History Characters / TwinStarExorcists

* SexySlitDress: She wears a UsefulNotes/Qipao-inspired dress with a slit on both sides, showing off her long and slender legs. Besides {{fanservice}}, she's also a martial artist who often uses kicks in battle.

* DropTheHammer: His weapon is a hammer.

* DropTheHammer: As the new host of Kouchin, her weapon is a hammer.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Sakanashi brainwashes Benio with the power of the King of the Kegare. This causes Benio to become corrupted by the Great Yin and she joins Sakanashi's side to destroy humanity.]]

** Benio is stated early on to be one of the strongest exorcists in Japan's mainland on par with Rokuro, but she sadly doesn't have the performance to back it up. While she isn't necessarily incompetent or weak, Benio's major on-screen battles have her significantly outclassed by powerful enemies like Yuuto and the Basara. It doesn't help that she often ends up incapacitated while Rokuro and others like Mayura handle the rest of the fight.
** After the second TimeSkip, this is more deliberate. Having already awakened as Great Yin, Benio should be way more powerful than any other exorcist. However, Benio can't fight at her full strength without risking to expose herself as a Kegare, so she must considerably hold back which results in her ending up as a DamselInDistress needing Rokuro to rescue her or she stands on the sidelines while Rokuro fights powerful Kegare.

* MsFanservice: Benio has a bit of trouble keeping her clothes on and she gets the most bath scenes out of any girl in the series.

* QuitYourWhining: After the death of their parents at hands of Kamui, Yuuto got annoyed with Benio spending all day crying about it and even hit her while telling her to stop being such a weak crybaby.

* TwoSiblingsInOne: In the final battle, [[spoiler:Benio is left unconscious from having the Great Yin's corruption expelled from her body. Chinu tries to wake her up, but instead, Yuuto possesses his sister's body.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: Subverted. Tenma expected to die when the singularity point came, during the battle with Yuuto, and subsequently protects Rokuro from a dangerous attack with a sad smile on his face but he ends up surviving.

* IdenticalStranger: Benio notes Chinu looks like a dark-skinned Abe no Seimei.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Her family performed cruel experiments and torture on captured Kegare. Wishing to atone at least a little, she helped Gaja, a Kegare who escaped from the facility.]]
* BackToBackBadasses: She teams up with the Basara Gaja against [[spoiler:the corrupted Great Yin form of Benio]].

* OjouRinglets: She has long hair with sidelocks, ending in ringlets. It contributes to her high-class lady image.

* SadistTeacher: Mayura thinks Subaru makes her go through TrainingFromHell because she enjoys watching her apprentice suffer.

* BackToBackBadasses: He teams up with Subaru against the corrupted Great Yin form of Benio.

* AnimeHair: She has a ridiculous drill hairstyle much more voluminous than her body.

* CleavageWindow: The outfit of her Mystic Gear sports a heart-shaped cleavage cutout. Not that she has any cleavage to show.

* DoppelgangerAttack: Miku's dolls can be used as clones with her appearance through the Clear Mirror Charm. She can synchronize her attacks with her dolls to take down Kegare.

* SingleTargetSexuality: In the anime, she rejected the many suitors who proposed marriage to her because she was only interested in Tsubaki, even though he choose to marry another woman.

* ACupAngst: She gets annoyed when Sakura asks her if she's jealous of how well-endowed she has become.

* AnimalMotifs: She wears a cat hat and her Mystic Gear has a feline motif.

Patriarch of the Mitosaka House and bearer of the name of Seiryuu of the Twelve Guardians. He covers his mouth with a mask to seal his rare ability, the Kegare Eater.

Matriarch of the Zeze House. She represenrs Daion of the Twelve Guardians. Despite her childlike appearance, she's an adult and the oldest among the Twelve Guardians. She shares a mother-daughter bond with Sakura, her fellow Guardian.

* BadassAdorable: Miku is one of the most powerful exorcist in the island while having the appearance of a doll-like girl.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Miku had feelings for Sakura's father, but she sincerely congratulated him when he announced he would marry another woman.

