This page lists the characters of the Visual Novel, Senren * Banka, and the tropes associated with them.
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This character sheet uses Eastern naming convention (surname first) for the Japanese characters.
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Main Characters
Arichi Masaomi
- Above the Influence: When he invites Roka into his inn room, she eats a couple of his alcoholic ice deserts that she gets piss-drunk and getting all over him. After her drunk confession, he makes sure not to take advantage of her.
- Accidental Marriage: Ends up engaged to Yoshino after the incident with Murasamemaru. Becomes Perfectly Arranged Marriage if he chooses to pursue her.
- Accidental Pervert: It should be noted that he actually avoids this, and when it does happen, it's because it happens on accident or the girls caused it. Examples include:
- He ends up groping Murasame's chest after being asked by her to try and touch her (she expected him to go right through her, as she's technically a ghost).
- As he defeats a cursed spirit for the first time using Murasamemaru, he also cuts off Yoshino's enchanted miko outfit in the process.
- Becomes a Running Gag between him and Mako. When they first met, it almost happens when he was doing laundry, and Mako thought he was an intruder. Once they clear everything up, Masaomi can't help to feel her breasts on his back. However, in her route, Mako walks around her house casually topless until she spots him, thinking she might be hallucinating. She freaks out finding out he was real. And then, after one bath later with him (she was transformed into a puppy against her will), she transforms back into human with the both of them having a face-view of each others' privates. It goes as well as you'd expect.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: As his interactions with his mother can attest, in a few routes, she'll compliment his girlfriends while insulting him while he's in the room, or in a case of Lena's route, having a Spit Take and demanding her husband to buy more beer when Masaomi calls his parents for a long while. He ironically becomes one himself in Yoshino's route.
- Babies Ever After: With Yoshino in her route.
- The Chosen One: He is chosen to wield the divine blade Murasamemaru.
- Chick Magnet: Is a better one than Rentarou, and the girls he falls for usually are unaware of their own feelings towards him until later in their routes. Roka and Koharu become aware of their own feelings for him in the subroute.
- City Mouse: He grew up in the city most of his life while visiting Hoori whenever he could. He begins to love Hoori more as he gain several friends and potential Love Interests, and will not tolerate people disrespecting the town.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: If Yuzusoft visual novels are connected and previous heroines are not just background cameos, Masaomi is one of the few proactive male protagonists in the setting. Whereas Yuuto Mutsura became a vampire on accident and joins the Public Order Committee, and Shuuji Hoshina decide to help the witches accomplish their goals, Masaomi trains to improve himself to fight the curse from swamping Hoori and vows to defeat the source of the curse just so his friends and potential love interests can have a peaceful life. While he is also prone to Accidental Pervert and Oblivious to Love tendencies, he tries to avoid the former and doesn't take half a route to realize the girl of the player's choice for his feelings for them.
- Demonic Possession: In Yoshino's route, the curse jumped to him, causing him to develop his own grudge on the Medium. Murasame manages to make him snap out of it.
- Dented Iron: While training with his grandfather made him significantly stronger, he gets easily wrecked and hospitalized. Despite his injuries, he'd be an absolute wreck if he didn't trained his body at a level where he'd last longer in a fight.
- Doting Parent: In Yoshino's route, once he becomes a father, he takes hundreds of pictures of his first-born son. Even Yoshino finds that excessive.
- Heroic RRoD: Facing a cursed spirit without Murasamemaru, Masaomi has no other choice but to ask Murasame to give him divine powers to destroy it. Once she does, he uses his own strength to destroy it, and immediately collapses once she takes it back. He ends up hospitalized for two days.
- Inverted Trope: He enjoys doing this in some of the routes and lampshade them as such. Accidental Pervert seems to be his favorite way to tease a girl and pretend that he's at the receiving end of it than the usual norm.
- Irony: For someone who tends to attract Amazingly Embarrassing Parents, he himself becomes one after Yoshino gives birth to their first baby boy, and he takes hundreds of baby photos of his son.
- Kissing Cousins: The subroute allows him to choose Koharu as his Love Interest.
