History Characters / HellGirl

** [[Characters/HellGirlAiEnma Ai Enma]]

Characters from ''Anime/HellGirl''. '''Be warned that few spoilers will be marked.'''

Characters from ''Anime/HellGirl''. Be warned that not all spoilers will be marked.

** [[Characters/HellGirlOtherMedia From Other Media]]

** [[Characters/HellGirlOtherMedia Other Media]]

Characters from ''Anime/HellGirl''.

* [[Characters/HellGirlHellCorrespondence The Hell Correspondence]]

* [[Characters/HellGirlHellCorrespondence Hell Correspondence]]

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[[header: Hell Girl and Co.]]

[[folder:The whole team]]
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* AffablyEvil: Ai's teammates have a fairly even-minded opinion of humankind, and happily support their co-workers, students, and friends in their many, many jobs. It almost makes you forget what their real job is.
* {{Anti Villain}}s: Aside from Kikuri, they're actually pretty decent folks aside from their job.
* ClarkKenting: They don't put on any disguise to infiltrate into their clients' lives (e.g. pretending to be a classmate/teacher/etc.), even when they pose as a number of different roles at the same time. Justified, since they are able to prevent mortals from recognizing them. It becomes a plot point in the third season when [[spoiler:Yuzuki]] recognizes them.
* ColorCodedCharacters: The minions' straw doll forms are different colors: black for Wanyuudo, red for Hone Onna, blue for Ichimoku Ren and yellow for Yamawaro.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Played with. They aren't happy when an innocent gets sent to Hell, but have no choice in the matter. Additionally, while their job is to send people to hell, they are contemptuous of deliberate human cruelty; for example, in episode 1, they're disgusted that AlphaBitch Aya Kuroda, who stole the money Mayumi Hashimoto was entrusted with and forced her into CompensatedDating to make it back, is writing off her behavior as "kid stuff"; and for another example, in episode 16, they sound very angry when telling off Yuki for how she treated her sister Yumi.
** Played straight in one instance where Ichimoku Ren attempts to prevent a child from sending her own mother to Hell because the mother is already Hellbound due to a previous covenant with Ai, only succeeding when the mother chooses to commit suicide in order to spare her from doing so.
** Hone Onna before she assumed her doll form, directly expressed a particular amount of disgust and anger at a girl claiming to be a fortune teller, who sent an innocent man to hell after being bullied into it by a popular girl in her school to avoid being an outcast.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Despite their efficiency and cruelty in sending people to hell, they can be quite kind-hearted and sympathetic to the turmoil of others. Not often, this may include gentle nudges to use Hell Correspondence if they believe it would save the person from further suffering.
** As well as stalling for time when the would-be victim is on their deathbed. One may only send someone who is still (technically) alive.
*** This is also the only confirmed instance of a character going to Heaven, though, like Hell, it is never seen.
** And in one case, physically stopping a moving vehicle to prevent revenge when the covenant was impossible, after the contract had already been invalidated and there was no obligation to stay.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Ai's minions are often shown with different jobs as they observe a prospective client and the corresponding target before the string is pulled.
* NotSoStoic: Inverted. They are not allowed to have their emotions interfere with their job, but act normally around each other.
* {{Punch Clock Villain}}s: Very much so. Ai ferries people to hell because [[spoiler: that's where her parents will go if she doesn't]]. Her assistants stay with her out of [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty]]. They treat the Hell Correspondence as their job and won't hurt anyone unless they're the target of their client's revenge.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Ai is at least 400 years old. Her first three companions came from various periods of feudal Japan.
** Technically speaking, Ren was 100 years old exactly when he was 'born'. Except, replace "born" with "transformed from a katana".
* SleepModeSize: Their straw doll forms are basically this when someone's not using them to sell their soul for revenge.
* StealthHiBye: They can go between the sunset realm and the world of the living by just vanishing and will often disappear when some random object or person moves in front of them.
* TrueCompanions: Ren outright says that their little group is like family to him. In season 3, Yuzuki asks Ai who Ren, Hone Onna, and Wanyuudo are to her. Ai says they're her companions.
* UndyingLoyalty: All of Ai's minions except for Kikuri are deeply loyal to her for their own reasons. For Wanyuudo, it's because Ai saved him from running on and on until he wound up in hell. For Hone Onna, it's because Ai helped her regain her humanity. In the case of Ichimoku Ren and Yamawaro, it's because she saved them from a lonely existence. She also acts as an older sister of sorts to Kikuri.
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: They are the main characters and their job is to carry out revenge on others' behalf and ferry people to hell. [[AntiVillain That doesn't mean they are evil, though.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: They can do this to varying degrees.
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[[folder:Ai Enma]]
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->''"O pitiful shadow lost in the darkness''
->'' Bringing torment and pain to others''
->'' O damned soul wallowing in your sins''
->'' Perhaps...it is time to die."''

-->Voiced by: Creator/MamikoNoto (Japanese), Creator/BrinaPalencia (English), Melanie Henríquez (Latin American Spanish)
-->Portrayed by: Sayuri Iwata (2006 series), Tina Tamashiro (2019 film)

The titular Hell Girl. It is her duty to offer a devil's deal of vengeance to any who access the Hell Correspondence. If the "customer" accepts, she ferries the target of that person's vengeance to Hell. As part of the deal she will also ferry the "customer" to Hell after he or she dies.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: In her backstory, she was ostracized and bullied by the people of her village. The only ones who treated her kindly were her parents and her cousin Sentaro. [[spoiler:It's implied that this is why she was chosen as a HumanSacrifice - the townspeople just wanted to get rid of her.]]
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Appearance-wise, Ai is a beautiful, doll-like girl with long, black hair who shows no emotion.
* BenevolentBoss: She does care for her minions in her own quiet way and they love her right back.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Ai's job as the Hell Girl forces her to repress her emotions to the point where it's ''very'' hard to make her angry... God help you if you actually succeed.
* BloodbathVillainOrigin: [[spoiler:She became Hell Girl after transforming into a demon out of pure hate and [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed burning down her home village with everyone inside,]] in revenge for them tormenting her for her entire life, planning to sacrifice her, and finally burying her alive, killing her parents, and forcing her beloved cousin to betray her.]]
* BrokenBird: Ai wasn't always so detached and somber. The mistreatment she got from the villagers, the unfair death of her and her parents, the betrayal of someone she believed would protect her, and centuries of seeing people dragging others to hell in revenge are what made her emotionally numb.
* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler:After she was discovered to be alive, Ai and her parents were buried alive by the villagers to appease the gods.]]
* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: [[spoiler:She returns to the mortal world in this form at the beginning of the third season.]]
* CastingAShadow: One of her powers is the ability to hurl massive, deadly blasts of black energy.
* CreepyChild: She appears as a young girl, but she's instantly unsettling because of her creepily emotionless demeanour and nature as a worker of Hell who carries out revenge for others.
* CreepyMonotone: When not interacting with her minions, she speaks in an emotionless and morose monotone.
* CryCute: Because she's usually so emotionless, the few times we see tears in her eyes, mainly during the episodes showing her tragic past, are always heart-wrenching.
* CuteWitch: She is an undead agent of Hell but very conventionally attractive.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:More than 400 years ago, Ai was a human girl living in a remote village near the mountains. She was frequently bullied by other kids, and her only friend was her cousin Sentaro. At the age of seven, Ai was selected to be the HumanSacrifice. However, her parents secretly asked Sentaro to care for her as she lived in the mountains. A few years later, Ai was discovered when a group of boys followed Sentarou into the mountains. Ai and her parents were captured and BuriedAlive as punishment. The villagers forced Sentaro to be the first one to shovel ground to the hole. Sentaro's betrayal brought forth an immense hatred in Ai. As the villagers buried her, she vowed to hate them forever even if she dies. A short time later, Ai returned as a vengeful spirit to exact her revenge by burning the entire village to the ground in her wrath. The Master of Hell then captured her parents and made a pact with her: in exchange for her parents not being sent to Hell, Ai should become the Hell Girl to carry out others' revenge as a punishment for her own revenge.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: Dresses in black and red, but is a PunchClockVillain at worst.
* DealWithTheDevil: Her duty is to offer these and carry them out.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Ai was originally a normal human girl. During her dying breath, [[spoiler:she cursed the villagers that sacrificed her and her parents to their mountain gods. That same night, she came back as an ''onryo'' and burned the whole village down, killing everyone in it.]] After that, she was sent to hell, and the Lord of Hell forced her to take the job of Hell Girl or else she and her loved ones would suffer in hell eternally. The job comes with a powerful set of powers, and over the course of 400 years she gains enough mastery of it to be able to confront the Lord of Hell.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: [[spoiler:In the final moments of her life as a human, Ai vowed to hate the villagers that killed her and her parents forever, even after her death.]]
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: To contribute to her creepy image as the Hell Girl, Ai has long black hair and ghostly pale skin.
* EmotionSuppression: Despite coming off as an EmotionlessGirl, Ai ''does'' have emotions, but she must repress them in order to carry out her job as the Hell Girl. It's subtle, but she does rarely show emotions such as her TranquilFury toward Gil de l'Enfer.
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:Her cousin and OnlyFriend Sentaro betrayed her when [[PeerPressureMakesYouEvil he gave in to the pressure of the townspeople,]] did nothing to save her and her parents and even helped the villagers to bury her alive.]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[spoiler:She serves as Hell Girl because the Master of Hell threatened to send her parents to hell if she refused.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: She will send most people to hell without blinking an eye. But she was not happy when an innocent young nurse, who had committed no crime, was sent to hell by a drug addict for no reason at all.
* TheFerryman: She ferries people to Hell in a similar manner to [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Charon]].
* FlowerMotifs: Lycoris, also known as red spider lilies. They're closely tied to the theme of death, growing near cemeteries and meaning "those who cannot return" in flower language. It is also said that when you see someone you will never meet again, those flowers will bloom along the path.
* GhostlyGoals: [[spoiler:{{Revenge}}. She killed the villagers who used her as a HumanSacrifice. Unfortunately for her, [[EverybodyHatesHades the spider]] noticed and made her the Hell Girl as [[IronicHell punishment]].]]
* GodivaHair: In the scenes where she appears nude, her hair covers the important parts.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:When she refuses to transport the soul of Takuma Kurebayashi, whose life situation somewhat mirrored her own. As a punishment she becomes mortal and later dies while trying to defend the boy from violent townspeople.]]
* HimeCut: She has blunt bangs, cheek-length sidelocks, and waist-length straight hair. It's meant to give her the air of a traditional {{Miko}}, but in a rather dark and unsettling sense.
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:Her backstory; Ai was meant to be this as a little girl, but with Sentaro's help she was able to stay alive even when abandoned in the mountains - until the villagers found out and took it upon themselves to bury her alive along with her parents. In revenge, she rises from her grave and burns down her village, and is made into the Hell Girl as [[IronicHell punishment]].]]
* IronicHell: [[spoiler:She was forced to become the Hell Girl as punishment for burning her village down in revenge for her death.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Upon returning to life as a demon, she burned her village down and killed everyone in it.]]
* KissingCousins: It's implied she had romantic feelings for her cousin Sentaro, [[spoiler:which made his betrayal even more painful for her.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: Ai is capable of creating large, intricate illusions, in which she often does to frighten her victims before taking them to Hell.
* MeaningfulName: Enma is the Buddhist god who rules the underworld. Ai is that word for love, probably. It's deliberately always written in kana, so we can't be sure which meaning of ''ai'' her parents had in mind. There are hints that the "indigo" meaning is significant: the second season finale is called "Aizome" ("dyed in indigo"), as is the end theme, which Creator/MamikoNoto herself sings.
* NotSoStoic:
** The first instance of a person being sent [[ForTheEvulz for no reason whatsoever]], has her usual lines in the ferry scene spoken in an audibly-cracking voice. Then she reaches "this is vengeance", and has to pause before finishing the rest.
** Whenever she finds something related to her past, Ai lets her buried emotions and old resentment get the best of her.
** She also gives a very rare DeathGlare when Gil de l'Enfer brags about using his powers to send everyone he knew to hell in vengeance for his own murder because [[spoiler:despite the parallel to her own backstory, he is gleefully unrepentant about it]].
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: She has several characteristics of a traditional Japanese ghost, such as the ability to teleport and create illusions.
* ParentsInDistress: [[spoiler:The Lord of Hell is holding the souls of her parents hostage, ensuring she does not go against her duties as Hell Girl. Their souls are freed at the end of the second season.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Ai has the power to create fire.
* {{Psychopomp}}: Among other duties, Ai ferries damned souls to eternal torment.
* PunchClockVillain: She only serves as Hell Girl because the Master of Hell would send her parents to hell if she did not. Her job is to show up when summoned, explain the rules of the contract, and take the damned person down to hell (but not before tormenting them a little first).
* RavenHairIvorySkin: She has straight black hair, pure white skin and a face with an otherworldly beauty.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She has been the Hell Girl for four centuries.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Her SailorFuku has these colors.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Her blood-red eyes are her most striking feature. [[spoiler: In life, she actually had brown eyes, but they turned red the moment she swore her revenge upon her village as she and her parents were buried alive.]]
* ReiAyanamiExpy: A red-eyed, pale-skinned young girl who works as a servant of hell, has a DarkAndTroubledPast and displays a creepy emotionless demeanor.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After the townspeople buried her alive along with her parents, she came back and burned the entire town to the ground in retribution, leaving no survivors.]]
* SailorFuku: Wears a black one when not in her ceremonial kimono.
* TheStoic: She is forbidden from showing emotions by [[spoiler:the spider]].
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: A variation. She's definitely ''onryo''-inspired, but she's less scary most of the time because her hair doesn't obscure her face.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She appears emotionless at first glance, but Ai is actually forced to repress her emotions in order to carry out her job as the Hell Girl. She allows herself to show a more caring and compassionate side around her TrueCompanions during their heartwarming moments. Also, she can show sympathy to her clients, especially those who were betrayed by others. [[spoiler:This is because betrayal featured strongly in the incident that led her to become the Hell Girl]].
* TenderTears: Albeit, through manifesting in a painting, she openly weeps for Fukumoto before his passing.
* TranquilFury: She is quiet and wouldn't raise her voice, even when she's on a vengeful rampage against the people who made her angry.
* UndeadChild: She appears as a 13-year-old girl since that was her age at the time of her death.
* UnmovingPlaid: The patterns on her kimonos. In the third season you can see the objects in the pattern float back and forth.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: There was a time in which Ai was a sweet and innocent little girl. After [[spoiler:the villagers sacrificed her and her parents to their mountain gods, her cousin betrayed her and]] she was forced to become the Hell Girl, Ai became an EmotionlessGirl that keeps her emotions and pain hidden most of the time.
* VengefulGhost: [[spoiler:After the villagers buried her and her parents alive, Ai came back as a enraged host and burned the village to the ground as revenge. Carrying out revenge for others as the Hell Girl is her punishment. Nowadys, she has repressed her emotions, but she briefly reverts back to her original vengeful nature when she finds the descendants of her cousin who was the only survivor of the village.]]
%%* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry
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[[folder:Wanyuudo]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/TakayukiSugo (Japanese), Creator/RBruceElliott (English), Guillermo Martínez (Latin American Spanish)
->Portrayed by: Hisahiro Ogura (2006 series), Akaji Maro (2019 film)


Ai's first assistant. He can appear as a fiery wheel or as an elderly gentleman wearing a fedora. He also serves as Ai's transport to banishment victims.
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* BaldOfEvil: Subverted. He's an agent of Hell, but he is otherwise a very moral person.
* BerserkButton: Thoughtless and unjust crimes, such as a father allowing his daughter to be raped for humiliating him, when it wasn't at all her fault.
* BigDamnHeroes: He does this for the above-mentioned girl in the second season, scaring off her would-be rapists by charging at them in wheel form.
* TheBigGuy: He's the only one of Ai's assistants who is shown to have SuperStrength.
* BigOlEyebrows: Larger than anyone else's, at least.
* CoolOldGuy: Usually appears as an old man while investigating in the human world, but he is still a demon who is strong enough to bare-handedly stop a moving truck.
* EyesAlwaysShut: In his human form, though we do see them open during a flashback of how he met Ai.
* NiceHat: A fedora, in contrast to to his casual Japanese attire.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: While Hone Onna's name while she was alive is known, Wanyuudo is only known by his nickname since he is a tsukumogami.
* PlayingWithFire: He can appear as a giant fiery wheel with his face as a hubcap. In his human form, he can throw fireballs.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: He wears a red scarf in the way that evokes the straw dolls' strings and even though he never starts the fights he gets into, he always finishes them.
* SkintoneSclerae: Shown to have these in a flashback.
* SuperStrength: ''Futakomori'' shows him stopping a speeding truck.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can transform into a giant fiery wheel. During banishments he can transform into any object with wheels.
* WasOnceAMan: Inverted. Before getting turned into a yokai, he was the left wheel of a carriage during the Heian Period. After the carriage was destroyed and burned, he became a fiery wheel monster.
* {{Youkai}}: In Japanese folklore, Wanyuudo is a demonic flaming ox-cart wheel bearing the tormented face of a man.
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[[folder:Ren Ichimoku]]
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->''"Actually... I saw it."''

