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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: He has several when he sees the corpses of his classmates and friends. Particularly in the manga, where finding {{spoiler|Shinji Mimura's body}} is enough to almost make him give up.
* [[I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me|I Can't Believe A Girl Like You Would Notice Me!]]: He reacts like this to Noriko.
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]
* [[Joke Weapon]]: A pot lid in the film.
* [[The Messiah]]: The guy is so innocent and wonderful, he actually manages to convert several crazy or paranoid classmates by giving them emotional speeches (before [[Kill'Em All|they all die, anyway...]])
* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: In the manga, with his mullet. Shuya in the movie looks more like an average, dumpy teenage boy.
* [[Lucky Seven]]: His last name starts with the [[Seven Is Nana|kanji character for seven]].
* [[Oblivious to Love]]
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Depending on the version, his mother might have walked out on the family and his father committed suicide (film), his father might have been killed and his mother died of illness (manga), or both parents might have died in a "car accident" (novel).
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{{quote|''"Hello! "The chick" has a name!"''}}
The female protagonist, she is a bit of a [[Purity Sue]]. She is at first the love interest of Shuya's friend Yoshitoki, but gradually grows closer to Shuya over the course of the story. Since the teacher shoots her in the leg early on and the wound is infected, she is [[The Load]] much of the time. Noriko is a perfect fit for Shuya: good-hearted, idealistic and quick to trust. Although she does not realize it, Noriko manages to keep both Shogo and Shuya balanced {{spoiler|and she is the only other person besides Shuya to survive the game}}.
* [[Action Survivor]]
* [[Alliterative Name]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]: So very much.
* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]
* [[Joke Weapon]]: A boomerang.
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{{quote|''"I'm not dying on account of you. You heard her, I'm horrible. Don't force me to prove it."''}}
The mysterious [[New Transfer Student]], Shogo is a tough guy who is older than the others and keeps to himself. He's big, covered in scars, and a chain smoker. He was the winner of the previous year's Program (and racking up the highest body count ever seen), and this gives him an enormous advantage when he enters it the second time. A true [[Badass]] and a survivalist to the core, he has no qualms about killing in self-defense even though his goal is to save his classmates from the Program. He allies himself with Shuya and Noriko early on after killing their attacker, and they go along with him since he knows a way the three of them can escape from the island.
Obviously a very popular character.
* [[The Atoner]]: His motivation, because he accidentally killed his loving girlfriend Keiko in the previous Program. Not only did he cause her death, but he had crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] by slaughtering dozens of classmates in order to ensure Keiko's safety.
* [[Badass]]: Oh dear, where to begin...
** [[Heartbroken Badass]]
* [[Big Brother Mentor]]
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Shogo ''loves'' being blunt and deflating Shuya's and Noriko's wide-eyed idealism at every opportunity.
* [[Fatal Family Photo|Fatal Lovers Photo]]: Of him and Keiko.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: When first alerts Shuya to Shogo's past is the knife scars on his face and arms.
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: So very much. Initially, he treats Shuya and Noriko with a casual disrespect even while protecting them.
* [[Loving a Shadow]]
* [[New Transfer Student]]
* {{spoiler|[[Normally I Would Be Dead Now]]}}
* [[Not So Different]]: From Kiriyama, in his first game.
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{{quote|''"You know it, I'm the man."''}}
The most popular guy in the class; a star athlete, ladies' man and very intelligent. This makes him a [[Marty Stu]], which the author acknowledges was done to conceal that Shinji is in fact a [[Decoy Protagonist]]. He is good friends with Shuya and the "leader" of their clique, which also contains Yoshitoki, Yutaka and Hiroki. More importantly, Shinji was raised by an uncle who is a political enemy of the fascist government. As a result, he has computer hacking skills and knows much more about the inner workings of the police state than his classmates, which comes in very handy when he manages to smuggle a laptop into the Program.
* [[Chick Magnet]]: In his introduction in the manga, he wonders if he has enough condoms on him to screw the entire crowd of fangirls.
