Xanadu Research Club (X.R.C.) | Morimiya Academy | Morimiya City | Greeds
A list of character tropes for the students and staff of Morimiya Academy outside of the main characters.
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Kou's Friends
Shiori Kurashiki
Shiori Kurashiki (Class 2-B)
Voiced by: Ai Kayano
Kou-chan... You were working until late last night, weren't you?
Kou's friend with whom he's known since they were kids.
- Betty and Veronica: Being the sweet Girl Next Door who's known the protagonist since childhood, she has the Betty role down, in contrast to the more aloof Asuka and the flirty Rion.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Ryouta is pleasantly surprised to discover her Hidden Buxom during the swimming lesson.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Being Kou's is the defining trait in her description, even though she technically isn't the only one, and it's all but stated that she's in love with him, with the After Story making it fairly clear that the two are meant to be together.
- Custom Uniform: She wears a sleeveless, gray sweater over both her uniforms. Also, like Sora, her uniform top is white, while her tie is red.
- Declaration of Protection: Kou, Asuka, and Rion swear that they will protect her, no matter what. Later in the story (and when she officially joins X.R.C.), everyone else becomes protective of her as well.
- Girl Next Door: Her family's been neighbors with Kou's since they were little.
- Guest-Star Party Member: Like Towa, she officially joins the party in the After Story in a non-fighting capacity, traveling into the final Eclipse with them to help them see things through to the end.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: At one point, she gives a rather weak denial of Kou being her "husband." Usually though, she doesn't even bother doing so when other kids accuse her and Kou being like a "married couple."
- Hidden Buxom: It may be hard to tell with her conservative clothes, but as Ryouta points out in Chapter 6's swimming lesson intro, she's got a pretty good size chest. Not to the same extent as Rion and Asuka (let alone Mitsuki), but still.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Asuka erases her memories of the Eclipse after Kou rescues her in Chapter 1.
- Nice Girl: A sweet and friendly girl towards everyone she meets.
- Ship Tease: She gets several moments with Kou, especially in the Final Chapter. She outright says that she loves him, and openly expresses mild jealousy of him calling Asuka by her first name.
- Took a Level in Badass: By the time the After Story rolls around, she's gone from a meek and gentle girl to someone who is willing to try and protect Asuka from a rampaging Valiant Gear and accompanying her friends into an Eclipse.Shiori: No. If I'm escaping, I'm escaping with you. I can't have you (Asuka) or Kou worrying about me anymore, I need to stand up for myself!
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In Chapter 5, Shiori is partly responsible for unleashing the Grim Greed onto Morimiya City because of the fairy tale she was reading at the time, which turned out to be the true singularity of the incident. She was just not aware about how dangerous the book really is, so she didn't know that she unwittingly released such a powerful Greed into existence until said Greed transforms Morimiya Academy into Witch's Briar Castle. At which point, by the time she found out, it was already too late.
- Walking Spoiler: She plays a bigger part in the story than the pre-release material suggested, as seen on the main character page.
Ryouta Ibuki
Ryouta Ibuki (Class 2-B)
Voiced by: Atsushi Abe
I'll beat you by having the best high school year EVER!
Kou's friend and classmate.
- All Men Are Perverts: The guy can't stop talking about girls and wishes to be popular with the girls.
- Badass Normal: As of ex+. He can't manifest a Soul Device and only has enough awareness of the Eclipses to be able to see them, but he still joins XRC for their final battles and proves to be just as effective as they are, albeit without a Limit Break.
- Big "NO!": Played for laughs in Chapter 4, when he tells Munenori that he’ll have to sit out Kendo practice due to being injured from the accident the previous chapter. That’s when Munenori tells him that they’ll be doing Zen meditation until it’s healed.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: According to his clubmates, he's skilled at kendo, but rarely shows up for practice.
- Butt-Monkey: Ryouta is always the butt of jokes from Kou and Jun, and can never seem to catch a break whenever his Childhood Friend Chizuru gets involved.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: At the beginning of Chapter 6, he's admiring the proportions of Asuka, Rion, and even Shiori during the classes' swimming lesson, even comparing the flat Chizuru unfavorably to them. He then goes on to claim that having a flat chest is a good thing for Towa.
