| 1 | [[WMG:[[center: [-''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' '''[[Characters/MissKobayashisDragonMaid Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | [[Characters/MissKobayashisDragonMaidKobayashiHousehold Kobayashi Household]] ([[Characters/MissKobayashisDragonMaidTohru Tohru]]) | [[Characters/MissKobayashisDragonMaidDragons Dragons]] | '''Humans'''-]]]]] |
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| 5 | |
| 6 | !Earth |
| 7 | |
| 8 | [[folder:Makoto Takiya]] |
| 9 | !!Makoto Takiya |
| 10 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuichiNakamura (Japanese), Jeff Johnson (English), Tommy Rojas (Latin American Spanish) |
| 11 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takiya_visual.png]] |
| 12 | |
| 13 | One of Kobayashi's work friends. He and Kobayashi have a mutual interest in maids that brings them together. |
| 14 | ---- |
| 15 | * AmbiguousSituation: Whether or not he has feelings for Kobayashi is brought up a couple times. For 99% of the time they do seem to be JustFriends who happen to share a common kink, but every so often there is a small hint he might be in love with her, though even then its quickly brushed aside and could even be considered that he maybe just cares a lot about her and has no ulterior motives. All and all, even after a lot of character development and getting over her initial jealousy, Tohru still considered him a love rival to look out for. |
| 16 | * AsianBuckTeeth: Sports these while in Otaku mode. |
| 17 | * ClosetGeek: Like Kobayashi, he hides his {{Otaku}} interests from most of his coworkers, but he and Kobayashi can at least be more open about their interests with each other. |
| 18 | * FriendToAllChildren: As shown in the OVA, he understands them pretty well. He also easily befriends Shouta. |
| 19 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Fafnir, since they live together, and he's one of the few humans that gained "Faf-kun's" approval. |
| 20 | * InVinoVeritas: Reveals his otaku nature when drunk. |
| 21 | * InappropriateRoleModel: Kanna considers him this when Shouta mentions he wants to be a cool adult like Takiya. To be fair, however, Takiya ''is'' certainly a cool model role for the series' standards. |
| 22 | * MellowFellow: Except when drunk or geeking out. He even stays calm when Tohru reveals she's a dragon. |
| 23 | * NiceGuy: He's a mostly average, decent fellow. |
| 24 | * OddFriendship: With Fafnir, an antisocial dragon who hates humans and is extremely greedy. |
| 25 | * OnlyFriend: Before Tohru showed up, he was this to Kobayashi; still, she considered him just a co-worker back then, even when they were drinking buddies. |
| 26 | * OpaqueNerdGlasses: When he's in Otaku mode. |
| 27 | * {{Otaku}}: Like Kobayashi, he has an obsession with maids, which he lampshades in Chapter 4. In the anime, his apartment looks just like a stereotypical otaku den, with anime and video game merchandise everywhere. |
| 28 | * PlatonicLifePartners: His relationship with Kobayashi is that of a co-worker, drinking buddy, way to vent his ClosetGeek tendencies, and, for a long time, he was her OnlyFriend. Their relationship ends there, no fraternization. |
| 29 | * TheReliableOne: Elma considers him a considerably reliable human and looks up to him as his junior at work. The reason his treatment towards Elma is so effective is due to the fact that he was able to "tame" [[TheDreaded Fafnir]] on his own, so any other dragon is easy peasy. |
| 30 | * SecretKeeper: In on the existence of dragons, even having Fafnir as a housemate. |
| 31 | * SequentialArtist: He's part of a popular doujin circle. |
| 32 | * SitcomArchNemesis: Is unknowingly considered one by Tohru, due to his friendship with Kobayashi and Tohru's ClingyJealousGirl tendencies. Though it gets {{ZigZag|s}}ged a bit when Tohru can kill him easily, and resolves to on a few occasions, but something always prevents her from taking action. It seems to fade over time, but she still gives him the MyFriendsAndZoidberg treatment. |
| 33 | * VerbalTic: In the Japanese version, he ends his sentences in "-de yansu" while in Otaku mode. |
| 34 | [[/folder]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[folder:Riko Saikawa]] |
| 37 | !!Riko Saikawa |
| 38 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EmiriKatou (Japanese), Sara Ragsdale (English), Andrea Arruti (Latin American Spanish/season 1), Nycolle Gonzalez (Latin American Spanish/season 2) |
| 39 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rico_visual.png]] |
| 40 | |
| 41 | Kanna's schoolgirl best friend and LoveInterest. |
| 42 | ---- |
| 43 | * AcademicAthlete: She is apparently a karate champion, and the first season's opening shows her eagerly answering a question in class, implying she's a good student too (though, ironically, she is Kanna's inferior at both, being just a regular human). Her classmates sarcastically consider her class queen. |
| 44 | * BestFriend: She's Kanna's first and dearest human friend. In her manga spinoff, Kanna tells Chloe that Saikawa's company is paramount to her, and that she considers their relationship first above all subsequent ones. |
| 45 | * BrattyHalfPint: She can be this on some occasions, tending to be haughty and a little rude to some people just because such as the teens playing on a blacktop she wanted to use or claiming that boys are gross and whatnot. |
| 46 | * BullyingADragon: |
| 47 | ** Her impulsiveness leads her to challenge some adult men to a game of dodge ball, only to immediately realize that she's in way over her head. The hilarious part is that it's only thanks to actual dragons that she makes it out unscathed. |
| 48 | ** When she first meets Kanna she starts bullying her in a misguided attempt to make friends, completely unaware that Kanna is in fact an actual dragon, making this a very literal example of the trope. |
| 49 | ** In ''Kanna's Daily Life'', an older teenage boy comes across a snow fort that she & Kanna had built and when he peeks inside, she hits him with a snowball at point-blank range, this of course causes him and his friends to pelt the snow fort with snowballs in revenge. |
| 50 | * CannotTalkToMen: Whenever a boy calls her out, she immediately yells and antagonizes them. Doesn't help that the only guy around her age she's friends with is Shouta, and due to being the lone human of the group, has no idea what he's talking about when he accompanies them on a trip to study a source of magical power in the area, so she just assumes all boys are into whatever he's talking about. |
| 51 | * CassandraTruth: She and Kanna see Elma in her dragon form, and Kanna has to block Saikawa's line of sight so that Elma can change back. Of course, none of their classmates believe they could've seen a ''[[DramaticIrony dragon]]''. |
| 52 | * CharacterTic: Going into CutenessOverload mode, yelling out a laugh written like "bohehehe", every time Kanna makes physical contact with her. To a lesser degree, later happens with Ilulu and Chloe as well. |
| 53 | * ClingyJealousGirl: |
| 54 | ** Tends to act this way when other people that are around her age (be it fellow classmates, Shouta, or Chloe) whenever have a moment with Kanna. In the case of Shouta, she does it even when she fully knows that Shouta would never approach Kanna in that manner, making it an irrational response of hers. |
| 55 | ** Even her older sister (when she's not in her Georgie persona) isn't safe from her, as Saikawa gets all clingy after she catches her helping Kanna make some rabbit origami in ''Kanna's Daily Life''. |
| 56 | * CommonalityConnection: When hearing from Ilulu about how insecure the latter feels about being a "violent person", Saikawa [[NotSoDifferentRemark admits that she herself isn't much different]], is prone to lashing out when things don't work out for her, and even having trouble getting along with Kanna at first. This helps the two strike up a friendship with each other. |
| 57 | * CutenessProximity: Kanna's mere presence - let alone physical contact - is enough to send her into CutenessOverload. |
| 58 | * DirtyKid: Her lovestruck overloads of Kanna's physical beauty are made to resemble orgasms, with its appropriate subtexts. |
| 59 | * DoesNotLikeMen: Downplayed. While she doesn't hate the opposite gender, Saikawa doesn't find them appealing and thinks boys are gross in general. May be justified due to her sexual orientation. |
| 60 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Downplayed. She can be seen four times during Kanna's first day of school before confronting her in the anime. |
| 61 | * EmbarrassingNickname: In her spinoff manga, Lucoa nicknames Saikawa "Boheko-chan" due to her CharacterTic. |
