History Characters / FlameOfRecca

* HateSink: Mikoto is easily hateable, for being a [[DirtyCoward Cowardly]], [[SmugSnake Arrogant]], [[ForTheEvulz Bitch]] [[spoiler: This is '''Subverted''' when Chapter 257 and 258 where it is shown that her love for Mokuren is genuine, Injured she apologizes to him for not becoming his Strength and begging him to leave to find a doctor to cure her while [[TearsofFears Crying]]. And further her Death in Chapter 259 is Played for Symphaty]]

* HoistByHerOwnPetard: In the anime, [[spoiler:her doll scratched Fuuko with its Dokumashin poisoned claws. However, Fuuko decides to take one of the claws from said doll and punctures Mikoto with it in the middle of her finishing attack, forcing her to use the antidote in desperation and then snatch it out of her]].

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: To the dragons [[spoiler: As well as the previous leader of Hokage]]

%%* {{Bokukko}}

* DistressedDamsel: Many times. Unlike other examples, however, she has complete faith that Recca and company will save her.

[[folder:Allies]]

!! Saicho
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunkoNoda (Japanese) and Sean Broadhurst (English)

* NiceGuy: Easily one of the nicest fighters Recca has ever fought next to Kukai.
* PaperMaster: His madogu

!! Kukai
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/UnshoIshizuka (Japanese) and Noah Umholtz (English)

* BloodKnight: In his berserker mode.
* CurbStompBattle: Does this to Recca in the manga
%%* GentleGiant
* GracefulLoser: Was completely smiling on his lose against Recca.
* NobleDemon: Fairly nice guy when he's not fighting you.
* PapaWolf: Especially in the anime
* PowerLimiter: Hits him three times and it's off, turning him into...
* TheBerserker : When angered enough
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[[folder:Main Villains]]

!!Mori Kouran
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RokuroNaya (Japanese) and Mike Shepherd (English)

* AxCrazy: Becomes noticeably psychotic [[spoiler: once he gets the Tendo Jigoku]]. Then again he was probably already 31 flavors of batshit nuts to begin with.
* BigBad: of the entire series, even though he's just [[NonActionBigBad a normal person with disturbing desires]] until he [[spoiler:absorbs the Tendo Jigoku and becomes a HumanoidAbomination]].
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:The Tendo Jigoku mutates his body into grotesque forms of bodily deformations]].
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: He's originally the final enemy and so is the last to bite the dust after an epic battle between Team Hokage and him being fused within Tendou Jigoku. Due to the anime being cut short, he presumably dies when fleeing the Ura Butou Satsujin from the wrath of Recca and Kurei... only for Kurei to successfully ambush him and then blow his car up together with him.
* DubNameChange: To Augustus Mori in the Filipino dub.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Hard to say, but definitely has black hair.
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:After he fuses with the Tendou Jigoku]].
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: [[spoiler:In several places, after absorbing the Tendo Jigoku]].
* {{Gonk}}: Played around since the first time Recca ''ever'' sees his face, it soon develops from ugly to deranged via ArtEvolution.
%%* GreaterScopeVillain: He's this in the Tournament arc to Kurei.
* {{Greed}}: His primary character trait. He has more than any one person could ever want, but it isn't enough. He realises that his fortune would be worth nothing if he couldn't stay alive indefinitely to enjoy it. He even said whenever he gets something, he immediately wants something else. His greed is totally all consuming.
* TheHedonist: All he cares about is his own pleasure. The entire reason that he's seeking immortality is that he's terrified at the thought of no longer being able to enjoy earthly pleasures.
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:One of the perks of fusing with the Tendou Jigoku]].
** [[spoiler: It's implied since his need for food and sex have merged that he's done more than just eat people]].
* {{Immortality}}: His goal in the series, using [[TheMedic Yanagi]]'s [[HealingFactor healing powers]] to gain it. [[spoiler: he ultimately gains ResurrectiveImmortality through absorbing the [[ImmortalityInducer Tendo Jigoku]], and still needs Yanagi to perfect it. He fails.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: To Kurei [[spoiler: until he discarded him for losing to Recca in the tournament]].
* MoralEventHorizon: He has one in-universe, when he gloats on Hisui's death on a crying Fuuko. At that point, Recca, who used to mock his {{Gonk}} face playfully, drops whatever 'fun' he had and only faces him with utter hatred and disgust in his face, thinking that Mori crossed the line into the worst person he's ever known.
* NightmareFace: [[spoiler:The BodyHorror kind at first, after absorbing the Tendo Jigoku]].
* RichBastard: He's a corrupt businessman who does whatever he wants, [[spoiler:until he absorbs the Tendo Jigoku [[BodyHorror and becomes an abomination]]]].
* UltimateLifeForm: [[spoiler:Koku concludes Mori sees himself as this, as he eats humans, the top of the food chain in the natural world, plus the regeneration and the other powers he possesses]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: For the outside world and normal humans unaware of his vices, he presents himself as a WealthyPhilanthropist donating a huge sum of his riches for the unfortunate. This is ''extremely'' contrasting with his sociopathic true nature.
* WickedStepfather: Kurei's. They can't wait to off each other, but still manages a balance in their relationship since Mori needs Kurei to be his [[TheDragon dragon]], and Kurei wants to [[spoiler: protect his foster mother, whom Mori has taken hostage]].
** And he essentially forced Kurei to be what he is, 16 years of abuse and turning Kurei into his emotionless weapon.