- Love Epiphany: Happens to him after getting closer to each girl in her own route.
- Oblivious to Love: Takes a while to realize a girl's affections for him. Unlike other Yuzusoft protagonists, it doesn't take him too long to realize his feelings for the girls he can hook up with.
- Sleeping with the Boss: Can choose to work at Tagoriya café, whose manager Roka falls in love with him not long after.
- Small Town Boredom: Whenever he visits Hoori, he feels like this. However, he eventually grew outside this mindset when he comes to love the town and the people he's met along the way.
- Thanks for the Mammary: Has this case with Mako, Lena, and Roka. With Mako and Roka, he ends up feeling their chests on his back, and they take a while to sink in that he can feel them. When he first met Lena, she crashed into him on accident which led to him accidentally groping her. Lena didn't seem to notice at all.
- Training from Hell: Twice. He avoided his grandfather's Spartan-like training due to how physically taxing it was. But after his near-fatal encounter with a cursed spirit, and being chosen by the Murasamemaru means he can't laze around anymore, which prompts him to train harder. In Murasame's route, he had to undergo training again to reseal the Murasamemaru so that she can be free and become fully human.
- Wall Pin of Love: Does this twice in Mako's route. The first time, it was by Yoshino's request and he reluctantly does so. And all it did was create some awkwardness between them. The second time, he does this to Mako after he gives her his Love Confession while she nearly gives in to her own insecurities of herself. The only reason he did it the second time is when he sees her shojo manga collection and put two and two together when Yoshino asked and does it by his own volition when he's on a fake date with her.
- When She Smiles: How Masaomi falls for Roka or Koharu. He wants to make his efforts to see them smile again after helping so much at the cafe that he will either ask his grandfather (choosing Koharu) or hotel chef Shige (choosing Roka).
- Your Mind Makes It Real: Literally. In Lena's route, after battling Shirokoma inside Lena's dream world, the injuries Masaomi suffered from that battle made him hospitalized for days.
Tomotake Yoshino
Voiced by: Eri Sendai
The Shrine Princess of Mitake Shrine who is revered by the people of Hoori. Headstrong and diligent, she dedicates herself to perform her duties and break the centuries-old curse.
- Accidental Marriage: Ends up engaged to Masaomi after he gets chosen by Murasamemaru. Becomes Perfectly Arranged Marriage in her route.
- Arranged Marriage:
- Before meeting Masaomi, she's been receiving requests to see a rich or successful man's son and she adamantly refuses to even see their own pictures.
- When Masaomi and Yoshino do meet, Yasuharu imposes this on them, to their frustration. In other routes, they both cancel it once the main conflict in the Common Route is dealt with, but in her route, they eventually fall for each other and it becomes a Perfectly Arranged Marriage.
- Babies Ever After: Marries Masaomi and gives birth to a baby boy in her route's epilogue.
- Bad Liar: Cannot tell a convincing lie to keep a secret. When asked to do so, she can only come up with increasingly Suspiciously Specific Denials.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Initially acts dignified and distant towards other people, except her father and Mako. As the story progresses, she starts showing more facets of her personality and getting along with her peers.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: In her route, she ends the curse that had plagued her bloodline for centuries with the help of her loved ones, and years later, has a son with Masaomi.
- First Girl Wins: She's the first main heroine readers meet in the story. Keyword here is "main". Roka is technically met first in the main story, but her route only opens after Yoshino or any of the main girls' story is completed.
- Girlish Pigtails: Whenever she performs her duties as the Shrine Princess.
- Hereditary Curse: Her family's line was cursed by the eldest son of the Tomotake family who hated his more charismatic younger brother. Despite defeating him in battle, the elder brother leaves a Dying Curse on him to the point his younger brother would have no male heir, which is why any man married to the family will have a Maiden Name Debate, and the current Shrine Princess will die upon giving birth or later in their life. This heavily affects Yoshino as the current Shrine Princess. In her route, she is able to eradicate the source of the curse, marry Masaomi and have a son with him.
- The Ingenue: Has virtually no knowledge of sexual relationships.
- Insecure Love Interest: Initially refuses Masaomi's confession because she believes she's hurting those around her.
