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Aria

Voiced by Asami Shimoda

Theme Song: ????????/Veritas by mikitoP

A virtuadoll like μ and co-creator of Mobius, having wanted to create a virtual place people could be happy in. But as μ's popularity and control over Mobius increased, her own power decreased until she ended up in her current state. She realizes there's something wrong with μ and wants to stop her, since it was never planned that people wouldn't be able to leave Mobius.

She awakened the Catharsis Effect of the protagonist to give them the power to fight digiheads, and eventually does the same for the other members of the Go Home Club. Aria also was the one to tell them that talking to μ should give them the chance to return to the real world. She's worried over μ because she changed so much, and realizes that her taking in the negative feelings of those in Mobius is harming her.

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• Big Damn Heroes: The finale of the anime has her save everyone in the Go Home Club before μ can absorb them, and manages to save Shogo and Thorn from falling into oblivion.
• Don't Make Me Destroy You: The bad ending has her come to the realization that μ is too far gone with the negative emotions she has absorbed and cannot be reasoned with anymore, leading to Aria tearfully proclaiming that she'll kill μ if she has to.
• Final Boss: The last one to be fought on the bad ending route.
• Godzilla Threshold: For obvious reasons, Aria uses the Catharsis Effect Overdose in moderation and limits it strictly to two people as she's pushing the recipients to fight beyond their limits and letting their emotions run wild. In the bad ending, she and the rest of the Go-Home Club are too pissed off at the President's betrayal to care about the consequences and pushes the Catharsis Effect Overdose on the party beyond the absolute limit.
• Gratuitous English: Sports a lot of English words in her general speech. She uses 'YOU' when talking to other people and the protagonist, 'Okay', and says 'Go Live!' when awakening a person's Catharsis Effect.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: The reason for her absence in The Caligula Effect 2. After the events in Mobius, public support for her and μ plummeted, rendering them incapable of entering Redo.
• Leitmotif: Veritas. The song plays exclusively in Overdose as the theme when she's fought and is listed as ??????? in the soundtrack list. The lyrics show her trying to reach out to people that still need help, indicating that she's still trying to reach out to μ — and even the protagonist, despite them having betrayed the Go Home Club and heading for the destruction of reality.
• Limit Break: Can invoke one on people in the form of the Catharsis Effect Overdose, which increases the person's fighting capabilities beyond the standard limit — which has the drawback of straining the person's body, with Stork noting how wild and untamed the Go-Home club is when using it as Aria's letting their emotions run wild. While Aria uses it in moderation so as to not tax the Go-Home Club too much, the bad ending sees her use the Catharsis Effect Overdose at its most lethal, pushing everyone far beyond what they're used to, with Thorn even wondering if they'll survive the strain.
• My God, What Have I Done?: The bad ending has her realizing that her awakening the Catharsis Effect of the protagonist was the root of everything that happened.
• Rummage Sale Reject: Her original appearance has her wearing a light spot around her throat and ginormous bells tied to a big, tri-colored ribbon, coupled with a scarlet scape and white clothes.
• Sleep-Mode Size: Stuck in a super-deformed appearance because μ's power kept increasing and draining hers. She states that she would be bigger, if there were a lot more people in Mobius who knew the truth about it and wanted to work on leaving. She does regain her original appearance in the epilogue of the good ending and reverts to it for her boss battle in the bad ending.
• Synthetic Voice Actor: A virtuadoll whose voice is basically a synthesizing program.
• Unstoppable Rage: The bad ending has her ready to murder the protagonist after revealing themselves as Lucid. She not only increases the fighting capability of the Go Home Club, but her anger allows her to regain her original appearance in the Metaverse-Es, and fights the protagonist.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Never seen in the epilogue of the anime.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Overdose shows that Aria and μ are continuing as popular virtuadolls, and Aria has regained her original appearance.

Shogo Satake

Voiced by Shunsuke Takeuchi

Weapon: Large Revolver
Trauma: Bereavement
Birthday: January 10th

A third-year student that recruits the protagonist into the Go Home Club upon their awakening of the Catharsis Effect and shows that they aren't the only ones that know something's up with Mobius. He was the president of the Go Home Club, but stepped down and made the protagonist the new president after Kensuke joins.

Shogo comes across as very philosophical, if not lethargic, and has a strong desire to return to the real world. It's implied that he's been in Mobius for a very long time. He awakens his Catharsis Effect when his anger towards being stuck in Mobius surfaces during Kotono's kidnapping by digiheads.

His Character Episode has him getting forced into dating a girl whose smartphone he accidentally broke. He displays an obvious lack of knowledge about being in a relationship with someone and having difficulty interacting socially with people, including scoffing at the idea that the girl may genuinely be falling for him.

