The Garden of Sinners/Characters

This page lists the characters of Kara no Kyoukai and their associated tropes.

Shiki Ryougi


""I can kill anything that exists - even if it's a god.""

The female protagonist of the series, she is a beautiful teenage girl who possesses the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception", a supernatural ability that allows her to see and bring into reality the inherent mortality of everything. She is peaceful and maiden-like in appearance, but fiercely determined, ruthless, and aggressive in mannerisms.

Shiki originally had both a male and female personality due to her upbringing as a member of the Ryougi clan. After recovering from a traumatic accident, Shiki discovers that she can no longer feel the her male personality's presence while also feeling an uncomfortable detachment from her memories before the accident. While she knows that she is Shiki, she does not feel that she is.

In the hopes of regaining her former identity, she puts on a cold façade that is somewhere between the soft, brooding nature of the female persona and the blunt, dissolute male persona. Shiki is often very brusque, businesslike, and aloof, although she does reveal a much more human and compassionate side towards Mikiya.

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

"Shiki:"
 * Action Girl/Dark Action Girl
 * Anti-Hero: Type V --> Type III
 * Anthropomorphic Personification:
 * Artificial Limbs:
 * Badass
 * Badass Abnormal: She was badass before she had the Eyes of Death Perception. They just made her even more badass.
 * Badass Adorable: Most notably when she goes all dere for Mikiya.
 * Badass Boast: Her quote above.
 * Heartbroken Badass: In the seventh movie, when.
 * Bifauxnen: Often described as both "handsome" and "beautiful," although she definitely possesses a very feminine figure in the movies. In the novel she is described as looking and sounding fairly androgynous. This is actually
 * Blood Knight: Given the right opponent, Shiki is more than happy to engage in a good old-fashioned throwdown.
 * Blue and Orange Morality: The only way to describe some of the distinctions that she draws between 'murder', 'slaughter', and 'massacre'. All of these are completely different things to her. Only one is remotely okay.
 * Bokukko: Notably uses the aggressive-masculine pronoun of ore to refer to herself in spite of being the portrait of a classical dignified Japanese lady.
 * Born in The Wrong Century: Oh so very much. She might not show any desire to have been born in another century (or any desire, period, aside from killing, really), but...
 * ...she's a modern day warrior woman who only feels alive in a fight to the death.
 * ...her weapons of choice are the tanto (knife) and katana (sword).
 * ...she wears a traditional kimono whenever possible.
 * Bring My Red Jacket: And how! Shorter than the usual Badass Longcoat, but it definitely counts.
 * The Cameo: In  ,

