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For tropes relating to the characters' actors, go to their respective individual and generational pages from hololive. This page is strictly for the characters they are playing as.

Note: Where Episodes are remarked upon, it refers to events in the 3D VR Series, whereas Chapters refer to the Animated Manga Series. While events are detailed respective to where they happen, it is important to make the distinction what happens when and in which video as the two series offer very differing plot points and tropes.

WARNING: All spoilers are unmarked due to the inherent nature of discussing the story's plot twists and developments. If you have not seen the most recent installment(s), read at your own risk.

Protagonist

Shino Misora

Misora Shino [JP: 美空 時乃]/"Tenkousei(-kun)"/Transfer Student

Portrayed by: Sora Tokino

Modern/Classic Bio:
A quiet, shy girl.
She lacks confidence in herself.
She views the popular student in her class with admiration and dreams of becoming like her, but ends up wallowing in self-loathing, unable to change.
But, one day... [Incomprehensible]

Train Arc Bio:
<Note from a Reporter>
I heard she was a quiet, shy girl.
That's not the impression I got from the story I learned...
I don't know why I snuck into the school at night that night and got into that mess.
Maybe that was the reason...I felt undone.

Shino Misora of 19XX/The Transfer Student of 20XX (All Arcs)

• Audience Surrogate: As expected from an interactive horror series, the New Transfer Student needs to be filled in about the school's history through the classmates and notes and reports found around the two schools in-game.
• But Now I Must Go: After seeing off her classmates at Aogami Shrine, she states this to her friends across the three Modern time periods of Aogami as she determines that it too is her time to go, but not without one last task when she leaves Yuka, Akane, Uzuki, Kaoru, Saya and Miku.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: She appears to have drawn the interest of at least Inari, Hanabi and Suzune. While she appears to be content with being friends with them, their approaches to her in Chapter 2 suggest more than platonic intentions from Hanabi and Suzune.
• Dead All Along: Heavily implied in Chapter 16 from the torn newspaper on the floor. Confirmed in Chapter 19 when she finds a news article that not only has the pictures of the girls from 199X, but hers as well.
• Driven by Envy: Her profile mentions self-loathing because she couldn't be like someone else. Chapter 6 implies that this is the New Transfer Student of Past Aogami High.
• Doomed by Canon: Considering her role in the demo and promotional material, it’s clear that she won’t last for long during the Retro episodes. And thus, she discovers she was Dead All Along by the landslide that killed her and most of the girls except Sakura and the Transfer Student.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Once she resolves to end the nightmare involving the girls and the Aogami curse, she then lives in a world where she can be happy with all of her friends.
• Empty Eyes: In Chapter 7, when she's heartbroken by Nanase's vitriolic attitude.
• Even the Girls Want Her: The 20XX Transfer Student appears to be subject to this, going by the approaches from and conversations with Inari, Hanabi and Suzune in the 3D series and manga.
• Eye Colour Change: Unlike her other self, where the two with differently-colored eyes may or may not be separate entities, the main Shino's eyes actively change between blue and brown throughout the story. Generally speaking, blue means she's looking into or seeking out the truth, and brown means she's playing along with the false world around her, whether she knows it's fake or not.
• Fake Memories: Chapter 14 heavily implies this is the case with Chapter 9's static glitch Call-Back to Chapter 2, as the Transfer Student begins to recall events similar to Episode 1 and Chapter 1, but with new characters, which calls into question the existence of the five established July 20XX girls.
• Featureless Protagonist: Until Chapter 15, they had no known physical features considering the VR nature of the 3D series. The animated manga only shows them strictly from the neck down, and looking around in-game doesn’t show anything.
• Flash Forward: Possibly overlapping with Flash Sideways, the Present Transfer Student begins receiving these from Chapter 8 onwards due to the "Groundhog Day" Loop that Aogami appears to be stuck in.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Until she resolves herself to actually speak to the New Transfer Student in Chapter 6, she is envious of the other girls becoming fast friends with them.
• Heroic Mime: They don't say a single line in the 3D VR series, even when others are talking directly to them. However, the 20XX Transfer Student gives a response to Suzune going by her actions and acknowledgement, even if it isn't heard.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: The 20XX Transfer Student very specifically resembles the brown-eyed Shino from Chapter 8, as opposed to sharing the ghost Shino's blue eyes. There is also the much more obvious difference of them wearing different iterations of the Aogami High uniform.
• Identity Amnesia: Heavily implied in Chapter 14, as well as in every end credits especially after Chapter 12's final scene; she recognises Shino's face in the yearbook and starts to be pained as implied Repressed Memories begin to surface.
• In the Dreaming Stage of Grief: Once she realize what happened in Aogami during 19XX, she assumes it's all a bad dream. The other Shino agrees, and tells her her friends are waiting for her.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: She begins Chapter 6 pessimistic and feeling there's nothing special about herself, lamenting that she won't be able to easily make friends. Then she sees the New Transfer Student, and resolves to change herself, approaching them; this leads to at least Yae and Sakura also becoming her friends. This appears to reflect her drive to approach the Transfer Student in the 3D Episodes, leading to her becoming friends with Shiina. She is that eager to reach this goal that she energetically approaches Kana, Kanade, Hotaru, Mitsuki and Yuki towards the end of Chapter 20, and enters such a blissful state that she's absolutely unaware of the reality that she's really alone... until Chapter 21 reveals that she does, in fact, realize that the world she occupies is fake, with her simply wanting to spend more time with her fake friends due to it being the only source of happiness in her current situation.
• Meaningful Name: Like Sora Tokino's, Shino Misora's name has a sky and a time motif. This also applies to the other Shino below.
• Mistaken Identity: Throwing up an Ambiguous Situation of its own, Akane names the 20XX Transfer Student as the person last seen with Yuka, having spotted the latter together with her.
• New Transfer Student: Chapter 1 takes place on her first day at Presemt Aogami High. Episode 1 too, due to the similarity in conversations between the 20XX Transfer Student, Hanabi and Inari.
• Nice Girl: She’s a sweet and somewhat shy girl who works up her courage to talk to the Past Transfer Student. She even takes time to tend to the headache-suffering Nanase in Chapter 7.
• Repressed Memories: Heavily implied in Chapter 14 when she looks in the Yearbook, recalling people whom appear to be students in July 20XX, but aren't any of the named girls from the section immediately below.
• Shrinking Violet: She is very shy, quiet and not confident in herself in the Past. She resolves to change herself after deciding watching Nanase, Yae and Sakura around the New Transfer Student.
• Split-Personality Merge: When she leaves the train towards the end of Chapter 16 with her Blue-eyed counterpart, it turns out that she became one with and the dominant personality of the body, implying that her counterpart was her subconcious in physical form, or another entity entirely. She doesn't take the fact that she bares that appearance very well, however.
• Stunned Silence: When Shino tells her it's time to face the truth while on the train, the 20XX Transfer Student, seen above the shoulders for the first time, is left unable to respond.
• Switching P.O.V.: She is implied to be the playable protagonist in the game demo as the animated manga plays nearly identically to what happens in the demo (waking up seeing the blue-eyed Shino, wandering into the retro hallway, and escaping the school). The full game has a faceless male reporter investigating Aogami.
• Taking Up the Mantle: In Chapter 23, she offers to carry on in Sakura's footsteps while the latter moves on with the other girls who died in 19XX.
• The Reveal: Chapter 15 shows the 20XX Transfer Student's face in full for the first time, which is lampshaded by Uzuki and Akane confused at seeing the two Shinos.
• The Voiceless: The Present Transfer Student does speak once in the game demo and often speaks in the manga, but her dialog is entirely relegated to subtitles. This stops being the case once she leaves in the train in Chapter 16.
• Weirdness Magnet: Played for Horror. The unusual elements seem to be directly drawn to the 20XX Transfer Student, be it unsettling stares, interrupting glitches, or seeing entities in the space behind others, irrespective of if those others are abruptly absent as in Chapter 3 or unwitting as to such entities' presence as in Chapter 9; whether much of the weirdness is a result of Shino being in close proximity to her is unknown, but there is a constant between her presence and something off happening to the Transfer Student such as in Chapters 4 and 5.

