Characters / [C] – Control

Main cast

Kimimaro Yoga

Kimimaro Yoga

Voiced by: Kōki Uchiyama (Japanese), Todd Haberkorn (English)

• Above the Influence: It's made clear in episode 7 that an Entre can rape their Asset without much difficulty, if they feel like it. Kimimaro ends up sucker-punching the guy in question. And later, Msyu asks him to kiss her (she doesn't really understand the implications), and he politely turns her down.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Kimimaro has a crush on Hanabi. She has a boyfriend.

• Ship Tease: The conversation between Jennifer and Kimimaro ends with quite a bit. "I like your eyes", indeed.
• Take Our Word for It: All we get to see of Kimimaro's fight with Sennoza is Msyu getting beaten within an inch of her life. Somehow, Kimimaro wins, but we don't get to see how.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Kimimaro and his allies, Jennifer and Takedazaki, want to stop Mikuni and save the future of Japan, but are willing to sacrifice the present by intentionally hastening the inflation, making them just as responsible for crashing the Japanese economy.
• Workaholic: At the start of the series. The Financial District offers him... alternatives.

Msyu

Msyu

Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu (Japanese), Brina Palencia (English)

• All Love Is Unrequited: Msyu has a crush on Kimimaro. He sees her as a daughter.
• An Arm and a Leg: She ends up losing her right arm in the batle against Karma. Although since she is an Asset and it happened in the Financial District she can regenrate the damage.

• Inconsistent Spelling: Sometimes her name will get translated as "Mashu".
• Playing with Fire: Her Flations Scorched Earth and Overheated Economy let her shoot varying sizes of flames.
• Stripperiffic: Played with. Msyu's not wearing much beyond her bra and miniskirt, but she's also got lots of red markings on her body.
• Talking the Monster to Death: How Msyu survives her battle with the deadly, cannibalistic asset Q.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Instant shoyu ramen for Msyu. This is unusual, as Assets do not actually require food; Msyu starts asking for them after seeing Kimimaro eating a bowl and expresses interest in the concept of food.

Secondary cast

Itaneda

Itaneda

Voiced by: Yūji Mitsuya (Japanese), Bryan Massey (English)

Hanabi Ikuda

Hanabi Ikuda

Voiced by: Yui Makino (Japanese), Cherami Leigh (English)

• Sanity Slippage: The more the economy goes down the toilet, the worse Hanabi's mental state gets. Once Mikuni's bailout package has hit the market, she's barely functional.
• Stepford Smiler: Something is very wrong with Hanabi, and it only gets worse as Japan's future slowly peels away.

Soichiro Mikuni

Soichiro Mikuni

Voiced by: Daisuke Hosomi (Japanese), J. Michael Tatum (English)

• Ambiguously Evil: Mikuni is a Well-Intentioned Extremist.
• The Anti-Nihilist/Straw Nihilist: Somehow, Mikuni manages to embody both at the same time. His ultimate goal, protecting the present at the cost of the future, is because he believes that someday the future will be destroyed regardless of how hard he struggles for it, so he'd rather protect the present, even though he's destroying millions of lives to do so. So he doesn't believe in hope of the value of lives in the future, however at the same time he is fighting for an altruistic (if distorted) goal to protect the lives of people in the present. It doesn't have a happy ending for him.
• Badass Longcoat: Although he seems to just drape it around his shoulders without filling the sleeves.
• Big Bad: Initially a benevolent businessman who sought to alleviate the effects of bankruptcy in the Financial District, he becomes this when he takes over and floods Japan with Midas Money to save the economy- which results in mass disappearances, increased poverty, and overall misery. Kimimaro Yoga decides to stop Mikuni from sacrificing the future to preserve the present. Though Midas Bank itself is running the corrupt system that Mikuni is trying to save people from, and there are hints of the bank’s representative, Magasaki, being The Man Behind the Man.
• Bigger Stick: Mikuni's solution to almost every problem is to throw more money at it, and his wealth (and therefore power) is functionally limitless, especially when he activates the Rotary Press. Appropriately, his Direct is a BFS instead of the dagger that most Entres use.
• BFS: All Entres can adjust the size and shape of their Direct according to their wealth and ability. Whereas most have a dagger-shaped Direct, Mikuni tends to swing around a blade the size of a small building.

• Cool House: Mikuni has his house, garden, and pool on top of a skyscraper.
• A Day in the Limelight: Episode 7 is half Mikuni's origin story and half Msyu reflecting on her relationship with Kimimaro.
• Stay with the Aliens: Mikuni remains in the destroyed Financial District. What exactly this means is unexplained, but from Kimimaro's perspective, he disappears.
• Title Drop: Mikuni refers to some kind of event called "C" in episode 8, which is later explained to be the chain reaction caused by a Financial District's collapse. This may only partly be a case of a Title Drop, since the title's "C" stands for "Control", but the chain reaction C appears to stand for something else.

• We Can Rule Together: A variant. Mikuni's original reasoning for having Kimimaro join the Starling Guild is because Kimimaro is one of the few in the Financial District who isn't actually obsessed with money and also doesn't want his opponents to have to deal with the deep repercussions that come from large losses in deals. These factors are what convince Mikuni to begin grooming Kimimaro to be his successor. Unfortunately for him, Kimimaro doesn't agree with the practice of giving up the future for the sake of the present.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Mikuni wants to save the failing economy of Japan, but does this by making a deal with the predatory Midas Bank to pump their reality-warping Midas Money into the economy and throwing it at whatever he can. This alleviates the economy, but only temporarily, and at the cost of inflation, increased homelessness, and people mass-disappearing from existence. He is fully aware of this, but is willing to sacrifice any number of potential futures in order to preserve the present.

