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Shibata Family
Hajime
Click to see him in the 2006 TV Drama
Portrayed by: Kazuhiko Nishimura (2006 series)
An intrepid journalist who has made it his mission in life to stop Enma Ai.
- Abusive Parents: He slaps Tsugumi hard during a fierce argument about their opposing views on the Hell Correspondence.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: He is far kinder and less abrasive in the TV drama.
- Anger Born of Worry: When Tsugumi runs off from the aforementioned slap, he is furious when he finds her, but it is revealed to purely be anger born of worry as he embraces her.
- Anti-Hero: It should be noted that, despite his good qualities, he is a paparazzi that blackmails celebrities with incriminating photos for income.
- Beard of Sorrow: After the first season, flashbacks show his chin stubble became a disheveled beard, illustrating his despair in being unable to stop people from using the Hell Correspondence.
- Bumbling Dad: At times, he seems like an older brother to Tsugumi rather than her father. It's clear that in some areas he still has plenty of growing up to do.
- Disappeared Dad: After the first season, it's revealed that Hajime and Tsugumi gradually drifted apart and lost touch. In Mitsuganae, Tsugumi confides to Yuzuki that she no longer has any idea of where her father is.
- Everyone Has Standards: It's all but shown he used to be far worse in terms of journalistic integrity but turned over a new leaf. He's disgusted by his colleague, Takashi Inagaki, who still has no morals or ethics whatsoever.
- Failure Hero: Tragically, he may have only had one success in the whole time he tries to keep people from using the Hell Correspondence with Yuuko. In the vast majority of cases ,he's either too late or says the wrong things that end up ticking off the clients by coming across as preachy or insensitive. He eventually gave up being a hero altogether.
- Happy Ending Override: In the epilogue to the first season, he makes peace with himself and his grief, promising Tsugumi he will never leave her as they go home. Come the next season, their relationship fell apart and he went missing. By the time of The Fourth Twilight, while it's unknown if he's dead or alive, he's long left Tsugumi's now adult life.
- Hero Antagonist: While he can be aggressive, he’s trying to get people not to damn themselves.
- Inspector Javert: He can be understandably aggressive in trying to keep people from using the Hell Correspondence.
- Intrepid Reporter: His job until Tsugumi starts having visions. It's implied he simply used to be an Immoral Journalist.
- Married to the Job: This is what made his wife start cheating on him.
- My Greatest Failure: His wife's death. When Gil de L'enfer tortures him, it's also revealed to be the source of his greatest fears.
- Parting-Words Regret: Regarding the last words he spoke to Ayumi before her death.
- Sins of Our Fathers: Near the end of the first season, Ai tried to kill Hajime and Tsugumi because they are descendants of Sentaro. When that didn't work, she tried to bully Tsugumi into banishing Hajime to hell. It is also possible that Ai simply mistook Hajime for Sentaro.
- Strong Family Resemblance: He looks just like his precursor, Sentaro.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He's tall and pretty attractive despite being fairly rugged.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: A thorough believer in this, but unfortunately for him this series deconstructs it. The people he tries to stop, can't relate to him telling them that killing is wrong; they're often in great emotional pain that's recent and have their intended target taunting them constantly about it, or they know that they're trapped in a 'kill or be killed' situation and having a complete stranger who doesn't know the context only alienates them from his point of view. It gets to the point that even his daughter dismisses him.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: His attempts to stop people from invoking contracts with Ai can fall into this.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He disappeared after writing a book about Ai, and not even his daughter knows where he is. Tsugumi does recall that he simply became "tired" of trying to stop people from condemning themselves to Hell in the name of revenge. Ai and her minions haven't seen or heard of him either, so he's possibly not dead, but that's all we know.
Tsugumi
Click to see her as an adult
As she appears in the 2006 TV Drama
Voiced by: Nana Mizuki (Japanese), Luci Christian (English), Leisha Medina (Latin American Spanish)
Portrayed by: Saaya Irie (2006 series)
Hajime's young daughter. She is a moderately strong Seer with a semi-limited ability to see through the Hell Girl's eyes, usually when receiving a client.
- Age Lift: The anime introduces her as a little girl, but in the live-action adaptation she's already a teenager.
