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Main Characters

    Kuroko Koumori 

Kuroko Koumori

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Voiced by: Romi Park (Motion Comic version, Grimms Notes collab)

A vicious serial killer who was originally on death row, Kuroko's death sentence has been pardoned in exchange for working with the police. Now, she hunts down other vicious killers and criminals...when she isn't busy chasing skirts, that is.


  • '90s Anti-Hero: Kuroko almost comes off as a parody of these types of characters, personality-wise.
  • Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: Kuroko has a disquieting habit of cocking her head ninety degrees to one side, much like an owl does. The human neck just should not bend that way.
  • Alliterative Name: Kuroko Koumori.
  • Animal Motifs: She evokes the image of a snake, with her bizarrely slender body, forked tongue and general craftiness.
  • Ax-Crazy: Before she was hired by the police, she had already racked up a kill count of 715.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Seemingly during the Rose-Colored Prison arc, but is later revealed that she was faking in an attempt to pacify Chiyo...and to get more sex out of her.
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: She certainly prefers her ladies to be busty.
  • Characterization Marches On: She showed a sexual interest in Hinako in early chapters and the pilot, but this has not been revisited since and her relationship with Hinako since then has been purely platonic.
  • Chef of Iron: She's a surprisingly good cook, able to fix Hinako's fiasco of a dish and regularly coming up with impressive dishes.
  • Comedic Lolicon: She is attracted to little girls like Rinko, but this is usually overshadowed by her interest in big boobs.
  • Color Failure: When Hinako informs her that Chiyo has "given up on her".
  • The Corrupter: To an extent. In the "School Destruction" arc, she nudged Minako (who was the culprit until things got out of her hand) to execute the true culprit, Marie Misaka, and to sexually assault Fuuri, her rapist. Later on, Minako has set up a bomb-making shop and keeps Fuuri in a slave-like relationship.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: Constantly during the Rose-Colored Prison arc.
  • Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Kuroko can be more than a little creepy-looking most of the time, bordering on looking like Cesare.
  • Enfant Terrible: She commited her first murders when she was a little girl.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: While she will manipulate them, she will never straight up force a woman to have sex with her, and will respect their decision to say no.
  • Faux Affably Evil: To call her a 'good' person would be quite a stretch, and she often acts nice while brutally murdering someone.
  • The Gadfly: She loves teasing Kimihara and Mitsurugi.
  • Genius Bruiser: We first know her as a serial killer with hundreds of kills under her belt. Later on, we get to see she has immense deductive skills and has been shown to manipulate her enemies to fight among themselves.
  • Heroic Comedic Sociopath: She is technically on the side of good, but she's incredibly Ax-Crazy and doesn't care about the collateral damage that her antics rack up. That being said, those antics tend to be Played for Laughs more often than not.
  • Improbable Weapon User: High-tech dildos of all things, used to destroy laser guns at the Murder Party mansion.
  • Lady in a Power Suit: When Kuroko is working with the police, she's almost always in a sharply-tailored suit, while her jeans-and-crop-top outfit is strictly casual.
  • Lean and Mean: She's tall with thin limbs, and utterly merciless in combat. Except for her large boobs.
  • Lovable Sex Maniac: The first thing she does when meeting a woman is checking her boobs.
  • Nerves of Steel: To ridiculous extremes. During a life-or-death battle with a skilled knife wielder her heart rate didn't even increase.
  • Nominal Hero: Kuroko may work with the police and take down horrible killers, and act as a mother figure/big sis combo to Hinako, but make no mistake about it, she's just as much of a psychotic murderer as she's always been, she just has it more under control.
  • Not So Stoic: Kuroko occasionally has moments when her unflappable demeanor comes apart. For instance, during the "school bombing" arc, she had a hilarious Oh, Crap! moment when Hinako threw one of the armed bombs towards her. Also, she once refused to go into a sewer for a mission because of how it smelled.
  • Oh, Crap!: She issues a challenge to Master Swordsman of the titular arc into a very, very rigged duel. But after her opponent deflects, redirects, and dodges all of Kuroko's foul plays, Kuroko turns tail and runs.
    Kuroko: I CAN'T DO THIS!!
  • Overly-Long Tongue: Kuroko's tongue is inhumanly long and flexible...which her girlfriends seem to enjoy. The snake-like imagery goes even further after Kuroko doesn't dodge a sword enough and gets the tip of her tongue split.
  • The Profiler: Kuroko's past as a Serial Killer grants her deep insight on the motives and modus operandi of the various killers and criminals in the story.
  • Promotion to Parent: She effectively became Hinako's foster mother after killing her parents. While she's far from a model parent, her and Hinako are in the same wavelength of crazy.
  • Psycho Lesbian: Even besides being a murderer, her sexual hyper-aggression borders on predatory. The first extra chapter shows she gets hits on dating sites by pretending to be a man. She mostly gets away with it because every woman she beds goes away satisfied. Contrary to the stereotype, Kuroko does not obsess over any particular women.
  • Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Kuroko, combined with being very tall and curvy.
  • Really Gets Around: Kuroko has a laundry-list of sex-friends to call on as is, and is always looking to add more.
  • Scars are Forever: She retains the Tongue Trauma she received all the way back in the "Murder Party" arc, and has a scar on her belly whose origin as of ch. 62 has yet to be revealed in the manga itself. According to Word of God, the scar on her belly is from a "hot-tempered woman", and the scar on her shoulder is from "playing with" a "sadistic woman".
  • Serial Killer: She killed over seven hundred people before she was caught.
  • Serial-Killer Killer: Kuroko would be on death row, but she's allowed to act on the police's orders to kill other psychopaths.
  • Sex Goddess: Her growing list of sexual partners always seem to be very open to having more than one go with her for this reason.
  • Slasher Smile: Kuroko frequently has a large, unsettling grin when she's feeling her most murderous.
  • The Sociopath: She feels no remorse for her past murders, and only took the assassin job to avoid death row and quench her bloodlust.
  • Spider-Sense: Kuroko can anticipate death traps and attacks with seemingly perfect accuracy. She even goes so far to claim it's precognition.
  • Unlimited Wardrobe: She usually dons a new outfit for every arc.
  • Victoria's Secret Compartment: Over the course of a single car chase we see her extract from her cleavage a wrestling bell, a mallet to strike it with, a "business" card (which she leaves in the cleavage of a bystander) and a fresh cut flower. She continues to do this in later chapters.
  • Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Rather than showing fear or anger, this is just how Kuroko's eyes are, which sharply contrasts all the other characters and highlights her psychopathic nature.
  • Would Hit a Girl: While Kuroko would probably prefer to bed pretty ladies, she's not averse to brutalizing or even killing them. Her fight against Yukari and her treatment of Minako's bullies in the "School Destruction" arc are good examples of this.
  • Yuri Fan: She keeps several yuri magazines at her home, and a large collection of lesbian porn.

    Hinako Tozakura 

Hinako Tozakura

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A middle school student who lives with Kuroko and frequently partners up with her on jobs. She has a very bubbly and air-headed personality and often acts like a child half her age or less, though she is also a very capable driver and is adept at handling a variety of vehicles. She also appears to have serious psychological issues at times, including what appears to be a hidden dark side that emerges when she's hurt.


