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The Occult Club

    Kotarou Tennouji 

Kotarou Tennouji

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Voiced by: Masakazu Morita

Our protagonist. He's lighthearted, casual and prone to joking around, but he isn't close to anyone apart from Kotori and Yoshino. Beneath the jocular exterior lies a depressed person trying to rework his personality into someone who can form deeper relationships. Fortunately, he's mostly succeeded in this by the start of the series, though he doesn't take people seriously enough.

He conceals the power to "rewrite" himself, strengthening his abilities.


  • Alien Blood: In Moon, his blood is greenish red presumably because in Moon he starts out as basically a familiar thanks to the merging of all his possible selves.
  • The All-Concealing "I": When memories of his past come up a lot of details about him are left pretty vague which is elaborated on in Terra. Namely, he's about six years older than he seems.
  • Ambiguous Disorder: The game implies he might have mild Tourette's Syndrome or high-level Aspergers through his inability to process emotional feedback and continually say the worst possible things at the worst possible times.
  • Amnesiac Dissonance: After his memory was scrambled following his run-in with the Key, Kotarou went from a gloomy and rude loner to a hyper social butterfly, albeit with private insecruities. It makes Kotori fear he may have Come Back Wrong.
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: In the Akane Route he becomes her primary assistant and gets to wear a rather nice suit while doing so.
  • Blasé Boast: At the end of the Terra route his familiar self calls traveling to the moon a simple hop.
  • Bloody Murder: Aurora smells faintly of blood and works better if his wrist has been injured. Terra reveals that originally his power was to manipulate bodily fluids, including blood. In the character routes, the ability has been upgraded.
  • Break Her Heart to Save Her: In Terra route he guns down Kotori's familiarized parents in front of her after she admits tearfully that she's stayed with him and the Key this whole time because she just wants to enjoy the festival with him like he promised. He even gloats. If he hadn't, not only would she have followed him into what he viewed as a suicide mission, but she also would have kept those same fake parents around. With them around, she would both fail to move on and drastically cut into her own life span.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: In Terra route when he was in Guardian he refrained from using his power and as such had the lowest test scores of his entire group, though his experience and level headed behavior tended to make up for it. As anyone who has read up to this point knows, if he actually goes full throttle he is far beyond any other superhuman.
  • Brought Down to Normal
    • In Kotori's ending he loses his powers apparently as a consequence of Kagari using her dying moments to take them away.
    • In Akane's endings his powers fade away after he first overuses them and then enters a sealed space without the life energy used to power them.
  • Call-Forward: In Terra, we can see the proto gadfly Kotarou when he tricks a young Yoshino, though he doesn't recognize this part of his personality amongst all his angst.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: In Lucia's route if Kotarou had just bothered to explain why her poison didn't work on him a lot of misunderstandings could have been cleared up. On the other point of Lucia wanting him to say he wanted to be with her out of love and not pity he can't be blamed, however. He did say it, but it apparently didn't count the first time.
  • Cast from Hit Points: Kotarou worries that using Rewrite may work like this. The answer is yes and no and the severity varies by route. Normally, it would tap heavily into his life force, though really overdoing it would turn him into an immortal familiar like being. Normally this isn't a problem thanks to Kotori adding a piece of the Key's ribbon to him and setting up a contract that connects him to a wellspring of life energy. However, in Terra route, he avoids the incident that nearly killed him and has to rely solely on his own life force. Despite rewriting himself little more than in the other routes, he is on the verge of death via lifeforce expenditure by the end.
  • Casual Danger Dialogue: When nearing the end of the Asahi Haruka curse investigation, he reacts to the glass covering a photo of her breaking with a response boiling down to "Well, everyone gets embarrassed when someone sees an old picture of them." He even means it. Why not? He knows Lucia wouldn't really hurt him.
  • Catchphrase: Whenever Kotarou makes a friend, he shouts "Amigo!"
  • The Charmer: Kotarou is capable of talking people into doing rather silly things. Yoshino calls it his skilled conversationalism with a great deal of irritation while Kotori is extremely impressed when he gets Chihaya to believe complete, utter nonsense about the spicy parfait challenge.
  • Chivalrous Pervert: The best way to sum this up is that he makes a bet with Akane that if he can prove the supernatural, he gets to touch her breasts. However, to him, this is basically equivalent to 'And thus you will go out with me' rather than just being a chance to grope her. Fittingly, to be able to prove the supernatural you have to aim for Akane's route.
  • The Chosen One: Unlike most superhuman "Eyes," Kotarou's ability to perceive the Key is solely due to his presence at its "birth." His meeting with the Key kicks off the events of Rewrite and places him at the center of the story though this usually means he screwed up.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Kotarou is efficient and brutal in Akane’s route to make up for his lack of pure ability.
  • Deceptive Disciple: A positive version of the trope. Esaka is his supporter and mentor and Kotarou truly respects him, but he betrays him and uses his position in Guardian to steal information. In the end, he kills Esaka in a duel.
  • Depending on the Artist: His familiar form at the end of the Terra route looks different between the anime and visual novel. The anime version looks like an older Kotarou in a suit with longer hair while the visual novel version has him look a lot like Sakuya.
  • Determinator: In the Chihaya route Kotarou is a pretty straight shonen hero, determinator status included. In other routes this also holds up.
  • Dismotivation: Kotarou’s attempts to improve his life are so half-hearted that they disgust Yoshino. He apparently doesn't even know the names of most of the classmates he acts all friendly towards because he doesn't consider them worth his time, putting in doubt how much he really wants to get along with everyone.
  • The Ditherer: In the Terra route, his fear of having to betray his comrades causes him to slow down his progress through Guardian and Gaia even as he insists he's working hard.
  • Does Not Know His Own Strength: After rewriting himself before the story begins, he began breaking stuff on accident if he doesn't watch his own strength. Before going into Akane's room for the first time he breaks the lock and Kotori mentions a faucet he broke before. It's one of the early hints that there's more to him than there seems.
  • The Dragon: To Akane in her route, after the one year timeskip.
  • Energy Weapon: He learns how to create "aurora," which he usually fashions into claws or a sword, at the end of most versions of the Common route. He only manages this at the very end of the Lucia and Terra routes.
  • Everybody Knew Already: Kotarou tries to hide his Rewrite ability, but certain people figure it out immediately.
    • Sakuya knows at a glance that Kotarou can rewrite himself because he used to have the same power.
    • Akane's route and Moon indicate that Akane knows Kotarou's true age and who he used to be. Why not? He saved her as a little girl. She apparently used her abilities to wake him from his coma and alter his memories, leading to the present.
    • Terra retroactively shows that Kotarou's attempts to hide his powers from Esaka, Nishikujou and Imamiya were a waste of time. He knew them six to ten years ago when he was in Guardian.
    • Also in Terra, Kashima Sakura figures out he's a superhuman... but she doesn't care, because he's not associated with Guardian.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Kotarou may be a massive troll, but he makes a point of keeping people's financial troubles off limits.
  • Explaining Your Powers to the Enemy: Generally averted. Kotarou hates telling anyone what his ability is, especially in Terra. At one point he tells Esaka that he has the ability to stop himself from bleeding. While true, this is obviously not his power. And Esaka is a friend, meaning everyone else gets even less information than that.
  • Familiar: His near-death at the hands of Kagami left him revived as Kotori's pseudo-familiar. How that plays out depends on the route:
    • In Sizuru's route, he becomes 100% familiar, and Kotori transfers his ownership to Sizuru, though Kotarou breaks the contract to avoid draining Sizuru's life.
    • In the Terra route, he becomes a familiar after over using Rewrite and is eventually contracted to the five heroines in the epilogue.
  • Foreshadowing: There are a lot of hints that Kotaro is older than he seems in the character routes as well as a former Guardian agent.
    • His older neighbors are puzzled with him since they remember him being five to ten years older while newer neighbors treat him like normal.
    • When Kotarou talks in passing about a popular tune from his childhood his peers don't recognize it at all but Nishikujou does.
    • Characters like Imamiya and Esaka look at Kotarou oddly and have some curiously about him even though he doesn't know them at all.
  • The Gadfly: Kotarou likes to pick on people, especially the likes of Yoshino or Chihaya, though nobody is safe.
    Shizuru: “What was the point of that?”
    Kotarou: “I just wanted to make you meow.”
  • Generation Xerox: He has a lot in common with Sakuya.
    • They share the Rewrite ability, and both of them gave everything they could to protect a single person. In Shizuru's route, like Sakuya, he fails to stop Salvation and becomes a tree, but his girlfriend made it through.
    • In the Terra Route Kotarou does the exact same thing Sakuya did, and rewrites himself into a tree after he fails to protect his love. There's even a short scene right before, where he talks to Sakuya's spirit, and Sakuya mentions that Kotarou has now "taken his place completely". Sakuya ceases to exist completely.
  • Healing Factor:
    • Kotarou heals quite quickly after he rewrites himself enough to use Aurora.
    • In Chihaya's route, he increases his regeneration in order to beat Midou the summoner. Sakuya dryly notes afterward when Nishikujou attacks him that she'd have to cut him to ribbons if she wanted to kill him.
  • Heroic RRoD:
    • In Shizuru’s route Kotarou does even more rewriting on himself and the downsides finally begin to appear as his body begins minor mutations. It’s subverted near the end, however: Overuse causes immortality, not death.
    • In the Terra route, Kotarou uses his entire lifespan as fuel for Rewrite. To stop himself from dropping dead right there so that he can get to Kagari, he rewrites his body one last time knowing it will make him a quasi immortal existence like Sakuya.
  • Identity Amnesia:
    • Kotarou has some slight memory difficulties at the beginning of the story apparently as a result of a long illness. He's pretty fuzzy on the details of his illness, but he remembers enough of when he was young to know that he doesn't want to be the depressed loner that he was at his core. He was a member of Guardian, but was almost killed when he tried to attack Kagari. Kotori used her powers to save him and he went into a coma. After being injected with Guardian's memory erasing drug, he forgot most of his past. Freed from that baggage, his personality changed like he had always wanted it to and he goes from the gloomy loner to the cheerful Kotarou that appears in the main story.
    • Again in Terra Route's ending. The heroines decide to name him Pochi. Averted in Rewrite+ , where it's explicitly stated that he remembers every single route in the game.
  • I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: He's praised as the hero who saved evacuating refugees from certain doom on Akane's route, but he refuses to think of himself as anything but a villain due to unknowingly helping Akane destroy the world in the first place.
  • The Immune: He rewrites himself to gain immunity to Lucia's otherwise Universal Poison on Lucia's route.
  • Intelligence Equals Isolation: In Moon he attempts to rewrite his mind rather than his body in order to understand the theory of life that Kagari is working on. Since he seems to have a better idea of what to do than when he tried it before the story started, it works... but it leaves him feeling cold, unhappy and isolated. He reaches a point where he understands that love is a lie, which Sakura Kashima reached and despaired over, but then continues from there and finds it again on another level, at which point he returns more or less to normal.
  • I Will Find You: While the promise to reunite with Kagari he embeded into her Theory of Life was just meant as a momento, she used this promise to create finish her theory and bind him into finding his way back to her, with the torches on each option in the Terra route representing his subconscious pursuit of her. The VN implies (and the anime confirms) that he finally does find her again on the moon.
  • Jerkass to One: Kotarou's The Gadfly in general, but he has a special fondness for teasing Chihaya that doesn't go unnoticed.
  • Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Kotarou enjoys feeding the local cats, especially the one that always hisses at him before taking the food he offers.
  • Liminal Being: In a couple ways. He's already half-familiar by the time the story starts; he can start transitioning fully into a familiar on Chihaya's route, making him immune to drugs that only work on humans or familiars; and he's both a superhuman and a summoner, which require completely contradicting mindsets.
  • Living Emotional Crutch: During Moon route, Kagari becomes a crutch for him because there is no one else around and he can't take solitude. He convinces himself that their relationshipnote  is sacred and precious. When he finds more people to talk to, suddenly he's not spending much time with her.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: Kotori, Akane, Esaka, Nishikujou, and Imamiya all know the truth to his forgotten past, and all of them make sure he doesn't figure it out.
  • Malicious Misnaming: Sakuya constantly insults Kotarou by getting his name wrong. Fatarou (Yotarou) is his favorite.
  • Morality Chain: He's one to Lucia on her route. She has to deliberately cut contact with him to agree to Brenda's insane plan, and even then he still manages to pull her back from the brink.
  • Mundane Utility: Kotarou decides that the blades he can manifest from his wrist are not suited for cooking. He did try though!
  • Never Gets Drunk: Kotarou notes early in Terra that he can't get drunk and thus drinking holds little appeal. Most superhumans also break down alcohol too quickly to feel any effects from it.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero
    • In Shizuru's route, Kotarou's carelessness gets Shizuru disabled for the majority of the fight with Gaia. Since she's one of their best fighters, Guardian is too late in getting to the Key and only barely manages to evacuate anyone into their shelter. The world is reduced to a known population of fifty people by the time they exit as well as Kotarou in tree form, who can probably turn himself into a human form again.
    • Kotarou sides with Akane without really questioning what she’s doing. It's made clear that this is very stupid before any consequences show up. She sets off the apocalypse. The story really seems to enjoy pointing out just how badly Kotarou screwed up, especially when it was obvious that he could have stopped it.
  • Not Now, Kiddo: Nobody takes his claims of being haunted seriously. If they had, they'd have found the Key in ten minutes. Kotori knew what was going on but didn't want to think about it. Akane may have figured it out, but did nothing.
  • Oblivious to Love: Shizuru is apparently not even a blip on the radar throughout the common route unless you're pursuing her ending, at which point he's not sure a relationship would be a good idea. Nor is Lucia despite her extremely tsundere attitude. He has his suspicions about Kotori, though, despite her doing everything she can short of saying 'I don't like you.'
  • Older Than He Looks: He's in his mid-twenties, having not physically aged much since becoming a half-familiar.
  • Plant Person: His fate in Shizuru's route, in which, like in Sakuya's backstory, he becomes a plant as a result of using the Rewrite power to survive the end of the world.
    • In Moon, there's an odd sequence where a temporally displaced Kotarou sits still for a few months and slowly begins forming roots into the ground. Leaves grow out of his fingernails.
    • Overuse of Rewrite will eventually turn him into a familiar in the shape of a tree, though he can assume a human form again.
  • Power at a Price: Continued use of his power uses up his lifespan and slowly transforms him into a familiar.
  • Power Copying: Kotarou can rewrite himself to gain someone else's superpower, though he only does it once for Luis' spear throwing.
  • Power Glows: Apparently, Kotarou glows sometimes when he rewrites himself. It's not a consistent effect, however, depending on the writer. For example, when rewriting himself in Lucia's route no one comments, but in Chihaya's route or Terra they do.
  • Power Incontinence: Kotarou's Rewrite ability only has an on switch. There is no off, so thanks to some rewriting he already applied to himself he can no longer do anything like participate in sports without drawing major attention.
  • The Prankster: Though many of his pranks tend to backfire, especially against Lucia.
  • Reality Warper:
    • In the Moon Route, he obtained a weak version of this from reading the theory of life. He used it to do some experimenting and summon all the friends he made throughout the story.
    • In the joke ending, he rewrites the world so that humanity worships boobs.
  • Shapeshifter Weapon: Aurora. Kotarou spends a lot of time investigating its limits in Kotori's route. Other routes he just makes it up as he goes along.
  • Staking the Loved One: He's forced to kill Kagari at the end of Terra route in order to stop Salvation. It was no longer necessary but could not be stopped. In a way, the only reason for keeping Kagari alive was to figure out if they were on the right track for preventing humanity from destroying itself, which is what would happen if she were killed earlier.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Kotarou toes the line sometimes when it comes to Kotori. He follows her around as much as he can, right up to but not past the point where she'll start avoiding him.
  • The Starscream:
    • After he finds out the true nature of salvation, he betrays Akane in order to save her and the last vestiges of humanity in Kazamatsuri.
    • He's also a Starscream to both Gaia and Guardian in the Terra Route where he works to bring down both organizations from the inside in order to help Kagari.
  • Stepford Smiler: Kotarou acts all friendly and happy, but he's actually pretty frustrated with his life and looks down on his peers.
  • Stupid Sacrifice: After rewriting himself to not be a drain on Shizuru, Kotarou decides to stay for the end of the world for some reason. However, it turns out he did survive and while it seems he’s still a tree, Chihaya’s route shows that this is actually not permanent.
  • Surpassed the Teacher: In the Terra route, he finally manages to beat his teacher Esaka in their final fight to the death.
  • Synchronization: After Shizuru barely manages to save Kotarou, the two become linked.
  • Tomato in the Mirror: Kotarou asks Kotori if he’s a familiar. She doesn’t know, but suspects the answer is yes. The correct answer iiiis: Not quite. He really didn’t die and thus isn’t a familiar, but his body is sustained like one. Also, the reason he's like that doesn't have much to do with Kotori, but she wouldn't know that.
  • Took a Level in Badass: His Rewrite ability's whole schtick is pretty much this. By concentrating, he can increase the effectiveness of his body's abilities, though he can't tone his strength, speed or other abilities back down afterward. In Chihaya and Akane's route as well as Moon and Terra we see just how many levels of badass he can push himself through.
  • Vague Age: It's not really clear how old he actually is, which only comes up in Terra. Everyone else's age is also pretty vague. The Friends section says that Kotori is ten years younger but this doesn't actually match up with the facts. This isn't helped by how much time passes, either. He graduates middle school at the beginning of Terra but then there's apparently a five year timeskip that goes unmentioned. Any guess about his age could range from five to ten years older than Kotori and the others.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Kotarou pretends that he and Yoshino are best buddies, but Yoshino really is pretty pissed off with how Kotarou behaves. They are friends to an extent, though.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: His aurora blades cannot cut through konjac. No, this doesn't come up again.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's extremely uncomfortable about the idea of supernatural phenomenon, which isn't helped by the fact that he knows at least some are real. Naturally, he ends up joining the occult club.
  • Willfully Weak: Kotarou's power allows him to be physically stronger than most of his classmates. He chooses to not draw attention by rarely strengthening himself.
  • Wistful Amnesia: In Terra Kotarou has a very, very vague idea of the path the world will take due to Moon Kagari planting inside him a tiny piece of information. It's so minor he isn't even aware of it. It allows him to make the perfect decision in every meaningful junction of his life and leaves him with odd feelings. For example, he halfheartedly tries to stop Kotori's parents from leaving on the trip that will kill them and has an unnatural attachment to Akane. It's also responsible for his attachment to Kagari.
  • World's Strongest Man: Potentially. Should he rewrite himself enough, his potential has no real limit. Doing so would probably not be a very good idea, however.
  • Wouldn't Hurt a Child: He absolutely refuses to hurt children regardless of who asks. On the Terra route, his squad commander, Suzaki, and Kagari all order him to kill a child, and he refuses everytime regardless of consequences.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: He frequently thinks of the world in terms of RPG Elements, including Character Level, "______ joins the party" when he is recruiting members for the club and how Lucia's punches deal 9999 damage.

