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The three main characters of Guilty Crown themselves.

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Shu Ouma

Shu Ouma

Voiced by: Yūki Kaji, Minami Tsuda (child) (Japanese), Austin Tindle, Lara Woodhull (child) (English)

"I'm dense? Maybe it's true that my mind works out of step with everyone else's. It's just that I don't know what to say to other people. So I hide my nervousness and try to go along with what they say. That's how I've made the pseudo friendships in my life."

An unsociable seventeen-year-old high school student at Tennouzu High School and a member of the modern motion picture research club, Shu gains the ability "Power of Kings," enabling him to extract weapons from other people, after a chance encounter with Idol Singer Inori Yuzuriha.

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• Accidental Pervert: He often gets into compromising positions with girls such as Kanon and initially Ayase, and it even takes a few times to get him to draw out his Void correctly.
• All-Loving Hero: By Episode 11, he's upgraded to this. He even asks permission before using Voids.

• An Arm and a Leg: His Void Genome arm is cut off by a Back from the Dead Gai.

• Apologetic Attacker:
  • When extracting Voids. Not so much anymore.
  • Subverted in Episode 19. He asks and apologizes while extracting everyone's Voids.
• Artificial Limbs: After Gai cuts off his Void Genome arm, Shu later gets a replacement with his crystalline arm Void. In the epilogue, he's shown with a prosthetic arm.
• The Atoner: Following the disaster that was the Kingdom of the Void.
• Badass Longcoat: Along with a Scarf of Asskicking. However, it seems that it's just Shu's standard winter gear and that Shu happens to be a trendy dresser.
• Bad Boss: This is the reason he eventually made the school turn against him in "exodus (Revolution)". He desires to separate the students using the void-ranking system after Hare's death and this makes everyone feel discontent.
• Bad Liar: His delivery is pretty bad. However, the lies themselves are pretty creative as well as being plausible. Assuming they weren't rehearsed.
• Became Their Own Antithesis: The once kind to a fault Shu finds himself devolving into this following the death of Hare in episode 15, willing to hurt friends and classmates should he deem it necessary.

  Shu: All this time I’ve been such a fool. Kindness is just another word...for weakness.

• Being Evil Sucks: Shu becoming the Student Council President after Hare's death causes him to lose everything and everyone he loves by the time of "exodus (Revolution)".
• Break the Cutie:
  • While he'd already been through a lot of shit and held up remarkably well, Episode 9 breaks him.
  • In Episode 15, Hare's death breaks him even harder, triggering the Dull Eyes of Unhappiness and a killing rampage after taking in Inori's Void in a way that comes off as borderline rape.
  • The discovery of what happens when people's Voids break at the end of Episode 16 sends him even further down the slippery slope, triggering a fit of maniacal laughter that ends with him thinking about breaking Argo's Void.
  • Gai breaks him even more by betraying him, cutting off his arm, and stealing the Void Genome.
• Bridal Carry: Ayase is carried in this fashion by Shu in Episode 21 when she allows the latter to help her into her Endlave.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Has this dynamic with Inori after defrosting her. He also has it with Hare.
• Brought Down to Normal: Happens at the end of "exodus (Revolution)" when a revived Gai cuts off his right arm off and steals the Void Genome.
• Butt-Monkey: He is never safe from the world's abuse.
• Calling Your Attacks: Shu verbally calls the name of his friends when he uses their respective Void.
• Can't Live Without You: Yet another disadvantage of his Void - if he dies, so does everyone whose Voids he's currently housing.
• Cartwright Curse: Both of his love interests wounded up dead via Heroic Sacrifice to save him.
• Chick Magnet: Inori, Ayase, Hare, (arguably) Tsugumi, Kanon, Miyabi (Scythe-tan) are all attracted to him.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Subverted to hell and back every episode.

• Conflicting Loyalty: In the first few episodes, he wavers back and forth between trusting Gai and Funeral Parlor or distrusting them and potentially using the transmitter that he received from Major Segai to punish the rebels. This is ultimately resolved when he accidentally sees Gai's vulnerable side, along with the revelation that the transmitter was a targeting beacon for the Leukocyte and that using it would have killed him.

• Curtains Match the Window: He has matching brown hair and brown eyes.
• Cursed with Awesome: His Void Genome grants him the power to recreate Voids he has previously used. However, it has the side effect of carrying with it the weaknesses of the Void he's copying, in this case he acquires Souta's Apocalypse Virus.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Hare's death took Shu's life a turn for the worst. He decides to go along with the Void ranking system to separate the "good" from the "trash" and become "king".

• Defeat Means Friendship: The way he befriends Inori, Yahiro, and Gai after learning their secrets. However, the first had an ulterior motive, the second backfired, and the third could go any which way and he wouldn't be able to do a thing about it. Friendship is pretty tentative for him, but it ends up working out for him in the end.
• Demoted to Extra: Shu appears as a minor character in Princess of Deadpool.
• Dented Iron: After all his adventures, he's rewarded with blindness and a missing arm requiring prosthetics. Here's hoping saving the world was worth it.

