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Protagonists
Akito
Voiced by: Kensuke Nishi (Japanese), Cory Yee (English)
A young man who survived the purge of Tokyo, due to KK inhabiting his body. When his little sister Mari is kidnapped by the man in the Hannya mask, he decides to help KK fight against the Visitors and defeat Hannya.- Action Survivor: He's not trained in combat in any way and his powers are supplied by KK, leaving him near helpless the few times they are separated. However, he is still pretty athletic and a surprisingly decent shot with the bow and arrow.
- It's All My Fault: He believes Mari got caught in a fire because he locked her window. Ultimately proven not to be the case, as she had enough time to get out by the door but went back to get a Tragic Keepsake and got caught in a ceiling collapse.
- Aloof Big Brother: Flashbacks indicated that he turned into this to Mari when he became a teenager. He was more of a Cool Big Bro when they were children.
- Animal Lover: Akito likes to stop along his mission to pet the cats and dogs he passes.
- Badass Normal: Downplayed. Without KK's powers, he's just a regular human who can't do much against the Visitors. However, he's still very physically fit and acrobatic, competent with the bow and arrow and still able to perform quick purges on unsuspecting Visitors, making him not fully helpless or harmless.
- Back from the Dead: Twice over. The first time when KK possesses him after he gets into a near-fatal car-accident, not knowing that Akito was Only Mostly Dead, which leads to them sharing a body. The second time when Hannya kills him for real, after Akito tries and fails to keep him from kidnapping Mari. It's again KK that brings him back, after Akito gives him permission to use his body again.
- Also, despite KK and Akito's assumptions, he actually doesn't need KK to keep living. Whenever the two are separated Akito loses access to Elemental Weaving but is otherwise fine.
- Badass Biker: Used a bike prior to the accident in the intro. He puts his skills to good use in the finale, managing to survive a hellish ride into the heart of Hannya's operations on Rinko's modified motorcylce.
- Big Brother Instinct: Akito is primarily motivated by his love for Mari. Even after being possessed and witnessing the population of Tokyo vanish, his only thought is to reach the hospital Mari is staying at. When Hannya kidnaps her, he joins KK willingly in order to save his little sister.
- Blessed with Suck: It's mentioned that he and his sister got pulled into the events of the game due to their high affinity for the ether. However, this also also makes Akito compatible with KK and his powers.
- Brought Down to Badass: When separated from KK, he can still climb like a monkey, charge his bow with energy and sneak attack Visitors. Though he can't use KK's power to see them, he can still see their "alertness meter", too.
- Combat Pragmatist: He's not above using seals to paralyze opponents, or sneaking up on Visitors from behind to quickly purge them before they can do anything. Given the circumstances, this is more than justified.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: While he's at first understandably freaked out by the Visitors, the yokai and the Faceless, he adjusts to seeing them the more competent he gets at Etheral Weaving, until he's not the least bit scared of them anymore.
- Cool Big Bro: Was this to Mari when she was a child and counts as one by the time of the game. Whatever his flaws, he doesn't hesitate to fight through a city full of Visitors and Hannya's group if it means getting his sister back.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Despite Mari's kidnapping he and KK never hesitate to help out lingering spirits or friendly yokai. Assuming the player gathers all the spirits he also saves over 240,000 people from the Visitors, ensuring that all of Hannya's victims are returned to life.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He has swirling black smoke covering half his face and his right palm and he dresses exactly like KK after they reunite. He's still a heroic Nice Guy who wants to save his sister and the rest of Shibuya.
- The Determinator: Akito will fight tooth and nail to get his sister back, with not even yokai or death being a deterrent.
- Empowered Badass Normal: His Ethereal Weaving ability is the result of him fusing with KK's spirit. Whenever KK is separated from him, he loses his powers and is completely reliant on his own physical capabilities and his bow and arrow, until they find a way to reunite.
- Hidden Depths: The fact that he's a crackshot with a bow implies some experience with archery in the past.
- Invisible to Normals: Inverted. Thanks to his etheric affinity, Akito can see all the weird supernatural stuff that's happening as a result of Hannya's workings. Since KK actually notes this specially, this ability seems to have nothing to do with his possession, unless that kickstarted it.
- Marked By The Supernatural: The presence of KK within his body causes a black, smoke-like substance to emit from his body. It covers half his face, giving the teens who approach him after his almost fatal accident a pretty big scare when he turns to look at them. Downplayed somewhat later where the smoke is thinner and no longer masks half his face.
