A list of characters in the supernatural horror game Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II.
For characters that debuted in the first game, go here.
For Kaoru Hazuki's entry, see here.
Warning: Due to the nature of the game, be wary of unmarked spoilers. Also, be warned that the folders can contain images of intense Body Horror.
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Partners and Recurring Characters (Spoilers)
Seizou Konoe
Voiced by: Yoshiaki Kawabata
The headmaster of Konoehara Academy. Soon after his appointment, The Departed began haunting his school, forcing him to contact Kazuo Yashiki for help. He's witty, well-educated, well-connected, and quite well-off.- Agent Scully: Initially he rejects the concept of the supernatural, but still hires Yashiki because it troubles the students and "an expert" would know more what to do. During the first investigation he tries to reassure himself that blatant paranormal phenomena have a rational explanation and doesn't take the students seriously. After Izumi and himself get attacked by Hanako, he admits it's really something the police won't be able to handle.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Near the end game, he gets increasingly frustrated with Yashiki and considers revoking the contract, which Yashiki himself thinks is reasonable as there have already been victims and he's still not close on The Departed's case.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: At first, he doesn't believe in the supernatural. Still, his concern for his staff and students outweighed his beliefs and, when the police couldn't do anything, he put his faith in an Occult Detective despite his skepticism. When Yashiki's investigation proves fruitful, Konoe appoints Yashiki as a contract teacher to let him investigate the school freely.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: A rare benevolent example. He uses his connections to keep the police and other authorities away, so Yashiki can investigate unimpeded.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He's the one who authorizes Yashiki's investigation but otherwise barely has any relevance to the story and is only a partner for Chapter 1. The most he does is keep the authorities away and ask for reports.
- Tea Is Classy: One of his likes is black tea, and he's the headmaster of a prestigious academy.
Himeko Douryou
Voiced by: Eri Tomizawa
A quiet girl with a large mark on her face, a second-year, and the student council president. She balances her studies, work, and exercise well. She's also terrified of ghost stories.- Affectionate Nickname: Kinukawa calls her "Hime".
- Brainwash Residue: In the true ending, Kazuo frees her and Michiho from the Departed's control, but they still retain their crush on him, which Kazuo suspects is the Departed leaving behind a part of themself so she and Michiho can love and pursue him in place of their own obsession with him.
- Dead All Along: The real Douryou has been dead since August. This is averted in the true ending as when Yashiki finds her and Kinukawa in the clock tower, neither of them recognize him since the people he interacted with the whole game weren't them. During the inquiry, it is revealed that the Departed returned both Douryou and Kinukawa's souls back to their bodies as thanks to Yashiki for pacification.
- Detective Mole: After Chapter 4, she starts helping Yashiki too, even suggesting that the Creepy Doll that only he can see might be The Departed's true identity. She, or at least the fake Douryou you spend the game interacting with, is The Departed.
- Distinguishing Mark: She has a purple swirly pattern on her face. Yashiki wonders how the school administration can be so lax about uniform codes. It signifies her connection to The Departed, representing mold.
- Evil All Along: When Kinukawa is suspected being The Departed, Douryou acts with disbelief, but cooperates with the investigation. Kinukawa is proven to be Not Herself, while there's not much suspicious about Douryou, who appears to be a victim of a curse and also gets harassed by minor ghosts in the late-game. Once Yashiki figures out that The Departed is The Dividual, he correctly indicts "Douryou" as well.
- Invisible to Normals: It turns out only Yashiki can see her mark, which is an indicator of her curse. It's probably due to his special spiritual senses. It's actually because he's being targeted as The Departed's husband.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Kinukawa's Red Oni. She's a Shrinking Violet who's terrified of the supernatural happenings plaguing the school, while Kinukawa is a Genki Girl with an interest in the occult.
- Shrinking Violet: Doesn't talk much and is quiet when she does.
- Teacher/Student Romance: Late-game, she starts blushing around Yashiki, who's technically a contract teacher at Konoehara. In the true ending, the real Douryou inherited The Departed's feelings for him, to his chagrin.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The real Douryou and Kinukawa entered the clock tower with plans to celebrate the academy's aniversary, unknowingly providing The Departed with two suitable vessels and unleashing it upon the school.
- Walking Spoiler: Since the one you interact with for most of the game is an imposter.
Michiho Kinukawa
Voiced by: Yurika Takagi
A free-spirited second-year with white hair, she is Douryou's friend and the student council vice president. She loves insects and has a strong supernatural sense.- Affectionate Nickname: Calls Douryou "Hime".
- Animal Motif: The real Kinukawa loved frogs. Her dorm room is practically a frog-lover's shrine. This helps Yashiki figure out that the "Kinukawa" he spent the story with was an imposter, since frogs eat bugs and "Kinukawa" was usually sad about things like that.
- Brainwash Residue: In the true ending, Kazuo frees her and Himeko from the Departed's control, but they still retain their crush on him, which Kazuo suspects is the Departed leaving behind a part of themself so she and Himeko can love and pursue him in place of their own obsession with him. She also kept the Departed's interest in bugs.
- Dead All Along: The real Kinukawa has been dead since August. This is averted in the true ending as when Yashiki finds her and Douryou in the clock tower, neither of them recognize him since the people he interacted with the whole game weren't them. During the inquiry, it is revealed that the Departed returned both Douryou and Kinukawa's souls back to their bodies as thanks to Yashiki for pacification.
- Detective Mole: She helps Yashiki with his investigations since, being such an occult geek, she wants to discover the identity of The Departed. She, or at least the fake Kinukawa you spend the game interacting with, is The Departed.
- Disney Death: She appears to be a casualty in Chapter 6 due to The Departed tricking Yashiki into murdering her. However, an investigation ends up hinting that she was The Departed before Yashiki entered the scene, so the real one was already dead to begin with, so in reality it was a trick by The Departed.
