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The Gunjou Academy Broadcast Club
Taichi Kurosu
The main protagonist. A self-proclaimed "Love Aristocrat" who spends much of his time joking around and sexually harassing his female friends. Beneath the surface, however, he is a substantially more complex and cynical individual who has a near inhuman 84% adaptation coefficient, marking that of someone never able to rejoin ordinary society. Due to a past incident, he is intensely hemophobic, and suffers from erratic psychotic episodes.
- Afraid of Blood: The sight of blood triggers Taichi's psychotic episodes.
- The Anti-Nihilist: Comes to the conclusion that, even if his life in an empty world means nothing, that doesn't mean he shouldn't live.
- Attractive Bent-Gender: At least, Sakuraba thought so.
- The Atoner: Turns into one as a result of his Character Development. By the end, he chooses to out and out exile himself into an empty world for the purpose of leaving himself a distant existence, knowing that his continued presence would only bring harm to those around him.
- Bag of Holding: The Taichi Bag appears to be this.
- Beneath the Mask: He basically projects the image of a perverted fool to his peers, when his real personality is far darker.
- Bloodbath Villain Origin: The alternate Taichi from Tower of Friends, who is not the same Taichi that we know. But somehow just as crazy.
- Byronic Hero: Taichi may be immensely screwed up, but he does try his best to act normal in order to fix everyone's problems.
- Character Development: The game is in large part Taichi's journey from a highly damaged, unstable Byronic Hero to The Anti-Nihilist.
- Chick Magnet: Kinda. Taichi can and does get with all five of the girls, but his relationships with all five are...complicated, and not entirely stable. The alternate Taichi was apparently completely normal and thus had even more girls that liked him... until the day it turned out he was even more insane and killed everyone.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: During more lighthearted moments.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: It's stated that he could even beat Youko if he ever fought seriously.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Putting it very mildly.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Taichi is overtly a dark and off-kilter riff on the "Wacky Playboy" character, which was a common go-to characterization for Player Characters in Dating Sims throughout the 1990s. Taichi constantly keeps everyone around him on their toes with mad-cap antics and pranks, doesn't hold much, if any respect for personal boundaries (especially not those of of any girls who happen to come into his vicinity), is always angling to get into the pants of members of the opposite sex, loves to tell dirty jokes, and generally acts in pretty socially unacceptable ways. Yet everyone else are strangely forgiving of and even willing to go along with his strange behavior and shenanigans. But where the Dating Sim genre by and large tends to treat these traits as charming quirks that are overtly meant to endear the Player Character to the player by allowing them to be somewhat of a Wish-Fulfillment character, Taichi's antics are played for discomfort instead, and are meant to be overt signs that he suffers from some kind of personality disorder and is really a Sad Clown at heart. Something that is increasingly hammered home when the story begins to delve into his Dark and Troubled Past and show how he became this way.
- Destructive Romance: Pretty much every romantic relationship Taichi can develop is destructive in some fashion. Youko is psychotically obsessed with him to the point of being willing to kill his classmates or restrain and repeatedly rape him, Touko became dependent on him for emotional stability to where she attempted suicide when he broke up with her, Misato suffers from severe self-lothing problems his actions endanger making worse, Kiri struggles to even forgive him due to his role in her brothers death, and Miki is unable to maintain a deeper relationship with anyone due to being a sociopath. Post-Character Development, he realizes that any long-term relationship with him is dangerous, and purposely separates himself from all of them after making sure to help rebuild their lives to the best of his ability.
- Diagnosis from Dr. Badass: Taichi displays uncanny medical knowledge at certain points during the game, quickly and effectively diagnosing injuries his friends have received. Later it is implied that he learned these skills - among others - from Youko, who also made him commit mass murder by himself.
- Driven to Madness: Due to Taichi being gang raped and then being forced to kill his rapists. Which, oddly enough, isn't what made him snap. The final nail was Youko's horrified look after she made him do it.
