This page lists the characters of the Visual Novel, Sabbat of the Witch, and the tropes associated with them.
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This character sheet uses Eastern naming convention (surname first) for the Japanese characters.
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Main Characters
Hoshina Shuuji
- Accidental Pervert: From catching Nene masturbating to seeing the OC club in their underwear.
- Affectionate Nickname: Touko calls him "Shuu-kun" in her route.
- Blessed with Suck: What Shuuji thinks of his power at the start of the story. He spends most of the game trying to subvert this.
- Brought Down to Normal: He lost his power in Meguru's and Touko's route.
- Brutal Honesty: When he was younger his ability to sense emotions caused him to blurt out what others were feeling. After this caused people to resent and avoid him he focused on being an Extreme Doormat instead.
- Character Development: As he spends more time in OC club, he becomes more proactive in his pursuit to change. Best seen where he practice bass persistently for Halloween party, sacrificing time to rest and injuring his fingers.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: His friends and family often point out that he has a "dead fish eyes" due to his distant personality.
- Empty Shell: When he was a kid, his powers were developing to the point that he started to dislike coming to shool. Then his schoolmates came to visit him to urge him to return to school. At that point, he notices they were not sincere, but decides it's best for him to try to play it safe, but ended up as an Extreme Doormat as a result, accumulating in Dull Eyes of Unhappiness and a hole in his heart.
- Extreme Doormat: His power makes him unable to say no to people's requests as negative emotions from others give him unpleasant feelings, thus he became a popular pushover in school. His friends often told him to grow a spine.
- Living Emotional Crutch: He's the only reason why Taichi is able to go home happy. In Tsumugi's route, where Shuuji becomes a teddy bear and everyone except witches and alps forgets him, his father turned into a somber man.
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: His power makes him dislike dealing with two-faced people and turning down people's requests since negative feelings make him uncomfortable, turning him into an Extreme Doormat with little friends.
- Missing Mom: His mother died when he was very young and has little memories on her.
- My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That: Amongst the feelings his power lets him sense is arousal. Not that he usually manages to make the connection.
- Nice Guy: Whether because of his power or not, he just can't bear seeing someone in trouble.
- Oblivious to Love: You'd think a guy who can literally know what everyone around him is feeling wouldn't take as long to realise when someone's into him...
- The One Guy: He's the sole male member of the OC club and have the option to go out with one of them.
- Super-Senses: He has the ability to detect emotions through his five senses where positive ones give him pleasant feelings while it's the opposite for the negative ones. His power is a weaker version of his mother who can read minds.
- Wacky Parent, Serious Child: He's the Serious Child to Taichi's Wacky Parent, often making snarky comments at his father jokes.
Ayachi Nene
Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki
- Big Eater: Outright admits that she's the type that eats a lot, which she somehow manages to fit in her slim body. Best shown in Chapter 5 of her route where she goes to Ramen Taroumaru with Shuuji and orders herself the extra large char siu.Specifically She finishes the whole thing no probelm, even the soup, to the shock of Shuuji and everyone else present.
- Caught with Your Pants Down: Caught by Shuuji in the library due to her witch contract.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: In the second timeline, She clearly bothered that Shuuji spending time with Wakana to hone his bass skill. She literally clings to him after they finished their jobs.
- Deus Sex Machina: An unfortunate side-effect of her witch contract is that she has to masturbate. She has no choice in the matter because she gets aroused at the inconvenient time. Once she is in a relationship with Shuuji, she substitutes masturbation with sex to subside her sexual urges. In her Restart route, this goes away so she doesn't have to worry about it.
- Hot Witch: Though she hates being hot and wants to be cute instead.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: Though she's not having constant sex (the maniac part is her having issues with arousal), people at her school adore her as the school idol (of the popular Nice Girl variety) and gives them advice about their troubles.
- School Idol: One of the most popular student, especially among the second years.
- Nice Girl: At first glance, her reason forming the OC club may look like to solely retrieve fragments, but she's genuinely happy to solve people's problems and helping them.
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Her witch outfit exposes most of her body, which she dislikes, since her main outfit is composed of mostly ribbons, a skirt, a hat and a cloak.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: She became a witch so that her parents will not divorce.
- Set Wrong What Was Once Made Right: She eventually succeed going back to the past, and while her parents did not argue anymore, they also do not love each other after all. In the end, they still divorced and Nene has to wait for years to restart her relationship with her friends and Shuuji. Though she also tried to accept her stepmother, something that does not happen in the past.
- Stripperific: Nene's Witch "uniform" consists of only of ribbons, a hat, a skirt, and a cloak. As much as she hates it, she has no choice in the matter.
Inaba Meguru
Voiced by: Eri Sendai
- Cuddle Bug: Really likes hugging those she's close to. She constantly clings on Nene in the common route and on Shuuji in her own route.
- Delicate and Sickly: She was badly ill and weak as a child until her best friend became a witch to cure her.
- Dude Magnet: Apparently, she once joined an otaku club whose members composed of boys. They ended up giving her gifts, but things got heated and they disbanded.
- Gamer Chick: She loves to play video games, and has several systems in her room.
- Irony: She wants to be popular, but doesn't know how. If her backstory is indication, she was popular with the boys in her backstory in the otaku club.
