The cast and players in the mystery of 428: Shibuya Scramble.
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Playable Characters
Shinya Kano
Shinya Kano
The rookie detective assigned as backup to Maria Osawa's kidnapping case, Kano is extremely passionate and tends to leap before he thinks. In his insistence to pursue the truth and protect the innocent above all else, he ends up becoming tangled in a plot much greater than a simple instance of abduction.
- Call-Back: Kanu takes cues from Tateno dousing himself with gasoline (to talk down an arsonist) in an impromptu interrogation.
- Color Motif: Blue Is Heroic is in play here.
- Clueless Detective: Subverted. Kano, despite his inexperience, is good at what he does. It's just a matter of the wrong thing happening at the wrong time that causes him to be ineffectual, which usually inevitably leads to a bad ending.
- Fire-Forged Friends: With Jack Stanley. The two start off as incompatible work partners before gradually coming to trust each other more. The correct option to proceed is to have Kano accept when Stanley is forced to withhold information and ask him to return soon.
- Also with Achi when they have to work together during the final hour.
- Leeroy Jenkins: He has a habit of jumping into action as soon as he sees the need for it, even if it means disobeying an order. However, usually he makes the right call.
- The Many Deaths of You: Being a detective in the middle of a kidnapping-turned-bioterror attack, a lot of his bad endings has him being murdered.
- Meet the In-Laws: Kano's not-quite-yet father-in-law picks the worst day to try to discuss the prospect of Kano marrying his daughter. Torn between his job and the need to curry a good impression, Kano's understandably stressed.
- Military Salute: Sends Detective Tateno off with a slightly teary one, being too pressed for time to use words to express his emotions. Choosing this action is required to enable access to Tateno's story.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Sasayama's red and red to Jack's blue.
- Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Kano is firmly on the idealistic side, which comes into conflict with his job and initial interactions with Jack, which are all varying degrees of cynical. When he realizes that stopping the terrorists got priority over ensuring Maria's safety, he goes further out of his way to make things right. This is a bold move for him considering Japanese culture highly emphasizes deference to one's superiors and obeying orders.
Achi Endo
Achi Endo
"Guess I'm one of the city's white blood cells. Or, wait. Maybe I'm a red blood cell? Hmm. Hold on. Is that right? Or did I have it right the first time?* "
Actors: Yuto Nakamura (present), Yuki Seki (age 4), Yusuke Kubota (age 9-11)
The son of Daisuke Endo, who runs an electronics store called Endo Electronics, Achi runs into Hitomi on his daily rounds of picking up litter. Unable to look the other way when someone's in danger, he does his best to keep Hitomi safe but continues to be relentlessly pursued by a mysterious man with a cane.
- All-Loving Hero: Makes it a point that he will always help out anyone he sees in need, no matter what. Hence why he goes so far to help Hitomi.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: To get S.O.S to help in the final hour, Achi gets down on his hands and knees.
- Berserk Button: Do not drop gum on the sidewalk, it's really hard to clean off.
- Boring, but Practical: He can take on delinquents and terrorists with the karate he learned since he was a kid. It reflects in his action scenes as while Maria or Stanley are simply described as executing the action out of instinct Achi's thought process is explained in the narration.
- Break Her Heart to Save Her: A platonic example to his former brother-in-arms, Susumu. In order to have Susumu let him leave S.O.S, Achi pretends to have never cared about the others to get Susumu to succeed him as the leader.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: He's a competent enough fighter when it comes to tussling on the streets to have garnered a reputation as The Dreaded among street thugs and delinquents. He also cares deeply for the environment and is highly empathetic.
- Call-Back: That quote up there? It gets referenced near the end of the game.
- Color Motif: To contrast with Kano, he has a Red Is Heroic scheme.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Really downplayed here. Whenever Hitomi shows any degree of closeness to another guy, even if it's strictly professional, Achi's imagination gets away from him. He's particularly surly about Tanaka. Still, he never accuses her or ever brings up his feelings, nor does he ever impose on her.
- The Dreaded: Every street punks in Shibuya know who he is and would rather avoid him.
- Fire-Forged Friends: With Kano over the final hour. It's notable since in some bad endings, Kano's hot temper and Achi refusal to back down initially make them at odds with each other.
- Idiot Hero: Achi is unabashedly morally upright. He also doesn't have the good sense that God gave a rock. For instance, it takes him several hours to realize that using his dad's street surveillance system is a much more efficient way of finding the blue minivan as opposed to running around the streets looking for it.
- Imagine Spot: He has two: one about Hitomi potentially dating Tanaka and another where she's with Leland, her English professor. Lampshaded in a bonus behind-the-scene where Tanaka's actor comments that Achi's imagination is brutal.
- Malaproper: He keeps confusing common sayings. On the upside, it makes Hitomi laugh.
- Neighborhood-Friendly Gangsters: How and why he founded the S.O.S.: A vigilante-like group of friends who love hanging out with each other and love Shibuya even more, and are willing to do anything to keep Shibuya clean and safe.
- Pinky Swear: He made one to his sister, Suzune, that once he started something he'd see it all the way through. It's only one reason as to why he insists on helping Hitomi.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: Nearly everyone he runs into assumes he's dating Hitomi. While Achi has an obvious crush on her, he hasn't told her yet and gets annoyed by these assumptions because he doesn't want anyone pigeonholing Hitomi into having to pretend to be his girlfriend when he hasn't asked her honestly yet.
- Strong and Skilled: Both very physically fit and a gifted Karate practitioner, and managed to defeat his father in a sparring match as a very young adolescent. It's no wonder he becomes The Dreaded to the street punks of Shibuya. In the end game, he manages to deliver a One-Hit KO while fighting Kiryu, who was armed with a lead pipe.
- Worthy Opponent: Segawa is excited at the idea of fighting him because he is the only S.O.S he deems a challenge.
Tama
"Tama" / Maria Osawa
"I... I have amnesia! I can't remember anything from before this morning!"
Actresses: Yumi Sumimoto (costume performer), Minori Tsukamoto (stand-in), Narumi Konno (present), Yumeno Higeta (age 4-5), Yukiko Nakamura (age 11-12)
A girl stuck in a cat mascot costume with a case of amnesia, Tama was corralled into helping a shady business man sell bogus diet drinks. In actuality she is Maria, Hitomi's kidnapped sister. It's too bad she had no idea how central she is to the diabolical plots currently turning Shibuya inside-out.
