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This is an incomplete listing of the major characters that appear in Final Fantasy: Unlimited. As with the main page, information from Episode 25 or After from the spinoff projects should be in spoiler text.


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The Hayakawa Family

     Ai Hayakawa 

Ai Hayakawa

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"I think he kinda likes you." "Are you nuts? Remember what he did to me last time?"
Voiced by: Halko Momoi (Japanese), Jessica Schwartz (English)
"We're going to look for mom and dad, you know. There's no time to be scared right now."

One of the two Hayakawa twins. She tends to be more feisty than Yu, but also more practical. Fabula gives her a companion called "Poshepocket."


  • Beware the Cute Ones: She's more rambunctious and wily than she looks, even before getting Poshepocket.
  • Bratty Half-Pint: Ai is much more abrasive than her brother.
  • Fiery Redhead: As the more brash Hayakawa twin, she has red hair.
  • Girlish Pigtails: As the female half of the twins, she has pigtails, which Chobi often bites.
  • Kid with the Leash: To Kaze's Magun. It only activates according to her will, or Yu's.
  • Heroic BSoD: In Episode 25, she breaks down when she realizes that she is a part of Chaos, and not her parents' biological daughter.
  • Odd Friendship: Despite her hot-blooded personality, she manages to forge uncharacteristically strong friendships with Clear and Makenshi.
  • Parental Abandonment: The reason she and Yu went to Wonderland is that their parents went there for another trip and never returned.
  • Running Gag: Chobi often bites her hair. This gag is incorporated in the show's first closing credits theme.
  • Screw Destiny: In After, she and Yu fight Oscha's attempts to make them surrender to their nature as Chaos.

     Yu Hayakawa 

Yu Hayakawa

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"Don't you see what you're doing?!"
Voiced by: Yuka Imai (Japanese), Evan Slack (English)
Yu: "Mind your manners, sis."

One of the two Hayakawa twins. He possesses a tender, gentle nature and is good with animals.


  • Adorably Precocious Child: He is very well-spoken and intelligent for a boy his age.
  • Heroic BSoD: He mentally shuts down when he finds out what his parents serve Earl Tyrant. He recovers somewhat, and fully breaks past when he realizes that they were mind-controlled.
  • Kid with the Leash: To Kaze's Magun. It only activates according to his will, or Ai's.
  • Screw Destiny: In After, he and Ai fight Oscha's attempts to make them surrender to their nature as Chaos.
  • Shout-Out: His hairstyle comes from the Warrior's sprite in Final Fantasy.
  • Shoo the Dog: Tries (ineffectively) to make Chobi stay with Chocoimo's herd.
  • Speaks Fluent Animal: Putting Chocobaba's feather in his hair allows him to communicate with all chocobos.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Yu's name has been Romanized as Yu, Yuu, and Yuh. ADV went with Yu, but it's spelled Yuh whenever the show uses English text—some fans still can't agree on how it should be written.
  • Useless Protagonist: Has a real complex about this, especially compared to the likes of Kaze. Eventually outgrows it, to great effect.

     Joe and Mary Hayakawa 

Joe and Mary Hayakawa

Voiced by: Takumi Yamazaki (Joe) and Yuko Minaguchi (Mary) (Japanese), Brendan Walsh (Joe) and Katie Gilette (Mary) (English)

Joe and Mary are the parents of Yu and Ai. The couple became famous after they journeyed into Wonderland to conduct experiments, publishing their findings in their world famous book. After they went missing on their second trip, Yu and Ai went searching for them.


  • Admiring the Abomination: Despite the dangers and sheer insanity of Wonderland, they compiled a book of their travels there.
  • Ambiguously Evil: They look like kindly, active parents in the flashbacks, but it's easy to be suspicious of the fact that they left their children behind for an expedition. It turns out that they were feeding Chaos, although they were brainwashed the whole time.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: It is revealed they were brainwashed into coming back to Wonderland for the Earl's benefit.
  • Mama Bear: In Episode 25, Mary is the first to break out of her mind control and help save the kids.
  • Put on a Bus: They have a reduced role in After.
  • Replacement Goldfish: Mary miscarried their original children, probably because of their abrupt transfer to Wonderland; they found and adopted Ai and Yu there instead.

