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Lycoris Recoil | Character Index (Main Characters)

The cast of characters thus far. Beware of unmarked spoilers.

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Main Characters

• Main Characters^note Chisato Nishikigi, Takina Inoue, Mizuki Nakahara, Mika, Kurumi

Direct Attack

In General

A secret law enforcement and intelligence organization that upholds peace in Japan by preemptively assassinating criminals and terrorists before they can become a threat.

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• Amazon Brigade: Lycoris comprises solely of female soldiers, who pose as schoolgirls when out in public. Their male counterpart is a separate organization called LilyBell.
• Big Brother Is Watching: DA has access to every surveillance system in Japan and uses them alongside its AI to identify troublemakers before they have a chance to act.
• Child Soldier: All Lycoris are orphaned girls recruited and trained from a young age, and operate in public posing as schoolgirls. Both Chisato and Takina are high school age, and it's implied that Chisato was an active Lycoris when she was as young as 7 years old. Mika also tells Shinji in Episode 9 that Lycoris agents are only active until they're 18 years old, but doesn't explain what happens to them afterward.
• Fatal Flaw: As Majima's master plan in Episode 10 reveals, DA's undoing was a long-time coming thanks to the organization's Lack of Empathy and reliance on Child Soldiers. As it turns out, conditioning girls to kill and only to kill from a young age with no regard for other approaches was eventually going to turn the young agents into public threats once civilians gained the visual characteristics of criminals (i.e. illegal arms possession).
• Four-Temperament Ensemble:
  • Kusunoki is Melancholic (hard-working, aloof, cynical Mean Boss oriented towards The Needs of the Many);
  • Fuki is Choleric (rude, strict, prickly, bossy and the most competitive DA Lycoris);
  • Sakura is Sanguine (inconsiderate and pretty much a jerk like Fuki, but far more carefree and less strict);
  • Erika is Phlegmatic (the only DA Lycoris to be a Nice Girl, quiet and shy).
• Murder Is the Best Solution: This tends to be their main method of dealing with criminals and terrorists. This backfires by Episode 11 when hundreds of civilians in Tokyo get their hands on weapons, leaving the Lycoris Agents unsure of what to do.
• Secret Police: DA is a secret organization that assassinates criminals and terrorists and subsequently covers up all evidence of their crimes.
• Tyke Bomb: Episode 3 reveals that Lycoris are indoctrinated from a very early age to be completely loyal to DA, and their entire purpose in life is to serve the organization.
• We Have Become Complacent: DA has become so accustomed to removing any potential threats before they can become an issue that someone like Majima targeting them instead makes them unable to respond effectively, insisting on using the same tactics over and over despite him already knowing all of them inside and out.

Kusunoki

Voiced by: Yoko Soumi (Japanese), Kayleigh McKee (English)

Portrayed by: Natsuki Mieda

The head of DA and Chisato and formerly Takina's boss.

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• Fatal Flaw: Her Lack of Empathy and Suicidal Overconfidence are these. In the former case, she doesn't give a damn about the lives of her subordinates, viewing them as assets for keeping the peace in Tokyo rather than people. In the latter case, she believes that nothing could possibly threaten DA and is proven grievously wrong by Majima.
• Jerkass: She doesn't really care all that much for her own subordinates. This is shown through her treating Chisato like dirt, turning Takina into The Scapegoat for her own failings, and not supporting Erika's sense of guilt after her own near-death. She also does absolutely nothing against Fuki or Sakura's harassment of the duo when they show up at DA's headquarters in Episode 3.
• Lack of Empathy: Kusunoki has this in spades. She's willing to let Erika die during the arms deal bust in Episode 1, doesn't give a damn about Takina's efforts to rejoin DA, constantly looks down on Chisato's charitable efforts, and frequently sends Lycoris agents out to die in order to maintain peace in Tokyo. She also provides no emotional support to Erika, whether direct or indirect, after the latter nearly dies from being taken hostage.
• Lady Looks Like a Dude: Kusunoki's face and body type appear fairly masculine.
• Mean Boss: She's a very cold and jerkish boss with a prominent Lack of Empathy. In the third episode, she denies Takina any chance of returning to the DA even after she presents evidence regarding the hostage situation. She also ignores anything Chisato tries to say to her, suggesting some rocky history between them, as well. She also says or does nothing to Fuki's constant bullying of Takina or Chisato, and does some of her own. Then there’s also how part of Takina’s transfer was to cover her own ass about Radiata getting hacked and hindering communications during the arms deal bust. Later on, it's suggested that she actively used some Lycoris as bait to draw out Majima, with little to no success.
• The Needs of the Many: Kusunoki was willing to let Erika die so that the arms dealers in Episode 1 could be captured alive in order to track down their illegally shipped weapons. Erika only survived because Takina took things into her own hands.
• Pet the Dog: Kusunoki worked with Mika to get the LilyBell agents to stop trying to assassinate Chisato. This could, however, just be interpreted as Kusunoki trying to protect a valuable asset.
• Slave to PR: She prioritizes protecting DA's reputation over the lives of individual agents, such as using Takina as a scapegoat to cover up her own failings. When Chisato calls her out on it, she simply ignores this and calls her out for her own laziness.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: This is arguably Kusunoki's greatest flaw, in that she thinks that DA and the Lycoris agents can handle any terrorist threat thrown at them. She's proven grievously wrong by Majima.

Fuki Harukawa

Voiced by: Maki Kawase (Japanese), Morgan Berry (English)

Portrayed by: Marina Tanoue

A Lycoris and Takina's former squad leader. She holds zero sympathy for the incident and takes her job incredibly seriously.

