Characters / Otherside Picnic

Protagonists

Sorawo Kamikoshi

Voiced by: Yumiri Hanamori (Japanese), Madeleine Morris (English)

A sophomore at a college who loves going to abandoned buildings and is knowledgeable of Japan's urban legends. She meets Toriko when she went to the other side.

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• Action Survivor: In contrast to Toriko, Sorawo takes a role more like this due to having never had any sort of experience with firearms or combat, although she has experience exploring ruins and such.
• All Is Well That Ends Well: While not as eager as Toriko, after facing death multiple times, she keeps going back into the Otherside, just because they didn't die and because Toriko would be going back too.
• Alone in a Crowd: Whenever she has lunch at her university.
• Ambiguously Gay: She is REALLY into Toriko's looks. No longer ambiguous as of Vol. 4.
• Animal Motif: As found in the Kanji for her name - fish.
• Byronic Hero: Sorawo is severely jaded and disillusioned by other people at the start of the story due to her past trauma, and her motivating factor in exploring the Otherside at first is to have a place where she doesn't have to bother with interacting with human beings at all. In fact, at the beginning of the story she can't really be called a "hero" at all, and has to be gently pushed by Toriko in order to try helping other people. Over time she does begin to soften a bit, and even begins to open up to other people besides Toriko.
• Closet Key: See Single-Target Sexuality below. Sorawo is thrown by the aspect of Toriko having two mothers so she potentially didn't even realise that two girls could even be together.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: After Sorawo casually mentions her past to Kozakura— involving her father and grandmother falling into a cult, their attempts to get her to join that might or might not have been connected to Sorawo's near-kidnapping and the arson of a manga café she was staying at, and her encounter with a mysterious "red person" who nearly convinced her to commit mass murder-suicide— she gets embarrassed and apologizes for suddenly talking about something that's "no big deal," earning an incredulous stare from Kozakura.
• Cute Little Fangs: Sorawo has a fang, despite not fitting the usual "mischievous cutie" archetype at all.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her mother died, and her father and grandmother got indoctrinated into a cult. After escaping from her house several times, both of them died thus leaving her to go to college on a scholarship.
• Eye Scream: Toriko actually inserts a finger from her magic hand into Sorawo's eye to reactivate it after Sorawo was hit with T-san's "Hah!" attack.
• Forced from Their Home: This is why she had a love of exploring ruins. Her Dad and Grandma joined a cult that kept trying to kidnap/kill Sorawo which meant that she had to flee.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Melancholic.
• Genre Savvy: This saves them on multiple occasions.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: She can be rather hard on herself at times, After saving the U.S. Marines trapped in the Otherside, she breaks down in tears, describing herself as a selfish person who'd forgotten about the Marines until Toriko brought them up again.
• Introverted Cat Person: A withdrawn woman that loves cats.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: It is revealed that Sorawo loves cats and is horrified at the prospect of fighting monsters that look like cats during "Attack of The Ninja Cats."
• Loner-Turned-Friend: Sorawo initially was interested in the Otherside as a place where she could escape interacting with other people but ended up partnering up with Toriko, first for mostly pragmatic reasons, but Sorawo ultimately became true friends with Toriko. She also ended up befriending Kozakura, Akari, and Natsumi.
• Magical Eye: Sorawo's right eye is turned into this after her first battle with the kunekune. As noted in True Sight, it grants her the ability to perceive the various aspects of Otherside phenomena. If used on humans it has the chance to affect their mental state, which is why she's reluctant to use her abilities on other people... until Volume 3, where she uses that aspect deliberately when she has to escape from Runa's cult. Sorawo uses her eye to drive one captor insane, and upon getting into an extended firefight with the cultists, her eye once again proves useful in distracting a few of them long enough for Migawa to shoot them.