- Break the Cutie: Her father leaving her life did a number on her.
- Broken Bird: By the third season, she’s evolved to this. Both of her parents are gone, leaving her on her own.
- Calling Parents by Their Name: She almost always calls her father "Hajime-chan".
- The Cameo: She makes a very insubstantial but meaningful cameo towards the end of the second season, giving Seiichi some vague advice before running off.
- Curtains Match the Window: Her hair and eyes are both brown.
- Death Seeker: She admits in Mitsuganae it would be a relief if Mizorogi killed her, no longer wanting to be burdened with the loneliness that has plagued her since Hajime left her life. However, when the ordeal with the professor is over, she doesn't try to kill herself and just drags along living.
- Dead Person Conversation: Every conversation she's had with Yuzuki is revealed to have been one. She also has a brief one with Michiru in the fourth season, but it goes nowhere.
- Failure Hero: Like Hajime before her, this is what Tsugumi comes to see herself as after failing to stop anyone from exacting their grudges through Hell Girl.
- Girlish Pigtails: She often ties her hair into two braids, highlighting the cute child that she is. As she grows older (and more cynical), she discards this hairstyle.
- Godiva Hair: When she bathes, she has this over her breasts.
- Happy Ending Override: Her bond with Hajime fell apart after the first season despite the optimistic outlook for the future.
- Hospital Hottie: Doubtlessly as a tribute to Sakuragi, she takes up being a nurse as an adult. And as male students of the school she was working at can attest to, she is very hot.
- Lonely Piano Piece: Her theme in Mitsuganae is a sad piano piece, reflecting her mental state after having given up on stopping the Hell Correspondence and knowing that she can do nothing to help Yuzuki.
- Meaningful Appearance: She wears a round barrette to pin her bangs. Before the school nurse was officially revealed to be an adult Tsugumi in season three, this was the viewer's hint to her identity.
- Morality Pet: Serves as one of sorts towards Ai’s group.
- Not Afraid to Die: As an adult, Tsugumi is completely flippant to dying or whatever ill fate may come her way.
- Odd Friendship: While "friend" from Tsugumi's point of view is unlikely, she has a particular bond with Ai's entourage from their experiences; they very much clearly care for her, becoming gravely fearful when she was about to be consigned to Hell by Shogo Mizorogi.
- Parental Abandonment: Hajime left her before she even left childhood.
- Recurring Extra: She's the only major supporting character who makes recurring appearances in all seasons.
- School Nurse: As a young adult, she is the nurse at Yuzuki's school.
- Seeing Through Another's Eyes: She is somehow able to see through Ai Enma's eyes as the Hell Girl meets with her clients, and she uses this ability to help Hajime track the clients down. She keeps this ability as an adult.
- Seer: As a psychic, she has a link with Ai Enma that enables her to catch glimpses of contracts and recognize Ai and her companions regardless of their abilities to Ret-Gone. Yuzuki mistakenly believed this meant Tsugumi was fated to be a Hell Girl, but Tsugumi debunks it.
- Sins of Our Fathers: Ai tried to kill Hajime and Tsugumi because they are descendants of Sentaro. She then tried to pressure Tsugumi into banishing Hajime to Hell.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Subverted. Though she recurringly appears from season to season after the first, she has absolutely no bearing on changing the events that occur.
- Strong Family Resemblance: As a child, she already looks like a younger clone of her mother. When we see her as a young adult, she's virtually indistinguishable from what her mother looked like.
- Took a Level in Cynic: She is more reserved and embittered after Hajime left her.
- Tragic Keepsake: Her mother's earrings, which she wears on a pin. As of Mitsuganae, she cherishes a photo of Hajime and her from happier times.
- The Unchosen One: Yuzuki believed Tsugumi's visions meant that she was fated to become the next Hell Girl, and she had managed to escape it. Subverted when she tells Yuzuki that she was never intended to be the next Hell Girl and You Can't Fight Fate.
- You Can't Fight Fate: Her eventual opinion regarding the Hell Correspondence after so long of seeing people send one another to Hell. In Mitsuganae, she tells Wanyuudo she was in town trying to subvert this by steering Yuzuki on a different path, but it falls flat.
