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Sunset Ravens

The clan Kaname Sudou forms after winning the Treasure Hunt event. The founding members are Kaname, Shuka, Rein, Ryuji, and Sui/Souta. Liu Xuelan, Ximing, Ouji, Inukai, and Oboro would later join the clan.

In General

Minus Ximing, Ouji, Inukai, and Oboro

• Badass Crew: They are one of, if not the most powerful clan in Japan, boasting no less than three A-ranked players where there are less than ten of them in the entire country.
• Enemy Mine: This is how they got their start. During the Treasure Hunt event, Rein, Ishiro, Ryuji and Sui/Souta all teamed up with Kaname and Shuka because they couldn't defeat Eighth on their own. Since they all worked so well together, everyone besides Ishiro (who died fighting two of Eighth's top commanders) joined the clan Kaname formed.
• Hobbes Was Right: After massacring the Eigth, the Sunset Ravens effectively end up establishing Martial Law. Though all of the rules they end up enforcing end up being beneficial to majority of the community; prohibiting killing outside of events, limiting battles to matches held in the Danjou Boxing Club, providing safe houses and guidance to new players who find themselves in the game. About the only two people who takes issue with this change of events are Themis and Kanehira, and that's because their new rules have negatively impacted their finances.
• Home Base: After forming the clan, they bought a fortified building where they all live together. It was abandoned after the Greed Invasion and the members who didn't take part in the Pirates event have a new base where they protect civilians.
• Famed In-Story: They become famous as the group that won the Treasure Hunt event though the clan was not officially formed until afterwards. And then they wiped out Eighth in a clan battle and almost immediately took over all of their territory, firmly establishing them as names every player should know.

Kaname Sudou

Voiced by: Yūsuke Kobayashi (JP), Stephen Fu (EN)

Kaname gained access to Darwin's Game upon getting an SMS from his friend Kyoda, who was desperately looking for help during his current battle. While Kaname quickly learned that his curiosity regarding the game led him into dangerous situations, he began to adapt and learned to use his quick thinking and determination to progress.

His Sigil is the Fire God's Hammer, an extremely rare ability that allows him to recreate any item. Due to being the winner of the Shibuya Treasure Hunt event, he managed to obtain a winner's privilege called High Roller, which allows him to bet more than the usual points on a game battle and force his or his clan's opponents to match it, up to the limit of either's total points at the time.

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• The Ace: Despite initially getting by in his early battles thanks to some luck, Kaname is frequently praised for having an uncanny level of reflexes and intuition. Kanehira in particular praises Kaname for having been Born in the Wrong Century, and once Kaname finally receives formal hand to hand combat training from Alexei and Ximing, he becomes an absolute nightmare to fight.
• Achievements in Ignorance: He had to be told just how impressive beating Banda and Shuka, back to back, really is.
• Awesome by Analysis: His brain is his best weapon. He's the one most likely to figure out the hidden loopholes in an enemy strategy or a D-Game event.
• Badass Normal: Even without the use of his Sigil, Kaname manages to win his battles through sheer determination and turns out to be pretty quick on his feet, when the situation arises for it. Once Ximing starts to teach him martial arts, Kaname is a decent opponent without any weapons.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Kaname is overall a very nice guy, but his simple exterior can easily lead people to not take him seriously. And if you don't do that, he will make you take him seriously.
• Born Lucky: His first ever, and only, gacha spin resulted in a handgun, which is stated by the GM to have only an 8% chance. His victory over Banda involved Banda (while invisible) getting hit by a passing car.
• Character Development: Kaname's time in Darwin's game has greatly affected him.
  • Starts a bit naive and unwilling to kill his opponents but after Shinozuka was murdered by Wang, he develops a more ruthless side and will kill his enemies if they threaten him or anyone else in his clan, especially Shuka.
  • Becomes more confident of his skills as the leader of his clan after he deals with his personal struggles firsthand.
• Confusion Fu: Kaname's ability to summon any weapon he's familiar with makes him completely unpredictable in close range combat.
• The Determinator: One of his defining traits. His sheer determination to not die was one of the reasons that he managed to win against Banda-kun, which was his first ever battle.
• Disappeared Dad: His father is working overseas.
• Distressed Dude: At one point he's kidnapped by the top player of the game because she wants to recruit him. Not into her clan, but into her family of assassins. Her family has been killing people for money for centuries.
• Famed In-Story:
  • From his very first match in Darwin’s Game, he made waves in the game. Defeating Banda-kun got him noticed because he was a notable player with a memorable appearance, but people didn’t think much of it at the time because Banda-kun was relatively weak. Him defeating Shuka who was until then undefeated was what really got people interested. And then he and his friends defeated Eighth and won the Treasure Hunt event, before destroying the Eighth in a clan war, firmly establishing him and his friends as a top-tier clan.
  • By the third arc, intel on him has reached the point where player's are now speculating that Kaname's Ordinary High-School Student background must be some sort of cover-up both due to how quickly he climbed the ranks in the game and the amount of influence he's amassed.
• Forgiveness: A firm believer of it. If you kill only because D-Game forces you, and have sympathetic motives, he'll be all too happy to let that pass like water under the bridge. Be bloodthirsty and do despicable things only for your own convenience, and you're digging your own grave.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Ordinary Highschool Student to the leader and founder of the Sunset Ravens, the Yakuza and most powerful clan that rules the city of Shibuya.
• Gaining the Will to Kill: When he first started out as a D-game player, he bent himself into pretzels to avoid killing others, even being reluctant to open fire on Eighth when they came at him in massive numbers. Then Wang goes and sadistically tortures a close friend to death. Well, no more Mr. Nice Guy.
• Good Is Not Soft: Always willing to lend a helping hand to the helpless, and only fights when he has to. Force him to fight, or worse kill, and things are going to get very unpleasant for you.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: His central philosophy is that there's no such thing as a "useless" sigil. If your sigil is lack-luster, it's because you haven't puzzled out all the possible applications yet. He's right.
• Heroic Neutral: Combined with Wild Card. His biggest wish is to get out of Darwin's Game, and all his efforts are to stop pointless D-Game matches. Ally with that, you've got a powerful ally, regardless of your past. Work to make the D-Game go on, draw in innocents, or increase its scale for petty reasons, or your own amusement, and things are going to get real bleak for you, real fast.
• Instant Expert: Part of his ability allows him to instantly understand the mechanisms of anything he's handled and recreate it on demand, even modifying them if he needs to, as long as it stays within the restrictions of his ability.
• It's Personal: Kaname already didn't like Eighth all that much, but when they kidnapped and tortured his friend, Shinozuka, on camera, Kaname was prepared to end them, one way or another.
• Jade-Colored Glasses: During the battle with Eight, seeing the aftermath of his friend brutrally killed causes Kaname to quickly give up his Thou Shalt Not Kill morals.
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Subverted. Eighth does enough horrible things both in general and to Kaname's friends that it causes Kaname to temporarily go against his principles, but once they're gone, Kaname goes back to his old self.
• Karmic Jackpot: Be good to Kaname, and usually, though not always, things will go well for you. Antagonize him, and things will go badly. Antagonize him enough and You Are Already Dead. You just haven't got the memo yet.
• Kiss of Life: When Kaname finds Shuka almost dead in the flooded underground subway, with no better options, he tries artificial respiration to revive her. It works and Shuka who was already smitten with him gives him a proper Big Damn Kiss because it was her Sacred First Kiss and she wanted to do it properly.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: When he realizes Eighth is just as Axe-Crazy, cruel, murderous, and sadistic outside D-Game as they are in it, he pulls out all the stops. And utterly annihilates a group of hundreds, with an army of 4.
• Logical Weakness: His ability to create things out of thin air cannot create items that are too complex (like smartphones), nor can he create a weapon without having handled it first. If he doesn't know it, he can't create it.
• Magnetic Hero: Kaname tends to make allies of every character who's not a complete psychopath, and some of those who are. One event even ends with him collecting an entire post-apocalyptic society.
• Minor Living Alone: Despite being a teenager, he lived on his own since his mother is dead and his father works overseas when the story started. After forming the clan, he then moved into the clan base.
• Missing Mom: His mother has been dead for some time.
• Morality Chain: His existence is just about the only thing that keeps Shuka on the straight and narrow, and she likes it that way.
• My Greatest Failure: The deaths of his friends, directly or indirectly, due to the D-game.
• Personality Powers: Interestingly enough, it's Inverted; Kaname generally has a reluctance to kill but his power actually lends itself quite well to assassinations.
• Post-Victory Collapse: The moment Shuka surrenders, he faints and collapses right on top of her due to a concussion. The only thing keeping him going was pure adrenaline.
• The Power of Creation: His Sigil can create objects out of thin air, with some restrictions. He can create all sorts of conventional weapons (firearms, grenades, etc.), but not complex electronics like smartphones or large objects like cars. He can only use the ability so many times in a short period, and he actually has to understand how the item itself functions, though his Sigil grants him the ability to gain such knowledge through skin contact. Finally, objects he create only exist as long as he's conscious, keeping him from amassing stockpiles of weapons which would break the game's economy.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Subtly. Despite Shuka's advances on him being far more aggressive than he likes, no matter how many other girls show attraction towards him (even Xuelan), it's clear Kaname considers only her as a future partner.
• Technical Pacifist: Kaname is against killing anyone in the game, but he will fight to survive.
• Tempting Fate: His first D-game battle is a direct result of him clicking "OK" on his phone app when he received a notice of a challenger, despite earlier having a "hallucination" of a snake biting his neck from his phone, which caused him to black out and wind up in the infirmary, and not reading the manual first.
• Took a Level in Badass: From regular highschool student to a newbie Darwin's Game player that won his first battle because luck was involved to winning his battles because of actual skill, and he just kept getting better.
• Undying Loyalty: To Shuka, he's deeply in love with her and will do anything to protect her, even if it means risking his life.

Shuka Karino

Wow, Kaname's cute!

Voiced by: Reina Ueda (JP), Alexis Tipton (EN)

A girl that is one of the highest ranked players of Darwin's Game. Since she never lost a single battle, she was quickly known as the Undefeated Queen. However, she earned her first ever loss with Kaname.

Her Sigil is Queen of Thorns, which allows her to manipulate any string-like object.

