Characters / Gleipnir

Characters appearing in the anime series Gleipnir. Work in progress.

Main Characters

Shuichi Kagaya

Shuichi Kagaya

Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae, Natsumi Fujiwara (young) (Japanese), Ry McKeand, Emily Fajardo (young) (English)

Just be glad you're not him.

^{Click here} to see his monster form.

A high-school boy who, through unknown circumstances, can transform into a monster resembling a dog-themed mascot suit. His attempts to keep a low profile comes to a halt when he saves Clair from a suicide attempt and he finds himself dragged into her quest to find her sister. At first, he wants nothing to do with Clair but circumstances push them together and he comes to believe that she is his best hope towards finding a cure to his condition.

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• Action Survivor: Despite the strength granted by the transformation, Shuichi doesn't want to hurt anybody and would rather run away from a fight, which forces Clair to take control of his body.
• Afraid of Their Own Strength: The anime expands a bit on his motives and reveals that he's afraid of transforming, seeing as he never asked for his powers, doesn't know how he got them, and they don't come with an user's manual. His fears are all perfectly rational and logical.
  • What if he gets stuck in body-suit form?
  • What if he changes form against his will?
  • What if he loses control while transformed? Note that this one has empirical evidence to support it.
  • What if this transformation will kill him in and of itself?
• Amnesiac Hero: His memories of his time with Elena are locked inside his head, and he can't access them, but others can!
• Beast Man: His monster form seems to be this! As a dog monster, his sense of smell is stronger than an average dog, his fur and mouth seem to be real & his costume form has flesh!
• Bloodless Carnage: When the head of his suit form gets ripped off by Elena, he doesn't bleed. While he doesn't have blood in this form, though, it's established that being ripped apart could have killed him.
• Chick Magnet: He was in a relationship with Elena until she wiped his memories, Clair gradually grows to have feelings for him, Chihiro is implied to have gained something of an awkward crush on him in some way or another - but all of this comes with the fact that he's either trying to save them from dying or in Elena's case are straight up Yandere for him, creating insanely unhealthy situations. About the only normal person with no strings attached that might've had feelings for him was Hana, and she stopped appearing because Shuichi's regular life has effectively become a non-factor.
• Creepy Mascot Suit: He transforms into a patchwork cartoon dog mascot costume, one which happens to be organic and hollow on the inside. Very much a Creepy Good example.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The sounds he makes when a girl climbs inside his body-suit form are wildly suggestive. This is especially prominent when Clair is the one climbing inside, as she sports the same lines as a guy would when deflowering a girl.
• Equippable Ally: He is technically this in his monster form. However, only women can utilize his abilities to their fullest. The first time a man tried entering him and using his body, it was a very uncomfortable experience for both.
• Fusion Dance: Shuichi is capable of fusing with whoever is currently controlling his body under certain circumstances and doing so creates a being with obscene levels of power. So far, only Chihiro was capable of fusing with Shuichi after the two were nearly killed, and Elena has managed it with him in the past. Clair experiments to find out the hard way via shooting herself inside Shuichi that it seems to either be an automatic response to the person inside of him being fatally wounded, or Shuichi's urge to save someone within him in absolute emotional honesty that causes it.
• Gaining the Will to Kill: At the start of the story, he was deeply hesitant to harm or kill others, even in legitimate clear-cut self-defense, when there was no other viable option. By the time one of Madoka's group of thugs followed him home, having gone total Revenge Myopia against Clair for wiping them out, after they tried to straight up murder everyone in Sayaka's group first, the fool went full tilt You Wouldn't Shoot Me. Shuichi then shot him to death, telling Clair "it's all taken care of."
• Goofy Suit: Shuichi's monster form looks like a mascot dog costume, and is able to have a person enter from the back to control him, which Clair often does.Comes with a side of realism: In suit form, Shuichi's field of vision is no wider than a person wearing the suit would have. He's also pretty clumsy on his own, thanks to his bulky shape and limited internal support.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Shuichi didn't ask to be stuck with his condition and hopes that he can find a way to get rid of it.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Feminine Boy towards Clair's Masculine Girl. While Clair is aggressive, uncaring in the face of death itself and takes crap from no one, he is meek, submissive and would rather run rather than consciously harm anyone.
• Minor Living Alone: His parents leave him to his own devices for years at a time, for work related reasons. The time of the story is one of those times. Until Shuichi finds out that they’ve actually been Ret-Gone by Honoka.
• Off with His Head!: Clair's sister rips off his head at one point, with her bare hands! Fortunately, he was in his fur-suit form at the time, or he'd be dead.
• Parental Abandonment: His parents leave for work before he gets up, and get home after he goes to bed. Or so he thinks. Turns out his parents were erased by "Honoka" during the period he can't remember. Elena's deletion of his memories, plus the Ret-Gone effect of "Honoka" erasing someone, basically papered over the fact that he hasn't seen his parents in about six months.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: He wore glasses after getting his powers to keep secret the fact that he has gained better than 20/20 vision. Once he teams up with Clair and starts facing off against other "monsters", he stops wearing glasses all together.
• Scars Are Forever: After Elena rips his head off in monster form, once he reattaches it and is healed, he gains a scar around his neck denoting where his head was initially torn off from.
• Super-Senses: He has a sense of smell that can rival a bloodhound, even in his "human" form.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Shuichi and Clair obviously don't like working with each other. They only do so because circumstances force them to. This is later shown to be a bad thing as it prevents Clair from using the full potential of Shuichi’s power.
• These Hands Have Killed: A literal case during is fight with Hikawa. Although it was Clair who pulled the trigger, she used his hands to do so.
• Unprovoked Pervert Payback: On the receiving end. A female classmate was sitting atop her desk, with her panties right in full view of his face, with both of them completely unaware. When her female friends point this out, she looks down at herself and then at Shuichi, who had his mind on other matters, and was only made aware when his male friends pointed it out. At that point, the female classmate in question throws a book at his face with enough force to knock him and the chair he's sitting in over while yelling "pervert" at him.

Clair Aoki

Clair Aoki

Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)

She knows what she wants and she will do whatever it takes to get it.

An enigmatic girl Shuichi saved from committing suicide after her older sister Elena disappeared after killing their parents. Having caught a glimpse of his monster form, she blackmails him into helping her to find her sister and, hopefully, a cure to his condition.