- A Day in the Limelight: Most dialogue choices in the game are done by Kou, but Ryouta is the one picking the choices in the film sidequests due to being the lead actor, and his thoughts are shown in the dialogue boxes. Somehow, these choices still result in bonus wisdom for Kou.
- Difficult, but Awesome: When Ryouta ends up joining in the After Story, he takes hits like wet paper, but he's a king at chaining combos with his bokken, and those chains hit surprisingly hard despite him not having a Soul Device in story. A skilled player that can effectively keep him from getting hit with well-timed dodges will be rewarded with a zippy, hard-hitting bruiser that can do raw damage on par with the likes of Shio and Sora.
- The Drag-Along: He is absolutely not ready to be thrown into the deep end of Eclipse business, especially when compared to veteran fighters Kou and Jun, but he still pulls his weight despite his reservations and fears.
- Ear Ache: On the receiving end of an ear-pinching from Chizuru from not going to the hospital for a checkup after getting hit by a car in Chapter 3.
- Fanboy: Of SPiKA as a whole, and especially Rion.
- Fragile Speedster: His ideal build. The charm he gets near the end of the After Story further emphasizes this, healing him on successful dodges and increasing the recovery of all gauges save for X-Strike, which he has no access to. Coupled with his rather freakishly high base critical rate of 30%, he is meant to dodge and strike, not tank.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Played for Laughs. A running gag throughout the game is that Ryouta often complains about the number of female friends Kou has.
- He Really Can Act: In-Universe, there are two sidequests, one in Chapter 7 and one in the Epilogue where the XRC take roles in a student film. Ryouta plays the male lead, and picking the right emotions for the scenes impresses Kousaku.Ryouta: Oh my GOD. Chizuru is such a nag. And just when I was showing how cool I was, too. Man, that sucks.
Kou: Don’t worry, you weren’t cool in the first place.
Ryouta: Oh, then that’s okay—HEY! - Hidden Depths: Average student, lazy, skip out of his club activities and shopping street duties all the time. However, he's very dependable when the situation got tight, and will always stand and fight against whoever and whatever that threatened his friends.Chizuru: Ryouta, you idiot! You don't have a chance against it.
Ryouta: So what?! A man's gotta stand and fight in the time like this! - An Ice Person: As he can only wield a spirit-blessed bokutou, Ice is his only available attribute.
- Irony: For all his complaints about not having a girlfriend and being jealous of Kou having a cute childhood friend, he practically ignores Chizuru.
- Keet: This guy is always full of energy.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: His memories of the Eclipse incident in the Final Chapter get rewritten, but he's the only one known whose memory rewriting is undone after the After Story.
- Lethal Joke Character: On paper, Ryouta looks like a Joke Character outright, with a low attack and magic stat and a lack of a Cross Strike - but players who realize that his Critical Hit stat is staggeringly high can work around those, master his play style, and get a lightning fast brawler who can possibly outpace everyone else in the party in terms of raw damage.
- Not Completely Useless: In-universe: Kou and Jun believe that Ryouta coming along to the Eclipse is a very bad idea and only begrudgingly agree to it because of how stubborn he is. He quickly proves them wrong, to the point that even Jun acknowledges that Ryouta is proving himself.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: The incident where he immediately asked Jun to be his girlfriend when they first met being made fun by Kou and Jun several times in the story.
- Promoted to Playable: In ex+, he is playable in the After-Story. Possibly a reference to the final chapter of the main game, where he assisted in holding back an army of Greed so the party could get through.
- Teacher/Student Romance: He finds Towa adorable and not above trying to hit on her.
- Weak, but Skilled: He doesn't even have a Cross Strike or switching cores, but has free access to seven slots, more than anyone else. His attack are individually weak, but can easily be strung together and have almost no delay before or after execution.
- Wooden Katanas Are Just Better: His weapon in eX+ is a wooden katana carved from the wood of the spirit tree named Holy Bokken. It was left in Ryouta's locker after the events of the Final Chapter, and due to his memory loss, had no idea how he obtained it until he regained his memory in the After Story.
