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Yukito Urabe
Voiced by: Jun'ya Enoki (Japanese), Austin Tindle (English)
The protagonist of the series. The heir of a dubious cult, Yukito is tossed into the sea as part of a ritual and seemingly gets revived in another world only to realize that it was Earth thousands of years in the future.- Above the Influence: After training by his father, Yukito has no real interest in sex, and thus is able to resist the attempts by Alural to seduce him, and resist the lust magic of Dakini.
- Badass Normal: He's just a guy with no "cheat powers" who must rely on Mitama's healing abilities to take on the supernatural soldiers and archons from the Imperial City. Every so often there are glimpses of how he was trained by his father's martial arts cult, and his absurdly strong sister Chiyomaru claims he should be stronger than even herself.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Becoming Mitama's sacrifice made Yukito wish to be in a world without religion. The one he ended up in is a dysopia with every terrible thing he hated about his family's cult (blind obedience to an authority that sacrifices individuals for the group) and lacks religion because people are barely capable of creative thought.
- Became Their Own Antithesis: Yukito starts his adventure filled with hatred towards religion thanks to his upbringing, but ends up becoming a cult leader like his despised father to help survive in the new world he finds himself in.
- Benevolent Boss: For all the tricks he pulls on his friends and would-be allies, Yukito does care for them and never treats them as expendable.
- Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: Yukito very much believes himself Surrounded by Idiots, to the point of having a lengthy Imagine Spot of useless, annoying caricatures of them all. And yet practically everything he does is to keep them safe and happy.
- Celibate Hero: As a result of training from his father, he has no interest in sex or romance.
- The Chessmaster: Yukito doesn't just come up with plans with multiple moving parts, a regular fixture of them is to omit or lie about his own friends' part in them.
- Closet Geek: He denies his familiarity with the isekai genre to Mitama, acting as if they speak to a form of escapism even he wasn't desperate enough for. Despite this, he's clearly disappointed when the new world he finds himself in turns out not to be an Adventure-Friendly World with RPG mechanics where a typical isekai series would be set.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: He behaves like an abusive film director when teaching Riche acting skills. She pays him back for it in a big way when Yukito must pretend to be her sexual thrall.Where I come from, throwing ash trays at shitty actors is an acceptable way to get them to show real fear in their performance!
- Everyone Has Standards: As underhanded as Yukito's tactics get, there are a few he's refused:
- He refuses to establish any kind of hierarchy among followers, fearing he would spoil the home he'd come to love.
- Yukito convinces Dakini to lure Gaia's children away because they're being exploited, bringing up how his own father used him. After Dakini walks away, Yukito laughs to himself that it was just to weaken Gaia... then realizes he's actually crying.
- He lets Summanus open a shop featuring dirty comics that liberally use everyone in the village as characters, since they function as holy scriptures that boost Atar and Mitama's powers. While he's apathetic about any moral issues regarding this, he outright vomits when Summanus threatens to publish a book shipping him with Mitama if he kills her sister Jupiter who is being used as a Living Battery by the Empire. Yukito then promises to not harm Jupiter, and for a moment he appears genuinely happy to see Summanus beaming with gratitude to him.
- Evil Laugh: Indulges in this (at least in his mind) whenever something goes just as planned. Often accompanied by a Slasher Smile.
- Gag Penis: Implied in episode 5 with himself naked with only a leaf to wear as underwear stopping him from Male Frontal Nudity, with said leaf goes down to about his mid-thigh. Even before this, it was also implied in episode 2 and 4 that he was well-endowed with the large amounts of Censor Steam in the former and the noticeable deep V pouch in his swim trunks for the latter.
- Good Is Not Soft: Yukito doesn't take any chances around the superpowered Archons, though he never gets to go through with his more cruel impulses and is fine with the conflicts with them ending peacefully. He stabs an illusion of Loki on reflex when she sneaks behind him, threatens to smash Gaia's head with a rock when they first meet and initially plots to have Jupiter assassinated while she's still trapped and unconscious as a power source for the Empire.
- Guile Hero: Like any effective cult leader, Yukito gets by on persuasion and social engineering.
- Jerkass to One:
- Mitama is the only ally Yukito is openly mean to. He is very dismissive toward her desire for him to be her follower and most of the apparent acts of kindness he'll retract as soon as he gets what he wanted from Mitama. Yukito seems to barely tolerate the girl because she's the ambulant reminder of his childhood trauma of being forced to participate in an abusive cult for a long time, to the point of being sacrificed to her.
- When you account for Yukito's less honest behavior, he's arguably even worse to Bertrand, possibly because she tried to abandon the group. Most of the others he focuses on giving things they like, but Yukito uses a combination of emotional abuse and conditional reassurance to make Bertrand think she's worthless unless she follows his orders to make herself useful.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's dismissive towards Mitama, ruthless towards the Archons if they present any threat to him and often acts cold and manipulative to everyone but does care for protecting his friends.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: His melancholy attitude is the exact opposite of his father's manic boisterousness. Even their leadership methods are opposite, as Yukito favors more conventional cult recruitment tactics, whereas Soichiro assimilates rival groups by force.
- Manipulative Bastard: He has no qualms about manipulating people into joining his religion to make Mitama even more powerful.
- Minored in Ass-Kicking: He can fight, but since his major enemies are impossible for human strength to overcome, Yukito mostly focuses on growing Mitama's power.
- Mistaken for Pedophile: Every time Yukito treats either Mitama or Atar nicely, Alural is nearby to think of him as a pedophile because of him ignoring her romantic feelings for him. He's not above taking advantage of Summanus publishing what are implied to be dirty comics about Atar and Mitama to boost their faith powers, though, much to Atar's chagrin as she destroys the whole stock behind Summanus' back.
- Mr. Fanservice: Has a few shirtless scenes with Alural going ga-ga over him.
- Naytheist: Yukito refuses to become Mitama's followers despite leading her cult and trying to get her more followers. Part of this is because he only wants to use his family's cult for his own ends without believing in it. The other is that knowing Mitama well doesn't inspire respect in her.
- One-Man Industrial Revolution: Downplayed; Yukito makes it a big draw to give his followers modern conveniences like electricity and running water, but this is mostly thanks to Mitama's power. Though Yukito manages to make some of these thing self-sustaining without Mitama, the only technology he fully introduces on his own is fermenting alcohol.
- Stringing the Hopeless Suitor Along: Yukito encourages Bertrand to be emotionally dependent on him because it lets him better control her. He's aware she eventually fell in love with him, which may or may not have been his intention. Either way, Yukito shows no signs of returning Bertrand's affection.
- Took a Level in Cynic: After initially being disappointed in his new home's mundanity, Yukito realizes it's still a step up from his old life, giving him friends he can be happy and honest with. Once he learns Mitama needs followers to keep them safe, Yukito is forced to adopt the mindset of the cult he'd hoped he had abandoned.
- Unscrupulous Hero: Yukito acts cold, duplicitous, and power-hungry, but all in the name of protecting his friends and home from a world they're unwelcome in.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: After first arriving in what appears to be a Medieval European Fantasy world, Yukito keeps expecting it to be an Adventure-Friendly World that runs on video game mechanics, where he can learn magic and make a living from fighting monsters. Instead, he has to accept the village he came to has none of those things, just arduous labor. Furthermore, when Mitama does provide a source of magical power (that technically comes from his world), he finds using it requires the cult-leading skills he didn't want or expect to use.
Mitama
Voiced by: Akari Kitou (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft (English)
The goddess of the cult Yukito's father believed in.- Butt-Monkey: She's often dismissed as if she's some kind of mascot and her powers are squeezed dry anytime Yukito needs new tech introduced to their town, leaving her a withered husk.