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• Action Survivor: Clair has no actual fighting ability of her own, relying on her on-the-fly strategies and Shuichi's powers to help her survive from battle to battle. If she were caught by an enemy Collector outside of Shuichi, it's effectively guaranteed death.
• Amnesiac Hero: She doesn't even know which of her memories are missing. It's not until Elena outright admits that she screwed with them that she's fully aware she's got a problem.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: She knows Shuichi is very, very sexually attracted to her and is distraught that he never takes her up on it when she is underclothed around him. There's also the fact that when Shuichi pulled her out of the fire that she was using to try and commit suicide, one of the things he does is pull down her panties while he thinks she's unconscious, presumably as a result of some kind of fugue. She was clearly not happy when he let go and ran away.
• Badass Normal: She is the only member of Sayaka's group who hasn't used a coin to gain powers. However, she is the most badass by far, to the point of ruthlessness.She eventually decides to use her coin so that she can be a greater asset to Shuichi.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Down the line she becomes quite possessive of Shuichi if other girls interact with him, especially when Chihiro gets involved. With how unpredictable the girl can be, Chihiro actually fears reprisal over it.
• Combat Pragmatist: What makes her so feared is not what she can do, but what she's willing to do.
• Death Seeker: She resents the fact that Shuichi interrupted her first suicide, and would very much like to die. The only reason she's not trying to kill herself now is the fact that she promised Shuichi to be Together in Death with him.
• Fusion Dance: Eventually manages to do this with Shuichi after she works out the key to triggering it (and shoots herself in the stomach while inside of him).
• Instant Expert: The very first time she climbed into Shuichi's body-suit form, she could already control him perfectly. Yoshioka tried it and tripped over her own feet.
• Interrupted Suicide: Twice, both averted by Shuichi.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Gains one when she and Shuichi fuse completely. Combined with her Super-Reflexes listed below, the two can put out serious enough Blade Spam to beat a regenerator like Kaito.
• Minor Living Alone: She lives alone in an efficiency style condo.
• Ms. Fanservice: A rare negative example. She has no problem showing off her figure towards Shuichi and even goes inside his monster form wearing nothing except lingerie, which is meant to illustrate that she isn't a pleasant or sane person.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Masculine Girl towards Shuichi's Feminine Boy. She is aggressive, uncaring in the face of death itself and takes crap from no one. He is meek, submissive and would rather run rather than consciously harm anyone.
• Master of the Mixed Message: She has no problem showing off her nude body, but she gets angry when people go Eating the Eye Candy, gets pouty that Shuichi doesn't act on it when she's underclothed, but then turns around and makes death-threats to enforce that he keep his distance...
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She tries to convince "Honoka" to erase herself to stop her from erasing everyone who knew the real Honoka. She even promises to let her erase her too so that they can be Together in Death. This backfires horribly when "Honoka" decides that Clair alone is not enough to satisfy her loneliness, and decides to erase all of humanity instead. Not only does this put the entire world in danger rather than a few select people, but it gives "Honoka" a purpose outside of Kaito's wish (meaning that she will continue to exist and erase people even after Kaito's defeat).
• Power Gives You Wings: She and Shuichi gain a pair of wings in their fused form after Elena passes her power to them.
• Ship Tease: She gets along better with Shuichi in the anime than the manga, and the two do flirt quite a bit. The fanbase approves of the change, thinking it's rather cute. They end up together at the end of the manga.
• Super-Reflexes: Her eventual power of choice, along with absolute control of her own body.
• The Strategist: Of all the teams she's been in, she makes the strategies that lead to victory. She's so good at it, many of her opponents call her "Demon."
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Shuichi and Clair obviously don't like working with each other. They only do so because circumstances force them to. As time passes, however, Clair begins to enjoy their partnership and gets jealous if anyone else enters Shuichi.
• Together in Death: She made a promise with Shuichi that, if he dies, she’ll follow him soon after. When it seems like Elena killed Shuichi, Clair was ready to follow through on that promise.
• Toxic Friend Influence: The longer Clair and Shuichi are together, the more clear it becomes that while Clair is slowly gaining some semblance of morality and self, Shuichi is gradually losing those same things due to her.
• Trash of the Titans: In the anime, her apartment is an unmitigated disaster of clutter, until Shuichi had Clair clean it up as "training practice" while she was inside him. Clair, collapsed on the floor, in a school-swimsuit, sarcastically retorts that he has a bizarre "fetish."
• You Monster!:
  • Many other characters call her "Demon" because of her Good Is Not Soft and Combat Pragmatist strategies. Even a pre-amnesiac Shuichi did so, while choking her with his hands as he was transforming!
  • She also does the same when dealing with a Collector, calling them "monsters" even Shuichi, though with him, it's come to be a term of endearment.
• Younger Than They Look: Would you believe she's Shuichi's junior by two years? None of the other characters do, until they check out the school's class-roster and verify it.

Elena's Group

Elena Aoki

Elena Aoki

Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (Japanese), Morgan Garrett (English)

Clair? Why did it have to be you?

Clair's older sister and the one responsible for Shuichi being able to transform into a fur-suit that people can climb into.

