History DarthWiki / BurningRhapsody

* BadassGrandpa: He's in his fifties, and thus highly suspected to be one by everyone since he can sit around in the middle of the Majins and they don't attack him. His status as the TrueFinalBoss only proves this.

[[folder:Noriaki Hakamuro]]

* ColorCodedElements: Zen'i's white-and-green color base indicates his status as a light and wind user, while Kyoku's dark reds show he's a fire and darkness user. Itami and Rin as well are RedOniBlueOni and use fire and water respectedly.

* BlockingStopsAllDamage: Averted. Any blocked attack still deals a minimum 10% of its damage, increasing with Rage. Rage even fills up as your attacks are blocked.

* PlayingWithFire: The ThemeNaming within the series. It isn't called Burning Rhapsody for nothing. Only the Rage Install isn't named after something related to fire. Which leads to...

* FantasticFightingStyle: His style is referred to as ''Shirakaze Sude-ryu and Ittou-ryu''. Those are the unarmed and one-sword fighting style specific to his clan, specializing in circular movements and momentum. [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration It serves to explain Zen'i's character type, as his sweeping motions means many of his attacks are circularand thus great at countering sidesteps.]]

* HeroWithAnFInGood
* IWorkAlone: After joining the Yosseidan in Edo, he continued his travelling, never to set foot in Edo again.

* MeaningfulName: DoubleSubversion: His name means good intent, and even though he is an evil {{Jerkass}}, he still thinks he's doing good and is more of a WellIntentionedExtremist than a full-blown sociopath.

* PowerOfTheVoid: He learned the Primitive Magic of Destruction at the Seirinkyokai back in his youth. His Scorching Attack essentially disintegrates the opponent.
* RazorWind: His ''Senpuuken'' is a short-ranged tornado of RazorWind.

-> Kyoku is a professional fighter turned demon hunter, who grew bored of even this and gave himself handicaps, such as breaking his own leg before a fight. Though, during a travel in Ezogashima, he lost a fight and was ready to die; but Zen'i [[CombatPragmatist killed the thing from behind]] before it could deal the finishing blow. Kyoku left in shame, [[UnknownRival waiting to restore himself before taking his revenge with full strength]].

* BigScrewedUpFamily: His sister Shinku is a pariah, and Kyoku is known to get along with only his adopted sister Genkai. The Hashiros are known to be prone to quarrelling much more than the bloodlines used to, making them not much of a threat to the Jiyubudoka.

-> An Edo-born prodigy, her intellect led to her being unemotional, and her animosity for her family (one who wanted to rise as a grand bloodline) made her throw her life aside to learn karate outside. She founded the Yosseidan, a demon-hunting group, after graduating from her karate school, her magic school and normal school. She then disappeared in her own organization's shadow to avoid fighting Itami when she returned. Though, since she cannot live like that forever, she takes up Itami's challenge.

-> A child born from a bloodline that decimated itself in a civil war caused by Jiyubudoka pressure. He became an errant thief, and stole from the biggest riches around. With the money he stole, he funded the building of an orphanage where he housed Saki, whom he found on a road. Famed for his ability as a thief, plans spring to stop him, and his increasing addiction to stealing proves to be more and more problematic over time as his plunderings become more and more difficult to hide.

* BlowYouAway: Has a blood-inherited wind affinity.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Calls the Jiyubudoka this, as they don't really fight for freedom.
* IneffectualLoner: Averted. He managed to loot every single target of his, and this while acting all alone.

-> Rin's twin sister, with a [[PlayingWithFire fire affinity]]. She's also the RedOni to her sister's blue, and she's been calling out the clan on everything she could since she was conscious. She was kicked out of the house at age 13 when the situation couldn't get worse. She then got into dirty work in assassinating for the {{Yakuza}}, and later killed her own boss to take command and grab easy life. She challenged Rin publicly several times and had henchmen look all over Edo for her. She finds out about the Majins in Kyoto, and heads there sure of Rin's presence.

* ChainPain: Wields a kusarigama, combining this and SinisterScythe.

* HiddenDepths: She's a murderously [[HairTriggerTemper violent]] [[ThePowerOfHate and hateful]] {{Yakuza}}. She still cares for Kyoku and knows light magic well enough to notice that he is assimilating Majins, and she's ready to exorcise the demons off of him in case Kyoku goes out of control. She's also far more insightful regarding Rin's flaws than Zen'i, or Rin herself.

* From: Ezogashima

-> A rich heir to a group of businesses in Sapporo, he is one of the richest persons in all of Ezogashima. He has successful business even down in Edo. He founded the Kinma gang to attack fund conveys from his rivals by controlling clandestine activities and acquire even more money, but they got razed while he was away. Junichi takes upon himself to take revenge.

* AnachronismStew: A walking one, what with fireworks in feudal Japan.

* LethalJokeCharacter: Story-wise. He is rather goofy and weak for showing up at a tournament with the fate of a Japan supposedly hanging in the balance. He still is '''the [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass single]] [[RankInflation S-Rank]] [[RandomPowerRanking threat]] to the Jiyubudoka''' because he has a personal militia and could control or shut down any backstage action ''at will''.
** Subverted right back to JokeCharacter canon-wise as his threat level quickly disappears when it's known that he's here on his own with no backup at all.

