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* AssholeVictim: After having been a racist, sexist {{Jerkass}} throughout the entire series, [[spoiler: it's pretty hard to feel any pity for him when Amy busts a chair across his head, then drowns him in a mud puddle.]]
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* AssholeVictim: After having been a racist, sexist {{Jerkass}} throughout the entire series, [[spoiler: it's pretty hard to feel any pity for him when Amy busts a chair across his head, then head and drowns him in a mud puddle.]]
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* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: [[spoiler: He drugs Amy and ties her up in the basement of a disused building, and his behavior toward her just ''screams'' this trope.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: He likes to put on the facade of being a kind and reasonable authority figure, but his racism, sexism, and resentment toward the internees are all boiling just beneath the surface, and it doesn't take much for the mask to slip.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: [[spoiler:He After he drugs Amy and ties her up in the basement of a disused building, and his behavior toward her throughout the entire scene just ''screams'' this trope.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never made clear whether his [[spoiler: barbecuing the Marines who were assaulting Chester]] with a flamethrower]] was the result of his brainwashing at the hands of the Japanese or being possessed by Yuko.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never made clear whether his [[spoiler: barbecuing the Marines who were assaulting Chester]] Chester with a flamethrower]] was the result of his brainwashing at the hands of the Japanese or being possessed by Yuko.
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* NothingIsScarier: We never do find out exactly what the Japanese did to Crittenden, which somehow makes it so much worse.
* NothingIsScarier: We never do find out exactly what the Japanese did to Crittenden, which somehow makes it so much worse.
* EtherealWhiteDress: After [[spoiler: the death of her sons]], she wanders around the camp in a white dress, barely able to function. The kids in the camp start calling her the "ghost woman".
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Over the course of the series, she gets progressively more battered and bedraggled. By, the end, [[spoiler: she is a walking corpse covered in stolen skin, with visible stitch marks under her makeup. Her once-white kimono is filthy and tattered, and she's ripped all the skin off her left cheek to get rid of the binding sutras Henry wrote there.]]
* BodyHorror: She is a [[spoiler: revenant who's been buried in a pauper's grave for two decades, and looks it. She twitches and jerks her broken body around like a marionette, bending her spine and limbs in ways no human body was ever meant to bend. At one point, she possesses a mortician and forces him to stitch fresh skin onto her corpse.]]
* BodyHorror: She is a [[spoiler: revenant who's been buried in a pauper's grave for two decades, and looks it. She twitches and jerks her broken body around like a marionette, bending her spine and limbs in ways no human body was ever meant to bend. At one point, she possesses a mortician and forces him to stitch fresh skin onto her corpse.]]
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Over the course of the series, she gets progressively more battered and bedraggled. By, By the end, end of the season, [[spoiler: she is a walking corpse covered in stolen skin, with visible stitch marks under her makeup. Her once-white kimono is filthy and tattered, and she's ripped all the skin flesh off her left cheek to get rid of the binding sutras Henry wrote there.]]
* BodyHorror: She is a [[spoiler: revenant who's been buried in a pauper's grave for two decades, and looks it. She twitches and jerks herbroken broken, rotting body around like a marionette, bending her spine and limbs in ways no human body was ever meant to bend. At one point, she possesses a mortician and forces him to stitch fresh skin onto her corpse.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: After being forced to surrender her twins to an orphanage, she fills her sling with rocks and jumps off a bridge.]]
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* EtherealWhiteDress: She is a vengeful ghost who often appears in a white kimono.
* EtherealWhiteDress: She is a vengeful ghost who often appears in a white kimono.
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* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Woman]]: [[spoiler: As a ''bakemono'' or ''yurei'', she cannot be put down by conventional means. Her physical self might take damage, but eventually she will return.]]
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* GlamourFailure: Though she often appears as she did [[spoiler: prior to her suicide in 1920]], there are times when she reverts to her "normal" appearance, that of a [[spoiler: rotting, long-dead corpse]]. It's unclear whether she's projecting some kind of illusion or [[spoiler: using stolen skin to hide her grisly appearance, as she does in episode 7]].
* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Woman]]:[[spoiler: As a ''bakemono'' or ''yurei'', she cannot be put down by conventional means. Her physical self might take damage, but eventually she will return.]]
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* TraumaCongaLine: Poor Yuko gets walloped by the trope. [[spoiler: First she got secretly pregnant in 1919 from a soldier who fought in World War I, causing her arranged husband Hideo Furuya to banish her in anger. A year later, she is living on the streets and eating garbage. She realizes she can't take care of her twin sons and places them in an orphanage. She commits suicide in a fit of despair and ends up as a ''bakemono'', a vengeful spirit that will never rest. Then her own son rejects her and tries to destroy her body. ''Then'' her sister furiously tells her that she wouldn't hesitate to switch husbands with her again, even knowing everything that's happened to Yuko, and finally she starts stabbing the hell out of Yuko's body while screaming at her to die.]] Indeed a FateWorseThanDeath.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Poor Yuko gets walloped by the trope. [[spoiler: First she got secretly becomes pregnant in 1919 from by a soldier who fought dies in World War I, causing battle shortly thereafter. When she reveals her pregnancy to her arranged husband Hideo Furuya to banish Furuya, he calls her a whore and throws her out onto the streets in anger. a rage. A year later, she is living on the streets and eating garbage. garbage to survive. She realizes she can't take care of her twin sons and places is forced to give them in up to an orphanage. She commits suicide in a fit of despair and ends up as a ''bakemono'', ''yurei'', a vengeful spirit that will never rest. Then her own son rejects her and tries to destroy her physical body. ''Then'' her sister furiously angrily tells her that she wouldn't hesitate to switch husbands with her again, even knowing everything that's happened to Yuko, and finally she starts stabbing the hell out of Yuko's body while screaming at her to die.]] Indeed a FateWorseThanDeath.
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* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:She was Hideo's picture bride, but was pregnant when she met him, and thus he rejected her. She was left homeless and penniless, eventually forcing her to give up her children for adoption. After coming back from the dead, she takes her revenge on him.]]
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* WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver: Whenever she wears her white kimono, it's paired with red embroidering and bright red lipstick that makes for an unsettling and suggestive contrast. Best exemplified in the scene where she [[spoiler: kills Furuya]].
* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:She was Hideo's picture bride, but was pregnant when she met him, and thus herejected her.threw her out of his house in a drunken rage. She was left homeless and penniless, eventually forcing her to give up her children for adoption. After coming back from the dead, she takes her revenge on him.]]
* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:She was Hideo's picture bride, but was pregnant when she met him, and thus he
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The main character of the series, Chester is a Nisei (second-generation Japanese-American) college student hoping to make a living as a professional photographer. Unfortunately for him, the outbreak of WWII and an accidental pregnancy interfere with his plans, and then strange deaths begin to occur all around him.
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The main character of the series, Chester is a Nisei (second-generation Japanese-American) college student hoping to make a living as a professional photographer. Unfortunately for him, the outbreak of WWII and an accidental unplanned pregnancy and the bombing of Pearl Harbor interfere with his plans, and then strange deaths begin to occur all around him.
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* MamaBear: She never hesitates to defend Chester and slaps Fumi for getting on his case while he's grieving [[spoiler: the deaths of his sons]]. She also goes absolutely apeshit on [[spoiler: Yuko in the final episode for trying to steal her grandson, stabbing her corpse over and over again while screaming at her to die]].
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* MamaBear: She never hesitates to defend Chester and slaps Fumi for getting on his case while he's grieving [[spoiler: the deaths of his sons]]. She also goes absolutely apeshit on [[spoiler: Yuko in the final episode for attacking her son, killing her husband, and trying to steal her grandson, stabbing her corpse over and over again while screaming at her to die]].
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Halfway through the series, he enlists in the Army, goes to Europe with the 442nd RCT, and does well enough to be promoted to lieutenant and receive several awards for valor.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Halfway through the series, he enlists in the Army, goes to Europe with the 442nd RCT, and does well enough to be promoted to lieutenant and receive several awards for valor. All of this occurs offscreen.
