History Characters / DanceInTheVampireBund

* FailureKnight: They failed to protect Queen Lucretia from being killed by the Three Clans. Now, they swear to protect their new Queen Mina to make up for their failure. [[spoiler:They end up giving up their lives while protecting Mina.]]

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: They really don't have a high opinion of a werewolf's long life, because as they say, "all you get are wrinkles and regrets."

* ImplacableMan: He's next to impossible to bring down. [[spoiler:In fact, when he was getting shot to pieces by a number of Rozenmann's soldiers, he just charged at them at took them with him when he jumped off a ledge.]]

[[folder:Lord Edward and Lord Connery]]
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[[caption-width-right:175:Lord Edward]]

[[caption-width-right:200:Lord Connery]]

* BadassBookworm: Lord Edward was a scholar before he joined the senate. That's right, even werewolf bookworms can kick a ton of ass.
* BadassLongcoat: They wear longcoats in volume 13.
* CaptainErsatz: Lord Connery just so happens to resemble a certain Scottish actor. Bonus points that he's even wearing Sean Connery's outfit from Highlander. Lord Ernest is based on Ernest Borgnine, Antonio on Anthony Quinn and Edward on Edward Fox.
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: Lord Edward delivers one: "Weapons these days have no quality at all. I must register a complaint with the smiths."
* HeterosexualLifePartners: They seem to be especially close. It's telling that when the five of them held off Rozenmann's army, they split up to fight alone, but Ernest and Connery fought [[BackToBackBadasses back-to-back]] until the end.
* NiceHat: Lord Connery wears one in volume 13.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Lord Connery dies taking a spear that would have hit Ernest in the back.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: They're constantly ribbing each other, but they're closer to each other than they are to the other senators.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Alija remorsefully confesses that, as a soldier in the Yugoslavian Wars, he participated in horrible crimes as well. [[CycleOfRevenge "As they did to us, I did to them."]]

* MyGreatestFailure: Blames himself for failing to protect his Katja. Even worse for him is the knowledge that they killed her alone of all the women because she broke under rape and torture and declared her father was a soldier.

* DepravedHomosexual: He has a romantic attraction to Akira that's quickly revealed to be a {{Yandere}} level obsession. His ways of expressing his "love" for Akira involve repeated betrayals and murder attempts.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Scott had lost all his sons long ago, with Angie the only surviving member of his family. [[spoiler:He believes this blinded him to Angie's treachery.]]

[[folder:The Earth Clan Senate]]

* TheArcher: Scott seems to favor a bow with gigantic arrows that can easily gore three men at once.
* BackToBackBadasses: Unlike the others, who all fought alone [[spoiler:against Rozenmann's army]], Lords Ernest and Connery fought together and [[spoiler:Lord Connery even died taking a spear that would have hit Ernest in the back.]]
* BadassBoast: Lord Scott gives one which doubles as a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Rozenmann and his entire army:
-->''"It was not long ago that Rozenmann's army was a thing of exquisite magnificence. Their disciplined lines and intimidating numbers could crush any foe. They were rightly known as an army of terror. But what of you now? Whence the rugged lines of heavy infantry? Whence the waves of polished spearheads, charging towards the enemy? Now you are naught but a mob of weaklings! You have grown old, Rozenmann! Old and frail! This will hardly be a battle at all! Let us show you what it truly means to be a warrior!"''
* BadassBookworm: Lord Edward, who was a scholar before he joined the senate. That's right, even werewolf bookworms can kick a ton of ass.
* BadassLongcoat: Lords Edward and Connery wear them in volume 13.

* BladeOnAStick: Lord Ernest's weapon of choice.

* BoisterousBruiser: All of them. The very best of Beowulf are terrified of them because they consider sparring matches in which they reportedly shatter bones to be good fun.
* CaptainErsatz: Lord Connery just so happens to resemble a certain Scottish actor. Bonus points that he's even wearing Sean Connery's outfit from Highlander. Lord Ernest is based on Ernest Borgnine, Antonio on Anthony Quinn and Edward on Edward Fox.

* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:Scott.]]
* DirtyOldMan: Oh good lord, all of them except for possibly Scott. He was as much of a [[TheCasanova casanova]] in his days as they were, but in the current storyline, we haven't seen him in the presence of any women except for Princess Mina, so we can't say for sure whether he's as perverted as his friends or not.
* DropTheHammer: Befitting his status as the group's BigGuy, Lord Antonio seems to really like using heavy bludgeoning instruments. When all the other senators use swords or spears, he uses a giant sledgehammer. When all of the senators decided to use maces and hammers against an extremely resilient foe, he used a massive concrete street post instead.
* EyepatchOfPower: Lord Ernest wears one.
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: Lord Edward: "Weapons these days have no quality at all. I must register a complaint with the smiths."

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Lord Ernest is covered in scars.
* HeartbrokenBadass: All of them, for outliving their beloved queen. [[spoiler: Scott has outlived all his children, and his only remaining child was a traitor.]]

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Lords Ernest and Connery seem to be especially close. [[spoiler:It's telling that when the five of them held off Rozenmann's army, they split up to fight alone, but Ernest and Connery fought [[BackToBackBadasses back-to-back]] until the end.]]
* ILetGwenStacyDie: Their beloved Queen Lucretia.

* ImplacableMan: Lord Antonio is next to impossible to bring down. [[spoiler:In fact, when he was getting shot to pieces by a number of Rozenmann's soldiers, he just charged at them at took them with him when he jumped off a ledge.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: During the fight with Ivanovic's berserker werewolves, Antonio just rips out a giant pillar from the wall and begins clubbing his enemies with it.
* MercyKill: Lord Ernest views the slaying of Ivanovic's werewolves as this, given Ivanovic had the poor things tortured into insanity. After the battle, he informs the corpse of one he'd slain to come for him in Valhalla should he still bear a grudge in the next world.
* MyGreatestFailure: All of them see Lucretia's death as this. [[spoiler: Scott is later torn by guilt for not seeing Angie was a traitor. Scott had lost all his sons long ago, with Angie the only surviving member of his family. Scott believes this blinded him to Angie's treachery.]]
* NiceHat: Lord Connery wears one in volume 13.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: They tend to act pretty silly and carefree, Scott excepted. Don't think that makes them any less badass.

* OneManArmy: They take on Rozenmann's entire army to buy Akira and Mina time to escape and utterly annihilate them, [[spoiler:unfortunately selling their lives in the process.]]
* TheQuietOne: Lord Antonio, who's only ever said a single line in his very first scene.

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:All of them are joyful at the end of their lives, because they can finally return to their queen's side.]]

