Characters / Shy

The characters of Shy.

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Heroes

Shy/Momijiyama Teru

Shy/Momijiyama Teru

Voiced by: Shino Shimoji (Japanese), Veronica Laux (English)

^{Click here to see Momijiyama Teru}

Designation: Japan

The main character of the story, a shy young girl who just became a hero recently.

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• All-Loving Hero: No matter the situation, Shy/Teru will always see the best in people and do whatever she can do to help them. When she fights fellow hero Stardust in a practice match, the latter beats her to a pulp, gives her a breaking speech that she should give up being a hero for her own good and freely admits that he is a heartless bastard who doesn't care about others. Her response? She claims he is antagonizing her on purpose and trying to awaken her fighting spirit so that she does not get killed in a real battle. To compare, fellow heroine Spirits who was watching the fight was fuming with rage at him.
• Ambiguously Gay: It's very subtle, but there are signs she might be this
  • Her friendship with Iko has all the signs of a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship. As of Chapter 30, they are now on First-Name Basis.
  • When Spirits tries to lighten the mood after a confrontation with Amarariruku, she pretends that she is going to kiss Shy. While she doesn't go through with it and brushes it off as a joke, it takes Shy quite some time to recover from her Luminescent Blush
  • While searching for clues about Amarariruku in Spirits' old orphanage, the two stumble across some old photos where Spirits wears a maid outfit. She then admits that she thinks that Spirits looks cute.
  • When Ai asks her if she would like to join her in the shower, her reaction leaves room for interpretation.
  "Why am I blushing?"
• Baby Of The Bunch: At age 14, Shy is the youngest hero and the most emotionally fragile.
• Bespectacled Cutie: She is this out of costume.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Her hero outfit has a small "S" on her belly (hidden behind her arms in the picture).
• Establishing Character Moment: When we first see her, she is making a public appearance and almost coming to a Stutter Stop. Once she has left the stage and is alone in her room, she is seen clutching the garbage bin

Narration: The Japanese heroine Shy. Real name: Momijiyama Teru. So embarrassed, she could die.

• Flight, Strength, Heart: Pretty much her base powerset, She starts with strength and a jetpack, and the rest of her powers are fueled by her kindness and compassion.
• The Hero: Well, more like "one of the heroes". But she is the main character of the story.
• Hero Does Public Service: Chapter 12 shows her clearing a closed road of some fallen trees.
• Heroic BSoD: After failing to save one girl in the rollercoaster incident and being blamed for it by the media, she refuses to leave her house for one month, loses the power to transform, and wishes that Japan would have another hero besides her.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Constantly. See above.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: After Ai explains to her the basis of how shinobi techniques work, she manages to make a stone curve while flipping it over the water.
• The Leader: During the Tokyo crisis, she gets appointed as the leader of the hero team that tries to enter the Amarariruku.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When she hears that her class is going to get a new member, she immediately asks if she is in a manga.
• Leotard of Power: Part of her hero costume. She is quite embarrassed by it.
• Meaningful Name: You have three guesses as to why she is called Shy, and the first two don't count.
• My Greatest Failure: Again, the rollercoaster incident.
• Personality Powers: All heroes have this. Hers let her create flames.
• Playing with Fire: Her personal power as a superhero, represents her compassion for others.
• Power Copying: First hinted at in Chapter 77 with her superhero outfit changing after combining Hollow's ring with her bracelets. Expanded on later as she communicates with a whale owing to the latter's affinity for animals before finally making use of short ranged wind blades and Wind Clone Ninja Art to be able to put out fires all over town caused by Thumping's volcano.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: When she transforms into Shy, Teru's black hair becomes white.
• Power Stereotype Flip: Despite her power over fire, Teru is outwardly quiet and awkward rather than outspoken or Hot-Blooded. However, it does accurately reflect her deep well of empathy and passion that she's learning to harness.
• Righteous Rabbit: Her hero costume has a hood with rabbit-like ears.
• Shrinking Violet: Her defining character trait. She stutters when she has to speak in front of strangers, gets embarrassed easily, and prefers to stay indoors. Spending time with Iko and making progress as a hero has given her some backbone, but it is still there.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Considering the manga starts with her stuttering her way through a speech in front of a small crowd and vomiting from stress afterward and is immediately followed up with her saving a bunch of people from a stuck roller coaster train while showing little of the stress she showed before, she's obviously a hero who lives up to her hero name, Shy. And that's just the first chapter.
• Sweet Tooth: She likes sweets a lot.
• Took a Level in Badass: She starts the series with some minor Super-Toughness and Super-Strength and basically no combat experience, but gains fire powers during her bout with Stardust and later manages to effectively use these powers against Sveta's ice.

Spirits/Pepesha Andreanof

Spirits/Pepesha Andreanof

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese), Natalie Hoover (English)

^{Click here to see Pepesha Andreanof}

Designation: Russia

The Russian heroine who acts as Shy's mentor. Drinks a lot of alcohol.