- Drives Like Crazy: He's probably not even of age anyways, and he doesn't have a license.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: The dress Taichi is made to wear as a child fits this description.
- Freak Out: Taichi had one as a kid after killing a ton of people for Youko. The killing he was able to cope with. What screwed him up and turned him into the horrible mess he is today is the sheer horror he saw on Youko's face at the brutality.
- Freudian Excuse: Dad died before he was born, mom died when he was a baby, he was repeatedly physically and sexually abused as a child, committed mass murder afterward at the behest of his co-conspirator, who reacted in sheer horror of what he did. The last is what finally broke him.
- Freudian Slip: Taichi accidentally calls Nanaka "mom" later on in the game. Subverted, as she actually is his mom.
- The Gadfly: Taichi trolls his friends, which actually makes him pretty charming and normal seeming. Two problems though: One, it's a mask. Two, due to being deranged he has trouble knowing when he's gone too far.
- Genre Savvy: He's more than well-aware he's basically in a standard harem comedy, and frequently pokes fun of this. Only he's not, and he's even more aware of that.
- Gone Mad From The Isolation: After trapping himself in the world alone, he goes insane in a matter of days, constantly hallucinating and even attempting suicide. Recalling his mothers words to him gets him to snap out of it, though.
- Go Through Me : Taichi defends Kiri from Youko when she tried to kill her. Youko stops attacking once Taichi threatens to cut off connections with her
- Hey, You!: Taichi uses Japanese Honorifics in a rather offensive manner, being way overly familiar. Or he'll omit them entirely. It surprises some such as Tomoki and severely angers others such as Kiri.
- In fact, everyone is absolutely shocked when he refers to Youko as "Youko-chan" during the beach trip.
- I Am Not Pretty: Taichi thinks he's repulsive due to certain features of his.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: His main goal is to enjoy life like a normal person.
- Lemony Narrator: Sometimes lapses into this, especially during the footnotes.
- Lovable Sex Maniac : Except when he's not.
- Love Makes You Crazy: His willingness to do what he did for Youko, coupled with her complete rejection of what he did drove him over the edge.
- Meaningful Name: His last name "Kurosu" can also mean "Cross", as in the game title.
- Taichi sounds very similar to "tachi," which is used after pronouns to indicate "this person and everyone with him" (watashi-tachi means "us" and anata-tachi means "you guys" and so on). Kurosu is similar to "korosu," which means to kill. Put the two together and you get "kill everyone." Could also count as a Prophetic Name.
- Don't forget that the "kuro" in "Kurosu" means black, and Taichi frequently thinks of himself as "black-hearted"...
- A far more subtle one occurs in the form of an anagram. "Kurosu Taichi" can be rearranged into 6+1 in Japanese, or "roku tasu ichi". What do six and one equal? Seven!
- Mercy Kill: Gives one to Kiri in Miki's route, so to avoid her suffering the pain of learning her best friend killed her.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Whenever he realizes he's crossed the line.
- The Nicknamer: Taichi comes up with all sorts of strange names for the Broadcasting Club's members, and even himself.
- Porn Stash: Which Touko burns, to his horror.
- Rape as Backstory: Yutaka's rather made him his personal plaything.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning
- Sad Clown: Taichi himself. He may try and make jokes and harass everyone, but he doesn't even consider himself human.
- Second Year Protagonist: The dynamics are there, but the actual school system makes it difficult to say how strictly accurate it is.
- Stepford Smiler: Taichi fakes being a clown in order to get along with others. Tomoki is shocked to discover the truth, though he did wonder how someone reputed to be as unbalanced as Taichi could be so normal.
- Trauma Conga Line: His entire life. It'd probably be enough to drive anyone insane, really.
- Unreliable Narrator: Has a habit of hiding and at times out and out lying in his own narration due to his psychosis.
- Villain Protagonist: Played with but ultimately subverted. Played horrifically straight for the Tower of Friends version.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Taichi sort of means well in his own way, but he's dangerously unstable and his white hair is something of a plot point. In Tower of Friends, an alternate Taichi has normal black hair but is much, much crazier and for no known reason.