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• Action Girl: She's one of Sunset Ravens best fighter, and has an incredible battle record, having only two onscreen losses and doing well or outright dominating her opponent in every other battle.
• Adoptive Peer Parent: She sees Sui as a daughter figure, not as a peer. Sui is perfectly happy with this, as Shuka treats her very, very kindly.
• Badass in Distress: When she finds herself about to drown in the subway.
• Bathtub Bonding: She starts chapter 22 sharing a bath with Sui.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: She's a beautiful blonde with a ruthless but caring side to her as she loves Kaname and will protect him and the other members of the Sunset Ravens.
• Bedmate Reveal: After Kaname hands her very first defeat, he wakes up, two days later to find she's in bed with him, butt naked. She continues to sneak into his bed from time to time over the series' run, but in those instances, does so while wearing simple, yet elegant sleepwear.
• Best Her to Bed Her: Subdued, but present. She believes Kaname is her "destined one" because he dominated her in their fight.
• Blood Knight: She doesn't care about points, money, or any of the traditional D-Game "rewards." She fights in D-battles, for fun.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Downplayed but being in the D-Game since before she was a teenager has resulted in her view of the moral worth of life being a bit skewed, to say the least. She needs a reason not to kill her opponents.
• Chain Pain: Her preferred weapon is a long, metal chain.
• Children Forced to Kill: As a result of D-Game, she was forced into a life-or-death battle with her parents' killer, as a pre-teen. What's worse, a classmate lured her into the game.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Zigzagged. When she does feel jealous, she takes it to ridiculous levels, but yet when she hears that a certain 30-year-old very attractive female master-assassin wants to get herself knocked up with Kaname's child, purely to have an heir for her fighting style, she's okay with that. Furthermore, the fact that the population of Sunset Ravens is predominantly female and attractive is her doing.
• Death By Genre Savvy: Subverted. She goes into a subway to avoid snipers, and almost drowns.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her usual attire outside of school.
• Everyone Has Standards: She may be a blood knight who fights and kills for fun, but Wang absolutely sickens her with his sadistic cruelty and fondness for torture.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: Multiple men throughout the series wanted a piece of her, unfortunately for them, Kaname is the lucky one that gets to have her.
• Exotic Weapon Supremacy: Her proficiency with strings and chains is so exemplary, a master assassin who has decades of combat experience and martial arts training considers her style "perfect" and utterly incapable of improvement.
• Friend to All Children: Shuka has a soft side for children given how she accepted Sui in without any argument and bonds with her and her brothers side as well. Given this knowledge, it wouldn't be much surprise that Shuka would want to be pregnant with Kaname's child.
• Friendless Background: Prior to Kaname, she lived alone at the penthouse of an office building.
• Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is usually put up into two braids.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: If you can manage to avoid antagonizing her, she's actually a very sweet and sensitive woman, and excellent mother figure if Sui is anything to go by. She also happens to be golden-haired blonde.
• Harmful to Minors: Flashbacks show that she watched her parents die as a result of D-Game, when she was a pre-teen.
• Hates Being Touched: Any man that isn't Kaname touches her will find themselves short one hand. Some delinquents involved with Darwin's Game found this out the hard way.
• Hidden Depths: When it comes to her maternal instincts, she proves that she's quite promising.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Her chains make her opponents think her Sigil is exclusively limited to that type of weapon. As Wang learns the hard way, her Sigil is way more versatile than it appears.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: For a certain definition of "innocent." She doesn't seem to comprehend why lying naked next to a guy she likes is inappropriate. She wears clothes in future bed visits only because of Kaname's Freak Out.
• It Amused Me: She reached out to help Kaname in the fight with Banda because she thought Kaname was cute.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Her battles usually have her fighting in her typical gothic lolita clothes, which don't seem to hinder her at all.
• Kiss of Life: Played straight with Kaname when he tries to revive her with artificial respiration in the flooded underground subway. She was so happy to get it that she gave Kaname a Big Damn Kiss for it.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Pinned to the ground, gun in your face, and the guy pointing it at you feels cornered? Surrendering is a damn fine idea, as he could fire by accident if you try anything else.
• Lonely Rich Kid: The only thing she had in life before the D-game is money.
• Mama Bear: As surprising as it might seem, she's actually very protective of children, and her anger is not something you want to be on the wrong side of.
• Minor Living Alone: At the beginning of the story, she lived on her own after the death of her parents and with no surviving relatives. She then moved into the clan base after the clan was formed.
• Not Afraid to Die: To the point that hallucinations of her own death don't faze her, at all. The fact that she was able to No-Sell Liu Xuelan's trump card impressed the latter immensely.
• One-Woman Army: An official analysis from the CIA indicates that in order to beat her, it would take either someone with a very long-range sniper-rifle, or an attack helicopter. The Shibuya event proves that the former is not a guarantee.
• Parental Abandonment: She has no memory of her parents because they both died while she was very young, and she has no known living relatives.
• Razor Floss: One of the most dangerous aspects of her Sigil to control any string. She can make threads almost too small to see by the naked eye vibrate like an electric bone-saw. Which she demonstrates by slicing Wang's limbs into Ludicrous Gibs.
• Red Baron: Prior to her defeat by Kaname, she was known as the Undefeated Queen.
• Revenge: In the anime, her motivation for playing D-game is not simply for fun. She wants vengeance against two people: her parents' killer, and D-game's creator, the latter a sentiment Kaname shares.
• Sacred First Kiss: Not content with Kaname's Kiss of Life, she gives him a Big Damn Kiss, and voices the trope word for word.
• Single-Target Sexuality: She loves Kaname and only Kaname, shown that she severed the hand of another high school student who tried to flirt with her.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: She is utterly smitten with Kaname, sure that they will get married. Kaname is fully aware of her feelings but told her they'll have that talk after they clear the game.
• Sociopathic Hero: She may be one of the "good" guys, being a member, and founder, of the Sunset Ravens, but she has to be given a reason to not kill people who irritate her. Anyone other than Kaname who touches her without an engraved invitation is likely to lose that hand.
• Their First Time: Implied. She invites Kaname to her bedroom for an important "meeting", snuggles up to him, asks him if he likes her, gets pushed down unto the bed, and the next scene has Sui chasing everyone away from her bedroom door.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Even for a teenager, she seems a little too easy-going with causing harm to people.
• Undying Loyalty: Given her obsessive love for Kaname, she will do anything to protect him and if anyone tries to hurt him then, get ready to die.
• Verbal Tic: She tends to end her sentences with "nya~".
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Shuka will do anything to protect Kaname. While she's already a One-Woman Army, you harm Kaname, it gets personal as she will make her enemies suffer before they die.
• You Killed My Father: During the Trapped in Another World arc in the manga, she's revealed to have already fulfilled this on the person who murdered her parents; the Flag Game side story shows the events leading up to that moment. The anime, which originally aired while the latter was still in serialization, adapts her backstory early and inserts it during her scenes in Shibuya's subway.

Rein Kashiwagi

Interesting. It's been a long time since I got new information that I could sell for a lot of points.

Voiced by: Nichika Omori (JP), Tia Ballard (EN)

A middle-school student who Kaname encounters during the Treasure Hunt event. She trades information for points.

Her sigil is Laplace Function. It gives her the ability to predict things in the short-term future.

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• Combat Clairvoyance: Rein's Sigil is the ability to analyze the location and momentum of everything around her, which allows her to predict where things (like bullets) are going to be.
• Friendly Sniper: Is skilled with a sniper rifle.
• Gamer Chick: Unsurprisingly, her hobby outside of analyzing data is playing computer games. Sui notes that she "has not feminine interests".
• Hacker Cave: What she prefers for living quarters.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: By applying her Sigil to her sharpshooting, she can make shots with far better accuracy then what should otherwise be possible.
• Information Broker: Before the clan was formed, she finds information she thinks she can sell for lots of points. After Sunset Ravens was officially formed, she is the one responsible for gathering intelligence her clan needs.
• In-Universe Nickname: Is often called "Rain."
• Logical Weakness: Her sigil allows her to avoid attacks analyzing the momentum of objects and forming predictions based on that. A teleportation sigil such as the one possessed by Eighth's leader therefore cannot be predicted. An attack with a wide enough area-of-effect that would leave her with nowhere to escape could also bypass her prediction-based evasion.
• Not the Intended Use: While she mainly uses her Sigil's analytical abilities to predict the future in the short-term, she's shown to be able to turn it on herself in order to find the information needed to decipher a critical clue in the Shibuya Event. While she does succeed, the effort she put in caused her to have a nosebleed.
• Red Baron: Rein is also known as "The Information Broker" or "The Analyst".

Ryuji Maesaka

What?! Eighth is coming here?! Count me in then!

Voiced by: Taku Yashiro (JP), Jarrod Greene (EN)

A man who teamed up with Kaname during the Treasure Hunt event after learning King is also participating in the event.

His sigil is Truth or Lie^note One fan-translation humorously gave it the name of Bullshit Detector. It allows him to tell when someone is lying or not.

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• An Arm and a Leg: In the Treasure Hunt event, Eighth manages to sneak up on him and sever his arm, along the hand. Fortunately, the top healer at Danjou Boxing Club manages to either grow it back, or re-attach it.
• Changed My Mind, Kid: Agreed to just take his three rings and head on his merry way, considering becoming People Puppets for "The Florist" was unforgivable. When he heard Eighth was coming, he quickly decided to enter into an Enemy Mine situation with both Kaname and "The Florist" to deal with them.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: After Kaname proved to him how good his Sigil really is, Sunset Ravens benefited a lot from his ability to weed out liars and determine the sincerity of potential allies. It's also the most reliable way of weeding out the Greed that has disguised themselves as humans. All Ryuji has to do is ask if they're human and his sigil will see through their lies.
• Identical Stranger: He bears a strong resemblance to Kyouda Hiroyuki, which Kaname points out when he finally unmasks.
• Living Lie Detector: Ryuji's Sigil can tell if someone is telling the truth or a lie.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: He thought his ability to detect lies was useless, but Kaname managed to prove him wrong by proving he considered Ryuji a friend by lying about not being friends.
• You Killed My Father: He wants to kill Wang because Wang murdered his kid brother.

Hiragi Ishiro "The Florist"

Sorry, kid, but one man's death can mean another man's life.

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP), Christopher Wehkamp (EN)

A man with a terminally ill daughter who joined the D-Game to get enough money to get her a heart transplant.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Downplayed. The anime shortens his hair and lessens the wrinkles on his face, making him look somewhat younger.
• All for Nothing: Played with. On one hand, him going into Darwin's Game to earn enough cash so his daughter could get a transplant is rejected by said daughter when she learned of his death. On the other, if his daughter Suzune didn't start investigating Darwin's Game as a result of said death, she would have died of cardiac arrest.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Died inside Darwin's Game trying to earn enough cash to get his daughter a heart transplant.
• Green Thumb: His sigil allows him to grow and control plants.
• Hollywood Hacking: His plants can get into computers and take control of them.
• Honorary True Companion: He was never officially part of Sunset Ravens since the clan wasn't formed until after he died, but while he was alive, they all worked well together in order to defeat Eighth during the Treasure Hunt event. In gratitude for his help, the Ravens went out of their way to protect his daughter until she joined an allied clan.
• Logical Weakness: His plants are very vulnerable to fire.
• People Puppets: His plants can mind-control people through the use of drugs.
• Swiss-Army Superpower: There's very little his control of plants can't do. He can attack from afar, create armor to fight at close range, lay deadly traps, take over computer systems, Mind Control people, keep his heart pumping after a fatal wound...
• Taking You with Me: When he finds himself cornered by two powerful members of Eighth, he brings a 40+ story building down on all three of them. He only managed to kill one; the other survived, though not unscathed.
• Trap Master: He fights primarily through traps, but if forced to fight in person is no pushover.

