Characters / Devil Survivor 2 Party Members

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The Entire Team

• Back from the Dead: In the anime's finale, Hibiki convinces Polaris to resurrect the rest of the cast and restore the world.
• Badass Crew: Notable that while the membership is variable depending on your actions, they will wind up kicking way more ass than the JP's regulars in the long run.
• Cast Herd: Every character has a distinct relationship with one other member of the party that defines their personality almost as much as their individual traits do.
• The Chosen Many: In the anime, at least, all the main characters (except Daichi) have the inherent ability to conjure unusually powerful demons. It's invoked in the anime in that they were scouted for their power beforehand rather than meeting up and being recruited by the hero by chance.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: All of the characters have a specific colored marker on the world map.
  • The Player Character is blue.
  • Daichi is yellow.
  • Io is light pink.
  • Hinako is orange.
  • Keita is cyan.
  • Airi is rose.
  • Jungo is dark teal.
  • Fumi is light turquiose.
  • Otome is pink.
  • Joe is brown.
  • Ronaldo is violet.
  • Makoto is light blue.
  • Yamato is indigo.
  • Alcor is red.
  • Miyako is purple.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Whichever path you choose in the Septentrione arc, you have the option to re-recruit the others if you've leveled their Fate to at least 4. In the Triangulum arc, defeating Miyako will cause her to take your side against Canopus.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: They take on and defeat a personified star. In the Triangulum arc, they even defeat the control system for the entire universe.
• Eastern Zodiac: The party members' zodiac sign and demons they unlock by increasing their Fate Link are all based on the Chinese Zodiac. The exception to this rule is the Anguished One and Miyako. Fitting, since instead of Zodiac, they're stars.
  • Daichi is Monkey
  • Io is Ox
  • Joe is Pig
  • Hinako is Rooster
  • Keita is Tiger
  • Airi is Sheep
  • Jungo is Dog
  • Fumi is Snake
  • Makoto is Horse
  • Otome is Rabbit
  • Yamato is Dragon
  • Ronaldo is Rat
• It's Up to You: In the Triangulum arc. Due to receiving Polaris' Administrator Authority after her defeat, they are the only ones who can operate the Astrolabe and protect humanity.
• Meaningful Name: Every character's name relates to their respective star sign.
• Physical God: Whoever's in the party for the Triangulum Arc's final battle basically ascend to this after managing to Skill Crack the primal factors of creation to use against Canopus.
• Screw Destiny: The majority of the time you get them by averting their ordained deaths. In the anime, they can fight fate, it's just that they often fail. This leads to much tragedy and death.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: As the anime progresses and Yamato's plot to create a world of social darwinism come to the fore, the remaining protagonists only continue to work with him because they'll all die if they don't.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Everyone, as of the Triangulum arc. Virtually all of the main characters have taken significant strides in becoming better people.
  • Yamato has not only become significantly less harsh, but he's also obtained a strong desire◊ to protect everyone. Not just the strong, but all of humanity.
  • Ronaldo is no longer blinded by his intense rage towards JP's and is even capable of cooperating◊ with Yamato now.
  • Fumi is significantly more compassionate towards other people now. For context, prior to getting her memories, she doesn't hesitate to kill the team for intruding in a restricted area, but the moment she gets them back, she immediately works towards getting friends to safety ASAP.
  • Keita learns that there are other kinds of strength than being a powerful fighter, and even sticks up for a couple of civilians who have the guts to stand up to an army of gangsters.
• Trademark Favorite Food: While Jungo likes chawanmushi in both versions, the anime adaption artbook reveals everyone's favorite food:
  • Hibiki likes sweets, especially mame daifuku and yaki mitarashi.
  • Daichi likes yakiniku.
  • Io likes yogurt and macaroni gratin.
  • Hinako likes okonomiyaki and crepes.
  • Keita likes anything that contains protein.
  • Airi likes ogura toast, hamburg steak with cheese, and soy milk.
  • Jungo likes yellowtail teriyaki, ten-musu, and miso chocolate.
  • Fumi likes Yorkshire pudding, roast beef, and sushi.
  • Otome likes sesame tofu, natto, and anmitsu.
  • Joe likes Taiwanese ramen and espresso.
  • Ronaldo likes borscht.
  • Makoto likes omurice and parfait.
  • Yamato likes takoyaki.
  • Alcor likes coffee added with sugar.
• True Companions: To keep them together, it's highly advised this be the case by building everyone's Fate levels (preferably making an effort to have everyone have Stage 4 or above).
• Western Zodiac: Each character is revealed in the artbook to have a Star Sign with the exception of the Protagonist (who is revealed to be Gemini in the artbook, sharing this with Yamato). Due to the game having a heavy star theme, this means they represent the potential of all humans who have that same star sign. The alignments are likewise based on the qualities Cardinal, Mutable, and Fixed instead of Law, Neutral, and Chaos. This is why Alcor, who knows they embody man's potential, stands against Miyako and her plans in Record Breaker as their deaths mean the end of mankind's ability to grow.
• With a Friend and a Stranger: The initial party consists of the Protagonist and Daichi, who are already best friends, and Io, a more distant classmate.

The Protagonist

Hero^{Also known as}Hibiki Kuze (Devil Survivor 2 The Animation), Hiro Kageyama (-Show Your Free Will- Manga)

Voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese), Patrick Poole (English)

An ordinary high school student living in Tokyo and studying for his college exams. After he signed up for Nicaea, he and his friends were granted access to the Demon Summoning App, and proved themselves strong enough to be recruited by JP's upon defeating Dubhe.

As part of JP's, he and his friends are charged with using their new powers to help defeat the Septentriones, and the Triangulum in the corresponding arc. Despite being mute, he's noted to have strong leadership qualities.

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• An Adventurer Is You: His parameters are based on what the player chooses to increase upon leveling up, leaving him to be able to take on any role the player wants him to.
• Animal Motifs: Because of his hoodie, he resembles a bunny. Several characters talk about it.
• Aside Glance: Gives one to the player upon picking certain dialogue options.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Can appear this way through the player's choices.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In the Triangulum arc, he can choose to become a Human Adminstrator.
• Boyfriend Bluff: Can pull this off for Io in one of her events.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Can be played up as one by the player.
• Catchphrase: Often gets "There's no other way" as a dialogue option.
• Chick Magnet: Makoto develops a crush on him. Otome lampshades this and she herself has implicit trust in him, and asks him to take care of her adopted daughter if she dies. Fumi becomes rather enamored of him and outright mentions it must be love between you when she rejoins the group. Follow through with Hinako's Fate route and she'll suggest that he pole dances, and admits to liking him. Airi called him an enemy to women and gets very flustered and apologetic around him, in classic Tsundere style. Io develops feelings for him and comes to depend heavily on his emotional support, and Female Tico is very flirty with him in dialogue. Even Otome's daughter tells him right to his face that he's handsome, and if all that wasn't enough, Record Breaker has Miyako fall for him as well! And even the demon Aramisaki loves him.
• Childhood Friends: With his Best Friend Daichi.
• Cloudcuckoolander
  • Typically when choosing the sillier dialogue options. Which sometimes are the correct response to make, as they do keep everyone's spirits up.
  • Depending on the route, all dialogue options◊ can be silly.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Heavy on the white and blue, compared to the others having black.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To the Devil Survivor protagonist. That one wore black and red, and was a lot more sarcastic and snippy in his dialogue options. This protagonist is dressed in white and blue, has a lot more comical choices during scenes, and tries to understand his friends' point of view.
• Covert Pervert: Can be played like this, if the player chooses to join Daichi in admiring the girls and peeping in on their health exam. And then there's when Otome and Makoto fall on his crotch and face, respectively.
  > Get off.
  > This is nice...
• Deadpan Snarker: Several of his dialogue choices around Daichi.
• Declaration of Protection: The player can choose to have him give one to Io when she's scared about becoming Lugh's medium.
• Dimension Lord: Can turn into this if the player takes the Guardian route in the Triangulum arc.
• Dragon Ascendant: Yamato lampshades that this could happen, if the player chooses to side with him. But he also says that, if he were to do so, he would be very impressed.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Yamato's obsession with him can be interpreted as a crush. And the Anguished One calls him the Shining One.
• Fun Personified: Never a dull moment with him around, thanks to his dialogue choices.
• The Gadfly: Can be played like this through a lot of comical dialogue options.
• The Heart
  • He ends up being the emotional backbone of the team and keeps their morale up. Played straight when going the Liberator route, and Polaris decides that he is the reason the party is still fighting. And getting him killed will result in a Game Over.
  • The Triangulum arc increases this aspect, when Daichi's memories show that he and Yamato are the only ones that survived Arcturus' attack, and Daichi says they would've done much better, had the protagonist actually existed during the second cycle.
• Heroic Mime: As per Shin Megami Tensei tradition, he doesn't speak a word outside of player-determined dialogue.
• Innocently Insensitive: Can be played this way.
• Interspecies Romance: Played with in the Triangulum arc, when the protagonist gets possessed by the demon called Aramisaki, who is madly in love with him. Dialogue options allow the player to flirt back and be genuinely heartbroken when she gets killed by Miyako.
• Iron Woobie: invoked Everyone is convinced that he's the standard-bearer of this, since he remains unbelievably calm in situations that leave others traumatized. Daichi even lampshades this.
• Large Ham: His expressions are either subdued or exaggerated.
• The Leader: Of the charismatic variant.
• Lightning Bruiser: If the player focuses on getting his Agility up, he can become this in higher levels.
• Messianic Archetype: Yamato and Ronaldo grow to rely heavily on him for their causes, and the Anguished One refers to him as the Shining One that can pave a new path for humanity.
• Nice Guy: An oft lampshaded trait of his, specifically tied to his chick magnet status.
• Noodle Incident: One of Daichi's last few Fate events has him stand behind Daichi, who brings one up.
  Daichi: Wait, what are you—No, no! Stop! Oh, dude! Is this revenge for that one time in junior high?!
• Order Versus Chaos: As a result of Polaris seeing him as the representative of the will of humanity, he can choose what world to create when confronting her.
• Physical God: The Triangulum arc has him become one in the Human Adminstator ending.
• Promotion to Parent: Invoked by Otome, asking him to take care of Koharu if anything happens to her.
• Refuge in Audacity: Some of his antics qualify as this, and turn out to be the right option.
• Reincarnation Romance: With Aramisaki in the Triangulum Arc. Since the player can recreate Aramisaki through fusion, this can come into play. Especially since she still flirts with the player upon being fused.
• Ret-Gone: In the Triangulum Arc from Record Breaker, the protagonist pushes Al Saiduq away when Canopus attempted to erase him, recognizing that he wasn't a proper Administrator. As a result, his data in the Akashic Record was damaged and ceased to be in the first regression. His body glitching out is due to the Triangulum attempting to erase his data. Worse, Yamato explains that if his data sustains too much damage, then he will permanently cease to exist, regardless if they regress the world again.
• Spanner in the Works: Can be this for Yamato or Polaris, should the player choose a different route. Yamato would likely have won the competition, had the protagonist not interfered or managed to convince the Anguished One to overthrow Polaris and its system.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: He and Aramisaki are kept apart due to the latter getting unceremoniously killed by Miyako.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: A running gag of him doing this to Daichi and Io. Gets increased while on the Anguished One's route.
• Suddenly Voiced: In the Japanese version of Record Breaker, he voices the chapter titles of each day.
• Sufficiently Advanced Alien: In the Triangulum arc, if the player goes the Guardian route, then Al Saiduq says that the protagonist will become 'a being just like him'.
• Take a Third Option: Fourth in this case. The protagonist, rather than take sides at the end of Day 6, creates his own faction with the Anguished One, opting to Restart the World rather than establish a new world order.
• Taking the Bullet: In the Triangulum arc, he shoved Al Saiduq out of harm's way when Canopus wanted to take him during the initial regression.
• Troll: Can be played this way.
• Warrior Therapist: Doesn't pause to get to know and understand people during the chaos going on.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Can call out his party members and others for their actions, particularly in Daichi's route, where he can tell off the Osaka and Nagoya factions for choosing to fight their friends instead of attempting to work together.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue:
  • The Endless Battle ending has him and Daichi befriend Io, without facing certain death shortly after.
  • The Guardian ending has him become the new Administrator of the world, and he happily observes his friends during graduation, knowing them to be safe.
  • The Record Breaker ending has him leading a normal life with Daichi and Io, bumping into Miyako's reincarnated human form, and heading off to meet the others and Al Saiduq at the beach.
• We Cannot Go On Without You
  • Choosing to kill Polaris on Daichi's route has her decide that the protagonist is the one keeping everyone together. He has to stay alive during the second and third phase of the battle or the player receives a Game Over.
  • In the Triangulum arc, the protagonist must be kept alive during the battle with Arcturus. He's the only one that can use the Soul Bind ability.
• World's Strongest Man: During Yamato's route, Polaris calls him this because of his unshakeable resolve to change the world and managing to gather everyone to go through with it.

