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Setsuna Sanzenkai
Setsuna Sanzenkai
Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Japanese), Austin Tindle (English)
A man who lost his memories and washed up on the island's beach. He becomes a servant for the Ohara family, but because of Rinne's death, he uses a "cold sleep" machine developed by Karen's mother to go to the future.
- Alliterative Name: Setsuna Sanzenkai
- Alternate Self: Setsuna and Rinne have met their many future reincarnations vía cryogenic sleep time travel.
- Amnesiac Hero: Setsuna remembers nothing when he wakes up at Urashima, and even his name seems to belong to someone else.
- Amnesia Loop: Rides this trope hard.
- Bittersweet Ending: The RE: ending. Although it's implied Setsuna and Rinne eventually got together for good.
- But Now I Must Go: Setsuna resolves to help Rinne finish her time machine during the RE: Ending. And after doing all he can he then decides to cryo-sleep into the future once more so he can test the machine once it's completed. It's unclear how far into the future he goes but one secret CGI at the Gallery implies that he eventually stays with Rinne; for good.
- Chekhov's Gun: The data CD that Setsuna has with him at the beginning of the game, turns out to be blueprints for a time machine. The actual origin of it is never revealed.
- Chekhov's Skill: After endless leaps into the future trying to Set Right What Once Went Wrong, Setsuna manages to retain his memories, allowing him to fix one of the many futures he's traveled into.
- Chick Magnet: Either it's his carefree and amicable nature or how easy he is to trust and approach, but Setsuna has little trouble winning the heroine's hearts. Sadly, he doesn't seem to be particularly interested in any of them Except for Rinne.
- Chivalrous Pervert: Though the chivalrous part doesn't show up very often. When he claims to be allergic to tatami, Karen offers to let Setsuna enter her room. Setsuna then quickly claims that he loves Tatami to death.
- The anime flips it around a bit. He's much less bold when it comes to impolite matters, leading to more honest Not What It Looks Like situations and leaving him to be more chivalrous.
- Chuunibyou: After waking up on the island, Setsuna claims to everyone that he is a time traveller from the future whose objective is to save the world. It is this trope.
- Cloudcuckoolander: He tends to view everything in the most outlandish way possible.
- Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story: Right after washing up at Urashima, Setsuna infers he comes from the future and his mission is to save the world.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Setsuna impersonates both Ohara Setsuna (although unintentionally) and O'hara Setsuna. Both are long dead when this happens, naturally.
- Destructive Savior: No matter what future he's in or how good his intentions are, everything goes to hell once he gets involved. He manages to save one of the many futures he visits, but that's just one of countless. Oddly, no one ever mentions this, not even Setsuna himself.
- Did You Just Have Sex?: Played for laughs after Setsuna and Rinne do the deed. He even tells to himself how size doesn't matter much in the end.
- Fake-Out Fade-Out: When Setsuna contemplates suicide for breaking an expensive vase, the game screen displays an ending screen in the same format as any other ending.
- First Kiss: Setsuna claims to have had his first kiss with Karen in a dark room. (Which, while misleading out of context, is true.)
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Is this trope incarnate. He's a time traveler always stranded on a distant future which makes quite difficult to confirm his actual origin. The RE: Ending heavily implies that the original Setsuna might have lived in Urashima hundreds of thousands of years ago.
- Genre Savvy: One of the time travelling methods Setsuna is familiar with and repeatedly refers to is exactly the choice system in visual novels.
- Good with Numbers: He solves Kuon's faster-than-light rocket questions shockingly fast.
- Killing Your Alternate Self: Early in the game Setsuna has memory flashes of someone saying he's going to kill "Setsuna". In other words, himself. Later during the Winter chapter, we learn that in fact it was Setsuna who said this after traveling to the future and plans to use Rinné's time machine to fix everything by killing his past self, so that both of them never meet each other and Rinne can live relatively peacefully. He drops the idea later though.
- During Rinne's route, thanks to Sara's ridiculous theories, Setsuna thinks he traveled to the past at some point to kill himself. This is entirely false.
- The Klutz: Seriously, how can he manage to mess up so many chores?
- Love Hurts: He leads to Rinne's death, and he's doomed to chase after Rinné.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Every time you trip a bad ending flag.
- Mysterious Note: Setsuna finds one in Rinne's father's book, published ten year prior: Setsuna must die.
