The character list for characters who appeared in Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army, Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon and Raidou Kuzunoha Vs The Lone Marebito.
Raidou Kuzunoha the 14th \ Jouhei
A young student of Yumizuki High School who was trained at the Kuzunoha village in the art of the Devil Summoner. Once he was ready, he undertook the trials at the nameless shrine in the heart of the Shinoda mountains and became the fourteenth Raidou Kuzunoha. He was assigned a partner by the Herald of Yatagarasu named Gouto, a sarcastic talking cat who was to guide Raidou in the ways of a Devil Summoner and was sent to work part-time at the Narumi Detective Agency as a cover for his true task.
As the newest Raidou Kuzunoha, it is his duty to protect the Capital from the demons of the Dark Realm, and ensure that the supernatural world is kept in check. His abilities with a katana are without equal, and his skill with a pistol unmatched, but Raidou's true power comes from the demons tucked away in confinement tubes beneath his cape.
Raidou Kuzunoha the XIV returns as the protagonist of the sequel, Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon. He returns to the shrine in Shinoda and undergoes retraining in preparation for returning to work for under the Herald of Yatagarasu. Gouto-Douji returns in order to provide guidance in the same capacity as he did in the first game. Gouto unseals some of Raidou's abilities to allow him to summon two demons at once, and Raidou returns to work as The Capital's guardian, seeking out the new disturbances that were detected by the Herald of Yatagarasu. Raidou once again winds up working with Shouhei Narumi and Tae Asakura.
Raidou Kuzunoha replaces Dante's role as a recruitable ally in the updated re-release of Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Maniacs, titled Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Chronicle Edition, which was released along with Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon. Despite not being the protagonist of the game, Raidou remains silent, with Gouto speaking in his stead. Many of his in-game attacks parallel Dante's from the original but have new names. He does one up Dante though by gaining the move 'Pierce', which was previously exclusively reserved for one other demon and the Demi-Fiend, the latter who can only get it on the True Demon Ending path. So Raidou is even more badass than Dante.
- Badass Cape: A black one.
- Canon Name: He's known as Jouhei in the Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raidou tai Shibito Ekishi prequel novel.
- Chick Magnet: Oh boy is he. Tae, Nagi, Kaya, and Akane are enamored by him to list some, and the manga adds even more.
- The Chosen One: After losing to him in their third battle, Lucifer declares that Raidou is able to change fate and free the world from God.
- Commissar Cap: Wears one of these at all times, even when in the bath.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Raidou is unique compared to the previous two Devil Summoner protagonists in that he is actually a Kuzunoha rather than a student who’s soul was inserted into a Kuzunoha’s body, or a hacker with no initial ties to the Kuzunoha’s.
- Excuse Me While I Multitask: You know it to be true when the guy can throw down with Japanese tough guys in a bathhouse and not even get his hat wet.
- Even the Guys Want Him
- Expy: A rare heroic one of Yasunori Kato.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: His real name is blank until you name him in true Megaten tradition.
- Heroic Mime
- Hope Bringer: In King Abaddon. For this reason Shinado's Anger aspect tries to convince him to give up his title and when that fails to kill him.
- Hot-Blooded Sideburns
- Legacy Character: He's the 14th of the devil summoner line to inherit the title of "Raidou"—the highest rank of devil summoners.
- The Musketeer: A Gunslinger and an adept swordsman, but can't use both in gameplay.
- Never Bareheaded: Raidou always wears his school uniform cap, even as he naked beats up gangsters in a public bathhouse, which does get commented on.
- Power Perversion Potential: Raidou can use a Skill Orders transform skill to turn into a woman. In fact doing this and trying to go into the bathhouse is how he can manipulate his alignment in King Abaddon.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Gouto mentions in his notebook he has a surprisingly great singing voice.
- Suddenly Voiced: in the 3DS remake of Soul Hackers.
- Summon Magic: As a Devil Summoner he can see and hear demons. He is capable of capturing them and calling on them to use their powers for investigation and combat. It's necessary for him to do so, as Raidou cannot learn or use magic.
- The Demons he summons in the manga Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Lone Marebito are Orthrus, Alraune, Ippon-Datara, Mokoi, Oumitsunu, Gozuki, Mezuki, Futsunushi, Jack Frost, Yoshitsune, Moh Shuuvuu, Scathach, Cu Chulainn, Susano-o, Kohryu, Mada, and Decarabia.