• Mark of the Supernatural: Sorawo's Magical Eye turns a vivid and unnatural shade of blue after her encounter with the kunekune, while her other eye remains brown.
• No Social Skills: At the beginning of the story, Toriko is the first person Sorawo's age that she's talked to in years, and she initially is rather awkward around her. Later when she meets Kozakura she notes that she's sweating like crazy and is almost physically unable to speak to her while making eye contact. She also casually drops her past trauma on Kozakura in the middle of a conversation and then apologizes for telling her something "boring."
• Other Me Annoys Me: Doesn't like her Doppelgänger as she represents all the things Sorawo doesn't like about herself.
• Poor Communication Kills: Sorawo doesn't know how to properly communicate, which keeps landing her in trouble with Toriko.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Toriko's Red.
• Refusal of the Call: Refuses to go back into the Otherside with Toriko in File 4.
• Rhetorical Question Blunder: After Kozakura remarks that Sorawo is usually reluctant to stick her neck out for others, Sorawo asks what kind of person Kozakura thinks she is. Kozakura says, "A bad one."
• Shrinking Violet: Sorawo's not comfortable around other people in large part because of her traumatic experiences.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Due to spending a lot of her teenage years running away from cultists, Sorawo has never really had the time to stop and think about relationships. She immediately starts calling Toriko pretty and gets jealous over her bond with Satsuki, but has never really expressed attraction to anyone else.
• Spiritual Antithesis: Essentially, Sorawo bears many similarities to Roadside Picnic's main protagonist Redrick Schuhart who both are thrill-seekers and like to explore the unknown, but they are very different to each other. Redrick has a family who are still alive, while Sorawo's family are long gone or dead including her mother who died in a car accident and her grandmother and father joined a cult before also dying, making her the Sole Survivor of her collapsing family. Redrick is the antithesis to Sorawo in terms of personality, being a wisecracker with a known violent temper and has sometimes known to be social even to questionable strangers like Vulture; Sorawo is cripplingly shy towards any strangers and is uncomfortable in talking to others due to her tragic past with Toriko (initially) being the only person she talks to. Unlike Redrick who is a law-breaker and an Anti-Hero who is unable to move on from his demons, Sorawo is law-abiding and is a Byronic Hero who confronted all of them, an essential part of her Character Development.
• Starving Student: She's often strapped for cash as a result of paying for loans and other Otherside-related expenses, which the artifacts she sells don't always cover. For this reason, she's annoyed that Kozakura makes her buy her yakinku as an apology for leaving her in the Otherside.
• Twice Shy: When Toriko learns that hot springs in Japan involve bathing naked in a group, she becomes very timid about the whole thing, and can't look Sorawo in the eyes. Recognizing the implication (and having recently learned that Toriko has two mothers) this makes Sorawo herself conscientious about the whole thing. The pair have to invite Kozakura along to serve as chaperone.
• Unknowingly in Love: Recognizes early on that Toriko is in love with the missing Satsuki. But she is oblivious- until well into vol. 4- of her own feelings for Toriko. Justified in that Sorawo spent much of her youth dodging kidnappers and hiding in abandoned buildings. She's thrown when Toriko reveals that she has two mothers, so it's likely that given everything going on in her life, Sorawo simply never stopped to consider her own stance on romance or orientation.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Threaten Toriko, and she'll unhesitatingly bust a cap in you, even if you are Satsuki Uruma.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: After her encounter with the Kunekune, Sorawo's right eye turns a vivid shade of blue, described as being like "the deep azure of Ryukyu glass." Toriko mentions more than once that it's very pretty. It also happens to be extremely handy when dealing with the horrific inhabitants of the Otherside.

