Main Characters
Ryo Sugisawa
The player character, a normal student whose life is pretty much on track. Unfortunately, his life is completely turned upside-down when he lends his life force to Minamo.
- Body Surf: A major part of the second half of the story. It's Played for Laughs - at first.
- The Everyman: Your typical high school-aged Visual Novel protagonist who lives alone.
- Fatal Flaw: His Nice Guy tendencies. Literally in this case, as it causes him to lose his physical body, which will eventually kill him. He is also rather indecisive when it comes to choosing between Minamo and Mio, which can lead to the death of his physical body if he doesn't choose (or more accurately if you, the player, don't choose for him).
- Featureless Protagonist: Subverted, somewhat surprisingly for a Visual Novel made in the early 2000s - Ryo is fully animated with visible eyes.
- Heroic RRoD: His soul can eventually no longer take the constant jumping between his body and Satoru's and he is forced to choose one - or die.
- Nice Guy: How many other guys do you know would lend their life force to a girl they barely know? Not only that, when Miss Death gets fed up and forcibly starts to take his life force back from Minamo, he begs her to give Minamo more time despite the risk to himself.
- He also decides to possess Satoru's body to give Minamo some happiness before she dies for good, which accelerates his own physical body's death.
- Suddenly Voiced: In Izumi's ending; otherwise, he's a Heroic Mime.
- Take a Third Option: If you can't choose between Minamo and Mio, you can choose to let his physical body die so he can join Miss Death as a soul collector.
Minamo Kamina
- Voiced by: Eriko Kigawa (as Yumi Haruna)
A waitress at Blue Cosmos, Minamo is a silly and pure girl. Seeing Ryo and Mio together, Minamo wishes she had the courage to tell Satoru, the man she's in love with, about her feelings. With great regrets from her sudden death, Minamo became a ghost and proceeds to beg Ryo for help...
- The Ditz
- Fatal Flaw: Her indecisiveness. She doesn't gather up the courage to confess her feelings to Satoru until right before he dies.
- Idiot Hair: Befitting her status as The Ditz.
- It's All About Me: Sure Minamo, both you and Ryo are on borrowed time, and Ryo was even nice enough to lend his life force to you, but take your sweet time confessing to Satoru. She gets better in the second half, however.
- Knew It All Along: In most routes, she deduces early on that "Satoru" is not really Satoru; how she finds out depends on the route.
- Love Transcends Spacetime: Not even death can stop her from reincarnating into a different timeline to be with Ryo.
- Plot-Triggering Death: She dies not long after the beginning of the game, kickstarting the plot.
Mio Hiiragi
- Voiced by: Asuka Tanii (as Mai Akizuki)
A solemn and beautiful girl, Mio is Ryo's girlfriend. As the class president, she's earned the trust of her classmates, but she has a clumsy side to her personality as well (which she doesn't want others to find out). When Ryo's life force leaves his body, she finds him unconscious and is very worried. Mio excels at school (especially science and mathematics) and is a good cook. Her only weakness is sports.
- The Ace: Smart, beautiful, and the class president.
- Class Representative
- Fiery Redhead: She's normally kind and gentle, but can have a very bad temper, as shown during her initial breakup with Ryo and her outbursts against Narumi and "Satoru".
- First Girl Wins: If her route is chosen.
- Hidden Depths: A negative example - she's rather clumsy and unathletic, plus can have a Hair-Trigger Temper.
Miss Death
- Voiced by: Nao Takamori (as Yuka Takana)
A Soul Collector; an ethereal being who flies around collecting wandering souls, leading them to the land of light. She does her best to help Ryo even though he's not really dead. She's an attractive spirit whose body gets small when she loses energy.
- Deus Sex Machina: How she can recover her power when she gets low on it.
- Mentor Archetype: Acts as one to Ryo, especially if her ending is chosen.
- Shinigami: Her Japanese name is even "Shinigami-chan".
- Your Soul Is Mine!: A benign example; she collects people's souls after they die to lead them to the afterlife.
Mao Hiiragi
- Voiced by: Hikaru Watanabe
Mio's identical twin sister. Mao is just as pretty as Mio but is much more light-hearted. Unlike Mio, Mao is very sensitive and cries easily. Ryo treats her as if she was his sister, but it seems like there is something she is unhappy with...
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She wants both Ryo and her sister to be happy, so she keeps her feelings for Ryo secret.
- Love Confession: She confesses to Ryo when he's in Satoru's body, much to her embarrassment later.
- Sibling Rivalry: Unbeknownst to Mio, Mao is also in love with Ryo.
- The Unfavorite: How she feels compared to Mio, being not as accomplished in school or love. According to her, this lead her to try and differentiate herself from Mio by dressing differently, having different hobbies, and changing up her hairstyle.
- Unrequited Love
Narumi Fujisaki
- Voiced by: Kaoru Imai
Minamo's best friend and also a waitress at Blue Cosmos. She attends a different school than Ryo and Minamo. Ever since she was a child, she has had psychic powers that allow her to talk to ghosts.
- Expy: Of Whoopi Goldberg's character in Ghost (1990), right down to the "telling the girlfriend Something Only They Would Say."
- Idiot Hair
- It's the Journey That Counts: Ryo is initially annoyed with her tagging along with him on his solitary journey in her ending (as she wants to see tourist attractions and spends most of his money), but as he admits later, somewhere along the way he begins to enjoy it. She also grows to appreciate things like camping out, which she had hated doing.
- Psychic Link: Has one to Ryo. She loses it in her ending.
- Psychic Powers
- Unrequited Love: Mixed with I Want My Beloved to Be Happy; she fell in love with Ryo at some point but didn't want to break up Mio and Ryo.
Kokoro Imai
- Voiced by: Ema Kogure (as Runa Sakaki)
A childish girl who goes to the same school as Minamo, she has a bright and cheerful personality but is somewhat spoiled. Like Minamo, she's in love with Satoru and tries her best to win him over. As such, Kokoro and Minamo eventually become fierce love rivals. Her best friends are two hamsters which she sometimes throws at people (mostly at Minamo).
- Genki Girl
- Hopeless Suitor: To Satoru, who found her annoying even when he was alive.
- Love Triangle: With Satoru (or, more accurately, Ryo in Satoru's body).
- Plucky Comic Relief: Hers is one of the minor routes and thus she's mostly there to make the reader laugh.
- Third-Person Person
- Tsundere: Type A.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: While "best" might be pushing it, it's clear that she cared about Minamo in her own way and is heartbroken when Minamo dies for good.
- Voodoo Doll: She accidentally invokes this on the life-sized doll Minamo brought in to Satoru's hospital room.
Izumi Morishita
- Voiced by: Nana Ichii
A sad girl with special powers who often leaves her body and floats around in spirit form in an attempt to escape the pressures of the real world. She meets Ryo, who wishes he could do something to bring her happiness.
- Astral Projection: She is capable of doing this, which leads Ryo to think she's dead until Miss Death points out otherwise.
- Broken Bird: Izumi is a depressed young woman who cannot relate to anyone, and whose depression has driven everyone away from her (or her away from everyone).
- Curtains Match the Window: Her eyes are more of a shade of cyan, but are blue like her hair.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father is implied to have abandoned his family, mostly over his guilt in being unable to relate to her problems.
- Shrinking Violet: Complete with the Nerd Glasses.
- Unrequited Love: In her ending, she decides to confess to someone she's had her eye on until she finds out he has a girlfriend. She confesses anyway.