- Naked People Are Funny: Setsuna being beaten up by kids on the beach, then getting questioned by Harisu. Then meeting Kuon naked for the first time and taking her to Harisu. Then stripping on the beach in front of Sara and Karen, after Karen stripped off her maid suit to reveal her bikini.
- No Sense of Direction: He regularly gets lost on the small island.
- Not a Morning Person: To the point that Karen has to wake him up.
- Oblivious to Love: Justified since he has no memory and doesn't remember how much he's head over heels with Rinne. He subconsciously shoots down other prospects due to this however.
- Paradox Person: By the end of the game, you learn that Setsuna Sanzenkai is not Rinne's Setsuna, nor is he Rinné's brother Setsuna. He doesn't have any pre-established connections in either era and unlike the other major characters, he lacks a counterpart in either era to narrow it down (since the other two Setsunas are clearly counterparts of each other). Before the Stable Time Loop is debunked, Setsuna Sanzenkai seems to paradoxically exist only within a time loop, but even after it's debunked an actual origin for him is never revealed. The closest thing to a hint is that, even without his memories, he seems to be more familiar with Japanese society and culture circa 1999 than the local girls who have never left their island, to the point where his knowledge of laptops comes in handy when they're a Lost Technology in the future, but the rest of the future ISLAND society appears to always be a shock to him.
- Parental Incest: Setsuna and his daughter Rinne develop a romantic relationship, sleep together and during Rinne's route even get married. To be fair, Setsuna wasn't aware of this fact. Chillingly, during the RE: Ending, Rinne heavily implies that she figured this out at some point. Considering her ending, she doesn't seem to mind.
- Reincarnation Romance: He's been perusing Rinne and Rinné's reincarnations throughout time. It usually ends in tragedy, leaving him to go looking once more.
- Replacement Goldfish: While he flip-flops on whether or not he's Rinne's original Setsuna, it doesn't change the fact that his amnesia makes him a different person than the one she's looking for.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Averted. Setsuna invariably loses all his memories after each cryogenic trip. The trope is played straight after many, many trips, though.
- Teeny Weenie: Harisu mentions to Setsuna that the CD he used to cover up his private parts was a single. Later, he claims that other people on the island have begun to call him Single-kun.
- Temporal Mutability: Played with. Setsuna doesn't actually travel to the past. He simply freezes himself in a cryogenic tube and wakes up thousands of years later. It's always a one-way trip, however, so any changes he makes in the future are carried over to the next future he travels to. The RE: ending reveals that he has traveled to the future countless times and by extension, has introduced many changes into the timeline. So this is one of the most flexible examples of the trope.
- Time Loop Fatigue: Experiences a variation in which it's not only positive, but it's the fatigue itself that ends up restoring his memory, and thus allowing him to finally break loop. Well, at least until we learn that it hasn't technically been a loop.
- True Love is Exceptional: He's a firm believer that Buxom Beauty Standard, though all of his love interests are on the smaller side.
- Useless Protagonist: Inverted. Setsuna has a massive inferiority complex and indulges in it right to the end. Uran echoes him from time to time, but this never really cements itself. Setsuna is not useless at all. He's educated, intelligent, has social skills, manages to land well paid jobs and is well loved by those he involves himself with. Yet several characters demean and undermine him. His monologues are quite pessimistic and this doesn't really change until very late in the game.
- Vague Age: He can't remember his true age. He thinks he's in his early 20s, though most everyone else thinks he's in his late teens. Add in the numerous cold sleeps he went through and he's at least 60,000 years old by the end of the story.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His excuse that Sarah's motion sickness was actually morning sickness had major consequences for ISLAND. Learning his daughter was "pregnant" lead her father to prepare to reissue collars, something other members of the church opposed. They ultimately lead a coup, killing the Garlands and causing the collapse of ISLAND.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He lacks common sense, confidence and productivity. Most of the time his meddling is ill-timed or pointless. Worse is, that he is always well aware of his shortcomings, yet he never works to correct them.
- Wistful Amnesia: He sometimes has flashes and impulses from his long lost memories. That's because he's done this so many times that the memories are practically burned into his soul at this point.
- Wrong-Name Outburst: A weird example where the two names are phonetically identical. Promising Kuon he'll make Rinne happy on the Midsummer route leads to Rinne's happy ending. Saying he'll make Rinné happy will lead Kuon to realize he's just using her daughter as a substitute, and she'll veto their relationship.
