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A 4-member unit composed of close friends who attended the same boarding school: Fura Kanato, Watarai Hibari, Shikinagi Akira, and Seraph Dazzlegarden.
Making use of particular skills honed in the criminal underworld, they work towards a common goal of bringing happiness to peoples' daily lives by conducting operations from the shadows.

—Official press release

Channel: YouTube
Social Media: Twitter, Instagram, TikTok (Kanato and Hibari)

After Ranunculus' debut four months earlier, VOLTACTION were the second wave of Nijisanji main branch livers to be revealed in 2022, debuting in July. Like Ranunculus, they were all students from the first generation class of Virtual Talent Academy, a vocational school run by ANYCOLOR to train newbie streamers and entertainers - only this time, the selected members were all male talents.

VOLTACTION

In general

• Aerith and Bob: Fura Kanato, Watarai Hibari, Shikinagi Akira, and Seraph Dazzlegarden. Justified, as Seraph isn't his real name even In-Universe - in fact, it may have been derived from another codename he went by spelled backwards.
  • Note that during the VTA era their names were all considered kira kira names - "unique" and difficult to read compared to more typical Japanese names, with Lauren infamously mispronouncing all of them. Ironically enough, Seraph's previous name Satoshi was thought to be the least unusual among them.
• All There in the Manual: A major source of their In-Universe characterization and backstories is their voice dramas, especially with the announcement of the Memories of Nostalgia series of dramas.
• Always in Class One: The four of them all met as classmates who went to the same Boarding School, where they were initially placed in the same class.
• Anger Born of Worry: None of them take it particularly well when it becomes clear that Seraph intentionally tried to get himself killed in their second voice drama, especially Kanato.
• April Fools' Day:
  • They all did separate stunts in 2023. Kanato and Akira became Attractive Bent-Gender versions of themselves: Kanato as Kana used a voice changer and held a Twitter Q & A, while Akira as SeiLa streamed in-persona as the mama-san of the bar Arc-en-SeiLa. Hibari simply uploaded a cover of the aptly titled "Lie" by SID. Seraph carried on the annual Nijisanji tradition of being the one liver who did something terrifying rather than silly, by orchestrating a harrowing overnight lore arc that ended with a cover of "Bad Dream" by Kitani Tatsuya.
  • In 2024, The Bus Came Back for all the alternate selves introduced the previous year, with SeiLa and Kana returning and Seraph outright referring to Ares as his past self from several years back. Hibari on the other hand held a surprise band session live.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite Akira and Seraph's usual dynamic, Seraph catches the former off guard with the answer to his assigned totsumachi prompt, leaving the usually quite talkative Akira audibly flustered:
  (Prompt: "Is there anything you want to do with Shikinagi?" Seraph initially says no, which leads to some bickering, until...)
  Seraph: I'd go anywhere with you, is what I mean. It's not like there's anything in particular I want to do with you, but if it's you I know I'll have fun so if you ever want me to go somewhere with you I'd be happy to. A "specifically because it's Nagi-chan" sort of thing... [...] And if I ever want to go somewhere and you ask if you can come with me, I'll always say yes.
• Badass Crew: All of them can kick plenty of ass In-Universe, both individually and together. Given the questionable legality of what they do, this often overlaps with Caper Crew.
• Badass Longcoat: All of them wear one.
• Bad Powers, Good People: On paper, the four of them are a veritable Rogues Gallery - a mafioso, a thief, a former spy, and a former assassin. However, they're all strictly heroic if a bit morally grey, using their villainous skillsets for good rather than their original purposes.
• Birds of a Feather: Kanato and Hibari, who are quite in sync with each other.
• Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: An interesting case of a four-person dynamic. Akira and Seraph often serve as the collective tsukkomi to Kanato and Hibari's collective boke. However, Seraph will sometimes join Kanato and Hibari in their silliness, leading to a 1v3 dynamic.
• Breaking Old Trends: They are the first Nijisanji wave to have debuted with their own unit-specific social media and YouTube channel.^NoteVΔLZ and Luxiem also have their own YouTube channels, however both were made after their debuts. 3SKM later debuted in March 2024, also with dedicated accounts.
• Cast Full of Pretty Boys: Par for the course for an all-male VTuber group. Though if Oliver-sensei is to be believed, VOLTACTION are also this in real life.
• Cast Herd: While they are all close friends and often collab as a full group or in any given combination of members, for official purposes VOLTACTION are usually split into pairs based on shared lore:
  • Zeffiro / the Café-gumi (カフェ組): Kanato and Hibari, named after the café that Kanato owns and Hibari works at.
  • Room 4S / Rumufo (るむふぉ): Akira and Seraph, named after the freelance agency that Akira founded and Seraph often takes on work for.
• Childhood Friends: The video for VOLTACTION's "Kaiju no Hanauta" cover reveals that Kanato and Hibari are this in-lore, or at the very least met when they were very young. While in Hibari's Memories of Nostalgia voice drama he states that he and Kanato first befriended each other while at Boarding School, it is heavily implied that Kanato's childhood best friend and Hibari are one and the same, making this a case of Forgotten First Meeting.
• Chuunibyou: Subverted - their edgy lore is for the most part played straight, with the members maintaining their Kayfabe in a more or less believable way. However, they were challenged to go "full-on chuuni" as a batsu during their debut stream, to hilarious effect.
• Color-Coded Characters:
  • Kanato: White (main), yellow (secondary).
  • Hibari: Black (main), magenta (secondary).
  • Akira: Blue (main), purple (secondary).
  • Seraph: Red (main), blue (secondary).
• Continuity Nod: The fact that they went to the same boarding school In-Universe is likely a thinly veiled reference to their VTA days.
• Cooking Duel: Their 2v2 cooking off-collab of course, pitting the Zeffiro duo against the Room 4S duo.
• Covert Group: They conduct their operations in secret, as most of what they do is not strictly legal.
• Covert Group with Mundane Front: Both CAFE Zeffiro and Room 4S serve as a two-layered version of this. For the sake of clients' privacy the only way to get in contact with Room 4S and make a request is to order a small espresso with four sugars at CAFE Zeffiro. If the request is of sufficiently large scope or if it's specifically addressed to the Laundry it gets forwarded onto VOLTACTION as a whole, otherwise it's handled by Room 4S alone.
• Cynic–Idealist Duo: While Akira's moodiness and snark contrasted with Seraph's sweet and easygoing nature might initially give the opposite impression, Akira is actually the idealist to Seraph's cynic In-Universe. Both of them acknowledge the terrible things they did in the past, but while Seraph is still struggling to reconcile his previous transgressions with his new life, Akira is much more hopeful and future-oriented.
• Darker and Edgier: Their lore is this by VTuber standards, with the members having all been depicted doing morally questionable things. Given the extralegal nature of their operations, the members are put in life-threatening peril fairly regularly, with plenty of combat scenes and violence in their associated lore.
• Deep Cover Agent: According to their lore, the entire reason why Akira and Seraph enrolled in Boarding School together to begin with was for a long-term undercover mission of some sort.
• Defector from Decadence: While all of them developed their skills in the underworld as a result of their backgrounds, VOLTACTION was formed out of a shared desire to defy their respective family legacies and instead use those skills for good.
  • Kanato is a Mafia Prince who is expected to become the next boss, but has his doubts about the darker aspects of the family business.
  • Hibari comes from a family of phantom thieves but aspires to be a good thief that only steals "hearts" and avoids stealing for personal gain.
  • Akira broke away from the espionage organization his family belonged to after he became disillusioned with the job.
  • Seraph had been forced into killing since he was young as the latest scion of a family of assassins, but eventually quit the profession altogether.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Both Hibari and Seraph's avian Mascots are simply named after their respective species of bird in Japanese. Hibari's is a skylark or hibari named Hibari-san, while Seraph's is a horned owl or mimizuku named Mimizuku-san.
• Designated Parents: Kanato and Akira sometimes end up as this, by virtue of being the Team Mom and Team Dad, respectively.
• Elaborate University High: The Boarding School they all went to, Erfolg College, appears to be this, as it is attended primarily by children of prestigious families.
• Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: Hibari is the Energetic to Seraph's Soft-Spoken.
• Epic Fail:
  • Because their 2D wanko soba off-collab was pre-recorded, the members themselves were in the stream chat, reacting to the collab alongside viewers. And that's how the members of VOLTACTION discovered that none of them had moderator powers in their own YouTube channel... even though it had already been two entire months since they debuted.
  • For their taste-test king off-collab, they were each individually tasked to first taste either a coffee (for the Zeffiro duo) or a curry (for the Room 4S duo) and then identify the coffee/curry they drank/ate from a selection of 8-10 different coffees/curries. Every single one of them failed to correctly identify what they drank/ate, and so all of them got batsu'd with the reward ending up going to the staff.
• Everyone Went to School Together: If VTA counts. This trope also applies to them In-Universe.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: All of them exhibit this in their default outfits, to varying degrees.
• First-Name Basis: They all refer to each other by their given names with no honorifics, as they are all good friends who are close in age. They also call each other by various nicknames.
• Foil: Likely unintentional on ANYCOLOR's part, but VOLTACTION's villains-turned-Anti Heroes concept provides a nice contrast to Oriens, Dytica, and Krisis' Superhero concept. Lampshaded by Seraph, who's commented that he probably needs to hide from his kohais.
• For Happiness: Their In-Universe goal, and the reason the four of them decided to join Nijisanji and start streaming alongside their activities as VOLTACTION. They heard about how the company's livers bring entertainment to people, and figured it'd be worth a try.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble:
  • Hibari (Sanguine) - charming, disarmingly cheerful, and very energetic, but also very disorganized and usually late for things.
  • Kanato (Choleric) - a born leader, ambitious, and passionate, but can also get quite toxic and dramatic when fired up.
  • Akira (Melancholic) - analytical, detail-oriented, and hard-working, but can also get moody and pessimistic at times.
  • Seraph (Phlegmatic) - calm, easygoing, and dependable, but also morally incomprehensible, yielding, and one hell of a tease.
• The Friends Who Never Hang: Downplayed. Despite their obvious closeness, for the longest time, Hibari and Seraph were the only pair of VOLTACTION members who had never done a one-on-one collab. They finally played Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes nearly a year after their debut, after realizing that they had never done anything on-stream with just the two of them while out for a meal together. Apparently, it only took so long because neither of them are the type of people who solicit collabs.
• Heel–Face Turn: In-Universe, prior to their debut. While it's currently unclear if/how villainous Kanato and Hibari are or were, Akira and Seraph certainly did some bad things in the past. In fact, in their debut lore, they make a point of saying that they don't want to deceive or kill people anymore, respectively.
• Heist Episode: The second half of their first voice drama is essentially this, as they have to break into a business' main office to steal evidence that it has been colluding with a politician they've been requested to expose as corrupt.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Kanato and Hibari, as well as Akira (well, bisexual in his case) and Seraph. In both cases literally, as both pairs have referred to each other as their partners.
• Home Base: The Laundry, where they plan their missions. It also serves as a quiet workspace.
• Hot Springs Episode: Room 4S' first voice drama is this, in which Akira and Seraph go to an onsen to relax after a power outage at the agency makes them unable to work... though the relaxation part doesn't last long. Lampshaded by Room 4S themselves, who referred to the events of the drama as the 7th episode of the VOLTACTION anime during the announcement stream for it.
• Immortality Begins at Twenty: While they were actually around their stated ages at the time of their debut^NoteKanato has explicitly given his birth date as being March 25, 2002. What Seraph has said about the circumstances behind him starting to play the violin places his real-life age as having been 19 or 20 at debut, with some viewers speculating that it is more likely that he was actually the former., they will not officially get any older. According to Seraph, he'll be 20 forever thanks to ANYCOLOR using some mysterious magical technology on him to stop him from aging.
• In the Style of: In a meta sense - the way the group is produced strongly invokes an anime series, from their tightly interconnected backstories, setting, and lore to the Eye Catches in their group collabs. The short version of their debut song "Inlaid" is even in the style of an anime opening.
• Jack of All Trades: What Room 4S essentially does. The contracts they'll accept run the gamut from finding lost pets to private detective work to neutralizing assassins.
• Kayfabe: All four of them are notably quite good at being adherent to this, to the point where for all intents and purposes, they are their characters. The lines are often quite blurred between the fictional characters they portray and their real-life selves, with aspects of the latter even occasionally becoming incorporated into the former as their lore develops.
• Local Hangout: CAFE Zeffiro.
• Mascot: Both members with Animal Motifs each have one.
  • Hibari-san^NoteSpelled in katakana (ヒバリさん) to differentiate from human Hibari, whose name is written in kanji (雲雀)., a skylark who has been Hibari's mascot since the VTA era. It has been redesigned twice thus far, first becoming much chubbier◊ upon his debut, then gaining some purple and magenta feathers to give it more of an Uncatty Resemblance to Hibari upon his 3D debut.
  • Seraph has Mimizuku-san, a Cute Owl who also bears an Uncatty Resemblance to Seraph.
• Masochist's Meal: They were all subjected to this in their first wanko soba off-collab, with various spicy, sour, or otherwise unpleasant toppings being added to the soba they had to eat to make it more entertaining. Reactions varied from Seraph finding the sour plums unpalatable but otherwise thinking everything was delicious, to Hibari getting stunlocked by the sour plums, to Kanato and Akira crying and screaming in pain as they're being forced by the other two to keep eating. To add to the hilarity, it's revealed that one of the three spicy sauces they used was actually scorpion pepper hot sauce.
  • They later did another wanko soba off-collab in 3D, which predictably involved them subjecting themselves to similar torture yet again. Even Seraph ends up suffering this time around.
• Mood Whiplash: Hibari's Memories of Nostalgia voice drama caused this when following up Seraph and Akira's preceding ones, as Hibari's comparatively lighthearted escapades in avoiding expulsion due to his terrible grades were contrasted with the previous two installments' emotionally charged espionage thriller which culminated in Seraph trying to kill Akira. Hilariously lampshaded by Akira himself.
• No Escape but Down: When their cover is blown in their first voice drama, the four of them end up having to fight their way to the rooftop of the building they infiltrated. After Akira welds the door shut behind them, the others decide to make their escape by jumping off, much to Akira's consternation. Unfortunately for him, the other three drag him off the roof with them anyway.
• No Indoor Voice: All of them in their more chaotic collabs, such as their Gang Beasts collab, their Ultimate Chicken Horse collab, and especially their Lethal Company collab, the last of which has generated clip compilations just of their screaming. Yes, even Akira and Seraph. This gets even more pronounced when the group is together in 3D.
• Non-Uniform Uniform: Their school uniform outfits are this. Though apparently justified, as the rules around customizing them at their boarding school were quite lax.
• Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Akira and Seraph's friendship underwent this early on during their backstories, after Seraph confirms that Akira was, as he suspected, a Double Agent feeding information about their organizations to another party in Akira's Memories of Nostalgia voice drama. Their subsequent fight has them exchanging bitterly sarcastic barbs about their "friendship" - which was, despite everything, genuine. This along with their mutual disdain for and desire to break free from said organizations are key to them eventually patching things up, with Seraph covering up Akira's treachery to their higher-ups.
• Police Are Useless: Subverted. They'll tell clients if their requests are more appropriate to be brought to the police, and will defer things that are more suited for conventional law enforcement to handle (e.g., arrests and prosecution) to them after VOLTACTION have done the dirty work.
• Portmanteau: The group's name is one of "voltage" and "bolt-action".
• Pragmatic Hero: While they are firmly on the side of good, good does not necessarily mean legal. Nor does it mean that the members won't resort to things like death threats and just a little bit of torture to accomplish their goals.
• Putting the Band Back Together: In-Universe. After graduating, the members initially went their separate ways and spent some years honing their skills in their respective underworld enterprises. Kanato eventually brought them back together as adults to form VOLTACTION.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Hibari and Akira have this dynamic, where Hibari is the red oni to Akira's blue.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Hibari-san and Mimizuku-san, Hibari and Seraph's respective Mascots. So cute, plush versions of them were made as official merchandise for VOLTACTION's 1st anniversary.
• Romantic Spoonfeeding: Akira and Seraph spoonfed each other for VOLTACTION's taste test king off-collab despite the Zeffiro duo also being available and there not being much of a practical reason for them to do so, leading viewers to immediately interpret it as this trope. Akira's obvious giddiness when reminiscing about it after the topic of how it's one of his favorite BL tropes comes up in a later stream does nothing to discourage this interpretation.
• Rule of Funny: They pride themselves on being a group that's willing to do almost anything for content. Well, except spending the night in a haunted location for Kanato and eating live bugs for Hibari (however dead bugs are fine). Akira and Seraph aren't particularly keen on eating live bugs either, but unlike Hibari will do it provided they're allowed to vomit for the former and if it's pre-recorded for the latter.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: VOLTACTION have a vague goal of bringing happiness to people, but given the members' respective skillsets, they primarily operate outside the law to do so - either because their missions are just straight-up illegal (e.g., breaking into government buildings and offices to find and reveal evidence of political corruption), or in cases where law enforcement is compromised (e.g., intervening in a hostage situation where they suspect police are in on it).
• Soundtrack Dissonance: Invoked by their staff twice during their 2024 Valentine's Day 3D off-collab, which gets lampshaded each time.
  • First, when the boys are in a bright pink, cheerful store setting:
    Akira: Please stop with the unsettling BGM.
  • Then later, when they're acting out a scene in which they're breaking up with their hypothetical lover:
    Kanato: For some reason, the BGM is super comedic.
• Team Chef: As stated by Kanato and Akira themselves, Hibari and Seraph are this, as they're both excellent cooks and often make food for the other members. Fittingly, they're split onto opposite teams for VOLTACTION's 2v2 cooking off-collab with each of them taking charge of their respective teams.
• Team Pet: While Hibari-san and Mimizuku-san are official companions to Hibari and Seraph respectively, they have been depicted as pets for the whole group and have made appearances in their 3D off-collabs in which they have been treated as this.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: While their bickering is all fond now, lore-wise Akira and Seraph could barely tolerate each other early in their relationship.
  Akira: Of course, even though we're cooperating as partners, if either of us are caught or attacked and become a liability, there's no need to come to the other's rescue. Completing the mission is the priority.
  Seraph: You don't have to tell me twice.
  Akira: I'm glad we're both on the same page.
• Those Two Guys: Kanato and Hibari.
• Throwback Threads: Their school uniform outfits and hairstyles are this to their boarding school days.
• Together in Death: In a rather macabre way of expressing their friendship, the members have fairly consistently joked on several occasions that when they die, they'll die - and go to hell - together.
• Too Many Belts: 63 of them in total◊ to be precise, across their four default outfits.
• True Companions: Are this to each other both in and out of lore. In fact, the four of them apparently knew each other from even before they all passed the first generation VTA auditions and became classmates. By the time VOLTACTION's debut was announced, they were already close friends who frequently hung out and had even travelled and rented a cottage together. As Seraph puts it, they were a group that was formed specifically because they were already best friends prior to debuting, rather than a group that became friends because they debuted together.
  • To a lesser extent all the alumni of VTA's first generation that ended up debuting with Nijisanji - the members of VOLTACTION, Ranunculus, and Idios' Roco - are also this; they treat each other as de facto genmates without regard for the usual Senpai-Kohai dynamic or debut dates.
• Vacation Episode: They went travelling together as part of their first anniversary celebrations, which was chronicled in a live-action vlog. Doubles as a Real-World Episode.
• Valentine's Day Episode:
  • Their debate tournament off-collab in 2023, where they argued for or against various Valentine's Day-related conundrums.
  • They did a 3D off-collab in 2024 for the holiday, this time acting out various romantic scenarios In the Style of an otome game. Though VOLTACTION certainly look the part, with them being them, it ended up being a lot more silly and chaotic than you would expect.
• Villainous Lineage: Their shared concept, as they all come from criminal or otherwise morally ambiguous backgrounds: Kanato is a mafia heir, Hibari is the heir to a family of phantom thieves, Akira's family is part of an espionage organization, and Seraph comes from a family of assassins.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Downplayed. According to Akira, the VOLTACTION members have never actually fought, because they always make sure they communicate and sort out any misunderstandings before they escalate. That being said, that doesn't stop them from trolling and poking fun at each other. Akira and Seraph in particular bicker Like an Old Married Couple and snipe at and tease each other regularly, but they ultimately have a very sweet friendship.
• White Sheep: Every member is this to their respective families.