Other Protagonists

     Kaze 

Kuroki Kaze

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"It has moved. Soil is my power!
Voiced by: Nobutoshi Canna (Japanese), James Hudson Brownlee (English)
"I know nothing of ideals. As long as I get to finish things, I couldn't care less what happens to this world, or who dies!"

The Black Wind, more commonly known by the alias Kaze (real name unknown) is the possessor of the Magun. He awakes on Wonderland with little to no memory of his past, but finds himself drawn to protect others, despite his rather aloof nature. He also carries a grudge against Makenshi.


  • Aloof Ally: He has this role at first, although it's gradually taken by Makenshi.
  • Always Second Best: Despite his power and his best efforts, he never gets a solid win over Makenshi.
  • Bait the Dog: In the first few episodes, he seems like a Mysterious Protector of the Hayakawas and Lisa. It turns out that he's only out to kill Makenshi, and doesn't care who or what gets between them. After nearly getting the Comodeen killed, everyone is much more wary about accepting his help again.
  • Batman Gambit: In Episode 8, he goads Pist into trying to use the Magun on him, betting (correctly) that Pist would not resist the chance to make such a dramatic move and that he doesn't know that the summon will backfire on him.
    Kaze: You cannot hurt me with such a weak gun. Is something wrong with the Magun? Why don't you use it?
  • Calling Your Attacks: "The Soil Charge Triad to use on you has been decided. The sleep that wraps death: Steel Gray. Bubbling and boiling blood: Heat Crimson. And finally, the light that penetrates darkness: Lightning Yellow. Howl! I summon you, Ixion!" Every. single. time. he uses the Magun, complete with an entire Stock Footage sequence (though he does go through a number of summons, making people wonder where in the hell he gets all those Soil bullets from.
  • Character Catchphrase: "Soil is my power!" Also, "The Soil Charge Triad to use on you has been decided!" (or in some versions "I've chosen the Soil for the likes of you!")
  • Corrupted Character Copy: While his hair, cloak, gunmanship, and accessories make him seem similar to Vincent Valentine from the then-recent Final Fantasy VII, he's much more vicious and more accepting of collateral damage.
  • Elemental Powers: Not himself, but some of the creatures he summons.
  • Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: He does this when he announces "The Soil Charge Triad to use on you has been decided!"
  • Hand Cannon: Besides his Magun, he carries a truly enormous red pistol for when he can't use his summon magic.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: At the end of Episode 25, he turns himself into Soil so that Lisa can fire the Magun upon Chaos.
  • I Can Still Fight!: In episode 24, after having his ass handed to him by Makenshi and spending quite some time unconscious in Jane's sickbay, the first thing he does upon waking is demand to know where Makenshi is so that they can keep fighting.
  • I Was Just Passing Through: He doesn't usually help the main characters by default, and only fights the monsters that attack because they're in his way.
  • Jerkass: Really doesn't give a damn who gets hurt as long as he can fight Kumo and Chaos, and can't always be arsed to get up and help people who need him. Though he does eventually develop into a Jerk with a Heart of Gold as the anime goes on.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: He wakes up with almost no memory of his past, the result of barely surviving his first battle with Chaos.
  • Love Triangle:
    • Lou constantly hangs on to him, and repeatedly gets suspicious of Lisa.
    • Lisa's feelings for him are complicated by the re-emergence of Dolk.
  • Mage Marksman: In addition to his gunslinging, he can use summon magic.
  • Married to the Job: For most of the series, he's hellbent on finding Makenshi and won't stop for anything else.
  • Not Quite Dead: At the end of Episode 25, he sacrifices himself to form the Soil needed for the Gun Dragon, who self-destructs to kill the Earl. While this should have rendered him Deader than Dead, he comes back in After anyway.
  • Pet the Dog:
    • He is incredibly tolerant of Lou and Moogle's clingy antics despite being The Stoic.
    • Whenever he actually gets off his behind and helps Lisa of his own volition, it is always portrayed as a huge deal.
  • Power Incontinence: For reasons even he doesn't know, he can longer activate the Magun on his own. It turns out that it's been under the unwitting control of the Hayakawas.
  • Summon Magic: Using the Magun, he can summon a variety of familiar monsters.
  • Theme Music Power-Up: When loading the Magun, his special tune plays.
  • Transformation Is a Free Action: Pist and Oscha make a few attempts to avert this early on, but as it turns out to be useless anyway, they eventually give it up.

