Death Match Love Comedy / Characters

The character sheet for the small cast of characters from Death Match Love Comedy, most of them being students of the Misasagi High School.

Because of the nature of the story, the many secrets of several characters and its relation with Raging Loop, all spoilers will be unmarked. Be careful from now on.

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The School History Archive Committee

A school club of sorts formed by Ryuuto Arisu in order to protect Kei Yagi, on the suggestion of Asuka Hirakoba. Together, they investigate the cause of his explosive curse (aptly named "Death Match Love Comedy"), unearthing many secrets about their school and Misasagi City's old history, hence the name.

Tropes applying to the group

Balanced Harem: Downplayed. The four girls share this dynamic with Kei, but only two of them harbor feelings for him, with some Ship Tease with the other two on their respective endings.
Contagious Heroism: Thanks to Kei's presence, Shinoka and Asuka both motivate their friends to do the right thing to save him, and it eventually rubbed off on the unstable Otoba, the lonely Rumiko, the selfish Miya, and the unfeeling Ryuuto.
Declaration of Protection: Kei is the central character of the story, with everyone else forming the group to protect him from harm.
Fire-Forged Friends: The group hardly knew each other before the DMLC, and endured many hardships and challenges caused by Kei's inability to understand his two Love Interests. Once he begins to ponder about the concept of love, he becomes a more proactive person and helps his friends making amends.
True Companions: At the end of DMLC, all of them become close enough to consider each other family, and immediately seek a way to bring Kei back to life after his seemingly demise.
We Really Do Care: Kei's immense self-loathing and guilt for indirectly causing the DMLC caused him to perform a Heroic Sacrifice for the sake of his friends, but none of them actually want him to go through with it, including Ryuuto and Miya. After his disappearance, their unwillingness to accept it eventually brings him back.
With Friends Like These...: Asuka often gets in fights with Shinoka and Kei, Ryuuto is considered an annoyance to anyone else, Otoba is very aggressive and rude with everyone but Rumiko, Miya is mostly concerned about her own safety, but the DMLC forced them to put their differences aside to save Kei.

Kei Yagi

Kei Yagi / "White Goat"

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A first-year student at Mitsasagi High School. He is concerned about his low self-esteem and average skills, unremarkable among the other students of his class. He lost his parents at a very young age, instead being in the care of his honorary aunt Suzu. He becomes the victim of a curse who makes him explodes should everyone in genuine love with him ever confess to him, later nicknamed "Death Match Love Comedy".

Act of True Love: Chooses to sacrifice himself in the True End, causing a massive explosion to save his six other friends from the Braided Girl. His narration also emphasizes his first time feeling love, namely in a platonic sense towards his friends and family, which motivates him to give up his life for them.
Action Survivor: He manages to escape death multiple times, despite having an average constitution.
Allergic to Love: Exaggerated. The mere mention of love from one of his two Love Interests is enough to make him explode.
Ambiguous Situation: He's revealed to be born in one of the Church's "Pastures" in the True End, but it is unknown how he escaped in the first place, only remembering that he always lived with his deceased mother.
Better as Friends: Attempts this at first with Rumiko and Otoba. It works for a while thanks to his friends' presence...But they eventually have enough on April 28th: Kei's passive and uninterested approch backfires horribly, causing Rumiko to attempt suicide and Otoba to go berserk.
Blessed with Suck: His actual Jinx comes from the barbed wire being, who granted him the warning lights whose sole purpose is to drive him away from his friends. On the other hand, he does find a use with it during the fire of April 27th, as the warning lights allowed him to find Rumiko and Otoba.
Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: His Heroic Sacrifice through the final Love Confession of his Love Interests is powerful enough to destroy the Braided Girl, an Eldritch Abomination with reality warping powers. He does get better in the end thanks to his friends manipulating causality to revive him, but it also brought the Braided Girl back.
Brutal Honesty: Under his mother's influence, he delivers a Breaking Speech to Shinoka when the latter attempts to aid him after his painful breakup with Rumiko and Otoba. He quickly regrets it after it causes Super Kokkuri to appear for the first time, and eventually softens to Shinoka.
Butt-Monkey: Given his explosive curse, he spends the first third of the story running from his Love Interests (including getting bullied by one of them) and is prone to paranoia. Later downplayed after he snaps out of it and starts hanging out with his friends.
Byronic Hero: He's a very troubled and lonely individual, with several character flaws who prevent him to be more proactive, but his friends are all sympathetic to his plight.
Celibate Hero: Invoked by the DMLC and Discussed at one point with Asuka. He admits not having feelings for either Rumiko or Otoba, and he doesn't experience romantic nor sexual attraction towards his classmates, but Asuka thinks him to be uneducated on the subject. Later downplayed when, he admits to Miya near the end to experience some sort of attraction for the girls, but he's aware of his lack of love. By the end of the game, he's more open with romance with either Rumiko or Otoba, but he wishes to wait another 3 years to think about it.
Character Development: Through a series of unfortunate events and after escaping death multiple times over the course of two weeks, Kei eventually grows as an individual to pay back his friends who helped him for so long.
Chick Magnet: Two girls already had feelings for him at the beginning of the story, and he later has a stalker after him. Shinoka and Miya can also develop feelings for him on their respective routes, with some Ship Tease in the true route for the latter.
Classical Anti-Hero: He only wants to save himself in order to give a proper answer to his Love Interests, and asks the help of his friends once he realizes he cannot do that alone no matter what, all while overcoming his own flaws.
The Confidant: Becomes one to Shinoka upon discovering her secret and insecurities.
Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Whereas Haruaki Fusaishi has a lot of charisma, is smart and is good with words, Kei is only an normal guy with no special skills of his own.
Dark and Troubled Past: He doesn't remember anything of his childhood before turning 5, and spent his early childhood being abused by Tororin, his only family. After running away from her once, she realized her mistake and went on to become a true parent figure for him. Later revelatons in the game also explains the origin of his barbed wire, who comes from his trauma caused by his mother's suicide before his very eyes, giving him the idea that "love" is associated with death. He's also suspected to be one of the "pasture-born" children, like Miya, possibly known as the "White Goat".
Distressed Dude: He's the weakest of his friends, so he often has to be protected by someone whenever he's alone.
11th-Hour Superpower: He later awakens to his powers given by Otoba, in his case some control over fire, allowing him to turn his hair into fuses to make remote explosions, or imbuing his fists with fire.
The Empath: His warning lights allows him to detect his two Love Interests if they are in his vicinity, and sense whenever they began to feel powerful emotions.
Empty Promise: As Otoba was breaking down before his eyes on the night of April 29th, he makes one to her to get around his bomb, and to prevent her from burning herself out of grief. Miya later calls him out on it, reminding him of his lack of love and disregard for Otoba's feelings.
Everyone's Baby Sister: Being the weakest of the group, everyone else works their hardest to protect him from the Braided Girl when his life is in danger.
Fatal Flaw: His indecisiveness and unwillingness to choose between his two Love Interests. He later tries to reject both of them by the half of the story, but it made the situation worse.
Forgotten First Meeting: He actually met Rumiko long ago when he was a young and depressed child who was running away from his home. Unlike him, she never forgot this event, and invited him to go to her home should he ever flees again. However, Kei eventually grew attached to his caretaker and didn't actually come back like she thought, and forgot about the meeting entirely.
Go Out with a Smile: Upon sacrificing himself at the very end, he ends up showing a broad smile to his friends, happy to give up his life for them for the sake of love and friendship.
Happily Adopted: He grew up as a relatively normal and sane teenage boy, thanks to Tororin's good education.
The Heart: He's the moral center of his circle of friends, who all gather around him to work towards a solution to save him.
Heroic BSoD: Suffers one in the true route, after almost confessing to Otoba, so much that his barbed wire gave him too much pain to handle, leaving him unconscious for a while.
Hero Looking for Group: After realizing extended isolation isn't good for his sanity, he decides to trust his friends to help him take care of his bomb problem. They all happily join him, including his two Love Interests whom he accepts as friends.
Heroic Sacrifice: Chooses to sacrifice his own life at the end of the game to save his six other friends from dying in the Braided Girl's Endless Corridor.
I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: During his short "Freaky Friday" Flip with Miya's body, he gets his way by distracting men with her large breasts to have free tickets and evading controllers in public transports.
Just Friends: He only views Rumiko and Otoba as good friends, and stated multiple times his lack of interest for them. Granted, he can't return their feelings, but both of them have issues with it, eventually causing many problems by the latter half of the game.
The Load: Enforced by his curse, who prevent him to do anything meaningful since it would result in his death. His feeble strength also leaves him with no options to defend himself, needing the help of his friends.
Man, I Feel Like a Woman: Defied. Upon switching bodies with Miya during April 29th, he doesn't try to test her body, out of fear she would curse him if he tries something with it, and also doesn't use the shower.
Meaningful Name: One of the possible translations of "Kei" is "Scape", and "Yagi" translates as "Goat". Kei ultimately interprets this as his true purpose at the end of the game, in which he sacrifices himself to save his friends.
Messianic Archetype: He becomes the moral center of his six other friends, and all of them want to help him through his numerous hardships, despite one of them being the one who cursed him in the first place. He eventually sacrifices himself to save them from a certain death, and is later resurrected thanks to their refusal to acnowledge his death.
Mr. Vice Guy: Enforced. His cowardice and dishonesty caused by the DMLC forces him to make terrible decisions in order to survive, since any form of love directed towards him is enough to kill him.
Mysterious Past: He doesn't remember much of his early childhood after his parents died, content with Suzu at his caretaker.
Nervous Wreck: His curse makes him unable to interact with his two Love Interests at first, too frightened to hear them talk.
Non-Action Guy: All of his friends are either more muscular than him or have a better physical condition, leaving him with no special strength of his own and often has to rely on them. Including Miya, gifted with supernatural abilities given by her Jinx.
Ordinary High-School Student: Outside of a few gimmicks and some knowledge of manga, he's mostly an ordinary teen in all aspects, if not for Detoneko at his side. After realizing his true nature, he awakens his latent powers.
Parental Abandonment: Both of his parents died in an accident, leaving him as an orphan under the care of Suzu.
Positive Friend Influence: His tendency to take everything as a joke and the DMLC has a positive influence on his friends, who grew to like him despite his flaws.
The Power of Friendship: Wholly believes in it by the end of the game, and eventually gets rid of his mother's influence thanks to his friends.
Ridiculously Average Guy: He doesn't have any distinctive features unlike his friends, and even he wonders how someone like him could have two girls after him.
Ship Tease: Outside of his two Love Interests, Shinoka and Miya are suggested to have some feelings for him due to the way his warning lights works, with End 2 and 3 in particular have both of them having a closer relationship with him. While the True End stays mostly on the surface for Shinoka, Miya still has lingering feelings for Kei as shown in her own Extra.
Shipper on Deck: He's very supportive of Miya's crush on Otoba, and happily wish them to be together, if not for his bomb problem.
Silent Scapegoat: Downplayed. He willingly takes the blame for every problem caused by the DMLC, even though his friends perfectly know he's not at fault. Taking after his namesake of the "scapegoat", he invokes this trope by sacrificing himself to save the others.
Still the Leader: Though he's the "leader" of sorts to his circle of friends, and later officially the president of the "School History Archive Committee", he doesn't feel like a leader and shares his role to either Shinoka or Ryuuto.
This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: The sole power of his warning lights is to indicate the location of his two Love Interests and their feelings to make him aware of the danger. He later finds a use with it during the fire of April 27th to search their whereabouts, and later on April 28th to search for Rumiko in Itsuwa City.
Tiny Schoolboy: Dowplayed. He's the smallest boy of his class, with the same height as Miya and slightly taller than Otoba, but everyone else dwarfs him.
Took a Level in Badass: He becomes more proactive in the second half of the story, and eventually realizes the true nature of his curse. He later awakens to his borrowed Jinx from Otoba, and rids himself of his barbed wire entirely.
Unlikely Hero: He's forced to go through many hardships and life-threatening events, and he manages to survive all of them in spite of being The Generic Guy.
Unlucky Everydude: Kei is by all means a normal highschooler who happens to be stuck between a rock and a hard place due to the curse placed on him.
Unwanted Harem: Out of his female friends, two harbor strong feelings for him, up to four depending on the route.
Verbal Weakness: Any form of confession by either voice, physical contact or written text is enough to kill him.
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: It turns out he doesn't experience "love" (neither romance nor family love) like most people do, and even doubts about whether he truly received genuine love from his sole family, Suzu. His lack of understanding and refusal to "love" proves to be one of the reasons behind his bomb problem.
Why Am I Ticking?: Turned into a bomb at some point before the story, it is up to him and his friends to find out the reason behind it and how to get rid of his curse.

