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Main Heroine
Kimi Shirokado
Iyoyoloki Soyohosu/Yog-Sothoth
- Voiced by: Xanthe Huynh
The story's protagonist. She strives to have everyone be kind to each other when the Middle Eastern interns are brought to Housing Complex C, and teams up with Taka and Yuri to discover the truth about the vanishings and incidents occurring around the island. She is actually Iyoyoloki Soyohosu, a powerful goddess of time and space more commonly known as Yog-Sothoth, the Key and the Gate. She trapped the island in an eternal utopia, frozen in time, to make the humans get along with each other.
- Adorable Abomination: She's Yog-Sothoth in the form of an adorable anime girl fawned over by the village residents and foreign visitors alike.
- Affably Evil: A trait she shares with the original Yog-Sothoth at her worst, compared to the Koshide family, who are insanely murderous cultists, anyway. She is willing to let the people of the housing complex die to the Koshide Family as part of a Secret Test of Character, but still tries to help the humans get along and survive without directly interfering with her powers. It's likely because as a god, she's Above Good and Evil.
- All-Powerful Bystander: Kimi has what seems to be complete power over time and space, and could kill anyone the instant she felt like it. Instead, she tries to live a normal, peaceful life among humans to attempt to see if they can live in harmony. Then the Koshides just happen to ruin all of that and kill nearly everyone like humans apparently do every time she tries, albeit she apparently waits to see the end goal out. The moment her patience is finally shot, however, she gibs the Koshides and ends the plot then and there.
- Benevolent Abomination: She is heavily implied to be none other than Yog-Sothoth, trapping everyone on the island in a perpetual time loop... which is meant to serve as a utopia, and she has no ill will whatsoever. The only people she gruesomely kills are the Koshide family, and while she becomes disappointed in humanity as a whole, she chooses to leave them rather than destroy them, even sparing the friendly Kan when he prays to her for help.
- Charm Person: As part of The Reveal, Kimi is suggested to be this in Taka's journal. Despite all of the mysterious circumstances around her (like why her mother, who she supposedly lives with, never appears), everyone at the complex feels a strong desire to like and protect her.
- Expy: Of Yog-Sothoth, the god of space-time. In the finale, Kimi reveals herself to be a god higher than Kuzululu (a reference to Cthulhu) who had put the titular complex into a perpetual time loop as a way of achieving a utopia. However, that was tarnished when Yuri and her family disturbed the peace leading to Kimi developing contempt for humanity. In the Mythos, Yog-Sothoth would often appear as either eyes or spheres when entering the mortal plane. The final shot of the anime features Kimi blowing bubbles.
- False Friend: She and Yuri are this towards each other, though the former is fully aware of the latter's malevolence and duplicity, and plays her right back in turn.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Possibly why she has the appearance of a cute little girl is because adults are naturally protective of children.
- God in Human Form: Implied to be Yog-Sothoth, the god of space-time, taking the form of a little girl.
- Humanoid Abomination: Kimi is, for all intents and purposes, an avatar of Yog-Sothoth.
- Invincible Hero: It turns out she was only pretending to be in danger. She is actually a literal goddess, and the minute she decides to stop playing around, she instantly rips apart the Koshide parents and takes her sweet time with their daughter before doing the same to her.
- Protectorate: Everyone native to Housing Complex C wants to protect Kimi no matter what, and even Kan and Yuri join in on it. While Kan was doing it out of genuine altruism, Yuri was really just a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. The rest seem to be under the thrall of Kimi as part of her attempts to live in harmony without them being any the wiser (this is also why nobody ever questioned any of the mysterious things about Kimi, like why they never see her mother despite "knowing" Kimi lives with her.
- Too Dumb to Live: Kimi is taught about optical illusions, which she uses in a prank where she stands in front of a balcony railing several floors up, with a railing silhouette painted on her clothes. However, she ends up stumbling and falling. Thankfully, Kan is there to catch her. Given that Kimi was a god the entire time, she likely did it on purpose to test Kan which he passes.
- Walking Spoiler: Several reveals in the show's last two episodes put her actions early in the series in a much different light.
The Koshide Family
General
A family of workers who move to the island with their Middle Eastern interns. They are well-liked by both the natives and foreigners, and want everyone to get along. However, that is but a front to hide their true nature. They are actually cultists of the sea god Kuzululu/Cthulhu, who are abducting and murdering the residents as sacrifices to revive their god.