"Shiki: Hmph. I see, you really are quite something. In that case...
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: Shades of this in the fifth movie.
 * Cursed With Awesome
 * Curb Stomp Battle: Delivers an awesome one to the ghosts in the first movie.
 * And also in the seventh movie against
 * Death Glare: "It's said that you can kill someone just by looking at them, but Shiki definitely has the potential." Indeed, she shows a Death Glare later that even makes Araya Souren pale with fear (but this last bit is only mentioned in the novels).
 * Defrosting Ice Queen: Definitely.
 * Determinator
 * Different As Night and Day: Her two personalities; the male is carefree with a free-radical nature and talks like a guy, while the female is brooding and uses Keigo.
 * Dissonant Serenity: "She bends down and touches the blood flowing on the ground; streaks it across her lips. The blood drips down and her body trembles in ecstasy. The first lipstick Shiki has ever worn."
 * Even the Girls Want Her
 * Evil Eye / Glowing Eyes of Doom: The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception
 * The Fettered: Limits herself to avoid killing in the end for Mikiya's sake.
 * Girl With Psycho Weapon / Knife Nut: Unbelievably badass with it as well.
 * Good Is Old-Fashioned: Okay, this is weird. It's more like "Sociopathic Hero is incredibly conservative". Shiki makes almost no use of modern conveniences except for refrigeration and electric light, almost never even answers her telephone, wears traditional clothing whenever possible, seems most comfortable in Touko's ancient, run-down office, and is utterly disgusted by drugs and casual sex (though she seems to feel that it's okay to be gay, since she questions Tomoe's sexuality in a completely neutral manner and tries to make a vulgar joke when the Kokutou siblings bring up the possibility of her dating Azaka's female classmates). She's also isolated, alienated, desperately lonely, and completely insane, and while there's no causal link between all this, there are definitely the same forces in her history at work.
 * Gray Eyes
 * The Grim Reaper: Seeing as she can kill pretty much everything including intangible forces, beings who are already dead, and spirits.
 * Hot Chick With a Sword:
 * I Just Want to Be Normal:
 * Important Haircut: The fourth movie.
 * It Gets Easier: The reason, and the probable source of her Blue and Orange Morality above.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: Most notably.
 * Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: One time she fought in a really fancy dress.
 * Knight Templar
 * Lady of War: That beautiful form-fitting kimono is likely the last thing you'll ever see.
 * Leitmotif: In the movies, a specific tune (heard with lyrics here) is usually associated with her.
 * Love Redeems
 * Meaningful Name: Ryougi means "two equal sides of opposites", and Shiki, "method" or "equation".
 * My Name Is Inigo Montoya:  Cue   her Theme Music Power-Up.
 * Nerf / Retcon: In an interview Nasu said that Shiki  can match up to Servants only in a defensive battle (like Ciel).
 * The Ojou
 * One-Hit Kill: Co-deity of it, along with Shiki Tohno.
 * Playing Against Type: In an interview released with the Blu-Ray box set, Maaya Sakamoto mentioned that before being cast as the "cool-headed" Shiki, her roles were mostly "younger sisters or vivacious young girls".
 * But she did play Ciel Phantomhive.
 * Pretty in Mink: Her jacket has a fur collar.
 * Real Men Hate Sugar: Her male personality confirms to this teenage boy stereotype.
 * The Sacred Darkness: Yeah, for what is essentially the human personification of the Grim Reaper, she manages to stay away from the typical villain tropes rather well, even getting a Theme Music Power-Up reminiscent of religious chanting. It helps that she is also
 * Serial Killer Incapacitator
 * Slasher Smile
 * The Sacred Darkness: Yeah, for what is essentially the human personification of the Grim Reaper, she manages to stay away from the typical villain tropes rather well, even getting a Theme Music Power-Up reminiscent of religious chanting. It helps that she is also
 * Serial Killer Incapacitator
 * Slasher Smile

(cue Psycho Strings) ...I'LL JUST HAVE TO KILL YOU!"


 * Sociopathic Hero: So very, very much.
 * Split Personality: To a much more complicated degree than usual. It's more of "United Independent Personalities." The Ryougi Family has the supernatural ability of dual personalities, which resulted in Shiki having both a (dominant) female side and a male side. What's interesting is that
 * The Stoic:
 * Story Breaker Power: She discusses the full extent of her powers in the original epilogue to the novels.
 * Sugar and Ice Girl: Although she can be Tsundere towards Mikiya, this is much more accurate of her cold, standoffish behavior.
 * Super Speed
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Theme Music Power-Up: Whenever Shiki begins doing something particularly epic, a suitably epic background track starts up; the music used in these scenes changes from movie to movie, if not from scene to scene, but manages to stay relatively similar overall (the tracks from her showdown with Araya Souren and her fight with Asagami Fujino are great examples).
 * Tomboy: Almost to the point of being a girl in biology only... However, a lot of this is a conscious front put on as a memorial to her deceased male personality. See Bokukko above.
 * Tomboyish Name: The "Shiki" in Ryougi Shiki is a neutral name, hence Tohno Shiki of Tsukihime.
 * Took a Level In Badass:.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Bottled water, of all things (it's the only thing we ever see in her fridge). She says multiple times that she hates sweet food.
 * She's also very much associated with strawberry Häagen-Dazs ice cream, even though her male personality loathes it. As she comes to terms with his loss, however, this becomes Shiki's favourite snack.
 * Tranquil Fury
 * Tsundere: Towards Mikiya.
 * Violently Protective Girlfriend: If you hurt Mikiya, you are dead.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Azaka. See Azaka's entry for more details.
 * When She Smiles: In Episode 3... Aww, I'm Taking Her Home With Me
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Averted, for the most part. While she's definitely one in appearance, in truth, she's just a Dissonantly Serene Blood Knight Knife Nut.

Mikiya Kokutou


""I guess it can't be helped. I'll bear your sins in your place.""

