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== Kenji and his former classmates ==
=== Kenji Endou ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Action Survivor]]
* [[Adorkable]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Our Hero Is Dead]]}}
** {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Dead]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Took a Level
=== Otcho (Chouji Ochiai) ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[The Atoner]]: See [[Parental Neglect]] below.
* [[Badass]]
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* [[Salaryman]]: Originally was one, but quit after he realized the effect his workaholism had on his family.
* [[Simple Staff]]: He's skilled with a bo, but usually uses [[Pipe Pain|a pipe]] instead of a wooden one.
* [[Training
=== Yukiji Setoguchi ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Closer to Earth]]: A subversion when younger, being a rather fiery [[Cute Bruiser]], but sort of grows into the role post-timeskip.
* [[Cool Bike]]
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=== Yoshitsune (Minamoto) ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* {{spoiler|[[The Chains of Commanding]]: He ''really'' didn't want to be leader after being separated from the rest of the group, especially since the job requires a great deal of pragmatism he's frankly too nice to be comfortable with.}}
* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: At first it's just regular [[Self-Deprecation]] but as time goes by {{spoiler|and he reluctantly becomes leader of the heroes it turns into this.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Reverse Mole]]: Infiltrated Friend Land by working there as a janitor.}}
* [[Salaryman]]
* {{spoiler|[[Took a Level
=== Maruo ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Big Eater]]
* [[Eyes Always Shut|Eyes Often Shut]]: More so as a kid.
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=== Mon-chan (Masaki Shimon) ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* {{spoiler|[[Famous Last Words]]: "I just want to live as long as possible!"}}
* {{spoiler|[[Secretly Dying]]}}: Until Bloody New Years when he reveals {{spoiler|his illness}} to Yukiji.
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=== Yamane ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Creepy Child]]: When he was a kid, of course.
* {{spoiler|[[Mad Scientist]]: He considers it a game to make as terrible a virus as possible to see how long it will take Kiriko to develop a vaccine for.}}
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=== Keroyon ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Animal Motifs]]: With the frog, both in looks and name ("kero" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for a frog's croak)
* [[Badass Normal]]: Lacks the kind of training that Otcho has, but {{spoiler|still rushes into a burning factory to save lives regardless of his burns.}}
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=== Fukubei ===
A description of the character goes here.
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}▼
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* {{spoiler|[[The Bully]]: He was quite a jerk as a kid.}}
*
=== Donkey (Saburou Kido) ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Agent Scully]]: Even as a child he firmly believed in science over superstition.
*
* [[The Pig Pen]]
* [[Posthumous Character]]: Him dying starts the story.
* [[Massive
* [[Never Suicide]] / [[Starts with a Suicide]]: His, to be precise. {{spoiler|It is, of course, ''not'' a suicide and Kenji looking further into it is precisely what kicks off the plot.}}
=== Sadakiyo (Kiyoshi Sada) ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[The Faceless]]: He always wears a mask {{spoiler|and can't even remember what he looked like as a child.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}
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=== Yanbo and Manbo ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Fat Bastard]]<nowiki>-></nowiki>[[Bishonen]]<nowiki>-></nowiki>[[I Was Quite a Looker]]: Hilariously, they go from portly in childhood, to slim in attractive in adult-hood, back to fat and ugly when they become elderly.
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]: Originally sold Kenji's group out to Friend but eventually turned against him.}}
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=== {{spoiler|Katsumata}} ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* {{spoiler|[[Creepy Child]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Dead Person Impersonation]]: Takes up the mantle of Friend after Fukubei dies.}}
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=== Kanna Endou ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Sort of.
* [[A Father to His Men|A Father To Her Men]]
* [[Almighty Janitor]]: waitress in a crappy restaurant who ''breaks up mob gunfights''.
* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Dealing with various mafias has given her a command of Thai and Chinese.
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* [[Like Father, Like Son|Like Uncle Like Niece]]
* {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: She's Fukubei a.k.a Friend's biological daughter.}}
* [[Messianic Archetype]]: Unites enemies, has unique abilities {{spoiler|born to a "holy mother"}}. In a subversion {{spoiler|her father would be "the devil" in the situation, so this overlaps a bit with [[Anti-Anti-Christ]].}}
* [[Nice Hat]]: She got her cap from Kenji as a memento.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]
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=== 'God/Kami-sama' ({{spoiler|Kamigama Kyutaro}}) ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: A homeless man with psychic powers and obsessed with bowling. He eventually uses his precognitive abilities on the stock market to become one of the richest men in Japan.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]
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* [[Insistent Terminology]]: "Don't call me God."
* [[Mad Oracle]]: He loves to use [[Cloudcuckoolander|bowling metaphors left and right]] but most characters acknowledge his intelligence and insight. Being an actual psychic helps too.
** Though he himself casts some doubt on his powers, attributing them instead to the [[The Power of Trust]]. It is left ambiguous.
* [[Rags to Riches]]: Goes from homeless man (with psychic powers) to self-made millionaire and the first Japanese person to go into space.
* [[Serious Business]]: takes bowling ''very'' seriously.
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=== Shouhei Chouno ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Adorkable]]
* [[Butt Monkey]]
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=== Chou-san ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Great Detective]]: So great that he {{spoiler|found the complete answer to the [[Driving Question]] of the series ''21 years'' before anyone else.}}
* [[Retirony]]
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=== Kiriko ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[The Atoner]]: {{spoiler|Spends all of her time trying to treat people for the virus she created.}}
* [[Chekhov MIA]]
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=== Kyoko Koizumi ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Break the Cutie]]: Her experience at [[Amusement Park of Doom|Friend Land.]] Slightly subverted in that, traumatic as that was, she seemingly remains as adjusted as ever after her ordeal.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Provides most of the comic relief in the seriously dark series.
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=== Father Nitani ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[The Atoner]]
* [[Badass Preacher]]
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=== Father Luciano ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[The Atoner]]
* [[Badass Preacher]]
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=== Shikishima ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[For Science!]]: One of the primary reasons for {{spoiler|making his giant robot: he thought the fake one was such a piece of crap that he felt obligated to make a real one.}}
=== Haru Namio ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Appears early on as a successful enka singer who works with Friend, {{spoiler|Later revealed that he's protecting Maruo and helping the [[La Résistance]] covertly.}}
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: {{spoiler|Subverted when he turns out to be one of the good guys. Then you realize it's probably necessary to get close to Friend.}}
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=== Friend<ref>To avoid spoilers, this will be listed separately from any other characters he may secretly be.</ref> ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[The Antichrist]]
* [[Big Bad]]
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* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|The first Friend is revealed to be Kanna's father}}
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]
* [[Plaguemaster]]: His main method of mass-killing, {{spoiler|though mostly the first one.}}
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]
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=== Police Officer Assassin ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]]: He has a [[Stealth Pun|mole]] on his face.
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]
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=== Prisoner #13 (Masao Tamura) ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Bald of Evil]]
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=== Manjoume ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Beard of Evil]]
* [[The Dragon]]
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=== Takusugi ===
A description of the character goes here.
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* [[Bifauxnen]]: At one point, two characters confuse her for a man.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]
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=== Moroboshi's killer ===
A description of the character goes here.
* [[Blonde Guys Are Evil]]▼
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* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: He is ''very'' insistent that's he's evil and even compares himself to many famous anime villains. {{spoiler|Then subverted when Kenji gets him to admit he's full of it.}}
* [[Career Killers]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown]]}}
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