* TheMourningAfter: She never remarried after her husband passed away. She also had feelings for Sakura's father and after his death, she raised his daughter and swore to one day avenge him.

* SingleTargetSexuality: In the anime, she rejected the many suitors who proposed marriage to her because she was only interested in Sakura's father.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Both her late husband and Sakura's father were good-natured men.

* TragicKeepsake: In the anime, she still has the stuffed doll she had originally made for Sakura's father.
* {{Tsundere}}: She's very aloof and irritable, but she reveals a softer side around Sakura. Flashbacks show she was also too gruff to openly express her fondness for Sakura's father.

* NoIndoorVoice: She says almost everything while screaming. It's a habit she got from her father.

!Kasukami Household

[[folder:Cordelia Kasukami]]
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-->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/KiyonoYasuno (Japanese), Creator/AbbyTrott (Credited as Alicia Stratten) (English)

A girl with robotic limbs, belonging to the Kasukami House which uses robotics for exorcisms. She bears the name of Tenku of the Twelve Guardians.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He acts like a goof most of the time so it's hard to take him seriously. We finally see him in action during the Basara attack during the mission to fight Yuuto. There, Arima shows off he's possibly stronger than the Heavenly Commanders, except for maybe Tenma and Tatara.

Although she lives as an ordinary person, Mayura's father is one of the Heavenly Commanders. After being saved by Rokuro and Benio, Mayura gains the resolve to become an exorcist herself to help her friends. Two years later, Mayura inherits her father's shikigami Byakko. She joins Rokuro when he moves to the Tsuchimikado Island and is welcomed into her father's household. She becomes the new Amawaka family head and replaces her father as a member of the Heavenly Commanders.

* DCupDistress: She feels embarrassed about the size of her breasts and they get in the way when she does sports.

A powerful exorcist who is one of the 11 Heavenly Commanders. He is also the personal trainer of many exorcist including Rokuro, Ryougo, Yuuto, and Mayura. He is also Mayura's father.

* AnArmAndALeg: He loses his right arm in his battle with Yuuto. This forces Seigen to step down from his position as one of the Heavenly Commanders.

A child prodigy who despite only being 2 years older than Rokuro has attained the rank of Heavenly Commander. He bears the name of Suzaku.

* BattleCouple: With Mayura. They have lots of ShipTease together and they often team up in battle after Mayura joins the Heavenly Commanders. The two form a great combination.

Kochin of the Heavenly Commanders.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Narumi is the tallest of the Heavenly Commanders. Rokuro is surprised to see his wife is a tiny woman who barely reaches Narumi's waist.

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:He's the first of the Heavenly Commanders to die just to make clear how much of a terrifying threat Gabura is.]]

* TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler:In his dying moments, he entrusts Kouchin to his daughter Shizuru and names her his successor in the Heavenly Commanders.]]

The second daughter and fourth child of Narumi Ioroi.

One of the Heavenly Commanders. He bears the name of Kijin. Noted to be "the most powerful" of the Heavenly Commanders. Patriarch of Unomiya clan.

* BadassAdorable: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin He's the most powerful Heavenly Commander, and adorable.]] Also, his kariginu looks too big for him.

* BrokenAce: Among the Heavenly Commanders who are said to be the top exorcists, Tenma is labeled as the strongest with a latent power so great that talismans are useless to him. However, the cruel ritual he had to go through to inherit the most powerful shikigami left him with deep emotional scars and tortured by loneliness.

* GoodLuckGesture: He gives a thumbs up to Fuguyo during her match with Heavenly Commander Miku after she winks at him. She has her [[PlayedForLaughs heart stabbed out of her chest]] by the gesture while the rest of his {{fangirl}}s aren't amused at her taking Tenma’s attention.

* TheNicknamer: He has a nickname for everyone he knows. The nicknames he gave the main characters and Heavenly Commanders are listed in a Q&A at one manga volume.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Tenma is quite small for his age (19), even shorter than Rokuro, standing at 5'1". However he is the "most powerful" out of all the Heavenly Commanders; easily splitting mountain in half with just a wave of his sword.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: No sooner than his second introduction, he is shown eating more than seven boxes of mitarashi dango and making a deal with one of the Heavenly Commanders to give him a total years worth of mitarashi dango in exchange for taking out a few Kegare. The author frequently draws many sketches of Tenma eating mitarashi dango on his twitter/pixiv page. After the second TimeSkip, when Tenma is going through a brief existential crisis as he wonders what he wants to fight for, the first thing he thinks of is mitarashi dango.