- Pretty Boy: He's very slender with soft facial features, contrasting the older, more gruff-looking KK.
- Sole Survivor: The only alive person in Shibuya by the start of the game. By the end of it he's also the last remaining member of his family still living.
- Take Up My Sword: It's heavily implied in the ending that he'll take up KK's role as a watchdog after KK finally passes on.
KK
Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue (Japanese), Stephen Oyoung (English)
A former detective/monster-hunter turned ghost who possesses Akito. After initially butting heads over Akito's body, he agrees to work together with Akito to defeat Hannya and save Mari.- Action Dad: He's the father of a young boy and was a powerful exorcist before his death.
- Badass in Distress: He's kidnapped by the Faceless after the first boss battle and imprisoned in one of the shrines.
- Brutal Honesty: KK doesn't mince words, demonstrated by the blunt manner in which he informs Akito that the entirety of Toyko was purged at the start of the game and that he needs Akito's body and considers Akito's continued presence in it a nuisance. Throughout the game he continues to speak his mind frankly, making snarky comments about Akito's purchases, hobbies and prayers to different shrines.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He dresses primarily in black and has a very ruthless disposition, but he's ultimately one of the good guys trying to save Tokyo from Hannya and his Faceless, with his more unfettered moments coming from desperation to reach his goal rather than true maliciousness.
- Defrosting Ice King: He initially sees Akito as little more than a troublesome vessel he has to maneuver around, but slowly comes to care for him the more time they spend together.
- Face Death with Dignity: When he finally passes on in the ending he has one final joking exchange with Akito and leaves without any fuss or goodbye.
- Fatal Flaw: Impulsiveness. KK has a bad habit of jumping into action without thinking (or in this case, pushing Akito into the fray without thinking). Not only does this lead to him getting separated from Akito and kidnapped for a while, it also causes him and Akito to walk right into the Faceless' traps more than once and having to fight their way back out. Rinko calls him out on this, telling him that he really needs to use his head more.
- Hero of Another Story: Before his death, he was one of the "guard dogs" that kept Tokyo safe, as well as a professional monster hunter.
- Hunter of Monsters: A rather proficient hunter of Visitors and Yokai by the time of his death, who openly noted he was a monster hunter.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He doesn't make the best first impression, first possessing Akito against his will, then attempting to make the boy strangle himself to get sole ownership of their shared body. However, he does prove himself a valuable ally eventually, teaching Akito Ethereal Weaving and how to defend himself and becoming somewhat of an older brother figure to him over the course of the game.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Seeing his own body Reforged into a Minion enrages him so much that he willingly separates from Akito and rushes in to reclaim it. Predictably, without Akito to wield his powers, he can't fight as well and is immediately captured, leaving Akito completely at the mercy of the Visitors and forced to trek over half the ward to retrieve him.
- Pet the Dog: He has a lot of these with Akito. The first one when Akito dies trying to save Mari from Hannya and KK promises to find and save her if Akito allows him into his body again. After that he often compliments Akito when he shows greater and greater skill at Ethereal Weaving, even exclaiming at one point that he's proud of him.
The Faceless
In General
A mysterious group of individuals who are responsible for the arrival of the Visitors and the fog that whisked away Tokyo's population.
- Eyes Always Shut: Though Hannya himself is unclear given he is never seen maskless, the other three members have their eyes constantly closed until they reach their One-Winged Angel forms, indicating that they are merely possessed corpses used as tools rather than seeing through the eyes.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: A bit hard to make out through the baggy clothing and the mask, but Ko-omote and Okina are female, while Yaseotoko and Hannya are male.
- In the Hood: All of them wear black hooded sweatshirts over their clothing, with the hoods drawn up.
- Light Is Not Good: Their masks are bone-white and they're the ones responsible for the yokai and the Visitors running rampant in Tokyo, as well as the disappearance of its population.
- Malevolent Masked Man: All of them wear traditional kabuki-masks that completely hide their facial features and give them an eerie, almost ghost-like appearance.
- Reforged into a Minion: Yaseotoko, Ko-omote and Okina are actually corpses, possessed by Visitors. the corpses of Erika, Hannya's wife and KK, specifically.
- Silent Antagonist: Apart from Hannya, they don't talk all that much. Justified, since they're all little more than reanimated bodies Hannya controls.
