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Hell Correspondence
Also known as the Hell Link, the medium through which a client contacts Hell Girl. Existing for centuries, the means of accessing it has changed to correspond more with the passing times; in the present day, an internet website is used while centuries ago clients would pray for Ai through a black ema
left at a shrine, which later changed to sending a letter to the address appearing in a three-column newspaper advertisement only visible to those with enough hatred.
The medium can only be used at midnight by one who harbors a genuine desire for revenge against their object of hatred. Should someone submit the name of someone against whom they bear a grudge or immense hatred, and their request is accepted, Ai Enma will take them to a realm of perpetual twilight where she offers them a straw doll and describe to the client the details of their contract. Should the client pull the string tied around the doll's neck, Ai will ferry the target of the revenge to Hell. However, once the target's life has ended, the client is damned to Hell when they die, and a black sigil appears on their chest to serve as a permanent reminder of this.
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Historical Clients
Tami Aida
Tami Aida
- Perfectly Arranged Marriage: What she'd expected to have with Yohei until Kahei called it off in favor of a Marriage of Convenience.
- The Resenter: Tami hated the inn and Yohei's success until the day she died because it reminded her of what she was robbed of.
Kahei
The father of Tami's fiance, Yohei. He calls off their marriage in favor of marrying his son into a family that has experience running a hot spring inn, leading Tami to contact the Hell Correspondence.- Marriage of Convenience: He cancels Yohei's wedding to Tami in favor of Hanae due to the latter having experience running a hot spring inn.
- No Body Left Behind: The sole aversion in the series. After boiling him in his Afterlife Antechamber, Ai leaves his scalded corpse back at the inn. This might be due to not having anyone to help her dispose of bodies at the time.
Mizorogi Matriarch
- Domestic Abuse: She sent her husband to Hell to escape this.
- Dragged Off to Hell: After sending her husband to Hell, someone else sends her there, sparking her son's interest in the Hell Correspondence.
Fukumoto
Fukumoto
Voiced by: Shiro Saito (Japanese), Jerry Russell (English)
A reclusive artist that Hajime sought out after his daughter suffers irregular premonitions of his existence. He was the original writer of an unpopular book titled Purgatory Girl, which details a man meeting Enma Ai and the contract he made with her in order to avenge his wife. The story was based on Fukumoto's own trauma of seeing his friend Okochi rape his wife, her subsequently committing suicide, and him obtaining his revenge. He was originally thought to be the oldest client of the Hell Correspondence seen in the series, but he is not the first ever; the medium goes centuries further back to the Edo era, or even the Azuchi-Momoyama period as Fukumoto speculates. As seen later in the series, he is proven correct.- Adaptation Name Change: Ryusei Kitagawa in the TV drama.
- Dead Hat Shot: Fukumoto's cap falls to the ground as he dies.
- Deaths Hour Glass: Fukumoto has a candle just like all of Ai's previous clients, only his has nearly burned all the way down with him on death's door. It goes out when he dies and Ai claims his soul.
- Despair Event Horizon: He crossed this at some point after sending Okochi to Hell. Having tried everything to forget his trauma and fear of his own fate, Fukumoto simply accepted he could not move on.
- The Gambling Addict: He mentions he once became obsessed with gambling to forget his sorrows, but it did him no good.
- Mad Artist: He spends his twilight years in seclusion obsessively painting artworks of Enma Ai all over his walls. Although it's played with in that while this isn't healthy, Fukomoto is not insane or evil, but simply a tired and tragic old man.
- Mr. Exposition: He provides great amounts of exposition on the history of the Hell Correspondence and Enma Ai.
- Peaceful in Death: Fukumoto is grateful he can see Ai again before going to Hell. His only grievance is possibly meeting Okochi in Hell, to which Ai comforts him by saying Hell is a vast place.
- Rape and Revenge: A variation. Fukumoto's wife was raped and Fukumoto was the one who avenged her.
- Tender Tears: He sheds these upon seeing that, after all these years, Ai is weeping for him just before his passing.
- You Can't Fight Fate: At one point, Fukumoto says he tried to find salvation through religion (Shinto or Buddhism apparently) to avoid going to Hell or doing good deeds but it was of no avail.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: He got his revenge, but it did nothing to relieve him of his trauma and brought new fears with him knowing he is condemned to Hell.
Okochi
- Adaptation Name Change: Ryunosuke Muroi in the TV drama.
- Adaptational Jerkass: He was never Fukumoto's friend in the TV drama, and it omits the Faux Affably Evil attitude he has in the anime. Instead, he's a vicious thug that's proud of his crimes.
- Adaptational Villainy: He went from a one-time rapist to a serial rapist and murderer in the TV drama.
- Asshole Victim: He raped his friend's wife and evidently never showed remorse for it either given he was always prepared to kill Fukumoto afterward.
- Crazy-Prepared: Fukumoto noted he never went without a gun after his wife committed suicide, making it impossible for him to get revenge on him in any way other than using the Hell Correspondence.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Wears square glasses and is a vile rapist.
- Posthumous Character: He's long dead by now.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: And worse yet, Fukumoto caught him during the act.
Honami Chiwaki
Honami Chiwaki
Voiced by: Junko Iwao
Nene Chikawai's emotionally troubled mother. In the past, she was a victim of vicious Domestic Abuse, for which she called upon Ai to banish her husband. She never told her daughter of this, creating a rift between the two.- Commonality Connection: Ren Ichimoku has subtly supported her since the day she pulled the string, openly seeing her misery as similar to the abuse he endured as a sentient weapon.
- Driven to Suicide: She does this to spare her daughter from damning herself to Hell. Her suicide also incidentally saves Ren from being damned, as he was racing to intervene from mother and daughter doing either, which is strictly forbidden.
- Domestic Abuse: As we see in flashbacks, she suffered horrific physical abuse from her husband.
- Last Request: She pleads with Ai to ask Ren to watch over her daughter as he did her. She obliges.
- Stepford Smiler: She is deeply hurting inside but tries to remain optimistic.
Mami Kuriyama
Mami Kuriyama/Manaka
Voiced by: Ayumi Tsunematsu
A school teacher who really has it out for her ex-teacher, Shouko Baba. She was a client of Ai's nine years prior to the series but was too terrified to pull the string on Baba after receiving the straw doll. In the present, she enlists as a teacher in the same school as her ex-teacher under a different surname, hoping to manipulate the teens that similarly hate her into sending her to Hell instead.- Asshole Victim: She's a filthy coward that tries to manipulate children into damning themselves to send her grudge to Hell, something Baba can never forgive her for.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Acts like a benevolent teacher who wants to help her students. She really doesn’t care for them and is willing to use them to not go to Hell herself.
- Dirty Coward: What defines Mami is her cowardice. She was too afraid of Hell to send Baba over herself and is now trying to manipulate kids into doing it instead.
- Disney Villain Death: She is simply sent to Hell by falling into a black hole screaming, as Baba pleaded with Ai to go easy on her and skip any torture.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: She goes through a laundry list of excuses when trying to justify herself to Ai and Baba, including how Baba failing to recommend her ruined her family. It doesn't convince anyone present she's any less of a horrible human being.
- Inelegant Blubbering: She exhausted herself crying on the ride to Hell, murmuring why she has to go to Hell with snot and tears covering her face.
- Ironic Name: The name Mami means "real, genuine" (真) (ma) and "beautiful" (美) (mi). She's a pathological liar with good looks but a hideous personality.
- Lazy Bum: She says she became a teacher thinking it would be easy money, complaining to Baba about her limited career options with her not recommending her. Baba retorts she failed Mami as a person and she has no right to call herself a teacher.
- Manipulative Bitch: She runs an elaborate scheme at a school to convince students into using the real Hell Link to send her ex-teacher to Hell.
- My Greatest Failure: Baba sees Mami as this, so much that Baba willingly condemn herself as atonement.
- Would Hurt a Child: She knowingly tries to have children damn their souls to Hell to get at her ex-teacher. This is the one thing that Shouko Baba admits she can NEVER forgive Mami for.
Tetsuya Yoshioka
Tetsuya Yoshioka
Voiced by: Takashi Kondo
Yui Aihara's to-be husband.- Bystander Syndrome: He was too afraid to intervene in Kogure beating Yui's father to death and stood by watching in fear. He regrets it deeply to this day.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He was a loner in a clique of corporate men that would go out drinking with one another. When one of these men, Kazuomi Kogure, beat a man to near-death in a drunken rage, he could only watch in fear and unable to do anything. Eventually, one of the same men from the group, Suzumura, raped his sister and blackmailed her into silence; this led to her suicide. Afterward, Tetsuya sent him to Hell but derived no satisfaction from it and struggles to make peace with himself knowing people like Kogure are still walking free.
- Downer Ending: His would-be wife goes down the path of revenge and self-destruction despite him trying to stop her, thus depriving him of a happy life on top of being condemned to Hell.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: He sent Suzumura to Hell after he raped his sister and caused her to hang herself.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Like Akihiro Naowa, he is a good man secretly complicit in the murder of an evil bastard that is related to his would-be wife.
Akihiro Naowa
Akihiro Naowa
Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita
A reserved man unliked by his peers at work. He evidently hides a dark secret.- Big Brother Instinct: His close friend and co-worker, Nakajima, was a pedophile creeping on a child he befriended, Kaya, taking provocative footage of her to distribute online. Although he claimed he wasn't going to do anything to her himself per se, Naowa understandably couldn't stand for it and sent him to Hell.
- Friend to All Children: All he is is a nice guy that likes to make kids happy.
- Mistaken for Pedophile: He loves kids, which his co-workers assume must be because he's a pedophile. Unlike Nakajima, he's not - and finds a lover in a woman around his age (27).
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In a moment of emotional weakness, he confesses to his lover, Miyajima, about his whole story. Unfortunately, he finds out at that moment she only to got into a relationship with him to confirm his murder of her husband, Nakajima. She then sends him to Hell with no hesitation.
- "Not So Different" Remark: When he confronted Nakajima about evidence of pedophilia against Kaya, the man assumed they were the same and he has no right to judge him. Enraged by this, he sent him to Hell.
Tomohide Matsuda
Tomohide Matsuda
Voiced by: Junji Majima
A very troubled bully specifically tormenting a student named Fumio Mizuhara.- Abusive Parents: His father was a violent abuser. He sent him to Hell for it, but the grief of doing so has severely taken its toll on him.
- Alas, Poor Villain: He invokes his own death, goading Fumio to send him to Hell but not without warning him he will never be able to live without the shame or be able to improve his life. The whole situation is treated as tragic self-projecting of his self-loathing and, on the way to Hell, he apologizes to his little sister he won't be coming back.
- Berserk Button: He is enraged by how Fumio takes the gifts he receives from his parents for granted because he's rich.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the atypical bully Hate Sink in this series. While Naowa is a despicable sociopathic bully, the audience learns that behind the thuggery, he has a life, loved ones, and reasons for being that way. His death is even treated as a tragedy than satisfying, illustrating how wrong it is to ever send anyone to Hell, no matter who they may be.
- Death Seeker: Upon seeing Fumio pull out the straw doll, he claims he is just like him and snaps, impulsively goading him into sending him to Hell until he succeeds.
- Driven by Envy: Being from a poor household he has to solely support with an ill mother and kid sister, he is deeply envious and resentful of Fumio's wealthy carefree life.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He is poignantly humanized by how much he loves his remaining family, namely his litle sister Suzumi.
- Sorry That I'm Dying: He apologizes to Suzumi that he won't be coming back on the boat ride to Hell.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: He sent his father to Hell but can only feel despair and anger since.
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Mayumi Hashimoto
Mayumi Hashimoto
TV Drama
Voiced by: Kana Ueda (Japanese), Laura Bailey (English)
A meek schoolgirl being tormented by a delinquent bully.- Adaptation Name Change: Mari Shimizu (manga), Yu Miyazaki (TV series).
- Adults Are Useless: As a result of Aya blackmailing her, she doesn't open up to any adult, meaning her own mother even distrusts Mayumi for her distant nature.
- Age Lift: She is a high schooler in the manga and TV drama. In the latter, she's also set to soon graduate.
- Break the Cutie: Her whole situation, but she notably breaks down despondently in tears when Aya forces her into the red alley district.
- Class Representative: Of her homeroom, which is why Aya targets her, as she's entrusted with the money for the classroom's needs.
- Deal with the Devil: Notably Ai's first on-screen client in the series.
- Girlish Pigtails: She has them, but we see her with her hair down twice.
Aya Kuroda
TV Drama
Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese), Luci Christian (English)
The savage Alpha Bitch extorting Mayumi through Blackmail.- Adaptation Dye-Job: From brown to black hair in the TV drama.
- Adaptation Name Change: Satsuki Hayase (manga), Rina Endou (TV series).
- Adaptational Nice Guy: A superficial example. In the manga, she is more Faux Affably Evil and less overtly cruel.
- Adaptational Jerkass: As awful as she is already, she is comically more vile in the TV drama, bordering on Flanderization.
- Age Lift: With Mayumi in the other adaptations.
- Alpha Bitch: A classic example of a vicious bullying bitch complete with the posse.
- Asshole Victim: She might just be a middle-schooler (which she feebly points out to her undead tormentors), but she's so relentlessly and comically vile she arguably deserved her fate. The same applies to her posse, illusions of which appear in her Afterlife Antechamber.
- Dirty Coward: Unsurprisingly revealed to be this at her very core during the pre-banishment torment.
- Evil Is Petty: Her whole modus operandi. Taken to extremes in the TV drama because her main motivation to ruin Mayumi’s reputation stems from her desire to go into the same university Mayumi applied to, but deemed her unworthy of attending over her poor background.
- Hate Sink: As if to kickstart the series off without delving too much into the morally complex themes that would appear later, Aya is made out to have no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
- Never My Fault: She’s got the sheer audacity to claim towards Ai's companion that she did nothing wrong and everything that happened to Mayumi is just a harmless prank. Even when Mayumi calls her out on stealing the class’ money as they’re witnessing the theft reenacted, Aya still refuses to deny her wrongdoing. Unsurprisingly, this sealed her fate towards damnation.
- Starter Villain: The first on-screen victim of the Hell Correspondence in the anime. Her counterparts are this in their respective adaptations.
- Oh, Crap!: Her face screams this during the boat ride, after finally realizing that she is really going to Hell and there is no escaping it.
- Teens Are Monsters: She definitely would have gone on to become a genuine criminal had she lived.
Mayumi’s Posse
Voiced by: Caitlin Glass and Trina Nishimura (English)
Exactly What It Says on the Tin- Asshole Victim: Just like Mayumi, they’ve earned Hell.
- Beta Bitch: The Beta to Mayumi’s Alpha.
- Those Two Girls: Have no characterization beyond being Mayumi’s fellow bullies.
Ryōko Takamura
Ryōko Takamura
Voiced by: Ai Shimizu (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)
A beautiful high school girl that's been victimized by an extremely disturbing stalker for over a year.- Big "NO!": Screams one of these after her stalker texts her just after she leaves the police station.
- Break the Cutie: Already done, but made worse. She’s stalked 24/7 and the police have done nothing to help. She later sees her father seemingly killed and she is kidnapped by the perpetrator Kisaragi.
- Ironic Hell: To give her a fair understanding of what she is in for, through Ai, Ryōko gets a vivid vision of what awaits her in Hell, being molested by her fellow damned in unbearable agony for all eternity. Considering she is being stalked for her good looks...
- Nervous Wreck: She's a stuttering and anxious wreck 24/7, which is understandable due to being stalked for over a year.
- Sadistic Choice: Is given one near the end. Either Kisaragi kills her, or she pulls the string, saving herself at the cost of going to Hell at the end of her life.
- Was It Really Worth It?: Ryōko is living a happy life after her crisis is resolved, but she laments and fears the fact she will go to Hell, contemplating on it by the credits roll.
Detective Kisaragi
Voiced by: Kazuya Ichijō (Japanese), Sean Hennigan (English)
A middle-aged detective that's been assigned to Takamura's stalker case for a while now with no results.- Asshole Victim: Stalks an innocent high school girl to the point of harassing her family and attempts to kill her when she rejects his advances in front and almost kills her father as well prior.
- Ax-Crazy: Kisaragi is quite a step above Starter Villain Aya Kuroda in that he's completely fucking insane and murderous.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Outwardly an affable hard-working detective but is actually a deranged stalker.
- Dirty Old Man: He's a middle-aged Ephebophile obsessed with a high school girl to horrifying extremes.
- Frame-Up: Makes a feeble attempt at doing this with his rookie partner to cover his ass. When that fails in short order, he simply kills him.
- If I Can't Have You…: Decides Ryōko should just die if she is going to reject him.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: Kills his nosy partner and almost kills Ryōko's father so he can have his way with her.
- Last-Name Basis: His first name is never given.
- Love Makes You Evil: Cites this as the reason he's insane.
- Madness Mantra: "Little lost, little kitty cat?"
- Never My Fault: When asked if he would like to repent by Ai's team, he goes on a furious tirade, shifting all blame towards Ryōko for refusing to love him back.
- Stupid Evil: It doesn't take much for all parties to discover he's the stalker since he, you know, assigned himself to his own case just to see his victim more often. His attempt at framing his own partner is also stupid as well and does him no favors.
- Would Hurt a Child: Besides the stalking, he eventually tries to kill Ryōko when she rejects his advances upfront.
Daisuke Iwashita
Daisuke Iwashita
Daisuke Iwashita (left) and his best friend Shinichi Muroi (right)
Voiced by: Wataru Hatano (Japanese), Kevin M. Connolly (English)
A high school student and aspiring baseball pro. He and his best friend Muroi endure physical abuse from rising star player Mamoru Hanagasa behind the scenes.- Abusive Parents: Iwashita's father lays him out when he tries to claim he wasn't who killed Muroi at his funeral.
- Break the Cutie: Self-evident.
- The Chew Toy: A very dark example. Iwashita and Muroi take horrendous physical abuse at the hands of Hanagasa just so they can keep playing on a team for nationals. It leads to Muroi's death from internal trauma, which Iwashita is framed for due to lying about Hanagasa's involvement.
- Frame-Up: Due to the fact Iwashita was always making up a cover story for Muroi's terrible condition, it's not difficult for Hanagasa to fabricate evidence against him.
- Hated by All: After Muroi dies, he is reviled by all, including his parents. Undone after Hanagasa is sent to Hell and Iwashita is able to reliably testify against him, though his reputation is still so badly damaged that he has to move away.
- Meaningful Name: His surname Iwashita: "rock" (岩) (iwa) and "under, below" (下) (shita). Put together can it be be inferred as hitting rock bottom, which is apt for his situation.
- Nephewism: By the end of his episode, he’s going to be living with his Aunt to restart.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Instead of going to report Hanagasa’s behaviour to an authority figure, he lies to Muroi’s mother about what happened.
- No Sympathy: On the receiving end of this trope. No one allows him to explain his side of the story.
- The Smurfette Principle: Inverted. While he isn’t the only male client, he’s the only one prior to Hajime’s introduction to the story.
- Tragic Dream: All Iwashita and especially Muroi wanted to do was play baseball at a high level, regardless of not being successful.
Mamoru Hanagasa
Voiced by: Noriaki Sugiyama (Japanese), Justin Cook (English)
A model student and rising baseball star. His fame and good looks hide a very nasty side of abuse towards other students.- The Ace: A villainous example. His talent is the real deal, which he uses to justify that he can do whatever he likes.
- Ambition Is Evil: Part of the reason he beat up Muroi was so that an injured teammate would get his team out of an upcoming tournament, leaving him well-rested when the professional scouts come along.
- Asshole Victim: He really had Hell coming, to say the least. Notably, Hanagasa was even given a chance to repent by Iwashita one last time before he pulled the string, to which he brushed off callously.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Outwardly The Ace, a Chick Magnet, and likable guy. Beneath that is a murderous, sociopathic narcissist.
- Broken Pedestal: By the end of the episode, his crimes are exposed and everyone refuse to associate with him.
- Chick Magnet: Hanagasa is often wooed on or surrounded by fangirls.
- Crocodile Tears: He has the gall to shed these at the funeral of someone he murdered.
- Entitled Bastard: In contrast to Aya and Kisaragi, he openly admits to what he did to Ai's team and Iwashita, believing his fame makes him untouchable. He's proven deathly wrong.
- Eviler than Thou: To Aya, the initial school kid victim of the Hell Correspondence. While she was bad enough already, Hanagasa is a total sociopath and killer despite not being far off in age to her.
- For the Evulz: There's no rationalizing why he physically torments Muroi and Iwashita than this, and he even admits as much. After Muroi dies, it becomes worse when he uses his death to extort money from Iwashita's parents after framing him.
- Hate Sink: Made out to be as hateable as possible, surpassing even Aya. Hanagasa is a narcissistic bully that incidentally murdered a boy after beating him one too many times, shows absolutely no remorse for it, and is even exploitative of the situation.
- I Regret Nothing: When asked to repent multiple times, he unashamedly admits he has no reason to and regrets absolutely nothing.
- Ironic Hell: Boy howdy. First, he's made to suffer in an illusion where he is failing an important match, and his prized dominant arm also turns to stone and crumbles to dust. When he's being rowed to hell, apparitions of Muroi appear to condemn him.
- It's All About Me: In spades. Just watch his Ironic Hell.
- Jerkass: How else do you explain killing a junior player and framing another for no reason?
- Lack of Empathy: If it wasn't obvious enough, he proves to be fundamentally incapable of empathy when profoundly begged by Iwashita to apologize for everything he's done.
- Narcissist: To an absolute t. He's obsessed with himself and brags about it constantly to Iwashita and Muroi.
- The Sociopath: A cold-blooded, exploitative narcissist that shows absolutely no remorse for even murder. And he's just a teenager.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Everyone trusts and loves Hanagasa, which makes it nigh impossible for Iwashita to testify the truth against him. After he disappears, it's pretty easy to line up the evidence against him, and he's posthumously reviled and wanted as a missing fugitive.
Junko Kanno
Junko Kanno
Voiced by: Satomi Arai (Japanese), Leah Clark (English)
A young girl who lost her parents early on in her life. Her Living Emotional Crutch, a dog named Candy, dies to the neglect of an abusive veterinarian.- Fire and Brimstone Hell: When Ai shows her what awaits her after death should she go through with their deal, Junko is shown to be literally burning in hellfire for all eternity.
- Parental Abandonment: Her parents died in an accident, leaving her with just Candy, whom she also loses...
- Please, Don't Leave Me: Profusely begs Candy to not die in her last moments.
- Revenge Before Reason: Unlike the previous clients, Junko's life is not at all endangered by the continued existence of Honjou. She simply cannot forgive him and is purely driven by wrath, making this a Fatal Flaw in and of itself.
Yoshiyuki Honjou
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Vic Mignogna (English)
A neglectful veterinarian that's responsible for many pet deaths, most recently Junko's precious Candy.- Asshole Victim: He's a pet vet that admits he's Only in It for the Money and doesn't give a shit about the animals he's supposed to take care of.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: In a neglectful sense. Despite being a veterinarian, he half-asses his job if he's not ignoring it altogether. In this case, he let Junko's dog die so that he could go golfing with a rich client and it's implied he does this regularly.
- Hate Sink: Specifically one for animal lovers, knowing people like Honjou very well commonly exist in real life.
- Ironic Hell: Hone Onna causes his car to crash, breaking his leg. Ren and Wanyuudo subsequently haul him off to an illusionary hospital, where he's trapped in a cage and his pleading for medical aid goes on deaf ears just like how he ignored the pets he was responsible for. When he's being rowed off to hell, he is swarmed by apparitions of dead dogs and cats that beg him for help.
- Ironic Name: The initials of Yoshiyuki: "righteous" (義) (yoshi). He's anything but good.