Fura Kanato

Fura Kanato [JP: 風楽奏斗; CN: 风乐奏斗]

"Being a mafia heir sure is a pain in the ass..."

Debut date: November 5, 2021 (Virtual Talent Academy), July 16, 2022 (Nijisanji)
Birthday: March 25th
Age: 20
Height: 177 cm
Nickname: Kanaty, KNT
Illustrator: ebila
Channel: YouTube, Twitch, Twitcasting
Social Media: Twitter

The heir of a mafia family who owns and manages cafés and restaurants as chairman of the Venti Group.

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• Absurd Phobia: To this day, he's scared of the mascot of Jack in the Box (as in the American fast food chain), stemming from a childhood trauma in which his father put on a mask of the character and scared the wits out of little Kanato, telling him that if he did anything bad, Jack would come after him.
• The Ace: As his genmates have acknowledged, he is the representative gamer of VOLTACTION, and is probably best known for his proficiency in FPS games like Apex Legends and especially VALORANT. He was the first JP branch liver to reach Immortal rank in VALORANT on-stream, and as of January 2024 he has achieved the highest peak rank of anyone in the main branch. His skills aren't limited to shooters either, as his excellent game sense has translated to him wiping the floor with his friends even in games like Ultimate Chicken Horse.
  • He was even tapped to captain a team for Nijisanji's 2nd agency-wide VALORANT customs tournament, becoming the most recent debutant to do so.
  • He became leader of Team 01 as the tier 1 representative (i.e., one of the highest ranked participants) in the inaugural edition of VSaikyo Act 1, and ended up leading his team to victory in the tournament.
• Afraid of Needles: Doesn't have piercings or tattoos for this reason, in addition to fear of it hurting.
• The Alcoholic: By his own admission according to Selen. He has a tremendously high alcohol tolerance - it apparently takes two and a half bottles of wine for him to feel it the next morning.
• The Alleged Boss: A positive version of the trope. He technically is Hibari's boss, but treats him as a close friend and equal even when adhering to Kayfabe. According to Hibari, if he's having an issue at work he doesn't bother bringing it up with the café manager, instead going straight to Kanato.
• Art Evolution: Debuted his Live2D 3.0 model on October 31, 2023.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: Kana, his female counterpart.
• Badass in Distress: Gets held hostage by a group of thugs in VOLTACTION's second voice drama.
• Batman Grabs a Gun: In VOLTACTION's first voice drama, after their cover is blown and he and Hibari find themselves surrounded and outnumbered by thugs, Kanato is the one that doesn't hesitate to start fighting his way through - only needing backup when a thug pulls out a gun.
  Hibari: Oi, oi, oi! Who was the one who said we should try not to hurt anyone if we could help it?
  Kanato: This is an emergency situation - we don't have a choice, do we!?
• Believing Their Own Lies: Either this or I Reject Your Reality, depending on whether Kanato retrieved the Sanity Ball at the end of his deranged "imaginary genmates" stream or not. When it's mentioned again months later when he's asked what the most memorable thing they've done as a group was, he still talks about it as if the other members of VOLTACTION really were there and he wasn't just hallucinating them. For what it's worth, the other three willingly go along with it, agreeing with him that it was fun.
• Bespectacled Cutie: Wears a large round pair of glasses in his school uniform outfit.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Don't let his sunny attitude and cute mannerisms fool you - according to Seraph, disrespecting Kanato never, ever ends well, since he's actually frighteningly strong. And that's not even getting into his methods of extracting information or whatever it is he does for his family.
• Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Played for Laughs. In his playthrough of Volcano Princess, his requirements for any suitor for his in-game daughter Kanon is to be in the highest rank tiers of VALORANT, Apex Legends, League of Legends, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive all at once. After potential marriage candidate Hackett shows interest in Kanon, he adds on being top ranked in Teamfight Tactics, Escape from Tarkov, and Street Fighter 6. When Kanon is complimentary of Hackett in return and Hackett continues flirting, he can be heard banging his desk repeatedly.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite his quirks, he's a natural leader and a capable businessman. The latter is explored in more detail in VOLTACTION's first voice drama, which shows Kanato keeping tabs on his competition and mediating a situation where a community is fighting the opening of a new Venti Group restaurant in the neighborhood.
• Call-Back: His 3D debut contained some of these to some of his more infamous streams, for example, having a harmonica in his mouth while playing a VR horror game and making his genmates (who were actually present this time) disappear at the end of their segment à la his "imaginary genmates" stream.
• Characterization Marches On: While still quite spirited and energetic, Kanato has shed some of the more forced cuteness and naivete he showed in his early streams, becoming more sardonic and snarky as time goes on.
• Class Representative: Naturally, as The Leader. During VOLTACTION's school years, he was the head of his class in-lore prior to becoming Student Council President. Comes in handy when Hibari is one merit badge short of qualifying for the bonus marks he needs to pass his next exam and thus avoid getting expelled, since badges can be awarded by both teachers and heads of class...
• Comedic Sociopathy: He got to control the shock device VOLTACTION used as a punishment game for their Momotaro Densetsu off-collab... and enjoyed it a little too much. Kanato became oddly enthusiastic about how much he wanted the others to suffer, and when it came time for Hibari to get a shock, he not only shocked him once but twice for good measure - right when the other let his guard down after the first shock. For added sociopath points, he giggled like a maniac afterwards.
• Cool Bike: Owns a personalized custom moped.
• Covert Pervert: Despite his cute and youthful demeanor, he has a habit of saying some risqué things.
• Cowardly Yellow: Associated with the color yellow and has by far the lowest tolerance for jumpscares amongst his genmates - he can only play horror games for about an hour at a time before he becomes a Nervous Wreck. It took him six months to finish Resident Evil 7: Biohazard because he kept putting off continuing it. He's also apparently the reason VOLTACTION don't do more horror game collabs.
• Cute Clumsy Boy: He arguably is the most ponkotsu of the four VOLTACTION members, with his various mishaps - such as forgetting to press the start stream button, forgetting to mute, somehow unintentionally spectating matches he organized, and slamming his knees on his desk or literally falling off his chair when jumpscared - being numerous enough to make compilations.
• Does Not Like Spam: Not fond of kahlua, tomatoes, and cabbage rolls.
• The Drag-Along: His friends have to force him to play horror games with them. Hibari one-sidedly decided that they were playing Pacify together, forcing Kanato's hand by sending a thumbnail, setting a stream time, and tweeting that it was happening. Seraph took things even further for their Five Nights at Freddy's off-collab by kidnapping him, dragging him to the studio, and locking him in a cage.
• Driven to Suicide: Played for Laughs a few times. In hilarious contrast to his bright personality, he has a rather glum outlook when it comes to certain things.
  • When asked if he could bring only one thing to a deserted island, what would it be, he simply answered "a loaded gun". It's only when the other members and viewers answered things like "a boat" or "Seraph" that he realized that there might have been other solutions.
  • If a zombie apocalypse ever happened, he would want to "end things quickly and painlessly". True to these words, when playing Resident Evil Village, he begs an NPC to shoot him with the shotgun he's wielding, though it was probably more to avoid playing the game than anything else.
• Drunken Master: Somehow gets better scores when playing Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain while drunk than when playing normally, even setting new records.
• Elemental Motifs: Wind. His last name Fura contains the kanji for wind (風) and his symbol/logo is a windmill/pinwheel. Many of his businesses' names also allude to wind in Italian: the Venti Group (wind), CAFE Zeffiro (zephyr or west wind), Ristorante Maestrale (mistral or northwest wind), Pizzeria Euro (east wind), Buffet Aliseo (trade wind), Bar Libeccio (southwest wind), and Grecale (northeast wind).
• Epic Fail: Ends up scoring all of zero points in Struck Out during VOLTACTION's 3D summer off-collab, which left him hilariously distraught. As the collab happened not long after the 2023 edition of Nijisanji Koshien, much fun was made of his character's pitching stat having been grade D in that event.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: In-lore, of course. He's remarked that while he's well aware that his parents are involved in some shady business practices, they've only ever been loving with him.
• Exotic Eye Designs: When his Magical Eye is active, his pupil becomes a glowing diamond surrounded by a similarly glowing crosshair-like multi-pointed star that extends beyond his iris.
• Fake-Out Fade-Out: His playthrough of Night Security featured multiple instances of him pretending to end the stream when he was particularly afraid, complete with the usual transition screen and music.
• Fake Shemp: When he broke Kayfabe for a moment to discuss what happened behind the scenes of his "imaginary genmates" stream, he revealed that Akira wasn't able to get his voice lines in on time since he only asked them about 10 minutes before the start of the stream - so the "Akira" heard in the stream was actually Kanato doing an impression of him.
• Family Eye Resemblance: His Magical Eye is a hereditary trait.
• Family of Choice: All of VOLTACTION are this to each other in-lore, but this might be especially true for Kanato even in real life. He has stated that he genuinely views the members as more like his family than just friends, and admitted that he talks to them more than his actual family.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Describes his father as a typical mafioso - stern and tattooed from head to toe. He apparently forbade Kanato from playing too many video games, telling him he needed discipline and encouraging him to practice martial arts or study instead.
• The Fashionista: Loves fashion and accessorizing, never wears the same thing twice, and isn't pinned down to a single genre or subculture. Other livers have mentioned that his stylishness is actually kind of intimidating in real life.
• Friendless Background: He's discussed that he wasn't actually that great at making and keeping friends in the past, partially because of his shyness around strangers. Before VOLTACTION and VTA, he didn't have any friends he was particularly close enough to keep in touch with on a regular basis.
  • Also true in-lore, as Kanato states in his Memories of Nostalgia episode that one of the reasons he wanted to go to Boarding School was that he wanted to make friends around his own age. He had one when he was little and living at his family's holiday home (who is heavily implied to be Hibari), but lost touch with them when he had to move back to the main house.
• Frothy Mugs of Water: It's not a secret that Kanato appreciates his alcohol, but he has admitted to lying about drinking on stream before by referring to what he's drinking as "tea".
• Genki Girl: Kana, his genderswapped counterpart, is an incredibly energetic and cheerful Gyaru Girl, paralleling Kanato, who is a stylish Keet.
• Gratuitous Italian: Despite his very Japanese name, Kanato has stated that his family has branches internationally, and it's implied that his particular flavor of The Mafia is of the Sicilian variety. As such, his associated lore is peppered with Italian, most prominently in association with his businesses.
• The Gunslinger: He is shown to be good at FPS games, and it's listed as one of his favorite types of games. A gun is also his weapon of choice In-Universe.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blond and ultimately good, if pragmatic about it like the rest of VOLTACTION.
• Hand Cannon: He carries a large pistol that matches his outfit.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Owns a pet dog that he's referred to as Poochyena.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite being best known for FPS games, the kinds of games he tends to stream otherwise are actually often obscure indie puzzle games or indie RPGs.
  • He has a lot of experience with marine sports (and worked part-time in a marine sports shop in the past). He's good at surfing, wakeboarding, and swimming, and even has a boating license.
  • While he hasn't practiced in a while, he does hold a black belt in karate.
• Honest Corporate Executive: Apparently keeps his restaurant industry dealings separate from his family ones, which means he sometimes ends up being a Pen-Pushing President, much to his displeasure.
• "I Can't Look!" Gesture: Will often close his eyes and look away when playing horror games, which gets expressed quite clearly through his character model.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Implied in his debut lore, given his irritation at being told to remember his station and at not being left alone by his security detail even when just going for a walk in town.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Has confessed that one of the reasons he joined Nijisanji was to have friends to play video games with. It was also the in-lore reason why he wanted to leave home and go to Boarding School.
• The Illegible: He appears to have absolutely awful handwriting, which Kanato himself has lampshaded. However, oddly enough it looks like this is limited to when he writes digitally, as his analog handwriting seems perfectly legible.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Played for Laughs. Kanato released a series of short videos detailing how to defeat the other members of VOLTACTION as if they were animals to be hunted, with the pretext of turning them into food. Apparently, Seraph would make great nabe, Hibari makes for tasty sashimi, and Akira tastes good when grilled.
• Impractical Musical Instrument Skills: After noticing that he was only using his right hand to play Trombone Champ, he came up with the brilliant idea of using his left hand to play the harmonica at the same time. This resulted in some absolutely unhinged harmonica/trombone self-duets that have to be heard to be believed - and yet as viewers note, somehow still sound decent.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Has developed a reputation for this in shooter games like VALORANT, to the point where his senpais jokingly accused him of being Nijisanji's first cheater when he pulls off ridiculous headshots. Justified in-lore, given the function of his Magical Eye.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Reduced to this during VOLTACTION's wanko soba off-collab after being forced to eat noodles topped with scorpion pepper hot sauce, wasabi, sour plums, among other things.
• In-Series Nickname: Referred to as "Leader" and all the variations thereof by the VOLTACTION members, naturally. He's also occasionally referred to as "Owner", usually by Hibari.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: He's still a mafia heir, after all. Being a Technical Pacifist doesn't stop him from shooting a Mook in the leg, among other things left to the listeners' imagination to get him to talk in VOLTACTION's second voice drama.
  Kanato: Ahaha... even rubber bullets hurt, don't they? [...] So now... we'll listen carefully to what you have to say, onii-san.
• Just One More Level!: He apparently mentioned in his ANYCOLOR audition interview that he can play video games for 35 hours without stopping. Since debuting, Escape from Tarkov in particular has had this effect on him - he's managed to play for 15-18 hours straight and neglect basic human necessities like eating, bathing and sleeping. This has led to Kotoka jokingly asking if he's a bottler.^NoteSomeone who is so addicted to playing games they use a plastic bottle to relieve themselves when they need to urinate rather than go to the washroom.
• Keet: He is very cheerful and upbeat.
• The Leader: Of VOLTACTION, and the one who masterminds their operations.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Gets deadly serious when in leader mode.
  Kanato: Alright. From here on out, no more fooling around. Let's go.
• Mafia Prince: He is one, and is expected to succeed his father as the next head of the family. However, Kanato himself has no interest in doing so.
• Magical Eye: His right eye glows and acts as a target sight when active. He can turn it on at will, though it also glows when he's in a heightened emotional state.
• Magic Hair: The lock of hair that's dyed orange is apparently hard enough to break bones.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: While his character model is more on the slim side, he has a strong grip and high physical strength as a result of his marine sports experience and working in a marine sports shop. Zigzagged in real life, as while he still is slim (especially after losing four kilograms due to an illness), both he and Seraph have stated that his build is a bit more muscular than you would expect.
• Music for Courage: A lighthearted example. He tends to break out a musical instrument to calm himself down when he gets particularly scared in horror games - thus far he's played a cowbell, castanets, and a harmonica. He's also used a pair of maracas to cheer on his teammates in Apex Legends.
• Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters: Despite his friendly and cheerful personality he's still involved in his family's criminal empire, though he presumably avoids the less savory aspects of it.
• Nightmare Face: Can make one when in 3D, complete with Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises.
• Old Shame: He rewatched his debut stream for his first anniversary, and physically could not handle it because of how cringey he found himself to be. He ended up angrily lampooning himself for most of the rewatch, vowing to never get drunk before a stream ever again.
• Ominous Music Box Tune: Played in the background of his infamously deranged Mario Party Superstars turned pure psychological horror stream.
• The One Guy: Of his SUMIRE CUSTOM: PUBG team, which included Himawari, Ratna, and Youko, as well as his VSaikyo Act 1 team, which included Himawari and Akari, as well as VSpo!'s Hanabusa Lisa and Komori Met. The dynamics in the latter were made extra funny by the fact that he was also The Leader of the team.
• Other Me Annoys Me: Hilariously enough, based on their limited interactions with each other Kana seems to grate on Kanato's nerves despite their similar temperaments.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Subverted. Vague allusions to the work he does for his family are made in VOLTACTION's associated lore - and in fact continuing to do work for the family was the condition he was given to be able to leave home and go to Boarding School - though what exactly this work is hasn't been elaborated on in detail other than a mention of being asked to find evidence of their associates' suspected unauthorized smuggling.
• Prone to Tears: Describes himself as a crybaby.
• Pronoun Trouble: He usually uses the less assertive boku, but he has slipped up and used the more aggressive ore, which he berates himself for as he associates it with his work as a mafioso.
• Sanity Slippage: Descends into complete horrifying madness over the course of his Christmas Eve 2022 Mario Party Superstars stream, as a result of being alone. While Kanato starts off the stream aware that he's playing it solo, once he notes that the CPU characters have the same Color Motifs as his genmates, he starts talking and acting like the other 3 members are actually present. Things appear to look up when Hibari, Seraph, and Akira seem to actually join the call, only for the things they say to loop over and over again, becoming more fragmented and distorted - making it clear that Kanato is full-on hallucinating. At first, Kanato keeps talking to his "genmates" and playing like nothing is wrong while the broken audio keeps playing in the background... until he suddenly goes completely silent and ends the stream.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: As the heir to a prominent mafia family, part of what he brings to VOLTACTION is the ability to use his influence and connections to gather information.
  Seraph: So then, Kanato... what are you going to be doing?
  Kanato: I'll be looking into people who have interacted with the mayor. I hold some power over members of the city council and some local businesses, after all.
• Shared Family Quirks:
  • His father is just as bad with horror as he is.
  • His love of alcohol comes from his mother, who can apparently even drink him under the table.
• Shout-Out: One of his 3.0 model's possible expressions is explicitly one to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Can be surprisingly foul-mouthed, in both Japanese and English.
• Situational Sociability: Despite his outwardly outgoing personality, other livers have mentioned that he's actually surprisingly timid and shy when in an unfamiliar place or with people he doesn't know very well. Muyu has mentioned that even among the other first generation VTA students he didn't talk much at all at first, only becoming as comfortable as he is now with them later on.
• The Strategist: Plays this role for VOLTACTION as their leader, devising their approach to missions and assigning tasks to each member.
• Student Council President: He was this during VOLTACTION's boarding school years, which is reflected in his school uniform outfit.
• Surprisingly Good English: So much so that he forgets Japanese and scrambles English and Japanese together at times - he often accompanied his father on business trips to America and spent part of his childhood there. He scored 750-760 out of 990 on the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) and has done the most collabs with the EN branch out of the VOLTACTION members; he has stated that he can understand English just fine, but still struggles with grammar and sentence structure.
• Team Mom: Particularly with Seraph.
• Technical Pacifist: It's revealed in their voice dramas that he only loads his Hand Cannon with non-lethal rubber bullets and tries to avoid violence except when absolutely necessary, a restriction he imposes on the entire group as well.
• Third-Person Person: Not Kanato, but his female counterpart Kana.
• Together in Death: Played for Laughs. During a Super Bunny Man collab with Hibari, the latter dies while Kanato lives. To possibly make him feel better, Kanato grabs his body and jumps into a pit of spikes.
• Wine Is Classy: Has a fondness for red wine.
• Young and in Charge: While he is one of the younger members of VOLTACTION, he is still the group's founder and undisputed leader. He is also quite young for a head of a company.

