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God Candidates

General Tropes

The God Candidates are 13 chosen people who were especially depressed with their lives and now they are given the chance to become God's successor. God Candidates with Special Class sets are given the wings, the red arrow and the white arrow. The Class 1 sets include the wings and the red arrow. And the Class 2 sets have either the wings or the red arrow.

Charm Person: The red arrow can make anyone fall in love with the shooter and the target becomes absolutely obedient to the shooter as a result, but the effect works only once and for a period of 33 days. And the shooter can control "only" 14 people at once with each red arrow. They love the shooter so much that they'll do almost anything for them.
The Chosen Many: They're all suicidal humans who were chosen by an angel as God Candidates who get the opportunity to replace the currently dying God.
Despair Event Horizon: The God Candidates are humans who lost hope and the will to live, resulting in a suicidal wish. The angels choose them because humans with no hope for the future should want to change the world.
Flight: The wings given by the angels grant them flight abilities.
Godhood Seeker: The God Candidates are humans who were given the chance to replace the currently dying God. Yoneda is the only exception to this, as he sees the challenge as nothing more than cruelty and ultimately pointless, preferring to see himself and the other candidates all killed as the world meets its end.
Instant Death Bullet: The white arrow, possessed only by Special Class angels kills anyone it hits instantly and painlessly, with a 100% accuracy. According to Nasse, it is normally used for "euthanasia".
Interrupted Suicide: Most candidates met their angels when the angels stopped them from committing suicide.
Invisible to Normals: Only God Candidates can see angels, the arrows and the wings.
Super-Speed: Those who have the wings can move extremely fast. The wings are also faster than the arrows.
Superpower Lottery: Only a few of them have the Special Class set, which includes all three abilities, while the Class 2 sets only give you one ability. Class 2 God Candidates are given a huge disadvantage over the others who have two or three abilities at once.
Victor Gains Loser's Powers: Killing another God Candidate gives the killer the right to gain their wings and arrows.
Winged Humanoid: Aside from those who have the bad luck to only have the red arrow, all other God Candidates have wings.

Mirai Kakehashi

Voiced by: Miyu Irino (JP), Maaya Sakamoto (JP, child), Alejandro Saab (EN), Miguel de León (LA)

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At the beginning, he is a graduated middle school student who tries to commit suicide, but is saved by Nasse. He wishes nothing more than to live a normal, happy life, and is reluctant to use his angel powers too much.

Accidental Murder: He uses the red arrow on his aunt to make her confess the truth about his parents' death, but didn't expect that telling her she "should just die" would make her immediately comply and commit suicide to apologise.
Bad Powers, Good People: He's one of the few God Candidates with the white arrow which kills on impact, but is completely unwilling to use it.
Bully Magnet: Because his uncle and aunt made him go to school with dirty clothes, his classmates started bullying him by calling him "Pigsty" and covering their noses whenever he passed them by.
Childhood Friend Romance: He has had a crush on Saki since they were kids.
Extreme Doormat: Mirai lives according to his belief that it's better to be bullied than to bully others. Because of this, he never stood up for himself when his uncle's family abused him and the kids at school bullied him. Although Nasse tells him this is a sign of his kindness, Mirai realizes he's weak for taking others' abuse without ever fighting back.
Face Death with Dignity: In the final chapter, all of humanity starts vanishing as a result of the new God killing himself. Instead of panicking like everyone else, Mirai calmly accepts to die with Saki as he's grateful enough with having lived a bit longer thanks to Nasse stopping his suicide.
I Just Want to Be Normal: After regaining the will to live, his goal is to become happy "in a normal way" by having a regular job and family. He has no interest in becoming God, but neither does he want to skip high school and stay a shut-in the rest of his life to avoid the other candidates.
Nephewism: After his parents died in an "accident" caused by his uncle, Mirai was forced to live with his abusive uncle and aunt.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Mirai refuses to kill Fuyuko but is unable to stop her from attacking after destroying her virus, which forces Saki and Hajime to rush in to save him. As a result, Fuyuko and Hajime kill each other in an exchange of attacks. Metropoli Man admonishes Mirai for getting Hajime killed, but the hero sticks to his morals and argues it was Metropoli Man who drove things to this point in the first place.
Ordinary High-School Student: He was a suicidal, but otherwise pretty normal graduated middle school student until an angel stopped his suicide attempt and made him into a God Candidate.
Parental Abandonment: His family were killed in an "accident" caused by his uncle and aunt, since then his life went downhill.
Reluctant Warrior: He really hates fighting because he doesn't want to potentially kill anyone. He's forced to fight to try and stop Metropoli Man from killing people, but he admits he's not suited for battle.
Resigned to the Call: He is not interested in becoming God and wants his way out of the selection after he sees Metropoli Man start killing the competition, but since giving up on being a God Candidate means he would die, he has no choice but to continue being a God Candidate.
Reused Character Design: He physically resembles Moritaka Mashiro from the mangaka's previous manga, Bakuman。.
Thou Shall Not Kill: Even after being told of the dangers he's in, he refuses to kill. That is, until the end when he admits Yoneda does have to die, as he's set in his way.
Together in Death: In the final chapter, he holds hands with Saki as both wait for their inevitable doom.

Saki Hanakago

Voiced by: Mao Ichimichi (credited as M·A·O) (JP), Laura Post (EN), Scarlet Miuller (LA)

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Kakehashi's school crush who possesses the red arrow. She pierces Kakehashi with her arrow to protect herself since any God Candidate can be Metropoli Man. After Kakehashi is freed from the arrow's effect, they both form an alliance.