  • Abusive Parents: She describes her parents as bad people, so she didn't care when Kuroko killed them.
  • Big Eater: Most of her motivation in her day to day activities come from eating, whether it's going to a location with a primary goal of trying the food there, or Kuroko bribing her with food to do a specific task.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Oh god, if you hurt Hinako you've got about thirty seconds to run away (not that that will help) or finish the job. If you don't, her other side will appear and you will die...horribly, with whatever vehicle she—no—it finds.
  • Black Eyes of Crazy: After Hinako is attacked by Rinko, her eyes become like this. They stay like that until Hinako manages to ram her assailant with a motorbike, after which she switches back to normal. All in all, there is something seriously wrong with this girl.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Often unaware of all the violence going on around her and lost in her fantasy land.
  • Drives Like Crazy: Hinako can somehow go Roof Hopping in her convertible.
  • Expressive Mask: In her "Hinanin" form, her bun covers have expressive faces of their own. Her backpack for visint the aquarium also has a face that matches her expression.
  • Hair Antennae: Hinako has a large upright curl that somehow seems to help her home in on Kuroko's location when they're separated, based on the first chapter.
  • Healing Factor: It's noted several times in the series that she seems to heal much faster than usual. This goes all the way up to shrugging off a lethal dose of amphetamines like it was nothing.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite how she looks and acts, Hinako is very well-versed in marine biology.
  • Kick the Dog: Overly cheerful, yet she enjoys beating the hell out of the mascot Shogo-tans at the local amusement park, which are either real creatures or just people in costumes. Either way she keeps at it even after getting admonished for it.
  • Kiddie Kid: Hinako is a middle school student, but acts more like a preschooler. Even when people are dying around her she seems to remain blissfully ignorant to everything.
  • Parental Substitute: Their relationship is kinda complicated but she regards Kuroko as a mother/father/sister/brother figure in place of her deceased but implied abusive parents.
  • Photographic Memory: By going to a tall point, she's able to memorize the layout of the surrounding area, basically giving her a built-in GPS.
  • Plucky Girl: Hinako is pretty much unstoppable when she puts her mind to it.
  • Rollerblade Good: Her tricked-out roller skates are her next go-to besides the convertible that not only works on land but also water and air.
  • Seers: Appears to have some precognition, as she draws events of the Murder Party despite not being there.
  • Split Personality: Seems to have one that activates when she is hurt.
  • Universal Driver's License: No matter the mode of transportation, Hinako can and will be able to drive it expertly and destructively.

Recurring Characters

    Rinko Asagi 

Rinko Asagi

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A key character from the "D-K Domestic Killer" Arc, Rinko is the daughter of the former Serial Killer Takeru Asagi. While she seems like an ordinary quiet girl, there is quite a bit more to her than meets the eye.


  • The Atoner: She's deeply remorseful of her past as a serial killer, specially after befriending Noel.
  • Driven to Suicide: After the events of the "D-K Domestic Killer" Arc, Rinko tries to kill herself since her entire family is dead and she sees herself as an irredeemable murderer. Kuroko talks her out of it and takes her in as "family." She later tries it again during "Punishing Love" after discovering Noel is the daughter of one her victims, and she's saved by an oblivious Hinako.
  • Enfante Terrible: She's the true culprit behind the recent Skin Collector murders and a very dangerous fighter despite her tiny size. However, for Noel's sake, she's trying really hard to stop being this.
  • It Was a Gift: Apparently Asagi left behind a gift for Rinko before Kuroko took him down. It was one of his high-frequency blades, giving Rinko the edge she needs to cut down the Razor Floss wielded by her opponent.
  • Jail Bait Wait: Kuroko hopes to make her ready in 4-5 years.
  • Killer Rabbit: Not only is she a dangerous killer, she wears a rabbit mask when she goes to kill someone.
  • Little Miss Badass: Very athletic despite her small size and seemingly frail appearance. Best seen when she attacks the Rainy Day Killer and lops off several of his limbs, as well as impaling him with several knives.
  • Official Couple: With Noel.
  • Self-Made Orphan: She killed her own mother as her first victim in following her dad's footsteps. Her dad comforted her over this and was proud of it, but in the end, he also took the blame over the murder to protect her.
  • Walking Spoiler: Rinko is a very important character in the "D-K Domestic Killer" Arc, and many of that arc's revelations are tied to her.

    Chiyo Yanaoka 

Chiyo Yanaoka

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Daughter of the city's Yakuza boss, the closest thing to a lover as Kuroko has, and one of the only people to have any sort of leash on her. When she shows up she's usually either angry that Kuroko hasn't contacted her or locked in the throes of passion with her.


  • Clingy Jealous Girl: She doesn't appreciate it one bit when Kuroko makes passes at other girls around her, though that doesn't stop Kuroko from inevitably having sex with most of them.
  • If It's You, It's Okay: She claims this is the case about her relationship with Kuroko, but Narumi sees through her, especially after she asks her if she would like Kuroko as a man, and Chiyo replies that she wouldn't have boobs then.
  • Fiery Redhead: Chiyo has bright red hair and is very used to getting what she wants. She's able to get her Yakuza father to relent to her demands, frequently will yell at Kuroko for annoying her, and is willing to fight if someone annoys her.
  • Mafia Princess: Chiyo is the daughter of one of the city's major Yakuza bosses, who Kuroko sometimes taps for intel.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Being Kuroko's girlfriend, she tends to get a fair amount of sex scenes, with many of them showing her nude and climaxing. Even outside of that she tends to get into very provocative situations like being stripped naked in the Virginal Rose arc.
  • Ojou Ringlets: Has an impressive display of these in her hair.
  • Violently Protective Girlfriend: When being clingy doesn't cut it, Chiyo will get violent for and to Kuroko.

    Reiko Kuchiba 

Reiko Kuchiba

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A taciturn sniper who first appeared during the "Murder Party" arc. She makes some recurring appearances afterwards.


  • Berserk Button: Don't mistake her for a man.
  • Bifauxnen: She looks pretty boyish and handsome. Kuroko even remarks that her, ahem, silhouette is rather flat.
  • Breakout Character: Rather than being pushed into the spotlight here she's given her own series, Murciélago Araña.
  • Butch Lesbian: Of the Bifauxnen variety.
  • Cold Sniper: Generally very cold and emotionless. She rarely even changes expression.
  • Exotic Eye Designs: Her eyes resemble practice targets, comprised of four concentric rings.
  • Improbable Aiming Skills: She's demonstrated several times to be a first-rate sniper, being able to shoot far away targets without even looking or taking the time to assume a proper sniping posture. More recently, she's able to shoot out the scope of another sniper hidden far away on a building as soon as she senses a bullet approaching her employer. And it's only the start of the battle.
  • Kill Steal: She takes out an utterly broken Hazuki from a distance, just as Kuroko takes out her gun. Kuroko isn't happy about it.
  • Limited Wardrobe: Kuroko remarks that she hasn't changed outfits ever since the Murder Party. She retorts that as long as she's not naked, she doesn't care for clothes.
  • Pistol-Whipping: Yes. With a Sniper Rifle...well, less "whipping" and more using the rifle as a club to smash her enemy's head in until its concave because he mistook her for a man.
  • Professional Killer: Makes her living as a hired sniper, even accepting jobs from the police to take out criminals.
  • The Stoic: She shows almost no emotion and her expression almost never varies from a listless, bored-looking grump-face.
  • When She Smiles: It's pretty rare, but she did crack a big smile at the end of the D.K. arc.

