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Independent Federal Investigation Club SCHALE, or simply "SCHALE", is an extrajudicial, autonomous organization founded by the mysterious General Student Council President prior to her disappearance.
  • Gratuitous German: Schale means "shell" in German.
  • Oddly Small Organization: For an organization that has massive influence over every school in Kivotos and access to quite a large source of funding, the only actual member of it is Sensei. Technically they have the support of Benevolent A.I. Arona and eventually add Plana to their ranks, but that's still one person and two A.I. assistants influencing and affecting every person living in a mega-city where each district is comparable in size to a city on their own. That said, part of being an extrajudicial autonomous organization is being able to recruit any students they want from every club at every school, representing the gameplay aspect of being able to collect any currently available students for interaction and combat, so while there's only one permanent member, it has many part-time helpers who do what they can when not busy with their own school work.

    Sensei 
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Arona's impression of Sensei, drawn during Episode 3 of Arona Channel on the JP Blue Archive Youtube channel.
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Sensei as portrayed by the animated adaptation.
Illustrator: DoReMi (design)
Voiced by: Shogo Sakata (anime)

The Player Character and head member of SCHALE.


  • Accidental Pervert: Happens a lot in the students' Relationship Stories.
    • In her first episode, Yuuka sees they spent 20,000 yen at "Club Smoochie", making her think that Sensei has been spending money at a hostess club when in reality Club Smoochie is actually the name of a gacha game.
    • When they're enamored with Hasumi's wings and ask to touch them, they ask in such a way in which Hasumi mistakenly thinks Sensei wants to touch her large breasts instead.
    • Implied to have happened too in Neru's relationship story. Neru told Sensei to close their eyes and grab her hand, but the following dialogue implies Sensei grabbed something that's not her hand.
      Neru: Grab my hand. Hey! That's not my hand! *sigh* Don't surprise me like that.
    • In the Gourmet Research Society's 2nd episode of their sub-story, after another bout of disturbing the peace, the foodies find themselves in the same Prefect Team holding cell as Sensei's. Haruna guesses they were arrested on suspicion of... illicit activities. This is later confirmed by Hina, who walks in to free Sensei of charges after an investigation—only to see him sniffing Akari's panties offered to him for the scent of truffles they had held.
      Haruna: Let me guess. You were thrown in here for being a degenerate again weren't you?
      Sensei: "That's not true! I was framed!"
      Akari: I have a hard time believing that knowing you, Sensei. ☆
    • In Saki's First Relationship story, one of Sensei's tactics to make Saki take off her helmet is to convince her to do a handstand, arguing that it's good for her health, to which she answers that it's bold of them to ask such thing from a student wearing a skirt.
  • Ambiguously Trained: When introduced Sensei seems like just an average person from a normal background, and even when their special traits get revealed they're mainly a massive Determinator and dedicated supporter for all students no matter their mindset or potential morally ambiguous actions. But right from the start they've shown to have impressive military tactical acumen that lets them act as The Strategist for their students, to a level of skill that goes beyond just having studied military history as part of being a teacher. But because they're a Featureless Protagonist who has Laser-Guided Amnesia about anything before their arrival in Kivotos, there's no direct explanation for their strategic prowess.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: While Sensei is genuinely a nice person they are not afraid to scold any particularly troublesome students. Niya end up learning this the hard way.
  • Big Good: Has fully integrated into this trope by Volume F, with multiple school looking up to him as guidance from the Chroma invasion.
  • Blithe Spirit: Because of their willingness to help all students no matter what, every story that has Sensei involved is bound to have their problems resolved and students come out of them better. Not even an alien invasion in Volume F could stop them from working their magic. This has a particular effect for those who have done wrong, bound by their prejudices, or simply in need of someone's support, which includes Hoshino (who thought there were no good adults), the Tea Party (who needed to learn how to have faith in others), the Arius Squad (who grew up only knowing violence), Wakamo (whose violent tendencies went uncurbed), Kanna (whose pragmatism took over her honor), Rio (who had only her own self-righteousness), Aris (who thought she had to die as a villain), Akira (who was alone in her thievery), FOX Squad (did not how to handle responsibility), the Hyakkaryouran (who all had problems with lies), and so on.
  • Chick Magnet: Sensei has a propensity for charming the various students of Kivotos in their side stories, usually resulting in crushes that are blatant to different levels.
  • Chronic Hero Syndrome: Each and every Main Story Volume and event is at least driven partially because Sensei is there to help their students. Both times when Black Suit warns them that the cost to using their Credit Card in Volume 1 and activating the Utnapishtim in Volume F is a part of their life, their answer is effectively the same: anything is worth the cost for their students' sakes.
  • Clueless Chick-Magnet: No matter where Sensei stands in Relationship Stories regarding their character writing, one very consistent thing about them, which also extends to their Main Story characterization, is that Ship Tease from students with crushes on them repeatedly flies over their head, seeing all their adoration and blushing as just appreciation for being a supportive and caring teacher, particularly many of the Valentine's Day event chocolate giving scenes where the girls end up either shy or super-enthusiastic about providing homemade chocolate to Sensei, who just accepts them and states their appreciation for their hard work both at school and with the chocolate. The only times Sensei isn't oblivious is when a student is very upfront and blatant about their love for Sensei, which is mainly Wakamo.
  • Comes Great Responsibility: As made explicitly clear during the confrontation with Black Suit in Volume 1, Sensei is motivated to help the various student groups who reach out to them simply because they're an adult and a teacher in a position to help them, and "it's the responsible thing to do."
    Sensei: "Because no one else is willing to take responsibility and help these suffering girls."
  • Cool Teacher: They are essentially called "Teacher" in Japanese if you haven’t realized—and it is their main job. Besides being a capable leader for their students in firefights and unravelling villainous conspiracies, Sensei takes their duties as a teacher seriously to the point of being more like friends with their students, helping out with whatever problems they have as an adult is obligated to.
  • Covert Pervert: Has these moments with a couple of students, moreso Iori and Karin.
    • In Iori's first Relationship Episode, Sensei doesn't hesitate to say that the view up her skirt is pleasing for them. This prompts Iori to beat them down.
    • In Karin's Story, after stopping an angry customer, Sensei demands Karin to step on them as a reward.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Despite being the Nice Guy, Sensei can surprisingly be snarky on rare occasions.
    • Sensei shows a lot of their snarky side for the first time in the Cherry Blossom Festival event.
      • When Shizuko mentions that the Inner Discipline Club is composed of weirdos, Sensei proceeds to ask these questions:
        Shizuko: So, the Inner Discipline Club. They're kind of... How do I put this? Their members are known to be kinda weird.
        Sensei: "You think they're weird? Weirder than you?"
      • Izuna also gets a dose of Sensei's snark:
        Izuna: An amateur mistake! Izuna will retreat for now, but next time will be different! You better be ready, Sensei! You'll meet your match then!
        Sensei: "You sound like a generic anime villain right now..."
      • When Shizuko tries to somewhat sugarcoat her words:
        Shizuko: We'll just have to find the culprit ASAP so I can take my frustrations out on that stupid jerk!
        Sensei: "Tell us how you REALLY feel, why don't you."
    • From Onsen Nodoka's relationship story:
      Nodoka: Won't the guests be amazed and give me large tips if they see me gliding about with large piles of laundry like this?
      Sensei: "Are you thinking of a hot springs resort or a circus?"
    • Sensei makes a lot of snarky comments during An Unconcealed Heart.
      • This conversation sums up Sensei's snark towards Shizuko:
        Shizuko: Oh! I recognize you now. You're the weirdo leader who plays ninja all day!
        Michiru: Who're you calling a weirdo?!
        Sensei: "You know, the Momoyodou are pretty weird themselves."
        [...]
        Shizuko: You all have it totally wrong! Where did you even hear that?!
        Sensei: "The service at the Momoyodou IS pretty maniacal..."
        Shizuko: Et tu, Sensei?!
      • At Shizuko's attempt at showing off:
        Shizuko: Because I, Shizuko, as the face of Momoyodou, am the perfect choice to be the very first face that greets you in this adventure!
      • Another one at Shizuko's expense:
        Shizuko: "It didn't occur to me during Hyakkiyako Cherry Blossom Festival, but theatrics of that caliber... might be worth a pretty penny..."
        Sensei: "Momoyodou's owner never misses a chance to turn a quick buck, huh?"
        Shizuko: "Don't say that like it's a bad thing!"
      • At Niya's commentary of the Princess Waraku event:
        Sensei: "Wow, she really is just airing out all our dirty laundry."
      • When Tsubaki falls asleep mid-sentence:
        Iroha: She fell asleep mid-sentence... Are Hyakkiyako students all just like this?
      • As supportive as Sensei is with Izuna's dream, they still snark at Izuna:
        Izuna: Yep yep! I prepared a little something special for situations just like this!
        Sensei: "This is what you waste your time on..."
      • When it is Kaede's turn to introduce herself:
        Kaede: Listen up! I am Isami Kaede, and I'm in charge of the fourth trial, the Trick House! I'm fifteen years old, and my hobby is catching beetles!
        Sensei: "This gatekeeper I was expecting."
        Kaede: Heehee! That's right! And the cabal that kidnapped the princess has already fled inside the mansion! Or something like that! Line, please?
    • In Volume 4 at Descartes's Hypocritical Humor:
    • Sensei also makes some snarky comments during the Momoyodou Beach House Franchise Plan event (once again mainly at Shizuko's expense).
      • At Shizuko's rhetorical question:
        Shizuko: What kind of weirdos are so obsessed with hot springs development?
        Shizuko: Thanks a lot, Captain Obvious!
      • At Shizuko's idea of a Decapitation Strike against the Hot Springs Development Department:
        Izuna: Sh-Shizuko! Your plan is scarier than some of the scenes from my period dramas! Eek!
        Sensei: "Shizuko is even scarier than the hot springs fanatics..."
    • From Michiru's relationship story:
      Michiru: Yes, so we upload videos twice a week. We need to upload a new one soon... But I have no idea what to post next... We're completely stumped! We've been driven into a corner! We might as well just title the next video "Michiru! A Youth's Crisis!" That's why I messaged you on Momo Talk. I just completely forgot to explain the rest!
      Sensei: "So you experience a crisis like this twice a week, Michiru?"
    • From a Momo Talk conversation with New Year Aru before a relationship story:
      Aru: Last time I...I rented that expensive kimono, right?
      Sensei: Yeah, you were so gullible, Aru.
      Aru: W-Wait! About that, it was part of a strategic investment! I contacted you today to let you know I found a way to put the outfit to good use!
      Sensei: I did think it would be pretty on display in a room. Need help?
  • Depending on the Writer: In the various students' side stories, Sensei's main character trait is being a Foil to the student in question. How that gets expressed changes from story to story: they can be a Manchild or The Gadfly that Yuuka or Karin have to put up with, a Straight Man trying to keep a handle of Saya or Mutsuki, or The Workaholic who needs to be kept on a leash by Serina or Chinatsu. Then you have poor Iori who gets ruthlessly, yet playfully, teased and caught in compromising situations around them. Ultimately, Sensei is more "normal" than most students, being more or less a Manchild semi-consistently.
  • Determinator: Once Sensei has decided to lend their aid to whichever student or club has asked for it, there is almost nothing that will get him to give up on them. Nagisa's increasingly obstructive interference during Chapters 1 and 2 of Volume 3 doesn't deter them. Even after getting shot during Arius' attack on the Eden Treaty signing and passing out, the first thing Sensei does after recovering and waking up is to assure the Trinity and Gehenna students with him that they're still helping them before heading out to rally the two schools' forces against Arius and the Justina Saints.
  • The Dreaded: Once SCHALE starts getting things done, Sensei becomes widely feared among Kivotos' criminal underworld and Gematria due to Sensei's ability to completely dismantle their plots. It has even gotten to the point where random delinquents on the street can recognize Sensei.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Sensei's moment comes late in V1C2, where they confront Black Suit all by themselves, reveals that they've foiled his and Kaiser PMC's plans to abduct Hoshino and take over Abydos simply by not signing a document, turns down his offer to join forces, and threatens him with their credit card, an item that Black Suit explains uses Sensei's own life as cost for incredible power, in order to learn the kidnapped Hoshino's location. This confrontation firmly establishes their strong sense of responsibility, their willingness to sacrifice for their students and their penchant for Mundane Made Awesome moments when the chips are down.
  • Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: While Sensei is a very kind person to the point of forgiving students that are known to be destructive like Wakamo, they absolutely despise fellow adult Beatrice, who saw her students as tools and taught them only to hate, then callously put the numerous lives of both her own people and others at risk, all for the sake of gaining power and merely seeing it as a natural right of an adult—all of which stand against Sensei's belief that adults should take responsibility. This prompts them to tell her to shut up and declare her their enemy.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Not even the Sensei, everybody just calls them "Sensei", barring some other names students have for them.
  • Featureless Protagonist: None of Sensei's physical features are ever seen in-game. The only impression of their face ever given in the game's canon is a doodle of their face drawn by Arona when she's flexing her facial recognition powers during Arona Channel episode 3. The 2024 animated adaptation depicts Sensei as a young adult man with short black hair and a suit, while the Game Development Department and Problem Solver 68 manga series both give their versions of Sensei different appearances, with the GDD Sensei sporting the Doodle Sensei face on a towering frame, and the Problem Solver Sensei being a bit of a pretty boy with an air of tiredness about him.
  • Figure It Out Yourself: They often take a hands-off approach when it comes to their students at times to let them act and grow independently as part of a lesson of taking responsibility, especially for one's actions. Hence, it's often the students driving the story forward rather than Sensei alone, who only takes center stage when the situation calls for it.
    • In V4C1 during the break-in of Valkyrie Academy, Miyako suffers a mental breakdown when the team gets trapped in a vault and pleads for Sensei to take over command. Rather than obliging, Sensei encourages Miyako that things aren't over yet, getting her back on her feet to lead the team.
    • In Momoyodou Beach Shack Franchise Plan, the (former) Kaiser PMC's Director accuses Sensei of having led the students once again to the robot's defeat like they did with Abydos, but Sensei make themselves clear that they did not do much; it was Shizuko and her friends' determination that saw them through the takeover of the islands.
  • Friend to All Children: Given the nature of their job as a teacher, it practically requires Sensei to be this. Even with problematic cases like the Seven Prisoners and the children from Arius, Sensei treats all of their students with equal respect and kindness no matter who they are. As such, they can't stand it when the students are put in harm's way or other adults try to take advantage of them for selfish and ulterior motives.
  • From Beyond the Fourth Wall: In the final battle of V3C3, Sensei acts like they're about to use a Dangerous Forbidden Technique, and whip out their credit card. For the first time in story mode, the ensuing battle allows you to use your account's students that you rolled and raised yourself rather than the "canon" ones. Maestro, who's observing the scene unfold, makes comments that strongly imply this isn't just a gameplay thing.
    Maestro: Ah... That must be it! So this is the card I've heard so much about! Power gained in exchange for your life and time... An incomprehensible force with origins and limitations even we can't understand! I wonder what Golconde would have called it... He'd probably say it requires metacognition to understand. Very well, Sensei. Show me the price you have paid. Show me power worth pawning your life over!
  • Gossip Evolution: Is a victim of this several times.
