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Chiaki Shuuhei (千秋修平)

Birthday: Apr. 1
Height: 6'
Weight: 150 lbs
Blood type: B
Possessed by: Yasuda Nagahide.

The current incarnation of Yasuda Nagahide who shows up in Takaya's class one day after hypnotizing everyone into believing that he's been one of Takaya's best friends for ages. He is described as being a prodigy at Jouhoku High who is popular both with the teachers and the girls. He wears glasses, has a well-proportioned body, and gives the impression of cool maturity. He is around two years older than Takaya and lives alone. He appears to have cut off all ties with his family.

Notes: He appears as 'Chiaki' in narration. Naoe and Haruie call him 'Nagahide', and Takaya calls him Chiaki. Most of the students at Jouhoku High call him Chiaki-kun.

Eishou (永正)

A monk of Kurama Temple to whom Agi entrusts the corpse-hair mandala of Araki Murashige's clan. He is described as being in his early 30's with the physique of a warrior-monk and a tonsure that suited his face well. He is appears to be an attendant of the head monk.

Shimozuma Rairyuu performs kanshou on him.

Gotou Haruo (後藤晴雄)

A Fujisawa City councilor who opposed Keibu Real Estate's plans to buy all the properties on E Island with the ostensible intention of renovating them.

He was cursed to death by the Satomi. Sakaki and Reiko visit his widow, Madam Mayumi, during their investigation into his death.

Sakaki mentions that he is former Minister of Justice Sata's nephew and comes from a family with a long political lineage.

Hakkai (八海)

One of the Meikai Uesugi Army and leader of the «Nokizaru», described as a man in his mid-thirties with a square, expressionless face and piercing, somewhat gloomy eyes. He operates under Kagetora's direct command.

Hatayama Satoshi (波多山智)

Possessed by: Mori Ranmaru

A first-year junior high student at Takaya's school who appears to look up to Yuzuru. He is in the same band as Yuzuru. He is described as having a short, delicate figure with fine chestnut hair and hazel eyes so light they appear gold. He is half-Japanese and half-British.

He disappears after the fight at Jouhoku High.

Hayashi Michimasa (林通政)
? - 1573

A trusted vassal of Oda Nobunaga, son of Hayashi Hidesada. The spear was his forte. He fought in various battles such as the Battle of Anegawa (1570). He died fighting in the rear guard covering Oda's retreat in one of the Sieges of Nagashima (probably second).

Kadowaki Ayako (門脇綾子)

Birthday: Dec. 9
Height: 5'5"
Weight: unknown
Blood type: A
Possessed by: Kakizaki Haruie.

Kakizaki Haruie's current incarnation: a female college student about four years older than Takaya who rides a Yamaha FZR400 motorcycle called Ecchan. She is described as a beauty with sauvage-style long hair and long, slim legs. She lives in Yokohama with her parents.

Notes: She appears as 'Ayako' in narration. Naoe and Nagahide call her 'Haruie', and Takaya calls her 'Nee-san'.

Kaizaki Makoto (開崎誠)

An employee of Keibu Real Estate, said to be a distant relative of its CEO Tatsumi Yoshitsugu. A descendant of the Satomi Clan with psychic powers of his own.

Described as looking like a young industrialist with flawless poise, he wears silver thin-rimmed glasses and is around 30. He has almond-shaped black eyes and black hair he usually wears slicked back.

Masaki Tokishige (正木時茂)
1513 - 1561-05-29

Son of Masaki Michitsuna who served the Satomi Clan. His father and older brother died in the Satomi intra-clan battle in 1533; though Tokishige was also injured, he managed to escape with his life. He was known to be an excellent spearman.

Miura Yoshioki (三浦義意)
1496 - 1516-08-09

Nickname: Arajirou (荒次郎)

Eldest son of Miura Yoshiatsu and last head of the Sagami Miura Clan. His father gave him Arai Castle (also known as Misaki Castle) in Sagami and handed the position of clan head to him in 1510. He was known as the 'brave warrior with the strength of 85' and fought against Houjou Souun, but he lost Okazaki Castle and Sumiyoshi Castle, and went to ground in the Miura Peninsula. He and his father held Arai Castle in a three-year siege, but the castle fell at last, and he witnessed Yoshiatsu's seppuku.

Yoshioki then charged out into the midst of his enemies and was killed, thus ending the Miura line. With his death the Houjou Clan achieved subjugation of Sagami.

Note: English sites seem to universally give Miura Yoshioki's name as Miura Yoshimoto, which the Japanese Wikipedia lists as a possible reading. It officially gives the reading as "Yoshioki", which is also used by Mirage.

Mori Ranmaru (森蘭丸)
1565 - 1582

Also called: Mori Nagasada (森長定), possibly Shigetoshi (成利), Nagayasu (長康)

Historically: A vassal of Oda Nobunaga who served as his attendant from
an early age. His father, Mori Yoshinari, was also a vassal of Oda Nobunaga. Favored by Nobunaga for his talent and loyalty, he also followed the tradition of shudo with his liege-lord. He and his three younger brothers died with Nobunaga at the Honnou-ji on June 21, 1582.

