| 1 | [[center: [-[[Characters/UminekoWhenTheyCry Main Index]] | [[Characters/UminekoWhenTheyCry1986Humans Humans from 1986]] ([[Characters/UminekoWhenTheyCry1986Cousins Cousins]], [[Characters/UminekoWhenTheyCry1986Parents Parents]], [[Characters/UminekoWhenTheyCry1986ServantsAndGuests Servants and Guests]]) | Humans from 1998 | [[Characters/UminekoWhenTheyCryWitches Witches]] | [[Characters/UminekoWhenTheyCryMeta Meta]] | [[Characters/UminekoWhenTheyCryDemonsAndFurniture Demons and Furniture]] | [[Characters/UminekoWhenTheyCryOther Other Characters]] | [[Characters/UminekoWhenTheyCrySpoilers Spoiler Characters]]]]-] |
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| 4 | Starting from the end of the third arc, ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' introduces characters from the year 1998 which are observing the game board of Rokkenjima, 1986. These characters cannot interfere directly with the game board, but help put into perspective the effects of the events on the island on the future. Naturally, '''major spoilers''' for the third arc onward. |
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| 9 | [[folder:Ange Ushiromiya]] |
| 10 | !!!Voiced by: Creator/RinaSato (JP) |
| 11 | [[quoteright:185:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ange_ushiromiya.png]] |
| 12 | -> "''Leave the jokes to your hairstyle.''" |
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| 14 | Battler's half-sister. She was only six in 1986, and didn't go to Rokkenjima with the rest of her family due to flu. The one we see has grown up in [[BadFuture a world where everyone except Eva died in the Rokkenjima incident]]. She started to learn some magic from Maria. After the third arc, she becomes Ange-Beatrice and in a deal with Bernkastel, agrees to travel back to 1986 Rokkenjima in order to change the events to make it so that everyone does make it back. She later on serves as Featherine's miko, which for the most part consists of reading Featherine the stories of Rokkenjima. |
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| 16 | * ActionGirl: Heck, she doesn't even need her magic to beat down a horde of {{Mooks}} in [=EP3=], and that's just her introduction. |
| 17 | * AlternateTimeline: [[spoiler:Due to the VN's MultipleEndings, Ange essentially meets one of two fates. In the "Magic" ending, she averts her suicide attempt, cuts a deal with Okonogi that allows her to leave her Ushiromiya name behind, and goes on to become a successful children's author who reopens the Fukuin household. In the "Trick" ending, Ange returns to the EP 4 timeline, but catches on to Amakusa's plan to murder her, so she murders him and the boat captain instead, [[DarkMessiah choosing to live on as a ruthless intellectual rapist]]. The manga follows the "Magic" ending timeline, with the wrinkle that Ange actually did unsuccessfully attempt suicide before the events of the ending transpired.]] |
| 18 | * AlwaysWithYou: In [=EP8=], [[spoiler:Ange comes to understand that even though her entire family is dead, they will forever be watching over her in spirit, so she now knows she will never be truly alone and she must live a happy life on their behalf too. This is what allows her to resurrect everyone in the final battle and defeat Bernkastel.]] |
| 19 | * AntiMagic: One of her powers in the Meta-World, expecially when she [[spoiler:allies with Erika as the Witch of Truth]]. |
| 20 | * TheAntiNihilist: [[spoiler: After learning the truth of Rokkenjima and being encouraged by Beatrice to not be like [[StrawNihilist her past self]] Ange grows from [[TheCynic The Cynic]] into this. She accepts that the world is a sad and cruel place and that her family was hiding many sins and secrets that led to the tragedy in the first place. However, she also accepts that in spite of all that the Ushiromiya family were capable of love and wanted her to overcome the tragedies that plagued her family. She resolves to live on, creating her own happiness and spreading it while also acknowledging the cruel reality. She does by helping other orphans and writing stories to spread happiness as her form of "Magic".]] |
| 21 | * AudienceSurrogate: In ''Dawn'', with Featherine playing the part of the AuthorAvatar. |
| 22 | * BackToBackBadasses: [[spoiler: She actually gets a moment of this with Erika in ''Last Note of the Golden Witch'' as they face off against Piece.]] |
| 23 | * BerserkButton: |
| 24 | ** While she's mostly gone numb to the bullying at St. Lucia's, she won't stand for anyone messing with her hair accessories Battler bought her. |
| 25 | ** Watching Rosa and Maria playing together and professing their familial love for each other in [=EP4=] put her in such a bad mood that she dropped the teacup she was holding and went off alone to blow off some steam, as she knew their actual relationship was nowhere near that pleasant. |
| 26 | * BigBrotherAttraction: While Ange doesn't display this in the series proper, bonus material such as [[http://umineko.wikia.com/wiki/Butterfly_Kiss_Episode1.5%E9%85%8D%E5%B8%83%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC this one]] and manga omakes sure like to have its fun parodying it. |
| 27 | --> Unlike back in onii-chan's time, girls nowadays send chocolates to even just normal friends.\ |
| 28 | [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial My chocolate is handcrafted, and for some reason I've shaped it into a heart, but don't overthink… there's nothing special behind it.]] |
| 29 | * BigBrotherWorship: Despite not getting to see Battler much when growing up due to his conflict with their father, Ange clearly adores her brother and holds her memories of him dear. |
| 30 | * BigNo: Cuts off Bernkastel's declaration of "[[color:red:This is the truth--]]" regarding the play that was just shown to both Ange and Lion. Bernkastel later clarifies that what she ''meant'' to say was "This is the truth, but not necessarily so", so but given that she's...well...[[{{Sadist}} Bernkastel]]... |
| 31 | * BookDumb: She's quicker on the uptake than Battler regarding Beatrice's games, and earned Ikuko's respect for figuring out her identity and messages, yet her grades at St. Lucia were bad enough to drag down her class average. |
| 32 | * BorrowedCatchphrase: Being that she is Battler's sister, there's "Ah, dame ne. Zenzen dame da wa" (Ah, it's useless. All useless) and "Mata ja. [[GratuitousEnglish See you again]]" or in the anime translation "Au revoir". Also in the Trick ending, just before [[spoiler:shooting Amakusa]]: "Just by the presence of [[spoiler:this gun]], see how far Ushiromiya Ange's reasoning can take her. What do you think, everyone…?". [[spoiler:Soon followed by a tagteam [[GratuitousEnglish "GOOD!!"]] with Erika.]] |
| 33 | * BrokenBird: Long ago, she was a cheerful little girl. The absolutely miserable life she had after the loss of her family made Ange into a stoic and lonely DeadpanSnarker obsessed with the truth of the Rokkenjima incident. |
| 34 | * BulliedIntoDepression: After losing her family and being abused by her aunt, Ange was miserable, but she managed to keep herself together by reading Maria's diary and using "magic" to become friends with The Stakes of Purgatory. Eventually, however, the cruel bullying from the other girls at [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors St. Lucia Academy]] became too much and Ange could no longer pretend that "magic" would make her problems go away, making her almost completely lose the will to live. |
| 35 | * BullyMagnet: She was mercilessly bullied and shunned by her schoolmates at St. Lucia Academy. |
| 36 | * BullyingADragon: She is alone, unarmed, without her bodyguard, surrounded by an aunt who thoroughly hates her and seven of her armed henchmen. What does she choose to do? Insult said aunt and push every BerserkButton she can find on her. And she continues even as she is beat up on the ground. [[spoiler:A few minutes later, the situation is reversed.]] |