- A Child Shall Lead Them: Mitama looks like a child of somewhere around 8 years old, give or take a couple of years.
- Color Failure: She turns white as a sheet whenever her power is drained.
- Dishing Out Dirt: She specializes in building constructs out of earth to fight.
- Earthy Barefoot Character: Mitama's powers are related to the earth and her godly outfit completely omits any form of footwear to represent her direct connection to the soil.
- God Is Flawed: Mitama tries to be benevolent and protective to her followers, but she's petty, egotistical, impatient, and lacks some basics understanding of their wants.
- Gods Need Prayer Badly: The more followers she has, the more powerful she becomes. Conversely, with few followers, she's deathly pale and powerless.
- Green Thumb: Besides controlling earth itself, Mitama's power also include growing and manipulating tree branches.
- Guardian Entity: Mitama considers it her duty as goddess to protect all her followers.
- Idiot Hair: She has a very prominent cowlick on top of her head.
- Immortal Immaturity: She is a goddess and has all the powers that comes with the title when she has a sufficient amount of followers. However, she has the appearance and immaturity of a young child, and she often has to rely on Yukito to gather followers for her due to her lack of charisma and foresight.
- Innocently Insensitive: Part of her childish personality is casually misunderstanding or dismissing other people's needs and desire. She's proud of achieving the exact letter of Yukito's initial wish despite all the trouble she's caused, openly says turning Bertrand into a woman is an improvement because her new body is hot, and her advice for inspiring loyalty in her followers is to convince them they're worthless without her.
- Kids Are Cruel: As a child-like deity, Mitama is comically murderous about the Archons and often calls for Yukito to kill them when they're found in a vulnerable state or defeated.
- Literal Genie: While Yukito was being killed by his family's cult, he wished to be reborn in a world without religion. Rather than focusing on his desire for a better life, Mitama fulfills the exact request, even though the world she brings him to sacrifices its people just as callously.
- Magical Barefooter: Mitama never wears shoes, reflecting both her childish nature and earth-based magic.
- No-Respect Guy: Despite sending Yukito into the world he wanted and saving his life at the end of the first episode, Yukito refuses to be her follower. Even after she gets her own devotees, she always has a few thousand less followers than Atar and is thought of as a mascot. Worse, Yukito runs a poll about it later and even he is bothered to find the townsfolk think of Mitama as a pet.
- The Not-Love Interest: Mitama is arguably the most-prominent female character and can be quite a Clingy Jealous Girl in trying to keep Yukito's attention and make him her follower. Despite that, she is not a literal romantic interest, seeing him and other followers more likely family.
- Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: Even after accruing thousands of other followers, Mitama incessantly pesters Yukito to become one of them, and he can even use the promise of such as a Motivational Lie to drive her forward.
Followers
Alural
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (Japanese), Bryn Apprill (English)
- Ambiguously Related: It's eventually shown almost all children in the empire are conceived artificially and then assigned to parents. This, along with the lack of resemblance, raising the question if Alural and Siluril are related biologically or through adoption.
- All Women Are Lustful: She was most likely sent to the isolation village because of her interest in sex. After becoming smitten with Yukito, Alura tries to get into bed with him.
- Attempted Rape: She tries to assault Yukito while under Dakini's lust spell twice, and later gets so desperate for affection that Gaia convinces her to just rape Yukito that night. Alural forces herself on Yukito with a comically monstrous expression, kicks an asleep Mitama off the bed and... the man retains such self-control over his nether regions that no intercourse happens and she just leaves in frustration."Yu ki to-saaan... Gaia told me... that if I did this, then I could become the heroine... I am less than nothiiing!!"
- Ass Shove: Alural incapacitates one of Dakini's minions by shoving a dildo up his ass. She later does it to poor and underserving Bertrand too, marking it as her signature move of sorts.
- Betty and Veronica: She becomes the Betty to Bertrand's Veronica, a a kindhearted Girl Next Door. That said, Alural's wild lust really makes Bertrand's behavior seem normal.
- Curtains Match the Window: She has pink hair and dark pink eyes.
- D-Cup Distress: When Mitama claims that Yukito preferred smaller breasts, Alura places her chest on the chopping block and demands for someone lend her an ax.
- Drives Like Crazy: Barges in on the escape from Gaia by running over part of Typhon in a truck, and then going as fast as possible to help Yukito and Mitama escape from the giant creature.
- Idiot Hair: A large circular one, implying a halo, to represent her innocent, if lustful, attitude.
- Ms. Fanservice: She has a large, ample bosom and is often placed into compromising positions by her sister.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She has pink hair and is a pretty nice person, lust for Yukito non-withstanding.
- Sympathy for the Devil: Although imperial soldiers (temporarily) killed Alural and her friends, she thinks they're still victims of the empire. She asks Mitama to resurrect them as well in hopes that they'll join the village (Bertrand heading back alone suggests they did, then she herself ends up joining).
Siluril
Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka (Japanese), Lindsay Seidel (English)
- Ambiguously Related: It's eventually shown almost all children in the empire are conceived artificially and then assigned to parents. This, along with the lack of resemblance, raising the question if Alural and Siluril are related biologically or through adoption.
- Cool Big Sis: Siluril is very supportive and protective of her younger sister—when she isn't using her for advertising.
- Curtains Match the Window: Similarly to her sister, she has orange hair and dark orange eyes.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She is very enthusiastic about Yukito allowing them easy access to alcohol and manages to outdrink everyone else in the village.
- Incest Subtext: The way Sil fawns over her younger sister's looks gets a little eyebrow-raising. Most prominently, she brags about how great Alural would look almost-naked and drenched in wine.
- Only Sane Woman: Siluril is only one sent to her isolation camp that isn't an obvious sexual deviant. Possibly she was just sent because she cares about her libidinous sister.
- Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: Siluril will make dirty jokes and use sex appeal for her business, but is otherwise very averse to even talking about sex—which Yukito observes is the more "normal" attitude in this setting. Siluril doesn't just turn down the mission to infiltrate Dakini's sex cult, she refuses even the basic sexual education class Yukito provided in preparation.
- Pervert Revenge Mode: Siluril's punishment for Roy and other men's perversions around her are swift and brutal, often involving stringing him up naked or breaking objects on his head.
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Like Alural and Bertrand, Siluril gets flustered and uncomfortable whenever she ends up in revealing outfits for some reason or another. However, there is Hypocritical Humor in her case as she avoids getting put into embarrassing situations but tosses Alural into them whenever possible just to show pretty she is.
- Shipper on Deck: Favors Yukito and her sister and often tries to set them up.
Roy
Voiced by: Sho Fujisawa (Japanese), Travis Mullenix (English)
- All Men Are Perverts: He is a total pervert and usually thinks with his dick.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Ends up becoming Dakini’s minion after being “convinced” by her that he can get love with his right hand.
- Bromantic Foil: He's Yukito closest male friend and his foil, being dumb and perverted, and is often subjected to Butt-Monkey humor in order to make Yukito look smarter and cooler. His perverted nature also contrasts with Yukito's status as a Celibate Hero.
- Casanova Wannabe: Roy's sexual desires are so hopeless, even Dakini thinks his best option is to get good at pleasuring himself.
- Comedic Lolicon: He's obsessed with Mitama, who looks like a child despite being a goddess. While everyone else is repulsed by his fixation on Mitama, it's still largely played for humor.
- Karmic Butt-Monkey: He's a comic relief character who often gets hurt or put in terrible situations due to his own perverted nature.
- Love at First Sight: He falls wildly in lust with Mitama the second he sees her.
- Mr. Fanservice: Roy has two shirtless scenes alongside Yukito Urabe that shows he is just as much of a muscular Hunk as him. The first instance occurs in the first episode with him drinking at a bar while shirtless with some equally hot guys. The second instance happens in the fourth episode, which has him only in his pinkish-purple swim trunks enjoying a large kiddie pool.
