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Megatokyo has come a long way from its Two Gamers on a Couch beginnings, accumulating a lot of characters in the process.

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The Megagamers

    Piro 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Piro_2879.gif
A nice, sweet yet repressed and self-criticizing artist/gamer geek who came to Japan because of what Largo did at E3. Out of money, he helped out some unknown girl in a train station. Things just snowballed from there.

Language(s)

  • English
  • Japanese (fluent)

Associated tropes:

  • Ascended Fanboy: His part of the story is pretty much learning that life doesn't work like a GalGe. When he sees the NPCs (Nanasawa Protection Coalition) objectifying him and Kimiko, he's disgusted that he was ever like that.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender: A throwaway gag has a stalker fan of Erika comment that "female behind counter cute but not Hayasaka-san" when inside the Megagamers store. But Piro and Erika are the only employees in the store at the time note ...
  • Armor-Piercing Question: Seraphim deals one when he and Kimiko are laying low at a love hotel with Kimiko looking to make actual use of the room. He doesn't answer but it's clear she hit him where it hurt.
    Seraphim: I think she wants you to join her. But she's giving you an out if you want it. She wants you to make a choice. Which kinda isn't fair. She was being both herself and Miho when she started kissing you in the car. So the question is, which one were you snogging?
  • Author Avatar: You have to be a good writer to get away with naming a main character after yourself without receiving (much) backlash.
  • Badass Unintentional: Piro rarely (if ever) notices all of the awesome things he does. He hardly even reacts to effortlessly powering through Largo's security systems, and doesn't even seem aware of what he's done after he hits Largo so hard he breaks Largo's face.
  • Betty and Veronica: He still doesn't realize it, but he's the Archie to Kimiko's Betty and Miho's Veronica.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Piro's normally sweet and harmless, but push him too far, and well... let's say he's given the forums plenty of reasons to celebrate his development of "a spine and balls".
  • Birds of a Feather: With Kimiko. They're both sweet, dorky, unconfident people who you do not want to mess with when angry.
  • Characterization Marches On: Piro's character in Chapter 0 is a far cry from his current persona. He's only barely Closer to Earth in comparison to Largo, and is fascinated by Shoujo manga to the point that it borders on obsession- even prioritizing buying some merchandise over getting a plane ticket. Nowadays, he's a lot more responsible, far less of an Occidental Otaku, and far saner than Largo.
  • Chastity Couple: With Kimiko. They're more-or-less considered a couple by everybody after falling asleep together in Chapter 8, but the most intimate their relationship's ever gotten is a long hug.
    • No longer the case as of Chapter 12.
  • Clueless Chick-Magnet: Kimiko, Miho, Yuki, and Ping all are or have been attracted to him, but his lack of self-confidence keeps him from noticing. Seraphim (repeatedly) points out that Kimiko is falling for him big-time, and even then he doesn't really get it.
  • Cross Player: Piro uses a female avatar in every game that gives him the option, the most notable example being his Endgames character Pirogoeth.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Most of Piro's self-confidence issues can be traced back to the Endgames event. Endgames was an MMORPG that he and Largo used to play before the North American Servers were shut down due to the actions of a rogue player - one Miho Tohya. Piro had a role in that whole mess, and it turned ugly... really ugly.
    Piro: I haven't understood anything since then.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Often his only recourse when Largo does something.
  • Death Glare: He has a very good one.
  • Geek Physiques: A nerdy boy who's also short and kind of chubby.
  • Genre Savvy: His own fanboy status allows him to predict a lot of future events related to Kimiko's newfound idol status.
  • The Glasses Gotta Go: Unintentional example. He started the comic wearing big, round Nerd Glasses before a drunken Largo sat on 'em in chapter 6. Being broke, he spent several chapters without; which was also the time he started to grow a backbone. As of chapter 10 he's acquired a a new pair, courtesy of Erika.
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation: The man's not perfect, but to hear him tell it, he's the scum of the Earth.
    Seraphim: Why do you insist on everything being your fault?
  • Humble Hero: See above.
  • Meaningful Name: Word of God says the name Piro is inspired from Pirotess from Record of Lodoss War.
  • My Secret Pregnancy: Miho's Endgames character got his Endgames character pregnant, which is part of what led to their falling out. He hid it from her for years. She doesn't handle the news well at all.
  • Nice Guy: Piro's unfailingly nice to everybody- that is, unless you're Miho, and he even starts coming around to her eventually.
  • Oblivious to Love: Chances are, unless a girl who's attracted to Piro outright spells it out for him (or someone else does it for them), he isn't going to realize it.
  • Official Couple: With Kimiko.
  • Tsundere: He has shades of Type B towards Kimiko. However, he is a blatant Type A towards Miho (for understandable reasons, as it later turns out).
    Piro: I went to see her to make sure she was doing okay. I mean, I don't really care if she's okay or not.
  • Weirdness Censor: Doesn't seem to notice monster turtles, Zillas, and zombie hordes rampaging right next to him, though it may actually be Selective Obliviousness, since he has no problems with the Anthropomorphic Personification of his conscience running around the place. Spending extended time around Miho might have put a sizable dent in that, since he became a shared target of the horde as a result.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: Massive fan of Romance Games and Shoujo manga, so he turned to them to figure out how to deal with him being stranded in Japan. It didn't help.
    • He starts to invert this trope later on, to the point that Miho gets frustrated at his refusal to admit that he's somehow wound up in a real-life Harem Series.

    Largo 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Largo_5902.png
Largo is. Oh, you want more? He started off as an overenthusiastic FPS-playing gamer geek, but developed (some say flanderized) into a l33t-speaking action guy.

Language(s)

  • English
  • L33t

Associated tropes:

  • Affectionate Nickname: Largo tends to call Erika "T3h Princ355" or "Princ355 Aw3som3."
  • Author Avatar: Formerly. He was Rodney's character before he and Fred split up due to differences.
  • Beta Couple: With Erika.
  • Boisterous Bruiser: When he fights, it's always with a giant grin on his face.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: Largo sees no difference between "in-game" or "real life". Pack of ravers? Zombies! Manhole covers? Spawn points. Subverted, he may look like one for most times but there are moments when he is, in fact, very right about the situation: Extra-dimensional zombies are actually plotting invasion on Tokyo, and yes he really fights them while riding on a rentable Godzilla pastiche. He still can't seem to tell the difference between genuine zombies and ravers, though.
  • Chivalrous Pervert: In some earlier strips, we have seen that Largo is quite interested in Erika's r4ck, but when Erika later suggests stripping due to static-y fabric (see here) Largo says no, because "It would... distract me"
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Let's get this straight, he made anti-zombie horde sentries using cardboard and Duct Tape complete with Macross Missile Massacre weapon arrays. He can also build a computer out of almost anything. The rush job ones are called "cereal box specials".
  • Genius Ditz: Crazy as he is, he's smarter than people give him credit for. We only see his direct thought processes twice, but both times he's figuring out some of the most complicated aspects of the comic.
    • First, he recognizes Miho's aura and tactics and realizes who she is: An old party member from the Endgames MMORPG, who took control of nearly every PC in the game and almost destroyed the virtual world. Too bad Piro wasn't listening.
    • Second, he manages to deduce what Miho is: Based on the police's reaction to a Magical Girl, and the comment "never let anything get zombified that's hard to kill," he comes to the conclusion that she's an undead Magical Girl. He's at least half right on that. Or as we learn later, completely right. Miho is stuck in a cycle of death and rebirth. So every time another story has that trope, she must live it.
  • Hey, You!: He has a tendency to not call people by name. Since Largo doesn't speak Japanese and he seems to have a hard time remembering Japanese names, this is pretty justified.
  • Leet Lingo: It's called 'English' at the school he "teaches" at.
  • Mr. Fanservice: He dips into this sometimes, most notably fixing computers naked and at one point fighting in an open shirt and tiny underwear.
  • Opposites Attract: With Erika. He's quirky, full of energy, and a major Cloudcuckoolander. She's serious, strait-laced, and very much Closer to Earth.
  • True Companions:
    • Despite how much he and Piro disagree with each other at times, Largo has shown that he is willing to risk life and limb for his friend on a few occasions, once saying "If one of us is not secure, then neither of us is."
    • This is also the reason behind his animosity towards Miho. She was one of his True Companions in Endgames, and not only did she betray that trust horrifically, she did a number on Piro in the process.
  • Übermensch: has shades of this, seeing as Largo lives and acts according to his own set of principles and ideals that don't really match up to anyone else, and yet make a certain amount of sense. Like The Unfettered example below, this is probably one of the more comical versions in existence.
  • The Unfettered: Though he's more comical than badass.
  • With Friends Like These...: He's the cause of a lot of Piro's problems. But every once in a while, it's the other way around.

    Erika Hayasaka 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Erika_Megatokyo_9289.png
A former idol. voice actress and occasional booth babe who works at Megagamers. Introduced as a straight faced, Dramatic Deadpan contrast to Kimiko, she has since defied her Broken Bird stereotype.

Language(s)

  • Japanese
  • English (fluent)

Associated tropes:

    Kimiko Nanasawa 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Kimiko_5899.gif
Erika's sweet, unconfident roommate, a waitress and wannabe idol who, through a combination of luck, the internet, a feverishly-awaited game and a radio interview, garnered a legion of obsessive fans who would do anything for her. She's also Piro's Love Interest.

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

  • A-Cup Angst: In the beginning of the series, while she's working at Anna Miller's, she's seen to stuff her shirt. Her busty coworker remarks, "Wow. You really do need those, don't you?" Living with the extremely well-endowed Erika doesn't help either. She doesn't fret about it as much after she starts getting close to Piro.
  • Betty and Veronica: She's the Betty to Miho's Veronica and Piro's Archie.
  • Birds of a Feather: With Piro.
  • Chastity Couple: Again, with Piro.
    • No longer the case as of Chapter 12.
  • Idol Singer: At the early stages of her career. Although it seems the "singer" part is subverted; while she's a good singer, apparently she starts crying whenever she sings.
  • The Ingenue: Kimiko bounces all over the place with this trope. In comparison with Erika, she's relatively innocent and naïve, but at the same time she isn't stupid and knows when someone's taking advantage of her. Her monologue in this strip addresses her perceived status as this trope, and how she thoroughly despises it.
  • Instant Web Hit: When she defends "pathetic little fanboys" on a radio show, her popularity goes from "let's hope this girl doesn't screw up the character" to "complete and obsessive adoration".
  • Moe: Invoked In-universe. Though not everyone's happy about it.
    Sayuri: Do you think I should hug her?
    Matsui: After this, the only games I'm gonna produce are violently depraved kichiku blood-baths.
  • Official Couple: With Piro as-of the end of Chapter 8.
  • Older Than They Look: Slightly. It is heavily implied that Kimiko is the oldest of the main quartet, Erika being at least a few months younger (and Piro and Largo being younger than either of them), although it's difficult to know since very few characters' ages are given.
  • Sleep Cute: After the two of them make up for the incident at Anna Miller's Piro wakes up to her cuddled up and using his chest as her pillow.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Erika's Tomboy.
  • Wide-Eyed Idealist: To contrast Erika's deep-seated cynicism.

The Schoolgirls

    Miho Tohya 
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A mysterious teenage goth girl who appears after Largo has one of his adventures. It eventually becomes clear that the weirdness around her is not due just to Largo's skewed perceptions. She's prone to fainting spells and suddenly disappearing, and, despite many scenes in cafes and restaurants, has only once been shown eating.

In the Endgames stories, set in the past of the Megatokyo universe, she appears as Moh, a young man who Piro's character meets and gains a rapport with. However, what happens between Moh and Pirogoeth end up resonating into the present day...

Language(s)

  • Gaelic
  • Japanese (fluent)
  • English (fluent)

Associated tropes:

  • A-Cup Angst:
    • She's too reserved to bring it up with anything approaching regularity, but she does show some mild annoyance (or at least surprise) after Ping's Breast Expansion.
      Miho: I can't believe that used to be my top.
    • And yet, she's clearly better endowed than every other major girl in the series aside from Erika, Ping (temporarily), and probably Junko. Also Komugiko, but then she's not a major character.note 
  • Adaptation Decay: invokedIn-universe. Her story, the tale of an innocent girl dying of a nameless disease. But that was just the very end of her story. She tells Kimiko that she had life and love, and was not the innocent little thing she's remembered as.
  • Ambiguous Innocence: Despite her manipulative nature, she has a very strong reputation for being a sweet, innocent girl in a bad situation. Miho disagrees.
    Miho: But I was never that girl. I lived. I had a life. I knew love. I lived. And it was a monstrous life that destroyed the people I loved.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: It seems she began as one (being the physical embodiment of the Dying Heroine archetype) but she hates it and might have at least partially transcended this form by deliberately acting against her character archetype. It is also possible that Ping, Junko and Yuki's actions from chapter 10 may result in changing that or at least making her the embodiment of a different archetype.
  • Badass Adorable: To say Miho is tougher than she looks is very much an understatement. She's strong enough to trash Dom's car with a flick of her hand, and gives Ed a thorough thrashing when he attempts to attack Ping at school. The latter couldn't have been pretty as her fighting style is likened to the brawling done by a drunken sailor.
  • Betty and Veronica: Though both try to deny it at first, it eventually becomes pretty clear that Piro and Miho's romantic connection is still very much there, making her the Veronica to his Archie and Kimiko's Betty.
  • Break His Heart to Save Him: The reason for her and Piro's original falling-out. She genuinely fell for him and didn't want him to get hurt, so she broke up with him in the cruelest way possible (see G.I.R.L. below for details as to how) to ensure he'd never try to find her again. Unfortunately (or not) for both of them, the resentment didn't stick.
  • Came Back Strong: She was a normal girl in her first life. After dying and coming back as an Archetypal Character, though, she now has Resurrective Immortality and the superhuman strength and speed of a Magical Girl, on top of other abilities.
  • Creepy Child: A bit older than most, but more than creepy enough to make up for it.
  • Dark Magical Girl: The current leading explanation for scenes like this. Not a Magical Girl, but not a monster either.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: see Not So Stoic below. Early strips had her as very enigmatic, but that changed when Yuki visited her in the hospital. Add in Ping releasing a bunch of photos of her online, the ice starts to melt, and it becomes apparent she may still harbor feelings for Piro.
  • Doom Magnet: As the embodiment of the "Tragic heroine", every "story" she is in ends in tragedy.
  • The Dreaded: To Largo, Inspector Sonoda, and Ed. That is, three of the most badass characters in the comic.
  • Elegant Gothic Lolita: You know it's true.
  • Foreshadowing: Well, just to start with, she recognizes Piro's name. Turns out she was his lover in an MMORPG which she nearly destroyed.
  • Gamer Chick: Though she doesn't play in typical fashion.
  • G.I.R.L.: Twisted all around. She played Moh in Endgames, a guy who seduced Piro's character. Then they got to talking in real life, and she sent him pictures. Then she told him she was actually a guy, and the pictures were fake. THEN Piro found out she was indeed female and the pictures were real, causing him to freak out.
  • Humanoid Abomination: She was human, once. Ever since her death and subsequent resurrection (and again and again and again), not so much.
  • I Have This Friend: She tells Kimiko a What If? story about Kotone (the Delicate and Sickly Kimiko is voicing). Since she was talking about herself before swerving into Kotone (and Kotone is one of her expies), it's pretty clear who the story is really about.
  • Important Haircut: She was able to hide her identity from Inspector Sonoda simply by cutting her hair.
  • Improbable Hairstyle: She wears a ribbon wound through her hair, which people in real life have found frustrating (but not impossible) to duplicate.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Fast enough to Flash Step, and strong enough to throw cars around like sacks of flour and hospitalize grown men with a single hit. She doesn't seem much more durable than a normal person, but Resurrective Immortality means she never has to worry about being seriously injured anyway.
  • Magic Knight: Her "M0h" character was this.
  • Manipulative Bastard:
    • The Endgames Incident, a major event in the backstory, involves Miho abusing the emotional systems of an MMORPG to turn the entire virtual world into her minions. Only Piro and Largo (Piro by being able to recognize what was happening, Largo because his character was bizarrely unaffected by it) resisted her. She carries this trait into her real relationships, too.
    • Fails to pull this off in the hospital when Yuki visits.
  • Mistaken Nationality: She looks Japanese and has a Japanese name, but when she gets really depressed she starts muttering in Gaelic. Her backstory (as related in the story she told Kimiko) would also make more sense for an Irish girl than a Japanese one.
    Miho: Ta me dür agus is fuath liom me fein. Translation 
  • Mysterious Past: Here and here, Sonoda implies that Miho somehow used the negative energy from Erika's quitting the idol business and it was "the one time I almost lost Tokyo." This may or may not relate to the Endgames Incident.
  • Not So Stoic: She's broken down a few times.
    • When she found Ping waiting at her side when she woke up after collapsing, she started crying about how she didn't need Ping's "simulated pity".
    • At one point, she asks Kimiko why she's so invested in the character she's voicing, and Kimiko explains how she feels the only way to bring the character to life is to make people care about her... and she turns around to see Miho silently weeping. We later find out that this describes Miho's situation almost word-for-word.
    • She undergoes a massive Freak Out upon realizing that she didn't die when she was supposed to, and that a pacemaker was put in her.
  • Older Than They Look: Certainly older than high school age. Implied to be at least as old as Piro and Largo, if not Yuki's mother Meimi. Some of the things she's said implies she used to run around with Meimi, and she referred to Ed as "young man". When Yuki finally discovers her, she certainly looks older than she was the last time we saw her. Kinda.
  • Parental Abandonment: Miho lives in the basement of a goth nightclub. No mention of her family is made. After one fainting incident, the school nurse complains that she can never get in touch with Miho's parents, and says she needs their cell phone numbers. It's never mentioned again. Considering what Miho is, it's highly likely that she might not actually have parents.
  • Rei Ayanami Expy: Checks nearly every box on the list (Love Interest to the hero, stoicness, an ambiguously supernatural nature, unusual eyes, suffering from an illness, and eventually becoming nicer), though she's a fair bit darker and more proactive than the norm. Ironically, Miho herself is an In-Universe Fountain of Expies, with multiple fictional characters appearing or being mentioned who are inspired by her "story".
  • Resurrective Immortality: As long as her fans believe in her Delicate and Sickly "story", she'll keep returning to life no matter how many times she dies. The method doesn't even seem to be important, since she came back from being blown to smithereens by Ed's BFG with no issue. As of Chapter 12 and her story being "broken" by Piro and Yuki's actions, however, this may no longer be the case.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Though she flirts aggressively with both Piro and Largo at regular intervals, later events make it clear the only one she ever had (and may indeed still have) romantic feelings for was Piro.
  • Supernatural Gold Eyes: First character in the series known to have them. But definitely not the last.
  • Tell Me How You Fight: A ninja notes that she "brawls like a drunken sailor," referencing her early life as a criminal. It's also mentioned that the only way Miho could make this fighting style work with her small frame is with Super-Strength.
  • Tulpa: Miho is an analogue, essentially a character type for manga/anime/games. She is as real as people believe in her make her, forcing a sort of Clap Your Hands If You Believe moment when she becomes badly wounded.

    Ping 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ping_2287.png
A prototype of the Emotional Doll System (EDS), a PS2 app that uses a Robot Girl for Dating Sim games, Ping was left with Piro and Largo by Tsubasa, her original owner, after he left for America. As you might expect, she's somewhat naive, but has a good heart and is very enthusiastic.

Has 2 H-model "sisters" name Peek & Poke whom we see residing at The Foxhole.