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Tropes applying in the anime

• All the Other Reindeer: Got picked on as a kid by several bullies because of his 'nerdiness'.
• All Your Powers Combined: Shortly after Yamato fuses his demons to create Satan, Hibiki gets all of his dead friends' demons transferred to his phone. A mass fusion sequence later, he brings out Lucifer and promptly defeats Yamato.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Hibiki ends up becoming more shaken by the events occurring around him, and seems to struggle with himself more.
• Blank Slate: Was a rather unemotional child, likely as a result of his very neutral and aloof parents. He only began displaying a personality as he interacted with friends, mainly Daichi, and is implied to backslide into this when there's nobody around.
• Character Development: Starts off with a typical hero-complex and lets Yamato use him, since he thinks it will be for the greater good. But he realizes that Yamato is not as benevolent as he'd hoped and realizes that deferring to him is taking the easy way. Hibiki realizes that doing the right thing means thinking for himself and making his own decisions, which is why he ends up going rogue with Ronaldo. However, he is less eager to immediately fall in line with Ronaldo's plans. When he's forced to side with Yamato out of necessity later, he's ready to take him down if he has to.
• Comes Great Responsibility: Is the first to consider using his abilities for the good of others, rather than just trying to survive. It's the source of his angst throughout the series.
• Elemental Powers: His summoned monsters, Byakko and Suzaku, are elementally aligned.
• The Everyman: Sociable, but not eccentric.
• The Four Gods: His signature demon is Byakko and adds Suzaku on Tuesday.
• Hands-Off Parenting: Didn't seem very close to his parents. His father often told him to not get in his mother's way or sounding harsh and uncaring towards Hibiki coming home late. Also, they didn't pay much attention to Hibiki but expected high grades from him. Not to mention asking Hibiki to choose better friends instead of Daichi. This would make sense as to why Hibiki didn't seem to particularly care about his parents when the disaster struck.
• Heroic BSoD: Seeing the huge trail of dead summoners working for Yamato while facing Merak spurned Hibiki into following Ronaldo. He ends up getting better when Io and Daichi come to his aid on Tuesday when he was meant to die through Phecda's hand. Though short-lived, since several of his friends die by Megrez's last-ditch attack. Keeps getting into one too many times, just close to breaking apart.
• Heroic Willpower: A requisite to summon demons without being killed in the process, but his willpower was strong enough that he ended up summoning a powerful demon-like Byakko right away.
• Last of His Kind: Lampshaded by him in the finale with Yamato.
  Hibiki: The world is just you and me.
• Only Sane Man: Generally portrayed as a pretty sensible and insightful character, but it ends up getting played for laughs in the Drama CD. Everyone has hilariously inappropriate reactions to Japan's desperate situation, and it's up to him to advocate some common sense.
• Playing with Fire: Suzaku uses fire attacks.
• The Promise: Episode 9 has him give a promise to Yamato, telling him that he'll be staying by his side until the end, and pass judgment on him, if he believes Yamato's existence to be a sin.
• Shock and Awe: Byakko uses electric attacks.
• Tender Tears: Ends up very emotional because of the amount of death and peril around him.
• Took a Level in Badass: Episode 9 has him analyze all of Ronaldo's research and deduces most of JP's plans himself. And he has come to terms with all the pressure around and on him, getting over his insecurity, and becomes more proactive. He's able to effectively call Yamato out and refuses to be intimidated, setting his own terms.
• Western Zodiac: His zodiac in the anime version is Gemini the same as Yamato.

Daichi Shijima

Daichi Shijima

Voice: Nobuhiko Okamoto (Japanese); Ben Diskin (Game); Greg Ayres (Anime)

The protagonist's best friend and the one who introduced him to Nicaea. He's close to graduation and tends to worry about growing up and the responsibilities that come along with it. Daichi is generally cheerful and easygoing, which can land him into trouble. He gets nervous easily when under pressure.

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• 11th-Hour Superpower: In the anime, his strong feeling of helplessness and desire to protect his best friend Hibiki on the 7th day enables him to summon Black Frost, a demon strong enough to overwhelm Benetnasch.
• Badass Driver: He uses a truck to force Dubhe to explode.
• Book Dumb: Proudly boasts that he was within the 50 students that aced the mock-exam, but Airi bluntly points out that his position was utterly average.
• Break the Cutie: Daichi gets steadily broken by the horrors occurring around him.
• But Thou Must!: In the Triangulum arc, when the team tries to infiltrate Tokyo while being on the run from JP's, the player is given an option of four teams to scout out the other terminal. Daichi is with the team that's most-familiar with Tokyo, but tries fervently to be added to the team with the girls. The other teams are made out of powerful men and former JP's agents that he's not on board, but Joe lists him with the men, and Fumi, in a sarcastic attempt to cheer him up, lists him as a guinea pig.
• Butt-Monkey
  • Plays this role very often and it's even lampshaded by Tico when talking about Daichi's second death clip. His luck does not improve over the course of the Septentrione arc.
    Female Tico: Is this his second time today!? How unlucky for him!
  • Takes on Jungo's role as the Iron Butt-Monkey as Fumi's guinea pig if Jungo died.
  • He is the sole source of comedy in the anime and is only shown to get first-tier demons. Then he gets Black Frost, which is a giant evil snowman and is stronger than everyone else's demons, which is outright mentioned by Makoto.
• Bully Hunter: In the anime, he protected the protagonist from bullies, despite the risk of being the next target.
• Calling Your Attacks: Does it during his late Fate event, but Hinako scolds him for it because it's not an anime.
• Car Fu: He drives a truck over a railing and hits Dubhe.
• Character Death
  • Despite having two death clips in one day, Daichi is one of the few characters in the game that cannot die during the Septentrione arc, as the neutral route puts him as its leader.
  • Played straight in the anime, where Polaris eats him and Io.
• Character Development: Daichi starts out weak-willed and cowardly, preferring to leave the more dangerous battles to JP's, and thinking the situation is too large for a regular highschooler like himself to deal with. His Fate events deal with him stepping up and becoming more willing to fight battles to help other people.
• Childhood Friends: With his Best Friend Hero.
• Composite Character: He's a combination of Atsuro and Yuzu from Devil Survivor.
• Covert Pervert: Comes up with the idea to spy on the girls' physical exam and sometimes spaces out into his fantasies.
• Cowardly Lion
  • He's very scared and easily panicked when it comes to battles, even getting scolded for this at times. But he is capable and brave when it comes to fighting hordes of regular demons. He also becomes much more determined in his own route.
  • The Triangulum arc shows how he's changed since the events with Polaris. He may not like battling and remains wary, but acts with a lot more determination when he knows that fighting is the only option.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite his cowardice, he can fight competently when needed.
• Determinator: No matter how cowardly he may be, his refusal to give up in the face of adversity gets him praised at times. Even by the notoriously difficult to please Yamato and Keita.
• Distressed Dude
  • Daichi gets kidnapped when he heads off to Nagoya and ends up used as a hostage by some rioters. He even gets used as a Human Shield by them, so they can force Jungo to surrender and let them kill him. They succeed, if the player fails to save Jungo in time.
  • In the Triangulum arc, he ends up getting kidnapped while trying to distract JP's forces from the party. And only because he took a short break to go to the bathroom.
• Enmity with an Object: The wheatgrass coffee drink, he hates it because the flavor is so bad.
• Heroic Sacrifice: As his friends are being cornered by an invincible Dubhe, Daichi drives a truck over the railings and smashes it into Dubhe, causing it to explode. He jumped out before the truck hit Dubhe, leaving him with minor bruising.
• Hopeless Suitor: Fully aware of it with Io, and Miyako in the Triangulum arc.
• I Always Wanted to Say That: Mentions this while offering to carry a heavy cardboard box.
  Daichi: You go on ahead. I'll take care of this!
• I Need to Go Iron My Dog: His response to Makoto demanding the party's phones at the beginning of the game is to claim that it's "half-past we-need-to-be-somewhere o'clock" and bolt.
• Jack of All Stats: He starts off balanced, but focuses more on Strength and Agility later on. He doesn't fully max out on any stat, though, and comes off like Hinako's Lightning Bruiser build but a little less optimized.
• The Lancer
  • Plays this part in the Septentrione arc.
  • Plays it in the Triangulum arc until Yamato returns from the Akasha-Stratum.
• Lightning Bruiser: His endgame stat spread gives him great (but not maxed out) Strength and Agility, and acceptable Magic and Vitality.
• Literally Shattered Lives: His second death clip has him frozen mid-run by Bai Suzhen, causing him to topple over.
• Luminescent Blush: Whenever he thinks of something awesome happening or cute girls.
• Neutrality Backlash: Daichi is opposed to Yamato or Ronaldo's visions of a new world, and feels that all this arguing will get them nowhere when their time is as limited as it is. Yamato and Ronaldo chide him for not having a clear alternative when he wants to Take a Third Option.
• Noodle Incident: In one of the last few events his Fate, depending on what dialogue choice you pick, Daichi notices him going behind him and immediately assumes he wants revenge:
  Daichi: Wait, what are you—No, no! Stop! Oh, dude! Is this revenge for that one time in junior high?! Come on, (Hero), it was once!
• Order Versus Chaos: Neutral, his own route. Can be persuaded to join all other routes.
• The Peeping Tom: A good excuse to do, after suffering through all those battles, right?
• Plot Armor: One of four characters that never dies during the Septentrione arc, despite being the subject of two Death Clips.
• Reluctant Warrior: Gets especially bad after his kidnapping. He always tries to find a way to help without fighting.
• Required Party Member:
  • He's mandatory for his second death video battle, since you're trying to save him from his fated demise by freezing at Bai Suzhen's hands.
  • He's mandatory for a battle on Day 4 which has him and Io attempt to distribute food to some civilians only to be attacked by thieves.
• Running Gag
  • He gets offered oddly flavored drinks. The fantastic fusion of natural spring water and takoyaki puree for one; wheatgrass coffee, and Misovitan, which features 1,000 miligrams of miso!
  • In the anime, his complaint that his demons are weak.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: In the English dub of the game, he lets out a few high squeaks.
• Take a Third Option: He doesn't like either extreme offered by Yamato or Ronaldo. He'd much rather find an option where they don't have to fight each other and just get along. He manages to have Hinako, Jungo and Io follow him due to this way of thinking.
• Took a Level in Badass: His big Fate event has him rush at about ten demons when Hinako loses her phone and is in need of immediate help. Daichi becomes much more willing to battle demons after.
• The Watson: Daichi needs things to be explained to him. And sometimes still doesn't get it.
• We Cannot Go On Without You: In his death video battle, if he dies it's game over.
• Western Zodiac: Leo.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue:
  • The Restorer ending has him look forward to adulthood and take on responsibility.
  • The Record Breaker ending shows Daichi driving Io and the protagonist in his sweet car to the beach.
• Worthy Opponent: In the Triangulum arc, Daichi considers wheatgrass coffee one. Daichi loses.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: If the player picks his route, or has him recruited on the Anguished One's route, Daichi thinks that Yamato will be the last boss. Everyone is confused by his statement.
  Daichi: He'll be waiting on a throne in some castle and say, "Haha, well done making it this far"!

Io Nitta

Io Nitta

Voiced by: Aya Uchida (Japanese); Lauren Landa (Game); Jessica Boone (Anime)

Another student from the same school as the protagonist and Daichi, whose intelligence and looks have earned her the attention of many of her male classmates. If Daichi is to be believed. Despite her reputation, Io isn't very assertive and quite shy around other people.

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• Action Girl: She can't speak up very well, but she can still fight.
• Badass Adorable: Her cuteness is commented on in-game, especially by Daichi. And she can, naturally, thrash enemies that look funny at her.
• Badass Boast: Pulls one when fought with Daichi as the Neutral Team Leaders upon channeling Lugh's power.
  "I vow upon this spear... I will not be defeated. Now... come! Try and break my spear, if you can!"
• Boyfriend Bluff
  • Upon wandering around Osaka, a punk tries to pick her up when the protagonist appears. One of the options to shoo him away is to claim to be Io's boyfriend, who quickly goes along with it.
  • Shortly after, the protagonist can see Io about to be dragged away by a well-meaning, but pushy woman, believing Io to be a refugee looking for help. Io isn't assertive enough to explain herself well and the protagonist can pull this line off again. The woman then lets Io go and tells him to keep her safe.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She has among the largest breasts of the female group. Her post-peeping scene is called 'Perfection'.
• Cannot Spit It Out: It's heavily implied that she has a crush on the protagonist, but can never quite manage to build up the nerve to spit it out. The closest is an unconfession late in the game, if her Fate link is high enough.
• Character Death:
  • She will die as a result of the Lugh summoning ritual, if the player does not console and encourage her beforehand.
  • In the anime, she gets killed alongside Daichi by Polaris.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Her death is pretty gruesome among the deaths in this game. Io begins to convulse and vomit up blood and strange, green fire is bursting out of her chest. She dies, lying in a pool of her blood.
• Crutch Character: Downplayed. She focuses on Magic and Strength early on, which gives her great coverage early on, but her damage output will pale compared to the Magic- or Strength-focused characters. Her low Vitality and Agility will also make her fragile.
• Demonic Possession: She gets chosen as a host for Lugh's spirit to strengthen the Dragon Stream. In the anime, the possession is the same...except Lugh becomes the actual threat of the episode, with Mizar becoming simple bait. Hibiki manages to snap Io from her possession through The Power of Friendship.
• Dude Magnet: She's noted to be very popular with the boys at school and Daichi has a crush on her, too.
• Glass Cannon: She deals a good amount of damage, but her Vitality and Agility suffer.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: A side-effect from channeling Lugh.
• Heroic BSoD: Her late Fate event has her admit that she's been going through one for most of the game.
• Magic Knight: Her parameters favor Strength and Magic, but a minor emphasis on Magic.
• Order Versus Chaos: Neutral. She can join all other routes.
• Parental Abandonment: Both of her parents die during the course of the week. Averted, in the Restorer ending.
• Physical God: Upon channeling Lugh. In-battle, her race changes to Deity!
• Required Party Member: She's mandatory for Daichi's death video battle, the battle with Dubhe, Jungo's death video battle, and a battle on Day 4 where she and Daichi are attacked while distributing supplies to civilians.
• Shrinking Violet: Io prefers to keep her actual opinions to herself.
• Stealth-Based Mission:
  • In order to rescue Daichi, Io pays homage to Solid Snake's type of stealth, hiding in a cardboard box and sneaking around the rioters to reach Daichi.
  • The Triangulum Arc has her use "Operation: Cardboard Box" again. Doesn't work so well this time as she panics and barrels right into the JP's guard, clocking him out.
• Stepford Smiler: Io goes along with most people's opinions and never admits her own, out of fear of causing uncomfortable situations or confrontations with others. Airi calls her out on this as part of Io's Fate route.
• Trauma Conga Line:
  • Poor girl. Tuesday begins with her parents dying and Io only manages a few words with her mother, which starts Io's descent into a horrible depression. She tries to work herself out of it all on her own, only to learn that she is the only one that can channel Lugh's spirit. And she has a high chance of dying from that ritual. Which she will, if the player doesn't console her.
  • The Triangulum Arc averts this, though Io uses her experience with the pain of loss she had in the previous world to help a mother, whose husband and child died during the current invasion.
• Western Zodiac: Taurus.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue:
  • The Restorer ending shows Io openly admitting to wanting to hang out with Daichi and the protagonist.
  • The Record Breaker ending has Io prepare to head to the beach with Daichi and the protagonist.

