History Characters / SeraphofTheEndJapaneseImperialDemonArmy

[[center: [- [[Characters/SeraphOfTheEnd Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/SeraphOfTheEndMoonDemonCompany Moon Demon Company]] | '''Japanese Imperial Demon Army''' | [[Characters/SeraphOfTheEndVampires Vampires]] | [[Characters/SeraphOfTheEndDemons Demons]] | [[Characters/SeraphOfTheEndOthers Others]]]]-]

%%* BadassArmy:

* BadassArmy:

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While he does have a darker side to him, he's mostly a good person, unlike his adoptive siblings and stepfather.

* HumanizingTears: The only time she ever [[NotSoStoic loses her composure]] is when she tries after Kureto loses consciousness after [[spoiler:he kills Tenri]] and she begs him to wake up.

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Loses his right arm during his fight with his father Tenri in Chapter 57. He gets it back though.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: As expected of the firstborn of the Hīragi family.

* TheFundamentalist: He fervently believes that he's just and right in using his soldiers as blood sacrifices and attempting to subjugate the whole mankind. [[spoiler: He says this to Narumi as he sacrifices his own soldiers in an experiment to appease Abaddon, one of the Seraph of the End.]]

* {{Pride}}: He is very proud and powerful.

* TheUsurper: After creating a seraph weapon and taking control of Sanguinem, Kureto stages a coup d'etat against his superiors and kills his own father to claim the position of ruler of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army.

* AmbiguouslyBi: His strongest connection is definitely with Guren (whether romantically or not). The fact that he seems to flirt with Guren 24/7 has not gone unnoticed. Even his own demon thinks Shinya is in love with Guren when hearing Shinya's very strong feelings for the man, but Shinya claims it's mere "admiration". In the past, however, Shinya did seem to be attracted to his former fiancée Mahiru, but not for long considering he grew to dislike her very quickly.

* ExtremeDoormat: Acts this way around his adoptive family.

* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Whether Shinya is ''actually'' in love with Guren or not is a matter of [[AmbiguouslyGay perspective]], but in the Catastrophe light novel, it's pretty clear that he had no tolerance for a Guren who pretended to be a whim with a [[{{Keigo}} fake polite tone]] - in fact, he was disgusted and even called him "trash" once. It's only when Guren showed his true power and [[GoodIsNotNice true]] [[SirSwearsALot personality]] that he became interested and affectionate again. In the present, it's implied that even though Shinya has to stay back to smooth things out in meetings after Guren behaves disrespectful, he's actually amused by that and finds that an endearing trait of Guren.

* MistakenForGay: Guren and him went to a love hotel when they were 16 and a person said something about them being a couple.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even though he's not above torturing and betraying even his own subordinates, Kureto will not commit any cruelty that he sees unwarranted. For example, in the prequel, he protested against his father's order to execute Guren's father to the end, as he was satisfied with Guren bring a vampire hostage and the sword Asuramaru for research.

* KnightTemplar: Kureto's goal is to exterminate all the vampires in Japan to let human rule the country again and firmly believes any action he takes for that whole is righteous and justified. He fuels a seraph experiment, sacrifices a large number of soldiers to keep it under control and is ready to kill anyone he has no use for.

* NecessarilyEvil: He aims to take control over the world from the vampires and knows that humans can't never the war against vampires through moral means. To bring down the vampires, he experiments with the seraph, turns a little girl into a biological weapon, and sacrifices the lives of many soldiers.

* PrincelyYoungMan: In his high school days, he was treated like a prince in First Shibuya by the other students, because of him being an (adopted) Hīragi and his good looks. However, his treatment at home was way less than favorable.

* BigJerkOnCampus:
* TheBully:

%%* HairTriggerTemper
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Towards Kureto. He is secretly planning to outwit him someday.

* EntitledBastard: He expects everyone to submit to him with absolute loyalty and as such doesn't tolerate any disrespect from lower-rank families. He later stages a coup d'etat against his superiors and kills his own father.

--> [[spoiler:'''Kureto''': Don't fuss. Their death was a glorious death for the sake of humanity's progress. Thanks to the few sacrifices of this experiment, many will be saved. This is a right thing to do. This... is justice.]]

* AloofBigBrother: To all his younger siblings.

%%* TheChessmaster

* FourStarBadass: Well, he is the Lieutenant General of the JIDA and wields a Black Demon Cursed Gear.
* TheFundamentalist: Fervently believes that he's just and right in using his soldiers as blood sacrifices and attempting to subjugate the whole mankind. [[spoiler: He says this to Narumi as he sacrifices his own soldiers in an experiment to appease Abaddon, one of the Seraph of the End.]]