- Leitmotif: "Tooryanse ~ Sweet Spontaneity
". - Like an Old Married Couple: Both Yoshino and Masaomi act like this even before they actually get together (at least in her own route). They end up having petty arguments such as whether or not sugar goes with omelettes.
- Miko: Her profession.
- Missing Mom: Her mother, Akiho, passed away some time before the story begins.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Masaomi returns to the Tomotake house completely exhausted, she berates him for it despite his improving performance against the cursed spirits. Once she finds out he takes up kendo training due to being inspired by her own diligence, she feels awful by the way she treated him.
- Mystical White Hair: A white-haired shrine maiden revered by her hometown's citizens. She inherits this trait from her mother.
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Never Live It Down: Masaomi and Mako refuse to let her forget her clumsy attempt to be friendly by adopting a cutesy voice. - No Social Skills: Due to her status and her family's curse, she has no real friend aside from Mako before meeting Masaomi. This trait shows when she tries to get along with him.
- Not a Morning Person: Tends to be seen half-asleep and disheveled in the morning. She becomes much more of an early riser in her route.
- Not So Stoic: Has her own quirks beneath her calm, dignified exterior. She has quite a variety of facial expressions (the sparkly-eyed one, which appears whenever she gets excited, particularly stands out) and is prone to overreacting.
- Perfectly Arranged Marriage: In her route where she and Masaomi fall for each other.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Said to resemble her late mother, Akiho.
- Supreme Chef: In her route, her cooking skills improve over time, to the point that Masaomi can only think of her food as perfect.
- Sweet Tooth: Loves adding sweet condiments to her food and enjoys sweet treats, especially pudding.
- Their First Time: Unlike the other main routes, Yoshino and Masaomi have their first time after the main conflict is resolved. The rest of her story is about how her relationship with Masaomi develops from then on and a good chunk of that arc is dedicated to their preparations for taking their relationship to the next level.
- Through His Stomach: The catalyst that makes Masaomi realizes his love for Yoshino is her efforts in making boxed lunches for him.
- Tsundere: Acts harsh and distant towards Masaomi at first.
- Unusual Ears: Canine ears appear on her head as one of the curse's effects.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: The Tomotake family's headstrong, dutiful daughter who's dedicated to her job as the Shrine Princess. However, she lacks the domestic skills typically associated with the archetype, as Mako's the one who does all the housework, but in her route, she discovers her talent for cooking after receiving proper training.
- Your Days Are Numbered: She is expected to die young like her mother and female ancestors due to her family's curse.
Hitachi Mako
Voiced by: Natsumi Takamori
Yoshino's childhood friend and retainer, who is also a ninja.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Masaomi's first interaction with her mother is that she instantly invites him upon trying to return Mako's wallet. Instead of inviting him into the living room, she invites him into Mako's room, all the while treating him. And at one point, she was peeking through the door when he does as much as to sigh in relief. There's also her casual response to Mako when the latter thinks she's hallucinating.
- The Big Guy: She's the strongest of the trio thanks to her ninja training.
- Black Sheep: Subverted. Her family descends from the Tomotake family's eldest son, the Greater-Scope Villain who started the tragic curse. However, the Hitachi family chose to serve under the main family to atone for the atrocities he committed. Upon learning this, Masaomi gets upset, believing that the Hitachi family is still being ostracized for their ancestor's sin, but Mako clarifies that it's not the case: her family gets along with the people of Hoori just fine and only a selected few know the real cause of the curse.
- Forced Transformation: Into a dog on her own route after being possessed by the cursed spirit.
- The Gadfly: Loves teasing others, especially when they are in embarrassing situations.
- Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: After purifying Shirokoma, Mako and Masaomi find themselves turned on after they managed to survive. Their next H-Scene happens in The Stinger after the credits.
- Hammerspace: Somehow has a lot of ninja tools on her person, including a Ninja Log.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick:
- She easily connects the dots when Masaomi returns to the Tomotake household completely exhausted and sleeping in class, something Yoshino berates him for. When they decide to tail Masaomi who's on the way to train with his grandfather, she figures out the circumstances behind it, and Yoshino feels guilty about it.
