History Characters / SeraphofTheEndJapaneseImperialDemonArmy

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

* AmbiguouslyGay: Shinya appears to have no interest in women, and 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.
** Interestingly, Shinya did seem to be attracted to his former fiancée Mahiru in the light novels, but not for long considering he grew to dislike her very quickly.
*** His response to the question in the guidebook of what he looks for in the opposite sex is him basically saying that since Mahiru was female and he had an awful experience with her, he isn't interested in women anymore, suggesting once upon a time he might have been AmbiguouslyBi.

* LastHetRomance: For a while, he tried to actually win Mahiru's heart and taunted Guren about the fact that it's Shinya himself who was her fiance. However, he gradually grew to dislike her very quickly and in the present time, he claims to feel tired of the opposite sex and seems to be happy just being near Guren.

* RisingEmpire: Looking to become this under Kureto, who states his intention to wipe out not only the vampires but any other surviving human organizations for the goal of WorldDomination.

* EyepatchOfPower
* FamilyEyeResemblance: All of his blood children have the same reddish-brown eyes. This makes Shinya's IcyBlueEyes immediately stand out.

* MinorMajorCharacter: He was the General of the Demon Army yet was only seen three times throughout the series.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is lavender.

He also appears in the Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen light novel series.

* AbusiveParents: He is not only abused but also tortured and neglected. And his blood parents sold him into the Hiragi family for three hundred millions yen at the age of five.

** Interestingly, Shinya did seem to be attracted to his former fiancee Mahiru in the light novels, but not for long considering he grew to dislike her very quickly.

* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead: In chapter 47, it is revealed that he died 8 years ago, just before the Apocalypse happened, but was revived by Guren using the Seraph of the End power at the cost of 90% of humanity.]]

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

* IcyBlueEyes: Shinya's eyes emphasize his precision as a sniper and also immediately sets him apart from his stepsiblings who share the same reddish-brown eyes.

* [[spoiler: LivingOnBorrowedTime]]: [[spoiler: As per the repercussions of being BackFromTheDead, he can only be revived for ten years, having only two left, and if he knows the truth, he will crumble to dust.]]

* 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]].

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Somewhat subverted, while he does have a darker side inside him, he's mostly a good person, unlike his step-siblings and stepfather.

* DirtyCoward: Kureto calls him one and states that he has never stood on the front lines.

* {{Jerkass}}: He is rude and disrespectful.
* MilesGloriosus

She appears as a student at First Shibuya High in the'' Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen'' light novel series.

* BodyguardCrush: After [[spoiler:Kureto kisses her]], she admits or that she's always had a crush on him.

* HairDecorations: Wears a blue ribbon in her ponytail.

** She also wonders if her sister slept with Yuu and that is what made him join her group of traitors. This coming from a woman that follows Kureto, who betrayed and killed his own subordinates, mostly because she has a secret crush on him.

* 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 commited a coup d'état against the Hiragi family, making both her and Kureto the actual traitors. Of course when Yuu starts telling the truth she orders her soldiers to ready their arrows in order to silence him.

* MinorMajorCharacter: He was the General of the Demon Army yet was only seen twice throughout the series.

* SiblingMurder: Killed all 40 of his siblings to become the head of the family

* StrongFamilyResemblance: All of his blood children have the same reddish-brown eyes, and in the case of Mahiru and Shinoa, the same lavender hair. This makes Shinya's IcyBlueEyes immediately stand out.

She appears as a student at First Shibuya High in the Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen light novel series.

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

* BodyguardCrush: After [[spoiler:Kureto kisses her]], she admits that she's always had a crush on him.
* {{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 two 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.]]

* BadassArmy: Oh yes.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The family is essentially worshiped like [[AGodAmI living gods]] within the Order, which is a group of sorcerers who have tremendous power over the Japanese society and {{Muggles}} (hell, a massacre in a school administered by the family occurred in broad daylight and was subsequently covered up completely, with no police or media investigation occurring at all). It condones and encourages supremacism, discrimination, [[SuperBreedingProgram eugenics]], [[SocialDarwinist Social Darwinism]] and [[{{Understatement}} "unethical" human experimentation]]. Before the Apocalypse, the family even used to have a paramilitary organization that operates extra-judicially and completely obeys its whim (now known as the JIDA), not unlike the Nazi's SS. This is most evident in the prequel Light Novels.