    Kotori Kanbe 

Kotori Kanbe

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Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō

Kotarou's childhood friend, and an expert gardener. She's able to play along with Kotarou's attitude and jokes rather effectively, but is oddly resistant to any insinuations that she and Kotarou are an item and if he jokes too much about it he risks her withdrawing.


  • Asleep in Class: Kotori spends most of her time in class sleeping.
  • Bad Liar: When Kotarou tries to utilize her in his tricks her lies tend to be really transparent. In truth, she's actually rather good at lying and hiding things.
  • Blank White Eyes: Kotori is frequently seen surprised with blank eyes.
  • Book Dumb: She spends most of her time in class sleeping unless she's hanging out with Kotarou. However, she's actually very intelligent and perceptive and just likes goofing around in her spare time. For her, that means during class and eventually during the occult club.
  • Break His Heart to Save Him: She rejected Kotarou's love confession before the story began and does so once again in her own route. Even in her own route, Kotori transfers out of school without telling Kotarou because she is hiding Kagari from both Gaia and Guardian. She knows that it is a hopeless struggle and she would most likely die when found, so she keeps herself distant from Kotarou to protect him. Doesn't stop him, anyway.
  • Bully Magnet: She was bullied in her childhood.
  • Caring Gardener: Her main hobby is gardening and she's a kind-hearted, bubbly girl.
  • Cassandra Truth: Kotarou writes off her claims of being an idol with tons of fans as just another one of her weird jokes. Turns out, she really is an idol in the gardening community with a very aggressive fanbase.
  • Celibate Heroine: She rejected Kotarou once before, but she didn't want to part from him. In her route, he tries confessing again and she explains that she has no intention of falling in love with anyone else or anything, so she'll just stay alone. She likes Kotarou, but think he might be her slave. Furthermore, she's probably going to die young.
  • Childhood Friend Romance:
    • Kotori is one of the available heroines. Interestingly enough, she shows little interest in the idea leaving Kotarou to be the one enthusiastic about the idea. He actually confessed to her before, but got turned down for several reasons, none of which is not liking him. First, she thinks he might just like her because he's possibly her familiar. Second, she worries that she might have 'killed' the original Kotarou and created this happy go lucky version. Third, her survival is highly unlikely and she doesn't want him to feel that loss.
    • In the route that unlocks after Kotori’s she seems a little left out and sad, possibly because the events of the route show her that Kotarou didn’t confess to her because of the devotion a familiar feels.
  • Decoy Protagonist: She is the face character of the game, but her role is pretty small in the big picture. She's having more to do with the past than present. Of course, she still has her own route but pretty much disappears in every other routes but Moon and Terra. And everyone knows Kagari is the true heroine.
  • The Ditherer: Her biggest problem. She knows that she needs to cut ties and fully dedicate herself to her Druid duties, but she can't resist spending time with Kotarou and her friends.
  • Druid: Kotori, despite clearly despising Gaia's agenda, is a descendant of sorts of a group that would choose to protect the Key. In fact, the druids were once closely allied with them, but they seem to have died out.
  • Epic Fail: How she describes a Bad End.
    You understand, right? If we get a Game Over here, we won't just go back to the title screen. The disk explodes in a little fireball.
  • Everyone Can See It: It's a minor Running Gag at the beginning of the game that everyone thinks that she and Kotarou are already a couple.
  • Flowers of Nature: She's a Caring Gardener and a Druid who wears large flower hair ornaments on both sides of her head.
  • Gold Digger: She claims that she wants Kotarou to make more money before their relationship can go anywhere.
  • Good Is Not Soft: She's a kindhearted girl that hates violence, but she won't hesistate to sic her familiars on anyone who threatens Kotarou or the Key.
  • Gratuitous English: Shake it now baby now!
  • Green Thumb: She's popular in town because pretty much any plant she touches springs to life. The Gardening club even worship her for her incredible ability.
  • Happily Married: Her ending in Harvest Festa. She and Kotarou got married after their graduation from high school.
  • Healing Shiv: She is one. Her punches actually heal Kotarou.
  • Idiot Hair: She has one hair perpetually standing up and constantly acts like a complete dork. She is secretly a genius, though.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Kotori rejected Kotarou’s rejection before because she knew she probably couldn't have a normal life. And also because she’s not sure if he loves her because he genuinely cares about her or if he might be a familiar programmed into loving her. Either way, she feels it can’t work. In the route that follows this, she realizes it wasn't because he was a familiar, but now it's too late. It's implied that helps tie Kotarou to Shizuru instead of her herself after this.
  • Master of the Mixed Message: On her route, she rejects Kotarou for the second time when he asks her to be his girlfriend, but she also agrees to go on a date with him and only turns away from his attempts to kiss her at the last moment.
  • Money Fetish: Early on, Kotarou gets her to sleepwalk forward by jangling spare change in front of her. She also laments that girls can't get married when seeing how wealthy Chihaya is.
  • Necromancer: While all summoners are necromancers, Kotori takes it a step farther by being the only summoner able to turn human corpses into familiars.
  • Nice Girl: A sweet, kind, and caring young girl.
  • Only Friend: She's mutually Kotarou's until they join the Occult Research Club.
  • Romantic Runner-Up: In any route but her own. It's not that Kotarou has stopped loving her, it's that he's found someone he loves more. This is especially true in Sizuru's route, where they have what's practically a break-up discussion even though they've never dated.
  • Secret Secret-Keeper: She's one of the few characters aware that Kotarou is actually Older Than He Looks.
  • Sleepyhead: She has a habit of taking naps during class and out in the forest.
  • Stepford Smiler: Partially Overall, at school and whenever she's with Kotarou and Occult Club's members, she is super energetic and cheerful. She seems to enjoy herself so much not only because school and friends are wonderful breaks from the tediousness and loneliness of her Druid job but also because she doesn't want anyone to notice and worry, especially Kotarou.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: When Kotori was a kid, she was kind of a jerk due to having been bullied, but mellowed out as she got older and gained more responsibilities.
  • Tragic Dream: Kotori initially got her powers in an attempt to revive her dead parents. She tried her best in upholding the contract to protect Kagari, but she later realized that her "parents" were no different from zombies that moved to her commands.
  • Triple Shifter: She's working herself to death trying to protect the Key from either Gaia or Guardian getting her and has been doing it by herself for ten years. Small wonder she spends a lot of time sleeping.
  • Unresolved Sexual Tension: While she keeps a clear space between Kotarou and herself and has rejected him once in the past, everyone can tell their feelings for each other go beyond friendship.

    Shizuru Nakatsu 

Shizuru Nakatsu

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Voiced by: Keiko Suzuki

A first-year student and acquaintance of Kotarou. As a self-proclaimed "moral guard", she carries around a whistle to call out students on rules violations. While she is very serious and normally quiet, she also enjoys playing along with Kotarou's pranks. In fact, due to a rather obvious crush, she generally supports Kotarou in whatever he does. She wears an eyepatch, but at the start of the story Kotarou doesn't know why.


  • A-Cup Angst: Shizuru has a mild dissatisfaction about being so short and flat. Kotarou thinks she could pass for a sixth grader. Not that he'd say that.
  • Action Girl: Shizuru is a front line fighter.
  • Badass Adorable: Shizuru is probably the strongest character in the main cast at the start of the story. Kotarou can make himself tougher than her, though he normally doesn't, and under certain conditions Lucia can beat her.
  • Blemished Beauty: Both of her eyes originally were blue until an incident where debris fell on her right eye. She used her powers to heal her eye and it turned gold as a side effect. She prefers to keep her golden eye covered with an eyepatch, but she's still cute and Kotarou says her eye looks pretty when she takes off the eyepatch.
  • Bully Magnet: When she was a lot younger, she left her golden eye uncovered and got bullied for it. She now keeps her eye covered to avoid drawing attention.
  • Cat Smile: Frequently, usually whenever enjoying her saury.
  • Combat Medic: Her main ability can create different kinds of medicine; she is also one of the strongest fighters of the group.
  • Comically Serious: She plays along with Kotarou's jokes as much as Kotori, but unlike her she always looks completely serious.
  • Cute Mute: She's generally very quiet, leaving Kotarou to interpret the facial expressions she makes for a large amount of their conversations. She later loses her voice when she formed a contract with Kotarou. Everyone believed she was just acting normally and thought it was adorable.
  • Dodge the Bullet: She can drug herself into moving and reacting so quickly that a hallway filled with bullets is a cakewalk to move through unscathed.
  • Extreme Omnivore: One of the lighter examples. She'll eat plants she finds in the forest or insects that she runs across. Well, only probably for the latter because Kotarou dares not turn around to confirm it. The things she was eating were perfectly safe to eat, but even if they weren't Shizuru is immune to poison and disease.
  • Gamer Chick: Downplayed. She doesn't play often anymore, but due to playing a lot as a child, she is easily able to defeat Kotarou in fighting games.
  • Girlish Pigtails: Kotarou seems to identify her by her hair a lot of the time. He considers the twintails to be a rare spawn monster at one point.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She has blonde hair, and is one of the nicest characters in the series.
  • Healing Factor: Shizuru produces medicines and drugs in her body and can heal herself quite quickly. She can also heal others.
  • Healing Hands: She can heal people directly as well as produce medicine inside her body.
  • Humble Hero: Despite earning a lot of money working as a Guardian, she refuses to spend the money on luxuries and instead live in a simplistic tiny house. Apparently, she's saving up money to buy her parents a dream home once they finally remember her.
  • Inhuman Eye Concealers: Shizuru wears an eyepatch not because her right eye is damaged, but because she has heterochromia and being bullied for her golden eye made her self-conscious about it.
  • Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Threatens Brenda with this.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Shizuru has the power to control memories to an extent.
  • Literal-Minded: Shizuru gets some rather odd imagine spots at times due to not getting a lot of metaphorical speech.
  • Nice Girl: She has a kind, polite, and has an adorable personality, as evident with her interactions with Kotarou.
  • Nonverbal Miscommunication: Played with. Kotarou likes attaching random meanings to Shizuru's expressions when she's being quiet and in truth even he thinks they’re complete nonsense, but it turns out he's actually frequently right.
  • Older Than She Looks: She's a first-year high school student, but Kotarou thinks she could pass for a sixth grader with the right clothes.
  • Power Incontinence: When she was little, her control over her ability was not as refined and she accidentally wiped herself from the memory of her parents.
  • Puppy-Dog Eyes: Shizuru is quite the master of beseeching looks.
  • The Quiet One: Shizuru isn't silent, but a large amount of her communication is just Kotarou reading her expressions.
  • Reading Lips: She knows how to read lips which helped when she lost her hearing.
  • Secretly Wealthy: Shizuru would be a millionaire if you converted yen to dollars, but lives in a tiny, empty building and eats extremely cheap food. Apparently, she is saving up money to buy her parents their dream home after accidentally wiping out their memories, showing that she still cares about her parents.
  • Sleepyhead: She tends to sleep in very late if she can and can often be found dozing in the courtyard at school when she has the time. It's indicated that this may be partially a result of her abilities.
  • Supernatural Gold Eyes: Her right eye is golden because she regrew it improperly after it was destroyed by debris. This was one of the first really noticeable uses of her superhuman power to heal.
  • Token Mini-Moe: She's very short and young-looking and is mildly irritated over it.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Saury. It reminds her of her family, though she always liked it.
  • Traumatic Superpower Awakening: When she was younger, she and her parents were attacked by a Familiar and debris fell on them. Shizuru's healing powers awakened to heal her parents and her eye.