- She actually subverts the expectations of a protagonist's Love Interest's reactions to his Accidental Pervert tendencies. Rather than beating up Masaomi when he accidentally saw her half-naked at her house, she understands that it was an accident rather than intentional and knew Masaomi was innocent.
- I Am Not Pretty: Thinks of herself this way, which makes her vulnerable to compliments on her looks and believe that traditionally feminine girls like Yoshino and Roka are more attractive than she is.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: She wishes she had the kind of relationship as the heroines from the shojo manga she reads. This wish becomes true in her route when Masaomi falls in love with her, and invokes the Wall Pin of Love on her when he figures out why Yoshino asks him to do it.
- Insecure Love Interest: Keeps rejecting Masaomi at first despite her own growing feelings for him, believing that he deserves a better girl than her, such as Yoshino.
- Ironic Fear: A skilled ninja who is extremely afraid of heights.
- Legacy of Service: Because of her ancestor, Yoshino's family became the main Tomotake branch while her family became subservient to the main family by choice. Yoshino's ancestor chose not to punish hers on the grounds that they were innocent, and that his brother's actions shouldn't be carried over to his family after having to kill him. Even in the modern day, Mako is close to Yoshino as family and servant.
- Leitmotif: "Mako's Everyday Life".
- Muscles Are Meaningless: As noted by Masaomi, she is rather slender and curvy instead of being muscular despite her role as The Big Guy.
- Naked First Impression: When Masaomi goes to take a bath just after moving into the Tomotake house, Mako is already inside the bath. Mistaking Masaomi for an intruder, she restrains him from behind without any clothes on.
- Naked People Are Funny: A rarity in eroge, since whenever her nudity isn't played for fanservice, sexually, or otherwise, it goes to this route. And some of the non-h CG nudity with her and Masaomi involved tends to be Played for Laughs.
- Pervert Revenge Mode: Subverted. Unlike many visual novel protagonists who gets ruthlessly beaten up by the girl if they accidentally saw them naked (especially if she's the Love Interest), Mako is aware that Masaomi didn't even intended to see her naked at all and recognizes that it's an accident.
- Rummage Fail: When panicked, she throws out lots of her weapons and tools trying to find the thing she needs, not unlike a certain robot cat character.
- Running Gag: Four. Appears naked in front of Masaomi, followed by a Naked Freak-Out; declaring "I'm a ninja"; calling his penis an alien and using her Ninja Log on Masaomi when he calls her cute and declares "you fell for my substitution technique!"
- Scarf of Asskicking: Part of her ninja outfit.
- Shipper on Deck: On any route besides her own, she actively and gleefully helps Masaomi pair up with the other girl.
- Supreme Chef: Every character agrees that her cooking is the best.
- Thinks Like a Romance Novel: While she seems to be experienced in romance at first glance, her knowledge of it only comes from shoujo manga and she has never been in a relationship before.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Strong, athletic, extroverted, short hair, does not care much about her appearance but has great domestic skills (especially cooking) and reads shoujo manga as a hobby.
- Undying Loyalty: All of her family members, even herself, and ancestors are completely loyal to the main Tomotake Family. This is because her ancestor was the former eldest son of the Tomotake family who started the whole thing. After he was dealt with, the youngest son took his brother's family in, and they became loyal to him. Since then, this loyalty is generational. Even Mako, despite her own desires, is completely loyal to Yoshino.
Murasame
Voiced by: Nozomi Yamamoto
The caretaker spirit of the divine blade Murasamemaru. Only a selected few, including the blade's master, can see and hear her.
- Absurd Phobia: She is terrified of ghosts despite more or less being one.
- A-Cup Angst: Gets offended by being called flat and feels jealous of the other girls' assets, especially Lena's.
- Barrier Maiden: Quite literally. Her real body is used as a barrier to prevent the curse from spreading anywhere else. However, resealing the Murasamemaru will act as a seal in her place after its job is done.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: After hooking up with Masaomi, she gets easily upset whenever she sees him act too friendly towards other girls.
