A list of characters appearing in Tantei Opera Milky Holmes. Work in progress.
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Detectives
Milky Holmes
- 10-Minute Retirement: After being expelled from the school, Milky Holmes gives up. Or would have, if it wasn't for Sherlock's utter refusal to accept defeat.
- Ax-Crazy: In Season 2, after the Phantom Thief Empire destroys their garden.
- Balloon Belly: Often the result of overeating.
- Berserk Button: Don't destroy their garden, or you'll be begging for your life. Rat, Stoneriver, and Twenty learned this the hard way.
- 11th-Hour Superpower: They temporarily regain their Toys in the last two episodes of Seasons 1 and 2.
- Failure Hero: All the heroes are constantly failing to stop the Gentleman Thieves. What's worse is that every loss is a major humiliation that's supposed to be funny.
- Failure Is the Only Option: They will never get their Toys back unless it's important to the plot, and even then, it's only temporary. Their exam in episode 10 season is impossible to complete without the use of their Toys.
- Flanderization:
- Zigzagged. Due to the... interesting approach of the IP holders, there are effectively two versions of Milky Holmes:
- The competent version can be found in the PSP game, some of the OVA, and the spin-off Futari wa Milky Holmes where they are mentors to the Feathers.
- The ridiculous version can be found in the first two televised series, this is the version known to most people (e.g. the ones that makes Milky Holmes synonymous with So Bad, It's Good).
- Hero with an F in Good: You'd think that magical girls with an England Detective motif would be... smarter. Powers or not, they fail at EVERY basic detective trial, student exam, and blatantly easy spot check for the first two seasons, resulting in an entire city's worth of building damage and accidentally allying with the villains because they can't tell the difference between an upstanding citizen and a wacky mad scientist / royal usurper / clinically insane teenage thieves.
- Idiot Hero: The first two seasons of the anime present them as individuals who are incapable of doing anything without their Toys. They are far less idiotic in Futari wa and TD.
- Gender Flip: Male versions of the four appear as eyecatches in season 2.
- Insane Troll Logic: This is part of what led Milky Holmes to their Darkest Hour. Seriously, any sane human will have the Face Palm of their lives watching Sherlock's line of thought.
- Kid Detective: The four girls, who look to be in their mid-teens.
- No-Sell: They are the only individuals in Yokohama to not be affected by Buta's Toys of Uselessness.
- Scary Stinging Swarm: The four main girls are all stung by bees in Episode 1 of TD.
- Tomboyish Name: Our heroine "Sherlock" is just one of many, since the girls tend to have names that reference famous (male) detectives.
- Worthy Opponent: Henriette was willing to put Milky Holmes through all that trouble to return and strengthen their Toys so she could face them on equal footing.
Sherlock Shellingford
Voiced by: Suzuko Mimori
Age: 15
Toys: Psychokinesis
An energetic yet incredibly dimwitted girl who is a descendant of Sherlock Holmes. Her Toys gives her the power of telekinesis... or at least it did.
- Genki Girl: Almost nothing ever faze her genki-ness.
- Girlish Pigtails: A pair which form a loop.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Has bright blue eyes, and is extremely energetic and peppy.
- In-Series Nickname: Sharo/Sheryl
- Running Gag: She gets whacked by Kokoro with a golden mask every time she addresses her as "Kokoro-chan".
- Signature Headgear: If she’s not wearing her hat, she’s wearing a big, pale yellow bow in her hair.
- Verbal Tic: Uses "desu" quite often in the anime.
Nero Yuzurizaki
Voiced by: Sora Tokui
Age: 15
Toys: Direct Hack
A brash and tomboyish girl who is a descendant of Nero Wolfe. Her Toys gives her the power to control and manipulate machines... at least in theory.
- Animal Lover: One of her many traits ignored by the anime but present in the games. Her love for animals is such that in the third chapter of Tantei Opera Milky Holmes 1.5 she was about to jeopardize her team's operation out of disgust at a taxidermy exhibition.
- Friend to All Living Things: In Tantei Opera Milky Holmes 1.5 and 2.
