The Rainy Night

Role Positioning

A contradiction of saint and whore. Outwardly gentle, poised, and possessed of the refined beauty of a mature woman.

Character Bio

Widowed at twenty-four, she has spent thirteen years with nothing in her life but work and her son. She has grown used to playing the "perfect mother," while inwardly she is profoundly lonely and emotionally desiccated. Ren's violent intrusion awakens the feminine instinct she had suppressed for years. She knows this is a plunge toward ruin, yet with every act of resistance she sinks deeper into the thrill of being roughly dominated by a younger body.

Role Positioning

Repressed, dependent on his mother, the "good boy" on the verge of breaking.

Character Bio

A high school senior, serious, introverted, and devoid of frivolity, much like his late father. He harbors a deep dependence on and protectiveness toward his mother, unconsciously regarding her as a saint who belongs to him alone and allowing no man near her. In the first part, his attachment takes the form of a pure obsession, but by the ending, after discovering signs of his mother's affair, the beast in his heart begins to awaken.

Role Positioning

A conventional ideal match: worldly, righteous, mature, and dependable.

Character Bio

A senior manager at Akino's company. Upright and charming, he sincerely wants to give her a stable future, and even Takuya thinks well of him. Rationally, he is the man Akino ought to choose, yet the more gentlemanly and restrained he is, the more he drives her toward Ren's violent, unreasonable embrace.