!!Nagai Mokuren
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaikiNakamura (Japanese) and Bryan Close (English)

* AxCrazy: He'll kill anyone and enjoy it, but he especially loves torturing and killing women.
* BaitTheDog: Mokuren seemed to be very against wanting to kill Koganei, since he was his former partner. He then immediately backstabs him. And his relations to Mikoto as well, he looked like he might get a shot on EvenEvilHasLovedOnes, until he tosses her aside in the final arc for being useless to him.
* CurbStompBattle: In almost every fight he's in, is usually ending in utter humiliation with little effort on the fighters' part.
** He manages to put up quite a fight in his last battle against Recca though.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:This man never, ''ever'' repents. Even as he dies, he curses Recca, his archenemy]].
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: The anime being cut means that in that version Mokuren died from his wounds caused by Mikagami in Ura Butou Satsujin.
* DubNameChange: To Gideon in the Filipino dub.
* GreenThumb: His madogu is capable of producing any plant.
* JerkAss: One of the biggest, a large reason he becomes a couple with Mikoto is they are very alike. [[spoiler: Doesn't stop him from killing her in the end]].
* MookPromotion: He starts out as a foot soldier in the Uruha who gets to have a little more screentime in the Urabutou Satsujin. He ends up being one of the main characters' most tenacious opponents, outliving several high-ranking fighters in the Uruha, and joins the final battle as quite the badass enemy.
* ObviouslyEvil: ''So much'' that even a lowlife pervert like Fujimaru of Kuu can see his BaitTheDog act from far away and draw the EvenEvilHasStandards card.
* PlantPerson: He became a [[BodyHorror a vine man]], a demonic tree and [[spoiler: a serpentine fly trap plant]].
%%* PsychoForHire
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Mikoto. He doesn't go out quietly, but curses Recca to the very end]].
* TheWorfEffect: In every fight he's in, he loses [[CurbStompBattle epically with the opponent not even trying]]. [[spoiler: He does better in his last fight, but still loses]].

!!Renge
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SanaeKobayashi

* BigBadWannabe: Kurei shows in a very painful way why a "failure" like her can't be considered TheDragon.
* BreakTheHaughty: She's usually happy go lucky. But her second meeting with Kurei results in a vicious beatdown, along with Kurei telling her she's a failure.
* DaddysLittleVillain: To Mori, but a little too close. Doesn't seem to understand why [[TheUnFavorite Aoi]] hates her so much.
* TheDragon: To Koran.
* MixAndMatchMan: A clone of Kurei and his dead lover Kurenai.
* PlayingWithFire: She's a clone of Kurei using Kurenai's DNA, so she's able to use fire. [[spoiler: which ultimately leads her to be devoured by Tendo Jigoku.]]
* PureIsNotGood: See below.
* PsychopathicManchild: She has a young woman's body, but the mind of an innocent and [[AxCrazy batshit insane]] little girl.
* SiblingRivalry: She ''likes'' to think that there's this chemistry between her and Kurei (who is like an older brother to her, since she thinks of herself as Mori's daughter). Kurei, on the other hand, registers her as trash unworthy of his rivalry, as well as an insult to Kurenai's memory, and proceeds to disabuse her of this notion via a thorough [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] the second time they meet.
* SmugSnake: Like Mori, she thinks her flame is super powerful and is not afraid to show it off to experienced flame masters like Recca and Kurei. In actuality she's fairly weak and her flame doesn't even have a real form, which means it's no more than cheap imitation to Kurei.
* TooDumbToLive: Overestimates her flame power and thinks she can take on Kurei. ''Actually'' meets and flaunts her ability around to Kurei, who believes the flame is a prized possession of his bloodline. ''Then'' compares herself to Kurei's dead girlfriend Kurenai and talks smack about her. She's only alive after Kurei beats the hell out of her because he wants to let Tendou Jigoku to finish the job [[spoiler:which he does]].

!!Kaima
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* AxCrazy: A killing fanatic. Slaughter is literally what he lived for.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Mori
* DirtyCoward: For someone obsessed with the idea of killing, he's keen on keeping his own existence to go forever
* FusionDance: [[spoiler: With Mori, once he absorbs the Tendo Jigoku in order to become the ultimate madogu incarnate]].
* GenerationXerox: He's pretty much Mori except he's obsessed with [[PsychoForHire killing]].
* ImmortalitySeeker: Same as Mori, but more obsessed with killing.
* SmugSnake: A trait shared with Mori, is overconfidence and panicking if the tide turns against him.
* TokenEvilTeammate: He was once a Hokage member, but his continued killing of people, often children to test his new madogu led him to be executed by the clan.