     Lisa Pacifist 

Lisa Pacifist

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Voiced by: Kyoko Hikami (Japanese), Shawn Sides (English)

A twenty-two-year-old woman who the twins meet on the phantom train as they first travel to Wonderland. She quickly adopts the role of surrogate parent to them, but seems to have her own objectives. Whenever she's nervous, she smiles and laughs awkwardly, which only makes the people around her more suspicious. She is a practitioner of a rare technique called Kigen Arts, which she often uses for self-defense until The Cavalry comes to bail her and the twins out of dangerous situations.


  • Barrier Maiden: The majority of her combat oriented Kigen Arts techniques are focused on creating barriers and forcefields which she can use to defend and repel attackers.
  • But Not Too Foreign: She has a Russian father and a Chinese mother, but she is introduced in Japan and speaks Japanese fluently.
  • Break the Cutie: She used to be an idealistic young student of the Kigen Arts until her mother passed away. Her cheerfulness and optimism as a young woman is artificial.
  • Character Catchphrase: A variant. Whenever in an awkward situation, she lets out a forced laugh that fools no one.
  • Dude Magnet: She attracts attention from Dolk, Knave, Cid, and Kaze.
  • Detect Evil: Her attunement to the spirits of Wonderland allow her to detect malevolent energy and life forces which proves to continually be a crucial skill since it allows her to warn others of an impending attack.
  • Kill It with Water: By tapping into her life energy, she can manipulate water for a greater offensive attack.
  • Ki Manipulation: The Kigen Arts allow her to tap into life energy for attacks or defenses. She can also channel the energy within Wonderland in order to enhance her own abilities or use the enviroment to her advantage.
  • Magic Skirt: No matter what, her onesie always preserves her modesty.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Lisa is a well-endowed young woman whose usual clothing doesn't leave much to the imagination.
  • Parental Abandonment: It turns out that her mother died when she was little, and her father neglected her.
  • Parental Substitute: With their parents gone, the twins see her as the closest thing they have to a mother/older sister figure.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: Her Kigen Arts make her a powerful figure amongst those of her own world, but she finds it very difficult to keep up with the monsters and sorcerers in Wonderland.
  • Ship Tease: With Kaze, quite often.
  • Stepford Smiler: She tries really hard to be the face of optimism, even if it doesn't go too well.
  • Trauma Conga Line: As if everything in the main story wasn't enough, After has Dolk return as a brainwashed Gaudium Lord who has to be put down by Kaze.

     Chobi 

Chobi

Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Samantha Inoue Harte (English)

A young chocobo who, like the rest of his kind, is especially enamored with Ai's hair. Starting in Episode 2, he is equipped with a watch that detects when the phantom subway is about to depart, and midway through the series he becomes able to conjure up the armor of the Ciel Chocobo, allowing him to fly. He can carry Lisa and the twins on his back.


  • A Dog Named "Dog": He's a Chocobo named "Chobi" by Yu.
  • The Mole: It turns out that he's unwittingly become the means for Gaudium to find the heroes, thanks to the hidden tracking device that's been fixed to his watch.
  • Team Pet: The mascot of the heroes.
  • Took a Level in Badass: He finds out that he can access the power of Ciel, allowing him to fly.
  • Transformation Sequence: When conjuring his Ciel Chocobo's armor.

Gaudium

     Earl Tyrant 

Earl Tyrant

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Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Elena Carillo (English)

Earl Tyrant is the primary antagonist of Final Fantasy: Unlimited. He appears as a spoiled young monarch, surrounded by his followers on his throne. He is the physical extension of Chaos, thus his existence is dependent on Chaos spreading destruction and disorder. Normally he is a small, fat kid, with a foul temper. His true form, Chaos Tyrant, he takes on the appearance of a mockery of a large, featherless, purple bird.