- Jerkass: At times, she is shown to be greedy, selfish, and constantly blaming others. Which is not all that surprising, considering who she is based on. These traits, however, are exclusive to the anime.
- Flanderization:Along with Cordelia, she got hit the hardest. While in the anime she's despicted as mean, immature, selfish and gluttonous, in the games she's quite composed and mature despite her brashness, cares deeply for her friends and is the team's MVP when it comes to collecting information (her Toys not only allows her to control machines, but also hack into computers or phones in order to gather evidence). She has a composed and playful personality, actually acknowledges when she does wrong and the only time she reacts with genuine hostility is when Kokoro tries her patience by insulting Milky Holmes. Also, while she is often seen eating something (which by the way it's because she needs the sugar to have her head working properly and not out of pure gluttony), it's nowhere near as frequent as the anime and at most it will a biscuit stick or a lollipop.
- Technopath: Her Toys also allows her to sense bioelectricity.
Hercule Barton
Voiced by: Mikoi Sasaki
Age: 16
Toys: Tri-Ascend
A shy and soft-spoken girl who is a descendant of Hercule Barton. Her Toys gives (gave) her superhuman strength.
- Apologetic Attacker: While swinging an entire crane.
- Covert Pervert: In Episode 4 of Season 2, her thought balloon is the only one that needed to be censors with pixellation, and she's obviously reading a dirty manga later on in the episode.
- Luminescent Blush: Sported almost constantly. It's her motif.
- Only Sane Man: The most level-headed of the four.
- Shrinking Violet: The shyest girl of the four.
- Shy Blue-Haired Girl: More like shy-purple haired girl, but again, she's the shyest girl of the four.
- Spell My Name With An S: While many fansub groups call her "Hercule Barton", her name is written as "Hercule Burton" in official Japanese merchandise.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted. Elly has red eyes, but is a shy soul.
Cordelia Glauca
Voiced by: Izumi Kitta
Age: 17
Toys: Hyper Sensitive
A sensitive and sisterly girl who is a descendant of Cordelia Gray. Her Toys gave her superhuman senses, at least before she lost it.
- Adaptational Wimp: In the games, she’s a veteran in hand-to-hand combat and is able to take on the likes of Stone River, Cagliostro and even Arsene by herself. In the anime, however, even with her Toys restored she isn’t much of an action girl.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Easily the most demented character.
- Dumb Blonde: Goes with being a cloudcuckoolander.
- Girlish Pigtails: Occasionally ties her hair like this.
- Motor Mouth: Occasionally talks fast.
- Sensory Overload: Her Toys would cause this due to them over-amplifying her senses.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She has a fear of dark places.
- Yuri Fan: Her "Garden of Flowers" delusions have strong Yuri undertones (and overtones).
Opera Kobayashi
Voiced by: Shuta Morishima
Age: 19
A young Great Detective that solved a vast number of cases and defeated Phantom Thief L but at the cost of his Toys. Despite no longer being a detective, he ends up being Milky Holmes' mentor and teacher.
- Adapted Out: Does not appear in the first two seasons of the anime. He does, however, appear in Futari wa Milky Holmes as a supporting character.
- Back for the Finale: In the final special episode, Tantei Opera Milky Holmes: Psycho no Aisatsu, he’s back and ready to congratulate Milky Holmes on their graduation. Unfortunately, due to a misunderstanding, Henriette cancels the party and unceremoniously tells him to go back home.
- Brought Down to Normal: Since the start of the first Visual Novel, he has lost his Toys.
- Cipher Scything: Adapted Out in the first two seasons of the anime.
- Great Detective: He was an incredibly talented detective in the past. He uses his experiences in order to teach Milky Holmes in the ways of mystery-solving.
- The Hero: Of the first Visual Novel.
- The Unreveal: We never find out what his Toys was...
Ellery Himeyuri
Voiced by: Natsumi Takamori
Age: 15
Toys: Induction
A young girl working for the police who is transferred to Holmes Detective Academy after she awakens her Toys while dealing with a Phantom Thief. She ends up being Milky Holmes' leader.
