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Characters / Magu-chan: God of Destruction

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Main Characters

    Ruru Miyanagi 

Ruru Miyanagi (宮薙流々)

An impoverished but plucky middle-schooler who awakens Magu while digging on the beach for clams.

    Mag Menuek the Destroyer 

Mag Menuek (マグ＝メヌエク) / Magu-chan (マグちゃん) "First Pillar"

The titular god of "Destruction", whose ultimate power can revert all things to nothingness. He is weakened and reduced to a diminutive form after six hundred years spent sealed in a crystal. He was freed by Ruru and currently lives together with her.

Lowly Humans

    Ren Fujisawa 

Ren Fujisawa (藤沢錬)

Ruru's friend and classmate who's always watching over her.

    Rin Fujisawa 

Rin Fujisawa

Ren's older sister. Has an extremely laid back attitude about everything.

     Izuma Kisaragi 

Izuma Kisaragi

A modern descendent of the Holy Knighthood, the same order that sealed away the gods of chaos. His goal is to slay Magu and save the ‘brainwashed’ Ruru.

     Yuika Oze 

Yuika Oze

One of Ruru's friends and classmates. A brash outgoing brat.

     Kikyo Komiyama 

Kikyo Komiyama

One of Ruru's friends and classmates. A shy girl obsessed with cryptozoology who runs the occult research club.
  • Club Stub: Originally the sole remaining member of the occult research club.
  • Embarrassing Hobby: Is initially afraid to tell others that she’s obsessed with the occult, but eventually learns to be less insecure about it when she finds friends to share it with.
  • Otaku: Utterly obsessed with cryptids like aliens, the Loch Ness monster, and of course Magu.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Yuika's Red.
  • They Would Cut You Up: Loves to cut off samples from the beings of chaos for collecting and research.

     Rui Miyanagi 

Rui Miyanagi

Ruru's mother. Works overseas to provide for her daughter.
  • The Ditz: Shown to be just as airheaded as her daughter, including buying a strange toy that neither of them can figure out and not thinking much about her daughter housing a weakened god of destruction in their home.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Was not too bothered by Magu-chan's existence.

     Seira Kisaragi 

Seira Kisaragi

Izuma's younger sister who also serves as a Holy Knight.

Chaos Cultists

    Kanade Akamura 
The new science teacher for Year 3 Class 1 and a Chaos Cultist.
  • *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": How he loses his first encounter with Ruru and Magu.
  • Stern Teacher: The facade he puts on for the class, especially to Izuma (though mostly to keep him away from his attempted ritual), although he does take education seriously regardless and is pleased when Izuma manages to get passing grades in his make-up exams.

Supreme Beings of Chaos

    As a Group 

Gods of Chaos "Six Pillars"

    Naputaaku the Mad 

Naputaaku / Naputa-kun "Fifth Pillar"

The god of "Madness", the power that instills madness in the souls of living things and controls them at will. After being freed from his crystal, he experiences a period of homelessness before he becomes an employee for the Fujisawa family's restaurant.
  • Animalistic Abomination: A chaos god who resembles a bipedal starfish.
  • The Beastmaster: Using his "Madness," he commands an army of hermit crabs. He also unknowingly acquires a Megalodon minion.
  • Breakout Character: Naputaaku not only won the series’s official popularity poll, but won it by a landslide of 19,362 votes, beating series protagonist Mag Menuek (14,960 votes) by a hefty margin. Some attribute this to his unexpected Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass moment, in which he neutralized Muscar’s powers by unleashing his Frenzied Roar when Muscar insulted the Fujisawa Eatery, that happened to occur in a chapter that was released during the polling period. His character development from Butt-Monkey to aspiring Supreme Chef also won him a lot of supporters. His popularity over even the main character was cited when he recieved his own plushie, the only piece of merchandise released after the series had already ended.
  • Butt-Monkey: He's been blasted, stepped on, and even thrown by his own minions into a fire pit.
  • Can't Hold His Liquor: Chapter 21 reveals he is this. One cup and he's knocked off to the point where the Napu taxi (his minions carrying him) is needed.
  • Comically Missing the Point: Unable to comprehend or follow along with the serious conversations he has with the other Pillars.
  • Compelling Voice: His Frenzied Roar fills the listeners' souls with madness, bringing them under Naputaaku's control.
  • Dumpster Dive: While homeless, he scavenges for food in trash cans.
  • Energy Donation: The true nature of Naputaaku's madness is to spiritually give his target the will to do something they normally wouldn't. In the bonus chapter, he unconsciously uses this on Ren to give him the courage to confess to Ruru.
  • Eyes Do Not Belong There: He has an Eyeless Face, but his mad yelling exposes a single eyeball staring out of his throat.
  • The Gambling Addict: Once he learns how money works, he becomes obsessed with it and ends up developing a gambling addiction. It's knocked out of him after some time in the "mines".
  • Harmless Villain: He's much more malicious than Magu, but never manages to hurt anyone, or even use his Compelling Voice on a person instead of just animals.
  • I Control My Minions Through...: Mind control.
  • It Only Works Once: Like Magu-chan, his power expends a lot of his energy. After exhausting himself after a single use of his Frenzied Roar and being left powerless, he learns his lesson and rarely uses his power again.
  • Mad God
  • Person as Verb: Rin coined the term “Napuing” to refer to his frequent episodes of greed-driven recklessness that almost always end in failure.
  • Powerful, but Incompetent: In one volume extra, it is stated that Naputaaku is actually very intelligent, but his mindset is too shallow to really make use of his intellect.
  • Rags to Riches: At the beginning of the series, Naputaaku spends most of his time starved and digging through garbage to get by. When the Fujisawas take him in, he becomes quite dedicated to his part-time work and to cooking, and eventually decides he wants to open a restaurant of his own. He struggles along the way, but the final chapter of the series reveals that he does eventually make it happen, and while it isn't made clear how wealthy he becomes, the fact that he goes from a simple food cart to a real brick and mortar restaurant years later shows he did at least move up the ladder over time.
  • Spell My Name With An S: His name has always been and (as of the time of writing) still is written as “Naputaaku” in the series’s official localization, but based on some merchandise released late into the series’s run, the intended romanization actually appears to be Napturk.
  • Supreme Chef: While working with the Fujisawa family, he learns how to cook and strives to be this.