Toriko Nishina

Voiced by: Ai Kayano (Japanese), Emily Neves (English)

A blonde-haired woman who is trying to find her friend Satsuki.

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• Action Girl: Toriko is pretty decent in a fight due to one of her mothers, a JTF2 member, teaching her about firearms and the military. However, in Volume 3 it's revealed that this does not extend to fighting other humans, and she noticeably trembles when having to take a shot at other human beings. But, as shown in File 11, she will do so if the life of someone she cares about is threatened.
• All Is Well That Ends Well: After facing death multiple times, she keeps going back into the Otherside, just because they didn't die.
• Ambiguously Gay: She describes her 'friendship' with Satsuki in a very interesting way. She also seems to be attracted to Sorawo. She became shy when Sorawo complimented her in her swimsuit, and she is shown to blush a decent amount around Sorawo as the files go on. No longer ambiguous as of Vol. 4.
• Animal Motif: As found in the kanji of her name - bird.
• Berserk Button: Never suggest to her the obvious possibility that Satsuki is dead.
  • Also never suggest that she is violent or that she is going to become a domestic abuser.
• Big Damn Kiss: When Sorawo requests that Toriko slap her to disrupt her thoughts before she loses her mind, Toriko opts to kiss her instead. Sorawo notes that Toriko slipped her her tongue.
• Big Damn Heroes: With Migawa at the end of Vol. 3, when she saves Sorawo from being shot by a cultist.
• Big Eater: Zigzagged. Toriko will certainly order large quantities of food, but Sorawo informs us that Toriko usually gets full, or passed out drunk, and leaves the remaining food for Sorawo to finish. We're never told how much of it Toriko actually eats, though Sorawo seems to feel that there are plenty of leftovers for her to finish off.
• But Not Too Foreign: Toriko is Canadian-born, but given her name she's either born to Japanese expat parents, or she's Japanese-Canadian.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: Toriko gets drunk easily, and has a tendency to make impulsive purchases when she is; from excessive food to too many clothes, to a piece of Earth moving equipment.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Downplayed. In "Pandora in the Next Room" she learns that Sorawo spent a night at Akari's place, and actually finds her in bed with Kozakura and proceeds to give Sorawo the cold shoulder during their train ride. In Vol. 7, after finding out that 'Satsuki' tried to seduce Sorawo, she gives up on Satsuki completely while getting angry.
• Covert Pervert: While initially shy about bathing with Sorawo in "Inviting Hot Springs", she apparently quickly overcame it, making frequent requests of Sorawo that they bathe together, and during a trip to Otherside, she suggested joining their sleeping bags at the zipper so they could be in one big bag together.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: Both her biological parents had died.
• The Determinator: She is greatly dedicated to her goal of finding her friend no matter the cost.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: One of the first things Sorawo notices about Toriko is her long, beautiful blonde hair, and as much as she hates to admit it she cares deeply for Toriko. According to Sorawo, Toriko is also breathtakingly gorgeous and often goes on tangents about how pretty she is.
  • If the manga side stories are to be believed, Kozakura subverts this at first, claiming that Toriko is very annoying and the worst thing is she doesn't realize it. Even going as far as to think that this the reason why Toriko will always be alone. Although she doesn't say this to her face, thinking that it would be too cruel to say. As seen in File 9, she does seems to warm up to and care about Toriko though.
• First-Name Basis: Toriko takes to using first names rather readily, which is suggested when she calls Sorawo by her first name without honorifics just after she meets her. Sorawo is especially convinced of this when she calls Akari by her first name when they first meet. Sorawo comes to the conclusion that she doesn't use honourifics due to the fact that she was born in Canada.
• Foreign People Are Sexy: Born in Canada. She also receives the most compliments over her appearance.
• Foreign Exchange Student: at first, but she didn't like Japanese schools due to her shy personality. She was home-schooled instead.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Phlegmatic.
• The Gadfly: She likes to tease Sorawo sometimes.
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: She has a tendency to slap Sorawo whenever she's on the verge of losing her mind. Sorawo made a crack about Toriko being on her way to becoming a domestic abuser. Toriko did not take it well, and when Sorawo actually requests a slap, Toriko opts to try another method instead.
• Horrible Judge of Character: While it can be attributed to Satsuki's manipulation, she somehow still wants to find Satsuki and resume their friendship, even after she finds out about her manipulation.
• Living Emotional Crutch: For a time Toriko is Sorawo's only friend, and as such she's very dependent as well as protective of her, getting sullen whenever she brings up Satsuki. The doppelgänger that shows up in the "Time-Space Man" arc seems to be a personification of Sorawo's unhealthy attachment towards Toriko. Luckily, this aspect of their relationship seems to be lessening as Sorawo makes friends with people who aren't Toriko.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Toriko initially seems much more outgoing and energetic than Sorawo but at time goes on Sorawo realizes that Toriko is often actually a bit awkward and guarded around strangers, seen in how she interacts with the American soliders and Natsumi.
• Queer Establishing Moment: Toriko is revealed to be a lesbian slowly. First is the revelation that she has two mothers. Then there's her telling Sorawo, "I love you" after Toriko rescues her from a group of cultists. But Sorawo is Oblivious to Love, initially, and it takes her longer to realize what's blatant to the audience.
  • In Vol. 7, what most of the fans guessed to be true is revealed. Toriko was in love with Satsuki.
  • In Vol. 8, Toriko states that she's had multiple girls fall for her, though none of these relationships have "ended well".
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Sorawo's Blue.
• Sleeps in the Nude: "When I'm in the mood.", Much to Sorawo's consternation when she learns this by waking up in the same bed.
• Troubled, but Cute: She hides the "troubled" part fairly well, to the point that you'd almost thing that she was a case of Angst? What Angst?, except that there are moments where her cracks show through. She's lost both of her parents, was shy and isolated until she met Satsuki Uruma, The cracks really start to show when Sorawo says she's doesn't want to risk her life in the Otherside anymore, and Toriko desperately tries to convince her to continue by offering to give Sorawo her own share of the money they make bringing back artifacts. And when that failed to convince Sorawo, she ran off to the Otherside by herself, desperate to find Satsuki.
• Twice Shy: When Toriko learns that hot springs in Japan involve bathing naked in a group, she becomes very timid about the whole thing, and can't look Sorawo in the eyes. Recognizing the implication (and having recently learned that Toriko has two mothers) this makes Sorawo herself conscientious about the whole thing. The pair have to invite Kozakura along to serve as chaperone.
• Unwitting Pawn: In Satsuki's intentions.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: Sorawo frequently describes Toriko as breathtakingly gorgeous but during "Yamanoke Presence" calls specific attention to her eyes, describing her as having "golden lashes" and "beautiful indigo irises."

