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Sanae Hanekoma
"If you want to enjoy life, expand your world."
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Voiced by Kenjiro Tsuda (anime) Kanji Furutachi (video game) (JP), Brandon Potter (anime) Bart Flynn (video game) (EN)
The humble owner of the WildKat coffee shop on the upper-east side of Shibuya.
- All-Powerful Bystander: The Producer is supposed to be this, but Hanekoma decides that drastic times call for drastic measures and ends up taking action behind the scenes.
- Animal Motifs: Cats. He runs a shop called WildKat, and sells pins from the Gatito brand. His name even has "neko" in it. His Noise form Panthera Cantus is also composed of a pair of anthromorphic big cats, specifically a lion and a tiger.
- Badass Bookworm: In addition to being one of most powerful forces in Shibuya's UG, Hanekoma is also one of most knowledgeable people around, dabbling in several magical and technological advancements and even inventing a few of his own.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He's a very friendly and pleasant fellow to be around, offering sound advice and words of encouragement alongside a hot cup of coffee. However, it should be noted that Hanekoma will NOT hesitate to personally erase you if he views you as a threat to Shibuya, to the point that he was willing to use Minamimoto as a back-up plan to kill Joshua in case he couldn't be persuaded from enacting his wrath upon Shibuya.
- Beware the Silly Ones: He’s incredibly chatty, snarky, and is pretty much constantly messing with people, especially Neku. He’s also one of the most powerful characters in the story, the Fallen Angel, and one hell of a chessmaster.
- Big Brother Mentor: Towards Neku and, shockingly enough, Joshua.
- Big Damn Heroes: Stops Neku from erasing Shiki on Day 2, and keeps Beat from succumbing to erasure on Day 4. If the Composer's words can be taken at face value, Joshua has also been on the receiving end of this trope from him in the past.
- Big Good: Kinda-sorta-maybe. He's a third party actively working against both Joshua and Kitaniji, but he's willing to dip into some morally grey areas to accomplish it, such as helping Minamimoto summon Taboo Noise. He's also the Producer of Shibuya, a position above even the Composer. The fact that he's one of the biggest reasons for Neku's character development helps him fit the position a bit better.
- Broken Pedestal: Neku initially sees him as a good source of advice, and is amazed to learn that he's CAT, but his faith in him is shaken as he believes that he is the Composer. It ultimately turns out that while he has had a hand in the backstory behind the game, his actions were ultimately for the goal of preventing Shibuya from being erased.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's an extremely wise, competent guy but he's also pretty much constantly messing around.
- The Chessmaster: Even more so than Joshua, who he was helping out while secretly doing his own thing off to the side.
- Cool Shades: Sports a small pair of shades.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: As Producer, and an Angel he has immense power and Imagination at his disposal but due to his role as an All-Powerful Bystander, he can't potentially overstep his boundaries to stop the behind-the-scenes plot and instead has to rely on subterfuge, trickery, and master manipulation to get gears in motion.
- Dual Boss: The Panthera Cantus boss fight consists of fighting both a stronger red version of Minamimoto's Leo Cantus and a stronger blue version of Konishi's Tigris Cantus simultaneously.
- Eccentric Mentor: Has some shades of this, as evident by his interactions with Neku.
- Fallen Angel: He is confirmed to be an Angel, to contrast the Composer and the Reapers but he showed Minamimoto how to create Taboo Noise and ended up with this trope for it.
- Figure It Out Yourself: What he ends up telling Neku to do when telling the boy to expand his horizons even within the confines of Shibuya and the boy in question asking him on how to accomplish said goal.
- The Gadfly: He's constantly messing with Neku and Joshua in small ways and revels in it, much to their ire.
- Gender-Blender Name: Sanae is normally a female name.
- Gentleman and a Scholar: When reading through the Secret Reports that were penned by him, Hanekoma is shown to have a high level of intelligence, laying down several academic terms in order to describe the various machinations behind the Reaper's Game and UG in general.
- Have a Nice Death: "Open up your world!"
- Hipster: He's got the vibe going in his fashion sense and playful attitude. He even owns a coffee shop!
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Neku. Despite only meeting him for a short while, Neku feels a strong desire to interact with him more and soon Hanekoma ends up taking up something of a Big Brother Mentor role to Neku, influencing him to help the kid learn how to expand his worldview and connect with the people around him.