- Faking the Dead: At one point Kinukawa becomes the victim of The Departed and Yashiki nearly goes over Despair Event Horizon. Douryou lends him a shoulder and motivates him to resume the case. "Kinukawa" later reappears along with "Douryou", who were working together.
- Friend to Bugs: She loves bugs and has many insect-themed accessories. At one point, she compares Yashiki to a particular insect, which she means as a compliment. It signifies her connection to The Departed.
- Genki Girl: Upbeat and assertive. Upon learning of Yashiki's investigations, she declares him her rival.
- Invisible to Normals: It turns out only Yashiki can see her hair as white, which is an indicator of her curse. It's probably due to his special spiritual senses. It's actually because he's being targeted as The Departed's husband.
- Mystical White Hair: Yashiki wonders if her hair color is natural and how the school administration can be so lax about uniform codes. It's also an indicator that there's more to her than meets the eye.
- Personal Effects Reveal: Her bedroom is covered in dust, her pet frog is dead and dried up, her calender and journal are two months behind, and she has a large number of frog themed accessories, which doesn't match Michiko's love of bugs. These things are used as evidence to accuse her posthumously of being The Departed.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Douryou's Blue Oni. She's a Genki Girl with an interest in the occult while Douryou is a Shrinking Violet who's terrified of the supernatural happenings plaguing the school.
- Teacher/Student Romance: Late in the game, she gains a crush on Yashiki, though he's a contract teacher in name only. How aware he is of it depends on player choice. In the true ending, the real Kinukawa inherited The Departed's feelings for him, much to his chagrin.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The real Douryou and Kinukawa entered the clock tower with plans to celebrate the academy's aniversary, unknowingly providing The Departed with two suitable vessels and unleashing it upon the school.
- Walking Spoiler: Since the one you interact with for most of the game is an imposter.
Ritsu Sakamoto
Voiced by: Yurika Takagi
A teacher and the curriculum coordinator, Sakamoto is strict, no-nonsense, and a stickler for maintaining the school's reputation. She doesn't believe in the supernatural.- Body Horror: If The Departed drives her insane, Yashiki and Mashita find her in the Fox Forest with her body breaking apart and bugs bursting out of holes in her body. Yashiki manages to restore some of her sanity before she passes, learning the location of the Mushikabe shrine before all trace of her is eaten by The Departed's bugs.
- Establishing Character Moment: Upon meeting Yashiki, she launches a long-winded lecture about proper conduct and setting a good example for the students and preserving the reputation of the academy. Daimon has to appeal to her pride as a faculty member to get her to let Yashiki explain himself.
- Hero Antagonist: She constantly gets in the way of Kazuo and his investigations because she honestly believes he is not a good fit for the school and is a predator towards Himeko and Michiho.
- Meaningful Name: Ritsu can be read as "law" and she's very serious about following the rules.
- Not So Stoic: She's usually stern and unemotional, but there are times when she gets flustered. Yashiki commenting on her rabbit-themed accessories causes her visible nervousness.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: Constantly tries to get Yashiki off the case, seeing him as a bad influence on the school's reputation and the students, in particular Himeko and Michiho who have been helping him a lot to the point of breaking dorm curfew multiple times. This gets her killed in Chapter 7 when The Departed drives her insane for planning to report Yashiki to the police, preventing her from becoming a Spanner in the Works. In the True Ending route, it is possible to save her by convincing her in Chapter 6 that Yashiki is the only adult trying to do something about The Departed for the sake of the students, justifying Himeko and Michiho's continued support of his endeavors. This stops her from writing up her report and giving The Departed no reason to directly kill her.
- Stern Teacher: Fits the archetype to a tee. Her dislike of Yashiki seems to stem from his lack of professionalism and overall put-together-ness.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She can't stand Yashiki but she's willing to put aside her personal beef with him for the safety of the school, since it's part of her personal moral code.
Haruaki Abe
Voiced by: Kouhei Furumai
A strange third-year student with heterochromia. He always carries a talisman and is knowledgeable about the occult. He knows about Yashiki's actual occupation.- Magical Eye: He claims to be able to see spirits and spiritual things with his blue left eye.
- Named After Someone Famous: Says that he's named after the great exorcist Haruaki Tsuchimikado. He also shares a name with Abe no Seimei, also a famous exorcist.
- Purple Prose: He has a flowery and grandiose way of talking. It makes him sound like a Chuunibyou.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Late in the game, he claims to have seen a vision of his own terrible death and abandons investigating The Departed, though not before leaving Yashiki with a final clue.
- Smug Snake: He has high standards for Yashiki and acts like he's more qualified to lead the investigation than the experienced Spirit Doctor, but when pressured he folds easily and gives away the little info he has managed to find so far.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Has a crippling fear of bugs. You get to exploit this later on when he's "testing" you, by showing a petri dish with a dead centipede in front of his face.
Konoehara Academy
Toshihiko Izumi
A second-year, member of the student council, and player in the brass band. Yashiki finds him suffering from a terrible headache, seemingly caused by a voice in his head saying, "Die die die die."
- An Arm and a Leg: His hand gets cut off by a supernaturally controlled water hose. He leaves quite the blood trail for you to follow after he runs away.
- Asshole Victim: He bullied Hanako Akai into suicide, so it's hard to feel too bad for him when Hanako as a Vengeful Ghost comes for him.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: First he gets his hand cut off and then he's ripped apart from the inside-out by water hoses erupting out of his eyes.
- Eye Scream: His body has hoses protruding from his eye holes, indicating that his eyes are literally pushed out. You can see the remains of one eye dangling down his face.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He bullied Hanako because she got the part in the piano recital that he wanted. Even after she caved in and gave the part to him, he still bullied her.
- He Knows Too Much: Another reason why he was killed was because he knew The Departed's true identity.
