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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Ryuunosuke turns out to be a girl, she vanishes from the series and never returns.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Ryuunosuke turns out Kurama's plan to be a girl, woo Rei failed, she vanishes from the series and never returns.
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* FantasticRacism: In her first few appearances she expresses disgust with Lum for being a “demon”/Oni. She seems to get over this later.
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* TrappedInVillainy: As her grudge against Lum begins to cool, she expresses frustration that her bipolar condition borne from several years of being collateral damage in Lum's childhood hijinx is not subsiding at the same rate. This is not to say that she can't be conniving and malicious when she's calm though.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Actually helps deal the FinishingMove to the zoo animal fighters in the 2022 adaptation of the ''Miss Tomobiki'' arc, grabbing and slamming the anaconda into the pile when she was originally completely unhelpful in the manga.
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* VampiricDraining: She has ability to literally suck the life from others with a literal KissOfDeath.
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* VampiricDraining: She has ability to literally suck the life from others with a literal KissOfDeath. As shown later, this only provides basic additional sustenance to Ran, and it doesn't necessarily make her stronger no matter how much she drains.
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* AchillesHeel: Ten is scared of his own mother, who is an firefighter and extremely strict towards pyromaniacs (ironically, Ten can breath fire and shamelessly uses this to his advantage). He seems to be hiding this ability from her so he wouldn't get into trouble with her.
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* AchillesHeel: Ten is scared of his own mother, who is an a firefighter and extremely strict towards pyromaniacs (ironically, Ten can breath fire and shamelessly uses this to his advantage). He seems to be hiding this ability from her so he wouldn't get into trouble with her.
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* HonorThyAbuser: After giving up on marrying Lum, not only does Rupa instantly forgive Carla for terrorizing him, assaulting him, and almost killing him for years, he even asks her to marry him.
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* NeverMyFault: He explains to Lum that he refuses to return Carla's feelings because she's dangerously possessive and jealous, to the point she has repeatedly assaulted and almost killed him. However, Lum thinks Carla ''does'' have a legitimate grievance against him, as he readily agreed to marry a complete stranger when he (sort of) had a relationship with Carla when they were kids.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Carla ''does'' have a legitimate grievance against Rupa, as he readily agreed to marry a complete stranger when he (sort of) had a relationship with Carla when they were kids. However, Carla ''definitely'' went overboard by turning to dangerously possessive and jealous behavior, to the point she has repeatedly assaulted and almost killed Rupa over the past decade.
* KarmaHoudini: After spending years making Rupa's life hell because he kept refusing to marry her, Carla ultimately gets a happy ending with Rupa proposing to her.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** A lot of her relationship problems with Rupa could be easily explained as her own fault for resorting to attacking Rupa repeatedly on end for years after hearing he was in an ArrangedMarriage.
** She offers the Moroboshi household some Dark World mushrooms that grow explosively when exposed to heat and light, causing the city to become rapidly overgrown with them and potentially nearly smothering the world with them. This directly leads to Lum's challenging Ataru to a second game of tag, with the continued presence of the aliens on Earth and all their memories of them as the stakes, in exchange for getting rid of the mushrooms.
** A lot of her relationship problems with Rupa could be easily explained as her own fault for resorting to attacking Rupa repeatedly on end for years after hearing he was in an ArrangedMarriage.
** She offers the Moroboshi household some Dark World mushrooms that grow explosively when exposed to heat and light, causing the city to become rapidly overgrown with them and potentially nearly smothering the world with them. This directly leads to Lum's challenging Ataru to a second game of tag, with the continued presence of the aliens on Earth and all their memories of them as the stakes, in exchange for getting rid of the mushrooms.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** ANeverMyFault: She blames Rupa's engagement to Lum as the only reason why he refuses to marry her instead, but a lot of Rupa's reluctance to accept her relationship problems with Rupa "advances" could be easily explained as her own fault for resorting to attacking Rupa repeatedly on end for years after hearing he was in an ArrangedMarriage.
** She offers the Moroboshi household some Dark World mushroomsArrangedMarriage. Rupa even lampshades that grow explosively when exposed this behavior is ''why'' he grew to heat fear her and light, causing the city want nothing to become rapidly overgrown do with them and potentially nearly smothering the world with them. This directly leads to Lum's challenging Ataru to a second game of tag, with the continued presence of the aliens on Earth and all their memories of them as the stakes, in exchange for getting rid of the mushrooms.her.
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* WhiteHairBlackHeart: She's a murderously possessive {{Yandere}} with white hair.
* {{Yandere}}: She did ''not'' take Rupa's engagement to Lum well. Since then, she has spent most of her life chasing him and trying to kill him. Rupa even lampshades that this behavior is ''why'' he grew to fear her and want nothing to do with her.
* {{Yandere}}: She did ''not'' take Rupa's engagement to Lum well. Since then, she has spent most of her life chasing him and trying to kill him. Rupa even lampshades that this behavior is ''why'' he grew to fear her and want nothing to do with her.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She offers the Moroboshi household some Dark World mushrooms that grow explosively when exposed to heat and light, causing the city to become rapidly overgrown with them and potentially nearly smothering the world with them. This directly leads to Lum's challenging Ataru to a second game of tag, with the continued presence of the aliens on Earth and all their memories of them as the stakes, in exchange for getting rid of the mushrooms.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: She's a murderously possessive {{Yandere}} with whitehair.
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* WomanScorned: She was in sort of a relationship with Rupa when they were kids, since he told her he loved her (albeit under Carla's violent threats). Then he told her his great-grandfather had already chosen Lum as his fiancée and Carla went ''ballistic''. For the following years, she has attacked him and almost killed him constantly.
* {{Yandere}}: Shedid ''not'' take used to be Rupa's engagement childhood friend with a crush on him. After he told her he was engaged to Lum well. Since then, she Lum, Carla has spent most of her life chasing him him, violently assaulting him, and trying to kill him. Rupa even lampshades that this behavior is ''why'' he grew to fear him for not returning her and want nothing to do with her.affections.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: She's a murderously possessive {{Yandere}} with white
* WomanScorned: She was in sort of a relationship with Rupa when they were kids, since he told her he loved her (albeit under Carla's violent threats). Then he told her his great-grandfather had already chosen Lum as his fiancée and Carla went ''ballistic''. For the following years, she has attacked him and almost killed him constantly.
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* KansaiRegionalAccent: He occasionally displays features of Kansai-ben.
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* KansaiRegionalAccent: Like Ten, Lum's father speaks in the Kansai dialect.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: In the final chapter, the night before the last round of the tag, Ten enters the room of a presumably sleeping Ataru to tell him that the memory eraser ''will'' fire if he doesn't touch Lum's horns before the end of the coming day. Whilst he asserts he won't miss Ataru if he's made to leave, a single tear falls from his eye onto Ataru's face before he flies off.
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* IconicSequelCharacter: While he doesn't appear until the 7th volume, he becomes such a prominent character in the manga that he gets an AdaptationalEarlyAppearance in the anime, where he's introduced in the third episode.
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* IconicSequelCharacter: While he doesn't appear until the 7th volume, he becomes such a prominent character in the manga that he gets an AdaptationalEarlyAppearance in the 1981 anime, where he's introduced in the third episode.
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* LikesOlderWomen: He only likes older women and has no interest in girls the same age he's in. He's ''very'' annoyed when a local girl named Masako develops a crush on him, especially because she has ClingyJealousGirl traits similarly to Lum's.
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* LikesOlderWomen: He only likes older women and has no interest in girls the same age he's in. He's ''very'' annoyed when a local girl named Masako develops a crush on him, especially because she has ClingyJealousGirl traits similarly to Lum's. The fact Lum ''encourages'' this behavior, at least in the 1981 anime, doesn't make Ten any more favorably inclined towards her.
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* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Nobody ''invited'' Ten to move into the Moroboshi household, he just showed up one day to visit Lum and never left.
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* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Nobody ''invited'' Ten to move into the Moroboshi household, he just showed up one day to visit Lum and never left. Made particularly aggravating because Ten tends to cause a lot of trouble, mostly through property damage with his fiery breath.
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* CelibateHeroine: It is unknown by even Lum and Oyuki whether or not she has ever had a boyfriend. However, she's seen supporting Ryuunosuke on her father issues and became excessively flustered when teased that [[HomoeroticSubtext Ryuunosuke might be in love with her]]. She also is unbothered by Ataru's flirtations, and even seems to welcome them, though she's usually far more interested in brawling with Lum whenever she comes to Earth.
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* CelibateHeroine: It is unknown by even Lum and Oyuki whether or not she has ever had a boyfriend. However, she's seen supporting Ryuunosuke on her father issues and became excessively flustered when teased it's stated that [[HomoeroticSubtext Ryuunosuke might be in love with her]]. She also is unbothered by Ataru's flirtations, and even seems to welcome them, though she's usually far more interested in brawling with Lum whenever she comes to Earth.
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* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Downplayed. Whilst Benten ''is'' a battle-loving hoverbiking punk girl, she does express some feminine traits. In the "Woman vs. Woman Showdown" arc, she appears to be quite pleased when Mr. Fujinami claims that Ryuunosuke is a boy with a crush on her. She is subsequently shown moodily reflecting on how nobody has ever told her that she needs to act more like a lady before, then studies her reflection in the mirror, noting to herself that she ''is'' an attractive girl and practicing a traditionally feminine gesture of smiling behind her hand. She gets very embarrassed when Lum stumbles across her doing this, and is so flustered she proceeds to break several things in Lum's UFO. When she discovers that Ryuunosuke is actually a girl, she's very offended that the crossdressing brawler would lecture ''her'' about acting more feminine.
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* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Downplayed. Whilst Benten ''is'' a battle-loving hoverbiking punk girl, she does express some feminine traits. In the "Woman vs. Woman Showdown" arc, she appears to be quite pleased when Mr. Fujinami claims that Ryuunosuke is a boy with a crush on her. She is subsequently shown moodily reflecting on how nobody has ever told her that she needs to act more like a lady before, then studies her reflection in the mirror, noting to herself that she ''is'' an attractive girl and practicing a traditionally feminine gesture of smiling behind her hand. She gets very embarrassed when Lum stumbles across her doing this, and is so flustered she proceeds to break several things in Lum's UFO. When she discovers that Ryuunosuke is actually a girl, she's very offended that the crossdressing brawler would lecture ''her'' about acting more feminine. When she gets groped by Ataru in the final battle of the principal's psychodrama, she lets out a ''very'' girly scream.
* {{Greed}}: It's repeatedly shown that Oyuki does not treat money lightly, despite being royalty. She is quick to remind even her friends that she expects her loans to be repaid, and when Ran comes to her looking for money, she only agrees to help if she gets a cut of the profits -- and when Ran tries to run away with all the money, she imprisons her in a block of ice and then takes ''all'' the money for herself.
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* AnIcePerson: Occasionally freezing everything around her in a huge block of ice.
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* AnIcePerson: Occasionally She has the power to generate ice and snow, sometimes by blowing across her hand, but also simply radiationg cold. She can selectively grow ice in any shape, size and quantity that she likes, and has repeatedly been seen imprisoning people in ice blocks as well as creating ice "spears" to threaten or capture people withouit freezing everything around her in a huge block of ice.them.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: Ran usually speaks in a cutesy voice, but it abruptly changes to a deep, gruff voice when the nastier side of her personality comes out.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: Ran usually speaks in a cutesy voice, but in the 1981 anime, it abruptly changes to a deep, gruff voice when the nastier side of her personality comes out.
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* FreudianExcuse: She grew up with a very strict, abusive mother who punished her when ''Lum'' did something bad and let Ran get blamed for it. No wonder she's [[CuteAndPsycho so messed up]] and hates Lum so much.
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* FreudianExcuse: She grew up with a very strict, abusive mother who punished her when ''Lum'' did something bad and let Ran get blamed for it. Then she fell in love with Rei, who is implied to have dated her only to then cheat on her with Lum, ultimately getting engaged to her -- before Lum broke it off. No wonder she's [[CuteAndPsycho so messed up]] and hates Lum so much.
* IRejectYourReality: Ran is constantly shown misinterpreting Lum's words to cast Lum in a bad light, likely due to PsychologicalProjection. In particular, she's quick to assume that Lum is jealous, especially if Rei is involved, despite Lum's repeated assertations that she doesn't like Rei anymore.
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* SingleTargetSexuality: She's madly in love with Rei and no-one else. She initially flirted with Ataru in hopes of punishing Lum by draining his youth, and once goes on a date with Ryunosuke Fujinami because she thought it would make Lum mad, but none of those were serious.
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* VampiricDraining: She has ability to literally suck the life from others.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Lum. Rei looks handsome in his humanoid form, but he often changes into an ''ushitora'', which is one of the reasons why Lum broke up with him.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Lum. Rei looks handsome in his humanoid form, but he often changes into an ''ushitora'', which is one of the reasons why Lum broke up with him. That he's a mindless eating machine also repulses her; one story notes that when Lum got him a locket as a symbol of her love, he ''ate it'', sending her away in tears.
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* StarfishLanguage: She does not speak any Earth language, with strange characters and symbols being used in the manga whenever she's speaking.
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* StarfishLanguage: She does not speak any Earth language, with strange characters and symbols being used in the manga or subtitles whenever she's speaking.
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* CatchPhrase: "FIRE!!"She screams "FIRE!!" whenever anyone rings a firebell, followed by her rushing to put out the flames.
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The prince of a world of total darkness, giant mushrooms, and flying pigs. It was arranged by his great-grandfather that he would marry Lum.
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The prince of a world of total darkness, giant mushrooms, and flying pigs. It was arranged by his great-grandfather Uba that he would marry Lum.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's ''not'' an intimidating figure in the slightest. But he unwittingly achieves something that nobody else has in the entire story; destroying Ataru and Lum's trust in each other and causing them to legitimately break up by swapping out the real Lum for an obedient mushroom duplicant at his wedding, causing Ataru to believe that Lum really had chosen Rupa over him and causing him to denounce the real Lum as a two-timing traitor when she broke free in the confusion.
* HonorAmongThieves: Despite his antagonism towards Ataru, and his breaking things off with Lum, he agrees to have his pigs eat the mushrooms threatening the Earth regardless of whether Ataru wins or loses the match.
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* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: She has spent most of her life attacking Rupa with heavy weaponry.weaponry, but this is treated as merely a comedic flaw, even somewhat justified, and Rupa ultimately proposes to her after Lum talks him out of the ArrangedMarriage, even though realistically he has every reason ''not'' to want to marry the crazy girl who has obsessively stalked and attacked him for a decade.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** A lot of her relationship problems with Rupa could be easily explained as her own fault for resorting to attacking Rupa repeatedly on end for years after hearing he was in an ArrangedMarriage.
** She offers the Moroboshi household some Dark World mushrooms that grow explosively when exposed to heat and light, causing the city to become rapidly overgrown with them and potentially nearly smothering the world with them. This directly leads to Lum's challenging Ataru to a second game of tag, with the continued presence of the aliens on Earth and all their memories of them as the stakes, in exchange for getting rid of the mushrooms.
** A lot of her relationship problems with Rupa could be easily explained as her own fault for resorting to attacking Rupa repeatedly on end for years after hearing he was in an ArrangedMarriage.
** She offers the Moroboshi household some Dark World mushrooms that grow explosively when exposed to heat and light, causing the city to become rapidly overgrown with them and potentially nearly smothering the world with them. This directly leads to Lum's challenging Ataru to a second game of tag, with the continued presence of the aliens on Earth and all their memories of them as the stakes, in exchange for getting rid of the mushrooms.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: She's called "Kurala" in the Viz Media transltion of the manga.
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* {{Yandere}}: She did ''not'' take Rupa's engagement to Lum well. Since then, she has spent most of her life chasing him and trying to kill him.
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* {{Yandere}}: She did ''not'' take Rupa's engagement to Lum well. Since then, she has spent most of her life chasing him and trying to kill him. Rupa even lampshades that this behavior is ''why'' he grew to fear her and want nothing to do with her.
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* AccentSlipUp: Whenever she drops the {{Kawaiiko}} act, she slips into KansaiRegionalAccent since that's the dialect used by aliens from Lum's planet.
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* AccentSlipUp: Whenever she drops the {{Kawaiiko}} act, she slips into KansaiRegionalAccent a Kansai accent since that's the dialect used by aliens from Lum's planet.
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* FieryRedhead: She has red hair and tries to act like a sweet-natured, domestic girl, but she's actually quite violent and quick to anger.
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* HumanAlien: Except for the CuteLittleFangs and pink hair, she usually appears to be a normal human--until she puts on her GameFace, which gives her PointyEars and more pronounced fangs. Her actual race is never identified by name, name.
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* RoseHairedSweetie: She has dark pink hair and she seems to fit the sweet and romantic variety, but she's actually a subversion due to being a BitchInSheepsClothing.
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* RoseHairedSweetie: She has dark pink hair and she seems to fit the sweet and romantic variety, but she's actually a subversion due to being a BitchInSheepsClothing.BitchInSheepsClothing with a major violent streak.
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* FanservicePack: Her initial outfit is already Stripperific but her second outfit gives her a neckline that reaches to her navel, ditches the lace in front of her cleavage, and shows off more of her legs thanks to the leotard. ''All Stars'' [[HotterAndSexier gives her this outfit right from the start.]]
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* FanservicePack: Her initial outfit is already Stripperific {{Stripperiffic}} but her second outfit gives her a neckline that reaches to her navel, ditches the lace in front of her cleavage, and shows off more of her legs thanks to the leotard. ''All ''All- Stars'' [[HotterAndSexier gives her this outfit right from the start.]]
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* FanservicePack: Her initial outfit is already Stripperific but her second outfit gives her a neckline that reaches to her navel, ditches the lace in front of her cleavage, and shows off more of her legs thanks to the leotard. ''All Stars'' [[HotterAndSexier gives her this outfit right from the start.]]
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* ContraltoOfDanger: In the anime, she is given a much deeper tone of voice than most of the girls, to emphasize her stats as the tough, aggressive, macho member of Lum's girl-gang.
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Sugar, Ginger and Pepper. A trio of teenage girls who currently attend the same junior high school that Lum, Benten, and Oyuki did. Due to their seniors' reputation for causing mischief, the Gang of Three seeks to outdo their predecessors by defeating them in combat, but most of the time, they resort to simple pranks and underhanded schemes.
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Sugar, Ginger and Pepper. A trio of teenage girls who currently attend attended the same junior high school that Lum, Benten, and Oyuki did. Due to their seniors' reputation for causing mischief, the Gang of Three seeks to outdo their predecessors by defeating them in combat, but most of the time, they resort to simple pranks and underhanded schemes.
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* GameFace: Ran seems perfectly human most of the time... until she gets mad. Then her hair puffs out and her fangs are more pronounced.
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* GameFace: Ran seems perfectly human most of the time... until she gets mad. Then her hair puffs out out, her ears become [[PointyEars pointier]], and her fangs are more pronounced.
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* HumanAlien: Except for the CuteLittleFangs (and red hair), she appears to be a normal human.
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* ContraltoOfDanger: Ran usually speaks in a cutesy voice, but it abruptly changes to a deep gruff voice when the nastier side of her personality comes out.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: Ran usually speaks in a cutesy voice, but it abruptly changes to a deep, gruff voice when the nastier side of her personality comes out.
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Not really a "variant" of the trope. If anything, she's a subversion.
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* RoseHairedSweetie: Her {{kawaiiko}} persona fits the sweet and romantic variety, but she's actually the BitchInSheepsClothing variant.
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* RoseHairedSweetie: Her {{kawaiiko}} persona fits She has dark pink hair and she seems to fit the sweet and romantic variety, but she's actually the BitchInSheepsClothing variant.a subversion due to being a BitchInSheepsClothing.
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* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: Zigzagged. Ran sees Lum as a love rival for Rei, given that Lum "stole" Rei in the past by getting engaged, so she frequently accuses Lum of wanting to do it again even though Lum repeatedly makes clear she wants nothing to do with Rei anymore. That said, Lum genuinely is a love rival, albeit involuntarily, as Rei is still fixated on Lum and barely recognizes that Ran exists outside of providing him with food.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Given that Lum "stole" Rei in the past by getting engaged, Ran frequently accuses Lum of wanting to do it again despite Lum's many assertions that she's devoted to Ataru now.
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* FlatCharacter: He has not a whit of personality: he likes food, he wants Lum to be his girlfriend again, and he hates Ataru for being Lum's husband. That's the entirety of Rei's character.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: He's Lum's ex-boyfriend and Ran's love interest. Other than that, he's just a BigEater and not much else.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: He's He likes food, wants Lum to be his girlfriend again, and hates Ataru for being Lum's ex-boyfriend new fiancé. That's the entirety of Rei's character. Later in the series, he shows up even less and ends up in the role of Ran's love interest. Other than that, he's crush who hangs out with her just a BigEater and not much else.to eat food.
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Ran's Imaginary Love Triangle with Lum is technically real, given Rei does want to be with Lum.
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* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: She still Zigzagged. Ran sees Lum as a love rival, accusing her of planning to "steal" rival for Rei, given that Lum "stole" Rei from her in the past by getting engaged, so she frequently accuses Lum of wanting to do it again even though Lum repeatedly makes clear she wants nothing to do with Rei anymore.anymore. That said, Lum genuinely is a love rival, albeit involuntarily, as Rei is still fixated on Lum and barely recognizes that Ran exists outside of providing him with food.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Zigzagged. Most of the girls around agree with Ran that Rei's good looks make him an excellent catch. The guys, as well as Lum, consider Ran to be throwing herself at somebody [[WastedBeauty who has literally nothing else going for him outside his looks]], given he is stupid, gluttonous and shallow.
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* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: It's implied he can actually put together complex sentences in his own alien language, given the "translations" provided by Lum and Ten.
* FlatCharacter: He has not a whit ofpersonality.personality: he likes food, he wants Lum to be his girlfriend again, and he hates Ataru for being Lum's husband. That's the entirety of Rei's character.
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->Voiced by: Yuuko Mita (JP, original series), Creator/ShizukaIshigami (JP, ''All-Stars'') Natasha Malinsky (EN, movie 1), Satu Rautaharju (EN, movies 3, 5-6)
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Lum's infant cousin. He has a single horn on his head and can breathe fire.
