History Characters / Kagurabachi

* EarlyBirdCameo: He only properly enters the narrative during Chapter 30, but appears in shadow along with the unidentified scarred Hishaku during Chapter 7 to check Sojo's status.

The main character of the story. Once living peacefully as an apprentice blacksmith under his father, his life changed when a group of sorcerers destroyed his home, killed his father and stole six of the seven magic katana that his father had forged. Since then he has dedicated himself to retrieving the six stolen katana and killing those responsible using his father's seventh and final katana.

* ComboPlatterPowers: His magic katana, Enten, has three separate abilities which are all based on three goldfish and their supposed lucky qualities that his father brought home one day:

** [[PowerCopying Aka]], based on a red goldfish that "attracts good fortune", allows him to absorb an opponent's magic for his own use, effectively letting him CatchAndReturn magical attacks.

* GottaKillEmAll: His secondary goal is to hunt down the members of the Hishaku for killing his father. While he doesn't start his quest actively pursuing them, he realizes chasing the Sacred Blades they stole will inevitably put him on a crash course to confront them, even if it means taking on [[OneManArmy the entire magical underworld first.]]
* GuardianEntity: His magical katana produces them in the form of the trio of goldfish his father had once brought home, and they appear when he performs his sword's magic techniques.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: As befitting someone in a "katana society", Chihiro wields two such swords, one with a short blade and the other being his father's last katana and imbued with magic.

* MakingASplash: His katana Enten has a distinct water theme; it releases droplets of water when it's drawn, has a trio of goldfish as its GuardianEntity, and his magical abilities are frequently stylized as water being released from his body and sword. Even the sword's ''tsuba'' is designed to look like flowing water with bubbles.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: His naturally brown eyes glow red when using the magical attacks of his katana, and he is a ferocious opponent, as countless dead mooks could attest, if they were in any position to do so.

* RuleOfSeven: He wields the seventh and final magical katana his father forged before his death.

* MrExposition: Early in the story, Shiba [[AsYouKnow talks out loud to a subdued grunt]] about the origin of Rokuhira's magic swords while Chihiro is in the middle of a fight. He also explains the nature of Spirit Energy to [[TheWatson Char]] in the early chapters.

Chihiro's father and a legendary blacksmith. Despite his very laidback personality, he was very serious about his craft and was capable of imbuing his katanas with magic.

* TeamNormal: In a group with a vengeful swordsman wielding a magic katana, a war veteran assisting said swordsman, the [[LastOfHerKind last child of a bloodline]] with an extraordinary HealingFactor, and an IneptMage from one of the underworld's [[BlueBlood most prolific families]], Hinao is far and away the most normal one of the lot as a simple KnowledgeBroker who helps sorcerers find jobs.

* MacGuffinSuperPerson: Due to her regeneration powers, she is kidnapped and used by Sojo to experiment with a mineral that's used in forging magic swords but causes people to explode if handled improperly.
* MysteriousWaif: She's introduced as a little girl with no parents or home who (at the time) had the only clue concerning the stolen katanas.

* IneptMage: His attempt to cast a spell on his yakuza captors falls completely flat, indicating he's not great with magic. He notes he was born with the least potential for their bloodline's sorcery in the entire history of his family, and it was a major reason for him being disowned from the Sazanamis.

* NonActionGuy: While he's more than willing to stand up to thugs and even take Hiyuki's flaming PowerFist to the face, he really isn't suited for fights. He's so poor with magic that he can't take on a bunch of yakuza {{Mook}}s, and said flaming PowerFist was enough to knock him out cold despite Hiyuki saying she'd held back, with Tafuku even saying he was super weak.

* TheUnFavorite: Hakuri was disowned and sent into exile by the rest of the Sazanami family for being inept at using magic and for getting in the way of their business.

* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Their main base of operations is a large facility sequestered somewhere beneath Tokyo, only accessible through a magical lock system which requires a member to speak their full name at a specific location.

* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The Kamunabi is comprised of government-licensed sorcerers to combat threats of a magical nature and keep the peace.

* SuperCop: They seem to exclusively employ sorcerers, meaning each of them have a unique superpower-esque sorcery. A sensible choice, as their sole role in the government is to combat criminal sorcerers and weapons of magical, nation-destroying capabilities.

A group of sorcerers that operate in the shadows, backing criminal organizations across Japan. They're also the ones responsible for murdering Chihiro's father Kunishige over three years prior to the start of the story, and stole six of his magical katanas known as the Sacred Blades.

* BloodKnight: The moment Sojo's bounty on Chihiro is blocked by the military, he gets the location of Hinao's café, casually enters it and blasts Chihiro through a wall, showing bloodthirsty eagerness to fight the user of another magic sword.

* ComboPlatterPowers: As another wielder of a Sacred Blade like Chihiro, Sojo similarly has access to three magical techniques through his sword:

* WeatherManipulation: As befitting its name, Sojo's Kuregumo has a distinct theme around the weather from clouds. Its magic takes the form of cloudy trails when drawn, its GuardianEntity is an dragon made of clouds and lightning, and all its powers represent phenomena that originate from clouds: [[MakingASplash Kou]] is rain, [[AnIcePerson Yui]] is snow and hail, and [[ShockAndAwe Mei]] is lightning. The sword's ''tsuba'' itself is designed to look like two swirling clouds.