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• Adaptational Job Change: In the game, he started out as the president of the Go-Home Club, until he stepped down with the protagonist succeeding him. Animewise, when Ritsu is named the president when the club is formed, Ritsu tried to pass the job on Shougo, only to be declined.
• The Alcoholic: He laments in WIRE messages that it's hard to get ahold of alcohol because he's stuck in highschool in Mobius. But he still managed to bring a six-pack into the school during the anime.
• BFG: Uses a large revolver with a grenade launcher.
• Boom, Headshot!: His Overdose attack has him kick the enemy down, then point his revolver at them point-blank and shoot.
• Broken Bird: Reveals himself to be this as the game goes on. He failed to go through with the suicide pact he made with Ichika, leaving him feeling ashamed and guilty. Then he was taken to Mobius and is implied to have been there for years, before Thorn appeared and began to mentally torture Shogo — she looks identical to Ichika, the Landmark Tower remains a construction site in Mobius because it's where Ichika committed suicide and Thorn wanted to use it as a visual reminder, and often calls Shogo to places where she ends up committing suicide, so that he'll be reminded of Ichika's death again. Shogo admits himself that he never really cared about being president of the Go Home Club because he's not a leader or pro-active, he much prefers others to be in charge and him just going along with the flow.
• Celibate Hero: Has no interest in pursuing an actual relationship, and doesn't consider himself someone that anyone could actually love. He states in his Character Episode that he doesn't deserve to be dating anyone because of Ichika's death.
• Chained by Fashion: His Catharsis Effect adds broken handcuffs to his wrists.
• Crash-Into Hello: Introduces himself to the panicking protagonist by headbutting them.
• Dual Boss: Fought alongside Izuru on the Forbidden Musician route.
• Five Stages of Grief: Has been stuck on stage 4 — Depression — over Ichika's death for years. The end of the game has him eventually moving onto stage 5 — Acceptance.
• Flower Motif: Ivy and Anemone. The silk scarf he wears has an anemone pattern, and his stake is adorned with them. The many meanings of anemone include being forsaken or symbolizing the death of a beloved person, with the former tying into his feelings of being stuck in Mobius and being guilted over Ichika's death by himself and Thorn. The latter also symbolizes Ichika. Ivy tends to symbolize friendship, though it's depicted in a more negative light here because of his issues over Ichika, and his deteriorating relationship with Natsume.
• Heroic BSoD
  • His Character Episode reveals that he underwent one after not going through with the suicide pact and leaving Ichika to die.
  • Thorn repeatedly makes him go through miniature versions of this because of her looking exactly like Ichika, and throwing herself off of tall buildings, mimicking Ichika's death in real life. And Shogo says that this has been going on for about a year.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Subverted because he doesn't dislike women, just ends up very awkward when talking to them. He does work through it in his Character Episode with the protagonist's help. Overdose depicts him with having no difficulty talking to the female protagonist, though.
• Hikkikomori: Kept to his room after being traumatized from Ichika's suicide.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Feels responsible for Ichika's death because he ran away.
• Mid-Suicide Regret: Agreed to the suicide pact with Ichika and they went to the roof of the Landmark Tower that was still under construction at the time, but he got scared and ran away.
• Mr. Exposition: Serves this position in the anime because he awakened the Catharsis Effect first.
• My Greatest Failure: Running away from Ichika and leaving her to commit suicide, as well as never having even attempted to talk her out of her suicide pact idea. It's been 13 years since her death, and he still believes himself responsible.
• NEET: Having locked himself into his room since his highschool days means he has no training in anything or any employment, leading to him being really bad at it when forced to get a part-time job in Mobius. The end of the game has him say that he'll work on rejoining society and getting a proper job.
• Older Than They Look: He admits to being 30 years old, but is 18 in Mobius.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Becomes this with the female protagonist. He never shows any romantic feelings towards her, and considers her a valid ally and friend.
• Sequential Boss: The bad ending has him be the last of the Go Home Club to be fought.
• Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth. He dislikes making decisions, and prefers having others doing work for him.
• Taking You with Me: Does this to Thorn in the anime. Mobius is dissolving around them and Shogo decides to stop Thorn's control over μ by grabbing her and shooting the ground beneath them, leading to both falling into oblivion. Subverted because Aria manages to save them at the last minute.
• Trauma Button: Loses his composure and begins to panic when he sees people falling off of the top of high buildings because that's how Ichika committed suicide. Thorn's music has a similar effect on him, though he doesn't understand why.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
  • Overdose shows what seems to be him having left his room and visiting the cemetery to grieve at Ichika's and Natsume's graves.
  • The anime shows him leaving his room for the first time in years, even struggling to walk because he hadn't used his legs for so long.
• Would Hit a Girl: Doesn't mind headbutting the female protagonist or fighting against female Musicians, though he does seem hesitant towards dealing with Thorn because of the mental torture she's subjecting him to and her likeness to Ichika.

Kotono Kashiwaba

Voiced by Rie Murakawa

Weapon: Bow
Trauma: Cinderella Complex
Birthday: October 22nd

A third-year student that witnesses the protagonist realizing Mobius is fake and congratulates them on 'graduating'. She's part of the Go Home Club and there are implications that she was among the first of members when the club was founded by Shogo.

Kotono is very popular because of her kindess and maturity, though she has quite an acidic tongue to her when someone annoys her. She fell into a trap and got kidnapped by digiheads, though was quickly rescued by the protagonist and Shogo. Aria tells Kotono how unleashing one's emotions can unlock the Catharsis Effect, which Kotono promptly demonstrates and awakens her power.

Her Character Episode has her reveal to the protagonist that she has been getting notes from an anonymous stalker for some time, who keeps referring to themselves as 'Your Prince'. She's concerned, and asks the protagonist to help her figure out their identity.