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* AchillesHeel: Ten is scared of his own mother, who is an firefighter and extremely strict towards pyromaniacs (ironically Ten can breath fire and shamelessly uses this to his advantage). He seems to be hiding this ability from her so he wouldn't get into trouble with her.
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* AchillesHeel: Ten is scared of his own mother, who is an firefighter and extremely strict towards pyromaniacs (ironically (ironically, Ten can breath fire and shamelessly uses this to his advantage). He seems to be hiding this ability from her so he wouldn't get into trouble with her.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Though the "adorable" part is merely an act, he's very smart and precocious for someone still in diapers.
* BrattyHalfPint: He loves to act high and mighty, and puts on a façade of innocence ("I'm a good boy" is his CatchPhrase), but in reality he mixes a considerable amount of mischievousness with the same lecherous attitudes as Ataru and Mendo. He loves to stir up trouble to keep himself amused, playfully flirts with every girl he sees, and because he's considered an adorable infant, he can usually rely on women to protect him when he gets into more trouble than his ability to fly and breathe fire can handle. And even when they turn against him, Lum always supports him, to the extent she pays it no mind at all when, say, Ten shows up at Ataru's school and starts randomly biting people to soothe his toothache.
* BrattyHalfPint: He loves to act high and mighty, and puts on a façade of innocence ("I'm a good boy" is his CatchPhrase), but in reality he mixes a considerable amount of mischievousness with the same lecherous attitudes as Ataru and Mendo. He loves to stir up trouble to keep himself amused, playfully flirts with every girl he sees, and because he's considered an adorable infant, he can usually rely on women to protect him when he gets into more trouble than his ability to fly and breathe fire can handle. And even when they turn against him, Lum always supports him, to the extent she pays it no mind at all when, say, Ten shows up at Ataru's school and starts randomly biting people to soothe his toothache.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Though the "adorable" part is usually merely an act, he's very smart and precocious for someone still in diapers.
* BoisterousWeakling: Ten loves to brag about how strong he is and is eager to attack anyone who ticks him off, but he has all the strength and skill of a child. Aside from his admittedly painful bite and his fiery breath, he has no defensive or offensive abilities to speak of, and once Ataru learns how to use a frying pan against him, Ten finds his fights frequently going against him.
* BrattyHalfPint: He loves to act high and mighty, and puts on a façade of innocence ("I'm a good boy" is his CatchPhrase), but in reality he mixes a considerable amount of mischievousness with the same lecherous attitudes as Ataru and Mendo. He loves to stir up trouble to keep himself amused, playfully flirts with every girl he sees, and because he's considered an adorable infant, he can usually rely on women to protect him when he gets into more trouble than his ability to fly and breathe fire can handle. And even when they turn against him, Lum almost always supports him,to the extent though on rare occasions even she pays it no mind at all when, say, Ten shows up at Ataru's school and starts randomly biting people to soothe his toothache.will get sick of him.
* BoisterousWeakling: Ten loves to brag about how strong he is and is eager to attack anyone who ticks him off, but he has all the strength and skill of a child. Aside from his admittedly painful bite and his fiery breath, he has no defensive or offensive abilities to speak of, and once Ataru learns how to use a frying pan against him, Ten finds his fights frequently going against him.
* BrattyHalfPint: He loves to act high and mighty, and puts on a façade of innocence ("I'm a good boy" is his CatchPhrase), but in reality he mixes a considerable amount of mischievousness with the same lecherous attitudes as Ataru and Mendo. He loves to stir up trouble to keep himself amused, playfully flirts with every girl he sees, and because he's considered an adorable infant, he can usually rely on women to protect him when he gets into more trouble than his ability to fly and breathe fire can handle. And even when they turn against him, Lum almost always supports him,
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* DisappearedDad: Ten's dad was never mentioned.
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* DisappearedDad: Ten's dad was is never mentioned.mentioned outside of a brief "both my parents are busy working" explanation in the 1981 anime.
* HasAType: He likes older women and has no interest in girls the same age he's in. He's ''very'' annoyed when a local girl named Masako develops a crush on him, especially because she has ClingyJealousGirl traits similarly to Lum's.
* {{Irony}}: His relationship with Masako is very similar to Ataru and Lum's relationship.
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* MeaningfulName: Jari sort of means "brat". So calling him by his full name Jariten is the same thing as calling him "bratty Ten".
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* ManBitesMan: He prefers to use his fiery breath when angry, but if he has to, he can deliver a painful bite, as his jaw muscles are some of the only ones he has.
* MeaningfulName: Jari sort of means "brat". So calling him by his full name Jariten is the same thing as calling him "brattyTen".Ten" or "Ten the brat".
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* SitcomArchNemesis: Ten and Ataru utterly despise each other. Their petty rivalry is very much PlayedForLaughs.
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* SitcomArchNemesis: Ten and Ataru utterly despise each other. Their petty rivalry is very much PlayedForLaughs.
* SpoiledBrat: He'sPlayedForLaughs. Ten's not really spoiled by any much fonder of his caregivers, but he's definitely bratty enough to count.self-proclaimed sweetheart Masako, either.
* SpoiledBrat: He's
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Nobody ''invited'' Ten to move into the Moroboshi household, he just showed up one day to visit Lum and never left.
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* AccompliceByInaction: In her school days, Oyuki never joined Benten and Lum when they bullied or picked fights with other students, but she acted like a disinterested bystander through all of her friends' mischief. As a result, she got labeled as a delinquent too, much to her dismay.
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* AccompliceByInaction: In her school days, Oyuki never joined Benten and Lum when they bullied or picked fights with other students, but she acted like a disinterested bystander through all of her friends' mischief. As a result, she got labeled as a delinquent too, much to her dismay. That said, their teacher CA0-2 has a higher opinion of Oyuki than he does of the other girls in the 1981 anime.
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* {{Yukionna}}: She is a TropeCodifier in modern Japanese depictions of the yo-kai. Due to Oyuki's popularity, many modern depictions of yuki-onna have them with crowns on their head.
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* AnimeHair: Her hairstyle resembles a pair of crow wings.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Males of her people look like bipedal crows that are a few inches tall and have beards when they're older. Kurama (and at least other royal females such as her mentioned but unshown mother) look nearly identical to human women.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Males of her people look like bipedal crows that are a few inches tall and have beards when they're older. Kurama (and at least other royal females such as her mentioned but unshown mother) look nearly identical to human women.
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* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Males of her people look like bipedal crows that are a few inches tall and have beards when they're older. Kurama(and at least other royal females such as her mentioned but unshown mother) look looks nearly identical to human women. That said, it's shown there are female karasutengu who look just like the males serving her --anthropomorphic tiny crows.
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* DaddysGirl: She really loves her dad Minamoto no Yoshitsune and holds him as the standard for a man. She even takes Ataru into the past, so he can learn a thing or two from her dad. Instead Ataru [[TheCorrupter tries to corrupt]] Minamoto.teach Minamoto how to be a playboy]].
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* {{Gonk}}: Only a few one panel Joke Oni have been as monstrous as Lum's father.
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* HenpeckedHusband: He likes to pretend he's the tough and powerful man of the house, but his wife very firmly puts him in his place, even beating him up if he really makes her mad. He even bonds with Ataru because neither of them can win an argument against theirstrong strong-willed YamatoNadeshiko wives.
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* YamatoNadeshiko: Much like her daughter, Lum's mother is beautiful alien wife who is willing to lavish her husband with attentions, but is able to rule her household with iron fist and unwilling to put up with her husband's rudeness.
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* YamatoNadeshiko: Much like her daughter, Lum's mother is a beautiful alien wife woman who is willing to lavish her husband with attentions, affection, but is able to rule her household with an iron fist and unwilling to put up with her husband's rudeness.
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* SecretlySelfish: Ataru accuses him of just trying to have Lum all to himself, calling him an old pervert. The accusation drives Mujaki into a rage.
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A spirit that creates dreams. Unfortunately, most of his pleasant dreams lead to conquest and ruin. Seeking fulfilment before he retires from making dreams for good, [[spoiler:he became smitten with Lum and wants to make her happy.]]
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* AffablyEvil: He is a genuinely affable spirit that takes the form of a short and squat old man. That being said, he does have a temper and Ataru triggers it.
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:He starts out just wanting to give Lum perfect happiness. However, everyone else is roped into her dream as well, and things quickly start to go OffTheRails.]]
* ArcVillain: Of ''Beautiful Dreamer''.
* DreamWeaver: His powers revolve around creating dreams.
* LetsGetDangerous: He's mostly having fun toying with the cast [[spoiler:until Ataru sets him off and he starts using his powers to turn Ataru into even more of a CosmicPlaything than usual.]]
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Sakura calls him out on giving great dictators and warlords inspirational dreams. Mujaki counters that all he gives ''everyone'' pleasant dreams, and it was them and them alone who chose to do horrific things with that inspiration, things that horrified and upset him to the point he wants to retire.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: [[CasanovaWannabe Ataru]] calls him an old pervert after Mujaki claims Ataru doesn't deserve Lum's heart. This absolutely infuriates Mujaki.
* RealityWarper: Like many dream weavers, he has endless power at his disposal in the dream world and makes great use of it.
* TakenForGranite: One of his powers is to turn anyone who opposes him into stone statues. [[spoiler:He uses this ability on Cherry and Ryuunosuke to keep them from disrupting the dream he's running.]]
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: [[spoiler:He admits at the end that attempting to keep up with the cast was exhausting for him and he wouldn't do it again.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifter: [[spoiler:He disguises himself as Ataru, intending to replace him in Lum's dream after he gets frustrated at how callously Ataru treats her.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Zigzagged. She genuinely loves Ten, but she also left him permanently traumatized by telling him horror stories about the horrible punishments she would dole out to arsonists and pyromaniacs. She's completely oblivious to the fact that these stories have left Ten literally too scared to cry since he as a little baby, having thought he ''enjoyed'' them, so her abuse is completely unintentional.
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* AbusiveParents: Zigzagged. She genuinely loves Ten, but she also left him permanently traumatized by telling him horror stories about the horrible punishments she would dole out to arsonists and pyromaniacs. She's completely oblivious to the fact that these stories have left Ten literally too scared to cry since he as was a little baby, having thought he ''enjoyed'' them, so her abuse is completely unintentional.
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Aliens and supernatural beings of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura''.
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!!Aliens
[[folder: Ten]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KazukoSugiyama (JP, original series), Creator/AoiYuuki (JP, ''All-Stars''), Mindi L. Lyons (EN, test dub), Barbara Barnes (EN, BBC gag dub), Shannon Settlemyre (EN, Movies 1, 3-6), Paula Parker (EN, Movie 2), Sarah Hauser (EN, Animax Dub)
Lum's infant cousin. He has a single horn on his head and can breathe fire.
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* AccidentalPervert: Because of the date plan Ataru made for him, Ten coerces Sakura to bring him to see a pornographic film despite her protests. Ten finds the movie so boring that he dozed off while Sakura, Lum, and Ataru remained totally transfixed. Sakura still doesn't blame him because she knows Ten is too young to even understand what porn is.
* AchillesHeel: Ten is scared of his own mother, who is an firefighter and extremely strict towards pyromaniacs (ironically Ten can breath fire and shamelessly uses this to his advantage). He seems to be hiding this ability from her so he wouldn't get into trouble with her.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the 1981 anime adaptation, he's introduced in the second episode. In the manga and 2022 anime, he appears much later.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Though the "adorable" part is merely an act, he's very smart and precocious for someone still in diapers.
* BrattyHalfPint: He loves to act high and mighty, and puts on a façade of innocence ("I'm a good boy" is his CatchPhrase), but in reality he mixes a considerable amount of mischievousness with the same lecherous attitudes as Ataru and Mendo. He loves to stir up trouble to keep himself amused, playfully flirts with every girl he sees, and because he's considered an adorable infant, he can usually rely on women to protect him when he gets into more trouble than his ability to fly and breathe fire can handle. And even when they turn against him, Lum always supports him, to the extent she pays it no mind at all when, say, Ten shows up at Ataru's school and starts randomly biting people to soothe his toothache.
* BreathWeapon: His alien superpower is fire breath.
* CannotKeepASecret: Telling him a secret and the whole Class 2-4 will know it.
* CatchPhrase: "I'm a good boy!"
* TheChewToy: Like Ataru, misfortune seems to visit Ten with considerable frequency.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Aside from constant fights against Ataru and not-so-innocent attraction towards women, Ten causes troubles left and right due to naïve understanding of how the world works, including the consequences of his actions, rather than out of malevolence. When encountering something strange, he usually displays curiosity and observance rather than arrogance. The downside of this is that he's so gullible that even Ataru can fool him. All in all, Ten's character embodies the feeling you have when little kids unknowingly mess with your precious stuffs.
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially snarky towards Ataru.
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Whenever he's around girls -- or, more noticeably, his mother -- Ten tends to be much better behaved.
* DirtyKid: Despite being a toddler, he adores pretty women just as much as Ataru does.
* DisappearedDad: Ten's dad was never mentioned.
* TheFakeCutie: Because of his DeliberatelyCuteChild act, all the women find him adorable and are protective of him. He just uses his cuteness to get close to girls, but when he's around men he shows his true (and bratty) colors.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: While he can be a brat, Ten has a soft spot for animals.
* HopelessSuitor: He has a big crush on Sakura, but she gently turns him down because he's way too young for her and she already has a fiancé.
* IconicSequelCharacter: While he doesn't appear until the 7th volume, he becomes such a prominent character in the manga that he gets an AdaptationalEarlyAppearance in the anime, where he's introduced in the third episode.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He may be a brat, but he's kind of right when he says that Lum deserves better than Ataru.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: He occasionally displays features of Kansai-ben.
* KidAnova: Flirts with every girl he sees. Howewer Ten is still essentially a child and quite naïve; around women he is usually cute and diminutive.
* MeaningfulName: Jari sort of means "brat". So calling him by his full name Jariten is the same thing as calling him "bratty Ten".
* PrecociousCrush: He once had a crush on Sakura as well as the woman who ran the flower shop, Kurama and a few others.
* RaisedByRobots: His mother usually left him in the care of a robotic nanny.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Ten and Ataru utterly despise each other. Their petty rivalry is very much PlayedForLaughs.
* SpoiledBrat: He's not really spoiled by any of his caregivers, but he's definitely bratty enough to count.
* TagalongKid: Obviously much younger than the rest of the cast.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Ten has to beg his mother for her to cuddle him as a mother would do with a little son. Even Ataru, by all people, sympathizes with Ten's family situation.
* WiseBeyondHisYears: Or, at the very least, more intelligent than most toddlers tend to be.
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->Voiced by: Yuuko Mita (JP, original series), Creator/ShizukaIshigami (JP, ''All-Stars'') Natasha Malinsky (EN, movie 1), Satu Rautaharju (EN, movies 3, 5-6)
An alien girl from a race of {{Human Alien}}s based on the Seven Lucky Gods, who name is typically translated as the "Gods of Luck Race/Gang", and Lum's childhood friend. In the anime, she's shown to be the head of a hover-biker gang made up entirely of Lucky God girls like herself, all daughters of Lucky God aliens who are named after the other six members of the actual pantheon (whereas Benten is based on the sole female member of the pantheon); Kuro (Daikokuten), Meguro (Ebisu), Shala (Bishamonten), Roku (Fukurokujin), Kotobuki (Jurojin) and Tei (Hotei).
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* ActionGirl: Benten is a female BadassBiker who stands out in a non-fighting series.
* AdaptationDyeJob: She had black hair in the original anime. On the other hand, the ''All-Stars'' anime gives her dark red hair.
* AncientAstronauts: Her race is based on the Seven Lucky Gods, a miniature pantheon in Shinto based around the difference facets of fortune and prosperity. But whereas the Oni are a fairly straightforward "sci-fi conversion" of their archetype, the Gods of Luck race are instead characterized as violent, warlike thugs and punks.
* BadassBiker: She rides a bike that hovers and can fly through space.
* BifauxnenAndLadette: The lad-ette to Ryuunosuke's bifauxnen. Benten is a macho biker in skimpy clothing in contrast to Ryuunosuke who dresses modestly and has a sense of chivalry in how she treats women with care.
* BloodKnight: She loves to fight.
* BoyishShortHair: Her short hair helps identify her as the tomboy of Lum's alien friends.
* CelibateHeroine: It is unknown by even Lum and Oyuki whether or not she has ever had a boyfriend. However, she's seen supporting Ryuunosuke on her father issues and became excessively flustered when teased that [[HomoeroticSubtext Ryuunosuke might be in love with her]]. She also is unbothered by Ataru's flirtations, and even seems to welcome them, though she's usually far more interested in brawling with Lum whenever she comes to Earth.
* ChainedByFashion: She draps a chain over her shoulder. It's actually her house's key.
* ChainmailBikini: Benten wears a red skimpy metal bikini, arm protector, and boots.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Lum and Oyuki. They went to elementary school together and Benten is Lum's most loyal friend in the galaxy. Subverted with Ran; they know each other through Lum, but they dislike each other.
* ContraltoOfDanger: In the anime, she is given a much deeper tone of voice than most of the girls, to emphasize her stats as the tough, aggressive, macho member of Lum's girl-gang.
* FashionableAsymmetry: She wears a shoulderpad on just one shoulder, simply because it makes her look cool. In her intro in the manga, she wears a full-fledged sleeve-like piece of armor on just one arm.
* FieryRedhead: The ''All-Stars'' anime makes her a redhead to emphasize her HotBlooded personality.
* FireForgedFriends: When they first meet, Benten and Ryuunosuke don't get along; Benten just thinks "he" is another boy to pick a fight with, whilst Ryuunosuke is offended by Benten's macho behavior, which flies in the face of how the {{bifauxnen}} believes girls should act. It goes so far that they get into a fight over which of them is more ladylike; fortunately, this ends in them having to team up to fend off Tomobiki's horny male students, and the fighting engenders a mutual friendship.
* {{Foil}}: Ryuunosuke and Benten make a very interesting contrast to each other. Both are super-macho girls with SuperStrength, pronounced fighting skills, and an aggressive temperament. However, Benten has absolutely no doubts about her womanhood, which is emphasized by how she competes with Lum for the the title of "skimpiest dressed girl in the series", and her masculine tastes are just part of who she is. This contrasts the [[{{bifauxnen}} crossdressing]], self-loathing Ryuunosuke, whose macho persona was ''literally'' beaten into her by her father.
* HotBlooded: She is very strong-willed and her mood is usually either laid-back or violent.
* HumanAlien: Easily the most human-looking of the aliens -- no horns, fangs, pointy ears, or shiny hair.
* ItWasAGift: In the Spice Girl Gang's intro story, Benten is very determined to recover her stolen chain, causing Lum and Oyuki to speculate it was given to her by a guy who liked her. Then it's {{subverted|trope}} when Benten does recover the chain and reveals it's just the key to her house.
* JapaneseDelinquents: {{Downplayed}}. She deliberately invokes a number of "Biker Gang Girl" tropes common to Japanese manga of the time, mostly in her costume; that said, while she's tomboyish and rather ungraceful, she doesn't seem to be guilty of delinquency.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although she can be impulsive, unpredictable, and has a really short fuse, Benten's a really good friend to have.
* TheLadette: She's the most boyish and masculine-acting of Lum's circle of alien friends.
* MeaningfulName: She is named after Shichifukujin Benzaiten (one of the Seven Lucky Gods), the Shinto goddess of knowledge, art, and beauty. In her case, it's ironic, since she's the ''least'' feminine member of the three main alien girls.
* RedIsViolent: Her theme color is red and she's the most battle-loving of Lum's friends.
* RedOniBlueOni: The hotheaded and passionate red to Oyuki's chilly and stoic blue. She also once served as the blue to Ran's red.
* SmallGirlBigGun: She can uses her bazooka, machine gun and explosives to cause massive destruction.
* {{Stripperific}}: Her skimpy, body-flaunting mode of dress wouldn't be suitable for battle in a more realistic setting.
* SuperStrength: Not as much as Shinobu, but she's shown to be quite powerful.
* TomboyishVoice: In the anime, she is given the standard "Tomboy" husky vocal tones, which perfectly fits her attitude.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Downplayed. Whilst Benten ''is'' a battle-loving hoverbiking punk girl, she does express some feminine traits. In the "Woman vs. Woman Showdown" arc, she appears to be quite pleased when Mr. Fujinami claims that Ryuunosuke is a boy with a crush on her. She is subsequently shown moodily reflecting on how nobody has ever told her that she needs to act more like a lady before, then studies her reflection in the mirror, noting to herself that she ''is'' an attractive girl and practicing a traditionally feminine gesture of smiling behind her hand. She gets very embarrassed when Lum stumbles across her doing this, and is so flustered she proceeds to break several things in Lum's UFO. When she discovers that Ryuunosuke is actually a girl, she's very offended that the crossdressing brawler would lecture ''her'' about acting more feminine.
* TownGirls: The tomboyish, bad-mouthed and violent Butch to Lum's Neither and Oyuki's Femme.
* UglyGuysHotDaughter: Implied. In the Oniboshi Setsubun Festival story where she is introduced, Benten is, like Lum, the only beautiful young girl amidst a mass of ugly, scarred, macho thugs. Also applies to her anime-only gang.
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[[folder: Oyuki]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/NorikoOhara (JP, original series), Creator/SaoriHayami (JP, ''All-Stars''), Jaime Phelps (EN, movies)
Lum's other childhood friend and the Queen of Neptune, which in the series is a frozen, snowy planet populated entirely by women, as most of the men have to go off-planet to find work.
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* AccompliceByInaction: In her school days, Oyuki never joined Benten and Lum when they bullied or picked fights with other students, but she acted like a disinterested bystander through all of her friends' mischief. As a result, she got labeled as a delinquent too, much to her dismay.
* AdaptationDyeJob: She has sky blue hair in the 1981 anime, while the 2008 OVA and ''All-Stars'' anime give her bluish white hair to make it look like ice. Likewise, the leotard under her kimono is orange in 1981 anime, but light blue in the ''All-Stars'' anime.