Shino Misora of 20XX (Modern & Train Arcs)

• Ambiguous Situation:
  • Is she really a Literal Split Personality of Shino, or in fact a supernatural utilizing A Form You Are Comfortable With to try and force Shino to remember herself?
    • The duality of her tone and certain lines in parts of the game and manga suggests the former and, as of Chapter 16, it appears to be a Split-Personality Merge, however...
    • ...the latter has a number of more subtle implications to it, such as her ability to show up without warning and her stating to have accepted the cycle of death and rebirth, while Shino retains her July 19XX personality without any of this Shino's negativity or cryptic speech.
  • It is not yet made clear just why Episode 3 has her appear in the 20XX Aogami High School Uniform, though it appears to be tied to the "Perfect World".
  • While the other ten girls established pre-Chapter 6 have a strange circumstance surrounding them with regard to the presence of The Faceless deskmates in the game demo, this Shino is a big oddity in of herself as she's with the other girls in the Surprisingly Creepy Moment, joining in with the synchronised head-turning, and she's also sharing a desk with one of these strange entities. As she or something is in full control of her body/spirit's faculties, it's hard to tell how much of her part here is Dead Guy Puppet and People Puppets like the rest.
  • In regard to what the Reporter seemed to learn, is she responsible for the decline of their mental state? And what was the impression that the Reporter got from the story of Shino?
• Armor-Piercing Response: In Chapter 15, after being blamed for doing something to Yuka off-screen in previous chapters, and after Uzuki and Akane are simultaneously stunned and in pain by what they're seeing, Shino responds to the 20XX Transfer Student bluntly, dismissing the question, bringing about The Reveal that they are nearly the same entity physically. She doesn't act nebulous or hostile, she speaks to them in a straight forward tone for the first time, making the Transfer Student, and the audience, realize the reality of things.
  Blue-eyed Shino: It's time to face the truth.
• Character Narrator: She seems to be an offscreen narrator in the animated manga, at least until the end of Chapter 3, when she finally appears in person to the Present Transfer Student.
• Empty Eyes: Has these with chilling effect in Chapters 2, 4 and 5. She sports them again in Chapters 8 to 10.
• Freak Out: Has one in the first run of the game demo when she's refused by the Transfer Student, leading into the chase sequence, and in the manga version of this scene where she shrieks her insistence at them, complete with Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Has these in Chapters 3 and 4. They act as harbingers of everything abruptly changing around the Present Transfer Student.
• Hey, You!: Throughout the animated manga, the ghost Shino only ever refers to the Present Transfer Student as "Tenkousei", or "Transfer Student".
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Implied during the mid-progression cutscene in the second run of the game demo, where she addresses the Transfer Student in a pained and distraught tone, wanting to be accepted by them. Considering the anachronistic nature of the story and the implications raised in Chapters 12 and 14-16, it is inferred to be either a non-romantic love or a form of self-love, if she is indeed a split personality version of the real Shino.
  Shino: One day, will you accept me?
• Invisible to Normals: This Shino's appearances relative to the point of view of the 20XX Transfer Student in Chapters 2 and 3 evoke this. Even if Inari, Hanabi, Touka, Suzune and Saki are oblivious to her, Shino wants the Transfer Student to know she's there.
• It's All My Fault: The mid-point of the third run in the game has her state this nearly verbatim, heavily implying that she blames herself for the landslide that came very shortly after Nanase's Freak Out in Chapter 7, in that if she hadn't checked on her, nobody would've hesitated or lingered.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: She is a rather lean highschool girl (well, ghost of one, but still), and in the game demo, is capable of lifting the protagonist - somebody of around her own weight, considering the later reveal of them being the same person - up by the neck with one hand without much issue.
• Nightmare Face: In the title screen and second ending of the Complete Edition.
• Not Good with Rejection: Her being refused in the first run of the game demo by the Transfer Student leads to her having a Freak Out and stalking them until they reach the final corridor section; this carries over into the next two runs, when no response is given to her but the escape sequence starts, and when she tries to both chastise and encourage the Transfer Student prior to the chase sequence. She has Freak Out in Chapter 5 too after the creepy classroom scene, resulting in another chase. By the end of Chapter 15, she's mellowed out, and instead drops vague remarks and acts coldly towards her Brown-eyed counterpart when it becomes apparent to her that the Transfer Student is still not going to go along with her suggestions.
• Ominous Visual Glitch:
  • Her profile page on the official site temporarily glitches out to repeat "Then one day..." countless times.
  • Episode 3 sees her appear without warning as Touka's about to explain the rumour. Then everything goes black and glitchy...
  • In the game demo, when her Offscreen Teleportation stops being off-screen, her teleporting is preceded by her model artifacting as if it was a VHS tape. Most elements related to her tend to change suddenly or trigger Static Screw.
  • In the animated manga, there are multiple:
    • Chapter 2 implies she's behind the glitches overlaying Inari as she coldly watches from out of sight.
    • Chapter 3 sees her cut in right after Touka declares her denial of the rumour, once again having some VHS-like artifacting along with more digital corruption, static and digital numerals on-screen, as well as a pulsating effect when she appears in the corridor.
    • Chapter 4, once the Present Transfer Student is in the Past Aogami High, her presence in the scene is completely indicated by a split-second silhouette of her face, with some vinyl record-patterning and scratches.
    • Chapter 8 has a minor one that merges the digital and the vinyl types just before she appears on-screen.
• Poltergeist: During the chase sequences in the game demo, she will momentarily appear ahead of the player to push shrine posts into the floor as a way to distract or slow them down. It's also inferred that she's responsible for various doors opening, closing or locking on their own.
• Rousing Speech: A complete juxtaposition when she approaches the Transfer Student while lambasting them for "running away from their sin"; just before the third chase sequence in the demo, she encourages them that "even if it hurts, [they] have to keep going".
• Run or Die: At the end of each run of the demo, she will start chasing the player. It's a Non-Standard Game Over if she catches you.
• Slasher Smile: Has one at the end of Chapter 3 when she meets the Present Transfer Student face-to-face.
• Split Personality:
  • Implied Trope. Pay attention to the way she speaks in the various runs of the game and Chapter 5. There are odd moments where she speaks in her softer, Shrinking Violet Nice Girl persona as seen in the 3D Episodes, even being encouraging to the protagonist apropos of nothing related to what she said seconds previous. Her colder and nebulous speech patterns and tone only become apparent from the release of the game demo onwards.
  • Another example that's either this or there being multiple Shinos other than the protagonist comes up in Chapter 19. The other Shino that appears in front of the main one there has an appearance, intention, and demeanor quite different from the one we've been seeing prior, being much more cunning and manipulative as well as actively dragging Shino back into the delusional purgatory of the Perfect World. This stands in rather heavy contrast to the previously-seen version, who's ultimate goal was always pulling Shino out of her false reality.
• Together in Death: Her goal was to reunite Shino with her friends once the latter realizes the latter was Dead All Along.
• The Un-Smile: Whenever she smiles in Chapters 3 and 4, it is neither positive or pleasant. She does again at the end of Chapter 8. Chapters 15 and 16 avoid this.
• Vengeful Ghost: Her first appearance in the game demo has her haunting Aogami High School. She then later chases after the Player Character. Why she does it is yet to be answered, though she alludes to them having committed some sort of sin that they ran away from.
• Vocal Dissonance: There are a few moments in the game demo's three runs, and one in Chapter 5, in which she is not making sadistic musings or being scorned, nebulous in her intentions, or cold when Present Transfer Student escapes, where she sounds closer to the soft-spoken, Shrinking Violet Shino from the 3D episodes, whom is implied to be the real Shino all along despite the oddity with the brown eyes.