    • In V3C4E8, Hiyori gets terrified from seeing Sensei, hearing that they've got an underground prison full of the screams of rebellious students thrown into it.
    • In V4C1E5, a suspicious Saki brings up a rumor that Schale has wiretapping all over it. No doubt Kotama had something to do with that.
    • In V1C3E3, a Highlander clerk explains to Hikari and Nozomi on who Sensei is, talking about rumors where they'd burn down everything in their path in the name of solving conflict and the one time a Highlander train was blown up by them (a Call-Back to the Trip-Trap-Train event, which wasn't Sensei's fault). There's also a rumor of them running around naked as implied by the end of Volume F, despite it being just that one time.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: After Phrenapates is defeated, their space station begins falling apart, necessitating Sensei using a teleporter to send their students to safety. However, instead of using the last teleport for themselves, Sensei instead uses it on Anubis. If not for Arona and Plana's intervention, Sensei would have died on the space station.
  • Hidden Depths:
    • They're a fan of Mecha.
      • In Yuuka's first Relationship Story, they've spent "10,000 yen on limited edition transforming robot toys". Apparently, square meals are a small price to pay for them.
      • In VFC2, they call on the Kaitengers to fight a Chroma-controlled Perorodzilla, having their Kaiten FX Mk.0 gigantified into the Kaiten FX Mk.∞ to match. Given that Sensei even shouts a power-up line for the gigantification sequence, it's pretty clear they've seen plenty of Tokusatsu and Kaiju shows.
      • In VEXC2, after the team defeats Chokmah the transforming mecha kaiju-battleship, Sensei yells about how glad they were to see it in action. It actually endears them to Ein, Sof and Ohr a bit despite knowing they're an enemy.
      • The theme they play for karaoke in the group story Record of a February 19th is "Kaiten Screw!!!", the theme of the Kaitengers, the game's Power Rangers expy.
    • They turn out to be a Godlike Gamer in Momoi's relationship story by beating "Dark Spirits 4" (a Bland-Name Product referring to the infamously difficult Dark Souls series) in one sitting, whilst presumably playing it for the first time. As in, it's daytime when they start, night when they finish, and there's no indication that more than a day has passed. The Dark Souls games normally take 30+ hours each just to go from start to finish without doing any side activities.
    • Despite being mind-boggled by Mushiqueen in Momoyodou Beach Shack Franchise Plan, they've grown to like it in Secret Midnight Party; when Koyuki taunts them over getting to open lots of card packs, Sensei angrily grits her full name out (this is the first time it's ever happened!) and rushes over to the Self-Reflection Room, abandoning their end-of-year accounting.
  • Humble Hero: No matter how many times their students thank them for coming into their lives and giving them the mental and emotional support and safety they needed, Sensei insists that they're just doing what's expected of a responsible adult and dutiful teacher, claiming the students do most of the work dealing with their problems, which while true, undercuts the fact they were only able to start working towards bettering themselves thanks to Sensei's presence. That's in addition to underselling the sheer influence they have over all of Kivotos, as by Volume F they've become a Universally Beloved Leader capable of rallying students from every school to work together, an impressive achievement given even students from the same school can often barely tolerate each other.
  • In-Series Nickname: A couple of students have different names for them. So far, there's "Master" (Asuna, Akane, and Eri), "Boss" (Pina), "Trainer" (Sumire), "Lord" (Izuna), "Sir Sensei" (Michiru), "My dearest/beloved" (Wakamo), "Comrade" (Cherino), "Mentor" (Renge), and "Teach" (Kirara).
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Sensei remembers speaking to the GSC President and the password to the Shittim Chest, but nothing else prior to meeting the GSC Vice President.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In a MomoTalk chat before Kayoko (New Year)'s third Relationship Episode, Kayoko asks what talisman Sensei wants. They can reply with "One that helps my gacha luck!" or "One that helps my Crit DMG rate!" Kayoko becomes unsure before Sensei says they're joking.
  • Magnetic Hero: Due to their dedication to protecting all students in Kivotos, Sensei has an uncanny ability to win over the loyalty of pretty much every student they encounter, including ones that were previously antagonistic towards them like Wakamo, RABBIT Squad, Mika and the Arius Squad.
  • Messianic Archetype: Just as Blue Archive leans heavy on Christianity motifs, Sensei has various traits that heavily echoes that of Jesus Christ.
    • Sensei is frequently depicted as an All-Loving Hero who garner the interests of not only the students, but even some of the villains.
    • Sensei is often portrayed as a savior to the students, who can look at them past their sins. Most prominent in Eden Treaty where they're able to redeem Saori and Mika.
    • One of the keywords for Blue Archive is Miracles. Sensei is often attributed to as one of the few characters in the game who can create miracles through the Shittim Chest.
    • During VFC1E15, when Sensei sends a message to all students after retaking SCHALE, the number 11:47 is prominently shown on the student's phone. The relevant quote in the Bible, John 11:47, mirrors the depiction of Sensei as a miracle worker who garnered the trust of every student in the city.
    • During VFC4E7, after sacrificing their only teleportation sequence to save Anubis, Sensei proceeds to fall off from the Ark of Atrahasis. For a brief moment, the game shows the sun rising and setting three times over the scene of the Shittim Chest's classroom, then the church, and back to the classroom. After this, Plana and Arona combine their power to create a miracle to save Sensei from falling to their death. The miracle that is the resurrection of Jesus happened on the third day.
  • Morality Pet: They can be this for certain students because of their good influences.
    • They serve this for the Seven Prisoners they have met:
    • While Mika planned to atone for what she did after Volume 3, Sensei is mostly the reason why she tries really hard to act like a good student now, and she's scared of disappointing them or making them mad.
    • According to some Millennium students, Yuuka is actually a strict person, especially with Millennium club activities, which is why Momoi dreads her a lot. Chihiro even implies that whenever Sensei is there in Millennium, Yuuka goes much, much easier on their club's budget than usual. This also implies that if Sensei hadn't been there in V2C2 with the Game Development Department, Yuuka probably would have stopped the club from functioning. Sensei is pretty shocked because she's typically strict with them on their budget too, so they couldn't imagine her being even more harsh with others.
  • More than Just a Teacher: Assuming it's in line with real world standards, the average teacher shouldn't be able to command students in gunfights with ease or whip out some kind of credit card that, apparently according to Black Suit and Maestro, is a Dangerous Forbidden Technique that lets them defeat an Angelic Abomination or a small army of ghostly saints. It should also be noted that Sensei is an adult, something acknowledged by their students as well as all of Gematria's members, who regard themselves as adults, though what makes this significant is unclear.
  • Nice Guy: It is apparent that Sensei is genuinely a friendly person who is fully invested in the lives of their students, regardless of their often wacky quirks. Even the students who are considered problematic and committed criminal activities are not exempted from their kindness.
  • Once Done, Never Forgotten: After the end of Volume F, Sensei gets plagued with rumors about being a streaker due to their clothes burning up from atmospheric re-entry from the Ark of Atrahasis, which constantly gets brought up by people meeting Sensei from that point as evidence that they're a wierdo.
  • One of the Kids: Oh, they can certainly be the ideal type of adult that anyone can depend on when it comes down to it, but setting aside the impromptu counselling sessions, they usually hang out with their students in such a passive, clumsy and easygoing way that it's easy to forget they're an adult. Most apparent in the event -ive aLIVE! where the first episode starts in the After-School Sweets Club's room, in which Yoshimi yells at Sensei for eating a dessert early since the Club wanted the latter to rate what they brought; the fact that Sensei is casual enough to eat a dessert without asking, is involved in this event because they were hanging out rather than being officially called on, and the girls aren't treating them specially as an adult shows how casual they are to be like a friend.
  • Out of Focus: Due to Sensei's status as a Supporting Protagonist who lets their students take the lead while providing support however they can, there are plenty of points in the story where Sensei is barely even present for long stretches of time, with the students often having scenes together that don't include them at all. The most prominent early example of this is Volume 2 Chapter 1, where after the previous Volume had Sensei be closely involved in everything the Foreclosure Task Force did, this Volume Chapter has them practically vanish for more than half of the plot, getting introduced to the group at the beginning then mainly appearing any time the GDD needs to do something either with supervision or involving fighting, the peacetime episodes only even mentioning them when their opinion is required.
  • Pass the Popcorn: In VEXC2E22, they wonder if there's popcorn anywhere as they watch a dramatically heartfelt, if awkward moment of Kei trying to thank Rio for giving her a new body, while Rio assumes she's being hated, and both having to process what the other just said.
  • The Power of Trust: As Sensei themselves put it, this is their real power, not their credit card, because no matter what, a teacher must always stand with their students. For the couple of times this caused trouble, it paid off when they chose not to suspect any of Make-Up Work Club for being a mole, Mika appreciating Sensei being there for her even when she revealed herself to be that mole, refusing to use a halo-destroying bomb to collar Saori because Sensei wanted them to be equals, or the FOX Squad chiding them for accepting gifts from enemies like themselves so readily, but coming around to trust them in the end. By the events of Volume F, every single academy has full trust in them to act as their peacemaker.
  • Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Sensei surprisingly has one before he starts lecturing Niya at the end of the An Unconcealed Heart event:
    Sensei: "Well, buckle up, kiddo. I've got a lot to say to you."
  • A Protagonist Shall Lead Them: As a teacher of all students with the authority that comes with it, this makes Sensei a leader in times of crisis.
  • Pursued Protagonist:
    • Gehenna used the presence of Problem Solver 68 in Abydos to justify invading the latter school's territory... as a cover story to kidnap Sensei to keep SCHALE from interfering with the Eden Treaty between Gehenna and Trinity. Luckily, Hina cuts off the attack.
    • Invoked and then subverted in V3C4, when the members of Arius Squad mention that Beatrice promised them amnesty for their prior desertion if they kill Sensei for her. However, none of the Squad took her up on the offer and are instead willing to work under Sensei's leadership to rescue Atsuko.
  • Save the Villain: Downplayed given that a majority of the villainous students they face are misguided at most and easy to sympathize with, but they take the cake in Vol. F in saving Terror!Shiroko—who was complicit in nearly dooming Kivotos to the Chroma—by using their only Escape Sequence to teleport her out of the falling Ark of Atrahasis instead of themselves. After all, they are all students adults must guide in the end, no matter who or what they are.
  • School Club Advisor: This is one of the main duties of Sensei, who as the head of Schale and the sole teacher in Kivotos finds themselves taking on advisory duties for the many clubs found there as needed. They take on a more direct role when they're asked to be the advisor of the Make-Up Work club and getting them to improve their grades.
  • Spanner in the Works: Kivotos' criminal organizations were absolutely capitalizing on the disappearance of the President of the General Student Council. Sensei's arrival in Kivotos and subsequent rallying of the students behind Schale ultimately begins the undoing of innumerable criminal plots.
    • Also seen as this by Iori and Ako of Gehenna's Perfect Team in regards to the possibility of them interfering with the Eden Treaty.
    • Beatrice of Gematria identifies them as perhaps the most significant roadblock to her future plans, and unlike Iori and Ako, her preferred method of neutralizing Sensei is decidedly more permanent.
    • As Himari notes in Volume EX, Chapter 2, Ein, Sof and Ohr explicitly target Sensei because of some unknown variable they supposedly present.
  • The Strategist: Sensei is apparently a gifted strategist and has, on multiple occasions, successfully commanded ragtag teams of students against larger and often better equipped forces. The Prologue has them directing the four school district representatives (Yuuka, Hasumi, Suzumi, and Chinatsu) who can barely tolerate each other and coordinating them so well in reclaiming the Schale building that all leave with a highly positive view of Sensei, while each Main Story Volume features at least one instance of the focus club fighting with Sensei by their side, such as the Foreclosure Task Force, the Game Development Club or even the Arius Squad in V3C4, while being led by Sensei, commenting on how much easier their fights are with Sensei in command. This gets taken to another level in Vol. F when they have to command six squads at the same time to simultaneously destroy the six False Sanctums against Color-hijacked raid bosses while managing the citizens' safety.
  • Supporting Protagonist: As detailed in Figure It Out Yourself above, the real focus of the story is the school clubs that Sensei guides during their respective Volumes. While Sensei's help is essential, it's ultimately the focus club that influences the plot.
  • Tragic Keepsake: Following the events of Final Volume, Sensei keeps hold of Phrenapates' Adult Card, damaged beyond repair and with only a sliver of its power left. Players have the option to either keep the card intact as a memento of the event, or extract its power, which rewards the player with 1200 Pyroxene, but causes the card to crumble to dust.
  • Universally Beloved Leader: By the time of Schale's Happy Valentine Patrol, Sensei has a couple of citizens thanking them for their hard work bettering Kivotos, Sena likewise doing the same on behalf of the students. Volume F shows they've garnered so much trust amongst the student councils that everyone who attended Rin's emergency meeting makes it clear they're only there because of Sensei rather than the GSC.
  • What If?: In V1C3E34, Sensei momentarily loses consciousness from the pressure exerted by Hoshino Terror. During that time, they find themselves being woken up by Yume herself in the Student Council room of Abydos, followed by Hoshino yelling at them to hurry for a treasure hunt and Yume explaining Hoshino has become more "mischievous" ever since Sensei came into their life. It's not certain whether they are in some kind of Afterlife Chamber where Sensei's near-death put them there or something else, especially given the existence of Alternate Timelines, but it would have been interesting to see how Sensei would have shaped events had they arrived in Kivotos two years earlier. Sadly, as Sensei apologizes to her, they can't bring back the dead or turn back time, but Yume encouragingly tells them that they've done their best, leading to Sensei reaffirming their desire to save the students they can in the present.
  • Wild Card: Unlike the various students who have an assortment of factions and interests they rigidly align themselves to, frequently resulting in conflict between not just each school but also clubs from the same school and sometimes even members of the same club, Sensei cares only about supporting every student so they can be their best selves and achieve their dreams, regardless of what they need to do to accomplish that. This frequently results in them coming into conflict with students they already know because the group they currently advise is doing something their opponent is against, only to not long after join said formerly antagonistic group and support them in fighting the exact same group they previously supported, most notably Volume 4 Chapter 1 having them first support Valkyrie in defeating RABBIT Squad, only to later on support RABBIT Squad in fighting against Valkyrie. They're even willing to support and advise literal criminals like the Hot Spring Department, Wakamo, and Rabu because they requested Sensei's help, alongside accepting Enemy Mine scenarios with people like Black Suit if it helps their students.
  • Willfully Weak: Sensei's credit card is so powerful that simply taking it out during Volume 1 threatened Black Suit so much he went into a minor Villainous Breakdown. The only reason why Sensei doesn't use it more often is because it is powered by their "time" and "life". When Sensei finally uses it during V3C3, Sensei is shown capable of defeating Hieronymus using its power. Other times include taking out a small army of Mimesis threatening to overwhelm Mika in V3C4, the Chroma's initial invasion in Volume F, and squaring off against Set in V1C3.
  • Workaholic: Is constantly pulling all-nighters to get their work done to the point of falling asleep on their desk, skipping meals, and generally ruining their health, which is a large point of contention for a lot of students. Justified Trope when you take into account that Sensei's the sole working teacher to a setting home to thousands of students.