• Determinator: Not so much in general (as far as we've seen), but there is one notable instance. He stupidly picks a fight with Gai, who hits him with a haymaker and a jab in the face and then with a vicious gut shot and another jab to the face in quick succession. He just shrugs it off and hits him back.
• Disappeared Dad: His father Kurosu Ouma was killed during Lost Christmas.
• Distressed Dude: Spends most of Episode 4 in this role when he gets arrested by the GHQ.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • Void extraction is a bit... evocative of something else.
  • His forced Void extraction on Inori after Hare's death gives off rape vibes, and continues to happen in other extractions afterwards.
  • His leadership after becoming the Student Council President of Tennouzu High School may bring to mind Josef Stalin's dictatorship of the Soviet Union.
• Dude, Where's My Reward?: The only thing he got from saving the world was several of his friends' deaths, Inori's death, a prosthetic arm to replace the one Gai sliced off and permanent blindness.
• The Dulcinea Effect: Double Subverted. He is unable to prevent Inori from getting captured but ultimately goes after her in the end. Of course, it's arguable how much of his motivation was "pretty girl in trouble" and not "repressed Extreme Doormat wants to finally do something interesting with his life". Since Episode 12, and the revelation that Inori is meant to be a vessel for Mana, he seems to have moved on to mostly platonic interest, needing Inori to confide in with his fears that his plans are failing.

• Everyone Can See It: Gai, Segai, and Ayase easily deduce his feelings for Inori. Enough that it gets used against him twice: Segai subtly threatens Inori's safety, should he not cooperate with the GHQ, and Gai uses Inori to get him to join Funeral Parlor.

• Evil Laugh: He makes one in Episode 16 that would make Light and Lelouch proud.
• Extreme Doormat: He is often pushed around by his friends and classmates. He eventually gets over it.
• Expy: The staff admitted in a recent Q&A in London that Shu is based off of the director, Tetsuro Araki.
• Fallen Hero: Once Hare dies and he decides "to become king" and separate the "good" from the "trash", he pretty much becomes the anime highschool-aged version of Joseph Stalin. And it's just painful to watch.
• Fatal Flaw: His kindness. Hare even calls him out on it before she dies.
• Flight: The Power of Kings already allows Shu to Double Jump, but Inori's sword allows him to simply zoom around through the air.
• Foil: To Gai, pretty obviously. Just check out how a few of Gai's character tropes reflect on his.
• Forgotten First Meeting: He actually met Gai when they were kids, but his Trauma-Induced Amnesia caused him to forget about Gai as he was too connected to the traumatizing memory of Mana.
• Freak Out: Hare's death, and to a lesser extent Jun's, causes him to become seriously deranged.
• From Zero to Hero: Shu goes from an ordinary high school student to a hero fighting for Funeral Parlor to liberate Japan.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: The things he saw whilst linked with Jun drove him perilously close to this. Afterwards, he displays pretty reasonably close symptoms to those of PTSD.
• Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: Shu switches to the evil variant at the end of Episode 15 after getting broken by Hare's death and deciding that he'll become king and separate the good from the trash.
• Green-Eyed Monster:
  • He starts to feel this in Episode 5 towards Inori's and Gai's relationship.
  • In Episode 8, his jealousy of Souta nearly confessing to Inori nearly makes him also almost confess his feelings to Inori with Funeral Parlor overhearing the exchange.
• The Heart: He's growing into this, despite, or perhaps because of, being The Spock. His rationalist tendencies don't take into account things like blinding loyalty or patriotism, and his social awkwardness makes him more likely to speak up when no one else will. Therefore, as a new member of the fairly disciplined Funeral Parlor, he's likely to be the first and only one to bring up little things like 35% mortality rates, innocent bystanders, etc. to Gai.
• Heartbroken Badass: Two of his three potential love interests end up dead by the end of the series. Shu really can't a catch a break.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: He begins to turn evil after becoming the Student Council President when Hare dies. By the time of "exodus (Revolution)", he resumes being a hero for good.
• Hereditary Hairstyle: He has his father Kurosu's hair.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • He goes through a brief one towards the end of episode 5.
  • A real doozy. The things he saw and did in Episode 9 did horrible things to his mind.
  • A Virus-infected Mana nearing killing Gai, getting Ax-Crazy, and causing Lost Christmas (all because of him) triggered this in his childhood enough to get Trauma-Induced Amnesia.
  • He is completely broken as of Episode 15 and Hare's death.
  • "exodus (Revolution)" breaks him even more, as Gai reappears to steal the power of the king and Arisa causes the school to revolt against him.
• Heroic Resolve: After the above, Inori showed him how much of a difference he really made for her. This, and her attempt to single-handedly fight off a troupe of GHQ Endlaves in order to save him gives Shu the strength to overcome his previous trauma and fight to gain the third Void Genome so he can stop GHQ.
• Heroic RRoD: Use of his Void in addition to the third Void Genome means Shu is going to die in all likelihood. He also used it to cure Souta of the Apocalypse Virus by taking the virus onto himself.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: He has next to no self confidence and repeatedly downs himself because of it.
  Shu: [about Inori getting captured] Should I really just accept this? I felt... a little relieved because I wasn't in danger anymore. That's how pathetic I am. When you get right down to it, she was way out of my league. I wanted to take it. I wanted to get close to her and touch her hand!
• Hidden Heart of Gold: After Hare's death, he forcibly extracts Inori's Void to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge on the Anti Bodies, blames Souta for Hare's death and gives him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, and decides that kindness is pointless and to go along with the Void ranking system with him reigning over the student body as their "king." However, when he's alone with Inori he goes back to his normal self and admits he does regret his actions. He quits the act by Episode 19.
• I Am Who?: The kid who accidentally triggered Lost Christmas that occured in 2029.
• Ignored Epiphany: Finding out what the destruction of their Void can do to someone. It gives him... ideas.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: He has stated on more than one occasions of his hopes of becoming like Gai. He realizes in Episode 11 that he can't be like Gai and has to do things his own way.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: To Hare. Her death triggers his Face–Heel Turn.
• Imaginary Love Triangle: He thinks of Gai as his rival for Inori's affections because Inori is single-mindedly loyal to Gai and apparently everyone in Funeral Parlor is under the impression Inori and Gai are in a sexual relationship at least. The true nature of the relationship between Inori and Gai is more complicated than anyone would think at first. Gai doesn't have feelings for Inori, but for the girl Inori is modeled after, and Inori is devoted to Gai because following his orders is literally all she was ever taught to do until she develops human emotions thanks to Shu.
• The Immune: Never contracts the Apocalypse Virus despite having essentially been at Ground Zero of Lost Christmas (unlike Gai who was there too) because his sister Mana, who essentially became the Apocalypse Virus, was in love with him. Subverted in Episode 19 when he extracts Souta's Void and takes Souta's illness into himself, though even then he displays less severity than Souta.
• Indy Ploy: He is an absolute master of adapting to and using his new powers. Even taking into account his being an Instant Expert regarding his weapons, he still uses them quickly and creatively to get out of tight spots in high stress situations, often without having any foreknowledge of what weapon he'd be pulling out next.
• In-Series Nickname: He is called a "faceless bastard" by Daryl because the latter can't see his face through his Endlave monitor. Daryl finally sees his face in Episode 11.
• Instant Expert: Appears to be one of the Required Secondary Powers of the Void Genome. He's able to use new weapons effectively immediately after drawing them. Confirmed later on. People have to train with their Voids before they can use them effectively. While Souta's Void had proved incredibly useful in his hands, Souta can only use it to open cans.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: After Hare's death. Dear Lord.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In return for treating all the students like crap, Shu is quickly and promptly ousted by Arisa once the students no longer need his power to help them escape the quarantine zone.