* AdaptationalJerkass: The 2022 anime gives Oyuki a strong mean streak. While her original introduction story has Ataru trying to force himself on ''her'', the ''All-Stars'' version shows her willingly throwing herself at Ataru the first time she gets him to be alone with her (despite being one of Lum's best and oldest friends) and even admits she only did it to "wrap him around her finger". In a later episode, she freezes Mendo's grandfather for not giving her the New Year's money he promised her, despite being a queen with no need for further riches.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's usually gentle and is ''very'' rare to see her angry, but Ran has very good reason to be completely traumatized by the first time she saw Oyuki get angry when they were kids.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Lum and Benten. They went to elementary school together. As with Benten, she's known Ran for just as long, but she doesn't like her.
* CovertPervert: In her intro chapter, Ataru pushes Oyuki onto the bed, only to be interrupted by Oyuki's yeti servant B-Bo. Despite her demure behavior, Oyuki looks mildly disappointed that Ataru got chased away from her before things got hot and steamy.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has a great ironic wit, although it's hard to tell when she's joking.
* ElementalHairColors: Icy blue hair for the ice woman.
* ElementalHairComposition: Her hair appears to be literally made of ice. Although, the 1981 anime made it look more like normal hair, possibly to make it easier to animate back then.
* ElementalPersonalities: As expected of AnIcePerson, Oyuki is unemotional and tranquil.
* EmotionlessGirl: She never shows strong emotions and remains the picture of demureness under any circumstance.
* TheHighQueen: The very placid and graceful Queen of Neptune.
* HimeCut: She's a YamatoNadeshiko, wears a kimono and is royalty. To give her a suitable hairstyle, she has blunt bangs, cheek-length sidelocks, and long hair worn in a ponytail.
* HumanAlien: If not for her hair (and ice powers), one could easily mistake her as human.
* HypocriticalHumor: Back in middle school, Oyuki chastised Benten for stealing other student's lunch, all while she also ate from said stolen lunch.
* AnIcePerson: Occasionally freezing everything around her in a huge block of ice.
* KidWithTheLeash: She's the only person capable of making Ran behave, as Ran is ''terrified'' of her (she has ''seen'' what she can do, after all).
* KimonoIsTraditional: She's a {{Yukionna}} and YamatoNadeshiko who is often dressed in a white kimono.
* MeaningfulName: Oyuki means "honourable snow".
* NavelDeepNeckline: The casual red swimsuit type outfit she wears when not sporting a UsefulNotes/{{Kimono}} is open in the middle, exposing her navel and cleavage.
* RedOniBlueOni: The chilly and stoic blue to Benten's hotheaded and passionate red.
* SilkHidingSteel: She's a very demure and polite lady, but she's quite possibly the most powerful character in the series and making her angry can leave anyone traumatized for a lifetime.
* TheStoic: Oyuki does have emotions like everyone else but her expression never changes much.
* TheTease: In her introduction story, Oyuki undresses in front of Ataru to show off her skimpy leotard before inviting him into her bedroom. The 2022 anime takes it even further, as Oyuki wraps her arms around Ataru's neck and leads him to lay on top on her in bed.
* TownGirls: The calm, demure and feminine Femme to Lum's Neither and Benten's Butch.
* TranquilFury: On the rare occasions where Oyuki does get mad, she doesn't appear to be angry on the surface, but she gets a serious look on her face as the temperature surrounding her starts to drop drastically. Suddenly, her ice powers go absolutely haywire. Ice, wind and snow rage causing unparalleled carnage and sealing any unfortunate passers-by in a block of ice or skewering them on huge icicles.
* WinterRoyalLady: Oyuki is a {{Yukionna}} queen who rules over the snow planet Neptune. As for her name, Yuki means snow and the O as a prefix is an honorific character which is one way of adding a level of politeness when referring to a certain word.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Calm, feminine and graceful, wears a kimono, and is highly cunning and calculative.
* {{Yukionna}}: She is a TropeCodifier in modern Japanese depictions of the yo-kai. Due to Oyuki's popularity, many modern depictions of yuki-onna have them with crowns on their head.
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[[folder: Ran]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/YouInoue (JP, 1st half of original series), Kazue Komiya (JP, 2nd half of original series + [=OVAs=]), Creator/KanaHanazawa (JP, ''All-Stars''), Morgan Jarrett (EN, movies), Andrea Kwan (EN, Animax Dub)
Lum's "best" childhood friend. She appears to be a sweet and lovely redhead, but in actuality has a violent, evil side. She is a succubus who has the ability to suck the vitality out of a person through kissing them on the lips.
As a child, Ran was often hurt or got into trouble because of the antics of the more carefree and irresponsible Lum. Also, she is madly in love with Lum's ex-boyfriend Rei (who still likes Lum, much to both girls' horror). As a result, she hates Lum and often wants to take revenge on her.
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* AccentSlipUp: Whenever she drops the {{Kawaiiko}} act, she slips into KansaiRegionalAccent since that's the dialect used by aliens from Lum's planet.
* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: When not in a frilly dress, she often wears midriff-baring bikinis, and she's a succubus who poses as a sweet and nice girl.
* BeastAndBeauty: She loves Rei's beast form just as much as his handsome human form.
* BecomingTheMask: She desperately tries to do this with her {{kawaiiko}} persona, with rather dubious success.
* BerserkButton: She'll deliver DisproportionateRetribution to anyone who steals Rei from her. Or does something that makes her ''think'' they're getting in the way of her relationship with Rei. Also, Lum's mere presence usually is enough to send her into psycho mode.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Downplayed. She has a slightly thicker build than any of the other mainstay alien girls. In the 1980s anime, this modest bulk would harden into outright muscle when she was angered whilst in her more revealing outfits or in a state of undress.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: On the outside, she's a cute redhead who likes frilly clothing, baking, and flirting with Ataru. In reality, she's an embittered childhood rival of Lum who is out for some very violent revenge on the girl for a lot of things that aren't entirely Lum's fault.
* ButtMonkey: She's the most prone to slapstick of any of the female cast. As a child, she was always punished for Lum's mistakes and misdeeds [[CassandraTruth (even when Lum owned up to them)]]. Plus, Rei chose Lum over her [[FelonyMisdemeanor (and then Lum dumped him)]]. And her revenge plots always fail.
* CatchPhrase: "Ran-chan is sooo happy!"
* ChainmailBikini: If she's not in a school uniform or a cutesy dress, she'll be wearing a silver bikini.
* ChildhoodFriends: Lum ''thinks'' Ran is one of her childhood friends, but the feeling isn't mutual because all Lum ever did was getting Ran in trouble with her mother and letting Ran get all the punishment.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She absolutely won't forgive anyone who "steals" Rei away from her.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She is a bit spacey and unstable, to say the least.
* ContraltoOfDanger: Ran usually speaks in a cutesy voice, but it abruptly changes to a deep gruff voice when the nastier side of her personality comes out.
* CuteAndPsycho: She is the poster child for (and likely the inspiration for all other) characters of the type, at least in anime. Ran normally acts with a sweet façade before flipping out with her true violent and malevolent personality.
* TheDreaded: {{Downplayed}} in that this really just applies to Lum, but as the series progresses, the oni becomes more and more likely to break out into a cold sweat when Ran is around, and ''especially'' if Ran's ''looking'' for her.
* DrivenByEnvy: Ever since childhood, everyone around Ran has favored Lum over her. Lum was everyone's perfect child, causing Ran to end up ignored by most, even cruelly punished by her own mother because she couldn't match Lum's perceived perfection. The final straw was Ran's crush choosing Lum as his girlfriend. Ran has sworn to steal Ataru from Lum and suck the life out of him to get back at Lum for getting all the positive attention Ran wanted for herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Lum may get annoyed, but eventually ends up always forgiving Ran despite all her revenge plots and is still hanging out with her later in the series.
* EnemyMine: In [[TheMovie Movie 1]], Elle learns the hard way that you do ''not'' steal a girl's boyfriend from her when said girl's rival was planning to use him to torment her. Needless to say, Ran assists Lum in rescuing Ataru from the planned shotgun wedding.
* EvilRedhead: She has dark pink hair and is a vengeful BitchInSheepsClothing.
* ExpositoryPronoun: When she's acting like a {{Kawaiiko}}, she either uses the feminine first-person pronoun "atashi" or [[ThirdPersonPerson refers to herself in the third person]] to seem cuter, but when her true self comes out, she switches to "washi" -- a form of "I" stereotypically used by old people in Japan.
* ExtremeDoormat: As a child, Ran got constantly dragged around by Lum and sometimes Benten as they forced her to participate in their mischief, often to Ran's detriment.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Ran seems like an adorable {{Kawaiiko}} with fluffy pink hair, but she's obsessed with getting revenge on Lum and will use any devious means available for that goal.
* TheFakeCutie: She deliberately styles herself as a sugary sweet {{Kawaiiko}}, but her real personality is anything but innocent.
* FieryRedhead: She has red hair and tries to act like a sweet-natured, domestic girl, but she's actually quite violent and quick to anger.
* FreudianExcuse: She grew up with a very strict, abusive mother who punished her when ''Lum'' did something bad and let Ran get blamed for it. No wonder she's [[CuteAndPsycho so messed up]] and hates Lum so much.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Lum genuinely likes Ran, and is willing to ignore Ran's one-sided vendetta because of that friendship. Despite the fact that they've known her just as long, neither Oyuki nor Benten like Ran, and they make it clear that they're watching her when they interact with each other.
* GameFace: Ran seems perfectly human most of the time... until she gets mad. Then her hair puffs out and her fangs are more pronounced.
* GreenEyedMonster: She feels Lum "stole" Rei from her, even though Lum now hates Rei and already broke up with him, and seeks to get revenge by planting her KissOfDeath on Lum's current "fiancé".
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much from Lum, even unintentionally (which is most of the time) to set Ran off.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: When she was a child, she was usually violently punished by her mother which could have traumatized Ran to develop her split personalities. This is PlayedForLaughs, of course.
* HopelessSuitor: She's hopelessly in love with Rei even though he chose Lum over her ''and'' still wants to get back together with Lum after their breakup. However, he eventually begins to cling to Ran, mostly because [[ThroughHisStomach she keeps feeding him]].
* HumanAlien: Except for the CuteLittleFangs (and red hair), she appears to be a normal human.
* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: She still sees Lum as a love rival, accusing her of planning to "steal" Rei from her again even though Lum repeatedly makes clear she wants nothing to do with Rei anymore.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Lum mostly sees Ran as a nuisance for her attempts at using her KissOfDeath on Ataru and Ran's schemes fail so miserably that it's impossible to take her seriously as an antagonist.
* {{Kawaiiko}}: The surficial part of her personality is the definition of "cutesy".
* KissOfDeath: Ran has the power to suck the youth from someone by kissing them. She tries to use the power on an unsuspecting Ataru, who had just downed a vitality elixir two minutes earlier (so the effects cancelled out), so he just assumed she likes him. She can also reverse the process with another kiss.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Oyuki quietly-yet-sternly tells Ran to stop fighting, Ran immediately stands down. She's ''seen'' what Oyuki can do, after all.
* MadBomber: When her BerserkButton gets hit, one of her favored methods of retaliation is to either unleash robotic dolls in her likeness that explode upon reaching their target, tossing hammer grenades, or just throw subtlety out the window and haul out a rocket launcher.
* MeaningfulName: Ran has two meanings, both of which are suited to her warped personality. One meaning can be taken as "orchid", the other as "civil war".
* {{Miko}}: She works part-time as a miko at Sakura's shrine.
* {{Misblamed}}: She is both guilty and a victim of this. Her mother was so strict that she deemed even the smallest and innocent of mistakes worthy of a severe spanking and tended to focus on Ran's mistakes. This caused her to paint the image in her mind that Ran was a bad kid which made it easy for her to blame (and then punish) Ran whenever something bad happened (though usually it was Lum's fault). Ran in turn blames all these instances solely on Lum disregarding that her mom was the true aggressor.
* MoodSwinger: The two sides of her personality constantly compete for dominance. Because of that, she switches from psycho-bitch to airhead and vice-versa rather suddenly and frequently.
* MythicalMotifs: Ran's large fangs, succubus-like style, and VampiricDraining ability are all reminiscent of a vampire, even if she's never actually called one.
* NeverMyFault: Even with the FreudianExcuse, a lot of the misfortune that befalls her is just karma due to her selfishness and irresponsibility. She always blames Lum, Benten and Oyuki for it.
* NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice: Ran is a very feminine girl who [[PinkMeansFeminine wears pink dresses]] and [[FeminineWomenCanCook is an excellent cook]]. She's also [[CuteAndPsycho bipolar]] as hell and constantly plotting to get revenge on Lum.
* PetTheDog: In "My Darling's Peril", Ran's about to let Lum have it for interrupting her date with Rei, but then sees Lum weeping over Ataru's (presumed) death, and gently tries to reassure her that everything's all right.
* PettyChildhoodGrudge: Even as teenagers, Ran still holds a grudge against Lum for wetting the bed and lying about it so Ran would be punished instead of her. She's also bitter about young Lum forcing her to buy her an ice cream for losing a race from a monster even though Ran got injured because Lum let her crash against a cliff.
* PsychoPink: Ran is a CuteAndPsycho girl who has dark pink hair and usually wears pink dresses.
* RejectionAffection: Rei completely ignores Ran's existence whenever food and/or Lum are around, but Ran still loves him and is happy with him just eating food she made for him even if he doesn't pay attention to her.
* TheResenter: While she has a lot of grudge towards Lum, what has her so bitter and resentful is that Rei chose Lum as his girlfriend instead of her. Even though Lum already broke up with Rei and wants nothing to do with him anymore, Ran still hasn't forgiven her for dating Rei.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Her {{kawaiiko}} persona fits the sweet and romantic variety, but she's actually the BitchInSheepsClothing variant.
* TheScapegoat: In their childhood, Lum let Ran get blamed for her misdeeds, even in her own home, and poor Ran was always punished by her mother for what Lum did.
* SelfProclaimedLoveInterest: She blissfully thinks Rei goes on "dates" with her because he likes her, but he only really likes eating her homemade lunch and kisses her just to taste the food left in her face. When Ran isn't feeding him, Rei goes back to completely ignoring her in favor of Lum.
* SingleTargetSexuality: She's madly in love with Rei and no-one else.
* SmallGirlBigGun: When she gets ahold of Benten's missile launcher. She's later seen hauling out bazookas of her own for combat.
* SupremeChef: She is a superb cook and is often cooking special dishes for Rei, whom she frequently dates.
* ThirdPersonPerson: She often refers to herself in third person as part of her {{Kawaiiko}} persona.
* ThroughHisStomach: The only way she can get Rei's attention is by cooking for him since food is the one thing he likes more than Lum. They kinda start dating thanks to this, although Rei still seems more interested in the food than Ran herself (not that she minds as long as he hangs out with her). It's even compared to raising a pet in the manga's omake.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Eventually, Rei starts hanging around her quite a bit, if only because of her good cooking. However, he's actively put her safety ahead of the food, as seen in the climax of "Lover Thief."
* TokenEvilTeammate: Out of Lum's friends, she's the only who has devious and malicious intentions to the point of often being a FalseFriend to the others, especially Lum.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: In the childhood flashbacks with Lum, Ran was an innocent, well-behaved little girl. After she repeatedly got punished because of Lum's irresponsible behavior ''and'' her crush chose Lum over her, Ran grew up into a BitchInSheepsClothing whose only goal is taking revenge on Lum.
* VampiricDraining: She has ability to literally suck the life from others.
* VillainDecay: Ran gradually moves from being the closest thing the series has to a villain to an occasional nuisance and TokenEvilTeammate.
* VitriolicBestBuds: By the later chapters of the manga, Ran and Lum have this dynamic. She gets triggered into psycho mode quite a bit, but she's not out for revenge as badly as she was in her introduction.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Since they were children, she's absolutely ''terrified'' of Oyuki, having been present (and apparently barely surviving) a moment of her wrath at someone else.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Despite Lum viewing Ran as a friend, Ran hates her and is out for revenge for all the times Lum inadvertedly made her suffer.
* {{Yandere}}: She's hell-bent on keeping other girls away from Rei, especially Lum. This is fine by Lum, who would rather Rei stay away from her, though Ran seems willfully ignorant of this dynamic.
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[[folder: Rei]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/TesshoGenda (JP, original series), Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi (JP, ''All-Stars''), Jeremy Griffin (EN, movies)
Lum's ex-boyfriend. Rei is a very handsome Oni, to the point that most girls fall for him just by seeing his face. However, he regularly shapeshifts into an ''ushitora'' -- a huge goofy-looking cross between a tiger and a bull. He speaks almost no Japanese because what little intelligence he has is channeled into eating or looking for things to eat. Lum dumped him some time before the start of the series because she got tired of his stupidity, but he followed her to Earth to try and get her back. Ran is madly in love with him and plies him with her cooking in hopes of getting his affection.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Lum. Rei looks handsome in his humanoid form, but he often changes into an ''ushitora'', which is one of the reasons why Lum broke up with him.
* BigEater: He's a non-stop eating machine who is hardly ever seen not stuffing his face, or looking for eats.
* BrainlessBeauty: He can woo any human woman, regardless of her age, with his beauty, but he's also dumb as a post.
* CatchPhrase: "Lum!" and "Food!" are the main words that come out of his mouth. "Ran!" starts coming up later, though.
* ChickMagnet: Rei breaks up loving couples just by walking past them, and causes squees whenever anything of the female gender sees him. His being dumb as a plank and loving only food does nothing to dissuade the girls... except Lum.
* TheDitz: He's ''incredibly'' stupid, and he largely uses what little intelligence he has for eating and looking for things to eat. He's so stupid that the only reasons he's TheQuietOne are because his Japanese isn't very good, and also because he can only say one word at a time.
* DubNameChange: Changed to Raymond in the BBC GagDub
* EatingContest: He actually loses one against Ataru (Rei did manage to barely out-eat Ataru in a sweet potato eating contest, but the effort caused him to lose control of his shape-shifting and collapse while Ataru was still somewhat okay).
* FlatCharacter: He has not a whit of personality.
* HiddenDepths: Despite being a FlatCharacter, there's hints of ''some'' complex thought in there somewhere. In the two-part story "Lover Thief", Rei's first instinct when he sees Ran falling alongside the platter of snacks she made is to save ''her'' rather than grab the food. Yes, he goes after the food next, but only when Ran's safe. Furthermore, when we get a glimpse of Rei's subconscious at the end of the anime adaptation of this story, we see multiple images of Lum... and one of Ran, sitting right next to Rei.
* HopelessSuitor: Lum can't stand Rei, but he still pursues her, which is honestly kind of pathetic to watch.
* HumanAlien: He looks just like a handsome, green-haired human man... unless he transforms.
* LanguageBarrier: Unlike other aliens, Rei doesn't speak Japanese fluently and rarely says full sentences.
* MeaningfulName: Rei means "zero". This is a good approximation of his IQ. [[FlatCharacter Or his "deep" personality.]]
* MoralityPet: [[BitchInSheepsClothing Ran]] is only ever genuinely nice and sweet to Rei because she has a huge crush on him. The few times when she isn't trying to get revenge on Lum is when Rei is around since she completely focuses on feeding him.
* NeverGetsFat: All he ever does is eat large amounts of food, but his human form never gains weight and keeps a good figure.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Most displays of romantic affection from him are actually his pursuit of food -- one time, he kissed Ran because she ''had bean paste on her lips'' that he was trying to snag.
* ObsessedWithFood: He doesn't care about ''anything else'' other than food. Though, as we see in "Lover Thief", Ran and Lum may be equal to it in what passes for his mind.
* PlatonicKissing: He [[IKissYourHand kisses Ataru's mother's hand]] in his introduction. Later on, he kisses Ran on the cheek and the lips. The girls take it as a romantic gesture, but Rei is just tasting food crumbs left in their bodies.
* TheQuietOne: He's not very talkative because he doesn't know how to speak Japanese and even if he did speak the language, he's too ''dense'' to be eloquent.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: He's Lum's ex-boyfriend and Ran's love interest. Other than that, he's just a BigEater and not much else.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Lum is the only girl (or person) he has ever shown interest in, otherwise he only cares about food. He's probably too stupid to realize she hates him. Still, he hangs around Ran willingly enough, if only because she prepares a lot of delicious treats for him.
* TheStoic: In his human form, his expression is always dull and only smiles when eating. Not so much when he gets excited and turns into a monster.
* TerseTalker: Rei doesn't speak much. Whenever he does, he is only capable of uttering one word at a time. This is mostly because [[LanguageBarrier Rei doesn't know how to speak Japanese]], but also because he's just so incredibly ''stupid.''
* ThroughHisStomach: He reveres anyone who brings him food... or whatever can even be ''considered'' food. He dates Ran pretty much because she keeps feeding him, and Rei just learns through conditioning that Ran=food. It's been compared to keeping a pet.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can transform himself into an ''ushitora'' -– a big demonic bull-tiger hybrid –- whenever he's excited or angry.
* WastedBeauty: It's been stated that looks are all he has going for him. Lum dumped him because he's stupid, often cares more about food than her, and tends to transform into a tiger-bull monster. Ran seems to be the only girl who still seriously wants Rei despite his many faults.
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[[folder: Princess Kurama]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/RihokoYoshida (JP, original series), Creator/NanaMizuki (JP, ''All-Stars''), Daisy Talley (EN, movie 1), Stacey Jefferson (EN, BBC gag dub)
The "Crow Princess". A humanoid female from an alien race of crow {{tengu}}, her culture's laws state that she must mate with the man who awakens her from slumber with a kiss. Unfortunately for her, that person turns out to be Ataru. While she has no desire to mate with him, she initially tries to turn the perverted lech into someone worthy of her... but gave up once it became obvious that reforming him is impossible, and subsequently runs in the opposite direction whenever he shows up. She has the ability to create powerful gusts of wind with her multi-use giant leaf.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Not that she wasn't already pretty, however, many fans have noted that the adjustment to her look in ''All-Stars'', such as her more natural lip color and brighter eyes, have made her even more attractive in that version.
* AdaptationDyeJob: The "wings" in her hair are green in the original anime and purple in the ''All-Stars'' anime remake.
* AlienPrincess: She's the princess of an alien {{Tengu}} species.
* AnimeHair: Her hairstyle resembles a pair of crow wings.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Males of her people look like bipedal crows that are a few inches tall and have beards when they're older. Kurama (and at least other royal females such as her mentioned but unshown mother) look nearly identical to human women.
