The cast of Heavenly Delusion.
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Main Duo
Kiruko
- Voiced by: Sayaka Senbongi (Japanese), Anjali Kunapaneni (English)
Kiruko wields an advanced firearm that shoots beams of extreme heat. She has affectionately nicknamed it the Kiru-Beam.
- Action Girl: While she's more of a gunner, she has a mean kick when the situation calls for it. Being a trip guard, part of her job is to defend people from marauders and man-eaters.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Kiruko's gender is rather vague and unclear as a result of her backstory. On one hand, she states in no uncertain terms that they're a guy in a girl's body, and in their backstory they were literally transplanted from the body of a boy into the body of his sister. Despite this, they passively go by she/her third-person pronouns (to strangers/the general public for convenience, while Maru uses they/them third-person pronouns for Kiruko in chapter 18 of the manga, and this is only more of a thing in English), and in Japanese uses the masculine "boku" first-person pronoun, but also tells Maru it's fine to keep calling them by the feminine term "sis/nee-chan" and doesn't seem particularly upset when he says that he sees them as a woman.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: She's quick on her feet and good at deducing information. In episode 4, she knows that the ship is carrying marijuana herbs, but has only seen packages of produce. Thus, she correctly deduces that the illegal herb would be stored in the downstairs cargo hold, which is off-limits to passengers.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite claiming to just see him as a job, Kiruko catches herself being proud of Maru when he fights off eight thugs on his own and panics when he's gone from the apartment they're staying at.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Terribly subverted in the very first episode. When she strips to bathe, we see that she has several very large scars from living rough in post-apocalyptic Japan.
- Blatant Lies: When someone recognizes her as a girl named Kiriko, she insists that she has no idea who that is, despite the man having a picture of Kiriko that looks identical to her. The man and Maru stop pressing, but Maru at least clearly suspects that she's lying. They're partially telling the truth, as the girl in the picture is them, but only their body.
- Cool Big Sis: To Maru, being an older girl who looks after him, teaches him what he doesn't know about the world, and is notably proud when he accomplishes things on his own. Part of the drama of the series is that Maru sees her as something very different.
- Defiled Forever: To say Kiruko was traumatized after being raped by Robin is under-selling it. Although she externally may have appeared to have gotten over it pretty quick. It is obvious that internally, Kiruko felt scarred from that event.
- Energy Weapon: Her kiru-beam shoots a thin beam of light hot enough to melt metal in a single shot. It has a few drawbacks, namely that it only has four shots on full charge (and electricity is hard to get in the post-apocalypse), and that it frequently jams.
- Expository Hair Style Change: At some point in the past, Kiruko's hair color changed from black to reddish brown. they figure it's probably from trauma, but also see it as a reminder from their sister to take care of her body.
- Familial Body Snatcher: Kiruko is the result of Haruki's brain being placed in the body of his sister Kiriko.
- Freudian Slip: After overhearing some thugs complain about being beaten up by Maru, she catches herself being proud of "my little Maru".
- Giver of Lame Names: "Kiru-beam" and "Maru-touch" are rather uncreative monikers for a lasergun and a deathtouch respectively. She later suggests "bread-kan soup" for a soup made from Yōkan and bread. This even extends to their own name, which is just a portmanteau of Kiriko and Haruki.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: She tells this in early on to an Elder about Maru, but kinda goes too far to the point where Maru gets offended about it and sleeps without saying a word to her.
- Guile Hero: She's the smarter of the duo, and doesn't mind employing her wits to their advantage. In the first episode, she tricks a group of bandits into letting her charge her gun battery with their generator by threatening them with said gun, and in episode 4 she defeats the water-covered Man-eater by luring it into a cargo hold filled with dried herbs that would absorb the water.
- Identity Breakdown: A very dark example. But Kiruko always had hints of having an identity crisis, which is not surprising since we are dealing with a man trapped in his sister's body. Unfortunately for Kiruko, Robin took complete advantage of this and proverbially mind-raped her into paralysis. She could do nothing as Robin had his way with her once he starts to gaslight Kiruko into an existential crisis.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Downplayed. She's noted to be a very good shot, able to hit small targets while moving, and Maru admits that he could never match her skill. That said, she's not supernaturally good, and all her shots are within reason.
