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Protagonists
Kaname Ichijou
Kaname Ichijou
- Voiced by: Yoshitaka Yamaya
The protagonist of this story. Misa Ichijou's older brother, and childhood friend of Ichika Houshi. While he is rational and calm, he uses this game to get revenge on the nine people who 'exiled' his little sister. He has synesthesia, so he can recognize sound as color, allowing him to see words that are lies in red.
- Believing Their Own Lies: One of the weaknesses of his lie detecting ability is that it doesn't work on falsehoods that the speaker sincerely believes in.
- Big Brother Instinct: He develops this for Noori after his sister died. Arguably, he still has this for his sister, considering he is willing to kill out of revenge.
- Childhood Friend: To Ichika.
- Headphones Equal Isolation: Carries a pair of headphones around his neck as a way of coping with his synesthesia, donning them when the noise gets too overwhelming. His personal quest for vengeance also naturally isolates him from most of the others, even if he chooses to feign friendship with them.
- Knight Templar Big Brother: He will go to any lengths to avenge his sister.
- Living Lie Detector: Can see words that are lies in red due to his synesthesia. This includes his own lies.
- Manipulative Bastard: He can be this, depending on the player. Since he can see lies, he can also manipulate the people around him in order to get them one against the other.
- Saying Too Much: Can effectively force his opponents to do this during debates, provided that he's able to pinpoint their 'inner self' correctly.
- Shout-Out: His official art is the signature "Objection!" pose of the ''Ace Attorney" series.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: For the sake of his revenge, he's willing to work together with Alice herself — mostly because the main thing keeping her from shutting down his efforts and removing his memories of Misa again is her interest in what he does with that knowledge.
- Villain Protagonist: He is manipulative, wiling to destroy someone psychologically and emotionally, all for the sake of avenging his sister. All of his actions are in a very morally gray to black area, since his only objective in the game is the death of those nine people.
- When All You Have Is a Hammer…: As useful as his lie detecting abilities are, they can also cause him to get thrown off his game when his opponent doesn't appear to be lying.
Misa Ichijou
Misa Ichijou
- Voiced by: Marika Kono
Kaname Ichijou's younger sister. A cheerful and energetic mood maker who mediates the relationship between her older brother and Ichika Houshi. She values the stuffed animal her older brother bought her when she was little.
Since she was the one chosen in the very first 'Exile Election,' she became the prey of monsters and died. However, an AI based upon her participates in the debates. Unlike the other participants, whose animal avatars are randomized to help hide their identities, she is always the Orange Cat.
- Female Feline, Male Mutt: Always has the Orange Cat avatar, contrasting with her brother having the Blue Dog.
- Oblivious Guilt Slinging: Her AI is seemingly unaware of her fate, which twists the knife whenever she makes comments about how scary it would be to die or her dreams for the future.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Her exile and subsequent demise sparks Kaname's desire to avenge her by killing the nine people responsible for voting her out.
- Posthumous Character: Her Artificial Intelligence is used to help flesh out her character more after her demise, as well as distract and upset Kaname further whenever she says anything that reminds him of her fate.
- Tragic Keepsake: Her teddy bear. Finding it is what causes Kaname's memories of her death to come flooding back despite Alice removing them.
Ichika Houshi
Ichika Houshi
- Voiced by: Yurika Endo
Kaname Ichijou’s childhood friend. She has absolute trust in Kaname, and even in extreme situations, works together with him in order to fulfill their goals.
- Chained by Fashion: Sports a collar with a long golden chain on her neck.
- Childhood Friend: To Kaname.
- Secret-Keeper: Despite her memories of what happened to Misa being erased as well, Kaname gets her back up to speed, and she becomes his closest confident.
- Strawberry Shorthand: Has her hair partly pulled up in tiny twintails held into place by scrunchies covered with faux strawberries. She also has bright, berry red eyes.
- Undying Loyalty: To Kaname, who she decides to help on taking revenge based on her trust for him.
Noori
Noori
- Voiced by: Akira Saito
A pure and innocent little girl who lost her memories. She doesn’t understand human language, and her behavior is also immature. Kaname and Ichika care for and protect her.
- Curtains Match the Windows: Both her eyes and hair are a pale, washed out silver with slight hints of periwinkle blue.
