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Ethica Kibanohara

Ethica Kibanohara

Voiced by: Kei Maeda

A Living Lead Stalker with a flair for the wild and loud. She is the only daughter of Hokoyasu Kibanohara, the leader of the Military Police and the developer of the Ex-Brain, with the two having a very strained relationship with each other. She was taken into the Karasuzumi Agency after having run away from home and loathes her father to this day.

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• A Good Way to Die: At the climax of Con Su's route, as she lies beaten and broken on the ground with missing limbs and huge holes in her body, she gets to witness the miracle Con Su created with the giant hologram of the former Tokyo and is awestruck from the beauty of a blue sky, green gardens and laughing children. She cannot help but note that she could find no better way to go and asks Tokitaka to finish her off.
• Amputation Stops Spread: In Con Su's route she learns of her undeath at the worst possible time. After having recovered a vial of Scavenger that had sprung a leak, it starts eating into her arm causing her to drop the vial with Sophia realizing what was going on and ordering her to cut off her arm, saving her undead life for the moment.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: In Mitsumi's and Con Su's routes she ends up killed by the Hi-Fi in the CPC and as a result is brought back as a Living Dead by her father, though it takes a while before she realizes the truth.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Of sorts. In Mitsumi's route, while Ethica herself is very much dead, part of her mind survived as a digital copy in her Ex-Brain which then becomes part of the mesh network, allowing her to live on in a way.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Together with So'un in Con Su's route she fights with him covering her back while she covers his against Juichirous guard dogs. She does it again with him in the true ending where they fight jointly against Milgram.
• Bare-Handed Blade Block: In the climax of Con Su's route she manages to catch the blade of a fake Mitsumi in her hands and even snap the blade.
• Batman Gambit: Thinking on the fly, she tricks an aerial opponent into ramming her at the top of the Ikeburo CPC, breaking the floor and causing them both to plummet into the aquarium below, finally slowing the thing down to allow her to land a decent hit.
• Bayonet Ya: Has a bayonet attached to the end of her shotgun for whenever the fighting gets more close quarters than normal. It contains a special CO2 cartridge that can be fired to destroy an impaled target from the inside with a powerful burst of gas.
• Big Entrance: As she comes to Su'un's aid in the True Ending she enters the scene in a pure power walk with a Holy Backlight grinning all the way.
• Big "WHAT?!": At one point she decides to take Con Su on a date and they eventually end up at the arcades and start playing a game Con Su developed. Ethica can't help by cry out in frustration that she got absolutely slaughtered in the game thanks to Con Su's intimiate knowledge of the game.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: Taking advantage of her undead body, she installs the electromagnetic whip from the undead that killed her into her left arm to keep as a nasty surprise for Milgram.
• Blade Brake: She sometimes make use of her chainsaw to stop her momentum by jamming it into the ground if caught flying.
• Butch Lesbian: She's considered One of the Boys, very tomboyish, and is a huge lady killer.
• Blood Knight: She is someone who loves every part of her job and takes great joy in moving down the hordes of undead, always high on the thrill of the fight.
• Broken Pedestal: When she was a child she loved her father and only wanted to make him happy. Once he came back from the Sino-American war a changed man her who image of him shattered and their relationship has been strained ever since.
• Calling the Old Man Out: She routinely butts heads with her father whenever they meet and regularly makes her objections about his behavior well known.
• Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: While she is very promiscuous and perverted towards most women, she completely crumbles and struggles to really get anything going whenever Kiriri is involved.
• Chainsaw Good: Her favorite melee weapon is her dear chainsaw Rabbit Punch. She has even modified it so that it is louder than it really needs to be solely for effect.
• Choke Holds: As she gains the upper hand in her fight against Rorschach she manages to get a good hold on her opponent and eventually chokes the life out of her and snapping the neck. Unfortunately, it did not stick as it wasn't Rorschach whose neck she snapped.
• Coincidental Dodge: Ends up dodging an attack from a centaur like living dead by simply accidentally slipping on some of the gore on the floor. Quite helpful given how good this opponent were at reading her moves, so something neither expected saved her life.
• Combat Breakdown: Her final bout with Ikkatsu in Mitsumi's route is nothing but mad slugfest between the two as all strategy and common sense shown previously in the fight is thrown out the window. Just a relentless pummeling of two undead warriors, neither yielding until one is simply too broken to continue.
• Coup de Grâce: After having defeated So'un in Kiriri's route she has a brief heart to heart with him before running his head through with Rabbit Punch to put him out of his misery while he is still himself.
• Crazy Enough to Work: As she is chasing Olga on the highway, at first being unable to stop the truck carrying Iria with bullets, she decides to blow the door of her car open and use her trusty chainsaw to cut the tires apart while blazing down the highway at full speed. Olga is left stunned at the utter insanity of it all, and it ends up working like a charm.
• Damaged Soul: In Mitsumi's route she gets ever increasingly aware of her eroding humanity as time goes on after having been turned undead. She eventually starts to even question what her motivations for doing what she does, as she struggles to tell what to think anymore.
• Disability Immunity: After she is turned into a Living Dead her emotions starts to degrade as per usual, but in Con Su's route she takes advantage of this as she is left unaffected by Sub Con's Shapeshifter Guilt Trip.
• Dressed All in Rubber: When infiltrating a suspect establishment, she dons a see-through red latex dress and thigh-highs in order to better fit in.
• Drives Like Crazy: She can be quite the adrenaline addict when behind the wheel and as such maintains a driving style that can best be described as absolute lunacy. Its a good thing cars in this setting have so many safety features or she'd been dead and buried a long time ago from the way she drives.
• Emotions vs. Stoicism: The central conflict between her and her father. She is the one going by spirit and emotion whereas he is all about logic and stoicism.
• Enemy Mine: In Kiriri's route she forms a temporary alliance with Rorschach in order to take down her father. The fact that the necromancer has some pretty damn powerful undead at her disposal proves to be quite handy..
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • While she is a shameless nymphomaniac and lesbian, she refuses to deal with another girl of incompatible orientation. Additionally, she also refuses to take advantage of Ryouko's vulnerability from the loss of her husband.
  • She is also extremely disturbed by the things going on inside Juichirou's residence. Even though all the depravity she witnesses is supposedly done on sexaroids, it still makes her blood boil and it is a miracle she managed to restrain herself for as long as she did.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Pretty much every female character remarks how attractive and appealing she is. The nominally straight Ryouko has directly propositioned her for sex.
• Exact Words: When Juichirou demands that the Living Dead Stalkers to leave behind their weapons before entering his home, Ethica makes sure to ask him to specify what he wants them to leave behind, and thus they leave behind only the stuff he pointed out.
• Extra Parent Conception: The truth to why her father see her birth as a sin. She was conceived by mixing the genetic material of Hokoyasu Kibanohara, acting as the father, and Takeyuki Nagaoka, acting as the mother, with Yukari Aso using her womb to carry the child. This all effectively means that she is the child of three people.
• Family of Choice: After Kiriri was taken into the Kibanohara family, Ethica came to see her as something of an older sister.
• Fiery Redhead: A redhead and excitable, fiery and all around gung-ho with pretty much everything.
• Fire-Breathing Diner: Was on the receiving end of a dish of Super Spicy Nasi Goreng during her date with Con Su. Ethica always knew of the girls machoistic streak, but never expected it to go this far. It was food that even her Ex-Brain sounded the alarms on, something you best run away from, and sure enough it leaves her crying as her mouth is lit ablaze. This ends up confirming Con Su's hypothesis that maybe something can be done about her undeath as the fact that she could taste it and squeal means that it is picking up the slack for her diminishing emotions and senses.
• First-Person Smartass: A lot of her personal narration is littered with various bouts of either jokes or snark at the goings on around her.
• Fond Memories That Could Have Been: During Kiriri's route she is haunted by dreams of having a far more functional family with everyone being together and happy, something that only serves to make her more bitter.
• Forced to Watch: Or forced to listen in this case. She can do nothing but scream and listen as Pavlov tortures Iria the same way he did with the Vice-Governor, eventually breaking as things go quiet. As it turned out though, it was exactly like the Vice-Governor, as in it was a recording of his torture that had been slightly edited to more closely match Iria's voice that Ethica had been hearing.
• Fully-Embraced Fiend: In Mitsumi's route she decides to fully take advantage of the fact that she is a Living Dead, making peace with her undeath and the little time she has left.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: Her Ex-Brain takes the form of her glasses which gives her battle information in real time. While not as all encompassing as So’un's Ex-Brain, they get the job done. However, despite the utility it offers, she doesn't really like it and routinely ignores its recommendations.
• Guns Akimbo: In the True Ending she picks up her fathers Re-Eliminators and fights alongside So'un using the standard Close Quarters Armed Martial Arts that she har rejected for so long.
• Half-Sibling Angst: Upon finding out that she and Kiriri are in fact half-sisters she had to reconcile with the fact that she had been hitting on her own flesh and blood and that their whole relationship had now changed. Only, things weren't so simple. Turned out they weren't related by blood at all as Kiriri was not the blood daughter of Yukari Aso, rather Ethica was the half sister of So'un.
• Hates Their Parent: She absolutely loathes her father. Part of the reason for her dislike of the Ex-Brain is simply from the fact that he developed it.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • With her being forced to listen to what she believed was Iria being viciously tortured and then given the revelation that the necromancer she thought she killed was in fact the friend she was there to save and that her father had been put through something similar finally breaks Ethica's spirit.
  • With the dissolution of the Living Dead Stalkers in Kiriri's route she is left in a slump with no idea of what to do as she becomes aimless and just tries to forget everything to no avail.
• I Am What I Am: Once she learns the truth of her conception and her father, she decides not to be ashamed of it and accept herself for who she is.
• I Call It "Vera": Her dear chainsaw she calls "Rabbit Punch".
• Leitmotif: GOOD JOB and Death of the Dead.
• Man Bites Man: In her fight with Olga she resorts to biting her in a desperate attempt to get out of the Necromancers hold. While it didn't initially work, it did tear open her suit allowing Ethica to pull another trick a bit later.
• Mercy Kill: After their battle in Kiriri's route, Ethica runs her chainsaw through So'un's head, killing him while he still has a tiny sliver of himself left.
• Mutual Kill: As the final coup de grace in her final fight with Ikkatsu she hits him with an ampule of Scavenger, shattering it. And as she is a living dead herself, it eats them both.
• "Not So Different" Remark: As she learned the truth about what happened to her father in the past and her own recent actions, she can't help but bitterly note that they really are more alike than she ever would have wanted to admit.
• Overdrive: She can overclock her chainsaw in a mode she calls Overheat Mode. While this can kill a lot of otherwise tough opponents, it also destroys the chain and the blades upon use.
• Patricide: In a way. In Iria's route her father is turned into a living dead and she is forced to put him down.
• Primal Scene: When she was a young child, during a night she couldn't sleep she ended up witnessing her father and mother making love. At the time she was only left with a thought of bitter disgust upon seeing it.
• Rage Breaking Point: While she manages to hold herself on a leash decently long while in The Fortress despite her boiling anger, once she witnesses the state that Mitsumi had been reduced to she finally blows her top.
• Reading Lips: After having decapitated an undead Kazuma, Ethica manages to get her final message to where Iria is by reading her lips before finishing Kazuma off.
• Really Gets Around: Her list of sex-friends is exhaustive.
• Rebellious Spirit: She loves to do things her way and utterly despises having to follow whatever rules set for her. She goes against her Ex-Brains advice even when she is in agreement with its assessment seemingly just cause she hates to be ordered around that much. So'un speculates it is cause of her strict father.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red oni to So'un's blue, being an aggressive and impulsive hothead.
• Rooftop Confrontation: For the final fight against her father in Kiriri's route they both battle atop the rooftops of the Military Police headquarters along a narrow pipe where the tiniest slipup would mean a 50 storie drop to your death.
• Rule of Cool: Admitted in universe that she has modified her chainsaw to be much louder than it should be all cause she thinks it is cool. This is especially notable given that it has superconducting motors which are supposed to be quite silent.
• The Runaway: Due to her disgust for her father she ran away from home at a young age and was eventually found by Ikkatsu and made a Living Dead Stalker.
• Screaming Warrior: Routinely shouts and screams during battle, especially when she is putting extra force behind a swing.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: Her ranged weapon of choice is her customized AA-24 Custom automatic shotgun. Overkill by any standard but perfect for making sure the living dead does not get back up again.
• Sibling Murder: She is forced to put down her own half brother, So'un, finding out that they were siblings right before she finished him off.
• Sleeps with Everyone but You: She is ready to sleep with just about any woman she comes across with only two real exceptions. Ryouko cause Ethica refuses to take advantage of her vulnerable emotional state, and Kiriri who she has far deeper feelings towards.
• Stages of Monster Grief: Depending on the route, she might either take herself having become a Living Dead with gusto, fully taking advantage of it and living her remaining undead life to the fullest, or begins to question her remaining existence and fearing meeting with Kiriri before being forced on the issue to let out all of her grievances.
• Surprise Incest: She had for a long time held back feelings regarding Kiriri and had since a long while both flirted and dated her on numerous occasions. Then she finds out that they are half-sisters. Needless to say, she doesn't take it well. Only for then things to turn out that Kiriri was not the blood daughter of Yukari and that they are in fact unrelated.
• Sword and Gun: Or in her case, a chainsaw in one hand and an automatic shotgun in the other.
• Tomato in the Mirror: In Mitsumi's route she realizes that she has become a Living Dead after several small clues start to pile up before eventually having Con Su confirm it. She decides to take it in stride, live her unlife best she can with the time she has left, even taking advantage of it in some novel ways.
• Touché: When Tokitaka takes out a huge living dead, the power of his sniper rifle is enough to shatter the elevator doors and snap the cable in the elevator that Ethica was hiding in. She quips that it was a bit overkill only for him to retort that it is rich coming from her. She can't help but agree.
• Unbroken Vigil: When So'un ends up hospitalized after the first bout with Milgram, she stayed at his side the entire time until he regained consciousness.
• Unreliable Narrator: Through much of Iria's route, what Ethica experiences and perceives is heavily skewed and warped, even to the reader. All thanks to Olga's meddling.
• Unstoppable Rage: Once she learns that Pavlov was the one who lobotomized and turned Ryouko into a living dead, she completely loses herself in anger and finally beats down the giant cyborg, even managing to throw him around.
• Warrior Therapist: While she is a gun-ho undead killer most of the time, she can be surprisingly supportive and helpful with getting people to deal with their inner insecurities.

