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Original Game
Characters introduced in the original game, manga, and light novel.
Shiori Kanzaki
- All-Loving Hero: She's friendly, kind, and extremely selfless.
- Chekhov's Skill: In the remake, it is briefly mentioned that she was on the basketball team in her school. She uses her skills to throw a pager up a well so Mochizuki can see it and rescue her, and even attributes it to her prior playing.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Though never made explicit, Suga, whom she grew up with and made a promise with the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit to protect, is her Implied Love Interest. In the remake, the matchmaking farmer outright ponders employing his services to hook them up.
- Generation Xerox: Implied. Her parents were close friends as kids, and her Implied Love Interest is her own childhood friend Suga.
- Hearing Voices: She often hears whispers from the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit constantly reminding her of her promise.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In Ending 6 of the remake, she offers herself up as a sacrifice to the Forest God, letting herself be eaten in return for him sparing Miyako and stopping the Taking Spirit from threatening the outside world.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Shiori's family used the power of the nightstone on her to make her lose all her memories of the village. Used on her again by Suga in Ending Two.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Due to her Laser-Guided Amnesia, she has no idea about her past in Azakawa, something which Suga definitely remembers.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: When they were children growing up together in Azaka Village, Shiori was a tomboy, whereas Suga-kun was very sensitive.
- Older Than They Look: Shiori is a young adult but ingame she looks more like a highschool student. Her youthful look is amplified by her laid-back outfit and slighty naive behavior.
- Primary-Color Champion: A heroic young woman who wears a yellow shirt, blue shorts and red sneakers.
- The Promise: She made one with the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit to protect Suga from her.
- Spanner in the Works: Her coming to Azakawa is one for the government official, since her family used to own the manor and can override their wishes.
Koutaro Suga (spoilers)
The manager of the museum. He is mute, and can only communicate through memos.
- Barrier Maiden: In one ending, this becomes his fate. Since the spirits fear him, he must always remain in the museum, guarding the forest.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Though never made explicit, Suga, whom Shiori grew up with and made a promise with the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit to protect, is her Implied Love Interest. In the remake, the matchmaking farmer outright ponders employing his services to hook them up.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: After all the hell we went through just for being related to the Stone Guardian his curse is finally lifted and he regains his voice. Not just that, but Shiori is back in his life and his work as a stone mason is getting recognition around the village.
- Jerkass Façade: He is very rude, constantly requesting that Shiori leaves, only giving her unsatisfying answers and in general being unfriendly. Justified, she is in extreme danger, but he can't tell her about it, so he tries to bully her away from the village. This jerkass act starts breaking when Shiori helps him save the museum from demolition.
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: He hates having to avoid telling Shiori about her past, in part because it involves her forgetting about their childhood together.
- Lethal Chef: Shiori has the opinion that his cooking “tastes like ashes”.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: When they were children growing up together in Azaka Village, Shiori was a tomboy, whereas Suga was very sensitive.
- The Promise: He is indicated to have made one with the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit, although the details are not clear.
- Shoo the Dog: He tries to be mean to Shiori so that she will leave the village and not fall victim to the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit or remember the promise she made with her.
- The Silent Bob: Suga doesn't speak, using short notes and meaningful looks to get his point across.
- Sins of Our Fathers: The Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit's hatred for the first Ogami-san/Stone Guardian is so great, she cursed him and everyone in his bloodline to have short and miserable lives. And Suga just happens to be his last known descendant.
- The Speechless: Due to the promise he made with the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit, he lost the use of his vocal chords, and writes on his memos to communicate. He does manage to call Shiori “Shii-chan” in the Golden Ending, but goes back to his memos afterwards.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In the Bonus Scenario in the 2022 remake, even though he's regained his voice, he hasn't talked in 10 years and he's pretty shy himself, so he's more comfortable using memos.
- Visible Silence: Suga's text windows are completely empty, without even a single ellipsis. However, he does get speech bubbles with these.
- Walking Spoiler: The reveal that he is the scary man who chases after Shiori and Sakuma with a sword, and that he was the boy who played with Shiori in the past, make him this.
- You Shall Not Pass!: In certain endings, he will attempt to make a Last Stand against the spirits. Whether or not they survive this depends upon your choices and what you've collected.
Miyako Sakuma
A standoffish schoolgirl whom Shiori encounters in the museum. She's also the daughter of the Azakawa Village mayor. Despite this, she gets no respect from her peers or the adults, who look down on her. She in turn dislikes the village and wants nothing more than to see the big city.