Jun Kohinata
Jun Kohinata (Class 2-B)
Voiced by: Kanae Itō
Kou sure is a lucky guy.
SPOILERS!
Kou and Ryouta's classmate and friend since their first year.
- Ambiguously Gay: He seems to show no interest in the girls that fawn over him, but he has a lot of subtext with Kou and, to a lesser extent, Ryouta.
- Badass Adorable: Considered by girls to be very cute In-Universe. His real identity is a "Seal Knight" of the Kronos Orden, so he is incredibly strong, and unlike wielders such as X.R.C. members, his combat skill translates to real life, not just in Eclipse.
- Badass Longcoat: His Kronos Orden uniform is a white coat with a hood, and he's a Purposefully Overpowered playable character in ex+.
- BFS: His Soul Device; Arc Legus, is a large broadsword.
- Chick Magnet: It's said that his baby-faced appearance makes him popular with the girls.
- Church Militant: He is a seal knight for the Kronos Orden, an order affiliated with Church of the Holy Spirit.
- Custom Uniform: Forgoes the blazer for sleeveless, blue sweater-vest, which is carried over to his summer uniform.
- Cutscene Power to the Max: Two-shotted the Mist Witch, one of the strongest of the Grim Greed. It did manage to do a number on him, but still.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Jun is an extremely nice kid, but the reveal that he is White Shroud opens up some truths regarding the standards he is to uphold if you pursue his bonding episodes. Namely, he isn't to form attachments with anyone, but Kou repeatedly spending time with him allows him to treasure his friendships and vow to both uphold his duties and protect those dear to him as well.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: And apparently, being easily mistakable for a girl makes it easier to attract girls.
- Expy: A green-haired, soft-spoken, and feminine-looking pretty boy who is actually an extremely powerful Church Knight on a secret mission just like Wazy Hemisphere from Zero/Azure duology. Even Jun's charged attack is called Akashic Blade, a reference to Wazy's Akashic Arm weapon.
- Healing Factor: As a Seal Knight, Jun's healing is much faster than an average human, and he can quickly recover from fatal wounds that would normally take weeks or months to heal. This proves beneficial after he gets seriously wounded by the Mist Witch while defending Morimiya Academy in the Final Chapter, and he was able to recover quickly enough to assist the X.R.C. in breaking into Pandora a day later. His healing factor even manifests itself in gameplay in eX+, as Jun is already equipped with an element that allows him to recover HP while landing consecutive hits by default.
- Light 'em Up: His only attribute has light properties.
- Lightning Bruiser: Even discounting that his Light element has an advantage against all elements but Void and Shadow, he's fast for someone with a BFS, has decent defenses, and has surprisingly good range on his Power Skill. His only downside is that all of his skills are somewhat expensive in terms of SP.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jun admits that he's the one who gave Mikuriya the "Witch of Misty Castle" fairy tale for him to experiment on. However, he really didn't count on Mikuriya to use it for his own nefarious ends that would ultimately put Morimiya Academy, and by extension, Morimiya City in danger. Something that Jun himself later regrets doing so.
- Otaku: Knows the latest anime and subculture trends.
- Promoted to Playable: Jun is fully playable in the After-Story, as opposed to the Side-Stories where you play as him as White Shroud.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Or to be more accurate, "Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right For Jun". As White Shroud, he isn't to form attachments because they become a distraction and a liability, but pursuing his bonding episodes will have him show the rune on his arm to Kou and proclaim that all his friends are dear to him, and while he will still uphold his duties as expected of him, he treasures his new friends and will fight for them as they have become his new motivation to end the Eclipse.
- Shocking Voice Identity Reveal: In the cutscene where he talks with Gorou at Station Square, when his normally cold and static voice changes to his true feminine voice, the player may recognize it to be Jun's.
First-year Students
Ayumi
Ayumi (Class 1-A)
A friend of Sora's who is part of the Culinary Club.
- Chubby Chaser: Implied. Ayumi's interactions with Nobuo (the school's resident fat student) seems to border on some romantic subtext, as she doesn't mind him taking food from the Culinary Club, and in the Final Chapter, is really concerned about him not eating enough food and offers to feed him after being saved from the Greeds.
