The female protagonist. A Second Year Protagonist, she's an accomplished athlete and sports player, ranking 3rd best overall in the Elaborate University High. A popular young girl, Asami's outgoing personality, driven attitude and great looks endear her to students and teachers alike.
Blood Knight: She enjoys the adrenaline rush and unpredictable excitement that comes from a good fight, which is especiallyevident once she gets excited, but she doesn't want to fight all the time, nor does she like losing any good people along the way.
Covert Pervert: She can be quite subtle about it, at times.
Mama Bear: Played with. She knows her friends are capable of taking care of themselves, but if there's a chance that they'll die, do not get in her way.
The Modest Orgasm: Okay, she moans pretty loudly prior to the orgasm (she tries to hold it in for all it's worth), but once she climaxes, she emits breathless gasps instead of a loud scream.
Another sophomore at Syracuse University, Mikoto is the reigning MVP for the Academy.
Blue and Orange Morality: Mikoto got that eyepatch from an illegal potshot by an opposing sports player, who wasn't punished for it. He kept trying to cross-clock her during their matches, but since the game was violent to begin with, none were suspended - only evicted. Eventually, since she saw he didn't get in trouble for his hits, she blindsided him during a match. Broke his leg, along with his ribcage. She had her wins taken, but nothing else came of it. From that experience, she learned that, if the game is meant to be dirty, you're allowed to play dirty, and only get a slap on the wrist.
Adopted by Rukia during her time as a Rukongai dweller, Homura and her brother were born into the Inuzuri district of the Rukongai. At one point, they were assaulted by a Shinigami possessed by a Hollow with powers to possess souls and erase memories. When Rukia attempted to help, the Hollow began erasing her memories, but the siblings stabbed the Shinigami that the Hollow possessed, prompting it to slice the siblings apart as Rukia lost consciousness. As their bodies started dissipating, Homura unconsciously absorbed the Hollow and Hiroshi's reishi within her, causing her to reincarnate into the human world; the Hollow was still alive at the time, and its spirit energy prevented Homura from being incarnated into Hueco Mundo, but it was subdued and it became part of her own spirit energy as a result. Having reincarnated into a teenager, Homura set off to find her long-lost sister figure, slowly regaining her memories during her travels. As she searched, her innate spirit energy slowly re-materialized her abilities back into her possession, every time her memories returned.
The Chick: she initially deconstructs this with her personality flaws, psychological issues and emotional instability, to the point where she became more of a foil of Senna and Orihime (the two help to keep the gang together, whereas Homura drives them apart). Once she starts developing past the more unpleasant aspects of herself, she takes on the role as The Heart by being the one to talk with her friends about realizing and balancing out their own flaws.
At a festival, when Ishida was talking to Orihime over the phone, Homura was briefly seen watching a bunch of swimsuit-wearing showgirls dancing on a stage.
Again at the same festival, Homura was laying on the ground, watching the fireworks with the same showgirls from earlier.
While Ichigo speaks to Orihime near the Unagiya Shop, Homura can briefly be seen talking with Ikumi in the background.
Before speaking to Yoruichi about Xcution, Lisa was leaning on the wall in an alleyway, listening in to the pleasured moans from "a spikey-haired blond girl with bright red roots", while Lisa still reads her H-manga.
A picture of Homura singing can be seen (amongst other such posters) in the background of a restaurant that Ichigo and Tatsuki spoke to each other.
When Ichigo and Karin were speaking in the Ferris Wheel, Homura was actually riding on the cart behind Ichigo's.
Fanservice Pack: Gets upgraded to C-cup boobs and a curvier build here.
The Gunslinger: A merge of all four different types, with her own fifth ability, Bullet Curve. Also, Bullet Portal and Bullet Tangibility. Bonus points for having a gun-sword as her favorite weapon.
One of the most vicious antagonists, Nyurei is notorious for his Chaotic Evil mindset. According to Twislu Challeth, Nyurei is a notorious Serial Killer in Metropolis, but worked every bit as well as The Corrupter and a terrorist in other dimensions. Many Destriers tend to steer clear from him; they would even ignore calls for help if he was the culprit. He's wrought a string of unpleasant murders on the fourth, sixth, ninth and thirteenth days of every month for two years, but he was always able to slip straight through the Campus Police at every turn. Once he targeted the local Principal and College Council President, that's when the Destriers finally started getting on his case.
Card-Carrying Villain: He takes sadistic delight at describing his past and future acts, styles himself as an "anarchist supreme", enjoys messing around with peoples' heads (and ruining their lives), leaves behind these symbol-scars on his victims as a Calling Card, fully embraces his status as an unflinching Complete Monster, and intentionally positions himself as an Evil Counterpart or a Shadow Archetype to most of the protagonists.
Chekhov's Gunman: A TV once showed a reporter explaining a brutal murder scene, eerily similar to how Nyurei himself usually operates.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Definitely, but with a twist. The actual backstabbing only happens when it looks like they'd be able to achieve their ultimate goals.
Nyurei:"It's not a 'betrayal' if it was meant from the start."
Crazy-Prepared: He's got backup plans upon backup plans upon backup plans. Someone goes for a third option? He kills the decider before he manages to live up to his choice. Someone cracks his mask? It was a fake. His arm gets cut off? Prosthetic. Break his sword? It's a fake, laced with poison-filled sparks. Break the real one? It regenerates and grows larger, quick enough to stab you somewhere.