Sui/Souta

Shuka Onee-san!

Voiced by: Yumiri Hanamori (JP), Brittany Lauda (EN)

A young girl participating in the game. She says Souta, her brother, is within her.

Sui's sigil, Pollux Light, allows her to manipulate water while Souta's sigil, Castor Light, lets him turn water into ice.

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• Awesome by Analysis: She's the one who figures out the antagonist in Out of Range Village, not anyone else, including Rein.
• Bathtub Bonding: She starts chapter 22 sharing a bath with Shuka.
• Beware the Nice Ones: It's Sui, not Souta that kills the parrot who is using clay puppets to threaten Ryuji, and putting them all in danger. And she does it without hesitation, and barely any remorse.
• Cannot Spit It Out: She develops a crush on Ryuji, but being a Shrinking Violet, can't bring herself to speak out her feelings, even after Souta has her trip and fall on him to make her confess.
• Combat Pragmatist: Souta fights dirty, without regret or remorse.
• Easily Forgiven: In spite of being responsible for Shuka nearly dying, Shuka is incredibly forgiving of her, though it helps that Shuka is incredibly smitten with Kaname and the whole incident led to Kaname giving her the Kiss of Life for which Shuka actually said she was grateful. Not to mention Kaname's in the room, and she knows he hates pointless killing.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Sui is actually a very sweet girl, and is platinum blonde.
• Hold the Line: When a Greed LL attacks the Sunset Ravens in Shibuya, she uses her sigil to hold off its Hollywood Acid Breath Weapon so the team can escape.
• Making a Splash/An Ice Person: Sui/Souta's Sigil. Sui controls water while Souta freezes it.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: She can detect Sigil use by the blood flow fluctuations of the user. She used this to figure out that it was the parrot that was attacking them at Off-Range Village.
• Shrinking Violet: Sui is painfully shy.
• Split Mind, Split Powers: Sui's sigil in the game, Pollux Light, allows her to manipulate water while Souta's sigil, Castor Light, lets him turn water into ice.
• Split Personality: Souta's personality is within Sui, and Sui sometimes let's him control, though she is capable of taking it back if she thinks he's going too far.
• Superpower Lottery: She’s a clear winner with the ability to manipulate water. It includes the water inside living beings. The only reason she doesn’t use her sigil that way more often is due to her unwillingness to use violence in general. Push comes to shove though, if her True Companions are threatened, she will do whatever it takes, even killing her enemies by controlling the water within them.
• Water Is Womanly: Sui's Sigil lets her control water and she's a shy, sweet girl.

Liu Xuelan

I want your baby, Kaname!

Voiced by: Ai Kayano (JP), Katelyn Barr (EN)

The top Japan player in Darwin’s Game and the top assassin in the world. She's from China and her sigil is unknown, because she never used it in her matches.

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• The Ace: She's the #1 D-game player in Japan.
• Badass Normal: Nobody knows what her sigil is because she does not need it! She's climbed to #1 without using her sigil at all!
• The Bet: She joins Sunset Ravens because she lost the bet that she would be Kaname's subordinate if she couldn't defeat them without having to resort to deadly force.
• Guest-Star Party Member: She and her butler Ximing are technically members of Sunset Ravens, but they just do whatever they want.
• Hitman with a Heart: She's a master assassin, but otherwise a good woman.
• Killing Intent: Weaponized. It's so intense that it can completely incapacitate others by making them hallucinate their own death. And to drive home just how insanely powerful she is, this isn't her sigil; she had this ability before joining the game.
• Late to the Tragedy: In chapter 31, she arrives at the Japanese CIA office to try and negotiate a non-aggression agreement. Said office had already been firebombed by A Darwin's Game Executioner.
• My Biological Clock Is Ticking: Combined with Best Her to Bed Her. She wants an heir to her martial style, but only her bloodline can inherit, and not just anybody is good enough to be her Glorified Sperm Donor. She set her sights on Kaname because she decided the winner of the Treasure Hunt event was a suitable sire for her child.
• Power is Sexy: When Shuka was able to No-Sell her weaponized killing intent, and cornered her atop a moving limo, she openly proposed to Shuka in response!
• The Spartan Way: Which she lampshades. Just as she's about to put Kaname and Inukai through Training from Hell, she shouts "THIS IS SPARTA!"
• Training from Hell: She puts Kaname through it so he can be strong enough to qualify to be her baby daddy.
• The Unreveal: She never shows a Sigil because she already acquired it before she joined Darwin's Game; in other words, her Killing Intent was her innate Sigil.
• Worthy Opponent: How she and Shuka see each other. It's impossible to determine a winner in a fight between them, if neither of them are trying to kill the other.

Ximing

Lady Shuka, are you perhaps a long lost relative of Lady Liu Xuelan?

Voiced by: Hideyuki Umezu (JP), R. Bruce Elliott (EN)

Lady Liu Xuelan's butler.

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• Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears traditional butler attire, does not fall far behind Liu Xuelan.
• Battle Butler: Impeccable butler, expert fighter.
• Crazy-Prepared: In chapter 34, while driving to the SR's hideout/base after a negotiation with Saigou Family Clan, Kaname gets the notice that he's starring in a major game event, to take place ... in 30 seconds. Siming stops the limo, opens the trunk and gives Kaname a backpack with three days of food and water inside.
• Graceful Loser: When he finds that Liu Xuelan is in a predicament where she can't win the fight without breaking her oath to avoid using lethal force, he calmly and politely admits their loss.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Like Liu Xuelan, he's a member of Sunset Ravens, but only takes orders from Liu Xuelan and otherwise does whatever he feels like.

• Training from Hell: The first to put Kaname and Inukai through the ringer.
• Undying Loyalty: To Liu Xuelan, and the only one who could tell her when to stand down.

Ouji Kimihiko

You...YOU'RE KANAME OF SUNSET RAVENS?!

A gun Otaku who bumps into Kaname during the Hunting Island event. Sigil: Penguin's Eye.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Upon meeting Kaname, he begs to join Sunset Ravens, and then when Kaname has him flee from the Doume, he begins shouting, begging for someone to come to Kaname's rescue. Both times, it was the right course of action.
• Ascended Fanboy: Upon joining D-game, and hearing about the Sunset Ravens, he idolized them. When he got to meet Kaname, and was offered the chance to join, he couldn't click the "OK" button fast enough.
• Blessed with Suck: What he originally thinks about his sigil, until Kaname teaches him how to use it properly, at which point he comes to realize it's Difficult, but Awesome.
• Born Lucky: Not only does spending all his starter points in the gacha actually prove justified when he walks away with a sweet high-power, super-long range anti-materiel sniper rifle and managed to not die because he got one of the widely-distributed Clan Shelters from the Sunset Ravens, but he manages to bump into Seigen's cult and get away unmolested, and then, the guy he scopes out through his sniper rifle, going purely by thermal vision, Kaname, is probably the only player who wouldn't hold a grudge for that.
• Crazy-Prepared: Deconstructed. During the hour he had to prepare for the hunting event, he brought some sweet survivalist gear, including camouflage painted fatigues, and used it all correctly and wisely, but the combined weight was too much for him, causing him to go through his water rations far too quickly. If he hadn't met Kaname, death by thirst was a very real possibility.
• Did Not Think This Through: He was so fixated on trying to sneak into the southern supply point that he never bothered to check for local resources. When Kaname points out a fresh-water spring, he almost facepalms at his lack of foresight.
• Easily Forgiven: Targets Kaname with a sniper rifle, intending to kill him. Kaname's response? Sharing his supplies, and recruiting him to Sunset Ravens, after helping him clear the Hunting Island event.
• Friendly Sniper: He is actually quite proficient with his high-power anti-materiel rifle, sniping a deer through the chest on his very first shot. The only reason he didn't hit Kaname with it is that he never got a chance to fire, Kaname disappearing from his vision and coming up behind him before he could blink.
• Incompletely Trained: He's got the gear, the knowledge and proficiency to use it, but his body lacks the proper training to handle it for any length of time unaided. Joining Sunset Ravens fixes this shortcoming nicely.
• Mundane Utility: He practiced using his sigil "Penguin's Eye" by searching for a porn mag he lost under his bed.
• Non-Indicative Name: His sigil has nothing to do with actual penguins.
• Necessary Drawback: While using his sigil, he has to shut his eyes, and remain almost motionless.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: His reaction to being spotted by Seigen is to run for the hills. It's the correct decision.
• Super-Senses: His sigil allows him to target scope within 50 meters of himself, in all directions.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Using a high-power anti-materiel sniper rifle for hunting deer sounds like a good plan, on paper. But if the bullet is too high-powered, the bullet can pass right through the deer, causing it to run away, rather than killing it.

Eighth

One of many clans in the game, and one of the most notorious ones for their murderous brutality. Their leader is Wang.

In General

• And There Was Much Rejoicing: Most people are glad they’re gone. The exceptions are limited to those that had a personal connection with them.
• Axe-Crazy: Pretty much all of them love inflicting barbaric brutality on other people. Darwin’s Game just makes it easier for them to get away with it right up until Sunset Ravens took all their points.
• The Dreaded: They were feared for their brutality in killing anyone that opposed them.
• Revenge Myopia: They rampage, steal, and sadistically maim, torture, and kill across Shibuya whenever they please, but one of them gets hurt, especially by the people they're victimizing? Total annihilation to the offender! No exceptions!
• Total Party Kill: They were massacred once Kaname, Ryuji and Shuka pulled out all the stops, and by the end of the clan war, anyone left were killed by the mechanics of the game as they lost all their points.

Wang

Look at me, the "hero" of Darwin's Game.

Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (JP), Mike McFarland (EN)

The leader of Eighth. His sigil, Beelzebub, allows him to manipulate the space around him up to 10 meters, allowing him to teleport and to cut people up.