- Jerkass Has a Point: A very mild one. While his feeble rationalization he's not the only person not to care about the animals he's responsible for doesn't make him sympathetic in any way, he does have a point he's being singled out solely for revenge than justice.
- Only in It for the Money: Why he takes a job he's clearly not interested in. He makes cash by doing little to nothing because of the fame of the hospital his clinic is attached to.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: The hospital he's attached to is very influential, making it difficult to testify against him. He happily brags about this to Junko when she confronts him, also adding animals can't speak to testify either.
Masami Sekimoto
Voiced by: Ryōka Yuzuki (Japanese) and Tiffany Grant (English)
- My God, What Have I Done?: Sat idly by when numerous animals died and was willing to help Junko with the issue.
Misato Tamura/Urano
Misato Tamura
Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese), Didi Duron (English)
A computer wiz whose talents are being exploited by a Corrupt Corporate Executive.- Blackmail: She's being extorted by Riho into serving her needs because she was caught shoplifting by her. The truth, however, is she feigned shoplifting to get involved with her company, knowing Riho would exploit her as she did her dad.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Unlike the previous four clients, it doesn’t appear she goes to school. And in the end, she doesn’t seem to regret sending Riho to Hell, in contrast to the others, whom relieved that their problem is over, are showing some level of regret.
- Extreme Doormat: Subverted. She acts this way to avoid suspicion from Riho in regards to her motives.
- Face–Heel Turn: Heavily implied. She gains control of Riho's assets after she goes to hell, and after contemplating on her eventual fate, takes her twisted philosophy to heart.
- Jumped at the Call: She has absolutely no hesitation in pulling the string on Riho, doing it the moment Ai hands the doll to her.
- The Mole: She's infiltrated Riho's corporation solely to find evidence of her being culpable in her father's death.
- Psychotic Smirk: In the end, when she decides will live a hedonistic life to the fullest as if it were a game, just like Riho.
- You Killed My Father: Her father is dead because Riho murdered him after he outlived his usefulness. Misato makes sure Riho knows this when she confronts her.
Riho Kaifu
Voiced by: Michiko Neya (Japanese), Lydia Mackay (English)
The ironically computer illiterate CEO of Deadline, a successful tech corporation.- Above Good and Evil: She has cast aside common morality in the pursuit of her hedonistic lifestyle, stating it doesn't matter what she has to do if she can live the high life.
- Asshole Victim: Slightly more sympathetic than the first four antagonists, but not by much. She proves to be a vile woman who will use and dispose of anyone she sees fit.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Where to even begin? Her company's success is founded off the talents of anyone but her, and she murders anyone to get ahead in business.
- The Corrupter: Her philosophy on life takes its roots in Misato, especially when she realizes she is condemned to hell with her.
- Does Not Like Men: She really doesn't like men and made sure to get rid of pretty much every man within her company.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: She attempts to make use of the Hell Correspondence with Misato as a proxy to take care of potential rivals. This leads to the Hell crew to launch an investigation to figure out what is actually going on. In the end, Riho herself ends up on the receiving end of the very thing she tried to abuse.
- The Hedonist: Self-admitted. She tells Misato she knows she is going to hell for her crimes and has decided to indulge in excess to the fullest with the decades she believes she has left.
- Her Own Worst Enemy: What Ai's punishment reveals is Riho's worst fears lie in self-loathing and fear for what she's become.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: She freely admits she'll commit murder any time to get ahead in life, claiming it feels like nothing after the first few times.
- Near-Villain Victory: Riho had Misato Outgambitted the moment she met her. She was a hair off murdering her as well had it not been for a nearby PC to reach out for the Hell Correspondence.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Riho might be computer illiterate and seem like a ditzy bum, but she is ruthlessly competent in running her company and proves to be incredibly shrewd.
- Start of Darkness: Riho was once a part of a trio of friends that wanted to start a tech corp, but she felt left out as she was computer illiterate and relegated to shopping. After catching her boyfriend cheating on her with the other friend, she bludgeoned him to death with her shopping bag in a fit of rage. Riho subsequently snapped, killing his other lover and declaring she'll live life in the most hedonistic way possible until she goes to hell for her crimes.
- Straw Nihilist: She believes life fundamentally has no meaning other than enjoying yourself in excess after getting ahead.
- The Sociopath: A hedonistic mass murderer that only views other people as tools to be disposed of when they outlive their usefulness.
Haruka Yasuda
Keiko Yasuda
Voiced by: Miki Itō (Japanese), Gwendolyn Lau (English)
The mother of Haruka Yasuda and the central focus of her daughter's case. Keiko is a simple housewife who accidentally saw something she shouldn't have, and is now the victim of horrific slander and abuse.- Break the Cutie: The sheer pain Namiko unleashes on Keiko has driven her to a state of perpetual misery and paranoia.
- Cycle of Revenge: After Namiko is banished to Hell, Keiko is ironically implied to become as bad as her, tormenting the former's child, Yuria, with Namiko's posse over her now broken down family. Yuria's resentment at the humiliation is made very clear, and the events that drove Haruka to avenge her mother may repeat itself with her.
- Domestic Abuse: Keiko is clearly in an unhappy marriage with a workaholic husband, which is exacerbated by Namiko trying to ruin his career and frame her. He eventually slaps her hard in the midst of a fierce argument.
- Driven to Suicide: After being raped by the thug Namiko sends to her home, she attempts to overdose herself on medication but survives.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: She sports these from the suffering she has endured at Namiko's hands.
- No Sympathy: An egregious example. With the exception of Haruka herself, no one listens to Keiko and think she’s the one committing adultery, never mind that she’s clearly not in the right state of mind.
- Parental Neglect: With the stress she's under, she is very neglectful of Haruka, occasionally lashing out at her in paranoid fits.
- Rape as Drama: In an escalation of tensions, Namiko sends a gangster to rape her, then uses photos of it as Blackmail.
- She Knows Too Much: At least, Namiko believes so. It’s not clear if Keiko actually thought Namiko was cheating or not.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Implied. The episode ends with her in a much better state, but is mocking Yuria during their conversation and is seen with Namiko’s friends.
Haruka Yasuda
Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese), Kelley Johnson (English)
A troubled schoolgirl who is a victim by proxy of her mother inexplicably being the target of a vicious neighbor.- Bifauxnen: She is very boyish looking.
- Break the Cutie: She is forced to endure bullying by proxy of her mother's abuse, watch her mom descend into paranoid madness, and her family begins to fall apart. She recovers by the end, but because she sold her soul for it, not completely.
- Everyone Has Standards: Despite the hell the Todaka family has put her through, she is visibly concerned of her mother bullying Yuria after Namiko is gone.
- Harmful to Minors: When Ai shows Haruka the full extent of Namiko's abuse on her mother, she has to watch her be raped, which brings her to tears.
- Meaningful Name: Twofold. Haruka means "distant, remote" (遥), fitting for her aloof and reserved personality. The initials of her surname Yasuda means "peace, quiet" (安) (yasu), which are things she definitely desires.
- Shower of Angst: In the epilogue, when contemplating on her choice to use the Hell Correspondence.
- Sympathy for the Devil: As mentioned above, Haruka is shown concerned for Yuria being bullied for her actions, despite the hell she gave to her.
- Was It Really Worth It?: Of all the clients up to this point, she contemplates the deepest on this, being burdened with great doubt and being uncertain of whether she'll truly live a happy life.
Namiko Todaka
Voiced by: Emi Shinohara (Japanese), Wendy Powell (English)
A cruel woman influential in her neighborhood. Feared as someone to never be crossed, Keiko Yasuda has drawn her ire for reasons her daughter doesn't know.- Asshole Victim: Notably, when she's banished to Hell, no one seems to particularly care.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: To her husband and daughter, she’s a loving and faithful wife and mother (though the latter part isn’t entirely untrue). When they’re not looking, she’s sleeping with numerous other men. When the truth is exposed, Yuria is NOT happy. We don’t see her husband’s reaction, but he’s evidently just as upset.
- Death Glare: Gives a bone-chilling one to Keiko when she accidentally sees her committing adultery.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Her reason for ruining Keiko's life is because she caught a glimpse of her committing adultery, something she probably didn't even know.
- The Dreaded: Namiko is feared as someone in the neighborhood to never be crossed, with some claiming it's all over for someone if they draw her ire.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Deep down, Namiko does genuinely love her daughter Yuria; when an apparition of Yuria during her punishment shows immense shame at her adultery, Namiko breaks down sobbing and begging for forgiveness.
- Hate Sink: She's a gold-digging, promiscuous bitch with almost no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and the pain she inflicts on the Yasuda family is very emphasized.
- Her Own Worst Enemy: It's revealed in her punishment that Namiko, while vile, is simply not in the right state of mind, and that her worst traits and vindictive habits are manifestations of extraordinary self-loathing and shame at herself.
- Ironic Hell: It doesn't get more literal than a habitual cheater and sex addict getting sent to Hell in a state of unbearable and insatiable lust, which Ai. While being rowed off, Namiko is also shown to be intoxicated in a lewd fantasy, unaware of what's really going on as Ai tells her she's well-suited to Hell.
- Laughing Mad: While being rowed off to Hell, she's evidently trapped in some lewd delusion and can only laugh madly, showing no apprehension or even awareness of her impending fate.
- Lust: She is literally characterized by this sin by Ai, with her insatiable desire for sex and treachery. Appropriately, she is consigned to the literally named second circle of Hell: Lust.
- Really Gets Around: Ai reveals she has slept with dozens of men.
- Unknown Rival: In a way. She knows about Haruka, but she never interacts with her on-screen, making her one of the few targets whom never talks with the client.
- Would Hurt a Child: After the gangster she sent to rape Keiko was done with her, Namiko snaps pictures of the aftermath and threatens with doing the same to the former's daughter, Haruka, if she dared to speak about it. However, had Haruka not called upon Ai and Namiko actually went through, she would've likely dealt with prosecution, given the former is a minor.
Hideo Yasuda
Voiced by: Atsushi Imaruoka (Japanese), Brian Mathis (English)
Keiko’s husband and Haruka’s father.- Can't Take Criticism: Keiko tries to call him out for this.
- Domestic Abuse: When Keiko is clearly struggling, he refuses to try and help her. And even before Namiko went to ruin their lives, it wasn’t a happy marriage.
- Hate Sink: He’s a massive prick that manages to be a terrible husband and father, refusing to stand up for either his wife or daughter, practically ignoring the existence of the latter.
- Jerkass: He’s a terrible husband and refuses to listen to his wife.
- Karma Houdini: We never see him suffer the consequences of the way he treated Keiko. He didn't want to listen to her explanations about Namiko committing adultery and then setting her up to turn him and the neighborhood against her.
- Not Now, Kiddo: Not directed at Haruka so much as his wife as he shuts down whatever she has to say.
- Parental Neglect: While he isn’t abusive towards his daughter, he doesn’t try to help her out and pretty much ignores her presence.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Vanishes completely in the epilogue, nowhere to be seen.
- Would Hit a Girl: His last scene in the episode has him slap Keiko.
Yuria Todaka
Voiced by: Megumi Nasu (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English)
Namiko’s daughter whom harasses Haruka for her family problem.- Alpha Bitch: In fact, Namiko wanted her to be one.
- Birthday Episode: She has her birthday celebrated at the midway point.
- Break the Haughty: After harassing Haruka for so long, she is the butt of the joke at the end and even has her sentiment thrown back at her.
- Daddy's Girl: She deeply loves her father.
- Foil: A pretty clear one to Haruka herself. Haruka comes from an ordinary household with her unloving parents while Yuria from a rich family with loving parents. Or so it seems in Yuria’s case.
- Girl Posse: She is often accompanied by two other girls in bullying Haruka. However, after her mother's affair has become public, it's implied said posse has turned on her.
- Girlish Pigtails: In contrast to Haruka’s Boyish Short Hair.
Ryuji Todaka
Voiced by: Bon Ishihara (Japanese), Ed Blaylock (English)
Namiko’s husband, Yuria’s father, and Hideo’s boss.- Good Parents: If there’s a positive thing about him, he’s a loving father towards Yuria.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Save for a mention in the epilogue, he is nowhere to be seen.
Ayaka Kurenai, Kaoruko Kurushima
Ayaka Kurenai
Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)
A promising theater actress that has grown weary of her overbearing adoptive mother. Very weary.- Ambition Is Evil: Her whole life has been driven by a relentless pursuit of fame and fortune.
- Bait the Dog: When the episode starts, the viewer is treated to Ayaka stumbling on stage and being repeatedly berated harshly by her mother. With the way Midori is shown to be abusive, we're led to believe Ayaka is a victim of some form of extreme parental abuse. Unlike with previous episodes, she's anything but a victim despite being a client of the Hell Correspondence.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: As an actress, she is a master at hiding her true malicious self. Unfortunately for her, the only person that sees right through it is her own mother, who condemns her for the act.
- Crippling the Competition: She gets her thuggish posse to force-feed her stage rival Kaoruki a dangerous tonic, rendering her mute.
- Disproportionate Retribution: She enters Midori's name into the Hell Correspondence for her simply being too strict on her. The fact her irrational hatred is genuine enough for her to successfully put in a request causes Ai's team to immediately be suspicious over her personality.
- Face Death with Dignity: About the only good thing that can be said about her is she takes her fate in stride while being rowed off, being silently grateful when Ai admits her last "performance" as an actress was spectacular.
- Foreshadowing: In the On the Next preview, the narratornote sighs at the end instead of saying the On The Next Episode Of Catchphrase.
- Greed: She is defined by an insatiable lust for money and fame. The whole reason she sticks around under Midori is to inherit her fortune.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She is intensely resentful and jealous of Kaoruko taking away her mother's attention, which culminates in her rendering her mute through poisoning.
- Her Own Worst Enemy: Literally in this case. Ayaka's punishment is being confronted by Ai's team over her outwardly lying face and another face that represents her "true self" of an irritable, greedy wretch. After explaining her resolve of always changing a narrative to suit her needs, Hone wonders if even those faces represent who she is, or if there's even anything in there that does.
- Informed Ability: She is constantly vouched for as a Master Actor by Midori - and her talents are seen as genuine by her peers, but throughout the episode, her grand deception against Midori is very unconvincing to the viewer.
- Jerkass: Under her cutesy facade, she is an extremely vulgar and irritable sociopath.
- Large Ham: Downplayed. She comes across as a bit hammy when expressing affection for Midori and protectiveness toward Kaoruko. While nobody else picks up on it, it's just enough of a tell for Midori to see right through her.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Kaoruko herself enters the Hell Correspondence for her head after Ayaka arranges her poisoning.
- Lost in Character: Hone Onna speculates that, at her core, Ayaka has no identity or true self beyond her constant deceptions.
- Master Actor: Midori says she saw Ayaka's talents right away and adopted her from an orphanage for this reason. This is owed to her whole life being one of lying and lying to get by.
- See You in Hell: She says this word for word in the dub when she goes to pull the thread.
- Too Dumb to Live: The gist of her plan to render Kaoruko mute so she can take her place can only really be explained by her being an impulsive sociopath. Somehow, she's baffled by her mother immediately deducing her role there, despite the convenient timing and no one else benefiting from Kaoruko’s absence. This ruins her career and her life when Midori disowns her. Second, despite being a client, she doesn't consider ruining her life and implicating herself casually would make Kaoruko seek vengeance against Ayaka through the same Hell Correspondence.
- Two-Faced: During her punishment game, a second demonic-looking face appears behind her head, which represents who she is beneath the surface.
- The Sociopath: Is noted by Hone to be borderline soulless. This was even hinted at by Midori's criticism of her stage performances, stating Ayaka lacks genuine passion or emotion in her acting. Turns out she's just incapable of both.
- Villain Protagonist: The seventh episode is mostly from her point of view, and she is the first client of the Hell Correspondence to be evil.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: She constantly seeks Midori's approval, albeit so she can quickly prove capable enough to inherit her estate.
- You Are Too Late: After being disowned, she rushes to untie the doll and send her mother to Hell. Unfortunately for her, Ai explains her contract is now void since Kaoruko pulled a string on her moments before.
Kaoruko Kurushima
Voiced by: Marina Inoue (Japanese), Kimberly Whalen (English)
Another promising theater actress that Midori Kurenai seems to prefer over her adoptive daughter.- Beware the Nice Ones: Kaoruko is genuinely a sweet girl, but once Ayaka ruins her life, she wastes little time in sending her to hell.
- Break the Cutie: She gets tortured and rendered mute by Ayaka and her cronies, ruining her life.
- Girlish Pigtails: She typically wears her hair like this, emphasizing her sweet and innocent nature.
- Downer Ending: Her life as an actress is either over or severely stunted by her being rendered mute. She's also condemned to Hell for sending Ayaka there, and she's last seen lying on a bed in a dark room looking crushed. She’s noticeably the first client who gets this type of ending rather than a Bittersweet Ending, something that will become prominent later.
Midori Kurenai
Voiced by: Kumiko Takizawa (Japanese), Sheridan Wright (English)
Ayaka's adoptive mother. A renowned ballet dancer, actress and teacher, she is seemingly at odds with her daughter over her harsh teaching methods.- Abusive Parents: While Ayaka was pretty much a bad seed from the start, from what we see of Midori, she is extremely harsh and distant with her adoptive daughter.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Midori suspects Ayaka of wrongdoing from the very beginning and demands throughout the episode that she drop the pitiful act. When Ayaka finally does, the resulting Motive Rant described below leaves Midori heartbroken.
- I Have No Daughter!: She disowns Ayaka after discovering her poisoning of Kaoruki.
- Master Actor: A retired one, which gives her the insight to know when Ayaka is pulling a fast one on her.
- Pet the Dog: Even after disowning her, Midori decides to recommend Ayaka to another troupe to start over and wishes her the best.
- Retirony: Averted, though she came close to this unknowingly. She planned to retire after the production, and Ayaka nearly sent her to hell before she could.
- Stern Teacher: She is very harsh in her teaching methods without being physically abusive.
Chie Tanuma
Chie Tanuma
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Voiced by: Yuki Matsuoka (Japanese), Elise Baughman (English)
The best friend of Yuuko Kido, who was pushed off a balcony and put into a coma by her bastard boyfriend.- Good Is Not Soft: She is much tougher and more assertive than Yuuko was implied to be, making it impossible for Goro to manipulate her.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She admits to a comatose Yuuko she always had feelings for Goro but only wanted her best friend to be happy.
Goro Ishizu
Voiced by: Show Hayami (Japanese), Charles Baker (English)
A white-collar criminal who attempted to murder his girlfriend when she pleaded with him to turn a new leaf.- Domestic Abuse: He pushed his girlfriend off a balcony for her daring to try to tell him to do good and return his stolen money. Made worse by the fact she declared having no intention of turning him over to the police.
- Hate Sink: He proves himself to be a vile hateful man who badly injured his girlfriend just because she wanted him to change.
- Ironic Hell: He is damned to be tormented by the vengeful souls of betrayed women in Hell.
- Stealing from the Till: He does this from the burger shop he currently manages.
- Would Hit a Girl: He's a sleazy white-collar criminal that nearly murdered his girlfriend. He also the gall to try to exploit Chie's feelings for him to get her to calm down, and when that fails, tries to strangle her to death.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: His character is substantially less fleshed out than the previous victims, likely as a hangover of his story running concurrently with the introductions of major supporting characters Hajime and Tsugumi Shibata.
Yuka Kasuga
Yuka Kasuga
Voiced by: Rina Sato (Japanese), Trina Nishimura (English)
A baker girl who, with her sister Hiromi, wanted to open their own bakery until their work is plagiarized by a failing chef.- Anachronic Order: Yuka is the second client in the manga.
- Boyish Short Hair: She has short hair to compliment her tomboyish personality compared to her long haired sister.
- Big Sister Worship: Idolizes Hiromi, which is why she absolutely cannot forgive what Shinya has done.
- Hot-Blooded: Compared to her demure sister, she is outgoing and assertive.
- Identical Stranger: While they don’t interact given this is an anthology series, she heavily resembles Haruka from the sixth episode.
- Tragic Dream: The Kasuga family's dreams of opening a bakery are crushed by Shinya's actions. Even in the epilogue, they're not out of their rut yet, and can only remain optimistic for the future.
- Supreme Chef: Hiromi and Yuka collectively form a duo of amazing bakers.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Haruka from the sixth episode. Similar appearances aside, both end up involved in the case when the life of a family member is endangered.
Shinya Morisaki
Voiced by: Kouji Ishii (Japanese), Douglas Burks (English)
An acquaintance of the Kasuga family. He is a failing chef who has decided to take some heinous measures to revive his business...- Asshole Victim: He's a slimy plagiarist that's ruined the lives of two young women that trusted him like family. As if that's not evil enough, he goes out of his way to hurt them further in the hopes they'll turn to whores out of desperation so he himself can have his way with them. Hell is well deserved, to say the least.
- Dirty Old Man: He's a middle-aged man who has connections in the world of prostitution. Creepier yet, he wants the Kasugas to turn to whoring so he can have his way with them. During Ai's punishment, it's revealed how much he actually lusts after Hiromi in particular.
- Fallen Hero: The fact he's a good acquaintance of the Kasuga family and knew their deceased father well implies he was genuinely a better person than what we see now.
- Glory Hound: Revels in the limelight he gets from plagiarizing the Kasugas, and he'll sink to any low to keep his fame.
- Hate Sink: As described in Asshole Victim, he's the type of guy that is intended to only be wholly despised by the viewer.
- Insane Troll Logic: He makes some feeble rationalizations that border on this to avoid admitting fault when asked to repent, claiming he loved Hiromi and that she somehow betrayed him, making him do what he did.
- Ironic Hell: In his punishment, he is subjected to an illusion where he's on the precious red carpet he covets. He is given an opportunity to serve the recipe-stolen sweets to party guests, but the guests claim the food tastes horrible and throw the food at him, ironically causing him to take blame for sweets he didn't make, rather than credit for the same. He is then harassed by a sultry apparition of Hiromi, mirroring his intentions towards her, and he is trapped in a cake-batter taxi and then stuck as a gingerbread ornament on a cake, reflecting how he previously saw Yuka and Hiromi as ornaments to his own success.
- Kick the Dog: While it's bad enough to plagiarize someone's work already, he goes out of his way to ruin the Kasuga sister's lives in the hopes they turn to prostitution for his pleasure.
- Plagiarism in Fiction: He's stolen the recipes of the Kasuga sisters to revive his failing business.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Kisaragi of Ryoko’s case. Both are older men with a crush on much younger women. When their advances are rejected, they proceed to make the lives of their families miserable.
Minami Shibuya
Minami Shibuya
Voiced by: Sawa Ishige (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)
A Yandere schoolgirl that appears to be stalking her ex-best friend, Shiori Akasaka, when she wants nothing to do with her anymore.- Anti-Villain: Ultimately, despite her flaws, Minami is a weak-willed victim of a manipulative girl that used her and never loved her back.
- Bait-and-Switch: Throughout most of the episode, Minami is portrayed as overtly malicious and Shiori a poor victim of a stalker. In truth, Shiori is the worse of the two, but Minami is in an interesting twist not exactly a good person herself.
- Disproportionate Retribution: She garners enough malice to use the Hell Correspondence simply because Shiori is now ignoring her.
- Fatal Flaw: Her utter lack of spine and inability to move on from Shiori, despite knowing how bad she is, is pointed out as a legitimate flaw of hers by Ai near the climax.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She begins to show immense remorse over using the Hell Correspondence. At the end, even though Shiori is who forced her hand, she still feels guilt over letting the whole situation happen.
- Never My Fault: Even though she shows a level of guilt over Shiori going to Hell despite her hand being forced to pull the string, she denies it's really her fault. Ai, however, rebukes her in an uncharacteristic display of disappointment, stating Minami is definitely at fault for what led up to this and to learn to take responsibility.