An unassuming Ordinary High School Student, he is the male protagonist of the series. After initially seeing Shiki in the snow, Mikiya confronts her and becomes her only friend. He becomes more and more attracted to Shiki as she confides in him until an accident leaves Shiki in a coma for two years. After crossing paths with dollmaker Touko Aozaki, he drops out of college to work for her as an investigator.

After Shiki awakens from her coma, Mikiya finds he still has feelings for her and vice versa. Their relationship continues to grow throughout the remainder of the series.

"Voiced by: Kentaro Ito (drama CD), Kenichi Suzumura (anime), Eri Kitamura (Child in the sixth movie)"

"Mikiya: You. Shut up."
 * Badass Normal: In the seventh movie,
 * Blue Eyes
 * Chick Magnet: Before Shiki Tohno and Shirou Emiya, there was Mikiya Kokutou. I mean, his own sister is in love with him!
 * Not in the same way but.
 * Determinator: Definitely.
 * Different As Night and Day: Very literally to his sister. Mikiya's Origin is Normalcy; her sister's is Taboo. Compare Shiki, who had two just as opposite personalities, and Touko, with her glasses on/glasses off personalities.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: To an insane extent, though he doesn't have a stalker vibe to him.
 * Expy: When Type-Moon designed Shiki Tohno they didn't stray very far from the design of their first male lead.
 * Plus, make him look like he's 14 and take away the glasses and PRESTO! Shinji Ikari.
 * The Fettered: For God's sake, in Remaining Sense of Pain he
 * Love Martyr: He loves Shiki even though.
 * Megane
 * Morality Chain: To Shiki, to a certain extent.
 * Non-Action Nice Guy
 * Occult Detective
 * Ordinary High School Student: At least in the beginning.
 * Peek-a-Bangs: As of the 7th movie.
 * Scary Shiny Glasses: The third movie.
 * Peek-a-Bangs: As of the 7th movie.
 * Scary Shiny Glasses: The third movie.
 * Scary Shiny Glasses: The third movie.


 * Single Target Sexuality: Claims that he wouldn't mind if Shiki were male...
 * Sophisticated As Hell: "She is either an eminent virtuoso, or just a big weirdo."
 * Token Good Teammate: Kokutou is a really decent guy and a devout Zen Buddhist. The people he hangs around with are...Neutral at best. He comments on how he'll just have to share the karma of Shiki's sins to be with her. Miraculously, he does this without sounding like a jackass.
 * Unfazed Everyman: A completely normal guy working for a magus. Nothing out of the ordinary there...
 * His Origin is stated to be normalcy, after all.
 * Weirdness Censor: Doesn't have one. In fact, Touko found it odd that he was able to find her and ask her for a job; given that she had spells around her office to make people ignore her.
 * Weirdness Magnet: Arguably.

Touko Aozaki
Touko is an extremely powerful sorceress who masquerades as a puppet maker and occasionally a designer of buildings. Together with Mikiya, she runs a pseudo-detective agency that pursues cases with supernatural or abnormal elements.

She is a powerful Magus, able to reproduce parts of a body that can be used in place of the part that was lost. This proves useful as she can not only reproduce the part to perfection, but can augment it with her magic as well.

She is the sister of Aoko Aozaki and was the creator of the glasses that Shiki Tohno wears, as well as Shirou Emiya's  in the True End of Heaven's Feel.

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

"Touko: See? The end result doesn't change."
 * Adaptation Dye Job: Short, blue hair in the novels and long red hair in the movies to make her look more like her sister.
 * Ambiguously Bi: Flirts with Shiki the first time they meet; yet she also agrees to go on a date with Daisuke in the sixth chapter and it's implied in some of the character material that her sister Aoko stole her old boyfriend, among other transgressions.
 * Artificial Human:
 * Badass:You bet she is. learned it in a gruesome way.
 * Badass Bookworm: Knowledgeable in LOADS of fields.
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Benevolent Boss
 * Berserk Button: She's usually pretty calm, but if you call her a "dirty red," calmness turns to Tranquil Fury and you're dead. It's her policy. But that's not even her real Berserk Button. Calling her a rotten red is just a way of mocking her and saying she plays second fiddle to her little sister. Her real Berserk Button is her little sister herself. Lets just say their rivalry has gotten rather bad a good few times in the past.
 * But Now I Must Go: Decides in the last chapter that she's been hanging around one area too long and moves on.
 * The Cameo: She has been seen in Fate/Extra.   
 * Christmas Cake: Touko is about twenty-seven or twenty-eight. She was a high school student during a fad for pop-a-point pencils (in The Eighties) and the parts of the story in which she appears take place between 1998 and 1999.
 * : Completely averted. She just doesn't care.
 * : Completely averted. She just doesn't care.