Ayumi
Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame (Japanese), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English), Rebeca Aponte (Latin American Spanish)
Hajime's late wife. When he caught her cheating on him, he chased her away, resulting in her dying in a car crash.- Adaptational Heroism: Her flaws are omitted from the TV drama.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Cries and begs for Hajime to take her back in. He rebukes her, harshly.
- Curtains Match the Window: Like Tsugumi, she had brown hair and eyes.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the TV drama, she was sent to Hell by Tetsu in a fit of misplaced retribution against Hajime.
- Driven to Suicide: It's heavily implied that she drove into the pole on purpose after Hajime refused to forgive her or let her see Tsugumi.
- Happily Married: To Hajime in the TV drama, contrasting their troubled relationship in the anime.
- Missing Mom: She died in an accident after an argument with Hajime, while Tsugumi was still a toddler.
- Parental Neglect: Hajime accused her of this when she went out with the man she cheated on him with at night, leaving Tsugumi alone.
- Posthumous Character: She died in a car crash before Ai came into contact with Hajime and Tsugumi, so we only get to see her alive in flashbacks.
Lovely Hills
Takuma Kurebayashi
Voiced by: Ayumi Fujimura
The only child of the Kurebayashi family. He's blamed for murdering his mother and assaulting his father when the perpetrator, Toshiya Kakinuma, is banished to Hell at the scene before being able to murder him as well. When people begin disappearing around town as a result of the Hell Correspondence being misused, the townsfolk blame him. As the disappearances continue, people begin to fear that he has supernatural powers and begin calling him the "Devil's Child."
- Age Lift: He's very young in the anime, about primary school age (or middle school, at most). The manga turned him into a high schooler.
- Bittersweet Ending: His father recovers but Hotaru doesn't fully do so, still trapped in a coma from her Bungled Suicide. Although his name is cleared, Lovely Hills is abandoned as its populace is decimated and he's forced to move out. Despite all this, he's shown to be happy and optimistic for the future.
- Break the Cutie: His whole story is just one big Trauma Conga Line.
- Commonality Connection: His persecution by the townspeople gives a strong one with Ai, to a point she can't bring herself to ferry him to Hell and turns the boat around.
- Kid Hero: He is the protagonist of the second season's central story arc.
- "No More Holding Back" Speech: He confesses after his failed banishment he was holding back all his hate in a grand speech, and that there was no need to hold back anymore. He promptly goes around setting the various houses of Lovely Hills on fire and isn't afraid to threaten people with it either.
- Red Baron: Subverted. People began calling him the Devil's Child for things that aren't even his fault.
- Sequel Non-Entity: Unlike Tsugumi, we never see him again after Futakomori.
- The Scapegoat: Good heavens. After being falsely accused of murder, people who use the Hell Correspondence blame the resulting disappearances on him.
- Trauma Conga Line: Let's count the ways: his mother is murdered in front of him, watches his father almost bleed out to death, and is then promptly assaulted by the culprit with a broken bottle before he magically disappears in front of him. He's then blamed for the incident and persecuted by his whole town as a demon, witnesses his only friend get to Hell, and finally is betrayed by the only other person that showed him kindness after her brother is murdered.
Hotaru Meshiai
Voiced by: Fuyuka Ōura
Seiichi's younger sister and only remaining family. She befriends Takuma after finding out that he isn't responsible for the disappearances around town, much like Seri.
- Big Brother Worship: She is very devoted to her older brother.
- Big "NO!": When Seiichi is banished, she screams this.
- Bungled Suicide: After attempting to banish Takuma, she wades out into a lake so she can freeze to death and be with Takuma in Hell. She survives but is hospitalized.
- Declaration of Protection: Hotaru vows to protect Takuma in an intimate moment, though she caves when her brother dies.
- Despair Event Horizon: After her brother gets banished, she tries to banish Takuma and drown herself so she can join them in Hell.
- Freak Out: When Kikuri brings her to Ai's hut, she looks behind the sliding door and gets a good look at Ai's "grandmother." She runs away in terror. Then Kikuri drags her behind the sliding door again and drops her screaming into a void where the vigils of avenged clients are lit.
- Heroic BSoD: When Seiichi is banished, she accesses the Hell Correspondence. She thinks that with Takuma gone, things in her hometown will calm down.