    Lucia Konohana 

Lucia Konohana

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Voiced by: Risa Asaki

The Class Representative of Kotarou's class. Kotarou seems to think of her as the stock uptight Class Representative character. She's one of the more stereotypically violent tsunderes. In combination with her perceived neat freak attitude such as always wearing gloves she doesn't really have any friends apart from Shizuru. She has a reputation for a high tolerance to spicy foods.


  • Action Girl: She has rather high physical strength and doesn't hesitate to use it.
  • Bad Powers, Good People: Lucia’s abilities are making concentrated death and destroying things. She’s a little heavy on the tsuntsun but otherwise a perfectly kind person.
  • Big Bad Friend: Lucia keeps trying to get Kotarou to drop the Asahi Haruka investigation because she is Asahi Haruka. She hasn't done anything wrong, though.
  • Blank White Eyes: Lucia gains blank white eyes on occasion whenever Kotarou does something particularly surprising.
  • Cerebus Retcon: Lucia's tolerance for spicy food is played for laughs. In her route, you learn that she's actually incapable of tasting spicy food because of the drugs she is taking to suppress the deadly poison in her body.
  • Class Representative: Kotarou thinks of her as the classic uptight class rep that's obsessed with order and is convinced every school probably has their own Lucia in charge of a class.
  • Collateral Angst: Rather than dwell on the people accidentally killed Lucia gets the lions share of the sympathy points in that story while Kishida Ryuugo and the nurse are largely forgotten. Later, Lucia intentionally kills two hundred thousand people and again the story focuses on her depression.
  • Comically Serious: She takes Kotarou's comments about Chihya's robot powers completely seriously.
  • Cordon Bleugh Chef: She can cook, but when Kotori offers to swap items from their lunches Lucia declines because her meal was made more to look good than to taste good. Coupled with her extreme tolerance for spice it's questionable whether it was truly edible for anyone but her. She has no sense of taste. She just has excellent control over how she perceives the world and if food looks good she can stimulate her brain into remembering how things tasted back when she did have a sense of taste. Thus, what she considers good food and what others consider good might very well not overlap in the slightest.
  • Covert Pervert: As straight-laced as she is, she knowingly buys an eroge to try and please Kotarou and plans to make-out with him at nearly every free moment she has during her route. On the Terra route she shocks her friends by confusing their comments about a tree's size as a dirty joke.
  • Demonic Possession: Subverted. Lucia pretends that Haruka is speaking through her mouth, but it’s pretty obvious that the two are the same person. It’s confirmed not much later.
  • Desperately Craves Affection: Having lived her life doomed to never touch another person, she seeks constant attention and affection once she and Kotarou start dating.
  • Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: She can tolerate her Touch of Death because she thinks her suffering can one day help people in the future. Once that feeling wanes she'll do anything to reclaim her purpose, even committing mass murder.
  • Don't You Dare Pity Me!: She doesn't want Kotarou to stay with her just because he pities her cursed touch. She wants Kotarou to actually love her.
  • Friendless Background: When she was young she never had any friends. She still only has one friend at the start of the story, Shizuru.
  • Full-Name Ultimatum: Whenever she puts distance between herself and someone else she ends up referring to them by their full name, especially TENNOUJI KOTAROU!!
  • Hair Intakes: Her hairdo has two of what look like cat ears.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: A lot of her tsuntsun behavior is actually more a result of her being really easily angered rather than her necessarily covering up embarrassment or affection.
  • Healing Factor: Not most of the time, but in an area filled with the poison she makes she possesses a healing factor even stronger than Shizuru's.
  • Insecure Love Interest: Once she and Kotarou start dating she needs a lot of affection just to assure her he actually loves her. And even that barely works, as she still thinks he's just pitying her.
  • Katanas Are Just Better: Despite the fact that a sword really isn't the most efficient of weapons, it's the weapon she favors. She can't use guns, after all. Also, with her vibration powers her attacks are much more effective.
  • Megaton Punch: Lucia is fond of decking Kotarou when he does something that at least looks perverted. She eventually promises to stop mid route.
  • My Sister Is Off-Limits: She's not Shizuru's sister, but because of her overprotectiveness the rest of the club starts thinking of her as Shizuru's sister in law when Shizuru and Kotarou start getting closer.
  • Neat Freak: She has a reputation as a neat freak thanks to the white gloves she always wears. It causes her some social problems because when she has to touch living things she begins calling everything filthy and absolutely refuses to do so. She actually considers herself filthy: Touching a cat even through the gloves could be putting it in danger if it touches her wrist or anything.
  • Only Friend: Shizuru is Lucia’s only close friend. Only she can resist the toxins that Lucia continuously creates.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: When her powers are cranked up on her route she easily massacres hundreds of thousands in Kazamatsuri.
  • Poison Is Corrosive: Anything receiving a sufficiently high level of poison will blacken and crumble within seconds.
  • Poisonous Person: Lucia has nightmares where her touch is so filthy and impure that it causes anything she touches to wither, rot and die. Thanks to experiments designed to allow Lucia to survive in toxic environments, she herself releases a poison that kills all living beings that touch her. She can control it somewhat, but not turn it off entirely. And that’s with suppressants.
  • Power Incontinence: She tends to break complex things around her thanks to her vibration ability. She also breaks people, animals, plants and bacteria since she's a poison factory.
  • Psychic Powers: Apart from her poisonous touch, Lucia has mild telekinetic abilities, though they're not very useful.
  • Sensory Overload: An inadvertent example. After she stops taking the suppressants that dull all her senses she perceives the world much more strongly than usual, causing her to feel overloaded, drained and slightly feverish. It cuts into her date with Kotarou but not as much as when she poisons the town moments later, killing every leaving organism inside that lacks protection. It's implied that her holding in her poison may have been what was really responsible, making it a possible invocation and subversion.
  • Super Hero Origin: Lucia doesn't seem to be a normal super power user like Shizuru or Kotarou. Rather, her poisonous person abilities and vibration power are the result of an experiment performed on a large amount of orphans. She was the only survivor.
  • Superpower Meltdown: Lucia’s suppressants stop working in every route, after which she has to live inside bunkers until a new one can be developed. In her own route, her body is fiddled with so that she makes even more poison after this. This already makes her unsafe to be around for anyone but Kotarou or a few special individuals, but then she’s manipulated into setting them off. The entire town of Kazamatsuri is killed. Plants, animals and people. In theory, even the bacteria are dead.
  • Touch of Death: In a nightmare that she has, things Lucia touches with her hands die. She’s worried that it happens for real, but it’s noted that it was just a string of bad luck that gave her classmates that impression. Turns out she really does have it and can only really minimize the effects.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Lucia has a reputation for loving spicy food and seems confused when people react with shock to her enjoyment of it. She has no sense of taste.
  • Tsundere: Kotori catches on pretty quickly to Lucia's attitude. It's partially intentional since she’s interested in Kotarou but has only partial control over her abilities, so she tries to keep him distant from her. Not that it’s entirely a pose, as she quickly makes clear.
  • Walking Tech Bane: Lucia destroys anything like complex machinery quickly when she touches it, so for the most part she can’t normally use stuff like that without taking some form of suppressant. She can’t even reliably use a gun.
  • Walking Wasteland: As a result of Guardian's experiments, and the reason she wears gloves.

    Akane Senri 

Akane Senri

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Voiced by: Eri Kitamura

President of the Occult Research Club, and the "mysterious witch" of the school. She's very aloof from the group and only interacts frequently with Kotarou himself and to a lesser extent Chihaya and Sakuya. She's quite fond of teasing Kotarou. Like Chihaya, she doesn't seem to have had any friends prior to the story beginning. Unlike Chihaya, she's still not very good at it during the story.


  • Agent Scully: Appears as one, but is actually maintaining the Masquerade by erasing any evidence that Kotarou finds.
  • The Atoner: On her route, Kotarou forces her to atone for destroying the world, but it takes her a while to build enough courage to face the world. She does come to accept living in exile with Kotarou.
  • Big Bad Friend: She's one of the leaders of Gaia and the direct subordinate of the real boss. Gaia has at least two major factions and Akane's is the one that wants to end the world, though she doesn't seem thrilled about it. However, despite this, she persists. In Chihaya's route she apparently prevents the Song of Salvation, but then goes nuts when she sees all the bad memories of mankind and nearly ends the world herself. In both her own and Shizuru's route she succeeds.
  • "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: It's magic, honest!
  • Blatant Lies: Whenever Kotarou manages to show her an actual supernatural event she can only awkwardly give blanantly fake technobabble to try and baffle him with bullshit.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: She's quite clever and witty, but she hates exerting herself. She doesn't even seem to go to class for exams, making it unclear why she goes to school at all.
  • Club President: She's officially the leader of the Occult Club, though it was actually already disbanded. Plus, Kotarou tends to be the one who actually tries investigating occult stuff.
  • Curtains Match the Window: She has yellowish-white eyes and hair.
  • Friendless Background: The idea of friends is something that's rather foreign to Akane. She seems slightly bemused that she actually cares about people like Kotarou.
  • Gamer Chick: Almost never seen in the club room without her laptop and playing games.
  • Go Mad from the Revelation: In Chihaya's route, Akane manages to capture Kotori and the Key. Right when she's deciding that she doesn't need to cause the end of the world anymore, the Key shows her the worst memories of mankind and she goes absolutely insane. She’s furious that the Key saw enough good that it decided not to wipe out humanity and decides to do it herself.
  • Hikikomori: She hates going outside or interacting with new people.
  • Lazy Bum: She hates having to go out and meet people.
  • Not So Above It All: Akane likes to act as the Only Sane Man, but even apart from her obvious eccentricities she’s really determined to disprove anything occult based due to the groping bet made at the beginning. The lengths she goes to for this are quite impressive. She also joins in on the antics occasionally despite her protests.
  • Ojou: She was adopted by an old, influential woman with ties to the Martel Corporation. Whenever Kotarou catches her by surprise, though, she's usually ruining whatever dignity and elegance she has. She's also fairly vulgar.
  • Only Sane Woman: Akane, despite calling herself a witch, is the only one with a firm grasp on reality. She's also the only one who seems to really notice what a bunch of weirdos have gathered in the club room. It later turns out that her 'firm grasp on reality' thing was her covering up incidents that she actually knew to be true while exposing those that were genuinely fake.
  • Reluctant Psycho: She does not really seem to enjoy her job and faces it with sheer resignation. When she wins in Shizuru's route, she's depressed. She does not really want to become the Holy Woman either and when she inherits the job in her route she starts slipping quickly under the weight of the inherited grudge despite knowing and hating what she's doing.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: She abuses her wealth and influence to get credits even when not attending classes. She also gave her secretary a teaching position in school.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Is on the receiving end of a harsh one from Koutarou.
Koutarou: You've always been relying on someone or something else. Have you ever wanted to get strong yourself?
  • The Tell: She lets out a "gngh" whenever Kotarou shows her a something actually supernatural. Choose your events right and Kotarou can pick up on it.
  • Transferable Memory: Her ability to "heal" people with broken minds is really just turning a part of their brain into a familiar. She then transcribes some of her memories to "fix" them.

