List of minor characters in the Tsukihime series

This is a list of minor characters appearing in Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, the Melty Blood series, and other related side stories.

Brainwashing-Detective
Brainwashing-Detective is a parody design of Hisui detailed in Character Material.

A famous detective who resolves difficult cases beyond the reach of normal deduction, also referred to as "the Locked-Room Detective" -- piercing to the very heart of incidents with her dark, blue eyes. She resides in a place called Tohno City, which exists in a world of despair wherein the very concept of maids has been destroyed. Silently judging the world with an emotionless countenance, she is a cold, logical preserver of the law whose case resolution rate is 100% -- and feared both by the perpetrators and victims of crimes. It could be said that she is a bizarre individual who pursues justice with a crazed intensity, whose odd manner of verbalized deduction -- saying things like "motive from alibi" or "deductive perfection" -- is nevertheless strangely compelling.

Similar, but different from a Magical Girl, the nature of her existence within the night-shadowed metropolis is more accurately that of a "Dark Hero." Her main skills are psychological modification, narrative correction, and confession enforcement. Per her cool character, when her ability "Locked-Room Detective" is active, her sitting posture takes on an air appropriate to that of an "absolute dictator of logic." She continues her involvement in criminal investigation because she has judged it the most efficient method of locating her beloved long-lost twin. Incidentally, her true identity is unknown.

For the sake of finding her sister, she patrols the streets of Tohno City tonight as well.

Special Ability: "Locked-Room Detective"
The name of Brainwashing-Detective's ability does not refer to specialization in locked-room mysteries. Rather, in the condition that she and one suspect of her choice are confined to a locked room alone, a bizarre phenomenon occurs whereby -- within minutes -- the suspect is induced to make a full confession to the crime, and confirms themselves as the perpetrator. Though her method to her deductive reasoning is presumably amazing and brilliant, none besides herself and the suspect of her choice bear witness to it.

Fake Shiki
A person who sees Shiki Tohno, is enthralled with him, and wishes to take his place. Has the ability to see the records (memories) of one's life upon meeting. Also capable of sharing perceptions to an extent.

Inui Ichiko
Inui Ichiko (乾一子) is the older sister of Inui Arihiko. Known to be a heavy smoker. She works at night, and sleeps in the day, demanding that her younger brother keep quiet. No one knows what her job actually is, and Arihiko has wondered about it for many years. Arihiko considers her to be irresponsible and childish, citing her tendency to run around and do as she pleased after their family's death.

Jinan Sougen
Jinan Sougen (時南宗玄), father of Jinan Tokie, is a doctor who's an old friend of Shiki's father, Nanaya Kiri. He also seems to be an acquaintance to Tohno Makihisa. Being a former member of an organization who monitored the Demon Hybrids, he knows a lot about the Demon Blood and Demon-related topics. He's retired now and running an informal infirmary. He has been looking after Shiki as his personal doctor. Understanding where Shiki's anemia comes from, he's been maintaining his health by oriental treatments. Also a teacher of medicine to Kohaku. Melty Blood manga reveals he was the one to teach Miyako Chinese martial arts.

Jinan Tokie
Jinan Tokie (時南朱鷺恵), daughter of Jinan Sougen.

She knows Tohno Shiki since he regularly visited their office when he lived with the Arima family. Jinan Tokie was Tohno Shiki's "first".

Kugamine Tonami
Kugamine Tonami (久我峰斗波) is a man formerly engaged to marry Tohno Akiha, in presumably an arranged marriage by her father, Makihisa. Once Makihisa died, Akiha immediately called off the marriage and evicted Tonami from the Tohno Mansion. It is fairly clear that Akiha does not like him very much at all. But since they have a say in about a third of the Tohno family matters that concern a corporation, even the Tohno household can't afford to mistreat the Kugamines. H e seems to have calmed down a bit, after his engagement with Akiha was dissolved, and he even seems to have taken a liking on Shiki, so he can't treat him harshly.