So'un Nagaoka

So’un Nagaoka

Voiced by: Genki Muro

A Living Dead Stalker who always maintains a level head and cool professionalism. The son of Takeyuki Nagaoka, a famous veteran from the Sino-American war who was among the original creators of Close Quarters Armed Martial Arts. Due to this, after his fathers death he was taken in by Takeyuki's friend and comrade in arms Ikkatsu Karasuzumi and trained as a Living Dead Stalker.

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: A rather interesting example with his Ex-Brain. As it learned from him, fragments of his mind started to become part of the machine and as a result started to take decisions separate from So'un himself. This ends up becoming important after So'un became a Living Dead as while the man himself was bound to follow every order given, the Ex-Brain was not. This allowed it to act in ways that helped So'un even if he himself was unaware of it such as printing the wrong bullet when shooting Mitsumi or giving the wrong suggestion when fighting Ethica.
• Airplane Arms: When running with his guns out he frequently leans forward with his arms folded back to keep them out of the way.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: In Kiriri's and Con Su's routes, while he was supposed to have gotten medical attention from having had his heart ripped out by Milgram, things start to pile on, including taking a high powered laser right through the heart, that start to paint a bleak picture that he was actually turned into a Hi-Fi living dead after the incident. What's worse, he was not made a living dead Milgram or one of his followers, but rather by Hokoyasu and the Military Police at the very hospital he was brought to. All to serve as a sleeper agent against the Empire Energy Corp.
• Anger Born of Worry: Get's quite angry at Iria after she nearly get's herself killed wandering the streets of Tokyo, but in the end it was all cause of how worried he was.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In the climax of Con Su's route he has his mind become part of the mesh network itself in order to save iria and snap her out of her despair. While Iria herself is able to leave, So'un is unable to return. Though he takes it in stride.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Both he and his Ex-Brain are fantastic at taking whatever battle situation is going on and analyze even seemingly trivial bits of information to draw some rather accurate conclusions and apply it to their battle tactics.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: Together with Ethica in Con Su's route he fights with her covering his back while he covers hers against Juichirous guard dogs. He does it again with her in the true ending where they fight jointly against Milgram.
• Battle Couple: He and Mitsumi start to fight side by side in her own route, starting to rely on each other in combat after they become lovers.
• Bayonet Ya: Downplayed compared to Ethica or Tokitaka. Rather than a full bayonet he has short spikes at the end of the muzzles of his handguns for when things get really close.
• Beware the Nice Ones: While he can be nice when off the clock if a bit awkward, he is not above things such as torture and the like to get his job done. This is especially clear when Milgram manages to capture Iria and So'un starts to make use of increasingly cruel torture of Rorschach to make her talk about Iria's whereabouts, even getting uncharacteristically angry as he nearly kills her.
• Bulletproof Human Shield: As Kagekatsu leaves him with a live shrapnel grenade only has a split second to hid from it. He ends up using Pavlovs corpse as a cover. Justified here as this particular corpse is indeed bulletproof.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: While his torture of Rorschach was initially to get information about Iria, as she keeps on taunting him he start to more and more just want to make her suffer over actually gaining any information.
• Cool Mask: His Ex-Brain takes the form of a full face covering mask that serves to give him constant battle information and updates.
• Cruel Mercy: In the true ending, instead of killing Milgram and thus giving him what he wants, So'un has a special bullet printed that instead injects him with Synesthesia and connects him to the Highway, causing him to lose himself in the information network and becoming part of what is the life of Tokyo.
• Damaged Soul: In Kiriri's route, as he is now a Hi-Fi living dead loyal to Hokoyasu, his soul and sense of self start to slowly erode away as his body starts to deteriorate more and more.
• Dance-Off: During his date with Mitsumi they both end up taking it to the dancefloor where they make use of their fighting skills as impromptu dance moves.
• Defrosting Ice King: While cold and calculating at first, not letting his emotions show even for a second, the more he interacts with Iria the more he starts to thaw and display feelings of concern, anger and even happiness.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Ends up getting quite smitten when he sees Iria in a swimsuit, something quite unusual for the guy.
• The Ditherer: He is wholly dependent on his Ex-Brain to make decisions for him and to make sure those decisions are optimal. He even tries to make use of it to tell him what to do when just being out with Iria. Part of his character development involves not only thinking for himself, but realizing that the Ex-Brain was not meant as a replacement for the ability to think, but just as a sort of support system to help train the brain to make ideal decisions on pure instinct.
• Emotion Suppression: He actively works to keep his own emotions in check to the point that he sees himself as nothing more than a machine that fully entrusts itself to the Ex-Brain.
• Face–Heel Turn: Due to becoming a Living Dead in Kiriri's route and with his masters Big Bad Slippage, he ends up turning against all the others with no choice in the matter with Iria tearfully having to watch as he starts to lose more and more of himself.
• Fantastic Fighting Style: He is trained in Close Quarters Armed Martial Arts, a style designed to be effective against the living dead by conserving ammunition using a mix of precise shots at close range and able to easily transition into close quarters combat. When mixed with the Ex-Brain it leads to a highly efficient fighting style.
• Fighting Your Friend: In Kiriri's route he ends up fighting and killing Tokitaka after the dissolution of the Living Dead Stalkers.
• Fish out of Water: While he is a skilled fighter, when he has to take care of Iria he is left stumbling. Amusingly, at first he even tries to use his Ex-Brain for advice on what to do.
• Freedom from Choice: He really does not like having to make decisions based on opinion or emotion, instead preferring to have his Ex-Brain do all the decision making for him.
• Fully-Embraced Fiend: In Kiriri's route he quickly comes to fully accept that he is now nothing but an emotionless, undead puppet for Hokoyasu and decides to fully embrace it as more and more of his humanity decays away.
• Ghost Memory: His Ex-Brain which used to belong to his father, Takeyuki, and it still has not only his combat experience, but also some of his memories. As So'un is fighting Pavlov, those memories get feed to him and he learns of Takeyuki's friendship with Ikkatsu and Hokoyasu, the early development of the Ex-Brain and that Pavlov was responsible for his mothers death.
• Guns Akimbo: Dual wields a pair of handguns that he makes liberal use of in his Gun Kata style.
• Heartbroken Badass: In the conclusion of Iria's route he is left a broken and cold shell of the self that had grown in her company. That said, Ethica, Ryouko and the digital memories of Iria help him get back up on his feet and keep on fighting. Yes it hurts, but he can keep on living.
• Hope Is Scary: Ultimately, he fears his own emotions as he is afraid that if he learns to love he will be forced into the same situation that ruined his father. This very thing comes close to happening in Iria's route where she is killed and So'un nearly reverts back to his old ways of thinking.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: In his final fight with Ethica at the Military Police HQ he comes to realize his fading feelings of love towards Iria and finally manages to utter an urge for Ethica to kill him. His Ex-Brain ends up reading this wish leading to it displaying a false directive, a directive to ensure his self destruction, which allows for Ethica to finish him off.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: He is not above employing torture when the job requires it and when Iria is captured by Milgram, he starts to torture Rorschach in a bid to find out where they took her.
• Leitmotif: Re-Elimination
• Manchurian Agent: In Kiriri's route he is turned into a living dead, not by Milgram, but by Hokoyasu in order to serve as a sleeper agent against Sophia, killing her once the time was right.
• Memento MacGuffin: His Ex-Brain is one of his only remaining possessions left from his late father and as such he treasures it highly.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: After having been on the receiving end of a beatdown from Pavlov, So'un finally returns the favor once he learns that Pavlov was responsible for his mothers death.
• Not So Stoic: Despite his focus on remaining calm and calculating, the mere mention of his father from any of the Antibiotic Front members tends to immediately cause him to lose his temper.
• Only Mostly Dead: If he disappoints Milgram during their first encounter, So'un will get his heart ripped out and is left in a critical state but is saved thanks to the speedy intervention from Mitsumi.
• Primal Scene: It is revealed that the source of So'uns desire to kill his emotions came from having seen his father having sex with his mother who had been revived as an undead by Milgram, with So'un coming to subconsciously believe that he was a living dead himself and that if he were to ever learn love he would just end up the same as his father.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue oni to Ethica's red, being cold and calculating to the point of almost being mistaken for a machine.
• Reforged into a Minion: After being turned into the Living Dead he is forced to serve as Hokoyasu's loyal puppet with no say in what he actually wants to do.
• Roofhopping: As he escapes Neck Hanger with Iria in tow he has to make it across the steep rooftops of The Fortress, including making a huge leap of faith to a nearby spire to try and get away.
• Shoot the Hostage: In Kiriri's route he shoots himself with an armor piercing bullet as Milgram has him at gunpoint, taking advantage of the fact that he is a Living Dead at this point it wont kill him, taking Milgram by complete surprise.
• Spiteful Spit: When Milgram offers So'un to join him, all he does is to spit on him in response. He had hidden chemical cocktail in his molars that when exposed to air creates steroids with a particular scent that he then can follow.
• Stages of Monster Grief: Depending on the route, he might either take the fact that he has become a Living Dead with cold indifference and that he is little more than a machine meant to obey its master now, or struggle with the grief of how his loved ones now has to deal with the fact that the person they loved is slowly disappearing in front of them.
• Super-Senses: He has an incredibly acute sense of smell that he has situational use for when the opportunity arises.
• Super Serum: He takes Bespoke Nanoparticle Drugs to boost him own physical prowess alongside regular training.
• The Stoic: In stark contrast to Ethica, he is cold, dispastionate and calculating, pretty much never showing even a hint of emotion.
• Trick Bullet: He carries a specialized 3D printer that can produced various kinds of bullets based on combat data. Even things such as Neurotoxin bullets are doable. One of his most deadly ones is the Opiod Cocktail Bullet which contains a powerful μ2 agonist that leads to a swift death.
• Underwater Kiss: He has an enhancement that allows him to maintain his oxygen when underwater for a short while. When Mitsumi saves him he realizes that she does not have this same enhancement. This mixed with the fact that she can't swim makes So'un kiss her underwater to share his oxygen and make sure that she can breathe enough until they reach the surface.
• Unstoppable Rage:
  • While Pavlov was initially dominating the fight, once So'un learns of his involvement in his mothers death, he goes ballistic and turns the fight around.
  • An even more ferocious release of wrath followed when Iria got killed by Milgram, completely loosing any sense of reason and logic, being moved only by pure rage.
• Use Your Head: When he learns that Pavlov killed his mother, So'un looses it and straight up headbutts Pavlovs fists. The sudden move catches Pavlov by surprise.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: After becoming a Living Dead his emotions start to deteriorate more and more and by the time of the routes climax, the only thing left is a faint sensation he has towards Iria, but he no longer recognizes what that sensation is. As he fights with Ethica he eventually manages to realize that it is love that he is feeling.
• You Killed My Mother: His fight against Pavlov turns personal once he learns that the man cut down the plane that carried his mother Sakiko.

