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Tarō Komori
Tarō Komori
Voiced by: Kensho Ono (Japanese), Clint Bickham (English)
- All Love Is Unrequited: Tarō seems to have romantic feelings for Miyako.
- Crossdresser: Tarou at one point dresses up as a Miko in an attempt to rescue Miyako.
- Dark and Troubled Past: See Organ Theft and Sole Survivor.
- Easy Amnesia: Tarou has this due to head trauma.
- Organ Theft: Taro and Mizuka were kidnapped by a member of a child organ trafficking ring, though circumstances made the kidnapper demand a ransom instead.
- Past Experience Nightmare: A major plot point for Tarou, who records them on a tape recorder.
- Sole Survivor: Tarō and his older sister, Mizuka, were kidnapped 11 years ago, on September 22, 1996. Only Tarō survived the incident.
- Sleepyhead: He's narcoleptic.
- True Companions: By the end with Makoto and Masayuki.
Makoto Ōgami
Makoto Ōgami
Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi (Japanese), Jessie James Grelle (English)
- Byronic Hero: He's angst and broody with a Dark and Troubled Past.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Courtesy of his Parental Issues.
- Delinquents
- Disappeared Dad: His father committed a bizarre suicide.
- Famous Ancestor: Makoto's family founded a religion of which his elderly grandmother, Himeko, currently serves as the central point.
- Hates Their Parent: He hates his mom for having left him.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He's brooding and hot-tempered.
- Jerkass: May or not have a Hidden Heart of Gold, and is certainly a
Jerkass Woobie. - Meaningful Name: Makoto's name is spelled with the kanji 信, which means something like "faith", "honesty", and "trust".
- Parental Abandonment: His mother abandoned him. He later meets up with her again finding out she has remarried.
- Parental Issues: His father committed suicide and his mother suffers from deep depression and attempted to commit suicide by overdosing on pills and maybe even burning her house.
- Perpetual Frowner
- Skipping School: He rarely comes to school.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome
- True Companions: By the end with Masayuki and Tarou.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: He eventually learns how to transform his spirit into the form of a wolf-like hound.
Masayuki Nakajima
Masayuki Nakajima
Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Corey Hartzog (English)
- Face Your Fears: He has tried standing on the edge of the school roof, to cure his fear of heights.
- Generation Xerox: Masayuki and his dad both fall for Outori. The boys vow, however, not to drift apart and stay friends, unlike their parents.
- Meaningful Name: Masayuki's name is spelled with the kanji 匡幸, the first kanji meaning something like "to save", "to correct", or "assist" and the second one meaning "happiness".
- New Transfer Student
- No Sense of Personal Space: Masayuki does not seem to understand that flinging an arm around someone you just met and hanging off them while speaking directly into their face might come off as a bit weird.
- No Social Skills: Masayuki simply does not know the meaning of the word 'tact.'
- Primal Fear: He's afraid of heights. This comes from a time when he bullied someone to suicide by jumping off the school roof.
- The Atoner: Since he bullied someone to suicide by jumping off the school roof, and the victim left a message on the blackboard cursing Masayuki. He later decides to intervene in the bullying of one of his classmates.
- The Bully: Formerly.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Starts out as this until they eventually warm up to him.
- True Companions: By the end with Makoto and Tarou.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: He eventually develops the ability to evoke the same weaponry from his virtual reality video game in his spirit form.
Miyako Komagusu
Miyako Komagusu
Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)
- All of the Other Reindeer: After it's shown that she's possessed by spirits, everyone in her class starts to avoid her.
- I See Dead People: She has the ability to see ghosts.
- Innocent Blue Eyes
- Miko: She lives at a shrine.
- Oracular Urchin
- Silent Treatment: When Taro told her that she might be the reincarnation of his sister, she gets very upset and starts ignoring Taro as if she'd never known him.
- Split Personality: Sort of.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Miyako looks eerily similar to Mizuka, which eventually leads Taro to believe that she's her reincarnation.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: She acts rather mature for her age, often chiding the older boys for acting childish, and even scolding her father when he attempts to drink too much.
Takahito Komagusu
Takahito Komagusu
Voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto (Japanese), Chris Ayres (English)
Ryōya Komori
Ryōya Komori
Voiced by: Fumihiko Tachiki (Japanese), Justin Doran (English)
- The Bartender: He's a sake brewer.
Miki Komori
Atsushi Hirata
Atsushi Hirata
Voiced by: Yoshinori Fujita (Japanese), Jay Hickman (English)
Masato Kaibara
Masato Kaibara
Voiced by: Show Hayami (Japanese), Illich Guardiola (English)
Kei Yakushi
Kei Yakushi
Voiced by: Mitsuki Saiga (Japanese), Shelley Calene-Black (English)
- All Love Is Unrequited: She has a crush on Kaibara.
Yasuhiro Nakajima
Yasuhiro Nakajima
Voiced by: Tōru Ōkawa (Japanese), Andrew Love (English)
Reika Ōtori
Reika Ōtori
Voiced by: Michiko Neya (Japanese), Kaytha Coker (English)
- Animal Testing: Outori has some specially prepared rats in a maze.
- Boyish Short Hair
- Head-Turning Beauty: She's a real headturner throughout the whole series.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: She's a neurologist.
- Ms. Fanservice: Is the show's sole source of some moderate display of boobs and legs.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: She's a scientist.
Michio Hoshino
Michio Hoshino
Voiced by: Shintarō Asanuma (Japanese), Blake Shepard (English)
Himeko Ōgami
Himeko Ōgami
Voiced by: Ikuko Tani (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)
- Evil Matriarch
- Follow in My Footsteps: She wishes that Makoto succeed her as its head, though Makoto is not interested in it.
Motoi Yazaki
Motoi Yazaki
Voiced by: Jin Uruyama (Japanese), John Swasey (English)
- Corrupt Politician: Appears to be one of these.
Mizuka Komori
Mizuka Komori
Voiced by: Kaori Shimizu (Japanese), Serena Varghese (English)
- Organ Theft: Taro and Mizuka were kidnapped by a member of a child organ trafficking ring, though circumstances made the kidnapper demand a ransom instead.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She's killed fairly early in the series.