- Locked Out of the Loop: On Touko's route she's the only main character unaware of the supernatural nature of Touko's illness and as such is the only one unable to help.
- The Team Normal: She's the only member of the Occult Club who isn't a supernatural being of some kind.
- Tsundere: After the storyline with her best friend ends, she starts to develop into this towards Shuuji in her route. She becomes type A for him in the first half of their relationship and then an immediate type b after their Relationship Upgrade.
Shiiba Tsumugi
Voiced by: Ai Matayoshi
- Apologizes a Lot: She constantly feels the need to apologize on behalf of Akagi.
- Cute Witch: Her witch uniform gives her this image. This gains Nene's ire since her own contract gave her ribbons as an "outfit".
- Mundane Wish: She became a witch in order to get an outfit that she had missed buying. She freely admits this was petty but it seemed important at the time.
- Nice Girl: Among the sweetest girls in the game, making those rare moments of her getting angry all the more intimidating.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: She has to dress up in boy's clothing due to her witch contract.
- Tomboy: Subverted in that she does dress in male clothing but is in fact a Girly Girl and is only forced to do so by her witch contract.
Togakushi Touko
Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Much is made of her generous chest.
- School Idol: She's extremely popular among the 3rd-years.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Her route features her taking Shuuji to a women's clothing store for their date and watching porn together. By the time Shuuji restores her, she becomes fully human, but also realized what she's done in the past couple of weeks and gets embarrassed about it.
- The Stoic: A downplayed example, as she does show emotion, but her emotions are rather deadened. This is due to the magic repressing her memories absorbing her emotional energy and once this is resolved she becomes significantly more animated.
- Student Council President: Was originally this, but by the time the story proper starts, her term is up.
- The Tease: She loves making shameless comments towards Shuuji.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: She was an animal who became a human but had forgotten her true nature. It's revealed that her alp nature sealed her memories as one as she herself doesn't remember being one. As such unlike the other alps in the game she cannot shift back to her animal form (and indeed we never find out what animal she was).
Supporting Characters
Kariya Wakana
Voiced by: Natsumi Takamori
- A-Cup Angst: She has the smallest chest among Shuuji's female friends. This doesn't generally bother her but on her own route when she's falling for him it begins to become a real worry for her.
- Childhood Friend Romance: On her route, since she's known Shuuji since they both were ten. Downplayed in that they weren't all that close until the last year or so (although Wakana was holding a bit of a torch).
- Unlockable Content: Her route is only available if at least one other route has been completed first.
Souma Nanao
Voiced by: Saki Nakajima
- Foreshadowing: She reveals how alps work, but her Innocent Fanservice Girl nature reveals that all alps are like this. This in turn reveals Touko's true nature as an alp.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Shows her naked body to Shuuji after transforming back into human. However, her transformation and lack of shame actually foreshadows Touko's true nature.
- Mentor Archetype: She coaches Nene through being a witch and is happy to guide others when magical issues crop up.
- Miss Exposition: Her role explains how witches, magic, and alps work. She also explains how Shuuji was able to absorb fragments and how he got his powers.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's a non-romantic example who appeared nude once. Apparently, she's the innocent type since she is unaware that being naked in front of Shuuji would be a problem and Nene notices that he was staring.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: As an alp she was originally a black cat before choosing to turned into a human. She can still shift back and forth between both shapes.
Hisashima Kanae
Voiced by: Hibiku Yamamura
- Cool Teacher: She acts a lot like a friend to her students, including putting up with a certain level of back talk.
- Oblivious to Love: She completely misses Hideaki's crush on her.
Kaidou Hideaki
Voiced by: Atsushi Abe
- Casual Kink: He's a masochist and enjoys being belittled by others, especially girls. Others find this a touch off putting but are still happy to hang out with him.
- Hidden Depths: He turns out to be a rather skilled drummer.
- Hot for Teacher: He likes his homeroom teacher. But doesn't act on it since his goals to be with her aren't realistic and he prefers to keep it that way, taking her rejection like a man.
Hoshina Taichi
Voiced by: Yoshihisa Kawahara
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: He doesn't actually interact with his son's friends all that often but when he does his over enthusiasm makes Shuuji cringe.
- Brutal Honesty: He is quick to inform Shuuji of his failings (albeit with a joking tone) including the repeated refrain of him having the eyes of a dead fish.
- Stepford Smiler: Behind his optimistic exterior, he's still deeply depressed from the loss of his wife. His son is the only thing keeping him going.
Koshiji Miho
Voiced by: Juri Nagatsuma
- Butch Lesbian: She is the least stereotypically feminine of the girls in the story and is gay.
- Incompatible Orientation: She likes Touko, who isn't interest in girls.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: On Touko's route. After she gets some closure from confessing to Touko and being definitively turned down she still loves Touko but is able to support her and Shuuji's relationship.
Akagi
Voiced by: Miyuu Kashiwagi
- Humanity Is Infectious: Despite her protests she is becoming increasingly human in her outlook.
- Older Than They Look: Akagi looks like a kid but is in fact somewhat over fifty years old. This goes double for her animal form, which looks like a raven in the prime of life when a normal raven would be long dead at her age.