- All of the Other Reindeer: The remake reveals that the reason she keeps skipping school is that the other kids and even one of her teachers bullies her, despite being the daughter of the village mayor.
- Ambiguously Gay: The 2022 remake implies she has a crush on Shiori. She's the only person she's nice to, blushes around her and even gives her a Declaration of Protection in Ending 6.
- Affectionate Nickname: Shiori calls her Sakuma-chan ("Miko" in the English translation).
- Ascended Extra: In the original game, her main role was to set off the plot by being the Damsel in Distress so that Shiori can search for her. She did have some character, but it was not fully elaborated on. The remake devotes much of the exploration of Azakawa Village to Shiori bonding with Miyako, and expands on her chronic truancy as her being bullied by the other villagers and finding comfort with the one person to show her kindness.
- Big Damn Heroes: In every ending except a few in the remake, she and Mochizuki open the well and rescue Shiori (and Suga, if he is with her) just when the Kyoto Obake/Taking Spirit and/or the Child spirits are after them.
- The Cynic: Has a negative view of the world, and she often says how unfair it is or how injustices are around every corner. This is also deconstructed in the 2022 remake, as this attitude has left her with very few friends.
- Damsel in Distress: She gets kidnapped by the Kotori Obake (original game)/God of the Forest (remake) after the museum segment, forcing Shiori and the others to go rescue her.
- Hearing Voices: She starts to hear the voices of the spirits halfway through, along with the voices of the night glowstones. The 2022 remake shows it's the God of the Forest's doing.
- Insufferable Genius: Deconstructed. Although Sakuma is indeed very smart for her age, her overall bitterness and cynicism give her a very poor social life and she didn't have any friends before Shiori came to the village.
- Unwitting Pawn: In the 2022 remake, she is manipulated by the God of the Forest into hearing voices so she'll enter the forest and abduct her.
- What Does She See in Him?: In the 2022 remake she says something along these lines to Shiori about her relationship with Suga.
Officer Yousuke Mochizuki
A local officer whom Shiori first encounters when going to the village.
- Big Damn Heroes: In every ending, he and Sakuma open the well and rescue Shiori (and Suga, if he is with her) just when the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit and/or the Child spirits are after them.
- The Ditz: Though he means well, he can be pretty scatterbrained and not good at his job. The remake shows him constantly being one step behind Miyako when she is skipping school, and pretty hapless at finding her.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He is a cop who tries his best to aid Shiori. When Sakuma goes missing, he tries his best to find her. In the remake, despite constantly tracking down Sakuma whenever she skips school, he also shows sympathy when she is being picked on by others and honestly wants to help her.
Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit (spoilers)
Tsuyu Kanzaki (Remake)
A vengeful ghost who haunts the forest in Azakawa Village. She makes promises with children who enter the forest, then absorbs them inside her when they fulfill their promise.
The 2022 remake reveals her name is Tsuyu Kanzaki, an ancestor of Shiori.
- The Assimilator: The 2022 remake shows this is what happens to the children she kidnaps, absorbing them inside her womb.
- Big Bad: Has been kidnapping and murdering children for a long time and she's also the reason for Shiori having Laser-Guided Amnesia and Suga's miserable life, and is the one who abducts Sakuma (at least in the original game).
- Big Bad Ensemble: In the remake, still has about the same role as in the original game, except here the God of the Forest is the one who turned her into an evil spirit and kidnapped Sakuma as part of his plan to overthrow her and force Azakawa Village back under his oppressive rule.
- Deal with the Devil: She makes “promises” with children who wander into her forest, and her promises always end with the children being killed and transformed into her minions.
- Jerkass to One: Sweet-talks children into entering the forest, but is particularly callous towards Suga, calling him names and saying he deserves to suffer. Justified, as he's the descendant of the first Ogami/san/Stone Guardian who is the reason she became the way she is.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: The 2022 remake reveals this is what happens to her when Suga and Shiori use the glowstone. She forgets about her grudge and ascends to the afterlife. Unfortunately she also forgets about her child as well.
- Love Redeems: A familial version, since her love for her son helps her pull a Heel–Face Turn.
- Named by the Adaptation: Her real name was never given in the original, but the remake gives her the name Tsuyu Kanzaki- connecting her to Shiori Kanzaki as her ancestor.