Rumiko Tsuno

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A classmate of Kei and one of his two Love Interests, known for being the most popular girl of the school and a good friend of Shinoka. She's the heir of the most important families of miko in the town, living in a temple with her family. At first glance, she seems composed, but there's more to her than meets the eye...

Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's fairly attractive and the most popular girl of the school, she's aloof even with her friends, and has long black hair.
Ambiguously Bi: She only has eyes for Kei, but she's also very attached to Otoba, whom she considers her best friend to the point of cursing Kei to protect her friendship with her, fearing that love would tear them apart. When she lost her memories, she easily befriends Otoba again, and becomes her confident in the hospital, to the point Suzu mistook them for lovers, complete with them Holding Hands with Platonic Kissing on Rumiko's part.
Amnesiac Lover: Becomes this after her attempted suicide, unable to remember her life in highschool and middle school.
Becoming the Mask: She used to be a huge tomboy with an extrovert personality and honest about her love for Kei, but growing as the miko of her family temple made her the aloof and unsmiling girl she is by the beginning of the game.
Big Damn Heroes: She and Otoba save Kei and Miya from being killed by Ryuuto during the final battle, in her case by using a long stick.
Bros Before Hoes: Unwilling to lose her friendship with Otoba because of her feelings, she instead chose to curse Kei to preserve the status quo.
Cute and Psycho: Her natural beauty combined with her berserk mode in evenings makes her a pretty, but deadly enemy to Kei.
Cute Clumsy Girl: Behind her Yamato Nadeshiko shtick, she's also a huge sleepwalker and a potential danger for Kei, as she tends to confess her love for him during her sleep.
Didn't Think This Through: After saving a cat from drowning, she quickly realizes her mistake after she moved away from Otoba, who then goes berserk.
Driven to Suicide: Kei's formal rejection is the final straw for her, and attempts to kill herself, with her fate depending on Kei's feelings for her. The reason behind her suicide turns out to be more complex than a simple rejection, as seen in Forgotten First Meeting.
Forgotten First Meeting: She actually met Kei during their early childhood, hosting him in her temple when he was fleeing from his foster mother Suzu who was abusive towards him at the time. He then promised he would come to her should his situation at home would become unbearable. However, Suzu began to soften and raised him with love, prompting him to forget about his promise...Whereas Rumiko never forgot her promise, and eventually began developing feelings for him.
Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Downplayed. Being raised in a temple as the heiress made her true character difficult to gauge even to her friends, until later events would reveal her as a sheltered girl who nonetheless enjoys "feminine" things as much as more "masculine" things like sports and martial arts.
Hidden Depths: She turns out to be an expert at Kabaddi, and she has a very good physical condition allowing her to do agile movements and strong tackles, defeating everyone else except Ryuuto. She's also a Plucky Girl in private, but her father teached her how to behave herself in public.
Hijacking Cthulhu: Implied. Upon discovering her Kotodama Jinx, she's shown to be able to exert some form of control over any being as long as she knows its name, including supernatural ones. The Braided Girl was likely aware of Rumiko's power, to the point she attempted a Suicide Attack to kill Kei and his friends rather than being controlled.
I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: The main reason she cursed Kei to prevent both her and Otoba to confess their feelings. She valued her friendship with Otoba, to the point she would cast away her feelings for Kei and curse him in order to preserve it.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Tries this during the night of April 27th, by forgoing her love with Kei for Otoba's sake. However, she didn't account for Kei rejecting Otoba's feelings and later regrets her decision, unable to forget about him.
I Was Just Passing Through: Behind her cold facade, she really is caring about her friends. One of the most notable examples is during Asuka and Shinoka's Extra, when she stumbled upon him during middle school, after he was beaten up by bullies: Despite being seemingly unconcerned about his well-being, she actually called Shinoka to take care of him, while dismissing it as pure coincidence.
Kindhearted Cat Lover: She's one of the nicest people of the game, and enjoys playing with cats.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: After her attempted suicide, she loses the last six years of her life, returning to her elementary school self.
Lethally Stupid: Ends up confessing to Kei by accident at the beginning by confessing to him at random.
Loving a Shadow: Upon meeting a brooding Kei during her early childhood, she made him promise to come to her home should he ever wants to run away again. However, his parent Tororin undergoes Character Development to properly rise Kei, and he didn't return to her ever since...As Rumiko waited for many years, she eventually developed feelings for "the depressed boy" who once fled to her home.
Maybe Ever After: End 1 implies she can end up with Kei, after the latter will continue to search a way to get rid of his curse.
The Nicknamer: She loves to name things, and is surprisingly good at doing so. Near the end, she awakens to her Kotodama powers, allowing her to put names on unnamed things to exert a control on them.
Not So Stoic: The later half of the story shows her to be a former Plucky Girl before reaching her teens, and her mask can sometimes crack when she's alone with either Kei or Otoba.
Platonic Kissing: After making amends with Otoba regarding their dispute, the latter hits her twice as payment. In return, Rumiko simply decides to kiss her.
Otoba: Wh-wh-what the heck are you doing?! I-i-i-it was my first kiss...
Rumiko: Don't worry, even in ancient Japanese customs, it isn't unusual to have your first experience initiated by someone of the same gender.
Platonic Life-Partners: Her relationship with Kei in End 1. They aren't romantically involved because of his still existing bomb, but both vowed to face their problems and sins together, with some implications that they will be together.
Plucky Girl: She turns out to be one before the events of the game, but her father teached her how to suppress her emotions when interacting with other people.
The Power of Language: Her Jinx is based on the Kotodama, allowing her to influence and manipulate supernatural happenings through words and names.
The Promise: She and Kei made one during their first meeting. However, as Kei was in a huge depressed state at the time, he forgot about it when he grew up, while Rumiko eventually developed feelings for him.
Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: She's the first friend of Otoba, and spends a lot of time with her outside of school. One of the reasons she cursed Kei was because she didn't want to break her friendship with Otoba over love, and near the end of the story, they begin Holding Hands when they make up.
Smitten Teenage Girl: Unlike Otoba, she didn't show hints of having a crush on Kei before the beginning at the story, hinting to a Love at First Sight. Later subverted during the events of April 27th, where Kei remembers their Forgotten First Meeting.
Stepford Smiler: Her default expression usually consist of a faint smile, hiding a great deal of sadness beneath it, as seen in her inner world with her numerous puppets harboring fake smiles.
The Stoic: She expresses little to no emotions in due to her upbringing, making her appear as a cold and unfeeling girl at times.
Story-Breaker Power: Her ability to use names to exert control on any being is quite dangerous, as seen in the true route, when the Braided Girl attempted to kill the entire group through self-detonation rather than having her name discovered. She also guessed Super Kokkuri's true name, given his sudden awakening when she attempted to say it.
Yakuza Princess: Her father used to be the head of a large Yakuza group, which explains why he dotes on her and is overprotective of her safety.
Yamato Nadeshiko: She's presented as a perfect Japanese beauty, daughter of a miko and is the most popular girl of the school.
Yandere: Downplayed. She loses her inhibitions at night, but her gentle personality makes her more dangerous than Otoba. Also, she's actively fighting against the influence, and effectively get rid of it altogether after Kei promises to think more seriously about their relationship.

Otoba Shirotsume

Otoba Shirotsume / "Lady Wing Clover/Heavy Killing Crowbar"

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A classmate of Kei and one of his two Love Interests, infamous as the most aggressive and violent girl of the entire school, terryfing everyone in her wake. She's the Childhood Friend of Kei, but spent most of her time bullying him following a certain incident between them. Despite being very violent towards him, she sometimes becomes uncharacteristically emotive in his presence.