* BlowYouAway: She has the ability to create powerful gusts of wind with her multi-use giant leaf.
* CombatHandFan: Her weapon is a giant leaf that she uses as a hand fan.
* DaddysGirl: She really loves her dad Minamoto no Yoshitsune and holds him as the standard for a man. She even takes Ataru into the past, so he can learn a thing or two from her dad. Instead Ataru [[TheCorrupter tries to corrupt]] Minamoto.
* DressedLikeADominatrix: Her outfit consists of a black leather leotard with NavelDeepNeckline, a long black latex glove on her left arm, a choker on her neck and high-heeled boots.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: She was going through with a tradition where she put herself in suspended animation till a prospective mate woke her up by kissing her.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In early chapters, Kurama wears a lace up bustier with a yellow sash around her waist, a spiked collar, and long boots. In later chapters, her outfit changed to a skimpy leotard, with no sash, a non-spiked collar, and shorter boots. The 2022 anime uses her second outfit from the get-go.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Kurama draws the line at forcibly chaging someone's gender, and was ''not'' amused when she discovered Ryunosuke was a girl and the Karasutengu were trying to turn her into a boy.
* FashionableAsymmetry: In the manga, Kurama wears an opera glove on her left arm and only wears a bracelet on her right arm. This was brought back for her design in the 2022 remake as well.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Her mother was an alien tengu, while her father was Minamoto no Yoshitsune, a famous Japanese warrior.
* HumanAlien: The only visibly alien traits about her are the little crow wings on her head, which could just be an elaborate hairstyle, and her PointyEars.
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: She tries to reform Ataru -- indeed, she puts a great deal of effort into it, while fighting off both Lum and Shinobu -- but eventually gives up once she realizes that Ataru's set in his ways.
* {{Jerkass}}: She's usually a mean person towards others; particularly if they try to interfere with her attempts to land a worthy man. This includes Ran, who was ''dating'' Rei when Kurama tried to seduce him.
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Every potential mate is a failure. Ataru is a pervert, Mendo turns out to be too pathetic and cowardly, Ryuunosuke isn't really a man like she thought, and Rei seems like the one until she sees he is really an idiotic tiger-cow.
* LoveAtFirstSight: The first time she sees Mendou, she immediately deems him her ideal man and is eager to marry him instead of Ataru. Her infatuation only lasts until she finds out about Mendou's fear of the dark.
* MsFanservice: She wears a skimpy outfit, has several bath scenes and in one occasion her breasts are visible when one of her tengu remove her bodice.
* NavelDeepNeckline: Her bodice (and later, leotard) has a neckline that plunges down to her stomach.
* PetTheDog: When Ten got caught up in her vortex, she was quick to scoop him up and cradle him gently until he regained consciousness. She was also quite patient when he tried to hit on her, compared to her treatment of the similarly presumptuous Ataru.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She has a youthful appearance, but her father was Minamoto no Yoshitsune, a famous warrior and one of Japan's greatest heroes, who lived in the 12th century.
* RoyalBrat: A princess with a rude and unpleasant attitude. The only reason she even tried to reform Ataru in the first place (aside from her culture's law) is because Lum dragged him away from their first meeting, prompting this:
-->'''Kurama:''' What is it about other people's things that makes me want them?
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Her leotard is backless, leaving her back bare.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Kurama has an outfit well established in all the episodes in which she appears, composed of a bodice black / blue laced on the breasts with a yellow bow, boots, several bracelets and a black collar. In the manga, she later swaps it out for a leotard with an ImpossiblyLowNeckline.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Her retainers are notably lazy and incompetent, with the exception of her advisor.
* {{Tengu}}: She is a CuteMonsterGirl version of the Tengu (though she trades the long nose for little crow wings on her head and is thusly BirdPeople). She's also served by more traditional Karasu Tengu (which are runty little humanoid crows).
* VaporWear: Her leotard is strapless and backless, with a NavelDeepNeckline exposing her cleavage and making clear she doesn't wear a bra.
* WeaksauceWeakness: As a side-effect of spending so long in cryo-sleep, she gets sleepy whenever she's cold.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Ryuunosuke turns out to be a girl, she vanishes from the series and never returns.
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[[folder: Lum's parents]]
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->Lum's father is voiced by: Ritsuo Sawa (JP, original series), Creator/RikiyaKoyama (JP, ''All-Stars''), David Krause (EN, test dub), Anthony Lawson (EN, movies), Rob Mungle (EN, ''All-Stars '')
->Lum's mother is voiced by: Reiko Yamada (JP, original series), Creator/FumiHirano (JP, ''All-Stars''), Kristen Foster (EN, movies)
Lum's father is a huge, pudgy oni, and tends to be loud and scary. However, he is just as afraid of his wife as Ataru is of Lum. Lum's mother is a pretty woman who can only speak in the oni language.
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!!Both
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Lum's dad towers over most of the cast, while her mother is much closer in height to them.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Lum's father is stout and rather brutish-looking. On the other hand, Lum got her MsFanservice looks from her mother.
* {{Unnamed Parent}}s: We don't get a name for either of them.
!!Lum's father
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* BigEater: He got so big due to eating so much of his wife's food. The second opening for ''All Stars'' even shows him happily gorging on sweet potatoes with Rei in his "Tiger-Bull" form, matching his boundless appetite.
* BigFun: He's a large and overweight man who is very affable and lovable even when he's threatening to invade Earth.
* BigOlEyebrows: He has possibly the thickest eyebrows out of the cast.
* FormerlyFit: He gained ''a lot'' of weight because his wife stuffed him up with her cooking.
* {{Gonk}}: Only a few one panel Joke Oni have been as monstrous as Lum's father.
* HenpeckedHusband: He bonds with Ataru because neither of them can win an argument against their strong YamatoNadeshiko wives.
* IWasQuiteALooker: He used to be handsome and thin. Decades of being spoiled by his wife left him {{gonk}}y and grossly fat.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: Like Ten, Lum's father speaks in the Kansai dialect.
* TheUnapologetic: One time, Lum's father eats his wife's meal after he finishes his. Then ''he'' demands that she apologize when she kicks him out to put him in his place.
!!Lum's mother
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* InTheBlood: Like her daughter, she's an affectionate, dutiful and loving wife not above disciplining her husband when he steps out of the line, managing to get him fear her anger.
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Lum sometimes translates when her mom is present, but she must be doing something very wrong. In one example, Mendo's mother challenges Lum's mom to a duel. When Lum relays this, her mom begs Mendo's mom to reconsider, since they're both women... and besides, she's already married!
* SdrawkcabSpeech: In the 2022 anime, her lines are just Fumi Hirano's lines backwards, and the Japanese broadcast even has an additional track [[https://twitter.com/naonao3naonao3/status/1603490563525087232 where her lines aren't backwards]].
* StarfishLanguage: She does not speak any Earth language, with strange characters and symbols being used in the manga whenever she's speaking.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She strongly resembles her daughter except with her hair cut short.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Much like her daughter, Lum's mother is beautiful alien wife who is willing to lavish her husband with attentions, but is able to rule her household with iron fist and unwilling to put up with her husband's rudeness.
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[[folder: Ten's mother]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KeikoYokozawa
A firefighter who takes great pride in her work. When Ten was living with her, she would tell him stories of her work in the field, expressing her contempt for arsonists and pyromaniacs, who she feels should be sent straight to Hell. She is very busy and would leave him with a robotic nanny, which has contributed to his precociousness. Since her son breathes fire and (ab)uses his power liberally, he lives in terror of what will happen should she ever find out. She loves Ten very much, despite the rareness of her being able to visit him.
She is based on [[https://www.artelino.com/articles/edo_firemen.asp the firemen of Edo Japan]].
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* AbusiveParents: Zigzagged. She genuinely loves Ten, but she also left him permanently traumatized by telling him horror stories about the horrible punishments she would dole out to arsonists and pyromaniacs. She's completely oblivious to the fact that these stories have left Ten literally too scared to cry since he as a little baby, having thought he ''enjoyed'' them, so her abuse is completely unintentional.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: She casually pets Ten's head when asking him if he has been a "good boy"
* BerserkButton: Arsonists and pyromaniacs. When Ten was living with her, she would tell him stories about the horrific punishments she and her colleagues would inflict on any arsonists that they caught. Considering Ten's own fire-related shenanigans, he understandably is ''utterly terrified'' of his mother finding out about the things he has done.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: When she introduces herself to Ataru, she is perfectly pleasant, polite and nice, even taking Ataru's attempts to hit on her in stride. It's only when the topic of arsonists and pyromaniacs comes up does the temperature drop, showing why Ten is so afraid of his mother finding out about his own fire-related antics.
* BloodKnight: She enjoys fighting fires and arsonists with equal gusto.
* CatchPhrase: "FIRE!!"
* DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild: She doesn't know Ten is a fire-breathing BrattyHalfPint because Ten is ''terrified'' of what his mother might do to him if she knew his true self and pretends to be well-behaved whenever she's around.
* InHarmsWay: It's implied that she feels the most comfortable when fighting fires -- the bigger, the better.
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Her gung-ho attitude towards punishing people who set fires leaves Ten terrified. She doesn't seem to be aware of his fire-breathing tendencies around Ataru.
* ParentsAsPeople: She's so devoted to her job that a robotic nanny and Lum raised Ten in her place, but regrets not being able to spend more time with her son.
* UnnamedParent: Like Lum's mother and father (and Ataru's), we never get a name for her.
* {{Workaholic}}: She constantly carries around her firefighting equipment.
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[[folder: The Spice Girl Gang]]
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->Sugar is voiced by: Creator/{{TARAKO}} (JP, original series), Creator/MisakiKuno (JP, ''All-Stars'')
->Ginger is voiced by: Creator/ChikaSakamoto (JP, original series), Creator/ChitoseMorinaga (JP, ''All-Stars'')
->Pepper is voiced by: Rumiko Ukai (JP, original series), Creator/RieTakahashi (JP, ''All-Stars'')
Sugar, Ginger and Pepper. A trio of teenage girls who currently attend the same junior high school that Lum, Benten, and Oyuki did. Due to their seniors' reputation for causing mischief, the Gang of Three seeks to outdo their predecessors by defeating them in combat, but most of the time, they resort to simple pranks and underhanded schemes.
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!!In General
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, Sugar's hair is pink and Ginger's hair is black. In the 1981 anime, their hair colors were changed to black and blonde respectively. However, later anime adaptations make Sugar's hair pink like in the manga. Meanwhile, Ginger's hair is blonde in the 2008 OVA and black with a dark green tint in the 2022 anime.
* BigBadWannabe: They want to be a feared trio of delinquents, and frequently menace Lum and her friends to pull it off. Unfortunately for them, their complete incompetence prevents them from being any real threat.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: In the 2008 OVA, Sugar has pink hair, Ginger has blonde hair, and Pepper has black hair.
* BrattyHalfPint: They're a bunch of stupid brats who play pranks on their "senior delinquents" so they can pretend to be a gang, but are just annoying more than anything.
* BullyingADragon: They try to pick up a fight with [[BadassBiker Benten]], [[ShockAndAwe Lum]], and [[AnIcePerson Oyuki]], despite their reputation making each of them known as a force to be reckoned with. Even the Spice Girls know they're screwed if Benten's "gang" gets serious against them.
* TheDividual: The three of them are often seen together, causing trouble for Lum and her friends.
* EdibleThemeNaming: All three of them are named after spice-related condiments.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In their introduction, they "greet" Lum, Benten , and Oyuki by [[TongueOutInsult sticking out their tongues]], just to make clear they're obnoxious brats right away.
* GoldfishPoopGang: These three lack the sense, power, or competence to be any real threat most of the time.
* HumanAliens: Like other aliens in the series, Sugar and Pepper look just like humans. Ginger mostly looks human too, but has [[CatGirl cat like ears]].
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: They're such stupid and incompetent antagonists that all their evil plans either backfire or fail humiliatingly.
* KarmicButtMonkey: None of their schemes really work out, often with humiliating results. Being thoughtless jerks with a high opinion of themselves, they tend to have it coming.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: In their last appearance, they try using animal minions to even the score with Lum and company. Their first attempts with Benten and Oyuki fail miserably... and then they bring out a giant electric eel to use against Lum, leaving her lightning powers useless. They only fail because their attacks on Lum keep hitting the eel too, ticking it off to the point where it pulls a HeelFaceTurn to help Lum.
* RedBaron: They call themselves "Seven-colored" Sugar, "Buddah" Ginger, and "Poisonous Snake" Pepper.
* SmallNameBigEgo: They give big speeches about how they're superior to Lum, Benten, and Oyuki. They... ''[[EpicFail really]]'' ...aren't.
* SuperSentaiStance: They did this at least once in the anime, ironic since ''none'' of these girls are heroic.
* TerribleTrio: An especially inept example. Sugar tends to be the leader, but they're all equally dumb. They consider Lum, Benten and Oyuki their rivals, but are [[UnknownRival ignored by them]].
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: While ChameleonCamouflage, FauxDeath, and GivingThemTheStrip ''are'' powers that could be useful in the hands of skilled people, Sugar, Ginger, and Pepper are ''not'' bright enough to use them to their best effect. Plus their opponents are usually [[ShockAndAwe Lum]], [[BadassNormal Benten]], and [[AnIcePerson Oyuki]], who are flat-out leagues above them.
!!Sugar
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* AnimeChineseGirl: Although she's an alien, Sugar wears a Chinese-style outfit and has the double bun hairstyle that's common for Chinese girls in anime.
* ChameleonCamouflage: Sugar's special ability allows her to blend in with her surroundings. While this ''would'' be useful for sneak attacks, Sugar's habit of [[CallingYourAttacks announcing the technique as she's using it]] makes it easy to track her down.
* RoseHairedSweetie: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Sugar's hair is pink (except in the 1981 anime), but she's every bit as bratty as Ginger and Pepper.
!!Ginger
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* CatGirl: Despite being an alien, Ginger looks like a girl with cat ears.
* FauxDeath: Ginger is able to slow down her bodily functions to the point that an untrained observer will believe that she is dead.
* RaceLift: Ginger's skintone is much lighter in the 1981 anime. The 2008 OVA and 2022 anime do give her the dark skin from the manga.
!!Pepper
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* AnimalMotifs: Her title is "Poisonous Snake" and her power is to shed her skin like a snake.
* GivingThemTheStrip: Pepper's power is a full-body example of this, where she sheds her skin like a snake to escape being grabbed.
* MagicPants: Pepper can shed her skin at will. This includes a replica of her clothing, leaving Pepper fully clothed.
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[[folder: Ran's mother]]
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->Voiced by: Yukiko Nashiwa (JP, original series), Creator/KazueIkura (JP, ''All-Stars'')
An extremely strict parent. She always blamed Ran for many misdeeds that Lum committed as a young girl and constantly punished her with a severe spanking.
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* AbusiveMom: She was a ''very'' strict parent and her go-to whenever (she thought) Ran did something wrong (like wetting the bed) was to violently spank her to the point of making Ran cry. And thanks to Lum, Ran was often blamed for things that she didn't even do. What separates her from [[ToughLove a parent that is strict and harsh because they think it will help their child be better]], [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist is that it is clear her punishments are more because she’s mad at Ran than anything else.]] She also hit Ran while harshly comparing her to Lum, made it clear she liked the other girl better and verbally assaulted Ran while spanking her which can be considered emotional abuse. Her very first appearance even has her automatically blaming something bad that happened on Ran without considering it could have been Lum, then spanking Ran and verbally assaulting her for lying when she said it was actually Lum.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Her bikini is black in the original manga and anime, but the 2022 anime made it golden.
* AdaptationalDumbass: In all three versions, she automatically believes that Lum was trying to take the fall for Ran breaking one of her antiques then punished her daughter for it. While she actually ''was'' right, her reasoning is less reasonable in the original anime. In the manga and 2022 anime, she sees through it because she sees the darts in Ran's hands match the one in the doll. [[RightForTheWrongReasons In the original anime, she thinks for a moment then concludes that it was really Ran since Lum is the "good girl" and Ran is "shameful."]]
* CassandraTruth: Ran tried telling her while she was being spanked that it was actually Lum that wet the bed. She never believed her and punished her even harder for "lying" or "letting (her) friend take the fall for (her)".
* CharacterExaggeration:
** In the first anime, she automatically assumes that it was Ran who flooded the bathroom and doesn't believe her daughter when she (truthfully) says it was actually Lum. Then proceeded to spank her for "lying", which in turn made Lum scared of her and frame Ran for her bed wetting. There's no scene like this in the manga or 2022 anime.
** Inverted example: In the manga, when Ran was tricked by a conman into buying lots of expensive gadgets, her mother grounded her for half a year. In the original anime, she just took away her allowance for that time-period.
** Another inverted example: The 2022 anime tones down her abusive treatment of Ran by removing the scenes where she gives her physical punishments, but she still screams and verbally assaults her.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: After Ran told her mother that it was Lum that wet the bed, not her, she proceeded to harshly ask Lum if that's true, even saying that she would spank Lum for it. Why she would think that a little girl would admit to her fault knowing that after seeing her violently spank her own daughter beforehand is anyone's guess.
* DisappointedInYou: She called Ran a shameful daughter for her (supposed) bedwetting and for (supposedly) not being as good of a child as Lum. She especially called Ran shameful for "letting" Lum try and take the fall for her on one of the few things Ran actually did do wrong (it was to try to make up for getting her in trouble before but she didn't know that).
* DisproportionateRetribution: She was a FAR stricter parent compared to Lum's and much harsher when it came to discipline. An action that Lum's parents would deem innocent (like wetting the bed), she would viciously spank Ran for. And for an action that caused Lums parents to spank her, she punished Ran by grounding her for half a year.
* TheDreaded: Both Ran and Lum were afraid of her.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** In her first scene in the manga, it's her telling her daughter right before she goes to sleep that if she were the bed she will spank her, and Ran replies with a scared “yes ma’am”.
** In her first scene in the original anime, she automatically assumed the bathroom flooding was Ran's fault. This is just one of the many misdeeds Ran got blamed and unfairly punished for.
* FieryRedhead: Her daughter got her red hair and explosive temper from her.
* HairTriggerTemper: She was quick to anger, her spankings were violent and she even smacked her daughter and made her cry for no other reason than was reminded [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter of how much Lum is a sweet girl compared to her.]]
* HateSink: She has little to no characterization aside from being Ran's AbusiveMom who traumatized her daughter into becoming a phycho and contributing to the latter's resentment towards Lum.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She thought her daughter Ran was a naughty brat while Lum was an angel. She couldn't have been more wrong at that age.
* {{Irony}}:
** She thought Ran was a bad kid when she was little, but her constant punishments in return ended up making Ran into a psycho as a teenager.
** She always fell for Lum's attempts at framing Ran for her bed wetting, but when Lum tried to take the fall for Ran accidentally breaking one of her antiques (a dancing robot toy) she immediately saw through it.
* {{Jerkass}}: Strict parenting aside, she wasn't very nice to her daughter overall, harshly judged her for unintentional mistakes, seeing the worst in her and tended to automatically assume Ran did something bad (then promptly punish her) without bothering to determine if it was another person, such as blaming Ram of flooding the bathroom when it was really Lum (which then made Lum scared of her and start framing Ran onward) to naturally assuming that a pee-stain in a drying bedsheet came from Ran (again it was Lum).
* MisplacedRetribution: She harshly punished Ran for things that Lum actually did. Most of the time it was because Lum framed Ran, but a few times it was because she automatically assumed the worst in her daughter.
* PetTheDog: She was actually very nurturing to Ran when she was sick and throwed her a descent birthday party.
* PosthumousCharacter: We only ever see her in flashbacks. Her current status and relationship with her daughter is unknown.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Ran did do a few things that she considered bad behavior when she was young (Ran admitted to Lum that she wet the bed once) and Lum didnt do anything bad (in front of her) whenever she stayed at her house. So she was quick to assume that Ran was responsible for anything bad that happened (even when Lum didn't even try to frame her, or even when Lum tried taking the fall for her) because she got it in her head that her daughter was "shameful" and Lum was an angel.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Her bikini top only covered her breasts, leaving her back fully bare.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She looks exactly like an older Ran.
* UnnamedParent: We never get a name for her.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Flashbacks only show her wearing a bikini.
* WhyAreYouNotMySon: Thanks to Lum framing Ran for her bed wetting, she thought Lum was a better child than her daughter and made that clear to Ran. She once smacked Ran in the back of the head so hard it made her cry, while harshly asking her why she couldn't be more like Lum.
* WouldHurtAChild: She would (rather violently) spank her daughter to the point of tears for perceived bad behavior. Also, the reason Lum let Ran take the blame for her was because Rans's mother specifically said that she would have spanked Lum too for misbehaving, even though she wasnt her daughter. She also wasn’t against smacking her daughter on the back of the head while harshly criticizing her, once again hard enough to make Ran cry. Keep in mind they were FIVE at the time.
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[[folder: Elle]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/YoshikoSakakibara
The antagonist from the first movie, ''Only You''. She is the lovely ruler of planet Elle.
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* AccidentalProposal: When Ataru was a child, he played a game of shadow tag with Elle and it is a custom on her planet that stepping on someone's shadow counts as a marriage proposal. Now she has came to claim her husband. [[spoiler:Their engagement becomes null after Ataru remembers he lied about winning their game.]]
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: She sends her minions to Earth to claim Ataru as her husband and he's down for it until he finds out about Elle's "hobby" to collect and freeze handsome men. When Ataru tries to call the wedding off, she takes him prisoner and tries forcing him to go through with it, only to be stopped by Lum.
* BigBad: She's the villainess of the first movie.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She seems nice at first, until she reveals that she makes a "hobby" out of freezing her lovers to add them to her large collection.
* BondVillainStupidity: If she had just remained focused on Ataru instead of falling for one of those trying to rescue him, Ataru would likely have never found out about her frozen harem.
* CanonForeigner: She's an original character of the first movie and doesn't exist in the manga.
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: She wants to marry Ataru even if by force because they played a game of shadow tag and on her planet stepping on someone's shadow is considered a marriage proposal. [[spoiler:At the end it turns out Ataru never stepped in her shadow in the first place and therefore their engagement is null.]]