- Action Girl: Having learned self-defense techniques from Canaan, she is quite able to hold her own in a fight, and manages to easily defeat Miku, a top ranked fighter in a neighborhood fighting ring.
- Always Identical Twins: She looks very similar to her sister Hitomi, even though the pair are fraternal twins.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: While her father's hung up on that one rainy day, Maria hardly remembered it until he mentioned it. Justified in that she was a kid at the time, so her memory of the time is probably a little fuzzy. Also, she says she had a lot of other things to focus on growing up so that one moment got shoved to the wayside.
- Color Motif: A peppy yellow, fitting for a Genki Girl.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivers one to Miku in a street fight. Conversely, she is on the receiving end of this should she instead challenge Miku to a rock-paper-scissors duel.
- Easy Amnesia: A bonk to the head is all it takes. Particularly since the thug hitting her was only doing so to knock her out while she was drugged, so she probably wasn't even hit that hard. And before the end of the day, she's able to remember.
- Glass Cannon: She is quite strong, able to effortlessly throw Yanagashita around and defeat Miku in a street fight. However, during her kidnapping, a single bonk to the head is enough to give her complete Identity Amnesia.
- Goofy Suit: The zipper for which is broken, leaving her stranded inside.
- Identity Amnesia: As noted in Easy Amnesia, a single blow to her head makes her completely forget everything about herself, including her own name.
- Identity Concealment Disposal: When "Tama" is revealed to be Maria, she sheds the costume and her name changes in the menu screen.
- Lighter and Softer: Maria's route is more focused on comedy compared to the others', lacking the threat of possible death at the start. This goes away once Shoo Out the Clowns happens but it remains the more light-toned route by the time it ends.
- Line-of-Sight Name: Her moniker Tama comes from seeing Chiri eating tamagoyaki (rolled omelette).
- Revenge Before Reason: At the prospect that Canaan was killed by Alphard, Maria picks up the dropped gun. In the normal ending, she actually fires it, although she misses; This causes everyone to be distracted enough that Alphard is able to use an ankle holster gun to shoot Kenji Osawa.
- Series Mascot: Her cat costume serves as one of sorts for the game.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Very outgoing and feisty compared to Hitomi's more quiet and reserved demeanor.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only playable female character in the game.
- Stronger Than They Look: Maria's a slip of a girl and can still throw a man taller than her and outperform a semi-professional martial artist using her hidden talent of aiki-jujutsu.
- Twin Switch: She performed one to protect Hitomi from getting kidnapped and to uncover the location of the perpetrators. It didn't work out.
Minoru Minorikawa
Minoru Minorikawa
"When you take on a job, you give it a hundred percent, every time. That's what makes you a professional."
Actor: Fumio Kitagami
A freelance writer who takes up a job from an old friend, Minorikawa's goal is to complete the the drafts necessary to get the next issue of Four-Star General Gossip out and save Heaven Publishing. He only has until 8:00 pm tonight, or else things might take a turn for the worse.
- Ascended Extra: Minorikawa first appeared in the Kinpachi-sensei video game by Chunsoft as a minor character. Now he’s one of the main playable protagonists.
- Alliterative Name: Minoru Minorikawa.
- Berserk Button: Calling his work flimflam, as it implies he got his information through unfair means.
- Big Ego, Hidden Depths: For all his arrogance, the man cares deeply. He proclaims to only write articles when he cares about the subject and then proceeds to invest himself into the wider lives of each person he interviews. His genuine friendship with Miku began because he immediately introduced her to a dojo after one casual interview about local violence.
- Big Damn Heroes: From Kano's perspective, at least. He tells the Theater Troupe in the end game that their ice machine is defective (having forgotten to do so earlier in his story) and helps to unload it from their van, giving Kano access to it in order to defuse Alphard's bomb.
- For Achi as well. He confirms to Susumu that Achi is serious about the plot regarding the Ua Virus, and convinces him to forgive Achi, providing Achi and Kano the backup they need to corner the mastermind.
- Big "NO!": When he thinks his laptop died. It just ran out of power.
- Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: His interaction with a certain beleaguered waitress can fall under this, with Minorikawa being the Boke and the waitress serving as the Tsukkomi. Conversely, Minorikawa has to play the straight man to people even quirkier to him, like Chiaki or Toyama.
- Color Motif: His is green, though at first it doesn't seem to match the traditional symbols of the color. He's really gung-ho but he knows to keep his head in serious situations. He was also subconsciously jealous of Toyama, feeling as though he was in the older man's shadow in terms of work ethic and writing experience.
- The Chew Toy: Frequently suffers abuse from bizarre characters and incidents. Even his portrait on the character selection menu changes to reflect that he survived a car explosion.
- Doom Magnet: While all the protagonists have this going on between each other Minoru interacting directly in their story is a good way to get either him or another character's bad end. He can get both Kano and Osawa's bad ending in the same hour by being a nuisance at the café.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: To Toyama a few times. It takes several tries to finally snap him out of his funk.
- Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: His Character Tic. At one point, the narration comments that Osawa could practically hear him doing this over a phone call.
- Guile Hero: His interview style typically involves riling people up to get them to give stronger quotes for him to use. This tactic takes him far, when it isn't getting him into trouble.
- In-Series Nickname: Mr. Mino (Mino-san), used by Chiaki and his friend Miku.
- Insufferable Genius: Has an unbelievable ego combined with a typical refusal to admit fault. When informed he’s been subconsciously reading his writing out loud to an entire cafe, he proclaims they should be delighted to hear his journalistic triumphs.
- Interrupted Suicide: Depending on choices made, Kano can stop Minorikawa from jumping off a building (though the optimal route is avoiding Minorikawa being put in that position in the first place)
- Intrepid Reporter: Once he gets wind of a scoop, he'll be on his way no matter the danger. One of the core things he learned from Toyama is that a story isn't done until all the details have been discovered.
- Large Ham: When he talks about giving 100% at all times, he's not kidding. This man acts like he'd fit right into Ace Attorney.
- Made of Iron: Got back up after being in proximity of a minivan explosion and gets the snot beaten out of him by S.O.S., and that's on top of running around town trying to complete his articles. He still manages to be 100% active for the whole 12 hours of the game with only some soot and scorch marks to show.