    Yatsuha Midori 

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Hinako's classmate and best friend.


    Ukina Misuzawa 

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Hinako's classmate who was introduced stealing panties for Kuroko.


  • Covert Pervert: She looks normal at first, but she met Kuroko in an erotic online game.
  • Mission Control: She serves as this for Kuroko during the School Destruction arc, thanks to all the cameras she placed around the school to give her footage of the girls.
  • Potty Failure: She pisses herself when she walks in on Rinko murdering a man.
  • Running Gag: Her various potty failures.

    Narumi Momoyama 

Narumi Momoyama/Theresa

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An impulsive and tomboyish young woman who becomes close with Kuroko after dissolving the Virginal Rose cult. She is outwardly hotheaded, confident, and vulgar, but she often reveals her vulnerable and anxious side to people she's close to or during dangerous and traumatic situations. She also has a crush on Chiyo and has a talent for fishing, which she teaches Hinako on omakes.


  • Cool Big Sis: To the rest of the Virginal Rose former members after its dissolution.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: After losing to Chiyo in the Virginal Rose arc, Narumi later makes up with her and the two girls develop a steady friendship.
  • Long Lost Sibling: She turns out to be Terumi's sister and is the one responsible for him going to prison in the first place. Her guilt over this is part of the reason she joined Virginal Rose.

    Yuria Fujinami 

Yuria Fujinami

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The director of the public hospital, and one of Kuroko's many lovers.


  • Big Sister Bully: Towards her brother Kanji, who is terrified of her.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A doctor who shamelessly drinks, smokes, and even has sex in the hospital.
  • Oral Fixation: She gets anxious if she doesn't have something in her mouth, so she's usually seen with an unlit cigarette.

    Ran Sabiura 

Ran Sabiura

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An extremely muscular friend of Kuroko. She's the champion of an underground fight ring, and otherwise works as a club bartender during the day.


  • Amazonian Beauty: She's a huge lady with a massive torso, muscles and scars all over her arms. Despite this she's very attractive, to the point where Kuroko offers her to settle their fighting feud by having sex.
  • Badass Adorable: Surprisingly enough, she is very cute for a hulking behemoth of a woman covered in battle scars, thanks to having a very kindhearted personality and various adorable expressions.
  • Blood Knight: When Kuroko asks her for a favor, she asks for a rematch as a payment. She's very eager to fight, despite having lost against Kuroko before.
  • Boisterous Bruiser: Friendly, cheerful, and always looking for a good fight.
  • Butch Lesbian: She's pretty boyish and muscular, and is another of Kuroko's girlfriends.
  • Covered in Scars: Her arms and hands almost have more scar tissue than actual skin.
  • Cute Giant: She's the size of a truck, but has a friendly and sweet personality and regularly makes adorable expressions.
  • Dumb Muscle: She's not too bright.
  • Gentle Giant: Very kind for a scar-covered amazon involved in underground fights.
  • Honor Before Reason: She doesn't want to help Kuroko simply because it would make it an 'unfair' two-on-one.
  • In-Series Nickname: Kuroko calls her Urara.
  • Made of Iron: Tanked a Razor Floss attack which could cleave concrete pillars with her bare arms, and although it hurt her greatly, she walked off with nothing more than a scratch.
  • Major Injury Underreaction:Getting her finger completely broken by the Sewer Monster doesn't even make her flinch.
  • Would Not Hit a Girl: Despite being a woman herself, she refuses to fight other women, sans Kuroko, of course.

    Noel Tokakushi 

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A young girl whose father was killed by the Skin Collector, and she later finds herself victim of kidnapper Yuusuke Arima.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: She first appeared during the D.K. Domestic Killer arc, but only gained a name and prominence during the Punishing Love arc, 15 volumes later.
  • Damsel in Distress: Her kidnapping by Arima drives the plot of the Punishing Love arc. Rinko is particularly hellbent on rescuing her since she feels guilty for killing Noel's father.
  • Official Couple: With Rinko.

    Micchan 

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A prostitute hired by Kuroko, who becomes a regular client for her. She only appears in omake chapters.


  • Three-Way Sex: She has a threesome with Kuroko and another prostitute in one omake.

    Jun Okiishi 

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Urara's boss at the bar who also runs the underground fighting ring Destoroyah.

Metropolitan Police Department

    Tougo Mitsurugi 

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An inspector and section manager for the Investigations Unit, Mitsurugi is in charge of keeping tabs on Kuroko. Originally part of the Special Assault Team, he was first on the scene during one of Kuroko's missions. Curious about why she was let off scot-free, he tried to dig into it, and was forced into being her overseer.


  • Cigarette of Anxiety: He's trying to quit, but keeps slipping back into the habit whenever Kuroko comes up.
  • Cynicism Catalyst: His wife's disappearence, after which he turned into a shadow of his former self.
  • Kicked Upstairs: He was punished for looking into why Kuroko was being used by the government, and taken out of his assault team to be her overseer.
  • That One Case: For him, it was his wife going missing in Insumasu. He eventually discovers that she was killed by Cobalt to use her brain as a sample for his experiments.
  • You Killed My Father: He angrily demands Cobalt to tell him why he killed his wife. He gives him a good beating, but holds back and arrests him rather than killing him.

    Chacha Kimihara 

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Mitsurugi's rookie assistant, Kimihara is a small, cute police officer who is new to Kuroko's unique method of dealing with criminals. She seems to have a relationship with Reiko.


  • Beleaguered Assistant: She frequently has to put up with Kuroko getting touchy-feely with her, especially since the latter often does so at inappropriate moments (such as at crime scenes).
  • Embarrassing First Name: Once Kuroko finds out her first name is Chacha, she teases Kimihara about it to no end and is visibly irritated by it.
  • Mission Control: The one who gives Reiko her assignments.

    Isuzu Kujihara 

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An inspector for the police, and manager of the investigations unit, Kujihara is the superior of Mitsurugi and Sudou.


  • Big Beautiful Woman: Isuzu is a very portly woman with notably large cheeks. Her figure stands out in a manga where most of the female characters are thin and voluptuous. But she wears her weight well and is presented as a forthright, attractive woman.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: She is very willing to make concessions for Mitsurugi, and helps him out on various cases.

    Akeomi Sudou 
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Superintendent and chief detective, Akeomi is an old friend of Tougo's.


    Saburouta Kasagi 
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Chief investigator of the homicide unit, Saburouta is a zealous upholder of justice. As such he is vehemently against using Kuroko to do what he considers police work.


  • Eye Scream: In the "Sakura of Oblivion" arc, one of his eyes ends up getting stabbed out by Yukio Senzaki.

    Makoto Kyougoku 
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A major, and Unit 5 Section Chief, Makoto is an officer in large support of using Kuroko, arguing that she's done as they've asked so far and it's better to fight poison with poison.


  • Eyes Always Shut: He is always portrayed as having his eyes closed. Wrinkles around his eyes make it seem specifically like he's squinting. His eyes don't open even when he is disarming a traitor with a chemical weapon.
  • Smug Snake: Directly called as such by Saburouta.

    Mukoujima 
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A rookie cop.


    Akira Yamabuki 

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Doctor of the forensics department. Apparently in a relationship with Yuria.

