This is the character page for Grisaia: Phantom Trigger. Spoilers abound, especially the late-arrival ones, as several characters end up joining the main roster.
Spoilers abound, so read at your own risk!
Main Characters
A former CIRS agent who now serves as a tactical instructor at Mihama Academy, and as a handler to the school's students. Though he looks young, he has a great deal of experience on the field, and he still has lots of friends on CIRS' current roster.
Haruto radiates warmth and gentility, but this has left him an object of teasing at Mihama - the girls under his charge tend to treat him like he's just another kid. He can also be pretty tight-lipped about his past. Some of his memories are in fact rather vague, and there remain lots of gaps in his work history.
Gunplay really isn't Haruto's strong suit. He doesn't often succeed in striking his target (though some people believe this apparent ineptitude to be a deliberate ploy on his part).
He has little interest in food, and will usually make do with just a salad.
Haruto will often issue strategic commands on the battlefield, but he rarely finds himself standing in the trenches. He uses a sword, but not one made in the Japanese fashion; it would certainly be a bit of a stretch to call it a katana.
- Artificial Human: Vol. 6 reveals him to be this, engineered by Ichiru from DNA belonging to — implicitly — Asako Kusakabe and Yuuji Kazami ... making him a literal Composite Character.
- Badass Teacher: While technically a student, he is still a instructor at Mihama, and has a remarkable degree of skill with his sword.
- Butterfly of Doom: Even though he's not directly involved in the choices that determine the good or bad ending of Vol. 8, how he chooses to have his sword sharpened are affected by them.
- Cruel Mercy: If he chooses to not kill Kuroe in the good ending path of Vol. 8. Instead of giving her a quick death, he leaves her to wallow in utter despair and die by being buried alive when she finds Enishi's body and the TFA compound collapses.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Unsurprisingly, Shiori was one of those people.
- Evil Makeover: While not so much as "evil," but in the climax of Vol. 8 he ties his hair back and takes on a much more intimidating appearance when going to confront Enishi.
- Important Haircut: He cuts his hair in the good ending of Vol. 8 after avenging his master.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Just look at him!
- One-Man Army: When he goes out into the field, he basically lasts as long as his sword does whether up against 20 or 200 opponents.
- One of the Kids: Regularly partakes or intervenes in the class' antics.
- Pocket Protector: Taking Rena's gun with him in the bad ending of Vol. 8 keeps Kuroe's bullets from killing him instantly, allowing him to kill both Kuroe and Enishi before he succumbs to the shots that punctured his lungs.
- Troll: Pushing Tohka's buttons is one of his favorite past-times and he'll prank her in some fashion at least once per volume.
A gunwoman who's charged with shooting on Haruto's behalf, due to his personal distaste for firearms. Rena's a lively girl, amiable and warm in her dealings with just about everybody. She's tall and well-proportioned, her limbs smooth and powerful. She makes sure to stay healthy and active.
Rena has a strong sense of responsibility, and tends to be quite cautious; she's always scanning the environment for threats. Her loyalty to Haruto, her 'Master', and the docility she demonstrates around him, are most notable.
However skilled Rena is physically, she struggles quite a bit in the classroom. When told off, she quickly grows timid; she has a good appetite for learning nonetheless, and responds well to praise.
She favors an M1911-style pistol, and lets loose about two hundred rounds every day.
Rena also has a tendency towards obsession. Once she develops an interest in a handgun, she can't make do with any other weapon until the heft of that particular gun is ingrained in her senses. Though law enforcement agencies having summarily dismissed the superiority of .45 ammo, Rena obstinately persists in using it, even going so far as to get lightweight bullets specially manufactured by the school gunsmith.
She has a motorcycle license, and when she's feeling particularly ravenous, she'll often sneak out in the middle of the night for ramen.
- Action Girl: The most physically inclined of the five girls.
- Big Eater: Mention food in her presence, and you'll probably end up having to cook up or pay for a big pile of food, just for her.
- Boxing Battler: When she's out of bullets, she shows to be an incredibly skilled boxer.