Yamato Hotsuin

Yamato Hotsuin

Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe (Japanese); Megumi Ogata (Japanese); Kaiji Tang (Game), John Gremillion (Anime)

The current leader of the Japan Meteorological Agency - Geomagnetism Research Department, aka JP's, and latest heir of the Hotsuin family. Yamato had a strict upbringing and quickly learned to hold the responsibility of Japan on his shoulders, leaving him with little empathy or adequate social skills. He strongly believes in the idea that the strong shall lead and quickly dismisses those that he believes to be weak. He realizes the potential of the protagonist and other civilians, upon their defeat of Dubhe.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Yamato in the anime is much more antagonistic than he was in the game, to the point of being almost an entirely different character. In-game, Yamato was a bit of a jerk, but he still was fighting to save humanity from destruction and valued the help of the heroes even if he wasn't exactly good at showing it. He was a tough boss, but still a Benevolent Boss at the same time, and a lot of Hidden Depths that made it clear he was sympathetic. The anime removes most of his good traits, amplifying his Bad Boss traits to the point where he becomes a Hate Sink, and is fine throwing away lives for his goals. His goals are also much more selfish, lacking the Hidden Depths that made him understandable in-game.
• Ambiguously Gay: A case can be made for him in the game and it becomes a stronger one in the anime. It's turned up even more in the Triangulum arc, where he appears to be even more affectionate towards the protagonist. Several characters even comment on it!
• Ambiguous Situation: His absence in the Triangulum Arc is the subject of much confusion. For a while, the party fears Yamato may have been Ret-Gone as a result of the regression as Miyako Hotsuin is the Chief of JP's and he seemingly does not exist in the new world. His presence in the dream where the party was killed by Arcturus also adds fuel to the fire, especially since the protagonist is mysterious absent and was the only one to not have the dream. He's later revealed to be alive and well, hiding in the Astrolabe to ensure the protagonist's data isn't erased so he doesn't fade from existence. The party later has to rescue him when he's assaulted by Canopus' minions, though.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He proves why he is the boss of JP's in Daichi, Ronaldo, and the Anguished One's routes.
• Ax-Crazy: The anime portrays him like this, with the reason for many JP's members' deaths being seen as Yamato using the crisis as an excuse to kill off the 'trash'. He's clearly unapologetic about those deaths, to the point of seeming proud of them.
• Bad Boss: On the one hand, he will not punish or demote subordinates that fail him because he believes that's the best they can do, so the punishment would be futile. If one of his subordinates dies in his service, he doesn't give their deaths a second thought for that exact reason.
• Benevolent Boss: On the other hand, if he finds a subordinate that proves to have the innate skill and the ability and desire to improve themselves, he goes an extra mile for them. Any less competent employee will be assigned to things that they won't fail and Fumi admits that he basically handed the research department a blank check.
• Berserk Button: Choosing any route that isn't his. He pretty much throws a temper tantrum in Daichi's and the Anguished One's routes because he's convinced that they have poisoned the protagonist and taken one of his best men away.
• Big Bad Friend: In the anime. To the point that he is the main, and final, antagonist to be fought.
• Big "WHAT?!": in the Anguished One route, he said it. When the player trust Alcor even if he's a Septentrione.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Ronaldo comes face-to-face with Yamato, he asks who he is. Despite the fact that Ronaldo and his group of rioters have been causing a lot of trouble for JP's.
• Character Death:
  • In the Egalitarian route, Yamato gets crushed by the Tsuutenkaku.
  • In the Kingmaker route, Al Saiduq kills him in self-defense.
• Child Prodigy: He has been taking college-level classes since he was 5 years old.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: Yamato has been the leader of JP's since his childhood days and is one year younger than the protagonist.
• Comes Great Responsibility: In the anime, he believes in a rather twisted way that all power comes as a trial to those that are worthy of it.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Yamato becomes rather possessive of the protagonist as time goes by. Choosing a route other than his pushes him into yandere territory. In the anime, this aspect of him was turned up a notch for Hibiki.
• Crazy-Prepared
  • He comes across like this to most of the party because of all the fallback plans Yamato has in store to fend off his enemies. When they discuss this, Yamato points out that JP's is supposed to be able to fight off any supernatural forces that come to threaten Japan. There's also the fact that he knew what was going to happen soon because the Anguished One pretty much fed his family everything through technology and intel.
  • For his battle in Ronaldo's and Daichi's routes, Yamato purposefully chose to wait and fight the protagonist in a location that allowed him to infuse himself with the power of the Dragon Stream. In a similar vein for the Anguished One's route, he will create a barrier around the protagonist's party that saps their HP and MP, while also surrounding them with demons to defeat first.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: In the Egalitarian route. Yamato gets crushed under the Tsuutenkaku and first appears to simply be stuck. Upon a closer look, it's clear that his lower body half was severed from the top.
• Cute Little Fangs: His yelling/laughing sprite sports them.
• A Day in the Limelight: He's the focus of Cetus' Prequel, a novel set prior to the events of the anime.
• Decision Darts: In the Triangulum arc, Yamato spins a globe in his office and throws a dart at it to choose where his next trip will take him to.
• Defrosting Ice King: He starts off seeing the protagonist as merely another pawn in his big plans, but when the protagonist shows his worth and even goes beyond what Yamato was expecting, he begins to warm up to him. If the player chooses his route, Makoto points out that he has defrosted only to the protagonist.
• The Dreaded: Everyone is freaked out over the idea of battling him. Even Ronaldo, who is actually looking forward to fighting him, admits that it will be a very difficult one.
• Driven to Suicide: In the Anguished One's route, Yamato attacks him after being defeated, knowing he'll be killed.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: In the Egalitarian route. The Tsuutenkaku breaks apart and falls, after Yamato has used too much of the Dragon Stream's power.
• First-Name Basis: Eventually calls the protagonist by the first name. The anime does so from the beginning.
• Four-Star Badass: The SDF follows orders from JP's without a moment's hesitation, making it reasonable to assume that Yamato has authority over the SDF as well. There are also his own forces, be they mortal or demons.
• Friendless Background: The anime expands on Yamato's past and shows him as a young child, looking at families having fun at a festival and being reprimanded because he shouldn't concern himself with lowly, civilian things.
• Freudian Excuse: Yamato was born into a high-ranking family and his life was decided for him immediately. He lost his parents at a young age, though he likely doesn't care much about that, and was given high expectations. Forced to being part of the elite, he was never given the opportunity to socialize with anyone his own age and on equal standing, leaving him to be unable to understand or empathize with normal people. Finally, he is expected to lay his life down for the sake of Japan, despite the people he's supposed to protect being corrupt and cowardly. It's easy to understand why he wanted a Meritocracy.
• Glass Cannon: His parameter growth is very similar to Io and Makoto, with an equal but large emphasis on Strength and Magic. In exchange for dealing dirt, his Vitality is very low and his Agility is just as bad. However, he compensates by being the only character with a Fate-granted Physical resistance — equipping him with Anti-Most makes him resist everything non-Almighty and transforms him from this trope into a Mighty Glacier.
• Graceful Loser: In Daichi's route, upon being defeated. He not only concedes the right to create a new world to the protagonist, but he also makes peace with Ronaldo and can be persuaded to join alongside him.
• Guest-Star Party Member: If you fail to save Keita on Day 2, he joins the Osaka team to battle Megrez on Day 4 and undo the barrier on Day 6 and is temporarily playable.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: On Ronaldo's route, he is horizontally bisected by the collapsing Tsuutenkaku.
• Half-Truth: He promised to protect Kama. His memory, that is.
• Hero Antagonist: Yamato makes it clear early on that he believes in a Darwinist Meritocracy, but remains a good guy because he has the skill and resources to keep things going in complete chaos. He does make it clear that he plans to eventually cease this and focus on his desired world. Several of the party members don't agree with his goal, but are forced to work alongside him for mutual benefit.
• Irony
  • Yamato works for an officially recognized government organization, but wants to create a Darwinist world that has the strong win over the weak, a goal that tends to get associated with the Chaos option in other SMT games. Yet his stated intentions to follow JP's and its duty to ensure the survival of Japan is a Lawful goal. Noticeable in his battle on Ronaldo's and Daichi's routes, where his demons, Arioch and Remiel, are races that belong to the Lawful side.
  • He wants to create a world where a person's creed or age has no effect on what they can achieve and remove the tainting of positions of powers through family connections. Yet the only reason he had such a privileged upbringing and chance to prove himself is because of his family's standing and connection as founders of JP's.
  • His Meritocracy world brings the world back to the path of order that Polaris desires.
• It's All My Fault: In the anime, he admits to Hibiki that Makoto and the Anguished One were killed by him. Although Makoto willingly gave her life so that Yamato could defeat the Anguished One. And the Anguished One tried to take Yamato with him, making his own choice. He takes the blame for things that were out of his hand.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He does eventually evolve into this. Very slowly, though.
• Kick the Dog: When the protagonist asks him about Ronaldo's missing partner, Yamato outright brags about 'disposing' of him and saying that the fool should never have thought of challenging JP's. Turns out that the man in question is alive and merely faked his death, so Yamato is either bluffing to intimidate the protagonist or he doesn't know.
• Lack of Empathy: The party accuses him of having no emotions or compassion for the many civilians and subordinates of his that are dying and that his Meritocracy lacks the cooperation of people. But when the protagonist is talking to him one-on-one, it's clear that Yamato does have emotions, but isn't the best at expressing them well.
• Lamarck Was Right: The ability to control the Dragon Stream has been passed down the Hotsuin line for generations.
• The Lancer: In the Triangulum arc.
• Last of His Kind: Near the end of the anime with Hibiki, who lampshades it.
  Hibiki: The world is just you and me.
• Magic Knight: Like Io, Makoto, and Miyako, he favors Strength and Magic. He also has slightly more Vitality than Agility.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Towards Hibiki in the anime.
• No Social Skills: Lacks a sense of compassion because of his way of upbringing.
• Not So Stoic: In the anime, he's visibly shaken by Makoto's death.
• Only Friend: Yamato declares that the protagonist is the only one who comes close to what he might call a friend. He was also one to the Anguished One, but he'll vehemently deny it.
• Order Versus Chaos: Chaos, his own route. Can only be persuaded to join on the Neutral route.
• Paradox Person: During the Triangulum arc, collectively with Miyako. Miyako was created to fill the void left when Yamato remained behind in the Astrolabe. When he returns to the human world, their simultaneous existence creates a paradox that actually damages Canopus.
• Pragmatic Hero: Has no compunctions about leaving innocent civilians to rot in order to keep crucial supplies so that they can be used on people directly contributing to the fight against the Septentriones. This is a major source of his conflict with Ronaldo, who refuses to let the weak die under his watch and attacks JP's in order to take said supplies.
• Pre-Final Boss: In the Anguished One's route, he's the last obstacle standing in the party's way before the final showdown with Polaris.
• Reasonable Authority Figure
  • Yamato values his subordinates that are truly useful. If they are not as useful as he'd like them to be, he'll tolerate them as not being cut out for the current crisis and simply re-assigns them to things that he knows they'll be capable of doing, instead of punishing them.
  • His view of insubordination is also surprising. He never considers the protagonist to ever be out of line, unless the player chooses a different route than Yamato's, nor any of the JP's staff that may be rifling through files and finding information against him that could only be gotten through hacking or high-security clearance. He knows people will be curious and doesn't care about information leaks, as long as said leaks do not hinder their cause.
• Required Party Member: During the Triangulum arc, he is mandatory for the Arcturus fight and the mission to take control of the Dragon Stream.
• Ret-Gone: During the Triangulum arc, this seems to have occurred to him. Makoto and Miyako look for information, but nothing seems to indicate that 'Yamato Hotsuin' ever existed. Yamato was around during the initial regression, but was mortally wounded after the battle with Arcturus. Al Saiduq saved him and sent Yamato to the Astrolabe, so he could keep the protagonist's Akashic Record data safe for the next regression. With 'Yamato Hotsuin' missing from the regressed world, Canopus created Miyako to fulfill the role of 'head of the Hotsuin family'.
• Sadistic Choice: In the anime's 11th episode. Yamato could have everyone die, including himself, by keeping the barrier up. Or he could let the barrier go and have everyone fend for themselves. He chooses the latter to fight Benetnasch personally, which results in the deaths of Airi, Jungo, and Hinako. Hibiki calls him out on this.
• Scars Are Forever: In the anime. He gets a scar on his face, yet still has it after Hibiki regresses the world.
• Sealed Badass in a Can: He has several codes that would let him release those badasses.
• Sergeant Rock: Yamato is fully aware that some of his subordinates to not like him, but he still has their respect because he is not afraid to get his hands dirty.
• Sociopathic Hero:
  • Towards JP's. He has zero compassion for most of them, but is legitimately good at leading them.
  • It's played for tragedy in the game, too. Daichi keeps expressing shock at Yamato's sheltered life and how Daichi is glad to have had a 'normal life' instead. Yamato himself wonders what such a 'normal' life would be like, even accepting the protagonist's offer to teach him. Unfortunately, he learns this a little too late to have him change his plans for a Meritocracy.
• Social Darwinist: Yamato wants to create a world where the strong and skilled rise in rank and prosperity and those that are incompetent or weak are left to die.
• So Proud of You: The savvier the player chooses to react in the game, the more Yamato becomes impressed with the protagonist. Yamato even says that, if the protagonist were to usurp Yamato's position, he wouldn't mind.
• The Stoic: He's generally calm and serious throughout the crisis.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Eventually shows this side only to the protagonist.
• Super-Speed: His Agility growth is abysmal, but when he's fought as an enemy, he will channel the Dragon Stream and increase his speed tremendously.
• Surrounded by Idiots: If his subordinates aren't as efficient as he'd expect, he considers it to be this.
• Taking the Bullet: In the Egalitarian route, he uses his phone to blast the protagonist out of the way of the falling Tsuutenkaku.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Takoyaki, after the protagonist introduces him to it. His love for takoyaki is even lampshaded in the Triangulum arc.
• Tragic Monster: He's not evil or malicious by deliberate choice. The reason he is so stuck on a Meritocracy is because he was raised to become an excellent leader at the cost of a more balanced view of things and how capable humanity can be in general. Not to mention he was never taught anything about the concept of compassion, though the protagonist can help him with that.
• Vocal Dissonance: A youthful pretty boy with a deep, commanding voice.
• We Cannot Go On Without You: In the Triangulum arc, twice over.
  • When going up against Arcturus, Yamato's Dragon Stream is the only thing that is capable of dealing any kind of damage to it.
  • When taking control of the Dragon Stream, he's necessary to actually receive its power, and if he falls it's Game Over.
• Western Zodiac: Gemini.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue:
  • The Restorer ending shows Yamato as continuing to be the well-respected leader of JP's.
  • The Record Breaker ending has Yamato prepare for a trip to see the world.
• Worthy Opponent
  • Yamato claims that the protagonist would be one, if they ever were to fight on opposite sides.
  • Ronaldo considers him as one, but Yamato doesn't even acknowledge him.
• Yandere
  • Some of the dialogue he spews to the party before battling him on any route other than his own.
    "You are the ones that corrupted him! ...that ends here. I will slit your throats and see that he comes to his senses!"
  • In the anime, Yamato tells Io that he will not let Hibiki die on him because, in his own words, "Hibiki is mine". Except he had fully intended to kill Io in order to prevent Lugh from destroying everything, but as his obsession with Hibiki was made kicked up a notch, he stayed his hand a bit...
• Younger Than They Look: Yamato is 17 years old, only a year younger than the protagonist, but he is easily mistaken for being older because of his behavior and authority. Strangely enough, though, Daichi can tell right away that Yamato is younger.