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* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Slightly subverted because his grades in subjects other than Math and English were bad.
* [[Handsome Lech]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Has a brief one when Yutaka suspects him of "playing" the game. Given how Shinji had trusted Yutaka to the point that he'd never even ''think'' to suspect him, he was shaken pretty badly.
* [[Ho Yay]]: With Shuya and Yutaka in all three canons.
* [[Playful Hacker]]
* {{spoiler|[[Rasputinian Death]]}}: And a completely pointless one.
* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion]]}}
* [[Stay Frosty]]: His catchphrase in the manga.
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{{quote|''"You were my rock. You made me what I am."''}}
The most quiet and reserved guy in Shuya's clique, although an incredibly powerful fighter. He is a martial arts expert but a [[Gentle Giant]] pacifist who never fights unless he is forced to. Hiroki is very shy and reserved around girls, earning him Shinji's teasing, but has a near-obsessive love for his classmate Kayoko Kotohiki. In the Program, he refuses to join up with Shuya but instead sets off on a search for her.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]
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* [[Eye Scream]]: It happens to him in the manga.
* [[Gentle Giant]]
* [[Hope Spot]]: His battle with Kazuo Kiriyama in all versions.
* [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me]]: His reaction to stray cats (and to Kayoko Kotohiki).
* {{spoiler|[[Love Confession]]: He admits this to Kayoko just before he dies, even calling her by her first name.}}
* [[Love Hurts]]
* [[Martial Pacifist]]
* [[Nose Tapping]]: In the manga, he does this when he's unsure (which is pretty often).
* [[Technical Pacifist]]: Subverted. He refuses to take a gun and is genuinely concerned with only using his martial arts in self-defense because he's afraid that if he gets seriously violent, he'll enjoy it.
* [[Technician Versus Performer]]: Hiroki is a performer who fights furiously to defend the girl he loves, while his opponent Kazuo is a technician who is all skill and no passion. {{spoiler|Hiroki wins, but Kazuo (who wears a bulletproof vest) then gives him a fatal wound.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Together in Death]]:}} With Kayoko Kotohiki.
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{{quote|''"I just decided to take instead of being taken. It’s not a question of good or bad, wrong or right. It’s just what I want to do."''}}
The most feared girl in the whole school. Mitsuko lives in a cycle of abuse, having taken it as a child and now dishing it out; a life of physical and mental abuse has shaped Mitsuko into a [[Femme Fatale]] with the psyche of a vengeful child. She is the prettiest girl in her class, and often uses her adorable looks to take advantage of men. She leads a [[Girl Posse]] in school. When Mitsuko ends up in the Program, she becomes one of the most dangerous contestants. Out of the four "villains" in the game, she is the second most dangerous. A [[Jerkass Woobie]] through and through.
* [[Abusive Parents]]
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Mitsuko can play the act of an innocent angel to a T.
* [[Broken Bird]]: And how. She's so broken that she's locked in her personal hell and doesn't want to be helped.
* [[Creepy Doll]]: She had one in her childhood. It was given to her by her stepfather. Who abused her. The cutesy doll, which falls apart toward the end, ends up playing a part in her [[Villainous Breakdown]].
* [[Delinquents]]
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* [[Femme Fatale]]: And '''how'''!
* [[Gainaxing]]: In the manga.
** The manga artist has obviously never heard of the [[Discretion Shot]]...
* [[Girl Posse]]: She is the leader of a thugette trio who are feared by the other girls in the school.
* [[Girl with Psycho Weapon]]: Her wickedly sharp harvesting sickle.
* [[Intimate Healing]]: In the manga only. In some twisted part of her mind, she thought this was what she was doing to poor Yuichiro. Keep in mind, this scene is ''only'' in the manga. The original one in the novel is more of a [[Pet the Dog]] moment as Mitsuko gives Yuichiro a gentle kiss and then puts him out of his misery since Tadakatsu has already involuntarily wounded him fatally.