| 37 | * BungledSuicide: In the "future" segments of [=EP4=], it's said Ange survived her jump from the building thanks to being caught by a safety net. However, given the heavy mixture of fantasy in those segments it's very hard to tell how much of what is happening there is true or whether Ange is even still alive or not. [[spoiler:The Magic ending of the VN averts her suicide attempt entirely, while in the ending of the [=EP8=] manga, Ange gets caught by a safety net when she attempts suicide in the real world and everything we see her go through is her NearDeathExperience.]] |
| 38 | * ButtMonkey: Seriously, from a fantasy perspective the series for her can be summed up as "get your life ruined, make a contract with a witch, die a horrible death, be revived, rinse and repeat." |
| 39 | * CarCushion: During her escape from Okonogi's office. |
| 40 | * CharacterExaggeration: In the manga of Episode 4, she makes a complete fixation on Battler whenever she remembers her family. She also gets a major BigBrotherAttraction case parodied in the "story so far" segments in Episode 6 and other extra materials. |
| 41 | * CharacterNameAlias: Gretel, when she has to hide her identity to Battler in the Meta World. |
| 42 | * ChekhovsGunman: In the first two arcs, Ange is only offhandedly mentioned as Battler's half-sister who is sick at home and couldn't go to the family meeting because of it. It's until the end of the third arc that she starts to take an important role in the story. |
| 43 | * ClingyJealousGirl: Beatrice makes some remark about this in [[spoiler:Episode 8, when little Ange clings to Battler's leg while staring suspiciously at her.]] |
| 44 | -->'''Beatrice:''' Oh? I see, she may be 6 years old, but she's still a woman. |
| 45 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: One of the biggest ones in the series, which is saying something. Towards the end of [=EP4=], [[spoiler:as punishment for exposing her true identity, Ange had her body plucked from behind bit by bit with painful tools that picked at her flesh as they twisted and tore it off until she was nothing but a pile of meat scraps.]] To say Battler was pissed at his little sister being put through this is a big {{understatement}}. |
| 46 | * TheCynic: She only sees the worst in people and doesn't let herself be fooled by Maria's sugar-coated fantasies in the latter's diary, always interpreting them in the most negative way possible. |
| 47 | * CynicismCatalyst: While she was already sad and lonely from losing her family and her relationship with Eva, Ange really got her cynical outlook after her classmates' merciless bullying forced her to recognize even her "magic" wouldn't change the cruel reality she lived in. |
| 48 | * DarkMessiah: [[spoiler:What she becomes in the "Trick" ending by murdering all her possible opponents and choosing to become an intellectual rapist, just like Erika.]] |
| 49 | * DeadAllAlong: |
| 50 | ** Or something… in Episode 8, Bernkastel states clearly that [[spoiler:Ange surviving her jump is a miracle that cannot possibly occur, implying that everything Ange did in Episode 4 was AllJustADream.]] But the 1998 part of Episode 4 can hardly be dismissed as just someone's imagination, let alone [[spoiler:Battler's, considering he knew nothing of Ange's situation, the Sumadera, Okonogi or Amakusa.]] Made even worse by the manga, which confirms in red that [[spoiler:"Ange Ushiromiya dies without fail in 1998".]] |
| 51 | ** The manga makes it more clear near the end: [[spoiler:Ange ''did'' jump off the building, but she indeed was caught by the safety net and survived. Everything she goes through in the Meta world is her spirit which ended up in Purgatory due to her NearDeathExperience. Bernkastel's statement in red refers to [[ThatManIsDead Ange abandoning the Ushiromiya name and becoming Yukari Kotobuki]].]] |
| 52 | * DeadpanSnarker: Under her [[TheStoic Stoic]] facade she's extremely angry and bitter at pretty much everything, and this is how she chooses to show it. |
| 53 | * DeadPersonConversation: She has conversations with Maria's ghost. However, from a mundane perspective, Maria is just her ImaginaryFriend. |
| 54 | * DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: One of Battler's failings in the Meta world was not understanding all the hurt Ange went through in the future from all the people coming with theories about her family and not just her experience with her Aunt Eva, which is why she sought the One Truth so she could get closure and then... die. In a way, she got what she wanted and thus became Yukari Kotobuki.]] |
| 55 | * DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: She remembers her parents dearly and part of the reason she refused to accept Eva as her new mother was because she doesn't think anyone could ever replace her parents. [[spoiler:Subverted to the maximum in EP 7, and reconstructed in EP 8.]] |
| 56 | * DelicateAndSickly: She was this when she was younger, as she would fall ill quite often. This is the reason why she's the last surviving Ushiromiya, since she was too sick to go to the family conference in 1986 with everyone else. |
| 57 | * DespairEventHorizon: After denying the Stakes of Purgatory, she can no longer CopeByPretending and hopes someone will just put her out of her misery. |
| 58 | * DramaticIrony: The audience knows from the outset that "Gretel" is Battler's little sister from the future, Ange. TheReveal is suitably shocking to Battler. |
| 59 | * EatingLunchAlone: Back at St. Lucia Academy, Ange spent lunchtime all by herself, with only Maria and the Stakes of Purgatory ([[ImaginaryFriend who clearly weren't real]]) to make her company. |
| 60 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her entrance at end of [=EP3=] ????, and later jumping out of the skyscraper and surviving [[spoiler: [[DeadAllAlong or so it seems]].]] |
| 61 | * EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler:The [=PS3=] version gives her [[http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130817121561/umineko/images/5/59/Ep8_2_en2_2_EP8_2_en2_2.png a dress fitting the name "Beatrice"]] during her little rampage.]] It wasn't kept in the manga, though. What the manga did however, was to give her a GoodCostumeSwitch during the Episode 8 climax (a similar dress, but golden instead of purple). |
| 62 | * ExactEavesdropping: In the manga only; in Episode 8, she overhears [[spoiler:Rudolf telling the truth to Kyrie about Battler's birth]], during the game of hide-and-seek. This is where it's confirmed that Ange already knew [[spoiler:she and Battler are full siblings and about the baby switch made by Rudolf]] since it was no longer a secret in 1998. |
| 63 | * FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Has a brief one in [=EP8=], when Battler tries to prevent her from discovering the One Truth about Rokkenjima and she allies with Bernkastel and Erika.]] |
| 64 | * FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler:She's not Battler's half-sister, but his full sister. Battler's real mother is Kyrie, but Rudolf switched Battler with Asumu's stillborn child.]] |
| 65 | * {{Foil}}: |
| 66 | ** Episode 4 is keen to clearly emphasize that she is this for Maria since, after the death of her family, Ange lived a childhood not unlike that of her cousin. But while Maria took refuge in her childhood dreams and created an illusory world to ignore her problems from which she deliberately allowed herself to be completely absorbed (also thanks to [[spoiler:Sayo]]'s toxic influence), Ange, while sharing the habit of using her own fantasies to escape from reality, was mature enough to understand that just doing that would never improve her situation and that if she wanted to change it she had to act. |
| 67 | ** To her aunt Rosa, as they both had a troubled childhood that got worse with the abuse that Eva inflicted on them. Both, as Episode 4 demonstrates, are the people Maria cares about the most, and for this very reason they are also the people who have the highest chance of hurting her (Ange denying the existence of Sakutaro and the magic, Rosa tearing apart her best friend). However, while Rosa became a disillusioned woman who never found the strength to react and also never received support from anyone to cope with the wounds of her past by becoming an AbusiveMom, Ange managed to find a accord with her own traumas, and left behind everything that hurt her by becoming a completely different person. |