* TheCollector: She collects all of the handsome men that have ever loved her and freezes them for storage inside a giant refrigerator, to "keep their love forever fresh". She plans to make Mendou the 100,000th (and last, as the next day she'd marry Ataru and settle down).
* DudeMagnet: She's attracted a considerable number of suitors by the time she shows up.
* EvilCounterpart: To Lum. Elle is also an attractive AlienPrincess who lost to Ataru in a game of tag [[spoiler:(although he merely tricked her)]] and wants to claim him as her husband for it. However, Elle is ''far'' worse than Lum ever could be because she keeps a collection of frozen handsome men and is determined to make Ataru hers even if she has to turn him into her slave.
* FlowersOfFemininity: She's a beautiful queen and wears a white rose in her hair.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: She met Ataru when they were both little kids, but Ataru forgot all about her until she shows up during the movie.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She's a beautiful queen beloved by the people of her planet, but the men that she takes a liking to will either become part of her frozen collection or her slave.
* LeotardOfPower: She wears a rose-red leotard beneath a regal white cape.
* LightIsNotGood: She's very beautiful and wears a white cape over her body, but she's still a villain and nowhere near as nice as she seems.
* LordCountry: Exaggerated. Elle rules over an entire ''planet'' that shares her same name.
* NakedOnArrival: Her first official appearance shows her naked from the back as she comes out of her bath.
* PsychoPink: She has rose-colored hair and serves as the main villain of the first movie. Although she doesn't seem bad at first, even the perverted Ataru is repulsed by Elle's true twisted and depraved nature.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Subverted. She has pink hair and presents herself as a sweet woman who is smitten with Ataru, but she's actually a shameless man-eater who treats handsome men as collectibles and tries forcing Ataru to marry her after he realizes her true nature.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Her rose hair and green eyes signify her relevance as royalty and the villain of the first movie.
* TermsOfEndangerment: She calls Ataru "Honey" because she thinks he's her husband. He's pleased with her displays of affection until he discovers what a dangerous woman she really is.
* TheUnfettered: She's determined to have her way no matter what.
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: She's a beloved ruler on her homeworld.
* VillainBall: She just ''had'' to try and freeze Mendou, which only ends up exposing her true nature as an evil man-eater to Ataru and makes him lose any intention to marry her willingly.
* VillainousCrush: Elle is the first movie's villain because she wants to take Ataru from Lum and make him her husband. Ataru actually likes the idea at first, but changes his mind after he finds out about [[TheCollector Elle's frozen collection of handsome men]]. Elle still attempts to make him marry her by force.
* WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver: Her outfit consists of a red leotard with a white cape and accessories. Her color scheme is a hint at her being dangerous despite good first impressions.
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: She's considered the most beautiful woman of ''the entire universe''.
* {{Yandere}}: She has the "hobby" of imprisoning and freezing the men she's attracted to, even keeping a very big collection inside a giant refrigerator. When Ataru realizes this and changes his mind about marrying her, Elle will ''not'' let him go willingly and is determined to make Ataru hers, whether he wants it or not.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Rupa]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KanetoShiozawa
The prince of a world of total darkness, giant mushrooms, and flying pigs. It was arranged by his great-grandfather that he would marry Lum.
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* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: He kidnaps Lum and tries to force her to carry out their ArrangedMarriage.
* ArcVillain: He's the antagonist for the final arc where he goes to Earth to claim Lum as his bride.
* ArrangedMarriage: It was arranged by Rupa's great-grandfather that he would marry Lum.
* BeingEvilSucks: He ends up admitting to Carla that his blind adherence to his grandfather's wishes in trying to marry Lum caused more trouble than it was worth, and that it made it harder for him to admit to himself who he really loves.
* BetaCouple: With Carla. Their dysfunctional relationship parallels Ataru and Lum's in the final arc. Unlike the main couple getting an open ending, Rupa proposes to Carla and they look happy despite how rocky their relationship has been.
* BigBadWannabe: He triggers the start of the final arc with his engagement to Lum. Ultimately, however, the final conflict boils down to Lum and Ataru's mutual stubbornness, and Rupa finds himself sidelined.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Carla. They were close when they were children, but her going {{Yandere}} because of his engagement to Lum made him terrified of her. At the end, however, Rupa admits that he doesn't really want to marry Lum and asks Carla to marry him.
* DisposableFiance: He intended to marry Lum, but ultimately ends up not going through with it.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: His {{Yandere}} childhood friend Carla has repeatedly assaulted him for most of their lives, sometimes even blasting him with a bazooka. Flashbacks to Carla abusing his child self are PlayedForLaughs.
* InLoveWithLove: As Lum and Ten point out, Rupa would have been fine with an ArrangedMarriage with anyone as long as his fiancée was cute. He's confronted about how he's completely disregarding his childhood friend Carla's feelings for him, causing her to go mad over Rupa preferring to marry a stranger over her.
* InTheHood: He's rarely seen outside his hooded black cloak.
* KnightOfCerebus: His arrival kicks off the final arc, which ultimately has the highest stakes seen in the whole story.
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: His great-grandfather gave him a picture of a little Lum when he was a kid. Since she's cute, he decided to go through with their ArrangedMarriage even if he had to force her into it.
* LovingAShadow: He ''thought'' he would like Lum more than Carla, only based on the assumption that Lum wouldn't be as possessive and violent. Lum herself points out she ''is'' very possessive and violent towards the man she loves, so there's no reason why Rupa should like her, especially when they're complete strangers.
* MarryForLove: At the end, he realizes he isn't in love with Lum and breaks off the ArrangedMarriage to marry Carla, the woman he really loves.
* NeverMyFault: He explains to Lum that he refuses to return Carla's feelings because she's dangerously possessive and jealous, to the point she has repeatedly assaulted and almost killed him. However, Lum thinks Carla ''does'' have a legitimate grievance against him, as he readily agreed to marry a complete stranger when he (sort of) had a relationship with Carla when they were kids.
* StupidEvil: While his schemes actually do manage to work to some extent, he fails at being imposing. In his entrance scene, he crashed into a wall and had to be brought into the infirmary to recuperate.
* TohokuRegionalAccent: For some reason, he speaks with a Tohoku accent, given the nature of the series this could just be RuleOfFunny.
* UnknowinglyInLove: Since he was told that he would marry Lum from a young age, he couldn't understand he didn't want that or that he wanted to marry Carla all along, until the penultimate chapter.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Carla]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/YouInoue
Rupa's childhood friend. Ever since they've been children, Carla has loved Rupa. When one day Rupa showed Carla a picture of Lum, his bride-to-be, Carla changed from a childhood friend to a violent arch-enemy.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Rupa. He did think she was cute when they were kids, but after he told her about his engagement to Lum, Carla became an unhinged {{Yandere}} who obsessively stalks and attacks him because he doesn't reciprocate her feelings. Rupa naturally ended up terrified of her after years of abuse.
* BetaCouple: With Rupa in the final arc. Their relationship problems and Carla's abusive possessiveness make them an obvious parallel to Ataru and Lum, but unlike those two having an open ending, Carla gets a definite happy ending with Rupa admitting he loves her and asking her to marry him.
* ChainmailBikini: Beneath her robe, she wears a skimpy armor that looks like a bikini.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: She has been obsessively in love with Rupa since they were kids, but their relationship soured ''a lot'' since Carla went crazy with jealousy because Rupa is engaged to Lum. At the end, however, Rupa gives up on Lum and asks Carla to marry him.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Ever since Rupa told her about his engagement to Lum, she has constantly threatened and terrorized Rupa out of jealousy.
* CryIntoChest: When Rupa ''finally'' admits he was wrong about wanting to marry Lum and asks Carla to marry him, Carla hugs him tightly and breaks down in tears.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: She has spent most of her life attacking Rupa with heavy weaponry.
* DrivenByEnvy: Carla was pissed when Rupa told her he was going to marry some girl he'd never even met when he already had her. She has spent years making his life hell since then, and after he kidnaps Lum to force her to marry him, Carla is hellbent on ruining their wedding.
* EarlyBirdCameo: At the start of Episode 18 of the 2022 anime, there's a glimpse of Carla's silhouette.
* EvilWearsBlack: She wears a black wedding dress as she crashes Rupa's forced wedding with Lum, fully intending to stop it even if she has to kill both Rupa and Lum.
* IfICantHaveYou: After Rupa claims to hate her, Carla [[BerserkerTears bursts into tears]] and declares that she's going to commit a MurderSuicide with him, as she won't let anyone else have him.
* LoveHungry: When she was a child, she forced Rupa to say he loved her by ''holding him at gunpoint''. After she learned he was already engaged to another girl, Carla has been obsessed with assaulting Rupa until he agrees to marry her.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: She was willing to kill Lum to prevent Rupa from marrying her, either unaware or not caring that Lum wasn't on board with this engagement.
* NotGoodWithRejection: Carla loves Rupa, but he's engaged to another girl. In response to feeling rejected by Rupa, Carla constantly chases him down, attacks him, and even tries to ''kill'' him.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: All aspects of her character tie back into Rupa and her obsession with making him marry her.
* SmallGirlBigGun: The weapons she hauls out tend to be as long as she is tall.
* StalkerWithACrush: After Rupa told her he would marry Lum, Carla began chasing him around to blast him with her bazooka while shouting out her love for him. No matter how far he ran, she would find him and attack him again.
* TohokuRegionalAccent: Much like Rupa, she also speaks with a Tohoku accent and it fits with her overall personality.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: She's a murderously possessive {{Yandere}} with white hair.
* {{Yandere}}: She did ''not'' take Rupa's engagement to Lum well. Since then, she has spent most of her life chasing him and trying to kill him.
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!!Supernatural Beings
[[folder: Pochi]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/JojiYanami (JP, original series), Shuhei Nakano (JP, ''All-Stars'')
A little monster who lived at the bottom of a pool at Mendou's private hotel.
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* BenevolentMonsters: He's a cute and friendly monster who just wants to befriend humans. Unfortunately, most people freak out when he comes out of the pool, so Mendou has to kick him out.
* HatesBeingAlone: When Ataru tries to abandon him at the beach, he realizes he doesn't want to be alone and tries guilt tripping Ataru's group into not leaving him. To his luck, a little boy picks him up as a pet.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He just want to become friends with the humans who come to visit his "home" at the pool.
* NiceGuy: He's very sweet and friendly, even trying to serve tea to his "guests" at the pool. However, he doesn't realize humans drown if he makes them stay underwater for too long.
* NoNameGiven: His name is never mentioned. A boy adopts him and names him Pochi, making it the only name known for him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Kitsune-ko]]
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->Voiced by: Masako Sugaya (JP, original series), Creator/RieKugimiya (JP, ''All-Stars'')
A young fox spirit that develops a crush on Shinobu when he first meets her.
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* AsianFoxSpirit: He's a little fox with the ability to shapeshift.
* InterspeciesRomance: A young kitsune with a huge crush on the human girl Shinobu. Unfortunately for him, she doesn't return his feelings and only sees him as a friend.
* NiceGuy: He's maybe the only character in all the story who isn't obnoxious or dangerous.
* RescueRomance: Kitsune developed a major crush on Shinobu after she saved him from getting beat up by a gang of punk dogs.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: He is a very cute little fox.
* StalkerWithACrush: After getting saved by Shinobu, he becomes infatuated with her and starts following her around to see what he can do to earn her affection.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Like the [[AsianFoxSpirit fox spirits of Japanese folklore]], he's able to shapeshift. His transformation power allows him to make himself look like a short fox version of the other characters.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Inaba]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/HirotakaSuzuoki (JP, original series), Jonathan Soronen (EN, movies)
An employee at the Fate Production Bureau which makes doorknobs to the Dream Realm. A bumbling yet kind-hearted young man who wears a rabbit costume which allows him to travel freely to and from subspace.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Inaba appears to be a human boy in a bunny-suit that allows him to enter subspace, but if he IS human then no backstory is ever given as to how he came to work at the Bureau given that all the other workers are anthropomorphic rabbits.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He ends up falling in love with Shinobu after she finds him passed out and hungry in the street and gives him some food.
* BetaCouple: With Shinobu. They're the only couple in the series who are never abusive to each other and, unlike the main couple, they're officially dating by the end.
* DoggedNiceGuy: As soon as he meets Shinobu, he's smitten and starts pining for her. Once she realizes he isn't a creep or a weirdo, Shinobu comes to like him back and they become a couple.
* EndearinglyDorky: He's awkward, nervous, and tends to say the wrong things and embarrass himself in front of Shinobu. But he's genuinely innocent (one of the few characters in the series who is not a pervert) and Shinobu begins to fall for him because he's truly a NiceGuy, in contrast to all her previous love interests.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He has blond hair and he's the nicest guy in the series bar none.
* LoveAtFirstSight: He falls for Shinobu right away.
* MeaningfulName: His name comes from a children's story called "The White Rabbit of Inaba".
* NiceGuy: Possibly the only truly nice guy in the series.
* OfficialCouple: He becomes Shinobu's boyfriend towards the end of the series.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: He's introduced very late into the series and his only characterization is being a NiceGuy who loves Shinobu, with all of his appearances being about his relationship with her.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Mr. Shiowatari]]
->Voiced by: Kaneta Kimotsuki (JP, original series)
Nagisa's father, a kind-hearted man but a terrible businessman who ate himself to death trying to perfect a recipe for sea urchin-flavored kakigori (shaved ice). He somehow arranges for his former property to be sold to his old friend, Mr. Fujinami, for 300 yen, in hopes of attaining spiritual peace.
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* BackForTheDead: He only appears in the two-parter "Nagisa's Fiance" manga arc in chapters 341-342 (and the {{OAV}} adaptation of said arc). At its climax, as the sun rises, he returns to the afterlife, saying that with his "daughter's" reunion with her "fiance" Ryuunosuke, he can now pass on with no regrets.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: He describes Nagisa as a "late-blooming girl" after Nagisa shows off his bare, masculine chest to Ryuunosuke.
* CordonBleughChef: When he was alive, he tried making sea urchin-flavored kakigori (shaved ice). However, every time he tried it, the result was disgusting and he died alongside Nagisa because of his futile efforts to at least make it edible.
* DeathByGluttony: He died after eating his 98th successive bowl of kakigori.
* DetrimentalDetermination: He literally ate himself to death trying to come up with a recipe for sea urchin-flavored kakigori (shaved ice) that ''didn't'' taste disgusting.
* {{Foil}}: To Mr. Fujinami. They're both stupidly incompetent businessmen and [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender forced an opposite gender identity on their children from birth]]. However, they're starkly different in their personalities since despite his faults as a breadwinner and father, Mr. Shiowatari is a decent and good-hearted person who truly wishes for his child's happiness, as opposed to Mr. Fujinami being an [[AbusiveParents abusive]] {{Jerkass}} who actively tries to foil his daughter's attempts to do what she wants.
* FriendlyGhost: He's a ghost by the time of his first appearance, but still friendlier than most of the living characters in the cast.
* GoodParents: He's the complete opposite of his buddy Mr. Fujinami in that he's shown to be a loving, gentle, and caring father, delusions aside. Nagisa absolutely dotes on him, and he's even willing to give up the chance to be restored to life to let his "daughter" be revived instead. He even passes on to the afterlife at peace once Nagisa is revived and given a chance to find love with Ryuunosuke.
* IRejectYourReality: He's in complete denial that his son Nagisa isn't a daughter.
* IncompetenceInc: He was a nice guy, but a ''lousy'' businessman. For starters, he thought a deserted island four miles offshore from the nearest beachside town would be a great place to set up a beach cafe. Then he decided he needed a gimmick to lure the customers in... and decided on sea urchin-flavored kakigori, a dish nobody except maybe an alien would find appetizing.
* ThePrankster: His first appearance has him pulling a practical joke on the Fujinamis, Ataru, Lum, Shutaro and Shinobu, and Nagisa comments on his love of pranks.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: He shares similarly terrible business sense with Mr. Fujinami, and likewise his delusions about his offspring's gender.
* WantedASonInstead: Gender-flipped. He wanted a ''daughter'' so badly that he decided to bring up his son as a girl.
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!!Aliens
[[folder: Ten]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KazukoSugiyama (JP, original series), Creator/AoiYuuki (JP, ''All-Stars''), Mindi L. Lyons (EN, test dub), Barbara Barnes (EN, BBC gag dub), Shannon Settlemyre (EN, Movies 1, 3-6), Paula Parker (EN, Movie 2), Sarah Hauser (EN, Animax Dub)
Lum's infant cousin. He has a single horn on his head and can breathe fire.
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* AccidentalPervert: Because of the date plan Ataru made for him, Ten coerces Sakura to bring him to see a pornographic film despite her protests. Ten finds the movie so boring that he dozed off while Sakura, Lum, and Ataru remained totally transfixed. Sakura still doesn't blame him because she knows Ten is too young to even understand what porn is.
* AchillesHeel: Ten is scared of his own mother, who is an firefighter and extremely strict towards pyromaniacs (ironically Ten can breath fire and shamelessly uses this to his advantage). He seems to be hiding this ability from her so he wouldn't get into trouble with her.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the 1981 anime adaptation, he's introduced in the second episode. In the manga and 2022 anime, he appears much later.
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Though the "adorable" part is merely an act, he's very smart and precocious for someone still in diapers.
* BrattyHalfPint: He loves to act high and mighty, and puts on a façade of innocence ("I'm a good boy" is his CatchPhrase), but in reality he mixes a considerable amount of mischievousness with the same lecherous attitudes as Ataru and Mendo. He loves to stir up trouble to keep himself amused, playfully flirts with every girl he sees, and because he's considered an adorable infant, he can usually rely on women to protect him when he gets into more trouble than his ability to fly and breathe fire can handle. And even when they turn against him, Lum always supports him, to the extent she pays it no mind at all when, say, Ten shows up at Ataru's school and starts randomly biting people to soothe his toothache.
* BreathWeapon: His alien superpower is fire breath.
* CannotKeepASecret: Telling him a secret and the whole Class 2-4 will know it.
* CatchPhrase: "I'm a good boy!"
* TheChewToy: Like Ataru, misfortune seems to visit Ten with considerable frequency.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Aside from constant fights against Ataru and not-so-innocent attraction towards women, Ten causes troubles left and right due to naïve understanding of how the world works, including the consequences of his actions, rather than out of malevolence. When encountering something strange, he usually displays curiosity and observance rather than arrogance. The downside of this is that he's so gullible that even Ataru can fool him. All in all, Ten's character embodies the feeling you have when little kids unknowingly mess with your precious stuffs.
* DeadpanSnarker: Especially snarky towards Ataru.
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Whenever he's around girls -- or, more noticeably, his mother -- Ten tends to be much better behaved.
* DirtyKid: Despite being a toddler, he adores pretty women just as much as Ataru does.
* DisappearedDad: Ten's dad was never mentioned.
* TheFakeCutie: Because of his DeliberatelyCuteChild act, all the women find him adorable and are protective of him. He just uses his cuteness to get close to girls, but when he's around men he shows his true (and bratty) colors.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: While he can be a brat, Ten has a soft spot for animals.
* HopelessSuitor: He has a big crush on Sakura, but she gently turns him down because he's way too young for her and she already has a fiancé.
* IconicSequelCharacter: While he doesn't appear until the 7th volume, he becomes such a prominent character in the manga that he gets an AdaptationalEarlyAppearance in the anime, where he's introduced in the third episode.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He may be a brat, but he's kind of right when he says that Lum deserves better than Ataru.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: He occasionally displays features of Kansai-ben.
* KidAnova: Flirts with every girl he sees. Howewer Ten is still essentially a child and quite naïve; around women he is usually cute and diminutive.
* MeaningfulName: Jari sort of means "brat". So calling him by his full name Jariten is the same thing as calling him "bratty Ten".
* PrecociousCrush: He once had a crush on Sakura as well as the woman who ran the flower shop, Kurama and a few others.
* RaisedByRobots: His mother usually left him in the care of a robotic nanny.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Ten and Ataru utterly despise each other. Their petty rivalry is very much PlayedForLaughs.
* SpoiledBrat: He's not really spoiled by any of his caregivers, but he's definitely bratty enough to count.
* TagalongKid: Obviously much younger than the rest of the cast.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Ten has to beg his mother for her to cuddle him as a mother would do with a little son. Even Ataru, by all people, sympathizes with Ten's family situation.
* WiseBeyondHisYears: Or, at the very least, more intelligent than most toddlers tend to be.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Benten]]
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->Voiced by: Yuuko Mita (JP, original series), Creator/ShizukaIshigami (JP, ''All-Stars'') Natasha Malinsky (EN, movie 1), Satu Rautaharju (EN, movies 3, 5-6)
An alien girl from a race of {{Human Alien}}s based on the Seven Lucky Gods, who name is typically translated as the "Gods of Luck Race/Gang", and Lum's childhood friend. In the anime, she's shown to be the head of a hover-biker gang made up entirely of Lucky God girls like herself, all daughters of Lucky God aliens who are named after the other six members of the actual pantheon (whereas Benten is based on the sole female member of the pantheon); Kuro (Daikokuten), Meguro (Ebisu), Shala (Bishamonten), Roku (Fukurokujin), Kotobuki (Jurojin) and Tei (Hotei).
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* ActionGirl: Benten is a female BadassBiker who stands out in a non-fighting series.
* AdaptationDyeJob: She had black hair in the original anime. On the other hand, the ''All-Stars'' anime gives her dark red hair.
* AncientAstronauts: Her race is based on the Seven Lucky Gods, a miniature pantheon in Shinto based around the difference facets of fortune and prosperity. But whereas the Oni are a fairly straightforward "sci-fi conversion" of their archetype, the Gods of Luck race are instead characterized as violent, warlike thugs and punks.
* BadassBiker: She rides a bike that hovers and can fly through space.
* BifauxnenAndLadette: The lad-ette to Ryuunosuke's bifauxnen. Benten is a macho biker in skimpy clothing in contrast to Ryuunosuke who dresses modestly and has a sense of chivalry in how she treats women with care.
* BloodKnight: She loves to fight.
* BoyishShortHair: Her short hair helps identify her as the tomboy of Lum's alien friends.
