Here is a list of characters from the anime Kyousogiga.
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Koto
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya
The main character of the series, Koto is a mysterious girl who arrives one day in the Mirror Capital, shattering an unfathomably long status quo. An agent of the Shrine, she excelled in her studies and training under her teacher Inari, allowing her to become a full member at an unusually young age. She wields a giant hammer, Aratama.
- Action Girl: As a child, Koto was willing to fight her fellow students at the Bureau - and as a teenager, took on Bishamaru single-handedly.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: At least in comparison to the rest of the cast.
- Broken Tears: After being used by Inari to destroy most of the Mirror Capital.
- Cute Bruiser:
- Daddy's Girl: Was raised solely by her father, Inari, and the two were very close.
- Empty Eyes: After being controlled by Inari.
- Hereditary Hairstyle: Koto's hairstyle matches the one Inari used to wear before he cut his hair short.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Her childhood left her with something of a mean streak, and sometimes she will intentionally stir up chaos just for laughs. However, she's still a good person.
- Magic Skirt: Koto's skirt doesn't move even when she's suspended upside down.
- Physical God: God takes Inari's power away and gives it to both Koto and Myoue.
- Sailor Fuku: Sports one as part of her uniform from The Shrine, though in the present day she wears a black cardigan over it.
- Tomboy: Koto is messy, destructive, and won't turn down a good fight. She's even explicitly called a tomboy by Yase.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Yase's Girly-Girl.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: She's a tomboyish girl who wears her hair in a long ponytail.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: For much of her childhood other members of the Shrine were looking for any excuse to cast her out as a bad omen, forcing her to grow up faster than her classmates did. Part of why she loves the Mirror Capital is it's a place she can finally let her guard down.
Lady Koto
Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa
The "Goddess" of the Mirror Capital, Koto was originally a rabbit drawn by Myoue the First, who was given a body by a Bodhisattva. The body was intended to be returned the moment Myou reciprocated her affections, but she and Myou made the decision to run away together rather than give the body back, setting the plot in motion.
- Combat Hand Fan: Sports one in her fight with Inari
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: She was the shining example the rest of her family, at least the ones aware of her, have tried to live up to. Even her one "crime" (running away with the Bodhisattva's body) was already predicted and accounted for by the figure in question. The supposed cosmic backlash she witnessed in her dreams actually had nothing to do with her taking the body, but with her daughter using Aratama.
- Little Bit Beastly: Looks almost entirely human, but retains her rabbit ears.
- Missing Mom: Exiles herself from the Mirror Capital after receiving a prophetic vision that her refusal to return her borrowed body will cause the destruction of the city. This vision actually concerned her future daughter, who shares the same name.
- Mystical White Hair: Is technically a rabbit spirit inhabiting the body of Bodhisattva.
- Unusual Ears: The aforementioned rabbit ears.
Inari/Myoue the First
Voiced by: Akira Ishida
As Myoue
An extremely powerful monk, with the capability to create life from his drawings. He sequestered himself and his family inside the Mirror Capital, but later must abandon them in order to go on the run with Koto. Sometime between their self imposed exile and the present he and Koto were separated, he joined the Shrine, and took up the identity of Inari.
- All of the Other Reindeer: As Myoue, he was an outcast due to his reality-warping abilities. As Inari, he is gossiped about because many members of Shrine disapprove of Inari bringing in an outsider, Koto, as his protege. He's also hiding his identity.
- Being God Is Hard: Inari lacks his brother's dedication to their godly duties and while he never explicitly says it's hard, he does bemoan that it eventually began to feel pointless, particularly once humans appeared.
- Captain Obvious Reveal: Inari is the first Myoue. It's hardly a secret when the siblings have already have suspicions that Koto is their younger sister and Inari shares many of Myoue's facial features and his unmistakable voice actor.
- Commissar Cap: Regarded as being one of the most skilled members of The Shrine - with a hat to prove it!
- Cool Sword: His katana, which is red and gold with embellished knuckle-guards around the hilt. Later doubles as a Cool Key after using it to possess Koto and destroy the Mirror Capital.
- Death Seeker: His desire to pass on his responsibilities to his children and finally disappear is the driving force of the series.
- Despair Event Horizon: Discovering he and Koto the Elder could not live peacefully in the Mirror Capital, despite all he had been through, was what finally broke him.
- Desperately Seeking A Purpose In Life: Despite his apparent laziness, selfishness, and fear of responsibility, much of his character is based on him searching for something to live for. He wanted to be useful, but found flexing the powers he was literally created to use just caused problems, and he was bored by the more mundane parts of his duty. Kyoto ended up being the purpose he was looking for, and so having it taken away did not help his mental health. Raising Koto then helped give him another purpose to live for, but eventually even that wasn’t enough to drive off his despair and feelings of uselessness, especially when Koto turned out to be a prodigy who could largely fend for herself once motivated.