| 68 | * ForHappiness: [[spoiler:Ange decides this must be her purpose to live on in Episode 8. Ange realizes she must live a happy life on behalf of her deceased family and she must use the magic she learned from Beatrice and Maria to better her life and make others happy with it.]] |
| 69 | * FountainOfYouth: She spends a good chunk of the eighth arc as her six-year-old self, symbolically representing her lack of ability to move on from the Rokkenjima murders. |
| 70 | * FriendlessBackground: Ange grew up with no friends because every girl who was around her age only wanted to bully her. The only friends Ange had were Maria and the Stakes of Purgatory, until she recognized they were mere delusions she created to support herself and denied them. |
| 71 | * FriendToAllChildren: In the epilogue, [[spoiler:Ange is sponsoring the reopened Fukuin House]]. She's shown to be good with the children there and teaches them about magic to find happiness. |
| 72 | * FutureBadass: The cute little six-year old grows up to be Ange-Beatrice, the Witch of Resurrection. |
| 73 | * GameBreaker: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. The reason for the condition of not telling her name to Battler is that Lambdadelta considered her as this. She wasn't far from being right considering the effect of [[spoiler: her HeroicSacrifice.]] |
| 74 | * GenderBlenderName: Ange is a masculine name in France, although giving it to a girl would probably not be shocking. |
| 75 | * GirlishPigtails: Of the "two side up" variety. She had them when she was little and she still wears her hair that way now, which is noted as being odd. |
| 76 | * GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:Upon learning the one and only truth of the Rokkenjima incident, Ange completely loses it, refuses to acknowledge it and commits suicide by jumping off the building. In the visual novel, she just sort of gets over it immediately, but in the manga she only gets better thanks to Sayo/Beatrice's RousingSpeech to inspire Ange to find the strength to live on even after finding out such horrible truth, unlike what Sayo did.]] |
| 77 | * GratuitousEnglish: Have a nice dream. {{See you in hell}}. |
| 78 | * GreekChorus: With Featherine in [=EP6=]. |
| 79 | * HappilyFailedSuicide: [[spoiler:The manga reveals Ange's suicide attempt indeed failed and she was caught by a safety net. Despite now having no family left and knowing the truth of Rokkenjima, Ange's experiences in the Meta world and knowing her family will always be watching over her give her the will to live on and find happiness.]] |
| 80 | * HealTheCutie: This is basically what [=EP8=] is about for Ange. Losing her beloved parents and older brother at the Rokkenjima incident, her estranged relationship with her aunt Eva, and the cruel bullying from the girls at St. Lucia Academy changed the once sweet and innocent little girl into a bitter and cold BrokenBird who pretty much only wants to know how her family died to then join them in death. In [=EP8=], Battler and the rest of the Ushiromiya family does their best to encourage Ange to live a happy life even though they can't be by her side. Once she finally get their message, Ange chooses to live on and makes it her goal to bring as much happiness as she can by writing stories and helping orphans like herself. |
| 81 | * HeelRealization: In [=EP8=], following FaceHeelTurn on Bernkastel's side that, putting it lightly, did not get her a very good result. |
| 82 | * HeroicBSOD: In [=EP7=] [[spoiler:when she finds out that [[UnreliableNarrator according to Bernkastel]] her parents are heartless, greedy murderers, her mother has never cared about her and only saw her as a way to keep Rudolf in line and also that Eva, who she had despised for twelve years because of the neglect and abuse she was put through, only acted cruelly to keep her from finding out this truth.]] |
| 83 | * HeroicSacrifice: As a last-ditch effort to snap Battler out of the funk caused by [[spoiler:him finding out that Asumu isn't his mother]] in [=EP4=], [[spoiler:Ange reveals herself as his little sister from the future who has always been waiting for him to return home]]. By the rules of the game, [[spoiler:Ange is then brutally ripped to shreds and thrown out of the game board]]. |
| 84 | * HimeCut: She has the traditional hairstyle one would expect from the member of a prestigious family like the Ushiromiya. |
| 85 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Ange really seems to hang out with the wrong crowd. First [[spoiler:Bern]] and then [[spoiler:Featherine]]. Not to mention, apparently [[spoiler:Amakusa]]. And according to [=EP7=], even [[spoiler:her own parents]]. She also terribly misjudged [[spoiler:Eva, it would seem]]. Finally in [=EP8=], [[spoiler:she teams up with all the established metaworld villains, if only to fulfill her own needs. Needless to say, she is wary of them this time around]]. |
| 86 | * IRejectYourReality: [[spoiler:After learning the truth and being told in red that it's the truth, she denies it anyway. Whatever it is, it's that horrible.]] This becomes ''very'' important in the ending. See StoryBreakerPower below. |
| 87 | ** The manga goes for a more complex and profound take on it: [[spoiler:Ange does accept the horrible truth of the Rokkenjima incident. However, from it and understanding the truth of her family's hearts, Ange creates her own truth of how she understands her family wasn't perfect, but she knows they weren't monsters and they will live on inside her heart.]] |
| 88 | * ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcdOfBXVhtg entreat]]. |
| 89 | * InterruptedSuicide: Ange attempts to throw herself off a building at the end of [=EP3=] to be with her dead parents and brother, but Bernkastel stops her. |
| 90 | * ItsPersonal: In [=EP8=], [[spoiler:Ange's motive begins to change largely from finding out the truth to exposing Eva's crime, and she begins to admit that she will devote her life to getting revenge on Eva]]. |
| 91 | * ItWasAGift: Her pink double-orbs were given to her by Battler, who won them from a crane machine game, and despite how cheap they look she still wears them in memory of him. |
| 92 | * JerkassRealization: |
| 93 | ** As Ange comes to understand what Maria's "magic" really is, she realizes how cruel she was to Maria when they were children. Ange mocked Maria for keep acting like her stuffed toys are her friends when they aren't even real. Ange gets to see how that must have deeply hurt Maria's heart given that she attacked Maria's one coping mechanism. |
| 94 | ** In the final arc, [[spoiler:Ange understands she was horrible to Eva for rejecting her and placing all the blame on her when she finds out Eva was the one protecting her from the truth all along.]] |
| 95 | * KnightInSourArmor: Despite her bad attitude, Ange is ultimately a kind and compassionate person at heart, as prone to giving her enemies a second chance as her older brother is. |
| 96 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: How she comes across in [=EP8=], especially in the manga. She refuses to accept the version of the Ushiromiya Family presented to her, exclaiming over and over again they were not like this. [[spoiler:Battler]], who created this board, asks how she could really know what they were like since she was a six-year-old the last time she saw all of her family together, and that all her knowledge of the family comes from SilentScapegoat Eva, CreepyChild Maria's diary, and everything else was provided by nasty gossip and slander. She's basically let her bitterness warp her perception of the Ushiromiyas, even if pretty much all of them have done things that make their image absolutely justified. |
| 97 | * LastRequest: In [=EP4=], right after her HeroicSacrifice, she only asks Battler to make sure to win the game and return home to where his little sister is. |
| 98 | * LaughingMad: Episode 8, after [[spoiler:learning the truth of Rokkenjima]]. |
| 99 | * {{Leitmotif}}: The heart-tearing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF41hdQKESw Wingless]]. In Episode 8, little Ange has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJLOsoGXST8 Nuigurumi]] (stuffed toy). |
| 100 | * LethalChef: Implied in the TIP "Beatrice's White Day", [[ItMakesSenseInContext when Beatrice orders the Chiester Sisters to destroy Ange's pancakes.]] |