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful]]: Since she was very little, she's been using her body to get whatever she wants.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20190821201519/http://www.heavyeggs.com/uploads/files/2010/November/11/f0c/109/480ccb001c67ee3288d742176d70c132e4/1289518096t-battle
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: She is even portrayed by [[Idol Singer]] Kou Shibasaki in the film.
* [[The Vamp]]
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{{quote|''"I don't care. This is fun too."''}}
The top student of the class, he has the mind of a genius but is physically unable to feel human emotions like sadness, compassion or even happiness. When he is forced to kill his classmates in the Program, he is indifferent and really can't decide whether he should unite his friends to lead a rebellion against the Program (and endanger his life), or play the game to win (and also endanger his life). When he decides the latter, he puts everything he has into it. In the [[Film of the Book]], he is portrayed as a mute psychopath instead, and voluntarily signed up for the game.
* [[The Ace]]: The novel shows how the students all have unique interests (sports, academics, music, art, fighting) but Kazuo is better than everyone at everything, without even trying.
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* [[Hero-Killer]]: Whenever he shows up, expect the person you are rooting for to be ''dead''.
* [[Implacable Man]]
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: To Kazuo, human lives are about as interesting as rocks.
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]
* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]: The way he kills many people, especially {{spoiler|Shinji}}.
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* {{spoiler|[[Rasputinian Death]]}}
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Again, only in the manga. {{spoiler|Being shot in the frontal lobe somehow caused him to regain the emotions he'd gotten used to not having, as well as causing him to feel the trauma of his mother's death for the first time}}.
* [[The Voiceless]]: In the film he actually seems to be mute.
== Other Students ==
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{{quote|''"You said this was a game, right? Fine. I'll be your opponent. I won't lose against an asshole like you. I'll give everything I have to erase your existence. Got it? Do you understand? Or are you too stupid?"''}}
A loner but among the most beautiful girls in the school, she is Hiroki Sugimura's best friend and fierce supporter since childhood. Takako's nickname behind her back is "Robo-Bitch" because of her outwardly cold demeanor. Although she is proud, severe and quick to anger, she's unhappy being shunned by the other girls in her class. She is deeply in love with her only friend Hiroki, but he doesn't know.
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]
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* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: She is girl # 13.
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: To Hiroki.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: In the manga.
=== Yukie Utsumi (Girl #2) ===
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{{quote|''"Do you understand what I'm saying? Do you see why I had to save you, no matter what?"''}}
The female class president. She's an intelligent and caring girl, often a [[Team Mom]] to her friends, but bold and not afraid to speak her mind. Yukie has a massive crush on Shuya, and saves his life at one point. She gathers a large group around her during the Program and they take shelter in a lighthouse.
* [[A House Divided]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Kiss of Death]]: In the manga.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Love Confession]]: To Shuya in the novel and manga.}}
* [[The Messiah]]: She really tries to be, but sadly without success.
* [[Number Two]]
* [[Team Mom]]: A shining example, but her one mistake was that she gathered a group too large.
* {{spoiler|[[Together in Death]]}}: With her friends.
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* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: When anyone hurts someone he loves. Guess what happens when the [[Big Bad]] boasts about raping Ryoko Anno, his orphanage caretaker since childhood and surrogate mom.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]
* [[Dead Star Walking]]
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Would have been this with Shuya.
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[[The Dragon]] of Mitsuko Souma's little gang, which consists of these two and Yoshimi Yahagi. Her main hobbies are both dealing and using drugs, fighting, shoplifting and bullying those weaker than her. Despite this, Hirono is opposed to the idea of killing her classmates.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: Used for tragedy in the manga. {{spoiler|When Hirono is wounded and drowning in a well, she has a dream of climbing out of the well, suddenly restored to full health, and joining Shuya and Noriko in their escape from the island}}.
* [[Almost Kiss]]: It looked exactly like she and Shuya were about to do that when Kaori began shooting.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: She's much more violent than would usually be expected from this trope.
* [[Delinquents]]
* [[Dying Dream]]
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: She's one of Mitsuko's friends. a major bully to the other girls, and as mentioned below, kind of a Jerkass, but her internal monologue in the novel makes it clear that she finds killing her classmates to be going too far, and will only use lethal force in self defense if she absolutely has to.