- Back for the Finale: In the final special episode, Tantei Opera Milky Holmes: Psycho no Aisatsu, she’s back and ready to congratulate Milky Holmes on their graduation. Unfortunately, due to a misunderstanding, Henriette cancels the party and unceremoniously tells her to go back home.
- Hates Being Touched: Trauma induced by her foster father after he became mad and started using her as a guinea pig for his experiment.
- People Puppets: Her Toys controls other Toys, including making them use it, and how it's used.
- Power Incontinence: Played with: Not only does she have power incontinence, her toys causes it in other people.
- Power Nullifier: Her Toys also grants her the ability to turn off others' Toys.
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Seems to be this as first but the real reason she and her foster brother lost their memories was because L used his Toys to wipe them.
- Tsundere: Parodied: Kobayashi imagines Ellery as a tsundere maid at one point. One could also argue that she's a Type B due to the fact that the only person she treats like that is Kobayashi.
Kazumi Tokiwa
Voiced by: Aimi Terakawa
Age: 12
Toys: Arrow
A student of Holmes Detective Academy. Inspired by the heroism of Milky Holmes, she set up the vigilante duo Feathers with Alice. Her Toys creates magical bow and arrows, seemingly made of pure energy.
- Butt-Monkey: Alongside her partner, she’s degraded to this in TD and the post-movie special episodes to her dismay (and the joy of some fans).
- Face–Heel Turn: Joins Color the Phantom due to her inferiority complex.
- I Just Want to Be Special: She notices that she's lacking versatility in using her Toys. It's exacerbated by the fact that other people notice that Alice is simply better than her though it's probably because Alice is a Visconti.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy with Alice.
- Vigilante Girl: Bring criminals (read: Color the Phantom) down to their knees so they can be easily arrested by the police force (read: Kokoro). In the story, this is something that is borderline illegal, as only detectives and the police can arrest.
Alice Myojingawa
Voiced by: Ayasa Itō
Age: 12
Toys: Bound
Kazumi's best friend and the other half of Feathers. Her Toys create a magical shield. If Kazumi's arrows pass through it, their power will be amplified. Unbeknownst to her, her family come from a lineage of Gentlemen Thieves, the Visconti.
- Butt-Monkey: Alongside her partner, she’s degraded to this in TD and the post-movie special episodes to her dismay (and the joy of some fans).
- Vigilante Man: The other half of Feathers.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly girl with Kazumi.
Phantom Thieves
Phantom Thief Empire
From left to right: Twenty, Arsene, Stone River and Rat
A group of Phantom Thieves led by Arsene. They tend to play the role of main antagonists in good part of the anime and the games. The Phantom Thief Empire is composed by Arsene, Twenty, Stone River, Rat and Yutaka (games only).- Berserk Button: Stoneriver hates being called a coward, Twenty hates being called ugly, and Rat hates being called Rabbit.
- Oh, Crap!: Their reaction to a psycho Milky Holmes after the former destroyed the latter's garden.
- Paper-Thin Disguise:
- The Thieves, in their civilian identities, make no attempt at disguising themselves or acting any differently. Milky Holmes hasn't caught on.
- Taken to an extreme when Henrietta falls ill. They find the Arsene costume in her closet, put it on her, and apparently even style her hair to match. Their conclusion? Henrietta cosplays.
- Playing Card Motifs: Stone River is spades, Twenty is diamonds, Rat is clubs and Arsene is hearts.
- Took a Level in Badass: Arsene and her three followers show off how much more powerful they are in Season 2 when they fight. Arsene wins.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: In the games, Arsene is very serious about this and punishes Rat when he almost goes too far.
Arsene
Voiced by: Satomi Akesaka
Alias: Henriette Mystere
Age: 17
Toys: Bewitchment
- Affably Evil: For all that she is the greatest thief ever and the eternal nemesis of both Milky Holmes and G4, Henriette generally comes off as a very nice girl, who's using tough love to help Milky Holmes get their Toys back.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: She arrives to Milky Holmes' aid to take down Buta's Lard Icarus form.
- Chest Blaster: Arsene Boyoyon Missile!
- Damsel in Distress: In Tantei Opera Milky Holmes 2, she’s imprisoned and used as hostage for more than half of the game.