Watarai Hibari

Watarai Hibari [JP: 渡会雲雀; CN: 渡会云雀]

"Alright! Let's do this in one shot!"

Debut date: November 5, 2021 (Virtual Talent Academy), July 16, 2022 (Nijisanji)
Birthday: September 23rd
Age: 21
Height: 183 cm
Nickname: Hiba, Tarai
Illustrator: Ninahachi
Channel: YouTube
Social Media: Twitter

The heir of a Phantom Thief family who works part-time at one of Kanato's cafés, CAFE Zeffiro.

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• The Ace: In terms of singing, he's the most musically talented of his group. He mixes his own covers as well as for other livers, and was the one who taught Seraph how to do so for his own covers.
• Affectionate Nickname: In addition to the above, he gave Toko permission to call him Bari-chan.
• Almighty Janitor: As far as Hibari's concerned, he's just a humble café employee. One that happens to be able to analyze the optimal entry and escape routes for a given building, crack even the most high-tech safe on the market, and make replica valuables that are good enough to fool other thieves.
• Animal Motifs: Skylarks, or hibari in Japanese.
• Ascended Fanboy: He is a longtime Fanboy of VOCALOID and music producer kemu/Horie Shota, and has covered several of his songs during his singing streams. Hibari's first original song, "skylark", was written and produced by none other than Horie himself. Horie also personally taught him how to play the song on the guitar.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: During his debut, he immediately captured the hearts of many with his stunning cover of Summertime Record. This is also shown during his karaoke streams, and he even managed to impress Shu Yamino.
• Becoming the Mask: Originally stole and forged identification papers in order to gain admission to Erfolg College so that he'd have a place to sleep while experiencing the big city, but grew to genuinely love the school and his new life as a student. This school pride is the "exemplary conduct" Kanato cites when awarding Hibari the last merit badge he needs to remain at the school.
• Big Brother Instinct: Although he is the oldest member of VOLTACTION, only Seraph really invokes this in him, overlapping with Big Brother Mentor. Seraph's earnestness makes Hibari want to teach everything he knows about audio engineering, and Hibari gets a lot of enjoyment from seeing Seraph improve. He also wholeheartedly agreed with Chigusa when she referred to him as Seraph's onii-chan.
• Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: In his cover of "Newton Dance", poor Hibari-san is seen getting pelted with apples; Hibari asked whose idea it was in the premiere chat, seemingly angrily. When Seraph, who illustrated the video, apologized, Hibari called him a genius and told him to keep coming up with things like that. Then again, it might just be because it was Seraph.
• Blatant Burglar: Not In-Universe, obviously, but he makes some... interesting plays during his first Thief Simulator stream, including carrying stolen goods and smashing windows in broad daylight, and breaking in right next to where people are sleeping and getting found out instantly.
• Book Dumb: By his own admission, he got a lot of red marks on his tests in school. He once managed to get 1% on a test despite actually trying and answering all the questions, and even then he suspects the one partially correct mark he received to have been given out of pity. This trait was even incorporated into the plot of his Memories of Nostalgia voice drama, where in-lore, his academic performance was so abysmal that he was in danger of getting expelled.
  • In VOLTACTION's school-themed half-anniversary stream, he scored 175 out of a possible 500 on the comprehensive exam they all took; for comparison, Seraph, who got the highest marks, more than doubled his score with 418 points. In fact, the sheer absurdity of his incorrect answers became a Running Gag over the course of the stream.
  • Admitted to failing the level 4 Japan Kanji Aptitude Test with a score of 30 out of 200. Note that the level 4 test is designed to be passed by elementary and junior high school students.
  • As revealed during his and Seraph's first Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes collab, he apparently doesn't know what vowels are.
• Borrowed Without Permission: In their first voice drama, he takes the liberty of "borrowing" the blueprints of the building VOLTACTION are trying to break into ahead of time.
• Bullet Dancing: After accidentally shooting Selen in practice for the KZHCUP, Hibari gets branded the "enemy" for the rest of the session. When Selen, Kanato, and Bonnivier make it to the top of a building while Hibari is still on the ground, they take the opportunity to subject him to this as their "enemy".
  Selen: Dance, enemy, dance!
• Calling Card: Like any good phantom thief, he has one, of course.
• Calming Coffee: Drinks a cup to calm down his nerves when he's anxious or thinking too much.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Gets drunk immediately according to Kanato, and in fact can apparently get drunk just by eating whiskey bon-bons. His tolerance is so low that he's both bright red and out cold within just 30 minutes of having his first drink.
• Challenge Seeker: In VOLTACTION's first voice drama, Hibari isn't deterred when it becomes obvious that what they're looking for is likely hidden behind multiple layers of security. In fact, he relishes the chance to do what he does best.
  Kanato: No matter where you are in the world, bad people will always hide important things behind hidden doors.
  Hibari: What's with that reasoning? Hmph... but... what an interesting game you've given me.
  Kanato: Ahaha, I'm glad you'll have fun with this. I'll leave it to you, then?
• Character Catchphrase: During one of his guest appearances on NijiNoon, the panel was tasked with coming up with a greeting for him. The audience vote settled on Elu's suggestion of waa, bikkurishita?, or "boo, did I scare you?", which he has since adopted as his catchphrase. While he initially thought it was a bit corny, he embraced it after realizing the potential for it to prompt some fun phrase catching from his viewers.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: Played for Laughs during a playthrough of eBASEBALL Powerful Pro Baseball 2022. He kept inadvertently making the right choices to make female characters flirt or fall for him, much to his escalating horror as he had already decided on a love interest. He eventually resorts to zooming in on himself to cover the screen during one of these scenes.
• Comedic Sociopathy: Happens often enough that he has even uploaded a clip compilation of his "natural psychopath" moments.
  • During VOLTACTION's wanko soba eating contest off-collab, Hibari is clearly having the time of his life forcing Akira to eat more and more plates of soba with either horribly sour or horribly spicy toppings and watching him suffer as a result.
    (while Akira is screaming about how much it hurts in the background)
    Hibari: (giggling) This is so much fun!
• Compressed Vice: Briefly descends into gacha hell trying to pull Zhongli in Genshin Impact, and gets characteristically overdramatic about it when his luck proves to be absolutely horrendous.
• Conspicuous Gloves: Wears a pair of red gloves at all times as part of his default outfit.
• Cool Mask: Has one that has a vaguely bird-like aesthetic to it, in line with his Animal Motifs. In addition to looking cool, he can detect security details such as infrared sensors while wearing it, which likely comes in handy given his nighttime occupation.
• Country Mouse: His family is based in the countryside in-lore, which was too quiet for a Large Ham with aspirations of becoming an entertainer like him to do anything too showy. The Small Town Boredom lead him to run away from home in order to see the city.
• Cute Little Fang: He has one that looks like it's part of his mouth.
• Cuteness Proximity: Has a massive soft spot for Seraph, and finds him absolutely adorable.
• Determinator: Ran 5-6 kilometers to the hospital to undergo surgery.
• Does Not Like Spam: Hates pickled leeks and sour things in general. He's also not a fan of coriander.
• The Driver: He's the one behind the wheel in VOLTACTION's real world travel vlog.
• Duet Bonding: With Fuwa, who he tapped to accompany him on the electric guitar as a guest during his 3D debut. This later lead to a full-on two-man session live with Fuwa on the guitar and Hibari on vocals, and as announced in said live, an entire band project.
• Dumb, but Diligent: Describes his experience in school as this. While his grades left a lot to be desired, he was never late, had perfect attendance, and got along very well with his teachers. However according to Kanato, the diligent part now no longer applies as he is frequently late for their get-togethers.
• Emotional Regression: Played for Laughs in VOLTACTION's summer sports battle off-collab. After scores were shown at the mid-point of the collab and he was revealed to be in dead last and quite far behind, he starts jokingly whining to the staff about wanting some sort of gimmick that can turn things around, which quickly devolves into him throwing a full-on toddler-esque tantrum. It takes the combined efforts of both Akira and Kanato to calm him down.
  Akira: We bought you plenty of candy yesterday, didn't we?
  Hibari: But I don't have enough candy!
  Akira: We have more at home! There's still some at home!
  Hibari: No! I want potato chips and cola too!
  Kanato: This brat just won't stop - be quiet!
• Establishing Character Moment: Showed up to his debut stream singing with a live band, which not only established him as The Rock Star, but immediately cemented himself as one of Nijisanji's best vocalists right off the bat.
• "Eureka!" Moment: In VOLTACTION's second voice drama, he jokingly wonders if their client's stuffed animal has something hidden in it, like it would if they were in a manga or something. This leads him to actually take a closer look at it, and as an expert thief, he immediately recognizes that the toy's eyes are in fact gemstones worth several hundred million yen.
• Exotic Eye Designs: His pupils are diamond shaped with a tiny dot in the middle.
• Expressive Mask: When he wears his mask on stream, his eye movements still get tracked to the mask's eye holes themselves when said eye holes are opaque, leading to this trope.
• Failed a Spot Check: In spades during VΔLZ and VOLTACTION's first Feign collab. Comes to a head when he votes to eject Seraph and hands the imposter Akira the win, despite the fact that Kaida having previously been confirmed innocent also confirmed that Seraph was innocent.
  Hibari: Um... so I'm an idiot.
  Everyone Else: (laughing) Right, right. / We knew. / We knew that already.
• Fanboy: A longtime fan of VOCALOID, particularly works by producers kemu and Jin.
• Feather Motif: In keeping with his Animal Motifs, his logo prominently features a pair of wings. This logo is displayed in a fittingly symbolic location, right on the back of his Badass Longcoat. In his school uniform outfit, he also wears a single earring composed of brown feathers, much like a skylark's plumage.
• Forgotten First Meeting: It is strongly implied that he was the one same-age Childhood Friend Kanato had before VOLTACTION but lost contact with. Though Kanato seems to put two and two together and realize this near the end of his Memories of Nostalgia voice drama, Hibari remains oblivious.
• Fun Personified: Described by Akira as the quintessential extrovert.
• Gemstone Motifs: He's often depicted with gemstones in general, befitting a Phantom Thief, but he's also specifically associated with diamonds. One of his fanmarks is a diamond, his pupils are diamond shaped, and diamonds are prominently featured in his streaming layout.
• Genius Ditz: While he is very much Book Dumb and terrible at studying as he himself has acknowledged, there's no denying that he's an expert when it comes to any sort of audio mixing, editing, or engineering as well as streaming equipment; multiple livers have come to him for either help or advice on these matters. This is of course in addition to his skills and training as a phantom thief.
• Gratuitous English: While his English pronounciation is good, his comprehension of the language itself isn't, which has lead to hilarity - for example, the infamous "OF CORTH!" moment from VOLTACTION's half-anniversary stream. As Seraph notes, while Hibari cannot communicate with his café's foreign customers in the slightest, he more than makes up for it with passion.
• Groin Attack: During his and Kanato's Super Bunny Man collab, a stalactite falls and hits Hibari's character in a very unfortunate location. Kanato then cracked a joke about what it looked like that was a Call-Back to a previous conversation they had with Bonnivier, only for it to fly right over Hibari's head.
• Hates Reading: Mainly because he finds kanji difficult; he's heavily reliant on furigana (to the point where he panics if something he needs to read doesn't have it), and apparently even reading manga is a struggle for him. Once, he looked over Seraph's shoulder as the latter was reading a novel because he was curious about it, only to give up and complain that the font was too small.
  • His subpar grasp of kanji is put front and center during his attempt at playing Kanji de GO!. Before the game even begins, he finds that he can't read the instructions - and it only gets worse from there.
• Head Pet: Hibari-san is usually depicted as this, and physically becomes one when Hibari is in 3D.
• The Heart: The other members of VOLTACTION have described him as the moodmaker of the group, and while he's not a natural leader like Kanato, he still supports the group in other ways.
  • For example, when Akira had to cancel on the other members because an issue came up, Hibari checked in on him and listened to all of his worries and complaints, which Akira greatly appreciated.
  • Even other livers recognize his role in VOLTACTION as this - when Seraph and Akira started bickering in their Granny Simulator collab, Leos jokingly requested that someone call Hibari to iron things out.
• Horrible Judge of Character: During VOLTACTION's Lethal Company collab, he refers to one of the recurring monsters as his "friend". When asked why he calls it his friend, he answered that it "seemed pretty happy when I jumped up and down for it and made a jingly noise", implying that the monster was shaking him down. Seraph points out that he really shouldn't be calling something like that his friend.
• Hypno Fool: According to Kanda, Hibari is apparently very easy to influence with hypnosis. Luckily for him, Kanda only gave him fairly innocuous commands like not to fall for cult scams.
• Indispensable Scoundrel: While he's definitely a more idealized example of this trope, the group certainly relies on his thieving skills and gadgetry for certain missions.
• Informed Ability: Subverted. Despite the whole barista thing supposedly being Kayfabe, he actually does know how to roast, grind and brew coffee if given the raw beans. Prior to VOLTACTION's taste test king off-collab, Nijisanji staff even relied on Hibari to prepare the coffee they used, though he had to do so with his nose plugged and a mask on to prevent him from having an unfair advantage.
• Insistent Terminology: Tried to make calling shotgun bolts shagaboru a thing in the lead-up to VSaikyo 5, much to his teammate Kou's irritation.
• Intangible Theft: Steals "hearts" rather than anything material, unless it's something needed for a mission or the identity documents he used to enroll in school.
• Irisless Eye Mask Of Mystery: His Cool Mask's eye holes can toggle between transparent and this, likely to obscure his identity.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Although described by both himself and others as not the greatest at thinking, he makes up for it with his highly empathetic nature and warm attitude.
• Large Ham: He's extremely gregarious, loud, outgoing, and with a definite flair for the dramatic - the last of which occasionally puts him at odds with the more pragmatic Seraph.
  Seraph: So, what kind of disguises have you prepared this time?
  Hibari: We're dressing up as... refreshing... pleasant... handsome janitors! (audible sparkles)
  Seraph: (flat monotone) Ah. Is that so?
• Living a Double Life: He works as a café barista to make ends meet by day, and operates as a Phantom Thief by night.
• Lovable Rogue: Considering he steals "hearts" as his preferred prize...
• Madness Mantra: Devolves into this when Kanato pities him after destroying him in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
  Hibari: Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck... I'll kill you I'll kill you I'll kill you I'll kill you I'll kill you I'll kill you I'll kill you...
• Manic Pixie Dream Boy: Seems to have been a downplayed and platonic version of this to a defrosting Seraph early on in their friendship, with his enthusiasm inspiring the latter to do things outside his comfort zone and his unfettered shows of physical and verbal affection catching Seraph off guard and making him adorably flustered.
• Manly Tears: Cried on stream in response to Final Fantasy X, and had to temporarily mute himself.
• Man of a Thousand Voices: He's very good at vocal impressions, and does a particularly uncanny impression of voice actor Showtaro Morikubo. Other impressions he's done include Solid Snake, Araragi, Gintoki, Kaitou Kid, Levi, Stitch, Usopp, among others.
• Master of Disguise: Not quite to Akira's level as far as has been shown, but he still seems to be the go-to person for when the group needs more general disguises because of how good he is at making them.
• Master Forger: Gets tasked with making replica gemstones good enough to act as decoys in their second voice drama - and their targets fall for them hook, line, and sinker. He also forged identity documents in order to enroll at Erfolg College.
• Master of Unlocking: Naturally, as part of his lore. Not even digitally locked doors or a top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art safe stand a chance.
• Medium Blending: As it took place before he received his 3D model, Hibari was represented in all his 2D glory on a old-school TV screen in order for him to appear on Ryushen's otherwise entirely 3D birthday karaoke stream in 2023.
• Metal Scream: He's pretty good at them.
• Nice Guy: So incredibly nice to everyone, Kou is afraid of him. Nei describes him as someone who's far too nice to physically punch you, so he'll punch you with his singing voice instead.
• No Escape but Down: In his 3D debut, after getting seemingly cornered by a bunch of Mooks on a rooftop, he pulls this in an incredibly badass fashion to make his on-stage entrance.
• No Indoor Voice: Hibari certainly is a man of many decibels, which somehow is amplified even further when he's with Kanato. Even when he says he'll try to talk a bit more quietly, for example during his playthroughs of plot-heavy games like Final Fantasy X, he'll inevitably return to his usual volume.
• Noiseless Walker: One of his thief-like abilities. It gets some Mundane Utility when stealing bases during a baseball game in his Memories of Nostalgia voice drama.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Apparently, Hibari greeted Seraph once by straight-up grabbing the latter's stomach, much to Seraph's amusement. In the voice dramas, he's also casually walked right up to Akira to steal the glasses right off of his face. He also immediately went in for a Bear Hug on Akira and Seraph after the latter two agreed to help him avoid expulsion back in their school days - note that this happened before they became close. Akira unsurprisingly dodges his attempt.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Maybe. It turns out he stole and forged identity documents in order to enroll in the Boarding School that VOLTACTION attended. As such, it's uncertain as to whether "Watarai Hibari" is really his name, or that of the person he stole the papers from. It could also provide an explanation as to why Kanato didn't immediately recognize him as being his Childhood Friend.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When he's one gold "exemplary conduct" badge short of getting a bonus to his grades to avoid expulsion in his Memories of Nostalgia voice drama, he mulls over the idea of just stealing it from someone, with his voice taking on an uncharacteristically sinister edge. This leads a shocked Kanato to grab him and talk him out of it.
• Part-Time Hero: Resents it when Kanato insinuates that he should have picked something more thief-y as a day job in their first voice drama, retorting that he's perfectly happy with his very normal work.
  Kanato: Rather than becoming a café employee, shouldn't you have become a locksmith instead?
  Hibari: (while picking a lock) Tch, don't say something so cold. Working at the café is super fun... after all! (lock unlocks)
• Phantom Thief: His nighttime occupation.
• The Pollyanna: His genmates have mentioned that they've never seen him not being cheerful.
• Portmanteau: His fandom name, Hibarista, is a combination of his name and "barista".
• The Rock Star: He certainly fits the character archetype in that he's loud, fun, and larger than life; and he musically fits the trope too given his cover song choices and propensity for band session streams. He also plays the electric guitar, and is the main vocalist of the Nijisanji band, 2-ji Datoka.
• The Runaway: Ran away from home to enroll in Boarding School using a stolen identity, with the school serving as his Runaway Hideaway - which, as Kanato remarks, was why he was so desperate to avoid getting expelled.
• Share the Male Pain: He was the one who told Seraph to get checked out by a doctor when it turned out the latter was undergoing testicular torsion, as he had also experienced it in the past. Kanato dubs them the nenten-gumi or Team Torsion as a result, which neither of them are amused by.
• Smoking Is Cool: Discussed. He smoked for a while, but has since quit. He initially picked up the habit because he looked up to people smoking in bars, thinking they looked cool. While he liked it enough to have a favorite cigarette brand, he eventually realized that looking cool was really the only reason why he was doing it. He also noticed that smoking was starting to affect his singing voice, which gave him even more reason to quit.
• The Sneaky Guy: VOLTACTION's resident expert on infiltration.
• Super-Senses: Has heightened senses of sight and hearing in-lore.
• Supreme Chef: He is one both in-lore and in real life, if the other members' comments about his delicious pasta and Sichuan mouth-watering chicken are to be believed. His culinary skills and knowledge were put on full display in VOLTACTION's Cooking Duel off-collab through both his cooking technique as well as his commentary. In-Universe, he's also in charge of designing CAFE Zeffiro's menu.
• Taught by Experience: His audio engineering skills are entirely self-taught.
• Those Two Guys: With Kanato.
• Through His Stomach: While he has fed all the VOLTACTION members, he especially loves cooking for Seraph because he finds how much the latter enjoys his food very endearing. It goes both ways too, with Seraph giving Hibari in particular homemade Valentine's Day chocolate prior to their debut.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Ramen. In fact, his three favorite foods are simply three different flavors of ramen. When trying to estimate how much Hibari would be willing to spend on a meal on average, both Akira and Seraph based their guesses on the price of a bowl of ramen - and they were correct.
• Trash of the Titans: Hates cleaning to the point where his air purifier polluted his air after he didn't bother cleaning his room, let alone the filter for more than a year. It's also not unusual for him to tweet about finding long-lost items after finally getting around to cleaning. Seraph is one of the few things that will motivate him to voluntarily clean his room.
• Trauma Button: Schoolwork. When the batsu game for VOLTACTION's summer sports battle off-collab was revealed to be a summer homework research project, Hibari reacted by straight up calling it trauma and having an exaggerated breakdown.
• Triple Shifter: Despite Living a Double Life much like certain other virtual phantom thieves, this trope is subverted in his case. CAFE Zeffiro doesn't have overtime and he only works part-time; the café manager is also quite lenient with him when he asks for time off due to his other commitments. Of course, what also helps is that his boss is one of his best friends.
• Uncatty Resemblance: Following its second redesign, Hibari-san now has tufts of purple and magenta feathers that are the same colors as human Hibari's hair.
• Unperson: Played for Laughs, when he gave a particularly stupid answer on an exam.
  Seraph: Huh? Did someone just disappear? Our precious friend?
  Kanato: Seraph, what are you talking about? Haven't we gone over all of VOLTACTION's answers already?
  Seraph: I see... that's right, VOLTACTION only had 3 members...
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He despises bugs. It appears to be an actual phobia, too - he's stated that if there's a cicada on his front doorstep he will refuse to leave his house.
• The Workaholic: He doesn't see being busy with work as a bad thing and even enjoys it; he also takes said work very seriously. For example, after he was selected as a coach for the 2023 edition of Nijisanji Koshien, Hibari kept sneaking onto his Switch to review his training progress in the Eikan Nine mode for the event even during a brief vacation VOLTACTION went on together.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Downplayed, as he's quite harmless compared to other characters with the trait. However, he is ultimately still a thief, and a skilled one at that.