!! [[spoiler: Tendo Jigoku]]
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* TheAssimilator: [[spoiler:Assimilates the lesser parts of himself to regenerate]].
* AxCrazy: Noticeably so
* BishonenLine: [[spoiler:Goes from an eldritch BodyHorror to a handsome devil man, the effect doesn't last too long]].
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Does this to Team Hokage, just before Recca shows up]].
* DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans: [[spoiler:Plans to make earth a living hell by killing everyone except for a few survivors to breed to repeat the cycle]].
* FinalBoss: The chapter he appears is even called "The Last Enemy."
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Of Mori and Kaima's desires]].
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Defeats almost all of Team Hokage and briefly causes Yanagi's death]].
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler:Defeats Team Hokage who were built up to be invincible to that point, and it gets worse from there]].
* NoSell: [[spoiler:Becoming fire resistant due to absorbing Renge]].
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Looks like a handsome version of {{Satan}} at first]].
* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:Due to absorbing Renge]].
* {{Satan}}: [[spoiler:His appearance invokes this]].
* WalkingSpoiler: His appearance [[spoiler: Is what sums up the finale]].
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: [[spoiler:At first]].

[[folder:Kurei, Uruha and the Uruha Jyuushinshu]]

!!Kurei
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyotaroOkiayu (Japanese) and Jonathan Love (English)

Kurei is the son of Kouran Mori and for some reason he looks rather similar to Recca and able to unleash flames on his hand, only blue/purple colored. He's cold hearted and sadistic, and led an elite group of assassins, the Uruha. He's quick to reveal that he's Recca's brother from the past, being ostracized as a cursed child since he nearly assassinated the infant Recca as a child and snuck to the present age when the Hokage was obliterated by UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga, ending up in the care of the kind Tsukino Mori... whose husband is a monster extraordinare.

* AFatherToHisMen: Well most of them anyway, with the exception of [[TheStarScream backstabbers]] and [[UnwittingPawn pawns]].
* AloofBigBrother: To Recca.
* BloodKnight: [[ArrogantKungFuGuy While he won't admit it, he is very excited about fighting]].
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: After Tendou Jigoku is defeated, he bids his companions (Raiha, Neon) farewell and travels back to 400 years ago, so that he can kill Oda Nobunaga and avenge the Hokage clan]].
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Recca's Abel.
* CoolBigBro: To a young Koganei. He taught him martial arts and gave him madougu and all.
* DefrostingIceKing: After the tournament arc he's still in pretty cool headed, but he's far more open with his own team and doesn't hide his emotions from them.
** [[spoiler: He went through the whole defrosting thing with Kurenai before too, when her bright and cheerful personality rubbed off on him. Sadly it did not last, thanks to Mori.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Crosses it many times in his life, molding him into a JerkassWoobie.
* TheDragon: To Mori, though not by choice, [[spoiler: until Mori pulls a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on Kurei.]]
** DragonWithAnAgenda: Only works to save his foster mother.
* DrivenByEnvy: At first he seems to [[IrrationalHatred hate his brother, Recca, to the core for no reasons]]. But, later it is implied that because he is jealous of Recca's determination and ability to protect the latter's loved ones (particularly his girlfriend, Yanagi, and his mom, Kagehoshi, which recalled of his failure of protecting his lover, Kurenai, and his biological mother, Reina) despite weaker (so he thought) than him.
%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Kurei has ''always'' loved both of his mothers. In the past, seeing his birth mother, Reina, kept blaming Recca as the cause of their misfortunes, he attempted to kill Recca JUST to make her happy. He's proud of his birth mother and also went out of his way to act polite and courteous in front of her imprisoned adoptive mother, preferring not to shed blood in front of her, and when he learned that Mori's men were badmouthing his stepmom behind his back... after he left his mother's sight, he puts on his PsychoticSmirk and burnt down the insulters.
* {{Expy}}: The eerier, more ruthless rival of a flame-wielding hero who wields purple flames. There's quite the similarities between Kurei and [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Iori Yagami.]]
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Gives quite an effective one to his brother when he crosses over the DespairEventHorizon in the final act of the manga.
* GoodIsNotNice: Even after he's [[spoiler: turned on Mori]], he doesn't act like a saint.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Gave himself this after [[spoiler: his lover Kurenai was killed by Mori.]]
* IGaveMyWord: Say what you will about Kurei being a brutal killer, when Recca defeated him, he promised none of his subordinates would ever raise a hand to them again. And they didn't.
* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: While Mori is the overall BigBad, Recca has less personal enmities and connections on him, aside of 'a (really powerful) bad guy trying to endanger Yanagi and then the world'. In case of Kurei, however, their rivalry began way back from the distant past and they have similar powers to match.
* KillItWithFire: His main technique and unlike Recca, he does kill.
** And if he wants to, the people that he kills, he can absorb their spirits into his flame, reincarnating them as a being of fire that can't be killed under Kurei's control.
* LightningBruiser: Of the Hard-Hitting Speedster variety.
* MadeOfIron: After he and Recca beat the ever loving tar out of each other, depleting their physical and mental energies, they fire off multiple blasts of flame that collapse an entire stadium on the both of them! He then busts out with his fists looking fine.
* MagneticHero: He's very popular with many Uruha members, like Raiha, Joker, Jisho, [[BodyguardCrush Neon]], to name a few.
* MaskPower: Often wears a mask to hide his disfigured left side of his face, even it doesn't look impressive until the finals of the TournamentArc.
* {{Necromancer}}: His flame has the power to revive the souls of dead people and make them his own flame, like Kurenai [[spoiler:and Jisho]]. [[spoiler:Like (blood) father like son]].
* NobleDemon: He often spares those who aren't directly involved with his goals, but if you do [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath God have mercy.]]
** You get worse if you actually harm his loved ones.
* NominalHero: Unlike his brother, he'll happily kill, hit girls, and inflict lasting pain on anyone in his way.
* PlayingWithFire: Like Recca.
* SixthRanger: To Team Hokage, later on in the Manga.
* SlasherSmile: His default expression, when fighting.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: With Kurenai.]]
* TooManyBelts: On his black (red in the anime) robe outfit.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: [[spoiler: The moment he considers exiting the battlefield for good to start a new chapter with Neon, one of Mori's underlings attacks their hiding place and injures Neon. Kurei takes that as a sign that he isn't meant to have a peaceful life, kills the mook, and leaves Neon a note wishing for her happiness before going off to settle his scores with Mori.]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: After what he sees as Recca being the basic cause of all his initial troubles, Kurei doesn't want anyone finishing Recca off but him.
* ThePhoenix: [[spoiler:His flame's true form, just like his father. It explains his flame's ability to raise the soul of the dead (like Jisho and Kurenai) and transform them into part of his flame.]]
* TheUnFavourite: While viewed by this by the Hokage council, his main reason for hating Recca's guts is that being passed over is what ultimately caused his mother's death. [[spoiler: It turns out he is the rightful heir of the clan, it's just that he looked creepy.]]
* WhenHeSmiles: Not his usual SlasherSmile, but the non-creepy kind. Even Recca admits he looks very kind.
* WorthyOpponent: To Recca.