Modern Arc Students

General

• Agent Scully:
  • In Episode 2, Inari isn't very convinced by Touka's suggestion that the absent students are off school because of a summer cold, verging on dismissing it entirely with how she looks away from the Elf as she responds.
  • As Inari and Suzune are the only ones to take any stock in the rumor, the other trio fall into this.
    • Hanabi doesn't trust the rumor and wants to investigate it in her conversation with Saki (whom expresses interest and desire to help investigate it) in Episode 3. The local library had nothing about it or related to it, but she says her grandpa could know something. Even in Chapter 2, she tries to downplay it when Inari has her Freak Out.
    • Touka considers the rumor that Inari's concerned about to be nonsense and has no qualms about speaking about it to the specific subject of said rumor in both Episode 3 and Chapter 3.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • It is not yet made clear just why the game demo and Chapter 5 have Inari, Hanabi, Suzune, Saki and Touka appear in the classroom in the third corridor of 19XX's Aogami High.
  • With the appearance of students who appear to act similar to Hanabi, Inari, Touka and/or Suzune in Chapter 14 along with the implication they're also from a July 20XX, if the memories the Transfer Student begins to recall are the real month and the silver-haired and purple-haired girls real along with them, then whom, or what, are these five? Backstory Invaders?
• Dead Guy Puppet: Implied in the game demo, if not with their bodies, then with their spirits, going by the strange deskmate sat by them in the classroom at the end of the third corridor in 19XX. Overlaps with People Puppets as it extends to the other established characters present in the classroom, which makes it all the more ambiguous why the manga version of the scene displays them and not their deskmates. This is also applied to Hanabi and Inari in Chapter 4 when they (questionably) interact with the Transfer Student.
• Emotionless Girl: Nearly Once an Episode when they appear in the manga, though it varies between characters.
  • There's a brief flicker of Suzune, Touka and Saki being this when their faces become clouded during a glitch.
  • Inari's monotonous delivery of the rumor about transfer students in Chapter 2.
  • Hanabi and Inari do not exude any shred of human emotion towards the Transfer Student in Chapter 4; Hanabi might have a wide smile for some of it, but the nature of her appearance in the chapter lends it more towards this category.
  • Along with the students of 19XX, each of the five girls (albeit Suzune being off-camera) have this when they turn to face the Transfer Student.
  • Resurfaces with Inari and Touka in Chapter 9 when they immediately depart, after they Death Glare the Transfer Student from behind Kaoru and Yuka.
• Empty Eyes:
  • Touka and Saki have these in Chapter 1 when she and Touka insist the Transfer Student take a look at the spider lilies on the school grounds.
  • Touka again has them in Chapter 2 as part of her Death Glare. Later, after Suzune playfully bumps into the Transfer Student, Inari monotonously recites the rumour while having these.
  • Suzune has these during her Heroic BSoD in Chapter 3.
  • Inari and Hanabi sport them in Chapter 4 as one of a telling signs that they're not the real versions.
  • Inari and Touka's Glowing Eyes Death Glare in Chapter 9 are outright these.
• He's Back!: They all return (and separately from their implied vessels, at that) in Chapter 23, also carrying over into the Final Chapter.
• Uncertain Doom:
  • Episode 3 is thoroughly ambiguous as to what actually strikes when the screen goes black and glitchy; while the game demo implies the school came down from a gas leak or more nefarious causes, Suzune's panicking and Scream Discretion Shot implies that the strange arm from Chapter 4 caught at least her.
  • As of the end of Chapter 3, they are seemingly killed by the collapsing Aogami High, with only the Transfer Student implied to have survived.
• The Un-Smile: Only Inari and Suzune have lacked one thus far.
  • Saki and Touka bear one each when talking about the spider lilies in Chapter 1.
  • After Hanabi starts talking in her Welcome to Corneria delivery, she maintains this throughout the rest of her appearance in Chapter 4.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Though it remains ambiguous as to which of the trio it actually could have beem, or if it was just Shino's whim alone, take your pick:
  • If Chapter 2 is anything to go by, Inari may be the original poster child of this trope for ERROR, having stated the entirety of the rumour to everyone present. including the Transfer Student, and even in front of the out-of-sight Shino.
  • In the same chapter, Suzune playfully smacking the Transfer Student on the back elicits a Freak Out from Inari, despite both the former and Hanabi telling Suzune she didn't do anything wrong. Due to her interpretation of Inari enunciating the rumour, she genuinely believes that she's the reason that everything went south in Chapter 3, however innocent her earlier action was.
  • The end of Episode 3 and Chapter 3 suggest that Touka's lack of belief in the rumour and her about to divulge the rumour about transfer students to the transfer student is what causes Shino to appear and the school to come down, thereby relieving Suzune of any blame in the matter.

Inari Shirayuki

Shirayuki Inari [JP: 白雪 稲穂]

Portrayed by: Fubuki Shirakami

The class president, and the Childhood Friend of Natsuno Hanabi.
She does her best to rein in her free-spirited classmates.
Raised in a strict household, she lacks self-confidence, and tends to be overly self-conscious of what others think.

Wanting to change her timid personality and become outgoing like Hanabi, she volunteered to be class representative.

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• Actor Allusion: Inari is a type of Kitsune, which is Fubuki's species.
• Cassandra Truth: Hanabi and Touka deny the existence of the rumour about treating transfer students well or bad things will happen, and Suzune wasn't aware of it. The endings of Episode 3 and Chapter 3 demonstrate that the latter part of the rumour wasn't something to take lightly.
• Childhood Friends: With Hanabi.
• Class Representative: She is the class president and quite a responsible and competent one at that.
• Death Glare: Levels one along with Touka at the Transfer Student in Chapter 9, when she appears behind Kaoru when the latter is discussing the missing students with Yuka.
• Glowing Eyes: As part of her Death Glare in Chapter 9.
• Invisible to Normals: Chapter 9 displays her and Touka visible only to the Transfer Student, with Akane, Yuka, Kaoru, Saya and Miku completely oblivious that they're even there or interacting.
• It's All My Fault: Or, "our fault", as she's quick to conclude that the five girls not treating the Transfer Student well has led to the catastrophe they find themselves in towards the end of Chapter 3.
• Shrinking Violet: She's supposed to show the New Transfer Student around the school, but she can hardly speak up and Hatsuno ends up doing most of the introduction.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: With Touka in Chapter 9, with none of the "Hi" or "Bye", just to Death Glare the Transfer Student when Touka counters Yuka's suggestion of the missing students being like the rest of the missing members of the Aogami population. They both disappear as they walk away.

Hanabi Natsuno

Natsuno Hanabi [JP: 夏乃 華火]

Portrayed by: Matsuri Natsuiro

The bubbly, energetic girl who is the beating heart of the class.
She's good at getting people excited and backing them up.

The daughter of an influential family, she's had a lot of experience in speaking to adults, and has developed a bold and confident personality as a result.
This makes her a natural leader.
She's is childhood friends with Shirayuki Inari, and does her best to help her overcome her timid personality.

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• Childhood Friends: With Shirayuki Inari.
• Has a Type: Likes people who are there for you when you need them.
• The Heart: She's very supportive of her classmates and often helps brighten up the mood.
• Hey, You!: Generally refers to the Transfer Student as "Tenkousei-kun" (translated as "transfer kid"). She breaks off of this and calls her "Shino-san" instead during her brief return in Chapter 23.
• Hypocrite: She calls Inari out for getting ahead of herself in her role as class rep and startling the New Transfer Student... only to do the exact same thing by overloading them with questions about their favorite things.
• No Sense of Personal Space: She leans very close to you while asking your personal interests.
• Welcome to Corneria: The entirety of her dialog in Chapter 4 is repeating "The name's Hanabi, and this here's Inari" over and over again.

Saki Ibara

Ibara Saki [JP: 茨 咲希]

Portrayed by: Aki Rosenthal

The eldest of the town florist's three daughters.
As her parents were often busy with work, she helped raise her younger sisters.
A kind-hearted girl, she will always reach out to those in need.
True to her family's profession, she's a member of the school groundskeeping committee.
Her nurturing approach applies just as much to her flowers, which bloom more beautifully than any other class's.

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• Caring Gardener: She lives in a flower shop and at school takes care of the flowerbeds as a member of the Groundskeeping Committee.
• Cool Big Sis: She takes care of two of her younger sisters when the parents are away.
• Dissonant Serenity: Together with Touka in Chapter 1, as their insistence for the Transfer Student to view the spider lilies near the lockers weirds the latter out.
• Out of Focus: Zig Zagged; even in a Minimalist Cast for the Modern Arc, she has the smallest role of any character up to Chapter 5. She has no direct conversation with the 20XX Transfer Student in the 3D series, with Episode 2 having her back turned to them the whole time, though her conversations in Episodes 1 and 3 can still be heard for story-building. Her largest role in the entire project is in Chapter 1, where she does speak with the Transfer Student, then has no lines in Chapter 2, where she shows up for one shot; Chapter 3 sees her try to get people to safety when the school starts coming down, and Chapter 5 shows her in the classroom scene and a flashback.