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• Abusive Parents: Implied, and of the emotional variety. The anime shows a flashback of her being in a small apartment about to strike someone, implying that she might hit her son in her worst moments. Overdose has her flat-out admit that she has been neglectful towards Takkun, but deeply regrets it.
• Adaptational Villainy: The anime had her working alongside the Musicians as a brainwashing agent, until she ends up turning on them because of Ritsu and joins the Go Home Club.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Generally very sweet and kind, but Mirei manages to infuriate Kotono several times. She gives her quite a verbal beatdown after learning what her plan was by bringing Ryosuke to the aquarium.
  Fugly! Turkey chin! Deep-sea fish face, bow-legged, flat-footed, boob-implanted, nose-jobbed, saggy butt, cyborg bitch!
• Brainwashed and Crazy: The anime had her captured by Kensuke and turned into a digihead. Several episodes later shows her working alongside Mirei, roping men in and brainwashing them. But she began to remember that Mobius is a digital world and ended up breaking free from the brainwashing, developing her Catharsis Effect.
• Dissonant Serenity: Her reaction upon hearing how breaking down emotionally and unleashing their inner struggles allows a person to awaken their Catharsis Effect is to simply say she understands, close her eyes, and instantly begin the process of breaking down with nary a word. Aria is shocked she basically flipped the switch so easily and wonders what her deal is.
• Does Not Like Men: The anime had her acting condescendingly towards the men she was seducing, and is fairly violent towards Ritsu while she's still brainwashed. She almost slapped him, but stopped when it reminded her that she abused her son because he was male. Considering that her ex-boyfriend left her when she told him about her pregnancy, her reason for hating men was understandable.
• Dual Boss: Fought alongside Eiji in the Musician route.
• Energy Bow: Her weapon is a bow.
• Feather Motif: Her Catharsis Effect adds a long, white skirt and evokes the appearance of wings. Some of her attacks are also based on heavenly ideas, with her ultimate attack called Angel's Descent.
• Flower Motifs: Cosmos and Nemophila. Her collar has those flowers as its design, they surround her stake and her Catharsis Effect also places these flowers around her skirt. The cosmos flower represents beauty, modesty, and perfection, playing into her being seen as a mature young woman and hinting at her motherly side. The nemophila stands for success, which could mean her inner conviction that they will suceed in returning to reality or seeing herself as a failure by being a teenaged mother that had to work two jobs just to keep herself and Takkun afloat.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Downplayed because everyone being highschool age in Mobius means alcohol was most likely not involved. But Kotono admits that she went to several mixer parties, looking for some fun and a nice guy to meet, before she realized that Mobius was fake.
• Heel Realization: The anime had her feel that something was wrong with Mobius, especially since she could see Aria. When she was about to slap Ritsu, she stopped and remembered the real world and how she had a son that she physically abused because he was the same gender as the one that left her while pregnant. This helps her realize her flaws, allows her to unlock her Catharsis Effect, and fuels her desire to return to reality.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: Slept with her boyfriend once and got pregnant.
• Missing Mom: To her son Takkun. She has been in Mobius for two years, meaning he's now four years old.
• Mood Whiplash: Was shocked to learn she got pregnant after only one time, but she was delighted about starting a family with Ryosuke. But then he revealed that their relationship was just a fling for him and he ran off when he learned of her pregnancy.
• Older Than They Look: She's really 23 years old, but 18 in Mobius.
• Only Sane Woman: Plays this part when Mirei insists that she and Kotono get judged in a beauty contest at the aquarium, claiming that she cannot believe she actually has to do this.
• Parental Neglect: Overdose has her admit that she's been neglectful towards Takkun.
• Sequential Boss: The bad ending has her fought alongside Kotaro or Eiji, whichever of them is still alive, and Naruko as the first of the Go Home Club.
• Slut-Shaming: Kotono did this to her own mother. She grew up without a father and judged her mother for being loose and running a hostess bar, although she was an overall good parent to Kotono. But when Kotono became pregnant as a teenager and learned of the hardship of motherhood, she's come to appreciate her supportive mother.
• Teen Pregnancy: Became pregnant during her last year in highschool.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
  • The anime shows Kotono reuniting with Takkun and her mother, attempting to restore her family.
  • Overdose shows her spending time with Takkun, intent on becoming a better mother.
• Wistful Amnesia: For the majority of her time in Mobius, she had a troubling feeling of loss, until she happened to meet a guy with the same name as her son and her memories came flooding back.
• Woman Scorned: Given that her reaction to hearing her ex-boyfriend being drowned in a tank is to let it happen, it's clear she doesn't have a high opinion of him. He left her when finding out that she was pregnant with his child, forcing Kotono to be a single mother.

Kotaro Tomoe

Voiced by Yoshimasa Hosoya

Weapon: Gauntlets
Trauma: Messiah Complex
Birthday: September 16th

A cheerful guy and moodmaker of the Go Home Club, who was against the decision of making the protagonist the new president of the club. He grudgingly goes along with it, but still retains his belief that he would've made a better one for a while.

Kotaro comes off as abrasive, which is very accurate. But he's always intent on helping anyone in need, showing him off to have a much bigger heart than initially assumed. He dreams of becoming a rescue worker, just like his father. His Catharsis Effect awakens when a defenseless Mifue and Suzuna are getting threatened by digiheads, and Kotaro gets angry over wanting to save them, but not having the power to fight.

His Character Episode revolves around him setting up a site to help people in need over any problem, creating a basis of his dream of becoming a rescue worker. While it starts off as a bit of a joke, he quickly gets the case of someone's friend being in danger of becoming a digihead, and it leads to Kotaro meeting his cousin in Mobius.