- Too Kinky to Torture: He enjoys being beaten up or insulted by girls.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Roy is introduced as a fairly affable guy and his perverted tendencies are relatively mild. As soon as he met Mitama, he made a habit of tactless, loud displays of his sexual desire toward her. The first time he did so, Siluril disgustedly clarifies that Roy did not used to act anyway near that badly.
Bertrand
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Male voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe (Japanese) and Bradley Gareth (English)
Female voiced by: Miyu Tomita (Japanese) and Corey Pettit (English)
A soldier from the Imperial City who executes Alural, Siluril and even Yukito in the beginning only to fall into disgrace after being killed and resurrected as a woman by Mitama.Female voiced by: Miyu Tomita (Japanese) and Corey Pettit (English)
- 24-Hour Armor: While the anime puts Bertrand in many silly outfits (even during one fight), it oddly also has plenty of scenes where she wears her combat attire and carries her sword while at rest. This is contrast to the manga, where Bertrand is unarmed and wears a dress if she's not expecting a fight.
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: What gender Bertrand considers herself after resurrection isn't very clear, and it seems like something she doesn't want to dwell on. She doesn't like her female body nor being forced to do feminine things, but only once calls herself a woman or man once each (the former when trying to appeal to Yukio under Dakini's spell, the latter to put off a rowdy crowd of men leering at her skimpy outfit).
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Assuming Yukito would use his position as her leader for Sexual Extortion, Bertrand gives a token complaint before excitedly leaving herself open. Then she ends up hitting him... because he took her sword. It's even more ridiculous in the anime, where what's implied to be Bertrand's imagination show her with insanely oversized breasts and Yukito an exaggerated "handsome" face.
- Attractive Bent-Gender: Bertrand wasn't bad looking as a man, but everyone agrees she is beautiful as a woman.
- Betty and Veronica: She's the Veronica to Alural's Betty, having a much more unusual history as an enemy-turned-friend (and also a man-turned-woman). However, Bertrand's actual personality and attraction to Yukito is much more down-to-Earth.
- Black Knight: Played for Laughs; Bertrand tries to defend the Empire again and turns against Yukito's group while wearing dark armor... but the knight jumps off a high wall, collapses from the injuries and gets miserably carried back by the heroes like nothing happened.
- Blind Obedience: Bertrand obeyed the empire's rules without question, explaining the emperor essentially fills the role of god and his academy explain every natural phenomenon. Being kicked from the empire shatters Bertrand's obedience... and Yukito manages to redirect it to himself.
- Boring, but Practical: Bertrand is much weaker than an archon, but her strength is not dependent on followers or an expendable resource that needs to be rationed, making her very useful when Mitama had almost no power.
- Boob-Based Gag: Her female form is busty, but not obscenely so. During a fantasy scene, however, Bertrand is drawn with breasts that are twice the size of her head and wobble from the lightest touch.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: The busty figure she gains after being turned into a woman gets some unwanted attention.
- Character Catchphrase: "Please kill me." She abandons it after leaving Loki's services.
- D-Cup Distress: Bertrand is not happy with being turned into a woman, let alone being such a busty one. When she thinks Yukito coming onto them, she imagines herself with breasts so massive that they reach her waist.
- Desperately Needs Orders: The empire's knights are extremely dependent on orders from their superiors, never drawing their weapons without them. When Bertrand is kicked out of the empire, she won't even defend herself as she wanders around the wilderness, joining the outcast village just so she has someone to serve. Naturally, Yukito takes advantage of this to make her his most dedicated and obedient minion.
- Don't Celebrate Just Yet: Loki seems to transforms Bertrand back into her original male form, to which he starts celebrating that he won't have to experience the humiliations he suffered as a woman. Turns out it's just an illusion, which Loki doesn't even keep up for more than a moment.
- Dragged Off to Hell: Mitama kills Bertrand and his men by summoning a bed of tree branches from below that drag them off into nothingness. She's still panicking from it when revived.
- Dreadful Musician: Bertrand doesn't join the cult's idol band because she can't sing, dance, or play any instrument. Attempting the latter putting everyone present, especially Mitama, in intense physical pain.
- Dub Pronunciation Change: Adjusting for transliteration, Bertrand's pronunciation in Japanese is "BEHR-trahn", just slightly off from the French name's ("BEHR-traw"). In the English dub, it's "BURR-trend".
- Easily Forgiven: None of the villagers hold a grudge again Bertrand killing several of them after Mitama resurrects them, and Alural (one of his victims) even asks Mitama to revive him and his men as well.
- First Law of Gender Bending: Mitama has no idea why her resurrecting Bertrand turned him female, much less how to reverse it. The entire village also has a vested interest in keeping Bertrand female so she'll stay on their side—at first so the empire can't recognize her, and then because it made her fall in love with Yukito. And though Bertrand would like to be a man again, she's never expected or sought out a way to do so.
- Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Bertrand eventually switches to a ninja-like outfit
◊ that fits so tight it shows off a lot of her body detail (breasts, navel, hips, etc). - Gender Bender: Mitama kills and resurrects him as a woman.
- Gender Bender Angst: Bertrand dislikes that she was turned into a woman, though mostly because of the indirect effects. Firstly, she lost her old identity in the empire because no one recognizes her. Secondly, she is constantly being humiliated in ways that trigger her anxiety over her gender.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: After being resurrected by Mitama, Bertrand is forced to join Yukito's group because the other imperial soldiers don't recognize Bertrand's female form. Despite the coercive circumstances, Bertrand feels honorbound to the village and grows emotionally attached (if mostly thanks to Yukito's manipulations), refusing Atar's demands to return to the empire when she recognizes her. Loki is able to use Bertrand's desire to protect the Empire's citizens to get her to fight for her, but when she's set against Yukito's group she instantly incapacitates herself and they take Bertrand back to the village, ignoring her protests. Loki calling Bertrand useless and Yukito reassuring her pretty much solidifies her loyalty to Mitama's cult.
- Idiot Hair: Either as a man or a woman, Bertrand has a tuft on top of their head.
- Ignored Enamored Underling: Yukito knows Bertrand loves him, but only sees it as a means to ensure her loyalty. Besides his general lack of interest in sex and romance, Yukito may also still see Bertrand as a man.
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes: In the anime, several of the "cute" outfits Alural and Siluril force Bertrand into are completely ridiculous. One is a bizarre Carnivale-style getup that barely covers her private parts and has rainbow plumage. Another is a gaudy pink maid uniform with cat ears and tail.
- Jumping the Gender Barrier: Bertrand showed interest Yukito shortly after becoming a woman, outright falling in love with him after they share a hug. This series being what it is, this leads to a moment of Black Comedy Rape where Dakini makes Bertrand assault Yukito, saying disturbing things like how she remembers how to please a man's body and getting nostalgic at the site of Yukito's penis.
- Leonine Contract: After her female body leaves Bertrand unable to claim her male identity, she's forced to become Mitama's follower because she doesn't know anyone else who'd take her in. What's worse is that Bertrand's code of honor prevents her from drawing her sword without orders from her lord, leaving her defenseless were she to look elsewhere.
- Loving a Shadow: Bertrand falls for Yukito for the moments he makes her feel useful and welcome, even though he's acting completely two-face.
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Bertrand becomes attracted to Yukito, her confused reaction all but stating she never felt like that about men before becoming a woman.
- Mr. Fanservice: Before being turned into a man, Bertrand was just as attractive as a man as their Attractive Bent-Gender, being a towering, blonde Hunk with tan skin, muscular arms without his cape, and a partial white Form-Fitting Wardrobe that shows off their pectorals.
