The characters of Yumeutsutsu Re:Master. Beware of unmarked spoilers.
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Ai Otori
Ai Otori
- Voiced by: Maya Yoshioka
The main protagonist of the game. Ai is 21 years old, very shy, who was in love with her blood-related sister, Kokoro, even after their parents divorced. One day, Ai received a text from Kokoro telling her to not contact her anymore. Three years later, Ai receives an email from Eureka Software asking her to work for them while also telling Kokoro is there and needs her help. Ai accepts the offer and joins the team. Throughout the course of the story she will help them to develop the remake of NieMajo while also trying to reconcile with Kokoro.
- Always Save the Girl: Ai is willing to put herself in harm's way to save her chosen love interest. Examples include saving Nana from her stepmother or getting shot to save Marie (which is also a subversion in that leads to her bittersweet ending).
- Covert Pervert: As much of a sweetheart as she is, anyone she partners up with learns that she's basically "horny 24/7." She also tends to let her thoughts wander to the lewdest possible outcome whenever there's a misunderstanding.
- Determinator: One of her defining traits is she refuses to give up and pulls off superhuman feats as a result.
- She tracks Saki's location in her route with nothing more than a location service password and still knowing almost nothing about computers.
- In Nana's route, she passes herself off as Nana's agent to give the Sound Director Nana's audition tape directly, leading her to get a role in an anime and massively boost her spirits.
- In Marie's route, she hears the sounds of gunfire and runs towards the danger zone because Marie might be in trouble.
- Despair Event Horizon: She comes dangerously close to crossing this and committing suicide in Marie's good ending after the latter is shot, but her returning to Ai alive and well shortly thereafter snaps her out of it.
- Did Not Get the Girl: In the normal ending, while Ai is still friend with the girls, she doesn't become a couple with any of them.
- "Eureka!" Moment: In the Nana route good ending, she's the one who gets the idea to have the Sound Director call Nana to find out where she is after she had blocked everyone else's numbers.
- Fish out of Water: She grew up in the countryside prefecture of Toshigi and has to spend a lot of time getting used to city life.
- Forceful Kiss: Involuntarily. She kisses Kokoro in her sleep while thinking she is Saki at the start of Saki's story in Re:After, much to Kokoro's annoyance.
- Foreshadowing: Numerous hints get dropped throughout the story that Nie’s soul is in Ai’s body: The dream of the forest, their personalities being compared multiple times, the loss of her drawing ability, Kokoro saying “Give her back,” and Saki outright comparing the two after Ai cuts her hair.
- Good Parents: She is shown to take care of her children with Marie or Banako in their respective endings.
- The Hero : She is the protagonist of the story and is shown to be willing to help her friends when they need it.
- Important Haircut: She cuts her hair to shoulder-length in Kokoro’s route to symbolize their fresh start when they begin getting along again. It backfires horribly.
- Moe: In-Universe, Nana immediately declares her as such after she cuts her hair and both Nana and Marie are practically all over her when they see her.
- Nice Girl: She always tries to help her coworkers when they need it and be nice to them, even when some like Saki and Kokoro are acting cold to her.
- Noodle Incident: The details of when she's sent to Akihabara to retrieve art from the artist whose work the PZ team was waiting for. She refuses to say anything beyond, "It was awful."
- Sibling Incest: Before their falling out, Ai and Kokoro were in a very close, if chaste, relationship including kissing. In Kokoro's route, they (re-)start their romance after making up.
- Parental Substitute: Ai serves as that in Saki's Bittersweet ending when the latter has a Emotional Regression. She would take care of Saki like a mother while Saki would be like her baby.
- Throwing Off the Disability: Despite losing her ability to draw three years ago, she shrugs it off and manages to draw a wedding portrait of herself and Marie in the latter's route.
- Yandere: She becomes this in Nana's Bittersweet Ending. Nana has been broken inside and unable to talk or think. Ai obsesses over her, calling her a broken doll, while preventing anyone else from taking care of her.
Kokoro Yanagiya
Kokoro Yanagiya
- Voiced by: Manami Numakura
Kokoro is Ai's blood-related little sister. The two were in love for a long time, even after their parents divorced. But one day Kokoro sent a message to Ai telling her to not contact her anymore. They reunite three years later when Ai is hired by Eureka Software, where Kokoro also works. Kokoro will most of the time act coldly to her.
