History Characters / ShigatsuYouka

Her demure attitude and exotic (by Japanese standards) appearance meant she did become the subject of bullying in her formative years. Eiichirou, trying to find a solution, managed to rediscover how to make Droga in a cave nearby Arata, but his ignorance of the effects it had on the body meant he ended up destroying his leg and splashing her with blood, which turned her into a second-generation carrier. This was the event that caused Eiichirou to move away fromArata.

* FirstPeriodPanic: Apparently she got her first period unusually late. It is implied this is the reason why she didn't feel the urge to kill Natsumi until May of 2020 even though she got infected at the start of April.

* FirstPeriodPanic: Apparently she got her first period unusually late. It is implied this is the reason why she didn't feel the urge to kill Natsumi until May of 2020 even though she got infected in April.

Sister of Erina. At the beginning of the story they are estranged from each other due to her fear of being thrown away and a traumatic experience in the funeral of her first boyfriend. However, she cares deeply for her sister. In most timelines they manage to make up.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: As a mummified third-generation carrier corpse, she's this for the villagers of Arata. Every carrier that enters the mummy's general vicinity is doomed to become a slave to the fungus before turning its body into nutrients. Thankfully her corpse was sealed away, so Shigatsu Youka cannot use her in most timelines as it does not know where she is.

* 100PercentCompletion: To access the back routes that hint to her existence, the player must have reached a 100% in the progress bar after finishing all arcs and all reference materials. Luckily this does not include dictionary entries, but still, it'll take quite a while.

* 100%Completion: To access the back routes that hint to her existence, the player must have reached a 100% in the progress bar after finishing all arcs and all reference materials. Luckily this does not include dictionary entries, but still, it'll take quite a while.

In ''Month of Death'' timelines, she kills herself after falling from a cliffside. This is due to the fact that Mifuyu confessed that she brought Arata's clothing and tools (which Sakura gave to her) to try to commit murder, breaking a taboo. Erika forgave her for that, but Sakura overheard the conversation and, since she was a second-generation carrier, Shigatsu Youka made her think Erika wanted to punish her. After she died, the dead Koutarou manipulated Erika to keep the circumstances of her death a secret, and cut her head off, kickstarting the curse killing incidents in Arata. Her corpse was used as an Angel of Shigatsu Youka.

She makes only a couple of appearances in the game and does not have a portrait. However, her actions end up being instrumental in dooming Natsumi, as she convinced Chigaya to mistrust the people around her (when in ''Eden's Sakura'', it is Chigaya opening up to Mifuyu that allowed Erina to see through the fake perception Shigatsu Youka planted on her) and she told Natsumi to not pursue the truth (which led to Haruka murdering her in Arata).

In the first route of ''True Curse Killing Arc'', a disciple of Hajime Shinozaki led Momoko into Arata, with disastrous results for everybody involved. And, in the epilogue, the author of the novel tells us that the person who removed the Falsificaçao from Sakura's package to Mifuyu was "a character with no portrait."

* OutOfFocus: He more or less disappears from the novel after the first few acts as the focus shifts away from Motoki.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: By all accounts he was a just ruler and tried to do his best to ease the suffering of his people. Unfortunately all his efforts were for naught. After his failed rebellion against the Taira, he ended up settling in Arata, which would bring an untold amount of suffering for future generations. He also promised Itohime they would meet again, and set off in a journey to help the poor of Japan using the agricultural techniques he had learned. Unfortunately he got killed just before finishing his journey by remnant Taira forces, which served as motivation for Itohime to move to Motoki, a series of events that influenced the entire story.

* InternalReformist: She's been trying to open Arata to the external world, bringing outside commodities such as electricity and internet. Unfortunately, that's the exact opposite of what Shigatsu Youka wants, as it would much rather prefer that there were no surviving humans in its ecosystem. The way Sakura died meant that she couldn't call the police to try and solve the incidents that were going on, which greatly limited her efforts in this regard.

* TheMole: Despite being a villager, he acts as a force of subversion in Arata, trying to destroy it from within.

A character sheet for the visual novel, ''VisualNovel/ShigatsuYouka'' (死月妖花～四月八日～). Under construction.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: No matter the route, he does his absolute best to help the Motoki trio against hatever threat they face as long as they make contact.

Adoptive father of Haruka, husband of Mifuyu, and a first-generation carrier. His death by falling off the Motoki Sakura tree was one of the more important events of the entire story, turning Natsumi into a second-generation carrier, leading Mifuyu to leave Motoki after convincing herself that Natsumi was at fault for the death of her husband, and turning him into an undead slave of Shigatsu Youka.

Father of Natsumi and husband to Akane. He is the victim of the Motoki murder case after failing to bargain with Mifuyu to recover her biological daughter Haruka.

He's a mobile technician and friend of Eiichirou.

Sister of Erina. At the beginning of the story they are estranged from each other. However, she cares deeply for her sister.

She's the main POV character for the first route of ''True Curse Killing Arc''.

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[[folder:The soothsayer]]

* LightningBruiser: On top of having spent a year traning her mind and body living isolated on a mountain as per Arata's customs, her use of [[SuperSerum Droga]] means that trying to confront her directly is usually a one way ticket to the afterlife. In latter routes, however, this is not the case, as she does not use [[SuperSerum Droga]] in those.

[[folder:The angels]]

* {{Pun}}: The name Arata (荒田) was chosen after the rich ecology of the place led the settlers to choose the name Amata at first (天田). However they settled for Arata as Amata (heavenly field) would be too fancy and might attract outside attention. Arata is also the word for "new" in Japanese (新), leading the prince to discard his old identity and call himself Niimura (新村), which means "new village".