The sordid history of Suda 51's [Kill The Past] saga.

cj iwakura

I've been neck-deep in Grasshopper Manufacture's first game, The Silver Case.

In 1999, there exists an area called the "24 Districts". A series of mysterious and bizarre murders have happened there. Detectives of the High-degree Murder Division (HMD) in the 24 Districts Police Department investigate the case and find that they closely match the profile of a well-known killer, Kamui Uehara, who assassinated many key government figures one after another several years ago.

Uehara was supposedly shot and killed by Kusabi, a veteran detective of the HMD, but current events seem to indicate that Uehara is still alive, and at large in the 24 Districts. Has the deadly assassin returned to life?

The player navigates their way through a series of situations in a first-person perspective. The player character can move from node to node on an invisible grid (but with the graphics drawn in real-time 3D), rotating their view horizontally and vertically, and selecting actions to carry out on various items in the environment, or in the character's inventory.

Non-interactive story elements are presented in a unique style dubbed “Film Window” by the game's creators. While the story and dialogue proceeds in written text, other information and images regarding the story or presentation such as real-time 3D displays, real-life photographs, 2D illustrations, video, typography, texts, etc. are constantly changed and displayed in a series of frames that are automatically opened and closed as the main text displays.




Obviously this never came out here, as it's more than a little obtuse, and extremely word-heavy, so I've been playing the import.



So to better understand the game, I did some research.

http://archive.kontek.net/killer7.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/killthepast.htm

And boy does this rabbit hole go deep.




So now then, the (mostly) complete, sordid tale of Kill The Past.

Music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yGpIkNInNA


Source: http://www.gpara.com/special/soft/fsr/suda_answer27.htm

Think of incidents in your life that you wished never occurred.
Wouldn't you wish to erase that past from your memory?
If we assume that the past is detested, if you kill the past it would cease to exist.
Kill the Past revolves around stories chronicling around individuals who are in conflict with their pasts & the consequences that occur due to them killing the past. (Emir's Killer 7 facade being one such example.)
The Kill the Past stories often take place in the same universe/world, but from different points of perspective.
(Silver Case = detectives & reporter, Moonlight Syndrome= school girls, drop out, Killer 7= Hitman. No More Heroes= Otaku hitman.)

Kill the Past refers to one who dwells on or erases a traumatic event from their past. Many of these individuals who can manage to maintain their self-consciousness. Do so only through repetition of a set of events that reflect or mirror their past. In many cases that past (The past that you wish to kill, or erase from your memory.) must be faced/confronted head on in order for that past incident to be settled.

You must kill the past (traumatic events that you need to quell in order to move on with your life.) in order to live for the future.

In Suda 51's own words, "Kill the Past" means that I fight for the future. Which is one of the reasons that Suda 51 rarely ever does any direct sequels. He prefers to move onward with new IP, rather than dwell in the past.

The backstory is kind of nuts.



Twilight Syndrome was Suda's first non-wrestling project with Human Entertainment, his first job in gaming.
That was basically self-contained.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoSKZAndHj8

After the two Twilight Syndrome games, Suda developed Moonlight Syndrome. A gaiden story to that, which had its own resolution... sort of.
(Massive script translation effort here)

This game marks the beginning of the Kill the Past universe. This game can be best described as a Japanese psycho horror love story drama that masquerades as a game.
MS's story centered around a girl named Mika Kishi.
She was supposed to die when she was kidnapped by a stalker/rapist. However her life expectancy was actually extended when a silver haired kid presented Ryo Kazan (A friend of Mika's.) an ultimatum or a contract that would extend Mika's life & ensure her safety.
Ryo consented to the contract, because Mika reminds him of his dead sister.
(Mika was the only other person whom Ryo was close with.)
However the contract is automatically nullified once Ryo or Mika make physical contact with each other.
(In other words. Ryo is forbidden to get intimate with Mika & vice versa.)