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• All for Nothing: Ultimately, she did everything she did to protect Clair and Shuichi from the war against Kaito and Honoka, and to prevent the latter from enacting his own plan to sacrifice himself to stop Honoka. Ultimately, Shuichi and Clair end up forcing themselves back into the situation anyway, and Shuichi enacts his original plan regardless.
• The Atoner: Everything involving Kaito and "Honoka" is a miserable memory for her that she has absolved herself into trying to fix. Of course, she doesn't care much about whatever happens to anyone else along the way.
• Benevolent Boss: Leads her team of psychos with a firm but gentle hand.
• Berserk Button: Hearing a girl's voice inside Shuichi's suit sends her into a frenzy, ripping off Shuichi's head to find out who's taking what she calls "my spot" in Shuichi.
• For Your Own Good: She justifies to herself that since her father was a Corrupt Politician and her mother screwed around on him behind his back, sooner or later, someone was going to come along and kill them, so she did it herself, to spare Clair from being caught in the collateral damage. Turns out that was a lie. She really killed her parents to avoid them being taken by Honoka, just like Shuichi's parents were. Then she erased Shinichi's and Clair's memories so that they could go on living away from the fighting.
• Fusion Dance: Does one with pre-amnesia Shuichi to fight Kaito.
• Hitman with a Heart: She is a professional killer but she still loves Clair and Shuichi, sort-of.
• Hypocrite: Elena took Shuichi's memories to keep him from enacting a plan that would have resulted in his death, only to enact her own plan that would have resulted in her own death. Said plan ultimately failed because she truly did not want to die.
• Implacable Man: If she's trying to kill you, You Are Already Dead. She's Immune to Bullets, intangible, can teleport, and has Super-Strength to the point that she can rip off a person's head with her bare hands!
• Man of Kryptonite: Her memory erasure power makes her a complete anathema to Honoka; the hard part is getting close enough to make contact.
• Mercy Kill: What she actually did to her parents.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She's horrified when she realizes she ripped of Shuichi's head, for a brief moment, and then goes right back to talking to Clair like that's no big deal.
• No Social Skills: Even before meeting the Alien, she wasn't good around people.
• Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: When Shuichi, being driven by Clair, points a gun at her, she believes he wants her dead for tricking him into drinking the potion that made him a Living Body Suit, and asks him to follow her somewhere more remote so civilians don't get dragged into the mess, and then offers up her life if it will satisfy his grudge, until she hears Clair's voice and then goes full-tilt yandere, ripping off his head to see who's inside.
• Self-Made Orphan: She killed both her and Clair's parents to save them from Honoka.
• Standing Between the Enemies: She gets between the Fusion form and Subaru's monster form and blocks both their attacks with ease, ending the fight.
• Villainous Rescue: She shows up and rescues Subaru from the righteous fury of the fusion between Yoshioka and Shuichi.
• Wistful Amnesia: She thinks she's erasing inconvenient memories from her former boy-friend Shuichi and her sister Claire, but she's actually just making it impossible for them to remember them, similar to how "deleting" a file doesn't actually delete it. Chihiro realizes this when she picked up Shuichi's memories during their Fusion Dance.
• Yandere: She thinks the best way to show affection is to trick her love interest into drinking a medicine that will invoke a Forced Transformation into a Living Bodysuit to then climb in and take control, and that the best way to show affection to her sister Clair is to kill both their parents before someone else comes along to do it. In the end, none of this turns out to be the case and her Yandere-like actions only looked like that because the audience lacked all of the information to understand the situation. She killed her and Clair's parents because Honoka was threatening to make them disappear, so to save them from that fate, she killed them herself. Shuichi took the potion willingly so that he and Elena could fight together to defeat Kaito. She eventually took Shuichi's and Clair's memories, both so that they would stay away from the fighting and so that they couldn't stop her from enacting her ultimate plan to stop Honoka, which would have costed her her life, and to keep Shuichi from moving forward with his own plan, which would have resulted in his death.

Subaru

Subaru

Voiced by: Yo Taichi (Japanese), Suzie Yeung (English)

I'll Kill You!

Oh, you saw a kid and think I'm an idiot?!

The first of Elena's compatriots that gets named in the manga.

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• Axe-Crazy: He is so demonstrably unstable that he makes Elena look completely sane by comparison. His team-mate telling him to drop Yoshioka's wallet results in death threats until Elena herself tells him to cool it, at which point he wanders off, sulking. When Shuichi shows up and very politely asks him to return the wallet, he responds by transforming and squeezing Shuichi's dog-suit form so hard, he winds up looking like a wrung out, very-well worn dish-rag, leading to a knock-down, drag-out fight to the death between the Fusion form of Yoshioka and Shuichi vs himself, with him on the losing end if not for Elena showing up.
• Casting a Shadow: He summons shadows that then transform into his "monster" form, which he rides like a Humongous Mecha.
• Enfante Terrible: He's considerably younger than Elena, herself a third year high-schooler, and he's a complete and total nutjob who will kill you brutally over something as minor as a wallet with only 2000 yen inside.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He will flip his shit and become murderously violent for even the tiniest reason, or no reason at all.
• The Juggernaut: His form is huge, strong, fast, and can tank considerable amounts of damage.
• Multiple Head Case: His transformation has two heads.
• Sensor Character: The last chapter reveals that he can locate anyone he has ever met once, which allows him to inform Clair that Shuichi is still alive in disguise.
• Vetinari Job Security: The nature of his transformation power is the only reason his team-mates put up with him. If not for that, he'd have been taken care of long ago, and he knows it.

Naoto

Naoto

Voiced by: Ryōta Ōsaka, Satsumi Matsuda (young) (Japanese), Howard Wang, Hayden Daviau (young) (English)

That evil thing is not Honoka!

I'm cooler and more badass, Shuichi!

The third man of Elena's team.

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• Goofy Suit: His transformation is nearly identical to Shuichi.
• In the Hood: When not in his fur-suit, he wears a hoodie that tends to hide his face.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: His transformation form is a fur-suit, like Shuichi's, even has the zipper int the back.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Kaito, and the feeling is mutual.

Sayaka's Group

Sayaka Koyanagi

Sayaka Koyanagi

Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (Japanese), Lindsay Sheppard (English)

Of course, I don't do this with men. That would be disgusting!

Current leader of the group, who assumed the position following the death of its previous leader, Sudo.

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• Eating the Eye Candy: Though she has the tact to be discreet about it. When Claire emerges from Shuichi's suit-form, nude, she states aloud that she's grateful Claire showed her something beautiful.
• Explosive Leash: Her power takes a braid of her hair and fuses it with your throat. Once this has been completed, disclose any of the group's secrets or feel like you betrayed the group and this will kill you by Off with His Head!.
• Freudian Excuse: She was in a romantic and sexual relationship with one of her teachers. The teacher, fearing the consequences, cut all ties with her. Scared, confused, and hurt, she went to a trusted friend for advice. Said "friend" made the Teacher/Student Romance public, causing the teacher to hang herself. This broke Sayaka, and she never recovered.
• I Owe You My Life: She agrees to have her group help Claire and Shuichi deal with Elena because Claire rescued them from the deprivations of Madoka's cult.
• Logical Weakness: Her power only activates if the target feels like they betrayed the group. It won’t activate if the target successfully convinces themselves they didn’t betray the group, like Ikeuchi did after he ran away and left the group to deal with Madoka and his men. Also, her power is completely useless against anyone who doesn't voluntarily let her use it on them.
• Psycho Lesbian: She's only attracted to other women, and enforces their secrecy via Explosive Leash. She also tries to trick Clair into having sex with her.
• Sexual Extortion: When she's got Clair asking to join the group, Sayaka states that there's a ritual Clair has to go through to join or no dice then takes Clair to a back-room, immediately strips, and starts with the sexual harassment. It's not until Clair asks if she does this to men too that she reveals there's no sexual component to undergoing the ritual to join the group. Clair is deeply uncomfortable when she found out.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: She sees nothing wrong in stripping and sexing up a woman she just met, despite not trusting her in the slightest.