* UnwantedAssistance: [[spoiler:Lord Scott tells Angie not to interfere in his final battle. While they've chosen different leaders, they're still wolves and Angie cannot sully a warrior's last stand. Angie is driven to tears by his grandfather's words.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: Lords Ernest and Connery. They're constantly ribbing each other, but they're closer to each other than they are to the other senators.
* WhoWantsToLiveForEver: They really don't have a high opinion of a werewolf's long life, because as they say, "all you get are wrinkles and regrets."

!!Werewolf Rookies
[[folder:Yuuhi Regendorf]]
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Akira's younger brother. His werewolf characteristics first manifested until he was six years old, causing his training to start later than other werewolves. Akira didn't want Yuuhi to get involved in his dangerous lifestyle at first, but later trains him himself.

* AgentPeacock: In ''A.S.O.'', Yuuhi has grown into a very feminine-looking LongHairedPrettyBoy and he's a very capable werewolf rookie who makes his brother proud with his skills.
* AscendedExtra: He had a very minor role in the first series, but later becomes one of the main characters in ''A.S.O.''
* AttractiveBentGender: Yuuhi looks incredibly pretty when dressed as a girl, to the point Phoebe gets a crush on him that remains even after learning about his true gender.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a sweet boy, but mess with his loved ones and he will have little compunction about literally ripping your throat out, as Angie learned the hard way while tormenting Akira where Yuuhei could see it.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Inverted. Yuuhi ''won't'' let anyone get away with picking on his dear older brother. Angie tried it and ended up getting bitten on the throat for it.
* BigBrotherWorship: He absolutely adores his older brother who he calls "Onii-chama". This trait remains even when he's a young teenager, causing Phoebe to tease him about his brother complex.
* {{Bishonen}}: In ''A.S.O.'', Yuuhi has grown into a teenage boy with a very girly and cute face.
* ButNotTooForeign: Like Akira, Yuuhi is the son of a German man and a Japanese woman.
* CovertPervert: While he never acts perverted, he nonchalantly joins Phoebe in the shower despite knowing about Phoebe's assigned sex and hugs Phoebe while putting his hands on Phoebe's chest and crotch.
* {{Foil}}: In ''A.S.O.'', he becomes this to Angie. Both are {{Long Haired Pretty Boy}}s initially mistaken for women and are very important people to Akira who they adore. However, Angie's twisted love has made him repeatedly betray Akira's trust and hurt him and his other loved ones. While Angie did care about Sanin and Graham in the ritual, he always put Akira first [[spoiler:and ended up trying to kill Sanin for planning to kill Akira]]. On the other hand, Yuuhi's love and admiration for his brother are healthy and he would never betray anyone.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: He befriends a large Gargantua werewolf who keeps saving his life.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When a white tiger appears in the grounds of the ritual, Yuuhi orders his friends to leave the deer meat they're carrying behind so the tiger stops chasing them. Phoebe insists four werewolves can take down a tiger, but Yuuhi doesn't want any of his friends to end up hurt or even dead.
* TheLeader: He acts as the leader of the werewolf rookies, being the most levelheaded and coming up with rational solutions to the problems he and his friends face.
* LivingMacGuffin: Yuuhi is the target of "Father's" generals to get leverage on Akira, by kidnapping him and holding him hostage.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Yuuhi has let his hair grow long as a young teenager. This is one of the reasons why Phoebe mistook him for a pretty girl at first. He later confesses that he did this to look like a girl since his chosen partner Phoebe identifies as male.
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: His father told him about Phoebe from a young age as Phoebe was also a young werewolf without a partner. Over the years, Yuuhi became very interested in making Phoebe his partner and even decided to grow long hair to "be a girl" because Phoebe identifies as a boy. When he first saw Phoebe in person at New York, Yuuhi had no doubt Phoebe was his destiny.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Yuuhi is gentle and looks like a girl, in contrast to his chosen partner Phoebe who is a very masculine UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} boy. Yuuhi actually [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this as he thought he should be the "girl" of the relationship since Phoebe identifies as male.
* MultiEthnicName: Like his brother, Yuuhi has a Japanese given name and a German surname.
* NiceGuy: He's a very sweet, patient, and mature boy.
* OppositesAttract: With Phoebe. Yuuhi is calm, patient, and cautious, in contrast to his partner Phoebe who is impulsive, emotional, and hotheaded.
* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: He's ten years younger than his older brother Akira.
* RedOniBlueOni: He's the more mature and calm Blue Oni to Phoebe's rash and overly emotional Red Oni.
* SecretKeeper: At first, Yuuhi is the only one of the rookies who knew that Phoebe is a UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} boy. Aaron and Cal find out until after they see Phoebe naked at the start of the rite of passage ritual.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Yuuhi wanted no one but Phoebe to be his partner. He also loves Phoebe regardless of the gender Phoebe identifies as.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Phoebe makes a joke that Yuuhi is so girly that his naked body could make Aaron and Cal get an erection when they're dropped in the snow naked at the start of the ritual.
* SupremeChef: He learned cooking from his brother and his friends enjoy the food he prepares.
* TeamChef: He cooks for his friends during the ritual, having studied primitive cooking methods to make soup in a cave.
* TransgenderFetishization: As a teenager, he looks like a cute girl and his naked scenes are numerous.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: He wholeheartedly accepts and respects his partner Phoebe's male identity. He loves Phoebe just for being Phoebe.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Yuuhi has taken to looking and dressing like a girl over the time-skip between Sledgehammer and ASO. He did this because he heard Phoebe liked cute girls.
* WiseBeyondHisYears: He's only fourteen in ''A.S.O.'', but he already has a great level of maturity and calmness for his age.