- The Many Deaths of You: Though at the same time, Minorikawa probably has the most bad endings where he explicitly dies of any playable character. From bleeding out due to an explosion, being beaten to death, dying trapped in a small, dark hole and so on...
- Promoted to Playable: In a different way than Tateno and Stanley are. Minorikawa first appeared in a minor capacity in Chunsoft’s Densetsu no Kyoudan ni Tate! tie-in game to Kinpachi-sensei before becoming one of the main playable protagonists of 428.
- Sink or Swim Mentor: He unintentionally becomes one to Chiaki. It's not like making her interview people at a busy subway crossing was his plan to get her to overcome her social anxiety and improve her writing but the circumstances forced it. Subverted in that he does give Chiaki tips and pointers to help her get better, even if it might seem a little harsh from her perspective.
- Spanner in the Works: The player character with the least personal stake or direct involvement regarding Alphard's operation, yet he continually does things that help shape the entire plot. Numerous bad endings for other characters either happen or are avoided due to his actions. Perhaps the biggest thing he does is NOT remember to tell a Theater Troupe that their ice machine is defective, giving Kano in the end game a way to defuse Alphard's bomb that would have otherwise blown up all of the Shibuya Scramble Crossing.
Kenji Osawa
Kenji Osawa
"The rain won't let up. No matter how much time passes, it just won't stop. Ever since that day, the sound of raindrops have been burned into my mind."
Actor: Takuji Oyama
Maria and Hitomi's father, husband to Ai and a director of Okoshi Pharmaceuticals: Osawa is a man of many titles but hardly pays attention to any of these things. His life's passion is his pursuit of virology, so much so that he was the one who invented an antiviral drug able to eradicate the Ua virus. However, Maria's kidnapping, Hitomi's unknown whereabouts and mysterious, threatening emails from 'A' force him to look up from his microscope for once.
- Bottle Episode: Osawa's route mainly takes place in and around his house, in contrast to the other protagonists who traverse the whole of Shibuya in their own routes. He can make one decision within his route to leave his house and drive to Okoshi Pharmaceuticals, but this leads to a bad ending.
- Closet Geek: He's a fan of Aya Kamiki, a J-pop idol with a teen demographic. When Kajiwara stumbles upon it, Osawa becomes rather flustered.
- Color Motif: Purple, fitting for a wealthy pharmaceutical researcher. Japanese colour symbolism also attributes purple with death, which is fitting considering Osawa's involvement with the Ua virus.
- Crippling Overspecialization: When it comes to virology he's a genius. But he's been so wrapped up in his work that he doesn't know how to use a microwave, unclog a toilet or have a normal conversation with his family.
- Defrosting Ice King: Initially, Osawa's a distant person who gets frustrated easily. Over time he begins to accept his emotions as a natural human condition and becomes more honest and approachable.
- Driven to Suicide: Based on the player's choices, Osawa can become so guilt-ridden over what he has been complicit in that he overdoses on sleeping pills, leading to a bad ending.
- Insufferable Genius: Completely unintentional for his part but a lot of people got fed up with him.
- Jerkass Realization: When Tanaka, his assistant, and Ai seem to turn against him, at first he's shocked by their betrayal. But then he realizes that he can't be betrayed by someone he never really knew. He was so self-absorbed that he never realized how he affected others or that he lacked such a fundamental understanding of people to even realize that. And with so much at stake right now, he might never be able to make amends.
- Married to the Job: And how. He took his boss' marriage offer just so he could give a mother to the twins and then he can go back to work. He admits he relates more to viruses than humans.
- My Greatest Failure: When his daughters were children, Maria ran away when it was pouring rain. Though obviously she wanted him to come for her as a demonstration of how he cared for her, he instead reasoned that she would return and went back to his study. He eventually comes to realize his negligence and strives to make amends with Maria once she's saved.
- No Social Skills: He expresses a lack of understanding toward human mannerisms, therefore avoiding human contact in favour of his work. According to one tip, the longest he had ever gone without speaking to anyone was around 15 days.
- Taking the Bullet: In the normal ending, he shields Maria and is fatally shot by Alphard.
Kyozo Tateno
Kyozo Tateno
"The truth is, I didn't even care if I died doing what I did."
Actor: Shunsaku Kudo (present), Yuya Tanaka (age 17)
A detective of the police force that Kano deeply respects, it was Tateno dousing himself in gasoline and going inside a gas-covered building to talk down an arsonist that got Kano aspiring to be a detective just like him. Worryingly, he had gone AWOL in his task to protect Hitomi. He becomes playable in the final chapter.
- The Atoner: A weird variant in that he tries to shoot Hitomi so that her heart can be used as a transplant to save the daughter of his old flame, Kotone, after he failed to save her many years ago.
- Played more straight during end-game where he vows to protect both Hitomi and Maria no matter what, to atone for previously trying to kill Hitomi, and striving to become the detective worthy of Kano's previous admiration, however short-lived. He also fully intends on turning himself in once Alphard's plans have been foiled.
- Broken Pedestal: He becomes one for Kano once he reveals his true intentions. However, while Kano is hurt by the reveal, he understands why Tateno behaved that way and keeps the belief that the latter still has the power to do good in him.
- Color Motif: Orange, which doesn't suit his personality. It could symbolize his desire to save Maria, whose theme colour is yellow, and thereby be representative of his redemption and effort to make things right.
- Death Seeker: He didn't care if he lived or died in his line of work. If he died on-duty, it might make up for being unable to save Kotone.
- Doesn't Like Guns: After he botched trying to save Kotone when a criminal took her hostage, he's been nervous about having a gun in his hands. It doesn't stop him from shooting Kano in bad endings or gunning for Hitomi for the majority of the game.
- Works against him in one of his bad endings, where he tries to shoot Alphard, but wildly misses, and ends up vomiting from his trauma and getting shot instead.
- 11th-Hour Ranger: Becomes playable during the last chapter and is the one to ultimately confront the mastermind, alongside Jack Stanley.
- The Faceless: In Kano's flashbacks, he's never shown from the front. It's to hide the fact that he's the man with the cane who's been chasing Hitomi and Achi.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He truly loved Kotone but believed he wouldn't be good for her. So he broke up with her so that she could date their friend, Daisuke, who also had a crush on her. The odd thing here is that he never confirmed whether she liked him or Daisuke more and just did this purely out of personal assumptions.