- Composite Character: Visually she's very similar to Yumiko, but her energetic personality is more similar to Makina, while her love for riding vehicles is similar to Amane.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: Best seen in the manga, where she's shown to enjoy groping other female characters when bathing, forcefully stripping and sexually harassing female teammates (even in front of Haruto), and even masturbating in semipublic rooms.
- Not Me This Time: Says this practically word-by-word when confronted about the rumors of "Soul Speed", also saying that her motorcycle was in for repairs around the time the latter started appearing.
- Tyke-Bomb: Is one from the apparently Chinese Hollow House, as is Maki.
A self-proclaimed 'Russian ninja', Murasaki's actual heritage is shrouded in mystery.She makes all sorts of claims about her 'ninja skillz', including her certification as a 'master ninja'.
Her real forte is disguise, and she takes on a lot of missions involving stealth and infiltration; her calling-card is the .22 subsonic ammo she always uses. Alongside easily concealable weapons like small-bore automatic pistols and her kunai, or Japanese dagger, Murasaki's fond of katana swords and rifles.
Her personality can be difficult to pin down; she rarely displays her true feelings in front of others, and obviously has fun saying weird things to confound other people. Even during the summer, she wears a long scarf around her neck to signal her ninja identity. At first glance, it looks like the kind of scarf a normal female student might wear, but it's actually woven from a mix of aramid fiber and synthetic protein, making it both bullet-proof and fire resistant.
Murasaki's been friends with Haruto since she was a young child, and loves him like an older brother. Or could her adoration for him be something more?
She ranks third in close-quarters combat, her ferocious speed losing out to Haruto's skill and Rena's raw strength.
- Ambiguously Bi: The official website hints that she may see Haruto as more than just a big-brother figure, and the official manga openly shows her getting sexual with Tohka, all the while knowing she's a girl.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Gets the worst of it in the bad ending of Vol. 8 as Ichiru describes her body as, "Something that used to be human."
- Girlish Pigtails: Wears her hair on two waist-length pigtails.
- Gratuitous Ninja: She even goes as far as wearing a Sarashi and Fundoshi as underwear.
- Idiot Hair: Reflects her at-times eccentric behaviour.
- Stealth Expert: She wouldn't be a self proclaimed ninja if she wasn't.
- Mutual Kill: In the bad ending of Vol. 8, she manages to take her arch-rival Homura with her.
- Troll: She counts herself among the number of girls that Patrick's group is escorting in Volume 8 just to mess with them even though doing so wouldn't have revealed any further information and ran the risk of her being discovered.
An explosives and computer specialist, born in Shanghai to British parents. Of the 148 students at Mihama Academy, Chris is ranked eighth in terms of test scores, and she's ended up in charge of helping the rest of the class with their studies. She comports herself well around other people, and ordinarily seems quite meek, but she's said to become genuinely scary when she's angry.
Just like Haruto, Chris isn't too fond of guns, and generally refuses to carry one. In fact, her standard-issue handgun is a defective model that ought to have been returned to the manufacturer, and that doesn't appear to bother her in the least.
She used to wear her beautiful blonde hair down past her shoulders. When she was in elementary school, though, she accidentally set off a bomb in the school toilets, and singed her hair; ever since then, she's kept it short.
A helpful girl who's proficient in every kind of household chore, Chris is something of a den mother to the other students: she prepares meals in the student dorm, cleans her friends' bedrooms, and does their laundry. She also has rather poor eyesight, wearing contact lenses almost all the time. Only in the brief moment between her waking up and washing her face will you find her in glasses.
- Composite Character: She has blonde hair like Michiru, but is short. Her proficiency for household chores and explosives bring Sachi to mind, although she's a Team Mom like Amane instead.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: To the point of doing half of Haruto's administrative work for him.
- Mission Control: Serves as this for her team.
- Team Mom: She handles nearly all of the cooking and cleaning for the class as well as most of Haruto's work that he doesn't bother to do himself.
A sniper. Her mother is German, her father American. Growing up, Tohka learned self-defense techniques and riflery from her father, a former soldier, and his comrades; she was the youngest ever winner of a shooting competition in her hometown. In the wake of her mother's death, she spent two years attached to a PMC (private military contractor) alongside her father.