- Aloof Big Sister: Inverted as she's Ai's little sister and spends the majority of the game barely talking to her and refusing to refer to her by name. The reason why is only explained in her own route.
- The Chains of Commanding: She learns the hard way that not everyone is going to automatically do everything she says simply because she's the director. She has to learn that it's her job to bear the brunt of the pressure her team carries so they can do their jobs properly and it all falls on her if the project fails, no matter who else may be responsible.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She generally starts to defrost as both a director and little sister towards the team and Ai over the course of each route, especially after Character Development sets in and she realizes that she needs to be a director and not a tyrant.
- Did Not Get the Girl: Apart from her route, Kokoro doesn't manage to get Ai. And despite hating her at the beginning, she feel regrets for losing her.
- It's All About Me: Prior to her Character Development, she cares more about building her reputation as a director and getting NieMajo released rather than building camaraderie with her teammates. This creates a lot of friction, especially with Saki.
- Little Sister Heroine: Kokoro's route is one of the possible options to pursue.
- Only Sane Woman: She likes to think she's this but, by the end of a given route, she gets herself caught up in everything that's going on. Perfectly illustrated in a CG near the end of Nana's route where she's wielding a baseball bat and her expression just screams, "What am I even doing here?!"
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: She becomes incredibly flustered during a misunderstanding in Saki's route and slips back into using her Toshigi dialect while shouting at Ai. There's even an achievement for it.
- Rage Breaking Point: She snaps due to pressure and stress during Saki's route and repeatedly slaps her, leading Saki to resign from Eureka.
- Sore Loser: Ai notes that, while Kokoro was always better than her at most things, she couldn't stand not being better than her at what she wasn't and gets moody as a result.
- Suicide Pact: In her Bittersweet Ending, she and Ai agree to commit suicide together.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Saki by the end of the latter's route, complete with the two of them having an Insult of Endearment of "shitty writer" and "shitty director" for each other.
Saki Mugendo
Saki Mugendo
- Voiced by: Sora Tokui
Saki is the scenario writer of NieMajo. She wrote the original story alongside a colleague named Misaki for a doujin game release. After Misaki's death, she's hired to write the scenario for the commercial remake. She will eventually be assisted by Ai who becomes her manager early in the story.
- Breaking the Bonds: Happens to her in a metaphorical sense in her route after Kokoro's slapping her breaks the headphones that Misaki originally gave her. She sees it as a sign to stop writing the new scenario how Misaki would have (which was also a huge source of her block) and redo the entire thing from scratch her way.
- Deadpan Snarker: If someone has a snarky comment about a situation, it's going to be her.
- Determinator: If she's motivated, she won't let unnecessary things like food or sleep slow her down. Ai is first assigned to and then volunteers herself to establish a more stable routine and diet to keep her healthy.
- Doing It for the Art: In-Universe in her route, even after she destroys the original new scenario and resigns from the company, she continues to re-write the new scenario her way despite having no other reason to do so.
- Emotional Regression: This happens to her in her Bittersweet Ending. Upon wanting to give up writing the game, Ai lets her abandons it. Saki then slowly age regresses until having the mentality of a baby.
- Even the Girls Want Her: In a world populated with only women, it can be obvious that Saki could only have a girl as a love interest. What sets her apart is, generally, any woman who meets her would find her cute. Even Ai cannot resist her cuteness, depending on the player's choices.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Saki often appears like that toward Ai and the others at the beginning. Despite that, she puts the well-being of the team above her own needs and her dedication towards completing NieMajo is second to none.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Subverted in her route as Ai tries to hide her in her dorm room, but does a terrible job keeping it secret, leading to Nana figuring it out and informing Marie, who informs Kokoro. Saki herself Lampshades how the trope only works in fiction.
- Older Than They Look: Despite her small build and often being mistaken for a middle-schooler, Saki is in fact 26 years old.
- Overused Running Gag: At one point late in the story she comments about how there's no reason for Ai to still be afraid of her roaring at her.
- Signature Roar: She has a habit to use a little roar when she is annoyed, which often scares Ai. This is why she was given the name of Tinysaurus.
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: She becomes acting president of Eureka for a while in Honoka's route in Re:After and her first declaration is A God Am I! Fortunately, Marie is able to keep her from abusing her authority too much.
- Wag the Director: Her usual M.O. In-Universe as she dictates her own schedule and pace regardless of deadlines, causing no small amount of frustration on Kokoro's part.
