Denshattack! follows Emi Araki, a 19-year-old train driver and ramen courier, as she enters an underground rail culture populated by photographers, mechanics, performers, gang leaders, and other rebels. The public character material identifies Emi as the only playable character; the wider cast supplies the relationships, rival factions, upgrades, customization, and story pressure around her journey.
Spoiler-light character overview
Emi Araki
Emi is the playable protagonist. The official profile places her in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, where she drives an old train to deliver ramen. She is described as energetic and resilient, enthusiastic about trains, and a little shy. Her meeting with Fernando turns an everyday delivery route into an introduction to Denshattack and the people who have made the abandoned rail network their own.
Emi's role is important when reading the rest of the cast: the other named characters are not an alternate-character roster. An independent review used in the research identifies Emi as the only playable character, while friends and rivals shape the campaign around her.
Fernando Tamashiro
Fernando is a photographer and zine writer who travels around Japan documenting underground art and activist movements. He recognizes Emi's unusual train skill, encourages her to enter the Denshattacker scene, and becomes an early companion. The research source also describes him using collected photographs and footage to complete his zines, making documentation—not train combat—his distinctive contribution.
Yoshie Mitsutake
Yoshie is a wealthy Fukuoka kogal, influencer, and partygoer. Her official biography says local politicians barred her from public spaces, after which she organized other kogals into a gang that resists the traditional society that excluded them. That background presents her as more than a visual archetype: her public persona and resistance are tied to a specific conflict over who is allowed to occupy the city.
Madoka Sato
Madoka comes from Hiroshima and was once a baseball prodigy. According to the official profile, a violent temper ended her sports career. She later claimed territory on the abandoned rail network through force. Her athletic history, anger, and control of rail space explain why official character material positions her as a formidable rival rather than a member of Emi's starting crew.
Shin Ogiso and Fumihiko Kawamura
Shin and Fumihiko are childhood friends and rockabilly mechanics. Their families' car-tuning business became less relevant as oil grew scarce, so they moved to Shikoku and adapted those skills to Denshattack train engines. In gameplay terms, the reviewed material associates their garage with specialized train builds. Their story therefore connects the world's resource shortage to one of the player's practical upgrade systems.
Yamagata
Yamagata grew up in Namba while caring for younger siblings. His official profile says he refused to cooperate with corrupt police and instead established an outlaw rail network across the Kinki region. The profile emphasizes a reckless, principled, and defiant personality. Those traits are safe to know before playing; the exact consequences of his choices belong to the campaign.
Shihori Yoneda
Shihori is a Yakuza captain and heir to the Yoneda family. Her family uses Denshattack to maintain its criminal influence beyond the domes, and the official material describes her as a defender of the existing order. That makes her ideological position notably different from characters who use the rails to escape or challenge established power.
Suzuna Sei
Suzuna was a child star abandoned by the corporation that had managed her. She found a new audience among Denshattackers and, two decades later, leads a band-gang that performs on the tracks. Her profile links performance, celebrity, and rail culture without implying that every soundtrack performer is also a story character.
The crew, garage, and customization roles
The cast is not organized as a conventional party-selection screen. Emi remains the player character, while other people give the journey context and provide functions around the train.
- Fernando introduces Emi to the scene, accompanies her, and turns captured material into zines.
- Shin and Fumihiko are associated with the garage and specialized train builds.
- Kaoru is identified by the independent review as the operator of the sticker shop used for visual customization. The available official biography set does not provide a full profile for Kaoru, so this page does not invent one.
- Rival figures and gangs connect different regions, personalities, and challenges to the wider campaign.
Mild spoilers: factions and campaign pressure
The official profiles set up several competing uses of the rail network. Yoshie organizes an excluded kogal community. Madoka establishes territory through force. Yamagata builds an outlaw network after rejecting corrupt policing. Shihori's family uses the rails to preserve an existing criminal order. Suzuna turns the tracks into a stage and a community after the entertainment industry discarded her.
Those motivations matter because the campaign is not simply a sequence of anonymous obstacles. Official developer material says players encounter distinctive characters from different gangs while travelling through Japan and reclaiming the railways. Boss encounters, regional identities, and personalities are connected, even though the research does not support a complete boss-to-character table without deeper spoilers.
What the public roster does and does not cover
The official Steam article is a promoted set of major voiced characters, not a claim that it lists every minor NPC, gang member, minion, or credits-roll role. Likewise, the official “Meet the Crew” trailer directly names Emi, Madoka, and Yoshie, then teases unknown characters rather than identifying a complete roster.
This guide uses official biographies first, an independent review only for visible gameplay functions, and omits details absent from both rather than filling gaps from memory, wikis, or automated captions.
The voice actors are documented separately in the English and Japanese cast guide. Creator skins and their extra voice clips are also a different category; see the creator codes guide rather than adding those cameos to the story roster.
Sources and verification
- All Aboard: The Denshattack! Voice Cast is Here! — first-party biographies and the principal promoted cast; accessed in the source research on August 18–19, 2026.
- Denshattack! — Meet the Crew — official publisher character trailer naming Emi, Madoka, and Yoshie.
- Denshattack! — Deep Dive with the Developers — official discussion of gangs, characters, levels, and bosses.
- Denshattack! Review: Seizing the Means of Movement — independent account of Emi, Fernando, the garage, and the sticker shop; gameplay interpretation rather than an official design document.
Limitations: the official article is not presented as an exhaustive NPC list, and the review's thematic conclusions remain the reviewer's interpretation. Automated captions were not used for character-name spellings, and this page deliberately omits unverified late-story details.