 * Cool Big Sis: Acts this way towards Mikiya and Shiki. Not so much towards her actual sister, though.
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Different As Night and Day: With her glasses on, she's comparatively nice. When they're off, she's much more rude. She treats her as two different personalities (but are they?). Compare Shiki, who had two just as opposite personalities, and the Kokutou siblings, with their opposite Origins.
 * Drives Like Crazy: The third movie. In the fifth, it's revealed that she never went to driving school.
 * Eccentric Mentor
 * Eldritch Abomination: You don't want to know what's in her suitcase.
 * Hey It's That Voice: Touko is voiced in the movies by Takako Honda, who also voiced Professor Reite in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. And Gimmy.
 * Immortality / Nigh Invulnerability:
 * Marionette Master: Subverted. She does create an army of "puppets," but for a vastly different reason.
 * The Masquerade: She is allegedly an architectural draftsman and toy designer. Her workplace is one of the main settings; not only is this not all she does, she's barely ever shown doing it at all.
 * Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: She is, in name or in fact, an architectural draftsman, toy designer, bunraku puppet theatre techie, magus, detective, and speech therapist.
 * Meganekko: Sometimes, when she has her glasses on. When they're off she tends to get... unpleasant. Was a straight example when she was younger.
 * Occult Detective
 * Sealed Good in A Can:
 * Sibling Yin-Yang
 * Smoking Is Cool: Like a chimney. Just try finding a shot of her ashtray where it's not full of cigarette butts.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Tranquil Fury
 * Tranquil Fury

Azaka Kokutou


""I have a confession. I love special things.""

Mikiya's younger sister, who is obsessed with him. She becomes an apprentice of Touko due to her rivalry against Shiki and is talented in the magic of ignition.

Azaka actually likes Shiki and vice-versa, but both of them have trouble expressing it due to the fact that they have feelings for Mikiya. She is short-sighted, easily-agitated, and impulsive, but is good-natured at heart and a more-than-competent combatant. She is the protagonist of the sixth movie.

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


 * A Day in The Limelight: Her role in the sixth movie is greatly expanded compared to in the novel, where Shiki received at least equal focus.
 * Badass Adorable
 * Blue Eyes
 * Brother-Sister Incest: Openly states that she's in love with Mikiya, her blood-related brother - during her self-intro narration, no less. She even left home, had their uncle adopt her, and enrolled at Reien Ladies' Academy in hopes that their time apart would lead Mikiya to view her as a woman rather than his little sister.
 * Captain Ersatz: Young Azaka and young Rin look exactly the same.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl: Towards Mikiya.
 * Different As Night and Day: Very literally to her brother. Azaka's origin is Taboo; her brother's is Normalcy. Compare Shiki, who had two just as opposite personalities, and Touko, with her glasses on/glasses off personalities.
 * Expy: Now we know where Akiha got her bro-con tendencies. The twintails she wore as a child also made her look exactly like Rin Tohsaka.
 * Foe-Tossing Charge: Performs one of these against . She even finishes it off with her best approximation of a Super Inazuma Kick.
 * Girly Run
 * Kawaiiko
 * Kung Fu Wizard: Her style of combat. Anyone expecting her to be a worthless warrior in close combat because she practices magic is in for a very, VERY rude surprise.
 * Other examples being Rin and Aoko. But they're also considered different for practicing this.
 * I Just Want to Be Special: Stems from her Origin of "Taboo".
 * Little Sister Heroine: But actually blood related for once. Again, stems from her Origin of Taboo, a natural attraction to that which is forbidden.
 * Playing With Fire
 * Plucky Girl
 * Plucky Comic Relief
 * Rebellious Spirit: Her Origin is taboo.
 * The Rival: To Shiki.
 * Technicolor Fire: Her flames are a mix of various shades of blue, green, purple, white and red.
 * Tsundere: One of the contents of her expy package.
 * Although she's almost entirely dere with Mikiya- it's Shiki who brings out her tsun side.
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: Mikiya is unlikely to ever see Azaka as more than his cute sister.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: Azaka actually respects Shiki, and is quite fond of her; the feeling is mutual on Shiki's part. The girls understand each other enough to laugh at and finish the punch line of each-other's jokes, and marvelously complementing each together in abilities on the battlefield. The one thing, however, that prevents them from actually openly admitting their friendship to one another is their mutual love for Mikiya.

