Characters / Remina

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Main Characters

Remina Oguro

The internationally adored Japanese popstar who received fame for being the namesake of a revolutionary discovery in astrophysics. Unfortunately, said discovery is actually a giant alien monster that's going to eat Earth, and that fame quickly turns into hatred.

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• Action Survivor: Whoo boy. The fact she's even alive by the end is a feat.
• All-Loving Hero: Remina is kind and modest to everyone she interacts with, even when the rest of the world turns against her and wants her dead.
• Angst Coma: After one Despair Event Horizon too many, she falls into unconsciousness for a while. She eventually wakes up from it and finds that she is literally flying on Daisuke's back across the world.
• Berserk Button: Remina gets rather livid when she sees Goda beating up Kunihiro over his level of dedication for her.
• Blue Is Heroic: Remina's signature clothing is a long polka-dotted blue dress that gets torn-up as the story progresses.
• Break the Cutie: As if being a scapegoat by the rest of the world wasn't bad enough, her father and the man she loved gets killed horrifically, she almost gets raped, gets whipped repeatedly, nearly drowned, gets first degree burns on her legs, and is even forced to see the burnt corpse of her father before she is crucified. Remina loses all will to live by the time she and Daisuke are being chased around the world.
• Character Title: Some earlier versions of the manga are directly named after Remina the planet. The 2020 edition published by VIZ, however, is simply called Remina, likely to allude to both the girl and the planet.
• Child Popstar: Remina accepts offers to become a popstar at age 16, and at first gathers thousands of adoring fans.
• The Cynic: Remina is pretty much one of the few characters that understands the weight of everything that's going on around them. This is justified seeing how everyone else treats her. Realizing she has no bright future, she gracefully accepts death, and even requests she be left to die on a few ocassions.
• Damsel in Distress: She is constantly in peril by a large cult that wants to kill her. She does have her moments, however.
• Dangerous 16th Birthday: Starts with someone chucking an egg at her face, and evolves into a worldwide mob trying to track her down to try and kill her.
• Designated Villain: In Universe. The reason why people want Remina killed is because they believe that she is an avatar of the hellstar that is going to eat Earth, and that she is purposefully summoning it. The actual villains of the manga also use this delusion to their advantage. Goda uses it as a means of convincing the cult to torture Remina, and Kunihiro uses it to get out of trouble when he tries to rape her.
• Dude Magnet: Remina is implied to have attracted the attention of many, many teens and men. Two in particular are the villains of the manga, Naoya Goda and Kunihiro Mineishi.
• The Eeyore: It's pretty rare to see Remina smile, even before she became a scapegoat for the rest of the world. When she does, it always seems to go into Stepford Smiler territory, especially since it's in the prescence of fans. The death of her mother was apparently what got her like this from the beginning.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: It really says something about Goda when even Remina, a character who has shown little to no hostility towards others, calls him "the worst".
• Fallen Princess: Remina was raised by a wealthy scientist, and is heavily implied to be pampered by him throughout her childhood. She also becomes a popstar due to the fact he decided to name his discovery after her. This all crumbles down when people begin suspecting that Remina and her father might actually be summoning the hellstar that is about to eat Earth.
• Fatal Flaw: Remina's passiveness, as well as her submissiveness and inability to stand up for herself, causes her to get into situations where she's in over her head, and allows people to take advantage of her. Despite this, Remina still makes efforts to overcome these flaws. Remina signs the contracts in hopes that her new carreer can help her with her confidence, accepting the new fanbase she developed despite its many drawbacks.
• Heroic BSoD: Remina goes through a major one when her father is killed off. Throughout most of the third chapter, Remina looks more lifeless and depressed than ever before. Even when she is rescued, she still can't stop thinking about the death of her father.
• Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: Inverted with Remina. Remina takes on the offer of being a popstar, believing that this will benefit her, and coming to terms with how people won't stop chasing after her. Despite this, she's still not entirely comfortable with the limelight she's received.
• The Heart: Remina often acts as this whenever other characters act combative towards one another, no matter who they are, and always puts the needs of others over her own. As an example, when she suggested calling her father, Yasumi tells her not to due to the possibility of being tracked. She then bursts out into tears realizing that this would harm Yasumi, Goda, Kunihiro and the Vice President, and suggests all of them to leave her for their own safety, as protecting her would only put them at risk.
• Indifferent Beauty: Despite her beauty being one of the reasons for her fame, and being one of the central focuses of the story, Remina never really gave much thought to it, and just accepts her fame passively.
• Informed Attribute: She becomes an idol, but what kind of idol work she does gives us no clarification. Even characters who are fans of her is a fan of her work, but it's implied that she's both a singer and a TV actress, but we never see her do those only when a panel shows her doing those things.
