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The World Ends With You
Overview

"I'm looking forward to watching you squirm and choke-- powerless to find me... powerless to stop death from finding you."
— Konishi to Neku and Beat

Mitsuki Konishi (虚西 充妃 Konishi Mitsuki) is an antagonist in The World Ends with You and is an officer of the Reapers.

She serves as the Game Master during Beat's week, and is one of the most powerful Reapers. At first, she seems only interested in serving the Conductor, Megumi Kitaniji, but she later shows her true colors of being willing to do whatever it takes to climb in the ranks.

Her Noise form is Tigris Cantus, a winged tiger-woman.

Appearance[]

Konishi

Konishi is a tall woman with long wavy blonde hair and blue eyes. She wears glasses and dons a maid uniform, thigh-high black leggings and white high heels. She has long black fingernails which are pointed and apparently sharpened at the ends. Although Konishi appears to be a young woman, as a Reaper officer, she is likely many years older than she actually appears due to Reapers not aging.

She accessorizes with a few bracelets on her left wrist and wears a silver ring on the index finger of her right hand. Konishi also wears a black claw hair clip on the back of her head, which can be seen near the end of the anime episode "Rhyme and Beat"; it is unknown if this hair clip can be seen in the game or its artwork.

One subtle detail of Konishi is that she wears a black wraparound with white frills on her upper right arm; this can be seen in her thinking sprite, as well as the scene when she squeezes Noise Rhyme. For unexplained reasons, the armband does not appear in the anime and even some of the game's artwork.

Personality[]

"While she may not look the part of a villain, Konishi is ranked among the highest in the Reaper hierarchy. She is the one who issues the orders for the missions against Neku and his friends, although she rarely appears before them."
— Game manual description
Konishi squeezing Rhyme

Konishi being cruel to Rhyme and Beat.

Konishi at first seems very loyal to the Composer and the Conductor and often demands respect when the Reapers of lower status address them but this is just a ruse; she's truly very cold and manipulative and will do anything she sees fit to meet her own ends. Because of her passive personality and her relatively cold and cruel demeanor, she has gained the nickname "Iron Maiden" which Beat spitefully warps into "Ironface".

Konishi is very intelligent and she has little tolerance for idiocy. Beat mentions she pays too much attention with her brain instead of her heart. Having a rather haughty personality, she is a perfectionist and claims she never makes mistakes. Similar to Sho Minamimoto's math jokes and Yodai Higashizawa's food references, Konishi often makes references to calculation and strategy and refers to those she considers intellectually inferior (ie: Beat) as "chimps".

To get her way in situations, she will still resort to trickery and mind games to deal with those she considers annoying. Devoid of mercy, she is also shown to resort to violence and murder, such as when she erases 777 and tries to kill Neku and Beat. In spite of her calm demeanor throughout the game, this is just appearance as in truth, she appears to be short-tempered as before the final confrontation against her in the final day she snaps and attacks Neku and Beat in an enraged state, due to their continued meddling in her plans.

In This Day Ends with You![]

Konishi is referred to as Mrs. K in Another Day. Additionally she acts as Beat's school teacher. She is disappointed with him for loitering and asks him if he's done with his homework. She challenges Beat to a game of Tin Pin, saying that if she wins, he must get back together with Rhyme. She seems to genuinely care about Beat's and Rhyme's relationship in this universe, which is ironic compared to the main game in which she was trying to drive them apart.

Story[]

Week 1[]

Konishi appears very rarely throughout the first week. When she does, it is for her daily report to Kitaniji followed by a small discussion about the week's game.

Week 2[]

Konishi plays the same role within this week although she begins to take some action as the week progresses. For one, she is skeptical of Minamimoto as Game Master and tries to figure out what he is planning. She also orders other Reapers to clean up is junk heaps.

Week 3[]

MitsukisMission

Konishi discussing the next Game with Beat and Neku.

Konishi is given the position of Game Master this week. Konishi plays the game in an incredibly exploitative way. Her strategy is to take every other player as Neku's entry fee, forcing him into a loss. However, she did not account for Beat to quit the Reapers and join him so she creates a new plan. Her new goal is to give the final mission of the Game on the second day with it being to find and erase her. She then spends the entire game watching Neku and Beat from Beat's shadow where they are unable to find her.