- Yandere: Was this for Youko in the past. Ironically, the reverse is true in the present.
Misato Miyasumi
The Club President and Taichi's upperclassmen. A kindhearted girl who whoa stickler for rules and order, she works obsessively to get the antenna on the roof functioning even at the cost her own own health. She is Tomoki's older sister, though the two have a highly estranged relationship due to some incident in the past.
The first arc, CROSS+CHANNEL, is dedicated to her.
- Authority in Name Only: She's The Leader of the broad nominally. In practice, however, the others often barely listen to her, and she spends most of her time working away alone.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Her sizable chest is said to be her most notable feature and is the source of several Boob-Based Gag.
- Club President: Of the broadcasting club.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Has a habit of tripping over and hurting herself while working on the antenna. This is implied to be a subconscious manifestation of her self-harm tendencies.
- Driven to Suicide: In one of the bad endings, Misato commits suicide, triggering Taichi's psychotic episodes and causing him to kill the entire class. This is also heavily implied to be what happens in Miki's route after Tomoki's death.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Doesn't like being called "Mimimi". "Mimi-senpai" is perfectly acceptable, though.
- Leitmotif: School Days
. - My Greatest Failure: Misato is haunted by her act of betraying her father by reporting him to the police for embezzlement, in spite of him only doing it to support her after the divorce. The weight of her decision is enough that she in a few routes outright commits suicide.
- Necktie Headband: During the below Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness moment.
- Nice Girl: She suffers from plenty of her own issues, Misato is a genuinely kind-hearted person through and through.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: The terminology the game uses is "fogged-up". Taichi also lampshades the trope near the beginning of the game by wondering if she can turn the effect on and off at will.
- Secretly Selfish: Taichi and Tomoki accuse her attempts to get more people into the broadcast club as a ploy to either force for rules on others, or just run away from her severe self-lothing by surrounding herself with people. Misato, tragically, can't really do much to refute such accusations.
- Self-Harm: She has knife scars on her wrists.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Misato delivers a rather wordy speech (while completely drunk, even) to Taichi about the Broadcasting Club's purpose. Taichi's response? "You're pretty good with your Japanese."
- Stepford Smiler: Hides from her problems and it is implied that she's into self mutilation due to psychological stress and self loathing. She also commits suicide during several routes.
- Team Mom: She tries, anyway, though it doesn't really work out as such.
Touko Kirihara
A surly, unpleasant rich girl always seen with a katana, though she can barely use it. Unlike the others, Touko is insistent that she is normal, and refuses the accept that she was sent to Gunjou for a reason. She used to have a relationship with Taichi, though she now hates his guts.
The second arc, Breakdown/Purification, is dedicated to her.
- Attention Whore: She acts aloof in order to get attention, and once she has it, she'll do anything to keep it.
- Broken Bird: Her relationship with Taichi fucked her up. It's left unclear by the end if she ever will get better.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: When they were in a relationship, Taichi quickly discovered that she was both extremely possessive and controlling. It was what prompted him to break up with her.
- Custom Uniform: She always wears a red dress. As Taichi explains, Gunjou's nature as essentially a mental institution makes the existence of an enforced dress code practically moot.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Unfortunately, Taichi's method of doing so led to freezer burn.
- Despair Event Horizon: Touko is a the quickest of the group to crack upon humanity disappearing, and many of the interactions between her and Taichi depict her openly noting her belief that everyone is going to die in an empty world. This contributes to her death in many loops, as her lack of survival instinct means she makes even less of an effort to sustain herself, leading to her starving herself to death.
- Driven to Suicide: Attempted to kill herself after Taichi broke up with her, hoping that it would either get him to come back to her or she would die in the attempt. Thanks to Youko, neither worked.
- Embarrassing Nickname: "Harakiri", and by extension, the Demon Harakiri Blade.