[[folder:Phoebe Schroeder]]
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A young werewolf who escaped from "The Pure Church" in the US and lived in New York with a caretaker named Holden until Yuuhi arrives to recruit Phoebe shortly after Holden was killed. During the werewolves' ritual site, Phoebe is revealed to be a very rare werewolf that is physically/genetically of the female sex, but identifies as the male gender.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Phoebe wants to be seen as a werewolf, not as a "girl" and gets rather cross with preferential treatment due to his sex.
* EtTuBrute: Subverted. After Tatianna tells Phoebe that Yuuhi, Aaron, and Cal were selected as his companions in the ritual so they could impregnant him, Phoebe feels betrayed and scared, not having any idea of who he should trust anymore. Yuuhi then tells Phoebe that he went to New York for him because he always wanted Phoebe to be his intertwined branch and truly loves him. Encouraged by Holden's final message to trust people, Phoebe believes Yuuhi.
* FearlessFool: Even though Yuuhi told everyone to stay away from the tiger, Phoebe still goes after the animal to get their deer meat back because he wants to prove that he's a strong werewolf to his friends. If Tatianna hadn't been around, Phoebe would have been eaten.
* FirstPeriodPanic: When his first period hits in the middle of the werewolves' ritual, Phoebe's response is confusion, shock, and unmitigated terror, thinking he was wounded by the True Ancestor's EliteMooks.
* GenderBlenderName: Phoebe initially doesn't like the name Holden gave him because it's a girl's name. He embraces it after Yuuhi tells him Holden named him after a character who is the sister of a guy named Holden from his favorite book.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Phoebe identifies as a heterosexual boy, but he develops a crush on the WholesomeCrossdresser Yuuhi and learning that Yuuhi is a boy doesn't change his feelings.
* LivingMacGuffin: Being a rare female werewolf who can transform, Phoebe is sought out to use as a BabyFactory (though it turns out this practice was banned some time ago).
* LoveAtFirstSight: Phoebe is attracted to Yuuhi's feminine beauty from the moment they first see each other. Despite being surprised to find out Yuuhi is a boy, Phoebe confesses to still think of Yuuhi as his destined partner.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: With Yuuhi. Phoebe looks and acts masculine in contrast to Yuuhi who looks and acts feminine to accommodate to Phoebe's male identity.
* MeaningfulName: His caretaker Holden named Phoebe after the character in ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' who was the sister of the character also named Holden. Yuuhi says this is proof of how much Holden loved Phoebe because the book's Phoebe is the most important person to her Holden.
* OppositesAttract: With Yuuhi. Phoebe is impulsive, emotional, and hotheaded, in contrast to Yuuhi who is calm, patient, and cautious.
* PastExperienceNightmare: Phoebe has recurring nightmares of the attack on the Pack 42 village where he sees the soldiers trying to capture him and people sacrificing themselves to protect him.
* RedOniBlueOni: The emotional and impulsive Red Oni to Yuuhi's more calm and rational Blue Oni.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Tatianna reveals the AwfulTruth about the Earth Clan planning to use Phoebe as a BabyFactory, he leaves the ritual site with Tatianna in disgust and rage. However, Mina later reveals Tatianna was lying and Mina had already banned that BabyFactory practice long ago.
* SurvivorGuilt: As Phoebe gets back his memories, he feels terribly guilty and mournful for the people at Pack 42 that sacrificed themselves to help him escape, especially after Phoebe learns that Cal's pregnant mother was one of the casualties.
* TransgenderFetishization: Phoebe identifies as a boy and he's frequently shown naked, most notably in the scene where Aaron and Cal realize the truth of Phoebe's female sex when they're dropped naked in the snow.
* TransTribulations: When he comes out to his new friends Aaron and Cal, they start treating Phoebe like a girl which he finds frustrating and makes him feel the need to prove himself as a male werewolf. To make it worse for him, his period hits at the most inconvenient of times when he and his friends are being pursued by enemies. On top of experiencing gender dysphoria, his weakened state makes him feel like a burden to his friends.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Phoebe had lost his memories due to the trauma of the attack on Pack 42 and witnessing so many people die while helping him escape.

[[folder:Aaron and Cal]]
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The sons of Remus and Romulus respectively. Aaron and Cal are Yuuhi's friends and after a rough start because of the tragedy of Pack 42, they eventually befriend Phoebe too. They join Yuuhi and Phoebe in their rite of passage ritual.
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* FireForgedFriends: Akira sends them along with Yuuhi and Phoebe on a mission in the deserted surface of the Bund so Aaron and Cal warm up to Phoebe and they can become friends. It works.
* HowDoIShotWeb: It takes them a while to figure out how to enter werewolf form so they don't freeze to death in the ritual.
* InterruptedSuicide: Aaron is brainwashed and nearly forced into a PsychicAssistedSuicide by Minmei's kidnappers. He's saved by the Gargantua werewolf who knocks Aaron out before he shoots himself in the mouth.
* MissionControl: While everyone else infiltrates the Li army's base, Aaron stays outside to monitor the situation from the computer.
* MrExposition: Aaron gives the InfoDump of the situation and dangers he and his friends face.
* RedOniBlueOni: Aaron is the more intellectual Blue Oni to Cal's brash Red Oni.
* TheyDiedBecauseOfYou: Cal is initially resentful towards Phoebe because his pregnant mother never returned after the attack on Pack 42 where she sacrificed herself to help Phoebe escape to New York. After Phoebe remembers Cal's mother's final moments and Cal sees just how guilty Phoebe feels about it, he realizes it wasn't Phoebe's fault and befriends him.
* UndyingLoyalty: After they hear the Earth Clan intends to use Phoebe as a BabyFactory, Aaron and Cal would choose to spend their lives on the run with Phoebe before letting something that disgraceful happen to their friend. They're relieved when Akira and Mina tell them the forced reproduction of werewolves was banned long ago.

!Humans
[[folder:Inspector Seiji Hama]]
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The appointed liaison between Bund Security and the Japanese police. Though he is now in the Japanese civil-service, he was once a very well known mercenary called "Sledgehammer." Seiji Hama is the son of a Japanese woman and a Native American man who lost his parents at a young age and ended up joining the United States special forces until he was critically injured on a mission in Colombia. Accepting a chance to be more than a helpless cripple, he was used in an experimental procedure by Rozenmann's forces, becoming an artificial Beast Man forced to serve Rozenmann until he found a chance for freedom. His fate is inextricably linked to Reiko Gotoh as well.