• Let's Get Dangerous!: Whenever Shu pulls out Yahiro's void, it's clear that things have gotten dire.
• Like Parent, Like Spouse: In his case, Like Sister, Like Spouse. He's attracted to the girl who was modeled after his sister.

• Meaningful Name: His first name is written with the kanji for "gather" (集). Considering what he's been doing in regards to the Voids... Episode 20 reveals that it's meant as "group," because Kurosu (Shu's father) could do anything alone, but was always lonely as a result, and really wanted to be with other people. Thus, he named Shu as this, with the hope that Shu wouldn't be lonely like him.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: The Feminine Boy to Masculine Girls Ayase and Inori.
• Mercy Kill: Forced to do this to Jun, and later to Gai and Mana.
• Messianic Archetype: Post-Character Development.
• Missing Mom: His mother Saeko Shijou was infected by the Apocalypse Virus, and pulled a Heroic Sacrifice to ensure Shu's birth.
• My God, What Have I Done?: A mild example—after the apocalyptic devastation he unleashes during his first mission with the Funeral Parlor, he decides that whilst what he did was sort of worthwhile, he just isn't cut out for the life of a terrorist.
• Mysterious Past: Which is eventually revealed at the end of the first half.
• Naked First Impression: Ayase meets him like this on his first day of training with her. Shu's alone in a room wearing only a towel, when Ayase suddenly enters without knocking or anything, which scares Shu and makes him drop the towel. Cue an Oh, Crap! moment.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: After regaining his memories, he develops the true Power of the King; the ability to extract Voids without knocking people out, meaning other people can use Voids as weapons now, provided Shu extracts them.
• Nice Guy: This is actually what leads to others taking advantage of him throughout the series while his void is the embodiment of self-sacrifice, which is what he tries to do for humanity in the finale.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Shu's rejection of Mana's incestuous advances 10 years ago ensured that she would cause the Lost Christmas event.
• No Social Skills: It's a pretty big deal for him, and it doesn't help that some of his worse habits (like avoiding eye-contact) make extracting Voids harder.
• Ordinary High-School Student: He's an intelligent but isolated student at Tennouzu High School.
• Parental Abandonment: His mother is neglectful and has to work for days at a time, and his father died ten years prior to the story during Lost Christmas. Despite that, he seems to have a genuinely caring relationship with his mother.
• The Peter Principle: Gets him (and just about everyone else) into serious trouble from Episode 14 onwards. Turns out that he's so far outside his competence zone that he has to resort to being a brutal dictator just to get everybody to listen to him. Needless to say, this works out absolutely swimmingly.
• Power at a Price: Using his second Void Genome leads to him contracting the Apocalypse Virus.
• The Power of Friendship: Ultimately how Shu uses his Voids, since he is literally wielding the weaponized hearts of his friends. Not so much after becoming a Fallen Hero.