Action Girl: She's the most powerful character of the cast in raw strength, easily beating up everyone when she becomes berserk when the circle of friends enjoyed their time near the local river.
Big Damn Heroes: She and Rumiko save Kei and Miya from being killed by Ryuuto during the final battle, in her case by using her fire Jinx.
Blessed with Suck: Her Jinx has destructive fire powers, but only get stronger towards people she liked.
Childhood Friends: With Kei ever since elementary school.
Dark Secret: Her family's history and heritage, whom she hates with every fiber of her being due to the suffering and gender issues it caused her since childhood.
Dismissing a Compliment: Whenever someone compliments her, she usually becomes very flustered (or violent in Kei's case).
Disproportionate Retribution: The reason she constantly bullies Kei is because he lifted up her skirt once during their childhood, and she didn't forget about it ever since. Later subverted, when it turns out that he was the first person to acnknowledge her as a girl and called her cute, but she spent her time hiding her growing feelings behind violence.
Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Her main method of interacting with Kei and Asuka usually consists in beating them to a pulp or doing suplexes. It also extends to other people when she becomes berserk at night. One of the early bad ends also has her accidentally killing Kei by ramming her fork into his mouth while attempting to feed him. Ouch.
Dumb Muscle: The strongest of Kei's friends, but far from the smartest.
Hair-Trigger Temper: She's by far the most easily irritable character of the cast, reacting violently at any comment on her with the sole exception of Kei complimenting her.
How Do I Shot Web?: Upon awakening her Jinx powers, she doesn't have control over her fire and almost kills herself with it at first. She later gets a better hold of her power, shooting fireballs at will.
I Am a Monster: Because of her family's history of Royal Inbreeding, she happened to be Intersex which caused her to believe she was a monster. Her regular interactions with Kei made her more comfortable about being a girl, until his rejection during the events of April 27th, who further aggravated her self-loathing. She eventually gets better after Kei gives her a Cooldown Hug on April 29th and makes a point on accepting her not matter how she feels about her body.
If I Can't Have You…: She loses it after her formal rejection by Kei, becoming a raging demon who retentless pursues him to have her feelings returned, even if it means killing him in the process.
Intersex Tribulations: Because of her family's horrible history, she suffered from gender dysphoria because of her defective body and having both masculine and feminine genitalia, until her meeting with Kei made her more comfortable about being a girl.
Little Miss Badass: She's the second smallest character of the cast, but certainly the strongest.
Love at First Punch: Kei's first reaction in elementary school after she beats him up is to compliment her terrifying strength and cuteness, causing her to develop latent feelings for him.
Loving Bully: She has strong feelings for Kei, but she usually beats him up upon meeting him. Later dowplayed when she becomes part of his circle of friends alongside Rumiko.
Mood-Swinger: Being the violent girl she is, except her to regularly switch between a timid person and an extremely passionate one.
Murder the Hypotenuse: Subverted. She attempts this during her rampage of April 27th, upon seeing Miya getting familiar with Kei, not knowing their true relationship, while also being oblivious on Miya's own crush on her.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: As expected from someone who regularly bullies her Childhood Friend and doesn't know about to communicate outside of violence, Kei knows her by the moniker Heavy Killing Crowbar.
The Napoleon: She's the shortest of her friends, and has certainly has the shortest temper of them all.
Oblivious to Love: She's entirely unaware of Miya's feelings for her. Somewhat justified in her regards, as her All Take and No Give relationship with Miya makes her question if she is truly her friend.
Playing with Fire: Her Jinx ability consists of burning everything she touches to a crisp, and later evolves into full-blown fireballs.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The violent and impulsive Red to Miya's calmer and composed Blue.
Royal Inbreeding: She comes from a lineage of gunpowders and firearms craftsmen back in the Middle Ages, with all of its members marrying each other to "keep the bloodline pure", to the point every living member of her family look like her, including the men.
Sarcasm-Blind: As the Dumb Muscle, she usually has a hard time undestanding irony and subtle jokes.
Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: She loses it when Kei rejects her, becoming a full-blown Yandere at night, also gaining her Jinx powers in the process.
Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Behind her heavily masculine personality hides a surprisingly sweet and feminine side of her, whom she only shows to Kei, Miya and Rumiko.
Traumatic Superpower Awakening: She begins unleashing her hidden powers after Kei's formal rejection.
Tsundere: Usually violent with everyone, especially towards Kei whom she has a crush on. Downplayed over the course of the game, in which she gradually becomes more honest with her feelings, and also Inverted near the True End, where we also get this gem before the final battle:
Otoba: Don't get me wrong. I'm really doing this for you and your sis' sake.
Miya: ...Is that a reverse Tsundere?
Unskilled, but Strong: After awakening her fire Jinx powers, she cannot do much but blindly throwing fireballs at her target, possessing a large destructive power but suffers from poor accuracy.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: As she couldn't wait to confess her feelings for Kei by highschool, she forced Rumiko to confess at the same time as her, causing the latter to curse him in order to preserve their friendship.
Yandere: Becomes this at night, using her monstrous strength (and later her Jinx powers) to reach Kei no matter what.

Shinoka Kudan

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A classmate of Kei with a cheerful personality who tends to take on the role of organizing the class and acting as the leader of Kei's circle of friends. She's also part of an old family of miko with a dedicated temple, making her a friend of Rumiko since childhood. Outside of classes, she's often seen listening something with her earphones...

It is later revealed she has precognition abilities, making her able to see hidden prophecies in every given text or through vocal messages, but limits herself to the use of her phone due to the toll it causes on her sanity. She usually refers to this ability as Super Kokkuri.

Anguished Declaration of Love: Parodied. After her secret is discovered by Kei, she becomes overly dramatic and attempts to confess to him, solely to freak him out.
The Atoner: Feeling responsible for the whole "Super Kokkuri" fiasco in End 2, she wants to help Kei with his condition to make amends for the terrible actions Super Kokkuri has done in her name.
Blessed with Suck: Her prophecies are stated to be 100% accurate, but the random nature of these leaves her unable to help her friends in a meaningful way, outside of a few vague hints.
First-Name Basis: When interacting with her classmates, the first thing she does is to remind them to call her with her first name, showing her friendly and outgoing attitude.
The Gadfly: Not as the same level as Miya, but she's not above playing pranks on her friends.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: Her abilities to foresee future events is consdered a blessing by her friends, who point out the many ways to twist her prophecies as she sees fit.
Hates Being Alone: One of the reasons she's known as a very friendly person come from her fear to be left alone.
He Knows Too Much: She invokes this trope to Kei after she mistakenly believes he knows about her powers, and proceed to scare him straight with a fake-out confession.
I Know Karate: She's a black belt in karate, and we get to see it firsthand when she easily knocks Kei out when she was searching for him.
The Leader: Becomes this to Kei's circle of friends, although she sometimes gives leadership to the more pragmatic and smarter Ryuuto.
Maybe Ever After: Her relationship with Kei in End 2. She stays with him and makes it her goal to save him from his condition no matter what, in a way that ressembles a Love Confession (which almost kills him).
Nice Girl: She has a lot of acquaintances in the class, and everyone look up to her as a friend and the most reliable girl of the class.
The Nicknamer: She likes to use nicknames and affectionate names with her friends.
Only Friend: To Asuka ever since elementary school, being the only girl he interacted with on a regular basis.
Only Sane Woman: Turns out to be this, after the reveal that Miya isn't as calm as she seems to be and has...Special feelings towards Kei. Downplayed midway through the game, when it turns out she has precognition powers who made her bitter about her future made her more cynical.
Platonic Life-Partners: She has this dynamic with Asuka, being one of the few friends he had before highschool. They both have several Ship Tease moments and are the Foil to each other, but the second Extra all but confirms their platonic relationship.
Screw Destiny: Rumiko interprets her power as this, thinking it to be a way for her to change destiny.
Sharpshooter Fallacy: One of the hidden possibilities of her powers, allowing to manipulate her predictions to reinterpret something which already happened. As such, Asuka's witnessing of Kei disappareance combined with her friends unwillingness to acknowledge his death made her create a prophecy in which Kei didn't die in the first place.
Team Mom: She likes to take care of her friends as the most mature and friendly member of their group.
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Asuka, one of the first friends she knows since elementary school.
Waif Prophet: Super Kokkuri gives her random prophecies which may or may not be useful to her friends, but she hides her power to everyone but Kei after he tricks her into revealing it in the first place.
What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: She grew to hate the power of Super Kokkuri for giving her useless and negative prophecies to read, causing her to become cynical and fatalistic.

Miya Tougo

Miya Tougo / "Black Goat" / Meiko

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A classmate of Kei and a member of the literature club who mostly keeps to herself, always calm and often seen reading a book, but she also has quite the poisonous tongue. She's one of Otoba's few friends, taking a liking to her, and maybe seeing her as more... Her mysterious presence and strange personality makes one wonder about her intentions, be they noble or selfish.