** He defends Rokuro and calls out on [[spoiler: Heavenly Commander Miku's]] actions toward Rokuro after she expected punishment for Rokuro's actions when he pinched one of her house members for trash-talking about Benio and her old house.

One of the Heavenly Commanders. She bears the name of Tenko also known as 'The Goddess'. Matriarch of Mitejima clan.

* AccentAdaptation: The dub translates her Kansai accent into a speech pattern reminiscent of a traditional SouthernBelle.

* HighClassFan: Being the head of a high-ranking exorcist family, Subaru wears a fancy dress paired with a fancy hand fan.
* ImprobableAge: Subaru became a Heavenly Commander at 15.

* SouthernBelle: She invokes this image by wearing a white PimpedOutDress and a matching big sun hat.

Toda of the Heavenly Commanders.

* AdaptationalComicRelief: He's mainly comic relief in the anime. While he has some comical moments in the manga as well, he's a far darker character, especially after his origins reveal just how brutal the Hagusa clan is.

* CreepyGood: Kinako states that Tatara is the scariest of the Heavenly Commanders. Even [[BigBad Sakanashi]] thinks Tatara's OneWingedAngel form looks even more evil than him.

* FamilialBodySnatcher: [[spoiler:In the past, when his body was badly injured in battle, Tatara would just take over the body of one of his half-siblings that was given to him as an offering.]]

* MysticalWhiteHair: As hinted by his silver hair, Tatara is special even among the Heavenly Commanders and has the most mystical origins among the high-ranked exorcists. [[spoiler:He's later revealed to be an inhuman monster that was born of a female snake demon.]]

* SnakesAreSinister: He has snake-like features and his powers are associated with snakes too, which ties back to his dark and ominous mature. [[spoiler:Later on, he's revealed to be an actual snake demon hybrid that has survived by devouring his own half-siblings for generations.]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: He's one of the Heavenly Commanders, but he and his clan specialize in assassinations, with their targets often being those who get close to uncovering the darkest secrets of the exorcist history, and have a long history of killing their own kin with messed up human experiments [[spoiler:or letting Tatara devour them as offerings]].
* TokenNonHuman: Both in the manga and anime, Tatara is the only Heavenly Commander who isn't human.

Seiryuu of the Heavenly Commanders.

* CombatMedic: He's both Heavenly Commander and a doctor who works at a local hospital in the island.

* MilitaryMage: As one of the Heavenly Commanders, he's one of the most powerful exorcists and dresses in a military uniform.

* NiceGuy: Kankuro is one of the kindest members of the Heavenly Commanders.

Genbu of the Heavenly Commanders.

Taijo of the Heavenly Commanders.

Daion of the Heavenly Commanders.

* ActionMom: Miku is Sakura's adoptive mother and a fellow Heavenly Commander.

* LittleMissBadass: Miku is one of the Heavenly Commanders and she has the body of a ten-year-old despite being in her mid-fifties.

* TheNapoleon: She's the shortest Heavenly Commander and the one with the grumpiest attitude.
* OlderThanSheLooks: Miku looks about ten, but she's actually the oldest of the Heavenly Commanders at her mid-fifties.

* TokenMiniMoe: She's the youngest-looking member of the Heavenly Commanders, resembling a doll. Ironically, she's really the oldest member.

Two members of the Zeze household who succeed Miku as family heads and Daion of the Heavenly Commanders.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He comes off as an obnoxious asshole who thinks he's better than everyone and talks down to his fellow Commanders, but he's a heroic guy regardless. He fights to protect low-level exorcists from Kegare and cooperates with other Heavenly Commanders in battle. He also can't stand those who abuse their power to trample over the weak.

Hibari's partner who shares the position of Heavenly Commander with him. Although he appears human, he's really a shikigami.