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• An Arm and a Leg: He loses quite a few limbs going after Shuka.
• Axe-Crazy: He'll kill you and laugh about it, if you're lucky. If you're not, he'll torture you first, then kill you.
• Blood Knight: He relishes killing, and delights in torturing people.
• Collector of the Strange: Combined with Creepy Souvenir. He has a bizarre obsession with collecting people's severed fingers and putting them in a giant pickle jar, stating that the resulting liquid is his favorite "energy drink."
• Dirty Coward: As Shuka continues to chop off his limbs, he breaks down into a pathetic wreck as he crys his eyes out saying he doesn't want to die. Shuka mocks him for his cowardice and even faces Kaname before he dies saying that he shouldn't die as he's the "protagonist" of Darwin's Game and shouldn't die like the rest.
• The Farmer and the Viper: How does he "thank" Kaname for sparing him at the end of the Shibuya Treasure Hunt event? Swearing, and carrying out, bloody Revenge by Proxy. Kaname's retaliation is... not pretty.
• Fingore: He loves chopping off and collecting the fingers of those he targets.
• Glasgow Grin: He's got some kind of facial deformity that makes it look like he's got a massive smile on almost all occasions, even when he's royally pissed.
• He's Back!:
  • In chapter 92, he apparently returns as a Humanoid Greed, and he's far, far more dangerous than before, having gained a Victor Gains Loser's Powers ability.
  • Chapter 93 makes the above a subversion instead: that particular Wang is actually from a World Line where he never fought Kaname and instead was consumed by Emulator to add Beelzebub to his own skillset (via "emulating" that Wang's personality).
• I Control My Minions Through...: Loyalty, amazingly enough. He doesn't have to use violence or threats to get people to join him, they do it willingly, due to his inherent charisma. Once he considers you a member of his gang, he, mostly, looks out for your well being, but only if you are all about hurting anyone and everyone outside the gang, as brutally and graphically as possible.
• Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Since he never faced a real challenge until he foolishly pissed off Sunset Ravens, he grew complacent in his strength and abilities, thinking way too highly of himself and his gang. This made his actions utterly predictable, and he completely underestimated how dangerous Shuka is.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Early translations named him "One", reasoning that it matches his clan's name being Eighth. The anime, and his slate headstone in Chapter 99, confirm his name was meant to be translated as "Wang", which is further supported by his past history with Long in the slums of China.
• Moral Myopia: He wants something you've got, no matter what it is, he and his gang will happily kill you and take it. You fight back, successfully or not, you're a monster that deserves a Fate Worse than Death.
• Narcissist: Believes himself to be the "protagonist" of Darwin's Game and as a king as he attempts to kill everyone who doesn't follow him or gets in his way.
• Never My Fault: As Shuka is tearing him apart in retaliation for his many offenses against Sunset Ravens, he yells out "DARWIN'S GAME IS BUGGED! ADMINISTRATION! DO SOMETHING!" It's not until he's moments away from being completely pixelated that he realizes Rein's lecture about the ritual of Gu indicates how he screwed himself over with his sadistic cruelty.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Deliberately trying to enrage Kaname by targeting his friends backfired in the most spectacular way possible. Kaname, realizing that Wang is beyond reason, eliminated his entire gang on the spot.
• Oh, Crap!: Wang was not prepared for the possibility that Kaname would actually break from his Thou Shalt Not Kill policy. He ended up looking like a deer staring at headlights when Kaname declares a Clan Battle and starts gunning down his men.
• Powerful, but Incompetent: He's certainly not an idiot. He figured out the real purpose of the Treasure Hunt event shortly after Kaname did. His petty sadism, delusions that he is the "hero" of Darwin's Game, and the fact he never faced anyone on his level before negate his intelligence and powerful sigil. He killed a hostage, destroying all his leverage, just to hurt Kaname. All it did was cause Kaname to realize that some people can't be reasoned with and need to be killed. He always used the same move in his fights so Shuka easily countered him. When Shuka was about to kill him, he teleported himself 100 meters into the air. He was only ever able to teleport himself 10 meters before, implying that his sigil was far more powerful than he thought. He only realizes his mistakes as he is being disintegrated for losing the clan battle.
• Power Incontinence: When he was desperate to escape from Shuka's retribution, he finds himself 100 meters in the air, falling uncontrollably. He does manage to slow himself down and land, right in front of Kaname and Ryuji, helpless.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: Wang thought he, not Kaname, was The Protagonist of Darwin's Game, even with all his sadistic cruelty.
• Psychopathic Manchild: The instant things start going south for him, he throws a tantrum and complains Darwin's game is unfair.
• Revenge by Proxy: If he can't get at you directly, he will hunt down people you care about, take out his frustrations on them, and then show you a video of it, just so he can make you suffer.
• Sadist: Kills people for pure enjoyment.
• Saying Too Much: Which Kaname repeatedly calls him out on. He's a compulsive talker, addicted to the sound of his own voice, so he just goes on rants at the drop of a hat.
• The Sociopath: A clear cut example, being a sadistic thug who uses his charisma to manipulate people to serve him, and showing no remorse for all the cruelty that he inflicted on other people.
• Sore Loser: Swore vengeance on Kaname for winning the Treasure Hunt event.
• Smarter Than You Look:
  • He may look just like a thug, and certainly acts like one, but he was smart enough to realize that the rings weren't the real treasure of the Shibuya Treasure Hunt event, something only Kaname's group previously figured out.
  • He also figured out that you can use the D-game store while actively in a D-battle, if you can somehow find a safe place to be unmolested enough, which is something only Kaname himself discovered, almost by accident, moments before, and on the other side of Shibuya.
• Space Master: His Sigil, Beelzebub, works by manipulating space. It's how he can cut people up without touching them.
• Stupid Evil:
  • His greatest enemy was not Sunset Ravens, though they are quite formidable. It's his own sadistic cruelty. In the Treasure Hunt event, he had a massive home-field advantage, but blew it in the final moments by happily revealing that he and his gang would sadistically torture and kill Kaname's group regardless of what the latter did. Then when his gang has one of Kaname's friends as a hostage, throws away all the leverage having a hostage brings by slicing the poor guy into chunks, putting his pieces in a bloody box and gloating. It's not until he's being disintegrated by Darwin's Game mechanics that he realizes how bad an idea that was.
  • Moments before his death, it's implied that his sigil was potentially stronger than even he initially realized, but he never bothered to actually test the limits of his abilities. He manages to teleport away from Shuka moments before she kills him and is elated about this revelation, but he ends up landing next Kaname and Ryuji instead. Had he actually experimented with his Sigil outside of his mindless killing spree, he might have been able to turn the tables when he eventually got backed into a corner.
• Swap Teleportation: He can swap himself with another person, which is less practical than simply teleporting away or cutting but good in a pinch if he's trapped. It does him no good when he tries it on Shuka, because the wires trapping him are under her control and won't harm her.
• Touch of Death: His Sigil allows him to cut anything, from walls to other people, like a hot knife through butter using nothing more than his hands, but unlike his teleportation abilities, its range is limited to only 1 meter.
• Teleportation with Drawbacks: Can teleport using his sigil, up to 10 meters, unless pressed, then he can go further.
• Villains Want Mercy: When he finds himself at Shuka's non-existent mercy with a pissed off Kaname glaring down at him, he pleads for his life and officially surrenders. Unfortunately for him, it's way too little, too late by this point.
• Villainous Breakdown: Wang has a cocky bravado as long as he is able to maintain the upper hand by attacking in numbers. He completely loses his composure when Kaname guns down all of his men.
• Wrong Assumption: After giving Kaname a combination "The Reason You Suck" Speech and Breaking Speech, he thinks Kaname is in an Angst Coma, and starts to leave, bored. In reality, Kaname is in a perfect Tranquil Fury and responds by going through his entire gang like a laxative, leaving him to Shuka's "tender mercy."
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He thinks he's the Villain Protagonist of the story.

Katsura Keiichi

Really? I'm smart?! Thanks, Wang!

Voiced by: Ryuuichi Kijima (JP), Zach Bolton (EN)

The member of Eighth Wang is most likely to bounce ideas off of. Sigil: Tempest.

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• Accidental Murder: While in an official Mixed Martial Arts event, he accidentally killed his opponent, due to the latter having some kind of medical condition he didn't know about. While the law saw him as innocent, the friends and family of the dead martial artist do not.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He is a karate champion, and is very arrogant.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: He is completely faithful to Wang because the latter helped him out at his darkest moment.
• Blow You Away: His sigil allows him to manipulate air-pressure to the point that he can make walls of air harder than steel.
• Co-Dragons: Was one of Eighth's top leaders right below Wang alongside Sig, until the latter died.
• Dying Declaration of Hate: "I'll be waiting for our rematch in hell!"
• Eye Scream: Though he did survive his encounter with "The Florist", he did not come out unscathed.
• Handicapped Badass: Though he lost an eye in the Shibuya event, his ability to kick ass has not waned.
• Hero-Worshipper: Although Wang is only a "hero" in his own head, Kei openly praises Wang's "greatness" at the drop of a hat.
• In-Universe Nickname: Goes by "Kei."
• It Gets Easier: Invoked. Kei was crushed with guilt at the accidental death of his martial arts tournament opponent, until Wang came along and said "your problem is that you only killed one person. If you kill a bunch of people, the pain will go away." And the pain did go away alright.
• Stealth Insult: On the receiving end. As shown in the page image, Wang is calling him an idiot, but he thinks Wang is praising him.

Sig

Go, Agni Drive!

Voiced by: Masaaki Mizunaka (JP)

One of Eighth's top enforcers. Sigil: Agni Drive.

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• Calling Your Attacks: "Agni Drive!"
• Co-Dragons: Was one of Eighth's top leaders right below Wang alongside Keiichi, until he died.
• Magic Pants: When he uses his sigil, his clothes somehow come through intact.
• No Name Given: His true name is unknown. "Sig" is merely a nickname.
• Playing with Fire: He can cloak his entire body with a thin armor of flame, ala The Human Torch.
• Red Baron: "Devil Flame Sig".
• Required Secondary Powers: His flames only burn what he wants them to.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed off soon after he appears.

Shinji

Y-yeah, King, whatever you say!

Sigil: Unknown.

Voiced by: Soma Saito (JP)

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• Adaptational Wimp: The anime makes his physique less imposing, leaves him perpetually stuttering or cowering, and makes him come across like a pathetic welp.
• Boom, Headshot!: Gets one from Kaname.
• Gaining the Will to Kill: After much angsting, he finally draws his gun on what he thinks is a catatonic Kaname. Unfortunately for him, Kaname got the will to kill a bit quicker than he did.
• If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: On the receiving end. Wang tests his "loyalty" by ordering him to kill Eighth's hostage as they're retreating from the hangar that the police is trying to storm.
• Nothing Personal: Lampshaded when going after Eighth's hostage. "I know this isn't your fault, but Sudou shouldn't have trampled Wang's greatness."
• Small Role, Big Impact: He's a minor character, barely more notable than Eighth's average Mook, but it's through him that Wang finds out about Darwin's Game.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Wang learns about Darwin's Game from looking at Shinji's phone from behind him, turning Wang from just another two-bit thug to a real Axe-Crazy menace.

Kurosu Kazuya

A member of Eighth that Ryuji killed.

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• Ax-Crazy: Ryuji describes him as a psychopath who loves tormenting people to death. A perfect fit for Eighth.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He had an uncle on his mother’s side who took in his pet parrot. Said uncle also kept a photo of him from when he was a student and before he joined Eighth.
• Pet the Dog: He must have treated his pet parrot well since said parrot tried to get revenge on Ryuji for killing him.
• Post Humous Character: Was killed by Ryuji before the start of the story.
• Tattooed Crook: The clay dummies that attack Ryuji and Co. in Out-of-Range Village all have full body tattoos, and so does Ryuji's flashback.