Makoto Sako

Makoto Sako

Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese); Megan Hollingshead (Game); Amy Morris (Anime)

Makoto is a member of the JP's Tokyo branch and is considered the right hand of Yamato Hotsuin. She takes her duties very seriously and becomes focused on things, which had her come off as shady to the protagonist and his friends. She is highly loyal, if still stern, towards JP's and friends. Past her professional demeanor, Makoto has a softer side.

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• Action Girl: Her second appearance has her save the initial trio from Bai Suzhen, who was accidentally released, and insists on taking care of her personally.
• Accidental Pervert: Repeatedly walks in on the protagonist while he's implied to be naked or changing in the morning.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: Apparently Mako likes Chawanmushi that was made with "Ikayaki Kyoukan" (Sweet Squid-Jello).
• Butt-Monkey: The Triangulum Arc has her easily get flustered by the protagonist's or Otome's responses to her.
• Career-Ending Injury: Makoto used to be a synchronized swimmer and was training to make it to the Olympics until she got into a car accident. Her shoulder was badly injured and she had to give up her dream.
• Character Death
  • Makoto can die on the 6th day, shot by Ronaldo. Unlike other characters' death, hers is not only a matter of getting there in time or too late, but if the player chooses to side with Ronaldo during this event, they are also choosing for Makoto to die.
  • The anime has her sacrifice herself to keep Yamato safe.
• Foil: To Joe. Both are the trusted right-hand man of the leaders of the Meritocracy and Egalitarian routes, respectively, and work alongside the protagonist for the majority of the game. However, Makoto is the more stoic and serious of the two.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Fights alongside you as a playable character on Day 1 to save Daichi before properly joining your team later on.
• In Spite of a Nail: The Triangulum Arc has Makoto admit that she subconsciously chose a different path, and managed to avoid the accident that resulted in her having to give up her career as a swimmer. However, she still ended up joining JP's out of a desire to protect the people.
• I Owe You My Life: To JP's, stating that working for them gave her something to do after her injury forced her to give up on her dream. The anime alters this to be leaning more towards Yamato personally.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In the anime, she sacrifices herself to protect Yamato.
• Jeanne d'Archétype: She meets many of the common traits. Bonus points for her actually unlocking Joan of Arc as a fuseable demon for maxing out her Fate Level.
• Magic Knight: Like Io, she focuses on Strength and Magic, with a bigger emphasis on Strength.
• Mighty Glacier: Her high Strength and Magic parameters allow her to deal damage, and she retains surprisingly decent Vitality. Her Agility is abysmally low, though.
• My Master, Right or Wrong
  • She questions Yamato's motives and considers his way to be the wrong way to deal with situations, but remains loyal to him and JP's. Increasing her Fate Level does allow the protagonist to let her see that she can still remain loyal, while doing what she considers right in her own power.
  • The anime has her refuse to be swayed and remains loyal to Yamato, no matter what.
• Order Versus Chaos: Chaos-aligned. Can be persuaded to join all routes.
• Proper Tights With Skirt: Wears black tights under her miniskirt.
• Required Party Member: She's mandatory for the second battle of Day 4, which has her stuck in an underground tunnel with you, Otome, and a bunch of demons.
• Right-Hand Hottie: She is Yamato's second-in-command and Daichi believes her to fulfill this trope.
• Scars Are Forever: She has a massive scar on her shoulder from the car accident she was in.
• Taking the Bullet: In the anime, she takes an attack intended for Yamato.
• Team Mom: A stern version of this trope. She's pleased if the party members know how to take care of themselves and softens up if responsible actions are taken, but she doesn't hesitate to chew Daichi out for pulling off reckless stunts in the mere hope that it might work out.
• Tears of Joy: The Triangulum Arc has her shed a few when she meets the protagonist and regains her memories of the previous world's cycle.
• To Be Lawful or Good: Her Fate events revolve around Makoto feeling conflicted over following Yamato's strict regime when she wants to help people. The protagonist can help her decide that she can still be loyal to Yamato, while helping those she wants to.
• Western Zodiac: Scorpio.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue:
  • The Restorer ending shows Makoto helping a child up, and still working alongside Yamato.
  • The Record Breaker ending has her be a close friend and personal secretary to Yamato.

Otome Yanagiya

Otome Yanagiya

Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi (Japanese); Mela Lee (Game); Molly Searcy (Anime)

Otome is an expert doctor and works for the JP's Osaka branch. She's ready to do her job in the chaos, and her high spirits keep her happy, and others from losing hope. Otome is also a competent demon user. She has an adopted daughter named Koharu, a cousin that she took in, even though the added stress of her two jobs falls upon her shoulders.

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• Action Mom:
  • In the Septentrione Arc, she's the adoptive mother of Koharu and kicks ass.
  • In the Triangulum Arc, the restored world meant that Koharu's parents survived and Otome never adopted her. Otome admits how empty her life feels upon remembering what she had with her in the previous world. However, Koharu still calls her on Mother's Day.
• Admiring the Abomination: Considers Neko Shogun to be adorable.
• Character Death
  • If the player doesn't save her in time, Otome gets incinerated by Bifrons.
  • In the anime, Megrez vaporizes her off-screen.
• Combat Medic: A young doctor fighting demons. When she's fought as an enemy, she often has healing spells at her disposal and healing her party members is a priority.
• Dump Stat: Has only 10 Strength at Level 99, second-worst in the party.
• Fainting: The Triangulum Arc has her faint from anemia in her events because she's been overworking herself and not watching her health. The other party members work to take some of the load off her shoulders, so she can properly recuperate.
• Fatal Family Photo: In the anime, she dies one episode after showing one to Io.
• Foil: To Fumi. Both are doctors allied with JP's and have their odd little eccentricities, but they end up on opposite factions for the Meritocracy VS Egalitarian option. Otome is also a warmhearted and motherly medical doctor, compared to Fumi.
• The Gadfly: Loves to tease the hell out of Makoto when it comes to her relationship with the protagonist. And even he's not safe, if the player flirts with her.
• "Get Back Here!" Boss: When fought on the 7th Day, she spends the majority of her time running around the field and healing fellow combatants.
• Hospital Hottie: A physician at the JP's Osaka branch.
• Hot Witch: Her parameters are geared towards magic.
• Lethal Chef: Admits to knowing how to cut a person up with a scalpel, but not a fish.
• Lightning Bruiser: At Level 99, she has great Magic and Vitality, and acceptable Agility.
• Mighty Glacier: Develops very high Magic and Vitality, but her Strength is horrendous and her Agility sub-par, until very high levels. This does give her a good amount of survivability in battle and decent damage-output, once she actually gets her turn. As an enemy, she functions more as a Stone Wall because her team is difficult to damage significantly.
• Never Found the Body: In the anime.
• Order Versus Chaos: Law-aligned. Can be persuaded to join all routes.
• The Pollyanna: Not quite as good as Joe, but she's always upbeat in the face of difficulties. She does admit to the amount of stress being a doctor, a demon fighter, and a mother can be during a world-wide crisis.
• Required Party Member:
  • She's mandatory for the second battle of Day 4, which has her stuck in an underground tunnel with you, Makoto, and a bunch of demons.
  • She's mandatory for her death video battle, since you're trying to save her from her fated demise by incineration at Bifrons' hands.
• Shipper on Deck: Makes it a habit to playfully tease Makoto about her crush on the protagonist.
• Shout-Out: One of her Fate Events in the Septentrione Arc is called Trauma Center.
• The Tease: Loves teasing the protagonist, though she seems to mean it.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: In the anime, she is held captive by Ronaldo's insurgents to heal his allies. The only reason she fights alongside him is because of a common goal of defeating the Septentriones.
• Troll: She can be a better troll than Fumi.
• Western Zodiac: Virgo.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue:
  • The Restorer ending shows her and Koharu living peacefully.
  • The Record Breaker ending has Otome becoming a university professor alongside Fumi.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She chastises the protagonist mildly for peeping on the girls' health exam.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Claims to be good at running and sumo wrestling.

Fumi Kanno

Fumi Kanno

Voiced by: Rikako Yamaguchi (Japanese); Amanda Céline Miller (Game); Shelley Calene-Black (Anime)

Fumi works at JP's as its technical expert and head of the science department. She has an all-consuming interest in computers, electronics, and experiments, caring for little else. She has a very eccentric air around her and comes across as detached from most issues. Even her thinking and reasoning process is coldly analytical.

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• Badass Bookworm: Obsessed with computers and technology, and has the strongest Magic out of any party member.
• Badass Longcoat: Wears a JP's coat like a cape.
• Bizarre Taste in Food:
  • Apparently she like "Misovitan D", a drink that contains 1000 mg of miso. She does say that "it's theoretically best".
  • She likes the chawanmushi that Jungo makes from wheat grass coffee.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: First encountered in Osaka, when she is being controlled by Botis and hacking into the JP's servers. However, she doesn't raise a finger when attacked by the party.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Pretty nuts, but nonetheless the best computer whiz at JP's.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: In the peeping scene, it's directly acknowledged that "she wins".
  Hinako: Whoa... Y-You win.
  Fumi: Oh, these? My Eyes Are Up Here, girls.
• But Not Too Foreign: Exact dimensions are unclear, but she has some Chinese lineage.
• Character Death:
  • Averted in the game. She will definitely survive the game's events, since she's needed to force Trumpeter to help the party fight Benetnasch.
  • In the anime, she realizes that she cannot escape from Benetnasch after Trumpeter has been shot down, and accepts her imminent death.
    So, this is death?
• Coat Cape: More noticeable in the anime and her character art, with her in-battle sprite showing it flapping along her standard moving motion.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Smacks Trumpeter with several laptops because he refuses to help them in the battle against Benetnasch.
• Dump Stat: Has the worst Strength growth, capping out at 9 at Level 99.
• Fragile Speedster: Gets the highest Agility parameter in the early game, even next to Hinako, but unless she's equipped with skills to compensate her weaknesses, she can't take a hit.
• Foil: To Otome. Both are doctors at JP's and have their own ways of teasing the party, though Fumi's comes across as a little nastier. Fumi is also a doctor of science, more concerned with her machinery than humans.
• For Science!: It temps her to do research, even on her enemies. But she has no time for it.
• Geeky Turn-On: Gets really into discussing the intricacies of research and programs, complete with a happy blush and dazzled look.
• Girlish Pigtails: Has her hair in two, short pigtails that resemble a crab's pincers.
• Glass Cannon: Her Magic growth is amazing and maxes out sooner than anyone else's, but her Vitality is incredibly low until she reaches the higher levels.
• Hammerspace: Carries an unreasonable amount of laptops around. Somewhere on her person.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Somewhat sympathetic to Yamato's ideals and enough of a genius that isn't shy about disparaging those with a simpler mindset like Jungo or Daichi, but she does learn to show genuine concern for human safety in her experiments.
• Lady of Black Magic: Wears an elegant Qipao, has a cold attitude, and is the best magic-user at the party.
• Lightning Bruiser: At Level 99, her Magic output and Agility are amazing, and she finally gains enough Vitality to not be as quick to kill as before.
• Mad Scientist: The player can flat-out call her one.
  Fumi: That's redundant. You can't be a scientist unless you're a little bit mad.
• Mook Maker
  • When she's fought in her mind-controlled state, Fumi keeps summoning demons near her to keep the party occupied. The second time she's fought, she only does this if one of the party members gets very close to her.
  • Fought as an enemy on the 7th Day, she keeps herself in a corner and continuously summons demons to occupy and exhaust the party. However, she has a limit here and will run out of stock, leaving her with nothing but her own two demons.
• The Nicknamer: Calls Benetnasch simply Benny, or Bene-trash when taken into battle against it.
• Not What It Looks Like: In the Triangulum Arc, she wants to attach electrodes to the protagonist's chest to ascertain his physical state, and can proceed to sit on his lip and struggle to open his jacket. Daichi and Io walk in at that moment and freak out, with Fumi oblivious as to why.
• Order Versus Chaos: Chaos-sympathizer. Can be persuaded to join all routes.
• Playful Cat Smile: Wears one often, with a hand near her mouth as a bemused gesture.
• Plot Armor: Cannot be killed or receive a death clip during the Septentrione Arc.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: If she's not talking techno talk, she'll do this.
• Sexy Slit Dress: Her character art shows how far her Qipao's slits go.
• Sociopathic Hero: Has shades of this, but to a lesser extent than Keita or Yamato. Everything is done for the sake of science and she remains unfazed by things, even when everything is devolving into chaos around her. However, she is not malicious in her intent.
• Squishy Wizard: Amazing Magic growth and the first to max it out to 40, but she focuses on nothing else prior to that. Only then will she start to put points into Agility, leaving her with very little survivability.
• Techno Babble: Loves to talk very technically about computers, which many people cannot follow her, and she admits to finding it very boring to use extremely simple explanations.
• Terse Talker: Her e-mails are straight to the point and full of short sentences.
• Time-Limit Boss: When battled on Ronaldo's route, she'll try to hack the party's phones and the player receives a Game Over should she succeed.
• Troll: Does this to others when she needs a guinea pig.
• Western Zodiac: Cancer.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue:
  • The Restorer ending shows Fumi doing her research on her giant computer in nature.
  • The Record Breaker ending has Fumi work as a university professor alongside Otome.