- Feminine Women Can Cook: She’s part of the Culinary Club and usually gives out food to Kou’s party, especially for Sora.
Takashi
Takashi (Class 1-B)
A member of the Track and Field Club.
- Disappeared Dad: His father is described as “not around anymore".
Haruhiko
Haruhiko (Class 1-B)
Voiced by: Junpei Morise
A wannabe delinquent who has more bark than bite.
- Delinquent Hair: Dyed orange and spiky, trying to be like his hero Shio.
- Japanese Delinquents: He wants to be one so bad, but his actions shows he fails hard at it; for instance, he rides a bike to school (which he doesn't like to admit) and doesn't want to ditch school because he wants to keep his perfect attendance record. After he is kidnapped by members of the gang CHAOS during one of Shio's free time events, and then is rescued by Shio and Kou, he gives up his dreams of delinquency.
- Paper Tiger: In Chapter 1, he acts tough, but once he sees Kou’s a second year, he backs down.
Minoru
Minoru (Class 1-B)
An incredibly average student who later joins the Film Studies Club.
- The Movie Buff: He and Kousaku are total movie geeks. He becomes the editor in the student movie they make.
Nodoka
Nodoka (Class 1-C)
A student who is rather taken with Mitsuki, the student council president.
- Does Not Like Men: She’s not a total man hater, but does kinda ease up when Kou gets her wallet back. It gets bad in the After Story when after finally getting to join the Student Council, her duties keep her from being able to be with Mitsuki.
- Precious Photo: One of the first sidequests you get in the game in Chapter 2 involves finding her wallet, which is on the school roof. It turns out she has a picture of Mitsuki in it.
- The Rival: After Mitsuki's Bonding Episode in Chapter 4, she considers Kou to be a romantic rival, which he realizes he may have done by accident.
Ayato
Ayato (Class 1-D)
A meek student who becomes a member of the school's cheer squad.
- Determinator: A hidden sidequest in Chapter 4 has him compete against Kou in a swimming race to try and quit the Cheer Club. He actually finds peace in losing, wanting to be trained to be a better man.
- Shrinking Violet: At the start of the game, he's a wimp in Coach Saki's Cheer Squad. He only joined out on a whim.
- Took a Level in Badass: After the rigorous training Coach Saki puts him through, he starts to find his voice as a cheer member, his voice heard from the roof of the school.
Marie
Marie (Class 1-D)
A student who is smitten with Gorou Saeki, her English teacher, and does whatever she can to get him to notice her, with the help of her less than enthusiastic friend, Hitomi.
- Distressed Damsel: In Gorou’s friendship event in Chapter 5, some delinquents attempt to try and take Marie away with them, and Gorou along with Kou jump in to rescue her from her captors.
- Likes Older Men: She has a crush on Gorou, who is twice her age.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Hitomi's blue. She's always so energetic about enjoying high school life at her fullest, and is determined to win over Gorou's heart, no matter the odds against her.
Hitomi
Hitomi (Class 1-D)
A student who loves cats and is generally seen with her friend, Marie.
- Cuteness Proximity: Hitomi turns into a different person around cats as shown in Sora’s Bonding Episode in Chapter 7.
- Gotta Catch 'Em All: Hitomi is into collecting the Kagemaru capsule toys. If you managed to collect them all from the capsule machine in Shopping Street and complete the entire collection, then giving them all to Hitomi will reward you with a rare element in return.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Marie's red. She's more aloof and laid back compared to her friend, and is never interested in getting a boyfriend, as she views it a complete waste of time.
Second-year Students
Chiaki Aizawa
Chiaki Aizawa (Class 2-A)
Voiced by: Masumi Kageyama
The Karate Club's ace, she often competes with and trains with Sora.
- Distressed Damsel: She gets taken away by an Elder Greed near the end of Chapter 2.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She's jealous of Sora's natural talent, which causes her to be overly harsh.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: She and Mai order a pair of fistcuffs from Jihei so that they can fight alongside Sora in the Final Chapter.