* [[
* [[Hope Spot]]: Done three times in the manga, the last one right before {{spoiler|we find out it was all a hallucination and she was dying.}}
* [[Jerkass]]: Hirono used to slash Megumi Etou's skirt with a razor and trip her in the stairs, provided Mitsuko with drugs (which she tested on Yoshimi), and didn't seem to be all that bothered about Yoshimi being used as a prostitute by Mitsuko.
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{{quote|''"Thak you, Yoji. I was so happy being with you."''}}
The junior member of Mitsuko's gang and a hopelessly romantic girl. Yoshimi was exploited by Mitsuko, who even pimped her to strangers at one point. She is deeply in love with her boyfriend Yoji, even though she's still one of the thugettes.
* [[Alliterative Name]]
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* [[Demoted to Extra]]: In the film.
* {{spoiler|[[Killed Mid-Sentence]]}}: "I love you t - "
* [[My Girl Is Not a Slut]]: More justifiable than most cases, considering Yoshimi's past. Yoji is annoyed that Yoshimi is far more sexually experienced than he is, and goes into an impotent rage if she instigates any sexual behaviour towards him. He actually loves her, but thanks to the [[Double Standard]], feels that pretending he's only using her for sex is more acceptable. [[A Man Is Not a Virgin|Because that's what a real man does, right?]]
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: Yoshimi notes that she started to behave more after she started dating him.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Spell My Name With An Extra U]]: "Youji" in the original Japanese.
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* [[Demoted to Extra]]: In the film.
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: As Tadakatsu is about to shoot Mitsuko, Yuichiro steps between them and takes the shots himself.}}
* [[Odd Couple]]: The nerdy Yuichiro and the athletic jock Tadakatsu are a very unlikely team.
* [[Otaku]]
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Definitely.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Spell My Name With An Extra U]]: "Yuuichirou" in the original Japanese.
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: For Mitsuko, no less.
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: He's so innocent and kind-hearted that Mitsuko takes pity on him after {{spoiler|Tadakatsu shoots him.}}
=== Tadakatsu Hatagami (Boy #18) ===
A sports jock who used to be best friends with Shuya and, in the Program, forms an [[Odd Couple]] with Yuichiro (whom he bosses around). He is the more level-headed and suspicious of the two.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: In the film.
* [[Odd Couple]]: He and the anime nerd Yuichiro.
* [[Out with a Bang]]: Well, almost...
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{{quote|''"SHINJI YOUR AWESOME"'' }}
The male class clown and Shinji Mimura's loyal friend throughout his story arc. Yutaka admires Shinji to the point of [[Ho Yay]], although his clumsiness ends up causing problems for them both.
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Towards Izumi in the novel, Fumiyo in the manga.
* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Ho Yay]]: With Shinji. The above quote says it all.
* [[Joke Weapon]]: A fork. He tried to intimidate someone with said fork.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Deconstructed over the course of Shinji's plot thread, as both characters come to seriously question what value Shinji can possibly find in Yutaka and why he keeps him around.
* [[Reckless Sidekick]]
* [[Tender Tears]]: Chokes up whenever Shinji says something kind to him. The two of them being best friends, this happens so frequently that Yutaka jokes, "if you stick around with a crybaby like me you'll end up drowning before we escape."
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* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]
* [[One Steve Limit]]: She ain't related to their teacher in ''any way''.
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: Her relationship with Yumiko comes across as this in the manga.
* {{spoiler|[[Together in Death]]}}: With Yumiko.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: The Girly Girl.
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* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]
* {{spoiler|[[Together in Death]]}}: Again, with Yukiko.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: The Tomboy.
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* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Somewhat to Hirono Shimizu.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: In the manga, his parents were abusive alcoholics.
* [[Ho Yay]]: A lot towards Kazuo. It's pretty much one-sided.
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: To Kazuo. An unconventional example, since {{spoiler|Kazuo, the gang's figurehead leader, kills Mitsuru.}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: Upon realizing exactly how "hard" Kazuo is.