Tokitaka Ichihara

Tokitaka Ichihara

Voiced by: Taka Kitou

A Living Dead Stalker who specializes in sniping. Infamous for his love of numbers to the point of a fetish.

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• And Then John Was a Zombie: After having been killed by So'un in Kiriri's route he is brought back as a Living Dead like so many others by Hokoyasu's hand.
• Bayonet Ya: He has a bayonet at the end of his 20mm Ogasawara TFD-20 anti material rifle allowing him to use it as a makeshift naginata if things get hairy.
• Calling Your Nausea: When having to fight on a giant teacup carnival ride, he proclaims he ain't gonna like it and while he manages to hold it in for a while, once everything is said and done, he can't help but notify those around him of his nausea and promptly throws up.
• Cold Sniper: Primarily a support sniper for the Living Dead Stalkers and notoriously difficult to get along with.
• Cool Mask: Like with So'un, he makes use of a Ex-Brain that fully covers his face.
• Critical Hesitation Blunder: In his fight with So'un in Kiriri's route he ends up hesitating right as he had So'un in his sight which gives him the opening to take Tokitaka down. Though So'un notes that Tokitaka could have killed him numerous times already, the implication being that Tokitaka simply wanted to die at the hands of his former friend.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He was the son of a necromancer who was targeted and killed by Ikkatsu. When his father died he was forced onto the streets of Tokyo, struggling to survive until he ended up under the care of his father's killer.
• Facepalm: He does a double facepalm when told that the agency will take in and protect Iria despite that fact that it is not part of the usual work.
• Fighting Your Friend: In Kiriri's route he has to fight So'un due to refusing to leave the life of the Living Dead Stalker behind mixed with having lost his reason for living when he had to put down Ryouko. It ends with his own death at the hands of his former friend.
• Good with Numbers: Able to calculate complex equations with startling ease. With the assistance of his Ex-Brain he is even better.
• Hates Their Parent: He was the son of a necromancer and hated his father for what he engaged in.
• Hopeless Suitor: He was in love with Ryouko, but due to her being married he had no chance at getting her. Even after her husbands death she was still unable to let go, leaving Tokitaka as the third wheel.
• Ludicrous Precision: He is supremely good with numbers and can calculate things to an almost absurd degree of precision. And if there is any margin for error he usually includes that in his calculations and 9 times out of 10 he is correct.
• Mercy Kill: In Con Su's route, So'un initially tries to have Tokitaka kill him before his emotions start to degrade too much, though this ends up interrupted. Later in the route as Con Su brings hope to Tokyo, the beaten and broken Ethica asks him to finish her off after having witnesses what Con Su accomplished. This time he is able to comply.
• Mouthful of Pi: Whenever he starts to get agitated or angry he has a habit of reciting Pi to help him calm him.
• My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: Non-mechanical example, but with his analytical skills he is able to deduce that Mitsumi's heart rate and body temperature has risen when she looks at So'un. Though this being Tokitaka, he deduces that she is suffering from Paroxysmal Tachycardia, and So'un being So'un takes this at face value. Hilarity Ensues.
• Mr. Exposition: Often serves as the main source of exposition whenever something new is introduced.
• Not a Morning Person: Suffers from low blood pressure and as such is never in a good morning mood before he has managed to get going.
• Number Obsession: The guy is obsessed with math to the point that pretty much everyone say that he has a math fetish, always drooling at the various possibilities of equations and the like.
• Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Tends to keep with a skull motif when in his civvies.
• The Smart Guy: On top of his skills with math he is just all-around an incredibly intelligent individual.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: The local math freak and is always shown with his glasses on.
• Staking the Loved One: In Kiriri's route he is forced to shoot and kill Ryouko due to her now having become a Living Dead.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He and Mitsumi really don't get along due to them in general being polar opposites. As such, when they have to work together, it is not exactly a smooth time.

Ryouko Karasuzumi

Ryouko Karasuzumi

Voiced by: Warai Mikazuki

The boss of the Karasuzumi Living Dead Stalker Agency. Responsible for keeping things running as well as information gathering.

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• And Then John Was a Zombie: In Kiriri's route she ends up captured by Milgram, lobotomized and then turned into a Hi-Fi living dead to be sneaked into the Tokyo Megafloat and disable its defenses.
• Crusading Widow: She is after Milgram for the death of her husband Ikkatsu. While the official story was that he died in an accident, no one at the agency buys the story, Ryouko least of all.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: In Kiriri's route, after having been turned into a living dead, she tearfully pleads with the others to kill her as she is unable to stop herself from advancing Milgram's plans.
• Lobotomy: In Kiriri's she is subjected to an open skull lobotomy procedure whilst fully conscious and is forced to watch as a necromancer toys with her brain.
• Mission Control: During some missions she acts as the crews field commander, staying behind to given them information and order them around as need be. That said, she is fully trained and enhanced as a Living Dead Stalker and can thus hold her own if need be.
• Must Have Caffeine: In general seems to have a caffeine addiction with her routinely downing incredibly strong coffee. She even gulps down three cans of a powerful energy drink called Crazy Dragon in a single sitting that you are only supposed to take one of every 24 hours due to potential health risks.
• Please Put Some Clothes On: She is often on the receiving end of this trope from several characters once they come face to face with her habit of walking around in her underwear.
• Sex for Solace: Ethica notes that it is clear that she is trying to make up for the void the death of her husband left her with by not rejecting any of Ethica's advancements. Of course, this just makes her not want to go through with it as she refuses to take advantage of someone in a vulnerable state. She does eventually find that Tokitaka is more willing to engage in her desires.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: While already fanservicey enough as it is, she also seems to lack any shame and is routinely found walking around the agency's office in nothing but her underwear.
• Stealth Insult: Usually throws some veiled if friendly insults at Tokitaka, usually ribbin at his math fetish.
• Stripperiffic: Her combat clothes certainly don't leave much to the imagination with them being very revealing and showing off her figure and one can wonder how it would ever protect her from enemy attacks or the cold.
• Supreme Chef: She is an amazing chef and is able to cook up some fantastic meals in spite of having access to less than stellar ingredients. In fact she is so good that the members of the agency can tell something is bothering her if the taste of her food is just the slightest bit off.
• Team Mom: She serves as the proverbial glue that holds the team together, acting as both the leader and maternal figure for the memebers of the Karasuzumi Living Dead Stalker Agency.
• Unaffected by Spice: She is able to easily down spicy food that leaves everyone else at the agency reeling on the floor.

Ikkatsu Karasuzumi

Ikkatsu Karasuzumi

Voiced by: Tsuyoshi Koyama

Once a Living Dead Stalker of the Karasuzumi office who was So'un's teacher and Ryouko's husband. Died two years ago.

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• Amputation Stops Spread: After being hit in the hand by a scavenger bullet So'un had hidden in his fist, Ikkatsu simply responds by ripping off his arm before Scavenger spreads to the rest of his body.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: After his death he was turned into a centaur-like living dead by Milgram that served as one of his most powerful servants. And unlike so many other undead, he has managed to maintain his sense of self for over two years.
• Bare-Handed Blade Block: In his fight against Ethica and Hokoyasu he straight up catches Rabbit Punch mid swing. And unlike most examples, it really does dig into his palms, but the fact that he is undead means that it doesn't bother him.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: His reaction to Hokoyasu's Critical Hesitation Blunder is to express disappointment and chastise him for failing to accomplish what he is supposed to be an expert at, not needing any kind of half-hearted sympathy.
• Door Fu: Can easily rip doors of their hinges to then use as a weapon.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He died from a poison gas attack protecting Ryouko from the gas by putting his Ex-Brain on her to act as a gas mask and shield her from it.
• Improvised Weapon: Rips off a ship door to use as a bludgeon and shield against the SAD soldiers.
• Large Ham: A large man with just as large a presence, both in personality and behavior.
• Lightning Bruiser: Despite his large frame he is incredibly fast and is just as strong as he looks.
• Posthumous Character: Was killed two years before the start of the story. While the official narrative is that he died in an accident, no one at the agency believes that to be the case.
• The Power of Love: Supposedly, his love for Ryouko is so strong that it kept him stable for over two years. That said, he no longer remembers who that love even is for and apart from that, has no other real connections to his mortal life.
• Training from Hell: So'un and the others feared this man due to the brutal training he was not shy of putting them through, both physical and mental training that would leave them fearing for their lives and sanity.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Pretty much never seen with anything covering his top half, something that is quite notable in a world as cold as this one.

Gijo Living Dead Stalker Agency

Mitsumi Gijo

Mitsumi Gijo

Voiced by: Saki Nakajima

A living dead stalker from the rival Gijo Living Dead Stalker Agency and holds a sense of rivalry towards So'un.

