Characters / BunAl Gun

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Blade | Bow | Gun | Whip | Taints | Crossover charactersThis group composes of poets or authors of children's literature.

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In General

• Awesome, but Impractical: They have the highest attack out of all types, but they're locked to the first and last attacking turns, making them not as effective when it comes to attacking.
• Bottomless Magazines: They are never depicted as running out of bullets or having anything to store the bullets. It's not known if what comes out of their barrels is even bullets.
• Warrior Poet: All gun-type authors are poets and/or fairy tale writers, making most of them this. Special mention to Masaoka Shiki, who says haikus during battle.

3 – Hagiwara Sakutarō (萩原朔太郎)

Associating with people is much more difficult than composing poems...

Voiced by: Kenji Nojima (JP), Alan Lee (EN, anime)
Live-acted by: Ryō Mitsuya (stage play)
Rarity: Gold
Faction: Kitahara Clan (北原一門)
Famous Works: Howling at the Moon (月に吠える), Blue Cat (青猫), Icy Island (氷島)
Sanity: Unstable (不安定)

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• Affectionate Nickname: 'Guniguni-san' (Mr.Soft) and 'Saku'.
• Ambiguously Gay: Is implied to actually be in love with Sai.
  Saku: Sai…! Ahhh, I love you so much! I'm so glad you exist!
• Eastern Zodiac: Dog (1886).
• Eyes Always Averted
• Hates Being Alone
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Saisei. In their first life, they had once made a song together called ''Wild Fire'' (野火) with Hagiwara composing it and Saisei writing the lyrics.
• Japanese Pronouns: Jibun.
• Kimono Fanservice: A student-style hakama ensemble with a white buttoned shirt underneath, as per Kitahara dress code.
• The Klutz: Trips very frequently, eats messily and just generally isn't very good at taking care of himself.
• Night and Day Duo: Night to Sai's Day.
• No Sense of Direction: His line for looking for a 'special research' event author says that while he's looking for someone lost, he has to make sure he doesn't get lost himself.
• Platonic Declaration of Love: The infamous line above in his recollection with Sai is either this, or he's actually in love with him.
• Prone to Tears: Very sensitive and cries easily.
• Shrinking Violet: As shown in the picture quote.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He immensely enjoys Western dishes, and goes so far as to deem any non-Western food "not fit for human consumption".
• Western Zodiac: Scorpio (November 1).

4 – Nakahara Chūya (中原中也)

Damn you, making a face like a floundering mackerel!

Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara (JP), Barrett Leddy (EN, anime)
Live-acted by: Taiga Fukazawa (stage play)
Rarity: Gold
Famous Works: Song of the Goat (山羊の歌), Song of the Bygone Days (在りし日の歌), In the Tainted Sorrows (汚れつちまつた悲しみに)
Sanity: Somewhat unstable (やや不安定)

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• The Alcoholic: A lot of his lines revolve around sake.
• The Bully: Mostly towards Dazai - he's the easiest target.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Deals with his bad moods by drinking.
• Eastern Zodiac: Sheep (1907).
• Friend to All Children: Two of his few actually positive relationships are with children. Chuuya admired Miyazawa Kenji in real life, and he was definitely not a child at the time, but there's no historical reason for his friendship with Niimi Nankichi except that Chuuya loved children.
• Functional Addict: Barely. While calling him emotionally stable is optimistic, he's one of the better gun-wielding authors.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Hagiwara suggests Chuuya is this, and the younger responses by asking if the older wants to fight.
• Jerkass Woobie: An asshole to almost all adults? Yep. He wants to make friends, but he doesn't know how to. And then there's the matter of his last years of life...
• The Napoleon: Roughly 150 centimeters, shorter than any other adult character in game. He is not someone you would want to mess with.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Hagiwara calls Chuuya out on this: he pushes people away and isolates himself so that people don't know he's hurting.
• Western Zodiac: Taurus (April 29).

7 – Miyazawa Kenji (宮沢賢治)

No matter what, you can rely on me. I'll become your strength.

