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An upbeat, cheerful, and kind girl who trains under her father as a miko and is a very skilled sword fighter. Those outside of her family are oblivious to her duty as a hunter of Furukimono, or monsters that inhabit the town.

Action Dress Rip: Saya rips off part of her school skirt and turns it into an Eyepatch of Power in episode 12.
Action Girl
Adorkable
Aloof Dark Haired Girl: Her true personality fits this to a T.
Anti-Hero: Becomes one by episode 12.
Badass Adorable
Barbie Doll Anatomy: Close-up during the OP.
Boobs of Steel
Break the Cutie: Let's just say the second half is not very kind to her.
Broken Bird: In Blood C The Last Dark
Chaste Hero
Chronic Hero Syndrome: In the first episode, her classmates say she is usually late for school because she goes to help lost children and grandmas and pick up trash.
Cool Sword: Her mother's sword.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Cute Clumsy Girl
Cuteness Proximity
Daddy's Girl
Eye Scream: Aside of, you know, having half her head blown off by Fumito.
Failure Hero: Taken to a gruesome extreme.
Fake Memories: Most everything Saya remembers that isn't from a flashback is fake.
Girlish Pigtails
Girl Next Door: To Fumito.
Good Eyes, Evil Eyes: She usually has Tareme Eyes, but in her Let's Get Dangerous moments they become Tsurime Eyes.
Gray Eyes: Unless she's kicking a vampire's ass.
Hidden Depths: Despite her established klutziness, Saya is REALLY good at sports.
Humanoid Abomination
Hunter Of Her Own Kind
Laser-Guided Amnesia
Late for School
Magic Skirt: Tossed, flying through the air, feet first.
Meganekko
Miko
Missing Mom: Her mother died when she was a child. Or so she thinks.
Oblivious to Love
Rapunzel Hair
Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She "loves" Fumito because he's a Nice Guy.
Specs of Awesome

Tadayoshi Kisaragi

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese), Bill Jenkins (English)

Saya's father and the priest at the shrine where he and Saya reside.

Birds of a Feather: Non romantic example. His half human nature made him sympathize and get along with Saya.
Brainwashed and Crazy
Half-Human Hybrid: Half-Elder Bairn.
Panthera Awesome: His One-Winged Angel form looks something out of ThunderCats.
The Stoic

Fumito Nanahara

Voiced by: Kenji Nojima (Japanese), Robert McCollum (English)

Saya's neighbor and the owner of Guimauve, a coffee shop near Saya's home.

Bastard in Sheep's Clothing
Big Bad
Dangerously Genre Savvy: All over Episode 12. He knew that his subordinates would try to betray him and made them fake talismans.
Driven to Suicide: Stabs himself with Saya's sword since he found that he is incapable of being the same as Saya and that his attempts of making new Elder Bairns failed.
Hidden Villain
Human Resources: His goal is to create Elder Bairns from humans so that Saya would never run out of her food supply.
Manipulative Bastard
Nice Guy: Or so he seems.
No Body Left Behind: His body turns to ash after he stabs himself with Saya's sword.
Self-Made Orphan: Kill both his and his cousin's family.
Yandere: For Saya.

Nono and Nene Motoe

Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (Japanese), Lindsay Seidel (English)

Twin sisters who are also Saya's schoolmates.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Creepy Twins
Half the Man He Used to Be: One of them gets caught by an Elder Baun, held upside down via their legs and split apart like a wishbone
Identical Twin ID Tag: The braid in their hair is the only way to tell them apart.
Metronomic Man Mashing: While the other gets smashed in a pulp
Noodle Incident: We learn that they did something REAL bad in the past and they were jailed for it. We'll never know WHAT they did.
- Actually, they give us a very good clue in episode 12 when they say that the fake uniforms are cute and that they should get a bunch for "the girls" to wear. They were obviously pimping out a bunch of girls and got caught for it.
Single-Minded Twins
Theme Twin Naming
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness

Yuka Amino

Voiced by: Masumi Asano (Japanese), Martha Harms (English)

A classmate of Saya's that often has lunch with her.

Aloof Dark Haired Girl
Karma Houdini: Never receives any punishment for her involvement with the Truman Show Plot, and even becomes Governor of Tokyo during The Last Dark
Older Than She Looks: She's 28 years old, to be exact, but can pass as a high school student.
Sole Survivor: The only member of the group who wasn't dumb enough to betray Fumito, and not being a townie Red Shirt, is what keeps her from meeting the rest of the towns fate.

Itsuki Tomofusa

Voiced by: Atsushi Abe (Japanese), Chris Burnett (English)

The class president. He has a crush on Saya.

Becoming the Mask: He was told to pretend that he loved Saya... and fell in love for real.
Class Representative
Dogged Nice Guy: To Saya.
Dying Declaration of Love: To Saya.
Megane
The Mole: According to Kuroto in The Last Dark, he was sent in as a spy.
Token Good Teammate: He's the only one of the "main cast" that's actually concerned about Saya.

Shinichiro Tokizane

Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Japanese), Scott Freeman (English)

A quiet classmate who harbors a secret interest in Saya.

Kanako Tsutsutori

Voiced by: Miho Miyagawa (Japanese), Lydia Mackay (English)

Saya's homeroom teacher.

The Dog

Voiced by: Jun Fukuyama (Japanese), Todd Haberkorn (English)

An unusual puppy with strange marks on his body who is usually seen near Saya, who finds that it can actually speak.

Shout Out: The dog states he owns a shop where wishes are granted, hinting at the possibility of being Kimihiro Watanuki from CLAMP series xxxHolic (who Jun and Todd also voiced).
- This eventually becomes true in the movie.
Talking Animal

The Elder Bairns (The Furukimono)

Brainwashed and Crazy
Eldritch Abomination
I'm a Humanitarian: They must eat humans to survive. For this reason a covenant was made between them and man to ensure humanity wouldn't be wiped out.

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