* {{Revenge}}: Against Zen'i, for wrecking his "Kinma" gang while he was away on a business trip.
* TeenGenius: Manages to be the single most threatening entity to the Jiyubudoka at age eighteen. This is more because of the fact that they're unaware of the "Kinma"'s end.

-> Rin and Itami's older sister, she works to become an attorney of sorts. She was concerned when Rin's aloofness and Itami's hostility menaced to consume the family, and tried to put them apart. She agreed to kick Itami out, unaware that this caused her to plot the clan's demise. When the elder sister Kazune died, she tried to fill the vacuum, even though she has difficulty hanging in. She is in charge of the contacts of the future clan, and this resulted in her meeting and making friends with Junichi. When she hears of Rin and Itami meeting in Kyoto, she goes there to avoid bloodshed.

* StepfordSnarker: Her older sister died, and her two younger sisters are out to kill each other, leaving her with far too much responsibility and despair.

* BadassNormal: Much less gifts in magic than others, and no blood-inherited power. Can beat a good part of the cast fair and square. He has already stopped Yosseidan investigation teams - a dozen men trained in magic - all by himself.

* CodeName: His family name, Hakamuro, has been made up by the Jiyubudoka. Not being from a bloodline, he doesn't have an actual family name.

* ForGreatJustice: Truly believes he's doing this by virtue of being with the Jiyubudoka, though this fades away with time.

[[folder:Nii Dakara]]

** Against him, his relentless dog-kicking and ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, and sometimes pointless cruelty and BadBoss habits. Also, his absence of contingency plans that don't involve him beating the tar out of someone count.

-> Kyoku's pariah little sister. Despite having been trained much like any member of her clan, she went out for her own benefits. Her refusal to use her money for the clan soon devolved into generalized egocentric demeanor and narcissism, as she - after Kyoku quitted the fighting competition - won many many fighting tournaments. Out for her own gain, she sowed discord in the clan so she could discretely plunder money from the clan's treasure. This earned her ire from the clan due to the justified suspicions that she's stealing.

* PowerCopying: She copied Kyoku's fighting style and fire powers, though she strayed away from Majins' power.

* BadassGrandpa: Highly suspected to be one by everyone since he can sit around in the middle of the Majins and they don't attack him. His status as the TrueFinalBoss only proves this. He's in his fifties.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu

* ShotoClone: He has projectiles that don't fizzle out (unlike most other characters), and an uppercut.

* AnachronismStew: It's Japan in 1861, but the foreign powers are nowhere in sight, Hokkaido (or Ezogashima as it was called) is colonized and the concept of zaibatsus already neared its head (which only occured after Meiji).
* AnimeHair: Zen'i and Kyoku. [[spoiler:Also, Juuma.]]
* BadassFamily: The Kazama (formerly), the Hashiro (overlaps with BigScrewedUpFamily), Rin's still-unnamed family (though she says most are wannabes), the Inazuma (formerly too).

* BadassFamily: The Kazama (formerly), the Hajiro (overlaps with BigScrewedUpFamily), Rin's still-unnamed family (though she says most are wannabes), the Inazuma (formerly too).

[[folder:Kyoku Hajiro]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: His sister Shinku is a pariah, and Kyoku is known to get along with only his adopted sister Genkai. The Hajiros are known to be prone to quarrelling much more than the bloodlines used to, making them not much a threat to the Jiyubudoka.

[[folder:Shinku Hajiro]]

* DemonHunting: Has done this for a while.

Rin commits suicide to exterminate the Majins, Yuun seals himself off with the money, Itami sacrifices herself fighting off the Majins to buy time for Kyoku to beat Zen'i, Junichi is unceremoniously killed by a flock of Majins, Asuka goes crazy and kills herself, Saki is murdered by Juuma, Noriaki is killed off by Nii, Nii is killed by Majins, and Shinku is eaten alive by a snake-like Majin that just got out of Kyoku's corpse. Also, refuse to continue against Juuma and you'll get treated to the BlackScreenOfDeath.]]

* BreakMeter

* ComebackMechanic: The Rage Install. Though the Rage Gauge also fills by having your attacks blocked.

* OneHitKill: The Scorcher. [[AwesomeButImpractical Though you'll need to enter Rage Install and connect a Scorching Opener to use it.]]