• It's All My Fault: Remina often does this whenever other characters go through some sort of hardship, especially those that try to protect her, seeing herself as a burden to them.
• Kiddie Kid: Remina, despite being 16 years old, has very childlike mannerisms. She is usually seen crying when things go wrong and often has to rely on others to make decisions for her. Her low self-esteem also plays a huge factor in this, however.
• Lady and Knight: The bright lady to Daisuke's white knight.
• Meaningful Name: "Remina" translates to mean "beautiful" or "lovely", two qualities of hers that fans admired her for. Likewise, "Oguro" in part comes from the Japanese word for "small". This is also fitting as she is both short in stature, and because this is something that Remina feels she is mentally, both in the grand scheme of things and in her interactions with others.
• Misery Builds Character: After all of the nonsense her supposed supporters had put her through after her father died, Remina literally rebels against the idea of being a prize for the characters to fight over during her encounter with Kunihiro in the bombshelter, whereas previously, she didn't have the confidence to call her father due to the suggestions of other characters.
• Missing Mom: Remina's mother is completely absent from the story, as she died when Remina was very young.
• Neutral Female: Despite being the protagonist, Remina starts off by doing little to nothing on her own, mostly thanks to her pampered lifestyle and coy, pessimistic nature. Throughout the first half, she's tossed around by four of her most devoted followers, who all fight for her attention, until one by one they leave her or die, and she is left to fend for herself. This seems to change a bit towards the middle of the story, where she starts taking a bit more action, both in defending her own life, and helping Daisuke with saving the lives of others.
• Only Sane Woman: Remina is one of the few people on Earth to not turn into a blood-thirsty psychopath, even after all of the crap the rest of the world has put her through, and she instead gracefully accepts death when it is being brought to her, realizing that it is imminent no matter what she does.
• Parody Sue: Just by the mere fact that she was the namesake of a revolutionary discovery in astrophysics, she is showered with praise and love by pretty much the whole world. She even has numerous men that want her. Despite this, Remina never really wanted any of the limelight, and had only signed up because of the influence of her manager and because she came to accept her growing fanbase. However, when the discovery turns out to be a monsterous entity intending to eat Earth, that praise and love turns to hatred and a willingness to kill Remina very quickly.
• Prone to Tears: Remina is quite sensitive, and tends to cry when things seem hopeless, when she is under a lot of pressure, or she is in a great deal of pain.
• The Quiet One: Remina rarely ever speaks, especially towards the middle of the manga, where she has essentially lost everything she held dear.
• Shrinking Violet: Remina starts off like this. When she develops a fanbase, she runs away from fans who notice her. Eventually she comes to terms with this, accepting it as an inevitabilty, and signs contracts to become a popstar. Remina gains a bit of confidence halfway into the manga, where she tells Goda to stop trying to kill Kunihiro, telling Kunihiro she'd rather die, tries to stand up for Daisuke, and helps the strangers that she and Daisuke meet into the bomb shelter. Even towards the end, she at least accepts the compliments from two of her fans that she and Daisuke saved, even if a little diffidently (Understandable, considering what her other fans had turned into prior).
• Smurfette Principle: Remina is the only character in the main cast to be female.
• So Beautiful, It's a Curse: This is the other cause of all of her problems. First of all, it is a reason for her celebrity status. Second of all, almost all of those who want to protect her from all of the crazed psychopaths trying to kill her merely want to get into her panties, don't actually care for her as a person at all, and one of them almost rapes her. This ultimately puts Remina in a lose-lose situation on all fronts.
• Spoiled Sweet: Remina is heavily implied to have been pampered by her father. Despite this, she is one of the nicer characters in the story.
• Suicidal Pacifism: Remina absolutely hates it when people fight, even if the fighting results from risking her getting sacrificed. In all other instances, realizing the weight of everything occuring around her, as well as her hopless, bleak future, she accepts her impending death.
• Teen Idol: She's a relatively minor one with a small fanbase. And then her father names her after a newly-discovered planet and her fame skyrockets... and bites her back the worst way possible.
• Took a Level in Badass: Despite not being particularly strong or combative, Remina has been able to fend for herself in a few scenarios, and has made attempts to stand up for others later into the story, even if they wind up failing. Remina appears to toughen up a bit when she is brought into the bomb shelter by Kunihiro, where she tells him that she does not care if she gets sacrified to the cult, realizing she has nothing left to lose. Remina also manages to fend for herself when Kunihiro tries to rape her. She successfully pushes him off of her, and deals Mineishi with a big smack to his face, which judging from the following panels hurt quite a bit. Towards the end, where she, Daisuke, and four other strangers attempt to get into the Mineishi's bomb shelter as the planet is about to get devoured, she assists Daisuke and the others to get into the shelter by pulling them up. When Goda tries to take Remina down with him, Remina also manages to get rid of Goda for good by jerking her foot upward, as to get Goda to lose his grip and get eaten alive by the hellstar.