Touka Yukihara

Yukihara Touka [JP:雪原 冬花]

Portrayed by: Lamy Yukihana

The top honor student in her grade.
Her mind has always been sharp, and she grew up treated like a prodigy.
Despite her detached exterior, she has a strong sense of intellectual curiosity and eagerly dives into any new knowledge.
She gets along with the similarly curious Suzune, and the two often hang out together, but academically, they couldn't be more different, which makes them an odd pair in the eyes of the teachers.
Suzune's expressiveness makes her an object of endless interest for Touka.

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• Ambiguous Innocence: For as pleasant and friendly as she comes across to the Transfer Student, it's hard to ignore how strange and nebulous she can become on a dime. The tail end of her first conversation with the Transfer Student is, along with Saki, laced with Dissonant Serenity as they insist she goes to see the spider lilies, even chuckling at the suggestion. In Chapter 2, it's implied that she knows more than she's letting on in regard to the missing students; while her tone shows irritation at Inari's question, she coldly and efficiently shuts down the Transfer Student's rumination with a Death Glare and thoroughly unamused "It's a summer cold". In both Episode 3 and Chapter 3, she spends half of the conversation with the Transfer Student speaking for Suzune and alluding to the rumour, only for things to go south when she's about to say something/denounce the rumour. In Chapter 9, she repeats her summer cold interjection, tone et al, and gives another Death Glare focused at the Transfer Student along with Inari; it's implied that their presence affects the first five girls that the Transfer Student meets in February 20XX.
• Be Careful What You Say: Overlaps with Right Behind Me and Tempting Fate. She just barely starts talking about the rumour and doesn't even get to name it when things go south in Episode 3.
  • Comparatively, in Chapter 3, she refers to the rumour without fully naming it, but her lack of belief in it causes Shino to appear to the Present Transfer Student. Once again, things go south.
• Death Glare: Gives an exceptionally potent and chilling one to the Transfer Student in Chapter 2. She does it again with Glowing Eyes in Chapter 9, glaring at the Transfer Student from behind Yuka.
• Dissonant Serenity: Together with Saki in Chapter 1, as their insistence for the Transfer Student to view the spider lilies near the lockers weirds the latter out.
• Glowing Eyes: As part of her Death Glare in Chapter 9.
• Hellish Pupils: As part of her Death Glare in Chapter 2, if just to help punctuate the creepy nature of the moment.
• His Name Is...: She had something to say to the Transfer Student about the rumor, but doesn't get to elaborate on it because of the Jump Scare appearances of Shino in Episode 3 and Chapter 3, and everything going south immediately after those.
• Insistent Terminology: "It's a summer cold." Verges on Never Say "Die" considering the implications of what becomes of the disappearing people.
• Invisible to Normals: Chapter 9 displays her and Inari visible only to the Transfer Student, with Akane, Yuka, Kaoru, Saya and Miku completely oblivious that they're even there or interacting.
• Oh, Crap!: In the midst of the glitches and Suzune's panicking in Episode 3, she appears to realise the severity of the rumour too late.
• Right Behind Me: Overlaps with Be Careful What You Say and Tempting Fate.
  • In Episode 3, she starts talking to the Present Transfer Student about the rumor that Inari is concerned about when Suzune apologizes for her act of physical intimacy against the them, with Inari watching at the back of the classroom. Inari isn't the only one who seems to be watching, however...
  • In Chapter 3, she states her lack of belief in the rumor. Cue Shino's Jump Scare.
• The Smart Guy: Has a reputation of a honor student from the first grade. Inari notes that she may have spent all night studying for exams.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: With Inari in Chapter 9, with none of the "Hi" or "Bye", just to Death Glare the Transfer Student when Touka counters Yuka's suggestion of the missing students being like the rest of the missing members of the Aogami population. They both disappear as they walk away.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: She is very sure about the missing students being absent from school due to a "stubborn summer cold", shutting down any input from the Transfer Student as they and Inari walk home together in Chapter 2; even as she remarks it to Inari in the chapter, she seems irritated that she's having to assert that it is the case. Chapters 8 to 10 make it abundantly clear she is very incorrect...
• Tempting Fate: Overlaps with Be Careful What You Say and Right Behind Me. In Episode 3, she believes it is best that the Present Transfer Student knows about the rumor that she and Hanabi consider to be moot; she appears to quickly realizes the severity of the rumor when things go south.

Suzune Karamomo

Karamomo Suzune [JP: 杏 鈴音]

Portrayed by: Nene Momosuzu

A free-spirited girl, who is treated as something of a class mascot.
She loves new things, and is curious and eager about everything she comes across, but tends to act based on instinct and what she thinks will amuse her.
As such, if something catches her attention, she will pursue it fervently, but is also quick to lose interest.
In addition, she loves all her classmates
and gets along easily with just about anyone, she can be oblivious and lack consideration.

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• Curious as a Monkey: She likes trying new things and often gets distracted by whatever she finds interesting.
• Heroic BSoD: When the school starts falling apart at the end of Chapter 3, Suzune is paralysed through blaming herself for bringing about the destruction and inconsolable as Touka and Saki try to get her to safety.
• It's All My Fault: She blames herself when the school starts coming down on the cast at the end of Chapter 3, chastising herself for inadvertently breaking the rule of treating transfer students well while Saki and Touka try to snap her out of her Heroic BSoD.
• No Sense of Personal Space: She playfully bumped into the Transfer Student while trying to practice "physical intimacy"; the 3D series never explicitly states when or what this was, but Chapter 2 shows it was while she was expressing her desire to join the Transfer Student and Hanabi at the festival; either way, she had to apologize to the former later.
• Scream Discretion Shot: After the screen fades to darkness and glitches in Episode 3, she can be heard panicking as a low rumbling sound and static becomes audible, which turns into screams as fear takes a hold of her.
• Third-Person Person: While this quirk is dropped in the subtitles, you can clearly hear her refer to herself in third-person.

Classic Arc Students

General

• Ambiguous Situation: As of the end of Chapter 7, it is unknown if they actually survived the landslide; Episode 6 of the 3D series has a Freeze-Frame Bonus implication that all but Sakura meets their end differently, and Nanase appears to yet be confronted by Shiina, according to the game. A ruined newspaper in Chapter 16 implies that Shino, Nanase, Honoka, Shiina and Yae perished with Sakura and the Transfer Student surviving, but as it was briefly shown with no text visible, it could just as easily be the other way around.
• Dead Guy Puppet: Implied in the game demo, if not with their bodies, then with their spirits, going by the strange deskmates sat by them in the classroom at the end of the third corridor in 19XX. Overlaps with People Puppets as it extends to the July 20XX students whom are present in the classroom.
• He's Back!: They all return to the school in the Final Chapter, with the exception of Sakura, who ended up becoming Aogami's new Guardian Entity instead.

Nanase Furukawa

Furukawa Nanase [JP: 古河 七星]

Portrayed by: Suisei Hoshimachi

A wealthy heiress of a family of entrepeneurs.
Her father's company was involved in the construction of the high school she attends.
Straight-laced and upstanding, she despises anything underhanded or out-of-line.
Longtime friends with Shiromi Yae, whom she's known since they were little.