-->Voiced by: Creator/MasayaMatsukaze (Japanese), Creator/ToddHaberkorn (English), Ricardo Sorondo (Latin American Spanish)
-->Portrayed by: Kazuki Katô (2006 series), Raiku (2019 film)

Ai's second assistant. He appears as a young man, though he can transform into a blue straw doll when he needs to deliver vengeance. Can transform into a large eye, which he often uses to spy on the humans.
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* BerserkButton: Abusive relationships, and when the Hell service is used on people who don't deserve it.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He can act this way towards some of the clients.
* ColorCodedEyes: A shade of yellow-green, which is striking amongst the regular Japanese populace. His large eye is also this color.
* EyeSpy: He can project his eye anywhere he wants, and this makes a very useful tool for investigating both clients and vengeance targets. Unusually, he can also hear and speak through it when using it this way.
* FacelessEye: He can spy on people by projecting an eye onto any surface or simply appearing as a giant eye.
* HotTeacher: He is a science teacher in the third season.
* LouisCypher: Ren Ishimoto.
* PeekABangs: His hair covers the part of his face where his left eye would be.
* PrettyBoy: Has an appearance of a handsome young man, and has occasionally used seduction to get information from female clients.
* SympatheticSentientWeapon: As a tsukumogami, he was a sword that became sentient after one hundred years. Because he was still an inanimate object, he was ForcedToWatch as people used him as a weapon of both war and murder. He had been left behind after a battle and was stuck there until Ai found him.
* VillainTeleportation: He can use his eye for this rather than just teleporting like the others.
* TheWallsHaveEyes: He normally spies on people from walls and ceilings.
* {{Youkai}}: A tsukumogami of an old sword that gained sentience, though the name and the eye may be a reference to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokumokuren Mokumokuren]].
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[[folder:Hone Onna]]
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->''"Have you learned your lesson yet?"''

-->Voiced by: Creator/TakakoHonda (Japanese), Jennifer Seman (English), Mercedes Prato (Latin American Spanish)
-->Portrayed by: Aya Sugimoto (2006 series), Manami Hahsimoto (2019 film)

One of Ai's assistants. Her appearance is that of an attractive woman in a blue kimono. When interacting with humans, she normally wears a formal suit.
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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She's tall, dark-haired, beautiful, graceful and aloof.
* BerserkButton: Thanks to how she became a youkai, people betrayed by loved ones. An episode involving a woman who manipulated and eventually murdered a girl shows that she doesn't like betrayal in general.
* CoolBigSis: To one client especially.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was originally a young woman named Tsuyu, who was sold into prostitution by her lover to pay off his debts. When she tried to plot an escape for her fellow prostitute Kiyo, she betrayed her and had her killed. When her corpse was thrown into the river filled with bones, the spirits fused with her body, becoming Hone Onna.
* DemBones: Being based off the mythical youkai of the same name, she can make any part of her skeleton visible.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Unlike Ai's other assistants who are youkai created from objects, Hone Onna is a human who turned into a youkai after death.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Hair black like the night and skin pale like a ghost. A look fitting for a {{Youkai}} made from several resentful souls and with the ability to spook people by making her bones visible.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: In season 3, we discover that she has many female students fawning over her and vying with each other for her attention.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: In her backstory, she was sold to a brothel by her lover. Despite her misfortune, Tsuyu was a kind and friendly to her fellow prostitutes.
* HospitalHottie: She has worn a nurse outfit more than once.
* HotTeacher: She is a gym teacher in the third season.
* IconicOutfit: While in the world of the living, she usually wears a business suit that is the same shade of red as her straw doll form. Ai wears it during one of ''Futakomori'''s Hell Banishments.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: On her default outfit.
* KnifeNut: She is a very skilled knife thrower.
* LouisCypher: Anna Sone.
* MeaningfulName: Tsuyu, the name she had back when she was human, is based on Otsuyu, the name of the Hone Onna of a popular Japanese tale named Botan Doro.
* NightmareFace: When she shows her skull. Done more effectively in the live-action adaptation.
* ThePowerOfHate: It was the hatred of other betrayed women that made her into Hone Onna.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: While a {{youkai}}, Hone Onna looks like a very beautiful woman with long black hair and pale skin.
* ReflectionlessUselessEyes: Her eyes don't reflect any light to emphasize she's a {{Youkai}}.
* UnkemptBeauty: Notably with her loosened kimono and slightly disheveled hairstyle.
* {{Youkai}}: Hone Onna is a living female skeleton that creates an illusion to look like a beautiful woman so she can seduce men and drain their life force by having sex with them. Luckily, the Hone Onna of Ai's group is harmless compared to the myth and she's simply an attractive woman who can make her skin transparent to scare the people getting dragged to hell by Ai.
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[[folder:Kikuri]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KanakoSakai

A mysterious little girl introduced in the second season. She delights in annoying others.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Very much so, though Yamawaro keeps her in check in season 3.
* ClothFu: She can extend impossibly long ribbons out of her clothing to grab onto things. She even uses them to swing across a suspension bridge at one point.
* CreepyChild: Mostly in season 2.
* CreepyDoll: Averted. In the third season, she possesses a wind-up doll and is no creepier because of it. Her having to be wound up again is a running joke.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:The spider possesses her at the finales of the second and third seasons.]]
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Downplayed. She has large purple eyes with white lines in the irises [[spoiler:to indicate that she has a deeper connection to Hell than the other minions. It's the same pattern that the jellyfish floating over Hell's gate has and the spider can possess both at will]].
* FlowerMotifs: She's represented by red camellias, found in her hair and kimono.
* KickTheDog: She is directly responsible for a couple of [[CruelTwistEnding Cruel Twist Endings]] in ''Futakomori''.
* KidsAreCruel: In season 2, she would sometimes go out of her way to make people who made contracts with Ai regret it while they were alive. Case in point: a man who stole money for his wife's medical care banished the person blackmailing him over it, so she made the wife forget him.
* MeaningfulName: It's a reference to Kikuri-hime, the Shinto goddess in charge of communicating with Yomi, the land of the dead.
* RunningGag: In the third season, Kikuri has a wind-up key on her back, which needs to be re-wound repeatedly.
* SupernaturalIsPurple: A lot of attention is drawn to her purple eyes in ''Futakomori'' to play up her eerie, supernatural nature.
* TokenEvilTeammate: While the others are AffablyEvil and PunchClockVillains, Kikuri is never a kind girl and is more sinister than them.
* {{Troll}}: Enjoys bothering the other minions and occasionally people she meets in the world of the living.
* UnwittingPawn: From ''Futakomori'' onward, [[spoiler:the spider is using her to observe Ai's actions]].
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[[folder:Yamawaro]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/HekiruShiina

One of Ai's assistants. He was introduced in the third season and has the appearance of a boy. Most of the time, he keeps Kikuri from bothering the other minions.
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* BlowYouAway: He has some control over wind.
* {{Foil}}: To Kikuri, who is physically the closest to his age. The two would often play together when they're not "working", but where Kikuri is bratty and immature, Yamawaro is very polite and stoic.
* IntriguedByHumanity: Shown to be this in his backstory. It's what caused him to approach Hikaru's parents and start to live a normal life. He eventually starts working for Ai for much the same reason.
* {{Keigo}}: He has a rather polite speech pattern.
* MushroomMan: Before he met people, he was a mass of mushrooms with a human face. One of the people he lived with cultivated the fungus for an elixir of life, so he still has fungus inside his body despite appearing human.
* {{Youkai}}: In Japanese folklore, Yamawaro are {{Cyclops}} acting like the equivalent of {{Kappa}} that reside in mountains instead of rivers. They are said to be short creatures resembling little boys, but their traditional portrayal isn't anywhere near as cute as the Yamawaro of Ai's group.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ai's "Grandmother"]]
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->''"Ai, I'm leaving your nagajuban right here."''

-->Voiced by: Eriko Matsushima (Japanese), Juli Erickson (English), Mariana Gamboa (Latin American Spanish)

A kindly old woman hidden behind a sliding door who only speaks to Ai. All that is seen of her is the silhouette of an old woman with a spinning wheel.
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* AdaptedOut: She never appears in the 2019 movie since Ai's hut never appears.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: She only ever talks to someone other than Ai twice. The first is when she gets Hajime to stop Ai from giving Tsugumi the straw doll. The second is when she thanks Ai's minions for all they've done for Ai.
* SheWhoMustNotBeSeen: The audience never gets to see her true appearance. The only character who actually does see her freaks out, suggesting that this is a good thing. In the live-action series, she opens the sliding door at one point and nobody is visible behind it.
[[/folder]]

[[header: Major Supporting Cast]]

!!!Season One
[[folder:Hajime Shibata]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/YujiUeda (Japanese), Creator/JohnBurgmeier (English), Creator/LuisCarreno (Latin American Spanish)
->Portrayed by: Kazuhiko Nishimura (2006 series)

A bumbling journalist who has made it his mission in life to stop Enma Ai.
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* AbusiveParents: He slaps Tsugumi hard during a fierce argument about their opposing views on the Hell Correspondence.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: He is far kinder and less abrasive in the TV drama.
* AngerBornOfWorry: When Tsugumi runs off from the aforementioned slap, he is furious when he finds her, but it is revealed to purely be anger born of worry as he embraces her.
* AntiHero: It should be noted that, despite his good qualities, he is a paparazzi that blackmails celebrities with incriminating photos for income.
* BumblingDad: At times, he seems like an older brother to Tsugumi rather than her father. It's clear that in some areas he still has plenty of growing up to do.
* DisappearedDad: After the first season, it's revealed that Hajime and Tsugumi gradually drifted apart and lost touch. In ''Mitsuganae'', Tsugumi confides to Yuzuki that she no longer has any idea of where her father is.
* EveryoneHasStandards: It's all but shown he used to be far worse in terms of journalistic integrity but turned over a new leaf. He's disgusted by his colleague, Takashi Inagaki, who still has no morals or ethics whatsoever.
* FailureHero: Tragically, he ''may'' have only had one success in the whole time he tries to keep people from using the Hell Correspondence with Yuuko. In the vast majority of cases ,he's either too late or says the wrong things that end up ticking off the clients by coming across as preachy or insensitive. He eventually gave up being a hero altogether.
* InspectorJavert: He can be understandably aggressive in trying to keep people from using the Hell Correspondence.
* IntrepidReporter: His job until Tsugumi starts having visions. It's implied he simply used to be an ImmoralJournalist.
* MarriedToTheJob: This is what made his wife start cheating on him.
* MyGreatestFailure: His wife's death. When Gil de L'enfer [[MindRape tortures him,]] it's also revealed to be the source of his greatest fears.
* PartingWordsRegret: Regarding the last words he spoke to Ayumi before her death.
* SinsOfOurFathers: Near the end of the first season, Ai tried to kill Hajime and Tsugumi because they are descendants of Sentaro. When that didn't work, she tried to bully Tsugumi into banishing Hajime to hell. It is also possible that Ai simply mistook Hajime for Sentaro.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: He's tall and pretty attractive despite being fairly rugged.
* ThouShaltNotKill: A thorough believer in this, but unfortunately for him this series deconstructs it. The people he tries to stop, can't relate to him telling them that killing is wrong; they're often in great emotional pain that's recent and have their intended target taunting them constantly about it, or they know that they're trapped in a 'kill or be killed' situation and having a complete stranger who doesn't know the context only alienates them from his point of view. It gets to the point that even his daughter dismisses him.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: His attempts to stop people from invoking contracts with Ai can fall into this.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He disappeared after writing a book about Ai, and not even his daughter knows where he is. Tsugumi does recall that he simply became "tired" of trying to stop people from condemning themselves to Hell in the name of revenge. Ai and her minions haven't seen him either, so he's not in Hell, but that's all we know.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tsugumi Shibata]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/NanaMizuki (Japanese), Creator/LuciChristian (English), Leisha Medina (Latin American Spanish)
->Portrayed by: Saaya Irie (2006 series)

Hajime's young daughter. She is able to see through Hell Girl's eyes.
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* AgeLift: The anime introduces her as a little girl, but in the live-action adaptation she's already a teenager.
* CallingParentsByTheirName: She almost always calls her father "Hajime-chan".
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Her hair and eyes are both brown.
* DeadPersonConversation: [[spoiler:Every conversation she's had with Yuzuki is revealed to have been one.]]
* GirlishPigtails: She often ties her hair into two braids, highlighting the cute child that she is. As an adult, she has discarded this hairstyle.
* MeaningfulAppearance: She wears a round barrette to pin her bangs. Before the school nurse was officially revealed to be an adult Tsugumi in season three, this was the viewer's hint to her identity.
* LonelyPianoPiece: Her theme in ''Mitsuganae'' is a sad piano piece, reflecting her mental state after having given up on stopping the Hell Correspondence [[spoiler:and knowing that she can do nothing to help Yuzuki]].
* RecurringExtra: She's the only minor character who makes recurring appearances in all seasons.
* SchoolNurse: In the third season, she is the nurse at Yuzuki's school.
* ScrewDestiny: In season three, Yuzuki believed Tsugumi's visions meant that she was fated to become the next Hell Girl, and she had managed to escape it. [[spoiler:Subverted when she tells Yuzuki that she was never intended to be the next Hell Girl and YouCantFightFate.]]
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: She is somehow able to see through Ai Enma's eyes as the Hell Girl meets with her clients, and she uses this ability to help Hajime track the clients down. She keeps this ability as an adult.
* SinsOfOurFathers: [[spoiler:Ai tried to kill Hajime and Tsugumi because they are descendants of Sentaro. She then tried to bully Tsugumi into banishing Hajime to hell. It is also possible that Ai mistook Hajime for Sentaro.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: As a child, she already looks like a younger clone of her mother. When we see her as a young adult, she's virtually indistinguishable from what her mother looked like.
* TragicKeepsake: Her mother's earrings, which she wears on a pin.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ayumi Shibata]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/HitomiNabatame (Japanese), Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard (English), Rebeca Aponte (Latin American Spanish)