- Cute Ghost Girl: While she can be seen by only a selected few, she qualifies as this (even though she's afraid of ghosts herself). The only thing that sets her apart is that Masaomi is the only one who can physically touch her.
- Girlish Pigtails: Wears her Hime Cut-esque hair this way, complementing her Tsundere attitude.
- Human Sacrifice: She willingly gave her own life to be the Murasamemaru's caretaker. She was already ill so she felt she didn't have much to live for despite her parents' protest.
- Insistent Terminology: She's not a "ghost". She's a divine spirit. Despite doing things commonly associated with ghosts such as going though walls. Technically, she is actually correct, as on her route it is revealed that her real body is still alive and in suspended animation.
- Leitmotif: "A Single Bond".
- Not Quite Dead: She was sacrificed in order to power the Murasamemaru 500 years ago. However her real body was used as a barrier to prevent the curse from spreading.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Gained the name "Murasame" after becoming a spirit. Her true name is Aya.
- Sense Freak: The fact that Masaomi can touch her becomes a bit overwhelming after hundreds of years of being unable to feel anything, and she becomes slightly addicted to headpats. When he figures out that he can feed her if he's holding the food, she develops a full-on sweet tooth.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Capable of disappearing and appearing anytime and anywhere she wants, as she is a spirit.
- Soul Jar: The Murasamemaru is hers, as her soul is bound with it. Her real body is used as a barrier to protect the town.
- Technology Marches On: In-Universe; in her time her illness was so hopeless a case she volunteered to become a sacrifice to Murasamemaru but once she gets her body back in the modern day a few common medicines and a couple of weeks of rest sees her right as rain.
- Tsundere: Moreso than Yoshino and Genjuurou towards Masaomi.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: In routes other than her own it is unclear if she ever gets to become human again, though an ambiguous remark at the end of Lena's route seems to hint that she does.
Lena Liechtenauer
Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki
A European transfer student who is a big fan of Japanese culture and works part-time at Shinatsu Manor.
- Accidental Pervert: A rare case where the girl suffers from this trope rather than the guy. At first, Masaomi tries to invoke this, but she was too distracted by him being shirtless that she faints. Then she finds Masaomi's gift from Rentarou which turned out to be a porn magazine all the while looking at it and swearing incessantly.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: They're just as embarrassing when Masaomi meets them through a video call, calling him a samurai.
- Crash-Into Hello: First met Masaomi by slamming into him on the street, causing him to land his face on her chest.
- Cuddle Bug: Enjoys hugging people as a form of greeting.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: As mentioned in Cuddle Bug, Lena tends to hug her nearest friends when they see her, and they all react (not negatively, mind you) when she does this. Truth in Television: Japanese people are not used to physical contact, especially with friends or co-workers. So Lena being physical with her friends is a case where they (who are all Japanese) are not used to it. Masaomi eventually gets used to it after their Relationship Upgrade.
- Even the Girls Want Her: In her route, she invites the main group to a sleepover party and starts hugging them. All the girls present are so taken aback by her gestures that they question their sexuality.
- First-Name Basis: Insists on this towards her classmates.
- Foreign Culture Fetish: She and her entire family have a great fondness for Japan, due to her great-great grandfather being Japanese.
- Funny Foreigner: Her mistakes in Japanese language and misconceptions of Japanese culture's various aspects provide many comical moments. This trope applies to her family members as well.
- Genki Girl: Constantly cheerful and energetic.
- Gratuitous English: Somehow utters "Wow!" and "Fuck!" quite a number of times.
- Identical Stranger: She looks like Shirokoma's sister, Murakumo. Shirokoma deliberately chose her to be his Replacement Goldfish for this reason.
- The Ingenue: Faints at the sight of shirtless Masaomi and porn mags. She also has no prior knowledge of sexual relationships like Yoshino.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Being European she's much more inclined towards physical contact than most Japanese people, not always realising the effect it has on her friends.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A friendly blonde-haired girl who has no mean bone in her body.
- Leitmotif: "Blue Sky".
- The Pollyanna: No matter what hardships lie ahead, she will always push forward with a smile on her face.