Moonlight Syndrome actually shows you the origins of the blinking moon that was shown before targets/stages in Killer 7.
Long story short: The phases of the moon reflect the sanity of those who are affected by the enchanting light of the moon. Click here for a more detailed explanation.
Think of Moonlight Syndrome in the same way that would think of Koudelka in the Shadow Hearts series, Marathon of Halo, or Shin Megami Tensei IF of Persona.

The ending is some nightmare fuel, too, and I imagine it left more than a few people going WTF.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM3Am9rbf0s



MS, TSC, K7 spoilers.

After the credits roll.
We are taken back into Ryo's room.
Rumi is shocked to see Ryo laying there lifeless.
Ryo is clutching on to a paper bag containing the severed head of his sister Kyoko Kazan.

Rumi looks at the tv screen & sees Mika Kishi trapped inside.
Moonlight Syndrome never actually tells you why Mika Kishi is stuck inside the tv.
(In fact the MS ending is the only time in the game that the tv ever gets focused on.) The only hints that we have to go on are

1. Mika was present during the ending credits. She hugs Ryo Kazan.
2. We later see Ryo lying around dead or unconscious sitting in front of a tv & still holding on to Kyoko's head contained inside a brown bag.
(The brown bags in Killer 7 are supposedly the heads of the Smith Syndicate.)
3. You can clearly see Mika Kishi tapped inside Ryo's tv.

This cliffhanger from Moonlight Syndrome finally gets answered 8 yrs. later (2005. Moonlight Syndrome was originally released in 1997.)
with the release of Killer 7.
Emir Parkreiner from Killer 7, who uses the tv as a medium in order to "channel" in the Smith syndicate is actually a conclusion to the ending of Moonlight Syndrome. I'll elaborate more on that later...

Silver Case concluded what happened to Ryo Kazan & Rumi Touba after Moonlight Syndrome.

Then, Suda formed GHM and did The Silver Case.



TSC had a limited budget for 3d and such, so the small team at GHM invented the Film Window system. Lots of animated text and stills with minimal 3d effects.

This is the Persona 2 Innocent Sin of the Kill the past universe.
As this is the game that establishes what is canon & what is not in the Kill the past multiverse.
Basically this the game that people reference whenever we want to check up on information that's integral to the rest of the series.
(Much like Silent Hill 2.)

With Silver Case, we indirectly learn that the story of Moonlight Syndrome was actually an isolated incident that was in effect part of a larger overarching story. That bigger story would in fact be the "Silver Case"
Suda 51 actually decided to kill off the two remaining survivors from Moonlight Syndrome. Before moving on with the more complex plot of Silver Case.
In a way. You could say that Suda 51 is actually killing the past in order to move forward with an entirely different set of characters. While at the same time expanding upon the same setting & the core ideas that originally begun in Moonlight Syndrome.

I believe that the Silver Case games are actually the main plot of the Kill the Past universe.
Mainly because Silver Case does not revolve around one person.
(EX. NMH= Travis Touchdown, K7= Emir Parkreiner, FSR= Sumio Kodai)
Rather Silver Case is more like a collection of stories that develop & evolve the setting & themes that were originally portrayed in Moonlight Syndrome.

How TSC ties into MS and K7...
(Massive spoilers for all.)

In Silver Case, at Jan. 29, 1999 a quarter to midnight.
(SC actually begins during the same duration of time that Moonlight Syndrome ended.)
Ryo Kazan goes apeshit insane & went on a killing spree. One of his attempted targets was Tetsuguro Kusabi.
Later on in SC, Tetsuguro shoots Ryo about 5 times.
However the final shot actually came from Rumi Touba. (The woman who went to check up on Ryo during Moonlight Syndrome's ending.)

Rumi is later killed by Tetsuguro, because she failed to comply with his orders.

Finally, Killer 7 shows to you the final conclusion to Moonlight Syndrome
The meaning behind the tv & what actually happened to Mika Kishi.

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In Killer 7 we later find out that
The Smith Syndicate are all dead, & we actually transmigrate their souls into Emir through the use of the tv as a medium.