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=== Ryuhei Sasagawa (Boy #10) ===
The loudest member of the gang, although a cowardly bully. He is issued with the most powerful weapon in the Program: a machine gun.
* [[Berserk Button]]: In the manga, the sounds of Yoshio Akamatsu's handheld videogame are Ryuhei's [[Berserk Button]].
* [[The Brute]]: In Kazuo's [[Five-Bad Band]].
* [[The Bully]]
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: He did this to Shogo Kawada in the locker rooms after he first came to the school. Nobody knew exactly what Shogo did to him, but Ryuhei was in tears and ran back to Kazuo, who didn't do anything.
* [[Delinquents]]
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Spell My Name With An Extra U]]: "Ryuuhei" in the original Japanese.
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=== Hiroshi Kuronaga (Boy #9) ===
The fat guy in the delinquent gang, who doesn't do much.
* [[Delinquents]]
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{{quote|''"I have a name like a celebrity's, but I'm just a Plain Jane."''}}
The only openly gay student in the class, and a member of the gang. His ultra-macho clique are obviously uncomfortable being around him, but Kazuo tolerates Sho for some reason.
* {{spoiler|[[Bury Your Gays]]}}: In the English adaptation of the manga, his file notes that he is "not to leave the island alive under any circumstances". [[Word of God]] also states that there are anti-homosexual laws in the Republic of Greater East Asia.
* [[Camp Gay]]: Not so much in the novel and never mentioned in the film. But it's prominent in the manga, where he is depicted as slimy and leering with a pompadour haircut and uncontrollable giggling.
* [[Delinquents]]
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: In the film.
* [[Gayngster]]: His aspiration.
* [[Ho Yay]]: One-sided, toward Kazuo and Mitsuru. He also has a crush on Mimura.
* [[Macho Camp]]: Although Sho is stereotypical, he's also a tough member of Kiriyama's street gang who happens to be gay.
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=== Yoshio Akamatsu (Boy #1) ===
An overweight outcast who was the bullying victim of the class thugs. Despite being a nice, awkward and harmless guy in his real life, the Program derails him into a frightened, psychotic killer.
* [[Axe Crazy]]: He eventually becomes like this when he snaps from the fear and imagines those who bullied him will try to kill him.
* [[Butt Monkey]]
* [[Chew Toy]]: In his class, especially to the bullies like Ryuhei.
* [[Gentle Giant]]: In the manga, Shuya calls him "gigantor".
* [[Otaku]]
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* [[A House Divided]]: Her own paranoia managed to {{spoiler|utterly destroy their relatively well maintained group within ''seconds''.}}
* [[Break the Cutie]]
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}: When she comprehends what she has done to her friends.
* [[Freak-Out]]: When she sees Shuya accidentally kill a classmate.
* [[Hope Spot]]: A very brief one in the manga.
* {{spoiler|[[Irony]]: It is Yuko who survives the lighthouse masacre, even though it was she who involuntarily started it in the first place.}}
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]
* [[Poison Is Corrosive]]: Yuko's assigned weapon along with a spring-loaded baton. She uses it to poison {{spoiler|Shuya's}} food, to a horrifying effect.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: To the extreme.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Spell My Name With An Extra U]]: "Yuuko" in the original Japanese.
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{{quote|''"What about you? You're different, right?"''}}
A model student. The smartest and most suspicious of the lighthouse girls, but also the most ruthless. Satomi is also, besides Kazuo Kiriyama, the most heavily armed of the students.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: In the flashback chapter "Energy" in the manga.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: In the manga, after she has {{spoiler|slaughtered Chisato, Haruka, and Yukie}}, she approaches Yuko Sakaki, telling her they're both safe. However, Satomi lets slip that she will "get them all" and play to win.
* [[Freak-Out]]: When she {{spoiler|kills Chisato}}.
* [[Irony]]: {{spoiler|She kills everyone in the lighthouse ''except'' for the one person who killed Yuka.}}
* [[Meganekko]]
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=== Chisato Matsui (Girl #19) ===
The smallest and shyest of Yukie's friends, who take refuge in the lighthouse.