Shikinagi Akira

Shikinagi Akira [JP: 四季凪アキラ; CN: 四季凪圣来]

"This time, I'll use these lips of mine to entertain people rather than deceive them."

Debut date: November 4, 2021 (Virtual Talent Academy), July 16, 2022 (Nijisanji)
Birthday: December 12th
Age: 21
Height: 174 cm
Nickname: Shikky, Nagi, Nagi-mama
Illustrator: Nozaki Tsubata
Channel: YouTube, Twitcasting
Social Media: Twitter

A former spy now working as a contractor at a small freelance agency, Room 4S.

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• Affectionate Nickname: In addition to the above, Seraph in particular refers to him as Nagi-chan, Nagira, Naginagi-chan, Nagichi, etc.
• The Alleged Boss: He technically is Seraph's boss when the latter takes on contracts from him, however Seraph himself refuses to recognize Akira as such, instead referring to him as a middleman.
• Alternate Character Reading: During the VTA era, his given name was written in kanji (聖来) rather than in katakana (アキラ) like it is now. 聖来 is often misread as the feminine name "Seira", which Akira has used as a placeholder for a real life alias as well as the name of his Attractive Bent-Gender counterpart, SeiLa.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: His mother watches his streams, much to his embarrassment. As she is a Yaoi Fangirl, she has remarked that Akira also liking BL was probably something he inherited from her, which as Akira points out, isn't something you should be saying to your son's face.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Delivers one to Seraph in his Memories of Nostalgia voice drama, as the latter has been ordered to kill him.
  Akira: After I take my last breath, will you have gotten what you wanted?
• Art Evolution: Debuted his Live2D 3.0 model on December 1, 2023.
• Ascended Fanboy:
  • He was a fan of Maimoto and Rikiichi before auditioning for VTA. He eventually got to interview them both as guests for an episode of his radio show All Nagito Nippon.
  • He mentioned in his debut stream that Harada is one of his favorite BL mangaka - who he later interviewed for Da Vinci magazine.
  • He's also a fan of horror novelist Nashi, and was asked to write the obi text for their novel Jiyūritsu. He later interviewed Nashi for a magazine, and was even featured as the protagonist of a short story Nashi wrote that was included in it.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: SeiLa, the lovely proprietress of the bar Arc-en-SeiLa.
• Baritone of Strength: Downplayed, but he has a notably deep voice and is badass enough In-Universe to put up a decent fight against assassin-mode Seraph of all people in his Memories of Nostalgia voice drama. While he acknowledges that he can only fight defensively and it's only a matter of time before Seraph overpowers him, he lasts a hell of a lot longer than Seraph's usual targets.
• Big Damn Heroes: In VOLTACTION's second voice drama. After a mission appears to go awry and Kanato and their client get held hostage by a group of thugs, Seraph is told to drop his weapons, which he does only for the thugs' leader to decide to kill him first. At this, one of the hostage-takers suddenly shoots the thugs' leader, revealing himself to have been Akira in disguise all along.
  Akira: Betrayal? We weren't associates to begin with. Your actual associate is sleeping peacefully upstairs right now.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: He is the little guy to Seraph's big guy, as they are the shortest and tallest members of VOLTACTION respectively and the latter often technically works for him. Though since Akira's not that short and both of them are quite smart, this is downplayed compared to usual examples of the trope.
• Blind Without 'Em: After losing his glasses in a Humiliating Wager with Leos, he had to stream without them temporarily. While Akira was fine vision-wise thanks to contact lenses, his stream thumbnails from this period played on the idea of this trope.
• Butt-Monkey: Downplayed, but out of the VOLTACTION members, he tends to get the short end of the stick most often in collabs. The others also get noticeably more excited when they get a chance to bully him a little or give him a punishment.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Downplayed compared to Hibari. He actually does have a decent alcohol tolerance, he just doesn't realize when he's crossed that threshold - which is why the other VOLTACTION members have lots of stories of him throwing up everywhere and being an extraordinarily loud drunk, to the point where they won't allow him to drink in public. Akira reluctantly admits it's all true.
• Casual Kink: Openly bi and doesn't shy away from talking about subjects like sexuality, fetishes, etc.
• Children Forced to Kill: Implied. In his debut lore manga, a family portrait featuring Akira as a child holding a large rifle can be seen.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Zigzagged. On the surface, he appears to be this towards Seraph and Muyu during their collabs. However, if the stream goes on long enough or if Akira gets sufficiently wound up, the dynamics tend to reverse.
• Consummate Professional: When on the job at Room 4S.
• The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: Threatens a thug with this on Seraph's behalf in the voice dramas:
  Akira: Resist, and perhaps my agent's hands might just accidentally slip and slit your throat.
• Crazy-Prepared: For some reason, he thought of bringing a laser gun modified into a welding machine with him on an infiltration mission in their first voice drama... which certainly came in handy when they needed to weld the door shut behind them in order to make a rooftop escape.
• Cumbersome Claws: Akira started regularly getting his nails done and decorated, and they were quite long. This made typing and playing games like VALORANT a struggle; his nails also made him unable to hold a knife properly during VOLTACTION's 2v2 cooking off-collab, much to Seraph's distress. This eventually resolved once he got his stylist to clip his nails shorter.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: Can get very loud when gassed up, frustrated, or terrified. And when Akira starts screaming, he screams, in a pitch much higher than you'd expect from someone with such a low voice.
• Cuteness Proximity: This is apparently the main reason why he accepts so many animal-related missions and requests sent to Room 4S to look for lost pets.
• Distinguishing Mark: The pair of moles on his neck.
• Does Not Like Spam: Despises all kinds of shellfish with the exception of oysters.
• Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: Turns out he was this during VOLTACTION's boarding school years. Seraph at first accused him of being a Double Agent, however Akira denies this, correcting him by saying that "double" isn't enough to describe what he actually is - a triple agent, neither working for the interests of his organization, nor the party he was betraying them to, but rather his own.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Downplayed. He is perfectly fine with most other livers and viewers calling him Shikky - but he will not let the other members of VOLTACTION call him that.
• Enraged by Idiocy: Usually triggered by Kanato and Hibari. At one point, he throws them out from the Room 4S office after they fool around a little too much in their audio dramas. And then there was their Pummel Party collab...
• Establishing Character Moment: Right after he introduced himself in his debut stream, he apologized... since he was about to destroy whatever cool image viewers had built up of him because of his voice and lore (though people who had been following him since the VTA era were unsurprised). Needless to say, he set the tone fairly quickly by sharing a BL fanfic he had written himself about vacuum machines.
• Even the Guys Want Him: He has discussed being the target of advances from other men in real life.
• Evil Laugh: Lets out a truly magnificent one during VΔLZ and VOLTACTION's first Feign collab when he wins a round as the sole surviving imposter.
• Exhaustion-Induced Idiocy: 3AM Shikinagi is infamously unhinged, and in general he gets a little loopy if he streams longer than three hours.
• First Friend: To Seraph, In-Universe. Even if Seraph had ulterior motives or was just trying to get Akira to let his guard down in order to wiretap him when he first suggested that they were friends, they already looked and acted like friends at that point according to Kanato and Hibari.
• Formal Characters Use Keigo: When he has to strictly adhere to Kayfabe, such as in official media like voice packs and the voice dramas, he almost exclusively speaks in keigo. In actual streams and collabs it's more hit or miss, though in general he does speak using noticeably more polite speech patterns than the others - including using the more formal pronoun watashi to refer to himself.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Implied. He's known to have modified a laser gun into a welding machine; he is also seen tinkering with his glasses in VOLTACTION's debut countdown illustration. Hibari even wonders if it's possible for Akira to modify his Cool Mask to do the same things said glasses do in their first voice drama, though Seraph snipes that there's a good chance Akira might screw it up.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: His glasses can project images, allow him to track the other members' movements, and serve as a communications device.
• Has a Type: Women who smoke and are tall, and older men.
• Hates Being Alone: He gets lonely quite easily, to the point where he sometimes lingers in voice chat into the early morning hoping people will join him. 3AM Shikinagi will also incessantly message his friends "are you awake?" and "why aren't you responding?" over and over again.
• Height Angst: Averted. While he does briefly lament being the shortest VOLTACTION member during his debut stream, it usually doesn't bother him.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Is a huge fan of board games and Tabletop RPGs, and has listed the game he's spent the most hours of his life on as being Catan. He also closely follows e-sports, especially the VCL.
  • Has admitted to being somewhat insecure about being known primarily as a BL fanboy and for his chatting streams (though he does enjoy making this kind of content), and has expressed gratitude to viewers that show up to watch him do and play things other than what he's best known for.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Subverted. Akira thought very little of his singing voice while he was a VTA student and wasn't even sure if he'd cover anything after he debuted. However, when VOLTACTION debuted, "Inlaid" showed that he could keep up with the others just fine in the vocals department.
• Hopeless with Tech: Downplayed. He's fairly savvy but cannot wrap his head around forms of social media beyond Twitter, being completely baffled by things like TikTok and Instagram.
• Humiliating Wager: Made a wager with fellow Megane Leos for their bout in a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament, with the loser having to give their glasses to the other. Unfortunately, Akira lost - with Seraph losing a violin to Leos in the following round trying to get his glasses back (Leos himself would later lose Mameneko to Chaika). True to the bit, Akira's next couple of streams featured him without glasses.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Discussed when Seraph reflects on his and Akira's cover of "Gekkou".
  Seraph: "Do you want love so much you’d resort to theft?" really is an perfect lyric. Because if we were the same people we used to be, I don't think anyone would have ever loved us. [...] That Shikinagi Akira guy, I think most of you already know, but that guy wants to be loved.
• Innocently Insensitive: During VOLTACTION's second board game off-collab, he has to explain how an angel with regenerative powers can make money faster than a cyborg panda. He does so by suggesting that the angel can sell its flesh as food, much to Seraph's incredulous horror.
• Insistent Terminology: Seraph refers to himself as an "agent" solely because Akira insists that he does.
• In Touch with His Feminine Side: He has an open-minded approach to gender norms and expression, and is interested in more traditionally feminine things like makeup and painting his nails/nail art. He has also crossdressed before, even offering to help Kanato crossdress after the latter expressed interest in it.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Prefers cats to dogs, and has taken care of his mother's cat.
• Lethal Chef: Kanato has said eating his cooking is more like a punishment, and prior to their debut he managed to turn eggplant into something with the appearance and consistency of an old tire during the time they rented a cottage together. His frighteningly cavalier approach to cooking is... interesting, to say the least - viewers have described watching him cook as being scarier than a horror film.
• Life-Saving Encouragement: In Room 4S' first voice drama, he snaps Seraph out of a slight Heroic BSoD triggered by the reappearance of someone from his past and his subsequent fear that he'll be tempted to go back to his past life.
  Akira: It's the same for me, you know. They called them "missions", but truthfully, I've destroyed a lot of lives through what I've done. That reality won't disappear. It's true that by coming into contact with the underworld again, those with valuable talents like ours might get scouted back into it. But I won't ever go back. The way things are now, there are so many fun things to do, and friends to share happiness with.
  Seraph: A-ah...
  Akira: Don't you get it? I'm saying that I really like the way our lives are now. It might be out of character for me to say this, but from now on and into the future, I'd like to look for lost cats, exterminate beehives, among other things with you as your contractor, drink delicious coffee at CAFE Zeffiro, and keep living that sort of life. (lighthearted sarcasm) But technically you're not exclusively my agent, so if you want to stop doing this, that's fine too?
  Seraph: Haha... I wouldn't want that. For me too, life is super fun right now.
• Like Brother and Sister: With Muyu, with whom he forms the duo Spy☆Dream.
• Living Out a Childhood Dream: According to his debut lore. He initially grew up aspiring to follow in his parents' footsteps and live the strict lifestyle of an underworld spy. However, as a child he secretly admired the entertainers he occasionally saw on variety shows late at night, and saw joining Nijisanji as a stroke of good luck and a chance to follow that childhood dream.
  • In his Memories of Nostalgia voice drama, it's revealed that starting up an agency like Room 4S was also a childhood dream of his.
• Living Toys: Has a Niji-nui plush of himself that's been given a life of its own named Chibinagi. Chibinagi is apparently not very happy with Akira for keeping him tucked away in the back of a shelf, but has still joined Akira to commentate on a stream.
• Loss of Identity: Discussed by Seraph when he explains why they chose to cover "Gekkou", the lyrics of which they found especially poignant given their In-Universe backstories.
  Seraph: We've always been in lines of work where we become imitations of and overlap with someone else, so there was no such thing as being a completely original person for us.
• Male Frontal Nudity: The infamous Mr. Fairy incident. Poor Seraph was just trying to play the violin...
• Manly Tears: Admitted to tearing up a bit on stream at the climax of It Takes Two. Cried even harder while playing DON'T SAY YES, to the point where he can be heard wiping his tears under his glasses and/or taking them off during a transition screen.
• Masochist's Meal: Challenged himself to eat painfully spicy R-18 curry for Christmas. Then he had to eat habanero-flavored chocolates as a batsu for finishing last in VOLTACTION's Valentine's Day off-collab debate tournament, causing him to wonder why he's doomed to suffer on these romantic holidays.
• Master of Disguise: Implied in his debut manga, where he says being one is part of a spy's job. Confirmed to be one to Latex Perfection levels in VOLTACTION's voice dramas, though Seraph teases him about his skills being a bit rusty since he's been out of practice.
• Mean Boss: Played for Laughs, since it is ultimately Kayfabe.
  • He's been jokingly called a horrible boss by Kanato and Hibari, who blamed him for Seraph being absent for the beginning of one of VOLTACTION's Valheim collabs as Seraph was stated to have been busy with a mission. Hibari has also gloated about how much easier his job is than Seraph's with Kanato as his boss, and Seraph himself has had some strong opinions about how hard Akira makes him work...
    Seraph: Recently, there have been a lot more missions... he's taking on too many jobs, that Shikinagi Akira. I'm about to lose my mind. [...] That guy, really... he thinks my physical abilities are infinite or something. He's made me chase after a lost parakeet. I thought, "a parakeet!?" - isn't that obviously impossible?
  • In Room 4S' voice drama, he cuts his and Seraph's vacation short and forces Seraph to work off the cost of repairing the agency's circuit breaker and recovering the data lost in the power outage... despite Akira bumping into Seraph while he was throwing a knife being the actual cause of the circuit breaker's destruction in the first place. Seraph's subsequent complaints that Room 4S is a black company after all are met with a remarkably Evil Laugh.
  • He insists that Room 4S is a "bright, wonderful" workplace... while also revealing that he apparently pays his employees in acorns. 3 of them, to be exact.
• Megane: He wears glasses and is very attractive.
• Mission Control: He is this for Room 4S, sending Seraph out on missions while he usually stays back at the office, though he does join missions if needed. He also serves as this for VOLTACTION as a whole.
• The Mole: Fittingly for a former spy, he's revealed to have become this in VOLTACTION's second voice drama, secretly knocking out an enemy Mook and perfectly disguising himself as them. He did end up having to rough up Kanato while playing the part, but he doesn't feel too bad about it.
  Kanato: Ouch... Akira, did you have to grab me so tightly? What if you left a bruise?
  Akira: (Mirthless Laughter) Forgive me. I was just taking out years of frustration...
  Kanato: Wait, stop... even if you're just joking, you're scaring me.
• Multiple Identity IDs: Still has a whole bunch of student ID cards from various universities as a holdover from undercover missions he went on during his spy days.
• Noiseless Walker: According to the voice dramas, he apparently is this out of habit thanks to his former occupation. Not quite noiseless enough to escape Seraph's notice, though.
• Not So Above It All: In his round with Hibari during their Valentine's Day debate tournament off-collab, the structured and analytic approach to debating he showed in his previous round slowly eroded the longer he had to verbally spar with the latter, hilariously devolving into childish insults.
  Hibari: Again, if I had to say one thing, this is all just your opinion, isn't it?
  Akira: SHUT UP, IDIOT!
• Number Two: Was the student council vice-president to Kanato's Student Council President during their school years, which is reflected in his school uniform outfit. Lore-wise he more or less serves as this to him in the present day as well, during full group missions.
• Only Sane Man: He often ends up being VOLTACTION's voice of reason, not that they always listen to him. He even has to tsukkomu the hell out of Seraph, who usually also shares this role, both when it's just the two of them and especially when Seraph is joined by Muyu.
  • He's so well-known for being this, he was even invited to a collab consisting solely of Only Sane Men from various Nijisanji units. During said collab, he mentioned that while the other three members' antics exasperate him at times, he wouldn't change their dynamic in the slightest.
• Overt Operative: As lampshaded in the title of his debut stream, he's oddly talkative for a former spy. Kanato also notes that he has a tendency to say everything he texts or types out loud, which in reality would be a horrible habit for a spy to have.
• People Fall Off Chairs: After Seraph (who at that point in time was still an Emotionless Boy who had yet to fully defrost) asked him if they were friends for the first time during their Boarding School days, Akira was so shocked by it he fell right off the chair he was sitting on.
• Pragmatic Villainy: In Seraph's Memories of Nostalgia voice drama, he stops Seraph from murdering an unfortunate school security guard who saw their faces while they were stealing security footage and patrol patterns, instead instructing him to spray the guard with amnestic gas. Akira did this not because he had any moral qualms about killing, but rather he was irritated at how it would make the job sloppy, pointing out that the alarm a murder at a posh school would raise would make their mission a lot more difficult.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: His appearance certainly invokes this aesthetic.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: First heard during a Phasmophobia collab - when Seraph tricks him with the door jumpscare in the main lobby, Akira lets out a high pitched scream, much to the others’ amusement. With later collabs, it turns out that he screams like this whenever he gets worked up, which is often.
• Screw Yourself: While he's wary of being shipped with other livers out of consideration for his coworkers' level of comfort, he's stated that fanworks of him depicting selfcest are a-ok.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: His default outfit features an opulent overcoat and a Waistcoat of Style.
• Ship Tease:
  • Most notably with Seraph, as their interactions occasionally have this implication to them in spite of his stance on shipping. His flustered reactions to Seraph being more affectionate than usual don't help.
  • Played for Laughs with fellow Yaoi Fanboy Hajime, during a stream in which they acted out BL scenes sent in by their viewers.
  • Ends up at the center of a love triangle between Chogakusei and Rou, as the latter two recurrently one-up each other over the closeness of their respective relationships with Akira.
• Shockingly Expensive Bill: VOLTACTION went out for yakiniku for their first anniversary concert afterparty, with the last one standing in a rock-paper-scissors-off between them having to pay for all of them. Akira, being Akira, managed to "win" in a single round and got stuck with the bill, which to his shock ended up being 57,000 yen. Kanato regrets not running the bill up higher.
• Sinister Spy Agency: Implied to have been part of one of these alongside his family, especially considering that said organization apparently worked with Professional Killers like Seraph. Later confirmed in the voice dramas, as Akira described his missions as having "destroyed lives" and hated the organization so much he secretly plotted to escape from it.
• The Smart Guy: Smart People Wear Glasses, after all. According to his debut lore, his parents were quite strict with regards to his studies, and intelligence has always been his main strength. He has shown that this isn't just an Informed Attribute, as he was only just beaten out by Seraph score-wise on a exam done for VOLTACTION's half-anniversary stream, and it's noted he would have been close had he not made some careless kanji mistakes.
• Talking the Monster to Death: Does this to Seraph while the latter is actively trying to kill him in the voice dramas, imploring Seraph to join him in escaping from their respective organizations. Seraph does his best to try to tune him out and reject what he's saying, but it eventually works.
  Akira: If you put just one more ounce of strength into that knife, I'll die. Simple, right?
  Seraph: I... know that... (knife audibly shaking) I know that... (voice cracking) I know that, and yet...
  Akira: Seraph, come with me. We can escape from here.
  Seraph: (knife clatters to the ground as he starts to sob) I... don't want to do this anymore.
  Akira: Yeah... so the two of us won't do this anymore.
• Talk Show: Specializes in chatting-type streams, and hosts a regular series in radio talk show format called All Nagito Nippon, a play on All Night Nippon.
• Teacher's Pet: Purposefully took on a lot of duties from their teachers during his school years, since as he explains to Hibari, trust and certain connections are earned through actions rather than bought. Given his undercover mission, it's very likely that Akira was actually doing this with ulterior motives in mind.
• Team Mom: While he's more of a Team Dad with VOLTACTION due to also having to be the Only Sane Man who keeps them in line, he's this with the first generation VTA girls (Muyu, Nei, Yotsuha, and Roco), who were the ones who gave him the nickname Nagi-mama.
• Through His Stomach: During the endroll of his White Day 2023 baking stream, he quietly said that he hoped that Seraph - specifically Seraph - would come over to his house the next day so that he could give him the cheesecake he made. And sure enough, Seraph did come by.
• Together in Death: With shades of Taking You with Me. 3AM Shikinagi has essentially told Seraph that if he dies, he'll make sure that Seraph dies with him. This gets a Call-Back during their It Takes Two collab, only this time Seraph is the one who tells Akira that they should die together.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Indian curries, so much so that it's even been alluded to in-lore. When it came up as a point of discussion during his and Seraph's It Takes Two collab, it triggered a flood of superchats composed only of the names of curries, intended to provoke a Delicious Distraction. Which then became a problem when Seraph had to read them all in his usual end of stream superchat reading.
• Valentine's Day Vitriol: As seen during VOLTACTION's Valentine's Day debate off-collab. Though he was supposed to be a neutral commentator, Akira just couldn't hide his contempt for the holiday, aggressively agreeing with Seraph as he presented his arguments against the necessity of Valentine's Day.
  Akira: (reading submitted fan letters) "And what are Shikinagi Akira's opinions on Valentine's Day?" No comment.
• What Does She See in Him?: Even Akira himself wonders this when he keeps managing to woo multiple female marriage candidates during his, Seraph, Yotsuha, and Roco's Game of Life playthrough, despite his in-game self being an unemployed failed idol who flunked his university entrance exams twice. Even more so by the others after he successfully proposes to a cabinet minister in the national government, though by this point Akira has fully embraced the idea of being a deadbeat husband.
  Akira: (after Satsuki accepts his proposal) I'M GONNA BE A LEECH!!
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: In-Universe. When a viewer tells him their 8-year-old son is a fan of his, he's understandably much more concerned than appreciative considering the kind of subject matter his streams delve into.
• Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Briefly took a break from being a contractor to work at a gay bar. While he only worked there for three days, he had quite a few stories to tell from the experience.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Dabbled in crossdressing while in high school in real life, and while he hasn't lately, he would be open to doing it again.
• Yandere: Played for Laughs when playing Tokimeki Memorial Girls Side 4, on Ryota's route. Not only limited to his own playthrough, as his Crazy Jealous Guy tendencies when it comes to Ryota return in full force when he joins Muyu's playthrough of the same game.
• Yaoi Fanboy: Has admitted to being a fanboy of BL in his debut, right after showing off a BL fanfic he wrote himself. He has since dedicated multiple streams to discussing BL and has a Twitter hashtag for BL that involves himself.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Early in their friendship In-Universe, he was the only one who saw Seraph for the kind, empathetic person he really was behind the emotionless assassin guise - and tells him as such in an attempt to convince the latter to escape the criminal underworld with him:
  Akira: I know it hasn't been that long since we started working together face-to-face, but during this time we've been living as students, there's something I've come to understand. In a way that's so awkward I'd never expect it from how you are during missions, you always help me with the chores that the teachers push onto me even though you don't have to - you're that sort of kind, gentle person. You probably don't realize it yourself, but you're surprisingly compassionate.
• You Are Not Alone: He reaffirms this on behalf of the other members to a vulnerable Seraph after the latter failed to convince a former colleague to follow in his footsteps and quit killing.
  Akira: The two of us still bear old wounds, both on our bodies and our hearts. We've lived our separate lives always having carried them alone. And now we've escaped together and have friends that we can do stupid things with - it can't get much more heartening than that. Rather than being stuck in the past, the four of us are here to live for the present and the future.
• Younger Than They Sound: Due to his voice, he often gets mistaken as being older than he is.