Through the course of the game mechanics of Killer 7. We are indirectly explained how Mika was able to hug Ryo during the credits.
She was actually a corporeal spirit, who may have been using Rumi's body as a host.
Just like how the Killer 7 utilize Emir's body as the main host in order to exist in the physical plane.
So in effect it's not that K7 is referencing Moonlight Syndrome.
Killer 7 is actually closing the final chapter in the Moonlight Syndrome game.
(The only remaining loose thread from Moonlight Syndrome is Yayoi Itsushima/Hanayama herself.)

As we start the Silver Case, Tetsuguro is shot at by Ryo Kazan.
(The full moon faze that we saw from Killer 7 starts flickering in the Silver Case. Full moons typically indicate full blown insanity.)
Ryo is than cornered to the cauliflower factory & goes on a murder spree.
By the end of Silver Case's prelude Ryo Kazan is thought to have been shot dead by Tetsuguro Kusabi. (Who fired at least 6 slugs into Ryo.)
It is actually Rumi Touba who kills off Ryo for good, but she is later shot in between the eyes by Tetesuguro Kusabi.

Another new story, but it also has MS characters in a minor role. It mostly resolves things, though some characters move on to....



Flower, Sun, and Rain.



A character from TSC appears in FSR, with several others influencing the plot, and tying up some loose ends in TSC, yet adding several more.

This game happens two yrs. after Silver Case & is a direct continuation of Sumio's story.
This game is a sidequel. In the sense that it's not an actual sequel to the Silver Case, but it does establish enough connections to the Silver Case.
That you can classify this title as an official follow up to the Silver Case.

It pretty much ties up several loose ends from the Silver Case yet at the same time opening an entirely new set of questions to the gamer.
The core conflict of FSR is determining where & who the terrorists are, and how to diffuse the airplane bombs in time.
Of course the plot isn't as simple as it sounds. What exactly is Lospass resort? Why does time refuse to move forward? Most of all, who is Sumio?
In FSR we finally get to see Toriko Kusabi & Sundance Shot for the first time.

FSR spoilers. (More details on Sumio's drama between TSC and FSR).

Refers to both Tokio Morishima & Sumio Mondo.
Tokio Morishima returned to Lospass resort soon after he was handed the notebook containing all the classified information about the "Silver Case"
Sumio Mondo is taught the truth about Lospass from Morishima.
(Sumio protected Tokio Morishima during one of the cases in The Silver Case.)

Sumio had to forget the past in order to relive in the present.
Sumio Mondo is nothing more than an alias that Sumio Kodai went by. He went by the name Mondo for so long that he eventually forgot that Kodai is his original identity.

Sumio confronts his past in The Silver Case.
Sumio & his child hood friends enact their revenge on a ceo.
(The Ceo used his own daughter as a scapegoat. His daughter was raped & killed by an angry mob of people known as the "Parade".)
Sumio indirectly forced the Ceo of Mikumo to blow up the entire city.

Sumio came from a town called Mikumomura. Everybody from Mikumomura were under the pay roll of the Iregyura Yuki factory.
Waste water from the factory greatly attributed to the rise of pollution within the area.
Adults of Mikmomura demonstrated protests against the factory every week.
The protests gradually became cruel, and disorderly.
The chaotic nature of the protest's became to be known as the "Parade" referring to the congregation of protesting madmen.

The "parade" attacked the manager of Mikumo 77.
The manager's family tried to flee, but they and the house they resided in were nothing more than a husk of cast-off skin by the end of the night.
The manager's daughter Ril, was the sole survivor of the family.
Sumio grabbed Ril by the hand, and tried to slip out of the city.
They were eventually caught by the "Parade".
The adults of the "Parade" antagonized Ril & labeled her a witch.
Sumio & all of whom who tried to protect Ril were punished for their transgressions.


(Hiseki & Fyuki are Sumio's childhood friends. Ril the eldest of them all was a girl that he yearned for.)

Hiseki's punishment, so as not to see the witch, eyes are crushed.
Fyuki's punishment, so as not to call the witch, the mouth is sewn.
So as not to hear the witch's voice, oil was poured into Sumio's ears.