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• Alpha Bitch: Her general attitude towards Shino and Yae getting close to the New Transfer Student for various reasons make her come across as haughty, and she seems to see them as threats to her goal. Chapter 6 is also quite unambiguous in showing that she does not regard Shino in any kind light for getting close to the New Transfer Student, and she coldly shrugs off Shiina's teasing.
• Ambiguous Innocence: In Episode 4, Yae remarks to Shiina that Nanase did something to a student in the next class right before they've inexplicably stopped attending school. Considering her Ambiguous Situation and Freak Out below, it is not clear how much of it was Nanase herself.
• Ambiguous Situation: Is she possessed by a spirit, or just going through severe mental decline, or a subject of data corruption or a computer virus? Her conversation with Yae implies that she wasn’t always so cold and manipulative towards others, and that this change in her personality is fairly sudden and recent. Chapter 7 implies a mix of the former two, and the mix requires her to be within the confines of the school or school grounds for it to be seen; alternatively, considering her actions in Episode 6 and developements in the manga, it appears that she is intentionally seeking out the Transfer Student to warp their data, which would infer the virus aspect.
• Be Careful What You Say: Her last words in Chapter 7 are her screaming at Shino that the latter is a nuisance and that she should disappear. Then the landslide strikes. Chapter 8 reveals that tragically, like Nanase and the rest, Shino definitely didn't disappear.
• Childhood Friends: With Yae Shiromi.
• Class Princess: Was this until she suddenly became an Alpha Bitch a short time before the events of the Past Episodes.
• Cute But Psycho: She's played by Suisei Hoshimachi after all, who is the epitome of Comedic Sociopathy and the trope herself. Nanase however is anything but comedic.
• Establishing Character Moment: In her first appearance, she interrupts Shino by being very passive aggressive towards her before attempting to invite the Past Transfer Student out, even leading Shino along and making her think she’ll be able to come too before cruelly shutting her down. This alludes to her Yandere tendencies and generally cold, manipulative demeanour.
• Freak Out:
  • A more nuanced one, but in Episode 6, she works herself up into anger through perceiving Yae as a threat towards her trying to win over the Transfer Student, which in turn causes a glitch as she vocally ruminates of "making the other girls go away".
  • In Chapter 7, she lashes out coldly at Shino, who's only checking if her headache from earlier has subsided, yelling at the poor girl that she's a nuisance and should disappear, a complete contrast to her niceties before they got to the school. Curiously, this is quite reminiscent of Shino's on-a-dime Freak Outs.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Chapter 6 makes it clear she disapproves of, and is jealous that Shino is "stuck to [the Transfer Student] again".
• Jerkass: She interrupts Shino's conversation with the Past Transfer Student just to invite the latter to a movie and a restaraunt; when Shino tries to timidly interject, Nanase baits her into self-introduction only to coldly interrupt again, and asks Shino if she's be interested in joining her and the protagonist. This culminates in Nanase referring to her as a nuisance just loud enough for Shino to clearly hear it (and double take), and coldly rescind the invitation, 'remembering' she doesn't have a ticket for her. Following Ambiguous Situation above, and the conversations in Episode 4-6 and Chapters 6-7, there is an implication that it's not entirely Nanase being the jerk.
• Meaningful Name: Keeping in line with Suisei's own Cosmic Motifs, Nanase's name in Japanese "古河 七星" is derived from the Japanese name of the Big Dipper ("Hokuto Shichisei", 北斗七星).
• Nice Girl: In Chapter 7, in complete contrast to her attitude in the previous chapter and 3D Episodes, she actively invites Shino to the movie and dinner that she wants to attend with the New Transfer Student. Sadly, this doesn't appear to last long.
• Not Himself: As Yae says more than once, and to her directly, Nanase's personality is completely different from how she acts usually, as she used to dislike dishonest and unjust people.
• Shadow Archetype: She is what happens if Suisei's Ax-Crazy Cute But Psycho behavior isn't Played for Laughs, and shows a cold disdain for certain people because they interact with the person she likes.
• Token Rich Student: Her father and grandfather are businessmen and Aogami High was built by their company.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: According to Yae, she wasn't like this. She used to be a Nice Girl, but something happened, and now she’s begun to antagonize some of her classmates for some reason.
• Yandere: Nanase has feelings towards the New Transfer Student, and sees Shino and other girls who remotely talks to them as a major obstacle in her attempts to express her feelings to them. If the manga is anything to go by, she'd would be a Psycho Lesbian variant.

Yae Shiromi

Shiromi Yae [JP: 銀鏡 八重]

Portrayed by: Noel Shirogane

A sporty and athletic girl.
Has a habit of rambling about her ideal of womanhood.
She's best friends with Furukawa Nanase, whom she's known since they were little.
The two are close enough that she can pick up on the subtle changes in Nanase's collected facade.

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• Bystander Syndrome: Rather than intervene when Nanase starts hurling unwarranted vitriol and spite at Shino, she just watches and remarks that the former is having a worse episode than usual.
• Childhood Friends: With Nanase Furukawa. She notices right away that something's been wrong with her recently.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Of a sort; when confronted by Nanase in Episode 6, she is an utter loss about her friend's cold nature, insisting that Nanase is different without elaborating while being met with shock and disappointment.
• My Eyes Are Up Here: Yae isn't very fond of Sakura's description of her that identifies her by her bust size.
  Yae: Is that all you remember me as?
• Yamato Nadeshiko: She addresses even her friends formally and regularly scolds Shiina and Sakura for not behaving like proper ladies.

Shiina Fukami

Fukami Shiina [JP: 深見 獅那]

Portrayed by: Botan Shishiro

The delinquent with the most fearsome reputation in Aogami.
She's more than capable in a fight, a lesson that delinquents from other schools have learnt many times over.

Though often the first to start a fight, she also has a calm and observant side.
If anything, that calmness is proof of her absolute dominance.

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• Blood Knight: She's the strongest fighter in Aogami Town, who regularly gets in fights with delinquents from other local schools. She isn't fond of Yae's remark that girls shouldn't fight.
• Japanese Delinquents: She isn't a big stickler to the school rules or social standards.
• Nice Girl: She helps Shino find her family pencil case and offers to be a friend to her after advising her to stay away from the New Transfer Student for Shino's own sake.
• The Gadfly: Teases Nanase when she's watching Shino and the New Transfer Student in Chapter 6, stating that Nanase's only jealous because she's into the new student too.

Honoka Omori

Omori Honoka [JP: 尾森 歩香]

Portrayed by: Polka Omaru

An unfalteringly positive girl who tries to find fun in everything.
She's constantly bursting with energy.
She has a curious personality and loves gossip.
She'll gladly stick her nose into matters that she probably shouldn't.

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• Curious as a Monkey: She likes rumors and often bothers others while investigating them.
• Didn't Think This Through: She wants to investigate the supposedly haunted art room at night. When Shiina brings up that the school will be closed at that time, Honoka starts to panic.
• Genki Girl: She's a very excitable girl. Sakura remembers her as "the loud one".

Sakura Shinomiya

Shinomiya Sakura [JP: 四宮 桜]

Portrayed by: Miko Sakura

The daugher of the family who has run the local shrine for countless generations.
Her logical personality causes her to say inconsiderate things without meaning to.
She's quite enamored with the occult, and often skips class to go research and investigate.

