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The B-Fighters
In General
A new team of B-Fighters assembled by Cosmo Academia (formerly Earth Academia) to fight against the newly emerged threat of the Melzard Tribe.
- Legacy Character: Zig-zagged. They take up the mantle of the B-Fighters, but the originals are still around.
- Power Trio: A group of three who fight evil.
- The Smurfette Principle: Have only one female member in Ran, though if one counts Sophia from the New B-Fighters, then it's Two Girls to a Team.
Kouhei Toba/B-Fighter Kabuto
Kouhei Toba/B-Fighter Kabuto
Portrayed by: Omi
- Japanese Beetle Brothers: Like Blue Beet before him, he represents the Rhinoceros Beetle.
- Hero Protagonist: The title character and face of the fight against the Melzard Tribe.
- Hot-Blooded: Tends to rush into action before thinking things through.
- Protagonist Power-Up Privileges: Is the primary user of the Input Rifle, the Astral Saber and Kabuterios.
- Rookie Red Ranger: While Kengo and Ran both had some experience prior to receiving Command Voicers, Kouhei is a teenage schoolboy who received his powers entirely by chance.
Kengo Tachibana/B-Fighter Kuwaga
Kengo Tachibana/B-Fighter Kuwaga
Portrayed by: Naohisa Adachi
- The Big Guy: The team's toughest physical fighter.
- The Lancer: Is resentful towards Kouhei initially for receiving the Kabuto suit in spite of his age and inexperience, but eventually warms up to him.
- Japanese Beetle Brothers: The stag beetle, complimenting Kabuto's Rhinoceros Beetle.
Ran Ayukawa/B-Fighter Tentou
Ran Ayukawa/B-Fighter Tentou
Portrayed by: Yukina Kurisu
- Gamer Chick: In her free time she plays fighting games at the arcade, and is shown to be quite good at them.
- The Smart Girl: Is a technological genius well versed in programming.
- Teen Genius: She's technically a legal adult, but 18 is still a relatively young age to be a genius programmer who designed a system used in traffic lights.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tough, cyber genius tomboy to Sophie's girly girl.
New B-Fighters
In General
A team of four individuals summoned from the international Cosmo Academia offices, each selected by a different Insect Medal to become new B-Fighters.
- Sixth Ranger: An entire team of them. They appear in the second half and join up with the B-Fighters for a handful of episodes.
Mac Windy/B-Fighter Yanma
Mac Windy/B-Fighter Yanma
Portrayed by: Reuben Langdon
An exchange student from New York who was chosen by the Dragonfly Insect Medal to become B-Fighter Yanma.- Blue Is Heroic: His B-Fighter form is blue.
- The Gunslinger: His only weapon is the Tonbou Gun, which he uses in a very effective fashion.
- Mirror Character: Is very similar to Kouhei in terms of personality.
- Token Minority: He's the only New B-Fighter to be played by a fully non-Japanese actor.
Julio Rivera/B-Fighter Genji
Julio Rivera/B-Fighter Genji
Portrayed by: Seiji Takaiwa
A Peruvian archaeologist working in the Cosmo Academia South America branch, who was chosen by the Firefly Medal to become B-Fighter Genji.-
Fake Nationality: Peruvian, but played by a Japanese actor. - Love Interest: Becomes this for Ran after teaching her to appreciate nature.
Li Wen/B-Fighter Min
Li Wen/B-Fighter Min
Portrayed by: Hideki Anzai
An elementary school teacher and member of the Peking branch of Cosmo Academia who was chosen by the Cicada Medal to become B-Fighter Min.- Big Fun: Stockily built, and a very cheerful and fun guy to be around
- Friend to All Children: Loves putting on shows for children.
- Make Some Noise: Can open up his chest to reveal a speaker that emits a painful sonic blast towards his enemies.
- Nerd Glasses: He's a geeky, goofy guy who wears glasses.
- Technical Pacifist: He starts out an Actual Pacifist, but after the B-Fighters help him realize that not fighting will only allow the Melzard Tribe to wreak violence on people, he takes an active part in battling them.