- Together in Death: She hopes Shiori will genuinely be her friend in Hell.
- Yandere: Minami is dangerously obsessed with Shiori despite knowing she doesn't actually consider her a friend.
Shiori Akasaka
Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi (Japanese), Amber Cotton (English)
A popular girl who is being stalked by a Yandere ostensibly her former best friend.- Alas, Poor Villain: She's definitely a bad person, but she is considerably less wicked than the previous targets of the Hell Correspondence, especially compared to those around the same age group as her. Her being sent to Hell is almost entirely her own fault, and Minami grieves heavily for her death while Ai looks on in disappointment.
- Bait the Dog: Much of the episode is focused on her and framed as though she is a victim while Minami is the Villain Protagonist. Only around the end is it revealed Shiori is the worse of the two.
- Disproportionate Retribution: She attempts to goad Minami into sending their whole classroom to Hell because, ironically, she can't stand being used and ignored.
- False Friend: To Minami all the way.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: She forces Minami's hand into pulling Wanyuudo's string under the impression it would send their whole classroom to Hell, refusing to hear Minami's pleas for who it's really for.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Someone who uses anyone around her for convenience and ignores them when they no longer have any value is revealed to have been used by her whole classroom and never really liked.
- Magic A Is Magic A: She's the victim of this. She tries to force Minami to pull the thread in hopes of sending the people she doesn't like to Hell, only to find out the hard way that the doll only works on the designated vengeance target.
- Manipulative Bitch: Shiori is a deceptive girl who feigns friendship to others when it's convenient for her.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Unlike the previous victims, we don't actually see her punishment. The viewer, however, does actually hear her screaming and begging for Minami to help her from the other side as Hajime races to her location in vain.
- Sound-Only Death: Her Afterlife Antechamber is entirely offscreen, with her voice echoing out of it so that Minami can hear her last living moments.
Masaya Kataoka
Masaya Kataoka
Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (Japanese), Robert McCollum (English)
The son of an influential politician, who committed suicide after a false story about him was published by a crooked journalist.- Downer Ending: Unlike with many other clients, Kataoka's life does not take any turn for the better after Inagaki is sent to Hell. In fact, with no way to prosecute Inagaki anymore or suspicious implications left behind, Kataoka can never find justice for his family name anymore.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Kataoka is always in a state of perpetual bitterness and is prone to mood swings.
- Revenge Before Reason: Hajime implores him to not throw his life (and soul) away by killing Inagaki, as his disappearance would make getting legal justice for his family impossible. His suggestions go on deaf ears, and Kataoka sends Inagaki to Hell realizing he will have truly lost everything afterward.
- Sins of Our Fathers: Granted, his father didn't actually do anything wrong; the scandal story was fabricated by Inagaki. Regardless, it's ruined Kataoka's life and has him the subject of savage bullying.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: He rebukes Hajime's scolding of him after he sends Inagaki to Hell, stating if it had been his family, he would have understood his decisions.
Takashi Inagaki
Voiced by: Wataru Takagi (Japanese), Chuck Huber (English)
A corrupt journalist that fabricates stories against influential politicians after getting some dirt on them.- Adaptational Nice Guy: Seemingly played straight and later subverted with a vengeance in the TV drama. He's on brotherly terms with Hajime for most of the running time but this goes out the window when he callously reveals his role in Ayumi's death, whereupon his characterization shifts to that of his anime self.
- Ascended Extra: He went from a one-off character to a major supporting character in the TV drama. Also actually the Big Bad.
- And I Must Scream: Ai's punishment sees him ironically trapped in a news book, unable to properly scream to anyone for help. When he's dragged off to Hell, he is held down by the arms of Hell, one of which covers his mouth to stop his screaming.
- Asshole Victim: He's a callous, cruel journalist that ruins the lives of families solely to line up his pockets. Even Hajime, who was his former close friend, is disgusted by him.
- Badass Bookworm: He has a black belt in karate. When Kataoka comes at him with a broken bottle, Inagaki manhandles him effortlessly.
- Big Bad: Of the TV drama, being responsible for the other overarching antagonist's motives and Ayumi's death.
- Broken Pedestal: In the TV drama, Hajime looked up to Inagaki as a big brother. He's crushed when he realizes his role in his wife's death.
- The Cameo: Briefly returns in a flashback in Episode 22, making him one of the few non major supporting characters to reappear.
- Dirty Coward: In the TV drama, he wrote a false article incriminating the Sawazaki family under Hajime's name when he visited New York, fearing retaliation from the fallout. The unfortunate result was the patriarch murdering his wife in a murder-suicide, and her brother murdering Ayumi in revenge.
- Entitled Bastard: Justifies all the lives he’s ruined for the sake of making “good news”.
- Evil Counterpart: Well, eviler. Hajime is no saint, being a paparazzi that blackmails celebrities, but Inagaki not only has no morals, but goes on to destroy whole families with no remorse.
- Evil Former Friend: To Hajime, who is implied to have been once as bad as him but turned over a new leaf. Inagaki hates him for having grown "soft."
- Ironic Name: The name Takashi means "noble, prosperous" (隆) (taka) and "history" (史) (shi). He is an evil man that lives a prosperous life at the expense of lives he ruins by fabricating history.
- Jerkass: Unlike most of the other targets, he doesn't hide how much of an asshole he is.
- Jerkass Has a Point: He has an astoundingly accurate point when he tries to justify himself to Ai and company: he points out that most people watching the news don't care so much for any truth as much as sensationalist headlines or drama, and that all he's done is provide exactly that to them. It does not make him sympathetic, however.
- Karma Houdini: He infuriatingly receives no comeuppance in the TV drama besides being punched in the face by Hajime.
- Immoral Journalist: To a t.
- The Hedonist: He spends all his time out at nights drinking booze and being serviced by prostitutes.
Akane Sawai
Akane Sawai
Voiced by: Rie Tanaka (Japanese), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English)
A deeply troubled schoolgirl who has regressed into a Hikkikomori.- All of the Other Reindeer: She was always an outcast from her peers even when attending school.
- Broken Bird: Sawai feels trapped in a monotonous, torturous life where no one understands her and the people around her are cruel liars hiding behind facades.
- Driven to Suicide: By the end, she prays to Fukasawa to wait only "a little longer" for her, which heavily implies she doesn't intend to live her life for any longer.
- Hikkikomori: She has regressed to this from her depression.
- Straw Nihilist: Believes life no longer has any meaning.
- Teacher/Student Romance: When she realizes Fukasawa is actually the anonymous poster she's been texting to online in her isolation, she is clearly infatuated with him.
- Together in Death: She fully plans on being in Hell with Fukasawa.
Yoshiki Fukasawa
Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (Japanese), Chris Cason (English)
Sawai's homeroom teacher. Unlike just about every other target up to this point, Fukasawa is a truly kind man who has been desperately trying to reach out to his student in her absence from school.- Beneath the Mask: Outwardly a cheerful and hardworking teacher respected by his colleagues. This is a facade masking a depressed man who has close to no will left to live anymore.
- Didn't Think This Through: He actually makes Ai upset enough to somberly scold him on the recklessness of begging Sawai to send him to Hell. Firstly, he didn't consider he was leaving her all alone, and that he could have kept helping her out in life towards happiness. Secondly, he didn't consider the well-known consequence of her being damned to Hell with him. Ai is disgusted by how his self-loathing and desire to die overtook his judgment despite claiming to love Sawai.
- Driven to Suicide: He begs Sawai to end his life. She does.
- Fate Worse than Death: How he views living. Before his banishment, viewer is treated to a montage of his daily life, where he endures abuse from students and other teachers with a smile while suffering inside.
- Hell Seeker: Believes that he has nothing left to live for. He finally got his wish in the end.
- Infernal Paradise: As discussed with Ai and her grandmother, it is implied that he saw Hell as this.
- I Will Wait for You: He promises he will wait in the depths of Hell for Sawai.
- Ironic Hell: Subverted. Likely as a result of him not being evil at all, he doesn't go through any punishment game on-screen (nor is he even implied to have off) and simply wakes up in Hell. While being ferried off, he doesn't undergo any suffering either and merely has a calm conversation with a saddened Ai.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Ai lays him out that his desire to be sent to Hell caused Sawai having to condemn her own soul during the boatride, he is wracked with guilt.
- Peaceful in Death: He does make peace with himself when Ai shows him Sawai respects his decisions and intends on joining him in Hell.
- Stepford Smiler: His friendly facade hides a completely broken shell of a man.
- Teacher/Student Romance: Very much with Sawai after realizing their online identities.
Saki Kirino
Saki Kirino
Voiced by: Yuu Kobayashi (Japanese), Cherami Leigh (English)
A vengeful girl seeking revenge on a seemingly corrupt politician that apparently murdered her father.- Foil: Kirino draws great parallels to Kataoka and her crisis is a twisted inversion of his feud with Inagaki; both demanded vengeance on someone politically influential responsible for their father's deaths and they were also among the people who Hajime tried to talk down from vengeance. However, while Saki was more willing to listen to reason compared to Kataoka, a key difference between him and her is their targets; Inagaki was a bastard and had everything coming, whereas Ryouzo is almost unapologetically good and tried all he could to make peace with Kirino. Kirino sending him to Hell, knowing this and the consequences that would entail from his death, purely out of spite makes her a straight-up Villain Protagonist by the credits.
- Lack of Empathy: Her only empathy is with her late father. When she pulls the string on Ryouzo, she admits to not caring about everyone else that would suffer or die from his downfall.
- Revenge Before Reason: Hajime implores her to not go down this path and starts his own investigation into Ryouzo Kusunoki to prevent her from pulling the string on him. Even after the whole truth is uncovered and both Ryouzo and his son were willing to make peace, she decides to damn him to Hell, not caring for the consequences.
- You Killed My Father: She believes Ryouzo did this to hide some gang connections, although the truth is much different and more complicated.
- Villain Protagonist: Her banishing Ryouzo to Hell sends her straight into this territory.
Ryouzo Kusunoki
Voiced by: Masashi Hirose (Japanese), Bill Jenkins (English)
A beloved mayor whom Saki Kirino accuses of having murdered her father.- All-Loving Hero: He's a man that tried to root out any and all crime from the area he governs. Unfortunately, he had to realistically make some concessions to the local mob to keep the peace. He also manages a nursing home for eldery people with nowhere to go.
- Awful Truth: Kirino's father was a desperate man that discovered Ryouzo's dealings with the mob and tried to blackmail him over it for large sums of cash. Ryouzo simply chased him off, only to later discover some overzealous underling likely murdered him. He never forgave himself for it escalating to that.
- Corrupt Politician: Downplayed. He was forced to make concessions to the local mob but is otherwise a great man. One of his subordinates (heavily implied to be his son) is suggested to have murdered Kirino's father, and he deeply regrets this happening.
- Downer Ending: His death results in the closure of the nursing home and chaos in the neighborhood.
- Face Death with Dignity: When he's being ferried off to Hell, he only laments he could not make amends with Kirino.
- Foil: To Inagaki. Both were involved in the death of the client of the day’s father. Inagaki shamelessly ruined numerous lives, including Kataoka’s while Ryouzo tried to help those in need. Ryouzo was ashamed in his involvement with the death of Kirino’s father, while Inagaki was never ashamed in his involvement with Kataoka’s own.
- Meaningful Name: Ryouzo means "clear" (亮) (ryou) and "construction, create, make, structure, physique" (造) (zo). He is a man with a clean conscience that creates a stable community for the needy.
Yoshiyuki Kusunoki
Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (Japanese), Kyle Hebert (English)
Ryouzo's fiercely loyal son.- Ambiguous Situation: It is never officially clarified if he is the one who murdered Kirino's father, but a lot of implications suggest he was at least heavily complicit in his death.
- Hate Sink: Far more of a dick than his father, who ends up as Kirino’s target.
- Hot-Blooded: Compared to his father, he's always angry and yelling.
- Jerkass: He's really not a nice guy at all.
- Lack of Empathy: He has little sympathy for Kirino's plight and simply wants her to leave his father alone.
- Laser-Guided Karma: In a really, really twisted way, his incredible callousness towards Kirino likely contributed heavily to her sending his father to Hell. Thus, he will now experience the same pain she's endured.
- Meaningful Name: Like with Honjou, but for different reasons; Yoshiyuki means "righteous" (義) (yoshi). He's not a good person but very self-righteous in his beliefs he and his father have done no wrong.
- One-Steve Limit: Shares his first name with Dr. Honjou from the fourth episode.
- Undying Loyalty: Unfailingly loyal to Ryouzo.
Mina Minato
Mina Minato
Voiced by: Masumi Asano (Japanese), Jamie Marchi (English)
An island girl that desires to elope with her boyfriend from her overbearing aunt and isolated life.- Abusive Parents: Fujie may not be (initially) physically abusive, but she tries to control everything about Mina's life in effort to make sure she never leaves her.
- Elopement: Mina decides to eventually elope with her boyfriend.
- I Just Want to Be Free: She hates the quiet life on the isles, but Fujie will have none of it. More than anything else, she wants to be free of both.
- Meaningful Name: Mina's surname Minato means "port, harbor" (湊).
- Mercy Kill: She kills Fujie in self-defense, but frankly considering her state of mind and peace in death, it definitely counts as this.
- Missing Mom: Her mother supposedly committed suicide when she was an infant.
Fujie Minato
Voiced by: Akemi Okamura (Japanese), Christine Auten (English)
Mina's extremely overbearing, possibly schizophrenic aunt. She took over raising Mina after her mother's death.- Alas, Poor Villain: A truly tragic case. Unlike Kisaragi, who was genuinely evil and relatively lucid despite being crazy, Fujie is a deeply hurting woman who has long completely lost her mind to grief. While being rowed off to Hell, Wannyudo laments how pitiable she is in her delusion of still talking to her late sister.
- Ax-Crazy: Fujie appears to suffer from severe mental illness fueled by abandonment issues, and possibly schizophrenia based on her ability to go back and forth between relatively normal and her murderous mood swings.
- Broken Bird: We don't see what exactly happened, but based on her reactions to her sister and daughter attempting to leave her, it seems Fujie suffers from some extreme trauma based on familial abandonment or loss.
- Mummies at the Dinner Table: Fujie keeps her sister's dead body in the storage cellar and holds "conversations" with it imitating Satsuki's voice.
- Peaceful in Death: She doesn't undergo any punishment and is rowed off to Hell asleep in a delusion where she talks to her beloved sister.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: Said verbatim to Satsuki and Mina. More than anything else, she fears losing her remaining family.
Yumi
Yumi
Voiced by: Asuka Tanii (Japanese), Leah Clark (English)
A circus girl that suffers horrific abuse by her father, the circus ringleader.- The Ace: She is the talented performer of the twins, but Yuki started sabotaging her to make it look otherwise.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Heartbreakingly so. She begs the ringmaster for forgiveness every time we see her abuse him.
- Broken Bird: Very, very broken from years of horrific physical abuse.
- Cain and Abel: Initially the Abel to Yuki's Cain. Inverted with her sending to Hell.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Well, in a twisted way, she's back to being at the center of her father's good attention at the end...
- Only One Name: Her surname isn’t stated.
- Scars Are Forever: She has scars all over her back from being whipped naked routinely by her father.
- Stockholm Syndrome: The only believable reason she still seeks her father's approval and puts all the blame on Yuki instead.
- Twin Switch: Pulls this by the end of the episode.
Yuki
Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Kate Oxley (English)
Yumi's successful twin sister. She receives all the loving attention from her father by comparison.- Asshole Victim: Regardless of her shared circumstances with her sister, she's a narcissist with no actual redeeming qualities whatsoever and her callousness towards her sister is played seriously.
- Attention Whore: She revels in the spotlight she's unfairly taken away from Yumi.
- Big "NO!": Screams this during the boat ride after vainly pleading Ai to stop.
- Cain and Abel. Initially the Cain to Yumi, being resentful and sabotaging her career to take her place. Inverted after being sent to Hell.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Ironically, although the narrative treats her as an all-out Asshole Victim, how bad she is actually pales in comparison to her father. The fact she's considered so horrible that she's tormented upfront by all of Ai's team in their true forms is a little overblown.
- Freudian Excuse: From what we've seen of what the Ringmaster does to his children that disappoint him, Yuki must have suffered that abuse to spur her into drastic measures to attain his approval instead.
- Lack of Empathy: She has no love for her sister at all and admits to it when demanded to repent.
- Only One Name: Considering her sister’s candle doesn’t show her surname, it’s safe to assume Yuki doesn’t have one either.
The Ringmaster
Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (Japanese), Daniel Penz (English)
The father of the twins and head of the traveling circus.- Abusive Parents: Holy shit. He whips his daughter with a rope all night long and keeps her locked up in a container for simply underperforming an act.
- Bait-and-Switch: With how awful he is and the way the episode is conveyed, the viewer is led to believe he is the object of Yumi's vengeance, but it's actually Yuki.
- Beard of Evil: He has a nice curled stache and is an especially horrendous man.
- Big Bad: Ironically, despite not being the target of the Hell Correspondence, his abuse is the catalyst for everything awful that unfolds in Yumi's case.
- Fat Bastard: He's overweight and very evil.
- Faux Affably Evil: He acts charming and jovial on stage, but off-stage, he's a monster and loses the smile as well.
- Hate Sink: He inspires Teppei Houjo levels of revulsion any time he appears. In a meta example, he is far more despised in the fandom than Yuki, with many believing him not being sent to Hell as a low point of the franchise.
- Karma Houdini: Absolutely nothing bad happens to him.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: His actual name isn’t revealed.
- The Sociopath: Judging from his abuse of a daughter for disappointing him and his lack of concern for Yumi (actually Yuki) being missing, it seems he only values his daughters for their usefulness to him.
Nina
"Nina"
Voiced by: Omi Minami (Japanese), Alison Viktorin (English)
A Yōkai possessed doll believing it is its long-deceased owner, Nina. It has cursed a decaying, abandoned sanatorium to appear as though it is simply abandoned but well maintained. The doll entered Nina's father's name into the Hell Correspondence hoping Ai will take revenge, but she refused that request. Instead, Ai out of the kindness of her heart hopes to help the entity find peace for itself.- All for Nothing: Nina's father never meant to return and she has long passed away, so her wait, even after death, was all for nothing.
- Anti-Villain: While it is very dangerous, the doll is a tormented entity clinging to feelings of anguish and loneliness from its long passed owner.
- Creepy Blue Eyes: Nina's eyes were quite large and a striking shade of blue on her pale face. The doll, being modeled after her, shares them.
- Dead All Along: The real Nina died a long time ago and the "Nina" we see, is really her doll brought alive by her tormented emotions.
- Delicate and Sickly: The human Nina was terminally ill, thought it's never specified exactly what illness she had.
- Ghostly Goals: It desires to ease its loneliness and take revenge on Nina's most likely deceased father. Both goals are impossible to fulfill, and Ai only wishes to help it move on.
- No Body Left Behind: When it finally finds peace through Ai, it crumbles to dust in Tsugumi's arms.
- Parental Abandonment: Nina's father left her at the sanatorium and promised to come back for her, but she died without ever seeing him again. It's implied he never meant to return. Later, when Tsugumi asks her about her mother, Nina tells her that she doesn't know if she existed.
- Tragic Monster: So very tragic that Ai skews the initial request as an excuse to help it. Her team is left confused by the gesture of kindness.
- Yandere: It declares the Shibatas as its new family and despairs when they attempt to escape the sanatorium.
- Yōkai: A tsukumogami, to be exact.
Miki Kamikawa
Miki Kamikawa
Voiced by: Noriko Shitaya (Japanese), Carrie Savage (English)
A young girl effectively enslaved by a twisted psychopath under the threat of her dogs being killed.- All for Nothing: Her efforts are all tragically in vain, as Shimono kills both her dogs and their newborn pups in one final act of absolute evil.
- Big "NO!": When she discovers Shimono managed to kill the pups.
- Break the Cutie: By the end, she's completely broken down and despairing.
- Downer Ending: She loses all her dogs, suffers from permanent PTSD, and her sending Shimono to Hell did nothing to make her feel better.
- Harmful to Minors: Being enslaved by a literal psychopath, beaten daily, and being forced to watch your dogs tortured and even killed for compliance.
- Revenge Before Reason: Shimono was already in police custody and confessed to all her crimes. This means Kamikawa pulling the string on her is pointless other than to satisfy her undying hatred for her tormentor.
- She Knows Too Much: A variant. Her dogs discovered the remains of Shimono's family in the yard but knowing it'd be too stupid to murder Kamikawa, Shimono holds her dogs hostage for her silence.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Junko from the fourth episode. Both are young girls that have lost their dogs and learn a dark truth about the person responsible.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: She feels nothing but despair even after sending Shimono to where she belongs.
- You Are Too Late: Her fears of going to Hell means she didn't pull the string on Shimono when it mattered. In the epilogue, she tearfully regrets this.
Meiko Shimono
Voiced by: Kujira (Japanese), Pam Dougherty (English)
One of, if not the most, infamous Hell Correspondence targets. Meiko Shimono is a reclusive psychopath that has taken a girl hostage under the threat of killing her dogs, extorting her parents for money under the pretense of tutoring her for an alibi. However, as the viewer learns, there's even worse to her than meets the eye.- Asshole Victim: One of the biggest in the entire franchise. It's actually given a meaningful lampshade in-universe by Tsugumi, who states Shimono is an example of someone who deserves Hell.
- Ax-Crazy: An insane paranoiac that admits she will murder anyone she feels threatens her money. Shimono is so insane that not even death abated her madness, and she descends into Hell slipping further into insanity.
- Bait the Dog: For a moment, it seems like she'll relent on killing Kamikawa's remaining dogs when the mother gives birth to pups...she kills the mom anyways and decides to use the newborns as further leverage on Miki.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: She makes Yoshiyuki Honjou look like a decent person.
- Big "NO!": Squeals this upon seeing her transformed visage in the voyage to Hell.
- Blackmail: Holds Kamikawa hostage with her dogs as leverage.
- Evil Is Petty: Her final act of murdering the newborn pups is the most evil kind of pettiness.
- Fat Bitch: She is very overweight and extremely evil.
- Greed: Her defining characteristic and, like Namiko Todaka, she is distinctively represented by a sin. She murdered her parents and newborn son to hoard inheritance money and lives in paranoid madness over someone coming to claim her money. In her descent to Hell, she is notably transformed into a Yōkai that resembles a pig, something never seen up to now.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: She is always angry and prone to exploding over the littlest things from her paranoia.
- Hate Sink: Again, one of the biggest in the entire franchise. Everything about her is meant to inspire revulsion from her grating voice to her childish personality to horrible abuse of a minor and animals.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: Her relentless abuse of Kamikawa leads to her rapidly deteriorating mental and physical state, putting the police right on her trail as Shimono is publicly her tutor.
- Jabba Table Manners: When we see her eat, it's not a pretty sight as she rushes to wolf down her food like a wild animal.
- Karmic Transformation: She is transformed into a pig-like demon on the voyage to Hell, representing her sin of Greed.
- Kick the Dog: She threatens to kill Kamikawa's dogs one by one for each perceived mistake. She eventually kills them all.
- Knight of Cerebus: She is a considerably more despicable menace even when compared to the worst of the previous targets. Shimono's case is also where Hajime and Tsugumi begin falling out over their ethical views on Ai's services, with the latter believing there are people that simply deserve damnation.
- Meaningful Name: Meiko's surname Shimono means "retirement" (下野). She is a retired school teacher that covets her money so she will never have to work again.
- Mind Rape: She gets an especially cruel but karmic series of punishments. When being driven off to jail and subsequently transported to Ai's domain, she is tormented by apparitions of the dogs she killed and her murdered son. When being ferried to Hell, she is transformed into a literal pig to her absolute horror.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: She declares she will murder anyone she perceives crossing her to Wanyuudo and Ren.