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

  • A-Cup Angst: She gets upset that Piro ignores her, and subconsciously assumes it's because she doesn't look like Erika (with whom Piro had been spending a lot of time). The end result, well... see below.
  • Berserk Button. She has a flaw in her rejection subroutines that causes this.
  • Breast Expansion:
    • She can do this to better fit the game she's playing. It can also happen unconsciously, which freaked her out once she noticed it.
    • She later undergoes de-expansion. She certainly seems a bit shorter and noticeably less well-endowed than before. Given the timeframe, it could be either a reaction to the rest of the girls bullying her while she was Expanded, or depression over Miho's disappearance.
  • Compulsory School Age: She was looking for Largo and stole a school uniform. Now she's part of his class.
  • Does Not Understand Sarcasm: "Yay! I'm glad!"
    Junko: Good thing girl robots that can rip poles out of the group and smash delivery trucks don't bother me! Oh, and people flying through the air? I see that all the time! And how about that huge turtle with the wine bottle down the street? I thought that was really funny!
    Ping: Wasn't it really kinda sad? I think Mr. Turtle might have a drinking problem.
  • Elegant Gothic Lolita: Less pronounced than Miho, but still very much so.
  • Genki Girl: In addition to relatively normal genki behavior, part of her subroutines cause her to go into this mode if she thinks someone has been rejected.
  • Hollywood Homely: Invoked for awhile. She tried so hard.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy. Programmed in; EDS units automatically break off any romantic relationships with their owners if they get a real girlfriend. Which means that, as Miho observed, "For her, every game she plays will end in a broken heart." (though Miho is something of a pessimist)
  • Japanese Honorifics: She bounces around the list, since without anyone playing with her, she's not sure what relationship she's supposed to have with Piro and Largo. Piro has gotten -san, -kun, "Mr. Piro-san," and even -niisan, while with Largo she alternates somewhat randomly between -san and -sensei. Junko yells at her for this before she realizes she's a robot.
  • Just a Machine:
    • A lot of people treat her this way. Piro sees her as an Annoying Younger Sibling at best, and more often as an annoying appliance he can't find the off switch for. Largo treats her as a pawn for evil – which, in fairness, she kinda is. Ed just sees her as stolen property that needs to be recovered or destroyed. Even Inspector Sonoda doesn't have a problem with abandoning her on the roadside. And who knows what Miho thinks. Erika, Kimiko, Yuki, and Junko are the only ones who treat her like a real person.
    • Mr Ibara (Junko's dad) dishes it out the worst. He looks her over like he would any computer and then says to her face that her existence is a pitiful tragedy.
    • Finally Junpei gives a credible explanation of why this should not apply.
  • Ridiculously Human Robots: Indistinguishable from human other than her strength and digital readouts. She has implied on at least two occasions she has a working uterus.
  • Robot Girl: No one notices, despite the very obvious digital readouts hanging from her ears.
  • Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Ping can use power poles as weapons. When her Berserk Button was pushed hard enough, she threw a 50-foot turtle through the top few floors of a skyscraper.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Miho uses her as a catalyst to "play" Largo and Piro at the same time.

    Yuki Sonoda 
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Yuuki_6492.gif
A fifteen-year-old student who first met Piro at a manga bookstore, during which she accidentally became the owner of his sketchbook. After a good deal of drama, the sketchbook gets returned- and Yuki's life proceeds to take a turn for the weirder, not the least because of her developing status as a Magical Girl.

Language(s)

  • Japanese
  • English (conversant)

Associated tropes:

  • A-Cup Angst: Has a bout of this after she sees Piro with Erika, and assumes (incorrectly) that the two are an item. Unlike Miho, Yuki really is lacking in the bust department.
  • Bad Powers, Good People: As Yuki herself lampshades, being really good at stealing things isn't really a useful skill to have for a person who's trying to be a hero. She eventually starts finding cool things to do with her abilities.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Getting her mad is a good way to have unfortunate things happen to you. Dom and Miho both find this out the hard way.
  • Characterization Marches On: Arguably. As her Satellite Character tendencies towards Piro start to fade, her character starts to change- she becomes far less snarky and also a lot nicer in general, though YMMV on whether this change in personality is because of this trope or because she outgrows her crush on Piro and becomes more of her own person.
  • Chronic Hero Syndrome: Yuki can't help but stick her neck out for people, be it logical for her to do so or not. Miho implies it's part of her nature as a Magical Girl.
  • Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Crosses over with Power Incontinence, with poor Kobayashi as the victim.
  • Fluffy Tamer: She swipes a Rent-a-Zilla to help out Largo in Chapter 9, and even starts calling it "Zom-Zom" after it gets infected.
  • Girlish Pigtails: Her usual hairstyle. She lets it down in her Magical Girl getup.
  • How Do I Shot Web?: Has some trouble figuring out how to use her Impossible Thief abilities for the greater good. Largo helps.
  • Idiot Hero: Yuki isn't dumb, but she's still very naïve (even for a middle-schooler), and it shows, such as when she dresses in an Impractically Fancy Outfit or nearly kills Kobayashi dragging him around town at super speed. Thankfully, she has people to explain things to her before it gets too out of hand.
  • Impractically Fancy Outfit: Her first instinct when fighting zombies is to dress in something like this, since, in her experience, magical girls are supposed to be cute. Then she runs into Largo, and he gives her something better.
  • Impossible Thief: Her unique ability (well, sorta, see Superpowerful Genetics below) as a Magical Girl. She stole a zombie zilla right before the TPCD's eyes, and her standard fighting style is to just steal everyone's weapons.
    Dom: Where's my gun? ...and my car?
  • Kleptomaniac Hero: She accidentally stole Piro's bookbag (after she returned it to him the first time), and implies this isn't the first time something like that has happened. It's implied she inherited this tendency from her mom.
  • Magical Girl: As she finds out when she follows Miho up some power lines in Chapter 8.
  • Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: One of the few times where this trope is gender-flipped. As well as non-sexual.
  • Naïve Everygirl: Her experience with being a Magical Girl comes from watching Shoujo anime, which is very different, so say the least, from how magical girls work in MegaTokyo's 'verse.
  • Oblivious to Love: Kobayashi has apparently been in love with her for years, and she never noticed.
  • Ordinary High-School Student: Junior high school, technically; was introduced as "that schoolgirl who found Piro's bag."
  • Precocious Crush: On Piro, who's at least of college age if not older. She eventually gets over him after Miho points out the problems with such a relationship, and starts falling for Kobayashi instead, who's her age.
  • Shipper on Deck: She ships Piro/Miho, and most of her actions in Chapter 11 are trying to get them together.
  • Ship Tease: With Kobayashi. He's loved her for years, and when she finally finds out she struggles whether to be flattered or weirded out. They grow closer in the ensuing days (in no small part due to Meimi trying to push them together) and eventually have their First Kiss, at which point the ability to refer to their romance as a 'possibility' goes out the window.
  • Splash of Color: Every once in a while, her gold-ish eyes are colored even in the black and white pages (though not in the print editions).
  • Supernatural Gold Eyes: Foreshadowing her status as a Magical Girl, since her mom and Miho have the same eye color.
  • Superpowerful Genetics: Her powers come from Meimi, her mom, who has the same abilities.
  • Super-Speed: Her primary ability as a Magical Girl. She's so fast that only the similarly-supersonic Miho is able to catch her.
  • SWAT Team: Largo dresses her in something like SWAT gear when she helps him fight zombies.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: See Naïve Everygirl.
  • Zombie Advocate: She adopts a zilla, and doesn't change her tune once he gets bitten.
    Yuki: It's not his fault! It's not his fault!

    Junko Ibara 
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One of the students in the Great Teacher Largo's English class along with Ping and Miho. She's not too pleased with the eccentric man nor the craziness that he brings. While full of snark and having a couple secrets of her own, she has shown a more caring side.