%%* LackOfEmpathy
* KnightTemplar: Complete with being a WellIntentionedExtremist and TheFundamentalist.
%%* ManipulativeBastard
%%* MarriedToTheJob

* ObliviouslyEvil: Doesn't seem to realize or care that if he has his way, he'd be no better than the vampires.

%%* {{Sadist}}
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: Kills his father Tenri at the end of their fight in Chapter 57.]]
* ShipTease: With Mitsuba's older sister, Aoi.

%%* SmugSuper
%%* TallDarkAndHandsome

* {{Ubermensch}}: Believes that he is right and will do anything to further his own ambitions.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: His goal is to overthrow the vampires and be the ones dominating them instead. He's also plotting to annihilate the surviving human magic organizations and subjugate the ''whole'' humanity.
%%* VisionaryVillain

* AmbiguouslyBi: His strongest connection is definitely with Guren (whether romantically or not). The fact that he seems to flirt with Guren 24/7 has not gone unnoticed. Even his own demon thinks Shinya is in love with Guren when hearing Shinya's very strong feelings for the man, but Shinya claims it's mere "admiration". In the light novels, however, Shinya did seem to be attracted to his former fiancée Mahiru, but not for long considering he grew to dislike her very quickly.

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Chapter 54 reveals [[spoiler: that Shinya died in Guren's arms eight years prior to the series.]]

* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: With Guren.
* PerpetualSmiler: Shinya usually has a smile on his face.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: In the light novel Shinya is very dependent on Mahiru and desperately tries to win her over, even going so far as to consider suicide when she says she doesn't love him. After Mahiru's [[spoiler:death]] he says that he considers Guren his reason for living, and has a breakdown in Chapter 47 when Guren confronts him after [[spoiler:killing his comrades]] because he believes he has [[spoiler: lost Guren to Mahiru's control]].
* PrinceCharming: Treated this way in First Shibuya by the other students, though his treatment at home was anything but.
* StepfordSmiler: It's been implied in the Catastrophe light novels that his smile developed as a defense mechanism that allowed him to survive when those that got angry or shut down didn't.
* {{Troll}}: Very much enjoys picking on Guren.
* UnableToCry: He learned to shut down his emotions and stated in the light novel that he hasn't cried since he was five.

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Somewhat subverted. While he does have a darker side to him, he's mostly a good person, unlike his adoptive siblings and stepfather.

* AloofBigSister: To Mitsuba. Even though they're sisters, Aoi thinks nothing of Mitsuba and wouldn't care at all if she died for deserting the Demon Army.

* {{Foil}}: To Mahiru. Both are the older sisters of the two main heroines, and are extremely excellent and powerful. They additionally overshadow their younger siblings and have intimate feelings for [[TallDarkAndHandsome black-haired males]]. However, unlike Mahiru who genuinely loves Shinoa, Aoi is rather indifferent and uncaring towards Mitsuba, [[spoiler: to the degree that she was willing to sacrifice her in Nagoya.]]

* HonorRelatedAbuse: As a Sangū, she believes it's her family's duty to follow all of the Hīragi family's orders without question. She finds it shameful and dishonorable that Mitsuba chose to desert the Demon Army instead of allowing Kureto to sacrifice her alongside tons of soldiers, even calling out Mitsuba on how she doesn't deserve to live for disobeying the will of a Hīragi.

* TautologicalTemplar

* {{Bishonen}}

* DarkAndTroubledPast: His childhood was pretty much hell. His biological parents sold him into the Hīragi family for three hundred millions yen at the age of five. After that, Shinya was forced to take part in a program to select the ideal partner for the Hīragi heiress, Mahiru. Shinya had to compete in both studies and combat with other boys, with any failure meaning death. Shinya lived every single day killing his rivals in order to survive until he was the only one left. He was welcomed into the Hīragi family as an adopted son and Mahiru's fiancé, but his life didn't improve that much because Mahiru didn't even like him and only talked about how much she loved Guren while the rest of his adopted family treated Shinya like dirt.

* HopelessSuitor: He tried to get Mahiru to like him, but she only has eyes for Guren. And now it's switched - he tries to get Guren to like him, but he only has eyes for Mahiru.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Guren.

* ActionGirl: As Kureto's servant, this is to be expected.