Nana Tachibana
Nana Tachibana
- Voiced by: Shiori Izawa
Nana Tachibana is a part-time worker at Euraka Software. She regularly does administrative work like answering the phone, making drinks, or running errands. She is often wearing a maid uniform and acts like one in the office. Outside her work at Eureka Software, she is also a voice actor.
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: Most of the interactions and choices in her route are done from her point of view rather than Ai's.
- Butt-Monkey: She's the victim of the pranks played by the mysterious person sending emails to Ai in the latter portion of Kokoro's route.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Double Subverted as her Nice Girl persona is just an act to butter up everyone at Eureka so she can become Nie's voice actress. In her route, she learns to become a genuinely nice person thanks to Ai.
- Heartwarming Orphan: She was found in a bathroom by her Wicked Stepmother and was abandoned by the latter when she was not useful anymore.
- Heroic BSoD: Receives a double-whammy in her route when she isn't chosen to become Nie's voice actress and mistakenly thinks Ai is in love with Honoka instead of her. This allows her stepmother to easily manipulate her into going back to her.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's tall, busty, has long, blonde hair, and gets a few CGs in a "barely-there" swimsuit she's made to wear late in her route.
- The Nicknamer: She has a nickname for everyone in the office. As she and Ai grow closer in her route, Ai insists she use her real name.
- Not a Morning Person: One of her first point of view segments reveals she needs a full half hour between waking up and actually getting out of bed each morning.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Her real name is Hanako, but she threw it away when she cut off ties with her stepmother.
- Meido: She often dresses and acts like it with her colleagues.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Bananas, with or without chocolate. She even calls herself the Banana Maid and Saki even calls her “Banana” for a nickname.
- The Unfavorite: She believes this is the case with her and Honoka as she is the only one that Honoka doesn't use honorifics for. She later realizes that it's actually inverted.
Marie Mahler
Marie Mahler
- Voiced by: Haruna Ikezawa
Marie Mahler is a soldier from Grecyria who travels in Japan for cultural exchange. She is also an artist who recently began posting her drawings on the internet. Ai discovers her work online one day and, being completely enamored with it, recommends her to Eurerka Software as NieMajo's character designer and illustrator.
- Alliterative Name: Marie Mahler.
- Her real name before being adopted : Maria Mercouri.
- Her name after being adopted : Maria Mahler Maniati.
- The complete name of her sister that she took : Marie Mahler Maniati.
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: Portions of her story in Re:After are told through her point of view instead of Ai's.
- Becoming the Mask: In her story in Re:After she's afraid that Ai married her fake self that was pretending to be Marie rather than her real self as Maria. Ai quickly helps her realize that wasn't the case.
- The Comically Serious: She's often a voice of reason at the office, but with Japanese being her second language she still doesn't understand a lot of nuances and idioms, leading to some funny moments.
- Dead Person Impersonation: After her sister is killed and her death covered up, "Maria" is the one reported dead and the real Maria becomes Marie in order to complete the real Marie's mission and preserve her honor.
- Demoted to Extra: Due to having gone home, she has very few direct appearances in routes that aren't hers in Re:After. That doesn't stop her from being a major contributor in Kokoro and Nana's routes though.
- Faking the Dead: She does this in the good ending when she is shot by an anti-government member. She initially planned to return to Grecyria under a fake name but decided to stay in Japan to be with Ai.
- Good Parents: She is shown to take care of her children with Ai in her good ending.
- Guile Heroine: She was able to infiltrate the anti-government group and to lead them to defeat at the hands of the government. She was also able to fake her death after being shot by an anti-government member and planned to live a new life incognito but changed her plan due to wanting to be with Ai. Unfortunately, in the Bittersweet Ending, her plan backfires and Ai dies after trying to protect Marie..
- Happily Adopted: Taken in by the Mahler Maniati family after her parents were killed. Marie, who she had already befriended, pushed her parents to adopt Maria.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Twice.
- Her pen name of "Maria" is actually her real name.
- In the month after her "death" in her good ending, Ai successfully hides her at her place without notice.
- The Infiltration: It's revealed in her route that she has infiltrated the anti-government group in order to gather information on the actions of her late sister.
- One-Woman Army: In terms of what can be expected from a team of software developers. She's a trained soldier and very skilled in both armed and unarmed combat. When the team saves Nana near the end of her route, Marie subdues more people than the rest combined.
- Strong Family Resemblance: In her good ending, her and Ai's children, Iria and Aria, have one each of their mothers' hair and eye color.
