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Player Character
The Oni protagonist who is controlled by the player.
- Adapted Out: Save for cameos in the opening sequence, the protagonist doesn't appear in anime, since it focuses primarily on the partners.
- Character Customization: Before the game begins, the player is tasked with creating the appearance of the protagonist, choosing between eight character body types.
- Chosen One: Their ability to take down Kamigui hints that they're special.
- Heroic Build: The Muscular Male body is built like a tank and towers over other characters.
- Heroic Mime: The player character has no in-game dialogue.
- Jack of All Trades: They can wield all the weapon types in the game.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: The Young Boy/Girl can wield heavy Odachi swords and spears.
- Purely Aesthetic Gender: The protagonist can be either gender, but in-game dialogue, promotional art, and the character creation mode indicate they're written to be female.
- Statuesque Stunner: The Glamorous Female body is tall and well-endowed.
Shizuka Gozen
Shizuka Gozen
Voiced by: Aina Suzuki (Japanese), Cynthia Martinez (English)
- Pink Means Feminine: As a princess, she wears a pretty pink outfit.
- Purple Is Powerful: She's the princess of a shogunate with purple eyes.
- Royal Blood: She's a princess of a shogunate.
- True Sight: Shizuka is a Priestess of True Sight, which not only allows her to identify dropped weapons, but also allows her to see things that go unnoticed by ordinary people.
Yoshitsune
Yoshitsune
Voiced by: Eriko Matsui (Japanese), Stephanie Wittels (English)
- A-Cup Angst: Briefly touched upon during a Hot Springs visit in-game, but only seen if the player uses a female character.
- Equipment Upgrade: Yoshitsune can upgrade your weapons in two ways. Firstly, by using spare identified weaponry, one weapon can be leveled up. Second, once the weapon hits a level multiple of 10, she can Smelt it by using a copy of the weapon to increase its level cap. You can get options to increase its grade (higher damage and durability), more success in smelting, and upgrading a skill.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: She uses a sword in combat.
Ibaraki Doji
Ibaraki Doji
Voiced by: Suzuko Mimori (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)
- The Alcoholic: Even though she runs a bar, she's always drunk.
- Booze-Based Buff: Once you get Ibaraki-Doji on your team, she will provide a bevy of alcoholic beverages that provide a wide array of buffs, increased damage and health restoration being two examples.
- Cat Girl: She has a cat tail. She also has catlike mannerisms, such as giving a yowl if spooked.
- Genki Girl: She's very cheerful.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: She uses a sword in the shape of a cat's paw in the game.
- Stripperific: She basically only wears tiny patches of clothes to cover her nipples. Downplayed in the anime adaptation (pictured) where it's "upgraded" to a bikini, and the mobile version, which fully covers her breast and cleavage (yet still revealing her midriff, legs, and upper shoulder).
- Unusual Ears: She looks like she has cat ears, but they're actually her Oni horns.
- Walking Swimsuit Scene: Basically dressed in swim wear.
Kaguya
Kaguya
Voiced by: Izumi Kitta (Japanese), Kira Vincent-Davis (English)
- Horned Humanoid: She has devil horns.
Amaterasu
Amaterasu
Voiced by: Natsuko Hara (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English)
- Character Title: One of her functions is to name the protagonist as a successor of many known historical people, such as Che Guevara. This gives the player a number of differing bonuses, such as EXP / Money gain, or extra stats.
- God in Human Form: Formerly a sun goddess who sealed Kamikui in the past and turned into a little girl.
Veronica Vasilyevna Vonitsky
Veronica Vasilyevna Vonitsky
Voiced by: Yuki Nakashima (Japanese), Margaret McDonald (English)
- All Love Is Unrequited: Implied during the Kaga missions that he has affections for Susanoo.
- Alliterative Name: Veronica Vonitsky
- Crossdresser: He's a boy who uses the power of Kamikui to take on the appearance of a girl.
- Curtains Match the Window: Pink hair and eyes.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Part way through Izumo, you meet Veronica, a boy who gets mistaken for being a girl. What doesn't help is his attire and manner of speaking.
- Gadgeteer Genius: He always tries to stop Shizuka Gozen's partying with his dubious inventions.
- Ojou Ringlets: His hairstyle features these even though he's probably not an Ojou.
- Vanity Is Feminine: He hates anyone who's cuter than him.
Uzume
Uzume
Voiced by: Monya Nakane (Japanese), Joanne Bonasso (English)
- Animal Motif: Butterflies, as seen on her outfit.
- God in Human Form: She's actually a real goddess, Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto.
- Purple Is Powerful: She's a goddess with purple eyes.
- Walking Swimsuit Scene: She only wears swim wear.
Kijimuna
Kijimuna
Voiced by: Nozomi Kishita (Japanese), Tiffany Grant (English)
- Running Gag: Giving experience and coins upon dying, which is taken advantage of by the other characters.
Sakura
Sakura
Voiced by: Chaney Moore (English)
- Cherry Blossom Girl: Named Sakura, wears clothes with lots of flowers, in some iterations has pink hair like here
◊, and has a Yamato Nadeshiko or Samurai vibe to her. - Floral Theme Naming: さくら (Sakura) = "cherry tree", "cherry blossom"
- Kaleidoscope Hair: Goes between having dark blond and pink hair.
- Katanas Are Just Better: She uses a katana in battle.
Jin
Jin
- Heroes Prefer Swords: He uses a sword in combat.
- Inconsistent Spelling: His name gets stylized as "Zin" in the anime.
- The One Guy: He's the only male in Shizuka's party if you don't count Veronica.
Narrator
Narrator
Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese), Jay Hickman (English)
The narrator of the story, who provides the background story of each episode, and mostly acts as the straight man to Shizuka Gozen's party.
- Straight Man: He mostly acts as the straight man to Shizuka Gozen's party.
Game-only characters
Miroku
Miroku
- Dark Secret: He used to be a member of the group seeking to utilize the Kamikui for nefarious purposes, and is even identified by their leader. Miroku ended up defecting before the story began.
- Intrepid Merchant: He's traveled across Japan quite a fair bit, and after helping retrieve a shipment for him he tags along, acting as the player's main store.
- Scars Are Forever: He has a scar across his face.
Momotarou
Momotarou
- Defeat Means Friendship: Although friendship may not be the right word, this is how you get Momotarou to join your party.
- Dual Wielding: Wields two katanas.
- The Rival: Momotarou has a one sided rivalry with the player character.
- Superpowered Evil Side: When the player first fights Momotarou, he's in this state, sporting six arms each wielding a blade.
- Wild Child: In most towns, he can be found trying to look for or interact with wildlife, bugs being a particular favorite of his.
Susanoo
Susanoo
- BFS: Wields a huge greatsword.
- Cool Sword: His sword is flame shaped.
- Curse: The large flower seen across him is the result of one, which causes him immense pain. The player has to enter his soul to help quell it.
- The Quiet One: Generally doesn't like to talk a whole lot.