!!Raiha
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KoichiTochika (Japanese) and Victor Atelevich (English)

A member of the Uruha Jyuushinshu and Kurei's most trusted right-hand man, a skilled ninja whose dorky attitude hides his ferocity in battle. He held the madogu Raijin, the EvilCounterpart of Fuuko's Fuujin. [[UndyingLoyalty His loyalty to Kurei is second to none]].

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: His sword can cut through metal robots.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He can be a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, but God helps you if you piss him off by being irredemably evil [[spoiler:like Soukakusai. As a reminder, Raiha is a member of Uruha, not Hokage; ThouShaltNotKill is not in his dictionary.]]
** He looked far more like a female before ArtEvolution took place.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: What happens when he does use his madogu.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: To Fuuko [[spoiler:when she's trapped by Soukakusai]], and [[spoiler: Kurei's foster mother, Tsukino.]]
* ChickMagnet (being a {{Bishonen}}, he attracts a lot of girls on his tenure)
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He often acts really happy and whimsical [[spoiler: until he uses Raijin and shows how dangerous and deadly he is.]]
* EnigmaticMinion: He is often on Kurei's side, but will aide Team Recca, particularly Fuko from time to time. He's got nothing on Joker on being this though.
* {{Foil}}: He serves as a {{Foil}} to Domon: Both of them possess an interest on Fuuko, but Raiha is a {{Bishounen}} on the enemy side, while Domon is a muscular mohawked guy on the good guys' side.
* FriendlyEnemy: To Fuuko.
* HandsomeLech: He tends to play this in front of Fuuko
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Tends to be a clumsy guy, as shown in the Ura Butou Satsujin.
* OneManArmy: Throughout the entire tournament, Raiha defeated all his opponents. And he didn't even need to kill any of them. His Uruha Rai consists of him alone.
* OldShame: [[spoiler:An in-universe example. Technically it's not his personal one, but he's descended from Hokage ninjas who fled the village when it was attacked by Nobunaga instead of fighting to the death, and is very ashamed of his heritage. Kurei doesn't seem to mind about any of it though, so Raiha's happy serving him and making up for the cowardice his ancestors showed centuries ago.]]
* ShockAndAwe: His electrical madogu, Raijin, is more of an InformedAbility, [[spoiler: until he used it against Fuko, showing how powerful he is.]]
* SuperPoweredEvilSide:[[spoiler:His madogu that possesses him takes the form of a deranged kirin creature.]]