- Only Friend: To Takuma after Seri's passing.
Seiichi Meshiai
Voiced by: Satoshi Hino
A prominent police detective investigating the mysterious murders and disappearances in Lovely Hills.- Big Brother Instinct: He is very protective of Hotaru, and her being in danger is what gives him his Heroic Second Wind to escape confinement.
- Big Damn Heroes: Saves Hotaru and Takuma from being drowned by the insane locals in the nick of time.
- Big Good: He's a figure of authority and one of the few in Lovely Hills that isn't insane and willing to help Takuma in order to end the crisis.
- Bound and Gagged: He's thrown into a locker room after getting the shit beat out of him by a mob.
- Godzilla Threshold: When hell on earth literally breaks loose, he resolves to use his gun, which scares away the crazed townsfolk.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He gets this from Tsuyuki and his cronies for threatening to expose the truth of Lovely Hills.
- Police Are Useless: Averted. He's about as useful as can be despite his initial suspicions of Takuma.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: As he's driving out of town with Hotaru and Takuma in tow, he's abruptly banished to Hell.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He's practically a stand-in for Hajime Shibata, to the point the latter prophesized someone like him would be the next lading hero. Hajime left behind writings to help and Tsugumi accordingly steers him on the right path per daddy's will.
Tsuyuki's mob
Yasushi Tsuyuki
Voiced by: Chikao Ohtsuka
A crazed man that misused the Hell Correspondence and seeks to pin all blame on Takuma to absolve himself of his guilt.- Arc Villain: Of the second season's main story arc. He is the ringleader of a dangerous mob that sets out to lynch Takuma.
- Ax-Crazy: He evidently went insane from using the Hell Correspondence, embarking on a mad journey to murder a child to take his mind off the guilt he bears.
- Dirty Coward: His essence is this. He refuses to accept the fact he sent someone to Hell, and along with Misuzu, he constantly forces all the dirty work onto Yasuharu.
- Hate Sink: He's arguably one of the biggest in the franchise, being a despicable, irrational mob leader that brings endless misery to two kids and Ai herself.
- Karma Houdini: When Takuma testified, he fled Lovely Hills with his other cohorts and went into hiding. No one's seen or heard of them since.
- Never My Fault: He refuses to own up to the fact he used the Hell Correspondence. When Seiichi calls him out on the proof, he freaks the hell out.
- Would Hurt a Child: He leads a lynching mob against a small boy and tries multiple times to murder him and his only friend, a teenage girl.
Misuzu Hasue
Voiced by: Rumiko Ukai
Yasuharu's wife and Tsuyuki's closest cohort. She was responsible for sending Seri Mizutani to Hell, for which she feels her husband is indebted to her.- Dirty Coward: Like Tsuyuki, she bullies her husband into doing most of the dirty work.
- Entitled Bitch: She drags around her husband into Tsuyuki's schemes repeatedly claiming he owes her for getting rid of Seri.
- Hate Sink: She's like a gender-flipped Tsuyuki.
- Karma Houdini: She went into hiding with the rest of her cohorts when Takuma testified with the truth.
- Villainous Breakdown: She loses it when Takuma sets her house on fire.
Yasuharu Hasue
Voiced by: Kunihiro Kawamoto
A nervous landowner that's effectively being forced into evil by his wife.- Anti-Villain: He doesn't want to be a part of anything he's forced into with Tsuyuki's mob but is (understandably) too afraid to turn on them.
- Dare to Be Badass: After spending all his screentime cowering, he's the one who starts assaulting Ai after she materializes as a mortal, screaming in fear he doesn't want to go to Hell.
- Forced into Evil: As we see any time he's about to do something bad, he's pressured by others into staining his hands.
- Hero Killer: He's forced to send Seiichi to Hell.
- Karma Houdini: He's been missing in hiding since Takuma testified.
- Nervous Wreck: Ever since Seri started blackmailing him, he's been a jittering wreck, which is exacerbated by being dragged along into a murderous conspiracy afterward.
- Self-Harm: He futilely tries to scratch off the sigil from his chest after banishing Seiichi.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: He's guilt-ridden and shaking when he's forced to drown Hotaru and Takuma.