Animal Motifs: Saki's battle outfit invokes a Cat Girl motif, complete with cat ears and a tail.
Broken Bird: Saki lost her will to live because of the guilt she felt over abandoning Mirai at the hardest time of his life and witnessing his suicide attempt. Even after becoming a God Candidate, she's still depressed and believes Mirai should kill her to punish her for betraying him. Truly reconciling with Mirai is what gives her back the will to live.
Childhood Friend Romance: She was friends with Mirai during elementary school, although they stopped seeing each other after he was adopted by his uncle and aunt. Mirai always had a crush on her and they reconnect after both become God Candidates.
The Eeyore: When she meets Mirai again after years, Saki constantly has a gloomy and unhappy expression on her face.
Face Death with Dignity: In the final chapter, Saki accepts to perish along the rest of humanity and quietly waits to disappear with Mirai.
Insecure Love Interest: Despite finding out Mirai has a crush on her, Saki doesn't believe she has the right to like him back or even be called his friend after she never tried to help him when she saw him getting bullied.
My Greatest Failure: While she was Kakehashi's friend, she didn't help him when he was bullied due to fear of being bullied herself. When they graduated middle school, she attempted to apologize only to see him attempt suicide. She attempted to drown herself due to the guilt.
Peer-Pressured Bully: Her classmates bullied Mirai because his uncle sent him to school with dirty clothes. Even though she knew it was wrong, Saki played along with the other kids when they mocked him and called him "Pigsty".
Regretful Traitor: She has never forgiven herself for giving in to the peer pressure and participating in her classmates' bullying against Mirai even though she and Mirai made a promise to be friends forever.
Reused Character Design: She looks like a dark-haired Kou Aoki from Bakuman。.
Shrinking Violet: She isn't energetic nor particularly a happy person and is rather timid.
Together in Death: In the final chapter, Saki and Mirai hold hands before both vanish along the rest of humanity.
Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Her revealing her guilt to Kakehashi and him truly forgiving her has noticeably cheered her up.

Kanade Uryu/Metropoli Man

Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa (JP), Griffin Burns (EN), Diego Estrada (LA)

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^{Click here to see him as Metropoli Man}

A God Candidate acting as a "superhero" who uses his powers for "justice", wearing a fancy armor as a costume.

Bad Boss: He disposes of his minions like they were trash as soon as they become useless to him.
Big Bad: He antagonizes all other God Candidates and wants them dead, becoming a large threat to them, since he is also a Superpower Lottery winner.
Book Smart: He scored tops in national exams.
The Chessmaster: He lures out several God Candidates, outwits those who try to fight him and kills three in one day.
Disc-One Final Boss: He's the main villain of the first part of the series, but is ultimately taken out in Chapter 26 with six remaining contenders for Godhood. The God Election then continues without much issue.
The Dreaded: The other God Candidates and their angels fear him because he wants them all dead and he has the abilities to do so. Despite this, he never goes after the angels themselves, just their candidates.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted. While at first glance, he seems to care for Rea, he doesn't really care about her well-being; she merely represents his ideals. If he did love her, he wouldn't have left her to die just to make a statement about how she represents the so-called purity he wishes to unleash on society.
Expy: He is similar to Light Yagami from Death Note, in several ways. They both use complex plots to outwit their opponents, they are both regarded as heroes by some people, and they're roughly the same age. They differ significantly in other aspects. Kanade is richer, doesn't seem to have any morals, and has far less hesitation towards killing innocent people. Also, his motivation isn't creating a utopia but bringing his sister back from the dead.
Hypocrite: Before he's blown to pieces, Kanade tries to appeal to the morality of Mirai, Saki, and Mukaido by citing how stupid it is to commit murder. Keep in mind, he did not hesitate to murder other God Candidates and his subordinates. Even his own sister wasn't safe from him.
I Control My Minions Through...: Besides using the power of the red arrows to control people, he also bribes some of them with money to make them follow his orders.
Kick the Morality Pet: He believed his younger sister Rea was the only human being as "beautiful and perfect" as him. He treated her more kindly than anyone, but as soon as Rea told him she was thinking about dating a boy, he snapped at her and got somewhat physically aggressive. Rea fell and hit her head during the struggle. And what did Kanade do instead of calling the ambulance? Let Rea die so she wouldn't be "tainted" ever again.
Kill the Poor: If he becomes God, he's going to rid the world of poverty... by killing poor people, except for the good-looking ones because he can use them as servants.
Loving a Shadow: He claims that his sister Rea was dear to him and wants to bring her back to life after becoming God. However, instead of actually caring about Rea as a person, he merely sees her as the prime embodiment of the beauty and superiority of the upper class. The moment Rea showed interest in familiarizing with people who weren't rich and "perfect" enough, Kanade freaked out at Rea being "dirtied" so he let her die to keep her "pure" forever.
Ludicrous Gibs: He gets blown into pieces as the result of him getting More Dakka'd to death by Mukaido.
Murder Is the Best Solution: Unlike other God Candidates, he pursues his goal by trying to kill all of them. It might has to do with the fact that he possesses the white arrow that most God Candidates do not possess.
My God, What Have I Done?: He was going to kill himself because he regretted killing his sister during an argument over him forbidding her from having a boyfriend. He stopped when Meyza told him he could bring Rea back as an angel if he becomes God.
My Sister Is Off-Limits: He was strongly against his younger sister Rea dating a boy who asked her out. In his eyes, Rea forming personal relationships besides him would "taint" her perfect beauty.
Necromantic: He desperately wants to become God in order to resurrect his late sister Rea as an angel. He's willing to kill anyone who stands on his way to make that happen.
Politically Incorrect Villain: He views poor people as disgusting and a drain on society, so if he becomes God, he intends to kill all the poor, except for good-looking ones who can continue to exist as a servant class.
Privilege Makes You Evil: What ultimately drives his motivations to become a God Candidate at the end of the day - he's just a Spoiled Brat who thinks that because of his good fortune, talents and looks, that he deserves to be God.
Psychopathic Manchild: He might be smart, but he is immature and has no morals.
Reused Character Design: He looks a bright-haired, evil Yuujirou Hattori from Bakuman。.
Rich Bitch: Male example. He believes he and his sister are superior to people from lower class because they were raised with the best environment and education that money can buy. Poor people are the same as garbage in his eyes.
Sibling Murder: He's actually responsible for his sister Rea's death. When they got into an argument because he didn't want her to date a boy, Rea hit her head on a rock in their garden. There was still time to save her if Kanade called an ambulance, but he let Rea die to "preserve" her pure youth and beauty.
The Unfettered: He wants to become God more desperately than any other God Candidate, as his angel promised he could bring his sister back to life if he won the God Election. For the sake of his goal, he has decided to kill all the other God Candidates and use anyone before getting rid of them too.
Victor Gains Loser's Powers: When the angels of killed God Candidates show up to take the arrows or wings of their candidates back, Metropoli Man doesn't hesitate to use his right to gain their arrows and wings by forcing the angel to hand it over. Having killed four of them, he gained three new pairs of wings and three new red arrow sets. It's never stated if it's because he can't kill the angels as well, or it's simply just to gain the boost.
Villain with Good Publicity: He plays the role of a superhero, but he only does it for his ego and to have a good image. He's very much a bad guy. When he kills a few God Candidates at a baseball stadium, his fans assume they were villains.
Villains Want Mercy: Once it became clear that Mirai and Saki were going to hold him down so that Mukaido could land the finishing shots, Kanade started begging for mercy. It doesn't save him.
White Hair, Black Heart: He's a murderous sociopath with white hair.
Worf Had the Flu: He was shot by Yuito Susumu's red arrow in the week before the showdown that happened in Chapter 17, and one of Yuito's orders was to fight to the death even if at a disadvantage, which lead to Kanade being filled with an uncharacteristic level of Suicidal Overconfidence.
Would Hurt a Child: He holds Chii, a little girl hostage in an attempt to lure out any other God Candidates. When Nasse points out that they knew his plan, he kills her.
Yandere: He had an obsessive and possessive love for his younger sister. He saw her as the embodiment of the beauty and perfection of wealth. When his sister said a boy asked her out, Kanade lost it as he thought Rea dating someone would make her "dirty". He even let her die from a head injury he caused because that would keep her young and pure forever.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: If he believes you can't be of any use to him, you're dead.