- In Soul Hackers he summons the Soulless God! Alongside, adorably enough, Moh Shuvuu and Mokoi again.
- Mokoi & Moh Shuvuu show up on his team again in the Chronicle release of Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne. Mokoi is even the one that actually gets the Demi-fiend's attention at first.
- Superior Successor: Gouto has stated he's the best Raidou to date.
- Virtuous Character Copy: While he does indeed resemble Yasunori Kato and both claim descendence from the Kuzunoha clan, Raidou works to protect the capital, in contrast to Kato's attempts to destroy it out of revenge.
Gouto (Raidou Kuzunoha the 1st)
Gouto is a mysterious talking cat who has been the partner of every Raidou Kuzunoha since the second. Not much is known about Gouto, other than the fact he's not of this world and his real form is not that of a cat, although he does have a shameful secret obsession with a certain cat toy.
Now assigned to the fourteenth Raidou Kuzunoha, Gouto's job is to offer his support and advice as he deals with the supernatural world of demons, and to ensure Raidou keeps to his duties as the newest Raidou Kuzunoha. Despite Gouto's sarcasm, he believes that this Raidou Kuzunoha may be the best he has ever had the honor to guide.
When the Soulless God Oumagatsu was awakened, Gouto helped to come up with the plan to destroy the Tai-itsu and to ensure its success joined a demon in a rocket bound for the satellite. When the Tai-itsu was destroyed, so too was the earthly body of Gouto. However, despite this drawback, Gouto continued to guide Raido as a formless voice until the end of his mission.
Just before the destruction of his body, Gouto revealed that his true form was that of the first Raidou Kuzunoha and that he has watched every summoner to bear his name since. By the end of the game, Gouto is seen as a raven as he follows Raidou on his next mission.
In the sequel, Gouto has returned to his cat form.
In an optional conversation in the sequel, Gouto reveals that he committed an unspecified crime during his role as Raidou Kuzunoha; as punishment, he is forced to mentor and watch over all his successors until they die. Gouto also mentions he was previously a Housoushi magician before becoming Raidou Kuzunoha.
- Cursed with Awesome
- Deadpan Snarker
- Hero of Another Story: He's the first Raidou Kuzunoha.
- Intellectual Animal
- Invisible to Normals: To non-empowered people, he's only a cat. He can speak, but they will only hear purrs and meows.
- Non-Human Sidekick
- The Mentor
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Tries to resist his animal instincts, but sometimes gives into them.
- Noodle Incident: The debacle that got him turned into a cat. Judging by his reaction to Mikaboshi, and Mikaboshi's words about a former Devil Summoner he curbstomped, it may have had something to do with the evil star god...
Shouhei Narumi
Narumi was once an officer in the Japanese Imperial Army, but after being witness to the corruption of the military, he retired to become the owner of the Narumi Detective Agency. He is well versed in the ways of the world, and is aware of its many secrets, even having knowledge of demons and the supernatural. As such, he agreed with the Herald of Yatagarasu to take Raidou on as a part-time junior detective while he worked secretly as the new Raidou Kuzunoha.
The Narumi Detective Agency only takes on the most unusual cases, where the impossible is all that's left, although generally he isn't the type to get his hands dirty, and would rather pass on all the legwork to Raidou. While on the surface he may appear lazy, Narumi cares a lot about the people and won't stand idly by while the citizens suffer. Should Raidou ever be in deep trouble, Narumi will try to help, even if it's far beyond his abilities.
Shouhei returns as the head of the detective agency once again in Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon. Now claiming to be a "Modern Man", Shouhei has taken to blending his own coffee and eating nothing but toast for lunch.
- Badass Normal: He managed to get through Munakata's base, which was full of demons and undead Super Soldiers, with nothing but a pistol. Demons, it should be noted, he can't even hear, let alone see; another time, he entered Navy HQ, enduring hours of the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique (his Navy captors even recognize how damn badass he is) and also once stomped out a battalion of enemy demons with a bit of Car Fu.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He's a very serious badass. However, most of the time he sends Raidou to do the legwork.