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* SexySecretary: Downplayed, as Amy never dresses or acts provocatively, but Bowen certainly thinks so, based on his behavior toward her.
*TheseHandsHaveKilled: Amy is clearly distraught by having [[spoiler: killed Major Bowen]], to the point where she disengages from her family and becomes a Kerouac-esque beatnik.
* WalkingTheEarth: After the war is over, she becomes a beatnik and starts roaming across America, as she is still haunted by [[spoiler: having killed Major Bowen]].
* SexySecretary: Downplayed, as Amy never dresses or acts provocatively, but Bowen certainly thinks so, based on his behavior toward her.
*TheseHandsHaveKilled: Amy is clearly distraught by having [[spoiler: killed Major Bowen]], to the point where she disengages from her family and becomes a Kerouac-esque beatnik.
* WalkingTheEarth: After the war is over, she becomes a beatnik and starts roaming across America, as she is still haunted by [[spoiler: having killed Major Bowen]].
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never made clear whether his barbecuing the Marines [[spoiler: who were assaulting Chester]] with a flamethrower was the result of his brainwashing at the hands of the Japanese or being possessed by Yuko.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He disappears from the story after killing the other Marines, with no word as to his ultimate fate.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He disappears from the story after killing the other Marines, with no word as to his ultimate fate.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never made clear whether his [[spoiler: barbecuing the Marines [[spoiler: who were assaulting Chester]] with a flamethrower flamethrower]] was the result of his brainwashing at the hands of the Japanese or being possessed by Yuko.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He disappears from the story after [[spoiler: killing the otherMarines, Marines]], with no word as to his ultimate fate.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After [[spoiler: Yuko possesses Arthur and uses him to force Chester to steal a jeep at gunpoint, only for the other soldiers to fire on them and cause the jeep to crash]], Arthur completely disappears from the story.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After A very prominent example. [[spoiler: Yuko possesses Arthur and uses him to force Chester to steal a jeep at gunpoint, only for the other soldiers to fire on them and cause the jeep to crash]], crash]]. Even though this event should have had major consequences for him, Arthur completely disappears from the story.story afterward.
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* BodyHorror: She is a [[spoiler: revenant who's been buried in a pauper's grave for two decades, and looks it. At one point, she possesses a mortician and forces him to stitch fresh skin onto her corpse.]]
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* BodyHorror: She is a [[spoiler: revenant who's been buried in a pauper's grave for two decades, and looks it. She twitches and jerks her broken body around like a marionette, bending her spine and limbs in ways no human body was ever meant to bend. At one point, she possesses a mortician and forces him to stitch fresh skin onto her corpse.]]
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* FleshGolem: [[spoiler: Yuko possesses a doctor to put her body back together using skin from other bodies after the family tries to burn her body in episode 6.]]
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* ImmigrantParents: She's an Issei (first-generation Japanese-American).
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* BigEater: He apparently polishes off an entire plate of sushi by himself in one episode.
* CastTheExpert: George Takei spent four years in an internment camp as a small child, meaning he is quite suited to the task of portraying an internee.
* CastTheExpert: George Takei spent four years in an internment camp as a small child, meaning he is quite suited to the task of portraying an internee.
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* BigEater: He apparently polishes off an entire plate of sushi by himself in one the last episode.
*CastTheExpert: CoolOldGuy: He's a respected elder who once killed a giant fish with one punch, knows how to deal with ghosts, and is played by George Takei spent four years in an internment camp as a small child, meaning he is quite suited to the task of portraying an internee.
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* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: He tells Amy that he knows she killed Major Bowen, but since Bowen was a racist prick, he has no problem concealing the truth.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Halfway through the series, he enlists in the Army, goes to Europe with the 442nd RCT, and does well enough to be promoted to lieutenant and receive several awards for valor.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Yuko chews his tongue out, then lets him drown in his own blood.]]
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!!Yuko Tanabe
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A mysterious, vengeful young woman who is much more than she seems.
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A mysterious, vengeful young woman who is much more than she seems.
