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Exorcist Ninjas

Kazamaki clan

Seigen Kazamaki

Seigen Kazamaki (風巻清弦)

Voiced by: Ken Uo (anime), Shohei Tokiwa (vomic)

Matsuri's maternal grandfather, his mentor, and the current head of the Kazamaki clan.

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• Affluent Ascetic: Matoi mentions Seigen having a lot saved up from his exorcist ninja career. While he does have a (presumably inherited) Big Fancy House, he refuses to renovate it—it doesn't even have air-conditioning!
• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Seigen always wears a kamishimo with a fundoshi under it, the latter being what inspired Matsuri to wear one.
• Blow You Away: Seigen taught his grandson wind ninjutsu. Thus far, a flashback has shown him using Calm Formation to keep a candle's flame steady under intense wind.
• Covert Pervert: Is shown quietly reading a girly mag and watching Idol Singer videos. Upon seeing his transformed grandson dressed for school as a girl, his eye briefly pops open and he gives a sly thumbs up.
• *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": He has a hernia and so has to be careful when moving.
• Eyes Always Shut: His eyes are usually shut, and even when open are often concealed by shadow.
• Feeling Their Age: Seigen's old age has left him fairly feeble. Matsuri hasn't only taken his exorcist ninja duties, but most household chores.
• Good Parents: Seigen is a nurturing guardian to his grandson who gives him sound relationship advice.
• Hereditary Hairstyle: Oddly, it's specifically Matsuri's female form whose hair is tied up into a tuft similar to Seigen's.
• Identical Stranger: He is a dead ringer for Ded Moroz.
• Mr. Exposition: Explains obscure element of ayakashi and magic to the audience.
• Older Is Better: Subverted; Seigen has plenty of skills and experience, but he's not kidding when he said Matsuri had to take his place. The one time Seigen attempts to fight, he collapses from the back pain of standing up too quickly.
• Old Master: An elderly man well versed in ninjutsu, ayakashi, and sealing rituals.
• Open-Minded Parent: Seigen never stresses over the possibility Matsuri would be female for the rest of his life, and thinks they need to accept things in the meantime. Even with that in mind, he still encourages Matsuri to pursue Suzu romantically.
• Retired Badass: He was once a great exorcist ninja, but in his advanced age, Matsuri has officially taken his place.
  Now I spend my days just watching pop-star videos and playing video games.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: His services have given him connections with the local government; enough to let Matsuri attend high school under a false female identity in Suzu's class.
• Shipper on Deck: Seigen has been aware of Matsuri's love for Suzu long before Matsuri himself, and encourages them to get closer romantically, even as girls. Seigen has happily allowed Masturi to stay over at Suzu house, wishing his grandson to "have fun", and half-jokingly suggested they should start bathing together.
• Transformation Trinket: Seigen has his transformation gear integrated into the cloth belt he wears every day, but he's yet to use it onscreen.

Matoi Kazamaki/"Ibuki Yamase"

Matoi Kazamaki (風巻纏)/"Ibuki Yamase (山瀬いぶき)"

^{Click here for her as Ibuki Yamase.}

Matsuri's mother and Seigen's daughter, another exorcist ninja who specializes in wind ninjutsu and leads the Kanto branch of the Exorcist Ninja Association. She's introduced under the guise of "Ibuki Yamase", a new assistant teacher at Matsuri's school.

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• Action Mom: She's Matsuri's mother and an even stronger combatant than he is.
• Always Someone Better: With her greater experience, she easily overpowers Matsuri, both physically and at wind ninjutsu, without even using a Power Crutch as he was.
• Battle Ballgown: Matoi's exorcist ninja suit is a chainmail bodysuit like Matsuri's, but with an open back, a midsection where the underlayer is only covered by "dress" flaps, Combat Stilettos, High-Class Gloves, a sash attached to both gloves, and a fur neck wrap.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: The arm Matoi's suit has a retractable needle that comes out from her wrist, which is coated in a paralytic drug.
• Blow You Away: As with other Kazamaki's exorcist ninja, she uses wind ninjutsu.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Her buxom figure is part of why she's such a Dude Magnet at school. Her chest gets even more emphasized when she changes into her real outfit, which has a Navel-Deep Neckline.
• Character Tics: Besides sharing her child's tendency to put their wrists on their hips, Matoi is fond of folding her arms together under her breasts.
• Characterization Marches On: Matoi is introduced as an overbearing parent to the extreme, trying to drive off Suzu while sexually harassing Matsuri for her own entertainment. This is severely toned down a few chapters later, basically limited to pushing for Reo to get with Matsuri, then abandonned entirely. After her battle with Shadow Mei, Matoi virtually never interacts with Matsuri as his mother, only as group leader.
• Coat Cape: Wears her fur cape on her back without putting her arms in the sleeves, showcasing her high-ranking position in the Exorcist Ninja Association as well as her more luxurious lifestyle compared to Seigen and Matsuri.
• Combat Hand Fan: She carries a large hand fan and uses it for some of her wind ninjutsu.
• Combat Stilettos: Her ninja gear comes with high heels that don't impede her mobility at all.
• Conflicting Loyalty: On the one hand, she knows that her son is fond of the Ayakashi Medium and would never forgive her murder. On the other hand, many exorcist ninjas loathe and fear the Ayakashi Medium. She knows that it is likely only a matter of time until they decide to order her killed.
• Conspicuous Consumption: Unlike the rest of the Kazamaki clan, Matoi gladly shows off the wealth she's accrued, constantly wearing a fur coat and staying at a luxury hotel suite instead of her family's house.
• Custom Uniform of Sexy: Exorcist ninja aren't shown with uniform battle suits, but Matoi's is clearly a more elaborate and revealing variation of the style Matsuri wear.
• Doting Parent: Much of her time as Ibuki is spent fawning over her child's upstanding attitude, and she tells Matsuri he's a very cute girl.
• Dude Magnet: Her good looks often have men fawning for her attention.
• Feminine Mother, Tomboyish Daughter: She's a feminine contrast to Matsuri, who still mostly acts and dresses as he did when he was male.
• Game-Breaking Injury: While she's a far stronger exorcist ninja than her son-turned-daughter, Shadow Mei manages to incapacitate her right arm with excess life energy, leaving her out of fighting shape for the rest of the story.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Casually drinking her subordinates under the table is how Matoi begins her night, and she almost Never Gets Drunk.
• Hereditary Hairstyle: When Matoi was a teenager, she put her hair up in a tuft just like Matsuri does now, albeit with her usual bangs. Though her hair nowadays is usually down (and isn't half as spiky as Matsuri's when his is), she'll sometimes put it up the same way, though it's not as compressed.
• Hot for Student: Subverted; Ibuki is set up as Matsuri's Stalker with a Crush before being revealed as Matsuri's mother in disguise… not that it makes her actions remotely innocent.
• Hot Teacher: Ibuki gets plenty of attention from her male students; enough that Matsuri ends up chasing them off.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Though clearly motivated by her own possessive attitude toward her child, Matoi is right to call Matsuri out for stifling Suzu's growth with over-protectiveness.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: She can fight wearing a power suit, pencil skirt, pantyhose, high heels, and a fur coat. Her exorcist ninja gear is even more elaborate Battle Ballgown.
• Lady in a Power Suit: Her usual outfit includes a suit.
• The Leader: She's the leader of the Kanto branch of the Exorcist Ninja Association.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Matoi is openly sexual, boisterous and commanding, but her Ibuki guise is demure, passive, and comparatively modest.
• Meaningful Name: "Ibuki" is Japanese for "breath", hinting that she's one of the wind-controlling ninja of the Kazamaki clan.
• Ms. Fanservice: She has a very curvy, well-endowed body in either form. As Ibuki, she dresses somewhat modestly, but shows a good amount of cleavage and wears skin-tight pants. Under her real identity, she leaves her suit open to display a Navel-Deep Neckline.
• My Beloved Smother: Even beyond physical affection, when Matoi involves herself in Matsuri's life, she's rather overbearing. She even admits to disliking Suzu for taking his attention away from her.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her formal wear is a suit with no shirt underneath, exposing her cleavage and a bit of her abdomen.
• Never Gets Drunk: A quantity of beer that puts Shishimaru and Muga (themselves heavy drinkers) on the floor leaves Matoi quite lucid. Continuing to drink more throughout the night eventually causes her to show minor signs of drunkenness (including an Alcohol Hic), but even those may have been played up to excuse her comments about Suzu.
• Not Quite Flight: She can float in mid-air by creating a twister under each foot.
• Parental Neglect: She often put her duties as an exorcist ahead of raising Matsuri. Even before going to Tokyo, it's said that she rarely saw Matsuri due to being away on missions all the time, and she more or less leaves him to be raised by his grandpa.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Her Ibuki disguise is mostly the same as her regular appearance but for the eyes. It still manages to fool her own child, though possibly because he hadn't seen her in so long.
• Pervert Dad: Gender Inverted; the fondness she expresses for her own child is outright creepy. She shows absolutely No Sense of Personal Space toward Matsuri, to the point of casually groping his breasts and sticking her hand down his underwear to know he'd really become female. She claims that it's to train him to keep his composure under all circumstances, but she seems to enjoy it an awful lot.
• Pet the Dog: Despite her antagonism to Suzu, Matoi defies Shirogane's expectation to Kill the Host Body when Suzu's is being controlled by Shadow Mei, instead risking her life (and losing the battle) to save her.
• Power Nullifier: Her control over wind is great enough to completely negate Matsuri's power even while still using hers.
• Relationship Sabotage: She has been attempting to prevent a relationship between Matsuri and Suzu, because she sees Suzu as a potential threat her child should detach himself from.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Matoi believes Suzu could turn on humanity if she gained her past lives' memories of being killed by humans. Instead, said experience created a jinyo that takes over Suzu's body in an attempt to wipe out humanity. Matoi wryly notes that Suzu really was "a source of danger", but it wasn't through any intention of her own.
• Rings of Death: Lunar Ring Slayer makes a ring of swirling wind that splits apart into spears that fly in many directions, each one easily able to slice through a tree.
• Say It with Hearts: Much of her dialogue has hearts in it, usually while expressing over-the-top admiration for her own child.
• Secretly Selfish: Matoi nominally dislikes Suzu because she thinks she's dangerous, but admitted to resenting her for "taking away" a young Matsuri from her. Her preference for Reo, Matoi's literal subordinate, eager to please her potential mother-in-law, shows she'd rather Matsuri have a romantic partner that keeps him under his mother's thumb.
• Secret-Keeper: She was the only one Garaku told that he was a Fake Defector.
• Sentimental Drunk: After a long night of drinking, Matoi joins her child in the bath, and suddenly hugs him while gushing about how much Matsuri's on the way to growing up like her.
• Shaping Your Attacks: By gathering wind around her target, she can create translucent ropes to bind them or walls to cage them.
• Shared Family Quirks: Like her son, Matoi wears a choker, dresses in a way that exposes cleavage, and tends to put her wrists on her hips. One of her casual outfits even looks notably similar to the one set of girls' clothes Matsuri chose to keep from a shopping trip.
• Shipper with an Agenda: She is actively supporting a relationship between Matsuri and Reo, partially because she doesn't like Suzu.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Besides hair color (which is likely different because of a side-effect of Shirogane's jutsu), she mostly looks like a grown-up version of female Matsuri. Matoi herself marvels over how much Matsuri now looks like her at his age (which is shown to the audience as an accurate assessment).
• Sultry Bangs: Matoi's hair covers her right eye, along with most of that side of her face, alluding to her sensuous nature. She's a Hot Teacher who attracts a lot of attention from her male students because of her physical appearance.
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Matsuri normally calls Matoi "mom", but when they're on duty, she insists even he calls her "leader". Conversely, she has to remind another subordinate to instead call her "president" when they're in public. Matoi also tells Matsuri to call her "Ibuki" when in her school teacher disguise, even in private.
  Matoi: You should be calling me "leader". Wait, no... "Ms. Ibuki"
• Troll: She pretends Matsuri's wind fended her off, mockingly saying it'll mess up her hair, before abruptly cancelling it with a sinister look on her face.
• Wanted a Son Instead: Matoi is openly pleased that Matsuri was turned into a girl, mostly because of how much it makes him look like her. Matoi questions if Matsuri should even try to become male again, supposedly because of the risk of empowering Shirogane, but one wonders if she's biased by her own wishes. Her training to improve Matsuri's spiritual powers (which starts with him wearing girls' underwear) seems suspiciously adept to make Matsuri more used to being a girl.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: She moved to Tokyo to do work there when Matsuri was seven, and he decided to stay because of Suzu. Even when they lived in the same town, Matoi was always away on missions anyways, leaving Matsuri much closer to his grandfather than to her. After a mission gives her a chance to reconnect with her child, she still isn't living with them, preferring to rent a fancy hotel room over living in her family's aged home.
• Woman Of Wealth And Taste: She dresses up in fancy clothes and seems to have a lavish lifestyle that is full of luxuries.
• Wound That Will Not Heal: Shadow Mei's Life Sphere left a mark on Matoi's arm patterned like the Life Halo, even after a month of recovery and attempted treatments. She's able to use his arm for at least some tasks, but has seemingly given up hope of a full recovery. Her affliction is gone by the finale, but her arm is still out of shape for a while.