    Chihaya Ohtori 

Chihaya Ohtori

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Voiced by: Saya Shinomiya

A new student who transfers to Kotarou's school and class early in the story. Prior to transferring she had never really had any friends and can be a little awkward around others. This is not helped by her both being an obvious tsundere and not being terribly intelligent. She also appears to be quite wealthy and has a seemingly perfect personal butler named Sakuya to attend to her.


  • Action Girl: She has immense strength, but doesn't directly most of the time.
  • Big Eater: Chihaya eats constantly. Kotarou figures that the constant eating is how she manages to keep her strength up since she’s not particularly muscular. He's wrong.
  • Blank White Eyes: Frequently; possibly more often than the rest of the cast combined.
  • Blind Obedience: She follows Gaia without ever really thinking about why. When she actually does stop to think about it on her and Sizuru's route, she decides to quit.
  • Butt-Monkey: Chihaya is the butt of numerous jokes.
  • Cute Clumsy Girl: Presumably because she’s so strong and durable that she doesn’t need to worry about being careful.
  • Delayed Reaction: Chihaya has a tendency to not react to things properly until a bit of time has already passed.
  • The Ditz: Kotarou loves teasing her because she's not very smart. In spite of this, she is much wiser than she appears.
  • Does Not Know Her Own Strength: If she stops paying attention she throws too much strength into her activities and risks breaking things. However, this rarely happens.
  • Doomed Hometown: She is from a village of summoners, which was razed by Guardian when she was a child.
  • Friendless Background: Kotarou is her first real friend.
  • Friend to All Living Things: Chihaya can get along well with the legendary Hissy Cat. She indicates that she's used to this sort of thing.
  • Girlish Pigtails: She keeps part of her hair tied up into twintails.
  • Idiot Hair: She has one hair perpetually standing up.
  • Improbable Weapon User: At one point, she uses a telephone pole to fight off several familiars.
  • New Transfer Student: She transfers in at the beginning of October and gets lost in town before making it to school successfully. She never acquires the right school uniform either.
  • No Sense of Direction: If you don't watch her like a hawk she'll wander off the moment you take your eyes off of her and get completely lost.
  • Replacement Goldfish: Sakuya views Chihaya as one to extent. Though he scorns himself for it, it’s actually a positive example of the trope.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In her own route and Shizuru's route, she chooses to leave Gaia rather than keep fighting. In Akane's route, she presumably quits as well and Kotarou never sees her again.
  • Signature Headgear: She always wears two wing-like hair clips to decorate her Girlish Pigtails.
  • Super-Strength: She's even stronger than Kotarou as a result of her contract with Sakuya.
  • Too Much Alike: She suspects this is why she and Lucia fight so much: they're both so convinced they're the most miserable girl in the world that seeing someone else vie for that title just highlights their problems.
  • Transfer Student Uniforms: Justified - her new uniform turned up in the wrong size. In fact, it's Sakuya's size, because she thought he needed a uniform too.
  • Tsundere: Chihaya is a fairly obvious tsundere, though this is mostly because Kotarou is pretty fond of teasing her and she's still not as blatant as Lucia. He catches on quickly in her route.
  • Verbal Tic: Chihaya overuses desu and also pronounces it fully instead of the normal 'des' sound.

    Sakuya Ohtori 

Sakuya Ohtori

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Sakuya is Chihaya's bodyguard and butler. He is amazingly strong, fast, Bishōnen and durable. On top of this, he is excellent at essentially everything. Unfortunately for Kotarou, he seems to have gotten on Sakuya's bad side almost immediately and thus has to endure a constant rain of insulting nicknames.


  • The Ace: Sakuya is amazing at essentially everything.
  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In Chihaya's route and the Moon route, he takes on an alternate form larger than any other familiar in the story.
  • Battle Butler: He's officially Chihaya's butler, though he tries to claim at first that he's her brother. Personally, he refers to himself as her knight, which shows his sheer resolve to protect her no matter what.
  • Bishie Sparkle: When asked to go outside the clubroom, he wanders the hallways being gorgeous and charming, making many girls quickly fall for his bishie sparkles.
  • Blank White Eyes: Complete with black screen and cold wind whenever Chihaya makes a comment that hurts him.
  • The Cavalry: In Moon Route Sakuya shows up after Lucia, Kotori, Sakuya HB, Akane and all the normal people Kotarou called for have fallen. His presence alone is enough to help turn the tide of battle for the moment.
  • Cherry Blossom Girl: Gender-inverted. His name even sounds like Sakura, and as a man who transformed into a cherry tree, and then reborn as a familiar, the affiliation is fairly explicit.
Sakuya: "Chihaya-san... all cherry blossoms fall apart eventually. It's in their nature.
  • Chick Magnet: Whenever he walks the halls, crowds of fangirls gather to gush over him.
  • Cloth Fu: His secondary ability and the one that differentiates him from Kotarou, who instead has body fluid control/Aurora is the ability to manipulate cloth.
  • Deader than Dead: He merges all of his potential selves together to arrive in the Moon route, meaning his death there eliminates him from any possible future.
  • Failure Knight: Sakuya protects Chihaya because he failed to protect the woman he loved from Salvation.
  • The Gadfly: He claims to hate Kotarou and constantly screws with him, but mostly just seems to enjoy teasing him.
  • Generation Xerox: Kotarou is this to him in the Chihaya Route.
    • It is even more true in the Shizuru route, in which Kotarou also fails to stop Salvation, and becomes a tree.
    • At the end of the Terra route, Kotarou has become a tree familiar contracted to Chihaya (among the others) after failing to save the girl he loves. His familiar form even looks a lot like Sakuya.
  • Heroic Sacrifice:
    • In Chihaya’s route, Sakuya sacrifices himself to save Chihaya, Kotarou and Akane. However, Akane takes his body and turns it into a giant monster. He’s returned to normal, but this doesn’t save him.
    • In Moon Route, he comes to the aid of the group by fusing all of his potential existences together. It does get him to the battle, but at the cost of sacrificing himself from ever existing in any recreated world.
  • Hypocritical Humor: Sakuya criticizes Kotarou for openly thinking the miso soup Chihaya made was terrible, but similarly collapses himself moments later.
  • I Hate Past Me: In a manner of speaking. Sakuya refers to and thinks of Kotarou as his past self, though they're entirely different individuals. Because of this, he is somewhat ashamed to see Kotarou and treats him quite hostilely.
  • Jerkass to One: Sakuya is a perfectly polite butler to everyone but Kotarou, whom he treats with open contempt.
  • My Greatest Failure: Sakuya was unable to protect his love Minata.
  • Parental Substitute: Sakuya largely serves as Chihaya’s father figure, though he’d prefer to be thought of as her big brother.
  • Plant Person: Since becoming a familiar.
  • Power Limiter: Sakuya has voluntarily sealed a portion of his power into Chihaya herself in order to limit the amount of lifeforce he drains from her, which is what gives her her Super-Strength. When facing an opponent that may require the full scope of his abilities, Chihaya can return the power he granted her, reducing her to a normal human while elevating his powers beyond his initial limits.
  • Pretty Boy: Kotarou irritably notes that with Sakuya's looks and personality he would be very popular.
  • Really 700 Years Old: Sakuya is from a previously wiped out civilization of an unknown age. Shizuru's route mentions seventy thousand year old civilizations and Moon route implies that there are many much older than that that. That said, he spent most of that time as a tree. When the tree starts dying, Sakuya goes with it.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Sakuya’s eyes are a pretty good hint that there’s more to the guy than just some goofy guy that makes fun of Kotarou.
  • Ret-Gone: His death in Moon Route wiped his existence from all future possible worlds. He somehow managed to appear one last time in Terra route. Averted in the Updated Re-release. He never shows up in Terra. He's really gone.
  • Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Chihaya's route is actually at least as much about Sakuya as Chihaya herself, if not more. Lampshaded in Kaginado.
    Chihaya: It was my route... Why do people call it the "Sakuya route"?!
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill: While he still fights against Guardian, he makes sure to never kill because he knows Chihaya wouldn't approve.
  • Tsundere: A rare, non-romantic example. In her route, Chihaya mentions that Sakuya doesn't actually hate Kotarou nearly as much as he pretends to.
  • Undying Loyalty: He doesn't just follow Chihaya because he's her familiar, he honestly places her desires above all else. He'll easily betray Gaia if that's what she wants, and on the Moon route he sacrifices his entire existence just to fight with her even as she notes there's no actual contract in place.
  • Was Once a Man: He used to be a human before rewriting himself so many times he became a familiar.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Sakuya is so afraid of cats that he completely freezes up.
  • World's Strongest Man: His title as "the strongest familiar in Gaia" isn't just for show; Sakuya is essentially a One-Man Army.

    Kagari 

Kagari

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Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa

She is the Key that Gaia and Guardian are seeking - a kind of familiar produced by the Earth.