Daisuke Mineishi

They get you, they don't, don't mean a thing to them. They'd never stop with you now that they got a taste for it.

The eldest son of the Mineishis who dreamed of becoming an astronaut. When that dream got shattered by his own family, he ran off, and lived as a hobo for 10 full years.

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• Air Jousting: He does this with Goda as Goda is flying through the air carrying Remina. After Daisuke beats the crap out of him, Goda retorts by calling everyone to chase after them.
• All Is Well That Ends Well: Everyone finds themselves in a bombshelter with limited food, water, and air supplies. At the end of the day, Daisuke is just happy that everyone managed to make it there safely, espescially since they were against immeasurable odds escaping the hellstar. Even if they don't survive afterwards, they at least die with dignity, something that those that couldn't escape didn't have, or otherwise didn't have the chance to do.
• Badass Bookworm: He is a lot smarter than he lets on for a bum, since he knows the hellstar fucked with Earth's centrifugal force, which allow him to keep his center of gravity while in the air. There's also the fact that he mocks a man who tried to shoot him and Remina with a gun only to get bounced off by recoil, and another man tried to hit them with a flying car, misses and turns around to try again, only for the wind to blow him into the ocean. This is because he tried to be an astronaut, and knows his astrophysics.
• Badass Bystander: For all intents and purposes, he's just a random hobo that Remina pumps into halfway through, but by God, he will move heaven and earth to protect her.
• Badass in Distress: When he first meets Remina, and the cult finds the both of them, both Daisuke and Remina are tortured brutally. The both of them have their faces dunked into a gutter and nearly drowned, are both hung by their arms and beaten, are dragged across the street to the crucifixion spot, and are burned at the cross. This is until the hellstar licks Earth.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: He wants to be an astronaut, to the point that he would rather be a homeless tramp than stay with the family that denied him his dream. By the end of the story, he sort of got his wish, albeit as an astronaut in an airtight bunker with no means of propulsion and no nearby planet to even land on. He isn't bothered in the slightest bit though, confident that somehow his impeccable luck will see him through again.
• Big Brother Instinct: Daisuke is determined to do whatever he can to keep Remina safe, even if it requires him to be flung around the entire world.
• Big Good: Daisuke was able to save Remina and four other people from the hellstar and the doomsday cult. He also acts as a sort of leader to all of them as soon as they board the bomb shelter.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Subverted with Remina, as here it is purely platonic. Daisuke is a brooding, but otherwise optimistic, hobo with a very troubled past with his family, which caused him to run away from home. Remina is a friendly, pacifistic, but otherwise pessimistic, former popstar. Her stardom is in part what brings her to scapegoat status, and the people she loves being killed.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Daisuke never got along well with his own family, and they even ruined his chance of becoming an astronaut, his lifelong dream. This has caused him to run off from home, which causes him to lose everything he valued. Nonetheless, Daisuke still finds value in his life, and makes the most of his current life as a hobo.
• Deadpan Snarker: When Daisuke isn't insulting people, he knows how to brighten up a seemingly hopeless scenario, and find humor in it. When everyone gets in the bombshelter, he jokes about the shelter not having any doctors when the two kids are having fun floating in the low gravity environment. He also jokes about how "the tough times" are only just beginning, but that there will likely still be another miracle waiting for them.
• Deuteragonist: The second main character after Remina, though he doesn't make his first appearance until well into the story—long after all the other important characters—and isn't fully introduced until the end of the manga. His true identity is hinted at all throughout, though.
• Emerging from the Shadows: Daisuke first meets Remina when she crawls into his home made up of a group of planks of wood put together. She (and those reading) first sees his face when he lights a lighter.
• Friend to All Children: Daisuke appears to have a lot of fun playing with the kids in the bombshelter's low gravity. They also show gratitude to Daisuke for saving their lives.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: He tries to keep Remina from losing herself after the deaths of her father and Yasumi.
• Get Out!: Daisuke isn't very thrilled when Remina breaks into his home, and promptly tells her to leave, unaware of the cult that's out to kill her.
• The Hermit: He is a hobo, after all.
• Hidden Depths: Daisuke at first appears to be nothing more than a hobo that Remina meets by pure happenstance. However, this same hobo also shows an expansive knowledge on astrophysics and can kick butt when need be.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Daisuke doesn't hold back on insulting and giving low blows to people. Nonetheless, he still helps those that are in need. He even rescues four other strangers awaiting their deaths, even when doing so would have impeded his and Remina's progress toward his family's bomb shelter.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Daisuke provides the most selfless reasons for protecting Remina of all, even when she insists he just leaves her to the mob for his own sake. He understands that just leaving her to die wouldn't make anything better, as the mob would instead find a new scapegoat, and the planet would still devour the Earth regardless, so he may as well save Remina, as well as anyone else salvageable that they meet, while he still can.
• Locked Out of the Loop: When we finally meet him, his is totally ignorant over the course of the story. He has no idea why Remina ran into his shelter and why the Planet Remina is overhead above Earth.
• Only Sane Man: Out of all of the characters in this story, Daisuke is naturally the one with the most common sense. He even tells Remina, who up to this point had expressed feeling to others that trying to save her is pointless, and her dying would be for the better, that even if the cult does manage to kill her off, they wouldn't stop at just her, and instead find a new scapegoat.
• Parental Substitute: To Remina when her biological father dies horribly. He is also the only person besides Professor Oguro and Yasumi that sees Remina beyond her celebrity status.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: At least one translation has him calling the pursuing cult members "homos".
• The Pollyanna: The dude never had a stable family life, literally had his life dream of becoming an astronaut ruined by his own family, lived ten years as a hobo, got tortured due to his association with Remina, got tossed around the entire friggin world, and escaped with Remina and a few other kids when the whole Earth gets destroyed, but even all of that's not enough to destroy his optimism for a better future.
• The Smart Guy: Despite living as a hobo for ten years straight, Daisuke still proves to be quite intelligent, having an expansive knowledge of astrophysics, the properties of the hellstar, and his family's bomb shelter.
• Token Adult: The only adult among the group that does manage to escape, which consists of Remina, two kids that are her age, and two younger kids.
• White Sheep: Daisuke is one of the few decent people who doesn't have it out for Remina (which includes his own family when they abandoned her), and goes out of his way to save a persecuted teenaged girl he barely knew less in a day out of altruistic reasons to keep her alive. His selfless act of saving her and a few teens rewards them from being eaten by Planet Remina. Contrast his little shit of a brother, he refuses to abandon her and even to use the Mineishi shelter to save two more teens and two kids.

Major Characters

Yasumi Mitsumura

Remina's manager, whom she also has a crush on. He convinces Remina to sign the contracts and become a star, and tries to guide her in her new lifestyle, as uncomfortable as it may be to her.

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• Beauty Equals Goodness: Of Remina's suitors, Yasumi stands out as a Pretty Boy in comparison to the chubby cheeked smirking Kunihiro, the gaunt stubbly Goda and Goda's short and fat vice Presient, he also stands out as the only one of them whom truly cares for her.
• Bodyguard Crush: Remina and Yasumi form a pretty tight bond. They even admit their love for each other when Yasumi is killed off.
• The Heart: He tries to stop a conflict between Goda and Kunihiro when they fight over who is most worthy of her.
• Hidden Badass: Looks rather lanky, but can beat several cultists within an inch of their life. It takes a whole mob to finally kill him.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Yasumi acted as this when Remina is not sure of herself or if she had to make big decisions regarding her contracts and/or sponsors. He also acted as this when an egg was chucked at Remina's face, which causes her to cry.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Yasumi readily admits that he was the one who dragged Remina into the popstar gig, and thus was the reason as to why people want her dead at all. As a result of this, he decides that it is necessary to pay for this, and protect her with his life.
• Nice Guy: It's not very much of a shock why Remina likes him so much, especially considering the fact he was one of the few people in her life besides her father to show her any true form of affection, rather than a purely parasocial crush or surface-level admiration for her.
• Taking the Bullet: In a last ditch effort to protect Remina, he takes a stab in the back that was meant for her.

Naoya Goda

Remina is the planet's avatar. The planet causes us to suffer, and we must return that suffering through Remina. The girl must die in pain.

