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A fictional Fighting Game by Wax.
In a futuristic world, a well-known fighting tournament organizer named Ringoto Teisou is working on a secret but undoubtedly sinister project. He is rumored to be in the first stage, collectively called "Operation G". Its content and goals are unknown to all but his four head executives and Ringoto himself. In front of that persistent veil, several parties and private groups side against the project.
Several tournaments are organized, and teams form to either protect or cancel Operation G before it concludes.
It is divided in 10 story arcs, after the introduction:

• Ground Zero Tour: Niki organizes a tournament in Ground Zero, a huge tower. The tournament is a cover-up to lure the enemies to Operation G and bring them all down in one shot. This arc introduces Team Ougoku and Team Mugen.
• Mystery East Tour: A solo female-only tournament. It's organized by Miki who orchestrated a trap for Houka to fall in so she could kidnap her off of the rest of her team.
• Vector 41-009 Arc: Tang is on a mission to bait the anti-Operation G teams, organizing a tournament in a former Operation G study lab. This arc introduces Team Konryuu and Team Ranken.
• High Point Tour: Tatsuya organizes a solo tournament with a very small selection of contestants. This arc introduces Team Kokujin and Team Jundou, who make up most of the entrants in this tournament.
• Red Leaf Tour: Akina and the Reitou ninja clan organize this tournament under an official guise. This arc introduces Team Kouei.
• Nameless Tournament: Natsuki uses a luxurious locale to organize a tournament. People are suspicious, but unaware of what tests she's running in this tournament.
• True Ground Zero Tour: Hakkou lands a space station on Earth and organizes a tournament aboard.
• Silverwing Tour: Ginshi organizes a tournament aboard her huge flying aircraft. This arc introduces Team Magou.
• Operation O: Eiko is alive, Operation G is a success. The anti-Operation G teams grow desperate, as Ringoto immediately cuts ties with his executives. Everyone starts searching for him.
• Stream Arc: Ringoto heads for the Stream, where a long battle unfolds.

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Operation G contains examples of:

• Action Girl: Each team has one. They can also be pitted against the guys in tournaments, so the action part is frequently tested.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Many, when everyone starts dying in droves and most of the anti villains (many of them gone into Type IV by that point) die.
• An Aesop: Ringoto is a walking aesop about how self-centeredness is bad, as he only goes crazy because he let his ambition go before everything else.

• Badass Family / Big, Screwed-Up Family: Many of them.
  • The Teisou family, despite originating in Japan, has now extended to the whole world. The main characters belonging to this family are almost all European: Ringoto is German, Setsuna is French, Torou is Brazilian, and Kintou is Spanish.
  • The Kokuu brothers count as the family is entirely screwed up, but the three are badass.
  • The Seichi count too, aside from Hakkou's isolation from his family's lifestyle. Of course, his nephews being on the Operation G side make them a screwed-up family.
  • Not really family, but the orphanage Akina works in has gathered many characters together. Houka, Tenko, Izumi and Haruka all live (or lived just before Operation G started) there; not to mention the visits of Tang, Niki and Miki (who in fact is the one funding it).
  • Subverted with Rigan and Tae-yeong, who are brothers but don't really knowing each other due to having been separated for the better part of 10 years.
  • The Mashima are definitely screwed up, by virtue of Tatsuya being married to Natsuki.
• Balance, Speed, Strength Trio: Team Mugen has Karyu as the Balance, Tenko as the Speed and Shiro as the Strength. Similarly, Team Konryuu has Setsuna as the Balance, Gilberto as the Speed, and Seino as the Strength. Team Magou also follows this with Kintou as the Balance, Lucille as the Speed, and Tsuyoshi (somewhat obviously) as the Strength.
  • Downplayed by Team Ougoku: while all three members are strength-based, there is still a distinction between the members, with Koukyu as the relatively-balanced, Houka as the faster of the three, and Kuuki's giant size making him extra committed to Strength.
• Blessed with Suck:
  • Fuushi and Kiyoshi suffer from a magical genetic alteration, commonly called Demon Brand. While it makes them naturally strong, it also gives them a One-Winged Angel Superpowered Evil Side that can be triggered consciously, but usually is used unconsciously due to excess of negative emotion. It also tends to trigger on its own when darkness magic is used. It also gives a Healing Factor, though it is mitigated by the Painful Transformation coming beforehand. Natsuki also has that same disease.
  • Setsuna, Kiyoshi, and Akemi suffer from a strange phenomenon called Soul of the Beast (Soul of Mashin once it's figured out who's responsible) that causes them soul pains routinely, and can overcome their will to replace it with that of a murderous beast in Unstoppable Rage. The three members of Team Kokujin, Ringoto, and Mashin all can cause the afflicted to go crazy. It's actually parts of Mashin's soul tainting the afflicted, and a key part of his plan to become God.
    • Kuuki, Aoshi, and Haruka can enter the same state, but since they have control over the transformation, it's a milder case — their lack of power to choose when to stop being Ax-Crazy counts.
    • Ginshi has a power that resembles it, but has few of the drawbacks: the power she gained from Ringoto causes her pain upon use, though.
  • Seino and Tsuyoshi both have Blood Ki, a dark energy that enhances their strength and ki power, but hampers mental development and thinking ability. The afflicted often turn into a Blood Knight. It also make them able to sense other lifeforms with it. Tsuyoshi fully accepts it while Seino struggles against it. The effect of Blood Ki can be counteracted by Empty Ki, which is possessed by Hakkou. Karyu also has it, unwittingly so.
• Boss Rush: The ending to the Silverwing Tour Arc. All the anti-Operation G teams have to fight, in order, Team Magou (voluntarily not putting up a fight), the four head executives, and then Mashin whips out Houka-2.
  • Not counting the Stream Arc, since all bosses have been met and fought before except Ringoto and Mashin.