- Offing the Offspring: She murdered her infant child over not having to share the inheritance money she got from murdering her own parents.
- The Paranoiac: Lives in 24/7 paranoid-induced madness over someone coming to steal her precious inheritance.
- Psychopathic Womanchild: Despite having an actual child enslaved to her, she is ironically the childish one of the two, and it's played in a terrifying way as her tantrums escalate to physical violence on Kamikawa.
- Self-Made Orphan: She murdered her parents for their inheritance money.
- Seven Deadly Sins: Although she is represented by Greed, she is also plausibly guilty of invoking the sins of Wrath, Sloth, and Gluttony as well.
- The Sociopath: Shimono is so unbelievably detached from humanity it boggles the mind. And she admits no remorse for any of it whatsoever.
- Would Hurt a Child: Psychologically and physically, as the viewer witnesses a lot of on poor Kamikawa. And that's not even considering what she did to her own child...
- Villainous Glutton: She has an insatiable appetite, constantly threatening Kamikawa to make her meals.
Inori Ujiie
Inori Ujiie
Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)
A young Yamato Nadeshiko in training horribly abused by her adoptive grandmother.- All for Nothing: Her sending Kyougetsu to Hell does not help her escape her fate.
- Arranged Marriage: To Yukio after being adopted by the Ujiie family.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Inori desires to be freed of her mother-in-law’s abuse and live with her husband. She gets what she wants, but not in the way she thought it would go.
- Broken Bird: She’s constantly dealing with her mother-in-law’s abuse and if she dares run away, she’ll stop supporting Inori’s orphanage.
- Downer Ending: Yukio is ironically no different from his mother, meaning Inori has condemned herself to the literal Hell on top of living a metaphorical one.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: She doesn't always sport these like the Ujiie family, but has them most of the time from her abuse.
- Extreme Doormat: What her mother-in-law and her husband as it’s revealed in the end wants her to be.
- Fate Worse than Death: Her life since being adopted is frankly this. It's Played With after she sends Kyougetsu to Hell, as what awaits her after death may arguably not be more merciful.
- Horrible Judge of Character: She fails to notice both the uncanniness of Yukio and his distinct lack of concern for his mother's actions.
- The Needs of the Many: A major reason she endures Kyougetsu's abuse is because she supports the orphanage she was adopted from.
- Oh, Crap!: She has an expression of pure horror realizing Yukio is just like his mother.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Mina. Both are orphans living with an abusive maternal figure but tough it out as much as possible. They eventually have to pull the thread, but while Mina was okay by the end, Inori is far from fine.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: She is being raised (abused) to be a very literal example of the China Doll stereotype.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Oh, good GOD. Just when things are finally looking up, it turns out there are more unpleasant surprises waiting for her.
Kyougetsu Ujiie
Voiced by: Miyuki Ichijo (Japanese), Linda Leonard (English)
A world-renowned doll maker that has expanded her craft on living people...- Abusive Parents: One of the most horrifying examples in the series. Kyougetsu does not see her children as humans but as dolls for her to play around with.
- Admiring the Abomination: Although she shows a little apprehension initially, she revels in the puppet body she takes on in her punishment. Also, after waking up on the boat to Hell, Kyogetsu has no fear, only awe of Ai's otherworldly elegance, even calling her a beautiful creature she would like to experiment with.
- A God Am I: Calls herself one in the middle of her breakdown.
- Asshole Victim: She had it coming big time. Notably, though, she doesn't mind too much past the initial surprises.
- Ax-Crazy: The aforementioned abuse of her children is based on her world views; she believes humans are filth and dolls are eternally beautiful and everlasting.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Downplayed. While she still is sent to hell at the end, it’s very likely her son finished what she started.
- Control Freak: She is controlling of every little detail of Inori's life to preserve what she perceives as her beauty.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: She has soulless blank eyes, which are often emphasized in many scenes.
- Evil Matriarch: Natch.
- Evil Old Folks: She’s old and a very depraved woman who treats everyone around her like a disposable toy instead of love and care.
- Face Death with Dignity: Shows absolutely no apprehension or fear while being rowed off to Hell, even as Ai explains what's going to happen to her there.
- Ironic Hell: Kyogetsu's punishment entails this. As Ai's minions appear in doll form and call her out on the things she's done, she attacks each of them in turn. As she does so, more and more of her body transforms into that of a puppet, mirroring her efforts to make Inori into a doll. In an interesting twist, Kyogetsu does not show much apprehension at this, but openly admires her new form, ranting of her misanthropic world views as she descends into a fit of insane laughter.
- Knight of Cerebus: Like her predecessor Meiko, she’s much more depraved compared to even the worst of the previous targets. Unlike Meiko, she’s fully aware of this.
- Laughing Mad: Cackles into deranged laughter after being turned into a doll in her punishment.
- Living Doll Collector: She trains her mansion staff to be literal living dolls subservient to her every whim.
- Mad Artist: A misanthropic doll maker that has turned her craft over to living human beings.
- Misanthrope Supreme: During her punishment, Kyougetsu descends into a rant expressing every detail of how much she hates humanity.
- The Sociopath: A complete, admitted lack of conscience goes in hand with her misanthropy.
- Would Hurt a Child: Given how she treated Inori since adopting her, it’s clear that her treatment has no bounds. And if she caught Inori talking with Hajime and Tsugumi, one could only imagine what the latter may go through…
- You Are Fat: An incredibly disturbing example is when she notices Inori's breast growth and claims this about her. She then proceeds to molest her.
Yukio Ujiie
Voiced by: Nozomu Sasaki (Japanese), Eric Vale (English)
Kyougetsu's son and Inori's arranged husband.- Ax-Crazy: Just like mom.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: A severely downplayed example, considering there are plenty of hints he's not all there in the head, but he shows a greater degree of empathy for Inori than his mother. By the end, however, it's revealed he only has the same intentions for his wife as his mother did.
- Disappeared Dad: His father is not mentioned, but considering what his mom is like, it’s not crazy to assume he ran away.
- Domestic Abuse: His relationship with Inori at the end shows signs that it’s not going to be a stable one.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: He has these all the time.
- Foreshadowing: He never bothers to call out his mother on his wife’s abuse, hinting something is not right with him.
- Freudian Excuse: Considering what his mother is like, it's not hard to see why he's so screwed up.
- Ironic Name: Yukio means "happiness, good luck" (幸) (yuki) and "hero, manly" (雄) (o).
- The Sociopath: All but stated to be one just like his mother. In fact, he doesn't even show any concern for his mother's disappearance at the end.
Hiroshi “Esper” Watanabe
Gil de L'enfer
Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)
A genuine psychic that claims he broke out of Hell. He challenges Enma Ai using Watanabe as his pawn to access the Hell Correspondence required to summon her.- Asshole Victim: Watanabe, who he treats like complete garbage, pulls the string on him. It’s hard to say he didn’t deserve it.
- Ax-Crazy: He proudly boasts of murdering his family and gleefully enjoys sexually harassing and torturing Ai.
- Back from the Dead: Although its canonicity is highly dubious, the 2020 pachinko game sees Gil return from Hell after his scuffle with Ai. Though he's sent back yet again, it basically confirms he is indeed a demon and not lying.
- Big Bad Wannabe: His powers are the real deal and can, to an extent, bring superficial harm to Ai and easily restrain her minions. However, when the actual contract with Ai is invoked against him, he is completely powerless.
- Dirty Coward: Despite boasting of how he'll send Ai to Hell, he is visibly afraid when Watanabe threatens to invoke the contract. If he were as badass as he claims, he would goad him into doing it, but instead he tries to talk him out of it. It doesn't work.
- Defiant to the End: When being rowed off to Hell, he just claims he'll break out again, though he does show nervousness. He never reappears again in the series.
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: He actually causes Ai to well up with anger. When Watanabe invokes the contract, she unleashes her full wrath down upon him.
- Evil Counterpart: To Ai. He thinks that he and Ai are similar and, to a degree, he is right, but not in the way that he thinks. They both have powers and like her, he is believably a supernatural entity, and they avenged their own deaths by killing those responsible. Ai is, however, visibly angered when he brags about murdering his parents, as Ai's situation only brings her sorrow and regret.
- Ai has the aid of her True Companions and it’s clear she cares about them as much as they care about her. Gil uses a local news agency, but it’s clear he doesn’t care for them.
- Faux Affably Evil: His politeness is blatantly feigned.
- Jerkass: He doesn’t hide how much of a jackass he is. He’ll Mind Rape anyone, even if they’re a bystander.
- Mind Rape: He has the power to invoke this upon his victims, usually inflicting visions of past trauma, such as when Hajime sees himself at his wife's grave. Not even Ai is immune to this.
- Psychic Powers: He has telepathy, telekinesis, and the ability to see Enma Ai without a contract. He also has an assortment of other powers including teleportation and the ability to conjure up constructs.
- Self-Made Orphan: He claims his parents murdered him and that he killed them in revenge after breaking out of Hell.
- Smug Snake: What he is revealed to be when confronted with a demonic being far out of his league.
- Smug Super: He's very assured of his admittedly terrifying powers.
- Unreliable Narrator: It's left vague to whether or not anything that comes from his mouth is true, but the demonstration of his powers leave strong implications he is, at the least, a supernatural entity, and that he may simply be beneath Ai in terms of power.
Hiroshi “Esper” Watanabe
Voiced by: Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese), Jeremy Inman (English)
A bumbling Phony Psychic, whose job Gil takes after humiliating him.- Beware the Silly Ones: Gil manipulates Watanabe into entering the Hell Correspondence. He succeeds, meaning that despite his comical nature, he is capable of mustering genuine hate.
- Butt-Monkey: He is made a complete fool of by Gil and reduced to comic relief afterward.
- The Dog Bites Back: He sends Gil to Hell, genuinely terrified of him after witnessing his true colors and the extent of his powers and realizing he could easily murder him on a whim eventually.
- Phony Psychic: He is a complete fake, unlike Gil.
- Tuckerization: Named after creator Hiroshi Watanabe.
Yuuko Murai
Yuuko Murai
Voiced by: Saeko Chiba (Japanese), Mary Morgan (English)
A City Mouse turned farm girl whose late father was a good acquaintance of the Shibata family.- Broken Bird: By the time the Shibatas come to visit, she's this over her father's death.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: In the epilogue, she sports these.
- Here We Go Again!: We last saw Yuuko in her new home consumed by anger and eyeing a PC placed in her room...
- Parental Abandonment: Her father drank himself to death out of grief.
- Revenge Before Reason: She wouldn't gain anything out of sending to Sekine to Hell since 1) her father is already dead and 2) he has claimed her property. While she tries to invoke her contract, Hajime notably talks her out of it, making her the first seen in the series to do so.
- One-Steve Limit: Shares the same first name as Chie Tanuma’s best friend, Yuuko Kido.
Ryousuke Sekine
Voiced by: Ryusuke Obayashi (Japanese), John Swasey (English)
A corrupt real estate agent that seeks to evict the Murai family off their farm.- The Bad Guy Wins: Insofar as his goals are concerned, he gets everything he wants.
- Evil Is Petty: He's actually trying to ruin the Murais out of spite from a dispute his grandfather had over their property, which he lost.
- False Friend: To the Murais all the way. He seemed like he had their best interests at heart and weaseled into their lives when his intent was to subtly ruin them.
- Faux Affably Evil: Unlike some others in the series, he can put on such a convincing act of being a good guy it can fool the viewer until it's fully revealed what he did to Yuuko's father.
- Hate Sink: When his colors are revealed, he's a spiteful, smug thug that is meant to infuriate the viewer as Yuuko seriously considers giving up revenge.
- Ironic Name: Ryousuke means "good, virtuous, respectable" (良) (ryou) and "help, assist" (介) (suke).
- Karma Houdini: Maybe. While he doesn’t get his comeuppance on-screen, it is highly probable that Yuuko did ask for revenge off-screen.
Gourou Suetsugu
Gourou Suetsugu
Voiced by: Atsushi Imaruoka (Japanese), Christopher Sabat (English)
A miserable man who has been victimized by a serial cheater and Gold Digger.- Dramatic Irony: He furiously calls out Hajime on lecturing him over what he's done, stating he can't understand his feelings because he hasn't experienced the same pain he has.
- Laughing Mad: When he sends Hayashi to Hell, he laughs crazily.
- One-Steve Limit: Shares his first name with Goro Ishizu from Chie Tanuma’s case.
- Shadow Archetype: Explicitly to Hajime, who most of the episode featuring him is focused on. Suetsugu is essentially what Hajime would have been if he gave in fully to his feelings of hatred against Ayumi's betrayal. In fact, when they meet eye to eye, Hajime is taken aback by how he sees himself in Suetsugu.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears around the episode's tail end with his request already fulfilled, but facing him causes Hajime to forgive himself and face up to Ayumi's grave.
Noriko Hayashi
Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (Japanese), Kathleen Hamm (English)
A vain Gold Digger.- Flat Character: She has precious minimal screentime like with Suetsugu, as most of the episode is focused on Hajime. The audience knows she is genuinely bad and why, but that's it.
- Gold Digger: She only uses men for their money.
- Karmic Transformation: Her prized beautiful face is transformed into a skeletal visage on the voyage to Hell.
- Shadow Archetype: Like with Suetsugu to Hajime, she is this to his late wife Ayumi, representing what the latter could have been had she fully given into the temptations of deception and contempt.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She can be considered one to Namiko. Both cheat on their partners repeatedly for the sake of money without much care for other people. When they’re sent to Hell, there is little concern for their whereabouts.
Client 23
Minoru Higushi
Voiced by: Takashi Nagasako (Japanese), Ray Gestaut (English)
A bitter old man that had lost his wife to illness puts all the blame on her caretaker and hospital.- Grumpy Old Man: All he really is. Sakuragi even sympathizes with him and understands his grief over losing his wife.
- Hopeless with Tech: He mentioned fiddling with a PC once but got quickly irritated with it, which immediately stuns Hajime.
- Red Herring: He is given the most focus in the episode besides Kanako, and his aggressive personality and open threat to send Sakuragi to Hell immediately puts Hajime on his trail. As it turns out, he's not only not all that bad, he's computer illiterate.
- Trash of the Titans: His household is filthy and strewn with trash bags and booze bottles.
Kanako Sakuragi
Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese), Larissa Wolcott (English)
A young nurse with an angelic personality adored by practically everyone in the neighborhood.- Big "NO!": Screams this as Ai's boat finally reach the Hell's Gate.
- Friend to All Children: Tsugumi especially loves her.
- Kill the Cutie: She is sent to Hell despite having done nothing wrong.
- Loved by All: Everyone that knows Sakuragi loves and has nothing but good things to say about her.
- Nice Girl: As nice as it gets.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: The first on-screen victim of the Hell Correspondence to be 100%, unapologetically good and faultless; even Ryouzo had his dark secrets and regrets. As if to emphasize this trope, Ren and Wanyuudo note occasional cases like Sakuragi's tear away at Ai's heart under her emotionless facade.
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- Ax-Crazy: From what we can infer, he's obviously batshit insane.
- The Bad Guy Wins: He gets what he wants and kills himself afterward with a smile on his face.
- Driven to Suicide: He overdoses himself to death after murdering Sakuragi.
- Drugs Are Bad: From what can be inferred, he is a drug addict and they possibly fuel his madness.
- Evil Laugh: The only time we hear his voice is him cackling a sinister laugh after sending Sakuragi to Hell.
- For the Evulz: All that can be said for why he did what he did.
- Foreshadowing: As the last client of the first season, he demonstrates how the Hell Correspondence can be misused or skewed past merely seeking vengeance on someone. This becomes a major plot point in Futakomori.
- Knight of Cerebus: He is the antagonist of one of the most somber cases in the entire series, one that leaves all major parties involved angered (Tsugumi, Hajime), dejected (Ai's team), or heartbroken with Ai herself.
- No Name Given: His name is never stated.
- Peaceful in Death: The bastard evidently went out completely satisfied.
- Slasher Smile: What we see him sporting in most of Tsugumi's premonitions, and just before he kills himself.
Futakomori
Maki Onda
Maki Onda
Voiced by: Ryō Hirohashi
A shy girl being savagely bullied at school by someone she cannot discern the identity of.- Determinator: She handles the abuse well enough to not use the Hell Correspondence despite being tempted multiple times, even rebuking it. She only uses it when Kamishiro discovers the doll and threatens to kill her.
- Oh, Crap!: When she realizes Nakase was complicit in her suffering at the end.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Mayumi, the first on-screen client, kickstarting the second season off.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Complains to Ai about why the client has to go to Hell despite ostensibly having done no wrong, not looking at it from a nuanced point of view where the client can easily misuse the service.
Eiko Kamishiro
Voiced by: Mayumi Asano
A science teacher at Maki Onda's school. She is very emotionally supportive of her troubled student.- Ambiguous Situation: It's left ambiguous if she is the mastermind behind the torture inflicted on Onda or simply complicit in Nakase's fun.
- Asshole Victim: Regardless of whether she is responsible for Onda’s humiliation or just complicit, she earned every second of her banishment.
- Ax-Crazy: She derives borderline sexual pleasure from Onda's suffering. When she drops the mask, she outright tries to torture her to death with hydrofluoric acid and loves every second of it.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts like an angel on the surface but is actually a murderous, sadistic sociopath.
- Mad Scientist: She is a school science teacher and views Onda's orchestrated suffering as an "experiment."
Hitomi Nakase
Voiced by: Ayana Sasawaga
Maki Onda's only apparent friend, supportive of her during her turmoil.- Big Creepy-Crawlies: If she really is the one behind Onda's suffering, she was tormenting her by filling her belongings with caterpillars.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She feigns friendship to Onda, but she is likely the mastermind behind all of Onda's suffering.
- Karma Houdini: She’s likely involved in Maki’s trouble and gets away with it.
Yayoi Kurayoshi
Yayoi Kurayoshi
Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima
A weary woman whose sister, Sumire, has gone missing. She and her family are desperately trying to find her whereabouts, but Yayoi is the only one who suspects she's already dead.- Bookends: Her story begins and ends with her family on the street corner, pleading for others to help finding their missing relative.
- Broken Bird: She's this so much everyone on Ai's team sympathizes with her.
- Downer Ending: The only consolation she has is sending her sister's killer to Hell. Ren looks on sadly at how her family is still trying in vain to find Sumire after all is said and done.
- Ironic Name: Yayoi's surname Kurayoshi has many meanings: warehouse, storehouse, barn, treasury, granary, cellar, magazine, godown, depository, elevator, storage place, repository, supply shed, grain elevator, stockpile, arsenal (倉) (kura) and "lucky, good" (吉) (yoshi). Many of these are synonymous with the isolated cellar where Sumire was raped and killed, and Yayoi is ANYTHING but lucky.
- Parting-Words Regret: The last time Yayoi saw Sumire, the two had parted ways after a heated argument. Yayoi blames herself for not staying with Sumire.
- Survivor Guilt: Yayoi is guilt-ridden by the fact that Sumire died horribly and believes that her death could have been avoided if they had walked home together just as they usually did.
Sumire's kidnapper
Voiced by: Yuichi Nakamura
An unnamed man whose identity Yayoi only uncovers through premonitions received by her vengeful (deceased) sister. He is a pedophilic serial rapist and killer that has claimed many victims, drowning them at sea when he's through with them.- And I Must Scream: On the way to Hell, he's ballooned up to cartoonish proportions from being inflated with water, unable to properly express himself. Moments before Ai consigns him to Hell, he bursts open, at which point he lets out a terrified scream.
- Asshole Victim: Well, let's see...he's a sleazy serial killer, rapist, and exclusively targets minors. It should be noted he's so vile he's among the few targets every one of Ai's assistants confront on a personal level.
- Ax-Crazy: He would be somewhere along the lines of this by default considering what he is, but a notable instance is when Ai pretends to ignore him, and he decides to run her over in a homicidal rage For the Evulz.
- Death by Irony: Invoked during the Hell banishment. The first two segments of it involve him drowning, with the first being in a lake, just like how he callously drowned all his victims.
- Hate Sink: He inspires a level of revulsion arguably not seen since Meiko Shimono.
- No Name Given: His name isn’t given.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: He's a freaking child rapist and killer. He particularly disgusts Ai and her group despite all the evil victims they've seen up to that point on-screen.
Tae Sakairi
Tae Sakairi
Voiced by: Sayaka Aoki
A cheery girl that is obsessed with the happiness of her best friend, Kei, without wanting to pursue a relationship with him.- All of the Other Reindeer: She's a social outcast that's viewed as incredibly creepy for her stalking habits.
- I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In a twisted way, it's unsure if she's more interested in Kei's genuine happiness or roleplaying as a romantic runner up.
- Pity Sex: She blatantly only lets Kei have her body because she pities him for being duped by Hanamura.
- Stalker with a Crush: Inverted. She doesn't have romantic interest in Kei, but she is dangerously obsessed with him and stalks his every move.
Kei Takada
Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio
A depressed boy caught up in a blatantly unloving relationship.- Sex for Solace: He starts to have sex with Sakairi to cope with his immense grief of being duped by Hanamura.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: He loses his balance off of trying to climb over to Sakairi's window from his own from being out of his mind with grief.
Yumie Hanamura
Voiced by: Rika Morinaga
A manipulative two-timing girl who admits she's only dating Kei to torment Sakairi.- Alpha Bitch: She's like Aya in this regard, on top of having the posse and cruel demeanor.
- Asshole Victim: On top of being an unfaithful manipulator, after mockingly expressing what little she thought of Kei even after his death, she had it coming.
- It Amused Me: The only reason she admitted to dating Kei, as well as to screw with Sakairi, whom she finds disturbing.
- Ironic Hell: In a rather disturbing way, she's a vain seductress and is molested by demonic hands groping her on the voyage to Hell. She's also tormented by Hone on the way, a spectre made from the hate of betrayed women.
- Teens Are Monsters: If her reaction to Kei's death is any indication, she was on her way to becoming a fullblown sociopath.
Shuuichi Yagisawa
Shuuichi Yagisawa
Voiced by: Koichi Tochika
A hardworking man trying to pay for his wife's brain tumor surgeries.- Anti-Villain: Even as a criminal, he was only trying to pay for his wife's surgeries.
- Downer Ending: Chinami forgets who he is by the end.
- Heel–Face Turn: He used to be a thug that was complicit in a murderous conspiracy with Shouki. After Shouki ripped him off, he genuinely turned his life around and deeply regrets his role in murder.
- Meaningful Name: The name Shuuichi means "discipline, study, conduct oneself well, master" (修) (shuu) and "one" (一) (ichi). He is an ex-criminal working very hard to turn over a new leaf.
- Nice Guy: He is genuinely a kind and upstanding man in complete contrast to Shouki.
- No Place for Me There: Rationalizes his past criminal activities means he will never be going to Heaven to use the straw doll with no hesitation.
- These Hands Have Killed: He never forgave himself for murdering Sakuma even though he was essentially coerced into doing so.
- Workaholic: He unhealthily works his ass off to pay for his wife's surgeries since Shouki won't pay him his cut.
Shouki
Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima
A crooked club host defined by his insatiable Greed.- Admiring the Abomination: When he's being rowed off to Hell, he marvels at the vortex that's replaced his face, playing with it like a child and remarking how "cool" it is.
- Ambition Is Evil: Shouki stole millions in a bank heist so he could start his own club in order to prove he was better than the people who fired him. His ambition was also got him fired for using underhanded methods to gain promotions.
- Asshole Victim: He's such an aggressively obnoxious and callous thug that the viewer will be cheering when Shuuichi finally does him in.
- Blackmail: He is always holding Chinami's life as leverage over Shuuichi to either have him do his bidding or leave him alone. When he won't let up, he tells Chinami of his role in the heist, breaking her heart.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: His eyes are perpetually blank, reflecting his soulless nature.