- Idiot Hair: Has a long one that droops over the front of her face, longer than the rest of her bangs.
- Mysterious Waif
- Rei Ayanami Expy: A quiet and shy blue-haired girl.
- Team Switzerland: Regularly opts not to vote in the elections, staying silent and out of the debates.
- Vague Age: Her age was never stated and she seems to not know it either.
Group A
Miori Himeno
Miori Himeno
- Voiced by: Nao Shiraki
Yuuri Himeno's older sister. She has a gentle personality, hates hurting others, and does not want to participate in the elections. She is the center of her three-person group.
- Blind Without Them: Can't see well without her glasses, meaning that she wasn't able to see just who her assailant was during her Attempted Rape.
- Hard Work Hardly Works: Miori insists during her debate that knowing everyone's natural talents and abilities would help motivate them to work harder. She doesn't actually believe that, and in her breakdown admits that she believes her stats would show that she's useless and get others to leave her alone and stop expecting anything of her.
- The Needs of the Many: When Kaname points out that everyone knowing what everyone's natural abilities are could lead to people being forced into roles they're the most qualified for even if they don't enjoy the work, she insists that things would still work out for the greater good.
- Stat-O-Vision: For her debate, she argues in favor of a world where everyone's abilities are translated into stats, insisting that this would make things better because everyone would know what sort of role they were best suited for.
- Token Good Teammate: Out of Kaname's targets for revenge, she was by far the most reluctant to agree to the decision to exile Misa. Initially, she spoke out against it along with Kaname and Ichika, but ended up caving in due to a combination of intimidation by Alice and peer pressure from Yuuri and Michimune, while still being noticeably conflicted about it.
- Was It All a Lie?: If Kaname loses the debate to her, she's horrified to learn that he was her opponent, and begs to know if this means he never really supported her desire for everyone to survive and escape safely together.
- Yaoi Fangirl: Ships Michimune with Yuuri, her own brother, as shown by the comic in her notebook.
- Youthful Freckles: Has a smattering of freckles across the bridge of her nose.
Yuuri Himeno
Yuuri Himeno
- Voiced by: Natsumi Fujiwara
Miori Himeno's younger brother and Michimune's best friend. He has a kind heart, just like his older sister, but also considers her advantages and disadvantages. He is the brains of his group.
- Brains and Brawn: The brains to Michimune's Brawn.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: A small, cute, and shy boy with cotton-candy pink hair.
- Expy: Of Chihiro Fujisaki, given his effeminate appearance, shyness and role as the group's brain.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Sensitive guy to Michimune's Manly Man.
- Shipper on Deck: Effectively weaponizes this during his debate by revealing that he has a crush that he's afraid to confess, and believes that a device that allows the users to link hearts and communciate complicated emotions effectively would help people in such situations make their feelings known. This sways a lot of supporters to his side.
- Shrinking Violet: Can be a bit timid about making his thoughts and opinions known, which naturally proves problematic for him when it's his turn to lead a debate.
- The Smart Guy: He acts as Group A's brains.
Michimune Isurugi
Michimune Isurugi
- Voiced by: Tomoki Inoue
Yuuri's best friend. He has a refreshing personality and a strong desire to protect Yuuri and Miori. He is confident in his physical strength, but it proves to be of little use in the elections.
- Big Brother Instinct: Towards the Himeno Siblings, despite being younger than Miori. He is very protective of them.
- The Big Guy: He acts as the group's muscle, though it's not very useful in this situation.
- Brains and Brawn: The Brawn to Yuuri's Brains.
- Brutal Honesty: Argues for a world in which this would be reinforced by everyone being able to detect lies the moment they're told.
- Living Lie Detector: His debate scenario revolves around everyone in the whole world gaining the ability to tell when somebody else is lying to them, which he believes would remove falsehood and deception. If he wins, Alice claims that she actually grants this ability to him, though it's unclear whether she's referring to the fact that he now knows that Kaname was deceiving him or something more.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Manly Man to Yuuri's Sensitive Guy.
- Was It All a Lie?: If he wins his debate against Kaname, he demands to know this after learning that he was his opponent.
