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* ElectiveMute: She doesn't like to talk with anyone but Suikyou and later Koumei.


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* TheQuietOne: She doesn't like to talk with anyone but Suikyou and later Koumei.

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* MiniDressOfPower: Her outfit is a red minidress that just barely covers her underwear.

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* MiniDressOfPower: MinidressOfPower: Her outfit is a red minidress that just barely covers her underwear.


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* ScarfOfAsskicking: She wears a long and dark scarf around her neck.

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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Her skills in archery are so amazing and precise that she can purposely knock out a bird that stole a hairpin without killing it.

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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Her skills in archery skills are so amazing and precise that she can purposely knock out a bird that stole a hairpin without killing it.it.
* MasterArcher: From what little we see of her in action, she's an impressively skilled archer.

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* RoseHairedSweetie: Sonken is a pink-haired sweetheart.


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* RoseHairedSweetie: Sonken is a pink-haired sweetheart.

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Chouun is a mysterious girl who appears calm, collected, and very powerful. She is the second person to join the group. She loves to tease Kan'u and other women frequently. She also assumes the identity of a hero of justice named Butterfly Mask, hence wearing a Butterfly mask.

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Chouun is a mysterious girl who appears calm, collected, and very powerful. She is the second person to join the group. She loves to tease Kan'u and other women frequently. She also assumes the identity of a hero of justice named Butterfly Mask, hence wearing a Butterfly butterfly mask.


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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Animal Alias type. Chouun likes to pretend she's a superheroine by putting on a butterfly mask and calling herself "Butterfly Mask".


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* {{Chuunibyou}}: As seen by her tendency to put on a mask and pretend she's a hero of justice.

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* SatelliteCharacter: There isn't much to her outside of her loyalty to Ryofu.

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* SatelliteCharacter: There isn't much to her outside Her role is serving as Ryofu's assistant and adopted child of her loyalty to Ryofu.sorts.



* UndyingLoyalty: She has sworn to be Chinkyuu's most faithful follower.

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* UndyingLoyalty: She has sworn to be Chinkyuu's Ryofu's most faithful follower.



* MoneyDumb: She wasted all the money she took from the castle in buying a hairpin. Kan'u's group meets her when she's running off a restaurant without paying.



* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: She wasted all the money she took from the castle in buying a hairpin. Kan'u's group meets her when she's running off a restaurant without paying.



* TheRunaway: She ran away from the palace because she was fed up of her duties as a princess.

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* TheRunaway: She runs into the main group after she ran away from the palace because she was fed up of her duties as a princess. She goes back after getting tired of traveling.

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* ScarfOfAssKicking: She wears a red scarf around her neck.

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* ScarfOfAssKicking: ScarfOfAsskicking: She wears a red scarf around her neck.


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* DeathFakedForYou: At the end of ''Otome Tairan'', [[spoiler:Toutaku is rescued, but she still believes she should die after the atrocities Choujou committed using her name. Instead, Sousou gets everyone to agree Toutaku should be spared since she was yet another victim of Choujou's villainy. They decapitate a Toutaku puppet and let the real one be free to start anew as a peasant.]]


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* ScarfOfAsskicking: She wears a long reddish purple scarf around the neck.

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* InnocentBlueEyes: She has blue eyes and her personality is sweet and naive to the extreme.



* ShowgirlSkirt: She wears a long skirt that splits at the front, exposing her legs.



Sousou's cousin and one of her commanders. The elder twin of the Kakou sisters, yet is understanding and loyal to her cousin whom she loves.

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Sousou's cousin and one of her commanders. The elder twin of the Kakou sisters, yet is understanding and loyal to her cousin whom she loves.



* AbledInTheAdaptation: Unlike in the original epic and the visual novel, Kakouton never loses one of her eyes in the anime.



* PolarOppositeTwins: She's much more emotional and headstrong than her calm twin sister Kakouen.



* RedOniBlueOni: The Red Oni to her twin Kakouen's Blue Oni. This is reflected by the color of their clothes.

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* RedOniBlueOni: The more passionate Red Oni to her twin sister Kakouen's calm Blue Oni. This is reflected by the color of their clothes.clothes.
* SiblingYinYang: She's much more emotional and headstrong than her calm younger sister Kakouen.



The younger twin of the Kakou sisters. Just like her sister, she is also loyal to her cousin Sousou and is one of her commanders.

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The younger twin of the Kakou sisters. Just like her sister, she is also loyal to her cousin Sousou and is one of her commanders.



* PolarOppositeTwins: Unlike her more passionate sister, Kakouen is a very calm person.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue Oni to her twin Kakouton's Red Oni. This is reflected by the color of their clothes.


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* RedOniBlueOni: The calm Blue Oni to Kakouton's more passionate Red Oni. This is reflected by the color of their clothes.
* SiblingYinYang: Unlike her more passionate sister, Kakouen is a very calm person.


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* FamilyEyeResemblance: The three sisters don't look that much alike, but what they all have in common are their cyan eyes.

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* BerserkButton: You better never cheat or use dirty tactics in front of her because she won't tolerate that.

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* BerserkButton: You better never cheat or use dirty tactics in front of her because she won't tolerate let you get away with that.


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* TheLadette: She has a very brash and laid-back personality, spends her time drinking, and loves fighting.

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* BadassCape: She wears a long green cape when acting as an archer.



* GlamorousSingleMother: Other than the incident with bandits kidnapping her daughter in their introduction episode, Kouchuu never experiences any difficulties as a young widow with a very young daughter.



* BareYourMidriff: Her shirt is a little short and leaves her navel button exposed.



* NavelWindow: Her shirt is a little short and leaves her navel button exposed.



* FrameUp: In ''Otome Tairan'', as part of Choujou's and Ukitsu's conspiracy plans, she is taken prisoner, and her kingdom is turned into a dystopian tyrrany while the enslaved subjects are led to believe she's behind all of it. She finally escapes her prison in episode 10, and will try to clear herself and liberate her kingdom starting next episode.

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* FrameUp: In ''Otome Tairan'', as part HistoricalHeroUpgrade: The most extreme example in the series. Unlike her counterpart in the famous historical novel, this Toutaku is an incredibly good person who cares about her subjects. Choujou is the one who initiates tyrannical rule over the capital that motivates the alliance of the Gi, En, and Go factions, with Toutaku merely being TheScapegoat.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: At the end of the final season, [[spoiler:Toutaku's life is spared because all the factions know she was just framed for
Choujou's and Ukitsu's conspiracy plans, she is taken prisoner, and tyranny. However, they still can't do anything about the damage done to her kingdom is turned into reputation as a dystopian tyrrany while the enslaved subjects are led to believe she's behind all of it. She finally escapes ruler, so Toutaku becomes a maid under her prison in episode 10, and will try to clear herself and liberate her kingdom starting next episode.peasant alias Tonton.]]



* TheScapegoat: Choujou starts a tyrannical rule over the capital while hiding herself and placing all the blame on Toutaku, who is her hostage.

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* {{Meido}}: The ending sequence of the last season shows her working as a maid [[spoiler:now that she lost her status because of Choujou scapegoating her]].
* TheScapegoat: Choujou starts In ''Otome Tairan'', as part of Choujou's and Ukitsu's conspiracy plans, Toutaku is taken prisoner, and her kingdom is turned into a tyrannical rule over the capital dystopian tyranny while hiding herself and placing the enslaved subjects are led to believe she's behind all the blame on Toutaku, who is her hostage.of it.



* {{Meido}}: She's seen working as a maid at the end of the last season [[spoiler:after she and Toutaku lose their status because of Choujou's actions]].



* TagalongKid: Chinkyuu is an entirely ordinary orphan girl saved from starvation by Ryofu. Unlike Houtou or Koumei, she is not a ChildProdigy and she lacks the superhuman strength of some LittleMissBadass characters like Chouhi or Kyochou.
* ThirdPersonPerson: She calls herself Nene instead of using a first-person pronoun in her speech.

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* TagalongKid: Chinkyuu is an entirely ordinary orphan girl who was saved from starvation by Ryofu. Unlike Houtou or Koumei, she is not a ChildProdigy and she lacks the superhuman strength of some LittleMissBadass characters like Chouhi or Kyochou.
* ThirdPersonPerson: She calls herself Nene "Nene" instead of using a first-person pronoun in her speech.



* StreetPerformer: They start off doing magic shows and musical performances in the streets. Obviously, they don't do well until Ukitsu gives them a spell book to create special effects for their shows.

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* StreetPerformer: They start off doing magic shows and musical performances in the streets. Obviously, streets, but they don't do well until Ukitsu gives them a spell book to create special effects for their shows.


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* BitByBitTransformation: Instead of immediately turning into a cat, Kashin's body parts transform one by one, starting with growing cat ears.


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* SlowTransformation: The magical pill takes quite a while to completely transform her into a cat, giving the main group time to go on a journey and make her a potion that changes her back to human.

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* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When people hear of the Beautiful Black-haired Bandit Fighter, they are expecting she's a stunningly beautiful woman. They tend to feel disappointed when they meet Kan'u, as they find her [[GenericCuteness rather plain-looking]].
* FunbagAirbag: In the OVA, when Koumei tries to buy some bread at the school canteen, she gets shoved back by the crowd and plows face-first into Kan'u's chest.
* GenericCuteness: Other characters claim she's plain-looking, with her long black hair being the one thing that makes her stand out. Her face, though, doesn't look any less cute compared to other female characters.

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* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When people hear of the Beautiful Black-haired Bandit Fighter, they are expecting she's a stunningly beautiful woman. They tend to feel disappointed when they meet Kan'u, as they find her [[GenericCuteness rather plain-looking]].
* FunbagAirbag: In the OVA, when Koumei tries to buy some bread at the school canteen, she gets shoved back by the crowd and plows face-first into Kan'u's chest.
* GenericCuteness: Other characters claim she's plain-looking, with her long black hair being the one thing that makes her stand out. Her face, though, doesn't look any less cute compared to other female characters.
average in looks]].



* BathtubBonding: The first episode has Chouhi joining Kan'u in the bathtub after their duel, a little before they make their pact of sisterhood.



* HorseOfADifferentColor: She rides a pig into battle. This earns her the title Fierce Pig General.
* IdiotsCannotCatchColds: She attempts to prove this theory at the end of season one; it doesn't work.



* FoeTossingCharge: Gets to pull one off in the first season finale.



* FirstNameBasis: The entire first episode of the second season is about Bachou finding the courage to call Chouhi by her private name Rinrin and asking her to call her Sui.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the OVA, Kouchuu appears as a commentator, then mysteriously replaced by her daughter Riri. It takes a BrickJoke after the credits to reveal where she is: locked and tied up inside a gym by God knows who.



* BerserkButton: ''Never'' even try to harm Ryuubi in front of Gien. She will make sure that's the last thing you do.



* TickleTorture: In her introduction episode, she gets punished for insubordination by Gengan and is tied up and tickled using a catnip twig. Rather than being PlayedForLaughs, her reaction is rather erotic.



->Voiced by: Creator/TaeOkajima (Choukaku), Chihiro Umehara (Chouhou), Creator/KozueYoshizumi (Chouryou)

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->Voiced by: Creator/TaeOkajima (Choukaku), Chihiro Umehara Sahomi Koyama (Chouhou), Creator/KozueYoshizumi (Chouryou)



* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: The three sisters have light blue eyes, but Chouhou is the only one whose hair is also light blue.



* JudgmentOfSolomon: Moukaku and Chouhi fight over the ownership of the elephant Paya Paya, but the moment Moukaku notices Paya Paya is being hurt by them pulling him, she releases him. Koumei determines Moukaku is the real owner because she was the one who showed concern over the animal's wellbeing.



* ForgettableCharacter: For her entire life, people have failed to notice her. Even Ryuubi, her classmate from elementary school, has trouble recalling anything exact about her. Chouun points out how unremarkable she is.

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* ForgettableCharacter: For People tend to forget details about her entire life, people have failed because she fails to notice her.stand out much. She complains that her own parents often forgot her in the market. Even Ryuubi, her classmate from elementary school, has trouble recalling anything exact about her. Chouun points out how unremarkable she is.


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Ryuubi's mother who forced her to go on a journey to recover the family sword that was stolen by a bandit.
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* CanonForeigner: She's an original character from the anime.

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** In ''Otome Tairan'', she builds a [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots robot duplicate]] of Toutaku that somehow fools Ryofu. And at the end of the season, she builds another based on Sousou, which Kakoton ends up [[RoboSexual cuddling]].

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** In ''Otome Tairan'', she builds a [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots robot duplicate]] of Toutaku that somehow fools Ryofu. And at the end of the season, she builds another based on Sousou, which Kakoton Kakouton ends up [[RoboSexual cuddling]].



* AntiquatedLinguistics: She speaks in an old-fashioned Japanese dialect which includes using the archaic "warawa" as a first-person pronoun.

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* AntiquatedLinguistics: She speaks in an old-fashioned Japanese dialect which includes using dialect, including the use of the archaic "warawa" as a first-person pronoun.



* InsultBackfire: In the ''Shin Koihime'' anime, Jun'iku insults Enjutsu by saying all she does is eat honey and sing, comparing her to a cricket. Enjutsu takes the whole thing as a sign of people talking about how great she is.

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* InsultBackfire: In the ''Shin Koihime'' anime, Jun'iku insults Enjutsu by saying all she does is eat honey and sing, comparing her to a cricket. Enjutsu takes the whole thing as a sign of people talking about how great she is.



* FamilyThemeNaming: Doubling as FloralThemeNaming. She and her younger sisters have true names with a meaning related to the lotus flower; Sonsaku's true name means "Snow Lotus".

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* FamilyThemeNaming: Doubling as FloralThemeNaming. She and her younger sisters have true names with a meaning related to the lotus flower; Sonsaku's true name Sheren means "Snow Lotus".



* AbsoluteCleavage: Her dress has an opening showing off her cleavage and abdomen.

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* AbsoluteCleavage: BareYourMidriff: Her dress has an opening showing off a cutout at the front that exposes her cleavage and abdomen.belly.



* FamilyThemeNaming: Doubling as FloralThemeNaming. Like her sisters, her true name includes the kanji for lotus. In her case, Sonken's true name means something akin to "Lotus Magnificence".

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* FamilyThemeNaming: Doubling as FloralThemeNaming. Like her sisters, her true name includes the kanji for lotus. In her case, Sonken's true name means something akin to Renfa can be translated as "Lotus Magnificence".Flower".



* {{Underboobs}}: The open front of her dress reveals the underside of her breasts.



* FamilyThemeNaming: Doubling as FloralThemeNaming. All three of the Son sisters' true names have the kanji for lotus flower; Sonshoukou's true name means "Little Lotus".

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* FamilyThemeNaming: Doubling as FloralThemeNaming. All three of the Son sisters' true names have the kanji for lotus flower; Sonshoukou's true name Shaoren means "Little Lotus".



* HimeCut: She has parted blunt bangs, cheek-length sidelocks, and ankle-length straight hair.



* FurBikini: She dresses in a white tiger-skin bikini-like attire.



* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches to about her waist.

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* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches to about JunglePrincess: She's the ruler of the Nanban jungle, dresses in a tiger FurBikini, and has three other jungle girls who follow her waist.lead.