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• Action Girl: Basically a given since she is a hero. She also has way more experience than Shy and usually takes the lead role in fights. It's also been mentioned that she stops shootings and bank robbers on a regular basis.
• The Alcoholic: She is almost never seen without a bottle. It turns out she got it from her mother who was for the most time very quiet and aloof, but became a lot more talkative and friendly when drunk.
• Badass in Distress: Sigma "invites" her, through Kfufu, to join him and the rest of Amarariruku on his island through a very elaborate kidnapping scheme.
• Big Sister Instinct: When Stardust beats Shy into a bloody mess, she tries to intervene several times and has to be stopped verbally by Uni-Lord and Stardust himself who point out that this would mean Shy's loss who then would have to give up on being a hero. Even after Shy awakens her flame powers and manages to pass the test, Spirits still blames herself for her condition.
• Cool Big Sis: Is this to Shy.
• Drinking on Duty: Does this all the time, apparently with no negative repercussions.
• Drives Like Crazy: During the mission in Tokyo, she appropriates an unused car as a means of transportation for the heroes. And had a lot of fun terrifying the rest of the team by driving at an extremely high speed and crashing through a wall of black crystals at full throttle that blocked off a bridge they needed to cross.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: She can control gases and transform her own body into gas, making it hard for any enemy to hit her
• Emotionless Girl: Used to be this as a kid since she grew up in poverty.
• Flight: Can use her powers to make herself and others fly.
• Functional Addict: She's a severe alcoholic, but is nonetheless a highly competent and beloved hero around the world.
• The Gadfly: She likes to tease people sometimes to cheer them up and lighten the mood.
• Genki Girl: Is usually very energetic, especially when she is drunk. But if the situation calls for it, she can switch into Sincerity Mode in the blink of an eye.
• The Leader: Acts as this during the mission to the Arctic with Shy and Meng Long, who follow her orders without hesitation.
• Mentor Archetype: Gives Shy some good advice when the latter is devastated by her failure to save a person.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: The only thing that really changes when she transforms into Spirits are her clothes, but until she transforms right in front of them, neither Mr. Isaak nor Miss Natalia has any idea about her being a superhero.
• Secretly Wealthy: It's not clearly established, but Mr. Isaak mentions that she is the main reason his orphanage still exists and she also brings gifts for the children whenever she visits.
• Vodka Drunkenski: Russian, and perpetually plastered.

Uni-Lord

Uni-Lord/"Unnie" / "Yunnie"

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Molly Searcy (English)

Designation: Earth

The overseer of all of Earth's heroes who resides on a space station in Earth's orbit.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Zigzagged: During her first meeting with Shy, she asks her to be called "Unnie" ("Yunnie" in the anime)... but then claims that this was a joke. This doesn't stop Spirits from addressing her as "Unnie" / "Yunni" again in the next frame, so you can think what you like about this.
• Big Good: Acts as the leader of all of Earth's heroes, gives them their missions, and plans their next moves against Amarariruku.
• Cruel to Be Kind: She knows that Shy will have to face stronger opponents in the future, so she organizes a practice match against the ruthless hero Stardust to prepare her for her future adversaries.
• Mr. Exposition: Explains to Iko the exact way the heroes' transformation wristbands work and what Stardust's powers are during his fight against Shy.
• The Faceless: Her face is completely covered by a featureless cloth mask that is part of her dress. The reason why she does so remains unknown, but in Chapter 102 a character that is heavily implied to be her has her face partially revealed to be heavily scarred.
• Not So Above It All: When Iko, who is visiting the heroes' space station, asks if she can take a picture, Uni-Lord declines due to the delicate information they are discussing... so she has to take the photo booth instead.
• Supreme Chef: Makes a fantastic soup. Apparently, the secret is soy sauce.

Stardust/David Wonder Jones

Stardust/David Wonder Jones

Voiced by: Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese), Aaron Campbell (English)

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Designation: Great Britain

A hero who is also a giant rockstar with fans all over the world. Mostly known for his charity efforts.

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• Attack Reflector: Since he does not feel compassion for anyone else, his powers manifest this way. He can redirect all forces away from him, making it look like everything else is going out of it's way to avoid hitting him.
• Break Her Heart to Save Her: Wants Shy to stop being a hero since he believes that her compassion will get her killed in a real battle.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When he reappears some time after his fight with Shy, it takes him some time to recognize her despite the fact that he gave her a No-Holds-Barred-Beatdown the last time they met.
• Celebrity Superhero: He is a world-famous rockstar who is also a superhero.
• Cool Shades: He has a futuristic-styled pair as part of his hero outfit.
• Expy: Of David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" persona.
• Fiction 500: Over the years, he has spent more then 5 billion dollars for charity. For comparison, Paul McCartney, who is considered the richest rockstar in the real world, possesses an estimated net worth around 1.2 billion dollars.
• Lack of Empathy: He claims to have no heart and has no problems beating a young and inexperienced girl like Shy into the ground in an attempt to make her give up on being a hero. A flashback reveals that he already had this mindset when he was a child.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Gives one to Stigma and Kwabara, despite the fact that they both look like children and the latter has an Attack Reflector power.
• Personality Power: His inability to connect with others is reflected in his powers, a shield that deflects any and all damage. Notably in his mock fight with Shy she managed to hit him only after managing to empathise with him.
• Secret Identity: Averted, unlike most heroes he has revealed his real identity. That allowed him to become a famous rockstar who donates all of his earnings to charity.
• Sociopathic Hero: His claim of having no heart and willingness to take ruthless and morally questionable actions make him this.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: He is still a hero and firmly on the side of good, but his Sociopathic Hero tendencies are implied to stem from internalizing a lifetime of people rejecting him as hearthless.
• The Unfettered: When one of his friends falls under the influence of Stigma's ring which cannot be removed by regular means, he simply cuts off the finger and shows no remorse for his action.
• Unscrupulous Hero: He can perform ruthless actions without hesitation, which is why Unilord picked him to fight Shy in a mock battle.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When he arrives at Yurii Orphanage after the latest Amarariruku attack, Shy tries to thank him for his advice that helped her save the civilians. He rejects her thanks, stating that it was her own power that allowed her to save them.
  Stardust: When you achieve something, it is never "thanks" to anyone.