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:He's a shikigami puppet based on Hibari's adopted father who died while fighting Kegare.]]

Rikugo of the Heavenly Commanders.

* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: Instead of inheriting a single Enchanted Spirit, the head of the Sada house is the host of all the previous deceased family heads. As the 41st head, Sakura has 40 Enchanted Spirits.

Tenku of the Heavenly Commanders.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She's only known as Cordelia for a long time, but that's the name the Kasukami gave her after taking her in. The final arc reveals her real name is Tsuyuko.
* OutOfFocus: Cordelia is the Heavenly Commander that gets the least focus and characterization by far. Her backstory is only revealed until the final arc.

* TokenRobot: Cordelia is the only Heavenly Commander to have mechanical body parts.
* UnusualEars: She has two "ears" that look like speakers floating on the sides of her head.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: She's one of the Guardians who agrees with Hibari in that they should kill [[spoiler:Benio]] for no reason other than her being a Kegare, which Cordelia thinks makes her an enemy to exorcists even though she has shown no signs of being evil or dangerous.

The head of the Saragi family that serves as the leading retainers of the Kasukami family.

* SatelliteCharacter: The little focus he gets near the end of the story is entirely dedicated to his relationship with Cordelia/Tsuyuko.

* HeroKiller: In his first appearance, he kills two Heavenly Commanders, [[spoiler:Narumi and Miku]]. Four years later, [[spoiler:he kills Sakura too.]]

* BadassFamily: Rokuro is the son of Abe no Seimei, the strongest exorcist to have ever lived. Benio is a distant descendant of Doman Ashiya, Abe no Seimei's rival, and her parents were competent exorcists. As the Twin Star Exorcists, Rokuro and Benio must fully awaken as Taiyang, the ultimate vessel of yang energy, and Taiyin, the ultimate vessel of yin energy. This way, Rokuro and Benio will conceive the most powerful exorcist who will [[YinYangBomb possess the supreme powers of both yin and yang]].

* TheGlovesComeOff: They choose to keep their SuperMode hidden because releasing their full power means they'll be forced to get separated as Benio's Taiyin form can't live in the real world for a prolonged time. Early in the final arc, [[spoiler:Sakanashi sends an invasion of Basara and casts a curse that summons a monster that would destroy the island if not destroyed. Seeing their regular power isn't enough, Benio unseals her yin power to unleash the power of Taiyin and Taiyang. They manage to destroy Sakanashi's monster in a few moments.]]

* LightDarknessJuxtaposition: The male Twin Star or Taiyang is the living embodiment of the yang energy or light-based powers that reside in humans. Meanwhile, the female Twin Star or Taiyin is the ultimate vessel of yin energy or darkness-based powers found in Kegare. Their child will be the most powerful exorcist due to [[YinYangBomb inheriting the powers of yin and yang]].

* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: Rokuro and Benio at first are not happy with the idea that they are destined to marry and give birth to the Miko. Eventually, they become closer and start to warm up to the idea.

* SecretLegacy: The big reveal of the Twin Stars is that Rokuro and Benio are the last successors of Abe no Seimei and Doman Ashiya, respectively.