  • A-Cup Angst: In the Oppai Ending, she reveals that she has chest size issues.
  • The Aloner: Moon Kagari is trapped alone on the desolate moon with only her memories of Kotarou to comfort her. The VN's ending implies and the anime's ending confirms that she finally reunites with Kotarou after he becomes a familiar.
  • Anti-Gravity Clothing: Her magical floating ribbons.
  • Apocalypse Maiden: The Key is here to observe mankind and see if they the world should be saved.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the Oppai Ending, she laments how few lines she has compared to the other heroines.
  • Clothing Appendage: Her clothes and ribbons are actually a part of her body and can be changed or removed at will.
  • Clothing Combat: She uses her ribbons to fight.
  • Cute Mute: In several routes, she's barely capable of speech. She's capable of learning to speak any human language very quickly, but is frequently kept from learning anything since being in the outside world puts her in danger of being discovered.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: She starts showing more emotions when she interacts more with Kotarou.
  • Ditzy Genius: She's so intelligent the human brain isn't even capable of comprehending what she knows, but human society is outside her expertise, leading to brilliant suggestions like "use a single tank to take over the world."
  • Elegant Gothic Lolita: She wears a black gothic lolita style dress.
  • Emotionless Girl: During most routes she is very inexpressive and inhuman, so she kind of creeps Kotarou out on the few occasions he sees her.
  • Good All Along: She doesn't want to cause Salvation, but it's not something she can control. She's trying to find a perfect solution that allows humanity to survive but can't find one.
  • Good Is Not Nice: Despite trying to save humanity, Kagari is kind of an impatient jerk. She can also be pretty callous.
  • Improbable Weapon User: She has long red ribbons attached to her wrists that act upon her will.
  • Invisible to Normals: The Key cannot be seen by most people. It’s not that she’s invisible, but people just sort of overlook her. She places a lot of faith in this ability which is generally how she gets found: She doesn't take proper precautions to hide normally and just assumes that if no one can see her it's okay to leave plenty of evidence about where she is.
  • Killed Offscreen: It's confirmed she dies to Lucia's poison on Lucia's route, but we never actually see her.
  • Lack of Empathy: She's born as a basically Blank Slate that is here to judge humanity and see if they can coexist properly with the Earth and at the beginning has no real intellect or emotion. After developing intellect, she still has nothing like human emotion or empathy. In some routes, she has no real humanity or emotion. In Terra he learns that she really does want to save humanity, but she's brutally pragmatic and wishes to kill Akane even though she's not even capable of speech or telling anyone that she saw Kagari. Kotarou is appalled though he agrees that she might be right.
  • Little Miss Almighty: Moon!Kagari managed to create a massive number of alternate realities entirely on her own, then essentially set fate for the Terra route.
  • MacGuffin Super-Person: She is the Key that two secret societies, Guardian and Gaia, are fighting to secure.
  • Murder Is the Best Solution: Her idea of problem solving in Moon seems to always involve 'kill the annoyance' and in Terra she always urges Kotarou to hurry up and massacre Gaia and Guardian or to take over the world.
  • Mystical Waif: She looks like a little girl and wanders around investigating the planet and humanity, but is in fact the Key that can trigger the apocalypse.
  • Mystical White Hair: Her white hair isn't commented upon, but she's a clearly inhuman entity with great power and ability.
  • Only One Name: She's only known as the Key or Kagari and the latter isn't quite her name either. She gets a last name in Harvest Festa, though.
  • Perception Filter: Only a few humans can actually see her. Familiars are better at it, though. Everyone else just sort of tunes her out.
  • Red String of Fate: She's the main heroine who's red ribbon is conspicuously embedded in Kotarou's right arm. Even when he rewrites himself to another dimension in the Moon route, her ribbon can still pull him back to her.
  • Rei Ayanami Expy: Silver hair? Check. Pale skin? Check. Mysterious and unsettling emotionless demeanor? Check. Inhuman entity with great power? Check. Shows more emotions thanks to the main character? Check.
  • Starfish Language: In Moon route, she speaks in a highly advanced way that it appear as "■ ■ ■ ■ ■". Kotarou's head hurts just from hearing it. Kagari is also not really her name but implied to be a description of what she is, but she cannot state that any more clearly than the word 'Kagari.'
  • Technicolor Eyes: She has deep lavender-coloured eyes, another sign of her inhuman nature.
  • Third-Person Person: She uses the third person in Terra, the first route where she really begins to speak. It's not quite cute so much as viewing herself as something that fulfills a role rather than an individual.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: The first way Kotarou manages to get through to her in Moon is by sharing coffee with her. After her initial disinterest, she seems to grow pretty fond of it.
  • Uncanny Valley Girl: The Key in Kotori and Shizuru’s route is highly alien and doesn’t really feel like a human. In Kotori’s route it can barely speak or do anything that Kotarou is capable of interpreting easily. In Shizuru’s it’s more talkative, but still incapable of interacting with him in a way he can appreciate. She's closer to this in her own route (in the anime and the upcoming Plus expansion) and in Harvest festa!, where she joins the school as a regular student and tries to be popular, but is just a little weird. All right, a lot.
  • The Unfettered: Her goal is to save humanity and she'll do anything to accomplish it. Only dooming her beloved Kotarou to the horrors of the Terra route is enough to bother her, and even that doesn't stop her.
  • Walking Spoiler: Considering she has basically no character traits for most of the story, it's hard to talk about her without revealing that she's not only Good All Along, but the main heroine to boot.
  • Workaholic: Moon route Kagari spends centuries at minimum doing nothing but working on her Theory of Life.

Guardian

    Touka Nishikujou 

Touka Nishikujou

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Voiced by: Ryouko Tanaka

Nishikujou is a rather ditzy looking teacher that commands a lot of respect at Kotarou's school, though she's new to the job. She has close ties to Shizuru and Lucia due to her work with the group Guardian.


  • Beware the Nice Ones: As sweet and bubbly as she is, she's absolutely terrifying when performing her Guardian duties.
  • Conflict Ball: In Chihaya's route she expresses a severe hatred for familiars so the story can have her pick a fight with Sakuya despite both he and Chihaya retiring from Gaia. There is no real reason given and it contrasts her normal rather easy going or at worst strictly professional attitude.
  • Curtains Match the Window: She has purple eyes and hair, though you rarely see her eyes.
  • Cuteness Proximity: She can't resist trying to hug Shizuru.
  • Drives Like Crazy: Invoked and averted. Kotarou expected her to drive like a maniac, but the worst she does is sing along badly to music from the 80s.
  • Explosive Overclocking: When Nishikujou starts going all out with her ability, it begins tearing up her body.
  • Eyes Always Shut: She tends to keep her eyes shut because they're rather sharp and scary looking. Since being a teacher is her dream job, she finds this pretty disheartening.
    Kotarou: Sensei, you're scary with your eyes open...
  • Flechette Storm: She can fire off a large number of knives at once (particularly evident in Shizuru's route), resulting in this.
  • Forgotten First Meeting: She was Kotarou's comrade and friend during his first training period in Guardian.
  • Hot for Student: She makes some flirty remarks towards Kotarou from time to time, but she's probably just being silly.
  • Hot Teacher: Her looks appear to be one of the reasons she's so popular, but she dances around the question of her age.
  • One of the Kids: She acts goofy and laid back when she's not required to be serious and ends up feeling less mature than Shizuru.
  • Parental Substitute: Lucia was assigned to her command because psychologists felt she needed to be around someone motherly.
  • Sensei-chan: She's a really ditzy, happy go lucky teacher and gets along really well with Shizuru in particular. She isn't really a teacher, though, but she wants to be one.
  • Senseless Sacrifice: In Shizuru's route, she throws everything she has at Kagari, up to and including turning herself into a projectile. Kagari survives and still ends the world.
  • Shipper on Deck: She ships Kotarou and Sizuru, much to her ward's embarrassment.

    Arata Imamiya 

Arata Imamiya

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Voiced by: Adrena Line

A playboy who dresses young for his age. He is a member of Guardian.


  • Fighting Your Friend: He's noticably sad on routes he's forced to fight Kotarou (barring Terra, where he's livid thinking Kotarou's a traitor), which leads Kotarou to question if they know each other.
  • Handsome Lech: He seems to like the image of a flirty young guy, though he hints that he tries not to form close relationships.
  • Jerk Jock: When he was younger, he was kind of an arrogant jerk. For the most part, he grows out of it by the time Rewrite begins.
  • Trap Master: His hunter powers make him an expert at setting traps.
  • The Speedster: The one area where he has confidence in is in his ability to run away. He can even set up traps while on the run, proving to be a rather annoying obstacle for Kotarou who at that point was far superior to him in combat.
  • Walking Spoiler: Kotarou meets him early on in the common route and immediately suspects he and Arata have some kind of connection, but you won't find out why until the final route.

    Sougen Esaka 

Sougen Esaka

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Voiced by: Hiroki Tochi

The middle-aged owner of an antiques shop; he frequents Gen-san's ramen stand. He is a retired Guardian operative.


  • Bad Liar: When providing a cover story for why he was in the forest chopping up monsters, he says he's a scientist investigating UMAs. He also claims to be a birdwatcher and Kotarou asks him if he's seem any dodo or moa lately. He says yes and that he owned a cute little moa himself. Granted, Esaka was not really concerned about actually convincing Kotarou and was possibly trying to make him more interested.
  • Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: He's always very serious, but he seems to be very fond of playing both the boke and tsukkomi. Unfortunately, nobody has any idea what he's doing. In Terra, someone in Guardian even thinks they're under attack when he's trying to be humorous and thanks Kotarou for 'saving' him when he performs the tsukkomi Esaka requested beforehand.
  • Cannot Tell a Joke: He thinks he's good at comedy, but he actually just terrifies everyone when he tries doing a Boke and Tsukkomi Routine.
  • Catchphrase: "WHYYYYYYYYYYY!!"
  • Cool Old Guy: He's a nice, professional old guy and one of the most powerful characters in the story. He also served as Kotarou's mentor and recruited him into Guardian once.
  • Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: He holds a pipe in his hand, wears a suit and a High-Class Glass. A perfect combination to make one classy gentleman.
  • Face Death with Dignity:
    • On Sizuru's route he saves as many as he can from Salvation before going for one last walk with Hissy the cat into oblivion.
    • In the Terra route he has one final chat with his killer, Kotarou, even praising how strong he's become. He dies with a smile on his face.
  • Fights Like a Normal: He's a powerful superhuman, but of the three general categories of ability, his is the least flashy. Thus, he just fights with a sword.
  • Forgotten First Meeting: In the past, he was the person who first introduced Kotarou to Guardian.
  • Humble Hero: Esaka's a Living Legend in Guardian, but he considers himself nothing more than a humble soldier. It's especially notable considering superhuman abilites are usually tied to your sense of self worth.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: He gets along great with Kotarou and Sizuru despite being decades older than them. He used to be pre-amnesiac Kotarou's Only Friend despite the age gap.
  • Katanas Are Just Better: Thanks to his ability and sheer skill, he can use a simple sword to become an amazing physical combatant. Of course, he's kind of cheating when it comes to cutting through just about anything rather than his sword being that great.
  • Large Ham: Even his character portrait leaps out at you whenever he's being hammy.
  • Mentor Archetype: He is the person who brought Kotarou into Guardian.
  • Retired Badass: He's in a state of semi retirement now, though he's considered perhaps the most powerful superhuman at Guardian's disposal.
  • Was It All a Lie?: After being fatally wounded by Kotarou on the Terra route he demands to know if Kotarou was a Gaian spy the whole time.
  • What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Esaka confirms that he has an ability, but that it’s pretty useless. He doesn’t want to talk about it. It turns out to be the ability to see the unseen. He lied. He possesses immense power to cut through things and lacks the ability he claimed to have.
  • Worf Had the Flu: In Shizuru's route Sakuya quickly beats him before Kotarou and Shizuru can arrive as backup, but this is because he was caught off guard. We don't see him fight until Terra.