• Colony Drop: Alluded to, but never actually executed. Hakkou only lands a space station for the True Ground Zero Tour.
• Demoted to Extra: For each arc with a new team in focus.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The villain teams are just as tightly-knit than the heroes. The only exceptions are Natsuki, who experiments on her family, Ringoto, who lets his zealotry lead him to kill family and others alike, and Mashin, who lives by It's All About Me.
• "Everybody Dies" Ending: Almost. Akina, Keiko, Tsuyoshi, and Koukyu survive. Everybody else dies.
• Flung Clothing: Setsuna, Torou and Kintou start their fights against each other by dramatically throwing away their capes / coats-of-arms.
• Good Is Not Soft: Most of the anti-Operation G cast. Hakkou in particular, during the Vector 41 Arc, brutalizes Gilberto to the point of knocking him out in seconds with little provocation.

• Grey-and-Gray Morality: Evil characters have some good traits and good characters do nasty things. Only a few characters are exempted.
• Large Ham: Koukyu and Karyu in particular, with some Ham-to-Ham Combat interspersed within their rivalry.
• Light Is Not Good: Ringoto, the Big Bad, dresses mostly in light colors. And Mashin, dressed in pure white, is a very morally lacking person.
• MegaCorp: Number Zero. Over half the characters can somehow relate to it.
• Mirror Match: Despite Houka-2 existing, she does not function as one for Houka.
• Not Just a Tournament: Every single arc. Each organizer is either in favor of Operation G and attempting to destroy or subdue the opposition, or against it and trying to lure the opposition out to capture and learn from them so they can stop it.
• Parts Unknown: Averted, with every character having a known nationality with the exception of Houka-2 and Eiko, who are born during the plot.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Setsuna, Kiyoshi and Akemi going crazy also turns their eyes red.
• Science Is Bad: Many characters had their lives made more problematic by scientific experiments, and that's before Operation G itself.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To its parent fiction A-Ko Project. Operation G is portrayed in a much more negative light, though The most blatant difference is only four characters (Koukyu, Tsuyoshi, Keiko and Akina) survive Operation G.
  • Shout-Out / Recycled Script: In A-Ko Project, main protagonist girl Chiaki gets kidnapped and brainwashed at the start of the final arc. In Operation G, main protagonist girl Houka gets a brainwashed and crazy clone just before the final arc.
• Title Drop: Operation G can refer to the work, or Ringoto's plan.
• Two Guys and a Girl: All the teams.
• Villains Act, Heroes React: More exactly, Villain Protagonists Act Hero Antagonists React: The Operation G staff is the acting faction.
  • Inverted Trope: Team Ougoku itself doesn't act, except by protecting Niki from the teams intent on stopping the project.

Characters:

Operation G has a lot of characters, so they are sorted by teams.

Team Ougoku

Supervised by: Niki Yagawa

Captain: Kuuki Kishitsu

Other members: Shadou Koukyu, Honbuki Houka

Tropes associated with the team:

• Mighty Glacier / The Brute: The whole team is composed of heavy-type fighters. Koukyu is by a good margin the least power-oriented fighter of the three.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: When they are in their third outfits, it takes distinguishing Koukyu's hair to realize that it's really them. Houka is barely recognizable being Stripperiffic and blonde.
• Villain Protagonist: By virtue of siding with the Operation G, and being supervised by Niki. Otherwise...
  • Anti-Villain: ... they are essentially nice guys, except for their personal issues. Kuuki's devotion to Niki, Koukyu's Hair-Trigger Temper and Houka's pettiness and ego.

Tropes associated with Kuuki:

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• Height: 212 cm
• Weight: 137 kg
• Likes: Electricity
• Dislikes: Tigers