- Butt-Monkey: Many times. In the manga, he was offered a damn nice car (utterly trashed) and a Briefcase Full of Money as compensation for risking life and limb to complete a highly dangerous escort mission... which he refused out of principles. He later got tricked by a Nekomata's voice-changing ability and lost the person he was supposed to guard.
- Car Fu: Demolishes a group of demons with this. Unfortunately, the car wound up totaled. The car was supposed to be his reward.
- Mooching Master: To a degree. He's Flanderized into this for the novel, but he's a lot less guilty of this in the games and the manga.
- Must Have Caffeine: Narumi-blended coffee!
- Nice Guy
- Perpetual Poverty: He has a lot of debts, as he's used to living a good life. This often comes to bite him due to his chronic laziness.
- Sharp-Dressed Man
- Trademark Favorite Food: Toast.
- We Help the Helpless: He extends that philosophy to thinking Raidou might not be badass enough to infiltrate the Navy HQ. So he goes himself.
Tae Asakura
Tae is an ace reporter for the Capital Daily, going by the pen name "Kichou" that comes from her respect for the feminist crusader Raichou Hiratsuka. She works hard to improve women's lot around the Capital and does all her own legwork despite the danger that may be involved. She has an unfortunate tendency to faint when frightened (somewhat understandable given what she's prone to running into) but doesn't let this discourage her from going out and getting the scoop or trying to help in tough situations.
Tae is an old friend of Narumi's, and when she managed to snap a shot of the mysterious Red Cape that has been sighted in the Capital, hires Narumi and Raidou to help her in her inquiries. After the Red Cape caper, Tae turns to Raidou several more times when facing potentially hostile situations.
- Fainting: Her constitution isn't the best, especially when demons are involved.
- Fetch Quest: In the second game, she has Raidou get photographs of some locales for her. Doing so will prove in her eyes Raidou honestly respects her.
- Intrepid Reporter: She tries, doing her best to follow Raidou as he uncovers the truth, though she's not in the know about the dark side of the Capital.
- My Card: Often gives Narumi hers. He has enough to make a house.
Dr. Victor
He is an alchemist and a demonologist, who makes his home in the basement of Konnou-Ya. As the resident of the "Gouma-den", he's highly interested in studying Devil Summoners and the demons they employ. To that end, he will fuse your demons to strengthen them, heal you and your demons for a fee, keep track of the demons you've seen, and increase the power of your katana. He may be more than a little eccentric, but he will be of a great help to Raidou's journey.
- The Blacksmith: He can forge demons or crystals into Raidou's katana to make it more powerful.
- Curtains Match the Window
- Facial Markings
- For Science!
- Large Ham
- Milking the Giant Cow: He does this as his normal standing animation.
- Mad Scientist: And he's on your side!
- Monster Compendium: The Devil Chart, in which he'll return registered demons to you for a fee.
- Non-Human Sidekick: His assistant is an Ippon-Datara disguised as a maid. Unsurprisingly, the thing hates being forced to dress like that.
- Shout-Out: To Victor Frankenstein
- Actually, he's implied to BE the real Victor Frankenstein as one of his chat lines is about how Raidou should avoid the Arctic because Victor speaks from experience. Victor in the Frankenstein novel followed his Monster to the North Pole...
Rasputin
In Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha, Rasputin played the role of a major character. He was a Dark Summoner (a Devil Summoner who turned his back on the teachings for personal gain) who attacked Raidou Kuzunoha several times to prevent him getting too close to the truth about the Soulless Army Project. He is believed to be the real Rasputin (although he is reported to be dead by then) until it is revealed that he is, in fact, a mechanical man working for Munakata as collateral to keep the project a secret until it is fully underway. Later, after his contract with Munakata is up, he unexpectedly turns to Raidou with information on Munakata's location and goal. He then seemingly watches from the sideline with neutral feelings on the outcome. It is revealed he is also a time traveler from the future, apparently sent to maintain the timeline but ignored his mission to pursue his own goals. By the end of the game, it is implied Rasputin remains in Raidou's time to become more 'human'.He returns in the sequel to provide hints for Raidou to defeat the Appollyon.
- Bad Boss: Demons used by him from the first game will have conversations with the others about he how treated them like crap in King Abaddon.