Korogi clan

Reo Korogi

Reo Korogi (香炉木恋緒)

Voiced by: Aya Yamane

A ninja exorcist who makes and maintains equipment out of her family's toy shop.

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• All Gays are Promiscuous: Reo is bisexual and astoundingly aggressive in lusting after other girls, even if Matsuri is the only one she wants a relationship with.
• The Armorer: She makes, repairs, and modifies equipment used by exorcist ninja.
• The Artifact: Reo's role as Suzu's romantic rival diminishes significantly after Suzu confesses, because Suzu adopts unhesitant aggression that used to set Reo apart. Reo's appearances after are less common and more focused on her job as a technician.
• Ascended Extra: Reo only appeared once in the first three volumes. In the fourth, she makes several more appearances, and ends up transferring to Matsuri's school.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Reo is fiercely loyal to Matsuri because he was willing to rely on her skills as an artisan when everyone else dismissed her as too young.
• Catchphrase: Often declares things "sensational (shigekiteki)" when excited.
• Crazy-Prepared: She developed a fake shirikodama to use as a booby trap just in case she ever had to fight a kappa.
• Coy, Girlish Flirt Pose: Tends to put her hands behind her back and/or lean forward, especially when talking to Matsuri.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: Reo developed multiple models of Sexy Gear to seduce ayakashi, which is treated as a completely ridiculous idea. Much later, when Matsuri puts some on unknowingly, it really does seduce a whole swarm of iyo enough to produce an opening.
• Determined Defeatist: Reo knows she's unlikely to connect with Matsuri as Suzu already has, but that won't keep her from doing her best to improve their relationship.
• Dispel Magic: Once she's found the scent of an ayakashi jutsu, she can make a specific blend of incense that will negate its effect. Against something as powerful as Shirogane's Gender Swap Awakened, it can still fail to work properly or backfire.
• Exotic Eye Designs: For whatever reason, her pupils are as white as her sclerae. This is possibly a stylized depiction of leukocoria, though Reo's lacks any of the vision problems that usually indicates.
• Exposed to the Elements: Reo wears some pieces of heavy safety equipment even when she doesn't have to, but leaves her upper arms, neck, and most of her face exposed even when hammering red-hot metal.
• Flanderization: When first introduced, Reo's over-affectionate nature was only shown with a (forceful but chaste) hug and mildly-suggestive comment. Things quickly escalate to the point that feeling up Matsuri becomes the primary focus of Reo's scenes. Matoi even convinces Reo it's her best means of attracting him. This makes it a bit hard to tell if Reo has only gotten this handsy with female Matsuri, or did so even when he was male. Later chapters dial this back, as Reo's remains consistently flirtatious, but shows her relationship with Matsuri isn't based solely on uncontrollable lust.
• Foil: She's Suzu most direct romantic rival and contrasts to her in a number of ways:
  • Suzu is conflicted and closeted about her attraction to Matsuri's female form, has a stronger attraction to his male form, and is desperate to change him back. Meanwhile, Reo is quite openly bisexual, has no preference at all between either form, and is only trying to change Matsuri back so long as he wants it.
  • Suzu knows Matsuri through school and home, Reo through exorcist ninja work, and they only meet years after he'd known both. Even before learning Reo loved him, Suzu was jealous she knew an aspect of Matsuri's life he had hidden from her.
  • Whereas Suzu tries to be discreet and is sometimes embarrassed about her libido, Reo is quite enthusiastically and unreservedly sexual.
  • Even their wardrobes are opposite: Suzu keeps her legs bare, but covers most of her upper body, usually even the sleeves. Reo covers her legs with a robe and wears heavy gloves, but leaves most of her arms and much of her upper torso exposed.
  • Where Suzu only has feelings for Matsuri, Reo openly flirts with and lusts after anyone she is attracted to, including Suzu.
  • Suzu is grateful to Matsuri's long-term friendship and fell in love with him for it. When Reo and Soga were children, she used him as a guinea pig for her invention, and in the present brusquely rejects the idea of any romance with Soga because "I don't like birds".
  • Suzu can be possessive of Matsuri and uncomfortable with anyone she perceives as a romantic rival. Reo has zero animosity toward Suzu and Soga, finding the idea of them competing for Matsuri's affection exciting or even arousing.
• The Gadfly: Although often Innocently Insensitive, some of Reo's comments and action do seem deliberately aimed at disturbing people—like cheerfully pointing out if Matsuri doesn't take a sample of haku in Suzu's sleep, Soga may have to.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Her works include ninja gear, training robots, and delivery drones.
• Genius Slob: When her mother asks her to clean up the equipment and material lying around her room, Reo just says she's "more comfortable in this clutter".
• Genki Girl: She approaches her job with a huge amount of enthusiasm, and is even happy when her equipment breaks, because that just lets her build it again better.
• Goggles Do Nothing: She keeps a pair of dark-lens goggles, presumably for shop work, on her forehead, sometimes putting them over her eyes in battle.
• Home Nudist: After work, Reo enjoys lounging around in her room, wearing nothing but an oversized T-shirt.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Fashionable: Reo would gladly help Matsuri embrace his feminine side in his new form, even handing him a big pile of clothes to try on. She even picks out the underwear he replaces his fundoshi with as part of his training.
• Innocently Insensitive: Things that disturb other people often make Reo enthusiastic, and she can't read the room to restrain her gushing interest.
• Killer Yo-Yo: Her Chain Top is a yoyo swung around on a chain, which she can swing with enough dexterity to deflect projectiles.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Reo almost proudly cops to being a pervert, and is eager to rub up against Matsuri. But they're still good friends, and he simply finds her advances embarrassing.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Reo" is spelled with the kanji for "first (緒)" and "love (恋)". Matsuri was her first partner, and she fell in love with him.
  • "Korogi (香炉)" means "incense burner", something her family have traditionally used for exorcisms. The second kanji can also mean "kiln/furnace", something a craftswoman like her would use.
• Minored in Ass-Kicking: Reo specializes in taking care of exorcist ninja equipment, but is as agile as any ninja and quite skilled as using her own gear to fight.
• Ms. Fanservice: Her robes would be pretty modest, if she wore them normally. As-is, she leaves off the top, wearing only an apron and tube-top bra visible in the back. And despite a bottom covered past the knees, the way she moves constantly shows off her bare legs and even her thong.
• New Transfer Student: In chapter 34 she transfers from an all-girls school to Matsuri and Suzu's school. Its also revealed her grandmother is the principal of said school, making the transfer much smoother.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Readily tackle-hugs Matsuri despite his protests. She later shows with Suzu that she just lacks a sense of personal space period, not just with Matsuri.
• The Nose Knows: Her clan have trained their sense of smell to analyze humans, ayakashi, and jutsu. She was even able to tell the faint smell of the Gender Swap Mark apart from Matsuri's own odor.
• Not Good with Rejection: When Matsuri is brainwashed by Tanumaro's steam to make him think he's a feminine girl, Reo's attempt to smell the jutsu with her Perverted Sniffing ends up scaring Matsuri away, leading Reo to get on her knees depressed.
• Not So Above It All: Reo's normally unflappable confidence breaks if she has any suspicious Matsuri doubts her qualification as an artisan.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Soga takes Reo's innocent enthusiasm at face value, but her internal monologue shows she's perfectly capable of playing it up to trick him into being her lab rat.
• Pink Is Erotic: Reo is openly very sexual and her hair is bright pink.
• Rollerblade Good: With a push of a button, her Tricked-Out Shoes each grow a pair of in-line wheels.
• Red Herring: Her introduction makes her come off as Matsuri's New Old Flame, hugging him and calling him "her first". While Reo does have a crush on Matsuri, he's yet to notice, and she just meant he was the first person to treat her as an artisan and use her equipment.
• Robot Master: She has several robots she uses as attendants, and at least one she can carry around that expands to giant size to fight in battle.
• Romantic Runner-Up: There's a deep bond and mutual respect between Matsuri and Reo, but he cannot fathom that she's in love with her, nor is he likely to love someone besides Suzu.
• Rummage Sale Reject: She wears a robe (with the top usually hanging off her waist) along with heavy machine shop gear, including boots, gloves, an apron, and goggles.
• Scarf of Asskicking: Reo's ninja suit has a scarf, but it's much shorter than Soga's, being more like a neckerchief.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Reo wears very revealing clothing, doesn't care if she ends up showing off her underwear, and her idea of a "cute" ninja suit is a Stripperiffic Chainmail Bikini.
• Smells Sexy: Her acute sense of smell has given her, in her own words, a "fetish for scents". While analyzing the curse on Matsuri, she gets far too into it while assuring him she likes how he smells, and looks downright euphoric immediately after. She gets a similar feeling from huffing his uniform shirt after a school day, and proudly tells Matsuri she'd like to keep a pair of underwear he tried on for the same purpose.
  Reo: Whew! I've always wanted to take a deep whiff. So sensationally stimulating!
  Matsuri: Did you just come here to smell me?
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Reo's father is a burly bearded man with bushy eyebrows who doesn't really bear any resemblance to his daughter.
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: She takes it a step further by storing things directly within her bikini with no sign of a bulge.
• Wrench Wench: A cute young girl who works on exorcist ninja equipment.