Rinne Ohara
Rinne Ohara
Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (Japanese), Jad Saxton (English)
The series' main heroine, she is a member of the Ohara family which is influential in the island. Because of an experience she had several years ago, she usually stays at her family's manor and rarely went out until she met Setsuna.
- Abusive Parents: While Kuon would never do anything to hurt her, the real Kuon and her husband regularly abused Rinne to the point Uran suspects she developed PTSD.
- Adaptational Curves: She has a noticeably larger chest in the anime adaptation.
- Alternate Self: Setsuna and Rinne have met their many future reincarnations vía cryogenic sleep time travel.
- Big Fancy House: So much that even Karen, who comes from another of the three families, envies it a lot.
- Bittersweet Ending: The RE: ending. Although it's implied Setsuna and Rinne eventually got together for good.
- Did You Just Have Sex?: Played for laughs after Setsuna and Rinne do the deed. He even tells to himself how size doesn't matter much in the end.
- "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Her voice actress Yukari Tamura sings the anime's opening song.
- Happily Ever After: Rinne's route ends like this. With either the prospect of marriage or an actual wedding taking place.
- Has a Type: She Likes Older Men and is immediately drawn to guys named Setsuna. Knowingly or not, both of her loves also have incestuous bends: her Setsuna was her adopted brother, and the protagonist Setsuna is her biological father.
- Love Hurts: She's been fruitlessly searching for her Setsuna, wallowing in her loneliness. She also clearly carries a torch for Setsuna after he rejects her in the RE: ending, even though she knows he's her father and in love with her mother.
- Meaningful Name: Rinne's name is spelled with the kanji 凛音, the first kanji meaning "cold" and the second one meaning something like "sound", "noise", or "music".
- Mystical White Hair: It ties into her ethereal look.
- Older Than She Looks: She's actually 23, though doesn't look it since 5 of those years were spent in cryogenic sleep.
- Replacement Goldfish: Setsuna is originally drawn to her due to his memories of Rinné.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Looks very similar to her mother Kuon.
- Super Drowning Skills: She never learned how to swim. She ultimately drowns by throwing herself in the water so Setsuna could use her boat.
Karen Kurutsu
Karen Kurutsu
Voiced by: Kana Asumi (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)
The daughter of the island's mayor. She was previously abandoned by her mother, who had become a scientist in the mainland and later died under mysterious circumstances. Because of this, she becomes enamored with the mainland, particularly after she visited it with her mother during her childhood.
- Abusive Parents: Her father is trying to control her life and force her into an arranged marriage.
- Adaptational Curves: She has a noticeably larger chest in the anime adaptation.
- Alliterative Name: Karen Kurutsu
- Curtains Match the Window: Hair and eyes appear to be the same color.
- The Ditherer: While she genuinely does want to leave the island, her fear leads her to take plans and routes with no chance of actually succeeding. The truth is, Karen would rather dream of her magical prince whisking her away than risk the actual dangers of leaving on her own.
- The Ditz: Karen will believe whatever you tell her, no matter how silly, as long as it doesn't sound supernatural.
- Eskimos Aren't Real: When Sara jokingly suggests that the mainland may not exist, Karen buys into the scepticism immediately.
- First Kiss: Setsuna claims to have had his first kiss with Karen in a dark room. (Which, while misleading out of context, is true.)
- Girlish Pigtails: They show she's more innocent than her foul mouth suggests.
- Happily Ever After: Karen's route ends like this. With either the prospect of marriage or an actual wedding taking place.
- If It's You, It's Okay: Setsuna says that if Karen insults him, it's okay.
- Missing Mom: See Parental Abandonment.
- Parental Abandonment: She was previously abandoned by her mother.
- "Reason You Suck" Speech: Karen to Sara, because she resents Sara for rejecting Moritsugu's adoption offer, forcing her to inherit the family title.
- The Runaway: At the beginning of the game. Until Setsuna spoils her plan, anyway. She applies to be a maid at Rinne's house to fund her runaway.
- Sweet Tooth: Mentioning desserts to Karen is an instant mood improver.