• Blood Knight: He enjoys the fighting itself, though he doesn't enjoy the potential harsh consequences.
• Brains and Brawn: With the rest of his team. Even though he's far from weak, it's fairly obvious which side is which.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Mostly a Nice Guy, but he can kick ass if need arises.
• Due to the Dead: When Niki dies by Akemi, Kuuki decides to kill Rigan as punishment, and set her up as his next victim. Mashin's intervention cuts the Cycle of Revenge short though since he kills both Kuuki and Akemi.
• Gentle Giant: In contrast to the rest of the team. Just don't say anything bad regarding Niki or you will Talk to the Fist.
• The Last Dance: When Niki kicks the bucket, Kuuki disbands Team Ougoku and goes on a long charge with the only goal of doing as much damage to Niki's killers before he dies.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Niki saved his life from errance and starvation, and for this reason Kuuki is devoted to Niki to his last breath. Things go south when Niki dies.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Even his hair is dyed with a pink hue.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Be it to Koukyu or Houka, he's always the Blue Oni.
• Stuff Blowing Up: His Ultimate, Meteor Piledriver, makes a huge explosion at impact, which is what is seen from the Ultimate zoom-out.
• Unstoppable Rage: Once Niki dies, he forfeits his sanity and goes crazy on Team Kouei (or rather, Akemi and Rigan since Niki had already killed Yuuji), killing off Rigan in the process.
• Use Your Head: More likely to think, but he uses a headbutt as an easy throw.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Uses several wrestling moves. He has no less than three powerbombs in his moveset.

Tropes associated with Koukyu:

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• Height: 186 cm
• Weight: 109 kg
• Likes: Partying, motorcycles
• Dislikes: Chic stuff

• Acrofatic: A very downplayed case, as he usually wears clothes that hide his fat, and he is not too overweight.
• Ambiguously Brown: His second outfit has him with an obscure artificial tan.
• Badass Biker: Crosses into Big Damn Heroes to bail Houka out of the Mystery East Tour site when she's cornered by Team Mugen: he drives past Miki with his bike at high speed and whacks her with a cane while at it, then quickly takes Houka on board and leaves.
• Big Brother Instinct: While not Houka's big brother, he quickly develops this for her.

• Hell-Bent for Leather: His second outfit. He suggests the same fashion to Houka and she runs with it too. Kuuki pokes fun at them.
  Kuuki: "You're making yourselves look like goth band rejects."
• Hidden Heart of Gold: He's a jerk those who want to dig into his motives.

• Mercy Kill: After Tang is stalled to agony by Natsuki after being fired and begs for death, he and Kintou make his suffering as brief as possible.
• Put on a Bus: After the above Mercy Kill incident. He completely gives up fighting for a while. He catches back up to the others only after nearly everyone else died.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs:
• Rule of Cool: Runs after it.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Once he sees Niki dead and Kuuki flipping off, complete with people starting to die left and right. The hiatus is brief, though: once he hears about Ringoto's treatment of Tang, he immediately goes to try and assist him, but it's too late. Cue him taking another break because he gave up fighting due to the consequences.
• Spin Attack: He exploits his surprising speed for momentum.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He has little knowledge of his wind magic, so he relies on shockwaves more than wind currents.

Tropes associated with Houka:

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• Height: 165 cm
• Weight: 48 kg
• Likes: Sake
• Dislikes: Paperwork

• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Alluded to. She drinks a lot and she's definitely not the smartest of the load. When deprived of her drinks, she proves to be far smarter.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Essentially nice, but she is easily angered and packs a wallop.
  • Her frustration also lead to the start of the story, with her as the bad guy.
• Blood Knight: Once Team Ougoku is disbanded, she doesn't know what to do. When she crosses paths with Team Ranken, she tries to find a thrill in fighting again by picking a fight (harmlessly so) with Tae-yeong.

• Creepy Child: Much older than the norm, but looks the part.

• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: After Team Ougoku is disbanded. When she fails to have a thrill in her next fight, she decides to die fighting her clone.

• Dumb Blonde: Inverted: her third outfit has her blonde as a con act and she's noticeably more vigilant and cunning than her usual self.
• Fire-Breathing Diner: Even though her main magic element is fire, she breathes ice instead to spoof the trope.
• Friend to All Children: She's an orphan, so she has a soft spot for abandoned children.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Her Fatal Flaw, aside from wrath. She loves drinking, but that makes her performance unreliable at best. Due to her childish looks, Kuuki and Koukyu try to avoid letting her get too drunk because of potential controversy.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Her second costume in-story is due to Koukyu decking her out in leather.
• Meaningful Name: Houka's name is a homophone for voluntary arson, fitting for someone with fire powers.
• Mighty Glacier: She's nearly as bad as Kuuki when it comes to mobility. She is also really powerful not only in physical power, but in magic as well. Houka's innate brute power is what compelled Mashin to clone her.
• Mutual Kill: With Houka-2.
• Older Than They Look: She's 19, but everyone swears she's underage.
• Playing Drunk: When fighting. Her fighting style is being a Drunken Master. Sometimes she really is drunk, though.
• Rage Quit > Face–Heel Turn: Essentially, the beginning of the story. Houka runs away from Akina's group of disciples and is then tricked by Niki into joining Kuuki.

• Super-Strength: Her first use of magic. She learns to make explosions, and then volcanos.
• Unskilled, but Strong
• Wrestler in All of Us: Her moveset packs many throws. Her front throw, Houka Buster, is the Rock Bottom, and one of her supers is literally called Super Frankensteiner.
• Youkai Motifs: Oni. Demonic undertones? Check. Loves sake? Check. Enormous physical strength? Compared to the other girls, check.