- Ms. Fanservice: Upon becoming a woman, Bertrand sports a very curvaceous figure with large breasts and finds herself the victim of wearing Stripperific clothing that Alural and Siluril find "cute". She eventually starts embracing the role to promote the cult.
- Naked on Revival: When she is revived as a woman, unlike the rest of the troops that were devoured by Mitama, she was revived without a single stitch of clothing. She kept her sword, though.
- No Sympathy: Bertrand suffers obvious anxiety over their gender, which her friends either ignore (even when she's vocally suicidal) or actively aggravate. Mitama openly says turning her into a woman was an improvement, Roy has to be stopped from groping her, and Alural and Siluril treat her like a cute dressup doll.
- Overly Long Name: Atar gives Bertrand's full name as "Enlilter Liesheid Bertrand". In the isolation village, she effectively has Only One Name just like most of the others.
- The Paladin: Is designated as the "holy knight" of Mitama by Yukito, after becoming one of Mitama's followers.
- Paper-Thin Disguise:
- Bertrand puts on a black knight armor and mask in an attempt to turn heel against Yukito's group, pretending to be a whole new person. Then she makes a fool out of herself by jumping off a high wall, injuring herself badly and breaking all the armor. Bertrand is then comically taken back to the isolation camp like nothing happened.
- Bertrand enters Summanus and Yukito's H-doujin bookstore wearing heavy clothing, sunglasses and a mask but everyone can tell it's her as she stands wondering why there is a comic about herself and Yukito with a "futanari" warning on the cover...
- Progressively Prettier:
- Though not to the point of being a butterface, Bertrand's looks in the early manga were often undermined by dry, blank, and miserable facial expressions. Later on she looks much more lively, even when serious or upset, which the anime follows from the beginning.
- Unusually, the manga has also trended toward Bertrand being more of an Amazonian Beauty. Her female form is introduced very slim and scrawny, but more recently has developed arms and visible muscle tone on her bare abdomen. The cover for volume 7 outright gives her a six-pack you can see even through her shirt.
- Pronoun Trouble: Characters who know Bertrand used to be male mostly avoid gendered language unless talking about her transformation directly. The dub mixes things around: Roy and Mitama both call Bertrand "her/she". Yukito uses "they" and calls Bertrand a "person" (with conspicuous emphasis), but then switches to "she" after Bertrand insists she's a woman (albeit thanks to Dakini's mind control).
- Put on a Bus: After Loki reveals herself, Bertrand goes off with her to protect the empire's capital. She's absent for the next arc with Dakini until the protagonists travel to the capital themselves.
- Redemption Equals Affliction: Bertrard undergoes an unconventionally extreme High-Heel–Face Turn, as being involuntarily turned into a woman forces her to join the heroes.
- Redemption Promotion: As a villain, we only saw Bertrand kill unarmed civilians before being easily dispatched by Mitama. It's only after joining the heroes that she demonstrates what she and her sword are capable of, though she's still no match for a well-powered archon.
- Second Law of Gender-Bending: Zig-zagged; Bertrand seems OK with being a woman so long as she's not being sexually harassed—which is never for very long. And though she does acclimate to being female and see upsides to it, this itself becomes upsetting. Dakini's assessment that Bertrand is a woman "body and soul" makes her run off crying. Despite this, Bertrand really does seem to accept herself as a woman afterward, openly swooning over Yukito and becoming a Shameless Fanservice Girl to help the cult's morale.
- Starter Villain: Bertrand is the first antagonist that Yukito and his friends has to deal with, being a ruthless knight who is ordered to oversee the end-of-life system within the Empire.
- Suicide as Comedy: When upset, especially over embarrassing things that happen because she's a girl, Bertrand stoically asks people to kill her. The first time Yukito hear he's subtly shocked that she really said that, but she is otherwise always ignored. When Bertrand says it when actually injured, Yukio and Alural at least tell her they're not going to abandon her, after which the jokes stops.
- Third Law of Gender-Bending:
- All the clothes Bertrand wears besides her armor are feminine (most commonly a dress with a wide neck) because the villages won't give her anything else. In the manga, Alural and Siluril once hunt down Bertrand and force her into a frilly dress, to her extreme discomfort. The anime extends this to them constantly putting her into "cute" outfits, and she tries to keep a straight face despite how ridiculous they are. Eventually Bertrand volunteers to wear sexy outfits, even calling herself the cult's "bitch", to make up for her inability to join the idol group.
- As a man, Bertrand was only ever shown as a ruthless imperial enforcer. The stress of being turned into a woman and forced out of her home shows she's actually very meek and emotionally frail, even Prone to Tears.
- Bertrand doesn't just fall in love with Yukito, it brings about some very demure expressions, shyness, and blatant signs of sexual submissiveness. This is especially notably when most of the other women are very open and aggressive about their sexuality, making Bertrand seem the most traditionally feminine.
- Discussed by Dakini when she first meets Bertrand. She'd heard Bertrand used to be a man, but judges her to be completely female, for instance pointing out Bertrand reflexively covering her bare breasts in shame.
- Tragic Villain: Invoked by Alural; she guesses Bertrand and his men are also indoctrinated victims of the empire they serve, and so asks Mitama to resurrect them. Bertrand's later characterization imply Alural pretty much hit the nail on the head.
- Weak-Willed: Serving the empire hasn't given Bertrand much defense against emotional manipulation. Yukito completely indoctrinates her with the basic cult tactics of feign kindness, making her feel needed by the group, and undermining any self-confidence she has apart from it.Bertrand: I'm normally not a fool for flattery, but... you did save me from this cretin, so I owe you a favor.
Yukito: (thinking and laughing to himself) Too easy! - With Friends Like These...: Though considered a friend and valuable ally, the other villagers can be amazingly mean to Bertrand, especially when it comes to her gender. Yukito even takes advantage of this to make his own acts of kindness seem better.
- The Worf Effect: Bertrand is easily the strongest human among Yukito's group. However, she would frequently lose to the Archons and other god-level beings just to establish how dangerous they are to the rest of the cast.
- Yank the Dog's Chain:
- Loki briefly makes her believe she was turned back into a man, only to rescind the illusion almost immediately after.
- When it becomes obvious Bertrand has fallen in love with Yukito, it seems like she may have finally found an upside to being a woman. Shortly thereafter, Dakini uses her feelings to make her nearly rape Yukito, then reduces Bertrand to tears by saying she's completely become a woman and a libidinous one at that.
Riche
Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese)
- Bespectacled Cutie: She wears large, thin, round glasses that enhance her cuteness.
- Extreme Libido: She's so sex obsessed that it puzzled out Dakini, a lust goddess.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Riche, Rish, Rishe.
- Jizzed in My Pants: Riche is so sensitive, she'll orgasm from any imagined sexual advance. Which is probably a major reason she's still a virgin.
- Master Actor: Yukito sees her as this due to the fact that she, despite being a virgin, managed to become a prominent member of Dakini’s sex cult with lots of devoted followers of her own using her knowledge of sexuality.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Her glasses begin to shine whenever she shows her devious perverted side.
- Tragic Keepsake: Owns a sex education book from her late mother Toka, which is how she and Dakini realize they were Connected All Along.
- Unexpected Virgin: Despite running a sex cult, she turns out to be a virgin.
Gaia's children
A group of five children who have been adopted by Gaia and serve as her cult followers.
- Broken Pedestal: They put a lot of trust on Gaia only to end up betrayed and used as a power source for the Typhon. Cyan still forgives Gaia for her misdeeds, realizing she did just want a family all along, and remains as her only cult follower. Fau, Cain and Yoshi are fine enough with this, but Kai only spares Gaia for Cyan's sake and becomes loyal to Yukito instead.