* ActionDad: In the sequel seven years later, Hama is now the proud father of Reiko's daughter and is still as much of a badass. His daughter loves him for this and wants to be able to fight like him.
* ArchEnemy: To [[spoiler: Bolton]], who has been present at almost all of the live-changing events of Hama's life and carries a deep hatred for Hama.
* AnArmAndALeg: At Bogota, his torturers cut off his arms and legs with a chainsaw. He grew back the limbs thanks to the modifications done to him by Rozenmann's scientists.
* BreakoutCharacter: He's apparently popular enough to warrant his own side-story: ''Memories of Sledgehammer''.
* BrokenAce: Let's face it, the guy's good at almost everything. Despite this, Hama carries a ''lot'' of baggage in being forced to serve Rozenmann for the sake of his life and his men. He's also tormented by how he blames himself for the death of Reiko's sister Nicole Edelman.
* ButNotTooForeign: His father was a Navajo Native American and his mother was Japanese.
* TheChampion: Much like Akira would do anything for Mina, Hama would do anything to protect Reiko.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:When he still was under Rozenmann's orders, he had an escape plan, that was later on used by Akira to escape the Bund under the fake Mina's nose. Furthermore, his mercenary past left him with a lot of acquaintances in the CIA that were extremely helpful in finding Mina's whereabouts.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Once defeated by Akira-and when Reiko is safe- he defects to Mina's side.
* EmergencyTransformation: After he was captured by enemy soldiers during Eli's rescue, Hama was tortured, mutilated and burned alive. He agreed to let Rozenmann's scientists transform him into a werepanther in order to survive and get his missing limbs back.
* FairCop: He's a very handsome and {{hunk}}y cop.
* FamedInStory: He has quite the reputation as a legendary mercenary called "Sledgehammer," so much that he has the full respect of the Beowulf Guard.
* AFatherToHisMen: [[spoiler:Although they were almost all killed before he was even introduced,]] it is clear that Seiji is extremely dedicated to his men. [[spoiler:As he sat in a cell, waiting for Mina's judgement, he cared more about how the bodies of his men were treated than he did for whatever unpleasant fate awaited him, and he was visibly relieved when the Beowulfs told him that despite being their enemies, his men were honourable and worthy opponents, and were treated as such.]] We see in the past that Hama was a soldier who cared deeply for the lives of his men who were willing to die for him.
* ForcedIntoEvil: He's introduced as one of the assassins targeting Akira, but he isn't at all evil, just temporarily forced to side against the heroes because Rozenmann threatened Reiko's life if Hama didn't go back to work for him.
* FriendToAllChildren: Hama absolutely loves kids. The Fangless Children idolize him, and he practically wiped out a Cartel force by himself to rescue the toddler daughter of a Colombian senator.
* HappilyMarried: By the third series, Hama is married to Reiko and they have a daughter. Albeit business often keeps them apart, Hama loves his wife and daughter very much, taking out all enemies that target their lives.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: After he thought he was free from Rozenmann's clutches, he's forced to work as an assassin for him once more when the leaders of the Three Clans make a bet on whose assassin can kill Akira. After Akira wins their fight, Mina makes sure Gotoh is safe from Rozenmann and Hama is finally let free. He stays an ally to Mina and Akira for the rest of the series.
* IOweYouMyLife: One of the reasons he's so devoted to Councilor Gotoh is because she saved both him and the few of his men who survived [[spoiler:the assault on Mina's castle]] when they were abandoned by the people who sent them in the first place. However, it turns out this goes ''both'' ways; the two have known each other for a long time and have been rescuing one another ever since they met.
* InsecureLoveInterest: He's deeply in love with Reiko, but doesn't believe he has the right to be with her due to [[spoiler:her sister dying in a failed suicide bomb mission in a pointless attempt to avenge him, not knowing he had survived the attack on Mina's mansion]]. After Reiko tells him she loves him despite of that, they get married.
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: He should have died when he was tortured and mutilated at Bogota. Rozenmann's experiments saved his life by transforming him into an artificial werepanther. However, he still needs to take injections regularly or he will die. [[spoiler:By the start of A.S.O., Hama has received the treatment he needed to expand his lifespan without depending on the injections anymore.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight: He has loved Reiko since the first time they met at Afghanistan.
* MyGreatestFailure: When Hama carried out the assault on Mina in the first volume which resulted in his men being slaughtered, Nicole Edelmann believed he was dead and attempted to perform a suicide bombing on Mina as retribution. Hama blames himself for Nicole's death.
* {{Nephewism}}: His father was a soldier killed during a naval operation and his mother committed suicide when he was only ten years old. He was then raised by his only remaining relative, his paternal uncle, until the latter was assassinated in a political conflict.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: He got fired from the American army because he disobeyed orders in order to rescue a civilian (Reiko) who was held hostage at Afghanistan. When he was working as a mercenary at Bogota, he went to rescue the kidnapped 4-year-old daughter of a cabinet minister. As a result, he was captured, tortured and horribly mangled. He only survived thanks to becoming a test subject in Rozenmann's artificial beastman project.
* NominalVillain: He's just an honourable soldier whose values would (and do) make the Beowulf proud, but someone he cares for was used as a hostage by one of the bad guys to gain his services.
* OneManArmy: Even when he was fully human, Hama has shown he could wipe out an entire group of Afghan Militants and Colombian Cartel soldiers without much issue. As an Artificial Beastman, he's even stronger.
* PapaWolf: Don't touch his daughter if you don't want him to blow you apart with a grenade launcher.
* RedBaron: He's widely known as a legendary mercenary called "Sledgehammer."
* RelationshipUpgrade: He's clearly deeply in love with Reiko Gotoh, but keeps her at an arm's length due to guilt over his own relationship with Reiko's twin sister Nicole and Nicole's death. At the end of ''Memories of Sledge Hammer'', Hama and Reiko finally [[OfficialCouple make a relationship official]].
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Hama disobeyed orders in Afghanistan to rescue a woman who turned out to be Reiko Gotoh (the first time he'd ever meet her). He describes this as the first decision he'd ever made for himself and he will never have regrets for it.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: He's never seen with any weapon besides a shotgun.
* SingleTargetSexuality: He has never loved anyone but Reiko. He did date Reiko's sister Nicole for a while, but only because Nicole was making herself pass as Reiko to get close to him. As soon as he realized the truth, Hama made clear he could only love Reiko.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Hama has managed to foil a shocking number of carefully constructed plots he's not even really aware of just by doing the right thing. A notable example was his first meeting with Reiko when he saved her in Afghanistan. [[spoiler: Bolton's fanatics staged a mock execution to get her father to confess to the location of the Edelman Report. When it looked like he was finally going to break... Seiji saved the day and foiled the plan.]]
* SuperSoldier: He's the sole successful human experiment of Rozenmann's secret project to create artificial beastmen soldiers. Because of this, Hama can transform into a werepanther with capacities equal to werewolves.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:He kept Nicole's pendant after the latter's failed suicide bomb attempt on Mina. This pendant is also the key to getting the Edelman Report that Nicole and her father were working on.]]
* WorthyOpponent: The Beowulfs see him as one because of his strength, his reputation as a skilled mercenary, his dedication to his men, and his sense of honor.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The process to turn him into an Artificial Beastman wasn't quite perfect, leading to him regularly needing to inject himself with a serum to prolong his life, though his lifespan has been massively shortened. [[spoiler: It's revealed at the end of Memories of Sledge Hammer it should be possible to grant him a normal lifespan.]]