Tropes associated with Niki:

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• Height: 185 cm
• Weight: 77 kg
• Likes: Disguising
• Dislikes: The society

• Butt-Monkey: He was this in his family once Miki got adopted and upstaged him in everything.
• Cool Shades: Carries a pair. Those are his friend Chouji's shades.
• Cunning Like a Fox: He is rather fond of trickery.
• Fastball Special: One of his supers has him spawn a shadow clone to throw himself at the enemy.

• Good with Numbers: Not that it matters, because Miki surpasses him in those regards too.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Towards Miki.
• It Was a Gift: Chouji's Cool Shades.
• Master of Disguise: Niki fools the relatives of his dead close friend Chouji when impersonating him. Justified as they have been working on this together as Chouji was sickly and close to death.
• Not Himself: According to his death speech, he has never been himself. Kuuki disagrees once the ordeal is done, but he comes in too late to contest that.
  "I have never been anyone. I've been a poor man's Miki, and I've been Chouji. You can kill me, you will have killed no one."

• Turned Against Their Masters: Against his family, to be more honest.

Team Mugen

Supervised by: Miki Yagawa

Captain: Shiro Kokuu

Other members: Karyu Nantogan, Tenko Sanjou

Tropes associated with the team:

• Child Prodigy: All three members were examples, to an extent. Shiro having a power-nullifying natural gift, Karyu for being so proficient at Taek Won Do, and Tenko being just a self-taught fighting prodigy who wins many fights with no actual fighting training.
• Hero Antagonist: In contrast to Team Ougoku, and to complete their Villain Protagonist status, Team Mugen look and act the part of a hero.
  • Face–Heel Turn: At the end of the Silverwing Arc, they attack Team Magou with the only justification of Team Magou's treachery. By that point, Team Magou had revealed Mashin's existence to the anti-Operation G teams to Team Mugen. Even though this attack was commenditated by Miki, this turn still is in effect, as they reveal their higher-powered forms to take on Ringoto and Eiko at the Stream, with their intent being becoming God themselves.
• The Rival: Shiro is Kuuki's, Karyu is Koukyu's and Tenko is Houka's; and so for a good chunk of the plot.

Tropes associated with Shiro:

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• Height: 206 cm
• Weight: 135 kg
• Likes: Theater masks
• Dislikes: Evil plans

• Counter-Attack: He's renowned for those.
• Light 'em Up
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Mighty Glacier: He hits hard and his magic is powerful enough to nullify or counteract anybody else's. Though, he is slow; though since he usually confronted the equally-slow Kuuki, he said he was a Lightning Bruiser.
• Power Nullifier: His shields can break all sorts of magic.
• The Quiet One: Usually leaves the speaking and badass boasting to Karyu and Tenko.
  • Beware the Quiet Ones: He kicks more ass than his teammates.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: His secret form, seen during the Stream Arc. He even says Team Mugen is out to "kill God". Despite that, he dies.

• White Mask of Doom: He has one, and he likes to wear it because of his passion for theater, but it obscures his vision; so of course he never wears it in actual bouts.
  • During the final arc, he conceals his face with a black mask.

Tropes associated with Karyu:

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• Height: 178 cm
• Weight: 73 kg
• Likes: Pasta
• Dislikes: Stress

• Bring It: He loves taunting and being flashy, and overuses this trope.
• But Not Too Foreign: Averted. He's born 100% American, but eventually came to live in Japan. Karyu is a stage name.
• The Four Gods: Comments on this when he notices Seino and Gilberto.
  "Okay, did you guys bring a Genbu too?"
• Handsome Lech: He loves hitting on the girls, but since he means no actual compliment, none of them bites.
• Hot-Blooded: Karyu is a name he made up. Fittingly enough.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: His taunting and tendency to brag annoys many, but his heart is mostly in the right place. Even when Team Mugen confronts Mashin, he's the only one without the intention to kill or replace God.
• Lonely Rich Kid: In his early life, he would annoyed everyone around himself just to have company.
• Mr. Fanservice: In-universe, he has a lot of fangirls, including Keiko.
• The Rival: He has a bunch of them of them. Koukyu, Seino, the list goes on.
• Shoryuken: A specialist.

Tropes associated with Tenko:

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• Height: 153 cm
• Weight: 45 kg
• Likes: Peaches, rainbows
• Dislikes: Boredom

• Badass Bookworm / Cute Bookworm: Mid-Heroic BSoD, she took to reading because she thought about not being able to fight at high levels anymore. Even after that period, she still tries to be this, but just fails to understand books, because she has been skipping lessons all her childhood. Her failings are Played for Laughs.
• Berserk Button: If you ever try to undermine her Smug Super boasting. Yes, even post-Heroic BSoD.
• Born Winner: She almost never trains, yet she wins most fights she gets into even against elite fighters.
• Bratty Half-Pint: The smallest person of the entire cast (and a full 10 cm below Haruka, the second-smallest), and the brattiest by an even larger margin. When in her alternate form, she grows 20 cm.