Murder Party

    Yukari 

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The loyal maid and servant of Hyoue Satori, Yukari was a friend of Satori's deceased daughter. She was the one who suggested the parties to lure in criminals and have them executed, and sent out the invites. But despite her demure appearance, she's also physically capable of defending herself and her master.


  • An Arm and a Leg: Loses one of each during her fight with Kuroko. Her right arm is cut by a saw, and her left one is broken by Kuroko.
  • The Bus Came Back: She later appears with Arianna And she's shown to serve Hakua..
  • Dance Battler: Engages in this in order to activate certain traps.
  • The Dragon: To Satori, being responsible for gathering criminals for his "murder parties", as well as the one who came up with the idea in the first place.
  • Feels No Pain: Which seems to be an acquired skill, and not something she was born with naturally.
  • I Owe You My Life: Says so to Miyuki, stating she would never harm the woman that stopped Kuroko from killing her.
  • Mortality Phobia: Despite her inability to feel pain, she states she has no desire to die.
  • My Master, Right or Wrong: She unquestionably follows every order givem by her master who may not be Satori.
  • Ninja Maid: Takes care of the massive mansion that Hyoue Satori owns, and is a dangerous, difficult opponent that fights using trickery and illusions. All while wearing a full, frilly maid outfit.
  • Three-Way Sex: With Sayaka and Hakua.
  • Weak, but Skilled: A practitioner of Aikido, allowing her to overpower more physically-capable opponents.

    Terumi Momoyama 

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One of the criminals invited to the Murder Party, Momoyama is an underground fighter who was guilty of killing his opponent several times. He ends up being the first criminal ever to make it to Satori's office, but ends up losing against Yukari and another trap seemingly ends his life...


  • An Arm and a Leg: Loses his left hand to Yukari, and then his entire right arm to one of the mansion's traps.
  • Arrow Catch: With both hands and his mouth simultaneously.
  • Barehanded Blade Block: Right after the above Arrow Catch.
  • Blatant Lies: He claims the murder that ended his career was an accident, while he's clearly shown gleefuly tearing his opponent apart.
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: Has superhuman strength and resistance from his illegal fighting carrer.
  • Delinquent Hair: He has a mohawk in order to emphasize his boisterous nature and tendency to leap into action. He loses this hairstyle after the events of the Murder Party arc, emphasizing his now calmer and less reckless personality.
  • Invulnerable Knuckles: Able to punch through big heavy doors and several of the traps.
  • Not Quite Dead: He was assumed dead after having various parts of his body dismembered and sent through another trapdoor. This turns out to have only given him amnesia and he returns later on.

    Cobalt Conrad 

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A physics professor, and one of the criminals invited to the Murder Party, Conrad is one of the five survivors of the slaughter that takes place in the foyer, and follows along with Kuroko. He ends up surviving the mansion and leaves with the others.


  • Affably Evil: A very cultured and amiable person even when he tortures people.
  • Ambiguously Brown: He has a darker skin tone and a western-sounding name, but his ethnicity isn't discussed at any point aside from Hinako giving a friendly greeting to him in Engrish due to recognizing him as a foreigner. Given his hair texture and hooked nose, it's most likely that he's of middle-eastern descent.
  • Badass Bookworm: Able to calculate the angle needed to deflect lasers back at themselves with shards of reflective glass, on the fly.
  • Bad Boss: He was about to kill a henchman of his for failing him, but Kuroko beat him to the punch.
  • Blade Enthusiast: He carries around multiple copies of the same knife and takes great pride in their craftsmanship. He's able to pull out at least six without worrying about running low on his stock.
  • Cynicism Catalyst: His brother's murder is what made him obsessed with finding out why people commit crimes.
  • For Science!: He collects human brains to determine the cause of criminality.
  • Hidden Depths: The reason he was selected to come to the Murder Party isn't explicitly stated, but given his collection of knives, there's clearly something more to him
    • "The Deep One" Arc reveals that he's been collecting brains to see what makes criminals do what they do, and it's heavily implied that he killed some of the people he took brains from, including Tougo's wife Asahi.
  • Moral Myopia: Averted, he's very aware that his actions make him a criminal no different from the ones he studies, which is why he wants his own brain preserved after his death.
  • "Not So Different" Remark: He tells Mitsurugi that they're both cut from the same cloth since they both lost someone important to them.

    Miyuki 

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Originally a cute blonde Kuroko meets on the street when she was about to be raped by delinquents, Miyuki meets Kuroko once more at the Murder Party. She states that her only crime was minor shoplifting...


  • Mysterious Past: There's definitely something up with Miyuki, but it's not made clear what she's done, precisely. Compared to the other criminals during the Murder Party arc, her supposed crime is so minor as to seem out of place. She also seems to have no regard for the danger around her.

Rose-coloured Prison

     Matoi Kariyasu 

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A classmate of Ukina's whose sister Nanami got inducted into the Virginal Rose cult.


  • Sister-Sister Incest: She pretends to be asleep so she can enjoy Nanami groping her.
  • Three-Way Sex: She has a threesome with Kuroko and Nanami as thanks for rescuing her.

     Nanami Kariyasu 

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Matoi's sister and an idol who goes under the stage name of Anna. She entered the Virginal Rose cult after her career failed.


    Arianna/Sayaka Nogami 

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A girl who joined Virginal Rose to escape from her abusive father.


    Polina/Shiho Terazaka 

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An excitable girl who was taken to Virginal Rose by her grandmother.


Between Sora and Me

    Sora Kitagami 

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The last girl kidnapped by the Rainy Day Killer, and the only survivor. Rinko later transfers to her class.


    Hibari Kitagami 

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Sora's mother. Decades ago, she offered a piece of candy to a homeless man, unwittingly creating a monster that would end up abducting her daughter.


  • Death Glare: Gives one to the Rainy Day Killer when he begs to see her smile, what with him having tried to murder her daughter.
  • Romancing the Widow: Kuroko finds her very hot, and manages to sleep with her.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her small act of kindness towards a stranger resulted in that stranger becoming a serial killer of children in a quest to find her. And this would in turn lead to the creation of another serial killer from a bereaved father who lost his child to the first serial killer.

School Destruction

     Misuzu Kujihara 

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A tomboyish classmate of Rinko and Sora, long-time friends with the latter.


  • Childhood Friend Romance: She harbours a crush on Sora and wants to marry her.
  • Mistaken for Cheating: Several moments with Rinko leads Sora to believe they're going out.
  • Not What It Looks Like: When she offers Rinko to touch her boobs to get on her good sides, Sora walks in on them and mistakes it for something more intimate.
  • Tomboy: Boyish and good at sports (even if her breasts are a hindrance).

    Minako Suou 

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A shy girl who is a victim of bullying.


  • Beware the Quiet Ones: The meek and quiet girl turns out be a Yandere who planned to bomb the school, and later, a rapist and abuser.
  • Domestic Abuse: She turns into an abusive and violent girlfriend towards Fuuri after raping her.
  • Mad Bomber: She planted a bomb on the school before her plans were interfered by Marie.
  • Meganekko: Of the shy and quiet variety. She later provides grenades for Kuroko.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: She seems to have enjoyed raping Fuuri with ping-pong balls. She also enjoys torturing her with centipedes.
  • Official Couple: An abusive one with Fuuri.
  • Rape and Revenge: She was raped while blindfolded by a gang of bullies. However, after Fuuri comforts her sex, she realises it was Fuuri herself who raped her, having recognised her fingers, and planned to kill her. She ends up raping her instead.
  • Yandere: Towards Fuuri, whom she was planning to kill. She eventually is satisfied with raping her

     Fuuri Sakaki 

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Minako's girlfriend, and leader of a gang of bullies who torment her.