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• Abusive Parents: His aunt and uncle treat him like garbage and rarely pay any positive attention to him, since they only took him in after his parents' death because they wanted to collect on their life insurance.
• Armor-Piercing Question: The protagonist delivers one to him during his later Character Episodes because he's refusing to help his cousin being chased by digiheads. He says how unfair that question is and breaks down in tears.
  What would your father have done?
• Berserk Button: Absolutely despises bullies because they go after the weak and defenseless. And if he encounters a bully that brags about what they have done, they have exactly ten seconds of Kotaro's self-restraint to get out of his sight.
• Butt-Monkey: The butt of the Go Home Club's jokes, especially from Aria's side.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Insists on helping anyone he meets, and believes it to be his duty as a future rescue worker. His trauma is based on this trait of his, wanting to save anyone he can because he was so powerless in the real world himself.
• Dual Boss: Fought alongside Kensuke in the Musician route. Unless Kotaro died during the Shadow Knife arc, in which case he gets replaced by Eiji.
• Family of Choice: Considers the strangers of the Go Home Club to have become his actual family, even calling the protagonist an elder sibling of his. Which makes his rage at the protagonist revealing themselves as Lucid in the Musician route an extra kick for him.
• Flower Motifs: Gentian and Heliconia. They are printed on his shirt, as well as surrounding his stake. The gentian can mean passion, referring to his hotheaded nature. It's also a flower used in medicine to treat various conditions, which can indicate his desire to help people and being a rescue worker. The heliconia flower's meaning is ambiguous, though it's a tropical flower that can be tough to grow in many climates. This could refer to his issues with his own height, finding it difficult to grow into the type of person he wants to be, as well as the height requirement for rescue workers.
• Hair-Trigger Temper
  • Tends to flip out and sometimes resorts to violence when the situation gets really stressful. He does end up feeling bad over losing his temper right after, especially if someone points out just how scary he can be. He becomes the most paranoid and suspicious of everyone during the Wicked arc, when the Musician claims there's a second traitor among them.
  • The anime shows this at its worst when the Go Home Club is locked into their club, and Ritsu and Aria are absent. He completely loses it and lashes out at everyone and angrily bangs on the door.
• Height Angst: He's only five feet (ca. 150 cms) tall in reality, despite already being in middle school. This is a big problem for him because there's a height requirement to become a rescue worker and he's about ten cm shorter than the average person his age. Mobius gave him the tall, muscular body he's always wanted.
• Heroic Sacrifice: The Musician route can lead to his. Should the player not have completed Eiji's Character Episode by the time Shadow Knife is fought, Kotaro will grab Shadow Knife before he falls off the Landmark Tower. He manages to save Shadow Knife, but ends up falling off of the tower himself and dying upon impact.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Tends to behave recklessly, without thinking about the consequences.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With the female protagonist, eventually calling her his older sister.
• Power Fist: His Catharsis Effect takes on the form of two giant gauntlets.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: The Gattling Gun skill uses this. His Overdose attack also involves rapidly beating the opponent with his gauntlets.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Naruko when he realizes that her Gossiper followers are digital, claiming that nobody would want to have to do anything with her in real life. He actually ends up hitting her where it really hurts.
• Rouge Angles of Satin: His Gossiper handle is supposed to say 'rescueman', but he ended up spelling it as 'lesquman'. He also wrote 'shutter' instead of 'shooter'. Both end up getting him mocked on Gossiper.
• Sequential Boss: The bad ending has him fought alongside Kotono and Naruko as the first members of the Go Home Club. If Kotaro died during this route, he will be replaced by Eiji.
• The Unfavorite: Was always ignored in favor of his cousin by his aunt and uncle. Since they only took him in because they wanted his parents' life insurance, it's clear they don't care about him.
• To Be Lawful or Good: Faces this dilemma in his later Character Episode of not wanting to go save his cousin, who is being chased by digiheads. The protagonist asks him what his father would have done and Kotaro breaks down in tears. He realizes that a rescue worker always saves someone in need, even if they may personally not like them.
• Younger Than They Look: Actually only 14 years old, while he's 18 in Mobius.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Overdose shows him drinking milk, hoping it'll help him grow taller when he's older to become a rescue worker like his father.

Kensuke Hibiki

Voiced by Shouta Aoi

I didn't want to believe that I was like others

Weapon: Claymore

Trauma: Peter Pan Syndrome

Birthday: February 27th

Theme Song: Peter Pan Syndrome by 40mP

A first-year student that the protagonist recalls having been a third-year student previously, leading to them realizing the true nature of Mobius. Kensuke is well-known among the highschool population, though mostly by his producer name of Kagi-P.

He is part of the Ostinato Musicians, though admits to being the newest member of the team. His main location was the highschool. When the Go Home Club confront Kagi-P and defeat him, he begins to question if being with the Musicians was the right path and chooses to join the Go Home Club, to see if they can convince him that returning to reality has merit. He originally had his weapon unlocked, but Aria insisted on safely awakening his Catharsis Effect properly after his battle.

His Character Episode has him trying to redeem himself for his previous actions as Kagi-P by fighting digiheads his former followers have become, and he's trying to figure out what to do when he returns to reality.

