This is a list of characters that appear in Genji Tsuushin Agedama.
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Agedama Genji (Agedaman)
Voiced by: Nozomu Sasaki
Our hero-in-training! Click here to see Agedaman
The human alien protagonist of the story, a nine-year-old superhero-in-training who came to Earth from Planet Hero during a one-year-long summer break to train himself. Although he has a strong sense of justice and can get pretty quick to anger when annoyed or provoked, he is an overall easygoing person. He doesn't do anything too outlandish but he'll often do things that are out of line for Earthlings. When Onyomiko and her synthetic beasts reign terror on Morisoba City, Wapro converts him into the young superhero Agedaman, a form that allows him to exhibit superhuman physical abilities and fight with a slew of attacks, mainly the "Agedaman Punch", the "Agedaman Kick", and the frisbees attached to both hips. When in a bind, he often draws Kiai Cards (spirit cards) that allow him to conveniently learn various techniques and weapons to defeat his current enemy.
- The Ace: Subverted in his civilian form and as Agedaman, where despite being a competent and skilled superhero, his grades are laughable, and he can be prone to clumsiness even in sports, which is supposed to be his strong suit.
- Athletically Challenged: Often zig-zags with this trope depending on the episode.
- He has a poor time at skating, but he can tie in running with Hikari in 400m. It is worth noting he was dressed in his light armor (the Agedaman transformation) while Hikari was in his sprinting uniform.
- He might have also been a strong competitor in long jumping, but his Butt-Monkey status is inevitably going to keep him from reaching such a status.
- He caught up to Rei after being delayed to the back of the marathon by a monster in a dust-raising sprint, though it fatigued him enough he had to push himself near the end.
- Big Eater: This kid loves to eat, so much that Rei tries to way to easily sway him with a large table of food.
- Big Fancy House: Though he is not rich, he lives in a big house. It's justified because it is considered a ghost house by the neighbors (due to Ebiten and Okame moving around).
- Book Dumb: The few times we see his test scores throughout the series, the highest they've come to are are 15 and 30 points, and even Ibuki comments that his studying habits aren't the best.
- Butt-Monkey: While other protagonists have had it far worse, this show is not kind to its protagonist. Whether transformed or not, Agedama frequently flubs, gets upstaged by his opponents, trips over, and frequently gets humiliated in front of others.
- Every Man Has His Price: He resisted food and three stacks of money, but in episode 13, he was willing to grovel to Rei to get some tickets for a race starring a famous racer that Okame likes. It turns out to be a scam, albeit not one Rei intended, it’s just that even Raizo can only arrange poor substitutes for famous racers.
- Hour of Power: The Agedaman transformation apparently uses kiai energy stored when he's outside of his transformed state, and doesn't recharge too quickly. In episode 28, having demonstrations and signing two days in a row depleted his entire charge.
- Innocently Insensitive: Agedama can sometimes fall into this. He sometimes can eat with too much gusto. Then in episode 45, in his rush to give what he has before he has to leave, he commits the faux pas of giving Ibuki the food that Rei has just rejected. Fortunately, Ibuki knows him and was only momentarily appalled.
- Instant Expert: Wapro provides him with a wide range of expansion cards with a broad range of capabilities. Agedama never seems to have any problem using them and at least twice also seems to retain abilities the cards lent him. He suddenly learned how to skate, and then gets the ability to deploy an energy shield after using cards with the same capabilities.
- Kids Driving Cars: Usually when he's in a hurry, he'll ride on Wapro using his jet or pocket bike modes.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His mouth often incites conflict that could have been averted, most spectacularly in episode 34, where his provocation made Rei decide to cheat, everyone was sprayed with ink and forced to run laps. It's not like Rei getting some privileges is anything new (especially when her family is around), and he had no grounds to believe Rei, the top student, did not know the answer to those questions. Also, if she doesn't know the answer, it is guaranteed she'll cheat. All he had to do was let Ibuki continue to field the questions until class is over.
- Piggyback Cute: In episode 6, Rei’s limo was late in picking her up, and eventually Uroncha carts her by rickshaw. Rei brags about how many people are willing to “be her legs”. In a rare case of sensitivity, Agedama offers to be Ibuki’s legs and piggybacks her, easily overtaking the rickshaw. Initially reluctant to impose, Ibuki ended up really enjoying the trip.
- Potty Emergency: He has a very sudden one in the first episode, where he really has to pee out of nowhere while fawning over Ibuki but is too unwilling to leave her alone to go empty his bladder, knowing that she'll leave school for the day. He creates a duplicate of himself to go to the bathroom for him (how that works raises several questions) but nearly leaks a bit after getting distracted after being pushed out of the way of a urinal that Uroncha reserved. Given that he drinks a whole carton of milk in the following episode, there's no surprise as to why this happened.
- Power of Trust: Any any episode where Ibuki's self-confidence reaches a low point, Agedama keeps complimenting and praising Ibuki, always telling her she can do as well, or better than Rei. It is a factor in her Growth Arc.
- Super-Strong Child: Being a superhero in training, Agedama has markedly above-average strength, even when he hasn't transformed. He can carry Rei on his shoulder and dash with Ibuki on his back at the same time.
- Otherworldly Technicolour Hair: Unlike the people of Earth who, except Rei for some reason, have natural hair colors, Agedama's hair color is a very dark blue color. Depending on the light source, this can sometimes be easily mistaken for black.
- The Worf Effect: Became the victim of this in episode 47, getting incapacitated in one hit by E-hub to demonstrate how strong the new villains are.
- You Have Failed Me: Agedama is a rare victim on the protagonist's side. By episode 44, he has only about one month left on Earth and is no closer to identifying, much less finishing off Onyomiko or the person(s) behind her. His parents sent him a mouse so he could communicate with his best friend on Earth. What they did not tell him was that the mouse had a transformation capability. So, without the Final Arc events, Agedama will return home to learn that his girlfriend had to go fight in his place.
- With the Final Arc, at least he finds out who Onyomiko is, but chooses not to have her arrested or otherwise neutralized. So he will still have to hear about his girlfriend fighting monsters. Ouch.
- For the alternative where the transformation ability is not integral to the mouse, see the analysis page. Further, that would mean the mouse is given to Agedama so he can hear his girlfriend cry about being attacked by monsters. This page assumes the transformation ability is integral.
Waprō
Voiced by: Kumiko Watanabe
It wouldn't be a '90s kids show without a cute mascot.
Agedama's word processor robot companion, who fuses with him to form Agedaman. In addition to the form on the right, he can retract his legs into a floating volleyball, become a pocket bike or a jet, a backpack, a mechanical version of what appears to be either a dog or an armadillo, and a submersible.- Cute Machines: His appearance and
Cross-Dressing Voice makes him this. - Friendship Favoritism: In episode 32, he is happy to let Agedama be late for school. Ibuki then shows up, and now it’s all “Oh don’t worry, I’ll turn into a pocket bike for you.” Justified, since certain unhappy events happened last week/episode, and Wapro might have felt that it was important to signal It's Really All Right.
- Guy in Back: Takes the Weapons System Operator role in combat, analyzing data and programming the week's expansion card for Agedama's use.