  • A God Am I: Despite already being a Demiurge Archetype, he plans to become what he sees as the supreme being by enlarging Wonderland even further and killing the Unlimited, the only beings able to kill him.
  • Bad Boss: The Earl has no problem with mentally or physically abusing his subordinates, whether for punishment or just to taste their negative emotions.
  • Demiurge Archetype: He is the supreme ruler of Wonderland, a patchwork dimension created by bits of the worlds swallowed up by Chaos.
  • Dystopia Justifies the Means: He makes it clear that he doesn't want any form of justice or peace to come from his rule, just power for the sake of it.
  • Emotion Eater: Taken a bit more literally then with most, having the emotions prepared into actual dishes.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In the final episode, he's utterly shocked when the Hayakawa parents break out out of their hypnosis with The Power of Love.
  • Evil Counterpart: It turns out that, like Ai and Yu, he is an avatar of Chaos. Unlike them, he has fully embraced his evil and destructive nature.
  • Evil Overlord: In a compact size.
  • Evil Plan: He plans to keep feeding Chaos and fuse with Omega, Ai, and Yu to become the ultimate lifeforms.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He's seemingly chummy with Yu when he finally meets him, but it's all an act.
  • Meaningful Name: "Earl" is a surprisingly low title for someone who is supposed to be the ruler of Wonderland. That is because he is only an aspect of Chaos.
  • Orcus on His Throne: Despite being the supreme ruler of Wonderland, he’s barely seen off his throne. Upon revealing himself to be Chaos, he promptly curb-stomps the entire cast.
  • Royal Brat: He's a spoiled, invariable grouchy prince.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: Wants to unseal Omega the destroyer, under his control, of course.
  • Take Over the World: While he's already taken control of several different worlds through Chaos, he wants to rule the multiverse.

     Oscha 

Oscha

Voiced by: Kouji Ishii (Japanese), Brian Jepson (English)

Oscha, is one of the main antagonists of Final Fantasy: Unlimited. Despite being only one of Earl Tyrant's Lords of Gaudium, Oscha acts as a personal adviser to Tyrant.


  • The Dragon: He is Earl Tyrant's closest advisor. Unlike his fellow lords, he is actually a direct creation of Chaos. His role is to ensure the well-being of Chaos's avatar, which in this case is Earl Tyrant.
  • Dragon Ascendant: In After, some time after the Earl dies, he sets out to groom Ai and Yu into proper replacements for him.
  • Dragon-in-Chief: Although he's subservient to the Earl, the Earl's well-being is part of his plan, and he picks up the slack while his master plays at being an Orcus on His Throne.
  • The Evil Genius: He directs day-to-day operations for Gaudium, and reveals at the end of the anime that he's been responsible for the entire journey of the Hayakawa twins.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He often adopts an affable demeanor that isn't genuine.
  • Humanoid Abomination: Even calling this villain "humanoid" is kind of a stretch. He can absorb his arms into his torso, and his body is abnormally flexible. It turns out that he's a spawn created to serve Chaos.
  • Malevolent Masked Man: Exactly what he looks like beneath it is never revealed. We do see part of his face when his mask cracks in the final episode, and his skin is heavily decayed.
  • The Man Behind the Man: Acts as this to Earl Tyrant in some ways. Oscha is responsible for nurturing Chaos' Earl Tyrant avatar, and he's also the one who does most of the planning. After Tyrant's death, he focuses his efforts on the twins.
  • Meaningful Name: Oscha is an anagram of Chaos, his true master.
  • White Mask of Doom: He's a cunning manipulator who wears a white mask to cover up his rotting face.

     Herba 

Herba

Voiced by: Kana Ueda (Japanese), Jessica Smolins (English)

Herba is one of the Lords of Gaudium, Herba usually sits beside Earl Tyrant and act as his personal attendee. An attractive lady that resembles a plant, Herba carries an umbrella with her. Though she acts flighty, Herba tends to mock others and bear grudges. She has a tendency to end the names of people she likes with the word "baby", like "Makenshi-baby".


  • Beauty Is Bad: Very, very bad.
  • Disney Villain Death: In the final battle, Lou blasts her right into Chaos. According to After, however, she survives.
  • Dragon Their Feet: According to After, she survives the destruction of Gaudium with Oscha.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Herba's cutesy demeanor belies her absolutely ruthless disposal of the Earl's enemies and her minions alike.
  • Flunky Boss: Herba never fights directly, instead relying on her plant minions.
  • Plant Person: She is a plant-like humanoid who can grow plant-based monsters.
  • We Have Reserves: She was willing to sacrifice a couple thousand minions to capture one piece of Omega.

