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Witnesses and miscellaneous characters that appear exclusively in the officially licensed Ace Attorney theatrical works. Here is the main character sheet.
Takarazuka Revue musicals
Leona Clyde
Phoenix Wright's love interest and former classmate who works for Governor Miller Arthur as his legal advisor. She becomes the defendant in the murder of Senator Robert Cole.- Bus Crash: Dies in a car accident between the first two plays, which forms much of Phoenix's inner conflict in the sequel.
- Composite Character: With the play being an adaptation of Rise from the Ashes, she functionally acts as the Lana Skye of the story, but she’s also inserted into Phoenix’s class trial backstory alongside Edgeworth and Larry, with a dose of Promoted to Love Interest.
Governor Miller Arthur
A US Senator who is running for president.- Adaptation Name Change: Since the play’s story adapts Rise from the Ashes, he fills the role Damon Gant had in the source.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Beloved figure of the press, yet the one who is ultimately the killer.
Monica Clyde
Leona Clyde's younger sister who works as a doctor.- Adaptation Name Change: Since the play’s story adapts Rise from the Ashes she fills the roll of Ema Skye.
Lucia Aleia
The daughter of Phoenix Wright's former fourth grade teacher. Decides to become a lawyer at the end of the musical.- All Love Is Unrequited: Develops feelings for Phoenix, but he tells her to stay by Roland's side.
Rose Aleia
Phoenix Wright's former fourth grade teacher who is accused of murder. She was the one who oversaw Phoenix's class trial in his youth.- Named by the Adaptation: The teacher who held the class trial that constitutes Phoenix’s backstory was never named in the games.
Roland Smith
A land developer and Lucia's fiancé.Mary Webber
Marcus Payne's secretary.Alison Teresa
A woman Edgeworth meets in the past.Stage shows
Yuuya Dan
The actor playing Daitengu in the Steel Samurai stage show, and the victim of the case who was injured after a falling lantern fell on him during production. One of Will Powers' juniors in the Steel Samurai Theater Troupe.
Kaori Miwakuno
Yuuya's girlfriend. An actress in the Steel Samurai Theater Troupe who is skilled in fight scenes, and another of Powers' juniors.
Danai Meta
The producer for the troupe. He's the one who caused the accident, but his true target was Will Powers so Yuuya could be the star instead.
- Accidental Misnaming: People frequently call him Tanai instead of Danai, something that infuriates him to no end.
Riki Urano
The troupe's stagehand supervisor.
Hananitsuku Erito
The sponsor for the Steel Samurai Theater Troupe, and the CEO of EriCorp, a company specializing on online shopping and information. He's also Will Powers' childhood friend, who also had aspirations of being an actor, but had to quit acting following an injury.
Tsutomu Hikage
A stagehand assistant who was on backstage during the play.
Yumeko Sandaiji
A girl whom Larry had met online (using Edgeworth's name as a handle) and had arranged a date with.
Buffalo Chikusa
A pro-wrestler and Yumeko's best friend.
Gaga Miyako
A Japanese kimono actress who died before making her big break at a Broadway Musical. Her ghost now wanders the theater as the leader of Troupe Sukhavati, a group of ghosts who have met a similar fate.
Tomorou Asukai
The lead actor in the action show "Psychic Academy Σ", playing the role of 'Psychic Teacher, with the fearsome Teleportation Ability'. Also claims to have been the one to have murdered Koyuki Kurono and set the scene using said power, and challenges Edgeworth to find another explanation for how her body moved before the day is over.
- Clarke's Third Law: His "teleportation" is actually him making use of hidden passageways throughout the village.
- Skyward Scream: Lets one out after Tsubaki is arrested.
- Taking the Heat: Turns out to have done this for Tsubaki twice — once when the shrine burned down 17 years ago, and again in the present day for his murder of Koyuki.
Shougo Shouji, Matsuko Ozaki, and Ban Baban
Three actors in Psychic Academy Σ playing the students of Psychic Teacher. The three of them got their roles via nepotism.
- Jerkass: The three of them spend most of their time on stage picking on Mamoru. Downplayed with Ban, who seems to just be doing it to go along with the other two and doesn't hold any ill will towards him.
Mamoru Takanashi
An actor in Psychic Academy Σ and the only one to have gotten a role in the show via audition. Has an interest in photography.
- Butt-Monkey: The other young actors bully him a lot.
- Taking the Heat: Tries to do this for his fellow
Tsubaki Tenma
The head of Dragon God Village leading the protest against the planned construction of the dam in the area. Old friends with Koyuki and Tomorou. The true culprit of the crime, having killed Koyuki for agreeing to the dam's construction.