| 62 | * EngineeredHeroics: In chapter 5 of ''Kanna's Daily Life'' she defeats a disguised Tohru in order to prove her karate skills, though she was unaware of the charade. |
| 63 | * {{Flanderization}}: Initially a case of CharacterExaggeration in the anime before being integrated into future manga content, in the early parts of the manga she was relatively subdued about her love for Kanna, still becoming a sweaty, blushing mess around her, but stuff like her CutenessOverload from just touching Kanna only happened occasionally. Following the anime ratcheting up her comically lovey reactions to Kanna, including turning that CutenessOverload incident into a full-blown CutenessProximity, and the manga slightly changing later Saikawa content to match, she's basically been turned into a Tohru-level raging lesbian. That said, it's only her crush on Kanna that is exaggerated. She still retains the rest of her initial manga personality, which continues to develop normally. |
| 64 | * {{Foil}}: To Kanna -- Kanna is a quiet, reserved dragon girl who is easily liked by her classmates; Saikawa is a loud, boastful human girl who isn't well-liked by her and Kanna's peers. |
| 65 | * ForeheadOfDoom: There's a near omnipresent highlight on it. When Kanna makes a candle based off of her face, she positions the wick in such a way to reproduce the highlight. |
| 66 | -->'''Kanna:''' A shiny forehead is fundamental for her. |
| 67 | * FriendlessBackground: Implied, given the fact that Kanna is her OnlyFriend. |
| 68 | * GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She's often seen wearing skirts and she loves cute things. At the same time, she enjoys gym class and practices martial arts. |
| 69 | * TheGlomp: She gives this to Kanna when [[spoiler:the latter returns to the Kobayashi residence intending to stay for good]]. |
| 70 | * HairContrastDuo: Brown hair to contrast Kanna's white hair. |
| 71 | * HiddenDepths: Saikawa is tremendously sweet, and is a person who is in the capacity to love ''very'' deeply, these being among the reasons Kanna considers the girl her BestFriend. This is not apparent, as her general attitude doesn't do her any favors. |
| 72 | * HotBlooded: She is very belligerent and confrontational, often biting more than she can chew. She's mellower and more sociable in Kanna's manga spinoff though. |
| 73 | * IKnowKarate: Claimed that she's won UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} competitions when she challenged Kanna. She never got the chance to show it off since the sight of Kanna crying destroyed her {{Tsundere}} attitude. She is shown practicing in Kanna's spin-off though. |
| 74 | * ImpliedLoveInterest: She's always trying to get closer to Kanna but whether the latter reciprocates her romantic affections is up to debate. |
| 75 | * InelegantBlubbering: [[spoiler:When she learns that Kanna intends to leave her behind for good (for her dad's war, but Saikawa doesn't know this), Saikawa cries so hard and begs her so much not to abandon her that Kanna is unable to leave without swearing that she will come back. As a matter of fact, the "Inelegant" part on InelegantBlubbering is too little a word to describe Saikawa's reaction. It's so bad that Kanna even snickers in front of Azad when she remembers, stating to him that she wants to be greedy like that, and swears that she'll stop the war, stop Azad and force her father to behave like a father just because she wants to]]. |
| 76 | * InterclassFriendship: Saikawa comes from an upper-middle class background and it varies among her age group. |
| 77 | ** With Kanna, who's the adopted daughter of a middle-class office worker. |
| 78 | ** With Shouta, who's the son of a manager of a trade company. |
| 79 | ** With Chloe, who's the daughter of a wealthy CEO. |
| 80 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: She becomes friends with Ilulu (who's physically around twice her age) in chapter 45. |
| 81 | * InterspeciesRomance: [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Not that she knows it]]. It's suggested that she's [[RaceFetish dragonsexual]], given the fact that she developed a crush on both Kanna and Ilulu within a day of meeting them. |
| 82 | * InvisibleParents: Her mother and father are only ever mentioned in the main series, though they do show up in Kanna's spin-off and the anime. |
| 83 | * IronicEcho: [[spoiler:In the season 1 finale, Saikawa offers her everything to Kanna in the form of flowers; later, after the climax, Tohru offers the same to Kobayashi in an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove after she just put her life at risk defending Tohru from her father]]. |
| 84 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She is HotBlooded and confrontational, but the main reason Kanna considers Saikawa her BestFriend is because [[NiceGirl she is a very sweet and doting girl]] who is not shy on telling Kanna how much she loves her. |
| 85 | * KarmaHoudini: The aforementioned dodgeball game and snowball incident only happened because she provoked things. She only managed to get away with it since she's friends with dragons. |
| 86 | * LastNameBasis: Everyone, including her best friend Kanna, exclusively refers to her as Saikawa in the manga. The only person who is actually shown to call her Riko is her mother, and she only shows up in the anime and ''Kanna's Daily Life''. |
| 87 | * LipstickLesbian: She's a girly girl who's very much in love with Kanna, and she also shows attraction towards Ilulu and Chloe (especially in the second OVA). |
| 88 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: In Chapter 75 of the manga, she [[spoiler:tearfully states that Kanna became this for her and that she cannot bear the thought of Kanna abandoning her. This makes Kanna realize that ''it's mutual'']]. |
| 89 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: The rest of the cast seems to go out of their way to keep her from finding out that dragons exist. The exact reason why is never specified, but considering this is the same girl who spent half an hour nonstop gushing about how wonderful Kanna was to their entire elementary school class, they probably know that she wouldn't be able to keep her mouth shut. |
| 90 | * LovableAlphaBitch: She's described as being the "class queen" during her introduction, but in a sarcastic way that implies that this has more to do with her attitude than her actual popularity. However, she's not a bad person deep down and it takes less than three pages for her to become close friends with Kanna. |
| 91 | * LoveAtFirstSight: She is immediately enthralled by Kanna as soon as she sets eyes on her, but she cannot help but approach her in the only way she knows, which is by being confrontational and competitive. Kanna defuses the conflict by feigning to cry so that Saikawa stops behaving aggressively, and by doing so, opening the way for their relationship. |
| 92 | * LoveConfession: In the anime, upon learning that the Shepherd's Purse flower represents offering everything to someone, she picks one and offers it to Kanna, bashfully declaring she wants to give Kanna her everything. |
| 93 | * MuggleBestFriend: To Kanna. She's at least partially aware that there's something out of the ordinary about her, but Kanna is too cute for her to care one way or the other. |
| 94 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: In the manga, she's only ever referred to as Saikawa. Her first name was added for the anime. |
| 95 | * NeverBareheaded: She wears a small flower-shaped clip in her hair. In the manga she only has it in chapter 29, but in the anime she wears it all the time. |
| 96 | * NightmareFace: [[spoiler:When Kanna tells her that she has to leave for good, Saikawa's crying face from the distress is ''so twisted'' that Kanna chuckles when she remembers. That was a '''masterful''' ugly cry]]. |
| 97 | * OneTrackMindedArtist: Any art she creates will involve Kanna in some way, no matter what. This even includes what is supposed to be a self-portrait (by having Kanna reflected in her eyes). |
| 98 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: She didn't have a CutenessOverload when she and Kanna were having a sleepover during the season one finale, most likely because she noticed how upset Kanna was [[spoiler:over Tohru being taken back to the other world]]. |
| 99 | * PervertedDrooling: Does this several times in chapter 3 of ''Kanna's Daily Life''. Georgie tells her to close her mouth before she gets her kimono dirty. |
| 100 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: Claims to be this to scare Kanna in her first meeting, having won karate tournaments. |