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!!Mike, Tora & Shamu
->Mike is voiced by: Yoriko Nagata
->Tora is voiced by: Hatsumi Takada
->Shamu is voiced by: Yuuki Kajita

Moukaku's three followers.
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* AgeInappropriateDress: Their skimpy tribal clothes look very indecent in little girls like these three.
* BareYourMidriff: Their outfits expose their midriffs.
* ShowgirlSkirt: Their tiger fur miniskirts split at the front.
* ZettaiRyouiki: They wear black thigh-high stockings and miniskirts.
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* {{Nosebleed}}: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. Whenever she gets excited, her nose bleeds so much that she makes a pool of blood.

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* MistakenForDying: The main group first finds her passed out on the ground in a pool of blood, making them think she's dead until the doctor Kada confirms she's alive and all the blood was from a nosebleed instead of a major injury.
* {{Nosebleed}}: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. Whenever she gets excited, aroused, her nose bleeds so much that she produces HighPressureBlood and makes a pool of blood.



* ShowgirlSkirt: The skirt of her dress splits at the front to show off her legs.



* {{Bokukko}}: She calls herself with the masculine pronoun 'boku'.

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* {{Bokukko}}: She calls herself with the masculine pronoun 'boku'.''boku''.



* ShowgirlSkirt: She wears a knee-length skirt that only covers the back of her legs.



* ShowgirlSkirt: Her battle outfit includes a knee-length skirt that only covers the back of her legs.



Toutaku's strategist and adviser. While short-tempered and a serious bespectacled girl, she has not got the heart to say no to her childhood friend Yue.

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Toutaku's strategist and adviser. While short-tempered and a serious bespectacled girl, she has not got the heart to say no to her childhood friend Yue.



* {{Bokukko}}: She uses 'boku' as a first-person pronoun when she talks.

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* {{Bokukko}}: She uses 'boku' ''boku'' as a first-person pronoun when she talks.



* GirlishPigtails: She wears her hair in low braided twin tails.



* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Magenta hair to match her magenta eyes.

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* BareYourMidriff: Her top shows off her midriff.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Magenta Ruby red hair to match her magenta ruby red eyes.



* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has magenta hair.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has magenta ruby red hair.



* SatelliteCharacter: She's entirely defined by her relationship with Ryofu.

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* SatelliteCharacter: She's entirely defined by There isn't much to her relationship with outside of her loyalty to Ryofu.



* ShortHairWithTail: Most of her hair only reaches her chin, but two long "tails" are grown out on both sides.



* DeathGlare: Without her HighClassGlass, she resorts to squinting, which often scares people away.

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* GiantPoofySleeves: Their dresses include a pair of poofy sleeves.



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* ShowgirlSkirt: Most of Choukaku's skirt is knee-length, except at the front where it splits to expose her thighs.

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!!Riri (Private name: N/A; Courtesy name: N/A; Expy: Xu)
->Voiced by: Mariya Sumida

Kouchuu's daughter.
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* GirlishPigtails: She ties her hair into pigtails because that hairstyle looks adorable in cute little girls like her.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She's basically a mini Kouchuu.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Purple hair like her mother.
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* CoatCape: She wears her haori over his shoulders like a cape.

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* CoatCape: She wears her haori over his her shoulders like a cape.



* HimeCut: She has parted blunt bangs, armpit-length sidelocks and classic-length straight hair.

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* HimeCut: She has She's a Chinese queen with parted blunt bangs, armpit-length sidelocks and classic-length straight hair.



* FlowerInHerHair: She ties the end of her hair with a flower ornament.



* SexySpectacles: She's a very sexy woman with glasses.



* SexySpectacles: She's a buxom, attractive, and glasses-wearing woman.



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!!Kougai (Private name: Sai; Courtesy name: Koufuku; Expy: Huang Gai)

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!!Kougai (Private name: Sai; Courtesy name: Koufuku; Expy: Huang Gai)Koufuku)



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->Voiced by: Creator/TaeOkajima (Choukaku), Chihiro Umehara (Chouhou), Creator/KozueYoshizumi (Chouryou)
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Choukaku, Chouhou and Chouryou, private names Tenhou, Chiihou and Renhou. Three sisters who are trying to make a living as street performers, but don't make headway until Ukitsu gives them a book called Crucial Keys to the Way of Peace that teaches them magic spells to make microphones and produce special effects in their performances. They become popular idol singers in their town.

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! Yellow Turban Rebellion

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[[folder:Daikyou & Shoukyou]]
->Voiced by: Creator/TaeOkajima (Choukaku), Chihiro Umehara (Chouhou), Creator/KozueYoshizumi (Chouryou)
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Choukaku, Chouhou and Chouryou, private names Tenhou, Chiihou and Renhou. Three
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sisters who are trying to make a living work in Sonsaku's court as street performers, but don't make headway until Ukitsu gives them a book called Crucial Keys to the Way of Peace that teaches them magic spells to make microphones and produce special effects in their performances. They become popular idol singers in their town.entertainers.


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* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Their eye shapes are the only way to tell them apart; Daikyou has TaremeEyes and Shoukyou has TsurimeEyes.
* IdiotHair: Both of them sports one and don't shine by their intelligence.
* NoNameGiven: Neither twin have proper given names; Daikyou simply means "Big Kyou" and Shoukyou simply means "Small Kyou".
* OdangoHair: Both have two bun covers on either side of their heads.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Both are cute and energetic little girls with pink hair.
* SlaveCollar: Both of them have one, as a reminder of their status.
* TaremeEyes: Daikyou has rounder eyes, making her more docile than her sister.
* TsurimeEyes: Shoukyou has sharper eyes, which gives her a more aggressive look and the only distinctive trait from her sister.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: They both have pink hair.
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! Yellow Turban Rebellion

[[folder:The Chou Sisters]]
->Voiced by: Creator/TaeOkajima (Choukaku), Chihiro Umehara (Chouhou), Creator/KozueYoshizumi (Chouryou)
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Choukaku, Chouhou and Chouryou, private names Tenhou, Chiihou and Renhou. Three sisters who are trying to make a living as street performers, but don't make headway until Ukitsu gives them a book called Crucial Keys to the Way of Peace that teaches them magic spells to make microphones and produce special effects in their performances. They become popular idol singers in their town.
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A cheerful little girl who like to play at being the leader of a kids bandit group called Rin Rin Bandits. The reason she made that group was so she wouldn't feel lonely. Kan'u convinces her to stop pulling pranks and they make a vow to be sworn sisters. She's the first person to join Kan'u in her journey.

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A cheerful little girl who like likes to play at being the leader of a kids bandit group called Rin Rin Bandits. The reason she made that group was so she wouldn't feel lonely. Kan'u convinces her to stop pulling pranks and they make a vow to be sworn sisters. She's the first person to join Kan'u in her journey.



* AbusiveParents: PlayedForLaughs. Ryuubi's mother threw her into a nearby river whenever she thought about how Ryuubi lost the family heirloom.



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[[folder:Ryuubi's mother]]
->Voiced by: Creator/YuriAmano

* AbusiveParent: PlayedForLaughs. She threw Ryuubi into a nearby river whenever she thought about how Ryuubi lost the family heirloom.
* UnnamedParent: We never get to know her name.
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* ParentalSubstitute: She calls herself Chouhi's older sister figure, but Kan'u can also act like a surrogate mother to her. In fact, people mistake her for Chouhi's mother more often than not.

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* ParentalSubstitute: She calls herself Chouhi's older sister figure, sister, but Kan'u can also act like a surrogate mother figure to the little orphan due to basically adopting her. In fact, people mistake her for Chouhi's mother more often than not.



** Twice in her very introduction episode. On both occassions, she's attacked by the same group of bandits, both cases being rescued by Kan'u and company. The second enters AttemptedRape territory.

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** Twice in her very introduction episode. On both occassions, she's attacked by the same group of bandits, both cases being rescued by Kan'u and company. The second enters AttemptedRape territory.



* RegalRinglets: She wears some of her hair in GirlishPigtails that curl into ringlets. She also mentions she's descended from a distinguished linage.



* OjouRinglets: Taken its logical extreme. She has long blonde hair styled in enormous ringlets with two of them as sidelocks that fall in front of her shoulders. She's the head of a noble family.

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* OjouRinglets: Taken its logical extreme. She RapunzelHair: The ruler of the En province has long blonde hair that reaches past her back.
* RegalRinglets: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. Her hair is
styled in enormous ringlets with into multiple huge ringlets. Also counts for OjouRinglets because two of them as sidelocks that fall in front of her ears and shoulders. She's the head of a noble family.



* UpperClassTwit: Head of a distinguished royal family and a big buffoon.

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* UpperClassTwit: Head She's the head of a distinguished royal family and a big buffoon.



* OjouRinglets: Not as exaggerated as her cousin, but Enjutsu has long hair that curls into ringlets and side locks with ringlets at the end. Like with her cousin, it's a symbol of her status as royalty.



* RegalRinglets: Not as exaggerated as her cousin, but Enjutsu has long hair that curls into ringlets. Also includes OjouRinglets with the two that fall in front of her ears and shoulders. Like with her cousin, it's a symbol of her status as royalty.



* HimeCut: She has parted blunt bangs, armpit-length sidelocks and classic-length straight hair.



* RapunzelHair: She's a queen with hair long enough to reach past her butt.



* HimeCut: She's the first princess of the Go Kingdom. Her hairstyle consists of parted blunt bangs, shoulder-length sidelocks and long straight hair falling down to her hips.

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* HimeCut: She's the first princess of the Go Kingdom. Her hairstyle consists of parted blunt bangs, shoulder-length chin-length sidelocks and long straight hair falling down to her hips.

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!In general

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!In general
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! Main Characters

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[[folder:Chouhi]]



* PetBabyWildAnimal: Chouhi says she kept wild animals such as a bear and a boar as pets when she was little. It's a bit of a RunningGag that Rin mistakes wild animals for her childhood pets several times, so instead of happy reunions, the characters end up having to run for their lives.




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[[folder:Ryuubi]]



* {{Robinsonade}}: PlayedWith in the second HighSchoolAU OVA: flashbacks showed her going on a trip, and apparently, she disappeared without a trace. She ended up on what she presumed was a DesertedIsland, but it turned out to be the same island resort the rest of the cast went to. She was rescued by the Nanban Barbarians who lived there; apparently, they never ventured far enough from their home to the "resort" area until the Giant Octo-Payapaya incident.



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[[folder:Gi Kingdom]]

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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Her recurrent sexual harassment towards a non-consenting Kan'u, which includes demanding her to have sex with her to save her friend's life and forcing her to take a bath together, doesn't leave Sousou looking like a disgusting, irredeemable pervert only because both are pretty girls.




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!!Choujou

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[[folder:Gotsutotsukotsu]]
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* HairDecorations: She wears a tiger hairpin.



* HairDecorations: She wears a cat-ears headpiece.



* HairDecorations: She wears a strange ornament on top of her head that doubles as a puppet.



* HairDecorations: Her GirlishPigtails are decorated with blue ribbons and bobble hair ties.



* HairDecorations: She wears a huge blue ribbon in her hair.



* HairDecorations: Her headband.



* HairDecorations: She has a blue ribbon tied at the back of her head.



* HairDecorations: She has a pair of hair clips on the right side of her bangs.



* HairDecorations: Her bobble hair ties and hair clips.



* HairDecorations: The white ribbons tying up her {{odango|hair}} and her dragonfly hair pin.



* HairDecorations: She wears a hair piece on top of her head that resembles a tiara.



* HairDecorations: Choukaku wears a yellow ribbon at the back of her head, Chouhou holds up her side ponytail with a flower-shaped ornament and Chouhou wears hair clips.
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* EvilAlbino: She has white hair and red eyes and acts as the main villain for most of the third season.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: She likes to flirt with [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Kan'u]] and did ''something'' to Bachou in her sleep that she leaves unsaid because she's a virgin. It's never made explicit whether she's a lesbian or it's simply part of her nature as TheGadfly.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: She likes to flirt with sexually harass [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Kan'u]] and did ''something'' to Bachou in her sleep that she leaves unsaid because she's a virgin. It's never made explicit whether she's a lesbian or it's simply part of her nature as TheGadfly.



* {{Adorkable}}: Her clumsy attempts of deepening her friendship with Chouhi by entering FirstNameBasis are absolutely adorable to watch.

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* {{Adorkable}}: Her clumsy super embarrassing attempts of deepening her friendship with Chouhi by entering FirstNameBasis are absolutely adorable to watch.



* FirstNameBasis: The entire first episode of the second season is about Bachou finding the courage to call Chouhi by her private name Rinrin and asking her to call her Sui.



* FirstNameBasis: The entire first episode of the second season is about Bachou finding the courage to call Chouhi by her private name Rinrin and asking her to call her Sui.


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* MistakenForMasturbating: In the first episode of ''Shin Koihime Musou'', Riri gets a glimpse of Bachou sitting on her bed in front of a paper. Bachou was practicing calling Chouhi by her private name Rinrin, but the first thing Chouun guesses is that Bachou was "using her fingers to climb the stairs to Heaven".


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* TerribleArtist: She once paints a portrait of Chouhi that Bachou thinks looks identical to the real thing. Truth is it's a deformed scribble.


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* {{Tsundere}}: A bit of a Sweet type towards Chouhi. Bachou is normally friendly and laidback, but when Chouhi gives her a peck on the cheek to make up after a fight, Bachou gets HighPressureEmotion, calls Chouhi an idiot several times and runs off in embarrassment.
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* BigSisterInstinct: She immediately develops one when she meets Houtou, Suikyou's new apprentice. Since Koumei was separated from her biological little sister, so she wants to act like a big sister to her fellow student.

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* BigSisterInstinct: She immediately develops one when she meets Houtou, Suikyou's new apprentice. Since Koumei was separated from her biological little sister, so she wants to act like a big sister to her fellow student.



* AdvertisedExtra: Despite being made look like a main character in the anime's advertisement and the very opening, Kouchuu only appears in one episode and the finale of the first season. Furthermore, she has very little to no participation in the following seasons.

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* AdvertisedExtra: Despite being made look like a main character in the anime's advertisement promotional art and the very anime opening, Kouchuu only appears in one episode and the finale two episodes of the first season.season, including the SeasonFinale. Furthermore, she has very little to no participation in the following seasons.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: Kata's acupuncture treatment of Chouhi acquires all the flair and drama of a [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Goldion Hammer]] deployment.

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* MundaneMadeAwesome: Kata's Kada's acupuncture treatment of Chouhi acquires all the flair and drama of a [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Goldion Hammer]] deployment.

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* {{Adorkable}}: The slightest hint of sexuality or romantic interest will turn Sui into a stuttering mess. It's absolutely adorable to watch.

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* {{Adorkable}}: The slightest hint Her clumsy attempts of sexuality or romantic interest will turn Sui into a stuttering mess. It's deepening her friendship with Chouhi by entering FirstNameBasis are absolutely adorable to watch.



* BodyguardCrush: She appoints herself as Ryuubi's personal bodyguard just to have an excuse to follow her and protect her.

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* BodyguardCrush: She appoints herself as Ryuubi's personal bodyguard just to have an excuse to follow her and protect her.her crush.



* TickleTorture: In her introduction episode, she gets punished for insubordination by Gengan and is tied up and tickled using a catnip twig. Rather than being played for laughs, her reaction is rather erotic.

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* TickleTorture: In her introduction episode, she gets punished for insubordination by Gengan and is tied up and tickled using a catnip twig. Rather than being played for laughs, PlayedForLaughs, her reaction is rather erotic.



* UpperClassTwit: While not as big of a moron as her cousin, Enshou is still an incompetent feudal lord because she likes goofing off and playing pranks on her cousin better than looking after the needs of her citizens. She does improve a bit after getting spooked by a ghost convinces her to take her responsibilities more seriously.