- Not Me This Time: In the 2020 remake, she wasn't the one behind Sakuma's disappearance. Sakuma faked her kidnapping to get the villagers to stop attacking Shiori and then got captured for real by the God of the Forest.
- Revenge by Proxy: Wants to make Suga suffer just because he's the descendant of the man who ruined her life.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: As a ghost, she has the appearance of one, kills anyone who enters her forest, and was the victim of a man (the first Ogami-san/Stone Guardian) who killed her family and turned her into a Sex Slave.
- The Promise: She makes these with the children who enter her forest, although in context it is more of a Deal with the Devil. She often speaks to the children to remind them to fulfill the promise.
- The Power of Hate: The White Child claims that the Taking Spirit is only kept going by her hatred of the Stone Guardian for his perceived betrayal.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Before she died she had black hair, pale skin, and was considered beautiful.
- Revenge Before Reason: Wants to torture the Stone Guardian (and later his descendants) as revenge for allegedly betraying and killing her baby. Even after she finds out that the God of the Forest set them up, she openly states that she doesn't care because it doesn't change the fact that she died.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Her immediate priority after becoming a vengeful ghost (when she's not kidnapping children) is to get revenge on the Stone Guardian for his perceived betrayal. After he dies, she continues to torture his descendants.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Upon her becoming a vengeful ghost, she's considerably darker and more violent than she was when she was alive. Considering the tragic circumstances behind her death, however, this is understandable.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In the remake, she asks the Stone Guardian- her brother- to kill a snake because it frightened her. Said snake happened to be a god, which proceeds to curse them both and ruin their lives.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: Is completely obsessed with avenging her family and her cruel fate even though the man behind it is long gone. In the 2022 remake the White Child says that no matter how much she tortures the Stone Guardian's descendants and absorbs children, she'll never be satisfied.
- Walking Spoiler: Her backstory and true nature as a Tragic Monster are not revealed until the last part of the game.
- We Used to Be Friends: In the remake, she was friends with the Stone Guardian before the God of the Forest cursed them both.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Back when she was an ordinary woman, the Stone Guardian had fallen in love with her and had her husband and unborn baby killed. This caused her to go insane and kill herself, returning as a vengeful ghost who kills children to fill the void left by her own lost baby.
The Ghost Children
The “children” of the Taking Spirit. Made up of both the people inside the dungeon who the Obake killed and the various children who were victimized by the Obake, they serve as her minions.
- Deader than Dead: In Ending 6, despite already being spirits, the Forest God kills them and the Taking Spirit.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: In Ending 1, due to Suga and Shiori using the glowstone. Without their grudges keeping them bound to the land, they ascend to the afterlife.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Their “skin” ranges from red to pure black, to indicate them as malevolent spirits.
- Undead Child: They are the spirits of the children who were warped by the Taking Spirit into becoming her “children”.
The White Child Spirit (spoilers)
The son of the Taking Spirit. He was murdered by the first Stone Guardian prior to the events of the game, and is repeatedly encountered as a white spirit who wishes to reunite with his mom.
- Adaptational Intelligence: In the original game he speaks in baby talk and simple words. In the 2022 remake he's much more eloquent.
- Big Good: He acts as a guide to Shiori and Suga, helping them to achieve his personal mission of purifying his mom.
- Cheerful Child: Even after everything he went through, he never stops smiling or gives up hope that he will reunite with his mother.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Happens to him in the 2022 remake.
- In Ending 3, when the spirits of the dead children tear the Taking Spirit apart, he tries to save her only to be killed by them as well.
- In Ending 1, Shiori and Suga are forced to use the glowstone to ward off the spirits of the dead children. The White Child is aware this not only will result in the Taking Spirit and the ghost children forgetting about their grudges, but she and him will forget about each other. All he can do is to wish to be reunited with his mother in the next life.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: In Ending 1, due to Shiori and Suga using the glowstone. While he loses all memories of his mother and she forgets him as well, he's happy because she won't be hurting anyone anymore.
- Light Is Good: Unlike the malevolent red and black spirits, he is pure white to signify his benevolence.
- Tragic Dream: All he wants is to be reunited with his mother. Unfortunately their meeting is short and either he's forced to watch her to be torn apart by the spirits of the dead children or is forced to lose his memories about her.
- Walking Spoiler: Explaining his significance spoils the tragic backstory of the Obake.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Admits in the 2022 remake that he allowed his mother to kill children so that she'll have company. But after realizing that she'll never be satisfied and will continue hurting others, he decides she had to be stopped.