• Readings Are Off the Scale: His Void level was read as XXXX, which probably foreshadows that his Void power depends on the Voids he absorbs.
• Redemption Equals Affliction: Fate decides that the correct punishment for his sins is permanent blindness, missing an arm and needing a prosthetic.
• Redemption Equals Death: In the end, Shu plans on making a Heroic Sacrifice to atone for his sins but Inori averts this.
• Redemption Equals Life: Inori denies him attempting to join her in death, pushing him out of the energy field that turns her into crystal and sucks her away.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Both an example and an aversion; it just depends on the situation.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Gai's Blue Oni.
• Refusal of the Call: He is initially obligated to help Funeral Parlor using his "Power of Kings" ability, but he declines joining their organization. Naturally, a New Transfer Student will change things.

• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Shu goes on one after Hare is killed by the Anti Bodies. The entire scene seems to be a remake of Rebuild of Evangelion's battle between EVA-01 and Zeruel. It's not a nice sight, especially considering it started with the biggest Tear Jerker in the show so far.
• Rule of Symbolism: His Void forces him to take on the 'sins' of those he uses through absorbing their weaknesses.

• Scylla and Charybdis: He has to decide whether to implement the Void ranking system and divide the students based on their Voids' effectiveness, or not go through with it since said students would feel discriminated against. After Hare's death, he's set on going through with it after all.
• Second Love: Seemingly to Ayase following Gai's death.
• Shoot the Dog: Shu does this Jun in the climax of Episode 9, at Jun's request, using Yahiro's Void. He later does this to Gai and Mana in Episode 12.
• The So-Called Coward: He's very passive and sometimes apathetic, but he holds together pretty well in times of crisis, and for better or for worse, embroils himself in the war between the government and Funeral Parlor. Inori and later Hare, in particular, both inspire some level of self-confidence in him.
• Special Odd Hand: Shu's right hand holds the special power called the Power of Kings.
• Spell My Name With An S: His name is usually spelt as either Shu or Shuu.
• The Spock: Rationalizes (or tries to, anyway) just about every aspect of human interaction. Comes as a result of him having no intuition regarding feelings or empathy. It also leads him to easily misread social cues and make a fool of himself if he doesn't think things through very carefully.

• Strong Family Resemblance: To his father.
• Student Council President: As of Episode 14, though it doesn't last long.
• Super-Empowering: The True Power of the King works like this, though Shu still has to draw them out.
• Synchronization: His Void allows him to absorb the Voids he has drawn from the time he acquired the arm onwards. However, he also absorbs out the donors' weaknesses, whether physical or psychological, taking them upon himself. Also, if he dies while he has someone else's Void in him, they die too.
• Taking Up the Mantle: Him becoming the Student Council President seems to double as making him The Leader of La Résistance.
• Tears of Remorse: He has this throughout the anime most notably when Yahiro betrayed him to the GHQ, when Hare died, shortly after the student body betrays him and before Inori gets captured.
• Together in Death: Denied. He embraces Inori while she was being sucked up into the vortex caused by the Apocalypse virus. She pushes him out the energy field and is responsible or extracting his Void Genome the second time, along with making him permanently, incurably blind, and needing a prosthetic arm.
• Took a Level in Badass: By the end of the first episode, and usually through each episode after.
• Tragic Hero: He is probably one of the most tragic out there. Every time life begins to go well for him, it turns into a train wreck. And it doesn't help that literally no one except Hare understands how he feels inside.
• Training from Hell: He has to undergo intense training in episode 5 in order to join Funeral Parlor. Sure enough, he passes.
• Trauma Conga Line: From Episode 15 onwards, oooooh boy.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: He forgot his memories of his older sister Mana and of Gai being his best friend "Triton" due to witnessing Mana becoming increasing unstable due being infected by the Apocalypse Virus and triggering Lost Christmas.
• Tron Lines: His Void.

• Unscrupulous Hero: He becomes this after Hare's death.
• Unwanted Harem: At the end of the show, Inori, Mana, Ayase and Hare have all made attempts to jump his bones.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Shu's rejection of Mana ends up causing the Lost Christmas event and dooming Japan. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero, indeed.
• Villain Protagonist: He becomes one when Hare is killed by the Anti-Bodies, which leads to him using the Void ranking system and dividing the students based on their Voids' effectiveness as Student Council President. This doesn't last long, however.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Yahiro and Inori consider it to be the only way to get it to work. Or, more accurately, Yahiro felt that it was the only way for things to work when Shu was in charge, and eventually decided it wasn't worth the effort.
• We Used to Be Friends: Almost every friend Shu has ever had stabs him in the back at one point or another.
• You Monster!: Shu unintentionally calls Inori this in Episode 10. He also called his sister this. She did not take it well.