    Gen-san 

Gen-san

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Voiced by: Manabu Sakamaki

The owner of a ramen shop just off the main park in Kazamatsuri. He is a retired Guardian operative.


  • The Atoner: He was forced to kill a child Gaian summoner decades ago and has been haunted by it ever since. He dies after protecting a child on Sizuru's route, hoping that the life he saved would balance the scales.
  • Cool Old Guy: He quickly welcomes Kotarou into the fold of his band.

    Brenda McFarden 

Brenda McFarden

Voiced by: Noriko Ueda

A mad scientist who, attempting to create someone who could survive the apocalypse, created Asahi Haruka.


  • Evilutionary Biologist: She's trying to create a new form of humanity. The fact that said new human was a Person of Mass Destruction was perfectly acceptable.
  • Karma Houdini: After experimenting on murdering children, then using Lucia to murder hundreds of thousands, Brenda manages to escape capture.
  • Mad Scientist: Mass murder? Experimenting on children? All fine if they get her results.

    Luis 

Luis

Voiced by: Akira Morishouji (VN), Gou Fujii (Anime)

A Brazilian Guardian on Kotarou's para-military squad.


  • Accidental Murder: In his past, he punched his friend in a fit of pique without taking his Super-Strength into account. What should have been a black eye became a corpse instead.
  • Commonality Connection: He and Kotarou's shoddy English skills got them ostracized from the rest of their squad, but it helped draw them together too.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: He stayed behind to shoot down the bombs that would have killed Kotarou and the summoner kids all while clearly aware he couldn't spare himself from the fires.
  • Javelin Thrower: The core of his superpower is to throw spears with incredible distance, power, and accuracy.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: He doesn't check his targets before opening fire onto a group of Gaian summoners. Said summoners happened to be the same village children he had befriended, to his horror.
  • Nice Guy: He's a big hearted guy who helps Kotarou and the local village children.

Gaia

    Sakura Kashima 

Sakura Kashima

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The current leader of the Martel Group. Also the Holy Woman of Gaia, the most powerful member of the organization. She hates humanity with a passion, and is an extremely skilled summoner. She is Akane's adoptive mother.


  • Adaptational Attractiveness: In the anime adaptation of Terra route, she looks like a particularly attractive forty-year-old despite being over seventy. Not so in the Moon and anime-original Kagari arcs, where she just looks old.
  • Big Bad: She's the leader of Gaia, the darker of the two warring groups.
  • Cherry Blossom Girl: Named Sakura, has Healing Hands with the side effect of transcribing part of her own mind onto the people she's healed, ensuring their loyalty to her, and her objective is to cause human extinction (death) so that the Earth can try again with a new dominant life form (rebirth), though Sakura herself just wants to end all possibility of life. Fate and her relationship to it are also central to her motivation.
  • Evil Old Folks: Sakura is over seventy in Terra and over eighty in the other routes, and she's the game's Big Bad.
  • Full-Name Basis: Most of the characters will only refer to her as "Kashima Sakura."
  • Go Mad from the Revelation: She's intelligent enough to be levels above all of humanity in how much she knows, thus realizing that life is empty and love is a lie, but she doesn't know that even higher above that is the fact that love is really responsible for everything. Thus, she's determined to end all possibility of life. In the process of discovering this, her ability as the Holy Woman partially broke.
  • The Man Behind the Curtain: Despite being the most powerful summoner, she is physically old and frail. In Terra route, she dies before Kotarou could confront her.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: She wants to end all life permanently and stop Kagari from saving humanity.
  • Transferable Memory: The Holy Woman transfers her memory to a successor when she dies. She might be the last proper Holy Woman because her revelation into the true nature of the world is hinted to have damaged this ability in some manner.

    Shūichirō Suzaki 

Shūichirō Suzaki

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Voiced by: Hikaru Yukari (VN), Hitoshi Bifu (anime)

A member of the Martel group. He is also a member of Gaia, and plays an important part in Akane's route, where it is revealed that he used to serve Sakura Kashima in the same capacity that Kotarou now serves Akane.


  • Ambition Is Evil: Subverted. When Kotarou says that he thought Suzaki was just power hungry, Suzaki says that he needed more power in order to save the world.
  • Hero Antagonist: To Kotarou's (admittedly, unwitting) Villain Protagonist in the Akane route.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: He's hostile and antagonistic on Akane's route, but he does raise some good points:
    • When he leaks to the press that the Disciple program is just one big indoctrination scheme, Akane flat-out admits that's basically true even before taking the memory transfers into account.
    • He's appropriately horrified at the Holy Woman's plan to eradicate humanity to protect nature, providing a far more reasonable alternative to commercialize familiars in order to both cull the population and raise the quality of life. Kotarou has to admit it's pretty brilliant and basically uses it himself on the Terra route.
  • The Starscream: He's been attempting to sideline Sakura Kashima and the religious cult side of Gaia for years in favor of a political extortion scheme. He doesn't care much about the Key's role in Salvation. They're too destructive and crazy for him. If Suzaki is taken out, the Holy Woman will attempt to end the world immediately.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: His plan to commercialize familiars in order to save humanity as a whole is actually a lot more reasonable than Kashima and Akane's plans to bring about salvation and destroy humanity. Furthermore, in Terra Route, this is basically half of the plan used to save the world.

    Takasago 

Takasago

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Voiced by: Gou Fujii (anime)

A member of the Martel Group. He's a member of Gaia and works with Suzaki's faction and appears in the Akane route.


  • Ax-Crazy: Has gone completely insane by the time he reappears after the one year timeskip in Akane's route.
  • Berserk Button: His ears apparently resemble Gyoza. He does not like it when people point this out.
  • Body Horror: After Kotarou slashes him to ribbons in the forest, he turns his decomposing body parts into familiars as he dies, by using the energy from the toxins that seeped into his body from his environment. By the time he reappears after the timeskip, he's constantly shooting himself up with drugs in order to continue providing himself with energy to maintain his familiars. It's mentioned that his human body parts are still being slowly poisoned while he's doing this.
  • Catchphrase: "HAAAAAPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYY!"
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: Initially, he is a mostly ordinary human with only a small degree of talent in controlling Familiars. Kotarou mostly brushes him off as a joke and defeats both him and his familiar with ease. However, after an encounter with Kotarou in the forest leaves him slowly bleeding out to death, Takasago manages to survive long enough to consume poisonous herbs that necrotize parts of his body so he can turn them into Familiars, allowing him to return later on as a superhuman monster who can do battle on equal footing with a much stronger Kotarou near the end of the route.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: To Kotarou.
  • Mugging the Monster: On Kotarou, pre-timeskip. It doesn't end well for him.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He poisons Sakura Kashima, causing Akane to become the new Holy Woman and gain the obsession with ending the world. Akane ends up destroying the world with a replicated Song of Salvation.

    The Earth Dragon 

The Earth Dragon

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One of Gaia's oldest and most powerful familiars, the Earth Dragon was created from the corpse of an ancient Tyrannosaurus Rex. Due to its extremely long existence, it has developed sentience and a soul of its own. It views the Summoners of Gaia as its children.


  • Awesome, but Impractical: Despite its great power, the Earth Dragon is also very inefficient in battle, and as such, even empowering it for a short period for time requires the lives of dozens of summoners. Akane also notes that because it is so large, it is impractical for use in urban areas, and as such, can only be brought out on a few occasions.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Everytime it fights someone other than Kotarou.
  • Dinosaurs Are Dragons: He's called "the Earth Dragon" despite clearly being a dinosaur.
  • The Dreaded: Kotarou's reaction when he first runs into it during the Terra route. His hiding is completely understandable due to the dragon's immense size, and that it kills Mikuni and his team, who were the top ranking students in their class, while Kotarou finished near the bottom.
  • Fair-Play Villain: He notices Kotarou's powering up and polietly lets him finish before kicking off the fight.
  • Friendly Enemy: The Earth Dragon is actually a pretty cool guy once you get to know him.
  • Hero Killer: Towards Guardian members at least, due to the dragon being affiliated with Gaia. This is certainly how Kotarou first viewed it when he was starting out in Guardian.
  • Lightning Bruiser: It's actually very fast and very agile despite its massive size.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: He shows great respect towards people that it views as Worthy Opponents, and actually takes some time to speak with Kotarou and allows him to prepare before its fight with him in the Terra Route. Earlier in the route it spared Imamiya because it was just taking a walk at the time and wasn't interested in fighting. It merely fights because it is expected to do so and feels it should honor the efforts of the summoners who awaken it.

    Tsukuno 

Tsukuno

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Voiced by: Noriko Ueda

She works for Akane as her secretary, and is also a summoner of Gaia.


  • Discard and Draw: She lost her abilities as a superhuman, and instead gained the ability to control familiars.
  • Forgotten First Meeting: She and Kotarou used to be squadmates when she used her original name of Nagai. She quit and he was injured so badly that he was retired. Neither remembers the other.
  • Sexy Secretary: Apparently she's quite pretty, though we have to take Kotarou's word for it.