Tonma Rodriguez

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (JP)

A comedian who promptly uses the red arrows to get laid with multiple beautiful women. His doing this openly and even bragging about it on broadcast television gets him killed.

Asshole Victim: Using the ability to make people fall in love with him to commit multiple mind control rape, and then boasting about it, means most readers won't feel too bad about "Rod-Tom" being murdered.
Harem Seeker: He uses his red arrows on dozens of women to have sex with them all at once.
A Lady on Each Arm: He gets a brief gangbang scene with both of his arms groping two idols he's mind controlling, on top of many other naked idols around him.
Out with a Bang: He is killed by Metropoli Man in the middle of having a reverse gangbang.
Power Perversion Potential: He used his red arrow to have sex with cute and beautiful women.
We Hardly Knew Ye: While other God Candidates were also killed very quickly after their introduction, this guy here wasn't even given any backstory whatsoever.

Shogo Hatakeyama & Saburo Tabuchi

Shogo Hatake is voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa (JP)

Saburo Tabuchi is voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino (JP)

Shogo Hatakeyama

Saburo Tabuchi

A duo of God Candidates who both possess a Class 1 set each (both the wings and the red arrow). After Metropoli Man's announcement, they try to fight him with their red arrows while masking themselves with superhero suits. However, they are outwitted by him and are killed in the progress.

The Dividual: They're always seen together and share the same backstory of being a pair of Rōnin that were suicidal before becoming God Candidates.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: They have been together for a while, and if one of them would become God, they would make the other one happy.
Rōnin: They failed their university entrance exams more than once and met when both were thinking of killing themselves over it.
Suicide Pact: They were planning to commit a double suicide until their angels chose them as God Candidates.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Hatake dies in his debut chapter, while Tabuchi dies in the next.

Chiyo "Chii" Nakayama

Voiced by: Shiori Sugiura (JP), Anne Yatco (EN), Amellalli Guevara (LA)

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An elementary school girl who possesses only the wings. She is killed by the Metropoli Man.

Bullied into Depression: Being bullied at school made her lose the will to live. Getting her wings made her want to live again.
Bully Magnet: She was bullied by other kids.
Dies Wide Open: She dies like this.
Kill the Cutie: After being hit by his red arrow, Chii and Tabuchi obey Metropoli Man until he decides to kill them, while they are handcuffed and together and Chii being handcuffed on a fence. Metropoli Man hopes to lure other God Candidates who try to save her, but Nasse calls all God Candidates to do nothing and to stay safe. Since Metropoli Man's plan is reduce the number of God Candidates, no matter how low the number is, he kills her anyway.
Reused Character Design: She looks like a small version of Miho Azuki from Bakuman。.
Tender Tears: She cries while asking Shogo and Saburo to let her help them defeat Metropoli Man.
Token Mini-Moe: She is the youngest God Candidate and the cutest. But that doesn't protect her from death.
We Hardly Knew Ye: She's killed by Metropoli Man one chapter after her introduction.