- Sexy Scandinavian: She hails from Northern Europe (specifically Finland and even more specifically Lapland) and has the largest bust out of all the heroines. Her normal outfit exposes her navel while her Hoori outfit has detached sleeves.
Supporting Characters
Maniwa Roka
Voiced by: Yuiko Tatsumi
Masaomi's childhood friend, who runs her father's sweets cafe.- Affectionate Nickname: She calls Masaomi "Ma-bou".
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Her own mother notices right away that both her and Masaomi developed a Relationship Upgrade. And of course, she demands grandchildren, to Roka's frustration.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: She tries one of Masaomi's ice desserts with sake intended for adults, claiming she's not lightweight. But once she eats enough, she gets all over Masaomi.
- Childhood Friend Romance: She knows Masaomi since they were children, though she has feelings for him only in her shared route with Koharu. She's turned unlucky in Koharu's route and victorious in her own route.
- Cool Big Sis: She's the oldest of Masaomi's friends, alongside Rentarou and Koharu. She even has a better relationship with Koharu since the latter works with her at her cafe. This makes her Love Triangle easier to swallow, since she will bow out gracefully if Masaomi chooses Koharu over her.
- First Girl Wins: She is the first girl readers meet in the story while Yoshino is the first main heroine. Her subroute is unlocked after one of the heroines' routes is cleared.
- Hidden Buxom: Due to her traditional outfits. Masaomi is taken by surprise when she presses her chest against his back while teaching him how to play the shamisen, commenting that her size may be bigger than Mako's.
- Leitmotif: "Do You Like Your Hard-Working Onee-san?"
- Love Triangle: Her romantic rival for Masaomi is Koharu. However, she will bow out to Koharu if Masaomi chooses her.
- Matchmaker Crush: Initially pushed Koharu who already gained feelings for Masaomi earlier to be together with him before she fell for Masaomi herself.
- Sleeping with the Boss: In her subroute, Masaomi decides to work for her. Once she is chosen, they both decide to be engaged rather than being simply boyfriend/girlfriend.
- Wrong Assumption: In her subroute, Masaomi invites her into his hotel room which causes her to freak out. When she arrives, she was under the assumption that Masaomi invited her for sex and starts panicking out of her mind. It isn't until he shows her his ice desserts that she starts to calm down. But that doesn't last for another reason.
Kurama Rentarou
- Bromantic Foil: The typical male best friend in visual novels, who gets virtually no respect and treated like a loser.
- Casanova Wannabe: Tries to hit on girls at any chance he gets, which does not help his reputation nor gain any favors from anyone. Unfortunately for him, his cousin is the protagonist and has a better chance with girls than he does.
- Fatal Flaw: His family considers his Casanova Wannabe tendencies to be this. It's also the reason why he's restricted to kitchen duty whenever he helps out at Shinatsu Manor.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: He got shunted into this role after unsavory rumors circulated around town. In a large nutshell, he was dating a girl in his class and broke up with her. He then went on a date with another girl, and his ex got into a fight with her. It got so bad that he got relegated to this role, and no one gives him any respect. Not even his own family.
Kurama Koharu
Voiced by: Miyuu Kashiwagi
Rentarou's younger sister, who is constantly annoyed by her brother's antics.- A-Cup Angst: Has little confidence in her bust size. Her brother's constant teasing doesn't help.
- Big Brother Worship: Averted with her actual brother Rentarou whom she openly dislikes, but played straight with Masaomi whom she sees as her substitute big brother.
- Caught the Heart on His Sleeve: When going to school together with Masaomi for the first time, she decides to hold onto his sleeve rather than his hand, as the latter is too embarrassing for her.
- Girlish Pigtails: Combined with Odango whenever she wears a kimono.
- Kissing Cousins: Both her and Masaomi are cousins, and they can get together. This trope is discussed near the end of her route and the couple put in considerable effort to gain their family members' approval.
- Love Triangle: Her romantic rival for Masaomi is Roka. However, she will bow out to Roka if Masaomi chooses her.