Group B
Hakushuu Isumi
Hakushuu Isumi
- Voiced by: Shun'ichi Toki
Aasha and Kasha's neighbor and a college student. As someone who was once Aasha and Kasha's tutor, he still has tremendous admiration for them. He has a chronic illness and always carries a portable pill case containing his medication.
- Laughing Mad: After losing his debate, Hakushuu descends into this after Kaname falsely claims that he's not going to kill the twins as part of his revenge, refusing to offer him even the small consolation that they'd be taken out.
- Revenge: The topic of his election is whether a man should, for revenge, kill his little sister's murderer, who gets away with it because he's a politician's son. Around the end of the debate, he reveals that he wants to kill "those two" (not long after revealed to be the Tadenomiya twins) because they took everything from him. Revealing his lust for revenge is what makes his supporters in the election go against him.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: His beauty has drawn in many admirers, including the Tadenomiya twins. This led to them destroying his life fighting over him, leaving him bitter and aching for revenge.
Aasha Tadenomiya
Aasha Tadenomiya
- Voiced by: Risae Matsuda
A half-Russian, half-Japanese middle school girl dressed in very fancy Gothic clothes. She and Kasha are twin sisters.
- Berserk Button: Kaname mashes hers HARD during their debate when he argues that her desire to be special is actually perfectly normal and ordinary, and that nothing really sets her apart from anyone else.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her aesthetic, which contrasts her sister's traditional Japanese clothes.
- Expy: Being an Elegant Gothic Lolita with a dark personality, self absorbed and a spiral-like hair, Aasha draws comparisons with Celestia Ludenberg.
- It's All About Me: Utterly convinced that her specialness and uniqueness makes her effectively untouchable. Shares this trait with her twin, much like how both of them were responsible for destroying at least one young man whose affections they fought over, before repeating the process with Hakushuu.
- Living Forever Is Awesome: The topic of her debate is whether the characters should agree to be subjects to the testing of nanomachines that will keep them alive forever. She argues on the side of becoming immortal. As it turns out, she's afraid of growing old and ugly and eventually dying, preferring to be in love forever.
- Parasol of Prettiness: Always carries around an elegantly beribboned gothic parasol. The central rod also functions as a rifle, with the stock as its grip.
- Psychotic Love Triangle: Both she and Kashe ardently pursue Hakushuu, loathe to share him with anyone else... including each other. He isn't the first victim of their poisonous affections, either.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: Believes her beauty to be beyond compare, and that nobody should deny her anything because, well... she deserves it by virtue of being so special.
- Something about a Rose: Wears an eyepatch modeled after a black rose.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: She and her sister are noted to have sharp minds despite their youth.
Kasha Tadenomiya
Kasha Tadenomiya
- Voiced by: Satsumi Matsuda
A half-Russian, half-Japanese middle school girl dressed like a traditional Japanese woman. She and Aasha are twin sisters.
- Cherry Blossoms: Her yellow-and-green parasol is covered with a sakura print, and she wears a cherry blossom eyepatch over her right eye. Fittingly, she has very firm beliefs about the transience of life, and is able to find beauty even in death.
- Graceful Loser: After losing her debate, she's able to cope with her loss (and Alice denying her Last Request) by reasoning that it's her fate to be remembered as a tragically snuffed out beauty. She doesn't cope as well when Kaname bluntly reveals/reminds her that everyone's memories of her will be erased.
- It's All About Me: Completely unyielding in her stances, convinced that the compliance of others with her desires is completely inevitable. Much of her debate boils down to Kaname figuring out how to help the supporters see past the romantic language her arguments are couched in to realize how self-centered they really are.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Carries one sheathed inside of her parasol's handle. After she's exiled, she uses it to cut an impressive swath through the forest's monsters.
- Parasol of Prettiness: Always carries a traditional Japanese parasol, which also acts as a sheath for her katana.
- Psychotic Love Triangle: Like her sister, she isn't keen on sharing Hakushuu-sama with anyone else. She also dreams of staging a Murder-Suicide with her 'true love' so that they can die at the height of their happiness... or rather, at the height of hers.
- Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Insists that if someone's feelings are strong enough, they can overcome any obstacle and ensure that they're returned. Even if they're completely unrequited.