- Lethal Chef: The first time she's seen cooking in the show, she uses some roadside herbs that cause the canned food to taste so bitter that it becomes unedible. This is more a matter of ingredients, however, as she can make perfectly decent food if she knows what she's cooking.
- Love Confession: In later chapters Kiruko casually tells Maru there are many things about him she loves, but quickly backs out before Maru could even react.
- Meaningful Rename: Kiruko is a portmanteau of Kiriko and Haruki, reflecting a desire to honor their sister without fully taking over her identity.
- Nice to the Waiter: Despite not really needing it, she makes up an excuse to pay for a room at an inn because the innkeeper clearly needs the money and was disappointed when she initially refused.
- No Sense of Personal Space: When discussing with Maru about how she identifies herself, she leaves the bathroom naked and talks directo to Maru about that she is Haruki making it impossible for Maru to answer upon seeing her naked.
- Only One Name: She only goes by Kiruko. She does have a last name, Takehaya, but she doesn't use it.
- Shipper on Deck: After Robin's arc she believes Maru could start a relationship with a girl they meet but Maru ignores her.
- Tragic Keepsake: Her white jacket was given to her by Robin, the Big Brother Mentor she's looking for.
- Vague Age: When Maru asks, she initially claims to be 18, before correcting herself to 20. She explains the gap as being bad at math. In reality, they're mentally 18, but their body is two years older.
- Women Are Wiser: She's definitely more mature and world-weary than Maru, and at one point groans about how boys are always Innocently Insensitive.
Maru
- Voiced by: Gen Satō (Japanese), Jonathan Leon (English)
Maru doesn't wield a weapon but is a good fighter. He also has what Kiruko nicknamed the Maru-Touch, which lets him kill man-eaters he's in physical contact with, though it requires a short moment of concentration to work.
- Accidental Pervert: Already in the first episode he accidentally finds Kiruko in the bathroom that had a broken door. Then the anime toned down the two bathing together accidentally or Maru waking up in the first Hiruko fight while staring in front of Kiruko's cleavage. When he finds a Hiruko core in the naked Totori not even the narrator admits any defense he could attempt would be pointless.
- Blood Knight: Originally a bit subtle when smiling upon losing a tooth. However, when facing Michika and more delinquents, Kiruko becomes concerned in regard to Maru's passion for fights.
- Bodyguard Crush: He is head over heels in love with Kiruko, who sees him as just another job.
- Comically Missing the Point: After he gets into a fight with some thugs, Kiruko tells him to stay behind while she goes shopping since they'll get busted if anyone recognizes his face. He takes this as her saying that his face is busted and assures her that his face is fine aside from a bit of swelling.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: He Beats everybody easily. Michika is the only exception but they remained equals
- Cursed with Awesome: He has the power of killing Hirukos but when mercy-killing a person with this, he blames himself for Dr. Usami's subsequent suicide
- Declaration of Protection: To Kiruko after Robin escapes
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: When Kiruko and he are attacked in their introduction.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: He doesn't have a weapon, but is a great fighter and can take down multiple larger opponents with just his fists and kicks.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: He is very down bad for Kiruko, which she insists is just the result of him being a teenage boy and her being the only girl he knows. Kiruko even gets him motivated to work harder with the promise of touching her boobs.
- Humanoid Abomination: He's the child of two hiruko parents, and have inherited some kind of special power from it, but to what extent he is this is yet to be revealed..
- If It's You, It's Okay: Even after being told that Kiruko is a boy in a girl's body, he still likes her, despite otherwise not showing attraction for men (or anyone but Kiruko, really). He explains that, as far as he's concerned, she's not Haruki or Kiriko. They're simply Kiruko.
- Innocently Insensitive: In the first episode, he happily looks forward to having some real food shortly after Kiruko accidentally spoiled their last meal with bitter herbs. She takes this as an insult to her cooking, which he did not intend.
- Likes Older Women: From his first love who taught him kanji to Kiruko. He downright says when the young Totori tries to seduce him.
- Pretty Boy: So much that upon wearing a wig, everybody, including Kiruko, finds him attractive.
- Separated at Birth: from his mother Tokio and his twin Yamato
- Single-Target Sexuality: Pervy though he may be, he only has eyes for Kiruko, and her complicated issues with gender don't really deter him one way or another.