[[folder: Gotoh]]
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The previous Mediator for the human and vampire worlds of Japan.
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* BadassBureaucrat: He has been the Mediator for several decades for a reason [[spoiler:though that may be due to other circumstances]].
* TheChessmaster: He helped orchestrate the attacks on vampire citizens not in the Bund and is [[spoiler:revealed to be on in ''Scarlet Order'' as he was the one to motivate Katie into overthrowing Mina to get information about the Akitama]].
* FantasticRacism: His main drive to kill all the vampires in Japan as he wished to save the 'purity' of his nation by using a program called Pied Piper to have all vampires in hiding come out during the day and burn themselves alive.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: He condescendingly calls Josephine, his own granddaughter, a mixed blood half-breed due to her American father.
* MartyrdomCulture: He was willing to die for his plan to succeed, even goading his own granddaughter into killing him.
* NoFullNameGiven: His given name isn't mentioned, but we know his surname through his granddaughter.
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[[folder:Josephine Reiko Gotoh]]
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A counselor who works in negotiations between the Japanese government and the Bund. She's also Hama's boss and most important person.

* BadassBureaucrat: She's hellbent in preserving peace between humans and vampires through politics. One of the best examples is when she tells [[spoiler:her terrorist grandfather]] to his face that she won't hesitate to order a sniper to shoot him dead [[spoiler:if he doesn't hand over the device that controls the nanomachines implanted in the vampires of the Li clan]].
* ButNotTooForeign: She's half-Japanese. Her father was American.
* HappilyMarried: Reiko and Hama are married with a little daughter by the time of the third series. They were separated for a few years both because of his treatment and him hunting down people targeting Reiko's life. When they reunite, the family couldn't be happier to be together again.
* IOweYouMyLife: Hama saved her from a mock execution staged by Bolton's fanatics.
* InterrogatedForNothing: The VampireHunter sect kidnaps her because they believe she must know where her sister Nicole hid the Edelman Report, a detailed account of vampire and human social relations. However, Gotoh didn't even see Nicole since their parents' divorce and she never heard of the Edelman Report before.
* IronLady: Her job is to maintain the political balance between humans and vampires. She does her work with a very professional and strong-willed disposition.
* MultiEthnicName: Her middle and last name are Japanese, but her first name Josephine is Western.
* NomDeMom: Her father's surname was Edelman, but Reiko has the surname Gotoh because she was chosen for her mother's family's job as the mediator between humans and vampires. Her twin sister Nicole did have the surname of her father due to being sent to live with him at USA.
* RelationshipUpgrade: She becomes an OfficialCouple with Hama at the end of ''Memories of Sledge Hammer''.
* RescueRomance: She first met Hama when he rescued her from a HostageSituation at Afghanistan. Since then, she has thought of him as her beloved guardian angel.

[[folder:Jessica Harlin]]
Jessica Harlin is a single mother and stripper living in New York, trying to make ends meet to support her little daughter Susie. By pure chance, Jessica finds a starving, exhausted Mina and believing her to just be an ordinary little girl, takes her in before discovering she has the queen of the vampires in her little apartment.

* AlphaBitch: In the past, she was this in school. She got a hefty dose of reality after a few years in New York and became a much better person.
* DamselInDistress: Jessica is captured by Rozenmann's men to force Mina's cooperation.
* DumbBlond: Jessica's not the smartest person around.
* FallenPrincess: Jessica went from the most popular girl at high school and prom queen to a struggling SingleMomStripper after being abandoned by her husband.
* GoodParents: Jessica loves her baby daughter and honestly wants to give her a good life despite how much she struggles to provide for them both.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: She works as a pole dancer, but that's because she has no other way to provide for her baby daughter. She is one of the kindest people around and a perfect example of how Mina and Akira's faith in humanity can pay off.
* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler: Jessica blames herself for Rozenmann recapturing Mina, though Akira assures her it wasn't her fault.]]
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: After knowing the real identity of the girl she just took in, Jessica considered turning into a vampire. It would mean eternal beauty, never getting ill, and never aging. It would be perfect to continue her career and thus give Susie a better life. However, Mina talks her out of it by making her see that being immortal would mean eventually outliving Susie and possibly living a lonely eternal life.
* MamaBear: Jessica has no reservation mouthing off to a pedophile gang leader who makes no secret of his interest in her little daughter Susie. Even when said pedophile is revealed to be a vampire, Jessica has no hesitation threatening him if he touches her daughter.
* SingleMomStripper: Jessica pays the bills and provides for her daughter through stripping.
* StrugglingSingleMother: Susie's father went out 'for milk' when he found out Jessica was pregnant. Never came back. Jessica has been struggling to raise Susie on her own since. She couldn't find a good job, forcing her to become a SingleMomStripper.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Mina surrenders back to Rozenmann on his retainer Gerhard's assurances he will not harm Susie and Jessica. Gerhard promises, but Gabe, the pedophile vampire crime boss makes it very clear he has zero intention of not coming back for Susie. [[spoiler: Gerhard has zero issue with Mina ripping Gabe in half before she surrenders and allows Susie and Jessica to go free.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: After knowing the real identity of the girl she just took in, Jessica considered turning into a vampire, but when Mina told her that she would watch her daughter grow old to the point where she would die in her arms, she changes her mind.

[[folder:Sister Laura]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Yuu Kamonomiya (JP), Jessica Cavanagh (EN), Maggie Vera (LA)
A teacher at the school founded by Mina.

* GoodShepherd: She's a nun and believes that her students are her flock.
-->'''Sister Laura:''' ''Protecting you is my duty as an educator and servant of God''
* NaughtyNuns: AvertedTrope. She acts with the decorum expected of a "servant of God". [[spoiler: This is why Jean-Marais wanted to give her the KissOfTheVampire and make her invoke it.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's sympathetic to the students whether they are human or vampire, and doesn't approve of the way the new students are behaving.

[[folder:Ruli]]
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An upcoming singer who was kidnapped and bitten by vampires to be sold in the black market. She's found by Akira Fujisaki in an abandoned house at the Bund and both go on a quest to find the guy who has the vaccine that can make them human again. Ruli and Akira fall in love, but Akira lets Ruli get the only vaccine shot left so she can continue singing for him in the human world.

* BeautifulSingingVoice: She's praised as having the singing voice of an angel.
* DamselInDistress: In the last chapter of ''Dive'', she's kidnapped by the men who wanted to get back at Akira for busting their child trafficking ring, driving Akira to go and save her.
* GirlInABox: Akira first finds her inside a large briefcase.
* IdolSinger: In ''Scarlet Order'', Ruli has managed to become one of the most popular singers in Japan and joined the Music Division of Mina's Ministry of Culture in the Bund to help the relationships between humans and vampires.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Her boyfriend Akira becomes an ageless vampire while she'll eventually grow old and die as a human. Despite that, Ruli wants to be as close to Akira as she can be.
* NakedFirstImpression: She's naked when Akira finds her inside a briefcase.
* NakedOnArrival: She first appears naked inside a briefcase.
* OfficialCouple: She and Akira are stated to be dating in ''Scarlet Order'', although they still can't see each other much because of her tight schedule.
* OnlyOneName: She's only ever known as "Ruli" and any surname has never been mentioned.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: She does have some background and her career as a singer, but her role in ''Dive'' is mainly focused on being Akira's love interest.