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• Actor Allusion: Shinomiya Sakura is a Miko. Her actress Sakura Miko is one herself.
• And I Must Scream: Her ultimate fate before Shino intervenes: she falls into a persistent vegetative state as a result of overworking herself, and is fully aware but unable to communicate or interact with the outside world. What makes it even worse is that this happened just after she was able to create a seed that could finally replace the fallen and corrupted trees in Aogami Forest and stop the constant landslides that took the lives of her friends.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Once Shino resets the world in the finale, Sakura trees begin to bloom in Aogami, thereby freeing the spirits of the children, stopping the pollution and dispelling the curse of Aogami forever. And as the wind carried the Sakura petals inside Aogami High, Shino catches a glimpse of her passing by, implying that she has now become Aogami’s new goddess and protector, with the sakura trees named in her honor.
• Died Happily Ever After: After spending what may seem decades trying to end the Aogami curse, Shino revolves to do it herself so that she can finally rest in peace. She dies in her sleep seeing her old friends again.
• Empty Eyes: In Chapter 22, when she hears Shino's laugh during an episode of guilt-born depression, and then later as she passes into a vegetative state at the shrine when her body gives out.
• Forgetful Jones: She can't remember who her classmates are (besides Shino) beyond the attributable nicknames she gives them.
• Guardian Entity: Becomes this in the final Chapter as Aogami’s new protector deity, thanks to the newly bloomed sakura trees, as well as appearing and disappearing as quickly as the sakura petals.
• Hearing Voices: As part of her Survivor Guilt, she can hear Shino laughing merrily, writing it off as torture for the guilt she feels over inadvertently causing her classmates' deaths.
• Hope Spot: After an indeterminate length of time, she created her miracle seed to replace the polluted trees of Aogami. Alas, as she prayed for everything to go smoothly, her body gave out from the stress of overwork.
• It's All My Fault: She laments that if she hadn't told Honoka about the rumour of the Art Prep Room, none of the girls would've been at Aogami High on the night of the landslide.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: After becoming an environmental scientist to figure out some way to both fix the landslides and prevent another Nanase situation, Sakura is shown wearing a labcoat.
• Killed Off for Real: Due to becoming the new Aogami's Guardian Entity, she is the only student not revived after Shino expels the corruption and resets Aogami.
• Lazy Bum: She skips PE classes to hang out in the Art Prep room, not aware of (or more likely not being bothered by) its bad reputation.
• Miko: She is a shrine maiden at a local shrine and is intrigued by the supernatural rumors surrounding the school.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Or in her words, "My Miko Sense is tingling".
  • Episode 5 opens with her right in the Transfer Student's face, remarking on their mystique and that she can see why people are drawn to them.
  • In Episode 6, she wonders what troubles Shino and thought it may be something spiritual.
  • Chapter 7 sees her sense that "something very, very bad" is about to happen as Nanase lashes out at Shino, right before a landslide hits the school.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She seems to really enjoy the urban legend about the reclusive art student who slowly bled herself to death so she could make paint out of her own blood.
• Survivor Guilt: It's clearly shown in Chapter 21 that being one of the two survivors of the landslide has devastated her emotionally, with her completely giving up on her miko duties in favour of becoming an environmental scientist and regularly coming to the now likely deserted Aogami Shrine to let out her emotions. She works to create her miracle seed in the name of her lost friends and at one point hears Shino's laugh during a depression episode.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Telling Honoka the rumour of the Art Prep Room led to five girls dying in Aogami High and started the pathway to her own end.

The Transfer Student

Portrayed by: Unknown^note Her actress is currently unidentified; her most defining feature during the manga's Classic Arc are her bells and apparent height and figure, and a close look at her torn-away photo in Chapter 16 indicates her to be a brunette hololive member.

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• Ambiguously Human: While her showing up right as Shino was wishing to make friends could be chalked up to mere coincidence, the fact that she seemingly shows up during the time of the blood painting's creation and is treated as a plain old classmate and not a transfer student heavily implies her to be some kind of spirit as opposed to a regular human.
• Ambiguous Situation: Is she really the Point of View character of Episodes 4 to 6, or an independent entity entirely that's new in the manga? There are implications that the Point of View in the aforementioned episodes belongs to another take of the 20XX Transfer Student, while this Transfer Student appears to be more closely affiliated with the so-called God of Aogami and as noted above, inferred to be played by an entirely separate hololive member.
• Ambiguously Related: She is implied to be the grandmother of the Reporter in the Complete Edition as his recording has mentioned her surviving the landslide that took her friends' lives, and she moved on to start a new life.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: Shiina teases Nanase in Chapter 6 over the latter being "into the new girl". Considering what we've seen of Nanase's nature previously, it's questionable how good of a trait this is to have. Additionally, taking into account the Ambiguous Situation above, if she is the Point of View character, Shino in Episodes 4 to 6 is clearly also interested in her.
• Even the Girls Want Her: This appears to be the case with Nanase (and possibly Shino) having the 19XX Transfer Student be the target of their affection as seen in the various forms of the project's media, with Nanase even being teased by Shiina in Chapter 6 for "being into the new girl [herself]".
• The Faceless: Her hair and everything above the shoulders are never shown when she's physically in-shot in the manga, much like the 20XX Transfer Student up until Chapter 15. The singlemost identifying aspect about her is her bell wrist accesory.
• Iconic Item: Her bell bracelet, as stated above, is the main identifying aspect of her otherwise mostly unknown design. It is such a unique item, in fact, it is spurious that it shows up in another aspect of Aogami entirely, indicating there is more going on with the 19XX Transfer Student than previously indicated due to her being credited as "Mari's classmate" in the Revelations Arc - set during the times of the blood painter raises some serious questions about whether she's really human or not as well as a New Transfer Student in the Classic Arc.
• New Transfer Student: Chapter 6 showcases the 19XX Transfer Student's first day at at Aogami High, which particularly attracts the attention of Yae, Sakura, Nanase and Shino.
• No Name Given: This is a particularly Justified Trope as seen in the credits for Chapters 6 and 7; if one considers that the names for the ERROR characters are drawn from those of their hololive actresses, then giving a name to her would spoil the name of the actress of the Past Transfer Student which is deliberately glitched out in those credits.
• Out of Focus: Beyond crossing paths with Shino, becoming friends with her and hanging out with her on the day before the Test of Courage, and being seen alone at the shrine in Chapter 6, not all that much focus is placed upon her compared to the rest of the 19XX cast. She can be clearly seen in the scene when Nanase falls into having a headache, but it's never shown when she met up with the other girls on the way to the school or that she's with them when Honoka opens the window for them, and she's absent in the scene when Nanase snaps at Shino.
• The Voiceless: Much like the 20XX Transfer Student, she has no voiced lines in her minimal appearances, but she does have subtitled responses in her exchanges with Shino in Chapters 6 and 7.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Her fate is unaccounted for after the landslide took her friends' lives that left her and Sakura as the survivors. The only thing we do know is after they had survived, she had a falling out with Sakura, and they never spoke each other again. She apparently moved on with her life, and got married. Even the end of the series, she never shows up with both the 19XX and 20XX girls.

Train Arc Students

General

• Creepy Child: While the child part is quite subjective due to them being in high school, they do exhibit behavior usually associated with this trope throughout the Train Arc chapters. To wit:
  • After Touka and Inari depart, Akane and Yuka venture into this, adopting Dissonant Serenity as they begin to lead the Transfer Student around town.
  • Chapter 10 then shifts this to Kaoru, Saya and Miku in the absence of Akane and Yuka at the scheduled meeting place, wherein they repeat their conversation lines from the previous day, and coldly stare at the Transfer Student when Kaoru asks her who Yuka is.
  • Miku and Kaoru once again in Chapter 13. Miku cuts in twice, watching the Transfer Student and Uzuki, while Kaoru is a Broken Record until after the duo pass her seat.
  • Also in Chapter 13, Saya cheerfully asking the Transfer Student, Akane, and Uzuki to play with her... while sporting Empty Eyes and with the window separating them being adorned with bloody handprints.
  • Akane and Uzuki venture into this towards the end of Chapter 15 when they perceive the two Shinos together; it affirms that they are much like the other girls during the Train Arc all along, and leads to...
  • ...Yuka, Akane and Uzuki trying to forcibly take Shino with them in Chapter 16, grabbing her in a similar manner to how Kaoru did earlier. When Shino breaks free from their grip, the trio look akin to dejected children whom have been coldly denied an opportunity to play.
• Dissonant Serenity:
  • As noted below, Chapter 9 has this with Akane and Yuka in complete contrast to their earlier, pleasant attitude to the Transfer Student.
  • In Chapter 10, after making it known they they don't know who Yuka is anymore, Kaoru, Saya and Miku jointly offer to take the Transfer Student on a tour of Aogami in Akane's place, completely ignorant of the poor girl's concern.
  • Saya's entire appearance in Chapter 13, where she's banging on the window outside of the train to get the attention of the Transfer Student, Uzuki and Akane, simply stating "Let's Play".
• Empty Eyes:
  • The flashback moment in Chapter 8, which shows her stood outside Aogami Station while the Transfer Student is on her way to school in Chapter 1, brings these into focus when the original version focused on the lower half of her face.
  • In Chapter 9, Akane and Yuka eerily start to take the Transfer Student on a tour of Aogami after Inari and Touka Stealth Hi/Bye.
    • At 11:44 PM in the same chapter, Yuka has these again when she appears to lifelessly approach Shino.
  • When Kaoru asks who Yuka is in Chapter 10, she, Saya and Miku sport these, as the latter duo reinforce the implication that Yuka has been Ret-Gone. Kaoru has these a second time when the Transfer Student states she's going to look for Yuka, with Saya and Miku in the next shot joining her in lacking a human quality through their stares.
  • Each of the aforementioned trio of girls and Akane have these in Chapter 13.
• He's Back!: They all return in Chapter 23 (and separately from their implied vessels at that), also carrying over into the Final Chapter.
• The Un-Smile:
  • Likewise with Empty Eyes, in Chapter 9, Akane and Yuka gaze upon the Transfer Student before leading her around Aogami, their Vocal Dissonance leaning their smiles heavily into this territory.
  • Kaoru, Saya and Miku have this in the thumbnail for Chapter 10.