Kenji, Midori, and Keiichiro Kanzaki
Shiori's parents and grandfather, respectively. The former two died in a traffic accident, and their death is what sets Shiori off on her journey. They turn out to have some connection to Azakawa Village.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Kenji and Midori, Shiori's parents, met as children.Kenji Kanzaki: (in his childhood diary) Midori went for a swim while I was fishing. She was scaring them off, so we had a fight.
Shiori Kanzaki: Midori? Mom...? So they were together since childhood. - Parental Substitute: Ever since Kotarou's father died, Keiichiro took care of him and raised him as his foster father.
- Why Can't I Hate You?: Even though Keiichiro adopts Kotarou, he secretly resents him for being related to the Stone Guardian and being indirectly responsible for Shiori losing her memories. However he also admits it's not Kotarou's fault.
Government Official
A government official and representative of the Azakawa Village council. He visits Suga to convince him to allow them to demolish the museum.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In the 2022 remake he's more willing to listen to Shiori and his desire to improve Azakawa Village is genuine, instead of doing it for the money.
- Agent Scully: Dismisses the story of the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit and the Ogami-san/Stone Guardian as ancient tales.
- Didn't Think This Through: Was so fixated in trying to convince Suga to demolish the museum that he forgot to tell the buyers it was in the middle of nowhere.
- Greed: In the original game, all he cares about is making money.
- Hate Sink: In the original game, he only appears in one scene near the beginning, but establishes himself as a Smug Snake nonetheless. In said scene, he informs Suga, the manager of the local museum, that the government plans to demolish the museum to make room for land development. He proceeds to be rude and disrespectful to Suga, outright telling him he does not care if Suga ends up jobless, then when Sakuma objects, he tells her that her father would support the demolishment. Finally, when Shiori tells him that she is the heir to the museum and can shut him down, he rudely expresses disbelief before storming out in a huff. This is averted with his remake version, who improves by the end.
- Jerkass: In his one scene, he establishes himself as a jerk by needlessly antagonizing Suga, Sakuma, and Shiori, and he represents a group that intends to tear down the museum to make way for new developments.
- Kick the Dog: Tells Suga that he doesn't care if demolishing the museum leaves him without a place to live.
- No Name Given: He is only called Government Official in the text boxes.
- Suit with Vested Interests: He wants to shut down the museum/old mansion in order to make way for new developments, and dismisses Suga's desire to keep it open as clinging to silly superstitions and the old ways.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Even though he's unpleasant, he really thinks he's doing what's best for the village. In the 2022 even after his resort plan is cancelled, he decides to find less harmful to get profit.
The First Ogami-san/Stone Guardian (spoilers)
A man from a generational line of stone masons creators of the glowstones that protect Azakawa Village. Though revered as a hero, he is in fact the one who indirectly created the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit.
The 2022 remake reveals he's an ancestor of Suga and the older brother of the Taking Spirit.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the original game, he was the Greater-Scope Villain responsible for turning an innocent village girl into the Big Bad via his system of sex-slavery and was a Hate Sink with no redeeming qualities. The remake turns him into a victim of a curse/manipulation by the God of the Forest who regrets what he did so much that he pleads to have his memories erased.
- Adaptational Job Change: In the original game he was the leader of the village. In the 2022 remake he's a stone mason and the creator of the glowstones.
- Big Brother Instinct: In the remake, the reason the events of the game happened? All he wanted was to protect his sister from a snake.
- Demonic Possession: In the remake, he falls victim to this courtesy of the God of the Forest, acting possesive of Tsuyu and killing her husband and unborn child.
- Evil Counterpart: To Suga. Both are stone masons and were very protective of a certain girl. They got also cursed for trying to protect her. But while the Stone Guardian blames Tsuyu for it, to the point that he erases his own memories, Suga is faithfully loyal to Shiori and instead blames himself.
- Greater-Scope Villain: In the original game, he is the one responsible for turning the unnamed woman into the Kotori Obake, as he killed her family, falsely accused her of crimes, then imprisoned and raped her. This is averted in the remake, where he is cursed into doing this by the God of the Forest, who is in an active Big Bad Ensemble with the Taking Spirit.
- Hate Sink: In the original game, he is responsible for turning an innocent woman into the Kotori Obake, as he had her imprisoned on false charges, killed her whole family, and raped her. However, this is averted with his remake self, who is made somewhat more sympathetic.