Nanato Mukaido

Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa (JP), Andrew Kishino (EN), Galo Balcázar (LA)

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A God Candidate who suffers from uncurable cancer and has barely time to live. Since he thinks it is improbable that the next God is chosen before his death, he gave up on the idea of becoming God and earned a large amount of money to financially secure his family even if he dies. After the stadium event with Metropoli Man, he follows Kakehashi and Saki to become their ally and to stop Metropoli Man from becoming God.

BFG: Whips out a heavy machine gun to finish off Metropoli Man before dying.
Convenient Terminal Illness: He has terminal cancer and will die soon even if he doesn't get killed by another God Candidate. He has chosen to use the little time he has left to stop Metropoliman from becoming God as he wants to leave behind a world where his family can live safely. Ultimately, he dies shortly after killing Metropoliman, with his cancer progressing too far for an emergency operation to save him.
Family Man: He cares deeply about his family.
The Last Dance: He challenges Metropoliman to a duel with the four members they each have, knowing that he doesn't have much longer until he dies.
More Dakka: Unleashes a heavy machine gun on Metropoliman. The results aren't pretty.
Papa Wolf: When Hajime kidnaps his wife and daughter, he goes ballistic.
Perma-Stubble: He only has a little bit of facial hair, and he's never shown growing it out or shaving it, and he's one of the characters who's more willing to kill, even if that desire is only focused on one person (Metropoliman).
Senseless Sacrifice: For the sake of protecting his wife's and children's futures, he sacrificed his life to kill Metropoliman so a murderous sociopath wouldn't become God. After the God Election is over, however, the new God kills himself and all of humanity dies with him, making Mukaido's sacrifice pointless.
The Smart Guy: He used his red arrow to hit 14 detectives and psychiatrists to identify other God Candidates and he is the kind of person who approaches a strategy first.
Smoking Is Not Cool: While it's never outright stated what type of cancer he has, it is implied that his smoking habit may have caused it. It is demonstrated when he pulls a cigarette out on habit, but immediately put it back in the pack.
Your Days Are Numbered: His cancer is in its final stage and he has only a few days to live.

Hajime Sokotani

Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno (JP)

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A God Candidate that obsessively follows Metropoli Man. He worships Metropoli and does whatever he can to keep him safe.

Big Ol' Eyebrows: He has shaggy eyebrows.
Cannot Talk to Women: Girls avoided him when he was ugly. He got plastic surgery to get popular with girls, but he can't even form intelligible words when he tries talking to pretty girls.
Despair Event Horizon: After a lifetime of being mocked and hated due to his looks and his poverty, he finally cracked when he came home to find that his mom had committed suicide.
Dying Moment of Awesome: Hajime does a lot of heavy-lifting at the confrontation against Metropoli Man to keep the reluctant Mirai and Saki from getting killed, which leads to him sacrificing himself and dying a horrific death. Even then, he still kills Fuyuko before succumbing to her virus and passes away happily.
Even Evil Has Standards: He at first considers using the Red Arrow on a girl he had a crush on to have sex with her, but he immediately realized what he was doing would be considered rape. Instead, he uses his Red Arrow to get free plastic surgery so he wouldn't have to use it to get a girl's attention.
Go Out with a Smile: Although his face is too disfigured at that point to actually smile, he is clearly trying to, and his last words are that he's glad he was born.
Gonk: He used to be an extremely ugly guy with small eyes, a snub nose, swollen lips, and nasty teeth. He looks more attractive after his plastic surgery, but his facial expressions still come out very disfigured.
Heel–Face Brainwashing: Zig-zagged. While he was indeed pierced by Saki's red arrow, he grows genuine feelings towards her, leading to turn against Kanade in their climatic confrontation.
I Just Want to Be Beautiful: He used to be very ugly but once he became a God Candidate, he used his red arrows on a surgeon to get plastic surgery and become good-looking.
I'm Melting!: His Cruel and Unusual Death when he gets hit by Fuyuko's virus while trying to protect Mirai and Saki. It takes quite a while for him to die, enough to give a final speech to them after his counter attack had already killed Fuyuko.
Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has shoulder-length hair and has the prettiest face he could get with plastic surgery.
Nightmare Face: After getting the plastic surgery, he can make some very demonic looking faces.
Plastic Bitch: He got plastic surgery to get popular with women and be more like Metropoli Man. He also wants to help Metropoli Man destroy the current society.
Residual Self-Image: When he dies, Hajime's soul has his original ugly face instead of the face he got with plastic surgery.
Son of a Whore: People mocked him when they heard his mother worked in a brothel. Given his family was poor, this might have been true.
Speech Impediment: He has a stutter when speaking and it gets worse when he's nervous.
Sycophantic Servant: He worships Metropoli Man as everything he would like to be. He tracked down his true identity only to ask him to let him become his servant. Balta warned him that Metropoli Man becoming God could lead to human extinction, but Hajime would support Metropoli Man destroying the current world to create a new one ruled by rich and beautiful people.
Taking the Bullet: He ends up saving Saki from Fuyuko's needle with a virus, and ends up melting in her place.
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Because of his ugliness making him disgusting even to his own parents, Hajime has never known what it is to love and be loved by someone. He's thrown into confusion when he sees Mukaido showing his love for his wife and daughter.

Susumu Yuito

Voiced by: Megumi Han (JP)

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A sixth-grader who became a God candidate because of his never-ending loneliness.