Shishimaru Korogi

Shishimaru Korogi (香炉木獅子丸)

Voiced by: Takumu Miyazono

Reo's father, an artisan exorcist ninja who creates their equipment.

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• Ambiguously Related: The principal of Hokusai High School is revealed to be Reo's grandmother but her No Name Given status makes it unclear if she's his biological mother or simply his mother-in-law.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: His bushy eyebrows stick far out of the goggles covering his eyes.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Like his daughter, Shishimaru wears a pair of dark-tinted goggles. You could expect that from a craftsman, but he keeps them on at all times, even at night.
• Satellite Character: So far just shown as Reo's father and Muga's drinking buddy.

Ninokuru clan

Soga Ninokuru

Soga Ninokuru (二ノ曲宗牙)

Voiced by: Shōya Ishige

A sixteen year-old exorcist ninja from another clan who acts as Matsuri's rival, mentor, and high school upperclassman. Though he initially came to exterminate Shirogane himself when Matsuri wouldn't, Soga quickly sets that aside and joins Matsuri as Suzu's protector.

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• Above the Influence:
  • When Matsuri is brainwashed to believe he was always a feminine girl and gains a crush on Soga, Ponosuke tells him he should use this opportunity to accept Matsuri as his girlfriend, while Shadow Mei fully expects him to reciprocate Matsuri's crush. Instead, Soga is furious to see Matsuri's personality changed like that, and has no reservations at all removing the jutsu over him.
  • A similar situation occurs after Matsuri is split into male and female bodies. The latter runs away from home in distress that she might just be an ayakashi whose position as Suzu's lover is better suited for the male Matsuri, and while staying at Soga's house, offers to become his girfriend instead. Instead of taking advantage of her emotional vulnerability, he scolds her for losing sight of her devotion to Suzu and kicks her out.
• Accidental Pervert: He's wound up in several compromising situations with Matsuri, either seeing him in a state of undress or pressed up against his breasts or butt.
• Affectionate Nickname: Rochka calls him "Kurukuru" (a pun on the English word word "cool").
• Animal Motifs: His sharp teeth, blue hair, and generally angular features call sharks to mind. Lu even thinks he's some kind of humanoid shark.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: He wields triangle blades that slide out of his gauntlets over the top of each hand.
• Bodyguard Crush: Played with; Matsuri and Soga see each other as equal partners, but the moments where Matsuri needs Soga's assistance (physically or emotionally) inspire the most romantic feelings from Soga to Matsuri.
• Broken Pedestal: He admired Matsuri's passion and skill at exorcising ayakashi, but became disgusted that he would let a dangerous one like Shirogane live for personal reasons. Granted, Soga apparently didn't understand how much Matsuri was motivated by Suzu from the beginning. Soga is also slightly embarrassed by Matsuri being turned female, though he's much more understanding about that. After seeing what kind of person Suzu is, and falling for her himself, his respect for Matsuri is seemingly restored.
• Cannot Talk to Women: Soga isn't much for small talk in general, but trying to hold an actual conversation with a girl inevitably leaves him a stuttering mess. The closest he ever gets to talking to a girl on the regular would be Matsuri, and even then that comes with a very obvious caveat.
• Cathartic Exhalation: While talking with Reo at school in the final chapter, he claims that he's eager to see Matsuri turn back into a guy so they can have a proper rivalry, but panics when she observes Matsuri's arrival, and sighs in relief when Matsuri's still female... then bashes his head into the wall for doing so.
• Catchphrase Insult: Often warns others against (and chastises himself for) being "juvenile", usually by saying "How juvenile." after questioning what they've done. He abandons this phrase after about three volumes.
• Childhood Friends: He's known Reo for many years. Far from being a Childhood Friend Romance like Matsuri and Suzu, he attributes much of his fear of girls to her constantly using him as a guinea pig for her inventions.
• Clark Kent Outfit: Beneath his loose ninja suit and school uniform, Soga has very toned biceps and six-pack abs.
• The Confidant: Matsuri is very trusting and open to Soga, readily telling him things he won't admit to Suzu (as they're often about Suzu) or even his own grandfather.
• Creepy Good: His good intentions are obscured by his sharp looks that are prone to Nightmare Faces.
• Elemental Motifs: Soga doesn't control electricity like how Matsuri controls wind, but he's still associated with it. He describes himself as "lightning-fast", his ninja gear is shaped like a lightning bolt, his eyes glow and make streaks like electricity when he's going very fast, and his first named attack is "Thunder Slash Recoil".
• Face Framed in Shadow: His bangs perpetually cast a shadow over the top of his face, though his eyes are almost always completely visible in the dark.
• Face of a Thug: His intimidating appearance tends to scare people on sight, so much it doesn't even bother him anymore.
• Fast as Lightning: He's from the "Lightning-Fast" ninja clan, and when he runs at full speed, streaks of electricity come out of his eyes.
• Fire-Forged Friend: Originally saw Matsuri as just some goofy kid, but fighting together led Soga to respect him. Even if Matsuri turning into a girl abuses his one major weakness to women, the two maintain a very close relationship - down to the point where Soga is pretty much Matsuri's closest and only male friend.
• First-Name Basis: After confessing his true feelings to Soga by admitting he is his "rival" in what is essentially a Platonic Declaration of Love without ever using said word, Matsuri begins to calling him by his first name. It's somewhat inconsistent, though.
• Foil: Soga and Matsuri are both exorcist ninja whose jobs have consumed much of their lives, but sharply contrast in many ways, usually with Soga being even more extreme:
  • Physically, Matsuri was already a bit short and baby-faced as a male, which both go double when he's turned into a girl. Soga is tall, broad-shouldered, and has a rather intimidating face.
  • Matsuri has mostly female friends, is unashamed exploring his now-female body, and ignores any shyness in desperate situations. Soga is averse to even talking to girls and even in battle is horribly distracted by the suggestion of sex.
  • Both have a small ayakashi as a sort of partner, but with exact opposite relations. Shirogane started as an outright enemy of Matsuri, remains generally antagonistic, and when they do cooperate, they're still butting heads. Ponosuke is completely dedicated to Soga because he saved his life. Suzu even tried to get Ponosuke and Soga to teach the other pair how to get along better.
  • Whereas Matsuri has admired Suzu since early childhood, Soga has been afraid of Reo since a similar age and can barely get along with her now.
• Friendly Rivalry: Soga directly describes Matsuri as his "friendly rival" who he admires and competes against to better himself. It's so friendly, Matsuri doesn't even think of it as a competition, just that they should get stronger together. Though it takes quite a long time, Soga eventually refers to Matsuri as his rival and his friend.
• Good Is Not Nice: Though a protector of humanity, Soga is quite abrasive, and no longer cares that people are terrified of him.
• Has a Type: When Matsuri was hypnotized to act like he was always a girl, Soga found him a lot less attractive. Reo teases him for having a thing for tomboys, if not outright questioning his sexuality.
• Head Desk: He frequently slams his head into the nearest wall to distract himself from sexy thoughts about Matsuri.
• Hero Antagonist: Though his initial goals would leave Matsuri stuck as a girl, Soga had perfectly valid reasons to want Shirogane exorcised, he was just very callous and confrontational about it.
• Hypocrite: He looks down on Matsuri letting his feelings about Suzu affect his duties, but Soga is far more distracted by his attraction to Matsuri.
• I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Once he sees Suzu hugging Matsuri's male form, he realizes she loves him, and openly encourages Matsuri to date her even while stuck as a girl. In a double example, this means setting aside his growing attraction to Matsuri as well.
• Ignore the Fanservice:
  • While he expectedly faints at first sight of Shadow Mei bathing, he soon recovers to save Matsuri from her. He admits that he still feels ready to keel over, but he has to get it together when Matsuri's in danger.
  • Rochka once charmed him to avoid getting flustered by Matsuri, even when Ponosuke exposes his breasts, but once it wore off (and Matsuri upped the ante by hugging Soga's arm with his still-exposed chest), it was lights out.
  • When he confronts a female jinyo in Tokyo, she undresses to let down his guard before trying to kill him... only to learn that she'd just sliced an afterimage before Soga slays her. A later conversation suggests that the numerous Accidental Pervert moments with Matsuri have gradually desensitized him to women's bodies.
• Improbable Hairstyle: His hair is so rigid it's practically a helmet, and keeps the same shape even when he moves at extremely high speeds.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Relatively subdued, but Soga looked quite transfixed on Matsuri holding his own in a frenzy of monstrous ayakashi.