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• And Then What?: Ethica points out that she has been thinking all this about Milgram that she has completely passed over what to do once he has been dealt with. This discussion makes her finally give her future some more thought.
• Battle Couple: She and So'un start to fight side by side in her own route, starting to rely on each other in combat after they become lovers.
• Big "NO!": In order to try and get Con Su to give her So'un's phone number, she tries to appeal to Con Su's rather peculiar payments by stripping off her suit only to then finally notice that Ethica had been in the same room the entire time. Cue this trope.
• Breaking the Bonds: In her own route she manages to break free from her restraints once she hears Olga mention Milgram's name.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: It doesn't take much alcohol to make her tipsy with a single drink being enough for everything to start spinning.
• Cavalry Betrayal: In a rather cruel twist, Ethica herself was the Cavalry Betrayal when she went to save Mitsumi from Rorschach as she was being affected by the illusions and as such strangled and killed the one she was supposed to save and was none the wiser.
• Clothes Make the Superman: The white suit she wears contains powerful artificial muscles that greatly empowers her physical prowess to help her fight the living dead.
• Combat Pragmatist: Unusual for a samurai, she is not above dirty tricks and odd tactics in order to claim victory, something that is apparently distinct for her school of swordsmanship. Even losing her sword, which would be among the greatest dishonors among any other samurai, is little more than a temporary inconvenience for her.
• Comically Missing the Point: She can be amazingly dense at times and this mixed with her laser focus on combat training over anything else causes her to misunderstand a good number of things, often in the most humorous way possible.
• Corporate Samurai: She is basically a science fiction samurai acting as a bounty hunter on whoever's payroll is currently available.
• Critical Hesitation Blunder: In her fight with So'un in Kiriri's route, Hokoyasu makes So'un state that he loves Mitsumi. This causes her to hesitate for a split second, but unfortunately it is all that So'un needs to shoot her with a poisoned bullet, killing her near instantly.
• Dance-Off: During her date with So'un they both end up taking it to the dancefloor where they make use of their fighting skills as impromptu dance moves.
• Defiant Captive: When captured by Juichirou she initially fights back and even bits off his privates when he tries to rape her despite her being bound by stun cuffs and a blackout collar. Too bad that it turned out to just be a robot replica.
• Disney Death:
  • In Iria's route it turned out that she wasn't killed by Ethica like she believed but was just knocked unconscious. The whole killing bit was just another part of Rorschachs illusions.
  • In Kiriri's route she ends up surviving being shot by So'un's opiod bullet, only being knocked unconscious instead due to his Ex-Brain printing a sub-par bullet to save her life.
• Dynamic Entry: When So'un is fighting Milgram for the first time, Mitsumi all of a sudden burst through the roof of the building, crashing right into him blade first.
• Enemy Mine: Together with Ethica she forms an alliance with Rorschach in order to take down Hokoyasu and the military police.
• Failed a Spot Check: As she tries to get Con Su to give her So'un's number she never once notices that Ethica is in the same room until after she had stripped off all of her clothes. Upon finally noticing she promptly screams and burst out into the cold nearly naked.
• Faking the Dead: At the end of her own route, it is made to look like she died from her injuries in the fight against Milgram. This due to the fact that the Necromancers hold a very tight information network, and with Milgram dying a martyrs death, they could very well get even more fired up. As such, it was necessary for Mitsumi to appear like she died if she was ever going to have a free life.
• Fantastic Fighting Style: Mitsumi is trained in the Advanced Taisha School of sword fighting, a refined form of the Taisha-Ryu school founded in the 16th century that makes use of powered suits to push the user beyond human limits. The school is also unusual in that it focuses less on honor and more on pragmatism and as such, is not afraid to make use of outside the box tactics.
• Fish out of Water: She turns out to somehow be even worse than So'un when it comes to normal everyday activities. As a result, when the two are on a date she proves to be difficult to deal with for him.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: While skilled with the sword, she should not be mistaken as being harmless without it as she is perfectly capable of fighting at peak efficiency if all she has is her bare fists.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Due to her obsession with Milgram she is prone of trusting those less than trustworthy if they present themselves as having information about his whereabouts. This flaw costs her dearly when she trusted Olga.
• Human Shield: When infiltrating The Fortress she repeatedly makes use of the robot guards as makeshift shields as she knows their programming is averse to friendly fire.
• Kidnapped for Experimentation: She gets lured to The Fortress thanks to some false info from Olga and is then promptly captured as just another sample for Juichirou's experimentation to improve his sexaroids.
• Leeroy Jenkins: She has a really bad habit of jumping into a situation without thinking things through first, something that often causes her more trouble in the long run.
• Leitmotif: Burning Blade
• Mind Rape: When at the mercy of Olga she is subjected to a special kind of microrobot injection that directly affects her brain, quickly wearing down her resolve. As Olga states, "All humans are slaves to their brains", and as such Mitsumi starts to become a lot more compliant when the injection starts working its magic.
• Moment Killer: As Ethica and Con Su were having a sweet heart-to-heart Mitsumi suddenly bursts in and after a few shenanigans, both Ethica and Con Su admit that it all took the air out of the mood.
• Named Weapons: She wields a specialized katana called Shoshimaru.
• Not So Stoic: While she constantly tries to project an air of professionalism about her, the smallest probing will cause it all to fall apart, turning her into a flustered wreck that completely fails at keeping a straight face.
• Poisoned Weapons: In the final fight against Milgram in her own route she coats her sword with Scavenger to make sure that a single hit against the now undead Milgram will be all necessary to take him down. Ultimately, as her blade vibrates, a near miss causes a tiny amount of Scavenger to drip onto Milgram which leads to his defeat.
• Prepare to Die: She is very intent on seeing Milgram dead, and as such, shouts at the top of her lungs for him to die once she comes across him for the first time.
• Revenge: She is out for revenge against Milgram for the death and subsequent resurrection of her brother.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: She had spent so long training herself in the art of killing the Living Dead that when she has to be just a normal girl out on the street she is hilariously out of her element. In some ways she is even worse than So'un in this regard. Even things such as games and hotels are new to her.
• Samurai Ponytail: Befitting her samurai aesthetics she keeps her hair in a ponytail.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: The first time So'un sees her outside of her combat suit and wears more normal clothing he ends up stunned by good she ended up looking.
• Super Drowning Skills: Due to an incident in her youth that left her with hydrophobia she never learned to swim.
• Sustained Misunderstanding: When So'un mistakenly believes her to be sick and suggests they go to a doctor, she ends up thinking he is the one who is sick and the whole thing ends up spiraling out of control until they both realize their mistakes.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She and Tokitaka really don't get along due to them in general being polar opposites. As such, when they have to work together, it is not exactly a smooth time.
• Tsundere: A classical example. While she tries to be like a cold and serious samurai, she quickly becomes a blushing and stuttering mess when the topic of So'un comes up. Pretty much everyone save for him picks up on this trait of hers.
• Vibroweapon: She wields a katana named Shoshimaru that is able to vibrate 30000 times a second allowing it to cut through just about anything.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She suffer from aquaphobia, the fear of water.
• Wrecked Weapon: In her first skirmish against Milgram's crony Pavlov she ends up getting her blade caught by one of his CNT Wires that then cut through the blade. Unusually for this trope, it didn't stop her in the slightest as she just threw the remains at Pavlov catching him by complete surprise.

Sumihiko Gijo

Sumihiko Gijo

Mitsumi's older brother and heir to the Gijo house. Killed two years ago only to be resurrected as a Living Dead by the Military Police in their research into necromancy.

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• And Then John Was a Zombie: After it had proven to be too late to save his life he was then resurrected by the Military Police. Of course, given that even the best made undead suffer identity degradation after two weeks at most, Sumihiko has long since become nothing but a shambling corpse by the time the story takes place.
• Empty Shell: As he has been undead for more than two years he is little more than a hollow husk at this point.
• Spanner in the Works: At the conclusion of Mitsumi's route he sneaks up on Pavlov, driven by a tiny fragment of his personality and drive for revenge, killing him and ending his plans of continuing Milgram's work as well as his plan to take down the Frozen Nirvana.

Frozen Nirvana

Con Su

Con Su

Voiced by: Yuka Inokuchi

A young albino girl. While not officially part of the Living Dead Stalkers, her hacking abilities and useful computer tech makes her an invaluable ally. Something of an eccentric.

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• Armor-Piercing Question: She ends up asking So'un quite the cutting question about Iria. Sometimes amnesia can be the result of trauma and given her connection with the Ikeburo CPC, is he ready to potentially hurt her remembering something she is better of forgetting?
• Big Damn Heroes: In Kiriri's route, right as Ethica is about to be overwhelmed by a Living Dead Tokitaka, Con Su manages to bring a hacked MF-399 Pipe Runner to her side in the nick of time with it's 30mm autocannon shredding all the undead present, saving Ethica.
• Cassette Futurism: She deals a lot in retro tech with the girl herself using all kinds of outdated stuff such as CRT monitors and the like. She also specifically prefers to use physical keyboards due to liking the tactile feeling they offer rather than using the standard multi-flick techniques. This retro fascination of hers comes quite in handy when the team needs an old VCR player to read some classified information.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was another child being held that the Ikeburo CPC, back then being known as Risa, and the only other survivor besides Iria and as such face a lot of experimentation while being held there. While she did befriend Iria during her time there, they went their separate ways after the place was shut down.
• Depraved Bisexual: Played for Laughs. Both So'un and Ethica often pay her with sex, and find many of her fetishes repulsive.
• Electronic Eyes: Her right eye is a mechanical replacement that allows her to expand her sense of vision into the ultraviolet and infrared range in order to help her handle the torrent of data of the Highway.
• "Eureka!" Moment: After having stayed up for days on end, just as she is about to fall asleep from the constant work she layts her eyes onto So'un's Ex-Brain and all of a sudden has a brain flash on how Ethica and So'un's humanity could be saved.
• Eyepatch of Power: She is always seen wearing a medical eyepatch over her right eye. It serves to hide her mechanical eye.
• Hackette: She primarily deals with hacking of various forms. Usually for information gathering, but cam make use of a more disruptive approach if need be. She can often get so into it that she forgets reality to the point of drooling.
• Heroic BSoD: Played for Laughs. When she finds out that Iria got through all of the security and safety measures of her computer system she utterly collapses and ceases to properly function momentarily. Things didn't get any better after Sub-Con's mega hack with Con Su treating the whole thing as her greatest failure.
• Hikikomori: She's a complete shut-in who never leaves her store which itself lies in the abandoned Akihabara district. The mere act of leaving her home she treats as heading to a battlefield with all of her other clothing being some kind of combat gear. When Ethica finally manages to drag her out in her own route she mentions that it was 4 years since last time she was out.
• Hope Bringer: In the climax of her route she manages to defeat the Necropolis by creating a huge hologram using the cities emergency broadcast system to display a recreation of the Tokyo from two centuries ago, reminding everyone of what once was and what could be, creating a wave of hope across the city which then spreads into the mesh network and undoes the undead mass.
• Knowledge Broker: Her primary trade is in information, usually stuff she has acquired through her hacking efforts.
• Leitmotif: Geek Speak.
• My Greatest Failure: She managed to find out that Iria was being held at the Fortress and in order to save her she hired the help of Necromancers to get her out, the same event that kickstarted the whole plot. She ended up deeply regretting these actions as this informed Milgram of Iria's existence and put her in his sights.
• Naughty Nurse Outfit: Her standard outfit is some kind of stylized leather nurse getup complete with the cap despite she herself not even remotely being involve in medicine. Though she does do autopsies on the living dead.
• Oh, Crap!: When she meets Iria in person for the first time she nearly loses it, becoming even more nervous than usual.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business. She ends up raising her voice and act rather strangely the moment she is told of Iria's amnesia, something Ethica notes is highly unusual for the usually quiet Con Su. This gets even worse when she meets Iria in person where she get's almost hysterical. And then it is also revealed that she had uncharacteristically concealed information about Iria which ends up raising further questions about her identity as to what could make Con Su act like this.
• Rapid-Fire Typing: So'un notes that her typing on the keyboard is so fast that you can hardly keep track of her hands as they move about. It gets even more extreme when she is accessing the Highway.
• Safe, Sane, and Consensual: Despite how rough she likes it, she and So'un always make sure that things are as safe as possible with soft ropes and a proper Safe Word during their "payment sessions".
• Safe Word: She keeps a safe word of her shaking her head.
• Sleep Deprivation: In her own route she stays up for days, downing energy drinks by the liters to try and find a solution for Ethica and So'un personality degradation after having become Living Dead.
• Speech Impediment: She suffers from a very noticeable stutter. According to Ethica, it was something she apparently taught herself in order to get away from her past.
• Super-Senses: With her artificial eye she is able to perceive a greater amount of wavelengths of light which she uses to handle all the data of the Highway. She is even able to convert visual input into other senses such as taste when dealing with particularly high amounts of data.
• Super Serum: She makes use of a drug called Synesthesia which greatly expands her senses whenever she is in need of making use of the Highway, a high-density information network that would be impossible to handle otherwise. However, the drug is highly taxing on both the mind and the body and as such, she can't make use of it all that often.
• Token Evil Teammate: While calling her "evil" is pushing it a bit, she has by far the least moral scruples when it comes with dealing with any kind of shady stuff that might be necessary.
• Torture Technician: If need be, she can be called upon to employ various forms of torture to get information out of a potential victim, a craft she is very competent in. Even the most resilient tend to break eventually under her care.
• Trash of the Titans: Not only is her home filled to the roof with computers and monitors, but it is also covered with garbage bags, empty cans of energy drinks and used fast-food containers.

