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Noboru Mochizuki (望月 昇, Mochizuki Noboru), aged 50, is the husband of Haruko and the father of Aki and Takeru Mochizuki. He is a salaryman who puts great importance on following the moon viewing traditions with his family. blah blah.
Haruko Mochizuki (望月 晴瑠子, Mochizuki ????), aged 46, is the wife of Noboru and mother of Aki and Takeru Mochizuki. She is a full-time housewife and is revealed that she has cervical cancer as shown by a positive test result she had gotten. Noboru reassures her that if she lives past midnight on their moon viewing, her medical treatment will go well and her health is guaranteed to recover.
A dog, that appears to be a Basset, owned by the Mochizuki family. It is first seen with the family inside the house as Noboru Mochizuki explains the moon viewing they will be doing. It later walks out with the family into the backyard as they set up for the viewing. It's last seen laying on the grass as the family awakens to a nearby crash they heard.
The Mochizuki Family (望月家, Mochizuki-ke, the names have been changed) are a cursed family comprising the the father Noboru (昇, 50 years old), his wife Haruko (晴瑠子, 46 years old), his eldest daughter Aki (亜貴, 21 years old), his youngest son Takeru (猛, 15 years old), and his mother Mitsu (ミツ, 78 years old). The father is a company employee while his wife is a housewife, and both his children are still students.
Unbeknownst to them, the family is stalked by a spirit taking the form of a man with a rabbit mask who brings misfortune to anyone in the family who doesn't spend the harvest moon night watching the moon. The family as a whole is incredibly unlucky, but those who watch the harvest moon have had long lives. The family lived like this since the battle of Sekigahara.
Seizo Mochizuki (望月 政?, Mochizuki Seizō) and his wife Sae Mochizuki (望月 サエ, Mochizuki Sae) are the parents of Miwa, Yamato, and Sakuzo Mochizuki. The two of them put great importance on the moon viewing, with their family celebrating it together every year as told to Noboru. This allowed them to live long lives as Seizo died at 101 and Sae at 103 with both of them remaining in good health even past their 100th year.
Sakuzo Mochizuki (望月 作蔵, Mochizuki Sakuzō) is a son of Seizo Mochizuki. He married Mitsu and fathered two sons and one daughter, Noboru, Mamoru, and Akiko. He is the grandfather of Aki and Takeru. He died at the age of 46 by an allergic reaction to a hornet sting.
Akiko Mochizuki (望月 秋子, Mochizuki Akiko) is the third child and first daughter of Sakuzo Mochizuki. She is the sister to Mamoru and Noboru and the aunt of Aki and Takeru.
Mamoru Mochizuki (望月 護, Mochizuki Mamoru) is the second son of Sakuzo Mochizuki. He is the brother to Akiko and Noboru and the uncle of Aki and Takeru. He died at the age of 17 by drowning while attempting to save a neighbor's kid from drowning.
Aki Mochizuki's boyfriend. She had promised him they would go out but she had to stay home moon viewing with her family. After her family fell asleep for the night, she talks with him on the phone explaining why her plans changed. He informs her that he's already behind her home. He convinces her to come out and see him quickly. When she meets with him, the Moon Rabbit is about to kill her with misfortune by not staying with her family, however he pulls out a wedding ring and proposes to her in which she accepts. This saves her life as it forces the spirit to consider her no longer part of the Mochizuki family. He is last seen alongside Aki as the both of them walk to the backyard where the family resided.
A random motorcyclist driving nearby the Mochizuki home. They drive by Aki Mochizuki and her now fiancé along the road. The Moon Rabbit decided the driver will be forced to even the balance of the misfortune originally intended for Aki. Hornets fly by the driver's helmet and cause them to crash into a building, killing them.
Josuke's appearance is based on the musician Prince. His favorite musician is also Prince.[1]
The "1999" insignia on Josuke's shirt on the second cover of Chapter 266 is possibly a reference to Prince's song, 1999, which possibly inspired the year in which Diamond is Unbreakable takes place.
Akira Otoishi was modeled after young Kenji Ohtsuki, a Japanese rock musician and award-winning writer, considering their similar wavy hair and scar on the left side of the face
The pins on Akira's wrists read "AC" and "DC", likely referencing the Australian rock band, AC/DC.
In Chapter 297, Yukako quizzes Koichi on English before he is allowed to eat the breakfast she made for him, with the first question being "The musical artist Prince often sings about 'funky music'. Choose the best definition for 'funky music'?"
In Chapter 297, Koichi is struggling to enter the bathroom as Yukako set the combination to a lock on the door to the answer of the question "In what year did Columbus discover the New World?"
In Chapter 297, when Koichi is struggling to answer the question about Columbus that Yukako set as the combination to the lock to the bathroom, he tries to remember the title of a Ridley Scott movie but only can remember the "fourteen hundred" part since he didn't go see it. The movie in question is 1492: Conquest of Paradise.
In Chapter 304, Okuyasu drinks some water that heals his tiredness by releasing large amounts of tears from his eyes. He underplays this by claiming that he had presumably cried a lot more when watching the The Champ.
In Episode 24 of the TV Anime, in the final shot where Kira escapes, an advertisement for Austin Powers 2 can be seen on the cinema marquee.
In Chapter 266, Josuke is initially introduced being bullied by some upperclassmen. One of the bullies insults his hair by claiming it looks like Atom's. In his rage, Josuke mishears it as Sazae-san.
After Surface turns into Josuke, Surface asks him if he was familiar with the copy robot from Perman, a parody series by Doraemon author, Fujiko Fujio.
Judging by the screw on its face, Surface's design might have been based off Perman's eponymous robot character.[12]