    Providential Uneras 

Uneras / Une-san "Fourth Pillar"

The god of "Providence", the power that alters the laws of nature and infuses substances with magic. She bestows her magic on the Holy Knighthood and is ultimately responsible for sealing the other gods of chaos. A weakened clone of herself accompanies Izuma and often joins in Ruru and Magu's antics.
  • Allegiance Affirmation: She makes it perfectly clear many times that her interests lie with humanity first and foremost, to the point where she betrays her fellow beings of chaos to help the Holy Knights seal them away.
  • Animal Motifs: Uneras visually resembles Clione, a floating transparent slug, commonly known as "sea angel".
  • Beat Still, My Heart: Her transparent lower-body reveals an exposed heart, which is either a simple Heart Symbol or a realistic heart depending on her form. Her main ability, Pulsing Providence, is evocative of the beating of a heart.
  • Cosplay Otaku Girl: Uses her powers to create costumes to fit whatever situation is happening.
  • Deal with the Devil: She bestows the Holy Knighthood with the ability to use magic, along with various enchanted weapons and magical items. She has also accepted money from Naputaaku on numerous occasions as a payment for her powers.
  • Doting Parent: This to humanity. She is especially a mother figure to Izuma as she educates him, provides him with clothing, and films his performances.
  • Eyeless Face
  • The Faceless: Her true form's face is never depicted. Her clone's face is also concealed when she eats, terrifying her fellow beings of chaos with the ominous chewing noises.
  • Functional Magic: Her "Providence" is essentially magic.
  • Intrigued by Humanity: Her reason for siding with the Holy Knights is that she adores humanity, mostly because she's entertained by their fiction. In the official translation's words she "stans" them.
  • Magic Potion: She can create magical potions and snacks with various effects like a Mana Potion, a Love Potion, a Healing Potion, or a Super Serum.
  • Mr. Exposition: Occasionally–she’s usually the one giving the information when the series goes into its plot and lore.
  • Otaku: She is obsessed with manga and anime, and human culture in general.
  • Our Angels Are Different: She has numerous overlapping qualities with the conventional angel. Her "Providence" serves as Divine Intervention in both name and function. She acts as the Guardian Entity to the Holy Knighthood. Appearance-wise, she resembles a "sea angel" and bears a cross-like star on her chest.
  • Self-Duplication: Like Magu-chan, Uneras can use Morphallaxis to create clones. Her body that primarily appears in the manga is actually a Remote Body.
  • Shipper on Deck: Claims to want Ruru and Ren to get together, though this could just be for the sake of messing with Ren.
  • Slime Girl: Her body is made of a water-like liquid.
  • Spontaneous Weapon Creation: She is responsible for creating various magical items and weapons, such as the Evil Sword of Orichalcos.
  • Summon to Hand: She can summon any of her creations in her possession, including her mass-produced Magu-chan Golems.
  • Super Mode: Morphallactic Strengthening
  • Survivor Guilt: Implied. She seems to have raised many other Holy Knights like Izuma over the centuries, but since she’s immortal, she has also watched them all die, and is chained before the graves of the many fallen.
  • Trickster God: Loves assisting and enabling the antics of the other gods for her own amusement.