^{Click here to see Goda unmasked.} 

Remina's biggest fan, as well as the president of her official fanclub. He is so obsessed with Remina that he believes his dedication towards her is enough to gain her affections, and he often competes with those he feels are less worthy of her attention.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Downplayed, as Remina was, at first, neutral towards him. Even before his descent into villainy, Goda still shows himself to be very sleazy, and to have a strong sense of entitlement towards Remina, albeit not as much as Kunihiro. He also disregards Remina's feelings after the deaths of both her father and Yasumi, telling her that she does not "belong" to them. It isn't until Goda starts trying to murder Mineishi that Remina starts to dislike him and calls him "the worst", and even further when Goda inadvertently reveals himself to be a leader of the cult.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Goda is a creepy Loony Fan of Remina due to her Idol Singer status, but at least pretends to be a gentleman and can actually do things to help Remina's survival, albeit for ultimately selfish purposes, thus he at least looks better compared to the blatantly predator-y Kunihiro whom refuses to risk his life for Remina and abandons her at the first opportunity. Subverted after Goda's Face–Heel Turn where its clear he's at the very least, as bad as Kunihiro.
• Allegorical Character: Goda represents the fans of Idol Singer whom worship their stars, until they turn against them due to a percieved betrayal, like having a boyfriend.
• Ambiguously Human: When Goda licks Remina's face, he presents a seemingly alien tongue that resembles the planet's own, and his eyes even resemble the hellstar's in a few close-up shots after his Face–Heel Turn. Considering no real backstory is given about him, as well as the mysterious nature of the cult he leads, this calls into question who or what Goda actually is.
• Ascended Fanboy: He's such a dedicated fan, that even his fanclub was declared as "official" by Remina's manager.
• Attempted Rape: It's very hard to not imagine what ELSE Goda would have done to Remina on that cross had he not been interuppted by the tsunami.
• Big Bad: Goda acts as the manga's main villain in its second half, on the human scale at least.
• Big Bad Slippage: Goda is not actively malicious in the beginning of the story, but instead a obsessive fan of Remina's whom at least seems to be helpful to her survival. When Remina got upset at him beating up Mineishi, combined with her expressing love for her manager, Goda takes over the cult that sought to kill her for his own purposes.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Unlike the blatantly vile, Kunihiro, Goda tries to make himself out to be gentlemanly and helpful, especially in the presence of Remina. It doesn't take very long for this facade to fade away though, especially when the third chapter rolls along.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: When Goda sees Remina hugging Daisuke, he is quick to view Daisuke as a form of competition. He therefore orders him to get tortured, even if he never met her previously.
• Dirty Old Man: A villainous example of this trope, and it certainly isn't played for laughs here. A presumably middle aged guy has little reason to be THAT obsessed over a girl that's young enough to be his daughter. To drive the point home, he actually licks Remina's face.
• Disney Villain Death: After attempting to take Remina down with him, Remina jerks her foot upwards, causing Goda to plummet to his death, getting devoured alive by the hellstar, now consuming Earth.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Goda is only ever seen to be nice and gentlemanly when talking to Remina, obviously to win over her affections, before he marches off dejected that is. In many other instances, he is shown to be disagreeable and combative, and even somewhat homicidal and abusive when he is pushed to his limit. He also seems to do this in order to stay out of trouble, and prevent the worst of him from getting revealed publically. When others aren't looking, and/or he hides his face under a mask however, his true colors are fully revealed.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: After Remina questions Goda on why he led the cult, he breaks down into this.
  Goda: R-Remina...REMINAAAAAAA! You...musn't love anyone. You belong to all of humankind! And yet...and yet you fell in love with that man?! It's not allowed. You're not allowed... I mean, I... I... I love you so much, but-!!
• Entitled to Have You: His dialogue reeks of selfish entitlement, and tried to kill Remina several times himself, all just because he's her biggest fan. Combined with his words about how Remina cannot belong to one man and must be available to all her fans, its obvious he's an Allegorical Character for fans of Idol Singers that feel entitled to control their star's lives.
• Establishing Character Moment: A good chunk of chapter 3 sums up his entire character. When he sees the opportunity, he saves Remina, despite the impending doom that's about to swallow the world. He believes that doing this is enough to finally gain Remina's affection. However, a distressed Remina, does not show any affection towards him, having only met him that day, and crying over the deaths of both her father and manager. Goda responds to this by attempting to convince Remina that they were never needed in her life, and to tries to "put her in her place" as an idol by saying that she doesn't belong to a particular person. Finally, when Remina yells at him for beating up Mineishi for abandoning, despite her wishes of death, Goda takes this as a sign of rejection, and tries to torture and kill her for the rest of the story.
• Evil Counterpart: To Daisuke. Despite the both of them seeming like literal nobodies on the surface, the both of them were willing to risk their lives to save Remina from the doomsday cult, despite the low chances of survival afterwards, are shown to be quite intelligent, are persistent in their goals, and are shown to be effective fighters. However, whereas Daisuke was doing so out of honor in a world that has devolved into utter chaos, Goda did this because he wanted to own Remina in the last moments they had left on Earth, even trying to take her with him when the hellstar does actually start eating the Earth. Also unlike Daisuke, who did eventually find an effective means of escape, Goda decided to resort to controlling the cult that sought to kill Remina in the first place when his goal seemed hopeless, just so that he can maintain control over her.
• Evil Is Bigger: More or less a given since he's probably the only adult in the initial group. But even then, Goda is often shown to be the tallest guy in any group he's in.
• Face–Heel Turn: He went from someone trying to save Remina to becoming a leader in the cult trying to kill her and earlier him, all because he perceived Remina rejecting him, and didn't take kindly to his advances.
• Flaw Exploitation: After becoming a cult leader, Goda takes the idea of Remina being an avatar of the hellstar to its most logical extreme, in that torturing her would also bring suffering onto the hellstar itself, effectively causing the hellstar to die in agony as well. This is what he uses to convince the cult that torture is the right way to proceed with the ritual.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Goda does not take competition for Remina's attention particularly well. His jealousy over her is so bad that he even attempted to murder a competitor, just because they "left Remina to die". As soon as he becomes a cult leader, it even gets to the point where he tortures ANYONE that Remina shows the slightest amount of affection towards.
• Hypocrite:
  • While Goda has somewhat of a point about Kunihiro abandoning them being rather scummy, he is only upset at him, not because of his traitorous behavior, but because of the level of devotion he has for Remina, again treating Remina as a sacred object rather than a person. Despite claiming that scum like him should die for "abandoning her", he is not above this when he perceives Remina rejecting him, and abandons her soon after. By that point, he has no qualms of Kunihiro later abandoning Remina to the cult a second time, and Goda actually brutally tortures her.
  • Goda initially claims the cult thinking Remina is connected to the Hellstar on the basis of her name is ludicrous, yet by the end of the story is spouting these beliefs himself without any irony.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: The sequence of Goda ordering for Remina and Daisuke to get tortured comes off like this. When Remina is strappadoed, Goda shows interest at Remina screaming for help from her father and her manager, telling her to scream louder. And his weapon of choice? A whip. He also climbs up on the cross, and infamously decides to lick Remina's face when the hellstar decides to do the same to Earth.
