Characters / Devil Summoner

The character page for the game Devil Summoner.

Main Characters

Protagonist/“Kyouji Kuzunoha”

• Badass in a Nice Suit: Once he takes over Kyouji's body, he also keeps his white suit. Unlike Kyouji, he wears it open.
• Becoming the Mask: He starts the game as an ordinary college student before getting sucked into the life of a Devil Summoner while acting as if he were Kyoji Kuzunoha. By the end of the game he's acknowledged as just as great, if not an even greater Devil Summoner than Kyoji was.
• Body Surf: The crux of the game. After being killed by Sid, he gets sent into Kyoji's body by Charon thanks to that body still being operational. He then goes on to live Kyoji's Devil Summoner life for himself.
• Escaped from Hell: The protagonist pulls this off after Kyouji betrays him and sends them to Avici.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: One of the big differences between the protagonist and Kyoji despite having the same body is that the protagonist has his hair slicked up.

Kumiko Hatano

• Damsel in Distress: She's kidnapped by Sid and his allies in order to use her as Inaruna's new body, being a direct descendant.
• Decoy Protagonist: She’s the girlfriend of the protagonist so you’d be forgiven to think that she’ll be this games Heroine… she not.

Kuzunoha Detective Agency

Kyoji Kuzunoha

• Anti-Hero: An anti-demon detective who wants to keep the peace in Hirasaka, even if it means taking care of people who aren't suppose to know what's really happening.
• Asshole Victim: He turns out to be one, considering that he tried exploiting your death and all. He ultimately loses his body to you permanently, leaving him no choice but to possess others to survive.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: He wears a three-buttoned white suit and is a fearsome demon hunter, living up to his family name.
• Grand Theft Me: He falls victim to this after his soul is separated from his body. He spends much of the game trying to take it back, but ultimately fails due to him being separated from it for too long.
• One-Man Army: His first display of strength in the game shows that he's practically a bulldozer to the first dungeon of the game, clearing it and its boss while the protagonist is dragged along without even summoning any demons.

Rei Reiho

• Black Mage: The Amaterasu skillset has her set up as this, though she'll still have a few Support Party Member and White Mage abilites.
• Locked Out of the Loop: For the first quarter or so of the game she'll be in the dark about the whole protagonist/Kyoji Body Surf fiasco, however once Sid fails to eject the soul of Kyoji Kuzunoha from the protagonist, she starts to catch on that he's not really Kyoji.
• Deuteragonist: She’s this games Heroine and only human party member besides “Kyouji” and the real Kyouji.
• Support Party Member: The Gabriel skillset has her set up as this, though she'll still have a few Black Mage and White Mage abilites.
• Walking the Earth: After the game ends, she leaves the city and wanders around Japan for a bit before she helps Madam Ginko in Amami City during the events of Soul Hackers.
• White Mage: The Ishtar skillset has her set up as this, though she'll still have a few Black Mage and Support Party Member abilites.

Kuzunoha Clan

A Badass Family of devil summoners that have protected Japan from demonkind for over a thousand years. Kyouji was part of one of the branch families.

• Legacy Character: All heads of the Kuzunoha branches bear the name of a famous devil summoner, passed from father to child. The current Kyouji is not the first to bear the name of "Kyouji Kuzunoha".

Madam Ginko

• Gender Bender: Heavily implied, as she's voiced by a man.
• Lunacy: She can only be met personally while the moon is full.

Kunihiko Utsumi

• Knowledge Broker: His main job, spreading information in and out of the underworld via nightclub Cretaceous before working as Madam Ginko's bodyguard.

Hirasaki Police Department

Inspector Hideo Momochi

Shogo "T-Shirt" Isono

• Meaningful Name: Shogo's fellow officers call him "T-Shirt" since he always wears T-shirts.

NPCs

Marie Kisaragi

Dr. Victor

• Theme Naming: He marks the first name to be taken from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein In his case it's from none other than the mad scientist himself Dr. Victor Frankenstein.
• Our Vampires Are Different: He looks exactly like what one would expect from vampires such as say Dracula, yet he's an ally who will fuse your demons for you.

Dr. Thrill

• All There in the Manual: His full name is Thrill E. Aleksei Moff.
• Former Regime Personnel: He used to work under the KGB conducting research in bio science during the Cold War and left after the USSR was dissolved.

Tomohiro Tsuchiya

• All There in the Manual: The various game guides give his name, aside from being known as the Konnou'ya Shopkeeper.

Momoe Takagi

• All There in the Manual: The various game guides give her name, aside from being known as the Hagurumado Saleswoman.

Maruse Hideo

• The Dreaded: Known in his younger days as the "Dark Arms Merchant".

Sanpei Mitsuba

• Career-Ending Injury: Sanpei had to drop his boxing career when he was punched in the mouth while he did a Cross Counter to his opponent. He nearly died and survived by a miracle.

Goofy Maeda

Cooper Smith

Chen Jianman

• Arms Dealer: It's implied that he sells small arms to the player from the Hirasaki JGSDF base.

Persons of Interest

Professor Azuma Michio

Katsuji Fujiwara

• The Scapegoat: He's forced to resign after Yamashiro disappears from public life.

Charon

• Psychopomp: Charon, is also the one who resurrects the protagonist, although in Kyuoji's body.

Antagonists

Sid Davis

• Big Bad: Of the game. Game information suggests that he was recruited by the Phantom Society.
• Sinister Minister: As an example in this game we have Sid Davis, a Serial Killer and Omnicidal Maniac who is Devil Summoner's Big Bad, although he's probably only a self styled priest, not a real one. He does though work with the Demiurge, who was revealed in later games as part of YHVH.
• Would Hit a Girl: Averted. He did keep his word that he'll let go of Kumiko if the protagonist and Rei can open the underground tomb of Inaruna.

Princess Inaruna

• Tragic Villain: Princess Inaruna who had to watch her civilization destroyed, most of its population murdered and after that, being executed. Inaruna's hate for herself and her country' murderers — Yamato (proto-Japan), warped her into an apocalyptically powerful evil spirit. After her defeat, Inaruna even thanks the hero, for being finally freed of her pain and hatred.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Inaruna, if resurrected, will destroy the world, and she is as she is for the reasons listed above in Tragic Villain/Tragic Monster.

Takashi

Seiichi Yamashiro

• Corrupt Politician: By the time the game starts, Yamashiro started his fifth term as a Hirasaka City council member.
• God in Human Form: By the time the player and Rei confront him in Hirasaka City Hall, he changes to his true form Demiurge.
• Man Behind the Man: Was responsible for ensuring the election victory of Katsuji Fujiwara as mayor while hiding his identity as Demiurge.

Superintendent Atsushi Nakagome

• Dirty Cop: He works alongside the Tendou-gumi and uses arrests conducted by officers stationed in the city to take care of anyone who shows strong disapproval of the city's redevelopment.

Tenzan Tendou