Jennifer Sato

Jennifer Sato

Voiced by: Mayumi Asano (Japanese), Martha Harms (English)

• Animal Motifs: Frequently associated with dogs, being called a bitch multiple times and having a giant wolf as her Asset.
• Bad Powers, Good People: In most mon series, someone whose mon's powers include deception and taking over the opponents Assets would be a villain. Ms. Sato may appear morally ambiguous at first, but by the end of the series she's very unambiguously one of the good guys, despite Georges' manipulative power-set.
• Canis Major: Jennifer's hulking, minibus-sized Asset György.
• A Day in the Limelight: Episode 4 is told from Sato's point of view.
• Cry Laughing: After she's expelled from the Financial District, she can be seen watching the city skyline. When Kimimaro reverses the Rotary Press and returns the country's future, including her own, she's so ecstatic that she breaks out into open, tearful laughter.
• Determinator: Later, in a very tear-jerking way.
• Ship Tease: The conversation between Jennifer and Kimimaro ends with quite a bit. "I like your eyes", indeed.
• Sweet Tooth: Most of time, Jennifer appears eating a lollipop or fast food.
• Take Up My Sword: Jennifer Sato gives her Asset to Kimimaro like this for the final fight. Particularly significant since her Asset represents her future, so as long as he has it, part of her future will literally survive.
• The Vamp: Jennifer's recruitment pitch to Kimimaro was delivered while on top of him.

Q

Q

Voiced by: Saori Goto (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)

• Foil: She is very obviously a counterpart to Msyu, being an obscenely powerful Flation with a mind of its own that resembles a girl with horns.
• Horned Humanoid: She is horned like Msyu, although her horns are more similar to deer antlers.
• Monstrous Cannibalism: She has a taste for Midas Money. Assets, including herself, are made of Midas Money. Guess what Q's signature Flation is called and what it does.
• One-Hit Kill: Any Asset that happens to be caught in the area of effect of her Cannibalization when it goes off is gone.
• Readings Are Off the Scale: The announcer has absolutely no clue what to make of her Cannibalization, devolving into a garbled mess while trying to attribute it a category.
• Time Stands Still: One of Q's abilities, called "Economic Blockade". It allows her to effortlessly negate even enemy Macroflations.
• Too Awesome to Use: She is very likely the most powerful Asset in existence, but sees almost no combat use because Mikuni prefers winning by the slightest margin, while Q's powers are geared for nothing less than complete and utter annihilation.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Q's is Midas money, which Mikuni actually leaves in wine glasses for her.

Masakaki

Masakaki

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese), Scott Freeman (English)

• Ambiguously Evil: Masakaki is... something.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Masakaki has a particularly worrying one.
• The Corrupter: Masakaki's initial M.O. is an attempt to get Kimimaro to take the loan with the possibilities inherent in all that money.
• Curtains Match the Window: Masakaki has yellow and lavender eyes; the latter match his hair. His equivalent in the Southeast Asian District has turquoise hair, and his eyes are half turquoise to match.
• Technicolor Eyes: Masakaki has white pupils and two concentric irises in lavender and yellow. His Southeast Asian equivalent has similar eyes, but with turquoise inner irises.

Takedazaki

Takedazaki

Voiced by: Masami Kikuchi (Japanese), Sonny Strait (English)

• Ambiguously Evil: Takedazaki is a Guile Hero.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: The Information Broker with the mouthful of gold teeth.
• Guile Hero: He operates in the shadows, trading information and secrets for cash. We never see him fight, and only see his gigantic Asset once.
• Villainous Gold Tooth: He is a shady Information Broker, operating from the shadows as he trades secrets for cash. He has a whole mouth of gold teeth. Otherwise, he is one of the least ostentatious Entrepreneurs.

Others

Ko Sennoza

Ko Sennoza

Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara (Japanese), Jason Liebrecht (English)

• Beware the Nice Ones: A noted philanthropist who uses his Midas Money to help kids in impoverished countries, and offers to reimburse the lost half of an Entre's fortune if they back out of a deal with him. If you do battle him, however... what he will unleash upon his opponent is quite literally comparable to the wrath of God himself. Complete with an angelic (but still utterly terrifying) Asset, Dramatic Thunder, lightning bolts and Glowing Eyes of Doom.
• Bolt of Divine Retribution: The "Angel" Flation used by Sennoza's asset, Karma.
• Take Our Word for It: Sennoza explains the reason he lost is because he got hit by two Mezzoflations.

Kakazuzu

Kakazuzu

Voiced by: Shusaku Shirakawa (Japanese), Bradley Campbell (English)

• Big Damn Heroes: The White Knight flation used by Kakazuzu allows him to invoke this trope. Deals are normally one-on-one duels, but when White Knight is used, then Mikuni can bring another one of his Assets into the fray.

Ebara

Ebara

Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (Japanese), Robert McCollum (English)

• Defeat Means Friendship: After Kimimaro defeated him, and in so doing, retconned his children's birth, his marriage, and most everything except being an ordinary schoolteacher, his teacher Ebara became a valuable advisor when it comes to handling the Deals and the consequences thereof. For a while.