[[folder:Maria Isabel Garcia]]
The daughter of the Colombian president. She escorts Nanami and Yuzuru back to Japan in the side-story ''Memories of Sledgehammer'', but she really came to meet Seiji Hama, the man who saved her life when she was kidnapped ten years ago.

* DamselOutOfDistress: When captured by the VampireHunter sect, Eli dislocates her thumb to free herself from the handcuffs and saves Gotoh from having a pear of anguish shoved into her vagina.
* InSeriesNickname: She's nicknamed "Eli" because "Isabel" is an Spanish variation of "Elizabeth".
* PrecociousCrush: She has had a big crush on a man 20 years older than her since she was only four years old.
* RescueRomance: Ever since the day Hama saved her from her kidnappers, she has wanted to marry him.
* TraumaButton: When she and Gotoh are surrounded by the mercenaries of the VampireHunter sect, the sound of guns firing at them causes Eli to panic as this brings back the traumatic memories of her kidnapping when she was four.
* YoungerThanSheLooks: She's fourteen years old, but Mina and Gotoh admit Eli has very developed figure for a girl of her age.

[[folder:Nicole Hama]]
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The daughter of Seiji Hama and Josephine Reiko Gotoh. She appears in the third manga series.

A CNN Newscaster and Counselor's twin sister. She turned into a vampire to attempt a suicide bomb on Mina during a press conference. She's stopped by Akira and killed by Vera.

* IdenticalTwinIDTag: She and Gotoh are identical twins. The only thing that's different is the place of their beauty marks (Nicole's is on her chin while Gotoh's is on the corner of her left eye).

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:His mother raised him to be a cold emperor who only does anything for the glory of the Li clan. However, he's very disturbed and unwilling when his mother orders him to rape his own sister to produce an heir. Even after she tried forcing him to do it, Li can't go through with it.]]

* BenevolentBoss: Her maids are utterly devoted to her, and it's strongly implied she rescued them from the streets once upon a time. Mina also cherishes each and every one of those who swears themselves to her.

* BrokenPedestal: Minmei respect Mina as her queen and benefactor who gave her a home. In the Li clan arc, however, [[spoiler:Mina has Minister Ryu act as a spy and kidnap Minmei to get the chance to infiltrate the Li clan and put Minmei in power. When Mina wants to kill Emperor Li, Minmei defends him and she confronts Mina about using her as a tool for revenge against the Three Clans. Even though Mina thought Emperor Li was a cruel monster, he protected Minmei from the corrupt court and has sworn to help her lead the clan in the way she deems right, so Minmei no longer knows how much to believe Mina.]]

[[folder:Minmei]]

* CommonalityConnection: Unexpectedly, she bonds with [[spoiler:her twin brother, the Emperor Li,]] through their shared love for poetry.
* DamselInDistress: In ''A.S.O.'', Minmei is captured by the Li clan [[spoiler:because she's Emperor Li's long-lost twin sister and the court is planning to force the siblings to conceive a child together, although luckily for Minmei, her brother doesn't intend to go through with it.]]
* GoGoEnslavement: When held captive by the Li clan, Minmei is forced to go to the emperor's chamber wearing nothing but lingerie to "awaken his interest", to poor Minmei's horror. [[spoiler:Thankfully, her brother doesn't even touch her when they're alone together.]]
* MandatoryMotherhood: [[spoiler:Turns out that the only reason why her mother didn't have her killed right after birth was because she realized she could use Minmei to give birth to vampires with power on par with the Tepes bloodline. For this twisted reason, the Li clan is expecting Minmei to bear the children of her own twin brother. Needless to say, Minmei is horrified to learn this.]]

* MoralityPet: Her bond with [[spoiler:her older brother]] Emperor Li greatly humanizes him by showing he's capable of genuinely caring about someone, unlike the other heads of the Three Clans. [[spoiler:He goes as far as to officially give Minmei authority equal to him over the Li clan.]]
* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: ''A.S.O.'' reveals Minmei is [[spoiler:Archduke Li's twin sister, making her a legitimate successor to the Li clan. Mina hopes that Minmei can replace Li as the clan head.]]
* RipVanWinkle: [[spoiler:600 years ago, the Li clan put Minmei in a deep slumber right after her birth. However, she somehow ended up waking up and being raised in a rural town.]]
* SeparatedAtBirth: [[spoiler:She's Emperor Li's twin sister who was sealed away right after birth by their mother 600 years ago. She finally meets her brother in the ''A.S.O.'' sequel.]]

* IdenticalTwinIDTag: She and Gotoh are identical twins. The only thing that's different is the place of their beauty marks (Nicole's is on her chin who Gotoh's is on the corner of her left eye).

* NotSoSmallRole: In the first series, Nicole's only role was being killed to save Mina and prove the existence of vampires to the press conference. ''Memories of Sledgehammer'' gives her more importance by revealing she and her father were working on a document that exposed the secret influence of vampires across human history and a cult of VampireHunter fanatics are searching for it since the document was lost with Nicole's death. Moreover, [[spoiler:Gotoh reveals she went to rescue Hama after the failed attack on Mina's mansion because Nicole sent her a mail warning her Hama was in danger.]]

* AntiVillain: Of the MinionWithAnFInEvil kind, albeit one deliberately flunking the test. He's just an honourable soldier whose values would (and do) make the Beowulf proud, but someone he cares for was used as a hostage by one of the bad guys to gain his services.

* PapaWolf: His daughter, Nikky? Don't touch her if you don't want him to blow you apart with a grenade launcher.

* TheChessmaster: He helped orchestrate the attacks on vampire citizens not in the Bund and is[[spoiler:revealed to be on in A.S.O as he was the one to motivate Katie into overthrowing Mina to get information about the Akitama]].
* FantasticRacism: His main drive to kill all the vampires in Japan as he wished to save the 'purity' of his nation by using a program called Pied Piper to have all vampires in hiding come out during the day and burn themselves alive. He even calls Josephine, his own granddaughter, a mixed blood half-breed due to her American father.
* MartyrdomCulture: Was willing to die for his plan to succeed, even goading his own granddaughter into killing him.

* KnifeNut: Vera loves her knives.

%%* KnifeNut

* KnifeNut: She wields a knife as her weapon.

* KnifeNut: After he becomes Katie's clown minion,

* RapunzelHair: The queen of vampires has twintails that go past her waist.