- Leitmotif: Solo Mix and onwards tends to have "Game Over
" accompanying his appearances; its lyrics are particularly applicable to his status as an All-Powerful Bystander who manipulates events from behind the scenes:He's got an opinion and posted suggestion but never reveals his name
Read by someone, taken as a good one but nobody knew who wrote it - Lightning Bruiser: He zips around the battlefield like he's on a caffeine rush, hits hard enough to nearly kill Neku in a single shot, and is tough enough to tank four level 3 Fusion attacks to the face and keep on going.
- The Man Behind the Man: Is ultimately the one that taught Minamimoto about Taboo Noise, hoping that he would be able to stop the Composer from winning the Game and destroying Shibuya.
- Mellow Fellow: Hanekoma is an incredibly calm and friendly fellow who is prone to giving others helpful life advice while brewing coffee.
- Mr. Exposition: Offers Neku and Shiki something of a lecture about the Game on Day 2, an offer they gladly take him up on. His Secret Reports also serve as something of a Mind Screwdriver to the main game.
- Necessarily Evil: In his own opinion, becoming a Fallen Angel is a price he gladly pays for teaching Sho about Taboo Noise and fixing the refinery sigil as part of Chessmastering Shibuya out of erasure.
- Neutral No Longer: Due to his job as the Producer and the circumstances of the Game between Joshua and Megumi, he was expected to do nothing but watch from afar. However, due to his intense love for Shibuya, Hanekoma decides that desperate times call for desperate measures and ends up interfering a lot with the Game in order to try and save Shibuya from erasure.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Final Remix reveals that his backup plan to save Shibuya by teaching Minamimoto how to make Taboo Noise might have brought about something drastically worse than anything the villains were planning to do.
- The Nicknamer: Tends to address people with nicknames when interacting with them. He even dubs Neku with the moniker of Phones, much to his annoyance.
- Odd Friendship: With Joshua. Hanekoma is a Nice Guy with a penchant for giving out inspiring life advice (and coffee) to troubled teens in need of it and Joshua is, well, Joshua. Yet, despite this, the two of them get along quite well for the most part and Hanekoma even acts as a Big Brother Mentor to Joshua. Considering how they both know of each other’s identities and are entangled in the grand scheme of the Angels, it does make sense, however.
- Our Angels Are Different: Revealed in the Secret Reports to be an Angel, a higher order of being than the Reapers and the Composer.
- Out of Focus: Doesn't appear at all during the last week, save for a brief glimpse after Joshua and Neku's final shootout. There's a good reason for this, to the point where the entire post game is essentially piecing together what he was doing during that time.
- Panthera Awesome: His Noise form Panthera Cantus.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Somehow, nobody has figured out that Sanae Hanekoma, who runs a cafe called Wildkat on Cat Street, is the famous street artist CAT.
- Perma-Stubble: Has one to go with his slick look.
- Properly Paranoid: If the Secret Reports have anything to go by, Mr. H can't even trust his Another Day self in revealing the crime he has committed to become a Fallen Angel. This is why he hides in Pork City while searching for Joshua. Turns out that if you talk to Another Day Mr. H without witnessing the real one hiding in Pork City, he warns Another Day Neku to not trust the person who wrote the secret reports scattering around implying that Another Day Mr. H does not want this Neku to be involved with the main Mr. H and will resort to erasing his original self if he has to in order keep the peace.
- Red Herring: He's not the Composer. Turns out it's way, way more complicated than that.
- Renaissance Man: A multi-talented man with a penchant for graffiti artistry, music producing, fashion designing, and brewing excellent coffee. On top of that, he’s also the Producer and an excellent fighter as well.
- Rousing Speech: Done in a rather strange way. His Superboss fight has him yelling motivational one-liners like "Don't let limits slow you!" and "Enjoy the moment!" while he beats you six ways from Sunday.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: He's well aware of the consequences of stepping out of boundaries when it comes to his Producer role within the Reaper's Game, most notably being labeled as a Fallen Angel. However, he doesn't care as long as he can do whatever it takes to protect Shibuya.
- Spanner in the Works: In A New Day, Coco failed to project an illusion of Hanekoma in her Shibuya Noise because the real Hanekoma projected his own mind into his body double to aid Neku and Beat in finding out it was all Coco's doing. For his troubles, Coco angrily kicks his illusion out and sics her dissonance Noise on the pair.