* CelibateHeroine: It is unknown by even Lum and Oyuki whether or not she has ever had a boyfriend. However, she's seen supporting Ryuunosuke on her father issues and became excessively flustered when teased that [[HomoeroticSubtext Ryuunosuke might be in love with her]]. She also is unbothered by Ataru's flirtations, and even seems to welcome them, though she's usually far more interested in brawling with Lum whenever she comes to Earth.
* ChainedByFashion: She draps a chain over her shoulder. It's actually her house's key.
* ChainmailBikini: Benten wears a red skimpy metal bikini, arm protector, and boots.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Lum and Oyuki. They went to elementary school together and Benten is Lum's most loyal friend in the galaxy. Subverted with Ran; they know each other through Lum, but they dislike each other.
* ContraltoOfDanger: In the anime, she is given a much deeper tone of voice than most of the girls, to emphasize her stats as the tough, aggressive, macho member of Lum's girl-gang.
* FashionableAsymmetry: She wears a shoulderpad on just one shoulder, simply because it makes her look cool. In her intro in the manga, she wears a full-fledged sleeve-like piece of armor on just one arm.
* FieryRedhead: The ''All-Stars'' anime makes her a redhead to emphasize her HotBlooded personality.
* FireForgedFriends: When they first meet, Benten and Ryuunosuke don't get along; Benten just thinks "he" is another boy to pick a fight with, whilst Ryuunosuke is offended by Benten's macho behavior, which flies in the face of how the {{bifauxnen}} believes girls should act. It goes so far that they get into a fight over which of them is more ladylike; fortunately, this ends in them having to team up to fend off Tomobiki's horny male students, and the fighting engenders a mutual friendship.
* {{Foil}}: Ryuunosuke and Benten make a very interesting contrast to each other. Both are super-macho girls with SuperStrength, pronounced fighting skills, and an aggressive temperament. However, Benten has absolutely no doubts about her womanhood, which is emphasized by how she competes with Lum for the the title of "skimpiest dressed girl in the series", and her masculine tastes are just part of who she is. This contrasts the [[{{bifauxnen}} crossdressing]], self-loathing Ryuunosuke, whose macho persona was ''literally'' beaten into her by her father.
* HotBlooded: She is very strong-willed and her mood is usually either laid-back or violent.
* HumanAlien: Easily the most human-looking of the aliens -- no horns, fangs, pointy ears, or shiny hair.
* ItWasAGift: In the Spice Girl Gang's intro story, Benten is very determined to recover her stolen chain, causing Lum and Oyuki to speculate it was given to her by a guy who liked her. Then it's {{subverted|trope}} when Benten does recover the chain and reveals it's just the key to her house.
* JapaneseDelinquents: {{Downplayed}}. She deliberately invokes a number of "Biker Gang Girl" tropes common to Japanese manga of the time, mostly in her costume; that said, while she's tomboyish and rather ungraceful, she doesn't seem to be guilty of delinquency.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Although she can be impulsive, unpredictable, and has a really short fuse, Benten's a really good friend to have.
* TheLadette: She's the most boyish and masculine-acting of Lum's circle of alien friends.
* MeaningfulName: She is named after Shichifukujin Benzaiten (one of the Seven Lucky Gods), the Shinto goddess of knowledge, art, and beauty. In her case, it's ironic, since she's the ''least'' feminine member of the three main alien girls.
* RedIsViolent: Her theme color is red and she's the most battle-loving of Lum's friends.
* RedOniBlueOni: The hotheaded and passionate red to Oyuki's chilly and stoic blue. She also once served as the blue to Ran's red.
* SmallGirlBigGun: She can uses her bazooka, machine gun and explosives to cause massive destruction.
* {{Stripperific}}: Her skimpy, body-flaunting mode of dress wouldn't be suitable for battle in a more realistic setting.
* SuperStrength: Not as much as Shinobu, but she's shown to be quite powerful.
* TomboyishVoice: In the anime, she is given the standard "Tomboy" husky vocal tones, which perfectly fits her attitude.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Downplayed. Whilst Benten ''is'' a battle-loving hoverbiking punk girl, she does express some feminine traits. In the "Woman vs. Woman Showdown" arc, she appears to be quite pleased when Mr. Fujinami claims that Ryuunosuke is a boy with a crush on her. She is subsequently shown moodily reflecting on how nobody has ever told her that she needs to act more like a lady before, then studies her reflection in the mirror, noting to herself that she ''is'' an attractive girl and practicing a traditionally feminine gesture of smiling behind her hand. She gets very embarrassed when Lum stumbles across her doing this, and is so flustered she proceeds to break several things in Lum's UFO. When she discovers that Ryuunosuke is actually a girl, she's very offended that the crossdressing brawler would lecture ''her'' about acting more feminine.
* TownGirls: The tomboyish, bad-mouthed and violent Butch to Lum's Neither and Oyuki's Femme.
* UglyGuysHotDaughter: Implied. In the Oniboshi Setsubun Festival story where she is introduced, Benten is, like Lum, the only beautiful young girl amidst a mass of ugly, scarred, macho thugs. Also applies to her anime-only gang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Oyuki]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/NorikoOhara (JP, original series), Creator/SaoriHayami (JP, ''All-Stars''), Jaime Phelps (EN, movies)
Lum's other childhood friend and the Queen of Neptune, which in the series is a frozen, snowy planet populated entirely by women, as most of the men have to go off-planet to find work.
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* AccompliceByInaction: In her school days, Oyuki never joined Benten and Lum when they bullied or picked fights with other students, but she acted like a disinterested bystander through all of her friends' mischief. As a result, she got labeled as a delinquent too, much to her dismay.
* AdaptationDyeJob: She has sky blue hair in the 1981 anime, while the 2008 OVA and ''All-Stars'' anime give her bluish white hair to make it look like ice. Likewise, the leotard under her kimono is orange in 1981 anime, but light blue in the ''All-Stars'' anime.
* AdaptationalJerkass: The 2022 anime gives Oyuki a strong mean streak. While her original introduction story has Ataru trying to force himself on ''her'', the ''All-Stars'' version shows her willingly throwing herself at Ataru the first time she gets him to be alone with her (despite being one of Lum's best and oldest friends) and even admits she only did it to "wrap him around her finger". In a later episode, she freezes Mendo's grandfather for not giving her the New Year's money he promised her, despite being a queen with no need for further riches.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's usually gentle and is ''very'' rare to see her angry, but Ran has very good reason to be completely traumatized by the first time she saw Oyuki get angry when they were kids.
* ChildhoodFriends: With Lum and Benten. They went to elementary school together. As with Benten, she's known Ran for just as long, but she doesn't like her.
* CovertPervert: In her intro chapter, Ataru pushes Oyuki onto the bed, only to be interrupted by Oyuki's yeti servant B-Bo. Despite her demure behavior, Oyuki looks mildly disappointed that Ataru got chased away from her before things got hot and steamy.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has a great ironic wit, although it's hard to tell when she's joking.
* ElementalHairColors: Icy blue hair for the ice woman.
* ElementalHairComposition: Her hair appears to be literally made of ice. Although, the 1981 anime made it look more like normal hair, possibly to make it easier to animate back then.
* ElementalPersonalities: As expected of AnIcePerson, Oyuki is unemotional and tranquil.
* EmotionlessGirl: She never shows strong emotions and remains the picture of demureness under any circumstance.
* TheHighQueen: The very placid and graceful Queen of Neptune.
* HimeCut: She's a YamatoNadeshiko, wears a kimono and is royalty. To give her a suitable hairstyle, she has blunt bangs, cheek-length sidelocks, and long hair worn in a ponytail.
* HumanAlien: If not for her hair (and ice powers), one could easily mistake her as human.
* HypocriticalHumor: Back in middle school, Oyuki chastised Benten for stealing other student's lunch, all while she also ate from said stolen lunch.
* AnIcePerson: Occasionally freezing everything around her in a huge block of ice.
* KidWithTheLeash: She's the only person capable of making Ran behave, as Ran is ''terrified'' of her (she has ''seen'' what she can do, after all).
* KimonoIsTraditional: She's a {{Yukionna}} and YamatoNadeshiko who is often dressed in a white kimono.
* MeaningfulName: Oyuki means "honourable snow".
* NavelDeepNeckline: The casual red swimsuit type outfit she wears when not sporting a UsefulNotes/{{Kimono}} is open in the middle, exposing her navel and cleavage.
* RedOniBlueOni: The chilly and stoic blue to Benten's hotheaded and passionate red.
* SilkHidingSteel: She's a very demure and polite lady, but she's quite possibly the most powerful character in the series and making her angry can leave anyone traumatized for a lifetime.
* TheStoic: Oyuki does have emotions like everyone else but her expression never changes much.
* TheTease: In her introduction story, Oyuki undresses in front of Ataru to show off her skimpy leotard before inviting him into her bedroom. The 2022 anime takes it even further, as Oyuki wraps her arms around Ataru's neck and leads him to lay on top on her in bed.
* TownGirls: The calm, demure and feminine Femme to Lum's Neither and Benten's Butch.
* TranquilFury: On the rare occasions where Oyuki does get mad, she doesn't appear to be angry on the surface, but she gets a serious look on her face as the temperature surrounding her starts to drop drastically. Suddenly, her ice powers go absolutely haywire. Ice, wind and snow rage causing unparalleled carnage and sealing any unfortunate passers-by in a block of ice or skewering them on huge icicles.
* WinterRoyalLady: Oyuki is a {{Yukionna}} queen who rules over the snow planet Neptune. As for her name, Yuki means snow and the O as a prefix is an honorific character which is one way of adding a level of politeness when referring to a certain word.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Calm, feminine and graceful, wears a kimono, and is highly cunning and calculative.
* {{Yukionna}}: She is a TropeCodifier in modern Japanese depictions of the yo-kai. Due to Oyuki's popularity, many modern depictions of yuki-onna have them with crowns on their head.
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[[folder: Ran]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/YouInoue (JP, 1st half of original series), Kazue Komiya (JP, 2nd half of original series + [=OVAs=]), Creator/KanaHanazawa (JP, ''All-Stars''), Morgan Jarrett (EN, movies), Andrea Kwan (EN, Animax Dub)
Lum's "best" childhood friend. She appears to be a sweet and lovely redhead, but in actuality has a violent, evil side. She is a succubus who has the ability to suck the vitality out of a person through kissing them on the lips.
As a child, Ran was often hurt or got into trouble because of the antics of the more carefree and irresponsible Lum. Also, she is madly in love with Lum's ex-boyfriend Rei (who still likes Lum, much to both girls' horror). As a result, she hates Lum and often wants to take revenge on her.
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* AccentSlipUp: Whenever she drops the {{Kawaiiko}} act, she slips into KansaiRegionalAccent since that's the dialect used by aliens from Lum's planet.
* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: When not in a frilly dress, she often wears midriff-baring bikinis, and she's a succubus who poses as a sweet and nice girl.
* BeastAndBeauty: She loves Rei's beast form just as much as his handsome human form.
* BecomingTheMask: She desperately tries to do this with her {{kawaiiko}} persona, with rather dubious success.
* BerserkButton: She'll deliver DisproportionateRetribution to anyone who steals Rei from her. Or does something that makes her ''think'' they're getting in the way of her relationship with Rei. Also, Lum's mere presence usually is enough to send her into psycho mode.
* BigBeautifulWoman: Downplayed. She has a slightly thicker build than any of the other mainstay alien girls. In the 1980s anime, this modest bulk would harden into outright muscle when she was angered whilst in her more revealing outfits or in a state of undress.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: On the outside, she's a cute redhead who likes frilly clothing, baking, and flirting with Ataru. In reality, she's an embittered childhood rival of Lum who is out for some very violent revenge on the girl for a lot of things that aren't entirely Lum's fault.
* ButtMonkey: She's the most prone to slapstick of any of the female cast. As a child, she was always punished for Lum's mistakes and misdeeds [[CassandraTruth (even when Lum owned up to them)]]. Plus, Rei chose Lum over her [[FelonyMisdemeanor (and then Lum dumped him)]]. And her revenge plots always fail.
* CatchPhrase: "Ran-chan is sooo happy!"
* ChainmailBikini: If she's not in a school uniform or a cutesy dress, she'll be wearing a silver bikini.
* ChildhoodFriends: Lum ''thinks'' Ran is one of her childhood friends, but the feeling isn't mutual because all Lum ever did was getting Ran in trouble with her mother and letting Ran get all the punishment.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She absolutely won't forgive anyone who "steals" Rei away from her.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She is a bit spacey and unstable, to say the least.
* ContraltoOfDanger: Ran usually speaks in a cutesy voice, but it abruptly changes to a deep gruff voice when the nastier side of her personality comes out.
* CuteAndPsycho: She is the poster child for (and likely the inspiration for all other) characters of the type, at least in anime. Ran normally acts with a sweet façade before flipping out with her true violent and malevolent personality.
* TheDreaded: {{Downplayed}} in that this really just applies to Lum, but as the series progresses, the oni becomes more and more likely to break out into a cold sweat when Ran is around, and ''especially'' if Ran's ''looking'' for her.
* DrivenByEnvy: Ever since childhood, everyone around Ran has favored Lum over her. Lum was everyone's perfect child, causing Ran to end up ignored by most, even cruelly punished by her own mother because she couldn't match Lum's perceived perfection. The final straw was Ran's crush choosing Lum as his girlfriend. Ran has sworn to steal Ataru from Lum and suck the life out of him to get back at Lum for getting all the positive attention Ran wanted for herself.
* EasilyForgiven: Lum may get annoyed, but eventually ends up always forgiving Ran despite all her revenge plots and is still hanging out with her later in the series.
* EnemyMine: In [[TheMovie Movie 1]], Elle learns the hard way that you do ''not'' steal a girl's boyfriend from her when said girl's rival was planning to use him to torment her. Needless to say, Ran assists Lum in rescuing Ataru from the planned shotgun wedding.
* EvilRedhead: She has dark pink hair and is a vengeful BitchInSheepsClothing.
* ExpositoryPronoun: When she's acting like a {{Kawaiiko}}, she either uses the feminine first-person pronoun "atashi" or [[ThirdPersonPerson refers to herself in the third person]] to seem cuter, but when her true self comes out, she switches to "washi" -- a form of "I" stereotypically used by old people in Japan.
* ExtremeDoormat: As a child, Ran got constantly dragged around by Lum and sometimes Benten as they forced her to participate in their mischief, often to Ran's detriment.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Ran seems like an adorable {{Kawaiiko}} with fluffy pink hair, but she's obsessed with getting revenge on Lum and will use any devious means available for that goal.
* TheFakeCutie: She deliberately styles herself as a sugary sweet {{Kawaiiko}}, but her real personality is anything but innocent.
* FieryRedhead: She has red hair and tries to act like a sweet-natured, domestic girl, but she's actually quite violent and quick to anger.
* FreudianExcuse: She grew up with a very strict, abusive mother who punished her when ''Lum'' did something bad and let Ran get blamed for it. No wonder she's [[CuteAndPsycho so messed up]] and hates Lum so much.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Lum genuinely likes Ran, and is willing to ignore Ran's one-sided vendetta because of that friendship. Despite the fact that they've known her just as long, neither Oyuki nor Benten like Ran, and they make it clear that they're watching her when they interact with each other.
* GameFace: Ran seems perfectly human most of the time... until she gets mad. Then her hair puffs out and her fangs are more pronounced.
* GreenEyedMonster: She feels Lum "stole" Rei from her, even though Lum now hates Rei and already broke up with him, and seeks to get revenge by planting her KissOfDeath on Lum's current "fiancé".
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much from Lum, even unintentionally (which is most of the time) to set Ran off.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: When she was a child, she was usually violently punished by her mother which could have traumatized Ran to develop her split personalities. This is PlayedForLaughs, of course.
* HopelessSuitor: She's hopelessly in love with Rei even though he chose Lum over her ''and'' still wants to get back together with Lum after their breakup. However, he eventually begins to cling to Ran, mostly because [[ThroughHisStomach she keeps feeding him]].
* HumanAlien: Except for the CuteLittleFangs (and red hair), she appears to be a normal human.
* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: She still sees Lum as a love rival, accusing her of planning to "steal" Rei from her again even though Lum repeatedly makes clear she wants nothing to do with Rei anymore.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Lum mostly sees Ran as a nuisance for her attempts at using her KissOfDeath on Ataru and Ran's schemes fail so miserably that it's impossible to take her seriously as an antagonist.
* {{Kawaiiko}}: The surficial part of her personality is the definition of "cutesy".
* KissOfDeath: Ran has the power to suck the youth from someone by kissing them. She tries to use the power on an unsuspecting Ataru, who had just downed a vitality elixir two minutes earlier (so the effects cancelled out), so he just assumed she likes him. She can also reverse the process with another kiss.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Oyuki quietly-yet-sternly tells Ran to stop fighting, Ran immediately stands down. She's ''seen'' what Oyuki can do, after all.
* MadBomber: When her BerserkButton gets hit, one of her favored methods of retaliation is to either unleash robotic dolls in her likeness that explode upon reaching their target, tossing hammer grenades, or just throw subtlety out the window and haul out a rocket launcher.
* MeaningfulName: Ran has two meanings, both of which are suited to her warped personality. One meaning can be taken as "orchid", the other as "civil war".
* {{Miko}}: She works part-time as a miko at Sakura's shrine.
* {{Misblamed}}: She is both guilty and a victim of this. Her mother was so strict that she deemed even the smallest and innocent of mistakes worthy of a severe spanking and tended to focus on Ran's mistakes. This caused her to paint the image in her mind that Ran was a bad kid which made it easy for her to blame (and then punish) Ran whenever something bad happened (though usually it was Lum's fault). Ran in turn blames all these instances solely on Lum disregarding that her mom was the true aggressor.
* MoodSwinger: The two sides of her personality constantly compete for dominance. Because of that, she switches from psycho-bitch to airhead and vice-versa rather suddenly and frequently.
* MythicalMotifs: Ran's large fangs, succubus-like style, and VampiricDraining ability are all reminiscent of a vampire, even if she's never actually called one.
* NeverMyFault: Even with the FreudianExcuse, a lot of the misfortune that befalls her is just karma due to her selfishness and irresponsibility. She always blames Lum, Benten and Oyuki for it.
* NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice: Ran is a very feminine girl who [[PinkMeansFeminine wears pink dresses]] and [[FeminineWomenCanCook is an excellent cook]]. She's also [[CuteAndPsycho bipolar]] as hell and constantly plotting to get revenge on Lum.
* PetTheDog: In "My Darling's Peril", Ran's about to let Lum have it for interrupting her date with Rei, but then sees Lum weeping over Ataru's (presumed) death, and gently tries to reassure her that everything's all right.
* PettyChildhoodGrudge: Even as teenagers, Ran still holds a grudge against Lum for wetting the bed and lying about it so Ran would be punished instead of her. She's also bitter about young Lum forcing her to buy her an ice cream for losing a race from a monster even though Ran got injured because Lum let her crash against a cliff.
* PsychoPink: Ran is a CuteAndPsycho girl who has dark pink hair and usually wears pink dresses.
* RejectionAffection: Rei completely ignores Ran's existence whenever food and/or Lum are around, but Ran still loves him and is happy with him just eating food she made for him even if he doesn't pay attention to her.
* TheResenter: While she has a lot of grudge towards Lum, what has her so bitter and resentful is that Rei chose Lum as his girlfriend instead of her. Even though Lum already broke up with Rei and wants nothing to do with him anymore, Ran still hasn't forgiven her for dating Rei.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Her {{kawaiiko}} persona fits the sweet and romantic variety, but she's actually the BitchInSheepsClothing variant.
* TheScapegoat: In their childhood, Lum let Ran get blamed for her misdeeds, even in her own home, and poor Ran was always punished by her mother for what Lum did.
* SelfProclaimedLoveInterest: She blissfully thinks Rei goes on "dates" with her because he likes her, but he only really likes eating her homemade lunch and kisses her just to taste the food left in her face. When Ran isn't feeding him, Rei goes back to completely ignoring her in favor of Lum.
* SingleTargetSexuality: She's madly in love with Rei and no-one else.
* SmallGirlBigGun: When she gets ahold of Benten's missile launcher. She's later seen hauling out bazookas of her own for combat.
* SupremeChef: She is a superb cook and is often cooking special dishes for Rei, whom she frequently dates.
* ThirdPersonPerson: She often refers to herself in third person as part of her {{Kawaiiko}} persona.
* ThroughHisStomach: The only way she can get Rei's attention is by cooking for him since food is the one thing he likes more than Lum. They kinda start dating thanks to this, although Rei still seems more interested in the food than Ran herself (not that she minds as long as he hangs out with her). It's even compared to raising a pet in the manga's omake.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Eventually, Rei starts hanging around her quite a bit, if only because of her good cooking. However, he's actively put her safety ahead of the food, as seen in the climax of "Lover Thief."
* TokenEvilTeammate: Out of Lum's friends, she's the only who has devious and malicious intentions to the point of often being a FalseFriend to the others, especially Lum.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: In the childhood flashbacks with Lum, Ran was an innocent, well-behaved little girl. After she repeatedly got punished because of Lum's irresponsible behavior ''and'' her crush chose Lum over her, Ran grew up into a BitchInSheepsClothing whose only goal is taking revenge on Lum.
* VampiricDraining: She has ability to literally suck the life from others.
* VillainDecay: Ran gradually moves from being the closest thing the series has to a villain to an occasional nuisance and TokenEvilTeammate.
* VitriolicBestBuds: By the later chapters of the manga, Ran and Lum have this dynamic. She gets triggered into psycho mode quite a bit, but she's not out for revenge as badly as she was in her introduction.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Since they were children, she's absolutely ''terrified'' of Oyuki, having been present (and apparently barely surviving) a moment of her wrath at someone else.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Despite Lum viewing Ran as a friend, Ran hates her and is out for revenge for all the times Lum inadvertedly made her suffer.
* {{Yandere}}: She's hell-bent on keeping other girls away from Rei, especially Lum. This is fine by Lum, who would rather Rei stay away from her, though Ran seems willfully ignorant of this dynamic.