- Super-Strength: He has an abnormal level of physical fitness that allows him to take out groups of adults much bigger than him with ease - downplayed, however, as he's still not strong enough to punch out a Man-Eater and even he won't attempt to throw hands with a bear.
- This Is Unforgivable!: Upon seeing the true Nature of Robin, a silent Maru starts beating up Robin until being asked by Kiruko to not kill him.
- Touch of Death: His Maru-Touch functions like this. If he's in physical contact with a man-eater, he can "reach into" it and crush a heart-like core, instantly killing it.
- Tranquil Fury: Maru is usually pretty laid-back and cheerful; but when he gets really angry, he goes completely quiet, his expression turns completely stoic, and he begins curbstomping whoever angered him. When he's in this state, pretty much nothing and nobody except Kiruko's words can stop him, as Robin found out.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: As noted by others, Maru really looks like his missing (potential) mother Tokio and most likely his clone/"twin" Yamato too
The Nursery
Shino Kaminaka
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- Voiced by: Masako Isobe (Japanese)
An old woman named Shino Kaminaka but is often called the Director, who is in charge of the Nursery.
- Abusive Parents: Maru describes her as "just the next person [he] had to listen to", and mentions that she always looked at him with coldness in her eyes and didn't really treat him as a person.
- Ambiguously Evil: She acts rather menacing, and has unclear intentions for the children, but she has yet to do anything blatantly villainous. Later in the manga, it was revealed that it was she who thwarted humanity's attempt to redirect Nibiru for reasons yet unknown. Although the fact that she still gave Maru the Death Beam and tasked Kiruko to protect him still puts her motivations ambiguous.
- Ambiguous Situation: Maru mentioned that she passed away in Nata's body by the time Kiruko was confirmed to be his bodyguard. However, it is unknown how true that is, as a flashback scene in Chapter 41 showed her final moments where we see the core from Nata's body has finally started to consume her. Even then, we did not see her die or transform like the other Hiruko students. Although the former seems to be the most likely.
- Boyish Short Hair: Shino kept Nata's short, boyish hair into adulthood.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Not corrupt per say, but still willing to accelerate the end of the world.
- Everyone Calls Her "Barkeep": Her actual name, Shino Kaminaka, is rarely used.
- Grand Theft Me: Wanted to originally take over Aoshima's body in order to extend her aging life, but was stopped due to the bombings of the Nursery that thwarted her plans. So she opted to transplant her brain onto Manaka 'Nata' Mikura, one of the children that had been rendered unconscious due to an injury from the bombings.
- Muggle with a Degree in Magic: She taught Maru how to use his powers, despite not having them herself. This is justified in the later chapters once we realised who she really was.
- Pet the Dog: She seems genuinely distraught over the deaths of Tarao and Asura, two of the children under her care.
- Posthumous Character: She died immediately after hiring Kiruko to escort Maru apparently.
- She Is All Grown Up: Subverted. The original brain of the Director is still the same old woman, but Nata's body did mature from a young girl into a tall woman.
The Children
In General (Unmarked Spoilers)
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Invoked. The children of the nursery were raised with no concept of gender, and a large amount of them are intersex, making it difficult to ascertain what they identify as, if anything.
- Fate Worse than Death: They do die, but afterward they turn into inhuman man-eating monsters with no sign of intelligence. The only way to stave off this fate is with repeated, painful surgeries that renders them in an entirely different And I Must Scream situation.
- Humanoid Abomination: The children not only all have unusual inhuman abilities, but each have a "core" that after their deaths will grow into a unique monster with similar-but-different abilities called a Hiruko, or Man-Eater.
- I'm a Humanitarian: The Man-Eater nickname is not just for show, as all Hiruko seem to consume humans for unknown reasons.
- Was Once a Man: Once they turn into Hiruko, there is nothing left of their humanity.
Tokio
Tokio
- Voiced by: Hibiku Yamamura (Japanese), Brittany Lauda (English)
- Absurdly Youthful Mother: Given that she gave birth to either Maru or Yamato as a teenager, and the fact that the nursery didn't even teach the kids about reproduction. This isn't that surprising.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Because the orphanage is raised without a concept of gender, Tokio's gender identity is intentionally vague due to the combination of her extremely short boyish hair but feminine eyelashes. In the manga, it was hard to tell, but the anime was a bit easier as Tokio's voice is really feminine. This was cleared up pretty quickly that Tokio is in fact, female. The fact that she gave birth and could breastfeed is a pretty dead ringer.