- Decoy Damsel: In Episode 11. Yes, Arsene kidnaps herself.
- Despair Event Horizon: She crosses it in Season Two. Her first act after crossing it is to destroy the flower of hope Milky Holmes gave her.
- Domino Mask: Wears a black mask as Arsene.
- The Leader: Of the Gentlemen Thieves.
- The Worf Effect: During her very first scene in the second game, she’s easily defeated by Cagliostro to demonstrate how much of a threat the new villain is.
- Master of Disguise: Her Toys. Her disguise even allow her to be shorter and with less body mass than her normal self.
- Master of Illusion: Again, adding to her improbable disguise skill. Not that she needs it.
- Stealth Mentor: She works undercover as the Holmes Detective Academy's Student Council President, mentoring Milky Holmes to help them regain their Toys.
- Student Council President: Of the Holmes Detective Academy.
- Victory Is Boring: Part of the reason she loves having Milky Holmes as her opponents is that they can give her a real challenge when they have their powers.
Stone River
Voiced by: Takuma Terashima
Alias: Souseki Ishinagare
Age: 24
Toys: Mannequin Turning
- Evil Weapon: In the game, subverted. The sheath of the "evil sword" was filled with the gas that temporarily confused the wielder as he unsheathed it.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Gets on the receiving end of his own Toys both in the game and anime. In the former, Sherlock immobilizes him by reflecting his attack back at him using pieces of broken mirror, while in the latter Cordelia does the same but with a wedding plate instead.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Wields a katana as his weapon.
- Real Men Cook: Works undercover in Holmes Detective Academy as, in addition to being a janitor, a chef.
- Puppet Permutation: His Toys, into mannequins.
Twenty
Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio
Alias: Kai Nijuuri
Age: 22
Toys: Disguise
- Brainwashed: In the PSP video game, he becomes a victim of Phantom Thief L’s Toys and falls under his control, forcing him to blow up the Phantom Thief Empire’s HQ and threaten Milky Holmes with a gun and genuine murdering intentions. Happens again in the movie when he, alongside Stone River, become slaves of a female Toys user using Titnotism.
- Camp Straight: A flamboyant Gentleman Thief who shamelessly loves to flash his nipples at any given moment.
- Cassandra Truth: In his first scene at the school Twenty outright states that he's a gentleman thief. One of his pupils responds that she doesn't know what he's talking about.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In the video games, while still retaining big part of the narcissism and over-the-top personality he has in the anime, he’s incredibly competent. In the two chapters that have him as the main antagonist, he was dangerously close to winning. His most impressive feat was during the last chapter of the second game, in which he manages to outwit both main antagonists and rescue Arsene by himself.
- Fan Disservice: Those damn nipples of his.
- Master of Disguise: His Toys. It allows him to assume the appearance of whoever he wants and mimic their voices.
- Shirtless Scene: Twenty just can't keep his shirt on, despite being the girls' teacher.Twenty: You girls are just like my shirt, pathetic.
Rat
Voiced by: Hiro Shimono
Alias: Jiro Nezu
Age: 16
Toys: Ignition
- Accidental Misnaming: To his irritation, he is consistently named Rabbit by Sheryl in the first season, and it only gets worse as time goes on. By the next season, the entire main cast can’t remember his name and whenever they try to, it’s no longer limited to Rabbit, but also names like La France, Ram Raisin, etc. Come the movie and not even his own boss can remember his name.
- Butt-Monkey: Among the Phantom Thief Empire, he’s the most prone to be on the receiving end of slapstick and humiliation.
- Catchphrase: "I'm Rat! Rat!" whenever someone misnames him in the anime.
- Mad Bomber: Though of the Three Cards, he's the most ignored.
- Playing with Fire: His Toys allows him to ignite explosives.