- More Hateable Minor Villain: He only shows up a few times before being killed off by Hanako, but he is the one who turned her into a spirit in the first place because he was jealous that she got the part in the piano recital he wanted, and continued to torment her even after she gave the part to him. He ultimately drove her to suicide, and unlike his lackey Kyoko, who at least loves her boyfriend and has a somewhat sympathetic send-off as the Pool Spirit, Izumi demonstrates no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
- Sacrificial Lamb: A fairly important side character that actively instigated the Starter Villain's rampage, only to end up the game's first casualty to show that it's dead serious.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies shortly after his introduction, making his the first death in the game.
Naomi Horikoshi
Voiced by: Erika Ishitobi
A second-year who's really popular due to her looks, excellent grades, and athleticism. She's secretly working as a model. She was friends with the recently deceased Hanako Akai, and was never quite the same afterward.- Accomplice by Inaction: Despite having been best friends with Hanako, she seemed to have turned a blind eye to her bullying, making her complicit. It turns out that Izumi had stolen Hanako's diary, and had threatened Horikoshi to stay quiet about the bullying or else he'd tell everyone about their feelings for each other. Horikoshi blames herself for not standing up to him.
- Affectionate Nickname: Called Hanako "Hana", and was called "Nao" in return.
- Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Was the cool, popular kid to Hanako's plain loser. Deconstructed since Horikoshi's fans saw Akai as an unworthy friend, which only fueled their bullying towards Akai.
- Dies Wide Open: Her severed head is staring straight ahead with wide eyes.
- Go Out with a Smile: Hearing that Hanako reciprocates her feelings allows her to die fulfilled with a smile, even though Hanako is the one killing her.
- It's All My Fault: She blames herself for not stopping Hanako's suicide, and not standing up to Izumi when he blackmailed her into keeping quiet about Hanako's bullying. After hearing about Hanako of the Toilet, she purposefully looks for the ghost in hopes of meeting Hanako again and telling her something important, even if it means getting killed.
- Off with His Head!: Her severed head is found in a toilet, surrounded by colorful hoses.
- Only Friend: To Akai, who's not mentioned to have had any other friends. Yashiki later finds out through letters regarding her "confession" to Hanako that perhaps she considered Akai as more than a friend.
- Poor Communication Kills: While Izumi had blackmailed her into staying quiet about Hanako's bullying, she could have tried to discretely tell Hanako that she was being blackmailed and that was why she wasn't taking action. She didn't, which led Hanako to believe she'd been abandoned and kill herself. Not long after, Horikoshi is killed by Hanako's spirit in retaliation.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: It's been implied that she used to be a nicer person back when she was still friends with Akai before the events of the game, but since her suicide, she doesn't act like what would be expected of a popular model, as she is quick to get upset at people striking conversations with her and gets more abrasive, insulting, and rude to Yashiki the more he tries to help her.
- Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: She switches to this expression frequently when you talk to her, indicating that her mental stability hasn't been the greatest since Hanako died. Her severed head has this expression, along with a smile.
Shinichi Kakuta
Voiced by: Masahiro Kase
A second-year member of the disciplinary committee and karate club. He has a favorable opinion of Yashiki and is willing to help him. He doesn't like delinquents.- Bad Liar: When showing him the infested centipede, he suddenly says he needs to return to patrolling and runs off. When Yashiki follows him to the science room closet, he ends up contradicting himself when asked to explain why he's there.
- Festering Fungus: Mister Kokkuri's curse causes Kakuta's body to become consumed by mushrooms, decaying his face and body until all that's left are his clothes and a body-shaped cluster of mushrooms.
- Hypocrite: As a discipline committee member, he looks down on delinquents, but he's done some pretty delinquent stuff himself.
- Noodle Incident: In the past, Kakuta was involved in an assault case after punching someone, but managed to get out of it unscathed. It turns out he was bailed out by the grown up Student K thanks to his connections with the law, who then blackmailed Kakuta into running his fox laccata farm in Fox Forest. This was what made him the target of Mister Kokkuri.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He's killed by Mister Kokkuri not long after his introduction.
- Younger Than They Look: He's pretty sturdy for a 15-17 year old. If he weren't in his uniform, people probably wouldn't be able to tell he's a high schooler.
Saki Maruhashi
Voiced by: Hina Orihara
A delinquent first-year with a rebellious attitude. While she has a bad reputation, her family are staunch Shinto practitioners and she's had those values drilled into her.- Call-Forward: Bearing the name Maruhashi and being related to a biker gang leader, it's implied she is the cousin of Mitsuru Maruhashi from Spirit Hunter: NG, who had become a yakuza thug by that game and gets tragically murdered by a spirit early on. She also mentions that her dad is a priest at Kintoki Shrine, an important location in ''NG''.
- Demonic Possession: When you first meet her, she's been possessed by Mister Kokkuri into attacking Yashiki when he investigates the school shrine. She goes back to normal once subdued.
- Hidden Depths: Who would've expected the delinquent girl to be religious and having an interest in art and motorcycles?
- I'm Your Biggest Fan: She adores Yasuoka and flips out at meeting her when she visits to help Yashiki. In fact, the only reason Maruhashi cooperates with the investigation is because of Yasuoka.
- Japanese Delinquent: A ganguro-styled example. While standoffish, she's not a bad sort and the rumors about her are overblown due to her rebellious attitude and non-traditional interests.
- Red Herring: At first, it seems like she's the "Hooligan" that Mister Kokkuri is targeting, but Yashiki and the team aren't sure since she wasn't killed, just possessed. True enough, Kakuta turned out to be the actual target.
Megumi Manabe
A student who attended the school five years ago and is the identity of Gold Prize, Kashima's main victim. After falling for Mr. Hirose and becoming jealous of Kashima for getting close to him, she framed him for sexual harassment and got him fired, leading to his suicide and Kashima's shortly after.
- Asshole Victim: She gets killed by Kashima, stabbed all over her body with scissors, after using a false sexual harassment claim to destroy Kashima's romance with Mr. Hirose and driving them both to suicide.