- Boyish Short Hair: One of her key identifiable traits.
- But I Can't Be Pregnant!: Tokio's ignorance on reproduction and pregnancy meant that she didn't even know she was pregnant or what pregnancy was, until her teachers outright showed her her child (or the clone of it).
- Green-Eyed Monster: She is jealous of anyone who hangs around Kona too much, and tends to push them away to have him to herself.
- Missing Mom: She is potentially this to Maru, who is either his mother or the mother of the person Maru was cloned from.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Lets just say that Maru is essentially the male copy of his potential mother. Tokio's genes are god damn strong.
Kona
Kona
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- Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga (Japanese), A.J. Beckles (English)
- Ambiguous Situation: It wasn't clear what exactly happened with Kona after the Nibiru asteroid hit Earth. When Mimihime visited him in the hospital to discuss with him her precognition fears. We see him as a Man-Eater next to Mimihime. Given how when exactly Mimihime's visions occur is unknown even to her, we aren't sure if Kona has already transformed into a Man-Eater by 2039, and if so, whether his Man-Eater is still alive or not.
- Cool Big Bro: He's one of the oldest kids at the Nursery (at least he looks that way), and lots of the other kids look up to him and ask him for drawings which he is happy to give.
- Disappeared Dad: His status after the Niburu asteroid hit Earth is unknown. Sakota/Sawatari doesn't specify if he was living with Tokio and Yamato in Nara 10 years ago or not
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: He was the only one who was close to, remembered and interacted with Asura.
- Oblivious to Love: Sort of, more like potentially oblivious to sex. Kona may have had no idea that intercourse would end up impregnating Tokio since like all the kids in the Nusery, he wasn't thought the concept of reproduction.
- Seers: Like Mimhime, Kona has an unknown form of precognition, although their powers differred as Mimihime has hers in dreams whilst Kona's prophesised through drawings. His artworks tends to imply events that he would have no knowledge of, such as the drawing of the Ningyo hiruko that attack Kiruko and Maru in episode 4 or the birth and later cloning of his son.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Maru shares a lot of his (potential) father's face.
- Supernaturally Young Parent: He sired either Maru or Yamato with Tokio when they were teenagers.
- Synchronization: Due to somehow having become in sync with Tokio, he feels the pains of childbirth at the same time Tokio is giving birth
Shiro
Shiro
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- Voiced by: Shunsuke Takeuchi (Japanese), Hao Feng (young), David Matranga (adult) (English)
- Broken Tears: He breaks down crying after reading Mimihime's final declaration of love after passing away.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Male example. Shiro has often been awkardly emotionless, although he does get flustered and, once Mimihime passes away, breaks down crying.
- Driven to Suicide: His fate via gunshot after euthanising his wife.
- Go-to Alias: In-universe, most of the children including Shiro was given a new name by the Japanese government. In his case, he was renamed as Shun Usami.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Even when young, Shiro was an engineering prodigy. Makes sense he would continue his expertise into adulthood.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Subverted. He initially appears to be watching Tokio and Mimihime interract with jealousy, but it turns out he just doesn't know how to act on his feelings for Mimihime.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: He lusts for Mimihime, but given the Nursery's lacking sex-ed, he has little knowledge of how to act on it.
- Last Kiss: Kisses his deceased wife on the forehead one final time before committing suicide.
- Mad Doctor: Subverted. He is not even a qualified doctor, but is forced in this role to alleviate the suffering from his wife. Unfortunately, his poor social skills made the Liviumans believe that he was this trope to the T.
- No Social Skills: He has very little skill with social interaction. His confession of his feelings for Mimihime is painfully awkward.
- Peaceful in Death: He calmly commits suicide next to his now deceased wife.
- Together in Death: An absolute tear jerker. But once Mimihime is finally euthanised. He climbed up the roof of a building. Watched the final sunset, kissed his wife one last time and commits suicide.
Mimihime
Mimihime
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- Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English)
- Afraid of Needles: Ohma's abillity revealed that Mimihime was deathly afraid of needles and surgical equipment. Mimihime also dreamt of such a nightmare. This is foreshadowing her fate in the future.
- An Arm and a Leg: To delay her transformation into a Man-Eater, Shiro surgically removes pieces of her flesh. By the time Kiruko and Maru visited her, she was limbless and lost her left eye (her right eye was surgically donated by her husband).