Supporting characters

Kozakura

Voiced by: Rina Hidaka (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft (English)

A cognitive scientist interested in researching the Otherside.

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• Ambiguously Bi: While we don't know her sexuality, she has a lot of chemistry with her boss/co-worker Migiwa, to the point that a lot of readers think they dated at one point. She also has a lot of chemistry with Sorawo, and almost comes off like she has a crush on her.
• Big Eater: She eats a lot of meat when demanding that Sorawo apologize for leaving her in the Otherside. The bill for her, Toriko and Sorawo's meal comes out to 19,000 yen- almost $200 US- and it's implied that Kozakura racked up most of the expenses.
• Collector of the Strange: She collects artefacts from the Otherside, funding Sorawo and Toriko's expeditions by purchasing them.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Choleric.
• Hikikomori: A downplayed example. She prefers staying indoors in her mansion at all times, and gets extremely anxious if forced to leave, but doesn't have the typical social hangups associated with the trope.
• Last-Name Basis: Kozakura seems to be her family name, and all characters seem to call her by that name.
• Messy Hair: Kozakura has long unkept hair that fits her nature as a social recluse who focuses more on her work than her appearence.
• Meaningful Name: The surname Kozakura means "small" (小) (ko) and "cherry blossom" (桜) (sakura/zakura). Her hair, depending on the light, is white/pinkish like a cherry flower and she stands at about 140 cm tall.
• The Napoleon: Short and with an attitude, though not very physical at all. She's also a scaredy-cat.
• Token Mini-Moe: By far the shortest, youngest looking character in the cast, even though she's actually older than the other characters.
• Unwitting Pawn: In Satsuki's intentions.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She's not happy with Sorawo for leaving her in the Otherside, albeit disguised as a plan for her own safety, and demands that Sorawo buy her meat.

Satsuki Uruma

• The Corrupter: Seems to corrupt all of her 'apprentices'.
• Deal with the Devil: It seems being tutored by Satsuki results in bad things happening.
• Devil in Plain Sight: Given how creeped out Sorawo and Natsumi were when seeing her, it's a wonder the others haven't caught on.
• The Dreaded: Every single time she, or something that looked like her has appeared, it never goes well for the protagonists.
• Evil Mentor: She was Toriko and Akari's tutor.
• The Faceless: In the anime, Satsuki's full face is never seen.
• False Friend: Satsuki is only looking to further her own cause.
• The Ghost: Only seen indirectly in flashbacks and references.
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: Compare with The Ghost and The Faceless.
• Immune to Bullets: We're not sure if it's Satsuki or not, but someone or something that looked like her, even with Sorawo's True Sight, took several direct hits from Sorawo's Makarov without batting an eye, and the holes quickly closed up.
• Informed Attractiveness: Sorawo describes Satsuki as amazingly beautiful at the end of vol. 2, but also noted it only made her all the more unsettling.
• Killed Off for Real: According to the blurb for Volume 8, she's been defeated and will not be returning.
• Living Emotional Crutch: To Toriko, which only make her manipulation tactics work better.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Toriko, Akari and Kozakura all liked Satsuki, however, this could easily be attributed to her manipulative personality.
• Minor Major Character: Seems to impact multiple events that happen, without ever appearing herself.
• Manipulative Bitch: Kozakura states outright that Satsuki was manipulative, and could easily charm people into doing what she wanted. And when Kozakura refused to join her in expeditions to the Otherside, she convinced Toriko to do so, a girl she'd tutored and who had an obvious crush on her. We're not initially told if those feelings are reciprocated.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Satsuki as Toriko and Kozakura once knew her, has yet to make a proper appearance.