Lady Black/Pilse Dunant

Lady Black/Pilse Dunant

Voiced by: Sayumi Suzushiro (Japanese), Jill Harris (English)

^{Click here to see Pilse Dunant}

Designation: Switzerland

A young and quick-tempered heroine from Switzerland who studies medicine and is a member of the Black Cross.

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• Artificial Limbs: Both of her lower legs are prosthetics.
• Brutal Honesty: She doesn't mince her words at all. But if she does say something that is not an insult, you better pay attention.
• Character Catchphrase: "Stupid!/Are you stupid?" Doubles as a Catchphrase Insult
  • In the second omake, she even tries to pressure Teru to come up with one.
• Combat Medic: She has absolutely no qualms about throwing down and a pissed-off Lady Black is a very intimidating and dangerous foe. In her own words, she's dedicated to saving lives be it through healing or with force.
• Healing Hands: Her special superpower. She can heal wounds and ease things like backache, but regrowing lost limbs seems to be too much for her if her own artificial legs are anything to go by. She eventually realizes that this is merely an application of her real power, which stems from her heart's desire to "get the past back".
• Improbable Age: She's only sixteen years old, but she's already studying at a university to become a nurse.
• In the Name of the Moon: When Shy doesn't recognize her at first, she gives a full introduction speech.
  Lady Black: "In the darkness of the abyss where no light could intrude, we are the black star that shines upon the heart of the earth! Nurse of the Black Cross, Lady Black! If a life can be saved, I will save them!"
• I Shall Taunt You: When Thumping proclaims that only Ai is allowed to face Hollow alone, she tries to make fun of him by calling him a "cute little lizard". However, this doesn't go quite as intended...
  Thumping: "Am I really cute?"
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She gets angry very easily and has no problems pointing out other people's errors, but will go to great lengths to ensure her patient's wellbeing and genuinely likes to help people.
• The Medic: Not only does she have Healing Hands, she is also a medicine student.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Her hair goes from shoulder-length in civilian form to waist-length as a hero.
• Rousing Speech: When she is not busy chiding Shy for her indecisiveness, she is usually giving her one of these.
• Shout-Out: Her last name, Dunant, is a reference to Swiss Humanitarian Henry Dunant who founded The Red Cross.
• Smug Super: She likes to brag about the effectiveness of her powers sometimes.
• Throwing Off the Disability: She lost both her lower legs in an accident long ago. Since she grew up surrounded by mountains, she always felt like she was caught in a cage and started hiking in the mountains with her artificial legs to break out of it. By the time Shy meets her for the first time, she can walk just like everyone else and is an excellent hiker to boot.
• Tsundere: Sure, she can be quick to anger and is often quick to call Shy stupid and yell at her but it's also clear that deep down she thinks very highly of the Japanese heroine and is always one of the first people to offer her support as well as being very quick to put all of her trust in Shy as team leader during the Hollow arc.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Her yelling at and insults towards Shy are basically Pilse's way of telling her that she needs to have confidence in herself and her abilities.

Doktor Schwarz/Gelm Stein

Doktor Schwarz/Gelm Stein

Voiced by: Naomi Kusumi (Japanese)

Designation: Germany

An old doctor and hero who is the director of the medical department of the Black Cross.

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• Bilingual Bonus: His name is German for "Doctor Black". Considering that he gets introduced alongside Lady Black and both are members of the Black Cross, this doubles as a Meaningful Name.
• Cool Old Guy: Gives this impression during his introduction where he moderates the irascible Lady Black and tries to rephrase her accusations.
  Doktor Schwarz: Lady's words are harsh, but it is only her way of pushing you.
• Mr. Exposition: Enlightens Shy about the Black Cross, an international relief organization he and Lady Black are members of.

Meng Long/Li Ming Ming

Meng Long/Li Ming Ming

Voiced by: Ayumu Murase (Japanese), Emi Lo (English)

Designation: China

A young hero who dislikes fighting. Falls asleep very easily.

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• An Odd Place to Sleep: We get introduced to him while he is asleep... in the middle of the Arctic while wearing only light clothes.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Shy actually thinks that he is a girl at first, causing him to become depressed.
• Forced Sleep: Fitting for a hero who doesn't like to hurt people, Meng Long's powers can create astral claws that force everyone they touch to fall asleep.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Doesn't think very highly of himself and constantly doubts his abilities.
• Martial Pacifist: Prefers to solve conflicts without violence, but if push comes to shove, he is a pretty good fighter.
• Meaningful Name: Meng Long means "Mighty Dragon".
• Mellow Fellow: He tends to fall asleep a lot.
• Nice Guy: He's friendly and prefers not to fight if he can help it.