Seraph Dazzlegarden

Seraph Dazzlegarden [JP: セラフ・ダズルガーデン; CN: 塞拉弗・迪滋加登]

"It finally feels like my life is actually mine."

Debut date: November 4, 2021 (Virtual Talent Academy, as Misono Satoshi), July 16, 2022 (Nijisanji, as Seraph Dazzlegarden)
Birthday: May 12th
Age: 20
Height: 186 cm
Nickname: Sera, Serao, Dazuzu, Dazuga
Illustrator: Bodax
Channel: YouTube, Twitcasting
Social Media: Twitter, Twitter (Sub), TikTok

A mysterious former assassin now working as an freelance agent, often taking on jobs for Room 4S.

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• Academic Athlete: Had excellent grades, and was a starting player on his high school basketball team and part of the track and field team both in-lore and outside of it. He also played rugby in real life.
• Accent Slip-Up: His character is based in virtual Kanto and has a Mysterious Past with his origins being a complete mystery. As such, he normally speaks generic non-identifying standard Japanese. However, he will occasionally slip into what viewers have identified as being Kyushu dialect.
• The Ace: According to all of his genmates and his senpais, he's good at everything to the point of it almost being a character flaw, with Gaku and Sou even thinking of starting a project to find something they're better than him at. He's good at studying, good at sports, a good cook, a decent artist, a good dancer, a good singer, a skilled violinist, etc. Given his depressing lore and complex In-Universe characterization, the character he portrays is instead very much a Broken Ace.
• Acquired Poison Immunity:
  • Apparently does have the classic version of this trope, according to an outtake from VOLTACTION's real-world travel vlog:
    Hibari: That sign says "beware of bees"! Oi, quick, someone get stung by bees - it'll make for good footage!
    Seraph: Ow, it hurts!
    Hibari/Kanato: Ah! Seraph is - / Seraph!
    Seraph: Actually, I'm used to this sort of thing so I'm fine.
    Hibari: That's crazy... right, poison immunity.
  • His training as an assassin also apparently included repeated electrocution to the point where he's gotten used to it, which he surmises is why he can No-Sell taser shots and batsu game shocks even on the highest setting. Naturally, comparisons to Killua abounded in the stream chat.
    Akira: Assassin! This guy's an assassin!
    Seraph: I think I'm just used to electricity?
    Hibari: Are you a monster? It's like this whole thing is a lie!
    Kanato: This is a variety program, you know!
    Seraph: I'm sorry! It's just that I've had electric currents run through me ever since I was little...
  • More humorously, he no longer feels any shame when doing fanservice or saying embarrassing things in batsu games due to having done plenty of both when recording voice packs.
• Alternate Identity Amnesia: Has absolutely no recollection of his younger self/Ares taking over his social media and channel, not even making any mention of the lore video/cover he uploaded while in that state. Justified, as the whole experience was framed as a Flashback Nightmare that Muyu ended up eating.
• Angelic Abomination: If him being described as a shitenshi or seraph is taken at face value.
• Angst? What Angst?: Averted In-Universe, and given his strict adherence to Kayfabe his usual on-stream self subverts it too on occasion. While he's still depicted with largely the same easygoing persona he has on-stream in his associated lore, the psychological fallout of being a fundamentally good person who was forced to kill does get touched upon rather than being swept under the rug.
• Animal Motifs: Owls, specifically horned owls.
• Art Evolution: Debuted his Live2D 3.0 model on February 13, 2024.
• The Atoner: Heavily implied to be one in-lore, based on his debut lore manga and voice drama dialogue.
  Seraph: It's fine... I've always been prepared to accept some form of retribution for what I've done. If I can save Kanato and the client's lives in exchange for mine, if anything I'll be satisfied.
  • As his dialogue in his Katashiro Reflect episode suggests, this self-sacrificing aspect of his personality is so strong it would linger even if he had complete Identity Amnesia.
    Seraph: I don't really remember why... but if I had to die for the sake of someone else... I don't think I would fight it.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Downplayed. He's the youngest of the group, but is quite level-headed... usually. That being said, he has acknowledged that he acts more childish when he's with the other members than when alone, and the others do tend to dote on him as their youngest, especially Hibari.
• Backstory Horror: While nowadays he's entertaining people and doing silly things like every other Nijisanji affiliated liver, as Ange and Himawari's genuinely frightened reactions upon discovering his In-Universe backstory attest to, that doesn't change the fact that he used to kill people for a living.
• Bad Boss: Initially plays up the whole "black company" schtick to the hilt in his Pikmin 4 playthrough, openly admitting that he pays his Pikmin less than minimum wage and saying that he only allows Oatchi to sleep for two hours, among other stereotypical horrible boss behaviors. This however waned as the playthrough went on and he begrudgingly became more attached to the Pikmin and Oatchi.
• Because I'm Good At It: When someone he knew from his former job suddenly appears and threatens to disrupt his current life in the voice dramas, he wants to avoid getting involved at first - because he's afraid of succumbing to this mentality and lapsing back into old habits as a result.
  Seraph: Because there's a chance I might get pulled back into that world, isn't there? I was pretty accomplished as an assassin. It's not like I abandoned the job because I couldn't fulfill a contract. If I end up thinking that maybe it would be better if I continued the family business... I might get lured back into it. I was brought up in that household to do that sort of thing ever since I was little. I say that I've washed my hands of it - but really, there's no erasing that sort of past.
• Before My Time: Tends to inflict massive amounts of psychic damage on his older senpais like Yashiro and his viewers because of this trope - for example, by admitting that he actually had no idea what a GameCube looked like before coming across one as a treasure in Pikmin 4.
• Bespectacled Cutie: In his fourth 2D outfit◊, the concept of which was specifically to depict him as "the boy next door who always catches your eye at the bookstore". Though since his eyesight is perfectly fine, the glasses are purely cosmetic.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He might be a bit out there, but that doesn't make him any less deadly.
• Big Damn Heroes: Shows up just in time to throw a well-placed knife at a gun-wielding Mook in order to save Kanato and Hibari from getting shot in VOLTACTION's first voice drama.
• Big Eater: He eats a lot according to the other members and isn't picky. During a VOLTACTION off-collab to see who could eat the most plates of soba, Seraph nearly doubled everyone else's number of plates. Despite this, he apparently has trouble keeping on weight rather than the other way around.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: He is the big guy to Akira's little guy, as they are the tallest and shortest members of VOLTACTION respectively and the latter is often technically his superior as his contractor, as much as he doesn't want to acknowledge that fact. Though since Akira's not that short and both of them are quite smart, this is downplayed compared to usual examples of the trope.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: His moral compass seems to be slightly off based on his reactions to certain things or lack thereof, whether it's because of his upbringing or something else. However, he can usually catch when he says something incompatible with normal morality... albeit often uncomfortably late.
• Bookworm: He is quite well-read, carries a book in his bag at all times, and apparently has a years-long backlog of novels on his reading list. He'll still occasionally ask for recommendations from viewers, and has dedicated entire streams to literary analysis.
• Born Lucky: According to Seraph, his only virtues are his physicality and being ridiculously lucky.
  • In his, Yotsuha, Roco, and Akira's Mario Party Superstars collab, he ends up hitting five hidden bonus blocks in one game, more than the other three combined.
  • While playing Pineapple On Pizza, he finds the person hanging off a cliff with a witch spinning a Wheel of Decisions to determine their fate. Rarely, the wheel lands on a gold star, which leads to the person becoming the canonical Sole Survivor of the island's destruction. Of course, Seraph nails the 1 in 9 chance the very first time he encounters the event.
  • After Hibari gives up on trying to interpret the instructions for a module during a Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes collab with no time left, he tells Seraph to just press the button at whatever timing he liked - and Seraph pulls off a miracle. Later, Seraph presses a different button than the one Hibari instructs him to, only for his "misclick" to end up being the actual correct button.
  • The drop rate of a Spire Armor Trim Smithing Template in Minecraft is 6.7%. This apparently doesn't apply to Seraph, who managed to find 4 in 10 chests, much to the progressive disbelief of both his viewers and Seffyna (who was watching the stream and commenting in his chat).
    Seraph: Seffyna-san... come to the JP server... the path to treasure is here.
  • The gacha gods love him, with him pulling rares in Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!, Mahjong Soul, and Arknights in a remarkably few number of pulls, much to the ire of his viewers.
  • Initially appeared to be played straight during an off-collab VOLTACTION did in which they played various games to determine which one of them was the "luckiest", only to be beautifully subverted in the end: going into the final game Seraph had nearly double the points of second place, with the last game being an omikuji draw. Hibari and Seraph picked the same omikuji card, with Seraph losing the ensuing rock-paper-scissors-off and having to pick a different card. In yet another stroke of luck, his "consolation" card ended up giving him an extra 5 points, whereas the one he and Hibari fought over turned out to be a very bad luck card that subtracted 3 points from Hibari's score. After Hibari points out that there's no way they can ever beat Seraph like this, they re-do the draw, and this time Seraph draws a "bad luck from hell" card that subtracts so many points from his score, he's simply labeled "loser" during the final count. He's understandably sulky about this.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Has an odd tendency to segue into saying absolutely terrifying things with little warning and the same nonchalance as talking about the weather. It's all just Kayfabe... probably.
  • During VOLTACTION's school-themed half-anniversary stream, one exam question was to complete the following Japanese idiom: "In the past, I cut _____". None of them knew the answer; one by one the others' more silly guesses were revealed, until Seraph's was shown: Throats.^ExplanationIn Japanese, "昔取った_____". The correct answer was "杵柄", with the idiom meaning to use ones' past experience. Seraph's answer was "首", "昔取った首" meaning either the throats I've slit in the past or the heads I've hunted in the past depending on context. Yumeoi remarks that he's not necessarily wrong, as slitting throats/head hunting was his past experience. Cue Yumeoi immediately pulling up his official profile to explain to the horrified first-time viewers.
• Bringing Running Shoes to a Car Chase: In real life, he's managed to catch up to someone on a bicycle and someone on a motor scooter on foot.
• Can't Default to Murder: Genuinely doesn't want to take any more lives, but still has to remind himself of this trope at times. Gets Played for Laughs when he describes how waiting in the hospital in extreme pain watching less overtly sick people get seen before him drove him very close to homicide.
  Seraph: I thought to myself, let me pass you! I'm on the verge of life and death here! [...] I really was thinking... you... you... that vulnerable... that vulnerable-looking throat of yours, why don't I do something about that... but then I remembered I shouldn't kill people, so I held back and kept waiting.
• Cerebus Syndrome: Whenever his In-Universe past is Played for Drama rather than laughs and/or shock value. He's been given some unusually heavy characterization even in official media.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Training from Hell has given him nigh-superhuman durability and agility in-lore.
• Classical Music Is Cool: He occasionally recommends performances for viewers to listen to on Twitter.
• Close-Range Combatant: He is just as proficient at hand-to-hand combat and martial arts in real life as he is in-lore, and showed off his skills in spectacular fashion during his 3D debut with an absurdly badass and well-choreographed fight scene lifted straight from an action film.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Though intelligent and outwardly calm, he is known for sekizui (reflexive) or noushi (brain dead) commentary, where he more or less says what's on his mind without really processing it. And given that his lines of thought can be utterly bizarre, this tends to result in Insane Troll Logic and a lot of Cloudcuckoolanguage, with some of the things he says not making any sense even to him.
• Combat Pragmatist: Has practiced jissen karate (karate intended for actual combat) since he was little, both In-Universe and in real life. He notes that while normal karate rules disallow things like elbow strikes and punches to the face, no such thing applies to a real fight - instead, he was taught to pull hair, break fingers, gouge out eyes, or do whatever else it takes to get the upper hand.
• Comedic Sociopathy: Displays an inordinate amount of glee when messing with his friends during collabs, even when - especially when - causing their deaths in-game, with absolutely zero remorse for doing so. He also finds their suffering and in-game deaths amusing even when he's not the one causing it.
  • After tricking Akira into summoning the ghost in Phasmophobia:
    Seraph: I asked him to light the candles in the pentagram. I told him, "I wonder what would happen?".
    Hibari: And what happened?
    Seraph: He died! ♡
    Hibari: (laughing) "He died" - do you really think cutely saying "he died" will convince us to forgive you?
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Considering his Kayfabe is that he's a former Professional Killer who has probably seen or even done worse, he unsurprisingly isn't bothered by violence or gore.
  • During the infamous scene in Outlast in which Trager amputates two of Miles' fingers, his only reaction is an incredibly deadpan "that must hurt" (TW: gore), followed by casually noting that the slipperiness of blood makes it helpful when trying to escape from restraints. His wording implies that he knows this from personal experience.
  • While playing Night Security, after coming across the cleaning lady on the sixth floor standing in a massive amount of blood:
    Seraph: It's past midnight, so you can probably go home, you know. Ah, but it's hard to go home when there's still this much of a mess. Did you know that they sell a liquid that breaks down proteins at drugstores? If you use that, it cleans things off quite well. Especially if the blood is freshly spilt, the stains will be gone in an instant. Why not give it a try?
• Consummate Liar: Lies about as easily as he breathes. Though they're often Blatant Lies or intended to troll his friends and so this is usually Played for Laughs, he's also stated that all he does is lie, his entire existence is a lie, and the person he appears to be is just an illusion. At the time, his tone made it seem like just another joke or a cheeky nod to the nature of VTubing, but given that it immediately preceded a lore arc that revealed the kind of person he used to be, or perhaps still is...
  Seraph: You shouldn't believe a word I say.
• Continuity Nod: Quite a few in reference to his previous identity as VTA student Misono Satoshi.
  • His surname is a calque of the kanji from Misono.^ExplanationMisono is spelled '美園'. '美' means beauty, which is a close synonym for dazzle, and '園' means garden.
  • The initials 'STS' and 'MSN' are incorporated into his current outfit.
  • His official profile notes that he frequently switches names and identities, which is likely a reference to his rebrand in addition to being a piece of lore.
• Creepy Good: VOLTACTION works to make people happy, after all. That being said, it hasn't been all that long since he's been a contract killer, references to which still slip out of him from time to time.
• Cuckoosnarker: While a Cloudcuckoolander par excellence, he's still perfectly capable of biting snark and often serves as the tsukkomi to even wackier livers - for example, whenever he interacts with VΔLZ.
• Cute Owl: His Mascot Mimizuku-san is a very round, fluffy, pink horned owl.