Language(s)

  • Japanese
  • English (fluent)

Associated tropes:

  • Class Representative: Of the snarky type.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: She seems to have issues with her father and apparently was friends with Miho – that doesn't usually end well.
  • Deadpan Snarker/Snark Knight: She's the only one who seems to notice how crazy her teacher is, and lampshades it at every opportunity.
  • Enjo Kosai: Is seen engaging in this a couple times.
    Largo: What are the m4d skillz that make you who you are??? What are you good at?!?
    Junko: I AM GOOD AT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OLDER MEN AND GETTING MONEY FROM THEM!!!
  • Girlish Pigtails: A subversion, since she's one of the least girlish members of the cast. She might be invoking the trope though, since she dates older men.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Everything Junko does is with good intentions, but her personality is so abrasive it has a tendency to come off as mean rather than kind.
  • Luminescent Blush: When Largo asks her for advice on his "problem" with Erika.
    Junko: I am one of your female students! You can't ask me something like this!
  • Ordinary High-School Student: There doesn't seem to be anything special about her at all, other than the fact she keeps stumbling into things. She used to be friends with Miho, is present when Inspector Sonoda is explaining how important idols are, realizes Ping is a robot and witnesses Yuki roofhopping, and her father gives her a detailed explanation of what Miho is.
  • Pet the Dog: Cheering up Largo and helping out Ping.
  • Rape as Backstory: One possible interpretation — she mentions it "must be nice" that Ping doesn't have to have sex if she doesn't want to, and expresses envy at Ping's ability to rip telephone poles out of the ground and beat people with them.

    Asako Kurabayashi & Mami Teramoto 
Yuki's two best friends from school, usually seen together. Mami is cool-headed and practical; Asako is emotional and boisterous.

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

  • Deadpan Snarker: Mami might not be at Erika's level, but she's definitely a capable understudy.
  • Genki Girl: Asako, dangerously so — to the point where Mami can actually weaponize it.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: Thus far Yuki has managed to keep the whole Magical Girl thing secret from them. Probably for good reason.
  • Not What It Looks Like: They have a tendency to inflict this on other characters, especially to Yuki and Kobayashi, by walking in on embarrassing conversations or monologues.
  • Out of Focus: They were prominent in Yuki's storyline during the early chapters, but Kobayashi has since largely supplanted them as Yuki's primary source of support.
  • Squee: Practically Asako's default mode.
  • The Dividual: Of the Syndividual variety. Rarely seen apart from each other, they're complete opposites in personality but complement each other remarkably well.
  • Those Two Girls: They basically exist to be Yuki's 'normal' friends, and don't really have any plot role that doesn't directly relate to her.

Conscience Agents

    Seraphim 
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Seraphim is a field agent for the Conscience Enforcement Authority and Piro's "conscience". She routinely appears to Piro as a small angel-winged woman perhaps six inches (15 cm) tall with (apparently) correspondingly reduced weight and ability to make virtually everyone overlook her presence.

Associated tropes:

    Asmodeus 
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Asmodeus is the only conscience entity introduced into the story so far who is not a member of the Conscience Enforcement Agency. He is apparently the evil side of Piro's conscience, although he seems to generally view his suggested deeds as "having fun", rather than "doing evil."

Associated tropes:

    Boo 
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Boo is a hamster who is currently employed as a temp agent by the Conscience Enforcement Agency. He was assigned to help ease Seraphim's caseload after she complained about how severely overworked she was. Soon after, he was given a role as Largo's conscience, which has been his primary mission ever since.

Associated tropes:

American Agents

    Dom 
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Dom is an American who works for Sega's black ops division. When he hired in, the job opportunities were tight, with only one slot available for a new employee.

Language(s)

  • English
  • Japanese (fluent)

Associated tropes:

  • Author Avatar: Or rather, "Guy-Who-Has-Some-Connection-To-The-Author Avatar" of Fred's friend Dominic "Shirt-Guy Dom" Nguyen.
  • Chronically Crashed Car: Any vehicle he owns has a tendency to get wrecked or lost. He himself sinks two ships in the opening chapter, and goes on to have an airship crashed by Junpei, a car trashed by Miho, and a van stolen by Yuki.
  • Cool Car: A sleek black company car. Miho trashes it in Chapter 9.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: Although he's generally a wet-works man, he's also been known to dabble in the paperwork side. Such as when he helped buy the company producing the game Kimiko was working on.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: When he was competing with Ed over a job, he only locked Ed in his trunk so he missed his appointment.
    Largo: What about all the other applicants?
    Dom: Well... they weren't my friends, right? [reaches into his jacket and pulls out a gun]
  • The Sociopath: Has shown zero remorse for any of the things he's done.
  • Trigger-Happy: In the early years, Dom and Ed were used to play off a Japanese stereotype: That all Americans are well armed and willing to whip out a gun at the slightest provocation. These days Dom's the manipulative schemer of the two, but he still carries around at least half-a-dozen pistols wherever he goes.

    Ed 
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Ed is a Sony Enforcement Division agent, Dom's best friend and rival. They both applied for a job with Sega Japan after graduation. Dom locked Ed in the trunk of his car so he would miss the job interview.

Language(s)

  • English
  • L33t

Associated tropes:

  • Amusing Injuries: He tends to get blown up and rebuilt from scratch.
  • Magic Plastic Surgery: A Running Gag is him getting a new face every time he gets injured.
  • The Sociopath: Has shown zero remorse for any of the things he's done.
  • What Is This Feeling?: It takes him a moment to recognize that he is terrified when Miho shows up.
  • The Worf Effect: He's one of the strongest characters in the series. He also gets beat up a lot.
  • Trigger-Happy: Same as Dom, above. Though Ed has become the more violent of the pair, using high level Sony weaponry and robots in blunt (yet effective) ways.

The Sawatari Clan

    In General 
A clan of powerful kitsune living in and around the Tokyo area.

  • Accent Adaptation: Some of the clan seem to have their own accented form of "Japanese", which is "translated" in the comic as an idiosyncratic form of English. Mugi and the clan leader speak with this accent constantly and Megumi occasionally slips into it when she's particularly stressed out.
  • Asian Fox Spirit: All of the Sawataris are kitsune, with varying numbers of tails. Some hide their fox features in order to pass as human, while others choose to live openly. Every member of the family, including Megumi and her grandmother, have freckles resembling whiskers.
  • Cartwright Curse: Seems to affect the whole family (which may explain the lack of men in the clan). For the Sawataris, expect their crushes to either rebuff their affections, or enter into a romance that is doomed to fail in short order.
  • Cute Monster Girl: Comes with the territory of being a real Kitsune and all.
  • Expressive Ears: Much like their real life fox cousins, the Sawataris tend to express their moods with their ears, with flat ears indicating annoyance or anger, and perked up ears indicating interest or curiosity.
  • Glamour: Those members of the clan who choose to hide their Kitsune features appear to be able to use some form of glamour to appear completely human. Thanks to the Weirdness Censor of the setting, even those who choose to live openly are not noticed or are presumed to be cosplaying by most of the populace.
  • Improbably Female Cast: All of the Sawataris seen to date are female, with no male members of the family even mentioned.
  • Little Bit Beastly: When not hiding them, all of the Sawataris have prominent fox ears and at least one tail, but otherwise appear fully human.
  • Reality Warper: Kitsune that have more than one tail have multiple spines occupying the same physical space. Supposedly this violation of physics is the source of their power.
  • Running Joke: Whenever another character calls one of them a bitch, expect them to patiently correct the offender by saying they are vixen, not dogs.