Amazon Chaser: Double Subverted. She has an attraction on Action Girl Otoba, but it turns out she was targeting her specifically for her offensive fire Jinx...However, she eventually backs down after seeing her power isn't worth it, being only powerful towards friends. By the end of the story, she isn't sure about her feelings for Otoba anymore because of her self-serving goals, but the rest of her friends gleefully encourages her to keep on trying to be romantically involved with her.
Ambiguously Bi: Aside from her feelings for Otoba, she also expressed an interest for Kei, sometimes blushing and mercilessly teasing him much to his dismay. In the third ending, she even suggests Otoba and Kei to have a triple date together, and her own Extra reveals she still has feelings for him.
Ambiguously Evil: Midway through the story. She harbors dangerous Jinx powers, likes to remind her hatred for Kei, and is heavily suggested to work for a secret group...But she's very attached to her friends, and saves Kei more than once, leaving her true allegiance unknown. She ultimately turns out to be a lone wanderer who stole several Jinxes from her pursuers, on the run since childhood and trying to live another day. She also doesn't answer when Kei asks her if she killed people in cold blood during her time as an escapee.
Anti-Anti-Christ: She was destined to become a threat to the world of Jinxes and beyond, but she ultimately turned out to be a lonely individual driven by the simple desire to survive and live another day, and when pushed enough can actually be a heroic person who uses her terrifying powers for good.
Anti-Hero: Despite her self-serving goals and manipulative personality, she's ultimately a good person and went on to befriend the rest of the group thanks to the DMLC.
Anti-Magic: Black Goat can steal Jinxes from other people, and one of them, Matsurika, allows her to nullify another Jinx in exchange of blood.
Bad Powers, Good People: Her power made her the terrifying woman she is today and she wasn't concerned with her classmates at first, until the DMLC forced her into befriending them for real, showing her as a caring and protective individual in spite of her selfishness.
Becoming the Mask: As the False Friend of Otoba, she attempted to be intimate with her in order to steal her Jinx. Being involved in the DMLC case wasn't something she expected, and she comes to appreciate being a genuine friend with everyone else after overcoming many challenges with them during the events of the game.
Big Eater: Be it herself or her Black Goat Jinx, she certainly has a thing for food.
Big Good: She is Kei's most useful ally to help him with his curse and during his supernatural endeavors.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Downplayed. Behind her calm demeanor hides a manipulative girl with a mean streak who enjoys messing with Kei, his rival for love. Even after warming up to him by the second half of the game, she likes to pick on him for a laugh.
Blow You Away: Her sole means of defending herself apart from Black Goat is Mizuki, a defensive Jinx allowing her to control wind and create small tornadoes.
Buxom Beauty Standard: She has the largest bust of the cast, often pointed out as an abnormal thing by Kei.
Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: She cannot stand being around Kei outside of school, harboring a strong hatred for him to the point she wishes his death. After healing him and Rumiko following her Bungled Suicide, Miya is forced to take him with her to hide in a hotel without check ins, slowly growing acustomed to his presence and becomes fond of teasing him. By the end of the story, she still claims to hate him, but surprisingly enough is the first to react when she understands what he's going to do to destroy the Braided girl.
Cast from Hit Points: Matsurika allows her to heal any illness, poison, and even nullify other Jinxes, in exchange of her blood. She gets around it by using it with Psychic Vampirism to heal herself.
Casting a Shadow: Black Goat seems to be entirely made of shadows, and can be controlled remotely at will.
Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Dreamwriting relies on suggestion and words in order to convince her target to believe whatever she says, as long as they don't believe in supernatural happenings and isn't physically impossible to do, like reviving someone from the dead.
Combat Pragmatist: Since she's lacking in offense, she usually fights her pursuers with sneak attacks with her Jinxes and liberal use of Black Goat.
Combo Platter Powers: By virtue of Black Goat being able to steal Jinxes, her set of powers are diverse and don't always match together. During the events of DMLC, she currently possesses the following:
- Black Goat: A shadowy goat who can "devour" her opponents' Jinx, granted with large claws for versatile use. She cannot hold more than 7 Jinxes at any given time.
  - Hanae: Creating a small pond of water anywhere one sees fit, as long as no one else watches.
  - Mizuki: Manipulating airstreams with small tornadoes to knock opponents away.
  - Bisuka: Exchanging one's body for a day with another by kissing them. Jinxes are also passed on.
  - Dreamwriting: Manipulating someone's perception of reality through suggestion, on the condition that the victim doesn't know about Jinxes and the desired outcome isn't physically impossible to do or doesn't mess with causality.
  - Matsurika: Curing any illness, poison or cancelling another Jinx's power in exchange for one's blood, but cannot be used against any dream related attacks. Sounds familiar?
  - Psychic Vampirism: Healing onself by "feeding" on their victim's mind, which can cripple them depending on the quantity of energy stolen.
  - Uzumi: Implied to be as powerful as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, usually as a last resort in Miya's case.
Covert Pervert: Her largely placid and seemingly calm personality hides a rather perverted woman whose favorite target is Kei, teasing him during their short time in the hotel, perfectly aware he would not make a move on her. In the last Extra, she's shown to be quite flirty with other girls, and the Sheep later visits her dreams and accuses her of being the most perverted person of the group, with a secret desire for Kei.
Sheep: The feelings you have for the White Goat are quite difficult to gauge. Unlike anyone else, you consider him to be more than just a friend, but it's not quite "love" either...I bet you're lusting for him, aren't you?
Cute Bookworm: She's a member of the litterature club and a cute young woman.
Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Uzumi is her most powerful Jinx, but she cannot use it at all except for extreme situations. In her Extra, she compares it to a WMD, hinting it to be something powerful enough to level an entire town.
Dark Secret: She's known in the supernatural world as the Black Goat, a longtime fugitive who defeated and possibly killed many of her pursuers and constantly in hiding, in search for female Jinx users to empower herself. She understandably makes a lot of efforts to hide her true identity from her friends, until circumstances forces her to reveal herself to Kei and his friends by the end of the game.
Dark Is Not Evil: She primarily dresses with black clothes, and her Jinx is a shadowy goat with red eyes, but she's actually on the good guys' side.
Deadpan Snarker: On multiple occasions, she turns out to be very snarky during the few times she speaks her mind, especially towards Kei.
Discard and Draw: She can't hold more than seven Jinxes at any given time, and must discard one if she chooses to steal another.
Dismissing a Compliment: Near the True End, Kei sincerely thanks her for helping him staying alive despite all odds. After a few seconds of awkward silence, Miya flusteredly dismisses his thanks, going back to her usual self by insulting him.
Erotic Eating: Her first private talk with Kei regarding his relationship with Otoba has her eating her hamburger in a weird and suggestive way.
Miya: Heheh...Does it turn you on?
Escaped from the Lab: She was one of the Pasture-born children of the Church, but she managed to escape after awakening her Jinx to kill her pursuers. Her escape would eventually made her visit a remote village in the mountains, and she would later grew up as a dangerous individual infamous in the world of Jinx users and some criminal organizations.
Fake First Kiss: Has one with Kei, in order to switch bodies with him, while heavily insisting she doesn't have a thing for him. It turns out she already had kissed with other people before, due to the nature of the Bisuka Jinx.
False Friend: She only entered Misasagi High School and befriended Otoba to get her Jinx. However, circumstances beyond her control forced her to join the group of friends to investigate the DMLC, and she later develops genuine attachment to her friends.
The Gadfly: Likes to play practical jokes on Kei to get a good reaction out of him, presumably out of spite, and later because she simply enjoys messing with him.
Gayngst: She's revealed to have feelings for her friend Otoba, who has yet to return her affections. On top of that, she's also in a very restrictive school setting in Japan where such a thing would be met with weird looks. When she reveals her true objective of stealing Otoba's Jinx for herself to Kei, he still encourages them to be together regardless, and the trope becomes Played for Laughs afterwards when none of her friends are surprised by this fact.
Girl Friday: The most capable companion of Kei, who helps him behind the scenes thanks to her numerous powers and connections.
Gruesome Goat: Downplayed. According to the Church's files, Meiko was destined to become a dangerous threat to the world of Jinxes, and effectively became infamous as the Black Goat Septuplets. After being adopted into the Church four years ago, Miya now appears as a lonely girl who possesses a terrifying and ominous power, but she doesn't use it to wreck havoc, content with hiding and living another day.
Guardian Entity: Her Black Goat Jinx appears as a shadowy goat with red eyes, protecting her from harm and fighting off her enemies for her.
HA HA HA—No: Has this reaction when the Sheep accuses her of secretly lusting for Kei.
Healing Factor: Matsurika and Psychic Vampirism are her two healing Jinxes which allow her to respectively cure any poison in exchange of blood, and the other makes her able to steal the life energy of her target to heal herself.
Heroic Neutral: She mostly wants to be left alone and do her own thing, up until the latter half of DMLC, in which she realizes she loves her friends more than she expected.
Hidden Disdain Reveal: During their school field trip in Itsuwa City, she invites Kei to a fast-food and gleefully reveals her hatred for him, since he's the target of her crush's affections. Later downplayed by the latter half of the story, when she considers him a precious and endearing friend in spite of his flaws.
Hopeless Suitor: She has a crush on Otoba, who only has feelings for Kei. Subverted in End 3, in which Kei reveals her crush to Otoba, and it turns out she's actually open to the idea, albeit a little confused.
Hypercompetent Sidekick: Despite Kei being the main protagonist, it's Miya who does the most work in order to remove his curse.
If It's You, It's Okay: She has a preference for women, but she's also suggested to have some feelings for Kei, and her personal preferences lean towards smart and crafty people like "Fusayuki-san".
I Have Many Names: After spending many years of her life hiding and fighting off her numerous enemies, she came to be known by several nicknames: "The Stray Dog", "The Professional Killer", "The Runaway", "The Nameless Woman", "The Hell's Spawn", "The Faceless", "The Devourer of Souls", with the most infamous being The Black Goat Septuplets, a variation of her first nickname.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She doesn't really mind letting Kei and Otoba be together, but she possibly has some lingering feelings for both.
Ineffectual Loner: Given her great power, she effectively supported Kei during a large part of the game, using her numerous jinxes to help him all by herself. However, it eventually backfires when she attempts to confront the mastermind alone without notifying her friends, leading to her defeat in her fight against Ryuuto who learned of her powers beforehand, and she's later saved thanks to her friends' support.
In Love with the Mark: Downplayed. She targeted Otoba specifically for her Fire Jinx, and did so by attempting to befriend her despite her violent personality. By the time of DMLC, she also displayed love for her, but she eventually backs down on stealing her Jinx after learning of her Intersex Tribulations. Regardless, Kei and the rest of the group still encourage Miya to be with Otoba near the True End, but she would rather let her be with her crush rather than interfering anymore.
In-Series Nickname: Outside of her numerous nicknames related to her powers, Kei usually nicknames her with something related to her chest, often calling her as "Black-Hearted Breasts".
Jack of All Stats: She exclusively possesses defensive-leaning Jinxes, mainly to heal herself and escape from her oppeonents, rather than killing them. The main reason she infiltrated Misasagi Highschool while posing as a student was to get her hands on Otoba's powerful fire Jinx, giving her a powerful offensive tool that she lacks.
Jerkass to One: She's known by everyone else as a nice and friendly girl, but she only ever shows her true colors and her jerkass traits to Kei.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's a jerk to Kei and enjoys mocking her allies of the Church, but she's still a nice person deep down, even if she doesn't acknowledge it.
Kid Hero All Grown-Up: She's a grown-up Meiko from Raging Loop, who became a smart highschooler and still on the run ever since she escaped from one of the "pastures".
The Lancer: After Kei ran away from his home and almost sacrifices his life for Rumiko, she becomes his caretaker for a day and replaces Asuka as his most useful ally.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: She can use Psychic Vampirism to feed on someone's mind, who cause cause amnesia if she use it for too long. Also, one of the side effects of Black Goat is to remove her target's trauma entirely and painful memories related to it, allowing (or forcing) them to live a normal life.
Lesbian Vampire: Downplayed. She exclusively targets women when hunting for Jinxes on top of having actual vampirism powers, making her similar to a vampire without the biting part, and she later has a thing for Kei by the end of the game.
Manipulative Bitch: She manipulates Kei by promising him to get rid of his curse through an elaborate scheme in order to get Otoba's power (and possibly Kei's) for herself. During the true end, her plan is exposed by Kei and she eventually regrets it, although he quicly forgives her as she did save his and Otoba's life, even for selfish reasons.
Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Being a fugitive for most of her life, she gained a dreaded reputation as a powerful and terrifying person who "devoured" many victims in her wake. Only by highschool she gets to befriend people for real, with Kei being one of the selected few to see her true colors, as a cynical and lonely, yet kind person.
Mr. Vice Guy: While otherwise an anti-heroic person at best, she's also quite the pervert around Kei and is shown to have some lust towards girls she's interested in.
Perky Goth: She likes to dress in black clothes to invoke the Goth archetype, but she turns out to be one of the most opmimistic of Kei's friends. Doubly surprising as she spent most of her childhood fighting for her life and escaping pursuers.
Platonic Kissing: Makes one with Kei in order to swap bodies with him to escape a berserk Otoba. The last Extra reveals she regularly uses this power (named Bisuka) with her partners from the Church to change bodies and regularly escape her pursuers.
Power Parasite: Black Goat has the special ability to "devour" her opponents' Jinxes, and reuse them as her own. As a drawback, she cannot keep more than seven Jinxes at a time, and she cannot use Jinxes from people with a vastly different mindset than her.
Punny Name: Read in reverse, her name becomes Yami Gouto, which roughly translates as Dark Goat.
The Quiet One: She's not very talkative at first, though she enjoys her classmates' company. After forming the club with the other six, she becomes more talkative around them.
Red Baron: Downplayed. Miya is known in the supernatural world as the Black Goat, but she doesn't like to use that alias, which was given to her by others, mostly in reference to her Jinx.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted. She has red eyes and has a nasty personality, but is otherwise an ally to Kei and the others.
Red Herring: She's considered the prime suspect behind Kei's explosive curse, given her feelings for Otoba and his hatred for him. It later turns out she didn't do anything to him, although she admits she enjoys seeing Kei suffer and would have used such a curse to have Otoba fall for her.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calm and composed Blue to Otoba's violent Red.
Required Secondary Powers: She cannot use Matsurika freely, and requires another healing power, Psychic Vampirism, in order to be fully effective.
The Resenter: Hoo boy. During the school trip to Itsuwa City, she invites Kei to a fast food and proceeds to tell him his hatred for him for being the crush of Otoba, the girl she's in love with, regardless of his bomb problem. After getting to know him better, she eventually softens but still enjoys teasing him for laughs.
She Is All Grown Up: Meiko went from a small and adorable girl to a pretty young woman granted with a generous chest and multiple powers.
Ship Tease: Apart from her obvious feelings for Otoba, she certainly enjoys teasing Kei when the two of them are forced to live together during April 28th, and she becomes unusually flustered when Kei sincerely thanks her for everything she's done to help him following the events of April 29th. According to the Sheep who interacts within her dreams during her Extra, her deepest desire is "being mercilessly teased and mocked by Kei", suggesting she wants him to make a move on her.
Stupid Sexy Friend: She often makes a point of teasing Kei with her assets when the two of them are alone, though she doesn't seem to have a real attraction for him...Until the Sheep came along, revealing she sees Kei a more than a friend, partly out of lust for him.
Superpower Lottery: Downplayed. In the world of the supernaturally-gifted people, she hit a jackpot by having a Jinx allowing her to steal other Jinxes and use them as her own. As one of the "Failures" of the Salvation Project however, she can't hold more than seven Jinxes at a time, and can't steal it from people with a vastly different mentality than her.
The Tease: She enjoys using her charms to startle Kei, much to her amusement.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers one to Kei during their trip at Itsuwa City, in which she proceeds to explain to his face her hatred for him and his numerous flaws, especially how he manages the DMLC.
Miya: Why won't you just say no to these two? Do you really think that leaving their feelings unanswered for so long will actually work?
Took a Level in Kindness: The main reason she entered Misasagi High School was solely to steal Otoba's fire Jinx by befriending her and trying to be intimate with her. However, the DMLC case forced her to join the others to find out about Kei's curse, and she eventually grew to appreciate her classmates as her first true friends, and also warmed up to Kei despite her initial hatred for him.
Tsundere: She enjoys Kei's company and knows his heart is in the right place, but she hates his passive attitude and tries to give him love advice through harsh criticism and teasing.
Miya: I hate you, but I guess you're also my friend.
Upbringing Makes the Hero: Downplayed. As a child, the only person who interacted the most with her is Haruaki Fusaishi, the protagonist of Raging Loop who's no saint himself, but taught her that she needs to be a "good girl who's a little bad".
Vampiric Draining: One of her Jinx, Psychic Vampirism, allows her to steal the life energy of her targets to heal herself. Depending on the quantity of energy stolen, her victims can go from briefly losing consciousness to possibly crippling them or putting them in a coma, and it can also remove memories.
Weak, but Skilled: Downplayed. Black Goat actually displays some useful tricks in battle thanks to its versatility, but Miya otherwise lacks offensive power and all of her Jinxes are made for defense and self-preservation. While she lacks in battle experience, she certainly knows how to survive and flee.
What You Are in the Dark: Her meeting with Kei in private shown her as a profoundly bitter and resentful individual, yet very protective for the sake of the girl she loves, and attached to her friends despite everything. Her Extra also shows her dilemma between choosing her friends or stealing Otoba's Jinx and flee Misasagi: She chooses the former on almost every route, and helps Kei with her powers despite having no benefit in doing so.
White Mage: In spite of wearing black clothes and having a literal shadow as a Jinx, the powers she regularly uses are mostly for healing and defense. Her main objective in DMLC was to find a powerful and offensive Jinx with her target being Otoba, the last member of the Shirotsume Family of fire Jinx users.
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: In order to approach her targets, she usually presents herself as a friendly and approachable girl.