- More Hateable Minor Villain: She ruined Kashima's relationship with Sousuke Hirose, their art teacher, by framing him for sexual harassment out of petty jealousy that Kashima was closer to him than she was. This ultimately drove both of them to suicide, which Megumi shows no remorse for. While her two lackeys, Erika and Miho/Student S, at least visit her grave and show some genuine desire to repent, Megumi's only concern when Kashima starts haunting her is to save her own skin.
- The Vamp: She tried to seduce Mr. Hirose, her teacher, in order to take a picture of the incident and frame him for harassment.
Student K
Mitsuru Kuromine
A former student of Konoehara Academy who supplied the Fox Laccata mushrooms to his fellow delinquents, and led them in killing Izumi and Kozue Kiyohara and hospitalizing Masaki Kiyohara. He got away thanks to his father being a policeman, and he himself soon became a corrupt cop, blackmailing Shinichi Kakuta into helping him with his drug-selling operation.
- Asshole Victim: He was the leader of the delinquents who killed Masaki's family and hospitalized him, and eventually drowned in mysterious circumstances, with the implication that Masaki/Kokkuri caught up to him.
- Dirty Cop: He used to be a drug-dealing delinquent, then grew up to be a police officer and used his pull to continue his operations, even blackmailing a star student into helping him.
- The Ghost: He's only referred to by other characters.
- More Hateable Minor Villain: He's the one responsible for Masaki Kiyohara becoming the spirit Mister Kokkuri. Back when he was a delinquent, he dealt the Fox Laccata mushrooms to his friends, and under the influence led them in beating Masaki's wife and daughter to death while hospitalizing him. He got away thanks to his dad being an officer and grew up to be a cop himself, still continuing his criminal activities and blackmailing a student into helping him. Though unseen, he's built up as a truly disgusting man and an example of how the law can fail people.
- Posthumous Character: Unlike the other spirit victims, he drowned in Lake S long before the events of the game. Nevertheless, his actions are what turned Masaki into Mister Kokkuri.
Spirits
In General
The various disquieted ghosts that The Departed sends to terrorize Konoehara Academy.
- Antagonist Title: A few chapters are named after the spirit that serves as the Arc Villain of the chapter. Other chapter titles refer to The Departed. The Japanese title of the game, Shibito Magire also refers to The Departed (who is known as Shibito in Japanese).
- Arc Villain: As before, each spirit is the antagonist of their respective chapter.
- Driven to Suicide:
- Hanako hanged herself in the old building's girl's bathroom using a water hose. She actually hadn't intended to kill herself, as the whole set-up was another one of Izumi's cruel games. However, after he told her that Horikoshi had abandoned her, she went through with it.
- Kashima killed herself 5 years ago. After Mr. Hirose died in a car accident, she gutted herself using the scissors he gave her.
- Due to the Dead: After defeating a ghost, you need to perform this in order to truly pacify them.
- Ghastly Ghost: Each of the spirits' appearances are beyond deformed when they reveal themselves.
- Kaizo Trap: In this game, ghosts can only be pacified during their confrontations. However, there's one more step you need to perform to truly pacify them after their defeat. If you go straight back to the infirmary and advance the story by selecting "Talk" without doing the extra task, The Departed will find the Arc Villain too bitter and will eat the soul of your partner(s).
- Hanako requires you to return to where you found Horikoshi's body and read Hanako's letter to Horikoshi's spirit. If you don't, Ai Kashiwagi will be killed.
- Kashima requires you to return to her grave and place the scissors there. If you don't, Shou Nagashima will be killed.
- Mister Kokkuri requires you to dispose of the centipede petri dish at the shrine in Fox Forest, otherwise Madoka Hiroo will be killed. However, this case is a subversion, since you don't actually manage to pacify him before The Departed eats him. The game makes it very clear that you haven't won yet and that you need to take the centipede to his body. You can still choose to ignore it, though.
- Humanoid Abomination: As before, the spirits generally look human, but are distorted in some way to make them appear ghoulish, which only becomes worse once their true visage is shown.
- Hanako looks mostly human, save for her wobbly, gelatinous head and murky, putrid flesh.
- Kashima would pass for human, if not for the fact that she's bisected, filled with scissors, has giant bloody scissor blades for legs, and her mouth is cracked open and also filled with scissors.
- Mister Kokkuri is a skeletal, walking fungus farm. He barely has anything resembling a human face anymore.
- The Departed's One-Winged Angel form is more humanoid than its original form, but it retains its grotesque Nightmare Face and is attached to a deformed doll.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: There's no denying that the spirits are evil. But they're only that way because of the human cruelty they suffered in life; even the Departed turns out to be just as much a victim as the others. Yashiki grimly notes that the spirits' tormentors are the ones truly responsible for what's happening.
- Monster Delay: To build up suspense, you usually don't see the spirits in full until their confrontation. If they do show up earlier, they're obscured, viewed from a distance, or are wearing something that hides their more monstrous aspects.
- Puzzle Boss: As with previous games, spirits are defeated by reviewing all the information you have on them and making the correct decision on how to retaliate or protect yourself.
- Quieting the Unquiet Dead: The Departed wants Yashiki to save the other spirits' souls from their grudges and bring them to "complete salvation" because it would make their souls taste delicious. If a spirit isn't fully saved by the time The Departed eats the spirit, The Departed will kill a "scapegoat", which is always one of your partners.
- Shout-Out: Many of the spirits are based on popular Japanese Urban Legends.
- Hanako of the Toilet
is the ghost of a young girl that haunts school toilets. She's known for wearing a red skirt or dress. - Slit-Mouthed Kashima is based on Kuchisake-onna or "Slit-Mouthed Woman". She'll ask her victims if they think she's pretty: if they answer "yes" or "no", she'll kill them.