Airi Ban

Voiced by: Kana Asumi (Japanese), Cassandra Lee Morris (Game), Cynthia Martinez (Anime)

Airi is a first-year highschool student in Nagoya and joined the JP's branch to fight demons. She's quite fiery and comes across as harsh, but she does care for others. Airi is very skilled at playing the piano, but had to give up her dream of becoming a professional pianist due to her family's financial state.

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• A-Cup Angst: Actually sports a B-Cup, but she clearly has a complex because she's a lot smaller compared to the other female party members.
  Mine... are... not... tiny!
• Badass Adorable: The shortest partymember and still capable of taking down demons.
• Berserk Button
  • Treating her like a child, as she's the youngest and shortest of the group.
  • In the anime, Megrez hit one of hers and she attacked him so hard with her demons that she immediately exposed his core and made it easier to defeat it.
• Can't Stand Them, Can't Live Without Them: Cares for her companions on an emotional level, but she doesn't like to admit it because of previous bullying experience.
• Character Death
  • Averted in the game. She never receives a death clip in the Septentrione Arc.
  • In the anime, she dies alongside Jungo because of exploding Megrez buds summoned by Benetnasch.
• Catchphrase: "Stupid Hina!" and "Stupid Jungo!" are frequently uttered by her.
• Cute Little Fangs: Sports them in her angry portrait.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Her father left her family and eventually was reported to have died. Her father is Dera-Deka, a police officer that chose to fake his death when he investigated JP's to keep his family safe. The player can interact with Dera-Deka in optional scenes, with his little side-story ending in his death. He requests that the Protagonist not tell Airi about his 'second' death.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: After preventing Kama from escaping, Airi unleashes her fury on him for citing her belly button to be the sexiest part of her.
• Disappeared Dad: Her father left her family years ago.
• Fiery Redhead: Quick to anger and punches people, especially Jungo.
• Foil: To Keita. Both are the younger and feistier partymembers of the Osaka and Nagoya branch, respectively. But while Keita boasts about his strength and looks down on the weak, Airi believes that having strength means to have a duty to protect the weak.
• Friendless Background: Hinako picks up fast that Airi apparently has no friends at her school. Part of this could be due to her resentment of having to attend a regular highschool instead of a specialized music school and looking down at her schoolmates for not being on her same musical level.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: One of her later Fate events has her receive one from Makoto, as Airi wanted to stay behind to protect a concert hall from an approaching crowd of demons. Makoto snaps at her, shaking Airi out of her stubborn stance and get her to agree to leave the area.
• Headbutting Heroes: Her relationship with Hinako. Even in the Triangulum Arc, when the two perform as an idol-duo. Though both admit that this means they are completely honest with each other, and that usually leads to the best results.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Becomes this with Hinako in the Triangulum Arc, where they make up the idol-duo AiHina Stars.
• I Coulda Been a Contender!: Used to play the piano and took part in national competitions, but she had to quit lessons and the chance of attending a music school due to her family no longer being able to afford such an expensive career path.
• Jack of All Stats: Her parameters remain balanced, though she favores Magic and Agility a bit more.
• Noodle Incident: The Triangulum Arc has Hinako mention incidents involing a stalker-like fan of Airi's and a scarf-hanging. Airi practically senses Hinako talking about either story and immediately rushes in to stop her from finishing the stories.
• Older Than They Look: Downplayed. She doesn't look that much younger than she actually is, but does get mistaken for a middleschool student because of her short height.
• Order Versus Chaos: Law-aligned. Can be persuaded to join all routes.
• Plot Armor: One of four characters that cannot die in the Septentrione Arc.
• Plucky Girl: Doesn't remain sad or down-trodden for long.
• The Rival: Has this relationship with Hinako, insisting that she has twice as much sex-appeal as Hinako.
• Token Mini-Moe: The shortest of the partymembers.
• Tsundere: Harsh type. She gets flustered around the Protagonist and denies showing her softer side to people, often resorting to punching people for thinking she has one. The Triangulum Arc increases this trait of hers, particularly when recalling her memories of the previous world's cycle.
• Western Zodiac: Capricorn.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
  • The Restorer ending has Airi playing the piano to accompany Hinako's dancing for an audience.
  • The Record Breaker ending has Airi still performing alongside Hinako as AiHina Stars.

Jungo Torii

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese), Todd Haberkorn (Game), Ty Mahany (Anime)

Jungo is a young chef living in Nagoya, with a rather simple-minded view of the world. He is loyal towards those he considers to be his friends and is ready to fight for their sake, but abhorrs unneeded violence.

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• Always Save the Girl
  • In the Triangulum Arc, Jungo mentions about the nightmares that he was rushing across the battlefield to protect Airi after Hinako's sacrifice, but failed to get to her in time.
  • The anime made it a habit for Jungo to save Airi over everyone else in the party, preventing her death multiple times. Even in his own dying moments, he tried to save Airi, but ultimately failed and they died together.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Gentle and laid-back as he is, when he's busy fighting demons or enraged, he curb-stomps opponents without flinching. His introductory scene and when defending his pet cat in his Fate events exemplify it best.
• Berserk Button: Endangering his pet cat. He beats down a gang of demons single-handedly when they mess with it.
• The Big Guy: One of the demon fusions he unlocks with his Fate event is an expy of Daimajin.
• Book Dumb: Not the sharpest knife in the kitchen, even choosing to name his pet cat 'Jungo' because it's the easiest name for him to remember.
• Character Death:
  • Jungo can die on the third day, beaten to death by the mob that are holding Daichi hostage.
  • In the anime, he dies while trying to protect Airi from exploding Megrez buds that Benetnasch summons.
• Chef of Iron: He's a professional chef and his parameters are geared towards Strength.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: After the Tokyo teammembers help Jungo fight off a few more rioters than he could take on, he gives a brief thanks and then heads off to do it again because there are people needing his help. Immediately after he leaves, they receive his Death Video, caused by this mindset.
• Crazy Cat Lady: A male varient of the trope. Rejecting his request to become friends on Saturday, he'll instead become friends with an unsettling number of animals.
• Dumb Is Good: Rather simple-minded, but he's one of the most honest, loyal, and compassionate members of JP's.
• Dumb Muscle: The strongest of the Nagoya partymembers, but unless it involves fighting for others or cooking, he's really slow.
• Dump Stat: Has the worst Magic growth, capping out at 9 at Level 99.
• Face of a Thug: More noticeable in the anime, where his face is set into a perpetually annoyed-looking frown, which makes him look rather intimidating when couples with his eye-covering hat and tall height.
• Foil: To Hinako. Both are the older and more laid-back members of the Nagoya and Osaka branch, respectively, and share a head-butting friendship with the other branch's younger partymember. But Hinako is more peppy and outspoken, whereas Jungo is quiet and soft-spoken.
• Funny Afro: Gains it twice during failed experiments in Fumi's Fate events.
• Friend to All Living Things: Has nothing bad to say about anyone or anything he meets, unless it's those that prove themselves to be needlessly violent, like the rioters or those that abuse the demon summoning app.
• Genius Ditz: The Triangulum Arc has him get a little more inserted into the plot, and his Fate events show how good of a chef he can be to the other partymembers.
• Gentle Giant: Despite being rather tall and looking intimidating, he loves to cook and take care of small animals, as well as protecting his friends.
• Glass Cannon: Remains this for a while because his growth remains solely on Strength until maxed out, and only then begins to pump points into his Vitality.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: The Triangulum Arc has him grow into this with Keita, with them appearing in almost every single Fate event of the other.
• Iron Butt Monkey: Gets treated as a simple lab rat by Fumi in her Fate events and often smacked around by Airi. He still remainds the friendliest of the characters.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover
  • His Fate events in the Septentrione Arc follow his efforts of saving and caring for an injured cat.
  • In the anime, his main demon is Neko Shogun, a cat demon, and his restaurant is shown to be full of stray cats.
• Lightning Bruiser: Ends up with great Strength and Vitality, and acceptable Agility.
• Magically Inept Fighter: His Magic growth is the worst out of the entire party, leaving him to be a rather one-trick pony in regards to what to use him for in battles.
• Mighty Glacier: Spends most of the game as one, once he gets past his early levels of focusing on nothing but Strength growth and begins to add points into Vitality.
• Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: Official artwork portrays him with his cooking knife at the ready, though he never actually uses it as a weapon, preferring to use his fists. The handle of the knife can be seen on his character portraits, though.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Admits that he and Keita are practically the same, except their upbringings were different. Jungo was looked after by his boss chef and friends, while Keita grew up rather alone.
• Order Versus Chaos: Neutral. Can join on all other routes.
• The Quiet One: Doesn't speak a lot and keeps to short sentences when he does.
• Running Gag: Offering Chawanmushi to everyone.
• Supreme Chef: Such an amazing cook, he can create delicious Chawanmushi out of any kind of ingredient, including Misovitan, a drink made with 1000 mg of Miso in it, Ikayaki Youkan (Sweet Squid-Jello), and wheatgrass coffee.
• Third-Person Person: Refers to himself this way in the Japanese version.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Chawanmushi. The Triangulum Arc has him reveal that it was what his boss gave to him when he visited the orphanage that Jungo lived in.
• Western Zodiac: Libra.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
  • The Restorer ending has Jungo open a successful restaurant, with a little help of Keita promoting it in his boxing career.
  • The Record Breaker ending has him directing his own restaurant while helping promote Airi and Hina's latest concert.

Keita Wakui

Keita Wakui

Voiced by: Fuko Saito (Japanese), Brian Beacock (game), Connor Leach (anime) (English)

A high school boxer from the city of Osaka. He prefers to work alone and is rather dismissive of other people. Despite his cold rejection of others, he is all-too-eager to be a demon tamer, and often runs into situations without thinking.

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• Blood Knight: He joined JP's in order to get stronger and absolutely loves battle. Naturally, he gravitates towards Yamato's social darwinist world in the Septentrione arc and Ronaldo's idea to fight the Administrators in a Forever War in the Triangulum arc.
• Bratty Half-Pint
• Bully Hunter: In the Triangulum arc as part of his Character Development. The only thing he seems to hate as much as bullies are people who are too scared to stand up to them.
• Can't Stand Them, Can't Live Without Them: Unlike Airi's, Keita seriously portrays this trope better.
• Character Death:
  • If you don't save him in time, he gets fatally pushed down a flight of stairs by a Waira.
  • In the anime, he pushes Hibiki out of the way of Botis' Ziodyne and gets pushed down the flight of stairs.
• Comically Missing the Point: Fumi compares his brain to that of a dinosaur. He says he thinks dinosaurs are awesome.
• Curtains Match the Windows
• Death by Falling Over: When the Waira he doesn't notice pushes him down the stairs.
• Defrosting Ice King: His Fate route is all about him realizing The Power of Friendship.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: In the anime, Keita dies in the very episode he is introduced in.
• Dump Stat: He has a paltry 10 Magic at level 99, second-worst in the party (beating only Jungo).
• Embarrassing Nickname: Gets called the Tsundere boxer in Record Breaker. Despite his initial dislike of it, he eventually warms up and even likes the name.
• Face of a Thug: With a matching attitude.
• Foil: To Airi. Both are the younger, rowdier members of their respective branches of JPs who form a Vitriolic Best Buds duo with their partner, but while Airi believes it is the duty of the strong to protect the weak, Keita believes that strength is the only quality that validates a person and has little interest in helping those he sees as weak as a result.
• Friendless Background: Because having a friend will drag him down, according to him. Getting him out of this is your job.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: He's a member of his school's boxing team.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Grows to become this with Jungo by the Triangulum Arc, to the point where they appear in almost all of each other's fate events.
• Hidden Depths: When performing his mind-focusing training, he reveals himself to be surprisingly eloquent and excellent at reading people. The player can have him give a detailed, accurate and very flattering description of his various teammates when this happens.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: His raison d'etre.
• I Was Just Passing Through: When he shows up out of nowhere to kill a demon that was about to attack Jungo, this is his excuse. Hinako doesn't buy it for a second.
• Jerkass: He's abrasive, confrontational, and constantly threatens to kill anyone who tries to get close to him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is noticeably much friendlier in the Triangulum Arc; while he can still be a bit sharp-tongued, he doesn't push people away as he does in the Septentrione Arc.
• Lightning Bruiser: His stats are geared towards Strength, while also having high Agility and above-average Vitality. His major weakness however is that he doesn't invest in Magic.
• Might Makes Right: His basic life philosophy. It need not be strong in combat, either; those strong-willed enough to stand up to bullies also earn his respect. He is also easily persuaded to join the protagonist's cause after being bested in combat.
• Order Versus Chaos: Chaos-aligned. Can be persuaded to join Law, Neutral, or the Anguished One.
• Parental Abandonment:
  • It's implied that his parents were killed by yakuza loan sharks. He doesn't mind though, since living alone provided an opportunity to toughen up.
  • It's revealed that the woman that repeatedly shows up during his events was a friend of his father. She lets him know that he actually died in the earthquake at the start of the game to save her life.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's the shortest of the male cast and looks like a kid with those scrawny legs in those shorts, but he packs one heck of a punch.
• Sacrificial Lamb: He is the first character to have a death clip and not be protected by Plot Armor. If you spend too long dicking around in Osaka, scraping his bleeding corpse off of Umeda Bickman's stairs will make you think twice about prioritizing anything above death clips.
• Saying Too Much: In his Triangulum Fate events Keita says his inner thoughts while focusing his mind solely on dripping water.
• Social Darwinist: Thinks the weak should die and the strong should rule, so obviously he joins Yamato's team. If you don't, he'll fight you, and then switch teams after you win on the logic that if you're that strong you must have the right idea.
• Sociopathic Hero: He's on the side of the heroes, but he only really cares about increasing his own personal power.
• The Unsmile: If he does smile, it borders on Psychotic Smirk.
• Unusual Eyebrows: i.e. None, which gives him a more brutal look.
• Taking the Bullet: In the anime, Keita is thrown down the stairs by the force of Botis's Ziodyne when he tries to save Hibiki. Instead of a long fall, he gets electrocuted to death by the blast, which is arguably worse.
• Training from Hell: In the Triangulum arc, Ronaldo tries hard to reform Keita through really taxing exercise routines after finding out about his rebellious (if not actual benevolent) side as the "Lone Wolf of Minami". Sadly for the detective, Keita has already done those on a daily basis.
• Tsundere:
  • Will always show his extreme harsh nature but never a "soft" side. And no, he did NOT discover a new boxing technique because of Jungo helping him out in a fight against demons. You got a problem with that?
  • Much more prominent in the Triangulum Arc; when he threatens to 'crush' the Player Character at one point, Jungo cheerfully points out Keita has over 40 variations of the term, each with a different meaning. Keita threatens to crush Jungo, who declares it to be the 'sheepish' variation.
  • With a rework of the script in Record Breaker, the protagonist can even call him a "tsundere boxer" through a dialogue choice. This nickname proceeds to resurface at various parts of the story.
• Western Zodiac: Sagittarius.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue:
  • In the Septentrione Arc's Golden Ending, Keita manages to become a professional boxer.
  • In the Triangulum Arc's Golden Ending, Keita still manages to become a professional boxer and is seen celebrating it in a parade.