Trinity

A clan that due to winning a game event, their leader managed to obtain a special privilege known as Bookmaker, allowing them to operate as a gambling ring for Darwin's game.

In General

• Illegal Gambling Den: They are the main way people can bet on game matches and events thanks to Themis' Bookmaker privilege.

Themis

Damn you, Shuka!

Voiced by: Ai Kakuma

The D-Game player who won the privilege known as "Bookmaker." Her Sigil, Unbalance or Crooked Scale, grants her Mind Manipulation abilities, mainly the ability to amplify negative emotions and to control someone's consciousness.

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• The Bet: Engages in one with Shuka where she'd become Shuka's subordinate, turning over her clan and assets to Sunset Ravens, if Kaname wins the Hunting Event. She loses.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: All smiles and politeness to your face, scheming and treachery behind your back.
• Evil Redhead: Red hair, and a Rich Bitch.
• The Farmer and the Viper: How does she repay being treated very, very kindly by the Sunset Ravens? Try to backstab and destroy them first chance she gets. They were not amused and not only did her attempt fail before it could even start, they warn her that trying anything of the sort again will not end well.
• Girlish Pigtails: Like Shuka, she wears her hair like this, though the innocence and cheerfulness often associated with the look is just a mask.
• Hidden Badass: Although her Starscream antics can overshadow her competence, it was stated that she actually won a past D-Game event that led to her being rewarded the "Bookmaker" privilege.
• More than Mind Control: From her explanation of her Sigil, she's only able to use it to influence what a person's already feeling or what a person's already thinking, rather than straight out controlling them. Of course, its perfect for an opportunist like herself.
• Never My Fault: She doesn't acknowledge that her clan's current status as Sunset Raven's subordinates is her fault where even Kondou (mentally) acknowledges the situation is just her reaping what she sowed.
• Noodle Incident: What did she do to earn the "bookmaker" perk?
• Only in It for the Money: She set up Trinity clan purely to get rich(er) from the gambling that goes on from players and corrupt politicians, businessmen, etc.
• Rich Bitch: Tons of money, horrible personality.
• The Starscream: If she's your subordinate, no matter how well you treat her, she will backstab and take your possessions and authority the moment she thinks she can get away with it. She tried it on Sunset Ravens, once, she tries again, and her life is forfeit.
• Sore Loser: She only takes losses with dignity while in public. In private, she seethes with fury and resentment. She tries to backstab and seize the Sunset Ravens with treachery while Kaname is in an Event, not realizing Kaname saw it coming, thanks to a couple of fortune tellers from "Japan's" leaders that owe him their loyalty.
• Straw Hypocrite: Loves to backstab her superiors, but when her subordinates go against her wishes, even if it's the only thing keeping her alive, she tears into them. Ryuji immediately calls her out on it, also revealing to Themis that Sunset Ravens was fully aware of her schemes.
• Villainous Breakdown: She enters a state where she barely reacts to anything and her subordinate Kondou ends up representing Trinity at meetings with the Ravens after her attempt to escape the Sunset Ravens' control fails before it can even start.
• We Can Rule Together: She once tried to recruit Shuka with the intention of having Shuka as her Right-Hand Attack Dog. Shuka declined.

Kondou

I wear my sunglasses at night, and inside doors, and... well, everywhere apparently.

Themis' subordinate and the announcer for the events Darwin's Game holds.

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• Hidden Eyes: He has yet to make an appearance without wearing sunglasses, indoors, at night, you name it.
• Know When to Fold Them: Knows there is no point in Trinity and Themis trying to act against Sunset Ravens after seeing indisputable proof that they have someone who can see through lies and someone who can see the freaking future. Instead, he decides to keep Trinity in their good books by fully cooperating with them.
• Mr. Exposition: He's the one to explain the finer details of Themis' Bookmaker privilege to the Sunset Ravens.

Danjou Boxing Club

The Sunset Ravens' strongest ally.

Inukai

Hah! All too easy.

Voiced by: Jun'ya Enoki (JP), Anthony Bowling (EN)

The first of the members named and introduced to the audience.

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• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Almost as bad as Kei from Eighth.
• Beat Them at Their Own Game: He's on the wrong end of this trope. He swipes and threatens Kaname's phone to force a D-game battle. Kaname then managed to swipe and threaten his to force his surrender.
• Curbstomp Battle: On the wrong end when he wound up facing Kei in a one-on-one fight.
• Fragile Speedster: His sigil grants him Super-Speed, but he's still as fragile as a normal human.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Allied with Sunset Ravens during their Clan War against the Eigth. He formally joins the group after his rematch with Kaname.
• Honor Before Reason: Initiates a rematch against Kaname even though he knows full well that Kaname and Alexei are now allies, so any D-Game between the two clans is off-limits. All because he's frustrated with the fact that Kaname has surpassed him as a fighter.
• Hot-Blooded: Quick to go into battle, slow to think about the consequences.
• In the Hood: Wears a hoodie.
• Smug Super: Starts out very smug, but loses his smugness after receiving one painful loss after another.
• Spirited Competitor: Loves to fight strong opponents to improve himself.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: If you ignore your clan's boss and provoke fights from clan allies, getting thrown out of the clan is getting off easy!
• Unknown Rival: Towards Kaname; the first time they had a D-Game match, Inukai was the superior fighter but was forced to forfeit his match after Kaname swiped his phone and threatened to smash it. Inukai then began to resent how quickly Kaname was to level grind, but by that point Kaname cared more about ending the D-Game entirely so the rivalry ended up being one-sided.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Relatively speaking, Inukai has been a trained boxer for 5 years but when it comes to coordinating his martial arts with his sigil, he tends to get left in the dust by all skilled D-Ranked players. After finally joining the Sunset Ravens, he undergoes a Training from Hell Xuelan to address this issue.

Alexei Bergen Nicolai

Alright, Kaname. Let's see if you are worthy of being our ally.

Voiced by: Shunsuke Takeuchi

The leader of Danjou Boxing Club. His Sigil, Iron Fortress, transforms his body to steel that, by his own admission, is stronger than tungsten steel.

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• Boxing Battler: His primary martial art is kickboxing.
• Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards: He used to be in one when he lived in Russia. Unfortunately for him, the man his group was paid to guard was the target of Liu Xuelan. Amazingly, he doesn't hold a grudge.
• Diving Save: In Chapter 92, he throws Kaname and Suzune away from Emulator's kill range and tries to defend with his Sigil. Unfortunately, Emulator reveals his use of Wang's Sigil, which bypasses Alexei's defense.
• Everybody Calls Him "Barkeep": Most people call him "Danjou." It's not until the CIA is reviewing his file in chapter 31 that his name's revealed.
• If We Get Through This…: He and his wife Kaede were considering adopting Suzune as their own daughter after the Greed were wiped out. He dies to Emulator before that can happen.
• Last Request: Knowing he's been bested by Emulator, he uses his last moments to tell Kaname to take care of Suzune and the others.
• Martial Pacifist: Alexei is adverse to killing and after winning a D-Game event, the special privlege he requested from the GM was the ability to create a second battle system that doesn't result in the loser's death.
• One Last Job: He had retired from the front lines to train Suzune during the five years of the Greed invasion, but comes back to protect a camp being attacked by Greed. This leads to his death by Emulator, in front of Suzune.
• Parental Substitute: He was considering adopting Suzune after caring for her like his own daughter in the five-year timeskip.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Prior to Kaname and the Sunset Ravens setting martial law to end all killing in the D-Game, Alexei's turf was originally considered the one safe haven in Tokyo where killing was off-limits. Wang and the Eighth avoided ever directly confronting his clan and even Xuelan respected him as a fighter.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: After winning a D-Game event, Alexei established the Danjou Boxing Club where players could be able to learn martial arts and actually compete in battles without the risk of death.
• Spirited Competitor: He only fights for the challenge. Win or lose doesn't matter to him. With the help of Sunset Ravens, his dojo hosts D-game battles as a sport, not life-or-death combat.
• Super-Toughness: His sigil can temporarily transform his body to steel.
• Worthy Opponent: He fully respects Lie Xuelan's far superior martial art abilities.

Kaede

Hurt somewhere?

Voiced by: Yuuki Takada (JP)

The boxing club's second-in-command and primary healer. Her Sigil, Healing Grace, lets her boosts a body's ability to self-heal.

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• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde and not only the healer, but a very kind and gentle woman.
• Healing Hands: Her sigil allows her to accelerate natural healing to the point that she can graft severed limbs back on, if not cause them to regrow.
• Healing Magic Is the Hardest: Her sigil has absolutely no combat utility, and Darwin's Game is primarily about winning points from others.
• Logical Weakness: Her Sigil does not fix inherent co-genital defects nor heal illnesses.
• Number Two: She's the vice leader of her husband's clan.
• Occidental Otaku: Despite being Russian, she has a Japanese name because she's a self-admitted extreme Japanophile.
• Parental Substitute: She was considering adopting Suzune after caring for her like her own daughter in the five-year timeskip. When the World Line's collapse puts them in danger, Suzune actually calls her "mother" as she's guiding them to safety.
• Verbal Tic: One fan-translation has her end most of her sentences in "hun!"

Hiragi Suzune

Dad?! What happened to you?!

Voiced by: Konomi Kohara (JP), Apphia Yu (EN)

The daughter of "The Florist".

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• Beast Woman: Her sigil allows her to change parts of her body into animal body parts.
• Commonality Connection: Her name and Rein's start with the same kanji, "Bell."
• Delicate and Sickly: For a good portion of the story, she's in the hospital waiting for a heart transplant.
• Dumbass No More: She wakes up to how idiotic her Stupid Good nature is when Doctor Amagasa comes into her room for a bit of Sickbed Slaying in the middle of the night, and starts getting real smart, real quick, although even then she still needed rescue.
• Five Stages of Grief: She goes through all of them when Kanehira Hideaki shows up with the death insurance money that resulted from her father's death in the D-game.
• Power Incontinence: It took her a while before she figured out how to turn off her shapeshifting.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Her irrational decision to lock her inheritance money away in a charitable trust and refusal to use it to buy herself a new heart proves justified in hindsight when it's revealed that her doctor is entirely untrustworthy.
• Stupid Good: She turned down her inheritance and her father's will for a heart transplant because she didn't feel "worthy" of it.
• Too Dumb to Live: As mentioned, not only does she turn down the heart transplant and the hundreds of millions of yen her father died getting for her, but she goes and decides to investigate Darwin's Game, despite being well aware that it's exactly what got her father killed.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Her sigil allows her to manifest animal features to boost her senses and physical abilities.

Kanehira Insurance Association

Kanehira Hideaki

Dear client, we won't force you to renew. Do you wish the form to cancel the contract?

The leader of the clan, and the "insurance broker." Sigil, Halation Ghost.