Military Police

Kiriri Aso

Kiriri Aso

Voiced by: Mami Ozaki

A Major within the Military Police. Adoptive sister of Ethica.

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• Awful Truth: In her own route she finds out that not only is Hokoyasu using necromancy and is planning on unleashing the Living dead on Tokyo, but that the entire Military Police HQ has turned into a fortress of the undead with even Kazuma having been killed and turned.
• Beware the Nice Ones: While it can be easy to forget given how nice she is, she is still a trained Military Police officer and is perfectly capable of holding her own against various foes.
• Calling the Old Man Out: When it becomes clear to her just how far Hokoyasu has fallen and the lengths he is willing to go, she confronts him using a re-eliminator that she smuggled in and shoots him in the back. Too bad it was loaded with plastic bullets as Kazuma who she had gotten the gun from was already under Hokoyasu's control.
• Designer Babies: She had a DNA test taken which revealed that there was a high likelihood that her genetic code had been tampered with, meaning that either she is a designer baby or a direct descendent from one.
• Family of Choice: She was an orphan after her mother passed away and was taken in by Ethica's father leading to them being raised together and as such they see each other as sisters.
• Friend on the Force: As she and Ethica pretty much see each other as sisters, Kiriri routinely helps her out by leaking relevant information and just being all around helpful for as much as her position allows.
• Good Cop/Bad Cop: The good cop to Kazuma's bad cop being kind, gentle and very by the book when on duty.
• Grade Skipper: She was something of a child prodigy in her younger years and got to skip several grades in school. Its these achivements that allowed her to become a Major despite her young age.
• Libation for the Dead: In the conclusion of her own route she visits the ruins of the Military police HQ to pour a bottle of sake in memory of those killed, especially Kazuma with the sake being of her favorite brand.
• Memento MacGuffin: She carries around a scented pillbox that belonged to her mother that she treasures deeply. She still uses it the same way her mother did to contain flavored capsules.
• Supreme Chef: She is an excellent chef and is just as good as Ryouko at cooking with less than stellar ingredients.
• White Sheep: In contrast to how brutal the rest of the Military Police can be, she is gentle and by the book even if she can be a bit stern at times.
• Workaholic: She is an infamous hard worker and is very diligent in her duties, much to Ethica's frustration as it means that they can't meet all that often.
• You Are in Command Now: In the true ending following Hokoyasu's death she becomes promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and takes over the Military Police in his absence.
• You're Insane!: Once she gets to hear what Hokoyasu has planned for Tokyo, including setting loose a horde of masterless undead and thus uncontrollable, she perhaps rightfully calls him out on what is nothing short of madness.

Kazuma Nagisa

Kazuma Nagisa

Voiced by: Mizuki Yamaguchi

Captain within the Military Police.

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• Aggressive Submissive: While she can be quite forceful normally, according to Ethica she is very much a bottom, something she loves to take advantage of to tease Kazuma.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: Kiriri eventually comes to learn that the entire Military Police HQ has been turned into a necropolis and that Kazuma, the one who handed her one of Hokoyasu's Re-Eliminators to take him out, has become one of the Living Dead as well.
• Big Damn Heroes: Ends up saving Iria from a group of Suicide Wannabes after her previous rescuer got killed.
• Bothering by the Book: She is very much someone who puts respect for authority above all else and as such will drop everyone she is doing once her superior comes calling.
• Good Cop/Bad Cop: The bad cop to Kiriri's good cop being ruthless and heavy-handed in her approach of getting information out of people.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: When interrogating So'un she repeatedly slams his head into the nearby desk and other sorts of brutality. Apparently this kind of violence is a common occurrence within the Military Police.
• Locked Out of the Loop: She is unaware of some of the scummier goings on within the Military Police, most notably with the fact that information about some necromancers activities had been erased.
• Losing Your Head: Thanks to being undead in Kiriri's route she is able to give Ethica a final message even with her head separated from the body. Though she has to make use of her lips and eyes to convey it as she of course no longer has access to her voicebox.
• Stress Vomit: Upon witnessing the video of Ryouko's torture and lobotomization she cannot help but vomit, not used to such grisly scenes.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She can swing wildly between incredibly harsh and abrasive to a meek and submissive girl seemingly at the drop of a hat. And Ethica knows just what buttons to push to get that sugar side out of her.
• Try Not to Die: When she is informed of that the Karasuzumi Agency has been invited to The Fortress, she simply tells Ethica that they better make it back alive given the traps obvious nature.

Hokoyasu Kibanohara

Hokoyasu Kibanohara

Voiced by: Satoshi Tsuruoka

Major General of the Military Police and Ethica's father. Also the developer of the Ex-Brain and has become known as the Iron Baron for his ruthless methodology and cold disposition.

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• Abusive Parents: Suffice to say, after he returned from the war he was far from the man he once was and one of the ways this manifested was just how cruel and harsh he was with his daughter with one incident even causing him to throw her out of the third story window by her hair. If not for the fact that she was already quite well trained then the whole incident could very well have killed her.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: In Iria's route he survives the helicopter crash on the Tokyo Megafloat but is subsequently killed by Milgram and turned into a living dead with orders to kill Ethica. However he has enough will left to ensure that he leaves So'un alone and takes out the other living dead that were in their way beforehand.
• Archnemesis Dad: His and Ethica's relationship is so strained that they eventually become enemies due to being unable to see eye to eye.
• Armoured Closet Gay: It turned out the reason his relationship with Ethica was so toxic and why he was so against her homosexuality was due to the fact that he himself was gay and was haunted by what the love he had had for another man had done for him. The more she indulged in her sexuality, the more he was reminded of his own failures in love and lashed out as a result.
• Beneath the Mask: The events of the Sino-American war changed the man to the core, going from a loving father to a cold and ruthless soldier only concerned with climbing the ranks and gaining power. However, underneath the though exterior is is a sad and broken man who is still crying alone during the night, still missing his wife and friends which he had all lost.
• Big Bad Slippage: While initially cold, he was for the most part helpful and even heroic in some routes, but in Kiriri's route he eventually becomes the lead villain after Milgram is defeated, using his authority to turn the entirety of the Military Police into an army of the dead.
• Boring, but Practical: His fighting style, while ruthless and pragmatic, is often described as so clean that it comes across as boring. However few would question its efficiency.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: While he had plenty of opportunity to kill Sophia in Kiriri's route, he still needed her alive as only she knew the password for the geothermal powerplant, knowledge of which would give Hokoyasu singular control over all of Tokyo. Similarly, he refuses to kill Kiriri, believing that her mind is too useful for the coming future of Tokyo and thus offers her to rule by his side.
• Combat Pragmatist: No trick is too dirty and no tactic is off the table when he fights. He will use whatever is at his disposal to win.
• Critical Hesitation Blunder:
  • In his fight against Ikkatsu in Mitsumi's route, after having been on the backfoot the entire fight he finally manages to line up a shot against his former friend only to hesitate in the final moment. This opening was all that Ikkatsu needed to deck him.
  • During his assault on the Fortress in Con Su's route, he ends up hesitating when he encounters Ayuka. This is all the guard robots need to riddle him with bullets, killing him.
• Cynicism Catalyst: He was originally extremely close friends with both So'uns father, Takeyuki Nagaoka, and Ikkatsu Karasuzumi, but Milgram managed to set up things in such a way that Takeyuki ended up betraying the others and Hokoyasu then killed him out of his own free will. It is implied that Milgram used the same trick that Rorschach had used on Ethica, and the fallout of this whole incident was what changed Hokoyasu to the cold man he is today, as he was forced to kill the man he loved.
• Emotion Suppression: He is constantly holding his emotions in check which gives him that infamous coldness. But unlike So'un who holds back his emotions to be effective at his job, Hokoyasu does it to keep his sadness from crushing him.
• Emotions vs. Stoicism: Part of the reason for his strained relationship with his daughter is that he is all about strict logic and restrained emotions whereas Ethica is all about living free and loud.
• Guns Akimbo: He is trained in Close Quarters Armed Martial Arts and as such makes use of a pair of Re-Eliminator handguns that is standard for pretty much all practitioners.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: In Con Su's route during his attack on the Fortress, after having used necromancy on his own daughter, he starts to question the legitimacy of his goals and if there is ever a chance for redemption for him. But he never gets to act on this as a brief moment of hesitation allows for the guard robots to shoot him dead.
• Heel Realization: In Mitsumi's route he admits that he used to follow a doctrine of "killing one to save two", but that he came to reevaluate his ideals after he was forced to turn Ethica into a Living Dead.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Started out as someone fighting against the Necromancers only to eventually become one himself and using a lot of their methods for his own rather questionable goals.
• Incompatible Orientation: He was in love with the man who would become So'un's father, Takeyuki Nagaoka. But said man was only interested in a single woman and as such, Hokoyasu's love would always remain unrequited.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: In Kiriri's route he starts to employ crueler and crueler methods to accomplish his goals. with what started as simply some lightly morally questionable actions eventually devolves into outright villainy as he intends to unleash the undead on Tokyo to cull its population.
• Kill the Ones You Love: After the one he loved, Takeyuki Nagaoka, employed necromancy to bring back his wife, Hokoyasu was forced to kill him.
• Kill the Poor: Part of his plan involves using the undead to kill all those that he deems as undesirables within Tokyo, including people such as the poor, elderly and criminal.
• Knight Templar: It becomes increasingly clear in Kiriri's route that in his bid to rid Tokyo of its problems the more he becomes an even greater menace than ever before, even when he remains convinced that all this cruelty is justified for a better tomorrow.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In his fight with Rorschach, he ends up on the receiving end of the very same trick he forced So'un to use to kill Mitsumi with Rorschach taking a gamble stating that he is acting out of love. This causes him to hesitate for a split second allowing for her to throw her knife at him. Unfortunately it only scratches him and he finishes her off right afterwards.
• Love Triangle: He had been caught in a particularly troublesome love triangle. He was in love with another man, Takeyuki, but he in turn was in love with a specific woman that would become So'un's mother, whereas another woman, Yukari, was in turn in love with Hokoyasu. To say that this caused one hell of a mess is a bit of an understatement.
• Military Coup: In Kiriri's route he pulls a coup d'etat on the whole of Tokyo, taking control of the heat pipes and letting Milgram take down the Tokyo Megafloat as well as dismantling the Living dead Stalkers.
• Mind over Manners: In a way. After Ethica is turned in a Living Dead in Mitsumi's route, Hokoyasu refuses to use the power he now has over her. Never once does he give her a direct order even when he had no issue ordering other sentient undead around.
• Not So Stoic: At the climax of Kiriri's route his iron mask finally cracks and he begins to pour out the emotions he had hidden, about why he hated Ethica and about how he had to kill the one he loved.
• Offing the Offspring: He views having given birth to Ethica as his biggest sin and as such has no reason not to kill her once the chance arises.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In Mitsumi's route, Ethica walks in on him in Kiriri's hospital room. At first a conflict between the two seems to brew only for Hokoyasu to suddenly apologize to Ethica before leaving. This catches her completely off guard as it is so out of character for him and it ends up serving as a clue for that he had turned her into a Living Dead after her battle at the Ikeburo CPC.
• Red Baron: Known as the Iron Baron due to his cold ruthlessness.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: At the climax of Iria's route he has been told by the rest of the top brass of the Military Police to stand down regarding the Tokyo Megafloat. When Ethica meets him he decides to go against orders and deploy personally in order to take down Milgram.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: His experiences from the Sino-American war thoroughly changed him from a loving father and husband to a cold and almost cruel man who is barely maintaining his functionality fighting against the memories from that time, as well as the crushing sadness from losing his wife and friends.
• Single Tear: Upon seeing the phrase "They who share the lotus throne share in joy and sorrow alike", a favorite phrase of Kiriri's late mother and someone he held quite dear, he sheds a single tear showing that despite how stone cold he is, there is still some emotions deep down.
• The Social Darwinist: Plans to weed out the weak and undesirables using the undead seized from Milgram to in his eyes get rid of all the crime that infests the city.
• The Stoic: Perhaps even more so than So'un, he is said to wear an iron mask and never even betray a hint of emotion.
• Totalitarian Utilitarian: He follows a doctrine of "sacrificing one to save two". And thus, if he believes if it will save more people in the long run he will often without issue let one die so that more can live.
• The Unfettered: This guy will stop at nothing to achieve his goals and is willing to stoop to some incredible lows to carry out his plans.
• Villain's Dying Grace: After having been defeated in Kiriri's route he takes Rorschach's knife to the chest to protect Kiriri. While the knife was meant for him in the first place, this way it found its intended target.
• Virtue Is Weakness: He has come to view emotions as nothing but a burden that holds you back and as such downright detests the idea of acting on impulse.
  "Crying when you want to... Laughing when the urge strikes you... You dare call that expressing emotions? Ridiculous. Only beasts act purely on compulsion."
• We Can Rule Together: As no matter how well made a Living Dead is, they will inevitably lose their sense of self and just become another shambling corpse after two weeks tops, he offers Kiriri to rule by his side as she is put to better use alive with her sharp mind than as another servant. She shoots him down.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: A lot of his actions ultimately come from his conviction that the only way to restore Tokyo is for him to take control of the entire city and weed out corruption and crime by any means necessary.
• When He Smiles: At the conclusion of Mitsumi's route as So'un makes clear his plans to leave Tokyo and start a new life, the Iron Baron finally cracks a sincere smile.
• You Are What You Hate: He hates the fact that Ethica is homosexual, this in large part cause he is homosexual himself.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: He tries to have So'un eliminate Mitsumi once she is no longer useful to him under the guise of taking down Ethica. He ends up hesitating allowing her to make a getaway.