- Children Are Innocent: Fau, Cain and Yoshi are easily convinced by Dakini to befriend her in secret, while Kai and Cyan are Too Smart for Strangers due to being hardened by their abandonement issues.
- Morality Chain: Kai, the most violent of the kids, is in love with Cyan and agrees to spare Gaia or to help Summanus keep her sister safe if she asks.
- Unwitting Pawn: Gaia uses their faith power to build a giant monster and acts like they're expendable, even though she did enjoy looking after them.
Eudora
A high-ranked swordswoman from the Empire.
- Butt-Monkey: Loki misses the short time she spent with Yukito and his companions, so she turns Eudora into a counterpart for Alural and Bertrand by forcing her into silly and humiliating situations. Eudora is tasked with running errands, working on agriculture and pointlessly cheering the Empire's emotionless soldiers all while wearing skimpy carnival and maid costumes.
- Freak Out: Eudora is horrified when she finds an unknown woman in a Chainmail Bikini with the supposedly deceased Bertrand's sword and immediately starts attacking her, but quickly realizes her identity from how she fights and calms down. However, the sight of the female Bertrand acting like a bashful girl in love just makes Eudora freak out harder and she runs screaming all the way back to the Empire, all while imagining the skimpy new Bertrand seducing her.
- Hero-Worshipper: She's Bertrand's number one fangirl and Loki finds her easy to manipulate because of it.
- Reluctant Fanservice Girl: She looks miserable whenever she reports to Loki, since any setback gets her magically suspended upside down and naked from the ceiling for everyone to see. None of the asexual soldiers care to see her naked and Loki just seems perpetually bored, but it's humiliating for her nonetheless.
Norou
From the spinoff, A young man who cares for a blind girl named Liya.
- Only Sane Man: He's the one villager who angrily questions the dangerous actions of the Archons and gets flabbergasted at how Chiyomaru wants to marry her own brother, among other things.
Liya
From the spinoff, a blind girl who heals people in her village with a supernatural power.
- Ambiguously Human: She's implied to be an Archon in hiding who either doesn't care about the ongoing power struggle between the others or feels helpless due to being blind.
- Healing Hands: She has healing abilities even though she appears to be a normal girl, which is something not seen throughout the main series up to the point that the spinoff began.
Archons
In General
- Amazon Brigade: All Archons so far are female and they're pretty powerful in their respective affinity.
- Deity of Human Origin: They are humans that have been technologically-enhanced to replicate the natural gods of the setting.
- God in Human Form: Archons are humans replicating the power of existing gods. Although they don't age, their body are implied to be as frail a regular human's outside their Super Mode. By contrast, actual gods like Mitama seems much more durable, even if it's mostly used for comic relief.
- God Needs Prayer Badly: Initially, they're powered by the Assembly. After that is destroyed, the Archons' power level depends on how many followers they have. If they have none or too few, they're powerless. Mitama speculates that somehow the archons acquire the powers of real gods when they collect followers.
- I Know Your True Name: The gods they are named for actually exist, and sharing a name ties their abilities together. Per Mitama's request, the god Dakini is able to temporarily weaken the archon Dakini.
- Identity Amnesia: Gaia explains that every archon except for her had their memories of their past life erased. Jupiter also appears to remember her past, as she immediately attempts to kill Jupiter on sight, claiming it's what she should've done all along.
- Personality Powers: Gaia tells Yukito that each of them were tied to a certain god according to their nature or personal trauma, and that this connection influences their personality in turn.
- Redemption Demotion: Although Dakini and Gaia's lives are spared after their defeats, they're kept with only a single follower each to prevent them from becoming a threat again.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: They're all named after deities and religious figures from different cultures, and their powers reflect that connection in some way.
- Super Mode: With enough faith power, each one can transform to a more demonic-looking form, such as Dakini getting fox-like features and a skull to ride on or Gaia growing taller with long hair, antlers and an ability to shapeshift her arms into beasts.
- Super-Soldier: They're humans turned into bioweapons for protecting the Imperial City and controlling its population.
Loki
Voiced by: Megumi Ogata (Japanese), Meli Grant (English)
The leading archon of the Imperial City who takes over it after convincing Yukito and Mitama to break the illusion placed by the late Emperor over the city.
- Affably Evil: Acts very cordial with Yukito and the others even when they start competing on who becomes the top god.
- Bad Boss: Loki is said to have physically abused Bertrand for asking too much about her plans and then tells Yukito to take her away for being useless. She also repeatedly uses her magic to strip Eudora or put her in skimpy costumes as punishment for any mistakes.
- Big Bad: Due to the fact that the "Emperor" was dead all along, she actually functions as the actual antagonist who is out to become a god.
- Godhood Seeker: Upon learning of the concept of a "god," Loki realizes that by showing internment camps "miraculous acts", she received powers based on those beliefs. As such, she and the other archons (excluding Atar) resolve to become a god.
- I Have Your Wife: The meanest thing she does is keep Jupiter hostage as a Living Battery to force Summanus to do her bidding. She also knows how dangerous Jupiter is and says nothing to let her wreak havoc on Summanus and Yukito in case she is freed.
- Master of Illusion: Her ability is to cast illusions on a wide range, allowing her to sneak up on enemies and inflict fake mortal injuries that feel real enough to be incapacitating. And with enough faith power, even Mitama is fooled by her illusions. Fitting for someone named after the Norse God of Trickery.
- Perception Filter: After the battle against Gaia, it is revealed Loki chipped in with a lot of faith power alongside Atar and Dakini to let Mitama win but nobody could perceive her. Yukito only realizes she was right there when he recalls that moment, and wonders how she could've slip from everyone's consciousness with her powers (in the anime version, Loki explains that to him in person).
- Reality Warper: The things she summons seem to upgrade from illusions to actual constructs as she gains faith.
- Replacement Goldfish: Despite antagonizing Yukito and co., Loki misses them and treats her lackey Eudora as if she is Alural or Bertrand. Then what seems like an evil clone of Mitama inexplicably appears next to Loki to advise and scold her, with Loki talking back to her as if she's the real deal.
- The Reveal: There was never a Clen in the camp: she was disguised all along.
- Satanic Archetype: She realizes that by gathering followers, she could wield powers, so Loki lead the usurping of the Imperial City. Like Satan, Loki is manipulative and offers deals.
- The Starscream: To the Emperor, or more accurately, "the Assembly", a machine that was created by the Emperor to rule over the people after his death. The Assembly was built to command the Archons and has regulated civilization since an apocalyptic incident. Ultimately, they succeed in convincing Yukito and Mitama to destroy the Assembly and setting the stage for the archons and Mitama to compete for the title of Top God.
- Troll: Makes Roy think that she was allowing him to cop a feel when she actually used an illusion on him.
Atar
The youngest archon of the Imperial City. Ends up siding with Yukito's camp after the truth of the city was revealed.
- Defeat Means Friendship: She's sent to deal with Yukito and Mitama on the behest of the Imperial City, but after being defeated and learning the truth, she ends up siding with them.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She had cold and stoic personality when first introduced, but after being defeated and joining the protagonists she shows a much softer side.
- Didn't Think This Through: She tries to act like she's bigger and mightier than Mitama while flaunting her powers and higher follower count, and casually starts destroying monsters that attack the group while proclaiming it's not a problem. Then another one appears. And another. And another. Followed by an entire swarm of them. Mitama is giving her the stink eye as Atar's confidence falters and she finally admits there might be a problem.
- Good Costume Switch: After joining Yukito, she switches from her Archon clothing to a black sleeveless dress and blue ribbons.
- Kamehame Hadoken: Her ability is to fire huge laser blasts and energy spheres from her hands, making her the most impressive-looking fighter on Yukito's side.