Sophia Villeneuve/B-Fighter Ageha
Sophia Villeneuve/B-Fighter Ageha
Portrayed by: Reika Hashimoto
A French violinist who was chosen by the Butterfly Medal to become B-Fighter Ageha.- BFG: Has a bazooka shaped like a blooming flower.
- But Not Too Foreign: Somewhat. She's French but is played by an actress who's half-Japanese half-Spanish.
- Maybe Ever After: At the end of the series she maybe agrees to go on a date with Kouhei to New York.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only female of the new B-Fighters, though she and Ran make Two Girls to a Team whenever the B-Fighters are all together.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The elegant and feminine girly girl to Ran's tomboy.
Allies
First Generation B-Fighters
First Generation B-Fighters
The original team of B-Fighters, who occasionally show up to help their successors.- Big Damn Heroes: Always appear at the right moment to save their successors from a tight situation.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: Takuya Kai, who helped design the new Command Voicers in the first episode, and selected the B-Fighters.
Professor Masaru Osanagi
Professor Masaru Osanagi
Portrayed by: Ryoichi Yamaguchi
The chief of Cosmo Academia's Japan Branch and mentor to the B-Fighters.- The Mentor: The B-Fighters' teacher and source of information and guidance.
Bit
Artificial Life Bit
Portrayed by: Tomoe Hanba
An AI program designed to assist the B-Fighters. Yui Toba
Yui Toba
Portrayed by: Kaori Asoh
Kouhei's younger sister.- Damsel in Distress: Is a frequent victim of several Melzard schemes, requiring the B-Fighters to save her.
- Precocious Crush: Yui is somewhere in her mid teens, but has a crush on Kengo, who is in his early twenties. This is even unknowingly exploited by a Monster of the Week who gets stronger by absorbing feelings of love.
Will of Light
A primordial force embodying light and creation. It is also the being that spawned the insect medals used to create both the New B-Fighters and B-Crushers.
- Greater-Scope Paragon: It doesn't directly intervene for most of the plot, but it is the source of the various technological artifacts given to the B-Fighters by the beetles in order to defend the planet, and is the one who created the Shell Gods. It's also one for the first B-Fighter, given how Saint Papilia is implied to be one of its creations.
- Light Is Good: Embodies light and is the ultimate force for good in the setting.
Melzard Tribe
In General
A race of monsters who've lived since prehistoric times and emerge in the present day to wipe out humanity and conquer the Earth.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: The Jamahl from B-Fighter were extraterrestrial invaders from another dimension who were comprised of a variety of different creatures. The Melzard Tribe are a terrestrial force from within the Earth and are all the same species.
- Elite Four: Their are four commanders who lead the forces of Melzard into battle — Raija, Dezzle, Miolra and Dord. The B-Crushers can be considered an auxiliary four.
- The Family That Slays Together: Considering they were all spawned from Mother Melzard, they're effectively one big family of ravenous monsters.
- Kill All Humans: Killing off humanity is a part of their scheme to take over Earth.
- Living Weapon: All of the war-machines used by Melzard are breathing, organic beings. This includes the Melzardos.
- Monster of the Week: Each week a different Melzard Monster is spawned by Mother to attack the surface and fight our heroes.
- Mooks: The Melzard don't actually have a designated Mook class, but Raija and Dezzle both each command different groups of miscellaneous monsters who act as their henchmen.
- Organic Technology: Their Ominous Floating Castle and air fighters are all organic beings who've been modified to serve as living war machines of the tribe.
- Standard Evil Organization Squad: Mother and her four eldest children, who are the lead villains the B-Fighters must contend with. Later joined by the B-Crushers.
- Two Girls to a Team: They have two girls in their leadership, Miolra and Mother Melzard herself.
Mother Melzard
Melzard Tribe Founding Empress Mother Melzard
Portrayed by: Wakana Yamazaki
- Abusive Parent: Frequently encourages the Sibling Rivalry between Raija and Dezzle, and threatens to devour whichever one of them fails to defeat the B-Fighters.