Antibiotic Front

Milgram

Milgram

Voiced by: Ryota Takeuchi

The most wanted man in the world with the highest bounty in human history. A dangerous necromancer and the leader for the Antibiotic Front as well as the central spiritual figure of the Suicide Wannabes.

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• Affably Evil: In general maintains a perpetual calm and remains ever polite when dealing with other people, even praising his would be opponents when they are doing well.
• A Good Way to Die: A lot of what he does can ultimately be chalked up to him wanting to die in a manner he finds fitting.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: In Mitsumi's route he ended up killed when the Hawaii sank, drowned as his armor weighed him down. Pavlov managed to recover his body and revive him, but this also put a timer on Milgram's plans resulting in his actions uncharacteristically rash.
• And Show It to You: After having captured Iria in front of So'un, Milgram demands that So'un admit his love for her if she is to be spared. So'un complies only for Milgram to tear out Iria's heart and throw it in front of him.
• Baddie Flattery: Constantly praises So'un's fighting capabilities and seems to be entirely sincere about it.
• Big Bad: The central villain of the story, being the leader of the Antibiotic Front and responsible for the Suicide Wannabe ideology.
• Break Out the Museum Piece: He deploys an old warship called the Hawaii that was retired over a century ago as his mobile base of operations.
• Captured on Purpose: In Iria's route he allows himself to be captured and brought in by the Empire Energy Corp, all in a ruse to get inside the Tokyo Megafloat as he had already turned his captors into living dead loyal to him.
• The Chessmaster: In Iria's route he played everyone like a fiddle, using the amnesiac Iria as bait to draw out Sub-Con and in turn the Empire Energy Corp followed by him allowing his own capture. All this while having ensured that some of Sophia's most loyal agents were now under his control to take her out once the time was right. It all went off without a hitch.
• The Corrupter: He is very good at breaking people and either swaying them to his side or at the very least, breaking their spirit to the point that they are no longer a threat.
• Death Seeker: In the end, all he is really looking for is a place to die in the face of sublime beauty, that beauty being the martial arts of So'un Nagaoka.
• Didn't See That Coming: In Kiriri's route he is caught completely by surprise when So'un fires an armor piercing bullet through his own chest, hitting Milgram and stunning him for long enough for So'un to go in for the kill.
• Disappointed in You: Should So'un try to kill him during the choice moment rather than protecting Iria, Milgram will just grab So'un and proclaim his disappointment before ripping So'uns heart out.
• Disc-One Final Boss: In Kiriri's and Con Su's routes he is taken down early on at the battle on the Tokyo Megafloat with then other villains taking over the mantle of Big Bad.
• Don't Create a Martyr: In the true ending, with the knowledge that his death would make him a martyr and thus further spur the Suicide Wannabes, Ethica and So'un instead has him injected with Synesthesia and connect him to the Highway which breaks his mind but keeps the body alive, depriving him of his wish to become a martyr.
• Evil Sounds Deep: He is the main villain who is obsessed with death and necromancy and has the deep voice of Ryota Takeuchi.
• Face Death with Dignity: As death is something he seeks, every time he is killed he accepts it with a calm and serene smile, regardless if his plans panned out or not.
• Fate Worse than Death: In the true ending from his point of view anyways. He wished for death in the face of supreme human beauty, instead So'un has him injected with Synesthesia and connecting him to the Highway, resulting in him losing himself in the mesh network and becoming part of Sub-Con's being.
• Flash Step: After ditching his armor he becomes so fast that he can pretty much disappear from view if you so much as blink.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: In the past he used to just be a simple restorer of religious paintings, yet after witnessing one painting in particular that had been painted using human blood he gained a fascination with death and became one of the most dangerous necromancers in the world.
• Go Out with a Smile: Regardless of route he always tend to go out with a serene smile on his face, content to finally have been given the death he sought.
• Gone Horribly Right: Him killing So'uns mother was meant to act as a catalyst to break his father Takeyuki and make him hate him enough to want to kill him. Unfortunately he broke in a completely different way and succumbed to despair, loosing all will to fight.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: While he has the obvious goal of most Suicide Wannabes of wanting to die in a way he sees fit, he also have a couple of other plans that he keep more well hidden, the details of which are shrouded in mystery. Most notable of these is his so called Necropolis Project.
• I'm Melting!: In Mitsumi's route he gets a few droplets of Scavenger on him as he is fighting Mitsumi, eventually working their magic causing him to dissolved into a puddle of molten flesh and blood.
• Koan: He loves to talk during combat and often divulges various forms of information and unsettling truths in order to keep his foes of their game.
• The Last Dance: Near the end of Mitsumi's route he launches a massive assault on Tokyo that characters not comes across as unusually clumsy and rash for being done by Milgram. This turns out to be because he is running out of time. After having died with the sinking of the Hawaii, he was revived as a Living Dead and as such is against the clock before he loses his sense of self.
• Leitmotif: Requiem and Last Judgement.
• Lightning Bruiser: Both fast and insanely strong while also being incredibly durable thanks to his Anti-Armor Suit.
• Memory Wipe Exploitation: He had made sure to wipe Iria's memories in order to lure out Sub-Con to contact her which would in turn gain the attention of the Empire energy Corporation, and thus ensure his way inside their headquarters.
• Mix-and-Match Weapon: Wields a pair of Sai-Pistols.
• Neck Lift: Near the climax of her route, he holds up Iria by the nape of her neck to serve as a hostage against So'un. And thanks to his strength, he could easily kill her right then and there.
• Never Found the Body: He is seemingly killed aboard the Hawaii in Mitsumi's route, vaporized by one of the Tokyo Megafloats railguns right in front of Ethica's eyes. Only he turns up later alive and well, starting a giant terror attack on Tokyo. Except, he wasn't alive. He died in the incident, drowned due to the weight of his armor and was subsequently revived by Pavlov.
• "Not So Different" Remark: In Mitsumi's route he briefly compares Hokoyasu to himself. Hokoyasu remains unbothered and steadfast, disappointing Milgram.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: The central idea he espouses is that humanity needs to conquer life rather than death. That in his eyes, humanities craving for life and fear of death is the source of conflict. While it helped humanity in the past thanks to natural selection favoring those with a strong grip on life, that Darwinist way of life no longer works and is now only in the way. Basically to him, things such as passion and drive have no place in the current society and only causes pain and strife, and thus humanity needs to know the peace of death. Of course, this means it is only really an idea to justify his whole Omnicidal Maniac plan and wish to become a martyr.
• Not Worth Killing: As Ethica finally collapses from a broken spirit, Milgram simply walks away despite having her at his mercy. She questions him on why he doesn't kill her and he simply states that there is no point in killing someone in her state.
• Ominous Adversarial Amusement: As Milgram is seemingly captured by the SAD troops, So'un can't help but notice that he seems eerily calm. It is cause he had already killed those troops and turned them into Hi-Fi living dead obedient to him and they were now leading him right into the Tokyo Megafloat and right past all of their security.
• Powered Armor: Wears an Anti-Armor Suit, an experimental prototype armor that was meant to push the human body to the limit by improving strength and mobility.
• Secret Test of Character: He employs a rather cruel test against So'un by killing Iria in front of him to see if he will either succumb to despair like his father Takeyuki did, or to rise stronger than before.
• Super Prototype: The Anti-Armor Suit he wears was a prototype originally meant for mass production. However the negative impact it had on the wearer and the amount of reinforcement of the body required to not be destroyed by the suit ultimately caused it to be shelved.
• Super-Speed: Thanks to his armor he is able to greatly enhance his speed to make him very difficult to keep up with. And even without the armor he is absurdly fast.
• Super-Strength: Due to the power granted to him by his Anti-Armor Suit he is obscenely strong. Even without it he is not to be trifled with.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: So'un can't help but not that he has the same kind of stare that Tang Yunshan had, a stare that seems to stare right through him, to someplace far beyond what everyone else can see.
• Villainous Breakdown: In the true ending, when he realizes that So'un has no plan on killing him and instead is planning on having him be sucked into the Highway, he can only shout and cry out in desperation as he struggles to not be swallowed up to no avail.
• Worthy Opponent: He seems to hold a great deal of respect for So'un's father, Takeyuki Nagaoka, for his impeccable fighting ability. Ultimately, Takeyuki succumbed to despair leading to Milgram setting his sights onto So'un instead to fill the role that Takeyuki failed to live up to.
• Your Head A-Splode: In Kiriri's route he is killed by So'un firing an explosive round to his head, leaving naught but a bloody mess behind.

Pavlov

Pavlov

A hulking man that serves as Milgrams second in command.

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• Acrofatic: While Pavlov isn't necessarily fat, he is definitely on the more heavy set side. That said, he is also far more agile than his build would have you believe.
• Boom, Headshot!: So'un manages to deliver a shot to his head. Although he just gets back up from that. Eventually played straight in a roundabout way. He is killed by a couple of Special Activities Division goons that shoot him through the stomach where his brain was actually located.
• Ceiling Cling: This giant of a man was able to get the drop on So'un while inside the Hawaii's engine room thanks to his CNT Wires ankering him to one of the support beams.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: He claims he doesn't really understand the emotions of others, not even the ideals of Milgram, all due to his extensive cybernetics.
• Cyborg: His body is almost fully mechanical.
• Dramatic Dislocation: In his battle with Mitsumi when she managed to catch him in a powerful chokehold, Pavlov intentionally allows her to dislocate his arm which suddenly throws her off balance allowing him to get out of her grasp to make a retreat.
• Full-Conversion Cyborg: His entire body is nothing but metal with only his brain being organic.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: In Iria's route he is killed just as he is about to tell So'un something about Milgram.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Delivers a brutal beating on So'un by using his 300 kilogram body to pin him down and then start pounding until his Ex-Brain starts to crack.
• Normally, I Would Be Dead Now: He takes a bullet to the heart and just gets back up. A bullet to the head doesn't even slow him down. Its cause his actual brain is hidden in the stomach.
• The Quiet One: He is a man of few words.
• Razor Floss: Pavlovs weapon of choice is something known as a CNT Wire, a string made from carbon nanotubes that can also make use of remote Joule heating to sever an opponent or their weapons.
• Torture Technician: He was the one who tortured the Vice-Governor and he is someone who is very skilled at his craft.

