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Emergency Everyday
For characters who appeared in the Vaporware Spiritual Predecessor to the Len'en Project, Emergency Everyday
. Lapxus in general
Lapxus is a club of odd, unusual, or otherwise quirky people who work together to, as according to the club decree, "create things". Currently, a large amount of their members disappearing has become a large incident in the real world; their real situation being that they have been spirited away to a "2D world" for reasons unknown.
- Ambiguous Gender: Completely averted, as opposed to the way genders work in the current Len'en Project. All featured Lapxus members are clearly male.
- Author Avatar: The entire group of Lapxus once existed in real life as a short-lived doujin circle, with all members being given their own seperate Author Avatars within Emergency Everyday. As it stands now, all rights to the Len'en Project have been given to the current developer, JynX, who saw the members of Lapxus as "upperclassmen" to him.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The prologue states that they're supposedly dedicated to "creating things", but in practice are more of a "do-nothing club".
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: What Lapxus as a whole is compromised of. Of the members shown, we have two Know-Nothing Know-It-Alls, one being a Godlike Gamer, and another being a nonsensical Otaku with wish fulfillment fantasies, a perverted Mad Bomber Shout-Out to Metal Gear, and a now-deceased Vengeful Ghost.
- Self-Deprecation: Given that all members of Lapxus in-game are based off of real people, the ways that they are portrayed (described below) should speak volumes.
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Spiritual Predecessor: The group's situation is this to the situation that the cast of Evanescent Existence is dealing with, especially given the repercussions of their disappearance from the Outside World, down to the fact that it has become a widely-spread news story.
Serintsu
- Otaku Beyond Human Intellect
- Serintsu"Hello?! A whole other world?! Can you say GIT HYPE?!"
An otaku who is friends with many members of Lapxus, to the point where he is treated as an honorary member. While already an extremely-extroverted oddball from the start, being inexplicably transported to another world as a result of their uncontrollable power to cross dimensions may exacerbate problems further.
- Author Avatar: Implied, given that the other named members of Lapxus are named after the actual developers of Emergency Everyday.
- Book Dumb: To the point where he can't bother with understanding the mathematics and physics needed to control his own ability.
- Boyish Short Hair: Short gray hair.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Even among the weirdos that make up Lapxus, Serintsu stands out by a considerable margin. Unsurprisingly, many of Serintsu's personality traits would later be passed along to both Yabusame and Clause.
- Eye Color Dissonance: The quality of the video that shows off Emergency Everyday (the only evidence of its' existence) makes it extremely hard to tell as to what Serintsu's eye color is, with most people seeing his eyes as gray as their hair, while Re;Emergency Everyday sees their eye color as yellow instead.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Has the desire to be as cool as the person he plays himself up to be; coincidentally, his sudden warping to "the 2D world" gives him that opportunity.
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Very clearly meant to be portrayed as this, given his heavy Otaku tendencies and his generally-bizarre worldview. Even
Word of God states that as smart as he makes himself look and sound, he does not have any legitimate academia to back himself up with. - Leet Lingo: Has a tendency to use informal internet slang and odd 2ch memes in his sentences.
- Leitmotif: While he has none in the original game, Re;Emergency Everyday gives him one; CROSS the DIMENSION.
- Mood-Swinger: Will begin to spout Leet Lingo nonsense at the drop of a hat. This is also influenced by his current environment; with "the 2D world" being the environment in question, that gives Serintsu a lot of leeway to act the way he does.
- Portal Network: Implied to be how his ability works. Like Yabusame, they cannot fully understand how it works, nor how to control it.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: According to his profile, his normally-gray eyes turn purplish-red when he's angry, but that comes more from his chronic dry eyes than anything else.
- Spiritual Predecessor:
- To Yabusame, being a clueless oddball whose Reality Warper powers aren't easy to figure out.
- To Kuroji, who also wants to be special like their peers, and is suddenly given that chance.
- To Clause, who is not only extremely weird and nonsensical compared to their peers, but is also a Know-Nothing Know-It-All to an absurd extent.
Big Boss and Shinkuu
Left: Big Boss Right: Shinkuu
Common tropes between both characters:
- Author Avatar: Both characters are this to BIGBOSS, who had a hand in developing Emergency Everyday. According to Word of God, "Shinkuu" is an additional pseudonym of theirs.