| 101 | * PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler:When Kanna tells her that she's leaving for good -to fight on her father's war-, Saikawa chases her crying and makes her swallow her goodbyes, making her swear that she'll come back. For Saikawa, Kanna not being in her life is just not an option]]. |
| 102 | * PuppyLove: She has a huge crush on Kanna and even told her that she wanted to marry her. |
| 103 | * RaceFetish: She seems to have a subconscious attraction to dragons (seeing as she doesn't actually know that dragons exist, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia since her memories of all events involving dragons are deleted by Quetzalcoatl]]). She fell in love with both Kanna and Ilulu within less than a day of meeting them. |
| 104 | * RealAfterAll: Both ''Kanna's Daily Life'' and ''Lucoa is My XX'' feature a tale involving something related to ghosts (an investigation of TheSevenMysteries in ''Kanna'', a {{Kimodameshi}} in ''Lucoa'') in which someone that Kanna and the others assume is Saikawa is eventually revealed to be a ghost. In ''Kanna's Daily Life'', it involves her classmates not being able to find her near the end of their investigation only to learn that Saikawa was sick at home this whole time. In ''Lucoa is My XX'', Shouta, Lucoa and Kanna assume that she got scared and fell into a hole until, as Shouta is trying to save "her", she shows up right next to Kanna. |
| 105 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: The vast majority of her initial characterization was developed based on her interactions with Kanna, with even the times she interacted with other characters mostly involving Kanna in some way. That said, starting around the point when Ilulu gets introduced (both in the manga and anime), Saikawa starts having increasing interactions with other characters (such as Lucoa and Ilulu herself) in ways that develop her personality outside how it relates to Kanna. It's a slow process that still leaves most of her character existing in relation to Kanna, but she eventually has enough about herself shown to be a decently developed character. |
| 106 | * ShipperOnDeck: She ships Ilulu/Taketo and spends all of chapter 89 trying to bring them closer together. |
| 107 | * {{Squee}}: Whenever Kanna does something cute in the anime; it's a RunningGag. |
| 108 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Going by the anime, she looks a lot like her mother. |
| 109 | * {{Tsundere}}: She acts like a traditional "harsh" example at first. She challenges Kanna to a test of arm strength, only to admit that she just wanted to be friends when the latter starts crying ([[HomoeroticSubtext although "friend" probably isn't the right word]]). Her angry line already gave it out: |
| 110 | -->'''Saikawa:''' Those clothes are too cute and you're good at everything. It makes me so angry that I want to give you a hug! |
| 111 | [[/folder]] |
| 112 | |
| 113 | [[folder:Shouta Magatsuchi]] |
| 114 | !!Shouta Magatsuchi |
| 115 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaoriIshihara (Japanese), Creator/AlisonViktorin (season 1), Creator/MacyAnneJohnson (season 2) (English), Creator/AlondraHidalgo (Latin American Spanish) |
| 116 | [[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shota_visual.png]] |
| 117 | |
| 118 | A young wizard who summoned Lucoa (though he was actually trying to summon a demon). He attends the same school as Kanna and Saikawa, and is the son of Kobayashi's boss. |
| 119 | ---- |
| 120 | * AttractiveBentGender: When turned into a woman by Lucoa, Shouta practically matches her for curves. While his face does not change much, Shouta is already so cute that he winds up looking beautiful as a woman. |
| 121 | * BlessedWithSuck: On paper, getting the Aztec God(dess) of Wisdom as a familiar is the summoner's equivalent of winning the lottery ten times in a row. In reality, he lives in a constant state of embarrassment thanks to a woman who doesn't understand the concept of his personal space. |
| 122 | * ChekhovsSkill: In chapter 59, he uses a sleep spell to keep Saikawa from seeing Elma's dragon form. Seven chapters later, he uses a more powerful version to beat William in a WizardDuel. |
| 123 | * ChickMagnet: Most of the girls in his class find him cute, and he ends up with a huge pile of chocolate on Valentine's Day. |
| 124 | * ChildMage: While he normally isn't shown casting a lot of magic, Shouta is implied to be very skilled for his age. He's capable of casually blocking Elma's attempts to find him via clairvoyance, and he took down an older mage with what is implied to be a high level sleep spell. |
| 125 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Purple hair and eyes. |
| 126 | * CuteWitch: GenderInverted; since he's a boy, he's more of a Cute Wizard. |
| 127 | * DirtyKid: To a point, he is a bit of a CovertPervert despite being still a pre-teen. While he stolidly rejects Lucoa's advances, he gets clearly aroused by them aside from embarrassed, and Kobayashi later gets it out of him that he would be jealous if Lucoa switched her affections to another kid. He also checks up voluntarily Lucoa's sexy cosplay book, all red himself, even knowing what is it. |
| 128 | * DraggedIntoDrag: |
| 129 | ** Lucoa dresses him up as ''Literature/TheLittleMatchGirl'' in episode ten when everyone is looking for the lead role in their Christmas play. Likewise, in the play proper, as it was InNameOnly, he becomes a Magical Girl. |
| 130 | ** In ''Kanna's Daily Life'', when he is talking to Saikawa and Kanna about how his classmates say he looks like a girl, Saikawa suggests dressing up like a girl, with Shouta stating that he doesn't want to do that. Unfortunately, Lucoa then shows up, and [[GilliganCut she just happened to listen to the conversation]]. |
| 131 | ** In ''Lucoa is My XX'', when he and Lucoa spend the day working at the maid cafe Tohru works at, Lucoa uses her magic to make him wear one of the cafe's maid outfits, with Kobayashi mentioning that he looks more like a maid than Tohru herself. |
| 132 | * DragonRider: He rides Lucoa at the end of chapter 66. Given her ''massive'' size, he barely appears as a speck on her forehead. |
| 133 | * DudeLooksLikeALady: Most of his classmates think he looks like a girl. |
| 134 | * ExplosiveResults: He tries to make a magical talisman as a Father's Day gift for his dad. But the first attempts at it result in his recipe exploding [[spoiler:because it was originally invented in the area around the Dead Sea and the recipe he was reading didn't account for air pressure differences.]] |
| 135 | * ForcedSleep: One of the few spells he's shown performing (and the only one he's used more than once) is one that puts someone to sleep. |
| 136 | * HiddenDepths: He's a surprisingly sadistic TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}} player, gleefully driving both Ilulu and Saikawa to bankruptcy with a SlasherSmile. |
| 137 | * IgnoreTheFanservice: Seeing Lucoa in an American style fetish costume (taken directly from one of Taketo's porn magazines) doesn't get the slightest reaction out of him since it covers far more skin than usual. |
| 138 | * InstantRunes: In keeping with the comparison drawn between magic and computer programming, his spells are accompanied by magic circles that resemble icons on a computer. |
| 139 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: He becomes part of Kobayashi's circle thanks to Lucoa. He's rather close with Takiya in particular, considering him to be a cool adult. On the other side of the spectrum, he doesn't seem to mind hanging around with Saikawa and Kanna, the former of which is a few years younger than him, and the latter of which is probably a few thousand years older. Later on he also develops a friendship with Taketo due to their similar experiences of being the victim of TheTease. |
| 140 | * LuckyRabbitsFoot: He's worn a rabbit's foot on a necklace ever since he was a baby for good luck. He notes to Lucoa in their spin-off that wearing it while he's asleep causes him to have nightmares of being chased by vengeful three-legged rabbits. |
| 141 | * LuminescentBlush: Constantly, what with being a boy on the cusp of puberty and being teased by [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Lucoa]]. |
| 142 | * MarkOfTheSupernatural: Naturally, the only supernaturally inclined character among the humans has purple hair and eyes. |
| 143 | * MarshmallowHell: Often on the receiving end of Lucoa's large breasts. |
| 144 | * NoGuyWantsToBeChased: He really doesn't enjoy Lucoa's [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace displays of affection]] or [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl her attempts to get closer to him]]. Not helped by the fact that he is both 10 years old and convinced that she's a succubus. Still, even when she's too clingy for comfort, Lucoa is ''very'' dear to him and he won't tolerate anyone treating her badly. |