- Leitmotif: "My Cute Cousin"
- Little Sister Heroine: While not literally his little sister she's younger than Masaomi, idolises him, even calls him "Onii-chan" and she's a potential romantic interest.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: A cute, cheerful pink-haired girl who gets along with everyone around her, despite bickering with her brother quite often.
- Sibling Rivalry: Koharu hasn't got a bad word to say against anyone...except her brother. Where Rentarou is concerned she's got nothing but bad words to say.
Kurama Genjuurou
- Love Letter Lunacy: According to Murasame, he got involved in at least one such incident in his youth.
- Training from Hell: His training regiments are notoriously tough. It is why his grandsons want to avoid them as he never holds back against the boys during his training sessions. He does limit his training sessions with Masaomi when he's too injured to lift a sword after a battle and suggests he should rest.
- Tsundere: A grandparental version. He's a good grandfather to his three grandchildren, but he's often harsh on the boys and wants them to toughen up. Masaomi actually manages to get on his good side when they train while Rentarou would rather be out of his line of sight.
Tomotake Yasuharu
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: He is that kind of father who wants grandkids. He also tries to get Masaomi and Yoshino reengaged when they both feel Better as Friends in other routes.
- Childhood Friend Romance: With his wife Akiho.
- Eyes Always Shut: Which highlight his gentle nature.
- Good Parents: A kind father who constantly cares about his daughter's well-being and wants her to have a normal life.
- Shipper on Deck: The one who suggests Yoshino and Masaomi's betrothal in the first place. He becomes extremely delighted if they fall in love with each other for real. If Masaomi decides to cancel the engagement, he not-so-subtly hints that it is okay for Masaomi to change his mind.
- Took the Wife's Name: Because the Tomotake family line were mostly women, he got married into Akiho's family and changed his family name to hers.
Komakawa Mizuha
Voiced by: Maki Kobayashi
A doctor who works at the local clinic.
- Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Medicine, mythology and apparently at least a little anthropology.
- Ms. Exposition: Provides important information about the curse at various points in the story.
- Onmyōdō: Her ancestors specialized in this field, giving her extensive knowledge of the supernaturals.
SPOILER Characters
The Tomotake Eldest Son
The ancestor of Mako's bloodline as well as the older brother of the Tomotake bloodline. His actions before the start of the story starts the plot of the visual novel.
- Black Sheep: He was descended from the samurai Murakumo was in love with, but chose to reject him because gods and mortals cannot be. Subverted with his own family who chose to be The Atoner for his crimes even though they had no hand in it, including his descendant Mako.
- Disproportionate Retribution: He was stripped of his inheritance. What does he do? Sacrifice Shirokoma to create the curse that causes diseases and natural disasters. Murasame was ill because of this. Worse still, the medium that he used was the remains of Murakumo's body, and Shirokoma was the guardian spirit of the Tomotake family, leading to a double-whammy of blasphemy and spite.
- Dying Curse: He curses his brother's bloodline in an effort to wipe out the entire family line. The curse afflicts the family so that his descendants will only be girls and they will die young. After purifying the medium that fuels the curse, the lingering grudge tries one last time to kill Yoshino directly.
- Final Boss: Of Yoshino's route where he's fought by her. In the other routes, his spirit fades away after Masaomi absorbs the grudge at the end of Chapter Three.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He's responsible to many of the tragedies in Hoori.
- Hate Plague: He inflicts this on Masaomi in Yoshino's route, trying affect his mind so he'll destroy Shirokoma's medium and restart the curse anew.
- Hypocrite: He caused all the troubles in Hoori despite using a curse on his own homeland, and forming an alliance with an enemy general just to get back at his family, yet has the gall to call out on his younger brother for killing him.
- It's All About Me: He thinks life revolves around him. This is emphasized when the villagers of that era chose his younger brother over him.
- Legacy of Service: His actions in Hoori is the reason why his family is completely subservient to the main family. Even after centuries after his death, his family and descendants chose to serve the main family to atone for his actions even though his brother saw it fit to forgive them.
- Posthumous Character: He's been dead for centuries before the story starts. In most routes he only exists as history, though in Yoshino's route either he or at least a memory of him manifests through the cursed spirit.