  • Alpha Bitch: Of a group of bullies, one of which was involved with an even more violent group of street Delinquents.
  • Bad Boss: She kills her own cronies to save her own skin at Kuroko's threats.
  • Break the Haughty: After being raped by Minako, she goes from a violent bully to a meek and broken girl.
  • Karmic Rape: After raping Minako (and comforting her afterwards), she is herself raped by her.
  • Official Couple: With Minako.
  • Stockholm Syndrome: After Minako rapes her, their relationship turns hella abusive.

    Mari Mitsukara 

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The principal of Minamo Academy.


  • Always Someone Better: The "someone better" to Marie
  • Nepotism: Possibly the reason why she "inherited" the position of headmaster from her mother.

Sakura Of Oblivion

    Aiko Reisen/Shizuka Matsumae 

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A secretary for a Diet member who secretely works for the Sakura-pruning Society.


    Yukio Senzaki 

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A serial killer now working for the Sakura-pruning Society. He was once arrested for shoplifting, with nobody realising he was a wanted serial killer.


  • Abusive Parents: An omake illustration shows he was brutally beaten up by his father as a child.
  • Axe-Crazy: He's seriously unhinged and possibly a drug addict. Only Higaki can keep him on a leash.
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: More like blade inside the shoulder. He can somehow keep long blades inside his arms and draw them out when necessary, which is why his own blood was found in his victims' bodies.
  • Gonk: He looks like a meth addict, with a skeletal body, sunken eyes, creepy smile, and a weird way of walking.
  • Serial Killer: He undiscriminately killed dozens before joining the Sakura-pruning Society.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: He walks out in the middle of the day, despite his face being known to police, and asks for directions to the police station, obviously intending to kill everyone there before the police can raid the Sakura-prunning Society's base and capture Higaki. This of course results in the police knowing ahead of time with plenty of time to prepare for him, and it ends with him getting mulched by the same policemen he was planning on killing before he can so much as draw any of his weapons.
  • Wall Crawl: He can somehow climb walls, possibly using his knife.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: He looks up to Higaki as a father, which is why he is willing to do anything he says.
  • Would Hurt a Child: He killed a Diet member's son alongside him, impaling them both.

White Meteor

    Saki Tokiwa 

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A scientist expert in robotics.


     Shin Tatewaki 

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A scientist with a grudge against Saki.


  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Half of his face burned after an accident during an experiment.
  • Humongous Mecha: His ultimate invention, which he uses to attempt to kill Saki.
  • Mad Scientist: Considered this by the scientific community for his crazy ideas of giant robots, despite the fact that his invention worked.
  • Say My Name: "TOOOOKIWAAAAA!"
  • Unknown Rival: He wants to take revenge on Saki for a reason she ignores.

The Deep One

     Suiren Nagatsuki 

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A girl from the fishing town of Insumasu who serves as Kuroko's guide during her investigation.


  • Japanese Christian: Her father was one, but she admits not being very pious, and also that the faith of the town is quite different from mainstream Christianity.
  • Memento Macguffin: The rosary she received from her father. A chipped bead indicates a hidden passage under one of the towns lamps.
  • You Killed My Father: She intended to kill Masaki for being involved in her father's death, before being stopped by Hinako and Kuroko.

    Masaki and Masako Okuhara 

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A mother and son duo working as nun and priest respectively of the church of Insumasu. They secretely provide criminals for Cobalt to experiment on.


  • Momma's Boy: Masaki is completely dependent on his mother despite being on his 40s or 50s.
  • Nun Too Holy: Masako is a nun willing to commit any crime to keep her son happy.
  • Sinister Minister: Downplayed. Masaki only helps Cobalt because he's desperate for money to keep the church going, and he is wrecked by guilt for delivering his own parioshioners to be killed.
  • Villainous Incest: Masako apparently breastfeeds Masaki despite her elderly age.

Master Swordsman

    Ukon Miyamoto 

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One of the most renowned swordsmen in Japan, and Hikaru and Kurono's grandfather.


  • Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Downplayed. He wanted Hikaru to stop practicing swordsmanship, but only because he genuinely believed that it wasn't her talent and she should focus on something else. He saw Kurono's obsession with training Hikaru as unhealthy and selfish.
  • Handicapped Badass: He lost an eye against Kurono, and both legs to Hikaru-posessed-by-Kurono. Despite this, he was able to throw himself against Kuroko to test her strength.

The Entertainer

     Mario Legacy/Mario Suzukashi 

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The owner and ringmaster of Bugg-Sash Circus. He's also secretely "Comedy Writer", an anonymous entertainer who made elaborate but dangerous public shows involving civilians.


  • Jack the Ripoff: A peculiar case since he's the original Comedy Writer, but he decides to imitate the crime of his own imitator.
  • Mass Hypnosis: The trick behind Comedy Writer's public acts.
  • Noble Demon: Despite the ilegallity of his performances as Comedy Writer, he takes great pride in never harming civilians during them, which is why an accident resulting in several deaths during the "human bridge" performance lead to him abandoning that path.
  • Non-Ironic Clown: He used to be this in his days as a street performer.
  • Stage Magician: He introduces himself to the audience performing a hat trick with a dove after a human statue act.

    Chiiharu Shiki 

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A knife-throwing performer at Bugg-Sash Circus.


  • Brainwashed and Crazy: A combination of pseudo-Cesare and hypnosis caused him to throw a knife at Tona.
  • Sins of Our Fathers: His father destroyed the circus' reputation with his statements regarding the death of a performer, which is why Mario chose him as a scapegoat for his alibi.

     Tona and her sister 

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A pair of performers at Bugg-Sash Circus who love each other as sisters (and more).


    Iwao Terada 

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An old detective who came back to investigate the comeback of Comedy Writer.


     Masahiro Terada 

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Iwao's son and an investigator in the police force.


Magic-Bullet Archer

    Zenpachi Kurogane 

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A member of the Yamaoka gang who returned after seven years in jail.
  • Agent Peacock: Despite being a yakuza member, he proudly wears high heels.
  • Armed Legs: His weapon of choice are his sharp stilettos.
  • Big Brother Instinct: He has known Chiyo since she was small, so he's strongly protective of her.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's a tough, manly, yakuza member whose famed for his strength and power, but he goes around wearing stilettos, which are his weapon of choice as he uses them as a stabbing tool.
  • Even the Guys Want Him: He's rather handsome in spite of his thuggish features, such as his sharp teeth, intimdating looking stubble, and how he constantly wears sunglasses, and Hazuki Sendou lusts after him.
  • Extremity Extremist: His fighting style consists of him using only his legs to strike with his stilettos.

Criminals

    Psych Ward Escapee 

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The villain of the pilot chapter, the unnamed patient of the local psych ward escaped and went on a killing spree. Kuroko took him down in a single chapter by proving she was the better killer.