- Forgets to Eat: Touko is generally pretty bad at taking care of herself, is notably more underweight than any of the other female characters, and a line written from her perspective implies that she places no real importance on the act of eating and would forgo it entirely, if it weren't for her body occasionally crying out for nourishment compelling her to do it. Play more darkly in most of the loops, where she tends to end up dying because isolates herself from the rest of the group and since there is no one who regularly checks up on her and pushes her to eat something, she ends starving herself to death.
- Girl with Psycho Weapon: Carries a sword around with her. Notably, outside of gags, she never uses it, and one gag implies she can't do much more than clumsily swing it around. That, and attempt suicide with it.
- I Call It "Vera": Her katana, Ima Kotetsu. Taichi prefers to call it the Demon Harakiri Blade instead.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: She suffers from severe emotional dependency issues, and is desperate for someone, anyone to like and care for her. It is the primary reason why she is quick to latch onto Taichi again the moment she believes that is any kind of possibly that he might be going to take her back. Unfortunately, her volatile temper, rude personality, and extremely possessive behavior tends to push people away from her.
- Jerkass: There's genuinely not much to like about Touko. She's unpleasant, aggressive, mercurial, rude, and generally shows herself as generally nasty, unlikable person in many ways. Even in the moments when she acts affectionate towards Taichi, she always comes across as smothering and possessive, making it pretty obvious why he broke off their relationship back then.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Ima Kotetsu. Notably, it's never shown on her character sprite or many CG's, but dialogue suggests she's always carrying it.
- Leitmotif: Fragile, a Lonely Piano Piece for an aloof girl.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Was this prior to meeting Taichi, and after their breakup as well.
- Mood-Swinger: Her emotions are extremely volatile to say the least. She can flip from pleasant and affectionate to hostile and furious on a dime.
- Ojou: The Kirihara's a very well-off family. Though this just ends up contributing to a lot of very bad impacts on Touko's mental health.
- Out of Focus: Outside of her route, Touko gets the short end of the stick in terms of screentime. While given some material in the first week, she vanishes early into most of the other routes due to starving to death, and has virtually no scenes with the others.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: She doesn't even know what canned food is. Notably this is not Played for Laughs, and instead underscoures how incapable she is of taking care of herself
- Self-Harm: Starving herself might have been at least partially this. She also stabbed herself in attempt to blackmail Taichi into getting back together with her.
- Speech Impediment: Her problems aren't helped by a pronounced lisp.
- Spurned into Suicide: Or at least, it was going to end up like that...
- They Killed Kenny Again: Touko ends up dying no less than five times over the course of the game, either by starving to death, or being accidentally shot by Kiri on the rooftop. Thanks to the "Groundhog Day" Loop, she keeps coming back with every reset.
- Tsundere: A Type A, she will do anything short of outright killing Taichi, but does genuinely have affection underneath for him. [Or not. She's actually far closer to a Type B, being pretty quick to turn into a lovestruck harpy the moment it seems she can enter a relationship with him again. This ends up brutally deconstructed as neither side ends up very pleasant, with her dere side being creepily possessive, and her tsun side being violent to the point of making her a danger to herself.
- The Unreveal: The exact nature of her ultramarine is never given or explained. The epilogue states that it involved a fight between her and her classmates at her old school over them refusing to obey her, but nothing more than that.
- Woman Scorned: Her attitude towards Taichi is of a very, very bitter ex. After the breakup, it was much worse.
- Yandere: The reason Taichi broke up with her is that as time went on her emotional dependence on him grew and she started edging into this. He swiftly, brutally and mercilessly halted the relationship. Her response? Threaten to murder literally everyone he knew. She also stabbed herself and went to his house while still bleeding from her wound, hoping she could emotionally blackmail him into taking her back.
Kiri Sakura
A thin, tomboyish girl with a strong sense of justice. She is Miki's best friend, the two of them being dubbed "The Flowers" by Taichi, but she hates hims with a passion both due to his perverted antics and for deeper, more personal reasons.
The third arc, CROSS DAYS, is dedicated to her.