Century/Adam Rockwell

Century/Adam Rockwell

^{Click here to see Adam Rockwell}

Designation: USA

The American Hero

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• Family Man: He loves his wife and his young daughter very much. Doesn't matter if he is currently on a space walk or fighting a member of the Amarariruku, if his daughter calls him, he will answer her.
• Flight: He can use his powers to fly, even carrying things like trucks with him.
• Gravity Master: It is eventually revealed that his basic ability is this.
• Made of Iron: Century can take a lot more damage than the average hero. He already was like this before becoming a hero, taking bullets meant for his squadmates despite being just a regular human.
• Military Superhero: He used to be an astronaut and a soldier in the US armed forces before becoming a hero, and he calls himself both a soldier and a hero.
• Properly Paranoid: He thinks that Amarariruku might be up to something that involves their personal Amarariruku since the only power they showcased so far was controlling humans inside it, something seemingly unrelated to their known goals. Some pages later, Amarariruku member Hollow uses her Amarariruku to cut off the downtown area of Tokyo from the outside world.
• Smoking Is Not Cool: At least he thinks so. Oh, and drinking counts too.
  "Like I always say, to protect the world, you must first protect your health!"

Shine *Spoilers*

Shine/Momijiyama Mei

Voiced by: Katie Wetch (English)

Designation: Japan

Shy's predecessor as Hero of Japan. Widely considered to have been The World's Greatest Hero. She was also Teru's older sister.

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• Assassin Outclassin': Criminal organizations from all over the world sent assassins after her. She beat them all and converted at least two of them into superheroes.
• Celibate Hero: She rejected Nirvana's advances because she felt it would compromise her duties as a Hero to love one person above all others.
• Goo-Goo-Godlike: She was able to use her heart's power without a Kardiomorph from a very young age. When N-Vilio tried to put a power-testing tool on her at age three, she destroyed the tool, the room she was in and almost N-Vilio himself.
• Light 'em Up: Her powers where light-based. Additionally, her role as the world's strongest Hero has her referred to as a guiding light by multiple other characters.
• Little Miss Badass: After getting [[Kenshin's]] Kardiomorph rings and training with Nirvana she went from Goo-Goo-Godlike to this.
• Posthumous Character: Shine died before the events of the story. What is known of her is that she reformed a group of outlaws into some of the world's strongest heroes, The Shining Six, and that she's Teru's older sister.
• The Magnificent: She was known in the criminal Underworld as "The White Demoness".
• Shipper on Deck: Sekirara mentions that the media were ripe with speculation about her and Nirvana's relationship.
• World's Strongest Hero: Is repeatedly called this by other characters and her status as this is part of why her death had such a big impact on all the other Heroes. While we never get to see the extent of her power (so far), we do get a glimpse when Luise copies her abilities in a fight with Spirits and Kfufu and completely dominates them before the latter negotiates a surrender, suggesting it's not just an empty title either.

Kenshin

Kenshin

Designation: Japan

Shine's predecessor as Hero of Japan

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• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He managed to get a three-year-old Mei up to Uni-Lords space station when her uncontrollable powers threatened everything around her. Judging from the result and Uni-Lord's worry, it seems to have been quite a dangerous mission.
• Posthumous Character: He died of illness several years before the start of the story.
• Samurai: His design seems to be inspired by one.

Hexen

Hexen

Designation: Switzerland

An extremely old woman and Lady Black's predecessor as Hero of Switzerland.

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• Secret Test of Character: Put Pilse through one after preventing her from jumping into a gorge. She told her to hike up to her abode in the mountains despite her disability and pick a specific flower that only grows there. This not only gave Pilse a new goal in life, but also proved that she was enough of a Determinator to take up Hexen's Kardiomorph Rings.
• Witch Classic: Her name is German for "Witches" or "performing Witchcraft" and she has the aesthetic to go with it.

The Shining Six

Nirvana/Ananda Varna

Nirvana/Ananda Varna

Designation: India

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• All-Loving Hero: A prerequisite for his power to work. Because he shattered his heart's vessel, he has no defences against trauma from the outside world. If he didn't manage to see the entire world as his home, he would quickly loose himself to negative emotions.
• Beyond the Impossible: Unlike any other Hero in the story, he can use his powers without Kardiomorph. To achieve this, he shattered his own heart's vessel through Training from Hell. Sekirara compares it to building a house without walls. He replies by pointing out that if your house has no walls, then the entire world becomes your home.
• Did Not Get the Girl: He had a crush on shine since they were children, but she rejected him because she felt being a Hero required not loving one person more than the rest. This makes him determined to protect the one person she eventually broke that rule for, her sister, Teru.
• Shipper on Deck: Sekirara mentions that the media were ripe with speculation about his relationship with Shine.
• World's Strongest Man: The other members of the Shining Six consider him the "strongest Hero of earth". In his fight with Sekirara he proves that he lives up to the title by not only completely NoSelling their attempts to hurt him (without even using his Super Mode) but also Horrifying the Horror upon revealing how his ability works.

Indra/Seva Wangchai

Indra/Seva Wangchai

Designation: Thailand

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• Heel–Face Turn: Confirmed to have undergone one prior to the events of the story, thanks to Japan's previous hero Shine, as the group were originally outlaws beyond human control.