Sudo

Sudo

Voiced by: Ryunosuke Watanuki (Japanese), Steven Kelly (English)

You are now my slaves!

The founder of Sayaka's group.

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• Blackmail: He takes a photo of Clair and Shuichi's human form and walks up to them demanding they sign-on as his slaves or he will broadcast the image. This does not go as planned.
• Fatal Flaw: Impatience. Had he simply listened to Tadanori, Clair, and Shuichi exchange contact information, he could have confronted them separately and had much higher chances of blackmailing them successfully. Since he went and confronted them face to face, even gloating how he was going to "enjoy Clair", Tadanori gets the opportunity to walk right up and slice him in half.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Rounding up slaves via blackmail is not only the reason Sayaka's group exists, but his cell-phone's contact list is how Clare and Shuichi were able to join up, even temporarily. Tadanori actually thanks him for this.
• Rape as Drama: He gloats about intending to rape Clair, this results in his death at the hands of Sanbe.
• Too Dumb to Live: He saw how strong Sanbe is, along with Shuichi and Clair, who held him off and caused him to submit, and rather than wait in the shadows and listen to them exchange contact information, to then confront them separately, walks out of the forest and tries to blackmail them face to face. Tadanori responds by vertically bisecting him.

Ikeuchi

Ikeuchi

Voiced by: Shoya Chiba (Japanese), Daman Mills (English)

Who are you, and what do you want?

Get away from him, Yoshioka!!

The second member of Sayaka's crew introduced to the audience, after Sudo.

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• Blackmail: A victim of it. He was dragged into Sayaka's group by Sudo blackmailing him.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Emphasis on crazy. Especially since there's no romantic relationship between them in the first place, aside from his own perverted imaginations.
• Despair Event Horizon: After he ran away from the conflict with Madoka's group, he had nothing else to do or work for as everyone didn't bother to care about him, and he somehow found out Chihiro was also effectively doomed to die by "Honoka". This led to him keeping Madoka's 100 coins if he had to revive her, and being so broken by the mere idea that he didn't matter that he would help it all go down as a result.
• Dirty Coward: He runs away rather than help the rest of the group deal with Madoka and his followers.
• Entitled to Have You: To Chihiro. He insists that she's his girlfriend. She, however, is completely uninterested.
• Final Boss: He becomes Shuichi and Clair's final opponent after foiling Shuichi's attempt to absorb "Honoka", absorbing her into himself and turning Omnicidal Maniac after realizing that Chihiro has already been killed and erased.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and is an asshat.
• Last-Name Basis: He addresses everyone in the group by last name.
• Mundane Utility: When he's in "telescope" mode, what he sees can be played back as either a picture or video to others, can be copied to a smart-phone or computer, and can even be stored remotely, on-line, in the digital cloud. Pretty damn convenient when Chihiro and Shuichi wound up missing and he's the only eye-witness to the last time they were seen.
• Original Position Fallacy: Invoked. He cries out that if they fight Madoka's army of psychos, they're all dead, and someone should be sacrificed, so Clair walks up and thanks him for volunteering.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Stabs Shuichi just after he had absorbed "Honoka", letting her loose once again while rambling about how it's not Shuichi's story and that the world doesn't revolve around him in a deliberate attempt at a counterpoint to Shuichi's final acceptance of his protagonist position. Considering it's because Ikeuchi is still mad as hell about Chihiro and his rant focuses on how everyone forgot about him, however, it rings incredibly hollow.
• Taking You with Me: After his What Happened to the Mouse? for several arcs in the manga, he reappears just as it seems the day is saved in the final battle to fuck over Shuichi's last ditch effort to save the world, and then attempt to revive Chihiro with his coins — effectively repeating the calamity that created "Honoka" in the first place. All because he absolutely despised Shuichi that much and was even more enraged that everyone simply didn't care what happened to him.
• The Peeping Tom: He uses his "telescope" transformation to spy on Chihiro at vulnerable moments. He even grabbed his groin while watching her climb into Shuichi, nude.
• Wild Card: Just when it seems the final battle is over, Ikeuchi comes completely out of nowhere and uses Madoka's 100 coins given to him to completely undo everyone's progress thinking it's what Shuichi and the world deserves for not caring about him.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After the encounter with Madoka's group, he simply disappears. Nobody knows what happened to him. It’s later revealed he met Madoka before his death and obtained his bag of coins and is currently stalking Chihiro. Becomes Death by Adaptation in the anime, as he attempts to warn Madoka about the poisonous smoke from the burning oleander. The hair necklace Sayaka attached to him activates, beheading him.

Chihiro Yoshioka

Chihiro Yoshioka

Voiced by: Kana Ichinose (Japanese), Michelle Marie (English)

I can't share other people's secrets, but you can ask about me!

^{Click here} to see her monster form.

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• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: When she meets Shuichi for the first time, in body-suit form, she asks to pet his head while Clair's away. When Clair comes back and sees it, she's not amused.
• Fusion Dance: Manages to perform one with Shuichi while she's inside the bodysuit, trying to get her wallet back. This makes her powerful enough to go toe to toe with a guy who can literally squash Shuichi's body-suit form like tin-foil, and Shuichi can punch through concrete walls.
• Gut Feeling: She can sense what animals (and people are animals) are thinking by petting them.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: When she gets inside Shuichi, she doesn't tell him she got naked first. It isn't until he sees her clothing by the wayside that he figures it out, and she retorts that this is the only way she can keep her clothes clean after he had spelled out how ... wet it is inside there. This transitions into Reluctant Fanservice Girl when she starts to sense that Shuichi is "happy" that there's a naked girl inside him.
• Little Bit Beastly: Her monster form has animal ears atop her head.
• Morton's Fork: When Shuichi was helping her try to find her wallet, with ID inside, that she dropped in the mountains somewhere, she and Shuichi notice that the wallet is near a place with another "monster" that's way, way more powerful than he is, and is affiliated with Elena. The only two choices available? Either head to the wallet and try to negotiate its return, or flee like the wind and hope whoever it is that has the wallet doesn't attempt to do something nefarious with it. Shuichi chooses the former, over Yoshioka's protests, and when politely asking for the wallet to be returned, the guy in possession of it responds by literally crushing him like a used dish-rag.
• Save the Villain: She intervenes and allows Elena to escape, but she's got good reason. Elena's protecting her from "Honoka," and Elena spilling the beans on what memories she erased from Shuichi will ruin her ability to do so.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Her transformation only gives her animal ears atop her head which allows her to hear an animal’s thoughts.
• Your Days Are Numbered: She accidentally encountered the curse of "Honoka", and is being targeted for death by her as a result. The story thus becomes a race to defeat Kaito and solve the entity's mystery before Chihiro gets dragged into her dimension and slaughtered. Because "Honoka" erases her victims from people's memories, no one even realizes she's already dead during the final battle.