| 101 | -->'''Ange:''' That's me for you… I didn't know that over-cooked pancakes could explode. No wonder I had terrible grades in cooking classes. |
| 102 | * LonelyRichKid: Despite her social standing and wealth, she is shunned and bullied by everyone in her class. |
| 103 | * MadDreamer: She tries to be this in [=EP4=] under Maria's guidance in order to cope with her troubles at school, but it doesn't end well for her. |
| 104 | * MagicSkirt: Expecially notable in the manga and in action scenes. |
| 105 | * MaleGaze: Considering that her skirt [[MagicSkirt doesn't cover much]], her appearances in the manga have a suspicious amount of low angle shots behind her. Some of them can make you doubt that [[GoingCommando she is wearing anything under there]] (let's not start about the [[https://www.rightstufanime.com/images/productImages/9780316447058_manga-Umineko-When-They-Cry-Episode-8-Manga-Volume-1-primary.jpg?resizeid=5&resizeh=1000&resizew=1000 cover]] of the first volume for Episode 8). |
| 106 | * MeaningfulName: A TIP and one conversation in Episode 8 note that her name is derived from "angel". |
| 107 | * MeanwhileInTheFuture: In Episode 4 there are two incarnations of her, one with Battler on the gameboard of 1986 (if you suppose the meta-world is real), the other getting info and travelling to Rokkenjima in 1998. And in a weird take on the trope, her actions in the future impact her "piece" self in the past, rather than the opposite… Episode 8 is more ambiguous, as the gameboard seems to be out of time rather than in the past. |
| 108 | * {{Miko}}: She becomes Featherine's miko. |
| 109 | * MirrorCharacter: To [[spoiler:Sayo Yasuda/Beatrice. Both wanted to be the closest women to Battler and be with him forever, but are abandoned and possibly forgotten by him. Both resent and blame at least one of their parent figures (Kinzo for Sayo and Eva for Ange). Both were severely bullied. Both used "magic" as escapism. Both have given up on life and chose to commit suicide. In the [=EP8=] manga, Beatrice lampshades the similarity herself and that's why she encourages Ange to ''not'' be like her. Beatrice says both of them could have had a happy life had they faced reality and chosen a path they could not see. It's too late for Beatrice because she's already dead, but Ange still has the chance to go back to reality and lead a better life. Ange does as Beatrice says and uses the rest of her life to help people with her stories.]] |
| 110 | * MoralityPet: Eva-Beatrice is a sadistic maniac all-around, but she's surprisingly kind to Ange. [[spoiler:This is because Eva reinforced the belief that she was the culprit in Ange's mind so that Ange would never suspect anyone else. In a sense, Eva-Beatrice was partially created to protect Ange from the truth.]] |
| 111 | * MurderIsTheBestSolution: [[spoiler:The option she takes in the Trick Ending.]] |
| 112 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:In [=EP8=], she pulls a FaceHeelTurn and nearly destroys the Golden Land that Battler and Beatrice created together in order to obtain the truth. However, [[HeelRealization she eventually realizes the damage she is causing by throwing away her only chance at happiness]], and teams up with Battler and Lambdadelta to keep Bernkastel from completing that damage.]] |
| 113 | * MysteriousProtector: An oddball female, non-romantic example. Although the non-romantic part [[BigBrotherAttraction is arguable.]] |
| 114 | * {{Nephewism}}: After her parents died in Rokkenjima, Ange was put under the care of her aunt Eva. Eva initially tried to be good to Ange, but Ange rejected Eva and accused her of being the killer of her real parents. This caused their relationship to fall apart and both ended up hating each other until the end. |
| 115 | * NobodyTouchesTheHair: It's actually not so much her hair that she's sensitive about, but rather the hair ornaments, which are her main mementos of Battler. The effect is the same in the manga, though. |
| 116 | * NoInfantileAmnesia: In the [=EP8=] manga, Ange has a brief flashback of the good moments with her family when she was still a baby. |
| 117 | * OffToBoardingSchool: Eva placed her in St. Lucia Academy, the same school [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Shion]] escaped from. |
| 118 | * OrphansOrdeal: Her life has been a living hell ever since her parents died and she was raised by her abusive aunt instead. Not helped by being surrounded by {{Jerkass}}es in a BoardingSchoolOfHorrors. |
| 119 | * ParentalAbandonment: She lost her parents when she was six years old. |
| 120 | * PenName: [[spoiler:After becoming a writer, Ange assumes the name Yukari Kotobuki.]] |
| 121 | * PerpetualFrowner: Thanks to the rather difficult life she's had, she hardly ever smiles. |
| 122 | * PlotCoupon: The key Battler gives her in the eighth arc. |
| 123 | * RedemptionQuest: Ange eventually decides that this is her purpose for going back to Rokkenjima. |
| 124 | * ReplacementGoldfish: Averted. From the beginning, Eva acknowledged that she couldn't be a replacement for Ange's parents to her anymore than Ange could be a replacement for George, but that they should try to be happy regardless. And then Bernkastel [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor came into]] [[KickTheDog the picture]]… |
| 125 | * SchrodingersButterfly: There is some ambiguity as to whether her adventures with Amakusa are real, written by someone else or she is just imagining the whole thing at the top of the skyscraper. [[spoiler:The manga sort of confirms it was all her spirit adventuring in the Purgatory as a result of her NearDeathExperience when she jumped off the building.]] |
| 126 | * SecretIdentity: In [=EP4=], Ange is brought to the Rokkenjima game board by Bernkastel, but she's forbidden from telling Battler her true identity because Lambdadelta thought that it could make Ange too much of an advantage for the anti-fantasy side. [[spoiler:When she does spell out the truth, CruelAndUnusualDeath ensues.]] |
| 127 | * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Her reason for traveling back in time was to change the events of 1986 so everyone could come back. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted: by the end of the series, most of the people who were on the island are dead and nothing will change that. Ange comes to accept this and makes her personal mission to make the best out of her future despite all the tragic events that lead to it.]] |
| 128 | * SiblingYinYang: With Battler. Aside from the obvious HotBlooded / SugarAndIcePersonality difference, they view the Rokkenjima scenario in completely opposite ways. Battler refuses to accept any magic explanation, yet doesn't naturally suspect anyone he knows and resists accusing when the circumstances try to force him to. Ange accepts the existence of witches, but is naturally suspicious of everyone and determined to indict Eva for everything that went wrong with her life. |
| 129 | * SignificantAnagram: In the hidden Tea Party of Episode 8, [[spoiler:decades later, she becomes a famous fantasy author, "Yukari Kotobuki" (寿 ゆかり). Considering "Yukari" can also be spelled as 縁, if you do that and switch it around with 寿, you get "Ange" (縁寿)]]. |
| 130 | * SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Ange speaks to [[spoiler:Beatrice]] during their fight in [=EP8=] that she understood all along that [[spoiler:Battler]] was trying to teach her that keeping the memories of her family in her heart meant they would always be with her - only so she can then say that it's pure idealistic bullshit. [[spoiler:[[StoryBreakerPower It isn't.]]]] |
| 131 | * SinsOfOurFathers: |
| 132 | ** A lot of the reason that Eva becomes so miserable toward Ange is because [[spoiler:Rudolf and Kyrie--Ange's parents--were the ones responsible for killing the entire rest of the family]]. |
| 133 | ** Kasumi mercilessly beats up Ange due to a grudge over how Kyrie treated her. |
| 134 | ** A big epiphany for her in Episode 8 is understanding that the whole Rokkenjima massacre is the result of a ''long'' chain of this, instead of being the work of a single villain. |
| 135 | * SnarkToSnarkCombat: A good half of her dialogue with [[spoiler:Erika]] in Episode 8 consists of this. |