Voiced by: Tsubasa Yonaga
Rarity: Gold
Famous Works: Night on the Galactic Railway (銀河鉄道の夜), Undefeated by the Rain (雨ニモマケズ), The Restaurant of Many Orders (注文の多い料理店)
Sanity: Somewhat Stable (やや安定)

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• Affectionate Nickname: In his first life, 'Mr. Llama' by his students.
• Cheerful Child: Always ready to cheer someone else up.
• Covert Pervert: Secretly keeps 'adult' picture books.
• Eastern Zodiac: Monkey (1896).
• Emotional Maturity Is Physical Maturity: While he was an adult before being summoned, he acts like a kid.
• Older Than They Look: Almost all authors fall into this (some of them were in their eighties or nineties when they died), but Kenji is one of the most obvious. He's 37.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Apples.
• Western Zodiac: Virgo (August 27).

15 – Kitahara Hakushū (北原白秋)

Every single word contains spiritual power, making them living and breathing beings.

Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae
Live-acted by: Hisanori Satō (stage play)
Rarity: Silver
Faction: Kitahara Clan (北原一門)
Famous Works: Paulownia Flowers (桐の花), Heretics (邪宗門)
Sanity: Normal (普通)

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• Affectionate Nickname: "Haku".
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Insufferable Genius extraordinaire, cocky as hell, does not shut up about how awesome he is, how he must always deserve the best and how he's better than the enemies.
• Can't Take Criticism
• Caustic Critic: Can dish out some particularly vicious criticism couched in friendliness, even towards his disciples.
  Sai: I really hate your brand of "courteousness" sometimes.
• Eastern Zodiac: Rooster (1885).
• Insufferable Genius: He's capable of composing various types of poems and songs and was a national poet, something he takes pride in.
• Guns Akimbo: Wields dual shotguns during battle.
• Western Zodiac: Aquarius (January 25).

16 – Murō Saisei (室生犀星)

It's just the wild child strutting his stuff!

Voiced by: Ryōta Ōsaka (JP), Kyle McCarley (EN, anime)
Live-acted by: Taizō Shīna (stage play)
Rarity: Silver
Faction: Kitahara Clan (北原一門)
Famous Works: Lyric Pieces (抒情小曲集), Love Poem Collection (愛の詩集)
Sanity: Somewhat Stable (やや安定)

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• Eastern Zodiac: Ox (1889).
• Height Angst: Worries about his height often.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Hagiwara, who he claimed to be his best friend of "Two souls, one body".
• Keet
• Night and Day Duo: Day to Saku's Night.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Hagiwara's blue, both personality and colour themes wise.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Crab and cream croquettes.
• Western Zodiac: Leo (August 1).

34 – Masaoka Shiki (正岡子規)

Alright! Let's play baseball... eh? Not enough people?

Voiced by: Minoru Shiraishi
Rarity: Beige
Faction: Leisure School (余裕派)
Famous Works: Letter to a Tanka Poet (歌よみに与ふる書), A Sixfoot Sickbed (病牀六尺)
Sanity: Somewhat Stable (やや安定)

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• Eastern Zodiac: Rabbit (1867).
• Flanderization: While he did play baseball during his middle school, it's a relatively trivial thing about him compared to his reputation as one of the greatest haiku poets in Japan, but the game takes the fact he used to be a baseball player and runs with it, with him having a healthier body after being reincarnated as the justification(since he's constantly living with tuberculosis during his past life).
• Western Zodiac: Libra (October 14).

35 – Wakayama Bokusui (若山牧水)

Today's sake is going to be top-notch. Rather, I mean today's sake, too.

Voiced by: Eiji Miyashita
Rarity: Beige
Famous Works: Voice of the Sea (海の声), Parting (別離), Black Pine (黒松)
Sanity: Somewhat Stable (やや安定)

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• The Alcoholic: Almost equal to Chuuya.
• Eastern Zodiac: Rooster (1885).
• Western Zodiac: Virgo (September 17).