Toshiya Kakinuma
Toshiya Kakinuma
Voiced by: Tōru Furusawa
A washed out movie director. Having gone insane with grief, he places all his misfortunes on his former best friend, Eiichi Kurebayashi.- Accidental Murder: He accidentally kills Eiichi's wife while throwing darts through their window. By his admittance, he didn't intend that, but he doesn't give much of a crap anyways.
- Ax-Crazy: The man is completely off his rockers.
- Awful Wedded Life: His wife hates him. Though he doesn't hate her back the same, he's way more concerned with taking his anger out on the Kurebayashis and reliving the glory days in his imagination.
- Dartboard of Hate: He spends a lot of his time throwing darts at a surfboard, picturing it as Eichi in his mind.
- Death Glare: He peers over at the Kurebayashi household with a bone-chilling one of these from the slits of his curtains.
- Glory Days: Deconstructed. He's obsessed with reliving his glory days and his inability to take responsibility for his failures or move on has destroyed him mentally.
- Ironic Name: Toshi means "quick, clever, sharp" (敏) (toshi). He's an impulsive, short-sighted psychopath.
- Never My Fault: He refuses to admit anything is his fault. He blames his misfortunes on Eiichi for moving abroad for work and leaving him behind to "fend for himself."
- Would Hurt a Child: He was about to turn Takuma into mincemeat before being banished.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only lasts one episode, but his actions kickstart the Lovely Hills story arc and have profound consequences for the cast at large.
Sayaka Yoshizaki
Sayaka Yoshizaki
Voiced by: Chie Matsuura
Kakinuma's depressed lover.- Accidental Hero: She banishes Kakinuma moments before he's about to shank Takuma to death.
- Awful Wedded Life: Not only does she resent her husband, but she's also grossed out by his horrible actions against the Kurebayashi family.
- Back for the Dead: She later returns in another episode interrogated by the police over her husband's disappearance. While contemplating her actions on the road, she crashes her vehicle and dies.
- Tragic Dream: Tearfully laments of the life that could have been when preparing to send Kakinuma to Hell.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She doesn't last long, but her death leads Seiichi on Hajime's trail and proves to him Takuma is completely innocent.
Seri Mizutani
Voiced by: Kaori Shimizu
A chipper girl whose house was torn down by the Hasue family to make way for a railway station...which never came to pass. Being penniless and consumed by hate, she extorts Yasuharu Hasue for money with the intent to move out of Lovely Hills.- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: She tearfully begs Ai to turn the boat around.
- Asshole Victim: Severely downplayed. Her actions are portrayed as wrong and she makes no justifications for what she's doing is anything less than bad. Still, Takuma tearfully professes to her motorbike remains those who do bad get what's coming to them, and he warned her multiple times to stop.
- Blackmail: Aside from revenge, she's extorting Yasuharu Hasue for money so she can move away from Lovely Hills.
- Cooldown Hug: She bursts out of the shower to embrace Takuma when he breaks down confessing his sorrow.
- Hated Hometown: She despises Lovely Hills and wants far away from it. As we see what the populace is like, it's not hard to see why.
- Nice Girl: Besides her shady actions in extorting a man, she is genuinely a compassionate and kindhearted girl.
- Only Friend: She was the only one who showed kindness to Takuma and believed in him before passing.
- Revenge: Her beloved home was torn down by the Hasue family for the construction of a railway station, but that station was never built, meaning it was for nothing. For this, she wants almost nothing more than to get back at them.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She only lives for one episode but has a profound impact on Takuma's psyche in the episodes to come, fueling his intense distrust and hate of Ai.
Three Vessels (Mitsuganae)
Akie Takasugi
Akie Takasugi
Voiced by: Kanae Oki
Yuzuki's classmate and best friend.- Attempted Rape: Azusa sends a thug after her while she is taking a shower. Luckily, her father saves her, but sadly not from her fate soon after.
- Dragged Off to Hell: She's sent to Hell by Azusa.
- The Bus Came Back: Somehow, she returns from Hell in order to be Yuzuki's servant after Yuzuki takes over as Hell Girl. Subverted as it's not actually her, just an illusion created by the Lord of the Hell - and the deception enrages Yuzuki.