• I'm Your Biggest Fan: Goda is Remina's number one fan, and don't you forget it, because he states this fact, along with being the president of her fanclub, every other second.
• If I Can't Have You…: Goda's primary motive for becoming a cult leader. He didn't like the idea of Remina being available for Yasumi particularly, believing that she "belongs" to all of the fans of the world. So long as Remina can't potentially hook up with or form affection for other men, Goda can keep up his fantasy of being with Remina forever.
• It's All About Me: Goda's primary character flaw. He often cites being the president of her fan-club as an indicator that he deserves Remina most, and even goes as far as stating that because he saved her, she should disregard her feelings towards the deaths of the people she loved.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Goda claims he'll save Remina's life, even if she loved Yasumi instead. He's probably either lying or changed his mind when he comes to believe that Remina hates him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Goda starts off as a rather creepy, entitled fanboy of Remina with no little consideration for her feelings or well-being. The fact that he's probably much older than Remina's intended audience sells just how creepy his obsession and enthusiasm towards her is. The slightest hint of competition from Yasumi and Kunihiro causes him take offense and try to compete over her, but he at at least appears to genuinely care to about Remina's wellbeing and have some drops of compassion unlike the blatantly sleazy Kunihiro. He appears distraught watching Yasumi die as Remina mourns him. When he seemingly does something heroic by risking his life getting Remina off of the cross, he tries to beat and possibly kill Kunihiro after abandoning Remina to a mob, he takes offense when Remina shows no affection back towards him after saving her due to being in shock, and when Remina calls him out for his violent behavior, he appears genuinely hurt and quietly leaves, seemingly taking her words to heart. Then it is revealed Goda decided to control the doomsday cult and torture her, at which point any potential sympathy or inkling of compassion is long gone.
• Karmic Death: Goda follows Remina and Daisuke to the Mineishi's mansion, where he tries to attack Remina one final time. This inadvertently causes him to lose his mask to reveal himself to be Goda. For all of the suffering he caused to Remina and Daisuke, Remina, the one person Goda treasured most, jerks her foot up, causing him to lose his grip, and fall to his rather gruesome death of being eaten alive by the hellstar.
• Kick the Dog: Goda in the entire second half of the manga is him doing this. The scenes where Goda exploits Remina's trauma over her father is him at his absolute worst. He shows utter enjoyment from doing this, too.
• Knight Templar: Goda when he tries to kill Kunihiro for him running away and leaving Remina. He apparently sees nothing wrong with himself killing someone over their level of devotion towards her after she takes him to task for it, and instead walks off feeling rejected by her. The worst part is that he is actually right about Kunihiro being horrible himself, but only by complete happenstance. Up to this point, their rivalry was purely out of competing over who's better fit for protecting Remina, and nothing else.
• Lack of Empathy: Remina loses her father and Yasumi in less than an hour, and all he thinks about is how she should be grateful that he saved her. Remina isn't thankless, but she's too traumatized to the recent losses, but this flies over his head, and he tries to dismiss them, which did not gain him any favors from her.
• Last-Name Basis: He is always referred to by his last name by the other characters. He is only ever referred to by his full name when he introduces himself to Remina.
• Legacy Character: Goda is actually the successor of the primary cult leader that was introduced in Chapter 2.
• Mysterious Past: Goda is introduced during Remina's 16th birthday celebration right out of nowhere. Other than that, the most that is given in terms of backstory is that he himself ran one of Remina's bigger fanclubs with his Vice President, and was such a devoted fan of her's that the fanclub actually reached "official" status.
• Nominal Hero: Goda, along with Kunihiro and the vice president, only stick around with Remina and Yasumi for the sole purpose of competing with Yasumi over Remina.
• Offscreen Momentof Awesome: Combined with Noodle Incident, Goda somehow manages to infiltrate and completely take over the Remina cult despite them earlier trying to kill him as well.
• Oh, Crap!: His reaction to having his mask accidentally removed with his whip.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Beats Kunihiro for abandoning Remina to the cultists and possibly would've killed him if Remina hadn't intervened. Of course, we later see Goda has no moral higher ground to speak of himself.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: From his worldview. Throughout the first half of the story, this is his mindset. He believes that anyone who doesn't treat Remina like a sacred object, or worse, anyone who leaves her to die, is utter scum, and is worthy of death.
• Rescue Romance: Goda legitimately expects this to occur just because he rescues Remina. However, when reality strikes, Remina shows no affection towards the man she just met today, and instead is grasping the weight of everything that had just happened including the gruesome murder of her father.
• Rule of Symbolism: When Goda becomes the leader of the doomsday cult, several of his features begin resembling those of the hellstar, such as his tongue and his eyes in a few close-ups. This is likely supposed to mirror his attitude towards Remina the human with that of the hellstar towards Earth, having malicious intent towards her, and wanting her for his own sexual appetite.
• Sadist: Goda directs the cult, now under his command, to gratuitously torture both Remina and Daisuke. He takes great enjoyment in the suffering he inflicts onto Remina.
• Take Over the World: Seeing how he leads the cult that consists of practically the entire world's population and the original cult leader is nowhere to be found, he technically accomplished this somehow.
• Taking You with Me: The final confrontation with Goda involves him trying to take Remina down with him as the Earth is being eaten by the hellstar, with him trying to whip her as to make her lose her grip.
• To the Pain: Just like the previous cult leader, he wants Remina's suffering to be drawn out.
• Unexplained Recovery: When the entire world's population plummets back into Japan, everyone except for Remina, Daisuke, and Goda are dead, despite the fact that they were all in front of everyone else.
• Vague Age: Goda is tall with a gaunt face and stubbly mustache, but Junji Ito has drawn teeangers like this, so he could just be a gangly teen with peach fuzz. Nothing is ever given about Goda's background unlike the other members of the group, so it is hard to say his exact age for sure.
• Villain Has a Point: Goda attacks Kunihiro and calls him a scumbag for abandoning him and Remina to the cultists. Remina is distraught by Goda attacking him, but he soon turns out to be right (even if for the wrong reasons) when Kunihiro tried to rape Remina before handing her over to the mob.
• Villains Blend in Better: Somehow goes from being one of the top members on the anti Remina Cult's kill list to not only becoming a member of the cult within at most an hour, but somehow ascending to the very top, usurping its prior leader. For clarification, Goda's Vice President was immediately gunned down by the cult despite immediately and openly abandoning Remina to them.
• Villain's Dying Grace: Severely downplayed given how he also tries to justify his actions while doing this. As soon as he's revealed to be one of the cult leaders, he attempts to do this as he's holding onto Remina's foot, putting his Dogged Nice Guy facade back on, in stark contrast to the cruel, lecherous, manipulative, and abusive piece of shit he was throughout the second half of the manga.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Goda becomes the cult's new leader, and the entire cult even follows his commands without question, even when some of them contradict its initial goal of ONLY killing Remina off on the cross, and winding up stalling the intended ritual.
• Would Hit a Girl: Goda whips Remina about 10 times as she is being hung by her arms on a tree, and again during their final confrontation.
• Yandere: Due to his perceived rejection from Remina, Goda went out of his way to try and kill her by any means possible, but not before he can torture her in the worst ways he can think of.

