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The characters of the manga Monster Hunter Orage:

Shiki Ryûhô

If you don't have trust, you dreams will never come true! A heart of trust and the strength of one's bond are what make a real hunter! I believe in you!

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An optimistic and friendly hunter. He has the mark of the Forbidden Hunter, allowing him access to all hunting grounds. Shiki received this for his late master Greylee, who turns out to be the father of Ailee, a fellow hunter Shiki meets and is determined to befriend. Shiki's goal is to defeat Myo Galuna, the forbidden dragon of light. He strongly believes in his comrades.


  • Blow You Away: His twin swords can generate powerful gusts of wind.
  • Captain Oblivious
  • Chaste Hero: Shiki never shows even minimal interest in relationships that go deeper than friendship despite his travelling companions being two attractive, busty women. When he's naked with Ailee and Sakya at the hot springs, he doesn't get embarrassed or even comments on it.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: In nearly every chapter, he yells, trying to communicate to his dead master about an accomplishment they made.
  • Conveniently an Orphan: Shiki is an orphan who lost his parents in a fire. This lets him be takin in as Greylee's apprentice and become a Forbidden Hunter in a quest to hunt down a legendary dragon.
  • Dual Wielding: He wields the twin wind swords Sou Kaze Ha / Sou Fuu Jin (Arashi) which are said to be made from the materials of Myo Galuna.
  • Expy: Looks like Gray, but acts like Natsu.
  • Fearless Fool: Greylee decided to make Shiki a Forbidden Hunter because the boy never shows any fear to face monster no matter how menacing they are.
  • The Hero: The manga follows the typical Idiot Hero Shiki's monster hunting adventures with his group of comrades.
  • Hot-Blooded: He's always shouting to show his enthusiasm for adventure.
  • Idiot Hero: He's an impulsive fool who recklessly jumps into action without thinking.
  • Keet: He's almost always happy and cheerful.
  • The Knights Who Say "Squee!": He goes pretty much into fanboy mode when talking about his late master Greylee.
  • The Power of Friendship
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Hot-Blooded and childish Red Oni to Curlon's cool-headed and suave Blue Oni.
  • Scars are Forever: Shiki has a thin lined scar on his right cheek.
  • Taking the Bullet: In Chapter 6, he takes a water attack from a sea monster to protect Ailee.
  • Temporal Theme Naming: Shiki's name is Japanese for "four seasons". This is in keeping with Mashima's personal tradition of naming main characters after seasons, following Haru (spring) from Rave Master, Natsu (summer) from Fairy Tail, Aki (autumn) from Monster Soul, and Mafuyu (winter) from the one-shot Fighting Force Mixture.
  • True Companions: His master Greylee, Ailee, and Sakya. Eventually Curlon.
  • Wild Child: He lost his hometown and family to a fire when he was a kid, so he survived on his own in the dangerous mountains where he hunted monsters to eat until Greylee found him and made him his pupil.
  • You're Just Jealous: Shiki says this to Ailee a lot, claiming she's just jealous of the close bond Shiki shared with Greylee, Shiki's master and Ailee's father. In reply, Ailee is always displeased and denies this.

Ailee Jeskar

Don't involve my partners into a crime. Are you really a hunter!!?

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An experienced hunter who initially wants nothing to do with Shiki, Ailee decides to join Shiki on his quest to defeat Myo Galuna following her discovery that Shiki was her late father's student. However, she firmly refuses to become Shiki's comrade until she gradually starts to trust him and Sakya.