And, Ril is violated & raped to death by adults, she was only eight years old. Sumio held a grudge against all Iregyura Yuki, especially the ringleader and he had a grudge against the ominous Mikumo.

20 years later-

His childhood friends both committed suicide.
One hung himself after blowing up a Yukimo mansion & everybody inside it.
Sumio's other friend suicide bombed himself while jumping through a tower, killing everybody inside.)
Sumio is then relieved of duty & kicked out of the Felonious Ward 24 police. The 2nd division is disbanded after that,because Tetsugoro Kusabi was the only other member of the 2nd division.

During a case that involved investigating Mikmomura. Sumio executed the plan to manipulate the Iregyura Yuki to annihilate the city from his child hood. One by one the members of the Iregyura Yuki committed suicide by either blowing their selves apart with time bombs or fell to their deaths. The chairman of the Iregyura Yuki self detonated the Snow Tower which resulted in taking out the entire village of Mikmomura along with it.
With the Yuki conglomerate eliminated & the city burnt to ashes,
Sumio Killed the past.

Tetsugoro Kusabi corrects the past in The Silver Case.
Kusabi never actually apprehended the criminal who committed the "Silver Case". The true culprit behind the murders died during a shoot out at a political meeting high up in a tv tower.
The assassin in question was hired by the FSO political environmental safety faction that were led by Sundance. After the "Silver Case" incident the FSO party were regarded as nothing more than a group of organized gangsters. They dissolved after losing what political prowess they had left & the leader, Sundance Shot was nowhere to be found.

Sumio Kodai finally returned to reality when he saw a familiar face. The face of Tetsuguro Kusabi.
Note: For the duration of FSR. Tetsuguro Kusabi was masquerading as a heavy set man named Peter Bocchwinkur.
Tetsuguro Kusabi eventually took off his Peter Bocchwinkur mask when it got too hot for him to wear the Peter Bochwinkur muppet suit.

Then, Killer7.



GHM has said K7 isn't part of KTP, yet it has a lot of similar elements(the full moon, characters dealing with pasts, even characters from FSR making an appearance!).



Edo McAlister himself runs the desk at the Union Hotel.


"I always remember our guests, sir. Even that case of yours..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh5ZEZwtX2E

K7 spoilers.

Killer 7 borrows heavily from the Silver Case.
Harman Smith would be the Silver eye phenomenon.
Kun Lan might possibly be inspired by Uehara Kamui
Curtis Blackburn's black market organs are the Shelter children program.
Heaven's Smile are reminiscent to those who commit suicide during the night of a Moonlight Syndrome..
Iwazaru,Kikazaru & Mizaru are Sumio,Fyuki, & Hiseki (Speak no evil, See no evil, Hear no Evil)
Garcian Smith is a combination of the above.
Ed Macalister, who makes a cameo in Killer 7.
Makes a subtle reference at Garcian possibly being a stock body of Sumio Mondo.
"I remember all the faces of our guests. Including your bag sir."
Bag refers to Garcian's weapon case.
Ed Macalister is actually alluding to Sumio's briefcase, Katharine.
(Which coincidentally is the same name as EMIR'S MOTHER.)

Sylvia Christel from NMH1 even sports an FSR bikini, and you can see the Lospass Plane in the background.


And lastly(though many deny this one), NMH1's ties to K7.

(K7, NMH, and Moonlight Syndrome Spoilers!)




"I'm afraid it don't work like that. Time to die, first rank."

There's much controversy around the internet over the identity of the African man during the true ending of No More Heroes.
I can't see why though. Considering that the Killer 7 were actually killed off in their own fucking game.
If you played through enough Suda 51 games you tend to see a pattern where the main character of a former Suda 51 title. Will make a return in a newer Suda 51 game only to bite the bullet within that same appearance.

I've already showed you an example earlier of two characters from Moonlight Syndrome who die during the first chapter of Silver Case. (One of them being a main character no less.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ba_sAneAM
So if you view that video that I just linked to, and you still can't accept that Emir is the same guy in NMH.
Than believe me, you've got problems, part-nah.