- Dual Boss: They are both fought together.
- Leitmotif: Secretly-Stealthy Sneaking Snake.
- Oh, No... Not Again!: Their dialogue states that they were attacked by the fake Daijin prior to Serintsu encountering them. Serintsu also defeating them is something they find quite annoying.
- Those Two Guys: Big Boss and Shinkuu have no connection between eachother other than the fact that they are Lapxus members who are depending on one another in order to survive in "the 2D world".
- Brave Vengeful Spirit
- Shinkuu"I went without food for just one day, and boom, I starved to death. 'm hungryyy."
- Friendly Ghost: Means no actual harm to people, but only attacks Serintsu with Big Boss for funsies/stress relief.
- Ghostly Goals: He still craves food even after starving to death. This could be analogous to the Buddhist mythological preta/"hungry ghosts" who, after death, crave food and drink but fail to be satisfied upon consuming them.
- Mystical White Hair: Whether his hair color changed to white after turning into a ghost or is his natural color is left unexplained.
- Older Than They Think: Looks like a young child, but is about the same age as the other Lapxus members.
- Sleep-Mode Size: Implied, given his new ghostly form.
- Spiritual Predecessor:
- To Iyozane, who also happens to be a character who previously died, but has been resurrected.
- To Shion, who is a mini-sized supernatural Big Eater who always turns the conversation subject to food in some manner.
- To Kaoru, whose Theme Naming for their Heated Wind "Simoom" spellcard is reminiscent of Shinkuu's Sacred Bird "Simurgh".
- Vengeful Ghost: While they are quite-literally called this in their Boss Subtitles, they are anything but "vengeful".
- Strong-Willed Child of Man
- Big Boss"Why have you come to this world too, though? Nobody ever asked for more 2D boys, yanno."
A member of Lapxus who was transported to "the 2D world" alongside Serintsu, Shinkuu, and Daijin. His ability is to become undetectable whenever he hides under a cardboard box.
- Animal Motifs: Snakes — at least, in in his name and Leitmotif. His spiritual successor is much more obvious about this.
- Brutal Honesty: Big Boss is quite unabashed when he says what he needs to. This is, of course, only mentioned in his profile.
- Informed Ability: Primarily because hiding under a cardboard box is something that isn't the easiest thing to convey in a Bullet Hell shoot'em'up; His one spellcard, Explosion Card "Disintegration Grenade", instead involves artillery.
- Mad Bomber: Uses grenades in danmaku fights.
- Perception Filter: He's unable to be seen or detected when hiding under a cardboard box.
- Power Perversion Potential: He uses his power to spy on women, creepily enough.
- Shout-Out: His name is "Big Boss", he is is themed after snakes, and his ability involves hiding under cardboard boxes. Golly gee whiz, what could that mean?
- Spiritual Predecessor:
- To Kurohebi, who is a stealth-based character who has snakes as a primary Animal Motif.
- To Hooaka, who is Brutally Honest when talking with anybody else, even their close peers.
Red-White and White-Black
- Two People Lost in a Dreadful Place
- Red-White and White Black
White-Black: "We've found someone who looks like they could guide us, haven't we?"
Red-White: "Quit looking for a guide and start looking for the destination already!"
White-Black: "What's that s'posed ta mean? A guide was our destination in the first place, right?"
A pair of bickering people who are seemingly lost trying to find... whatever it is they're trying to find. They are totally not supposed to be Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame.- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Are literally given color gradients based on their names, to disguise their real identities.
- Combination Attack: Dream Cannon "Daredevilry", which uses Red-White's yin-yang orbs and White-Black's lasers and bullets.
- Dual Boss: Their fight initially has them using individual attacks, but they both are fought during the final spellcard.
- Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: While they only appear as silhouettes, they're obviously meant to be Reimu and Marisa from Touhou Project.
- Leitmotif: Eastern Medley, which is a mashup of songs from IN and IaMP.
- Meaningful Name: Are named after the primarily colors used in their clothes; fittingly, some characters from Touhou, like Patchouli, have nicknamed them like this in canon.
- No Sense of Direction: White-Black really has no clue as to where to go, especially considering the fact that she was expecting the player characters to guide them. Given who she is supposed to be, it's expected.