Inori Yuzuriha

Inori Yuzuriha

Voiced by: Ai Kayano (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)

"Believe. You can do it. For sure. Because I... belong to you now."

The popular internet Idol Singer of the band Egoist, who Shu is a fan of, sixteen-year-old Inori doubles as a member of the resistance group, Funeral Parlor. After a covert mission to steal the GHQ's Void Genome goes wrong and she ends up injured, Inori meets Shu and entrusts the Void Genome to him.

Her Void is an enormous sword with impressive cutting power and the power to shoot sword beams. She also seems to have the power to imbue the sword with other peoples' Voids. When extracted by Daath, it takes a more wing-like shape.

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• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Her Void is a BFS that can cut through anything.

• Apocalypse Maiden: She's the vessel for the apocalypse.
• Artificial Human: She was created to be a host for Mana.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: She is shot, caught in explosions, kicked in the face, and is shown to be bleeding on more than one occasion. Her ridiculous outfit doesn't get a single tear, her hair remains absolutely perfect, and being kicked in the face leaves not a single visible trace.
• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Hare's Betty towards Shu's Archie. Inori is the mysterious singer and member of La Résistance who attracts Shu with her captivating beauty. Contrary to Shu's other romantic option Hare, Inori is striking and odd in both appearance and personality which makes Shu more strongly interested in her.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Turns out that Mana isn't the only scary one. She, herself, is a One-Woman Army once she stops trying to maintain a human appearance.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Demure, innocent, and can gun down a squad of GHQ soldiers in seconds. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
• BFS: Her Void is a very large sword.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: She can grow blades from her forearms when she unleashes her true power.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: The Gentle Girl to Shu's Brooding Boy. As Inori becomes more emotional and grows to care about Shu, she's always there to comfort him when he's sad and tormented to remind him that no matter what happens, she's on his side.
• Clones Are People, Too: Although Inori does start as an Empty Shell that was cloned from Mana to later become her new body, her feelings for Shu allow her to gain a will of her own and she's able to resist Mana's possession thanks to it.
• Clone Angst: After finding out she's an Artificial Human meant as a vessel for Mana, Inori starts angsting as she wonders if her feelings and heart are all fake. She gets over it when she realizes that her love for Shu is real and that makes her her own person.
• The Comically Serious: Being an Emotionless Girl, she's deadpan during comical moments.
• The Confidant: As things get harder for Shu in the second half of the anime, Inori is the only one he can confide in. He very much appreciates it.
• Damsel in Distress: Pretty much spends the first episode in this role, and gets kidnapped in Episode 11 and Episode 18.
• Dark Mistress: Has some shades of this after Shu becomes a borderline Villain Protagonist, although her relationship with him is still platonic.
• Declaration of Protection: In Episode 18, she declares her determination to protect Shu, calling it the one thing she's sure is "real" about herself.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Starts out as an Emotionless Girl who doesn't really care about Shu or anything besides Gai's orders. She quickly grows fond of Shu and thanks to him, she learns how to be her own person.
• "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Nearly all the theme songs of the series are sung by her.
• Don't Call Me "Sir": She dislikes it when Shu speaks way too formally to her and calls her "Inori-san", telling him to quit it.
• Dude, He's Like, in a Coma!: Kisses an unconscious Shu in Episode 18.
• Emotionless Girl: She starts off as an unemotional girl merely following Gai's orders with no qualms and having little understanding of Shu or his problems. However, she wants to learn more about Shu after spending some time with him, questions her own emotions, and eventually begins to develop feelings for Shu. Her early status is also justified. She was an Artificial Human that was originally meant to be nothing more than a vessel for Mana. It's only thanks to Shu that she learns how to be her own person.
• Enemy Within: Turns out that Mana's psychotic post-infection personality got passed along in the cloning.
• Extreme Doormat: Inori only ever acts to obey any of Gai's orders because she has nothing in her life outside of him. It's until she develops feelings for Shu that Inori begins to gain a will of her own.
• From Roommates to Romance: After transferring into Shu's class, Inori moves into his apartment without letting him have a say in the matter. Shu feels attracted to her from the start and Inori eventually falls in love with him as well.
• Fusion Dance: Her Void can combine with other Voids. For instance, Kenji's creates a Wave-Motion Gun, whilst Hare's creates a Whip Sword.
• Game Face: Her true form. We only see it in full when she (as herself and not her "Mana" personality) is in charge.
• Gangsta Style: In Episode 6, with two pistols and her arms crossing at that. Turns out that it foreshadows exactly how superhuman she really is.
• Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is tied into pigtails hanging in front of her shoulders. Her personality, however, isn't youthful at all because she's an Emotionless Girl.
• Grand Theft Me: Mana, at least partially, got into her head and has been murdering people to carry out her own agenda. Mana has been doing this in momentary bursts since Episode 16, and as of Episode 21, she has fully taken control over her body.
• The Gunslinger: In the few occassions she decides to fight, Inori picks up a gun.
• Helpless Good Side: In the second half of the anime, Mana begins taking control over Inori's body to hurt people, leaving Inori horrified at what Mana makes her do and fearing that she's slowly losing herself to Mana's possession.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • She attempts to pull this off in Episode 18 by fighting off against the Anti Bodies in order to protect Shu. She is thwarted by Gai, who captures her.
  • In Episode 22, she somehow saves Shu from turning crystalline with her, but dies in the process.
• Honey Trap: She was ordered by Gai to lure Shu into Funeral Parlor by seducing him with her beauty and phrases that make Shu think Inori was fond of him.