- Locked Out of the Loop: She was apparently the only archon who did not know the truth about the world and the conspiracy going on. When Loki reveals the truth, she suffers a Heroic BSoD.
- The Stoic: She usually has a stoic, no-nonsense demeanor, but she has more and more Not So Stoic moments as time progresses.
- Trademark Favorite Food: She really loves ice cream.
Dakini
Voiced by: Rie Takahashi (Japanese)
The leader of a sex cult who attempts to restore lust and fertility to the Imperial City's people.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: She has an ample bust, as expected from an archon of lust and fertility that is desired by all of her cultists.
- Corruption of a Minor:
- Dakini being forced to deprive children of the potential for sexual interest is portrayed as them becoming unable to love at all and contributes to the bleak state of the Empire. Upon finding a little girl named Toka browsing erotic books in secret, Dakini offers sex education to her with no ill intent but it has the tragic consequence of Toka being lynched for it as an adult.
- Later on, Yukito asks Dakini to do something about the kids adopted by Gaia and despite the story setting her up as shady she befriends some of them without doing anything malicious.
- Dark and Troubled Past: While her life as a normal human is unknown, as an Archon she reluctantly helped the Empire to make people emotionless and indirectly caused the death of a girl she was friends with.
- Defeat Means Friendship: After being defeated, Yukito hatches a scheme with Richie to usurp Dakini's followers. Yukito is pretty sure she saw through the trick, but went along with it anyway just to make Richie happy.
- Exotic Eye Designs: Has hearts in her eyes, which also appear on people placed under her lust spell.
- Friend to All Children: She's actually quite motherly towards children. Yukito expected her to be a bad influence on them due to her lust powers, but when she helps the kids in Gaia's cult mature, she does so by working through their personal issues.
- Gyaru Girl: Her looks and mannerisms are very similar to a typical ganguro girl; she has blonde hair, dark skin and painted nails, wears a very revealing outfit, and carries what looks like a cellphone around. Her dialogue is also translated by the English subtitles as Valley Girl speak.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: Roy fakes being on Dakini's side due to Yukito's quick thinking and sleazily holds her in place until Atar knocks her out, meaning the sex goddess gets defeated by sexual harassment from a guy she tried to brainwash.
- Living Aphrodisiac: She was created with the power to control the libido of people around her but was tasked with suppressing it as part of the Empire's No Sex Allowed policy. She usually needs to take pictures with her smartphone to trigger the effect, but while transformed she can cast it on a radius around her.
- Mark of the Supernatural: While powered up, she can cast a strong lust spell on women that leaves them with glowing so-called "womb tattoos" below the navel.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's a very shapely lust goddess in skimpy clothing that has a flirtatious personality. She also suffers from Clothing Damage and ends up naked save for Godiva Hair and Scenery Censor after being defeated.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Dakini befriending Toka and encouraging her interest in sexuality led to the girl's exile and murder years later after she gave birth, which left Dakini horrified. To make matters worse, Dakini learns that Riche is Toka's daughter only after threatening her with rape and death for her betrayal.
- Orgasmatron: Her sex powers allow her to make someone feel so much pleasure they can experience a Forced Orgasm from the lightest of touches, which she does to Atar during their fight.
- Rape by Proxy: Tries to defeat Yukito by placing Alural, Siluril and Atar under her lust spell and letting them have at it. She later makes Bertrand assault Yukito too, just for kicks.
- Sex Goddess: Appropriately for a lust archon, she not only has pleasure-enhancing powers, but has encyclopedic knowledge about sex, to the point most of the remaining sex books in the world were written by her.
- Sore Loser: Dakini protests to being beaten by Mitama despite their initial difference in power and vows to make a comeback, but breaks down into tears upon learning that Riche is Toka's daughter and lets herself be imprisoned. She remains reluctant to give her followers to Mitama and acts stubborn even to Riche despite being guilt-ridden about treating her badly, but they come to an agreement when Riche puts Yukito in a humiliating BDSM play before Dakini and claims he won't interfere in their cult activities.
- Stripperiffic: Her usual black dress has a gap to show off her Underboobs and part of her midsection and a slit to show off her legs.
- Vapor Wear: Her outfit clearly shows she doesn't wear any underwear.
- Villainous BSoD: She becomes ashamed of her actions and begs for Riche's forgiveness after realizing she was Toka's daughter and remembering that Toka hoped for them to be friends.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: After being forced for millennia to extinguish sexuality from people until they turned into drones without any empathy, she wants to stop at nothing to set things back to how they once were. Unfortunately, all this does is overcorrect people into being unhealthily obsessed with sex.
Gaia
Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (Japanese)
A woman who gathers children into her cult-like orphanage while producing a giant monster to wage war against the Imperial City.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The climax of Gaia's arc as an antagonist involves her unleashing a giant hydra-like abomination called a Typhon and watching the creature move towards the Empire from the confort of a biomechanical control room inside it with Yukito and Mitama under capture. After Gaia's defeat, she insists they should just use the beast to trample over Loki but Yukito isn't entrusting her with power anytime soon.
- Bad Samaritan: Gaia has a compulsive need to adopt homeless children as her cult followers. One failed example is when she "saves" a lost girl from a staged monster attack but the creature chomps Gaia's arm by mistake and sends the girl running away in fear.
- The Beastmaster: She can create monsters out of the ground with her powers, tying to how she used to develop bioweapons as a human.
- Becoming the Mask: She adopts a group of five abandoned children as a means to gain faith power and puts their lives at risk upon summoning the Typhon, acting like she's going to do away with them. However, Gaia actually grew to care about the kids and this earns her post-defeat redemption when Cyan acknowledges this and keeps the vengeful Kai from killing her.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: She binds a naked Yukito to tentacles and mortally injures him hundreds of times, with Mitama managing to restore him every time despite also being restrained and pancaked to the floor. One part of it that got censored in the anime was Gaia impaling Yukito with her shapeshifting arm so badly that one end of it was coming out of his ass.
- Comedic Lolicon: She does nothing inappropriate to the children she adopted, but steals Atar's Sacred First Kiss during her introduction and keeps comically licking and sucking Mitama's cheek to drain her powers. While drunk, she mentions her interests were affected by her association to the actual goddess Gaia... and that she used to be a zoophile before being turned into an archon.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Gaia was abused and tortured by her own mother as the subject of a cult until she snapped and killed her. She implies all the other Archons have this sort of background.
- Depraved Bisexual: Mentions being bisexual while both her and Roy are fawning over Mitama and hypocritically complaining about each other.
- Failed a Spot Check: Yukito distracts Gaia with a clunky robot Mitama ordering her to train for a concert while Dakini turns her cult of children away from her. Gaia only realizes it is a robot when she tries licking it on the eye, and then she asks how much one costs.
- Foil: Gaia is a dark counterpart to Yukito who was abused by her religious mother until she killed her in retaliation, and who's willing to crush all the people in the Imperial City to get rid of Loki. She tries to break Yukito's resolve by pointing out how alike they are.
- Fun Size: Gaia's a bit smaller in stature when she's depowered, and she returns to her full splendor when she's fully powered by the climax of her arc.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Mitama impales Gaia from behind with a giant ground spear, defeating her and forcing her to regress back to her small form to heal.
- Love Redeems: She would've been executed by her own children for deceiving them had at least Cyan not spared her upon realizing that she did care for them all.
- Mad Scientist: She used to be one of the researchers involved with both the production of bioweapons that led the world to ruin and the creation of the Archons, similar to how the actual Gaia is related to the creation of the Olympians.
- Pet the Dog: Gaia felt sorry about Jupiter and let her keep her memories of Summanus when both sisters were to be used as power sources for two orbital weapons.