- Oh, No... Not Again!: Their dialogue states that they were attacked by the fake Daijin prior to Serintsu encountering them. Serintsu also defeating them is something they find quite annoying.
- Spiritual Predecessor:
- To the Stage 4 Dual Bosses from RMI, as their fights have sequential spellcards from both individual bosses, and one final Combination Attack. The Leitmotifs were also mashups of past character themes.
- To Haiji, as they also make several obvious references to Touhou Project spellcards.
- Writing Around Trademarks: While they are clearly who they are meant to be, the game tiptoes around using their real names or where they've come from.
Daijin
- True-Born Black Gamer
- Daijin"Ah~, uh... well, hey there. So you came here too?"
A member of Lapxus who was transported to "the 2D world" alongside Serintsu, Big Boss, and Shinkuu... or so you'd think; in reality, the person who appears as Daijin is actually an impostor who is going around and fighting the members of Lapxus as a means of testing their abilities. Their ability allows them to have fun while playing video games.
- Author Avatar: Of the similarly-named main developer, composer, and artist of Emergency Everyday. Fittingly, the real Daijin still holds some influence over the Len'en Project presently, being JynX's main playtester, as well as someone who provides some ideas for the games and stories.
- Bad Liar: It's pretty clear that he really has no clue as to who the Lapxus members really are, even though he's impersonating one of their members.
- Big Bad: Given that he's the inspiration for Tsurubami, who was the Big Bad of Evanescent Existence, it's pretty obvious as to what his role in Emergency Everyday would've been.
- Curtains Match the Window: Black hair and black eyes.
- Fun with Acronyms: Many of Daijin's spell names have an acronym-based suffix, such as FDS ("Flying Disk System") and MOD.
- Gender-Blender Name: A meta example. Daijin is named after the lead developer of Emergency Everyday. However, while Daijin the game character is a man, Daijin the game developer is a woman.
- Godlike Gamer: The real Daijin has quite the skill with videogames, being called a "capital-G gamer" in his profile. This even extends into his real ability of manipulating game consoles themselves, akin to Tsubakura's manipulation of technology.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: While the fact that the impostor is testing the abilities of the spirited-away Lapxus members ha been made clear, what they're doing it for is left unclear due to the game's life being Cut Short.
- Imposter Forgot One Detail: Namely, the real Daijin's mannerisms. This really confuses Serintsu, who expects Daijin to act like his normal, aloof, sporadic self, but is instead witness to his impostor's proactive and reserved personality.Serintsu: "You sound kind of stilted, y'know? Did you lose your lunch or something?"
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Like Serintsu, Daijin has knowledge of many random topics. His profile even straight-up calls him a "loud-mouthed know-it-all".
- Leitmotif: SAVE the GAME.
- Optional Boss: The impostor even said outright that Serintsu would've "seen them in the Extra Stage", implying that their real form would be fought there.
- Spiritual Predecessor:
- To Tsubakura, who is a well-respected person who has considerable control over machinery. They also have a very noticeable hat.
- To Tsurubami, who also impersonates somebody else close to the main protagonist, acts way out of character compared to who who they're impersonating, and are fighting the real person's friends as they wander the place they're spirited away to. Daijin's theme was even re-arranged into Tsurubami's in Evanescent Existence, after JynX was given permission to do so from Daijin.
- To Kuroji and Sese, whose spellcards were directly based off of some of Daijin's.
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: According to Serintsu's scenario, he usually plays the straight man to Serintsu's wise guy in standard conversation.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: While the other Lapxus members have abilities that would garner use in some way, "enjoying video games" isn't the coolest-sounding thing...
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: ...except, as Len'en Project abilities are purposefully meant to be vague, this extends to Daijin being able to manipulate game consoles in the same way as Tsubakura manipulates technology.
Book of the Cafe
For characters that debuted in Book of the Cafe. NiLU
The protagonist of Book of the Cafe. A monochroid created by Tsubakura tasked with collecting information on Mugenri while running a cafe.
- Big Eater: In an official pre-release statement, JynX claimed they love food. However, this has yet to pop up in game.
- Deadpan Snarker: They make a few remarks here and there to this extent.
- The Stoic: One of their most notable traits is a distinct lack of emotion.