Dreaded Devil: Definitely one of the most threatening villains around these parts, as evidenced by an Executor running away after meeting him.
Foreshadowing: He can make after-images of himself that seem real, and in some cases, are real. At times, it looks as if you're seeing the outline of someone attempting a Flash Step, but you can't tell which is the actual image. At one point, his reflection on a car window leaves the car itself unresponsive. Once he leaves, the car works again. Shortly thereafter, the car seems to have a bizarre Grand Theft Me moment as that same reflection possesses the car.
Fighting a Shadow: Such proxies include Murakumo, Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu, Susano'o, Izanagi, Kony Matchar, the Monolith, all of the Marauders and Nylorow Rothage.
Hero Killer: The simple act of not running away from him, is enough to signify that his opponent is a Badass. That's how dangerous he is.
Hidden Agenda Villain: His motives and goals remained unclear for nearly the entire story. Clues were dropped around, hinting at what he might've wanted, but we never get any real confirmations until the end.
Humanoid Abomination: Heavily implied, as his every appearance makes him look and act more surreal than the last; the more we learn of what he looks like, the less humanoid he seems, and the more horrific his acts become.
Lack of Empathy: He once stopped his men from attacking a grieving daughter mourning over her dead parents, but it was only to allow her to become as much of a monster as those killers later in her life.
Manipulative Bastard: A standout case would be him turning into the person that negatively affected their lives the most and pretending to make amends, only to betray them afterwards.
Mind Rape: It's an actual ability; he can literally break the mind apart, molecule by molecule.
Moral Event Horizon: His methods of breeding Hollows involves forcibly implanting Hollow spirit energy into a woman through a Mind Rape, and amplifying it to such a degree that every one of her children will be mindless, cannibalistic savages. Moreover, during the "procedure", it's made so that the mothers' lives are extended with every birth. In essence, he turns women into literal breeding machines, their minds broken, their bodies butchered, forever cursed to give simultaneous birth to a thousand children every second of their lives. And this was revealed in his very debut. invoked
Nietzsche Wannabe: He seems to hold a rather nihilistic viewpoint of the universe at large, particularly in his belief that the existence of a single person is largely insignificant, its appearance unnoticed and its passing unmourned.
However, he chose to create his own values after realizing the insignificance of the current ones; his anarchistic, omnicide-craving demeanor almost seems like he's either desperately trying to achieve a purpose in life, or he's trying to 'save' people from such a meaningless existence. Furthermore, the fact that how corrupted others into nihilists or monsters like him might even be his attempt at trying to stave off loneliness.
Uniquely, however, given his origins, he's actually in a position to end the nihilism of the universe. He's in a position to end of malignancy, the malaise and wastrel milieu. He can end, break every "truth," moral, ethic, kill every tradition. He's inherently human, but he has had the power to completely move beyond it. Succeeded in sublimating the nihilistic kill-switch, the fatalism and all the rest. Embracing what he is, realizing that he controls it - he has moved to such a higher existence (not divine or anything, but his existence as an individual in the universe with awareness/access to the building blocks, foundation)... he could free everything.
By fiat of reaching the posthuman he has the capability to eviscerate that which he doesn't like. He can comprehend whatever it is (Seithr) that fueled his self-apotheosis. He doesn't have to remember being human to do what is best. He has to realize that regardless the value, worth, importance, etc. of humanity, he now has a responsibility. Assist their development into trans- and post-humanism, or remove the species he willed himself to leave behind, he willed himself to evolve beyond. Wipe them from the face of existence. Which means that he fails, because he is a coward that hates himself, rather than them.
Nothing Is Scarier: He intentionally refrained from showing himself to his first on-screen victims (Destriers of the Vanguard Division), in order to elicit such a reaction.
Obfuscating Insanity: Towards strangers, he specifically portrays himself as the more realistic, non-violent example of a psycho, in order to keep his real motives and thoughts unknown.
Omnicidal Maniac: Desires to annihilate the various dimensions from existence, but it's ultimately deconstructed. Although he certainly seems to enjoy specific bouts of chaos, it's implied that he feels that he has to achieve total omnicide, and that he thinks he's doing the universe a favor for trying to blow it apart.
Psycho for Hire: Whenever someone's desperate enough to employ him under their wing, at least.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: A favorite subject for his lectures. His skill at utterly annihilating people verbally is a major reason why they hate him so much.
Sadistic Choice: Fond of giving these, but recognizes that it doesn't always work, so he tends to have a failsafe in ready just in case.
Serial Escalation: Par the course for the series, but he takes it home, by far, as the most powerful character ever.
Serial Killer: Back in the beginning of the series, though he does retain his usual method of keeping trophies from his victims - turning them into (and collecting them as) living objects.
Spanner in the Works: Although he allies himself with people that would 'supposedly' allow him a chance to wreak havoc unchecked, Nyurei manages to obstruct and derail everybody's plans, while he's on their side, no less.
Übermensch: Rejects societal ethics, ignores all conventional morality, develops his own code system and embraces old-school values that others have rejected. Helps that he wants to kill Seithr.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Somewhat, with Endruhm. As frequently as you can breathe, Endruhm never put up with his eccentricity and machinations, so there was a nice tension around the both of them whenever they were around.