Pavoreal/Rosalia Peacock

Pavoreal/Rosalia Peacock

Designation: Spain

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• Enemy Mine: Pulled this with Juggernaut against Shine at the behest of their employers.
• Happily Married: To fellow Hero Juggernaut.
• Heel–Face Turn: Confirmed to have undergone one prior to the events of the story, thanks to Japan's previous hero Shine, as the group were originally outlaws beyond human control.
• Professional Killer: Used to be this before her Heel–Face Turn.
• Spies Are Lecherous: She used to be a contract killer and is the most openly sexual character in the cast, grabbing Pilse'sboobs as a form of greeting among other things.
• The Vamp: She was known to use her looks to get close to her assassination targets.

Rampage/Nyerko Armstrong

Rampage/Nyerko Armstrong

Designation: Greece

• Heel–Face Turn: Confirmed to have undergone one prior to the events of the story, thanks to Japan's previous hero Shine, as the group were originally outlaws beyond human control.
• Drill Seargeant Nasty: She straps weights to Teru's ankles and throws her into the Aegean Sea. After taking away her Kardiomorph Rings.

Juggernaut/Omega Rodriguez

Juggernaut/Omega Rodriguez

Designation: Mexico

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• The Cartel: Worked as an enforcer for one of these before his Heel–Face Turn.
• Enemy Mine: Pulled this with Pavoreal against Shine at the behest of their employers.
• Happily Married: To fellow Hero Pavoreal.
• Heel–Face Turn: Confirmed to have undergone one prior to the events of the story, thanks to Japan's previous hero Shine, as the group were originally outlaws beyond human control.

Pulse/Weibu Wang

Pulse/Weibu Wang

Designation: Singapore

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• Death or Glory Attack: Fatality Mode. This ability turns him into a Killer Game Master Reality Warper for 60 seconds. If anything survives this, however, he'll be almost completely defenseless due to the strain rendering him unable to move. It's only thanks to Shy being present that this doesn't get him killed by Thumping melting his head off, as he managed to survive the assault.
• Heel–Face Turn: Confirmed to have undergone one prior to the events of the story, thanks to Japan's previous hero Shine, as the group were originally outlaws beyond human control.

Amarariruku // Amalareiks

The group as a whole

• Came Back Wrong: All of them with the possible exemption of Stigma were brought Back from the Dead after living lives of extreme trauma and suffering. In a world where Heart Is an Awesome Power, this has a profound impact on who they are as people.
• My Greatest Failure: Collectively they are this to Shine. All of them are people she felt like she failed to save and it's implied that this is what allowed Stigma to bring them back in the first place.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: All of them lived brief and traumatic lives and are almost all convinces that what they're doing will change the world for the better.

Stigma

Stigma

Voiced by: Mutsumi Tamura (Japanese), Marisa Duran (English)

A mysterious young boy with unknown goals and strange abilities.

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• Adult Hater: His end goal is creating a world without adults.
• Affably Evil: He always stays calm and polite during his appearances.
• Assimilation Plot: Iko, who was able to get some insight on his heart during her possession, thinks that his goal might be to create a world where everyone is connected to each other.
• Big Bad: He is the leader of Amarariruku.
• Cain and Abel: As it turns out, they're the Cain to Teru's Abel.
• The Corrupter: He gives people rings that force their deepest and darkest feeling to manifest and transform the user into a monster. He considers it as freeing a person's heart. While capable of doing the same to heroes, he mostly views it as a fruitless endevour and simply tries to have them wiped out due to their views directly opposing his.
• Creepy Child: He's a child who is always smiling, transforms people into monsters and mentions that he wants to "eat up" Meng Long. Definitely creepy.
• Eldritch Abomination: His true form seems to just be a gigantic, formless black mass interspersed with countless eyes. If he Was Once a Man, he definitely isn't anymore.
• Gender Bender: As it turns out, Stigma was once Shy's sister Mei Momijiyama who died before the events of the story. For unknown reasons, she became Stigma.
• Island Base: As part of his final power move against the heroes, he fabricates one named Neverland.
• Light Is Not Good: Shy eventually recognizes that he gives of a light similar to that of her older sister Mei/Shine. This doesn't stop him from being the Big Bad of the story.
• Mind-Control Device: He can create rings that force their wearers to experience their deepest feelings. It is later revealed that these rings are part of his heart, which allows both Stigma and the wearer to get a glimpse at the others heart and mindset.
• Necromancer: As demonstrated with Sveta, revealed to be Spirits's late mother, he can apparently bring people back from the dead and recruit them as Amarariruku members.
• Reality Warper: He can somehow make the dreams of people come true. It has also been mentioned that he created Amarariruku.
• The Reveal: As it turns out, Stigma's real identity is none other than Mei Momijiyama, Shy's older sister.
• Visionary Villain: He thinks that suppressing emotions is the same as locking away one's heart, so he uses rings that force a persons deepest feeling to manifest, thereby "freeing" the heart. His true goal is eventually revealed to be a world without adults where every child can live together in happiness. This doesn't stop him from using children as part of his goals and endangering them in the process.

