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With at least 90 party members planned, Rakenzarn Tales is not lacking in the good guys department.

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    Lead Characters 
The ones who the story revolves around.

Tropes for both:

Kyuu Renjo

Series: Detective School Q

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  • Adaptational Badass: He goes from an ordinary detective to skilled warrior.
  • A Friend in Need: A particularly awesome and heartwarming one in Chapter 5, if the player makes him choose to go back to Rakenzarn after being back in his world. He explicitly says that he goes back because he promised his friends to help them restore Rakenzarn. In general, he makes several times clear that he will stick with his friends until they manage to save Rakenzarn from the plague.
  • Badass Bookworm: He becomes one as the story goes along.
  • Berserk Button: Harming children. It's far more prominent when he's Chaotic Good, as in Chapter 3, he goes from trying to talk the kidnappers down to outright telling them to stop, not even regretting using force to stop them afterward.
  • Blue Is Heroic: The colors most associated with him are black and blue.
  • Childhood Friends: With Megumi.
  • Covert Pervert: The sight of Elvina tied up and gagged... appeals to him.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Has shades of this, but most noticeable when he's Chaotic Good.
  • Empty Levels: Despite being the protagonist, Kyuu has pretty pitiful stat growth, with only decent HP and RP increases and only a tiny bit to his others. This is, however, both justified in that Kyuu is not a natural fighter and thus wouldn't gain as much from combat as the others and exploited in that it encourages the player to get Kyuu to go and train with others in order to gain the moves he needs to survive.
  • Friend to All Children: He immediately comes to help two children that were bullied by Samuel. Even earlier than that, however, if Chaotic Good, he won't even try to negotiate with the kidnappers in Chapter 3.
  • Great Detective: Some sidequests even allow him to show his detective skills.
  • Heroic BSoD: A brief one in the beginning of Chapter 10, after Noel has been gravely wounded by Deathstroke. Luckily, Nina and Kite manage to talk him out of it.
  • Magic Knight: One of the easiest things to make him.
  • Memetic Psychopath: In-Universe, after The Morning Glory guild frame the Nutsy Guild in Chapter 9. Exaggerated and Justified if Kyuu is Chaotic Good, since his reputation is deemed "unpredictable" and "questionable" as is.
  • Morality Pet: If you do the Romance Sidequest with Yuffie, he will become one for her.
  • Mutually Exclusive Party Members: You have to pick between him or Kyros at the start of the game.
  • Nice Guy: Due to his Lawful Good nature. See also A Friend in Need.
  • Smart Guy: The main reason why he's made leader.
  • Super Drowning Skills: He's self-admitted as the worst swimmer in his class.
  • The Strategist: For his brigade. It's one of the reasons why they made him the leader.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Both in terms of character level and in-game skill. In Chapter 0, he's so weak as to be exhausted by one fight. By Chapter 7, he can block a punch in his bare hands.
  • Weak, but Skilled: Kyuu's shtick is his class, Arxus Sleuth, which allows him to learn a huge variety of moves and spells. This is further augmented by his Sphere Staff weapon, which allows him to change moves and spells on the fly. However, his initial strength means he could be killed by a slap on the cheek, so he has to work out a lot to survive.
  • What You Are in the Dark: In Chapter 5, Kyuu is back home and has the choice of staying or going back and seeing it through to the end.

Kyros Tazanuki

Series: Original

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  • Affectionate Nickname: His best friend Mayu calls him "Kyr." Subverted with Kyros himself since he doesn't like the name, comparing it to wine. Implied he can't stand wine. That doesn't stop Mayu, though.
  • All-Loving Hero: Kyros's defining trait. Not only he's such a nice guy, he's willing to help those in need.
  • Asian and Nerdy: Has shades of this. He's certainly nerdier than Kyuu.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Kyros is nice and a goofy fanboy, but he's not a pushover. The scumbag from the beginning, Pete, and Samuel learn this the hard way.
  • Character Tics: He tends to engage in Knuckle Cracking before fights.
  • The Ditz: Not exactly the brightest either. He completely misses the point when someone is threatening him. Insulting his intelligence isn't going to get him to rile up. Calling him stupid, however...
  • Fan Boy: An adoring fanboy who never stops squealing over his heroes like a little kid. And he won't stop gushing about his favorite video game characters.
  • Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Or siblings, in this case. They see fictional entertainment as meaningless.
  • Genre Savvy: From the glut of entertainment he's consumed, he's well-versed in tropes.
  • Good Old Fisticuffs: He's probably one of the very few Isekai protagonists who use their fists instead of a sword.
  • Hidden Depths: He's apparently better at being a leader than most would think. He's also planning to pursue art as a career.
  • Mutually Exclusive Party Members: It's either him or Kyuu as the main for this game.
  • Nerves of Steel: Don't let his goofy behavior fool you. This is shown when he immediately steps in to protect Mayu from a pervert, then proceeds to beat up said scumbag out of self-defense.
    Scumbag: What're you lookin' at me, huh? You wanna fight?!
  • Nice Guy: He's very kind to a fault.
  • Parental Abandonment: Both his parents croaked at an early age, leading to...
  • Promoted to Parent: He was brought up by his siblings.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: His starting stats are higher than Kyuu's and he can use any non-exclusive weapon due to his class, Arxus Hero. But as a consequence of being self-taught and lacking real combat experience, his moveset is more simplistic and lacks in versatility.