Kunihiro Mineishi

The youngest son of the Mineshi family. Being the son of the company that Remina sponsors, he feels entitled to her.

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• And Now You Must Marry Me: What Kunihiro ultimately has in mind for Remina. When he and his family take off to the hellstar, he plans on taking Remina with him where they will get married.
• Attempted Rape: What Kunihiro is most infamous for. He attempted to sexually assault Remina when they were finally alone together in the bombshelter.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Kunihiro is a chronic backstabber. When he, along with the rest of the group, are cornered by the cult, the first thing he does is leave them all behind, including Remina, who he initially expressed having "love" for.
• Dirty Coward: And so. Kunihiro runs off into an alleyway yelling he has nothing to do with Remina, abandoning everyone else in the initial group to the doomsday cult. He then tries to He does this again to Remina to avoid the consequences of attempting to rape her.
• Entitled to Have You: Kunihiro shows strong signs of this. More specifically, he believes that because Remina acts as a spokesmodel for his father's company, he's entitled to her body.
• Evil Counterpart: To Remina. Both Remina and Kunihiro were raised in well-off families that gave them special treatment for no actions of their own, resulting in both of them having underdeveloped, naive understandings of how the world works. Whereas Remina shows hesitation for the gifts she receives, only accepts luxury due to the influence of others, and is generally friendly and humble, Kunihiro full embraces what he is given, will cheat his way into getting what he wants if he doesn't get it initially, and is generally rude and bombastic.
• Evil Gloating: In one instance, where he is arguing with Goda over who saved Remina or who's best suited for her protection, he gloats about his plan to keep her and himself safe in the bombshelter at his family's mansion.
• False Rape Accusation: Kunihiro, who tried to rape Remina, winds up using this on her when his parents suspect unusual activity in their bomb shelter.
• Foil: To Goda. Both Goda and Kunihiro have a lot of common. They are both DoggedNiceGuys, both only see Remina as a means to an end, both have a sense of entitlement for her due to their statuses, both want to protect Remina in order to fulfill fantasies they have of her, both prove to be traitorous when things don't go their way, and they both use the hysteria surronding Remina to their advantage. The only thing that sets them apart is their level of dedication to reach their end. While Goda puts himself at great risk to reach his ends, and often resorts to abuse, Kunihiro is much more cowardly, avoids risks all together, and instead relies on his wits to deceive people.
• Hate Sink: From the moment the reader meets Kunihiro, they'll be wanting him dead. He's shown to be cowardly, spoiled, bullying, aggressive, perverted and even a rapist. It says something that the already very unpleasant Goda comes off as somewhat decent in comparison.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Being roughly the same age as Remina, he is sexually attracted to her. Marrying her so he can have sex with her are the top two things on his mind.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: Despite Remina telling Kunihiro that she wants to be released from the bomb shelter to be sacrificed, Kunihiro stills does this to Remina, and tells her to be his.
• Informed Kindness: Kunihiro invokes this trope directly after Remina smacks him across the face when he tries to sexually assault her.
  Kunihiro: OW! WHAT THE HELL, GIRL?! I was being nice! What're you getting upset for?!
• Jerkass: He is blatantly predatory, pointlessly aggressively those around him and is clearly only tolerated by Remina and her friends because he's got the resources to help them out. Until the attempted rape, anyway.
• Nominal Hero: Goda, along with Kunihiro and the vice president, only stick around with Remina and Yasumi for the sole purpose of competing with Yasumi over Remina.
• Obviously Evil: The same guy with the same slimy expression in every other panel? Nothing suspicious there.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Kunihiro clearly sees Remina as nothing more than a sexual object to exploit and dispose of when in danger.
• Spoiled Brat: It is even implied that Kunihiro relies on a tactic where going on a hunger strike is enough to convince his parents to ultimately give him what he wants. He is also the first to be believed by them when he tries shifting the blame for his attempted rape on Remina.
• Too Dumb to Live: Apparently taking from his father, Kunihiro is convinced that Hellstar Remina is habitable just because he tells him so, and for the reasons he provides (such as Daisuke Mineishi, their eldest son, supposedly still being alive). When they discover that the air on the planet is actually toxic, he still believes they can go back home, despite literally everything that's going on at the present moment.
• Upper-Class Twit: Kunihiro, like Remina, comes from a wealthy background, and acts somewhat childish and naive. In addition to this, he is shown on several ocassions to be dim-witted, such as when he believed that they can go back on Earth, even after the escape rocket got destroyed upon landing.