Youta Murakami

Youta Murakami

Voiced by: Takuma Terashima (Japanese), Kieran Flitton (English)

I don't need to hide my face. Got no "real life" to lose.

Supposedly the only one in Sayaka's group that has a fighting ability.

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• Badass in a Nice Suit: Supposedly...
• Badass Pacifist: Turns out that he is indeed stronger than Shuichi's body-suit form, but he doesn't like to fight much, because he has problems holding back and somebody always get grievously hurt. When somebody proves themselves to be absolutely deplorable, however, he’s far more willing to go all out.
• Casanova Wannabe: The moment Clair joins the group, he hits on her non-stop.
• Crime of Self-Defense: He was thrown out of high-school for jumping into a fight to save his friend, because one or more of the attackers wound up in the hospital, but apparently, the attackers putting the unnamed friend in the hospital, or the morgue, was a-okay!
• Eating the Eye Candy: In the most obvious and tactless manner possible. When a nude Claire, just having emerged from Shuichi's suit after a fierce battle, is standing before him, he smirks, looks her up and down, and gives her the "thumbs up" sign. Clare is clearly not amused by it.
• Informed Attribute: He's supposed to be a powerful fighter. It’s later revealed that that’s only in comparison to the rest of the group as he’s the only one of them to have a power suitable to fighting.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has shoulder-length hair and is quite handsome, but he's way too pushy to get a girlfriend.
• Megaton Punch: His power as a Collector.

Iseo

Iseo

Voiced by: Kazutomi Yamamoto (Japanese), Casey Mongillo (English)

I will go inside Shuichi!

The member of Sayaka's group that controls plants.

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• Call to Agriculture: He was a farmer and gardener before finding a coin and getting a wish.
• Closest Thing We Got: When Chihiro reveals that her Fusion Dance allowed her to read Shuichi's memories, Shuichi prepares to have her climb in again and try it, until Claire points out that "Honoka" could come at them the moment it's tried. And Claire can't fuse with him because only a coin-user can, or so goes the prevailing theory. With the rest of Sayaka's group flat-out refusing to participate, Iseo's their best option, to Shuichi's (and the audience's) chagrin.
• Green Thumb: His coin-related power is controlling plant growth.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: While his ability to control plant growth isn't very useful in a straight-up fight, its capacity as a support utility is near-limitless, with Claire building tremendous strategies around it on a repeated basis.

Miku Aihara

Miku Aihara

Voiced by: Hisako Kanemoto (Japanese), Sarah Anne Williams (English)

Welcome. Would you like me to heat this up?

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• Early-Bird Cameo: She's seen working at a convenience store by Shuichi and Clair when they go looking for Elena in Episode 3.
• Invisibility: Can turn herself invisible. She wears a cloak to allow her teammates to see her.
• Satellite Love Interest: She doesn't receive much characterization beyond being Sayaka's girlfriend.

Madoka's group.

As a Whole

• Drama-Preserving Handicap: Strength means nothing when you’re surrounded by burning oleander bushes as the smoke is poisonous enough to incapacitate you long enough for the fire to finish the job.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: They were all bums, outcasts, and total losers who couldn't grasp even the simplest of society's rules, but once they got their hands on coins and went to the Alien to turn them in, they became a major threat, going totally tribal, and if you come across them, it's Join or Die...
• The Hedonist: They just care about what brings them pleasure. They have no other goal in life.
• Rape as Drama: They sexually assault any pretty woman that comes their way, and are shocked that she winds up refusing to join them.
• Stupid Evil: They are so determined to be hedonistic that they destroy their credibility and long-term prospects for a cheap thrill.

Madoka

Madoka

Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata (Japanese), David Wald (English)

I told you, I ain't leaving a one of you behind!

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• Benevolent Boss: He may insult his followers, constantly calling them stupid, but he does treasure them.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: A couple of ways.
  • "Give me all your X and I'll give you all of your wants and needs!" is a very, very close approximation to the founding tenet of Marxism, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need".
  • And to Jesus' trial on the mount. Satan tempted Jesus by saying "I can give you whatever you want, even all kingdoms of the world can be yours, if only you will bow down and worship me."
• Evil Virtues: Kindness and loyalty. The fact that he dotes on his followers and treasures them is precisely what makes them all evil, as he lets them do whatever they want, but when that tramples over others, the others are in the wrong for fleeing, or daring to fight back.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Japanese society is incredibly rigid and unforgiving, with lots of complicated rules and customs, and cares not a whit about those that fall by the wayside. This still does nothing to justify the fact that he and his group hunted down people who've done nothing to them and had no ill-will, to use as their personal toys and then kill them if they refused to join a cult led by a madman with a "messiah" complex, turning over everything of value in return for the promise of getting whatever it is they want handed over by him, personally.
• Hourglass Plot: What he was trying for. Despite the fact that he admits it's his own damn fault, and that of the rest of his group, that they couldn't play by the rules of society, he planned to gather all the coins, make himself king, and then give his followers whatever they want, damn anyone who disagrees.
• I Control My Minions Through...: Loyalty and their desires. He demands that everyone who follows him hand over all their coins and then he will provide them everything they want in life, food, money, women, whatever, he will get it with his own two hands.
• Join or Die: He gives everyone he comes across a choice, give up all the coins you've collected and join his group, or die.
• Maniac Monkeys: His transformed form is a giant ape.
• Moral Myopia: He turns a blind eye to the heinous acts of his followers, but their intended victims fight back, and the intended victims are cruel cowards who deserve death.
• No One Gets Left Behind: No matter what they've done, he will never abandon even one of his followers, even if all his other followers say he's a lost cause. This is what causes his death as he refuses to leave behind any of his comrades while oleander bushes are burning around them, leading Madoka to perish with them.
• Offhand Backhand: He swats Youta off like a fly while focusing all his attention on Shuichi.
• Sadistic Choice: Since Sayaka's group had the "unmitigated gall" to harm Morita in resisting his sexual assault on Sayaka herself, and Youta punched him in the jaw when he tried to bite his head off, destroying the jaw in the process, he mandates that one of Sayaka's group must be offered as a sacrifice, or he and his clan would kill them. He also quick to mention that if Isao and/or Youta die from the injuries he gave them, it won’t count and they would still have to pick one of the remaining members of their group.
• Villainous Legacy: Before he dies, he gives all the coins he gathered to Ikeuchi. He knows nothing good will come from Ikeuchi having so many coins and considers it his gift to the world before he passes.
• The Worf Effect: Youta had already certified himself as incredibly powerful, but Madoka beats even him easily. Thus, he has to be outsmarted.