- Super Boss: His Noise form Panthera Cantus, fought in Another Day, is the most powerful enemy in the game.
- Super Gender-Bender: The 'Tigris' half of Panthera Cantus still has Konishi's visible breasts (more noticeable in the Remix versions due to the higher pixel count).
- Title Drop: In the English translation, in his speech to Neku telling to kid to expand his outlook on the world. It's quoted at the top of the main page of the game.
- The Watcher: What his role as the Producer of the Reaper's Game entails. That said, Hanekoma violates the "thou shall not interfere" rule a good bit. First he takes Beat to WildKat and crafts Rhyme's soul into a pin ensuring that he doesn't get erased for losing his partner. Second, it's he who taught Minamimoto how to create Taboo Noise granting him his "Fallen Angel" status. Third, he is seen fixing Minamimoto's Taboo refinery sigil on Day 1 of Week 3 (though it isn't directly known at the time the player sees this in a cutscene) and lastly, he hides the Level 5 Keypin (which unlocks the Shibuya river) in a safe so that only Neku can find it though it doesn't end up mattering all that much seeing as how Taboo Minamimoto uses his new powers to smash open the barrier blocking entry to said river.
- Unreliable Narrator: His Secret Reports, particularly when he refers to the "Fallen Angel" in the third person as if it were someone besides him. He drops it for the Secret Report obtained in Another Day, as well as for the Secret Addendums acquired in A New Day.
- Waistcoat of Style: Fitting, considering he's a hip coffee shop owner.
- Wild Card: Hanekoma helps both Kitaniji and Joshua accomplish their completely opposite goals while secretly planning to have both of them fail. However, this could be because the Producer's job is to keep things equal.
Sota Honjo and Nao
Sota
Nao
Sota Voiced by Yusuke Suda (JP), Matt Shipman (EN)
Nao Voiced by Mami Fujita (JP), Brittany Lauda (EN)
A pair with uncertain circumstances surrounding their death. Both are genuinely nice people, who tell Neku not to give up hope after what happens to him during the second week. Hinted to be a couple but never explicitly mentioned what their relationship is.- Adaptation Expansion: Episode 3 of the anime has a news report about Sota and Nao getting caught in an accident. While the accident isn't elaborated on, it does explain how they became Players.
- Battle Couple: Being partners with someone comes with the setting for the Reaper's Game, but these two have a lot subtext that implies that they're actually a couple.
- Character Death:
- They briefly appear in the RG alive and well during week 1, but are both Players in week 2. The implications are... unpleasant.
- Neku doesn't take their erasure by Minamimoto's Taboo Noise very well.
- Chekhov's Gunman: They're seen in the RG briefly during the first week.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Sota definitely acts a bit more confrontational than usual when Makoto tries to talk to Nao, especially if you choose to imprint the wrong memes into Makoto.
- Dark Horse Victory: While Neku considers his semifinal Tin Pin Slammer match against Shooter the linchpin of whether or not the Players are erased that day, Sota ends up winning in the finals. With help.
- Fangirl: In Another Day, Nao is a member of the White Angels, Shiki's team of hardcore Eiji Oji fans. She also appears as one of his adoring fans during the first week of the main story.
- Kawaiiko: Nao-Nao looks a good bit older than the stereotype, but she's a cutesy kogal through and through.
- Kill the Cutie: They are some of the nicest people in the game, showing nothing but support and sympathy to Neku and the other Players. Unfortunately, due to the rampant Taboo Noise spread in Day 6 of week 2, they end up getting Erased, much to Neku’s horror.
- Nice Guy: They are shown to be nothing but incredibly kind and supporting to each other and other people, to the point that even Joshua finds them incredibly charming. They sympathize with Neku’s circumstances on why he has to play the Game again and encourage him to continue on, even giving him a free pin to use. Even when being Erased, Sota has nothing but supporting words for Neku and Joshua and genuinely wishes for them to get back to the Realground safe and sound.
- Small Role, Big Impact: While they only ever show up a few times within the game, their overall role in the story proves to be critical to Neku’s and Joshua’s character arcs. Not only do they show the pair the benefits of healthy communication between other people and the value of relationships in general, but they also help to break Neku from the cycle of isolation that Joshua was trying to pass along to him, which in turn gets the latter to change his mind and spare Shibuya in the end.