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Has a crush on Mimura in the novel.
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{{quote|''"Let's have a taste, then."''}}
The female class clown. She is the most optimistic of the girls in the lighthouse and a [[Plucky Comic Relief]] to them. Apparently, when you're a fat girl in Japan like her, there are very few choices in high school, so class clown is as good as any.
* [[Big Eater]]: {{spoiler|[[Just for Pun|Bites]] her in the ass when she decides to taste test Shuya's food before giving it to him.}}
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{{quote|''"No mercy. Junya. I'm going to be killed! Shoot. Mom. Sister! Dad. Shoot! Shoot! The new record release!"''}}
A girl with an acne-covered face and a total obsession with j-pop [[Idol Singer|idol singers]], especially one Junya Kenzaki. When she ends up in the Program, her mental derailment is spectacular.
* [[Cat Scare]]: In the manga.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: In the film.
* [[Fan Girl]]: Of Junya Kenzaki, a popstar.
* [[Go Mad
* [[Nerd Glasses]]: In the manga.
* [[Les Yay]]: With Mizuho, in the movie. {{spoiler|They end up killing each other.}}
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=== Megumi Eto (Girl #3) ===
A sensitive girl with a crush on Shuya (Shinji in the movie), who is absolutely paralyzed with terror when thrown into the battle. Megumi is one of the "daydreamers" (along with Mizuho and Kaori), and the only one of them who is actually sane.
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Has a crush on Shuya in the novel, Mimura in the film.
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=== Keita Iijima (Boy #2) ===
A whiny "friend" of Shinji Mimura who seeks his protection during the Program.
* [[Dirty Coward]]: According to what Mimura thinks of him in the novel and manga.
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{{quote|''"Even if by some miracle one of us could go back, we still wouldn't be together. Even if ... even if I were to survive ... I couldn't bear being without you."''}}
One of the most attractive girls in the class, and Kazuhiko Yamamoto's long-term girlfriend.
* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: With Kazuhiko in the manga and novel. In the film it seemed to have more to do with their refusal to participate. In a rather cruel instance of irony, the students approaching them were the Lighthouse Girls, who had no intention of doing them harm.
* [[Cherry Blossom Girl]]
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Her father was killed by the police when she was a child for anti-government activities.
* [[Four Is Death]]: [[Department of Redundancy Department|She's Girl # 4]]
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=== Izumi Kanai (Girl #5) ===
* [[Mauve Shirt]]: Any notes on her character occur {{spoiler|''after'' she's been killed in the novel.}} In the movie and manga, at least she has a few lines.
* [[Ojou]]: In fact, if not in character. Her dad's a town representative.
* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]
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* [[Nerd Glasses]]
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Kyoichi's mental derailment begins when he is told that it doesn't matter two shits what his dad's position is, he's still going in the Program.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Spell My Name With An Extra U]]: "Kyouichi" in the original Japanese.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: His motivation.
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* [[The Social Darwinist]]: Very much so.
* [[The Sociopath]]
* [[Technician Versus Performer]]: The reason why Shuya was always more popular than Toshinori as a musician.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Toshinori is not only the most odious student, but among the stupidest. In the film: he shouts out that the reason he survived being shot was because of his [[Bulletproof Vest]]. {{spoiler|Cue Kazuo Kiriyama jumping at him with sword in hand.}} In the manga: he has a butcher's knife, and his vest keeps him alive after getting shot. So he decides to ''fake a death rattle'', so Kazuo will come near him and check if he's really dead, enabling Toshinori to stab him. {{spoiler|Kazuo checks if he's dead by firing a volley of bullets into Toshinori's unprotected balls.}} In the novel: No death rattle, but he doesn't realize ''why'' Kazuo is coming up to him. {{spoiler|Kazuo is just coming up to make absolutely sure Oda's dead via headshot.}}
* [[Unbuilt Trope]]: Of the book's semi-sociopathic [[Misaimed Fandom]], who wish to take part in the BR Program themselves. You really think you're exempt from suffering a brutal death just like the ones you wish to inflict? 'Cause you only have a 1 in 42 chance of survival.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Manga version. Talking about [[Dragonball Z]] in the middle of murder game...
