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Takuya Arima
Takuya Arima
- Accidental Pervert: Takuya accidentally walks in on Kanna in the shower. However, the point of the scene is that she doesn’t actually care.
- Androcles' Lion: Takuya takes in a nogard, raises it and protects it at the quarry. In return, when it is fully grown it rescues him from the collapsing quarry.
- Always Save the Girl: Takuya is determined to rescue Yu-No despite the world apparently depending on her sacrifice.
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Takuya captures a woman who instantly accuses him of being a pervert and rapist. Considering she’s naked and he ties her up she kind of has a point, but then she seems kind of annoyed when he declares he has no intention of doing anything like that to her. In fact, she seems to want him to do it.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Mio.
- Big Eater
- Blatant Lies: If you keep clicking on certain background characters Takuya will hit them and claim they had a mosquito on their face or something, at which point they will thank him while noting he chipped a tooth or caused a compound fracture.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Takuya will yell at you if you insist on certain actions. He’ll also note that it would be rather mean to make you also press the answer button on the phone after picking it up.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Takuya appears to be doing so poorly simply because he doesn’t care enough about school.
- Cassandra Truth: Ayumi won’t believe a thing Takuya says without proof.
- Character Tic: Takuya’s first reaction to finding things is often to smell them. And no, you don’t really get any useful information out of doing so.
- Chick Magnet: Mio and Mitsuki are after him from the start, Ayumi is in love with him and trying to hide it, about a day’s worth of interaction wins over Kanna. Mio also alludes to how he had a lot of fangirls when he was taking classes seriously and in the kendo club.
- Chivalrous Pervert: To Kanna’s mild confusion, Takuya isn’t as sex crazed as he acts.
- Crossing the Desert: Takuya tries this twice. The first time he fails: Sayless tries to stop him, he spills all his water due to an earthquake, and he eventually decides to stay with her. On the second time, years later, he is accompanied by Yu-no, and they run out of supplies but manage to find an oasis.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Takuya is quite unhappy with the morals he has to live with in the true route.
- Determinator: But it doesn’t always work out to his advantage. He’s so incredibly stubborn that he manages to really screw himself over a few times.
- Disappeared Dad: The search for him in fact makes up the majority of Takuya’s motives.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: Thing is, he’s both right and wrong.
- Fourth-Date Marriage: Takuya knows Sayless for all of a week before they’re basically married.
- The Gadfly: Takuya likes to pick on Mio just to see her get mad.
- Gainax Ending: The true route whisks Takuya off to an alternate world where he starts living with some mute girl and goes on an adventure. The ending itself has Takuya and Yu-No as apparently the original Adam and Eve.
- Lemony Narrator: Takuya has some interesting things to say if you keep checking things out or try doing weird stuff.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: Takuya is known as the Walking Libido.
- Love Triangle: Yuuki likes Mio, who likes Takuya. Takuya’s response depends on the route.
- Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Takuya's initial objective is to investigate his father's mysterious disappearance, and find if he's still alive somewhere across dimensions. However, this leads him to unveil bigger and bigger mysteries, and by the end of the True route, he has to prevent two universes, including his own, from being anihilated.
- Overly Long Gag: Takuya’s Bat Deduction in Kanna’s route. Eriko even yells at him for it.Takuya: Takuya: When you think of cigarettes, you think of smoke… when you think of smoke, you think of something drifting about… when you think of something drifting about, you think of a jellyfish… When you think of a jellyfish, you think of the ocean… when you think of the ocean, you think of blue… when you think of blue, you think of the sky… when you think of the sky, you think of clouds… when you think of clouds, you think of white… when you think of white, you think of a white coat… when you think of a white coat, you think of a school doctor… when you think of a school doctor,Eriko: A-are you stupid!? How do you even dream up a deduction like that!?
- Parental Incest: Ayumi and Takuya, though they’re not actually related and haven’t known each other for that long.
- Selective Obliviousness: During the early parts of the Mitsuki route it’s implied that Takuya is going out of his way not to interpret Mio’s tsundere behavior correctly. Mio’s route has him really going out of his way not to think about it too much.