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A mysterious, vengeful young woman who is much more than she seems.
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* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: He doesn't believe in ''bakemono'' or ''yurei''. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, they're very real]].
* SatelliteCharacter: He's mostly there to give Chester someone to talk to during his stint in the Army, so he doesn't get much development or backstory.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After [[spoiler: Yuko possesses Arthur and uses him to force Chester to steal a jeep at gunpoint, only for the other soldiers to fire on them and cause the jeep to crash]], Arthur completely disappears from the story.
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!!Yuko Tanabe
->'''Portrayed By:''' Kiki Sukezane
A mysterious young woman who is much more than she seems.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After [[spoiler: Yuko possesses Arthur and uses him to force Chester to steal a jeep at gunpoint, only for the other soldiers to fire on them and cause the jeep to crash]], Arthur completely disappears from the story.
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!!Yuko Tanabe
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A mysterious young woman who is much more than she seems.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Over the course of the series, she gets progressively more battered and bedraggled. By, the end, [[spoiler: she is a walking corpse covered in stolen skin, with visible stitch marks under her makeup, her once-white kimono is filthy and tattered, and she's ripped all the skin off her left cheek to get rid of the binding sutras Henry wrote on her skin.]]
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* TakeMeInstead: Chester plans to give himself up to [[spoiler: Yuko so she'll leave his and Luz's son alone. More specifically, his big plan is to kill himself then have Rocillo use her ''cuaranderismo'' magic to have Yuko take a child version of his spirit]].
* CoolCar: A brand-new Packard of which he is very proud. Only five other Issei men on Terminal Island have their own car.
* ImmigrantParents: He's an Issei (first-generation Japanese-American) who is very proud to have made his own way in America.
* BrideAndSwitch: [[spoiler: She secretly switched the names of the men she and Yuko were to marry upon finding out that Hideo Furuya was a cruel bastard.]]
* IAmNotYourFather: [[spoiler: Asako is actually Chester's aunt, who adopted him after learning about Yuko's suicide.]]
* IRegretNothing: Asako says that she would [[spoiler: switch papers with Yuko so she could avoid marrying Furuya again]].
* IAmNotYourFather: [[spoiler: Asako is actually Chester's aunt, who adopted him after learning about Yuko's suicide.]]
* IRegretNothing: Asako says that she would [[spoiler: switch papers with Yuko so she could avoid marrying Furuya again]].
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* ImperiledInPregnancy: Poor Luz has to deal with a vengeful, monomaniacal ''yurei'' trying to steal her babies.
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* DressingToDie: Yuko dresses in her kimono and fixes her hair [[spoiler: when she prepares to bury herself]].
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* FleshGolem: [[spoiler: Yuko possesses a doctor to put her body back together using skin from other bodies after the family tries to burn her body in episode 6.]]
* FoodChains: Averted. [[spoiler: Yuko eats food in the afterlife, but manages to escape anyway.]]
* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Woman]]: [[spoiler: As a ''bakemono'' or ''yurei'', she cannot be put down by conventional means. Her physical self might take damage, but eventually she will return.]]
* FoodChains: Averted. [[spoiler: Yuko eats food in the afterlife, but manages to escape anyway.]]
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* ReplacementGoldfish: Yuko intends [[spoiler: for Luz's twins, Enrique and Hikaru, to replace her own, Jirou and Taizo (Chester)]].
* ReplacementGoldfish: Yuko intends [[spoiler: for Luz's twins, Enrique and Hikaru, to replace her own, Jirou and Taizo (Chester)]].
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* TragicMonster: Yuko is [[spoiler: Chester's biological mother, and she only wants to live in a perfect world with her son(s)]].
* TraumaCongaLine: Poor Yuko gets walloped by the trope. [[spoiler: First she got secretly pregnant in 1919 from a soldier who fought in World War I, causing her arranged husband Hideo Furuya to banish her in anger. A year later, she is living on the streets and eating garbage. She realizes she can't take care of her twin sons and places them in an orphanage. She commits suicide in a fit of despair and ends up as a ''bakemono'', a vengeful spirit that will never rest. Then her own son rejects her and tries to destroy her body. ''Then'' her sister furiously tells her that she wouldn't hesitate to switch husbands with her again, even knowing everything that's happened to Yuko, and finally she starts stabbing the hell out of Yuko's body while screaming at her to die.]] Indeed a FateWorseThanDeath.