Cheerful Child: He's a very lively and upbeat boy. He became like that thanks to becoming a God Candidate, though.
Chekhov's Gunman: He was originally only a candidate that happened to be in the stadium when Metropoliman made his debut and then it's revealed he was instrumental in the final defeat of Kanade.
Dramatic Unmask: He wears a ridiculous-looking Donald Trump mask as a part of Metropoli Man's team, though it was edited in the 2021 anime to not look exactly like the former American president. He removes the mask once his intentions and role in Metropoli Man's downfall are revealed.
Enfant Terrible: He has hints of this, especially when he says that if he becomes God he'll give everyone white arrows which allow them to instantly kill each other. He feels that makes for a more exciting and fun world.
Hates Being Alone: He spent so much time alone he unknowingly developed a suicidal desire, until he met his angel.
Hero-Worshipper: He became one towards Mirai in his Red identity, believing he should become God.
I Just Want to Have Friends: He was desperately lonely and friendless before he became a God Candidate. He obtained his arrow and wings so he could use them to have friends.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He abandons Metropoli Man in a panic once Ryuji and Fuyuko are defeated, pretending to be afraid of also being manipulated and left to die by him.
Spanner in the Works: While the angels Penema and Balta helped him, it was his red arrow what set Kanade to be defeated.
To Unmasque the World: He arranges a plot to reveal the truth about the God Candidates to the world.
Vicariously Ambitious: He decides he wants Mirai to become God rather than becoming God himself.

Yuri Temari

Voiced by: Saori Onishi (JP), Cristina Valenzuela (EN), Rosalinda Márquez (LA)

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An unemployed woman obsessed with social media that became a God Candidate after trying to commit suicide twice.

The Hedonist: She only wants to enjoy life with as much luxury as possible.
Lazy Bum: When Yoneda asks everyone else to explain what they'd do if they became God, she says that she'd want to make a world where nobody had to work and everybody could just enjoy themselves... except that she doesn't want to bother figuring out how to do that, so she'll just support another candidate who promises to let her continuing living her easy lifestyle.
Naked on Arrival: She's introduced enjoying a luxury island resort with only a Modesty Towel covering her.
NEET: After she got her Red Arrows, she quit her job and has been abusing her power to live in luxury without having to work or pay for anything.
Phoneaholic Teenager: She's 23 but fits anyway, since she loves posting on Instagram and other social media despite the reservations of her angel.
Smarter Than You Look: Despite her lazy and carefree attitude, she sometimes makes good points about some subjects such as social networks, and have a witty exchange with Yoneda in which she clearly proves his theories are only supported by his own certitudes and not scientific approach.

Shuji Nakaumi

Voiced by: Daiki Yamashita (JP), A.J. Beckles (EN), Milán Campos (LA)

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A God candidate who is proudly suicidal.

Bloodbath Villain Origin: He uses his red arrows to get his entire family to commit suicide.
Self-Made Orphan: He tries to kill his entire family with red arrows. He succeeds with his parents and grandfather, though the other candidates interfere before he can kill his big brother too.
Suicide Is Painless: One of his big complaints with the world is that people don't respect or support those who choose to end their lives.

Professor Gaku Yoneda

Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda (JP)

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A brilliant but tormented scholar.

Death Seeker: Part of his nihilistic nature, as he wants to die before the world comes to its end. He still acts this way even after becoming a God Candidate, convinced that killing himself and the other candidates will stop a selection process that he sees as pointless.
Einstein Hair: He's a professor with crazy hair that makes it look like he has a sea urchin on his head.
The Hedonist: Though convinced the world will end soon and humanity is doomed, he takes the time and care necessary to prepare delicious food for himself.
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: He's won two Nobel prizes, one for physics and the other for literature. He's also big into biology, as he's discovered "Yoneda Cells" that will pave the way to explaining how God is actually created by humans.
Murder Is the Best Solution: He thinks killing Mirai, his allies, Shuji and himself is the only way to stop the selection for the new god to happen, as he sees no reason for one to exist as the world will come to its end regardless. His plan ends up failing, resulting in Shuji becoming the new God.
Straw Nihilist: He's a scientist who believes the world will end soon and whose writings are apparently full of despair and contempt for humanity. He refers to his own desire to understand how the arrows work scientifically as 'ghoulish curiosity.'

God and Guardian Angels

God

Voiced by: Yusaku Yara (JP)

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The entity in charge of the god contest, and possibly everything else.

God Needs Prayer Badly: Yoneda says that he thinks the God contest happened because God was weakened by the rise of atheism and skepticism and so promoted a public contest of supernatural beings to ensure that people began believing again. He's proven wrong later as God already exists long before there were humans.
Plot-Triggering Death: The fact that he's dying kickstarted the plot.
Tulpa: Yoneda theorizes that this God came about through the power of people believing in Him. Averted later on when it's revealed that God was also created by another being, not humans. In fact, God was the one who created humans in the first place.

New God (Spoilers)

New God

The entity created from Shuji Nakaumi fusing with the dying God.

All-Powerful Bystander: Deconstructed. He quickly realizes the downside of being God; now he must watch the suffering and injustice of the human world for eternity, without ever doing anything about it. This leads him to the conclusion that the world doesn't need a God and commits suicide. This turns out to be a terrible choice since all of humanity dies without the existence of a God.
The Bad Guy Wins: He becomes the New God and soon after, kills himself and all of reality with him.
Barrier Maiden: Deconstructed. He assumed it wouldn't matter that he killed himself since God isn't supposed to help humans anyway. He was dead wrong. Both angels and humans did need a God to exist as they all die the moment he kills himself.
Despair Event Horizon: He initially seems to embrace the title of God firmly because he can gaze upon humanity and its greatest achievements. However, when Shuji turns his attention to human suffering and death, he loses his will to continue and kills himself, because he believes humans are predisposed to choose death.
Driven to Suicide: In the end, he finds that being God is worthless if all he's going to do is watch as humans suffer. He then uses a white arrow on himself.
God Is Dead: The series ends with the new God killing himself with a white arrow. The ultimate consequence is the erasure of life, mortal and angelic, and reality.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His suicide ends up creating an all-new universe, and considering his fatalist tendencies, he more than likely wasn't trying to create new life.
Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: Averted. He kills himself and takes reality with him, but he didn't know his death would cause the end of the world.