- Hour of Power: Wapro serves as the power source for Agedaman's levitation (not Agedama's kiai). It drains the battery very rapidly, which explains why he doesn't fly that often.
- Idiot Ball: Wapro never trusted Rei and did not want to work with her, even against the Greater-Scope Villain. He nevertheless agrees to commit all his resources on overdrive to compute π while they are on combat-alert, just on Rei's word she'll shut him off before he overheats. A factory-installed Restraining Bolt that encourages extreme deference to human requests may well be the only explanation.
- Power of Friendship: Breaks free of a brainwashing in time to avoid killing Agedama.
- Restraining Bolt: Literally has a personality-altering one attached to him in episode 34.
- RoboSpeak: He speaks normally and with emotion, but punctuation marks are mandatory.
- Theme Naming: Named for "Word Processor", in this context referring to cheap (compared to an all-purpose PC) computers specialized for word processing tasks that were popular in the 80s and early 90s.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Agedama, Ibuki and Kodama treat him as an equal. Rei sees a purchasable "pet", as does the custodian of Ibuki's apartment building. Mr. Heike saw an "electrical appliance" (to be fair, Wapro wasn't moving at the time).
- To mitigate for Rei, she offered the equivalent of a million US dollars for him, which is likely most/all of her pocket money note .
Ebiten and Okame
Ebiten voiced by: Masahiro Anzai
Okame Voiced by: Masako Miura
Left: Okame, Right: Ebiten
An elderly couple made up of two former heroes. The two now reside on Earth post-retirement and act as the guardians of Agedama during his stay, with Okame providing the meals. At first glance, Ebiten may seem like a funny old man, but he was a pretty competent hero in his younger years. Okame on the other hand is usually a gentle lady, but when she gets angry, she becomes so terrifying that even Ebiten can't stop her.- Hero of Another Story: The two used to be superheroes in their own time. In episodes 49-50, Ebiten lends Agedama his old battle suit as a backup for Wapro being put out of comission.
- Invisibility: They are invisible to everyone except Agedama (though they can appear if they want to).
- Parental Substitute: For Agedama
- Shipper on Deck: Supportive of Agedama and Ibuki getting closer together.
Uroncha
Voiced by: Katsumi Suzuki
- Intrepid Merchant: Spends most of his onscreen time trying to peddle various services and goods.
- Police Are Useless: Never assisted in getting Onyomiko, and he and his compatriots were similarly useless against the Greater-Scope Villain. Their only useful contribution was that their ship happened to have personal-use hoverjets.
Modam & E-hub
Modam voiced by: Bin Shimada
E-hub Voiced by: Megumi Hayashibara
Modam and E-hub still in their amnesiac state
Two humanoids who arrived on Earth in episode 46 stark naked and in an amnesiac state. Recovered their memories after eating an apple from the Monster of the Week.- Greater-Scope Villain: All in show agrees that compared to them, the Kukis were only small fry, so all parties should cooperate.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Administered some to the Kukis, especially Rei. They thought they were boss and in control. They were wrong.
- Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Or more accurately, ladies. In episode 50, E-hub agrees to fight Ibuki using Rock–Paper–Scissors. Among other things, it simplified their fight into a Beam-O-War and eliminated her own advantages in flexibility and experience. She probably did not expect Ibuki to last, but she stuck with it even when she was slowly being pressed.
- Theme Naming: Modem+Adam and Eve+Internet hub note
- The Worf Effect: Inverted, with E-hub playing the victim. Three episodes after establishing E-hub's energy attacks as a serious threat, karma comes full circle and she's now forced to tie with Ibuki, bringing her up.
- Would Hit a Girl: Modam was perfectly happy to thrash Rei and use his Prehensile Hair on Ibuki.
The Heike Family
Ibuki Heike (Wonder Ibuki)
Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi
A hero's gotta have his love interest, after all.
The heroine of the story, a cute girl with a ponytail who becomes Agedama's first friend since coming to Earth. She instantly becomes Agedama's Love Interest and she herself is in love with Agedaman, Agedama's transformed form. While she might initially look plain compared to the flashier Rei, she makes up for it by being a Nice Girl with a sense of justice greater than even Agedama's. While she was introduced as timid and lacking self-confidence, she was able to overcome this complex thanks to Agedama motivating and encouraging her to the point where she starts standing up to Rei. Her grades even get a bit better, much to Rei’s annoyance.- The Ace: The show downplays it by intermixing Cute Clumsy Girl traits and reducing the profile by ensuring the process is offscreen, but when you get down to it, Ibuki is competent and exceptional in any task she attempts, all without apparent setbacks or having to put in any more than moderate effort.
- Action Girl: Even before her transformation, there are times she contributes, with varying degrees of success. She protects a ballot box, shoves away a monster, holds down another with a broom, pelts Hyperonyomiko with a pellet gun, helps remove Wapro’s brainwashing, frees an imprisoned Agedama, and tries to retrieve Rei’s hard-earned wages. The basic rule seems to be she'll fight if no one else can but will defer if there is.
- A-Cup Angst: Ibuki is cute and reasonably endowed for a girl between nine and ten years old. Unfortunately, she shares a classroom with Rei, who has a figure that could pass for a teenager if not an adult and Rei unsurprisingly puts Ibuki down by calling her flat-chested.
- Always Second Best: Ibuki was initially the second-best student in the class, and though her grades climb to match Rei's, who's a constant 100% student from the start of the year, mathematically she’ll never catch up. Inverted in that there is no sign she cares, and it is Rei who’s feeling all the angst and insecurity.
- Androids Are People, Too: Instinctively and strongly believes this. Wapro is her "friend" and even PC-ro is a "person". She seemed quite fine with PC-rō being the substitute teacher, too.
- Beneath the Mask: Ibuki starts the series off with a list of things she prefers others to not know, something she admits to in episode 11. Her Power Incontinence aside, she would prefer others not know about her athleticism, her cuter but less refined aspects, and most certainly not how she laughs. The first half of the series has her shedding these over time to reveal the true self for the second half.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Ibuki is generally a Nice Girl, but she can snap. She always has cause, but it still jars all when she does:
- See Super-Strong Child’s episode 10 (Agedama saw her panties), 36 (Agedama was hit by a baseball from a practicing baseball team) and 48 (Rei gets too close to Agedama).
- In episode 26, we learn she can take a tough side to Kodama.
- In episode 28, she starts by letting Rei’s insults on Agedaman slide but on continued provocation retaliates with a description of Onyomiko's bodily features and clothing choices and even swears. Ibuki was shocked at herself and Rei looked like she was sunk.
- In episode 30, she snaps at Rei and Agedama for interfering with her relative’s omiai.