    Komugiko "Mugi" Sawatari 
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A one-tailed kitsune and part-time bouncer at the Cave Of Evil, and a very old friend of Miho's. Looked after Pirogeth (Piro's character) in Endgames when he stopped playing. She’s a high school Biology teacher who specialized in the study of the Poacae plant family, specifically wheat and barley. note 

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

  • The Bartender: In Endgames, she's the innkeeper variant.
  • Curtains Match the Windows: A rare color page shows that both her hair/fur and eyes are red.
  • Cute Little Fangs: Due to being a real life foxgirl. Strangely, she is the only Sawatari to prominently display them.
  • The Exile: After becoming pregnant as a teenager, she had a falling out with most of her clan, forcing her to strike out on her own. She has since somewhat patched things up (though, notably, her mother still refuses to speak with her), but her ties to her family are still very tense.
  • Fiery Redhead: Not immediately apparent, given that most of the comics are in black and white, but colour pictures of her reveal she's a redhead and she has a notoriously fiery temper.
  • Mama Bear: She does not go into violent gunslinging mode, but she cares a great deal for her precious students, and will put their safety and health over her own. Extra points for actually being a mother, having a daughter named Yakugashi.
  • Ms. Fanservice: She's both petite and busty, so she makes sure her costumes take full advantage of it. Even her street clothes do this; her regular shirt has a plunging neckline. When she meets Piro, she immediately gives him a front-row view of her cleavage, saying "Yeah, they're real." (though that comment may have been referring to, well, see above.) This seems to have officially become a Running Gag with Largo chiming in.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Megumi's blue. The two have a somewhat combative relationship.
  • Teen Pregnancy: Had Yakugashi when she was still a teenager, leading to her estrangement from most of her family.

    Megumi Sawatari 
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Character spoiler: Megumi in her kitsune form. 

A co-worker of Kimiko's at Anna Miller's and an aspiring voice actress. She is also a cousin to Komugiko and the two of them tend to bicker constantly when they are together. Unlike most of the Sawataris, she doesn't have any visible kitsune traits. Until recently, that is...

Language(s)

  • Japanese
  • Nihon Shuwa (sign language)

Associated tropes:

  • Accent Slip-Up: She speaks unaccented Japanese most of the time, but after a hellish day that included getting in a car chase (and nearly shot), seeing her cousin hook up with her crush and her co-worker similarly square off with Piro, and having her one-night stand broken up by an inquisitive Ping, she reverts back to talking in an "accented" variant of Japanese, similar to Mugi or the clan leader.
  • Adoption Angst: Inverted. She grew up believing that her grandmother was adopted into the clan and, accordingly, that she was a normal human and not a fox-girl. When she wakes up one morning only to discover she suddenly has fox ears and a sizable batch of tails, she immediately freaks out.
  • Born Unlucky: She has bad luck with romance. Her crush on Junpei immediately turns out to be unrequited. Her luck with romance is so bad that others are brought good fortune in order to continue her unlucky streak. The heartbreak of other people's luck indeed.
  • Covert Pervert: Is left drooling and staring blissfully off into space after seeing Junpei for the first time. She also asks Mugi if she can borrow him from time to time.
  • Expressive Accessory: Her omnipresent hair-bow tends to reflect her mood, sagging when she is sad or tired and perking up when she is surprised. It's probably an acting stand in for the fox ears she doesn't know she has.
  • The Finicky One: Tends to be this compared to her family, as she tends to take life more seriously and criticizes the more laid back or wild members of her family.
  • Glamour Failure: She shows no outward signs of being a kitsune and for years it was an open question as to whether she was one or not because of the family connection. However, at times when she is particularly annoyed or upset, her hair perks up and resembles kitsune ears. Once Ping arrives at the Foxhole, a love hotel run by her immediate family, her ears and tails make an appearance in a few cells once her facade starts to deteriorate (first in love and fully in a little rough). It drops entirely at the climax of chapter 12, after cursing her bad luck in relationships and her jealousy of other's, has her promising fling cut short when he receives a call from his cheating fiance pleading to get back together.
  • Heroic BSoD: She does not take the appearance of her kitsune ears and tails well at all.
  • Hopeless Suitor: Developed an almost immediate crush on Junpei, which was dashed almost as quickly when she soon realized that he and Mugi were head-over-heels for each other.
  • I Am a Monster: Calls herself as such after her tails and ears appear.
  • Signature Headgear: Is never seen without a ribbon in her hair, tied into a bow. At least not until her kitsune traits manifest.
  • Skewed Priorities: Even while grappling with the realization she is a kitsune after all she's still determined to figure out how Piro's night with Kimiko went in a love hotel.
    Piro: <You okay?>
    Megumi: <Did you do her?>
    Piro: <What!?>
    Megumi: <Don't make me ask questions I know you have the vocabulary for.>
  • Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Downplayed. After a rapid-fire chain of disappointing events in her love life culminating in a last-minute phone call completely ruining what would have been an otherwise cathartic one night stand, causes a depressed Megumi's ears and tails to finally manifest as she falls asleep. Unaware she was a kitsune, Megumi doesn't realize anything has changed until Kimiko gleefully starts cuddling her tails, at which point she realizes not only is she a kitsune, but she's naturally nine-tailed.
  • Wham Shot: Strip 1583. She looks somewhat stunned at the door, starts crying, collapsing out of frame... then the final shot is a single panel showing her collapsed on the bed with her newly manifested kitsune features.

    Yakugashi Sawatari 
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Komugiko's daughter and a two-tailed kitsune. A teenage manga artist, she was originally embarrassed about her kitsune heritage, leading her to hide her tails and ears, but has since decided to wear them openly.

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

  • Affection-Hating Kid: Comments that seeing her mom and Junpei act all lovey-dovey around each other makes her want to throw up.
  • Anger Born of Worry: Acts annoyed and upset when she first reunites with Miho, because her mother keeps getting emotionally (and sometimes physically) hurt as a result of Miho's story.
  • Bratty Half-Pint: Of the snarky, know-it-all teen variety.
  • Break the Cutie: Over the course of one day her mom is placed in the hospital; she herself is kidnapped, tied up, and gagged by ninjas who explicitly call her a subhuman monster, and who plan to hold her hostage so they can kill another family member; is rescued by Miho who then suffers a minor heart-attack in front of her; is attacked by ninjas again; is rescued by Junpei who then stays behind to hold the ninjas off while she and Miho escape; and then has to drag an unconscious and possibly dying Miho out of a river and all the way onto a train before Miho wakes up. At the end of all this the poor girl is a clingy, traumatized mess, barely speaking and refusing to let go of Miho for even an instant.
  • Easily Embarrassed Youngster: To the point where she hid her ears and tails. She still finds her family somewhat embarrassing and is easily flustered (something that Junpei's grandmother takes great delight in exploiting).
  • Little Miss Snarker: Snarks pretty much anyone who crosses her path.
  • Meganeko: Wears a pair of large glasses.