Souren Araya
A former Buddhist monk who has lived for around 300 years and a previous acquaintance of Touko from the Sorcerer's Association, he is a major antagonist of the series who appears during the fifth movie.

Though he may be an average Magus at face value, he is highly skilled in the creation of Boundary Fields. Over the course of the series, he sets into motion an elaborate scheme involving awakening supernatural powers in others in order to further his own goal of reaching the Origin.

"Voiced by: Joji Nakata"


 * A Day in The Limelight: Inverted. Despite being one of the most important characters in the series, he only appears in the fifth movie.
 * Actually he's in the seventh one too, but only in flashbacks.
 * Badass: Anyone who can give Shiki that much trouble qualifies.
 * Not to mention how this guy fights. Cut off his left arm? He snaps it back on. Cut off his right? Its hand will be around your throat in a few seconds. Stab him? He'll just shrug it off.  Not to mention his barriers and his habit of teleporting around his apartment complex. You do not mess with Araya.
 * Bare-Fisted Monk: He started out as one. It Got Worse.
 * Barrier Warrior: Has the ability to manipulate boundary fields, which he can wield offensively.
 * Big Bad: Arguably the main antagonist of the series seeing as he's pretty much responsible for everything bad that happens to Shiki after she meets Mikiya in high school.
 * Black Eyes of Evil: Almost always.
 * Church Militant: At least in appearance.
 * Expy: Inverted (due to being a prototype). Really old and ugly ? The Big Bad? It sounds like Zouken.
 * He is also probably Kirei Kotomine's prototype; both being deeply involved with a religious sect before turning evil, both being average magi but possess an uncanny skill in their fields, both possessing exceptional healing abilities, and both being voiced by Joji Nakata.
 * Evil Plan:
 * Genius Loci: His experimental apartment complex.
 * Hannibal Lecture: Tosses out a few of these every now and again.
 * Harmful Healing: In the third movie, he repairs Fujino's cracked vertebrae and restores her sense of feeling. Yes, this is an evil act. Araya knows good and well why...
 * Implacable Man: His Origin of stillness should give you an indication of just how implacable he is.
 * Implacable Man: His Origin of stillness should give you an indication of just how implacable he is.


 * Man Behind the Man
 * Manipulative Bastard: To pretty much everyone, but especially.
 * Meaningful Name: In Buddhism,  Touko points out
 * Fridge Logic:
 * Nigh Invulnerability: Nigh indestructible
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: More like 300, but who's counting?
 * Start of Darkness: A flashback/dream shows him standing in the aftermath of a bloody conflict 200 years ago, looking at the corpse of a little boy who got caught up in it. He resolves that since he cannot save anybody, he will at least.
 * The Stoic
 * Super Speed: Shown to be able to dodge a bullet after it has been fired.
 * Tragic Villain: When Touko calls him pathetic, she means it in the original sense.
 * Utopia Justifies the Means: His reasoning for wanting to eradicate what he considers a Crapsack World.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Kirie Fujou


""Can you fly?""

A member of the Fujou clan, she appears as the antagonist of the first movie. As a child, she was stricken with a terminal illness and has been bedridden ever since. Her powers grant her the ability to unconsciously perpetuate the Fujou Building Suicides, which are the main focus of the first movie.