- Black-and-White Insanity: Viewing the line between "good" and "evil" as a very sharp one is treated as her one major hurdle towards integrating in normal society. She is almost completely incapable of accepting the ideas that "good" people can be capable of cruel acts and that "evil" people can themselves have been the victims of crimes. Most crucially, her affection for blinds her to the idea that Yutaka could have been capable of evil and that Taichi might have had very legitimate grievances towards him. The way she sees it, Yutaka is "good" because he was kind to her and she liked him, and Taichi is "evil" because he had a hand in causing Yutaka's suicide. Even more alarming, once it is proven that Taichi was actually abused at the hands of Yutaka, it turns out that her world-view is at least somewhat pathological. When confronted with this new, undeniable information, that it is possible that someone she saw as "good" was capable of evil acts and that someone she views as "bad" is the victim of it, it doesn't initially cause her to question her stance of extreme moral absolutism; she instead completely flips in the other direction, and immediately assumes that it must mean that her and Yutaka have been evil along, and Taichi must have been nothing but a blameless victim. Over the course of her storyline, she eventually comes around to accept that human morality might be somewhat more complex that just clear-cut "good" and "evil", and this is treated as a major bit of Character Development for her.
- Boyish Short Hair
- Broken Pedestal: Learning what Yutaka was prior to his amnesia broke her.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: By the end of the game, Taichi more or less helps her get some kind of closure regarding Yutaka's death and his role in it, and she's recovered enough she's able to leave Gunjou and rejoin normal society. While hardly perfect, it is easily the most peaceful ending of any of the main characters besides Sakuraba.
- Girl with Psycho Weapon: Thanks to the fact that everyone appears to have vanished from the world, she becomes increasingly terrified of Taichi and begins to train with a crossbow. Causes a few bad endings. Unknown to her, actually acting out against Taichi is a bad idea since it just means Youko will kill everyone.
- Hair Color Dissonance: Kiri's hair is a bright blue, but is described as black in the text.
- Leitmotif: Diarize, the leitmotif for the Flowers.
- Living Emotional Crutch: To Kiri, in chronological order: Yutaka, Miki, and Taichi. This appears to be her "ultramarine". Of course, Yutaka dies before the story properly begins, Miki becomes rather broken due to the reset, and Taichi sends her back once she finally warms up to him, but he at least helps her get over Yutaka and become normal enough to adapt to society and leave Gunjou in the epilogue.
- Weak, but Skilled: Taichi notes on multiple occasions that Kiri is physically the weakest of the club, but she becomes good enough handling a crossbow to the point of nearly succeeding in killing him in Miki's route.
Miki Yamanobe
Taichi's "understudy", a friendly, good natured girl with a similar sense of humour to him, they have a mutual agreement of perverted commentary and interplay that they trade regularly in the hallway.
The fourth arc, INVISIBLE MURDER INVISIBLE TEARS, is dedicated to her.
- Cute and Psycho: In some iterations with the justification of apparently being a genuine sociopath. But she's normally pretty cheery and harmless.
- Genki Girl
- Girl with Psycho Weapon: When she fatally wounds Kiri with the crossbow in her route.
- Lack of Empathy: Miki's "ultramarine". She has enough to have feelings for others, but doesn't particularly care for anyone else's. Taichi is somewhat similar, but it's more like he has problems understanding people in general.
- Leitmotif: Diarize, the leitmotif for the Flowers.
- Mask of Sanity: Her bright and cheery persona is revealed to really be an attempt at compensating for her Lack of Empathy.
- The Sociopath: A much more realistic example than most in media. Miki is not dangerous in the slightest and is capable of basic emotions, but she simply can't feel any natural empathy for anyone besides herself and prioritizes her survival over that of her friends.
- Stepford Smiler: Miki reveals near the end of her route that she can't relate with human beings and that her Genki Girl behavior is just an act in order not to cause alarm.