• Inconvenient Attraction: Soga laments his infatuation with Matsuri, thinking it prevents him from seeing Matsuri as a guy or fellow exorcist. This is on top of sexual thoughts of any kind making Soga so uncomfortable, he'd rather avoid even seeing Matsuri dressed as a girl.
• Inertia Is a Harsh Mistress: Though incredibly fast at a full sprint, Soga's acceleration initially wasn't quite as impressive, leaving him at a relative disadvantage in enclosed spaces. By the time he's fighting Sosuke's horde of iyo, it's improved enough to wildly jackknife around like a pinball, though Ponosuke points out he has to be careful to avoid crashing.
• Jumping the Gender Barrier: Despite his intention to still think of Matsuri as male, he can't keep himself from being attracted to his female form. Interacting more with Matsuri than any regular girl has pushed it toward romantic admiration, not that Soga has gotten any more comfortable. A chapter deals with him being able to suppress it by supernatural means, and he enjoys a friendly swimming race with Matsuri... for all of an entire afternoon, before the enchantment wears off and he's back at square one.
• Knight Templar: Shirogane really doesn't plan to reform, but Soga seemingly rejects that idea that any ayakashi that's threatened humans ever could.
• Lightning/Wind Juxtaposition: The Lightning to Matsuri's Wind. While he cannot control lightning, he has strong associations with it.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: His grim, antisocial, and serious attitude is a rather sharp contrast to his father, who is energetic, a smug prankster as an opponent, and a jovial when in a good mood.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Matsuri grows to depend on Soga for assurance when he's feeling insecure. The thought of not being able to talk closely with Soga anymore completely terrifies him.
• Love Is a Weakness: Love for women is a childish distraction from one's duty, as far as Soga is concerned. It's the kind of thing you'd expect, coming from a guy who feels debilitating embarrassment from a simple crush. After getting to know Suzu, Soga's position reverses, as he quickly falls for her and wants to join Matsuri in protecting her.
• Magic Enhancement: He's once shown channeling spiritual energy through his foot to help hold up a barrier against a rockslide. It's not clear if the strength came from the technique or it was simply a means to anchor his foot to the ground.
• Martial Arts for Mundane Purposes: He takes advantage of his ninja-enhanced athletic abilities to take a side job as a delivery man for his family's restaurant. His family has long treated this as a way to train and make money at the same time.
• Meaningful Name: The second kanji of his given name (牙) means "fang", and Soga has quite the set of teeth. The first kanji of his surname (二) means "double", and together they may reference him wielding two blades that resemble fangs.
• Mistaken for Romance: Matsuri's behavior pertaining to Soga has led to many casual onlookers to assume that they're in a relationship, if only because many of them witness just how Soga hangs around a lot with a girl who he's relatively close with to the point where she calls him by his first name (reserved in Japanese culture for either very close friends or romantic partners) most of the time. Unsurprisingly, this has not come as a realization to Matsuri himself, whose respect for Soga as his senior has made him unaware that his own physical gender and closeness to Soga makes him look like his girlfriend.
• Ninja: Another exorcist ninja.
• No Badass to His Valet: All of Soga's classmates are terrified of him, but Matsuri and Suzu both talk to him casually, and even manage to intimidate him. It's one reason people start assuming Matsuri is his girlfriend.
• Not So Above It All: Soga is usually relentless, unflappable, and ultra-serious. However, he get incredibly flustered by any kind of sexual situation involving women.
• The One Guy: If one doesn't count Matsuri as one of the boys, Soga is the only named male student at Hokusai High School and the only male in Matsuri's group of peers.
  Soga: (beginning a mission with Matsuri, Reo, and Suzu) I'm surrounded by girls...
• One-Man Army: With only some minor assistance from Ponosuke, Soga exorcised Sosuke's entire horde of iyo.
• Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: After a life dedicated to combat over any kind of romance, Soga is terrified of anything sexual. Seeing up Matsuri's skirt caused him to flee from battle, still red-faced and steamy hours later. When meeting with Matsuri a few chapters later, Matsuri (accidentally) rubbing his breasts onto Soga causes him to similarly retreat with haste. He frequently winds up outright fainting when exposed to women's bodies. It takes a truly life-or-death situation for Soga to ignore a naked woman, and even then he feels like "[his] head is about to explode".
• Perpetual Frowner: He scowls almost constantly, and has his mouth turned downward for almost every expression.
• Progressively Prettier: Early chapters would often emphasize Soga's Face of a Thug by drawing him as almost-cartoonishly ghoulish and his (rarely-exposed) body seemed to be quite skinny. Gradually, the deliberately unflattering closeups were phased out, Soga's often drawn as handsome when his face is shown clearly, his musculature has become much more visibly developed, his wardrobe switched to short-sleeve shirts, and he is occasionally shown shirtless.
• Psycho Sidekick: Soga is actually rather protective of Matsuri, but shows it by being very violent to anyone who threatens him.
  Soga: (to Utagawa) You attacked Kazamaki. That means you have to die now.
• Real Men Hate Affection: Compared to Matsuri, Soga is averse even to verbal praise that isn't somehow professional, finding Matsuri's affection embarrassing even aside from the unwanted arousal. He can't even tell his rival "happy birthday" without a big struggle or smashing his head on a rock afterward.
• Real Men Take It Black: Turns down dessert and orders black coffee when visiting the Kaneda family's cafe, fitting his spartan lifestyle.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Acts as a less expressive "blue" to Matsuri's "red", especially after the latter Took a Level in Cheerfulness. He even has blue-shaded hair in contrast to Matsuri's red and pink.
• Rivalry as Courtship: Even when Matsuri was male, Soga fixated on them sharing a rivalry in a mildly homoerotic manner. After Matsuri became female, Soga's feelings for him rapidly segwayed into infatuation and love.
• Romantic Wingman: Despite having feelings for both of them, Soga wants Matsuri and Suzu to get together, and gives the former encouragement when he's unconfident it'll work out.
• Scarf Of Ass Kicking: Unlike Matsuri, Soga has an actual scarf instead of a sash on his ninja suit. It sticks out dramatically and never gets caught on anything, even though it reaches down to his feet.
• Scary Teeth: He has a bear trap-like mouth full of triangular teeth.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Even more than Matsuri, supernatural battles are nothing to Soga, but casually talking to people (girls specifically) can downright terrify him.
  It makes me so nervous to be sitting with a girl. It's far easier to battle ayakashi!!
• Speed Blitz: Soga's first resort in combat is a Dash Attack faster than most people can react to.
• Stock Shōnen Rival: Soga is the other major exorcist ninja besides Matsuri and is aloof, abrasive, antisocial, and ruthless. However, after Soga's introduction, the pair's relationship is almost entirely positive, defined more by Upperclassman and Lowerclassman dynamics, and only really even a Friendly Rivalry on Soga's side. Matsuri himself isn't exactly a Stock Shōnen Hero, so many of Soga's aforementioned traits are less "opposite" and more exaggerated further in the same direction.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: Although Soga eventually gets over the idea that exorcist ninja shouldn't fall in love, he still thinks he shouldn't with Matsuri because he still thinks of Matsuri as a guy. Soga reminds himself of this every time he winds up staring at Matsuri's female body.
• Transformation Trinket: Like Matsuri's choker, the badge on Soga's chest lets him instantly change into his ninja outfit.
• Unmanly Secret: Soga reads a lot of novels and manga about romance, which he'd rather Ponosuke not tell anyone about.
• Urban Legend Love Life: Many unacquainted characters come to believe Soga is a Chick Magnet who got the attention of Suzu, Matsuri, and Reo. The reality is that none of them have shown any attraction to him, or (in Suzu and Matsuri's case) even realized Soga's attraction to them.
• When He Smiles: Gives Matsuri a sincere, reassuring smile when staying behind to deal with Sosuke's swarm of iyo.
• What Is This Feeling?: After seeing Suzu and Matsuri embracing while the latter is male again (temporarily, unbeknownst to Soga), he runs off to let them be alone, happy that Suzu is safe, but confused as to why he's crying. How much of Soga's feelings came from Suzu loving someone else or Matsuri no longer being female is left to our imagination.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Soga is not hostile to all ayakashi (just as they aren't all hostile to humans), and gets along fine with Ponosuke, but he clearly considers their lives less valuable than humans'. He even once thought that if Suzu is technically an ayakashi and hurts any "real" humans, then they must exorcise her the same way.
• Would Hit a Girl: Soga was willing to fight (female) Matsuri until he was embarrassed by the latter flashing him. When sufficiently motivated, he's willing and able to fight a humanoid ayakashi despite her having the form of a naked woman.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: He's a very serious ninja with narrow yellow eyes.

