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== Tokaku Azuma ==

* [[Image Song]]: "Paradox" by Ayaka Suwa as Tokaku Azuma, the [[Ending Theme]] of Episode 1.

* [[Knife Nut]]: Her [[Weapon of Choice]] is a long knife, though she is also quite the markswoman.

* [[Super Reflexes]]: Tokaku is noted to have exceptionally quick reflexes and impressive reaction time.

* [[Terse Talker]]: Tokaku doesn't say much, and is very too-the-point when she does. She does become somewhat more verbose with [[Love Interest|Haru]] as the story unfolds. Still not what could be called chatty though.

* [[Motor Mouth]]: [[Downplayed]]. Haru can cheerfully carry on a one-sided conversation with [[The Stoic|Tok]][[Terse Talker|aku]] without any problems, but she knows when to shut up too. {{spoiler|And she ''definitely'' knows how to keep a secret. Wow, [[Charm Person|Haru]]. [[The Clan|Just.]] [[Ancient Conspiracy|''Wow.'']]}}

* [[Plucky Girl]]: Haru is determined to remain optimistic, even though the world has been trying to beat that out of her since day one. She wants to trust the best in people and remains hopeful that Class Black doesn't have to end in tragedy to the very end.

* [[Secret Legacy]]: [[Played With]]. {{spoiler|Haru was well aware that her family was part of [[The Clan]], but they were, in her own words, "on the outskirts", and she never dreamed she would turn out to be a [[Charm Person|queen bee]]. She never wanted the primer.}}

* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: Nio tells Haruki point-blank that Haru killed her entire family. {{spoiler|The truth is a bit more complicated.}}

* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]]: {{spoiler|And Hitsugi in particular loves how easy it is to hide a poison dart gun inside a teddy bear.}}

* [[Image Song]]: "Poison Me" by Mami Uchida as Hitsugi Kirigaya, the [[Ending Theme]] of Episode 6.

* [[Older Than They Look|Older Than She Looks]]: Although Hitsugi's actual age is not mentioned in either the manga or anime, it can be inferred that she is the same age as other members of Class Black, which would make her fifteen years old and a definite case of this trope.

 

{{spoiler|The ending of the anime reveals her to be a skilled hacker; following her expulsion, she is seen attempting to hack into the academy in order to expose it to the public. No mention is made of her backstory, nor her motive for killing Haru.}}

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{{spoiler|Haruki is the 3rd student of Class Black to be expelled. Following her expulsion, she works as a construction worker and studies to get into college.}}

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* [[Image Song]]: "No-Big-Deal Sympathy (Dōtte koto nai Sympathy)" by Fumiko Uchimura as Haruki Sagae, the [[Ending Theme]] of Episode 5.

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== Suzu Shutō ==

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{{spoiler|She is the 7th student of Class Black to be expelled. She is seen in the finale at her past lover's grave, bidding him farewell for the last time and resolving to live her life to the fullest.}}

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* [[Image Song]]: "Concentration" by Manami Numakura as Otoya Takechi, the [[Ending Theme]] of Episode 3.

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Hitsugi Kirigaya and Chitaru Namatame are the 5th and 6th students to be expelled from Class Black, respectively. {{spoiler|It is later revealed that she and Hitsugi both survived, though Chitaru remained hospitalized from drinking Hitsugi's poison.}}

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* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]: In order to fulfill Hitsugi's last wish for the two of them to be together, Chitaru drank the poison.}}

* [[Flower Motifs|Flower Motif]]: Chitaru is associated with red roses, which represent passion and deep emotions. Be it through love, longing, devotion, respect, or even something as bittersweet as sorrow or regret, a red rose most conveys depth of sentiment and are closely associated with romance as a result.

 

== Nio Hashiri/{{spoiler|Kuzunoha}} ==

No. 10 of Class Black, Nio is an energetic and upbeat girl with a knack for peeping into other people's businesses, though she occasionally shows a more dangerous side. Despite being part of Class Black, she is also affiliated with the Academy in some way, working for the chairwoman Yuri Meichi. {{spoiler|Nio is always seen wearing full body outfits in order to conceal the large, bird-like tattoos she bears. It is revealed that Nio comes from the infamous Kuzunoha family, a feared family of skilled assassins that use illusions, and has no relatives. Upon meeting Meichi, Nio fell in adoration with her and vowed to give up her whole life to serve her. Meichi took her in, with Nio changing her last name from "Kuzunoha" to "Hashiri".}}

 

* [[Blondes Are Evil]] {{spoiler|and [[Blondes Are Witches|practitioners of the black arts]] too, apparently.}}

* [[Evil Smells Bad]]: Tokaku thought that she had a "putrid ocean stench" in the first episode.