* VengefulGhost: Yuko is out to avenge herself on everyone who had anything to do with [[spoiler: her humiliation and suicide.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: In case, you hadn't noticed, it is ''really'' hard to discuss Yuko without spoiling the entire series.
* TraumaCongaLine: Poor Yuko gets walloped by the trope. [[spoiler: First she got secretly pregnant in 1919 from a soldier who fought in World War I, causing her arranged husband Hideo Furuya to banish her in anger. A year later, she is living on the streets and eating garbage. She realizes she can't take care of her twin sons and places them in an orphanage. She commits suicide in a fit of despair and ends up as a ''bakemono'', a vengeful spirit that will never rest. Then her own son rejects her and tries to destroy her body. ''Then'' her sister furiously tells her that she wouldn't hesitate to switch husbands with her again, even knowing everything that's happened to Yuko, and finally she starts stabbing the hell out of Yuko's body while screaming at her to die.]] Indeed a FateWorseThanDeath.
* VengefulGhost: Yuko is out to avenge herself on everyone who had anything to do with [[spoiler: her humiliation and suicide.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: In case, you hadn't noticed, it is ''really'' hard to discuss Yuko without spoiling the entire series.
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* ChestOfMedals: Downplayed relative to most examples of the trope, but by the time Walt comes back to Colinas de Oro to recruit more men for the 442nd, he's already been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Bronze Star, the Combat Infantryman Badge, and two Purple Hearts.[[note]]This is TruthInTelevision, as the 442nd RCT is to this day the most decorated unit for its size in US Army history; they were awarded 18,000 decorations for valor in less than two years.[[/note]]
* ChestOfMedals: Downplayed relative to most examples of the trope, but by the time Walt comes back to Colinas de Oro to recruit more men for the 442nd, he's already been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Bronze Star, the Combat Infantryman Badge, and two Purple Hearts.[[note]]This is TruthInTelevision, as the 442nd RCT is to this day the most decorated unit for its size in US Army history; they were awarded 18,000 decorations for valor in less than two years.[[/note]]
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* CallingTheOldManOut: He does this a few times, taking verbal potshots at what he perceives to be his father's cowardice and lack of ambition. Henry usually manages to give as good as he gets in these exchanges.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Chester is well-meaning enough, but his impulsive behavior often gets him into trouble. A prime example is when he decides to steal his dad's Packard back from Grichuk, without considering that this might cause Grichuk to escalate his retaliation. He also tells his mother about Luz's pregnancy at literally the worst possible time and routinely lips off to people who can make his life a great deal harder with no thought for the potential consequences.
* DoomMagnet: Fumi Yoshida accuses him of being one, not without reason.
* GoodLookingPrivates: Asako and Luz both believe he looks better in a uniform.
* HeroicBSOD: He enters one after learning about [[spoiler: the deaths of his sons]], and then another one upon finding out that his parents [[spoiler: aren't his birth parents]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: He tries to pull one off, offering himself to Yuko in exchange for his newborn son, but manages to find another option.]]
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* CallingTheOldManOut: He does this a few times, taking verbal potshots at what he perceives to be his father's cowardice and lack of ambition. Henry usually manages to give as good as he gets in these exchanges.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Chester is well-meaning enough, but his impulsive behavior often gets him into trouble. A prime example is when he decides to steal his dad's Packard back from Grichuk, without considering that this might cause Grichuk to escalate his retaliation. He also tells his mother about Luz's pregnancy at literally the worst possible time and routinely lips off to people who can make his life a great deal harder with no thought for the potential consequences.
* DoomMagnet: Fumi Yoshida accuses him of being one, not without reason.
* GoodLookingPrivates: Asako and Luz both believe he looks better in a uniform.