- The Blank: During his Afterlife Antechamber sequence, his face gets turned into a bottomless hole. It stays on the boat ride to Hell.
- Greed: His defining trait is his miserly nature. Even after becoming an extremely wealthy club host, he absolutely refuses to pay Shuuichi his cut of the original heist even when it's harmless to him.
- Hate Sink: He's so poignantly infuriating with his callous, selfish, and frankly stupid and short-sighted nature, especially since someone's life is on the line and all he'd have to do is pay off a harmless debt. Fortunately, it all catches up to him.
- Karmic Transformation: His face is transformed into a bottomless hole by Ai, symbolizing his bottomless greed.
- Start My Own: He uses the money he stole to start his own club after being fired from the one he used to work at.
- Stupid Evil: Had he just paid off Shuuichi's cut, he would be living the high life in peace. But his unbelievable idiocy in antagonizing him and absolute refusal to do so has him sent to Hell instead.
- The Sociopath: He literally only cares for himself and openly has no regard for the lives of others.
Chinami Yagisawa, "China"
Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara
Shuuichi's ill wife. She appears to suffer from a brain tumor.- Affectionate Nickname: "China."
- Amnesiac Lover: As a result of Shouki causing her to not receive aid on time in the midst of a seizure, she doesn't remember Shuuichi by the end. She does, however, remember Kikuri.
- Delicate and Sickly: It's unknown what exactly she has to be bedridden, but it's evidently a brain tumor or neuorological disease.
- Morality Pet: Everything Shuuichi does, even morally dubious, is for her sake.
- This Is Unforgivable!: Tearfully states Shuuichi killing Sakuma as unforgivable after Shouki rats him out to her.
Leon Yamada
Leon Yamada
Voiced by: Isshin Chiba
A rather memorable client. Leon Yamada is a delinquent gang member hated and feared by his entire neighborhood. He's spurred into using the Hell Correspondence when his boss threatens to violate a girl he's eyeing, but Ai and her assistants aren't pleased with their client.- Asshole Victim: He crashes his motorcycle and is left to die by everyone overlooking ths scene despite feebly begging for help. Considering he's such a sociopathic and mean-spirited town terror that's made a name tormenting anyone he sees fit, there's little pity even if he's not a killer or necessarily as evil as many other clients and victims.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: He flashes his lighter on a dog that was curious about what he was up to.
- Beady-Eyed Loser: As is typical standard for the Japanese delinquent in anime.
- The Bully: He isn't just content with harassing students from his school, he terrorizes the whole neighborhood.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Japanese Delinquent stereotype. When karma catches up to him, he is left to die because everyone hated him as a result of his horrendous actions.
- Dying Alone: Downplayed. It seemed this way, but Kikuri stays with him when the townsfolk leave the scene, planting flowers on his dying body and telling him that Hell is real and he's on his way there now.
- Even Evil Has Standards: As much of an immoral thug as he is, he's genuinely disturbed by Hashitsume's intentions for Miyahara.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Literally everything pisses him off, even small talk, and he always resorts to violence.
- Hated by All: He's hated by everyone in his neighborhood to such a degree they would rather let him die than save his life when given the choice. Even Ai visibly has little patience for him and he especially disgusts her assistants, particularly Wanyuudo, who laments what an awful human he is.
- Hate Sink: He's the protagonist and not even a killer or nearly as immoral (per se) as many other villains and some clients. However, he stands out for arguably being the most unlikable obnoxious bully in the entire franchise, even eclipsing Aya Kuroda, to a point that even in-universe, he is hated by literally everyone.
- Hopeless with Tech: He has no idea how to operate a computer, so he forces Shishido to help him access the Hell Correspondence.
- Japanese Delinquents: A stereotypical Japanese delinquent, albeit a little more sociopathic than usual.
- Jerkass: A complete asshole to just about everyone.
- Ironic Name: Comically so. The initials of Leon can mean: "beautiful, lovely" (麗) (re).
- Ironic Hell: Invoked by Wanyuudo, who says he's being tormented right alongside Chikaraya.
- Laser-Guided Karma: In the most karmic way possible, the dog he abused some days before with a lighter, crosses his path on the road, causing him to overturn his motorcycle and crash.
- Pet the Dog: He had no moral obligation to save Miyahara considering he doesn't even know her past lusting for her. Basically the only decent thing he does.
- Stalker with a Crush: He's obsessed with Izumi Miyahara despite having never even spoken to her, personally.
- Straw Atheist: Yamada believes Hell doesn't exist and that the Hell Correspondence is just some game, making him flippant in simply pulling the string. Unfortunately for him, Kikuri reminds him it is very much real just before he dies.
- Stupid Crooks: He is nothing more than a stupid thug with some good fortune in that his idiocy hasn't gotten him killed yet. His luck runs out by the end.
- Teens Are Monsters: He's only 17, which he brags about making him untouchable due to Japanese laws and accountability for minors.
- Together in Death: Wanyuudo speculates he's going to be right next to Hashitsume in Hell.
- Villain Protagonist: The main focus of the 31st episode in contrast to Shishido's Decoy Protagonist.
Shun Shishido
Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara
A geeky boy that Yamada primarily targets for bullying.- Butt-Monkey: He's constantly beaten up, mugged, and coerced by Yamada.
- Decoy Protagonist: It's played up he will be the client to send Yamada to Hell, but as noted by Ai, while he possesses the hate to access the Hell Correspondence, he's never punched in Yamada'a name but has merely typed it out several times. Eventually, he decides it's not worth it, and Wanyuudo is shocked Leon is instead their client.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: In the end, Yamada dies and "claimed" his one way ticket to Hell, all due to his own stupidity, while Shishido finally got rid of his bully without having to condemn himself.
- Only Sane Man: Ironically, a scrawny computer geek is one of the strongest willed characters in the entire franchise. Despite the sheer level of abuse Yamada inflicts on him, he decides condemning his soul to Hell for his life is just too much, then never considers the Hell Correspondence again. He comes out on top with a clean conscience and getting the last laugh on Yamada by leaving him to die.
Chikaraya Hashitsume
Voiced by: Masaya Onosaka
Yamada's gang boss. A ruthless thug that does not tolerate insubordination. That's about it.- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Feebly begs Ai to turn around on the boat ride to Hell, to which she tells him to shut up already.
- Asshole Victim: Standard fare for the series.
- Flat Character: Compared to how colorful Yamada is, he doesn't get much screen-time or focus; he's a greedy asshole and that's about it.
- Gold Digger: He wanted Yamada to hook up with Miyahara to get to her wealth.
- Hate Sink: Subverted. His introduction and Eviler than Thou nature would logically have him as being this, but he does not develop enough or have enough on-screen presence to become a true Hate Sink like Yamada.
- Ironic Hell: Invoked by Wanyuudo, who says he's being tormented right alongside Leon.
- Meaningful Name: The name Chikaraya is synonymous with "force, power, strength, ability, energy, emphasis, stress, capability, might. Fitting given his status and brutish nature.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: After Yamada expresses an intent to ditch him, he plans on kidnapping and raping Miyahara to use incriminating photos as Blackmail for her wealth.
- Resignations Not Accepted: Because it will make him supposedly look weak. When Yamada in his wild fantasy admits to wanting to elope with Miyhara, he lays him out and threatens him.
Izumi Miyahara
Voiced by: Aki Sasamori
An Ojou that is otherwise just an ordinary high school girl subject to the attention of Yamada and Hashitsume for differing reasons.- Nerves of Steel: Despite being kidnapped and threatened with rape, she doesn't lose her cool. Even after all is said and done, she suffers no PTSD and resumes a happy life.
- Ojou: Hashitsume lampshades how Yamada and her are from parallel universes in this regard, and that he has no chance of hooking up with her.
- Ordinary High-School Student: Despite her Ojou status, nothing about her is out of the norm for her age group.
- Restored My Faith in Humanity: To a degree, for Wanyuudo. When lamenting how awful humanity is by the epilogue of Yamada's story, her kindness and willingness to own up to a petty offense she was about to commit (dumping her trash into someone's bicycle basket) has Wanyuudo reflect perhaps not all people out there are so bad.
Kiwako Nitta
Souta Hosono
Voiced by: Hisayoshi Suganuma
A social outcast unloved by his fellow students and father. He is obsessed with a girl named Kiwako Nitta, a fellow classmate that is practically the only person that's shown him any shred of kindness.- Abusive Parents: His father constantly yells at him and tells him he's a waste of space. By this point, though, Sosono is dead inside enough to where it all falls on deaf ears.
- Already Done for You: He rationalizes he will be going to Hell anyway with him murdering Sawazaki, and thus he declines Ai's services when he finally musters enough hatred.
- All the Other Reindeer: He's considered a freak in his social circle.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason he's obsessed with Nitta.
- Bolivian Army Ending: His story ends with him about to attack Sawazaki and his friend with the full intent to murder them. We don't see how he intends to do this, as we don't get a good look at his weapon, and whether he's successful is left to the imagination.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: They represent his extreme depression.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Feeling there's nothing left to live for, he decides to kill Nitta's rapist at the end with his own hands.
- Revenge Is Not Justice: Ai tells him the revenge she grants has nothing to do with any form of justice. When he goes to murder Hirohisa's friend for for raping Kiwako, Hone Onna says that he's going to Hell on his own steam.
- Stalker with a Crush: He is damn obsessed with Nitta in a creepy way, although he doesn't actually do anything malicious past following her around.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: He manages to access the Hell Correspondence and talks to Ai as if she's some agent of justice. She rebukes him and his initial request for this, however.
Kiwako Nitta
Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi
An all-around normal schoolgirl caught up in a shady relationship.- And I Must Scream: She was actually aware of everything going on while drugged and raped.
- Child by Rape: Subverted. It seems she got this after being raped, clutching herself in pain when attending school the next day. It turns out she's just suffering from grief over using the Hell Correspondence.
- Rape as Drama: She gets her drink spiked and raped by Sugita's friend, Sawazaki.
- Woman Scorned: Very much so after Sugita betrays her. She sends him to Hell off-screen with zero hesitation the very next day after she's raped.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: She laments to Hosono that sending Sugita to Hell did nothing to make her feel better, and in fact, she feels even worse now that she knows he's damned to Hell.
Hirohisa Sugita
Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe
Nitta's boyfriend. Hosono suspects he's a bad guy, which to the viewer is made pretty obvious.- Asshole Victim: Boy howdy.
- Blatant Lies: Hilariously so. He profusely complains to Ai he's done no wrong while furiously raving of how Nitta is a "fucking bitch" in earshot of her.
- Flayed Alive: Hone literally does this to him on the boatride with a legion of arms.
- Killed Offscreen: We don't see his punishment and death. He simply wakes up in Hell in abject confusion, indicating they skipped the former process.
- Slipping a Mickey: He spikes Nitta's drink on a date so his friend can have his way with her.
- Jerkass Has a Point: He isn't wrong when he whines to Ai there's at least someone else just as guilty for Nitta's rape. Hosono, however, is fully aware and intends to amend that hangover.
- Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Why Kiwako sent him to Hell. He may not have carried out the act himself, but he did leave Kiwako defenseless for his friend to do so.
Tatsuya & Emi Ougi
Emi Ougi
Voiced by: Kei Shindō
A talented, extremely hardworking and mature teenage girl that is subject to Parental Neglect from her frankly insane mother.- Abusive Parents: As stated by herself, her mother doesn't even know she exists.
- The Ace: Of her track team at school. She is also noted to be very talented in general, but she's forced to give up most of her life to take care of her insane mother and depressed father.
- Break the Cutie: She loses her brother, her aspirations and dreams, and then both her parents. It takes its toll on her by the end.
- Despair Event Horizon: She crosses this when she notices she's losing her mental balance after she drops a dish in the midst of her household falling further into turmoil. After sending her mother to Hell and her father either having killed himself or ran away, she fully goes insane.
- Downer Ending: She loses her whole family and goes insane.
- Only Sane Woman: She is practically parenting both her own parents as a result of her mother's insanity and increasingly apathetic father.
- Room Full of Crazy: Around the tail end, she's calmly cooking dinner while her insane mother is caressing the top of a vandalized buddha statue's head murmuring Tatsuya's name - her father, piss drunk and having crossed the Despair Event Horizon, couldn't care less about anything anymore.
- Sanity Slippage: She's gone insane by the end, holding conversations with photos of her dead family members at the dining table as if they were alive.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: She has the disposition of a mature adult than a teenager as a result of having to take care of her parents on her own.
Tatsuya Ougi
Voiced by: Taketoshi Kawano
Emi's brother. He died in a motorcycle accident not long after curiously typing his mother's name into the Hell Correspondence.- Abusive Parents: His mother dotes on and borderline harasses him to such a degree he wants to kill her. He also thinks she is destroying their family, and he's posthumously proven right.
- Passing the Torch: His straw doll is simply passed on to Emi than a new one being produced.
- Posthumous Character: He's dead for most of the thirty third episode's running time.
Kazuko Ougi
Voiced by: Rei Igarashi
The Ougi family matriarch. She is, in short, dangerously obsessed with her son Tatsuya, and his death has seemingly driven her to the brink of madness.- Abusive Parents: To both her children. She is grossly possessive of her son to cause him to become a Delinquent and eventually try to kill her. In the case of her daughter, she doesn't even seem to know she exists and never acknowledges her presence on-screen.
- Asshole Victim: Even Tatsuya thought it'd be better off if she bit it, but it's subverted in that she's so insane she doesn't even see going to Hell as a bad thing.
- Ax-Crazy: A thoroughly constructed example of obsessive insanity. After Tatsuya dies, it gradually becomes worse and more severely harms everyone around her as she vandalizes property and wastes all her family's money on scams. Even after waking up at Hell's gates, she only squeals Tatsuya's name, cutting Ai and Ren short when they try to reason with her.
- Berserk Button: Anything she perceives as Tatsuya having disliked. When her husband and daughter make a kite to honor him, she snaps, destroying it and screaming at them to never do such a thing.
- Madness Mantra: She often mutters Tatsuya's name on loop, and eventually it's all that can come out of her mouth.
- My Beloved Smother: A very horrifying example Played for Drama.
- Parental Neglect: As mentioned many times, she doesn't seem to be aware she even has a daughter.
- Together in Death: Subverted. She's actually glad she's destined for Hell, squeeing she'll be with Tatsuya. When Ren is about to correct her that he isn't where she's headed, he's cut short as she screams Tatsuya's name over and over.
Hiroyuki Ougi
Voiced by: Tōru Ōkawa
The Ougi family patriarch. He tries to be supportive of his wife despite being well aware of her insanity.- The Alcoholic: To cope with his wife's madness, he eventually turns to heavy drinking.
- Ambiguous Situation: While he never returns to the household, it's unclear by the end if he killed himself or ran away; he leaves a note behind for his daughter saying he's off to find his wife, but it's implied to have been a long time since.
- Good Parents: Contrasting his wife. He eventually breaks, though.
- Parental Neglect: He eventually shows shades of neglecting his daughter from his stress, stating she should find a job and support all of them on her own because he's screwed at his job from his wife's actions.
Shouko Baba
Shouko Baba
Voiced by: Michie Tomizawa
An extremely strict teacher widely hated by the student body.- Broken Bird: She is revealed to be a deeply hurting human being during her confrontation with Mami. The sheer amount of hate and abuse she has endured from her students throughout her entire life has torn her apart on the inside, and her husband and child even left her. Despite the toll it's taken on her, she musters the resolve to keep moving forward constructively unlike Mami.
- Hated by All: She is hated by the entire student body for her stern personality, and it's implied she has endured multiple generations of this. Baba is a constructive realization of what a person would be like if they were hated by everyone and hurting but had the strength to preserver regardless.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Despite being a brutal Stern Teacher, she only has the best interests of her students at heart.
- Stern Teacher: Why seemingly everyone hates her is she is incredibly strict and unforgiving.
- Tender Tears: When she sends Mami to Hell, she sheds these, pleading Ai to show mercy as she was her former student regardless of what she became.
- Tragic Keepsake: A photo of her former lover and child she keeps on her desk.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: She may be strict verbally, but she'll never actually harm a minor. Mami's willingness to do so to get at Baba is what she cites as absolutely unforgivable, sending her to Hell but knowingly condemning herself as well to repent for making Mami that way.
Maho Suzaki
Maho Suzaki
Voiced by: Akemi Kanda
The twin sister of a famous model, who is ruining her life out of a disturbing possessive streak.- Attempted Rape: When she confronts Mikio with proof over what he's been doing to her boyfriends, he forces himself on her and tries to rape her on the spot. Her kicking him across the room has him regain some of his senses.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to to Mikio, sending him to Hell after he tries to rape her.
- Tender Tears: She mourns Mikio during the credits with these, evidently missing him despite everything.
Mikio Suzaki
Voiced by: Showtaro Morikubo
A beloved celebrity who, behind closed doors, is disturbingly fixated on his sister.- Alas, Poor Villain: Maho misses him after his banishment, and his sending itself is treated with dignity.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Taken to disturbing heights when he claims his sexual fixation on Maho started when they were born.
- Control Freak: He is disturbingly possessive of Maho and tries to control her social life.
- Creepy Crossdresser: He disguises himself as Maho to scare her lovers away by revealing who he is before they get intimate.
- Face Death with Dignity: He takes going to Hell remarkably well, stating he is content with it if it means he can't hurt Maho anymore.
- Mask of Sanity: Behind his cool demeanor, he is clearly very unwell past just sexually craving after his sister. At one point, he literally believes he is Maho.
Hachiroku Toyoda
Tetsuro Megoro
Voiced by: Shigeru Chiba
A bumbling film director. He convinces Hone Onna, who was on vacation, to join his crew. Hilarity ensues.- Butt-Monkey: Nothing goes right for him, and he's even banished to Hell for a relatively minor slight.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's abrasive and even sleazy, but he's noted by the other women involved with him to not be a genuinely bad guy.
- Lighter and Softer: Besides him ultimately going to Hell, which even then is played for dark laughs, his story is remarkably lighthearted and funny in contrast to just about every other episode in the series.
- Polyamory: He has multiple lovers.
- Tempting Fate: He accidentally fucks up someone's car by driving into its side during parking. He hopes the person won't catch on, but he's proven wrong in a disproportionate way when he bumps into the same person and spills coffee all over him.
Hachiroku Toyoda
Voiced by: Kentarou Tone
A random stranger who Megoro screws over twice by accident.- Bit Character: The audience doesn't get a look at his face or even learn who he really is. All we know is he is a man Toyoda incidentally screwed over twice, subsequently earning his hatred.
- Disproportionate Retribution: He sends Toyoda to Hell for accidentally ruining his car and spilling hot coffee all over him.
Shizuko Amagi
Shizuko Amagi
Voiced by: Junko Minagawa
A kindly lady being terrorized by a horrific neighbor for no discernable reason.- Ascended Extra: She is very likely a full realization of the client briefly seen in The Stinger for the first season's epilogue.
- Freak Out: When she finds her tormentor chopped her cat up to pieces and sent it to her in a bag. It was actually just a bag of grocery meat, but this is what pushes Amagi to send Tachibana to Hell.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: She adores cats and adopts a stray, not knowing it belongs to someone else.
Kyouko Tachibana
Voiced by: Kimiko Saito
A reclusive psycho that has it out for Shizuko Amagi.- Disproportionate Retribution: The reason she makes Amagi's life a living hell is that she supposedly stole her cat. Lampshaded by Ai and Ren, who asks her why she didn't just talk to Amagi, and she gloomily states that the thought never occurred to her.
- Face Death with Dignity: Doesn't react all that much to going to Hell and simply has a calm conversation with Ai on the way about why she acted the way she did.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Her punishment saw her looking through the perspective of Amagi for the last week or so without knowing it until the very end.
Michiro Ito
Michiro Ito
Voiced by: Tetsu Inada
A fun-loving car enthusiast that befriends Wanyuudo. He's actually also his client for the day, as a man that has lost his mind from hatred against an elderly man seemingly complicit in the death of his brother.- All for Nothing: Not only does his quest for vengeance end unspectacularly, but it was also meaningless from the start considering Kameoka's will.
- Ax-Crazy: He is so consumed by vengeance that he intends on running down Kameoka's house even after being told he's dead. He grows out of this by the credits.
- Cool Car: He drives one and is a huge car enthusiast, as was his brother. He hits it up quickly with Wanyuudo, who is a literal tire.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: His request to send Kameoka to Hell is rendered void by the man's passing, and after realizing what the old man was really like, he finally makes peace with himself.
- Revenge Before Reason: As aforementioned, he tries to run down Kameoka's house with his car even though he's dead. It can be said his whole quest for revenge is also this, and after saving his life from almost being killed by it, Wanyuudo implores him to turn his life around.
- This Cannot Be!: When he is told Kameoka had passed away in his sleep.
Kazuhito Kameoka
Voiced by: Tomomichi Nishimura
A dying old man that Hone befriends. He refuses to move from his home (slated for demolition) despite its presence being a danger to those on the road. In the past, this led to Michiro Ito's brother's death, for which he seeks vengeance on Kameoka.- Good All Along: He's revealed to be 100% good and only guilty of being stubborn. He is fully aware of how much pain he's caused Ito and left behind a will to give all his money to him after he passes.
- Grumpy Old Man: He stubbornly refuses to move from his home, stating it is the only link he has to his cherished past remaining in his life.
- Peaceful in Death: He, fortunately, passes away in his sleep just moments before Ito was about to send him to Hell.
- Tragic Keepsake: His house is revealed to be all that's left of the life he misses, and it's why he refuses to part with it no matter the compensation. When he dies, the house falls apart.
Kihachi Kusumi
Kihachi Kusumi
Voiced by: Takashi Matsuyama
A seemingly kind restaurant owner, actually a deranged Serial Killer behind a string of brutal deaths across his town.- Asshole Victim: While he isn't an all-out example of this with his Freudian Excuse and Ren's pity, Kusumi is nevertheless a Serial Killer that has taken many lives out of pure selfish wrath. What Kikuri does to him is horrifying, but it's richly deserved.
- Ax-Crazy: He's a serial killer that is systematically murdering people he feels are guilty of merely disrespecting the site of his family tragedy. He goes about doing this by stabbing them to death with a wooden skewer.
- Disproportionate Retribution: His motives for killing people are flimsy at best and in no way remotely justified.
- Freak Out: He has indisputably the greatest one of these in the entire series. As he's being hauled off to a prison hospital, he's relieved his quest for revenge is over...only to find his daughter, Tsubaki, healthy and walking from Kikuri curing her. Realizing she now has to live with the shame of being the daughter of a mass murderer and he won't see her again from jail, Kusumi has a complete mental breakdown and screams Tsubaki's name into the sky in despair over and over.
- Freudian Excuse: Kusumi´s wife and son were killed and his daughter, Tsubaki, put into a coma when a drunk driver crashed into their house five years prior. As news crews filmed the report of the incident, drunken men danced in the background with their hands in the "peace" sign and took away from the tragedy. For this, he decides to become a Serial Killer after being diagnosed with cancer.
- No Name Given: None of his victim's names, including the man he sends to Hell, are revealed. The episode is almost entirely focused on Kusumi.
- Taking You with Me: After being diagnosed with cancer and believing his daughter will be a vegetable forever, he decides to kill everyone that disrespected his family, using the Hell Correspondence to get to his last target.
Yuriko & Harumi Kanno
Yuriko Kanno
Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka
A young woman dragged into her abusive father's political antics.- Attempted Rape: She was being stripped down by Yamamto's thugs before Wanyuudo scares them off.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Grows fed up with Kuniji's shit after realizing how he's been abusing her mother and calls him out in public. His response is to assault her, violently pulling her hair and bracing to attack her before he's restrained.
- Composite Character: Of Haruka and Emi. Like Haruka, she is forced to witness the abuse her father gives to her mother and is put in a dire situation and like Emi, she’s forced to be mature because of her parents.