- Meaningful Name: "NiLU" might seems to be an abbreviation of the phrase "(do) Not, I Love U", as seen from a teaser of their character, but also counts as a Theme Naming as "Nil" refers to number zero. Their name can also be read as "煮る" - meaning "to cook", fitting for their role in "Book of the Cafe"
Miscellaneous characters
For characters who exist in the canon of the Len'en Project, but have not made full appearances in any of the games. Rei
- Vtuber Android
- Rei"Full-body movement is a huge workload for me, so we'll only be showing our heads from here on out!"
- Angrish: Has done this thrice; once upon accidentally showing Zelo in their Early-Bird Cameo, and twice upon dying while trying to play Len'en games.
- April Fools' Day: As per tradition for JynX, Rei was initially revealed as a personalized text-to-speech program in the vein of Voiceroids, sold on "Amazun.com" for the discounted price of 5000 trillion yen.Rei "It's disgustingly cheap!"
- Armored But Frail: In Book of the Cafe, their HP is tied for the second lowest of any Rank S unit, but their defenses are among the best in the game.
- Artificial Intelligence: One with enough sapience to be able to be very emotive in shilling a video game series, at that.
- Canon Immigrant: Makes their first in-game appearance as a playable unit in Book of the Cafe.
- Curtains Match the Window: Black hair and black eyes.
- Character Blog: They have their own Twitter account, @TN_Rei, as well as a YouTube channel.
- Character Shilling: Always holds characters like Tsubakura in very high regard. They also have an unspecified degree of respect for Haru, Hoojiro, and Suzumi, even being aware of the latter's three personalities.
- Composite Character: Their design combines various aspects of Tsubakura's primarily-black clothes and Tsurubami's additions of white, green, and red accessories.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: While a hyperactive gamer on the surface, they have enough experience with technology to create their own robot, Zelo.
- Expy: Of Kizuna AI, much like the many Virtual Celebrities that have been created to follow suit.
- Gamer Robot: They aren't that good at gaming, though.Rei: Well, I'm a super pro-gamer android. I can vomitiously insta-kill games like this...
[pichuun!]
Rei: ABEBAAAAAAAAH!!
Zelo: You've got game over'd at the very early part of the game. - Genki Robot: Hoooo boy.
- Glass Cannon: Their inherent trait in Book of the Cafe turns them into one of these for the first three turns of a battle. After those turns are up, they become a Mighty Glacier.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Zelo.
- Hidden Depths: Rei is enough of a technical expert as to create Zelo by themselves, interestingly enough, especially given Zelo's crossed-out functions for espionage work...
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Made Zelo to satisfy this purpose.
- Mighty Glacier: In Book of the Cafe, they have the highest Attack and Special Defense stats in addition to a good Defense stat, but their Speed is rather lackluster.
- Meaningful Name: "Rei" may derive from Tsubakura's Signature Attack Monochrome Ray. "Rei", when read out in the kanji 零, refers to the number "zero", possibly referring to Zelo.
- Recursive Canon: Seemingly exists within the Len'en Project canon as a character within the universe, and an out-of-universe character designed to advertise the games.
- Robot Me: Of Tsubakura. Unlike Tsubakura, however, they are much more emotive and imaginative.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: Implied by Haru and Hoojiro to hold vital information about Mugenri within themselves that they are trying to find out about.Hoojiro: "Even so, I wonder what this AI knows."Haru: "Moreso, wouldn't they know of that which we want to know about?"
- It doesn't help that Rei already knows who the both of them are, seemingly through being connected in some way to the backup data of the Magritte.
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: The wise guy to Zelo's straight man.
- Two Gamers on a Couch: Non-webcomic example with Zelo. Amusingly, Rei is portrayed as being horrible at their own games, dying very quickly on the Easier Than Easy difficulty level when they try to play Evanescent Existence.
- Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: Haru and Hoojiro both note that Rei, in terms of design and characteristics. resembles an old and abandoned AI program developed back when they worked as lab partners with Tsubakura. Why Rei's program is so similar to this is unknown for now.
- Verbal Tic: "Gero", which is the Japanese onomatopoeia of both a frog croaking, or somebody vomiting. The English translations make use of the latter.
Zelo
- Super Android's Friend
- Zelo"Don't talk about behind the scenes information too much."
- Animal-Eared Headband: Their cat-eared cap.
- Artificial Intelligence: One that helps show off various Len'en Project details, like Rei.