Special Class

Nasse

Voiced by: Yui Ogura (JP), Jessie Flower (credited as Michaela Murphy) (EN), Iarel Verduzco (LA)

Kakehashi's guardian angel, who has sworn to make him happy. She's a "special angel", and also one of the more enthusiastic contenders for the competition to make a new God.

An Arm and a Leg: Her right arm, and most of her body, is erased briefly by God as punishment when she rescues Kakehashi during his fight with Yoneda. She gets it back the instant she get reinstated to her position. The anime changes this to her right half being turned to stone instead.
Blessed with Suck: Unlike the other angels, she's capable of interacting with humans and objects directly. Yoneda exploits this easily during his encounter with Kakehashi, which results in her near-complete erasure from existence.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: She's only focused on keeping Kakehashi content, even if it involves theft of living provisions and murder of those who have wronged him. In her eyes, doing such isn't wrong as long as it makes the person happy.
Dissonant Serenity: There's nothing that can make her smile disappear, no matter how grim the situation is.
Everyone Has Standards: Well, more amorality has standards, but when Metropoliman kills Chi, she happily tells him to his face that, while she doesn’t generally care whether humans live or die, she'll be "delighted" when he does and vows to get Mirai to kill him.
Face Death with Dignity: God kills himself and all angels are dying. As she disappears, Nasse congratulates Muni on destroying Heaven and simply says "bye bye" with a smile.
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: As Mirai points out, despite being such a cute angel, the things Nasse says sound like the advice of a demon. Although, her case is due to lack of morals instead of malice.
First-Name Basis: She calls Kakehashi by his first name.
For Happiness: Her goal is making Mirai happy, to a point it blinds her to the human aspect of right and wrong. In fact, it's almost as if Happiness Is Mandatory.
Living Lie Detector: She's good at knowing if people are lying by just looking at them.
Pure Is Not Good: She's known for her purity, but that doesn't mean she understands human morals.
Shipper on Deck: Wishing for Mirai's happiness in every way possible, she suggests him using the Red Arrow (which causes the target to fall in love) on his longtime crush Saki.
Uncanny Valley Girl: Her blithe viewpoint towards keeping her charge happy at the expense of others can come off as disconcerting.

Meyza

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (JP)

Kanade's special-class guardian angel. Knows as the Angel of Greed.

Alien Hair: She has feathers on her head in place of normal-looking hair, unlike other angels.
Murder Is the Best Solution: She shares this ideology with Kanade, agreeing with him that killing all the other God Candidates is the fastest and most direct way to make him the next God.
Pride: Seems to be driven by the desire to pick a human who can become God and reward him so that he doesn't have to perform the lowly task of ferrying human souls anymore.

Muni

Voiced by: Fumi Hirano (JP), Anne Yatco (EN), Adriana Casas (LA)

Yoneda's special-class guardian angel. Known as the Angel of Destruction. The other angels believe Muni wants to destroy humanity, and that Muni selected a human with that purpose in mind.

Eyes Out of Sight: The space where Muni's eyes would be is always covered by hair.
Gonk: Muni is ugly and grotesque, especially next to the other angels who range from good-looking to beautiful. To begin with, Muni has a pair of sagging breasts and a bloated stomach.
Kill the God: Yoneda exposits that Muni's real goal is to destroy God, the angels, and all other supernatural beings on the grounds of their being unnecessary and pointless.
Mercury's Wings: Muni has large wings on both sides of the head.

Classes 1 and 2

Revel

Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae (JP), Daman Mills (EN), Pablo Mejía (LA)

Saki's guardian angel, who is known for his tactical ability. He begins as a "second class angel" and intends to ascend to either first or special class.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After seeing Saki's newfound resolve to be helpful, Revel swallows his pride and kneels down before Baret while begging her to tell him how to become a first-class angel.
Combat Pragmatist: He suggested Saki she should kill Mirai and obtain his wings and arrows. Luckily, Saki's feelings prevented that from happening.
Grew Beyond Their Programming: Angels typically have Blue-and-Orange Morality, following their own agenda when selecting god candidates. Revel grows to care for Saki and wants to ascend in rank to better help her. He grows to care for her so much, that when he sees her heartbroken at not being able to help Mirai he cries. This is notable because he is the first angel to cry, and understand human emotions beyond the conceptual. This earns him a Rank Up and a new title, the "Angel of Emotions".
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While occasionally brusque and a pragmatist, he cares very deeply about Saki and is always looking out for her safety.
Only Sane Woman: Inverted. He's down-to-earth and more understanding of human behavior than the pure and energetic Nasse who just can't grasp morals. His understanding of human emotions makes God ascend him to First class and earn the moniker of Angel of Emotions.
Manipulative Bastard: His original plan was to have Saki shoot Mirai with a red arrow and then make Mirai fight Metropoli Man for Saki's sake. That way, whether Mirai or Metropoli Man died, Saki would get the loser's wings. Revel's plan fails because Nasse intervenes.
Rank Up: When he sheds a tear for Saki, he gets promoted to the first-class Angel of Emotions.
Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: He's much more down-to-earth and tactical than the energetic Nasse.
Swiss-Army Tears: Revel cries over his inability to help Saki in being more useful. Then, God appears to tell Revel that by crying for a human, he has become the first angel to be capable of empathy. Revel is promoted to the first-class Angel of Emotions, which allows Revel to give Saki her own wings.