- Disappeared Dad: Just like he would abandon his children to run his creation without proper guidance, his father (God) did the exact same thing to him before the series began.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: His brother runs the shrine and keeps balance between the planes. Myou himself mostly just runs away from his problems.
- Heel Realization: His family eventually quite literally beat some sense into him after he tried to destroy the world. As the series ends, he has a lot to make up for, but his family has opened up to him again, giving him the potential to do so.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: Flat out tells Koto that while he eventually came around to truly loving his family, he was never able to love himself. Indeed, his belief that his own existence is worthless is so strong that the entire story revolves around his complex plan to transfer his powers of creation to his children and be erased by God. It takes a stern talking to and a few slaps from his wife and daughter to finally come around.
- It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Hoo-boy
- Adopting Yakushimaru who was a newly orphaned child he found and resurrected.
- Relocating his entire family to Mirror Capital which he threw the universe out of balance creating Mirror Capital.
- Leaving his children, and bestowing his beads to his human son, Yakushimaru, without proper explanation
- Giving Koto the Aratama the power of destruction after filling her head with stories about Mirror Kyoto but not explaining that she can't just force her way in
- Malevolent Masked Man: High ranking members of Shrine sport a mask while on missions; however, Inari has a tendency to wear his almost at all times, except in the privacy of his own home with Koto.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Myoue is loosely based on a real Japanese Buddhist monk with the same name who lived in seclusion on the mountain of Kozanji, outside the capital of Kyoto. His temple is also used as reference for the family's home.
- No Social Skills: His self-imposed isolation means he has little idea how people behave. His Establishing Character Moment is drawing a giant, terrifying dragon for some local youths who wanted to see his powers for themselves, then acting exasperated and surprised when they flee in terror. Even after starting a family, many of the problems his children face can be traced back to this lack of understanding.
- Parental Abandonment: When Lady Koto has to leave Mirror Capital, he joins her - leaving behind his three children.
- Physical God: Quite literally, in that he is one of God's two sons, tasked with balancing the universe. He loses this power by the end of the series, though.
- Poor Communication Kills: Inari makes such a huge mess by never explaining to Koto how the Aratama shouldn't be used that he decides to go for broke by resetting the entire universe. He planned on speeding up the destruction of Mirror Capital by manipulating Koto in hopes that Myoue will use the beads and fix everything.
- Reed Richards Is Useless: Played With. When the world was young, his power of creation was vital. As the world matured, it eventually couldn’t be used for the mundane problems of the modern era as it would disrupt the natural order. Myoue’s feelings that his “prime time” was now firmly in the past, and facing a future of sitting on his hands, partially caused his desire to die.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Like Koto, he has red eyes, which are symbolic for something not quite human.
- So Proud of You: To his inventor son, Kurama.
- Restart the World: Inari's plan is to force Yakushimaru 's hand into doing this, which will cement Yakushimaru as having permanently taken his place as "Myoue", allowing Inari to finally die.
- The Power of Creation: As Myoue, he could bring his paintings to life. Inari shows no indication he can do this.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He ends up on the receiving end by Lady Koto:You're like a child. You don't know how to control yourself. Everything you do is overly extravagant. You're free, selfish, uninhibited. Self-centered. A cold-hearted monster. Yet, you know how to demand attention. A proud man, who can't bear to be alone.
- There's No Place Like Home: He wants to return to Mirror Capital to see his abandoned children again.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: He seems satisfied with the idea of disappearing for good after having Yakushimaru and Koto take over his duties as a god. Koto begs to differ.
Myoue/Yakushimaru
Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura
Originally a young boy named Yakushimaru, he was adopted by Koto and Myoue the First back before they fled into the Mirror Capital. When his father abandoned the family, he was forced to inherit both his title of "Myoue" and his power of creation. Even as a child, he was very discontent with how artificially perfect his life in the Mirror Capital was, and as an adult that feeling has only grown.
- Bungled Suicide: After a fire kills his biological parents and siblings, Yakushimaru stabs himself. Myoue finds him and brings him back to his home to revive him before he dies. Then Yakushimaru tries again with a kitchen knife, only to discover to his horror he can no longer die
- Chivalrous Pervert: He definitely has a reputation as a womanizer, but he’s respectful about it.
- Death Seeker: Agrees to help Koto find her mother in the hopes that, once his parents return to the Mirror Capital, he can finally die.
- Dirty Old Monk: Downplayed. He’s a Chivalrous Pervert at worst, since he genuinely likes and respects the women he’s been with. It’s only because he wears a monk’s robe anyone has any problems with his conduct, and even then it's only because he's so excessive about it.note .
- The Hedonist: Downplayed. He tries to alleviate his boredom by sleeping around, slacking off, and basically treating every day like it's a summer vacation. It's not really working.