- You Are Too Late: Her mother sends Kuniji to Hell, rendering her contract void. She has some reservations over this.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Like Emi Ougi before her, she has the responsibilities and disposition of an adult despite being a teenager due to the fact her father is borderline insane and her mother is overworking.
Kuniji Kanno
Voiced by: Fumihiko Tachiki
A vicious, ill-tempered man obsessed with propping up a sleazy politician, unsatisfied with the way Japan is being governed.- Abusive Parents: He’s the worst kind of abusive parent, forcing Yuriko into working with him while refusing to let her attend school, yelling at her constantly, and assaulting her in public when she calls him out. He later even desires to see her tortured beyond measure by Yamamoto's cronies to "teach her a lesson." The next we see him, Yuriko witness her poor excuse of a dad berating the attackers for failing the would-be rape.
- Asshole Victim: One of the biggest in the entire franchise.
- Ax-Crazy: He's always angry and prone to violent outbursts. He's also a brutal domestic abuser to his wife and so zealous in his worship of a crook that he's not above having his child tortured.
- Domestic Abuse: He beats his wife black and blue every day, scarring her entire body. Even when his wife is hospitalized due to the extreme fatigue from overworking, he outright declares she deserves to die because Yuriko ditched helping out on the campaign due to visiting her mother. He also frequently yells at Yuriko and assaults her when she finally calls him out.
- Eye Scream: He's Killed Offscreen so we don't see what his punishment was fully like, but it evidently wasn't pretty, as his eyes are pinned with nails on the boat ride to hell.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Subverted in a very gross way. After his outburst with Yuriko in public ruins Yamamato's PR, Yamamoto suggests having her roughed up as part of another stunt to gain some PR back. At first, Kuniji is a little taken aback, suggesting he has some genuine love for his daughter...then he enthusiastically encourages Yamamoto to have his men do worse than just rough her up, but teach her a "lesson" she'll never EVER forget, ranting she must pay that price for disrespecting her father.
- Hate Sink: He is an intensely selfish and violent domestic abuser whose abuse later extends toward his child in the worst ways imaginable.
- Lazy Bum: He refuses to work at all in protest of the Japanese government, leaving all the work to his dying wife.
- The Load: It's made abundantly clear with his temper and lack of charisma he is this to Yamamoto. He is only kept around due to a lack of support otherwise.
- Meaningful Name: The name Kuniji means "cultural progress" (郁) (kuni) and "will, purpose" (志) (shi/ji).
- Never My Fault: Played for Drama. He blames all his misfortunes on the government and refuses to own up to his faults or turn his life around. Even on the way to Hell, he's still blaming others.
- Would Hit a Girl: He beats his wife to a pulp every day. Later on, he almost tears his daughter's hair out and was ready to further assault her.
- Would Hurt a Child: His own, and not just beating, but encouraging the rape and torture of.
Harumi Kanno
Voiced by: Sakiko Tamagawa
Yuriko's mother and (unfortunately) Kuniji's wife. She is dying of exhaustion from being the sole worker in the household and her husband beating her black and blue every day.- Broken Bird: Being the sole worker in a household for three and being beaten by her husband every day has broken Harumi into a withered shell of a person. She eventually nearly dies from exhaustion.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Although she pays a steep price for it, she finally smiles and finds peace upon being rid of her husband.
- Exhausted Eyebags: She understandably has these.
- Workaholic: Her husband refuses to work, forcing her to hold the weight of her family all on her own.
Makio Yamamoto
Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi
A sleazy, unsuccessful politician whom Kuniji irrationally worships.- Corrupt Politician: At first he just seems to be an unsuccessful politician, but when it's demonstrated he's not above blackmailing others through force, he is this.
- Karma Houdini: He simply loses running as a presidential candidate and doesn't pay for his criminal actions against Yuriko.
- Misplaced Retribution: As much of a bastard as he is, Yuriko realizes through Ai that her deep-rooted hate isn't actually against him, but her father.
- Would Hurt a Child: He's not as crazy about this as Kuniji, but he's up for it to gain back some lost PR.
Ran Henmi
Ran Henmi
Voiced by: Mami Kingetsu
A young woman who was betrayed by her boyfriend. Although she intended to send him to Hell through Hone, she is instead convinced to swindle him through a mysterious woman.- Commonality Connection: Hone Onna finds a deep spiritual connection with Ran due to her own past of being used and betrayed.
- Dies Wide Open: She dies with her eyes open. When Hone returns to her apartment after banishing Uetsuki, she removes Ran's glasses and closes her eyes.
- Everyone Has Standards: She's appalled and guilt-ridden when she realizes her actions led to Tejima's suicide.
- Femme Fatale: Subverted. She does not have the heart for this even though she can act the part.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Ran wants to turn herself in for Tejima's death and sincerely promises Matsu that she is not going to speak of her involvement. Matsu does not believe her and fatally wounds her.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: She's already attractive but drop-dead gorgeous when prettied up to seduce a man.
- Taking You with Me: Invoked verbatim. Ran's last act is, against Hone's reservations, to pull the thread to send Matsu to Hell. She states if she doesn't, Uetsuki will go on to hurt more people.
Matsu Uetsuki
Voiced by: Miho Yoshida
A con artist that convinces Henmi to get back at her ex-lover. However, Uetsuki proves to be much worse than she appears...- Absurdly Long Stairway: Matsu finds herself on one at the beginning of the Hell banishment. She falls most of the way down, but lands unharmed. Her long list of past victims are waiting for her at the bottom.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: She pathetically, repeatedly begs Ai for her to turn the boat around, offering up her clothes for her to do so.
- Asshole Victim: She's a con artist that has murdered dozens of people and ruined countless lives. She's even referred to as a demon by Ai's assistants than a human.
- Femme Fatale: She's not attractive enough to play the part, but she has all the personality hallmarks of the evil kind. She manipulates Ran to play the looker part.
- Greed: Like Meiko Shimono long before her, she is explicitly defined by the sin of Greed, to the point even when being banished to Hell, she prioritizes money.
- Hate Sink: Her evil and selfishness is depicted as especially heinous even by the standards of this series, which is saying a lot, to say the least.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: She has murdered every last person she's ever swindled, which as shown in her punishment, racks up to dozens of people.
Osamu Tejima
Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara
A sleazy playboy that was once Henmi's boyfriend. After breaking up, Ran is manipulated by a geisha named Matsu Uetsuki to rob him of his wealth.- Asshole Victim: Subverted. He's an asshole, but Ran feels he absolutely doesn't deserve what he got.
- Driven to Suicide: When Ran and Uetsuki steal all his money, he kills himself.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He doesn't last long, but his death and stolen riches make up the plot of the 42nd episode.
Nene Chiwaki
Nene Chiwaki
Voiced by: Kurumi Mamiya
A bitter girl that deeply resents her mother for keeping some very meaningful secrets from her.- Bratty Half-Pint: She acts this way to her mother, resenting her for not telling her what happened to her dad.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When her mother kills herself. She is shown paying her respects at her grave regularly afterward.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: She musters enough hate for her mom to access the Hell Correspondence, even threatening her with the straw doll.
Numako Kenmochi
Voiced by: Nao Nagasawa
The mother of the late Hetarou Chiwaki. She (correctly) suspects Honami murdered him and tries to take revenge by widening the rift between her and Nene.- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She acts grandmotherly toward Nene to further the rift between her and her mom, though it isn't all an act. Behind her back, she is much more of a cold bitch towards Honami, though not entirely unjustified.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Regardless of being abused, she calls out Honami for murdering her son, which she absolutely did despite her denial.
- Pet the Dog: She does genuinely love Nene and is shocked when she overhears her latest argument with Honami.
Rina & Kouhei Takeda
Rina Takeda
Voiced by: Akiko Hiramatsu
An office worker that's forced to take care of her abusive, disabled mother after her father takes her back in.- Abusive Parents: She's always hated Michiyo for being emotionally and physically abusive towards her.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Rina laments she probably did (mutually) love Michiyo deep down, but it's too late now with her passing.
- Bastard Angst: She's not Michiyo's blood-related daughter; Michiyo was born infertile and suggested Kouhei have a child with another woman. She was actually testing his faith to her, and when he did have a child that way, she broke down mentally. This is why she seemingly hates Rina so much.
- You Are Too Late: To her shock, her father renders her contract void before she even really considers sending her mother to Hell.
- Why Would Anyone Take Her Back?: Rina is extremely opposed to her father taking Michiyo back in, resenting her for her abuse and questioning why he'd still love her.
Michiyo Takeda
Voiced by: Toshiko Sawada
Rina's very unwell mother.- All Take and No Give: She doesn't show any love to Kouhei or Rina for taking care of her, only berating them harshly and even lashing out physically once in a while.
- Broken Bird: She's an infertile woman that lost the use of her body to a freak accident. Michiyo is also perpetually tormented by the belief her husband betrayed her for another woman from wanting a biological child.
- Empty Shell: What Ai's assistants surmise Michiyo is now, believing her soul long left the body.
- Fate Worse than Death: She doesn't say anything to Ai on the way to Hell, simply looking dejected as usual. The overlooking assistants speculate her life was already a living Hell so being sent to the literal one practically means nothing.
- Hate Sink: Subverted. She initially has the hallmarks of a typical Hate Sink for this series, but it's steadily revealed how tragic she really is.
- Secret Test of Character: She encouraged Kouhei to impregnate another woman to test his faith to her despite being infertile. When he did, she freaked out and ran right into traffic.
- Tragic Keepsake: She's always held on to a button Rina dropped as a child to try to keep a grip on what remains of her humanity - and remember she does love her stepdaughter deep down.
Kouhei Takeda
Voiced by: Yu Shimaka
Rina's henpecked father.- Despair Event Horizon: Crosses this when he finally understands the extent of Michiyo's abuse on Rina. He crosses it again after sending Michiyo, leaving it uncertain as to whether he's going to kill himself.
- Extreme Doormat: He's ridiculously submissive to Michiyo despite all the abuse she pours on him. As it turns out, he feels eternally indebted to her for what he feels were his screwups in life.
- Mercy Kill: His sending of Michiyo is treated this way.
- Together in Death: Tells Michiyo to wait for him in Hell.
Yuri Hanae
Yuri Hanae
Voiced by: Yukana
The Ojou of a declining hot springs inn.- Bookends: Ai and Wanyuudo are her inn's first and last customers, both her ancestor's story and her own being told concurrently within the episode.
- Blackmail: On the receiving end of this. Her hot springs dried out long ago and have been kept afloat with bath salts, something Ichiko knows of and uses against her to treat her like a dog.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's quite a looker and naked for most of the episode.
- Irony: Her ancestral grandfather was sent to Hell by Ichiko's ancestor for a legitimate grievance. Yuri returns the favor by sending her descendant to Hell for a legitimate grievance, ending the cycle of revenge but fulfilling Tami's complete revenge against her family.
Ichiko Aida
Voiced by: Fumie Mizusawa
A vicious high school student harassing Yuri Hanae through the leverage of telling the public of her inn artificially producing its waters with bath salts. She is a descendant of Tami Aida and Wanyuudo lampshades she inherited her ancestor's grudge.- Asshole Victim: With her humble screentime, she's presented as nothing but a completely despicable and sadistic bitch with no sympathetic qualities whatsoever, unlike her ancestor.
- The Bad Guy Wins: She had it arranged so her friends would inform the press about the Hanae inn if anything bad happened to her. After she's sent to Hell, this happens and leads to the inn's closure. This ultimately means Tami Aida posthumously gets her full revenge on the Hanae household.
- Cycle of Revenge: Wanyuudo muses if she exists to perpetuate Tami's grudge. It ends with her death, however, in a final victory for Tami.
- Hate Sink: She's practically an older Aya Kuroda.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: While there are many school bullies in this series, right down to her appearance, none resemble Aya Kuroda more than Ichiko.
Juri Moriuchi
Juri Moriuchi
Voiced by: Eri Kitamura
A crazy Yandere girl misusing the Hell Correspondence to blackmail her BFF into devoting herself to her.- All Take and No Give: The summarization of the standing of her friendship with Fujimaki now.
- Blackmail: She's been dragging around Wanyuudo for a long time to coerce Fujimaki into only spending time with her.
- Freak Out: When she sees Fujimaki spend time with others again despite promising her not to, she freaks out and runs into traffic.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She's basically an older, slightly crazier Minami Shibuya.
- Together in Death: She dies not long after Fujimaki commits suicide, and it's evident from the paper boat lit with her name she's joining her in Hell.
- Toxic Friend Influence: A plot point is she holds down Fujimaki's talents in life with her possessiveness of her.
- Yandere: She won't let anyone else see Fujimaki.
Mari Fujimaki
Voiced by: Yuka Inokuchi
Moriuchi's best friend for life. Although Fujimaki loves her back, she is disturbed by how obsessive Juri is as of late.- Driven to Suicide: Realizing Moriuchi is going to die from her traffic accident but is actually unwilling to send her best friend to Hell, Fujimaki pulls the string for her so they can be in the same place.
- Extreme Doormat: Fujimaki is pretty much enslaved to Moriuchi. Regardless of her coercing her with the straw doll, Fujimaki loves Moriuchi and is psychologically brought down by the perceived guilt of hurting her feelings.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She is an inversion of Shiori Akasaka, loving Moriuchi deeply unlike Akasaka who only manipulates her so-called best friend.
Youko Kisugi
Youko Kisugi
Voiced by: Sayaka Narita
A grieving pregnant woman betrayed by her bastard spouse.- All Girls Want Bad Boys: The reason her best friend concludes she wants Tomaru's affection back despite how horrible he is to her. She calls her out on it.
- Decoy Protagonist: She isn't given substantial focus in her episode; her story is a backdrop to Hone Onna's reminiscing of her life, and Kisugi is eventually possessed by Kiyo, a person very important to Hone Onna's past life.
- Demonic Possession: She is randomly possessed by a ghost named Kiyo during her grieving of sending Tomaru to Hell.
- Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Kiyo was trying to compel her into jumping off a bridge until Hone Onna intervenes.
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Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?: Her friend calls her out on still caring for Tomaru and wanting to be with him again.
Makoto Tomaru
Voiced by: Takuma Terashima
A complete weasel of a man who demeans his ex-spouse and refuses to want to do anything with her or his child-to-be.- Asshole Victim: All this guy was presented as was a foul-mouthed asshole and would-be deadbeat dad.
- Body Horror: He's pregnant on the ride to Hell and his stomach bursts open with a demonic baby emerging.
- Flat Character: He's a cheating asshole that viciously demeans his ex-lover when she only wants to reconcile. That's all we see or know of him.
- Jerkass: In his few scenes, the viewer understands he's a complete asshole. He doesn't get enough screentime to elevate himself to the level of a Hate Sink, though.
- Mind Rape: In his punishment, he drowns in an oversized beaker where a fetus the size of a Kaiju looms over him.
Lovely Hills
In general
Lovely Hills was an unremarkable developing town most noted for its hostile community. After a bizarre murder incident involving Toshiya Kakinuma and the Kurebayashi family, the town soon descends into madness as its residents begin excessively misusing the Hell Correspondence over petty grievances or no reason at all. In the end, the town is decimated and abandoned, leaving its total death count uncertain past what was shown on-screen. The location and residents are collectively the focus of the second season's central story arc. For more on its named characters, see this page.
Mitsuganae
Itsuko Hiraishi
Itsuko Hiraishi
Voiced by: Aki Toyosaki
A friend of Yuzuki's. She is a rebellious schoolgirl that deeply resents her homeroom teacher for being too stern.- Death Glare: She gives one of pure hate to Tange when he confiscates her music player.
- Delinquent: A borderline case of a rebellious schoolgirl.
- Disproportionate Retribution: She sends her teacher to Hell for simply being too strict without really knowing him as a person. Which leads to...
- My God, What Have I Done?: She has this reaction when she realizes Tange wasn't a bad person and only guilty of being very stern.
- Put on a Bus: She transfers schools after sending Tange to Hell and never reappears.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: If she seems familiar, her character is a callback to Mami Kuriyama, and more specifically a Deconstruction of what it would be like if she succeeded.
Hideto Tange
Voiced by: Hideo Ishikawa
An insanely stern teacher widely despised by the student body, being likened to a bully.- Asshole Victim: Subverted big time.
- The Bully: What his students accuse him of being.
- Hated by All: Like Shouko Baba, he is hated by the student body for being incredibly strict.
- Not So Above It All: Those notes he openly takes of students misbehaving are doodles; he never had any real intention of turning his students over.
- Tough Love: He loves his students and only pretends to be overly strict to encourage them to do better.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He is a gender-flipped Shouka Baba, albeit a little more easygoing.
Akira Kitayama
Akira Kitayama
Voiced by: Tamako Nohama
A boy infatuated with the troubled owner of a run down electronic store.- Downer Ending: He condemns himself to Hell only to find Mitsuko ran away, possibly committing suicide.
- Harmful to Minors: He saw one of Seiji's torture sessions through a peephole, traumatizing him for life.
- Likes Older Women: He's a kid while Mitsuko is an adult woman, although it goes past just pining for her looks, as he knows her situation.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: He knows what Seiji has been doing to his wife, citing this trope as what he intends to do against him with the Hell Correspondence. Subverted in that he ultimately kills Seiji out of self-defense.
Mitsuko Yamaoka
Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa
A woman that runs an unpopular electronic store. She is also the victim of unbelievably horrific domestic violence.- Ambiguous Ending: It's unknown if she killed herself or simply ran away after Seiji is banished.
- Broken Bird: The level of physical and psychological abuse Mitsuko endures at Seiji's hands has regressed her mental state to that of a child.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: What Seiji's abuse of her escalates to. In one instance, we see him tie her up, beat her, and prepare to rape her.
- Stockholm Syndrome: An interpretation of the reason for her going missing after Seiji dies is being conditioned to believe she is unable to live without his abuse.
Seiji Yamaoka
Voiced by: Yasuyuki Kase
An absolutely batshit insane domestic abuser.- Ax-Crazy: He's a domestic abuser that tortures his wife for his sick pleasure.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Seiji phones his wife every few hours at work. If she fails to ever respond, he takes it as her cheating on him and tortures her in response.
- Domestic Abuse: This asshole would make Kuniji Kanno envious.
- Electric Torture: He gets electric cables shoved up every inch of his body, including his ass when punished.
- Ironic Hell: He's subject to an over-the-top skit as punishment, where he's the victim of domestic violence.
- Hate Sink: If the other tropes didn't already tip it off, this guy is horrible beyond measure.
- Skewed Priorities: When being rowed off to Hell, he asks for a phone to call his wife with.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: If the photo of him and his wife smiling at their electronic store opening indicates that Seiji Yamaoka was not always this crazy jealous abusive monster he is now. It's unknown why he changes into the monster he is now, and with his death and his wife's disappearance, we never will.
- Would Hurt a Child: When he finds Kitayama talking to his wife again, he goes on a rampage, assaulting him and preparing to kill his wife in front of him.
Masako Momota
Masako Momota
Voiced by: Asami Imai
A stalker obsessed with the downfall of popular idol singer, Jun Moriyama.- Blackmail: She got ahold of photos from Moriyama's days as a junior gravure idol, which she uses to try to blackmail her into giving her a job in the singing industry.
- The Chew Toy: When she was in the same talent agency as Moriyama, the latter treated her like a dog.
- Dreadful Musician: She's a positively awful singer, which is made apparent even to non-Japanese viewers. Yuzuki, Akie, and Moriyama cast a lampshade on this, but she refuses to believe it.
- Driven by Envy: And hate. She murderously resents Jun Moriyama for her fame on top of how she previously treated her.
- It's All About Me: She is a murderous narcissist.
- Villain Protagonist: Her narcissistic refusal to admit she isn't cut out for the world of singing, blackmailing and eventual murder of Moriyama makes her this to a t.
Jun Moriyama
Voiced by: Ayahi Takagaki
A popular idol singer with a sketchy past.- Attempted Rape: She was about to be raped by a deranged fan until Akie and Yuzuki intervened.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: She pleads with, apologizes to, and begs Momota to leave her alone multiple times, even getting on all four at one point in front of others. Up to the last, there is no reason to believe any of this isn't sincerely apologetic.
- Brutal Honesty: She (truthfully) straight up tells Momota she's an awful singer without any malice, suggesting she find a new career path - refusing to give in to her blackmail to give her a job.
- Disproportionate Retribution: She receives punishment before being banished rather than simply being sent off to Hell despite being reformed and mostly innocent.
- Face Death with Dignity: Calmly sings to herself on the boat ride to Hell.
- Fanservice Model: She once worked as a junior gravure model, a fact Momota tries to blackmail her with.
- Nice Girl: She is a sweet person and resembles nothing of her former self. Akie and Yuzuki are baffled anyone could hate her.
- Took a Level in Kindness: When we see her in flashbacks to starting out as an idol, she was a completely self-centered and violent bitch, expecting everyone to grovel before her. She's genuinely mellowed out in the present, expressing that singing brought out a new person in her.
Takeru Yukawa
Takeru Yukawa
Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi
The most ridiculous client in the series. A wimpy kid whose life is turned around by a kendo practitioner that becomes his best friend.- Asshole Victim: After he sends Nishida to Hell, he regresses into a pathetic piece of shit and is savagely bullied again. He deserves all of it after what he did.
- Bully Magnet: He's a scrawny guy that refuses to stand up for himself, making him a prime target for bullying.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Despite everything Nishida did for him, he banishes him to Hell because he backed down from stopping an armed criminal from assaulting someone on a bus ride.
- Hero Worship: He worships Nishida as this. However, after merely one failing that reveals Nishida is a human being with limits, he musters the hate to send him to Hell.
- Hypocrite: He’s furious that Nishida for not standing up to a mugger attacking a passenger, yet 'he didn’t have the balls to stand up to the same mugger. And he sends Nishida to Hell because of this.
- Took a Level in Badass: Nishida trains him to become a kendo practitioner, turning him from a skinny wimp into a muscular fighter that others stop bullying. Evidently, he didn't lose his awful personality traits, and after banishing Nishida to Hell, he goes back to being a loser.
- Ungrateful Bastard: He has no hesitation in sending Nishida to Hell for the pettiest, most nonsensical reason, despite everything the guy did for him. And as the closing scene shows, he's glad he did it.
- What the Hell, Hero?: He furiously lashes out at Nishida for not intervening to save a man from being mugged on a bus ride. He refuses to hear any of his reasonings, either.
- Villain Protagonist: The second of many more to come in the third season.
Shin Nishida
Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi
A Bully Hunter that befriends Takeru Yukawa and turns his life around.- All-Loving Hero: Took up kendo to stop the injustices in the world. When he realized you can't muscle your way through everything, he started studying to become a prosecutor.
- Ambiguously Gay: He has a lot of suspect moments with Yukawa. Although most of it is Played for Laughs, it's more dramatic when he breaks down admitting with a level of sincerity he cared enough about him to not have him see him fighting a thug to the death on the bus ride.
- Broken Pedestal: He unjustifiably becomes this to Yukawa, who murderously resents him for refusing to stand up to an armed mugger on a bus ride.
- Bully Hunter: He took up kendo for this. It's also his life's dream to stop injustice in the world, far past mere schoolyard bullying.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Seriously, this guy is one of the most unapologetically good-hearted victims in the franchise but is punished before his sending.
- Failure Hero: For how tough he seems, he can feel great fear when confronted with life-threatening danger, something he's deeply ashamed of.
- Tragic Dream: He trained his muscles to stop bad people from hurting others, but he was hit with the reality you can't just brute force your way through everything in life. He took up training to become a prosecutor but laments the difficulty in becoming one.