Morita

Morita

Voiced by: Haruki Ishiya (Japanese), Jason Marnocha (English)

AND DO WHATEVER I WANT!!

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• Big Creepy-Crawlies: His transformed form looks like part centipede, part spider, with multiple human arms and hands.
• Decapitation Presentation: He throws the head of a previous victim at Sayaka's group. This proves to be a bad call as it pissed of Youta.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: The biggest chunk of the time he confronts the heroes has him groping Sayaka's breasts. Onscreen.
• The Hedonist: All he cares about is having fun. He cares not a whit how his "fun" hurts others.
• Those Were Only Their Scouts: Shuichi, controlled by Clair, couldn't even touch him, and Youta beat him down, but he's nothing compared to anyone else of the group, especially Madoka.
• Underestimating Badassery: He thought Shuichi was the strongest of the group, but it was Youta.

Abukawa

Abukawa

Voiced by: Yoshiaki Hasegawa (Japanese), Nicholas Andrew Louie (English)

Hey, Shuichi! You've become much quieter recently. Is everything alright?

One of the classmates who was frequently with Shuichi at the start of the series.

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• Bad People Abuse Animals: It's implied that he liked to torture and kill small animals, like the tanuki that Shuichi found him burying.
• Evil Former Friend: He willingly joined with Madoka's group, and hung out with delinquents from a rival school, outside of Shuichi's sight.
• Evil Virtues: Kindness. It is precisely because he was kind to Madoka's group that he became one of a group that's described by Shuichi as "thugs who kill like it's nothing!"
• Offscreen Villainy: What he did with Madoka's group is not shown in any medium.

Taguchi

Taguchi

Voiced by: Taishi Murata (Japanese), River Vitae (English)

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• Badass Normal: He doesn't have powers, but he does wield a sword.

Kaito's Group

Kaito

Kaito

Voiced by: Kōki Uchiyama, Mariko Higashiuichi (young) (Japanese), David Matranga, Amber Lee Connors (young) (English)

We're the only ones who can make Honoka pay for what she did!

Once friends with Shuichi and Elena, Kaito has now become the protector of the alien's crashed ship and its horde of coins inside.

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• All Love Is Unrequited: He's Implied to have been in love with Honoka, who he suspected was in love with Naoto.
• Anime Hair: See the page image. The anime takes it even further, giving him what's basically a full-on lion's mane. It stands out even more given that most of the rest of the cast has far more subdued hairstyles.
• Big Bad: Currently the biggest threat to Shuichi and the rest of the players as nobody can get to the alien’s ship and potentially end the search for the coins without defeating him first.
• Black-and-White Insanity: Agree with his self-proclaimed delusion that "death does not exist" and that he can bring Honoka back from the death he inflicted on her, and you're righteous. Point out that he's delusional, or try to end this "game" by collecting the coins so the Alien can repair his ship and leave, and you're "the true sinner" that deserves to be killed then Came Back Wrong to be forced to "atone and pay for your crimes."
• Came Back Wrong: His power can bring back the dead but it's clear they're not truly back as the centipedes Kaito creates are just mimicking the person’s personality.
• Complete Immortality: Unlike his army of corpses, Kaito cannot be killed by attacking his head. Kaito claims he cannot be killed at all and is truly immortal. Eventually averted, as he can still be killed if his body is cut into pieces too small for him to regenerate.
• Creepy Centipedes: How his Collector power manifests itself. The centipedes he creates can mimic the dead, reanimate their corpses, use any Collector power the deceased had, and regenerate the body if damaged.
• A God Am I: He's shown on-screen "reviving" one of his victims and as he's doing so, he says "wake-up. You have been chosen by God."
• Go Mad from the Revelation: His Start of Darkness. After murdering Honaka under the belief that she performed a Kill and Replace on Aiko out of jealously, his world view effectively shatters when he learns from Naoto that the real reason she took Aiko's place was because the real Aiko committed suicide and Honoka was the first to find out, and so used the coins to take her place under the belief nobody would miss her if she was gone but would be sad over Aiko's death. He then realizes that the others figured out the truth before him and kept it from him, believing it's because they didn't care about Honoka.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: The bodies Kaito resurrects cannot kill themselves as the centipedes controlling their body will protect the head.
• I Reject Your Reality: To escape his own guilt and the responsibility for his actions, he has completely deluded himself into believing that death does not exist, and when called out on it retorts that the one who disagrees is the one who is not connected to reality.
• Knight Templar: His self-righteous "justice" is the only true justice in the world. Disagree and he will kill you if you dare to confront him. Even before his descent into madness, it was this trait that lead him to strangle Honoka believing she murdered Aiko to replace her and only learned the horrible truth behind why she did it after the fact.
• Love Makes You Evil: It's Implied that he was always in love with Honoka, and it's his guilt from murdering her over a misunderstanding and believing that the others didn't care that she was gone that led to him becoming the current Big Bad.
• Macguffin Guardian: He is currently the guardian of the alien’s crashed ship. Anybody who wants the ship and the coins inside must defeat him first.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: He murdered "Aiko" and made it look like a suicide by hanging. It's only later that he hears about the "suicide note to Honoka" saying that the real Aiko committed suicide...
• People Puppets: The people he "revives" are stuck obeying his orders and can not do anything else until they're killed, by Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain.
• Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: The only way to kill the bodies he resurrects is to destroy the heads. Kaito himself, however, cannot be killed the same way.
• Self-Inflicted Hell: "Honoka" implies that everything involving Kaito's madness and his attempted resurrection of Honoka is essentially a punishment for his sins.
• Spotting the Thread: He realizes that "Aiko" isn't who she claims to be when he spots her playing with her hair the same way Honoka used to.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: He is so bat-shit crazy with guilt for murdering Honoka that he has embraced the concept that "death does not exist", creates a "Honoka" empty shell, and sees only himself as sane. Even his closest friends calling him out merits "You are trapped by your 'common sense' and fail to see reality!"
• Tragic Hero: What he sees himself as. He’s actually the Big Bad.
• Tragic Villain: What he also really is since he’s basically still right about the "Tragic" part.