- Spanner in the Works: An indirect example only visible in hindsight. Talking with Sota and Nao causes Neku to realize other people have just as much value as he does, turning him away from the cycle of isolation Joshua has been coaxing him to continue along. This in turn changes Joshua's mind at the very end.
- Spared by the Adaptation: While the two of them still end up getting erased during the second week in the anime, Neku runs into them alive and well in the Realground in the final episode, suggesting the Composer brought them back to life along with the main heroes.
- Surfer Dude: Sota talks like one to compliment Nao's Valley Girl lingo.
- Those Two Guys: They don't do much for the story until the second week.
- Together in Death: Both of them were alive in week 1, and both of them are Players in week 2. Then Minamimoto's Taboo Noise happen, and they end up Together in Erasure.
- Valley Girl: Nao is, like, one of them?
Eri
Picture from Shiki's phone
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Voiced by Kana Okazaki (JP), Macy Anne Johnson (EN)
Eri is Shiki's best friend. Shiki uses a picture of Eri and herself as the wallpaper for her cellphone. Eri is described as charismatic and popular and she thinks of Shiki as a great friend and seamstress with a keen eye for details.- Adaptation Expansion: Her screentime is greatly expanded upon in the anime, detailing her grief about Shiki's death and how she chooses to cope with it.
- The Fashionista: She's very much into the latest fashion and is even a designer herself. She relies on Shiki to make her designs come to life, though.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: The last time the two spoke she suggested that Shiki isn't suited to designing, which she later realized ended up hurting Shiki's feelings. Shiki died before Eri got a chance to apologize for it.
- Parting-Words Regret: Her last words to Shiki before she died were her telling her she was not meant to be a designer, resulting in Shiki running off in tears before Shiki could explain that she meant that Shiki was much better as a seamstress. After Shiki dies, she is very understandably left guilt stricken over what she had said to her, wishing she could just explain to Shiki what she meant and how much she cared about her and this guilt gets so bad, she considers quitting designing. Thankfully, Shiki is able to find out what Eri really meant thanks to Neku and the two make up after she’s revived.
- Plot-Based Photograph Obfuscation: On Shiki's cellphone-wallpaper, a glare obscures her face or so we think. It's really hiding Shiki's face.
- Satellite Character: Played for heartwarming. Her character is largely based around her relationship with Shiki. The only things we know about her is that she is (working to be) a fashion designer, she encouraged Shiki's own ambitions, and she thinks just as highly of Shiki as Shiki does of her.
Shuto "Shooter" Dan
- Always Someone Better: His buddy Yammer is fairly envious of how much better Shooter is at Tin Pin than he is.
- Ascended Extra: A very minor NPC in the main game, he goes on to become the Non P.O.V. Protagonist of the main plotline of Another Day.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: While he is most definitely an overly enthusiastic ditz with a rampant obsession with Tin Pin, he is also a legitimately competent Slammer who’s also the three-time champion of the game.
- Color Motif: In Another Day, he became the leader of Kindred Spirits to get the tin pins back. He calls himself "Red". Which fits him, because of his strong-willed and brave-hearted personality.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Can possibly occur during Tin Pin, if you're not prepared. Also happens as a in game cutscene in which during the tournament he defeats Neku at the speed of light.
- The Ditz: In Another Day, half the time he isn't listening to the people he's talking to and just wants to challenge them in a game of Tin Pin. He also fails to grasp the gravity of some of the burdens others have with the spirit of Tin Pin.
- The Hero: Only in Another Day. He becomes the "leader" of a TPS team called the Kindred Spirits and names his teammates after colors. He's "Red".
- Hot-Blooded: Befitting a shonen protagonist, he's loud and passionate about almost everything.
- Idiot Hero: Only in Another Day.
- Kid Hero: He's apparently quite a bit younger than Neku.
- Magnetic Hero: In Another Day, his pure and passionate love for Tin Pin helps spurn Higashizawa's eventual Heel Realization.
- No Indoor Voice: He's pretty excitable and as such, yells a lot.
- Non P.O.V. Protagonist: Becomes this in the main storyline of Another Day, where he appoints himself the leader of Neku's team, serves as the player character during the final few Tin Pin matches and ultimately causes the Big Bad's Heel Realization.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to both Neku and his best friend Yammer's Blue. He and Neku even get corresponding color designations in Another Day.
- The Rival: To Neku and only in Tin Pin Slammer. Interestingly enough, the main game Neku wants nothing to do with him whereas AD!Neku is much more open to the idea of accepting him as his rival.