• I Am What I Am: After the events of Episode 16, she starts to think she's a monster, but by Episode 18, she decides that she is herself and doesn't care if she's a monster or a fake if it means she can protect Shu.
• Idol Singer: She is the vocalist of the band, Egoist.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: She seems to see nothing wrong with changing clothes right in front of Shu.
• I Owe You My Life: Her Undying Loyalty to Gai stems from the fact that he gave her a name and a world. It's to the extent that when Gai asks if she resents him for going to erase her feelings and memories, she replies that she is grateful to Gai instead because he gave her a life that allowed her to meet Shu.
• Leotard of Power: She usually wears a skimpy red leotard during missions.
• Living a Double Life: An internet idol singer by day and a member of a terrorist organization by night.
• Living Emotional Crutch: She becomes this to Shu after Hare's death.
• MacGuffin Super-Person: At first, she's just the Mystical Waif, but she is later revealed to be the vessel for the Apocalypse Virus.
• Magic Music: Inori can cure the Apocalypse Virus by singing.
• Meaningful Name: Inori, the name given to her by Gai, means "prayer".
• Ms. Fanservice: Inori is the girl we see the most skin of in this anime.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In Episode 16, she immediately regrets how she attacked Arisa.
• Mystical Waif: She's a young and fragile girl who acts very mysterious and emotionless. Shu meets her by chance when she's running away from some pursuers and she grants Shu the Power of Kings, kickstarting the plot.
• Naked First Impression:
  • She's topless when she first meets Shu.
  • In a flashback, she appears to have had this with Gai after he woke her up in the GHQ labs.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Many of her outfits have this, but especially the red leotard that has the middle mostly cut out, practically only covering enough to not see her naughty bits.
• New Transfer Student: She transfers into Shu's class at the end of Episode 2.
• Non-Dubbed Grunts: Her songs are kept in Japanese for the English dub.
• Not What It Looks Like: More so Played for Drama rather than laughs. Episode 5 has her basically choosing Gai over Shu, entering Gai's room with a half-naked Gai, and Ayase teasingly telling Shu that Gai and she spend the night together two or three times a month, implying to Shu that Gai and she have a sexual relationship. When the viewers are actually shown what is going on inside the room, turns out this isn't the case. In fact, it's implied that Gai encourages this interpretation, seeing as what's really going on is a great deal more complicated.
• One-Woman Army: When she goes all-out, she can face off an Endlave battalion by herself and hold up very well.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: When Mana takes full control of her body, her hair grows past waist-length.
• Pretty Freeloader: She ends up living together with Shu at his apartment, but doesn't seem to ever pay or help out around the place.
• Property of Love: Shortly after meeting him, Inori tells Shu she is his possession now. At first, it isn't clear how much of this was an act she was instructed to put up to keep Shu and his powers available to her boss, but it becomes a genuine sentiment as the show progresses. Note that for Inori, being "his" also means always staying on his side and continuing to support him - which he needs quite badly.
• Pursued Protagonist: Is introduced in a Dramatic Chase Opening.
• The Quiet One: Inori doesn't start conversations with others and the answers she gives as usually brief.
• Readings Are Off the Scale: Her Void level just said OVER!
• Really Dead Montage: The final episode ends with Shuu reminiscing about his moments with Inori, who sacrificed her life to save him.
• Rei Ayanami Expy: Inori is a red-eyed and pink-haired Mystical Waif who is deeply devoted to her boss and later, the protagonist. She starts as an Emotionless Girl, but gradually warms up and expresses more emotions thanks to falling in love. Like the original Rei, she's an Artificial Human based on one of the protagonist's family members.
• Replacement Goldfish: Hinted in her exchange with Gai in Episode 5, she is revealed to be an Artificial Human based on the appearance of Mana Ouma, Shu's older sister and Gai's motivation for his war against the GHQ.
• Romantic Fake–Real Turn: At first, she only got close to Shu and pretended to care about him under Gai's orders, to make sure he would cooperate with Funeral Parlor. Her feelings for him become genuine as the series progresses, though.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: While she's not at all cheery and optimistic, Inori does have the "pure" aspect of the personality of the trope; she's innocent and one of the most loyal characters in the series.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Her battle suit is an almost entirely backless leotard.
• Showgirl Skirt: Her red leotard has six long pieces of cloth coming out of the sides of her waist.
• The Stoic: You won't see facial expressions from Inori other than her melancholic, contemplative gaze. She does become more emotive later on.
• Stripperiffic: Her usual fighting attire is a red leotard that shows a lot of skin.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's deeply stoic and reserved, coming across as emotionless, but is loyal to a fault and caring towards those she becomes attached to, like Gai and Shu.
• Sword Beam: Her Void. Elevated to Wave-Motion Gun levels after absorbing Kenji's Void.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Onigiri (Rice balls)
• Undying Loyalty:
  • To Gai. Ayase even notes in Episode 4 that prior to her meeting Shu, she would never disobey any of Gai's orders. In Episode 5, she rejects Shu's offer to leave Funeral Parlor with him in favor of Gai.
    Inori: Gai gave me a name. I had nothing, and he gave me a name. He gave me a world. So I can't go.
  • And to Shu as well. After the events of Episode 17 and everyone literally kicks him to the curb, she's the only one who runs after him.
    Inori: Even if everyone calls you a liar and you hate yourself, I'll be on your side, Shu.
• The Un-Reveal: When she reveals to Shu that Voids are manifested forms of people's hearts and fears, Shu asks her why her Void is a sword. They are interrupted before she can answer his question. Episode 18 reveals that Shu did ask again, but he ultimately dropped the question saying, "Inori is Inori."
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: She fights off against an entire army of Endlaves in order to protect Shu.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Questions her own feelings for Shu in this manner in Episode 10.