Sara Garando
Sara Garando
Voiced by: Rie Murakawa (game) (Japanese), Hibiku Yamamura (anime) (Japanese), Dani Chambers (English)
The island's Miko. She initially believed that her parents died in a fire five years prior to the start of the story, although it is revealed that her mother is still alive and working as a nurse in a clinic. She also believed that her parents came from the future due to a mark on her body, although it is revealed that the mark was branded on her when she was young, as part of her family's traditions.
- A-Cup Angst: Despite being 16 years old, she has quite a childish figure. Averted with her distant descendant, who mentions she had a growth spurt at 18 years of age. It is implied Sara will go through this as well.
- Afraid of Blood: When Sara tries to attack Setsuna, she trips and gets a nosebleed. When she notices she screams in panic.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Sara asks Karen whether going to the mainland would really allow her to easily find her dreams.
- Break the Cutie: While not necessarily sweet and lovable in the sense that she can literally kill Setsuna in her introduction (and is the only character who is capable of creating a bad ending by getting Setsuna killed), she is the most childlike character and that killing is itself tied into her breaking. Sara starts the game living on her own at sixteen, having lost both of her biological parents in a fire five years prior and having ran away from her adopted family for the father being abusive. In her Route, things only get worse before they get better. She discovers that her family's role of fighting the island's endemic disease has involved many a Sadistic Choice, leading to a dark reputation. After a storm kills her pet chicken, making her feel compelled by her mother's teachings to turn it into food, and leads her into performing a Mercy Kill on a dog that became fatally ill to begin with as an indirect consequence of her actions, Sara becomes convinced that she is destined to live up to her family's reputation and wants to kill herself before it can escalate further. To make things worse, it turns out her mother actually survived, but knowingly abandoned her, and her father actually did become a murderer and even killed her childhood friend.
- Broken Bird: A textbook example.
- Cloudcuckoolander: She's eccentric about all supernatural phenomena and attributes the supernatural to practically everything.
- Cute and Psycho: Sara is bent on killing Setsuna at first, her reasoning behind it is rather fuzzy too. Despite almost always being played for laughs, She actually kills him in 2 bad endings. The first one is right when Setsuna meets her. She stabs Setsuna in cold blood and all she does is laugh creepily. The second one is even worse, as an arbitrary set of choices triggers a psychotic episode and she repeatedly stabs Setsuna to death during her route.
- Grandfather Paradox: Half this and half a causality paradox. She somehow infers that she is destined to give birth to herself by going back in time and marrying her father. She's totally wrong.
- Happily Ever After: Sara's route ends like this. With either the prospect of marriage or an actual wedding taking place.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Whenever Sara attempts to assassinate Setsuna, it backfires.
- Madwoman in the Attic: This doesn't help the fact that she's already quite mentally disturbed.
- Messy Hair: It's massive and curly.
- Miko: She's the miko of the Garando shrine, trying to help the island in it's spiritual matters.
- My Own Grampa: She is utterly convinced she is her own mother due to the timing of Setsuna's arrival and her mother's birthmark-including Strong Family Resemblance.
- Parental Abandonment: Her mother faked her own death and abandoned Sara for the mainland.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: She's actually right that Setsuna tried to return to the past to kill his to save his beloved, but most of the actual details are wrong.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Sara and corn. So much that Karen gives her bags of corn as presents, and she still wants more at Ryuuguu.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: She's well versed in supernatural matters like time-travel and time paradoxes, but she frequently attributes mysteries to them rather than finding a more mundane explanation. This causes a lot of problems in her and Rinne's routes.
Others
Kuon Ohara
Kuon Ohara
Voiced by: Rina Sato (Japanese), Morgan Garrett (English)
- Absurdly Youthful Mother: She's Rinne's mother and looks like she could be Rinne's twin.
- Dead Person Impersonation: She impersonates the deceased Ohara Kuon in order to keep the family's Matriarchal system intact.
- Hikikomori: Kuon Ohara locks herself in her room and prefers to communicate with visitors with written notes. Because she has contracted a serious skin disease, and does not want anyone to see her in broad daylight.
- Identity Impersonator: Starting out as the Ohara's maid, she is eventually made to take on Kuon's identity. She never drops the act. At least not till the RE: Ending.
- Manchild: Kuon wears children's clothes, including a hood with animal horns, draws a heart at the end of each line in her notes, and talks in an immature manner.
- Mum Looks Like a Sister: What little we see of her face looks a lot like Rinne.