[[folder:Hīragi Family and the Order of the Imperial Demons (WARNING! MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD)]]
!!Tropes that apply to the Hīragi Family:

!Tenri Hīragi

!Kureto Hīragi

!Shinya Hīragi

!Seishirō Hīragi

[[folder:Other]]
!Aoi Sangū

* {{Pride}}
* SoreLoser

* BadassArmy

* AbusiveParents: He is not only abused but also tortured and neglected.

* IcyBlueEyes

* HopelessSuitor: Tries to get Mahiru to like him but it's hopeless because she only has eyes for Guren.

* EntitledBastard: He expects everyone to submit to him with absolute loyalty and as such doesn't tolerate any disrespect from lower-rank families.

* {{Hypocrite}}: She calls Mitsuba and her comrades traitors and that they don't deserve to live. When Yuu points out that Kureto was the one who betrayed them, killing some of their comrades and even some of his own soldiers, she scoffs at that

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* [[spoiler: LivingOnBorrowedTime]]: [[spoiler: As per the repercussions of being BackFromTheDead, she can only be revived for ten years, having only two left, and if she knows the truth, she will crumble to dust.]]

** Interestingly, Shinya did seem to be attracted to his former fiancee Mahiru in the light novels, but not for very long considering he grew to dislike her very quickly.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Shinya appears to have no interest in women, and 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. Interestingly, Shinya did seem to be attracted to his former fiancee Mahiru in the light novels, but not for very long considering he grew to dislike her very quickly. His response to the question in the guidebook of what he looks for in the opposite sex is him basically saying that since Mahiru was female and he had an awful experience with her, he isn't interested in women anymore, suggesting once upon a time he might have been AmbiguouslyBi.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Shinya shows little interest in women (including his former fiance) and flirts with Guren constantly. His answer to "what he looks for in the opposite sex" in the official fanbook almost seems to imply he's "tired" of trying to be with women.

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Loses his right arm during his fight with his father Tenri in Chapter 57.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The most powerful clan in Japan even before the virus attack and is totally screwed up. The Order of the Imperial Demons used to control the Japanese government (together with the Hyakuya Sect) before the Apocalypse. Besides practically controlling the {{Muggles}} and the government, the Family engages in orphans buying ''and'' kidnapping, media manipulation, extrajudicial killings, slavery, large-scale horrific experimentation on children and adults alike, etc. This is most evident in the prequel Light Novels.

* PetTheDog: Briefly in the ''Catastrophe'' novels where, despite having the opportunity and perhaps, even the need to torture Shinoa to coerce Guren and especially Mahiru to comply with his demands, he doesn't do so, and instead, opted to just have her put on make-up to give off that impression to them.

The General of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army.

* LargeAndInCharge: Easily the physically largest character seen thus far.
* ThePatriarch: Of the Hīragi family.

* TheSocialDarwinist: He strongly believes in the concept of survival of the fittest. Due to the weight of this savage principle, he would see that the strong lived and the weak died.

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Looks to be going in this direction as of Chapter 39.]]

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Has naturally red eyes.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The "well-intentioned" part is highly debatable, but he is willing to unite humanity under the banner of the Hiragi Family by destroying all vampires and any other human organizations that survive the Apocalypse.

* BodyguardCrush: After [[spoiler:Kureto kisses her]], she admots that she'd been harboring feelings towards him for a very long time.

!Japanese Imperial Demon Army (JIDA)

!!Tropes that apply to the JIDA:

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* PantheraAwesome: His Black Demon Cursed Gear Byakkomaru, which looks like a rifle (which translates as "White Tiger"). 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.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Guren.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Also with Guren.
* 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]].
* HopelessSuitor: Tries to get Mahiru to like him but it's hopeless because she only has eyes for Guren.
* BeneathTheMask: Because of his harsh, Hunger Games-esque upbringing, Shinya associates his self worth with winning and being the best. (During the gruesome selection process he developed a cheerful and polite facade as a coping mechanism.) He viewed Mahiru's rejection as his first loss, so he became obsessed with winning her over and eliminating competition. He eventually considers his ingrained competitive nature selfish after realizing (and idolizing) Guren's drive to help others. It is implied that he suffers from self loathing and probably depression over having to take the lives of other children for his own sake.

* AbusiveParents: He is not only abused but also tortured and neglected.
* ExtremeDoormat: Acts this way around his adoptive family.
* MistakenForGay: Guren and him went to a love hotel when they were 16 and a person said something about them being a couple.
* UnableToCry: He learned to shut down his emotions and stated in the light novel that he hasn't cried since he was five.