Konishi and Rhyme

Konishi threatening to kill Beat's sister.

Also to prevent them from putting their full focus on finding her, she takes Beat's Rhyme Noise, turns it into a pin and uses it as his entry fee. She creates a illusionary form of herself for Neku and Beat to chase across Shibuya that leads them into a trap. However, she sees that they run into 777. After they defeat him and spare his life, he helps them by giving them his Keypin. Konishi quickly erases him for this.

The following day, she gives Game Master privileges to Uzuki and Kariya and she gives a (unbeknownst to them) fake version of the Rhyme pin. She promises that if Uzuki does what Konishi wants, she would receive a promotion which is all a lie. Konishi's real scheme over the course of the week is to survive the destruction of Shibuya.

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Konishi pissed off by Beat.

At the end of the week, this results in her betraying Kitaniji and siding with the resurrected Sho Minamimoto, reasoning that Kitaniji will either be defeated or be weakened enough from the battle that she can erase him herself. She even states that she doesn't care what happens to Minamimoto, as long as she gets to be Conductor. Konishi reveals that she was hiding in Beat's shadow all along. However, she is soon defeated by Neku and Beat, with the addition of Rhyme's Noise. Before dying she revealed in act of spite that the reason why Rhyme lost her memories wasn't because they were her entry fee, they were Beat's and sadistically taunted Beat with the thought that her sister never really cared for him before dissipating for good.

Relationships[]

Megumi Kitaniji[]

Konishi works closely with Kitaniji, using her reports to keep tabs on the activities of the Players and Reapers throughout the game. At first, it appears that Konishi is very loyal to Kitaniji, such as when Minamimoto addresses Kitaniji as "Megs" instead of "Mr. Kitaniji", but her loyalty is later revealed to be just an act and that she is plotting his defeat so that she can become Conductor.

Beat[]

Konishi thinks poorly of Beat, thinking him as an obnoxious simpleton. This dislike begins when he ruins her plans of wrapping up the Reapers' Game on day one, even despite the absurdity of an unfair one player Reapers' Game.

Abilities[]

Noise Form[]

Tigris Cantus

Konishi's Noise form, Tigris Cantus

Konishi can transform into a Noise in the form of Tigris Cantus. She is quite powerful in this form, despite having the second lowest attack stat in the game, and can create shadows and clones of herself to attack and defend with, and has the ability to steal Neku's pin deck, leaving him unable to attack. While in her human form she can also hide in shadows, like she does with Beat. This talent is not apparently used by any of the other Reapers. Like the other officer Reapers, she usually conceals her wings.

Battling her Noise form consists of 4 phases.

  • The first phase requires Neku to lure Taboo Noises into the white space in his area to damage Tigris Cantus. Obstacles going into the white space will fly up and damage Beat, while normal Noise going into the white space will heal Tigris Cantus.
  • In the second phase Tigris Cantus' real body will be in one screen while a clone will be in the other. Repeatedly attack her real body to damage her. She can attack by projecting a shadow in a straight line. The clone and boss swap sides whenever Beat completes a chain, allowing Neku to damage her.
  • In the third phase, Tigris Cantus steals all pins, including the Fusion Pin, from Neku. Beat can still attack Tigris Cantus normally, but Neku must continuously run into her shadow to erase the clones she summons on the top screen. She can summon spikes from underneath Neku if she is in his shadow.
  • In the final phase, Neku gains the Rhyme pin. Only several of Tigris Cantus' clones are now visible, while she herself is a speck of yellow light not too easily seen in the white space. She can be tracked, however, by noting the direction of Neku and Beat's shadows: she will act as a light source, and their shadows behave accordingly. She can attack by projecting shadows from all of her clones which fly straight forward. Beat cannot attack the clones, so the best option is to keep him in 'block' position to avoid damage form the upper clones' attacks. When the yellow light is in Neku's area, he must use the Rhyme pin on her, which does damage to her if used fast enough. If after the first 'barrage' of pin uses she is not defeated, she will teleport up to Beat's area and attack from there. She can be forced back down by Beat's block move.

Tin Pin Deck[]

In Another Day, Konishi's pin deck is shown during a Tin Pin match against her, where she is referred to as "Mrs. K". When in battle, she controls three pins at once, though they all use the same deck.