Asuka Hirakoba

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A classmate of Kei who's always hanging out with him, talking and debating about stupid things. He has strangely foreign hair and eyes color, prompting Kei to suspect him to use colored contact lenses. Despite arguing and fighting with him quite a lot over his lack of girlfriends, he's one of his most reliable friends and is always ready to help him whenever he's in trouble.

Agent Scully: Being a devout Christian, he has a hard time accepting the paranormal happenings around him and often comes up with contrived scientific explanations for them, despite lacking common sense. It later turns out to be the key for saving Kei at the very end, coming with a far-fetched reason to explain his disappearance and allowing the group of friends to bring him back through Shinoka and Rumiko's powers, with a bit of Sharpshooter Fallacy.
All of the Other Reindeer: He used to have no friends in middle school because of his unability to adapt to school rules and his insufferable attitude, to the point he wished he was born in the USA.
Big Damn Heroes: When all of his friends are captured by Ryuuto near the end, he instead hid by himself in the school, waiting for the right time to save them all. He ends up saving the day and free them all.
Bromantic Foil: The main male Foil for Kei. He's good looking while Kei has average looks, he's confident while Kei keeps to himself, and he's seeking a woman while Kei doesn't want anyone, yet has two girls after him. However, they are still best friends at the end of the day.
But Not Too Foreign: His physical traits makes him look like a westerner, and he's later confirmed to be half-American and half-Japanese.
Butt-Monkey: Despite his good looks, he doesn't have much success with girls, and he's also beaten up by Otoba who rejected his advances multiple times.
Celibate Hero: In his past, he was regularly surrounded by admirers, but none of them would treat him as an actual friend because of his popularity, which made him bitter about relationships in general.
Dumb Blonde: Downplayed. He's actually smart but tends to act impulsively and enjoys messing with his friends, yet he does his best to help Kei in times of need, and he sometimes makes good suggestions.
Empty Promise: As everyone accepted their death in the braided girl's Endless Corridor, he's the only one to keep a positive attitude to provent the other six to succumb to despair. Thanks to his words, he motivates Kei to find a way to escape, and he later does it again after his Heroic Sacrifice, motivating everyone else to find a way to bring him back from the dead.
Establishing Character Moment: The very first scene of the game has him and Kei in a heated debate about women's chests, quickly coming to blows and later laughing it off as a joke, thus showing them as good friends who enjoy a friendly rivalry, and clearly care for each other.
First Friend: In his childhood, he didn't have anyone he could call a friend until his meeting (and fight) with fellow classmate Shinoka.
Foil: To Shinoka, by virtue of being his only friend for a while. Both had many classmates around them for different reasons: Shinoka was already known as the most friendly and approachable girl of the school, while Asuka garnered a reputation as a prankster and genius, yet most of his "friends" were in fact afraid of him and were only looking up to him as a role model.
A Friend in Need: The fire of April 27th has Kei desperately searching for the missing Rumiko and Otoba. As Kei is faced with choosing between saving a girl he barely knows and Rumiko, Asuka comes back in the building and saves the girl in his place, for the sake of his relationship with Rumiko.
Friendless Background: Despite his popularity and good grades, few classmated dared to approach him in the past, instead looking up to him as a model rather than a friend. After getting to know Kei and his circle of friends, he quickly enjoys their company, including Otoba.
Fun T-Shirt: His casual clothes consists of a single T-shirt with a big "米" on it, which translates as USA.
The Gadfly: One of the first things he does is to fake a confession to Kei to scare him, who doesn't take it well. On the bright side, it also confirms that one of the condition to make Kei explode is to have a genuine love for him.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's sometimes abrasive and usually mocks Kei at his expense, yet he's one of the most concerned about his bomb problem and quickly volunteers to be his guardian angel to prevent him from being alone.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He has a notable blond hair, and is one of Kei's best friends. He's also the only character of the ground who doesn't have any dark secret no hidden powers, but nonetheless gives his best to protect Kei.
Harem Seeker: By his own admission, he envies Kei for having girls after him while he has none. Later subverted by the end, after he reveals he only made that up to incite Kei to be more proactive about pursuing a relationship. Asuka himself isn't actually interested in anyone, and his proposals to Rumiko and Otoba are mostly jokes.
Hope Bringer: He absolultely refuses to give up against all odds, motivating his friends when they are at their lowest.
I Just Want to Have Friends: Aside from Shinoka, he didn't have any friends until highschool, when he ended up as one of Kei's friends during the events of DMLC. According to Rumiko, who had a similar background, he certainly enjoys having friends like these, even though it also involves getting beaten by Otoba.
The Lancer: He's close friends with Kei despite their opposite personalities and his most reliable ally.
Meaningful Rename: His ancestors were an American family known as the Hillcovers who got involved in World War II, but eventually move to Japan to atone for their sins, changing their name to Hirakoba.
Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: His bad reputation at school for being unable to conform to Japan's school made other students afraid of him, except for Shinoka who regularly interacts with him, and Kei who was the first person who befriended him without being afraid of his reputation. By the events of DMLC, he's very happy to be part of Kei's circle of friends, a sentinment he shares with Rumiko.
Only Sane Man: By virtue of having no Jinx powers, he's the most stable person of the cast.
Out of Focus: He's rather prominent in the first half of the story, assisting Kei as he can, up until his elopment following the fire of April 27th. He regains some importance near the end, during the final confrontation with the mastermind and the Braided Girl.
Platonic Life-Partners: Subtle at first, but he's later shown to have a good chemistry with Team Mom Shinoka, being the most stable of the seven and the most concerned about Kei's well-being. His Christian influences also make him relate to her, smitten by her selflessness and willingness to help her friends no matter what. The second Extra also delves deeper into their relationship, emphasizing their longtime friendship.
The Reliable One: He's Kei most useful ally in regards to physical tasks and he's good at motivating others, something that would eventually plays in important role in saving Kei in the long run.
The Resenter: Downplayed. He envies Kei for having more success than him with girls, but he doesn't mind, especially since he didn't ask for it in the first place.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: During the fire of April 27th, instead of evacuating the highschool building like everyone else, he chooses to stay with Kei as part of his promise to protect him no matter what, even helping him to save other students on his behalf.
Ship Tease: Has plenty of these with Shinoka across the events of the game, until their Extra confirms their status as Platonic Life-Partners.
Spanner in the Works: Implied. Ryuuto possibly let him escape after capturing all of the others, suggesting he somehow wants to be stopped, and Asuka filled that role for him.
The Team Normal: He's the only member of the group to not have any trauma, nor Jinx powers. Despite this, he doesn't hesitate to follow them in all sorts of supernatural troubles.