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* UpperClassTwit: While not as big of a moron as her cousin, Enshou is still an incompetent feudal lord because she likes goofing off and playing pranks on her cousin better than looking after the needs of her citizens.subjects. She does improve a bit after getting spooked by a ghost convinces her to take her responsibilities more seriously.



* {{Fundoshi}}: She wears one as underwear and has her subordinates wear one too as a sign of the Go Kingdom's noble guard.

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* {{Fundoshi}}: She wears one as underwear and has her subordinates wear one too as a sign symbol of the Go Kingdom's noble guard.



* LargeHam: Kada insists the name of the guild he's affiliated with be called out in the loudest and most dramatic fashion every time. Lampshaded in the following dialogue:

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* LargeHam: Kada insists the name of the guild he's affiliated with be called out in the loudest and most dramatic fashion every time. Lampshaded time.
* MaamShock: RareMaleExample. He doesn't like that Chouhi calls him an old man.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Kata's acupuncture treatment of Chouhi acquires all the flair and drama of a [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Goldion Hammer]] deployment.
* SuddenlyShouting: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]
in the following dialogue:



-->Kada: It's '''[[LargeHam THE WAY OF FIVE GRAINS!!]]'''

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-->Kada: It's '''[[LargeHam THE '''THE WAY OF FIVE GRAINS!!]]'''GRAINS!!'''



-->Kan'u: So, Shuri, what is the Way... I mean, '''[[LargeHam THE WAY OF FIVE GRAINS!!]]''' all about?
* MaamShock: RareMaleExample. He doesn't like that Chouhi calls him an old man.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Kata's acupuncture treatment of Chouhi acquires all the flair and drama of a [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Goldion Hammer]] deployment.
* SuddenlyShouting: His guild is not The Way of the Five Grains. It's THE WAY OF THE FIVE GRAINS! That is all.

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-->Kan'u: So, Shuri, what is the Way... I mean, '''[[LargeHam THE '''THE WAY OF FIVE GRAINS!!]]''' GRAINS!!''' all about?
* MaamShock: RareMaleExample. He doesn't like that Chouhi calls him an old man.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Kata's acupuncture treatment of Chouhi acquires all the flair and drama of a [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Goldion Hammer]] deployment.
* SuddenlyShouting: His guild is not The Way of the Five Grains. It's THE WAY OF THE FIVE GRAINS! That is all.
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* DemotedToExtra: Similar to Kyocho, Chouryou's role is the anime is greatly reduced compared to the visual novel. This is lampshaded in the ''Shin Koihime'' OVA where she wonders if she's ever going to get some screentime.

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* DemotedToExtra: Similar to Kyocho, Chouryou's role is in the anime is greatly reduced compared to the visual novel. This is lampshaded in the ''Shin Koihime'' OVA where she wonders if she's ever going to get some screentime.

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* BadassAdorable: Ryofu is an innocent and kind-hearted person, but she can fight Aisha and Rinrin '''at once''' without breaking a sweat.

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* BadassAdorable: Ryofu is an innocent and kind-hearted person, but she can fight Aisha Kan'u and Rinrin Chouhi '''at once''' without breaking a sweat.


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* NiceHat: She sports an officer's cap with a panda symbol on it.

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* {{Adorkable}}: She's portrayed as easily flustered at even the slightest intimate comment or gesture (which makes her usually aggressive UnwantedHarem all the more entertaining).



* CelibateHeroine: Kan'u's primarily focused on her goal of saving a war-torn Ancient China. She is also portrayed as easily flustered at even the slightest intimate comment or gesture (which makes her usually aggressive UnwantedHarem all the more entertaining). The exception to this portrayal is in the last two episodes of season one where she feels attracted to the fake Ryuubi until she sees the selfish GlorySeeker he really is.

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* CelibateHeroine: Kan'u's Kan'u is primarily focused on her goal of saving a war-torn Ancient China. She is also portrayed as easily flustered at even the slightest intimate comment or gesture (which makes her usually aggressive UnwantedHarem all the more entertaining).China, so romance isn't something she's looking for. The exception to this portrayal is in the last two episodes of season one where she feels attracted to the fake Ryuubi until she sees the selfish GlorySeeker he really is.



* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Her reason for taking in Chinkyuu is that she's "dirty but cute" like the dogs she picks up.



* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was an orphaned girl who got thrown out of her hometown for something that wasn't her fault. She and her BigFriendlyDog Chouchou wandered from village to village for a while until both nearly died of starvation. Then, she encountered Ryofu who feed her and took her to live with her at the To empire.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was an orphaned girl who got thrown out of her hometown for something that wasn't her fault. She and her BigFriendlyDog Chouchou wandered from village to village for a while until both nearly died of starvation. Then, Just when she was about to ascend to Heaven, Chinkyuu encountered Ryofu who feed fed her and took her to live with her at the To empire.

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* IGaveMyWord: Kan'u never goes back on her promises. Sousou constantly reaffirms her promise to Kan'u to get her to "cooperate"

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* IGaveMyWord: Kan'u never goes back on her promises. Sousou constantly reaffirms her the promise to for sex Kan'u made to get her to "cooperate""cooperate".



* LikeParentLikeSpouse: Or Like Brother, Like Spouse in her case. Kan'u felt attracted to the fake Ryuubi because he physically resembled her deceased older brother.

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* LikeParentLikeSpouse: Or Like Brother, Like Spouse in her case. Kan'u felt attracted to the fake Ryuubi because he physically resembled her deceased older brother. After she realizes the fake Ryuubi doesn't care about anything but his own glory, she gets over her crush because he's nothing like the kind brother who died protecting her.



* BathtubBonding: The first episode has Chouhi joining Kan'u in the bathtub after their duel, a little before they make their pact of sisterhood.



* BondingOverMissingParents: The first thing that allows Chouhi and Kan'u bond is the fact that both were orphaned by evil bandits.



** She gets very jealous when she sees Kan'u and Koumei getting along. She gets over it when she sees Koumei's efforts to help Kan'u and doesn't protest to Koumei joining their journey.
** She protests against Ryuubi making a vow of sisterhood with Kan'u because only ''she'' gets to be Kan'u's little sister and only accepts it when Ryuubi is made Kan'u's older sister instead.

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** She gets very jealous when she sees Kan'u and Koumei getting along. She gets over it when she sees Koumei's efforts to help Kan'u and doesn't protest to have any problem with Koumei joining them in their journey.
** She protests against Ryuubi making a vow of sisterhood with Kan'u because only ''she'' gets to be Kan'u's little sister and only accepts it when sister. She's okay with Ryuubi is made being Kan'u's older sister instead.sister, though.



* DefeatMeansFriendship: In the first episode, Kan'u challenges Chouhi to a duel after the latter angered the feudal lord with her pranks. The fight ends when Chouhi loses her will to fight and starts crying out of loneliness. Afterwards, Chouhi admits she lost to Kan'u, invites her to spend the night at her house and asks her to be her sworn sister, which Kan'u agrees to.



* HatesBeingAlone: The reason why she was ThePrankster and played at being bandits with other kids was because she was lonely after her grandfather died. Once Kan'u agrees to be her older sister, Chouhi joins her journey so doesn't have to be alone anymore.

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* HatesBeingAlone: The reason why she was ThePrankster and played at being bandits with other kids was because she was desperately lonely after her grandfather died. Once Kan'u agrees to be her older sister, Chouhi joins her journey so doesn't have to be alone anymore.



* HairDecorations: She has a pair of hair clips on the right side of her bangs.



* FacialMarkings: She has a small tattoo in her forehead similar to her sister's.



* HimeCut: She's the first princess of the Go Kingdom. Her hairstyle consists of parted blunt bangs, shoulder-length sidelocks and long straight hair falling down to her hips.



* RoseHairedSweetie: Sonken is a pink-haired sweetie pie.
* SpoiledSweet: She's a big sweetheart while also being the princess of a great empire.

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* RoseHairedSweetie: Sonken is a pink-haired sweetie pie.
sweetheart.
* SpoiledSweet: PrincessClassic: She's a big sweetheart while also being the beautiful and kind-hearted princess of a great empire.empire.
* PrincessesPreferPink: She's a pink-haired Chinese princess wearing a rose-colored dress.
* ShortHairWithTail: Most of her hair only reaches her chin, but two long "tails" are grown out on both sides.



* ACupAngst: Annoyed at being called small, she and Chouhi have a contest to compare their breasts in every aspect possible. She also gets mad at women with huge breasts like Rikuson.

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* ACupAngst: Annoyed at being called small, she and Chouhi have a contest to compare their breasts in every aspect possible. She also gets mad at easily irritated around women with huge breasts like Rikuson.



* FakeBoobs: To her chagrin, she has to put on breast pads when playing Choukaku at Enjutsu's play.

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* FakeBoobs: To her chagrin, she Sonshoukou has to put on breast pads when playing Choukaku at Enjutsu's play.



* HimeCut: She's Go Kingdom royalty and she has her bangs, sidelocks and long hair cut straight. It's easier to notice it when she lets her hair down.



* PrincessesPreferPink: A princess with pale pink and wearing a dress with pink details.

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* PrincessesPreferPink: A Chinese princess with pale light pink hair and wearing a dress with pale pink details.dress.



* TinyTyrannicalGirl: She's tiny and the first thing she usually does when meeting new people is to order them to be her servants. Nuff said.

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* TinyTyrannicalGirl: She's tiny and the first thing she usually does when meeting new people is to order ordering them to be her servants. Nuff said.



* BlindWithoutEm: Ryomou's farsighted with her right eye. When Sonken notices it, she gets her a monocle.

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* BlindWithoutEm: Ryomou's Ryomou is farsighted with her right eye. When Sonken notices it, she gets her a monocle.



* DeathGlare: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Without her HighClassGlass, she resorts to squinting, which often scares people away.

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* DeathGlare: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Without her HighClassGlass, she resorts to squinting, which often scares people away.



* CharmPerson: The Chou Sisters make use of this at first for gifts from their fans, but there are more sinister applications that come to light.

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* CharmPerson: Chouhou learns a spell that she uses to hypnotize the band's fans and stop fights in the middle of concerts. The Chou Sisters sisters make use of this at first for to get gifts from their fans, but there are more sinister applications that come to light.



* JudgmentOfSolomon: Moukaku and Chouhi fight over the ownership of the elephant Paya Paya, but the moment Moukaku is being hurt by them pulling him, she releases him. Koumei determines Moukaku is the real owner because she was the one who showed concern over the animal's wellbeing.

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* JudgmentOfSolomon: Moukaku and Chouhi fight over the ownership of the elephant Paya Paya, but the moment Moukaku notices Paya Paya is being hurt by them pulling him, she releases him. Koumei determines Moukaku is the real owner because she was the one who showed concern over the animal's wellbeing.



* FacialMarkings: He has a small tattoo in the middle of his forehead.



* ShyBlueHairedGirl: Her hair has a shade of blue and she's very timid and quiet.

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* ShyBlueHairedGirl: Her hair has a shade of blue and she's very timid and quiet.around strangers.
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* RavenHairIvorySkin: Her long jet-black skin and fair skin are what earned her reputation as a beauty. Most people are usually unimpressed when they meet her in person because of GenericCuteness, but Sousou repeatedly expresses her desire to get her hands of Kan'u gorgeous black hair.

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* RavenHairIvorySkin: Her long jet-black skin and fair skin are what earned her reputation as a beauty. Most people are usually unimpressed when they meet her in person because of GenericCuteness, but Sousou repeatedly expresses her desire to get her hands of Kan'u on Kan'u's gorgeous black hair.

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* BarehandedBladeBlock: Kan'u pulls one off in episode 11 of season one.

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* BarehandedBladeBlock: BareHandedBladeBlock: Kan'u pulls one off in episode 11 of season one.



!!Kakoton (Private name: Shunran; Courtesy name: Genjo)

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!!Kakoton !!Kakouton (Private name: Shunran; Courtesy name: Genjo)



* DemotedToExtra: In the original visual novel, she's a general of the Gi faction. In the anime, she's a very minor character who only shows up in one episode of the first season and has no relation to Sousou.

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* DemotedToExtra: In the original visual novel, she's a general of the Gi faction. In the anime, she's a very minor character who only shows up in one episode of the first season and has no relation to Sousou.doesn't join Sousou's army until late in the final season.



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* ButtMonkey: In all her appearances, she gets the short end of the stick or she gets frustrated at how people keep forgetting her. Even the only time she gets to do something cool by beating Enshou in a duel ends with her exposing her naked breasts to a crowd of people.

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* ButtMonkey: In all her appearances, she gets the short end of the stick or she gets frustrated is annoyed at how people keep forgetting her. Even the only time she gets to do something cool by beating Enshou in a duel ends with her exposing her naked breasts to a crowd of people.



* ParentalSubstitute: Shibaki has been taking care of Shuri ever since she was orphaned and was separated from her sisters. She treats Shuri like her own daughter and wants the best for her.

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* ParentalSubstitute: Shibaki has been taking care of Shuri ever since she the little girl was orphaned and was separated from her sisters. She treats Shuri like her own daughter and wants the best for her.



* ElectiveMute: She doesn't like to talk with anyone but Suikyou and later Koumei.



* TheQuietOne: She doesn't like to talk with anyone but Suikyou and later Koumei.



* FieryRedhead: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. He's mostly even-tempered despite his redhead, but he does like to shout the name of his guild for the hell of it.

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* FieryRedhead: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. He's mostly even-tempered despite his redhead, red hair, but he does like to shout the name of his guild for the hell of it.



* MaamShock: RareMaleExample. He doesn't like that Chouhi calls him an old man.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Kata's acupuncture treatment of Chouhi acquires all the flair and drama of a [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Goldion Hammer]] deployment.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Kada insists the name of the guild he's affiliated with be called out in the loudest and most dramatic fashion every time. Lampshaded in the following dialogue:

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* MaamShock: RareMaleExample. He doesn't like that Chouhi calls him an old man.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Kata's acupuncture treatment of Chouhi acquires all the flair and drama of a [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Goldion Hammer]] deployment.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis:
LargeHam: Kada insists the name of the guild he's affiliated with be called out in the loudest and most dramatic fashion every time. Lampshaded in the following dialogue:


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[[folder:Main Characters]]
!In general
* BloodBrothers: Female example. At the start of the story, Kan'u and Chouhi swear a vow of sisterhood. In the second season, Ryuubi wants to become Kan'u's sworn little sister too, but Chouhi decides to make her Kan'u's sworn older sister without Kan'u's permission. Eventually, Kan'u gives in and calls Ryuubi her "[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology Aneue]]".