- Bandage Mummy: Her fate by the time Kiruko and Maru visited her.
- Book Ends: For her character arc at least. Mimihime's first expression of wonder was looking at the bright blue sky outside the nursery. Mimihime's last vision was looking at the bright blue sky one last time.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Shiro confesses his feelings, their combined lack of knowledge when it comes to sex ends up making her think briefly that he wants to eat her.
- Cool Big Sis: To Ohma, who she develops a close bond with.
- Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Other than her ears and smile, she is also best identified by her perpetually sleepy-looking eyes.
- Dying Declaration of Love: She wrote her final farewell message to Shiro, declaring that she loved him till the end.
- Dying as Yourself: A extremely tragic example. She begs her husband Shiro that she wants to die human. She finally got her wish, with her husband joining soon after.
- Fate Worse than Death: Even disregarding her fate as a Man-Eater. By the present day, Mimihime is in absolute perpetual agony and suffering as her husband is forced to slowly chop up his wife.
- Go-to Alias: In-universe, most of the children including Mimihime was given a new name by the Japanese government. In her case, she was renamed as Akari Hoshio.
- Heirloom Engagement Ring: Sort of and gender inverted. Once they ventured out of the nursery and after surviving a fall. Mimihime plucked a button from her school shirt, with the same logo as the Death Beam and gave it to Shiro. The button sort of solidifies Mimihime's engagement to Shiro as husband and wife, with the button symbolising the legacy of their upbringing. Near the end of their lives, Shiro looked at his 'engagement ring' one last time before committing suicide.
- Ill Girl: Ill Girl is an understatement. By the time Kiruko and Maru visited Mimihime, her situation has gone critical. Mimihime was dying and she does not want to end up like Ohma.
- Little Bit Beastly: True to her name, Mimihime has two furry beast-like ears, giving her excellent hearing abilities.
- Meaningful Name: Mimihime literally translates to Ear Princess. And given her appearance...
- Medical Horror: Deconstructed. Her surgeries are horrific, but it was not done out of sadism, but by love as she did not want to die a monster.
- Mercy Kill: Her final wish was to die looking up at the sky and end her suffering. Maru granted her wish by gently crushing her core.
- Nice Girl: She's patient with Shiro when he tries to explain his feelings, even as he struggles with formulating it clearly and comes across awkward and creepy.
- Peaceful in Death: She dies peacefully with a single tear running across her cheek.
- Seers: Mimihime has a uncontrollable power of foresight through her dreams. It is so accurate that she foresaw her own death.
- Together in Death: Again, incredibly tragic. But in the end, she dies alongside her husband after committing suicide.
- Tragically Disabled Love Interest: A crippled quadriplegic, missing an eye, on a ventilator, with various needles injected into her, whilst starving off a Fate Worse than Death. She is absolutely helpless and miserable. No wonder she wanted to die alongside her husband.
- The Voiceless: Downplayed. Mimihime in her youth was quite talkative. But her ailments meant that over time, she lost her voice; relying on a text-to-speech software to communicate.
Anzu
Anzu
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- Voiced by: Misato Matsuoka (Japanese), Courtney Lin (English)
- Ambiguous Situation: In the first parts of the series, it is unknown what happened to her other than the fact that the last time we saw her in the anime was looking at a human city for the first time. The manga unfortunately confirmed that she eventually succumbed to her core and transformed into a hiruko.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Anzu-hiruko is the largest hiruko seen so far. Resembling a giant, walking jellyfish-like monster.
- Dancing with Myself: A very good dancer who often dances with herself.
- Electric Jellyfish: Her hiruko-form is imbued with electricity, making going close to her incredibly dangerous.
- Go-to Alias: In-universe, most of the children including Anzu was given a new name by the Japanese government. In her case, she was renamed as Noa Umezu.
- In-Series Nickname: Her hiruko-form is called Anjulas.
- Nice Girl: Like Mimihime, she is quite nice and welcoming.
- Missing Mom: To Totori, and for good reason. The last thing Totori needs is to know that her mother had turned into a Kaiju-sized hiruko monster.
- Was Once a Man: She didn't even had time to play as mother; transforming into a hiruko shortly after giving birth to Totori.
