Negators (Undead and Unluck, The Union, Under)
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Negators
Individuals with abilities that allow them to negate the rules of the world, thrust upon them by God.Beware of unmarked spoilers. open/close all folders
General Tropes
- Bequeathed Power: According to Rip, when a Negator dies, their powers will transfer to a random different person. This is later confirmed with the location of the Negator with Unchange after Gina who originally had the power died. However, it's later revealed the power transfer isn't random and is in fact determined by the previous user, which explains cases such as Unbreakable having been members of the Isshin for 150 years and Mui getting Untruth almost immediately after Shen dies.
- Blessed with Suck: Compulsory activation abilities, especially if they are self targeting, tend to be exceptionally powerful, but the drawbacks or forced alteration to the Negators basically turns their lives into into permanent living hell from the moment they obtain it. This is by design, as God grants negator abilities in a deliberate attempt to cause as much suffering as possible, such as Tatiana's ability making it impossible for her to live normally and Fuuko becoming a shut-in out of fear she'd kill people with Unluck. Likewise, there are multiple instances of a Negator power manifesting being a Dream-Crushing Handicap to said individual. Anno Un probably has it the worst out of anyone, effectively being deleted from existence while still being forced to live in it.
- Classified Information: Negators whose powers have yet to be revealed to the audience have their abilities listed as "Un[Confidential]" when they appear on covers. At one point, Billy's power is listed as "Un[Investigating]" because although he claimed his power was Unbelievable, that could have easily been a lie - and so it proves.
- Cursed with Awesome: Voluntary activation Negators have it a lot better since they are free to use their ability at will or just keep it off. That being said, the moment they originally obtain their negation is still usually bound to Power Incontinence which oftentimes causes disasters to happen before they can figure out what's going on.
- Legacy of the Chosen: Chapter 197 has Fuuko realize that Negators don't actually receive their abilities at random, but are rather chosen by the souls of those who previously possessed the power and still partially reside in the ability. In addition to fitting with why the same people gain the powers every loop, Fuuko notes how Mui received Untruth from Shen in the 100th Loop, and how Unbreakable is passed down specifically through the Isshin clan, which would fit with Shen and the previous Isshin picking Mui and Haruka respectively. While God may make the timing to have new Negators suffer, the Negators themselves are chosen by their predecessors.
- Magic A Is Magic A: All Negators have a general ability that allows them to cancel some facet of how the world works, and each power has specific rules for how it activates and what it can affect.
- No Self-Buffs: One standard rule is that a power can either negate things happening to the user themselves or to outside targets, but never both. Andy's Undead (which negates his own death) is in the former category while Fuuko's Unluck (which negates the luck of other people) falls into the latter category, for example. However, some Negators can do this through Loophole Abuse if their rules are worded in a manner that allows such to happen; the 101th loop Sean is able to turn his friends invisible because his rule states he can turn anything that belongs to him invisible and said rule doesn't indicate what belongs to him has to be non-living.
- Power Incontinence: "Compulsory activation" type Negators can never turn off their powers, usually to their detriment. Voluntary activation abilities also experience a bout of uncontrolled use when first given by God, so that the Negator shares in the experience of its cruel inversion of Traumatic Superpower Awakening.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: While non-Negators have their memories retroactively altered when a rule is added or changed, Negators still remember the world as it was beforehand. For example, after Apocalypse unifies all languages, Shen can still speak and understand Chinese, while his partner Mui, who is herself Chinese, has no idea what he's saying.
- Semantic Superpower: Due to the nature of Negator abilities negating the rules of the universe, their limits and potential are dependent on how the individual perceives and interprets those rules, which means they can end up as a form of Personality Powers. One of the best illustrations of this comes from Unavoidable, which has shown two different individuals with the ability. Void's Unavoidable manifests as him negating his opponent's ability to dodge his attacks because of his professional boxer background. His predecessor meanwhile has his version of Unavoidable allow him to win lottery prizes, implying it negates an item of his choice's ability to avoid him.
- Spirit Advisor: In the 101st Loop, Fuuko discovers that Negators can actually commune with the souls of previous holders of their powers, in turn allowing them access to greater feats. She initially discovered this by accident while fighting Beast, meeting the previous Unluck users and firing off a burst of Unluck Soul, but manages to guide Haruka into intentionally doing so and meeting with the prior Isshins to be able to overcome Beast's stolen Unbreakable.