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[[folder: Rei]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/TesshoGenda (JP, original series), Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi (JP, ''All-Stars''), Jeremy Griffin (EN, movies)
Lum's ex-boyfriend. Rei is a very handsome Oni, to the point that most girls fall for him just by seeing his face. However, he regularly shapeshifts into an ''ushitora'' -- a huge goofy-looking cross between a tiger and a bull. He speaks almost no Japanese because what little intelligence he has is channeled into eating or looking for things to eat. Lum dumped him some time before the start of the series because she got tired of his stupidity, but he followed her to Earth to try and get her back. Ran is madly in love with him and plies him with her cooking in hopes of getting his affection.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Lum. Rei looks handsome in his humanoid form, but he often changes into an ''ushitora'', which is one of the reasons why Lum broke up with him.
* BigEater: He's a non-stop eating machine who is hardly ever seen not stuffing his face, or looking for eats.
* BrainlessBeauty: He can woo any human woman, regardless of her age, with his beauty, but he's also dumb as a post.
* CatchPhrase: "Lum!" and "Food!" are the main words that come out of his mouth. "Ran!" starts coming up later, though.
* ChickMagnet: Rei breaks up loving couples just by walking past them, and causes squees whenever anything of the female gender sees him. His being dumb as a plank and loving only food does nothing to dissuade the girls... except Lum.
* TheDitz: He's ''incredibly'' stupid, and he largely uses what little intelligence he has for eating and looking for things to eat. He's so stupid that the only reasons he's TheQuietOne are because his Japanese isn't very good, and also because he can only say one word at a time.
* DubNameChange: Changed to Raymond in the BBC GagDub
* EatingContest: He actually loses one against Ataru (Rei did manage to barely out-eat Ataru in a sweet potato eating contest, but the effort caused him to lose control of his shape-shifting and collapse while Ataru was still somewhat okay).
* FlatCharacter: He has not a whit of personality.
* HiddenDepths: Despite being a FlatCharacter, there's hints of ''some'' complex thought in there somewhere. In the two-part story "Lover Thief", Rei's first instinct when he sees Ran falling alongside the platter of snacks she made is to save ''her'' rather than grab the food. Yes, he goes after the food next, but only when Ran's safe. Furthermore, when we get a glimpse of Rei's subconscious at the end of the anime adaptation of this story, we see multiple images of Lum... and one of Ran, sitting right next to Rei.
* HopelessSuitor: Lum can't stand Rei, but he still pursues her, which is honestly kind of pathetic to watch.
* HumanAlien: He looks just like a handsome, green-haired human man... unless he transforms.
* LanguageBarrier: Unlike other aliens, Rei doesn't speak Japanese fluently and rarely says full sentences.
* MeaningfulName: Rei means "zero". This is a good approximation of his IQ. [[FlatCharacter Or his "deep" personality.]]
* MoralityPet: [[BitchInSheepsClothing Ran]] is only ever genuinely nice and sweet to Rei because she has a huge crush on him. The few times when she isn't trying to get revenge on Lum is when Rei is around since she completely focuses on feeding him.
* NeverGetsFat: All he ever does is eat large amounts of food, but his human form never gains weight and keeps a good figure.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Most displays of romantic affection from him are actually his pursuit of food -- one time, he kissed Ran because she ''had bean paste on her lips'' that he was trying to snag.
* ObsessedWithFood: He doesn't care about ''anything else'' other than food. Though, as we see in "Lover Thief", Ran and Lum may be equal to it in what passes for his mind.
* PlatonicKissing: He [[IKissYourHand kisses Ataru's mother's hand]] in his introduction. Later on, he kisses Ran on the cheek and the lips. The girls take it as a romantic gesture, but Rei is just tasting food crumbs left in their bodies.
* TheQuietOne: He's not very talkative because he doesn't know how to speak Japanese and even if he did speak the language, he's too ''dense'' to be eloquent.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: He's Lum's ex-boyfriend and Ran's love interest. Other than that, he's just a BigEater and not much else.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Lum is the only girl (or person) he has ever shown interest in, otherwise he only cares about food. He's probably too stupid to realize she hates him. Still, he hangs around Ran willingly enough, if only because she prepares a lot of delicious treats for him.
* TheStoic: In his human form, his expression is always dull and only smiles when eating. Not so much when he gets excited and turns into a monster.
* TerseTalker: Rei doesn't speak much. Whenever he does, he is only capable of uttering one word at a time. This is mostly because [[LanguageBarrier Rei doesn't know how to speak Japanese]], but also because he's just so incredibly ''stupid.''
* ThroughHisStomach: He reveres anyone who brings him food... or whatever can even be ''considered'' food. He dates Ran pretty much because she keeps feeding him, and Rei just learns through conditioning that Ran=food. It's been compared to keeping a pet.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can transform himself into an ''ushitora'' -– a big demonic bull-tiger hybrid –- whenever he's excited or angry.
* WastedBeauty: It's been stated that looks are all he has going for him. Lum dumped him because he's stupid, often cares more about food than her, and tends to transform into a tiger-bull monster. Ran seems to be the only girl who still seriously wants Rei despite his many faults.
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[[folder: Princess Kurama]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/RihokoYoshida (JP, original series), Creator/NanaMizuki (JP, ''All-Stars''), Daisy Talley (EN, movie 1), Stacey Jefferson (EN, BBC gag dub)
The "Crow Princess". A humanoid female from an alien race of crow {{tengu}}, her culture's laws state that she must mate with the man who awakens her from slumber with a kiss. Unfortunately for her, that person turns out to be Ataru. While she has no desire to mate with him, she initially tries to turn the perverted lech into someone worthy of her... but gave up once it became obvious that reforming him is impossible, and subsequently runs in the opposite direction whenever he shows up. She has the ability to create powerful gusts of wind with her multi-use giant leaf.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Not that she wasn't already pretty, however, many fans have noted that the adjustment to her look in ''All-Stars'', such as her more natural lip color and brighter eyes, have made her even more attractive in that version.
* AdaptationDyeJob: The "wings" in her hair are green in the original anime and purple in the ''All-Stars'' anime remake.
* AlienPrincess: She's the princess of an alien {{Tengu}} species.
* AnimeHair: Her hairstyle resembles a pair of crow wings.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Males of her people look like bipedal crows that are a few inches tall and have beards when they're older. Kurama (and at least other royal females such as her mentioned but unshown mother) look nearly identical to human women.
* BlowYouAway: She has the ability to create powerful gusts of wind with her multi-use giant leaf.
* CombatHandFan: Her weapon is a giant leaf that she uses as a hand fan.
* DaddysGirl: She really loves her dad Minamoto no Yoshitsune and holds him as the standard for a man. She even takes Ataru into the past, so he can learn a thing or two from her dad. Instead Ataru [[TheCorrupter tries to corrupt]] Minamoto.
* DressedLikeADominatrix: Her outfit consists of a black leather leotard with NavelDeepNeckline, a long black latex glove on her left arm, a choker on her neck and high-heeled boots.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: She was going through with a tradition where she put herself in suspended animation till a prospective mate woke her up by kissing her.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In early chapters, Kurama wears a lace up bustier with a yellow sash around her waist, a spiked collar, and long boots. In later chapters, her outfit changed to a skimpy leotard, with no sash, a non-spiked collar, and shorter boots. The 2022 anime uses her second outfit from the get-go.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Kurama draws the line at forcibly chaging someone's gender, and was ''not'' amused when she discovered Ryunosuke was a girl and the Karasutengu were trying to turn her into a boy.
* FashionableAsymmetry: In the manga, Kurama wears an opera glove on her left arm and only wears a bracelet on her right arm. This was brought back for her design in the 2022 remake as well.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Her mother was an alien tengu, while her father was Minamoto no Yoshitsune, a famous Japanese warrior.
* HumanAlien: The only visibly alien traits about her are the little crow wings on her head, which could just be an elaborate hairstyle, and her PointyEars.
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: She tries to reform Ataru -- indeed, she puts a great deal of effort into it, while fighting off both Lum and Shinobu -- but eventually gives up once she realizes that Ataru's set in his ways.
* {{Jerkass}}: She's usually a mean person towards others; particularly if they try to interfere with her attempts to land a worthy man. This includes Ran, who was ''dating'' Rei when Kurama tried to seduce him.
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Every potential mate is a failure. Ataru is a pervert, Mendo turns out to be too pathetic and cowardly, Ryuunosuke isn't really a man like she thought, and Rei seems like the one until she sees he is really an idiotic tiger-cow.
* LoveAtFirstSight: The first time she sees Mendou, she immediately deems him her ideal man and is eager to marry him instead of Ataru. Her infatuation only lasts until she finds out about Mendou's fear of the dark.
* MsFanservice: She wears a skimpy outfit, has several bath scenes and in one occasion her breasts are visible when one of her tengu remove her bodice.
* NavelDeepNeckline: Her bodice (and later, leotard) has a neckline that plunges down to her stomach.
* PetTheDog: When Ten got caught up in her vortex, she was quick to scoop him up and cradle him gently until he regained consciousness. She was also quite patient when he tried to hit on her, compared to her treatment of the similarly presumptuous Ataru.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She has a youthful appearance, but her father was Minamoto no Yoshitsune, a famous warrior and one of Japan's greatest heroes, who lived in the 12th century.
* RoyalBrat: A princess with a rude and unpleasant attitude. The only reason she even tried to reform Ataru in the first place (aside from her culture's law) is because Lum dragged him away from their first meeting, prompting this:
-->'''Kurama:''' What is it about other people's things that makes me want them?
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Her leotard is backless, leaving her back bare.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Kurama has an outfit well established in all the episodes in which she appears, composed of a bodice black / blue laced on the breasts with a yellow bow, boots, several bracelets and a black collar. In the manga, she later swaps it out for a leotard with an ImpossiblyLowNeckline.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Her retainers are notably lazy and incompetent, with the exception of her advisor.
* {{Tengu}}: She is a CuteMonsterGirl version of the Tengu (though she trades the long nose for little crow wings on her head and is thusly BirdPeople). She's also served by more traditional Karasu Tengu (which are runty little humanoid crows).
* VaporWear: Her leotard is strapless and backless, with a NavelDeepNeckline exposing her cleavage and making clear she doesn't wear a bra.
* WeaksauceWeakness: As a side-effect of spending so long in cryo-sleep, she gets sleepy whenever she's cold.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Ryuunosuke turns out to be a girl, she vanishes from the series and never returns.
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[[folder: Lum's parents]]
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->Lum's father is voiced by: Ritsuo Sawa (JP, original series), Creator/RikiyaKoyama (JP, ''All-Stars''), David Krause (EN, test dub), Anthony Lawson (EN, movies), Rob Mungle (EN, ''All-Stars '')
->Lum's mother is voiced by: Reiko Yamada (JP, original series), Creator/FumiHirano (JP, ''All-Stars''), Kristen Foster (EN, movies)
Lum's father is a huge, pudgy oni, and tends to be loud and scary. However, he is just as afraid of his wife as Ataru is of Lum. Lum's mother is a pretty woman who can only speak in the oni language.
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!!Both
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Lum's dad towers over most of the cast, while her mother is much closer in height to them.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Lum's father is stout and rather brutish-looking. On the other hand, Lum got her MsFanservice looks from her mother.
* {{Unnamed Parent}}s: We don't get a name for either of them.
!!Lum's father
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* BigEater: He got so big due to eating so much of his wife's food. The second opening for ''All Stars'' even shows him happily gorging on sweet potatoes with Rei in his "Tiger-Bull" form, matching his boundless appetite.
* BigFun: He's a large and overweight man who is very affable and lovable even when he's threatening to invade Earth.
* BigOlEyebrows: He has possibly the thickest eyebrows out of the cast.
* FormerlyFit: He gained ''a lot'' of weight because his wife stuffed him up with her cooking.
* {{Gonk}}: Only a few one panel Joke Oni have been as monstrous as Lum's father.
* HenpeckedHusband: He bonds with Ataru because neither of them can win an argument against their strong YamatoNadeshiko wives.
* IWasQuiteALooker: He used to be handsome and thin. Decades of being spoiled by his wife left him {{gonk}}y and grossly fat.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: Like Ten, Lum's father speaks in the Kansai dialect.
* TheUnapologetic: One time, Lum's father eats his wife's meal after he finishes his. Then ''he'' demands that she apologize when she kicks him out to put him in his place.
!!Lum's mother
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* InTheBlood: Like her daughter, she's an affectionate, dutiful and loving wife not above disciplining her husband when he steps out of the line, managing to get him fear her anger.
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Lum sometimes translates when her mom is present, but she must be doing something very wrong. In one example, Mendo's mother challenges Lum's mom to a duel. When Lum relays this, her mom begs Mendo's mom to reconsider, since they're both women... and besides, she's already married!
* SdrawkcabSpeech: In the 2022 anime, her lines are just Fumi Hirano's lines backwards, and the Japanese broadcast even has an additional track [[https://twitter.com/naonao3naonao3/status/1603490563525087232 where her lines aren't backwards]].
* StarfishLanguage: She does not speak any Earth language, with strange characters and symbols being used in the manga whenever she's speaking.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She strongly resembles her daughter except with her hair cut short.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Much like her daughter, Lum's mother is beautiful alien wife who is willing to lavish her husband with attentions, but is able to rule her household with iron fist and unwilling to put up with her husband's rudeness.
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[[folder: Ten's mother]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KeikoYokozawa
A firefighter who takes great pride in her work. When Ten was living with her, she would tell him stories of her work in the field, expressing her contempt for arsonists and pyromaniacs, who she feels should be sent straight to Hell. She is very busy and would leave him with a robotic nanny, which has contributed to his precociousness. Since her son breathes fire and (ab)uses his power liberally, he lives in terror of what will happen should she ever find out. She loves Ten very much, despite the rareness of her being able to visit him.
She is based on [[https://www.artelino.com/articles/edo_firemen.asp the firemen of Edo Japan]].
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* AbusiveParents: Zigzagged. She genuinely loves Ten, but she also left him permanently traumatized by telling him horror stories about the horrible punishments she would dole out to arsonists and pyromaniacs. She's completely oblivious to the fact that these stories have left Ten literally too scared to cry since he as a little baby, having thought he ''enjoyed'' them, so her abuse is completely unintentional.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: She casually pets Ten's head when asking him if he has been a "good boy"
* BerserkButton: Arsonists and pyromaniacs. When Ten was living with her, she would tell him stories about the horrific punishments she and her colleagues would inflict on any arsonists that they caught. Considering Ten's own fire-related shenanigans, he understandably is ''utterly terrified'' of his mother finding out about the things he has done.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: When she introduces herself to Ataru, she is perfectly pleasant, polite and nice, even taking Ataru's attempts to hit on her in stride. It's only when the topic of arsonists and pyromaniacs comes up does the temperature drop, showing why Ten is so afraid of his mother finding out about his own fire-related antics.
* BloodKnight: She enjoys fighting fires and arsonists with equal gusto.
* CatchPhrase: "FIRE!!"
* DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild: She doesn't know Ten is a fire-breathing BrattyHalfPint because Ten is ''terrified'' of what his mother might do to him if she knew his true self and pretends to be well-behaved whenever she's around.
* InHarmsWay: It's implied that she feels the most comfortable when fighting fires -- the bigger, the better.
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Her gung-ho attitude towards punishing people who set fires leaves Ten terrified. She doesn't seem to be aware of his fire-breathing tendencies around Ataru.
* ParentsAsPeople: She's so devoted to her job that a robotic nanny and Lum raised Ten in her place, but regrets not being able to spend more time with her son.
* UnnamedParent: Like Lum's mother and father (and Ataru's), we never get a name for her.
* {{Workaholic}}: She constantly carries around her firefighting equipment.
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[[folder: The Spice Girl Gang]]
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->Sugar is voiced by: Creator/{{TARAKO}} (JP, original series), Creator/MisakiKuno (JP, ''All-Stars'')
->Ginger is voiced by: Creator/ChikaSakamoto (JP, original series), Creator/ChitoseMorinaga (JP, ''All-Stars'')
->Pepper is voiced by: Rumiko Ukai (JP, original series), Creator/RieTakahashi (JP, ''All-Stars'')
Sugar, Ginger and Pepper. A trio of teenage girls who currently attend the same junior high school that Lum, Benten, and Oyuki did. Due to their seniors' reputation for causing mischief, the Gang of Three seeks to outdo their predecessors by defeating them in combat, but most of the time, they resort to simple pranks and underhanded schemes.
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!!In General
* AdaptationDyeJob: In the manga, Sugar's hair is pink and Ginger's hair is black. In the 1981 anime, their hair colors were changed to black and blonde respectively. However, later anime adaptations make Sugar's hair pink like in the manga. Meanwhile, Ginger's hair is blonde in the 2008 OVA and black with a dark green tint in the 2022 anime.
* BigBadWannabe: They want to be a feared trio of delinquents, and frequently menace Lum and her friends to pull it off. Unfortunately for them, their complete incompetence prevents them from being any real threat.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: In the 2008 OVA, Sugar has pink hair, Ginger has blonde hair, and Pepper has black hair.
* BrattyHalfPint: They're a bunch of stupid brats who play pranks on their "senior delinquents" so they can pretend to be a gang, but are just annoying more than anything.
* BullyingADragon: They try to pick up a fight with [[BadassBiker Benten]], [[ShockAndAwe Lum]], and [[AnIcePerson Oyuki]], despite their reputation making each of them known as a force to be reckoned with. Even the Spice Girls know they're screwed if Benten's "gang" gets serious against them.
* TheDividual: The three of them are often seen together, causing trouble for Lum and her friends.
* EdibleThemeNaming: All three of them are named after spice-related condiments.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In their introduction, they "greet" Lum, Benten , and Oyuki by [[TongueOutInsult sticking out their tongues]], just to make clear they're obnoxious brats right away.
* GoldfishPoopGang: These three lack the sense, power, or competence to be any real threat most of the time.
* HumanAliens: Like other aliens in the series, Sugar and Pepper look just like humans. Ginger mostly looks human too, but has [[CatGirl cat like ears]].
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: They're such stupid and incompetent antagonists that all their evil plans either backfire or fail humiliatingly.
* KarmicButtMonkey: None of their schemes really work out, often with humiliating results. Being thoughtless jerks with a high opinion of themselves, they tend to have it coming.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: In their last appearance, they try using animal minions to even the score with Lum and company. Their first attempts with Benten and Oyuki fail miserably... and then they bring out a giant electric eel to use against Lum, leaving her lightning powers useless. They only fail because their attacks on Lum keep hitting the eel too, ticking it off to the point where it pulls a HeelFaceTurn to help Lum.
* RedBaron: They call themselves "Seven-colored" Sugar, "Buddah" Ginger, and "Poisonous Snake" Pepper.
* SmallNameBigEgo: They give big speeches about how they're superior to Lum, Benten, and Oyuki. They... ''[[EpicFail really]]'' ...aren't.
* SuperSentaiStance: They did this at least once in the anime, ironic since ''none'' of these girls are heroic.
* TerribleTrio: An especially inept example. Sugar tends to be the leader, but they're all equally dumb. They consider Lum, Benten and Oyuki their rivals, but are [[UnknownRival ignored by them]].
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: While ChameleonCamouflage, FauxDeath, and GivingThemTheStrip ''are'' powers that could be useful in the hands of skilled people, Sugar, Ginger, and Pepper are ''not'' bright enough to use them to their best effect. Plus their opponents are usually [[ShockAndAwe Lum]], [[BadassNormal Benten]], and [[AnIcePerson Oyuki]], who are flat-out leagues above them.
!!Sugar
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* AnimeChineseGirl: Although she's an alien, Sugar wears a Chinese-style outfit and has the double bun hairstyle that's common for Chinese girls in anime.
* ChameleonCamouflage: Sugar's special ability allows her to blend in with her surroundings. While this ''would'' be useful for sneak attacks, Sugar's habit of [[CallingYourAttacks announcing the technique as she's using it]] makes it easy to track her down.
* RoseHairedSweetie: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Sugar's hair is pink (except in the 1981 anime), but she's every bit as bratty as Ginger and Pepper.
!!Ginger
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* CatGirl: Despite being an alien, Ginger looks like a girl with cat ears.
* FauxDeath: Ginger is able to slow down her bodily functions to the point that an untrained observer will believe that she is dead.
* RaceLift: Ginger's skintone is much lighter in the 1981 anime. The 2008 OVA and 2022 anime do give her the dark skin from the manga.
!!Pepper
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* AnimalMotifs: Her title is "Poisonous Snake" and her power is to shed her skin like a snake.
* GivingThemTheStrip: Pepper's power is a full-body example of this, where she sheds her skin like a snake to escape being grabbed.
* MagicPants: Pepper can shed her skin at will. This includes a replica of her clothing, leaving Pepper fully clothed.
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[[folder: Ran's mother]]
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->Voiced by: Yukiko Nashiwa (JP, original series), Creator/KazueIkura (JP, ''All-Stars'')
An extremely strict parent. She always blamed Ran for many misdeeds that Lum committed as a young girl and constantly punished her with a severe spanking.
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* AbusiveMom: She was a ''very'' strict parent and her go-to whenever (she thought) Ran did something wrong (like wetting the bed) was to violently spank her to the point of making Ran cry. And thanks to Lum, Ran was often blamed for things that she didn't even do. What separates her from [[ToughLove a parent that is strict and harsh because they think it will help their child be better]], [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist is that it is clear her punishments are more because she’s mad at Ran than anything else.]] She also hit Ran while harshly comparing her to Lum, made it clear she liked the other girl better and verbally assaulted Ran while spanking her which can be considered emotional abuse. Her very first appearance even has her automatically blaming something bad that happened on Ran without considering it could have been Lum, then spanking Ran and verbally assaulting her for lying when she said it was actually Lum.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Her bikini is black in the original manga and anime, but the 2022 anime made it golden.
* AdaptationalDumbass: In all three versions, she automatically believes that Lum was trying to take the fall for Ran breaking one of her antiques then punished her daughter for it. While she actually ''was'' right, her reasoning is less reasonable in the original anime. In the manga and 2022 anime, she sees through it because she sees the darts in Ran's hands match the one in the doll. [[RightForTheWrongReasons In the original anime, she thinks for a moment then concludes that it was really Ran since Lum is the "good girl" and Ran is "shameful."]]
* CassandraTruth: Ran tried telling her while she was being spanked that it was actually Lum that wet the bed. She never believed her and punished her even harder for "lying" or "letting (her) friend take the fall for (her)".