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• BFS: His Catharsis Effect is a giant two-handed sword.
• Coat Cape: He wears his uniform jacket over his shoulders, even in combat.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Became friends with the Go Home Club after being defeated by them, though Kotaro takes a bit to warm up to him.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: His reason for joining the Go Home Club was to figure out what to do with himself, and his Character Episode focuses heavily on having some sort of goal or plan before returning to reality.
• Dual Boss: Fought alongside Kotaro in the Musician route. If Kotaro has died at this point, he will be fought alongside Eiji instead.
• Foil
  • To Lucid. Kensuke originally joined the Ostinato Musicians because they could easily give him the fame and attention he craved through μ and her singing, but betrayed them by joining the Go Home Club to find his purpose in life. Lucid was shaken by Thorn's words and chose to join the Ostinato Musicians because they wanted to see the other side of the coin, seeing if there really were people who couldn't find a place to life in reality anymore.
  • To Naruko. Both turn out to have talents when it comes to creative things, but Kensuke's self-esteem leads to him having a hard time believing any praise he gains and thinking he's being mocked. While Naruko gets a lot of negativity, she ends up trying to focus mainly on what little positivity she receives.
• Flower Motifs: Bouvardia and Ornithogalum. They appear on the stake of his Catharsis Effect. The bouvardia means enthusiasm, likely referring to his desire to join the Go Home Club and finding a reason to return to the real world. The ornithogalum is also called the star of bethlemen flower, and usually symbolizes hope, honesty, and forgiveness. His Character Episode has him doing what he can to be hopefully forgiven for his actions as a Musician.
• Growing Up Sucks: His trauma revolves around a fear of growing up and becoming a boring adult like his father, with life turning into nothing but working for some company and having no time or ability to do anything fun anymore.
• Hidden Depths: Turns out to have quite a knack for writing poetry.
• Leitmotif: His theme song as a Musician was Peter Pan Syndrome. The song plays constantly in the school building, except for the old school building section.
• Loser Son of Loser Dad: Admits in his Character Episode that he's worried about this. He feels his father to be very boring, being a typical company employee that spends most of his time working, and not managing to achieve much in his life. Kensuke didn't want to end up like that, but felt like he didn't actually have a talent that meant he could easily become famous for something fun.
• Lyrical Dissonance: While his theme song sounds very uplifting and happy-go-lucky, the lyrics make the song a lot more sorrowful. It talks about having a lack of talent or anything extraordinary in his life that leaves Kensuke to feel inferior to others, and desperately looking for someone to see him as his true self — a talentless, ordinary, average joe — and still being accepted and loved despite it all.
• Older Than They Look: He's actually 19 years old, but currently 16 in Mobius.
• Sequential Boss: The bad ending has him and Izuru fought as the penultimate encounter.
• Starter Villain: The first of the Ostinato Musicians to be fought, and acknowledged by himself and the other Musicians of being the weakest. The Musicians admit that they aren't surprised that Kensuke abandoned them in favor of the Go Home Club. The anime averts this aspect by having Kensuke stay out of direct combat until Episode 6, where he gathers a large army of digiheads to attack at once.
• Trailers Always Spoil: His identity as the Musician Kagi-P was made obvious in pre-release material by listing them as having the same voice actor, and Kagi-P being absent from a group picture of the Ostinato Musicians. The English website actually spelled out his identity in his biography.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
  • The anime shows him studying hard in school.
  • Overdose shows him reading a magazine before discarding it, then picking it up again.

Mifue Shinohara

Voiced by Rie Takahashi

Weapon: Hammer
Trauma: Dysmorphophobia
Birthday: April 20th

A cheerful and bold first-year student that rarely lets her smile slip from her lips. She has a rather tomboyish personality, and a bit of a temper. She quickly takes to the protagonist and the plan to return to the real world, which she is desperate to do.

She displays her temper and a rather nasty side of her personality during the Sweet-P arc, when she has to infiltrate the highly exclusive tea party the Musician is throwing. Her Catharsis Effect awakens when she and the protagonist get ambushed by digiheads at Papiko mall.

Her Character Episode focuses on wanting to find the NPC that was assigned the role of her mother in Mobius because she wants to apologize to her. She also admits that she wants to use this as a sort of trial run because she also feels the need to apologize to her mother in reality, which is why she wants to return so badly.

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• Badass Adorable: Overall a very sweet person with a sunny disposition, and she can very easily kick ass with her hammer.
• Big Eater: She loves eating food, especially sweet things.
• Blue Is Heroic: The promotional material for the anime associated her heavily with light blue.
• Character Select Forcing: The player can choose any of the current female partymembers to be the one to infiltrate the tea party, but Mifue is the only one that will actually go through with it. The others will agree, but express discomfort of going, leading to Mifue offering to take their place.
• Cool Mask: Gains a neat iron mask with her Catharsis Effect.
• Crush Blush: Becomes a blushing mess when the male protagonist implies wanting to advance their relationship at the end of her Character Episode.
• The Cutie: This side of her is the reason why the Go Home Club thinks she's the best match to get the invitation to the tea party because she fits the 'dreamy cute' aesthetic Sweet-P goes for.
• Dual Boss: Fought alongside Ayana in the Musician route.
• Flower Motifs
  • Maiden Lily, Thistle, and Osteospermum. They decorate the cuffs of her blouse and her Catharsis Effect stake. The maiden lily shares its meaning with other lilies, referring to purity. The osteospermum, commonly referred to as african daisy, represents innocence. The thistle is a flower, but also a weed, and can refer to aggression, but also pride. A more negative meaning of the flower can be weakness, likely referring to her bad health in reality, and how her weakness caused her to hurt her mother.
  • She also gets associated with sunflowers because of her happy nature, and it's the flower name she picks when taking part in the tea party hosted by Sweet-P.
• Genki Girl: Rarely lets a bad mood get to her.
• Girls Love Chocolate: Her favorite food is a chocolate cornet, and she overall loves sweet, chocolatey foods.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Inverted with the male protagonist and Shogo using guns, while she smashes with her hammer.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Has this relationship with Suzuna in the game, due to the fact that they were the only girls in the Go Home Club that were the same grade. Mifue gains this relationship with Naruko in the anime.
• Irrational Hatred: Absolutely detests fat people. She tries to suck it up when dealing with the flower princesses to infiltrate the tea party, but complains about how fat they are and mocks them behind their back, to the point that she claims to get physically ill just from looking at them. Part of her Character Episode has her getting over this irrationality.
• Lovely Angels: With Ayana. The two of them are the most enthusiastic about taking down enemies during battle and at max level, they're tied for having the highest attack stat in the Go-Home club at 8,610. Their pre-battle and post-battle dialogue with each other really ties into this.
  Pre-battle

  Ayana: Mifue-chan, let’s pummel them all!
  Mifue: Yeah, let’s do it Ayana-senpai!
  Post-battle