"Honoka"

"Honoka"

Voiced by: Haruka Shiraishi (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)

A construct Kaito makes after getting 100 coins and going to The Alien with the wish to revive her.

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• Ambiguous Situation: It's incredibly vague whether she even retains any memories or sense of self given her questions, or even if she could gain them back again, only that she's independent from Kaito's personal power and clearly isn't the same entity anymore.
• Apocalypse Maiden: Naoto reveals that she is at heavy risk of ending the world if she isn't stopped eventually.
• Awesomeness Is a Force: She doesn't even have to touch you to mess you up. Simply being within her line of sight is enough for her to start messing with you, as Nakoto learns first hand. If he hadn't made arrangements for a team-mate to yank him away from out-of-sight, he would have been a goner.
• BFS: Wielded one in the past for reasons unknown.
• Came Back Strong: In terms of the general power tiers of the story, Shuichi and Elena in a Fusion Dance could beat even Kaito, who stands head and shoulders above most other characters in the entire series. "Honoka" one-shot the pair outright with a single ambush and cut and is referred to as the "Goddess of War" as the single strongest threat.
• Came Back Wrong: She only looks and sounds like Honoka. She is not and never will be the real thing, despite Kaito's delusions to the contrary. Calling him out on it never helps; he just turns murderously violent.
• Dragon Ascendant: It turns out that her existence is not dependent on Kaito (courtesy of some poorly-chosen words from Clair), and she continues to be a threat to humanity even after Kaito's defeat.
• Dragon-in-Chief: While Kaito is the one sustaining her, he mostly just lets her do whatever she wants. Not only is she the greater threat, but erasing humanity is her own objective, not his.
• Empty Shell: While she has a consciousness, she has no goals or personality. Her attempts to remedy this are not a good thing, as she consumes other people in the process.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In-universe, Shuichi and Chihiro are viewing a flashback of the former's pre-amnesia battle with Kaito. When "Honoka" shows up to save her creator, she explicitly looks at and talks to the present Shuichi to warn him that Kaito needs to "suffer more."
• The Heartless: She is powered by other people's traumatic memories and becomes increasingly more unhinged the more she absorbs. Luckily, this makes her extremely vulnerable to Elena's memory-erasing powers.
• I Am Who?: She doesn't know who she is, what her personality or goals are, and she walks up to random people asking. Failing to answer is a Fate Worse than Death.
• Maximum Fun Chamber: Failing to answer the question "who am I?" gets the unfortunate victim trapped in a nightmare dimension, surrounded by hung corpses and some kind of giant Eldritch Abomination constantly stalking you.
• Ret-Gone: Not only does she whisk her victims out of existence, her victims are quickly forgotten by the world at large, as if they never existed in the first place. Kaito is well aware of this and refuses to do anything about it.

Other Characters

The Alien

The Alien

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese), Kyle Igneczi (English)

Could you help me gather these coins, who are my companions? It won't be for free, of course.

A mysterious entity that lives inside a soda-dispensing machine. Whenever someone deposits a special coin inside the machine, he crawls out of it and offers to grant a wish to the coin's holder.

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• All-Powerful Bystander: He's implied to be very powerful but won't lift a finger for anybody unless he's given a coin. That's because its actually the coins that grant people powers. There is little he can do without one.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Alien's motivations and goals are known only to him. Turns out, he initially set up the coin game at the suggestion of the original Honoka, with the intention of having humans gather his kind's coins. However, by the time he put the plan into the practice, he was gathering humans together, giving them power, then directing them to the mountain where his ship had crashed to have them kill the fake Honoka to stop her from destroying the world. Unfortunately, Kaido proved to be too strong for most coin collectors to defeat.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: He normally takes a human form to speak to the coin's holder.
• Innocently Insensitive: Charitably. When Clair, in her underwear, (because she just emerged from body-suit Shuichi) is standing in front of the alien's teen-male body, the alien leers and then asks if he can touch, before getting a Groin Attack mid-sentence. The alien claims this is because it doesn't understand human norms, customs, and taboos. Nobody on either side of the fourth wall is certain if the alien is being 100% honest about this.
• Insufficiently Advanced Alien: Ship crashed, sending the rest of his species as coins scattered across the landscape, and has no way to recover them, or make repairs, without the help of nearby humans...
• Intrigued by Humanity: Fascinated with humans, especially manga and anime of all kinds.
• Jackass Genie:
  • The wish he granted to Hikawa wasn't a particularly nice one. She wished to become a faster athlete and he turned her into a monster, just like Shuichi.
  • Yoshioka comes to him and asks for Speaks Fluent Animal. He interprets that as wishing to have animal ears, so makes her a Little Bit Beastly. She's not amused.
  • Ultimately averted, in that he doesn't actually determine the coin holders final form, as its based on what ever their actual wish is and how strong their will is. A more definite wish tied to a strong will leads to the wish holder being granted a specific power tied to that wish. A more tenuous wish, that is too vague, leads to the person transforming in more extreme ways outside their immediate control.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Normally would be asexual, but while in the body of a male teen human, finds Clair's nearly nude body very stimulating.
• Naïve Newcomer: Thinks all the people on Earth are good people... This is so wrong, it boggles the mind.
• Obliviously Evil: He truly doesn't seem to understand how corrupting and destructive his actions are. Although on some level, he also doesn’t care what people do with the powers he grants so long as he gets the coins.
• Occidental Otaku: He becomes obsessed with manga and anime after landing on Earth, and ends up reading or watching them nonstop while he has others search for the coins for him.
• Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: When Elena grabs his male teen form by the throat and threatens to kill him to make this coin-gathering "game" stop, he lets her, without resistance, and agrees that maybe his death will bring an end to it all, but even he admits that what's already set in motion, the death, the violence, the grudges, can't be stopped, causing Elena to back away, chagrined.
• Power at a Price: He grants favors, but only to people who collect the alien coins for him. If you're not one of those people, he couldn't care less about you. This is because its actually the coins that grant the powers, not him. He can't actually grant a favor without he coins. This is because the coins themselves create the medicines that transform people, by merging the aliens inside the coins with the people who drink the medicine.
• Showing Off the New Body: After eating a strand of Clair's hair, it shape-shifts into a very shapely copy of Clair, completely nude, and likes that body more than the male body it originally sported. Clair is not amused.
• The Slacker: He prefers to let others search for the coins, which are basically other members of his species, rather than search for it himself and reads manga and watches anime to pass the time in the meanwhile.
• Unreliable Narrator: His story about the Coins being his people, plus the crashed spaceship and scattering, has plenty of holes, to the point even Shuichi finds him less than trustworthy.