"Voiced by: Miki Ito (drama CD), Rie Tanaka (anime)"


 * Anti-Villain
 * Blessed With Suck: Possesses unnaturally robust fortitude, however, this sadly only prolongs her life rather than giving her the power to overcome her sickness.
 * Curtains Match the Window


 * Rie Tanaka's delivery of this line (beginning at about 6.15) is just...gah.
 * Evil Cripple
 * Evil Orphan
 * Green-Eyed Monster: She's jealous of Ryougi Shiki because she has a crush on Mikiya.
 * Ill Girl: Bedridden with a terminal illness.
 * Last Of Her Kind: The last of her clan.
 * Obliviously Evil: Arguably.
 * Parental Abandonment: Her parents were killed in a car accident years before the eyes of the first movie.
 * Psychic Powers: Has access to a spirtual counterpart and Mind Control.
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Stringy Haired Ghost Girl: In appearance.
 * Yandere: She captures Mikiya's soul because she has a huge crush on him.
 * Yandere: She captures Mikiya's soul because she has a huge crush on him.

Fujino Asagami


""Bend.""

The main focus of the third movie, she is a classmate and friend of Azaka. Fujino is secretly a killer and her murders are seemingly a way of giving her inner peace. She has the ability to bend space/objects with her mind and later gains clairvoyance, allowing her to bend objects without needing to see them.

"Voiced by: Mamiko Noto"


 * Adaptation Dye Job: Had black hair in the novels, while the films give her very dark purple.
 * Anti-Villain
 * Broken Bird
 * Bully Hunter: Taken Up to Eleven. Basically,
 * Clairvoyance
 * Cry Cute
 * Curtains Match the Window
 * Cute and Psycho: Although just as dangerous as Shiki is, Fujino remains one of the more sympathetic examples of this trope in anime.
 * Death Glare: Upon activating her psychic abilites.
 * Dissonant Serenity
 * Evil Feels Good
 * Fan Disservice: The scenes of Fujino.
 * Fan Nickname: "Fujinon."
 * Feel No Pain: Both physically and emotionally, though she keeps this a secret from everyone else so they don't think she's abnormal. She was even and this unwillingness to tell anyone about her 'pain'. She starts getting her sensation back in fits . They die messily. It turns out that the lack of pain was the result of.
 * From Nobody to Nightmare
 * Hime Cut
 * I Just Want to Be Normal
 * Last Of Her Kind: The last of the Asakami clan, though the Asagami branch (where her step-father comes from) continues to thrive.
 * Mind Over Matter: Her ability to telekinetically bend things.
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Red Eyes Take Warning
 * Shower of Angst
 * Superpower Lottery: She gains clairvoyance at the cost of her eyesight going bad (not that bad of a trade). Combined with her telekinesis, she can potentially bend (and break) anything, anywhere. Shiki even complains about it to Touko after the battle.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair

Tomoe Enjou


""Ah, I wish this spiral was a paradox...""

The central character of the fifth movie, he is a high school student who crosses paths with Shiki Ryougi after she saves him from a group of bullies. He hides out in Shiki's apartment after admitting to her that he was forced to kill his parents because of his recurring dreams of getting killed by his mother.

"Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara"


 * Audience Surrogate: Stated by Nasu in a recent interview.
 * Badass Normal: He has his moments. Namely, delivering a gruesome Eye Scream with no regrets, cauterizing a gaping wound without hesitation, and
 * Combat Pragmatist: His first attack in self-defense? A gruesome Eye Scream.
 * Death Seeker
 * Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
 * Expy: His appearance is the basis of Shirou Emiya.
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: Described in the novel as having very feminine features to the point that he is often mistaken for a girl.
 * : "I was here..."
 * Hey It's That Voice: It's Simon the Digger. Interesting that both productions involve spirals.
 * Lost in Translation: His quote up there sounds a lot less ridiculous in Japanese.
 * Ordinary High School Student
 * The Runaway
 * Self Made Orphan: It's a bit more complicated than that, naturally.
 * Spanner in The Works:
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Unlimited Haagen-Dazs Works!
 * The Runaway
 * Self Made Orphan: It's a bit more complicated than that, naturally.
 * Spanner in The Works:
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Unlimited Haagen-Dazs Works!
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Unlimited Haagen-Dazs Works!

Cornelius Alba
Appearing in the fifth movie as an antagonist alongside Souren Araya, he is the Director of the Sponheim Abbey and an old acquaintance of both Araya and Touko from the Sorceror's Association.

He has an inferiority complex regarding Touko and sided with Araya in order to defeat her to prove his superiority. In terms of raw power and ability, he is technically more powerful than either of his colleagues, but lacks the finesse and versatility to make the most of his strength.