!!Neon
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KayaMatsutani (Japanese) and Elinor Holt (English)

A maid of the Mori house along with her little sisters Miki and Aki, at first homeless girls until they're picked up and hired by Kurei. Neon is deeply infatuated with Kurei, but realizes that she can't win his heart from Kurenai, and in turn she witnesses Kurei's fall into evil due to Kouran Mori's machinations. Feeling that she must protect him, she enrolled as an Uruha assassin, working her way up into the Jyuushinshu. She wields the soundwave-manipulating madogu, Fukyou Waon.

* AdaptationDyeJob (Neon has multicolored hair in the manga, red & black. She's 100% red haired in the anime)
* AmazonBrigade (Her team practically consists of this)
* BodyguardCrush: She really loves Kurei, despite knowing that she has zero chance when compared with [[spoiler: Kurenai]]. [[spoiler: After she saves him from Mori and Renge he almost reciprocates her feeling, and it's implied that they made love that night. Too bad [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive the call knows where Kurei lives]]..]]
* EvilRedhead: Not exactly evil, but she could be very cruel to anyone who opposes Kurei, as well as a pretty mean bitch in general.
%%* FieryRedHead
%%* {{Meido}}
* MusicalAssassin: Her fighting style until... [[spoiler:takes Jisho's swords as a way to repay Kurei.]]
* NinjaMaid: To Kurei
* OneeSama: She has [[HoYay LesYay]] implications with her two sisters, but is mostly in love with Kurei.
* SayItWithHearts (Her earlier FemmeFatale persona has this. Drops this when she gets more sympathetic)
* ShowSomeLeg: Her outfits sure do
%%* {{Stripperiffic}}

!!Joker
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MitsuakiMadono (Japanese) and Josh Rimer (English)

A man of mystery. He just appeared out of nowhere and had a fight with Jyuushinshu member Jishou to a stalemate until Kurei witnessed his skills and decided to recruit him into Uruha. Joker only joins in one condition: If he's permitted to speak so informally all the time because being formal is a pain in the ass for him. Despite his jolly attitude, he's one of the best fighters in Uruha and the most powerful. He wields the Taishaku Kaiten, a trident-formed Madogu that controls gravity.
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* AffablyEvil: Being FunPersonified, he's laid back, makes a lot of amusing humor and is a pretty likable character, even though he's a bad guy
* DemotedToExtra: Joker has got to be the one suffering this trope the most in the anime. His fight with Koganei gets massively cut short (he just surrendered for no reason), he didn't appear to 'blend in' with the Hokage in the previous rounds [[spoiler:and then massively wound Saichou to rile Koganei up for his fight]] and his personality gets rewritten into more TheStoic than FunPersonified.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He shows disgust when seeing Mikoto cheats and brutalizes Fuuko, asking Kurei whether it's right to draft her as a Jyuushinshu or not. Before his round starts, he made a time out specifically just to toss Mikoto out.
* FunPersonified: "It just pains me to be formal!"
* GravityMaster: His madogu, the Taishaku Kaiten can increase gravity, or decrease it, and even create miniature black holes.
%%* GravitySucks
%%* TheMole
* MonsterClown: More of an AffablyEvil jester for Kurei.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Joker acts like a complete moron, but he's actually probably the most perceptive person in the series. Seeing through Kurei's [[HiddenHeartOfGold facade]] is some mean feat!
* SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler:When he first debuts, he hangs around with the heroes, and offers helpful advice that helps them win a few times. Then...[[TheReveal something happened]]]].
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:His method of death]].
* VillainousHarlequin: At first

!!Jishou
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->'''Voiced by:''' Tetsuo Kanao
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: He was supposedly the strongest next to Kurei, yet is killed by Magensha in the fourth round.
** [[spoiler:Doesn't stop Kurei from resurrecting him as one of his flames in the manga]].
* InformedAbility: Jisho apparently rivaled Kurei in power, according to Kaoru. He was killed before he could tell however.
* NobleDemon: He already shows signs of this when he made a protection pact for Kurei with Raiha and Neon, but later on, he's featured in the flashback with [[spoiler:Meguri Kyouza]] and [[EvenEvilHasStandards shows utter contempt at]] [[spoiler:the thugs that personally killed Mifuyu Mikagami (when he just asked them to 'retrieve Ensui') and ignores their pleas for help as Meguri killed them in rage... and shows his condolence about Mifuyu's death before recruiting Meguri to Uruha.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: After his death and later reappearance as Kurei's flames, Jishou is fortunate enough to receive characterization via flashbacks.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Kurei [[spoiler:He is even resurrected as a flame to fight for Kurei during the fight with Recca]].
* TheWorfEffect: He is the original top 3 of Uruha Jyuushinshu aside of Neon and Raiha, but... Joker made himself known by fighting him to a stalemate. Then Magensha easily obliterated his team and personally killed him.