* SNKBoss: [[SuperMode Frenzied]] Characters. They are the FinalBoss for each arcade and have rather humongous buffs.
** Frenzied Zen'i moves and attacks faster. Also, his ''Senpuken'' special hits three times. He is the FinalBoss to [[UnknownRival Kyoku]], [[{{Revenge}} Junichi, Saki]], and [[BigBad Nii]][[spoiler:, but also Juma]].
** Frenzied Kyoku attacks faster and deals counterhits even if he didn't actually counter, and his ''Goryoku-ken'' special becomes a lot more powerful. He is the FinalBoss to [[WorthyOpponent Noriaki]] and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Shinku]].
** Frenzied Rin takes less damage, can charge her ''Goju no Go'' special, with autoguard during the whole charge period, and can followup ''Goju no Ju'' one more time for three hits instead of 2. She is [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry Itami]]'s FinalBoss.
** Frenzied Yuun moves faster and has autoguard whenever he's moving (even while walking).
** Frenzied Itami deals a lot more damage. She is [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry Rin]]'s FinalBoss.
** Frenzied Junichi averts it by having no more than the standard buffs.
** Frenzied Asuka gets a heavy crumple on all counterhits regardless of her attack strength.
** Frenzied Saki has a HealingFactor and her throw deals 50 damage instead of 0 and lets the opponent in a hit state for much longer.
** Frenzied Noriaki gains autoguard on all his attacks.
** Frenzied Nii attacks faster, and all his special attacks are enhanced. He is the FinalBoss to [[TheHero Zen'i]], [[ArchEnemy Yuun]], [[OnlySaneMan Asuka]] and [[SuperpowerfulGenetics Yasuke]].
** Frenzied Shinku's ''Shinku-giri'' special deals damage if she makes contact with the opponent.
** Frenzied Yasuke regenerates his Hatred Gauge, and gains attack power depending on its charge level. His ''Kazanken'' special also has a larger hitbox. [[spoiler:He is Juuma's True Final Boss.]]
** [[spoiler:Frenzied Juuma has Hatred Gauge auto-gain. His ''Kokumagan'' specials counters physical attacks as well as projectiles. He's the TrueFinalBoss to everyone and [[BaitAndSwitchBoss instantly kills the]] FinalBoss to appear.]]

* StatusBuff: The Rage Install, which gives permanently-full Burn Gauge and access to the [[OneHitKill Scorching Attack]].

* ThreeRoundDeathmatch: Averted.

* BlockingStopsAllDamage: Cruelly averted. Any blocked attack still deals 30% of its damage, increasing with Rage. Plus, the short BreakMeter will prevent blocking too much damage, as it breaks at about 90% of a lifebar's worth of damage, not regenerating at all except after a guard break.

* InvulnerableAttack: Defied. Some attacks are invulnerable to a specific type of moves, but no attack is invulnerable to everything.
* OneHitKill: The Scorching Attack. [[AwesomeButImpractical Though you'll need to enter Rage Install and connect a Scorching Opener (which is slow and short-ranged and has almost no priority) to use it.]]

* ThePowerOfHate: The Rage Install ComebackMechanic is powering oneself up by sheer hate. The [[ManaMeter Super Gauge]] is called Hatred Gauge, and using the Rage Install requires filling its Rage Gauge.

** Frenzied Zen'i moves and attacks faster. Also, his ''Senpuken'' hits three times. He is the FinalBoss to [[UnknownRival Kyoku]], [[{{Revenge}} Junichi, Saki]], and [[BigBad Nii]][[spoiler:, but also Juma]].
** Frenzied Kyoku attacks faster and deals counterhits even if he didn't actually counter, and his ''Goryoku-ken'' becomes a lot more powerful. He is the FinalBoss to [[WorthyOpponent Noriaki]] and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Shinku]].
** Frenzied Rin takes less damage, can charge her ''Goju no Go'' with autoguard during the whole charge period, and can followup ''Goju no Ju'' one more time. She is [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry Itami]]'s FinalBoss.
** Frenzied Yuun moves faster and has SuperArmor during movement.
** Frenzied Itami deals more damage. She is [[TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry Rin]]'s FinalBoss.

** Frenzied Asuka gets a heavy crumple on all counterhits.
** Frenzied Saki has a HealingFactor and her ''Shuufuu Nage'' deals 50 damage and lets the opponent in a hit state for much longer.
** Frenzied Noriaki gains autoguard in the startup of all his attacks.

** Frenzied Shinku's ''Shinku-giri'' deals damage if she makes contact with the opponent.
** Frenzied Yasuke regenerates his Hatred Gauge, and gains attack power depending on its charge level. His ''Kazanken'' also has a larger hitbox. [[spoiler:He is Juuma's True Final Boss.]]
** [[spoiler:Frenzied Juuma has Hatred Gauge auto-gain. His ''Kokumagan'' counters physical attacks as well as projectiles. He's the TrueFinalBoss to everyone and [[BaitAndSwitchBoss instantly kills the]] FinalBoss to appear.]]

* StatusBuff: The Rage Install, which gives self-charging Hatred Gauge and access to the [[OneHitKill Scorching Attack]].
* ThreeRoundDeathmatch: Averted. The Scorching Attack which disintegrates the opponent can only be used in the winning round.

* {{Badass}}: Highly suspected to be one by everyone since he can sit around in the middle of the Majins and they don't attack him. His status as the TrueFinalBoss only proves this.
** BadassGrandpa: He's in his fifties.

* Height: Unmeasured, presumed to be around 185 cm [[spoiler:185 cm]]
* Weight: Unmeasured, supposedly heavy [[spoiler:95 kg]]
* Age: Unknown, looks rather old [[spoiler:55]]

* DownerEnding: Everyone dies obviously in their normal arcade ending, except [[NominalHero Zen'i]], [[TheRival Kyoku]], [[SuperpowerfulGenetics and Yasuke]]. [[spoiler:Juuma doesn't die either, but is beaten by two mysterious figures.\\

* {{Combos}}: Custom combos are discouraged. There are a few combos in your character's movelists, and those will determine how much damage you can get off of one random hit; in an attempt to emphasize counter hits (which almost guarantee followup hits) and reading over execution or mashing.