- Sex Equals Love: Despite being The Tease, Takuya will generally refuse to have much to do with a woman that he is not in love with. If in an emotionally vulnerable state such as after the ‘death’ of his father or after Ayumi is ruined it’s a different story, though.
- Speak Ill of the Dead: Even before deciding his father is still alive, Takuya is still quite prone to badmouthing his old man.
- Strong as They Need to Be: Sometimes Arima can have a pretty good knowledge of self-defense to the point where he can outsmart and defeat opponents like Hojo and Bask with his wits and fighting skill. When push comes to shove, he can manhandle and beat up a full grown adult like Hideo. And at one point he gets good enough in swordsmanship to where he can kill a giant monster singlehandedly. Then other times, he'll suffer some really humiliating beatdowns at the hands of random thugs or Dela Grante soldiers with Arima being made to look like a complete amateur.
- Student/Teacher Romance: Mitsuki and Takuya had a fling about a month before the story started. Their dialogue tends to be pretty laden with innuendo.
- The Tease: Only towards Mio and Eriko. He doesn’t know Kanna well enough, Ayumi wouldn’t take it well and he and Mitsuki already had a previous relationship. Push come to shove, he’s not nearly as bold as he pretends.
Kanna Hatano
Kanna Hatano
Voiced by: Maaya Uchida (Japanese), Kristen McGuire (English)
- Amulet of Dependency: Kanna will die without her amulet. When it’s lost, you get her bad ending unless you’ve gone through the Kaori branch and acquired the Hypersense Stone from the lab.
- Attempted Rape: Houjou when under mind control tries to rape Kanna. Much as Takuya hates Houjou, he knows that the man isn’t the kind of person who could normally do that.
- Bittersweet Ending: Mio, Kanna and Ayumi’s endings since he gets whisked back into to the beginning. They get actual endings once you’ve completed the whole story though.
- Curtains Match the Window: Dark blue hair and eyes.
- Fourth-Date Marriage: Kanna was just a classmate until suddenly they were basically engaged after two days. At least Takuya had known Ayumi for some time!
- Immortal Immaturity: Kanna looked the same fifty years ago as she does now, but just acts like a rather withdrawn teenager.
- Mysterious Waif
- New Transfer Student
- Older Than They Look: Kanna is about fifty.
- Purple Is the New Black: Takuya says that Kanna’s clearly blue hair is black.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Kanna is completely unconcerned with being seen naked.
- When She Smiles: Takuya loves seeing Mio and Kanna smile or laugh.
Mio Shimazu
Mio Shimazu
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (Japanese), Megan Shipman (English)
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Takuya.
- Bittersweet Ending: Mio, Kanna and Ayumi’s endings since he gets whisked back into to the beginning. They get actual endings once you’ve completed the whole story though.
- Love Triangle: Yuuki likes Mio, who likes Takuya. Takuya’s response depends on the route. Also, Mitsuki still likes Takuya and Mio gets jealous of her and feels like they’re competing.
- Must Not Die a Virgin: After lengthy Belligerent Sexual Tension all throughout the route, when Mio appears to have given up on escaping from beneath Triangle Mountain she propositions Takuya. Takuya lets her know he hates death thoughts like that but they go ahead anyway.
- The Ojou: Much to Mio’s irritation, Takuya delights in pointing this out.
- Ojou Ringlets
- Tsundere: Lampshaded quite early on. In her route, Takuya largely acts as a tsundere to her as well.
- When She Smiles: Takuya loves seeing Mio and Kanna smile or laugh.
Mitsuki Ichijō
Mitsuki Ichijō
Voiced by: Saori Oonishi (Japanese), Kylie Stewart (English)
- Car Fu: Attempts to run over Takuya with a car while under the influence of mind control.
- Downer Ending: Mitsuki dies in her ending. Actually, she apparently dies in all of them. We don’t see what happens in Ayumi or Kanna’s routes, but she’s pierced by lightning in Mio’s route and shot in her own at which point Eriko says that she was destined to die at this time no matter what.
- Dying as Yourself: Apart from bad endings, Mitsuki breaks out of the mind control before dying.
- Love Triangle: Mitsuki still likes Takuya and Mio gets jealous of her and feels like they’re competing.