Yaseotoko
- The Dragon: Acts as Hannya's right-hand-man and the last Faceless you have to defeat before confronting Hannya himself. Which is incredibly ironic, since he's actually the corpse of KK.
- Mirror Boss: He uses the same Etheral Weaving techniques as Akito and KK. This is no coincidence, as his actual identity is KK's possessed body.
- Oni: His Visitor form is based on one, although far larger and more threatening looking than the actual, rather friendly Oni that also appear in game.
Ko-omote
- The Baby of the Bunch: In a really twisted way. Since her host body is a young teenage girl, as opposed to Okina and Yaseotoko who are both possessing fully-grown adults, she could be considered this. Though of course there's really no telling how old the Visitor puppeteering the body actually is.
- Dark Action Girl: One of Hannya's henchmen and one of the game's bosses.
- Enemy Within: She ambushes and takes control of Rinko to lure Akito and KK into a trap.
- "Get Back Here!" Boss: She runs off whenever Akito manages to rip out one of her tails, forcing Akito to find and sneak up on her again.
- One-Winged Angel: When facing Akito and KK, she turns into a cat-like monster with three tails and a human head with a ghastly maw.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Her very first course of action in her boss-fight is to forcibly separate Akito and KK, then swallow KK, so Akito can't reunite with him again, effectively depriving Akito of his Etheral Weaving and forcing him to sneak around the stage as opposed to pummeling her with attacks.
- Reforged into a Minion: In life Erika had been firmly opposed to her father Hannya's wicked plans and was eager to work against him. The Visitor marionetting her corpse around is perfectly willing to do his bidding.
- Swallowed Whole: She tears out KK and swallows him up at the beginning of her boss fight. It doesn't actually hurt him, but it does keep him from directly helping Akito.
Okina
- Ambiguous Situation: Her memories heard in the boss battle imply she was happy that Hannya brought her back and that she was actually all for his plan concerning Tokyo.
- Lost Lenore: In life she was Hannya's wife. His main reason for performing the ritual is to get her back and he's not above using her dead body as a minion to achieve this.
- Reforged into a Minion: Subverted? As mentioned, it seems from her memories she was willing to do anything to support her husband's plan, even allowing a Visitor to take over her body. However, she might have been corrupted or mind-controlled.
- Spiders Are Scary: Her boss-form is a gigantic spider-woman with sacks of bile on her back and a human head.
Hannya
Voiced by: Shunsuke Sakuya (Japanese), Feodor Chin (English)
The leader of the Faceless and the one who initiated the ritual that plunged Tokyo into chaos. He is convinced that humans are shackled by their connection to their physical bodies and seeks to "free" every soul in Tokyo.- A God I Am Not: He expressly states in his televized messages that he isn't seeking such lofty goals as godhood or rulership over the world he plans to create. He later muses that in being the locus of the ritual, Mari might become the leader of all the liberated souls, offering this idea to Akito as a sincere attempt at comfort.
- Alas, Poor Villain: He might be a mass murderer, but he genuinely thought he was saving people in doing so, and his eventual Villainous Breakdown is extremely tragic.
- Archnemesis Dad: To Erika. She joined KK's team to stop him from connecting the human world to the spirit world, only to end up slain by him and have her body be used as one of his minions.
- Big Bad: He is the leader of the Faceless and the one who set the ritual and the events leading up to it in motion. He also kidnapped Akito's sister Mari.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: He believes that the physical body is nothing but a shell for the soul, and so feels nothing for killing people. Rather than make him appear alien, it just showcases how insane he is.
- Canned Orders over Loudspeaker: While running through Tokyo you can constantly see him on the big monitors prattling on and on about his grand plan to free the souls of Tokyo's population through his ritual and how every soul should come to and give themselves unto him. This despite the fact that everyone in Tokyo at present is either his enemy, his broadly mindless minions, yokai who don't care ether way or unconscious spirits who can't hear him.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Seeing how the pancakes his daughter Erika made him had cooled down made him realize that his wife's soul wasn't gone, it had merely moved out of her body, like the heat from the pancakes had moved out instead of being destroyed. So if he could somehow recover it....
- The Faceless: Never seen without his mask.
- The Leader: Of the Faceless.