Olga

Olga

Voiced by: Ryōko Ono

A Russian woman with many mysteries.

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• The Ageless: Through some means she has completely stopped aging and is by the time the story takes place, almost two centuries old.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was originally from an impoverished and war-torn nation in Western Asia with every day being a struggle for survival, always sleeping with one eye open due to the potential of attackers. Eventually she was picked up by some scientists who simply wanted to sate their curiosity and through their experiments she somehow stopped aging. In the centuries since she endured all kinds of unpleasantness until she meet Milgram who gave her something worth believing in.
• Didn't See That Coming: In Mitsumi's route she gets a nasty surprise. After having been on top of things the entire fight, she attempts to manipulate Ethica using nanomachines she had injected into her during their earlier meeting only for Ethica to be completely unaffected as she is now a Living Dead. This allows Ethica to pin her down while Mitsumi drives her sword through them both.
• Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: She plays a lot of roles over the course of the story, playing several sides for her own advantage and in the service of Milgram.
• Enemy Mine: In Kiriri's route, with the death of Milgram and the dissolution of the Living Dead Stalkers, she decides to form a temporary alliance with Ethica in order to take down Hokoyasu given that they both have a bone to pick with him.
• Face Death with Dignity: In Con Su's route she gets to witness the culmination of Milgram's Necropolis Project and even as the now giant undead city closes in around her she calmy accepts her coming death and praises Milgram for accomplishing his goal.
• Femme Fatale: Outright referred to as such by Ethica, being someone who makes use of her sex appeal to get close before striking. And sure enough, she is into human trafficking, using herself as bait to snag possible victims as well as a dangerous necromancer.
• Fingore: Among the many means of torture So'un employs against her, one involves ripping her fingernails off her.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Ethica manages to eventually beat Rorschach by making use of the Electric Signal Drug that she had used against Mitsumi earlier by inserting it in the tear in her suit from Ethica's prior bite resulting in the suit malfunctioning from the electrical signals giving Ethica the upper hand. Though it ends up subverted as it was not Rorschach that Ethica had gained the upper hand over.
• Human Traffickers: She deals in trafficking people for Juichirou's twisted experiments, she treats it as a side gig to her necromancy.
• Given Name Reveal: As she is taking advantage of a weakened Mitsumi she reveals herself as a necromancer with her real name being Rorschach.
• I Shall Taunt You: She loves to employ various taunts against her foes to keep them irritated and thus, making repeated mistakes that she can capitalize on.
• Knowledge Broker: She claims to just be a simple informant, but Mitsumi is quick to note that she carries the scent of death around her, the kind of scent only a seasoned warrior would have. :This was a hint towards that Olga shouldn't be trusted as the so called info was false, doubly so with the reveal of her being a necromancer.
• Last Breath Bullet: Or knife in this case, but after having been mortally wounded by Hokoyasu she manages to sneak up and throw her knife into his chest after he was defeated by Ethica before dying herself, content that she avenged Milgram.
• Let's You and Him Fight: She manages to make use of illusions to trick Ethica into thinking that So'un and Tokitaka are being manipulated and thus make them fight each other, setting up things so that she can kidnap Iria.
• Licking the Blade: After stabbing So'un in the thigh and injecting him with some kind of nanomachine, she proceeds to lick the blade of her knife, clearly enjoying the whole thing.
• Master of Illusion: In a way. She manages to affect Ethica's brain in such a way that she thinks Rorschach is Mitsumi while at the same time making it look like it is So'un and Tokitaka are the ones being manipulated.
• Ms. Fanservice: A woman with very voluptuous features and generally dresses in ways that attracts the attention of men and women alike.
• Multilayer Façade: She makes herself out to just be a mysterious regular women, to a knowledge broker, to a human trafficker. This all to hide her true status as a necromancer.
• Not Quite Dead:
  • While Ethica believed she had killed Rorschach with that chokehold, the lady turned out to be very much alive and ready to for round 2 as the one who Ethica really killed was Mitsumi.
  • In Kiriri's route, after having seemingly been killed by Hokoyasu she later turns up to have been alive enough to deliver one final strike against the man before finally succumbing to her wounds.
  • In Mitsumi's route she makes it seem like she was killed by Mitsumi only for it to turn out to be another one of her illusions.
• "Not So Different" Remark: As So'un is torturing her, she only gives him a remark that right now he is just like his father, Takeyuki Nagaoka. A statement that nearly makes So'un completely lose it.
• Older Than They Look: While she looks like a woman in her early thirties, she has pretty much stopped aging and is in fact over a century old.
• Ominous Adversarial Amusement: As she is being tortured by Con Su it seems like she finally breaks when she tells Rorschach that Milgram has been captured, only for the laughing to turn even more incessant and for her to reveal that this was the plan all along.
• Only in It for the Money: She assists Juichirou simply for the paycheck, nothing more. Of course, this is but a ruse as she is really a necromancer and part of Milgrams personal elite.
• Tongue Trauma: As she is tortured by So'un, one of the things he employ is a blowtorch to her tongue.
• Torture Is Ineffective: Even as So'un is employing crueler and crueler methods in trying to make Rorschach talk, all she does is continue to smile and taunt him which keeps on going until she loses consciousness.

Tang Yunshan

Tang Yunshan

A necromancer So'un encounters early in the story. He was researching and recovering Iria for the Antibiotic Front.

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• Combat Tentacles: He makes use of a weird polearm with tentacles shooting out of one end that are able to stab or crush and enemy or even intercept their bullets.
• Disney Villain Death: As Tang Yunshan is defeated he falls to his death onto the pavement below, but not before stabbing So'un with a hidden blade and dragging him along. So'un however manages to survive by using Tang's body to cushion the blow.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon: Makes use of a strange weapon that can best be described as a Tentacle Langxian. A kind of polearm with powerful tentacles on one end.
• Starter Villain: He is the first necromancer tied to the Antibiotic Front that the Karasuzumi Living Dead Stalker Agency have to deal with.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: So'un is quick to notice that he has a very strange stare, as if he is looking right through him. A stare befitting of a war veteran who lost all of his comrades.
• Wolverine Claws: He makes use of a pair of three bladed claws that can be electrified to stun and even kill and opponent. They can even generate a blinding flash if need be.

Empire Energy Corp

Sophia Kawarazaki

Sophia Kawarazaki

Voiced by: Haruka Souten

The CEO of Empire Energy Corp. One of the central figures of the Tokyo Restoration Program.

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• Boom, Headshot!: Is shot dead on live television by a living dead Kagekatsu right in the face.
• Bodyguard Betrayal: In Iria's route, Kagekatsu shoots her dead when Milgram breaks free as he had been turned into a living dead by Milgram before he made it back to the Tokyo Megafloat.
• Riches to Rags: In a way. In the conclusion of Kiriri's route with the Tokyo Megafloat at the bottom of Tokyo Bay she settles into the Karasuzumi Agency and walks the streets as a normal person.
• Honest Corporate Executive: While she can be ruthless, in the end she is only concerned with the restoration of Tokyo and the survival of humanity. As such, as soon as she became CEO she shut down some of the more unsavory projects that the Empire Energy Corp was working to put focus on something more important and beneficial and even personally apologized to Iria for the things she had to be put through due to all of it.
• Inspirational Martyr: In the true ending route, her death becomes the catalyst for others within the energy elite to carry on her torch to complete the Tokyo Rebirth Project.
• Out-Gambitted: In Iria's route she planned on having Milgram publicly humiliated in a discussion instead of killing him in order to prevent him from becoming a martyr. Only problem was that Milgram counted on this and had already made sure that her closest circle were under his thumb and could thus easily break out and begin his plan to take down the Tokyo Megafloat.

Kagekatsu Yamanuma

Kagekatsu Yamanuma

Voiced by: Ken Matsumoto

Head of the Empire Energy Corp's Special Activities Division.

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• And Then John Was a Zombie:
  • In Iria's route he is killed and turned into a living dead by Milgram for him to gain entrance to the Tokyo Megafloat and kill Sophia.
  • In Kiriri's route he turned into Hokoyasu's slave as a means to get a vital piece of info out of Sophia.
• Apologetic Attacker: Or apologetic torturer in this instance. In Kiriri's route he is turned into a Living Dead by Hokoyasu and forced to torture Sophia for information. Throughout the whole thing all he can do is hopelessly apologize to her, eventually being left just as broken from having carried out the torture as her.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: He has his goons kill Pavlov just as So'un is about to fire a poisoned bullet at him.
• Barrier Warrior: When fighting with the Home Field Advantage on the Tokyo Megafloat, he and his troops is able to make use of the Live Material to create and dismiss protective barriers on the fly.
• Berserk Button: While normally stoic and unflappable like few, insult the Tokyo Megafloat or its technology and he will launch into an irritated rant about its superiority.
• Big Damn Heroes: Shows up in the nick of time to save Kiriri from being fully absorbed by the Necropolis in Con Su's route.
• Booby Trap: He rigs Sophia's corpse with a shrapnel grenade that would then be triggered if someone tampered with her body.
• Elite Mooks: The Special Activities Division is a whole crew of incredibly well equipped and trained operatives that even fully trained Living dead Stalkers would stand no hope against.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: While stern and difficult to deal with at the best of times, there is a caring person underneath that tough façade.
• Home Field Advantage: While he and his troops are capable on their own, when fighting within the Tokyo Megafloat they are able to truly strut their stuff thanks to his control over the Live Material, able to create barriers and constantly be kept resupplied to deal with intruders.
• Mr. Exposition: He serves as the main source of information regarding the nature of the Tokyo Megafloat.
• Taking You with Me: After his zombie is defeated by Ethica and So'un it still tries one last time to kill them by detonating a grenade hidden inside the mouth.
• Underestimating Badassery: The SAD troops might be a competent bunch, but Kagekatsu had to eventually admit that he had severely underestimated just how dangerous Milgram and his cronies really were.
• Undying Loyalty: He is unfailingly loyal to Sophia even when she can be harsh or make unreasonable demands.

Amachi Robotic Industries

Juichirou Amachi

Juichirou Amachi

Voiced by: Shigeru Suzuguchi

The founder of Amachi Robotic Industries as well as the owner of The Fortress. Despite working in all kinds of robotics, he is mostly known for his shady dealings behind closed doors.