- It's All About Me: In the remake, when the Demonic Possession wears off and realizes what he did to Tsuyu, he only feels bad for himself and not what he did to her.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: In the remake, he does this to himself with the glowstones.
- Never My Fault: In the remake, he blames Tsuyu for him killing her husband and children, stating that if he hadn't tried to help her, he would not have gotten cursed by the Forest God and had to do such things to seek his forgiveness.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Killed a snake for frightening Tsuyu. Said snake happened to the the weakened god of the village, which proceeds to curse him into falling obsesively in love with Tsuyu and kill her family.
- Posthumous Character: He is dead as of the actual story, but his creation of the Taking Spirit remains.
- Small-Town Tyrant: In the original game, he ran Azakawa Village and would force the wives and children of convicted criminals into slavery, while hiding behind his image as a benevolent protector. The Kotori Obake was one such woman who ended up his victim. His remake counterpart, on the other hand, averts this due to being a mere stone mason.
- Villain with Good Publicity: The whole village, both back when he was alive and in the present day, reveres him as a hero who protected the village and its children from the Kotori Obake. However, he was really a tyrant who had the wives and children of criminals sold into sexual slavery, and the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit was one of his many victims. This is retconned in the 2022 remake.
- We Used to Be Friends: In the remake, friends with Tsuyu before the God of the Forest cursed them both.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: In the remake, he is out to destroy Tsuyu, but it's only because he got cursed for trying to protect her from a snake, something that wasn't even in his control.
- Would Hurt a Child: Killed the unborn child of the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit/Tsuyu.
- Yandere: He lusted after the woman who would become the Obake (his sister, Tsuyu, in the remake) so much that he slaughtered her whole family to get to her.
Remake Characters
Characters introduced in the remake.
Villagers
The inhabitants of Azakawa Village.
- The Matchmaker: One of the farmers really wants to find a husband for his eligible granddaughter, and also ponders the possibility of booking Shiori up with Koutaro.
- Scatterbrained Senior: The owner of the store is a nice lady who was a friend of Midori, and mistakes her daughter Shiori for Midori herself.
Ayuko Yokohata
A little girl who is always getting lost.
- Cheerful Child: She is usually very chipper and playful, and wants to spend time with Shiori, whom she looks up to as a big sister.
- Damsel in Distress: She regularly gets lost following the voice of the Taking Spirit, and Shiori finds herself having to rescue her. The events of the third day are set off by her vanishing and the whole village organizing to look for her.
Mr. Yokohata
- Don't tell me... you're the one who's been dragging Ayuko around, huh!?
Ayuko's father who's recently returned with his daughter to the village. He's always trying to look out for her, but she always keeps vanishing. He is suspicious of Shiori for being an outsider and suspects she is trying to kidnap Ayuko.
- Ascended Extra: From one of Suga's childhood bullies in the original to a paranoid single father who constantly antagonizes Shiori for being an outsider in the remake.
- Heel–Face Turn: He eventually realizes Shiori is trying to protect his daughter, not kidnap her, and stops treating her so harshly.
- Inspector Javert: He believes that, since Shiori is an outsider who is always seen with his frequently vanishing daughter, that she must be kidnapping her, and antagonizes her whenever he shows up. He refuses to believe that she could be rescuing her.
- Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: He and his friends used to bully Suga, and while he has grown up to be a loving single father, he is so protective of his daughter that he immediately accuses the outsider Shiori, who is always rescuing her, of kidnapping her and acts very unpleasant towards her.
- Struggling Single Father: Ever since his wife left him for the man she was cheating on him with, he has tried to raise Ayuko alone, and the stresses of that, the village not exactly being all that accepting of single parenthood, and Ayuko constantly disappearing from his watch have made him paranoid.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Shiori always rescues his daughter, Ayuko, from the reach of the Taking Spirit, but because she is an outsider to the village, he thinks she is the one abducting Ayu and antagonizes her every time he sees her.
Tamaki
Miyako's trainee teacher. He's a very cynical man who doesn't particularly like the villagers, and picks on Miyako. In childhood, he was the ringleader of Koutaro's bullies.
- Ascended Extra: From just one of Suga's childhood bullies in the original to Miyako's Sadist Teacher and a recurring character in the remake.
- Heel–Face Turn: By the end, he has grown a little less of a cynical Sadist Teacher.