- Killed Off for Real: Beyond the illusion the Lord of Hell creates, she never comes back from Hell and is presumably still there by the end of the series.
- Genki Girl: Energetic, cheerful, and tomboyish, she perfectly contrasts the shier and soft-spoken Yuzuki.
- Misplaced Retribution: One of the most tragic victims of this as Azusa sends her to Hell to cause her father as much pain as possible.
- Sins of Our Fathers: She's targeted by Azusa solely because she's the daughter of the man she has a grudge against.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She dies within the first half of Mitsuganae, but her death is a large part of what fuels Yuzuki's rage.
- Unwitting Muggle Friend: She's not affiliated in the Hell Girl business in any way, and serves as the only link Yuzuki has to a normal life.
Azusa Mayama
Azusa Mayama
Voiced by: Ryōka Yuzuki
A woman Akie incidentally befriends. As Azusa amusedly notes, fate brought them together, as she has an undying grudge against her father...- Alas, Poor Villain: Despite how horrendous she is, the last episode makes it painstakingly clear how Azusa is a prisoner to her hatred - and how pitiable she actually is.
- Arch-Enemy: To Yuzuki after becoming Hell Girl. When Norihisa refuses to send Azusa to Hell even when being goaded to, Yuzuki decides to kill her before being stopped by the Lord of Hell.
- Arc Villain: Of Yuzuki's human story, and Mitsuganae as a whole.
- Ax-Crazy: Azusa Mayama is rage and grief personified, and she would have been a perfect Hell Girl candidate if not for Yuzuki being nominated.
- Back for the Finale: She returns in the final episode to resolve Yuzuki's story.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Even though it ends with her death, she gets full revenge on Norihisa and Takumi Tsujinobashi, killing the latter.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Her deep love for her father, who was unjustly rendered comatose and eventually dies, is what fuels her rage.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: While she got her revenge, she's still prematurely sent to Hell at the end of the season by Norihisa's maid, sparing his soul from having to do the deed himself and indirectly avenging Akie.
- The Last Dance: As evident from her reaction while she's being ferried to Hell, she knew she was going to be banished by someone she wronged, but dies content with getting her final revenge.
- Revenge: She only lives for revenge against those that took her father's life.
- Shadow Archetype: As pointed out in the finale by Ai, Azusa is essentially Yuzuki had she lived to adulthood: She is an impoverished woman futilely trying to care for her only family, cast out of society due to the corrupt influence of the Tsujinobashi family. In any other case, her rage would make her a candidate for a Hell Girl as well.
Norihisa Takasugi
Norihisa Takasugi
Voiced by: Banjo Ginga
Akie's father and chief of a police force. In the past, he was involved in a homicide scandal that left Azusa Mayama living for revenge against him.- Back for the Finale: Along with Azusa to tie up loose ends and end Yuzuki's tale.
- Cycle of Revenge: Subverted with Norihisa, who can't bring himself to send Azusa to Hell. His maid Haruko carries it for him, however.
- Dirty Cop: He let Takumi Tsujinobashi go in the past despite blatantly being the culprit in an attempted homicide. He's not proud of this moment at all, however.
- Drowning My Sorrows: After Akie is gone, he becomes a disheveled shut-in.
- Good Parents: To Akie. It's to a point even when she says she hates him for what he did before, he doesn't get angry unlike a lot of jackass parents in this series, but fully understands her sorrow.
- Heel Realization: Seeing Azusa care for her dying father makes Norihisa fully grasp how much pain he's caused her. He can't bring himself to send her to Hell after seeing the sight.
- My Greatest Failure: He has clear shades of this over the Tsujinobashi scandal.
- Papa Wolf: He manhandles the would-be rapist Azusa sends after his daughter.
Other Media
2006 Drama
Tetsu
Tetsu
Portrayed by: Yoji Tanaka
A main supporting character in the TV drama. He is a close friend of the Shibata family, bordering on a parental substitute for Tsugumi in Hajime's busy life. He runs a coffee shop that Hajime and Tsugumi frequent.- Affectionate Nickname: "Master" Tetsu.
- Cool Uncle: To Tsugumi.
- Everyone Has Standards: He's disapproving of Hajime's rather unethical line of work and subtly nudges him to turn over a new leaf.