"Voiced by: Koji Yusa"


 * Ax Crazy
 * Blond Guys Are Evil
 * Card-Carrying Villain: Anime only. The novel gives him more depth.
 * The Dragon: To Araya, in the fifth movie at least.
 * Expy: Basically the most repulsive parts of Willy Wonka and Alexander De-Large rolled into one humanoid mass; combining the arrogance and bad-fashion sense of both. He even goes as far as to gleefully sing Bethoven's 9th Symphony 4th Movement, the favorite tune of Alex from A Clockwork Orange, when he
 * Green-Eyed Monster
 * Informed Ability: In the anime anyway.
 * Jerkass
 * Leitmotif: We can't give you a title, since none of the background tracks have titles, but it sounds suitably twisted and pompous.
 * Mad Scientist: The creator of Araya's apartment complex.
 * Older Than They Look: Though he's really an old man, he uses his magic to give himself the appearance of a handsome young man. His real appearance comes through when he get upset however.
 * Nice Hat
 * Playing With Fire: Has the ability to incant eight lines in under two seconds and create a thousand-degree flame. Only shown in the original novel, though.
 * The Cameo: Shown for just a moment in Fate/zero, episode 18, using the aforementioned fire skills to torch a village.
 * Nice Hat
 * Playing With Fire: Has the ability to incant eight lines in under two seconds and create a thousand-degree flame. Only shown in the original novel, though.
 * The Cameo: Shown for just a moment in Fate/zero, episode 18, using the aforementioned fire skills to torch a village.

Misaya Ouji
Appearing in the sixth movie, she is senior at Reien Girl's Academy and known to be strict but fair. Has the power to control "fairies" thanks to Satsuki.

"Voiced by: Nana Mizuki"


 * Adaptation Dye Job: Has blond hair in the novel.
 * Brother-Sister Incest: In the novel,
 * Dark Magical Girl
 * Mama Bear: After finding out what happened to the resulting vengeance is not pretty at all.
 * Noblewoman's Laugh/ Evil Laugh/ Laughing Mad: Only delivers one, but what a laugh it is. It's awesomeness is even lampshaded in the Blu-Ray box's interview. Can possibly overlap with Large Ham.
 * Ojou
 * Rapunzel Hair
 * Ret Gone:
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo

Satsuki Kurogiri
Appearing as an antagonist in the sixth movie, he is a Magus known as God's Word. He has the ability to manipulate others through words alone.

"Voiced by: Ryotaro Okiayu"


 * Compelling Voice: Has the ability to control people's minds, as well.
 * Cunning Linguist: The only sorcerer in the world to be able to speak the ancient Unified Language.
 * Demoted to Extra: Though he is the, his role in the movie is largely as an antagonist for Shiki to fight. Isn't it sad, Sacchin?
 * Foil: To Mikiya Kokutou. It's Lampshaded that the characters in "Kokutou" can also be read as "Kurogiri".
 * Four Eyes Zero Soul
 * Hannibal Lecture: Has a habit of giving these.
 * Last of His Kind: The last person capable of speaking the Unified Language.
 * Parental Abandonment: Literally. After  caused his parents to consider him a freak and give him up for adoption.
 * Phenotype Stereotype: Averted. Although his name is Japanese, he was in fact born in the United Kingdom. His name was changed after he was adopted by a Japanese national.
 * Red Baron: Is known by such alias's as God's Word May Day and Master of Babel: Unified Language Master.
 * Retrograde Amnesia: An unusual case.
 * Scary Shiny Glasses
 * Spell My Name With an "S": His second name is "Godot Word" in the official subtitles.
 * The Unfought: In the anime at least. He gets into a small scuffle with Shiki, but what happens to him afterwards is unknown.
 * The Unfought: In the anime at least. He gets into a small scuffle with Shiki, but what happens to him afterwards is unknown.

Introduced in the second movie as an older schoolmate of Mikiya who dropped out of school because he 'found something he wanted to do,'  and takes on a much larger role in the seventh movie.

"Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi"


 * Ax Crazy: Disturbingly and horrifyingly so.
 * Badass Abnormal: Technically speaking, he doesn't have any super powers per se but he does tend to leap from wall to wall and crawl around like a spider.
 * Blond Guys Are Evil: Though his first appearance suggests that he's not a natural blond, and that his exposure to magic might have changed his hair as it's known to do in other parts of the Nasuverse.
 * Chekhov's Gunman: First got a very minor mention in the second novel/movie.
 * Complete Monster: He is considered as such, since his own primal impulses tend to make him lack a considerable amount empathy and is considered to be so much of a problem that Souren Araya simply doesn't involve him in his plan.
 * Depraved Bisexual: Possibly. He not only lusts after Shiki,.
 * Expy: He can be viewed as a sort of combined Tohno SHIKI and Nero Chaos. He has Nero's gradually fading identity due to multiple contained creatures and the dying sanity and previous decency of SHIKI. Although he was somewhat psychotic even before his Origin was awakened. Hell, his motivation can even be considered the basis of Roa's: love at first sight leading to absolute insanity. Lio can be viewed as the prototype of the three in the aforementioned respects, if his character was fully fleshed-out before Tsukihime began development. Also he is possibly the inspiration for Arcueid's design (blond hair, red eyes, skirt/dress, and claws).
 * Fan Disservice: Anything he does to Shiki....dear god.
 * Final Boss:
 * Foil: Playing against Shiki and Mikiya, of course.
 * From Nobody to Nightmare
 * Genetic Memory: Araya had opened him up to his Origin, giving him access to the memory of all of his past lives; mostly carnivorous animals.
 * Healing Factor: Is shown to have the ability to regrow limbs.
 * Horror Hunger: Can't expect much else from someone whose Origin is consumption.
 * I Just Want to Be Special:
 * I'm a Humanitarian: Dear God, I'm gonna be sick.
 * In Love With Your Carnage: How he feels about Shiki.
 * Knife Nut: And how!
 * Limp and Livid
 * Love Makes You Crazy and Evil: Dear god, yes!
 * Manipulative Bastard: Heavy emphasis on the bastard.
 * Meaningful Name: As Araya said, "You were one letter away from being a lion."
 * Monster Sob Story: Subverted. Even with the Horror Hunger, you might start to sympathize with him at least a bit once his backstory is fleshed out. Well, that is until the Fan Disservice throws any pity for him out the window and every viewer just starts aching to see him die.
 * Murder the Hypotenuse: Wants to either kill or corrupt Mikiya to remove Shiki's Morality Chain.
 * Not So Different:
 * Now That's Using Your Teeth: Strong enough to shatter the blade of a knife. Robeta would be proud.
 * Red Eyes Take Warning
 * Room Full of Crazy: Just take a gander at his bitchin' Stalker Shrine, photo collections, and rat cage. I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you helped yourself to the drugs either.
 * Serial Killer
 * The Sociopath: A little bit before he finds his Origin, but he is very much this. Willingly.
 * Slasher Smile: And a damn terrifying one at that.
 * Stalker Shrine: For Shiki, naturally. Could this guy get any more disturbing?
 * Stalker With a Crush: Towards Shiki of course.
 * Suicide By Cop: Committed his later murders to get Shiki to kill him.
 * Villainous Crossdresser:
 * Villainous BSOD:
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: And how!
 * Yandere: Surprisingly averted.  If anything he actually wants Shiki to kill him

Shizune Seo


Azaka's roommate in the Reien Girls' Academy, and a woman who can predict the future through her eyes. She has a cameo appearance in the sixth movie, but her role is expanded upon in the Future Gospel epilogue.

"Voiced by: Yuka Iguchi"


 * Book Dumb: She's bad at studying and at exams, despite the fact that she could easily use her power to know the answers beforehand.
 * Evil Eye: Her eyes can see the future.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She falls in love with Mikiya, but realizes that she can't possibly hope to be as close to him as Shiki is.
 * Name's the Same: Consensus holds it that she's the older sister of Akira Seo of Tsukihime.
 * Prophecy Twist: Lampshaded by Mikiya. She predicted that Mikiya would die if he gets close to Shiki, he would get killed. In a strange sort of pun, it turns out that she was referring to his "eye".
 * You Can't Fight Fate: She firmly believes in this, until she meets Mikiya.

Mana
Introduced in Future Gospel: recalled out summer, she is