** Frenzied Asuka gets heavier crumples on counterhits.

* Weight: 71 kg

* Weight: 83 kg

* Weight: 85 kg

[[folder:[[spoiler:Juuma Jinki]]]]

* Height: Unmeasured, presumed to be around 185 cm
* Weight: Unmeasured
* Age: Unknown, looks rather old

* AnimeHair: Yoi and Kyoku. [[spoiler:Also, Juuma.]]
* BadassFamily: The Takarokugai (formerly), the Hajiro (overlaps with BigScrewedUpFamily), Rin's still-unnamed family (though she says most are wannabes), the Hayako (formerly too).

* ColorCodedElements: Yoi's white-and-green color base indicates his status as a light and wind user, while Kyoku's dark reds show he's a fire and darkness user. Itami and Rin as well are RedOniBlueOni and use fire and water respectedly.
* DownerEnding: Everyone dies obviously in their normal arcade ending, except [[NominalHero Yoi]], [[TheRival Kyoku]], [[SuperpowerfulGenetics and Yasuke]]. [[spoiler:Juuma doesn't die either, but is beaten by two mysterious figures.\\
Rin commits suicide to exterminate the Majins, Yuun seals himself off with the money, Itami sacrifices herself fighting off the Majins to buy time for Kyoku to beat Yoi, Junichi is unceremoniously killed by a flock of Majins, Asuka goes crazy and kills herself, Saki is murdered by Juuma, Noriaki is killed off by Nii, Nii is killed by Majins, and Shini is eaten alive by a snake-like Majin that just got out of Kyoku's corpse. Also, refuse to continue against Juuma and you'll get treated to the BlackScreenOfDeath.]]
** Even the ending to the ''Ignition'' story has shades of this. [[spoiler:Yoi loses to Rage-Installed Kyoku. Yuun's arcade ending is canon, meaning he seals himself off with the prize money. Meanwhile, Nii succeeds in his objectives in everyone's back and takes over the Jiyubudoka, then flees from the scene.]]
** As well for ''Ablaze''. [[spoiler:Yoi unseals Yuun, but they face Nii, Shini and Junichi who briefly allied himself with them; he is only saved by TeethClenchedTeamwork from Yuun. Rin finds and defeats Itami, but Kyoku gives her a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and leaves with Itami in tow. She and Asuka are left as prey to Juuma. Good things are though: Juuma is warded off by Yasuke, and he and Noriaki thwarted the Majin invasion by themselves.]]

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: [[spoiler:In canon, Kyoku uses the Rage Install to beat Yoi. In the Story Mode, this is put in the form of a fight with permanent-Rage-Install Kyoku against Frenzied Yoi.]]
* GenderBlenderName: Many of them, notably in main characters. Yoi, Yuun and Nii's names ends with a kanji used for female names. Kyoku is usually read as a female name too. On the other side, Shini's name uses gender-neutral kanji.

** Frenzied Yoi moves and attacks faster. Also, his ''Senpuken'' hits three times. He is the FinalBoss to [[UnknownRival Kyoku]], [[{{Revenge}} Junichi, Saki]], and [[BigBad Nii]][[spoiler:, but also Juma]].
** Frenzied Kyoku attacks faster and deals counterhits even if he didn't actually counter, and his ''Goryoku-ken'' becomes a lot more powerful. He is the FinalBoss to [[WorthyOpponent Noriaki]] and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Shini]].

** Frenzied Nii attacks faster, and all his special attacks are enhanced. He is the FinalBoss to [[TheHero Yoi]], [[ArchEnemy Yuun]], [[OnlySaneMan Asuka]] and [[SuperpowerfulGenetics Yasuke]].
** Frenzied Shini's ''Shini-giri'' deals damage if she makes contact with the opponent.

[[folder:Yoi Takarokugai]]

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Inverted. His sword is rusty because when he tried to absorb his sister's lifeforce into the sword to empower its wind ability, her natural affinity (which was water and not wind, an oddity within the family) rotted the metal of the weapon. Despite the nigh-unusability of the weapon, Yoi still uses it as its bloody smell reminds him of his mission.

-> Kyoku is a professional fighter turned demon hunter, who grew bored of even this and gave himself handicaps, such as breaking his own leg before a fight. Though, during a travel in Ezogashima, he lost a fight and was ready to die; but Yoi [[CombatPragmatist killed the thing from behind]] before it could deal the finishing blow. Kyoku left in shame, [[UnknownRival waiting to restore himself before taking his revenge with full strength]].

* BigScrewedUpFamily: His sister Shini is a pariah, and Kyoku is known to get along with only his adopted sister Genkai. The Hajiros are known to be prone to quarrelling much more than the bloodlines used to, making them not much a threat to the Jiyubudoka.

* ItsPersonal: With Yoi, because Yoi wounded his pride.

** {{Irony}}: Their cooperation far outlives Rin and Yoi's, and they develop a genuine friendship.
* PetTheDog: Subverted in his arcade, against Shini. Sure, he doesn't want her to get killed, but [[TryNotToDie only for the family's credibility]].
* {{Pride}}: Wants to get his back by beating Yoi. Also his main flaw.