     Fungus 

Fungus

Voiced by: Daisuke Gōri (Japanese), Grant James (English)

Fungus, one of the Lords of Gaudium, Fungus is the first to face Kaze and the Hayakawa twins Yu and Ai Hayakawa.


  • Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: He's the most single-minded Gaudium Lord, and the most prone to fighting directly. In his evolved state, he wields a mace.
  • Butt-Monkey: He is regularly beaten by the protagonists, and takes more than a bit of taunting from the other Lords.
  • Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: He’s always seen with a pipe, although in practice he lets his anger and overconfidence get to him faster than the usual pipesmoker.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He cares a great deal for his homeland.
  • Face Death with Dignity: Knowing that he's about to die from the black mold, he allows Kaze to give him a Mercy Kill, granting him respect and gratitude as he perishes.
  • Kryptonite Factor: There is only one thing can circumvent his regenerative power; the black mold that destroyed his homeland.
  • Mushroom Man: He is a humanoid mushroom-like creature, and the last of his kind.
  • No Sympathy Between Mooks: None of the others cry over his "last" death.
  • One-Steve Limit: Downplayed. His name is similar to Fungo, one side character.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: He's a super-strong warrior who can resurrect himself every time he's killed, but the magic and technological weapons of Wonderland mean that he Can't Catch Up.
  • Resurrective Immortality: Every time he is killed, he is brought back as a tiny version of himself before growing back to his full size.

     Pist 

Pist Shaz XI

"If you know your enemy and work out a plan, there is no one in the entire universe whom you need to fear."
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Edwin Neal (English)

Pist Shaz XI, commonly referred to as Pist, is one of the central antagonists and, as such, one of the Lords of Gaudium. He is confident and intelligent, able to create intricate plans quickly. However, it is usually his certainty in them that causes his plans to backfire and fail.


  • Arc Villain: He is the main antagonist of the "Ocean Puzzle" arc.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: If he sees an attack just once, he can plan around it.
  • Complexity Addiction: He always picks the most extravagant, complex strategies possible when dealing with the heroes, even when he already knows their success in dealing with them.
  • Evil Counterpart: He's a gunslinger that doesn't get along with his peers, much like Kaze, and even manages to steal the Magun and copy the Black Wind's speech word for word.
  • Fish People: He looks like a humanoid shark, although it turns out that he is more of a Blob Monster made of water.
  • The Gunslinger: He uses a gun in combat, and even manages to quickdraw Makenshi.
  • I Lied: Although his "Ocean Puzzle" can supposedly be beaten if enough of his challenges are beaten, he was never planning to let the heroes leave no matter what they did, and is fully prepared to kill them himself. Makenshi gets to him first.
  • Logical Weakness: Having a body made out of water allows him to survive almost any damage, but it also allows Makenshi to turn him into Mist.
  • Sinister Geometry: That weird "Ocean Puzzle" of his is a contraption that allows him to sort pieces of Wonderland at will.
  • Surrounded by Idiots: He thinks he's much more prepared and on the ball than his fellow Lords, although he's just as likely to hit snags.
  • Too Clever by Half: His main weakness. In his debut alone, he decides to goad Kaze into using his Magun so that he can steal it instead of just trying to kill him. This works until he tries to use the Magun himself.
  • Unknown Rival: He sees Makenshi as his main competitor in Gaudium, but the swordsman barely notices him.

     Makenshi 

Mankenshi/Shiroi Kumo

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Voiced by: Akira Ishida (Japanese), Shanon Weaver (English)

An extremely taciturn, very powerful swordsman who first appears in the employ of the Earl. He seems to be most interested in settling some kind of score with Kaze, and actually helps the heroes on occasion. Eventually, it becomes clear that he's investigating Chaos for his own reasons. Called "Makenshi" by the Earl.