- Together in Death: Believes in this so strongly that she wants to arrange it, intending to die alongside her beloved at the height of their love.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: She and her sister are noted to have sharp minds despite their youth.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Dresses and speaks like one.
- You Can't Fight Fate: A big believer in the notion of Fate and Destiny tying people together.
- Your Days Are Numbered: In her election debate, she asserts that she would like to know precisely how much time she has left to live, so as not to waste any of it.
Group C
Izuki Ayara
Izuki Ayara
- Voiced by: Taku Yashiro
An unemployed 20-year-old man who is aggressive toward others and dresses much like a punk.
- Typecasting: Whenever he's cast into a role for a debate's opening skit, it's usually as a Jerkass or antagonistic figure, such as the murderous diplomat's son in Hakushuu's debate or the cheating husband in Miori's.
Issei Ninchouji
Issei Ninchouji
- Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi
A 25-year-old man who works as a cook in a city restaurant called Philia. He appears quite calm and polite, but appears to have a strange interest in the monsters that eat people.
- Affably Evil: Though rather polite and caring at first, he's later revealed to be a sheer psychopath with a twisted mindset about eating.
- I'm a Humanitarian: His secret is that he has been killing people and eating them, the first human that he ate being his housekeeper, who died when he was 14.
- No Party Like the Donner Party: The theme of the debate against him is whether thirteen people trapped in a mountain cottage during a snowstorm should eat a sapient alien to fight off starvation. Issei takes the side of agreeing to eat the alien.
- Not Afraid to Die: He doesn't want to lose his election, of course, but once he loses, he reveals to Kaname that he's been awaiting the moment of being exiled, since he will then be eaten by the monsters outside.
- You Are Who You Eat: Issei reveals at the end of his election that he believes that by eating another human, he can become one with the victim, and he can inherit everything that the victim knows. Of course, Kaname dismisses this as nothing but Issei's selfish delusion and points out that even if it were true, the main flaw in his philosophy would be that he doesn't know the pain of being killed.
Shihori Yurizono
Shihori Yurizono
- Voiced by: Ayaka Imamura
A 21-year-old university student who is rather quiet and seldom shows emotion.
- Blind Without 'Em: She has very bad vision, and yet she normally chooses not to wear her glasses. As a result, she can't see things such as people's faces rather well.
- The Stoic: Generally does not show a lot of emotion and shows no interest in the elections.
Others
Alice
Alice
- Voiced by: Hiromi Igarashi
A mysterious mechanical doll who calls herself the administrator of the humans that survived. Her goal is unknown, but she holds regular 'Exile Elections' and enjoys the lively debates that ensue.
- Deal with the Devil: Finds Kaname's efforts intriguing enough that she happily supports him... though of course, if he happens to lose an election, she'll gleefully rub it in his face before sending him away.
- Just Between You and Me: Frequently approaches Kaname for one-on-one chats, wanting to hear his opinions about the various elections and asking which of his targets he intends to go after next.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Is able to inflict this upon the participants, and does so after each election and exile, removing their memories of what happened. This includes Misa's death; however, Kaname was able to regain those memories, and she strikes a deal with him to let him retain them mainly out of interest in seeing what he'll do as a result.
- Plot Device: Many of the debate scenarios she presents involve some type of fantastic invention capable of dramatically changing the world, such as nanomachines that can make humans functionally immortal, the ability to see everyone's talents translated into hard numbers and stats, or an electromagnetic field that renders everyone capable of detecting lies.
- Rascally Rabbit: Looks like a robotic rabbit with a plug for a tail and a mouth full of sharp teeth. Rather than inflicting harm directly upon the group, however, she prefers to make them go through elections where the loser gets kicked out of the shelter.
- Troll: The scenarios she crafts to set the stage for each debate are naturally significant to the participants in some fashion, and she likes throwing in details meant to sting.
- Wild Card: While she ostensibly stays out of the debate part of the elections, merely announcing when each break point/round of voting has arrived, Alice also likes making leading and suggestive comments to potentially influence opinions. There's also the fact that she knows about Kaname's abilities, but seemingly refrains from doing anything to counter them because she finds his actions entertaining enough to allow... while suggesting that she could shut them down if she wished.
- Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Cheerfully praises Kaname for his successes, often commenting on how remarkably cold, cruel and calculating he keeps proving himself to be.