- Big Bad: The ruler of the Melzard Tribe and the one behind their assault on the surface.
- Evil Is Hammy: Has quite a large and bombastic personality, befitting the ruler of a race of monsters. Just listen to the way she riles up her forces into a human-destroying frenzy in the very first episode.
- Evil Matriarch: The mother of all of the Melzard Tribe, who exploits her two eldest sons' rivalry by making them compete against each other to defeat the B-Fighters.
- Evil Overlord: A wicked matriarch bent on using her kin to conquer and subjugate the Earth.
- Large and in Charge: Towers over the children she birthed and commands. She gets even bigger after becoming Jadow Mothera.
- Light Is Not Good: She's almost completely white, giving her quite an eerie appearance.
- Monster Progenitor: All of the other members of the Melzard Tribe were birthed by her.
- One-Winged Angel: After Melzardos is downed, Melzard absorbs the leftover darkness energy to become Jadow Mothera and go on a rampage in a last-ditch effort to wipe out humanity.
- Parental Favoritism: It is implied she only cares for Raija. In her endgame, she is indifferent or even plays an active part in the destruction of her other children. When Raija dies, she actually expresses concern.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes often light up red whenever she's being particularly hammy or furious.
- The Remnant: She turns out to be a descendant of the Will of Darkness seeking to carry out the final plan it left behind after its destruction.
- The Social Darwinist: Punishes Raija and Dezzle for wanting to stop their rivalry in order to more effectively fight the B-Fighters. She says the Melzard Tribe has no place for kindness and that their rivalry drives them to become better.
Raija
First Son Dinosaur Warrior Raija
Portrayed by: Akira Ooka
- Came Back Strong: He's a whole lot stronger after coming back from the dead, to the point where he and Dezzle easily overwhelm the B-Fighters in their first outing with their new forms.
- The Dragon: The first born son of Mother and the commander of the Melzard Tribe's invasion.
- The Heavy: Since Mother herself is immobile, Raija is the one who leads the attacks against the surface, alternating this role with his brother Dezzle.
- Honorable Warrior's Death: Spends his final moments reminding himself he is a soldier of darkness and charges towards Kabuto, despite being heavily wounded.
- Overlord Jr.: He's first of Mother Melzard's sons, and her second-in-command who leads her armies.
- Red Is Violent: Is mostly red, and an evil warlord who commands an army of vicious monsters.
Dezzle
Second Son Deep Sea Fish-man Dezzle
Portrayed by: Kaneto Shiozawa
- All-Encompassing Mantle: He wears a wide black cape in his revived form.
- The Brute: He prefers brute force and is much more of an eager fighter than his brother.
- Came Back Strong: Like Raija, he comes back much stronger after returning from the dead.
- Cephalothorax: While he starts off with a humanoid build, after returning from the dead his new body is rather small, held up by two very long legs and with two long arms for attacking.
- Fish People: Is a humanoid, blue fish man.
- The Heavy: He and Raija both alternate in leading attacks against the B-Fighters.
- Off with His Head!: Inverted. His head is the only part of his body that remains after he's obliterated by the B-Fighters for the first time.
- One-Winged Angel: As the B-Crushers overshadow him more and more, Dezzle fuses with his remaining guards to turn himself into "Dezzle the Great" and make one final effort to destroy the B-Fighters in order to prove himself to Mother.
- Overlord Jr.: He's Mother Melzard's second son and he would like to be this by displacing Raija.
- Sibling Rivalry: With Raija, competing with him to earn Mother's favor.
Miolra
Insect Swordswoman Miolra
Portrayed by: Akiko Yoshio
- Big Brother Worship: Very loyal to her older brother Raija.
- Dark Action Girl: She's a highly proficient sword-fighter able fight the B-Fighters one-on-one.