- Shout-Out: To just about every shonen series there ever was.
- Technician Versus Performer: The performer to Yammer's technician in Tin Pin. While Yammer illegally customizes his pins to have additional abilities, Shooter simply slams with his heart and soul. Shooter is much better at Tin Pin as a result.
- To Be a Master: Picture Ash Ketchum with a Tin Pin Slammer deck and you have his personality down pat.
- Younger Than They Look: He's apparently a good deal younger than the main cast, but looks quite close to them in age.
Itaru "Yammer" Yokoyamada
- Deadpan Snarker: Often at times when it comes to his buddy Shooter.Shooter(introducing Neku and Joshua): YEAH! I explained Tin Pin to 'em!
Yammer: Ouch...and they understood? - Green-Eyed Monster: He is jealous of Shuto's skill, leading him to be possessed by Noise at one point during the game.
- Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught: His stance on pin mods, at least when it comes to professional tournaments. Unfortunately for Yammer, if he beats Neku at the Molco Slam-Off during Joshua's week, he does get caught.
- Technician Versus Performer: He's the technician to Shooter's performer in Tin Pin. Yammer illegally customizes his pins to have additional abilities, while Shooter slams with his heart and soul. As a result, Shooter is much better at Tin Pin.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Shooter's Red.
- Younger Than They Look: He's looks like the same age as the main cast, but he's 10 years old.
Ken Doi
- Berserk Button: Mentioning his role in developing Tin Pin.
- Also asking about his past in general gets him relatively angry.
- Cool Old Guy: A very friendly ramen Curry chef who makes food not just to fill his own pockets but also to make his customers happy.
- Creator Cameo: He's modeled after the game's director, Tatsuya Kando. One of the Reaper Reviews alludes to this when asking for his name, giving Kando's name as one of the options.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: See above. He also gets them in Week 3, Day 7 if you enter his shop, under the effects of the Red Skull Pin, though he manages to snap out of it.
- Hidden Depths: In Another Day, it turns out that he’s one of the original creators of Tin Pin and even the one who’s been leaving the Secret Report items for Neku to find, hinting that he may have a larger role within the Reaper’s Game itself. This is even lampshaded by Neku himself.Neku: Who knew the ramen guy had so much backstory?
- Hypocrite: He hates the Shadow Ramen store for deviating from traditional ramen recipes, only to realize that he's been doing the exact same thing himself.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Possibly Sho's father if Another Day has anything to say about it. At one point Sho calls him pops and Ken Doi later asks "When did my kid grow up so fast?"
- Retired Badass: In Another Day, he turns out to be the elusive Dr. Pin Sr. Kando.
- Supreme Chef: A talented ramen chef who’s somehow able to make odd combinations (like desert sweets and ramen mixed together) taste surprisingly well.
Makoto "Mick" Miki
Click here to see him after Week 1
Click here to see him after Week 3 Day 3
Voiced by Shuichiro Umeda (JP)
Originally a timid and unsuccessful businessman, he quits his job for Gatito (or, at least, a subsidiary of them) and opens up the Shadow Ramen store in the second week to rival the Ramen Don shop. He is also responsible for helping spread around the Red Skull pins, their purpose becoming much clearer by the end of the game.- Acquired Situational Narcissism: After becoming a success in Week 2, he sports an entirely new appearance and becomes quite arrogant.
- Alliterative Name
- Character Development: He starts off as a meek and timid businessman that gives up rather easily before transforming into a real Jerkass after he temporarily lets his success go to his head. After his next business venture fails and he is left back at square one, the player can help him decide what to do with his future and should you go for the right choice, he resolves to go back to the drawing board with renewed passion and comes out the whole ordeal stronger for it.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: His smooth, rounded, uncombed hair in the first week as a somber businessman gets slicked back and little more jagged and he also starts growing a small beard as he develops into a cutthroat business mogul. After his business venture fails, if he's convinced to reopen Shadow Ramen, he reverts back to his old hair style.
- Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: All he wanted to do in the beginning was spread some pins amongst Shibuya’s populace in order to keep his job. Unfortunately, said pins turn out to be the Red Skull Pins, which almost leads to Shibuya turning into a Hive Mind for Kitaniji’s Assimilation Plot.