- Wall Pin of Love: She does this twice to Ai: First in the common route when she's being a bit of a tease. Second and much more seriously in her route when they discuss the reality that Marie will have to return home before long.
Honoka Daigo
Honoka Daigo
- Voiced by: Shizuka Itō
Honoka is the founder and the president of Eureka Software. She is also the owner of Banako whom she named vice-president. She is also the one who decided to make a commercial remake of NieMajo. One day, she sent an email to Ai Otori, the sister of Kokoro Yanagiya, the remake project director, to invite her to work at Eureka Software which Ai accepts in hopes of seeing sister again.
- Benevolent Boss: She is most of the time kind and ready to help her employees. Saki thinks she's too nice when she admits that anyone other than Honoka would have and should have fired her a long time ago.
- Big Damn Heroes: She leads the charge for everyone to save Nana in her good ending even though Marie does most of the heavy lifting.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She never passes up an opportunity to drink. But she is in control enough to not allow it to affect her performance at work.
- Heroes Love Dogs: She is very close to her dog Banako, even granting her the title of vice-president of the company.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: She knows full well what's going on behind the scenes and pretends to look the other way unless she absolutely needs to step in. This is very evident in Saki's route when she meets up with Saki at the end and the latter realizes she knew everything the whole time.
- Noodle Incident: In Nana's Bitter Sweet Ending, she and Marie are able to "take care" of the people who hurt Nana. When asked for details, she simply says, "Some things you're better off not knowing."
- Secret-Keeper: She is the only one at Eureka who is privy to the details of Nana's past and details of her other job.
- Team Mom: Always willing to lend an ear to and support her employees both for their own sake and for the sake of the company.
- Tranquil Fury: She is legendarily scary when she’s angry, even given the nickname of “Lightning Viper.” Though Ai was completely unable to tell she was even angry the first time she witnessed it.
- Wham Line: When Ai asks her what her relation with the original Misaki was, her response is simply, "My little sister." Adding that they were actually in-laws doesn't diminish it.
Banako
Banako
- Voiced by: Yuka Ootsubo
Banako is Honoka Daigo's dog and is considered the vice-president of Eureka Software. When Ai joins the company, one of her tasks is to walk her.
- Canine Companion: She is often with her owner Honoka.
- Chekhov's Gun: The barrel on her collar turns out to be far more important than just storing emergency energy drinks for Saki in Kokoro's route as it also hides Misaki's final plot point note for NieMajo's true ending.
- Loyal Animal Companion: She is loyal to her owner and seen with her most of the time. In her ending, however, after Honoka decides to leave Banako to Ai, Banako will stay with Ai, thus changing her loyalty to the latter.
Other Characters
Nie and Majo (UNMARKED SPOILER)
Yume and Utsutsu
Nie and Majo are the two main character of the game NieMajo. Nie is a girl who was given as Majo as slave. Eventually, the two fall in love but couldn't have an happy ending as there was no ending where they would both survive.
- Downer Ending: In the original NieMajo, there was no happy ending since one of them always had to die, no matter the ending. In the Re:Master version made in Kokoro's route, both live and have an happy ending.
- Long-Lost Relative: Only in Kokoro's route. In the new version of NieMajo, both are in fact siblings.
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: When Nie and Majo's souls are sent to Ai and Kokoro's body, they also gained their memories while losing their original ones.
The Masterminds (UNMARKED SPOILER)
The Real Ai and Kokoro
They are the souls of Ai Otori and Kokoro Yanagiya who have been transported to NieMajo's world while both Nie and Majo have been transported to the real world in Ai and Kokoro's body while also gaining their memories.
- The Bad Guy Wins : In Kokoro's Bittersweet ending, the Real Ai has succeeded in her goals to stay alone with Kokoro in NieMajo's world after convincing Nie and Majo to stay in the real world.
- Big Bad: The Real Ai in Kokoro's route as she tries to stop Ai and Kokoro from completing the game and to return to their world.
- Greater-Scope Villain: The Real Ai is the reason why she and Kokoro switched places between worlds with Nie and Majo and ultimately caused Kokoro to break up with Ai. While it was an accidental situation, she did nothing to try to fix it and even tries to stop Ai and Kokoro when the latter discovers the truth and wants to return to NieMajo's world.
- Heel–Face Turn: Ai provides the solution to Eureka's final obstacle in attaching a sketch of the Place of Promise to Marie that she emails to Nie.