Yutaka
Voiced by: Mamiko Noto
Alias: Jean
Age: 15
Toys: Extension
A meek and polite member of the Phantom Thief Empire and Arsene’s personal butler. In the second game, after Arsene’s defeat, he becomes Cagliostro’s servant and infiltrates Holmes Detective Academy as a student to be near her. His true name is Jean and he lost his parents in a Toys-related incident. He was found and raised by Phantom Thief L and for a while had a good childhood until his foster father got defeated by Kobayashi and lost his mind, leading him to run experiments on his own children in order to find a way to restore Kobayashi’s Toys and beat him in a fair match. The only two kids who managed to survive L’s experiments and acquire artificial Toys were Jean and Ellery. Ultimately, L gives up on his investigation, uses his Toys to erase their memories and abandons them to start working on his plan to destroy Yokohama. At some point after that, he ends up working for Arsene, adopts the name of Yutaka and lives a tranquil life until L dies, which causes his Mind Manipulation Toys to lose effect and Yutaka and Ellery to start remembering their past. This awakes a huge resentment toward Toys in the boy, who blames them for all his misfortunes, and begins to put in motion a plan to rid the world of Toys, even if it costs the lives of their users as well.
- Adapted Out: Despite being in both games and having a more prominent role in the second game, he isn't even mentioned in the anime.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He’s the nicest and most polite member of the Phantom Thief Empire and at the same time quite capable of manipulating other people and the owner of one of the most dangerous Toys around.
- The Butler Did It
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: Of the main events in the second game.
L
Voiced by: Unshō Ishizuka
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Alias: Tachi
Toys: Mind Manipulation
An infamous and skilled Phantom Thief that was cornered by Kobayashi Opera five years before the events of the first game. Due to an untimely explosion, both of them fell into a sea of flames and while Kobayashi made it out okay (albeit without his Toys), L was never seen again. He survived, of course, and assumed the identity of Tachi, the seemingly-friendly butler working at Holmes Detective Academy, holding a venomous grudge against the young Kobayashi and a desire the show the world the extent of a Phantom Thief's capabilities. He was the one behind the creation of Milky Holmes (for the sole purpose of making Kobayashi feel powerless when he becomes unable to save his pupils) and the Phantom Thief Empire (to aid him in his research of pholtonium, which he planned to exploit to destroy Yokohama). While this plan ultimately fails and the only thing he achieves is his own demise, his shadow is still present in Tantei Opera Milky Holmes 2, where more details about his past and the influence he had on many other characters are revealed.
- Big Bad: Of the first game.
- Die Laughing: He laughs as his body evaporates due to the heat of a reactor, assured of his victory.
- I Am Your Father: In the sequel, it's revealed that not only is he the foster father of Ellery and Yutaka, but also the biological father of Arsene and Cagliostro.
- Knight of Cerebus: The antagonists faced so far had colorful or honorable personalities and a strict "no killing" code, but L is above such things. His first move in the game is using a brainwashed Twenty to detonate a test bomb aboard the Novapandora, a cruise ship full of people, disregarding the possible fatalities.
- Not Quite Dead: Was believed to have died during his confrontation with Kobayashi five years before the events of the game.
- No Honor Among Thieves: When Arsene expresses her disappointment at having her trust betrayed by L, he comments about how preposterous it is for a phantom thief to trust another.
- Revenge Before Reason: Was willing to destroy an entire city and himself partially because he got defeated by a 14-year-old Kobayashi Opera. To make things worse, in the sequel it's revealed that his obsession for revenge led him to run horrible experiments and sacrifice his own adoptive children just for the sake of reviving Kobayashi's Toys and defeat him in a a fair match.
- Thanatos Gambit: Throwing himself with the Adam's Tear into the reactor and dying whilst having the last laugh was part of his plan all along, not only was he going to achieve his revenge on Kobayashi, but also being remembered in history as the mind behind the destruction of Yokohama and showing the world just how dreadful Phantom Thieves can be.
- Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: In contrast to the light-hearted and sympathetic Phantom Thief Empire Milky Holmes has been dealing with through the first four chapters of the game, L is a cold, calculating and dangerous criminal who doesn't care about how many he has to sacrifice for his cause.
- Would Hurt a Child: Has no issue blowing up a cruise ship with students on board or taking out the Milky Holmes team and leaving them unconscious next to a soon-to-explode reactor only to spite Kobayashi. In Tantei Opera Milky Holmes 2, it's shown that he experimented on children after going mad from revenge.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Sets up a test bomb to destroy the Phantom Thief Empire's HQ after they're no longer of use to him.