* BigFancyHouse: The Sazanami have a massive, isolated estate in the woods where their family lives while not out conducting criminal dealings. It is filled with servants at their beck and call and is protected from being discovered by outsiders with a type of protective magical barrier surrounding it.
* BlowYouAway: The magical technique Isou is an extremely powerful and concentrated shockwave of air fired from its user's hands or feet. It is strong enough to bring down an entire building in the hands of the Tou and allow them to [[NotQuiteFlight go soaring through the air]].

* NervesOfSteel: Even when he is confronted by two outsiders in his home, which is magically protected specifically to keep his estate hidden from outsiders, making Chihiro and Shiba a more or less unprecedented threat, he remains unflappably calm and composed.

** [[spoiler:Coming face to face with one of the Hishaku for the first time throws him off balance. Seeing their distinctive tattoo has him flashing back to the night of his father's murder with an openly forlorn expression.]]

[[folder:Shiba Togo]]
!!Shiba Togo

* BigBad: The overarching villains of the story that Chihiro has sworn to kill, both to avenge his father and to reclaim the Sacred Blades they stole.

* TheManBehindTheMan: They're responsible for backing a number of illegal enterprises across Japan, such as the yakuza gang Chihiro wipes out in Chapter 1 or Genichi Sojo's arms dealer activities.

* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: [[spoiler: The member Chihiro encounters in the Rakuzaichi is almost identical to the katana-wielding {{Mooks}} accompanying him, barring some white hair and [[TattooedCrook the Hishaku's tattoo]] on his hand. This comes as a surprise to both Chihiro and the reader, as every enemy sorcerer until then had ''some'' [[CastOfSnowflakes conspicuous design quirk]] to distinguish them.]]

[[folder:Unnamed Hishaku]]

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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Hideyoshi Nozawa (vomic)

->'''First Appearance:''' Chapter 1: Mission

->''"You know... I think '''bravery''' is often rooted in ignorance."''

One of the Hishaku, who oversees the Korogumi Yakuza organization.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: His eye is blackened in the same way the Sazanami family is when they use their bloodline's sorcery, but he does not strongly resemble Kyora or Hakuri otherwise.
* BadBoss: Without the man knowing, he set up a failsafe on the leader of the Yakuza. When he [[HisNameIs tries to divulge information about the Hishaku]], he violently explodes into a massive cluster of roots. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He also can't be bothered to learn the guy's name.]]
* GreenThumb: The first Hishaku sorcerer we see has the ability to manipulate and conjure plants, using them to torture a protester in a city controlled by one of their yakuza gangs and to kill the boss in case he ever tried to snitch on them.
* MysteriousWatcher: He shows up at Sojo's base shortly after his second duel with Chihiro, observing the injured young man from a distance before disappearing before Shiba can notice him.
* RedRightHand: The first sorcerer we meet from the Hishaku has a disfigured right eye, with an enlarged black iris, white pupil, and warped flesh around the socket.
* VillainTeleportation: He departs the Yakuza hideout by teleporting away in a spontaneous burst of flame.

* AwesomeButImpractical: His choice of weaponry is a seemingly endless set of powerful, hard to dodge explosives. While this makes him a tough opponent, it is also extremely one note and without adaptability, allowing Chihiro to outsmart him, and the invariable collateral damage he causes during the fight is the exact opposite of the subtly requested by Sojo in retrieving Char.

* BadassFamily: Due to their intense training from a young age, the majority of the family are talented sorcerers. This means in practice they are a fifty man strong army that even the premier government service meant to police sorcerers are not willing to engage in open combat.

* MagicalEye: Their family sorcery "Isou", turns their left eye a flaming black with white irises when they use it. The more advanced the sorcerer, the more prominent the effect, as Kyora's eye is also covered with a white, eyepiece-like layer on top of the black when he uses it.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: How many branches the Clan's fifty members are split into is unknown, but the main branch headed by Kyora has at least seven siblings as its latest generation: The four members of the Tou, Hakuri, and two junior members who run up to see their father when he first arrives on the estate.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: As to be expected of a family, the Sazanamis all look very similar to each other. Even among them, the brothers Hakuri and Soya look nearly identical to each other, and younger versions of their father Kyora.

[[folder:Shiba]]
!!Shiba

* TraumaButton: Played straight and subverted. Dredging up his father's murder to MindRape him temporarily incapacitates him when he fights a sorcerer who uses such powers, but being reminded of the event that sparked his driving fury lets him bounce back far quicker than his opponent anticipated before he slaughters his assailants.

* UltimateBlacksmith: Created a set of katanas mysteriously imbued with incredibly potent elemental powers, [[spoiler:which only [[LoyalPhlebotinum bond to and obey a single wielder at a time - though nothing says an individual can't be bound to two at once.]]]]

* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Among the many children shown to be fathered by Kyora, a large range of ages are seen. Eldest Soya is a young adult, his younger brother Hakuri another five years younger, and several of the even younger kids seen look ''at least'' ten years younger and potentially even prepubescent.

* LoveMakesYouDumb: According to Hakuri, Soya is normally even more intelligent than their chessmaster of father. But neither he nor Shiba would have guess that because whenever Hakuri is in the picture his intelligence takes a massive nosedive. All it takes is Hakuri peering from around a corner for him to immediately abandon his position to chase after him. This happens right after figuring out that Chihiro is the reason the Tou have to guard the graveyard this year and could have used Enten to gather intel.

* BigEater: Hiyuki stuffs her face with a giant plate of spaghetti in chapter 26.

* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:She forms a temporary truce with Chihiro in Chapter 29, fighting off the guards at the Rakuzaichi while he goes to retrieve the enchanted blades from the Sazanami family storehouse and save the imprisoned people who are scheduled to be sold at auction.]]