Hajime's deceased wife. When he caught her cheating on him, he chased her away, resulting in her dying in a car crash.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Her flaws are omitted from the TV drama.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Like Tsugumi, she had brown hair and eyes.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the TV drama, [[spoiler: she was sent to Hell by Tetsu in a fit of misplaced retribution against Hajime.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that she drove into the pole on purpose, after Hajime refused to forgive her or let her see Tsugumi.]]
* HappilyMarried: To Hajime in the TV drama, contrasting their troubled relationship in the anime.
* MissingMom: She died in an accident after an argument with Hajime, while Tsugumi was still a toddler.
* ParentalNeglect: Hajime accused her of this when she went out with the man she cheated on him with at night, leaving Tsugumi alone.
* PosthumousCharacter: She died in a car crash before Ai came into contact with Hajime and Tsugumi, so we only get to see her alive in flashbacks.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Spider]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/HidekatsuShibata (Japanese), Creator/JohnSwasey (English)

A bizarre-looking spider that hangs around the hut in Ai's sunset realm.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler:He gets so little screentime that whether he actually is evil or not for what he makes Ai do is up to interpretation.]]
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: [[spoiler:He is the Lord of Hell himself.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:He is able to possess Kikuri and is presumably able to see through her eyes.]]
* EverybodyHatesHades: [[spoiler:He is the Lord of Hell.]]
* EyelessFace: He doesn't have eyes on his head like normal spiders and instead has eyes on his abdomen.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Three on his back.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler:In his first meeting with Ai, he appears as a spider, then possesses the jellyfish floating over the gates of hell, suggesting that they are [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith avatars]] of a [[PhysicalGod far more]] [[GodOfEvil powerful being]].]]
* IronicHell: Considers [[spoiler:making Ai the Hell Girl]] a form of this.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver
* SatanicArchetype: [[spoiler:Subverted. He rules over Hell and make deals for people's souls, but is a lawful being in that there are strict rules about who may be sent to Hell and may just be doing his job.]]
* SuddenlyVoiced: At the end of season one, where he [[spoiler: speaks to Ai about her own grudge and revenge]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sentaro]]
->Voiced by: Creator/ToshiyukiToyonaga (Japanese), Creator/JasonLiebrecht (English), Gonzalo Fumero (Latin American Spanish)
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Ai's cousin and only friend.
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:He builds a temple on the place where Ai was buried.]]
* BullyHunter: He went after anyone who made Ai cry.
* DeclarationOfProtection: He promised to protect Ai after [[spoiler:she was selected as a HumanSacrifice, which made his betrayal more painful for her]].
* KissingCousins: Implied with Ai.
* OnlyFriend: To Ai, which made [[spoiler: perceived betrayal more painful for her]].
* PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: He was forced to betray Ai by the villagers, who blamed them both for the famine that was making them starve.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:He was the only survivor of the village after Ai burned it.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: The only villager besides Ai's parents that didn't make Ai's life hell.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Villagers]]

The people who lived in Ai's village when she was alive, 400 years ago.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: They made an innocent girl's life a living hell for no reason.
* AssholeVictim: They paid dearly for their horrible mistreatment of Ai.
* BuriedAlive: How they sacrificed Ai and her parents.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: As they buried Ai and her parents alive, her hate for them because of their cruelty toward her became so powerful that it allowed her to come back to life as a demon and slaughter them all.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath / KarmicDeath: Burned alive in their homes by the young girl they tormented without end and ultimately killed. Needless to say, they deserved every second of it. And the one-way express trip to hell they very likely got afterwards.
* DeathOfAChild:
** The village had a policy of sacrificing young girls to their mountain god to ensure plentiful harvests. Ai was the last of them.
** The children of the village died, along with everyone else, when Ai burned down the village.
* EvilIsPetty: Let’s face the facts, they targeted an innocent girl and her family simply for being a little weird. That’s it. They condemned her and her family to death over something as ridiculous as simply being ''different''.
* HumanSacrifice: They held a tradition of killing children to appease a mountain god.
* KidsAreCruel: And teenagers, and adults, and elders...
* KillItWithFire: How they meet their end when Ai decides to liquidate the lot of them for their transgressions, via turning the village into a firestorm.
* KillEmAll: Their ultimate fate at the hands of Ai. Good riddance, too.
* PosthumousCharacter: They are all dead in the present day and their role in Ai's backstory is told via flashback in Episode 25.
* ReligionOfEvil: Sacrificing their own children to a mountain god? One gets the impression that they weren't great people even before Ai was born.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: They ostracized Ai because she was believed to have supernatural powers. Their final and most monstrous act of cruelty toward her--burying her alive along with her parents and forcing her beloved cousin to betray her--[[ThePowerOfHate made her hate of them so strong]] that she transformed into a demon, clawed her way out of the grave they dug for her, and sent the village up in flames, taking them with it.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Just a peaceful Japanese farming village that sacrificed little girls to please their mountain god and indirectly created Hell Girl as we know her. Nothing to see here.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Although we see them die, their fates after death are unrevealed and it is unknown if they went to hell (although they probably did).
* WouldHurtAChild: Would ''kill'' a child, in fact. The village had a policy of sacrificing young girls to their mountain god to ensure plentiful harvests. Ai was the last of them.
[[/folder]]

!!!''Two Mirrors'' (Futakomori)

[[folder:Takuma Kurebayashi]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/AyumiFujimura

A boy who lives in the town of Lovely Hills. He is blamed for murdering his mother and assaulting his father due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time in both cases. When people begin disappearing around town, the townsfolk blame him. As the disappearances continue, people begin to fear that he has supernatural powers and begin calling him the "Devil's Child."
----
* AgeLift: He's very young in the anime, about primary school age (or middle school, at most). The manga turned him into a high schooler.
* RedBaron: Subverted. People began calling him the Devil's Child for things that aren't even his fault.
* TheScapegoat: Good heavens. After being falsely accused of murder, people who use the Hell Correspondence blame the resulting disappearances on him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hotaru Meshiai]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/FuyukaOura

The younger sister of the detective investigating Takuma. She befriends him after finding out that he isn't responsible for the disappearances around town.
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* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler:After attempting to banish Takuma, she wades out into a lake so she can freeze to death and be with Takuma in hell. She survives, but is hospitalized.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:After her brother gets banished, she tried to banish Takuma and then drown herself so she can join them in hell.]]
* FreakOut: [[spoiler: When Kikuri brings her to Ai's hut, she looks behind the sliding door and gets a good look at Ai's "grandmother." She runs away in terror. Then Kikuri drags her behind the sliding door ''again''.]]
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When her brother is banished, she accesses the Hell Correspondence. She thinks that with Takuma gone, things in her hometown will calm down.]]
* OnlyFriend: To Takuma.
[[/folder]]

!!!''Three Vessels'' (Mitsuganae)

[[folder:Yuzuki Mikage]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/SatomiSato

A middle school student who gets possessed by Ai Enma. As a result, she has the ability to see the grudges avenged by Ai in much the same way as Tsugumi did. It goes downhill from there.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: [[spoiler:Her father - a bus driver - died in an accident while on duty and she and her mother wound up as pariahs because it was ruled that the accident was his fault. They were eventually driven out of town and took refuge in a shrine, where Yuzuki's mother succumbed to an illness.]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Yuzuki goes to heaven after Ai becomes Hell Girl again.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: Much like Tsugumi, she can tell when Ai is about to make a contract, but is unable to do anything about it.
* CallBack: A fairly obscure one in the final episode. [[spoiler:Yuzuki's Hell Girl kimono has a [[UnmovingPlaid flower pattern]] that was displayed on Ai's kimono at the beginning of season two's credits.]]
* CastingAShadow: She is able to do this after [[spoiler:replacing Ai as the Hell Girl]].
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The twist of the third season is that Yuzuki is not a normal girl, but a ghost who has been chosen to replace Ai as the Hell Girl.]]
* InvisibleParents: She talks to them over the phone from time to time, but they're never seen. [[spoiler:The reason they're never seen is because, in reality, they're just as dead as she is.]]
* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Played with. Ai is shown where Yuzuki's reflection should be, revealing her presence and connection to Yuzuki.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: When she finally embraces her destiny as the next Hell Girl, her blue eyes turn red just as Ai's had been.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: [[spoiler:After becoming Hell Girl, she tries to banish Azusa to avenge Akie. She nearly got sent to hell for it, saved only by Ai intervening and becoming the Hell Girl again.]]
* SoulJar: For Ai for the first half of ''Mitsuganae''. They still have a supernatural connection after they are separated.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Gradually, all traces of her existence disappear and Tsugumi and the members of the Hell Correspondence are the only ones who can recognize her. It's then that Yuzuki discovers that her human life up to that point was an illusion and she's already dead.]]
* TwoFirstNames: Her surname Mikage can also be used as a legitimate given name.
* YouCantFightFate: She tries so hard to stop people from using the Hell Correspondence, but fails every time. [[spoiler:She also couldn't avoid becoming the next Hell Girl.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Akie Takasugi]]
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->Voiced by: Kanae Oki

Yuzuki's classmate and best friend.
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* AttemptedRape: Azusa sends a man after her while Akie's taking a shower. Luckily, [[PapaWolf her father saves her.]]
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Somehow, she returns from Hell in order to be Yuzuki's servant after Yuzuki takes over as Hell Girl.]] Subverted - [[spoiler: it's not actually her, just an illusion created by the spider.]]
* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:Azusa sends her to hell to punish her father.]]
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: She's not affiliated in the Hell Girl business in any way, and serves as the only link Yuzuki has to a normal life.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Azusa Mayama]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/RyokaYuzuki

* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler:Mr. Takasugi's maid is ultimately the one to banish Azusa and avenge Akie at the end of the finale.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She cares very much for her ailing father, and spends her free time tending for him. [[spoiler:This is why Akie's father couldn't bring himself to send her to hell.]]
* FalseFriend: Pretended to befriend Akie, with every intention of betraying her.
* KarmicDeath: She sent [[spoiler:Akie]] to hell to make her father suffer for covering up a crime. This comes back to bite her when [[spoiler:Takasugi's maid]] does the same to her.
[[/folder]]

!!!''The Fourth Twilight'' (Yoi no Togi)

[[folder:Michiru Sagae]]
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->Voiced by: Misaki Watada

A new character introduced in the fourth season who has apparently lost her memory. She is trying to convince Ai that her work as Hell Girl is wrong.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: [[spoiler:The townsfolk started to ostracize the Sagaes after a boy drowned in a pond when he tried to drown Michiru and everyone acted like it was Michiru's fault.]]
* BrokenBird: Michiru was a genuinely sweet and happy young girl, until her father angered the landowner and it all went downhill from that moment.
* ColorContrast: Michiru's clothes, eyes, and hair are green in contrast to Ai's RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver, signifying Michiru's opposition to the Hell Correspondence. [[spoiler:And she gets a green kimono as a newly-minted Hell Girl, which is still fitting since she is still far kinder and more personable with clients than Ai is.]]
* TheConscience: She's trying to be this, telling Ai that what she's doing is wrong and once telling one of Ai's clients that she doesn't need the Hell Correspondence.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Michiru had a good life and loving family until her father angered the landowner by being held in higher regard than the landowner himself. [[spoiler:When the landowner's son tried to drown Michiru in a pond but drowned himself, Michiru is blamed for the incident and her whole family was shunned. It wasn't enough for the villagers though, so they locked Michiru in a shed with no food or water for over ten days. When Michiru's parents finally found her, the villagers murdered Michiru's father in front of her and then set fire on the shed to kill Michiru and her mother for good. Even worse, she's now just as damned as Ai is for taking revenge.]]
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: [[spoiler:With her dying breath, Michiru cursed the villagers that killed her and her parents and burned the entire village to the ground.]]
* FlowerMotifs: She's associated with roses. [[spoiler: Her kimono as Hell Girl is covered in large red roses and small blue roses, and when she spirits her first victime to hell, she's accompanied by a flurry of red rose petals while the red roses on her kimono glow.]]
* {{Foil}}: To Ai. For all their similarities, Michiru [[spoiler:is a noticeably kinder Hell Girl than the cold and distant Ai and still seems to have faith in humanity. Even when she becomes Hell Girl, her speech to the condemned is gentler, expressing disappointment that they willfully turned their back on heaven]].
* GhostAmnesia: [[spoiler:She initially has no memories of her human life or how she died.]]
* IdentityAmnesia: She doesn't start to remember her life or [[NameAmnesia even her name]] until episode five.
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Michiru's neighbours lock her family in a shed and set it on fire, hoping to get rid of them for good. It ends VERY BADLY for them as Michiru, with her dying breath, uses said fire to kill every single one of them and then the entire town.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:Her eyes turn red when she finally becomes a Hell Girl.]]
* TheyDiedBecauseOfYou: [[spoiler:She got blamed for the death of the landowner's son, even though he drowned himself while attempting to drown Michiru.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:First, she's blamed for the accidental death of three bullies who tried to kill her. Then, she disappears without a trace for days and no one in the village would help her parents search for her. When her parents finally find her, exhausted but alive, they get locked in the same place as her and the place is set on fire, killing them all.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Cute and lovable human girl, who even said that she will keep always smiling because smiles make people happy. [[spoiler: It all crashes down after she is blamed for the death of three bullies who died while trying to drown Michiru in the pond]].
* VengefulGhost: [[spoiler:Averted. Like Ai, she cursed the people who killed her and her parents with her dying breath. Unlike Ai, she took her revenge then and there. As a ghost, she's just as sweet as she was in life, though [[TheFerryMan her new job]] keeps her from showing it.]]
[[/folder]]

!!!Other Media
[[folder:Tetsu]]
!!Tetsu
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A main supporting character in the TV drama. He is a close friend of the Shibata family, bordering on a parental substitute for Tsugumi in Hajime's busy life. He runs a coffee shop that Hajime and Tsugumi frequent.
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[[/folder]]

[[header: Hell Correspondence]]

The medium through which a client contacts Ai Enma has changed over the centuries; these days a website on the internet is used. Initially, clients would write the names of whom they hated on an email, which later changed to sending a letter to the address appearing in a three-column newspaper advertisement only visible to those with enough hatred. Once the internet became available, people could access the "Hell Correspondence" website, otherwise known as the "Hotline to Hell." Soon after, the site was adapted into a mobile version that could be accessed from cell phones.