- If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: If Kou goes with Sora to the Halloween Festival, then they talk to Chiaki and Mai, she tells him this trope and that she won’t forgive him along with a Death Glare. Kou tells her it’s not that kind of relationship.
- In the Hood: Always has a blue hoodie on, though she never has it up.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In Chapter 2 when Kou and Asuka are looking for her, they can talk to Gorou about it. He’ll mention how she wasn’t paying attention in classes that day. Coach Saki is also upset at her suddenly quitting the karate club.
- Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: She does not appear in any promotional material for the game, despite her role in Sora's story.
Nobuo
Nobuo (Class 2-A)
A chubby gourmand who asks Kou to give him any food that he himself has made, even if it's of bad quality.
- Big Eater: He loves to eat and always thinks about eating, even during the apocalypse. In fact, he attends Morimiya because he loves the cafeteria's food. He also has a sidequest to eat not just the high level food from each recipe, but even all the failure ones, giving you a high level element for it.
- Extreme Omnivore: He'll eat anything, so giving him the recipe failures (the ones where insta-death is a dice roll) is not even a problem to him.
- Eyes Always Shut: His model and portrait are always like this.
Yuuji
Yuuji (Class 2-C)
A Swim Club member who has a rivalry with Hayato and is a fan of SPiKA.
- Fanboy: He's a huge one of SPiKA. So much so, that he constantly badgered his rival Hayato to listen to them. Out of the group, he’s a Haruna fanboy.
- Hard Work Hardly Works: In Chapter 4, Hayato wonders how Yuuji’s so good at swimming despite barely practicing. Yuuji owes it to knowing how to relax.
- Friendly Rivalry: He and Hayato have one in swimming.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The more chill, relax blue compared to Hayato’s focused red.
- Those Two Guys: With Hayato.
Hayato
Hayato (Class 2-C)
A Swim Club member who has a rivalry with Yuuji, and because of him, he eventually becomes a fan of SPiKA.
- Always Second Best: He can never seem to beat Yuuji at swim races, and either finishes in second place or with a tie. Despite this, he tries really hard to try and beat him.
- Fanboy: While not initially at first, Yuuji's constant badgering to make him listen to SPiKA has eventually made him into one, but he tries to deny it. Out of the group, he likes Reika.
- Friendly Rivalry: He and Yuuji have one in swimming.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The intense red compared to Yuuji’s blue.
- Those Two Guys: With Yuuji.
Hekiru
Hekiru (Class 2-A)
The Journalism Club's president, she is always looking for stories to report on, and writes the Morimiya Academy Newsflash.
- Brutal Honesty: At the beginning of the game, she asks Kou for info about Asuka since they’re classmates, but Kou says to ask her directly.Hekiru: Hmm, true enough, but... Wait, you’re one of those loner outcast types. You wouldn’t know much about these things. You know what, never mind. Sorry for holding you up!Kou: You could stand to pull the bluntness back a hair. Just saying.
- Intrepid Reporter: She aspires to be a reporter like her big sister Chiemi, even having a sidequest where she grills the XRC in an interview about the weird happenings in town since April.
Karen
Karen (Class 2-C)
A half-Japanese and half-American student who has trouble with speaking Japanese. She is also the daughter of Catherine, who runs an imported goods store at Nanahoshi Mall.
- But Not Too Foreign: She's half-Japanese and half-American, the blonde hair and blue eyes coming from her mother's side.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father died prior to her and her mother moving to Morimiya.
- It Was a Gift: A quest in Chapter 6 has her praying at Kokonoe Shrine for help finding a Xiphone strap. After getting it from the Temple of the Evil Mist eclipse, she says it’s a keepsake from her father.
- My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Downplayed. Her Japanese is limited, but she’s quite easy to understand.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Even though she gets pulled into Shadow Morimiya during the After Story, she forgets all about it once it’s over.
Saburo
Saburo (Class 2-D)
Voiced by: Atsushi Abe
A friend of Jun's who is very upfront about his love of anime and the Magical Girl Alisa series.
