List of Kara no Kyōkai characters

This is a list of Kara no Kyōkai characters.

Major characters

Shiki Ryōgi (両儀式, Ryōgi Shiki)

Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (drama CD), Maaya Sakamoto (movies)

A teenaged girl, who possesses the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception", a supernatural ability that allows the user to see the inherent mortality of everything (both living and non-living) in the form of lines and a single point (which is the "origin" of the object) which is shown by having a rainbow-like color in her pupils. A cut along any line will bifurcate the object, no matter the sharpness of cutting tool used, and a stab at the point destroys the object's origin, causing instant death. She recently recovered from a two-year coma caused by a traffic accident. Prior to the traffic accident, she originally had three personalities, a male personality named SHIKI (織, Shiki), the original female personality Shiki (式, Shiki), and a third genderless personality known as "Void" who never manifests due to extreme apathy, but which is also the embodiment of the Root of all existence. Children born into the Ryōgi family are generally male and are raised with two personalities, so the male personality is customarily called the "yang" personality, while the female is called the "yin" personality. It is easy to tell which Shiki is speaking at a given time because they both have a distinct style of speaking, most notably that the female Shiki refers to herself with the pronoun watashi (私), while male SHIKI refers to himself as ore (オレ). After waking from her coma, Shiki discovers that she can no longer feel the male Shiki's presence and assumes that he died because of the accident. She also feels a detachment from her memories before the accident, and while she knows she is Shiki, she does not feel that she is. In the hopes of regaining herself and the "dead" Shiki, she puts on a cold façade that somewhat resembles the female Shiki's and tries to act as the male SHIKI did. Tōko understands the sense of detachment Shiki feels, but considers the current Shiki a third, new personality. She assists the Garan no Dō agency in handling paranormal cases when combat is required.

Mikiya Kokutō (黒桐幹也, Kokutō Mikiya)

Voiced by: Kentarō Itō (drama CD), Kenichi Suzumura (movies)

Shiki's love interest (and later husband) who, two years ago, made a promise with Shiki to attend college. He discovers a doll at an exhibition his friend asked him to attend and falls in love with its flawless craftsmanship. He is so charmed by it that he seeks out the maker, Tōko Aozaki, and then finds her residence. With his hopes of attending college with Shiki crushed because of her coma, he drops out of college to work under Tōko as an assistant investigator. Tōko holds his investigative skills with high-regard because of his ability to find her workplace, an abandoned building hidden to all except those who wish to find it. His character design was used as a basis for Tsukihime protagonist Shiki Tohno.

Azaka Kokutō (黒桐鮮花, Kokutō Azaka)

Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (drama CD), Ayumi Fujimura (movies)

Mikiya's younger sister, who loves him. She becomes an apprentice of Tōko due to her rivalry against Shiki, and is talented in the magic of ignition. She is quite similar both in appearance and abilities to Akiha Tohno (though Akiha's ability consists of controlling external heat, whereas Azaka's ability is inducing ignitions). In an interview with Nasu, despite their rivalry, Azaka actually likes Shiki personally and vice versa except their relationship with Mikiya has made it difficult for both of them becoming good friends.

Tōko Aozaki (蒼崎橙子, Aozaki Tōko)

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (drama CD), Takako Honda (movies)

Appearing as a puppet maker, Tōko is actually a powerful sorceress. She runs a business in an abandoned building called Garan no Dō (伽藍の堂), a design agency that sell their work (range from architectures to craftsmanships) to whoever are interested, though Mikiya believes that Tōko is simply forcing what she wants to make on the customers. As the company only consist of only herself and Mikiya, she is the sole designer while Mikiya takes the job of her secretary. Due to Tōko's connection with the Magic Association, the agency occasionally takes on supernatural or otherwise abnormal cases despite Tōko having run away and distanced herself from the organization long ago. She is the sister of Tsukihime's Aoko Aozaki, with whom she does not share a particularly good relationship. In the early editions of the novel, Tōko was portrayed with short blue hair. In the newer editions of the novels and the movies, she has been given long red hair; Nasu and Takeuchi, dissatisfied with older illustrations of Tōko, changed her hair colour to reflect her relationship to Aoko Aozaki, who also has red hair.

Secondary characters

Chapter 1

Kirie Fujō (巫条霧絵, Fujō Kirie)

Voiced by: Rie Tanaka (movies), Miki Itou (Drama CD)

A bedridden girl who controls a ghostly version of herself above the Fujō Building (巫条ビル, fujō biru). She is the reason behind the supposed Fujō Building suicides.

Chapter 2

Daisuke Akimi (秋巳大輔, Akimi Daisuke)

Voiced by: Hiroki Touchi (movies), Yuji Ueda (Drama CD)

A detective working with the local law enforcement, Daisuke is Mikiya's cousin who acts as an elder brother figure to him. Despite his scruffy and laid back appearance, Akimi is a diligent investigator who’s put in charge of unraveling the truth behind a series of strange murders which he suspect someone from Mikiya's highschool. Daisuke holds Mikiya's investigation ability in high regard and often shares some classified information with him for suggestions.

Chapter 3

Fujino Asagami (浅上藤乃, Asagami Fujino)

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (movies only)

Classmate and friend to Azaka, both students of Reien Girl's Academy (礼園女学院, reien jogakuin). A murderer in secret, her ability to feel pain was numbed since childhood to seal off her powers. Terrified of being seen as an abnormality, she hides her condition and her murders are seemingly a way of giving her inner peace. Fujino has the special ability to bend space/objects with her mind which she uses as a murder weapon, twisting the bodies of her victims until they are no more than broken bags of meat. She later also gains clairvoyance in conjunction with her power which allows her to bend objects without having to be able to see them. In the sixth movie, Fujino appears briefly during the opening narrative, using a cane to walk with Azaka helping her down a flight of stairs.