- Superpower Russian Roulette: Some Negators have powers that they can mostly control at will and that don't affect their lives that much; others, like Tatiana, have no chance of living a normal life after acquiring their powers and need outside assistance to live. It's noted that God always gives a Negator their powers at exactly the wrong time, so no Negator goes without suffering completely.
- Theme Naming:
- In the original Japanese, the names of the Negators' powers are English words in the form "Un[negated concept]" - Undead, Unluck, Untouchable, etc. - written in kanji with relevant definitions, outside of the Boss Subtitles, which are written in English text. This can't really come across in English, so the translation just uses the powers' names.
- Most Negators have a punny and/or meaningful name that references their power in some way. For instance, "Void" is part of "Unavoidable," and Juiz (Unjustice) means "judge" in Portuguese.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening: A particularly perverse inversion. Negators don't obtain their power as a result of trauma, rather, God grants their Negator ability specifically in the worst possible moment to maximize tragedy, typically killing people close to the new Negator, in many cases their own families or loved ones. Essentially, the precise moment a Negator becomes so is a great source of trauma for them.
Negator Organizations
Union
The Anti-Unidentified Phenomena Control Organization, a group made up of select Negators who work together with the goal of gaining enough power to kill the being the God that plagues Earth with tragedy. Initially hunting Fuuko and Andy, the two soon join their ranks and begin working alongside them
Under
A group consisting of Negators that wish to take revenge against the world and each have their own individual goals for joining the organization.
See here for tropes regarding the organization's negators.
Independent Negators
Assorted Negators not officially part of either the Union or Under. Anno Un
Anno Un (Akira Kuno)
Power: Unknown
Voiced by: Yumi Uchiyama (JP). Anne Yatco (EN)
"Show me the ultimate ending! A finale I'll never see coming!!"
The reclusive and eccentric author behind "To You, From Me," Fuuko's favorite shoujo manga. He possesses an intimate knowledge of the current time loop's past and future, the events of which he's written into his own manga, making it an indirect telling of the Earth's current timeline. His Negator power, Unknown, negates his own ability to be perceived by others.
- An Arm and a Leg:
- He cheerfully lops off his own left arm in order to get Fuuko and Andy to listen to him. While he can give himself a new arm with his pen, since they can only have one drawing active at a time, the effect is temporary.
- He loses the other arm blocking a Blade Runner kick from Rip in order to protect the book Fuuko and Andy were in at the time.
- And I Must Scream: After G-Liner breaks and "Anno Un" sacrifices himself to age up Rip, the real Akira Kuno is now permanently unnoticeable by other people.
- Art Attacker: He possesses the artifact G-Liner, a magic pen that allows him to bring his drawings to life, such as drawing a guillotine to kill some of Autumn's spiders or drawing a plane to make a quick escape. He can only have one drawing active at a time however.
- Ambiguous Gender: As a
Reclusive Artist, nothing about his sex or gender is known to the general public, and his androgynous design makes it difficult to distinguish him as male even when he does physically appear. Chapter 47 confirms him as male when narration refers to him as such, and even before that he used ore (オレ) as his first person pronoun, which is as unambiguously masculine as it can get. - Blessed with Suck: His ability is a compulsory activated one that erases himself from existence in the perception of others, causing him to completely disappear from everyone's sight the day it emerged. His ability makes it impossible to interact with other people since he phases right through them and his power also applies to things he's made, such as drawings and notes. The only reason his manga can be read by others is by abusing Loophole Abuse with his pen name, and he can only interact with others via an avatar double created by G-Liner.
- Born of Magic: The Anno Un who assists Andy and Fuuko throughout the Autumn Arc isn't the real Akira Kuno, but an avatar he made with G-Liner so he can personally interact with others.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Once his Negator power emerged, he effectively disappeared from everyone's sight, even his own mother's. He was forced to watch as she frantically cried over his disappearance despite being right next to her. After that he was forced to live on his own, though he found solace in his visions of the future, which gave him the drive to write his own manga.