- Chuunibyou: During Chapter 4 when he hears about BLAZE members loitering at Nanahoshi Mall, he’s offended that they’re trespassing on sacred anime territory, and then says that the time to unleash the secret demon technique in his right hand — from Magical Alisa — will come.
- Fanboy: He's one for the in-universe show Magical Girl Alisa.
- Gotta Catch 'Em All: As a true fanboy, he's into collecting the Magical Girl Alisa capsule toys. If you manage to collect them all from the capsule machine in Nanahoshi Mall and complete the entire collection, then giving them all to Saburo will reward you with a rare element in return.
- Otaku: He's usually found hanging around Animate, as well as talking about anime. He’s also someone who prefers “2D girls” when in Chapter 2 he calls Jun’s fangirls 3D pigs.
- Took a Level in Badass: He's given just enough rudimentary training with sanctified weapons to fight against the Greed during the apocalypse.
Chizuru
Chizuru (Class 2-D)
Voiced by: Mai Kadowaki
A childhood friend of Ryouta's who is ever so watchful over him.
- Childhood Friend: With Ryouta.
- Class Representative: She’s the class rep for Class 2-D.
- Suddenly Voiced: There are several cutscenes later in the game where she's fully voiced.
Third-year Students
Mai Terada
Mai Terada (Class 3-B)
Voiced by: Ayaka Suwa
The Karate Club's captain.
- Those Two Guys: After Chapter 2, she's usually seen hanging around or sparring with Chiaki.
Masataka
Masataka (Class 3-A)
The Discipline Committee's head, he is a strict enforcer of the rules.
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: He’s more of the bad cop with Munenori when it comes to troublemakers, especially Shio.
- Knight Templar: As the head of the Discipline Committee, Masataka is very strict about dealing with antisocial behavior and misconduct, and only cares about upholding the rules of Morimiya Academy for the greater good. This is especially apparent during Chapter 4, and he also opposes Mitsuki's idea of a more open and free campus.
- Thoughtcrime: He’s always on the lookout for antisocial behavior, including calling out Shio.
Munenori
Munenori (Class 3-B)
The Kendo Club's captain.
- By-the-Book Cop: He plans on being a cop after graduating high school.
- Eyes Always Shut: His model and portrait are this.
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: The good cop with Masataka in disciplinary actions.
- Real Men Love Jesus: Well, not Jesus but he prays regularly at the Kokonoe Shrine.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: In direct contrast to his fellow Discipline Committee member Masataka, Munenori is more lax about upholding school rules, and will actually come to an understanding with students rather than outright call them out on their misbehavior. He'll even tell Masataka to chill out on the strict methods on a couple of occasions.
Fuuka
Fuuka (Class 3-B)
A sick student often found in the school's health clinic.
- Delicate and Sickly: Fuuka has a very frail body and is suffering from an unknown ailment. She's usually seen in the school infirmary most of the time, and is constantly being visited and cared for by her friend Mai. Despite this, Fuuka is really nice, and wants to help out the best she can. In the Epilogue, her body appears to be improving, and it's implied that she may be fully cured in the future.
- Textile Work Is Feminine: She’ll usually be knitting when she’s in bed.
Kousaku
Kousaku (Class 3-C)
The Film Studies Club's president, he wishes to make a film of his own.
- The Movie Buff: He and Minoru are movie geeks. He also serves as the director for the movie he makes.
- Spiky Hair: He has some very spiky hair.
Shizune
Shizune (Class 3-C)
A withdrawn student who loves to read and wishes to become a writer.
- I Work Alone: In Chapter 2, Kousaku is trying to recruit her to write a script for his movie. She prefers to work solo, and since working on movies involves people, it’s a no-go.
- Pet the Dog: During the Final Chapter, she’s reading stories to children in the library.
Erika
Erika (Class 3-D)
Voiced by: Ari Ozawa
The daughter of a wealthy family and the heiress of the Takamatsu Group, a construction company with the most facilities in Morimiya.
- Noblewoman's Laugh: She lets one of these out in Chapter 1, hoping to one day build something bigger than Acros Tower.
- Ojou Ringlets: Fitting for someone who sees herself as a princess.