- Cats Are Mean: Is designed to be very cat-like, and they can be quite snarky when they want to, especially whenever JynX is involved.
- Cat Girl: Is obviously meant to give off this sort of vibe, down to their appearance and Verbal Tic of "nya~".
- Deadpan Snarker: To play off of Rei's Genki Girl mannerisms.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Their silhouette first appeared a month prior to their proper introduction, displayed by accident In-Universe by Rei.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Rei.
- Hidden Depths: Implied to have been designed for espionage work, as crossed-out details of their special skills in their introductory video profile state.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: Picks up the pace when Rei can't from time to time.
- Leitmotif: Fantasy Automaton ~ Learning Chance!
- They Know About Timed Hits: Describes in detail about shoot'em'up standards like hitboxes and grazing, when acting as the co-presenter of a shoot'em'up tutorial alongside Rei.
- Robot Me: Of Yabusame. Unlike Yabusame, however, they are more calm, focused, and willingly snarky.
- Sigil Spam: Their hat inexplicably has a pair of Senri Eyes, as opposed to the standard one eye.
- Spell My Name With An S: Is specifically called "Zelo", instead of "Zero", due to having the same L/R naming scheme as Yabusame, much like how their surname is "Houlen", as opposed to "Houren".
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: The straight man to Rei's wise guy.
- Two Gamers on a Couch: Non-webcomic example with Rei. Interestingly, Zelo is less of a gamer and more like the game itself, appearing as a boss for a shoot-em'up tutorial in one of their videos with Rei.
- You Are Number Zero / My Hero, Zero: Possibly, given their name, as well as Rei's similar Meaningful Name, as explained above.
Hoojiro Shitodo and Haru (spoilers)
- Hoojiro: "Heeey, can you hear me?"
Left: Hoojiro Right: Haru
Two mysterious characters who Rei brought to the attention of the Len'en Project's fanbase on Twitter during the series' fifth Milestone Celebration. According to the available details, these two characters used to work with Tsubakura in the past as lab partners, before Tsubakura was spirited away to Mugenri, and are currently on a "dimensional tour" of sorts.
After mass speculation, Haru and Hoojiro were officially confirmed to be two characters that predate the existence of all other Len'en Project characters; Their first appearance came from a one-off music video created by JynX a year prior to the development of Evanescent Existence, detailing the characters' travels on a trans-dimensional limited express train called "The Wings of Magritte".
When questioned about their existence during an interview after the release of Brilliant Pagoda or Haze Castle, JynX specified that their identities and motives were "a secret to be revealed at a later time". Further details shown in the stories included in A World That Isn't Fantasy mention that they both are trying to figure out the whereabouts of Tsubakura and their spirited-away friends, amongst other things.
Common tropes between both characters:
- Ambiguous Gender: A rare aversion for the series: Hoojiro and Haru are canonically female.
- Ambiguous Situation: Only recently appeared out of nowhere, and already have been revealed to possibly have important connections towards both Mugenri and the Outside World.
- Big Guy, Little Guy: Hoojiro is shown to be clearly taller than Haru, who is almost child-like in terms of height.
- Chekov's Gunmen: They seem to hold a lot of important information regarding Tsubakura's past, the Outside World, and Rei's origins, for a start.
- The Ghosts: They were initially this, before they were revealed to be the Magritte passengers; their only visual descriptions came from their Twitter avatars, which only explained so much about them beforehand.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Consider themselves old friends, to the point that them setting up Twitter accounts was to reconnect with eachother.
- Certain details from A World That Isn't Fantasy paint a different picture for this, however.
- Interclass Friendship: While it's not stated that the Shitodos are poor in the Outside World, it is made clear that Haru is "loaded", according to Hoojiro on Twitter.
- Unknown Characters: Everything about them is considered quite mysterious.
- Walking Spoilers: Their existence helps shed light as to what the Outside World of the Len'en Project is like, and connections between them and Tsubakura's Mysterious Past.
Her avatar on Twitter.
- Hoojiro ShitodoIs her spirit of intellectual inquiry awakening? Or is she just gathering information for the sake of the investigation as she has no other choice?
- Ambiguous Situation: Seemingly has her own "situation at home", according to Haru on Twitter. While it isn't explained in any further detail, it may be implied to be her siblings' disappearance from the Outside World.