     Main Party Members 

Kite

Series: .hack

Class Type: Adept

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Dark Magician Girl

Series: Yu-Gi-Oh!

Class Type: Spellcaster

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Sakura Kasugano

Series: Street Fighter II

Class Type: Fighter

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Kanata Saionji

Series: UFO Baby

Class Type: Adept

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  • A Day in the Limelight: Chapters 9 and 10, especially in Hinode Village, Furude Shrine and Goka City's Hospital. In general, he's relatively Out of Focus until the Kandur Arc, during which we learn more about him and the pressure he's feeling because his father expects him become an onmyoji like him and to be his successor.
  • Heir to the Dojo: His father expects him to become an onmyoji like him.
  • Magic Knight: Uses both spells and sword techniques.
  • Mighty Glacier: Very easily turns into one when you discover one of his most powerful secrets... He can equip shields.
  • Not Distracted by the Sexy: He does not want Lilith to kiss him as a reward.
  • Not So Above It All: Plays "I Spy" with Donald and Daffy when they are guarding the entrance of Furude Shrine.

Nina Sakura

Series: Ultra Maniac

Class Type: Healer

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Noel Vermillion

Series: BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

Class Type: Speedster

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  • A-Cup Angst: Big time. Commenting on the size of her chest and/or mistaking her for a boy is her Berserk Button. Zander can discover it the hard way if she's in your team when you fight him.

Kanon

Series: Umineko: When They Cry

Class Type: Fighter

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  • Attractive Bent-Gender: During an optional cutscene, Piccolo is trying to convince Daffy Duck, Ed and Eddy to behave more professionally, using Kanon as an example. Daffy begs to differ, citing Kanon's crossdressing incident, complete with a picture of it in which he looks a lot like Reimu Hakurei. Kyuu (jokingly?) comments that Kanon looks kinda hot.
  • The Comically Serious: When he has to handle the antics of the other members of the Nutsy Guild, he's sometimes this.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: He uses Dark spells. He's still a good guy.
  • Deadpan Snarker: One of the biggest in the game, along with Axel.
  • Defrosting Ice King: A non-romantic version. Of all of Kyuu's first allies, he's probably the most distant and the slowest to befriend. After a few chapters, he'll acknowledge Kyuu as his leader and his friend. Especially if, in an optional cutscene, you decide to stay and help him after the battle against the Shocker instead of chasing the bad guy. And if you do his sidequests.
  • Good Is Not Nice: Always says what he thinks, even when it's rude, and can be quite insulting and sarcastic.
  • Hidden Depths: Apparently, he's a great cook.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be a Deadpan Snarker, but he REALLY cares about his friends.
  • The Lancer: For Kyuu. He shares this role with Kite and Axel.
  • Magic Knight: Uses both sword techniques and dark spells.
  • Not So Above It All: Version 3 reveals that he's insecure about his height... And that he's ready to take a job when the reward is a pair of boots that make people seem taller, even when a second before the reveal of the boots he wasn't interested at all.
  • Ship Tease: With Noel. He often teases her and chastised her the time she was dreaming about meeting her own "prince charming". He's also one of the most distraught when she's gravely wounded by Deathstroke.
  • Super-Strength: He's able to knock out a man with a finger, to effortlessly throw Raku across the street and to smash down a door blocked with a cupboard.