Muga Ninokuru

Muga Ninokuru (二ノ曲武牙)

Soga's father and the current head of the Ninokuru exorcist ninja clan.

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• Always Someone Better: Muga is introduced practically dancing around Soga in a spar, outdoes Matsuri in similar fashion, and even working together they only defeat him with a severe handicap. For all the ability that pair had shown thus far, his presence establishes that they're still just kids.
• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Wears a full kamishimo, much like Seigen.
• Blood Knight: Suzu throwing an exploding jutsu at Muga serves only to excite him.
• Catch Phrase Insult: Similar to his son, he tends to call his opponents "fledglings (hyokodomo)"
• Chef of Iron: The Ninokuru clan outwardly runs a soba restaurant so they can train their Super-Speed by delivering orders on foot. Muga is very passionate about cooking soba, and physically berates his son for spilling several boxes while distracted by thoughts of Matsuri.
• I Want Grandkids: Muga's approval on Soga and Matsuri as a couple is conditioned on Matsuri staying female, making his expectations pretty clear.
• Idiot Hair: He has a scythe-shaped strand of hair that sticks over the center of his face, which hints as his more mischievous side.
• The Gadfly: Merrily flaunts Matsuri's inability to hit him, and makes him collide with Soga to fluster the latter.
• The Lightfooted: High speed movement is something Muga can perform with such grace, he can carry around a full sake cup in the meantime without its contents wavering, much less spilling.
• Love Is a Weakness: Downplayed compared to his son; Muga treats Matsuri as distracting Soga, but simply thinks the latter is too young to be considering romance. When the two show how well they fight together, Muga quickly changes his mind.
• Meaningful Name: Besides sharing the kanji for "double (二)" and "fang (牙)" with his son, Muga's given name starts with "武", which can mean "martial arts", something he is well-versed in.
• Reused Character Design: Acknowledged by the artist as being designed after Baldor from Black Cat.
• Scary Teeth: He shares his son's mouth full of jagged teeth, and is a lot more prone to showing them off.
• Shipper on Deck: After seeing for himself how his son and Matsuri combine their techniques to knock the sake cup out of his hand and spilling the sake, he approves their assumed relationship, even insisting they get married (despite their flabbergasted protests).
• Smug Smiler: A series of grins and Slasher Smiles adorne Muga's face as he lords his student's inability to hit him over their head.
• Speed Echoes: "Ninokuru-style Ninja Art: Dance of the Falling Leaves" rapidly switches between slow and extremely fast movement, producing an afterimage that Suzu mistakes for an actual duplicate.
• Stern Teacher: Muga shows little sympathy after Soga spends hours on end failing to prove his focus, but as soon as he and Matsuri pass, they're cheerfully congratulated.
• Strength Equals Worthiness: Soga and Matsuri working together to beat his test convinces Muga that Matsuri isn't a distraction to his son, and that they should take their relationship even further.
• Super-Speed: Exceeding his son's agility in speed, acceleration, and finesse, Muga can evade attack so suddenly, it barely seems like he's moving at all.
• Terms of Endangerment: While accusing Matsuri of enjoying being a girl, Muga mockingly refers to him as "Lady Matsuri/Matsuri-chan" and his fruitless attempts to attack as "cute".
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Whereas Soga gets a smack on the back of the head with his sake bottle, Muga merely gives Matsuri a nudge on the backside to make him collide with Soga.

Haya Ninokuru

Haya Ninokuru (二ノ曲刃夜)

Soga's thirteen-year old sister who is still in training to be an exorcist ninja.

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• Big Brother Worship: Adores Soga because of how much he's watched over he since they were kids. Her decision to become an exorcist ninja was based on her wanting to make him proud of her. She later develops a bit of this with Matsuri as well, with Haya wanting him to be her "big sister".
• Cute Little Fangs: She has shark-like teeth just like her brother and father but unlike them it makes her look adorable rather then intimidating.
• The Gadfly: Not to the extent of her old man, but she likes seeing her brother embarrased or flustered. She even thanks Matsuri for accidentally exposing himself to Soga because "he could use the excitement".
• Identity Impersonator: She first appears to the main trio pretending to be her brother turned into a girl by some unknown ayakashi. She's quickly revealed but not before talking to Matsuri and confirming her suspicions that he should become Soga's girlfriend.
• Shipper on Deck: As with Muga, she wants Matsuri to be Soga's girlfriend, though it's so her brother can get over his crippling inability to interact with women. She does come to realize that she wants to honor Soga's wishes of not using Matsuri as a tool to fix his issues with women, but later ships the two so Matsuri can become her older sister-in-law after he saves her from Shadow Mei.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She looks similar enough to her brother Soga to pass as a female version of him just by wearing his Exorcist uniform.
• Younger Than They Look: She's thirteen, but about as tall as Suzu, with a similarly-developed figure. If her brother is anything to go by, Haya may be tall for her age.

Other humans

Yayoi Toba/"Yayo"

Yayoi Toba (鳥羽弥生)/"Yayo (ヤヨ)"

Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu

A classmate of Matsuri and Suzu who, along with Lu, has been Suzu's friend since middle school.

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• Ambiguously Bi: Yayo would be happy to find a boyfriend, calls Sosuke "hot", and eventually gains a crush on Soga. She's also introduced openly lusting after Matsuri and Suzu until she realized how uncomfortable that made them, then it's not brought up again.
• Characterization Marches On: She's introduced as a rambunctious pervert who blatantly hits on other girls, but most of those traits are quickly written out and given to Reo.
• Cowardly Lion: After she's possessed by the Kubire Oni, Yayo is scared out of her mind, but does her best to keep it from harming anyone else.
• Cute Little Fangs: Her canines poke out even when the rest of her teeth are hidden.
• Freaky Is Cool: Matsuri is generally considered quite strange by his classmates. Most of them ostracize him for it, but Yayo enjoys Matsuri's friendship because she finds his unusual behavior highly entertaining.
  Yayo: Ha ha! Accidentally going into the boys' bathroom? She really is a character.
• Genki Girl: Very emotive and excitable, tending to make the most exaggerated facial expressions and overreactions.
• Hidden Depths: She is the smartest academically among her friends, even becoming Shadow Mei's tutor to address her pitiful grades.
• Innocently Insensitive:
  • As brazenly as Yayo invades other girls' space, she sincerely doesn't get how uncomfortable they can feel. Once Matsuri voices his feelings, Yayo is suddenly very desperate to make up with him.
  • Yayo tries to be supportive by helping her friends get boyfriends, oblivious that Suzu and Matsuri are most interested in each other, Matsuri isn't attracted to boys, and that she's generally being pretty pushy.
• Jerkass Realization: Looking at herself groping Matsuri's breasts in Lu's photo makes Yayo realize she was going past her boundaries, especially when Matsuri barely knew her.
• Locked Out of the Loop: A short-term example. Even though Matsuri and Suzu explain the ayakashi to her in chapter 53 as well as the fact they're an Exorcist Ninja and the Ayakashi Medium respectively, they were wary to tell her that Matsuri was actually changed into a girl, mainly because Matsuri fears she will hate him if she knows his secret. They eventually tell her in chapter 54 and she accepts him.
• Lovable Coward: The sign of a threatening-looking ayakashi in a photo has Yayo recoiling in fear and pulling her friends into a sleepover so she won't have to spend the night alone.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Gets rather handsey with Suzu and Matsuri, but Yayo does eventually learn to give them some space.
• Muggle Best Friend: She and Lu are Suzu and Matsuri's best human friends, and have no awareness of ayakashi. Eventually, Yayo gains awareness, though she still lacks any spiritual power.
• No Indoor Voice: Quite a lot of her dialogue is shouted, often spontaneously.
• Nonstandard Character Design: Her irises are drawn much smaller than any other character's.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Asks that everyone refer to her as "Yayo".
• Rescue Romance: She develops a crush on Soga after he covertly saves her and her sisters from a creepy-looking iyo without letting Mina and Jun have to see it.
• Secret-Keeper: Eventually is brought into the loop that Matsuri was originally a boy, and despite his fears, she's more than accepting.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • Yayo saw Soga scare away guys that were bothering Matsuri, and since then has been convinced the two would make a nice couple. Matsuri denies it, but because of Shirogane's interference, Yayo thinks they're both being shy and needs to work things out between them.
  • Yayo's similarly excited when she sees Garaku mentoring Suzu, and wonders if she's into older men.
  • After Yayo finds out Matsuri was originally male, she's unsurprised to find Suzu is in love with him, and goads her into confessing.
• Skinship Grope: Rubbing her face in Suzu's bare thigh is a usual occurrence. Matsuri is less receptive of such treatment (or at least more vocal about his displeasure), which actually makes Yayo regret it.
• Touched by Vorlons: Her possession by the Bottle-nosed Roller increases her sensitivity to ayakashi. At first, she only sees them when she's tired, but after being targeted by the Kubiri Oni, ayakashi and the supernatural become completely visible to her.