    Arona 
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Thanks for the hard work Sensei.
Illustrator: Hwansang
Voiced by: Konomi Kohara

A quirky but plucky AI found in the Shittim Crest. Not much else is known other than her being responsible for running the Chest's functions.


  • Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Clearly enjoys getting 'headpats' when you tap her head on the campaign screen.
  • Ambiguous Situation: With The Reveal that the GSC President was once present in the main timeline's Shittim Chest and the similarities between the two, it puts into question whether Arona is the GSC President in disguise, a copy of the missing President without her memories, or even something else entirely.
  • Benevolent A.I.: She's more than happy to help you figure out the Shittim Chest and how to optimize your interactions with the students.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: Arona intially is portrayed as the game's mascot and the Sensei's AI assistant. However, the afterword of Volume F alludes that Arona may actually be the missing General Student Council President.
  • Cool Big Sis: She tries to get Plana to call her "Sis" in VFC4 Ep. 8, but Plana just calls her "Arona". The JP dialogue similarly has Arona declare herself as Plana's big sister, but Plana instead calls her "senpai", much to her dismay.
  • Deflector Shields: As part of power of the Shittim Chest, Arona can erect a protective barrier around the Sensei to protect them from outside threats like gunfire. The one time she couldn't is during Volume 3, Chapter 3 when Arona exhausted most of her power protecting Sensei from Arius's missile destroying the cathedral, then shut down, leaving Sensei vulnerable to Saori's shot.
  • Foreshadowing: In the prologue, Arona says her physical form is "still" small and her voice could use an upgrade. While players might think she's referring to the Shittim Tablet she's residing in or her appearance, saying "physical" should be odd since a digital AI shouldn't need any of that, and the way she says it implies there was a change to herself previously. Moreover, as Sensei says, fingerprint scanners nowadays are instant and yet Arona takes her time scanning, so while we may not know the exact capabilities of the Chest, even a minor flaw like that stands out for a highly advanced device. These supposedly minor oddities are later explained by The Reveal that the GSC President was once, and possible still is, in the current timeline's Shittim Chest.
  • Hello, [Insert Name Here]: If given a pronunciation guide, Arona will address the player by name.
  • Heroic RRoD: Arona taking in Plana seems to be straining the resources of the Shittim Chest, with Plana noting that Arona is spending more time asleep. Whether or not this will cause long-term damage is currently unknown.
  • Identical Stranger: As the story progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that Arona bears a striking resemblance to a younger version of the General Student Council President.
  • Invisible to Normals: Arona's voice cannot be heard by anyone except Sensei. The only exception to this was when they came face to face with the other AI in Phrenapates's damaged Shittim Chest.
  • Light Is Good: Her color scheme is primarily that of pure white and sky-blue colors as befitting of the game's title. Of course, she's a sunny ball of goodness to match too.
  • Living Mood Ring: Unlike the students, her halo is unique in that it changes shape and color according to her mood. So far, there's the normal blue halo, a purple dripping halo when she's sad, a peach pink heart when she's happy, a jade green halo with winking stars when motivated, an electric blue haze when she's shocked, and crown of orange spikes when angry.
  • No-Sell:
    • Decagrammaton tried to hack the Shittim Chest. Arona was asleep on her desk at the time, and murmured in her sleep that it 'tickled' before kicking Decagrammaton out with such force that it shook the building Sensei and the others were in. Decagrammaton's reaction says it all.
    • Likewise, when Kaiser steals the Shittim Chest and tries to hack it, it ends up getting their own servers destroyed, even though Arona is shut down and not conscious.
  • Oh, Crap!: Tapping Arona on the campaign menu when she's sleeping causes her to freak out upon waking up.
  • Parasol of Prettiness: Her weapon is a combination of rifle and umbrella.
  • Talking in Your Sleep: Arona tends to mumble about food when sleeping.