- Token Mini-Moe: Miki is treated and acts like a kid, but, to Taichi's disappointment, she isn't really a little girl. In hindsight, her refusal to answer about her age makes somewhat more sense because she's older than she should be. Also, due to being older than he remembers, her body has also matured.
Youko Hasekura
A mysterious girl with a connection to Taichi's past, whom he dubs "kunoichi" due to her ability to easily appear and vanish at will. She is intensely devoted to Taichi's every will, and follows him around constantly in spite of his objections.
- Action Girl: It's mentioned multiple times she learnt hard fighting techniques as a result of overseas millitery training. Taichi makes it clear that, should Youko go all out, she could wipe everyone else out effortlessly.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's pretty and popular, but the only one she even regularly interacts with is Taichi. People are shocked to see him address her so familiarly.
- The Atoner: Deeply regrets how she reacted when Taichi killed all those people for her. Her attempts to make up for it only disgust him.
- Ax-Crazy: So great is her obsession with appeasing Taichi that she slaughters the entire club in multiple loops just so to "appease" him.
- Broken Ace: Youko is very intelligent and talented, but she rivals Taichi on levels of being utterly fucked up.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She won't ever leave Taichi alone. Taichi only tolerates her because he doesn't want to hurt her and quite obviously views her as a stalker.
- Emotionless Girl: Youko fits under "emotionally repressed".
- Extreme Doormat: She's always doing whatever Taichi wants. Except when she isn't.
- Freudian Excuse: Took the same abuse as Taichi, but what broke her was her realization of how badly she ruined Taichi. Ever since then, she's had a single minded obsession with doing whatever he wants, but he claims she's doing it for her own sake, not his. He's partially right and knows he's only partially right.
- Heroic Bastard: She was the daughter of the youngest son of the Hasekura family and a maid. This contributed to her horribly damaged state, as her mother died shortly after birth while her father abandoned her to head overseas in order to avoid the familial shame, leaving her completely alone.
- Hime Cut: With the long hair and even bangs she looks the part perfectly. In terms of behavior the situation is more complicated.
- Ninja: Specifically called a kunoichi by Taichi.
- Not So Stoic: Youko totally breaks down during Taichi's "The Reason You Suck" Speech, having been an Emotionless Girl (Other than creepily smiling during her send back route,) for most of the game. Hell, it's the only moment in the story where her sprite significantly changes poses.
- Rape as Backstory: Heavily implied to have been sexually abused as Taichi was under the Shinkawa's.
- Rubber Face: Taichi pulls on her face frequently as a joke.
- School Idol: Despite, or possibly because she doesn't come to school often, she's held in very high regard.
- Stalker with a Crush: And how.
- Yandere: Deconstructed. She genuinely cares about Taichi, but she comes of as extremely creepy and Taichi clearly does not want her around.
Hiroshi Sakuraba
Taichi's closest male friend. A very eccentric and wealthy young man who enjoys traveling, he's usually seen in the cafeteria eating curry bread. Unlike his friends, Sakuraba has no mental issues of any kind, and only attended Gunjou for personal reasons. Due to a past incident, he's deaf in one ear.
- Big Eater: Almost always can be seen in the cafeteria eating.
- Bromantic Foil: Fits the "idiot" version of the archetype well, though his impotency means he's not really a pervert.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: He's...strange, to say the least.
- The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: Seems to understand Taichi quite well, to the point of not questioning his disappearance in the ending.
- Determinator: The main reason why Sakuraba is friends with Taichi is that he didn't get the fact that Taichi wanted nothing to do with him. Being a relatively harmless guy, though, Taichi eventually conceded.
- The Ditz: Not the brightest tool in the shed, to say the least.
- Dumb Is Good: Sakuraba's somewhere between an idiot and a complete fruitloop, but he's also the most stable and friendliest of the cast.