| 145 | * NotSoStoic: Regardless of his attitude towards Lucoa, he is not a stranger to her affection and kindness and it's shown that he enjoys her company and friendship; as such, he'll become enraged if anyone shows even a mere hint of hostility towards her. He does harbor a very deep affection towards her, and he'll always make sure that she's okay. |
| 146 | * OneDegreeOfSeparation: His father is a manager at Kobayashi's office. He also attends the same elementary school as Kanna and Saikawa, though not the same grade. |
| 147 | * TheOneGuy: While there are plenty of males in the main cast, he's the only young boy with a prominent role, so whenever the series focuses on the "youngsters", he ends up being the only guy in the current group. |
| 148 | * {{Protectorate}}: In chapter 87, he declares that it is his duty as her master to protect Luccoa if people hate her for her neutral status. He will apologize for her, but also never leave her. |
| 149 | * PsychicLink: Due to their {{Familiar}} contract, he can sense Lucoa's general location at all times. |
| 150 | * PunnyName: Given what his name is a homophone of, Lucoa is a literal shotacon. Even Kobayashi has this feeling when seeing him during a beach trip where [[spoiler: she spends the day [[GenderBender sporting the thingy]].]] |
| 151 | * TheReliableOne: Called this by Kanna and Saikawa, when he willingly decides to accompany them on their camping trip (after they just so happened to bump into him on the way to Elma's) and cook and fix the tent for the group. |
| 152 | * RobeAndWizardHat: He's seen wearing a pointed hat and cape combo in the opening of the anime and a flashback in Episode 6 to when he summoned Lucoa, but other than that he seems to prefer wearing contemporary clothing. |
| 153 | * SquishyWizard: Effortlessly puts Saikawa to sleep with magic but has visible trouble holding her weight when he catches her. Typical mage, [[DumpStat no points in STR]]. |
| 154 | * ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: He refused Lucoa's help during the practical part of his mage exam since he wanted to prove he was competent enough to be her master. |
| 155 | * {{Tsundere}}: He clearly cares about Lucoa but you'd never get him to admit it. |
| 156 | * WellDoneSonGuy: He wants to show his father that he can be a successful mage like the latter. An example is Shouta recreating a difficult talisman recipe, which results in several failed attempts that blow up in his face. |
| 157 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: Got DraggedIntoDrag by Lucoa as a candidate for ''Literature/TheLittleMatchGirl'' in Tohru's weird-ass Christmas play (though he was ultimately cast as an old man... who turned into a MagicalGirl). He looked very cute as a girl, but was insanely embarrassed to cross-dress. |
| 158 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He suffers from leporiphobia (fear of rabbits) because the lucky rabbit's foot he has always worn caused him to suffer nightmares of being chased by vengeful three-legged rabbits. Lucoa tries to help him overcome this fear by dressing up as a PlayboyBunny. |
| 159 | * WiseBeyondTheirYears: Rejects Lucoa's gifts of charisma and enhanced magical power since he knows that the former would just cause problems at his age and he'd rather earn the latter. |
| 160 | * YouKeepTellingYourselfThat: Shouta uses the notion of Lucoa being a "succubus" in order to keep her at a distance, but it's shown that he does hold affection for her and considers her his friend. To be fair, she shows him nothing but kindness all the time, so it's gotta rub off on him. Plus, ''she's gorgeous''. |
| 161 | [[/folder]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | [[folder:Sanae "Georgie" Saikawa]] |
| 164 | !!Sanae "Georgie" Saikawa |
| 165 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukoGoto (Japanese), Creator/FeleciaAngelle (English), Monserrat Mendoza (Latin American Spanish) |
| 166 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jorge_visual.png]] |
| 167 | |
| 168 | Saikawa's older sister who loves to roleplay as a maid. |
| 169 | ---- |
| 170 | * ADayInTheLimelight: A chapter in ''Kanna's Daily Life'' gives her one where she interacts with Kanna, but without her maid attire, which greatly confuses the young dragon. In the main series, she gets it in Chapter 90, where she's the first of the cast to interact with [[spoiler:Azad in his new job... with her wanting to put him in a butler uniform. She also later starts helping him when he opens a detective agency.]] |
| 171 | * BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Becomes an actual assistant/maid when she joins Azad's detective agency.]] |
| 172 | * CoolBigSis: While they aren't seen to interact with each other much, Georgie does care a lot for Saikawa's wellbeing. |
| 173 | * GirlishPigtails: But only when she's dressed up as a maid. TheStinger for Chapter 50 and a chapter of ''Kanna's Daily Life'' where Kanna meets her without her maid attire shows that she lets her hair down when in her school uniform. |
| 174 | * GoofySuit: She works part-time as an amusement park mascot to pay for maid outfits (the anime changes it to her helping out because the park's owner is a friend of her father). |
| 175 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: She's a high school student and Kobayashi is twenty-five, yet the two of them are "comrades" due to their shared love of maids. |
| 176 | * {{Meido}}: She's not actually a maid, but she's a big fan of them so she often dresses up as and pretends to be one. She even goes so far as to call her younger sister "{{Ojou}}-sama" instead of by her real name, much like how a real maid would address an employer. |
| 177 | * MistakenIdentity: Chapter 90 of the main series has a gang named the Dragon Crushers mistake her for Tohru, due to the both of them always wearing maid costumes. |
| 178 | * NamedByTheAdaptation: The official page of the anime reveals her real name (Nae Saikawa) in her character profile. It's later shown in Episode 4 of the second season of the anime. Meanwhile, other spinoff materials like ''Kanna's Daily Life'' indicate that her full name is Sanae. |
| 179 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: |
| 180 | ** Georgie is what she calls herself when she's playing the part of a maid. Even her own sister doesn't use her real name. |
| 181 | ** In the anime, she doesn't even respond to "Nae" when her classmates call to her; she only does when they refer to her as "Georgie", leaving her friends to realize [[NameAmnesia she's completely]] ''[[NameAmnesia forgotten]]'' [[NameAmnesia her real name isn't Georgie]]. That she becomes confused by this comment doesn't help to say any to the contrary. |
| 182 | * {{Otaku}}: For maids, to the point that she often dresses and acts like one when not at school. |
| 183 | * ShipperOnDeck: She spends episode 4 of ''S'' trying to get her sister closer to Kanna. For example, she shoves the two closer when Saikawa is freaked out by a haunted house. |
| 184 | * SignificantBirthDate: Her birthday is on May 10, which is known in Japan as "Maid Day". |
| 185 | * StalkerWithACrush: She meets a certain individual in Chapter 90, finding that he might look very good in a butler uniform, following him around most of the day until he invites her to a cafe to talk, where she reveals her reasoning. The blush on her face makes it quite obvious she's interested. [[spoiler:The individual in question? ''[[ReformedButNotTamed Azad]]'']]. |
| 186 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: In the anime where she's shown without her pigtails, Georgie is shown to be a good example of what Saikawa would look like as a teenager. |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Taketo "Take" Aida]] |
| 190 | !!Taketo "Take" Aida |
| 191 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroShimono (Japanese), Creator/JordanDashCruz (English) |
| 192 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/taketo_visual_5.png]] |
| 193 | |
| 194 | A high school student who becomes acquainted with Ilulu when she gets a part-time job at his grandmother's candy store. |
| 195 | ---- |
| 196 | * AccidentalPervert: He ends up falling between Ilulu's breasts in his introductory chapter. |
| 197 | * AdaptationalLateAppearance: Due to Ilulu having her entire introduction moved to the start of Season 2, he ends up getting his own introduction much later than the manga. This also results in him being AdaptedOut (both physically and from mentions by Ilulu) of the story in manga scenarios originally including him that get adapted before his first anime appearance. |