* [[Image Song]]: "Survival" by Yoshino Nanjō as Nio Hashiri, the [[Ending Theme]] of Episode 11.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Technically, her eyes are sort of reddish-orange, but the point still stands. {{spoiler|And the color her eyes is also a [[Foreshadowing|hint]] that she is really a Kuzunoha, the counterpart and origin of the Azuma Clan, though she is not related to them by blood either.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Unexplained Recovery]]: Tokaku stabbed her in the chest. Nio [[Coughing Up Blood|Coughed Up Blood]], fell over (presumably) dead, and received no apparent medical attention for her injury. Despite all of that, she turned up in the epilogue credits without even a scratch on her and only a comment from the chairwoman about her "tenacity" before the subject was dropped entirely.}}

 

== Sumireko Hanabusa ==

No. 11 of Class Black, a girl with a frail body who is the daughter of a company CEO. {{spoiler|It is revealed that, much like Haru, she had been targeted most of her life, and had lost her limbs in an attack. These were replaced with limbs with powerful robotic parts, that can be swapped out for various gadgets and weapons, thus making her into a cyborg. She invites Haru to a tea party and then attempts to attack her, wanting to prove she is the strongest "queen", but is outsmarted by Haru and knocked off the side of a building.}}

 

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* [[Image Song]]: "Mechanism of Life (Inochi no Karakuri)" by Miho Arakawa as Sumireko Hanabusa, the [[Ending Theme]] of Episode 10.

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== Mahiru/Shinya Banba ==

No. 12 of Class Black, Mahiru is a shy and timid girl who often has trouble speaking for herself. She is easily subject to bullying, and is often defenseless. However, when the sun sets, Mahiru's split personality, Shinya, takes over. Shinya is the complete opposite of Mahiru, having an aggressive, hostile and almost unstable personality. {{spoiler|Mahiru's split personality was created as protection due to abuse as a child, implied to be sexual in nature, which involved camera flashes that left her afraid of bright light; this is why Shinya only comes out at night and is sensitive to light. Shinya has a form of super strength that allows her to use heavy weapons such as sledgehammers; however, she cannot sustain this ability over too long a period of time, and must rest every now and then.}}

 

{{spoiler|It turns out that although Shinya seems hostile and unstable, she is only acting on Mahiru's orders and wishes, hinting that Mahiru is in fact the more unstable of the two. Since Mahiru is too timid to carry out crimes and murders, Shinya does it for her. Even so, Shinya cares deeply for Mahiru and seeks to bring her protection and happiness, and neither personalities have a wish to fulfill by killing Haru, as it was already granted when Haru shared a handmade charm with Mahiru, since Mahiru is in fact a collector of relics from people she kills or expects to kill someday. Shinya teams up with and is betrayed by Isuke, being knocked unconscious by her, thus becoming the 8th student of Class Black to be expelled. Following her expulsion, Mahiru loses her split personality, but she comes to terms with it and is not scared of the light anymore. In the manga, Sumireko takes Banba back home to her mansion to help her recover following Banba's failed assassination attempt.}}

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* [[Every Scar Has a Story]]: {{spoiler|Banba got the scar over her left eye when she finally snapped and killed her abuser, which in turn triggered the psychotic break that caused her "Shinya" personality to first emerge.}}

** [[Eyes Are Unbreakable]]: Banba does not seem to have suffered any loss of sight in her left eye, despite the scar cut through it.

* [[Image Song]]: "Escape at Midnight (Mayonaka no Tōbō)" by Yuka Ōtsubo as Mahiru/Shinya Banba, the [[Ending Theme]] of Episode 8.

* [[Split Personality]]: Shinya, the [[Jekyll and Hyde|Jekyll]] to Mahiru's [[Jekyll and Hyde|Hyde]] who takes control when the sun sets.

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Mahiru in a nutshell.

 

== Ataru Mizorogi ==

Class Black's homeroom teacher, an eccentric, enthusiastic, and dedicated man unaware that the girls in his class are assassins. Whenever a student is expelled for failing to kill Haru, he is told that the student has transferred out due to unknown circumstances.

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* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: Mr. Mizorogi is completely oblivious to the fact that twelve out of thirteen of the students in his class are assassins, and they would all prefer to keep it that way. There is even a rule forbidding anyone from outside the loop to be let in.

 

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== Yuri Meichi ==

The chairwoman of the school and supervisor of the Black Class. {{spoiler|She shares the same clan as Haru. She assembled the class in order to test if Haru could survive against twelve assassins, in order to awaken her "queen bee" ability and gain her status as the newest primer of her clan. Meichi is also Nio's caretaker, having taken her in from the Kuzunoha Clan, and is said to have saved Nio using her own queen bee ability.}}

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== Kaiba ==

A mysterious man who is Tokaku's teacher. Kaiba is often seen rolling dice, and has a black-and-white motif and colour scheme. He periodically sends Tokaku riddles via text messages, {{spoiler|though these riddles actually have no answers; he wants to coach Tokaku into finding answers for herself.}}

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