Miwa Niiyama
Miwa Niiyama
Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi
A badly battered teacher being harassed by a student's grandmother.- Composite Character: Of Yoshiki Fukasawa and Keiko Yasuda. Like Fukasawa, Niiyama is a teacher internally suffering from her occupation but feels forced into compliance out of obligation to society's expectations; like Yasuda, her life is being ruined by malicious slander and harassment from a deranged woman for reasons unknown to her.
- Evil Feels Good: She is visibly satisfied after seeing Saeko's pain following Ririka's death.
- Malicious Slander: She is a victim of malicious slander from a woman claiming she is mistreating her granddaughter.
- Slave to PR: The reason she puts up with all the abuse is to cater to Japanese society norms. It drives her nuts inside, and she eventually snaps hard.
- Stepford Smiler: Her pleasant disposition and patience hide unbridled rage.
- Would Hurt a Child: She decides to send Ririka to Hell over her grandmother, being enraged by her deception and callous comment about adult problems just naturally sorting themselves out.
Saeko Katase
Voiced by: Atsuko Mine
An influential elderly lady. She is going mad with harassing and slandering Miwa Niiyama for supposedly mistreating her granddaughter.- Ambiguous Innocence: To what degree Ririka is manipulating Saeko, if at all, is left to interpretation.
- Composite Character: Of Kazuko Ougi and Namiko Todaka. Like Ougi, she is insanely possessive of her daughter to the point of making publicized tantrums for perceived slights against her, irritating everyone; like Todaka, she is an influential neighbor stalking and slandering an innocent woman to the brink for petty reasons.
- Despair Event Horizon: She crosses this after Ririka goes missing.
- Evil Matriarch: Played straight for most of the running time, left ambiguous by the end.
- My Beloved Smother: She is insanely possessive and protective of Ririka. She is even called this near verbatim by one of the troubled teachers on staff. The twist, however, is Ririka doesn't mind, and may deliberately be making her that way.
- No Listening Skills: When Niiyama tries to tell her how she reacted when Ririka accidentally broke the test tubes and and that she is a liar, Saeko ignores it, accusing her of abusing her granddaughter and told her to go away, instead of hearing him out.
- Red Herring: She is presented as a despicable and crazy bitch for most of the episode, making it seem doubtless Niiyama will enact vengeance on her. The truth, however, is more complicated: While Saeko is believably described as a widow that needs a "villain" to fuel her obsessive complex of "protecting" her granddaughter, it's vague if Ririka is enabling the worst of her behavior for her selfish gain.
Ririka Katase
Voiced by: Sayuri Yahagi
An upstanding student whose grandmother harasses her teacher, Miwa Niiyama, with threats and demands.- Ambiguous Innocence: Whether she is manipulating her grandmother for unconditional attention and perks (like not having to go to school), or if she is believably being forced to lie to not suffer her anger, is left to interpretation.
- Attention Whore: Regardless of whether she's sincere about feeling forced to lie, she evidently revels in the showers of smothering love her grandmother gives her.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She's not as innocent and morally upstanding as she seems
- Fake Cutie: Outwardly an upstanding student and nice girl, but she is secretly completely callous to the plight of her teacher and loves the attention she gets from her grandmother.
- Smug Smiler: She gives a smug smile when callously telling Niiyama her problems will likely just sort out naturally.
Moroboshi Kira
Yuna Serizawa
Voiced by: Megumi Takamoto
A schoolgirl madly in love with Hone Onna, to an unhealthy degree.- Ax-Crazy: Prior to the episode, she unwittingly cast a real curse on Ren, believing him to be Hone Onna's lover. This implies she wishes others dead for taking her attention.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Her punishment consists of racing with Ai and the other assistants to a finish line, with the prize being Hone Onna's love. She physically assaults everyone to get ahead, only to be greeted with Hone Onna's disappointment and Nightmare Face than love. She's promptly banished to Hell after.
- Psycho Lesbian: She is pretty crazy and blatantly pining for Hone Onna's love.
Moroboshi Kira
Voiced by: Chiaki Takahashi
Another schoolgirl madly infatuated with Hone Onna.- Alpha Bitch: As we see in the locker scene, she is this.
- Attention Whore: Unlike Serizawa, who is blatantly gay, Kira is this. After banishing her to Hell, she flippantly changes her obsessions to Wanyuudo, causing the overlooking Youkai to lament her condemning herself to Hell was completely meaningless.
- Ax-Crazy: She makes Serizawa look sane; when she feels like her rival is taking Hone Onna away from her, she threatens to strangle her the next time. Instead, she immediately sends her to Hell.
Atsushi Inuo
Atsushi Inou
Voiced by: Takahiro Mizushima
A troubled boy suffering at the hands of an insanely abusive mother.- Abusive Parents: His mother beats and demeans him at every turn, even guilt-tripping him if need be for him to continue to take care of her.
- Ax-Crazy: After sending Washizu to Hell, he goes completely fucking insane in such a way it's uncertain if he's going to murder his mother off-screen.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Seeing his mother fling with other men and denying his existence to them drives him off the edge, causing him to send Washizu to Hell after he implores him not to use the straw doll on her - which is ironically for HIM all along.
- Unwanted Assistance: He resents Washizu's invasion of his personal life much more than his mother.
Sakura Inou
Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka
Atsushi's mom and only parent. She abuses and guilt trips him to take care of her every need.- Asshole Victim: Whatever entails for her after the credits roll, be it death or a Fate Worse than Death, she has it coming.
- Hate Sink: Unlike a lot of abusive parents in this series, she literally has no sympathetic qualities whatsoever.
- Oh, Crap!: She's positively pissing herself in fear when seeing how insane her son has become by the credits.
- Manipulative Bitch: She guilt trips her son with the fact her husband left the household to take care of her. What she doesn't tell him is it happened because of her compulsive cheating habits.
- Really Gets Around: When she's not doing anything, she's getting wasted in the red light district.
- Sloth: She doesn't parent or do much of anything than lounge around and bully her son.
Terutaka Washizu
Voiced by: Minoru Shiraishi
A pushy goody two shoes that knows of Atsushi's turmoil. He tries to help him out before he does anything rash.- Disproportionate Retribution: Maybe he was a little invasive into someone's personal life without considering their feelings, but he was only trying to do right. He definitely didn't deserve to be punished before being consigned to Hell, nor did he deserve to be sent there.
- Heroic Wannabe: He clearly thinks he's a hero in how he's trying to save Atsushi from doing something rash, never considering how he's making him uncomfortable.
- Misplaced Retribution: A victim of this, and that fact ultimately drives Atsushi insane.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He was only trying to do good. He gets sent to Hell for it.
- No Sense of Personal Space: He gets really up close and personal with Atsushi when imploring him to do what he feels is right. It only pisses the guy off more and more until he snaps.
Mioi Hatsumi
Mioi Hatsumi
Voiced by: Yūko Gotō
A sweet woman terrorized by an evil neighbor for no discernable reason.- Beware the Nice Ones: After Shintani pushes her too far, she demonstrates such murderous anger that it's enough to scare her off the day.
- Composite Character: Of Shizuko Amagi and Miki Kamikawa, being a sweet neighbor terrorized by a lunatic for no reason, with her dog being specifically targeted to torment her.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Simply being nice to others fueled all her misfortunes at the hands of Shintani.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Also a case of Too Dumb to Live. She leaps over a windy railing to gather her dog's pee pads, which Shintani threw over out of spite. She falls off but surprisingly survives.
Michiru Shintani
Voiced by: Teiyu Ichiryusai
A hideous narcissist tormenting her neighbor, Mioi Hatsumi, for taking attention away from her.- Asshole Victim: And how.
- Attention Whore: She ruins her neighbor's life for taking some attention away from her new jewelry. It doesn't get much worse than that.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: She poisons Hatsumi's dog with the intent of killing it.
- Composite Character: She is an amalgamation of Meiko Shimono and Kyouko Tachibana, being an overweight bitch that terrorizes her neighbor and pet, albeit less bad in that she doesn't have a triple homicide and five animal killings to her name like the former.
- Denser and Wackier: Her punishment is one of the craziest, random, and most surreal in the entire franchise; Shintani is put into a mech to her abject confusion, whereupon she is attacked by Wanyuudo, Kikuri, and Ren also piloting mecha robots. They quickly defeat her and hose her mouth with what's implied to be potty spray, rendering her unable to use her voice all the way to Hell. It gets even weirder on the boat ride, where she's covered in the same pee pads she stole from Hatsumi and drowns into the cloth.
- Fat Bitch: She is overweight and very cruel, if not plain evil.
- Gonk: Just look at her.
- Hate Sink: It seems her awful existence is a result of the writers feeling the show lacked one despicable enough this season since Seiji Yamaoka. And would anyone expect less considering what characters she's based on?!
Inao Kaede
Inao Kaede
Voiced by: Nozomi Sasaki
A shy girl who claims to be a psychic.- All of the Other Reindeer: She was ostracized in the past for claiming to see spirits and be able to tell others' fortunes. Her desperation to not become an outcast again leads her to become a murderer.
- Attention Whore: She is willing to murder a completely innocent man to keep her fifteen seconds of fame.
- All for Nothing: Her pathetic quest to end an innocent man's life at someone else's behest is emphasized as completely meaningless when it's revealed Nishino held no grudge and simply wanted him dead for being ugly. She then orders her to murder more people at the request of her friends...
- Ax-Crazy: She is willing to murder a man just to prove her pre-cognitive abilities are genuine to others so she can keep her classmate's attention. She starts off only halfway there, impaling a voodoo doll and praying for his death; when that doesn't do anything and she's pressured for time by Nishino, she progressively descends into complete madness.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Inverted. While Ai tries to remain neutral, Hone Onna is completely disgusted and embarrassed by her when they meet, calling her a foolish little girl before reluctantly turning into a straw doll.
- Laughing Mad: After she pulls the string, she descends into a fit of deranged laughter.
- Oh, Crap!: When she realizes her little murder quest was completely meaningless.
- Shout-Out: Her appearance, claims of being a spiritualist, and very nightmarish faces at the height of her insanity make her resemble Rika Furude - funnier when one realizes Studio DEEN produced the Higurashi anime adaptations at the time.
- Nightmare Face: When she starts going nuts, her cute face permanently sets into one of these.
- Phony Psychic: What she really is, having simply been lucky in her successful "premonitions."
- Villain Protagonist: She's more of a very pitiful one of these than evil or overly unlikable.
Chizuru Nishino
Voiced by: Eri Kitamura
A bully suddenly sucking up to Sasaki for her supposedly genuine psychic abilities.- Ax-Crazy: She wants an innocent neighbor murdered just for being ugly to her.
- The Bully: She harasses Kaede with her request to wish a man to death with her abilities, threatening to tattle she's a phony if she doesn't do it.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: A lot of focus is given to her reflectionless eyes, emphasizing her soulless nature.
- The Sociopath: It's pretty obvious that, with her motives and desire to have more people dead by the end, she's a complete sociopath.
Kazuya Ichimura
Kazuya Ichimura
Voiced by: Yuko Sanpei
A young marathon runner that works various part-time jobs to support his insane mother.- All for Nothing: Killing Saito didn't make his mother change. She simply finds another salesman, illustrating she has some compulsive spending disorder than seeking another man.
- Parental Neglect: His father is always working and clearly resents his wife; his mother is too caught up in her insane delusions to know he even exists.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: His character and circumstances draw some parallels to Emi Ougi.
- Workaholic: He takes part-time jobs on top of his marathon running to finance his mother's insane spending habits so his parents don't divorce.
Kimie Ichimura
Voiced by: Yumi Takada
Kazuya's mother. She's obsessed with buying expensive clothing to ostensibly woo her neglectful husband.- Awful Wedded Life: Her husband constantly berates her and is barely at home. For her part, she keeps trying to impress him and throws passive aggressive insults when he rebukes her. It's a wonder they haven't divorced yet.
- Suspicious Spending: She keeps buying expensive kimonos, causing her husband to angrily wonder where she's getting the money for it since he's not paying for them. Ironically, he doesn't know it's from his son's allowance, which he himself is giving.
Yukihiro Saito
Voiced by: Shinji Kawada
A shady salesman whom Kimie keeps buying overpriced kimonos from.- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: He begs Ai to let him go, offering her new kimonos to do so.
- Asshole Victim: He's on the lesser end of assholes for this franchise, given he's just a sleazy suit in a long line of them.
- Con Man: He seduces and rips off a woman for overpriced clothing. Despite her son demanding he stop, he refuses to do.
- Skewed Priorities: He asks Ai to let him go because he's going to run late for another business arrangement...despite knowingly being on the way to Hell itself.
- We Have Reserves: He has no real individuality to distinguish himself as a person, and once he's dead, he's replaced immediately in his role by someone just like him.
Kamisaka Rokurou, Asaba Sumi, Michio Yui, Rika Chochi
Kamisaka Rokurou, Asaba Sumi, Michio Yui
Yui (top left), Sumi, Rokurou (top right)
Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (Kamisaka), Yuki Masuda (Asaba), Nozumi Masu (Michio)
Kamisaka Rokurou is a novelist whose mystery book has received negative publicity because of real copycat murders resembling its plot; Asaba Sumi is a reporter whose manuscript on Rokurou's interview is edited by her boss for sensationalist money; Michio Yui is the older sister of one of the copycat killer's victims. Together, they unite to send each of their grievances to Hell all at once.- Asshole Victim
- Rokurou's manager, who encouraged him to publicize his upcoming novel and was looking to exploit him for money. After negative publicity from Sumi's department sensationalizing the story of the copycat murderer, he throws Rokurou under the bus, questioning why he ever published such a "creepy" novel.
- Sumi's editor-in-chief, who took her manuscript and made a sensational story about it, ruining Rokurou's career and life. When she confronts him about this, he angrily tells her off and has no remorse.
- Double-subverted with the copycat killer, Hiroto Ochi, at the center of all this. Yui's meeting with him at prison painted him as mentally ill and having a loose grasp of reality. After meeting Rokurou to determine who is most at fault, Sumi tells her that Hiroto bragged to a bullying victim about lying about it to get a lighter sentence. His mother, whether straight-up believing his lies or heavily in denial, blames Rokurou and sends him to Hell in revenge.
- Mama Bear: Rika Chochi, the killer's mother, sends Rokurou to Hell in retaliation for his actions, also blaming his novel for her son's mental state.
- Misplaced Retribution: Rokurou is just a man that wanted to write a good story and didn't want to be a part of anything that came after he published his novel. He did not deserve to go to Hell and casts a lampshade hanging on how unfair it is.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Asaba Sumi is outraged at what her boss did to her manuscript, citing it is inexcusable to ruin lives for profit. With a destroyed reputation and being literally unable to forgive herself for what she feels she's responsible for, she decides to send him to Hell in penance.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: Rokurou is abruptly sent to Hell after trying to grab some beers to celebrate the sending of his party's grievances. He doesn't go through any punishment and simply finds himself on the boat immediately in abject confusion.
Nomura Nobuo, Sasayama Kokoro
Nomura Nobuo
Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi
A geeky outcast and amateur mangaka that works part-time at a poolside. Any time someone pisses him off, he pins their face on a Dart Board Of Hate (actually a pinup poster) with the intent of sending the person that reaches the top to Hell. Yeah...- Art Shift: His banishment is a ridiculously surreal skit of everyone involved turned into paper cutouts with a real-life hand, possibly a show animator, controlling them.
- Asshole Victim: Downplayed. He's just a stupid, obnoxious kid that didn't mean much harm besides his stint of sending someone off to Hell as some kind of game - which was genuine.
- Butt-Monkey: Most of his screentime is making a complete fool of himself, getting enraged for trivial reasons and suffering from nosebleeds to his pinup poster any time he gets to pinning names.
- Disproportionate Retribution: He goes through about five rounds of Cold-Blooded Torture in his banishment despite not being all that bad. Unusually for this type of series, the whole segment is Played for Laughs.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He gets angered by pretty much everything.
- Lighter and Softer: His episode is the funniest one in the entire series, having nothing in the way of drama. Even his banishment is played for non-dark laughs.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He saves a girl he's been lusting after from committing suicide after she gets cheated on by her boyfriend. He then plans to send the guy to Hell only to find out that girl pulled the string on him, fearing he may tell others of her suicide attempt.
- Nosebleed: He constantly gets the gushing kind of these when interacting with his sexy Dart Board Of Hate.
Sasayama Kokoro
Voiced by: Shion Hirota
A ditzy girl that Nomura pines for.- Disproportionate Retribution: She sends Nomura to Hell thinking he will gossip over her attempted suicide.
- Driven to Suicide: She attempts this after her boyfriend cheats on her. Nomura talks her out of it.
- He Knows Too Much: Kokoro sends Nomura to Hell for knowing of her suicide attempt, fearing he will tell the story to others.
- Skewed Priorities: She sells her soul to eternal damnation for frankly no reason, and her only concern is the sigil on her chest will make her look bad in a swimsuit.
- Ungrateful Bitch: Nomura showed her support and talked her out of ending her life. She not only has no gratitude, but sends him to Hell.
- Valley Girl: She's a stupid girl as evident by the other tropes, but at least she's a looker.
Azusa Mayama
A woman with a grudge against police detective, Norihisa Takasugi, the father of Yuzuki's best friend Akie. In the past, Mayama's father was caught up in an automobile accident caused by the son of the influential Tsujinobashi family, rendering him comatose while the story was covered up by Akie's father. For more on Azusa and Norihisa, see this page.
Kashiwagi Hidemi
Tsuzuki Kinya
Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai
A street punk with dreams of making it big in the world of crime.- Ambition Is Evil: He wants to make it big in crime. While he starts off as harmless, he becomes increasingly dangerous to where there's little pity for him when he dies.
- Asshole Victim: After mugging the bum that only ever showed him kindness and holding Yuzuki at gunpoint, he deserves going to Hell.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: He can't even remember Hidemi's name a day after spending time with her, illustrating he's swindling people like her all the time before moving on.
- Ironic Hell: A man who wants to make it big is shrunk to the size of an ant and terrorized by a gigantic Ai. The transformation sticks when he's being ferried to Hell and lamenting he'll always be small time.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Despite being small-time already, he has a big ego. Hilariously invoked literally in his Ironic Hell.
Kashiwagi Hidemi
Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu
A girl Kinya "befriends" at his part-time in a convenience store.- All Girls Want Bad Boys: She knows Kinya is a thug but wants to believe he has some good in his heart. When he forgets who she is merely a day later, she invokes the contract to send him to Hell. In the epilogue, we see she's taken up visiting the red light district and dating new guys.
- Early-Bird Cameo: She makes a cameo in the epilogue for the episode prior, as Yuzuki has a premonition of the next client.
- Single Tear: She sheds this when Kinya can't remember her face or name a day after their supposed good times.
Michito & Usagi Shinohara
Michito, Usagi
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (Usagi), Takashi Hikida (Michito)
A pair of siblings that despise each other.- The Ace: Subverted. This is what their parents think Michito is, but he's only implied to be an average person struggling to get by. The assumption fuels his resentment against Usagi.
- Book Dumb: Usagi is very much on the slow side mentally. As a result, her parents (and others) shower her with love, something Michito resents her for.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Usagi has romantic feelings for her older brother, which he rebukes because he hates her. Believing he won't return her affections even after they make peace, she sends him to Hell.
- Cain and Abel: Michito resents Usagi for taking all the attention from others for being dumb; Usagi resents Michito for supposedly being The Ace and not returning her romantic feelings. They both consider killing one another through the Hell Correspondence, but it ends with Usagi decisively being Cain to Michito's Abel.
- Dumb Is Good: What everyone assumes about Usagi, but it's subverted by the end.
- Embarrassing Nickname: "Turtle" or "Tortoise" for Usagi from Michito, mocking her slow mind.
- Laughing Mad: When Usagi kills Michito, she descends into unhinged laughter.
- Parental Neglect: Michito's parents neglect him for Usagi thinking he's smart and independent enough to not need them.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: Michito and Usagi seem to make peace and throw their straw dolls away. When Michito opens his house door, he finds himself in a banishment skit; Usagi retrieved her doll when he left and pulled the string on him, believing he won't ever love her romantically despite mending their relationship.
Miyajima Yuki
Miyajima Yuki
Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani
Akihiro Naowa's lover.- The Bad Guy Wins: She gets her revenge and nothing bad happens to her.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She cultivated an image of warmth and understanding to get into someone's life and possibly have her revenge if her suspicions are true.
- Crusading Widow: Her whole motive is to get revenge on her husband's murderer.
- Honey Trap: What she is to Naowa. The episode featuring her is even titled "The Trap of Temptation."
- Moral Myopia: She admits to knowing her husband was a sick piece of work but loved him because he never mistreated her, placing irrational blame on someone that was understandably less forgiving.
Fujko Ashiya
Yamawaro's adoptive mother. She calls upon Ai against her husband Risaburo. See here for more information.
Chiriko Hamano
"Chi-chan"
Voiced by: Aoi Yūki
A Loony Fan of a small radio show. She sends most of the letters read live and is madly in love with its DJ host, Jotaro.- Ax-Crazy: Her obsession is revealed to be more than harmless.
- Disproportionate Retribution: And an extreme case of Misplaced Retribution. Hamano befriends another girl, Haname, who also sends letters to the radio station she loves. Both spurred by their love for Jotaro go to the station to meet him in person but instead meet the scriptwriter of the show. Honored by their dedication, she hands Haname a script from the other day's airing, revealing Jotaro's personality is scripted. Refusing to believe this and becoming wrathful at Haname for breaking her delusion, she sends her to Hell.
- Loony Fan: Her life's happiness evidently only revolves around a TV personality.
- Sanity Slippage: By the end, she's trapped in an insane delusion of denial over what she learned about Jotaro.
- Yandere: What she degrades to from mere Loony Fan after murdering Haname. She's also evidently happy that with Haname's death, only her mails are read.
- Villain Protagonist: By the end, definitely.
Kaori Nakiri
Kaori Nakiri
Voiced by: Fuyuka Ono
The reluctant heir to a prestigious school of flower arrangement.- Brother–Sister Incest: Tsukio is actually her estranged brother, being the result of an external marital affair like Yukina. This means her romantic feelings for him was unwittingly this.
- Cain and Abel: She is a sympathetic Cain to her half-sister, Yukina, who was trying to murder her first.
- Cynicism Catalyst: After she learns of her family's secrets, she cynically resigns herself to her fate.
- Secret Legacy: Her school is built on two houses, one of which is obscured from the public: The Hyyaki school, from which the Nakiri house is founded on, produces flower arrangements based the skulls of deceased members from the whole family. This school can only be succeeded by main family branch members. With Tsukio's impending death, he's set to join the collection of the dead next but doesn't mind.
- The Runaway: She previously ran away away from home hoping to escape the arranged life she didn't want. She's pressured into returning with her father's passing.
- You Can't Fight Fate: As she explains to Yuzuki, she ran away from home wanting to avoid a pre-determined destiny she didn't want for herself. Fate has her inevitably being pulled into her family's succession crisis with her father's passing, though. Not wanting to see someone evil like Yukina desecrate her house legacy, she reluctantly takes on the role of successor. A series of tragic revelations has her even admit to Yuzuki verbatim one can't outrun their fate; a huge foreshadowing of Yuzuki's own fate in the upcoming episodes.
Yukina Kurotsuka
Voiced by: Makiko Nabei
The illegitimate daughter of the Nakiri household. She's returned to coerce her half-sister out of succession, knowing she doesn't want to lead.- Asshole Victim: She's a sociopathic, gold-digging bitch with a murderous lack of regard for anyone but herself - least of all her own family, and not even her own mother was exempt.
- Cain and Abel: She was planning to be Cain to Kaori but was cut short into Abel.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted. She claims her mother wanted to succeed the house on her deathbed, but regardless of if that's true, her sole interest is to sell her family's property and get out.
- Greed: She is defined by her insatiable greed, wanting only to take over the Nakiri household to bleed it dry.