- Old Flame Fizzle: Possibly. Rinné once loved Setsuna and wanted to be with him forever, but Kuon ships him and Rinne (or whatever girl's route he's on), turns down any flirting you might select, and is bitter and hostile to him once her identity is revealed. That said, she she still keeps the collar Setsuna gave her during their pseudo wedding and has some Ship Tease Maybe Ever After moments with him in the RE: ending.
- Poor Communication Kills: Kuon suspected that Rinne's fascination with the Setsuna and Rinne of legend would lead to her Rinne's suicide, but Kuon was too afraid of explaining the circumstances behind Rinne's alleged "spirited away" to actually dissuade her from it.
- Say It with Hearts: She ends her notes with little hearts unless it's a serious issue.
- Shipper on Deck: Though she's still happy to give Setsuna advice with the other girls, she really wants him to be with Rinne.
- Talking with Signs: She slides writing on paper under the door for Setsuna, though she talks normally when face-to-face.
- The Not-Love Interest: Kuon has a lot of chemistry with Setsuna, particularly when she slyly plays along with his Chivalrous Pervert antics rather than being exasperated like the rest of the girls. Setsuna can even lament at one point that there's no route to romance her. Subverted when it turns out that she's actually his true love all along, and the Golden Ending is for her.
- Two Aliases, One Character: She's both Kuon and Rinné.
- Walking Spoiler: Learning she's not actually Kuon is a major reveal. Learning she's actually Rinné is story changing.
Taro Harisu
Taro Harisu
Voiced by: Takamasa Mogi (Japanese), Shawn Gann (English)
- Actually, I Am Him: Karen's fiancé that Setsuna's spent the last ten minutes whining to him about? It's Taro.
- Cool Car: His cop car is a Datsun C110 Skyline.
- Likes Older Women: He was previously in love with Karen's mom and is a well-known MILF lover.
- Nice Guy: Beyond some light teasing he's constantly nice to Setsuna despite having every reason to be suspicious of him.
Moritsugu Kurutsu
Moritsugu Kurutsu
Voiced by: Mitsuru Ogata (Japanese), Barry Yandell (English)
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Karen's abusive parent.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While his methods are extreme, Setsuna can't deny that he's right about Karen depending far more on the island and her family than she realizes.
Subaru Kurutsu
Subaru Kurutsu
Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi (Japanese), Brandon McInnis (English)
- Ambiguously Gay: Subaru never drops the hint but considering Taro knows, it might not be much of a secret, although the Kurutsus are entirely unaware. Until Setsuna hilariously and unintentionally blows his cover during Karen's route, that is.
- Big Brother Instinct: He's been studying hard for years in order to prove himself worthy of being the Kurutsus successor and breaking Karen out of her fate.
- Relative Error: When Setsuna sees Karen cuddling up to him he assumes Subaru is her fiancé rather than her brother.
Kenji Morisu
Kenji Morisu
Voiced by: Shina Fukumatsu (Japanese), Phil Parsons (English)
- I Can't Hear You: His hearing problems force the cast to yell their problems at him.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: He's a doctor.
- Secret-Keeper: He's one of the few people to know Kuon isn't the real Ohara Kuon since he was the one who gave her the false soot blight syndrome diagnoses.
Momoka Yamabuki
Momoka Yamabuki
Voiced by: Ai Kakuma (Japanese), Kate Bristol (English)
- Ambiguously Gay: While Momoka never denies her homosexuality, she doesn't actually confirms it.
- Does Not Like Men: She spares no time making this clear right after you meet her.
Karen's Friends
Mei Tandori
Voiced by: Yui Nakajima (Japanese), Katelyn Barr (English)
- Canon Foreigner: Doesn't appear at all in the Visual Novel.
- Idiot Hair: Funnily enough, Mei grows a cowlick when a storm is approaching.
- Sneeze Cut: When Karen is talking to Tarou about her friends An, Emiri and Mei, all three of them sneeze right after the other while at some hot springs. They quickly deduce who's talking about them and Karen sneezes in return.
An Hatoma
Voiced by: Tomoyo Takayanagi (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft (English)
- Canon Foreigner: Doesn't appear at all in the Visual Novel.
- Sneeze Cut: When Karen is talking to Tarou about her friends An, Emiri and Mei, all three of them sneeze right after the other while at some hot springs. They quickly deduce who's talking about them and Karen sneezes in return.