- Genre Savvy: Pretty much an Invoked Trope in this case. The G-Pen gave him complete knowledge of the past and the future of the current timeline and he wrote a manga based on that. Due to this, he understands that his world pretty much work on Shonen rules.
- He Knows Too Much: A non-fatal example. Juiz and Andy theorize why Akira became Unknown the day he picked up the G-Liner was God's way to prevent him from sharing the information of the past and present he gained.
- I Owe You My Life: He feels this way about Andy and Fuuko, as their story he witnessed after touching G-Liner inspired him to keep living even after his negation ability ruined his life. From his perspective, they saved his life, so he's willing to return the favor in any way he can.
- IronicName: His real name Akira can mean "clear". Unknown essentially erases Akira's existence to others.
- Loophole Abuse: His power makes Akira Kuno unperceivable, not Anno Un. As such, manga written under that pen name can be perceived by others, as he discovered when he submitted a one-shot thinking it wouldn't get seen at all.
- G-Liner can only have one drawing active at a time. But that's "one drawing per person", so there's nothing stopping you from drawing an avatar who can then use G-Liner itself.
- Major Injury Underreaction: Seems to have no issue with having both of his arms chopped off, despite relying on them to draw. The fact that he's not the real Unknown probably helps.
- Meaningful Name: "Anno Un" is a transliteration of "Unknown," which is Akira's power. It also sounds like "anon", shorthand for "anonymous," which fits his predicament quite well.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: It's heavily implied his first use of his avatar was to reunite with his dying mother. Tragically, by that time she had just passed away.
- Pen Name: "Anno Un" is a pseudonym, which he admits to Andy and Fuuko when they first meet. His real name is Akira Kuno.
- Perception Filter: His ability negates his own ability to be perceived, making him completely invisible to all other living creatures. While others can still remember him, he can't meaningfully interact with them as himself, and any evidence of his existence is completely undetectable. The only reason other people can read his manga is due to him using Loophole Abuse with his pen name, and even then he's still invisible to them as a person.
- Power Copying: Using G-Liner, he can draw others' body parts and effectively use others' powers. For example, sketching Andy's arm allows him to use Part's Bullet, while sketching one of Autumn's claws allowed him to transform Andy into a book.
- Punny Name: Anno Un's pen name rolls "anon", "unknown", and the Latin words for "year one" all in a single name.
- Reclusive Artist: In-Universe. Nothing is known about them outside of their name and the fact that they wrote "To You, From Me," not even their gender, sex, or even their voice as they would communicate via silent phone calls and letters. It turns out to not be on purpose more so as the nature of his Negator ability making it difficult for him to interact with people.
- Seers: G-Liner granted him visions of the current time loop's past and future, giving him acute knowledge of said events that he would eventually write them into his own manga series.
- Spanner in the Works: He does this to God despite being essentially erased from existence to keep him from sharing the information gained from touching G-Liner: the original version of the Autumn fight resulted in Fuuko's death and subsequently the fall of the Union and any hope of humanity winning. He proceeds to help Fuuko and Andy grow by having Fuuko enter Andy's memories, allowing Andy to gain enough understanding of his abilities to be able to save Fuuko from Sean's murder attempt and therefore completely change the timeline from there. Furthermore, said growth give Victor enough hope to believe both Fuuko and Andy can actually kill God, which not only makes him stand down on trying to actively kill Juiz but choose to transfer over his points to Fuuko and fight off Sun during Ragnarok, allowing the 101st loop to even be possible.
- The Storyteller: He's loved telling stories since he was a child, and would take great joy telling his mother about the stories he cooked up in his head. This desire is what kept him motivated to continue on even after his negation took effect.
- Tomes of Prophecy and Fate: His manga, To You, From Me, is prophetic, as it's based on his visions of the past and future from holding G-Liner. The manga's story arcs reflect the real-life events that the Union have been a part of, such as the manga's "Space Soccer Club Invasion" Arc, which is a direct telling of the Acks' invasion and defeat in Chapter 20. Other major events and information, such as Billy's betrayal, also had arcs paralleling them but were omitted from the final product due to being rejected by the publisher. This left notable gaps in the story that perceptive readers such as Fuuko were able to pick up on.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: He possesses the artifact Soul Caliber, an orb that can separate someone's soul from their body and implant it in something else. He uses this on Fuuko so that she can experience Andy's past first hand.