- Mind-Control Eyes: Mitsuki, as revealed in Mio’s route, though she probably had them the other times she turned out to be a pawn as well.
- Student/Teacher Romance: Mitsuki and Takuya had a fling about a month before the story started. Their dialogue tends to be pretty laden with innuendo.
- Taking the Bullet: Mitsuki takes a bullet for Takuya.
Eriko Takeda
Eriko Takeda
Voiced by: Yuu Kobayashi (Japanese), Morgan Garrett (English)
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The school nurse and Takuya's homeroom teacher.
- Aloof Ally: Eriko is perfectly trustworthy and has compatible goals with Takuya, but she doesn’t involve herself with him or tell him much of anything. Much later (in the true route in the game, and in episodes 12 and 13 of the anime) she is revealed to be an interdimensional researcher in pursuit of the entity that is posing as Ryuuzouji.
- Cleavage Window: In her redesign, she has one in her true identity outfit.
- Hospital Hottie: She's a nurse and she's very easy on the eyes.
- Hot Teacher: She's Takuya's homeroom teacher and very sexy.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: She's a nurse.
- The Matchmaker: Eriko likes pushing Takuya towards Mio. Takuya pushes Yuuki towards Mio, but Takuya doesn't seem to really care and doesn't expect it to go well.
- No Smoking: The original 1996 VN promiently depicted Eriko as almost always smoking a cigarette, usually Instant Dogend style. Later adaptations has either done entirely away with this trait, or have given her an Oral Fixation instead.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Eriko's getup when she's out searching. Apparently, the extremely revealing clothing she's wearing is meant to help her blend in, much to Takuya's disbelief.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Eriko goes from unkempt and scraggly with a very generous figure to quite stunning when she puts on a dress and moves her hair out of her eyes.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Especially since there's no actual route for her.
- Uncertain Doom: In one of the endings, she ends up unconscious and drooling at the hands of Mitsuki and Kozo. However it's never mentioned if she's actually dead or simply in a vegetative state as it's quickly undone by Takuya entering another timeline.
Kaori Asakura
Kaori Asakura
Voiced by: Rena Maeda (Japanese), Kara Edwards (English)
- Curtains Match the Window: Green hair and eyes.
- Intrepid Reporter: Is investigating Geotech.
- Stripperific: Kaori doesn’t wear a bra and leaves her shirt unbuttoned to the extent that Underboobs shows. You’d think people would comment more on a famous reporter dressing like that.
- Wild Card: Kaori works for Ryuzouji and just seems to be in it for the money, but she’s also willing to make deals with Takuya that you can’t progress through the game without accepting as well as consoling him, both euphemistically and otherwise, after the confrontation with Toyotomi goes wrong. In Kanna’s route she blatantly sets Takuya up to take the fall for her when stealing from Geotechnics.
Ayumi Arima
Ayumi Arima
Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (Japanese), Dawn M. Bennett (English)
- Alliterative Name: Ayumi Arima
- Bittersweet Ending: Mio, Kanna and Ayumi’s endings since he gets whisked back into to the beginning. They get actual endings once you’ve completed the whole story though.
- The Ditz: Ayumi is not unintelligent, but she’s a bit of an airhead.
- Driven to Suicide: Ayumi in her bad end after ignoring Takuya’s pleas about the true nature of Toyotomi.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Ayumi puts an absurd amount of trust in Toyotomi of all people despite his obvious sliminess.
- Idiot Hair: Has a cowlick that points up.
- Interrupted Suicide: In Ayumi’s good ending, Takuya stops her from slitting her wrists. You can’t reach this ending until after you’ve seen her do it successfully.
- Not Now, Kiddo: Nobody ever listens. Especially Ayumi.
- Parental Incest: Ayumi and Takuya, though they’re not actually related and haven’t known each other for that long.
- Replacement Goldfish: Ayumi has been trying really hard with mixed success not to treat Takuya like this.
- Selective Obliviousness: Ayumi wasn’t really as dense about Takuya’s feelings as she acted.
- Third-Person Person: Ayumi on occasion. She does it so Takuya won’t look at her as a woman so much.