She can be extraordinarily belligerent, and sometimes breaks into outbursts of violence. She is, in short, a classic tsundere. Though infinitely curious about the world, she has a pragmatic side, too: she won't tolerate any nonsense. She possesses a measure of shrewdness and inner strength that belies her cute, childish exterior.
Whenever she was left home alone as a child, Tohka would shove a shotgun in the face of any cold-caller who came knocking; she's since become known for her shyness around strangers. She tends to take an instant dislike to anyone she meets. She's clearly desperate to be regarded as a friend by others, though, however little effort she exerts in this regard herself.
She's basically pretty bad at making friends. She also has a bit of a complex about her small stature, and it's to compensate for this that she tries to act all grown-up.
- Better to Die than Be Killed:
- She's the first to die in Volume 08 if Arisaka doesn't insist on loading her sidearm for her or if Patrick tells the mountain boys they should keep fighting. When surrounded by the mountain boys while standing on a landmine, she shoots herself in the head.
- Defied in the good ending where she tries to anyway, but there isn't a bullet in the chamber due to Arisaka not loading her sidearm properly.
- Composite Character: Her hairstyle is reminiscent of Michiru, although silver-colored, and her personality is Tsundere too, although in her case it's not an act. Her height and proficiency in marksmanship make her similar to Makina as well.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Wears a sock longer than the other.
- The Napoleon: She's short in stature and in temper.
The unfortunate new homeroom teacher at this unusual school, who really has no idea what she's gotten herself into.
An extremely earnest young woman, she can end up letting people walk all over her in her efforts to accommodate them. She's perhaps best described as 'unassuming' - or, more to the point, 'cowardly'. She wouldn't look out of place as a nameless NPC in some generic role-playing game. She doesn't have much luck at work; she's the type to end up causing a huge calamity, and then get caught out straight away by her superior.
According to Arisaka herself, she was equally unlucky as a kid - she's always drawn the short straw. Sometimes it can genuinely seem like she's cursed.
Other than that, though, her life is pretty ordinary. Mundane, even. That can seem like a breath of fresh air somewhere like Mihama Academy. Like everyone else, she appears simply to have drifted into the school. But there's something more sinister lurking behind that reason...
- Apologizes a Lot: Prone to doing this.
- Audience Surrogate: She serves as this, introducing us to the girls and the circumstances of the school. Even after Vol. 1, she continues this role, as more specialist terms and organisations crop up.
- Babies Ever After: After the good ending of Vol. 8, she's tasked with raising Ichiru's next Designer Baby.
- The Butterfly Effect: Most choices she's tasked with throughout the series don't matter in the long run. The one she can make that is half of whether or not Class A survives Vol. 8 is insisting on loading Tohka's sidearm for her.
- Heroic BSoD: Losing Class A in the bad ending of Vol. 8 hits her pretty hard. Ichiru gives her a new group of students to look after to keep her busy and from falling into despair.
- Self-Made Orphan: Effectively caused this for herself, albeit not entirely out of her own volition, as her father had snapped and tried to kill her and his wife, and she'd been deprived of oxygen before then.
- Sanity Slippage: A concern of Ichiru and Nogami, given her behaviour during her own murder of her father.
- Please Put Some Clothes On: Says this to Ichiru when she greets her in her underwear.
AKA “Soul Speed”; earlier known as "Bucks". She wields four Glock 26s, and goes by many aliases.
Maki is strong and well-built, making her handy in a fight. She picked up her aggressive streak at Hollow House, the training institute for assassins where she spent much of her childhood.
She was later sold to a Russian crime syndicate, making herself useful to them as both contract killer and bagman.
Though wary of others and very quick to anger, Maki’s actually remarkably naïve. Ever the rebel, she can often be found on the back of her Suzuki GSX-R, but her most treasured possession is an old Swiss watch.
Is actually a rather close former friend of Rena, way back in their past, her sale having been made after Rena's, and is ultmately press-ganged into Mihama Academy as a student at the end of Vol. 2.