    Great-Grandma Sawatari 
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Komugiko's grandmother and Yakugashi's great-grandmother. An eight-tailed, extremely powerful kitsune, she leads the Sawatari clan. Shows up in a two-comic miniseries showing her interactions with Mugi and Yakugashi and giving a bit more background on the Sawataris.

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

  • The Fair Folk: Seems to embody this element of the kitsune more than any other character. In her own words, she - along with the rest of the Sawataris - are monsters and she believes it important to recognize this fact.
  • The Gadfly: Seems to enjoy getting under the skin of others, particularly her granddaughter. Mugi originally assumed her daughter's reluctance to visit her grandmother was because the latter would tease Yakugashi about her decision to unpin her ears and let her tails down.
  • Kimono Is Traditional: Dresses in very traditional Japanese style, which includes a kimono.
  • No Name Given: Her actual name has yet to be revealed, as the only two people she speaks with in the comics where she appears - Mugi and Yakugashi - refer to her by variants of "grandma" or "old lady". Her rival in the ninja clan simply refers to her as "old eight tails".
  • The Rival: Has a longstanding rivalry with the head of Junpei's ninja clan. The ninja have an extermination order out on her, one that has gone unfulfilled so long that most of the younger ninja aren't even aware that it exists.
  • Signature Headgear: A rather unusual one - she has a ball of yarn, complete with knitting needles, balanced between her ears.
  • Silk Hiding Steel: Despite her initially friendly demeanour and grandmotherly look (complete with spectacles), it is clear by the end of her initial appearance that she is highly cunning and extremely ruthless.

     Ashe Sawatari 
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One of Megumi's cousins. A one-tailed kitsune who works with Megumi's grandmother running a love hotel.

Language(s)

  • Japanese (lip reading)
  • Nihon Shuwa (sign language)

Associated tropes:

  • Animal Eyes: Her eyes have prominent slit pupils, much like real-life foxes.
  • Deaf Composer: It's revealed in the official side comic Tokyo Threat Documentation Project (and suggested by the Zildjian shirt she wears) that Ashe is actually a very talented drummer, despite being deaf.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Ashe has some pretty good one-liners, with Megumi usually being the victim. When Megumi suddenly appears in the hotel management area after reserving a room, Ashe signs, "That was quick." Similarly, when Ping complains to Megumi that she can't get a man to have sex with her, Ashe comments, "At least it's something you can help her with."
  • Handicapped Badass: She is deaf, only able to communicate via sign-language and reading lips. Despite that, she is physically fit and is fully capable of suplexing someone into submission if the situation calls for it.
  • The Stoic: Amplified by the fact that she only speaks in sign language, Ashe's emotional reactions to what's going on around her tend to be fairly subdued.
  • Suplex Finisher: Seems to be Ashe's signature move. She uses it on Junko when the latter attacks her while trying to leave the love hotel, then nearly uses it again on Megumi in a bar after Megumi refuses to open up about why she's upset. Megumi hints that this is a habit of hers.

     Megumi's Grandmother 
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Megumi's currently-unnamed grandmother. A member of the "northern clan" of the Sawataris. She runs a love hotel in Tokyo, much to Megumi's embarrassment. She was adopted into the Sawatari family, excusing Megumi and her lack of kitsune features.

Language(s)

  • Japanese
  • Nihon Shuwa (sign language)
  • English (fluent)

Associated tropes:

  • Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Or grandparent, as the case may be. Megumi finds herself constantly flustered and frustrated by her grandmother's attitude towards sex and love.
  • No Name Given: At present, she's simply been referred to as "Grandma" by Megumi.
  • The Oldest Profession: Megumi comments that the northern clan runs a brothel in Kitami and Grandma hints that she was once a worker there (something Megumi later confirms in a conversation with Ping). In a conversation with Ping where Megumi exclaims that nothing of value can come from selling herself, her grandmother chimes in with, "Your grandfather, whoever he was, paid for what resulted in your mother and I value her greatly."

Other

    Junpei 
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A Ninja who first showed up as the challenger to Largo for a Mortal Combat Visa, Junpei now seeks to assist the 'l33t-master' and learn from him.

Language(s)

  • Japanese
  • English (proficient)

Associated tropes:

  • Anime Hair: Slicked back into curved spikes, and multi-colored. Was straight black until he decided to follow the "Way of L33t".
  • Badass Longcoat: Gains one later in the comics.
  • The Comically Serious: "L33t Master must not eat 'scuzzy' things from trash. Not healthy. Give bad gas."
  • Cool Mask: Covers the lower half of his face. Color seems to vary from black to white, depending on if the image of him is in color or not. Compare the comics to the artwork on the 5th book cover.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: Decides to follow the 'way of l33t' after being beaten by Largo at Mortal Combat (read: Kombat).
  • The Faceless: We never see him without his mask, and the one time it is removed, we only see him from behind.
  • He Cleans Up Nicely: Seen in an Armani Suit at one point. Very stylish.
  • Highly-Visible Ninja:
    • He does dress in black after meeting Largo for the second time, but still, he is seen by anyone (though not while doing ninja-y things...)
    • Subverted at one point in the comic, where it says that the real Ninja Headquarters cannot be shown.
  • Honor Before Reason: At one point is willing to go up against a powerful magical girl in order to protect Largo. Keep in mind that Junpei considers the magical girl 'code of love' to be far more dangerous than the ninja 'code of honor'.
  • Hulk Speak: His speech patterns are based off old poorly-dubbed ninja movies, though that doesn't explain why he always refers to himself in the third person. Note: Not only does he speak this way in English, but also Japanese.
  • Leet Lingo: Gains some after meeting Largo.
  • Ninja: It even says so on his hoodie.
  • Old-School Chivalry: A very subtle example. At one point, Mugi wakes up in the hospital with Junpei watching over her and starts talking with him. Mid-way through the conversation, she suddenly bolts upright, causing the top button of her hospital gown to pop open, exposing her cleavage. In the next panel, the button is re-fastened, seemingly courtesy of Junpei's super-speed.
  • Roof Hopping: Seems to be his main method of getting around. Comments at one point that this would be difficult to do while carrying Piro and Ping, as our resident robot-girl would be heavy, and some roofs on the way to their destination have a low load limit.

    Yutaka Kobayashi 
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One of Yuki's classmates, and as of late her love interest. Evidently nursed a crush on her for many years which she has only recently become aware of.

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

    Ririka Kobayashi 
Yutaka's mother, who works as a hospital nurse. She seems to be an old friend of Meimi's.