More details, No More Heroes 1 spoilers.

Travis Touchdown has repressed memories of his parents being slain by a female assassin.
It turns out that female assassin is actually his half-sister.
Travis's father abandoned that female assassin's mother to run off with Travis's mother.
It broke the female assassin's mother's heart beyond repair.
So she (the mother) killed herself.
Travis's father took advantage of the female assassin, and molested her daily.
Travis's father made her his slave.
She eventually decided to become a killer. With no money to pay for training, She paid with her body.
To Travis Touchdown, his father appeared to be a hard-working family man. That was all an act. So that female assassin decided to clean it up herself.

This is why she killed Travis Touchdown's father in front of his very eyes...
That female assassin is Sylvia Christel's sister, Jeane Christel.

Note: The plot of No More Heroes is supposed to be satire poking fun of gaming narratives. So if you felt that all the characters being related to each other was a bit inexcusable. Worry not, because NMH isn't meant to be taken seriously.

So yeah. I'm currently looking into methods of fan-translating The Silver Case, but I feel like there's a lot of groundwork to cover before hand, at very least Moonlight Syndrome.

Turkey

This OP is freakin' nuts and I'd love to see more of Suda's obscure(r) games.

UncleSporky

But how does the DS RPG Contact fit into all of this?

RisenPhoenix

Goddammit CJ, you always bring the best. And nobody does rabbit-hole quite like Suda, I'd be quite interested in seeing more of his work.

cj iwakura

UncleSporky wrote: »

But how does the DS RPG Contact fit into all of this?

Uh... at a glance, his involvement was supervisory, like with everything he's done since NMH1. So, off the hook!

Michigan, however, DOES tie into K7... somewhat.



That logo appears in a few K7 cutscenes. Maybe even in FSR once or twice.

cj iwakura

So if anyone's interested,

1. http://killer7.fr.yuku.com/topic/2169/MOONLIGHT-SYNDROME-TRANSLATION-PROJECT#.Uk96ho2Tjdk
Vermillion from Paradise Hotel/Killer7 SINdicate has a script of Moonlight Syndrome, up to around Chapter 4.



It's some crazy ish.

More here:
http://archive.kontek.net/killer7.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/moonlight1.htm

Check the rad BGM.


2. She's agreed to let us use her script in a prospective fan translation of Moonlight Syndrome and the Silver Case.
http://izzeybee.wordpress.com/

cj iwakura

Here's a thing I did over the holiday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CY9vZVBxZU

Thanks to Vermillion from Paradise Hotel for the translation. I timed it.


I've also begun uploading The Silver Case's OST to youtube since it's not there, like, at all

A few choice samples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP2Y5HODNNw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZckxCX4tAI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sb3P3j_vUs

Hope you enjoy.

Linespider5

killer7 is the type of game I would like to see Suda 51 make again sometime.

It took me several years to complete, where I was forced to take extended breaks away from it, and, much of the time I felt completely lost in it. Unlike games that are simply huge to affect a sense of scale, killer7 robbed you from a sense of proportion. It was a game that didn't let you have any clues to gauge your overall progress with, and kept changing up the expectations. You never knew what to expect, or what might be expected of you next...really eluding any sense of beginning, middle and end, just going progressively deeper into this...thing.

I would like another game that could carry out some of these qualities.

cj iwakura

I made a video of The Silver Case to show off.

This game's script is HUGE. Take a seat, Sora no Kiseki.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGc77seW43U

Chapter 2, Spectrum.

SEVEN MINUTES of talking. Gameplay starts at 7:20.

Rami

I love Killer 7 but haven't played any of his previous games. K7 is extremely complicated on its own , but the possibility of all the tie ins makes me love it more.

That said. I seem to remember Suda51 replying to the ending of NMH and outright stating that it wasn't Emir. And I agree really, he does look quite different and his voice is completely different. Also consider Travis appears in K7 as a ghost of the syndicate's first kill, though again Suda51 said they were not the same Travis.

cj iwakura

His voice sounded identical to me. The Travises are wildly different, but the NMH guy and Emir seem pretty similar.

cj iwakura

It's been a fun trip, but it ends here.