Hikawa

Hikawa

Voiced by: Shizuka Ishigami (Japanese), Dawn M. Bennett (English)

A bad decision ruined her life.

A girl who found one of the Alien's coins and wished to become a faster athlete. Unfortunately, the Alien turned her into a monster, just like Shuichi, and now she is desperate to find another coin and hopefully become human, even if that means coming into conflict with Shuichi and Clair.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: In the anime, she at least has the presence of mind to wear a disguise while mugging Shuichi and Clair, in Clair's apartment, resorting to lethal force to avoid being blackmailed when Clair pulls off her mask. In the manga, she broke in, in broad daylight, wearing no disguise whatsoever, and went straight to lethal force the moment Shuichi and Clair dared to fight back.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Her role in the story serves to illustrate that the wishes granted by the Alien can backfire. Her wish to be faster than her schoolmates ended up turning her into a monster.
• Character Death: Killed by Clair at the end of their fight.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: The anime actually airs her thoughts, and the truth behind her haughtiness and arrogance is that she actually feels inferior to everyone around her, seeing as she was one of the worst scorers in track and field. regardless of how hard she trained. Considering she got her tuition via an athletic scholarship, that hurts.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: On the wrong end when Clair fully mastered being inside Shuichi and gained the upper hand. Had Hikawa surrendered and answered Clair's questions honestly, she might have walked away with her life. Instead, she tried to run away to strike back later, but since Clair was in no forgiving mood after getting kicked around, insulted, and Hikawa would not stop with the death threats...
• Kick Chick: Her transformation increased her the strength of her kicks, something she used to great effect in her fight with the main characters.
• Pet the Dog: She briefly plays with a cat.
• Psychological Projection: Since she views everyone with jealousy and contempt for surpassing her, she presumes everyone else sees her with envy when she thinks she's in the superior position. It's not until she's on the receiving end of a Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique from Clair that she realizes how wrong this is.
• Starter Villain: The first villain Shuichi and Clair fight as a team.
• Villain Ball: She didn't need to attack Shuichi and Clair. She could have asked them about the coin under their possession and even help them collect more coins. Unfortunately, her desperation to regain her humanity got the better of her and she went into attack mode. The story needed a physical antagonist and poor Hikawa got drafted.
• Villainous Breakdown: Upon seeing that Shuichi and Clair are working together, Hikawa loses her composure.

Tadanori Sanbe

Tadanori Sanbe

Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese), Kamran Nikhad (English)

Shuichi, you are a true man!

^{Click here} to see his monster form.

The first "monster" Shuichi and Clair meet on the mountain.

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• Blade Below the Shoulder: His arms are replaced by giant swords in his "monster" form.
• Blood Knight: His favorite passtime is fighting strong foes.
• Defeat Equals Friendship: Played with, in that he does become something of an ally to Shuichi and Clair after his defeat, but only in so much as they recruit him for dangerous hotspots because they know he'll enjoy the fights and be a great back-up. There's no actual friendship to be found besides the mutual respect between them.
• Everyone Has Standards: He may love fights to the death, but he's honest and honorable about it and refuses to partake in dirty tricks like blackmail. He also praises Shuichi for his chivalry in holding him back so Clair could escape.
• Horned Humanoid: His "monster" form has horns.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: He wished for strength and got it, but found fighting ordinary humans boring, so went to the mountains, hoping to find strong foes to test himself against.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Honest, honorable, and proud of his fighting aesthetic.
• Scars Are Forever: Has scars across his face.
• Skull for a Head: His head takes on the form of a skull in his "monster" form.
• Testosterone Poisoning: He refuses to have a cell-phone because it's not "manly."
• Unskilled, but Strong: He's very powerful, but has yet to craft a martial arts style that would work with his "monster" body. He knows human martial arts, but they're not suited for his new frame, so he's discarded them.
• Would Not Hit a Girl: He prefers to avoid fighting women, but if she's a foe, he'll still do it.

Civilians:

Honoka

Honoka

Voiced by: Haruka Shiraishi (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)

One wish for one coin! Tee hee!

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• Did Not Think This Through: Offering one wish for one coin for anyone and everyone sounds like a good idea on paper, but not all wishes should be granted, not just because well-meaning wishes can go wrong, but because there are people with evil wishes too, and that's not taking into account how people tend to fight over things of value, and "any wish you desire" can be very, very valuable. Her own wish in particular ends up sparking all the events of the series.
• Irony: Honoka's desire to make her friends happy leads to her choosing to become Aiko after the latter hangs herself so her friends would not be sad, believing that no one would miss Honoka in comparison. This act ends up leading all of her friends to suffer the fallout of Kaito murdering her over misunderstanding her intentions and going mad.
• Mistaken for Murderer: Kaito thinks she engineered a Kill and Replace plot out of envy at Aiko's better living conditions, especially the part where one parent did not abandon her while the other is a murderer. Truth is, Aiko committed suicide and Honoka took her place so none of her friends would suffer, then the self-righteous Kaito murders her...
• Nice Girl: A good woman without a trace of malice in her heart.
• Parental Abandonment: Her father was executed as a murderer and her mother abandoned her.
• Posthumous Character: She's long dead by the time the story starts, and is only seen in flashbacks.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Since her father's involved in a murder, her neighbors and relatives look at her as a pariah. It's implied to be one reason why Honoka was willing to become Aiko and unfortunately, a contributing factor to why Kaito ends up strangling her.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It was her idea to have the Alien give out wishes as payment for rounding up the coins. Aside from that, her wish to become Aiko is what leads to Kaito's descent into madness after he murders her over misunderstanding why she did so.
• Voluntary Shapeshifter: Most of the Collectors have this power, but Honoka's case is significantly more mild than their's, as it simply allowed her to assumed the form of her dead friend, Aiko.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard discussing her without mentioning the entire conflicts of the story began because of her.

Hana Mifune

Hana Mifune

Voiced by: Miku Itō (Japanese), Xanthe Huynh (English)

You gave up the scholarship for me, didn't you, Shuichi-san?

Another of Shuichi's close class-mates.

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• Big Ol' Eyebrows: So thick, it looks like she's got caterpillars stuck to her face.
• Curtains Match the Windows: Hair and eyes are similar shades of brown.
• Nice Girl: She's a total sweetheart, and would have been a great match for Shuichi, if it weren't for certain events that forced Shuichi to team up with Clair instead.
• Satellite Character: She only appears when her acts affect Shuichi, or vice versa, and even then, rarely.

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