Sveta Koriskaya

Sveta/Lenya Andreanof

Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese), Julie Shields (English)

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• An Ice Person: She can create massive amounts of ice and seems to be immune to cold in general.
• Affectionate Nickname: Calls Spirits "Pesha" during the battle in the arctic. The latter notes that only people who are very close her call her that, giving the first clue to her true identity.
• Back from the Dead: It turns out that Sveta is none other than Pepesha's mother Lenya Andreanof who died 15 years ago.
• Break the Cutie: She grew up in an Orphanage of Love and genuinely loved her daughter, but her lack of education and a bad economy made it nearly impossible for her to find a stable job and buy even the most essential things in life. When her daughter was 12, the situation became so bad that she decided to kill herself to make it possible for her daughter to live in her old orphanage. And when the kindness of a stranger convinces her to not give up hope just yet, she gets killed by a homeless man. No wonder she joined Stigma in his attempt to change the world.
• The Corrupter: She ends up being one of the few to try and turn one of the heroes over to the side of Sigma, attempting to convince her daughter to join their side. Pepesha refuses to give in spite the sympathy she holds upon hearing her mother's story.
• Friend to All Children: Her ultimate goal is to create a world where children can life a happy life and she is prepared to sacrifice everything for it.
• Identity Amnesia: She states that she cannot remember anything about her previous life before she woke up in the arctic except for Pepesha and Yurii Orphanage.
• Magical Barefooter: The first time she appears and attacks the heroes, she is barefoot and can afford to since she is not bothered by cold and can stand on ice and snow without injury. However, in later appearances, she wears boots.
• One Last Smoke: After Pepesha manages to reach Sveta with her feelings, her Amarariruku shatters and her body begins to disappear slowly, so they decide to say goodbye doing the very thing they had promised each other a long time ago: Finally having a drink together.
• The Stoic: She always stays calm and shows next to no emotion during battles, even if she is hit by an attack. Once she regains her memories as Lenya Andreanof, this changes.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: The straight woman to Kfufu's wise girl.
  Sveta: Keep pressure on that girl.
  Kfufu: [hugs Sveta] Wuv you ♥.
  Sveta:...You can go now.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about her without mentioning the fact that her true identity is Lenya Andreanof, Pepesha's mother.

Sik Sik // Shikshik Tearnait

Sik Sik

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• Making a Splash: Seems to be able to control water.

Kfufu Kekerakera

Kfufu

Voiced by: Rina Hidaka (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)

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• Character Catchphrase: "Surprise!" Mostly used in the middle of a battle when she launches a surprise attack.
• Cuddle Bug: Loves to cuddle her teammate Sveta, even in the middle of a fight.
• Cute Little Fangs: She has them.
• Hammerspace: Kfufu can pull all sorts of weapons from thin air. When she demonstrates her ability, she conjures all kinds of swords, a Paper Fan of Doom and donuts.
  Kfufu: That's why people often call Kfufu "The human toy box"!
• Living Emotional Crutch: Sveta seems to have been hers. When the former regains her memory and subsequently dies, Kfufu refuses to acknowledge this fact and insists that she is "just coming home late"
• Signature Laugh: "Kfufu." Yes, it's her name.
• Stepford Smiler: This is something Pepesha notices and questions about her. In her own words, a smile is a special kind of magic that proves you're happy even if you're not. It's also why, unlike the other Amarariruku members, she actually likes adults because they're so good at this and are always smiling even when they're not such as when they lie, lose loved ones, or seek death for themselves or others.
• Third-Person Person: Downplayed: In battle, Kfufu tends to adress herself in third person, but if she gets serious or sad, she sometimes switches to first person.
  • She also prefers to be called Kfufu instead of being called by a pronoun.
• Toon Physics: Kfufu can pull weapons like hammers and bombs out of nowhere, create water, get impaled and vomit several litres of blood without taking any real damage. Combined with her excessive use of Confusion Fu, she is completely unpredictable in battle.

Hollow // Utsuro

Hollow/Mai Tennouji

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• Evil Counterpart: She is this to Ai. Not only do they have the exact opposite mindset (Ai desires to have a normal live besides beeing a ninja while Hollow considers herself as a tool), they also look similar, have both an Empathic Weapon and it is implied she might even be a Evil Knockoff, though she's later revealed to be her twin sister Mai.
• Meaningful Name: In line with her nihilistic believes, she considers herself as nothing more than Stigma's tool.
  Hollow: Hollow is the world, hollow is me...
• The Pawn: She thinks of herself and the other Amarariruku members as Stigmas pawns and nothing else.
• Straw Nihilist: She calls the world "hollow" and considers all things in it no more than fantasy, including Stigmas plans and the connection she shares with him. The only things that seem to have any meaning to her are Ai and her as of yet unrevealed dream.

Thumping // Doki Baragaki

Thumping

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• Berserk Button: Do not imply that guys cannot be as cute as girls. Don't even call cute things "girlish". It will not end well.
• Bishie Sparkle: When called a "cute little lizard" by Lady Black, he unexpectedly starts having this.
• Dishing Out Dirt: His "Rage" attack allows him to control the ground around him. After being sufficiently enraged, his power goes volcanic which allows him to set the town on fire with an eruption, nearly melt Pulse's head off with magma, and instantly evaporate the water around him in the ocean when Shy drags him underwater in an attempt to stop him.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Was initially mistaken as a girl by the members of the infiltration team.
• Dumb Muscle: He is definitely not the smartest member of Amarariruku, but is by far the most physically powerful among them.
• Gruesome Goat: His feet look like they belong to a goat or horse, referencing the Christian devil.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He gets riled up pretty easily.
• Horned Humanoid: He has a pair of devil-like horns on his head.
• Scaled Up: He can grow scales to protect himself against attacks.
• Scary Teeth: He possesses pointed teeth that only serve to accentuate his scary appearance.
• Super-Strength: At one point, he tries to squash the members of the infiltration team with a huge boulder.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He doesn't care about his fellow Amarariruku members that much and only seems to work with them due to Stigma's orders.