- Mistaken for Gay: After opening up Shadow Ramen, where he takes up work, watch what he says (and his facial expressions!) when you increase his Friendship Gauge. Well... he mistakes Neku for a gay mistaking him for gay, anyway.
- Salary Man: What he started out as, then he tried to be a business mogul, but that backfired on him.
- That Came Out Wrong: His use of pop-culture catch phrases leaves something to be desired.
- Throwing the Fight: In Another Day he's an editor for Pinhead Weekly, a Tin Pin Slammer-focused magazine that Neku is a huge fan of. Should you challenge him to a match at the start of the day and win, he'll get Neku to admit he learned his skills from Pinhead Weekly and tells him to go and tell his friends, implying he lost on purpose just so he could promote his magazine.Neku: Geez... How long until adulthood robs ME of my dignity?
- Took a Level in Jerkass: When you first meet him, he comes across as fairly meek and unremarkable but genuinely earnest guy who wants to make his customers happy. Due to his newfound success thanks to Neku and Shiki helping to spread the Red Skull pin around, he becomes way more arrogant and condescending and even tries to bribe Eiji to get him to promote his shop. Thankfully, however, he lets go of this mindset after his business ventures go up in smoke and he reverts back to normal.
- Totally Radical: His "hip" lines to attract potential customers for the Red Skull pins were already very dated by the time this game came out and the game is aware of it.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He has a short but critical role in Kitaniji's Assimilation Plot. By spreading the Red Skull pins and making them popular, he almost dooms all of Shibuya into becoming a hive mind.
777
Voiced by Shuhei Sakaguchi (JP)
A Harrier Reaper and Leader of the band Def Märch, which also includes fellow Reapers B.J. and Tenho.- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the anime, B.J. and Tenho are both killed during the Taboo Noise outbreaks and 777 is devastated by their loss, spending his last moments mourning them.
- Anti-Villain: Type IV. 777 is pretty nice overall and seems more worried with his band and bandmates than actually being a Reaper. The only time he fights you, he's even honourable enough to give you a key after Neku spares him. His subsequent erasure by Konishi is used as a big Kick the Dog moment.
- Celebrity Masquerade: A Reaper in the UG, aspiring musician in the UG.
- Everything Is an Instrument: Tenho steals the band's microphone, which, in turn, is swapped by Minamimoto for his megaphone. The band ends up attempting to incorporate the megaphone into their act.
- Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind: His gelled up, spiky hair and rockstar appearance give him a somewhat unhinged look but he actually turns out to be a pretty chill and even friendly guy.
- Informed Ability: Apparently his music is great... but you never get to hear it.
- Mauve Shirt: Ends up getting erased before the end of the game.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: Less violent variant: Tenho ends up stealing Def Märch's microphone in order to stop 777 and BJ from fighting and possibly breaking up the band.
- Nobody Loves the Bassist: BJ is resentful that 777 is always the singer. Until the Microphone gets stolen.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Very much so, as noted above he seems to view reaping as a side job to his band.
- Sacrificial Lion: Unfortunately ends up facing Konishi's wrath after he lost to Neku and Beat.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the final episode of the anime, we're treated to a scene of him performing alongside his Def Märch bandmates, suggesting they were revived by the Composer.
- Street Musician: Def Märch is an indie band, and all three members got their start by singing on the streets.
- Tragic Keepsake: During his third appearance in the anime he has Tenho's hoodie wrapped around his waist, foreshadowing the fate of his bandmates before the end of the episode reveals what happened to them.
- The Triple: When he enlists Neku and Joshua's help to find their lost microphone, he pays them in advance with three ¥10000 pins and a ¥5 pin.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: He's not exactly unlucky but he seems to deal with major band-related issues at least once a week. After a string of lucky breaks, including the tickets for his concert selling out, he tests his luck against a rogue Beat and Neku and ends up losing. He asks them to finish him off, but they instead spare him and tell him to just focus on playing at the upcoming concert that night. Not much later, he investigates the seemingly empty concert hall for them only to be erased by Konishi, presumably for his failure.
- Wolfpack Boss: In Another Day as an optional Tin Pin Slammer Opponent, you have to beat him and his two bandmates all at once.
Eiji Oji
Voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki (JP)
A big-time celebrity and "Prince of Ennui" in Shibuya's RG whose blog, "F Everything", gets 100,000 hits per day.- Bandwagon Technique: Whenever he discovers something he likes, he "F's it", and that thing instantly becomes super-popular among his readers.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Subverted; the "F" of "F Everything" stands for fabulous.