- The Rival: She views herself as one to Mitsuki Hokuto, and is hoping that her family business will one day overtake the Hokuto group as the dominant business in Japan. It's wholly one-sided, though, as Mitsuki doesn't share the same feelings towards her.
- Tsundere: Though often declaring herself Mitsuki's rival, she at times shows how worried she is about her, but doesn't like to admit it.
Teachers
Towa Kokonoe
Towa Kokonoe
See her entry under Advisors in Tokyo Xanadu Xanadu Research Club.
Gorou Saeki
Gorou Saeki
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa
Let's all work together, one step at a time.
An English teacher at Morimiya Academy.
- BFG: Overlapped with Impossibly Cool Weapon. His soul device, Arc Trinity, is a huge rifle which can also be used as a axe.
- Bishie Sparkles: These tend to happen in moments where he’s a charming teacher, much to Ryouta’s chagrin.
- Bottomless Magazines: His rifle can fire an unlimited amount of bullets at his targets. This is justified because since Soul Devices are the manifestations of one's soul, the bullets fired from his rifle are spiritual by nature, so Gorou doesn't have to worry about reloading and keeping track of ammo reserves.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Upon getting accepted to the same university, he confessed to his childhood friend Futaba, who tearfully accepted. Sadly, this happened soon before the disaster happened. She took a fatal attack from an Elder Greed aimed at him, and while he awakened his Soul Device and defeated it, she passed away from her wounds, satisfied that he was alright.
- Cool Teacher: Can sometimes inspire admiration in even the guys.
- A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 7 reveals his true role, as well as his past and motivations.
- Dishing Out Dirt: How his powers generally manifest themselves.
- Early-Bird Cameo: eX+ gives him an early playable appearance in Side-Story 5.5 in which he assists White Shroud, though his face and voice are disguised with his helmet mask, and he is only known as "Battle Suit."
- 11th-Hour Ranger: Joins the party during the penultimate chapter.
- Extra-ore-dinary: His default attribute.
- Fauxshadow: Once you know his real identity, you might view his appearance in the intermission chapter and his claim that he likes to take "long hikes" as foreshadowing that he's secretly investigating something. In Epilogue, he'll tell you while he did fake to be time-stopped, he really does like hiking and he was really hiking back to Morimiya City after the event.
- Faking Amnesia: Since he's already a Wielder, the memory erasure done by the Hokuto Group to hide the Mist Witch incident doesn't work on him, but he pretends that it has until he reveals himself.
- Good-Looking Privates: The teacher that all of the female students have a crush on? Yeah, he's also very highly ranked in the Japanese military.
- Hot Teacher: He seems to be admired by most female students, as well as the school librarian.
- Long-Distance Relationship: One chat he has with Kou says that he's in one of these with his girlfriend. It's a bit more tragic than that.
- The Lost Lenore: His girlfriend, Futaba, had shielded him from Greed during the Tokyo Twilight Disaster at the cost of her life, awakening him as a Soul Wielder.
- Majorly Awesome: He is ranked a Major in National Defense Army.
- More than Just a Teacher: At first, he seems to be a fairly normal teacher. However, it's later revealed that he is actually a member of the military subsidiary that deals with Eclipses and Greeds.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: He pretends to be clueless about what's going on during the Mist Witch incident. In truth, he has already become a Wielder by that point, so he already knows full well what's going on.
- Playing Sick: He calls in sick to the school so as to help the White Shroud with destroying the Breed of Dawn.
- Playing with Fire: His other attribute.
- Red Herring: With his cryptic speech and villainous vibe in later cutscenes, it looks like he's a villain who's plotting to destroy the city with the help of the Eclipse. But it turns out that he's truly a Japanese major who also seeks to destroy the root of the Hollow Quakes, and he ends up being not only a good guy but also a playable character.
- Shocking Voice Identity Reveal: He takes off his helmet at the end of the Side Story, and the player can hear his true voice. The camera goes up to part of his face right before zooming out. It's a pretty big hint that Gorou is more than he seems.
- Smoking Is Cool: When dealing with some thugs harassing Marie, he first lights up, takes a puff, and shoots them a Death Glare. He later admits that it's a bad habit of his, and it's hard for him to quit.