| 136 | * SorryThatImDying: After her HeroicSacrifice in [=EP4=], Ange apologizes to Battler for in the end not having been able to help him in the game as much as she would have liked. |
| 137 | * SourOutsideSadInside: Her tough, aloof attitude is a shield to hide how miserable and depressed she is. |
| 138 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: The translators had a debate on how to spell [[spoiler:her alias "Yukari Kotobuki"]], debating on whether to preserve the wordplay in the original Japanese in the translation or keep it as it is without an explanation. |
| 139 | * StepfordSnarker: While she's very snarky and indifferent most of the time, as the series goes on it becomes clear that she acts this way to hide a lot of her issues. |
| 140 | * StoryBreakerPower: Her witch powers evolve into this near the end of the eighth arc [[spoiler:during the fight with Bernkastel. Just like Battler's fervent denial of the existence of magic affords him [[AntiMagic Endless Nine]], Ange's [[IRejectYourReality refusal to accept everyone's deaths]] causes her to realize her power as the Witch of Resurrection and [[BackForTheFinale bring every character back]], even making them immune to the [[LanguageOfTruth red truths]] that stated that they died. This culminates in a unified assault that [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu finally defeats Bernkastel]].]] |
| 141 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: She's often aloof, cynical and sarcastic, but she reveals a much more human and compassionate side as you get to know her. [[spoiler:In the Magic ending and its epilogue, her personality softens considerably, and she becomes a warm-hearted person throughout.]] |
| 142 | * SuperiorSuccessor: [[spoiler:Since Ange is a witch of the future as the last Beatrice and is also a Witch of Truth and Resurrection, she holds the power to decide the fate of both Beatrice's entire catbox and its inhabitants in the Meta-World with her own truth and, as the last surviving witch, she succeeds , unlike Beatrice, Maria and Eva-Beatrice, to use her '' magic '' in the real world by bringing happiness to the world through her fairytails stories for children and charitable actions such as the reconstruction of the orphanage build by Kinzo.]] |
| 143 | * SurvivorGuilt: She often thinks that it would have been better for her to have gone to Rokkenjima with her family and have died with them. |
| 144 | * ThatWomanIsDead: [[spoiler:This is what Bernkastel's statement in red "Ange Ushiromiya dies without fail in 1998" in [=EP8=] manga really meant. After returning to her future, Ange decides that the Ange who is obsessed with the past has to die to give birth to a new Ange who looks into the bright future. Ange then abandons the Ushiromiya name and becomes an author under the name Yukari Kotobuki.]] |
| 145 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers an utterly scathing one to Kasumi in the fourth arc. |
| 146 | * TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Her forgiveness for her entire family and her personal acceptance that, despite the fact that they all killed and tortured each other, they all loved her make all of Ange's witch powers fully blossom to their full potential, allowing her to bring them all back from the destruction of the Golden Land and to prevent Bernkastel from doing them any harm, overwhelming and definitively defeating the powerful and unbeatable Witch of Miracles.]] |
| 147 | * TookALevelInCheerfulness: By the end of the series, Ange has gone from a bitter PerpetualFrowner to a much more lively and open-minded girl who smiles often. |
| 148 | * TookALevelInIdealism: In Episode 8, [[spoiler:Ange learns to let go of the past and all her suffering so she can finally move on with her life and become happy because she now knows her family will always be with her in her heart]]. |
| 149 | * TragicKeepsake: Her pink hair bobbles, which were a prize Battler won for her from a crane machine game when she was little. Despite how childish they look on her, she still wears them in memory of him. |
| 150 | * {{Tritagonist}}: One could say that after Battler and Beatrice, ''Umineko'' is also Ange's story. She's the main character of the "future" part of the story, in which she's looking for the answers of what ''really'' in Rokkenjima. The final arc in particular is centered around giving Ange some closure regarding her obsession with the truth and the loss of her family, as well as her finding the resolve to finally move on with her life. |
| 151 | * TryAndFollow: Ange appears to have a penchant for this. She does it on at least two separate occasions, although on the first one she really was, initially, DrivenToSuicide. |
| 152 | * UnexplainedRecovery: ''[[DeathIsCheap Three times]]'', as a matter of fact. [[spoiler:She gets turned into meat scraps at the end of [=EP4=] and [=EP7=] and once again after she commits suicide in [=EP8=].]] And the next time we see her she's fine and well. This might be justified because all this happens in the Meta world, [[spoiler:though the manga claims that she did in fact unsuccessfully attempt suicide.]] |
| 153 | * UnwittingPawn: To Bernkastel in [=EP4=] and [=EP8=]. |
| 154 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Cheerful and ridiculously cute when she was 6. The death of her family and her strained relationship with Eva afterwards made her the cold, bitter and sarcastic young woman she is now. |
| 155 | * TheWatcher: Featherine delays Ange's arrival on Rokkenjima (and eventual [[spoiler:real-world death]]) so that she could observe Battler's game and read it to her. |
| 156 | * WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Ange accuses Battler of hiding what really happened on Rokkenjima from her in [=EP8=], as she is far more interested in learning the truth than remembering the happy times she had with her family. She eventually takes it back when she realizes that he wasn't as completely in the wrong, and she in the right, as she first thought.]] |
| 157 | * WhenSheSmiles: Her smile is noted by Amakusa in the sixth arc. |
| 158 | * WhiteMagic: She started to approach magic after finding her cousin Maria's diary and, thanks to the spirit of the latter infused inside it, she managed to get all her powers as a Witch of the Resurrection. After the final battle against Bernkastel Ange promises, as the last surviving witch of the Mariage Sorciére, she will use her magic to bring happiness to the hearts of others just as Maria taught her. |
| 159 | * WorthLivingFor: In Episode 8, [[spoiler:through the encouragement of everyone in her family and learning to understand their hearts, Ange finally finds the will to live on and become happy because it's her family's wish for her to live out a long and joyful life on their behalf. Ange now knows her family will forever live on as long as she carries them in her heart.]] |
| 160 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: In Episode 8, she apparently wakes up Battler with a Diving Elbow Drop on the morning of the conference. |
| 161 | * YaoiFangirl: PlayedForLaughs in the TIP "Angel of 17 Years". |
| 162 | * YouCantFightFate: Ange helps even knowing that going back in time to help Battler won't fix her own timeline: just the one that Battler will now go to. [[spoiler:In the end she can't fix his timeline either. And while Battler does survive the events on Rokkenjima, Ange doesn't meet with him until many years later, though by that point she's moved on from her past obsessions and is a successful children's author.]] |
| 163 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: |
| 164 | ** As of [=EP6=], [[spoiler: a large conspiracy has been revealed that places Ange in the middle of this: Okonogi is working for the main Sumadera family and had been tasked to eliminate Kasumi and her branch, and hired Amakusa for this job specifically. Ange was to only be protected until Kasumi could be brought out into the open and eliminated. Amakusa killed everyone present when Ange went to Rokkenjima, killing Ange last as she had been regarded as a liability if she were to live any longer.]] |
| 165 | ** Even her Meta-World version is treated like this. |
