: Played with, it is averted for most of her screentime despite her childish appearance as she's both very well mannered and cunning, but [[spoiler: her reaction to the villagers hunting down the Shiki comes across as less like one of an immortal centuries-old vampire and more like one of a scared child who can't understand why this is happening.]]
618* WouldHurtAChild: She's the main instigator of the Shiki attack in Sotoba and doesn't show a lot of guilt in the deaths of children and teenagers.
619[[/folder]]
620
621[[folder:Chizuru Kirishiki]]
622[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/105226_4462.jpg]]
623->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiOrikasa (JP), Creator/LydiaMackay (EN)
624
625The supposed mother of Sunako and wife of Seishirou. In reality, she's another Shiki and is actually younger than Sunako.
626----
627* AlasPoorVillain: Chizuru was a total bitch and ruthless killer, but it's hard not to feel sorry for her when [[spoiler:she is getting lynched while begging for her life when she was discovered as a Shiki by the villagers.]]
628* AxCrazy: She's…more than a little unhinged.
629* BlackEyesOfEvil: As typical of older Shiki, she has solid black eyes.
630* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:When she was alive, Chizuru was a loving wife until her husband died during war, and she was later turned into a Shiki and wandered around lost without love until she found Seishirou.]]
631* DevotedToYou: Seishirou is hopelessly devoted to her.
632* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Kaori blushes when she first sees Chizuru and Megumi compliments her beauty.
633* FemmeFatale: She likes to seduce her victims before draining their blood and killing them.
634* FemmeFatalons: Her long black nails.
635* KarmicDeath: Ever since her introduction, she victimized villagers without restraint, gloated over her ability to enthrall many of the male villagers, and showed very little (if any) remorse when Tatsumi and Yoshie addressed her careless behavior. In the end, [[spoiler:she was publicly destroyed in front of most of the village in a humiliating way.]]
636* LockedIntoStrangeness: She had light brown hair when she was human. It presumably changed to platinum blonde after she became a Shiki.
637* MsFanservice: She's an extremely sexy and seductive woman and likes to wear some alluring ridiculous outfits.
638* OhCrap: [[spoiler:After realizing that Toshio tricked and outed her.]]
639* OurVampiresAreDifferent: One of the Shiki.
640* OutGambitted: For a long time, she was sure she had Ozaki under her thrall thanks to having bitten him. [[spoiler:In reality, thanks to Natsuno having bitten him before she got to him, he was playing her like a fiddle, taking advantage of her conviction in order to gain her genuine trust and use her as a springboard to start the Shiki hunt by providing irrefutable evidence to the other villagers]].
641* ShoutOut: Appears in one episode dressed like Music/LadyGaga.
642* TheVamp: Uses sex appeal to tempt the villagers out of their homes. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Seishirou when he helps her once, remarking that he can't believe he's helping his wife to have an affair.
643* VillainousBreakdown: After [[spoiler:Ozaki exposes her as a Shiki and has the villagers turn against her]], Chizuru is reduced to a state where she's screaming for help and begging for her life like a defenseless child.
644* WomanChild: Not quite as mature as her daughter. Yoshie flat out says that Sunako is the mother in their relationship.
645[[/folder]]
646
647[[folder:Seishirou Kirishiki]]
648[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kirishiki_seishirou.png]]
649->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Gackt}} (JP), Creator/JMichaelTatum (EN)
650
651Sunako's supposed father. Except not really.
652----
653* ActuallyNotAVampire: It's easy to assume that he's a Shiki since he's the "father" of the Kirishiki family, but [[spoiler:he is completely human and apparently the one who funds Sunako.]]
654* BadassCape: He wears a cape in the final part of the story when the war between the humans and the Shiki starts.
655* BadassNormal: He is a normal human whose power lies in his financial assets. However, he is particularly deadly with firearms, controls a pack of dogs, and is respected by all the shiki as the master of his family.
656* {{Brainwashing}}: [[spoiler:Is bitten by Natsuno and ordered to hunt down and kill the rest of the Kirishikis.]]
657* DrivenToSuicide: In the manga and anime, [[spoiler:he commits suicide after being bitten and hypnotized by Natsuno.]]
658* ExactWords: Thanks to [[spoiler: Natsuno ordering him to "kill everyone who lives at the mansion", he was able to use it to kill himself.]]
659* FaceDeathWithDignity: In the anime, [[spoiler:he smiles as he willingly walks into the castle where he dies in the fire.]]
660* TheGunslinger: He fights with a rifle.
661* TokenHuman: [[spoiler:The only human Kirishiki.]]
662* UnusualEyebrows: His eyebrows look like caterpillars.
663* VampireVannabe: [[spoiler:Really wants to become a Shiki, but due to the fact that neither of his parents turned, the possibility of that happening is zero. However in the manga he was more happy that he could be with Chizuru and be with people who actually cared about him.]]
664[[/folder]]
665
666[[folder:Tatsumi]]
667[[quoteright:197:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tatsumi_shiki.png]]
668->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/WataruTakagi (JP), Creator/IanSinclair (EN)
669
670Sunako's right hand man and the most dangerous of the Shiki due to lacking their various weaknesses.
671----
672* AnimeHair: His hairstyle makes it look like he has wolf ears on his head.
673* AxCrazy: It's not apparent at first, but it becomes clear he's rather unhinged.