36 – Takamura Koutarou (高村光太郎)

Hello. I have but one path, so I'll follow you.

Voiced by: Masakazu Morita
Rarity: Beige
Faction: Morning Star (明星)
Famous Works: The Journey (道程), Chieko's Sky (智恵子抄)
Sanity: Stable (安定)

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• Act of True Love: Takamura loved his wife Chieko so dearly, to the point he refused to give her a posthumous Buddhist name (which was tradition for the death in then-Japan) as he couldn't "link that and Chieko together". Chieko's Sky, arguably one of Takamura's most famous works, was the whole memorial of his beloved with sincerest emotions poured in.
• Eastern Zodiac: Sheep (1883).
• Handy Man: Enjoys crafting, and gets tunnel vision whenever he sees wood that is suitable for so.
• Perpetual Smiler: Always has a gentle smile on his face.
• Western Zodiac: Pisces (March 13).

37 – Ishikawa Takuboku (石川啄木)

If there's some work I can do to make money, let me in on it!

Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Rarity: Beige
Faction: Morning Star (明星)
Famous Works: A Handful of Sand (一握の砂), Sad Toys (悲しき玩具)
Sanity: Somewhat Stable (やや安定)

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• Eastern Zodiac: Dog (1886).
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Narcissist
• Lovable Coward: Frequently runs away from his debt collectors, yet stays popular anyway.
• Only in It for the Money: He doesn't dislike the government or the idea of saving literature, but he'll get a lot more helpful if you pay him more.
• Western Zodiac: Aries (April 13).

53 – Itou Sachio (伊藤左千夫)

They say when a rancher recites poetry, new and greater poetry awakens in the world!

Voiced by: Yūichi Iguchi
Rarity: Gold
Faction: Araragi School (アララギ派)
Famous Works: A Wild Chrysanthemum's Grave
Sanity: Stable (安定)

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• Cherry Blossom Guy
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: One of the more obvious cases in game. You would mistaken him for a grade school girl by just looking at the game sprite.
• Eastern Zodiac: Rat (1864).
• Friend to All Living Things: Loves the nature dearly, is especially knowledgeable about flowers, and apparently raises cattles outside the library.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Idolizes Shiki.
• Team Mom: His interest is even listed as "Taking care of people".
• Western Zodiac: Leo (July 30).

54 – Miki Rofuu (三木露風)

It is unacceptable for literature to be lost. If the teachings end up being lost, then there will be nobody who can be saved......

Voiced by: Gakuto Kajiwara
Rarity: Gold
Faction: Mita School (三田派)
Famous Works: The Abandoned Garden (廃園), Pearl Island (真珠島)
Sanity: Somewhat stable (やや安定)

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• Badass Preacher: He wears what appears to be pastor's robes, an allusion to his being Catholic in his previous life.
• Eastern Zodiac: Ox (1889).
• Formal Characters Use Keigo: Speaks in keigo as part of his courteous gentleman persona.
• Friend to All Children: His slight antagonism and indifferent attitude is much diluted when in front of Niimi.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Seemingly wears one underneath the blue overcoat.
• The Rival: Dislikes Kitahara and the Kitahara clan, and the feeling is mutual.
  • Rivals Team Up: But again, he and Haku left on the Japanese poetry scene what is termed the "Hakuro era". They are also perfectly willing to cooperate during dual attacks.
  Rofū: Let's work together for now, shall we?
  Haku: Yes, I don't mind, Rofū
• Western Zodiac: Cancer (June 23)

55 – Miyoshi Tatsuji (三好達治)

This electrifying feeling would make for a good poem!

Voiced by: Junta Terashima
Rarity: Beige
Famous Works: The Surveying Ship (測量船), On a Camel's Hump (駱駝の瘤にまたがつて)
Sanity: Unstable (不安定)

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• Ascended Fanboy: Idolized Hagiwara , and the said poet became his personal friend.
• Black-and-White Morality: How he often sees the world.
• Determinator: Works very hard to become like Hagiwara.
• Eastern Zodiac: Rat (1900).
• The Straight Man: Plays as this most of the time, especially with Odasaku.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Spicy foods. Special mentions to cayenne peppers.
• Verbal Tic: -ssu!
• Western Zodiac: Virgo (August 23).