- Heel–Face Turn: Spends most of the game trying to kill Hitomi, and even resorts to kidnapping and holding Maria hostage to do so. He finally changes his stance by the end game, and ends up joining the heroes to protect Hitomi and save Maria.
- Mexican Standoff: Gets into one with Alphard by the end of his story. He is joined by Jack Stanley.
- Promoted to Playable: Spends most of the game as a direct antagonist due to trying to kill Hitomi. He becomes playable in the final timeblock, though only if Kano makes a very specific dialogue choice that opens a jump into Tateno's story.
- Redemption Demotion: Has no problem using his gun for most of the game while he is trying to kill Hitomi. However, when locked in a standoff with Alphard in the end game, his extreme Does Not Like Guns trauma suddenly kicks in, causing his shot to wildly miss her should he decide to shoot.
- The Unfettered: Will back down at nothing to kill Hitomi, even if it means defecting or murdering innocents and allies. There is a chilling bad ending where he killed a theater troupe disguised in a cat costume just so he could lock himself with Achi and Hitomi.
- A more positive example in the end game, where nothing will stop him from helping to save Maria. He manages to repress his Does Not Like Guns trauma long enough to remain locked in a standoff with Alphard, whom he knows is more than capable of easily overpowering and killing him, buying enough time for Jack Stanley to arrive and assist in arresting her.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Spends most of the game trying to kill Hitomi in order to provide Suzune, the daughter of his former lover and best friend, with a compatible heart for a transplant.
Jack Stanley
Jack Stanley
"Well I'm sure relieved to hear that. If everyone in this country were as dumb as you guys [Achi and Kano], I might actually start to like this place."
Actor: Jack Woodyard
An agent sent by the U.S.-Japanese emissary and a member of the C.I.A, Jack teams up with Kano after Sasayama is stabbed. He becomes playable in the final chapter.
- Broken Ace: Former marine, C.I.A agent and able to take on Alphard. But his quest for revenge made him rather cold and sad. His time with Kano snaps him out of it.
- Color Motif: Grey, fitting for a distant and chill agent like him. No frills, all business. The mourning theme is also appropriate since he's motivated by avenging his brother.
- Cynicism Catalyst: The death of his brother, Frank, to a bomb caused Jack to distance himself from Frank's and subsequently Kano's more optimistic outlook on things.
- Deadpan Snarker: Even when he gives a compliment he can't help but dial up the sass.
- Defiant to the End: Noted as such in a bad ending where he stays on his feet despite having been shot twice by Alphard and unloads his entire clip at her.
- 11th-Hour Ranger: Becomes playable during the last chapter and is the one to ultimately confront the mastermind, alongside Tateno.
- Fire-Forged Friends: With Kano. The two start off as incompatible work partners before gradually coming to trust each other more. By end-game, he's genuinely guilty and remorseful that he can't tell Kano his plan.
- Good All Along: His introduction makes it ambiguous if he can be trusted and Kano notice immediately that he has the eyes of a killer and mentions he doesn't care if Hitomi dies or not during the mission. After warming up to Kano he drops the facade and reveals himself as a much better person than he let on.
- Hand Cannon: Arms himself with a Desert Eagle shortly before the final confrontation with Alphard.
- Mexican Standoff: Joins one against Alphard alongside Tateno.
- Promoted to Playable: Spends most of the game as a supporting figure to Kano and Achi, before becoming playable in the final timeblock, though only if Kano chooses a specific dialogue choice that enables a jump into his story.
- Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: On the cynical end, in opposition to Kano. Over the course of the game, Kano and Achi's determination help to move him closer to the middle of the scale, even if only just a little.
- The Stoic: His professional detachment is what infuriates Kano initially. When Jack points out that Kano can't get worked up over every detail over a case, Kano retorts that that's just how he does things.
- He mellows out in the latter parts of the game but mostly keeps a straight face. In one bad ending, he's unable to warn the Scamble operatives about the bomb in time and ends up hitting his hands bloody from beating his fists against the dashboard in rage.
- Sunglasses at Night: He never takes off his sunglasses, even when inside or when it gets dark.
- Token Good Teammate: For the CIA, after the ending reveals that Alphard's entire operation was in service to them. Given Jack's motivation to avenge his brother's death at Alphard's hands and the Bad Ending in which she kills him, it is clear he was not in on their plot.
Canaan
Canaan
"Canaan smiled; there was something powerful about people who couldn't get a read on their own situation."
Actresses: Cindy Johnson (live-action), Miyuki Sawashiro (voice actress)
The actual Canaan that Maria befriended. She stars in her own bonus route and a spin-off anime.
- Action Girl: Took out a whole room of thugs off-screen with nothing but a knife.
- Child Soldier: After being orphaned by war and disease, she was picked up and trained in the art of killing by Siam, who helped hone her abilities and skills to be an individual operative.
- Disease Bleach: Her hair has been washed out after her brush with the Ua virus.
- The Faceless: Her face is never shown in Maria's flashbacks, in order to hide how the "Canaan" we've spent the game with isn't her. Even when she appears in the true ending, she's still not shown clearly.
- Hero of Another Story: Who she is and what she's been up to is not shown in the main story.
- Legacy Character: The name Canaan was given to her by her mentor Siam, but he originally gave the name to his previous protégé, Alphard.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Internally, she acknowledges that she and Sadaqah have a shared sense of humor even if she doesn't personally like Sadaqah. They turn out to have more in common than that, as Sadaqah is actually Alphard, the original Canaan trained by Siam.
- Sole Survivor: Of her village. It was originally thought to have been a casualty of the Iraq War, but the war was used as a cover for the Ua virus testing that really devastated Canaan's village.
- Super-Senses: Has some sort of super-soldier synesthesia where she can taste and see people's emotions, on top of other things, and is able to perfectly map out her surroundings in battle.
- You Killed My Father: Though in the main story she refers to him as a "friend", Siam was more like a surrogate father figure to her. She desires to defeat Alphard to avenge his death.
Major Characters
Hitomi Osawa
Hitomi Osawa
"But if you can't bring yourself to take risks, to do things, you can't meet new people and have new experiences. That's the part I always get hung up on - the risk."