Hinako Kujou

Hinako Kujou

Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (Japanese), Wendee Lee (game), Joanne Bonasso (anime) (English)

A young woman from Osaka who is studying various types of dancing styles from all over the world. She has a very upfront personality and will always come to the aid of those who are suffering or in danger, regardless of the danger posed to herself.

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• Action Girl: Like the rest of the cast and of the Osaka Team.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: The white part of her outfit is simply white in the anime, as opposed to having blue floral accents like in the game.
• Attention Whore: Minor example. She wears that outfit because she really likes getting attention from the guys, even though the weather's too cold for it. She won't change clothes, because otherwise, she'd just be "another boring girl with glasses." If you peek in on the girls' physical, she's quite proud of her bust size and will later fish for compliments from the MC.
• The Big Guy: She is noticeably taller than most of the other characters, and this is her combat role in a nutshell.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: Apparently she likes "Ikayaki Youkan". Sweet Squid-Jello.
• Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: The protagonist can play the boke in all the conversations in her Fate route, and she's perfectly happy to play along with the joke before delivering the tsukkomi.
• Character Death: Hinako averts this. She will absolutely join Daichi's route by default. In the anime, She nearly dies but shows up with a bandaged head at the end of Episode 7, much to Hibiki's relief, then she dies in Episode 11 after falling down within a large herd of Dubhes.
• Cool Big Sis: Assumes this role not long after joining.
• Curtains Match the Windows
• Dance Battler: She actually is a dancer, and she fights demons.
• Exposed to the Elements:
  • Averted and deconstructed. She is cold in that, but she'd rather wear it anyway.
  • Hilariously lampshaded if you take Team Osaka to Mount Fuji, where it's well below freezing.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father: In the Triangulum Arc, she reveals that her traditional dancing is the only dancing her family supported until she became an idol and started doing a wide variety. Unlike Airi's situation, it seems Hinako's parents never accepted it.
• Foil: To Jungo. Both are the older and more laid back members of their respective branches of JPs who form a Vitriolic Best Buds duo with their partner, but while Jungo is quiet and soft-spoken, Hinako is peppy and fast-talking.
• Fragile Speedster: Her stats focus on Strength and Agility to a greater extent than Keita, at the expense of her Vitality. She does end up slightly faster and with higher Magic than him, however.
• Glass Cannon: Her Strength and Agility ultimately end up maxed out, but her Magic and Vitality are a bit below average.
• Guile Hero: She grew up learning the art of haggling, and you can even compliment her for this.
• Headbutting Heroes: Has this with Airi.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Grows to become this with Airi in the Triangulum Arc, to the point where they appear in almost all of each other's fate events.
• Hidden Depths: She deduces the Septentriones are named after stars and their number based on a handful of facts, revealing knowledge of astronomy in the process.
• Hot-Blooded: She calls herself "spirited", which is putting it lightly. Hinako is all about passion, whether it comes to fighting demons or shouting at street vendors for overcharging people.
• The Idiot from Osaka: While Joe fits the general goofball Kansai stereotype better than her, she fits more into the fiery, argumentative, haggling Osaka stereotype.
• Idiot Hero: She has the reckless tendencies of one, but that's about it.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Subverted: She gets the attention she enjoys as a talented dancer, the "special" she desires to be is someone that can actually help people during the crises occurring in Japan.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes: There is no way that outfit is anything other than custom made, and it's a mystery how Hinako doesn't suffer a clothing malfunction. A clothing malfunction is not weird in this spin-off, funnily enough. Why, Hinako may as well be an Expy of Haru just because of this.
• Jumped at the Call: Given that you run into her on your first (full) in-game day, it couldn't have been long since she became a demon tamer. Nevertheless, she's already protecting people wherever she can, and she asks if she can join JP's the moment you meet her.
• Magikarp Power: Fairly bad in battle for most of the game, with an unfocused blend of strength and magic, poor vitality and an agility stat that seems much higher than needed, but when you crack Multi-Strike, an abusively powerful move that hits all enemies multiple times based on agility (up to seven hits each), you'll find Hinako's stats are PERFECT for using this skill at devastating power, her ridiculous Agility resulting in her going first and wiping out many mobs before they can act, her magic JUST enough not to be crippled by magic hits and to spam Diarama so she can keep doing this, and Vit being a dump stat she no longer needs..... She'll go from being lackluster to be by far your best damage dealer.
• Order Versus Chaos: Neutrality aligned. Can be persuaded to join Law, Chaos, or the Anguished One.
• Plot Armor: One of only four characters besides the player who cannot be killed off under any circumstances.
• Plucky Girl: She develops a subtler side of this at the end of her Fate Route. When she visited her parents, she found them staring dejectedly at the rubble of their former home and dance school, but Hinako snaps them out of it because things could have gone much worse. This gets changed in the Updated Re-release by simply having Hinako stare at the rubble of her house.
• Redemption Promotion: As a playable character, her Strength and Agility make her the best abuser of Multi-Strike and one of the best physical tamers in the game. As a boss on Day 7, she has an awful magic-focused skillset that takes advantage of none of this.
• Required Party Member: Her deployment is mandatory for Keita's death video battle.
• Shipper on Deck: Towards the end of Io's event chain she and Airi try to get Io and the Protagonist alone together.
• Stripperiffic: Lampshaded a few times. She mentions on Thursday that she's freezing (as the game takes place in late autumn/early winter), and Airi even goes so far as to call her a slut at one point.
• Take Up My Sword: In the anime, she takes the dead Keita's Berserker into her arsenal of demons, making it her powerhouse.
• Taking the Bullet:
  • She defends Hibiki from a Merak Missile in the anime. Although she appears dead, it looks like she made it by the end of episode 4. Confirmed to have survived the fatal injuries by Episode 7.
  • In the Triangulum Arc, talking to Hinako and Ai about the shared nightmare reveals that Hinako took the first hit of Arcturus to keep Airi safe. Jumps into Senseless Sacrifice territory, as Airi died immediately after her.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Gives one to an SDF soldier who wouldn't leave his assigned post to help an obviously distressed civilian.
  • She's also the team member most likely to call out Yamato over his more dickish decisions.
  • She also won't hesitate to say that Yamato's meritocracy and Ronaldo's egalitarian societies are too extreme and that the conflict between the different factions is pointless.
• Western Zodiac: Pisces.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue:
  • In the Septentrione Arc's Golden Ending, Hinako keeps dancing to entertain people, with Airi giving her a hand by playing the piano.
  • In the Triangulum Arc's Golden Ending, she continues her dream of being an idol dancer with Airi.

Yuzuru "Joe" Akie

Yuzuru "Joe" Akie

Voiced by: Mitsuaki Madono (Japanese), Yuri Lowenthal (game), Mark X. Laskowski (anime) (English)

A salaryman that the Protagonist and his friends run into shortly after witnessing Tokyo's devastation. Fond of teasing and corny wordplay, his personality is very laid back and good-natured. However, his cheery facade conceals secrets that he avoids talking about at all costs.

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• Beware the Silly Ones: Yes, he's a bit goofy, but he's actually quite good in a fight.
• Brought Down to Badass: Crossed with Badass in Distress when he loses the ability to summon demons one level when his cellphone battery dies and you have to rescue him. The reason he's still badass is the fact he still keeps his cool even while watching demons kill people left and right and, if he's attacked, he's still tough enough to take a lot more hits than the average civilian.
• Big Brother Mentor: Attempts to be, with amusing results.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Self-described.
• Camp Straight: A bit obsessed with his fashion and tends to flirt with Daichi. But he has a girlfriend who he genuinely loves.
• Character Death: If you don't save him in time, he's turned to ash by a Pyro Jack while trying to lead away civilians before Ronaldo can help him. In the anime, Megrez buds manage to vaporize him off-screen.
• Covert Pervert: Spies on the (mostly high school-aged) girls' physical exam.
• Curtains Match the Windows
• Demoted to Extra: He's part of your main core of friends, and will be with you throughout nearly all of the game should he not die. In the anime, however, his role is heavily reduced to a minor character, and he's a lot less involved with the story and the main characters. Most of his character is reduced to being a laid back guy with a humorous attitude, a far cry from his in-game self.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": He really doesn't like his real name, greatly preferring to be called Joe.
• Fragile Speedster: For most of the game, he focuses on Agility as well as Magic about equally. Because of this, he'll almost always attack first in battle and deal high damage, but he normally doesn't have a good defense so he'll go down if he's not avoiding attacks or if he doesn't defeat his opponents beforehand.
• Foil: To Makoto. Both are adults who act as a loyal Number Two to the leaders of the two most prominent organizations during the lockdown and work alongside the main character for the majority of the game, but while Joe is childish, goofy and loves teasing people, Makoto is mature, serious and is easily teased.
• Glass Cannon: He ultimately ends up with great Magic and Agility and acceptable Strength, but below-average Vitality.
• Heartbroken Badass: He becomes this after his ill girlfriend dies in his Fate route, but he resolves himself to not be late for anything ever again.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Becomes this with Ronaldo, to the point of choosing to side with him over the people with who he had been working for almost the entirety of the story during the climax.
• Jumped at the Call: Averted at first, as he originally had no idea what he was doing, but after you clue him in on Demon Summoning 101 he takes to it like a fish to water.
• Malaproper: Tends to get words wrong or mispronounce them badly. Sometimes it's just rhyming slang, and one of the early dialog options with him has you point this out to Daichi and Io.
• Moment Killer: His sense of humor tends to do this.
• Never Found the Body: In the anime.
• The Nicknamer: Calls Ronaldo "Clicky" (which is corruption and Japanese homonym of Kuriki), much to the latter's annoyance. In Record Breaker he calls him "Ronnie" instead. He calls Jungo "Jumbo" a few times and the Anguished One is "Angy". He calls the protagonist "Bunny Boy" and Yamato "Yamschnauz".
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He prefers to act irresponsible, but he has moments of surprising insight.
• Order Versus Chaos: Law sympathizer. Can be persuaded to join Neutral, Chaos, or the Anguished One. In the anime, he's already aligned with Law because his girlfriend already died sometime before Day 3.
• The Peeping Tom: With Daichi.
  • Of the "socially invisible" variety. If you join Daichi in spying on the girls' physical, Joe speaks up at some point. He's been standing there in the open the whole time and doesn't bother lowering his voice, saying that at his age he's learned to "just fade into the shadows."
  • On the other hand, if you don't choose to spy on them, Daichi later accuses Joe of blowing it by knocking something over.
• The Pollyanna: Rarely ever loses his upbeat demeanor.
• Required Party Member: His deployment is mandatory for the Dubhe battle.
• Retirony: Lampshaded. He refuses to see his girlfriend one last time before the final battle of the Triangulum Arc for precisely this reason.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Wears an expensive, $5000 suit that he bought for work when the catastrophe hit.
• Shoddy Knockoff Product: Turns out his suit belongs to Armanyo, which is apparently not a Bland-Name Product, but this. He's not very happy to find out. He later purchases a few other poorly-named counterfeits, like a diamond ring from Chiffany's.
• Stealth Expert: Has moments of appearing to other people, when he's been there the whole time. Most noticeably if the player chooses to peep on the girls with Daichi and Joe. Joe is as good as in the plain sight of the girls, but nobody notices him.
• Stepford Smiler: He's almost always cheery, positive, and nonchalant, but just like the rest of the party, he is pretty shaken after finding out how bad the situation in Japan really is. It's also made clear that he has his regrets. He tries to stay positive, however, even if his heart is not fully in it:
  Joe: Hahaha! Even if we're faking it! Whatever it takes to cheer up!
• Western Zodiac: Aquarius.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue:
  • In the Septentrione Arc's Golden Ending, Joe is seen walking together with a woman, who is certainly his supposedly-dead girlfriend.
  • In the Triangulum Arc's Golden Ending, Joe and his girlfriend are seen getting married.