- Obliviously Evil: On a fundamental level, he does not grasp that what he is doing is wrong, sincerely believing he is helping people in his mass murder. It just goes to show how far gone he truly is.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: He is only known as Hannya, as a reference to the hannya mask he wears. Even then, he is only ever known in dialogue as "him" or as Erika's father. His actual name is never stated.
- Villainous Breakdown: His begins when Mari seemingly halts the ritual, at which point he finally stops speaking in his calm tone of voice. It breaks into full swing when he merges with the souls of his wife and Erika, which has him utterly Driven to Madness to the point that KK notes it, and finally he breaks down into screaming the question of why the heroes are trying to stop him after his family's souls are torn from him, leaving only himself. By the end, he finally realizes he is near death, and what death means… and is absolutely terrified of dying.Hannya: Why do you interfere? Why? WHY WHY WHY?! I was to be your salvation! ALL… BECOME… ONE! […] Hurts… Cannot see… Dark… Col…d… I… I… don't want to die!
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He is convinced that he is humanity's salvation, and that he's doing the right thing by freeing their souls from their mortal bodies.
Visitors
Forlorn/Forsaken
The Forlorn are born from the sorrow of abused children. They are not directly combative, and when frightened, they summon other Visitors to aid them before fleeing.
Their relatives, the Forsaken, are born from the rage of abused children.
Their relatives, the Forsaken, are born from the rage of abused children.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The more dangerous variant, the Forsaken, is in a red raincoat instead of yellow and summons more dangerous foes.
- Creepy Child: As something born from the strong feelings of children both variants have this appearance, with Forsaken being on the Enfant Terrible side of things.
- Enemy Summoner: Unless you successfully sneak attack or headshoot, they'll call forth roughly three to five Visitors.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Forsaken have these. They're also red.
- Non-Lethal K.O.: Well, of a kind. They are the only Visitors that Akito and KK do not rip the core out of and destroy, instead placing a fuda on them and exorcising them in order to make them pass on.
- Raincoat of Horror: They wear a yellow tarp and a hood that evokes the look of one.
Kuchisake/Crimson Kuchisake
A type of Visitor born from frenzied rage. They wield deadly one-handed weapons as they hunt and butcher their living prey.
- Badass Longcoat: They wear a very nice one and they are among the most formidable of the Visitors' ranks.
- Glasgow Grin: Just like her inspiration. Normal versions keep it behind a mask while Crimson ones don't.
- Lightning Bruiser: You'll wish they were Fragile Speedsters.
- Mini-Boss: Effectively serve as this for the Visitors. They have high health, hit very hard, have a terrifying grab attack that forces you into very vulnerable state, and thus appropriately are very sparingly used. Oh, and they are, naturally, resistant to Quick Purges, which only does heavy damage to them, forcing you to fight them head on to finish them off. Taken to the max with the Crimson Kuchisake, who are a Boss in Mook Clothing, with even higher stats than their normal counterpart, and appropriately serves as the final threat of some Side Quests.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: The Crimson show this off with their broad grins.
- Shear Menace: Their weapon of choice is a pair of oversized scissors.
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Based upon one of the eponymous examples in modern time.
- Taking You with Me: The animations when you do a Melee Core Grab on them feature them spending their dying moments glaring into your eyes while struggling to attempt at cutting your head off with their massive scissors since you're so close. They don't succeed, but Kuchisake are notable for being the only Visitors who are very obviously trying to continue killing you as you crush their core.
Lamentation
A type of Visitor born from the isolation of those cut off from friends and family. They hang in midair as they wait for their prey.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: They lack legs and use their hands instead when walking around.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: A mouthful of fangs to complete their charming appearance.
- Nightmare Face: Think "Mouth of Sauron", but increase the size of the mouth until it takes up the entire face. Now stop thinking about it, no-one feels better from you being traumatized.
Paper Doll
A type of Visitor born from a life spent maintaining a vapid facade, empty smiles ever at the ready. They spread the very same negative energy they have been forced to bear.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: The exclusively feminine Paper Doll class of enemies has no melee attacks, instead shooting a group of large, slow energy balls at their target.
- No Cure for Evil: Averted here, as one variant (Marionettes) fires green energy balls that heal other Visitors.
- Painfully Slow Projectile: They fire red energy balls that hurt if they hit but drift forward at a pretty languid pace. That said they fire enough of them that in close quarters or enclosed spaces they border on Bullet Hell.
- Brown Bag Mask: Well, off-white bag but their faces appear to be wrapped in paper bags. Hit them in the head with attacks and you'll see there's nothing underneath.