The Silver Case OST Playlist

I still have some FSR remixes I can add, but this is the heart of The Silver Case.

#1 - The Silver Case (Main Theme) #2 - His Room #3 - Morishima Tokio #4 - Jack Hammer #5 - Yukimura #6 - Kokusai Building #7 - Desktop #8 - 24 Modern #9 - Investigation #10 - Public Security #11 - Neutral #12 - Kinjo Building #13 - Kouichi #14 - Tearoom #15 - Kusabi #16 - Cauliflower #17 - Triangular Tower #18 - Moon #19 - Tamura #20 - Furuya #21 - Disappearance #22 - Furuya & Nakama #23 - Mikumo #24 - Tokio AM #25 - 24 Wave #26 - Ryo #27 - Resolution #28 - Apricot Square #29 - Uehara Kamui #30 - Last 24 #31 - Underground #32 - Reminiscences #33 - Kill The Past (End Credits)

Enjoy.



Bonus: Hand In Killer7: the recreation.


http://k7sin.forumfree.it/?t=67819053

Essential read. The loveable psychopaths at Paradise Hotel 51 created a new version of the Killer7 sourcebook and applied new images and graphic to translate it.

cj iwakura

This arrived today.




Ooh, full color.




This is like a whole new game. Vastly superior OP, better graphics, amazing music.

Turkey

What differences are there besides visuals?

Also that's a nice-looking manual.

cj iwakura

Much better music quality, and shockingly, the PS2 version does NOT have the added puzzles, just the story ones.

cj iwakura

Found this from TSC...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U80c0rI3cY
(Sorta NSFW, or at least something that would raise eyebrows.)

Might be in over my head trying to translate someting that surreal. Huge Serial Experiments Lain vibes.

cj iwakura

Footage from FSR PS2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_WtJmuU4_4

cj iwakura

For kicks, an FSR comparison.

Wanted to show off the graphical differences, hope you can forgive the Vita pics:

DS:





PS2:

cj iwakura

Finished my replay of FSR 14, my favorite part in the game(when things REALLY start happening):



The pieces connecting FSR and TSC are starting to come together for me, though it's kind of haphazard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NpArnyGpZw

During the flashback at the end, Toriko confronts Sundance Shot and claims she's going
to kill him... because he's really the assassin, Kamui Uehara.



Go go Silver Case references!

http://archive.kontek.net/killer7.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/silver/24ward.htm

1979/3 TRO/CCO union executive murders that occurred 20 years ago. The mastermind is Kamui Uehara. Ten executives were murdered, and because the exec was an uwayaku kokumin, the incident was later classified as the, "Silver Case ".

Kamui was apprehended & detained by Tetsugoro Kusabi, a detective of the Kyoka 24 ward Felonious. It is feared that the "Silver Case" incident would lead to paranoia & pandemonium by the media and, in general, the Silver case is not made public.

An assassin who died during the Silver Case murders.

Left: Uehara Kamui

Right: Some random bitch he killed (Not Ayame Shimohara)

TSC makes FSR go from weird to downright nuts.

Incidentally, here's his TSC music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cfF5JwnnTM

cj iwakura

Someone requested that I write up some cast-specific synopses from Syndrome, TSC, and FSR, so here you go.

Spoilers from all three games, of course, and NSF56k.

By relative demand, the key players of Kill The Past.
(Syndrome/TSC/FSR edition.)

Most data comes, again, c/o Paradise Hotel 51.
http://paradisehotel51.com/ (NSFW)

I hope this goes without saying, but I am about to totally and absolutely spoil The Silver Case, Syndrome, and Flower, Sun, and Rain.

(If you care about those games' stories remaining a mystery, I'd advise bailing out of this thread anyway.)

Syndrome


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZyn-1EWuWQ
(Music!)

Mika Kishi



A student from Hinashiro high, and protagonist of Twilight Syndrome.

