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Funeral Parlor
A resistance force formed by Gai Tsutsugami after the outbreak of the first Apocalypse Virus, Funeral Parlor, also known as Undertaker, has one goal in mind: to restore peace to Japan and help overthrow GHQ. The group is stationed at Roppongi Fort, a probable reason for the many young members enlist. It was basically a clandestine organization, hiding its presence, but revealed their existence as a response to the Roppongi Fort invasion.
In General
- Heroic Resolve: The defining trait of many members is their ability to persevere in hopeless situations.
- La Résistance: They are a resistance group who are trying to liberate Japan.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Undertaker" is a person involved in administering funeral rites.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Funeral Parlor is composed of individuals with different Voids.
- The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: Funeral Parlor are indeed heroic champions of the oppressed.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: According to GHQ, Funeral Parlor is a group of ruthless terrorists who keep murdering innocent people and want to make the country a warzone.
Leadership
Gai Tsutsugami
Shibungi
Shibungi
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), J. Michael Tatum (English)
Appears in: Dancing Endlaves | Guilty Crown | Princess of Deadpool
The twenty-seven-year-old staff officer of Funeral Parlor.
- Catchphrase: "As expected of Gai."
- The Chessmaster: Quite literally, as he beats Segai, another known chessmaster, in an actual game of chess. He also steps up as the Funeral Parlor's de facto leader after Gai Came Back Wrong, and is the first one to call the Leucocyte bluff.
- Curtains Match the Window: He has gray hair and gray eyes.
- Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments of sarcasm.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a set of oddly geometrical-shaped scars on the right side of his face.
- Number Two: To Gai in Funeral Parlor.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Before he kills Kenji, Shibungi quips, "Checkmate".
- Scars Are Forever: Has a set of oddly geometrical-shaped scars on the left side of his face.
- The Stoic: He has a calm and logical demeanor.
Members
Shu Ouma
Inori Yuzuriha
Ayase Shinomiya
Ayase Shinomiya
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (Japanese), Emily Neves (English)
Appears in: Dancing Endlaves | Guilty Crown | Princess of Deadpool
A wheelchair-bound member of Funeral Parlor who pilots an Endlave mecha.
Her Void is a set of sleek, high-tech leg braces, boosting her leg strength and allowing her to 'rollerblade' at extremely high speeds.
- Ace Pilot: She is one of Funeral Parlor's top-ranking pilots.
- Action Girl: Despite being wheelchair bound, she's an ace Endlave driver and still capable of some impressive moves.
- Attempted Rape: She's been sexually harassed twice, and the second time was in front of an audience of hundreds.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: She eventually becomes this with Shu by the time Episode 13 rolls around.
- Big Damn Heroes: Interrupts Keido's Adam and Eve Plot in Episode 11 by busting a wall open with her Endlave and Gai in tow.
- Crush Blush: She blushes whenever she is around Gai.
- Curtains Match the Window: She has matching brown hair and brown eyes.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Ayase expresses misgivings towards Shu at first, but she becomes one of his closest allies, especially after he explains his feelings about Inori towards the end of episode 5. As time goes on, Shu even seemingly replaces Gai as her secret love following his untimely demise.
- Determinator: In Episode 19, she lunges out of her wheelchair, slides down a railing, just for the third Genome.
- Dislikes the New Guy: When Shu joins Funeral Parlor, Ayase doesn't go easy on him at first.
- Dogged Nice Girl: Towards Gai.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Ayase's attitude of being in a wheelchair due to her losing her legs. This gets deconstructed after Episode 13 onwards. Respecting her is all well and good, but she can't physically do everything that normal people can, like run away when people sexually harass her. While she can fight with her wheelchair a bit, even that is of limited use against a large group.
- Everyone Can See It: It's obvious to Tsugumi and Shu that she likes Gai.
- Handicapped Badass: Even when Ayase is in a wheelchair, she's quite a capable pilot and fighter.
- Heroic BSoD: Clearly has one when Gai is killed.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: She's close friends with Tsugumi.
- Hopeless Suitor: She knows Gai will probably never look her way because Inori has all his attention. Although, she doesn't know Gai is pining after the woman Inori reminds him of.
- I Can Still Fight!: Ayase would literally rather put her life first more than abandoning her friends.
- In a Single Bound: Her massively augmented leg strength lets her pull off jumps that would make an Olympic athlete weep with envy.
- Magic Skirt: Doesn't normally come into play since she's in a wheelchair, but after Shu gives her her "legs", she's noticeably holding it down with her hand as she descends.
- Meaningful Name: Ayase (綾瀬) is a place located in Kanagawa Prefecture.
- Mentor Archetype: To Shu in Episode 5.
- The Mourning After: Towards Gai. While she isn't over his death as of yet, she is trying to move forward.
- Rollerblade Good: Her Void. Minus the wheels, but the principle's pretty much the same.
- Sensual Spandex: Her pilot outfit is an extremely skintight red bodysuit.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Being extremely attractive and wheelchair-bound isn't a good combination when you are surrounded by jerks and sexual predators in an isolated school.