Deck #1:

Pin #1: Tigris | Weight: 4, Spin: 5, KO Length: 4, Stinger x 17, Bomber x 0, Hammer x 5, Hand x 0

Pin #2: Popguin | Weight: 5, Spin: 1, KO Length: 4, Stinger x 8, Bomber x 4, Hammer x 4, Hand x 1

Pin #3: One Stroke, Vast Wealth | Weight: 4, Spin: 1, KO Length: 3, Stinger x 0, Bomber x 7, Hammer x 9, Hand x 0

Tigris, the first pin in Konishi's deck, has no bombers, so you can abuse hammers when the match starts up. Pin 052, Love Charge works especially well, as it's hammer moves fast making it hard to counter, despite the short range.

When defeated, Konishi will reward you with Pin 152, One Stroke, Vast Wealth.

Items[]

The following is all of the Konishi-related items the player can get in the game:

Etymology[]

The kanji for Ko-nishi Mitsu-ki translate literally to: Void, West, fill, queen.

Like the other two Game Masters (Higashizawa and Minamimoto) including Kitaniji, Konishi's name has the kanji affiliated with her noise form hidden inside it. In this case, one of the kanji in her name has one of the radicals that belong to the kanji affiliated with her noise form. (The 虚 (ko) in her name has the same major radical as the kanji for tiger (虎).

Quotes[]

  • "Yes, sir."
  • "Tick, tock, Minamoto. You're 9 minutes and 42 seconds late."
  • "A certain Player has exhibited great resilience. Neku Sakuraba. What do you make of him?"
  • "Mr. Kitaniji, far be it from me to question you, but..."
  • "That little goon! Even a chimp knows better than to pick the losing side."
  • "So primitive. You think I can't see what you're up to? You were going to ignore the mission and cause some kind of trouble."
  • "Oh, don't act like a child." (to Beat)
  • "...No, I can see it comes quite naturally to you." (after Beat says he is not acting)
  • "Sigh... Since I can't reverse evolution and speak your language, I'll keep this brief."
  • "One person's success is built on another's sacrifice."
  • "I'm looking forward to watching you squirm and choke-- powerless to find me... powerless to stop death from finding you. Take care."
  • "Betray? I simply choose to align with the man in charge. It hardly matters who."
  • "NO matter how this ends, I will be Conductor."
  • "I don't presume to know the Composer's true intentions. But I intend to outlive this chaos."
  • "Please. Spare yourself the embarrassment. My analyses are never wrong."
  • "Me? Work for you? Hee hee... Ha ha ha ha! You vexatious monkey!"
  • "You're right. No analysis could ever plumb the depths of your fatuity."
  • "Arrrgh! Enough of your chimp-speak! I will obliterate any disruptive elements in my path!"
  • "Hee hee... That look on your face. It's just...as I pre...dicted..."

Battle Quotes[]

  • "Go!"
  • "Vexatious worm!"
  • "Fools!"
  • "Claim it if you can!"
  • "Hahaha!"
  • "Hehehe!"
  • "You will pay!"
  • "It's not possible!"

Non-Canon Appearances[]

The Animation[]

"A high-ranking Reaper who gives missions to Neku and the gang but rarely appears in person."
— Konishi's description in The Animation's official website
Konishi ( The Hour of Reckoning - Episode )

Mitsuki Konishi in The Animation.

Konishi's role is similar to the game. She does not have a major role for the first two weeks except monitoring the activities of the Reapers and Players and reporting to Kitaniji in Dead God's Pad scenes in "The Reapers' Game", "Erased", and "Turf (Episode)". In "Turf", Beat loses Rhyme's bell pendant when Kariya and Uzuki force him to go along with them to investigate a Taboo Noise alert Konishi gives.

Konishi ( Emergency Call - Episode )

Konishi decides to collect more information about recent events.

In "Emergency Call", Konishi becomes the week's Game Master. Realizing she needs a plan to survive the possible collapse of the UG, Konishi decides to monitor Neku and Beat, the mysterious troublesome duo still playing the Reapers' Game amidst the Taboo Noise chaos. Konishi approaches them a day earlier compared to the game at the Station Underpass. Beat tries to attack Konishi for threatening to take Rhyme away from him, but Konishi easily counterattacks with a red-colored psych which blows Beat away. She also proceeds to stomp on him with a purple-colored psych. She absorbs Rhyme into her chest, rather than turning her into a pin. The next day, Konishi appears on TV screens throughout Shibuya to announce the UG is in an Emergency Call and orders the O-Pin wearing Reapers to attack Neku and Beat. Konishi's altercation with 777 is also shown in which she erases him.