Ryuuto Arisu

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A classmate of Kei who's the most serious of his friends. He's known to dismiss most of his classmates and the absurd events around him as "nonsensical" and "annoying", resulting in almost everyone treating him as an annoyance. He hates being associated with Asuka and Kei's antics, but he grew to enjoy their presence along with their other friends, despite not admitting it himself. He also tends to take on a leading role alongside Shinoka.

Anti-Villain: He isn't interested in the least in revenge unlike the Arisu elders, but he's forced to do their bidding after they made his sister hostage.
Becoming the Mask: Despite his initial mission to murder Rumiko and Otoba, he's shown in his own Extra to have cursed them in a way that would leave enough for the others to protect Kei. His sister Maya later thinks him to be more concerned for his friends than he lets on, as shown when he willingly lets Asuka escape, possibly wanting to have them stop him. After being defeated, he even warms up to Otoba and finally calls her by her name, while becoming very proactive to protect Kei from the braided girl.
Berserk Button: Calling him "Arisu" is a good way to piss him off. Later revelations suggests it's because he hates his entire family, save for his sister.
Catchphrase: "How annoying."
Combat Pragmatist: Easily takes down Miya thanks to his poisonous flames, and using several underhanded tactics to get around his enemies' powers.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: He has several similarities to Rikako Uematsu, being part of an ancient Japanese family who wants revenge against those who wronged them. Unlike her however, he isn't interested in the least in revenge and only wants to live free of his family's history, if not for his sister to be held hostage to force him into a villain.
Death Seeker: Considers it in the event he cannot carry on his assassination, and also because of his conflicted feelings for his friends.
Determinator: His willingness to protect his sister makes him a very tenacious opponent, on top of being physically fit. He's ultimately defeated at the end by no more than four people, including three with offensive Jinxes, after withstanding a lot of damage from claws, explosions, and fireballs.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He doesn't want to be pitied for his past, and asks his other friends to kill him. They refuse.
Disc-One Final Boss: Upon confronting him at the end of the game, the heroes learn of his role in the grand scheme of things, being only The Dragon to his family, and preceeding the more dangerous Braided Girl.
Easily Forgiven: Kei and his other friends forgive him rather easily despite everything he's done. Justified as he was forced to do so, or else his sister would be killed, and the sheer guilt coming from his actions made him accept death as a punishment.
False Friend: He only joined the circle of friends in order to approach his two targets, Rumiko Tsuno and Otoba Shirotsume. However, the third Extra shows him to be very reluctant to follow his family's orders, and his sister thinks him to be more attached to his friends than he thought.
Forced into Evil: Since his sister is held hostage by their own family, he's pretty much forced to carry out his duty in order to keep her alive.
Foreshadowing: After an all-out match of Kabaddi between the six friends, only he and Rumiko were still standing, suggesting he has a higher stamina and sturdier body than anyone else, foreshadowing his training as an assassin.
Freudian Excuse: Invoked. He comes from the Arisu family of assassins whose goal is revenge against the Shirotsume who wronged them, but he himself doesn't want anything of that, but is forced to do because of his sister. During the final battle, he just reveals his family backstory to his friends, clearly to motivate them to kill him, but it doesn't last long after they discover he doesn't want anything of it.
The Heavy: Half of Kei's problems come from him, but he's not the main villain.
Hey, You!: Exclusively refers to Otoba as "that woman".
Hitman with a Heart: He's a trained assassin, but he doesn't want to kill anyone.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's very abrasive to everyone including his friends, and often comes out as cold and unfeeling for others. Despite that, he usually thinks about Kei's safety and even encourages him to find the mastermind (as in, stopping him). He also had many opportunities to carry out his original goal of assassinating Rumiko and Otoba, but used many workarounds to avoid killing them directly to get around his family orders.
Kung-Fu Wizard: On top of having a deadly Jinx, he also has a good agility and endurance, fitting for an assassin.
Mistaken for Gay: He befriends Marie of the litterature club by sheer accident after he repetedly says he's not attracted to any girls, and she quickly believes him to be interested in relationships between men. Surprisingly, he later becomes an avid reader of Boys' Love stories.
Only Sane Man: Given his friends' excentricities and love problems, he's the only one who keeps his cool no matter the situation. Later Double Subverted when he turns out to be one of the masterminds and a trained assassin, but he's also the White Sheep to his family.
Playing with Fire: As a member of the Arisu Family who share a parentage with the Shirotsume, he was granted a variation of their Jinx, appearing as green flames with less raw power than Otoba, but with debilitating poison.
Power of Trust: Inverted. He's prone to doubt his friends, thinking it would give a better insight to find the truth, and also suggests Kei to do the same.
The Smart Guy: He takes a more logical approach to investigate Kei's curse, and often comes up with good ideas to help the group, such as creating a new club from scratch and be granted the rights to explore the entire school.
Stoic Spectacles: He wears glasses and is the most serious character of the game.
The Stoic: He rarely expresses any emotions, preferring to act on logic rather than emotions.
Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed. He appears as a cold and unfeeling Jerkass even to his friends, yet he also cares about Kei's safety. Even after the reveal of his villainous ways, his friends are quick to understand he was forced into it in the first place.
Tsundere: He's regularly abrasive towards everyone, and even after befriending his classmates, he can't bring himself to say he cares for his friends and Kei's safety. Shinoka also accuses him to be one, something he doesn't really denies.
White Sheep: Even though he's still a jerk and an annoyance to his friends, he's the nicest of the Arisu, who are all ruthless assassins.
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: As pointed out by Kei during their fight, he had plenty of opportunities to kill his two designated targets, but chose not to due to his reluctance to follow in his family's footsteps.

Others

Friends and family

Suzu "Tororin" Toro

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A teacher and also the school's nurse, who's also Kei's adoptive mother. She is also a licensed physician infamous in Misasagi as a crazed scientist who can perform scary medical procedures. Despite having the looks of a young child, she's by all means a grown adult and a skilled doctor who nonetheless enjoys messing with her students on a whim.

Abusive Parents: During Kei's early childhood, she neglected him to the point he ran away from home to take refuge in Rumiko's temple. After she brings him back, she softens and Kei didn't flee ever since...Until the events of April 26th, where he didn't react well to her skepticism about his curse.
Cool Aunt: Despite Suzu being a distant relative of Kei's mother, he loves her very much as if she was his own mother.
Drowning My Sorrows: Due to her harsh life and studies, she often drinks at bars to forget about it, so much that Kei often has to bring her home. She also accidentally revealed the reason behind her adoption of Kei to him, while heavily drunk.
Family Relationship Switcheroo: She actually isn't a distant relative of Kei's mother, but she happened to be near when the latter commited suicide before her own son. She quickly took the poor boy under her wing afterwards, while pretending to be his relative.
Freudian Excuse: She had Abusive Parents in her youth, and suffered from this during her entire youth. Having to deal with her unsupportive and abusive parents during her medical studies made her very bitter about traditional families in general, so she raised Kei by herself in her own way so he would not suffer the same fate as herself.
Glamorous Single Mother: On top of working as both a teacher and a doctor, she also had time to raise Kei by herself without much problems.
Good Parents: She's the one who raised Kei to be a nice and pleasant boy to everyone he meets.
Mad Scientist: Played for laughs. She often makes comments about experimenting on her students (especially Asuka), but she's mostly harmless.
Older Than She Looks: She apparently didn't physically change at all ever since her time at Misasagi Highschool, which often causes everyone who meets her to mistake her for a child.
Open-Minded Parent: Taught Kei about the LGBT+ struggles, as seen when he actively supports Miya to be with Otoba.
Token Mini-Moe: The smallest character of the cast who looks like a young child, but she's a grown woman in her thirties.
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: As seen in her Freudian Excuse, being raised by Abusive Parents made her very wary of love and family relationships in general. She raised Kei with this in mind, influencing him into rejecting love even more.