!!Genjurou
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->'''Voiced by:''' Tamio Oki (Japanese) and Steve Olson (English)
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* BaitTheDog: Genjurou's first introduction was pretty much tame, showing less inclination to punish Koganei for his betrayal and just pondering how good youth was. During the first and second round of Ura Butou Satsujin, he had his chimera devour his opponents alive, but that seemed normal for a 'bad guy' like him. It's only in the third round forward that he showed his true nature: Using Menou's father to blackmail her into fighting, and then revealing that unlike other Uruha Jyuushinshu, [[ItsAllAboutMe he absolutely has no moral compass or loyalty to Kurei and only in for himself]].
* DirtyOldMan: He gropes Neon in the anime. And even offers to let her live, if she'll be his concubine.
* EvilGenius: He's a talented doctor, and can even remove non physical diseases from a person's body with psychic surgery.
* EvilOldFolks: Up there with Mori Kouran and Kaima as one of the most depraved old men in the series.
* MadScientist: Since he doesn't believe god exists, he has no problem being completely immoral.
* MasterOfIllusion: He can make seven clones of himself in order to fight his enemies.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:It may have been a clone, but it still counts]].
* TheStarScream: To Kurei, having a grudge towards him after being beaten by him and forced into the group.

!!Noroi
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToruFurusawa
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!![[spoiler:Meguri Kyouza]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HidekatsuShibata (Japanese)

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:As noted by the guy who took care of him, he always talked about his grandson and was a CoolOldGuy to be respected]]
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: [[spoiler:Had them even before joining Uruha]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:To Mikagami once he found out from Kai that Meguri was responsible for his sister's death]].
** [[spoiler: [[RebuiltPedestal But they eventually sorted things out once they finally met and Meguri revealed to Mikagami the secrets of his family]]]].
* TheDreaded: It is inferred by Aoi that when Kurei was running the Jyuushinshu, Meguri was a member... and Kurei is kind of terrified at him.
* EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler:Subverted, even though he is on the bad guys' side, it wasn't by choice and even it weren't the case, he's pretty much the nicest member of the QuirkyMiniBossSquad, especially compared to Genjuro]]
* TheFaceless: ... Until the SODOM arc, in which his face is fully seen.
* TheGhost: Referred to as early as the tournament arc, but does not make an official appearance until the final Tendou Jigoku arc.
* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:Turns out, Kyouza is a ''title'' that was supposed to be inherited.]]
%%* LukeIAmYourFather
* OldMaster: [[spoiler:To Tokiya]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Due to his relationship with Tokiya]].
%%* SecretlyDying
%%* ShroudedInMyth
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Kai later reveals that he is responsible for the murder of Tokiya's sister]].
** [[spoiler:turns out he was merely guilty of bearing the name "Kyouza" and the killer was a nameless thug working for Mori, who targeted the children as collateral damage/potential hostages.]]

!! J-Keeper
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* ArmorIsUseless: [[spoiler:Against Joker]]
* BaitAndSwitchBoss: [[spoiler:He's pretty much there to throw others off of Joker's scent]].
* OurGiantsAreBigger: Is the single most biggest character in the series, with [[InformedAttribute with no reason why]]. [[spoiler:It did good to bluff the rest to think he's part of the Jyuushinshu when in truth, he's just a cover for Joker]].

[[folder:Ura Uruha]]

!!Magensha
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanetoShiozawa (Japanese)
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* BadBoss: To his teammates
%%* BigBadWannabe
* CoolMask: Covers his ugly face
* CrazyPrepared: His ''body' is nothing but animated armor. Magensha's real body is not only inside a separate dimension, making it so he can't conceivably be defeated, but there's also a protection done around his private chamber, in order to further protect him.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: He's killed by J-Keeper as a way to show [[spoiler:(and mislead about)]] J-Keeper's power. But in the anime, J-Keeper is AdaptedOut, so Kurei does the job himself.
* DirtyCoward: He doesn't even have the stones to fight himself, and bails when it looks like he could actually be defeated by Recca.
* TheMole: While he put up the facade of being under Kurei's service, he was actually working for Koran.
* WeakButSkilled: He has no actual combat power. However his madogu makes him nigh invincible unless someone can get into the dimension where his real body is. Which would be nigh impossible [[spoiler: if the people caught in it don't decide to gang up on him]].
* YouHaveFailedMe: When Tsukishiro and Kashamaru fail to defeat their opponents, he sends them to an alternate dimension prison as punishment.
** He also gets this from "J" in the manga.

!!Gashakura
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->'''Voiced by:''' Ikuya Sawaki (Japanese) and Randy Borosky (English)
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* AntiVillain: He's not evil, he isn't selfish, he just wants to fight strong opponents.
* BloodKnight: The reason he entered the tournament in the first place.
* GeniusBruiser: He's probably the OnlySaneMan in Team Magensha, as well as knowing how to utilize his power
* HeelFaceTurn: After being defeated by Fuuko, Gashakura becomes an ally to Hokage.
* EpicFlail: His main weapon is a giant, 90 pound steel mace called a morning star.
* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: His Evil Spider madogu is an armor that can easily deflect steel cutting attacks. But that's not even the best part. It has four tentacles that have spiked ends that he can fire out to attack his opponent and keep them off guard, making it difficult to hit him.
* MightyGlacier: Gashakura is a huge guy, and his weapon affords him excellent offense and defense. And to avoid the backdraw of being slow, his fighting style never revolved around dodging hits in the first place.
%%* NobleDemon
* TheBigGuy: As an ally to Team Hokage, he relies on brute strength, but is much smarter than he looks.