Actresses: Narumi Konno (present), Yumeno Higeta (age 4-5), Yukiko Nakamura (age 11-12)
When a ransom for her sister's release was ordered by the kidnappers, Hitomi went to Shibuya Square as told. When an armed man with a cane shows up, Achi is the one to help her to safety. Even though it's dangerous, she's set on finding her sister no matter what.
- AB Negative: She has the Bombay blood type
, the same as Achi's sister, which puts a huge target on her. - Always Identical Twins: Despite being Maria's fraternal twin, the sisters look about the same as each other.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: She compares herself unfavourably to her sister, considering herself too meek and complacent. Achi begs to differ: the fact that she's so different from Maria is part of what makes her great.
- Macguffin Super Person: Her blood contains the antiviral used to combat the Ua virus, making her a target for people who seek to monopolize it. She also has the very rare Bombay blood type, which makes her a target for Daisuke Endo and Detective Tateno, who wish to use her heart to save Suzune Endo.
- Parting-Words Regret: She got into an argument with Maria before the latter got kidnapped. This partly motivates her quest to rescue her sister since she wants to apologize.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Quiet and reserved compared to the outgoing and energetic Maria.
Chiaki Iso
Chiaki Iso
"See? It's hopeless."
Actress: Manami Ute
A freelance writer with crippling social anxiety, Chiaki can hardly get enough work to put food on the table because talking to strangers drives her to near tears. However, she's the only writer available in Minorikawa's hour of need, so she's going to have to find some way of overcoming that.
- Determinator: After taking a nasty fall down a flight of stairs and scraping her knee real bad, Chiaki insists to soldier on in order to meet the deadline and get Four-Star General Gossip published. Otherwise, all of hers and Minorikawa's hard work will be wasted.
- Girlish Pigtails: One behind each ear that goes over her shoulders.
- Girly Girl: Wears a lot of pink, has pigtails, her nails are done, she's wearing make-up, ever her laptop is decorated with pink lacing.
- Eat the Evidence: To prevent Minorikawa from taking on Toyama's debt, she shoves the contract into her mouth and is actually able to swallow it.
- Fragile Flower: Kano ends up speaking a little sharply to her trying to ask for information and she immediately deflates.
- No Social Skills: She can barely hold a conversation without stuttering or nearly being driven to tears. She's completely flustered trying to do street interviews, which drives everyone away, and didn't realize that asking random strangers "Are you happy with your life?" sounds extremely sketchy.
Yoshio Kajiwara
Yoshio Kajiwara
"Are you hungry? Here, I've got something that's good for when you're tired."
Actor: Setchin Kawaya
A detective assigned to oversee the Osawa household during the course of the kidnapping investigation.
- Creepy Good: Completely focused on helping Osawa get his daughter back, but comes off as very creepy and off-putting given his eccentric mannerisms and saying things to make Osawa feel extremely awkward, uncomfortable, and even angry.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He has weird quirks but he's of a higher jurisdiction over the other precinct detectives for a good reason. When push comes to shove, he's a good shoulder to lean on.
- Hidden Depths: At first he seems like a space cadet but he's actually a kindhearted father and a reasonable guy. He keeps bananas and chocolate in his pockets because he used to carry it for his daughter. He regrets not being around for his family and is clearly sad about not getting custody of his daughter. And at the end of the day, he just wants Osawa to be honest with his own feelings.
- Married to the Job: In the past, so much so that his wife divorced him and took their daughter.
- Mood Whiplash: It probably wasn't best to preface news about the toilet being clogged or the fact that he ate the lunches meant for the Osawa and Ai with "something terrible has happened". Poor Osawa's worried enough about his daughters.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Tatanaka enters the kitchen and the bug detector goes off there is a close up of Kajiwara's face. His serious and concerned look reveals this is not the broken bug detector that is going off. He also goes in full detective mode again when he sees the emails from "A" has the same service provider as Osawa and rush to see if his fears are correct.
- Running Gag: Trying to offer Osawa bananas.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The last we see of him is him ramming his car through a barricade so that Tateno can get through to save Maria. He's very roughed up and looks to have a head wound from the process, and Tateno's concerned about his well-being. However, there's no time afterwards to mention him. Hopefully the barricade officers got him to a hospital.
Mamoru Tanaka
Mamoru Tanaka
"I'll look into this on my end, sir."
Actor: Daisuke Takahashi
Osawa's assistant and another director at Okoshi Pharmaceuticals.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: Just look at that picture.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Tanaka reveals himself to be extremely envious of Osawa's successes, fame, fortune and marriage to Ai, while he's left in the shadows despite being a facilitator in Osawa's work. So now he's taking what he feels is due.
- He Knows Too Much: He's killed by Alphard to prevent people from bypassing the dual-custody protection system that keeps the antiviral drug locked away. It's also to cover up tracks since Alphard can't risk anyone knowing their identity.
- Killed Off for Real: He is the only definite death in the story, regardless of ending.
- Meaningful Name: Mamoru can mean "to protect", which is initially fitting in that he's a pharmaceutical director and Osawa's confidant.
- Doubles as an Ironic Name, when it is revealed he's actually part of the reason that so much is unprotected.
- The Mole: He's the Okoshi Pharmaceuticals employee that helped Alphard coordinate the infecting and kidnappings of the Osawa twins.
Minor Characters
Yuji Sasayama
Yuji Sasayama
"You gotta stop staring at everyone. Blend into your surroundings more."
Actor: Go Setoguchi
Kano's partner and a person of many disguises.
- Last Request: After being stabbed, he gives Kano the birthday present he intended to give to his wife. Thankfully this is averted, as his condition ultimately stabilizes and he's able to pull through.
- Master of Disguise: His shtick. He dresses up "incognito" as a homeless man, an otaku and, in one choice path, Tama's mascot suit.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Kano's blue.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: Near the halfway point, he's stabbed and rushed to the hospital. The more straight-laced Jack Stanley replaces him afterwards.
Ai Osawa
Ai Osawa
"Darling, please. Think about it from my perspective. If you leave for America, what am I supposed to tell my father?"
Actress: Lili Wan
Osawa's terse wife and the daughter of the head chairman of Okoshi Pharmaceuticals.