Ronaldo Kuriki

Ronaldo Kuriki

Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (Japanese), Cam Clarke (game), Jason Douglas (anime) (English)

A private detective who fights in the pursuit of justice. He views Yamato and JP's as evil and in the wake of Japan's devastation rallies activists against them in the city of Nagoya. His strong sense of justice often blinds him of what's more important, often driving him to commit immoral acts.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In his Fate events in the Triangulum Arc, Ronaldo worries that civilian casualties will climb too high and realizes the only way to prevent that is to enlist the help of JP's agents. The protagonist can later see him trying to persuade a JP's agent to help the civilians, even going so far as to bow his head to her. It works.
• Anti-Villain: See Just Like Robin Hood for what he's like at first. However, he slowly shifts to a more villainous role due to He Who Fights Monsters. If you max out his Fate route he shifts back to being a more honorable person, but it doesn't change his behavior in main plot scenes at all.
• Badass Longcoat: It's only drawn like a long coat in the above artwork; it's just a regular-length jacket otherwise.
• But Not Too Foreign: If the name is anything to go by, he's likely part Brazilian/Latino. An artbook mentions that his mother's side of the family lives in Brazil.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: He passes out from the liquor in one piece of chocolate.
• The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires: Implied to part Brazilian, yet he speaks Spanish during one occasion, when it should be Portuguese.
• Character Death: In Yamato's and Alcor's routes. In the anime, Megrez buds manage to vaporize him off-screen. This is even more anti-climatic than any other deaths since his was done sooner than expected during the fourth day no less...
• Demoted to Extra: The hit the hardest by this in the anime adaptation. In-game he is effectively the main human antagonist for the first 6 days, is one of the choices for Big Good status on day 7, and an important character throughout the game even if you side against him. In the anime, he is unceremoniously vaporized by Megrez on day 4, and has no lasting impact at all.
• Determinator: Unwilling to give up or compromise no matter how bad things look, to the degree that he'd rather kill himself through Suicide by Cop in Alcor's route than to admit defeat and join you.
• Driven to Suicide: In Alcor's route and Yamato's route.
• Dump Stat: He has only 10 Agility at level 99, far and away from the worst in the party.
• Enemy Mine: Not long after you first fight him, he's forced to team up with JP's to fight a mutual enemy.
• Friendly Enemy: Develops shades of this to the protagonist and Makoto, as he realizes that they're honorable people on the opposite side and questions them as to why that is. Once the protagonist encounters him outside of a battle, they decide they should pool their resources and perspectives to figure out what's really going on. This falters on Friday, and again on the Chaos and Kingmaker routes.
• Genius Bruiser: Despite being a private detective and a charismatic leader, in combat, he specializes in dealing with heavy physical attacks.
• Guest-Star Party Member: If you fail to save Jungo on Day 3, he joins the Nagoya team to battle Megrez on Day 4 and undo the barrier on day 6 and is temporarily playable.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Ronaldo's determination to bring down Yamato turns him away from his original ideals of helping the weak. This eventually culminates in an attempt to kill Makoto in order to damage JP's as much as possible. If you help him, he succeeds. If you refuse, he'll still allow you to join later on. If you reach the end of his Fate route, Ronaldo realizes what's he's been turning into and resolves to be a shield for the weak, not a sword that smites evil. After this, he is considerably more civil toward JP's, even rescuing some of their agents when they're cornered by demons. However, it is possible to see this "redemption" scene before he tries to kill Makoto...
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Becomes this with Joe over time, to the point of proudly (and loudly) declaring himself to be his wingman during the Triangulum Arc.
• Honor Before Reason: He admits this outright in a conversation with Makoto, saying that her reasons for supporting JP's policies of giving food to the people who can help Japan the most (i.e. JP's) are logically sound, but that doesn't make them right. He then goes on to make a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to her, calling her out on asking the population of Japan to sacrifice themselves for the greater good (meaning "sit there and starve while we fix things") while JP's never has to make the same kind of sacrifice.
• Hot-Blooded: It's not uncommon for him to let his emotions get the better of him at all times, especially during battle or when something important to him is discussed. He's a rare Law-oriented example for the series.
• Irony:
  • He's the leader of those who has rebelled against JP's and initiates many acts that could only be called terrorism against them. He also has no qualms hacking JP's servers, stealing their files, and supporting insurrections that keep them weak, divided, and otherwise hamstrung, despite the fact they are to some extent what has kept most of what's left of Japan from coming unglued, which is textbook behavior for a member of the Chaos faction. However, the end result of what he hopes to achieve would make everything he did up to that point beyond criminal in a world governed by Law.
  • A key part of Chaos is favoring emotions over logic. Ronaldo is driven by his compassion for the people, his hatred for JP's, and his desire for revenge. These emotions also drive him to defy the ruling authorities and follow his own feelings over his duties as a detective. It might be logical to just figure out a way to negotiate with Yamato and JP's, but his passion gets in the way and causes much of the friction between the public and JP's. (The other part of that is Yamato's less-than-stellar PR abilities.) With that in mind, it's easy to forget that he's on the side of Law.
• Just Like Robin Hood: When you first meet him, he's attacking JP's headquarters at Nagoya and stealing their supplies - but he's only doing it to feed the starving civilians. At first.
• Knight Templar: His Fate level increases if you show him how to temper these urges so he doesn't let Revenge Before Reason cloud his judgment.
• Large Ham: He really gets into it during battles.
• Locked Out of the Loop: He has no idea about the Septentriones or JP's' real goals until Phecda interrupts his preparations for round 2 against the party. Later, his investigations help the protagonist figure out critical information Yamato had been keeping quiet about. The anime pointedly averts the trope by making him a former member of JP's, and thus well aware of the Septentriones.
• Mighty Glacier: His stat growth focuses on balancing nearly equal amounts of Strength and Vitality, meaning that for most of the game he has the highest Vitality out of the entire cast (except a Vitality-centric MC) while also being able to dish out decent damage. However, he will end up as the one having the lowest Agility among the cast. (Again, barring an extremely slow MC.)
• Never Found the Body: In the anime.
• No Range Like Point-Blank Range: How he kills Makoto if you don't save her.
• One-Man Army: It is entirely possible for him to take down Phecda down by himself.
• Order Versus Chaos: Law aligned. Will never join Chaos or the Anguished One, but can be persuaded to join the Neutral faction.
• The Power of Friendship: A very big fan of it.
• Private Detective: He used to be a Police Detective, before leaving and becoming a private one.
• Rebel Leader: Against JP's.
• Revenge Before Reason: Besides hating JP's for not providing resources to the needy, Ronaldo wants to avenge his dead partner who happened to be alive behind the scenes all the time but then ended up dying a "second" time for real if you went ahead with his event. His Fate route deals with this.
• Say My Name: After Alcor dies in Ronaldo's route.
  Ronaldo: Alcor...! Aaaaalcoooooor...!
• Suicide by Cop: In the Anguished One's route, he tackles and pins Alcor down with his body. Alcor responds by frying him into nothing. In Yamato's route, he tries to shoot Yamato with a blast from his cellphone. Yamato dodges it and sends a retaliatory attack at him that knocks him off a bridge and into the water.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: In the anime, Ronaldo and his Demon Summoner allies all join forces with JP's by the end of Tuesday ahead of time, seeing as the Septentriones are a bigger threat. However, he states that the truce will drop after everything's over so he can deal with Yamato, whom he doesn't care in the slightest.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • He does not take it well if you side with Makoto on the Sixth Day.
  • He has an even worse breakdown upon being defeated in Yamato's route.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Yes, he steals from JP's and isn't above fighting them, but he's doing it to protect the weak and civilians. While he becomes much more extreme in his actions, as the days go on, he does mean well. Even his intent to kill Makoto was to make it easier to get an Egalitarian world together, for the sake of humanity.
• Western Zodiac: Aries.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue:
  • In the Septentrione Arc's Golden Ending, Ronaldo keeps actively working as a detective, pursuing criminals with the police.
  • In the Triangulum Arc's Golden Ending, he works as a security guard for Yamato, though they seem to be on good terms.
• X Must Not Win: He already hates Yamato intensely. When he learns of Yamato's plan to create a Meritocracy, this becomes Ronaldo's slogan for his Egalitarian world. He doesn't want Yamato to win in the race of getting to Polaris.

The Anguished One (Unmarked Spoilers for the Septentrione Arc)

The Anguished One/Al Saiduq/Alcor

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese), Jerry Jewell (game), Illich Guardiola (anime) (English)

A strange man who appears before the protagonist and his allies during Wednesday and the creator of Nicaea. He shares an unknown history with Yamato Hotsuin and can seemingly control demons without the use of a smartphone.

In truth, the Anguished One is Alcor, the Lifespan Star and companion star to Mizar and the eighth Septentrione who granted humanity fire and knowledge, thus sparking their initial growth and evolution. It was his interest in humanity that led to him splitting off from Polaris and the other Septentriones, having grown intrigued by mankind's yearning for freedom.

If the protagonist has reached Fate 4 with him, he can be persuaded to overthrow Polaris and create a new world free from the Administrator's control.

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• Abstract Apotheosis: In the Kingmaker Ending, he doesn't so much as create a new world as he does become its very foundation.
• Ambiguously Gay: Supplemental materials state that his ideal bride is "A Shining One." As it happens, the only people he applies that title to are male.
• Anti-Villain:
  • Despite constantly messing with the main characters and coming off as morally ambiguous on top of being a Septentrione, it turns out that he actually has good intentions. In every route other than his own you end up killing him, and right before he dies he helps you get to Polaris. On his route, after you defeat Polaris, he recreates the world and becomes the essence of the new world.
  • Part of his reason for antagonizing the party is not on purpose. As he is only attempting to get rid of Yamato who is not using the knowledge he gave him and his ancestors for the good of mankind but instead only using it to fulfill his desire for a Meritocracy. The other reason is to test their worthiness as one of the names he is known by is Al Saiduq.
• Apologizes a Lot: A minor example. His sentences aren't punctuated with apologies, but he's very apologetic whenever he fumbles in his attempts to socialize, as well as when he admits to being the cause of humanity's current predicament. He even apologizes if he falls in battle (as an ally).
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: He becomes the essence of the new world in his route.
• Badass Boast: He gives a pretty good one on Airi's Fate route, after wiping out a swarm of demons near the concert hall she always stares at.
  Anguished One: Demons are mere pebbles in my path. It is no challenge to kick them aside.
• Badass Finger Snap: How he takes out a Megrez bud in his debut scene.
• Badass in Distress:
  • In the second phase of the Final Boss of his route, he becomes immobilized and can't move until the third phase of the battle is reached.
  • In the Triangulum Arc, he's revealed to be held captive by Miyako after he refused to go along with her plans to install him as a permanent Administrator at the cost of hers and the party's lives.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Even though he's well-intentioned, he seems to genuinely not know why certain things he does upset or unnerves people.
• The Chessmaster: He created Nicaea Beta version in order to save people and give them the power not only to avert their own deaths but to defeat the other Septentriones. If you do his route he eventually recreates the world with himself as part of that new world.
• Combat Tentacles: This is how he uses his multiple tails in the anime. They're deadly enough to kill Cerberus in one split second.
• Composite Character: He has traits of Lucifer, Prometheus, and Igor. He bequeathed humanity's knowledge and fire, created a website and program that allows users to summon and fuse creatures from folklore and mythology, and in his route, aims to help the protagonist create a world free of a godly entity's control.
• Dimensional Traveler: This doesn't come into play for the most part in either the anime or the game, but he has the ability to travel between parallel worlds, and he left the current world for a new one by the end of the anime.
• Dragon with an Agenda: On the 8th Day, he's revealed to be a Septentrione, though he's long since split away from Polaris and genuinely wants humanity to survive Polaris' trial. He even undergoes Dragon Ascendant in the Kingmaker Ending after having usurped Polaris as Administrator.
• E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi: He taught the Hotsuin family summoning spells in the past in order to protect humanity. He also mentions that he gave man fire, language, and culture in ancient times.
• Expy: He's pretty much a straight-up Expy of Kaworu from Neon Genesis Evangelion who is the Fountain of Expies for the mysterious, protagonist-fascinated character. The AT-field looking pattern on his tunic makes the inspiration even more blatant. He has almost all of Kaworu's characteristics. White hair? Check. Ambiguously Gay for the protagonist? Check. Actually, isn't human, but is the last, the most powerful of the aliens that invaded Earth, but later interested in humanity and helps the protagonist fight against his own kin? Check.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: He works and converses with the party in his humanoid form, only changing to his true form when fighting them.
• Gravity Master: Displays this in the anime when dealing with Botis, who he easily tosses around and crushes into a ball.
• Humanoid Abomination: He's a Septentrione, though unlike his fellow invaders he's able to adopt a human form and only changes into it during his boss fight in all routes except his and when he attempts to kill Yamato in the anime.
• I Have Many Names: When he first introduces himself to the party, he goes by the title of the Anguished One. In his route and in the Triangulum Arc, he chooses to go by the name of Al Saiduq, called Saiduq for short by his friends. His true name is Alcor.
• It's All My Fault: Blames himself for what Polaris plans to do to humanity since he gave man culture, language, fire, etc. in ancient times. He also expresses a similar regret for the influence he had on Yamato, considering himself responsible for his current actions. This gets touched on in the anime.
• Kid with the Leash: He has to keep [his servant Bifrons under control as Bifrons really likes to kill humans for fun.
• Leitmotif: The Anguished One. Mysterious and serene, which is fitting for him. If you are observant, you may remember that the theme also played when you registered at Nicaea, hinting at their connection.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's a Jack of All Stats in most regards, but also boasts huge HP and MP pools as well as good resistances and is immune to the Curse element.
• Man Behind the Man:
  • He's the boss of Botis, Bifrons, and the Ticos. His role as Botis' boss and the man behind Fumi's brainwashing isn't spelled out unless you avoid killing Botis when freeing Fumi, though.
  • He's also the one who gave JP's and the Hotsuin family all the info and technology they needed to resist Polaris. His antagonism towards Yamato derives from Yamato using these gifts for rebelling against humanity's general benefit.
  • Lastly, he's this trope for the human race as a whole because he's the one who gave us civilization.
• Manipulative Bastard: A VERY odd example that, even if he IS manipulating everyone into doing what he wants, his machinations will benefit those he's manipulating with no overt positive effects granted himself, and if called on it, he's either very good at lying or truly didn't realize how underhanded yet positively benign his schemes were/are.
• Meaningful Name: He goes by the alias "Al Saiduq" in his own route. It's a variation on Al Sadak (which is his alias in the Japanese version), and not only is it another name for the star Alcor, but it means "The Test"; and he tests the human characters constantly.
• Mr. Exposition: He holds a great deal of information about the Septentriones and divulges this knowledge, or at least things relevant to the current crisis at hand, when the heroes come to him for information.
• My Greatest Failure: Feels like not having Yamato change his mind about his merit system is his fault because he felt like he could have saved Yamato from himself.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Played with. In all routes other than his, the Anguished One fulfills his role as the final Septentrione, but knows full well that the party can defeat him and is happy when they do so. Its subverted in his route, but only if the protagonist persuades him to overthrow Polaris since the thought of doing exactly that never occurred to him.
• Mystical White Hair: His hair lacks even the faint hue of Yamato's. It complements his mysterious if not otherworldly nature.
• No Social Skills: While he's a lot kinder than Yamato, he's not exactly human, so he may do things that seem odd or unnerving to the other characters; for instance, he doesn't seem to understand that humans aren't accustomed to someone suddenly appearing behind them. He's often apologetic, however, as when you call him out for eavesdropping on the conversation in one of Airi's Fate events.
  Anguished One: ...Was that rude? I'm sorry. I'm rather careless about human customs.
• Offscreen Teleportation: Happens a lot in the anime. Whenever the scene changes, he's usually a few meters from where we last saw him, and characters looking away for a split second is enough for him to disappear.
• One-Winged Angel: If you take too long to beat him he transforms into a new form that reflects magic, is resistant to Almighty, and is weak to Phys. Lest you believe this is an opportunity to gang on him with physical attacks, he also gains Chaos Stir, a passive ability that lets him counter every received attack with an identical one against the assailant that's twice as powerful as the one that was used on him. He will eventually return to his original form and summon more demons.
• Only Friend: In the anime, he considered Yamato to be this. Although you won't get him to admit it, Yamato felt the same, albeit to a lesser extent.
• Order Versus Chaos: His ending is Chaos of a different flavor from Yamato's, seeking to overthrow the existing system of the universe. His ending is directly analogous to the True Demon ending from Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne.
• Power Floats: Which is ridiculously lampshaded in the anime and something not mentioned in the game itself.
  (doing what apparently is "Moonwalker") Walking on the ground is harder than it looks.
• Power Glows: While flying, he is surrounded by a soft blue aura.
• The Power of Friendship: By progressing his Fate, the protagonist can befriend him and even persuade him to help humanity by overthrowing Polaris and creating a new world.
• Required Party Member: He's mandatory for the final battle of his route.
• The Reveal: His true identity is the eighth Septentrione, Alcor, the Sword of Polaris. Unlike the other invaders, he was able to empathize with others, came to like humans, and wants to change the world so that they will be free from control. If one sides with him, he goes by the alias of Al Saiduq. If one does not, he becomes the final test before facing Polaris.
• Sinister Geometry: His true form is a hypercube and multi-pointed star.
• Smart People Play Chess: He's shown playing chess in his preview for the animation.
• Status Effects: He inflicts the unique Ill-starred effect through his Ominous Star attack. Affected characters take 200 additional damage per hit, but the ailment is very short-lived and expires by that team's next turn.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: He's REALLY good at doing this, to the point that on his route, the Hero can get seriously unnerved and can actually break his usual stoic character to damn near beg him to quit surprising him like that. He also tends to vanish into thin air after talking with the protagonist before the split in routes.
• The Starscream: A more heroic example as his route is kicked off by the protagonist persuading him to overthrow Polaris.
• Stellar Name: His real name is Alcor, which is the companion star to the Big Dipper's Mizar.
• Supreme Chef: Zigzagged. In the anime, the Anguished One was able to cook some very impressive-looking food for Hibiki, Daichi, and Io and could make it taste good by manipulating its molecules.
• Taking You with Me: In the anime, he self-destructs after entrapping inside his body. Unfortunately for him, Yamato somehow survives.
• Tennis Boss: His second form is Nigh-Invulnerable even to Physical and Force attacks, his alleged weaknesses, due to his very high level and stats. The most effective means of doing damage to him is to trick him into using Chaos Stir to copy attacks that you can reflect back at him, doing much more damage to him than you can do with your own attacks.
• Time Abyss: Comes with having existed long before humanity came into being.
• Token Heroic Orc: He's the only Septentrione among his kind that can side with humanity.
• We Cannot Go On Without You: In the battle with Polaris on his route. Conversely made worse by the fact if the remaining humans all go down, it's also Game Over there as similar to Benetnasch's Pacify Human racial ability, Saiduq cannot hurt her and must rely on his demons to deal damage.
• Western Zodiac: He is Ophiuchus, the outsider amongst the Zodiac. His route also embodies rebirth due to Ophiuchus' connection with the serpent.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue:
  • In the Septentrione Arc's Kingmaker Ending, Saiduq creates a new world and becomes its foundation, existing only in a conceptual form while watching over humanity without influencing or interacting with them.
  • In the Triangulum Arc's Golden Ending, if his Fate level has been raised to 5, he is able to reincarnate in the new world as a Surfer Dude, of all things. This can end up being meaningful after defeating Canopus, who is associated with water.