Gai Tsutsugami

Gai Tsutsugami

Voiced by: Yūichi Nakamura, Akeno Watanabe (child) (Japanese), Micah Solusod, Terri Doty (child) (English)

"Remember this, Shu Ouma: there are only two paths you can choose. You can sit quietly and be selected out of this world, or you can adapt and make a change!"

Click ^here  to see his revived self spoiler

The seventeen-year-old rebel leader of Funeral Parlor, Gai is described as Shu's rival and seeks to use Shu's "Power of Kings" to fight against the GHQ.

His Void is a gun that can unlock people's Voids.

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• Always Someone Better: Shu's opinion of him, partly due to Shu's own insecurity and partly due to everyone's idolization of him and Inori's closeness to him. Ironically, Gai seems to feel this way about Shu in regards to the implication that both the infected-Mana and Inori have chosen Shu over him.
• Ambiguously Evil: For the fearless leader of La Résistance, he raises a lot of red flags. Being a near-peerless Manipulative Bastard doesn't help.
• Back from the Dead: As of Episode 16, thanks to Haruka Ouma and the Anti-bodies.
• Badass Boast:
  Gai: Well, look at all these corpses.
  Thug: Huh? What corpses?
  Gai: I'm afraid you boys got yourself into a situation you'll have to die your way out of. So you all look like a bunch of corpses to me.
• Batman Gambit: Severed Shu's arm, stole his Void Genome, butchered his classmates, decimated an army, allowed Mana to possess Inori and instigate a second Lost Christmas, all while betting on Shu to somehow overcome his Despair Event Horizon, obtain the third Void Genome and kill him and Mana so they may rest in peace. AND IT WORKED.
• Beneath the Mask: Initially comes off as an arrogant jerk who cares little for his subordinates, but is, in fact, deeply affected by their deaths and doubts his abilities as a leader. He acts so cocksure largely because he sees it as the best way to lead Funeral Parlor.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: He joins Keido as the main antagonist from Episode 17 onwards.
• Celibate Hero: In spite of the above, he doesn't seem seriously interested in romance aside from his whole motivation for his war against the GHQ being a woman that he wants to hold in his arms. This turns out to be Shu's older sister Mana, who he eventually reaches, albeit Together in Death.
• The Charmer: Ayase, Inori, and Arisa can surely attest to his sheer magnetism, though as with so many other things about him, it's unknown how much is him being a gentleman and how much is calculated manipulation.
• The Chessmaster: An excellent strategist—every one of his moves appears to be planned down to the ninth decimal point. There hasn't been a moment yet shown where he hasn't known exactly what's going on, even when Out-Gambitted.
• Child Soldier: Shibungi reveals that he was one before starting Funeral Parlour... in Africa, for some reason.

• Disability Superpower: He's suffering from an advanced stage of the Apocalypse Virus, which is what allows him to see Voids. Only Inori's blood helps stave off the crystallization and even that starts failing later on.
• Evil Former Friend: It turns out that Gai used to be childhood friends with Yu. He then becomes evil after coming back to life.
• Face–Heel Turn: After being revived, he is determined to revive Mana and cause another Lost Christmas.
• Fallen Hero: Once a beloved hero of Funeral Parlor before he comes Back from the Dead to revive Mana.
• Final Boss: He becomes the main threat to Shu and Funeral Parlor after he is revived.