    Plana (Spoilers for Volume F) 

A.R.O.N.A/Plana

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Let us begin. You and I... Our miracle.
Illustrator: DoReMi
Voiced by: Konomi Kohara
A black-colored version of Arona that manifested from the damaged Shittim Chest Phrenapates owns, she possesses virtually the same capabilities as Sensei's Arona, and assist both Phrenapates and Shiroko*Terror in their invasion of Kivotos.

After Phrenapates's death and the collapse of the Ark of Atrahasis, she is transferred into Sensei's Shittim Chest because of a request Sensei made to Arona. As Sensei continues to fall from a height of 7000m, she joins hands with Arona in order to perform a miracle that helps them survive the landing safely. While she planned to leave after saving Sensei, Arona catches up to her, gives her the name Plana in order to differentiate them both, and convinces her to stay at Sensei's side in the Shittim Chest.
  • Alternate Self: Arona and Plana share some similarities such as similar appearances and are both Shittim Chest AI, which gives the idea Plana is a parallel version of Arona who went down a darker path. The second afterword of Volume F would come to reveal that they're in fact not the same existence, and the reason for their differences is because Arona might actually be the GSC President or influenced by the GSC President, while Plana is presumably what the original Shittim Chest AI would have been.
  • Alternative-Self Name-Change: Was given the name Plana by Arona, as she was also called Arona before then. In cutscenes, her name is written as A.R.O.N.A to differentiate the two.
  • Call-Back: The moment she manifested, she introduces herself in a manner that mirrors the self-introduction line Arona gave to Sensei right after they asked for her name during the Prologue.
  • Dark Is Not Evil:
    • Subverted at first; she's a counterpart to Arona who dons a pitch-black uniform and coat who's assisting in the destruction of Kivotos, although it should be noted that she's only following Phrenapates's orders rather than doing it out of any malice. It's played straight after their defeat, helping to save Sensei from falling out of the Ark and now residing in the Shittim Chest as a helpful virtual assistant.
    • As your Shittim Chest's new AI, her appearance is signaled by a muted lavender and red loading screen instead of Arona's cyan and pink theme, and in the stage selection screen after, she appears in the ruined classroom while the skies are turning dark and stars start to dot it.
  • Deadpan Snarker: She's much more blunt and deadpan than Arona.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: She was previously affiliated with Phrenapates, but is convinced by Arona to join Sensei after Phrenapates is defeated.
  • Emotionless Girl: Compared to Arona, she's much more quiet and reserved and less prone to showing any emotion.
  • Foreshadowing: All the way back to the 1st Anniversary 3rd PV; the introductory blackboard has a red chalk drawing of A.R.O.N.A's glowering face.
  • Hates Being Touched: She'll malfunction if you poke her on the screen too many times.
  • Hyper-Competent Sidekick: While Arona is helpful in her own way, Plana has a much deeper understanding of the Shittim Chest's inner workings, Gematria, and the Terrors, allowing her to assist Sensei more directly. As the actual O.S of the Shittim Chest rather than possibly a student having gone through Brain Uploading like Arona, it makes sense she'd know best how to work it. Best shown Volume 1 Chapter 3 where she is key to foiling the Underground Dweller's plot to transform Hoshino into Horus. She even unlocks a new function in the Shittim Chest that allows Sensei to command up to ten students instead of six.

  • Living Mood Ring: Like senpai AI Arona, Plana's halo changes shape according to her mood, except the color stays in different shades of red rather than altogether different colors (except for when she's happy, which is the same peach shade as Arona's).
  • Meaningful Rename: Arona names her Plana, as in short for "planetarium," noting that she seems like a lone star in the sky and her hope that she'll light up all around her.
  • My Master, Right or Wrong: She continues serving Sensei after they become Phrenapates, putting her immense calculation abilities towards forwarding the Chroma's invasion of the main timeline, believing that's what they want. It's only after the invasion fails and Phrenapates spends his last moments asking their counterpart to save their students that she realizes that Phrenapates's true objective was to save Shiroko and stop the Chroma by putting everything in the hands of their alternate self.
  • Next Tier Power-Up: Her addition to the Shittim Chest as a second AI allows the Shittim Chest to pull off even more powerful "miracles" than before, such as slowing down Sensei's fall from the Ark of Atrahasis or allowing Sensei to command nearly twice the number of students in desperate situations.
  • Not So Above It All: Implied with the Pyroxene purchase icons, where the first of the last two packages has her in a swim ring amongst a sea of Pyroxenes, while the last has her wearing shades and posing alongside Arona.
  • Not So Stoic: While Plana handles most of her tasks calmly in front of Arona, she does let the mask slip when implementing her plan against the Underground Dweller, admitting she was scared and asking Arona to hold her hand.
  • Red and Black and Evil All Over: She wears black clothes and has a red halo, also accompanied by red triangle particles, though the evil part is debatable given that she's only going along with the Chroma's invasion for Phrenapates's sake initially, then subverts it once she's gone over to Sensei after their defeat.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Color scheme aside, she's the blue to Arona's red.
  • Say My Name: Cries out Sensei's name when a gas leak occurs in V1C3, just before an explosion erupts at Schale headquarters where Sensei was.
  • Spanner in the Works: The Underground Dweller's plot to awaken Horus/Hoshino Terror would've gone off without a hitch if not for her. Plana's presence at the SCHALE building saved Sensei from near-fatal injuries from the explosion, allowing them to counter the Underground Dweller's plans. When confronting Horus, not only does Plana teleport Shiroko Terror to the Task Force's location so she can fight the freshly awakened Horus, she's able to take advantage of Horus being very recently transformed to reverse The Corruption and set Hoshino back to normal. The Underground Dweller doesn't take this well.
  • Tsundere: She clearly enjoys being shown affection by Sensei, but tries to hide the fact.

    Sora 
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W-W-Welcome! ...Sensei!
Illustrator: Hwansang
Voiced by: Coco Hayashi

A part-time clerk working at the Angel 24 convenience store in the Schale Headquarters.
  • Eyes Always Averted: Sora always looks off to the side.
  • Forehead of Doom: Hwansang, the art director, said he put the most effort into her forehead.
  • Junior High: One of the few student characters stated to be a middle schooler, thus making her one of the youngest characters in the cast. In fact, she simply took the job at Angel 24 for some extra money.
  • Oh, Crap!: Tends to freak out when Sensei shows up, mainly due to being distracted with other things (like using her phone).
  • Suspicion Aesop: Experiences this in regards to Sensei, as Sora has stated how she's been taught all her life to be suspicious of people who show kindness without expecting anything in return. It also doesn't help that certain types of rumors tend to circulate about Sensei which may or may not hold some bit of truth.
  • Winged Humanoid: Has a very small set of wings on her back.

General Student Council

    The GSC in General 
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L - R: Ayumu, Sumomo, Momoka, Rin, Aoi, Kaya, Haine
The General Student Council is the central administrative body that manages the entirety of Kivotos in Blue Archive. With the disappearance of their President, the organization has been left on the backheel in a desperate rush to regain control of the city. However, this has proven to be an uphill battle with the rise of numerous criminal factions, along with bigger players like the Kaiser Corporation and Gematria working in the shadows. Along with working to maintain their previous duties, the General Student Council ultimately leaves the work of saving Kivotos to the newly-arrived Sensei and the Federal Investigation Club.
  • 0% Approval Rating: Not a whole lot of people have good things to say about the Council. Moe and Saki likewise don't have nice opinions during the Final Volume when the GSC loses the Sanctum Tower and their authority to the Kaiser Corporation.
    Moe: So basically the GSC is about as useful as fried chicken bone right about now.
    Saki: Right now? When have they ever been useful?
  • Authority in Name Only: While the GSC is responsible for maintaining Kivotos' infrastructure and the central DU district, they have no authority over the school districts, which are all largely run as independent states. The school districts are not obligated to follow any of the GSC's directives, and for the most part completely ignore them to focus on their own internal matters. The only reason the schools ever gave the GSC the time of day was due to the previous GSC President being a master diplomat, and Sensei convincing them to band together for a common goal.
  • Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Without the General Student Council's president, the rest of the organization has been inundated with having to pick up the slack, with few successes. The other autonomous districts aren’t blind to the issues either, seeing as they had lost control of the Kivotos' Sanctum Tower, which caused endless problems for the entire city before Sensei was brought in by the former President to deal with the Tower and some of the fallout—even the Tea Party was able to see that there’s trouble from infighting even among the executives. Sensei's arrival has helped stabilize some areas, but there are still many places that have problems, ones that they either rely on Sensei to solve, or they arrive too late to do anything:
    • Abydos, from the time its student council was still fully active to present day, had kept sending pleas for the GSC's help on the desertification and their debt, but not once did they respond until Sensei came. When the Foreclosure Task Force talks about them in VFC1, Hoshino muses had they still got no help from the GSC, she would've busted in and shotgunned everyone in the building as payback for the GSC's idleness.
    • They appear during the Momoyo Cafe's Beachside Stand event, at the very end after Kaiser and the gangs have been defeated, just to deliver the news that this whole event was all a farce. Had they been quicker, all the fighting could have been avoided.
    • When Rin calls for a meeting of the academies to discuss the incoming signs of the Chroma in VFC1, not only are Gehenna and Trinity the only ones to show up, none of the student council members give the meeting much, if any respect for the GSC given that Sensei is the real reason they showed up at all, who had gone missing owing to Kaya and Kaiser kidnapping them. The meeting doesn't get anywhere, the students leave, Aoi calls for a vote of no confidence on Rin on suspicion of a power-grab because of this stunt, and the headquarters deserted with Rin alone and ripe for Kaiser's takeover.
    • Much as this comes from a malicious mind to sour Rin's reputation, in V4C2, Kaya points out that a lot of city-wide incidents were resolved by the students instead of the GSC, most damning of all being the Eden Treaty attack in Volume 3, Kaiser's takeover of the D.U., and the Chroma invasion after.
  • Cosmic Motifs: Their Symbol Motif Clothing consists of predominantly white uniforms, azure blue accents and ties that also have gold shooting stars on them, and star-spangled night skies gracing the insides of their coats. All the revealed members' haloes also feature stars, and the UI for the in-game Craft section (representing the Crafting Chamber in the Schale building, which Rin mentions was once owned by the President) likewise features star-related animations, including a ring system.
  • The Federation: They're the ones in charge of administrative function for the entire city, and it is noted that they're in control of Sanctum Tower, which is essential for the entire city itself to function. However, it's noted that they do not have direct power over individual schools' autonomous district, thus they are only able to assist in resolving political issues and disputes between schools.
  • Light Is Not Good: While the pure white-uniformed General Student Council seeks to keep order in Kivotos, they do tend to occasionally engage in questionable actions, namely responding to RABBIT Squad's protest against SRT Special Academy's closure with a full-on police raid, and ignoring other academies' calls for help, like Abydos. Downplayed in some cases, where the members aren't evil in any way and are just trying to do their duties. It's just that sometimes it clashes with the affairs of students from other schools, but it's clear that they have no malicious intent. And even members like Momoka are just a Lazy Bum trying to avoid work.
  • Obstructive Bureaucrat: This is the main source of frustration the schools have in dealing with the GSC, due to all of the bureaucracy and red tape involved, which is why they generally bring their grievances to the much more flexible SCHALE instead. This later gets weaponized in Volume 4 when Kaya's loyalists purposely torpedo or delay all of the reforms Rin tries to introduce. However, this gets turned back on her when she ousts Rin when Rin's loyalists use the GSC's bureaucracy as an excuse to drag their feet and make it impossible for Kaya to govern DU.
  • Weak Boss, Strong Underlings: While not completely helpless due to being made up of students and thus still being mostly Immune to Bullets alongside some general baseline superhuman abilities, all members of the General Student Council have focused their skills and knowledge on managing the infrastructure for Kivotos, finding no time for training their bodies or marksmanship skills. As a result, they can't fight very well, and those that carry guns are rarely if ever seen seen using them, meaning their primary sources of defense are the direct service of Valkyrie Police School and any other students willing to offer their aid, which means if both of those options end up unavailable they become sitting ducks against any invading force, as seen when Kaiser Corporation takes over the GSC building in Volume F following both the various student councils leaving and Aoi's vote of no-confidence blocking use of Valkyrie.