- Sadist Teacher: He was a bully as a kid, and one of his friends speculates that he has become just as cruel to his students. He is certainly not pleasant to Miyako, giving her as much of a hard time as her fellow students and outright saying if something happens to her, no one will care enough to help her.
The God of the Forest (spoilers)
- Yes. Humans are selfish beings. Always breaking your “promises”. You ravage. You sin. But it’s never enough. Screaming, and always so selfish. You don’t even acknowledge your betters. You sinful humans. I will devour you.
A god-like entity of Azakawa Village. It resents humanity due to being forgotten by humans, reducing him to a small snake. The snake ran into Tsuyu Kanzaki, frightening her and asking the Stone Guardian to kill the snake. Afterwards the god cursed them both and ruined their lives.
- The Bad Guy Wins: In Ending 6 he succeeds in reclaiming the forest by exterminating the Taking Spirit and eating her descendant, Shiori.
- Big Bad Ensemble: He's responsible for the curse that drove the Stone Guardian to madness and kill Tsuyu, resulting in the creation of the Taking Spirit, and kidnapped Sakuma as part of his plan to overthrow Tsuyu and force Azakawa Village back under his oppressive rule.
- The Corruption: The God of the Forest's influence manifests as tempting his victims (though Hearing Voices) with power and strength, at the cost of losing their sanity.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Tsuyu was frightened by him, so the Stone Guardian killed him to protect her. His response? Drive the Stone Guardian insane so he'll kill Tsuyu's family, driving her into despair. Even Sakuma lampshades how disproportionate it was:...No normal person would think a small snake would be a god!
- Divine Intervention: He can speak in the minds of people, manipulating or overwriting their actions. One of the most significant things that he did is to convince the Stone Guardian to make Tsuyu's life a living hell, for the sake of revenge.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: The true mastermind behind all the supernatural horror afflicting Azakawa Village is that white snake who appears for only a few minutes, briefly kidnaps Sakuma, and is promptly killed by Suga.
- Gods Need Prayer Badly: The more worshipers a god has, the greater their power. But since most people in the modern era don't believe or worship him like they used to anymore, he's been reduced to a tiny snake.
- The Great Serpent: A giant white snake.
- He Was Right There All Along: Remember the snake that imprisoned Sakuma? He's the reason things are so bad in Azakawa Village.
- History Repeats: Long ago he was killed by the Stone Guardian to protect his sister Tsuyu. In the present he's killed by Suga to protect Shiori. Made more fitting in that they are their descendants.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: When Tsuyu died and became the Taking Spirit, nobody dared to come to the forest again, resulting in the God of the Forest not receiving sacrifices and to be forgotten completely.
- It's All About Me: He doesn't seem to care how much suffering he causes by forcing the population of Azakawa Village to remember him.
- Jerkass Gods: He used to have young girls sacrificed to him and threatened to flood the village if he wasn't fed sufficiently, and is the one who told the Stone Guardian to kill Tsuyu's family just to punish them for killing his physical body, thinking he was just a snake. Everything that happens in the game is his fault, and in Ending 6 he has Shiori sacrifice herself to him.
- Karma Houdini: Manipulates the Stone Guardian into doing his evil bidding and transforms Tsuyu into the Taking Spirit. But since the culprit was never revealed publicly, he got away scot-free. And in Ending 6 he reclaims the forest, which is what he wanted all along.
- Never My Fault: In Ending 6, he blames Tsuyu and her brother for all the misfortune they suffered, even though he was the one who engineered it in the first place, while accusing them of being the ones Playing the Victim Card. He then says that Shiori, Miyako, and the villagers suffering because of Tsuyu killing their children is their fault for not worshipping him, instead of his fault for turning Tsuyu into the Taking Spirit.
- Satanic Archetype: His schemes give him a strong resemblance to Satan. He's a prideful Narcissist who was cast down from his exalted position because of how he treated his subjects. He then appears in the form of a snake and covertly speaks to mortals in their dreams to tempt them with power, only to subject them to hellish torment once they are under his thrall.
- Secretly Dying: Is on his last legs due to having no followers to pray for him, which is why he resorts to kidnap Sakuma. He finally fades away in Ending 1.
- Snakes Are Sinister: He is a white snake god who is behind all the misery afflicting Azakawa Village.
- To Serve Man: Prefers young girls as Human Sacrifices. Shiori finds it the hard way in Ending 6.