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• Affably Evil: Impeccably polite and friendly, but morally ambiguous, at the best of times.
• Amoral Attorney: Played with. On one hand, he is an evil sot who would happily send a subordinate on an Uriah Gambit, and gun down helpless children to meet his goals. On the other, he has a very strong sense of professional ethics and not only honors contracts in the letter and spirit in which they are signed, but discharges his legal duties impeccably, even handing over an inheritance of hundreds of millions of yen to a terminally ill, little girl, rather than engage in any kind of legal trickery to try and claim any of it for himself.
• Evil Virtues: Honor. If he has a contract with you, he will follow the contract to the best of his abilities, in both the letter and the spirit in which it was signed.
• Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Combined with Heroic Sacrifice, ironically. He meets his end at the claws of a Doume while protecting the life of a client.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Wears glasses and is a cruel bastard who will gun down children with a smile.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He didn't meet his end by getting killed by Kaname for trying to murder the island natives, but by protecting a client from the Doumes.
• Me's a Crowd: He can manifest up to three "clones" that can attack, but which are intangible if attacked.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Charges exorbitant rates for "life insurance" which guarantees protecting the life of the one that's insured. At least he follows through on protecting all his clients.
• Shoo the Dog: Right before his death, he tells Yamauchi to run for his life after the Doume find them. Yamauchi tries protesting at first but is convinced in the end.
• Would Hurt a Child: As was already mentioned, he sees nothing wrong with gunning down helpless children if it advances his goals.

Saigou Family Clan

Saigou Takeshi

Too naive, Kaname... Oh, Crap!

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• Bullying a Dragon: Attacking the winner of the Shibuya event while he's in your office negotiating a non-aggression pact, that can't possibly backfire, right?
• Delinquent Hair: Has a pompadour.
• Extra-ore-dinary: His sigil lets him control metal telekinetically. He can use this to manipulate multiple weapons, including guns, at the same time.
• Hostage Situation: Finds himself in one, as the hostage, when Kaname retaliates against his ill-advised attack.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: In a hostage situation, with a blade at your carotid artery, after the hostage taker has already drawn your blood, yeah, surrendering is a smart idea.
• More Dakka: His sigil lets him mimic a squad by allowing him to control a squad's worth of semi-automatic weapons simultaneously. During the Hunting Event, this comes in very, very handy.
• Oh, Crap!: When he realizes Kaname's not bluffing.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: When he's got Kaname in his office, trying to negotiate a non-aggression pact, he has his gang pull out submachine guns and attack. Say hello to being on the wrong end of a Hostage Situation.
• Villainous Valor: After surrendering, he, of his own volition, offers up concessions, and isn't comfortable with the fact that Kaname's not interested in them.

Saigou Arisa

What a waste of time...

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• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Her sigil increases the cutting power of her sword. Kaname speculates that this happens through vibrations, but she hasn't confirmed that.
• Mafia Princess: As Takeshi's younger sister, she counts.
• Moral Myopia: She advises her elder brother to attack Kaname "for looking down on them too much" and then has the gall to be enraged when Kaname retaliates and takes her brother hostage to defuse the situation.

"Kuchinawa Assembly" clan

Uruma Seigen

All hail the glory of Kuchinawa's blessings!

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• Badass Abnormal: He's among the top 5 Darwin's Game players, and just look at the entries below.
• Cult: He founded a religion worshiping Darwin's Game, and he genuinely believes in his own teachings. 50,000 people are known members.
• Eyes Always Shut: Justified. His eyes are so deformed it's Not Safe For Life!
• Eye Scream: Chapter 97 reveals exactly what caused his eyes to be in the condition they're in: in his original timeline, he was blinded by a Greed's acid spit during what turned out to be a failed assault on a Greed stronghold.
• Facial Horror: His eyes are horrifying to look at, and they scare Ouji away when he used them to look directly at him, even though Ouji was far away.
• Mind over Matter: He and his top followers all have the same Sigil which allows them to simply open their palms at people and wring them out like one wrings out a towel, killing them. It's later revealed how this Sigil sharing was possible: through hypnosis and drugs, he was able to have his followers gain a weaker version of his Sigil.
• My Significance Sense Is Tingling: As Ouji is looking at him through a sniper's scope, he senses it, and turns his face directly to Ouji. Ouji wisely gets the hell outta dodge.
• Seers: He's rumored to be able to predict the future. Chapter 97 reveals the truth: he's experienced this World Line once before.
• Time Travel for Fun and Profit: He used his knowledge of the World Line to amass wealth for his Clan via the stock market.
• Wild Card: For the first half of the story, Kaname isn't sure whether to ultimately consider Seigen a threat or an ally. He's firmly on the side of good.

Most Wicked Evolution Association

Oosako

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Who the hell are these yahoos?!

• The Bully: Combined with Bad Boss. He would brutalize Shigeo like a stereotypical high school bully who demands your lunch or beats you up and takes it. When Shigeo brings in some new recruits...
• Heel Realization: Though it happens off-screen, he realizes that Shigeo was right to wound and try to kill him as he's telling Kaname that Shigeo somehow escaped the Pirates Vs Sailors event, meaning that Shigeo is now with the Darwin's Game administration.
• Large and in Charge: He's the leader and largest of his group of delinquents.
• Light 'em Up: He can use his lightning attacks to generate bright light in a pinch.
• Moral Myopia: Bullied Shigeo relentlessly, constantly forcing him to choose between risking his life through point loss, or beatings. Shigeo retaliates, and Shigeo's the monster that needs to be stopped and taken down.
• Not Quite Dead: Although he had a bit of assistance, he does manage to recover from a Neck Snap even when D-Game officially registered him as dead, by using his Sigil as a makeshift AED before the voxelization starts.
• Paper Tiger: He talks a big game, but at that point in time he's just small fry who runs at the first sign of trouble.
• Recognition Failure: Combined with Genre Blind. He completely and utterly failed to recognize some of the most famous players in Japan when face-to-face with Kaname and Shuka. He's never even heard of their clan Sunset Ravens when every other player worth their salt, most of those who aren't, and even some people who aren't even players in the first place know who the Sunset Ravens and some of their top fighters are.
• Shock and Awe: He has electricity powers.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: He's a no-name player who thought he could take on Kaname and Shuka. It ends with him running with his tail between his legs and calling for help on his phone.

Shigeo

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W-what do you want with me?

• The Dog Bites Back: He finds himself with Oosako in a major D-Game event, and he openly retaliates for all the bullying Oosako put him through.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Once he figures out how to use his Sigil properly, he was able to use it in battle to devastating effect.
• Human Shield: He's used as one by Oosako against Kaname, unwillingly.
• Judge, Jury, and Executioner: What he ultimately becomes once he masters his Sigil. By the "Sailors vs Pirates" event, he begins judging people, and if he thinks your morality doesn't measure up...
• Lethal Harmless Powers: Yes, he can spin your head, while it's attached to your neck, for starters...
• Spectacular Spinning: His Sigil allows him to spin anything.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: He and the other members of the clan thought his Sigil to spin things was useless. At least until Kaname encouraged him to abandon his preconceptions.

Unaffiliated

Kyouda Hiroyuki

I should have never clicked that link on my phone!

Voiced by: Chiaki Kobayashi (JP), Kyle Phillips (EN)

Kaname's friend who sends an SOS that drags Kaname into Darwin's Game.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the anime, though he still dies in the first episode, he manages to save Kaname's life from Banda, as well as deal a notable wound to the latter.
• Death by Origin Story: His death kicks off the plot.
• Decomposite Character: An anime-only character, Hamada, is the one who calls Kaname for help; in the manga, he's the one who calls for help, but Kaname doesn't receive the message until it's too late.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: He is still killed by Banda-kun in the anime, but in the manga, it's while calling Kaname for help. In the anime, he saves Kaname and is fatally wounded in the process.
• Did Not Think This Through: A "free to play" app that promises easy money for playing has to have some kind of catch.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde hair and a Nice Guy.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Shoulder-length hair and quite handsome, even had a girlfriend.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He died within a few pages of the very first chapter, but he was the one to send Kaname the Darwin's Game invite, and Kaname ended up making big waves in the game.
• Was It Really Worth It?: Joins the D-game so he can have enough money to buy the sweet motorcycle he's got his eye on. Gets killed by Banda-kun before he can ride it. Kaname doesn't believe it was worth it.

Banda-kun

DIE FOR MY LIFE!

Voiced by: Eiji Takemoto (JP), Jeremy Inman (EN)

The second D-Game player introduced to the audience.

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• Adaptational Badass: To a subtle degree. The anime removes his pitiful demanor, and he doesn't let himself get distracted during his hunt nearly as easy as he did in the manga. As a result, despite his actions remaining largely the same, his anime counterpart comes off as much more dangerous.
• Adaptation Distillation: The anime cuts out basically all of his backstory. Rather than being a teacher who got into debt out of lust for a hot girl and was tricked into D-Game by a murderous colleague who he murdered in self-defense, he's just a random stranger who enjoys killing.
• Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: Due to the anime adaptation cutting out how he converts all his points to cash in order to stay afloat, there's no explanation for why he died after losing against Kaname.
• Adaptational Villainy: As bad as he is in the manga, he's even worse in the anime. In the manga, he kills to convert the points into cash to see a hot girl. In the anime, he's full-on Ax-Crazy rather than motivated by Greed and Lust.
• Apathetic Teacher: Worse than apathetic. He lures people into D-Game, then tricks them into death matches with him by the Battle functions.
• Apologetic Attacker: While chasing Kaname down, he keeps saying "sorry" over and over again, as if that will somehow make everything alright. Kaname doesn't agree.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Disintegrated by the mechanics of Darwin's Game, one body part at a time.
• Did Not Think This Through: In his obsession with Rika, he lived his life on a dangerous knife's edge, constantly spending way more money than he had in the bank, well in advance of his paycheck, forcing himself into life-or-death battles where he had to kill his opponent or die himself just to stay ahead of loan sharks and all his other debts, but it's always those pesky kids he's hunting that make his life difficult.
• Dirty Coward:
  • Exclusively targets rookie players who haven't had the chance to acclimate themselves to the rules so that he can make quick cash. As shown with his fight with Kaname, he completely loses it if his target is actually able to fend him off.
  • This is heightened with his sigil, which allows him to turn himself invisible. He ambushes his opponents without them even realizing his presence and will run away the second he loses the advantage.
• Face Death with Dignity: In the anime, when he's about to die, he accepts it well stating that he's had a good run and he's more bothered by the fact he lost to a rookie who doesn't know how to use his sigil than anything else. This is in sharp contrast to his manga counterpart, who pitifully begs for his life.
• Fatal Flaw: Lust. His obsession with a prostitute, Rika, caused him to blow through his teacher's salary, forsake his bills, borrow money from loan sharks, and after turning to Darwin's Game, hunting people for money, he'd turn all his points into cash to stay afloat. So Kaname didn't even have to kill him, just tie him up until the battle timer ended, and it was Non-Standard Game Over.
• Foil: To Kaname. Both of them were dragged into Darwin's Game by colleagues, but while Kaname managed to resist the temptation to drown in decadence and murder, Kato reveled in it for "easy cash".
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His own power of invisibility caused him to be run over by a car, with the driver and passenger blissfully unaware.
• It's All About Me: Even his avatar says "don't haunt me when I kill you".
• Karmic Death: He used Darwin's Game to murder people for money, but when he loses his last few points to Kaname, Darwin's Game voxelizes him.
• Love Makes You Stupid: Combined with Love Makes You Evil. He spent money with so much abandon that even Rika was concerned, but he brushed it all off because "Darwin's Game is all about making easy money."
• Mascot Villain: His disguise takes the form of the popular baseball team's mascot.
• Moral Myopia: He hunts down people, specifically teens he lures to D-Game who haven't had a chance to learn the rules yet, purely for money, stabbing them to death with a knife. When said teens fight back, or even run away, he curses them for "making things difficult".
• Never My Fault:
  • The fact that he got shot, as a direct result of attacking a police officer? "Damn brat! Why do I have to work so hard?! Isn't Darwin's Game all about easy money?!"
  • Banda-kun finds himself in a cycle of debt because he continually borrows money from loan sharks only to recklessly spend it all on visiting a hostess.
• Number of the Beast: His costume's jersey number is 666.
• Say My Name: "RIKA-SSSAAAAAAANNNNN!!!"
• Start of Darkness: Like Kaname, he was lured into Darwin's Game by a colleague. Unlike Kaname, the sudden windfall from his first fight ultimately became his downfall.
• Starter Villain: He's the first antagonist Kaname has to fight.
• Too Dumb to Live: He stops to answer his cell phone, in the middle of attacking somebody with a knife, while inside a police station, and turning his back on the guy he's attacking in the process! The only reason it didn't result in his loss then and there was that Kaname was too dumbfounded by the turn of events.