• Cute and Psycho: He's usually gentle and laid-back, which makes the occasional moments when he gets oddly methodical about violence and murder all the more unsettling.
• Dark and Troubled Past: From the occasional insights he's given into it, the vast majority of Seraph's life in-lore has been abjectly miserable: being raised as a cold-blooded killer and then forced into murdering people repeatedly, getting tortured as part of his training and while on the job, being kept imprisoned by his own family, and feeling so alone he believed he would die without ever being loved.
  Seraph: I don't think I have any good memories aside from the ones I've made with my friends.
• Death Seeker: In his in-lore portrayal, Seraph is shown to view his death as retribution for what he's done and thus has little regard for the value of his own life. He even deliberately engineers a situation where he can sacrifice his life for Kanato and their client in VOLTACTION's second voice drama.
  • It has since been revealed that this isn't new for him, as he was even more of one when he was still working as an assassin. After the first twelve hits of a thirteen target contract went off without a hitch, he lamented that "yet again, I'll still be alive at the end of all this" - implying both that it was intended to be a Suicide Mission, and that it wasn't the first time he tried to get himself killed this way.
• Defrosting Ice King: In-Universe. He used to be aloof with an absolutely frigid demeanor. When he and Akira first met face-to-face as partners for a long-term mission, he curtly told Akira that he had no interest in being buddy-buddy with him or anyone else for that matter. That obviously did not last.
• Devious Daggers: His weapons of choice.
• Dissonant Serenity: Usually sounds calm, even when he's stabbing Mooks, staring down the barrel of a gun, shrugging off a Jump Scare in a horror game, or saying something disturbing. Justified in-lore, as he explains that his former profession required him to maintain tight control over his emotions.
• Duet Bonding: With Eli. After Seraph uploaded a violin cover of François-Joseph Gossec's Gavotte in D major, Eli proceeded to turn it into a flute and violin duet. This lead to some heartwarming interactions both on Twitter and on-stream - including a promise to perform together live at some point.
• Elegant Classical Musician: He's a classically trained violinist who has been playing since he was 5, and from his anecdotes, technical skill, and insider knowledge it's fairly evident that he played at a very high level. He has talked about winning competitions, performing with orchestras and ensembles, and playing internationally, including concert tours in Europe. Given his repertoire, he mainly plays classical pieces when playing violin on stream, which seems to invoke this trope based on viewers' reactions.
• Emotionless Boy: Was this in-lore before befriending his genmates, likely due to Emotion Suppression. Akira even had to lecture him about how his complete inability to emote (for example, showing no reaction whatsoever to a joke that made all their classmates howl with laughter) might blow his cover.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: According to his reference sheet and Ares' appearance, his hair color is naturally black; he presumably first dyed it to its more familiar pink-blond around the time he started attending the boarding school where he first met his genmates.
• Extreme Doormat: He's been described by himself and others as an iiyo bot or "that's fine" bot, because he's really bad at saying no to people. Even when complaining about Akira giving him too many missions he notes that he could have turned any of them down, he just didn't want to.
• Extreme Omnivore: By his own admission, his palate is so unrefined that he thinks most things he eats are delicious and can't tell whether something's supposed to taste bad or not. He has willingly eaten things that were supposed to be eaten as punishments, and according to Hibari, he actually stayed behind to eat the leftover plates of soba after VOLTACTION's wanko soba off-collab - despite being well aware that they were laced with things like scorpion pepper hot sauce.
• Face of a Thug: He has mentioned that during his school years people tended to avoid him because of his appearance and his eyes' default look back then. In real life, Muyu has also remarked that she thought he was scary at first because of his height and sullen resting expression.
• Fanboy: He is one of Bleach, to the point of becoming a Motor Mouth whenever he gets a chance to gush about it. He also admires violinist Furusawa Iwao, whose playing style he tries to emulate.
• Flashback Nightmare: How his April Fool's Day 2023 lore arc was framed, capped by a lore video/cover of "Bad Dream". After going to sleep early with a headache, he was suddenly replaced by his past self, Ares. His Twitter feed then became a real-time replay of his inner monologue set during and after a multi-target assassination he carried out in the past, which culminated in a mental breakdown that tied directly into the cover. Thanks to Muyu eating this nightmare, Seraph woke up acting as if nothing happened.
• Forced into Evil: As he plainly states in his debut voice pack, he wasn't an assassin by choice.
  Seraph: I'll only say this here, but up until recently, I lived as an assassin. It'll be our secret... Don't look so nervous just because I said I used to be an assassin! It's not like I... did it because I wanted to. It was just... the family business.
• The Gadfly: Often screws around with and pranks other people during collabs, especially in horror games and Minecraft. His viewers aren't safe from his teasing either.
• Genius Bruiser: By far the most dangerous and physically imposing member of VOLTACTION even in real life, and also arguably the most Book Smart. He did the best out of the four of them on a surprise (or in other words, no studying) exam during their half-anniversary stream, including scoring a perfect 100% in math, 98% in science, and the highest in the group in English.
• Ghost Violinist: The professional-quality excerpt of Jules Massenet's Méditation from Thaïs that Salome was obviously and hilariously not really playing in her 3D debut was actually performed by Seraph at Salome's request for the bit.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Whenever he streams in "work mode"; thanks to his hood being up, his face is also framed in shadow, making him look significantly more menacing than he usually does. If his eyes are glowing in any other circumstance, it's usually not good news for anyone who sees him in that state.
• Good Feels Good: His current job keeps him busy, but he likes it because clients' smiles make him happy.
• Heaven Versus Hell: The symbolism associated with him, allegedly an angel, beating up the demon Vox with a frying pan during the KZHCUP was not lost on viewers.
• Hidden Depths:
  • He is very knowledgeable in mathematics as well as other STEM fields, and has done a stream in which he challenged himself to solve a certain number of math problems. He also happens to know a suspicious amount of information about the Tokyo Institute of Technology and goes there often enough to use his commute as a reference to pinpoint a location on its campus in GeoGuessr...
  • Lore-wise, it's apparent that behind his outwardly carefree and easygoing persona is someone dealing with a significant degree of emotional turmoil over his horrendously Dark and Troubled Past.
• Hidden Weapons: Has a whole bunch of knives and needles hidden throughout his outfit, including some switchblades and blades hidden in his rings. Even his violin necklace has a retractable needle in it.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: His bangs hang over his left eye, and he's certainly mysterious.
• His Own Worst Enemy: In-Universe, his self-loathing over his past runs so deep that it's self-destructive.
  • Akira unintentionally highlights this with an Armor-Piercing Question in VOLTACTION's second voice drama, when the topic of using skills from their former professions comes up. The silence and delayed answer that follows implies that Seraph doesn't quite share Akira's idealism about it.
    Akira: In any case, if I can still use these skills to be of help in a good way, there's no reason to throw them away. Isn't it the same for you too, Seraph?
    Seraph: ...
    Akira: Well, there's no use in idle chit-chat. Let's go.
    Seraph: (quietly) ... I guess it is.
• Hitman with a Heart: His in-lore backstory. Being repeatedly coerced into carrying out assassinations by his family took its toll on him, and he eventually quit altogether alongside Akira. He now uses his skills for good as part of VOLTACTION and for Room 4S, though the guilt remains.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Nei in their NijiQuiz appearance, as he's One Head Taller than her.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Discussed when Seraph reflects on his and Akira's cover of "Gekkou".
  Seraph: "Do you want love so much you’d resort to theft?" really is an perfect lyric. Because if we were the same people we used to be, I don't think anyone would have ever loved us. It might be a bit strange to say, but... if we were the same people we were in the past, probably... especially me... back then I thought it was likely that I would die without having ever loved anyone or been loved by anyone.
• Implacable Man: Back when he was an assassin - as illustrated by the trail of corpses in his debut lore and the Dramatic Chase Opening of his Memories of Nostalgia voice drama, if he wanted someone dead, they will die. Even getting stabbed only barely slows him down if he's not hit anywhere vital.
  Seraph: Even though you knew trying to run was pointless... (sound of knife cutting through flesh, blood splatter)
• Improv: Has shown the ability to free improvise songs off-the-cuff when playing violin on stream.
• Inappropriate Hunger: Has stated that gory video games make him hungry. As such, his playthrough of the very gory game Outlast features several hilariously inappropriately timed snack breaks, for example after finding a room full of dismembered bodies or during a scripted torture scene (TW: gore).
• In the Hood: Puts his hood up along with pulling up his neckwarmer to cover the lower half of his face on missions in order to hide his identity. His hood is also up when he streams in "work mode".
• I Surrender, Suckers: Pulls this while running an urgent mission for Akira during his 3D debut. He gets caught at gunpoint, appearing to raise his arms in surrender... only to turn around, twist his assailant off-balance and send him across the room with a flying kick to the face. In Bullet Time, no less.
• Killer Rabbit: He's a pink-haired Bishōnen who is a Sweet Baker and a bit of a Cloudcuckoolander, and is described variably by his genmates as being gentle and cute. He also happens to be one of the few livers who is explicitly confirmed and shown to be a murderer, and an accomplished one at that.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Absolutely adores cats, and once almost picked a fight with a viewer when they insinuated that one wasn't cute. The only reason he doesn't own one himself is that he's far too busy with work to give one the attention it needs.
• Leave No Witnesses: Early in their boarding school mission, his initial reaction when a security guard caught him and Akira stealing security data was to kill him. While Akira had no moral objections to killing, he figured that a dead body being found at a school for elites would raise enough questions to put their mission in jeopardy, and Seraph is reluctantly convinced to put the knife away.
• Like Brother and Sister: Has this dynamic with Nei, who has referred to him as her "fucking cheeky little brother". Likewise, Seraph has called her his "scary older sister".
• Living Emotional Crutch:
  • Downplayed, but he is Kanato's panic button whenever he gets too scared in a horror game. Kanato has admitted that he instinctively wants to ask Seraph to keep him company when this happens, which sometimes works but sometimes doesn't because Seraph is streaming himself.
  • He is this for Akira too, when the latter is feeling particularly lonely late at night. It's routine for Akira to call Seraph every once in a while when the loneliness really gets to him, and when he does Seraph listens to all of the former's complaints (though he doesn't really remember any of the things he says) before suggesting they play VALORANT together.
• Locked in a Freezer: When he gets fixated on the idea of killing the stalker in order to avenge Hasaku in The Closing Shift, he wonders if he can do this to him with the café's freezer. As he explains unprompted and entirely nonchalantly, it's one of his preferred killing methods for various reasons, seemingly based on prior experience.
  Seraph: You see, if you freeze someone to death, it preserves samples that you can harvest, and on top of that, the victim doesn't bleed. It's when they bleed that things become the most bothersome.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: In his third 2D outfit◊. In a Continuity Nod to his past self, he offhandedly mentions that his hair used to be a similar length once.
• Loss of Identity: Discussed by Seraph when he explains why he and Akira chose to cover "Gekkou", the lyrics of which they found especially poignant given their In-Universe backstories.
  Seraph: We've always been in lines of work where we become imitations of and overlap with someone else, so there was no such thing as being a completely original person for us. Since we were often in disguise for the sake of our missions, how do I say this... there were times in the past where I'd think that I'm just a fake. Like, moments where I'd think "my life isn't really mine".
• Made of Iron: Being a former assassin, his pain tolerance is very high. He's described being stabbed in muscle as stinging a bit but ultimately a minor inconvenience, and compares being electrocuted to a soft, feather-light touch. Even in real life, he's played violin concerts with a dislocated finger, played basketball games with a broken wrist, and ran 1500 meter trials on a sprained ankle.
• Master of Disguise: Unsurprisingly is one, given his previous occupation and his many cover identities.
• Medication Tampering: Suggests this method of murder when giving the killer some advice while playing YONESAWARA HOSPITAL, and may or may not have assassinated people in this way before.
  Seraph: If it were me... I mean not me, the culprit wanted to kill someone without directly getting their hands dirty, I'd suggest forging a medical license and intentionally giving them the wrong medication. Or mixing small amounts of poison in with their medicine over time, which is least likely to leave behind evidence - since it'd be difficult to trace who exactly did it. That method is a bit labor-intensive, though. [...] I've never done anything like that before... not exactly, anyway.
• Mellow Fellow: Arguably one of his defining personality traits. There aren't many things that make him lose his composure, and it takes a lot for him to mald at a video game. Even when he was stuck for more than an hour on a problem in Q REMASTERED, his biggest complaint was that it was delaying his dinner.
• Mistaken Nationality: Because his name is in English and Nijisanji EN's ILUNA debuted around the same time as VOLTACTION, Ritsuki mistakes him for an EN-affiliated liver when they first meet in Minecraft, attempting to chat with him exclusively in English at first until he corrects her.
• Multiple Identity IDs: Though not an assassin anymore, he still uses different false identities for different purposes, and has both Japanese and foreign identities - including "Seraph Dazzlegarden" itself.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: During an advice stream, he casually suggests that viewers simply kill or torture the person bothering them in their concerns multiple times, complete with suspiciously lengthy and detailed instructions on how to do so. Each time, he eventually realizes that other people Can't Default to Murder and instead gives more reasonable advice.
• Mysterious Past: As per his official profile, there's not much that's definitively known about him amidst all the lies from the many false names and identities he has adopted while working as an assassin through to the present. The little that has been revealed about his past thus far has not been pleasant.
• Nerves of Steel: Utterly unflappable in general, and in keeping with his lore, he's remarkably unfazed by horror games. When horror games do get a reaction from him, it's usually either fascination, annoyance, or Dull Surprise. Genuinely compliment him, however...
• Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight: Often takes on gun-wielding enemies armed only with knives, and just as frequently mops the floor with them. What helps is that he has the requisite Super-Reflexes to dodge or deflect bullets even point blank, and is deadly accurate at range with his knives too.