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• Bullying a Dragon: Picks a fight with Chisato (and Takina) despite being fully aware of just who Chisato is (unlike Sakura) in Episode 3, resulting in her humiliating defeat.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While punching her is going a bit far and doing so in any other military or law enforcement agency would have likely gotten her punished, it's hard to blame her for being angry at Takina for potentially endangering a fellow Lycoris and killing their only leads on the arms trade without a hint of remorse.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's prickly, strict and not nice to either of the leads, having punched Takina in the face before her demotion, and mocking Chisato for her own way of doing things. Despite her demeanor, there are plenty of signs that deep down she does still feels concern for Chisato's well being. Back when they were trainees, Fuki was the first to go to Chisato's aid when the latter's heart condition flares up. In the present, she's willing to disobey orders and allow Takina to split off from her team to go help Chisato on two different occasions. And in the end, when Sakura jokes that Fuki should be happy that Chisato survived, Fuki reacts with anger and leaves in a huff.
• Lady Looks Like a Dude: She has a fairly boyish appearance with her short hair and sharp, hostile look in her eyes.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After punching Takina at the beginning of the series and not getting in trouble for it (not helped by Kusunoki being just as cruel, if not worse, to Takina), Takina later returns the favor when she and Chisato go up against her and Sakura during a mock fight.
• Non-Standard Character Design: The design of her eyes are noticeably a lot sharper than those of the main girls, making her appear visually hostile as a result.
• Precocious Crush: She quite obviously has a crush on Mika, given how she keeps pretending she doesn't care about him, and how shy she is when she's in his presence. Unfortunately for Fuki, her crush is ultimately one sided and impossible because Mika is gay.
• The Rival: Episode 3 reveals that she and Chisato has had a rivalry before the events of the series start. With Fuki extremely jealous, if not outright hostile towards Chisato and her upbringing and actions as a Lycoris and for taking away Mika to work at LocoReco. That said, Episode 9 reveals that Fuki did once care about Chisato, calling for help when a young Chisato lost consciousness due to her congenital heart disease.
• Sore Loser: Being defeated by Chisato and Takina in Episode 3, and losing in a VR game in Episode 4, both show that Fuki hates losing.
• Tomboy: She has a very rough attitude and wears her hair short.
• Tsundere: Fuki has feelings for Mika (despite their Incompatible Orientation) and, as shown in Episode 9, she once cared for Chisato, yet she's quick to deny any feelings she has for either one.

Sakura Otome

Voiced by: Makoto Koichi (Japanese), Jeannie Tirado (English)

Portrayed by: Sakura Ayaki

Takina’s replacement at the DA and Fuki’s new partner.

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• Brick Joke: Each time she wants to have some of LycoReco's desserts, Fuki ends up dragging her away before she can get it. She finally gets to have one of their desserts in Episode 13 after being hospitalized for injuries.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: In a sense. Sakura is a good shot, but this actually works against her in the mock battle with Chisato since the latter is so good at predicting bullet trajectories. As such, Sakura's fine aim made it easier for Chisato to dodge her shots.
• Jerkass: Her first scene is simply her seeking out Takina to insult her with all the rumours about her and rub her own status as Takina’s replacement at the DA in her face.
• Kick the Dog: Sakura does this both to Takina and Erika. In the former case, Sakura rubs in Takina's face that she's the latter's replacement as Fuki's partner. In the latter case, Sakura mocks Erika for getting taken hostage and thinks she couldn't possibly fill in for Takina when the latter goes AWOL.
• Lady Looks Like a Dude: While already Fuki and their boss have short hair and androgynous qualities, Sakura is easily the toughest and most boyish-looking among the DA girls.
• Lack of Empathy: While most of the Lycoris agents have this due to their training and indoctrination, Sakura is easily one of the worst cases, frequently insulting her peers for their blunders and not giving a single thought to how she might feel if she was put in their shoes.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: Sakura is grievously wounded by Majima at the end of Episode 12. Luckily, she survives her injuries.
• Smug Snake: Despite knowing of Chisato and Takina’s reputations, she’s fully confident that she and Fuki could take them on in a mock battle. They can’t.
• Tomboy: She has the most rough-and-tumble appearance of the Lycoris, having very short hair with an undercut and wearing sneakers instead of leather shoes, which gives her a tough appearance.

Erika Janome

Voiced by: Yuka Yagami (Japanese), Anairis Quiñones (English)

The Lycoris who was taken hostage during an arms deal bust and was subsequently saved by Takina.

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• Easily Forgiven: Doesn’t blame Takina for the method she used to save her and deal with the arms dealers, and is rather upset at how the incident caused others to pick on Takina seemingly for her sake.
• It's All My Fault: Part of her willingness to forgive Takina is because she feels that it was her fault for getting captured in the first place.
• Nice Girl: The only kind and gentle member of the DA who treats others with respect and doesn't blame Takina.
• Ship Tease: After getting saved by Takina, she gets easily flustered whenever Takina's name is mentioned and she treats the thought of apologizing to her with all of the emotional weight of confessing her feelings to her.
• Token Good Teammate: The only DA Lycoris who is a consistently nice person.
• Took a Level in Badass: She steps up to take Takina's place during the Enkuboku assault when Takina leaves to save Chisato. She ends up being instrumental in saving Fuki and Sakura's lives on two separate occassions.

The LilyBell

A Rival, perhaps?

The Spear Counterpart of the Lycoris, the LilyBell are an all-male unit that serve as a check and balance for the female assassins — if a Lycoris goes rogue or threatens to expose The Masquerade, they are sent in to eliminate them.

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• Always a Bigger Fish: They exist to keep DA in line and doing its job. Whether or not a group exists to deal with them (or whether DA is meant to do such a thing if their situations are reversed) is never touched upon.
• Cape Busters: Their function is to overpower and kill rogue Lycoris. This is even signified by their standard-issue weaponry. Where a Lycoris usually uses a handgun or submachine gun,^note a weapon that can easily be concealed from the public eye but packs less firepower LilyBell agents come with assault rifles to outgun them.^note The rifles in question look like the Beretta ARX160.
• The Dreaded: Even Chisato, who otherwise had no trouble with them while in their crosshairs, still admits they are "scary".
• Fluffy the Terrible: "LilyBell" is not the first term you would think of to name the Secret Police's even more lethal counterpart.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: In Episode 12, Chisato calmly walks out into a hallway with at least 10 LilyBell agents aiming assault rifles at her. They all miss without her doing any dodging at all, even though they had been ordered to shoot-to-kill.
• Noodle Incident: At some point after Chisato left DA headquarters, LilyBell agents started hunting her down to silence her, though she survived each attempt. It was only after Mika and Kusunoki vouched for her on her behalf that she got taken off their hitlist. One LilyBell commander in particular seems to dislike her personally.
• The Rival: One of the LilyBell agents appears to be this to Chisato, but she doesn't elaborate on it.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: After the incident, the LilyBell agents work alongside DA in cleaning up the damage caused by Majima and his crew. However, with half of Majima's firearms unaccounted for, and Majima himself still alive, it's clear they've got their work cut out for them.