- Designated Girl Fight: Whenever she takes to the battlefield she'll most often find herself battling the lone female of the B-Fighters, Tentou. In the Final Battle, she faces Tentou one last time and gets slain by her, making her the only major villain in the series whose death Kabuto didn't at least play a part in.
- Expy: Arguably of Prince Igam, being a female warrior skilled in sword fighting. But unlike Igam, she remained evil.
- Green and Mean: Clad in light green insect armor and firmly on the side of the villains.
- Master Swordsman: As her title would suggest she's very formidable with the rapier.
- Undying Loyalty: To Raija, to the point where even after he's slain for the first time, she takes his body back to Melzardos and spends the next few episodes watching over it.
Dord
Rock Shell Chamberlain Dord
Portrayed by: Hiroshi Masuoka
- Big Brother Worship: He worships Dezzle in the same way Miolra does with Raija.
- Evil Genius: Don't let his demeanor fool you, he can be quite a cunning and crafty planner.
- Laughably Evil: Of the Melzard generals, he's the only who's more goofy than serious and tends to be played for comedy most of the time.
- Yes-Man: To Dezzle, repeating whatever he says.
B-Crushers
A team of Evil Counterparts created by Mother Melzard from Insect Medals to be Melzard's equivalent to the B-Fighters. They consist of Descorpion, Mukadelinger, Killmantis and Beezack.
- The Heavy: After Raija and Dezzle are both dealt with, the B-Crushers take the role of being the ones who helm attacks. After the two of them return, they share this role with the B-Crushers.
- The Psycho Rangers: Created from the Insect Medals, the same power source the New B-Fighters use, and intended specifically to counter the B-Fighters.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: They're a team of distinct villains tougher than your average Melzard Monster and the Monster of the Week fights gradually get replaced with encounters with them starting from their debut, although you can replace "quirky" with "dangerous" moreso.
Descorpion
Portrayed by: Tetsu Inada (voice)
The leader of the team. A red warrior based on a scorpion- The Dragon: Descorpion becomes Mother's favored enforcer soon after his creation, and rivals this role with both Raija and Dezzle.
- Noble Demon: Has shades of this during his last few appearances. He prefers direct combat with the B-Fighters and sees his destruction at their hands as a noble outcome. When he fought the B-Fighter in what he intended to be his final battle, he detested the other B-Crushers coming to his aid using a trap.
- Scary Scorpions: Scorpion-themed and one of the main villains of the series.
Mukadelinger
A black warrior based on a centipede.- Chest Blaster: Can open up his chest to reveal the Mukadenic Blaster.
- Dirty Coward: In contrast to Descorpion, Mukadelinger prefers dirty tricks to win his fights, such as taking hostages.
- The Dragon: Within the B-Crushers themselves, Mukadelinger appeared to act as the functional second-in-command.
Killmantis
A green warrior based on a mantis.- Dual Wielding: Uses two sickles based on the claws of a mantis.
Beezack
A warrior resembling a bee.- Bee Afraid: His motif.
- Master of Disguise: Can transform himself into whoever he wants to be in order to fool his enemies.
Will of Darkness
An ancient force bent on destroying the universe and the progenitor of both Gaohm from B-Fighter and Mother Melzard. It was destroyed by the Will of Light in ancient times, but managed to create its offspring before perishing.
- The Anti-God: To the Will of Light. Whereas the Will of Light embodies life and creation, the Will of Darkness embodies chaos and evil.
- Dark Is Evil: Naturally, standing opposite of the Will of Light and seeking to destroy its creations in order to plunge the universe back into darkness.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Is responsible for the creation of both Big Bads in the B-Fighter duology.
- Monster Progenitor: It spawned both Gaohm and Mother Melzard to carry on its will and face the forces of light in an eventual Final Battle.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Seeks to reduce the universe back to nothing.
- Purple Is the New Black: It appears as a cloud of purple smoke.
- Villainous Legacy: It was vanquished long before the events of the series, but its offspring is responsible for all the problems the heroes face and it corrupted Kuwaga Titan.