| 166 | ---> [[spoiler:'''Bernkastel''': Go back to being scrap meat.]] |
| 167 | * YouKilledMyFather: Since she was a child, she was sure Eva is the culprit and screamed "give me back my parents!" And her relationship with Eva went to hell from there. |
| 168 | [[/folder]] |
| 169 | |
| 170 | [[folder:Jūza Amakusa]] |
| 171 | !!!Voiced by Creator/KojiYusa (JP) |
| 172 | [[quoteright:222:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/juza_4169.png]] |
| 173 | |
| 174 | Ange's bodyguard in 1998. He was assigned to guard Ange by Eva, but was later fired because he was flirting with her. He is apparently blacklisted in France. |
| 175 | ---- |
| 176 | * BodyguardBetrayal: In Episode 4, [[spoiler:he is the one who kills Kasumi and her mooks, as well as Ange]]. It was only made clear in Episode 6 since the credits of Episode 4 just mentioned "died in 1998". |
| 177 | * BodyguardCrush: Okonogi suspects him of having this for Ange in Episode 6. He promptly denies anything of the sort. [[spoiler:And as seen above, whether he had one or not ultimately doesn't stop him from betraying and killing her if necessary.]] |
| 178 | * CatchPhrase: Cool! |
| 179 | * ChivalrousPervert: He was initially fired by Eva because even though he was instructed not to talk to Ange, he not only talked to her, but ''tried to flirt with her''. |
| 180 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: In his defense, it was in a ChaseScene. |
| 181 | * {{Expy}}: Some EpilepticTrees have popped up that he's supposed to be a redoing of one of the [[TheMenInBlack Yamainu]] from ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', named Hibari 13 (An odd one, as in the game, he was a character without a sprite), due to his name, which is made with the kanji for "Thirteen." And when Hibari 13's appearance was confirmed in Matsuribayashi-hen Manga, he's indeed identical to Amakusa. |
| 182 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: What is "Eva"'s last word at the end of the 1998 part in Episode 4? [[spoiler:"Cool!" Not something you would expect to hear from Eva's mouth. And then a gunshot is heard, before Ange is back at the skyscraper, floating in the night sky with Bernkastel. From all that, you can already guess what ''really'' happened.]] |
| 183 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:In the Trick ending, Ange kills him.]] |
| 184 | * HotBlooded: [[InformedAttribute According to his character notes]]. |
| 185 | * {{Leitmotif}}: Like The Gale, [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn which he occasionally plays in his car.]] |
| 186 | --> [[BreakingTheFourthWall "You don't like M. Zakky, lady?"]] |
| 187 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has a long ponytail. |
| 188 | * NoodleIncident: Whatever got him banned from France. |
| 189 | * OlderThanHeLooks: If he really was the Amainu codenamed "Hibari 13" in ''Higurashi'' set in 1983, even if he was the youngest member of the group it'd be improbable for him to be younger than mid-thirties by 1998. And even without that, his substantial curriculum as a soldier and mercenary shows that he can't be that young. This would make his flirting with Ange even creepier. |
| 190 | * OldRetainer: He becomes this [[spoiler:for "Yukari Kotobuki" (Ange)]] at the end of the manga. What he becomes in the VN is unknown, though the manga mostly [[spoiler:follows the events of the Magic ending]]. |
| 191 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: It seems that as long as he gets paid and has some action, he's not picky about his jobs. [[spoiler:They may include shooting down an 18 year old girl for the sake of a faction in a clan war. [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Or hunting down a little girl so that she can be eviscerated alive by a psychopathic nurse.]]]] |
| 192 | * PersonaNonGrata: According to Ange, if he's caught back in France, he'll be arrested. |
| 193 | * PetTheDog: Despite [[spoiler:being assigned the job of killing Ange]], his speech about {{child soldier}}s in Episode 6 and the parallels he makes with Ange's situation sound like an attempt to dissuade her from going to Rokkenjima, and apparently he stayed quite long at the phone with Okonogi, like he was having some hesitations [[spoiler:about killing her]]. |
| 194 | * PrettyLittleHeadshots: [[spoiler:Too bad for him, Ange did her research about guns.]] |
| 195 | * PrivateMilitaryContractors: Supposedly, his job before Okonogi hired him was training Blackwater troops. |
| 196 | * ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Named after the UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian saint UsefulNotes/AmakusaShiro. |
| 197 | * SophisticatedAsHell: He has a somewhat weird speech pattern, using polite forms (desu, deshou, etc.) yet punctuating them with the very familiar particle "ze". It's a bit like "I would advise you to take care of yourself, y'know". Same with his way of adressing Ange: he calls her "{{Ojou}}", but without any honorific, which is completely unusual. It's actually the kind of speech used by characters related to TheMafia. |
| 198 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: [[spoiler:Though he seems amiable towards Ange, it's shown that he wouldn't hesitate to kill her.]] However, it might be subverted because [[spoiler:the events where he kills both Kasumi and Ange may have never happened and be a fruit of Ange's (not unjustified) paranoia. In any case, he's firmly on Ange's side in the Magic ending.]] |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Kasumi Sumadera]] |
| 202 | !!!Voiced by: Creator/AtsukoTanaka (JP - anime), Creator/SumiShimamoto (JP - visual novel) |
| 203 | [[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kasumi_ps3_7857.png]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | Kyrie's younger sister. She was forced to marry Kyrie's previous fiancee when Kyrie ran away and married Rudolf, so Kasumi has never forgiven Kyrie for it. After Kyrie dies, Kasumi takes out her frustrations on Ange, [[SinsOfOurFathers since she's Kyrie's daughter]]. |
| 206 | ---- |
| 207 | * ArcVillain: She serves as Ange's primary antagonist in her story in [=EP4=]. |
| 208 | * ArrangedMarriage: She had to marry the man ''her sister'' was supposed to marry before running away. To make it worse, she was forced to break up with her own fiancé to go through with it. |
| 209 | * AxCrazy: She's batshit insane and murderously vengeful. |
| 210 | * CainAndAbel: PlayedWith. Normally, she would be playing the role of the evil Cain who is seeking revenge against her sister Kyrie (the Abel in their scenario). However, due to Kyrie being long dead in her world, she instead takes out her grudge on Kyrie's daughter, Ange. |
| 211 | * DeadlyEuphemism: If she says she wants to make you some matcha tea, then (a) she does not mean that literally, and (b) you might want to [[AxCrazy run in the other direction]]. |
| 212 | * TheDutifulDaughter: After Kyrie ran away, Kasumi was forced to take up the responsibility as the Sumadera heiress, including Kyrie's ArrangedMarriage. |
| 213 | * EvilAunt: Wants to find her beloved niece Ange so she can finally [[AxCrazy torture her to death to get back at her dead mother]]. |
| 214 | * FamilyThemeNaming: Her name is written 霞, the "kiri" of Kyrie's name is written 霧. Both are characters for "mist". |
| 215 | * {{Foil}}: Serves as one for both Eva and Rosa. |
| 216 | ** Both Kasumi and Eva are Ange's last living relatives, and had become the heads of their respective family business. Because of the anxiety and stress derived from their unhappy lives, both took their sorrows out on Ange, establishing a relationship of mutual hatred that lasted until their deaths. They also shared a profound hatred for Kyrie. But while Kasumi had poured her hatred for her sister on Ange since her birth, Eva initially tried to build a new life with her niece after the Rokkenjima accient, before a young Ange's stubbornness drove her to give up. It must also be considered that Eva craved her position as head of the Ushiromiya family, unlike Kasumi. It is no coincidence that in her final confrontation with her niece in Rokkenjima, Eva-Beatrice appears as an evil SpiritAdvisor for Kasumi. |