Tanaka

I've always hated you, Kato!

Kato's fellow teacher, and the one who introduced him to Darwin's Game in order to kill him.

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• Bit Character: Shows up alive in one frame of chapter 3 and dead the next as a flashback, he is often mentioned but never appears in the story proper.
• Death or Glory Attack: In the one frame he's shown, he blindly charges at Kato with a knife screaming, "Kato!! DIEE!!"
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Wears glasses and invited Kato into the game to kill him.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His own knife is what kills him.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Killed by a knife to the chest.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Lured Kato into the D-game to kill him. Wound up killed instead.
• Post Humous Character: By the time the story starts, he is long dead.

Shino Akane

HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!

A D-Game player who becomes the first casualty of the Shibuya Treasure Hunt Event.

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• Awesome, but Impractical: Her Sigil allows her to summon flames supposedly hot enough to reduce bones to ash, but it comes with so many drawbacks, like having to be within spitting distance of her target, that she's far better off not using it most of the time.
• Did Not See That Coming: When she faced off against Wang, she found herself in midair, falling to her death.
• Explaining Your Powers to the Enemy: As she was using her Sigil against Wang, she went into detail as to how it works. In the omakes, she explains that she did so to keep him distracted so she could buy enough time to pump it up to its most effective form. This does not go as planned.
• No Name Given: If you skip the omakes, you would never learn her name.
• Playing with Fire: Her Sigil is flame-based.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Introduced and killed off within panels.

Shinozuka Youta

I guess I'd better enjoy these fingers while I got 'em, huh?

Voiced by: Fukushi Ochiai (JP), Cris George (EN)

One of Kaname's closest friends before Darwin's Game.

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• Defiant to the End: "I AM NOT A PIGGY!" (sends mooks flying)
• Entertainingly Wrong: When he gets Kaname's invite for Darwin's Game, he thinks Kaname wants him to use his Sigil to escape (which isn't a bad strategy). What Kaname wanted him to do was use the HelpCall function, which would have teleported Kaname to his location.
• Failure Is the Only Option: Since he was within the kill range of Wang's Sigil and Wang had already given the order to "slaughter the piggy", nothing Shinozuka could have done would have helped.
• Fingore: Wang had all of Shinozuka's fingers sliced off on camera for his sick thrills.
• Mauve Shirt: After getting captured by the Eighth, Shinozuka ends up getting sent an invite and joins D-Game, gaining a sigil of his own. It'd be easy to assume that this was setting up him eventually joining Kaname's clan, but he ends up dying anyway not long after.
• Mind over Matter: He's granted a telekinetic sigil to make up for not being able to use his hands. It was quite useful, for a little while.
• Sacrificial Lion: He serves to teach Kaname that sometimes killing is the only option, and leaving enemies alive to retaliate is a bad idea.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He has only a few scattered appearances throughout the manga, but his death was a huge motivating factor for Kaname that says some people aren't people but just rabid animals that look human and need to be put down.
• Trailers Always Spoil: Downplayed, as it's only noticeable in hindsight. The anime's intro has a scene depicting him with Kyouda and Hamada surrounding Kaname looking happy, initially making it seem like Kaname's just remembering all his friends from before the game. It quickly becomes clear later on that it was actually showing the people Kaname has lost because of the game, and indirectly spoils the fact Shinozuka dies after joining Darwin's Game.

Doctor Amagasa

How sweet, Suzune-chan! Fresh meat!

Suzune's doctor. Sigil: Asclepius.

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• Axe-Crazy: She lives for the thrill of killing people, not nursing them. Darwin's Game is a very effective method for her to get away with it.
• Battleaxe Nurse: Uses the fact that she's a doctor to scope out fresh victims.
• Boom, Headshot!: For lying to Ryuji when claiming she would stop going after Suzune, she gets a bullet in her head.
• Deadly Doctor: Her medical degree combined with her Sigil has her able to dish out all sorts of horrific chemical concoctions that can easily make her deadly in just about any situation.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Her impeccable uniform and attention to medical ethics was able to fool all her patients, the authorities, and the audience, that she was a truly kind and benevolent doctor who wanted what's best for Suzune until she sends Suzune the link for Darwin's Game and drops her mask...
• Good Powers, Bad People: Her Sigil allows her to synthesize any medicine she wants. She uses said medicines as poisons to paralyze, incapacitate, and kill people for her own amusement.
• I Surrender, Suckers: Played with. On one hand, she genuinely surrenders when cornered by Sunset Ravens. On the other, she fakes agreement with their demand to keep her claws off Suzune, quite convincingly. Unfortunately for her, she tries it on Ryuji.
• Mask of Sanity: Pretends very effectively to be a caring and professional doctor. She's truly a psycho who is addicted to the "thrill" of killing people.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If she hadn't used her authority and the trust she'd earned as Suzune's doctor to lure her into Darwin's Game, Suzune's own Stupid Good tendencies would have resulted in Suzune dying of a heart attack. For some unexplained reason, Suzune's sigil granted her perfect health as a fringe benefit.
• Playing with Syringes: Quite literally. With her sigil's ability to synthesize any chemical she knows, she happily fills any syringes she can get her hands on with all sorts of nasty things, and uses them as weapons while happily chasing down people to kill them.
• Sickbed Slaying: Her specialty.
• Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: In public, respected doctor. In private, psychotic killer who hunts down people for her own amusement.

Inori

The Rank 7 of Darwin's Game. Her Sigil is Cheshire Cat.

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• Back-to-Back Badasses: She and Sakuji work together during the Pirate event to take down the Oni soldiers.
• Brother–Sister Team: Cousins team, but she and Sakuji work well as a team.
• I Choose to Stay: In order to escape from Darwin's Game, she and her cousin choose to stay in the Oni's world.
• Intangibility: Her Sigil allows her to become intangible. She can extend this effect to other things within an unspecified range as demonstrated when she makes the Onis' weapons fly out of their hands without being in contact.
• No-Sell: She can make attacks phase through her, making them ineffective.
• Strong Family Resemblance: The moment she appeared with Sakuji, it was clear they were related before it was confirmed they were cousins.

Sakuji Gyokuto

The Rank 2 of Darwin's Game. His Sigil is Tartaros.

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• Back-to-Back Badasses: He and Inori work together during the Pirate event to take down the Oni soldiers.
• Brother–Sister Team: Cousins team, but he and Inori work well as a team.
• I Choose to Stay: In order to escape from Darwin's Game, he and his cousin choose to stay in the Oni's world.
• Strong Family Resemblance: The moment he appeared with Inori, it was clear they were related before it was confirmed they were cousins.
• Touch of Death: His sigil manifests in his hands and is described by the Oni as death.

Civilians (Non-Players)

Special Anti-Organized Crime Division

A task force formed by the Japanese authorities to specifically deal with Darwin's Game.

Inspector Tagonaka Yukimasa

Anyone who thinks this is not all connected will never be a good cop.

A police inspector dragged into the game while investigating the "pixel vandalism" case. His sigil is a highly unusual one that summons the ghost of his deceased pet.

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• By-the-Book Cop: A stickler for the rules, and a good police officer.
• Canine Companion: His sigil summons the ghost of his deceased pet dog, Tarou.
• Demoted to Extra: In the anime adaptation, he never enters D-Game and is completely removed from the Shibuya Treasure Hunt event. He only makes a brief cameo with his partner in a restaurant, watching news footage of the event after it's all over.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: Tarou can detect when Tagonaka's in danger, and warn him.
• Gut Feeling: He's got an excellent intuition, honed by many years on the police force.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Discussed. He once posited forcing Kaname to reveal what he was hiding, if Kaname wasn't a minor.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Thanks to him and the superintendent of police blocking Kaname from rescue operations with an impromptu "interview", and mounting a massive police frontal assault on the warehouse where Kaname's friend was being held hostage, the rescue operation was a total wash, and Kaname's friend was sliced to pieces, shoved into a box, and shown off to Kaname for Wang's sick thrills.
• Right-Hand Attack Dog: Tarou can attack Tagonaka's enemies with tangible physical effects to their confusion since Tagonaka is the only one who can see him.

Superintendent Ayanokouji Kaito

I don't know how long this line will be secure...

Among the first policemen with authority shown investigating the "human vandalism" case.

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• Laser-Guided Amnesia: His powers involve memory manipulation, which he uses to hide the fact that he's The Mole.
• The Mole: He posed as a customer of Trinity, but he's one of the highest-ranking police officers investigating them and Darwin's Game.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His well-intentioned attack on the Eighth warehouse has some pretty dire consequences.
• Police Are Useless: Which he invokes. He sends a riot suppression unit against Eighth, fully expecting they'd die horribly without even being able to put up a fight, just to showcase to his superiors how completely and utterly outmatched the police are compared to players of D-Game. This forces them to acknowledge that they need to change their tactics to properly deal with D-Game.

Inspector Sakamoto

A hitman? Really?

An undercover police officer serving under Superintendent Ayano Kyouji. Her sigil is unknown.

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• Fair Cop: She's an officer who's definitely easy on the eyes.
• Just a Kid: She knows that Kaname is one of the top players in Darwin's Game, but she has trouble moving past the fact that he's a teenager.
• The Mole: Is an undercover cop.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Does she ever. That dress suits her far more than a police uniform.