Each medium can only be used at midnight by one who harbors a genuine desire for revenge against their object of hatred. Should someone submit the name of someone against whom they bear a grudge or immense hatred, and their request is accepted, Ai Enma will take them to a realm of perpetual twilight where she offers them a straw doll and describe to the client the details of their contract. Should the client pull the string tied around the doll's neck, Ai will ferry the target of the revenge to Hell. However, once the target's life has ended, the client is damned to Hell when they die, and a black crest-shaped mark appears on their chest to serve as a permanent reminder of this.
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[[folder:Client 00: Fukumoto]]
!!Fukumoto
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->'''Voiced by:''' Shiro Saito (Japanese), Jerry Russell (English)
A reclusive artist that Hajime sought out after his daughter suffers irregular premonitions of his existence. He was the original writer of an unpopular book titled Purgatory Girl, which details a man meeting Enma Ai and the contract he made with her in order to avenge his wife. The story was based on Fukumoto's own trauma of seeing his friend Okochi rape his wife, her subsequently committing suicide, and him obtaining his revenge. He is the oldest client of the Hell Correspondence seen in the series, but he is not the first ever; the medium goes centuries further back to the Edo era, or even the Azuchi-Momoyama period as Fukumoto speculates.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Ryusei Kitagawa in the TV drama.
* DeadHatShot: Fukumoto's cap falls to the ground as he dies.
* DeathsHourGlass: Fukumoto has a candle just like all of Ai's previous clients, only his has nearly burned all the way down with him on death's door. It goes out when he dies and Ai claims his soul.
* DespairEventHorizon: He crossed this at some point after sending Okochi to Hell. Having tried everything to forget his trauma and fear of his own fate, Fukumoto simply accepted he could not move on.
* TheGamblingAddict: He mentions he once became obsessed with gambling to forget his sorrows, but it did him no good.
* MadArtist: He spends his twilight years in seclusion obsessively painting artworks of Enma Ai all over his walls. Although it's played with in that while this isn't healthy, Fukomoto is not insane or evil, but simply a tired and tragic old man.
* MrExposition: He provides great amounts of exposition on the history of the Hell Correspondence and Enma Ai.
* PeacefulInDeath: Fukumoto is grateful he can see Ai again before going to Hell. His only grievance is possibly meeting Okochi in Hell, to which Ai comforts him by saying Hell is a vast place.
* RapeAndRevenge: A variation. Fukumoto's wife was raped and Fukumoto was the one who avenged her.
* TenderTears: He sheds these upon seeing that, after all these years, Ai is weeping for him just before his passing.
* YouCantFightFate: At one point, Fukumoto says he tried to find salvation through religion (Shinto or Buddhism apparently) to avoid going to Hell or doing good deeds but it was of no avail.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: He got his revenge, but it did nothing to relieve him of his trauma and brought new fears with him knowing he is condemned to Hell.
!!Okochi
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A former friend of Fukumoto's and his greatest enemy. He raped his wife and was eventually sent to Hell when Fukumoto found the opportunity to use the Hell Correspondence on him.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Ryunosuke Muroi in the TV drama.
* AdaptationalJerkass: He was never Fukumoto's friend in the TV drama, and it omits the FauxAffablyEvil attitude he has in the anime. Instead, he's a vicious thug that's proud of his crimes.
* AdaptationalVillainy: He went from a one-time rapist to a ''serial'' rapist and ''mass murderer'' in the TV drama.
* AssholeVictim: He raped his friend's wife and evidently never showed remorse for it either given he was always prepared to kill Fukumoto afterward.
* CrazyPrepared: Fukumoto noted he never went without a gun after his wife committed suicide, making it impossible for him to get revenge on him in any way other than using the Hell Correspondence.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Wears square glasses and is a vile rapist.
* PosthumousCharacter: He's long dead by now.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: And worse yet, Fukumoto caught him during the act.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 01: Mayumi Hashimoto]]
!!Mayumi Hashimoto
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaUeda (Japanese), Creator/LauraBailey (English)
A meek schoolgirl being tormented by a delinquent bully.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Mari Shimizu (manga), Yu Miyazaki (TV series).
* AdultsAreUseless: As a result of Aya blackmailing her, she doesn't open up to any adult, meaning her own mother even distrusts Mayumi for her distant nature.
* AgeLift: She is a high schooler in the manga and TV drama. In the latter, she's also set to soon graduate.
* BreakTheCutie: Her whole situation, but she notably breaks down despondently in tears when Aya forces her into the red alley district.
* ClassRepresentative: Of her homeroom, which is why Aya targets her, as she's entrusted with the money for the classroom's needs.
* DealWithTheDevil: Notably Ai's first on-screen client in the series.
* GirlishPigtails: She has them, but we see her with her hair down twice.

!!Aya Kuroda
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokoKawakami (Japanese), Creator/LuciChristian (English)
The savage AlphaBitch extorting Mayumi through {{Blackmail}}.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: From brown to black hair in the TV drama.
* AdaptationNameChange: Satsuki Hayase (manga), Rina Endou (TV series).
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: A superficial example. In the manga, she is more FauxAffablyEvil and less overtly cruel.
* AdaptationalJerkass: As awful as she is already, she is comically more vile in the TV drama, bordering on {{Flanderization}}.
* AgeLift: With Mayumi in the other adaptations.
* AlphaBitch: A classic example of a vicious bullying bitch complete with the posse.
* AssholeVictim: She might just be a middle-schooler (which she feebly points out to her undead tormentors), but she's so relentlessly and comically vile she arguably deserved her fate. The same applies to her posse, both of which were taken to Hell with her.
* DirtyCoward: Unsurprisingly revealed to be this at her very core when Ai consigns her to Hell.
* EvilIsPetty: Her whole modus operandi.
* HateSink: As if to kickstart the series off without delving too much into the morally complex themes that would appear later, Aya is made out to have no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
* StarterVillain: The first on-screen victim of the Hell Correspondence.
* TeensAreMonsters: She definitely would have gone on to become a genuine criminal had she lived.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 02: Ryōko Takamura]]
!!Ryōko Takamura
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiShimizu (Japanese), Creator/MonicaRial (English)
A beautiful high school girl that's been victimized by an extremely disturbing stalker for over a year.
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* BigNo: Screams one of these after her stalker texts her just after she leaves the police station.
* IronicHell: To give her a fair understanding of what she is in for, through Ai, Ryōko gets a vivid vision of what awaits her in Hell, being molested by the undead legions in unbearable agony for all eternity. Considering she is being stalked for her good looks...
* NervousWreck: She's a stuttering and anxious wreck 24/7, which is understandable due to being stalked for over a year.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: Ryōko is living a happy life after her crisis is resolved, but she laments and fears the fact she will go to Hell, contemplating on it by the credits roll.

!!Detective Kisaragi
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazuyaIchijo (Japanese), Sean Hennigan (English)
A middle-aged detective that's been assigned to Takamura's stalker case for a while now with no results.
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* AxCrazy: Kisaragi is quite a step above StarterVillain Aya Kuroda in that he's completely fucking insane and murderous.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Outwardly an affable hard-working detective but is actually a deranged stalker.
* DirtyOldMan: He's a middle-aged {{Ephebophile}} obsessed with a high school girl to horrifying extremes.
* FrameUp: Makes a feeble attempt at doing this with his rookie partner to cover his ass. When that fails in short order, he simply kills him.
* IfICantHaveYou: Decides Ryōko should just die if she is going to reject him.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Kills his nosy partner and almost kills Ryōko's father so he can have his way with her.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Cites this as the reason he's insane.
* MadnessMantra: "Little lost, little kitty cat?"
* NeverMyFault: When asked if he would like to repent by Ai's team, he goes on a furious tirade, shifting all blame towards Ryōko for refusing to love him back.
* StupidEvil: It doesn't take much for all parties to discover he's the stalker since he, you know, assigned himself to his own case just to see his victim more often. His attempt at framing his own partner is also stupid as well and does him no favors.
* WouldHurtAChild: Besides the stalking, he eventually tries to kill Ryōko when she rejects his advances upfront.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 03: Daisuke Iwashita]]
!!Daisuke Iwashita
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/WataruHatano (Japanese), Kevin M. Connolly (English)
A high school student and aspiring baseball pro. He and his best friend Muroi endure physical abuse from rising star player Mamoru Hanagasa behind the scenes.
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* AbusiveParents: Iwashita's father lays him out when he tries to claim he wasn't who killed Muroi at his funeral.
* TheChewToy: A very dark example. Iwashita and Muroi take horrendous physical abuse at the hands of Hanagasa just so they can keep playing on a team for nationals. It leads to Muroi's death from internal trauma, which Iwashita is framed for due to lying about Hanagasa's involvement.
* FrameUp: Due to the fact Iwashita was always making up a cover story for Muroi's terrible condition, it's not difficult for Hanagasa to fabricate evidence against him.
* HatedByAll: After Muroi dies, he is reviled by all, including his parents. Undone after Hanagasa is sent to Hell and Iwashita is able to reliably testify against him.
* MeaningfulName: His surname Iwashita: "rock" (岩) (iwa) and "under, below" (下) (shita). Put together can it be be inferred as hitting rock bottom, which is apt for his situation.
* {{Nephewism}}: By the end of his episode, he’s going to be living with his Aunt to restart.
* NoSympathy: On the receiving end of this trope. No one allows him to explain his side of the story.
* TragicDream: All Iwashita and especially Muroi wanted to do was play baseball at a high level, regardless of not being successful.

!!Mamoru Hanagasa
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NoriakiSugiyama (Japanese), Creator/JustinCook (English)
A model student and rising baseball star. His fame and good looks hide a very nasty side of abuse towards other students.
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* TheAce: A villainous example. His talent is the real deal, which he uses to justify that he can do whatever he likes.
* AssholeVictim: He really had Hell coming, to say the least. Notably, Hanagasa was even given a chance to repent by Iwashita one last time before he pulled the string, to which he brushed off callously.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Outwardly TheAce, a ChickMagnet, and likable guy. Beneath that is a murderous, sociopathic narcissist.
* ChickMagnet: Hanagasa is often wooed on or surrounded by fangirls.
* CrocodileTears: He has the gall to shed these at the funeral of someone ''he murdered.''
* EntitledBastard: In contrast to Aya and Kisaragi, he openly admits to what he did to Ai's team and Iwashita, believing his fame makes him untouchable. He's proven deathly wrong.
* EvilerThanThou: To Aya, the initial school kid victim of the Hell Correspondence. While she was bad enough already, Hanagasa is a total sociopath and killer despite not being far off in age to her.
* ForTheEvulz: There's no rationalizing why he physically torments Muroi and Iwashita than this, and he even admits as much. After Muroi dies, it becomes worse when he uses his death to ''extort money'' from Iwashita's parents after framing him.
* HateSink: Made out to be as hateable as possible, surpassing even Aya. Hanagasa is a narcissistic bully that incidentally murdered a boy after beating him one too many times, shows absolutely no remorse for it, and is even exploitative of the situation.
* IRegretNothing: When asked to repent multiple times, he unashamedly admits he has no reason to and regrets ''absolutely'' nothing.
* IronicHell: Boy howdy. First, he's made to suffer in an illusion where he is failing an important match, and his prized dominant arm also turns to stone and crumbles to dust. When he's being rowed to hell, apparitions of Muroi appear to condemn him.
* LackOfEmpathy: If it wasn't obvious enough, he proves to be fundamentally incapable of empathy when profoundly begged by Iwashita to apologize for everything he's done.
* {{Narcissist}}: To an absolute t. He's obsessed with himself and brags about it constantly to Iwashita and Muroi.
* TheSociopath: A cold-blooded, exploitative narcissist that shows absolutely no remorse for even murder. [[TeensAreMonsters And he's just a teenager.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Everyone trusts and loves Hanagasa, which makes it nigh impossible for Iwashita to testify the truth against him. After he disappears, it's pretty easy to line up the evidence against him, and he's posthumously reviled and wanted as a missing fugitive.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 04: Junko Kanno]]
!!Junko Kanno
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatomiArai (Japanese), Creator/LeahClark (English)
A young girl who lost her parents early on in her life. Her LivingEmotionalCrutch, a dog named Candy, dies to the neglect of an abusive veterinarian.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: When Ai shows her what awaits her after death should she go through with their deal, Junko is shown to be literally burning in hellfire for all eternity.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her parents died in an accident, leaving her with just Candy, whom she also loses...
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Profusely begs Candy to not die in her last moments.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Unlike the previous clients, Junko's life is not at all endangered by the continued existence of Honjou. She simply cannot forgive him and is purely driven by wrath, making this a FatalFlaw in and of itself.

!!Yoshiyuki Honjou
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakehitoKoyasu (Japanese), Creator/VicMignogna (English)
A neglectful veterinarian that's responsible for many pet deaths, most recently Junko's precious Candy.
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* AssholeVictim: He's a pet vet that admits he's OnlyInItForTheMoney and doesn't give a shit about the animals he's supposed to take care of.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: In a neglectful sense. Despite being a veterinarian, he half-asses his job if he's not ignoring it altogether.
* HateSink: Specifically one for animal lovers, knowing people like Honjou very well commonly exist in real life.
* IronicHell: Honne causes his car to crash, breaking his leg. Ren and Hanyuudo subsequently haul him off to an illusionary hospital, where he's trapped in a cage and his pleading for medical aid goes on deaf ears just like how he ignored the pets he was responsible for. When he's being rowed off to hell, he is swarmed by apparitions of dead dogs and cats that beg him for help.
* IronicName: The initials of Yoshiyuki: "righteous" (義) (yoshi). He's anything but good.
* JerkassHasAPoint: A very mild one. While his feeble rationalization he's not the only animal abuser out there doesn't make him sympathetic in any way, he does have a point he's being singled out solely for revenge than justice.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Why he takes a job he's clearly not interested in. He makes cash by doing little to nothing because of the fame of the hospital his clinic is attached to.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: The hospital he's attached to is very influential, making it difficult to testify against him. He happily brags about this to Junko when she confronts him, also adding animals can't speak to testify either.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 05: Misato Tamura]]
!!Misato Tamura
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyakoKawasumi (Japanese), Didi Duron (English)
A computer wiz whose talents are being exploited by a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
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* {{Blackmail}}: She's being extorted by Riho into serving her needs because she was caught shoplifting by her. The truth, however, is she feigned shoplifting to get involved with her company, knowing Riho would exploit her as she did her dad.
* ExtremeDoormat: Subverted. She acts this way to avoid suspicion from Riho in regards to her motives.
* FaceHeelTurn: Heavily implied. She gains control of Riho's assets after she goes to hell, and after contemplating on her eventual fate, takes her twisted philosophy to heart.
* JumpedAtTheCall: She has absolutely no hesitation in pulling the string on Riho, doing it the ''moment'' Ai hands the doll to her.
* TheMole: She's infiltrated Riho's corporation solely to find evidence of her being culpable in her father's death.
* PsychoticSmirk: In the end, when she decides will live a hedonistic life to the fullest as if it were a game, just like Riho.
* YouKilledMyFather: Her father is dead because Riho murdered him after he outlived his usefulness. Misato makes sure Riho knows this when she confronts her.