- During her explanation of the Slit-Mouthed Kashima rumor, Kinukawa mentions a girl who was cut in half after falling off a train. This refers to Teke Teke. One of Teke Teke's popular names is Kashima Reiko, which is very close to Kashima in question.
- As Kinukawa explains, Mister Kokkuri is named a divination method of Kokkuri, which summons an entity named Kokkuri-san. It's comparable to Western divination rituals like table-turning or the Ouija Board.
- Hanako of the Toilet
- Vengeful Ghost: Following in the trend of the previous games, these ghosts linger due to some misfortune that happened to them in life and a desire for revenge on the people responsible.
- Hanako died with a great deal of resentment towards her tormentors and the friend who abandoned her. This brought her back as a murderous spirit targeting these same people. She is pacified by performing the song Horikoshi wrote with her, and can't be outright destroyed. However, her grudge will linger if you don't visit the bathroom stall where you found Horikoshi's head afterward.
- Kashima holds a grudge against Megume Manabe and her friends since Manabe's attempt to seduce Mr. Hirose is what caused him get fired and fall into alcoholism, which in turn led to him driving into the ocean. She killed Erika Kamio and Miho Shinji in retaliation 5 years ago, and then haunted Manabe into visiting her grave and getting killed in the present day.
- Mister Kokkuri wants vengeance against the "hooligans" that took fox laccata mushrooms from Fox Forest. In life, he was a teacher named Masaki Kiyohara. His wife and daughter were killed by a group of young men high on these mushrooms, and he himself was hospitalized. When he found out that Student K was dealing these mushrooms, he challenged and tried to kill K. However, Student K and his cohorts ganged up on him and murdered Kiyohara in the forest, burying him there. They got away with it for a long time, too, due to K's connections to the police. This is why Kokkuri's grudge targets anyone who takes fox laccata from the forest.
- The Departed themselves are the combined souls of two sisters who were ritualistically sacrificed in an attempt to end H Town's famine. They were made to think they were getting married, only to be slowly and horribly killed to get married to the village gods, Mushigami and Kabigami. This fuels The Departed's obsession with marriage and finding a husband, out of resentment for what they were denied.
The Departed (Spoilers)
Mikiko and Michiyo Mayamura
A grotesque humanoid and the Big Bad of the game. They post notices announcing which students are going to die to what spirit, forcing Yashiki and his team to race against the clock to save the target. They also seems to have gained a strange fixation on Yashiki, deeming him worthy of being its husband.
In life, they were Mikiko and Michiyo Mayamura, two sisters who lived in M Town and were gruesomely sacrificed to become brides to the gods, Mushigami and Kabigami, in hopes it would stop a famine. Having been tricked into thinking it would be a normal double wedding, the two spirits killed everyone in the town, then dwelled in the female doll. After killing Doryou and Michiho, the Departed disguised themselves as the two schoolgirls and began seeing out the happy wedding they were denied.
- Abhorrent Admirer: Following in the trend of previous antagonists, The Departed has a strange, twisted affection for Yashiki. Obviously, Yashiki doesn't reciprocate and would rather keep living.
- Ambiguous Gender: They are initially referred to with singular they pronouns since it is hard to tell what gender they are; the body contains no obvious identifiers, and the student they are disguised as could be male or female. They're ultimately revealed to be two women fused together.
- Animal Motifs: Bugs. There are bugs crawling all over it when it appears, and bugs or traces of bugs, like spider webs, usually appear when it or any spirit associated with it is active or near. It is also an entity with multiple eyes and limbs, and its marriage motif brings to mind the numerous species of bugs where the female eating the male is a frequent consequence of their courtship. Later, it takes on a spider-like form. This also ties into how the two brides were sacrificed; by being slowly eaten from the inside out by bugs.
- Bad Boss: They are just as willing to devour their own subordinate spirits once they have been purified.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: They are the two sisters who are killing people in Konoehara Academy, either directly or through other spirits, and Yashiki must stop their rampage.
- Belly Mouth: In addition to its head having Too Many Mouths, it also has clusters of mouths all down its torso. Its spider form gains a vertical one lined with large black fangs, that goes all the way down its abdomen. When it opens, it reveals more mouths and eyes.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: The Departed contains some similarities to Mary and Kakuya, being the doll spirit (sort of) who masterminds all the hauntings and deaths. Like Mary, they pretend to be allies to Kazuo and his friends, and they also possess an obsessive love for him like their predecessors. However, they also spend the game outside their doll form (which they swapped with two of their victims). Most notably, while Mary and Kakuya were irredeemable, unsympathetic, and had to be sealed away, the Departed are significantly more sympathetic, as they were also victims of human cruelty, and can be successfully pacified by Kazuo. Finally, while Mary and Kakuya were faced in brief sections, the Departed get a full-fledged chapter to themselves where Kazuo must discover their backstory and how to save them.
- Decoy Damsel: When disguised as Himeko and Michiho, the two deliberately get themselves attacked by other spirits, or pretend they are being attacked by the Departed, to see if Kazuo will valiantly save them, and thus prove their ideal husband.
- Dub Name Change: Was known as Shibito in Japanese, which translates to "Corpse". It was changed to The Departed for the international release, which keeps with the corpse meaning and sounds more threatening in English.
- Evil Phone: It's able to impersonate people's voices in phonecalls, which it uses to lure its target somewhere vulnerable. It can also send text messages, though they're noted as being "garbled".
- Extra Digits: Each of its hands overflow with overlapping fingers. It still only has two thumbs altogether, though.
- Fair-Play Villain: The twisted game they play with Kazuo and the others does have strict rules they abide by; they usually let their victims know they are marked for death in advance by posting a notice on the board for all to see, they clearly tell Kazuo his partner will die if the current spirit is not fully purified, they are willing to let Kazuo slowly piece together their true identity and help guide him towards the items he needs to fight each spirit, they leave eerie teeth hidden in places for Kazuo to power up himself and his partners, and they are even willing to kill Ritsu for trying to get Kazuo kicked out of the academy, which would destroy their game.