  Ayana: Did you see it! The bolt of punishment!!
  Mifue: Did you taste it! The iron hammer of fury!!
• Missing Mom: Her Character Episode has her searching for her mom in Mobius. She specifically mentions that it's not her actual mom, but the NPC that μ created for her. By the time the NPC is found, she is being reformatted and cannot remember Mifue as her 'daughter'.
• Older Than They Look: She's actually 17 years old, but 16 in Mobius.
• Only Sane Woman: Has her moments here and there, but mostly plays it in the aquarium.
• Proper Tights With Skirt: Wears black tights under her school uniform skirt.
• Red Herring: Her attitude towards the flower princesses, and obvious lying when claiming her in-game appearance is just like how she looks in reality, makes Sweet-P guess that Mifue is actually fat. Quite the opposite, as Mifue had become so unhealthily thin from refusing to eat that she ended up admitted to the hospital for critically low blood sugar and malnutrition.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Her energetic side makes her the red to Suzuna's calmer and quieter blue, as well as to Izuru's stoic attitude, and to the protagonist in certain moments. She ends up zigzagging this with Naruko, while Mifue is the blue to Kotaro's hot-headed red.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Sweet-P believes that Mifue's disgust of fat people comes from her being a self-loathing fatty herself. Mifue was never fat herself, but she has a fat mother and her disgust came from a childish reaction of having been mocked by other children for having a fat mother. She actually loves her mother and really wants to apologize for her behavior, and the worry she put her mother through when she refused to eat.
• Sequential Boss: The bad ending has her fought alongside Ayana and Suzuna as the second round.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Suzuna's girly girl, while Mifue is the girly girl to Naruko's tomboy.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Her school uniform is casual and similar to the tomboyish female protagonist, especially when compared to Ayana and Suzuna being more elegant. Prior to the events of the game, she was on the volleyball team and Overdose makes her casual DLC outfit a trendy tracksuit. But she also enjoys eating sweets a lot, and was seen wearing a pink dress in the original version. She likes wearing jewelry and loves flowers.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Chocolate cornets, which she uses as her WIRE icon.
• Undercover as Lovers: She and the male protagonist pretend to be boyfriend and girlfriend in order to have him join her for the tea party. The same thing gets done while playing as the female protagonist, but done in a way without actually referring to them pretending to be a couple by having the female protagonist choosing to stand really close to Mifue.
• Weight Woe: She was disgusted by her fat mother and became terrified that genetics would mean Mifue would become fat, too, so she refused to eat. It's all but stated outright that she became bulimic and began to suffer from severe anorexia, though her having been admitted to the hospital for critically low blood sugar makes it clear. Her Catharsis Effect having her mouth being covered could be seen as a reflection of how little she ate in the real world, as well as signifying her issues with food.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The anime shows her still being in the hospital for her illness, but having managed to apologize to her mother.

Suzuna Kagura

Voiced by Minami Tanaka

Weapon: Spear
Trauma: Lunchmate Syndrome
Birthday: June 23rd

A quiet first-year student that joined the Go Home Club and is good friends with Mifue. She originally was happy in Mobius, until she saw an old middleschool friend of hers in school and realized everyone in her class was a fake.

Suzuna is rather timid and generally quiet, trying to keep the peace between people. But she has a temper to her when it's needed, including being able to loudly yell someone into submission. Her Catharsis Effect awakens in the library, when she becomes distraught over seeing her old middleschool friend having been turned into a doll.

Her Character Episode revolves around her admitting to the protagonist to have been eating alone and isolating herself from her classmates, since she knows they are not real people. She does want to improve on her timidness and learn to eat lunch with other people again.

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• Ambiguously Bi: Overdose shows her seemingly developing romantic feelings for the protagonist, regardless of what gender the player has chosen. The game and anime adaptation also imply that she has taken a liking to Shonen Doll.
• Badass Bookworm: Absolutely loves reading, and is potentially one of the best fighters in the group.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: Overall rather timid and shy around people, but when she wants to say something or tell another person off, it's best to keep ears covered because Suzuna will not be quiet at all.
• Difficult, but Awesome: Her fighting style requires precise setups to make the most out of them because of the timing and the nature of her attacks — instead of one strong attack, she does several for small amounts each time. If the player manages to catch an enemy in a broken Risk state and time her attacks just right, Suzuna can rack up thousands of hitpoints worth of damage.
• Dual Boss: Fought alongside Naruko in the Musician route.
• Eating Lunch Alone: Eats her lunch in the girls' bathroom since she realized the fake nature of Mobius.
• Flower Motifs: White Lily and White Spider Lily. They adorn her stake. Both belong to the same flower family and refer to innocence, modesty, and purity, which befit Suzuna's overall personality. The spider lily also has a more negative light in Asian culture because it's a common flower found around graveyards. Its bulbs are also poisonous, which could refer to Suzuna have more of a temper than one would immediately suspect.
• Laughing Mad: The bad ending has her let off a rather creepy, distressed one when the protagonist reveals themselves as Lucid. She laughs and tries to believe that they are just being brainwashed by Thorn.
• Living Emotional Crutch: The protagonist becomes this to Suzuna over the course of her Character Episode. They are the ones that listen to her troubles and give her the strength to take the steps necessary to get over her trauma.
• The Medic: Her healing skills are the strongest in the Go Home Club, though she lacks the party-healing skill that belongs exclusively to Kotono.
• Nice Girl: By far the sweetest member of the Go Home Club, without hiding a dark impulse or any dysfunction beyond her social anxiety.
• Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Her classmates are all husks based on her old friends from middleschool.
• Sequential Boss: The bad ending has her fought alongside Mifue and Ayane as the second round.
• Ship Tease: Gets a lot with the protagonist, and some with Shonen Doll.
• Shrinking Violet: Tends to rarely talk around strangers.
• Suddenly Shouting: Used to be part of the glee club, so she's very good at projecting her voice when needed. Her yells always hurt other people's ears, with Aria being a frequent victim.
• Used to Be More Social: She used to be very social in middleschool, but then she got into highschool and was separated from most of her friends. And her classmates in highschool relentlessly teased her, leading to her becoming as reserved as she is now.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The anime shows her reading a book in the park before being joined by someone who is heavily implied to be Shonen Doll.

