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Protagonists
Haruto Tsukishiro
Haruto Tsukishiro
Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki (Japanese), Ricco Fajardo (English)
The protagonist. A boy trapped in the world of dreams, Haruto must follow the instructions of both Lily and Professor Kanzaki to return to the real world.- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Accepts to go with Lily/Eve into God's realm in the finale, even when given the opportunity to return to the real world.
- Blue Is Heroic: Blue is the most prominent color in his outfit.
- But Now I Must Go: In the finale, he willingly accepts the end of his mortal life and goes to Heaven. He still promises to return to visit, though.
- The Chosen One: Lily has been keeping him from waking up because she thinks he can kill Eve before the latter's awakening destroys the world. The final episode even implies he is an incarnation of Adam.
- Clueless Chick-Magnet: Doesn't seem to be aware some of the Witches have fallen in love with him.
- Convenient Coma: He is comatose in the real world.
- Covert Pervert: Lily outright calls him a pervert when finding out he pretended to be a girl just to be near Misaki.
- Don't Say Such Stupid Things!: To awaken Yuko from her sleep, Haruto bluntly tells her to stop trying to be the person everyone expect her to be and search for her own happiness.
- Gender Bender: He can do this, as shown in episode 9, to get Misaki's attention.
- Good Is Not Soft: A friendly, sociable person who doesn't shy away from killing remorseless criminals.
- The Hero Dies: As he departs to Heaven, his physical body dies.
- Hidden Depths: As revealed in episode 9, he is actually a fan of Misaki. He even infiltrates Misaki's academy as a girl just to get near her.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: When he finds out Mana's victims are the same people who horribly killed her family and planned to do same to her and continue their killings elsewhere, not only does he let Mana kill them, he even personally kills the last murderer when he attempts to fight back.
- Pragmatic Hero: One hand, he can be nice and polite to anyone who can help return him and even sympathize with other people's problems. On the other hand, he has no problem with killing remorseless criminal in a gruesome manner.
- Unfazed Everyman: Haruto is not exactly surprised by the fact that he is trapped in a dream world populated by witches. He just goes along what with Lily and Kanzaki tell him because there is no other alternative. He also has no problem with killing.
Lily
Lily
Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)
A mysterious girl Haruto meets inside the dream world.- Alternate Self: She is actually an Eve from the past, before she ate the Forbidden Fruit.
- The Chooser of the One: She has been keeping Haruto in the dream world so he can kill Eve. Whether he is really Adam or not is never confirmed.
- Mystical Waif: Appears frequently in Haruto's dreams, providing him with an exposition to the unknown aspects of the dream world.
- Mystical White Hair: Haruto even says her hair is her most defining feature.
- Split-Personality Merge: With Eve in the final episode.
- The Spook: Nobody knows what is she is, only that Haruto is her "brother". Or at least, that's what she says. She is actually a past version of Eve.
Katsumi Kanzaki
Katsumi Kanzaki
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Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), J. Michael Tatum (English)
A scientist who investigates the dream world to find a cure for his sister Yurina, one of the Witches.- Cat Folk: His dream world avatar. Haruto is oddly disappointed to find out that he's not really a cat person in the real world.
- The Conscience: Attempts to be one for Haruto, encouraging him to stop Mana's killings, even if his victims had it coming. It doesn't take.
- Find the Cure!: His sister Yurina has Sleeping Beauty Syndrome and he has been looking for a way to awaken her.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: Loses his cool when he sees Haruto kissing Yurina. To be fair, it was the only way to save her from Eve.
- The Professor: At least, that's how Haruto calls him. Kanzaki sees Haruto's journey as an opportunity to further his research.
Witches
Yuko Sakurabe / The Witch of Thunder
Yuko Sakurabe
Voiced by: Aya Endo (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)
- Anti-Villain: Despite her anger and desire to play, Yuko is actually a sad girl whose heart was broken after a cruel joke by her fellow students. Haruto helps her move past that hardship and allows her to wake up.
- Red Baron: The Witch of Thunder.
- Starter Villain: The first Witch Haruto comes overcome in his journey.
Mana Hayashida
Mana Hayashida
Voiced by: Yu Shimamura (Japanese), Morgan Garrett (English)
- Freudian Excuse: A trio of seemingly good people killed her family For the Evulz and received light sentences for being minors.
- Revenge: Against her family's murderers.
- Unscrupulous Heroine: Brutal as she might be, her victims aren't saints either. After Haruto helps her kill the last murderer, she thanks him.
Kayo Sugisaki / The Witch of First Love
Kayo Sugisaki
Voiced by: Nao Tamura (Japanese), Jeannie Tirado (English)
- Dying Declaration of Love: Towards Haruto.
- Dying Dream: Episode 3 turns out to be this for her.
- Go Out with a Smile: The last thing she does before dying is smile at Haruto and declare her love for him.
- Nice Girl: A genuinenly sweet and kind girl and the first Witch who is not hostile towards Haruto, making her death all the sadder.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: She can manifest in the real world as a ghost to help the former Witches find Haruto's comatose body.
- So Happy Together: She overheard Haruto's conversation with Kanzaki about her condition and decides to spend her last moments with Haruto as happily as possible.
Airi Kojima / The Witch of Gluttony
Airi Kojima
Voiced by: Ai Kakuma (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)
- Supreme Chef: Kanzaki certainly loves her curry.
