Source: Shin Kamaitachi no Yoru Official Guidebook, page 6-11
Shin Kamaitachi no Yoru: Characters
Here, we will introduce the characters that appear in Shin Kamaitachi no Yoru. Please use this information to get a feel for who each character is as a person, and use that to help you figure out the truth. Don't miss the comments from the developers (assigned director).
Kaito Sakamaki
Voice: Yuichi Nakamura
Sex: male
Age: 24
Height: 172cm
A young aspiring novelist who lives as a freeter in Tokyo. Despite being very skinny and physically weaker than a little girl, his insight is second to none. He is also an extraordinarily unlucky person, having misplaced every story he's ever written immediately after completing it.
Developer's Comment: Kaito
Kaito Sakamaki was introduced to replace Toru as the main character, but he's totally useless (laughs). That mostly applies to Toru, too, but Kaito is even more hopeless. He's not a bad guy, though, and the fact that he's such a good-for-nothing actually makes him feel more human, so I love him.
Kyoka Tachibana
Voice: Ami Koshimizu
Sex: female
Age: 24
Height: 160cm
A tomboyish girl who looks good with short hair, whom Kaito was in love with back in their university days. She has a bright and cheerful personality, and is positive no matter what. These days, she works as an editor at a travel magazine, and is reunited with Kaito when she visits Tono to collect information for work.
Developer's Comment: Kyoka
At first, Kyoka was supposed to be Kaito's ex-girlfriend, but we felt that people wouldn't be able to empathise with the sort of protagonist who had an ex. The team thought that no one would see her as the heroine if she acted like she was interested in an old boyfriend, so we ended up making them friends (laughs).
Masaya Iketani
Voice: Hikaru Midorikawa
Sex: male
Age: 35
Height: 185cm
An attractive man, notable for his sturdy build, who comes to Tono with Kyoka. He is the chief editor of the travel magazine Ranran Travel Monthly, and possesses the initiative to take the lead in any circumstance, as well as the wisdom to accurately analyse the situation he is in.
Developer's Comment: Iketani
Iketani plays the role of the protagonist's rival. He's also the most forward and assertive during the logic segments. In the side scenarios, he spends a lot of time enjoying himself and turning into a comical character, but please don't forget that he is the rival.
Yuta Ukai
Voice: Keiji Fujiwara
Sex: male
Age: 40
Height: 175cm
The owner of Brownie. He is a kindhearted-seeming middle-aged man who suits the paisley patterned bandana he wears. Perhaps due to the pension's popularity, he's always hurrying around busily. He is an amazing cook, and according to him, his specialty dish is chilli shrimp.
Developer's Comment: Ukai
Because of his surname, Yuta Ukai was frequently mistaken by the authors as an aviculturist or cormorant fisherman (laughs). Though he's supposed to play the part of the kindhearted owner, from the way he loses the ledger, has Kyoka tend reception and so on, I don't think he can be that good of a person.
Ryunosuke Kanbayashi
Voice: Masato Hirano
Sex: male
Age: 56
Height: 175cm
A middle-aged, silver-haired gentleman. He and his wife, Rose, have come to visit Unedori-sama, the place that brought them together, to mark their 25th year of marriage. Despite his friendly and composed appearance, he apparently sometimes snaps when he loses his temper.
Developer's Comment: Kanbayashi
Ryunosuke Kanbayashi is more of a bothersome old man than you'd think. His story is that he met Rose in Kamakura and they were brought together by Unedori-sama, but there's a reason why they were coincidentally reunited in Tono, so far away from Kamakura, which I'd like to reveal one day.
Rose Kanbayashi
Voice: Miyuki Ichijo
Sex: female
Age: 53
Height: 170cm
Ryunosuke's wife. Rose is a sophisticated, gentle-seeming woman whose speciality is palm reading. Despite being a Westerner, she is fluent in and has a masterful command of the Japanese language. She is always calm and composed, and rarely appears flustered, but for some reason she seems uninterested in hunting down the culprit.
Developer's Comment: Rose
Rose Kanbayashi is a bit of an eccentric character; an older woman who tells off Ryunosuke and shows off her (accurate) palm reading skills. A lot of the team thought she came off as extremely suspicious (though a lot of them didn't find the other characters too suspicious at all).
Miyuki Umezono
Voice: Kana Ueda
Sex: female
Age: 21
Height: 165cm
A girl who suits her straight, shoulder-length black hair and pink-framed glasses. She is attending nursing school, and is friends with Satomi. Despite her plain and meek appearance, she is actually a black belt in karate and has placed in a national tournament.
Developer's Comment: Miyuki
Miyuki is a "plain girl" on the verge of being a "mori girl". However, she actually says some fairly horrible things about people in her head, as you can see in the Miyuki and Satomi Chapter, and I was shocked by it - like, wow, that's what she's really like? It's paid DLC, but please do play it.
Satomi Aragai
Voice: Arisa Ogasawara
Sex: female
Age: 21
Height: 153cm
A 21-year-old student nurse. She has reddish-brown hair, and wears a mink shawl around her shoulders. Her nails are painted pink and decorated with nail art. In total contrast with her friend Miyuki, she's a a gyaru who wears loud, fashionable clothing.
Developer's Comment: Satomi
Satomi is a character who feels like a modern day gyaru, the complete opposite of Miyuki. She acts as the straight man in one scenario, and we did a lot of retakes during voice recording of her quips to make it funny, which is a good memory now.
Omori
Voice: Tomokazu Sugita
Sex: male
Age: 27
Height: 155cm
A portly young otaku who wears a shirt with a pink heart design on it. He goes to Brownie in order to get his hands on a figure of Bokko-chan, a character from the anime Interdimensional Girl Poporin.
Developer's Comment: Omori
Omori is your stereotypical otaku. His appearance is based on mine... If you check out the staff interview page in this book, I think you'll figure out right away whom Omori was modelled on, and who's writing this text... (wry smile)
Yukino Shirakawa
Voice: Kana Hanazawa
Sex: female
Age: 16
Height: 145cm
A petite girl with a bob cut who for some reason visits Brownie alone. Perhaps due to shyness, she always keeps her eyes on the ground and speaks awkwardly. The spitting image of Bokko-chan from Interdimensional Girl Poporin.
Developer's Comment: Yukino
I think Yukino is a character who'll frustrate people by making them think, "This could all have been resolved quickly if you'd just been clearer!" In a sense I feel quite bad for her, since we made her younger than she was initially supposed to be and made her sick so she'd black out.
Soichiro Kuroi
Voice: Jun Konno
Sex: male
Age: unknown
Height: unknown
A suspicious-looking guest dressed head to toe in black, who wears sunglasses and a mask with a black trench coat. His general lack of expression or response when spoken to makes him come off as creepy, and it's impossible to tell what he's thinking.
Developer's Comment: Kuroi
Kuroi occupies a similar role to that of "Ichiro Tanaka" from the first Kamaitachi no Yoru. Since he's a quiet character who doesn't have many lines, that meant that he was hardly ever voiced, either, so we had Jun Konno who plays him also play another important character that only appears in a side scenario.
Megumi Akagi
Voice: Chizuko Hoshino
Sex: female
Age: unknown
Height: 162cm
The guest staying in room 201. It seems as though she was the first person to arrive at Brownie, but she has no luggage in her room, and it's not even clear whether she is actually using her real name. Everything about this character is shrouded in mystery. Who is she, really?
Developer's Comment: Akagi
The role of Megumi Akagi is a sad one, since you first meet her as a dead body. She doesn't do much in the side scenarios, either, but she's quite active (?) in the Yokai Chapter, so please be sure to play it if you're a fan of her!