- Blowing a Raspberry: In his boss battle, after hiding in some Russian dolls, his first action is to peak out and taunt Raidou by blowing a raspberry.
- Casanova Wannabe: Constantly tries to hit on Tae. It doesn't work.
- Clock Roaches: Set back in time to ensure history follows the destined canon but eventually just does his own thing instead of his job.
- Distressed Dude: Surprisingly one in King Abaddon if you are neutral in King Abaddon during chapter 4 he'll be the one captive by the Tsukigata instead of Tae.
- The Dragon: To Munakata in Soulless Army.
- Evil Counterpart: To Raidou. He's a dark summoner after all.
- The Heavy: He constantly puts Raidou in various dangerous situations, uses his demons to fight him two times and he's a more active threat overall than Munakata and Amaterasu.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Well, Rasputin the time-traveling cyborg dark magician.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Once his contact with Munakata is up, he stops antagonizing Raidou and actually gives him a tip on how stop the Soulless God.
- Recurring Boss: While Rasputin hismelf is fought only once in Soulless Army, he summons his demons to fight against Raidou twice, making it three times that Raidou has to face him.
- Spotting the Thread: Reading his personal data will reveal a key inconsistency: he weighs nearly three times what an adult male of his height should, but his figure doesn't reflect that...
- That Russian Squat Dance: Does the squat dance at the start of his boss battle.
- The Beastmaster / Summon Magic: As a dark summoner, he can summon demons to fight for him.
- Time Police: His job and he ends up abandoning it during Soulless Army.
Kaya Daidouji
The daughter of Takeshi Daidouji, head of the prestigious Daidouji family, Kaya is known for her sunny disposition. She treats her classmates and servants as equals despite being raised as a member of the upper crust and is loved by them in return. However, Kaya has a dark family secret hanging over her head, and discovered that she was doomed to be possessed by a demon on her sixteenth birthday.
Kaya spent much of her time locked in a secret basement beneath the Daidouji Residence as she approached her sixteenth birthday, but with the help of her uncle, Kiyoshi, she escaped only to meet with Munakata's forces. Desperate, she contacted the Narumi Detective Agency and requested to meet them in private. Narumi and Raidou went to meet with Kaya, only to witness her taken by mysteriously masked soldiers dressed in red.
Much later Raidou was able to rescue Kaya, who took up temporary work at the Narumi Detective Agency afraid to return home. But all was not well, and after using Raidou to help her acquire an ancient artifact needed for the Super Soldier Project, revealed that she was already possessed, and escaped into the Dark Realm.
Finally, after Raidou destroyed the Soulless God Oumagatsu, he is able to pursue Kaya into the Akarana Corridors of time where he discovers that the presence within Kaya is a Raidou Kuzunoha of the future. After a long battle, and even after the entity possesses the Soulless God Yasomagatsu, Raidou is able to defeat it. Expelling the entity from both the ship and Kaya, Raidou cast it into the abyss of time and returned Kaya safely to her family.
- Action Girl: When she's possessed.
- Dangerous 16th Birthday: Her family's curse.
- Demonic Possession: She's playing host to a Kuzunoha of the future.
- Important Haircut: Future Raidou gives her body one once he's fully in control.
- Hime Cut: The look is perfect (long hair, even bangs, and sidelocks) and personality-wise is also perfect because she is a kind and respectful ojou.
- Living Bodysuit: The Kuzunoha of a far future time.
- School Uniforms are the New Black
Akane Narita
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: As Akane the Patient.
- Boss Subtitles: Akane the Patient.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the Chaos and Neutral Route.
- Malevolent Masked Man: As Akane the Patient and a bit earlier,
- Marriage to a God: She has to marry Lord Tento.
- Flunky Boss: She summons Mots during the battle against Akane the Patient
- One-Winged Angel: As Akane the Patient in the Chaos and Neutral Route.
- Tragic Monster: As Akane the Patient, she laments how despite following everything she was ordered to do, she ends up suffering anyway.
- You Can't Fight Fate: What she believes in, and asks you to find her brother so that he won't interfere.
Herald of Yatagarasu
- Black Cloak
- Enemy Scan: During Soulless Army she gives Raidou a mystical item that lets him scan enemies at the cost of 10 Magnetite.
- In the Hood: The Herald has a hood in order to conceal her face and her identity.