Akari Seto

Voiced by: Miyu Tomita (Japanese), Amanda Lee (English)

• Adaptational Early Appearance: She appears in the first episode of the anime, turning around and watching Sorawo and Toriko leave the room.
• Ax-Crazy: When Sorawo uses her eye on her Akari goes berserk with a Slasher Smile.
• Badass Normal: Akari is able to hold her own against the Ninja Cats with nothing nothing but her bare hands.
• Boyish Short Hair: Has the shortest hair of the female part of the cast and to the point it makes her look rather bifauxnen.
• Childhood Friends: Akari and Natsumi have been friends since they were kids.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine.
• I Know Karate: An uncommonly realistic example, she practices karate for a hobby, and manages to successfully defend herself against supernatural threats with regular basic forms — and Sorawo's second sight.
• Innocently Insensitive: When she reveals that she was tutored by Satsuki Uruma, Toriko gets upset. Akari has no idea that Toriko knows Satsuki.
• In-Series Nickname: Sorawo often refers to her as "Karateka," since Akari practices karate. Sorawo often does it when she's expressing how she wants to keep Akari at arm's length.
• Unwitting Pawn: In Satsuki's intentions. A charm Satsuki gave her as a gift ended up being an Otherside artifact that the ninja cats sought after
• Weirdness Magnet: Gets pulled into several supernatural events in quick succession with no apparent intent on her own part.
• Wham Line: Revealing that Satsuki was her tutor shocks Toriko.

Natsumi Ichikawa

Voiced by: Miyuri Shimabukuro (Japanese), Michelle Rojas (English)

• Affectionate Nickname: Akari calls her "Nattsun."
• Butch Lesbian: A woman with stereotypically masculine interests who harbors a rather blatant crush on her childhood friend, Akari.
• Childhood Friends: Natsumi and Akari have been friends since they were kids.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: It's subtle but in her introduction chapter it's slowly revealed that Natsumi was deeply jealous of Akari's praise of Sorawo. Any subtlety is lost in Volume 4, where Natsumi races over to Akari's place upon learning that Sorawo is spending the night with her, spending most of the night giving Sorawo dirty looks.
• Hate at First Sight: She almost immediately becomes jealous of Sorawo after meeting her, while Sorawo similarly dislikes Natsumi for what she perceives as rudeness.
• Innocently Insensitive: Insults Sorawo when she initially mistakes Toriko for her and tells Sorawo that she doesn't understand what Akari sees in her considering that she looks like a normal otaku, while Toriko is, in her words, a babe.
• Japanese Delinquents: Sorawo notes that Natsumi's dyed hair gives her the look of a delinquent but she ends up being surprisingly sensitive, particularly when it comes to Akari.
• Wrench Wench: She works as a car mechanic and later helps Sorawo and Toriko out by modifying their AP-1 as thanks for their help during the Sannukikano incident.

Youichirou Migiwa

An employee of DS Labs. He seems to be in charge of security.

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• Big Damn Heroes: With Toriko at the end of Vol. 3, when they save Sorawo from being killed by Runa's cultists.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He has tattoos that indicate he was in South/Central America at one point, and any time he says anything about his past, it leaves Sorawo with a mix of awe and alarm.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Versed in and willing to use such methods against the cultists who abducted Sorawo and Kozakura. We're told there was water and bloody towels.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: When Sorawo asks Migiwa to arrange it for her to be made the caretaker of Runa's Farm after it's been cleared, and providing her a salary to maintain it, he seems to seriously consider the suggestion. And when facing off against Runa, he points out that if he falls under the control of her Compelling Voice he would be dangerous, allowing Sorawo and Toriko to take on the cult leader themselves.

The Girl/Kasumi

A girl that Sorawo and Toriko find after confronting Lady Hasshaku a second time. She has the ability to pass through dimensions at will. Because of that power, Sorawo eventually names her Kasumi.