!!Kan'u (Private name: Aisha; Courtesy name: Unchou)
->Voiced by: Nami Kurokawa
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A famous bandit hunter known as the Beautiful Black-haired Bandit Fighter. She wields the Green Dragon Crescent Blade.
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* AdoptivePeerParent: While they're sworn sisters, Kan'u mostly acts as Chouhi's adopted mother despite being only a few years older than her.
* ArmorPiercingSlap: She delivers a well-deserved one to the Fake Ryuubi when he tries to persuade her to abandon Touka Village and her friends there for the sake of his pursuit of power in the military.
* BarehandedBladeBlock: Kan'u pulls one off in episode 11 of season one.
* BigBrotherWorship: Kan'u's unnamed brother was shown as her selfless protector, going so far as to save her life at the cost of his own. It was probably by having such an admirable older brother, that Kan'u developed her own BigSisterInstinct when the time came.
* BigLittleSister: Despite Ryuubi being younger than her, she becomes Kan'u's older sister through their vow of sisterhood because Chouhi doesn't want to share her little sister position. By the start of ''Otome Tairan'', Kan'u calls Ryuubi "[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology Aneue]]".
* BigSisterInstinct: She always looks after her sworn little sister Chouhi. In later seasons, she also becomes protective of her other sworn sister Ryuubi, although Kan'u is nominally the younger sister of the two. This is probably because Kan'u's older brother died protecting her and she wants to follow his example by being a protective sister.
* CelibateHeroine: Kan'u's primarily focused on her goal of saving a war-torn Ancient China. She is also portrayed as easily flustered at even the slightest intimate comment or gesture (which makes her usually aggressive UnwantedHarem all the more entertaining). The exception to this portrayal is in the last two episodes of season one where she feels attracted to the fake Ryuubi until she sees the selfish GlorySeeker he really is.
* CoolBigSis: Rinrin adores Kan'u as her older sister.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her entire family was murdered by bandits when she was young.
* DCupDistress: She gets easily embarrassed when people mention how big her breasts are.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When people hear of the Beautiful Black-haired Bandit Fighter, they are expecting she's a stunningly beautiful woman. They tend to feel disappointed when they meet Kan'u, as they find her [[GenericCuteness rather plain-looking]].
* FunbagAirbag: In the OVA, when Koumei tries to buy some bread at the school canteen, she gets shoved back by the crowd and plows face-first into Kan'u's chest.
* GenericCuteness: Other characters claim she's plain-looking, with her long black hair being the one thing that makes her stand out. Her face, though, doesn't look any less cute compared to other female characters.
* TheHeroine: The first season is mostly about Kan'u's heroics during her quest to fight off evil bandits.
* IGaveMyWord: Kan'u never goes back on her promises. Sousou constantly reaffirms her promise to Kan'u to get her to "cooperate"
* LargeHam: When it comes to beating up bandits, Kan'u loves announcing it with hams.
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: Or Like Brother, Like Spouse in her case. Kan'u felt attracted to the fake Ryuubi because he physically resembled her deceased older brother.
* LustObject: Sousou has been sexually harassing Kan'u since they first met. Kan'u got dangerously near to losing her virginity to Sousou as part of a bargain and Sousou makes it clear she hasn't given up on doing so eventually.
* MaamShock: When Ryuubi is MistakenForPregnant, Kan'u opposes to the idea of becoming an HonoraryAunt because aunt and old woman are spelled the same in Japanese and she's still too young to be called that.
* MuggingTheMonster: Bandits think Kan'u is an easy mark. They find out the hard way she's a famous bandit-hunter.
* ParentalSubstitute: She calls herself Chouhi's older sister figure, but Kan'u can also act like a surrogate mother to her. In fact, people mistake her for Chouhi's mother more often than not.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches all the way down to her ''ankles''.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Her long jet-black skin and fair skin are what earned her reputation as a beauty. Most people are usually unimpressed when they meet her in person because of GenericCuteness, but Sousou repeatedly expresses her desire to get her hands of Kan'u gorgeous black hair.
* RedBaron: The Beautiful Black-haired Bandit Fighter.
* SlipknotPonytail: In ''Otome Tairan'' episode 11, she and Chouryou have an intense fight where the hair accessory keeping up her side-ponytail breaks off.
* TeamMom: Kan'u acts like a responsible mom for her group of friends made up by kids and immature girls.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's completely scared of ghosts.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears thigh-high stockings and a dress with a short skirt.

!!Chouhi (Private name: Rinrin; Courtesy name: Yokutoku)
->Voiced by: Miya Serizono (credited as Hiroka Nishizawa)
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A cheerful little girl who like to play at being the leader of a kids bandit group called Rin Rin Bandits. The reason she made that group was so she wouldn't feel lonely. Kan'u convinces her to stop pulling pranks and they make a vow to be sworn sisters. She's the first person to join Kan'u in her journey.
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* AnimalMotifs: Her jacket has a tiger strip pattern in it and has a tiger hairclip.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: In all but blood to Kan'u. While Kan'u loves Chouhi as her little sister, Chouhi's childish antics can still be obnoxious at times.
* BareYourMidriff: She wears a midriff-baring top.
* BigSisterWorship: She and Kan'u aren't real sisters, but Chouhi clearly adores her.
* BoyishShortHair: She's pretty tomboyish and tough. Fittingly, she keeps her hair short.
* BrattyHalfPint: In her first appearance, Chouhi is a troublemaker who formed a band of "bandits" with the other children of her village to play pranks on the adults. Kan'u stops her before Chouhi gets in serious trouble with the feudal lord.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Sister version.
** She gets very jealous when she sees Kan'u and Koumei getting along. She gets over it when she sees Koumei's efforts to help Kan'u and doesn't protest to Koumei joining their journey.
** She protests against Ryuubi making a vow of sisterhood with Kan'u because only ''she'' gets to be Kan'u's little sister and only accepts it when Ryuubi is made Kan'u's older sister instead.
* ConstantlyCurious: PlayedForLaughs whenever she asks questions about the female body and physical intimacy that embarrasses almost everyone. Kan'u almost always refuses to answer.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Chouhi immediately stumbles and breaks things when told to perform some basic manual tasks.
* CuteLittleFangs: Her sharp fangs represent her energetic and mischievous personality. They also go along with her tiger motif.
* DeathGlare: She even can scare off a tiger with it!
* {{Deuteragonist}}: In the first series, she's the second most important character after Kan'u.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: She wears ankle wraps that leave her toes and heels free.
* ExpressiveAccessory: Her tiger hairpin always mimics her expression.
* FieryRedhead: She has orangish red hair and she's a pretty energetic, hotheaded kid.
* HairDecorations: She wears a tiger hairpin.
* HappilyAdopted: In name they're sisters, but Chouhi has been all but officially adopted by Kan'u. People tend to mistake Chouhi for Kan'u's daughter, to the latter's chagrin.
* HatesBeingAlone: The reason why she was ThePrankster and played at being bandits with other kids was because she was lonely after her grandfather died. Once Kan'u agrees to be her older sister, Chouhi joins her journey so doesn't have to be alone anymore.
* HorseOfADifferentColor: She rides a pig into battle. This earns her the title Fierce Pig General.
* IdiotsCannotCatchColds: She attempts to prove this theory at the end of season one; it doesn't work.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: She speaks whatever is on her mind and says things about people that can be hurtful without realizing it. Such as casually calling Koumei [[ACupAngst flat-chested]] and making Ryuubi to think she's getting fat by commenting her thighs are flabby.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Chouhi believes that by letting her BladeOnAStick fall on a crossroads, whatever direction it lands pointing towards is the divinely chosen correct path.
* InsultMisfire: Done in the following exchange with Gien:
--->'''Gien:''' Shut up, you flat-chested midget! \\
'''Chouhi:''' What?! Apologize to Shuri!
* LittleMissBadass: She may be small, but she's roughly on the same level as Kan'u when it comes to battle.
* ParentalAbandonment: When she was very young, a group of bandits killed her parents and was taken in by her grandfather. But when he passed away, she was all alone, until she met Kan'u.
* PetBabyWildAnimal: Chouhi says she kept wild animals such as a bear and a boar as pets when she was little. It's a bit of a RunningGag that Rin mistakes wild animals for her childhood pets several times, so instead of happy reunions, the characters end up having to run for their lives.
* ThePrankster: Before Kan'u met her, Chouhi would pull pranks all over her hometown with her 'underlings'. This even got her in trouble with the local landlord and Kan'u get to stop her so Chouhi wouldn't be harshly punished.
* RaisedByGrandparents: She was raised by her grandfather after her parents were killed by bandits, but he died recently.
* RedBaron: Fierce Pig General.
* ScarfOfAssKicking: She wears a red scarf around her neck.
* ThirdPersonPerson: She uses her private name as a substitute of 'I', something viewed as inappropriate.
* TooManyBelts: Two overlapping, both purely ornamental given her skin-tight spats.
* VerbalTic: She ends her sentences with "nano-da".

!!Ryuubi (Private name: Touka; Courtesy name: Gentoku)
->Voiced by: Creator/MaiGoto
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Introduced in ''Shin Koihime Musou''. Ryuubi is a descendant of a distinguished family who was given possession of a sword, the family heirloom, before she encountered the man who would eventually steal her name and her sword, causing her to fall into disgrace. To redeem herself, she ventures out in search for the man and her sword, which leads her to Kan'u and company, who are greatly surprised of her identity. After being attacked twice by bandits while venturing alone, she concedes to Chouun's suggestion of joining their group for protection.
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* AbusiveParents: PlayedForLaughs. Ryuubi's mother threw her into a nearby river whenever she thought about how Ryuubi lost the family heirloom.
* AccidentalMisnaming: Ryuubi calls Kousonsan "Pai-pai" instead of her true name Pairen, much to the latter's annoyance.
* ActualPacifist: She's the only main character who isn't a fighter and explicitly hates violence.
* TheAllegedBoss: Ryuubi is nominally the commander of Touka Village's army. But that's because her impostor was the one who originally recruited Kan'u and her friends and they want to save up the trouble of making a new flag. Ryuubi doesn't ever act like a commander. This is lampshaded in the recap of Episode 10 of ''Otome Tairan''; the narrator was going to say Kan'u was leading Touka Village's army until she corrected herself and said it was Ryuubi.
* BlueBlood: She's descended from a high-ranking family.
* ButtMonkey: Her bad luck started with her family sword and identity being stolen by a bandit. Her mother would throw her into a river whenever she remembered it until Ryuubi left the house. In her first episode alone, she gets sexually assaulted by bandits ''twice'' and people try to attack her because they mistake her for her impostor.
* DamselInDistress:
** Twice in her very introduction episode. On both occassions, she's attacked by the same group of bandits, both cases being rescued by Kan'u and company. The second enters AttemptedRape territory.
** Happens yet again in ''Otome Tairan'' when she tries to help Gien, only to get into trouble herself, and resulting in another AttemptedRape incident.
* TheDitz: Ryuubi isn't the brightest girl around, to say the least.
* DontCallMeSir: After Chouhi makes her Kan'u's sworn older sister, Ryuubi keeps telling Kan'u to call her "[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology Onee-chan]]" instead of the respectable "Ryuubi[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics -dono]]". Eventually, Kan'u settles for calling Ryuubi "Aneue".
* FamousAncestor: She claims to be a descendant of the legendary emperor Chuuzan Seiou.
* {{Fangirl}}: One huge fan of the IdolSinger Chou sisters.
* FriendToAllChildren: She gets along very well with children, such as Chouhi and some orphans the group encounters in their journey.
* GirlishPigtails: She ties some of her hair up in pigtails, combined with OdangoHair.
* HeroesPreferSwords: Ryuubi takes over the role of main heroine from ''Shin Koihime'' onward and she also happens to be the only main character to have a sword as her WeaponOfChoice.
* HeroWorshipper: From the moment Butterfly Mask saves her from bandits, she starts worshipping her like a cool and strong hero of justice. Funnily enough, she somehow doesn't realize Chouun is Butterfly Mask.
* HistoricalInJoke: She's very good at weaving straw mats, which is her family trade. This is a nod to her historical counterpart Liu Bei, who grew up poor and sold straw mats for a living.
* HypocriticalHumor: After getting ambushed by bandits, Ryuubi states she's smart enough not to be a DamselInDistress again. Seconds later, she's back into the role.
* ItWasAGift: In ''Otome Tairan'', Ryuubi gets a new sword, one ForgedByTheGods, [[spoiler:specifically the Dragon God from ''Shin Koihime'']] to replace her AncestralWeapon that was [[spoiler: fried by lightning]]
* KindheartedSimpleton: She's something of an airhead, but her heart is gentle and pure.
* MistakenForPregnant: In the first episode of ''Otome Tairan'', all her friends notice how she has been acting strangely such as rubbing her belly and refusing to eat. This leads them to suspect she's pregnant. The next morning, Ryuubi wakes up with a stomachache and her friends start panicking because they think Ryuubi is on labor. The truth is Ryuubi didn't want to eat because she was just worried about getting fat and then got food poisoning from eating Chouun's rotten menma out of hunger.
* MistakenIdentity: She's the real Ryuubi, but people who hear of her tend to assume she's her impostor until they meet her in person.
* NiceGirl: Polite, kind-hearted and gentle to a fault.
* OdangoHair: Some of her hair is arranged in a pair of small hair buns.
* OnlyICanKillHim: After hearing Kada's explanation of the "Dragon Sword", everyone has come to the conclusion that Ryuubi, with the sword she now has, is the only one with a chance of slaying Ukitsu. [[spoiler:She actually delivers in the final battle when she stabs Ukitsu, killing him.]]
* RapunzelHair: Her hair goes down to about her waist.
* RescueIntroduction: She's properly introduced when Kan'u and her friends have to save her from getting assaulted by bandits.
* {{Robinsonade}}: PlayedWith in the second HighSchoolAU OVA: flashbacks showed her going on a trip, and apparently, she disappeared without a trace. She ended up on what she presumed was a DesertedIsland, but it turned out to be the same island resort the rest of the cast went to. She was rescued by the Nanban Barbarians who lived there; apparently, they never ventured far enough from their home to the "resort" area until the Giant Octo-Payapaya incident.
* RoseHairedSweetie: She has dark rosy hair, fitting perfectly with her sweet and gentle personality.
* StealthClothes: When raiding the pantry after her failed diet.
* SuperGullible: Possibly the only person clueless enough to not see through Chouun's PaperThinDisguise as Butterfly Mask.
* TooDumbToLive: She naively let a complete stranger grab her valuable family sword and told him everything about her prestigious linage. As you would expect, he took her sword and her identity to himself and threw her off a cliff. Ryuubi only survived out of sheer luck.
* WeightWoe: While she doesn't look any visibly heavier since the second series, Ryuubi freaks out over Chouhi saying how soft her lap feels in ''Otome Tairan''. She decides to try dieting and exercising to lose the extra weight, but due to poor self-control and physical weakness, her efforts don't go as planned. After attempting to starve herself, she just can't take it anymore and finally gives in. Although the unhealthy dieting and exercising ceases, Ryuubi continues to worry about her weight. Also fits as TruthInTelevision.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has dark pink hair.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears thigh-high boots and stockings along with a short skirt.
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[[folder:Allies and Friends]]
!!Chouun (Private name: Sei; Courtesy name: Shiryuu)
->Voiced by: Creator/EmiMotoi
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Chouun is a mysterious girl who appears calm, collected, and very powerful. She is the second person to join the group. She loves to tease Kan'u and other women frequently. She also assumes the identity of a hero of justice named Butterfly Mask, hence wearing a Butterfly mask.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: She likes to flirt with [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Kan'u]] and did ''something'' to Bachou in her sleep that she leaves unsaid because she's a virgin. It's never made explicit whether she's a lesbian or it's simply part of her nature as TheGadfly.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: In the second HighSchoolAU OVA, she turns into a giant as Ultra Butterfly Mask.
* BerserkButton: Never eat menma in front of her. She won't even want to speak with you afterwards.
* CleavageWindow: Her dress has an opening that shows off her cleavage.
* DeathGlare: She'll give one to whosoever dares to even look at her TrademarkFavoriteFood. Somewhat [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] progressively throughout the anime.
* FireForgedFriends: Chouun becomes friends with Kan'u when both fight together in a lair of bandits.
* FoeTossingCharge: Gets to pull one off in the first season finale.
* TheGadfly: She enjoys teasing others and make up stories just to get them upset or scared.
* HairIntakes: The two "cat ears" that are part of her hairdo.
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: "At times, a traveling warrior who loves menma. Other times, a mysterious bare-naked beauty in the flower-filled hot springs. But her true identity is a lone butterfly dancing through the war-torn world! The messenger of beauty and justice, Butterfly Mask!"
* LargeHam: Chouun is pretty good at making up fabulous stories and entrance speeches.
* MysteriousProtector: After getting separated from Kan'u and Chouhi, she keeps showing up as Butterfly Mask at random to help them from time to time. However, she just comes off as ridiculous instead of mysterious.
* NightmareFace: Chouun makes a face so that her friends can remember her by. While the camera only reveals the girls' disturbed reactions, the Blu-Ray release decidedly censors her face, preventing the audience from seeing it. It's probably too disturbing that the animators dare not show it.
* PaperThinDisguise: Her "disguise" as Butterfly Mask consists of just a butterfly mask. [[SuperGullible Ryuubi]] is the only one who doesn't recognize her.
* PutOnABus:
** In the first season, Chouun gets lost in the fog and is separated from Kan'u and Chouhi. She doesn't rejoin the group until the season finale.
** The same thing happens again in Episode 10 of ''Shin Koihime'' and by the time the third season starts, Chouun is still missing from the group. Turns out Chouun had already returned to Touka Village because she got tired of waiting for a chance to pop up as Butterfly Mask and casually rejoins the group.
* SeeYouInHell: She said this to Kan'u before facing off against an overwhelming force of bandits on a very narrow cliff; fortunately, they get out of it.
* SeriousBusiness: Don't speak lightly of menma in front of Chouun. They're a ''very'' serious matter to her.
* ShortHairWithTail: Short part in a straight bob, long part of her hair in a ponytail tied at the nape of her neck.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Menma, or fermented bamboo shoots. On some occasions, she asks ramen with nothing but menma as toppings.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Chouun loves to tease and publicly humiliate, as well as molest her friends.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has light blue hair.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears white thigh-high stockings paired with a short kimono.