56 – Niimi Nankichi (新美南吉)

I'm people-watching... Staaare...

Voiced by: Ayumu Murase
Rarity: Beige
Famous Works: Gon, The Little Fox (ごん狐), Buying Mittens (手袋を買いに)
Sanity: Somewhat Unstable (やや不安定)

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• Eastern Zodiac: Ox (1913).
• Emotional Maturity Is Physical Maturity: Acts like a child despite having been an adult at the time of his death.
• Fear of Thunder: Scared of storms.
• Older Than They Look: One of the more obvious cases. He was 29 when he died.
• The Prankster: Just loves playing pranks on people, sometimes with his friends' help.
• Western Zodiac: Leo (July 30).

57 – Ogawa Bimei (小川未明)

It’s my duty to open up the door to red stories.

Voiced by: Kazutomi Yamamoto
Rarity: Gold
Famous Works: Red Candles and the Mermaid (赤いろうそくと人魚), The Moonlight and the Glasses (月夜と眼鏡), The Wild Rose (野薔薇)
Sanity: Stable (安定)

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• Big Brother Instinct: Towards Niimi.
• Eastern Zodiac: Horse (1882).
• Hair-Trigger Temper: His fuse is pretty short.
• Indifferent Beauty: Holds a dispassionate attitude to most things.
• Junior Counterpart: He was called the "Japan's Hans Christian Andersen", with both featuring similar dark themes in their children's literatures.
• Neat Freak
• Older Than They Look: Like most other fairy tale writers, he takes the appearance of a child here.
• Parental Substitute: He admires his mentors Tsubouchi and Koizumi, and sees them as his 'parents'.
• Western Zodiac: Aries (April 7).

58 – Yoshii Isamu (吉井勇)

It's great to sing. From the world of peace, people put their thoughts into these 31 characters......

Voiced by: Takuya Sato
Rarity: Gold
Faction: Morning Star (明星)
Famous Works: Revelry (酒ほがひ), Until Yesterday (昨日まで), The Song of Gondola (ゴンドラの唄)
Sanity: Somewhat Stable (やや安定)

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• The Alcoholic: Likes drinking to the extreme, and will become a depressed mess if he runs out of alcohol.
• The Casanova
• Drowning My Sorrows: He has a rather depressing outlook on life, which he tries to cover with extreme alcoholism.
• Eastern Zodiac: Dog (1886).
• Impoverished Patrician: He was born into nobility, which he brings up once.
• Perma-Stubble: It's hard to notice in the default sprite, but it's easier to see the stubble under his chin in the battle sprite.
• Western Zodiac: Libra (October 8).

65 – Saitō Mokichi (斎藤茂吉)

I'm a doctor before I'm a poet. Dealing with the sick is my job.

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai
Rarity: Gold
Faction: Araragi School (アララギ派)
Famous works:
Sanity: Normal (普通)

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• Eastern Zodiac: Horse (1882).
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Since he's a doctor, specifically a psychiatrist, he wears one.
• The Shrink/Warrior Therapist: He is at once a psychiatrist, a poet and a defender of the literary world.
• Western Zodiac: Taurus (May 14).

66 – Kusano Shinpei (草野心平)

Frogs are honest creatures, so I’d sure like to cherish their point of view.

Voiced by: Kōtarō Nishiyama
Live-acted by: Mashiro Sano (stage play)
Rarity: Gold
Famous Works: Frogs (蛙), Nightscape (夜景)
Sanity: Stable (安定)

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• Animal Motif: Frogs, naturally.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: He develops his own recipe for "Shinpei porridge" consisting of nothing but rice, sesame oil and water, pointed out by Dan as very greasy as it calls for a high amount of sesame oil.
• Eastern Zodiac: Rabbit (1903).
• Friend to All Living Things: Certainly is one, as seen in all the poems he had made. Interestingly, his last name "Kusano" means "Grassland".
• Hand Puppet: Always carries a frog puppet called Gyawazu.
• Instant Bandages: In damage stages, Gyawazu sports X-crossed bandages.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Yet another fanboy of Kenji, and often hums or sings the poet's songs to himself.
• Living Toys: Gyawazu may or may not be sentient.
• Western Zodiac: Taurus (May 12).

