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Zed
Zed
Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino (Japanese), Leraldo Anzaldua (English)
- Animal Motifs: Birds for Zed. He always wears an accessory with two feathers on it, his key spirit Amir Gaul has feathered wings and turns into a phoenix at one point, there's a motif in the story involving wind and freedom, his second spirit Rambos is a bird, and in the last scene, Zed is shown having Amir Gaul's wings.
- Blood Knight: Is one before he decides to start fighting for peace.
- Deus ex Machina: After Zed is possessed by Tusker, Ginga turns up alive and attacks him with a newly completed Ex Machina, stalling Tusker until Zed and Amir Gaul can break away from him.
- Enemy Mine: Zed joins with Noah and Hugh to fight Ex Machina.
- Heroic Bastard: It's made clear that his mother became pregnant not long after meeting his father.
- Holding Hands: Zed and Roya do a lot of this.
- Homoerotic Subtext: Noah's love for Zed at times seems more than just friendly, especially the lengths the two will go to meet each other.
- Parental Abandonment: For Zed's entire life until near the end of the first episode, his mother lives in a mental institution.
- Disappeared Dad: Zed's father, a Seeker, died from his wounds shortly after impregnating Sara.
- Trapped in Another World: Subverted as Zed is pleased to leave his own world behind and soon settles in.
Roya
Roya
Voiced by: Nana Mizuki (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)
- Can't Catch Up: Despite Roya being a pretty awesome fighter, she gets frustrated when she has to fight Zed in a joust.
- Combat Medic: Becomes one after a Dream Sequence involving her mother.
- Genki Girl: Roya is even pretty energetic while she's Angsting.
- Holding Hands: Zed and Roya do a lot of this.
- Instrumentof Murder: Roya's spirit Afkarel shoots lasers out of her harp.
Zico
Zico
Voiced by: Tamio Ohki (Japanese), Charles C. Campbell (English)
- Magic Staff: Zico carries what seems to be a magic staff with one end cut in the shape of a dragon. Likely due to the fact that his spirit is a large red dragon.
Robès Redondo
Robès Redondo
Voiced by: Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese), Chris Kennedy (English)
- Guyliner: He wears eyeliner that points up, giving a Tsurime Eyes look.
- Phantom Thief: Becomes the thief "No Face" because he's bored and wishes for a challenge. It's also hinted he may be trying to help out his family financially, since their fortune is somewhat on the rocks.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He hands over Slugna to Mikki as a memento from Duma. This is one of the things that cause Mikki to go on a rampage in town, and Zed and Roya confront him about it.
Mikki
Mikki
Voiced by: Nobuhisa Nakamoto (Japanese), Corey Hartzog (English)
- Cute and Psycho: Becomes one after Dumas dies.
- Drunk with Power: Getting his hands on Slugna does a number on his psyche, for the spirit is too powerful for him to handle. As a result, he goes batshit insane and attacks the local guards to steal their spirits. All in an effort to become stronger.
Dumas Schuramux
Zymot
Rebecca
Rebecca
Voiced by: Marina Inoue (Japanese), Serena Varghese (English)
- Break the Cutie: Rebecca's physically manipulated into stabbing her father by her teacher and forced into marriage with Dumas, only to be given to Hugh instead in a plot to get one of the key spirits. Then her father is killed.
- Cute and Psycho: Rebecca ends up as one after Hugh marries her to take the key spirit Pronimo and kills her father.
- Redemption Equals Death: Rebecca becomes sane again just in time to be stabbed by Elmeida.
Elda
Elda
Voiced by: Komina Matsushita (Japanese), Kara Greenberg (English)
- Almost Dead Guy: Zed, Roya and Robes find her dying, and she asks them to take care of Rebecca before biting the dust.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: She tries to attack Hugh after he kills Rebecca's father. It goes as well as you would expect.
Philip
Philip
Voiced by: Norihisa Mori (Japanese), John Paul Green (English)
Hugh
Hugh
Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese), Andrew Love (English)
- Enemy Mine: Briefly teams up with Zed and Noah to take on Ex Machina. As soon as they are done with that, he knocks them out right away with some lightning shards.Kiba: Hugh, you backstabbing jerk!
- Evil Laugh: He loves doing this whenever things go well for him.
- Monkey Morality Pose: Hugh, Elmeida, and Glaudio all represent one of the Three Wise Monkeys in some way. Hugh wears a mask over his mouth, representing the "Speak No Evil" monkey.
Elmeida
Elmeida
Voiced by: Erino Hazuki (Japanese), Melissa Davis (English)
- Karma Houdini: In the end, Elmeida, of all people, is one of the only two to live who can actually be called villains.
- Monkey Morality Pose: Hugh, Elmeida, and Glaudio all represent one of the Three Wise Monkeys in some way. Elmeida wears a blindfold, representing the "See No Evil" monkey.