- Chekhov's Gun: Closer to "Chekhov's Scope" as the way her gun was customized ends up saving her life in Volume 8 when her opponent steals it from her and doesn't realize that the scope has been adjusted to account for her aiming slightly to the left, causing an otherwise fatal shot to miss.
- Heel–Face Turn: Not by her own volition, at the end of Vol. 2 Maki is forced to join up with Mihama Academy as a student. Later volumes show she actually adjusts rather well, though that may be due to Rena's presence.
- Long-Lost Relative: Effectively this for Rena, seeing each other as sisters.
- Mutual Kill: In Vol. 8, she and the guy gunning for her take each other down. In the bad ending, a medical team doesn't get to her in time.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Has red eyes and she's a very dangerous woman.
- Spy Catsuit: Wears one that's open on the front, though she ultimately ditches it by the end of Vol. 2.
- Tyke-Bomb: Is one from Hollow House, alongside Rena.
It's said that once Gumi has you in her sights, there's no escape - hence her nickname, "Mystic Eye". Back in her St. Aile's days, she used to worship upperclassman Ariizumi Shiho, who served as her spotter.
Gumi behaves like an old-school war veteran, and tends to adopt a ludicrously single-minded approach to her duties.
Burning with a powerful sense of justice, Gumi takes a hard line against unscrupulous behavior; the harshness of her rebukes can come as quite a shock.
Her special skill is speed eating, and she won't be beaten in this by anyone.
- Big Eater: Quite the glutton, close to Rena's level, in fact.
- Cold Sniper: On the clock, she doesn't let much distract her. Her appearance in Vol. 3 has her pick off targets faster than Tohka, who had Murasaki as a spotter.
- Friendly Sniper: Off it, however...She's pretty eccentric.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Took off on one that lasts throughout the entirety of Vol. 3, thanks to a abysmal and intentionally botched operation that led to the death of Shiho. CIRS isn't happy, and once she's brought back, it takes getting offloaded to Mihama to stay their hand.
- Weight Woe: While she has Rena's appetite, she doesn't have her metabolism, so she ends up gaining weight and becomes concerned about it after joining Class A.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Her main dilemma in Volumes 07 and 08 is her fear of having to shoot a child. In the bad ending of Volume 08, refusing to pull the trigger is what gets her killed.
- Big Damn Hero: If she's not killed in Vol. 8, she manages to save all of Chris, Maki, and Rena in the nick of time afterwards.
- Meido: Her school and combat uniform are patterned after a maid uniform, created by the same company that originally made Sachi's custom one.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Her insistence on saving both enemies and allies in Vol. 7 is what inspires Jonah's Heel–Face Turn and his devoting himself to her as her guardian angel in Vol. 8.
Volume 5 reveals the source of her having short-term memory issues.
- The Alcoholic: As she spends a great deal of time in bars for the primary source of gathering her info, she's developed a drinking problem.
- Boob-Based Gag: She has the largest bust in the cast and this fact is often Played for Laughs. When she gets caught in a wall in Vol. 8, Murasaki lampshades the situation with, "How did we get stuck in a porno?"
- I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: She often uses her assets as a means of gathering information.
- Heroic RRoD: In the bad ending of Vol. 8, her body shuts down in the middle of battle and she dies a relatively peaceful death.
Side Characters
The new principal of Mihama Academy. Thanks to her background, she has a lot of pull with the upper echelons at CIRS. It's rumored that in the course of her work for the organization, she's come to learn the weaknesses of many of her fellow agents. This may have been a key factor in her "retirement" when the organization was restructured.
A report at this time detailing the gap between the American and Japanese intelligence services in terms of both efficacy and intelligence-gathering capabilities inspired Sengoku to create SORD (Social Ops, Research & Development); she then used her dismissal as an opportunity to establish herself, and SORD, as a leading force in tactical development.
- The Gadfly: Teases Shiori by greeting her in her underwear for starters.
- Idiot Hair
- Mad Scientist: Downplayed, but she did create the first Thanatos System solely so that she could sell it to the government in order to fund her design of the second Thanatos System, and then created Haruto more or less for the hell of it.