- Asshole Victim: They murder everyone at Housing Complex C in the finale, and Kimi kills all three of them in turn when she reveals herself to be a god. She apparently tore the parents limb from limb and then liquified the rest of them, dumped all the blood and gore on Yuri while giving her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, and finally made Yuri explode into a pile of bones and guts, too. It's hard to argue that they didn't deserve it.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Yuri and her family moving into Housing Complex C is part of the reason why everything's going wrong. Considering that all the neighbors act relatively friendly, it's a huge surprise when one of the neighbors, who just had a note detailing what's going on and is going to warn Kimi, is suddenly stabbed from behind by Yuri's dad. It's then shown that Yuri's mom killed Wada. After Kan takes out the mom and dad, Kimi is seen being chased by Yuri, who tells her she likes making what she calls "nicey-nices" scream until she bleeds them dry.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: As a result of their atrocious actions, Kimi punishes each family member.
- False Friend: Both Yuri and Kimi towards each other, though the latter is fully aware of the former's malevolence and duplicity, and plays her right back in turn.
- Faux Affably Evil: Whenever they interact with the tenants at Housing Complex C, they appear friendly and polite. That is a front with their true plan being to sacrifice the residents in a plan to resurrect their god.
- Killed Offscreen: Kimi somehow slaughtered Yuri's parents when she leads Yuri into a representation of Kimi's room.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Yuri and her family, who've gone about murdering the residents of Housing Complex C almost indiscriminately, are casually slaughtered by Kimi, who is revealed to be a god disguised as a child. She shows disgust as to how History Repeats, and dumps the organs of Yuri's parents all over her. After receiving a brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech, Yuri then starts expelling moss from every orifice like blood before popping like an overinflated balloon. All the while Kimi expresses sadness about how Humans Are Bastards to each other due to human stupidity.
- Meaningless Villain Victory: They successfully kill all but three of the people on the island and complete their ritual to summon Yog-Sothoth. Unfortunately for them, Yog/Kimi herself does not approve of their fanatical admiration or their murders, preferring that humans live in harmony with each other, and so brutally dismembers them, rendering all their work pointless.
- Mugging the Monster: Yuri and her family are all insane, murderous cultists who worship an eldritch god heavily implied to be Cthulhu. Kimi, one of their intended victims, turns out to be a deity even more powerful than the one they worship: Yog-Sothoth. Once this is revealed, Kimi makes short work of them all.
- Serial Killer: They butcher several of the residents as a ritual.
- Walking Spoiler: Their true purpose behind bringing the Middle Eastern interns to Kurosaki turns the mini-series on its head.
- Would Hurt a Child: None of them had any qualms with murdering Kimi along with the other residents.Yuri’s dialogue also suggests they’ve included kids among their victims before.
Yuri Koshide
- Voiced by: Kayli Mills
A new neighbor who moves into Housing Complex C and befriends Kimi. She decides to help Kimi uncover the truth behind the disappearances in the complex. She is actually a psychopathic murderer who is as dedicated as her parents in sacrificing the residents, but she doesn't particularly share their fanatical worship- she just likes gutting "nicey-nices".
- Ax-Crazy: Yuri loves making "nicey-nices" like Kimi bleed and even vows to put Kimi's decapitated head in a jar of formaldehyde so she could look at it anytime she felt sad.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Once Yuri is splattered with her parents' organs and confronted with the Awful Truth that Kimi is a genuine deity, she immediately bows to the ground and tries to pray to her for her blessings... while saying she'll kill anyone and pillage whatever for Kimi's desires. Kimi's response is to fill her organs with moss and then explode her from the inside-out for her transgressions.
- Bespectacled Cutie: Yuri, one of the two lead characters. Unfortunately, she is ultimately revealed to be Cute But Psycho.
- Big Sister Instinct: Yuri believes herself to be Kimi's older sister in a past life and tells her this when they find the hidden tomb that Taka found to try to console a heartbroken Kimi. Both of them start to really believe that they really are sisters, complete with Kimi recalling the events of long ago when her apparent ancestor watched Yuri's apparent ancestor sacrificing her life to protect her. This is later subverted as Yuri reveals herself to be a crazy cultist fully-intent on sacrificing everyone to their god.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She at first appears to be a friendly young girl who befriends Kimi, but she actually turns out to be just as insane as her parents.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Kimi forces her to vomit up moss before inflating her body and causing it to explode violently.
- Cute Is Evil: A Bespectacled Cutie little girl who turns out to be an Enfante Terrible and one of the culprits behind the murders afflicting the complex who really likes killing people.
- Evil All Along: Falsely befriended Kimi only to intend on sacrificing her along with the other neighbors of Housing Complex C in a mad plan to resurrect their god Kuzululu.