    GSC President 
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Click to see her face.

Click to see full portrait.

Voiced by: Konomi Kohara
"I've spoken of responsibilities before. I didn't understand it then, but now I do. Adulthood, responsibility, obligation ... and the choice you make that extends beyond those ideals."

The mysterious head of the General Student Council, who has seemingly disappeared from Kivotos and left Sensei in charge.


  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Despite being a very important character for the story, and her close friend Rin often talking about her, not a single character has ever referred to her by name, with any mentions about her only calling her the former GSC President.
  • Deus Exit Machina: Her disappearance has thrown all of Kivotos into unmitigated chaos, on top of locking out the General Student Council from the city's control systems at the start of the story.
  • Forgotten First Meeting: She comes clean to Sensei in the intro about her regrets and wishes for the restoration of order to Kivotos, knowing full well that Sensei is going to forget it completely.
  • Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her bangs are always covering her left eye, symbolic of her being one of the most mysterious characters in the story.
  • Identical Stranger: While her face is obscured by the camera, even during the intro of the game, keen eyes were able to pick up the fact that she has an extremely similar hairstyle to Arona (light blue hair with pink inner highlights, the same bangs covering their left eye). During the 2nd Anniversary PV, her full face is revealed, and as expected, she does resemble (and shares a voice actress, Konomi Kohara, with) the Shittim Chest's AI Arona, though unlike Arona, her halo resembles the logo of the game. Given that the AI is one of the few things left by the former President, the resemblance is unlikely to be a coincidence. Plana later alludes Arona's connection to the GSC President when she figured out that the GSC President was at one point inside the current timeline's Shittim Chest.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: The GSC President's presence was able to bring some semblance of balance to the surprisingly crapsacccharine world that is the city of Kivotos, with its volatile politics and the various threats like Decagrammaton, Gematria, Nameless Priests and even some of the students themselves underneath its surface. And her disappearance immediately sends the city into disarray (according to the prologue, this included a total shutdown of Millenium's power plant, suspended students from the Correction Bureau escaping confinement and a 2000% increase in illegal arms dealing). However, it's implied the GSC President disappeared in order to prevent herself from doing something even worse.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The President's words to Sensei shortly before her disappearance as well as plot details teased in the game's 4th PV heavily imply that the President sent Sensei back in time to prevent a Bad Future that would destroy Kivotos.
  • Take Up My Sword: Before her disappearance, the President created Schale and left Sensei in charge of it to help the General Student Council restore order to Kivotos.
  • Un-person: Whoever the GSC President was, how she got into her position, and what school she originated from, is entirely unknown. Not even Arona can find anything about her. In one of the extra epilogues of Volume F, Plana reveals that the GSC President is not present in the timeline she's originated from either.
  • White Shirt of Death: During her speech at the start of the game. While it's not totally obvious due to the light behind her, she can be seen bleeding from her chest even as she talks to Sensei before sending them away.

    Nanagami Rin 
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From here on out, it's all up to you, Sensei.
Illustrator: Hwansang
Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara

The Vice President of the General Student Council, now left to fill in the leadership gap in the wake of the GSC President's disappearance.


  • 0% Approval Rating: Zig-Zagged Trope. Rin does not get much respect within and outside of the General Student Council and her subordinates like Momoka and Aoi reflects this. At first, it does seem that her inability to measure up to the GSC President as well as the public thinking she got lucky from her previous position as the vice president are the two main factors as to why she recieved little support. Though it been revealed much later that Rin does have a great deal of supporters, two of them being high-ranking officers themselves. However most, if not all of them were out of commission by a raid that was carried out to suppress them and her actions and goals in her presidency were compromised by Kaya, her own supporters, and the disgruntled public, which doesn't help her case. Fortunately, Rin earned the loyalty of her distrustful allies through her leadership and Kaya's brief role as the GSC President forced the public to acknowledge her as such.
  • Accidental Declaration of Love: The Valentine's Day event with her has her giving Sensei chocolate because she wants him to have caffeine to finish a report. She only notes the gesture can be constructed as romantic when Sensei acts awkward about it, causing her to also feel awkward and clarify she meant nothing by it.
  • Affectionate Nickname: Both the GSC President and Sensei call her "Rinny"JP, much to her annoyance.
  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Her hair reaches all the way down to her ankles (though mostly hidden by her coat), and she almost never raises her voice, even when being bombarded by requests from the schools for help. Granted, that doesn't stop her from dropping some rather snide remarks in Yuuka and co.'s direction during the intro.
  • Authority in Name Only: Because Rin is merely a stand-in for the GSC President due to her seniority, there are many in Kivotos who don't take her seriously due to the belief that she just lucked into her new position and lacks legitimacy.
  • Badass Longcoat: In contrast to the other council members, her uniform has a long white coat, as a visual cue of her authority.
  • Beleaguered Bureaucrat: While all of the General Student Council members are overburdened by their President's disappearance, Rin is the poster child of the bunch since she's the Vice President, effectively putting her in charge of the city in her superior's absence.
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: A not insignificant part of Kaya's hostility towards her is due to Kaya being envious that Rin is so well-endowed while she's flat-chested.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: Despite playing a large role in repelling the Chroma from Kivotos in Volume F, Volume 4 Chapter 2 reveals that the majority of the populace believes Rin went into hiding like the rest of the GSC, hurting her public image.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: While she still doesn't act as a properly usable student, Rin gets her own temporary EX Skill in the Volume F finale, providing aid through shooting a Wave-Motion Gun that requires a full 10 EX points to use. It lacks any animation since Rin didn't have a chibi model at the time, but it's still more than any other GSC member has gotten by that point.
  • High-Heel Power: A CG in Volume F reveals she wears white high heels.
  • If I Do Not Return: In Volume F, she gives one to Aoi.
    Rin: Aoi, If something happens to me, please take care of the Council... and Kivotos.
  • Iron Lady: She puts up a front of being a stern and cold-hearted person to better fit her role as acting president of Kivotos, since many people already don't take her seriously as it is. Deep down, she's not that harsh and is quite empathetic.
  • The Lost Lenore: Rin was close friends with the GSC President and the latter's disappearance affected her badly, to the point where she constantly dreams about her in her sleep.
  • Number Two: She's actually the Vice-President of the General Student Council, but since the president disappeared she has been struggling to fulfill both roles as acting president.
  • Obstructive Bureaucrat: Rin orders Sensei to redo their expenses paperwork at the beginning of Volume 4. Why? Because they hand-wrote their numbers down in Arabic instead of Chinese, and the stamp was three centimeters out of line, on top of several other minor errors. Volume 4, Chapter 2 reveals that Rin has also been on the receiving end of this when Aoi uses the exact same complaints against Kaya. Rin ultimately accepted this and re-did her paperwork whenever there was an error because she knew that despite her position she was not above the law and had to follow the rules like everyone else.
  • Pointy Ears: She has pointy, elf-like ears.
  • Rage Breaking Point: Although she acts standoffish most of the time, the handful of times she's met in-story usually has her get very annoyed when something doesn't go her way. Crowning examples include Momoka cheerfully reporting (after the many problems she and the school representatives list) Wakamo's breakout and attack on Schale HQ during the prologue, prompting Sensei to try calming her down, and the start of Volume 4, when she continuously receives news of Valkyrie's failures to subdue RABBIT Squad.
  • Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: She's a beauty with long, ebony dark hair and pale white skin.
  • Scary Shiny Glasses: One of her sprites used when she's especially annoyed.
  • Stoic Spectacles: Her modern glasses give her an air of cold unapproachability and she gets Scary Shiny Glasses when she becomes serious or irritated.
  • The Stoic: She's always serious and has a no-nonsense demeanor.
  • Sucksessor: Downplayed example. She's not incompetent, and is a hard-working and reasonable person who does the best that she can for the sake of Kivotos. However, it's noted a few times that she falls short of her predecessor in terms of capabilities. This is what led to Kaya's motivation to get rid of her and take her place in Volume 4 because she idolized the President to Hero Worship levels, and doesn't take it well when she thinks that Rin is unfit to succeed her. Ironically, after Kaya's brief coup, many people re-evaluated their opinion of Rin since she was much more competent than Kaya.
  • When She Smiles: In VFC4, the last CG after Sensei lands safely back in Kivotos is of Rin giving the viewer a slight, relieved smile.
  • You Are in Command Now: Receives and delivers this. Rin has to pick up the leadership of the General Student Council in the President's absence, and leaves Sensei to take command of Schale after taking back the Schale HQ from Wakamo and her thugs.

    Yuraki Momoka 
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My lunch delivery has arrived, so I'll contact you again!
Illustrator: Hwansang
Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi

Chief of the GSC's Transportation Office. She is the navigator for Bounty and Commisions menu.


  • Big Eater: She loves to eat and snack, to the point of hanging up on her own boss because her lunch has shown up. She's also constantly described as eating a snack even during official GSC meetings and speeches.
  • Lazy Bum: She really doesn't like to work and would seize any chance to skip work without hesitation. This ends up working to her favour in Volume F, in which after she was captured by Kaiser's forces, Momoka's knowledge of where to run and hide to avoid work allows her and Ayumu to escape.
    Momoka: One perk of slacking off. You know which vents to crawl through.
  • Ultimate Job Security: After Kaya usurps Rin, Momoka responds by making Kaya's dealings with the Transport Office as thoroughly unpleasant as possible. When Kaya threatens to have Momoka removed from her post, Momoka actually dares her to because it would give her an excuse to stop working and she points out that Kaya will be hard pressed to find anybody willing and capable of taking up her job.
  • Undying Loyalty: She is one of the few GSC members who is completely loyal to Rin, even after Rin is censured by a vote of no confidence in Volume F.