- Third-Option Love Interest: She's the third girl who gets Ship Tease with Shu, with Hare and Inori as the Betty and Veronica respectively. Not that she's ever treated like a romantic option as seriously as those two.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: She wears her hair in a ponytail.
- Training from Hell: She subjects Shu to a grueling training program in order for him to join Funeral Parlor.
- Undying Loyalty: She is loyal to Gai.
- Unprovoked Pervert Payback: In episode 5, she walks in on Shu while he's naked and ends up slapping him when he drops his towel.
Tsugumi
Tsugumi
Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)
Appears in: Dancing Endlaves | Guilty Crown | Princess of Deadpool
The fourteen-year-old hacker and operator of Funeral Parlor.
Her Void is a Magical Girl-esque rod that creates perfect doubles of people that can be controlled remotely.
- Animal-Eared Headband: She wears a cat-eared headband and sometimes shows catlike mannerisms.
- Cat Girl: Not only her Animal-Eared Headband and Cute Little Fangs, but she also briefly appears in a cat-like position during the opening.
- Curtains Match the Window: She has matching purple eyes and hair.
- Cute Bruiser: She's feisty, to say the least."Missile Kick!"
- Expendable Clone: Her clones are typically used as decoys.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: She and Ayase spend most of their free time together.
- In-Series Nickname: She's nicknamed "runt" by Daryl.
- Kick Chick: The few times she's shown fighting her attack is a flying kick.
- Meaningful Name: Tsugumi is the Japanese word for the dusky thrush bird.
- Mission Control: Her role in Funeral Parlor is acting as the operator during missions.
- Morality Pet: She becomes this to Daryl as she was the reason why he didn't fire at Shu and the others in Episode 14 and he goes out of his way to protect her and help Funeral Parlor escape the Ghost Units in Episode 18.
- Morality Chain: Subverted in Episode 22. Daryl recognizes Tsugumi as this and blames her for his unlucky Character Development, deciding that killing her (and Funeral Parlor) would make him change back to "Kill-'Em-All Daryl". He fails, although seems to regain his head later.
- Ms. Fanservice: Spends a lot of time in full-body spandex and seems to like popping her butt out, even though she's 14 years old.
- The Nicknamer: Always refers to Ayase as "Aya" and Inori as "Inoreen".
- Noblewoman's Laugh: A particularly diabolical one.
- Playful Hacker: She plays video games during the battles. Or maybe it's her hacking interface that resembles a video game.
- Self-Duplication: Her Void allows Tsugumi to create clones of herself and others.
- Sensual Spandex: Like Ayase, she wears a skintight bodysuit during operations.
- Ship Tease: With Daryl, of all people, in Episode 13. To be fair, she didn't know who he was at the time, though she seems to recognize him later when she is saved by him.
- Stepford Smiler: Beneath her Genki Girl smile, she's quite lonely. This explains why her Void can create human replicas.
- Wrestler in All of Us: Her "missile kick" attack. It is the puroresu name for either the dropkick or the missile dropkick, although she notably does it with a single leg.
- Younger than She Looks: Despite looking like a woman in her 20s, she is 14 years old.
Argo Tsukishima
Argo Tsukishima
Voiced by: Anri Katsu (Japanese), Jarrod Greene (English)
Appears in: Dancing Endlaves | Guilty Crown | Princess of Deadpool
A seventeen-year-old member of Funeral Parlor who is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and the use of knives.
His Void is a flashlight that projects a small field of perfect darkness that can also jam electronic signals.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Ironically combined with Accidental Truth and Tempting Fate. After witnessing Shu's "Void Kingdom" he angrily yells at Shu, "Would Gai do something like this?" After Shu's facsimile of Stalin's reign manages to safely break the school out of quarantine to safety, and the students turn on him, Gai, in fact, does precisely what Argo berated Shu for, and worse.
- Casting a Shadow: Argo considers it ironic that his Void is a "light that creates darkness".
- After Shu fuses it with Kanon's Void, it shoots black holes.
- Meaningful Name: Argo is the ship used by Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology.
- Scars Are Forever: Has a scar on the left side of his face that somehow overlaps his hair. Gets another one on the right side of his face in Episode 19, thanks to Segai.
- Sink or Swim Mentor: Argo's method of training Shu in close combat is to hand Shu a knife and then charge at him with one of his own, telling the newbie to fight like his life depends on it. Because it does.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Doesn't realize Shu's Start of Darkness has fully gone into effect.
Oogumo
Oogumo
Voiced by: Kousuke Takaguchi (Japanese), Scott Freeman (English)
Appears in: Dancing Endlaves | Guilty Crown
A member of Funeral Parlor who specializes in firearms and explosives.
- The Big Guy: He has a large body who has a lot of fight in him.
- BFG: Always seen carrying one over his shoulder as if nothing.
- Character Death: He is killed by Segai while covering for Haruka and Kurachi's escape.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Rushes at a group of Anti Bodies led by Segai, allowing Haruka and Kurachi to escape.
- The Quiet One: He barely talks, and whenever he does, it is short and concise.
- Rasputinian Death: In episode 19, Oogumo gets shot several times by GHQ forces and he easily takes them out. Just as he charges at Segai, he gets stabbed in the stomach and finally goes down.