- Festering Fungus: It has an association with mold, and traces of it can be found when it or any spirit associated with it is active or near. Getting bitten by it is a horrific experience that causes the victim's body to be eaten alive by fungi and mold, much like how the two brides were killed.
- Fusion Dance: The Departed is a fusion of the Mayamura sisters, resulting in a single entity with a single personality. When possessing Kinukawa and Douryou, they have a Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling dynamic. During the game's climax, they merge the girls' bodies to form The Departed.
- Given Name Reveal: Their true identity is that of the sisters Mikiko and Michiyo Mayamura, the two brides who were sacrificed to the gods of mold and bugs 100 years ago.
- Grand Theft Me: They were the original spirits residing in the female doll, until Himeko and Michiho came along; the two then took their bodies while trapping their souls within the doll they once inhabited.
- Heel–Face Turn: In the true ending The Departed revives the real Himeko and Douryou, and even if they still have parts of The Departed's personality, the grudge is no longer present.
- Hidden Villain: One of the primary mysteries of the game is that the Departed is disguising itself as a human. Anyone in the school could be The Departed. Specifically, any two people.
- Horror Hunger: The sacrificial ritual that killed them involved starving them, with nothing but the bugs crawling on them to eat. Possibly as a result, their grudge manifests in part as a ravenous, seemingly-uncontrollable hunger for souls, be they still living or corrupted spirits.
- Kill and Replace: It had killed the real Douryou and Kinukawa in August, and replaced them to scope the school of potential husbands.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: After defeating a chapter's Arc Villain, The Departed will consume it, violently tearing it apart. Properly pacified spirits taste the best. If the spirit isn't properly pacified, The Departed will be unsatisfied and will turn to one of Yashiki's partners next.
- Multiboobage: Their spider form has many large chelicerae that look like fanged breasts.
- The Nicknamer: Outside of their human disguise(s), they never refer to anyone by name, instead using descriptors for them. For example, calling Ai and Shou “idol” and “delinquent”, respectively. They also refer to the targets in their notes with such nicknames like Ribbon or Gold Prize, giving Kazuo the extra task of having to investigate and identify who are the students being marked for death by the spirits.
- Nightmare Face: Or, faces. Its head is disproportionately big and composed of clusters of mouths, eyes, and noses.
- One-Winged Angel: After devouring Hanako Of The Toilet, Slit-Mouthed Kashima, Mister Kokkuri and finally the Doll in Red, The Departed achieve their final form resembling a female humanoid dressed in a bridal robe with two faces stacked vertically on each other and in the process of being birthed by a deformed, pregnant doll.
- Pet the Dog: In the true ending, their final act before passing on is to give Himeko and Michiho their bodies back. While the girls consider this to be an act of kindness as thanks for Kazuo saving the spirits, Kazuo himself has an alternate theory; that the spirits left their love for him within the girls so they could pursue him in their stead.
- Spiders Are Scary: Their second form is a giant spider with human limbs, a body that doubles as a face, and Multiboobage with spikes for nipples.
- Sympathy for the Devil: After they are pacified, Yashiki speculates on the reason "Michiho" and "Douryou" even bothered living at the Academy instead of just luring the victims from the shadows. He concludes that being decieved, tortured and killed in a Marriage to a God, made them yearn for a normal life and saw Yashiki as a proper love interest, but being undead made them unable to finish Becoming the Mask. The player can opt to forgive them in the monologue.
- Two Dun It: One of the endgame reveals is that both “Himeko” and “Michiho” were the Departed that had kickstarted the spirits' reign of terror in Konoehara Academy to begin with, and picking both of them as the Departed in Kazuo's final deduction is the key to avoid getting the bad ending.
- The Vamp: While disguised as Himeko and Michiho, the two try to charm Yashiki as he is investigating the academy hauntings, trying to see if he is their ideal new husband. They even go so far as to disrobe and present themselves to Kazuo in a very sexually compromising position while pretending they are being attacked, presumably to see how he would react.
- Wedding/Death Juxtaposition: Played for Horror. The Departed has a strong marriage theme and acts like a bride waiting at the altar. They are also a horrible supernatural entity responsible for many gruesome deaths. This ties into their origins as victims of a Human Sacrifice ritual disguised as a double wedding.
- Zero-Effort Boss: Their Chapter 6 fight is impossible to lose as it consists of two sections where you lose no health for picking the wrong choice, and the second choice brings about the same outcome no matter what you pick.
Doll Girl (Spoilers)
A broken, animated doll that only Yashiki can see. She appears to give hints and then vanishes after.
- Creepy Doll: Once again, an animated doll plays a major part in the game, this one wearing a red wedding dress and appearing broken. Unlike the previous games, this one is entirely benevolent, providing hints to survive the current spirit and eventually helping Yashiki survive against The Departed, though only because it contains the spirits of Himeko and Michiho; prior to them, it housed the vengeful spirits of the Departed.
- Due to the Dead: The founder of Konoehara Academy originally bought the doll and placed it in the tower to placate the victims of The Departed's Wedding. However, that wasn't enough to pacify them.
- Magic Antidote: She is one. Before the final encounter with The Departed, she asks you to eat part of her to save yourself from the Departed's red curse. You need to actually eat part of the doll to instantly cure the supernatural mold curse The Departed inflicts on you to survive.
- Red Herring: Douryou and Kinukawa claim that The Departed's true identity is the doll, as they believe she cursed them. Considering the series' history with living doll girls, this isn't a bad assumption. Nonetheless, it turns out to be wrong and a diversion made by the accusers; while the doll was their original body, they have long since swapped it with the real Douryou and Kinukawa.