- Break the Cutie: Rei often tries to do this exploiting her Onyomiko role. Ibuki has been targeted specifically by several monsters, brainwashed, abducted, and assaulted. Fortunately for all involved, especially Rei herself, Ibuki is a Plucky Girl who's tougher than she lets on and not only does not get traumatized but can focus on the positive of all this, including getting to meet with Agedaman every time Onyomiko and her monsters appear.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Inverted from Ibuki’s perspective, with no one ever expressing any desire for breasts. Instead, the list of people who want her include the Protagonist and closest friend, the son of the only other rich family in town, ramen customers, Rei's lackeys, and even Rei makes a Freudian Slip when she (as Onyomiko) admits she’s worthy of being used as fanservice. Somewhere along the way, A-Cup Angst disappeared without a trace.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Ibuki trips quite a bit, once over a small rise in the dirt road and a few more when escaping from monsters. She also makes some small mistakes occasionally. The prominence of such events helps mask her status as The Ace.
- Damsel in Distress: For much of the story, until she got superpowers of her own and became "Wonder Ibuki" shortly after she found out about Agedama's secret.
- Deliberately Cute Child: There are a number of times when Ibuki's cute look of earnest expectation persuades people to do things they otherwise would not. To Rei, however, this earnestness may well look manipulative, or maybe she's just annoyed that Ibuki dresses better than her.
- Deliberate Under-Performance:
- Episode 2: Ibuki claims she is “not good at marathon”. She forgets this halfway and ends up sixth. For more see the analysis.
- Episode 6: Ibuki outdoes Rei in jumping the tobibako (box vaulting). The shock and applause make it clear Ibuki usually puts in a more mundane performance.
- Episode 22: Fellow students comment that Ibuki's grades have climbed to being all-100s in the new semester. She hasn't noticeably increased her effort or started going to juku, yet her grades crawl up... Rei growls.
- Dude, Not Funny!: Ibuki bursts out laughing when thinking that Onyomiko is Rei and Agedaman is Agedama. It probably is a reaction to the mix of a lot of things starting to make sense, kicking herself for not seeing through the Paper-Thin Disguise, and reconciling memories of four entities into two, but in any case, neither Rei nor Agedama were amused.
- Faster Than They Look: Mostly due to her appearance, casual viewers probably think Ibuki runs at about a normal pace. But though the show plays it low-key, Ibuki is close to top human range in her running:
- Episode 2, when she was about one minute slower than Agedama, but she did it without apparent strain while Agedama did. For more see the analysis.
- Episode 12, 22, 32: Ibuki can always catch up with a running Agedama. Despite clearly putting in an effort, Agedama cannot catch up to Ibuki before she reaches her destination. Now try and remember Agedama is a space alien trained to be a superhero that tied with Hikari (future Olympic hope) in running.
- Episode 30 has her rushing out to cushion her relative's fall and being fast enough to make it, impressing Agedama.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Ibuki in her early episodes really does not want to stand out, both because she scared off a friend for good when she was young and to avoid unnecessarily provoking Rei's wrath. At the end of episode 5, she quietly drops this policy.
- Impractically Fancy Outfit: Ibuki's everyday wear (listed below) is a downplayed version of this - she seems comfortable and moves well in it. But considering its most formal use is for primary school and she keeps most of it on even at home, it is quite elegant note . She puts on everything even when she's late for school:
- It starts with the pink dress shirt with white collar and miniskirt, by themselves a step up in formality from what her classmates are wearing
◊. - For a 10-year-old going to primary school, even a clip-on tie would be fancy. Ibuki wears a real tie with fabric running into her collar◊ complete with narrow end◊. And the things on her collar are ... collar clips? Extra points for not taking any of this off, even in her room.
- The only options are the red shoes and cardigan, the latter coming off only in the hottest weather (its last appearance was in July of the in-universe year) or indoors (and not always).
- It starts with the pink dress shirt with white collar and miniskirt, by themselves a step up in formality from what her classmates are wearing
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: 1-oku yen (about US$1 million) cannot convince her to sell Wapro. She also nearly quit the Student Council presidential election because it became so corrupt. (Which made her much more popular, and after finding she had support she changed her mind.)
- Innocently Insensitive: In episode 38, when Rei got a 95 (breaking her all-100 streak) in a test and looked troubled, Ibuki tries to console her. Though Rei isn’t really brooding over the bad score, it is a sine qua non of her dilemma, and without knowing of Rei's Onyomiko alternate identity it’s as close as she could reasonably get. However, while Rei's pride would make it hard for her to accept consolation from anyone:
- Rei’s Inferiority Superiority Complex (which Ibuki is rather oblivious about) makes her perhaps the worst person to do the consoling.
- Usually in these talks, you use your own failures. Ibuki used Agedama's instead. Rei was likely thinking "Do you mean you don’t have any failures of your own, little miss perfect?" and Agedama wasn't impressed either.
- She also got the whole class to come out in support, which is bad in two ways. First, Rei’s “failure” had not only leaked but has become the center of the class’ attention. Second, having the class take her as the center and follow her lead spontaneously and without incentive is one of Rei’s dreams, and to see Ibuki accomplish it so easily must have really grated.
- The end result? Let's just say Onyomiko has sent monsters after her for less before.
- Jack of All Trades: Ibuki proves herself this in episode 28. She does have a team for her fan club, but they are Muggles, girls, and of limited dedication. So she ends up being the fan club's artist, buyer, negotiator, architect, construction worker, MC and agent - and pulls it all off. The only flea in the ointment is the "star" she is supporting giving out before she did.
- Kid Hero: Becomes this starting episode 49.
- Love Interest: Serves as Agedama's love interest, though she hilariously mostly has eyes for "Agedaman" not realizing that he and Agedama are the same person. She ends up having feelings for him, as well.
- Magic Feather: Ibuki isn't exactly a Muggle, but her preconceptions that she's a Normal Girl seem to hold her back - she was ineffective the only time she engaged a monster as a fully conscious decision while being effective during the few times when she acted more on instinct. As soon as she transforms, she exchanges the Damsel in Distress mentality with Kim Possible levels of confidence and desire to jump out of the cauldron and engage the Monster of the Week. Notwithstanding the fact she still has no idea how much amplification it gave her or what the monster's capabilities are.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Ibuki stops Agedaman from using the Monster of the Week's privacy-invading camera to photograph Onyomiko (which would likely have revealed her identity and ended the series) in episode 11 on deontological grounds. Next week, she was brainwashed by the next monster, and that was only the first of many attacks. note
- No-Sell: The world of Agedama basically does not have Resist or Dispel and anyone hit by the latest Mind-Altering Effect of the Monster of the Week is affected, even if it's Agedaman. However, in episode 24 Ibuki does resist one because her "laughing power" is 'infinite' and so cannot be sucked away by the monster.
- Out-of-Character Moment: After Rei gives out some harsh words towards the Agedaman Fan Club and their namesake hero, Ibuki retaliates with an absolutely scathing rant about Onyomiko and how much she sucks. Ibuki catches herself and instantly calms down, Rei is left struggling not to cry, and everyone else is left in complete shock.
- Power Incontinence: When playing Rock–Paper–Scissors, Ibuki starts to leak energy. It not only seems to ensure her win, but is very intimidating to her opponents, and can even escalate to having a physical effect. This has caused her to stop playing the game. She gains control after the events of episode 4. ** As an aside, since Monster of the Week effects reverse on destruction, Ibuki’s perception that her power was weakened is likely due to improved self-control (from being many years older), the lower stakes of the games she plays and that she vented the backlog from years of not playing on Tsuripan.