• Doppelgänger Attack: Her Mahouken Geneizan.
• Dumb Blonde: Part of her hair is blonde.
• For the Lulz: Her life with her secluded family felt so boring that she felt the need to drop out of her house.
• Jerkass: Since she has been labeled a prodigy, she's extremely arrogant and prone to reckless Trash Talk, to the point even Karyu (himself an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy) says she's a bit much. It takes Shiro and Karyu at once, or a Heroic BSoD, to get her to shut up.
• Kiddie Kid: She acts childish despite being 16, because she's a victim of an extreme case of Parental Neglect. Also, she did drop out of her house several times and she has a penchant for skipping her home lessons.
• One-Winged Angel: Has one such form, but usually refuses to use it because it's ugly.
  • She still goes with it for the last arc.
• Playing with Fire: She makes herself a magic sword out of densified magical fire.
• Smug Super: She rarely ever lost a match for a good portion of the plot (she even wins the Mystery East Tour on her own), which made her Insufferable Genius attitude worse and worse with the passage of time. In the High Point Tournament Arc, she loses to Setsuna, and in the Red Leaf Tour just after it, she loses to Houka which starts greatly diminishing her ego.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Her One-Winged Angel form has white hair, and she's out-and-out vile, and much less benign about her arrogance than she was before. She's a complete sadist who relishes in every bit of pain she gives Mashin and even announces her intention to be God.

Tropes associated with Miki:

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• Height: 171 cm
• Weight: 60 kg
• Likes: Nobility
• Dislikes: Sore losers

• An Ice Person: A few of her attacks use ice, blowing icy wind on opponents, directly freezing them in one of her throws, and using ice spikes to pierce her opponents.
• Attack Reflector: Her Night Sky Cutter.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: She is skilled at Power Copying too. Demonstrated by showing off that she copied Tang's Rinshuu - Rekkai. Torou and Gilberto also know (and complain) her Death Force is a secret technique from the Yi Clan.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Miki is usually an agreeable, well-meaning, and fair-playing lady. But in the face of the thick mystery surrounding Operation G, she hatches up a few devious schemes over the course of the story, all attempts to get it to blow apart.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: What Ginshi calls her when they face off, for her unjustified attack on Team Magou and trapping Lucille forever in a dimensional breach.
• Clear My Name: A variant: she wants to stop her brother Niki from associating with Operation G because it is detrimental to her reputation.
• Dance Battler: She mixes ballerina and other dances into her attacks. One of her moves is named Ballerina.
• Finger Poke of Doom: Her Ultimate ends with this.
• Happily Adopted: She's not born Japanese but Indonesian. The fact that an adopted child became the favorite of the family is the source of her problems with Niki.
• Old Maid: She's 29 and unmarried. This is often thrown at her face as an insult by Tenko.
• Power Limiter: Her bracelets are one. Even though she takes them off against Ginshi, both die in the ensuing battle.
• The Stoic: She isn't very expressive, and rarely loses her temper.
• Sweet Tooth: It's even this common point with Houka that causes Miki to see her outside a fight before anyone else after Houka's defection.
• Tautological Templar: Miki alludes to the trope when she says to Ginshi's face that Team Mugen's attack on Team Magou won't be reprimanded but cheered, simply because of what they're known as at large: Miki a good person, and Ginshi a villain.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She is ready to do some nasty things to stop Operation G. In the Mystery East Tour, she attempts to kidnap Houka. In the Silverwing Arc, she traps Lucille in a Pocket Dimension, and then attempts to kill Ginshi.
• Worthy Opponent: Considered this by many of the Operation G staff. Except Niki. Ginshi replaces him on the hate-train when she gets a hold of Miki's intention and what she's ready to do for it (read:trap Lucille in a Pocket Dimension for as long as she's alive).

Team Ranken

Supervised by: Hakkou Seichi

Captain: Kim Tae-yeong

Other members: Torou Teisou, Keiko Seichi

Tropes associated with the team:

• The Big Guy: Except Tae-yeong - who's no slouch in this domain either - the team is composed of the heaviest hitters in their side. Also, they are the Mighty Glacier type, except Tae-yeong.
• Not So Harmless Hero Antagonist: While Torou and Keiko look serious, Tae-yeong's gests and attitude caused Team Ougoku to dismiss them as a non-threat. And then, Tae-yeong pops up backstage and - unhindered by anything - attacks Tang directly.

Tropes associated with Tae-yeong:

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• Height: 178 cm
• Weight: 79 kg
• Likes: His cap, rap music
• Dislikes: Drugs, cheating

• Animal Motifs: The wolf, present in a few of his attack names.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Of sorts.
• Child Prodigy: Defied this trope in order to not be noticed. In his refusal to be known, Tae-yeong kept holding back on the road to elite fighting tier.
• Combat Pragmatist: More "tactician pragmatist". He assumes the façade of a Boisterous Weakling to totally fool Team Konryuu and get right at Tang's face unnoticed.
• Confusion Fu: He uses two Flamingo stances to this effect, changing how he fights in either of those stances.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Faked being remotely competent on combat but acted like a complete idiot otherwise.
• Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: With Death Glare, When Team Ougoku escapes right after "burying" Tang. Also, after Eiko kills Tatsuya, though he charges in recklessly and gets killed.
• Gratuitous English: Invokes this because "it sounds different". And he's born in America.