- The Stoic: He is composed and calm, even in battle.
- Stout Strength: Despite his hefty size, he is immensely powerful.
- You Shall Not Pass!: He makes a final stand against GHQ to cover for Haruka and Kurachi's escape. Unfortunately for Oogumo, he is killed by Segai.
Kenji Kido
Kenji Kido
Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)
Appears in: Guilty Crown
A mass-murderer held prisoner at the GHQ Isolation Faculty Four due to his involvement in the "Sky Tree Bombing". He was rescued in Episode 4 by Shu and Funeral Parlor.
His Void is a gun that can manipulate gravity.
- Alliterative Name: Kenji Kido.
- Ax-Crazy: Not quite as much as his Hannibal Lecter getup would lead you to believe, but he still enjoys mass murder and destruction.
- Curtains Match the Window: He has matching white hair and white eyes.
- Demoted to Extra: Doesn't appear much after his critical role in Episodes 4 and 5.
- Evil Counterpart: To Tsugumi of being a hacker by the final battle.
- Expy: May be based on another White Hair, Black Heart mass murderer voiced by Nobuhiko Okamoto.
- Face–Heel Turn: He turns on Funeral Parlor when his true colors are revealed.
- Hidden Depths: As it turns out, he's also a brilliant hacker on par with Tsugumi.
- Ironic Hell: Pulls this on the rest of the world by placing them in a figurative cage via the many Leukocytes that the GHQ was hiding in Earth's orbit. Turns out to be a bluff in Episode 21.
- The Sociopath: Even after being recruited by Gai to help liberate Japan from GHQ, it becomes apparent that he's nothing more than a cold-hearted mass murderer who only assists Funeral Parlor's operations solely to satisfy his lust for bloodshed and destruction. Upon arriving at Funeral Parlor's HQ, he shows no signs of gratitude towards his new comrades and treats them with barely disguised contempt. Conversely, when fighting alongside Funeral Parlor, he derives sadistic gratification from gunning down enemy soldiers and openly taunts Shu when the latter shows discomfort with doing so. Towards the end of the series, his utter lack of loyalties and principles is made glaringly apparent when he later betrays Funeral Parlor by joining forces with GHQ, and directs all his efforts towards wiping them out along with the rest of humanity (with depraved relish no less).
- Token Evil Teammate: Although he becomes a Funeral Parlor member, he is still a psychopathic terrorist, and never does a true Heel–Face Turn.
- White Hair, Black Heart: He has white hair and is a ruthless terrorist to boot.
Kyo
Kyo
Voiced by: Chika Fujitou (Japanese), Kara Edwards (English)
Appears in: Dancing Endlaves | Guilty Crown
- Character Death: After she gets shot down by the Leukocyte satellite, Gai does a Mercy Kill on her.
- Child Soldier: She is a soldier of Funeral Parlor.
- Mercy Kill: Gai kills her when she gets shot down by the Leukocyte satellite.
- Nice Girl: She is portrayed as having a very sweet and kind personality.
- Sacrificial Lamb: Ends up getting shot down by the Leukocyte satellite in Episode 6.
- Undying Loyalty: She is loyal towards Gai.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: See Sacrificial Lamb above.
Kuhouin Group
Okina Kuhouin
Okina Kuhouin
Voiced by: Katsuhika Houki (Japanese), R. Bruce Elliott (English)
Appears in: Guilty Crown
Arisa's grandfather who funds Funeral Parlor's operations after Episode 7.
- Big Good: He's ultimately revealed to be Funeral Parlor's largest backer in its struggle against GHQ. Later, he is implied to be one of the leaders of a powerful network of elites organized to combat Da'ath, the series' Big Bad.
- Cool Old Guy: Despite being at least in his seventies, he single-handedly dispatches several GHQ commandos with a katana.
- Katanas Are Just Better: They're clearly his weapon of choice if Episode 18 is any indication.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: After his granddaughter dishonors the family, he resolves to put her down.
- The Team Benefactor: Kuhouin doesn't publicly reveal his alliance with Funeral Parlor, but he meets the rest of the criteria.
Kurachi
Kurachi
Voiced by: Miyuki Kawasho (Japanese), Jamie Marchi (English)
Appears in: Guilty Crown
A Funeral Parlor operative who works under Okina.
- All There in the Manual: The artbook indicates that she is "a veritable Superwoman who speaks four languages" and is "an authority on both armed and hand-to-hand combat."
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She has black hair and has a calm and composed demeanor.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Karachi has dark hair and pale skin.
- Sexy Secretary: She's an attractive secretary who works for Funeral Parlor.
Others
Funell
Funell
A small robot that's frequently seeing with Inori.
- Babies Ever After: The epilogue shows Funell found a mate and had several robot babies.
- Cute Machines: Funell is a small and weirdly cute robot.
- Punny Name: "Funell" is a play on the English word "Funeral".
- Robot Buddy: Funell mainly functions as Inori's robotic companion.
- Team Pet: Funell's only role in Funeral Parlor is being the main heroine's pet robot.