- Hidden Agenda Hero : Kokoro wanting to go back to the real world convinces Ai to not go along with her original plan to stop Nie and Majo from finishing the game. Ai, not knowing Kokoro's plan and being in love with her, will go along with Kokoro's ideas.
- Love Redeems: Because Kokoro's happiness is the most important thing to Ai, when Ai learns that Kokoro wants to return to the real world, as an Actof True Love, she decides to renounce to her goal and accepts in helping Nie and Majo finish the game.
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: When Ai and Kokoro's souls return to the real world, both of their memories in NieMajo's world are replaced by the ones from the real world. They only remember what happened from Nie and Majo's memory.
- Non-Action Big Bad : Ai does not have any capacity herself stop Nie and Majo and must rely on Kokoro- who has Majo's magical powers- to do the deeds instead.
- Poke the Poodle: The "curses" that they place on the Eureka members aren't much more than pranks that inconvenience the team for a while, though Nana gets the brunt of them and she recovers quickly.
Nana's Stepmother (UNMARKED SPOILER)
Mikage Nanamori
Mikage Nanamori is alongside her sister one of the stepmothers of Nana Tachibana. Unlike her sister who gave Nana love and kindness, Mikage leaned on Nana to survive. After her sister's death, Mikage would use Nana as a way to make money before abandoning her.
- Abusive Mom: She used Nana as a model to make money on her when she was a child and abandoned her when she was not useful anymore.
- Big Bad: She serves as this in Nana's route due to trying and eventually succeeding to take Nana back and exploiting her like she did when Nana was a child.
- Hate Sink: Nobody who ever encounters this woman has a single nice thing to say about her. Cold, manipulative, criminal, and willing to throw her adoptive daughter into porn and forced prostitution to cover her own debts.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite her coldness, she loved her sister and was sad when she died.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: She managed to be a Karma Houdini for a long time but received her punishment in Nana's route when she and her accomplices were given to the people to whom they owed a debt. She is not spared in Nana's Bittersweet Ending where it is said that Honoka made sure that she went punished and would not approach Nana anymore.
Marie's Enemy Faction (UNMARKED SPOILER)
Anti-government group
The Anti-government group is a faction in Grecyria who is opposing the country's government. Some of them are actually in Japan for a mission.
- Assassination Attempt: After Marie betrays them, one of their members tries to shoot her.
- Big Bad: They are the organization that Marie and her allies try to destroy. In Marie's route, Ai gets involved in it.
- Even Evil Has Standards : Despite being ready to assassinate people for their objectives, they would not hurt innocent civilians who have nothing to do with that. That's why they tasked Marie to protect the Japanese civilians while they would assassinate their target. Subverted in another regard when Marie learns that the anti-government group was the one who killed her birth parents while they placed blame on the government itself as part of advancing their cause.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist : They think that the Greycirian government is corrupt and want to free the country from them.
The Editor (UNMARKED SPOILER)
The Editor
The Editor first appears in the Re:After story when she interviews Nana Tachibana to talk about the latter's career. She eventually falls in love with Nana and would send her many gifts. Seeing that Nana accepted her gift, she believes that Nana had accepted her love.
- Big Bad : In Re:After, she is the main villain in Nana's story.
- Karma Houdini : After her defeat, the Editor's obsessions fades out and she returns to normal. Nana, upon seeing that she was not a threat anymore and feeling sorry for her, decides to not file charges against her and to let her go.
- Love Makes You Crazy : Her love for Nana makes her stalk her in hope that the latter would notice her. Upon seeing Nana with Ai (Nana's actual lover), the Editor- feeling betrayed- breaks into her apartment and tries to kill Nana with a gun.
Lost Girl (UNMARKED SPOILER)
Misaki
Misaki is the daughter of Nie and Majo who was accidentally transported herself to the real world due to her inexperience with magic. There she is found by Ai and Kokoro who take her in as a lost child. After witnessing the two's relationship, Misaki becomes interested in seeing the love between them.
- Dead Guy Junior: She's named after the co-developer of the original NieMajo.
- Innocent Swearing: Because of Nana's bad influence, she would learn and use inappropriate words, much to Ai, Kokoro and Majo's annoyance.
- Missing Child: She is first seen crying because she lost her mamas before she is found by Ai and Kokoro.
- You Look Familiar: In-Universe, Honoka sees her and asks if she's "Towa," the original Misaki's real name.