- Weight Woe: After her boyfriend dumps her for gaining weight, she develops bulimia in her attempt to become a model. With Haruto's help, she eventually gets over it.
Mirei Saegusa / The Witch of Ordinariness
Mirei Saegusa
Voiced by: Azumi Asakura (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English)
- An Arm and a Leg: Subverted. She attempts to cut off her leg with a fire ax if it means not having to skate again but Sleeping Beauty Syndrome hit her at the last moment.
- Hope Spot: When she wakes up, it looks she'll be taking up ice-skating again... no wait, she's an old lady now. Never mind.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Her entire motivation is to have a completely normal and mundane life, which she feels she couldn't have because of her rigorous schedule. Subverted later on, as Haruto makes her realize that, deep down, she wants to be special.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: She wakes up as an old lady, not as the teenager we saw in the dream world. It's not explained if she spent a long time in a coma or it was a side effect of the Sleeping Beauty Syndrome.
- Trade Your Passion for Glory: Her choice to abandon ice-skating is partially to avert this. She felt the constant pressue from sponsors, fans and trainers taking the fun out of ice-skating.
Natsuki Kamikawa
Natsuki Kamikawa
Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (Japanese), Jill Harris (English)
- Fallen Heroine: At first, she uses her dreams to become an Onmyōdō mage and fight evil spirits. As she remembers the trauma she endured in the real world, she uses her powers to bring suffering to her former tormentors.
- Otaku: Her dreams are reflections of her preferences in anime.
- She Who Fights Monsters: Haruto and Kanzaki tell her that, by using her dreams to torment her former bullies, she has become no better than them. It gets worse when the curses she casts on them start targeting innocent people.
Nene Higashiyama
Nene Higashiyama
Voiced by: Inori Minase (Japanese), Lara Woodhull (English)
- Revenge: She plans to destroy Pol's kingdom because he ordered Pot's assassination.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Pol, before he killed Pot.
Sono
Sono
Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (Japanese), Megan Shipman (English)
- Disability Superpower: In the dream world, she speaks in a frequency Haruto is not used to, which he rectifies by using his headphones.
- Inspirationally Disadvantaged: She is mute and deaf, but can live a normal life and has a dog. Isn't that inspiring?
- Only One Name: We never learn her last name.
- Throwing Off the Disability: She can speak in the dream world, but Haruto has to use his headphones to understand her.
Misaki / The Witch of Youthful Beauty
Misaki
Voiced by: Emi Nitta (Japanese), Dawn M. Bennett (English)
- Dominatrix: In her "The Witch of Youthful Beauty" form, she becomes a smug, domineering, and whip-toting woman who enjoys demeaning and humiliating those she couldn't in the real world. She even starts doing a Noblewoman's Laugh.
- Dude Magnet: As expected from an idol, she has several male admirers.
- Everyone Has Standards: When her students capture Haruto and urge her to punish him, she draws the line at Cold-Blooded Torture.
- Hero-Worshipper: In episode 11, she reveals her admiration of Yurina.
- Idol Singer: Deconstructed. Misaki is under Contractual Purity and everything she does is under constant scrutiny from the media. Her focus episode starts when one of her fans, unable to distinguish the idol from the real person, attacks her.
- Lovely Angels: With Yurina in episode 11 after the latter is freed from Eve's thrall.
- Near-Death Experience: In the beginning of the episode, a fan attacks her with a knife and blood is shown onscreen. When she returns to her real world, she is no worse for wear.
- Only One Name: We never learn her last name.
- Slut-Shaming: Her colleagues often shame her for the fact all the producers fawn over her, and like to imply she's sleeping with them.
- Whip of Dominance: As "The Witch of Youthful Beauty", she becomes the Dominatrix-coded head of the "Nightmare Idol School" and starts carrying a whip with her, mercilessly using it on the others to "discipline" them.
Hanako Sumitomo
Hanako Sumitomo
Voiced by: Shiho Nanba (Japanese), Bryn Apprill (English)
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Her observed forms include a fairy and a mermaid.
- Mr. Smith: Some characters, even herself, refer to her as "Jane Doe".
Yurina Kanzaki
Yurina Kanzaki
Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (Japanese), Brina Palencia (English)
- Brainwashed: By Eve in episode 11.
- The Dragon: Of all the Witches in the series, she is the only one serving Eve, albeit unwillingly.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Nao Tōyama uses a lower voice to voice Yurina in her brainwashed state.
- Lovely Angels: With Misaki in episode 11 after being freed from Eve's thrall.
- Pure Is Not Good: Eve is obsessed with purity and virginity, using Yurina's Contractual Purity to keep her under her thrall.
- Stage Name: Yureena.
- Virgin Power: Eve manipulates Yurina through her virginal purity. Once Haruto "soils" her with a kiss, Eve releases her.
Others
Eve
Eve
Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese), Luci Christian (English)
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: After merging with Lily, her missing half, she decides to return to Heaven and asks Haruto to come with her, to which he accepts.
- Berserk Button: Anything that soils purity, as seen when Haruto kisses Yurina.
- Big Bad: The primary source of the conflict in the series.
- Pure Is Not Good: According to Lily, Eve is obsessed with purity.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: In episode 11, her eyes glowed red while controlling Yurina.
- Split-Personality Merge: With Lily in the final episode.
- Straw Feminist: She hates that God created women to be subservient to men.