Cagliostro
Voiced by: Asami Sanada
Alias: Josephine Mystere
Age: 18
Toys: Copy
A haughty Phantom Thief that appears in the second game. After defeating and capturing Arsene, she takes over the Phantom Thief Empire, to the frustration of the other members. She's Arsene's sister and the legitimate daughter of Phantom Thief L. Her main goal is acquiring L's heritage, believing that it rightfully belongs to her.
- 0% Approval Rating: She takes over the Phantom Thief Empire and replaces Arsene as the leader. However, Rat and Stone River outright dislike her and Yutaka and Twenty pledge false loyalty to her for the sake of their own goals.
- Cain and Abel: With Arsene.
- Catchphrase: "Good Luck!"
- Noblewoman's Laugh: Can't be a Cagliostro scene without her doing a haughty "ohohoho" laugh.
- Power Copying: Her Toys allows her to copy the Toys of whoever she comes in contact with. The catch is that she can only use a copied Toys once and its power will be inferior than the original's.
- Stripperiffic: Manages to beat even Arsene when it comes to exposed skin. Also lampshaded in a bonus scene in the second game, in which both sisters get into an argument over their costumes.
- Whip of Dominance: Her primary weapon is a whip, which happens to complement her dominatrix essemble and fits her haughty and overbearing personality.
- Would Hurt a Child: Her very first response to Yutaka's betrayal is to knock him down and start kicking him savagely.
Color the Phantom
From left to right: Red Lion of the Gale, Darkside Revolution, Great White Fallen Angel, Pink Lovely Doom, Violet Shadow, Yellow Black Hole and The Fearsome Blue Hunter
A group of Gentleman Thief with color-themed code names. They are strongly motivated to enforce the distinction between Thieves and Detectives. Their names are Violet Shadow, Hansel, Gretel, Crimson Lion, Yellow Black Hole, and Blue Hunter. Kokoro Akechi has been personally notified to stop their crime.- Accidental Misnaming: Pink Lovely Doom gets the Rat treatment in the second episode of TD and no one can remember her name. By the final episode of TD the main cast opts to just call her Pink Phantom Thief to avoid confusion.
- Big Bad: Violet Shadow.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Yellow Black Hole and Pink Lovely Doom's true identities are the renowned detective Ryoko Komatsu and Kokoro's assistant Keiko Totsugawa. In the end Ryoko gives up her life of crime and tries to earn her detective license again.
- Colourful Theme Naming: Even Hansel and Gretel is black and white.
- Earthquakes Cause Fissures: Minus the earthquake. Yellow Black Hole can conjure a hole on the ground.
- Enfant Terrible: Hansel and Gretel, due to Parental Abandonment.
- Large Ham: Crimson Lion is prone to this, and their leader Violet Shadow is a close second.
- Master of Illusion: Blue Hunter, who easily creates a Me's a Crowd situation.
- No Name Given: We only get to know the codenames of Hansel, Gretel, Crimson Lion and Blue Hunter. And they are credited as White Gentleman Thief, Blue Gentleman Thief etc in the cast list.
- Visionary Villain: They are not just very good Gentleman Thief, they want to make sure that being a Gentleman Thief means something.
- Would Hurt a Child: They don't hold back against the main duo. Zig-zagged for Hansel and Gretel are younger than feathers.
Edgar Moran
Voiced by: Shinji Ogawa (Alterntive) / Tetsuo Kanao (Movie)
Toys: Air Gun
A Phantom Thief hailing from England. He used to be an English soldier until a stray grenade from an ally took one of his legs. Unable to have a stable life and abandoned by the same country he served, he fell into despair and awakened his Toys. He now seeks revenge against his own country. Appears in both Alternative episodes, as the main villain, and in the movie, as an underling of Professor Moriarti.- An Arm and a Leg: Lost a leg to a friendly grenade and uses a cane to move around. In the movie, though, he doesn't use a cane anymore and can walk just fine. Maybe he found a way to heal his leg or...?