Yuka Nekomiya

Nekomiya Yuka [JP: 猫宮友架]

Portrayed by: Okayu Nekomata

A childhood friend of Akane, and the person who “gets” her the most.
An introverted girl, she rarely speaks unless spoken to.
She has a strong sense for the paranormal and occasionally sees things others cannot, but has grown used to it and doesn’t let it bother her.

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• Ambiguous Situation:
  • It’s heavily implied that she was one of the people who disappeared at Aogami Station, and the ending of Chapter 9 serves to reinforce that.
  • In Chapter 9, Inari and Touka appear right as she suggests the missing students are part of the much wider missing populace of Aogami, and then her tone becomes eerie and insistent. It is implied that they affected her and Akane with some sort of possession.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Appeared alongside Akane in a cardboard standee at hololive SUPER EXPO’s ERROR booth.
• Last Episode, New Character: Her first appearance is in Chapter 8, the end of the Classic Arc.
• Really Fond of Sleeping: Her first appearance in all of ERROR is nodding off on the train and promising Akane she'll wake up when they reach their destination. Akane calls her out for it.
• Un-person: Crossing over with a heavily implied Ret-Gone from her approaching Shino at the end of Chapter 9, as in the following chapter, when Kaoru, Saya and Miku are asked by the Transfer Student if they know where Akane and Yuka is, the trio have no whom the latter is, as if she had never existed. Chapter 11 thankfully subverts this with Uzuki, as she was the only one who knew Yuka as the former's classmate. And then, it turns out that Akane also still remembers her, and believes that the transfer student had something to do with her disappearance...
• Vocal Dissonance: In an utterly stark contrast to her earlier pleasant attitude, she along with Akane are much more eerie in their starting to give the Transfer Student a tour of the town, and it only comes about after Inari and Touka depart, whom are implied to have done something to them during their brief appearance.

Akane Inukai

Inukai Akane [JP: 戌飼茜]

Portrayed by: Korone Inugami

A girl with a bright personality, able to get on well with anyone.
However, it takes a lot of time for her to really open up.
She admires Yuka for not being afraid to be herself.

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• Ambiguous Situation:
  • She shows up in one scene in Chapter 1, and as noted below, has no audible lines. Following the notes in the game demo and Inari and Touka's conversation in Chapter 2, as well as the fact that as of Chapter 5 she has not yet reappeared, it is implied she is one of the students who have disappeared. This is further proven by her appearance on the train along with Yuka, the transfer student and Shino at the end of Chapter 8.
  • In Chapter 9, she, along with Yuka, becomes eerie and insistent in her tone after Inari and Touka Stealth Hi/Bye; it is implied that they affected her and Yuka with some sort of possession or corruption.
  • In Chapter 11, is she a puppet of Shino, or a victim of Grand Theft Me by Shino? Chapter 12 instead implies she may be a puppet of whatever caused Nanase (and potentially even Shino) to undergo her drastic personality shift, as even with thinking that the Transfer Student took Yuka away, she was uncharacteristically hostile as pointed out by Uzuki.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She acts much more hostile than normal when encountered in the ghost train, implying that she's not entirely herself. The bright red blocks of static all around her certainly don't help.
• Plot-Based Voice Cancellation: The audience doesn't get to hear whatever it is she said to the Transfer Student at the beginning of Chapter 1. The flashback to it in Chapter 8 has the same thing happen, possibly implying she is either warning the Transfer Student, in distress, or uttering something under the control of something nefarious; whichever the case, it is very similar to Inari's reciting of the rumour in Chapter 2, complete with Empty Eyes.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Adopts these along with Glowing Eyes when she turns to seemingly confront the Transfer Student in Chapter 11. In addition, her eyes are very similar to those of Nanase last seen in Chapter 7.
• Red Is Violent: For a given measure of "violent". The glitches all around her appearance in the ghost train are bright red, and in that moment, she matches both Shino in persistence and Nanase in sheer aggression.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Turns out to remember Yuka during Chapter 12 despite her seemingly being wiped from existence. Unlike with Uzuki below, this is not a good thing, as she blames the Transfer Student for Yuka's vanishing.
• Vocal Dissonance: In an utterly stark contrast to her earlier peppy attitude, she along with Yuka are much more eerie as they offer to give the Transfer Student a tour of the town, and it only comes about after Inari and Touka depart, whom are implied to have done something to them during their brief appearance.

Kaoru Ukai

Ukai Kaoru [JP: 鵜飼薫]

Portrayed by: Subaru Oozora

• Blank Stare: After the Transfer Student leads Uzuki past Kaoru's non-stop recital about the shrine, Kaoru adopts this, appearing to be following their path of motion...
• Broken Record: The majority of her appearance in Chapter 13 is her repeating "That would be the name of the local shrine", over and over again. Having already encountered her repeating this line once, the Transfer Student is having none of it and moves on.
• The Faceless: When she's first seen in Chapter 13. Uzuki is unnerved by this.
• Parrot Exposition: The main crux of her dialog in Chapter 9 is her basically repeating both halves of Inari and Touka's conversations in Episode 2 and Chapter 2... a conversation that chronologically hasn't happened yet. It happens again in Chapter 10, more directly showing the implications of the project's title.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Milk.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Downplayed Trope and Played Straight at once. When the Transfer Student and Uzuki happen upon her on the train, the former treats Kaoru as this, seemingly just done with the oddities being thrown at her left, right and centre since she woke up on the train in Chapter 8, whereas Uzuki has taken notice of Kaoru's Broken Record nature and appears to be concerned about it.

Saya Kisaragi

Kisaragi Saya [JP: 如月星夜]

Portrayed by: Mel Yozora

• Eyes Always Shut: At first glance in Chapter 9; the thumbnail for Chapter 10 shows her eyes open and lacking Mel's spark.
• Parrot Exposition: More minor relative to Kaoru's, but she specifically namedrops Aogami Shrine before Kaoru performs hers, one of the key topics that Inari and Touka raised in Chapter 2. Like with Kaoru, the moment it's brought up, an Ominous Visual Glitch cuts in. It happens again in Chapter 10, more directly showing the implications of the project and the chapter's title.
• Percussive Therapy: She slams her hands against the train window to get the attention of the Transfer Student, Uzuki and Akane at the end of Chapter 13.

Miku Kamishiro

Kamishiro Miku [JP: 神代美玖]

Portrayed by: Mio Ookami

• Surprisingly Creepy Moment: Twice in Chapter 13, when she just appears out of nowhere, appearing to be focusing on the Transfer Student and/or Uzuki...
• Sweet Tooth: Most of the time, she's not seen without a bar of chocolate in hand.

Uzuki Mizuta

Mizuta Uzuki [JP: 水田兔月]

Portrayed by: Pekora Usada

• Club Stub: She’s the founder and only member of Aogami High’s photography club.
• Crash-Into Hello: Her introduction is this in Chapter 10, with the Transfer Student bumping into her at Aogami Station.
• Nice Girl: The only one thus far to the Transfer Student in July and February 20XX who isn't affected by the oddities that make the other Aogami High students appear off/act strange; she uses her longer-standing knowledge of Akane to bring the Transfer Student to safety. She also offers to help the Transfer Student explain the Yuka situation to Akane, despite having only met her minutes earlier and not really knowing her.
• Ripple-Proof Memory: Seemingly the only person besides the 20XX Transfer Student (and later, Akane) who remembers Yuka after her disappearance.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Wastes no time in getting herself and the Transfer Student away from Akane initially when she sees the latter is, in her assessment, uncharacteristically hostile.