• Justice Will Prevail: His general trail of thought.
• Ki Manipulation: His only notable long-range moves. He maintains his attacks because they're ground-bound.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": He's a Tatsuya fanboy. This causes his quick death to Eiko just after she kills Tatsuya since he goes Leeroy Jenkins upon seeing Tatsuya die, only to meet the same fate himself.
• Milking the Giant Cow: His moves are extremely visible due to him making huge gestures. Even though this results in him being easy to predict and easy to tire out, he prefers to keep going because his moves have momentum, and it hits hard while being endearing to watch, and he's grown accustomed to it well enough that the stamina issue became moot.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Pursuing Tang because Tang's grandpa killed his dad. He realizes how wrong this was, though, when Natsuki fights Tang and stalls him to his death over it.
• Technician Versus Performer: In regards to his brother, or his team partner Torou, he's the Performer, both of them being technicians compared to him.

Tropes associated with Torou:

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• Height: 203 cm
• Weight: 138 kg
• Likes: Horned animals
• Dislikes: Fragile things

• Badass Arm-Fold: Adopts this whenever he needs to feel threatening.
• The Big Guy: He's the biggest guy around. Even bigger than Kuuki.
  • Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Though he isn't the first person to die, and it isn't a Heroic Sacrifice: Ringoto kills him for "rebelling against his new world".
• Combat Pragmatist: Despite being a hero, he still uses the Poison Mist, which is usually associated with heels.
• Cool Mask: As a Masked Luchador.

• Flash Step: Despite his size, he has the Yi Phase Walk, which is one.

• Mentor: He mentors Tae-yeong, his own team leader, in fighting.
• Mighty Glacier: He attempts to defy this trope, but outside of his Flash Step, he is still a big slow guy.
• Odd Friendship: With fellow "kinda-wrestler" Rigan. They wrestled each other more than once before the story. However, he doesn't know that Rigan and Tae-yeong are brothers, because he doesn't know Rigan's real identity.
• The Paragon Always Rebels: Eldest son (Setsuna is older than him though) of the head of Operation G, yet he sides against it.
• The Quiet One: He is much more mature than his age suggests.

Tropes associated with Keiko:

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• Height: 164 cm
• Weight: 58 kg
• Likes: Autumn
• Dislikes: Sodas

• Angst: She asks herself why her brothers work for the Operation G staff, because this makes them her enemies. And of course she angsts some more after Seino dies.
• Ass Kicks You: The last part of her Defacer special move.
• Badass Normal: Her level in magic is abysmally low, yet she's as capable as the other girls, perhaps moreso, despite being a rookie.
• Combat Pragmatist: Has taken this approach in order to be as strong as her brothers.
• Cute Bruiser: This is a total opposite of her brothers. While Seino and Tsuyoshi are known for their gifts in using magic (namely fireballs), she's at her best up close and personal.
• Determinator: She can receive far more punishment than other girls. As well, she's absurdly insistent in looking for Seino, and comes back like a boomerang when Gilberto and Setsuna send her buzzing off. Another note? After she and Tae-yeong attack Eiko after the latter killed Tatsuya, she actually survives the injuries she sustains, while the same injuries kill Tae-yeong.
• Flash Step: She aids herself with her mild earth magic. That's actually the only magic stuff she can do.
• Hot-Blooded
• Not So Above It All: While her attacks are usually named traditionally, she goofily named one of her self-created moves Keiko-geri.
• Perpetual Frowner: She's definitely angsty about her brothers leaving and herself never being aided in leaving her family house. She has her few smiling moments, but that's for her teammates only.

• Super-Strength: She trained hard to have this.
• This Is Unforgivable!: When she hears about Ringoto having killed Seino. And then Torou. And some more when Tae-yeong dies, though at that point she faints due to injuries.
• Tomboy
• You Are What You Hate: To a degree: she hates the fact that her brothers ran away from home to learn other fighting styles, but she wound up doing the same by learning Muay Thai.

Tropes associated with Hakkou:

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• Height: 182 cm
• Weight: 80 kg
• Likes: Looking cool
• Dislikes: Religion

• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: When he ceases ignoring his martial arts skills.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Killed the former CEO of Number Zero to take his place when he'd be back from jail.

• Battle Aura: Proof he's much stronger than the others is that it shows up whenever he ceases holding back.
• Better as Friends: Pulled on him by Miki. He's 13 years older than her, after all.
• Cool Old Guy: If 42 is treated as old, but he already has strands of white hair.
• The Dreaded: To the Operation G Staff. As much as they respect Miki, they fear having to fight Hakkou, because he is more powerful than them. The trope turns around when Eiko not only survives his brutal onslaught, but replicates it and kills him in return.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: He is a potent magic practitioner, but dislikes religion.
• Holding Back the Phlebotinum: Doesn't engage his enemies often because his excessive power could lead to him getting jailed for murder again when he doesn't intend to.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: When he stops trying to be overly protective of his looks, he packs a hell of a punch and engages in displays of power that make pretty much all his peers jealous.
• Not So Invincible After All: Word for word in Ringoto's Evil Gloating after his death by Eiko. Though it wasn't sickness so much as age that got to him.
• Pretty Boy: Tries his hardest to be one at his age (42) and partially succeeds.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He takes great care of his long hair, and collects Shoujo manga.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: CEO of the scientific enterprise Number Zero. Also a major kicker of asses.
• Rule of Cool: One of his driving lines, oppositely to Tatsuya.
• Spam Attack: His Limit Break attacks have some of this.
• Sphere of Destruction: His Ultimate, seen from afar, still as this visible.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: When he fights, he indulges into heavy displays of power that often end up being this.