Kozo Ryuzoji
Kozo Ryuzoji
Voiced by: Taiten Kusunoki (Japanese), David Wald (English)
- Big Bad: Though he has little presence in Mio or Ayumi’s routes.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Ryuuzouji has been dead for a month. The fake made up the curse to explain Ryuuzouji’s attempts to get assistance before finally dismembering him and hiding his limbs and head.
- Hypnotic Eyes: People with Nairb syndrome can be hypnotized by looking into Ryuuzouji’s eyes.
Ume Ryuzoji
Masakatsu Yuuki
Masakatsu Yuuki
Voiced by: Yūki Fujiwara (Japanese), Justin Briner (English)
- Bad Liar: And it’s not played for laughs.
- Bromantic Foil
- Curtains Match the Window: Hair and eyes are the same color.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Yuuki spills Mio’s confidential family information to the school and pretends Takuya did it out of jealousy.
- Hopeless Suitor: Yuuki has no chance at Mio. So he tries to make one.
- Love Triangle: Yuuki likes Mio, who likes Takuya. Takuya’s response depends on the route.
- Oblivious Guilt Slinging: In Mio’s route, it’s clear that Yuuki is the one who told everyone about the corruption of Mio’s father right from the start and when you see the two speaking along with Mio apparently oblivious you can see his composure go out the window when she says that thanks to this incident she’ll be moving away and thanks him for his support. But it’s actually a subversion. This is the conversation where she figured out for sure that Yuuki was really the one who had done it and presumably just didn’t want to hurt him by pointing it out directly.
- Sarcasm-Blind
Hideo Toyotomi
Hideo Toyotomi
Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (Japanese), Kyle Igneczi (English)
- Comforting the Widow: He’s not a very nice guy.
- Jerkass
- Karma Houdini: Toyotomi’s plans to sell out the company he works for in order to get a better job fail, but he still gets to take Ayumi’s position. Subverted in the OVA. Takuya kills Toyotomi in the 4th episode.
- Smug Snake
Kodai Arima
Kodai Arima
Voiced by: Fumihiko Tachiki (Japanese), Barry Yandell (English)
- Posthumous Character: Kodai Arima’s status is pretty questionable throughout the story, though he’s considered dead in universe and alive by Takuya. After the true route you can say he’s really not dead or alive since he’s moved himself outside of the dimensional axis in some manner in order to observe creation. He makes no direct appearances.
Keiko Arima
Keiko Arima
Voiced by: Aya Endo (Japanese), Marissa Lenti (English)
- Immortality: It’s mentioned offhandedly that the potential inherent in the Reflector and new approach to history could even lead to this. Takuya’s mother was immortal for some reason and Kanna might be as well.
Atsushi Hojo
Atsushi Hojo
Voiced by: Youji Ueda (Japanese), Marcus D. Stimac (English)
Marina
Marina
Voiced by: Ayano Yamamoto (Japanese)
- Idiot Hair: Has a cowlick that points up.
- Tomboyish Ponytail
Mayor Shimazu
Mayor Shimazu
Voiced by: Takehiro Hasu (Japanese), Brian Mathis (English)
Yurika Imagawa
Yurika Imagawa
Voiced by: Katelyn Barr (English)
- Apocalyptic Log: After becoming trapped beneath Triangle Mountain until she grew too weak to escape after figuring out how, Professor Imagawa simply set about recording her last days. Her last entry states that instead of waiting to starve to death she’s going to impale herself on a spike that’s sticking out of the wall as a more ‘dignified’ way to die.
- Posthumous Character: Died beneath Triangle Mountain some months prior.
True route
Yu-No
Yu-No
Voiced by: Ari Ozawa (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft (English)
- Cheerful Child
- Daddy's Girl: Sayless never seems to feel left out or anything, but her daughter does indeed develop an attraction for her father. She also felt like she was competing with her mother.
- Girlish Pigtails: Of the braided variety.
- Idiot Hair: Has a cowlick that points up.
- Is It Something You Eat?: In the epilogue Yu-No has no idea what friends are despite being physically around fifteen or so. Takuya has been worrying that she might be too isolated from human society.