  • Attention Whore: Kuroko considers him to be this; an amateur killer with no finesse who only wants ot be in the spotlight, to the point of calling the police to report his own location.
  • Axe-Crazy: He has a perpetually crazed expression on his face, and he's passionate about killing and mutilating people.
  • Ludicrous Gibs: Kuroko ensures this is all that remains of his body so he can't be identified.
  • No Name Given: He isn't given a name in the story.
  • Off with His Head!: He is introduced decapitating several dozen people in a train.
  • Razor Floss: His weapon of choice.
  • Slasher Smile: His default expression.
  • Starter Villain: Dangerous and formidable as he is, he's just a warm-up to the long list of even deadlier villains Kuroko and gang have to deal with.
  • Wicked Cultured: Massacres people while singing 'Ode to Joy' in German.
  • The Worf Effect: He's overwhelmed by Kuroko to establish just how dangerous she is, and to make matters even worse for him, he gets humiliated by her by being verbally torn apart by Kuroko, who calls him an Attention Whore, an amateur, and that he has no finesse and wants to seem cool and quirky, and even just lets him die instead of killing him herself.

    Tasuku Iimura 

Tasuku Iimura

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The villain of "The Cost of Strength" chapters. A former wrestler, he turned to doping, thinking that if he was stronger, his fans would watch him again. Unfortunately, the drug he used made him more beast than man...


  • Boom, Headshot!: Kuroko had to shoot point-blank into the back of his head to put him down.
  • Face: He originally played this role in pro wrestling. Even in his doped-up state, he hallucinates that his victims are actually wrestlers playing the Heel role, and bystanders are the audience.
  • Feels No Pain: The drug Cesare has a side effect where users lose all sense of pain. This is best seen when he attempts to stop a speeding car and doesn't react to his bones literally being shoved out of his skin.
  • Friend to All Children: Before his drug problem.
  • Immune to Bullets: In his drugged-up state, bullets simply bounce off his skin, as several unfortunate police officers discovered.
  • No Name Given: His name isn't revealed until an end-of-volume page. In Kuroko's own words:
    Kuroko: Our target is a former wrestler and druggy. His name doesn't matter.
  • Super-Strength: What Cesare has granted him. He is even capable of literally tearing people in half.
  • Tragic Monster: When sane, he wasn't a bad guy, and an extra page even shows that he was a Friend to All Children. Unfortunately, doping has reduced him to little more than a savage monster.
  • Unwitting Pawn: If Cobalt's words are to be believed, he was probably this to the Mastemind, having a microchip implanted in his body for monitoring.

    Hyoue Satori 

Hyoue Satori

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The Arc Villain of the "Murder Party" Arc, Satori is an old man who has built a gigantic manor and invited several people, who he deemed criminals, there to party. However, he has rigged the manor with all manners of death traps, intending to kill each and every one of his guests. He is eventually killed by Reiko.


  • All Crimes Are Equal: He evidently believes this. Violent crimes, white-collar crimes, and even shoplifting are all enough to make one deserving of an invitation to his murder party.
  • Black Eyes of Evil: His eyes are pitch-black in color, giving him a rather unnerving look.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His love for his family was genuine, and their deaths turned him into the man he is today.
  • Evil Cripple: Needs a wheelchair
  • Evil Old Folks: This man looks more like a mummy than a human being.
  • Fiction 500: He spent over 100 billion yen (10^11) to build his mansion filled with death traps.
  • Knight Templar: He is determined to make sure criminals pay for their crimes, and his method of doing so is having them butchered. He also believes that God will save those who are innocent, so there's no need to feel bad for those who die.
  • Non-Action Big Bad: He's extremely old and wheelchair-bound, so he leaves the fighting to Yukari while he limits himself to pressing buttons to activate traps.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: He gathers criminals from all over Japan and has them killed in order to make Japan a better place.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: His daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter were killed by criminals. As a result, he decided that he would kill every criminal he could get his hands on.
  • Serial Killer: Although not quite a Serial-Killer Killer since he kills people who have commited all sorts of crimes. He also doesn't consider himself a killer as he has never directly killed anyone, only put them in deadly traps.
  • Super Wheelchair: His wheelchair has several machine guns built into it, but he gets crushed by Hinako dropping a boat on him before getting a chance to use them.
  • The Lost Lenore: First his wife, and then the rest of his family, which sunk him into a depression of which he was pulled out by Yukari and her suggestion of holding "parties" to massacre criminals.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Possibly of his granddaughter.

    Takeru Asagi 

Takeru Asagi

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One of the antagonists of the "D-K Domestic Killer" Arc. Born Toshiyuki Asada as the son of a Diet Member, Takeru used to be a Serial Killer known as the 'Skin Collector.' Supposedly reformed and now the head of the Asagi Electric company, he has become a person of interest once bodies with their faces peeled off begin turning up again.


  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: A vibrating knife mde his company that can cut through anything with no resistance.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being a dangerous killer, his love for his family was genuine, if a bit twisted. He even took the blame for his wife's death in order to protect the true culprit: his daughter.
  • Face Stealer: His M.O. was taking the faces of his victims. Rinko has taken this up as well.
  • Reformed Criminal: A former Serial Killer who is now the owner of a company. He's still a vicious fighter and his murderous impulses are still there.
  • Serial Killer: He used to kill women and take their faces. The discovery of bodies of men and children without faces is a clue that he is not responsible for the recent murders.
  • Snuff Film: He kept a collection of videos of his own murders, which was eventually discoverd by his daughter.
  • So Proud of You: A twisted version. He's proud that his little Rinko has learned to kill, just like her dad, even when her first victim was his own wife/her own mother. Kuroko noted how it's the ultimate narcissism, to see one's offspring have become like themselves.

    Gold Marie 

Yoshino Koganei

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The main antagonist of the "Rose-Colored Prison" Arc, Gold Marie is a member of the Virginal Rose cult. A serene-looking woman, her gentle smile hides some rather dark secrets.


  • Buxom Beauty Standard Has an impressive bust, making it easy for her to seduce Kuroko.
  • Dissonant Serenity: She rarely loses her temper, opens her eyes or raises her voice. This only serves to make her all the more uncanny once the darker aspects of Virginal Rose start to emerge.
  • Does Not Like Men: A particularly horrifying example. She was raped when she was younger, and the rape caused her to see men as filthy creatures. This dislike also caused her to mutilate and alter her own younger brother to be more woman-like.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Gets impaled by her own pendulum scythe
  • Not Quite Dead: In the "Till Death Do Us Part" arc, it's revealed she barely survived getting hit by her own scythe, and what's left of her body had been sewn onto her younger brother by Hakua. Narumi finally puts an end to her suffering at the end of the arc.
  • Rape as Backstory: She was raped by three men when she was younger. They paid for it with their lives.
  • You Have Failed Me: She "graduates" one of her members for spilling a bag of fertilizer.

    Rose Marie (Unmarked spoilers!) 

Kicho Koganei

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Rose Marie is, at first glance, the leader of the Virginal Rose cult. However, Rose Marie is actually Gold Marie's younger brother, having been mutilated to be more woman-like due to Gold Marie's trauma over being raped.

He makes a return as the main antagonist of the "Till Death Do Us Part" arc, having devolved into a rabid beast with a horrific hunger for blood. He lurks in the sewers and drags in unfortunate victims to feast on.