* CharacterExaggeration:
** In the first anime, she automatically assumes that it was Ran who flooded the bathroom and doesn't believe her daughter when she (truthfully) says it was actually Lum. Then proceeded to spank her for "lying", which in turn made Lum scared of her and frame Ran for her bed wetting. There's no scene like this in the manga or 2022 anime.
** Inverted example: In the manga, when Ran was tricked by a conman into buying lots of expensive gadgets, her mother grounded her for half a year. In the original anime, she just took away her allowance for that time-period.
** Another inverted example: The 2022 anime tones down her abusive treatment of Ran by removing the scenes where she gives her physical punishments, but she still screams and verbally assaults her.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: After Ran told her mother that it was Lum that wet the bed, not her, she proceeded to harshly ask Lum if that's true, even saying that she would spank Lum for it. Why she would think that a little girl would admit to her fault knowing that after seeing her violently spank her own daughter beforehand is anyone's guess.
* DisappointedInYou: She called Ran a shameful daughter for her (supposed) bedwetting and for (supposedly) not being as good of a child as Lum. She especially called Ran shameful for "letting" Lum try and take the fall for her on one of the few things Ran actually did do wrong (it was to try to make up for getting her in trouble before but she didn't know that).
* DisproportionateRetribution: She was a FAR stricter parent compared to Lum's and much harsher when it came to discipline. An action that Lum's parents would deem innocent (like wetting the bed), she would viciously spank Ran for. And for an action that caused Lums parents to spank her, she punished Ran by grounding her for half a year.
* TheDreaded: Both Ran and Lum were afraid of her.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** In her first scene in the manga, it's her telling her daughter right before she goes to sleep that if she were the bed she will spank her, and Ran replies with a scared “yes ma’am”.
** In her first scene in the original anime, she automatically assumed the bathroom flooding was Ran's fault. This is just one of the many misdeeds Ran got blamed and unfairly punished for.
* FieryRedhead: Her daughter got her red hair and explosive temper from her.
* HairTriggerTemper: She was quick to anger, her spankings were violent and she even smacked her daughter and made her cry for no other reason than was reminded [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter of how much Lum is a sweet girl compared to her.]]
* HateSink: She has little to no characterization aside from being Ran's AbusiveMom who traumatized her daughter into becoming a phycho and contributing to the latter's resentment towards Lum.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She thought her daughter Ran was a naughty brat while Lum was an angel. She couldn't have been more wrong at that age.
* {{Irony}}:
** She thought Ran was a bad kid when she was little, but her constant punishments in return ended up making Ran into a psycho as a teenager.
** She always fell for Lum's attempts at framing Ran for her bed wetting, but when Lum tried to take the fall for Ran accidentally breaking one of her antiques (a dancing robot toy) she immediately saw through it.
* {{Jerkass}}: Strict parenting aside, she wasn't very nice to her daughter overall, harshly judged her for unintentional mistakes, seeing the worst in her and tended to automatically assume Ran did something bad (then promptly punish her) without bothering to determine if it was another person, such as blaming Ram of flooding the bathroom when it was really Lum (which then made Lum scared of her and start framing Ran onward) to naturally assuming that a pee-stain in a drying bedsheet came from Ran (again it was Lum).
* MisplacedRetribution: She harshly punished Ran for things that Lum actually did. Most of the time it was because Lum framed Ran, but a few times it was because she automatically assumed the worst in her daughter.
* PetTheDog: She was actually very nurturing to Ran when she was sick and throwed her a descent birthday party.
* PosthumousCharacter: We only ever see her in flashbacks. Her current status and relationship with her daughter is unknown.
* SelectiveObliviousness: Ran did do a few things that she considered bad behavior when she was young (Ran admitted to Lum that she wet the bed once) and Lum didnt do anything bad (in front of her) whenever she stayed at her house. So she was quick to assume that Ran was responsible for anything bad that happened (even when Lum didn't even try to frame her, or even when Lum tried taking the fall for her) because she got it in her head that her daughter was "shameful" and Lum was an angel.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Her bikini top only covered her breasts, leaving her back fully bare.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: She looks exactly like an older Ran.
* UnnamedParent: We never get a name for her.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Flashbacks only show her wearing a bikini.
* WhyAreYouNotMySon: Thanks to Lum framing Ran for her bed wetting, she thought Lum was a better child than her daughter and made that clear to Ran. She once smacked Ran in the back of the head so hard it made her cry, while harshly asking her why she couldn't be more like Lum.
* WouldHurtAChild: She would (rather violently) spank her daughter to the point of tears for perceived bad behavior. Also, the reason Lum let Ran take the blame for her was because Rans's mother specifically said that she would have spanked Lum too for misbehaving, even though she wasnt her daughter. She also wasn’t against smacking her daughter on the back of the head while harshly criticizing her, once again hard enough to make Ran cry. Keep in mind they were FIVE at the time.
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[[folder: Elle]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/YoshikoSakakibara
The antagonist from the first movie, ''Only You''. She is the lovely ruler of planet Elle.
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* AccidentalProposal: When Ataru was a child, he played a game of shadow tag with Elle and it is a custom on her planet that stepping on someone's shadow counts as a marriage proposal. Now she has came to claim her husband. [[spoiler:Their engagement becomes null after Ataru remembers he lied about winning their game.]]
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: She sends her minions to Earth to claim Ataru as her husband and he's down for it until he finds out about Elle's "hobby" to collect and freeze handsome men. When Ataru tries to call the wedding off, she takes him prisoner and tries forcing him to go through with it, only to be stopped by Lum.
* BigBad: She's the villainess of the first movie.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She seems nice at first, until she reveals that she makes a "hobby" out of freezing her lovers to add them to her large collection.
* BondVillainStupidity: If she had just remained focused on Ataru instead of falling for one of those trying to rescue him, Ataru would likely have never found out about her frozen harem.
* CanonForeigner: She's an original character of the first movie and doesn't exist in the manga.
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: She wants to marry Ataru even if by force because they played a game of shadow tag and on her planet stepping on someone's shadow is considered a marriage proposal. [[spoiler:At the end it turns out Ataru never stepped in her shadow in the first place and therefore their engagement is null.]]
* TheCollector: She collects all of the handsome men that have ever loved her and freezes them for storage inside a giant refrigerator, to "keep their love forever fresh". She plans to make Mendou the 100,000th (and last, as the next day she'd marry Ataru and settle down).
* DudeMagnet: She's attracted a considerable number of suitors by the time she shows up.
* EvilCounterpart: To Lum. Elle is also an attractive AlienPrincess who lost to Ataru in a game of tag [[spoiler:(although he merely tricked her)]] and wants to claim him as her husband for it. However, Elle is ''far'' worse than Lum ever could be because she keeps a collection of frozen handsome men and is determined to make Ataru hers even if she has to turn him into her slave.
* FlowersOfFemininity: She's a beautiful queen and wears a white rose in her hair.
* ForgottenFriendNewFoe: She met Ataru when they were both little kids, but Ataru forgot all about her until she shows up during the movie.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: She's a beautiful queen beloved by the people of her planet, but the men that she takes a liking to will either become part of her frozen collection or her slave.
* LeotardOfPower: She wears a rose-red leotard beneath a regal white cape.
* LightIsNotGood: She's very beautiful and wears a white cape over her body, but she's still a villain and nowhere near as nice as she seems.
* LordCountry: Exaggerated. Elle rules over an entire ''planet'' that shares her same name.
* NakedOnArrival: Her first official appearance shows her naked from the back as she comes out of her bath.
* PsychoPink: She has rose-colored hair and serves as the main villain of the first movie. Although she doesn't seem bad at first, even the perverted Ataru is repulsed by Elle's true twisted and depraved nature.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Subverted. She has pink hair and presents herself as a sweet woman who is smitten with Ataru, but she's actually a shameless man-eater who treats handsome men as collectibles and tries forcing Ataru to marry her after he realizes her true nature.
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Her rose hair and green eyes signify her relevance as royalty and the villain of the first movie.
* TermsOfEndangerment: She calls Ataru "Honey" because she thinks he's her husband. He's pleased with her displays of affection until he discovers what a dangerous woman she really is.
* TheUnfettered: She's determined to have her way no matter what.
* UniversallyBelovedLeader: She's a beloved ruler on her homeworld.
* VillainBall: She just ''had'' to try and freeze Mendou, which only ends up exposing her true nature as an evil man-eater to Ataru and makes him lose any intention to marry her willingly.
* VillainousCrush: Elle is the first movie's villain because she wants to take Ataru from Lum and make him her husband. Ataru actually likes the idea at first, but changes his mind after he finds out about [[TheCollector Elle's frozen collection of handsome men]]. Elle still attempts to make him marry her by force.
* WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver: Her outfit consists of a red leotard with a white cape and accessories. Her color scheme is a hint at her being dangerous despite good first impressions.
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: She's considered the most beautiful woman of ''the entire universe''.
* {{Yandere}}: She has the "hobby" of imprisoning and freezing the men she's attracted to, even keeping a very big collection inside a giant refrigerator. When Ataru realizes this and changes his mind about marrying her, Elle will ''not'' let him go willingly and is determined to make Ataru hers, whether he wants it or not.
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[[folder: Rupa]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KanetoShiozawa
The prince of a world of total darkness, giant mushrooms, and flying pigs. It was arranged by his great-grandfather that he would marry Lum.
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* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: He kidnaps Lum and tries to force her to carry out their ArrangedMarriage.
* ArcVillain: He's the antagonist for the final arc where he goes to Earth to claim Lum as his bride.
* ArrangedMarriage: It was arranged by Rupa's great-grandfather that he would marry Lum.
* BeingEvilSucks: He ends up admitting to Carla that his blind adherence to his grandfather's wishes in trying to marry Lum caused more trouble than it was worth, and that it made it harder for him to admit to himself who he really loves.
* BetaCouple: With Carla. Their dysfunctional relationship parallels Ataru and Lum's in the final arc. Unlike the main couple getting an open ending, Rupa proposes to Carla and they look happy despite how rocky their relationship has been.
* BigBadWannabe: He triggers the start of the final arc with his engagement to Lum. Ultimately, however, the final conflict boils down to Lum and Ataru's mutual stubbornness, and Rupa finds himself sidelined.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Carla. They were close when they were children, but her going {{Yandere}} because of his engagement to Lum made him terrified of her. At the end, however, Rupa admits that he doesn't really want to marry Lum and asks Carla to marry him.
* DisposableFiance: He intended to marry Lum, but ultimately ends up not going through with it.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: His {{Yandere}} childhood friend Carla has repeatedly assaulted him for most of their lives, sometimes even blasting him with a bazooka. Flashbacks to Carla abusing his child self are PlayedForLaughs.
* InLoveWithLove: As Lum and Ten point out, Rupa would have been fine with an ArrangedMarriage with anyone as long as his fiancée was cute. He's confronted about how he's completely disregarding his childhood friend Carla's feelings for him, causing her to go mad over Rupa preferring to marry a stranger over her.
* InTheHood: He's rarely seen outside his hooded black cloak.
* KnightOfCerebus: His arrival kicks off the final arc, which ultimately has the highest stakes seen in the whole story.
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: His great-grandfather gave him a picture of a little Lum when he was a kid. Since she's cute, he decided to go through with their ArrangedMarriage even if he had to force her into it.
* LovingAShadow: He ''thought'' he would like Lum more than Carla, only based on the assumption that Lum wouldn't be as possessive and violent. Lum herself points out she ''is'' very possessive and violent towards the man she loves, so there's no reason why Rupa should like her, especially when they're complete strangers.
* MarryForLove: At the end, he realizes he isn't in love with Lum and breaks off the ArrangedMarriage to marry Carla, the woman he really loves.
* NeverMyFault: He explains to Lum that he refuses to return Carla's feelings because she's dangerously possessive and jealous, to the point she has repeatedly assaulted and almost killed him. However, Lum thinks Carla ''does'' have a legitimate grievance against him, as he readily agreed to marry a complete stranger when he (sort of) had a relationship with Carla when they were kids.
* StupidEvil: While his schemes actually do manage to work to some extent, he fails at being imposing. In his entrance scene, he crashed into a wall and had to be brought into the infirmary to recuperate.
* TohokuRegionalAccent: For some reason, he speaks with a Tohoku accent, given the nature of the series this could just be RuleOfFunny.
* UnknowinglyInLove: Since he was told that he would marry Lum from a young age, he couldn't understand he didn't want that or that he wanted to marry Carla all along, until the penultimate chapter.
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[[folder: Carla]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/YouInoue
Rupa's childhood friend. Ever since they've been children, Carla has loved Rupa. When one day Rupa showed Carla a picture of Lum, his bride-to-be, Carla changed from a childhood friend to a violent arch-enemy.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Rupa. He did think she was cute when they were kids, but after he told her about his engagement to Lum, Carla became an unhinged {{Yandere}} who obsessively stalks and attacks him because he doesn't reciprocate her feelings. Rupa naturally ended up terrified of her after years of abuse.
* BetaCouple: With Rupa in the final arc. Their relationship problems and Carla's abusive possessiveness make them an obvious parallel to Ataru and Lum, but unlike those two having an open ending, Carla gets a definite happy ending with Rupa admitting he loves her and asking her to marry him.
* ChainmailBikini: Beneath her robe, she wears a skimpy armor that looks like a bikini.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: She has been obsessively in love with Rupa since they were kids, but their relationship soured ''a lot'' since Carla went crazy with jealousy because Rupa is engaged to Lum. At the end, however, Rupa gives up on Lum and asks Carla to marry him.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Ever since Rupa told her about his engagement to Lum, she has constantly threatened and terrorized Rupa out of jealousy.
* CryIntoChest: When Rupa ''finally'' admits he was wrong about wanting to marry Lum and asks Carla to marry him, Carla hugs him tightly and breaks down in tears.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: She has spent most of her life attacking Rupa with heavy weaponry.
* DrivenByEnvy: Carla was pissed when Rupa told her he was going to marry some girl he'd never even met when he already had her. She has spent years making his life hell since then, and after he kidnaps Lum to force her to marry him, Carla is hellbent on ruining their wedding.
* EarlyBirdCameo: At the start of Episode 18 of the 2022 anime, there's a glimpse of Carla's silhouette.
* EvilWearsBlack: She wears a black wedding dress as she crashes Rupa's forced wedding with Lum, fully intending to stop it even if she has to kill both Rupa and Lum.
* IfICantHaveYou: After Rupa claims to hate her, Carla [[BerserkerTears bursts into tears]] and declares that she's going to commit a MurderSuicide with him, as she won't let anyone else have him.
* LoveHungry: When she was a child, she forced Rupa to say he loved her by ''holding him at gunpoint''. After she learned he was already engaged to another girl, Carla has been obsessed with assaulting Rupa until he agrees to marry her.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: She was willing to kill Lum to prevent Rupa from marrying her, either unaware or not caring that Lum wasn't on board with this engagement.
* NotGoodWithRejection: Carla loves Rupa, but he's engaged to another girl. In response to feeling rejected by Rupa, Carla constantly chases him down, attacks him, and even tries to ''kill'' him.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: All aspects of her character tie back into Rupa and her obsession with making him marry her.
* SmallGirlBigGun: The weapons she hauls out tend to be as long as she is tall.
* StalkerWithACrush: After Rupa told her he would marry Lum, Carla began chasing him around to blast him with her bazooka while shouting out her love for him. No matter how far he ran, she would find him and attack him again.
* TohokuRegionalAccent: Much like Rupa, she also speaks with a Tohoku accent and it fits with her overall personality.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: She's a murderously possessive {{Yandere}} with white hair.
* {{Yandere}}: She did ''not'' take Rupa's engagement to Lum well. Since then, she has spent most of her life chasing him and trying to kill him.
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!!Supernatural Beings
[[folder: Pochi]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/JojiYanami (JP, original series), Shuhei Nakano (JP, ''All-Stars'')
A little monster who lived at the bottom of a pool at Mendou's private hotel.
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* BenevolentMonsters: He's a cute and friendly monster who just wants to befriend humans. Unfortunately, most people freak out when he comes out of the pool, so Mendou has to kick him out.
* HatesBeingAlone: When Ataru tries to abandon him at the beach, he realizes he doesn't want to be alone and tries guilt tripping Ataru's group into not leaving him. To his luck, a little boy picks him up as a pet.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He just want to become friends with the humans who come to visit his "home" at the pool.
* NiceGuy: He's very sweet and friendly, even trying to serve tea to his "guests" at the pool. However, he doesn't realize humans drown if he makes them stay underwater for too long.
* NoNameGiven: His name is never mentioned. A boy adopts him and names him Pochi, making it the only name known for him.
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[[folder: Kitsune-ko]]
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->Voiced by: Masako Sugaya (JP, original series), Creator/RieKugimiya (JP, ''All-Stars'')
A young fox spirit that develops a crush on Shinobu when he first meets her.
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* AsianFoxSpirit: He's a little fox with the ability to shapeshift.
* InterspeciesRomance: A young kitsune with a huge crush on the human girl Shinobu. Unfortunately for him, she doesn't return his feelings and only sees him as a friend.
* NiceGuy: He's maybe the only character in all the story who isn't obnoxious or dangerous.
* RescueRomance: Kitsune developed a major crush on Shinobu after she saved him from getting beat up by a gang of punk dogs.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: He is a very cute little fox.
* StalkerWithACrush: After getting saved by Shinobu, he becomes infatuated with her and starts following her around to see what he can do to earn her affection.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Like the [[AsianFoxSpirit fox spirits of Japanese folklore]], he's able to shapeshift. His transformation power allows him to make himself look like a short fox version of the other characters.
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[[folder: Inaba]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/HirotakaSuzuoki (JP, original series), Jonathan Soronen (EN, movies)
An employee at the Fate Production Bureau which makes doorknobs to the Dream Realm. A bumbling yet kind-hearted young man who wears a rabbit costume which allows him to travel freely to and from subspace.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Inaba appears to be a human boy in a bunny-suit that allows him to enter subspace, but if he IS human then no backstory is ever given as to how he came to work at the Bureau given that all the other workers are anthropomorphic rabbits.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: He ends up falling in love with Shinobu after she finds him passed out and hungry in the street and gives him some food.
* BetaCouple: With Shinobu. They're the only couple in the series who are never abusive to each other and, unlike the main couple, they're officially dating by the end.
* DoggedNiceGuy: As soon as he meets Shinobu, he's smitten and starts pining for her. Once she realizes he isn't a creep or a weirdo, Shinobu comes to like him back and they become a couple.
* EndearinglyDorky: He's awkward, nervous, and tends to say the wrong things and embarrass himself in front of Shinobu. But he's genuinely innocent (one of the few characters in the series who is not a pervert) and Shinobu begins to fall for him because he's truly a NiceGuy, in contrast to all her previous love interests.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He has blond hair and he's the nicest guy in the series bar none.
* LoveAtFirstSight: He falls for Shinobu right away.
* MeaningfulName: His name comes from a children's story called "The White Rabbit of Inaba".
* NiceGuy: Possibly the only truly nice guy in the series.
* OfficialCouple: He becomes Shinobu's boyfriend towards the end of the series.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: He's introduced very late into the series and his only characterization is being a NiceGuy who loves Shinobu, with all of his appearances being about his relationship with her.
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[[folder: Mr. Shiowatari]]
->Voiced by: Kaneta Kimotsuki (JP, original series)
Nagisa's father, a kind-hearted man but a terrible businessman who ate himself to death trying to perfect a recipe for sea urchin-flavored kakigori (shaved ice). He somehow arranges for his former property to be sold to his old friend, Mr. Fujinami, for 300 yen, in hopes of attaining spiritual peace.
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* BackForTheDead: He only appears in the two-parter "Nagisa's Fiance" manga arc in chapters 341-342 (and the {{OAV}} adaptation of said arc). At its climax, as the sun rises, he returns to the afterlife, saying that with his "daughter's" reunion with her "fiance" Ryuunosuke, he can now pass on with no regrets.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: He describes Nagisa as a "late-blooming girl" after Nagisa shows off his bare, masculine chest to Ryuunosuke.
* CordonBleughChef: When he was alive, he tried making sea urchin-flavored kakigori (shaved ice). However, every time he tried it, the result was disgusting and he died alongside Nagisa because of his futile efforts to at least make it edible.
* DeathByGluttony: He died after eating his 98th successive bowl of kakigori.
* DetrimentalDetermination: He literally ate himself to death trying to come up with a recipe for sea urchin-flavored kakigori (shaved ice) that ''didn't'' taste disgusting.
* {{Foil}}: To Mr. Fujinami. They're both stupidly incompetent businessmen and [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender forced an opposite gender identity on their children from birth]]. However, they're starkly different in their personalities since despite his faults as a breadwinner and father, Mr. Shiowatari is a decent and good-hearted person who truly wishes for his child's happiness, as opposed to Mr. Fujinami being an [[AbusiveParents abusive]] {{Jerkass}} who actively tries to foil his daughter's attempts to do what she wants.
* FriendlyGhost: He's a ghost by the time of his first appearance, but still friendlier than most of the living characters in the cast.
* GoodParents: He's the complete opposite of his buddy Mr. Fujinami in that he's shown to be a loving, gentle, and caring father, delusions aside. Nagisa absolutely dotes on him, and he's even willing to give up the chance to be restored to life to let his "daughter" be revived instead. He even passes on to the afterlife at peace once Nagisa is revived and given a chance to find love with Ryuunosuke.
* IRejectYourReality: He's in complete denial that his son Nagisa isn't a daughter.
* IncompetenceInc: He was a nice guy, but a ''lousy'' businessman. For starters, he thought a deserted island four miles offshore from the nearest beachside town would be a great place to set up a beach cafe. Then he decided he needed a gimmick to lure the customers in... and decided on sea urchin-flavored kakigori, a dish nobody except maybe an alien would find appetizing.
* ThePrankster: His first appearance has him pulling a practical joke on the Fujinamis, Ataru, Lum, Shutaro and Shinobu, and Nagisa comments on his love of pranks.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: He shares similarly terrible business sense with Mr. Fujinami, and likewise his delusions about his offspring's gender.
* WantedASonInstead: Gender-flipped. He wanted a ''daughter'' so badly that he decided to bring up his son as a girl.
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