Marie Nanba

Toshinari Tsuno & Saeko Tsuno

Shoukan Kudan & Horie Kudan

Non-Human Beings

The Angels of the Three Bindings

Enigmatic beings suspected to be behind the explosive curse of Kei. Their existence, motives, and powers are shrouded in mystery, but they seemed to have existed for quite a long time, and are behind a large number of rumors and mysteries of Misasagi's history. The pink cat is later suspected to be one of them.

In order to call upon an Angel's powers, one must need several requirements:

"You": The person who wants their wish granted.
"A Precious One": The person "You" want to protect from harm.
"A Hindrance": The person "You" want to curse in order to protect the "Precious One".

When all conditions are reunited, "You" have to follow a ritual, and ask for your wish to be granted, giving the Angel a mission and the power to curse its target as much as possible, only ending when the "Hindrance" dies or the Angel accomplishes its mission.

Above Good and Evil: They don't care of the nature of the requests they have, dutifully executing their mission no matter what.
My Master, Right or Wrong: Regardless of the wish, they try their best to fulfill it and hindering their target as much as possible.
Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Later revelations in the story clarify their role as a guardian for the supposed "Hindrance". It turns out the Angels are actually Demons who were summoned back in the Sengoku Jidai, and their true purpose was to give power to the "Hindrance", whose true role were soldiers.
Purpose-Driven Immortality: They cannot die as long as their target is alive or their mission isn't over.

Detoneko (given by Rumiko)

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A mysterious pink cat-like being who appears before Kei following his first explosion. Seemingly knowledgeable about the strange happenings of the story and Kei's curse, he's one of the main targets of the group, who made their goal to find him and interrogate him to learn more about what is going on in the story. Only Kei and Otoba can see him, and he seemingly appears in random whenever the former faces an imminent danger.

Ambiguously Evil: He first appears when Kei almost dies of an explosion, and he also admits to be related to his curse somehow, yet he doesn't seems to oppose him, and even helps him on several occasions. It later turns out he's actually a guardian spirit of sorts to Kei, who appears in times of need.
Butt-Monkey: In almost each of his appearances, he usually ends up beaten by either Kei and Otoba.
Can't Live Without You: If Kei dies, so will he.
Cats Are Snarkers: He often finds a way to get on people's nerves, who causes him to be beaten.
11th-Hour Superpower: Responding to Kei's determination in Rumiko's route, he appears once more to help him destroy his barbed wire once and for all.
Fighting Spirit: Through him, Kei can channel his power to fight off the influence of the barbed wire and deal with other supernatural threats thanks to the power of Otoba.
Guardian Entity: As the "Angel" of Kei, his true task is to accompany him and give him power to fight his opponents.
Purpose-Driven Immortality: He cannot die unless he accomplishes his "mission", and he needs Kei to be alive to do so.

Chebbit (given by Rumiko)

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A rabbit-like creature who first appears in the game's first ending, seemingly working for the mastermind. He then appears near the end of the True End, revealed to be an Angel/Demon working for Ryuuto, and is later granted a name by Rumiko.

Early-Bird Cameo: Appears at the very end of End 1, seemingly working closely with the mastermind. He's properly introduced in the True End, as the Angel of Ryuuto.
Happy Fun Ball: Rather cute, but is strong enough to take down a normal human like Asuka. Kei is able to restrain them rather easily.
The Nicknamer: Refers to his master as "Alice" (as in, "Arisu" read as katakana, hence Alice), perhaps due to their likeness to a rabbit, despite the former's hatred for his family name.
No Biological Sex: Upon being bound by Rumiko's Jinx, they are quite flustered and don't answer when she asks about their gender, due to their lack of sexual features.

The Barbed Wire / Mother

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A mysterious entity residing in Kei's mind, who sometimes communicates with him to warn him of impending danger. It usually appears as barbed wire, and Kei feels strangely comfortable around it when he feels alone. It is later revealed to be the lingering spirit of his mother, who took a concrete form to prevent him from entering into a relationship with people.

Witnessing her mother's suicide before his very eyes caused Kei to strongly associate "love" with "death", and is the starting point of his terrible understanding of romance, and the basis of his "weakness" when he gets cursed by Rumiko before the events of the game.

Because I Said So: She often orders Kei around, and usually obey whatever she says if he doesn't have the will to resist, depending on the player's choices.
Enemy Within: If Kei attempts to act on his own to protect his friends, the barbed wire will attempt to prevent him from moving, usually by hurting him.
Enemy Without: In End 1, the barbed wire escapes from Kei's body after he decides to accept Rumiko's feelings, culminating in a final battle against his mother to remove her from Kei's mind. She also makes a short appearance in the True Route, when Kei summons her with the special gum to prevent Miya from devouring Detoneko.
Evil Matriarch: She actively prevents Kei from loving someone, to the point she's ready to hurt and incapacitate him.
Guardian Entity: Her true form is a being made of barbed wire, which surrounds Kei to protect him from outside (perceived) threats. She also granted him the warning lights in order to isolate him further.
Luke, I Am Your Father: Kei eventually realizes its identity, due to its tendency to protect him whenever he interacts with his close friends, and the feminine form the barbed wire takes by the latter half of the story.
Missing Mom: Kei's mother died in his early childhood, leaving him with no one else but Suzu.
Monster Is a Mommy: She only appears whenever Kei attempts to approch someone whom she perceives as a potential danger for him, out of concern for the life of her son.
My Beloved Smother: Half of Kei's problems comes from her, as her barbed wire and overly-protective attitude towards him makes him suffer far more than actually protecting him. She's also indirectly responsible for Kei's explosive weakness.
Offing the Offspring: On two bad endings, she effectively "kills" Kei's self when he attempts to save Rumiko from her suicide and Otoba from her self-immolation.
So Proud of You: In the True End, Kei utterly refuses to obey her anymore as he developed his own self during the events of the game, culminating in him purging the barbed wire from his body. As she was disappearing, she only express her relief after seeing him growing as an individual.

"Super Kokkuri"

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The true form of the power of Shinoka, appearing as a demonic being who takes over her mind durng the afternoon of April 27th. His suspicious demeanor and actions makes his motives a mystery, but he claims to have Shinoka's best interests at heart and protect her from harm.

Ambiguously Evil: He has a terryfying presence, and Kei often mentions how he seems to be a being of pure malice. His prophecies are generally negative and very depressing, however he does have a soft spot for his host, Shinoka.
Animalistic Abomination: His true form is a combination between a bull and a demon, with human hands.
Deal with the Devil: Near End 2, he forces a deal with Kei in order to deal with Rumiko's suicide. He does accept to erase his prophecy of Rumiko dying, but not preventing her falling to her death.
Exact Words: He accepts Kei's demands of erasing his prophecy of "the miko's suicide", but by that time she was already falling to her death, until it is prevented thanks to Miya's power.
God Was My Copilot: His true nature is akin to a divine being who currently inhabits Shinoka's body, who lent her a part of his divination powers.
Hidden Agenda Villain: Claims that most of his actions during the night of April 27th are motivated by his desire to keep Shinoka safe, but Kei feels something terribly wrong with his motives and thinks he's up to something after meeting him in person.
Only Known by Their Nickname: His true name is never revealed in the story, but he gleefully accepts to be nicknamed "Super Kokkuri" for the sake of simplicity.
Pet the Dog: Near the end of the story, he makes a surprise appearance and give a huge hint to the six friends despite having no interest in doing so, leading them to find out where Kei disappeared after his Heroic Sacrifice.
Verbal Tic: He exclusively talks using katakana instead of the usual hiragana in the Japanese language, hinting to his nature as a supernatural being.
The Voice: His first appearance does not show his true form, instead talking to Kei through Shinoka, but we don't get to see his true form.
Winds of Destiny, Change!: He's able to make prophecies that are stated to be 100% true no matter what, and the only way to prevent them is to have him erase the prophecy in the first place. Miya also managed to prevent Rumiko's prophetic suicide on April 28th by using Matsurika, but Super Kokkuri's power was so strong that it actually destroyed her Jinx in the process.

The Shadow / The Braided Girl

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A mysterious girl mentioned several times through the story, who's responsible for spreading rumors about the Three-Binded Angels in the Misasagi High School. For some reason, she triggers Kei's warning lights despite him not knowing her, and any attempts to take a picture of her is doomed to fail, as her face is obscured and only leaves her with her braids, hence the nickname of the "Braided Girl", and leaving her true nature ambiguous.

Ambiguously Human: Many characters and writing refer to her as a normal girl with long braids, but her otherwordly nature and the fact that she activates Kei's warning lights cast a doubt on her true nature.
Creepy Child: Despite looking like a young child, her inscrutable nature terrifies Kei.
Eldritch Abomination: Her true form is a gigantic mass of hair which devour everything in their wake.
The Faceless: Her true face is left obcured, with only red eyes and a red smile.
Final Boss: She's the last obstacle fought by the heroes, and the most dangerous of them all.
Healing Factor: She can be damaged, but is usually falls flat due to her quick regeneration.
Living Shadow: In her "human" form, she appears as a shadow of a little girl, presumably her former self.
Lovecraftian Superpower: The Shadow can transform its hair into tentacles which can dissolve anything with a simple touch, and infinitely regenerates itself no matter what's thrown at it.
Make Them Rot: Her hair tentacles can make anything rot with a single touch.
Ms. Exposition: The Braided Girl appears seemingly at random in Misasagi Highschool, solely to province info on how the "Angel Ritual" works.
No Name Given: Her original name was long alongside her humanity, and Rumiko almost reveals it. Fearing the power of the Kotodama, the Shadow sends the seven friends into her Endless Corridor before self-exploding.
No-Sell: While it is possible to damage her, her Healing Factor makes her near-immortal and physical contact is too dangerous, meaning the only safe way to combat her is to use ranged attacks.
Was Once a Man: She was a former student of Misasagi High School, and a victim of bullying who used the curse to save herself. However, she ended up overusing it for selfish purposes, to the point she lost her humanity.