- Rape by Proxy: Convinces a jealous and desperate Alural to attempt to rape Yukito out of petty revenge for how he turned her children against her.
Summanus
- Abhorrent Admirer: She means no harm to Atar and is responsible for some of the girl's faith power, but has to go about it in the most comically creepy way she can by selling unauthorized hentai comics of her.
- Big Damn Heroes: In Summanus' introductory scene, she all too conveniently appears behind Yukito's group to save them from a lightning cannon when they fail to invade the Empire.
- Big Sister Instinct: Was very protective of the apparently weak Jupiter as a child, but ended up realizing that Jupiter might have been doing even more for her sake while resenting her for not being helpful enough or not just killing their abusive elder sister. In the present time, Summanus makes the effort to awaken Jupiter from her capsule only to end up brutally impaled for her troubles.
- Comedic Lolicon: She's obsessed with Atar and has the gall of selling what are clearly porn comics about her like nothing's wrong, which gets very ironic once we learn that Summanus herself was exploited even worse by a cult as a child. Atar blows up Summanus' stock after the mangaka unveils a giant poster of the girl suggestively surrounded by phallic popsicles."NOOOOO!! The results of my divine sacrifice of blood, sweat and ink!!"
- Dark and Troubled Past: Summanus came from an abusive household where her unnamed elder sister was forced to sell her body and took out her frustrations on Jupiter and her. Jupiter revealed her pleasure-inducing electric powers in an attempt to keep the elder sister from sending Summanus into prostitution as well, but the elder sister became even more cruel and exploited both girls as cult subjects until Jupiter snapped and finally killed her.
- Eccentric Artist: Summanus gains faith power from making H-doujins, which are compared to holy scriptures about gods. Yukito, who isn't bothered to see Atar, Mitama or even irrelevant people including himself used as characters in those, convinces Summanus to open a bookstore with him to his advantage and earns her loyalty by claiming he can save Jupiter and make Summanus the "queen of doujins" in a single swoop.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: She has long hair drooping over her face and covering her left eye, which combined with her Exhausted Eyebags add to her cute yet creepy appearance. Her sister Jupiter has her right eye covered instead.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Jupiter blasts and impales Summanus with a bundle of electrified wires.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Despite having lightning powers that grant her Super-Speed and an ability to manipulate metal, Summanus isn't fit for fighting and hated her old job of killing monsters outside of the Empire. She is too clumsy and is easily subdued and tied up even by children. When told to kidnap people in Yukito's village for the trapped Jupiter's sake, she holds a sleeping Mitama but freaks out when the girl casts a monstrous shadow behind her. Then she tries to attack Yukito himself and gets instantly pinned to the ground.
- It's Not Porn, It's Art: Summanus draws for the purposes of worship(ping Atar) and disparages her more popular rival Dakini for working on hentai solely for disseminating eroticism among her readers.
- The Mole: Summanus appears harmless and friendly enough, but the truth is Loki has been using Jupiter as a hostage to task her with infiltrating Yukito's village to kidnap Alural and Siluril.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Summanus is desperate to save her sister Jupiter despite barely knowing who she is, and with Yukito's help manages to grant her enough power to awaken from the container she's trapped in. Then Jupiter turns out to be a... complicated woman who 'doesn't want to be saved, so she impales poor Summanus on the spot with a lightning-charged bundle of wires through her chest.
- Pimping the Offspring: It's said that generations of women in Summanus' family were forced to sell their bodies due to living in extreme poverty, with her elder sister wanting to prostitute Summanus as soon as she turned 11. Jupiter revealing her electric powers and their use as a stimulant for the electronic devices inserted on the back of people's necks led to them being exploited as cult subjects instead, with the elder sister continuing to treat them with contempt even as she got rich and Jupiter started breaking down due to overuse of her powers.
- Pose of Supplication: She's reduced to hitting her head on the floor and begging for Yukito to stop stealing supplies from Loki after failing to kidnap anyone in the village and being tied up.
- Punny Name: From Summanus' name, you can just guess what the H-doujins she draws are implied to be about...
- Shock and Awe: She has electric powers and uses them to deflect a lightning cannon fired from the Imperial City onto the heroes.
- Super-Speed: When Gaia drives Yukito and co. away from the Empire on their truck in a hurry, Summanus tries going after them, trips onto the ground... and catches up only a few seconds later.
- Unusual Eyebrows: Hers are bolt-shaped.
Jupiter
Summanus' twin sister who is sealed as a power source for the Empire.
- Ambiguously Evil: Summanus has no memories of her past with Jupiter and only read a book's record of what they were once like, but it's heavily implied that the girl is a Sealed Evil in a Can who's the opposite of her sister. She's ultimately revealed to be a Tragic Villain like Dakini and Gaia.
- And I Must Scream: Jupiter was awake the whole time during the ages she spent trapped as a power source for a Kill Sat and the Empite.
- Arc Villain: The next antagonistic Archon after Gaia.
- Being Tortured Makes You Evil: She and Summanus avoided prostitution as children by being exploited for their powers instead, which left Jupiter Covered with Scars. Then they were put through experiments that turned them into living weapons, with a picture of Jupiter in a book quite implying she loathed all of it. Combined with her isolation as a power source and a belief that both her and Summanus are better off dead, it leads to her attempting to kill Summanus and indiscriminately attacking everyone with her electric powers.
- Cain and Abel: She executed her abusive older sister and ends up critically injuring Summanus just after being awakened despite loving her, muttering both times that she should've killed them sooner.
- Cast from Hit Points: Overuse of her electric powers as a child while being used as a cult subject left her covered in burn injuries, while in contrast Summanus isn't said to get hurt from using her powers at all.
- Combat Tentacles: Can manipulate bundles of wires with electricity to impale her enemies.
- Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Jupiter is portrayed as a Straw Nihilist in a long monologue where she's looking after Summanus while bemoaning how nothing matters in the world and how she doesn't want Summanus' help. Despite admitting to Gaia that she does care about her wimpy older sister, in the far future Jupiter ends up impulsively impaling Summanus just for being unwillingly freed from her prison.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Much like Gaia, Summanus and Jupiter lived in poverty and had their power exploited by cultists led by their own older sister. Jupiter killed said sister in retaliation, and then both her and Summanus were experimented on, turned into weapons and used as power sources for a Kill Sat, which neatly explains why the single record of Jupiter has her glaring at the camera despite her normally being a stoic person.
- Death Glare: The first glimpse of Jupiter's personality is a book's picture of her vacantly glaring at the camera juxtaposed with one of Summanus giving a bashful look. It's then Played for Laughs right on the next page as Yukito slaps to a blackboard a poster of a cutesy doodle of Jupiter making that same face. Jupiter later gravely injures Summanus with a deranged expression framed in shadow, but her backstory makes all of this ironic by establishing she used to be a good and quiet child before her and Summanus' life went From Bad to Worse.
- Death of Personality: She views the amnesia suffered by the Archons as this. Despite wanting to die, Jupiter ironically hangs on to her memories of Summanus and ends up fully conscious while trapped for millenia as a power source for machinery. It is part of why Jupiter attempts to murder Summanus on sight, as she believes the girl already "died peacefully" from having her memories erased and doesn't want to see her still hanging around with amnesia as somebody's pawn.
- Death Seeker: After being exploited to cause the apocalypse, Jupiter wants to either die or remain imprisoned and considers killing her own sister an act of mercy.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Jupiter actually wanted to remain imprisoned as a power source for the Empire the whole time Summanus was desperately looking for a way to save her, so she ends up reacting with extreme violence once she is freed by impaling Summanus and claiming it is what she should've done all along.
