Characters / GARO: Crimson Moon

Main characters

Raikou

Voiced by: Masei Nakayama, Megumi Han (young) (Japanese), Clifford Chapin (English)

• Next Tier Power-Up: Midway through the series, Raikou unlocks a power-up for the Garo armor that changes it from a bestial suit of knight armor to a bestial suit of samurai armor.
• Power Gives You Wings: During the final battle with Rudra, Garo is forced into Lost Beast Soul Form. Kaguya saves him by granting his armor angelic wings.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Raikou not only turns Michinaga's offer to let him serve under him down, he all-but-denounces him. In front of his By-the-Book Cop brother, no less.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Lost Beast Soul Form for Garo. Seimei initially found Garo in this state, calming him down before applying the seal that would become his Power Limiter.

Kintoki

Voiced by: Akiko Yajima, Mamoru Miyano (Tokiwaka) (Japanese), Mikaela Krantz (English)

• Older Than They Look: An extra episode reveals that Kintoki was once a Makai Knight whose Armor robbed him of memories and age each time he used it, hence why he appears to be a young child and has forgotten his old life.

Seimei

Voiced by: Romi Park, Madoka Aiba (young) (Japanese), Monica Rial (English)

• Action Girl: Seimei is an onmyoji who assists Raikou in combat with her magic.
• Apocalypse Maiden: Once Seimei has been provoked properly, she becomes the host to Rudra, a world-destroying Horror.
• Cleavage Window
• Dark Action Girl: While acting as the vessel for Rudra.
• Gender Flip: Seimei is named after the famous onmyōji Abe no Seimei, but is a woman rather than being a man.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Seimei can come off careless and a bit of a Gold Digger, but she usually has others' best interests in mind. Especially Raikou.
• Power Limiter: Seimei's seal on Raikou, designed to prevent another transformation into the Garo Armor's Lost Beast Soul form. Raikou eventually matures to the point that he undoes it permanently on his own.

Fujiwara no Yasusuke

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese), Ricco Fajardo (English)

• Big Damn Heroes: During the battle with Rudra.
• Orcus on His Throne: Hakamadare sees the Light Palace in general as this. He's not wrong.
• That Man Is Dead: Once police magistrate Yasusuke's discharge becomes possessed by a Horror and is cut down, he discards his status as a member of the Fujiwara family and his name, becoming the Gentleman Thief Hakamadare.

Goruba

Voiced by: Yuichi Nagashima (Japanese), Shawn Gann (English)

Fujiwara no Michinaga

Voiced by: Kenyuu Horiuchi (Japanese), David Wald (English)

• Big Good: Deconstructed, head of the Light Palace. He has moderate knowledge on Knights and Horrors and despite showing signs of being The Unfettered, he has no issues hearing his servants out and generally just shows a strict-yet-fair attitude. Come the Finale, he opposes efforts to let common citizenry into the Light Palace for shelter against the giant Horror Rudra, succumbing to Japan's Fantastic Caste System. Yorinobu has to let them in behind his back, forcing him to give a Rousing Speech to save face.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: Michinaga probably was not Faux Affably Evil during his lifetime nor was willing to unleash Horrors upon the capital.
• Orcus on His Throne: Michinaga typically sits in the Light Palace, letting the police magistrate investigate the disturbances on their own.
• Sibling Rivalry: With Ashiya Douman.
• Villain with Good Publicity
• We Can Rule Together: Michinaga seems to want this arrangerment with the Makai Knights, giving them both some variation of the offer at various points. They turn him down.
  • Michinaga then invites Ashiya Douman, his brother, to the Light Palace and gives him an offer to reform and serve under him. He turns him down.