Spoiler Characters

The Shirotsume Family

An ancient clan of craftsmen from the Middle Ages, when Japan was still a warring nation. They are the first japanese who gained access to fireams through illegal channels and marriage with westerners. Thanks to their abilities to manfacture "the power of fire", they enjoyed a confortable position in feudal Japan even as the country isolated itself, and the family later gained a reputation as "demons who control fire".

In order to preserve their skills in craftsmanship and the "power of fire", the Shirotsume choose to engage solely in inbreeding and marriage between relatives in order to keep their bloodline "pure", cultivating their own Jinx over time and pass it down through generations, while creating seven branch families to manage their business behind the scenes.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Shirotsume residence burned down in a mysterious fire, precipitating the fall of the entire family who then disappeared from society. In the present day, Otoba Shirotsume is the current inheritor of the fire Jinx, and her power is sought-after by Miya.

Greater-Scope Villain: While the present members of the family aren't involved at all with the events of DMLC, their old tradition of inbreeding and mistreatment of the Arisu made them indirectly responsible for causing the chains of events that would lead to the rise of the Arisu as hired killers in China.
Playing with Fire: Their belief in the "power of fire" and their own history of mingling with Westerners made them develop their own Jinx, allowing them to generate fire at will.
Royal Inbreeding: Marriage between relatives was necessary to "preserve the purity of the bloodline", to the point many of the family members looked like each other, including the men.
Uncanny Family Resemblance: By the beginning of the 20th century, all of the Shirotsume share many physical traits, with some even looking like perfect copies of their relative, such as Otoba and her parents before her.

The Arisu Family

A branch of the Shirotsume family, created to receive the failures of their inbred program. After being wrongly accused of burning down the Shirotsume house a century ago, they were exiled in China where circumstances led them to become hired assassins. When they returned to Japan following World War 2 and still motivated by revenge toward the main house, they began their plot to destroy the Shirotsume, who are carried in the present day by Ryuuto's father, Tenzen Arisu.

Best Served Cold: After being expelled from Japan for the main branch's mistakes at the beginning of the 20th century, they went into hiding in China, and grew as a powerful family of assassins, who trained for decades until the time would come to enact their revenge on the Shirotsume, and by extension the Tsuno, whom they hired as bodyguards.
Big Bad: The current generation is responsible for many of the happenings of DMLC, with Ryuuto as their main agent.
Long Game: They waited for a century until the time was right to kill the remnants of the Shirotsume.
Professional Killer: How the family grown as when living in China. By the present day however, Tenzen, the current head of the family, wants to change it into a yakuza group of sorts, thinking the old generation's resentment to be outdated.

Maya Arisu

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Ryuuto's little sister and only relative. Due to her low physical condition and unwillingness to kill, she wasn't trained in the arts of assassination and is kept in the dark about her family's dirty business. Her life means everything to Ryuuto, to the point she became an hostage to force him to carry out his mission despite his reluctance.

Big Brother Attraction: Implied. She has a loving relationship with her brother, and doesn't seem to take it well when she learns of his disgust for the incestuous traditions of the Shirotsume and their offshoots.
Foreshadowing: She's the "mysterious presence" perceived by Kei on nights, curious about how her brother handles his friends.
Living Emotional Crutch: The only reason Ryuuto isn't a full blown assassin. Later on, she becomes a literal exemple, when she becomes the "weakness" of Ryuuto when he asks the Angel for a Power-Up.
Morality Pet: She's the only relative Ryuuto cares about, and her safety is one of the reasons he goes along with the Arisu's plans.
Satellite Character: Her role is fairly minimal, as most of her character revolves around her brother.
Thicker Than Water: She values her brother and willingly helps him as seen when she gives him a lighter and a hammer to carry out his mission.

The Old Man / Misasagi-in Shuugyoujuui Meishin / Yosuke

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An old man who lives next to Suzu and Kei's home, appearing at random to discuss with him about his romantic adventures and often gives him strange and cryptic advice. His true identity is one of the ancestors of the ancient Misasagi clan of monks, whose lingering spirit observes the events of the game.

Born as an unknown peasant from Misasagi near the end of the 19th century, Yosuke lost all of his family in a landslide and lived his days as a beggar for most of his childhood, until his adoption within the ranks of the Misasagi monks who renamed him Meishin, going into thieving and robbery for a living. One fateful day, he's tasked with the stealing of the Shirotsume's property deed by breaking into their house, but a series of events caused him to have a chance encounter with the matriarch and "breeder" of the family at the time, Kura Shirotsume. After a heartfelt conversation with her, Meishin is asked to "kidnap" her, and both decide to live their own life together afterwards.

Bandit Clan: He was part of a group of bandits/monks from the Misasagi Village.
Chekhov's Gunman: Appears as a random old man who befriends Kei by accident, but turns out to be the last of the Masasagi monks who watched over the land for a long time. He reveals himself to the group of friends following Kei's disappearance, helping them save him.
Cool Old Guy: In the present time, he actually helps Kei to find the whereabouts of Otoba and Rumiko on April 27th. He later reappears at the end of the game to give a final advice to the other six to help them saving Kei and the city.
The Fool: In his childhood, he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but he manages to enter into the Shirotsume main headquarters (being a very powerful family and group at the time), "kidnapping" their latest heir and survive.
Fragile Speedster: His Jinx allows him to enhance his reflexes and speed, born out of his desire to survive.
Hero of Another Story: He's the protagonist of the 4th Extra, which depicts his adventures in the early 20th century and his life in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War.
Honor Among Thieves: Despite being part of a band of thieves, he isn't without honor and accepts to rescue Kura Shirotsume from her prison, concerned by her fate.
Inexplicably Awesome: This old man is able to outrun Kei, a young highschooler, despite being very old and walking with a cane. The 4th Extra later reveals it to be the work of his Jinx.
Let's Get Dangerous!: Most of the time, he either acts like a huge moron or a Dirty Old Man, while also displaying his talent in stealing and outrunning his opponents on a whim.
Murder by Inaction: One of the possible explanations for his trauma. Being unhappy in his former family, he happened to let them die during the landslide to save himelf, forming the basis of his speed-based Jinx.
Obfuscating Stupidity: He acts like a random old man, but he turns out to be aware of the Shirotsume and Arisu long history, and later helps the heroes at the very end.
Opposites Attract: He's an unknown thief with no manners and a weak vocabulary, who falls in love with a princess from high society and a huge history behind her.
Small Role, Big Impact: His act to break into the Shirotsume residence and save Kura from her prison sparks a chain of events in which the entire building burned down, causing the Shirotsume to lose most of their wealth, and the Arisu's banishment into China, kickstarting their plot for revenge.
Street Urchin: Was a beggar before being adopted by the monks of Misasagi.

Kura Shirotsume

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The matriarch of the Shirotsume 100 years before the events of the game, and the breeder in-line for the next generation. Unwilling to perpetuate the lineage of her "demonic blood", she was confined in the warehouse and kept in chains with a member of the Arisu as her caretaker. Following a chance encounter with the thief Meishin, she decides to flee alongside him to escape her family's clutches, accidentally burning down the residence in the process.

Accidental Murder: She accidentally kills the heir of one of the branch families of the Shirotsume with a fireball, after her friend Matsu Arisu gave her life to protect her from harm.
Damsel out of Distress: After being freed from her chains by Meishin, she successfully escapes from the family's residence after (albeit accidentally) killing one of their best assets.
Death Seeker: Tired of her family's schtick of preserving their "demonic blood", the first thing she asks of Meishin when he finds her is to kill her.
Deliberately Distressed Damsel: She willingly choose not to continue the Shirotsume tradition of breeding with blood relatives, and was instead locked up in a cellar.
Identical Grandson: A perfect copy of Otoba, which is somehow justified due to their strong inbreeding.
Opposites Attract: She's a princess with a good education from a rich family, but eventually fall in love with Meishin, a beggar turned thief with no name and no manners.
Playing with Fire: Like all of the Shirotsume before her, she can manipulate fire, albeit not as much as the previous heads of the family.
Rescue Romance: She and Meishin became an item after he helped her escape from her family's clutches.
Uptown Girl: As a rich girl, she eventually fell in love with a thief boy from unknown origins.
White Sheep: One of the few members of the Shirotsume who's unwilling to perpetuate their history.

The Sheep

A flying sentient sheep encountered by Miya sometime after the True End, appearing in the last Extra. It has to power to infiltrate people's dreams, either for collecting information, communicate with its targets or outright killing them with nightmares.

For more information on its appearance in Raging Loop, see here.

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The School History Archive Committee

Kei Yagi / "White Goat"

Rumiko Tsuno

Otoba Shirotsume / "Lady Wing Clover/Heavy Killing Crowbar"

Shinoka Kudan

Miya Tougo / "Black Goat" / Meiko

Asuka Hirakoba

Ryuuto Arisu

Others

Suzu "Tororin" Toro

Marie Nanba

Toshinari Tsuno & Saeko Tsuno

Shoukan Kudan & Horie Kudan

The Angels of the Three Bindings

Detoneko (given by Rumiko)

Chebbit (given by Rumiko)

The Barbed Wire / Mother

"Super Kokkuri"

The Shadow / The Braided Girl

The Shirotsume Family

The Arisu Family

Maya Arisu

The Old Man / Misasagi-in Shuugyoujuui Meishin / Yosuke

Kura Shirotsume

The Sheep

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Kei Yagi / "White Goat"

Rumiko Tsuno

Otoba Shirotsume / "Lady Wing Clover/Heavy Killing Crowbar"

Shinoka Kudan

Miya Tougo / "Black Goat" / Meiko

Asuka Hirakoba

Ryuuto Arisu

Others

Suzu "Tororin" Toro

Marie Nanba

Toshinari Tsuno & Saeko Tsuno

Shoukan Kudan & Horie Kudan

The Angels of the Three Bindings

Detoneko (given by Rumiko)

Chebbit (given by Rumiko)

The Barbed Wire / Mother

"Super Kokkuri"

The Shadow / The Braided Girl

The Shirotsume Family

The Arisu Family

Maya Arisu

The Old Man / Misasagi-in Shuugyoujuui Meishin / Yosuke

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