    Muscar of Fate 

Muscar / Lord Mu "Third Pillar"

The god of "Fate", the power to predict an undetermined future and make it true. The most elusive of the gods, he has freed himself from the sealing crystal long before the other beings and is rebuilding the Chaos Cult.
  • Achilles' Heel:
    • Chapter 37 reveals that he can't control people's will with his power over "Fate", meaning he can be caught off-guard by how people respond to his phenomena.
    • While it's so far happened once, his power over fate can't make the impossible happen. His attempt to use it to win the cooking competition only ends with him making an unappealing slop that causes Magu to explode upon eating it. Then again, Magu found it as passable as Naaputaaku and Ruru's dishes when she asks at the end of said chapter.
    • He's able to predict and alter fate because of his ear-like appendages, so he's vulnerable to loud noise, making him is unable to use his powers after Naaputaaku uses Frenzied Roar on him.
  • Barrier Warrior: Silence of Fate
  • The Chessmaster: Many of the occurrences in the manga are all part of his plan to bring Magu over to his side.
  • The Comically Serious: His logic and ambition instantly break by Ruru being an All-Loving Hero, constantly embarrassing himself when he attempts to get Magu away from her.
  • Exotic Eye Designs: Has a triangle for his pupil.
  • God in Human Form: He is the only Pillar to take on the form of a human at least initially. It's noted as odd in-universe, considering Muscar's negative viewpoint on humanity. Said human form is based on a human he befriended when he was first unsealed.
  • Harmless Villain: Muscar would be the closest thing to a Knight of Cerebus if only he wasn't a Fair-Play Villain, who's scare tactics are considered harmless pranks by others. The one time he decides to step up his game, he gets quickly defeated and depowered into the smaller version of himself like the rest of the cast.
  • Humans Are Insects: Hates humans and sees them as ignorant fools. It is later revealed that Muscar befriended a kind human when he was unsealed. This friend tried to help the other humans after being warned about an impending disaster from Muscar, but the friend ended up being persecuted and blamed for the disaster. This incident is what lead to Muscar assuming the worst of humanity.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: While he can with ease put other gods into a position where they have to choose between Chaos Cult and humans, he doesn't expect them to pick the latter. He particularly antagonizes Ruru for making Magu and Naputaku "fall from grace" even though they're pretty comfortable as is.
  • Long Game: He predicted Uneras would betray the beings of chaos 600 years ago and devised a long-term scheme to Take Over the World.
  • Seers: Known as the Prophet among the Pillars.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: With Magu, whom he reminds at every opportunity how divine a proper god should behave, with nobody paying attention.
  • Surrounded by Idiots: He’s constantly lamenting the other pillars' fall from grace and is eternally frustrated with how them frolicking around and getting involved in dumb shenanigans makes them difficult to rally to his side.
  • Weather Manipulation: He can adjust the weather to cause snowstorms, create tornadoes, and call down lightning.
  • Winds of Destiny, Change!: His Adjustment of Fate allows him to control the laws of probability. He can cause unnatural coincidences to create a favorable situation, or cause all attacks against him to miss due to bad luck.

    Nosu Koshu of Illusions 

Nosu Koshu / Lady Nosu "Sixth Pillar"

The god of "Dreams", the power of illusion that brings about sleepiness and enchantment.

    Yupisusu the Eternal 

Yupisusu / Yuppi "Second Pillar"

The god of "Eternity", the power to catch time and reel it in.
  • Ambiguous Gender: Is referred to in purely gender-neutral terms.
  • The Comically Serious: The reveal that they're the unflappable narrator of the entire manga makes them this, not to mention how they just take the 'Yuppi' nickname in stride.
  • Creepily Long Arms
  • Godzilla Threshold: Their appearance causes Uneras and Muscar to declare a temporary truce.
  • "Groundhog Day" Loop: Has the ability to create one.
  • Narrator All Along: Their text boxes and font used matches that of the narrator that's been present throughout the series. At the end of their arc, they travel through space-time to go back to the past in order to witness the development of Ruru and Magu's bond for themself, implying the existence of a Time Paradox in which the narration the readers saw was Yupisusu's monologue the entire time.
  • Time Master: Eternal Grasp

Other Beings of Chaos

    Zonze Ge of Despair 

Zonze Ge / Unisuke "Rankless"