Magical Amber
Magical Amber is a magical girl parody of Kohaku that is detailed in Character Material. She is used as an "alter-ego" during comedic scenes of Kagetsu Tohya and Melty Blood, and she appears as a playable character in the Fate/tiger colosseum series.

Master Panda
Master Panda is a character introduced in Character Material. He wears a panda suit with "Nanatsu-Yoru", the name of Tohno Shiki's knife, written on the back. He taught martial arts to Arima Miyako, and has the same voice with Nanaya Shiki.

Mech-Hisui
Mech-Hisui is a character from the Melty Blood games. She is under the control of Magical Amber, Kohaku's joke persona. She appears as playable character in Melty Blood. Mech-Hisui is a robotic version of Hisui. She has purple hair and a brown uniform. She has various armaments from a beam sword to flame throwers, most of which are drawn from various Giant Robot series. Mech-Hisui has not much relationships, her strongest being her creator, Kohaku. By gameplay, it seems she might also know Neco-Arc.

Misawa Hanei
Misawa Hanei (三澤 羽居) is one of Tohno Akiha's roommates at her school, Asagami Private Girls Academy, along with Tsukihime Souka. Nicknamed 'Hanepin', she is slow-witted, conscientious, thorough and good at fixing things. She is one of the few characters who can deal with Akiha. She also happens to have the biggest breasts of any character (Major and minor) in Tsukihime.

Neco-Arc Babbles
Neco-Arc Babbles (ネコアルク・バブルス) is a Neco-Arc featured in Carnival Phantasm. She doesn't speak, instead only making small sounds as she makes nodding gestures. She is voiced by Kumi Sakuma, who also voices Ciel.

Neco-Arc Chaos
Neco-Arc Chaos (ネコアルク・カオス) happens to be a mix of Nrvnqsr Chaos and Neco Arc. He is Nrvnqsr Chaos colored and voiced like Nrvnqsr and shaped like Neco Arc. Neco Arc Chaos has his eyes closed most of the time. Some of his moves are the same as Neco Arc's but darkly colored. He is too feared by Kohaku for being a talking deformed human like cat. She even made a giant robotic version of him called "Neco Chaos Black G666" to get rid of him but failed. He says Nyaa alot too. He has a lot of moves similar to Nrvnqsr's (the ability to summon animals out of his body). He is hidden like Neco Arc. He never met Miyako but she would have tried to get rid of him too like she tried to with Neco Arc.

Neco-Arc Destiny
Neco-Arc Destiny (ネコアルク・ディスティニー) is a pink Neco-Arc featured in Carnival Phantasm. She is voiced by Atsuko Tanaka, who also voices Caster.

Nanaya Kiri
Nanaya Kiri (七夜黄理) is the real father of Tohno Shiki (Shiki's real name is Nanaya Shiki). He was the most recent head of the Nanaya family, until their destruction orchestrated by Tohno Makihisa, and his death at the hands of Kishima Kouma. Kiri never actually enjoyed killing. It is hinted that he may found it exciting but he never enjoyed it. Until Shiki was born, Kiri never thought of what he would have his son do as part of the Nanaya Family. Kiri later felt that he did not want his son to follow the violent path that he or the Nanaya family followed. Nanaya Kiri only appears directly in the Kagetsu Tohya side story Red Demon God, which tells his story and is the main source of most things known about him - Tsukihime itself does not even mention his name. In Red Demon God, he is never shown, and so there is no "real" illustration of him; however, the Tsukihime artbook Plus Period has an encyclopedia entry on him, which also includes a sketch of him. There are also a couple illustrations of him in the Tsukihime manga.

Like many of his Nanaya ancestors, Kiri was a highly trained assassin who possessed a form of jougan. His ability allowed him to see the lines of people's thoughts. How this aided his killing methods was not elaborated. His innate abilities due to Nanaya family's inbreeding and training refined Kiri's assassination techniques to the point where he could just use a simple rod similar to a drumstick to kill almost the entire family of demon hybrids during the side story Red Demon God.