74 – Takahama Kyoshi (高浜虚子)

As someone tasked to continue Shiki-san's will and pass down his teachings to the haiku poets of the future, I must not do things half-heartedly.

Voiced By: Tatsuhisa Suzuki
Rarity: Silver
Faction: Masaoka Clan (正岡一門)
Famous Works:
Sanity: Somewhat Unstable (やや不安定)

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• Affectionate Nickname: "Kiyo".
• Eastern Zodiac: Dog (1874).
• Flower Motif: Camellia, as per Masaoka dress code.
• Like a God to Me: Holds the most respect to his teacher Shiki.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Despite their designs, he is Blue to Hei's Red.
• The Stoic
• Western Zodiac: Pisces (February 22).

75 – Kawahigashi Hekigotou (河東碧梧桐)

Leave it to me, the best out of Shiki's pupils!

Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki
Rarity: Silver
Faction: Masaoka Clan (正岡一門)
Famous Works:
Sanity: Somewhat unstable (やや不安定)

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• Affectionate Nickname: "Hei".
• Constantly Curious: Always bubbling with curiosity and chasing after novelties.
• Eastern Zodiac: Rooster (1873).
• Flower Motif: Camellia, as per Masaoka dress code.
• Keet: Young, cheerful and generally very positive.
• Overly Long Name
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Despite their apparent color schemes, he is Red to Kiyo's Blue.
• Western Zodiac: Pisces (February 26).

77 – Kitamura Tōkoku (北村透谷)

Love is the key to life. Once there is love, there is life. … Fufu, would you like to try?

Voiced by: Kōhei Amasaki
Rarity: Silver
Famous works:
Sanity: Somewhat unstable (やや不安定)

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• Animal Motifs: Butterflies.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: As the first truly crossdressing writer and looking very pretty himself. Katai frequently mistakes him for a girl for this reason.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: A corseted dress, stockings, hats, gloves plus lots of frills, bows and lace.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Katai, which amuses him.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: In-story, he's immune to arrows. This doesn't prevent bow-types from normally attacking him in the special boss stage or him from taking damage from bow-type enemies.
• Old Shame: In-Universe, he sees his old works like this and becomes a taint in order to destroy them in spite of his associates' wishes.
• Ship Tease: With Tōson and Katai; his deep appreciation of the former is delivered with the subtlety of a boulder to the face, while the latter is often subject to teasing from him and may or may not have had sex with him while both were drunk.
• What Did I Do Last Night?: May or may not have done… something… with Katai when both were drunk, as revealed in the latter's letter.
• Yandere: Possibly the biggest offender of this in this game – he treasures his friendship with Tōson to the point where he loses all hope after his own death, tries to imprison Tōson and keep him forever after they reunite, tries to kill his other associates for getting in his way, and when all that fails, wants to disappear along with the works he's destroyed until Tōson talks him out of it.

90 – Lewis Carroll (ルイス・キャロル)

Will you understand my sensibility?

Voiced by: Shouta Aoi
Rarity: Silver
Faction: England
Famous Works: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Sanity: Normal (普通)

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• Anime Accent Absence: One of the most egregious straight cases; he had little to no education in Japanese culture and language, and yet speaks better Japanese than Yakumo, can talk to Japanese writers and is fully understood by them.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Doesn't enjoy Doyle's calling him by his real name Dodgson.
• Shrinking Violet: Isn't very comfortable around those he is unfamiliar with. Though once he warm ups with you, you just watch his mouth.
• Western Zodiac: Aquarius (January 27).