Antagonists

Alan Institute

In General

A famous and powerful philanthropic organization whose goal is to search the world for geniuses hidden or trapped in undeveloped areas and bring them into society. The organization derives its name from Alan Adams, a mysterious figure who began patronizing various individuals and became synonymous for any Anonymous Benefactor.

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• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Believe all geniuses and their talents should be supported, regardless whether they be used for good or evil.
• Gone Horribly Right: They were the ones who fostered Majima's killing abilities. Thanks to them, he's become the ultimate terrorist, not only superhumanly durable and perceptive but also a master planner who ends up not only exposing DA but directly threatening the Institute itself.
• Villain with Good Publicity: They are universally recognized as a charitable organization, but they certainly have a much more sinister agenda.
• We Help the Helpless: Publicly at least, their objective is to uplift geniuses from poverty and conflict zones and introduce them into society. Yoshimatsu hints at a darker element to their philanthropy, as he supported Chisato in the past due to her being a "genius for killing". The organization also supports Majima for his own murderous talents.

Shinji Yoshimatsu (Unmarked Spoilers)

Voiced by: Yoji Ueda (Japanese), D.C. Douglas (English)

Portrayed by: Kento Ono

A shady Alan Institute member involved in illegal arms dealings.

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• Abusive Parents: For all that he considers himself one of Chisato's surrogate parents, it pales to his loyalty to the Alan Institute's ethos. When Chisato grows up daring to not devote herself to assassination, he starts trying to manipulate her into doing so, culminating in sabotaging the artificial heart he gave her, cutting her lifespan to a mere two months. He even puts a new artificial heart into his own chest so Chisato will have to kill him if she wants to live.
• Affably Evil: He's friendly enough in public to the point that he has a semi-amicable relationship with the main characters, but his involvement in the illegal arms deal can't be for anything good. His attempts to get Chisato to kill people also make him a villain.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Terrible as the things he did may have been, his death at the hands of his ex-lover Mika is deeply sombre, especially as it's shown that he really did love Chisato in his own deeply broken way.
• Big Bad Wannabe: He seems to be the ultimate personal threat to Chisato, being the lengths that he goes to in order to push her to kill. Then Majima takes him hostage and becomes a far larger threat, in addition to also intending to push Chisato to kill. Shinji gets some ground back in Episode 12 when he presents Chisato with a Sadistic Choice where she has to choose between extending her limited lifespan and maintaining her pacifism, but the choice is ultimately resolved by Mika killing him without Chisato's knowledge, and the last opponent Chisato directly faces is Majima.
• Broken Pedestal: To Chisato. She idolized him as the savior who gave her a new heart and inspired her to help people instead of killing. She's disillusioned when Mika reveals Yoshimatsu only saved her life to make her into the perfect killer.
• Corrupt Bureaucrat: A member of the Alan Institute who gives arms to terrorists? Yep, he's not a good person.
• The Corrupter: He tries to drive Chisato to kill Silent Jin in Episode 5 by making up a fake victim who's family got wiped out by Jin. Chisato doesn't do it. Him trying to sic Majima on her in Episode 6 seems like another attempt to try make her kill. By Episode 8, he sends Himegama, his secretary, to capture Chisato and sabotage her artificial heart. Episode 11 reveals that he obtained a new artificial heart for Chisato, intending to blackmail her with it.
• Crazy-Prepared: Shinji's final plan to get Chisato to kill is to blackmail her with a new artificial heart. But, to make sure someone didn't just steal it from him, he had it transplanted into his own chest, meaning one would have to kill him in order to get it.
• Determinator: Even his own life comes secondary to his vow to cultivate Chisato's killing talent. If he has to get Chisato to kill him specifically in order to achieve that, he'll go through with it.
• Did Not See That Coming: He had no idea that his former lover, Mika, had been faking his leg injury the entire time, so it comes as a legitimate shock to him when Mika puts his seemingly crippled leg to use to disarm Himegama.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: He's a second adoptive father to Chisato and an old lover to Mika. Even though he tried to push Chisato into killing to the point of damaging her artificial heart, Chisato and Mika did care about him, with Mika being visibly distraught at having to kill Yoshimatsu to get the new artificial heart that'll save Chisato.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Even though Chisato and Takina interfere in his plot to have Walnut killed, he vetoes Robota's suggestion to target them since he believes Walnut has already been killed so there's no need to pursue the matter further. It's later revealed that both he and Chisato had met each other once in the past, as he was the one who gave her the Owl charm she carries around and gave her admittance to the Alan Institute.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: He willingly backed Majima in order to push Chisato into a situation where she'd have to kill someone. Majima would then go on to not only kidnap Shinji but also expose DA in a plan that caused mass hysteria and bloodshed across all of Tokyo.
• Graceful Loser: He allows Mika to kill him in the end without any resistance, only lamenting that Chisato has driven the two of them mad, albeit in different ways.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Selecting an unpredictable anarcho-terrorist and a weak-willed, easily manipulable hacker as his tools has only led to said terrorist scaring info out of said hacker in order to track down and capture Shinji.
• Hostage Situation: He's the victim of this after being captured by Majima, with Robota threatening to kill him if Chisato interferes at the Enkuboku tower.
• Karmic Death: After he constantly tries to drive Chisato into killing and implantes her new heart inside his own body, Mika kills him in Episode 13 in order to get the artificial heart that'll save Chisato's life.
• Kick the Dog: Despite Chisato essentially being his surrogate child, he still goes so far as to critically damage the artificial heart he gave her as part of his plan to push her back into killing.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Due to how he called himself a "savior" when he saved a young Chisato's life, he prompted her to take on her non-lethal approach. This is the opposite of what Yoshimatsu wanted, as he wished for her to use her talents for killing, so his efforts to try and get her to kill are his attempts to correct his past mistake.
• Parental Substitute: Chisato views him as a second father figure.
• Sadistic Choice: Shinji has implanted the new artificial heart into his chest, meaning if Chisato wants to live longer, she has to kill him and break her Thou Shalt Not Kill mantra. Chisato doesn't do it, nor does she allow Takina to kill him. He also tries to force Chisato to kill Himegama or his secretary will kill Takina. This also doesn't work.
• Straight Gay: He's all but stated to have been Mika's lover in the past, especially given how he considers the two of them to be Chisato's "parents".
• Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: He shortens Chisato's lifespan and implants her new heart inside himself to force her into killing him and set her on the murderous path that he wants for her. Chisato refuses and Mika ends up killing Yoshimatsu for Chisato's sake instead.
• Thanatos Gambit: He's so desperate for Chisato to reclaim her killing instinct that he implanted himself with an artificial heart that could extend Chisato's lifespan. If Chisato wants to live longer, she'll have to kill him and become the heartless killing machine he wants her to be. His plan fails because Chisato still refuses to kill and Mika kills Yoshimatsu to get Chisato's new heart.
• Villain Takes an Interest: He sees Chisato's potential as a killer because of her talent for dodging bullets and repeatedly creates situations to try and pressure her into killing people, but she refuses every time.
• Walking Spoiler: His personal involvement with Chisato and Mika is a source of major spoilers.
• Why Couldn't You Be Different?: He's disappointed in Chisato's refusal to kill people because he believes she's wasting her talent when he only saved her and helped raise her to make sure she would grow up into the perfect killer.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Tries to kill Walnut in the first episode when the hacker starts asking too many questions by blowing up their condo. It doesn't work.