Revelation Arc Students

General

• Ambiguous Situation: Are the Perfect World students really just vessels for the ones in previously-shown iterations of Aogami? With the girls of all three iterations of present day coexisting as of Chapter 23, the possibility of them being just older people with new faces and names has shrunk quite a bit.

Mari Akagane

Akagane Mari (赤鐘まり)

Portrayed by Marine Houshou

• Actor Allusion: The first time we see Mari in Chapter 17, she is painting in the Art Prep Room of 19XX Aogami. Her actress, Houshou Marine, is an experienced artist.
• Call-Forward: Viewing her reality under the implication it's the chronological starting point of the entire story, Mari's lines "I enjoy taking walks here" and "My head is killing me" are utilised by Nanase some time later during Chapter 7, and the latter quote by Transfer Student Shino in Chapter 14.
• Canon Character All Along: She is the creator of the cursed painting in the Art Prep Room, but implied not to be the sole creator of it.
• Couldn't Find a Pen: Her "magnum opus" is painted exclusively with her own blood and various expended paint bottles as seen in Chapter 18.
• Doomed by Canon: She's introduced painting in the Art Prep Room. Her dialog heavily implies that she dies from bleeding herself to death to make the blood painting, according to the rumor Yae and Sakura discuss in Episode 5 and the demo's notes.
• Driven to Madness: Shino believes this to be the case after seeing her story/memories, relating the negative effect of strolling through the woods relative to Nanase.
• Empty Eyes: When she comes down with a headache prior to creating the painting, and when she's found by her friend later.
• Ms. Exposition: She recounts the Rumour of the Woods which details children being sacrificed to the mountain spirits by the ancestor population of Aogami so they stopped being struck with landslides, and that those children became vengeful spirits in Aogami Forest. She also states a different lore relative to Special Report 3 from the game demo, alluding that fools who didn't heed the warnings to stay out of the forest used the wood from the felled trees to building Aogami's architecture, thus implying that the town is absolutely unsafe.
• Plot-Triggering Death: Heavily implied by way of Mari's time period being the earliest point in time, ambiguous as it is to being another 19XX like the implied two versions of July 20XX after Chapter 14.

Kana Tokiwa

Tokiwa Kana (常盤 香菜)

Portrayed by: Towa Tokoyami

• Beneath the Mask: Is implied to be the vessel of Hanabi (to the point of Hanabi taking her place in Chapter 20) until Chapter 23.
• Hidden Eyes: In the thumbnail for Chapter 14.

Kanade Amano

Amano Kanade (雨乃 奏)

Portrayed by: Kanata Amane

• Beneath the Mask: Is implied to be the vessel of Suzune initially and then predominantly Inari (to the point of Inari taking her place when Mitsuki refers to her as the latter in Chapter 20) until Chapter 23.
• Hidden Eyes: In the thumbnail for Chapter 14.
• Shrinking Violet: Her nervous demeanor is implied to have been an inheritance of Inari, who used Kanade as a vessel.

Hotaru Shiratori

Shiratori Hotaru (白鳥 火樽)

Portrayed by: Flare Shiranui

• Beneath the Mask: Is implied to be the vessel of Kaoru until Chapter 23.

Mitsuki Himekawa

Himekawa Mitsuki (姫川 美月)

Portrayed by: Luna Himemori

• Beneath the Mask: Is implied to be the vessel of Saya until Chapter 23.
• The Unsmile: Whenever Mitsuki smiles with her eyes shut, it borderlines on creepy than happy.

Yuki Kaizuka

Kaizuka Yuki(械塚 幸)

Portrayed by: Roboco-san

• Beneath the Mask: Is implied to be the vessel of Miku until Chapter 23.

Other Characters

The Reporter

Unnamed Reporter

Voiced by: Shouma Hiki

• Agent Scully: Note 1 in the game demo makes it clear that they don't believe in the supernatural phenomena occurring in Aogami until after they start investigating. Note 7 suggests, among other dark implications, they're Skeptic No Longer.
• Ambiguous Gender: As they've not actually been seen, it is unknown whether they are male or female. Subverted in the full release, as the reporter is revealed to be a male through an audio recording at the beginning, as well as their grandfather before them.
• Ambiguous Situation: Overlapping with Anachronism Stew. With the release of the Complete Edition, the implications are much more clear that it was the protagonist of that version who wrote the seven Notes from a Reporter in the game demo. However, the Complete Edition takes place some time after the events of the demo and the manga, which begs the question as to how those notes ended up in an earlier point in time when the protagonist in the game demo is heavily implied to be Shino in the midst of her "Groundhog Day" Loop.
• Ambiguously Related: His great grandmother is implied to be the transfer student who survived with Sakura Shinomiya. Her bell accessory can be found on his desk.
• Apocalyptic Log:
  • As the game demo progresses, the notes they've left go from begrudgingly accepting their task to investigate the students' disappearances, to feel like they're Being Watched, to incomprehensible denial and a cryptic remark about the God of Aogami.
  • The Complete Edition follows through on this when taking the path to Ending 2. The texts left behind by the grandfather indicate his desire to interview the townsfolk and Sakura, before setting his sights on the woods and his own undoing coming to the forefront as he investigates them.
• Be Careful What You Say: Note 1 sees them state that they "wish for once that the people who made [the] decisions were the ones actually investigating [the] damn fairy tales". Come Note 4 onwards...
• Being Watched: Notes 4 and 5.
• Catapult Nightmare: With the exception of the Forbidden ending, where he wakes up at his desk, each exploration segment of the game ends with the protagonist jolting up from his bed and gasping for air.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: In the Accepted ending, upon entering the shrine's main building, he is led to the daytime of the new Aogami where all students are alive and resurrected, Shino included.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: Implied. After a couple of notes in which they remark the sense of Being Watched, Note 6 takes a sharp swerve as they seem to realise something terrible, and a rambling, cryptic final note about the God of Aogami.
• Laughing Mad: Note 7 ends on this after they tell the reader to not defy the God of Aogami or the spirit.
• Rapid-Fire "No!": Note 6.
• Sanity Slippage: Heavily Implied Trope. After Note 5, it is very clear that they discovered something that they shouldn't have, leading to the sheer shift in tone and content in the final two notes as detailed above.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Game demo, for that matter. All that's known of them is learnt through the notes scattered across the two time periods.
• Uncertain Doom:
  • It is indicated in Notes 4-7 that they ran afoul of Shino, the God of Aogami, or a child in the forest, and that their fate wasn't a particularly pleasant one from the sheer and sudden declination of their mental state if their notes are anything to go by.
  • The fate of the grandfather. It's implied the ghoul-like entity you see periodically throughout the Complete Edition is the protagonist's grandfather, but while the woods appear to have been a factor towards his fate, it's not entire clear what actually happened to him.
  • The protagonist in two of the three endings, as it's not seen what actually happened to them:
    • Not Found has the hotel room door open to the shrine, only for something to grab the protagonist from behind and distract them from proceeding. After throwing them off and a few moments of watching the ghoul-like entity groan, the protagonist is assaulted by them and everything fades out, cutting to Shino at Aogami High finding his watch on the floor, placing it in a window and hoping they don't lose themselves the next time.
    • Forbidden begins with Shino identifying the protagonist as someone who doesn't belong in that world, followed up by her warning them to not proceed further down the ruined hallway. After the protagonist goes against this and wakes up in their hotel room, answering the knocking at the door reveals Shino on the otherside of the spyhole, as she takes on a Nightmare Face and laughs while chiding the protagonist for having "still not realised".

The Newscaster

Unnamed Newscaster

Voiced by: Seiichiro Yoshimura

• Mr. Exposition: His only role in the game is to verbally explain the 1946 landslide.

The Art Prep Student

Unnamed Art Prep Student

Voiced by: Akari Higuchi

• Ambiguous Situation: Everyone who has watched the animated manga before playing the game should know that Mari is the creator of the blood painting. The game, however, gives the role of its creator to this mysterious girl, with a much more violent rendition of the Art Prep Room rumor to go with it. What exactly is going on with that?
• Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: A much straighter example than even Shino herself.

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