- False Friend: She pretended to be friends with Kimi when in actuality she was more than happy to dice her into mincemeat in the name of her god.
- Faux Affably Evil: Acts friendly and protective of Kimi but is actually a budding serial killer.
- For the Evulz: After The Reveal, Yuri admits that while her father's murderous tendencies are motivated by love of their god, Yuri herself just enjoys killing people, especially "nicey-nices" like Kimi.
- Hypocrite: Tells her mother that the housing complex is scary and the people give her the creeps, when she and her parents are by far the scariest things there.
- Kids Are Cruel: She is just as murderously giddy as her parents.
- Sadist: Yuri takes a disturbing amount of glee at what she is doing showing nothing by psychotic glee at killing her so-called friend.
- The Sociopath: She has some of the calling cards: she is manipulative and charismatic; she lacks empathy and remorse for any of the wicked actions she had tried to do, and states she loves bleeding people dry as a form of stimulation.
- Too Dumb to Live: At the very end, as Yuri is covered in the blood and entrails of her parents after Kimi demonstrates her otherworldly powers, Yuri opts to beg for the blessings of the god before her while ranting and raving about how she'll kill and pillage anyone Kimi wants her to. This is immediately following Kimi's lengthy "The Reason You Suck" Speech that pointed out how annoyed she was with the Koshide family for murdering everyone and destroying Kimi's peace, and with humanity in general for their violent ways. Yuri gets mushed for it. Kimi even comments on how stupid Yuri was.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Despite being 9 years old, Yuri happily tries to chop up the residents of the apartment complex.
- Villainous Breakdown: A twisted one, in that she's both completely and utterly terrified to the bone at realizing she just tried to murder a God in Human Form that just liquified her parents — before she rounds about in glee at finding a god to properly worship that actually exists before her very eyes. Unfortunately, her insanity and Lack of Empathy pretty much has her beg for Kimi's blessings amidst admitting she'll murder and pillage anyone Kimi requests. Kimi was already pissed off enough, but this just cements Yuri's own Cruel and Unusual Death if not exacerbates what was inevitable.
- Walking Spoiler: Her family being the masterminds behind the strange events happening in Housing Complex C completely throws the story on its head.
Seichi Koshide
- Voiced by: Sean Chiplock
Yuri's father who works for Tsurie Fisheries and the one who brought over the Middle Eastern interns. Though seemingly a kind and gentle man, he actually brought over the interns so he and his wife and daughter could sacrifice them and the natives to Kuzululu.
- Ax-Crazy: He is very devoted to serving Kuzululu and is as giddy about murder as his wife and daughter are.
- Big Bad: He is responsible for the conflict between the old tenants and the Middle Eastern immigrants whose real motivation is to summon a reality-warping god to resurrect his sea god.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Kimi kills him by ripping off his arms and then liquifying the rest of his body.
Keiko Koshide
- Voiced by: Suzie Yeung
The wife of Seichi Koshide and Yuri's mother. Though seemingly a kind and nurturing woman, she is just as fanatical as her husband in their worship of Kuzululu.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: When Kan attacks her in the final episode, she briefly tries to make it look like she's an unwilling accomplice of the murders being forced by her husband to kill people, and he'll do something bad to her if she doesn't. When Kan relents, she reveals the "bad thing" is simply not being "praised for a job well done" and attacks Kan.
Residents and Interns at Housing Complex C
General
The people living at the housing complex. The Japanese natives and Middle-Eastern interns are initially friendly with each other, but when murders start happening, they quickly turn on each other.
- Fatal Flaw: Their insistence on being suspicious of “the other” causes both of them to spend more time bickering and giving in to racial tensions than actually figuring out what happened, which lets the Koshide family pick them off one by one. Had they instead worked together, they could have survived.
Kan
A Middle-Eastern intern who takes a liking to Kimi and Yuri.
- Gentle Giant: Kan is as kind-hearted as he is big and ungainly.
- Karmic Jackpot: After being a genuine Gentle Giant that tried to save and protect Kimi throughout the story, Kan is brought into the present without issue beyond his wounds while everyone else besides Rubel had been murdered already. If Kimi really is Yog-Sothoth, then his direct prayer to her for protection via the words she'd given him, compared to Yuri's selfish desires for power, likely also contributed to his survival.
- Made of Iron: Kan is The Big Guy to such an extent that he gets stabbed through his left hand, impaled via crowbar in his side, and clocked with a metal pipe upside the head, and is still conscious enough to try and save Kimi.