Himegama

Voiced by: Satomi Ōtani

Yoshimatsu's secretary. She does a lot of his dirty work for him.

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• Badass in Distress: She's Bound and Gagged by Majima's men in episode 10. How she managed to escape them for Episode 12 is never shown.
• Ninja Maid: Well, more "Ninja Secretary" since acts as Yoshimatsu's personal bodyguard and assassin while also doing his paperwork.
• Prim and Proper Bun: She wears her hair in a high bun, giving her a serious and professional look.
• Satellite Character: She works for Yoshimatsu and only acts to follow his orders, showing no real character of her own.
• Secretary of Evil: She works for Yoshimatsu and is definitely complicit with his various shady dealings. She blows up Walnut's apartment, hires Silent Jin, drugs Chisato so she can tamper with her artificial heart and comes close to making Takina fall from the old Skytree building during their fight. She also knows her way around guns and throwing knives.
• Sensual Spandex: When she fights Takina and Chisato in Episode 12, she's wearing a bodysuit that shows her curves.
• Sexy Secretary: Downplayed thus far, but she's a well-endowed redhead with Sultry Bangs. She does dress conservatively, though.
• Spy Catsuit: She dons this in the final stretch of the season, and she proves to be even deadlier than established while donning it.
• The Stoic: She remains eerily calm through her appearances, including drugging Chisato and short-circuiting her artificial heart.
• Sultry Bangs: She's a Sexy Secretary whose hair covers her right eye.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Himegama's ultimate fate is never revealed after Mika beats her up in Episode 13.

Terrorists

Majima

Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Japanese), Sean Chiplock (English)

Portrayed by: Hiroki Nakada

"Can you smell it? It's in the air, bleached and sanitized, healthy and unwholesome, the smell of a lie. How about I balance it out? HUH!?"

A terrorist who seeks to restore the "balance" of Japan. He serves as the main overarching antagonist of the anime, as he seeks to expose Direct Attack and the Lycoris to the public through violent means.