| 198 | * CovertPervert: |
| 199 | ** After seeing how cavalier Ilulu is with getting naked for the first time, he briefly thinks about wanting to visit whatever country she's from. |
| 200 | ** He briefly glances at her cleavage while she's trying to cool off on a hot day, earning a very [[TheTease impish look]] from her in return. |
| 201 | * EntertaininglyWrong: Given that Ilulu tells him information without any context, he comes to some interesting conclusions about what kind of person Kobayashi is. |
| 202 | * {{Foil}}: To Saikawa. Take is relatively reserved and more unsure about his feelings toward Ilulu and Ilulu is more open about her affections toward him. Saikawa openly displays her affection towards Kanna and Kanna is more passive on reciprocation. |
| 203 | * ImpliedLoveInterest: To Ilulu. She is definitely in love with him ([[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove though she doesn't recognize it]]), but it isn't clear if he feels the same way, even if he is clearly attracted to her physique. |
| 204 | * InSeriesNickname: He's usually referred to as "Take". |
| 205 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: Starts to form a friendship with Shouta after they experience reciprocal empathy due to their similar experiences of being victim to TheTease. |
| 206 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: While he does know that there's ''something'' off about Ilulu, he's completely clueless to the fact that she's a dragon from another dimension. |
| 207 | * NoGuyWantsToBeChased: He's physically attracted to Ilulu but considers her "way too carnivore". Justified, though, given that he's still a teenager who has little to no experience with such aggressive females. |
| 208 | * {{Nosebleed}}: He's a teenage boy, and all of his screen time is spent in the vicinity of [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Ilulu]]. Do the math. |
| 209 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Almost to the point of ImmediateSelfContradiction. He is angry at Ilulu for stripping down in front of him, but when he wonders if it's a cultural thing of her country, he quickly yells to himself that he wants to visit it. |
| 210 | * OneHeadTaller: With Ilulu, due to her poor transformation skills giving her the relative height of a child. |
| 211 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: Close to his entire character revolves around his [[ImpliedLoveInterest relationship]] with Ilulu. Even what little interactions he has with other characters still inevitably relate back to his connection to her. |
| 212 | * SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Several of his friends get jealous when they meet Ilulu, mistakenly believing that they're dating. This is his response. |
| 213 | * StraightMan: Ilulu is easily the biggest FishOutOfWater in the story, and he's an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent. He pretty much ends up in this role by default. |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[folder:Shimon Magatsuchi]] |
| 217 | !!Shimon Magatsuchi |
| 218 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Hiroshi Yanaka (Japanese) |
| 219 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mr_magatsuchi.png]] |
| 220 | |
| 221 | The manager in charge of Kobayashi's department at work. He is also a wizard and Shouta's father. |
| 222 | ---- |
| 223 | * TheArchmage: He has the highest possible mage qualifications. |
| 224 | * ConnectedAllAlong: He's an OldFriend of [[spoiler:Damocles, something that freaks out Kobayashi due to her last encounter with the latter.]] |
| 225 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Makes an appearence in a picture in Shouta's house in the Anime before his official debut in the Manga. He and his wife can also be seen with Lucoa during the sport's festival. |
| 226 | * GivenNameReveal: His first name, Shimon, is revealed in Chapter 117, when Lucoa, explaining how he pays her a tribute, accidentally refers to him by that name before correcting herself and calling him Shouta's dad. |
| 227 | * InformedAbility: Shouta says that he's an alchemist, though he's never seen performing any actual alchemy. |
| 228 | * MarkOfTheSupernatural: As a powerful archmage, he has bluish-purple eyes. Shouta inherited them. |
| 229 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: It's unknown exactly how old he is, but he's definitely older than Tohru (so several centuries at the very least). Meanwhile, his wife is probably somewhere in her thirties. |
| 230 | * MuggleMageRomance: Chapter 65 reveals that his wife has no training in magic, which is the main reason why she couldn't accompany Shouta to his mage exam. |
| 231 | * OneDegreeOfSeparation: He's an acquaintance of Tohru's father, and was responsible for her name (via one of the books he plagiarised). |
| 232 | * OpenMindedParent: Invoked. His family tradition states that people are responsible for their own familiars, which is why he doesn't have any problem with Lucoa living at his house or sleeping in his son's bed. |
| 233 | * PerpetualSmiler: He is always smiling. ''[[DissonantSerenity Always]]''. |
| 234 | * PlagiarismInFiction: Sometime before Tohru was born, he used precognition to forsee a popular book and copied it. He then sold the book in the dragon's world and used the money he received to fund his magic research. When Kobayashi calls him out on it, he claims it doesn't count as stealing since copyright laws don't apply retroactively. |
| 235 | * {{Protectorate}}: He mentions in chapter 71 that he's responsible for protecting the region from magical threats. |
| 236 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In his debut, Elma attempts to form a Labor Union for better conditions. While he is willing to listen and cater to his Employees' demands, he isn't above using pure reason and logic to keep everything the way it was or in some cases, crush a union effort entirely. |
| 237 | * {{Seers}}: He admits to using his precognition powers to plagiarize a book from the future (implied to be something by Creator/JRRTolkien) so he can fund his magic research. |
| 238 | * TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: He mentions he once used precognition to plagiarize books and resell them in the dragon's world to fund his magic research. |
| 239 | * TricksterMentor: It's implied that he's secretly been grooming Kobayashi to become the magical guardian of Oborozuka. |
| 240 | * UnnamedParent: Unlike his wife Sagiri, he almost never gets refered to by his name even from close associates. In fact, he takes this further because he doesn't even go by LastNameBasis as Mr. Magatsuchi, with all indirect references to him only calling him "Shouta's father". The only reason his name ''ever'' [[GivenNameReveal gets revealed, it being Shimon]], is from Lucoa accidentally referring to him as such briefly in Chapter 117. |
| 241 | * WizardsLiveLonger: Implied, given that he's older than Tohru. |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:Sagiri Magatsuchi]] |
| 245 | !!Sagiri Magatsuchi |
| 246 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sagiri.png]] |
| 247 | Shouta's mother. |
| 248 | ---- |
| 249 | * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: She supported Shouta during his school marathon by wearing a cheerleading outfit and puting on a routine with Lucoa. In her defense, it was Lucoa's idea. |
| 250 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Chapter 11 of ''Lucoa is My XX'' focused on her wanting to support Shouta during a school marathon. |
| 251 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: She appears to be somewhere in her mid-thirties. Meanwhile, her husband is at least a few centuries old. |
| 252 | * MuggleMageRomance: She has no magical powers to speak of and her husband is an Archmage. |
| 253 | * OpenMindedParent: She doesn't even blink at all the weird stuff that Lucoa does to her son. |
| 254 | * SecretKeeper: She's one of the few ordinary human who knows about the existance of the supernatural. It comes with the territory of being married to a wizard. |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:Yana]] |
| 258 | !!Yana |
| 259 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Shinya Takahashi (Japanese), Dave Trosko (English), Creator/LuisFernandoOrozco (Latin American Spanish) |
| 260 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yana.png]] |
| 261 | |
| 262 | Kobayashi's Next-Door Neighbor. He works as a guitarist for a DeathMetal band. |
| 263 | ---- |
| 264 | * AintTooProudToBeg: After hearing Kanna's impressive Death Metal Scream and Tohru's amazing Guitar skills, Yana gets on his knees begging for the two to join his band. |