A rankless being of "Despair", the power which drags out the darker side of one’s psyche. After causing a rampage because of his excessive pessimism, he befriends Yuika Oze and now resides in the occult research clubroom.
  • Apologizes a Lot: Self-deprecatingly apologizes for his every action, including existing in your line of sight.
  • Claustrophobia: Inverted. He enjoys small, dark and enclosed spaces.
  • Cyclops
  • Emotional Powers: The more negative emotions he feels, the more spines he grows.
  • Emotion Bomb: His Barbs of Despair induces others to feel despair.
  • Nervous Wreck: Fears everything and assumes the worst in every situation.
  • Prone to Tears: He is nearly always depicted as crying.
  • Sea Hurtchin: Instead of causing physical pain, touching his spines causes emotional suffering.
  • The Eeyore: His entire personality. He gets even more depressed when he causes others to feel despair too.

    Gu La the Adamantine 

Gu La / Glassy "Rankless"

A rankless being of "Adamantine", the unyielding power to regenerate and strengthen one’s physical form. Obsessed with obtaining the rank of a Pillar for himself, he challenges Magu and fails. After being consoled by Kikyo Komiyama, he now lives together with her.
  • Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Believes he can be promoted if he proves his strength.
  • Boisterous Weakling: Challenges Magu for the title of God of Destruction multiple times, only to be repeatedly defeated.
  • Dumb Muscle: He’s simple-minded and doesn’t understand complicated things, but his power of adamantine makes him quite physically versatile, and he’s always eager to show it off.
  • Giant Enemy Crab: Subverted.
  • Healing Factor: The power of "Adamantine" specializes in the regeneration of the physical body.
  • Partial Transformation: He can freely alter his claws into any shape, notably a giant serpent-like head.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: He acts like he is stronger than everyone else, and that he deserves to be ranked among the Pillars.
  • Swiss-Army Appendage: His ability, Adamantine Jaw, can transform his claws into various different tools like a mesh ladle or a vacuum cleaner.

    Ninitsy the Astral 

Ninitsy / Ninicchi "Rankless"

A rankless being of "Astral", the power to open holes in the Astral Plane that connect two locations. It currently serves Seira Kisaragi.

    Shuro Shimo the Forgetful 

Shuro Shimo / Shuro-shi "Rankless"

A rankless being with the power to wipe memories who was released by the Chaos Cult sometime during the gang's high school years.

Minions of the Supreme Beings

    Frenzied Troops 

Frenzied Troops

A total of 100 hermit crabs that serve Naputaaku through the power of his Frenzied Roar. They're loyal minions that refer to Naputaaku as "Leader". The majority of them live on the beach, working in shifts to serve their leader.
  • Adorable Evil Minions: They're just normal hermit crabs following a mad god's will.
  • Happiness in Mind Control: Subverted–they adore their leader Naputaaku and are perfectly content to be his minions, but it turns out Naputaaku's power wore off on them long ago and they are simply following him because they like him.
  • The Swarm

    White-winged Messenger 

White-winged Messenger

A pigeon that serves as a messenger for the Holy Knighthood and as Uneras' personal mount.

    Ruler of the Sea 

Ruler of the Sea

A giant shark that was unintentionally summoned by Naputaaku's Frenzied Roar for a fishing contest. It continues to interact with the rest of the Frenzied Troops, despite their leader's trauma of the shark.
  • Female Monster Surprise: The characters assumed she was male for the majority of the series, but then she puts on a dress to look good for Naputaaku.
  • Ignored Enamored Underling: Chapter 63 reveals that she has an unrequited crush on Naputaaku.
  • The Makeover: In chapter 63, Uneras gives her one so that she looks more appealing to her leader...and ends up turning her into a Magical Girl. Apparently she permanently keeps both her bow and her new ability to fly.

    B.S. (Blood-soaked Pitch-dark Hound) 

B.S. (Blood-soaked Pitch-dark Hound)

A Shiba Inu puppy that was picked up by Magu. Originally thought to be a stray, Magu raises the puppy as his own minion until the puppy is reunited with its family. Magu continues to interact with B.S. with its family's permission.
  • Androcles' Lion: As thanks to Magu for taking care of him, B.S. agrees to become his minion. He later comes in just in time after an extended absence to save Magu when Muscar almost defeats him.
  • Dog Walks You: In chapter 57, Magu has a difficult time controlling the now grown-up and much stronger B.S.
  • I Got Bigger: While his first few appearances show him as a puppy, he later returns as a fully-grown dog.
  • Only Known by Initials: Shortened from its original Overly Long Name.

    Copy Magu-chan 

Copy Magu-chan

A copy of Magu-chan created by Uneras. It was created to serve as a decoy to distract Muscar. It continues to live with Muscar, even after being discovered as a fake.

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