- With This Ring: Sort of. Anzu and Taka informally engaged and wed in a abandoned building by drawing a sign of their 'god' and kissed. They had no concept of a wedding ring, so this sign was their rough equivelent. Kikuro and Maru would later find their marriage sign and mistook it as some sort of sign relating to the Nursery.
Taka
Taka
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- Voiced by: Yūki Shin (Japanese), John Choi (English)
- Ambiguous Situation: In the first parts of the series, it is unknown what happened to him other than the fact that the last time we saw him in the anime was looking at a human city for the first time. Close observers will realise that we saw him already. As in, he was the first hiruko we ever saw. Yes, he was the bird hiruko.
- Examples that support this statement is that his name Taka, roughly translates to hawk or falcon. And his extremely fast cutting powers mimics the cutting powers of the bird hiruko.
- Blade Spam: His powers include projecting an invisible slash so fast, a human eye can't keep track of it. One of the hints that links him to the birdlike leanchoilia hiruko.
- Disappeared Dad: Like his wife, there is a good reason to not let Totori know what happened to her dad.
- Feathered Fiend: His hiruko transformation resembles a giant flying bird with a leech-like head that could slice things into pieces.
- Go-to Alias: In-universe, most of the children including Taka was given a new name by the Japanese government. In his case, he was renamed as Mito Minakata.
- Master Swordsman: Adult Taka sport wielding a katana. But it wasn't enough to stop Michika.
- Meaningful Name: Taka roughly translates from Japanese as either hawk or falcon. It is one of the most important hints that links him to the bird hiruko.
- Papa Wolf: A tragic example, as he fought Michika to protect both his daughter and his now transformed wife. He failed as Michika slashed open his neck, which eventually led to his transformation.
- Starter Villain: He was the first hiruko that Kikuro and Maru fought in the series.
- Was Once a Man: He only managed to take care of Totori for a mere three years before being killed by Takezuka Michika.
- With This Ring: Sort of. Anzu and Taka informally engaged and wed in a abandoned building by drawing a sign of their 'god' and kissed. They had no concept of a wedding ring, so this sign was their rough equivelent. Kikuro and Maru would later find their marriage sign and mistook it as some sort of sign relating to the Nursery.
Asura
Asura
- Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese)
- Ambiguous Situation: Is Asura truly dead? Or has she transcended into a higher state of existence to avoid being turned into a hiruko/Man-Eater?
- Creepy Child: Downplayed. She is indeed creepy looking, but she ends up helping the kids on crucial information regarding the Nursery.
- Driven to Suicide: Hung herself.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Kona was the only one who still remembers her personally and knew what happened to her.
- The Ghost: Seems to be so, as she conversed with Tokio in her dreams despite being already dead.
- Humanoid Abomination: Like all the orphanage children, though she's the only one who looks markedly inhuman.
- My Brain Is Big: Justified as she was a psychic medium, making her look kind of like an alien in the process.
- Posthumous Character: Was already dead by the time of the Nursery plotline.
- Power Floats: As a psychic, this is justified.
- Psychic Children: Possibly one of the strongest one in the Nursery.
Michika
Michika Takezuka
One of the many Intersex children in the Nursery with wild-hair.- Absurdly Sharp Claws: Into adulthood, their nails have transformed into incredibly sharp claws.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: Their powers gives them a giant arm blade that is sharp enough to cut nearly anything.
- Bloodlust: Loves to fight and battle the strongest opponent.
- Hermaphrodite: Confirmed in the later parts of the manga where they opened up their legs to let their two male traveling companions view their genitals, confirming that they have both a "weiner and a hole".
- Last of Their Kind: One of the few hirukos that has yet to transform.
- Lightning Bruiser: Both absurdly fast and strong, as Maru found out the hard way.
- Messy Hair: A given, due to their wild child status.
- One of the Boys: So tomboyish, they were mistaken as a man by their compatriots. They were half-right.
- Oni: Their power gives them the appearance of one.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Willing to go nude with the bathing men and spread their legs open to reveal their two genitals.
- Tomboy: The most tomboyish kid in the Nursery by far. And is so masculine, that even the two male compatriots that accompany them thought they were a dude...sort of...it's complicated.
- Wild Child: Their most identifiable trait was their wild messy hair and beast-like eyes.