Antagonists

Runa Urumi

• Affably Evil: Runa is affable, and doesn't pull a You Have Failed Me when her cultists grab Sorawo by mistake, when they were meant to grab Toriko. This actually proves troublesome, as a cultist believes he can shoot Sorawo, in his jealousy, and then make up a reasonable explanation for which Runa will forgive him.
• Alas, Poor Villain: For all her schemes and plans, she is forced to watch as the object of her obsession, Satsuki Urima (or something that looks like her) murders her mother and then dislocates her jaw.
• Arc Villain: The main antagonist of Volumes 3 and 4, being the one responsible for creating a Cult dedicated to Satsuki.
• Compelling Voice: A power she received after watching an ASMR video left by Satsuki Uruma. Sorawo could see its influence, and Toriko could remove it with her hand. Unable to use this ability after Satsuki (or an apparition using her form) dislocated her jaw.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Runa used her Compelling Voice on her own mother, but when mother is killed by Satsuki, she's devastated.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She makes an offhand remark that Sorawo's Magic Eye might be trouble, and one of her followers pulls out a knife to gouge it out, only for Runa to tell him it won't be necessary. Later she uses her Voice to save the Fourth Kinds affected by T-san's attack on DS Labs.
• Glasgow Grin: Her jaw is dislocated and torn by the Satsuki-like apparition. Though she manages to recover from it, her face is now scarred in a way that reminds Sorawo of a Kuchisake-onna.
• You Have Failed Me: Averted. When she learns that her people failed to grab Toriko, and got Sorawo by mistake, she reassures them by saying that "what's done is done".

The "Thank You" Woman aka Runa's Mother

• Eye Scream: Satsuki pushes her thumbs into the woman's eyes until she dies.
• Loony Fan: Of Toriko. She recognizes her from a photo she keeps in a file labeled "Thank You", and is falling all over herself to get close to her when they bump into each other in public.
• No Name Given: In story, she's only ever referred to by Sorawo as The "Thank You" Woman, based on a file folder she was carrying that had Toriko's picture in it.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed in the same chapter in which she's introduced.

The Cultists

• Despair Event Horizon: The cultists that Toriko severs from Runa's Voice are left on the edge of despair, partly from losing Runa, and partly because they remember everything they did under her influence, including some apparently questionable things.

Fourth Types Serving The Cult

• Body Horror: As Fourth Kinds, this goes without saying, but Satsuki transforms one of them who comes to Runa's defense into what Sorawo describes as a "Meat Tree".
• The Dreaded: "#5 kills too much."
• Thinking Up Portals: The Big-Headed Man can open gates with minimal interstitial space to whichever location Runa requests.

The Otherside

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Abarato

Voiced by: Takuma Terashima (Japanese), Chris Wehkamp (English)

A man Sorawo and Toriko meet on the Otherside, while he's searching for his wife.

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• Action Survivor: He managed to live through at least one month-long trip through the Otherside and develop a system of categorizing and bypassing different environmental hazards.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: He looks somewhat neater in the anime, particularly having less disheveled clothing and a somewhat better-groomed beard.
• Last-Name Basis: "Abarato" seems to be his family name.
• The Paranoiac: He thinks that inhabitants from the Otherside are tracking him back on the more familiar side of reality.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He gets killed off by Hasshaku-sama in his first expedition with the main duo.

The Red Person

A mysterious figure connected to Otherside that has some involvement in Sorawo's Dark and Troubled Past.

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• Ambiguous Gender: We're never told if The Red Person is male or female, and almost all references to them are ambiguous.
• Killed Off for Real: Seemingly, after Toriko takes an axe to it.

Lady Hasshaku

An entity that Toriko and Sorawo encounter twice in Otherside, once while in the company of Abarato, and again months later. The second time, she's very much showing damage from the first time when our heroines defeated her. She manifests as a woman over two meters tall.

T-San

Appearing in vol. 6, "T is for Templeborn", T-San is an Otherside "interface" in the form of one of Sorawo's classmates. He has the ability to sever people's connection to the Otherside.

• Laser-Guided Amnesia: He can cause this in people who have any connection to Otherside.

Pale Horse Battalion

Lieutenant Drake

An officer in the Pale Horse Battalion, and the leader of the squad that encounters Sorawo and Toriko.

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• Nice Guy: He treats Sorawo and Toriko well, noting that if he abandoned human decency, he wouldn't be able to face his loved ones again.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Unlike his subordinate Greg, he doesn't immediately jump to the conclusion that Sorawo and Toriko are with the monsters.

Master Sergeant Greg

Lieutenant Drake's subordinate, who is rather suspicious of Sorawo and Toriko.

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• Killed Offscreen: He dies between when Sorawo and Toriko escape the Otherside and when they come back for the Marines. According to Drake, Greg attacked the meat train and was killed by the apes who came out.
• Only One Name: He's only referred to by his title, or "Greg."
• Sanity Slippage: He's starting to go insane, which explains his paranoia. According to Drake, he was probably already too far gone by the time Sorawo and Toriko first parted ways with the Marines.

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