- Altar Diplomacy: Osawa and Ai were wed as a political move by Ai's father to secure Osawa's talent for his company. Osawa agreed to the match in order to provide his young daughters with a mother figure. This partially fuels Ai's resentment towards Osawa, as she had sacrifice her relationship with Tanaka for someone who would end up being cold with her.
- Big "NO!": At hearing the news that Tanaka died.
- Broken Bird: Shows some hints near the end. Upholding the company takes priority over all else, even her step-family's feelings or lives. But it's a desperate sort of clinging rather than an outright selfish one. For all the things she gave up for the sake of the company, Okoshi has to benefit for it all to be justified.
- Ironic Name: Ai meaning "love" when she's trapped in a loveless marriage and unable to be with the man she truly feels for.
- The Reveal: She was the one that sent the emails about the Ua virus testing to Osawa, so that he turns down the job in America.
- Wicked Stepmother: At first, it seems Ai may have been involved with the kidnapping plan. She also seems to care more for the company and the wealth that comes with it than her stepchildren. Subverted in that she really isn't involved in the kidnapping and manages to convince her father to give Osawa lab access despite lacking the required dual-custody access. Hitomi says she's actually a reasonable person and will give advice if asked.
Teruo & Hana Toyama
Teruo & Hana Toyama
Hana gives her dad a piece of her mind.
"What- what was that for?"
"Don't you give me that! I'm sick of all this running around!"
Actor & Actress: Ikkyu Juku (Toyama), Saya Sawaragi (Hana)
Toyama is the boss of Heaven Publishing, a company about to go under due to a lottery misprint. Hana is his rather sullen daughter.
- Adorably Precocious Child: Hana has a rather good grasp of her father's situation despite being a kid. She also writes complex poems. For example, one that she wrote was about a girl contemplating the freedom she would have to give up to become an adult if read vertically; if read horizontally, it'd be about a father's worries now that his daughter was of marriage age. She tries selling said poems to help her father's debt.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Hana is obviously fed up and exasperated by her depressed dad's pathetic antics and runs away from him several times. Still, she tries helping in a way that she can and although she punches Toyama when reunited with him, she really does care for him. Once Toyama rediscovers his writing spirit, the two can be seen walking away hand-in-hand.
- Butt-Monkey: Toyama just can't catch a break, constantly being harassed by loan sharks and getting punched in more than one instance.
- Faking the Dead: Toyama has Hana tell Chiaki that he died in the minivan explosion. This is to get the debt sharks off his back. The correct way to proceed is to disprove this.
- Interrupted Suicide: Minorikawa is able to stop him from hanging himself, given the right choices. This is averted in certain bad endings where Four-Star General Gossip fails to continue.
- Parents as People: Toyama really wants what's best for his daughter, even giving up his initial aspirations for starting his company to focus on a dubious gossip rag, just so he'd been able to keep her fed and happy. But the years have been tough and now he's so worn down that he lost sight of what he was supposed to protect.
- Small Role, Big Impact: For someone who starts Minorikawa's plotline and drives it along, Toyama has surprisingly little to do with the story at large and only has a few handful of appearances. But it's his actions that indirectly lead Minorikawa to help save Shibuya.
The Endo Family
Daisuke, Kotone & Suzune Endo
Plagued with misfortune.
- Actors & Actresses: Junpei Morita (Daisuke, present), Takumi Kagawa (Daisuke, age 17), Etsuko Inada (Kotone), Ryoko Kobayashi (Suzune, present), Misuzu Furuta (Suzune, age 1)
Achi's family. Daisuke runs the family electronics store, Endo Electronics, Suzune is in the hospital due to a heart condition and Kotone is Daisuke's late wife.
- AB Negative: Subverted. In this scenario it's justified in that Suzune needs a heart transplant, something rife with potential complications. To top it off, she has a rare blood type that makes the rejection rate higher and the donor needs to have died nearby to minimize organ damage from oxygen deprivation during transportation.
- Beneath the Mask: Suzune portrays herself as a girl who holds her head high in the face of death and tries to do as much as she can to help others before her time comes. As well, it's to avoid worrying her family. But underneath it all she's still a scared kid stuck in uncontrollable circumstances and regrets the high-and-mighty facade she gave to Takuya.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Kotone dated her childhood friends, Tateno and Daisuke, before tying the knot with Daisuke.
- The Lost Lenore: Daisuke misses his wife dearly. Tateno, who she had formerly dated in high school, misses her too.
- Meaningful Name: Suzune's name means "ringing of bells". Takuya certainly thinks it suits her.
- Kotone can be read as "echoing sound" (響音) or "song" (歌斗音), giving mother and daughter a Family Theme Naming.
- Daisuke can mean "greatly concerned" (大介) or "great helper" (大佑/大輔/大祐), which suits his personality and actions throughout the game.
- Small Role, Big Impact: The rest of the family don't show up all that much, with Daisuke only having one or two scenes (where he's physically on screen) and Suzune only has one in the main story. Still, their actions have big consequences on the plot and the mastermind's plan.
- Soap Opera Disease: Played straight at first and then averted. All that's said in the main story is that Suzune has a weak heart. Her bonus route further elaborates that she has dilated cardiomyopathy.
- Suzune Needs a Heart: And her dad will do anything in order to ensure she survives.
Susumu Nishikawa
Susumu Nishikawa
"Yeah, that's right. You Left me in charge! So don't you dare give me any lip now about how I run things!"
Actor: Daisuke Taniguchi
Achi's old right-hand-man back when he ran with S.O.S. Ever since he's left, though, Susumu seems resentful at being made leader in Achi's place.
- A House Divided: S.O.S is coming apart. One half is allied with Susumu while the other is allied with Kiryu. Given Kiryu's more violent rhetoric and the old, peaceable ideals Susumu is trying to uphold, the two often clash.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He gets down on his hands and knees, begging Achi not to leave S.O.S.
- Bash Brothers: Formerly with Achi.
- The Chains of Commanding: Taking on the mantle of leader has left him surly and standoffish. He feels that Achi left behind big shoes to fill and he's constantly being undermined by Kiryu. He's trying but it's not working.
- We Used to Be Friends: Ever since Achi left, Susumu carries a grudge against him.
Burning Hammer Sales Demo
Jun'ichi Yanagishita
"Eels and I have a lot in common."