Glaudio
Glaudio
Voiced by: Aya Endo (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)
- Man on Fire: An outraged Zed kills Glaudio by placing a fire shard on his stomach, burning him alive in the process.
- Monkey Morality Pose: Hugh, Elmeida, and Glaudio all represent one of the Three Wise Monkeys in some way. Glaudio has his ears covered, representing the "Hear No Evil" monkey.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Glaudio personally offes Duma via electrocution once he realizes he is not gonna win against Zed.
Nudeau
Nudeau
Voiced by: Takashi Kondo (Japanese), John Paul Green (English)
- Animal Eyes: Fitting with his snake Animal Motif, his eyes are shaped like a snake's.
- Smug Snake: Fittingly, he has a snake theme.
Neotopia
Noah
Noah
Voiced by: Kazuma Horie (Japanese), Chris Patton (English)
- Break the Cutie: Despite being rescued by a kindly couple and temporarily regaining his strength, he results in Gale, the couple's son, killing his father due to the country's laws. Then Gale fights Keith and dies along with Aisha, both of whom Noah had befriended, after Noah unintentionally sets everything on fire. Then Noah ends up with some Seekers and finds the key spirit Sachira, causing everyone but Sagiri and himself to die. After he becomes Neotopia's top shardcaster, Hugh attacks the capital and Zed drags Hyrum to him in exchange for the many civilians that are about to be eaten by Spirits. Hyrum kills himself, and Diana and Sagiri appear to die when the building collapses. Let us not forget about the debilitating illness that has plagued him since childhood, which will eventually kill him and renders him
practically catatonic by show's end, nor the fact that the thing that started this series of events was his desire to help Zed... who's joined up with the opposition, becomes Noah's enemy, and ultimately takes him down. That kind of sucks. Is he a Woobie yet? - Chick Magnet: Noah has at least four women fall in love with him during the course of the story.
- Combat Pragmatist: Noah does it in his last fight against Zed. He uses five key spirits to fight a Curb-Stomp Battle against Zed.
- Homoerotic Subtext: Noah's love for Zed at times seems more than just friendly, especially the lengths the two will go to meet each other.
- What the Hell Are You?: His reaction when he meets Sachira for the first time.
Aisha
Gale
Keith
Keith
Voiced by: Toru Nara (Japanese), Brandon Hearnsberger (English)
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Keith assumes Noah will take him to Neotopia for breaking the law... Unfortunately for him, Noah was ordered to kill him on the spot. And he does so by stabbing him on the stomach.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Nobody ever wonders what happened to him after he's killed.
Diana
Diana
Voiced by: Yumi Hikita (Japanese), Elizabeth Bunch (English)
Kira
Kira
Voiced by: Komina Matsushita (Japanese), Jessica Boone (English)
- Beautiful All Along: Noah's opinion of Kira when she takes her glasses off.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Only when Noah is involved.
Hyrum
Hyrum
Voiced by: Tomohisa Aso (Japanese), Jovan Jackson (English)
- Distressed Dude: Despite him being huge, he completely averts Authority Equals Asskicking.
Dukeham
Dukeham
Voiced by: Ken Takeuchi (Japanese), Brandon Hearnsberger (English)
- Determinator: He even makes everyone in his army be one too.
Morocco
Morocco
Voiced by: Tomohisa Aso (Japanese), Todd Waite (English)
Despara
Despara
Voiced by: Hiromi Hirata (Japanese), Luci Christian (English)
- Jekyll & Hyde: Inverted with Despara. Roya's mother Jesara used a shard to send her soul inside Despara's body, causing Despara to freak out whenever she's near Roya.
Cloud
Kalb-Hu
Guzman
Guzman
Voiced by: Ken Takeuchi (Japanese), Jonathan Novack (English)
- Dead Guy Junior: Guzman and his wife name their newborn baby Rebecca, after the now deceased Princess Rebecca.
- I Have Your Wife: Guzman is a prisoner in the "dark training grounds" and was forced to undergo harsh training, just like everyone else there.
Ulvarx
Ginga
Ginga
Voiced by: Daisuke Sakaguchi (Japanese), Illich Guardiola (English)
- Dulcinea Effect: Justified since Roya reminds Ginga of his dead lover.
Herrick
Herrick
Voiced by: Shinnosuke Tachibana (Japanese), Adam Van Wagoner (English)
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: When Helic releases Ex-Machina in Neotopia.
Professor Bender
Seekers
Sara
Sara
Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Shelley Calene-Black (English)
- Redemption Equals Death: Near the end, Sara realizes how important Zed was to her as she's dying.
- Yandere: A strange example, being a yandere for Amir Gaul.
Sagiri
Sagiri
Voiced by: Aya Endo (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English)
- Cheerful Child: Before she becomes a Caster.
