Detroit Metal City

Negishi Souichi

Main

The main protagonist. A calm and peaceful musician, fan of Swedish pop who is the exact opposite of his alter-ego Johannes Krauser II, leader of the "extreme" metal band DMC (short for Detroit Metal City). Ashamed of his true job, Negishi must cope with D...

Aikawa Mr.

Supporting

Yuris father. He is very strict about the boys her daughter befriends and dates....

Aikawa Yuri

Supporting

Negishi's friend from his college times and his main love interest. She loves Negishi's calm nature and songs, but dislikes DMC's music and their vocalist Krauser, unaware that they're the same person. Aikawa works for the glamorous magazine "Amoure Amour...

Aldo

Supporting

Aldo is the vocalist and guitarist of the French metal band "Poison", who compete against DMC in the Satanic Emperor festival....

Death Records Manager

Supporting

Referred to as "President" by Jagi, this foul-mouthed woman is DMCs manager and often forces Negishi to do things against his will for the bands sake.She has no problems using violence to get her way, and is a chain-smoking, alcoholic, frequently stoned h...

Dmc Fan

Supporting

He worships DMC and Krauser in particular, and shows up to every DMC event. He frequently gets into fights with people he perceives to be badmouthing DMC....

Fukatsu Ryouta

Supporting

Ryouta is a fan of DMC who writes them a letter. Negishi visits him (as Krauser) before Ryouta goes in for surgery....

Hidetaka Asato

Supporting

A famous fashion designer living in Tokyo, and also Souichis rival....

Hokazono Makoto

Supporting

Makoto appears alongside Neigishi and Hanae in Sawais movie "NoBire". He is very career-oriented and dislikes Krausers appearance in the movie, feeling that it lowers his own chance to be noticed for bigger projects....

Ill Dark Jack

Supporting

Also known as "The Emperor," he is a legendary Death Metal guitarist from the United States who chose to crush DMC during his farewell concert in Japan. But after inadvertently bringing out Negishi's anger, he ended up being out-staged by Krauser, who bec...

Ill Dark Kenni

Supporting

Jack's daughter. She's responsible for Project ILL Dark, and organized the metal festival "Satanic Emperor."...

Karls Hideki

Supporting

Hideki is the son of famous death metal vocalist and First Emperor Karls Murder, and a Japanese woman. He follows in his fathers footsteps and becomes a death metal singer as well, singing in a band which takes the indie metal charts by storm. While his f...

Kawano Akira

Supporting

Akira is Tomokos fianc. He lives and works in the same town as the Negishi family....

Kibayashi Susumu

Supporting

Kiva is a rapper who challenges DMC to a music battle after DMC fans attack one of his fans. He used to be friends with Negishi in elementary school and claims to have grown up in New York, when in actuality he grew up in Japan and is very bad at English....

Kitahara Genki

Supporting

Genki used to be in the death metal band "Black Chaos". He takes his music and image very seriously, going so far as to attend weddings and funerals in corpse paint.He is Krauser I....

Krauser-tan

Supporting

Popularly known as Krauser-tan, she is the reincarnation of Johannes Krauser II. It is said that she is the founder and main singer of "Detroit Moe City."...

Kuze Eye Set

Supporting

Kuze Eye Set is a professional photographer who worked with Yuri on some photo shoots for the magazine "Amoure Amour". He is a source of inspiration for Negishi....

Lime-tan

Supporting

Lime-tan works as a server dressed like a maid at the "Maid-In-Arcade" arcade, which Nishida frequents. She is very popular among the otaku of Akihabara....

Naoki

Supporting

Another Kabuki actor and Ryusei's rival for Akari's affection; he is not from a family who has traditionally performed Kabuki and usually performs the role of women in plays. When Ryusei is away performing in London, Naoki befriends Akari and helps her le...

Napoleon

Supporting

Napoleon is a homie taking the form of a bicorne hat that is worn by Big Mom. It is a special kind of homie, as it received a soul fragment from Big Mom herself.(Source: One Piece Wikia)...

Nashimoto Keisuke

Supporting

A masochist middle-aged man hired to perform during DMC's concerts as the "Pig of Capitalism," whose role is to let himself being beaten and abused by Krauser during the shows....

Negishi Tomoko

Supporting

Tomoko is Negishis younger sister....

Negishi Toshihiko

Supporting

Negishi's brother and a big DMC fan, he wants to be like Krauser so Negishi tries to make him a better son and always ends in failure....

Negishi Keiko

Supporting

Souichis mother....

Ngaire Bothalabardos Rosard

Supporting

Rosard is a foreigner whom the Death Records President owes a favor to. She calls him up to replace Negishi during a show after the latter quits the band. Rosard plays baseball and is frequently seen carrying a radio on his shoulder or a baseball bat....

Nimura

Supporting

Nimura is a DMC fan who spent some time in America and got used to concert practices that annoy DMC fans (e.g. getting on stage and diving into the crowd)....

Nina

Supporting

A young, reckless prostitute. Nina is a member of Lucas group of travelling prostitutes. During her time at Albion, she dated Joachim, a young refugee. At one time she was a member of a heretic cult group, who held orgies in a cave, worshipping the Goddes...

Nishida Terumichi

Supporting

Curry-loving, overweight pervert of few words. Nishida plays the part of Camus, DMC's drummer. He often mutters and his vocabulary is dirty....

Rei

Supporting

She is a ghost working at the Senbokyo hot spring ...

Saji Hideki

Supporting

Saji-kun was the only junior of Souichi back in college who idolised him for his skills on the guitar and singing.He is currently the vocalist for the indie band, Tetrapod Melon Tea....

Sawai Spellman Takeshi

Supporting

A movie director known mostly for his underground/cult movies. He is a big fan of DMC....

Seki Yuutarou

Supporting

Yuris ex-boyfriend....

Shinagawa Yuuji

Supporting

Shinagawa represents the NERF Music record label. He wants to recruit DMC to his label and use their image to promote a style of metal closer to pop....

Syse

Supporting

Syse is a Norwegian pop musician who looks just like Negishi. Yuri is a big fan of him.He is the vocalist of the death metal band Helvete....

Takako

Supporting

Gynoid. Like Taki, she is an artificial. When the two of them get separated, she runs into Chihaya, who helps her flee from guards sent by Dr. Ashino to take her back to the lab. She is very concerned about Takis well-being, for she does not know what had...

Togashi

Supporting

Togashi is the vocalist and leader for the "scatolo-metal" band Dezumu from Osaka, who go up against DMC in the "Satanic Emperor" festival. Due to feeling that their bands image was too generic, Togashi repurposed the lyrics to include scatological refere...

Tooru

Supporting

Kisugis adult boyfriend, hes mature, sophisticated and overly reserved. Rarely showing how he really feels, despite how much people wish he would....

Tsuyoshi

Supporting

Tsuyoshi is the guitarist for the "scatolo-metal" band Dezumu from Osaka, who go up against DMC in the "Satanic Emperor" festival. He looks up to Jack ILL Dark and was disappointed when DMC was picked to represent Japan and compete with Jack during his re...

Uemura

Supporting

Uemura works at the same convenience store as Keisuke, who is in love with her. Like Keisuke, she is divorced....

Wada Masayuki

Supporting

DMC's bassist and a ladies' man. He would like to leave DMC to perform in a Visual Kei type band like L'Arc-en-Ciel or X Japan. Seeing as how scared he is of DMC's manager, he might not have even wanted to be in the band....

Yamano Hanae

Supporting

Hanae is the actress who appears alongside Neigishi and Makoto in Sawais movie "NoBire"....