* [[Cute Kitten]]
* [[Genki Girl]]: In the manga.
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: How she and Hiroki Sugimura would have ended up {{spoiler|had they both survived. In the manga, they get to at least team up briefly.}}
* [[I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me]]: In the manga.
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* [[Odd Couple]]: Her and Hiroki.
* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]
* [[Must Make Amends]]: And fails.
* {{spoiler|[[Together in Death]]}}: With Hiroki. In the novel, she even vows to die with him {{spoiler|as penance for accidentally killing him. Mitsuko sees to that.}}
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{{quote|''"I decided this is a game. So I'm not going to pull any punches."''}}
A football player and [[Jerk Jock]] extraordinaire. He is mostly known for his attack on Takako Chigusa, which didn't end well.
* [[Eye Scream]]: One of the several things that happen to him.
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=== Mayumi Tendo (Girl #14) ===
A girl who wore her hair in a lobster braid. She is the first death in the Program proper.
* [[Compensated Dating]]: The book says she did this, while keeping a prim and proper facade.
* [[Mauve Shirt]]
* [[OC Stand
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Spell My Name With An Extra U]]: "Tendou" in the original Japanese.
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* [[Ascended Extra]]: In the novel, she is mentioned only a few times after her death. In the manga, Yutaka has a crush on her, and we get to see a bit more of her through flashbacks.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Kamon/Sakamochi throws a knife into her head ''for whispering in class''. And to illustrate to Shinji Mimura that he doesn't give two shits about the lives of the "players".
* [[OC Stand
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: Yutaka views her this way in the manga.
* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]
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{{quote|''"The reason why you're all here today ... is to kill each other."''}}
The [[Big Bad]] himself. He is the administrator of the Battle Royale Program, who instructs the students in what to do and oversees the death match from beginning to end. This would normally be an unpleasant task, but he relishes it and the total power over life and death it gives him. Since he is an employee of the totalitarian government, it's a death sentence for the "players" to threaten him or even look at him the wrong way. In [[The Movie]], where [[Takeshi Kitano]] plays him, his character is more humanized and has a personal grudge against the students, but has a soft spot for Noriko. He has a daughter called Shiori.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: "Kinpatsu Sakamochi" is a pun on the name of the heroic teacher in ''[[Kinpachi Sensei]]''.
* [[Anti-Villain]]: The movie version of the Director, who is somewhat more humanized and has a legitimate grudge against the students (minus Noriko) and a [[Morality Pet]] in his daughter Shiori.
* [[Big Bad]]
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* [[The GM Is a Cheating Bastard]]: Kitano goes out of his way to ensure Noriko's survival.
* [[Jabba Table Manners]]
* [[Orcus on His Throne]]: He never ventures outside his headquarters once, and spends his time smoking, eating junk food, and making cruel announcements over the PA system. This is for a very good reason, since there are armed teenagers out there who hate his guts.
** In the film, he briefly goes onto the island to [[Deus Ex Machina|save Noriko from Mitsuko]], but he immediately returns to base and this is never brought up again.
** This is also the reason why no student is given a gun more powerful than an Uzi: so they'll always have less firepower than Kamon's soldiers.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: In the film only. His bizarre painting of Noriko is somewhere between this and [[Nightmare Fuel]].
* [[Psycho Supporter]]: Sakamochi, of the Republic. It really says something when he's perfectly willing to {{spoiler|''let his own '''daughter''' become Program fodder if her class is ever chosen, because it'll [[Divided We Fall|help to keep the bakufu lasting forever.]]''}}
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=== Ryoko Anno ===
In the novel and manga, the young caretaker of the orphanage and the closest to a mother Shuya and Yoshitoki have.
* [[Mama Bear]]: In the manga, she is this to Shuya (after his real mother's death) and Yoshitoki.
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