- Younger Than They Look: Is 30 years old despite looking about twice as old.
Motsuo Nakatori
The leader of the Dragon God Village Youth Group who had just returned to the village a month prior.
Kanji Hidari and Yoshie Ukon
Two elderly village residents protesting the dam construction.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Though they're mostly quirky old folks, they turn very serious when the Dragon Scale is stolen and pull swords on Kay when she's accused of the theft.
- Face–Heel Turn: They're quick to change their tune about the dam when they see how much Yaichirou is willing to pay them for their land.
Yaichirou Chiage
A land developer who's been seeking to purchase Dragon God Village's land for the dam construction.
- All for Nothing: Despite all of the deals he cut for the village's land, he learns in the play's final act that the village is a habitat for a protected species of magpie, therefore there's no way his plan to build a dam would be approved by authorities outside the village.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Has shades of this, as at one point he asks a sign buried in the ground how much he can give it for its "land".
- Every Man Has His Price: He believes he can get anything just with money.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Him and the company he represents, whose attempts to buy out the land Dragon God Village is on ultimately results in the murder occuring in the first place.
- Gratuitous English: "HOW MUCH!?"
- Hidden Depths: Is surprisingly knowledgeable about Dragon God Village's history and traditions for someone interested in buying up its land. That's because he used to live there as well.
- Jerkass Has a Point: He's not wrong in saying there's not much left for the village after the local festival was canceled.
- Meaningful Name: His last name is a play on "jiage", the Japanese word for land speculation.
- Red Herring: Just because Koyuki was murdered with his beloved attache case doesn't mean he's the one that did it.
- Smug Snake: While it's downplayed for the most part, he's quite overconfident and smug with regards to the land purchasing, and it really comes out when Tenma is exposed as Koyuki's killer, mocking him and Asukai for the latter's attempts to cover for him.
- Upper-Class Twit: He is absolutely not shy about flaunting his wealth.
Yoko Fukashigi
The leader of "Rabbits", a group protesting against the World Judicial Union. The defendant of the case.
- Everyone Has Standards: As much as she wanted to expose the dirty dealings behind the World Judicial Union, she wouldn’t resort to kidnapping innocents or trying to murder the mastermind, as her brother did. She even told her brother near word for word, "If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!."
Yorksher Bergian
The emcee for the Judicial Olympics.
Truth-kun/Kojiro Fukashigi
The mascot for the Judicial Olympics. He's actually Kojiro Fukashigi, Yoko's estranged brother who has since become a defense attorney, as well as the true identity of 'Rabbit'.
- Out-Gambitted: On the sending end. Godot set up the Judicial Olympics in order to flush out 'Rabbit' using the odd mannersisms the latter displayed in his dealings with Maltson. Kojiro instead sidesteps the whole thing by not participating in the competitions, instead infiltrating it as the mascot Truth-kun. Though subverted, as he wasn't the actual target of Godot's plan...
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: He was so determined to avenge his mother’s death, he resorted to kidnapping a judicial worker’s daughter, holding Chairman Crowmack hostage with intent to kill, even almost killing the mastermind behind said death after they’ve been exposed.
- You Killed My Mother: His motivation.
Tarino and Nemino
Nivantess and Valenbough's henchmen.
- Expy: Of the Skulkin brothers in The Great Ace Attorney, right down to having pretty much near similar names in Japanese (Nemmy and Tully). By extension, they're Mario and Luigi expies as well.
Jack Crowmack
The chairman of the World Judicial Union, having recently succeeded his father Kin Crowmack.
Antino Nivantess
The vice-chairman of the World Judicial Union.
- Big Bad: The man who colluded with many crime syndicates around the world and tried to erase his dirty dealings.
- Evil Costume Switch: After his collusion with international crime syndicates is exposed, he dons a black cape.
- Expy: To Mael Stronghart from the Great Ace Attorney, even giving a speech about how being in 'the darkness' is necessary to maintain justice. He even gets a Shut Up, Hannibal! response afterward, delivered by Jack after the latter stands up to him.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: His methods of trying to maintain justice is through bribery and creating alliances with criminals all over the world. Up to and including hiring them to become attorneys.
- Stronger Than They Look: Appears to be an unassuming and somewhat sycophantic old man, but after revealing his true colors and Kojiro attempts to kill him, he beats Kojiro up to an inch of his life before Jack saves him.
Junant Maltson
A member of the Judicial Committee and the person to have stolen the microchip (under the behest of a mysterious 'Rabbit' who had kidnapped his daughter in exchange for it) and placed it in the Judicial Olympics gold medal.