- Dreadful Musician: He has an album out, but he can barely stay on key.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: While he can come across as stuck up and vain, he's actually a pretty nice guy. He's even willing to stop promoting Shadow Ramen when he realizes it doesn't align with his morals.
- Hidden Depths: While he may come off as snobby and incredibly high class at first glance, he’s actually very down to earth and a helpful ear to his friends as shown with Makoto.
- Non-Indicative Name: His title of "Prince of Ennui" makes more sense before you learn that the F is for Fabulous.
- Pretty Boy: A tall pretty boy with legions of screaming fan girls trailing him. A random thought from one of the NPCs has the NPC wondering if his girlfriend, who looks like Eiji, is really a woman.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: He decides to stop promoting Shadow Ramen once he realizes he's been nothing more than Mick's shill.
Futoshi
Voiced by Hayato Furusawa (JP), Drew Breedlove (EN)
The backstage tech of the Def Märch. He is unusually forgetful.- Adaptational Villainy: Downplayed. In the anime adaptation, he was made into a Reaper alongside 777, but acts friendly towards Shiki and Neku when they clear his Negative Noise.
- Ambiguously Gay: He doesn't react to Makoto's sales pitch, until he hears "Come get some hot stuff!" Then he starts grinning and gets really close to Makoto before taking a pin.
- Dual Boss: In Another Day as an optional Tin Pin Slammer Opponent, he can control two pins simultaneously.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": In the main game, he's known only as the Tech. His real name is only mentioned in Another Day.
- Forgetful Jones: He forgets the fuse needed to light up the stage on Day 3 of Week 1.
- No Sense of Personal Space: He gets right into Makoto's personal space. Possibly because he kept saying "Come get some hot stuff!"
- The Resenter: Implied to resent 777 a little for stealing the spotlight all the time.
- The Slacker: Perceived as this because of his rampant forgetfulness, which leads him to do things other than what he was tasked to.
Ai and Mina
Ai
Mina
Ai Voiced by Momone Iwabuchi (JP)
Mina Voiced by Yuki Tanaka (JP)
A pair of schoolgirls who are good friends. Lately, their friendship has been put under some strain when Ai suspects Mina is trying to steal her crush, Makoto, away from her, although it all gets cleared up with Neku and Shiki's help.- Clingy Jealous Girl: Ai, to an extent. However, it turns out she does appreciate her friendship with Mina deeply.
- Fangirl: Both of them in Another Day.
- Friendship Moment: Mina buys some tickets to a Tin Pin Slammer event to give to Ai so she can go out with Makoto. Unfortunately, Ai misunderstands her intentions at first, but apologizes as soon as she finds out.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Ai gets suspicious of Mina the minute she sees her talking to Makoto alone.
- Nice Girl: Mina, which is contrasted by Ai's easily invoked jealousy.
- Not What It Looks Like: Mina and Makoto really weren't doing anything together, apart from chatting, but Ai immediately starts to assume the worst when she catches them talking to each other. It didn't help that Mina was trying to keep quiet about her planned surprise, which only added to Ai's suspicions.
- Recurring Extra: Mina, who shows up in more days than her friend Ai.
- Joshikousei: Just your typical Japanese schoolgirls.
- Those Two Girls: Played entirely straight.
Tutorial Guy
Another Day Tutorial Guy/The Wizard of Slam/Shinji Hashimoto
A Reaper-looking person who teaches Neku about Tin Pin.- Big Good: Of Tin Pin in the Another Day universe and possibly the main universe.
- Catchphrase: "Like a bolt from the blue..."
- The Chessmaster: He helped set up the events of Another Day so the Omega Slammer would be completed.
- Creator Cameo: He helped invent Tin Pin in game's backstory, but in actuality he's The World Ends with You's producer.
- Foreshadowing: You can find thoughts in the main game hinting at his appearance. More than that, you can encounter him yourself on Week 2/Day 3 of the main game, the day AFTER you're forced into a Tin Pin Slammer tournament as part of the plot.
- True Final Boss: Of Another Day.
- Walking Spoiler: The fact that he's anything beyond a random tutorial character is a twist in itself.
- Warm-Up Boss: For the final Tin Pin matches when you first fight him.
Stinger Character
Tsugumi Matsunae
- For tropes pertaining to her, see her Character page here.