She's pretty good at networking with peers, both in & out of school. Ms Kishi exhibits a curious, but haughty air about her.
Mika always carrieswith her a MD Walkman, a camera, and a pager in her yellow backpack. Mika admires Yukari and she sometimes gets jealous of Chisato.
(Chisato & Yukari are childhood friends who are both in the same grade.)

Mika disappears at the end of Twilight Syndrome, and although presumed dead, is in fact trapped in a TV. (See Killer7 for reference.)


Kyoko Kazan

(also in: The Silver Case)

Kyoko Kazan is a senior who has been purported to be the spitting image of Mika Kishi.
She was killed early on in a traffic accident while she was riding her vespa.
Her younger brother, Ryo Kazan, has been burdened with immense sadness over her death. Ryo eventually turns his affection over to Mika Kishi, who reminded him of Kyoko.

We later find out that Kyoko was killed due to a contract that Sumio Touba agreed to with a god of contract named Mitra.
Sumio sought to break the Kazan's apart, because he was jealous of Ryo.
Sumio may have had Kyoko's body.

(Even to the end. Sumio kept Kyoko's head, because it was the only trace left of Kyoko's body after the accident.)



However Sumio never could attain the same level of affection, & true love that Kyoko held for her brother. (Yes, that's right, the Kazan's are involved in an incest relationship with each other.)

Note: Mika never really cared much for Kyoko. Mika was way too upset about a rumor that she heard about her.
It's been said that Kyoko may have been Sumio's lover, whom Mika had a crush on.
Unfortunately Mika never does get the chance to go out with Sumio, because Sumio gets killed in a double homicide by a former lover whom was impregnated by him.

Ryo Kazan

(Also in: The Silver Case)



Talk about issues.

The younger brother of Kyoko Kazan. They shared a bond with each other that far exceeded even the kinship of blood. The Kazan's were involved in an incest relationship with one another. Sumio had Kyoko killed, because he was jealous of the affection that Kyoko had for her brother.

Yayoi showed Ryo to the v.i.p. room of a night club called "Lost Highway".
Sumio was in the backroom waiting for Ryo to show up. Yayoi handed Ryo a bag.
Inside the bag was Kyoko's head.
Ryo kept her head after Sumio was killed during a double homicide by an ex lover.
Ryo received a phone call from Kyoko shortly after he returned home.
However this is impossible, because Kyoko is dead.
It's around this time that Ryo's mind starts to twist & turn the reality around him little by little.
(This eventually escalates into full blown madness by the time we see Ryo in Silver Case.)

What connects Ryo to the story of Moonlight Syndrome is that he was blackmailed by both Yayoi & Mitra to agree with a contract that would ensure Mika Kishi's safety.
Mika was supposed to have been killed by a stalker, but her death was prevented by MITRA when Ryo consented to the contract.
Ryo wants to keep Mika alive, because Mika reminds him of his sister.
He views Mika as his second chance to redeem himself.
Ryo thinks it's his fault that Kyoko died, because he wasn't around to protect her.

To Ryo, Mika is the only remnant of Kyoko that he has left to cling on to.
(Besides Kyoko's head.)
For Ryo, Mika is the last remaining trace of his sanity left on Earth that keeps him from going insane.

What actually happened is that the kid (MITRA) presented Ryo an ultimatum or a contract that would extend Mika's life & ensure her safety.
Ryo consents to the contract, because Mika reminds him of his dead sister.
However the contract is automatically nullified once Ryo or Mika make physical contact with each other.

Ryo has gone insane by the start of The Silver Case, and is the killer in the prologue.

Yayoi Itsushima (Syndrome), aka Yayoi Hanayama (FSR)


An antagonist in Syndrome, rumored to be hiding on Lospass Island in FSR, although this is unconfirmed speculation.


The Silver Case & Flower, Sun, and Rain



Sumio Kodai (TSC), aka Sumio Mondo (Flower, Sun, and Rain)



One of the detectives of the Seven Districts. Sumio Mondo is in fact the main culprit of The Silver Case, out to get revenge for unspeakable crimes inflicted against him and his loved ones.



