Silent Parade

Professor Manabu Yukawa (aka “Detective Galileo”): Professor of physics and occasional unofficial consultant to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

Director Mamiya: Head of the Homicide Division

Detective Chief Inspector Kusanagi: Leads the investigation, college friend of Professor Yukawa

Detective Inspector Kishitani: Part of Kusanagi’s team

Detective Sergeant Kaoru Utsumi: Part of Kusanagi’s team and a friend of Professor Yukawa

Detective Inspector Muto: Detective, Kikuno precinct

Yutaro Namiki: Co-owner of Namiki-ya restaurant, father of Saori Namiki

Machiko Namiki: Co-owner of Namiki-ya, mother of Saori Namiki

Natsumi Namiki: Younger daughter of Yutaro and Machiko, sister of Saori

Saori Namiki: Eldest daughter of Yutaro and Machiko

Naoki Niikura: Music impresario

Rumi Niikura: Wife of Naoki

Shusaku Tojima: Owner of local food-processing company. Childhood friend of Yutaro Namiki

Maya Miyazawa: Owner of local bookstore and head of the Kikuno parade team

Tomoya Takagaki: Boyfriend of Saori Namiki

Eiji Masumura: Former coworker and roommate of Kanichi Hasunuma

Yuna Motohashi: Twelve-year-old girl, believed to have been murdered by Kanichi Hasunuma twenty-three years ago

Kanichi Hasunuma: Suspected murderer, never convicted