Professor Tsuneo Oguro

• Doting Parent: His daughter is what Professor Oguro values first and formost, even going as far as naming the planet that he discovered after her, despite her insistence not to.
• Good Parents: Professor Oguro loves his daughter Remina, and is willing to do anything to make her happy. He tells that he'll support her, whether or not she takes up the contracts. He also tries to assure Remina that she will be safe amist the growing chaos caused by rumors of the planet Remina colliding with Earth, and shows regret for the growing mob going after her, just for naming the planet after her, as he is killed off.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Oguro starts to feel this as soon as the newly discovered planet which he named after his daughter, despite her trying to convince him not to, turns out to be a giant monster that's going to attack the Earth. Even more so when crowds of people are targeting both him and his daughter. He asks his daughter to forgive him for naming the hellstar after her.
• Nice Guy: Even outside of his daughter, Oguro is overall a pleasant guy to be around.
• Posthumous Character: Even though Oguro gets killed off by chapter 2, his death is still very influential to Remina, being part of the reason as to why she wants to die. Goda even uses the trauma caused by his death as a means of torturing Remina.

President Gensaburo Mineishi

• Abusive Parents: Was apparently this to Daisuke, and had even shattered his lifelong dream of being an astronaut. This had caused him to run away, and President Mineishi shows no concern over this whatsoever, except when he uses him as a reason to colonize planet Remina. He even shows shades of this towards Kunihiro, the more favored son of the family.
• Arranged Marriage: Implied. Part of the reason for Kunihiro's wanting to get it on with Remina comes from the fact that their relationship was arranged by his father. His father tries to encourage a sort of relationship between the two when Remina first meets him, even if Remina shows no mutal feelings towards Kunihiro, and encourages him to show Remina around the mansion.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's happy to sponsor Remina to boost his popularity, but he's just as happy to turn her over to an angry mob once associating with her threatens him.
• Parental Betrayal: He is willing to abandon both his wife and son behind on the hellstar after finding out that its air is toxic.
• Pushover Parents: The most he does in terms of disciplining Kunihiro is just hurl insults at him, this obviously did nothing to better him. Otherwise, he gives into Kunihiro's whims with enough begging and bargaining, and he is shown to always believe him when his son pins the blame on other people.
• The Rich Want to Be Richer: The only good he sees in Remina is her stardom, and effectively, the amount of popularity she gives to his company, and effectively how much money he receives as a result.
• Too Dumb to Live: He is convinced that Remina, the giant alien monster that had destroyed planets and stars and intends to eat the Earth, is habitable for humans just because of a few reports from the first explorers, and because of a name overlap between his eldest son and one of the explorers (Not only does he believe it to be his eldest son under a nickname, but he also beleives they're still alive, and is a good enough indicator they should colonize the planet).

Leader of the Cult of Remina

The first leader of the Cult of Remina, he leads and perhaps organized a group of people whom all believe that Remina is somehow controlling the Hellstar and that torturing her to death will stop the planet from eating Earth.

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• Ambiguously Human: His face is never seen, he just suddenly appears and his mask resembles the Hellstar itself.
• The Faceless: He's never seen without his black hood obscuring his face from view.
• Kick the Dog: He brings a bound Remina over to her crucified father and forces her to watch him be impaled by the cult for no reason other than to be cruel.
• Left Hanging: As is common in both Cosmic Horror Stories and Junji Ito's stories, his identity is never revealed.]]
• Malevolent Masked Men: He wears a black cloaks with a pointy hoods similar to those of the Ku Klux Klan.
• The Spook: Nothing is ever revealed about his past, how he got control of the cult, or if he truly believes Remina is connected to the Hellstar.
• To the Pain: He stops one of the cultists from simply killing Remina because she must, apparently, be tortured to death via a special ritual.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He just disappears after Goda rescues Remina's from the cult's crucifixion, later Goda seamlessly takes his place. Perhaps he died when Planet Remina deflected all of Earth's missiles, but he seemed to have been fine as he can be spotted after the missiles hit, so maybe he was elsewhere at the time, no one really knows. Then again, his fate doesn't really matter since Hellstar Remina devours Earth anyway, leaving Remina, Daisuke, two teenagers and children are the only survivors.

Cult of Remina

• Air Jousting: The entire cult chases both Remina and Daisuke around the world via flying from Earth's atmosphere being disrupted by Remina licking it.
• Apocalypse Cult: The cult leaders show up soon after the planet Remina starts looming towards Earth. For whatever reason, even though this cult seemingly formed before the idea was ever suggested, their primary belief is that killing Remina and her father are what will banish the Hellstar from the universe.
• Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: Much of the world's populace, who all collectively form the cult, become these. They violently protest on the streets, and some of them even break into the building that promotes Remina, and kills everyone present.
• Child Soldiers: Look closely, and you can see that there are even a few children in the cult, too.
• Kick the Dog:
  • They fill the Vice President of Remina's fanclub with machine gun bullets even though he had given up Remina's location in exchange for his safety and that there was no reason to do this.
  • One of them demands Remina smile whilst they're torturing her to death, despite this having nothing to do with the ritual that will supposedly save the world.
• Nebulous Evil Organisation: Everyone in the cult has one simple goal in mind, to kill Remina, her father, and anyone associated with her, that is until Goda completely bastardizes even that.