* StarCrossedLovers: They're fated to meet, fall in love, and be separated after fully awakening as Taiyang and Taiyin because Taiyin will only be able to live in Magano once she can't hide her Kegare form anymore. [[spoiler:To make it worse, unless Rokuro masters full control over Taiyang's power, Benio will be killed by Rokuro once she serves the purpose of giving birth to the prophesied child.]] Despite this, Rokuro and Benio are determined to ScrewDestiny and achieve happiness together.
* SuperMode: Both Twin Stars have access to a state where their powers increase to the maximum and their appearances change drastically. Neither Rokuro or Benio have entered these forms consciously, but when they transformed, Rokuro was able to briefly overpower Yuuto and Benio could handicap a Basara. It's notable that Rokuro's superpowered mode is [[GoldenSuperMode bright and warm]] while Benio's is [[SuperpoweredEvilSide dark and scary]]. It's revealed later on that this happens when the Twin Stars channel the power of their progenitors; Abe no Seimei for Rokuro and Doman Ashiya for Benio. In these states, Rokuro and Benio become the living incarnations of yang and yin respectively.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: It's later revealed that, unlike other exorcists, the Twin Stars don't have guardian spirits. Instead, the true source of their power is within their bloodlines. Rokuro inherited yang energy from his mother, Abe no Seimei, and Benio inherited yin energy from her ancestor, Doman Ashiya.
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Neither of the Twin Star Exocrists are human; Rokuro is an ArtificialHuman created by Abe no Seimei with the King of the Kegare from their combined bodies, and Benio is a Kegare disguised as a human until her yin power awakens. Abe no Seimei and Doman Ashiya created the male and female Twin Stars respectively in order for them to give birth to the HalfHumanHybrid who will defeat the King of the Kegare and allow Abe no Seimei to finally be free from her 1000-year long imprisonment. As expected, Rokuro and Benio are shocked when they learn about their true nature, but are able to come to terms with it because they love each other no matter what they are.]]

** After awakening as Taiyin, Benio refuses to use her yin powers because she would risk exposing herself as a Kegare to other exorcists and losing her happiness with Rokuro.
** Likewise, Rokuro suppresses most of Taiyang's power after he absorbs it because he doesn't want to be separated from Benio.

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** At the end of the first act of the final arc, Rokuro spends some days in low spirits inside a prison cell [[spoiler:because of failing to keep his promise to Benio that she wouldn't need to expose her Taiyin form and leave him to go to Magano.]] He gets better thanks to Seigen hearing him out and giving him the push he needed to [[spoiler:go get Benio back]].
* HornedHumanoid: [[spoiler:His fully awakened Taiyang form has antler-like horns.]]

* LockedIntoStrangeness: After partially awakening as Taiyang, Rokuro's brown hair becomes white with two red strands.

* OurPhlebotinumChild: [[spoiler:He's Abe no Seimei's son born from her yang energy and modeled after Doman Ashiya, the man Abe no Seimei loved.]]

* {{Psychometry}}: After he fully awakens as the Taiyang, Rokuro can see memories by touching things and locations.

** In the 20 year old arc, Rokuro has no intention of fulfilling his fate of awakening as Taiyang because he doesn't want Benio to be forced to live in Magano forever and leave him or for their child to be dragged into the battle against the King of the Kegare.

* {{Telepathy}}: After absorbing Taiyang's power, Rokuro gains the ability to read people's minds.

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* BattleStrip: She must take all her clothes off to change into her Taiyin SuperMode.

* BloodKnight: Benio really seems to enjoy fighting, to the point that she regularly enters Magano to fight Kegare instead of waiting for the ones already on earth to pop up. However, as of the second TimeSkip, this trait seems to be dwindling as Benio mentions, and demonstrates, that she would now rather spend time peacefully with Rokuro instead of fighting all the time as they are very close to the huge changes that will be happening when Rokuro awakens as Taiyang.

* CuteMonsterGirl: After awakening as Taiyin, her true form is that of a gorgeous dark-skinned blonde with a horn on her head. Both Kaguya and Rokuro think Benio is the most beautiful Kegare they have ever seen.

* DealWithTheDevil: In order to fight again, Benio must form a pact with the most powerful Basara, Chinu, so she can fully awaken her yin powers as Taiyin in exchange of becoming a Kegare.

* DemonOfHumanOrigin: According to Chinu, Benio's humanity is just a "cocoon" before she fully awakens her yin powers as Taiyin. Benio eventually has to undergo a ritual that turns her into a full Kegare, basically becoming the same as the Basara.

* DiscardAndDraw: Early in the 16 year old arc, the clash between Benio's Enchanted Guardian and Kuzu-no-Ha causes Benio to lose her enchanted powers. In hopes of regaining her powers, Benio goes with Kamui to meet the first Basara Chinu, only to be told that it's impossible for Benio to use yang enchanted powers ever again. If she wants to rejoin the fight, she must awaken her hidden yin powers as Taiyin, but there's a horrible catch to this: Benio needs to stop being human and become a full-fledged Kegare.