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• Actually a Doombot: When Mitsumi was initially captured by him she manages to fight back and even bite off his privates when he tried to rape her. Only it turned out to just be a replica as he had assumed something like that would have happened.
• Beware the Silly Ones: While he is a sex obsessed nutjob, he is not someone to be taken lightly as he is both cautious and clever as well as very good at gatering information and getting into the head of other people.
• Big Bad Wannabe: While a dangerous individual in his own right, he is ultimately a fairly minor threat and is so full of himself that he fails to consider himself as fallible, which more often than not results in his early demise at the hands of the more capable villains.
• Boom, Headshot!:
  • Gets his grey matter all over the wall after he is betrayed by Olga.
  • When he finally uploads his mind to the mesh network in Con Su's route he finishes the whole thing off shooting himself in the head as a symbolic gesture that he no longer needs his body.
• Brain in a Jar: He has long since discarded his real body with his brain being kept in a tube in his private quarters. All those versions of him running around are simply androids made in his image that he controls remotely.
• Brain Uploading: His main goal was to allow his mind to become part of the new mesh network he had created within the Fortress to become a new kind of being.
• Dead Man's Switch: With his death, all of a sudden his whole robotic army just ceases to function.
• Den of Iniquity: His home, The Fortress, is nothing short of an amusement park for all kinds of depraved sexual desires for Tokyo's rich elite, filled to the brim with Sexbots to fulfill all kinds of carnal desires.
• Dirty Old Man: An old man obsessed with sex. Many speculate that his involvement into the development of military androids was simply a means to an end to further fund his own goals of refining his sexaroids.
• Faux Affably Evil: While he presents himself as a cultured and intelligent if somewhat eccentric man, it only serves to hide and then highlight just how wicked and selfish he truly is.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In Con Su's route he finally puts his final plan into action, discarding his human body and becomes part of the mesh network to then merge with Sub-Con. However, this also meant that when Sub-Con rejects him and subsequently destroys him, it is fatal as he has no body to return to. Anyone else would have simply been kicked out of the highway.
• Just a Machine: Even as his sexaroids are tortured endlessly by depraved clients and produce realistic responses, he treats it as nothing worth of note. He is even confused at Ethica getting angry over the whole thing.
• Killed Offscreen: In Kiriri's route he ends up killed in the ensuing chaos when the Military Police lays siege to the Fortress, a fact only mentioned in passing.
• Manipulative Bastard: While he initially presented himself as a wizened old man to Iria who had simply lost faith in humanity, he was in reality just using her to get to Sub-Con.
• Out-Gambitted: Ultimately, in spite of how cautious he is, he still wound up outdone by Olga and the Antibiotic Front.
• The Paranoiac: He is cautious to the point of obsession with his personal home being apply named The Fortress due to just how tight the security is. Unfortunatley he was not cautious enough with the Neck Hanger not being as loyal to him as he thought.
• Teen Genius: He was highly intelligent even in his youth and he founded his personal empire at the age of 15.
• Transhuman Treachery: His goal was to basically discard his own humanity, using the Fortress as a replica of the Tokyo mesh network and then making use of Sub-Con to become a new supreme form of being.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: As soon as Iria manages to recover Sub-Con from the sunken Tokyo Megafloat in Con Su's route he immediately betrays her, discards her and then tries to take Sub-Con for himself. But since Iria was the Morality Pet for Sub-Con, this backfires horribly.

Ayuka Sori

Ayuka Sori

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An android created by Juichirou.

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• And Then John Was a Zombie: The real Yukari had been killed in an accident involving gaseous Lemures which then caused her herself to get turned into a living dead.
• Boom, Headshot!: Gets killed by Neck Hanger after Olga betrays Juichirou with a shot to the head, scattering metallic components all over the floor, making it clear that she was indeed not human.
• Foreshadowing: Aside from her superficial appearance being very similar to Kiriri's mother, Yukari Aso, she also keeps a bottle of lotus scented capsules around, the same kind that Yukari liked.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: She, or rather the person she was based of, is Ethica's biological mother.
• Replacement Goldfish: She was built to be a perfect replica of Yukari Aso, all due to Michiya being unable to cope with the grief and guilt in losing her.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: She is a highly advanced android created by Juichirou far more advanced than any other he has ever made and is indistinguishable from a regular human.
• Robot Me: She is a robotic copy based on Yukari Aso, made to look like her on every level and whose thoughts are based on the real ones brain patterns.
• Significant Anagram: Her name is rearranged from Yukari Aso, the mother of Kiriri.

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Iria Hougyou

Iria Hougyou

Voiced by: Miu Yuzuhara

And amnesiac girl found by So'un inside the trunk of a car. Strangely has the same name as an influential Virtual Designer and a massive bank account.

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• Amnesia Missed a Spot: Despite knowing naught but her name, the moment she gets a ConRi she is able to handle it like it is second nature, even set up its OS and activate various features.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Delivers a rather cutting question to So'un on whether he ever considered the possibility that he could have been a Living Dead, something that makes him question his whole "acting like a machine" schtick.
• Big Eater: For someone with such a lithe frame she almost always seems to have room for more food no matter how much she ahs already eaten.
• Big "NO!": In Con Su's route after having learned that both So'un and Ethica have been turned into Living Dead she cries out in denial due to the future implications it holds.
• Damsel in Distress: She ends up spending a lot of time just being caught by various factions who all seem to be after her.
• The Empath: She has an uncanny ability to read the emotions of others, allowing for her to make So'un open up or others in general just finding her likeable. She is even able to get a read on Milgram and is able to lead him on slightly, even if she remained unsure of who was stringing along who.
• Fan of the Past: Despite her amnesia is is a big fan of a lot of old pop culture with her vocabulary being littered with dated slang much to the confusion of those around her.
• Fish out of Water: Played very seriously. Due to her amnesia she is not used to all the violence and horror everyone else in Tokyo is used to, meaning that her witnessing someone mowing down rows of bodies is quite the traumatic experience.
• Gilded Cage: After having been taken from the Ikeburo CPC she was brought to The Fortress under Juichirou's care where she was kep locked in a single room. While she had access to whatever luxuries she could think of, including all the old anime she gained a fondness for, she still couldn't leave. Still, she didn't think much of it at the time as it was still a huge upgrade over what she used to have when in the CPC.
• Growling Gut: Ethica ends up reminded of the fact that Iria hasn't had anything to eat since they rescued her from that trunk when her stomach makes itself loudly known. Ryouko decides to whip something up from the prior days leftovers.
• It's All My Fault: In Con Su's route she starts to blame herself for everything that had happened since she was rescued, from the sinking of the Tokyo Megafloat to So'un, Ethica and Ryouko being turned into Living Dead. This only gets worse after she inadvertently lead Sub-Con right into Juichirou's clutches.
• It Was a Gift: The gift that So'un had decided to give Iria was an antique Beretta M1934, picked on the basis of her being a retro enthusiast. Despite not being into guns she still keeps it as it was a gift he managed to pick out by himself to give to her.
• Only Mostly Dead: In the true ending, Sub-Con realizes that she can use the Live Material that the Tokyo Megafloat is made of to create a new heart for Iria and save her life and thanks to a bit of info she passed along to Ethica, is given to opening needed to resuscitate Iria before her life fades forever.
• Morality Pet: She doesn't know it, but she is the anchor that grounds Sub-Con's morality in favor of humanity. When Juichirou betrays and discards Iria, Sub-Con decides that all who threaten Iria are to be eliminated.
• Otaku Surrogate: She is a massive fan of old school otaku culture from way back before the ice age, stuff from the 20th and 21st centuries.
• Red Herring: As it turns out, Milgram was never after her per say, but rather he knew that the Empire Energy Corp was after her after she made contact with Sub-Con and thus, he saw Iria as his key to get inside the Tokyo Megafloat by allowing himself to be captured alongside Iria.
• School Swimsuit: When visiting a bathhouse she has a classic school swimsuit printed, even including the name label. So'un can't help but find it a bit on the plain and dated side but eventually seems to come around ti liking it
• Secretly Wealthy: Despite being this bubbly girl with zero idea about the world, she has close to a billion yen in her bank account, much to the shock of those around her.
• Smarter Than You Look: While she seems like a complete airhead and hopeless otaku, she can be remarkably perceptive and capable to hacking. An early example is her getting through all of Con Su's security to scroll through the news on her computer and noticing that she mentioned that her records could have "blown away in the wind" despite it never having been mentioned that Iria's records were stored in a paper format.
• Stop, or I Shoot Myself!: As the SAD troopers are taking her away from Milgram's ship she steals one of their guns and threatens to shoot herself if they do not stay and help So'un return safely. This despite the fact that she forgot to turn off the safety.
• Torso with a View: Killed in her own route when Milgram rips her heart right out of her chest leaving a huge hole through her torso.

Michiya Kurushima

Michiya Kurushima

A scientist who used to be the chief of the Ikebukuro CPC and well known for his New Generation Influencer Hypothesis.

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• Hopeless Suitor: He was in love with Yukari Aso, but due to the age gap and the eventual birth of Kiriri made him realize that he had no chance at gaining her love and as such drowned himself in his research to try and forget about her.
• Love Makes You Crazy: His desire for Yukari ran so deep it warped his morals and eventually lead him to conduct some horrific experiments in order to turn her into an android. Even Olga couldn't help but notice the madness in his eyes.
• My Greatest Failure: He was heavily weighted down by guilt for what happened to Yukari and what he did in response.

Sub-Con

Sub-Con

Voiced by: Sakura Tange

Substance-Concept or Sub-Con for short is a digital entity said to be the revival of virtual idol from the 21st century. Remains popular in spite of her limited and outdated voice sampling. Appears at random, hacking screens all over Tokyo to hold guerilla concerts.

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• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: To highlight just how out of the ordinary her existence is, she has no 2D art and is instead always animated using 3D graphics.
• Above Good and Evil: She is an artificial construct born from the mesh network and as such has no real concept of good or evil.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: In Con Su's route, after Juichirou discards Iria, Sub-Con decides that all humans who are a threat to Iria must be eliminated.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: According to Milgram, Sub-Con can be thought of as the soul and embodiment of Tokyo's mesh network and that this is why the Empire Energy Corp is after her as they need her to act as the soul for the Tokyo Restoration Project to create the living cities they aspire to.
• Benevolent A.I.: While she has no real concept of good and evil, thanks to Iria's influence she often acts to soothe the spirits of Tokyo's residents.
• Deus est Machina: Due to her constantly evolving nature and ability to hack just about anything with startling ease, it has caused some people to see her as a modern deity.
• Digitized Hacker: She is a virtual construct that is able to hack the entirety of Tokyo with startling ease.
• Divine Intervention: As she has effectively have become a digital divinity by the true ending she goes over all the information she has available to try and prevent Iria's fate and save everyone. After hitting brick wall after brick wall, she finally reaches an answer in trying to use the Ex-Brains of the protagonists to guide them. Problem is that So'un isn't wearing his but Sub-Con realizes that Ethica is wearing hers, thus she sends a command to have her pick up her fathers Re-Eliminators rather than Rabbit Punch which causes her to defeat her father faster and arrive by So'un's side sooner, allowing for Iria to be saved.
• Head Crushing: After Juichirou's failed attempt to merge with her, she grows to a huge size and then crushes his virtual head in her hand. And as he had abandoned his real body, it also killed him for real.
• Indecipherable Lyrics: She makes use of some kind of outdated voice synthesizer with seemingly forced samples leading to a very odd sound despite there being stuff able to easily create better results out there. Due to this, no one is able to understand a word from her songs.
• Mechanical Abomination: Mixed with Undead Abomination, in Con Su's route she becomes to core of the now Living Dead Tokyo Megafloat, a giant black mass made of artificial cells and components that quickly starts to consume Tokyo.
• Restored My Faith in Humanity: At the conclusion of Con Su's route they manage to convince Sub-Con that human existence is more than sorrow and despair, that things such as hope and joy are just as much part of being human. This stops her rampage and she works to restore the city from the damage she caused.
• Terse Talker: She speaks in a very simple manner using single words or phrases, this in large part because she just doesn't understand much about human interaction. In the true ending she starts to talk in more complete sentences she forms on her own.
• Virtual Celebrity: She is some kind of digital construct seemingly based of virtual idols of old and like them, holds concerts wherever she appears.
• Undead Abomination: Mixed with Mechanical Abomination, in Con Su's route the sunken Tokyo Megfloat was never destroyed by Scavenger as was intended and as such, thanks to the Lemures Milgram injected into the city she becomes to core for a huge undead mass that quickly starts to devour Tokyo.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: She is an artificial being that is endlessly curious about humanity and seeks to try and understand things such as emotions and the like.