Axel Akamura

Series: Original

Class Type: TBA

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  • The Ace: The closest one to this trope in Kyuu's brigade. He's talented in plenty of fields, ranging from swordfighting and magic to cooking.
  • Ascended Extra: He's introduced at the start of Chapter 4 saving Kyuu from the Assassin, before quickly disappearing. However, Dark Kyu clearly favors him as a character, since he programmed multiple quests to factor him in if he's in the party, if not simply outright including him in the quest's cutscenes. He even shows up for the "Stolen Money" quest if you have him recruited alreadynote ! It's even reflected in this wiki, as he is the only character who was not a member of Kyuu's original brigade listed on the "Main Characters" folder.
  • Hidden Depths: Barring Kyuu, (also Deadpool, but that was a given, and possibly Raku), he's the only person in Rakenzarn so far who has a knowledge of the real world. For example, he knows Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series and is able to tell that Nanael, Alleyne and Nowa are characters from Queen's Blade. The story hasn't explained yet how he knows that. It's implied that he comes from the real world too.
  • The Knights Who Say "Squee!": His first reaction when he meets Deadpool is to let out what the dialogue lines transcribe as a "fanboy squeal".
  • The Lancer: For Kyuu. He shares this role with Kite and Kanon.
  • Magic Knight: Uses both physical attacks and blue fire magic. However, he's a lot better with his sword and wrestling techniques.
  • The Nicknamer: Q-Ball for Kyuu, Little Miss Crazy for the Assassin. He even lampshades his status.
  • Playing with Fire: His element is blue fire.
  • Supreme Chef: Much to the dismay of Noel and Dark Magician Girl.
  • Troll: He has several moments, mostly with his enemies. Check some of his dialogues with Kyuu, the Assassin, Nanael, Bowser or the Knights Who Say Ni. One notable example is the scene where he tells Kyuu the sad story of his Dark and Troubled Past... before revealing that he was simply messing with him. In reality, he's just looking for his friends.
  • Wrestler in All of Us: Several of his special attacks are wrestling techniques.

Mitsu Farria

Series: Mitsu Story The Forgotten Odyssey

Class Type:

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  • Anti-Hero: She genuinely does mean well. She just gets blindsided by cash easily.
  • Ascended Extra: An interesting example. She's initially a optional recruitable character in the previous version, but in the newest version where there are two scenarios, she becomes this in Kyros' Route.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: Mitsu may be unlucky when it comes to money and gets into trouble a lot, she's still a very competent fighter. When she gets serious, she'll make the party know she's dead serious.
  • Covert Pervert: She actually does like getting tied up and doing so. She just won't admit it.
  • Greed: Her Fatal Flaw.
  • Interspecies Romance: She's dating a catgirl named Vri.

     Optional Party Members 
The other characters who might join your party over the course of the game.

Suki from DIDNapper

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  • Anti-Villain: Type 4. Depending of your choices in her first sidequest, you may have to fight her. But she's not in the least malicious. Only in Version 2 however.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: When she's kidnapped by the Countess. Clearly Fighting from the Inside, though.
  • Break the Cutie: Her backstory. She was a princess, supposed to inherit the throne of her kingdom. But she was betrayed by her best friend, sold to a kidnapping guild and presumed dead by everyone.
  • Dual Boss: She's fought alongside with Carol.
  • Heel–Face Turn: She wasn't evil even to begin with, but she still worked for a kidnapping rogue guild. She may join Kyuu's brigade.
  • Forced into Evil: She works for her rogue guild because she doesn't have any other choice. It becomes even more literal when she's brainwashed by Countess Rivka.
  • Minion with an F in Evil: Justified, since she's been Forced into Evil. Only in Version 2 and later however. In older versions, she's harsher and less reluctant to work for her rogue guild.
  • Optional Boss: Can be fought in the Stolen Money sidequest, but you can avoid this fight depending on your choices.
  • Promoted to Playable: She was moved up to party member status for Version 4.
  • The Unreveal: We never find out who hired her to kidnap the daughter of the owner of the trading company, although it's implied that it's the daughter's mother, divorced from her father, though this was subverted in the revised quest for Version 4. Ditto for Countess Rivka.