- Foil: To Touko. Both are wealthy, somewhat clueless kids who summized their lives around a rather unhealthy obsession with Taichi, but notably differ in just about every way. While Touko was pampered by her family to the point of suffering from dangerous co-dependency issues, Sakuraba is shown to have had a healthier relationship with his family, and because of that is able to act fully independent of himself. Their attituide towards Taichi also starkly differ, while Touko acted in obsessive and unstable ways that worsened the more Taichi rejected her, Sakuraba eventually got over his feelings for Taichi and started up a proper friendship with him, and is overall the happinest of the cast.
- If It's You, It's Okay: After witnessing Taichi in drag during a performance of Romeo And Juliet, Sakuraba became obsessed with Taichi and began stalking him, even after learning he was a guy. He seems to have basically gotten over it in present day, though it did left him impotent.
- Last-Name Basis: His first name is mentioned very infrequently.
- Locked into Strangeness: Claims that seeing aliens around the nuclear power plant near their town turned his hair blond.
- Love at First Sight: With a crossdressing Taichi.
- Nice Guy: Shown during his few serious scenes to be a genuinely compassionate person through and through, to the point that Taichi decides he can't have caused the deaths in Miki's route despite having no evidence, Sakuraba is just too good a person to have done such a thing.
- Only Sane Man: Yes, really. Being weird is Sakuraba's only real deal, unlike the others he has no serious personal or psycological issues, and is overall a pretty chill and likable guy.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Though it's more
- Shoo Out the Clowns: He leaves partway into Miki's route to go traveling. Given the exceptionally dark tone of that part of the story, he lucked out.
- The Loins Sleep Tonight: After the incident with Taichi, he became impotent. Very Played for Laughs.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Has a fondness for the leftover curry bread in the cafeteria, despite Taichi thinking it tastes horrible, and Sakuraba openly disliking curry when left on its own. Consider it another eccentric quirk.
Tomoki Shima
Taichi's other close male friend, and Misato's younger brother. Due to some event in their past, he is engaged in a "cold war" with his sister, and refuses to speak with her. Often teased as being a closet siscon by Taichi.
- Bromantic Foil: A much more serious one than Sakuraba.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Accused of wanting this by Taichi, even though he frequently denies even wanting to be around Misato. The epilogue has him start to accept those feelings, though.
- Chick Magnet: He's apparently pretty popular with girls, though given the setting this isn't shown.
- Covert Pervert: It's hinted at he's actually not much less perverted compared to Taichi, he's just much better at hiding it.
- Freudian Excuse: His resentment of Misato is fueled by her 'betraying' their father. When the circumstances involved are explained, their relationship improves.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When it doesn't involve his sister, Tomoki is not entirely likable but generally a pretty decent guy. He loses the jerk part after finally reconciling with Misato.
- Only Sane Man: Subverted, despite his adaptation coefficient being a relatively normal 17%, his obsessive bitterness towards his sister makes him just as damaged as the others.
- Straight Man: His role when dealing with Taichi and Sakuraba's antics.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Taichi argue a lot, but he's still one of his closest friends.
- Yuri Fan: Made a rather suspect comment when he met Miki and Kiri for the first time.
Other Characters
Nanaka
A mysterious girl who Taichi irregularly encounters in the morning on the way to school riding her bike, usually by crashing into him. She tends to give him friendly but cryptic advice about what to do next, but never explains who she is or what she's doing. For some reason, no one but Taichi can see her.
- Dead All Along: She's the spirit of Taichi's deceased mother.
- Figure It Out Yourself: She gives Taichi a few hints on what's really going on and that's it.
- Genki Girl: Very excitable and friendly.
- Leitmotif: Blithe Spirit, which is self-explanatory.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: After many hints, it's confirmed at the end of the game that Nanaka is actually Taichi's mother.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Definitely has some of the hallmarks of one. Somewhat played with in that her main job is to make sure Taichi stays sane.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Is Nanaka an alien, an agent of the divine, a ghost, or simply Taichi's delusion from what he remembers of his mother? He wonders about this for a moment before finally concluding that he doesn't care, and was just happy she was there to help him.
- Meaningful Name: The "ka" in her name means incense, as in the type you use to honor the dead. Prophetic Names must run in the family.