* VampireLolitaArchetype: She is the 400-year-old queen of all vampires while possessing the body of a prepubescent girl with blonde RapunzelHair worn in GirlishPigtails, often wearing a long ElegantGothicLolita dress. Her true form is a curvy naked woman.

* ArcVillain: She's the villain of Volume 3, which ends with her death.

* ArcVillain: She's the villain of the final arc of the first series, where she steals Mina's identity and causes a major uproar by putting vampires and human from Tokyo against each other. The direct sequels put her on the road of becoming the BigBad.

The Characters of ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund''. Be aware of spoilers.

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AoiYuuki (JP), Creator/MonicaRial (EN), Susana Moreno (LA)

* BadassAdorable: She looks adorable with her childlike body and ElegantGothicLolita dresses, but don't underestimate her because she's a pure-blooded vampire and can kick major ass, especially in her true form.

* BattleCouple: Mina is a powerful pure-blooded vampire and her bodyguard/boyfriend Akira is a werewolf who was trained from birth to protect her. Together, they protect each other and are passionately in love.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: The anime gave her blonde hair and despite being a bit ruthless, Mina is good vampire who works hard to create a world where vampires and humans can coexist peacefully.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Mina, in her older self, is a carbon copy of Queen Lucrezia. And both herself and her mom are carbon copies of their ancestor, the first female vampire.

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YuuichiNakamura (JP), Creator/EricVale (EN), Creator/EduardoGarza (LA)

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ChiwaSaito (JP), Creator/AlexisTipton (EN), Creator/AlondraHidalgo (LA)

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YukoKaida (JP), Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard (EN), Cony Madera (LA)

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/ShizukaIto (JP), Creator/KaraEdwards (EN), Carla Castañeda (LA)

->'''Voiced by''': Mika Ito (JP), Creator/MaxeyWhitehead (EN), Emilio Treviño (LA)

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/TakayaKuroda (JP), John Knell (EN), Óscar Gómez (LA)

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/EriKitamura (JP), Creator/TrinaNishimura (EN, as Anita Neukar), Creator/CristinaHernandez (LA)

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AkenoWatanabe (JP), Creator/TerriDoty (EN), Mariana Ortiz (LA)

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AsukaTanii (JP), Abigail Hartman (EN), Christine Byrd (LA)

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JojiNakata (JP), T.A. Anger (EN), Andrés García (LA)

--> ''Protecting you is my duty as an educator and servant of God''

* FreudianExcuse: She says that she [[spoiler:manipulated her own brother into trying to kill Akira]] because she was kidnapped and abused by Ivanovic due to her ability to shape-shift into a rare female werewolf. However, this becomes questionable after Mina reveals Tatianna already worked as a terrorist way before she [[spoiler:manipulated Sanin and]] was captured by the Ivanovic Clan.

A young werewolf who escaped from "The Pure Church" in the US and lived in New York with a caretaker named Holden until Yuuhi arrives to recruit Phoebe shortly after Holden was killed. During the werewolves' ritual site, Phoebe is revealed to be a very rare werewolf that is physically/genetically of the female sex, but identifies as the male gender due to being raised as such.

* FirstPeriodPanic: When his first period hits in the middle of the werewolves' ritual, Phoebe's response is confusion, shock, and unmitigated terror, thinking he was wounded by the EliteMooks under the True Ancestor's orders. It also causes him frustration because of his gender dysphoria and feeling that he's slowing his friends down when the Gargantua werewolves are chasing them.

* MeaningfulName: Holden named Phoebe after the character in ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' who was the sister of the character also named Holden. Yuuhi says this is proof of how much Holden loved Phoebe because the book's Phoebe is the most important person to her Holden.

* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: Completely deconstructed. Among Phoebe's many, many issues, he suffers from gender dysphoria as a direct result of how he was raised as a boy from infancy.

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: When she actually bothers to wear one.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: In the manga, where her hair is light pink (until later volumes).

* {{Meganekko}}: She's a young girl with glasses.

The older sister of Sanin Humoresque. Shortly after her brother is killed by Akira, Tatianna arrives to Japan with a large number of Chinese vampire refugees who fled from the Li clan after being infected with nanomachines. Secretly, she's working with Mina's impostor from Telomere in a plan to cause a vampire pandemic in Tokyo, using the nanomachine-controlled vampires from the Li clan. She's eventually revealed to be the only known female werewolf, (until that is Phoebe is introduced, though while they are genetically and physically female they identify more as male due to how they were raised).

* PromotionToParent: Hers and Sanin's mother was driven insane by the stress of giving birth to a werewolf. Tatianna then took up the responsability of raising Sanin in their mother's place.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She was considered the only female werewolf alive until the arrival of Phoebe.

* UnderstandingBoyfriend: He wholeheartedly accepts and respects his partner Phoebe's male identity, telling Phoebe to just be Phoebe.

A young werewolf who escaped from "The Pure Church" in the US and lived in New York with a caretaker named Holden until Yuuhi arrives to recruit Phoebe shortly after Holden was killed. During the wrewolves' ritual site, Phoebe is revealed to be a very rare werewolf that is physically/genetically of the female sex, but identifies more as the male gender due to being raised as such.

* ImposterForgotOneDetail: What exposes her cover to Yuki is Fake Mina assuming Yuki named her laptop after "Anne" from ''Literature/TheDiaryOfAnneFrank''. That's wrong; it was named after ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables''. Only Yuki and the true Mina know this, tipping Yuki off that her friend was replaced by an impostor.

* CrazyJealousGuy: Angie considers that Akira and Mina's relationship is strong enough to make him forget everybody else, including him who's supposed to be his closest partner, so he considers that the best way to ensure a place in his heart is to making hate him to death or die by his hands and traumatize him.

* DepravedHomosexual: His obsession with Akira is confirmed to be romantic in Volume 12.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: One needs a score-card to keep track of which side he's on. He's so yandere that one day he sees helping Akira fight Telomere as loving him, and the next day, trying to hurt Akira as an ally of Telomere is equally "loving."

* IncompatibleOrientation: Akira does care a lot for Angie, but he can't love him back in the same way both because he loves Mina and that Akira isn't homosexual.

* {{Yandere}}: Angie turns out to be obsessed with Akira enough to try to kill Yuki [[spoiler:and selling Mina's secret to Rozenmann.]] As if showing his obsession with Akira by trying to kill Yuki wasn't bad enough, in Scarlet Order, he ''paralyzes'' Akira [[spoiler: while Katie is hunting down Mina, trying to kill her after the latter lost her vampire powers, temporarily, due to exposure to a fragment of her crystallized older sister.]] Puts Akira's head in his lap while going "now I'll free you of that curse that's holding you down."