* AloofBigSister: To Mitsuba.
* BodyguardingABadass: She is Kureto's servant.
* BodyguardCrush: After [[spoiler:Kureto kisses her]], she admits that she's always had a crush on him.

* CombatStilettos: Wears black heels as part of her uniform.
* GirlishPigtails: When she was a teenager.
* {{Hypocrite}}:

* SelectiveObliviousness: Also told in {{Hypocrite}} above. She considers most of the main characters as traitors for standing against Kureto, their superior. This is while ignoring the obvious fact that Kureto's faction murdered their own comrades and committed a coup d'état against the Hiragi family, making both her and Kureto the actual traitors. Of course when Yu starts telling the truth she orders her soldiers to ready their arrows in order to silence him.

!!!Voiced by: Creator/KeijiFujiwara (Japanese), Creator/ChristopherSabat (English)

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Consistent with {{the Social Darwinist}} and supremacist traits that runs deep in the Hīragi Family.

!!!Voiced by: Creator/TomoakiMaeno (Japanese), Creator/GarretStorms (English)

* TheChessmaster

* LackOfEmpathy

* ManipulativeBastard
* MarriedToTheJob

* {{Sadist}}

* SmugSuper
* TallDarkAndHandsome

* VisionaryVillain
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The "well-intentioned" part is highly debatable, but he is willing to unite humanity under the banner of the Hīragi Family by destroying all vampires and any other human organizations that survive the Apocalypse.
** NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Given his most recent actions, it is more than likely that his so-called good intentions are lies. He murdered his own father in order to claim control over the Demon Army, so his "uniting humanity under the Hiragis' banner" actually meant "uniting the world under his banner".

!!!Voiced by: Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki (Japanese), Creator/JerryJewell (English)

!!!Voiced by: Creator/HiroyukiYoshino (Japanese), Creator/JustinCook (English)

* HairTriggerTemper

!!!Voiced by: Creator/AyakoKawasumi (Japanese), Creator/SarahWiedenheft (English)

* [[AloofBigBrother Aloof Big Sister]]: To Mitsuba.

* DirtyCoward: Kureto calls him one.

* AmbiguouslyGay: His strongest connection is definitely with Guren (whether romantically or not). The fact that he seems to flirt with Guren 24/7 has not gone unnoticed. Even his own demon thinks Shinya is in love with Guren when hearing Shinya's very strong feelings for the man, but Shinya claims it's mere "admiration". In the light novels, however, Shinya did seem to be attracted to his former fiancée Mahiru, but not for long considering he grew to dislike her very quickly.

* HopelessSuitor: He tried to get Mahiru to like him but it's hopeless because she only had eyes for Guren. And now it's switched - he tries to get Guren to like him, but he only has eyes for Mahiru. However, unlike with Mahiru, he actually has a bit more chance of winning Guren over.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair was ashen (blueish-gray) hair that appeared more lavender in the anime.

* BlondesAreEvil: Out of all the blonde people in the series, she is the one that comes off as more unsympathetic.

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* AbusiveParents: His biological parents sold him into the Hīragi family for three hundred millions yen at the age of five. He was not only abused but also tortured and neglected.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: His childhood was pretty much hell.

* HopelessSuitor: Tried to get Mahiru to like him but it's hopeless because she only had eyes for Guren. And now it's switched - he tries to get Guren to like him, but he only has eyes for Mahiru. However, unlike with Mahiru, he actually has a bit more chance of winning Guren over.

* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Whether Shinya is ''actually'' in love with Guren or not is a matter of [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation perspective]], but in the Catastrophe light novel, it's pretty clear that he had no tolerance for a Guren who pretended to be a whim with a [[{{Keigo}} fake polite tone]] - in fact, he was disgusted and even called him "trash" once. It's only when Guren showed his true power and [[GoodIsNotNice true]] [[SirSwearsALot personality]] that he became interested and affectionate again. In the present, it's implied that even though Shinya has to stay back to smooth things out in meetings after Guren behaves disrespectful, he's actually amused by that and finds that an endearing trait of Guren.

* PantheraAwesome: His Black Demon Cursed Gear Byakkomaru (which translates as "White Tiger"), looks like a rifle. It's ability is demon manifestation (or tiger manifestation in this case). His Cursed Gear essentially unloads a streak of white tigers instead of normal bullets.

* HairDecorations: Wears a blue ribbon in her side ponytail.

!!!Voiced by: Creator/TomoakiMaeno (Japanese), Garret Storms (English)