** Doubles as OneWingedAngel in Shini's ending. Killing Kyoku frees the assimilated Majins and, fueled by his rage, they eat her alive.

* UnknownRival: Is this to Yoi, who didn't even see him when he saved him.
* YearsTooEarly: Treats Shini as this.

* AloofAlly: Yoi is this to her. It's mutual, though he's much colder and more self-serving than her.

* KnightTemplar: Of sorts. Like Yoi, she would kill all sorts of demons, even figurative. One of her inner demons is the existence of her twin sister Itami.

* MessianicArchetype: One of the least fulfilling and unfriendliest. She isolated herself behind her banner of saving Japan from demons much like a messiah out of nowhere. She's betrayed, though non-lethally, by Yoi; and the Yosseidan has enemies in Edo, their own city.

[[folder:Yuun Hayako]]

* HiddenDepths: She's a murderously [[HairTriggerTemper violent]] [[ThePowerOfHate and hateful]] {{Yakuza}}. She still cares for Kyoku and knows light magic well enough to notice that he is assimilating Majins, and she's ready to exorcise the demons off of him in case Kyoku goes out of control. She's also far more insightful regarding Rin's flaws than Yoi, or Rin herself.

[[folder:Junichi Takanosan]]

* EnemyMine: The ending to ''Ablaze'': [[spoiler:He temporarily allies with Nii and Shini against Yoi and Yuun.]]

* {{Revenge}}: Against Yoi, for wrecking his "Kinma" gang while he was away on a business trip.

-> Yoi's half-sister, they share the same mother. Unlike Yoi, who doesn't pay any regard to her memory, Saki regards her mother extremely highly, and wants revenge on Yoi for having killed her. Her father having committed suicide one year later from chagrin, she's an orphan, and therefore she lived in orphanages. When she travelled to Kyoto, she became the poster girl for Yuun's orphanage, where she now lives.
* TheDreaded: Her mother tried to set her up as this for Yoi, even announcing Saki's future coming for his life in her LastWords. [[SubvertedTrope She doesn't live up to them, and Yoi doesn't even have one hint of fear for her from the moment he meets her onward.]]

* LongLostSibling: She's Yoi's half-sister.
* RevengeBeforeReason: She's getting herself in range of Majins to kill Yoi. Everyone who knows she's here for revenge say she's this.

* FinalBoss: To Yoi, Yuun and Asuka only, despite being the BigBad.

* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Special {{victory quote}}s against Yoi, Rin, Yuun, Itami, Asuka, Saki and Yasuke.

[[folder:Shini Hajiro]]

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Shini has no friends because she just lives to grab an easy life. At the expense of everyone else if necessary.

* WeakButSkilled: Relatively to Kyoku, who uses overpowering but simple attacks, Shini is only normally strong physically, but is much more diverse in her moves.

* SuperpowerLottery: A definite winner. He is able to duke it out with Rin or Yoi without much effort.

* StatusBuff: The Rage Install is accompanied by one huge character-specific buff.

** Frenzied Asuka's deals double stun damage.

** [[spoiler:Frenzied Juuma [[MyRulesAreNotYourRules entirely ignores stun]], and has Hatred Gauge auto-gain. His ''Kokumagan'' counters physical attacks too. He's the TrueFinalBoss to everyone and [[BaitAndSwitchBoss instantly kills the]] FinalBoss to appear.]]

* PlayingWithFire: It isn't called Burning Rhapsody for nothing. Only the Rage Install isn't named after something related to fire. Which leads to...
* ThePowerOfHate: Central to the series. The [[ManaMeter Super Gauge]] is called Hatred Gauge, the ComebackMechanic is called Rage Install and is triggered after filling its Rage Gauge. Plus lots of characters hate the others' guts and the goals of half the characters involve killing the object of their hatred.
** So powerful, the Rage Install is canon-wise the character using it giving in to this.

* GenderBlenderName: Many of them, notably in main characters. Yoi, Yun and Nii's names ends with a kanji used for female names. Kyoku is usually read as a female name too. On the other side, Shini's name uses gender-neutral kanji.

** Frenzied Yun moves faster and has SuperArmor during movement.

** Frenzied Nii attacks faster, and all his special attacks are enhanced. He is the FinalBoss to [[TheHero Yoi]], [[ArchEnemy Yun]], [[OnlySaneMan Asuka]] and [[SuperpowerfulGenetics Yasuke]].

** Frenzied Yasuke regenerates his Hatred Gauge, and gains attack power depending on its charge level. His ''Kazanken'' also has a larger hitbox. [[spoiler:He is Juma's True Final Boss.]]
** [[spoiler:Frenzied Juma [[MyRulesAreNotYourRules entirely ignores stun]], and has Hatred Gauge auto-gain. His ''Kokumagan'' counters physical attacks too. He's the TrueFinalBoss to everyone and [[BaitAndSwitchBoss instantly kills the]] FinalBoss to appear.]]

* KnightTemplar: He sticks to the code of his family to the letter.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: His early designs were this, as Shot Types were not modified and his never hit at all unless he was Frenzied in which case they hit fullscreen.

* HandicappedBadass: He invoked it, by breaking his own leg before going to defeat Majins. Though, it turned bad when he tried to hunt stronger demons.