| 217 | ** Both Kasumi and Rosa had immense, unfair pressure put upon them by their families. Both were once in love and engaged but, because of the difficulties of their lives, found themselves alone and increasingly bitter. Both ended up unloading their pain and their anger against Maria and Ange respectively, and both of them [[IdleRich would willingly stop working to live if they could]]. But Rosa, despite being an abusive parent, never hated Maria as Kasumi hated Ange. |
| 218 | * FreudianExcuse: She hates Ange and wants to take revenge on her because Kyrie ruined her life by running away and forcing her to take up her place as the Sumadera heiress. |
| 219 | * TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: She's so pissed with Kyrie and Ange and hated them for years because after her sister completely cut herself off from the business and obligations of the Sumadera family by marrying Rudolf, Kasumi, who until then had lived a comfortable life, found herself having to take over the reins as the new heir of her family. |
| 220 | * HateSink: Despite her FreudianExcuse, Kasumi is perhaps the sole character in the story to showcase no redeemable qualities. |
| 221 | * IdleRich: Strongly implied that she had this lifestyle before her family forced her to take over the reins of heir to the Sumadera householder after her older sister cut all ties with them to marry Rudolf. |
| 222 | * IrrationalHatred: Considering Ange has no blame for how Kasumi's life turned out and her only relation to Kasumi is being her loathed sister's daughter, Kasumi's hatred for her niece is ''far'' from justifiable. |
| 223 | * {{Jerkass}}: An utterly unlikable, stuck up jerk who insults and belittles everyone around her and relishes the chance of torturing her own niece to death. |
| 224 | * LaughWithMe: While she's torturing Ange both physically and emotionally. |
| 225 | * {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhXTGvBJFAk Over.]] You'd better run. |
| 226 | * MaskOfSanity: She ''tries'' to hide her [[AxCrazy insanity]] under a StepfordSmiler facade, but it quickly becomes very obvious. |
| 227 | * PrettyLittleHeadshots: [[spoiler:How she dies at the end of [=EP4=].]] |
| 228 | * RedemptionRejection: Ange [[SympathyForTheDevil takes pity on her]] and offers her a chance to accept the magic she is seeing and repent for her sins. Kasumi refuses, and is killed immediately after. |
| 229 | * RevengeByProxy: Since Kyrie has been dead for years, Kasumi wants to satiate her desire for revenge by going after Kyrie's daughter, Ange. |
| 230 | * RichBitch: Outside of her own family (maybe), she treats everyone she talks to like crap, not even bothering with honorifics with Okonogi. |
| 231 | * SignatureLaugh: Ufufufufufufu… |
| 232 | * StepfordSmiler: She tries to hide behind a polite smile the fact that she's ''[[AxCrazy completely and utterly insane]]''. |
| 233 | * VillainousBreakdown: Already starts off unhinged, but manages to get even more unstable with each successive appearance until she's reduced to a screaming, near incoherent mess. |
| 234 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Despite leaving quite an impression, she only appears for a small portion of Episode 4 before being killed [[spoiler: by Amakusa]]. After which she is never seen and barely ever mentioned again. |
| 235 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: She has white hair and is definitely not a nice person. [[spoiler:It seems to run in the family, if what's revealed about her sister Kyrie in [=EP7=] is any indication.]] |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:Tetsurō Okonogi]] |
| 239 | !!!Voiced by: Creator/JurotaKosugi (JP), Creator/KenNarita (JP - visual novel) |
| 240 | [[quoteright:196:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/okonogi_ps3_3433.png]] |
| 241 | |
| 242 | An old business partner of Hideyoshi's, as well as Krauss and Rudolf's. After the Rokkenjima incident, he was one of the few people Eva still trusted (although the term "trust" is being generous). After she died, he was put in charge of her company until Ange could take the reigns on her own. Ange approaches him in order to learn more about Eva, whom he says he does not think is the Rokkenjima murderer. He hired Amakusa, who was indebted to him for undisclosed reasons, to serve as Ange's bodyguard and protect her from the Sumadera family. |
| 243 | ---- |
| 244 | * AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler:If one is to believe that Kasumi, her men and eventually Ange herself were killed by Amakusa (whom he himself hired him to protect the girl) in [=EP4=], it is safe to assume that gaining control of Eva's company and eliminating any family members of the Sumadera clan related to Ange who can stop him is enough to decipher the priorities of this man.]] |
| 245 | * {{Expy}}: Of the ''other'' Okonogi from ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' (who may or may not be the same person). |
| 246 | * PointyEars: For some reason. |
| 247 | * YouOweMe: Okonogi is evidently pretty good at this. It's part of the reason Amakusa is rehired to help Ange, and Amakusa speculates that Okonogi did this to later be able to get some favors from Ange. |
| 248 | ** Also supports the idea that he is the same Okonogi from the Hinamizawa incident and Amakusa was one of the men that worked for him. |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Professor Ootsuki]] |
| 252 | !!!Voiced by: Takayuki Kondo[[note]]not to be confused with [[Creator/TakayukiKondo this Takayuki Kondo]][[/note]] (JP) |
| 253 | [[quoteright:165:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/otsuki_ps3_5766.png]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | A college professor who is a member of the Rokkenjima [[ShoutOut Witch Hunt]], a group of occult enthusiasts who attempt to look at the Rokkenjima murders from an occult perspective. Ange interviews him in order to learn more about the Rokkenjima incident. |
| 256 | ---- |
| 257 | * AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler: In the EP 8 manga he's among the crowd pleading with Ikuko Hachijo to reveal the contents of Eva's diary after she announces she won't be opening it.]] |
| 258 | %%* GentlemanAndAScholar |
| 259 | * MrExposition: He tells Ange about the Witch Hunt and several other things about the aftermath of the Rokkenjima incident. |
| 260 | * OccultDetective: He belongs to a group of them. |
| 261 | * ShoutOut: His group, the Witch Hunt, is a shout out to the group of fansubbers who translate the VN series into English. |
| 262 | [[/folder]] |
| 263 | |
| 264 | [[folder:Masayuki Nanjō]] |
| 265 | !!!Voiced by: Akihiko Ishizumi (JP) |
| 266 | [[quoteright:143:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/masayuki_ps3_94.png]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | Doctor Nanjo's son. A rather reclusive person who has tried to move on with his life after the Rokkenjima incident, but who has had trouble doing that thanks to a badgering news media that he believes has dragged his father's reputation through the dirt. He had a daughter, but she was terminally ill and died at a young age. It's from him that Ange learns about the mysterious letters that were sent to surviving relatives of the Rokkenjima victims. |
| 269 | ---- |
| 270 | * TheCaretaker: To his daughter while she was still alive. |
| 271 | * {{Paparazzi}}: Is particularly angry with them (similar to Eva). |
| 272 | [[/folder]] |
| 273 | |
| 274 | [[folder:Sabakichi Kumasawa]] |
| 275 | !!!Voiced by: Creator/HideyukiUmezu (JP) |
| 276 | [[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sabakichi_ps3_7427.png]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | Chiyo Kumasawa's son. He is a fisherman who fishes off the coast of Niijima. He is another one of the people Ange talks to in order to try to understand what happened on Rokkenjima. |
| 279 | ---- |
| 280 | %%* BigFun |
| 281 | * EyesAlwaysShut: Rather like his mother. |
| 282 | * MeaningfulName: A "saba" is a type of mackerel. |
| 283 | [[/folder]] |
| 284 | |
| 285 | [[folder:Captain Kawabata]] |
| 286 | !!!Voiced by: Daisuke Matsuoka (JP) |
| 287 | [[quoteright:174:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kawabata_ps3_3570.png]] |
| 288 | |