He later blacks out all memory of this and retreats to Lospass Island in an attempt to forget his past. Suffice it to say, he fails.

Tokio Morishima



Formerly a journalist, now pursuing Sumio and the truth about The Silver Case, even to the ends of the earth... Lospass Island.

Tokio Morishima the true hero of the Silver Case. (Although he pretty much did nothing but check his e-mail everyday , smoke & go out drinking.)

Tokio is a journalist who was investigating the "Silver Case" Turns out that he's been hanging out at Lospass since the events of the "Silver Case".
Upon arrival Morishima greets Sumio with the words "Welcome home"
He gives Sumio Mondo one last job before he leaves Lospass, & that is "To reset time."


Tetsuguro Kusabi

The detective responsible for ending Ryo Kazan's twisted life, and solving The Silver Case from the 70s, in which several executives were murdered under the order of Sundance Shot, leader of the FSO Party.

Toriko Kusabi from FSR is his daughter.

Sundance Shot
(TSC/FSR/Killer7?)




A feared hitman and leader of the FSO party. Has a major role in both TSC and FSR. Was originally to be in K7, but later removed.

At first he seems to be the antagonist in FSR, but is that really the case?...


Sundance Shot is his full name.
He's one of the few characters who reprise their role from the "Silver Case".
(Actually Sundance only appears during the Silver Case intro & the instruction manual . )
Sundance is believed to be the main antagonist of the story, or at least the nominal villain.
(FSR,as with most Suda 51 games, doesn't really have a villain.)
While his intentions are usually honourable, his methods are a bit suspect.

The FSO party leader.
He once controlled a nonprofit organization for environmental preservation. They were extremely conservative in their beliefs.
It is assumed that the assassin,Uehara Kamui was sent to the TRO/CCO union 20+ years ago & slayed ten of the allied parties executives. The events that followed created a domino effect that escalated & matured into the "Silver Case".

(It's later revealed that the Event 20+ years ago was committed by Fujiwara Kamui,a hired killer that Sundance used as his trump card.
Fujiwara invaded the television tower where the VIP's of the TRO/CCO alliance gathered and tried to exterminate as many as he could.
Tetsuguro Kusabi shot Uehara Kamui & arrested him. The aftermath of this event was later to be privately known as the "Silver Case")
At least that's what the urban myth says, Fujiwara (Format) Camui was actually killed during the assassination attempt,but the remaining VIP's killed each other to obtain his Silver eye.
The deaths of the other vips were later added on to Fujiwara's death toll.

Sundance's FSO wanted to defy the TRO/CCO's Camui Mass Professional plan. To keep this short let's just say that the FSO did not agree with the "shelter children" program. The FSO political party was dismantled before the events of the game "Silver Case" (1999)
The FSO party lost credibility after the Silver Case incident. They were soundly defeated in struggle for supremacy.
The administration center of expulsion,
Relegated the FSO as becoming nothing more than an illegal organization composed of radical groups.
(It's later revealed in the Silver Case that remnants of the FSO party infiltrated the highest ranks of the 24 ward police borough)
The former leader, Sundance was nowhere to be found.
It turns out that he was actually biding his time at Lospass resort during the 1999 Silver incident.

An enigmatic man with a suave demeanor.
Sundance kills Sumio Mondo half way through the game. (Sundance shot Sumio point blank in the face.)
When Toriko Kusabi asked him why he shot Sumio.
Sundance claimed that his sole purpose was to shoot Sumio into a time slip.
A time slip that will result in bringing back Uehara Kamui & restoring order to Lospass island.
Sundance figures that the detective Remy Fauzlie will fall for the ruse & become a stock body of Kamui.

Like Toriko Kusabi, Sundance also had concept art for the Silver Case,but he didn't actually play a role in the game.
(Although Sundance is still referred to [FSO] during the Silver Case.)


There are many, MANY more players in FSR/TSC/Syndrome, but they are the core.


Here have a character chart!