Actor: Nasubi
A con man who's Chiri's and Tama's employer, Yanagishita is looking to sell off a big stock of "diet drinks" at ludicrous prices so that he can pay off previous debts. Unfortunately for him, he's better at being conned than being the one doing the conning.
- Butt-Monkey: If something bad's going to happen, it's going to happen to him.
- Con Man: What he tries to be but more often than not he ends up being other con artists' marks.
- Fragile Speedster: This dude is fast and can run for a long time. Guess a life of running from people angry at being lied to or stiffed gave him that skill. That said, if he does get caught with no way of weaseling out, he goes down pretty soon.
- Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Relies on these too much for his own good. Maria even calls his latest plan this.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: He and Chiri disappear around the halfway point of the game, when things start approaching Darkest Hour territory.
- Snake Oil Salesman: Marketing a drink as a weight-loss aid when all it is is some super spicy swill that can be bought for 100-yen ($1). Tama can outright call the racket he's running a scam if you choose the option to.
Chiriko Osugi
"I came here because they said it was all-you-can-eat, but they closed shop 'cause they ran out of food."
Actress: Yuka Hara
Preferring to be called Chiri, she's Tama's co-worker in Yanagishita's shady business. It's not completely clear why she accepted the job.
- Big Eater: Ate a restaurant out of food and called it an early afternoon snack. In one bad ending, she won a contest for eating 1000 scoops of ice cream. Bonus content reveals that she produces a unique enzyme called hypersustenant chiriase that breaks down fat very efficiently so long as her body fat content does not fall below 40%, and that for the past decade Okoshi Pharmaceutical has been arranging opportunities behind the scenes to indulge her large appetite so they can study her and the applications of this enzyme.
- Dissonant Serenity: When things go from bad to worse for the demo, Chiri looks on in cool detachment and doesn't seem worried at all.
- Fat Comic Relief: A big lady whose scenes are always played for humor.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: She and Yanagishita disappear around the halfway point of the game, when things start approaching Darkest Hour territory.
Takuya Kazama
Takuya Kazama
"I want you to have my heart, Suzune. That's the best possible thing for the both of us."
Actor: Kenta Suga
A boy staying at the same hospital as Suzune, introduced in the latter's bonus route. Today is the day he musters enough courage to talk to her.
- AB Negative: Surprise, surprise, Takuya has Bombay blood just like Suzune.
- Billy Needs an Organ: In his case he needs a liver.
- Dying Declaration of Love: Sort of a post-mortem declaration by the time Suzune gets his letter but he uses his last moments of life to confess his feelings for her.
- I Don't Want to Die: When his condition takes a turn for the worst, he starts saying this. Justified in that if he dies before he turns 15, he won't be able to register as an organ donor so he can give Suzune his heart, so then they'll both die for nothing.
- Ironic Name / Meaningful Name: Takuya thinks his name means "tough guy" or something similarly macho and therefore it isn't a good fit. However, the kanji in his name can mean "to be supportive/open" (拓也), which reflects his role in saving Suzune.
- Precocious Crush: Downplayed. He, a 14/15-year-old, has a crush on 17-year-old Suzune.
- Technicolor Eyes: In his case it's completely within the realm of possibility, as the copper build up from Wilson's disease causes a brown ring to form around the iris/at the edge of the cornea (called a Kayser-Fleischer ring).
Antagonists
Yoji Kiryu
Yoji Kiryu
"It's Guillotine time!"
Actor: Masashi Kagami
A delinquent and a more recent addition to S.O.S. He has plans to dethrone Susumu and unify all gangs in Shibuya under the S.O.S. name.
- A House Divided: Kiryu's influence has split S.O.S. into one-half Susumu-supporter faction and one-half supporters of him. He plans on turning the gang against Susumu, succeeding him as leader and expanding S.O.S.' influence.
- Ax-Crazy: This guy's always itching for blood and clearly enjoys it more than he should. In two bad endings, he beats Achi and Minorikawa to bloody pulps with little provocation. On normal days, he likes pin people to a table with their head hanging off the edge and smash their skulls in with a move he likes to call "The Guillotine".
- Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: Uses a nail-bat and a pipe. The nail-bat was probably his go-to, although Minorikawa did suggest that there are better alternatives in order to get Kiryu to back off. His pipe's too covered in blood to have been only recently employed... maybe.
- Glass Cannon: He is good at dishing out damage but goes down in one punch from Achi.
- I Lied: About agreeing to help Achi at the Scramble rendezvous. He only said that to get Achi to comply with his terms.
- Japanese Delinquent: Kiryu and his ilk fit the more textbook example compared to Susumu and his faction's "Good Samaritan Gang" etiquette.
Ozu and Segawa
Asao Ozu and Yutaro Segawa
Members of the Tenryu-gumi yakuza syndicate. The Tenryu-gumi operates a lending firm called Takarada Financing, and these two have been tasked with collecting outstanding debts.
- Beware the Silly Ones: They're involved in the majority of the slapstick and comedy of much of the early game, but they can also result in numerous bad endings for the heroes. Minorikawa states they will likely kill or sell Hana to slavery if they get their hands on her and they don't refute it.
- Bullying a Dragon: They expect to bully Tama easily for Yanagishita's location. They're proven very wrong.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Ozu hates The Oath-Breaker, once someone make a promise he expects the person to keep it. He forces Segawa to impersonate the gandson of a woman he tried to con because Segawa promised he will call her every week.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Segawa's violently eager to get into a brawl. Ozu's more relaxed, but all too happy to unleash Segawa on others if needed.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: They vanish from the plot in the final hours, quickly replaced by the more serious Katayama.
Tariq Al-Karawan
Tariq Al-Karawan
Terrorist leader and presumed mastermind behind the kidnapping of Hitomi.- The Brute: Him and his crew serves as this for Alphard, he is himself particularly tall and one of the few character that can hold his own against Achi in a direct fight.
- Knight of Cerebus: For the first half of the game him and the Man with the cane are the major source of tension as they are out to kill the protagonists.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Stanley only whispers a few words in his ears to make him give all the info he has, given all his organization is dead and Alphard double crossed him he has a good reason to give up.
- Middle Eastern Terrorists: He's from the Middle East.note
- Slasher Smile: Sports one most of the time.