- Starter Equipment: The wireless mouse she received in episode 44. The most it can do is communicate (albeit over intergalactic distances), transform, and Flash Step. That's it. Compare that to Wapro's extensive abilities, which include self-duplication, enlargement/shrinking, analysis, flight, and of course the expansion cards. Considering she was being set up by the Genjis to clean up their son's unfinished job, it seems a bit ... cheap.
- Student Council President: The Student Council is not absurdly powerful in Morisoba Elementary School and seemingly only runs the school newspaper. Ibuki tries to fulfill its responsibilities, stopping hallway hooliganism and getting help for Rei when it looks like she’s getting bullied. It’s not surprising she was quietly re-elected in May.
- Superior Successor: Because the Kukis won't give up, Ibuki will eventually have to resume fighting when the goseimashin (monster-creating alchemy cauldron) gets recreated. Fortunately, at least she's brighter than Agedama, can deal with a reinforced goseijuu, and can use her energy without relying on a card. Maybe it's why the Genjis thought she could subsist on Starter Equipment.
- Women Prefer Strong Men:
- After Agedama acts like a wuss on the roller coaster (covering for Wapro), Ibuki tells him her disappointment. After an Accidental Kiss, she also mentions how she preferred to be kissed by something who's not all-talk, namely Agedaman. She was so touched when Agedama finally was able to demonstrate protecting her in episode 22.
- When Hikari was first introduced she would blush around him, and given his athletic prowess and handsome appearance, it was obvious that Ibuki had a crush on him. This is until she realizes he can't fight and she has to defend him. She continued to be friendly toward him, but she never blushed around him again.
- The Worf Effect: The goseijuu in episode 49 and E-hub in 50 were both given to her to quickly establish her credentials as a competent successor.
- Worthy Opponent: At first, Rei barely notices Ibuki. Even in episode 5, she targets Agedama (the one encouraging Ibuki to run for President) as the person to bribe. After Ibuki becomes President and beats her casually in a sport, the focus shifts to her, and Agedama becomes more of a prize to be won. Just watch the flow of Rei's crab fantasy in episode 6.
- As soon as she found out Ibuki took dance lessons, Rei immediately demanded a contest. Reasonably speaking, casually learning to dance once per week at a local school can't defeat Rei's training under pros, but it seems a regard for Ibuki mixed with her awareness of her limitations would not allow Rei the confidence to let this slide.
- Watch episode 34 very closely. Rei puts up her hand at the same time as Ibuki - she does not react to Ibuki's voice. If we accept Agedama's suspicion that she doesn't know the answers (and her defensiveness provides some, if inadequate, grounds for this), she trusts Ibuki so absolutely she can put her hand up blind, knowing hers will never be the only hand in the sky.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Gets told this by Agedama from time to time, the last time being in episode 22. She probably didn’t need it afterwards.
Kodama Heike
Voiced by: Satomi Koorogi (Episode 6), Ikue Otani (Episode 13 onwards)
Click here to see Agedaman No. 2
Ibuki's little brother who becomes an otaku obsessed with Agedaman. Though Ibuki may see him as an annoying troublemaker sometimes, they care about eachother a lot and are very protective towards one another. There aren't enough words that can describe how perfectly natural and healthy the relationship between Kodama and Ibuki is.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Ibuki does fob him off onto Agedama in episode 44 when he refuses to let go so she can finish her summer vacation homework.
- Bathtub Bonding: Although he is still a small child and a boy at that, he still only takes baths with his older sister.
- "Getting My Own Room" Plot: Wanted his own room in episode 20, so he could read manga without disturbing his studying sister.
- Kid Hero: He wants to be this, disguising himself as Agedaman No. 2.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: Tells Agedama and Hikari this in episode 17. The reason? She likes Agedaman, and he worships him.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: For a boy no older than six years old, he is very perceptive. He realizes his sister has feelings for Agedama (not only Agedaman), that Harada's title is merely for show, and when Uroncha is selling a scam. Oh, and he can make and use a map. note
Hotaru and Kanio Heike
Hotaru voiced by: Masako Miura
Kanio voiced by: Jun'ichi Sugawara
- Good Parents: As far as can be told, this pair gets things right. Ibuki and Kodama turned out very nicely, and they seem to get along well their parents. Hotaru also leads the parents’ protest against the school during the school reform arc (episodes 33-35).
- It seems that the Heikes improved their circumstances over time, having moved up into the present apartment. note
- No-Sell: Ibuki apparently inherited her laugh power from her mother.
- Salaryman: Heike Kanio is this. He may be luckier than the Japanese average though - at least he gets to return home at a decent hour every once in a while.
Yamabuki Heike
Voiced by: Sumi Shimamoto
- Age-Gap Romance: Agedama claimed to be worried about this when he hears of the arranged marriage.
- Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage: She was one of a long list of candidates that Mr. Harada brought for Raizo’s consideration.
- Identical Stranger: The reason for Raizo’s interest – she looks just like Kiku Kuki, his dead wife.
- Likes Older Men: Apparently an aftereffect of her dad’s early death.
- Perfectly Arranged Marriage: She seems to have volunteered to be one of the candidates, was perfectly happy to meet, and everything went so well when they finally had a chance to talk. Then Rei ruined everything.
- Wicked Stepmother: Rei thinks she’s worried Yamabuki is after her family’s assets. note In truth, odds favor her being a good step-grandmother, but she never got the chance, because of Rei’s Inferiority Superiority Complex.
The Kuki Family and Associates
Rei Kuki (Onyomiko)
Voiced by: Sakiko Tamagawa
I'm first and if you aren't first, you're insignificant. And don't you dare even parallel me!
The vain heiress of the Kuki Concern. Rei is an extremely selfish girl who uses the power of money to dominate all of those she believes are under her, which is pretty much everyone. She believes that the world revolves around her and goes along with her grandfather Raizo's goal of world domination without question. She has to be better than anyone else and sees Agedama and Ibuki as arch-enemies because if they're not one-upping her, they'll rarely ever submit to her and will often provoke her, intentionally or otherwise. She was once a pure-hearted person, but because her parents work abroad and live apart all year round, she developed a sense of isolation and loneliness in her heart.- The Ace: Discussed and subverted. Rei is considered the "queen" of Morisoba City. Her money aside, she has the best grades and has several accomplishments outside school. The subversion is that Rei, like Agedama, isn't much of an Ace, as she muddles through by working hard (offscreen) and having excellent tutors.
- Action Girl: Transforms into Onyomiko to lead the Monster of the Week into action. Also became a Monster of the Week twice. Later, she gains a transformation to become Hyperonyomiko.
- A Day in the Limelight: Rei as a whole hardly needs more screentime, but her hardworking side gets one afternoon of limelight in episode 39, where, for 10 minutes, we see her working hard just to earn money to buy a birthday present for her granddaddy, and being as decent and gracious a person as she ever will be. It's all that side will ever get, so enjoy it while it lasts.
- Alpha Bitch: She's a rich and condescending Prima Donna who will go out of her way to prove that she's better than anyone and everyone. But, as shown by the lack of support for the Onyomiko fan club, she subverts this trope in reality since she's not that popular outside of her family and the members of her in-school personal fan club.