Prayer // Inori Halleluja

Prayer

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• Ambiguously Christian: It has not been stated directly, but she seems to be modeled after a Christian nun, even partially citing the second great commandment during her first appearance. Confirmed during her flashback
• Holy Halo: Has one floating about her head, completing her nun motif.

Kirakira // Sekirara Lovesong

Kirakira

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• Ax-Crazy: She's a yandere whose personality easily flips from sweet to violent and expresses her desire to marry Teru and have her children approximately thirty seconds after they first meet. Yeah, she's clearly not right in the head.
• Child Abuse Isa Special Kindof Evil: Her flashback heavily implies that she was a victim of child sex trafficking and developed severe mental problems to cope with her situation.
• Love at First Sight: Falls in love with Teru immediately upon their first meeting. It is later revealed that this obsession stems form Teru's resemblance to Shine who rescued her from a life as a child prostitute.
• Stalker with a Crush: As is to be expected of a yandere.
• Yandere: Becomes obsessed with the person she falls in love with and becomes violently jealous if she finds them paying more attention to others.

Tarumu Mendusa

Tarumu

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• Lazy Bum: He mostly just lies around and complains about having to do anything, preferring to let his Unreads do all the work for him.

Kwabara Kwabara

Kwabara /Clara Valhalla

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• Driven to Suicide: When Shine found her after she killed her parents, she panics upon the thought of what the Hero would do to her and shot herself through the eye before Shine could talk her down.
• Self-Made Orphan: A rather tragic example. Her parents knew Shine personally and were swept up in her fervor to change the world, becoming more and more radicalized and ultimately trying to blow up the praliament. In trying to prevent the death of this many innocent people, Clara ultimately saw no way out other than shooting her parents. Afterwards she became convinced that she was evil in nature because she hadn't found a peaceful solution. And then Shine walked in, wanting to check in on her because she'd been acting strangely the last time they'd met...
• You Killed My Father: She blames Shine for the death of her parents. The fact that Shine agreed was what allowed Stigma to bring her back.

Luise Aitswaka

Luise

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• The Dragon: She serves this role to Stigma, being the most put together among all the Amarariruku with an administrative streak. Kfufu also calls her the strongest among the Amarariruku and states in no uncertain terms that her and Pesha cannot win against Luise.
• Driven by Envy: She will find something to envy in basically anybody. Considering that her power also lets her transform into people she envies, this makes her an incredibly versatile opponent. Kfufu exploits this during their fight by pulling out a literal piece of shit. This gets her to abandon a fight she was easily winning.
• Neat Freak: Exaggerated as her other major character trait, aside from her envy. She dislikes the other Amalareiks coming into her domain, because their powers tend to leave behind a mess and frantically cleans whenever her carpet has so much as a fleck of water on it.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Her design brings to mind the appearance of a classic Vampire, being a young woman of aristocratic bearing, dressed in a black cape capable of Voluntary Shapeshifting. She's also accompanied by bats whenever she uses her powers.
• Power Copying: Her heart's desire lets her copy the abilities, appearance and emotions of anyone she envies. Including Shine.

Shadow Girl *Spoilers*

See Koishikawa Iko

Others

Koishikawa Iko

Koishikawa Iko

Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (Japanese), Bryn Apprill (English)

Teru's best friend from school.

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• Action Survivor: First, she is the sole victim of the rollercoaster incident. Then, once she has awakened from her coma, she becomes a victim of Stigma's rings. Girl's got it tough.
• Ambiguously Gay: Her friendship with Shy/Teru has all the signs of a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship. As of Chapter 30, they are now on a First-Name Basis.
  • An omake from the first volume adds fuel to the fire by having Iko obsess over wanting to know if Shy is ever naked during her Transformation Sequence to the point of wanting video evidence.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Downplayed, she's still beautiful after being seriously injured during the rollercoaster incident, but it still left her with a noticeable scar on her eyebrow, and a busted knee, though the latter healed eventually.
• Casting a Shadow: After making peace with her Superpowered Evil Side that Stigma's ring created, she gains her own Super Mode that allows her to manipulate and travel through shadows.
• Covert Pervert: In an omake in the first volume, Iko obsesses over wanting to know if Shy is ever naked during her Transformation Sequence to the point of wanting video evidence.
• Driven to Suicide: When Stigma's ring brings her survivor's guilt out, Iko tries to kill herself. Fortunately, Shy stops her.
• First-Name Basis: She requests Teru in Chapter 30 that they use their first names from now on. Teru hesitantly agrees.
• Good-Looking Privates: Her design as Shadow Girl has her wearing a 19th/20th century style military uniform, complete with a stylized Kyū Guntō.
• Hero-Worshipper: She is a big fan of heroes, especially of Stardust and Shy.
• Muggle Best Friend: She a completely ordinary civilian and Shy's/Teru's best friend. Somewhat averted after she gains her own Super Mode.
• Now, Let Me Carry You: When Teru gets sick and has to be brought home, Iko gives her a piggyback ride back to her house and takes care of her friend.
• Promoted to Parent: Since her parents died in a fire when she was still young, she has been taking care of her little brother herself.
  Iko: I'm used to taking care of people.
• Secret-Keeper: Since Teru had to transform in front of her to save her from the influence of Stigma's ring, she is now aware of her true identity.
• Secret Test of Character: In Chapter 89 she is put through one by the same ring that had possessed her at the start of the story. When she wishes she could have enough power to support Teru, she's brought in front of the most repressed, rebellious part of herself and is told to stop caring about Teru and just go back to being an ordinary schoolgirl. As Iko knows Teru is ordinary herself, but chooses to be a hero every day, she resolves to do the same for her friend. She embraces the ugly parts of herself, just as Teru had done with her, and passes the test, gaining control of the ring and aquiring a set of superpowers that put her on par with the heroes.
• Survivor Guilt: Blamed herself for the deaths of her parents who died in a fire. This caused her to always put others before her and keep her own pain to herself to not bother others with it. After accepting Shy's help and overcoming the influence of the ring, she seemingly overcomes this and is a lot more cheerful than before.
• Transformation Horror: The transformation Stigma's ring forces upon her is.... not pretty. It clearly hurts a lot, her eyes seem to be constantly bleeding and that's not even counting her inner turmoil due to being forced to experience her own self-loathing at full force.