  • Berserk Button: Because of her past, Ailee will not tolerate any suggestion to working with the black market, especially if her comrades could get involved.
  • BFS: Her weapon is a Long Sword.
  • Broken Bird: Her painful past involving a betrayal from people who claimed to be her friends left her bitter and reluctant to become part of a team again. She gets better thanks to Shiki and Sakya being real friends who would risk themselves to protect her.
  • Celibate Heroine: She rebuffs Curlon's advances because she wants even less to do with romance than with friendship.
  • Cynicism Catalyst: There was a time Ailee did believe in The Power of Friendship, but she became convinced it was all a rubbish after the members of her party got involved with the black market and when she turned them in while taking the fall with them, they came to hate her and mocked her father for believing in Myo Galuna. Thanks to Shiki, Ailee starts to believe in friendship again.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Her former party who claimed to be her friends decided to lie about completing a mission in order to get some quick cash by selling the monster to the black market, but Ailee told on them. Her "friends" were arrested, and because Ailee was associated with them, she was expelled from taking the Forbidden Hunter Exam and can never become a Forbidden Hunter as a result. The final nail in the coffin was her "friends" mocking the existence of Myo Galuna and calling her late father a liar.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: At first, she acts aloof and is reluctant to accept she's friends with Shiki and Sakya. After a while, she warms up to them after they show her they're trustworthy and loyal.
  • Fiery Redhead: She has reddish pink hair and the aggressive, feisty personality to fit into the stereotype.
  • Forgotten First Meeting: She's the daughter of Shiki's master Greylee and Shiki briefly saw her once at Greylee's funeral, but both fail to recognize each other until they realize their mutual connection to Greylee at the end of the first chapter.
  • Friendship Denial: For the first half of the series, she's constantly denying Shiki's declarations that she's his and Sakya's friend, claiming she's just traveling with them to find Myo Galuna. As Chapter 6, she can call them her comrades when talking to other people at least.
  • Girlish Pigtails: She always wears her hair in twintails, which is a typical trademark of Tsundere girls in manga.
  • Heal the Cutie: Ailee lost her faith in The Power of Friendship after her former party dealt with the black market and then literally spat on her face when she turned them in to the police. After meeting Shiki and Sakya, her adventures with them make Ailee able to trust and be happy to be part of a team again.
  • I Work Alone: At first, she refuses to join a party, but she soon becomes cooperative in teamwork after starting her journey with Shiki and Sakya.
  • Ineffectual Loner: She tries to be a loner who doesn't want to trust or rely on her teammates, but that only gets her hurt and in need to be protected by said teammates. She grows out of it after Chapter 6.
  • Like Brother and Sister: Her relationship with Shiki is a lot like that of a serious older sister and her energetic little brother who annoys her, but she cares about him nonetheless. Since Ailee's father was Shiki's master who pretty much raised him, they really could be considered adopted siblings.
  • Loner-Turned-Friend: After a very bad fall out with her former party, Ailee had decided she didn't want to make friends or be part of a team ever again. Then she goes out on a journey with Shiki and Sakya to find Mya Galuna. After some reluctance, Ailee accepts her two companions as her new friends.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She turned herself and her party in after her teammates sold the monsters they killed to the black market without her knowledge. As a result, Ailee was permanently banned from Forbidden Hunter Exam.
  • Parental Abandonment: Her father Greylee died when she was a kid and her mother is nowhere to be found as well.
  • Plucky Girl: She's strong-willed and feisty no matter how strong the monsters she faces are.
  • The Power of Friendship: Takes her a while to regain this, but she eventually does thanks to Shiki.
  • Shameless Fanservice Girl: She doesn't mind wearing a bikini when hunting a sea monster and actually finds it comfortable.
  • Shorttank: She's the hot-headed and tomboyish female co-lead in a Shōnen manga. Fitting the image of the trope, she wears a midriff-baring top and a miniskirt.
  • Signature Headgear: She ties up her twintails with distinct ribbons that look a lot like cat ears, which is lampshaded by Shiki in Chapter 2.
  • Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Her abrasive and unsociable behavior is the result of her supposed friends turning against her after she told the authorities they were dealing with the black market of monsters. Ailee doesn't want to make friends again because she doesn't want to go through something that painful ever again. Once Shiki and Sakya prove her that they're truly good people who won't ever do something to hurt her, she accepts them as her first true friends.
  • The Stool Pigeon: A Concerned Claire type. After she found out her party was selling the monsters they killed to the black market, Ailee turned them in and went to jail with them, even though she had nothing to do with their shady business. Ailee was willing to start over with her party members, even though she lost the qualificantions to become a Forbidden Hunter because of their crimes, but they spitefully turned her away because she ratted them out.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: She's much brasher and tougher than Sakya, the other girl in the party.
  • Tsundere: Harsh type. She acts very unfriendly and grumpy when Shiki first meets her. After joining the journey, she still refuses to admit Shiki and Sakya are her friends for a while. When she inadvertently refers to Shiki and Sakya as her comrades for the first time when telling off Gordon, Ailee immediately blushes and tries to deny what she said.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She has no fear of facing monsters, but the idea of seeing a ghost spooks her.

Sakya

I've decided this is my last fight. I can't let myself run from this.

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The daughter of a famous Equipment Technician, Sakya's goal is to defeat Deruoimasu to protect the home she lived with her mother, who was killed by a Deruoimasu. After defeat the Druoimasu alongside Shiki and Ailee, Sakya joins Shiki's and Ailee's quest to find Myo Galuna.


  • Action Girl
  • BFG: She's a Gunner, it comes with the territory.
  • Face Death with Dignity: When Sakya decides that fighting the Deruoimasu will be her last fight, she smiles at Ailee and tells her to escape and take Shiki with her. Fortunately, Shiki and Ailee stay to fight with her and all come out alive.
  • Long-Range Fighter: While Shiki and Ailee are swordfighters, Sakya is a gunner who provides support from the distance.
  • Nice Girl: She's very friendly and polite.
  • Parental Abandonment: She has a Disappeared Dad and a Missing Mom who were killed by a Deruoimasu.
  • Plucky Girl: She spent years fighting a Deruoimasu over and over again all alone despite having little to no chances of winning and coming out badly injured every time. When Shiki and Ailee meet her, Sakya hasn't given up and her spirit is still strong.
  • Reluctant Fanservice Girl: She feels embarrassed when she's forced to wear a bikini while hunting a sea monster.
  • Sickly Child Grew Up Strong: As a child, she had an illness that drove her father to look for medicinal plants to help her get better only to fail and never come back. As she grew up, she became strong enough to join Shiki's party of hunters as a gunner thanks to the years she spent trying to kill the Deruoimasu that killed her parents.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: Unlike the tomboyish Ailee, Sakya is feminine and emotionally open.
  • Yamato Nadeshiko: A kind and gentle girl with an unbreakable will and a devotion to her late parents and friends.
  • You Killed My Mother: In her introduction, she has been fighting a Deruoimasu that killed her mother for years to avenge her. With Shiki's and Ailee's help, she completes her revenge. Afterwards, she realizes she also avenged her father, who was crystallized by the Deruoimasu when he was trying to retrieve medicinal plants to heal Sakya's illness.