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• Achilles' Heel: He relies on his superior hearing in combat. Similar to how he takes on Chisato by blinding her, she turns the tables on him by firing rounds next to his ears, deafening him with the sound.
• Affably Evil: Majima affects a casual, devil-may-care attitude, and despite being entirely willing to kill Chisato or anyone else in his way, he and Chisato also hit it off geeking out over their shared favorite movie, Guy Hard, and he even calls a time-out during their final face-off to give her a breather and a drink.
• The Alcoholic: Anytime they show Majima's hideout, he's got a ludicrous number of beer cans and liquor bottles strewn everywhere. He's likely got a consumption issue or two.
• Ax-Crazy: If his little mantra before unloading his machinegun on the train car didn't show he's unhinged, then Episode 6 should make it much clearer between his abuse and death threats towards Robota, attempts to get into Radiata to shut down DA, and the murder of four Lycoris. By the episode's end, he's also set out to target LycoReco, and Chisato in particular upon finding out she's an Alan Institute alumni.
• Bad Boss: He and his men collectively to Robota during Episode 6. Refusing to respect his privacy, physically abusing him and even threatening to kill him if he fails to get the job done more than once. The only reason he's spared in the end is because Majima demands to know more about Chisato after their encounter.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Downplayed. By Episode 11, Majima has fully revealed the existence of the Lycoris agents to Tokyo's public, and the situation escalates so much it seems impossible for DA to cover up the incident. However in Episode 12, Kurumi's quick thinking and Radiata being reactivated allows the government to quickly craft a new narrative that the gun fight at Enkuboku was an elaborate PR stunt. While his plans have largely been foiled, Majima still considers it a win because he has at least planted the seeds of doubt inside a small portion of Japan's population. In the epilogue, only some of Majima's guns have been retrieved and he's shown handing back a gun to a civilian, implying his schemes are still in the works.
• Batman Gambit: Unfortunately for everyone, despite otherwise being completely insane, he has a very good grasp on human psychology, particularly its darker elements. His plan to expose DA to the public involves spreading thousands of firearms all over Tokyo, knowing that the police, who have grown complacent and ill-prepared due to DA's constant intervention, would panic and start gunning down curious civilians, which would in turn cause civilians to panic and open fire back, with the resulting mayhem flushing the DA agents out into the open and enabling citizens to kill both agents and officers alike.
• Big Bad: While Shinji's the the one who kickstarted everything and Robota's a force also not to be reckoned with, at the end of Episode 12, Majima's the only one left standing who isn't either humbled and wounded, or arrested. And with Shinji dead in Episode 13, he's the last threat to Tokyo left standing.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Majima views himself as someone who fights for the weak, which drives him to engage in terrorism because terrorists are weak compared to the DA. He even tells Chisato in Episode 13 that if DA was the weaker side, he'd be fighting for them to balance things out.
• Car Fu: Majima's usual tactic against Lycoris agents is to run them over with his car to disable them, before finishing them off with his team's gunshots.
• Combat Pragmatist: He's known for coming up with clever plans on the fly in the midst of combat to cheat his way to victory.
  • In Episode 6, he suffers a head wound from Chisato blasting a rubber round at his forehead. He's able to turn the tables on her by spitting blood into her eyes, and proceeds to beat her senseless while she's blinded.
  • In Episodes 11 and 12, he arranges for Chisato to face him in the Skytree tower and closes off the blinds, rendering the room pitch black and negating her predictive dodging.
  • Even when he wants a mostly fair fight, he'll still keep an ace in the hole. In Episode 13, he uses a fake timer to force Chisato to fight him when she really isn't interested. This doesn't seem all that pragmatic until it becomes apparent the reason he showed off his phone with the timer on it was to give Chisato the idea she could stop the countdown by getting at his phone; this gives Majima a slight advantage in the fight, because Chisato's focus is on stopping the timer, not just defeating Majima. When she gets the phone free from his grasp and turns to go grab it, Majima takes the opportunity to get a shot in on Chisato she can't dodge because she wasn't expecting it and couldn't see Majima preparing the shot.
• Cool Car: Majima drives a yellow 2017 Nissan GT-R, and often ends up driving it into his victims.
• Cop Killer: In a sense. Episode 5 shows he's now actively hunting Lycoris agents. He gets his first victim by driving a car into her, allowing his men to finish her off. Episode 6 reveals he's killed three other Lycoris agents, is trying to get into DA's computer systems, and now he's actively hunting for Chisato, despite previously planning to completely ignore her, and her allies. By the time of Episode 7, he takes out actual police officers by slaughtering an entire station to fulfil Robota's plan. When Episode 10 rolls around he encourages Japanese citizens to become killers themselves, actively telling them to shoot any Lycoris or police official they see to cause chaos and panic among the masses.
• Crazy-Prepared: He anticipated that DA might try to stop him and his men in Episode 4, thus having their bags filled with explosives. He detonates them after a full team of Lycoris agents gun down his subordinates, catching several of them in the blast and allowing him to escape. This extends into Episode 10, where he perfectly anticipates DA's every move to counter him, including contacting Kusunoki just long enough so he cannot be traced. Then, in Episode 11, he lures Chisato into the Skytree and shuts the metal blinds, turning the whole area pitch black so Chisato can't see, but his own Super-Hearing is unimpeded.
• Disappointed in You: Says this to Chisato after shooting her in the shoulder when she tries to grab his smartphone during their final fight, disappointed that at the very end, she still prioritizes saving others rather than the fight at hand.
• Establishing Character Moment: The very first scene we see him in, he tries to carry out a terrorist attack by attacking a subway train with a squad kitted out with automatic weapons with the intent to gun all the passengers down. He personally wields a PKM machinegun when doing this. Fortunately, the train turns out not to have any civilians in it, but a full team of Lycoris ready to ambush him.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • The actions he's done against DA aren't out of some regular terrorist goal to simply disturb the peace, but rather, it's because he hates the false peace that DA have created with their Lycoris, who are overwhelmingly efficient and maintain peace by sanitizing the country of the very concept of violent conflict. In his eyes, order without chaos is no true order.
  • While he does also believe that Chisato's talents are meant for killing, he's disgusted by how the Alan Institute has manipulated her and how Shinji is determined to force her to meet his expectations, saying he hates someone being told to live a certain way.
  • He's a Fair-Play Villain in his final fight with Chisato. When her artificial heart starts acting up, he stops the fight and has a break with her.
• Evil Counterpart: He is a twisted version of Chisato — Both are talented gunfighters with unique powers related to one of the five senses, idealists whose idealism turned them into rebels of society (and DA particularly), and beneficiaries of the Alan Institute. But while Chisato lives humbly and only wants to make life better for everyone she meets, Majima's idealism turns him into a terrorist obsessed with "waking up" Japan, no matter how much chaos or death it brings. Despite that, the two seem to almost be on the same wavelength: they have a semi-friendly conversation when Majima breaks into Chisato's apartment, and in Episode 12, he quietly calls out Chisato for one last private showdown, which she accepts while leaving her friends behind, treating it like a challenge rather than a trap.
• Expy: With the green hair, psychotic outlook, pale skin, pointed chin and wide grin, Majima is a pretty obvious expy of The Joker. This even includes his ultimate scheme in Episode 10, a plan that would clearly make one think of the Joker's own twisted psychology from The Dark Knight. After receiving injuries in Episode 13, he covers up his face with bandages like Hush, while also donning a fedora like fellow Practically Joker characters Hazama and Alan Gabriel..
• Fair-Play Villain: Majima highly values balance in the world. His actions as a terrorist are due to his belief that DA's False Utopia is an unbalanced lie and that they are easily overpowering terrorists and criminals, so he stepped in to level the playing field. Additionally, when Chisato's heart starts failing her during their final clash in Episode 13, he gives her a moment to recover since he wants a fair fight.
• Far East Asian Terrorists: A Japanese terrorist who's out to wreck the tranquility of society. This also includes his game plan of exposing DA's activities to the world.
• Foil: To Chisato. Like her, Majima is also an Alan Institute beneficiary who was inducted due to his talent for killing people, and also possesses a superhuman ability like her. However, unlike Chisato, who believes her talent should be used to improve people's lives, Majima fully buys into the purpose the Alan Institute assigned to him and continues killing. Both of them are rebellious people who don't like being told what to do and give priority to their whims, but while Chisato still follows a strict moral code despite her freewheeling, Majima has no qualms with whatever he does in the name of his desires, with one of his lesser objectives seemingly being to convince Chisato to abandon her code and live truly "free" as he does. In addition, Majima is driven to overturn the status quo, while Chisato wants to preserve it as long as it means the people she cares about can be happy.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Majima realizes in Episode 7 that Chisato was the one who stopped him and his men a decade earlier in the Skytree incident, and that she wiped out everyone but him.
• Friendly Enemy: He can have casual and even kinda friendly conversations with Chisato. During their final fight of the season, he notices her damaged artificial heart is about to give out, calls for a break and shares a drink with her.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: During his break-in of Chisato's safehouse in Episode 8, the two spend some time discussing movie preferences, including a Die Hard spoof, and the two even drink coffee while Majima discusses their shared past and warns her about the Alan Institute.