| 289 | The captain of the speedboat that went to and from Rokkenjima. He is the one who takes Ange to Rokkenjima. |
| 290 | ---- |
| 291 | * AscendedExtra: Kawabata actually appears since [=EP1=] as the captain of the boat that takes the family to Rokkenjima, but it was not until [=EP4=] that he got an actual portrait and a name. Subsequent appearances of him use his actual portrait. |
| 292 | * FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Think about it. [[spoiler:In Episode 4 and 6, Ange is killed on the island; in the Trick Ending, ''he'' is killed by her. And in the Magic Ending she supposedly doesn't go back to Rokkenjima]]. You have to feel pity for the poor guy. |
| 293 | * TheMole: [[spoiler:Ange accuses of him being this in the Trick Ending. Then she shoots him.]] |
| 294 | * PunnyName: His name contains the kanji for "river". |
| 295 | * RedemptionQuest: Seems to consider taking Ange to and from Rokkenjima as a type of this as atonement for what had happened there 12 years prior. [[spoiler: Unless you go with the trick ending, that is.]] |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Tooya (Ikuko) Hachijō]] |
| 299 | !!!Voiced by: Creator/MichikoNeya (JP) |
| 300 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ikuko_5426.png]] |
| 301 | |
| 302 | ->"''I cannot show myself before all those dirty readers.''" |
| 303 | |
| 304 | A mystery writer who wrote three "forgeries" of Beatrice's original message bottles, called ''Banquet'', ''Alliance'' and ''End''. Ange meets up with her before going to Rokkenjima in Episode 6, [[MindScrew even though Ange herself remembers that she didn't]]. She claims to have reached a certain level of truth, and invites Ange to read her last forgery, ''Dawn''. |
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| 307 | * AgeInsecurity: When introducing herself to [[spoiler:Tooya]], she says her age is a secret. |
| 308 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: |
| 309 | ** If you take a pro-fantasy perspective, she is the human form of the witch Featherine Augustus Aurora. If you take an anti-fantasy perspective, she's a normal mystery writer and Featherine is her AuthorAvatar in her forgery. However, she appears in the epilogue, which takes place in the 2030s, looking like she hasn't aged a day since 1998 and calling herself a witch. This may support the idea that she is really not human. |
| 310 | ** At Episode 8, she's capable of using [[spoiler: Red Truths]] in the real world, ambigious if it can be seen in the real world or a visual flare proving her info is completely true in the visual novel, it has tangible effects in the manga where the press conference believe her without question suggesting her having actual magical powers. |
| 311 | * AuntiePennybags: She is supposed to be the daughter of a very well-off family, but she doesn't act like it. She is considerably eccentric, and 'various mischievous incidents' had apparently got her almost disowned. |
| 312 | * {{Bookworm}}: She loves reading mystery and detective novels. [[spoiler:This allows her to easily bond with Tooya Hachijo/Battler.]] |
| 313 | * CloudCuckoolander: It's sometimes hard to keep up with her train of thoughts, as a few unfortunate publishers experience when they ask her to write a new manuscript for their publishing house. |
| 314 | * CollectiveIdentity: Episode 8 reveals that "Tooya Hachijo" [[spoiler:is actually two people:Ikuko Hachijo, the writer, and Tooya Hachijo/Battler, the story writer]]. |
| 315 | * CommonalityConnection: She and [[spoiler:Tooya]] bond thanks to their shared love for mystery and detective novels. |
| 316 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Purple hair and eyes. |
| 317 | * DirectLineToTheAuthor: All of her forgeries are written as if "Maria Ushiromiya" wrote them and they apparently describe the events that occur from "Banquet" to "Dawn". |
| 318 | * FlorenceNightingaleEffect: [[spoiler:One day, she found a badly injured, amnesiac Battler on the side of the road while driving. Afterwards she brought him into her home and had him attended. She let him stay with her until he got better and gave him the name Tooya. They soon became close and bonded over their love for mystery novels. By the time of the epilogue, they are still living together.]] |
| 319 | * GoroawaseNumber: One of her pen names translates to a number that is 18 to the 8th power, which in turn translates to "Tohya no Hachijo". |
| 320 | * GreekChorus: With Ange in [=EP6=], as they read and comment the story of the episode itself (which she has written). |
| 321 | * HimeCut: She has blunt bangs, cheek-length sidelocks, and waist-length straight hair to underline the implication that she comes from a high-class family. |
| 322 | * {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech could easily be used against her without problems if she were not Ryukishi07's AuthorAvatar, since much of the reason why the tragedy of Rokkenjima is so viral and commercialized is because '''she''' started writing and selling fanfiction stories based on various theories and information about it; stories where she shows no scruple in inventing particularly harrowing events and deaths of the characters involved (regardless of the sensitivity of those who knew them for better or for worse), in which many negative personality traits of some of them are misinterpreted or TakeUpToEleven to their extreme (example, [[RichBitch Eva]]'s [[SiblingMurder deadly]] [[GoldFever greed]] in "Banquet"). That said, she does acknowledge she herself had no right to do what she did and her speech may be her way of trying to make up for actions by killing Rokkenjima's popularity.]] |
| 323 | * IHaveManyNames: She wrote various novels under different pennames, to give herself an aura of mystery. Her real name is Ikuko Hachijo. |
| 324 | * ImpliedLoveInterest: To [[spoiler:Tooya Hachijo/Battler]]. [[spoiler:Ryukishi had originally planned for them to be married]], and by the end of the series, they have lived together for ''at least'' forty years. |
| 325 | * {{Jerkass}}: To anyone who is not [[spoiler:Tooya/Battler]] her character is… unpleasant at best. Hard to deal with in any case. If one considers [[PhysicalGod Featherine]] is her AuthorAvatar, that also tells you something about the size of her ego. |
| 326 | * {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ1CeuQMv7s Love Examination]]'' |
| 327 | * LonersAreFreaks: Although she's not a bad person, she doesn't have a single friend, barely ever meets anyone, and looks down on the few people she meets [[spoiler:except Tooya.]] |
| 328 | * {{Ojou}}: She says she is the daughter of a very wealthy family and big land-owners. |
| 329 | * OlderThanSheLooks: In the Epilogue, [[spoiler:Ange]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that even though Tooya is supposed to be much older than her (and [[spoiler:Ange]] is in her late 40s or 50s by that time), she naturally looks like a young woman. |
| 330 | * TheOmniscient: Well, she is one of the authors, after all. Whether or not she actually knows everything, or else is incredibly mistaken, is up to the audience. |
| 331 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: During the ending of ''Twilight'' she delivers a small one to the people who arrived at the unveiling of Eva's diary. As everyone begs her to show them the inside of the diary, and also accuse her of being a fraud, she chastises them for not being able to understand the suffering of those left behind by the Rokkenjima murders, as well as her own hand in popularizing the deaths with her writing. This was apparently so scathing it [[ShamingTheMob induced enough shame]] to kill the popularity of the Rokkenjima murders.]] |
| 332 | * ReclusiveArtist: An InUniverse example. She doesn't have any friends and hardly ever ventures out of her home to meet anyone. |
| 333 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: The classic transliteration issue of the とお copula. Tooya? Tohya? Tōya? Toya? Technically, all of these are correct. |
| 334 | * VagueAge: Very deliberately. When [[spoiler:Tooya]] asks her about her age, she just says that she is "at an age where she is isn't really old, but calling herself a young girl would be a bit ridiculous." |
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