Lucy Tsukioka/"Lu"

Lucy Tsukioka (月丘ルーシー)/"Lu (ルー)"

Voiced by: Hina Kino

A classmate of Matsuri and Suzu who, along with Yayo, has been Suzu's friend since middle school.

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• Age-Inappropriate Art: Lu regularly reads adult-oriented manga, often with violent and sexual content. However, she's old enough that this isn't presented as shocking or wrong, just unusual.
  I've got no problem with sex and violence.
• Agent Mulder: Double Subverted; Lu has quite an interest in the occult, but at least by Seigen's judgement, she doesn't truly believe in the supernatural, and like most humans has little ability to comprehend it. However, she fully believes in extraterrestrials, concludes the supernatural phenomena she's encountered is their doing, and mistakes an ayakashi in human form she meets as being an alien.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: She believes in alien telepathy, but not ayakashi, and when told about them insists that Matsuri and Suzu have "been invaded by the poisoned radio waves from minus space". She also seems to believe the Earth is hollow.
• Backported Development: Her interest was barely focused on aliens at all until she met "Shiromatsu", but a later flashback to middle school has her immediately assuming a vanished Suzu was abducted by an UFO.
• Book Dumb: Lu's head-in-the-clouds attitude hasn't helped her grades, forcing her to take extra classes.
• But Not Too Foreign: It's all but stated that Lu's mother is Japanese, while her father is of an unspecified nationality, but has the same blonde hair.
• Bystander Syndrome: She's perfectly aware that Yayo oversteps her boundaries with other girls, but doesn't point this out to Yayo until asked, and is content taking pictures of it.
• Camera Fiend: Constantly takes pictures of things she thinks people online would be interested in, rarely caring if the subject agrees to it. She once claims to take about 300 pictures a day.
  Suzu: Don't post weird pictures, Lu.
  Lu: I can't promise anything.
• Characterization Marches On: After the first three volumes, Lu's primary interest abruptly shifts from social media photography to investigating the paranormal, the former nearly vanishing.
• The Comically Serious: Keeps the same blank expression even taking photos or ridiculous things while posing over-dramatically.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Lu thinks even inane things like rumors about her friend must be caused by a globe-controlling conspiracy.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: Lu correctly guesses Shirogane, in his stray cat form, is not a regular cat, guessing he's some "unidentified mysterious animal".
• Entertainingly Wrong: Lu eventually discovers Shiromatsu is Matsuri's original, male form. However, she not only believes they're truly the same person, but that Shiromatsu is a Sex Shifter alien who made his public identity female because of a new intergalactic law against aliens living among humans in their original form.
• Hired Help as Family: Lu (numerous) valets, maids, and chefs act like Doting Parents. When Lu says she can get by on a camping trip without them, they all shed Tears of Joy that she's growing up.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Though her personal romantic desires are chaste, Lu is outstandingly immodest. She barges into girl Matsuri's bath, seeming as if she's about to force herself on Matsuri, while actually inspecting for a zipper. When Shirogane's illusion makes it seem Matsuri turned into boy form (fully-clothed), Lu greets him and is just slightly embarrassed as she walks out, only wearing a towel.
• Innocently Insensitive: Lu is sweet but repeatedly disregards personal boundaries, to the point she's taken photographs of her friends when they're undressing or exposed.
• Kiddie Kid: Though it comes through an unusual stoicism, Lu is incredibly childish for her age, not giving regard to any way of thinking but her own.
• Locked Out of the Loop: As of the end of volume six, she's the only member of Kachofugetsu (and the only named student at Hokusai High School) unaware of the supernatural. The others try to tell her, but she doesn't believe them. Eventually, she does learn Matsuri used to be male, though she's very off as to why and how.
• Love Before First Sight: Lu falls in love with boy Matsuri—or, more precisely, the alien boy "Shiromatsu"—without physically meeting him as such. Instead, she's become friends with his female identity, seen him in her dreams, and met Shirogane taking his form.
• Loves My Alter Ego: To Lu, Matsuri is a girl friend and Shirogane is some stray cat that hangs around school. But she loves "Shiromatsu", who is actually Shirogane taking the form of boy Matsuri.
• Mellow Fellow: Lu is generally a very laid-back, carefree individual.
• Muggle Best Friend: She and Yayo are Suzu and Matsuri's best human friends, and have no awareness of ayakashi.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Much of Lu's extensive manga collection is graphically explicit, and when she gets a photograph of a screaming shadowy face, her first instinct is to turn it into a poster for her bedroom. Instead of being afraid of Soga, she thinks he looks cool, despite concluding he's literally not human.
• Not So Stoic: Lu suddenly gets very excited when an evil-looking spirit shows up in one of her photographs, and loudly objects to Suzu's suggestion to delete it.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Asks to just be called "Lu".
• Otaku Surrogate: Not a huge part of her character, but she's fond of the same seinen manga and games Matsuri's interested in despite not being part of their target audience, not that she cares about that anyway.
• Secret-Keeper: Parodied; Lu knows Matsuri used to be male, but is completely wrong as to why and unaware that all of the rest of their friends know the real reason.
• Status Cell Phone: A subtle, modern version; all the teenage main characters have smartphones, but Lu's model (an iPhone 11 Pro) is by far the most expensive, showing that she belongs to a family wealthy enough to indulge in her constant photo-taking.
• The Stoic: Her facial expressions are very subdued, even when her words and actions suggest she's excited.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Lu basically looks like her mother, but with her father's hair color and texture, plus eyebrows halfway between each.
• Theory Tunnel Vision: Even humans unable to see ayakashi can be convinced of their existence, but Lu is far too confident that anything that seems supernatural is actually caused by aliens or pseudo-scientific explanations. The narration even states that Lu's assumptions make her one of the people least capable of ever perceiving ayakashi.
• Third-Person Person: In the Japanese version, she uses her own nickname the few times she directly refers to herself.
• Token Rich Student: The rest of the students at Hokusai seem rather middle class, but Lu is rich enough to commute by a limo to a Big Fancy House with its own open-air bath, which completely shocks Matsuri.
• They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason: Despite Suzu and Matsuri both being her close friends, Lu doesn't care when people start realizing that they're in love with each other because it's not something they've brought up with her.
  I have no comment. People are free to love who they choose.
• Upper-Class Twit: Lu fits the looks and social standing of a traditional Ojou, but instead of regal grace she's extremely childish and has a loose grasp on reality.
• Verbal Tic: She ends her sentences with "-ssu", an informal abbreviation of "desu".
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: Lu's mother is a model and actress, while her father is a trader. Both spend most of their time at work and out-of-country, though Lu seems rather unworried about it.
• Wrong Genre Savvy:
  • Lucy ascribes to Clarke's Third Law, noting extraterrestrials able to visit Earth would have abilities we couldn't differentiate from magic. This is true, in the sense that Lu concludes the actual magic occurring around her is the work of aliens.
  • Played with a bit when she ends up trying to help Matsuri fight Medusa. Lu thinks they can reflect its petrifying gaze back at it with a mirror, pretty clearly getting the idea from fiction. It could have potentially worked, but Lu didn't consider Medusa could just smash the mirror first.

Mr. and Mrs. Kanade

Voiced by: Harumi Sakurai (Mrs. Kanade)

Suzu's mother and father, who run the cafe Melody Bell.

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• Catchphrase: Like Suzu, Mrs. Kanade uses "mōretsu" (generally translated to "colossal") when describing something as extreme.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Mrs. Kanade, just like Ritta, assumed Matsuri was always a girl and only looked liked a boy in his childhood.
• Flat Character: They don't get enough screen-time to round out their characteristics outside of being Good Parents and they own a cafe.
• Good Parents: They're very kind and supportive of Suzu, and even let her help at the cafe by coming up with a dessert menu.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • Suzu elected to keep them in the dark about the existence of ayakashi, much less their attraction to her.
  • Similarly they don't know that Matsuri was a gender-bent into a girl or the fact that their daughter has been in love with him for years. In fact they were Shipper on Deck for Suzu and Soga when they visited the cafe.
• Muggles: Unlike their daughter, they along with Ritta can't see ayakashi nor do they know about her connection with them as the Ayakashi Medium.
• Mum Looks Like a Sister: Both could pass as being in their early twenties, even though their daughter is fifteen.
• Morality Chain: While Suzu was born with all her Past-Life Memories of being betrayed by humanity, the Kanade family was loving enough to make her hesitate on taking revenge, before meeting Matsuri led her to move past misanthropy entirely.
• The Quiet One: The mother seems to do most of the talking, which makes her compare Soga to her husband.
• Shipper on Deck: Both are keenly interested when Suzu brings Soga to the cafe.
• Unnamed Parent: Their given names are unknown.

Ritta Kanade

Ritta Kanade (花奏律太)

Voiced by: Kotomi Aihara

Suzu's eleven-year-old little brother.

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• Entertainingly Wrong: As a girl, Matsuri accidentally told Ritta they'd met before, and Ritta hears Suzu call him by name. From this, Ritta remembers Matsuri was Suzu's old friend, but figured before puberty Matsuri's masculine clothes obscured that "she" was actually a girl.
• Precocious Crush: He's pretty quick to take notice of Matsuri's breasts, with the narration pointing out he's about to hit puberty.
• Shipper on Deck: After seeing Suzu on top of Matsuri in bed in a compromising position, he assumes they're in a sexual relationship, but is willing to respect their privacy together and keep it a secret from his mother.

Hokusai High School Principal

Voiced by: Kaori Nakamura

The principal of Matsuri's high school and Reo's grandmother. She uses her authority to assist the exorcist ninja in attendance, including altering Matsuri's records to list him as a girl.