!!Riho Kaifu
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichikoNeya (Japanese), Creator/LydiaMackay (English)
The ironically computer illiterate CEO of Deadline, a successful tech corporation.
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* AboveGoodAndEvil: She has cast aside common morality in the pursuit of her hedonistic lifestyle, stating it doesn't matter what she has to do if she can live the high life.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Where to even begin? Her company's success is founded off the talents of anyone but her, and she murders anyone to get ahead in business.
* TheCorrupter: Her philosophy on life takes its roots in Misato, especially when she realizes she is condemned to hell with her.
* TheHedonist: Self-admitted. She tells Misato she knows she is going to hell for her crimes and has decided to indulge in excess to the fullest [[TemptingFate with the decades she believes she has left.]]
* HerOwnWorstEnemy: What Ai's punishment reveals is Riho's worst fears lie in self-loathing and fear for what she's become.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: She freely admits she'll commit murder any time to get ahead in life, claiming it feels like nothing after the first few times.
* NearVillainVictory: Riho had Misato {{Outgambitted}} the moment she met her. She was a hair off murdering her as well had it not been for a nearby PC to reach out for the Hell Correspondence.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Riho might be computer illiterate and seem like a ditzy bum, but she is ruthlessly competent in running her company and proves to be incredibly shrewd.
* StartOfDarkness: Riho was once a part of a trio of friends that wanted to start a tech corp, but she felt left out as she was computer illiterate and relegated to shopping. After catching her boyfriend cheating on her with the other friend, she accidentally bludgeoned him to death with her shopping bag. Riho subsequently snapped, killing his other lover and declaring she'll live life in the most hedonistic way possible until she goes to hell for her crimes.
* StrawNihilist: She believes life fundamentally has no meaning other than enjoying yourself in excess after getting ahead.
* TheSociopath: A hedonistic mass murderer that only views other people as tools to be disposed of when they outlive their usefulness.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 06: Haruka Yasuda]]
!!Keiko Yasuda
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikiIto (Japanese), Gwendolyn Lau (English)
The mother of Haruka Yasuda and the central focus of her daughter's case. Keiko is a simple housewife who accidentally saw something she shouldn't have, and is now the victim of horrific slander and abuse.
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* BreakTheCutie: The sheer pain Namiko unleashes on Keiko has driven her to a state of perpetual misery and paranoia.
* CycleOfRevenge: After Namiko is banished to Hell, Keiko is ironically implied to become as bad as her, tormenting her child, Yuria, with Namiko's posse over her now broken down family. Yuria's resentment at the humiliation is made very clear, and the events that drove Haruka to avenge her mother may repeat itself with her.
* DomesticAbuse: Keiko is clearly in an unhappy marriage with a workaholic husband, which is exacerbated by Namiko trying to ruin his career and frame her. He eventually slaps her hard in the midst of a fierce argument.
* DrivenToSuicide: After being raped by the thug Namiko sends to her home, she attempts to overdose herself on medication but survives.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: She sports these from the suffering she has endured at Namiko's hands.
* ParentalNeglect: With the stress she's under, she is very neglectful of Haruka, occasionally lashing out at her in paranoid fits.
* RapeAsDrama: In an escalation of tensions, Namiko sends a gangster to rape her, then uses photos of it as {{Blackmail}}.
* SheKnowsTooMuch: At least, Namiko believes so. It’s not clear if Keiko actually thought Namiko was cheating or not.

!!Haruka Yasuda
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiwaSaito (Japanese), Kelley Johnson (English)
A troubled schoolgirl who is a victim by proxy of her mother inexplicably being the target of a vicious neighbor.
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* {{Bifauxnen}}: She is very boyish looking.
* BreakTheCutie: She is forced to endure bullying by proxy of her mother's abuse, watch her mom descend into paranoid madness, and her family begins to fall apart.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite the hell the Todaka family has put her through, she is visibly concerned of her mother bullying Yuria after Namiko is gone.
* HarmfulToMinors: When Ai shows Haruka the full extent of Namiko's abuse on her mother, she has to watch her be raped, which brings her to tears.
* MeaningfulName: Twofold. Haruka means "distant, remote" (遥), fitting for her aloof and reserved personality. The initials of her surname Yasuda means "peace, quiet" (安) (yasu), which are things she definitely desires.
* ShowerOfAngst: In the epilogue, when contemplating on her choice to use the Hell Correspondence.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: Of all the clients up to this point, she contemplates the deepest on this, being burdened with great doubt and being uncertain of whether she'll truly live a happy life.

!!Namiko Todaka
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EmiShinohara (Japanese), Creator/WendyPowell (English)
A cruel woman influential in her neighborhood. Feared as someone to never be crossed, Keiko Yasuda has drawn her ire for reasons her daughter doesn't know.
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* AssholeVictim: Notably, when she's banished to Hell, no one seems to particularly care.
* DeathGlare: Gives a bone-chilling one to Keiko when she accidentally sees her committing adultery.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Her reason for ruining Keiko's life is because she caught a glimpse of her committing adultery, something she probably didn't even know.
* TheDreaded: Namiko is feared as someone in the neighborhood to never be crossed, with some claiming it's all over for someone if they draw her ire.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Deep down, Namiko does genuinely love her daughter Yuria; when an apparition of Yuria during her punishment shows immense shame at her adultery, Namiko breaks down sobbing and begging for forgiveness.
* HateSink: She's a gold-digging, promiscuous bitch with almost no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and the pain she inflicts on the Yasuda family is very emphasized.
* HerOwnWorstEnemy: It's revealed in her punishment that Namiko, while vile, is simply not in the right state of mind, and that her worst traits and vindictive habits are manifestations of extraordinary self-loathing and shame at herself.
* IronicHell: It doesn't get more literal than a habitual cheater and sex addict to be damned to ''Lust'', the second circle of Hell. While being rowed off, Namiko is also shown to be intoxicated in a lewd fantasy, [[AndIMustScream unaware of what's really going on.]]
* LaughingMad: While being rowed off to Hell, she's evidently trapped in some lewd delusion and can only laugh madly, showing no apprehension or even awareness of her impending fate.
* {{Lust}}: She is literally characterized by this sin by Ai, with her insatiable desire for sex and treachery. Appropriately, she is consigned to the literally named second circle of Hell: Lust.
* ReallyGetsAround: Ai reveals she has slept with '' dozens'' of men.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Clients 07-08: Ayaka Kurenai, Kaoruko Kurushima]]
!!Ayaka Kurenai
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatsukiYukino (Japanese), Creator/CaitlinGlass (English)
A promising theater actress that has grown weary of her overbearing adoptive mother. Very weary.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: Her whole life has been driven by a relentless pursuit of fame and fortune.
* BaitTheDog: When the episode starts, the viewer is treated to Ayaka stumbling on stage and being repeatedly berated harshly by her mother. With the way Midori is shown to be abusive, we're led to believe Ayaka is a victim of some form of extreme parental abuse. Unlike with previous episodes, she's anything but a victim despite being a client of the Hell Correspondence.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: As an actress, she is a master at hiding her true malicious self. Unfortunately for her, the only person that sees right through it is her own mother, who condemns her for the act.
* CripplingTheCompetition: She gets her thuggish posse to force-feed her stage rival Kaoruki a dangerous tonic, rendering her mute.
* DisproportionateRetribution: She enters Midori's name into the Hell Correspondence for her simply being too strict on her. The fact her irrational hatred is genuine enough for her to successfully put in a request causes Ai's team to immediately be suspicious over her personality.
* EmptyShell: Hone speculates that, at her core, Ayaka has no identity or true self, her life being one of constant deceptive acting and lying to satisfy her insatiable greed.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: About the only good thing that can be said about her is she takes her fate in stride while being rowed off, being silently grateful when Ai admits her last "performance" as an actress was spectacular.
* {{Greed}}: She is defined by an insatiable lust for money and fame. The whole reason she sticks around under Midori is to inherit her fortune.
* GreenEyedMonster: She is intensely resentful and jealous of Kaoruki taking away her mother's attention, which culminates in her rendering her mute through poisoning.
* HerOwnWorstEnemy: Literally in this case. Ayaka's punishment is being confronted by Ai's team over her outwardly lying face and another face that represents her "true self" of an irritable, greedy wretch. After explaining her resolve of always changing a narrative to suit her needs, Hone wonders if even those faces represent who she is, [[EmptyShell or if there's even anything in there that does.]]
* InformedAbility: She is constantly vouched for as a MasterActor by Midori - and her talents are seen as genuine by her peers, but throughout the episode, her grand deception against Midori is very unconvincing to the viewer.
* {{Jerkass}}: Under her cutesy facade, she is an extremely vulgar and irritable sociopath.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Kaoruko herself enters the Hell Correspondence for her head after Ayaka arranges her poisoning.
* MasterActor: Midori says she saw Ayaka's talents right away and adopted her from an orphanage for this reason. This is owed to her whole life being one of lying and lying to get by.
* TooDumbToLive: The gist of her plan to render Kaoruko mute so she can take her place can only really be explained by her being an impulsive sociopath. Somehow, she's baffled by her mother immediately deducing her role there, despite the convenient timing and no one else benefiting from Kaoruko’s absence. This ruins her career and her life when Midori disowns her. Second, despite being a client, she doesn't consider ruining her life and implicating herself casually would make Kaoruko seek vengeance against Ayaka through the same Hell Correspondence.
* TwoFaced: During her punishment game, a second demonic-looking face appears behind her head, which represents who she is beneath the surface.
* TheSociopath: Is noted by Hone to be borderline soulless. This was even hinted at by Midori's criticism of her stage performances, stating Ayaka lacks genuine passion or emotion in her acting. Turns out she's just incapable of both.
* VillainProtagonist: The seventh episode is mostly from her point of view, and she is the first client of the Hell Correspondence to be evil.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: She constantly seeks Midori's approval, albeit so she can quickly prove capable enough to inherit her estate.
* YouAreTooLate: After being disowned, she rushes to untie the doll and send her mother to Hell. Unfortunately for her, Ai explains her contract is now void [[LaserGuidedKarma since Kaoruko pulled a string on her moments before.]]

!!Kaoruko Kurushima
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarinaInoue (Japanese), Kimberly Whalen (English)
Another promising theater actress that Midori Kurenai seems to prefer over her adoptive daughter.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Kaoruko is genuinely a sweet girl, but once Ayaka ruins her life, she wastes little time in sending her to hell.
* BreakTheCutie: She gets tortured and rendered mute by Ayaka and her cronies, ruining her life.
* DownerEnding: Her life as an actress is either over or severely stunted by her being rendered mute. She's also condemned to Hell for sending Ayaka there, and she's last seen lying on a bed in a dark room looking crushed.

!!Midori Kurenai
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->'''Voiced by:''' Kumiko Takizawa (Japanese), Sheridan Wright (English)
Ayaka's adoptive mother. A renowned ballet dancer, actress and teacher, she is seemingly at odds with her daughter over her harsh teaching methods.
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* AbusiveParents: While Ayaka was pretty much a bad seed from the start, from what we see of Midori, she is extremely harsh and distant with her adoptive daughter.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Midori suspects Ayaka of wrongdoing from the very beginning and demands throughout the episode that she drop the pitiful act. When Ayaka finally does, the resulting MotiveRant described below leaves Midori heartbroken.
* IHaveNoDaughter: She disowns Ayaka after discovering her poisoning of Kaoruki.
* PetTheDog: Even after disowning her, Midori decides to recommend Ayaka to another troupe to start over and wishes her the best.
* SternTeacher: She is ''very'' harsh in her teaching methods without being physically abusive.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 09: Chie Tanuma]]
!!Chie Tanuma
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukiMatsuoka (Japanese), Creator/EliseBaughman (English)
The best friend of Yuuko Kido, who was pushed off a balcony and put into a coma by her BastardBoyfriend.
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* GoodIsNotSoft: She is much tougher and more assertive than Yuuko was implied to be, making it impossible for Goro to manipulate her.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She admits to a comatose Yuuko she always had feelings for Goro but only wanted her best friend to be happy.

!!Goro Ishizhu
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShowHayami (Japanese), Charles Baker (English)
A white-collar criminal who attempted to murder his girlfriend when she pleaded with him to turn a new leaf.
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* BastardBoyfriend: He's a sleazy white-collar criminal that nearly murdered his girlfriend. He also the gall to try to exploit Chie's feelings for him to get her to calm down, and when that fails, tries to strangle her to death.
* DomesticAbuse: He pushed his girlfriend off a balcony for her daring to try to tell him to do good and return his stolen money. Made worse by the fact she declared having no intention of turning him over to the police.
* IronicHell: He is damned to be tormented by the vengeful souls of betrayed women in Hell.
* StealingFromTheTill: He does this from the burger shop he currently manages.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: His character is substantially less fleshed out than the previous victims, likely as a hangover of his story running concurrently with the introductions of major supporting characters Hajime and Tsugumi Shibata.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 10: Yuka Kasuga]]
!!Yuka Kasuga
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaSato (Japanese), Creator/TrinaNishimura (English)
A baker girl who, with her sister Hiromi, wanted to open their own bakery until their work is plagiarized by a failing chef.
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* AnachronicOrder: Yuka is the second client in the manga.
* BoyishShortHair: She has short hair to compliment her tomboyish personality compared to her long haired sister.
* BigSisterWorship: Idolizes Hiromi, which is why she absolutely cannot forgive what Shinya has done.
* HotBlooded: Compared to her demure sister, she is outgoing and assertive.
* TragicDream: The Kasuga family's dreams of opening a bakery are crushed by Shinya's actions. Even in the epilogue, they're not out of their rut yet, and can only remain optimistic for the future.
* SupremeChef: Hiromi and Yuka collectively form a duo of amazing bakers.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Haruka from the sixth episode. Similar appearances aside, both end up involved in the case when the life of a family member is endangered.

!!Shinya Morisaki
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KoujiIshii (Japanese), Douglas Burks (English)
An acquaintance of the Kasuga family. He is a failing chef who has decided to take some heinous measures to revive his business...
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* AssholeVictim: He's a slimy plagiarist that's ruined the lives of two young women that trusted him like family. As if that's not evil enough, he goes out of his way to hurt them further in the hopes they'll turn to ''whores'' out of desperation so he himself can have his way with them. Hell is well deserved, to say the least.
* DirtyOldMan: He's a middle-aged man who has connections in the world of prostitution. Creepier yet, he wants the Kasugas to turn to whoring so he can have his way with them. During Ai's punishment, it's revealed how much he actually lusts after Hiromi in particular.
* FallenHero: The fact he's a good acquaintance of the Kasuga family and knew their deceased father well implies he was genuinely a better person than what we see now.
* GloryHound: Revels in the limelight he gets from plagiarizing the Kasugas, and he'll sink to any low to keep his fame.
* HateSink: As described in AssholeVictim, he's the type of guy that is intended to only be wholly despised by the viewer.
* InsaneTrollLogic: He makes some feeble rationalizations that border on this to avoid admitting fault when asked to repent, claiming he loved Hiromi and that she somehow betrayed him, making him do what he did.
* IronicHell: In his punishment, he is subjected to an illusion where he's on the precious red carpet he covets. He is given an opportunity to serve the recipe-stolen sweets to party guests, but the guests claim the food tastes horrible and throw the food at him, ironically causing him to take blame for sweets he didn't make, rather than credit for the same. He is then harassed by a sultry apparition of Hiromi, mirroring his intentions towards her, and he is trapped in a cake-batter taxi and then stuck as a gingerbread ornament on a cake, reflecting how he previously saw Yuka and Hiromi as ornaments to his own success.
* KickTheDog: While it's bad enough to plagiarize someone's work already, he goes out of his way to ruin the Kasuga sister's lives in the hopes they turn to prostitution for his pleasure.
* PlagiarismInFiction: He's stolen the recipes of the Kasuga sisters to revive his failing business.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Kisaragi of Ryoko’s case. Both are older men with a crush on much younger women. When their advances are rejected, they proceed to make the lives of their families miserable.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 11: Minami Shibuya]]
!!Minami Shibuya
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SawaIshige (Japanese), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (English)
A {{Yandere}} schoolgirl that appears to be stalking her ex-best friend, Shiori Akasaka, when she wants nothing to do with her anymore.
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* AntiVillain: Ultimately, despite her flaws, Minami is a weak-willed victim of a manipulative girl that used her and never loved her back.
* BaitAndSwitch: Throughout most of the episode, Minami is portrayed as overtly malicious and Shiori a poor victim of a stalker. In truth, Shiori is the worse of the two, but Minami is in an interesting twist not exactly a good person herself.
* DisproportionateRetribution: She garners enough malice to use the Hell Correspondence simply because Shiori is now ignoring her.
* FatalFlaw: Her utter lack of spine and inability to move on from Shiori, despite knowing how bad she is, is pointed out as a legitimate flaw of hers by Ai near the climax.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: She begins to show immense remorse over using the Hell Correspondence. At the end, even though Shiori is who forced her hand, she still feels guilt over letting the whole situation happen.
* NeverMyFault: Even though she shows a level of guilt over Shiori going to Hell despite her hand being forced to pull the string, she denies it's really her fault. Ai, however, rebukes her in an uncharacteristic display of disappointment, stating Minami is definitely at fault for what led up to this and to learn to take responsibility.
* TogetherInDeath: She hopes Shiori will genuinely be her friend in Hell.
* {{Yandere}}: Minami is dangerously obsessed with Shiori despite knowing she doesn't actually consider her a friend.