Shirokoma
The komainu god of beasts, Shirokoma is the brother of Murakumo, and is very distrustful of humans. When his sister sacrificed her life to save a samurai's wife and child, he vowed to protect them in her memory. However, he was targeted for sacrifice by the eldest son of the Tomotake family, and his own grudge produced the cursed spirits, setting the events in motion.
- Dead Person Conversation: Considering the circumstances of his death, he is able to communicate with Mako, and later Masaomi, in their dreams.
- Humans Are Bastards: He has a personal viewpoint of this after seeing hunters kill an animal. This viewpoint gets shot up when the eldest Tomotake son intends to sacrifice him for his own personal ends.
- I Gave My Word: In Mako's route, when he begins to know about love, he promises not to turn Mako into a puppy anymore.
- Kill the God: What leads to his death and the creation of the curse.
- Killed Off for Real: In Yoshino, Mako, and Lena's routes, the curse persists for various reasons and he doesn't get laid to rest until the curse is dealt with (though in Yoshino's route, the curse instead manifested from the Eldest Son of the Tomotake family which she defeats). In the subroutes and Murasame's route, the triggering incidents that cause the curse to linger don't happen, and as a result he is allowed to slowly be purified and never returns.
- Tragic Monster: He was a god who loved his sister. But once she sacrificed her own life for the man she loved to save his wife and unborn child, he decided to protect them in the memory of his sister. But the eldest son of the Tomotake family decides to murder him out of petty revenge against his younger brother, setting the events into motion. This lead to the creation of the cursed spirits.
- Walking Spoiler: His role in the story is very important in the backstory. Even moreso in Lena and Mako's routes. However, if you choose to read Lena's route before Mako's, then you'll know what he's talking about with his request in Mako's route.
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: His sister said to him that once he'd learned about love, he would understand why she cared about humans. In Mako's route, he possesses Mako in order to do just that.
- Villainous Breakdown:
- In Mako's route, after he saves Mako and a child, he nearly went on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Mako and Masaomi manage to calm him down, but it's revealed that he was trying to restrain himself from killing anyone. Doing so allowed Masaomi and Mako defeat him so he can rest in peace.
- In Lena's route, he gets increasingly agitated when Masaomi keeps taunting him by suggesting that he keeps holding back and never intended to kill his opponent. Lena and Masaomi's combined efforts eventually cause him to regain his original form and he can do nothing but let out his true feelings and motives.
- You Will Be Spared: Decides to spare Mako when she shares her negative opinion of her ancestor who sacrificed him. But in exchange, he wants to learn about love.
Murakumo
Shirokoma's elder sister, the goddess of stones and jewels. After falling in love with a samurai, she gave him a blade, which he dubbed Murasame, forged from her own bones. When the samurai came back to propose, she intentionally drove him away, as humans and gods could not be together. Years later, when the samurai's wife have complications during childbirth, Murakumo decided to interfere to save both the mother and her child, at the cost of her own life. Her body was reduced to a single jewel, which ended up housing the cursed spirit of Shirokoma centuries later, when the elder Tomotake son used both the jewel and Shirokoma for his curse ritual.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: The Murasamemaru was forged from her bones, and thus is the only weapon capable of killing and purifying the cursed spirits.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A benevolent goddess whose most prominent trait is her gold-colored hair.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrificed her own life to save the wife and child of the man she loved.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Refused the samurai's proposal in the coldest way possible to drive him away, as she realized that humans and gods could never be together. Then she went out of her way to perform the aforementioned Heroic Sacrifice.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Though she only appears in flashbacks in Lena's route, she is incredibly important to the overall plot in all four routes. She was directly responsible for the blessings that counteracted the curse laid upon the Tomotake family, which allowed them to survive and never have complications during childbirth. She also gave part of her body up to create Murasamemaru, and remains of her body after she sacrificed herself became the medium that houses the curses spirits. Her last words to Shirokoma - that he will one day understand love - are why he curses Mako in her route and demands that she help him understand love.
- Soul Jar: Marasamemaru, the sword she created, holds some part of her essence and will.