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• Ambiguously Related: Its not clear if she's Reo's maternal or paternal grandmother especially since she can't see but hear Ayakashi, and the former ability seems to be inherited in family members.
• Connected All Along:
  • She's introduced giving Garaku a tour of the school. Two volumes later, she turns out to be Reo's grandmother.
  • Later it is revealed that when she was a little girl she had known Shirogane since her hometown was where his shrine was and had kept her company.
• Foil: To the unnamed high school Principle from Yabuki's previous project in so many ways being he was an fat Dirty Old Man who appeared in numerous chapters all for the sake of receiving retribution for his pervert antics, allowing girls claiming to be aliens to attend his school because they were cute, and generally useless as an administrator. In contrast, she's made a grand total of two appearances in over a hundred chapters, both times she was shown to be a Reasonable Authority Figure, and is a good looking (if middle-age) woman.
• Foreshadowing: The fact that Matsuri had no problem attending school as a girl could've easily been HandWaved but in hindsight, it was made clear that someone had to have helped to make arrangements.
• Muggles: She cannot see ayakashi and is mostly familiar with them from secondhand accounts. However, she is able to hear them, or at least Shirogane specifically, as she never stopped believing in him.
• No Name Given: Yet to be referred to by any name; even Reo has only called her "grandma".
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She's more surprised than anything about her granddaughter switching schools after the effort she made to get into her previous one. She's also probably the reason Matsuri was able to attend as a girl with little issue.

Mei Hirasaka (spoilers)

Mei Hirasaka (比良坂命依)

The 12th and most recent of Suzu's past lives as the ayakashi medium, who lived in the Meiji period. Garaku fell in love with her, but she was killed by her villagers as a sacrifice at the age of sixteen.

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• The Ace: She's portrayed as being the ideal ayakashi medium, as a powerful and talented Badass Pacifist who wanted to protect both people and ayakashi. This makes her end as a Human Sacrifice due to superstition even more tragic.
• Actual Pacifist: Mei was thoroughly unwilling to hurt any human or ayakashi, even the villagers that ended up killing her.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Her connection to ayakashi even made her own parents fear her. Unlike Suzu, she was never accepted by humans, and in most if not all of her lives, they end up killing her.
• Badass Pacifist: Though Mei would not kill dangerous ayakashi like an exorcist ninja would, she still sealed away several very powerful ones.
• Born-Again Immortality: She has enough Past-Life Memories to speak of her previous lives as them happening to herself.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Suzu is her Reincarnation and they have an extremely similar appearance save for a few differences, with the most notable being that Mei has a much larger bust, which Matsuri takes notice of, especially since Mei was even bustier than him.
• Distinguishing Mark: Mei has a mole under her left eye that distinguishes her from Suzu.
• Hime Cut: Mei's face is framed by bangs grown long on the side and cut horizontally in front.
• Human Sacrifice: After a series of floods, Mei was tied up and drowned in the river as an offering.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: She has long hair that she kept tied in a ponytail, giving her a more mature appearance in contrast to the short-haired Suzu.
• The Lost Lenore: Her tragic death has motivated Garaku to train Suzu's ayakashi powers in hopes of seeing her again.
• Madden Into Misanthropy: Being persecuted and ultimately sacrificed out of fear toward her powers (which she'd already indirectly experienced in her past lives) resulted in a dying grudge toward humanity that was unintentionally manifested as Shadow Mei.
• Meaningful Name: The first kanji of her given name (命) can mean "life force" (something she controls) and "destiny" (reflecting how she accepted she would die young in every life).
• Miko: She's a shrine maiden, and her outfit is her own take on the usual garb. (This is a play on how "ayakashi medium" is "ayakashi miko" in Japanese, though Mei describes her profession as the shrine's "daughter (musume)".)
• Nice Girl: She's described as a very kind person, who selflessly tried to help both people and ayakashi.
• Past-Life Memories: She has full access to the memories of her past lives.
• The Pollyanna: Despite memories of repeated, tragic deaths, she stays almost entirely upbeat and kind.
• Reincarnation: She is one incarnation of many from the course of over a thousand years. All of them were ayakashi mediums, and it's possible every ayakashi medium was another life of the same spiritual being.
• Self-Duplication: She shares Suzu's ability to create omokage, which she uses to drag Garaku to her favorite tree.
• Signature Laugh: Her laughs are written "ni hi hi (にっひっひ)", which the English version makes "heh heh heh" or "nye he he".
• Stepford Smiler: Mei looks happy most of the time, but mentioning her history with humans across her lives makes her take a downturn. Though Mei vocalized no hatred toward those who've mistreated her, in her dying moments she was resentful enough to wish all of humanity be destroyed.
• Supernatural Sealing: Mei sealed dangerous ayakashi into rocks by having her origami create a glyph in the air around them with the Colorful Contrails.
• Sweet Tooth: Mei seems to have shared Suzu's love of sweets and indulged as much as her era allowed. She's shown eating persimmons several times and drinking from an enormous cup for amazake (sweet rice drink) with Tanumaro's ancestor.
• Trademark Favorite Food: She's shown eating a persimmon with Garaku and on an illustration opposite Suzu holding a donut.
• Whole Costume Reference: Her outfit is nearly the same as Empress Iyo from Yamato Gensouki.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: When she was set to be a Human Sacrifice by the people she worked so hard to protect, she felt such resentment and betrayal that she ended unleashing a Dying Curse that ended up creating Shadow Mei.

Kanade/Childhood Heart (spoilers)

Kanade (かなで)/Childhood Heart (幼心)

^{Click here for her form merged with Shirogane.}

Originally, Mei's reincarnated memories and personality were at the front of Suzu's mind, but she sealed herself away when Suzu was young. This allowed Suzu's own personality to separately manifest, while the inner ayakashi medium lived within her.

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• Ass Kicks You: When merged with Shirogane, Kanade likewise buttslams Suzu for being a pervert. Suzu complains it's excessive coming from a human instead of a cat.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: The last line of the story has her use Suzu's "mōretsu" to describe how passionately her other self lives alongside Matsuri in the present.
• Brainy Baby: For some reason, and unlike previous ayakashi mediums, Suzu had all their memories and consciousness from birth, and even remembers being born.
• Broken Bird: Normally, she would slowly recover her Past-Life Memories over time as each incarnation grew up, but as Suzu, she remembered everything from birth, including how she was offered as a Human Sacrifice, giving her an emotionally detached personality as a result.
• Deadpan Snarker: She's as irritated by Suzu's unbridled lust as Shirogane, which leads to frequent gripes about Suzu's Skewed Priorities.
• Discard and Draw: Unlike Shadow Mei, she lacks the ayakashi medium's powers when she's separated from Suzu's body, but combining with Shirogane still gives her catlike agility.
• The Disembodied: Kanade's spirit can completely separate itself from her original body, and does so for a prolonged time to stabilize Shirogane injury.
• Give Him a Normal Life: Kanade sealed away her memories from Suzu's consciousness, believing she was more capable of making friends with humans that way. She even credits Matsuri with letting her "become Suzu Kanade".
• God Of Human Origin: Kanade was born biologically human, though as the ayakashi medium her spirit is more like an ayakashi. Since splitting her personality off and making Suzu the dominant one, Kanade has effectively become an full ayakashi—a spirit that can detach from her original body at will.
• Heteronormative Crusader: She supports Suzu's relationship with Matsuri... but specifically while the latter is male, and expresses concern that Suzu is losing sight of changing him back. When Matsuri is split into two separate bodies, she stands behind the male one dating Suzu, and prefers the female one out of the way.
• Holding Back the Phlebotinum: Although she can possess Suzu's body to provide much greater control over her powers, she only does so once. When Shadow Mei takes over Suzu's body, Kanade outright says she can't do anything. Eventually, Kanade moves out to inhabit Shirogane's body, losing most of her powers.
• Literal Split Personality: She decides she doesn't like being part of Suzu anymore and decides to separate like Shadow Mei. Matsuri talks Kanade into rejoining soon after so she isn't at risk of being forcibly assimilated by Shadow Mei, but he also encourages her to come out on her own more often.
• Meaningful Rename: After Matsuri addresses her by Suzu's surname "Kanade", the same as when they first met, she adopts it as a mononym, even telling Suzu to use it.
• No Name Given: After giving up the identity of "Suzu Kanade" to the separate personality she created, she went a decade without really having a name of her own. When Garaku and Shirogane first meet her, they call her "Suzu's inner ayakashi medium". Much later, she introduces herself to Suzu as "[her] heart as a child", a term used somewhat like a name in Japanese, but the English version just uses it as a description (that's not always phrased identically). Occasionally, she's called "Chibi/Little/Pipsqueak Suzu". For convenience, the English translator also called her "Tsuzu" outside of the manga proper, a Punny Name on "Suzu" and "tsu (two)".
• Not So Above It All: She usually seems very wise and benevolent, but Kanade has advocated rather questionable methods to make Matsuri a boy again, including altering history and basically trying to drug and brainwash Shadow Mei to cooperate. When the latter goes wrong by making Mei too sexually aggressive, she even has the gall to shame Mei for it.
• Other Me Annoys Me: She eventually starts getting annoyed with how unrestrained her Suzu personality is with her lust.
• Past-Life Memories: She has full access to every previous ayakashi medium's memories, and unlike previous lives had them from the instant she was born. When she met Matsuri, she chose to seal herself away and let Suzu become a separate personality so that she could let part of herself live as a normal girl.
• Perpetual Frowner: Suzu was born with the memories of Mei's dying resentment toward humanity. Combined with kids mocking her for speaking to ayakashi that they couldn't see, she never smiled at all until she met Matsuri, who saved her from becoming full-on misanthropic. While Kanade has learned to forgive humans, she retains a nonplussed expression most of the time, with even the more spiteful Shadow Mei having a wider range of emotion.
• Reincarnation Romance: What she's been aiming for all this time all along, and her motive for repeatedly reincarnating with her memories intact. Not that Suzu cares, but Matsuri is the reincarnation of the Ayakashi Medium's first love.
• Residual Self-Image: She appears in Suzu's mind as Suzu right before their personalities diverged: five years old, wearing a black hoodie, and with waist-length hair.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Grows increasingly uncomfortable with Suzu's growing awareness of her attraction to Matsuri's female form specifically, fearing she'll give up making Matsuri male again. After Suzu spends most of chapter 89 Eating the Eye Candy, Kanade makes her own omokage to leave, though she planned to come back eventually.
• Sharing a Body:
  • Although Mei and all her previous lives seemingly amalgamated into one consciousness, Kanade remained separate from Suzu's personality, and lays dormant within her.
  • In order to help Shirogane recover from some serious injuries and see if she can use Powers via Possession to release Matsuri's curse, she projects herself into an omokage and fuses it with Shirogane. The former is successful, but inconvenient and long-term, the latter inevitably fails. The body shifts between Shirogane and Cat Girl Kanade depending on which personality is in control. Unlike while in Suzu, Kanade is always conscious and constantly talking to Shirogane.
• Shipping Torpedo: Kanade is openly displeased at the idea of Suzu getting together with Matsuri when he's still a girl, and equates it to giving up on trying to make him a boy again.
• Spirit Advisor: She will occasionally become an active voice in Suzu's head to give her advice.
• Split Personality: Suzu is basically a separated personality she created on purpose. Shadow Mei is a Literal Split Personality she created by accident, and Shadow Mei still counts as part of her.

