User blog:Revriley/Ongoing DMDP Notes

Shortly after I acquired Chapter 1--well before I founded this wiki--I'd started taking personal notes on names, species, places, and other somesuch information gleaned from the chapters for later reference. Today (June 15, 2019), I thought it wouldn't hurt to write up those notes in a blog post here so that others may benefit from it as well (though there are still no 'others' whom are editing).

Since Chapter 32 came out earlier this month, some of these names will have long since been verified. Still, for posterity, I will copy over all the notes beginning from their beginning (and hopefully continue to update this blog post from here on). Note that these were originally written for personal use.

Edit following Chapter 37: Boy howdy, the onslaught of names just within the last 7-9 chapters...

Characters

 * Corpse God (real name unknown; likely not pronounceable in JP)
 * Polka Shinoyama (Original) - 16 years old
 * Misaki Sakimiya (Assassin "Zaki")
 * In Chapter 8 she mentions a Hagane-chan (her friend? Note: 'Hagane' means steel, hm...)
 * Heiress of Sakimiya Steel
 * Takumi Kuruya (informant); in Chapter 37, Eightport says he was formerly associated with the gang "Sons of the Styx."


 * Clarissa Kuraki (Also referred to as 'Lisa' and 'Rissa.' Runs a freelance agency--cum-bar/cub in Shinjuku).
 * In Chapter 6, Iwanome checks with Clarissa that the boss of the men injured in the human knots case was her protege Jinba. Underneath Jinba (according to a hierarchy diagram shown in one of the chapters was): [Hidden name]; Yamauchi; Osato; Saku.
 * Update: as of Chapter thirty-something the bar appears to finally have a name: Youtoukorou.


 * Tsubaki Iwanome (Shinjuku Community Safety Division, Third Data Compilation Manager), inspector
 * Kōzaburō Arase (detective)
 * "Kozaburo Arase" was the spelling YP used when they individually published his debut chapter, but they changed the spelling in that panel in the published volume (to Kouzaburou Arase). I've since renamed his page to include diacritics.
 * Fumiyo Yamada (elderly lady; 25-year veteran of Shinjuku station)
 * Aikawa (black-haired woman; seems to be the coroner or involved in autopsies)
 * Saimyouji
 * Chapter 21 mentions a "Pop" Tozawa" and "Yatsu"
 * Update: Their full names have been revealed to be Danjo Tozawa and Ranmaru Yatsu
 * "Pop" and "Pops" both said?
 * Lemmings = Nezu
 * Yochigi woman debuts Chapter 17; I think I've written her name as 'Hochigi' once or twice on the wiki thinking that was correct......is her name really only mentioned once so far?
 * She and Lemmings work for Takeru; his people have been referred to as the "Dragon King's Palace Agency" at least once.
 * Chapter 37 has revealed names of two killers who work for Takeru: Taipei (tall, stocky man) and Bao (spiky-haired woman)


 * Shinjuku Troublemakers
 * "The Gator Sisters" (only one of them is alive/in custody? Chapter 33 implies young)
 * "The Barber"
 * "Riddle Riddle"
 * "The Grocer" -- we've met him! No name yet, though...
 * "The Poisoner"
 * "Donner Donner"
 * "The Mystery Solitaire" = Sorimura Tena (Tena Sorimura)
 * UPDATE: Yen Press has started calling him "Phantom Solitaire," and it looks like Tena is actually his given name. Consistency, YP, I beg you...
 * Sorimura impersonates innocent citizen "Shota Yamanoura" in Chapter 29
 * "The Grim Reaper"
 * "Fire-Breathing Bug"
 * The nameless husband of Rozan's niece hires an arsonist he believes is FBB to off the young Shinoyama siblings/set fire to the manor...but Ch17 reveals the man is an impostor called "Know" by Sorimura. FBB kills Know.
 * The raincoat Bug refers to her father in Chapter 33 as Toyomaru; could Toyomaru be the umbrella-carrying Bug? Edit--wait a second, Toyomaru is the dog


 * Shinoyama Clan
 * Rozan Shinoyama (patriarch; 79 years old)
 * Kanon Shinoyama (deceased second wife; mother to Polka)
 * Gaku Shinoyama (son by first wife)
 * Takeru Shinoyama (Gaku's eldest son; 26 years old)
 * Kiri Shinoyama (Takeru's wife; 24 years old; 2nd-eldest daughter of wealthy family)
 * Suzuka Shinoyama (Gaku's oldest daughter; deceased)
 * Sayo Shinoyama (Gaku's second oldest daughter; 20)
 * Shizuki and Kazuki Shinoyama (twin brother and sister; youngest of Gaku's children)
 * Lei Xiaoyu (Sayo's escort; boy)
 * Update--"Xiaoyu Lei" instead, I think, since Lei appears to be the family name. Heilei--Black Lightning.
 * Older sister's name is Imbi, c.f. Chapter 30