Miyako Hotsuin (Unmarked Spoilers)

Miyako Hotsuin

Voiced by: Rie Tanaka (Japanese), Kira Buckland (English)

A new character added exclusively to Record Breaker.

The twin sister of Yamato, who takes her brother's place as the leader of JP's in the newly created world. She claims to have never heard Yamato's name before, and what her presence means for the new world remains to be seen...

Her true identity is eventually revealed to be Cor Caroli, a half-human/half-Triangulum construct created by Canopus, the entity that oversees existence itself as the head of the entire Administration system, in order to replace Yamato in the third world. However, despite her true nature she seeks to save humanity from the threat posed by the other Triangulum... even if it may involve sacrificing the lives of the other party members.

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• All for Nothing: The result of her plans is in the "bad ending" of the Triangulum Arc. She manages to convince the party to sacrifice themselves to make Al Saiduq a true Administrator, but he is eventually forced to step down to allow Er Rai to take up the Heavenly Throne...which then leads to the end of humanity.
• All There in the Manual: Prior to making her debut in the Updated Re-release, Miyako's only mention was a brief line in the artbook; otherwise as far as the original game and anime were concerned she never existed. This turns out to be a plot point.
• Ascended Extra: She was briefly mentioned in the vanilla game's art book, but otherwise had no bearing or presence in the game itself. At no point in the game did Yamato ever hint that he had a sibling. She makes her official debut in Record Breaker as the new chief of JP's and is one of the major characters.
• Back Up Twin: While they are not siblings in the truest sense as Miyako is more like his clone, Miyako was born into the Hotsuin Family to fill in the gap left behind by Yamato when he chose to stay behind in the Astrolabe. As such, she effectively takes his role as the leader of JP's in his absence since he was never technically born in the third world.
• Badass Adorable: She's in charge of JP's and is the head of the Hotsuin Family, so she's just as badass as Yamato and the rest of the party. The adorable part doesn't really become prominent until she joins your party and you see her interactions with the party during their Fate events.
• Barrier Warrior: She harnesses the Dragon Stream in a way that not even Yamato can, using it to imprison and weaken the power of the Triangulum. Her timely arrival is likely part of the reason the party wasn't wiped out by Arcturus whose fire attacks became even more powerful.
• Big Damn Heroes: She appears to restrain Arcturus and allow the party to escape when it looks like it's about to kill them all just like in the last world, and again when Yamato fails to harm it sufficiently with the Dragon Stream, whereupon she lends him her power to finish the job.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: Apparently Miyako likes Chawanmushi made from "Misovitan D".
• Brother–Sister Team: When Yamato reunites and Miyako makes amends with the team. The two even get to volley insults at each other. She's also capable of kicking just as must ass as he is.
• Cognizant Limbs: Cor Caroli is supported by her two huge arms, which fall apart and break when they're destroyed.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Like Yamato, she wears an almost entire black ensemble as the leader of JP's, though unlike Yamato's handling of the organization, she's much more forthcoming and cooperative, even if she adheres to the philosophy of sacrificing the few to save the many. She's also willing to sacrifice herself and the party, but only so Al Saiduq can become a proper Administrator.
• Didn't Think This Through: In theory, her plan to make Al Saiduq a proper Administrator is sound, and since he is genuinely benevolent towards humanity, he is the ideal being to put on the Heavenly Throne. What Miyako failed to take into account, as shown in the Non-Standard Game Over, is that Saiduq's tenure as Administrator isn't permanent and will eventually be forced to abdicate it in favor of Er Rai, who is implied to finish what Polaris and the Triangulum started.
• Foil: To Yamato Hotsuin and Al Saiduq.
  • Yamato was an inherent believer of meritocracy, believing that the corruption and idiocy of the masses were causing Japan to rot, thus aiming to recreate the world through Polaris by placing a value on power rather than social standing. He also cared very little about civilian casualties unless the ones involved were those he considered exceptional. Miyako, on the other hand, subscribes to the belief that in order to save as many people as possible, she has to sacrifice the few. Regarding their handling of JP's, Yamato centralized all their power and resources in Osaka so as to act as the main center of operations while Miyako unites all the branches rather than allocate valuable assets in one place.
  • Al Saiduq is a Septentrione who became distanced from Polaris after discovering humanity's seemingly endless potential and gave them the means to fight back against Polaris and her Swords through the demon summoning program. In both the Kingmaker ending from the original and in Record Breaker's opening, he manages to overthrow Polaris and replace her as the new Administrator. Miyako Hotsuin is a Triangulum-Human hybrid created to fill the void left behind by Yamato's absence and was otherwise unaware of her true nature until Al Saiduq sought her out. She wants Al Saiduq to stay on the Heavenly Throne as a proper Administrator, under the belief that defeating Canopus is impossible, but the party's insistence and influence give her the push needed to rebel against it properly.
• Glass Cannon: Has high Magic and Strength, but relatively lacking Vitality and Agility.
• Glitch Entity: In-Universe. She exists because Yamato was hidden from Canopus' view, which caused a glitch in reality that combined her with Cor Caroli. That shouldn't have happened and led to further universe-breaking glitches that prove key to the plot.
• Good Bad Bugs: An In-Universe example, even! She's what happens when the computer system that runs reality gets confused while creating a Triangulum and a substitute Yamato Hotsuin. Furthermore, once Yamato returns from the Astrolabe, she worries her own existence will start glitching things up. She's right, but fortunately, this turns out to be key to beating a bunch of Invincible Minor Minions and ultimately the Big Bad itself.
• Half-Identical Twins: Looks shockingly similar to Yamato, to the point that the protagonist can ask if she's just Yamato in drag repeatedly, only her hair is darker and with a more lavender tone to it. Her personality has some differences from Yamato as unlike him she values all human life equally, but is willing to make the necessary sacrifices to save the majority of humanity.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: She wields some kind of saber in addition to her whip, and often channels her magic through it.
• Human Aliens: She's a half-Triangulum entity known as Cor Caroli and a half-human.
• Humanoid Abomination: Unlike every other alien being, even Alcor, her Triangulum form still has many (albeit twisted) human features. It essentially looks like her human form is draped over and clinging to her Triangulum form.
• Humans Are Special: What makes her extremely different from Yamato is her adoration for humanity and her will to protect it, and she is totally willing to sacrifice the main party if it means many will survive. As she herself puts it, "to save the lives of the many, the few must be sacrificed."
• Humanity Ensues: In the Record Breaker ending, she got reincarnated as a human, specifically a schoolgirl.
• It Can Think: She could have easily become a fourth murderous member of the Triangulum had it not been for Yamato indirectly hiding in the Astrolabe and forcing Canopus to replace his empty spot by creating her. Her nurturing in the Hotsuin family was all she thought was her reality until Al Saiduq appeared to her and revealed her past. Despite these revelations, she nevertheless fights for humanity's survival.
• I Want Them Alive!: She wants both the party and the Triangulum alive, since she needs them for her plans. For the former, all of them possess the Administrative Authority needed for Alcor to properly ascend and assume control of the Heavenly Throne. The latter are intended to be used as Alcor's Swords following his ascension.
• Magic Knight: Her stat growths differ from Yamato's, as she puts more emphasis on Magic and balances Strength and Vitality.
• The Needs of the Many: Her guiding principle, although she can be as harsh as Yamato in putting it into practice.
• One-Winged Angel: After being defeated as a human, she assumes her monstrous Cor Caroli form.
• Paradox Person: Collectively with Yamato. Miyako was created to fill the void left when Yamato remained behind in the Astrolabe. When he returns to the human world, their simultaneous existence creates a paradox that actually damages Canopus.
• Rei Ayanami Expy: Following the game's concept that is heavily based on Evangelion and numerous Evangelion expies in the game, she's the expy of Rei. Let's see, short pale hair with unnatural hair color, pale skin, unnatural eye color, protagonist's love interest, initially looks cold then develops more emotion as the story progresses (she's not that emotionless to begin with, but still, she ticks that box), is actually the 4th Triangulum and half-human, later rebels against her creator and original kin, has a strong connection to the antagonist... Yep, definitely a Rei Expy.
• Retcon: Her existence was never hinted at in the original game, but the artbook mentions briefly that Yamato does have a sibling in the form of a twin sister. In Record Breaker, this isn't the case as Yamato was a single child and Miyako was created to fill the gap he left behind by Canopus while Yamato was in the Astrolabe.
• Sacrificial Lion: Her main method of saving people is sacrificing the few to save the many without their full consent. This ideology is what caused Al Saiduq to protest about her plan to sacrifice the main party (leading to his capture) to fix the world against the Triangulum threat.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: On the surface she's a lot more personable than Yamato was.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Putting aside her Half Identical Twin nature, her "angry/annoyed" character portrait depicts her with the same stance and expression that Yamato had for that same emotion.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Even though she believes that it's impossible to gain anything without sacrificing something else and is a Triangulum herself, her end goal is to protect mankind.
• Western Zodiac: Gemini, like her brother naturally.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: In the Golden Ending, if her Fate level has been raised to 5, she manages to reincarnate as a young schoolgirl the main trio bumps into and quickly reconnect as friends.
• Whip of Dominance: She always carries a whip under her cloak not only to illustrate her cold and domineering personality but also to her harsh and commanding behavior toward her subordinates in JP. She has a habit of snapping the whip at the people she gets mad at, especially Daichi.