- Animal Motifs: The meadow bunting, a type of bird, much like the bunting-related Bird's Names that her siblings have.
- Affectionate Nickname: Much like the other Shitodo siblings, Hoojiro has a color-based nickname; "Shiro".
- Aloof Big Sister: Taken to the point of apathy, as she is indifferent to the whereabouts of her younger siblings even though, as confirmed by Word of God, their disappearance from the Outside World is a very publicized incident. What she states in A World That Isn't Fantasy however, shows that she does trust Kuroji to protect Aoji and Hooaka to an extent.
- Character Blog: They have their own Twitter account, @3DM5r5AOnKN9RPN.
- Curtains Match the Window: Hoojiro has white hair and white eyes, as befitting of her nickname "Shiro".
- Early-Bird Cameo: Hoojiro's existence was already teased during Suzumi's dialouge with Aoji in the Secret Team's route in Brilliant Pagoda or Haze Castle, with Aoji asking Suzumi if they really thinks they are "dead weight to Shiro, Kuro, and Aka".
- Fish out of Temporal Water: A Downplayed example in that, as having only set up their Twitter account recently, she doesn't understand as to what it means when Rei says she can "DM" them.Hoojiro: "What's a DM?"Haru: "Look it up yourself."Hoojiro: "How do I do it?"Haru: "Look it up yourself."
- Later Twitter interactions show that they don't even understand how emailing Haru works, as well.
- Mystical White Hair: With a slight shade of turquoise in it, at that.
- Oh, Crap!: Her reaction to one of Rei's tweets gives off this feeling.Hoojiro: "Wait a second. What is this. Who is this? They know about Mugenri too."
- Portmanteau: Her first name combines parts of her younger siblings' names; Hooaka, Aoji, Kuroji.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: She doesn't really explain as to what her "Fillers of the Ivory Cup" group do, or how they contribute to philosophy in the Outside World.
Her avatar on Twitter.
- Haru"Yes, I get it, you’re not scientists, you’re philosophers."
- Character Blog: She has her own Twitter account, @EnHaL03462833.
- The Faceless: In almost all drawings in which she appears, she faces away from the viewer. This was finally subverted in the album cover for A World That Isn't Fantasy -Backside-, as seen above.
- Full-Name Ultimatum: Refers to Tsubakura rather staunchly by their full name, implying that their previous relationship has since been damaged in some way.
- Inconsistent Spelling: For a while, it was unclear wherher her name should be romanized as "Hal" or "Haru", with fans formerly assuming it was the former due to her Twitter handle being "En-HaL". It doesn't help that the kanji Rei uses to refer to her can be read multiple different ways as well. In a 2021 interview, JynX settled on "Haru" as the official romanization.
- Jerkass: She is... really not a pleasant person to talk to, even if you are friends with her. See Ungrateful Bastard.
- Muggle: Is explicitly stated to not have any powers, unlike her contemporaries.
- Ungrateful Bastard: She apparently is never thankful for anything anyone does for her, to the point that telling Hoojiro that she has been a great help in trying to figure out Tsubakura's whereabouts causes Hoojiro to have a massive internal Freak Out about all of the things she has done for Haru and has never been acknowledged for.
Kanae Tabinoki
A Vtuber created by JynX who streams regularly on YouTube at Tabinoki Channel.
.- Ambiguous Gender: Defied: when asked by a viewer on stream whether this trope was in effect like with most other Len'en characters, Kanae confirmed that he's a boy, but doesn't mind whatever gender or pronouns fans refer to him as.
- Animal Motifs: He's designed after an Eurasian wryneck.
- Gender-Blender Name: Hiragana are considered feminine, and names spelled in hiragana are usually only given to women. Kanae is a boy, but his given name is spelled in hiragana, a decision JynX made for Rule of Cute.
- The One Guy: Not counting deceased backstory characters such as Fumikado's grandfather or Taira no Masakado, he's the only character in all of Len'en confirmed to be a guy.
- Rapid Aging: Exploited, and a rare reversible example. Kanae is 9 by default, but has the ability to temporarily age himself up, which he does for the sole purpose of being able to drink alcohol.
- Rule of Cute: JynX was originally going to spell "Kanae" in kanji, but changed it to hiragana because it was cuter.