- Tragic Keepsake: A odd variation; her habit of smoking came from the previous Aoi. Beforehand, she had all sorts of problems with it.
Nogami has worked as Sengoku Ichiru's assistant ever since her time in CIRS’ Special Medical Division, and she continues to uphold that role at Mihama Academy.
While brilliant, she also possesses several personal faults that get in the way of her day-to-day life. Case in point: the fact that her room is always such a total mess. Haruto thinks of her as a sort of surrogate older sister, turning to her first whenever he has issues that he's reluctant to discuss with Principal Sengoku.
- Last-Name Basis: She usually goes by her family name.
- The Stoic: She's not particularly expressive.
A gunsmith in Mihama Academy's second-year mechanical engineering class. An expert in both metalwork and plastics, Yamamoto handles almost all of the firearms and ammunition used by Mihama students, whose guns are updated with new QR tags every time she carries out maintenance work.
Every now and then you can find her zoned out and thrashing away at her air guitar, while a thumping beat blasts through her headphones.
- Wrench Wench: A cute girl who happens to be a gunsmith.
A handler at SORD’s Keihin Sakuragaoka campus, Ukawa is responsible for instructing Vanilla and Choco.
He used to work for CIRS, and even served in the same unit as Haruto.
- An Arm and a Leg: He loses a leg during the bad ending climax of Vol. 8 when Choco has to blow it off with her gun to escape being pinned under some debris.
- Camp Gay: He's a rather effeminate man, but continues to identify as male through the series.
- Messy Hair: To go with his relaxed disposition.
- The Man Behind the Man: Orchestrated the events of Vol. 2 by selling Ishibe's transplant to the Russians Maki worked for, in a effort to keep Ishibe from putting Keihin on the chopping block. Ultimately, his gamble is a success.
Twin sisters, and students at one of SORD’s other campuses, Keihin Sakuragaoka.
The two agents hail from Alaska, where they used to assist the security services in cracking down on drugs and weapons smugglers and the Russian mafia.
It seems that the younger of the two, Choco, was once good friends with Rena.
- Food Theme Naming: Vanilla and chocolate.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: Vanilla has light blonde hair and pale skin, while Choco has tanned skin and pink hair.
- Polar Opposite Twins: Vanilla is more serious and focused than the friendly Choco.
- Tag Team Twins: Always fight together.
Even more outspoken than his sister, he usually comes across as haughty or just plain rude.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In the good ending of Vol. 8, they repatriate and depart from St. Ailes on good terms to begin new lives when given the chance after the operation.
- Tranquil Fury: When Velvet encounters an enemy soldier who had raped a civilian girl that had been trying to escape the battlefield in Volume 08, she tells her junior to calm down and watch her language before she proceeds to blow the soldier's head off in righteous fury.
- Audience Surrogate: One who offers a view from the opposing side during the operation, even though he has no actual loyalty to the TFA and is just trying to survive.
- Born Lucky: He credits getting as far as he does in Vol. 8 to pure dumb luck as he has numerous close calls and a combination of slipping, the angle of entry, and the caliber of bullet allow him to survive being shot in the head by Tohka as all of the circumstances present let his helmet deflect the bullet and he was only knocked out for a while without any major damage.
- Escort Mission: He and his friend Bruno are tasked with leading nine civilian girls to safety... and all nine end up dead.
- Despair Event Horizon: After Natalie is killed by shielding him from a grenade blast, he emerges from his trench and starts firing blindly to get someone to kill him. While he's sniped by Tohka, he actually survives.
- Last Episode, New Character: He only appears in Volume 08.
- My Greatest Failure: Even though Natalie isn't the last of the girls that he's escorting to die, she is the one he grew closest to and losing her makes him snap.
- My Greatest Second Chance: The good ending has him stay with the mountain boys to teach and care for them to make up for letting the girls he was escorting die.
- Small Role, Big Impact: His decision to tell the mountain boys on if they should continue or stop fighting is half of what determines Class A's survival.
- Sole Survivor: Of his original group in the good ending of Vol. 8.