Mina Toba & Jun Toba

Mina Toba (鳥羽水奈) & Jun Toba (鳥羽潤)

Yayoi's twin little sisters.

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• Always Identical Twins: They're siblings that look the same and even wear the same clothing.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: The main distinguishing sign is the placement of their hair decorations; Mina's forms a ponytail on her right, Jun on her left.
• Muggles: Zig-zagged; they can see ayakashi at least sometimes, but it's not clear if it's just because they're children or will be able to when they grow older.
• Theme Twin Naming: Mina and Jun's name contain the kanji for "water (水)" and "wet (潤)", respectively.

The Gogyosen (spoilers)

Gogyosen (五行仙)

The council that heads the exorcist ninja.

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• Age Without Youth: The avatar of their combined hatred almost looks undead.
• Alternate Personality Punishment: The Gogyosen remember their ancient enemy, Queen Iyo, as a regal and dignified woman, and are startled to realize that her latest reincarnation is a sex-crazed pervert. They are forced to acknowledge that without her Past-Life Memories, she may as well be a different person, but killing her permanently is the closest they can get to satisfying their ancient grudge.
• Ancient Conspiracy: Their secretive organization has been around for at least 1,800 years, and while their ostensive goal is to protect humanity from Ayakashi, there seems to be more to them than that. While it's water under the bridge at this point, they would have preferred that the foundation of modern Japan had been built by them instead of Amaterasu.
• Arch-Enemy: Amaterasu, Suzu's original identity, is their ancient enemy, and has been for 1,800 years.
• Best Served Cold: Amaterasu foiled their plans to conquer Japan in the ancient past and they have no intention of giving up that grudge, pursuing it to the end of their lives, even if she is practically a different person at this point.
• Big Bad: Since confirming Suzu's original identity, their goal is to kill the Ayakashi Medium.
• The Comically Serious: Their ominous dressings and grandiose tone take a turn for the ridiculous when they end up trying to trick a pair of teenagers into having sex to kill one of them.
  For the sake of vengeance, us Gogyosen will even make use of this "romantic comedy" trope!
• The Conqueror: In ancient times, they attempted to unify Japan through conquest. They've given up in the modern era, but some of them still regret failing.
• The Dividual: They have yet to show any distinguishing personality traits.
• Elemental Powers: Their name means "Five-Element Sages", each of them is represented by the Japanese character for a Japanese alchemical element (fire, wood, water, metal, earth), and they collectively demonstrate spells involving each. In order: an explosive fire blast, a thicket of prehensile branches, a barrier made of water, flashes of light and iron projectile swords, and giant earthenware dolls.
• Evil Running Good: While the Exorcist Ninja Association protects humanity and are at worst too suspicious of ayakashi, the Gogyosen above them are far more petty and self-interested.
• Evil Sorcerer: They are a council of ancient sorcerers who tried to conquer Japan in the ancient past and are practitioners of The Dark Arts.
• Final Boss: Their avatar serves as the last enemy for Matsuri and Suzu to fight before the series concludes.
• Hunter of His Own Kind: The founders of the Exorcist Ninja Association are actually jinyo, who are very often among the most dangerous ayakashi.
• Impartial Purpose-Driven Faction: The Gogyosen have their own motives, but the official reason for them founding the exorcist ninjas was to protect humanity from dangerous Ayakashi. Even if they have a petty grudge against someone, they will go after them with their own efforts rather than abusing their influence over the exorcist ninjas if they don't pose a threat to humans. They don't even order the exorcist ninjas to stay out of their way, though they eventually put Matoi, Reo, and Soga on a pointless training mission while attacking Suzu and Matsuri.
• Intangible Theft: Girl Matsuri believes the Gogyosen created boy Matsuri by "stealing" the male form from her body.
• It's Personal: The Gogyosen freely admit their pursuit of Amaterasu is unrelated to their actual duty, it's just petty revenge for ancient history.
• Genre Savvy: They set up what they outright call "romantic comedy trope[s]", including a Sexy Soaked Shirt and Wall Pin of Love, to get their cursed Matsuri clone to seduce Suzu.
• Hermit Guru: Ancient wizards who practice their magic while living in isolation. This is given a comedic twist crossing over with Hikkikomori, where they show themselves to be incredibly out of touch, for instance thinking bowling and go-go dancing are recent trends.
• Just Giving Orders: They freely admit that satisfying their petty personal grudge against Amaterasu is wrong, because it has nothing to do with protecting humanity. But if they brainwash an Ayakashi into doing it, humanity's hands are clean right?
  Matoi: So it's not because she's a threat, but a grudge?
  Gogyosen member: Which is why she must be dealt with by ayakashi. So we humans need not dirty our hands.
• Kill the God: Their goal is to kill a quasi-immortal goddess, Amaterasu, of whom Suzu is part of.
• Laughably Evil: They aren't above becoming performers for a Rom Com if it achieves their goals. However, they are centuries old virgins with no experience in romance, so their plans get a little quirky.
• Love Is a Weakness: When setting up a Honey Trap, they excuse their lack of romance experience by dismissing it as for the weak.
• Multiarmed Multitasking: Their avatar can grow four extra arms, giving them a pair for each person controlling it that can perform hand-seals for five separate spells.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When controlling boy Matsuri, they reject Suzu's offer to share a Shower of Love out of pure shock. Not only does this delay their mission to kill her, it puts Suzu alone when she reads girl Matsuri's text message, convincing her she won't have sex unless it's with both.
• Not Even Human: They claim to be ancient sorcerers who have maintained their longevity via secret arts. If there ever was a human Gogyosen, then they are presumably long dead. These guys turn out to be jinyo ayakashi.
• The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: The secretive leaders of the exorcist ninjas, even Matoi Kazamaki doesn't have the right to see their true appearances. Each of them is covered by a cloak and veil with a frame containing the word of an alchemic element in the background.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: While they set up male Matsuri to inject their curse into Suzu via sex, they’re increasingly repulsed by how eager a young lady like her is to get in bed with him, especially when she decides to include female Matsuri for a three-way.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Though their alternatives are still duplicitous, the Gogyosen realize it would be a misuse of their authority to send exorcist ninja after Amaterasu for their revenge. They don't even stop the ninja that choose to protect Suzu. This is enough for Suzu to discourage her subjects from retaliating, as neither side wants matters to escalate into a war.
• Remote Body: They manifest an avatar of their combined hatred when their plans to curse the Ayakashi Medium fail.
• Revenge Before Reason: They want vengeance against the being they call Amaterasu, because she thwarted their plans in the ancient past. Even though they have moved on to other goals since then, and could probably even find her useful in the modern era, they are determined to hurt her to the end of their lives.
• Squashed Flat: Their avatar gets crushed underpaw by Shirogane after Suzu's life energy finally restores his true form.
• Synchronization: Killing their avatar is enough to exorcise the originals.
• This Cannot Be!: They spend their last seconds in disbelief that they were beaten by Suzu and Matsuri being "shameless, love-addled harlots".
• Time for Plan B: Though Matsuri blocks the curse meant to kill Suzu with his body, the Gogyosen don't treat it as a total failure. The curse remains inside Matsuri—specifically the male one—allowing them to control him to spread it to Suzu anyway.
• Transplant: They're the successor organization of the Onmyōren (陰陽連; called "the Yin and Yang Forces" in English), the villains of Yamato Gensouki. They may even be the same individuals that lived back then.
• Unsexy Sadist: Despite their personal disinterest in sex, the Gogyosen gloat about how easily they seduce Suzu through boy Matsuri. Then, when Suzu starts taking the lead, they freak out and even sabotage themselves by pushing her away, showing a rather frail desire to be in charge.
• Villain Respect: They compliment Matsuri's readiness to be hit with their spell in Suzu's place, though they may have expected or even wanted him to do so.
• Wizards Live Longer: They've used magic to extend their lifespans to the point Seigen remembers them being elderly even when he was young. The Gogyosen may have lived since before the Yamato clan was ruled by Himiko. Upon their defeat, they're revealed to have been jinyo the whole time, meaning that they were never confined to human lifespans in the first place.

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