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

    Takeshi Matsui 
Executive producer at LockArt for the Visual Novel Sight, and Kimiko's current employer.

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

  • Beleaguered Boss: Constantly having to juggle the interests of his company, his sponsors, and fans, his job was not an easy one even before Kimiko landed in his lap like unexploded ordnance.
  • The Eeyore: Cynical and pessimistic, Matsui is usually prepared to imagine all the ways in which things could possibly go wrong. Given the nature of his job, this quality probably serves him well.
  • Good Cop/Bad Cop: Occasionally plays the bad cop to Sayuri's good when the pair of them try to talk sense into Kimiko.
  • Leonine Contract: Makes a deal with Dom for the latter's silent investment in Sight, in order to save it from being cancelled. He's Genre Savvy enough to know how dangerous this is, but figures he has no other options.

    Ryouya Sayuri 
Character designer for Sight, the Visual Novel Kimiko is working on. She is well-respected in the industry, and has also worked with Erika in the past. She was the chief advocate for Kimiko getting the role of Kotone.

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

  • Big Sister Mentor: To some extent she plays this role to Kimiko at work. Besides showing her the ropes and giving her general advice, she also tries to keep Kimiko's more erratic tendencies under control... with mixed success.
  • Face Palm: Kimiko's off-the-cuff "moments" have been known to provoke these in her.
  • Good Cop/Bad Cop: Occasionally plays the good cop to Matsui's bad when the pair of them try to talk sense into Kimiko.
  • Mysterious Informant: Secretly participates in the fan community under the alias "Kuma-san". May also be something of a Double Agent role, as it's implied this is partly to try and keep the community's more destructive instincts in check.
  • Only Sane Employee: Seems to be this at LockArt. Besides being the designer for Sight, her de facto job also involves protecting Kimiko from herself, keeping Matsui from going crazy, and holding things together in Matsui's absence.
  • Squee: Kimiko has also caused her to do this on occasion.

    Meimi Sonoda 
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Yuki's mother, and a mysterious woman who knows more about what's going on than she should.

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

    Masamichi Sonoda 
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Yuki's father, and head of the Tokyo Police Cataclysm Division.

Language(s)

  • Japanese
  • English (fluent)

Associated tropes:

  • Beleaguered Bureaucrat: He spends most of his time trying to get the proper paperwork from monsters.
  • Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: When he finds out his daughter has a boyfriend, he immediately does a background search, all while yelling at the poor boy over the phone.
    Masamichi: I will have a dozen officers monitoring your every move, your every purchase, your every mouse click, you understand me boy? I will get text alerts!
  • Give Him a Normal Life: Tried this with his daughter. It didn't stick.
  • Oh, Crap!: When he realizes there's an unregistered Magical Girl on the loose, though less than his subordinates. During one of the livestreams Fred said that not only was he the one to finally arrest Meimi back during her magical girl days but that it almost got him killed in the process so magical girls in general probably bring back some bad memories for him.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: The highest-ranking official seen, and has the best interests of not only the entire city, but most of the cast, at heart. He even deputizes Largo when it looks like he'd be useful, only to rescind it almost immediately due to Erika's cover being blown.

    Tsubasa 
A Japanese friend of Piro's. Piro and Largo crash at his apartment after they lose all their money. An extremely hard-core otaku, he was Ping's original owner. His departure forces Piro & Largo to move into Megagamers, getting the plot going in earnest.

Language(s)

  • Japanese
  • English (fluent)

Associated tropes:

  • Engrish: A mild example. He uses very stilted dialogue, especially when he writes.
  • Put on a Bus: Done at the request of the guy he was based on.
  • Walking the Earth: This is what he's been doing since leaving Tokyo. Somehow he's still able to keep up with otaku news.

    Junko's Father 
A middle-aged man with connections to the video game industry; it's implied that he works for Nintendo or is otherwise affiliated with them. While few details of their family situation have been revealed, it's clear that Junko regards him as a contemptible deadbeat. He's seen borrowing money from her on several occasions (not always with her permission).

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

    Ninja Grandmaster 
A petite, female ninja that comes across Miho when Junpei brought her to the ninja compound to keep her safe. Unbeknownst to all, she is actually the clan's grandmaster.

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

  • Fantastic Racism: Refers to Yakugashi as a "little monster" and calls her mother a "socially unacceptable sub-human". However, her other comments suggest that she has nothing personal against kitsune, but her clan wouldn't approve.
  • Genki Girl: Not exactly the attitude you'd expect from a ninja, nevermind the grandmaster. She is hyperactive and enthusiastic, much to the annoyance of both Miho and Yakugashi.
  • Kunoichi: The ninja grandmaster. Looks (though usually doesn't act) the part.
  • Never Mess with Granny: Junpei's grandma is a powerful fighter on her own and also has a clan of ninja to call on. She's friendly for the most part, but mess with her family and she has absolutely no problem cutting you to ribbons.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Some (but not all) of her oblivious Genki Girl persona is an act. When she's finally finished mining Miho and Yakugashi for information on their respective situations, she drops the ruse and acts far more serious (though even then, she still has an upbeat, somewhat childish tone).
  • Older Than They Look: She looks (and acts) like she is in her twenties at most; in reality, she is Junpei's grandmother and one of the most senior ninja in the entire clan.
  • Professional Killer: Like the other ninja in the setting, her role is to eliminate troublesome individuals. She reveals she's received termination orders for both Miho and Yakugashi's great-grandmother.
  • The Rival: Is old rivals with Yakugashi's great-grandmother, the clan-leader of the Sawatari kitsune.
  • Super-Speed: One of the fastest characters in the setting - faster, even, than her grandson, Junpei. Notably, she is able to strip and re-dress Miho before the latter can even react, and she amuses herself throughout Miho and Yakugashi's conversation by decorating Yakugashi's hair with increasingly elaborate ensembles (culminating in the addition of a pineapple) without Yakugashi even noticing.

    "L337 D00d" / Leet Guy 
A minor character whose life was once saved by Largo. He frequents the local arcade, where he sometimes offers Largo tactical advice. Speaks almost exclusively in "l337"; Largo is one of the only people who can understand him.

Language(s)

  • English
  • L33t

Associated tropes:

    Peek and Poke 
A pair of Emotional Doll System prototypes from the same batch as Ping. Seen hanging around the Sawatari Estate.

Language(s)

  • Japanese

Associated tropes:

  • Annoying Younger Sibling: Poke fulfils this role in the trio, being shameless and with a list of vices a mile long.
  • Disappointing Older Sibling: Peek, according to Poke at least, due to her being programmed to be practically unapproachable.
  • Extreme Omnisexual: Poke is introduced thinking about 'playing' with everyone in a room... including several fox girls, and Largo.
  • Robot Girl: Made by Sony, just like Ping.
  • Theme Naming: Peek and Poke are commands used to access memory in BASIC interpreters.
  • Tsundere: Peek is the aloof and unapproachable 'tsun', while Poke is the easily approached, and bedded, 'dere'.

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