  • Always Someone Better:
    • Despite Kaze's best efforts throughout the anime run, he never wins a direct confrontation with Makenshi.
    • Makenshi was a superior Magic Knight to Madoushi, which nurtured a resentment in his brother that helped allow him to come back as a ghost.
  • Beware the Quiet Ones: Makenshi is a silent, delicate-looking Pretty Boy, as well as the first warrior to put the previously unstoppable Kaze in his place.
  • BFS: When his Maken is "thawed," it takes the form of an extra-long, extra-wide sword.
  • Cool Sword: The Maken is an Absurdly Sharp Blade that Makenshi can levitate with his mind or use as a BFS.
  • Corrupted Character Copy: While his spiky hair, stern demeanor, and BFS make him seem similar to Cloud Strife from the then-recent Final Fantasy VII, he's essentially an attack dog for the villains. It's subverted in that he was Good All Along.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone called him "Makenshi" (Demon Fencer). His nickname sticks post-Heel–Face Turn.
  • Good All Along: It turns out that while he is a Gaudium Lord, he only joined to find Chaos and destroy it.
  • Heroes Prefer Swords: He seems to be an inversion, since he's a sword-wielding rival to the Nominal Hero Kaze. He's actually a much more traditional hero than the Black Wind.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: In Episode 25, he sacrifices himself to possess Chaos and pull off a Suicide by Cop against the Gun Dragon.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In Episode 25, the Earl impales him on his own Maken. He holds out just long enough for a final Summon.
  • Lonely Rich Kid: He was a young prince whose only consistent companion was his own rival, his big brother Madoushi.
  • Not Quite Dead: Despite being run through with his own Maken, he holds out long enough to cast a final Summon spell.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The conclusion of his and Kiri's character arc, which was reduced to a summary in the After 2 CD booklet.
  • Power Incontinence: During most of After.
  • Replacement Goldfish: In After, he seems to view Ai as a surrogate for Kiri.
  • Theme Music Power-Up: His special tune plays when he performs a Summon. The only exception is when he confronts Earl Tyrant.
  • Trauma Conga Line: As it turns out, he's a borderline Empty Shell who lost his homeland, his big brother, and his love interest. All he has left is finding and destroying Chaos.

     Crux 

Crux

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Samantha Inoue Harte (English)

A fairy marionette brought to life, Crux's job is to spy on Kaze, Yu and Ai, and Lisa. Crux's entire vocabulary is made up of "kukuruyu", though the Lords seem to understand her. The Gaudium Lords treat her as a tool, rather than a helper, expect for Makenshi.


  • Big Damn Heroes: In the end, she is instrumental to the heroes' victory in Episode 25, and then teams up with Kiri's lingering ghost to rescue Kumo in the battle to save the Kigen Arts temple in After.
  • Heel–Face Turn: In Episode 25, she goes to Makenshi when he gets impaled by the Earl, and ends up saving the main party.
  • Killer Rabbit: Despite her fairy-like appearance and small size, she spreads the black mold that fatally infects Fungus.
  • Morality Pet: She's starts off as the only character that Makenshi genuinely considers a friend.
  • Pokémon Speak: She only says "kukuruyu," although the other characters have no trouble interpreting her.

Wonderland

     Knave 

Knave

Voiced by: Yukitoshi Hori (Japanese), Ken Webster (English)

Leader of the Comodeen, the rebel faction against Earl. He tends to be played as a comedic character most of the time, but when push comes to shove he's a brave leader who'll risk his life for his men and his ideals.


  • Beware the Silly Ones: Is a clumsy doofus 90% of the time, but he is a force to be reckoned with during that other 10%.
  • Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: In contrast to Fungus' pipe, he has a cigarette.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: Despite his position, he's an endearingly overbearing blowhard.
  • Fan Disservice: His Shower Scene and attempt to use CPR on Kaze.
  • Meaningful Name: The word "knave," referring to a ruffian or low-classed person, contrasts Earl Tyrant.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: Successfully managing a rebellion against a Demiurge Archetype over a long period of time is no small feat, but Knave just can't measure up the sorcerers, monsters, and Unlimited that live in Wonderland.
  • Supporting Leader: Despite leading the Comodeen, he doesn't have a large part to play in the main party's quest until later on.
  • Unknown Rival: While he believes himself to be a rival against Gaudium, the Earl barely treats the Comodeen as an afterthought.