- Mysterious Employer: Both she and the Yatagarasu are ones to everyone who works for them.
- Quest Giver: She is the one who gives Raidou the quests that kickstart the story of every Raidou game. Also, gives other regular Case Files to be done when talked to.
Kushinada
- Damsel in Distress: The Lone Marebito seeks her out due to her power to supply Magnetite to demons.
- Handicapped Badass: She's made blind by using magic seals to control her ability to supply huge amounts of Mag. Kushinada can also go between the real and dark realm.
Shiraguku
- Becoming the Mask: Shiraguku is forced to pose as Kushinada since she sacrificed herself to use the Mag energy sealed off in her body at the end of LM, rendering her unconscious.
- Foil: Shiraguku chose to become loyal to Kushinada, while Gouto was forced to work with the current Raidou due to something he did.
- Non-Human Sidekick: She uses a house cat form, but turns into a Nekomata when Kushinada is attacked.
Geirin Kuzunoha the 17th
- Catchphrase: Goes through the process of peppering his dialogue with a lot of "theories", "processes" and "conjectures", even in places where they are theoretically not needed. To say Nagi got her habit of doing so is a sound conjecture. Whatever the case, between the two of them, those words will go through the process of losing all meaning by the end of the game.
- Legacy Character: He's the 17th of the devil summoner line to inherit the title of "Geirin"—the highest rank of devil summoners.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: Already elderly and in bad health, the King Abaddon case proves to be his last.
- Summon Magic: Like all Devil Summoners. He summoned High Pixie and gave it to Nagi later. During the boss fight against him he summons Rakshasa, Mahakala, Thor, Rangda, Mada, Basilisk, Angel, and Sandalphon.
- Honor Before Reason: He actually makes you fight him for an item necessary to save the freaking world.
- The Musketeer: A Gunslinger and an adept swordsman.
Nagi / Geirin Kuzunoha the 18th
- All of the Other Reindeer: As a child, the secluded villagers of Tsukigata village were afraid of her, due to her unusual blue eyes. She wandered in the neighboring woods until Geirin found her.
- Boisterous Weakling: Has a bad habit of biting off more than she can chew. Her first ill-thought attempt at undergoing a personal mission led to the temporary death of her High Pixie (since she's low-level enough that she can't control her if she attempts to revive her), and trying to confront the sword thief in The Lone Marebito ends up in disaster, especially as she can't even control her summoned Yoshitsune, which is destroyed by the baddie.
- Catchphrase: Has a habit of peppering her dialogue with a lot of "theories", "processes" and "conjectures": she likely picked it up from her master.
- Guile Hero: She defeats the Sword Thief by luring him into a bamboo grove, denying him the use of his stolen blades, and setting High Pixie against him, wearing him down for a Death of a Thousand Cuts.
- Legacy Character: She's been training ever since Geirin found her to be the 18th Geirin Kuzunoha. Which she eventually becomes after his death.
- Meaningful Name: Her name means calm, as in the calm after a storm. Geirin gave her the name in reference to her blue eyes.
- Parental Abandonment: Her parents were killed by demons in the Tento Woods.
- Precocious Crush: A little girl NPC reveals in chapter 4 that Nagi has a crush on her master if you choose to say you will not marry her.
- Ship Tease: She likewise gets very flustered around Raidou, much to High Pixie's irritation.
- Summon Magic: She's still learning how to summon demons during the game and High Pixie was given to her by Geirin. In Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Lone Marebito she's become skilled enough to summon Yoshitsune and get him to fight for her, if not to outright control him.
- The Apprentice
Abe Seimei
A young Devil Summoner who works for the Yatagarasu in Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Lone Marebito. A descendant of Abe no Seimei, he was sent to aid Raidou after coming across people who had obtained unusual powers. Eventually reveals his true colors as the Big Bad of the manga.- Back from the Dead: Died before the story began.
- Big Bad: Except not entirely. Clarion's pulling his strings.
- Body Horror: His left eye becomes freakishly huge during his battle against Raidou near the end of the manga. It even has blood oozing out of his eye socket. This is because he's unknowingly housing Clarion within his body.
- Body Motifs: Eyes. Almost every animal demon he ends up summoning as a spy or steed are one-eyed beasts. Even one of his own eyes becomes inhumanly huge.