!!Shiori Akasaka
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MegumiToyoguchi (Japanese), Amber Cotton (English)
A popular girl who is being stalked by a {{Yandere}} ostensibly her former best friend.
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* AlasPoorVillain: She's definitely a bad person, but she is ''considerably'' less wicked than the previous targets of the Hell Correspondence, especially compared to those around the same age group as her. Her being sent to Hell is almost entirely her own fault, and Minami grieves heavily for her death while Ai looks on in disappointment.
* BaitTheDog: Much of the episode is focused on her and framed as though she is a victim while Minami is the VillainProtagonist. Only around the end is it revealed Shiori is the worse of the two.
* DisproportionateRetribution: She attempts to goad Minami into sending their whole classroom to Hell because, ironically, she can't stand being used and ignored.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: She forces Minami's hand into pulling Wanyuudo's string under the impression it would send their whole classroom to Hell, refusing to hear Minami's pleas for who it's really for.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Someone who uses anyone around her for convenience and ignores them when they no longer have any value is revealed to have been used by her whole classroom and never really liked.
* ManipulativeBitch: Shiori is a deceptive girl who feigns friendship to others when it's convenient for her.
* NothingIsScarier: Unlike the previous victims, [[TheUnreveal we don't actually see her punishment.]] The viewer, however, does actually hear her screaming and begging for Minami to help her from the other side as Hajime races to her location in vain.
* FalseFriend: To Minami all the way.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 12: Masaya Kataoka]]
!!Masaya Kataoka
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeOno (Japanese), Creator/RobertMcCollum (English)
The son of an influential politician, who committed suicide after a false story about him was published by a crooked journalist.
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* DownerEnding: Unlike with many other clients, Kataoka's life does not take any turn for the better after Inagaki is sent to Hell. In fact, with no way to prosecute Inagaki anymore or suspicious implications left behind, Kataoka can never find justice for his family name anymore.
* HairTriggerTemper: Kataoka is always in a state of perpetual bitterness and is prone to mood swings.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Hajime implores him to not throw his life (and soul) away by killing Inagaki, as his disappearance would make getting legal justice for his family impossible. His suggestions go on deaf ears, and Kataoka sends Inagaki to Hell realizing he will have truly lost everything afterward.
* SinsOfOurFathers: Granted, his father didn't actually do anything wrong; the scandal story was fabricated by Inagaki. Regardless, it's ruined Kataoka's life and has him the subject of savage bullying.
* ShutUpKirk: He rebukes Hajime's scolding of him after he sends Inagaki to Hell, stating if it had been his family, he would have understood his decisions.

!!Takashi Inagaki
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/WataruTakagi (Japanese), Creator/ChuckHuber (English)
A corrupt journalist that fabricates stories against influential politicians after getting some dirt on them.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Seemingly played straight and later subverted with a vengeance in the TV drama. He's on brotherly terms with Hajime for most of the running time but this goes out the window when he callously reveals his role in Ayumi's death, whereupon his characterization shifts to that of his anime self.
* AscendedExtra: He went from a one-off character to a major supporting character in the TV drama. Also actually the BigBad.
* AndIMustScream: Ai's punishment sees him ironically trapped in a news book, unable to properly scream to anyone for help. When he's dragged off to Hell, he is held down by the arms of Hell, one of which covers his mouth to stop his screaming.
* AssholeVictim: He's a callous, cruel journalist that ruins the lives of families solely to line up his pockets. Even Hajime, who was his former close friend, is disgusted by him.
* BadassBookworm: He has a black belt in karate. When Kataoka comes at him with a broken bottle, Inagaki manhandles him effortlessly.
* BigBad: Of the TV drama, being responsible for the other overarching antagonist's motives and Ayumi's death.
* BrokenPedestal: In the TV drama, Hajime looked up to Inagaki as a big brother. He's crushed when he realizes his role in his wife's death.
* TheBusCameBack: Briefly returns in a flashback in Episode 22, making him one of the few non major supporting characters to reappear.
* DirtyCoward: In the TV drama, he wrote a false article incriminating the Sawazaki family under Hajime's name when he visited New York, fearing retaliation from the fallout. The unfortunate result was the patriarch murdering his wife in a murder-suicide, and her brother murdering Ayumi in revenge.
* EvilCounterpart: Well, eviler. Hajime is no saint, being a paparazzi that blackmails celebrities, but Inagaki not only has no morals, but goes on to destroy whole families with no remorse.
* EvilFormerFriend: To Hajime, who is implied to have been once as bad as him but turned over a new leaf. Inagaki hates him for having grown "soft."
* IronicName: The name Takashi means "noble, prosperous" (隆) (taka) and "history" (史) (shi). He is an evil man that lives a prosperous life at the expense of lives he ruins by fabricating history,
* JerkassHasAPoint: He has an astoundingly accurate point when he tries to justify himself to Ai and company: he points out that most people watching the news don't care so much for any truth as much as sensationalist headlines or drama, and that all he's done is provide exactly that to them. It does not make him sympathetic, however.
* KarmaHoudini: He infuriatingly receives no comeuppance in the TV drama besides being punched in the face by Hajime.
* ImmoralJournalist: To a t.
* TheHedonist: He spends all his time out at nights drinking booze and being serviced by prostitutes.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 13: Akane Sawai]]
!!Akane Sawai
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RieTanaka (Japanese), Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard (English)
A deeply troubled schoolgirl who has regressed into a {{Hikkikomori}}.
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* AllTheOtherReindeer: She was always an outcast from her peers even when attending school.
* BrokenBird: Sawai feels trapped in a monotonous, torturous life where no one understands her and the people around her are cruel liars hiding behind facades.
* DrivenToSuicide: By the end, she prays to Fukasawa to wait only "a little longer" for her, which heavily implies she doesn't intend to live a full life.
* {{Hikkikomori}}: She has regressed to this from her depression.
* StrawNihilist: Believes life no longer has any meaning.
* TeacherStudentRomance: When she realizes Fukasawa is actually the anonymous poster she's been texting to online in her isolation, she is clearly infatuated with him.
* TogetherInDeath: She fully plans on being in Hell with Fukasawa.

!!Yoshiki Fukasawa
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SusumuChiba (Japanese), Chris Cason (English)
Sawai's homeroom teacher. Unlike just about [[HateSink every]] [[AssholeVictim other]] target up to this point, Fukasawa is a truly kind man who has been desperately trying to reach out to his student in her absence from school.
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* BeneathTheMask: Outwardly a cheerful and hardworking teacher respected by his colleagues. This is a facade masking a depressed man who has close to no will left to live anymore.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: He actually makes Ai [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness upset]] enough to somberly scold him on the recklessness of begging Sawai to send him to Hell. Firstly, he didn't consider he was leaving her all alone, and that he could have kept helping her out in life towards happiness. Secondly, he didn't consider the well-known consequence of her being damned to Hell with him. Ai is disgusted by how his self-loathing and desire to die overtook his judgment despite claiming to love Sawai.
* DrivenToSuicide: He begs Sawai to end his life. She does.
* FateWorseThanDeath: How he views living. Before his banishment, viewer is treated to a montage of his daily life, where he endures abuse from students and other teachers with a smile while suffering inside.
* IWillWaitForYou: He promises he will wait in the depths of Hell for Sawai.
* IronicHell: Subverted. Likely as a result of him not being evil at all, he doesn't go through any punishment game on-screen (nor is he even implied to have off) and simply wakes up in Hell. While being ferried off, he doesn't undergo any suffering either and merely has a calm conversation with a saddened Ai.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Ai lays him out on his reckless actions on the trip to Hell, he is wracked with guilt.
* PeacefulInDeath: He does make peace with himself when Ai shows him Sawai respects his decisions and intends on joining him in Hell.
* StepfordSmiler: His friendly facade hides a completely broken shell of a man.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Very much with Sawai after realizing their online identities.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 14: Saki Kirino]]
!!Saki Kirino
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuKobayashi (Japanese), Creator/CheramiLeigh (English)
A vengeful girl seeking revenge on a seemingly corrupt politician that apparently murdered her father.
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* LackOfEmpathy: Her only empathy is with her late father. When she pulls the string on Ryouzo, she admits to not caring about everyone else that would suffer or die from his downfall.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Hajime implores her to not go down this path and starts his own investigation into Ryouzo Kusunoki to prevent her from pulling the string on him. Even after the whole truth is uncovered and both Ryouzo and his son were willing to make peace, she decides to damn him to Hell, not caring for the consequences.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Kirino draws great parallels to Kataoka and her crisis is a twisted inversion of his feud with Inagaki; both demanded vengeance on someone politically influential responsible for their father's deaths and they were also among the people who Hajime tried to talk down from vengeance. However, while Saki was more willing to listen to reason compared to Kataoka, a key difference between him and her is Inagaki was a bastard and had everything coming, whereas Ryouzo is almost unapologetically good and tried all he could to make peace with Kirino. Kirino sending him to Hell, knowing this and the consequences that would entail from his death, purely out of spite makes her a straight-up VillainProtagonist by the credits.
* YouKilledMyFather: She believes Ryouzo did this to hide some gang connections, although the truth is much different and more complicated.
* VillainProtagonist: Her banishing Ryouzo to Hell sends her straight into this territory.
!!Ryouzo Kusunoki
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasashiHirose (Japanese), Creator/BillJenkins (English)
A beloved mayor whom Saki Kirino accuses of having murdered her father.
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* AllLovingHero: He's a man that tried to root out any and all crime from the area he governs. Unfortunately, he had to realistically make some concessions to the local mob to keep the peace. He also manages a nursing home for eldery people with nowhere to go.
* AwfulTruth: Kirino's father was a desperate man that discovered Ryouzo's dealings with the mob and tried to blackmail him over it for large sums of cash. Ryouzo simply chased him off, only to later discover some overzealous underling likely murdered him. He never forgave himself for it escalating to that.
* CorruptPolitician: Downplayed. He was forced to make concessions to the local mob but is otherwise a great man. One of his subordinates (heavily implied to be his son) is suggested to have murdered Kirino's father, and he deeply regrets this happening.
* DownerEnding: His death results in the closure of the nursing home and chaos in the neighborhood.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When he's being ferried off to Hell, he only laments he could not make amends with Kirino.
* MeaningfulName: Ryouzo means "clear" (亮) (ryou) and "construction, create, make, structure, physique" (造) (zo). He is a man with a clean conscience that creates a stable community for the needy.

!!Yoshiyuki Kusunoki
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentaMiyake (Japanese), Creator/KyleHebert (English)
Ryouzo's fiercely loyal son.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It is never officially clarified if he is the one who murdered Kirino's father, but a lot of implications suggest he was at least heavily complicit in his death.
* HotBlooded: Compared to his father, he's always angry and yelling.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's really not a nice guy at all.
* LackOfEmpathy: He has little sympathy for Kirino's plight and simply wants her to leave his father alone.
* LaserGuidedKarma: In a really, ''really'' twisted way, his incredible callousness towards Kirino likely contributed heavily to her sending his father to Hell. Thus, he will now experience the same pain she's endured.
* MeaningfulName: Like with Honjou, but for different reasons; Yoshiyuki means "righteous" (義) (yoshi). He's not a good person but very self-righteous in his beliefs he and his father have done no wrong.
* OneSteveLimit: Shares his first name with Dr. Honjou from the fourth episode.
* UndyingLoyalty: Unfailingly loyal to Ryouzo.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 15: Mina Minato]]
!!Mina Minato
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasumiAsano (Japanese), Creator/JamieMarchi (English)
An island girl that desires to elope with her boyfriend from her overbearing aunt and isolated life.
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* AbusiveParents: Fujie may not be (initially) physically abusive, but she tries to control everything about Mina's life in effort to make sure she never leaves her.
* {{Elopement}}: Mina decides to eventually elope with her boyfriend.
* IJustWantToBeFree: She hates the quiet life on the isles, but Fujie will have none of it. More than anything else, she wants to be free of both.
* MeaningfulName: Mina's surname Minato means "port, harbor" (湊).
* MercyKill: She kills Fujie in self-defense, but frankly considering her state of mind and peace in death, it definitely counts as this.
* MissingMom: Her mother supposedly committed suicide when she was an infant.

!!Fujie Minato
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkemiOkamura (Japanese), Creator/ChristineAuten (English)
Mina's extremely overbearing, possibly schizophrenic aunt. She took over raising Mina after her mother's death.
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* AlasPoorVillain: A truly tragic case. Unlike Kisaragi, who was genuinely evil and relatively lucid despite being crazy, Fujie is a deeply hurting woman who has long ''completely'' lost her mind to grief. While being rowed off to Hell, Wannyudo laments how pitiable she is in her delusion of still talking to her late sister.
* AnAxeToGrind: In truth, Fujie killed Satsuki with a hatchet when she tried to leave for the city life even after her troubled marriage. She was also going to repeat the act on Mina for eloping.
* AxCrazy: Fujie appears to suffer from severe mental illness fueled by abandonment issues, and possibly schizophrenia based on her ability to go back and forth between relatively normal and her murderous mood swings.
* BrokenBird: We don't see what exactly happened, but based on her reactions to her sister and daughter attempting to leave her, it seems Fujie suffers from some extreme trauma based on familial abandonment or loss.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Fujie keeps her sister's dead body in the storage cellar and holds "conversations" with it imitating Satsuki's voice.
* PeacefulInDeath: She doesn't undergo any punishment and is rowed off to Hell asleep in a delusion where she talks to her beloved sister.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Said verbatim to Satsuki and Mina. More than anything else, she fears losing her remaining family.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 16: Yumi]]
!!Yumi
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AsukaTanii (Japanese), Creator/LeahClark (English)
A circus girl that suffers horrific abuse by her father, the circus ringleader.
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* TheAce: She is the talented performer of the twins, but Yuki started sabotaging her to make it look otherwise.
* AintTooProudToBeg: Heartbreakingly so. She begs the ringmaster for forgiveness every time we see her abuse him.
* BrokenBird: Very, very broken from years of horrific physical abuse.
* CainAndAbel: Initially the Abel to Yuki's Cain. Inverted with her sending to Hell.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Well, in a twisted way, she's back to being at the center of her father's good attention at the end...
* OnlyOneName: Her surname isn’t stated.
* ScarsAreForever: She has scars all over her back from being whipped naked routinely by her father.
* StockholmSyndrome: The only believable reason she still seeks her father's approval and puts all the blame on Yuki instead.
* TwinSwitch: Pulls this by the end of the episode.

