2. Juro Kurabe
The 'main?' boy character of this game? Funny enough, Juro Kurabe isn't interesting on his own, but everything interesting in this game revolves around him.
Juro of the current loop started as Juro Izumi in Sector 1, he was recruited by Ida and Morimura to get into a Sentinel and fight the Kaiju in Sector 2 (year 2064,) but when the code DD426 spread to all Sentinels, he was forceblly shifted into Sector 3 (year 2024.) There, he meets with Megumi Yakushiji and falls in love with her, and fights to protect her city from the Kaiju. Izumi spends 2 hours fighting, and loses his memories completely.
Chihiro Morimura decides to give him the memories of "her" Juro Izumi, (from two loops ago,) but Tamao Kurabe, gives him a new personality: Juro Kurabe. That's the character we control in this game!
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Most of Juro Kurabe's story revolves around navigating his Home Problems, and Disturbing Dreams. His friendship with Shu and Shiba, and his love for movies.
His life turned upside down when Megumi Yakushiji moved in with him after his grandmother Tamao left the city. Megumi seems to love him, and cooks for him as payment for letting her stay over:
To add more chaos, his neighbour, Natsuno, brings another guest to stay at his house.
Juro Kurabe keeps having dreams about the future. In one dream, he blows up a research factory along with Chihiro. In another, he goes crazy and starts killing the "compatible" children of that loop. He even kills Megumi in the dreams, which is why he avoids her in fear of actually going crazy and killing her for real.
Juro discovers that the dreams he keeps having is Juro Izumi's memories, but not the Juro Izumi he was before memory loss, but the Juro Izumi from two loops ago. The one who's known as 426, the mass murderer.
Juro's best friend, Shiba Kyuta who's another version of 426 that only he can see, has been manipulating his memories. Though it's revealed near the end that Shiba was actually saving him. The memories were already implanted into him by the time Shiba comes into the picture. Shiba converted the memories that Chihiro Morimura planted into him into movies. If Shiba didn't, the clash between Izumi's memories, and Kurabe's personality would've broken him.
Juro's relationship with Megumi developed so quickly near the end. I knew she loved him, but I was surprised when he said "I love you" to her. Though I guess it makes sense.
It's funny that this Juro fell in love with Megumi, TWICE, while the Juro Izumi from two loops ago fell in love with Chihiro Morimura.
It's not confirmed yet, but I believe the Juro Izumi from the year 2188 managed to save Megumi Yakushiji from that timeline, and that's why she's was one of the last 15 people who were left of humanity. That's why I think the ending for both of Juro and Megumi is very poetic!