    Midou, Tenma and Tenjin 

Midou, Tenma, and Tenjin

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Midou is voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi, Asuka Nishi (child, anime)
Tenma is voiced by: Tsuguo Mogami (VN), Hiromitsu Miyashita (Anime), Yoshimi Watanabe (child, anime)
Tenjin is voiced by: Katsutoshi Kasukabe (VN), Satoshi Tsuruoka (Anime), Keiko Suzuki (child, anime)

Rogue summoners of Gaia who each control a powerful familiar.


  • Dark and Troubled Past: Each has a horrifically violent past.
  • Death Seeker: All of them, although given a choice they would like to take down everyone else with them.
  • Giant Flyer: Tenjin's familiar, Kilimanjaro
  • Hidden Depths: The anime reveals Tenjin is actually a skilled pianist.
  • Hot-Blooded: Midou
  • Large Ham: Tenma talks with all the ham of a Saturday morning cartoon villain.
  • Occidental Otaku: Jasmine suspects they adopted Japanese names despite not being Japanese themselves out of a love of Japanese media.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: Their goal is to destroy the world.
  • Playing with Fire: Midou and his lava familiar, Fuego.
  • Self-Disposing Villain: Tenma is killed after his own familiar, Krivoy Rog, drains too much of his own life-span in an attempt to regenerate the wounds inflicted by Sakuya.

    Shimako 

Shimako

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Voiced by: Yoshimi Watanabe

A seven-year old disciple of Gaia who appears in the Akane route.


  • Child Prodigy: Has incredible talent as a summoner.
  • Creepy Child: As a very young girl, she almost never moved, using her powers to control objects around her instead, which freaked out her parents.

Supporting Characters

    Haruhiko Yoshino 

Haruhiko Yoshino

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Voiced by: Junichi Yanagida

Kotarou's classmate, a rough-talking self-styled delinquent.


  • Animal Motifs: Wolves. He fashions himself as a lone wolf and his Mappie icon is a unique black wolf.
  • Butt-Monkey: Kotarou really has to work at it to make him into the butt of jokes though. And unlike his earlier Key predecessors it sometimes backfires on him.
  • Chuunibyou: He fashions himself an outlaw, uses ridiculously bombastic language, and fashions Kotarou as his eternal rival.
  • Foil: To Kotarou, leading to a lot of scuffles. While they're both the class loners, Yoshino is fine with the distance between them and deeply cares for his classmates, while Kotarou is privately desperate for friends despite unintentionally looking down on the rest of the class. Similarly, Yoshino is unabashedly himself, for better or worse, and gives his all into what he does. In contrast, Kotarou puts on a cheerful mask to get people to like him while struggling to really care about what he does.
  • Forgotten First Meeting: Terra reveals that he met Kotarou when he was an elementary student after Kotarou saved him from some bullies, though he goes unnamed apart from script files. Yoshino began hero worshiping him, so Kotarou randomly chose to give him advice like being a momma's boy and a diligent student. Though he seems disappointed, you can see that in the present he follows the advice quite thoroughly.
  • Graceful Loser: At the end of Kotori's route, Kotarou finally fights him seriously and utterly flattens him. After his honorable defeat, Yoshino gives his blessing to the two.
  • Hopeless Suitor: It's implied throughout the story that he likes Kotori, but the two barely even talk. He knows he doesn't have a chance as well.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's much nicer than he initially lets on, as evidenced by how easily he's roped into the Occult Club's latest zany schemes. He seems to suffer if anyone notices this though.
  • Large Ham: Played for Laughs. He talks like a shonen manga protagonist. Kotarou constantly mocks him for this tendency.
  • Last-Name Basis: He's one of the only characters Kotarou calls by their last name. He finally calls him Haruhiko during a heart-to-heart before Yoshino dies fighting a horde of familiars.
  • Malicious Misnaming: When Kotarou introduces Shizuru to him, he has three different options of weird ways to do so. Shizuru sticks to calling him things like Giraffe every time they meet after that.
  • Momma's Boy: When in his own home he drops his normal demeanor entirely and acts like a complete dork, much to Kotarou and Kotori's amusement.
  • The Rival: Yoshino keeps wanting to fight Kotarou seriously. At first it seems that Kotarou runs away from the fights to avoid getting beaten up, but it’s actually the opposite. In Moon, Kotarou says he is grateful than Yoshino was his rival and not his friend because that meant he could never really relax. His final conversation with Kotarou in the story is the two finally calling each other by their first names.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Kotarou pretends that he and Yoshino are best buddies, but Yoshino really is pretty pissed off with how Kotarou behaves and with how he secretly doesn't care about the people he acts friendly towards. They are friends to an extent, though.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Practically once per route. Yoshino doesn't hesitate to call Kotarou out whenever he goes astray.

    Inoue 

Inoue

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Voiced by: Yoshimi Watanabe

The resident School Newspaper News Hound, who takes an interest in the club's investigations into the occult.


  • Ascended Extra: She didn't even have a sprite until Harvest Festa.
  • The Cuckoolander Was Right: Inoue is suspicious of people like Akane and Kotarou and her suspicions are right on target. Akane is the adopted daughter of a cult leader and Kotarou shouldn't be in school at all anymore at his actual age.
  • Eat the Evidence: Kotori's route reveals she swallowed her own memory stick to hide her exploration log of the Gray City.
  • Intrepid Reporter: She snoops around school at night and even in the forest to look for news.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Her memories were erased when she got caught in the Gray City.
  • The Rival: She sees herself as a rival to Kotarou. It's implied that this developed into a low grade infatuation.

    Pani and Gil 

Pani and Gil

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Voiced by: Noriko Ueda (Pani), Naomi Wakabayashi (Gil)

Pani and Gil are two strange creatures that Kotarou finds in the strange alternate Kazamatsuri. He's not sure what they are, but since they seem harmless he lets them stay at his place.


Both

  • Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Familiars exist soley to serve their summoners, but Panni and Gil don't have a summoner to serve. That's why they'll do anything for Kotarou, and will gladly die for him if that's what's required.
  • Familiar: They consider themselves Kotarou's familiars, though there's no formal contract in place.
  • Genetic Memory: They remember things from before they were born such as the experiment Gaia performed that brought their predecessor into being years before they were born. They appear to be a fusion of that creature's remains and scientists that it killed and thus has their memories.
  • Literal Split Personality: Their whole "other half" talk isn't just a figure of speech, they were originally one being.
  • No Biological Sex: According to Pani, she and Gil have no sexual organs and can't reproduce.
  • Shoo Out the Clowns: Pani and Gil are not invited into Moon route and Kotarou says he would feel ridiculous if he asked them for help. They probably don't exist yet in Terra either. A reader who knows much about who wrote each scenario might notice that they only appear in routes written by one of the three authors.
  • Super-Deformed: They're very chibified in appearance. They have tiny bodies and massive heads with gigantic eyes.
  • Super-Toughness: As weak as they may be, they're nearly impossible to kill through physical damage. Gil managed to take two hits from the massive Krivoy Rog with now real damage.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Although Kotarou finds them on the path to Kotori's route, they completely vanish from the story once the route properly splits.

Pani

  • Hopeless Suitor: Pani seems to have a crush on Kotarou but he mentally classifies her as 'Weird Thing' rather than 'girl.' Not that it's important.
  • Megaton Punch: Pani punches Gil as hard as she can pretty frequently.
  • Rose-Haired Sweetie: Pani has pink hair and her personality is very cheerful.

Gil

  • Big Eater: The amount Gil eats isn’t that large until you consider his body size. That much food shouldn’t fit inside him. Even he doesn’t understand it.
  • Boisterous Weakling: He talks a big game for such a wimp.
  • Butt-Monkey: Gil tends to take a lot of abuse because of his arrogance.
  • Cowardly Lion: He's absolutely terrified during Kotarou's fight with Krivoy Rog and constantly tells him to run, but Gil still helps in the fight despite his fear.
  • Hidden Heart of Gold: He tries to keep up his "outlaw" act no matter how forced it might get.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Gil is loud and obnoxious, but also very sincere and caring.

    Haruka Asahi 

Haruka Asahi

A young girl who appears during Lucia's route. She's slightly insane and believes that the world has never liked her. Around seven years ago, a transfer student who came from the same orphanage as her caused an uproar when he suddenly died the next day, which was attributed to him having met Asahi Haruka. Initially, the investigation into her was to dispel rumors, but eventually it shifts into Kotarou trying to clear her name when he realizes that if the story were true, then Haruka never actually did anything wrong.


  • The Dreaded: Everyone who knows of her story is terrified of her curse. Glass will break around them, they'll see a mysterious girl and potentially fatal accidents will occur around them until they stop. One particularly persistent investigator ran into her and got a purple bruise mark that won't heal for his troubles.
  • Foil: The intention of her character is to be like Lucia so that she can set up her route. The twist is that she is actually Lucia.
  • Incoming Ham: Her introductions are always over-the-top, and they are always introduced with her iconic lights breaking.
  • Psychic Powers: From making glasses scratch and break, to tilting a restaurant sign.
  • Touch of Death: When she came in contact with several people, they all died under mysterious circumstances. Four years ago, an investigator was threatened when a restaurant sign fell close enough to kill him. It was also rumored that she killed off everyone in the orphanage.
  • Troll: During the investigation, it seems like Haruka is taunting people to make them suffer and therefore go away and leave her alone.

    Chibimoth 

Chibimoth

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Voiced by: Shizuka Naruse (VN), Asuka Nishi (Anime)

Kotori's pet.


  • Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Kotori claims Chibimoth is a dog, but Kotarou and many other characters frequently comment that he looks nothing like a normal dog.
  • Familiar: He's actually a pygmy mammoth familiar.
  • Glamour: He's charmed to look more like a dog. It's definitely not perfect, but it's better than nothing.
  • Grew Beyond Their Programming: As much as Kotori insists he has no will of his own, she also admits she never ordered him to grab the Key while protecting Kotarou.
  • Killer Rabbit: He's adorable. And can absolutely wreck house.
  • Pokémon Speak: Moth!

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