• Never Gets Drunk: During a alcohol tasting competition off-collab organized by Rika, Oliver shocks the other participants by revealing that Seraph wasn't just tasting but downing the entire bottles and cans of alcohol he was being given, all while showing no signs of inebriation. Oliver notes that this was business as usual for Seraph, probably with good reason.
  Oliver: This is just Seraph's drinking pace! Not even poison affects this guy!
• Nightmare Fetishist: And how. He loves horror games, and there's a reason why viewers sometimes say Seraph himself is the scariest part of his playthroughs.
  • His first reaction upon seeing a twisted corpse in YONESAWARA HOSPITAL is exclaiming "it's so beautiful", which he immediately notes is kind of messed up. It doesn't stop him from continuing to admire it though, while apologizing to his viewers for freaking them out by doing so.
  • On multiple occasions, he has described Yamamura Sadako (the primary antagonist of the The Ring franchise) as being "cute", "lovely", and having a cute laugh, especially as she appears in Ring 2. He has also called monsters in Phasmophobia, MASAGORO, and HugeHead "cute" - in fact, it's probably more rare that Seraph doesn't think a monstrosity featured in a work in the horror genre is cute.
  • His favorite Pikmin in the eponymous franchise is the white Pikmin - because he loves poison. He also gets oddly excited by the use of arsenic in The Witch's House, happily noting how wonderful it is that it's an odorless and flavorless poison, bringing up a famous murder case in Japan involving it, and emphasizing that it's not just a good rat killer, it's also a good people killer.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: While usually quite mellow, given how well he sticks to his Kayfabe of being an ex-killer-for-hire, he's unsurprisingly and unintentionally creepy at times - for example, when he starts casually talking about murder in loving detail without realizing how much it terrifies his viewers.
• The Night Owl: Fittingly so. His sleeping schedule is notoriously screwed up, to the point where he's tweeted "good morning" at the same time the other members of VOLTACTION have tweeted "good night".
• Noodle Incident: Comes with having a Mysterious Past. Occasionally he'll allude to something shockingly violent that he's experienced and not elaborate further, sometimes in the middle of normal commentary.
  Seraph: I get it though. Tear gas really does hurt when you get sprayed with it.
  Leos: You've been hit with tear gas before!?
• No Social Skills: Used to be entirely inept at human interaction. In fact, in his first real conversation with Kanato and Hibari In-Universe, he asked them how people made friends, as Akira had advised him to try to do so in order to better masquerade as a normal student.
• Not So Stoic: His usual relaxed and composed demeanor evaporates the moment he has to act out a love confession in VOLTACTION's first off-collab, leaving him an uncharacteristically whiny, hyperventilating mess - much to the amusement of his genmates. Genuine affection also throws him for a loop.
• Odd Name Out: The only 2022 main branch debutant with a fully foreign name. Justified, as it's an alias.
• Ominous Owl: Mimizuku-san is often depicted with its Eyes Always Shut. While it's usually a very Cute Owl when shown this way, when its eyes are open, they're wide, empty, and fixed in a Thousand-Yard Stare, leading to some viewers finding it to be closer to this trope.
• One-Man Army: Shown in flashback to have left a bunch of bodies in his wake on his way to a target in his debut lore, and in the past successfully completed a contract to assassinate thirteen people by himself in one night. He also gets tasked with taking care of a politician's entire security detail in VOLTACTION's first voice drama, and even then Kanato remarks that that's probably too easy for him.
• One-Steve Limit: Discussed and ultimately averted. When he and Na Sera are together, they're referred to as Serasera. And since one of Seraph's nicknames is Sera, they both call each other "Sera-san". They note how confusing this is in an ARK: Survival Evolved collab, but opt not to change things.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: "Seraph Dazzlegarden" is not his real name. Nor is it "Misono Satoshi" or "Ares". His real name, if he even has one, has yet to be revealed.
  Chigusa: Seraph Dazzlegarden... your name is in English, so that's why it's so good, right?
  Seraph: (laughing) Just because it's in English doesn't mean I can speak it well. Not like it's actually my name, in any case.
  Chigusa: Eh? Seraph Dazzlegarden isn't your name!?
  Seraph: About names... the thing is, I have a lot of them.
• Or Was It a Dream?: In terrifying fashion when asked if he's had a nightmare that he still remembers:
  Seraph: I was captured and tortured, and eventually woke up after being shot in the shoulder. I still remember that dream because there was a terrible, stinging pain in my shoulder afterwards... (Beat) Well, that might not have been a dream.
• Our Angels Are Different: Maybe. He has referred to himself as a shitenshi or seraph, but due to certain factors it's quite ambiguous as to whether he means it in a literal sense. In any case, he has no wings and cannot fly, something he wishes Akira would remember when assigning him missions.
• The Pen Is Mightier: Cheerfully reminds viewers that pens have purposes other than writing when talking about the one in the shirt pocket of his school uniform outfit... and to not think about the implications of that too much.
• Person of Mass Construction: He has already developed a reputation of being one of the most talented builders on the Nijisanji JP Minecraft server among the newer livers, with other livers like Belmond even visiting his builds for inspiration. His absurdly massive Magical Library and trick tower in particular have become regular highlights when livers tour the JP server.
• Portmanteau: His fanbase name, Serazuku, is a combination of his name and mimizuku, or horned owl.
• Positive Friend Influence: While he kept working as an assassin for quite some time even after befriending them, the other members of VOLTACTION are implied to be this to him. In his debut lore, he mentions that things "changed when [he] met them", and he has referred to their boarding school years together as the "turning point" when he stopped being blatantly murderous.
• Precision F-Strike: Delivers one in English courtesy of his EN and KR senpais being less than wholesome during his welcome tour of the Nijisanji EN Minecraft server:
  Seraph: What do you mean by "fucking cheater"?
• Professional Killer: His previous occupation.
• Really 17 Years Old: He would have been a school year behind the other VOLTACTION members (Kanato was born early enough to enroll with Hibari and Akira), but he faked his age when he was admitted to the boarding school where they met in-lore. They all ended up in the same class as a result.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He is probably the most athletic and physically fit member of VOLTACTION as well as their primary enforcer lore-wise, but he also loves baking and making sweets.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: If his eyes are glowing and uniformly red rather than the usual tricolor, run.
• Revealing Skill: To Akira's irritation, he initially did a terrible job of hiding his near-superhuman physical capabilities when they first went undercover as normal students at their Boarding School, performing feats like casually leaping from the second floor and running far too fast compared to their peers in gym class.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Although it is dyed, his hair color is officially pink-blond - which is often even more pink in official art Depending on the Artist - and he's sweet and even-tempered most of the time. Key word being most, because when he's not he can veer into Psycho Pink territory.
• Sdrawkcab Alias: "Seraph" likely is one, as his former codename Ares backwards is "Sera". Some viewers have even speculated that it might be "Seraph" backwards in a roundabout way.^ExplanationAres is sometimes stylized with a preceding hyphen, which could be seen as a minus sign. "Minus" or "negative" in Japanese is 負 - read as fu. Thus, "-Ares" backwards can be read as "Serafu", which is how "Seraph" is pronounced in Japanese.
• Self-Sacrifice Scheme: Attempted only for him to change his mind at the last second in VOLTACTION's second voice drama, with the relevant track even being titled "Sacrifice". Kanato realizes this when Akira notes that Seraph went way off script from their original plan, and would have actually been shot had he waited even a moment later to signal to Akira. This earns Seraph a Dope Slap and a lecture.
  Kanato: Seraph, your life isn't unimportant! Don't just do things where you plan to throw it away, understand?
  Seraph: ...
  Kanato: Seraph... answer me.
  Seraph: (laughing while on the verge of tears) Right, I understand. I'll be more careful from now on.
• Senseless Violins: While he's never actually used a violin to murder someone before, he certainly finds violin cases useful for hiding various... things.
• Ship Tease: His playful teasing and interactions with Akira sometimes cross over into this territory, which tends to make the latter quite flustered and confused when it does.
• Skewed Priorities: As a former killer, he'll often give critiques or advice on how to better kill or dispose of bodies to the antagonists of the horror games he plays rather than being scared of them. He also tends to disregard disturbing plot points in favor of pointing out things like unhygienic toilets, an apartment owner leaving a plate of donuts uncovered, and characters not wiping their nose.
• Sleepyhead: Even taking his night owl tendencies into account. Seraph lists sleeping as a hobby and can fall asleep anywhere - he's even gone so far as to bring a blanket and pillow to school in order to sleep comfortably in the middle of class. It's such a prominent trait of his that it's even been incorporated into his in-lore portrayal, with him entering a scene in the voice dramas by falling from an odd place he'd fallen asleep in with a loud thunk.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Even when engaging in Comedic Sociopathy, he never deviates from his soft way of speaking. More seriously, in assassin-mode he was this in spades to his targets, Akira included, speaking to them in a venomous, almost Creepy Monotone. Him gradually losing his composure during his and Akira's fight is a sign that the latter's attempt at Talking the Monster to Death is working.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Nowadays his personality is mostly sugar, but he was depicted as having this during VOLTACTION's Boarding School days after he started defrosting following his fateful confrontation with Akira. Probably best illustrated by his interactions with Hibari, who had a knack for breaking right through his defenses and bringing out a softer, more bashful side to him.
• Super-Reflexes: Casually uses a knife to deflect a bullet from hitting Kanato in their second voice drama. He is later actually shown dodging and parrying bullets even at point blank range on-screen during a fight sequence in his 3D debut, and can apparently enter Bullet Time.
  Kanato: Hahaha, sorry, sorry... and thanks. Wait a minute - you can block a bullet with a knife!? That's incredible!
• Supreme Chef: So much so that in VOLTACTION's Cooking Duel off-collab, he made a decent chef out of Akira and carried them to victory, even with a surprise handicap of having to improvise an extra pasta dish in addition to finishing their assigned dishes within his allotted 15 minutes. The seafood paella he made for the other members during their short vacation also received rave reviews.
• Surprisingly Good English: While too self-conscious of his accent to speak it very often, his vocabulary and ability to read and write it is quite good, with him even translating the game for Leos during their Granny Simulator collab. He is one of two VOLTACTION members (alongside Kanato) who are fine with and make an effort to interact with people commenting on their streams in English.
• Sweet Baker: He's an excellent cook in general, but especially so when it comes to making desserts and sweets like wagashi or chocolate. He has made orangettes and gâteau opéra-inspired chocolates that looked pretty enough to be professionally made and tasted absolutely delicious according to the other VOLTACTION members. He's even been officially referred to as a patissier.
• Tarot Motifs: Represents The Magician in Nijisanji's official Themed Tarot Deck.
• Technicolor Eyes: Looking closely, his eyes are actually three different colors: dark blue, red, and gold. According to his reference sheet, the colors are intended to be reminiscent of a setting sun.
• These Gloves Are Made for Killin': Implied in classic Seraph fashion, as part of his school uniform outfit:
  Seraph: So these leather gloves... right, well, obviously in the winter I wore them often because it was cold, but sometimes I wore them during the summer too. As for why I wore them then... I don't think you want to hear the answer.
• These Hands Have Killed: Almost invoked word-for-word in Room 4S' first voice drama, when he opens up to his former colleague in an attempt to get them to leave a life of killing behind, just like he did.
  Seraph: Just like you, I've taken plenty of lives with these hands. No matter how many times I beg for forgiveness, it's not something I can ever be forgiven for. Even now, even right at this very moment, I haven't forgotten the weight of my sins. But I have no choice but to clench my teeth and keep living, for the sake of those who are willing to stay by my side.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: He would much rather make people smile than kill again, and only takes out Mooks non-lethally during missions. Whenever the topic of his former occupation comes up, he's quite insistent that he does not carry out assassinations anymore. Note that this does not apply to in-game murder.
• Token Wholesome: His usual Comedic Sociopathy notwithstanding, he was this during a collab with Alban, Suha, Nagi and Uki as they toured the Nijisanji EN Minecraft server together. Seraph was clearly bemused by all the sussy and yabai things he saw and heard but refused to take part himself - even when Suha started flirting with him too - and took issue with Nagi calling "all" of them perverts.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: The contrast between how broken Ares was and how carefree present-day Seraph is is jarring, to say the least. Despite some lingering darkness to his personality and unresolved emotional baggage, he's clearly much happier now after leaving his former profession.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Went from being a ruthless killer to the gentle and easygoing person he is now.
• Too Much Information: The general reaction from viewers and other livers when he lets slip information or offers advice that's terrifying and/or useless to anyone who doesn't kill for a living.
  Seraph: (laughing while reading comments) "What a horrifying bit of information" - right, think of what I said as just a very, very scary bit of trivia.
• Torture Is Ineffective: How apt this trope is given his Kayfabe aside, he's been given a separate batsu in an off-collab because none of the usual punishments bother him. He has thus far been shown to No-Sell electric shocks, being repeatedly spanked with a harisen, eating scorpion pepper hot sauce, and drinking extremely bitter tea. Even saying embarrassing or fanservice-y lines no longer causes psychic damage. Nijisanji staff are apparently at a loss as to what to do with him for batsus in variety content.
• Tyke-Bomb: Raised for the purpose of killing other people from a young age as per his official profile.
• Uncatty Resemblance: Mimizuku-san has pink plumage that's the same shade as his hair, and horns that look like his red highlights.
• Vocal Dissonance: Has a cute, boyish voice and a soft, "fluffy" way of speaking, which viewers in his debut stream found surprising considering his stature and dark, violent lore. Nowadays his viewers consider the contrast between his voice and the horrifying things he says on occasion part of his charm.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Takes out a group of Mooks that were chasing Hibari before they even know what's happening in The Stinger of the latter's 3D debut. While it can be inferred that he didn't kill them considering his usual reticence to do so, they're never seen or mentioned again.
• Word-Salad Humor: One way his Cloudcuckoolander tendencies manifest. What he says doesn't always make the most sense, and his tweets can be similarly nonsensical if not entirely unintelligible at times.
• The Workaholic: His genmates have called his work schedule "disgusting". In addition, Room 4S' motto is to "undertake any request", which means he's also often very overworked In-Universe. In real life, this tends to manifest as him explaining away absences from streaming as being due to missions.
• Yandere: Occasionally acts according to the archetype. It's usually intended to be Played for Laughs, but Seraph being Seraph, it just as often provokes fear in viewers instead.