Narita Yuzuru (成田譲)

Possessed by: Takeda Shingen (temporarily)

Ougi Takaya's best friend and an honor student at his school.

Notes: He appears as 'Yuzuru' in narration. Takaya calls him 'Yuzuru'. Naoe calls him 'Yuzuru-san', and Chiaki calls him 'Narita'.

Ougi Takaya (仰木高耶)

Birthday: July 23
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 134 lbs
Blood type: O
Possessed by: Uesugi Kagetora

At the beginning of the story Takaya is a seventeen-year-old high school delinquent with no memory of his past. His parents divorced when he was a first-year junior high school student, probably because his father started drinking when his business failed. His mother remarried and lives in Sendai.

He was born and raised in Matsumoto and lives there with his sister, Miya. He attends Jouhoku High and is in the same class (Year Two Group Three) as his best friend, Narita Yuzuru.

Notes: He appears as 'Takaya' in narration. Nagahide and Haruie call him 'Kagetora', and Naoe calls him 'Kagetora-sama' and 'Takaya-san'. Most of the students at Jouhoku High call him 'Ougi-kun' (Chiaki calls him 'Ougi' at school). Miya calls him 'Onii-chan', and Yuzuru calls him 'Takaya'.

Sakaki Shuuichi (榊木秀一)

Head of the Special Inquiry Division charged with investigating Wide-Area Peculiarities #36, Sakaki is a competent prosecuting counsel from the Public Prosecutor's Office. He doesn't believe in the supernatural, having made his career dealing with more prosaic issues like corruption and bribery.

Satomi Yoshitaka (里見義堯)
1507 - June 19, 1574

Satomi Yoshitaka was the son of Satomi Sanetaka and became head of the Satomi Clan by killing the then-head, his cousin Satomi Yoshitoyo (son of his father's older brother Satomi Yoshimichi) in 1534. The traditional version of the story goes that Yoshitoyo killed Yoshitaka's father, who was in communication with the Houjou, and Yoshitaka killed him in revenge. In recent years, however, historians have theorized that Yoshitaka and Sanetaka, father and son, allied themselves with the Satomi Clan's bitter enemy, the Houjou Clan, in order to take over the clan. They then changed the records to hide the fact that they betrayed the Houjou Clan after their plan succeeded.

As clan head, Yoshitaka fought numerous battles with Houjou Ujitsuna and Houjou Ujiyasu. He pushed into Shimousa and Kazusa, making his stronghold Kuruji Castle in Kazusa, and brought about the golden age of the clan. He battled the Houjou to the last and died at Kuruji Castle at the age of 68.

Satomi Yoshiyori (里見義頼)
1543 - 1587-11-26

7th head of the Satomi Clan; various accounts say he is either son of the 6th head Satomi Yoshihiro or son of 5th head Satomi Yoshitaka. He and Yoshihiro's son Satomi Yoshishige were joint heirs to Yoshihiro.

He achieved peace with the Houjou Clan in 1577 and married Houjou Ujimasa's daughter Lady Tsuru. When Lady Tsuru died two years later, he married Ujimasa's younger sister Lady Kiku. When Yoshihiro died in 1578, he forced Yoshishige out of the clan and took over his territories with Houjou's support.

Shiba Eiji (斯波英士)

Vocalist of popular rock band SEEVA, he is described as a tall man with red hair and golden-brown skin.

Permanently possessed by Oda Nobunaga.

Suga Natsuo (須賀奈津緒)

The shrine maiden of E Island Shrine, whose family lives on E Island and owns a souvenir shop. She is described as a surfer girl with golden tanned skin and straight chestnut hair bleached almost blonde. Her father heads the neighborhood council and is opposed to Keibu Real Estate's takeover of the island.

Takeda Shingen (武田信玄)
1521 - 1573

Also called: Takeda Katsuchiyo, Takeda Harunobu
Title: Shinano no Kami

Historically: Daimyo of Kai who became the head of the Takeda clan by rebelling against his father. Conquered Shinano and fought against Uesugi Kenshin. The two clans clashed five times on the plains of Kawanakajima, where neither gained complete victory until Shingen died of illness in his campaign against Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Tatsumi Yoshitsugu (辰美慶嗣)

The CEO of Keibu Real Estate, right-hand man and younger brother of Keibu Group's CEO, Tatsumi Kuniichi. He is described as a man of mature age and excellent build and owns a large estate on Mt. Kamakura.

During the E Island case, he is temporarily possessed by Satomi Yoshitaka.

Yagami (八神)

Formerly Hakkai's lieutenant, appointed head of the Uesugi «Nokizaru» by Kagetora after Hakkai went missing.