Ohma
Ohma
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- Voiced by: Hina Kino (Japanese), Madeline Dorroh (English)
One of the many Intersex children in the Nursery. Looking into her eyes makes you see your worst fears.
- Ambiguous Situation: Although we see Maru killing her hiruko-form. By the end of Episode 8, we see that one of her 'spawn' survived.
- Clingy Child: To Mimihime, the only person who withstood her mind rape stare and befriended with.
- Cool Shades: Always spot wearing a sunglass to protect everyone from her lethal gaze.
- Death Glare: Quite literally. Her eyes can cause such vivid hallucinations as to recreate the sensation of death.
- Fate Worse than Death: Like all hiruko children from the Nursery, this was her fate.
- Girlish Pigtails: One of the main identifiable traits from her.
- Hermaphrodite: Confirmed in the later parts of the Manga as one of the many intersex children.
- Magical Eye: Her main shtick. And one of the major hints that she was the hallucinating hiruko located in the basement of the Immortalite's basement.
- Mind Rape: She is capable of this, unintentionally or intentionally.
- Was Once a Man: Ohma spent years trying to track down and find Mimihime. She eventually did, but by that point, she succumbed to her hiruko core and was sealed in the basement. Her reunion was both fleeting and bittersweet.
Kuku
Kuku
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- Voiced by: Tomoyo Kurosawa (Japanese), Madeleine Morris (English)
A kid at the orphanage who can climb on walls and is one of the many Intersex children.
- Burial at Sea: When she eventually succumbed to her fate, Ohma and Michika played a funeral before dumping her body into the ocean. This led to her transforming into the fish hiruko in which Kikuro and Maru would destroy.
- Entertainingly Wrong: Having never seen a baby, she assumes the extremely alien creatures incubating in the restricted areas are human babies.
- Fate Worse than Death: Like all hiruko children from the Nursery, this was her fate.
- Fish Eyes: One of her most identifiable traits and a big hint on her fate in the future.
- Hermaphrodite: Confirmed in the later parts of the Manga as one of the many intersex children.
- In a Single Bound: Downplayed although she can still jump quite high.
- Salt Solution: Justified once she becomes a hiruko. Like an amphibian, she needs water to survive. So her hiruko-form is perpetually covered in slime to retain moisture. This realisation led to Kikuro to bait her in a room filled with marijuana which quickly absorbed her slime and made her so weak that Maru effortlessly kills her.
- Wall Crawl: Her ability lets her climb on walls.
Other Characters
Kiriko Takehaya (SPOILERS)
Kiriko Takehaya is in fact Kiruko, or rather her body. When her brother Haruki was nearly eaten by a man-eater, a mysterious Doctor saved his life by transplanting his brain into her body. The brother took the name Kiruko and became a trip guard in order to find anything she could about the doctor and learn why they did this.
- Ambiguous Situation: Did she consensually give her body to her brother? She had been working with the Doctor for some time prior to Haruki's near-death, but the events between Haruki losing consciousness and waking up in Kiriko's body are completely unknown, meaning that she could have consented, or she could not have, and it's impossible to know.
- Big Sister Instinct: First thing she did once she saw what was happening to her brother was to crash her go-kart directly into the hiruko.
- Cool Big Sis: A racer who takes care of her brother and provides for the orphanage they live at. Haruki certainly looks up to her, maybe a bit more than he should.
- Identical Stranger: When a racing fan recognizes Kiruko at the farm, she initially claims that the similarity is a coincidence, and she has no idea who Kiriko is.
- Promoted to Parent: Implied. Kiriko and Haruki's parents are gone, and a flashback shows Kiriko and Haruki traveling together some time before ending up at the orphanage in Tokyo, meaning that she likely took care of her younger brother for a while.
- Rape as Backstory: When Kiruko recalls a brief fragmented remnant memory of Kiriko's, Kiruko sees themselves as Haruki (asleep in a bed) from the perspective of Kiriko hearing Robin comment on how Haruki is a "deep sleeper". Combined with an additional fragment of Kiriko's memory, as shown in episode 3 of the anime, depicting Kiriko's hands being intertwined with a larger adult-sized hand while in bed, the series has a strong implication that Robin had been subjecting Kiriko to statutory rape before in the past.
Robin Inazaki (Unmarked Spoilers)
- Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (Japanese), Eric Vale (English)
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Robin reveals himself to be a sadistic rapist and sex pest, alongside a potential human experimenter.