** {{Irony}}: Their cooperation far outlives Rin and Yoi's.

* AloofAlly: Yoi is this to her.

* ItsPersonal: She's trying to defy the trope: Itami and her have been extremely bitter rivals for a long while, but Rin is trying to push her mentality behind killing Itami towards her responsabilities as a demon hunter rather than personal purposes.

* NotSoStoic: When Itami is around.

[[folder:Yun Hayako]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name would normally be written Yuun or Yu-un.

* EnemyMine: The ending to ''Ablaze'': [[spoiler:He temporarily allies with Nii and Shini against Yoi and Yun.]]

* OddFriendship: With Junichi.

-> Yoi's half-sister, they share the same mother. Unlike Yoi, who doesn't pay any regard to her memory, Saki regards her mother extremely highly, and wants revenge on Yoi for having killed her. Her father having committed suicide one year later from chagrin, she's an orphan, and therefore she lived in orphanages. When she travelled to Kyoto, she became the poster girl for Yun's orphanage, where she now lives.

* NobleDemon: Big time. By affirming his presence as a Jiyubudoka and brutally beating several bloodliners to say [[LamarckWasRight Lamarck Was]] ''[[AvertedTrope NOT]]'' [[LamarckWasRight Right]], he earned himself intense hate from several of the old clans, Yun first. With time, he acknowledges that he's working with some bad guys, but he doesn't act on it as long as he gets to tell his motto.

* TheChessmaster: Plays this role. He baited Yun in too by promising a huge money reward, and getting everyone scared of Majins will take everyone's attention out of his personal plans.

* FinalBoss: To Yoi, Yun and Asuka only, despite being the BigBad.

** For his defense, he still utterly manipulated his own faction by having the tournament organized in a danger zone: so nobody's eyes would be on him while he reaps the benefits of his BatmanGambit predictions. His goal is fixed as well, though mysterious, and his determination in accomplishing it hase no equal. Also, he remains polite (though he looks like he's looking down to everyone) in all circumstances, something even Asuka fails to do.

* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Special {{victory quote}}s against Yoi, Rin, Yun, Itami, Asuka, Saki and Yasuke.

* CowardlyLion: Strong enough to win tournaments much like Kyoku used to (with a bunch less ease), but she nonetheless acts weak and unassuming most of the time.

* {{Greed}}: Really obvious. She's not even making this a secret.

* ShotoClone: His S attacks actually are projectiles that never fizzle out until they leave the screen, and he has an uppercut move.

* From: Hokkaido

-> Kyoku is a professional fighter turned demon hunter, who grew bored of even this and gave himself handicaps, such as breaking his own leg before a fight. Though, during a travel in Hokkaido, he lost a fight and was ready to die; but Yoi [[CombatPragmatist killed the thing from behind]] before it could deal the finishing blow. Kyoku left in shame, [[UnknownRival waiting to restore himself before taking his revenge with full strength]].

* From: Hokkaido

-> A rich heir to a bunch of activities in Sapporo, he is one of the richest persons in all Hokkaido. He has successful business even down in Edo. He founded the Kinma gang to attack fund conveys from his rivals by controlling clandestine activities and acquire even more money, but they got razed while he was away. Junichi takes upon himself to take revenge.

* SpinningPiledriver: His ''Senpuujin Riki''.

* AttackReflector: His ''Kokumagan'' special.

* ElementalPunch: His ''Metsuretsuken'' special is a darkness-infused punch.

* MeteorMove: If you hit all the moves in his ''Metsuretsuken'' chain, the ''Gedan Zangeri'' special launches the opponent just so Juuma's ''Hizanken'' makes a Type A and hits his opponent down to the ground.
* {{Shoryuken}}: His ''Yamaken'' special is in fact a ''[[StreetFighter Shoryu]][[LimitBreak reppa]]'', made special move.
* ShotoClone: His S attacks actually are projectiles that never fizzle out until they leave the screen, and he has an uppercut move. EX Juuma also gains the ''Boumazuki'', which is a quick fireball, despite losing ''[[{{Shoryuken}} Yamaken]]''.
* ShoutOut: His [[FinishingMove Scorching Attack]] is the ''[[StreetFighter Shun Goku Satsu]]''.

* UnstableEquilibrium: If ''Boumazuki'' connects, you are marked for a while, which means that the next ''Boumazuki'' makes a sure-hit. Being marked is a menace at all times, even though hitting a marked opponent this way results in the mark dissapearing.

* GroundPound: His SignatureMove, ''Kazanken''.