     Cid 

Cid

Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese), Robert Newell (English)

Cid is a cheerful, optimistic, and energetic technician, a wizard at anything electronic. He spends most of his time, working with his many inventions. He has the unusual habit of naming his machines with female names, and treating them as if they were alive.


  • Adaptational Attractiveness: This version of Cid is much younger and more conventionally handsome than the Cids that were in the games released at the time of the anime's production.
  • Berserk Button: Don't hurt his machines if you know what's good for you.
  • Forced Transformation: During the Ocean Puzzle arc, he is temporarily turned into a frog.
  • Humongous-Headed Hammer: Cid has two mechanized hammers that hit his enemies on command, with each hammer head being as big as himself. Somehow, both hammers can fit inside his backpack.
  • Let's Get Dangerous!: He's normally soft-spoken and cheerful, but his Ultimate Hammer makes him a dangerous enemy when pressed.
  • Mr. Exposition: He is often used to provide details on Wonderland.
  • Techno Babble: This is his go-to method of explaining his inventions, as well as Ellenium.

     Miles 

Miles

Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese), Heather Kafka (English)

Knave's tomboyish second-in-command. She is often seen directing the soldiers. She wields a pan-flute version of the blowguns the generic members use.


     Fungo 

Fungo

Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese), Marcos Lara (English)

Fungo is a little peculiar, possessing instincts that border on precognition; feeling events before they occur. He usually serves as a warning to the others that danger approaches.


  • Character Catchphrase: "I have a bad feeling..."
  • Extreme Omnivore: He can and will eat anything he can get his hands on up to and including plates, bags and mailboxes.
  • Not in This for Your Revolution: Fungo admits he doesn't really get the idea of creating "order" or "peace" in Wonderland, and only really seems to be in the Comodeen so he can have something to tag along with.
  • One-Steve Limit: Downpalyed. His name is very similar to Fungus, one of the villains.
  • Spider-Sense: He has the ability to sense incoming danger, although it usually kicks in too late to make any difference.
  • This Is Going to Suck: Whenever he has a bad feeling about something, it turns out to be for a GOOD reason.

     Lou Lupus 

Lou Lupus

Voiced by: Kaori (Japanese), Larissa Wolcott (English)

Lou is a werewolf, as per her race, but unlike (normal) werewolves, they transform not on nights with full moons, but by looking into the eyes of a member of their race, or their own via mirror.


  • Breath Weapon: She can fire powerful ki blasts from her mouth when transformed into a wolf.
  • Clothes Make the Superman: During her time apart from the group, she was able to commission an old clothing maker to fabricate a cape out of Flying Water for her, allowing her to fly.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Volunteers her soul to be used as Soil by Kaze during this sequence.
  • Horrible Judge of Character: She thinks of Kaze as a noble Ideal Hero when he's actually the farthest thing from it.
  • Last of Her Kind: She is the last surviving member of her people, thanks to Omega destroying the rest.
  • Smitten Teenage Girl: Much to the bemusement, shock, and revulsion of the other characters, Lou develops a huge crush on Kaze after his attack on Omega saves her life.
  • Third-Person Person: In the Japanese version, she uses her name instead of "I."
  • Wonderful Werewolf: Despite being a werewolf who can hold her own quite handily in battle, she's still a sweet little girl who's always brimming with energy and optimism.

     Clear 

Clear

Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (Japanese), Dan Dietz (English)

Clear is the embodiment of Omega's heart and emotions. Appearing as a boy with blue/green hair, Clear ended up with a cloak of Flying Water to cover his entire body and hold his power at bay. He encounters Ai after she had fallen off the submarine in the Ocean Puzzle. Clear tried to steer clear of Ai out of fear of killing her by accident.


  • Barbie Doll Anatomy: He doesn't seem to be wearing anything besides a pair of gloves and boots.
  • Containment Clothing: Wears a cloak, gloves and boots woven from Flying Water to keep his destructive power at bay.

     Moogle 

Moogle

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"Move, Magun! Just as the Soil guides you!"

"At last, Kaze! You finally found a memory of me, buried somewhere deep within your heart!"
Voiced by: Tomoe Hanba (Japanese), Bill Wise (English)

Also known as Mogli, Moogle Kupow and simply Moogle, Moogle Kupo is Kaze's partner. The two were separated, but the party discovered him in a village within the Ocean Puzzle. Kaze did not initially remember him, but the events of the episode sparked his memory and the two were reunited.