** After the second TimeSkip, this is more deliberate. Having already awakened as Taiyin, Benio should be way more powerful than any other exorcist. However, Benio can't fight at her full strength without risking to expose herself as a Kegare, so she must considerably hold back which results in her ending up as a DamselInDistress needing Rokuro to rescue her or she stands on the sidelines while Rokuro fights powerful Kegare.

* FreakinessShame: Benio is horrified at learning that she's a Kegare in human disguise, thinking it makes her a monster like the Basara. After awakening as Taiyin, Benio is a little scared to tell Rokuro about her transformation. When she reveals her Taiyin form to him, the first thing Rokuro does is admire how beautiful she looks.

* HumanDisguise: After awakening as Taiyin, Benio is now a humanoid Kegare like the Basara, but Chinu taught her a technique that allows her to still look human by creating an illusion that makes others perceive her yin energy as yang energy. However, this technique will only be effective until Rokuro fully awakens as Taiyang and when that happens, Benio will stay in her Kegare form permanently.

* InhumanEyeConcealers: After her awakening as Taiyin, Benio wears an eyepatch to conceal her right [[BlackEyesOfCrazy Black Eye of Crazy]] so others don't find out she's a Kegare in HumanDisguise.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: In the first part of the final arc, [[spoiler:Sakanashi sends several Basara to attack the island in order to force Benio to transform into Taiyin and follow them to Magano. Seeing people dying all around her and Rokuro pushing himself past his limits to fight alone, Benio unlocks the seal Chinu placed on her and permanently transforms into a Kegare. Afterwards, Benio begs Rokuro to forget about her and continue living as a human without her, as the Basara are willing to go to the extremes to use her Taiyin form for their plans. Of course, this doesn't work since Rokuro won't let the Basara take his wife away that easily.]]

* MacguffinSuperPerson: [[spoiler:The Basara invasion orchestrated by Sakanashi at the start of the final arc is actually a ploy to force Benio into releasing her Taiyin form and joining the Basara in Magano as Sakanashi's plan to "save the world" requires Taiyin's power.]]
* MarkOfTheSupernatural: After fully awakening as Taiyin, Benio's human form now has a right eye with black sclera which she hides with an eyepatch.

* MysticalWhiteHair: As Taiyin, she's a humanoid vessel of yin energy and this transformation changes her long black hair to white.

* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: Benio's hair grows past her knees when she enters her Taiyin form.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: When [[spoiler:Rokuro is forced to go into his Taiyang SuperMode by a mysterious new enemy]], Benio begs Rokuro to return to normal and not leave her behind [[spoiler:because she's terrified of losing her human form and having to stay in Magano for the rest of her life]].

* {{Reincarnation}}: Benio is the latest reincarnation of Taiyin's soul that has been reincarnating in Doman Ashiya's bloodline for generations.

* ResignedToTheCall: Benio is very shocked and horrified when she's told by Chinu that the female Twin Star must become a Kegare in order for the Miko to [[YinYangBomb have both yang and yin powers]]. She still goes through the ritual to awaken her dormant yin powers since she can no longer use yang enchanted powers and she promised Rokuro to rejoin him in the battlefield.

* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Just like the most powerful Basara, Benio's Taiyin form has golden eyes.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: This is her fate as Taiyin. Kegare can only spend a very limited amount of time outside Magano due to their yin bodies not being able to withstand the yang energy of the real world's atmosphere. Once Rokuro fully awakens as Taiyang, Benio will stay as a Kegare forever and she'll be forced to spend the rest of her life in Magano.

* ShipperWithAnAgenda: He wants Rokuro and Benio to marry so they can give birth to the Miko.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: All he cares about is the Twin Stars having the Miko, who will end a 1000 year war, other than that everything and everyone else is meaningless.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: He's the biggest and most personal enemy of Rokuro throughout the 14-year-old and 16-year-old arcs. [[spoiler:He dies after becoming exhausted from battling Rokuro, Tenma and Benio.]]