- Attention Whore: This girl craves the public's undivided admiration and respect, and will instantly seek vengeance the moment she's ignored or shown up by someone else.
- Book Dumb: The story Zigzags this trope with Rei.
- She starts off as far away from this trope as can be imagined, having the best grades in class (episode 2) and getting five perfect scores in her juku tests (episode 11).
- The first hints come when she not only misinterprets the prophecy book with Raizo, but often has to bluff her way out of situations when she cannot make any sense of the prophecies. Still, Ditzy Genius is pretty common in anime...
- Then comes episode 31, where a hostage letter demonstrates Rei's weak basic writing abilities - not only can she not write the 預 in 預かった (taken into custody), she flubbed writing the hiragana. 預 is taught in grade 5, but it isn't that hard a glyph, Rei's supposed to be the top student, and Ibuki wrote the secondary-school glyph 渡 in her mail.
- While both do their studying offscreen, it's here we get a hint of the difference between Rei and Ibuki as top students. Ibuki gets her grades because she comprehensively understands the subject. Rei desperately goes to drill the test material into her brain, leaving her with little excess capacity for anything outside of it. Something to keep in mind when Rei hears about Ibuki's grades and turns into The Resenter.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory: Rei tries this a lot, particularly in episodes 5 and 28.
- Brought Down to Normal: No, not her combat strength, her class status. In the beginning, between her grandfather and her grades, she was the dominant Class Queen, to the point where even the teacher only asks her to forgive Agedama (because he "knows nothing") when Rei called for dire consequences after he bumped into her. She quickly started to lose status after Ibuki became the Student Council President. As early as episode 8, her teacher publicly spanks her, and in episode 18, the head of her lackeys starts acting on his own free will more frequently. By episode 33, she was quite pointedly in the periphery of the class, playing a Game Boy with her lackeys as if they were schoolyard delinquents.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Played with for Rei. Ibuki (and presumably other girls) admire her for her body including breasts. However, when it comes to boys, while she gains some admiration for her abilities, her breasts never seemed to give her an advantage. When she tried to press herself close to a young man, he was barely flustered…
- Character Development: Zigzagged - after Ibuki takes over as Student Council President, amidst temper tantrums and resistance Rei incrementally internalizes the new balance of power and her in-classroom behavior mellows.
- She even manages to not explode when Tsuripan favors fossil-hunting over her in episode 27 (compare that with episode 18's explosion).
- Around episodes 28-32 her in-class reactions approach that of an anime-typical Ojou.
- Just as the audience thinks she can at least stabilize there, when Raizo took over the principal's job she took advantage of the balance of power shift to revert to her old ways, proving the changes weren't intrinsic.
- Also, she never stopped sending monsters after her classmates.
- Clothes Make the Superman: Averted, as her outfit as Onyomiko is mostly just for sex appeal. While there is no depiction of her outfit as having any special powers, her high level of ability still allows her to fight on par or better than Agedaman.
- Crazy-Prepared: Twice.
- In episode 12, when challenged on whether she had brought a piece of cleaning cloth, her servants brought in a cart of them. note
- In episode 46, when lectured on the proper action to take in an earthquake, it turns out her seat was installed with a protective system that surrounds her in the event of a quake note .
- Crippling Overspecialization: Rei is very proud of her "man-to-man training" in "all forms of dance" by pros since childhood. It might have backfired on her though, as such instruction would not include dancing when other people share the stage, or working with a dance partner of a variable skill level. She suffers working in these scenarios (ref: The Klutz).
- Custom Uniform: In gym, she wears a specially made all red one-piece. Her skating suit is decorated with diamonds.
- Deuteragonist: Ibuki might be the heroine, but Rei is the undisputed holder of this. Not only does she have a huge amount of screentime, she has a backstory, the episodes often have her segments go first and the story definitely won't exist, even in a much-altered form, without her. Heck, without the title and OP, viewers may reasonably conclude she is The Protagonist.
- Easily Forgiven: Thanks to her Freudian Excuse, while her actions are criticized, all is forgiven by the next episode.
- The most egregious being the final arc. In episode 49, she sabotages Wapro despite them being temporarily on the same side. In episode 50, her parents were coming back. Immediately Ebiten and Okame are all sympathetic and telling her she should take comfort in her mother. Poor Wapro is still in self-repair mode, but who cares about him.
- Freudian Excuse: Her parents are constantly flying all over the world and have dumped her with her grandfather. And her grandfather is too eager to buy her favor and let her get her way to be an effective guardian. In essence, she is an Affluenzic of the Ethan Couch type before he was even born.
- Hyperspace Mallet: Has summoned "100t" weights, giant beverage cans and a rocket launcher
- Identity Amnesia: Suffers from this in episode 37.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Rei sometimes expresses a wish that her family was of more normal means, so her dad and mom would be with her.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Rei sometimes expresses a desire for real friends that aren't attracted to her for her money.
- Impractically Fancy Outfit: Surprisingly Inverted for the flashy Rei - while she has fancy wear like her figure-skating outfit, her everyday clothes are a simple & convenient pullover sailor-blouse, kerchief and tight skirt. Compare that with Ibuki's everyday outfit.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Started after Ibuki started showing her talents: she won the Student Council President election despite Rei's heavy use of bribes, demonstrated superiority at some sports, reduced her unipolar influence on the class, and started paralleling Rei's grades. She can even convince the class they want to do conventional schoolwork.
Rei reacts to all this by hurling verbal abuse at Ibuki, challenging her verbally and yet she cheats when the fight does come. When even that does not work, she sends monsters at Ibuki.- By episode 30 this complex has worsened to the point Rei thinks should Ibuki become even a distant step-something, Raizo and her servants' favor will switch to her.
- While she was still willing to demand Kensaku-sensei to give them a math rematch in episode 22, by 34 when she finally gets the chance through Granddaddy's "education reform initiatives" she escapes by bribing PC-rō.
- In episode 49, the prophecy predicts that a "superman" (chou-jin) would appear. Rei realizes it is Ibuki, but she just couldn't bring herself to use the word 超人 (superman), so she chose a very forced reading (町人) that meant "towns-person" (usually read as chou-nin). She gave up after Ibuki transformed...
- Informed Attribute: Rei is supposedly a hard worker. To keep her top grades, she has been trained in all the dances, goes to swimming lessons, goes to juku, etc., etc. ... offscreen. Onscreen, she mostly tries to get what she wants by bribery, threats and cheating.
- Informed Kindness: The show's strategy along with the Freudian Excuse to get viewers to accept the Karma Houdini ending.
- In episode 29, after accommodating Rei for a night, Agedama comments she wasn't that bad. The previous night, Rei actively tried to destroy his relationship with Ibuki and had otherwise been nothing but demands and trouble.
- In episode 47, Agedama decides to dance with Rei and comments on how she's "somehow unhateable". The closest to a nice thing Rei did for Agedama the previous forty-six episodes was to give him tickets to car-racing without too much of a fuss. Otherwise, she has again been nothing but trouble, tantrums and danger.