- Transforming Weapon: His Soul Device, Arc Trinity, starts out as a rifle, but can also become an axe or a lance.
- Walking Spoiler: His true identity, and the fact that he's the last party member.
- Unknown Rival: Ryouta is jealous of Gorou's popularity with the girls in school and declares him his number one rival. Gorou has no idea about this.
Ms.Keiko
Ms. Keiko
The school's doctor and counselor.
- Hospital Hottie: Not only is she the school nurse, but she's an attractive woman who's "admired" by the male population of the school.
- Male Gaze: In Chapter 1, a male student comes in for a sprained ankle. While she gets some ice, he has to will himself not to stare. She knew full well where his eyes were.
- Shipper on Deck: In Asuka's friendship event in Chapter 6, Asuka receives a mild laceration on her right leg from the Eclipse, and Kou tags along with her to the school infirmary to get the injury checked. When they arrive, Ms. Keiko puts Kou in charge of treating her wound, and then promptly leaves the room with Kou and Asuka alone, thinking that the two will engage in something "romantic" together. Despite Kou and Asuka telling her the contrary, Keiko still believes that the two were "close" in there.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: During the apocalypse, she decides to give pity on Mr. Tanabe and give him a date if they survive. After defeating the True Final Boss in the After Story, her and Mr. Tanabe are on a date at the Halloween Festival.
Mr. Tanabe
Mr. Tanabe
A Japanese teacher who desperately seeks a woman to love.
- Hopeless Suitor: He's 0-100 in searching for a girlfriend, but he's determined to get a date someday. By the end of the game, he finally wins over Ms. Keiko.
Coach Saki
Coach Saki
A PE teacher who works her students like a drill sergeant.
- Berserk Button: Slacking off in her classes or the clubs she runs will tick her off enough, but if you hurt one of her students, god have mercy on your soul. She also gets irked at Kou bringing in plushies he won from the arcade. Especially if he collects them all in the Final Chapter which leads to...
- Cuteness Proximity: She turns into a totally different person around plushies, even confessing that she makes clothes for them. After giving the whole set, Kou receives a Basara element as well as never telling anyone about her hobby.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: She comes off this way towards her students, especially Ayato, as she believes that putting her students through rigorous training methods will help toughen them up.
- Mama Bear: Despite not looking the type, Saki is very protective of her students. During Chapter 4, after hearing about her students getting beaten by BLAZE, she gets quite eager to start busting BLAZE heads until Towa talks her down. And during the Final Chapter, she gets righteously furious when a Greed attacks one of her students.
- Odd Friendship: With Towa. They both graduated Morimiya Academy together, but Towa was a studious computer genius who grew up disciplined (no doubt due to her and Kou's grandfather), while Saki was a delinquent. Regardless, the two get on very well.
- The Spartan Way: A hidden sidequest in Chapter 4 has Ayato reveal just what kind of workout her training entails: laps with a tire tied around the waist, bunny hops up and down the steps of Acros Tower, and picking fights with people in back alleys. For a week!
Mr. Matou
Mr. Matou
A chemistry teacher whom students find rather unsettling.
- Happily Married: Turns out he’s quite married to a loving wife.
- Mad Scientist: In-name only. He's not really an actual mad scientist, but all of his students call him "The Mad Scientist" because he's always so eager on doing chemistry tests, and can come off as somewhat creepy as a result. His fondness for science will even extend to the Eclipse, as a sidequest in Chapter 6 involves fetching him Crimson Oil from the Corridor of the Sky labyrinth that defies the law of conservation of mass, just so he can study it.
Vice Principle Shiokawa
Vice Principal Shiokawa
A social studies teacher who also acts as the school's vice principal and will soon retire.
- In Vino Veritas: He is a firm definition of this trope after knocking back some drinks after work at Soba Shop Gen.
- The Paranoiac: He's always worried about the well-being of the students as well as the reputation of Morimiya Academy. Given his position and the strange incidents that are happening all over the city, one can't blame him really.
- You Are in Command Now: The Principal is The Ghost in this game, so he’s usually the highest authority figure in school. Even moreso during the Final Chapter.