Rain Walker
A type of Visitor born from the hearts of those pushed to the point of utter exhaustion by their work. They apply an equally exhaustive approach to their work robbing the living of their life force.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Relentless Walkers look like corrupt executives with their nice suits coupled with gold-plated umbrellas and mallets.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Downplayed as these guys are your most common kind of mooks and some of them have taken the suit off, but they still look pretty good wearing them.
- Evil Old Folks: Relentless Walkers look like jowly old men.
- Eyeless Face: Somewhat fittingly for the spirits of your average, faceless, overworked Joes...
- The Goomba: The normal Rain Walkers are by far the most numerous and least dangerous type of enemy in the game, having low health and few attacks, being easy to stagger and knock down, and having an attack that is ludicrously easy to get a Perfect Block off of.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Inverted to a degree. The male-appearing Rain Walkers will mix taking swipes at you with telekinetically throwing stuff at you, whereas the female Rain Slashers have no telekinesis and much stronger melee attacks.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: They all carry umbrellas that are quite resistant to attacks. The more powerful variants deliberately use it to block.
- Mini-Boss: The Relentless Walkers are surprisingly healthy and will devastate your health bar if you act too careless around them and/or don't get out of the way of their attacks fast enough. Befittingly for a Mini-Boss, they resist Quick Purges, which will only heavily damage them, forcing you fight them head on to finish them off, or very quickly hide to do it again.
- Mind over Matter: One of their attacks involves lifting objects and throwing them at you. Thankfully, this attack is rather slow and can be interrupted or dodged as long as you see it coming.
- Stout Strength: The normal Rain Walkers are rake thin and quite weak but the more powerful Rugged Walkers, Relentless Walkers and Rage Walkers are all quite tubby.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Rugged Walkers use their umbrellas as shields. This works against wind attacks, but is less useful against fire.
- Too Many Mouths: Rage Walkers keep a spare mouth on the side of their head.
Shiromuku
A type of Visitor born from feelings of profound envy and resentment. They harbor a seemingly bottomless well of corrupted power. Their outfits resemble traditional wedding dresses worn in ancient Japan.
- An Ice Person: She fires ice shards and ice waves, and can make an ice wall as well as freezing Akito's feet to the ground.
- Ethereal White Dress: She's a ghostly entity that wears an all white wedding robe.
- Stronger with Age: They are the most powerful Visitor (at least in terms of raw power) and are the only type to have an aesthetic drawn from historical Japan rather than the modern day.
- Woman Scorned: They represent regret and strong feelings for a partner they were never able to marry.
Students
A type of Visitor born from the pressures and anxieties endured by ordinary high school students. They are quick to act and attack with merciless tenacity.
- Adorable Evil Minions: Lack of heads aside, they're rather sweet in a gawky way... until they spot Akito and go into full-on attack mode, that is. Admittedly it often verges on
Creepy Cute, especially the girls, who will sometimes skip around in a sinister fashion casting ominous shadows on the walls. But if you catch them idling they'll often be engaged in surprisingly ordinary teenage activities and can seem like they're just a bunch of kids hanging out together after school. - Always Female: The Students of Misery. As one of the first enemy types encountered in the game they aren't especially strong, but are usually found in groups of two to four who can work together to gang up on Akito.
- Always Male: The Students of Pain. They are a little stronger than their female counterparts, but move more slowly. They're usually found either in pairs together or as the sole male accompanied by two or three Students of Misery.
- Losing Your Head: Their defining physical trait is their lack of a head.
- Sailor Fuku: Students of Misery wear both white ones with dark skirts as well as completely dark ones; while Students of Pain wear the traditional male equivalent, high-collared gakuran in black.
- Averted by the stronger versions of the Students of Misery encountered later in the game, who wear brightly-coloured and more Western-looking school uniforms with skirts and matching cardigans in reds, greens, and blues. Stronger Students of Pain sport the same bright colour palette, but switch out their everyday schoolwear for athletic kits or convenience store employee uniforms.
- Waif-Fu: How the Students of Misery fight.
Wanderer
A type of Visitor born from the desire to run away. Inside it lies only a void. It floats in the air and attacks from above.
- Bedsheet Ghost: They are a combination of both Western and Eastern stereotypical ghosts, looking like they're covered with bedsheets for one and having a Hitaikakushi tied around their heads for the other.