101st Loop Akira Kuno
A technically new version of Akira Kuno prior to him coming into contact with G-Liner and by extension becoming Unknown. Fuuko goes out of her way to prevent this fate for him and as a result he gets the opportunity to live out a relatively normal life.
- I Should Write a Book About This: After meeting with Fuuko, he declares he'll someday write a story inspired by Fuuko's experiences.
- You Can't Fight Fate: Averted. Per Fuuko, unlike other negators, Akira only became a negator upon touching G-Liner and he's not fated to become Unknown whereas everyone else gaining their powers is unavoidable. As such, he is able to live out his life from where he would have originally gone missing, which is fine with Fuuko as she considers his actions in the previous loop as Anno Un were more than enough.
Lucy
Lucy
Power: Unhealthy
A girl that Andy picks up as he fights off UMA and the apocalypse following Fuuko's capture. Her negator ability is Unhealthy, which negates any and all forms of healthiness in her body.
- Action Survivor: In spite of her extremely poor health, her youth, and being completely alone after the sacrifice of her mother, Lucy manages to survive for two weeks against the increasingly catastrophic weather in the leadup to Ragnarok and the veritable horde of UMAs and associated dangerous effects and Juniors that are occupying her village before Andy shows up.
- Armor-Piercing Question: While trapped inside Seal and needing to teach Andy Astral Projection to escape, Lucy finds Andy apparently doesn't have any dreams needed to be able to project one's soul due to having lived for so long and achieved them all. Cue her muttering the following, which gets Andy to realize there is something being immortal can't let him achieve.
- So, you've got everything, huh?
- Astral Projection: Following [UMA] Ghost being added as a rule, Lucy discovered the ability to project her soul inspired by her love for Peter Pan and her wish to be able to play.
- Cursed with Awesome: Being constantly sick is easily one of the worst "powers" one could have. Even so, spending so much time unable to go out and be with others led Lucy to develop a powerful imagination, which has been shown to be key when it comes to UMA and Negator conflicts.
- Delicate and Sickly: Her ability puts her in a permanent state of illness.
- Foreshadowing:
- It's hinted she's a negator before the reveal when she notices the world changing after Andy kills an UMA. A non-negator would have had their memories altered to believe the changes were always present.
- An extra mentions how Lucy being able to astral project separates her soul from her body and that the negator ability only applies to the soul, so Lucy's physical body is able to recover while separated from her soul. This fact turns out to be important as astral projection is the key to preventing Ichico's death from her similarly debilitating ability.
- Meaningful Name: Lucy most likely is derived from the Japanese pronunciation of 'unhealthy,' which ends in the syllables 'ru-shi,' the same way her name is written in kana. It may also have influence from "lucid", as in lucid dreaming, alluding to her ability to project her soul.
- Small Role, Big Impact: While only a young girl, her powerful imagination helps teach Andy the secret to Astral Projection, which helps him when he's trapped by Seal and later when fighting Ghost and helps Andy to better understand what he truly wants. It's also implied what he learned from Lucy helped Andy be able to seal away the Master Rules on the Sun with his soul in the 101st loop.
Kenji Yokezu
Kenji Yokezu
Power Unavoidable
An elderly man living in Japan, who held Unavoidable before it passed to Void.
- Cursed with Awesome: Due to his limited screen time and the narrow scope of his abilities, he's one of the few Negators not shown to have his life negatively affected by his powers and in fact actively benefits from it.
- Meaningful Name: "Yokezu" is the Japanese word translating as unavoidable, alluding to him being the previous Unavoidable prior to Void.
- Paranormal Gambling Advantage: His version of Unavoidable negates the ability of the prizes he seeks to avoid him. This means he wins every raffle and lottery he enters.
- Professional Gambler: We see him using his powers to win a jackpot and through his dialogue it's implied this isn't the first time.
- Semantic Superpower: His version of Unavoidable is implied to be different from Void's, as it has less to do with making attacks unavoidable for others and more making desired objects unable to avoid his grasp, allowing him to nab winning lottery prizes, for example. Nico even questions if they could capture him to complete the quest instead of waiting until the next bearer and while Fuuko says they could, she wants Void's version as he was a frontline fighter in every loop prior.