!!Yuki
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkikoYajima (Japanese), Creator/KateOxley (English)
Yumi's successful twin sister. She receives all the loving attention from her father by comparison.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Ironically, although the narrative treats her as an all-out AssholeVictim, how bad she is actually pales in comparison to her father. The fact she's considered so horrible that she's tormented upfront by all of Ai's team in their true forms is fairly overblown.
* AttentionWhore: She revels in the spotlight she's unfairly taken away from Yumi.
* CainAndAbel. Initially the Cain to Yumi, being resentful and sabotaging her career to take her place. Inverted after being sent to Hell.
* FreudianExcuse: From what we've seen of what the Ringmaster does to his children that disappoint him, Yuki must have suffered that abuse to spur her into drastic measures to attain his approval instead.
* LackOfEmpathy: She has no love for her sister at all and admits to it when demanded to repent.
* OnlyOneName: Considering her sister’s candle doesn’t show her surname, it’s safe to assume Yuki doesn’t have one either.

!!The Ringmaster
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuoTobita (Japanese), Daniel Penz (English)
The father of the twins and head of the traveling circus.
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* AbusiveParents: ''Holy shit.'' He whips his daughter with a rope all night long and keeps her locked up in a container for simply ''underperforming'' an act.
* BaitAndSwitch: With how awful he is and the way the episode is conveyed, the viewer is led to believe he is the object of Yumi's vengeance, but it's actually Yuki.
* BeardOfEvil: He has a nice curled stache and is an especially horrendous man.
* BigBad: Ironically, despite not being the target of the Hell Correspondence, his abuse is the catalyst for everything awful that unfolds in Yumi's case.
* FatBastard: He's overweight and very evil.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He acts charming and jovial on stage, but off-stage, he's a monster and loses the smile as well.
* HateSink: He inspires Teppei Houjo levels of revulsion any time he appears. In a meta example, he is far more despised in the fandom than Yuki, with many believing him not being sent to Hell as a low point of the franchise.
* KarmaHoudini: ''Absolutely nothing bad happens to him.''
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: His actual name isn’t revealed.
* TheSociopath: Judging from his abuse of a daughter for disappointing him and his lack of concern for Yumi (actually Yuki) being missing, it seems he only values his daughters for their usefulness to him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 17: Nina]]
!!"Nina"
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->Voiced by: Creator/OmiMinami (Japanese), Creator/AlisonViktorin (English)
A {{Yokai}} possessed doll believing it is its long-deceased owner, Nina. It has cursed a decaying, abandoned sanatorium to appear as though it is simply abandoned but well maintained. The doll entered Nina's father's name into the Hell Correspondence hoping Ai will take revenge, but she refused that request. Instead, Ai out of the kindness of her heart hopes to help the entity find peace for itself.
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* AllForNothing: Nina's father never meant to return and she has long passed away, so her wait, even after death, was all for nothing.
* AntiVillain: While it is very dangerous, the doll is a tormented entity clinging to feelings of anguish and loneliness from its long passed owner.
* CreepyBlueEyes: Nina's eyes were quite large and a striking shade of blue on her pale face. The doll, being modeled after her, shares them.
* DeadAllAlong: The real Nina died a long time ago and the "Nina" we see, is really her doll brought alive by her tormented emotions.
* DelicateAndSickly: The human Nina was terminally ill, thought it's never specified exactly what illness she had.
* GhostlyGoals: It desires to ease its loneliness and take revenge on Nina's most likely deceased father. Both goals are impossible to fulfill, and Ai only wishes to help it move on.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: When it finally finds peace through Ai, it crumbles to dust in Tsugumi's arms.
* ParentalAbandonment: Nina's father left her at the sanatorium and promised to come back for her, but she died without ever seeing him again. It's implied he never meant to return. Later, when Tsugumi asks her about her mother, Nina tells her that she doesn't know if she existed.
* TragicMonster: So very tragic that Ai skews the initial request as an excuse to help it. Her team is left confused by the gesture of kindness.
* {{Yandere}}: It declares the Shibatas as its new family and despairs when they attempt to escape the sanatorium.
* {{Yokai}}: A tsukumogami, to be exact.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 18: Miki Kamikawa]]
!!Miki Kamikawa
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->Voiced by: Creator/NorikoShitaya (Japanese), Creator/CarrieSavage (English)
A young girl effectively enslaved by a twisted psychopath under the threat of her dogs being killed.
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* AllForNothing: Her efforts are all tragically in vain, as Shimono kills both her dogs and their newborn pups in one final act of absolute evil.
* BigNo: When she discovers Shimono managed to kill the pups.
* BreakTheCutie: By the end, she's completely broken down and despairing.
* DownerEnding: She loses all her dogs, suffers from permanent PTSD, and her sending Shimono to Hell did nothing to make her feel better.
* HarmfulToMinors: Being enslaved by a literal psychopath, beaten daily, and being forced to watch your dogs tortured and even killed for compliance.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Shimono was already in police custody and confessed to all her crimes. This means Kamikawa pulling the string on her is pointless other than to satisfy her undying hatred for her tormentor.
* SheKnowsTooMuch: A variant. Her dogs discovered the remains of Shimono's family in the yard but knowing it'd be too stupid to murder Kamikawa, Shimono holds her dogs hostage for her silence.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Junko from the fourth episode. Both are young girls that have lost their dogs and learn a dark truth about the person responsible.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: She feels nothing but despair even after sending Shimono to where she belongs.
* YouAreTooLate: Her fears of going to Hell means she didn't pull the string on Shimono when it mattered. In the epilogue, she tearfully regrets this.

!!Meiko Shimono
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->Voiced by: Creator/{{Kujira}} (Japanese), Pam Dougherty (English)
One of, if not the most, infamous Hell Correspondence targets. Meiko Shimono is a reclusive psychopath that has taken a girl hostage under the threat of killing her dogs, extorting her parents for money under the pretense of tutoring her for an alibi. However, as the viewer learns, there's even worse to her than meets the eye.
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* AssholeVictim: One of the biggest in the entire franchise. It's actually given a meaningful lampshade in-universe by Tsugumi, who states Shimono is an example of someone who deserves Hell.
* AxCrazy: An insane paranoiac that admits she will murder anyone she feels threatens her money. Shimono is so insane that not even death abated her madness, and she descends into Hell slipping further into insanity.
* BaitTheDog: For a moment, it seems like she'll relent on killing Kamikawa's remaining dogs when the mother gives birth to pups...she kills the mom anyways and decides to use the newborns as further leverage on Miki.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: She makes Yoshiyuki Honjou look like a decent person.
* BigNo: Squeals this upon seeing her transformed visage in the voyage to Hell.
* {{Blackmail}}: Holds Kamikawa hostage with her dogs as leverage.
* EvilIsPetty: Her final act of murdering the newborn pups is the most evil kind of pettiness.
* FatBitch: She is very overweight and ''extremely'' evil.
* {{Greed}}: Her defining characteristic and, like Namiko Todaka, she is distinctively represented by a sin. She murdered her parents and newborn son to hoard inheritance money and lives in paranoid madness over someone coming to claim her money. In her descent to Hell, she is notably transformed into a {{Yokai}} that resembles a pig, something never seen up to now.
* HairTriggerTemper: She is always angry and prone to exploding over the littlest things from her paranoia.
* HateSink: Again, one of the biggest in the entire franchise. Everything about her is meant to inspire revulsion from her grating voice to her [[PsychopathicWomanchild childish]] personality to horrible abuse of a minor and animals.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Her relentless abuse of Kamikawa leads to her rapidly deteriorating mental and physical state, putting the police right on her trail as Shimono is publicly her tutor.
* JabbaTableManners: When we see her eat, it's not a pretty sight as she rushes to wolf down her food like a wild animal.
* KarmicTransformation: She is transformed into a pig-like demon on the voyage to Hell, representing her sin of {{Greed}}.
* KickTheDog: She threatens to kill Kamikawa's dogs one by one for each perceived mistake. She eventually kills them all.
* KnightOfCerebus: She is a considerably more despicable menace even when compared to the worst of the previous targets. Shimono's case is also where Hajime and Tsugumi begin falling out over their ethical views on Ai's services, with the latter believing there are people that simply deserve damnation.
* MeaningfulName: Meiko's surname Shimono means "retirement" (下野). She is a retired school teacher that covets her money so she will never have to work again.
* MindRape: She gets an especially cruel but karmic series of punishments. When being driven off to jail and subsequently transported to Ai's domain, she is tormented by apparitions of the dogs she killed and her murdered son. When being ferried to Hell, she is transformed into a literal pig [[BigNo to her absolute horror.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: She declares she will murder ''anyone'' she perceives crossing her to Wanyuudo and Ren.
* OffingTheOffspring: She murdered her ''infant child'' over not having to share the inheritance money she got from ''murdering her own parents.''
* TheParanoiac: Lives in 24/7 paranoid-induced madness over ''someone'' coming to steal her precious inheritance.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: Despite having an actual child enslaved to her, she is ironically the childish one of the two, and it's played in a terrifying way as her tantrums escalate to physical violence on Kamikawa.
* SelfMadeOrphan: She murdered her parents for their inheritance money.
* SevenDeadlySins: Although she is represented by {{Greed}}, she is also plausibly guilty of invoking the sins of {{Wrath}}, {{Sloth}}, and Gluttony as well.
* TheSociopath: Shimono is so unbelievably detached from humanity it boggles the mind. And she admits no remorse for any of it whatsoever.
* WouldHurtAChild: Psychologically and physically, as the viewer witnesses a lot of on poor Kamikawa. And that's not even considering what she did to her own child...
* VillainousGlutton: She has an insatiable appetite, constantly threatening Kamikawa to make her meals.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 19: Inori Ujiie]]
!!Inori Ujiie
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->Voiced by: Creator/FumikoOrikasa (Japanese), Creator/CaitlinGlass (English)
A young YamatoNadeshiko in training horribly abused by her adoptive grandmother.
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* AllForNothing: Her sending Kyougetsu to Hell does not help her escape her fate.
* ArrangedMarriage: To Yukio after being adopted by the Ujiie family.
* DownerEnding: Yukio is ironically no different from his mother, meaning Inori has condemned herself to the literal Hell on top of living a metaphorical one.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: She doesn't always sport these like the Ujiie family, but has them most of the time from her abuse.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Her life since being adopted is frankly this. It's PlayedWith after she sends Kyougetsu to Hell, as what awaits her after death may arguably not be more merciful.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She fails to notice both the uncanniness of Yukio and his distinct lack of concern for his mother's actions.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: A major reason she endures Kyougetsu's abuse is because she supports the orphanage she was adopted from.
* OhCrap: She has an expression of pure horror realizing Yukio is just like his mother.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Mina. Both are orphans living with an abusive maternal figure but tough it out as much as possible. They eventually have to pull the thread, but while Mina was okay by the end, Inori is [[DownerEnding far from fine.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: She is being raised (abused) to be a very literal example of the China Doll stereotype.

!!Kyougetsu Ujiie
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->Voiced by: Miyuki Ichijo (Japanese), Linda Leonard (English)
A world-renowned doll maker that has expanded her craft on living people...
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* AbusiveParents: One of the most horrifying examples in the series. Kyougetsu does not see her children as humans but as dolls for her to play around with.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Although she shows a little apprehension initially, she revels in the puppet body she takes on in her punishment. Also, after waking up on the boat to Hell, Kyogetsu has no fear, only awe of Ai's otherworldly elegance, even calling her a beautiful creature she would like to experiment with.
* AssholeVictim: She had it coming big time. Notably, though, [[SubvertedTrope she doesn't mind too much past the initial surprises.]]
* AxCrazy: The aforementioned abuse of her children is based on her world views; she believes humans are filth and dolls are eternally beautiful and everlasting.
* ControlFreak: She is controlling of every little detail of Inori's life to preserve what she perceives as her beauty.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: She has soulless blank eyes, which are often emphasized in many scenes.
* EvilMatriarch: Natch.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Shows absolutely no apprehension or fear while being rowed off to Hell, even as Ai explains what's going to happen to her there.
* IronicHell: Kyogetsu's punishment entails this. As Ai's minions appear in doll form and call her out on the things she's done, she attacks each of them in turn. As she does so, more and more of her body transforms into that of a puppet, mirroring her efforts to make Inori into a doll. In an interesting twist, Kyogetsu does not show much apprehension at this, but openly admires her new form, ranting of her misanthropic world views as she descends into a fit of insane laughter.
* LaughingMad: Cackles into deranged laughter after being turned into a doll in her punishment.
* LivingDollCollector: She trains her mansion staff to be literal living dolls subservient to her every whim.
* MadArtist: A misanthropic doll maker that has turned her craft over to living human beings.
* MisanthropeSupreme: During her punishment, Kyougetsu descends into a rant expressing every detail of how much she hates humanity.
* TheSociopath: A complete, admitted lack of conscience goes in hand with her misanthropy.
* YouAreFat: An incredibly disturbing example is when she notices Inori's breast growth and claims this about her. She then proceeds to molest her.

!!Yukio Ujiie
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->Voiced by: Creator/NozomuSasaki (Japanese), Creator/EricVale (English)
Kyougetsu's son and Inori's arranged husband.
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* AxCrazy: Just like mom.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: A severely downplayed example, considering there are plenty of hints he's not all there in the head, but he shows a greater degree of empathy for Inori than his mother. By the end, however, it's revealed he only has the same intentions for his wife as his mother did.
* DomesticAbuse: His relationship with Inori at the end shows signs that it’s not going to be a stable one.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: He has these all the time.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: He never bothers to call out his mother on his wife’s abuse, hinting something is not right with him.
* FreudianExcuse: Considering what his mother is like, it's not hard to see why he's so screwed up.
* IronicName: Yukio means "happiness, good luck" (幸) (yuki) and "hero, manly" (雄) (o).
* TheSociopath: All but stated to be one just like his mother. In fact, he doesn't even show any concern for his mother's disappearance at the end.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 20: Hiroshi “Esper” Watanabe]]
!!Gil de L'enfer
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->Voiced by: Creator/JunFukuyama (Japanese), Creator/GregAyres (English)
A genuine psychic that claims he broke out of Hell. He challenges Enma Ai using Watanabe as his pawn to access the Hell Correspondence required to summon her.
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* AssholeVictim: Watanabe, who he treats like complete garbage, pulls the string on him.
* AxCrazy: He proudly boasts of murdering his family and gleefully enjoys sexually harassing and torturing Ai.
* BackFromTheDead: Although its canonicity is highly dubious, the 2020 pachinko game sees Gil return from Hell after his scuffle with Ai. Though he's sent back yet again, it basically confirms he is indeed a demon and not lying.
* BigBadWannabe: His powers are the real deal and can, to an extent, bring superficial harm to Ai and easily restrain her minions. However, when the actual contract with Ai is invoked against him, he is completely powerless.
* DirtyCoward: Despite boasting of how he'll send Ai to Hell, he is visibly afraid when Watanabe threatens to invoke the contract. If he were as badass as he claims, he would goad him into doing it, but instead he tries to talk him out of it. It doesn't work.
* DefiantToTheEnd: When being rowed off to Hell, he just claims he'll break out again, though he does show nervousness.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: He actually causes Ai to well up with anger. When Watanabe invokes the contract, she unleashes her full wrath down upon him.
* EvilCounterpart: To Ai. He thinks that he and Ai are similar and, to a degree, he is right, but not in the way that he thinks. They both have powers and like her, he is believably a supernatural entity, and they avenged their own deaths by killing those responsible. Ai is, however, [[DeathGlare visibly angered]] when he brags about murdering his parents, as Ai's situation only brings her sorrow and regret.
* FauxAffablyEvil: His politeness is blatantly feigned.
* MindRape: He has the power to invoke this upon his victims, usually inflicting visions of past trauma, such as when Hajime sees himself at his wife's grave. Not even Ai is immune to this.
* PsychicPowers: He has telepathy, telekinesis, and the ability to see Enma Ai without a contract. He also has an assortment of other powers including teleportation and the ability to conjure up constructs.
* SelfMadeOrphan: He claims his parents murdered him and that he killed them in revenge after breaking out of Hell.
* SmugSnake: What he is revealed to be when confronted with a demonic being far out of his league.
* SmugSuper: He's very assured of his admittedly terrifying powers.
* UnreliableNarrator: It's left vague to whether or not anything that comes from his mouth is true, but the demonstration of his powers leave strong implications he is, at the least, a supernatural entity, and that he may simply be beneath Ai in the hierarchy.