- Flight: They're not very fast until they're rushing at you.
- Glass Cannon: Pack a reasonable punch but they go down easily. They also suck at dodging.
- Playing with Fire: They shoot fireballs and have a fiery Suicide Attack.
- Suicide Attack: When damaged badly enough they'll set themselves on fire and rush at you. This has enough of a wind-up that you can finish them off quickly, though.
- Teru-Teru Bōzu: Designed to look like one.
Others
Mari
Voiced by: Asami Seto (Japanese), Anne Yatco (English)
Akito's little sister, who is hospitalized. Hannya kidnaps her to use in his ritual.- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: She is supposed to be very badly burned. There is no evidence of this on any of her visible skin, not even around the edges of the bandage on her forehead.
- Blessed with Suck: Her high etheric affinity makes her perfect for Hannya's ritual.
- Damsel in Distress: Is kidnapped by Hannya at the start of the game to be used in his ritual to set the spirits in Tokyo free, prompting Akito to team up with KK to save her.
- Driven to Suicide: Not why she is in hospital, that was an accident, but losing her parents and having her brother close himself off from her with nothing really good going on her life was leading Mari to consider just putting an end to it all.
- Ethereal White Dress: When she appears in spirit form.
- Heroic Willpower: Despite having no supernatural powers she resists Hannya and disturbs his ritual long enough to say goodbye to Akito and give him a chance to fight her kidnapper.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Doesn't seem to have a bad bone in her body. Doesn't make it.
- Tragic Keepsake: She wears her parents wedding rings on a chain around her neck. It was going back for this that led to her getting burned.
Rinko
Voiced by: Toa Yukinari (Japanese), Judy Alice Lee (English)
A former work friend of KK's. A cryptic woman who helps Akito and KK out now and again.- Brainwashed and Crazy: Is revealed to have been taken over by Ko-omote to fool Akito and KK. She gets better after Akito manages to separate the two through a seal.
- Cool Big Sis: Is implied to have been this to Erika, as she took care of stray cats with her and was adamant about KK not taking her on missions.
- Deadpan Snarker: She has a very sarcastic sense of humor.
- Fighting from the Inside: When Ko-omote tries to use her to kill Akito and KK, she manages to overpower the assassin and slow her down long enough for Akito and KK to escape her trap and catch up to them.
- Flat-Earth Atheist: She doesn't believe in the afterlife while being a ghost.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: KK notes that both her suddenly being highly forthcoming with information and her rather cold reaction to Erika not being at the safe house are suspicious. He turns out to be right, as by then it was Ko-omote talking, not Rinko.
- Kind Hearted Cat Lover: She and Erika kept a bunch of cats at one of their safe houses that they took turns feeding.
- Mission Control: She contacts Akito and KK over the payphones to inform them about torii gate-locations as well as the Faceless' movements.
- Posthumous Character: By the time Akito meets her, she has already been killed by the Faceless, but she still helps him and KK out from beyond the grave.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: In life she and KK weren't fond of each other, which makes her almost friendly behavior toward him suspect.
- Unfinished Business: Hers is worrying about what happened to Erika and wondering what went wrong between them. If the player finishes her series of side quests before the finale Rinko gets some closure and passes on.
Erika
Voiced by: Misa Ishii (Japanese), Jenny Yokobori (English)
A former member of KK's team. She was the youngest and joined to stop her father Hannya.- Animal Motif: Cats. She and Rinko kept strays as pets and in the memories heard in her boss battle, she likens herself to a cat, something small, weak and reliant on others.
- Antagonistic Offspring: She was this to Hannya, as she was appalled by what he'd turned her mother into and was determined to stop him. Sadly, she didn't get to.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Deconstructed. Erika felt useless due to everyone on KK's team constantly babying her and trying to keep her as far from danger as possible. It's implied she went off to face Hannya on her own, to prove she was more than a kid who had to be protected.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Rinko and her kept a bunch of stray cats in one of the safe houses and took turns feeding them.
- Posthumous Character: Like Rinko she is already dead by the start of the game. Unlike Rinko her spirit only briefly appears and her corpse has been used to create Ko-omote.
- Tagalong Kid: Seems to have been one for KK's old team. Her effort to prove herself to them ended...poorly.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She accidentally inspired her father to begin his mad scheme to fuse the worlds of the living and dead—by making pancakes.