* SoulFragment: [[spoiler:Yuuto dies at the end of his battle against Rokuro, Tenma, and Benio. However, a small piece of his soul is absorbed by Rokuro, thanks to the fragment of Taiyang's power that Sakanashi left in Yuuto. Once Taiyang's soul enters Rokuro's body, Yuuto lets Rokuro merge with the piece of his soul so he can challenge Taiyang's soul and control its power.]]

* TragicVillain: Yuuto was a good boy until he was in an accident that awakened the dark memories of Taiyin he shares with Benio. With the death of his parents and his mind being unable to endure the horrors his visions showed him, he went completely insane and ended up becoming the kind of evil he wanted to protect his sister from.

* YinYangBomb: He can merge the energies of yin and yang inside his body. [[spoiler:After the second time skip, it's revealed that Yuuto was given a fragment of Taiyang's soul by Sakanashi, who wanted to do an experiment to see what would happen if a human being combined the powers of Taiyang and Taiyin.]]

* BashSiblings: After she masters control over the White Tiger, Mayura and Shimon prove to be an effective team in battle a few times. Four years later, Mayura is open to forming a BattleCouple with Shimon through a RelationshipUpgrade.

* TheConfidant: When Rokuro is going through a HeroicBSOD [[spoiler:after Benio transforms into Taiyin and is taken away by the Basara]], Seigen goes to see him. However, Seigen doesn't give him a pep talk like expected, but simply hears out Rokuro's troubles until Rokuro regains the will to fight [[spoiler:in order to get Benio back]].

* BashSiblings: He and Mayura team up in battle a few times after Mayura joins the Heavenly Commanders. The two form a great combination. After the second TimeSkip, they start heading towards becoming a BattleCouple.

* BattleStrip: More like Ritual Strip. Sayo must be naked to use Kuzu-no-Ha's power and perform the ritual to summon an exorcist's Enchanted Guardian.

* {{Yandere}}: Played around in Chapter 79. It's first PlayedForLaughs when her reaction to hearing about Rokuro's official engagement to Benio is having him kidnapped, keep him BoundAndGagged, and threaten to pull a MurderSuicide so she can [[IfICantHaveYou be with Rokuro in the afterlife]]. Then, she falls under the influence of a curse that makes her want to seriously kill Benio for being the woman Rokuro loves. Ultimately, it's {{subverted|trope}} as Sayo frees herself from the curse and accepts that only Benio can make Rokuro happy.

* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:The true identity of Kijin is the amalgamation of the past female Twin Stars that failed to give birth to the Miko. This basically makes Tenma an artificial vessel of yin energy, which is why his powers are so overwhelmingly destructive. Despite this, Tenma is one of the good guys and becomes a very important ally to Rokuro.]]

* MarkOfTheSupernatural: Originally, both his eyes were purple. His left eye turned green after he became the host of the strongest shikigami, Kijin [[spoiler:that is the amalgamation of all the dead female Twin Stars that failed to become Taiyin]].

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: His shikigami Kijin is powered by the curses of the Unomiya candidates Tenma killed before inheriting it. [[spoiler:Furthermore, Kijin represents the curses fueled by the torment of all the dead female Twin Stars.]] Because of this, Kijin is the most powerful shikigami of the Guardians and her host Tenma is next to invincible. [[spoiler:However, after the first Singularity Point, Tenma notices he can't feel the despair of the previous female Twin Stars anymore because the current Taiyin has found true love and happiness with Taiyang.]]
* RaisedAsAHost: The children of the Unomiya family are trained and made kill each other until there is only one left to inherit Kijin, [[spoiler:a shikigami that is actually the amalgamation of curses from the previous female Twin Stars that died before the Miko could be born.]]

* BackToBackBadasses: She teams up with the Basara Gaja against [[spoiler:the corrupted Taiyin form of Benio]].

* FourEyesZeroSoul: He wears round glasses and is the most detestable of the Twelve Guardians.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He comes off as an obnoxious asshole who thinks he's better than everyone and talks down to his fellow Commanders, but he's a decent human being deep down. He fights to protect low-level exorcists from Kegare and cooperates with other Heavenly Commanders in battle. He also can't stand those who abuse their power to trample over the weak.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: The moment [[spoiler:Benio confesses her true nature as Taiyin in front of the Twelve Guardians]], Hibari immediately decides [[spoiler:Benio]] must be killed as all Kegare are a threat that must be eliminated.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:His adoptive father Tsukumo died in a battle against Kegare because some jerks ran away and left him to die in their place. Hibari had the perfect chance to avenge Tsukumo by letting one of the jerks fall to his death. Despite still hating the jerk, Hibari saved him because he doesn't want to do anything that would disappoint Tsukumo.]]