- In episode 51, Rei interrupts Agedama and Ibuki's final moment together, but then sheds one tear. On that basis, she is not only forgiven, but Agedama says she's really a "gentle" person. Just two episodes ago, Rei sabotaged Wapro and tried to have Agedama kill Ibuki. Not to mention now he knows Rei = Onyomiko, so all of those sins are added to the list.
- Kawaiiko: Invoked to get her part-time job in episode 39. While that was at least cute and for a good cause, her playacting a good, cute girl to draw concessions from her grandfather is more Burikko.
- Kick the Dog: With the dog usually being Ibuki. Sure, she fights with Agedama too, but Agedama does provoke a lot of the conflict. For the closest thing to a “provocation” Ibuki inflicts to Rei, review her Innocently Insensitive section. Plus, she’s a cute girl.
- The Klutz: Similarly to her Book Dumb, we eventually learn that Rei is less talented than at first glance:
- Ten-year-old kids might be impressed by her figure-skating. Adults will realize she lost control halfway and cannot avoid going over Tsuripan.
- She can't cook and Episode 29 reveals she cannot flip an egg into the pan despite dozens of attempts, suggesting subpar hand-eye coordination.
- She steps onto Agedama when they danced.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
- In episode 8, her sapping away their tatemae helped Agedama and Ibuki make up.
- Sabotaging Wapro in episode 49 was one of Rei's many Kick the Dog moments but also guaranteed the story from ending in a Downer Ending by creating the precondition for Ibuki's transformation.
- Out-of-Character Moment: Most of episodes 50 and 51, in-universe about a 24-hour period total. Though welcome changes, they are placed in so hurriedly and without precursors they qualify for this trope rather than Character Development:
- Ever since she started to notice Ibuki existed, Rei's attitude to Ibuki ranges from verbal venom escalating to brainwashing and throwing her into electric fences. Even counting favorable circumstances, episode 51 is quite a jump.
- Rei basically had 2 on-screen reactions to adversity, resorting to despicable means or escaping with a Rei, kaeru! (she then prepares despicable means). Even in episode 39, she only tried work after all the easy options were taken away. Her willingness to confront danger (difficulty) in episode 50 and 51 was thus quite a leap.
- Pet the Dog: Five of them through fifty-one episodes (the last two are more half-marks, but let's mark really generously).
- Episode 15: For once, she was willing to let Harada into her car.
- Episode 39: She treated The Men in Black, who usually subsist on ramen, to lunch at an expensive restaurant.
- Episode 44: She stops the Monster of the Week from sucking the love out of a mother-baby pair.
- Episode 50: Shows some kindness to The Men in Black.
- Episode 51: Consoles Ibuki.
- Psychological Projection: Rei tends to project the darker, more manipulative side of herself on other people. She considers it impossible to not have pretenses and further the pretense must cover ugly honest thoughts. She's reluctant to believe people genuinely care.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: The connection in this case, is her Super Gullible grandfather. She abuses it to threaten firings and expulsions when matters don't please her, and people tend to believe her.
- Young Than They Look: She has the figure of a teenager around 13 to 16 years old, but on top of being only in the fourth grade, she was also born on August 21st, making her over a month younger than Ibuki, who usually looks quite normal for her age.
Raizō Kuki
Voiced by: Junpei Takiguchi
Raizo the world conqueror and hassled granddad
A "kooky" old man who's hellbent on taking over the world. Also known as Nostradamus XI, he is the head of the Kuki Concern. In his youth, he was poor, but by using the prophecy book left by his ancestors he was able to pick the correct investments and turn himself into a man richer than Rockefeller. In his old age, he now lives with his granddaughter, even as his son and daughter-in-law are constantly on the move worldwide to manage his enterprises. Having too much free time on his hands, he seeks to conquer the world with monsters created from a goseimashin (synthesis machine - essentially an alchemy cauldron).- Affluent Ascetic: Despite the Big Fancy House, Raizo is relatively frugal considering his wealth. Justified due to his past as a destitute:
- Only three servants (Sato, Tanaka & Suzuki) are ever visible, shared between him and his grand-daughter. Even counting the possible presence of invisible cleaners and cooks, his retinue is clearly minimalistic.
- He never shed his liking for commoner food such as takoyaki (sweet fried egg) and ramen.
- His private jets (episodes 42 & 43) are set up like regional jets rather than the luxurious decor common to bizjets (Google for examples).
- Bad Boss: In episode 20, Raizo pushes his miniature house traps through Harada Fudousan, making them the Fall Guy even though it is completely unnecessary to his plan. note
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- When Rei had her tatemae (pretense) energy sucked in episode 8, she started suggesting genocide against all females so all men will flock to her. Raizo ordered the pretense energy to be restored immediately.
- He was shocked when Rei thanked him for his latest "education reform" initiative (absolutely no reading or writing for classes), believing it was to give her an academic leg up by stopping the rest of her class from studying properly. He doesn't abort his plan or make huge changes in his attitude to Rei, but the first time he completely overrode Rei's wishes, the first time he made her playact a Good Guy role, his attempt to teach her fiscal responsibility and another attempt to give her practice at being a ruler all postdate this event. When the last went south, he (for once) didn't believe Rei's excuses either.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: In his old age, he keeps misinterpreting the prophecy book and never realizes he would be much closer to his goal if he just sells his technology. The ditziness does help keep him somewhat sympathetic.
- Kick the Dog: He was in monster form because his prophecy book said it is the best way to reconcile with Rei. He still did not have to punch two little kids through a wall.
- Mad Scientist: One can quibble whether the goseimashin is more science or magic, but he fits the archetype, and there is no denying that his monsters have spectacular abilities, to include Time Travel, Mind Alteration and Miniature Houses. He also creates PC-rō, an Artificial Intelligence on par with Wapro (developed by a spacefaring civilization).
- Parental Substitute: For Rei.
- Pet the Dog: Considering the Kick the Dog and how much trouble he causes Agedama and Ibuki, it's nice to see him treating them to ramen.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite him qualifying for the Screw the Rules trope and being Super Gullible to anything his granddaughter says, to the city and even school, he may be this:
- He supports the city generously:
- The school the characters go to is his, as is at least one of the city's libraries.
- For a small town like Morisoba City, the amusement park (episode 8) looks suspiciously nice...
- When the monsters cause property damage it is repaired extremely quickly (including a completely destroyed ice rink facility). When he said the first 16 monsters cost him the equivalent of US$100 million, it might have included repair fees inflated for rush work.
- Despite his failure to understand modern pedagogy or teacher-student relations, he has valid cause to take over the principal's job in episodes 33-35 - Principal was so incompetent he can't even do Potemkin Village properly. Further, while his prophecy book encourages him to give up reform, it doesn't direct him to give up his job as Principal, yet he returns it without fanfare by episode 37. He may well have been observing everything, and after cooling down realized that his presence was doing more harm than good.
- In episode 46, we learn that the town's officials are bureaucratic and slothful of responsibility. Raizo may have acted (and been welcomed) as an arbitrator to get things moving.
- In episode 50, he had a point - there was a threat to the town.
- Despite all the threats, exactly zero people were fired or expelled throughout the whole series.