- Unwitting Pawn: He was only in it for the ransom money.
Leland Palmer
Leland Palmer / "Alphard"
"I am, ah, very worried for her. My heart, it is with her family."
Actor: Blake Crawford
Hitomi's unassuming English professor turns out to be Alphard, the diabolical destructionist that terrorizes the world. Actually is an accomplice to the real Alphard and a proxy sent to meet Hitomi at the Scramble.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: A bespectacled man who threw his hat in with a known global terrorist.
- Flat Character: Considering how fleshed out the side characters are, it's odd how little we know about this guy.
- Not Afraid to Die: Invoked and subverted. When he threatens to drop vials of the Ua virus, Kano points out that he'd die too. Leland shrugs this off. Nevertheless, Kano sees right through him because he knows the look of someone who's prepared to die and this guy ain't one.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: He pretends to be a fumbling lecturer who can't speak Japanese very well to deflect suspicion.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Though uncertain is the extent his ties to any side, he sold Hitomi out despite having known her long enough for her to trust him. For his troubles, he gets a whole ton of C4 hidden in his suitcase because Alphard hates loose ends.
- Unwitting Pawn: He goes to the Scramble thinking his role is to take Hitomi's blood for Alphard. In truth Alphard had the blood three hours ago and Leland was simply an unknowing suicide bomber.
- Western Terrorists: Working in collaboration with Alphard.
Alphard
"Canaan" / Alphard al-Shua
"If you achieve your goals using accidental means, the outline becomes blurred, and it makes it harder for anyone outside, looking in, to grasp what the actual plan is."
Actress: Tiggy Williams (live action), Maaya Sakamoto (voice actress)
A girl claiming to be the friend Maria met on her trip to the Middle East. She arrived in Shibuya to protect the Osawa twins and take vengeance on a sworn enemy. In actuality, she is Alphard, the mastermind behind the whole plot.
- Action Girl: Can go toe-to-toe with the real Canaan, a trained soldier with Super-Senses. Also capable of single-handedly dispatching and even killing multiple crime syndicate members.
- Arch-Enemy: To the real Canaan.
- Big Bad: The one in charge of planning the entire kidnapping operation, with the end goal of killing Kenji Osawa and both of his daughters, as well as obtaining a sample of the antiviral while destroying the rest. Also has absolutely no qualms with backstabbing her collaborators, collaterally killing many innocents in bomb explosions, and even threatening the entirety of Japan with the spread of the Ua Virus.
- Bolivian Army Ending: In the true ending. The final scene is has her and the real Canaan pulling a gun on each other, followed by a Smash to Black and the sound of shots being fired.
- Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: Her cover persona as she is basically a terrorist for hire with a love for casualties. Jack can theorize the bombs were solely to indicriminately create chaos in Japan but thinks while it fit her profile she usually has ulterior motives behind them.
- Detective Mole: She spends most of the story impersonating her arch-nemesis Canaan, and makes a big show of trying to hunt down the evil arms dealer behind the entire plot, to the point that she's the first one to even bring up Alphard's name.
- Do Well, But Not Perfect: Her plans are made to have deliberate holes and fallacies in them. Disasters and coincidences help to hide her movement and makes it more difficult to tell what exactly she's after.
- Gambit Pileup: Hoo boy, where to even start? She has Batman Gambits one after the other. She pretends to be Canaan's friend so that Maria will agree on the kidnapping plan, plays on Tanaka's envy to sabotage Osawa, lets Daisuke know about Hitomi to get Tateno to interfere and manages to manipulate Hitomi throughout all this into a position where Alphard could steal her blood without anyone noticing. And that's only scratching the surface.
- Hope Crusher: In Canaan's route, Alphard decides that instead of killing Canaan she should Corrupt the Cutie in order to stamp out the last of Siam's hope posthumously.
- Karma Houdini: In the normal ending, she ends up quietly released by the CIA, since the entire operation to obtain a sample of the antiviral and destroy the rest was their doing.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: In the true ending, while being escorted through the airport by the CIA, she is ambushed by Canaan and ends up facing off against her in a Bolivian Army Ending. (Although the Canaan anime reveals she managed to get away and continue her operations as a terrorist.)
- The Man Behind the Man: Was behind Leland pretending to be Alphard. She herself is in front of the CIA, being one of its regular assets.
- Metaphorically True: While she isn't the same Canaan that Maria befriended in the Middle East, the Canaan anime prequel indicates that she was the original holder of the name Canaan until she graduated from Siam's training.
- Near-Villain Victory: EVERYTHING that happens in the game, up to the final timeblock, goes exactly as she intends. It is only due to a series of sheer coincidences (the theatre troupe's dry ice machine showing up, Minorikawa fulfilling his promise to save Kano time, & Maria bringing the pendant-bomb too close to her) that her plan falls apart in the end.
- Even then, she still manages to achieve one of her major goals: Obtaining a sample of the antiviral from Hitomi's blood, which she extracted while shielding Hitomi from the minivan explosion.
- The Perfectionist: She is not satisfied unless her Gambit Roulette gives the best outcome, and even though she already has the antiviral a few hours before the game's climax she is still annoyed because they could not destroy the antiviral cache and the protagonists survived her bombs. One of her grudges toward Canaan is that she made her outright fail her assignment.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: She's has connections high up in the CIA. In both the normal and true endings, she was quietly released a few minutes after her arrest.
- South Asian Terrorists: Alphard's bio is unknown, but some players/critics suspects that she could have some Arab origins since the game indicates that Siam trained someone who's from a reputable family in Jordannote and she kickstarts the entire game's story with a bioterrorist plan.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Loves doing this. Need to get rid of Tanaka and gain Hitomi's and Achi's trust? Cause an explosion. Need to get rid of Leland? Cause an explosion. Need to destroy excess supplies of the antiviral? Cause an explosion. She's also responsible for the Chicago bombing that killed Frank Stanley, Jack's brother.
- The Reveal: The final timeblock reveals her true identity as Alphard; she has merely pretended to be Canaan to gain Hitomi and everyone's trust, in order to access the lab containing the antiviral.
- The Unfought: For Kano and Achi, the two protagonists who are actually playable for the entirety of the game. Instead, she is confronted by the 11th-Hour Ranger duo of Tateno and Jack Stanley.