Curlon Belusas

Shiki Ryuho, I will destroy you! It's a deal!

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The labeled "Prince" of Akamaaya Town's Guild and the leader of the Hell Hounds, Curlon is the Number One hunter in the guild and only has eyes for Ailee. He initially thinks nothing of Shiki, but later views him as a love rival for Ailee after Ailee leaves on a journey with Shiki. Curlon decides to do whatever it takes to become a Forbidden Hunter like Shiki in order to catch up to him and destroy him. Has a habit of getting phrases mixed up.


  • 11th-Hour Ranger: He reluctantly joins Shiki's team right before the climactic battle against Myo Galuna.
  • The Champion: He becomes a Forbidden Hunter in hopes it'll make Ailee notice him and to help her achieve her dream of defeating Myo Galuna. He also pretends to cooperate with the poacher Shadow to get him arrested as retribution for getting Ailee's former party involved with the black market in the past.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: Hearing that Ailee left the guild to go with Shiki angers him so much that he destroys part of the guild with an Angst Nuke as he swears to crush Shiki.
  • Curtains Match the Window: White Hair + Gray Eyes.
  • Dogged Nice Guy: He tries inviting Ailee to go on a quest with him despite her explicit lack of interest in working on a team.
  • Hopeless Suitor: The object of his affections Ailee wants nothing to do with him, but he fails to catch on and convinces himself she's being shy.
  • Imaginary Love Triangle: He thinks Shiki stole Ailee from him when any interest Ailee had in him only existed in his mind. Also, Shiki and Ailee aren't romantically attracted to each other; they're Like Brother and Sister before anything.
  • Ineffectual Loner: When he goes through the Dark Side to become a Forbidden Hunter.
  • Malaproper: He has a habit of saying phrases wrong and people need to tell him how to say it right.
  • Prince Charming Wannabe: Curlon thinks Ailee is "just shy" and that's why she avoids him. She's just not interested.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The cool-headed and suave Blue Oni to Shiki's Hot-Blooded and childish Red Oni.
  • Rivals Team Up: Curlon joining Shiki, Ailee, and Sakya in defeating the Girkuza. He seems to only team up with Shiki simply for Ailee's sake when she tells him to believe in Shiki because he's her True Companion.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Curlon or Kowloon?
  • Unknown Rival: He declares Shiki to be his rival after Ailee joins his journey and thinks he must beat Shiki to win her back. Meanwhile, Shiki is oblivious to this and he asks Curlon to be one of his comrades because he lokes having friends better than rivals.

Greylee Jeskar

A true hunter possesses knowledge... and values their teammates more than anything else!!

Shiki's master and Ailee's father. He was a source of inspiration for Shiki and the one who gave him his Forbidden Hunter seal. The reason why Shiki strongly desires to defeat Myo Galuna is because this was Greylee's unfinished goal. Greylee died in an accident when combining gunpowder.


  • Death by Origin Story: He died when Shiki was a kid. To honor his master's memory, Shiki is out on a quest to find and kill the legendary dragon Myo Galuna.
  • Disappeared Dad: A biological one to Ailee and a surrogate one to Shiki. With Greylee's death, both lost the father in their lives and this serves as their main motivation for finding Myo Galuna, which Greylee couldn't do in life.
  • Killed Offscreen: We see him alive for a few pages in the first chapter before the scene skips to Greylee's funeral where it's mentioned he died in an accident while trying to combine gunpowder.
  • Mentor Occupational Hazard: He taught Shiki all that he knew about monster hunting, gave him the twin wind swords Sou Kaze Ha / Sou Fuu Jin (Arashi) and granted him the right to become a Forbidden Hunter. After Greylee died, Shiki remembered that his master told him to learn the rest on his own and inspired Shiki to kill a legendary dragon.
  • Parental Substitute: He took the orphaned Shiki as his apprentice and became the closest thing Shiki had to a father figure.
  • Plot-Triggering Death: It's his untimely death what motivates Shiki and Ailee to go on their quest to defeat Myo Galuna.
  • Posthumous Character: His funeral takes place at the start of the first chapter. Everything we know about him comes from flashbacks.

Myo Galuna

The Forbidden Dragon of Light

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An enormous Elder Dragon only mentioned as a legend. It is also known as the "forbidden dragon of light."


  • Canon Foreigner: It has never made an appearance in the games. In an interesting twist however, Garuba Daora from Frontier seems to be based off of it in terms of appearance, which doubles as a Mythology Gag since the hero of Orage wields Dual Blades made out of Kushala Daora parts.
  • Light Is Not Good

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