 * "Granny" that Tena contacts in Chapter 28 works at the old maid cafe Amaguri


 * Miyabi Hosorogi (spirit; former inspector and at one point chief)
 * Misaki dubs his type as an "Intelli-yakuza weapon"
 * Senior Commissioner Habaki (works at Tokyo's main police hub)
 * Superintendent General Jirotarou Takasu
 * Yen Press writes his name in that order in Ch28, but I suspect Jirotarou is his family name since Iwanome doesn't refer to him as 'Takasu'


 * Momoya = killer for the Agakura; same guy who cost Xiaoyu his limbs (Chapter 36)
 * Rinne Horojima and Hiiro Horojiima = ex-Agakura sniper siblings who tried and failed to snipe Solitaire off dirigible (names revealed in Chapter 35), when they join up with Clarissa)
 * Other names in Chapter 35: "Mister Daren" (told siblings about Youtoukorou/Clarissa); "Crazy Bones Kagura" (namedropped by gasmask leader; identity unclear)
 * "Eightport Kachou" - plucky reporter for the "Weekly Dry" (name reveal Ch37)

Places/Orgs

 * Shakuzawa Building (where fire breaks out)
 * Abandoned Building (former torture/execution body-dumping site owned by Clarissa where Corpse God lives); 'The Shop' for fortune-telling business (maybe)
 * Materials Compiling Group No.3 (also known as Comps-3) usually works out of Shinjuku station
 * Clarissa's Bar/Club (again, seems to actually have a name now: Youtoukorou)
 * Agakura = errr, the "bastard children of Sabaramond" group? May or may not be involved with police?
 * "Weekly Dry" = tabloid/newspaper Eightport works for.
 * Shinoyama Group -- conglomerate of Shinoyama Clan; not sure if "Shinoyama Financial Group" is a distinct sub-group or effectively the same thing. "Shinoyama Security" run by Takeru.
 * "Dragon King's Palace Agency" --name of shady people group working for Takeru; he didn't choose name.
 * 'Yougangumi' sign was in the office FBB burns in Ch23; not sure if Yougangumi is name of the crime syndicate subsidiary or what.

Misc
(Shark movie names, etc)


 * Ryouma Kannagiri = actor-idol who stars in the Sharkborg series
 * Proppen = "cosplay-tuber" who Takumi watches discover the invisible hands; dressed up as Kirawell from "Sharkborg from Hell."

Other World
Characters, Places, Magic, etc to be added ('Sabaramond' from Ch31 probably goes here)

Characters

 * Sir Shagrua Edith Lugrid the Calamity Crusher
 * Romelka (Wood Mage--nymph?)
 * "Court's seventh-highest sorcerer" stated in Vol 2, Episode 2
 * Chapter 33 reveals full name: Romelka Rimelka
 * Corpse God's necromancer mentor
 * Romelka calls her "Easlies" in Vol 2, Episode 2--finally, a name??
 * Chapter 33: formal introduction box writes name as "Izliz Swordflail" (though Romelka calles her Easlies-san on next page)
 * "Sabaramond" mentioned by FFB in Chapter 31--could be Other World related. (Note to self: stop mistyping Sabaramond as Sarabamond.)
 * Yep: Lord Arius Sabaramond, first-rank court sorcerer of Byandy Empire.
 * Recuria
 * Hieromancer from offshoot of Geldwood; Shagrua was friends with her and perhaps "something more" according to Volume 2
 * She's the priestess from Volume 1, right? I assume?
 * "Utsuro Juuza" or "Utsurojuza" -- third-rank Byandy court sorcerer
 * Daryl (general)--said to have been "carried off by the homewrecker dragon" in Chapter 31
 * Ohhh, which was (ohhh) a direct reference/callback to that anecdote CG tells in Chapter 22 of "Malfy the homewrecker dragon," who became 'much tamer' after falling in love with the general of the "empire's Gorgeous Unit" and later "dragged the general with her in her flight to safety" when the empire collapsed.
 * Speaking of dragons...aside from Malfy, CG mentions the same chapter "Goronzon the vampor dragon" and "Marm the round blade dragon." Also c.f. Chapter 20 where CG talks about "Pirawizzo, the venomous dragon of destruction" alongside other "notorious enemies of the state."

Places + Organizations?
This is where I feel a bit helpless since YP keeps changing up the spellings and I can't be certain which I should use.


 * "Byandy Peninsula," later nicknamed the "Abandoned Peninsula"
 * The empire Corpse God served was based on this peninsula.
 * In volume one, CG asks about the "empire of Byady#rig" with the # implying the name isn't truly pronounceable in Japanese...
 * ...but the last many chapters have referred to the empire as Byandy Empire pretty consistently. Is this an official shortening of the full name? Or...?
 * "Imperial Gorgeous Unit"

A mountain range exists as a natural border between this kingdom and CG's home base.
 * Kingdom of Nyanild OR Nywandil
 * Volume 1 spells this kingdom's name as Nywandil, but Volume 2 spells it as Nyanild.


 * Geldwood
 * Geldwood considers itself a church, but others might call it a cult...