!!Bachou (Private name: Sui; Courtesy name: Mouki)
->Voiced by: Maki Kobayashi
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The third person to join the group. Bachou is Chouhi's friend and daughter of the late Batou who was supposedly killed by Sousou. Although she speaks like a man, she is really a simple, straight-forward, and easily embarrassed girl. She wields a simple looking spear but is very strong in both power and form.
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* {{Adorkable}}: The slightest hint of sexuality or romantic interest will turn Sui into a stuttering mess. It's absolutely adorable to watch.
* BigEater: Her appetite is as huge as Chouhi's. Ryuubi thinks she doesn't get fat despite eating so much because she trains intensely every day.
* HeavySleeper: Whatever Chouun's "retribution" was to Bachou, she was completely unaware of it in season one. In ''Shin Koihime'', Batai groped her and drew on her face without her stirring.
* IdiotHair: She has a strand of hair prominently sticking out atop her head.
* FirstNameBasis: The entire first episode of the second season is about Bachou finding the courage to call Chouhi by her private name Rinrin and asking her to call her Sui.
* LivingLieDetector: Apparently, being exceptionally skilled allows Bachou to tell if a person is lying by merely looking at their fighting stance.
* MushroomSamba: Gets a trip from eating a psychedelic mushroom in the mountains.
* OutOfFocus: From the second season onwards, Bachou becomes a much less prominent character since she stays behind from the main adventures alongside Kouchuu. She only gets a very minor DayInTheLimelight episode.
* PottyEmergency: She spends most of Episode 11 of ''Shin Koihime'' needing to go to the bathroom after her cousin Batai makes her drink a giant gourd of water and hold it in just to prove she doesn't wet herself anymore.
* RapunzelHair: Her ponytail goes all the way down to her feet.
* TomboyishPonytail: She's a brash and masculine fighter and wears a ponytail to show it.
* TomboyishVoice: She speaks in a very low, gruff voice and she's one of the least feminine girls in the cast.
* YouKilledMyFather: Bachou tries to kill Sousou at one point for supposedly killing her father. Ultimately subverted when it's revealed her father died falling off his horse.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears white thigh-high boots and a skirt, showing off a bit of her leg skin.

!!Shokatsuryou (Private name: Shuri; Courtesy name: Koumei)
->Voiced by: Erika Narumi
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The fourth to join the group. Koumei is a kind and reserved girl around the same age as Chouhi, but is a smart, good strategist in battle. She wants to become a great scholar like her master Suikyou.
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* ACupAngst: She doesn't like to be reminded of her flat chest.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Koumei usually acts like a mini adult despite being about as young as Chouhi, which makes her all the more adorable.
* BigSisterInstinct: She immediately develops one when she meets Houtou, Suikyou's new apprentice. Since Koumei was separated from her biological little sister, so she wants to act like a big sister to her fellow student.
* ChildProdigy: Koumei is a prodigy at war strategies, but she's still a kid and no matter how hard she tries to act mature, she stills has her moments of immaturity on the level of Chouhi.
* CovertPervert: In ''Shin Koihime'', she is revealed to have taken up the hobby of reading perverted books.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She has blonde hair and is one of the kindest and helpful girls in the anime.
* HappilyAdopted: She was orphaned at a young age and was separated from her sisters as they were passed over different caretakers. She eventually ended up at the place of Suikyou's teacher and Suikyou took her as her apprentice. They clearly love each other as real mother and daughter.
* TheMedic: She was trained in herbal medicine by Suikyou, which comes in handy when one of her friends gets injured.
* NewTransferStudent: The first HighschoolAU OVA starts with Koumei arriving at the school as a transfer student.
* NiceGirl: Very gentle, helpful and hardworking.
* NiceHat: She wears a cute hat similar to a beret with a long ribbon.
* StockingFiller: She wears garters to hold up her stockings.
* TheStrategist: It's her job to come with battle tactics and strategies.
* TheSmartGirl: She's the most intelligent member of Kan'u's TrueCompanions and she always has a plan or two.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's afraid of heights.
* WiseBeyondHerYears: She's quite mature and wise for a girl of her age.

!!Kouchuu (Private name: Shion; Courtesy name: Kanshou)
->Voiced by: Yuu Amamiya
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A skilled archer with incredible skill and a young single mother who loves her daughter Riri. After her daughter was kidnapped by bandits, they tried to force her to assassinate an official that had been cracking down on bandits. Kan'u and her friends rescued the child before the assassination could take place. She later joins Kan'u's group as a way to repay the debt she feels she owes.
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* ActionMom: She's a single mother and an archer with ImprobableAimingSkills. Unfortunately, this caused her daughter to get kidnapped by the people interested in using Kouchuu's skills.
* AdvertisedExtra: Despite being made look like a main character in the anime's advertisement and the very opening, Kouchuu only appears in one episode and the finale of the first season. Furthermore, she has very little to no participation in the following seasons.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's a gentle and motherly woman, but she can be terrifying to those who threaten her and her daughter. She puts on a demonic face when she describes in gruesome detail what she wants to do to the man who kidnapped her daughter and forced her into an assassination.
* CleavageWindow: There's an opening in her dress that reveals her cleavage.
* ForcedIntoEvil: She agreed to participate in an assassination because her daughter was held hostage until she completed the job. Thankfully, Kan'u's group manages to rescue her daughter just in time for Kouchuu to back out.
* GoodParents: She's a good and loving mother to Riri.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Her skills in archery are so amazing and precise that she can purposely knock out a bird that stole a hairpin without killing it.
* OutOfFocus: She's one of Kan'u's TrueCompanions, but aside from her introduction episode, Kouchuu gets very little screentime and seems more like a minor character. Made worse in later seasons where she stays behind at Touka Village while the others go on adventures.
* RantInducingSlight: In her rant on how she's going to torture the fake Ryuubi, complete with demonic FacialMarkings.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair is long enough to reach her ''ankles''.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the OVA, Kouchuu appears as a commentator, then mysteriously replaced by her daughter Riri. It takes a BrickJoke after the credits to reveal where she is: locked and tied up inside a gym by God knows who.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has light purple hair.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears black thigh-high stockings and an open leg dress, which exposes only a little of her upper leg's skin.

!!Batai (Private name: Tanpopo)
->Voiced by: Ringo Aoba
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Bachou's mischievous cousin.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Cousin version. She gets her kicks from pulling pranks on her older cousin, even trying to get Bachou to pee herself so she can laugh at her.
* FireForgedFriends: She and Gien start calling each other by their private names after Batai comes to help Gien when Gotsutotsukotsu attacks her.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While she's the definition of an AnnoyingYoungerSibling to Bachou and she picks fights with Gien, Batai still goes to give back up to Gien when she faces some tribal girls alone.
* ThirdPersonPerson: She uses her private name Tanpopo instead of a first-person pronoun in her speech.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: She looks a lot like a younger Bachou.
* VitriolicBestBuds: She and Gien bicker whenever they're together, yet it's not hard to tell they're already good friends.

!!Gien (Private name: En'ya; Courtesy name: Buncho)
->Voiced by: Creator/HiromiHirata
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A warrior who was the rebellious apprentice of the feudal lord Gengan until she disobeyed her orders to save Ryuubi from getting molested by bandits. She instantly falls for Ryuubi and joins her in her journey.
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* BareYourMidriff: Her shirt is a little short and leaves her navel button exposed.
* BerserkButton: ''Never'' even try to harm Ryuubi in front of Gien. She will make sure that's the last thing you do.
* BodyguardCrush: She appoints herself as Ryuubi's personal bodyguard just to have an excuse to follow her and protect her.
* BoyishShortHair: She has short hair to match her tough warrior woman character.
* ButchLesbian: Head-over-heels in love with Ryuubi and one of the most tomboyish girls in the series.
* BuxomIsBetter: Ryuubi's breasts are one of the things she loves about her. Gien even gets in the bath with Ryuubi to feel her boobs up.
* CovertPervert: Batai tricks Gien into blurting out (while trying in vain to [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial cover up]]) quite a few suggestive thoughts she has towards Ryuubi, who happened to be right next to her and heard everything.
* FireForgedFriends: Gien accepts Batai as her {{Vitriolic Best Bud|s}} after the latter arrives to help her during Gotsutotsukotsu's attack.
* HopelessSuitor: It's highly unlikely Ryuubi will ever answer Gien's feelings.
* InsultMisfire: Played with in the following dialogue in ''Otome Tairan'':
-->'''Gien:''' Shut up, you flat-chested midget!
-->'''Chouhi:''' What?! [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Apologize to Shuri]]!
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: Or in her case, Like Sister, Like Spouse. Gengan mentions Gien feels attracted to women who look similar to her deceased older sister. It seems Ryuubi happens to be an IdenticalStranger of said sister.
* LonerTurnedFriend: She was something of lonesome delinquent before she joined Ryuubi's group.
* LoveAtFirstSight: The moment she first sees Ryuubi, Gien is smitten. It's even the title of the episode she first appears in.
* SkinshipGrope: The night right after meeting Ryuubi, Gien joins her in the bath and fondles her breasts until poor Ryuubi passes out.
* SkunkStripe: She has black hair with a white streak on the right side.
* TickleTorture: In her introduction episode, she gets punished for insubordination by Gengan and is tied up and tickled using a catnip twig. Rather than being played for laughs, her reaction is rather erotic.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Even though Gien is not really Ryuubi's girlfriend, whoever threatens Gien's beloved Ryuubi will get a world of pain from her.
* VitriolicBestBuds: She argues with Batai all the time, but she forms a closer friendship to her than anyone in the group.
* WhoWearsShortShorts: She wears a pair of black mini shorts.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gi Kingdom]]
!!Sousou (Private name: Karin; Courtesy name: Motoku)
->Voiced by: Yukie Maeda
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The blonde ruler of the kingdom of Gi and a general of the Kan empire. Sousou likes beautiful women and is particularly attracted to Kan'u, vowing to make her hers one day.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Kan'u is never happy to run into Sousou because Sousou tries to get into the bath or bed with Kan'u with explicit intentions of having her way with her.
* ChefOfIron: In addition to being a famous warlord, Sousou regularly cooks a banquet for her soldiers.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Despite not seeming honorable at first glance, Sousou is a noble and fair person at heart.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: She isn't as bad as she makes herself out to be. Especially evident in the story with Bachou and her father, where she allowed to be known as his murderer to cover his humiliating death.
* HopelessSuitor: She's very open about her desire to take Kan'u as one of her lovers, but the latter is only made uncomfortable by Sousou's advances.
* LovableSexManiac: Her excessive interest for getting into Kan'u's pants is PlayedForLaughs.
* MegaTwintails: Her drill twintails are as big as her head.
* MistakenForMurderer: Rumors say she killed Bachou's father, but he really died in an accident on his way home. Sousou didn't say anything in her defense out of respect for the man's pride as a warrior.
* MistakenForPregnant: She embarrassingly tells the doctor Kada "it" isn't coming out. He assumes she means her period and congratulates her. Sousou yells at him it's impossible for her to get pregnant when she only sleeps with other women. She was talking about constipation.
* AMotherToHerMen: She treats her subordinates with care. In fact, she has taken most of them as her lovers.
* NakedFirstImpression: She holds her first meeting with Kakuka and Tei'iku in the bath simply because she wanted to be naked together with Kan'u.
* OjouRinglets: She has small loose curls in front of her ears, which is fitting for the ruler of a kingdom.
* ScarpiaUltimatum: She tells Kan'u that she will release Bachou if she has sex with her. Kan'u reluctantly agrees, but they are interrupted by a bandit and Sousou decides to release Bachou anyway.
* SilentScapegoat: Sousou deliberately didn't try to clear her own name when rumors about her killing Bachou's father spread as she thought that was better than his UndignifiedDeath coming into light.
* SitcomArchNemesis: She's at odds with Enshou, who jumps at the opportunity to make Sousou look bad by playing her role in a play.
* ThroughHerStomach: She once tries to impress Kan'u with her cooking. She later admits she didn't do a good job because, unlike Ten'I, she didn't take Kan'u personal tastes into account.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears thigh-high stockings and a short skirt.

!!Kakoton (Private name: Shunran; Courtesy name: Genjo)
->Voiced by: Harumi Asai
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Sousou's cousin and one of her commanders. The elder twin of the Kakou sisters, yet is understanding and loyal to her cousin whom she loves.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: While she knows her relationship with Sousou isn't exclusive, she still gets upset when Sousou pays attention to other parts of her harem and Kan'u. Sousou tries to mitigate the effect by reminding Kakouton she's always welcome into her bed.
* CornerOfWoe: She enters into it when she isn't chosen to sing in the season finale of ''Shin Koihime''.
* DreadfulMusician: Implied in the ED of the final episode of the second season. She's singing her heart out, whereas Kakouen and Kousonsan couldn't stand it and tried drowning it all out with alcohol.
* HypocriticalHumor: Kyocho obediently follows Kakoton's instructions to not fight without Sousou's permission. Cut to Kakouen desperately trying to retain her sister from charging against Chouryou despite not getting orders from Sousou.
* IdiotHair: She has a strand of hair prominently sticking out atop her head. She's far from a silly character, though.
* KissingCousins: She's Sousou's cousin and one of her many lesbian lovers.
* PolarOppositeTwins: She's much more emotional and headstrong than her calm twin sister Kakouen.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches all the way down to her hips.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red Oni to her twin Kakouen's Blue Oni. This is reflected by the color of their clothes.
* SingleTargetSexuality: She only loves Sousou.
* UndyingLoyalty: She stands out as the soldier of Gi with the fiercest devotion to Sousou.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears black thigh-high stockings and an open leg dress.