    Iwabitsu Ayumu 
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I want to be able to do work more like Sensei...
Illustrator: DoReMi
Voiced by: Yuka Ootsubo

A timid but well-mannered girl who is a member of the Arbitration Office and serves as Rin's secretary. She acts as a navigator for the player's Achievement section.


  • Beleaguered Assistant: She's this to Rin mostly, and Sensei on the side, although the latter case is a reversal in that she's the one being helped. The story for having her as a navigator for the Achievements is when Sensei comes to the GSC one day when they encounter Ayumu getting beset by paperwork, causing Sensei to help her out. Since then, the secretary is always marveling at how quickly and cleanly you clear your tasks.
  • Muscles Are Meaningless: There's nothing indicating how her slender arms could carry more than a stack of papers, yet the "Hidden Talent" picture in the Restoration Project event collection shows her carrying an entire stack of cement bags, much to the watching Momoka's surprise.
  • Office Lady: Besides the prim and professional Rin also fulfilling this trope, worried-looking Ayumu is a contrast in imagery by looking like The Ditz that has lots of work ahead of her and still hasn't even taken of the paperwork she's carrying.
  • Sexy Secretary: On top of being Rin's assistant, she's a rather good-looking young lady with not only her clothes hugging her considerable curves tightly (and added emphasis on her legs due to her shoes being stiletto-heeled pumps), but also the stack of paper she's carrying against her chest conforming to her bust.
  • Undying Loyalty: She is one of the few GSC members who is completely loyal to Rin, even after Rin is censured by a vote of no confidence in Volume F.

    Shiranui Kaya (Unmarked Spoilers for Volume 4 and F) 
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Who cares about the rules, am I right!?
Illustrator: kokosando

The head of the GSC's Defense Office.


  • 0% Approval Rating: Despite successfully usurping Rin and taking control of the GSC in V4C2, Kaya finds it difficult to actually wield the power of her office due to how little public support she has. The school districts continue to ignore the GSC's authority while loyalties within the GSC are divided. Meanwhile, the Valkyrie Police School refuses to take orders from Kaya, forcing her to resort to using Kaiser PMC to enforce the law, but their heavy-handed approach causes discontent among Kivotos' general populace. And on top of that, her ignorance of the student workers rebuilding the DU district causes them to organize a general strike.
  • A-Cup Angst: In V4C2, she calls Rin and her supporters "the incompetents whose some body parts absorbed all their nourishment." Interestingly, this was actually one of her motivations to attempt a coup on Rin.
  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When RABBIT Squad and Sensei storm into the GSC Office to foil her coup, Kaya apologizes to Sensei and desperately offers them unlimited support. Sensei points out she should apologize to the students, not them.
  • Animal Eyes: Under those eyes are slit pupils like a goat's, alluding to her true, traitorous nature.
  • Batman Gambit: Attempts one when she convinces Sensei to look after the RABBIT Squad, confident that their distrust of adults and authority after SRT was shut down will only cause Sensei's efforts to extend an olive branch to backfire and prompt them to lash out further. Unfortunately for her, Sensei manages to slowly gain the squad's trust anyway.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: In Volume 4, Chapter 2, she successfully usurps Rin using a forged letter from the GSC President designating Kaya as her true successor. However, she doesn't get to enjoy her victory for very long as seizing control of the GSC and Kivotos' D.U. district was easy, but actually running their day-to-day operations is incredibly hard and she quickly gets overwhelmed with the numerous difficulties and responsibilities her new position gives her.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She's nice and supportive initially, seeming like the Token Good Teammate of the GSC by being willing to bend the rules a little bit to try and get the Rabbit Platoon on a better path. However, it turns out that Kaya's far nastier than she first appears, plotting a coup against the GSC and the abolition of SCHALE.
  • Can't Take Criticism: The more time passes during her reign, the more problems come up. Many people soon start to call her out on how she's worse than Rin in handling many departments, and notably gets angry whenever someone does so.
  • Classic Villain: Embodies the sin of pride, being an ambitious traitor with great goals, yet whose schemes fall on their own because of her incompetence and failure to observe the situation around her, and is the Arc Villain of Volume 4.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Her failure to become President can be mainly attributed to her self-centeredness, the effects best summarized by what happens in V4C2E10:
    • In the previous episode, she offered Sensei to work under the GSC in exchange for unlimited resources and authority. That she didn't expect them to refuse is not only because Evil Cannot Comprehend Good, it's a classic example of thinking shortsighted offers of power is equivalent to relationships built for the long-term. She shouldn't have ever thought Kaiser's General would be anything like Sensei.
    • As the comparatively humble Chief of Defense, she was reaching for the stars the moment she thought becoming President would be anything like her previous position or that it'd give her sudden, total authority to do whatever she wants. Just the fact that she isn't aware of the monthly train hijackings shows she had not been really doing her job before Rin's removal, let alone the fact that she has to have various protocols explained to her.
    • She thought herself and the Kaiser General to be equal partners, so she tried to strongarm the latter for more men by reminding him she covered up his crimes and saved him from bankruptcy. However, the General reveals he has fallback plans and never saw her as valuable as she thought herself to be, then turns the table by calling her out on foolishly staking everything she has so easily with no backup plans.
      General: But you asked where I would be. I would have recovered quite easily. I can just throw away the Kaiser brand and start a new company should things go wrong. What about you? You stake your name and credibility with so little thought. If it all comes apart, where would Shiranui Kaya be?
    • She cynically views relationships as cheap means to an end, from having treated Valkyrie and FOX Squad as tools to her rejoining hands with Kaiser despite them betraying her. When she finds herself in need of people though, Valkyrie is under probation and no longer listens to her, FOX Squad isn't meant for public law enforcement, Kaiser is occupied doing just that, and she didn't think to question who the Red Winter protestors were and what they do until it was too late. Then when she tries to bully Momoka into compliance, the latter all but points out she's irreplaceable, which should have made her at least question why there's a council to begin with if the President could do everything.
  • Dramatic Irony: She was such a bad leader after she usurped Rin's position that she ended up dramatically increasing Rin's popularity since many people were forced to admit Rin wasn't such a Sucksessor after all.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: After she ousts Rin, Kaya offers the Sensei unlimited resources and authority if they have SCHALE swear complete loyalty to the GSC. However, the Sensei is motivated to help their students, not grab power or offload responsibility, so they flatly refuse. This confounds Kaya, who believed Sensei would jump at the chance to lighten their own workload.
  • Evil Is Petty: It's implied she has shipments to SCHALE's convenience store blocked as spiteful retribution for Sensei refusing to concede their authority to her, making it more difficult for them to buy meals.
  • Foreshadowing: Right there in her character quote, especially worrying given that she's essentially the head of Kivotos' Law Enforcement. While at first it comes off as her being willing to skirt the rules to try and get a better outcome, it's eventually revealed that Kaya's lack of concern for rules has inspired her to plot with the FOX Platoon to overthrow the GSC and their established rules to put herself in charge instead.
  • Fatal Flaw: Pride; most of her decisions are driven by it. She hates Rin because she isn't the perfect superhuman that the GSC President was, and thus wants to get rid of Rin and take her place as Kaya thinks that she'd be better-suited to lead the GSC and Kivotos. When she does get it though, it doesn't take long for her reign to fall apart after she overthrows Rin, as it's soon made clear that for all the insults and badmouthing of Rin, she herself is far more incompetent than she made Rin out to be. However, she just cannot accept that it is her fault and will immediately try to find someone to blame whenever something goes wrong, deeming everyone around her incompetent fools rather than reflecting on herself. In the finale of V4C2, she is arrested and put in prison, but it was noted that even at the very end, she was still screaming that everyone else is a fool who didn't recognize her good intentions and that Kivotos needs a superhuman like the President. Long story short, she bit off way more than she can chew and paid for it.
  • Hated by All: It is a given that by the end of V4C2, the hatred Kaya has garnered can be on par and going beyond that of Cherino and Rio.
    • Kaya makes an enemy out of Rin and her supporters when she enacts her coup to take the role of acting president from Rin. Momoka and Aoi doesn't show a shred of respect for Kaya, with Momoka going so far as to taunt Kaya to have her fired and let her deal with the expected consequences that comes from it.
    • The public have become incredibly incensed with Kaya after her newly implemented laws has severely impeded in their daily lives, as well as letting the Kaiser PMC harass and strongarm them.
    • Valkyrie Police Academy refuses to listen to Kaya's orders anymore after she demotes Kanna.
    • It is pretty obvious that Kaiser never saw Kaya as an equal, but a reliable pawn to use in their schemes. In Volume F, they flat-out betrayed her after they collaborated in capturing Sensei. Then in V4C2, Kaiser is almost ready to abandon Kaya because she is unable to pay them for their services in policing the city.
    • Kaya's supporters would turn against her when it becomes clear that she is far more incompetent than Rin. Haine has Kaya impeached after discovering that the latter is responsible for FOX Squad injuring her and is intending to dissolve her department because she finds her annoying.
    • Then, various members of SRT would have a beef with Kaya, with her seemingly loyal FOX Squad having always intended to betray her should she break her promise in restoring their school, while RABBIT Squad become hell-bent in arresting her for manipulating their seniors into committing terrorism.
    • While hatred isn't the exact word, Sensei is definitely annoyed with Kaya and has No Sympathy for her when she is rightfully arrested for her actions.
  • Hero-Worshipper: For the GSC President, whom Kaya practically idolised as the near-perfect superhuman leader the GSC and Kivotos needed, to the point that she doesn't take it well when Rin (in her eyes) fails to measure up to her.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: She had the Director of Human Resources AstroTurf protests against Rin to give the image that she had no popularity. However, Kaya failed to realize that the protestors weren't protesting against Rin because they disliked her or her policies specifically, but simply because they hate authority in general and hate the position of GSC President specifically. This causes the protestors to turn on Kaya and begin protesting her.
  • Hypocrite: When talking to Kanna about the failure of Valkyrie Police in handling an incident involving some rennovation plans, after Kanna complains about how well-armed and skilled the troublemakers are combined with the issue of RABBIT Squad living in the nearby park, Kaya talks about how she needs to take responsibility for her job and not make excuses. Later on, when it turns out Kaya is a terrible boss not just in personality but also managing a high-ranking role as the GSC President, she utterly refuses to accept responsibility for her job, constantly making excuses and shifting blame for the problems she causes onto other people.
  • Irony:
    • Of all the GSC members who could have gone rogue, thrown in with a bunch of renegade criminals and plotted a violent takeover of the GSC, it's the head of the Defence Office (in other words, the head of Kivotos law enforcement) who does it.
    • She derides Rin as an Inadequate Inheritor to the GSC President and schemes to replace her... despite being far worse and more incompetent as a leader than Rin ever managed to be.
  • Laughably Evil: Despite being a mole for the Kaiser Corporation who could potentially damn Kivotos to them, her sheer incomptence (to the point that she can't actually start the coup) and her motivation for starting it to begin with can be somewhat hard to take seriously.
  • Light Is Not Good: Like the other GSC members, Kaya is dressed primarily in bright white clothing and she turns out to be a traitorous, ambitious backstabber plotting to take over the GSC and abolish SCHALE.
  • Man Behind the Man: She's the one directing FOX Squad in their mutual goal to bring down SCHALE and allow her to take over the GSC as its President.
  • Mirror Character: Her role in the plot of Volume 4 turns out to be eerily similar to Mika's in Volume 3, being sweet-seeming characters willing to bend the rules to help others out (Kaya's convincing Valkyrie to release the RABBIT Squad into Sensei's care, Mika falsifying Azusa's transcripts to get her into Trinity), who eventually turn out to be supporting antagonistic forces (the FOX Squad for Kaya, Arius for Mika) and plotting a coup against their faction's leader.
  • The Mole: She has been secretly plotting with Kaiser to overthrow the GSC. To this end, Kaya has been secretly sabotaging the GSC's defenses from within, such as making sure its robot forces can only be activated under her command, and ultimately being behind the disbanding of SRT Academy to prevent the GSC from having access to their firepower.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: A lot of people both inside and out of the General Student Council viewed acting-GSC president Rin as a prominent Sucksessor to the former president due to lacking her sheer skills, charisma, and drive. Following Kaya's coup and attempt to take over as President, Kaya being significantly worse than Rin ever was results in many within the GSC and few associated outside groups gaining massively improved appreciation for Rin, realizing that while she's not as good as the former president, she's decently competent, determined, and willing to accept her faults, all of which Kaya completely fails at.
  • Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Kaya insists that her dethroning of Rin and seizing power for herself was all in the name of giving the GSC the leader it needed, deeming Rin far too incompetent to measure up to the likes of the GSC President. However, considering that Kaya's methods involved undermining Rin's support base by unleashing the FOX Squad to sabotage public facilities and even assault the GSC itself, while allying with Kaiser in the Final Volume and later on using them to ruthlessly enforce public order when Valkyrie refuse to take her orders any more, she's already proven herself to be leagues worse a leader than Rin ever was. Furthermore, even when everything begins to fall apart around her, Kaya refuses to step down and try to get Rin back, choosing to blame everyone else and cling onto power despite how much damage her rule is causing to the city she claims to care about.
  • Psychopathic Womanchild: Despite posturing as a dignified, reasonable leader, Kaya is simply a vain, ignorant brat with an Inferiority Superiority Complex towards both Rin and the President she claims to admire who cries and whines over any inconvenience she's faced with. She blames everybody else for the consequences to her own idiotic actions, and even when put behind bars insists her cruelty was justified.
  • Pyrrhic Victory: Despite successfully overthrowing Rin and becoming the leader of the GSC, she is unable to wield much of her new found power because she has no public support. Having seemingly come out of nowhere, she has yet to earn the trust or respect of the public, and the other schools don't acknowledge or support her rule (not that they really liked the GSC beforehand, and only made an exception because of Sensei or the GSC President) and Valkyrie Police Academy refuses to follow her anymore after the events of Volume F. She also finds it near impossible to remove Sensei because they are already the most well-respected individual, and following the events of Volume F, has become a national hero to the people of Kivotos, so any attempt to get rid of them will turn all of Kivotos against her.
  • Quantity vs. Quality: The countless regulations imposed by Kaya's forceful methods managed to bring small petty crimes to near non-existent levels, but this only served to give rise to many more major crimes such as armed robberies and violent protests and shootouts, as too much effort and attention was placed on maintaining those regulations, leaving many other areas short of manpower.
  • Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves:
    • During VFC1, Kaya and Kaiser PMC successfully kidnap Sensei. But Kaiser PMC betrays Kaya and kidnap her too. She's only freed at the end of the Chapter by FOX Squad.
    • After everything falls apart for her in V4C2, she's arrested and thrown in prison along with FOX Team.
  • Slave to PR: Despite successfully usurping Rin and taking control of the GSC in V4C2, Kaya can't just abolish SCHALE or arrest Sensei since at that point Sensei has earned the loyalty of all of the major schools as well as saved all of Kivotos from the Color. Doing anything to Sensei would cause an immediate revolt from all of the school districts.
  • The Starscream: Towards Rin and the rest of the GSC, plotting to overthrow the council and abolish SCHALE with the aid of the renegade FOX Squad.
  • Stupid Evil: Contributing to her Hate Sink status is how needlessly callous and vindictive Kaya is, believing the solution to stopping crime is to introduce a bunch of ridiculous policies and regulations that do nothing but impede daily life in Kivotos. She also disrupts supply chains just to starve Sensei after they refuse to hand SCHALE over to her, which would have an incalculable effect on the rest of Kivotos as well, proving she is a shortsighted, childish tyrant who believes Might Makes Right.
  • Sucksessor: She sees the GSC President as an absolute perfect being, straight up calling her superhuman who can do no wrong and that Kivotos under her rule was a perfect utopia. Because of this, she hates Rin due to the fact that she isn't as perfect as the President was and yet was still chosen to become the acting president in her stead and thus tries to get rid of her and take her place, having deemed her unworthy. Unfortunately for her, she's far more incompetent than Rin and it doesn't take long before her rule falls apart.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Of the GSC. Compared to Rin, Aoi and Momoka, Kaya far outdoes any of her GSC comrades in terms of moral bankruptcy, being willing to throw her lot in with Kaiser, plan The Coup against Rin, use FOX Squad to sabotage civilian infrastructure and deliberately cripple Kivotos' law enforcement by slashing Valkyrie's budget, reprogramming the GSC's robotic forces to only respond to her and closing down SRT Academy.
  • Treacherous Quest Giver: She approaches Sensei in V4C1, asking them to try and take care of the Rabbit Squad after they're initially arrested and convince them to put their talents to use elsewhere, such as Valkyrie Police Academy, instead of continuing to slum it in the park and become threats to public safety. By the end of the chapter, it's also revealed that she's backing the renegade FOX Squad and planning not just The Coup over the General Student Council, but also the abolition of SCHALE.
  • Tyrant Takes the Helm: Successfully usurps Rin as the GSC's leader in V4C2, after being proven more than willing to attack and cripple the city infrastructure and civilians she, as the Defense Office Head, was supposed to protect. Once she's in office, she then unleashes Kaiser forces on the city to enforce order when Valkyrie Police Academy refuses to follow her orders any more.