* HeroicBSOD: He enters one after learning about [[spoiler: the deaths of his sons]], and then another one upon finding out that his parents [[spoiler: aren't his birth parents]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: He tries to pull one off, offering himself to Yuko in exchange for his newborn son, but manages to find another option.]]
* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: He doesn't believe in any of the talk of ''bakemono'' or ''yurei'' that he hears at the beginning of the series, considering all of it to be "old-country superstition". This attitude doesn't last long.
* SherlockScan: When he's handed a letter written by a Japanese soldier as part of the test to see if he can qualify as a translator for the Army, he notices that it's A. written in the form of a poem, B. that the structure of the poem is unusual, and C. the reason for this is because the author encoded his current location in the first word of each line. The officer who handed him the letter is visibly impressed.
* TradingBarsForStripes: He enlists in the Army to get out of the internment camp and start earning a real wage so that he can provide for Luz and his unborn child. He's also seeking to prove his loyalty to America.
* SherlockScan: When he's handed a letter written by a Japanese soldier as part of the test to see if he can qualify as a translator for the Army, he notices that it's A. written in the form of a poem, B. that the structure of the poem is unusual, and C. the reason for this is because the author encoded his current location in the first word of each line. The officer who handed him the letter is visibly impressed.
* TradingBarsForStripes: He enlists in the Army to get out of the internment camp and start earning a real wage so that he can provide for Luz and his unborn child. He's also seeking to prove his loyalty to America.
Chester's father and Asako's husband. He's a fisherman who owns his own boat and has made his way in the world, despite the prejudice he faces as a first-generation Japanese immigrant. He and his son don't always see eye to eye, which is the source of much conflict between them.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Yuko forces him to kill himself after possessing him.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: He attacks Yuko to keep Chester from pulling off his own heroic sacrifice, eventually dying via shotgun blast to the gut courtesy of Yuko.]]
* IHaveNoSon: He finally gets fed up with Chester's thoughtlessness and rebellious actions and effectively disowns him about two-thirds of the way through the series. [[spoiler: At the end of the series, though, he claims Chester as his own when confronting Yuko.]]
* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: He initially dismisses Asako's talk of ''bakemono'' and ''yurei'' as being things they left behind in Japan. It doesn't take him long to come around, though.
Henry's wife and Chester's mother.
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* MamaBear: She never hesitates to defend Chester and slaps Fumi for getting on his case while he's grieving [[spoiler: the deaths of his sons]]. She also goes absolutely apeshit on [[spoiler: Yuko in the final episode for trying to steal her grandson, stabbing her corpse over and over again while screaming at her to die]].
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: She secretly switched the names of the men she and Yuko were to marry upon finding out that Hideo Furuya was a cruel bastard.]]
* BigEater: He apparently polishes off an entire plate of sushi by himself in one episode.
* CastTheExpert: George Takei spent four years in an internment camp as a small child, meaning he is quite suited to the task of portraying an internee.
* MeaningfulName: His surname, Yamato, is also a poetic name for the nation of Japan.
* YouNoTakeCandle: His dialogue occasionally lapses into the trope.
* KickTheDog: Fumi apparently thinks it's a good idea to reiterate to Chester that she thinks he's a DoomMagnet who will get them all killed while [[spoiler: he's standing five feet away from the graves of his dead infant sons.]]
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The commandant of the Colinas de Oro War Relocation Center.
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* AssholeVictim: After having been a racist, sexist {{Jerkass}} throughout the entire series, [[spoiler: it's pretty hard to feel any pity for him when Amy busts a chair across his head, then drowns him in a mud puddle.]]
* DirtyOldMan: He likes to invade Amy's personal space, gives her flowers, and generally talks about [[YouAreACreditToYourRace how good she is compared to the other internees.]]