- With Great Power Comes Great Perks: He uses his Negator ability to win such rewards as a free trip to Las Vegas.
- Your Days Are Numbered: The date of Void's tragedy where he kills someone due to gaining Unavoidable at the worst time comes at the end of January, meaning that Kenji's death is approaching. Indeed, Void getting Unavoidable during his championship match confirms that Kenji has passed away off-screen.
The Isshin Clan
In General
A familial lineage of blacksmiths that have been around since the Edo period, all of whom possessed Unbreakable during their lifetime.
- Bequeathed Power: While all Negator abilities are this, Unbreakable is notable as the power has consistently been passed down to members of the Yamaoka family without fail, with Haruka being the thirteenth one. The 101st loop reveals this is actually deliberate as who gets the Negator power next is determined by the previous user and is why the power has remained in the family for 150 years.
- Legacy Character: "Isshin" is the name they wear as blacksmiths and as the Unbreakable Negator, passed down for the last 150 years according to Haruka.
- Made of Indestructium: Anything they forge becomes this, being completely indestructible for as long as they live, so long as they have faith in their ability.
Tesshu Isshin
Tesshu Isshin — The 1st Isshin
Power: Unbreakable
"Everyone far and wide will fall in love with spring!!"
The first Isshin that lived during the Edo period and one of the previous holders of Unbreakable prior to the current Isshin, his descendant.
- Cool Mask: Like the current Isshin, his armor set included a demon-like mask. The mask was actually based on Spring's face and created originally so Isshin could approach it.
- The Greatest Story Never Told: During the Edo period, he took control of the Edo Castle in what was called the Bloodless Siege due to his soldiers being clad in unbreakable armor to change the perception and stigma of cherry blossoms. The story was altered by the Union, but a tanka poem passed down to his descendants does remain.
- No Body Left Behind: His implied fate after losing a game to Spring, judging by Spring taking a gravestone and leaving his armor next to it after the fact.
- Odd Friendship: In life, he was close to UMA Spring, when UMAs and humans generally are enemies, recognizing Spring meant no harm to people, and the two often played games together. Isshin's motivation for taking over the Edo Castle was to change the perception of cherry blossoms as a sign of death and misfortune. Once Spring remembers him after managing to break free of God's brainwashing, it's left in tears and resists being made to harm any more humans before begging for Fuuko to end it before its brainwashed form can harm anyone else.
- Posthumous Character: He's long deceased by the start of the series, but his legacy and friendship with Spring play a crucial role in the Spring arc.
- Strong Family Resemblance: He shares a similar eye shape, eyelashes and hairstyle to his descendant, the current Isshin. Spring even remarks on the similar hairstyles at one point.
The 12th Isshin (Major Spoilers)
The 12th Isshin
Power: Unbreakable
Yamaoka Haruka's grandfather, and the holder of Unbreakable prior to her. He passed away when Haruka was young in the original loop, but appears in the 101st loop prior to his death.
- Doting Parent: He heavily dotes on his granddaughter Haruka to where his stoic image takes a 180 degree turn. Learning the past version of Haruka helped Fuuko with Unbreakable is what convinces him to assist her and the Union despite said family rules dictating he cannot use his abilities to help Fuuko aka an outsider.
- Guest-Star Party Member: He agrees to assist the Union in his granddaughter's place until the day comes where Unbreakable passes down to her. The Isshin that appears following the Union's skipping to 2015 is notably fully armored and completely taciturn, with Chapter 192 confirming said Isshin is the grown-up Haruka, indirectly confirming he passed away off-screen at least three years ago.
- Killed Offscreen: A volume extra confirmed that he stayed behind during the Time Skip to 2015 to raise Haruka and build Unbreakable objects for the Union, but afterwards 'Isshin' shows up fully armored and completely taciturn. Chapter 192 confirms that he passed away at some point prior to 2012, transferring the mantle and ability to Haruka, Haruka later seeing his Soul amidst the past Isshin's when communing with the prior users of Unbreakable.
- Walking Spoiler: Talking more about him outside of being the current Isshin's deceased grandfather spoils the 101st loop since he's still alive at that point.