| 265 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: After giving Tohru guitar lessons, he immediately gets depressed after hearing such "Natural talent." |
| 266 | * AscendedExtra: Went from making a brief cameo in a chapter, to being Kobayashi's most recurring neighbor, appearing the most frequently out of the others. |
| 267 | * DreadfulMusician: Most of the Kobayashi household views him as this. With Tohru noting his Death Metal Scream sounds like "Hades crushing Hercules." |
| 268 | * FriendToAllChildren: Lets Saikawa and Kanna practice singing in his studio and is genuinely happy to have them there. |
| 269 | * MetalScream: Most of his music can pretty much be boiled down to this. |
| 270 | * NoFullNameGiven: Like Kobayashi, his given name is unknown. |
| 271 | * NonconformistDyedHair: His hair is dyed blond and green, fitting for the guitarist of a DeathMetal band. |
| 272 | [[/folder]] |
| 273 | |
| 274 | [[folder:Chloe]] |
| 275 | !!Chloe |
| 276 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SumireUesaka (Japanese), Jessica Ángeles (Latin American Spanish) |
| 277 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chloe_anime_2.png]] |
| 278 | |
| 279 | A rich girl from Minnesota that Kanna met when she ran away to New York. |
| 280 | ---- |
| 281 | * AdaptationalExpansion: Her re-appearance in second OVA extends her stay in Japan for a few days compared to ''Kanna's Daily Life'', along with her getting acquainted with the other cast other than Kanna and Saikawa. |
| 282 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Chloe's still a NiceGirl, but some of her InnocentlyInsensitive moments in ''Kanna's Daily Life'', such as her "comment" on the size of Saikawa's house, are AdaptedOut in the 2nd OVA. |
| 283 | * AdaptationalSkill: Zig-zagged. In ''Kanna's Daily Life'', she's shown to have been learning Japanese since meeting Kanna, though she isn't completely fluent. In the anime, she hasn't had any time to learn Japanese (since her visit occurs only a few weeks after she and Kanna first met), but Tohru used a spell to put her on par with a native speaker. |
| 284 | * TheBusCameBack: In the main manga, she only shows up in a single chapter and then is never mentioned again. ''Kanna's Daily Life'' and the anime both give her a bit more focus, with each focusing on her coming to Japan for a visit. A later chapter of ''Kanna's Daily Life'' and the anime also features her having a video chat with Kanna and Saikawa. |
| 285 | * CommonalityConnection: She ends up becoming friends with Saikawa due to their shared friendship with Kanna. It also helps that the two of them were already noted to have very similar personalities. |
| 286 | * CoolShades: She wears a pair of sunglasses in her re-appearance. |
| 287 | * Fiction500: Being in the possession of a ''black credit card'' does not only indicate Chloe is ultrawealthy, but in ''Kanna's Daily Life'', it's possible that she comes from OldMoney due to the large acres of land her family owns in Minnesota. |
| 288 | * ForeignFanservice: Especially during the pool scene in the second anime OVA, with nearly all of Kanna and Saikawa's classmates looking at her in awe. |
| 289 | * FreeRangeChildren: In the anime, her father allowed her to take a multi-day international trip to stay with people he'd never met only a few weeks after she had been kidnapped by the mafia. The manga version of the events is a lot more sensible, as she was accompanied by two bodyguards and there was a much larger gap of time since the kidnapping. |
| 290 | * GratuitousEnglish: Being a young American child who isn't completely fluent in Japanese, Chloe's dialogue is peppered with English during her appearance in ''Kanna's Daily Life'' (the main series used TranslationConvention instead since the only chapter she appeared in took place in New York City). Downplayed in the OVA, where [[TranslatorMicrobes a spell is placed on her allowing her to speak and understand Japanese.]] |
| 291 | * InterclassFriendship: She's the daughter of a wealthy CEO, while Kanna and Saikawa are both middle class (upper middle class in the latter's case). |
| 292 | * {{Irony}}: She's a Caucasian young girl with OdangoHair, a hairstyle that's usually associated with the AnimeChineseGirl stereotype. |
| 293 | * LonelyRichKid: She mentions at one point having never traveled very far from her family mansion, and it's implied that Kanna was her first real friend. |
| 294 | * NoFullNameGiven: Her last name is never revealed. |
| 295 | * NoodleIncident: It's never actually explained why she ran away from home (other than a vague comment about getting into a fight with her father), or how she got from Minnesota all the way to New York City. |
| 296 | * {{Ojou}}: While she's an American from Minnesota, Chloe still fits the bill since she's the daughter of a very wealthy CEO with some implications of being from OldMoney. |
| 297 | * PhenotypeStereotype: She's a Caucasian with blonde hair and blue eyes, and hails from Minnesota, USA. |
| 298 | * TheRunaway: She had run away from home for unspecified reasons when Kanna first met her. She also threatened to do so again in order to get her father to allow her to visit Kanna in ''Kanna's Daily Life''. |
| 299 | * SecretKeeper: She knows about the existence of dragons, having found out when Kanna rescued her from a kidnapping. |
| 300 | * SpoiledSweet: She may have her moments of brattiness, but Chloe is nonetheless a sweet girl who values her friendship with Kanna and later Saikawa. |
| 301 | * TokenWhite: She's the only Caucasian member of the cast, the rest being Japanese or from another world altogether. |
| 302 | * TranslatorMicrobes: The anime has Tohru use a spell to instantly let her speak Japanese, in contrast to the manga where she's learning it on her own and obviously hasn't reached the point where she's fluent. |
| 303 | [[/folder]] |
| 304 | |
| 305 | [[folder:Haru Jigokumeguri]] |
| 306 | !!Haru Jigokumeguri |
| 307 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/haru_62.png]] |
| 308 | |
| 309 | The president and founder of Jigokumeguri, where Kobayashi, Takyia, and Elma are employed. |
| 310 | |
| 311 | ->See the ''Manga/{{Ojojojo}}'' page for details on her high school years. |
| 312 | ---- |
| 313 | * TheFaceless: She's mostly unseen, in one chapter she's depicted looking away from the reader or the panel cuts off just above her mouth. That said, anyone who's read ''Ojojojo'' would know what she looks like, and ''Dragon Maid'' readers get a proper look at her face in chapter 122. |
| 314 | * HappilyMarried: From what little is seen in chapter 122, her marriage with Tsurezure is still holding strong. |
| 315 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: Implied. Seeing as her own series never had any supernatural elements ([[spoiler:unless you count her husband being an ex-ChildSoldier]]) and how she merely acquired Kobayashi's department rather than directly founding it, it's unlikely that she's aware of the existence of magic, let alone that she's employing several supernatural entities or that they're using a magical programming language. |
| 316 | * MinorMajorCharacter: She's the president of Kobayashi's company and the scion of an influential family, but she only appears in a grand total of five panels (plus a photo in a newspaper article). |
| 317 | * UnseenNoMore: Chapter 122 shows her face in a flashback panel where Kobayashi was coincidentally at the same bar as her and drunkenly bothered her. |
| 318 | [[/folder]] |
| 319 | |
| 320 | [[folder:Tsurezure Kawayanagi]] |
| 321 | !!Tsurezure Kawayanagi |
| 322 | |
| 323 | The husband of Haru Jigokumeguri. |
| 324 | |
| 325 | ->See the ''Manga/{{Ojojojo}}'' page for details on his high school years. |
| 326 | ---- |
| 327 | * TheFaceless: Unlike his wife who's UnseenNoMore in chapter 122, his head and bandana are only shown partially. |
| 328 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: Implied. Besides the fact that [[spoiler:he's an ex-ChildSoldier]], it's likely that he's also unaware of the existence of magic like his wife, let alone that she's employing several supernatural entities. |
| 329 | * MinorMajorCharacter: More so than his wife, as he's only seen with his head and bandana partially in chapter 122. |
| 330 | [[/folder]] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | [[folder:Wakita]] |
| 333 | !!Wakita |
| 334 | |
| 335 | A fellow worker at Kobayashi's company. She is the more active of ThoseTwoGirls that are Elma's work friends in the SpinOff ''Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's Office Lady Diary''. |
| 336 | ---- |