- Good All Along: The story builds Jupiter up as being evil and murderously resentful of Summanus, only to establish she's a Tragic Villain who does care for her sister but is so throughly traumatized that she wants both her and herself put out of their shared misery.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Jupiter's long hair covers the right side of her face, mirroring Summanus' appearance and highlighting her psychotic personality.
- Humanizing Tears: After Jupiter is introduced as being terribly dangerous, part of her backstory shows her breaking into tears upon admitting to Gaia that she loves Summanus and doesn't want to forget her. She's also seen crying when Loki awakened Summanus, not wanting her sister to be exploited by anyone again.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: Summanus and Jupiter have opposite sides of their face covered by hair. Jupiter's eyelashes also point upwards, giving her a more manic expression.
- Living Battery: Jupiter and Summanus were used as the power sources for the orbital weapons that malfunctioned and caused the apocalypse. She is introduced trapped naked and helpless (but actually conscious all along) inside a life support system's container to feed energy into the Imperial City. Yukito convinces Summanus to make comics about Jupiter in order to boost her power and awaken her.
- Kick the Dog: She's played up as a villain by impaling Summanus with extreme prejudice and a look of contempt on her face just for being freed from the capsule she was willingly trapped on.
- Mercy Kill: She badly wounds Summanus on sight upon being awakened, claiming it's what she should've done all along. It comes off as callous, but Jupiter believes both Summanus and herself are better off dead after everything they both suffered and did as living weapons. She also believes Summanus is already "dead" anyway because of her amnesia.
- Naked on Arrival: She's introduced naked in a liquid container and becomes hostile as soon as she is awakened.
- Not So Stoic: It is seen that she has a naturally gloomy demeanor and used to fake being mute. Her expression turns to a look of contempt or twists into a psychotic glare whenever she's enraged.
- Obfuscating Disability: She used to fake being mute to draw her older sister's anger to herself instead of Summanus.
- Obviously Evil: Before Jupiter is awakened, the story keeps fixating on her creepy Death Glare and implying a contrast between her and how kind and clumsy Summanus is. This makes it readily apparent to readers that she's bad news.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Has terribly powerful lightning powers and ends up having no qualms about using them indiscriminately. Like with Gaia, Yukito immediately declares she must be killed for the threat she poses.
- Shock and Awe: She has natural electric powers like Summanus, and functions as a power source for the Imperial City thanks to a few dozen people worshipping her outside the building she's stuck in.
Hephaestus
The first Archon who comes across Chiyomaru in the spinoff, a delinquent girl with fire powers.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: She was introduced in the spinoff with no prior mentions in the main story, but she briefly appears in one of the anime adaptation's flashbacks.
- Antiquated Linguistics: Her "Olympus" gang has its name spelled in outdated kanji.
- Badass Longcoat: As part of her delinquent look, she wears a longcoat draped over her shoulders.
- Defeat Equals Friendship: Promptly joins Chiyomaru after eating a knuckle sandwich from her, just out of respect for her strength. Her minions go along with this without question.
- Might Makes Right: Tries to take over a town by force by burning it down while pretending she'd kill half of its population, but quickly swears loyalty to Chiyomaru under the same reasoning.
- Playing with Fire: She wields fire and attempts to burn one of the internment camps to the ground with it.
Kama Mara
The second Archon who appears in the spinoff. She's a temptress who brainwashes people via erotic dreams inflicted by wires that come out of her hands.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Even she is disturbed by the Room Full of Crazy that the incestuous Chiyomaru sleeps on.
- Master of Threads: She manipulates strings from her hands and stabs them on the back of men's necks to make them subservient to her.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's a lust goddess like Dakini and, unlike all the other archons from the main series who are seen mostly naked with some kind of neon body paint over their private parts, appears fully nude in multiple pages with visible nipples.
- Oh, Crap!: She's comically shocked when Chiyomaru blocks her wires despite them being as fast as bullets. She then aims for the girl's heel just intending to restrain her and then it actually brainwashes her instead, leaving the temptress flabbergasted.
Other Characters
Soichiro Urabe
Voiced by: Sho Hayami (Japanese), Chris Guerrero (English)
Leader of the "God and Earth Reverence Church", a cult of bodybuilders who worship Mitama. He sacrifices Yukito as part of a succession ritual, believing him to be a chosen one once prophesied by Mitama in Japan's feudal era.
- Bald of Evil: Completely bald and an abusive bastard and cult leader who used his own son as a sacrifice.
- Beard of Evil: A long and thin goatee.
- The Extremist Was Right: Mitama is real and there was a point to the training he forced upon Yukito, not that it makes his son any less resentful of him.
- Join or Die: He's not much of recruitment drives, preferring to grow his cult by beating rival groups to submission.
- Offing the Offspring: Stuffs Yukito inside a cement barrel and tosses him into the sea while certain that he would join Mitama into "one of those another world things" instead of dying. Yukito naturally sees him as nothing but deranged for it.
- Sinister Shades: A pair of black sunglasses.
Chiyomaru Urabe
Yukito's older sister who's the protagonist of the spinoff. Obsessed with marrying Yukito, she forces Soichiro to also perform the succession ritual on her so she can reunite with him.
- Abhorrent Admirer: Yukito loathed training with his sister due to how creepy she was.
- The Ace: She's good in the cultism business and is seemingly invincible, which leads Soichiro to worry that she might completely break Yukito's prophesied quest if she manages to meet him.
- Amazonian Beauty: The woman is ripped and she's quite attractive, quirks aside.
- Big Brother Attraction: Inverted; she goes gaga over the thought of marrying her younger brother Yukito, all because he once innocently said he wanted to marry her when he was a child.
- Big Brother Worship: Inverted; she thinks very highly of Yukito and gets enraged at anyone who talks crap about him. Because of Yukito being a skilled Aiki practicioner she couldn't pin down, Chiyomaro oversells him and claims he's stronger than herself, when his portrayal in the main series shows him to be an athletic but completely normal guy.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: The God and Earth Reverence Church is made up of brawlers who do not rely on Mitama's powers to achieve their strength, and Chiyomaru in particular is strong to cartoonish levels. Due to this, she makes a point of training all the clueless men in the village she ends up on as soldiers to let them take a stand against the Empire.
- Comedic Shotacon: A Running Gag with Chiyomaru is that every picture of Yukito that she keeps to show to people while babbling about wanting to marry him happens to be of him as a child.
- Dissonant Serenity: She reacts calmly, apathetically even, to anything not involving Yukito, and was awfully happy to get tossed into the ocean in a scene that mirrors how scared Yukito was when it happened to him.
- Immune to Mind Control: She claims to be immune to brainwashing because of her obsession with Yukito... while unknowingly already being a Manchurian Agent since the previous night exactly because of that. Kama Mara had attacked Chiyomaru and accidentally brainwashed her with a wet dream about Yukito while just trying to restrain Chiyomaru by the heel with a People Puppet string after being unable to hit her on the neck.
- Remember the New Guy?: Neither Yukito nor Mitama ever allude to her in the main series as far as Summanus' arc.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She has the same facial features as her brother and she even has the same 'Evil Smile' expression.
- Suicide as Comedy: She goes out of her way to get hit by a truck, fall from a cliff onto a bear, set herself on fire and overwork herself in abusive conditions to get reincarnated into another world and meet Yukito but she never gets hurt. When Soichiro tosses Chiyomaru into the sea like he did to Yukito as a last resort, she just shows up in the future while still inside the cement barrel like nothing happened.
- Tell Me How You Fight: Chiyomaru uses explosive Bajinquan techniques like shoulder checks, while in contrast Yukito is said to be a master of Aiki soft-style grapples.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: She has her hair in one and she's both muscular and not very feminine, despite what she thinks.
- Walk on Water: One of her "miracles" is being able to walk over water by kicking it at extreme speeds.