Iko's Little Brother

Iko's little brother

Voiced by: Honoka Inoue (Japanese), Nia Celeste (English)

A young boy who looks up to heroes.

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• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: He inadvertently snaps Shy out of her Heroic BSoD when the latter overhears his declaration that he will save the people who are currently stuck in a burning hotel.
  "As long as we want to save and protect people, then anyone of us can be a hero!"
• Hero-Worshipper: He is big fan of Shy. When the rest of the children are booing Shy at an event and want to see the main act, he is the only one who shouts words of encouragement.
• Named In The Adaptation: The anime names him Daigo.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Has not been seen since the first chapter, but his Rousing Speech was the trigger for Shy's character development.

Mr. Isaak

Mr. Isaak

The head of Yurii Orphange

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• Orphanage of Love: He runs one.
• Parental Substitute: He still acts as one for Pepesha despite the fact that she left the orphanage many years ago and still calls her his daughter.

Ai Tennouji

Ai Tennouji

Voiced by: Kotori Koiwai (Japanese)

A strange girl with a weak constitution who claims to have run away from home to experience the outside world. Actually a badass ninja princess who is being hunted by Amarariruku.

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• Action Girl: Despite having a frail body, she was trained as a shinobi and easily strong enough to take out an armed pursesnatcher and even a fellow shinobi.
• Antiquated Linguistics: Tends to speak in a very roundabout way to indicate her traditional and isolated upbringing.
• Childhood Friends: Is this with Tokimaru.
• Country Mouse: Since she grew up in an isolated ninja village, she has no idea what things like karaoke or an arcade are.
• Empathic Weapon: Ai wields the heart blade Purity, a katana which can read the heart of everyone who holds it and talk to her. And, as it turns out, create openings in the otherwise impenetratable Amarariruku (the domains, not the organization).
• Improbable Aiming Skills: She can use her powers to turn even regular things like stones into homing projectiles.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Asks Teru if she wants to shower together with her, seemingly oblivious to the implications.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Shinobi are supposed to stay hidden and protect the world from the shadows, but Ai wants to protect it while having a normal life she can be proud of.
• Ninja: She hails from a village of shinobi and can perform feats with her katana that are beyond human.
• The Runaway: She ran away from her ninja village to learn more about the outside world. That's how she encountered Teru and Iko.
• Sheltered Aristocrat: On top of growing up in a village of shinobi who are supposed to remain in the shadows, she is also a princess and has a weak constitution, resulting in her growing up very sheltered from the outside world. She perceives it as a gilded cage and ran away, determined to have a normal live.
• Supreme Chef: She can cook a lot better than most people.
  Ai: My skill with a blade doesn't stop at just swordsmanship, you know?
• Transformation Sequence: Parodied. Shinobis don't transform like heroes, but Ai likes to use a smoke bomb and change into her Shinobi outfit under the cover, calling it her "art of transformation".
• Troll: You wouldn't expect it, but Ai is actually quite fond of joking around sometimes. When she switches into her ninja outfit, she uses a smoke bomb and acts like she can transform like the heroes. And when she shows up in the heroes space station unannounced, she claims to have snuck in despite having been invited by Uni-Lord.

Tokimaru

Tokimaru

A young shinobi from Ai's village who is tasked with protecting her

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• Bodyguarding a Badass: Ai is more than capable of defending herself, but since she is a princess and possesses a frail body, Tokimaru was tasked to protect her.
• Covered in Scars: His upper body and arms have scars all over them, presumably because of his ninja training.
• Made of Iron: He gets hit by Ai's sword technique and falls down a high cliff, but appears only minutes later no worse for wear. Ai explains that this stems from the ninja training they both went through.
• Ninja: He grew up in the same village as Ai and they went through the same training together.
• Sole Survivor: The Sanga village was wiped out one night in a massive fire, which lead him to serve Ai and Mai in their village. Or at least that's his cover story. In truth, he's the bird the sisters had nursed back to health now disguising himself as a human.
• Undying Loyalty: To Ai, both because he was ordered to and because they are Childhood Friends. When he finally manages to find Ai after she escaped from her village and she refuses to go back, he decides to guard the place she is staying with his life.