Ares

"No... I can take care of it by myself."

Illustrator: Bodax

Introduced as an "alternate persona" Seraph adopted for April Fool's Day in 2023, in actuality he and Seraph are one and the same, with Ares being Seraph from a time when he was actively working as an assassin. Nevertheless, he is markedly different from his future self, enough to warrant a separate entry.

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• 13 Is Unlucky: Introduced by accepting a contract to assassinate thirteen people by himself.
• Ambiguous Time Period: While he appears to be a younger Seraph, the actual point in time in his past that he represents is uncertain. Even after Seraph began to outwardly acknowledge his existence, he's referred to as "Seraph from a couple of years ago".
• Armor-Piercing Question: He gets hit with one after retorting that nothing would change if he quit killing.
  ???: But you're suffering, aren't you?
• Ax-Crazy: When Seraph said that he used to be much more violent and unstable, he wasn't kidding.
• Black Speech: The description for the lore video/cover of "Bad Dream" he sang as Ares contains some mojibake or corrupted text, likely to emphasize the horror of the whole scenario that lead up to its upload. When the text is run through a converter that restores mojibake, it's revealed that it translates to "もう嫌だ", or "I don't want to do this anymore".
• Broken Bird: Before he Took a Level in Cheerfulness and became the Seraph we now know. As evidenced by his inner monologue, being forced into a life of assassination and killing against his will over and over again left Ares bitter, unstable, self-destructive, and utterly exhausted.
  Ares: I'm so tired...
  Ares: How long do I have to keep doing something like this?
  Ares: [...] If I go to sleep, maybe I'll be able to forget, even just a little.
• Combat Haircomb: As his hair is quite long, he occasionally used his weapons as hairpins to tie it up according to his reference sheet. He later used a needle to tie it into a Prim and Proper Bun in the illustration for his and Seraph's violin duet of Bach's Concerto for 2 Violins' first movement.
• Consummate Professional: Shown to be a frighteningly efficient killer, taking out all thirteen of his targets within the span of four hours; he even comments that he usually completes contracts without any delays. He's also completely professional if coldly polite when communicating with the people who contracted him, even when the rest of his inner monologue betrays his emotional turmoil.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: When they're not glowing red, it can be seen that he has a very familiar pair of Technicolor Eyes. But unlike Seraph's, Ares' eyes are empty and lifeless, lacking reflections and pupils.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: A near textbook example of this trope.
• Elegant Classical Musician: Seraph's been playing the violin since he was little, after all.
• Foil: Combined with Cynic–Idealist Duo and Hair-Contrast Duo. While Ares is an embittered, aloof dark-haired Broken Bird wearing black and red, Seraph is a playful, laid-back pink-haired Cloudcuckoolander with a vivid color palette. What's unusual about all this is that they are ostensibly the same person.
• Foregone Conclusion: Obviously, since he is a younger version of his current self. Despite his insistence on it being impossible, he evidently does end up escaping his situation eventually.
• Future Self Reveal: Inverted.
• Gotta Kill 'Em All: Gets contracted to kill thirteen targets in the setting of the Flashback Nightmare he first appears in. Assuming his monologue was in real time, it takes him less than two and a half hours to kill the first eleven. It takes him considerably longer to pick off the last two, but he eventually gets it done without any problems, much to his dismay.
• Grey Rain of Depression: Depicted in and associated with the rain, and does not take it well when told in the midst of his Sanity Slippage that "there's no such thing as rain that never ends". Gets a poignant Call-Back in a later stream when his present-day self remarked that he does indeed hate that saying, since it's easy to say but is absolutely meaningless to those in the midst of suffering.
• Guilt Complex: To the point of becoming a Martyr Without a Cause. It's implied that part of the reason why he insisted on working alone and felt obligated to keep carrying out hits despite how much he hated it was because if he didn't, someone else would - and he would rather be the only person who had to bear the guilt. It's suggested that this guilt is something that still affects him in the present.
  Ares: No... If I don't do this...
  Ares: I should be the only one who carries this burden. I don't want anyone else to...
  [...]
  ???: Wouldn't it be fine if you stopped all of this? [...]
  Ares: [...] Shut up. Then who else is going to do it?
• Hairstyle Inertia: Downplayed since their hairstyles and colors are for the most part very different, but Ares can still be identified by Seraph's characteristic red highlights.
• Hidden Weapons: Interestingly, his arsenal is much less extensive than his present-day counterpart's. Notably, the knife Ares keeps strapped behind his back is the same exact knife that Seraph currently keeps strapped behind his back.
• I Work Alone: Insists that no, he alone will suffice to complete the contract.
• Jade-Colored Glasses: As a result of having long since crossed the Despair Event Horizon. Any attempt to convince him to hope that a life outside of assassination work was possible fell on deaf ears.
  ???: There's surely a happier way to live.
  Ares: And clinging to that belief, how many times do you think I've fallen into despair?
• Knight of Cerebus: A strange non-antagonist example, considering he is Seraph. However, he is the end result of Seraph's In-Universe backstory being played entirely for drama and horror.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He is a younger Seraph with long hair, after all.
• Meaningful Name: Ares is certainly an apt moniker for a One-Man Army. Other than being the Greek god of war, "-Ares" also can be read as "Seraph" backwards as noted above under Sdrawkcab Alias.
• Mood Whiplash:
  • Out of universe. Seraph was one of the few Nijisanji livers who went full on suspense/horror instead of doing something silly for April Fool's Day in 2023. As such, those who followed other livers in addition to Seraph had their goofy hijinks interspersed with Ares' extremely unsettling narrative.
  • Given how different they are, the switches from Seraph to Ares and back caused this. Ares' takeover was abrupt, with Seraph's message before that being a normal good night except that he was going to sleep early because he had a headache. Him reverting back after waking up was just as sudden, with a cornered Ares' death threat being followed up by Seraph cutely begging Hibari for food.
• Murder Makes You Crazy: Present-day Seraph has mentioned in passing that he was apparently deeply mentally unwell while actively working as an assassin. With Ares' appearance it's finally seen first-hand how badly being forced to take lives affected his mental state.
• Not Afraid to Die: Averted, much to his displeasure. It's implied that he resented this instinctive fear of death for keeping him from actually dying on contracts he intended not to come back from.
  Ares: I'm afraid to die after all... how pathetic.
• Nothing Is Scarier: While Ares was in control, Seraph's profile, description, and even his location were completely erased, and his profile pictures and headers were all replaced by black images. Turning up the brightness and saturation on these images however, would reveal a familiar face with dimly glowing red eyes and a large amount of sprayed and splattered blood...
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: One of the first indications that Ares had replaced the usual Seraph in his first appearance was his ice-cold professionalism. As the night went on it became apparent that Ares lacked all of the sillier personality traits that give his future self his levity.
• Personal Horror: If the fact that he's the subject of a Flashback Nightmare is any indication, he appears to be an embodiment of this for his current self.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: To a certain value of evil, anyway. Ares is depicted with Seraph's natural black hair, which combined with his red highlights, eerily glowing red eyes, and the red-lined coat and pitch-black outfit he wore back then, certainly invokes this trope.
• Redemption Rejection: Violently rejects any notion of abandoning his work as an assassin, with some of the reasons being learned helplessness from one Hope Spot too many and a sense of obligation to those that would have to kill in his stead. Luckily, him quitting at some point is a Foregone Conclusion.
• Sanity Slippage: While clearly already slipping leading up to it, Ares seems to have a full-blown psychotic break towards the end of the lore arc he was introduced in. It's left vague as to whether he's arguing with himself or hallucinating someone else, but either way it's evident that he's not mentally stable.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: An odd case in that he essentially shooed himself out. The twelve hours in which he had control over Seraph's social media and channel were entirely devoid of lightheartedness.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: The trigger for his Sanity Slippage appears to have been another, more idealistic side of himself or some hopeful imagined entity trying to convince him that he could leave his life of killing behind and actually be happy for once. Ares attempts to tell them to shut up and refutes their arguments at every turn, but eventually is so rattled by it he resorts to threatening to kill them.
  ???: A day will come where you'll be able to smile.
  Ares: Be quiet! Or should I make it so that you end up like the people I just killed?
• Slave Collar: Wears one. Considering the fact that he's also been depicted in what appears to be a prison cell, it leaves some unpleasant implications as to how he was treated by his family.
• Sympathetic Murderer: Even after he's described to have slaughtered thirteen people, it's hard not to want to give him a hug when it's made clear in the aftermath that It Never Gets Any Easier for him, and that the compounding guilt over all the lives he's been forced to take has thoroughly and meticulously broken him.
• Tragic Villain: In contrast to how Seraph feels about his current job, Ares' inner monologue shows just how much he hated every minute of his previous one. What kept him in the business of assassination seems to have been coercion by his family and a massive, self-sacrificing Guilt Complex.
• Vague Age: By virtue of being from an Ambiguous Time Period relative to the present day. He does seem to be slightly shorter than his current self when comparing their reference sheets, but no indications as to his exact age are given otherwise.
• Walking Spoiler: His very existence has major implications for Seraph's In-Universe characterization.

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