• A Handful for an Eye: During his fight with Chisato in Episode 6, Majima spits his blood into her eyes, blinding her and allowing him to deliver her a barehanded beatdown.
• Hidden Depths: Episode 7 reveals Majima was responsible for the Skytree incident ten years prior to the start of the series, and that he is also an Alan Institute alumni like Chisato. In fact, he knows her because she was the one who defeated him and his men during the aforementioned incident, with Majima powerless to stop her despite Chisato being only seven years old.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In Episode 12, Chisato fires her gun right next to Majima's ears, deafening him briefly and allowing her and Takina to subdue him. Unfortunately, he later escapes when a Cleaner team shows up for him, killing the Cleaners in the process.
• Humans Are Bastards: This is the crux of his ultimate scheme in Episode 10. Majima has spread his thousands of firearms around Tokyo and encouraged everyone to go nuts with them, knowing this will prompt the trigger-happy Lycoris agents into killing them and thus exposing their existence to the public. This immediately results in Tokyo police officers killing civilians for being in possession of firearms, as he knows the police have been lax and thus don't know how to deal with hostile scenarios.
• Invincible Villain: By Episode 13, literally everything tossed at the guy has failed to kill him or even cripple him, and he walks away from the destruction to plot another day. The only consolation is that the full-scope of his plans didn't come to fruition.
• Joker Immunity: As an expy of the man himself, it shouldn't be surprising that he survived the Disney Death -style fall.
• Just Ignore It: What his initial reaction to Chisato is like in Episode 6, choosing to ignore her and attack DA directly after losing several of his men while trying to kill Lycoris. Robota has to convince him to actually kill her if he wants to successfully take down DA once and for all. After their encounter, Majima not only wants her —and Takina, Mika and Mizuki to an extent— dead, but to know everything about her upon noticing the Alan Institute charm around her neck.
• Karma Houdini: Majima somehow survives falling from the Enkuboku during his final fight with Chisato and remains at large and encouraging violence at the end of the series.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's quite nimble on his feet and can decently counter opponents who attempt to fire at him at point-blank range, though he doesn't have the superhuman reflexes that Chisato does. He does, however, have superhuman endurance, capable of tanking an absurd amount of damage without even falling unconscious. It's why he's able to briefly gain the upper hand against Chisato and Takina at the end of Episode 11.
• Logical Weakness: Due to his Super-Hearing, Majima is obviously very sensitive to noise, which means a loud bang up close could deafen him if he's not ready for it. Chisato exploits this in Episode 12 to subdue him, firing her gun right next to his ears to deafen him.
• Made of Iron: There are multiple instances that show Majima is unnaturally durable.^note Despite the examples below, he is shown wearing bandages around his torso in Episode 6, and he is heavily bandaged after the battle in Episode 13, so he can clearly be injured.
  • In Episode 4, he's hit by several pistol rounds to the arm and doesn't even slow down.
  • In Episode 6, he takes a rubber bullet to the forehead, followed by a nasty tumble from a moving vehicle, and just walks it off, with only his forehead bleeding to show for it. Then, he has a Panzerfaust-3 rocket hit a car he's just getting into and he survives the resulting explosion with barely a scratch.
  • In Episode 8, a flashback to the Skytree incident shows he survived the explosion that nearly destroyed it, when everyone else in the building besides him and Chisato died from said explosion.
  • In Episode 11, he takes three kicks to the head from Takina and two rubber bullets to the chest from Chisato, and still keeps going.
  • In Episode 12, he takes more abuse from the girls, including an entire magazine of rubber bullets from Chisato, and manages to nearly kill them both. Even Takina binding him to a railing doesn't slow him down one bit.
  • In the finale, he survives falling from the Enkuboku. While he's covered in bandages, his injuries don't seem to impair his movement during his brief appearance in the epilogue.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Unlike Shinji, his intentions are very much in the name of chaos and destruction. Being a well-known international terrorist with connections to mafia and Yakuza groups the world over, and one of the minds behind the original Skytree incident. In Episode 10, his plan to expose the Japanese public to the existence of Lycrois and the police's incompetence involves people killing each other to start a mass panic.
• Oh, Crap!: Says this word for word when he and his men are ambushed by no less than ten Lycoris agents in Episode 4. He sports another one of these reactions the very second he sees a rocket coming right at him in Episode 6.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: It bodes poorly that he was able to track down and capture the untraceable Yoshimatsu and his secretary, but considering that the latter two shortened down Chisato's already limited lifespan to just two months, no tears are exactly shed for them.
• Practically Joker: More subtle than most examples, but the green hair and the attitude strongly point to Joker (specifically, the The Dark Knight version) as an inspiration. The Hawaiian shirt is also reminiscent of The Killing Joke. His scheme in Episode 10 also mirrors the Joker's psychology from The Dark Knight.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Majima falls from Enkuboku Tower in Episode 13 and is presumed dead, but he's revealed to have survived the fall (albeit wounded).
• Rudely Hanging Up: He immediately hangs up on Robota's first attempt to contact him, though the two end up working together in the end.
• Sole Survivor: Of the team he gathered to attack a subway train, he's the only one who got out alive. He remarks that this isn't the first time this has happened to him. Episode 7 reveals he was involved in the Skytree incident and that Chisato took out everyone but him. By the end of Episode 13, he is the only one of his group that hasn't been killed or captured.
• Spanner in the Works: Yoshimatsu arranged for Majima to terrorize Tokyo as part of his plan to corrupt Chisato. However Majima's unpredictability leads to him ambushing Chisato at her safehouse, delaying her physical check-up, where Himegawa is posing as a nurse so she can drug her and tamper with her heart, and furthermore prompts Takina to impose a rule that she'll immediately head to where Chisato is should she not pick up her phone within three rings, which tips her off to something going wrong at her check-up. Furthermore, Chisato's mention of Yoshimatsu puts Majima on his trail, eventually leading to Yoshimatsu being captured by the very terrorist he secretly sponsored.
• Stone Wall: His niche in combat. To further contrast with Chisato, both he and his foe are exceptionally hard to kill, but Chisato gets by on being a Fragile Speedster with the reaction speeds to dodge bullets, while Majima is just exceptionally tolerant to pain. Even when he's legitimately caught off guard and actually fearful of a Lycoris hit squad, he not only manages to shrug off the bullets they pierce him with but survive the explosives he sets off to break even with them in their fight - explosives that partially collapse the subway tunnel they're in, at that! Even taking into account his major enemy uses non-lethal rubber bullets in their fights, Majima can take a ton of punishment - up to and including a rocket exploding only a few feet from his face - and keep getting back up with minor aches and wounds at worst.
• Super-Hearing: Episode 8 reveals that this is Majima's special ability, which he can use to detect threats without actually seeing them. He demonstrates this during the Skytree incident, letting his men take out several Lycoris agents, and again when Takina shows up to Chisato's safehouse. He takes full advantage of his abilities in Episode 11, trapping Chisato in the observatory deck of the ruined Skytree, before closing the metal shutters and turning off the lights, leaving Chisato unable to see anything, while he can effortlessly track her down in the darkness. This gets turned around on him in Episode 12 when Chisato fires her gun right next to his ears, deafening him briefly.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Chisato fires her gun right next to his head in Episode 12. Due to his superhuman hearing, Majima is briefly deafened by the gunshot, stunning him and allowing Chisato and Takina to subdue him.
• Trauma Button: During his clash with Chisato in the finale, the ace Lycoris pulls him over a ledge and leaves the two on a glass dome that is breaking apart beneath them. She then fires off the last of her rubber bullets at him. At this moment, Majima has a flashback to how a child Chisato defeated him ten years ago, and the look of horror on his face is palpable.
• Villain Has a Point: Crazy and evil as he may be, Majima isn't wrong that DA have been using their vast resources and army of child soldiers to prop up an illusion of peace and safety, rather than actually build up the stability they want on a societal level.
• The Villain Knows Where You Live: Manages to find Chisato's safehouse in Episode 8 and stops by for a "visit".
• Villain Respect: When Chisato's heart starts giving out on her in Episode 13, Majima gives her a chance to recover before resuming their clash, claiming he wants a fair fight from her.
• Worthy Opponent: By the end of Episode 6, Majima views Chisato as one after seeing she is an Alan Institute alumni and orders Robota to learn everything he can about her. Episode 7 reveals he is also an Alan Institute alumni, though one with a grudge against the institute.
• Would Hit a Girl: He delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Chisato in Episode 6, and further attempts to have one of his men take her, Takina and Mizuki out with a rocket launcher during the rescue. He delivers another quick one to Takina when he leaves Chisato's safehouse in Episode 8. In Episodes 11 and 12, both girls get trounced by him until Takina manages to tie him up to a railing.
• Would Hurt a Child: By Episode 6, he's killed four Lycoris agents (all of whom are below adult age), and now he's targeting Chisato. Given how he was defeated by a seven-year-old Chisato back during the Skytree incident, it's no wonder why he would have no problem killing child assassins.