Luigi from Mario Bros. (Stone Wall)

Mario from Donkey Kong (Glass Cannon)

Sonic The Hedgehog (Fragile Speedster)

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Nanael from Queen's Blade (Glass Cannon)

Negi Springfield from Negima! Magister Negi Magi (Black Mage)

Asuna from Negima! Magister Negi Magi (Glass Cannon)

  • Anti-Magic: Like in her home series. In-game, this is represented by having a Magic Defense stat in the thousands.
  • Brutal Honesty
    (to Kyuu) "When I first met you, I thought you're an unreliable idiot."
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Non-romantic version. At first, she's wary of Kyuu. She will change her mind after witnessing his abilities and how much he cares for his friends.
  • Fiery Redhead: Red hear and a Leeroy Jenkins.
  • Leeroy Jenkins: She has shades of this. Basically, her first reaction when confronted to a problem is to beat the crap out of it.

Nowa from Queen's Blade (Fragile Speedster)

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Donald Duck (Black Mage)

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Daffy Duck (Jack of All Trades)

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  • Ascended Extra: He went from an optional party member in prior versions to automatically joining on both routes.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: The other members of Densel Town aren't really fond of him.
  • Jerkass: He can be really insulting towards his teammates. In spite of this, he still has his standards. In an optional scene during the Inn of Evil sidequest, he expresses his disgust of Katz's murderous schemes.
    • Hidden Heart of Gold: He does eventually warm up to the party as the game progresses and he sees how good they are.
  • Toxic Friend Influence: He causes a lot of trouble for the others thanks to his quick-to-get-rich schemes. His involvement in Chapter 1-1 is due to getting Donald and himself in over their heads trying to solve the initial problem.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Donald. They often hang out with each other, in spite of their disputes.

Goofy from Kingdom Hearts II

Dirk the Daring from Dragon's Lair (Glass Cannon)

Atossa (OC: Buffer)

Cain Argol (OC: Lightning Bruiser)

  • And Then What?: Briefly ponders on this after the death of the Amphisbaena. If Kyuu's alignment is Lawful Good or Neutral Good, he will join his brigade.
  • An Ice Person: His element is ice.
  • The Atoner: A possible interpretation of his quest to slay the Amphisbaena.
  • Combat Medic: He knows a healing spell.
  • Dual Wielding: He fights with two swords.
  • It's Personal: With the Amphisbaena. The creature killed his friends and he wants his revenge.
  • Leeroy Jenkins: A tragic example. It's implied that he was one in the past. He got his friends killed because of that.
  • Magic Knight: He's first of all a warrior, but he knows a few useful spells.
  • My Greatest Failure: During a past mission, he had to fight a giant snake called the Amphisbaena with his friends Esper and Umbra. However, he got reckless and attacked the beast alone. His friends tried to protect him and were killed by the monster. He was the only survivor and is deeply haunted by his mistake.
  • The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: He wants to slay the Amphisbaena to avenge his comrades and is ready to fight anyone who tries to deny him his kill.
  • Revenge: His main motivation.
  • Survivor's Guilt: It's heavily implied that he considers himself responsible of the death of his comrades.

Reiko Hinomoto from Rumble Roses (Glass Cannon)

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Crash Bandicoot

The Tazmanian Devil from Looney Tunes

Fabled Grimro from Yu-Gi-Oh!

Mayu Ishikawa (OC)

  • It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: In-Universe example. She has no interest in isekai stories and a beef with Genshin Impact in particular. The ham-fisted irony that she is now in said genre in a world where she might possibly run into those characters does not escape her.
  • Mutually Exclusive Party Members: She's only recruitable on Kyros' route.
  • Not So Above It All: For all her griping about Kyros' fanboy behavior, she has her own fangirl squealing moments when meeting Asuka and winds up pointing out the tropes of her own situation.
  • Ship Tease: With Kyros. Her fondness is more subtle to his obvious attraction.
  • Weapon Specialization: Her primary weapon is her whip, one which she stumbles upon shortly after arriving.

Asuka Kazuma from Tekken

Ritz Terraglade (OC)

  • And Call Him "George": Her massive strength means she tends to crush people with hugs. And she's a hugger.
  • Dumb Muscle: She can knock someone into the ground with one punch and has brains comparable to Winnie the Pooh.
  • Your Favorite: She attempts to bribe Nerizza at one point with her favorite dish. Nerizza refuses to fall for it a second time.

Knuckles the Echidna from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles

  • Promoted to Playable: Up to Version 2, he was a Support member before becoming playable in Version 4.

Yuffie Kisaragi from Final Fantasy VII

Yuri Lowell from Tales of Vesperia

Link from The Legend of Zelda

Geno from Super Mario RPG

Asterix

Tomba!

Cornell from Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness

Autolycus from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

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