- He supports the city generously:
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: In episode 1, he openly states that no official in Morisoba City can oppose him because of his wealth. Fortunately, beyond the city it seems to have little or no effect because people don't know him.
To be fair he doesn't really flaunt this power for his own purposes. Even for Rei, he only uses it for trivial things - trying to make her the Student Council President of a Primary School (powerless, really), helping her convince the principal to approve an activity or to win a game show.
The main influence in show seems to be to stop all official investigation of his monsters and the effects they cause. - Super Gullible: When Rei whines about the "injustices" she faced at school, he takes it in unquestioningly.
- Tritagonist: Without him, there would be no story. He also gets a substantial amount of scenes and focus.
Kuki Concern Butlers
Satou voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa
Tanaka voiced by: Wataru Takagi
Suzuki voiced by: Tetsuya Iwanaga
- Big Fancy House: For someone who complains about having to subsist on ramen and suffers from constant pay cuts, Tanaka's house (shown in episode 45) looks quite nice. Justified because he married into a presumably more well-off family.
- Gentle Giant: Not only is Tanaka is the tallest of the three, but he has an honest and clean personality. Even though he complains the least when he becomes a synthetic beast and sometimes volunteers out of desperation, he's only doing all of this for his wife and child daughter.
- The Men in Black: The clothes they wear of course, and the trope is played straight in that their anonymity is maintained. No one seems to realize that the Satou, Tanaka and Suzuki that follow Onyomiko are the same as those who show up in class to serve Rei.
- People in Rubber Suits: They rotate to provide the "driver" for most of the monsters.
- Theme Naming: The most popular surnames in Japan.
- Undying Loyalty: Despite crappy pay and poor treatment, they are willing to stick with the Kukis even when they fall on hard times.
PC-rō
Voiced by: Kōzō Shioya
- Achilles' Heel: The Hyperonyomiko transformation boosts Rei's strength greatly, to the point she can toss Agedaman like a ball. Unfortunately, if Rei can just about tolerate the brief flash of nudity (no smoke, no light, no obscuration whatsoever) during the transformation, its final appearance was too much.
- A God Am I: Develops a superiority complex towards humans in episode 34.
- Computers Are Fast: Exploits this against Kensaku-sensei. PC-rō confuses this with Robots Are Just Better.
- Dirty Old Man: PC-rō has the personality of an obsequious, middle-aged man and really enjoys the Hyperonyomiko transformation.
- The Dragon: After the three men in black try to make him their servant, Raizo intervenes and promotes PC-rō to lord over them. His independence also makes him a useful check and balance on Rei.
- Ironic Name: A personal computer is supposed to be more flexible than a word processor, but PC-rō is significantly less versatile than Wapro who in addition to the transformation can analyze, can take several forms and has miscellaneous other useful functions. To be fair, he is more devious.
- Just a Machine: Gets accused of this when he cannot understand Onyomiko's Pet the Dog moment in episode 44.
- No Honor Among Thieves: Defects to the Greater-Scope Villain.
- Past-Life Memories: He has memories of Rei from when he was being carried around as her panda doll. Unfortunately, not all of those memories were flattering to Rei.
- People in Rubber Suits: Became a monster twice, in episodes 39 and 48.
- Robots Think Faster: Averted, other than math PC-rō thinks at roughly a normal human speed.
- "Second Law" My Ass!: He started disobeying Rei soon after he was activated. Rei soon "fires" him by turning off his power.
- Stern Teacher: Given a chance to be a substitute teacher, he starts off as this. He soon becomes Sadist Teacher.
The Harada family
Katsuo “Tsuripan” Harada
Voiced by: Bin Shimada
"Tsuripan" (center) performing his duties to Rei
The overweight chief of Rei’s Instant Fan Club.- A Day in the Limelight: Episode 20 was dedicated to him and his father.
- The Bully: When he’s not serving Rei, he engages in minor hallway hooliganism with the other lackeys. Sometimes gets confronted by Ibuki.
- For a more serious example, there's episode 16, when exploiting Agedama's inability to skate, Tsuripan and the other lackeys fling him around the skating ring until he lands on his face. The damage wasn't completely comedic, with him in a bandaged state by the time he returned home (he healed the following morning, though). It has to be mentioned that this time, Agedama did not even pick a fight with Rei, making this purely a case of pecking the weak. note
- Everyone Has Standards: When Rei decides to start an Onyomiko fan club, he feels uneasy about the idea and quickly points out that they would be supporting a villain.
- Fat Bastard: He initially serves as this to Rei's Alpha Bitch.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He starts to mellow out starting in episode 20, where it's shown that, unlike his boss, he can differentiate between schoolyard scuffles and Serious Business.
- Kick the Dog: A betting game involving two boys clothes-stripping down to their tighty-whities is just about acceptable. To continue the game with a girl exceeds the normal boundaries. Even though the viewer understands Tsuripan is in a difficult position, his thought of looking forward to seeing Ibuki stripped drained all sympathy from the audience.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Ibuki is afraid to play Rock–Paper–Scissors for fear of losing friends, and given what happens when she does it’s a justified fear. Fortunately, Tsuripan and Rei had been such bullies the relevant episode no one cared anymore that he had been ki-blasted into a wall.
- After the above, Tsuripan continues to treat Ibuki normally, butting heads with her even when Rei's not around to see it. Considering Ibuki's anxieties, had Tsuripan acted really scared or deferential after the incident, she might have been hurt.
- Muggle: Though he is the fourth most important kid in the series, he is remarkably ordinary other than his bulk. His grades are a smidgen better than Agedama, his athletics are normal, and he has fewer Super Strength gag scenes (zero) than Furusawa, the female classmate who sits in front of Agedama (one).
- Non-Indicative Name: Or more specifically his title, being his family company’s 専務 (senmu, think Director). In reality, as a kid his duties are limited to answering phones and bringing tea to patrons, and while Ibuki looked impressed at his title, Kodama shot it down for what it is.
- Subverted in the same episode when he convinces his dad to put his loyalty to the Kukis second and to revisit the site where the Heikes disappeared. Given the flow of events, this Executive Decision may well have saved his company from ruin. note
- Not with Them for the Money: He claims he is Rei’s lackey because he really likes her, not just to kiss her butt to gain benefits for his family. note He hangs with her during the hard times, but it seems the rest of the lackeys were Only in It for the Money.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Rei, Agedama and even the credits call him Tsuripan (suspenders). Well, at least Ibuki must have remembered his full real name, because her dad knows it too.
- The Tell:
- Tsuripan might be Rei’s man, but the recent change of the classroom to a less Rei-centric environment has made him lower his guard, and he proudly showed off his sumo signatures. The significance did not escape Rei.
- It seems he also can’t ignore a cute girl who can remember his name, who while not blind to his wrongs will defend him when he is in the right, impute the best interpretation to him, and who likely saved his family’s company from ruin after they were embroiled in one of the Kukis' schemes. Anyway, when Rei and Ibuki had a spat in episode 30, he steps in-between them to mediate … facing Rei. It was subconscious, but Rei, uh, "noticed".