* RebuiltPedestal: Early on, Akira goes through a period where he seriously questions Mina's choices and moral standing because she had a boy kidnapped and bitten by one of her bodyguards in order to threaten a minister into letting vampires go to school. When there's some vampire rebels trying to take over Akira's school, he almost believes Mina will support them, but that isn't the case because no matter how ruthless she can be, Mina has lines she won't cross and won't support actions that will only make vampires enemies to humanity. After confirming the good in Mina, Akira is sure she's the queen he wants to protect and swears to never doubt her again.

[[folder:General Nabokov]]
Ivanovic's second-in-command and the leader of his armies. Unlike his master, Nabokov is a pragmatic, far-sighted vampire and fully willing to pace the good of his clan over his own desires.

!Vampires of Fukagawa
[[folder:Mamekichi / Okiyo]]
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A former geisha who became a vampire 170 years ago to wait for her lover John Arthur Young.

* TheBait: Kajikawa kidnaps her in order to lure Arthur to him and get the piece of the Akamitama that Arthur carries.
* GenderBlenderName: Back in the Edo period, geisha of Fukagawa were given male work names to hide the existence of the RedLightDistrict from the Bakufu. This is why Mina and Akira are surprised that Mamekichi is in fact a woman.
* IWillWaitForYou: She has stayed in Fukagawa for 170 years awating for her lover Arthur to come back for her, like he promised.
* KimonoIsTraditional: She's a beautiful YamatoNadeshiko who almost always dresses in a kimono.
* MyGrandsonMyself: She has lived at Fukagawa for almost two centuries, repeatedly pretending to be replaced by her "granddaughter" when enough years pass. Although, not everyone in the town was fooled by her cover story.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Graceful, well-mannered, devoted to her beloved, and admirably strong-willed.

[[folder:John Arthur Young]]

Okiyo's lover who turned her into a vampire. 170 years ago, Alphonse sent him to Japan on a mission to find the Akamitama. Although he did find it, Yajirou Kajikawa stole the case from him and trapped him inside a coffin. Arthur managed to survive because of the small fragment of the Akamitama that he ate. At the start of ''Scarlet Order'', he's freed from the coffin and goes to search for Okiyo.

* AndIMustScream: He spent 170 years trapped inside a coffin, at the bottom of the sea. He only survived because of the piece of the Akamitama that he ate. After being freed and reuniting with his lover Okiyo, Arthur is still afraid that he could "wake up" and find himself trapped at that dark coffin again.
* LoveAtFirstSight: He fell in love with Okiyo when he saw her bravely standing up to a samurai who tried to force himself on her friend.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Okiyo said his blue eyes are beautiful.
* WifeBasherBasher: He always steps in to beat up some bastards that try abusing women.

* ChildByRape: Scarlet Order reveals [[spoiler: that she's not a clone of Mina, but rather the result of Rozenmann raping the dormant original Tepes and siring her.]]

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: But not by his choice.

* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:He kept Nicole's pendant after the latter's failed suicide bomb attempt on Mina.]]

[[folder:Nikky Hama]]
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The daughter of Seiji Hama and Josephine Reiko Gotoh. She appears in the third manga series.

* PluckyGirl: She's utterly fearless, not even shaking when she's in the middle of a car chase with assassins trying to kill her and her mother.

* FireForgedFriends: She and Akira Fujisaki get on good terms after she helps him get out of some dangerous situations during some of her missions. At the end of ''Dive'', Nina admits that now she's helping Akira not because of her job as an intelligence agent, but to help her friend.

* SatelliteCharacter: In the main series, she's only ever seen serving at Alphonse's side and isn't even named. In ''Dive'', however, she's finally given a name and her character is more developed through her friendship with Akira Fujisaki. In the sequels, this is subverted as Nina continues working as an intelligence agent even long after [[spoiler:Alphonse's death]].

* StreetPerformer: On her spare time, she can be found playing her guitar and singing on the street. Back when she was human, she did this to earn money for herself and her alcoholic mother.

* SugarAndIcePersonality: Nina is cold, aloof and unemotional about almost everything. She does, however, possess a strong moral center and follows her ideals in pursuit of justice. She also cares greatly for Ruli and Akira Fujisaki, going to help the latter on a deadly mission simply because she realizes he's her only friend. In another instance, a child vampire confesses his love for her. Nina gently informs him she already has someone she loves, but earnestly thanks him for his feelings and confession as warmly as she can.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:When he still was under Rozenmann's orders, he had an escape plan, that was later on used by Akira to escape the Bund under the fake Mina's nose. Furthermore, his mercenary past left him with a lot of acquaintances in the CIA that were extremely helpful in finding Mina's whereabouts.]] Thanks, Hama-san.

%%* FairCop

* {{Nephewism}}: His father was a soldier killed during a naval operation and his mother committed suicide when he was only ten years old. He was then raised by his only remaining relative, his uncle, until the latter was assassinated in a political conflict.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: He got fired from the American army because he disobeyed orders to rescue a civilian (Reiko) who was held hostage at Afghanistan. When he was working as a mercenary at Bogota, he went to rescue the kidnapped 4-year-old daughter of a cabinet minister. As a result, he was captured, tortured and horribly mangled. He only survived thanks to becoming a test subject in Rozenmann's artificial beastman project.

* {{Foil}}: In ''A.S.O.'', he becomes this to Angie. Both are {{Long Haired Pretty Boy}}s initially mistaken for women and are very important people to Akira who they adore. However, Angie's twisted love has made him repeatedly betray Akira's trust and hurt him and his other loved ones. While Angie did care about Sanin and Graham in the ritual, he always put Akira first [[spoiler:and ended up trying to kill Sanin for planning to kill Akira]]. On the other hand, Yuuhi's love and admiration for his brother are always healthy and he would never betray anyone for Akira or his partner Phoebe.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When a white tiger appears in the grounds of the ritual, Yuuhi orders his friends they should leave the deer meat they're carrying behind so the tiger stops chasing them. Phoebe insists four werewolves can take down a tiger, but Yuuhi doesn't want any of his friends to end up hurt or even dead.

* ActionDad: In the sequel seven years later, Hama is now the proud father of Reiko's daughter and is still as much of a badass. His daughter loves him for this and wants to be able to fight like him, worrying her mother.
* AffablyEvil: Subverted. At first he comes across as this, but it's made apparent later on that he isn't at all evil, just temporarily forced to side against the heroes.

* IOweYouMyLife: One of the reasons he's so devoted to Councilor Gotoh is because she saved both him and the few of his men who survived [[spoiler:the assault on Mina's castle]] when they were abandoned by the people who sent them in the first place. However, it turns out this goes ''both'' ways...the two have known each other for a long time and have been rescuing one another ever since they met.

* BeautyMark: She has a mole near the corner of her left eye.