- Nice Guy: In a cast otherwise filled with flawed or immoral players, Tetsu is genuinely kind and understanding.
- Parental Substitute: His bond hits this close with Tsugumi, whose mother is dead and father is often busy with work.
- Supreme Chef: He makes some damn fine coffee and curry as the Shibatas can attest to.
- The Quiet One: Very softspoken and reserved.
2019 Film
Miho Ichikawa
Miho Ichikawa
Portrayed by: Nana Mori
A meek high school girl turned delinquent after befriending Haruka Nanjo.- Beneath the Mask: It can be inferred from the early scenes in the movie that, despite appearing as a quiet and submissive girl, she longs for thrills in life. It's probably why she so easily gets influenced by Haruka.
- Delinquent: After befriending Haruka, she becomes this.
- Extreme Doormat: To her school friends and later Haruka.
- Only Friend: She is this to Haruka and vice versa after she becomes a delinquent.
Haruka Nanjo
Haruka Nanjo
Portrayed by: Mina Oba
An awful delinquent girl that hits it up with Miho regardless after a chance encounter.- Ambiguous Innocence: Although she claims to not be brainwashed when Miho assumes she's been drugged by Maki, her earlier reluctance to leave Miho at Maki's demand, remorse, and lack of any loyalty to Maki after he dies, leaves it ambiguous.
- Antagonistic Offspring: At the height of her possible drug-fueled madness, she beats her mother, though she claimed it's not the first time when Miho confronts her over it.
- Ax-Crazy: Although she's already pretty nuts, to begin with, the more she gets involved with Maki, she becomes even more aggressive. Undone by the end.
- Delinquent: A violent delinquent somewhat like Leon Yamada from the anime, although nowhere near that bad.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She does genuinely care for Miho; despite her rebuking her friendship later in the movie, it's likely she was brainwashed by Maki, and by the end, they are friends again with Haruka regretful of everything.
- Only Friend: Understandably for someone like her, Miho is her only friend, with Haruka having saved her from a molester.
- Teens Are Monsters: She is a terribly aggressive delinquent that breaks all societal norms and even beats her own mom.
Jin Kudo
Portrayed by: Kazuki Namioka
A bumbling reporter that has a history with Maki.- Cruel and Unusual Death: He's stabbed to death by Maki and left to bleed out.
- Didn't Think This Through: Kudo knows Maki is dangerous but really underestimated how when conducting his investigative work into him.
- Failure Hero: His mother used the Hell Correspondence and died in sheer anguish, encouraging Kudo to try to nudge others from not using the service. He doesn't ever succeed and dies as well.
- Mama's Boy: He was very attached to his mother and hopes he can be in Hell with her as he's bleeding out - despite him having done no wrong, personally.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of Hajime, though there are significant differences.
- Vengeful Ghost: When the time comes to send Maki to Hell, he comes back briefly as an onryo to stab Maki.
Himamura Village (Mioyosuga)
Asuka Kambayashi
Asuka Kamabayashi
Voiced by: Yukina Fujimori
A former classmate of Yuzuki's. She has a strong sense of independence because she lost her parents at a young age. She doesn't trust most people but feels she has a kinship with Yuzuki.- No Social Skills: She is sweet but very reserved as a result of past trauma.
- Parental Abandonment: Her parents were both killed before her eyes as a child.
- Satellite Character: Asuka is mostly defined by her sparse interactions with her other friends, namely Yuzuki.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: When the murders escalate in Himamura, Asuka goes missing. In various ending scenarios, she was never seen again and labeled missing.
Ayumi Shinozaki
Ayumi Shinozaki
Voiced by: Maki Kobayashi
The daughter of a priestess of the Himamura Shrine.- Awful Truth: It's the theme of her episode. her family is the one that fabricated the history of Rokudo Rui over Ai Enma's legacy, a fake Hell Girl actually a hitwoman handpicked from young girls in the village. The character of Rokudo Rui periodically emerges to murder village dissenters to inspire fear and order.
- Childhood Friends: She goes further back with Tomohiko than Haruto as borderline non-blood relatives.
- Oh, Crap!: One scenario has her wake up to see Asuka looming over her, weapon in hand. She can only muster this reaction and an unfinished apology before being caved into meat.