- Hate Sink: If Asshole Victim didn't tip it off, she is also also incredibly unlikable as personality goes, being a murderously mean-spirited woman with a Hair-Trigger Temper.
- Ironic Hell: She tries to sell her family's property and flower-arranging business for her own selfish gain and winds up made into a floral arrangement herself as she's ferried to Hell.
- Never My Fault: When she's being rowed off to Hell, she has the gall to claim nothing was her fault.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: When Kaori refuses to concede succession to her, she tries to have her tea poisoned.
Tsukio Shima
Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno
Kaori's childhood friend, romantic interest, and bodyguard.- Bastard Angst: He's actually an illegitimate son of the Nakiri household and cast out. He eventually found his way back, was taken in and swore loyalty to Kaori.
- Body Horror: He's a shriveled husk by the end due to the poison he ingested.
- Childhood Friend: He's been protecting Kaori for most of her life.
- Death Glare: He gives a bone-chilling one of these confronting the man Yukina blackmailed into poisoning Kaori, scaring the crap out of him.
- Heroic Sacrifice: To demonstrate his conviction, he drinks the poison intended for Kaori, granting her the resolve to kill Yukina and accept her fate as successor.
Shogo Mizorogi, Shinji Kikyo
"Hell Professor" Shogo Mizorogi
Voiced by: Kazuhiko Kishino
A self-stylized professor on all matters Hell Girl. Unlike many egotistical people seen in the show, he's actually legitimate in his reputation, being an ingenious billionaire that provides much exposition on the universe. He devises a means to meet Ai Enma by using Tsugumi Shibata as his artificial grudge.- Alternate Universe: What he speculates the spiritual realms of Hell and Heaven are. He's desperate to break the barrier between the mortal plane and them.
- Abusive Parents: His father was a horrific domestic abuser against his mother, for which she banished him to Hell eventually.
- Affably Evil: He is remarkably polite even if highly amoral in his life's work and goals.
- Asshole Victim: A subversion. Before he can invoke the contract on Tsugumi, he is damned to Hell by his assistant, Shinji, on behalf of the orphans that hate him, but he takes his fate with remarkable grace; he is given the time to admit he was in the wrong, wishes those he brought misery to the best, and is relieved he can be reunited with his mother in Hell.
- The Atoner: The reason he took in so many orphans was due to guilt over his war machines taking their parents away. However, it's eventually subverted in that he started to mistreat them and intended on using them in his experiments of opening a rift to the spiritual realms after his test run with Tsugumi.
- Death Equals Redemption: He is spiritually redeemed upon the contract being invoked against him, and dies with dignity.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He loved his mother dearly. For all his big talk of making new scientific breakthroughs, Ai easily realizes his truest desire is to reunite with his mother.
- Evil Genius: He is a prodigious genius in technological and scientific advancements, even up to the supernatural. Unfortunately, most of what he's made in life is dedicated to bringing harm to others.
- Face Death with Dignity: When he realizes his assistant invoked the contract against him before he could kill Tsugumi, he takes it in stride, acknowledges all his mistakes, and wishes everyone he's wronged the best.
- Foil: An interesting one to Gil de L'enfer, the other threat Ai and co. faced. Mizorogi is an older man while Gil is a younger man. Mizorogi was a genuine threat while in the long run, Gil was not. Their reaction to their fate is also vastly different. Gil was actually terrified of dying while Mizorogi took it in stride. Not to mention, Mizorogi’s politeness is genuine, in contrast to Gil.
- Knight of Cerebus: He nearly kills Tsugumi Shibata, a person close to Ai and her companions, bringing an incredibly thick air of tension among those assistants that can't stand for it. His actions also reveal much of Tsugumi's buried grief and of how despondent she has been since the loss of Hajime.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The orphans he abused invoke a contract through his chief assistant just before he can send Tsugumi to Hell.
- Loony Fan: Of Ai Enma. He's studied everything about her and already knows of most of the significant events in the series.
- Magic A Is Magic A: He's incapable of genuinely hating someone, and thus underwent brainwashing to induce artificial hatred against Tsugumi Shibata in order to meet Ai.
- Muggles Do It Better: Downplayed. He created a machine that was able to repel Ai and her minions, though Ai immediately breaks it when he lowers the power to let her in.
- War for Fun and Profit: He used his ingenuity in scientific advancements to become a billionaire this way in his earlier years, eventually selling off all the fruits of his labor to foreign dictators in order to retire.
- Would Hurt a Child: He isn't shown to be physically or verbally abusive, but his assistant surmises that he will eventually turn his experiments over to the kids he's taken in. And he can simply not stand for it.
Shinji Kikyo
Voiced by: Tetsuharu Ota
Shogo's assistant. He's tasked with, among other things, caring for the professor's adopted children and escorting guests (Tsugumi) to his private residence.- Affably Evil: Despite his shady allegiances, he's never anything but polite and professional to Tsugumi. He nixes the evil bit altogether by the end.
- The Dragon: Obviously to Shogo, though he does turn on him at the end.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Seeing what Shogo is doing to Tsugumi, he draws the line at the possibility of having that happen to the kids and sends him to Hell on their behalf.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He sells his soul to send Shogo to Hell before the more vengeful among the children get a chance to.
Kaito Kikuchi
Kaito Kikuchi
Voiced by: Ikue Otani
A boy recently suffering heinous physical and psychological abuse at the hands of his stepmother.- Ax-Crazy: He sends his would-be brother to Hell from the womb. Days later, he treats it like nothing and somehow resumes a carefree life with his equally insane parents.
- Abusive Parents: His stepmother subjects him to Cold-Blooded Torture for perceived slights and psychologically demeans him every chance she gets.
- Cain and Abel: He murders his would-be brother before he's even born.
- Dysfunctional Family: He and his two parents are a collection of psychos, and Wanyuudo even lampshades it, wondering if they are aware of how insane they are.
- Misplaced Retribution: He refuses to hate his stepmother for her horrible abuse, putting the blame on his upcoming brother.
Otsu Nanami
Voiced by: Yuko Minaguchi
Kaito's stepmother. She used to treat him kindly but has abruptly started abusing him to a horrific degree after becoming pregnant with another son.- Ax-Crazy: One of the more chilling examples in the series, and subdued no less.
- Dissonant Serenity: She never raises her soft voice or loses her dispassionate expression, not even when torturing her stepson or losing her child in the womb.
- Hate Sink: She is a very horrifying example of down-to-earth domestic abuse.
Yukihiko Kikuchi
Voiced by: Nobutoshi Canna
Kaito's father. He knows of Nanami's abuse but refuses to intervene.- Ax-Crazy: He tries to murder his son, blaming him for Otsu's mental state. After Kaito sends his upcoming child to Hell in front of him, he stands down and days later acts like nothing ever happened.
- Misplaced Retribution: And Insane Troll Logic. He somehow thinks Kaito is to blame for his wife's insanity despite knowing he's done no wrong.
- Offing the Offspring: At the height of tensions, he takes Kaito to an undisclosed location with the intent of strangling him to death, only relenting when Kaito invokes the Hell contract and tells him what he did.
- Useless Bystander Parent: He does absolutely nothing to protect Kaito from Nanami's abuse, believing him to be at fault for her insanity.
Misono Twins
Sumika & Yuika Misono
Yuika (left), Sumika
Voiced by: Natsuki Kato (both)
Sumika is the reserved twin sister of the famous model and actress Yuika Misono. She's often bullied by her sister into doing errands, the most recent of which is taking her place after she suffers an injury.- Ambiguous Ending: One of them invokes the contract on the other at the end, but who did it is left completely open-ended, to the point the candle in the closing scene has wax smeared over the name.
- Becoming the Mask: Sumika comes to love the fame and attention that comes with Yuika's job. It's up to the viewer to decide if she'd go as far as killing her to keep it.
- Cain and Abel: Ambiguous as to who is who.
- Driven by Envy: It's shown even before taking her job, Sumika was deeply envious of Yuika's lifestyle. It's no wonder she's unwilling to part with it for her mundane life.
- Jerkass: Behind closed doors, Sumika is a complete bitch not much different from Jun Moriyama pre-reformation.
- Twin Switch: Yuika forces this on her sister after suffering a car accident.
Fumio Mizuhara
Fumio Mizuhara
Voiced by: Daisuke Sakaguchi
An effeminate rich kid subject to savage bullying from schoolmate Tomohide Matsuda.- Bully Magnet: Because of being rich and his absolute refusal to stand up for himself, he's a prime target for bullying.
- Nice Guy: He's a good kid and exudes no malice. It's brought up when he demands to know why Tomohide would torment him, as he's done nothing bad to him or anyone in his life for that matter.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He's more or less Takeru Yukawa with less focus given to him; the screentime is instead given over to his tormentor. And, of course, not being what defined Yukawa.
Norihisa Takasugi, Haruko
Norihisa Takasugi
During the final episode of Mitsuganae, Norihisa Takasugi desires revenge against Azusa Mayama for previously having murdered his daughter. For more information on him, see here.Takumi Tsujinobashi
Voiced by: Jun Konno
The twit at the center of Mitsuganae's Myth Arc. He's responsible for accidentally murdering Azusa Mayama's father in vehicular manslaughter, for which he got off the hook thanks to Norihisa Takasugi.- Asshole Victim: From what little we see of him, he clearly has no remorse over what he was involved in prior. Not that it would have saved him.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Azusa, trembling with rage, does him in like this with a knife.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: How he got away with accidental murder. His family is apparently very influential and feared.
- Upper-Class Twit: He clearly exudes this vibe despite his minimal screentime.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He only appears for the closing scene of Mitsuganae, where he is brutally stabbed to death as the series credits roll.
Haruko
Voiced by: Sayuri Sadaoka
The Takasugi family maid. At the very end, she sends Azusa to Hell of her own volition in order to avenge Akie.Yoi no Togi
Mayama Shizuka
Mayama Shizuka, "Ponta", "Gasball"
Voiced by: Momoe Kishimoto
An outcast that's the victim of vicious cyberbullying.- Bully Magnet: As a result of Yukawa and Yokota (Knight) spreading Malicious Slander, she is the victim of horrific cyberbullying.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Her handlename "Ponta", from her late dog. Yukawa finds it hilarious to her embarassment. On a darker note is "Gasball," the nickname she received to slander her.
- Extreme Doormat: Deconstructed. She is submissive and apologetic to everyone, which disgusted a rebel like Yukawa and caused her to start bullying her.
- One-Steve Limit: Shares her surname with Azusa.
- Sanity Slippage: She descends into paranoid madness over the cyberbullying throughout the episode, culminating in irrationally sending Yukawa to Hell.
Yukawa Asano, "Eve"
Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka
A Delinquent that befriends Shizuka amidst her turmoil.- Asshole Victim: Downplayed. She never wanted the bullying against Mayama to escalate the way did, being sincerely apologetic and trying to be her friend. Regardless, Mayama at the height of her anger won't hear any of it.
- Delinquent: She blatantly doesn't give a crap about authority or societal norms. Mayama being th opposite is what pissed her off in the first place.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: Evidently, she still doesn't like Mayama all that much - but she is sincerely apologetic for the bullying escalating to what it has, trying to befriend her in the process.
- Misblamed: Mayama blames her for spreading all the slander about her and sends her to Hell, refusing to believe Yokota is the culprit after mistakenly interacting with an oblivious girl with the name name.
Touno Nanako
Touno Nanako
Voiced by: Hibiku Yamamura
The leading star of a famous comedy duo. Behind closed curtains, Nanako seems to suffer abuse from her troubled partner.- Ax-Crazy: Her insane clinginess and obsession with Haru can devolve into this, and it even leads her to be able to create a contract with Ai after being rebuked one too many times.
- I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: The whole reason she pursues the occupation of a comedian is to make Haru laugh, feeling indebted to her for befriending her in a time of crisis.
- The Load: Played With. She can't act or emote all that well without a script, but Haru is incapable of writing a script nowadays from her depression.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: She curls up to Haru's leg pleading with her to not leave her when she decides to go drown her sorrows. Haru kicks her off in response.
- Sleeping with the Boss: Nanako at one point slept with the producer to keep her job due to declining ratings.
- Yandere: Over the years, she became this from just wanting to make Haru happy, which freaks the latter the hell out.
Haru
Voiced by: Miyuki Sato
Nanako's bumbling on-screen comedy partner. In actuality, Haru is seemingly behind their success and the dominant of the two.- Death Seeker: She doesn't want to go on living anymore - and Nanako already knew nothing would make her happy anymore. Thus, they make a Suicide Pact with Nanako banishing her to Hell and presumably killing herself off-screen. When she's being rowed to Hell, she is completely relaxed.
- Madness Mantra: Her manuscript is instead pages upon pages of "I CAN'T WRITE" stemming from her depression and writer's block.
- Domestic Abuse: She was a victim of this from her previous stand-up partner and lover. Ironically, she inflicts this on Nanako now, though Nanako herself isn't a saint either.
- Living Emotional Crutch: She is this to Nanako to an obsessive, disturbingly pitiful degree.
- Workaholic: She has hit a writer's block and is constantly working at the expense of her health.
- Suicide Pact: Forms one with Nanako when they conclude they no longer want to go on living but still wish to be together.
- Tragic Dream: Haru wanted a happy career with Nanako, but it was crushed by the strain of what life became under show business.
Akira & Shiori Nagata, Toshio Mikami
Nagata Family (Toshi, Shiori, Kensuke, Asuka, Arina)
Voiced by: Kaori Nakamura (Shiori), Kazumasa Nakamura (Kensuke), Hisako Toujo (Asuka), Nonoka Ono (Arina)
A dysfunctional family comprised of complete psychos sans their youngest daughter, Arina.- Ax-Crazy: All of them except poor, poor Arina.
- Abusive Parents:
- Toshi physically and verbally abuses her daughter-in-law, Shiori, to the point the latter sends her to Hell.
- Shiori hits and verbally abuses Arina and Akira to relieve her anger in a way that's indicative of a bully than any parental figure.
- Antagonistic Offspring: Asuka doesn't give a shit about her parents and is openly spiteful. Later on, she watches Yoshinori beat the shit out of them and doesn't intervene or change her nonchalant disposition.
- Asshole Victim: Toshi and Asuka are both sent to Hell.
- Awful Wedded Life: Kensuke and Shiori hate each other and cheat on one another.
- Big Sister Bully: Asuka is a complete bitch to her younger siblings.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: They're a large family that's almost entirely mutually abusive.
- Broken Bird: Arina is noted to be the only true victim of the family, being raped by her cousin on and off without anyone being able to help, her parents being neglectful at best and abusive at worst. Eventually, her brother becomes a Serial Killer, her parents abandon her, and she's left all alone despondent in a trash-filled home.
- Domestic Abuse: A full family of this. By far the most horrifying and large-scale example of this in the entire series.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- Ai and her companions admit the family is collectively worse than Hell or any perceivable demon.
- Subverted with Kensuke. He claims Yoshinori's parents could be worried he hasn't been at home for days, but it's clear the noise he and Asuka are making is just irritating him.
- Hate Sink: The entire family except Arina and Akira.
- Harmful to Minors: The essence of the household is explicitly stated to be this to Arina and Akira, but especially the former.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Except Arina, all of them up to Akira embody the worst of humanity in one episode. Wanyuudo even cites them being worse than Hell itself. Yamawaro, meanwhile, finds them fascinating.
- Karma Houdini: Shiori and Kensuke leave home to never be seen again, never paying for their actions, though at least the Hell is waiting for Shiori due to her Hell contract, and hopefully it’s soon.
- Lack of Empathy: None of them except Arina and Akira seem to be capable of basic empathy. A good example of this is when Shiori sends Toshi to Hell, the rest aren't too concerned.
- Parental Abandonment: Shiori and Kensuke eventually pack up their bags and leave, never returning again and leaving their remaining kids all alone.
- Parental Neglect: Shiori and especially Kensuke, who while not physically abusive to his children like the former, is completely uncaring of the madness that goes around his house.
- Rape as Drama: Arina has been molested or outright raped by Yoshinori every time he visits, causing her to well up with fear and anger any time she sees him.
- Teens Are Monsters: Asuka, who participates in violence and encourages Yoshinori's psychosis.
- The Sociopath: Every last one of them except Arina and Akira. In the latter's case, he becomes a borderline sociopath when he turns into a Serial Killer out of some misguided sense of justice and grief.
Akira Nagata
Voiced by: Yoshitaka Yamaya
The youngest son of the Nagata household. With how insane his family is, it's up to him to look after Arina's safety.- Ax-Crazy: He and Mikami parallel Bittaker and Norris by the end, complete with eerily similar methods.
- Big Brother Instinct: In a house of madness, Akira tries to shield Arina from the abuse. Later twisted to horrific ways, where he justifies his serial killings as avenging victims like his sister.
- Dirty Coward: Mikami accuses him of being this when he rounds up people his family has wronged, hoping each of them sends one of his family members to Hell until it's just Arina left, but he doesn't volunteer himself. Eventually, he does pull a thread on his sister Asuka, though.
- Freudian Excuse: Even after he becomes a serial killer, it's impossible to not see why he would become so fucked up.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: He justifies him being a Serial Killer with this. It doesn't come off as believable, as he starts to ironically neglect Arina and it's implied he just finds it fun or doesn't care knowing he's going to Hell anyway.
- Serial Killer: He and Mikami become a pair of deranged killers at the end, rationalizing they're going to Hell so morality no longer concerns them.
Toshio Mikami
Voiced by: Shun Horie
An unfortunate teenager savagely bullied by Asuka Nagata and her boyfriend Yoshinori.- Armor-Piercing Question: When he asks why Akira isn't volunteering to pull a thread when he rounds up his family's victims, the latter can't find an answer, and Mikami rebukes him as a coward.
- Ax-Crazy: Along with Akira, he becomes a deranged Serial Killer by the end.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: As one can see.
- Bully Magnet: A victim of horrific bullying led by Yoshinori and Asuka.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Eventually why he finds the resolve to send Yoshinori to Hell...and becoming a Serial Killer.
Yoshinori Nagayama
Voiced by: Arthur Lounsbery
A cousin of the Nagata family, romantically involved with Asuka. To say the least, that's not the worst of it...- Asshole Victim: Gets sent to Hell along with Asuka.
- Ax-Crazy: He's a violent psychopath that rapes his kid cousin and assaults anyone that inconveniences him.
- Freudian Excuse: He claims his parents abuse him and that's why he refuses to leave the Nagata household. Although his delirious rant and personality does not make him sympathetic in any way, considering his dad is the brother of Kensuke, it's believable he was abused to become as fucked as he is.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He's always pissed off by default, and whenever he gets provoked, he inflicts No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on his victims.
- Hate Sink: He's exceedingly obnoxious, violent, and worst of all, a child rapist and abuser.
- Kissing Cousins: He dates Asuka, and he's her cousin by virtue of his father being Kensuke's brother. On a horrific note, he has a thing for Arina and molests her any chance he gets.
- Psychopathic Manchild: He's probably somewhere around 18 but has the disposition of a little kid throwing a deranged temper tantrum whenever he gets upset.
- Shout-Out: When Arina tries to hide herself from him in a bathroom at the end and he breaks his way through the door, the scene and way he peers through the cracks is a clear homage to The Shining.
- Teens Are Monsters: This guy is basically a Serial Killer waiting to happen, though Akira ironically beat him to that as his life is cut short.
- Would Hurt a Child: He's a child rapist, but he also conventionally physically and verbally abuses them as well. It doesn't get much worse than that.
Sakura Kubota
Sakura Kubota
Voiced by: Hiroko Takahashi
An elderly woman suffering from dementia and insane abuse at the hands of a neglectful nursing home.- Death of Personality: Her memories are slowly slipping away from Alzheimers, and as a result, she struggles to maintain her hatred of Yanohara. After she at least manages that, she entirely loses her sense of self.
- Scatterbrained Senior: Played for Drama in that it interferes with her ability to invoke the Hell contract with her hate waning.
- Ship Tease: She has this with Wanyuudo during his time working at the daycare, but due to his occupation and her dementia, it was never going to go anywhere.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Her story, down to the very setting, bears an uncanny resemblance to Kyoko Kazama's from the 2006 drama.
Saeko Yanohara
Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue
The corrupt manager of a famous chain of nursing homes.- Elder Abuse: She doesn't actually give a damn for the eldery folk her nursing homes house. She even encourages her workers to abuse them.
- Hate Sink: She is comically evil and even bloodthirsty when she finally appears in person.
- Only in It for the Money: Her only reason for operating her line of business.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Horrifyingly, she's not above having her goons murder the most far-gone patients she has to make room for more clients. Sakura was next to go until she invoked the contract.
Katsusawa Mother
Satoshi Kazama
Voiced by: Kaeda Yuasa
A child whose family is misblamed for the accidental deaths of three bratty kids.- All the Other Reindeer: Like Michiru, he is an outcast bullied by his peers.
- Back for the Finale: He returns in the epilogue as Michiru's next would-be client before she rebukes him for his specific request and encourages him to make the most of his life.
- Commonality Connection: Michiru recognizes the injustice in Katsusawa's case right away because Satoshi's case directly parallels her own. In fact, it's what fully breaks her out of her amnesiac state.
- Driven to Suicide: He tries to write his own name down in the Hell Correspondence, stating his existence was a burden to his family. While at first Michiru rebukes and scolds him on his naive way of thinking (as shown in the manga, Hell Correspondence can't be used for suicide), she then gives him words of advice to live his life out.
- Misblamed: His father was driving three kids from other families. Said kids were wild brats that made trouble on the car ride, leading to him crashing and leaving all three dead. One of the mothers entirely blamed them for this and tries to send Satoshi to Hell to bring as much pain to them as possible, but relents sobbing at the last moment. Still, this resulted in him trying to send himself to Hell out of guilt and self-loathing.
Yui Aihara
Yui Aihara
Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki
The final client of the series and Michiru's first. Yui Aihara is a woman who seeks vengeance after her father was rendered a vegetable after being attacked by a group of thugs.- Composite Character: Her story and character draw parallels to Miyajima Yuki and Azusa Mayama, although she is more sympathetic and forgiving.
- Despair Event Horizon: Her taking her revenge does nothing to make her feel better; she promptly gives up on her happiness and life knowing she is damned and pulls life support from her father knowing she will go to jail, but she doesn't care, citing Hell is waiting for her anyway.
- Honey Trap: She draws a direct parallel to Miyajima Yuki in this regard, though she comes to genuinely love Tetsuya.
- In Love with the Mark: She more or less intended to kill Tetsuya like Yuki once her suspicions are cleared, though she is anguished by how she genuinely comes to love him.
- Mercy Kill: She pulls the life support from her father after she gets her revenge, going to jail thereafter.
- Revenge Before Reason: Tetsuya pleads with her to not invoke the contract against Kogure, stating he will testify in court against him after mustering the resolve to do so. It goes on deaf ears.
- You Killed My Father: Her father is a vegetable with little to no hope of recovery, thus she lives for revenge against his killer.
Kazuomi Kogure
Kogure (left) and Suzumura
Voiced by: Kenji Hamada
A man who beat Yui Aihara's father into a vegetable in a drunken rage. He got off the hook due to his father's influence.- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Taken to murderously insane extremes when he beats a man into a vegetable for a perceived slight.
- Asshole Victim: The last in the series, and a non-nuanced example of a plain asshole that had everything coming.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Granted, he was piss drunk, but what escalates to attempted murder is a man bumping into him and talking back to him...
- Final Boss: The last antagonist shown in the series.
- Ironic Hell: He's given a massive No-Holds-Barred Beatdown like he gave to Yui's dad before he's banished to Hell.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He and his buddies beat a man nearly to death for a minor slight. Come the last few minutes of the episode, he's on the receiving end.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: How he weaseled out of his atrocious crime.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He is practically Takumi Tsujinobashi in all but name, down to the last detail.