Other Antagonists

Robota

Voiced by: Yuki Sakakihara (Japanese), Aleks Le (English)

Portrayed by: Rintaro Takeuchi

A hacker who is seen wearing a toy robot disguise. Works for Yoshimatsu and later Majima. Serves as a supporting antagonist.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He's reduced to a stammering mess when Majima points a gun to his head in Episode 6.
• Anything but That!: Robota is horrified when Detective Abe tries to remove his helmet.
• Always Someone Better: As good as he is, he's definitely no Walnut.
• Bad Boss: Treats his subordinates as if they're idiots. Said subordinates are not fond of him at all. He receives a taste of his own medicine in Episode 6 while working under Majima.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Robota's mannerisms are childish and juvenile, but he's skilled enough to hack a car that Chisato and Takina were in and attempt to drive it into the ocean. As of Episode 6, he is actively trying to hack into DA under Majima's orders. He also ends up being the one to convince Majima to kill Chisato if he wants to get anything done despite Majima's initial indifference towards her.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Serves as one of the lead villains alongside Majima and Shinji.
• Butt-Monkey: As of Episode 6, he's discovering his value as a hacker is being subjected to various Bad Bosses and getting upstaged and outplayed by everyone else.
• Didn't Think This Through: All of his attempts to try and get into DA's systems in Episode 6 either end up with his contacts bailing, or getting arrested over child pornography.
• The Dog Bites Back: Turns on Yoshimitsu in Episode 9, revealing the man's whereabouts and connections to Chisato to Majima.
• Double Agent: As of Episode 6, he's working for both Shinji and Majima, neither side aware of what's actually happening with the other. He stops being this in Episode 9 and aligns himself with Majima outright after selling out Yoshi's involvement in Chisato's life.
• Evil Is Petty: Robota is a really nasty character who wants Walnut to die just so he can become the number one hacker in Tokyo. Even his flunkies consider him a Jerkass, and their leader decides to warn Chisato about Robota's surveillance drone after she spares him (not that it really helps in the end). His pettiness is ultimately what drives him going forward to work with Majima.
• The Faceless: Covers his head with a helmet in the shape of a tin robot head. He still has it even when getting arrested.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Pretty much no one likes Robota, but Majima keeps him around because of his skill as a hacker, and Shinji only works with him because Robota doesn't ask questions like Walnut did. Given how much of a Jerkass Robota is, it's no mystery why even his allies despise him.
• Hate Sink: Compared to Majima, who is extremely charismatic despite being a psychotic terrorist and does possess a few standards, and Shinji who at least carries himself in a professional manner, Robota is an obnoxious and unpleasant individual who is willing to commit mass murder and destruction just to one-up Walnut as the best hacker in Japan.
• Humiliation Conga: In Episode 12, Kurumi tracks down Robota and fries his entire setup in mere seconds. Robota is left in disbelief that Walnut is still alive. Then, within minutes, Detective Abe and his partner bust into Robota's room and arrest him. This is capped off in Episode 13 when Detective Abe removes Robota's helmet, despite his protests.
• I Have Your Wife: In Episode 10, Robota calls Chisato and tells her that if she comes near the Enkuboku tower, they will kill Shinji. This is right at the same time that Chisato is ordered by Kusunoki to intervene at said tower. Additionally, in order to keep her from doing anything funny, he has no less than four drones watching her.
• It's All About Me: Robota is an extreme Narcissist and isn't shy about it at all. No one is amused by this, not even his own hired hitmen or Majima.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: After all the horrible things he's done, Robota finally gets his comeuppance in Episode 12 when Kurumi fries his setup and exposes his hiding place to Detective Abe, who promptly arrests him.
• Leave No Survivors: Discusses this with Shinji after they believe they've killed Walnut and spot Chisato and Takina next to the "corpse". He declines the offer, stating that Walnut was the target, not them. Robota takes this into consideration when trying, and at first failing, to get Majima to kill Chisato in Episode 6.
• Murder by Remote Control Vehicle: A common tactic of his, first using it to try and kill Walnut, Chisato and Takina in Episode 2 by hijacking the van they're in. He later does this again in Episode 6 when he leads another van dead-on to Mizuki's SUV during Chisato's rescue, but Mizuki dodges it.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Robota's real name is never revealed.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Robota acts like an immature brat and has no issue ordering Walnut's assassination, nor with trying to drown Walnut, Chisato and Takina by hacking their car and driving it into the ocean.
• Running Gag: Robota screams "MY DOOR!" whenever his gets bashed in by intruders. Majima and his goons do this twice in Episode 6, while Detective Abe and his partner do the same in Episode 12 when they arrest Robota.
• Smug Snake: He smugly assumes that he'll be respected for his skills as Japan's top hacker after killing Walnut. Instead, he winds up being jerked around by his new employers as yet another blunt instrument and middleman. (Meanwhile, consider the roundabout Villain Respect Yoshimatsu pays Walnut by trying to kill them: Walnut is actually dangerous because they can think for themselves, while Robota doesn't even recognize he's just a tool to be used.)
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: His relationship with Majima starts off as much, with Majima constantly threatening to end Robota's life. This eventually stops when he manages to convince Majima to start attacking Chisato and Shinji, even offering him information on the two.
• This Cannot Be!: Robota is in absolute shock when Kurumi fries his entire setup in Episode 12, revealing that Walnut is still alive.
• Would Hurt a Child: As previously noted, he wants to kill Chisato and Takina due to getting in his way, and gets offended when Majima doesn't bother with Chisato when he points her out to the terrorist. It takes a lot of prodding to get Majima to think otherwise, but it works a little too well when Majima demands more information about her.