- The Gadfly: Outside of her shrine duties, she is very flirty and loves to tease Haruto in particular.
- Hopeless Suitor: She pines for Haruto, not knowing how he actually feels about her deep down. Subverted in one route, however.
- Nice Girl: Of all the shady or unpleasant characters in Himamura, Ayumi can be the only one said to be truly kind and pleasant.
- I Did What I Had to Do: When Asuka comes at her with the intent to murder her, she invokes the contract against her. When Yuzuki confronts her in the aftermath, she anxiously says it was all she could do.
- Little Miss Badass: She is perky, spunky, and eventually discovers the truth behind the entire conspiracy of Himamura all on her own despite the danger.
Haruto Kusao
Haruto Kusao
Voiced by: Tetsuto Furukawa
The popular son of the head of Himamura Village.- Abusive Parents: Yasaharu is a domineering beast of a man that screams at Haruto for anything short of perfect grades and implores him to cut ties with his few friends.
- Broken Ace: Despite being revered for his talents and cool personality, he is deeply disturbed and hurting on the inside.
- Evil Feels Good: Subverted. When his father is discovered murdered, he initially expresses feeling great for a moment, but this quickly turns over to anger and emptiness.
- Maybe Ever After: For the most part, despite rebuking Ayumi's romantic advances and even resenting her to a degree, one route has them pursue a closer relationship.
- Misplaced Retribution: Due to the fact Ayumi lets on more than she knows and is playing coy with him, supposedly for his safety, Haruto can irrationally send her to Hell in multiple episodes depending on the player's choices.
- Together in Death: In the worst possible ending, he is persecuted as a misblamed conspirator of Asuka's rampage and fatally shot by police officers. With no way out and both on the run, he invokes the contract on Asuka with her consent so they can be in Hell together.
Tomohiko Matsukata
Tomohiko Matsukata
Voiced by: Yuya Sawaguchi
An ostracized loner. He was implied to have been kinder in the past but the mysterious deaths of his older sister and father have shaken him to the core.- All the Other Reindeer: His father was already a depraved scumbag hated in the village, but with his death and imprints of Rui Rokudo's designs, the villagers all shun Tomohiko due to the implication his dad was a traitor.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: In all scenarios he dies, his head is caved into unrecognizable gore, having been smashed in repeatedly by a crowbar.
- Jerkass: He's very abrasive and unfriendly to just about everyone, especially Haruto. However, he has a soft spot for Ayumi even now.
- Misplaced Retribution: He irrationally comes to the conclusion Haruto and his family by extension are behind his misfortunes. Should Haruto kill Ayumi in some scenarios, Tomohiko's paranoia will reach its peak and he'll send him to Hell for the wrong reasons.
- Trauma Conga Line: His sister went missing (actually sent to Hell), and his father as well, later found dead. Both seen as the handiwork of Rui Rokudo, he is shunned as an outcast with only Misaki left to genuinely care for him.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Haruto. They can reconstruct their friendship in one route.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Ayumi notes he used to be very sweet and not like what he is now.
Misaki Kasama
Misaki Kasama
Voiced by: Risa Asagi
The Matsukata family maid.- Beware the Quiet Ones: When Asuka kills Tomohiko in the routes she doesn't also get Misaki, Misaki will hunt her down and kill her. As seen in the main scenario climax during Haruto's episode, she is more than capable of standing her ground in a straight fight.
- Blood-Splattered Innocents: After chasing down and killing Asuka in a defined route, she appears before her household caked in blood, shocking Yuzuki and Ayumi before she passes out.
- Extreme Doormat: Despite Nobuhiko's abuse, she feels indebted to him. It's played with in a horribly disturbing way, with implications of grooming and manipulation. That said, after he rapes her (again) as we see in the story, she accesses the Hell Correspondence to take him out.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How she kills Asuka in every scenario she finds her. In the worst route, Misaki herself is impaled in the heart by Asuka, killing her instantly.
- Parental Abandonment: She is an orphan.
- Rape as Drama: Nobuhiko rapes her once on-screen and is suggested to often molest her when no one is looking.
- Satellite Character: She is so defined by her loyalty and interactions with Tomohiko that it comes as a shock to some people in the community when they're separated.