Emiri Sunada
Voiced by: Takako Tanaka (Japanese), Emily Fajardo (English)
- Canon Foreigner: Doesn't appear at all in the Visual Novel.
- Sneeze Cut: When Karen is talking to Tarou about her friends An, Emiri and Mei, all three of them sneeze right after the other while at some hot springs. They quickly deduce who's talking about them and Karen sneezes in return.
Spoiler Characters
Setsuna Ohara
The actual child of the Ohara family (making him Rinne's adoptive brother in a sense) and the true identity of the Setsuna that Rinne remembers.
- Posthumous Character: His death is crucial to everything about Rinne at the beginning of the game, from her obsession with Setsuna to her missing the last five years. His skeleton is eventually seen in both versions of the story, but he gets more extensive flashbacks in the anime.
- Sent Into Hiding: His parents hid him away in a shack on a rocky shelf that became inaccessible at high tides. Since he was an only male child in a matriarchal lineage and he inherited a disease the island wanted to eradicate, no one much wanted him to exist.
- Walking Spoiler: The fact that he's a separate character from Setsuna Sanzenkai is a major spoiler for the first half of the game. The fact that he's actually an Ohara cascades into reveals for a bunch of other characters.
Setsuna O'hara
Setsuna Ohara's future counterpart, Rinné's brother, and Sarah's lover who was part of an expedition to search for Avalon.
- Adapted Out: The anime never mentions him at all, leading you to have to infer his existence by reading between the lines.
- Love Across Battlelines: Despite being a revolutionary leader, he fell in love with Sarah, the heir to the government he was revolting against. This actually leads to two sides coming to an understanding. Unfortunately, it falls apart when it turns out the goal the revolutionaries were fighting for is determined to be hopeless after all, leading to the government burying the truth with his death.
- Odd Name Out: While the rest of the future counterparts have subtly Westernized versions of their given and family names, Setsuna exactly retains his Japanese given name. Narratively, this helps faciliate the repetition of Setsuna and Rinne's names (Rinne was just lucky to not need to change) and Setsuna Sanzenkai being able to adopt his identity.
- Posthumous Character: Him having been dead is key for two elements of the future era: the government knowing that there is no hope in the outside world due to him dying to the soot-blight syndrome, and Setsuna Sanzenkai having the opportunity to use his identity because he's officially only missing.
Rinné O'hara
Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (Japanese), Jad Saxton (English)
Rinne's future counterpart who first discovers Setsuna out in the snow outside the ISLAND.
- Disaster Scavengers: Spends her free time digging through the snow to the lost relics of past eras.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Rinné made a cold sleep machine out of scraps, and generally has great instincts for technology.
- The Pollyanna: Is cheerful and optimistic, even in the absolute Crapsack World she lives in. Even after her only remaining family dies and her entire society collapses, leaving the actual end of the world on the near horizon, she keeps her spirits up. The only thing that finally breaks her is realizing that she wasn't building a time machine after all, and she and Setsuna were not able to save the world.
- Traumatic C-Section: Was born this way. When her mother was told that it was the last day for children to be given collars, she tore open her own belly to ensure that Rinné would get one, even though it cost her own life.
Karin Kurz
Voiced by: Kana Asumi (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)
Karen's future counterpart. She was born just too late to receive a collar, and thus leads the collarless children in the underbelly of the ISLAND.
- A Father to His Men: Karin leads the collarless children like a revolutionary army, but the entire reason she does so is for their sake in a world that has literally thrown them away.
- Child Soldiers: Karin and her allies have been forced to turn themselves into a revolutionary army in order to survive in a world where they are not allowed to have food or shelter.
Sarah Garland
Voiced by: Rie Murakawa (game) (Japanese), Hibiku Yamamura (anime) (Japanese), Dani Chambers (English)
The daughter of the cardinal who rules the ISLAND. Unlike the rest of the government figures, she cares a lot for the downtrodden and uses her position to sneak the collarless children food.
- Contrasting Replacement Character: Unlike Karin and Rinné, who share a lot in common with their 1999 counterparts, Sarah is nearly the opposite of Sara, from personality to appearance. Sara had no one in her life and had a dark side, while Sarah is the beloved princess of her land and is benevolent to a fault. While Sara was the smallest and youngest of the original girls, Sarah is the oldest and tallest of the future set, and Setsuna can't get over her having a huge chest unlike Sara.