Konishi ( Rhyme and Beat - Episode )

Konishi ignores Kariya and Uzuki's suffering.

In "Rhyme and Beat", Konishi reveals her ability to hide in shadows at the end of the fourth day rather than Day 7 as in the original game. She comes out of the shadows and watches Kariya and Uzuki while they are being possessed by the O-Pins. Ignoring their pain, she notes the O-Pins' side effects are beginning to show and wonders what Kitaniji's motives are for ordering them to be used, then disappears.

Tigris Cantus ( The Hour of Reckoning - Episode )

Konishi transformed into Tigris Cantus.

Her last appearance is in "The Hour of Reckoning", where she reveals herself from Beat's shadow and makes a deal with Minamimoto to make her Conductor. She transforms into Tigris Cantus and fights Neku and Beat. She creates the illusion of them being above Shibuya and tricks them with the shadows she creates. Beat acts as a decoy while Neku attacks, but her shadow subdues and beats Neku. Beat looks in horror and remembers Neku's enthusiastic trust and Rhyme's sacrifice, drawing out Rhyme from Tigris Cantus' chest. Beat and Neku perform a fusion, empowering Rhyme, who claws through and breaks her shadow. She bites on and pulls it away from her, then deals a finishing blow.

Konishi dying

Konishi mentions Beat's despair before she dies.

Neku, Beat, and Rhyme are returned to a white void while Konishi lies on the floor about to be erased, in disbelief her analysis was proven incorrect and curious how a non-Reaper could summon Noise. When Beat tells her it's because he's Rhyme's brother, Konishi is stunned that the "beautiful bond between siblings" defeated her, but posits if it's genuine. She reveals to Beat that Rhyme's memories and love for Beat was actually Beat's entry fee, not Rhyme's. Konishi accuses Rhyme of not cherishing Beat because her entry fee was something else, then Konishi is erased after claiming she predicted the despair on Beat's face.

Trivia[]

  • Nomura was unsure if she should have glasses or not for a long time, but settled for them. Her outfit being black and white is meant to be reminiscent of the black and white parts of a tiger.[1]
  • Konishi's age is unknown, but she seems to be in the 18 to 26 range, considering how Kitaniji's age is listed as 26. However, with the addition of NEO which adds to the continuity of the universe that Reapers do not age like humans, this adds the possibility that she could be much older than she appears.
  • Konishi's speech bubbles are rectangular, likely to show her calculating and serious personality.
  • There appears to be a subtle reference to Konishi in NEO: The World Ends with You. On Week 3, Day 2, Shoka Sakurane mentions she is searching for Ayano Kamachi who has a "mean RBF" (resting bitch face) and long hair. The Reaper replies, "Blonde?", apparently confusing Ayano for Konishi, possibly also because Kamachi sounds similar to Konishi.


Characters in The World Ends with You
Neku SakurabaShiki MisakiBeatJoshuaRhymeSota HonjoNao 777BJCoco AtarashiKoki KariyaMegumi KitanijiMitsuki KonishiSho MinamimotoTenhoUzuki YashiroYodai Higashizawa
Shopkeepers
Aily UenoAkira YoshiiAnna AoiAyu HamaguchiBanzai AyanokojiFumi GotodaFumiko NishimuraHideki KikuchiHikaru KoikeHT MasuokaJun OdajimaKeiichi OkadaKen DoiKyoMakoto MikiMasanori ItoMay KurokawaMie SuzukiMiki KosakaNana MajimaPrincess KRayca HoshiRikako TodaSanae HanekomaShigemi KonnoShigemori IwataShinta IwataTadafumi SatoTak KimuraTatsuya OmuraTsubasaYoji IwataYosh IshinoYumi SheenaYuu Narumi
Other Characters
AiCATEiji OjiEriFutoshiItaru YokoyamadaKen DoiMakoto MikiMinaMr. MewNeku's best friendPin ProfSanae HanekomaShrimpShuto DanTsugumi MatsunaeWizard of SlamVice Wizard of Slam
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