- Child Prodigy: Was recruited by Yatagarasu at a young age.
- Famous Ancestor: Abe No Seimei.
- Hero Killer: Responsible for killing heroic summoner and Imperial Japanese soldiers deployed to stop him.
- The Man Behind the Man: He's the secret backer of LM after he's exposed.
- Summon Magic: Like all Devil Summoners.
- Walking Spoiler: Best if you come here after reading the Lone Marebito.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Abe wants to help families/groups that were marginalized by the Meiji Government because of Onmyouji being sidelined.
- When He Smiles: A Mag apparition of him shows up to reach out to Raidou after confessing that his wishes to help Onmyouji users were manipulated by Clarion.
- Would Hurt a Child: He's willing to sacrifice Kushinada to get her Mag and allow Onmyouji to take center stage instead of Devil Summoners.
Raido Kuzunoha the 14th
- Alternate Self: Of Raidou Kuzunoha
- Good Scars, Evil Scars
- Hot Blooded Sideburns
- Legacy Character
- The Beastmaster / Summon Magic
- The Demons used by him in Soul Hackers 3DS are Gashadokuro, Yoshitsune, Mishaguji, Azumi, and Ippon-Datara.
- The Musketeer
Ayame Mibu
- Action Girl: A Devil Summoner of the Mibu clan who also fights under Yatagarasu's orders.
- Big Damn Heroes: She reinforces the Mibu clan members sent to stop the LM.
High Pixie
- Back from the Dead: In the ending.
- Combat Pragmatist: Will do whatever she needs to do to help Nagi win. She'll use needles to try to stab out a foes eyes or use bamboo to knock them out in The Lone Marebito.
- Improvised Weapon: Will use whatever she can get her hands on when she isn't using magic.
- Non Human Side Kick: To Nagi.
- Playing with Fire: It has access to the Agidyne spell, one of the stronger fire magics in the series.
Shinado
The deity worshiped by the Tsukigata villagers in Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon. He speaks to Raidou throughout the story. His personality is split into two halves: the benevolent Sorrow Aspect and the nihilistic Anger Aspect. Anger Aspect is also the Big Bad of the game and takes the title of King Abaddon.- A Form You Are Comfortable With: When speaking with Raidou, he takes the form of someone Raidou knows (or Raidou himself) wearing a Shinado mask. Until he decides to get dangerous.
- Barrier Change Boss: His very final form will shift immunities every time he moves into Raidou's attack range.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: He commands the Apollyons by taking the title of King Abaddon.
- Dark Messiah: His Anger Aspect genuinely believes that there is no hope for the future and that mankind should embrace him to seek salvation.
- Eye Beams: During his boss battle he'll fire lasers from his eyes.
- Final Boss: Of King Abaddon.
- Flunky Boss: In the second stage of his fight Apollyons constantly appear every time one is defeated.
- Helpless Good Side: The Sorrow Aspect cannot stop the Anger Aspect and needs Raidou to do it instead.
- Hope Is Scary: His Anger Aspect firmly believes this to be true. Which is why he goes so far to try and stop Raidou.
- Knight Templar: His Anger Aspect.
- Literal Split Personality: His Anger and Sorrow Aspects.
- Malevolent Masked Man: Subverted with his Sorrow Aspect. Played straight with the Anger Aspect and anyone who has given into despair.
- Nietzsche Wannabe: His Anger Aspect is one.
Clarion
- Big Bad: For the Lone Marebito manga.
- The Man Behind the Man: It's responsible for possessing Seimei, turning him to the leader of LM.
Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
Raidou Kuzunoha the 40th and Soulless God Oumagatsu
The Big Bad of Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army. He was a member of the Temple Knights in the future of what is implied to be Shin Megami Tensei II. Not wanting to be a slave without any freedom in a world ruled by the corrupt Messians, he has traveled back in time to change the future and create a world that isn't under the control of the Messians.
- All There in the Manual: Him being the 40th Raidou Kuzunoha is in the official fanbook.
- Anti-Villain: He wants to undo the Bad Future that he comes from, where it is long since After the End and what remains of humanity is ruled by corrupt demagogues.
- The Bad Guy Wins: According to one interpretation, he managed to create an alternate timeline from the Shin Megami Tensei series to the slightly more hopeful Persona series...