- Mum Looks Like a Sister: Although we're not sure how old Taichi is, Nanaka looks just as old as him if not younger. Miki might be heading the same way, which isn't too good once you remember that she came from a poor family.
- Non-Linear Character: Sometimes does things to the wrong version of Taichi, showing that her existence is unaffected by the loops.
- Seven Is Nana: Befitting the games Arc Number.
- Teen Pregnancy: It's implied she had Taichi at the same young age she's seen in the game. Hence why she died in childbirth.
Yuusa Doujima
Taichi's next door neighbour and friend. She took to hanging out with the Broadcast Club, and was planning to attend Gunjou.
- Attempted Rape: Taichi in one of his psychotic episodes attempted to rape her, utterly traumatizing her. Needless to say, she never spoke to him again.
- Break the Cutie: Being nearly raped by Taichi was horrific enough to make her throw up.
Yutaka Shinkawa
A good friend of Taichi's with a similar temperament to him, as well as Kiri's older brother by adoption. Due to a past injury, he requires crutches to walk.
- Amnesiac Dissonance: Before Taichi massacred the Shinkawa's Yutaka was a violent bully and rapist. Yutaka ultimately survived the incident, but lost his memories in the process. Without the influence of his rather monstrous family, the amnesiac Yutaka turned into a kind and decent young man and upstanding big brother to Kiri. But eventually he regained his memory and releasing what an awful person he was before his memory loss broke him, causing him to fall into despair and eventually resulted in his suicide.
- Asshole Victim: Deconstructed horribly. Taichi rationalizes that what he did to Yutaka was justified given the abuse he inflicted upon him when they were children, in spite of the fact that Yutaka had lost his memories and become caring big brother to Kiri since then. It's only in the closing moments of Kiri's route that he's able to acknowledge what he did was truly wrong.
- The Atoner: When he regained his memory of who he was and what he had done to Taichi, he was horrified by it and driven to suicidal despair. In the midst of his despair, he begged Taichi for forgiveness, telling him he wanted a way to atone. Taichi sarcastically tells him to kill himself... which he does. Taichi regrets it.
- Best Friend: In comparison to his more distant friendships with Sakuraba and Tomoki, Taichi and Yutaka hit it off instantly, and the only reason they didn't hang out more is because the latter couldn't join the Broadcasting Club for other commitments. Making what ultimately happened all the worse.
- Cool Big Bro: To Kiri.
- Driven to Suicide: The Amnesiac Dissonance that resulted from remembering who he was and what he had done to Taichi, sent him spiralling into to suicidal despair. In the middle of his breakdown, he begged Taichi for forgiveness, but Taichi instead lashed out at him and told him the only way he could ever make up for what he had done was to kill himself. And he did so.
- My God, What Have I Done? After Taichi revealed who and what he was prior to his amnesia.
- Posthumous Character: Yutaka had died a year before the main story.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: He raped Taichi when he was younger, but Taichi actually feels a certain amount of pity for him: With his father and the people he knew, Yutaka didn't have much of a chance to actually be a normal kid... but managed to grow up into an okay guy anyway once he lost those memories.
- Rousseau Was Right: Yutaka used to be a pretty horrible person, but it is made abundantly clearly that it was mostly a result of his monstrous family's influence. The trauma of surviving Taichi's massacre of the rest of his family, caused him to lose his memory, and without his family around to imprint on him any more, the amnesiac Yutaka instead turned into a kind, decent, and caring young man.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Yutaka is dead in the present day part of the story, and is only explored through a series of flashbacks in Kiri's route. His story however is instramental in the impact it has however regarding Taichi, and hovers over the rest of the narrative.
- Sole Survivor: Of the Shinkawa family, who were otherwise completely and utterly massacred by Taichi and Youko.
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia: With a fair dose of Amnesiac Dissonance to go with it.
- Walking Spoiler: Discussing Yutaka requires explaining some major reveals present in Kiri's route.