Nayuta

The Defence Minister of Off-Range Village. Her Sigil is some sort of sound-based ability that relies heavily on a small bell she carries around.

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• Brown Note: Her Sigil can affect her opponent's mind and cause them to stumble and collapse.
• Enemy-Detecting Radar: One of the applications of her Sigil is that she can detect what's around her up to an unspecified range.

US Military

In General

• Eagle Land: Type 1. Out of the hundreds of US soldiers introduced, named or otherwise, the number of jerks or outright assholes? TWO! All the others are professional, reasonable, and genuinely do their best to help deal with the situation brought about by D-Game and the aftermath purely for its own sake and at great cost and risk to themselves, not because they're trying to profit from it.

Dr. Ghislain

It would be great if we could get genetic samples of Wang, but he's gone forever...

One of two scientists hired by the US army to research D-Game.

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• Ambiguously Brown: Whatever the ethnicity, the skin tone is very dark.
• For Science!: Just wants to research sigils because they're "interesting".
• Innocently Insensitive: Due to being Oblivious to Love, fails to pick up on the fact that Maria is romantically interested, and is helping research Sigils in the hopes of getting some kind of romantic overture.
• Oblivious to Love: Maria is completely smitten. Ghislain's either clueless or so devoted to being purely professional that there's no effective difference.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Some panels painted Ghislain as effeminate, especially in tertiary aspects like lips and eyelashes. Others painted Ghislain as masculine, especially in posture and mannerisms. Other characters refer to Ghislain as Dr. Ghislain, and refrain from using pronouns. The question was finally answered in Chapter 87: he's male, and has two kids with his assistant Maria.

Maria Anderson

Would it kill you to dote on me a bit, Ghislain?

The second of the scientists hired by the US military to research D-Game.

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• Ignored Enamored Underling: Completely smitten with her boss, Ghislain. Ghislain appears completely clueless.
• Ms. Exposition: Justified. As the assistant to Ghislain, who is wheelchair bound, she often has to take the stage to explain their D-Game findings.

Others

Detective Sakaki

Darwin's Game? What's that?

Tagonaka's partner.

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• By-the-Book Cop: Just like Tagonaka.
• Locked Out of the Loop: For his own safety, he's not briefed very much on Darwin's Game.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Shoulder-length hair and handsome.
• Out of Focus: He hasn't been seen since after the Treasure Hunt arc.

Rokko

Look, Shuka! Isn't this cool?!

The one classmate Shuka had who got anywhere near her.

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• Accidental Truth: When Shuka gets a text from Kaname, Rokko asks "Is it a boy? Did you get a boyfriend?!" She's right about the boy part, but the boyfriend part was only half-confirmed before Kaname and Shuka did the deed much later on.
• Bit Character: She gets about five lines in about three panels in chapter 4 and is never seen again.
• Morality Pet: Shuka may be a ruthless blood knight who fights and kills for fun, but she treats Rokko kindly.
• Only Friend: Prior to Kaname, Rokko was the closest thing Shuka had to a friend, and a link to a normal life.

CIA Analyst Edward Risler

Oh, Crap!

A CIA agent tasked with investigating Darwin's Game.

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• Bit Character: Only has two spoken lines, and gets killed off.
• Did Not Think This Through: Went to extreme lengths to keep the Darwin's Game administration unaware of his activities, even typing reports on an ancient manual typewriter, which tired him out. Kept his superiors updated by cell phone communication and uses a state-of-the-art alarm system. Oops!
• Entertainingly Wrong: Because of Kaname's spectacular game record, Edward thinks his history as an Ordinary High-School Student is just an elaborate disguise and that he’s actually a Russian spy.
• Mr. Exposition: His one and only appearance is typing up a report concerning Sunset Ravens, thus showcasing how the world sees them. Said report never manages to leave his office.
• Oh, Crap!: When he finds himself face-to-face with an Executioner, who stops the bullets from his gun in midair.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Introduced and killed off in chapter 31.

Darwin's Game Administration

N / Shidou Izaya

Now, have fun!

The creator of Darwin's Game, he is the Game Master of modern-day society's World Line.

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• The Extremist Was Right: Granting random superpowers to trained soldiers and law enforcement would never have worked, as it's shown that their training and experiences actually work against them, not to mention all the political jockeying that goes around in world governments. Time also wasn't his ally.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: His goal has yet to be revealed, though he tells Kaname that the only two ways to leave Darwin's Game with your life is either clearing the game (which completes his goal) or completely killing him.
• Killer Game Master: Surviving Darwin's Game for any length of time is an extremely difficult task. The events, for the most part, have hidden conditions that tend to weed out players in a hurry. Not to mention that Kaname's been yanked into an event with little to no warning on occasion.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He exploits Darwin's Game (though he claims he didn't create it) to give people the power and combat experience needed to protect Earth from a dimensional invasion.

Oboro

An Executioner employed by the D-Game Administration.

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• Cop Killer: As the Executioner, it is his duty to get rid of cops and other government officials who get involved in the game.
• Expy: Murderous disposition and an ability to control vectors? Sounds like Accelerator.
• Eyes Always Shut: As soon as he opens them, things are about to get messy.
• Immune to Bullets: His Sigil has the power to stop bullets from reaching him. It is possible to catch him off-guard since a sniper bullet did touch his forehead, but his skill with his Sigil is so incredibly high that said bullet only scratched him.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Single-handedly took down the boss of the Hunting Island event, when even one of the Doume mooks, who are her small children, usually require an entire armed squad to take down. Yeah, good thing Kaname didn't have to fight him back then.

Arabaki

The Game Master of the World Line from which "Japan" originated.

• Deity of Human Origin: He is worshiped as a god by the citizens of "Japan". He has and grants his people superpowers without technological aid, and by his own admission, he began life as a human. There is no mention of how he got his powers.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Used the very last of his power, and his life, to transport all the surviving citizens of "Japan" into Kaname's world before Darwin's Game yanked the island they were on back to its native dimension.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Showed up and was killed off within a couple of chapters.

Other Beings of Darwin's Game

People of "Japan"

Humans introduced in the "Hunting Game" event.

Minoru

The country chief of "Japan". He allows Rick to use a blade after he and Kaname defeated one of the Doume.

• Head-in-the-Sand Management: Combined with Stubborn Mule. He was adamant that the village could deal with both the Doume and the armed invaders. It took a Doume attack and Kaname's demonstration of a gun to make him realize how totally helpless the village really is.
• Wake-Up Call: He refused to accept Kaname's help because he refused to understand the true danger of their mutual enemies, believing their fighting force to be superior. It was not until Kaname demonstrated the superiority of his modern weaponry compared to the weapons of Minoru's village which were Iron Age at latest did he realize how badly in the wrong he was.

Yukari

One of the elders of "Japan".

• The Gadfly: She calls Minoru by his given name in spite of, or perhaps because of knowing he hates it.

Tooru

One of the elders of "Japan".

• Guilt by Association: Since Kaname came from the same place as Kanehira's group, he must be working with Kanehira to attack the villagers, starting with a pair of kids who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
• Morton's Fork: He invokes one on Kaname. Either Kaname sits in a dungeon and lets himself be beaten to death, or he fights back "revealing his true nature" and gets marked for execution as an enemy.

Samurai Riku

Well-met, Kaname-san.

The first member of an alternate Japan that Kaname encountered during the Hunting Game.

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• Ambiguously Brown: Very dark-skinned for a native of an alternate Japan.
• Big Damn Heroes: Saves Kaname from a Doume's claws, Just in Time.
• Bow and Sword in Accord: Well, bow and spear, but the spirit's the same.
• Expy: Of Samurai Jack, of course.
• Honor Before Reason: The trial by combat is interrupted? Kaname proves his innocence with an Intimidation Demonstration? Hmm... Let's just have Kaname and myself punch each other silly with our fists! Small wonder the female villagers call them both idiots.
• Hunk: Look at those biceps!
• Multi-Melee Master: In addition to his skill with a bow, he is proficient with just about any melee weapon, or no weapon at all.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: Has bulging biceps, and can match a Doume in raw strength.
• Trial by Combat: Against Kaname because the latter was stuck in a Morton's Fork, and it was the only alternative.

Mokuren

Mokuren (right) and Towa (left)

Rick's younger sister and one of Japan's shrine maidens.

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• All Love Is Unrequited: She gets a crush on Kaname, but he's only got eyes for Shuka.
• Seers: She has the power to see the future.
• Shrine Maiden: Her job at the island village.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Elegant and humble, but a wildflower at heart.

Towa

Magnolia's assistant and an apprentice shrine maiden.

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• Mr. Exposition: She explains how exactly her powers work during the Off-Range Village arc.
• Seers: She has the power to see the future.
• Shrine Maiden: She’s the assistant shrine maiden to Magnolia.
• Standing Between the Enemies: She interrupts Kaname and Rick's duel which helped defuse the entire situation and show Kaname he was someone her people could trust.

Others

Oni

The "Pirates" in the "Sailors vs Pirates" event.

Common to all:

• Antiquated Linguistics: Played with. Their speech is quite close to modern Japanese, but their printed text is clearly archaic, lining up with Heian-era norms.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Due to their warrior culture, they get many things about Kaname and his companions wrong. For example, after seeing the utility of radios and smartphones, they preclude that such devices were developed by human laboratories for ease of logistics and communications in warfare. In truth, such things were created in peacetime, for quality of life and comfort.
• Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Their home dimension is the spitting image of Heian-era Japan.
• Horned Humanoid: They sport horns, which grow in over their life. They even make horn prosthetics to help people whose horns were either lost in battle or unable to develop properly.
• Mirroring Factions: Aside from their horns, they are identical to humans from the Heian era. Their tech level, architecture, and politics all confirm this.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: They see being sent to the battlefield as an honor, and don't bear a grudge if their relatives fall in battle.

Greed

The creatures that attack Shibuya while Kaname, Shuka, Xuelan, and Inukai are tied up with the "Sailors vs Pirates" event.

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• Acid Attack: The mammoth-like ones can fire acid out of their trunks.
• The Dreaded: The GM fears them so much that he launches an event to deal with their sudden arrival. When this event fails to eliminate them in a timely manner and multiple "Greed LL" appear, he abandons Shibuya.
• Generic Doomsday Villain: There's no indication of why they attacked Shibuya. Even D-Game's Game Master can only speculate that they're after Kaname, but even he is not sure why.
• It Can Think: They're not mindless beasts, though they initially appear to be. While it looks like they're simply attacking people indiscriminately at first glance, they do deploy proper formations and tactics. When the "Greed LL" sees an attack helicopter approaching, it takes cover behind a building as a "Greed S" bear appears in the cockpit to attack the pilots.
• Kill and Replace: The people they kill and eat are soon replaced by facsimiles that look, act, and sound like them but are actually Humanoid Greeds working to destabilise human society from the inside and sabotage all attempts to stop them.