- Soul Jar: It is revealed that the real Himeko Douryou and Michiho Kinukawa possessed the doll after The Departed stole their bodies. While they are not acquainted with Yashiki and have lost their memories, they can identify him as a target of The Departed and try their best to help him. In the good end, Yashiki retrieves the remains of the doll and repairs it with the girls' souls still inside, while in the true end, The Departed returns the girls' bodies, but Yashiki still retrieves and repairs the doll, mentioning that he had loaned it to Yasuoka during the Extra Chapter.
- Walking Spoiler: For much of the game, her character is left a mystery, as she only shows up for a brief moment before disappearing and can't speak well due to being broken. Talking about her without mentioning what's really up with her is difficult.
Hanako of the Toilet
Hanako Akai
The Arc Villain of Chapters 1 and 2. The spirit of a girl wearing a red overall dress, suspended off the ground by a water hose around her neck. In life, she was Hanako Akai, a second-year student and skilled pianist. She was bullied so badly that she was Driven to Suicide, after which she returned as a Vengeful Ghost.
- Affectionate Nickname: Called Horikoshi "Nao", and was called "Hana" in return.
- Ambiguous Situation: When she was last alive, Hanako was suspended by a water hose around the neck and was made to stand on a bucket by Izumi and Takai. After sobbing, she slips off the bucket. Yashiki not seeing the moment clearly makes it plausable to be an Accidental Murder as well due to her unlikely to live for long either way, though the result is the same.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: Hanako wasn't able to reciprocate Horikoshi's love confession when she was alive, having been too flustered and then Horikoshi didn't show up when they agreed to meet. Right before she kills Horikoshi as a spirit, she finally confesses.
- Bully Hunter: Her targets are the people who bullied her or ignored her bullying in life. This includes "Ribbon", who was killed before the story starts, Toshihiko Izumi, and her former best friend Naomi Horikoshi. Part of why she attacks Yashiki the first time is because she assumed he was a bully.
- Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Had one with Horikoshi. Came back to bite her, when she started getting bullied for being too much of a loser to associate with Horikoshi on top of everything else.
- Despair Event Horizon: She endured some harsh bullying but her friendship with Horikoshi kept her going. When she believed that Horikoshi abandoned her, she hanged herself.
- Dramatic Irony: Hanako didn't know that Horikoshi came to rescue her. If Horikoshi arrived just several minutes earlier, both would still be alive.
- Does Not Like Spam: Noted to have hated milk when she was alive. She was force fed it by her bullies when they were harassing her. Milk becomes such a traumatizing reminder to her that waving an old mop stinking of rotten milk is enough to scare her into temporary non-aggression.
- I Reject Your Reality: During the third phase of her boss fight, Hanako will start crying out for Horikoshi. Yashiki will point out that Hanako killed Horikoshi. Hanako denies this, seeming to not remember the deed, and believes that Horikoshi is coming for her.
- Iconic Outfit: Invoked. The Urban Legend Hanako of the Toilet is known for wearing a red overall dress. Hanako Akai's bullies forced her to wear a similar dress to mock her for the resemblance.
- Long Neck: Her neck is stretched out due to hanging from the noose for so long.
- Making a Splash: She can manifest hoses that can shoot jets of water strong enough to dismember people.
- Poor Communication Kills: Horikoshi not telling Hanako about the blackmailing led Hanako to assume her friend had abandoned her before she committed suicide. Considering Horikoshi a traitor, Hanako kills her in retaliation.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Hanako was bullied due to sharing a name with a popular urban legend and was forced to wear the iconic kindergartener uniform. When she died, he became one with the Urban Legend she was "supposed to" resemble.
Student S
Shinji Miho
A minor Spirit encounter in Chapter 3, Student S is one of Slit-Mouthed Kashima's victims who was pursued by the spirit and was killed in the gymnasium, haunting that room to this very day. When Yashiki touches a black face-like stain on the gymnasium storage room's wall, she manifests.
- Asshole Victim: Her real name is Shinji Miho, who was one of the accomplices responsible for Kashima's suicide, along with Erika Kamio. She and Kamio paid a visit to her grave to pay her respects and repent, but this only got them targeted by Kashima and killed for what they did in ruining Kashima's life.
- Eye Scream: Giant scissor blades impale her head through her eye sockets, up to the bottom of her big head.
- Ghost Amnesia: She doesn't even know that she's dead at first. Yashiki has to help the spirit remember her real identity and how she was killed before she can peacefully pass on.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Attempted to make amends to Kashima for her behavior by visiting her grave, but was killed as a result.
- Long Neck: Has a long, twisted neck that is a result from her body being distorted as a spirit.
Slit-Mouthed Kashima
Rei Kashima
The Arc Villain of Chapter 3, a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl with a preference for scissors. She appears when people get off the bus at S Cemetary at night. Her appearance is heralded by a sharp, metallic sound and her chanting, "Yukami ocean jimon abay". Her victims are turned into Human Pincushions by many scissors erupting out of their body. In life, she was Rei Kashima, an art club student who dreamed of becoming a hairdresser like her mother.
- Delirious Misidentification: She mistakes Yashiki for Mr. Hirose. Yashiki goes along with it to give her peace.
- Facial Horror: Her eyes look like they've been stretched out toward her hairline. Her mouth is also splintered apart, like slats of wood, giving her a strange variation of a Glasgow Grin. Clusters of scissor blades poke out of her mouth.
- Flower Motifs: In life, she asked her art teacher, Mr. Hirose, to draw her favourite flowers: hydrangea, bellflower, and cosmos. There's a floriography book you can find in the school library, which signifies their symbolism: regret for hydrangeas, unwavering love for bellflowers, and the heart of a pure maiden for cosmos. She was trying to convey her feelings to Mr. Hirose (the regret referred to her having to wait to graduate to be his equal). Finishing the correct flower sketch is required to survive her encounter.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: It's said that she slit her stomach open, nearly cutting herself in half. As a spirit, her upper and lower halves are separate.