Phantas-Moon
Phantas-Moon is a magical girl parody of Arcueid Brunestud that is detailed in Character Material. She appears as a playable character in the Fate/tiger colosseum series.

Seo Akira
Seo Akira (瀬尾 晶) is an underclassman and friend of Tohno Akiha's at Asagami Private Girls Academy. Her eyes give her minor precognitive powers (although usually not entirely clearly), and she previously appeared on the Tsukihime PLUS-DISC. She met Tohno Shiki in the events of "Alliance of Illusionary Eyes", and they have remained in contact, to Akiha's chagrin.

Shijou Tsukasa
Shijyou Tsukasa (四條 司) is an underclassman at Asagami Private Girls Academy. During the events of A Story for the Evening, she wishes for Akiha to disappear, in accordance with one of the rumored Seven Curses of Asagami, involving postal boxes, and gets nervous when Akiha does not disappear as it means the wish will be reversed to her within a week's time. As a result, she panics, and attempts to kill Akiha to fulfill the wish so as to save her own life, only to be knocked unconscious by Akiha instead.

Tohno Makihisa
Tohno Makihisa (遠野 槙久) is the father of Tohno Akiha and Tohno SHIKI and the adopted father of Nanaya Shiki (who became Tohno Shiki). He died before the events of Tsukihime.

Makihisa is the one responsible for much of the events of this series, due to his kidnapping of Nanaya Shiki from his family, hiring Kishima Kouma to slaughter the rest of the Nanaya Family, his brutal treatment of Kohaku, and his strict training of Akiha. He, like all of the Tohno family, possesses demonic blood, which caused in him bipolar disorder along with schizophrenia. And although his face was never clearly shown, In the manga, it was evident that during the massacre of the Nanaya's that he had simular abilities to that of Tohno SHIKI, as he could solidify blood from inflicted wounds and use it as a sword-like weapon.

Before the events of the game, he was seemingly murdered by Tohno SHIKI. It is his passing, along with the awakening of Roa/SHIKI, that begins the events of the game. During the course of the game much is revealed as to why Shiki was brought into the Tohno family and how Hisui and Kohaku came to be at the mansion.

Tsukihime Souka
Tsukihime Souka (月姫 蒼香) is one of Tohno Akiha's roommates at her school, Asagami Private Girls Academy, along with Misawa Hanei.

Yamase Akemi
Yamase Akemi (山瀬明美) is the sister of Yamase Maiko that appears briefly in Kagetsu Tohya short story Daybreak, itself written from her sisters point of view.

Her presence in the final scene of Daybreak provides her sister the motivation to resist the hunger from chaos beasts in her inherited Reality Marble and gather them all inside her own body for Shiki to kill with his eyes.

Yamase Maiko
A young woman with minor role in Tsukihime, and the lead role in the Kagetsu Tohya side story Daybreak. She lived with her parents and younger sister Akemi in Misaki city, whose only appearance in Tsukihime was during the fight scene between Nrvnqsr Chaos, Tohno Shiki, and Arcueid Brunestud. During this short appearance, Yamase was eaten alive by the injured Nrvnqsr. It was her death which helped motivate Shiki to victory.

In Daybreak (alternatively translated as Dawn), Maiko reawakens inside the body of the dead Nrvnqsr several months after her death, which regenerated itself from the fragments used by Arcueid to heal Shiki's injuries. After encountering Ciel and Arcueid, and bidding her sister goodbye and a happy birthday, Yamase is killed by Shiki in much the same manner as the original Nrvnqsr. Her final act is to rescue her sister from the chaotic lives that make up her body, even as Shiki delivers the death blow. Maiko appears to be a case of an inherited Reality Marble, acquiring the Lair of the Beast King, though the reason for this has not been clarified. During the side-story, her head and neck appears as she originally did while she was alive (as the story is narrated from her point of view, her actual appearance is never shown on screen) but the rest of her body is a 'black mass' like nero, though the outlines are those of a womans. She is capable of adapting her appearance to a limited scope, including taking the appearance of Tohno Shiki. She is also a black belt in an undisclosed form of karate.