- Pyrrhic Victory: But he's convinced he failed to change the past and is stuck in the void as a ghost.
- Big Bad: The true antagonist behind the creation of the Souless Army.
- Demonic Possession: To Kaya. Later possesses the Soulless God Oumagatsu.
- Empty Shell: Oumagatsu has no will of its own, allowing Raidou Kuzunoha the 40th to possess it. It's even called the Soulless God.
- Eldritch Abomination: After both of the Soulless God's arms are decapitated, revealing a monstrous blob of flesh with a face on his torso.
- Fate Worse than Death: At the end of the game he is left to eternally wander the time stream as a lost soul.
- Final Boss: Serves as your last opponent in Soulless Army.
- Fusion Dance: Raidou possesses Soulless God Oumagatsu in the finale.
- Humongous Mecha: Soulless God Oumagatsu takes the form of a humanoid figure made out of the pieces of a metal battleship.
- Legacy Character: He's from a long line of Raidou Kuzunohas, the fortieth in line in fact.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: His goal is to undo a Bad Future where the world is in ruins and a corrupt religious cult rules over what remains. Though his initial plan to destroy any threats to Japan with Oumagatsu fails, the past was already altered thanks to time travelers like him and Rasputin coming back. So while most of his actions were ultimately meaningless, he might have indirectly succeeded.
- Transforming Mecha: Soulless God Oumagatsu goes from a battleship to a giant robot.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Willing to create a world conquering army of monsters, terrorize a young girl into suicide, and all manner of genocidal war crimes to prevent the nihilistically bleak Shin Megami Tensei timeline from happening.
General Munakata
- Big Bad Wannabe:
- General Ripper: Is patrotic that he's willing to do black ops projects like the Super Soldier Project. He wasn't in control. Sukona-Hikona was.
Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon
Dahn
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: As Dahn the Direct.
- The Atoner: After he found out that summoning the Apollyons was not a good idea.
- Big Brother Instinct: In addition to freeing his village from the Tento Lords, he wants to stop his sister from being forced to marry one of them. Because the Tento Lords procreation process slowly turns the bride into something inhuman...
- Boss Subtitles: Dahn the Direct
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the Law Route.
- Malevolent Masked Man: As Dahn the Direct.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Dahn has a bit of a breakdown when the summoned Apollyons don't obey him, as he didn't even realize that causing so much misfortune would open the Gate of The Abysmal Realm.
- Non-Human Sidekick: His Locust Taromaru.
- One-Winged Angel: In the Law route as Dahn the Direct.
- Playing with Fire: His burning resolve attack.
- Poisonous Person: Uses it in his fight as Dahn the Direct.
- Power at a Price: Dahn uses a Death Ward to control the Luck Locusts since they don't eat the luck of a corpse. The price is a few years off his life span depending on how long he uses it.
- Screw You, Elves!: What he plans on doing to the Tento Lords. Not the Mushibito though. He respects and likes them.
- Walking the Earth: At the end of the game in the Neutral and Chaos path. Where he plans to lead the Mushibito to a new home where they won't be shunned for their appearance.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Stealing the Capitals Luck was part of his goal of freeing the Tsukigata village from the control of the Tento Lords. It backfires horribly.
Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Lone Marebito
Ouhan Kurahashi
- The Dragon: To Abe Seimei while he's not around to lead the Lone Marebito.
- Face–Heel Turn: Prior to the manga, he was turned to the Dark Summoner side by Abe, who was posssessed by Clarion.
- Fallen Hero: He was suppose to teach Seimei and help him be the next family head of the Seimeis. Instead, he got corrupted by a Clarion-possessed Abe.
- He was also a promising pro-Yatagarasu summoner when he became evil.
- Hero Killer: Kills Ayame Mibu during the final fight at the Capital.
- Karma Houdini: The last volume implies that he's stil alive and Yatagarasu's forces are hunting him.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Known as the president of the Kurahashi Company.
Gengorou Yamada aka Wagner Jumonjji
- Face–Heel Turn: He became a Dark Summoner under the LM after Yatagarasu dismissed him from service.
- Fallen Hero: A promising Devil Summoner who was suppose to be recruited to work under Yatagarasu before he fell out of the latter's favor.