Baret

Voiced by: Ai Kayano (JP)

Mukaido's first-class guardian angel. Known as the Angel of Knowledge.

Emotionless Girl: She's expressionless in general and never emotes at all.
High-Class Glass: She wears a monocle on her left eye.
Keeper of Forbidden Knowledge: Baret used to be a special-class angel that knew very privileged information, until she got careless when sharing it, and what was private became public. Her punishment was a demotion to first-class, and the loss of her white arrow.
The Stoic: She never changes her dignified facial expression.

Balta

Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (JP), Zeno Robinson (EN), Roberto Cuevas (LA)

Hajime's first-class guardian angel. Known as the angel of Intuition, he's quite good at determining a course of action based on his feelings.

Character Catchphrase: He has the habit of saying "My instinct tells me..." when invoking his Gut Feeling.
Chessmaster Sidekick: He's the one who told Yuito about Metropoliman's identity, without telling Hajime about it, and that ended up leading to Kanade's death.
Gut Feeling: His intuition never seems to fail him, and it's in his title.
It Amused Me: Decides to witness the final confrontation between Mirai and Kanade even after Hajime dies because he sees it as amusing.
Spanner in the Works: Telling Yuito about Metropoliman's true identity is what sets the stage for the God Candidate's defeat.

Penema

Voiced by: KENN (JP)

Susumu's first-class guardian angel. Known as the Angel of Games.

Anime Hair: His hairstyle is spiky and flame-shaped, making him look like a Super Saiyan.
Immortal Immaturity: Seems a lot more childish than the other angels.
Mercury's Wings: He has small wings on both sides of his head, where his ears should be.
Pride: A cocky angel who is eager to boast that his candidate not only survived longer than half the field but is still proactively trying to conclude the game.

Ogaro

Voiced by: Romi Park (JP), Anne Yatco (EN), Marina Reséndiz (LA)

Shuji's first-class guardian angel. Known as the Angel of Darkness, Ogaro is privy to secrets even other angels don't know.

Mercury's Wings: She has a pair of wings coming out of the sides of her head.
Mr. Exposition: Serves as this when explaining what becoming God actually means, and what happens to the remaining candidates.
Oh, Crap!: There's sheer horror in her face as she makes the biggest screw up in history in the final chapter. The new God, Shuji, committed suicide when she took her eyes off him for a minute. As a result, all living beings in the angel and human world die instantly.

Yazeli

Voiced by: Ryota Takeuchi (JP)

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Yuri's second-class guardian angel. Known as the Angel of Truth, he tries to guide Yuri through her own immature impulses.

Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: He functions as this when partnered with Yuri. He tries to talk her into making smart choices instead of just her usual immature and short-sighted antics.

Luta

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP)

Rodriguez's second-class guardian angel.

Deliberate Under-Performance: Luta knew he had slim chances of winning the God Election when he can only grant his human with either red arrows or wings. Therefore, he chooses an unsuitable God Candidate who only uses his red arrows to have sex with idols and brags about it in the news. As expected, Rodriguez is almost immediately killed by Metropoli Man. This is the result Luta wanted so he could retire from the competition early.
Eyes Always Shut: He's never shown with his eyes open in his brief appearances.
Spell My Name With An S: His name is translated as either "Luta" or "Ruta".
Uriah Gambit: He lets Rodriguez use the Red Arrows to turn sexy idols into his toys, fully knowing it will attract the attention from other God Candidates. Soon enough, Rodriguez is tracked down and promptly offed by Metropoli Man, which was what Luta intended from the start, as he wanted nothing to do with the god competition and weaseled out.

Emaka and Egura

Emaka

Egura

The first-class guardian angels of Shogo and Saburo, respectively.

Adaptation Dye-Job: In the manga's colored art, Emaka has golden eyes and Egura has blue eyes. In the anime, their eye colors are reversed.
We Hardly Knew Ye: They get virtually no characterization before Metropoli Man kills their candidates and thus removes them from the narrative.

Jami

Voiced by: Yuna Yoshino (JP)

Chiyo's second-class guardian angel.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He tries begging Metropoli Man to spare Chiyo's life. When that doesn't work, he begs to God Candidates in the audience of the stadium to reveal themselves to save Chiyo. It doesn't work either.
Eyes Always Shut: His eyes are always closed in what little we see of him.
Go Through Me: He puts himself in front of Chiyo to shield her from Metropoli Man.

Metropoliman's friends and allies

Mimimi Yamada

Voiced by: Kaori Maeda (JP), Carrie Keranen (EN), Cecilia Guerrero (LA)

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Mimimi Yamada, aka, Misurin, is a former model-turned-serial killer. Metropoliman breaks her out of prison and grants her the Wings and Red Arrow for his plans.

Asshole Victim: Kanade blows her up once she's outlived her usefulness. Although, since she was a Psycho Lesbian Serial Killer, no one feels bad for her.
Ax-Crazy: She is shown to not exactly be the most mentally stable.
Does Not Like Men: She claims she hates men, with Metropoliman being her exception because he used the Red Arrow on her.
Driven by Envy: She kills anybody she believes is prettier than her.
Evil Is Petty: She murders her classmates because she thinks they're prettier than her.
The Fake Cutie: She acts in a deliberately childish manner, complete with a Verbal Tic, even when she's alone.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: She wears glasses and is a deranged serial killer.
In-Series Nickname: "Mithrin", a play on her name ("Mi-3", plus an extra "n" for cuteness).
More Despicable Minion: Kanade/Metropoli Man is the villain who wants to kill all the other God candidates to become God, but it turns out he wants to resurrect his dead sister. Yamada Mimimi/Misurin already killed several of her classmates for being prettier than her before becoming employed by Kanade, and uses the Red Arrows he gave her to manipulate people into killing each other and using it to rape a girl.
Psycho Lesbian: She uses her Red Arrows to force girls to have sex with her and then brutally murder them.
Serial Killer: She was responsible for killing several classmates at age 14 that she thought were prettier than her.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: She's blown up by Kanade once she had attracted Nanato and Mirai to Tokyo Tower.