  • Bloodlust: In the "Till Death Do Us Part" arc, he kills people to drain them of blood. This is because he has his older sister sewn onto him with blood constantly leaking from her eyes, requiring him to replenish the lost blood through his feeding.
  • Body Horror: The reveal of his lower half shows that his genitals have been sliced off, leaving a horrific scar between his legs. When he reappears in the "Till Death Do Us Part" arc, he has part of his older sister sewn onto his back.
  • Honey Trap: His role in the revenge plot against his sister's rapists. He dressed up as a beautiful girl to lure them in and kill them.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After his sister had been raped, he helped her get revenge on her rapists by dressing up as a girl to get them to lower their guard so that she could stab them all to death.
  • Running on All Fours: In the "Till Death Do Us Part" arc, he moves around on all fours at terrifying speed, emphasizing how his mind has degenerated into that of an animal following its most basic instincts.
  • Tragic Monster: He started as a loving younger brother who wanted to help his sister get back at her rapists. However, his sister ends up mutilating him to look more like a woman due to her trauma, causing him to lose his mind in the process. He is later experimented on by Hakua and then tossed out after she deemed her experiment a failure. By the time Kuroko and the others find him, he has devolved into a feral animal who can't even remember who he used to be anymore.
  • Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Initially thought to be a woman, the scar on his crotch reveals that he's actually a man who went through a forced castration and sex change operation.

    The Rainy Day Killer 

Shouichi Kagimura

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The main antagonist of the "Gap Between the Sky and I" Arc, the Rainy Day Killer is a hulking man who abducts little girls on rainy days and strangles them to death. He seems to be searching for someone...


  • Beard of Evil: One of his most distinguishing features is a long beard.
  • Berserk Button: If there's one thing he hates more than anything, it's being lied to. It's heavily implied that he had been betrayed by people he trusted, which led to him feeling down and that one little girl giving him candy on that rainy day.
  • Crazy Homeless People: He lives in an abandoned steelworks factory, and is a delusional serial killer.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: His actions are the catalyst for the "Punishing Love" arc; one of his victims is a little girl named Tsumugi, and Tsumugi's father would be so stricken by grief that he ended up abducting girls to become his daughter's substitute, becoming the Big Bad of the arc.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Kuroko finally brings him down by impaling him with a steel girder.
  • Living Doll Collector: He keeps the mummified corpses of his dozens of victims inside his warehouse.
  • Made of Iron: Even after Rinko cuts both his arms off, stabs him with several knives, and lops one of his feet off, he's still able to move. It takes Kuroko slamming a steel girder through his body before he finally goes down for the count.
  • Mysterious Past: All that's known about his past is that he was betrayed by one or more people in a matter regarding a job or contract, leaving him homeless.
  • Obliviously Evil: He doesn't seem to fully comprehend the consequences of strangling little girls to death in anger. When he captures Sora, he presents her the corpses of his victims as "friends". His stat chart gives him a 5 in Abnormality, indicating a severe mental illness and detachment from reality.
  • Scary Shiny Glasses: He wears a pair of glasses that hide his eyes to make him more intimidating.
  • Serial Killer: He killed 47 little girls in his attempt to reunite with the little girl who showed him kindness many years ago.
  • Tragic Villain: He's been driven mad by a combination of being betrayed by multiple people he had trusted, losing his job, and being forced into homelessness, rendering him so completely insane that he isn't able to function properly, due to being so detached from reality. Plus, it's hard not to pity him in his final moments, as he cries out for Sora, futilely reaching for her as she and her mother leave, begging for the girl to comfort him with a smile, and to not leave him alone as he apologizes.
  • Unwitting Pawn: A chip found inside him indicates he's one of the many pawns used by "the mastermind".
  • Would Hurt a Child: His victims are all little girls. This is because he's searching for a little girl who gave him kind words and a piece of candy many years ago.

    The Marimo Academy Bomber (Unmarked Spoilers!) 

Marie Misaka

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The main antagonist of the "School Destruction" Arc, Marie is a P.E. teacher at Marimo Academy. She feels murderous resentment towards Mari Mitsukura, the Academy Head.


  • Alliterative Name: Marie Misaka. The head of the academy has the same alliteration, and a flashback shows that they started to become friends after recognizing this.
  • Always Second Best: When they were younger, Marie felt that she was always second best compared to Mari. This feeling festered and led her to attempt to commit murder-suicide.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: Minako kills her with Kuroko's encouragement using the pointy tip of a flag, but the act itself is not shown.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: She was consumed by jealousy for Mari, from how easily she obtained her position as director.
  • Mad Bomber: After destroying the gym, she straps a bunch of dynamite to herself in order to kill herself and Mari.
  • Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: She was in a relationship with Mari back in school. It's not known when or why the split up, byt now Marie wants to kill her and herself.
  • Spanner in the Works: She happens to find Minako's explosives and decides to use them for her own revenge scheme.
  • Taking You with Me: Marie's final explosion was meant to have two casualties: Mari and herself.
  • We Used to Be Friends: Marie and Mari were once best friends, and a bonus image even showed that they were sexually intimate during their high school years. However, the difference between their abilities caused Marie's love to turn into something uglier, leading to her attempted murder-suicide.

    Toukichirou Higaki 

Toukichirou Higaki

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The main antagonist of the "Sakura of Oblivion" Arc, Higaki once led a right wing extremist group called the Senjin Lions. Now, after being broken out of prison by his loyal followers, he now leads an ultra-nationalist militia called the Ousen Group and has declared war against Japan's current government.


  • Death Seeker: It's eventually revealed that dying in battle is his true goal, due to feeling guilty over not being able to fight and die for his country during World War II.
  • Evil Old Folks: Higaki grew up during World War II, and Japan's defeat forged him into the man he is today.
  • Improbable Weapon User: He mainly fights by throwing nails with deadly force.

    Kurono Miyamoto (Unmarked Spoilers!) 

Kurono Miyamoto

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The main antagonist of the "Master Swordsman" Arc, Kurono Miyamoto is the oldest daughter of the Miyamoto family and a kendo prodigy. She was reported missing a few years ago, but has seemingly reappeared and is killing other kendo practitioners. She is actually Hikaru Miyamoto, who developed a split personality based on her sister after her death.