* FallenHero: He served in WWI and fought in the Battle of the Belleau Wood, and now he's a corrupt, dickish concentration camp commandant.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: [[spoiler: He drugs Amy and ties her up in the basement of a disused building, and his behavior toward her just ''screams'' this trope.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a racist, sexist, overbearing asshole who openly resents having been put in charge of Colinas de Oro and takes it out on the internees, who have no choice but to accept his abuse.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He manages to pull this [[spoiler: when Amy sends the tape of him boasting about murdering her boyfriend to the WRC. It winds up in the hands of one of his old Army buddies, who tips him off and buries the tape.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: He lets Amy believe that he might be lenient with Ken for holding him hostage to demand medical treatment for the sick internees, [[spoiler: then orders his soldiers to shoot him out of hand]].
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* AssholeVictim: After having been a racist, sexist {{Jerkass}} throughout the entire series, [[spoiler: it's pretty hard to feel any pity for him when Amy busts a chair across his head, then drowns him in a mud puddle.]]
* DirtyOldMan: He likes to invade Amy's personal space, gives her flowers, and generally talks about [[YouAreACreditToYourRace how good she is compared to the other internees.]]
* FallenHero: He served in WWI and fought in the Battle of the Belleau Wood, and now he's a corrupt, dickish concentration camp commandant.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: [[spoiler: He drugs Amy and ties her up in the basement of a disused building, and his behavior toward her just ''screams'' this trope.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: He's a racist, sexist, overbearing asshole who openly resents having been put in charge of Colinas de Oro and takes it out on the internees, who have no choice but to accept his abuse.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He manages to pull this [[spoiler: when Amy sends the tape of him boasting about murdering her boyfriend to the WRC. It winds up in the hands of one of his old Army buddies, who tips him off and buries the tape.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: He lets Amy believe that he might be lenient with Ken for holding him hostage to demand medical treatment for the sick internees, [[spoiler: then orders his soldiers to shoot him out of hand]].
Chester's commanding officer in the Army.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He backs Chester and Arthur to the hilt, defending them against racist abuse from other soldiers and Marines and cheerfully bragging about how valuable they are to the war effort. He even lets Chester skate on freeing Ota; though it's strongly implied that Stallings knows Chester is lying about what happened, he accepts Chester's version of events without much question and congratulates him on getting information out of the man.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Whatever the Japanese did to him, it's thoroughly broken his mind.
* MadnessMantra: "You are a white devil. We kill white devils."
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never made clear whether his barbecuing the Marines [[spoiler: who were assaulting Chester]] with a flamethrower was the result of his brainwashing at the hands of the Japanese or being possessed by Yuko.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He disappears from the story after killing the other Marines, with no word as to his ultimate fate.
* MadnessMantra: "You are a white devil. We kill white devils."
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never made clear whether his barbecuing the Marines [[spoiler: who were assaulting Chester]] with a flamethrower was the result of his brainwashing at the hands of the Japanese or being possessed by Yuko.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He disappears from the story after killing the other Marines, with no word as to his ultimate fate.
Chester's girlfriend [[spoiler: and eventual wife]], a young Mexican-American woman who is studying to become a nurse.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: She's subjected to this in Colinas de Oro, being the only non-Japanese internee. The other women in her barracks talk about her behind her back and call her a whore to her face (not that she can understand them), and Henry wants nothing to do with her.
* DespairEventHorizon: She hits hers after [[spoiler: her sons die in childbirth]]; she wanders around the camp in a haze of grief and depression, rooting around in streams and mud and refusing to talk to anyone.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Played totally straight. She takes the abortifacient from Chester, but eventually decides not to use it.
* HospitalHottie: Downplayed, but Cristina Rodlo is certainly easy on the eyes, and Luz is training to be a nurse.
* ThatManIsDead: After enduring the trauma of [[spoiler: a double stillbirth]], she bitterly tells Chester that the girl he fell in love with is dead.
A mysterious, vengeful young woman who is much more than she seems.
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* BodyHorror: She is a [[spoiler: revenant who's been buried in a pauper's grave for two decades, and looks it. At one point, she possesses a mortician and forces him to stitch fresh skin onto her corpse.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: Her typical ''modus operandi'' over the course of the series. By the end of the last episode, she's possessed damn near every main character and more than a few secondary ones.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: After being forced to surrender her twins to an orphanage, she fills her sling with rocks and jumps off a bridge.]]