    Oki Aoi (Spoilers for Volume F) 
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I've been waiting for you, Sensei. We have no time to waste. Shall we begin right away?
Illustrator: YutokaMizu
Voiced by: Yuka Saito

The head of the General Student Council's Finance Office. She assists Sensei semi-regularly in the Balancing Schale's Books with the General Student Council mini event.


  • Divided We Fall: She considers the prophecy of Kivotos' destruction to be a load of crock, and when Rin tries to organize an emergency meeting when signs of the prophecy start to appear, this combined with her suspicions of Rin being power hungry lead her to instate a vote of no confidence... and then the prophecy happens while the GSC is in shambles from the vote and Kaiser's subsequent coup. Oki warmed up to Rin considerably after that.
  • The Dreaded: As the Head of Finance, Oki is greatly feared among the GSC members, particularly Momoka, due to her ability to control their budgets.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Indicating this is when she manages to communicate with Rin again after the False Sanctum incident, the first thing she did was apologize.
  • Obstructive Bureaucrat:
    • In the Final Volume, she suspects Rin a wannabe dictator. When Sensei and Kaya go missing, she believes Rin is The Man Behind the Man and calls a vote of no confidence. The passage of the vote makes the Council helpless and leads to the initial success of the Kaiser's coup.
    • By Volume 4, Aoi's opinion of Rin turns around and she becomes one of her supporters, even going so far as to deliberately obstruct Kaya by rejecting all of her budget requests over the smallest of details.
  • Right for the Wrong Reasons: She manages to uncover evidence of Kaya's secret dealings and realizes there is a traitor inside the GSC looking to seize power. However, with her suspicions of Rin trying to take power for herself, especially by convening an Emergency Response Committee, she mistakenly believes Rin is the culprit instead of Kaya.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She has many similarities with Yuuka being blue-haired individuals who are feared from their peers for their financial hold, and have a Sugar-and-Ice Personality specifically for Sensei.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: For someone who's all business, she acts rather bashful in Balancing Schale's Books when confessing to Sensei that she's doing it for Rin's sake. Then there's some of her voiced lines for Sensei:
    "Don't be so standoffish. ...I get hurt too."
    "Can you please focus. No, not on me... On your work."
  • Took a Level in Kindness: After the cold attitude she showed Rin in Volume F, the event Balancing Schale's Books with the General Student Council shows she's well past that, where she calls in Sensei to take care of some extra tasks she means to keep secret from Rin who would have—as she puts it—worked herself into Trinity's hospital doing them if she found out.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In the Final Volume, she issues a vote of no confidence against Rin. This removes her administrative authority and leaves the GSC temporarily powerless, which is exactly the opportunity Kaiser was waiting for to initiate their takeover of Sanctum Tower, which is then swiftly followed by the False Sanctums.

    Haine 
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That gateball tourney was really hard for me, especially after injuring my arm in that ambush...

The head of the General Student Council's Athletic Office.


  • Berserk Button: Mocking Athletics is a surefire way for Haine to side against you, even if you're the General Student Council President herself. This was the main reason that Haine calls for an impeachment on Kaya, despite the numerous issues she caused to others and Haine herself.
  • Butt-Monkey: Each of her appearances has involved some form of humiliation. She was introduced in a cast received from a raid that wasn't even targeting her, she was the only student on the GSC meeting who never received any onigiri, forcing her to hold out her hunger for over eight hours, and her Athletics Office was about to be abolished and merged into the Cultural Office purely because Kaya found her obnoxious.
  • Coat Cape: A Justified Trope. Haine got her arm broken by Yukino on FOX Squad's raid which forced her to wear her coat like this as her cast wouldn't have fitted the sleeve. When her arm does recover, her sprite has her holding it over the shoulder instead.
  • Chekhov's Gun: Overlaps with Brick Joke. She never got her onigiri during the meeting before Kaya launched her coup. V4C2E24 reveals through FOX Squad's recordings of Kaya that she ignored the issue of there not being enough onigiri for the meeting, and that was on top of all the plans she had and dismissing Haine as a pawn. This enraged Haine herself to impeach the president she once trusted.
  • The Dog Bites Back: Haine was one of Kaya's most vocal supporters when she took office as acting president, however Kaya has only ever mistreated her through indirect means such as making her a victim of a terrorist attack she herself planned and was planning to shut down her department just because she finds her annoying. Haine doesn't tolerate the latter one bit when she found out, being the one to ultimately do her in via impeachment.
  • Dumb Jock: Haine is the head of the Athletic Office and a gateball player. But given her attitude in the GSC meeting, she's... not exactly bright.
  • Hot-Blooded: Not very noticeable as most of her appearances has her down in the dumps due to bad luck, but she possesses a very fiery disposition, best shown attempting (keyword being attempting) to stop the FOX Squad from raiding the GSC building.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Not about her, but about her department. Despite being one of Kaya's supporters, her reckless and unreasonable demands makes her unpleasant, so Kaya plans to make the Athletic Office into a sub-department of the Cultural Office.