Inari

Inari A voiced by: Mayu Udono (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English)

Inari B voiced by: Eriko Satō (Japanese), Megan Shipman (English)

Inari C voiced by: Sayaka Sasaki (Japanese), Alex Moore (English)

Inari A

Inari B

Inari C

• Asian Fox Spirit: Inari is associated with foxes and uses fox-spirits as messengers.
• Big Good: The tripartite fox goddess "Watch Dog" Inari, who sends Seimei and Raikou on missions to slay Horrors.
• The Unfettered: The Inari have no issues or remorse ordering Raikou and Hakamadare to cut Seimei down once she comes under the control of Rudra.
• Virtuous Character Copy: To Keiru, Beru and Rose from the original series, both being The Dividual Creepy Child trios that serve as Watch Dogs to the Makai Knights. But while Keiru, Beru and Rose were Evil All Along and were helping the other villains, the Inari are Good Is Not Nice and fully helped the heroes.

Supporting characters

Shijō Kintō

Voiced by: Nozomu Sasaki (Japanese), Marcus D. Stimac (English)

Kamo no Yasunori

Voiced by: Masao Komaya (Japanese), R. Bruce Elliott (English)

Abe no Haruaki

Voiced by: Hidetaka Tenjin (Japanese), Ben Bryant (English)

• Big Damn Heroes: Using a spell to let Raikou enter Seimei's heart and purge her of Rudra.
• Cast from Hit Points: The spell Haruaki uses to let Raikou enter Seimei's heart costs him his life in exchange.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Haruaki uses a spell to let Raikou enter Seimei's heart and purge her of Rudra. He pays the ultimate price for using it.

Fujiwara no Yasumasa

Voiced by: Takanori Hoshino (Japanese), Brian Mathis (English)

Minamoto no Yorinobu

Voiced by: Katsuhito Nomura (Japanese), Justin Briner (English)

• Big Damn Heroes: Helping Garo during the Horror Cradle's attack on the Capital.
• By-the-Book Cop: Plays this painfully straight. He eventually becomes leader of the Police Magistrate after Kinto becomes possessed.

Izumi Shikibu

Voiced by: Noriko Hidaka (Japanese), Elizabeth Maxwell (English)

• Aesop Amnesia: Despite Izumi succeeding in gettng Masamune to rid himself of his lecherous ways, his wife's death due to Horror possession leaves him all too happy to indulge once again.

Tada no Shinbachi

Voiced by: Shinpachi Tsuji, Masanori Takeda (Mitsunaka) (Japanese), John Swasey (English)

Kaguya

Voiced by: Ayaka Ohashi (Japanese), Cherami Leigh (English)

• Apocalypse Maiden: Kaguya is the inverse, being Rudra's seal.
• Big Damn Heroes: During the battle with Rudra.
• Hime Cut

Tachibana Masamune

Voiced by: Kōsuke Gotō (Japanese), Ben Phillips (English)

• Lovable Sex Maniac: He's perfectly content with skirt chasing while his wife does all the business.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The aristocrat Masamune is implied to laze about all day while his wife does his business for him. The only business he does is skirt-chasing.

Suetsumuhana

Voiced by: Kimiko Saito (Japanese), Jeannie Tirado (English)

• Action Girl: Tries to be this against the Mask Horror. She utterly fails.

Antagonists

Ashiya Douman

Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese), Taliesin Jaffe (English)

• Big Bad: Who is causing much of the Horror activity in order to summon Rudra.
• Covered with Scars: His face is.
• Sibling Rivalry: With Machimune.
• The Starscream: Ashiya kills Doushi during a disagreement on whether or not to sick Seimei-turned-Rudra on the heroes right after her possession.

Priest Douma

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (Japanese), Vic Mignogna (English)

Akira

Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese)

Tokimaru

Voiced by: Keisuke Higashi (Japanese)

Horrors

Rudra

• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Rudra emerges from the Crimson Moon as a twelve-faced, eight-armed monstrosity that demolishes the capital in minutes and towers above Japan.
• Cognizant Limbs: The resurrected Rudra has eight arms, each of which can act on their own.