!!Kashamaru
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Cho}} (Japanese) and Lucas Gilbertson (English)

* HeelFaceTurn: His leader was a BadBoss
* KillitwithFire: His Nisebi madogu allows him to produce flames, but they are far inferior to that of an actual flame wielder.
* {{Ninja}}: Probably the most ninja like in the series which is full of Shinobi.

!!Tsukishiro
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokazuSeki (Japanese) and Brendan Hunter (English)

* BattleBoomerang: His main weapon, the Kaigetsu is shaped like one, but he claims its more of a sword.
* BerserkButton: Anyone who harms his beautiful face is probably going to get hacked into pieces.
* TheFightingNarcissist: And he never shuts up about it!
%%* HeelFaceTurn
* InvisibilityCloak: His Oboro madogu allows him to become invisible and attack his opponents unseen.
* TheSmartGuy: He references HG Wells, and even dresses up in bandages like the Invisible Man, as well as gives a lecture to Kaoru in the middle of a fight about how light works.

!!Kirin
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KiyomiAsai

* AffablyEvil: She holds no malice or dislike towards anyone, and she's is friendly with the heroes, even when attacking them.
* NoHuggingNoKissing: She mentions she is nineteen years old, and others have stated she's never kissed a guy, can't watch sexual television, and is in general, the opposite of Mikoto.
* {{Stripperific}}: She tends to wear very revealing or tight fitting clothes.
* SunglassesatNight: And in caves.
* {{Telepathy}}: Her madogu the Mind's Eye allows her to read minds. [[spoiler: And speak for Rasen who can't do it himself]].
** And a rather annoying AchillesHeel for her, is that she is unable to filter out thoughts she ''doesn't'' want to know.

!!Kamui
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->'''Voiced by:''' Koki Harasawa

* AffablyEvil: His love is genuine, but he just takes it a little too far
* DepravedHomosexual: As well as pedophile
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After being beaten and 'falling' for Recca, he helps both him and Kukai escape from Mokuren's lair, and called it quits from Uruha, thinking that Hokage is more fun]].
* HollywoodCyborg: Enhanced his body to not see the effects of aging

!! Hisui
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%%* ActionGirl
%%* BloodKnight
* DeathSeeker: She doesn't fear death and acquires an extremely reckless fighting style to suit her mentality.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: With Fuko.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:In Fuko's]].
%%* DualWielding
%%* GoodScarsEvilScars
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:She dies to protect Fuko]].
* ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler:Dying at the hands of Mori, is what motivates Hokage to beat him]].
* StarCrossedLovers: Her boyfriend was on the same rigorous training program she was in. When Mori found out, he arranged for them to fight each other in the darkness while masked and gagged. Hisui killed him before knowing who he was.
* TheLostLenore: Her boyfriend was a male version to her.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With her boyfriend]].

[[folder:Uruha Shishiten]]
!!Aoi
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HoukoKuwashima

* AmbiguousGender: [[spoiler: He's biologically a boy]]
* AxCrazy: Very unstable due to being TheUnfavorite.
* DrivenByEnvy: Her main motivation for her actions is envy.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She can't understand why Yanagi still considers her a friend, even after almost shooting her, forcing her to go to SODOM, and removing her memories of Recca (not that Yanagi would know the latter, obviously.)
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After being defeated by Recca, she and Hiruko help get Yanagi back]].
* HeroKiller: She first appeared in the Sealed Lands arc, solely to [[TheWorfEffect deliver a]] CurbstompBattle Tokiya, at that time thought to be the cruelest of the Hokage, just after he came victorious against Mokuren and Mikoto. She confirms the level of her strength at the end of the arc when Rasen called it quits and revealed the presence of the Shishiten, which would become the main enemy of the next arc, making her this trope for the Sealed Lands arc.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Hooray! Aoi's here and she can undo Yanagi's mind control, stopping Tendou Jigoku from absorbing her ...! Except that Tendou Jigoku snatches Yanagi in the middle of the process, and then Aoi's madogu breaks.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Her power.
* StepfordSnarker: "I couldn't care less about your bragging. Understand? Little miss perfect." It doesn't do well for either Aoi's or Renge's mental health.
* MadnessMantra: Sort of. The phrases "Failure", "She's a failure," "Inferior," and every other conceivable way to get that message out are always repeated in Aoi's head, since Mori views her that way.
* NightmareFace: If you're aligned with Mori, you probably will make one at least once.
%%* TheMole
* TheUnFavorite: She's very disappointed at not be praised by Mori, leading her to [[spoiler: kidnap Yanagi]] to [[WellDoneSonGuy win his approval.]]
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Yeah, see all those female pronouns there? Aoi is actually a ''dude''. Still, subverted that rather than being unsettled, Recca takes it that [[WouldntHitAGirl he can stop holding back]]]].
* VillainousCrossdresser: [[spoiler:Aoi confirms this, which leads to Recca kicking Aoi's ass]].
%%* WellDoneSonGuy