  • The Ace: Kurono was an absolute prodigy when it came to the sword, something that her younger sister Hikaru both admired and felt discouraged by. When the Kurono split personality takes over Hikaru, she proves her skills are still top-notch by killing other highly skilled swordsmen and taking on both Kuroko and Rinko simultaneously with little difficulty.
  • Advancing Boss of Doom: Even after making the fight as unfair as possible, Kuroko is scared shitless of her, and her tactic is to run and stall as much time as possible until Kurono's host body reaches its limit. Considering she takes on Kuroko and Rinko with ease, that's pretty much the only way they can win against her.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Kurono's younger sister Hikaru was the world to her, and she was determined to help Hikaru master the sword. Unfortunately, said protective instinct became murderous, and even in death she's more than willing to strike out at those she feels hurt her sister.
  • Blood Knight: The prospect of a duel against another swordsman is enough to rile Kurono up, and she's hellbent on finishing any fight she's involved in.
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: She stands above the rest in a world where this trope is in full play, thanks to her Year Inside, Hour Outside existence. Kuroko has to defeat her through endurance because nothing else works.
  • Dual Wielding: Kurono is proficient enough with the sword that she can wield two katanas simultaneously with ease.
  • Handicapped Badass: As powerful as she is, Kurono is hampered by the fact that she's using Hikaru's weaker body. As a result, she needs to watch how long and hard she fights to avoid breaking her beloved sister.
  • Heel–Face Turn: After being assured that Hikaru is in good company, she passes peacefully, but she's not truly gone. When Hazuki's rampage threatens Hikaru, she returns to protect her sister by scaring and breaking Hazuki (though Reiko deals the finishing blow).
  • Horrifying the Horror: Kurono's swordsmanship is so impeccable, Kuroko knows that to fight her head-on is tantamount to suicide, even for her. And in a later arc, a perverted killer is terrified shitless to the point his hair turns white from terror.
  • Killing Intent: When facing Sendou, the Kurono personality emits a killing intent that is so potent that Sendou feels like he's being eviscerated even though Kurono is only wielding a wooden sword.
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's not entirely confirmed if she's a true split personality, or Kurono's ghost posessing Hikaru as she believes herself.
  • Master Swordsman: Kurono is an absolute beast of a swordswoman and one of the greatest physical threats Kuroko ever faced. Even with the help of explosives and snipers, Kuroko is often forced to go on the defensive against Kurono's terrifying swordswomanship. She's notably the first villain who managed to land a direct hit on Kuroko, defeating her reflexes.
  • Meaningful Name: Her supreme skill with swords and preference for wielding one in each hand, combined with her surname, are clearly a reference towards Miyamoto Musashi.
  • Split Personality: The Kurono responsible for the killings is actually a split personality of Hikaru, born from Hikaru's guilt over accidentally killing her. She'll occasionally take over her sister's body in order to kill.
  • Year Inside, Hour Outside: Her life inside Hikaru's mind apparently amounted to centuries or a millenium, allowing her to train her swordsmanship to an unprecedented level.

    Hazuki Sendou 

Hazuki Sendou

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The main antagonist of the "Magic-Bullet Archer" arc, Hazuki Sendou is a young man whose skills with the rapier have been likened to a demon. When a body completely riddled with holes is discovered, he becomes the prime suspect.


  • Ambiguously Gay: He bears a sexual interest in fighting Zenpachi, however, it's known that he had a girlfriend at one point. The boss of the Raijou gang mentions he never sowed any interest in men or women before meeting Zenpachi.
  • The Berserker: The leader of the Raijou gang noticed that after Sendou lost against Zenpachi, his fighting style became much more brutal, even describing him changing from a "chivalrous knight" to a "wild beast."
  • Berserk Button: He hates being called a liar, and he killed his girlfriend when he was a teen over it.
  • Blood Knight: Sendou loves fighting so much that he's often seen sporting an erection when he goes in for the kill.
  • The Dreaded: Due to his frightening skills with the rapier and the brutality he inflicted on his opponents, Sendou's presence in the Raijou gang was enough to make other gangs hesitant to challenge the Raijou. Even the leader of the Raijou gang was terrified of him.
  • Interplay of Sex and Violence: Simply imagining fighting against Zenpachi causes him to pop a Raging Stiffie, and when he actually gets to do it, he is shown to have jizzed in his pants.
  • Locked into Strangeness: When he faces off against Hikaru, the Kurono personality's killing intent scares him so much that his hair changes from black to white and he's reduced to a screaming wreck.
  • Master Swordsman: Even at a young age, Sendou is practically unmatched when it came to fencing. His pinpoint accuracy and brutal fighting style made him feared in the underworld. While his talents are not as great as Kurono Miyamoto's, he is still a force to be reckoned with.
  • Trash of the Titans: His home is a dumpster full of trash and cockroaches. Funnily enough, Kasagi comments it's not nearly as messy as his college room.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Sendou is more than willing to kill women. His first appearance has him attacking Chiyo completely unprovoked, and he later tried to kill Hikaru after mistaking her for her older sister Kurono.
  • Undignified Death: He winds up being repeatedly scared by Kurono so much that it's a miracle that he didn't relieve himself out of fear, and it should be noted that Kurono didn't even really attack him. She just terrorized him over and over again with her Killing Intent, and he was actually finished off by Reiko, and he's practically forgotten afterwards as if were a cheap piece of trash, with the closest thing he gets to acknowledgement is Kuroko complaining that Reiko stole her kill from her. To make things even more humiliating for him, he also had a chestnut thrown at him by Hinako.

    Yuusuke Arima 

Yuusuke Arima

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The main antagonist of the "Punishing Love" arc, Yuusuke Arima is a murderer who targets families with daughters. He recently kidnapped Noel, a transfer student at Rinko's elementary school, with the intention of having her become someone named "Tsumugi."


  • Forced to Watch: Arima inflicts this on the father of the last family he killed. He forced the father to watch as he tortured the daughter to death, and then finished off the father by strangling him.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: His ultimate fate is being bifurcated vertically by Rinko.
  • Law of Inverse Fertility: After his daughter's death, he and his wife tried to have a new child, but he had become sterile.
  • Mundanger: Unlike every other arc antagonist, who have been gimmicky serial killers, freaks-of-nature, evil super-geniuses, ordinary thugs altered through some secret surgical procedure into a human weapon, or are just obscenely skilled in some form of combat, Yuusuke is simply just a man whose been driven criminally insane with grief and is now kidnapping the youngest daughters of families with the intent of having them replace his own late daughter Tsumugi.
  • Replacement Goldfish: He intends for Noel to become a replacement for his daughter, Tsumugi. She is not the first girl he tried this on, as the police realize upon stumbling on a little girl's corpse.
  • Tragic Dream: What he wants most is to take his whole family to see Mount Fuji, as it was his daughter's dream. Unfortunately, said daughter was abducted and killed by the Rainy Day Killer. Even in his current state, Arima still wants to try to fulfill the dream somehow, and ends up taking the kidnapped Noel to R'Lyeh Tower to sightsee.
  • Tragic Villain: As abhorent as he is, Arima is ultimately a man who could not move on from the death of his daughter. His last moments are spent remembering the promise he couldn't keep with her and lamenting her loss.
  • Would Hurt a Child: At the beginning of the arc, the police discover the crime scene of his most recent murders. They note that the young daughter of the family was tortured before she died, probably as a way to torment the father.

    The Mastermind (Unmarked Spoilers!) 

Hakua Satori

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The woman behind almost every single major crime that Kuroko investigates in the series. She is the granddaughter of Hyoue Satori and currently works as the director of Ruruie Medical Prison.


  • Artificial Limbs: Two arms attached to her chair.
  • Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive: With said artificial arms, no less.
  • Evil Cripple: Though blind and missing both of her arms, she is nevertheless a very dangerous individual and indirectly responsible for most of the horrific crimes in the series.
  • Eyes Always Shut: Her eyes are always closed to show that she's blind.
  • Hidden Agenda Villain: What she's after is not clear other than it directly involves Kuroko.
  • Never Found the Body: Her body was never found at the site of her parents' murder. The police still assumed she was dead because they found three people's worth of blood at the scene of the crime, and they didn't think a blind and armless ten-year-old girl could've survived such an attack.
  • Polyamory: She's evidently in a relationship with Sayaka and Yukari at the same time, and sleeps with both of them.
  • Sole Survivor: Hakua is the only survivor of the incident that resulted in the murder of her parents.
  • The Man Behind the Man: She's been secretely behind the actions of every othe villain in the story.


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