* JapaneseHonorifics: Despite the story happening in Japan, the speech patterns run all over the scale.
** Yoi, despite adopting AntiquatedLinguistics when on duty, refers to targets with ''yobisute'' (no honorific at all), or even ''shisha-me'' (an insulting way to call them ''dead person'').
** Kyoku notably refers to everyone in ''yobisute''.
** Rin uses LastNameBasis + ''-san'' for everyone but Yoi (''Yoi-san'') and Itami, who she refers to with ''yobisute'', in response to hers.
** As one of the rare displays of affection, Yuun calls Saki with ''-chan''.
** Itami uses ''-sempai'' for Kyoku, which oddly enough is the most respectful she has been to anyone but her older sister Kazune, who she used to call with ''-san'' before being kicked out of her family. She also uses ''-me'' for Rin exclusively even if she isn't name-dropping her.
** Junichi calls everyone with LastNameBasis + ''-san''. Or with another designation, still ending with ''-san''.
** Asuka oscillates between ''-san'' and ''-dono'', but she can't seem to settle, signifying her problems at being TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask.
** Saki is respectful to anyone but Yoi, who she doesn't even refer to as anything else but "sono hito-me", a way of saying "that damned man".
** Noriaki goes FirstNameBasis + ''-san''. Mistake ensues when he refers to Nii as Nii-san and Yoi mistakes Nii as Noriaki's brother.
** Nii is mostly normal, but refers to Noriaki as ''Hakamuro-dono'', ironically of course.
** Shini calls people with ''-kun'' or ''-san'', but overall she's sarcastic about her politeness.
** Yasuke has many standard shonen hero traits, meaning that he's not quite polite, referring to people with FirstNameBasis + ''-san'', but as he gets to know people, he quickly starts calling people with FirstNameBasis + ''-kun'' or ''-chan''.

** Frenzied Junichi avters it by having no more than the standard buffs.

* BlowYouAway: His elemental affinity. His S (Shot) attacks move the enemy around using wind.

** TeenGenius: He killed the rest of his family at age 16-17.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: His early designs were this, as Shot Types were not modified and his never hit at all unless he was Frenzied in which case they hit fullscreen. Even now his Shot Type is an oddball since it only affects the opponent's positioning rather than inflicting an actual status debuff.
* MeaningfulName: DoubleSubversion: His name means good intent, and even though he is an evil {{Jerkass}}, he still thinks he's doing good and is more of a WellIntentionedExtremist.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Inverted. His sword is rusty because when he tried to absorb his sister's lifeforce into the sword to empower its wind ability, her natural affinity (which was water and not wind) rotted the metal of the weapon. Despite the nigh-unusability of the weapon, Yoi still uses it as its bloody smell reminds him of his mission.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Having fought for so long, he judges people by their power only.

* HandicappedBadass: He invoked it, by breaking his own leg before going to defeat Majins. Though, it wound up bad when he tried to hunt stronger demons.
* ItsPersonal: With Yoi, because he wound his pride.

* {{Pride}}: Wants to get his back by beating Yoi.
* SmugSuper: Basically, he's known as the WorldsStrongestMan. No doubt he's arrogant, with very good reasons.

-> An Edo-born prodigy, her intellect led to her being unemotional, and her animosity for her family (one who wanted to rise as a grand bloodline) made her throw her life aside to learn karate outside. She founded the Yosseidan, a demon-hunting group, after graduating from her karate school, her magic school and normal school. She then disappeared in her own organization's shadow to avoid fighting Itami when she returned. Though, since she cannot live like that forever, she takes Itami's challenge.

* ItsPersonal: She's trying to defy the trope: Itami and her have been extremely bitter rivals for a long while, but Rin is trying to push her mentality behind killing Itami towards her responsabilities as a demon hunter rather than killing her for personal purposes.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Calls the Jiyubudoka this.

* LagCancel: Despite the otherwise absence of these, landing his S attacks allows him to do an eight-directional dash out of any normal.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Not so much loner as he hangs out with Saki at times; but he's definitely mistaken as a serial egoistical robber despite actually funding an orphanage.

* HiddenDepths: She's a murderously [[HairTriggerTemper violent]] [[ThePowerOfHate and hateful]] {{Yakuza}}. She still cares for Kyoku and knows light magic well enough to notice that he is assimilating Majins, and she's ready to exorcise the demons off of him in case Kyoku goes out of control.
* KillEmAll: Averted. She renounced to kill her family out of hatred, but she still is out for Rin's head.

* TeenGenius: Manages to be the single most threatening entity to the Jiyubudoka at age eighteen.

* IdiotHero: Except not truly TheHero, but still more heroic than any other character, and also a lot dumber and more candid.

* RevengeBeforeReason: She's getting herself in range of Majins to kill Yoi.
* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done, Daughter" Girl]]: She truly wants to act out to her mother's wish

* CodeName: His family name, Hakamuro, has been invented by the Jiyubudoka.

* NobleDemon: Big time. By affirming his presence as a Jiyubudoka and brutally beating several bloodliners to say [[LamarckWasRight Lamarck Was]] ''[[AvertedTrope NOT]]'' [[LamarckWasRight Right]], he earned himself intense hate from several of the old clans, Yun first. With time, he acknowledges that he's working with some bad guys, but he doesn't really care as long as he gets to tell his motto.

* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:In story mode, as soon as the Majins approach Kyoto, he kills his leader. Cue a series of vs. Frenzied Nii fight.]]

* FinalBoss: To Yoi, Yun and Asuka.

* {{Greed}}: Really obvious.

* PowerCopying: She copied Kyoku's fighting style and fire powers, though she strayed away from Majins' power. One of her supers even ''[[GameplayAndStoryIntegration uses Kyoku's Shot Type]]'' in addition to hers.

* SuperpowerLottery: Definite winner. He is able to duke it out with Rin or Yoi without much effort.

