The cast of the horror manga Ibitsu. Spoilers are unmarked.
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Ibitsu Cast
Kazuki Itou
A college student who lives in a small apartment building. One day, he comes across the Strange Lolita, who begins stalking him after he tells her that he has a younger sister.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: In the final chapter, he begs the Lolita to spare him, offers to become her friend, and even licks her feet to show his sincerity. She accepts- and beheads him so she can place his head in her stuffed animal.
- The Hero Dies: He is beheaded by the Strange Lolita in the final chapter.
Hikari Itou
The younger sister of Kazuki.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Kazuki treats Hikari this way, though it's mostly due to her treating him somewhat like a child, coming into his house and cleaning his room, etc. He appreciates it though.
Yuka
Hikari’s best friend.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: She starts off against the Strange Lolita by slapping, insulting, and attempting to get her to leave Hikari alone. After being beaten down and broken by the Strange Lolita and her sledgehammer, she's quickly sobbing and pleading for her to stop.
- Too Dumb to Live: This trope could apply to nearly everyone, but Yuka has to be the biggest example. When faced with the filthy and creepy Strange Lolita, instead of running away or getting help, she slaps and berates her. Naturally, she's brutalized and killed by the Strange Lolita and her sledgehammer in an agonizing sequence.
Dr. Tanabe
Keiichi Tanabe
The doctor who treated Remina Kanbe. Supposedly, he went insane and massacred several people at the hospital.
- Critical Psychoanalysis Failure: The Lolita's doctor appeared to have gone on a killing spree before committing suicide. But it turned out to have been all her doing.
Remina Kanbe
A little girl who witnessed the murder of her family by her abusive older brother and was institutionalized.
- Big Brother Bully: The Strange Lolita's older brother who regularly abused her, who killed their parents and then himself. Subverted, as he was another victim of the Strange Lolita.
- Self-Made Orphan: The Strange Lolita's brother killed their parents and then himself- or so it seems, but the Lolita was the one who murdered them.
The Strange Lolita
A mysterious girl in a Lolita dress who is the subject of an urban legend. She comes to people and asks them if they have a younger sister- if they answer any way, she will come after them. Kazuki finds himself her latest victim and tries to escape her attempts to become his little sister.
- Ambiguously Human: By the end, every rational explanation for who or what the Lolita is turns out to be either wrong, or a lie she told, leaving the only real options as to her identity as either a super-humanly crafty serial killer, or something not entirely human.
- The Bad Guy Wins: The main story ends with the Strange Lolita, having killed all of Kazuki's loved ones, decapitating him and stuffing his head in her doll, getting the murders pinned on him and looking for her next victim.
- Big Bad: She spends the story tormenting Kazuki and killing everyone he loves to force him to be her big brother.
- Dead Person Impersonation: The Strange Lolita's aim is to kill Kazuki's sister and eventually become her. She also murdered and pretended to be the child in the story."You killed the real Kanbe Remina... and became Remina."
- Ethereal White Dress: Her pure white dress, combined with her white everything else, marks her as a supernatural ghost girl (that is, assuming she is one), and also works to make her unsettling.
- Freudian Excuse: Subverted. It looks as though the Strange Lolita got her emotional problems when her elder brother abused her, murdered their parents and killed himself, but at the end it's revealed that isn't her.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: The Strange Lolita carries around a rabbit doll. That is filled with the organs of her most recent "brother". In the end, Kazuki's insides are stuffed inside.
- Light Is Not Good: She is dressed in white from head-to-toe; Ethereal White Dress, white Parasol of Prettiness, and white hair; and is a possibly-supernatural Serial Killer.
- Little Sister Heroine: A very twisted, Played for Horror invoking of the trope. She asks random men if they have a little sister, and no matter how they answer, will insert herself as their little sister. She does this by stalking them, tormenting them, and killing everyone they love, including actual little sisters, while declaring her love for her Onii-chan.
- Parasol of Prettiness: She always has one with her, giving her a creepy yet ethereal sort-of beauty.
- Serial Killer: Kazuki is horrified to learn, far too late of course, that he's not the first person approached in this manner. The others who became the Strange Lolita's "older brothers" were never heard from again.
- Stalker with a Crush: The "Strange Lolita", though she seems to be seeking more of a (albeit extremely twisted) brother-sister relationship than a romantic one.
- Sugary Malice: Most of her lines are basically typical Little Sister Heroine lines, only coming from the mouth of a possessive Yandere stalker and Serial Killer.
- Vague Age: It is unknown if the Strange Lolita is a Creepy Child Enfant Terrible, a teenager, or an adult woman.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The Lolita is revealed to have been a victim of her older brother's abuse, whom she watched murder her family. However, this gets subverted in the final chapter which reveals she was the one who killed his family before mentally breaking him into thinking he was the abused younger sister.
- Yandere: To anyone who has the misfortune of becoming her “older brother”, as she stalks them, kills any actual sisters they have and other loved ones, and demands they play with her and act as her big brother instead. When she gets tired, she then murders the poor soul and moves on to the next one. Kazuki is merely her latest victim.
The Corridor of Dolls
Yuki
Kaori
Yuuji
Satoshi
The Dolls
- The Bad Guy Wins: They succeed in picking off the four teens.
- Big Bad: They haunt the building where the main characters go and trap them inside to take their skin.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Their aim is to kill their victims and take their skin as their own.
- Murderous Mannequin: In the side story The Corridor of Dolls, there is a hall in an abandoned building filled with discarded mannequins. It's said that if a couple crosses the hall and enacts a small ritual, their love will become eternal. It really does... because the mannequins kill them and wear their skins, remaining ageless and "preserving" them.
Mikasai
The Mysterious Tale of the Editor
Susumo Sano
A struggling mangaka who is offered a job by an odd editor to write a story she has in mind.
Rukina Midorikawa
A fat, ugly, and strange editor who wants Susumo to write a manga starring Alice Yuu, her original character. Though initially harmless, she turns out to be dangerously obsessive over her OC and how his character should be.
- The Bad Guy Wins: She gets her story published and it becomes popular, but since Susumu altered it, she chops off his hand.
- Big Bad: She forces mangaka Susumo Sano to write her story the way she wants it and abuses him when he refuses, eventually kidnapping him.
- Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: On some level, she acts like Alice Yuu, her original character, is literally alive, and demands that Susumo write only the Yuu that she has in her head. Tellingly, when Susumo kills off Yuu in the finale of his in-universe manga, she claims to hear his screams as if he was a real person and yells at Susumo for doing so.
- Expy: Of Annie Wilkes. She's a psycho who's obsessed over a fictional character, and kidnaps an author in order to make him write the perfect story.
- Fat Bitch: As part of her Gonk design, she is quite obese, and is a Yandere towards her mental original character.
- Gonk: She is a Fat Bitch with bad face acne, massive lips, and creepy bangs to give her the grotesque look of a horror monster despite being a human.
- Yandere: In The Mysterious Tale Of The Editor the editor is yandere towards "Alice Yuu", a fictional character she created.
Alice Yuu
An in-universe character created by Rukina. He is a handsome and perfect prince who falls in love. Rukina wants Susumo to write a manga with him as the protagonist.
- Parody Sue: Rukina comically portrays him as an impossibly perfect manga hero and expects Susumo to write him exactly as she demands, then gets angry if he deviates from it.Susumo: Alice Yuu's eyes are cobalt blue. He never goes to the toilet. His sweat smells like roses. His whispers are like the voice of an angel. What is this? Is she making a fool of me? I can't create a manga with these materials! What's with that editor? I can't put up with this!