  • Cloudcuckoolander: He regularly uses his pom-pom to apply electric shocks to himself to block out the effects of the strange radio tower in the village, which causes people to be trapped in nostalgic memories.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: In Episode 25, he transforms himself into the Soil Soul Gun Metal in order to aid in summoning Bahamut.
  • Sidekick: To Kaze
  • Sole Survivor: Moogles were common in his homeworld of Windaria
  • Verbal Tic: How much he says "kupo" tends to depend on what version you're watching.

     Fabula 

Fabula

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Claire Hamilton (English)

Fabula is a minor character in the anime Final Fantasy: Unlimited. She has only two appearances within the series itself, instead appearing outside almost every episode to give a preview of the next episode. She is always seen within a winged clam shell.


  • God Mode: Though she can only flex her abilities through loopholes.

     Chocobaba and Chocoimo 

Chocobaba and Chocoimo

Voiced by: Rin Mizuhara (Japanese), Lainie Frasier (English)

The Chocobo Sisters Chocobaba and Chocoimo are two elderly women who care for chocobos. The pair look nearly identical, and share many personality traits. Both sisters seem reluctant to offer any conclusive information to anyone.


  • Character Catchphrase:
    • "At least that's the rumor!" and "Or something like that!" respectively.
    • In close second are "It never ends" and "I don't know." Ai inevitably gets fed up and demands that they stop using those phrases.

     Madoushi 
Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka (Japanese), David Stokey (English)

Madoushi, real name Akai Kiri, is the older brother of Makenshi. He looks similar to his little brother, except for his red clothes and hair. Like Makenshi, he wears a veil over his face because he breathes out Mist, and he carries a Maken of his own.


  • Back from the Dead: Oscha revives him as a minion.
  • Can't Catch Up: To his own little brother, due to Kumo being Unlimited. He has just a little bit of a complex about this.
  • Fiery Redhead: He has red hair, and is much more openly combative and hotblooded than his little brother.
  • Red and Black and Evil All Over: Madoushi wears a red-and-black outfit to contrast Madoushi's color scheme. While he was already a Glory Seeker even in life, losing everything and coming back to life means that he has nothing to look forward to but a Duel to the Death with Makenshi.

     Aura 

Aura

Voiced by: Tomoe Hanba (Japanese)

Aura is Kaze's sister, and fellow Windarian. Though appearing only in Kaze's flashbacks in the series, she played a major role in relation to Makenshi. Until regaining his memory, Kaze seems to believe Makenshi was the one who killed Aura while seeing her through Lisa Pacifist.


After Characters

    Touya 

Touya

Touya Satomi is Yu's best friend and the same age as the twins, whom he both knew since kindergarten.


     Soljashy 

Dolk/Soljashy

Voiced by: Ken Narita (Japanese)

Dolk, now known as Soljashy, is one of the antagonists in After. He would serve the Gaudium in their bid to conquer worlds.


  • Anime Hair: He wears his hair an extra-long pompadour.
  • And I Must Scream: Soljashy uses Dolk's body as a puppet and his brain as a mouthpiece, rendering Dolk barely lucid.
  • Empty Shell: As it turns out, Dolk is hardly able to move or think under his own power while under Soljashy's control.
  • Enemy Summoner: He can create monsters from his business cards.
  • First Love: It turns out that Dolk was Lisa's boyfriend.
  • Hate Sink: Unlike the mildly entertaining Gaudium court and the monstrous Omega, Soljashy is a cruel, manipulative parasite who turned Lisa's lover into a meat puppet and abused him so badly that not even breaking the Mind Control can save him.
  • Mercy Kill: At the end, Dolk is finally freed from Soljashy's control, but the parasite consumed too much of his life energy for that to make any difference. Kaze is left with no choice but to put him down.
  • Mind Control: Dolk is a human being controlled by the parasite Soljashy.
  • Salaryman: He's based on one, considering his suit, briefcase, and business cards.
  • Soul Jar: As it turns out, Dolk's briefcase has the soul of the real Soljashy.

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