* {{Expy}}: Her clothing and fighting style are based on those of Tanpopo from the author's earlier work ''Manga/GoodLuckGirl'', just that Sakura is HotBlooded while Tanpopo was TheStoic.

* ShippingTorpedo: After the second TimeSkip, Kamui actively tries to break Rokuro and Benio apart. His reasoning is that Rokuro won't ever be Benio's equal in power as long as he refuses to awaken as Taiyang and even if he does awaken, he and Benio won't be able to stay together since Benio will be forced to be trapped in Magano forever. However, Rokuro almost immediately figures out that Kamui just doesn't want to see Benio sad when she inevitably needs to be separated from Rokuro.

* BarbarianLonghair: He has very long hair worn in twintails and despite his disgusting personality, he has a very good-looking face.

* SeenItAll: She has met the female Twin Star many times in the past since they all came to her seeking help to recover their powers. Chinu already saw all kinds of reactions when Taiyin learns her fate to become the Princess of the Kegare from [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going insane]] to [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide]]. This is why Chinu complimented Benio for being the only Taiyin who didn't have a FreakOut after learning the AwfulTruth.

* BroughtDownToBadass: Shizuru and Sakura come up with a technique that traps Gabura inside a secluded space that infuses his body with yang energy to significantly reduce his strength and slow down his movements and reaction time. Even though this gives Sakura the upper hand at first, Gabura manages to fight back and destroys the enclosure before casting multiple curses that would have killed all the exorcists nearby if Rokuro haven't intervened with his Taiyang power.

* FountainOfYouth: After the second time skip, [[spoiler:Sakanashi now has the body of a kid after coming back to life.]]

* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: [[spoiler:Sakanashi is really a living container of Taiyang's soul. Once he's killed by Arima, Taiyang's soul is freed and enters Rokuro's body four years later.]]
* TakeOverTheWorld: [[spoiler:His ultimate plan is using Yuuto's cloned body to absorb the Twin Star Exorcists' power and create his own artificial prophesied child that he will use to eradicate humanity and rule over a world inhabited only by Kegare.]]

* YinYangBomb: His technique Unchain literally means Yin-Yang Annihilation. With this, he obtains a form that holds the ultimate power of yin and yang. [[spoiler:He can do this because he stole Taiyang's soul from the Outcast Valley.]]

* BackToBackBadasses: He teams up with Subaru against the corrupted Taiyin form of Benio.

* LadyOfWar: Doman Ashiya commented how Abe no Seimei looked like she was gracefully dancing when tearing a horde of demons apart.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:While her body was fused with the King of the Kegare, thousands of Abe no Seimei's sons were killed by Basara right after birth, as a way of preventing the Twin Star Exorcists from meeting. Some of her sons did manage to get past the Basara and meet the female Twin Star, but they still died before the Miko could be born.]]

* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: Because of the extremely powerful enchanted powers she had from birth, Abe no Seimei/Haruko was raised as a man in order to become an exorcist. Only her family, her teachers and her rival Doman Ashiya knew she was a girl.

* SingleSexOffspring: [[spoiler:For the last thousand years, Abe no Seimei has spawned thousands of sons created from her yang energy. All of her children are male because they're potential male Twin Star Exorcists while the female one is born within Doman Ashiya's bloodline.]]

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* BarbarianLonghair: He has long, disheveled hair like a mane that makes him look like a bandit.

* DotingGrandparent: He acts like an indulging grandpa when he meets his distant descendant Benio. The first thing he does when he sees Benio is to hug her and credit her beauty to his genes. Benio then complains how his beard itches.

* MultiEthnicName: Her given name, Cordelia, is Western and her family name, Kasukami, is Japanese.