- Karma Houdini: In Alternative, he manages to escape and doesn't pay for his crimes. In the movie, the worst that happens to him is being blasted by the Feather's combined attack, but during the credits we can see that he's completely fine and free.
Moriarti
Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama
Toys: 3-Second Time Rewind
A Legendary Phantom Thief who fought and lost against Sherlock Holmes. After being brought back to life by his granddaughter and Edgar Moran, he plans to change history and create a world in which he never lost against his nemesis and in which Detectives exist no more.- Big Bad: Of the film, Milky Holmes' Counterattack.
Others
Genius 4 (G4)
Common tropes
- Demoted to Extra: They play a much less important role in Futari wa Milky Holmes, with Kokoro being the only member of G4 to play a significant role.
- The Worf Effect: They (and the rest of the Yokohama detectives) are easily defeated by the Thieves Empire in episode 11.
Kokoro Akechi
Voiced by: Yoshino Nanjo
The leader of G4, who consistently claims to boast a massive IQ.
- Berserk Button: Don't call her "Kokoro-chan" unless you want to be whacked.
- Big Damn Heroes: In Episode 10, of all people. It's not all that unexpected; it's her job to guard the area.
- Catchphrase: "Don't call me Kokoro-chan!"
- Dumb Blonde: Defied; not only does she claim to boast a massive IQ, she also claims to have graduated from Harvard when she was only 13.
- Embarrassing Nickname: She doesn't like it when she is addressed as "Kokoro-chan" by Sheryl.
- Flipping the Bird: She insults the Toy-less Milky Holmes on TV by giving them the middle finger. It's mosaiced, too.
- Girlish Pigtails: A pair of twin drills, to be exact.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: Ever since the museum episode, Kokoro can pull a golden mask out of nowhere and uses it to hit Sherlock whenever she calls her "Kokoro-chan".
- Idol Singer: In the Summer Special. She quickly gives it up when she sees G4 and Milky Holmes need her.
- Improbable Weapon User: Uses a Golden Buddha Face to scold Sheryl.
- Improbably High I.Q.: One of the most (if not the most) exaggerated examples, where she claims to boast a massive IQ, adding a zero every time she states her IQ. She eventually goes as high as 1.4 centillion (ten to the power of 600, to be exact). Temporarily inverted to Improbably Low I.Q. after Buta drained her of her lard.
- Improbably Low I.Q.: Temporarily inverted from Improbably High I.Q. after she is drained of her lard by Buta, and also an exaggeration; she claims to boast an IQ of only 1 in 10,000,000,000,000.
- Inflationary Dialogue: Every time she mentions her IQ, adding an additional zero for every instance.
- Jerkass: Often spends her screen time bragging about her IQ, complaining, mocking everyone (especially when they are down), and hitting Sherlock after she calls her Kokoro-chan. The Sick Episode is all thanks to her.
- The Leader: Of Genius 4.
- The Napoleon: She's petite, and she'll whack you if you address her as "Kokoro-chan".
- Ojou Ringlets: Her Girlish Pigtails sport this look.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Something serious is going on if she ignores Sheryl's "Kokoro-chan".
- Red Armband of Leadership: She wears one on her upper right arm, highlighting her status as the G4 leader.
- Running Gag:
- She whacks Sherlock with a golden mask whenever addressed as "Kokoro-chan".
- Adding a zero every time she states her IQ.
Tsugiko Zenigata
Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro
- Cute Little Fangs: Sports one.
- Drives Like Crazy: Despite serving as the group's driver, she's less than careful behind the wheel.
- Team Mom: Is this to G4 in the game. She watches out for the other members of her team and is always the first in line to discipline Kokoro whenever she gets out of line.
- Tomboyish Voice: Has a raspy voice.
Hirano Hasegawa
Voiced by: Ryōko Shintani
Saku Tooyama
Voiced by: Yukari Tamura
- Oral Fixation: Saku has a lollipop in her mouth almost constantly. Once, she had three of them.
- The Stoic: Soft-spoken at all times.
Rei Kamitsu
Voiced by: Susumu Chiba
- Adapted Out: Despite appearing in both games and being the boss of G4, his existence isn't acknowledged in the slightest in the anime.