674* BattleButler: He works as a butler for the Kirishiki and is also their strongest fighter.
675* BigOlEyebrows: He has pretty thick and furry eyebrows.
676* BitchInSheepsClothing: When we first see him, he appears to be friendly and harmless. Of course this is all a lie, but it's only around Episode 7 that he shows his true colors as a cold, cruel master manipulator.
677* ChessmasterSidekick: Is very competent and in charge of doing everything the Shiki need during the day, but is fiercely loyal to Sunako to the point of [[spoiler:dying so she can get away in the end]].
678* CoolShades: His glasses.
679* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Bumbling fool one moment, horror on legs the second.
680* DaywalkingVampire: Unlike other Shiki, he's immune to sunlight.
681* TheDragon: Sunako's right hand man.
682* EvenEvilHasStandards: Is noticeably disgusted by how Hayami is doing his job running the funeral service. Though this could be more because it threatens to expose the Shiki’s existence to the world.
683* FauxAffablyEvil: His jovial personality hides how dangerous he truly is.
684* TheHeavy: He's working under Sunako's orders, but Tatsumi is the main active villain in the story with Sunako rarely taking part herself. He's the biggest threat to the human side and the one to lead the newly risen Shiki.
685* IHaveYourWife: He forces Tohru to kill Natsuno by threatening to go after Tohru's family if he doesn't do it.
686* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:How he dies in the manga.]]
687* {{Jerkass}}: He sends newborn Shiki after their loved ones and punishes anyone who doesn't.
688* MoreThanMindControl: We see him doing this with Masao after digging him up (doubtless he does the same with every new vampire that falls into his care).
689* MrExposition: He explains the Shiki's nature and weaknesses to Masao after he rises.
690* NonIndicativeName: Sunako calls him a werewolf rather than a Shiki, but that doesn't mean he can turn into a wolf at all; he's really just a human-like DaywalkingVampire. According to him, Sunako just thought it would be funny to call him a werewolf because vampires often have a werewolf {{Familiar}} in movies.
691* TheNoseKnows: His sense of smell tells him whether a dead human will rise as a Shiki.
692* ObfuscatingStupidity: It's hard to tell how much of his goofy persona is an act.
693* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:The guy gets shot and driven over multiple times before falling into a fissure. What finally kills him differs between the manga ([[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice staked on a stalagmite]]) and anime (blown up by dynamite).]]
694* RidiculouslyAliveUndead: He's a very rare kind of Shiki that retains human qualities after being transformed. Besides his [[DaywalkingVampire immunity to sunlight]], he can eat human food and his eyes and skin tone are normal in contrast to the regular Shiki's BlackEyesOfEvil and UndeathlyPallor.
695* {{Sadist}}: He enjoys tormenting his victims and putting others through terrible agony. Megumi even calls him a sadist.
696* StrawNihilist: [[spoiler:Reveals in his final moments that he is a nihilist in the manga. Knowing that Sunako's actions were futile, he just wanted to see the Shiki and mankind wipe each other out.]]
697* UndyingLoyalty: He's completely loyal to Sunako, to the point of readily risking his own life to protect her.
698* VillainousValour: [[spoiler:Acts as a decoy to the villagers and gives Sunako a chance to escape.]]
699* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Ties up Akira when he’s in front of the Shikified Iwao Maeda and might’ve succeeded in having him killed by the latter in the original novel. Fortunately, this isn’t the case in the Anime and Manga, where Natsuno saves Akira. He also threatens families of risen Shikis, and is therefore not above harming children in general.]]
700[[/folder]]
701
702[[folder:Hayami]]
703-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuoTobita (JP), Creator/SonnyStrait (EN)
704
705The Shiki[[note]]Implied to be a Jinrou[[/note]] responsible for the Funeral services when Seishin ends up busy.
706----
707* AgentPeacock: He’s far more extravagantly dressed compared to the rest of he Kirishikis, but he’s damn lethal for sure.
708* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Makes the Tanaka siblings’ father and Atsushi’s funeral look like a party. Everyone is understandably horrified. Tatsumi isn’t exactly thrilled.
709* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Vanishes near the end.
710[[/folder]]
711
712!Other Shiki
713
714[[folder:Shizuka Matsuo]]
715[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/54513.jpg]]
716->'''Voiced by''': Mayu Iino (Japanese), Creator/AlisonViktorin (English)
717
718Creepy, eccentric little Shiki girl, who appears to be one of the older senior Shikis.
719----
720* BareHandedPuppetry: When she throws her bunraku puppet out of anger, she keeps talking through the other "puppet" she has drawn with marker on her right hand.
721* CreepyChild: Being a Shiki little girl naturally makes her creepy, though she stands out even among others with her unsettling mannerisms.
722* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: She's an UndeadChild with long straight black hair in anime and chalk-white skin like most Shiki.
723* UndeadChild: Similar to Sunako, she was turned Shiki as a child. Her innocent looks heavily contrast her creepy vampire behavior.
724* VagueAge: She looks like a little girl even younger than Sunako, but due to being a Shiki, Shizuka might be [[OlderThanTheyLook much older]]. Her speaking in old Japanese is an indication that she could be one of the older Shiki.
725* {{Ventriloquism}}: She shows her abilities as a ventriloquist by talking through her bunraku puppet.

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