!!Kakouen (Private name: Shuuran; Courtesy name: Myosai)
->Voiced by: Airi Yoshida
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The younger twin of the Kakou sisters. Just like her sister, she is also loyal to her cousin Sousou and is one of her commanders.
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* KissingCousins: Like her sister, Kakouen is part of the harem of her cousin Sousou.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Unlike her more passionate sister, Kakouen is a very calm person.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue Oni to her twin Kakouton's Red Oni. This is reflected by the color of their clothes.
* OutOfFocus: She's the character of Sousou's faction that gets the least screentime. She even gets left behind in the HotSpringsEpisode while Sousou and the rest go to have fun.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has light blue hair.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears black thigh-high stockings and an open leg dress.

!!Jun'iku (Private name: Keifa; Courtesy name: Bunjaku)
->Voiced by: Oma Ichimura
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Sousou's trusted adviser, strategist and yet another of her lovers.
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* ClingyJealousGirl: She has a rivalry with the Kakou sisters due to the fact they are Sousou's cousins and are closer to her. She also gets jealous of Ten'i for getting along with Sousou thanks to both being good at cooking.
* HairDecorations: She wears a cat-ears headpiece.
* HairIntakes: The little cat "ears" that are part of her hair.
* InTheHood: She wears a cat-eared hood.
* LecherousLicking: Sousou has Jun'iku lick off her sweat all over her body. While it makes Jun'iku feel embarrassed, she does seem to enjoy it.
* TooKinkyToTorture: She gets turned on at the fantasy of being trampled on by Sousou.

!!Kakuka (Private name: Rin; Courtesy name: Houkou)
->Voiced by: Creator/AsamiImai
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A woman with an attraction towards Sousou who is seeking to become a strategist of her forces.
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* AffectionateNickname: Tei'iku calls her Icchan.
* LovableSexManiac: She's ''eager'' to join Sousou's harem and her wild fantasies about it nearly kill her from a {{nosebleed}} more than once.
* {{Nosebleed}}: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. Whenever she gets excited, her nose bleeds so much that she makes a pool of blood.
* SexySpectacles: She's an attractive young woman with glasses.
* StockingFiller: She wear thigh-high stockings with suspenders.
* TheStrategist: She wants to be one for Sousou's army. To her disappointment, Sousou finds her ridiculous {{nosebleed}}s to be more useful for bodyguard duty. Eventually, her talent as strategist is accepted by Sousou who realizes she's much better suited to be her strategist.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears black thigh-high stockings and a short skirt.

!!Tei'iku (Private name: Fuu; Courtesy name: Chuutoku)
->Voiced by: Creator/HyoSei
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Kakuka's companion who tries her best to keep Kakuka out of trouble, often cleaning up the messes she makes from her nosebleed episodes. She is also seeking to serve under Sousou as a strategiest, and is accepted as such.
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* ConsultingMisterPuppet: She has a puppet named Houkei that she always carries on her head and she uses ventriloquism to make it talk.
* EmotionlessGirl: She never shows emotion nor raises her voice.
* HairDecorations: She wears a strange ornament on top of her head that doubles as a puppet.
* HandHidingSleeves: Cute variant. Her dress has very long sleeves that extend past her hands and reach her knees. And they make her look all the more adorable.
* LittleMissSnarker: She tends to speak dryly over the perversion of lecherous girls like Kakuka and Jun'iku.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair goes past her knees.
* {{Ventriloquism}}: She's a good ventriloquist, usually utilizing it on her head ornament she named Houkei.
* VerbalTic: She frequently ends her sentences with "nano-desu".

!!Kyocho (Private name: Kii; Courtesy name: Chuukou)
->Voiced by: Mariya Sumida
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A small girl with great strength and a large appetite who wins an eating contest against Chouhi and Bachou. By the third season, she's a newcomer in Sousou's forces.
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* BareYourMidriff: The top of her outfit leaves her midriff bare.
* BigEater: She won an eating contest against Chouhi and Bachou. And ''still'' kept asking for food!
* BerserkButton: Call her "shorty" and prepare for her to try and crush you with her EpicFlail.
* {{Bokukko}}: She calls herself with the masculine pronoun 'boku'.
* DemotedToExtra: In the original visual novel, she's a general of the Gi faction. In the anime, she's a very minor character who only shows up in one episode of the first season and has no relation to Sousou.
* EpicFlail: She wields a flail, with a handle resembling a kendama chained to a huge iron ball with spikes.
* GirlishPigtails: She has a cute pair of pigtails.
* HairDecorations: Her GirlishPigtails are decorated with blue ribbons and bobble hair ties.
* LittleMissBadass: She's very strong for her small size. In later seasons, Sousou recruits her into her army for this reason.
* TheNapoleon: She's quite short and while friendly most of the time, she gets furious when others make fun of her height.
* NiceGirl: She's very friendly when she approaches Chouhi and Bachou, never even trying to brag about her victory in the eating contest.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Lampshaded whenever she brings out her EpicFlail; people stare in shock and verbally wonder where the hell she pulls out the damn weapon.
* RoseHairedSweetie: She's a cheerful and friendly pinkhead. That is unless you call her short.
* WhoWearsShortShorts: She wears mini shorts.

!!Ten'i (Private name: Ruru; Courtesy name: Shiman)
->Voiced by: Tomomi Tenjinbayashi
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A girl encountered by Kan'u's group working as a cook at a tavern in the Gi faction. Because Chouhi claimed Ten'I is a better cook, Sousou challenges to a cooking competition to test Ten'i's skills against her own. She ends up being recruited as Sousou 's bodyguard after the latter sees her incredible strength.
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* BareYourMidriff: She wears a midriff-baring top.
* ChefOfIron: She originally worked in a tavern, then was brought in by Sousou after hearing how good her cooking is, upon which she unknowingly demonstrates her strength by subduing a raging bull, grabbing it by the horns and hurling it into the stratosphere.
* IdiotHair: She has a strand of hair prominently sticking out atop her head.
* HairDecorations: She wears a huge blue ribbon in her hair.
* LittleMissBadass: Don't underestimate her for being short because she has enough strength to send a bull flying.
* SupremeChef: Everyone loves what she cooks.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has mint-colored hair.

!!Gakushin (Private name: Nagi; Courtesy name: Bunken; Expy: Yue Jin)
->Voiced by: Creator/RyokoOno
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A female warrior introduced in ''Shin Koihime Musou''.
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* CoveredWithScars: Her face and the uncovered skin of her body have several nasty-looking scars.
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: She has tanned skin and silver hair.
* ShortHairWithTail: She has short hair with a long braid growing out from the nape of her neck.

!!Riten (Private name: Mao; Courtesy name: Mansei; Expy: Li Dian)
->Voiced by: Rie Nakagawa
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A female mechanic introduced in ''Shin Koihime Musou''.
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* BareYourMidriff: Her top is a simple bikini top, leaving her belly bare.
* GadgeteerGenius:
** One of her inventions is a rifle that fires projectiles using "[[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum hot springs technology]]".
** In ''Otome Tairan'', she builds a [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots robot duplicate]] of Toutaku that somehow fools Ryofu. And at the end of the season, she builds another based on Sousou, which Kakoton ends up [[RoboSexual cuddling]].
* GirlishPigtails: She wears her hair in spiky twin-tails.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: She speaks in Kansai dialect.
* StockingFiller: She wears garters to hold up her detached pant legs.
* TooManyBelts: Her leggings are literally held up by straps that attach to her two belts, which she wears in lieu of actual trousers.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: She walks around in a stripped bikini top.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has purple hair.

!!Ukin (Private name: Sawa; Courtesy name: Bunsoku; Expy: Yu Jin)
->Voiced by: Momo Kasumi
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A new bespectacled character introduced in ''Shin Koihime Musou''.
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* BareYourMidriff: She wears a midriff-baring top.
* {{Fangirl}}: Ukin is the one who fangirls over the Chou Sisters and choreographs the dances used to oppose them.
* IdiotHair: She has a strand of standing atop her head.
* {{Meganekko}}: She's a cute girl with glasses.
* {{Underboobs}}: Her top shows off the undersides of her breasts.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:En Faction]]
!!Enshou (Private name: Reiha; Courtesy name: Honsho)
->Voiced by: Masami Katou
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The head of the noble En family and the lord of the En province. She is a proud, spoiled and selfish woman who is always causing trouble for her advisers, Bunshuu and Ganryou. She tries hides her true character from Sousou, whom she sees as a no-good brat.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Inverted; Enshou is Enjutsu's Annoying Older Cousin. Enjutsu is the incarnation of annoyance to almost everyone else, but being around Enshou only leaves ''her'' exasperated.
* CoolCrown: She wears a circlet and she's the ruler of Kei Province.
* DumbBlonde: Her character in a nutshell. It's unlikely any other of the girls in the entire cast has less brains than Enshou.
* NakedOnArrival: She's introduced while taking a bath.
* OhCrap: In the OVA, when Enshou wins the student council president election, she realizes she has to be kissed by Principal Chousen.
* OjouRinglets: Taken its logical extreme. She has long blonde hair styled in enormous ringlets with two of them as sidelocks that fall in front of her shoulders. She's the head of a noble family.
* StudentCouncilPresident: She becomes this in the HighschoolAU OVA.
* SuperGullible: Her cousin Enjutsu sent her assistant to offer an "extremely rare robe that idiots can't see" in exchange for Ryuubi's sword. And Enshou fell for it!
* UpperClassTwit: Head of a distinguished royal family and a big buffoon.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears thigh-high stockings and a short skirt.

!!Bunshuu (Private name: Iishe)
->Voiced by: Chiro Kanzaki
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One of Enshou's advisers. Despite her position as an adviser, she is not really smart, is brash, and tends to say things without thinking about it firsthand, which tend to embarrass her master.
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* BrutalHonesty: She occassionaly spews out embarrassing facts about Enshou without thinking.
* HairDecorations: Her headband.
* IdiotHair: She fittingly has one as she's part of the idiot trio of the En Faction.
* StockingFiller: She wears garters to hold up her stockings.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has cyan colored hair.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears white thigh-high stockings and a short skirt.

!!Ganryou (Private name: Toshi)
->Voiced by: Rie Hazuki
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Enshou's other adviser.
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* ImprobablyLowIQ: Despite being the smartest of the En Faction, her IQ is about 34 and she is easily offended if anyone calls her IQ any lower than that.
* OnlySaneWoman: She's the only one in the En Faction with common sense.
* WeightWoe: She's constantly worried about her belly fat and Bunshuu likes to tease her about her weight.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears thigh-high stockings and a short skirt.

!!Enjutsu (Private name: Miu; Courtesy name: Kouro)
->Voiced by: Creator/ErikoNakamura
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Enshou's bratty little cousin.
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: She speaks in an old-fashioned Japanese dialect which includes using the archaic "warawa" as a first-person pronoun.
* BringMyBrownPants: She wets herself after a ghost gives her a good scare.
* ChekhovsSkill: Her hobby of singing the Chou sisters' songs because essential to the plan to defeat the idol sisters in the second season finale, where Enjutsu, Choukun and Kakuka are chosen to dehypnotize the Yellow Turbans with their singing.
* CoolCrown: She wears a tiara as a symbol that she's of noble blood.
* DumbBlonde: She's smarter than her also blonde idiot cousin, but just a little.
* HairDecorations: She has a blue ribbon tied at the back of her head.
* HandHidingSleeves: As befitting of a member of a noble family, Enjutsu's dress includes long sleeves that usually cover her hands.
* InsultBackfire: In the ''Shin Koihime'' anime, Jun'iku insults Enjutsu by saying all she does is eat honey and sing, comparing her to a cricket. Enjutsu takes the whole thing as a sign of people talking about how great she is.
* OjouRinglets: Not as exaggerated as her cousin, but Enjutsu has long hair that curls into ringlets and side locks with ringlets at the end. Like with her cousin, it's a symbol of her status as royalty.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches the back of her knees, which helps make obvious that she's royalty.
* RoyalBrat: She's an extremely selfish brat who hates to spend her money on anything but herself. She's also a terribly irresponsible feudal lord who wouldn't care to leave her people to starve. Thankfully, getting spooked by a ghost convinces her to change her ways and help the poor.
* SuperGullible: Despite her manipulative nature, Koumei has Enjutsu fooled with the most ridiculous lies.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Enjutsu is a huge fan of honey and honey water.
* UpperClassTwit: While not as big of a moron as her cousin, Enshou is still an incompetent feudal lord because she likes goofing off and playing pranks on her cousin better than looking after the needs of her citizens. She does improve a bit after getting spooked by a ghost convinces her to take her responsibilities more seriously.
* VerbalTic: She often ends her sentences with "nano-ja" which is common for her archaic speech manners.

!!Choukun (Private name: Nanano)
->Voiced by: Creator/ChiakiTakahashi
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Enjutsu's aide.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: She acts affable, but she's a very mean-spirited and manipulative person.
* ConMan: She conned her master's cousin Enshou into giving her Ryuubi's sword in exchange for an invisible garment "only seen by smart people".
* TheConsigliere: She acts as Enjutsu's voice of reason and is the one who comes up with the ideas for their schemes.
* ManipulativeBitch: Enjutsu calls Choukun the greatest master of dirty tricks and schemes in all her kingdom.
* NiceHat: She wears something similar to a small sailor hat.
* SatelliteCharacter: There's nothing to her other than being Enjutsu's smarter assistant.
* ServileSnarker: She occasionally throws backhanded compliments at the idiocy and brattiness of her master, who is too clueless to notice it isn't genuine praise.
* YesMan: Pretty much all she ever does is agreeing with Enjutsu and praising her.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is blue.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears black thigh-high stockings and a short skirt.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:To Faction]]
!!Toutaku (Private name: Yue; Courtesy name: Chuei)
->Voiced by: Creator/YukaInokuchi
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The Governess of the To empire. She is a kind, sweet, timid and innocent girl who wants to help her country and her people no matter the circumstance. Due to her innocent personality, most are unable to say no to her as they are too helpless against her innocent pleas.
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* DamselInDistress: In the third season, she's captured by Choujou in order to assume control of her army.
* FrameUp: In ''Otome Tairan'', as part of Choujou's and Ukitsu's conspiracy plans, she is taken prisoner, and her kingdom is turned into a dystopian tyrrany while the enslaved subjects are led to believe she's behind all of it. She finally escapes her prison in episode 10, and will try to clear herself and liberate her kingdom starting next episode.
* KingIncognito: She has a habit of sneaking out of her palace and hanging out with commoners to get a better perspective of her subjects' needs.
* TheScapegoat: Choujou starts a tyrannical rule over the capital while hiding herself and placing all the blame on Toutaku, who is her hostage.
* ThatWomanIsDead: {{Invoked|Trope}}. [[spoiler:Toutaku insists she must pay with her life for the tyranny Choujou committed under her name. Instead, all the factions decide to declare Toutaku the evil tyrant was executed and the normal village girl Tonton is free to continue her peaceful life.]]

!!Kaku (Private name: Ei; Courtesy name: Bunwa)
->Voiced by: Akane Tomonaga
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Toutaku's strategist and adviser. While short-tempered and a serious bespectacled girl, she has not got the heart to say no to her childhood friend Yue.
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* {{Bokukko}}: She uses 'boku' as a first-person pronoun when she talks.
* FingerlessGloves: Her gloves don't cover her fingers.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is green.