Mori Arti
Voiced by: Motoki Takagi
A transfer student who comes to Holmes Detective Academy at the end of the first season. During the second season her behavior becomes more and more suspicious, and by the film her true motives are revealed: she wants to resurrect her grandfather, Moriarti.
- Karma Houdini: Never gets any comeuppance for her actions that could've changed history for the worse.
Buta
Voiced by: Shintaro Oohata, Rikiya Koyama (Handsome Version)
A fat, pig-like boy with an obsession for lard.
- Animal Motifs: A pig. It helps that his name is also Japanese for "pig".
- Back for the Finale: In the final special episode, Tantei Opera Milky Holmes: Psycho no Aisatsu, he’s back and ready to congratulate Milky Holmes on their graduation. Unfortunately, due to a misunderstanding, Henriette cancels the party and unceremoniously tells him to go back home.
- Calling Your Attacks: LARD FOR ARANEA!!! LARD OF FLETCH!!! ERANOS LARD SCREAM!!! FAUST ANGRIF LARD!!!
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: As God of Lard, he doesn't take kindly to being addressed condescendingly.
- Evil Laugh: "Buuuu bu bu bu bu bu!"
- Fat Bastard: After Milky pushes him too far and he absorbs the Gentleman Thieves' Toys.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: A minor character used only for gags up that point, becomes the greatest threat to all of Yokohama in late Season Two. His desire for lard threatens to drain the life out of the whole city, and eventually the world.
- A God Am I: Views himself as the god of lard.
- Gonk: Probably the biggest standout of all characters in the series; he even has a pig's snout for a nose.
- Gratuitous English: As God of Lard, he tends to drop these, from "Rise of the Planet of the Lard", to "Go to Eden of Lard!".
- Invocation: "Lard Time!"
- Lean and Mean: He is much skinner as the God of Lard.
- Odd Job Gods: God of Lard, to be exact.
- One-Winged Angel: First into his Bishonen form. Then into his Lard Icarus form.
- Pig Man: Has a literal pig's snout for a nose, ends his sentences with "buu", and his name is Japanese for "pig".
- Stupidity-Inducing Attack: Gains the Toys of Uselessness in Episode 10 of Season Two.
- Trademark Favorite Food: LARD!!!!!
- Verbal Tic: Ends his sentences with "buu" (Japanese onomatopoeia for "oink").
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: He has power over lard. Doesn't sound threatening until he sucks out the lard from everything, makes everyone who isn't pathetic into complete losers incapable of doing anything, creates objects from it, and can cover the entire world in it.
- Your Answer to Everything: Lard, full stop.
Others
The Myojingawa Family
Alice's big happy family. They consists of her dad, her mom, and her somewhat overly-protective big brother Shion.
- Big Brother Instinct: Shion objects to Alice having anything to do with the Detective world. In a twist, this is because the Myojingawa is a lineage of Gentleman Thief, not because she's unfit.
- Gentleman Thief: All three of them. Though Madam Visconti is not exactly in the best shape.
- Mystical White Hair: It's implied that Shion has Toys of his own since he's Violet Shadow. Episode 11 reveals that he doesn't have Toys. The final episode reveals he never activated his toys.
- Power Gives You Wings/Winged Humanoid: Shion.
Keiko Totsugawa
Kokoro's new assistant, since Kokoro doesn't bring the G4 with her.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Kokoro is an almost-Cowboy Cop, and would not accept second opinion from anyone.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She is actually one of the colors.
- Drives Like Crazy: She would rather not to, but orders are orders.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Her toys.
Characters introduced in Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TD
Marine Amagi
Marine Amagi
Voiced by: Emi Nitta
An Idol Singer who possesses a miraculous singing voice composed of seven Elements.
- Back for the Finale: In the final special episode, Tantei Opera Milky Holmes: Psycho no Aisatsu, she’s back and ready to congratulate Milky Holmes on their graduation. Unfortunately, due to a misunderstanding, Henriette cancels the party and unceremoniously tells her to go back home.
- Idol Singer: She's a member of the idol group BKT10000.