| 337 | * StupidSexyFlanders: She ends up developing a taste in drag kings after Elma crossdresses to act as her boyfriend on Christmas. |
| 338 | * ThoseTwoGirls: When not on her own, she is usually seen with a fellow co-worker named Mobu. |
| 339 | * WeightWoe: She's on a diet in ''Elma's Office Lady Diary'', and shows jealousy over Elma's ability to eat large quantities of food without a care in the world (though she quickly forgives her whe she sees how adorable she looks when eating). |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:Aki Toyama]] |
| 343 | !!Aki Toyama |
| 344 | |
| 345 | A character in ''Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kanna's Daily Life''. She is a grade-school student with long, black hair that makes up half of ThoseTwoGirls that are classmates with Kanna and Saikawa. |
| 346 | ---- |
| 347 | * GivenNameReveal: Her name isn't revealed until the volume 7 chapter "Time for an Anniversary", when her birthday is one of the various things Kanna celebrates after learning about the concept of anniversaries. |
| 348 | * ThoseTwoGirls: The more prominent of the two female students that hang out with Kanna and Saikawa. |
| 349 | [[/folder]] |
| 350 | |
| 351 | [[folder:Kobayashi's Boss]] |
| 352 | !!Kobayashi's Boss |
| 353 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Shinya Takahashi (Japanese), Creator/ChristopherSabat (English) |
| 354 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_25_5.png]] |
| 355 | |
| 356 | Kobayashi's (former) boss and chief of programming at Jigokumeguri System Engineering Inc. |
| 357 | ---- |
| 358 | * AdaptationalExpansion: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. In episode 12 of the first season, he makes an on-screen appearance compared to only being a voice in chapter 32. |
| 359 | * BadBoss: To Kobayashi mostly, as he siphons his workload onto her because of his misogynic beliefs. It's also implied that nobody likes working for him. |
| 360 | * BaldOfEvil: He has male pattern baldness, and is an abusive boss to his employees, [[JerkassToOne especially to Kobayashi]]. |
| 361 | * BeardOfEvil: In addition to his bald head, he also has stubble on his lips and chin. |
| 362 | * DoubleThink: He hates the idea of women being in the workforce and often looks down on Kobayashi's work competence, yet he usually forces his workload onto Kobayashi to complete. |
| 363 | * HateSink: There's nothing likable about him, which makes his eventual karma very satsifying. The fact that he has many similarities to abusive higher-ups in real life makes him more loathsome. |
| 364 | * {{Hypocrite}}: His choice insults for Kobayashi are calling her a useless slacker if she doesn't meet the quota that he expects of her, while warning her to get her act together. So says the LazyBum who rarely does his own work and not only force said workload onto Kobayashi but is rather a bit clueless on how to do it himself. |
| 365 | * {{Irony}}: His go-to target of power abuse is a competent woman due to his old fashioned views of gender roles. Yet the president and founder of the company he (now formerly) works for is a woman herself. |
| 366 | * {{Jerkass}}: Pretty much an example of the typical boss is found in any black company. |
| 367 | * JerkassToOne: He's a BadBoss to everyone in the company, but he especially has it out for Kobayashi. |
| 368 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After spending years as a BadBoss, especially to Kobayashi, he not only gets constantly tripped by an invisible Tohru but also gets fired at the end of his debut in chapter 14 due to an "anonymous" report of his power abuse. |
| 369 | * LaserGuidedKarma: He makes the mistake of harassing Kobayashi in front of an invisible Tohru, who proceeds to trip him non-stop, humiliating him in front of the whole work staff. He also gets fired later on for making Kobayashi do his work for him. |
| 370 | * LazyBum: He rarely does any of his work as the chief, and usually forces his own workload onto Kobayashi. |
| 371 | * MeanBoss: He mainly verbally abuses Kobayashi and forces her to do his work. He's also not seen in a good light by his other subordinates either. |
| 372 | * NoNameGiven: He's only called "Chief" by his subordinates, and is referred to as "Kobayashi's Boss" through official sources. |
| 373 | * PerpetualFrowner: He's always seen with an agitated frown. If he does smile (to himself), it's full of [[SmugSmiler smugness]] from being able to throw his weight around, especially to Kobayashi. |
| 374 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The main reason he targets Kobayashi specifically is that she's a woman in the workforce, regardless of her actual work quality. |
| 375 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears in one chapter[=/=]episode (technically two if you count his off-panel flashback appearance in chapter 32, but on-screen in episode 12), but if it wasn't for his power abuse of Kobayashi, it wouldn't lead to her drinking her stress away and later (drunk) stumbling upon and rescuing a fatally injured Tohru. |
| 376 | * StayInTheKitchen: He has an old-fashioned view of gender roles and believes women shouldn't be working. |
| 377 | * StrawMisogynist: He specifically targets Kobayashi for being a woman in the workforce. |
| 378 | * TakeThat: His BadBoss tendencies and StayInTheKitchen beliefs aren't that [[DeliberateValuesDissonance uncommon]] among older Japanese male bosses in RealLife. Moreover, if it weren't for his workplace incompetence outweighing his power abuse, he would've easily been a KarmaHoudini in the [[TruthInTelevision Japanese work culture]]. |
| 379 | [[/folder]] |
| 380 | |
| 381 | !Other World |
| 382 | |
| 383 | [[folder:Azad]] |
| 384 | !!Azad (Asado Ken) |
| 385 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/azad.png]] |
| 386 | Azad is first seen when Kimun comes to Earth to retrieve Kanna. His past and motivations are shrouded in mystery. |
| 387 | ---- |
| 388 | * ArcVillain: He's the main villain of volume 8. |
| 389 | * BroughtDownToNormal: Tohru drains all of his magic power after he's defeated (using the very dragon ball that he tried to control all the dragons with). |
| 390 | * EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler:Giving a VillainousRant in front of a little girl known for pulling pranks who has access to a tape recorder and a cell phone isn't the smartest of moves.]] |
| 391 | * EvilWearsBlack: His outfit is solid black and it's very clear that he doesn't have the best intentions in mind for anybody. [[spoiler:It's actually a holy cloak that protects him from most conventional attacks.]] |
| 392 | * FantasticRacism: [[spoiler:He hates dragons and wants to wipe them out.]] |
| 393 | -->[[spoiler:There is only one thing on my mind... killing every single one of you... you bunch of beasts.]] |
| 394 | * FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: His [[FantasticRacism hatred for dragons]] stems from his younger sister being killed by one.]] |
| 395 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:He tries to off Ilulu after she discovers his plan to turn the Harmony and Chaos factions against each other. She manages to escape by switching to her full dragon form.]] |
| 396 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Him tricking Kanna into absorbing the power of the dragon ball to flare up hostilities between the dragon factions was this twice over. First, Kanna's exile led her to gaining access to technology that helped her pull of an EngineeredPublicConfession. Second, Kobayashi used the very power that Kanna had absorbed to oneshot both him and a brainwashed Kimun. Tohru would also use that very same dragon ball to drain him of all his power.]] |
| 397 | * HopelessWithTech: His unfamiliarity with Earth tech (more specifically, [[spoiler:[[EngineeredPublicConfession cell phones and tape recorders]]]]) ultimately brought about his downfall. |
| 398 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Invoked. [[spoiler:Lucoa tells him that he's right about his hatred of dragons, but he has to accept the due retribution for his actions against the Dragons as rightful punishment, and while she herself will not be the deliverer of his punishment, Tohru will indeed be.]] |
| 399 | * LogicalLatecomer: [[spoiler:Chapter 90 has him get introduced to the series' mainstay of [[{{Otaku}} maids]], specifically through Georgie, who believes that Azad would look good in a butler suit. He internally bemoans the realization that he was defeated by a pervert (Kobayashi) as a result]]. |