!!Kayuu (Private name: N/A; Courtesy name: N/A)
->Voiced by: Miya Serizono (credited as Hiroka Nishizawa)
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A general of the To army. She is easygoing as she doesn't mind if her leader Toutaku goes visiting commoners in disguise, as she believes it will help their country's welfare if she sees their problems through her own eyes.
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* BareYourMidriff: She wears a bikinilike top that exposes her belly.
* NotQuiteDead: In ''Otome Tairan'', [[spoiler: she went MIA after a last-ditch battle and was presumed dead (she later revealed that she was eventually captured by the enemy, but was treated well due to her fighting prowess, and because of that she then easily escaped), but turned out to be lurking around InTheHood for a while before making a BigDamnHeroes comeback later on.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears black thigh-high stockings and an open leg dress.

!!Ryofu (Private name: Ren; Courtesy name: Hosen)
->Voiced by: Emiko Hagiwara
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A silent girl who was thought as a monster in the mountains, but that all ended up as being a misunderstanding as she was trying to help her pet dogs. After clearing up the misunderstanding, she became part of Toutaku's faction.
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* AdoptivePeerParent: By the time of the second season, she unofficially adopted the orphaned Chinkyuu despite still being very young.
* BadassAdorable: Ryofu is an innocent and kind-hearted person, but she can fight Aisha and Rinrin '''at once''' without breaking a sweat.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Magenta hair to match her magenta eyes.
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: She has dark skin and reddish hair.
* HairAntennae: Sports a pair of antennae in a rather unique variant in which they slope backwards, rather than forwards. It's further exaggerated in her SuperDeformed appearance where they're as long as her body.
* HeroesLoveDogs: She adopted several abandoned dogs and loves every single one of them.
* ParentalSubstitute: She's basically the adoptive mother of Chinkyuu, an orphan she picked up. Ryofu even calls Chinkyuu her child.
* TheStoic: The expression in her face rarely changes.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She usually does not show any emotion at all, but is really a good-hearted person. Her sugary side shows when she takes care of her pet dogs and Chinkyuu.
* ThirdPersonPerson: She uses her private name Ren in place of I.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has magenta hair.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears black thigh-high stockings and a short skirt.

!!Chinkyuu (Private name: Nenene; Courtesy name: Koudai)
->Voiced by: Michiru Yuimoto
[[quoteright:268:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nenene_anime.jpg]]

A self-proclaimed partner and advisor of Ryofu. She's actually an orphaned child who was taken into the To empire by Ryofu.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Ryofu gave her food and took her in when she had nowhere to go. For that reason, Chinkyuu decided to be of any help to Ryofu as she can.
* BrattyHalfPint: {{Subverted|Trope}}. When she first appears, Chinkyuu seems to be an annoying brat who picks a fight with Chouhi over something silly like a dog ornament. Turns out Chinkyuu was acting mean because she wanted to give the dog ornament to Ryofu, her master and savior. Afterwards, Chinkyuu is a very nice kid.
* CuteLittleFangs: When she smiles, her fang sticks out to make her look cuter.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was an orphaned girl who got thrown out of her hometown for something that wasn't her fault. She and her BigFriendlyDog Chouchou wandered from village to village for a while until both nearly died of starvation. Then, she encountered Ryofu who feed her and took her to live with her at the To empire.
* DynamicEntry: Chinkyuu delivers a flying knee drop to Chouhi after an argument at a gift shop. Despite seeing her kick someone she met before in an unwarranted way, Ryofu tells her [[DoWrongRight she did the attack wrong]].
* GirlishPigtails: She has a twintail hairstyle, which looks cute in a little girl like her.
* HairDecorations: Her bobble hair ties and hair clips.
* HappilyAdopted: Despite claiming to be an assistant, she's all but officially Ryofu's adopted daughter. Chinkyuu is very grateful that Ryofu took her under her wing and while she doesn't say it, it's obvious she loves Ryofu as if she was her mother.
* IOweYouMyLife: If Ryofu haven't found her, Chinkyuu would have died of starvation. She decided to repay Ryofu by becoming her personal assistant.
* SatelliteCharacter: She's entirely defined by her relationship with Ryofu.
* TagalongKid: Chinkyuu is an entirely ordinary orphan girl saved from starvation by Ryofu. Unlike Houtou or Koumei, she is not a ChildProdigy and she lacks the superhuman strength of some LittleMissBadass characters like Chouhi or Kyochou.
* ThirdPersonPerson: She calls herself Nene instead of using a first-person pronoun in her speech.
* UndyingLoyalty: She has sworn to be Chinkyuu's most faithful follower.
* WhoWearsShortShorts: She goes around in mini shorts.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has cyan-colored hair.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears thigh-high stockings and mini shorts.

!!Chouryou (Private name: Shia; Courtesy name: Bun'en)
->Voiced by: Kaoru Morota
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A woman who works as a mercenary and is an avid lover of wine and fair fights. She later joins the To empire.
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* TheAlcoholic: She's usually drinking sake when not fighting.
* BareYourMidriff: She wears nothing but a {{sarashi}} for a top, leaving her abdomen bare.
* BerserkButton: You better never cheat or use dirty tactics in front of her because she won't tolerate that.
* BloodKnight: Her only interest is looking for a good fight.
* CoatCape: She wears her haori over his shoulders like a cape.
* DemotedToExtra: Similar to Kyocho, Chouryou's role is the anime is greatly reduced compared to the visual novel. This is lampshaded in the ''Shin Koihime'' OVA where she wonders if she's ever going to get some screentime.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Similar to the visual novel, Chouryou falls for Kan'u after the latter defeats her in an intense fight.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: She speaks with a Kansai dialect.
* {{Sarashi}}: She wraps bandages around her chest instead of wearing a top.
* WildCard: She joins the To Faction, but she has no loyalty to Toutaku. She pretty much admits she will work for whoever as long as she can fight.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has light purple hair.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Go Kingdom]]
!!Sonsaku (Private name: Sheren; Courtesy name: Hakufu)
->Voiced by: Nozomi Yoneshima
[[quoteright:259:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sheren_anime.jpg]]

The queen of the Go kingdom and the eldest sister of the Son Family. To fulfill the last wishes of her late mother, she has led her kingdom into a long war to unite the country.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: She wasn't introduced in the visual novels until ''Shin Koihime Musou'', but the anime has her appear in the first season.
* FacialMarkings: A small tattoo in her forehead.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Doubling as FloralThemeNaming. She and her younger sisters have true names with a meaning related to the lotus flower; Sonsaku's true name means "Snow Lotus".
* {{NEET}}: In the HighSchoolAU [=OVAs=], she becomes a NEET after dropping out of St. Francesca and plays video games in her room all day (although she does eventually find a job at a packaging factory).
* RoseHairedSweetie: Despite being responsible for sending her empire into war, Sonsaku is a perky and playful pinkhead.
* RunningGag: In the HighSchoolAU, both Shuuyu and Sonken frequently think about her in a sentimental manner as if she's dead, causing Sonsaku to [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]] to remind everybody that she's still alive.
* ShipperOnDeck: She appoints Ryomou as Sonken's personal strategist since she wants her sister to have someone who can stay by her side and support her in the same way Shuuyu does for her.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: She's already dead during the story of the visual novel, while in the anime she's still alive and survives to the end.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has pale pink hair.

!!Sonken (Private name: Renfa; Courtesy name: Chuubou)
->Voiced by: Creator/HarumiSakurai
[[quoteright:231:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/renfa_anime.jpg]]

Princess of Go and second sister of the Son Family.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Her dress has an opening showing off her cleavage and abdomen.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Doubling as FloralThemeNaming. Like her sisters, her true name includes the kanji for lotus. In her case, Sonken's true name means something akin to "Lotus Magnificence".
* NiceGirl: Sonken is kind-hearted and gentle. She also worries about how her sister's wars are affecting everyone.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Sonken is a pink-haired sweetie pie.
* SpoiledSweet: She's a big sweetheart while also being the princess of a great empire.
* UptownGirl: Sonken is a princess of the Go empire and her personal bodyguard and later strategist Ryomou has an obvious crush on her. It's all but stated Sonken feels the same way.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair is pale pink like her sisters.
* ZettaiRyouiki: White thigh-high stockings and minidress combo.

!!Sonshoukou (Private name: Shaoren)
->Voiced by: Creator/MinamiHokuto (credited as Hitomi)
[[quoteright:274:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shaoren_anime.jpg]]

The youngest sister of the Son family and a princess of Go. She joins Aisha's group after she runs away from home, bored of doing her royal duties, and later returns home. She also has a rivalry with Rinrin.
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* ACupAngst: Annoyed at being called small, she and Chouhi have a contest to compare their breasts in every aspect possible. She also gets mad at women with huge breasts like Rikuson.
* BareYourMidriff: Her top exposes her belly. Chouhi points out it's a weird getup for a princess.
* FakeBoobs: To her chagrin, she has to put on breast pads when playing Choukaku at Enjutsu's play.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Doubling as FloralThemeNaming. All three of the Son sisters' true names have the kanji for lotus flower; Sonshoukou's true name means "Little Lotus".
* HairDecorations: The white ribbons tying up her {{odango|hair}} and her dragonfly hair pin.
* HandHidingSleeves: High class variety. She's a Chinese princess and her sleeves cover her arms up to her fingertips.
* TheLoad: When traveling with Kan'u's group, she does little more than complain and demand things from the others.
* OdangoHair: She wears her hair in doughnut-like odangos.
* PrincessesPreferPink: A princess with pale pink and wearing a dress with pink details.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches the back of her knees when she lets it down.
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: She wasted all the money she took from the castle in buying a hairpin. Kan'u's group meets her when she's running off a restaurant without paying.
* TheRival: She set competitions with Chouhi over silly things, such as their breast size.
* RoyalBrat: She feels she has the right to do whatever she wants and boss people around because she's a princess.
* TheRunaway: She ran away from the palace because she was fed up of her duties as a princess.
* ShanaClone: Sonshoukou is an arrogant, bossy {{Tsundere}} princess who calls Kan'u and co. her servants. She's small and flat-chested which results in ACupAngst, has pink RapunzelHair and wears Grade A ZettaiRyouiki.
* ThirdPersonPerson: She refers to herself as Shao instead of using a pronoun.
* TinyTyrannicalGirl: She's tiny and the first thing she usually does when meeting new people is to order them to be her servants. Nuff said.
* {{Tsundere}}: Aggressive type. She's haughty, bossy and bratty, but it isn't hard to get her embarrassed.
* TsurimeEyes: They highlight her proud and haughty personality.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has pale pink hair like her older sisters.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears white thigh-high stockings paired with a miniskirt.

!!Shuuyu (Private name: Meirin; Courtesy name: Kokin)
->Voiced by: Creator/KeiMizusawa
[[quoteright:252:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/meirin_anime.jpg]]

Go Kingdom's master strategist. She is a close confidant and lover to Queen Sonsaku.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Her dress has an opening in the front that exposes her cleavage and belly.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair is almost as long as she's tall.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: She's the main strategist of her faction and fittingly, she wears glasses.
* TheStrategist: Her position in Sonsaku's army is to be her leading strategist.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: While she's a formal and serious woman, she smiles and blushes a lot when she's in private with Sonsaku.
* TakingTheBullet: She attempts to shield Sonsaku from a poised blade with her body. Fortunately, she comes out unharmed thanks to Ryomou's timely arrival.
* UndyingLoyalty: She has sworn loyalty to her beloved queen Sonsaku.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears black thigh-high stockings and an open leg dress, leaving some of her leg skin bare.

!!Kannei (Private name: Shishun; Courtesy name: Koha)
->Voiced by: Creator/RyoukoTanaka
[[quoteright:163:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shisun_anime.jpg]]

The commander of the force of noble guards of the Go royal palace.
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* BerserkButton: As Koumei learned, question Kannei's loyalty to the Son Clan or her honor as a warrior at your own peril.
* DrillSergeantNasty: She doesn't make the training easy for the noble guards of the Go palace.
* FingerlessGloves: Her gloves don't cover her fingers.
* {{Fundoshi}}: She wears one as underwear and has her subordinates wear one too as a sign of the Go Kingdom's noble guard.
* MiniDressOfPower: Her outfit is a red minidress that just barely covers her underwear.
* PrimAndProperBun: She ties her hair back in a covered bun, fitting her strict and serious character.

!!Rikuson (Private name: Non; Courtesy name: Hakugen)
->Voiced by: Creator/NatsumiYanase
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Shuuyu's disciple. A smart yet air-headed official who gets quite… excited from reading books.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: The front of her dress has an opening that extends from her cleavage to her belly button.
* CuteBookworm: She really loves books, maybe even a bit too much…
* HairDecorations: She wears a hair piece on top of her head that resembles a tiara.
* HandHidingSleeves: High class variant. She's part of the royal court of Go and the sleeves of her dress are longer than her arms.
* {{Nerdgasm}}: Reading books is her equivalent of watching porn.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: It is appropriate for a strategist with great love for gaining knowledge to wear minuscule pince-nez glasses.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has cyan-colored hair.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears white thigh-high stockings combined with a minidress.

!!Ryomou (Private name: Ashe; Courtesy name: Shimei)
->Voiced by: Creator/KaoriMizuhashi
[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ashe_anime.jpg]]

A girl who serves in the personal guard under Kannei and is appointed as the bodyguard of princess Sonken, who she is in love with. She is eventually relieved of her duties to be appointed as an apprentice strategist to Sonken.
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* BlindWithoutEm: Ryomou's farsighted with her right eye. When Sonken notices it, she gets her a monocle.
* BodyguardCrush: After being assigned to guard Sonken's room, Ryomou falls for the kind and studious princess. While it's not explicitly confirmed if the feeling is mutual, Sonken is definitely fond of Ryomou.
* DeathGlare: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Without her HighClassGlass, she resorts to squinting, which often scares people away.
* GeniusBruiser: Ryoumou has trained as both a Son Family elite bodyguard and as an apprentice strategist.
* HandHidingSleeves: High class variant. After becoming a royal strategist in training, she wears a dress with sleeves so long that they nearly reach her feet.
* HighClassGlass: Sonken buys her a monocle to help her with her eyesight problem.
* HotForTeacher: Sonken becomes her private teacher and Ryomou is very obviously smitten with her.
* NoIndoorVoice: She has a habit to say everything by shouting when she's nervous or excited.
* OdangoHair: She keeps her hair in two low buns.
* TheStrategist: After proving her intelligence, she's ordered to quit the bodyguard force and made a strategist-in-training.
* UndyingLoyalty: She becomes unquestionably loyal and devoted to her princess Sonken.

!!Shuutai (Private name: Minmei; Courtesy name: Youhei)
->Voiced by: Aiko Okubo
[[quoteright:173:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minmei_anime.jpg]]

A cat-loving warrior officer of the Go kingdom.
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* {{BFS}}: She wields a sword that's as long as she is tall.
* CutenessProximity: Shuutai tends to lose it around cute cats.
* {{Keigo}}: She speaks very politely to everyone, even ''cats''.
* KindheartedCatLover: She's a sweet young girl and her favorite hobby is petting cats.
* {{Ninja}}: She dresses like a kunoichi even though she's supposed to be Chinese instead of Japanese. She even specializes in espionage and sneaking.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches all the way to her ''ankles''.