Naruko Morita

Voiced by Ari Ozawa

Weapon: Bit
Trauma: Internet Addiction Disorder
Birthday: May 28th

A curious second-year student that lives on rumors, gossip, and attention. She started investigating the Go Home Club when they wanted to find out the identity of Kagi-P and helped them out, though ended up causing more trouble for them.

Naruko is upbeat and quick to fire up for things that sound interesting, since she wants to find things that would get her fame on the internet. While her reason for doing certain things isn't noble, she does want to help the Go Home Club and return to reality herself. Her Catharsis Effect awakens in the library, when she's separated from the others and gets distressed over having been potentionally abandoned by them.

Her Character Episode focuses on her trying to find a way to get more followers on WIRE and Gossiper, though the protagonist makes her slowly open up about why she cares more about the internet and followers than friends to hang out with. She eventually starts to write a story and encounters a troll that leaves nothing but negative reviews.

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• Adaptational Heroism: She sold out the Go Home Club by taking pictures of them and posting online, leading to the Musicians immediately knowing the faces of their threats. The anime cut this part out entirely and she's part of the club when it's formed.
• Attack Drone: Her Catharsis Weapon are two switchblade-shaped drones. The original version had them commanded separately, but this was removed in Overdose and they are now linked to Naruko's command.
• Attention Whore: Will do almost anything to get attention online. Her reason for posting pictures of the Go Home Club during the Kagi-P arc was to gain more followers.
• Bait-and-Switch: The Wicked arc has Naruko believed to be the eponymous Musician, and to have betrayed them from the get-go. Truth was that it was a trap designed by the real Wicked, who had manipulated Naruko into going along with it.
• Beam Spam: Some of her attacks have her drones shoot them.
• Catfishing: After she was shunned by her classmates, she confided in someone online she thought was a dear friend. Alas, the account was actually run by her bullies, who humiliated her with quotes and pictures she'd given her "friend" in confidence.
• Damsel in Distress
  • Gets separated from everyone in the Shonen Doll arc, leaving the protagonist to be the one to search for everyone and gather them back together. Naruko ends up the most distressed over this because of her past, though it also leads to her Catharsis Effect awakening.
  • The Wicked arc has her being kidnapped and held hostage by the Musician.
• Dual Boss: Fought alongside Suzuna in the Musician route.
• Fake Defector: The bad ending has her plead with the protagonist to admit that they aren't actually part of the Ostinato Musicians, and that they aren't really betraying the Go Home Club, that it was all just a ruse to have Thorn let her guard down. She's devastated when she realized it wasn't the case.
• Flower Motif: Amaryllis and Snapdragon. They adorn her stake, and an amaryllis is printed onto her headphones. The amaryllis flower is a very large flower whose size pretty much demands attention and stands for splendor, going along with Naruko's desire to be noticed online and being made much of. The snapdragon symbolizes deviousness, denoting her taking advantage of the Go Home Club to get more famous on the internet, but it can also stand for inner strength and shows when Naruko decides to keep writing her story, despite a troll and others having left mean and negative reviews.
• Foil: To Kensuke. Both end up having a hidden talent for creative means, with Naruko actually doing well when writing a story. She tries to focus on what little positive reinforcement she gets amongst the sea of negativity and keeps going on, while Kensuke's self-esteem leads to him distrusting any praise he gets.
• Genki Girl: Generally exciteable and tries to set the mood. Though some are less impressed by that.
• Heroic BSoD: The bad ending has her pretty much suffering one when the protagonist admits to being Lucid, initially refusing to believe it.
• Hidden Depths: Turns out to be quite good at writing a story, when she focuses on it.
• Humiliation Conga: Her trauma came from having suffered one. Her jounalist father's articles led to people accusing him and his family to be anti-Japanese, with Naruko getting shunned and bullied by her classmates. She turned to Gossiper to vent and began to talk with someone who seemed understanding, only to realize that said someone was a classmate of hers. And they decided to print their Gossiper conversations and taped them to the classroom blackboard, just to humiliate and bully her further.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: She craves attention from online acquaintances because she was shunned by her classmates and friends, leading to her preferring the hands-off approach the internet offered her.
• I Should Write a Book About This: She writes a story in her Character Episode that's basically the events of the Go Home Club and their struggle to return to the real world, but framed it into a fantasy-style setting.
• Karma Houdini: Selling out the Go Home Club had the others be rather apprehensive around her for a while, but it's pretty much forgotten by everyone when she properly joins them. Kotaro is the only one that still brings it up, though he's overall a bit resentful.
• Only Friend: Marie Mizuguchi was her only friend in Mobius, before Naruko joined the Go Home Club.
• Sequential Boss: The bad ending has her fought in the first round alongside Kotono and Kotaro. If Kotaro has died, he'll replaced by Eiji.
• Shipper on Deck: The anime had her very obviously hinting at something going on between Ritsu and Marie, even noting that she shows up at the Go Home Club's room more when Ritsu is around.
• Squishy Wizard: Dishes out a lot of dirt with her drones by the number of attacks making up for her low Attack parameter, and her fighting style does allow her to keep a distance from the enemy. But if she gets too close to an enemy or they break through to her, she will generally not survive for long.
• Status Effects: Has an unlockable skill to poison the enemy. In the original version of the game, she was the only party member that could do so, though Overdose added this skill to Eiji's pool as well.
• Troll: Gets hit by a nasty troll when she posts her story online. She also used to be a major troll herself after her classmates bullied her, with Naruko taking to trolling all sorts of things and even μ's videos, which led to her being taken to Mobius.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: While she's friends with Kotaro, the two do end up butting heads a lot.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The anime shows that Naruko has quit focusing so much on the internet, and has started working on becoming a professional writer.