Chapter 5

Tomoe Enjō (臙条巴, Enjō Tomoe)

Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara (movies only)

A teenager that Shiki takes in. He claims to have killed his parents because of constant dreams of getting killed by his mother. His origin is "worthlessness".

Kaede Enjō (臙条楓, Enjō Kaede)

Voiced by: Miki Itou (movies only)

Tomoe's mother. In Tomoe's recollections, he stabbed and disemboweled her. However, in his nightmares, he sees her killing her husband, then him, and then herself.

Sōren Araya (荒耶宗蓮, Araya Sōren)

Voiced by: Jōji Nakata (drama CD and movies)

A former Buddhist monk who has lived for around 300 years and a previous acquaintance of Tōko from the Sorcerer's Association (魔術協会, Majutsu kyōkai, also known as the Mage's Association) in London. Though he may be considered an average Mage at face value, he is highly skilled in the creation of Bounded Fields. He carries a special six-layered Bounded Field named Rokudou Kyoukai (六道境界, rokudou kyoukai) that is capable of preventing the movement of any thing within it. It is mobile, something out of the ordinary since Bounded Fields are usually impossible to move, and Araya typically uses it as a weapon. Not only that, but the building that serves as his lair has become so much a part of him that it is almost like a Reality Marble, cementing Souren as an extremely powerful Mage. He is the driving force behind the actions of the other antagonists through pressing them to awaken their innate abilities. His Origin is "stillness".

Cornelius Alba (コルネリウス＝アルバ, Korunerius Aruba)

Voiced by: Kōji Yusa (movies only)

Director of the Sponheim Abbey, and acquaintance of Araya and Tōko. They were on good terms until the day Cornelius came to the realization that Tōko was a better Mage than he was. Even though he was popularly considered a better Mage than her, he became so obsessed with this inferiority complex that he occasionally becomes deranged when speaking of her. He joined up with Araya not because of the latter's goals, but solely in order to kill Tōko to prove his superiority. Though he is naturally more powerful than both Araya and Tōko, he is blinded by his arrogance and is not nearly as versatile as they are. He used several spells in the novel, including one that had power equivalent to a Noble Phantasm, but none of them made an appearance in the movie.

Chapter 6

Satsuki Kurogiri (玄霧皐月, Kurogiri Satsuki)

Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu

A Welsh magus designated to be sealed, known as "God's Word", with an ability to manipulate others through his words alone, causing them to believe what he says. He demonstrated this ability by "convincing" Ryougi Shiki that she could not see him, and she was unable to cut him. Was also the one who gave Misaya Ouji the ability to manipulate the fairies, and was himself capable of manipulating memories, including recalling ones the target cannot remember.

Misaya Ouji (黄路美沙夜, Ōji Misaya)

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki

The daughter of the Reien's school chairman, was manipulated by "God's Word" into believing that her friend, Kaori Tachibana, committed suicide because she discovered that Hideo Hayama, a school teacher, was taking illegal drugs, and he drugged her in order to keep her silent, and nobody helped her. She planned to take revenge by using the fairies to force the students to commit suicide in the same way that Kaori Tachibana did, at the same site, but was stopped by Azaka.

Chapter 7

Lio Shirazumi (白純里緒, Shirazumi Rio)

Voiced by: Souichiro Hoshi (movies only)

Originally introduced in the second chapter, he is an older schoolmate of Mikiya Kokutō who quit school. It is revealed during the final chapter that he is behind the series of murders apparently caused by Shiki prior to her coma. After he confessed his feelings to Shiki and was rejected, he went to an arcade to burn off some steam, planning to intentionally get into a fight. After provoking someone, Lio attacked first from behind and accidentally killed his opponent. Fearing the worst, Lio awoke to his Origin of "Consumption" and devoured the body. Boosted by Souren's words of encouragement, Lio then began to commit murders while dressed as Shiki so that Shiki, the girl he loves, would give in to her own murderous impulses and become his. He also desires to awaken Mikiya to his Origin so that he could have Shiki and/or Mikiya as his companions, as he believes that since he and Mikiya are friends, the latter must have an Origin similar to his. He slowly loses himself to his Origin once Shiki awakens from her coma and decides to devour Shiki as his last meal while he is still himself. The two fight until Shiki eventually prevails and stabs Lio to death.

Gospel in the Future

Shizune Seo (瀬尾静音, Seo Shizune)

Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi

Azaka Kokutō's room-mate. Has a collie dog named Akira.

Mitsuru Kamekura (瓶倉 光溜, Kamekura Mitsuru)

Voiced by: Akira Ishida

A bomber and 14-year-old boy in 1998. He has two abilities to see the future. His right eye could see its outcome and the left shows the steps towards that path. Shiki permanently destroyed his right eye during their battle. By a twist of fate, they met again when he owed Shiki's criminal syndicate a huge amount of financial debt in 2008. Shiki gave him a chance to clear his debt by hiring him. He eventually works for Mikiya Kokutou's agency while keeping his main job of being an author of children's stories. His work for Mikiya usually involves doing background checks and sometimes he will be requested to partake act on proper investigations. He occasionally babysits Mana, Shiki's daughter.

Mana Ryougi (両儀未那, Ryougi Mana)

Voiced by: Hisako Kanemoto

Shiki and Mikiya's daughter. An optimistic, kind and cheerful 10-year-old girl. She knows about her mother's male personality, SHIKI (織). Her wish is to "beat her mom so she can win over her dad". Mana is attracted to by things that are out of the ordinary with great amuse and jumps at the possibility of doing something interesting.

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