• Forgotten First Meeting: He's "Triton", the boy Shu and his sister Mana befriended after they found him at a shore. Shu doesn't remember this at first because he suppressed all his memories related to Mana and Gai after the trauma of Lost Christmas.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: Call Gai a garbage man because he knows how to take out the trash.
• Heroic Sacrifice: It seems the only way to kill Gai is for him to let himself be killed. And even then, he doesn't always stay dead!
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Much like Shu, he expresses a lot of self-loathing during his inner monologues.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: In a moment of apparent weakness, he claims to care very deeply about his men and feels deeply torn about the fact that so many of them have died because of him. However, because he feels that he cannot appear weak, the only person that he allows to see this side of him is Inori, who later allows Shu to see it when he threatens to withdraw from the Leucocyte mission. Given the suspiciously convenient timing of this revelation, though, and his known talent for manipulation, it remains to be seen just how honest he was being about this.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: Turns out that Shu was the much stronger one out of both of them when they were children, and he was determined to one day become like Shu.
• I Just Want to Be Special: In Episode 22, he admits that the reason why he chooses to be with Mana is because he was afraid of being "selected out".

• I Will Find You: His goal to reach Mana, which he eventually manages to succeed in doing right before they end up Together in Death.
• Jerkass: While he is a charming leader to his followers, he can be an jerk if things don't go according to his plans or if his followers don't obey his orders. Watch how he scolds Inori for not giving him the Void Genome but to Shu instead despite the fact that it wasn't her fault and it was out of her control. He also ordered Inori to pretty much lead Shu on to get him to join Funeral Parlor, only for her to "dump" him once he agreed.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has long hair and is considered handsome by his peers.
• Love Martyr: Even after the Apocalypse Virus destroys Mana's sanity, she nearly kills him, and the virus results in her triggering Lost Christmas, he continues to try and save Mana and eventually succeeds in reaching her in the end.
• Made of Iron: Gai takes a stupid amount of punishment throughout the series.
  • When he was 7, he was shot, then had a building collapse on him, only to stand up a few minutes later saying "I have to get stronger."
• Manipulative Bastard: Par excellence. Being able to see people's Voids, and thus the shape of their souls, helps a lot.
• Meaningful Name: Mana called him "Triton" because he came from the sea. Notably, this also ends up being the last thing Mana says to him.
• Mentor Archetype: To Shu.
• Mercy Kill:
  • Gai shoots Kyo in Episode 6 after she is mortally wounded.
  • By the end of the series, he and Mana end up on the receiving end thanks to Shu.
• Missed the Call: He was originally supposed to use the Void Genome, but Inori allowed Shu to use it instead.
• Mundane Utility: Along with its unique abilities, his Void also serves as a pretty decent assault rifle against non-human targets.
• The Power of Acting: He can effortlessly slip into the role of a charming, flamboyant Cloudcuckoolander.

• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After he's revived, he delivers this speech to Shu.
  Gai: King? Have you forgotten? You were just an usurper. The king has always been me.
• Rebel Leader: The leader of Funeral Parlor.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Shu's Red Oni.
• Rescue Romance: Ten years ago, he was saved by Shu and Mana from drowning at a shore. His feelings for Mana likely stem from the fact that she was the one who "brought him back to life" (via CPR).
• The Rival: Is described as Shu's rival in his character bio. Episode 5 indicates this in more ways than one.

• Shirtless Scene: In Episode 5 and in Episode 16 when he's revealed to be Back from the Dead.
• Silent Scapegoat: After being revived, he joins GHQ as part of a Batman Gambit that would require Shu to overcome everything he and GHQ throw at him so that he may finally put Gai and Mana to rest once and for all, because if Gai had taken a simpler solution and not worked with Da'ath and Keido, Da'ath would have revived Mana once more and started things all over again.
• The Spock: He hides his emotions behind a cool facade and always makes the "logical" choices regarding tactics. Unlike Shu, who also displays this trope, it's a successful concerted act rather than an awkwardly learned impulse.
• Super-Empowering: His Void.
• Taking the Bullet: Does this for Shu in Episode 11.
• Together in Death: With Mana. Twice.
• Took a Level in Badass: Episode 12 reveals that he's the one who really took a level in badass. Who would've thought that he used to be that kid who almost fell off a bridge? And then comes when he's revived later on.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: As his revived self.
• Tragic Keepsake: The cross necklace that he carries which belonged to Mana.

• Walking Spoiler: The majority of his spoilered entries lead to his revived self after Episode 17.
• White Hair, Black Heart: His revived self.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Seemingly implied to be his inner conflict of being the new "Adam" in Episode 21 is the fact that he will never be able to die.
• Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: His innovative approach to international politics.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: An expert player, able to reformulate his plans and factor in new obstacles at a moment's notice. Episode 5 demonstrates that it's partly due to simply being Crazy-Prepared; for the upcoming operation, for example, he prepares 145 different alternative strategies should any problem present itself.
• You Monster!: Inori is called by revived!Gai, along with Arisa in Episode 18.
• Younger Than He Looks: He's the same age as, if not slightly younger than, Shu, but stick them right together, and he looks like he's got easily a few years, if not a decade, on Shu.

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