Ryuji Bakumatsu

Voiced by: Volcano Ota (JP), Bill Butts (EN), Octavio Campos (LA)

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A former SDF soldier who stole a large quantity of heavy weapons. Metropoliman enlists him for his final battle against Mirai, Saki, and Mukaido.

Sociopathic Soldier: He's a soldier who mentions that he liked using heavy weapons to kill animals, and he is eager to murder Mirai and Saki in order to help Metropoliman.

Fuyuko Kohinata

Voiced by: Masumi Tazawa (JP), Carrie Keranen (EN), Rosa María Martínez (LA)

A weapons researcher who is chosen by Metropoliman to battle Mirai and the others.

Alas, Poor Villain: In the anime, the camera cuts to her corpse as Mirai laments the senseless loss of life brought by Kanade's ambitions.
Artistic License – Biology: Developed a softball-sized virus made out of human cells, which she explains with technobabble. Knowing this, Mirai is able to kill it with one of his arrows before Fuyuko can set it loose.
Ax-Crazy: Like all of Metropoliman's minions, she's psychotic and murderous.
Bowdlerize: In the manga when Fuyuko reveals the FSV virus, she pulls her jacket off and leaves her large scarred breasts only covered by bandages for the remainder of her appearance. In the anime adaptation her corset is not topless like that, her body is less scarred and her use of drugs to get psyched up is left out as well.
Covered with Scars: Her shoulders, chest and abdomen are all heavily scarred. The anime censors this by downplaying her nudity, making the scars one her chest look more like visible veins and removing the other ones on her right shoulder and midriff.
Dressed Like a Dominatrix: She's a scantily-clad and deadly villainess wearing a nurse-themed coat-like dress, a skimpy leotard underneath, fishnet stockings and a choker on her neck.
Evil Wears Black: She's one of the Big Bad's evil minions and is dressed in a black Naughty Nurse Outfit.
Eyepatch of Power: Wears one over her right eyesocket.
Fan Disservice: In the manga, she removes her coat and leaves her breasts only covered by small bandages, but her exposed breasts look disturbing instead of sexy because of the large, stitched up scars all over them.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: She mortally wounds Hajime with her virus, but doesn't get to enjoy seeing him melting for long as he managed to stab her through the chest with his katana in return. She falls on her back in disbelief and perishes before he does.
Ms. Fanservice: She's the most provocatively dressed woman in the series.
Navel-Deep Neckline: She wears a bodice that displays a cleavage down to her midsection.
Naughty Nurse Outfit: She purchased a nurse-themed lingerie outfit to fit in with the other two oddballs who help Metropoli Man.
"Not So Different" Remark: To Ryuji calling her a crazy junkie bitch, she remarks both of them are no different in how they want human test subjects to kill. Both are said or shown to enjoy killing animals as well.
Psychopathic Womanchild: She's very eager, in a childish way, to melt and kill people with the biohazardous substances she develops.
Sadist: She's a psycho who enjoys torturing and killing people.
Scary Stitches: Her breasts have several stitched up scar wounds curving in all directions, and are still covered up in bandages to boot.
Showgirl Skirt: She wears a long coat-like dress that shows off her legs and underwear.
Synthetic Plague: She creates these and threatens to use them if Mirai and his friends don't give up.

Mizukiyo Minamikawa

Voiced by: Shoya Chiba (JP), Zeno Robinson (EN), Fernando Moctezuma (LA)

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Classmate of Kanade Uryuu.

Alliterative Name: Mizukiyo Minamikawa
Be Careful What You Wish For: He jokingly answered Kanade's question that his greatest wish is for all ugly women to disappear from the world. Kanade being Kanade is more than willing to help.
Butt-Monkey: He turns into one after Kanade dies, with people believing he has a red arrow because he now has a cute girlfriend, and then gets stabbed by Mirai's red arrow instead.
Secret Secret-Keeper: When Kanade comes to school with a head injury the day after the news showed Metropoli Man getting shoot in the head, Mizukiyo starts putting two and two together as he noticed Kanade was acting suspicious for a while. He knows Kanade will kill him without hesitation if he exposes his secret, so Mizukiyo chooses to pretend he doesn't suspect anything.
Unwitting Muggle Friend: He was completely unaware of Kanade's other side until his death, although he had suspicions. It's only after Yuito reveals to the world about the God Candidates, that he finally learns the truth.

Japanese Government and Police

Masaya Hoshi

Voiced by: Hiroshi Tsuchida (JP), Daman Mills (EN), Hugo Núñez (LA)

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An agent of the Japanese government. After the government begins trying to track down all the god candidates, he goes rogue and partners with Mirai and Saki to find them first.

No Man Should Have This Power: His thoughts indicate that he believes this about the white arrows.

Manami Yumiki

Voiced by: Yui Ishikawa (JP)

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Another agent of the Japanese government. She is in love with Hosho and goes rogue alongside him.

Consummate Liar: She is able to fool her superiors to keep them from learning about Mirai and Saki.

Characters / Platinum End

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