- Pointy Ears
- Shoot 'Em Up: When Yu-No rides Kun-Kun, she's able to fly in any direction and attack with her long-range sword attack, effectively mimicking this.
- Third-Person Person: When Ayumi isn’t around, Yu-No takes up the torch. When Ayumi does reappear, she’s no longer attempting to distance herself and drops the third person speech until her final moments.
- Younger Than They Look: Yu-No by the end is only about four or five but with a physical age of around twenty and the mental age of perhaps a teenager.
Sayless
Sayless
Voiced by: Asami Sanada (Japanese), Amanda Lee (English)
- Cute Mute: On the other hand, he can read her mind occasionally and she speaks right before dying.
- Fourth-Date Marriage: Takuya knows Sayless for all of a week before they’re basically married.
- Pointy Ears
- Punny Name: Sayless, the mute.
Amanda
Amanda
Voiced by: Marina Inoue (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)
- Dropped a Bridge on Her: Amanda is rather unceremoniously disposed of near the end. In a mild subversion, she was actually Kanna’s mother and lived through it.
- Fantastic Racism: Even relatively good people like Amanda treat nogards as animals despite being aware that they’re intelligent.
- Pointy Ears
- Surprise Incest: It’s never stated outright but Amanda being flung fifty years into the past and having a daughter is a pretty clear indication that she had a daughter, Kanna, and that the father was most likely Takuya. The two of them never learn that, apparently, but the reader will figure it out.
- Tsundere: A fairly subdued version.
Illia
Illia
Voiced by: Kyoko Sakai (Japanese), Anastasia Muñoz (English)
- Lady of War: She's a patrol knight and fights with a sword.
- Mystical White Hair
- Pointy Ears
Sala
Sala
Voiced by: Mari Doi (Japanese), Jamie Marchi (English)
- Cleavage Window: Has a rather large triangle shaped one.
- Pointy Ears
Bask
Bask
Voiced by: Biichi Satou (Japanese)
- Bald of Evil: He's a ruthless and sadistic warden.
- No Brows
- Pointy Ears
- Wardens Are Evil: He's a ruthless and sadistic warden.
Kun-Kun
Kun-Kun
Voiced by: Yuki Nagaku (Japanese), Bryn Apprill (English)
- Adaptational Modesty: In the original PC-98 visual novel, Kun-Kun and her mother were both naked women with wings. The ports and adaptations censor their appearance, with the anime portraying both with skimpy outfits.
- Cute Monster Girl: The adult Nogards are a sentient Winged Humanoid race who are slain for food by humans. Originally, they were just pretty naked girls with wings. The Saturn port made them more demon-like, with horns and green scales, and then in the anime adpatation they were somewhere in-between.
- Drop Dead Gorgeous: Takuya is asked by a dying naked woman to raise Kun-Kun, who in her adult form likewise dies naked once she fails to fly Takuya and Amanda across a desert. This is censored by the novel's ports and the anime adaptation.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Kun Kun dies to get Takuya and Amanda to the capital.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Disturbingly, both the dying Kun-Kun and Amanda urge Takuya to feed on her corpse when they're left stranded in the desert. He reluctantly does so, offscreen.
God Empress
God Empress
Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (Japanese), Dawn M. Bennett (English)
- The Emperor: Duh, it's in the name.
- Good All Along: The God Emperor is Ayumi.
- I'm Cold... So Cold...: God Empress Ayumi after being stabbed.
Kurtz
Kurtz
Voiced by: Yūki Fujiwara (Japanese), Justin Briner (English)
Deo
Deo
Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (Japanese), Kyle Igneczi (English)
Joe
Joe
Voiced by: Takaki Ōtomari (Japanese), Austin Tindle (English)
Asche
Asche
Voiced by: Yoji Ueda (Japanese), Jason Douglas (English)
- The Alcoholic: He drinks quite a lot.
- Pointy Ears
Ai
Ai
Voiced by: Hina Kino (Japanese), Brittany Lauda (English)
Grantia
Grantia
Voiced by: Yuko Kaida (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)
- Eyes Always Shut: She never opens her eyes.
- Hime Cut
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Makes sense as she's a scientist.
- Mystical White Hair
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