| 400 | * MysteriousPast: Chapter 70 has Tohru discuss a troop of dragons that he served as an advisor to with Ilulu, who was a former member of the troop. The only detail about his past with that troop, is that when Azad's advice caused the leader of the troop to become AxCrazy, several of the other dragons (including Ilulu) in that troop decided to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bail out and leave the troop]] before it got even worse. The dragons that decided to stay in that troop ended up getting killed in battle, while a few of the ones that bailed out, also ended up becoming AxCrazy as well. |
| 401 | * OutGambitted: [[spoiler: He had no idea that when Kanna accepted the plan to make a new dragon ball, she was plotting an EngineeredPublicConfession that takes advantage of Kobayashi's MamaBear tendencies, the strong amount of mana in the Dragon World allowing Kobayashi to use magic, and [[HopelessWithTech his lack of familiarity with Earth tech]].]] |
| 402 | * PlayingBothSides: [[spoiler:He is secretly advising both the Chaos and Harmony factions, trying to provoke them into fighting each other.]] |
| 403 | * PragmaticVillainy: He doesn't force the plan of using Kanna as a weapon since they could just have her transfer the power she absorbed from the Dragon Ball instead, especially since he wants to avoid getting into a confrontation with [[TheDreaded Tohru]]. |
| 404 | * RedOniBlueOni: Red oni Kimun gets aggressive towards Kobayashi and Tohru over their objections of using Kanna for military purposes, while blue oni Azad is calm about this and realizes that the human values that Kanna learned in the human world is the reasons for Kobayashi and Tohru being so protective of her. |
| 405 | * ReformedButNotTamed: [[spoiler:Shouta's father recruits him to be a local overseer of magical beings integrating into human society. Azad, though he does take his job seriously (much to his own surprise), is still fairly belligerent in his thoughts, quite clearly still nursing his old grudges. His partnership with Georgie seems to be allieviating this a bit though.]] |
| 406 | * ResurrectiveImmortality: A curse causes him to be revived whenever he gets killed, even after he is BroughtDownToNormal. |
| 407 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name can be romanized as both Azad and Asad. |
| 408 | * TakingTheBullet: In Chapter 90, [[spoiler:he does this for Georgie when a delinquent attacks him...because she herself was doing so, which reminded Azad of the moment his sister died, as she herself pulled this to save him.]] |
| 409 | * VillainExitStageLeft: Subverted. He tries to teleport away once it becomes clear that his plans have gone south, but Tohru made it impossible for him to do so by saturating the surrounding area with her mana. The only reason he managed to get away on foot afterwards is because Tohru willingly let him go ([[BroughtDownToNormal after draining all of his magic power]]). |
| 410 | * WouldHurtAChild: |
| 411 | ** Much like with Clemene, he's perfectly fine attacking Ilulu [[spoiler:when she finds out that he's PlayingBothSides.]] |
| 412 | ** And he's just as willing to strike down Kanna [[spoiler:when she ruins his plans via an EngineeredPublicConfession, going so far as to use [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Kanna's own father]] to do the deed.]] |
| 413 | * XanatosSpeedChess: Azad's plan to get the Chaos Dragons & Harmony Dragons to fight against each other involved tricking Kanna into creating a dragon stone for the Chaos side in Chapter 69. However, upon discovering that Kobayashi & Kimun were delaying the implementation of his plan in Chapter 71, and that Ilulu had discovered his plan in Chapter 72, Azad was forced to trick Kanna into returning to the Dragon world in Chapter 73. However when he learned that Kanna saw through his trick in Chapter 74 and discovered that Kobayashi & Tohru were entering the Dragon world in Chapter 75, he changed the trajectory of their portal, in the hopes that Lumineis would kill the two of them. Of course, doing that ends up leading to a chain of events that caused his plan to fall apart, forcing him to use the Dragon stone to put all the dragons (except those who have been living on Earth for some time) under a mind control spell. Then when that plan goes south he decides to [[VillainExitStageLeft make a run for it]], only to be distracted by [[HeroicNeutral Lucoa]], long enough for Tohru to catch up with and defeat him in Chapter 78. |
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| 415 | |
| 416 | [[folder:The Bandit]] |
| 417 | !!The Bandit |
| 418 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HarukaChisuga (Japanese), Creator/BrynApprill (English), Karen Vallejo (Latin American Spanish) |
| 419 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bandit_tohru_knew.jpg]] |
| 420 | |
| 421 | |
| 422 | A human woman from that other world that Tohru interacted with for a short period of time. She later became a maid. |
| 423 | ---- |
| 424 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: She only has a single sentence hinting at her history, and it isn't exactly cheerful. |
| 425 | -->The only choice I ever got to make, was to become either a slave or a bandit. |
| 426 | * DistinguishingMark: Her scar, which tips off the audience to her identity once she becomes a maid. |
| 427 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: As shown at the end of Chapter 28, she eventually does become a maid. |
| 428 | * FearlessFool: Tohru marked her as such when they first met. |
| 429 | -->Humans who talk to dragons without fear are either looking to attack me, or they have a few screws loose in their head. In this case... it was the latter. |
| 430 | * FirstFriend: {{Downplayed|Trope}} since Tohru doesn't technically see her as a "friend". However, the Bandit is the first human who doesn't approach her with fear or malice and had a meaningful conversation with Tohru that made her rethink her entire life up to that point. If anything, Tohru even tells Kobayashi that she hopes to meet the bandit again someday. |
| 431 | * GoodIsDumb: She may have a few screws loose in the head, but her kindness towards Tohru and conversation played a big part of questioning her worldview of freedom and humans. |
| 432 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: She has a small scar underneath her right eye. It serves as a DistinguishingMark for the audience when she becomes a maid. |
| 433 | * HumbleGoal: Becoming a maid isn't exactly the most glamorous of goals, though it is ultimately what brings her happiness. |
| 434 | * IJustWantToBeFree: Well, the freedom to subjugate herself to another, but the important thing is she wanted to be able to choose to do so. |
| 435 | * InnocentBlueEyes: As befitting her role as ThePollyanna, her eyes are as blue as a clear day. |
| 436 | * IsThatAThreat: She tells Tohru that her order to leave or be killed, is the most unconvincing death threat she's ever heard. Tohru responds with a GiantFootOfStomping, while telling her that it was not a threat (though the fact that Tohru deliberately missed kind of proved her point). |
| 437 | * {{Meido}}: At the end of her chapter, it's revealed that she managed to accomplish her dream of becoming a maid. |
| 438 | * MessyHair: As an outlaw in medieval society, she doesn't have access to hair-care products. |
| 439 | * NervesOfSteel: She didn't even ''blink'' when Tohru tried to bluff her with a GiantFootOfStomping. Then again, it was suggested that she wasn't all right in the head. |
| 440 | * NoNameGiven: She remains unnamed throughout the flashback of her and Tohru interacting. |
| 441 | * ThePollyanna: She was incredibly cheerful and hopeful when Tohru met her despite all of her friends having just been captured. Tohru suspected she might have had a few screws loose. |
| 442 | * RagsToRiches: Downplayed. She goes from a bandit to a maid, the latter which isn't really an extravagant job but is better than the former. |
| 443 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: She only shows up in a single chapter as part of a flashback (plus a one-panel cameo later on in the manga), but meeting her changed Tohru's entire worldview of her goals and humans and is a big part of the reason why she became Kobayashi's maid. |
| 444 | * ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Her aspirations that involve becoming a maid include finding love with her master. |
| 445 | * UnkemptBeauty: She had MessyHair, raggedy clothes, and is a cutie. Part of this is due to her bright and friendly personality. |
| 446 | * UptownGirl: Discussed. She mentioned to Tohru that part of her dream of becoming a maid involved falling in love with her master. Whether or not she actually did is never specified. |
| 447 | * YouthfulFreckles: You can see it when the camera zooms to her face. |
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