Minor Characters

Sawako Mineishi

• Abusive Parents: She is implied to be one, like her husband, though not nearly as bad. She, along with her husband, was responsible for ruining Daisuke's chances of being an astronaut, which led him to run away from the mansion.
• Perpetual Frowner: Sawako is always depicted too be worn out mentally, and is always seen frowning.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Subverted, as although Sawako is always seen wearing a traditional kimono and clearly submissive to her husband to an extent, she seems jaded.

Vice President

The Vice President of Remina's official fanclub.

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• Dirty Coward: Immediately tries to sell out the entire fanclub to the Cult, yelling he's not with them and they can have Remina. Despite getting the message, the cult riddles him with bullets anyway.
• Flat Character: Despite being with Goda, Kunihiro, and Yasumi from the beginning, he's never properly and just appears in chapter 2. The most the vice president does is get the rest of the group found by announcing that he's not with them and to let him live. Outside of that, he serves no real purpose to the story.
• Multiple Gunshot Death: The cultists shoot the Vice President with a machine gun multiple times leaving bloody holes in the mouth, stomach and waist of his corpse.
• The Nameless: The Vice President is never given a name at any point due to his RedShirt status.
• Nominal Hero: He presumably, like Goda and Kunihiro, only stuck around with Remina and Yasumi for the sole purpose of winning Remina's affection.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He just appears out of the blue near the end of chapter 1 in a crowd scene. Than in the beginning of chapter 2, just as the Vice President finally gets his first line of dialogue, he's immediately killed just two panels later!
• RedShirt: The Vice President really just exists in the story because someone needed to die to show the Remina cult will kill anyone whom was even remotely connected to Remina at any point and the story didn't want this role to go a major character like Yasumi, Goda or Kunihiro.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: The Vice-President betrays the group by opening the window and shouting Remina is inside with her fanclub and that he isn't with them, even though the cult heard this, they decide to shoot the vice president to death with a machine gun anyhow.
• Stereotypical Nerd: Looks like one being short and chubby boy with a bowl cut wearing very proper clothes, round spectacles and a constantly nervous expression.

Daisuke Kaneishi

• Mistaken Identity: The elder Mineishi believes this man to be his son under an alias, which is why he brings his family over to Remina to reunite with him. The real Daisuke is actually back on Earth and lives only a short while away from their home.
• Significant Name Overlap: He's an astronaut who shares the same given name with the Mineishis' first son, who had run away from home ten years prior to the story to become an astronaut. Because of this, the Mineishis believe that he is their son, and attempts to go to Remina, hoping that the astronaut had found away to survive on the planet and will help them, his 'family'.

Simmons

Ikeuchi

• Break the Scientist: As a result of looking directly into the planet Remina's eye, Ikeuchi goes mentally insane.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He was just doing his job by looking at planet Remina's odd orbit in order to study it. But then Remina looked back at him, stopped what it was doing, and was heading directly towards Earth while eating/destroying other planets on its way.

Prime Minister

Kentaro Iwai

Yumeno

Hellstar Remina

Hellstar Remina

The Big Bad of the story, a planet-sized abomination from beyond the stars whose gargantuan appetite leads to it devouring entire planets... And it has now turned its attention towards Earth.

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• Big Bad: In two different ways: one, it wants to eat the Earth, which is bad news. Two, the former causes mass hysteria around the world, which causes Remina (the human girl who the hellstar was named after) to be targeted by murderous fanatics, providing dangerous human antagonists on top of the threat of world-annihilation posed by Remina (the planet) itself.
• Character Title: Some earlier versions of the manga are directly named after Remina the planet. The 2020 edition published by VIZ, however, is simply called Remina, likely to allude to both the girl and the planet.
• Death World: Remina itself is a planet, and its surface is just as hospitable as you would expect it to be. The few humans who tried to create a colony on Remina to escape the destruction of Earth found that out the hard way.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Any planet bigger than itself meets this fate while smaller planets like Mars and Earth goes inside its digestive tract.
• Eldritch Abomination: Big time. It's a living planet with features such as eyes and a mouth, it has an atmosphere, it can travel through space at will, and it literally eats planets. The fact that we never learn exactly what the damn thing is or where it truly came from further adds to its eldritch nature.
• Extreme Omnivore: Probably one of the most extreme examples of this. Its favorite snacks are stars and other planets.
• Genius Loci: Remina is a living planet. And a really mean one at that.
• Greater-Scope Villain: Veers into this territory, as although its primary goal is to eat the Earth, the thing that makes people go after Remina, it isn't really an active component of the story, with the hellstar's actions acting more like background events. Many of the conflicts found in the story actually happen at the human level.
• Horror Hunger: It hardly gets more horrific than a creature that can devour entire planets in a matter of minutes.
• It Can Think: The simple fact that it takes light a long time to travel through space that by the time it was closing in to attack the Solar System from thousands of lightyears away indicates that it's at least aware of the Observer Effect: where it's able to know that it is being observed by something.
• Kaiju: The damned thing is huge. How huge? It's powerful enough to cause Jupiter and Saturn to explode just by colliding into them.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: it has a large mouth lined with long, sharp teeth. They can bite through the crust of a planet like you'd bite into an apple.
• Non-Indicative Name: Hellstar Remina. It doesn't come from Hell (as far as we know) and it's a planet, not a star.
• Planet Eater: Bonus points for Remina being a planet itself. In the end, it does devour the Earth.