- Truth Serum: Ultimately subverted. Tsuripan had his tatemae (pretense) energy sucked away in episode 8, after which he expressed that he would never have voluntarily worked for Rei. The subversion comes later when he will be shown to have real loyalty and a genuine crush on Rei - it seems that the spoken honne (real feelings) does not represent the whole person. note
Yoshio Harada
Voiced by: Yuu Shimaka
"Why do you think I kowtow to the Kukis?"
The father of Tsuripan and the owner of Harada Fudousan.- Fall Guy: He was willing for his company to become this, rather than making “trouble” for Kuki Concern.
- Family Man: His loyalties are definitely to his family. For them, he can throw away his pride and kowtow to the Kuki Concern.
- Undying Loyalty: Unlike some others that work for the Kukis, there is some real loyalty between him and Raizo. While some, like the Principal, wants to see as little of him as possible, Yoshio actively does him favors.
- Unwitting Pawn: He and his company became an unwitting pawn to the Kukis latest plan in episode 20.
Morisoba City Residents
Kensaku Morikawa
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa
- Comedic Spanking: Of the humorous comeuppance for the Alpha Bitch type when he spanks Rei in episode 8.
- Hippie Teacher: When Raizo made a crash inspection of his class, he seemed to have gotten this impression. To be fair, the students do call him by his first name.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He's too goofy to qualify for Cool Teacher, but he certainly is this. He knows when to cut a student's occasional mistake some slack and when to take a harder line. He can see where a student might do better with some encouragement and gives it note . He does try to stand up for his students, tries to teach them the right thing to do and even attempts progressive education techniques.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Tells Rei this before spanking her.
- Villain Respect: Gets this from Rei to some extent - one way or another, she avoids a full-on direct confrontation with him.
Hitomi Kirara
Voiced by: Wakana Yamazaki
"I thought one-pieces are conservative, but it seems I was wrong."
The music teacher for Morisoba East Primary School. Like her compatriot, she mostly goes by her first name (Hitomi-sensei) exclusively.- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Demonstrates this trait after the shy Kensaku-sensei was brainwashed into become a rough badass.
- Straw Feminist: In episode 21, she joins with the brainwashed middle-aged female teachers to force all boys to take only Home Economics. It is never brought up again.
- Love Interest: For Kensaku-sensei. They are only taking baby-steps, but it is mutual.
- Only Sane Woman: With the principal and head teacher being useless sycophants, and Kensaku-sensei occasionally falling prey to a Hotblood mania, she may be the most level-headed teacher in the school.
- Sensei-chan: Predating the seven shown on the trope page, she is a Hot Teacher, the students (primary school at that) are perhaps too familiar with her, and she displays naïve aspects like not realizing the power of a one-piece paired with her body.
Hikari Yumenokouji
Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi
He's essentially Morisoba City's Mr. Perfect. Or is he?
A Pretty Boy with good manners, excellent grades, and awesome skills in several sports. He's notable for being the young heir to the Yumenokouji family. First appearing as a rival to Agedama for Ibuki's heart, he's revealed to be very condescending towards him, but they at least proved that they worked well together in manzai comedy acts.- Achilles' Heel: He is rich, handsome, a sportsman, supposed to have excellent grades, and is a gentleman. But he can’t fight, dodge, or even take a single punch.
- Arranged Marriage: Both his father and Raizo tried to pair him up with Rei. Hikari can't even remember who she is and refuses even when she is the only option.
- Badass Normal: He is supposed to be potential Olympic material, and can long jump 7m. He has tied with Agedaman in the 400m sprint and even out accelerated him on the first stretch.
- Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Turned out he likes manzai, and teamed up with Agedama in episode 24.
- Chick Magnet: He’s not only popular with the girls his age, but also the housewives (who want their kids to be more like Hikari).
- Custom Uniform: Wears a special blue uniform when running.
- Distressed Dude: He has the unfortunate experience of getting kidnapped in the middle of the night and becoming a synthetic beast, Brahamman.
- In-Series Nickname: Called the "Blue Meteor" for his Custom Uniform and track talent.
- Love Interest: Well, Ibuki was attracted enough to blush when seeing him … for about half an episode … then it turns out Women Prefer Strong Men.
- People in Rubber Suits: Was abducted to become part of a Monster of the Week once in episode 28.
- Privileged Rival: To Agedama for Ibuki’s affection. He’s rich, Agedama’s plainly a plebian.
- Slobs Versus Snobs: The slob is obviously Agedama. As for the snob, let’s just say Hikari’s gentlemanly veneer dissolves rapidly when talking with the former.
The Principal
Voiced by: Jun'ichi Sugawara
Read the air. I have a lord to please.
The principal of Morisoba East Primary School.- Adults Are Useless: Even the kids recognize this note . He can't even warn his school when Raizo shows up.
- Pose of Supplication: Has to do this to the Kukis.
- Sycophantic Servant: Is this to the Kukis. It's not real loyalty, as Raizo finds out in episode 37.
The Head Teacher
Voiced by: Katsumi Suzuki
At least he can lord it over the other teachers.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin, he barely has any presence in the show.- Family Man: When he protests about the exhortation to just let Rei take first in the marathon, the principal reminds him of his kids.
Master of Ganko-tei
Voiced by: Masahiro Anzai
The Master executing his Noodle Attack.
Ganko-tei is the name of the only known ramen shop in town. It usually doesn't have that many customers, but serves as Kensaku-sensei's favorite place for lunch, and is the only food shop the cast (other than Rei) visit.- Cool, but Stupid: The "Noodle Entangling Attack" is hyped until the enemy just chews through the binding noodles. Eventually, the noodles were improved so they could not be chewed through, but now they cannot be eaten.
- Day in the Limelight: Episode 25 is dedicated to that shop and its ramen.
Furusawa
Voiced by: Akiko Yajima
Also available in blue (see episode 1), Furusawa's not very nice to boys.
The only named (no first name though) classmate outside of the main characters, she is a fan of Agedaman. Only has lines in episode 28, but she does send fanmail later and she is present in earlier episodes.- Does Not Like Men: While she idolizes Agedaman, she has a minor case of this, or at least she thinks male and female activities should be segregated.
- She blocks Agedama from seeing what Ibuki was making, then displays clear dis-satisfaction when Ibuki shows him the completed poster, even though everyone in class must realize the two are close.
- When Uroncha tried to join, she threw him out.
- To her credit, when Ibuki responded to Uroncha's hint by suggesting that they let boys into the fanclub too, she didn't put up further resistance and even admitted Uroncha said something sensible.
- Fair-Weather Friend: Or fan. She was infatuated with Agedaman enough to faint on seeing him, but then switched to Brandman since he looked cooler and had brand goods. note After Brandman was gone, she went back to Agedaman.
- Limited Wardrobe: Incredibly, she has two outfits between the first cour and the second. Sure, it's a Palette Swap from blue to pink, but it's still more than Agedama and Rei with one everyday outfit and Ibuki with about one-and-a-half.
- Huge Schoolgirl: She is about as tall as Rei, and much broader.
- Super-Strong Child: Given the context it's almost certainly as metamorphical as the Hyperspace Mallet, but if one counts it at face value she hurled Uroncha far enough it's easily the greatest feat of brute strength in the show.