!!Hiroshi ”Esper” Watanabe
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->Voiced by: Creator/ShinichiroMiki (Japanese), Creator/JeremyInman (English)
A bumbling PhonyPsychic, whose job Gil takes after humiliating him.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Gil manipulates Watanabe into entering the Hell Correspondence. He succeeds, meaning that despite his comical nature, he is capable of mustering genuine hate.
* ButtMonkey: He is made a complete fool of by Gil and reduced to comic relief afterward.
* TheDogBitesBack: He sends Gil to Hell, genuinely terrified of him after witnessing his true colors and the extent of his powers and realizing he could easily murder him on a whim eventually.
* PhonyPsychic: He is a complete fake, unlike Gil.
* {{Tuckerization}}: Named after creator Hiroshi Watanabe.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 21: Yuuko Murai]]
!!Yuuko Murai
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->Voiced by: Creator/SaekoChiba (Japanese), Mary Morgan (English)
A CityMouse turned farm girl whose late father was a good acquaintance of the Shibata family.
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* BrokenBird: By the time the Shibatas come to visit, she's this over her father's death.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: In the epilogue, she sports these.
* HereWeGoAgain: We last saw Yuuko in her new home consumed by anger and eyeing a PC placed in her room...
* ParentalAbandonment: Her father drank himself to death out of grief.
* RevengeBeforeReason: She wouldn't gain anything out of sending to Sekine to Hell since 1) her father is already dead and 2) he has claimed her property. While she tries to invoke her contract, Hajime notably talks her out of it, making her the first seen in the series to do so.
* OneSteveLimit: Shares the same first name as Chie Tanuma’s best friend, Yuuko Kido.

!!Ryousuke Sekine
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->Voiced by: Ryusuke Obayashi (Japanese), Creator/JohnSwasey (English)
A corrupt real estate agent that seeks to evict the Murai family off their farm.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Insofar as his goals are concerned, he gets everything he wants.
* EvilIsPetty: He's actually trying to ruin the Murais out of spite from a dispute his grandfather had over their property, which he lost.
* FalseFriend: To the Murais all the way. He seemed like he had their best interests at heart and weaseled into their lives when his intent was to subtly ruin them.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Unlike some others in the series, he can put on such a convincing act of being a good guy it can fool the viewer until it's fully revealed what he did to Yuuko's father.
* HateSink: When his colors are revealed, he's a spiteful, smug thug that is meant to infuriate the viewer as Yuuko seriously considers giving up revenge.
* IronicName: Ryousuke means "good, virtuous, respectable" (良) (ryou) and "help, assist" (介) (suke).
* KarmaHoudini: Maybe. While he doesn’t get his comeuppance on-screen, it is highly probable that Yuuko did ask for revenge off-screen.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 22: Gourou Suetsugu]]
!!Gourou Suetsugu
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->Voiced by: Creator/AtsushiImaruoka (Japanese), Creator/ChristopherSabat (English)
A miserable man who has been victimized by a serial cheater and GoldDigger.
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* DramaticIrony: He furiously calls out Hajime on lecturing him over what he's done, stating he can't understand his feelings because he hasn't experienced the same pain he has.
* LaughingMad: When he sends Hayashi to Hell, he laughs crazily.
* OneSteveLimit: Shares his first name with Goro Ishizu from Chie Tanuma’s case.
* ShadowArchetype: Explicitly to Hajime, who most of the episode featuring him is focused on. Suetsugu is essentially what Hajime would have been if he gave in fully to his feelings of hatred against Ayumi's betrayal. In fact, when they meet eye to eye, Hajime is taken aback by how he sees himself in Suetsugu.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears around the episode's tail end with his request already fulfilled, but facing him causes Hajime to forgive himself and face up to Ayumi's grave.

!!Noriko Hayashi
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->Voiced by: Creator/ShizukaIto (Japanese), Kathleen Hamm (English)
A vain GoldDigger.
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* FlatCharacter: She has precious minimal screentime like with Suetsugu, as most of the episode is focused on Hajime. The audience knows she is genuinely bad and why, but that's it.
* GoldDigger: She only uses men for their money.
* KarmicTransformation: Her prized beautiful face is transformed into a skeletal visage on the voyage to Hell.
* ShadowArchetype: Like with Suetsugu to Hajime, she is this to his late wife Ayumi, representing what the latter could have been had she fully given into the temptations of deception and contempt.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She can be considered one to Namiko. Both cheat on their partners repeatedly for the sake of money without much care for other people. When they’re sent to Hell, there is little concern for their whereabouts.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Client 23]]
!!Minoru Higushi
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->Voiced by: Creator/TakashiNagasako (Japanese), Ray Gestaut (English)
A bitter old man that had lost his wife to illness puts all the blame on her caretaker and hospital.
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* GrumpyOldMan: All he really is. Sakuragi even sympathizes with him and understands his grief over losing his wife.
* HopelessWithTech: He mentioned fiddling with a PC once but got quickly irritated with it, [[OhCrap which immediately stuns Hajime.]]
* RedHerring: He is given the most focus in the episode besides Kanako, and his aggressive personality and open threat to send Sakuragi to Hell immediately puts Hajime on his trail. As it turns out, he's not only not all that bad, he's computer illiterate.
* TrashOfTheTitans: His household is filthy and strewn with trash bags and booze bottles.

!!Kanako Sakuragi
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->Voiced by: Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (Japanese), Larissa Wolcott (English)
A young nurse with an angelic personality adored by practically everyone in the neighborhood.
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* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Everyone that knows her love Sakuragi and have nothing but good things to say about her.
* BigNo: Screams this and begs as Ai consigns her to Hell.
* FriendToAllChildren: Tsugumi especially loves her.
* KillTheCutie: She is sent to Hell despite having done nothing wrong.
* NiceGirl: As nice as it gets.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: The first on-screen victim of the Hell Correspondence to be 100%, unapologetically good and faultless; even Ryouzo had his dark secrets and regrets. As if to emphasize this trope, Ren and Wanyuudo note occasional cases like Sakuragi's tear away at Ai's heart under her emotionless facade.

!!???
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The 23rd on-screen (and final first season) client of the Hell Correspondence. An unnamed man who is capable of generating enough hate to reach out to Enma Ai, [[ForTheEvulz but has no discernable motives other than amusing himself.]]
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* AxCrazy: From what we can infer, he's obviously batshit insane.
* TheBadGuyWins: He gets what he wants and kills himself afterward with a smile on his face.
* DrivenToSuicide: He overdoses himself to death after murdering Sakuragi.
* DrugsAreBad: From what can be inferred, he is a drug addict and they possibly fuel his madness.
* EvilLaugh: The only time we hear his voice is him cackling a sinister laugh after sending Sakuragi to Hell.
* ForTheEvulz: All that can be said for why he did what he did.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As the last client of the first season, he demonstrates how the Hell Correspondence can be misused or skewed past merely seeking vengeance on someone. This becomes a major plot point in ''Futakomori.''
* KnightOfCerebus: He is the antagonist of one of the most somber cases in the entire series, one that leaves all major parties involved angered (Tsugumi, Hajime), dejected (Ai's team), or heartbroken with Ai herself.
* NoNameGiven: His name is never stated.
* PeacefulInDeath: The bastard evidently went out completely satisfied.
* SlasherSmile: What we see him sporting in most of Tsugumi's premonitions, and just before he kills himself.
[[/folder]]

!!!Live-Action Exclusives
[[folder:Daisuke Nizushima]]
!!Daisuke Nizushima
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A {{Hikkikomori}} traumatized by the death of his father.
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* BittersweetEnding: His father is dead, his sister is put into a coma at Shinoda's hands, and he is damned to Hell, but he at least finds the will to escape his sheltered life.
* CreepyChild: He shuts himself in a dark room with the windows taped shut 24/7.
* {{Hikkikomori}}: After his father's death, although he already preferred the isolation of his room before that.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After he listens to his father's recording of his suffering at work, he regrets being so cold to him.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: His father was constantly at work despite his promises to spend more time with Daisuke, which is why his relationship with him fell off a cliff.
* YouKilledMyFather: He confronts Shinoda with this, although the man only finds it highly amusing.
!!Makoto Shinoda
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A CorruptCorporateExecutive that overworks his employees.
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* AssholeVictim: A corrupt, murderous suit with SocialDarwinist leanings that bragged about his crimes to a child just before he's sent to Hell.
* BadBoss: He brutally overworks his employees and bullies them if they don't perform to his standards.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: At one point, he even claims ethics are for losers and all that matters is profit.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears glasses and has no soul.
* HateSink: Hilariously so.
* KickTheDog: When he's confronted by Daisuke, he throws him onto the floor and tells him to hang himself, saying it would make his sister and society at large if a shut-in like him died.
* IronicHell: He is tormented by an illusion of Daisuke's father before being hung on a noose [[LaserGuidedKarma after he told his son to hang himself.]] On the boat ride to Hell, Ai warns him his fate is to be overworked for all eternity.
* TheSocialDarwinist: A huge believer of this. He claims he overworks his employees in the hopes he can weed out the "incompetent" workers in the hopes they die, saying society has no need for the weak.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He shares some notable similarities to Riho Kaifu as roles are concerned, although their personalities and motives are quite different.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shoko]]
!!Shoko
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A despairing woman under great strain from her double-crossing lover.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Attempts this but Ai intervenes. She changes her mind, afterward.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: Considering she was forced to have ''three'' abortions, she understandably has these.
* WasItReallyWorthIt: Discussed amongst Ai's minions. Shoko may have gotten revenge on Toriumi, but now she is damned to Hell and will never meet her (deceased) children she praays for.
!!Seichi Toriumi
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A pathologically lying hedonist cheating on his two lovers.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: With his lying and hedonistic nature, it can be inferred that he's a sociopath despite the superficial demonstrations of empathy for his son and wives.
* AssholeVictim: He's such a sleazy and callous bastard that it can't be argued he didn't have it coming.
* BastardBoyfriend: Cheats and manipulates both his wives to satisfy his desire for sex.
* DeathGlare: When he realizes Shoko is pregnant again, he has a chilling glare of this while staring down the floor.
* HateSink: He's a complete slimeball that lies out of his ass 24/7 while manipulating his second wife into multiple abortions.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nakashima Kenta]]
!!Nakashima Kenta
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A man whose sister was killed in a traffic accident. He firmly believes it wasn't an accident, however.
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* HairTriggerTemper: He is easily riled up, but considering his circumstances, who can blame him?
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Said verbatim when confronting Yoshitaka and witnessing his sociopathic attitude.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: After he pulls the string on Yoshitaka, he dejectedly walks off, feeling no satisfaction over his death.
!!Katsuragi Yoshitaka
Another CorruptCorporateExecutive that runs a traffic accident charity on the side.
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* AssholeVictim: He's a guy that stages traffic accidents for PR and money. It doesn't get much worse than that.
* DirtyCoward: Even relative to many other victims, he's positively pissing himself in fear when being rowed off to Hell, making feeble attempts at bribing Ai and squealing like a little girl.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Tells Kenta he can get away with anything, even murder, with money. Ai rebukes him, however.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Misato Honda]]
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The latest captive of an insane SerialKiller.
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* BoundAndGagged: Although she temporarily breaks free to access the Hell Correspondence.
* BrokenBird: From her torture and already having witnessed Abe murder other captives in front of her.
* MadeASlave: She's forced to fulfilling Abe's twisted fantasies lest he kill her.
!!Satoshi Abe
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A police detective who is actually an insane SerialKiller targetting women.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Kisaragi of the anime may have been a stalker with a murder and several attempted murders to his name, but he wasn't an all-out SerialKiller like Abe.
* AxCrazy: He makes the character who he's based on look sane.
* DirtyCop: He has this job to cover his tracks.
* KnifeNut: He starts wildly flailing around a knife against Hajime when he's cornered, forcing Honda to intervene through sending him to Hell.
* PsychopathicManchild: As we see from what he does to his captives, he has a raging sister complex and throws (murderous) tantrums for perceived slights.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: A fairly obvious import of detective Kisaragi from the anime.
* WouldHurtAChild: Kidnaps Tsugumi and tortures her all the same as his adult victims.
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[[folder:Sachi Sanada]]
!!Sachi Sanada
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A schoolgirl being terrorized by her {{Yandere}} "best friend."
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* AmbiguousDisorder: She's likely schizophrenic, and the degree of her trauma caused her to manifest a second personality that possesses half of her soul.
* BittersweetEnding: Sanada struggles to adjust to life without Mako's company, and she now has to own up to the consequences of their actions.
* BrokenBird: Nearly being raped severely damaged her life since childhood.
* RapeAsBackstory: She was nearly raped as a kid, which is where her second personality, Mako, manifested to intervene and save her.
* SelfHarm: Mako enforces this on Sanada as "punishment" for her wavering faith to her, although it may be Sanada just engaging in self-harm considering her state of mind.
!!Mako
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An obsessive girl murderously determined to never let Sanada see other friends.
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* AxCrazy: She is willing to murder others to keep them away from Sanada, and makes her engage in self-harm as "penance" for any wavering loyalty to her.
* SplitPersonality: Mako is half of Sanada's soul that manifested from when she was nearly raped.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Although "protective" is probably the wrong term here, she's willing to repeatedly push people off stairs to keep them away from Sanada.
* {{Yandere}}: Her defining characteristic. In fact, it's all she exists for.
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[[folder:Miharu Koyama]]
!!Miharu Koyama
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A co-worker of Hajime, whose marriage (and life) is being ruined by her bumbling father.
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!!Miharu's Father
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A grieving man that's lost his wife and is currently being swindled by a GoldDigger.
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!!Kiriko Matsui
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A calluous GoldDigger preying on the Koyama patriarch.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Takuto Onda]]
!!Shinji Onda
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An ex-college teacher whose life has been ruined since a student claimed he tried to rape her.
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!!Kanejo Natsuko
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A college student. She ruined her teacher's life after he rejected her application to a university.
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!!Takuto Onda
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Shinji's son.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kyoko Kazama]]
!!Kyoko Kazama
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A hysterical woman suffering from a deteriorating mind after surviving a freak accident that left her daughter dead.
!!Toshime Honda
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[[caption-width-right:261:Honda (left) with her lover Iwa (right)]]
A hospital orderly that accidentally hit and run Kyoko Kazama and her daughter.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ayumi's killer (spoilers)]]
!!Tetsu
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[[folder:Tropes for the whole team]]

[[folder:In General]]

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A close friend of the Shibata family, bordering on a parental substitute for Tsugumi. He runs a coffee shop that Hajime and Tsugumi frequent.

[[header: Supporting Cast]]

[[folder:Wakatsuki Junichiro]]
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