Silent Jin

Voiced by: Mitsutoshi Shundō (Japanese)

An assassin known for his silent demeanor and preference for silenced weapons. Has some history with Mika.

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• Badass Longcoat: He wears one that's bulletproof. He ditches it when he realizes Mizuki put a tracer on it.
• Defeat Equals Friendship: In Episode 13, Jin goes to the LycoReco as a customer.
• Made of Iron: Takina tackles him when he tries to shoot Mr. Matsushita and the two fall about 15-20 meters into a construction zone. Jin takes the brunt of the impact, including Takina landing on him, but it barely slows him down. It takes Chisato unloading a full clip of rubber bullets directly into his gut at melee range to knock him out.
• Professional Killer: He's hired to kill Mr. Matsushita, not realizing the old man was just a random hospital patient being used as a puppet, and that there never was a Mr. Matsushita to begin with.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He appears to only be interested in doing his job and doesn't harbor any grudges. He even goes to LycoReco as a customer in Episode 13 despite two of its employees beating him up and unloading a full clip of rubber bullets into him several episodes back.
• The Quiet One: As part of his job, he doesn't speak. He breaks this after being defeated, revealing his motive behind trying to kill Mr. Matsushita to Mika.^note He does a lot more grunting in the English dub.

Other Characters

Detective Abe

Voiced by: Hiroshi Shirokuma (Japanese), Michael Sorich (English)

A private eye working for the Tokyo Police Department, and a friend of Chisato's. He's one of LycoReco's regular patrons.

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• Know When to Fold 'Em: When his partner argues with him in Episode 5 over the cover-ups going on in Tokyo, Abe tells his partner that digging any deeper into it would be a bad idea, especially since the police chief seems to condone it. Even when he learns about the existence of the Lycoris agents, Abe knows not to make a big fuss over it since it would cause unnecessary problems.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Unlike his partner, who has misgivings about the cover-ups going on in Tokyo, Abe is wise enough not to make a big fuss over it, as said cover-ups are allowing people to live peacefully in Tokyo. Even when he figures out that Fuki is a Lycoris agent due to a photo he has of her at Enkuboku Tower, he doesn't bring it up.
• Secret-Keeper: It's implied he's already largely figured out the existence of the Lycoris by Episode 13, as he still possesses a picture of Fuki from the Enkuboku incident that Radiata hasn't managed to delete and clearly recognizes her when she vists LycoReco. However, he doesn't make a big fuss about it and keeps it to himself.
• Taken Off the Case: Whenever DA gets involved, he and his police department are usually not permitted onto the scene in order to allow DA to cover up the incident. Case in point: the subway explosion in episode 4 (which DA covers up as a train accident). Abe seems to be wary enough to not protest it.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: In Episode 5, Abe tells another detective that as long as kids like Chisato and Takina can be at ease, it doesn't matter if the various crimes in Tokyo are covered up. Of course, he doesn't know that Chisato and Takina are Lycoris agents, making this a case of Dramatic Irony.

Dr. Kitamura

Voiced by: Aino Shimada (Japanese)

Chisato's medical doctor. She is often exasperated by how much Chisato tries to skip her appointments.

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• Ambiguous Situation: Her whereabouts and status when Himegama drugs and tampers with Chisato are unknown, only finding out about the situation after the fact.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: She wears a white labcoat in all her appearances.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Her appearance is far more cartoonish than the rest of the cast with her rounded eyes and prominent lips.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Unlike Kusunoki or Yoshimitsu, she genuinely cares about Chisato's health and safety and is angered upon finding out what Himegama did to her heart.

Saori Shinohara

Voiced by: Aino Shimada (Japanese), Laura Post (English)

A civilian who seeks help from Chisato and Takina after receiving threats for a picture she posted on social media.

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• Book Ends: Saori's photograph in Episode 1 puts Chisato and Takina on their path to stopping Majima. In Episode 13, she accidentally takes a photo of Chisato when the latter is trying to hide, letting Kurumi and Takina track her down.
• Damsel in Distress: Saori is kidnapped by the men who threatened her, though Chisato and Takina save her. What makes this particularly bad, however, is that Takina used her as bait to lure out the kidnappers.
• Spanner in the Works: Saori accidentally takes a picture of the arms deal when it was taking place. This puts Chisato and Takina on the path to stopping Majima.

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