- It Was with You All Along: She's particularly looking for the scissors that Mr. Hirose gave her, but what she has failed to realize is that when she committed suicide, her family cremated the scissors along with her, so the scissors are inside her mouth when she became a spirit. You have to take those out to pacify her.
- Madness Mantra: She chants, "Yukami ocean jimon abay" whenever she appears. She's actually asking, "You Kamio, Shinji, Manabe?", the names of her targets.
- Shear Menace: She kills people by manifesting scissors that burst out of their bodies, stabbing them from the inside out and turning them into a Human Pincushion.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Her depictions before you actually see her invokes this imagery, and it does seem to match from a distance. Subverted when you see her up close. She has the long black hair but it isn't obscuring her face anymore, and she's wearing her school uniform, which isn't white.
- Teacher/Student Romance: Rei Kashima, was a student who fell in love with her teacher after he gave her a pair of scissors to support her dream of becoming a hairdresser.
Pool Spirit
Kyoko "Ribbon" Takai
A minor Spirit encountered in Chapter 4. She's actually Kyoko Takai, aka "Ribbon", one of Hanako of the Toilet's victims who died before the events of the story, and became a Spirit due to her death at Hanako's hands. She has haunted the pool and has attempted to drown a few swimmers hanging around there at night.
- Arc Villain: For the first half of Chapter 4, as the spirit who is haunting the pool and attacking anyone who goes in. Afterwards, the Departed directly becomes the antagonist for the rest of the chapter.
- Asshole Victim: As Kyoko Takai, she bullied Hanako Akai into suicide along with Izumi who also hated Akai like she did. She was the first victim of Hanako as a spirit, strangled to death with hoses, as her spirit's appearance reflects.
- Attention Whore: She adored being the center of attention and formed a clique of fans primarily to revel in her popularity. When she wanted Hanako Akai to join her clique, she was very much upset by Hanako's refusal.
- Not Good with Rejection: Hanako Akai's rejection of her request to join her clique motivated her to bully Hanako into suicide along with Izumi.
- #1 Dime: Her red ribbon is precious enough to her that she was constantly looking in the pool to find it when she lost it. Finding this ribbon in her encounter is needed to have her pass on.
Mister Kokkuri
Masaki Kiyohara
The Arc Villain of Chapter 5. Around Konoehara Academy, there are two shrines. One in the second floor corridor and one in the surrounding Fox Forest. They're both said to be haunted by Mister Kokkuri, the ghost of a priest. He has a particular hatred of delinquents, and anyone who earns his ire will have fungi infect their bodies.
- Animal Motifs: Foxes. One of his shrines is in Fox Forest and one rumor describes him as wearing an inari mask.
- Body Horror: Mushrooms are sprouting all over his body, filling his torso. Some of his skin is falling off, revealing his skeleton. Underneath his mask, he's missing the upper half of his face. He still has his eyes, which are stuck to the mushroom "ears" sprouting from what's left of his head.
- Festering Fungus: His curse causes mushrooms to grow in and eat away at people's bodies.
- Given Name Reveal: Unlike the previous two ghosts, his name isn't immediately given. Figuring out what it is, is required for his spirit confrontation. His name is Masaki Kiyohara and he was a teacher at Konoehara 10 years ago.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: He is a lousy shot, although his aim does get better when he's angered. On the other hand, Mashita (who's a trained ex-detective) and Yashiki (who doesn't have firing experience) are able to shoot him accurately from a distance and in the dark.
- The One Guy: He's the only male spirit in the game.
- Trauma Conga Line: After losing his family to a bunch of drugged up hooligans, he failed in his revenge attempt against them, then got murdered himself and buried in a shallow grave where the mushrooms that indirectly caused his family's death began growing over it.
- Trigger-Happy: Known to carry a hunting rifle (impressive, considering Japan's strict gun laws), which he used to shoot trespassers on sight. When Yashiki and his partner run into Mister Kokkuri at the Fox Forest Shrine, he starts firing wildly.
Others
M Town Priests (Spoilers)
The priests of M Town who worshipped the gods Mushigami and Kabigami. Long ago, to stop a famine they felt was caused by the gods' wrath, they tricked the Mayamura sisters and two men into a Human Sacrifice ritual disguised as a double-wedding. The grooms were beheaded and the brides were covered in insects and mold, then left to starve, believing this would turn them into brides for the two gods. Instead, this turned the brides into the Departed, who killed them in the same way they were murdered.
- Asshole Victim: They beheaded two young men and then subjected their brides to a slow death by bugs and mold to sacrifice them to their gods. They then ended up among the first victims of the brides' rampage as spirits, killed in the same way they killed the brides.
- A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Though we never see it, records indicate they were killed by the Departed via bugs and mold; the very same fate they subjected the Mayamura sisters to as sacrifices to their gods.
- Greater-Scope Villain: They were killed a long time ago, but their murder of the Mayamura sisters is what turned their spirits into the Departed, the Big Bad Duumvirate of the game.
- More Hateable Minor Villain: Since the Departed are a sympathetic Big Bad for a change, these priests serve as an object of hatred instead. They're the ones who turned the Mayamura sisters into the Departed by sacrificing them and their grooms in a horrific Human Sacrifice ritual that involved the brides slowly being killed by insects and mold, so they could be offered as brides to the village's gods. In their single scene, they smugly dismiss the pain of the brides they are causing, instead telling them how happy they should be with their sad fate. While their motives were to please the gods in hopes it would stop a famine, this motive is given no sympathy by the characters whatsoever.
- Sinister Minister: They are priests of Mushikabi who performed a Human Sacrifice ritual disguised as a double wedding to please their two gods, whom they thought would be placated and stop bringing about a famine.
- Walking Spoiler: Since they are the entire reason the Departed exist.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: They believed that they could stop a famine afflicting M Town by sacrificing two grooms and brides to their gods, believing this would placate the gods' wrath.