- Hereditary Hairstyle: Yakushimaru sports the same hairstyle as his adoptive father did.
- Older Than They Look: Definitely doesn't appear to be over 100 years old.
- Parental Substitute: As the series goes on, he finds himself taking care of Koto as if she were his own daughter. Doubly so once Inari reveals his true colors.
- Sole Survivor: Not for lack of trying. His parents were killed in a fire, and although he attempted suicide, he was revived by Inari.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: Starts to look an awful lot like his adoptive father when he grows up. Judging by the visual transfer of the beads being a double helix, when Myoue passed his prayer beads down to Yakushimaru, there was also a transfer of DNA that made the two related by blood and therefore influencing Yakushimaru's looks.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Was made immortal against his will, and hopes when his parents return they'll finally let him die.
Yase Douji
Voiced by: Eri Kitamura
The ruler of all monsters in the Mirror Capital, who lives in her mansion on the edge of town. She was the only daughter of Lady Koto and Myoue, drawn to life as a demon princess. Being created as a Demon has caused her to seriously resent Myoue, but she was closer to Lady Koto than any of the other children.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Supports Kurama's plan to sacrifice Koto in order to bring their mother back. Later subverted after she undergoes a Heel–Face Turn when Inari comes back.
- Exotic Eye Designs: Has pure black eyes with sparkles and/or stars in them.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: As a demon, she is barely able to hold back her temper, made worse by the fact that losing her temper means transforming into her gigantic ogre form. Played for Drama as it's for this reason she wishes she had been drawn as something else, since it forever prevents her from living up to the example her mother set for her.
- Hulking Out: Yase's true form - a colossal ogre - comes out when she's under great emotional duress.
- Magic Pants: Well, "Magic Dress" in her case. Her dress changes size with her, whether she's taken on her true form or not.
- Oni: What she is, although you would be forgiven for not guessing it based on her usual appearance.
- Ojou Ringlets: Sports a few large ones as an adult.
- Older Than They Look: She doesn't look to be over 100 years old.
- Parental Issues: Myoue's creation of her as a demon instead of a normal person was a wedge between them from the moment she came into existence.
- Pimped-Out Dress: Yase's dress - big, pink, with several different frilled layers.
- Pink Means Feminine: Yase's associated color is pink - her dress and hat indicate this.
- Pointy Ears: One of many things that indicate Yase isn't quite as human as her brothers.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes glow red when she starts to transform.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly-Girl to Koto's Tomboy.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: The aforementioned Hulking Out aside, she seems to be capable of changing into her ogre form at will.
- Youkai: Both Yase and her minions are this.
Kurama
Voiced by: Shigeru Nakahara
Eldest son of Lady Koto and Myoue, drawn to life as a studious young monk. In the present, he has taken up the position of ruler of the Mirror Capital, despite the fact he really, really wants to escape it.
- Bald of Evil: Subverted. Kurama seems to be the Big Bad at first - intending to sacrifice Koto in order to bring his mother back - but ends up undergoing a Heel–Face Turn after Inari comes back.
- Big Bad: Seeks to manipulate Koto into letting him escape, despite the fact it will have serious consequences. Subverted later on, once he actually sees the consequences for himself, his conscience prevents him from going further... allowing Inari to take the position of actual main antagonist.
- Eyes Always Shut: Except when he's mad.
- Hat of Authority: Wears a tall orange hat, indicating his position as leader of Kurama Temple.
- Mad Scientist: He has nothing else to occupy his time than to build impossibly elaborate machines for a paradise town that doesn’t need them since it’s already perfect.
- Purple Is Powerful: Sports a purple robe, is the eldest of the siblings and leader of Kurama Temple and the Council of Three.
- The Quiet One: As a child, he spoke rarely. Leading Kurama Temple in the present has made him come out of his shell a bit.
- Sky Surfing: We never see an adult Kurama walking - instead, he levitates on an orange bowl-like platform.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: Played with; it’s not living forever that scares him, it’s living forever in Kyoto.
Shouko
Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō
- Badass Longcoat: A labcoat.
- Gamer Chick: So much so, that an entire episode of the OVA was dedicated to her trying to find her PZP.
- Goggles Do Nothing: She puts them on when serious, but considering her personality she’s just trying really hard to look cooler.
Head Priest
The leader of the Shrine, an inter dimensional agency that keeps the balance between the twelve parallel universes. As an immortal, he's been heading the agency since the very beginning.
- Artificial Human: Both he and Myoue the first were created directly by God, not born. He talks down to Myoue the First for ever considering himself human.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: Much of the series problems can be traced back to him utterly refusing to bend the rules even for his own brother, though his complete lack of both foresight and malice when he was making these choices means he cannot truly be called the Big Bad even if he instigated the plot.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He at first seems to be one, but as the series goes on it's shown he was actually inflexible to an extreme degree.