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* BodyHorror: She is a [[spoiler: revenant who's been buried in a pauper's grave for two decades, and looks it. At one point, she possesses a mortician and forces him to stitch fresh skin onto her corpse.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: Her typical ''modus operandi'' over the course of the series. By the end of the last episode, she's possessed damn near every main character and more than a few secondary ones.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: After being forced to surrender her twins to an orphanage, she fills her sling with rocks and jumps off a bridge.]]
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: She's determined to kill ''anyone'' who was remotely involved in the chain of events that led her to surrendering her twins and committing suicide. Mr. and Mrs. Furuya, Yoshida, Asako, and Henry all wind up in her crosshairs.]]
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: [[spoiler: At first, she's pretty well-kept. However, as her already-decaying body is subjected to repeated abuse over the course of the series, she eventually deteriorates into a classic example of the trope.]]
* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:She was Hideo's picture bride, but was pregnant when she met him, and thus he rejected
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* TongueTrauma: [[spoiler: Yuko kills him by kissing him and chewing his tongue off from the inside of his mouth.]]
* TongueTrauma: [[spoiler: Yuko kills him by kissing him and chewing his tongue off from the inside of his mouth.]]
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* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Yuko]] [[spoiler:Yuko]] blinds him by forcing him to look directly at the sun.
* TongueTrauma:[[spoiler: Yuko [[spoiler:Yuko kills him by kissing him and chewing his tongue off from the inside of his mouth.]]
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* AWomanScorned: WomanScorned: [[spoiler:She was Hideo's picture bride, but was pregnant when she met him, and thus he rejected her, forcing her to give up the child for adoption. After coming back from the dead, she takes her revenge on him.]]
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! Terminal Island Residents
!!Nakayama Family
[[folder:Chester]]
!!Chester Nakayama
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Derek Mio
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[[folder:Henry]]
!!Henry Nakayama
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Shingo Usami
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Asako]]
!!Asako Nakayama
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Naoko Mori
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yamato-san]]
!!Nobuhiro Yamato
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GeorgeTakei
[[/folder]]
!!Yoshida Family
[[folder:Fumi]]
!!Fumi Yoshida
->'''Portrayed By:''' Hira Ambrosino
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Walt]]
!!Walt Yoshida
->'''Portrayed By:''' Lee Shorten
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Amy]]
!!Amy Yoshida
->'''Portrayed By:''' Miki Ishikawa
[[/folder]]
!!Other Residents
[[folder:Furuya]]
!!Toshiro Furuya
->'''Portrayed By:''' Alex Shimizu
[[/folder]]
!Others
[[folder:Luz]]
!!Luz Ojeda
->'''Portrayed By:''' Cristina Rodlo
[[/folder]]
[[folder:[[spoiler: Yuko Tanebe]]]]
!!Yuko Tanebe
->'''Portrayed By:''' Kiki Sukezane
[[/folder]]
[[foldercontrol]]
! Terminal Island Residents
!!Nakayama Family
[[folder:Chester]]
!!Chester Nakayama
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Derek Mio
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Henry]]
!!Henry Nakayama
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Shingo Usami
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Asako]]
!!Asako Nakayama
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Naoko Mori
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yamato-san]]
!!Nobuhiro Yamato
-> '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/GeorgeTakei
[[/folder]]
!!Yoshida Family
[[folder:Fumi]]
!!Fumi Yoshida
->'''Portrayed By:''' Hira Ambrosino
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Walt]]
!!Walt Yoshida
->'''Portrayed By:''' Lee Shorten
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Amy]]
!!Amy Yoshida
->'''Portrayed By:''' Miki Ishikawa
[[/folder]]
!!Other Residents
[[folder:Furuya]]
!!Toshiro Furuya
->'''Portrayed By:''' Alex Shimizu
[[/folder]]
!Others
[[folder:Luz]]
!!Luz Ojeda
->'''Portrayed By:''' Cristina Rodlo
[[/folder]]
[[folder:[[spoiler: Yuko Tanebe]]]]
!!Yuko Tanebe
->'''Portrayed By:''' Kiki Sukezane
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