Hajime Shibata

Hajime Shibata is a journalist by profession with a single daughter called Tsugumi. After first investigating the Jigoku Shouji out of interest he becomes almost obsessed with her. He disagrees with the morality of her actions in taking out people’s revenge for them but Tsugumi is not so sure that her actions are all bad.

Tsugumi link to Enma allows him to find the people requesting revenge and try and convince them against making the contract. However in most cases people still carry out there revenge despite his requests. While always tailing Enma he can never actually see her nor does he notice any of her assistants.

His wife died in the car crash and he is left bringing up his daughter on his own. He feels a lot of guilt for the nature of how she died which becomes a major part of the plot later in the series. Hajime is a charming person finding it easy to get information from people he meets investigating people surrounding a revenge.