!!Kougai (Private name: Sai; Courtesy name: Koufuku; Expy: Huang Gai)
Voiced by: Miyabi Shion (credited as MARIO)
[[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sai_anime.jpg]]

Songo's longest and most trusted adviser.
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* CleavageWindow: Her dress has a small opening in the chest area.
* MaamShock: She really hates it when people talk about her as if she was old.
* RapunzelHair: Her ponytail reaches down her hips.
* ShipperOnDeck: She actively gets Sonsaku and Shuuyu to make up after an argument by locking them inside a warehouse. Knowing what those two will be up to after reconciling, she leaves them there all night.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has lavender hair.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears thigh-high stockings and an open leg dress.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yellow Turban Rebellion]]
!!The Chou Sisters
->Voiced by: Creator/TaeOkajima (Choukaku), Chihiro Umehara (Chouhou), Creator/KozueYoshizumi (Chouryou)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chou_sisters_anime.jpeg]]

Choukaku, Chouhou and Chouryou, private names Tenhou, Chiihou and Renhou. Three sisters who are trying to make a living as street performers, but don't make headway until Ukitsu gives them a book called Crucial Keys to the Way of Peace that teaches them magic spells to make microphones and produce special effects in their performances. They become popular idol singers in their town.
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* BackForTheFinale: They appear again in the finale of the last season.
* BandOfRelatives: The three sisters form an IdolSinger band together.
* BareYourMidriff: As idols, they wear midriff-baring outfits.
* BodyDouble: [[spoiler:Choukaku disguises herself as Ryuubi and faces Ukitsu to keep him distracted and give Ryuubi the chance for a surprise attack.]]
* CharmPerson: The Chou Sisters make use of this at first for gifts from their fans, but there are more sinister applications that come to light.
* EvilDiva: They are turned into this by the influence of the Crucial Keys to the Way of Peace, particularly Chouhou. They use magic to mind control those who hear their songs and enjoy them, eventually escalating into starting a revolt.
* FamilyThemeNaming: The private names of the three sisters all end in 'hou'.
* HairDecorations: Choukaku wears a yellow ribbon at the back of her head, Chouhou holds up her side ponytail with a flower-shaped ornament and Chouhou wears hair clips.
* IdenticalStranger: With a hairstyle change and a switch of clothes, Choukaku is a Ryuubi with light pink hair. [[spoiler:This is what allows them to fool Ukitsu in the final battle.]]
* IdiotHair: Choukaku has a cowlick atop of her head and she's the airhead of the sisters.
* IdolSinger: They quickly become famous idols after they start making concerts by using spells charms for the sound and visual effects.
* {{Meganekko}}: Chouryou wears glasses and is the calmest of the sisters.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Choukaku has bright pink hair and is the cheery and bubbly one of the sisters.
* RapunzelHair: Choukaku has hip-length hair.
* StreetPerformer: They start off doing magic shows and musical performances in the streets. Obviously, they don't do well until Ukitsu gives them a spell book to create special effects for their shows.
* UnwittingPawn: Ukitsu lends them the Crucial Keys to the Way of Peace so their greed for fame and the aggressiveness of their fans becomes fuel to the evil energy of the spell book.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Choukaku has bright pink hair, Chouhou has light blue hair and Chouryou has light purple hair.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Chouhou and Chouryou wear thigh-high boots and miniskirts, showing off a bit of leg skin.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nanban Tribe]]
!!Moukaku (Private name: Mii)
->Voiced by: Miyu Inoue
[[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mii_anime.jpg]]

The king of the Nanban.
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* BareYourMidriff: Her tribal outfit doesn't cover her belly.
* BuxomIsBetter: Moukaku and her underlings are all obsessed with big boobs, for some reason.
* CatGirl: She has the cat ears and tail, as well as the "-nya" VerbalTic for bonus points. Although, that's just her tribal clothes… probably.
* CuteLittleFangs: As part of her CatGirl theme, Moukaku has feline fangs.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: According to the rumors Gien heard, Moukaku is a terrifying king who is 30-feet tall, has scaly skin and eats living animals. Moments later, they find the real Moukaku is a small and cute CatGirl.
* JudgmentOfSolomon: Moukaku and Chouhi fight over the ownership of the elephant Paya Paya, but the moment Moukaku is being hurt by them pulling him, she releases him. Koumei determines Moukaku is the real owner because she was the one who showed concern over the animal's wellbeing.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches to about her waist.
* SheIsTheKing: Her title is King of Nanban.
* ThirdPersonPerson: She uses her private name Mii as a first-person pronoun.
* TinyTyrannicalGirl: She bosses people around and expects them to obey her completely. After all, she ''is'' a king.
* VerbalTic: She ends her sentences with "-nya".
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has light green hair.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Villains]]
!!Fake Ryuubi
->Voiced by: Creator/TomokazuSeki
[[quoteright:166:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fake_ryuubi.png]]

A charismatic young commander who recruits Kan'u and her friends into his army, but they leave him as soon as they see the power-hungry coward he really is. At the end, it's revealed he was just a bandit who impersonated the real Ryuubi after stealing her sword.
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* {{Bishonen}}: Regardless of his despicable personality, no one can deny he has a good-looking face.
* BrokenPedestal: Kan'u believed him to be a noble general who protected the innocent and even felt an attraction to him. That is until she realizes he's a power-hungry, lying scumbag who would let people be endangered just to benefit himself.
* CanonForeigner: An anime-exclusive character.
* ConMan: He pretends to be the descendant of a prestigious family and the general of a righteous army, but he's really a mere bandit seeking to improve his social status with lies.
* DirtyCoward: Once he's exposed as a fraud and a child kidnapper, he runs the hell out of Touka Village to escape being beaten up and captured.
* GlorySeeker: He doesn't care at all about trying to better the condition of the country, only thinking about how he can make fame for himself.
* IdenticalStranger: His face and voice are identical to Kan'u's deceased older brother, which she's quick to notice.
* KarmaHoudini: While his plans of becoming a successful general were foiled by Riri blowing his cover, the first season ends with him managing to escape and we never see him get the retribution he deserved for arranging Riri's kidnapping and attempting to kill the real Ryuubi to steal her identity.
* LackOfEmpathy: He's perfectly fine with letting innocent villagers die for the sake of not losing his opportunity to increase the power of his military position.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He was impersonating the real Ryuubi and his real name is never mentioned.

!!Ukitsu
->Voiced by: Creator/TakehitoKoyasu
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ukitsu_anime.jpg]]

A mysterious man who gives the Chou sisters the magical book known as the Crucial Keys to the Way of Peace so they can use magic to jumpstart their careers as idol singers. In reality, he's using the Chou sisters to make the book gain large amounts of magic.
He reappears in ''Otome Tairan'' as an ally and adviser to Choujou.
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* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears glasses and is a major villain in season two and three.
* AGlassOfChianti: He relaxingly sips a glass of wine as he stares down at the indestructible stone army he released to conquer China.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: It's not clear what he's planning to do by gathering magic power of the Crucial Keys to the Way of Peace until the finale of season three.
* InvincibleVillain: He can only be killed by [[spoiler:Ryuubi's [[ChekhovsGun new sword]]]], but brushes off any other weapon, like he did with Kouchuu's arrow.
* TheManBehindTheMan: In the second and third season, Ukitsu is the one moving the strings behind the scenes. He manipulates the Chou sisters and Choujou, using the anger and hatred their actions cause to gather enough energy for the Crucial Keys to the Way of Peace.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:After being stabbed by Ryuubi's Dragon Claw Sword, Ukitsu's body disintegrates into nothing.]]
* PeoplePuppets: He uses a spell to control Choujou's body [[spoiler:and force her to drink the potion that turns her into a rat]].
* VillainTeleportation: He's an evil wizard with teleportation abilities.

!!Choujou
->Voiced by: Creator/AkikoYajima
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/choujou.jpg]]

The villain appearing in ''Otome Tairan''.
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* BalefulPolymorph: Ukitsu only needed her tyrannical rule to extract energy for the Crucial Keys to the Way of Peace from her subjects. The moment he has gathered the power necessary, he turns Choujou into a rat.
* BigBadWannabe: She's set up as the main villain of the third season. Near the end of the season, the tables are turned against her when Toutaku is rescued which automatically ruins her plans. And ''then'', Ukitsu decides [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he no longer has any use for her]] and turns her into a rat.
* {{Bokukko}}: She uses 'boku' to refer to herself when she talks.
* CanonForeigner: An anime-exclusive character.
* EvilAlbino: She has white hair and red eyes and acts as the main villain for most of the third season.
* EvilLaugh: She likes to do the villain laugh for the sake of it.
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: She's the only female character with eyeshadow and coincidentally, the only woman in the series to be a straight-up villain.
* IHaveYourWife: She takes Toutaku hostage to force her army into doing her bidding and cooperate in her tyrannical rule of the capital.
* SkunkStripe: She has two red stripes in her otherwise white hair.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Other Characters]]
!!Kousonsan (Private name: Pairen; Courtesy name: Hakukei)
->Voiced by: Creator/ShihoKawaragi
[[quoteright:140:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pairen_anime.jpg]]

A feudal lord no one can be bothered to remember.
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: In the second OVA, she gets offended at a giant octopus stripping every girl in the beach except her.
* ButtMonkey: In all her appearances, she gets the short end of the stick or she gets frustrated at how people keep forgetting her. Even the only time she gets to do something cool by beating Enshou in a duel ends with her exposing her naked breasts to a crowd of people.
* ChildhoodFriends: She went to elementary school together with Ryuubi and considers them close enough to call each other by their private names. However, Ryuubi doesn't remember much about Kousonsan in her childhood.
* ForgettableCharacter: For her entire life, people have failed to notice her. Even Ryuubi, her classmate from elementary school, has trouble recalling anything exact about her. Chouun points out how unremarkable she is.
* ZettaiRyouiki: She wears white thigh-high stockings paired with a mini dress.

!!Shibaki (Courtesy name: Suikyou)
->Voiced by: Youko Asagami
[[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/suikyo.jpg]]

Komei's teacher who is also a scholar and doctor in the countryside.
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* CanonForeigner: She only appears in the anime, although she was mentioned as Komei's and Houtou's teacher in the original visual novel.
* ParentalSubstitute: Shibaki has been taking care of Shuri ever since she was orphaned and was separated from her sisters. She treats Shuri like her own daughter and wants the best for her.

!!Houtou (Private name: Hinari; Courtesy name: Shigen)
->Voiced by: Creator/YukoGoto
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Another of Shibaki's students.
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* CovertPervert: By the third season, Koumei has gotten Houtou into her hobby of reading perverted books.
* GirlishPigtails: She ties her hair up into twin-tails, which adds to her cute childish looks.
* HappilyAdopted: Like Koumei, Houtou is an orphan who was taken into the care of Suikyou who she loves as if she was her real mother.
* InfantSiblingJealousy: A variation. Houtou was adopted after Koumei left Suikyou, so when Koumei comes to visit, Houtou gets immediately jealous when she sees her and Suikyou acting like mother and daughter. Houtou later apologizes to Koumei for thinking she would take her mother away and they accept each other as surrogate sisters.
* NiceHat: She wears a cute witch hat.
* TheQuietOne: She doesn't like to talk with anyone but Suikyou and later Koumei.
* ShrinkingViolet: She's very shy around people she's just met.
* ShyBlueHairedGirl: Her hair has a shade of blue and she's very timid and quiet.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Periwinkle blue, in her case.

!!Kada (Courtesy name: Genka)
->Voiced by: Creator/NobuyukiHiyama
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A traveling doctor skilled in acupuncture from a guild known as the WAY OF THE FIVE GRAINS! He is on a quest to search for and seal away a cursed magic book known as the Crucial Keys to the Way of Peace.
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* CatchPhrase: "BE HEALTHY!"/"[[ShoutOut GENKI]] [[Anime/GaoGaiGar NI NARE]]!!"
* CombatMedic: While he's primarily a doctor, he does kick some ass in the final battle of ''Otome Tairan''.
* FieryRedhead: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. He's mostly even-tempered despite his redhead, but he does like to shout the name of his guild for the hell of it.
* HotBlooded: He always wants to scream the name of his guild like he was the protagonist of a shonen battle anime, for whatever reason.
* MaamShock: RareMaleExample. He doesn't like that Chouhi calls him an old man.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Kata's acupuncture treatment of Chouhi acquires all the flair and drama of a [[Anime/GaoGaiGar Goldion Hammer]] deployment.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Kada insists the name of the guild he's affiliated with be called out in the loudest and most dramatic fashion every time. Lampshaded in the following dialogue:
-->Koumei: Kada? Of The Way of the Five Grains?
-->Kada: NO!
-->Girls: Eh?
-->Kada: It's '''[[LargeHam THE WAY OF FIVE GRAINS!!]]'''
-->Girls: Oh.
-->Kada: It's very important to give it appropriate emphasis.
-->Koumei: I-I'll remember that...
-->Kan'u: So, Shuri, what is the Way... I mean, '''[[LargeHam THE WAY OF FIVE GRAINS!!]]''' all about?
* SuddenlyShouting: His guild is not The Way of the Five Grains. It's THE WAY OF THE FIVE GRAINS! That is all.

!!Kashin (Courtesy name: Suikou)
->Voiced by: Creator/AiOrikasa
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The Commander-in-Chief of the Han imperial forces who is also known as the "Great General". In the third season, Choujou feeds her a pill that slowly turns her into a cat. Kan'u's group is asked for help by Kada to find the ingredients to make an antidote.
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: She uses archaic Japanese speech patterns.
* BalefulPolymorph: Choujou force-fed her a pill that progressively transforms her into a cat. To make it worse, she hates cats.
* BeautyMark: She has a mole on the left corner of her lips.
* CanonForeigner: Technically an anime-original character as she has nothing in common with the visual novel's Kashin.
* CatGirl: Her magic transformation starts with her growing cat ears. By the time Kan'u's group sees her again, Kashin has grown a tail and her hands turned into cute paws. Even after drinking the antidote, the cat ears don't go away.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Before properly appearing in season three, she was in Kakouton's flashback of season one as the host of the banquet in which the incident between Sousou and Bachou's father occurred.
* FunSize: She shrinks as her transformation into a cat is almost complete, looking like a SuperDeformed CatGirl version of herself.
* HairIntakes: Her hairstyle includes a pair of "cat ears".
* HideYourOtherness: Her cat ears stay even after she's given an antidote for the spell, so she wears a bandanna to hide them.
* InTheHood: When she arrives at Touka Village, she's wearing a hood to hide her cat ears.
* VerbalTic: After her transformation into a cat progresses, Kashin adds "-nya" at the end of her sentences.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: She goes around wearing a bikini top.

!!Gengan (Private name: Kikyo)
->Voiced by: Shizuka Arai
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A federal lord that was the teacher of Gien until she decommissioned her from straining the promise that Gien would not draw her sword.
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* TheAlcoholic: The locals claim she's seldom seen sober.
* TheLadette: She usually ditches her responsibilities as a feudal lord to go drink alcohol and bet on horse races.
* LikeADaughterToMe: She states that even if Gien isn't her student anymore, she still thinks of her as her daughter.
* ParentalSubstitute: She acts more like an adoptive mother than teacher for Gien.

!!Gotsutotsukotsu
->Voiced by: Creator/YuunaInamura
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A warrior who appears and tries to make several failed assassination attempts on Gien.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: For the entirety of her episode, nobody gets her name right.
* BareYourMidriff: Her tribal clothes include a midriff-baring top.
* CanonForeigner: An anime-exclusive character.
* CuteLittleFangs: Her canine fangs are very visible, possibly to highlight her tribal girl character.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: She's barefoot due to being a tribal girl.
* {{Revenge}}: She blames Gien for her older sister's death and wants to kill her, even though it was an accident.
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