Izuru Minezawa

Voiced by: Yuichiro Umehara (Game, Episode 1-8), Tomoaki Maeno (Episode 9-12)

Weapon: Sword
Trauma: Shizoid Personality Disorder
Birthday: July 8th

A second-year student that wants to return to reality himself, but refuses to join the Go Home Club. After the events in the library, he decides to join the club and hopes to find a way to return to the real world that way.

Izuru is a nearly-emotionless loner and seems to show very little care in other people. He focuses mostly on attaining his goal, and would prefer to manage to do so on his own because of his past. His Catharsis Effect awakens in the aquarium, when he gets accosted by a digihead and his lack of power meant the others had to keep him safe. He hated having to rely on others in Mobius and it being no different from the real world, upsetting him enough to allow Aria to unlock the effect.

His Character Episode revolve around him learning to do things on his own, something he admits to the protagonist of being not used to. He asks them to come along, so that he can have some metaphorical support by his side.

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• Adaptational Personality Change: In the game, he refused to join the club, to the point it took Shounen-Doll turning him into a doll and then being changed back once he is defeated to get him to change his mind. In the anime, he willingly joins the club once it's formed.
• Back from the Dead: Was turned into a doll by Shonen Doll and Aria believed him to be too far gone for her to save him. But after Shonen Doll is defeated, Izuru manages to return to normal.
• Coat Cape: Wears a long, black coat draped over his shoulders.
• Cool Mask: His Catharsis Effect includes a mask that covers the left side of his face.
• Cool Sword: His Catharsis Effect weapon is a long katana-like sword.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Several of his attacks have more sinister-sounding names than those of the other partymembers, but there's no doubt that he's one of the good guys.
• Deadpan Snarker: His aloof personality leads to many such moments.
• Dead Person Impersonation: It's never mentioned in-game, but his appearance in Mobius is based on that of a celebrity that had committed suicide.
• Dual Boss: With Shogo on the Musician route.
• Even the Guys Want Him: The anime has most of the admiring comments he gets being from women, but there is one boy who writes, 'Please take me at once. I offer you my everything'.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Wears a black glove on his right hand with his Catharsis Effect.
• Flower Motifs: Nicotiana and Lavender. They adorn his stake in his Catharsis Effect. The nicotiana is a type of flower that tobacco is made from, which is known to be bad for a person's health. Lavender tends to symbolize grace and calmness, befitting Izuru's personality. It's also commonly used in medicine to treat minor injuries. Both of them revolving around health and damaging it could point to Izuru's tendency to self-harm, and the lavender could point to μ's misunderstanding of thinking he wanted to heal his scars.
• Gory Discretion Shot: The game never shows Izuru harming himself, merely implying it or letting it occur off-screen, with nothing but noises and reactions being heard.
• Healing Factor: No matter what injuries he sustains in his face, they keep healing and leaving no mark behind. The anime turned this to be the reason why he looks how he does in Mobius, rather than going the dead-celebrity-route the game had.
• Hopeless with Tech: Uses his phone for WIRE, but barely seems to know what to do with it. He uses the blank icon because he doesn't know how to change it, and his messages were written solely in Hiragana in the Japanese version. The English translation turned this into his messages being very short. Ayana makes use of this in her Character Episode by threatening to change the password of his phone if he doesn't read the letter she wrote him. This all likely stems from his mother's control over him, having probably never had free access to a cellphone before arriving in Mobius.
• Loner-Turned-Friend: Initially rejected Shogo's offers of joining the Go Home Club because he wanted to figure out how to go back to reality on his own, but decided to join them after Shonen Doll was defeated.
• Loners Are Freaks: Averted with most of the students considering Izuru to be mysterious and cool.
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: The trick to his fighting style is to set him up for continuous combos, as most of his attacks end up connecting into another attack variant when it successfully hits. As long as Izuru has turn to spare and SP to burn through, he could continuously attack the enemy, as long as he doesn't get countered.
• My Beloved Smother: His mother was incredibly controlling of him and basically ran his life, ranging from insisting on him practicing the violin to refusing to let him do anything that she didn't deem alright. Her control led to him being pretty much unprepared to being on his own, and he never even stepped foot into a clothing store by himself.
• Scars Are Forever: Admits to having many scars on his face in real life, all self-inflicted.
• Self-Harm: Has a tendency to cut himself, particularly in the face. It's heavily implied that the mask of his Catharsis Effect covers up the scars he has in reality, with the anime confirming this by having the mask form from a cut that appeared on his left cheek. He admits to liking it because it was the first thing he ever did based on his own choice and decision.
• Sequential Boss: The bad ending has him fought alongside Kensuke as the penultimate round.
• Slasher Smile: The anime has him sport one when he realizes that the wounds he receives don't heal anymore because μ was in a coma. He takes the opportunity to slash the left side of his face repeatedly with a glass shard, until μ regained consciousness and healed the injuries.
• Spared by the Adaptation: The anime had him never getting turned into a doll by Shonen Doll.
• The Stoic: Rarely expresses emotion, to the point that he's convinced that he doesn't have any. This does cause him some annoyance when he hears that emotional turmoil is what causes the Catharsis Effect to awaken. And he expresses surprise when his frustration of being useless on his own was actually strong enough to awaken it.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
  • The anime shows him having confronted his mother about her controlling behavior, and happily strolling through the city on his own.
  • Overdose has Izuru browsing a clothing shop with someone who is presumed to be Ike-P.