    Sumomo 
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Fwahh~... I'm too sleepy to eat onigiri~

The director of an currently unnamed office in the General Student Council.


  • Out of Focus: Sumomo has the least amount of screentime out of all currently revealed GSC officers. The quote below her portrait is currently her only spoken dialogue.
  • Sleepyhead: Every brief scene or cameo of her either has her yawning or complaining about sleep.

    Director of Human Resources 

An unseen individual who is the head of the Human Resources Office.


  • Ambiguous Situation: V4C2 reveals that she used to hail from Red Winter, calling the academy her alma mater. It's unknown whether this is something all members of the GSC go through or this is something unique to her.
  • Bullying the Dragon: It seems nobody gave the Director the memo that throwing your weight around a group whose whole goal is to violently tear down governments is a bad idea. It doesn't help that she threatens to report to Kaya which only serves to enrage them even more.
  • Irony: In V4C2, she is the one in charge of a department that handles human resources and she gets attacked and captured by the Labor Party.
  • The Voice: Only made an appearance in V4C2 through lines and never showed up on-screen, which is something unique to her.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Is last seen being captured by the Labor Party. Following the conclusion of V4C2, it remains unknown what happened to her.

    Director of Culture 
A student from the GSC who is the head of the Cultural Office.
  • The Purge: Non-lethal example. Kaya ordered the FOX Squad into raiding the Sanctum Tower, with one of their objectives being the suppression of Rin's supporters, which is what the Director of Culture are.
  • The Ghost: Mentioned in V4C2 by the FOX Squad as one of two directors who were Rin supporters. Their absence were from them being out of commission as a result of a raid that was planned to target them.

    Director of Health 
A student from the GSC who is the head of the Health Office.
  • Irony: The Director of Health... is currently hospitalized thanks to FOX Squad's assault on the Sanctum Tower.
  • The Purge: Non-lethal example. Kaya ordered the FOX Squad into raiding the Sanctum Tower, with one of their objectives being the suppression of Rin's supporters, which is what the Director of Health are.
  • The Ghost: Mentioned in V4C2 by the FOX Squad as one of two directors who were Rin supporters. Their absence were from them being out of commission as a result of a raid that was planned to target them.

Independent Characters

    Sparrow's Restaurateur 
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Did you enjoy your food?

The lone cook of an old but known izakaya named "Sparrow". She faces difficulties running her restaurant ever since food chain Nyao Foods came along and outproduced its competitors in the food industry. It was on one New Year when the Gourmet Research Society (dragging along Sensei and the School Lunch Club) intervenes.


  • Bird People: As with most non-student Beast Man citizens of Kivotos (besides robots), the Restaurateur is a petite sparrow.
  • A Day in the Limelight: For New Year's Aperitif: One-and-Done Match, as the owner of the restaurant that the Gourmet Research Society and the School Lunch Club are trying to save from going under.
  • No Name Given: She is never given a name, and her text name only names her as "Restaurateur".

    D.J B.o.B 
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Can't help it if you ask me that much.
A famous DJ that is set to play at the Helmet Gang's summer festival.
  • A Day in the Limelight: He's one of the central characters of Sheside Outside who's invited as a DJ to the festival.
  • Jerkass: Very rude and inconsiderate to his customers and workers, including Saori, which prompts the rest of Arius Squad to teach him a lesson. The incident plus the near-kidnapping by the Thugs causes him to flip into an Extreme Doormat who acts like he's walking on eggshells whenever he orders the helpers around, especially Saori.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Completely ditches the Helmet Gang when Akemi arrives to crash the party. Saori winds up being the one to replace him as DJ, becoming a silver lining where she discovers she has a knack for it.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Getting punished by the Arius Squad (sans Saori), especially Atsuko warning him, and then unwittingly rescued from the Thugs led to him reflecting on his behavior, swearing to be nicer... if by a little too much to the point that he was giving Saori so many breaks she would have been paid for doing nothing.

    Descartes 
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Society calls us by many names. Leeches, NEETs, Homeless, Good-for-Nothing Layabouts... But such names are facetious. To call us layabouts...! We are noble ones pursuing non-possessiveness!
A self-proclaimed monk who leads a group of homeless citizens called the Pursuers of Non-Possessive Happiness.
  • Dumbass Has a Point: When Mai inquires Descartes on Kaya's claims about Kivotos requiring a superhuman to be in charge of the GSC, Descartes scoffs it off, making a fair point that if such a being exists, then there wouldn't be a need for the General Student Council.
  • Everyone Has Standards: He may be a lazy, hedonistic jerk who uses his "monk" image as an excuse to avoid working for a living, but he is not a selfish sociopath willing to let other innocent people die just so he can get a little more comfort, so when Sensei and RABBIT Squad tell him that Kaiser PMC, who forcibly "reformed" him under the promise all of his needs and desires will be satisfied, are planning to bomb Kousagi Station for their money-making interests, killing hundreds of the homeless people he considers kindred, he rejects the "reformation", rallies his fellow Pursuers, and creates a ruckus to distract Kaiser PMC long enough that RABBIT Squad can run past and prevent the bomb detonation.
  • Friendly Enemy: He and the Pursuers started off as an enemy to the RABBIT Squad but the two groups somewhat mend fences after dealing with Kaiser PMC and Kaya. Though, that doesn't stop Descartes from accidentally pissing off RABBIT Squad due to his usual selfish tendencies.
  • Hypocrite: He constantly admonishes people for their materialism and yet, he keeps a stash of luxury items in his quarters.
  • Lazy Bum: Who Descartes really is, a hobo who never wants to apply for work and has his lackeys to do it for him.
  • New-Age Retro Hippie: Has shades of this trope, including wearing well... Round Hippie Shades, his talks about spiritualism in abstinence, and leading a gang of robots that acts like a cross between a cult and a Commune.
  • Ridiculously Human Robots: Par for the course of Kivotos, but amusingly, it's not everyday you meet a homeless, cult leader that's a robot.
  • Wild Card: He first starts out as an antagonist towards the RABBIT Squad for hoarding all of the bentos from the Pursuers, then joins the group in taking down Kaya and Kaiser PMC from destroying Kousagi Station. This isn't a genuine Heel–Face Turn, and he wasn't truly villainous before it either, he's just a hedonistic homeless Lazy Bum who nonetheless refuses to stand by when a rich corporation does something that threatens the lives of his fellow hedonistic homeless bums.

Collaboration Characters

    Hatsune Miku 
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Did someone say "Miku"? Here I am!
Illustrator: YutokaMizu
Voiced by: Saki Fujita

The always-cheerful virtual singer who really loves to sing. Originally a purely electronic existence, the technology of Kivotos has allowed Miku to obtain a real body and stand in the real world. As expected of a singer whose music can overcome time and space, Miku has many secret fans in Kivotos who are eagerly looking forward to the live concert that she's planning to hold in this world.
  • Ambiguously Human: Even by Kivotos standards she's not like other students, emphasized by her barely noticeable "halo", which is really more just a ring of light circling one of her pigtails.
  • Creative Sterility: Her Momo Talk side story deals with this and then Subverts it. Miku contacts Sensei, asking him for help trying to recover her voice. After first attempting several home remedies (including with a leek) and all of them failing, Miku eventually has a "Eureka!" Moment after she remembers the first song she ever sang and how she felt while singing it, realizing that her inability to sing comes from the fact that, for the first time in her entire existence, she is existing as a truly sapient and independent entity, instead of just 'reflecting the emotions of others as software.' It isn't until Sensei convinces her to create something truly original and sing from her own heart that she finally overcomes it.
  • Famed in Story: Miku’s music is stated in-game to ‘transcend time and space,’ and several of the students are unironically fans of hers. They don’t even try to hide their enthusiasm for the idea of a concert where the Miku Hatsune will be performing in the flesh.
  • Guest Fighter: Hatsune Miku hails from the Vocaloid music synthesizer software series, where she serves as its most famous virtual diva.
  • Idol Singer: Just to drive the point home that Blue Archive has a Miku collab, her EX skill has her appear on the battlefield to sing and dance the entire time her buff is active.
  • Improbable Weapon User: Her listed weapon is a T-Shirt cannon. Thankfully, as a specialist unit, she isn't seen actually using it, but still...
  • In-Universe Soundtrack: Justified. The original song written for the game, 'Blue New World,' is treated as having been written In-Universe and is portrayed as the first truly original song written by Miku herself rather than a Vocaloid user in order to overcome her Creative Sterility.
  • The Power of Rock: Miku’s EX skill has her quite literally singing and dancing while there are bullets flying all around her in the middle of a battlefield.
  • The Red Mage: Her EX Skill lets her heal and then buff attack for a period of time, while her basic move lets her buff crit. The trade off is that it's costlier to use, at 5 charges, and is still statistically inferior to other specialists who focus on either healing or buffing. However, Miku still has good synergy with any attacking specialist that can occupy the slot she frees up.

    Characters from A Certain Scientific Railgun 

Associated Tropes

  • Power Creep, Power Seep: Played with. Both Misaka and Misaki find their powers exhausting and hard to use after arriving in Kivotos, forcing them to use guns like the rest of the students. When they work up the energy to use their powers it's averted however - Misaka blows away a whole horde of automatons with one shot, making the whole railgun-obsessed Engineering Club fangirl over her, while Misaki shuts down an army of Helmet Gangers and Kaiser PMC troops by herself.

Misaka Mikoto

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Sometimes I think this place is just like my Academy City.
Illustrator: ミミトケ
Voiced by: Rina Sato

  • Blessed with Suck: Played for Laughs in her first Relationship Story. Even after getting her powers reduced, her electromagnetic waves are still enough to make not one cat ever come near her.
  • Continuity Nod: She shares the same preference of the FN F2000 assault rifle that her clones from the Misaka Network normally use.
  • No-Sell: Just like back in the source material, her electromagnetic powers block Misaki's mind control, here represented by her Passive Skill granting immunity to Misaki's Confusion status effect, and only Misaki's; other Confusion-causing attacks can still affect her.

Shokuhou Misaki

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Oh my, I've already introduced myself... Don't you remember? Heehee.
Illustrator: ミミトケ
Voiced by: Azumi Asakura

  • Athletically Challenged: Her lack of physical fitness is reflected in her running animations and she is visibly out of breath the moment she stops to fire her pistol, although it doesn't affect her gameplay-wise.
  • Jiggle Physics: As if to mock Misaka, her chest visibly shakes a lot in gameplay.
  • Improperly Paranoid: Throughout most of the event's story, she tries to avoid using her powers as much as possible, preferring to leave things up to Misaka and the other girls. It was only when they had no choice did she reluctantly step up and use her powers, reasoning that her powers are weakened and that she didn't want to reveal what she was capable of unless needed.
  • Set a Mook to Kill a Mook: Her mind control powers are represented in-game by inflicting the Confusion effect, which causes affected enemies to switch to shooting their allies instead.

Saten Ruiko

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This world is so similar to my world, but it's also so different... It's interesting.
Illustrator: ミミトケ
Voiced by: Kanae Itou

Alternative Title(s): Blue Archive General Student Council, Blue Archive SCHALE

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