!!Hiruko
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SusumuChiba

* BloodyMurder: His fighting style, utilizing a [[spoiler: heart shaped madogu on his back]], he can make swords, projectiles and even a hardened fist.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: His main motivation for fighting Hokage is to see why they are so determined to save Yanagi, and to test the limits of their determination. He gets his answer by fighting Domon, who proceeds to save his life by giving him some unbroken blood bottles and telling Hiruko to live his own life, which leads to a ...
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After being defeated by Domon, he and Aoi help get Yanagi back]].
* HiredGuns: He might be a mercenary, given his interactions and his fight with Domon. Domon calls Hiruko pathetic for fighting regardless of whether he wants to or not, causing Hiruko to retort that he's a "professional".

!!Kirito
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AsamiImai (young) and Creator/HisakoKyoda (old)
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%%* CreepyChild
%%* EvilOldFolks
* FauxAffablyEvil: Her interactions with the Hokage show her to be this.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Acts like this.
* IdentityAmnesia: As a result of using her power far too often, she's forgotten her original name, age and appearance. She works for Mori in the hope that he will give her the file containing information about her identity.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: She can change her age.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Last we see her is when she's in VillainousBSOD on the destruction of her Madogu. She's never seen again (we don't even see her being killed). We can presume that she dies in the destruction of SODOM after Tendoujigoku's defeat]].

!!Kadotsu
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HisaoEgawa

* AxCrazy: Even more so than most of the Ura-Uruha, seeing as he's a BloodKnight PsychoForHire
* BloodKnight: During the SODOM raid, he searches for strong opponents, but [[spoiler: ends up getting a strong one, a bit [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor too strong in Kurei]]]].
* TheBrute: His role in the Shishiten, the English manga upped the stupidity. Also he tends to settles things in the most brutal way possible.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: It is implied that he achieved this rank through mainly his brute strength.
* CoolMask: [[spoiler: Hides his pierced and stitched face]].
* {{Expy}}: Inverted, Kadotsu actually states that Magensha copied from him, rather than the other way around
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler: he ends up killing almost the entire Ku fighting force that went to aid Recca]], and his actions aren't played sympathetically.
* MegaManning: [[spoiler: A StoryBreakerPower one, it can utilize almost any power the user imagines, thankfully he's not bright enough to come up with something really complex]]
* PsychoForHire: Unlike the other four, he really is in it for killing and fighting
* ScaryBlackMan: [[spoiler:As he is killed, we are treated a panel of his unmasked face. It has dark tones, so he's a black dude]].
* StoryBreakerPower: [[spoiler:His madogu's ability changes depending on the idea he wants to use, so long as the power can be described using some form of the kanji on his gauntlets. We only saw five though, and three were all aspects of the same thing]].

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: His public image is a ''philanthropist'', and he still pulled it off.

%%* {{Jerkass}}: Turns out to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, who has a HiddenHeartOfGold.

* {{Necromancer}}: His flame has the power to revive the souls of dead people and make them his own flame, like Kurenai [[spoiler:and Jisho]]. [[spoiler:Like father like son]].

* TookALevelInKindness: A strange example, while still a jerkass to other people, her relation with

* {{Bishonen}}: Frequently gets mistaken for a woman plenty of times. [[BerserkButton And he doesn't like it.]]

* {{Bishonen}}: [[spoiler:Post ArtEvolution, he's very handsome.]]

* {{Bishonen}}: [[spoiler:At first]].

* {{Bishounen}}: When the mask and the [[SlasherSmile creepy smile]] are off.

* {{Bishounen}}: He's one of the three main ones for the Jyushinshu, but still noticeably male.

* {{BIshonen}}: He's handsome underneath his mask

%%* Bishonen

* DisneyVillainDeath: In the anime, [[spoiler:when Fuuko is saved from falling to her death by Domon after being shot in the shoulder resulting in the former's disqualification, a poisoned Mikoto celebrates her victory only to find out Fuuko took the remaining antidote pill from her bag. When she stumbled and started to succumb to the poison's effects to retrieve it, Mikoto falls off the arena's edge and falls to her death with no one to save her, with Fuuko dropping the remaining pill into the abyss as a final insult.]]

* HoistByHerOwnPetard: In the anime, [[spoiler:her doll scratched Fuuko with its poisoned claws. However, Fuuko decides to take one of the claws from said doll and use it against Mikoto, forcing her to use the antidote in desperation and then snatch it out of her]].

* PeekABangs: Not using his hair, though. His eyes are always covered with his helmet, hat or hood.