* ShoutOut: His [[DesperationAttack Scorching Attack]] is the ''[[StreetFighter Shun Goku Satsu]]''.

* UnstableEquilibrium: If ''Boumazuki'' connects, you are marked for a while, which means that if he performs the move again while you're marked, his S projectiles or another Boumazuki make a sure-hit. Being marked is a menace at all times, even though hitting a marked opponent this way results in the mark dissapearing.
** Also, whenever he gets the advantage, he can keep on pressing forward to accelerate his Hatred Gauge charging, leading to a quick full gauge and ''[[OneHitKill Koumajin]]''.

-> A mysterious person nobody knows about, he is the wielder of Kusanagi no Tsurugi. He is a fervent enemy to the Jiyubudoka, but he's not [[WalkingTheEarth walking Japan]] to destroy the Jiyubudoka bases. He departed from a little village only a year ago, searching for his father.

* PublicDomainArtifact: His weapon is Kusanagi no Tsurugi.

* BarehandedBladeCatch: Defied. Weaponry attacks can't be parried.

* BlockingStopsAllDamage: Cruelly averted. Any blocked attack still deals 30% of its damage. Plus, the short BreakMeter will prevent blocking too much damage.

** ComboBreaker: Averted. The Defense Blaze, despite looking like a [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Burst]], cannot be used while being comboed.
* ComebackMechanic: The Rage Install.
* EveryoneHasASpecialMove: Every character has their specific Shot Type, which gives an effect when S attacks are landed.
* InvulnerableAttack: The Defense Blaze. The rest have specific-move invulnerabilities at best.

** Frenzied Yoi moves and attacks faster. Also, his shot type gives a supplementary fullscreen hit that freezes their horizontal velocity, and ''Senpuken'' hits three times. He is the FinalBoss to [[UnknownRival Kyoku]], [[{{Revenge}} Junichi, Saki]], and [[BigBad Nii]][[spoiler:, but also Juma]].

** Frenzied Junichi's shot-type traps slowly home in on the enemy rather than being static.
** Frenzied Asuka's shot-type debuff stays active much longer, and she deals double stun damage.

** Frenzied Nii attacks faster, his S attacks blow the opponent back towards him, and all his special attacks and supers are enhanced. He is the FinalBoss to [[TheHero Yoi]], [[ArchEnemy Yun]], [[OnlySaneMan Asuka]] and [[SuperpowerfulGenetics Yasuke]].
** Frenzied Shini's shot-type debuff stacks. Her ''Shini-giri'' deals damage if she makes contact with the opponent. Atsui no Suiren applies two stacks of her Shot Type.
** Frenzied Yasuke regenerates his Hatred Gauge, and gains attack power depending on its charge level. His S attacks and ''Kazanken'' have a larger hitbox, and his supers deal double damage. [[spoiler:He is Juma's True Final Boss.]]
** [[spoiler:Frenzied Juma [[MyRulesAreNotYourRules entirely ignores stun and isn't affected by enemy Shot Types]], and has Hatred Gauge auto-gain. His ''Kokumagan'' counters physical attacks too. Also, his LimitBreak now is a OneHitKill as it no longer [[HPToOne leaves the opponent at 1 life point]]. He's the TrueFinalBoss to everyone and [[BaitAndSwitchBoss instantly kills the]] FinalBoss to appear.]]
* SomeDexterityRequired: Defied. The hardest thing to actually perform is the Scorching Attack's command, which is made of 5 button taps and you have a full second to do it.
* StatusBuff: The Rage Install is accompanied by one huge character-specific buff. Shot Types invert this, forcing a status debuff on an opponent with which they made contact.

-> A rich heir to a bunch of activities in Sapporo, he is one of the richest persons in all Hokkaido. He has successful business even down in Edo. He founded the Kinma gang to attack fund conveys from his rivals and acquire even more money, but they got razed while he was away. Junichi takes upon himself to take revenge.

* FightingClown: He's the least serious-lookiing character out of the entire cast.

Rin commits suicide to exterminate the Majins, Yuun seals himself off with the money, Itami sacrifices herself fighting off the Majins to buy time for Kyoku to beat Yoi, Junichi is unceremoniously killed by a flock of Majins, Asuka goes crazy and kills herself, Saki is murdered by Juuma, Noriaki is killed off by Nii, Nii is killed by Majins, and Shini is eaten alive by a snake-like Majin that just got out of Kyoku's corpse.]] Also, refuse to continue against Juuma and you'll get treated to the BlackScreenOfDeath.

* BlockingStopsAllDamage: Cruelly averted. Any blocked attack still deals 30% of its damage.

* {{Combos}}: Custom combos are discouraged. There are the combos in your character's movelists, and those will determine how much damage you can get off of one random hit; in an attempt to emphasize counter hits and reading over execution or mashing.

* StatusBuff: The Rage Install is accompanied by one huge character-specific buff. Some Shot Types are also buffs, even though most are debuffs on the opponent hat got hit.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: His early designs were this, as Shot Types were not modified and his never hit at all unless he was Frenzied in which case they hit fullscreen.
* MeaningfulName: DoubleSubversion: His name means good intent, and even though he is an evil {{Jerkass}}, he still thinks he's doing good.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With the Yosseidan as a whole.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Having fought for so long, he judges people by their power.