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The main characters of the first Infinity series visual novel, Never7.

Due to the nature of the various routes, unmarked and self-fulfilling spoilers ahead. You've been warned.

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    Makoto Ishihara 

Makoto Ishihara

Voiced by: Masaru Hachinohe (Drama CD only)
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  • Book Dumb: Very much so, given how much of a slacker he is. This is particularly notable in Izumi Curé, in which we learn he can't even grasp the fundamentals of his own major.
  • Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: It turns out the main reason Makoto is such a slacker at school is because he honestly has no clue about what he's going to do with his life after college.
  • Love Triangle: Several, though most aren't a big deal. The only case where this actually affects the plot in a major way is Saki's route, where Haruka actually starts feigning interest in Okuhiko to get back at Makoto. Nothing comes out of it, though, and Haruka goes back to normal quite a while before the end.
    • Okuhiko likes Haruka likes Makoto, who reciprocates in her route.
    • Yuka Curé has Saki and Yuka both liking Makoto, Makoto liking Yuka and Saki pushing Yuka towards Makoto.
    • Izumi Curé hints about a Kurumi, Izumi and Makoto triangle but Kurumi doesn't make a big deal of it.
  • Meaningful Name: One of the readings of "Makoto" is "reality".
  • Manly Tears: In Haruka's Route, where he weeps bitterly as she's dying and after she dies, and also cries when Izumi dies in Izumi Curé.
  • Replacement Goldfish: In her Curé route, Yuka worries that she's treating Makoto as one of these.
  • Second Love: Is this for Yuka and Kurumi in their routes.
  • Unreliable Narrator: While it's not obvious at first, Makoto's narration leaves out a few key events- particularly anything related to him wishing for his delusional time travel. Justified, as Makoto made himself forget he was having delusions through his Curé Syndrome.

    Yuka Kawashima 

Yuka Kawashima

Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami
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  • Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Perhaps one of the youngest legal examples of this trope (being 20, or just the age of drinking in Japan). Yuka Curé reveals that she does this as a way to forget about her depressions and fears.
  • Lethal Chef: Completely fails at making toast.
  • Love at First Sight: according to her, at least. Notably, she's the easiest heroine to get: triggering her flag always gets you onto her route, regardless of how many affection points you have with her - or with any other heroines. She also actively pursues Makoto: fail to get onto any other routes and she will ask him to accompany her to the cherry blossoms on the last day of the common route, even if you had neglected her completely up to that point.
  • Never Got to Say Goodbye: Variation: Yuka deeply regrets that she wasn't able to tell the boy she liked that she loved him when he said it to her with his dying breath, so she tries to go back to the past to say it.
  • Stepford Smiler: For most of the story, she's in grief over the fact she couldn't spit it out to her first love (who has died rescuing her from a building fire), but doesn't show it externally except when pushed.

    Haruka Higuchi 

Haruka Higuchi

Voiced by: ???? Yuki Matsuoka
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  • Emotionless Girl: She does have emotions, but deceives herself into thinking she has none due to her inferiority complex from being a clone.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Downplayed, but she does become quite jealous of Makoto's interest in Saki in the rich girl's route. Notably, that also marks the only point in the entire story in which she feigns interest in Okuhiko, and it is patently clear that she's only doing it to get back at Makoto. Unfortunately for her, he only sees her as a daughter or little sister in that route, so the only effect this has is making him proud of her for becoming so much more social. Haruka eventually snaps out of it, though, and is outright thankful to Makoto for clearing the air between her and Saki at the end of the latter's route.
  • Rei Ayanami Expy: A young girl who appears emotionless at first, but eventually warms up to the main character and turns out to be a clone.
  • Replacement Goldfish: To Kurumi, before she was found.
  • Ret-Gone: In the Curé B route, due to Makoto's delusions erasing Kurumi's kidnapping from history, therefore erasing the event that lead to Haruka's creation.
  • Strange Minds Think Alike: Beneath her rather emotionless exterior her thoughts appear to be rather out there, so she gets along pretty well with Kurumi. Then again, they are technically related...
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's often cold and distant, but in her best moments also goes as far as asking Makoto to teach her how to fish and to take her first kiss in the most adorable way possible. This happens in every route, not just hers.