- Cool Big Bro: A horrifically subverted deconstructed example of this trope. Originally this was how Kiruko saw him, being the one who taught her how to fight and served as a mentor for much of her life...until their fateful reunion which revealed who he really was. Robin examplifies the issue on putting too much trust in one figure and to never meet your heroes.
- Covert Pervert: A sinister example of this, as Robin looks like an upstanding man, masking behind a putrid rapist and predator.
- Dirty Coward: Despite knowing how to fight, when he saw Maru, he immediately tried to flee. He was also the one heavily hinted to have shot Kiriko in the head when she wasn't looking.
- Gaslighting: Subjected Kiruko into this, breaking down her mental stabillity and giving her an identity crisis in order to make her more easier to rape.
- Hate Sink: Not immediately apparent at first, but once he reveals his true colors, it's made clear that there's nothing likable about him: he's a sleazy, repulsive rapist who might or may not experiment on people.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Did this to Kiruko for a few days and possibly more if the fragmented memories of Kiriko is any indication.
- Walking Spoiler: It's hard to discuss him in detail without revealing that he's a bastard.
The Doctor
- Voiced by: Tadashi Mutou (Japanese)
Click here to see his younger self. Spoiler warning here!
A mysterious doctor Kiruko is looking for.
- Ambiguously Evil: He transplanted Haruki's brain into Kiriko's body against his will, but the details of the situation was initially extremely vague. Haruki was not awake for the proceedings, obviously, so it's not clear if Kiriko requested it, or if the Doctor did it nonconsensually. It later turns out that Kiriko was already braindead by the time he found them, so his operation may not have been fully ethical they were well-intentioned.
- Canon Character All Along: He is actually Teruhiko Sakota/Sawatari, the doctor in the Nursery storyline.
- Determined Doctor: Turns out to be the case. When Haruki was on death's door and Kiriko was medically brain dead, Dr. Sakota had no choice but to body swap Haruki's brain into his sister's body, giving birth to Kiruko as a result.
- Happily Adopted: Eventually became a good father figure for Tokio, Kona, Michika, Ohma and Kuku for an unknown period of time.
- My Greatest Failure: Feels immense regret in mixing up Yamato and Maru as babies (i.e. he didn't know which one was the clone and which one Tokio originally gave birth to) and not being able to (partially) explain to Maru about his origins until much later in life.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Kiruko doesn't know his name, only refering to him as The Doctor or Doc.
- Rugged Scar: His most identifiable trait outside of his messy beard. It is one of the early hints that the Doctor is in fact, Teruhiko Sakota/Sawatari, who spots the scar after the Nursery bombings.
- Suicide Attack: His final moments was to strap himself with grenades and turn himself into bait so as to weaken Anzu in the process.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: In-universe, this was the case for Kiruko as their reunion lasted only a couple days.
Totori
Totori
- Voiced by: Misato Matsuoka (Japanese)
- Born After the End: She was born two years after the apocalypse, so she never knew what society was like in its golden age.
- Boyish Short Hair: Her hair is quite short; tied up only by a blue bandenna.
- Doorstop Baby: She was only three when both her parents died and became hirukos. She was adopted by a group of vigilantes.
- Happily Adopted: Seems to have a good relationship with the vigilantes that adopted her.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: A very icky example. She is nice but is willing to copulate with Maru and has done 'services' before. Oh yeah, and she's thirteen.
- Humanoid Abomination: She's the child of two hiruko parents, and she registers as a hiruko to the Maru-touch, but otherwise it's downplayed as she doesn't display any inhuman traits other than that.
- Ignorance Is Bliss: She has no clue about her parents and has no interest in finding out. A pretty smart decision given her ancestry.
- Last of Her Kind: She is one of the few remaining human hiruko and one of the only three born with hiruko ancestry alongside Maru.
- Mysterious Past: For her at least and for the viewers initially. Not much is known about her background. Maru accidentally using his powers only to find out that she has a hiruko core heavily hints at her heritage. Later on in the manga, it was revealed that she was the surviving daughter or Anzu and Taka.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Willing to get naked with Maru to have sex with him. Until you realise her age...
- Strong Family Resemblance: Sort of resembles a younger version of her mom.
- Wish-Fulfillment: Wishes to become a hotel tycoon someday.