    Okuhiko Iida 

Okuhiko Iida

Voiced by: Susumu Chiba
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  • A Day in the Limelight: he's easily the least developed character of the main cast, but Izumi's normal, non-canon route ends up being this for him. Since that route is focused on all the other characters deceiving him, he ends up getting more screen time there than anyone other than Izumi or Makoto himself.
  • Agent Scully: To Makoto, refusing to believe the latter's premonitions and coming up with logical explanations for why Makoto had them. As it turns out, this was his purpose in the Seminar Camp, in order to make sure people didn't completely believe Makoto and to retain a sense of reality.
  • Butt-Monkey: Is this at times. In fact, the whole purpose of the Izumi Route is to make him one giant Butt-Monkey.
  • Casanova Wannabe: Whose attempts at hitting on Haruka go... not quite as planned.
  • Gaslighting: Subverted. He thinks that Izumi and his own experiment has been doing this and both were planning to do it, but it turns out Makoto's premonitions were basically genuine. In the normal Izumi route, he ends up on the receiving end of this.
  • Hopeless Suitor: Haruka is rather uninterested in Okuhiko's attempts to get closer to her with a number of events hinting that she already prefers Makoto. Haruka starts feigning interest in him in Saki's route due to jealousy of Makoto's interest in the rich girl, but unfortunately for Okuhiko, it doesn't last long.
  • If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: One of Okuhiko's better moments is decking Makoto and yelling at him for not protecting Haruka properly after she gets hit by a car, showing that he has admitted defeat.
  • Jerkass: Can cross this line at times, especially in Izumi's route, in which he outright blackmails her, threatening to reveal Kurumi's secret to the entire camp if she doesn't go along with his scheme. Sure enough, every single character takes a level in jerkass in that non-canon route, but he's easily the worst example of that.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Invoked; in reality, he's very dilligent, but doesn't want others to know that. This goes even further in Izumi Curé, where it's revealed he's one of the masterminds behind the setup for the Seminar Camp.
  • Took a Level in Dumbass: In Izumi's normal, non-canon route - especially when you compare his naiveté there with how he's presented in Izumi Curé, which reveals that he's actually quite a diligent student.

    Kurumi Morino 

Kurumi Morino

Voiced by: Yuki Matsuoka
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  • Genki Girl: Her default mood is being energetic and cheerful.
  • Older Than She Looks: She's in the last year of high school, but looks like last year middle schooler and was born three years earlier than that, but time traveled forward a little. Thus, she was born twenty years ago and looks about fourteen.
  • Put on a Bus: She leaves for school halfway through the normal Izumi route. "Cheating" three times throughout the route, however, gives you a joke ending in which she reveals that she was around all along and coordinating a prank on Makoto.
  • Scars are Forever: Has a giant scar on her back that she got when she was a baby.
  • Stepford Smiler: Debatably. While she's not quite fully over how she was shunned by her first love due to her scar, it's not really stated how much of the positive attitude is just a façade.
  • The Prankster: Tries pulling pranks on the rest of the cast, with varying degree of success.
  • Third-Person Person: speaks like this.
  • Token Mini-Moe: She's the high schooler in a group that otherwise consists of college students and a graduate.

    Izumi Morino 

Izumi Morino

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue
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  • Drives Like Crazy: Says she got her license suspended at one point for racing a motorcycle.
  • Gaslighting: She's the professor in charge of an experiment that planned to do this to Makoto for one week. However, the experiment never got going since he began showing signs of genuine premonitions.
  • Ms. Exposition: In her Curé route, she reveals a lot of new information to Makoto.
  • Supreme Chef: Her great cooking skills save the seminar camp members from Yuka's terrible cooking.
  • Yamato Nadeshiko: As if being voiced by Kikuko Inoue didn't give that away...

    Saki Asakura 

Saki Asakura

Voiced by: Wakana Yamazaki
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  • Driven to Suicide: On her route, after believing she can no longer trust anyone. However, Makoto manages to talk her out of it in the second loop.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: becomes so furious upon hearing that Okuhiko doesn't care about her (see Rescue Romance below) that she flips out, insulting Haruka (the one Okuhiko actually likes) and injuring Kurumi in the process. Her outburst is essentially the most tragic event in the common route; in fact, reversing it is always one of Makoto's goals, regardless of which girl he's pursuing.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Saki has a difficult personality and an enormous amount of pride, but is not a bad person and will do the right thing if it comes down to it. This is most evident in her own route and at the very end of Haruka's, as well as Yuka Curé.
  • Matchmaker Crush: In Yuka Curé route, she lies and says she doesn't really love Makoto while trying to push Yuka to admit how she feels.
  • Pride: Her greatest flaw. She'd rather be seen as a thief than admit she wanted some meat to feed a stray dog, for instance. She does get better at the end of her route, but the road to that point is quite tortuous.
  • Rescue Romance: Subverted. She falls for Okuhiko because she thinks he saved her from drowning. Not only did Okuhiko not actually save her (it was Izumi), he doesn't feel anything for her, breaking Saki's heart when she hears him declare this.
    • Played straight or subverted yet again in her route- she starts falling for Makoto when he takes Okuhiko's place in the above situation, but whether he actually saved her or not depends on the player's choice.
  • Rich Bitch: Her family is rich enough to have her stay in a summer house and she can be very unpleasant at times.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: while Saki is by no means a bad person (see Jerk with a Heart of Gold above), she is FAR more gentle in Yuka Curé than in the entire rest of the game, even when compared to her own route.

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