Team Konryuu

Supervised by: Chenlian Tang

Captain: Seino Seichi

Other members: Gilberto Rinaldi, Setsuna Teisou

Tropes associated with the team:

• Screw the Rules, I Have Money! / Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Team Konryuu is often dismissive or actively hostile to the plans of their partner teams, because they can get away with it.
  • Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: After Operation G ends, Tang is unceremoniously let off. When Seino and Gilberto go ask Ringoto for help and the cure for Tang in his stead, they meet refusal; and when they insist on pursuing Ringoto, he kills them.

Tropes associated with Seino:

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• Height: 183 cm
• Weight: 90 kg
• Likes: Fighting
• Dislikes: Spiders

• Blood Knight: The guy has been fighting and perfecting his style for his entire life, but with Tsuyoshi's "training" he fears about taking it too far.

• Energy Ball: He has a variety of those, charged with fire or electricity.
• He Who Fights Monsters: He's afraid of fighting his Aloof Big Brother Tsuyoshi because he fears that he may become too enthusiastic in fighting.
• Hunk: Seino is obviously ripped, and even though he is often well-dressed, he is decidedly masculine.
• Kamehame Hadoken: An In-Universe specialist. His Ultimate, however, looks like he's channeling Justice's Gamma Ray rather than Ryu's fireballs.
• No Social Skills: He doesn't know much outside of fighting. And he's running away from his younger sister Keiko because he doesn't want her to find out that he doesn't really so much as know her.
• Not Himself: What he thinks Tsuyoshi wants him to be.
• The Quiet One
• Rival Turned Evil: Karyu thinks of him as that. Seino is much more pragmatic. However, he dies before they can come to terms.
• The Stoic: Seino is extremely self-controlled, to the point of near inexpressiveness.
• Tiger Versus Dragon: He invokes this with Gilberto, him as the Dragon.

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• Height: 186 cm
• Weight: 91 kg
• Likes: Looking classy
• Dislikes: Pasta

• Action Fashionista: Of sorts: he has an iconic outfit, but it is classy.
• Animal Motifs: The tiger. He picked it up after Seino named his moves after dragons, and suggested him Theme Naming.
• Affably Evil: He gives a bit of his wealth to his coach to help finance Operation G, yet he is friendly to almost everybody. He even dates Keiko, though this only leads to her using him to get information on the team, leading to Tae-yeong taking Tang by surprise.
• Braids of Action: Sometimes.
• Death from Above: His Ultimate, White Tiger's Silver Arrow.
• Extremity Extremist: He kicks really much, only using his hands for magic and simple moves.
• Flash Step: Subverted; while he's usually very fast on his feet, he doesn't have one.

• Oh, Crap!: When he runs to Tang's rescue after Seino and Setsuna are ambushed by Torou and Keiko, he runs into Hakkou and has this reaction before Hakkou beats him unconscious.
• Ship Tease: Has asked Keiko on a date and she accepted. Though, she did so only to get him to talk about Seino, and a date-peeping Setsuna didn't help to appease the tension.
• Spam Attack: His Tiger Hunt.
• Technical Pacifist: He disagrees with the orders Tang has been given to investigate the Operation G staff's enemies, because he'd rather stay out of his enemies' faces. Rightfully so, when he realizes Tae-yeong fooled Team Konryuu and Keiko and Torou are blocking the path to his teammates, leaving him alone to try and save Tang.

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• Height: 173 cm
• Weight: 63 kg
• Likes: Serious stuff
• Dislikes: Barbecue

• Action Girl: Stands out even amongst other girls in that she can take out the guys. She packs enough power to take out Torou, as she does exactly that during the Vector 41 Arc.
• Attack Reflector: More like "deflector", but she's able to create ice barriers.
• Counter-Attack: Not really, but her Dream Freeze lets her dodge attacks and Flash Step behind the opponent to attack.
• Date Peepers: Spies on Gilberto's date with Keiko so he doesn't talk too much.
• Everything's Better with Sparkles
• Fiery Redhead: Inverted. She's a redhead, still, but fitting with her powers rather than her hair, she's An Ice Person.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Compared to girls, she can be unusually rough in her speech. That's because she's been raised with dudes.

• Ice Queen: One who defies being the defrosting type, as she alludes to before Keiko's date with Gilberto.
• Lady of War: Maintains an elegant air about herself at all times.

• Smug Super: Emphasis on super. She's much more experienced and powerful than most of her opponents, and she's condescending to the competition.
• Snow Means Death: Her Ultimate makes the surrounding area snowy, and is made to kill.
• The Stoic

Tropes associated with Tang:

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• Height: 177 cm
• Weight: 72 kg
• Likes: Meditating
• Dislikes: Sickness

• Animal Motifs: Cats, and sometimes ironically phoenixes.

• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Though he admits his weaknesses due to sickness, but he's confident he can mop the floor with Tae-yeong in the time it'd take for him to be incapacitated by his sickness.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Capable of easily reading his opponent's moves. Also, he has a battle suit that analyzed his own movements for Operation G.
• Battle Aura: When he has one, this is a mark of the incoming Heroic RRoD.
• Counter-Attack: His Rinshuu - Kimontonkou has versions meant as such.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Able to deliver like few others. He hands Tae-yeong his ass when he starts hitting him back, taking him down at a pace that rivalled Hakkou's trouncing of Gilberto just before.

• Disability Superpower: His unknown sickness is related to magic, but augments his heart rate if he gets serious, which gives him great ability in short battles, but ensures a Heroic RRoD in a short time.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: When he was about to get caught, Niki dropped a ton of sand over him before evacuating Team Ougoku, leaving Team Konryuu to try and take him out of that. Turns out he indirectly saved Tang from more pain by knocking him out.
• Handicapped Badass: Has an unknown heart sickness that could kill him in one moment of hyperactivity, despite being really potent. It is the cause of his eventual death when he gets stalled by Natsuki.
• Heroic Resolve: Despite being a villain, Tang has the heroic motive of fighting against sickness in the world. His grandfather died of an unidentified sickness Tang has too (that's the public excuse, Hakkou killed him while he had been left almost dead by Natsuki), strengthening his will to fight it. He never asks for drugs despite his would-be-constant need for those.
• Hidden Depths: Operation G worker, backstage curbstomper, Jerkass... with a heart of gold, and student in medicinal science fighting against sickness, and trying to complete Operation G to make a cure for all the sick people of the world.
• I Did What I Had to Do: His attitude towards his "bad" business in the Operation G. He planned to surrender himself to the police and be jailed, once he was healed; but he died before.
• Jerkass: To anyone that bothers him. It's justified since he's really high on edge and on the verge of death, working his ass off to save his life.

• Last-Name Basis: Tang is his family name, but everyone knows him as Tang, except for the Yagawas, who call him Chen.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: If he's serious, he's solid enough to receive little injury even from being punched out through a window of the second floor of a building. Though, this doesn't cover the ensuing Heroic RRoD.
• Not So Invincible After All: Despite being a fighter potent enough to wipe the floor with Natsuki (at the beginning), the outcome of the fight turns around once she endures the beatdown and sickness catches up to him.
• Parental Abandonment: His parents were killed. He was taken by his grandfather, who quickly threw him into an orphanage.
• Spin Attack: His Rinshuu (Circular Heel) has many variations, so it alone makes around half of his movepool. And let's not get started on his Cursed Wings of Fire Ultimate, where he grows wings of fire and flings himself at the enemy while spinning like a drill.

Team Kokujin

Supervised by: Tatsuya Mashima

Captain: Fuushi Mashima

Other members: Shakurou Kokuu, Izumi Umigiri

Tropes associated with the team:

• Anti-Hero Antagonist: Not that obvious with The Ditz Izumi, but Fuushi and Shakurou give quite the Good Is Not Nice and Jerk with a Heart of Gold vibes respectively. And since they are the antagonists, they are blurring the line between good and evil when compared to Anti-Villain Protagonist Team Jundou. Fuushi is the only "hero" who gets to kill someone due to pure hatred, in his case Natsuki.
• Badass Biker: The three usually travel with motorbikes. Tatsuya himself dislikes this aspect of the team.
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: In their primary elements: Shakurou's (mildly) Playing with Fire, Izumi is An Ice Person and Fuushi has Shock and Awe.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: The guys on a side and Izumi on the other.

Tropes associated with Fuushi:

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• Height: 184 cm
• Weight: 83 kg
• Likes: High-tech stuff, shoes
• Dislikes: Paragons of virtue

• Abusive Parents: Natsuki treated him harshly, and frequently beat him up, with him being roughed up by Tatsuya if he hit her back. He went the Determinator way through that.
• Berserk Button: Don't talk about his family.
• Calling the Old Woman Out: His objective towards Natsuki is paying her back for her horrible mistreatment of him.
  • The Dog Bites Back: By the way, the bite is lethal.
• Flash Step: His Ultimate has him apparently punch through the opponent.
• Gone Horribly Right: As Natsuki's experiment. He resisted Natsuki's abusive treatment and his training, and ended with a battle-hardened body and mind that clearly surpasses his half-brother's. And when he catches her in a fight, he ends up mauling her to death.
• It's All About Me: To a degree. He takes his team into account, but he doesn't give a damn about the rest of the anti-Operation-G teams. He willingly triggers Akemi's Soul of the Beast, because doing so also triggers it in Setsuna, depriving the Operation G supporters of a major fighting force.
• Megaton Punch: His most powerful moves are essentially this.
• Missing Mom: She died by childbirth when Fuushi was born. Tatsuya quickly found a new wife to cope with the death... and then it went From Bad to Worse.
• "Not So Different" Remark: He is as ruthless and uncaring as his stepmother. He isn't glad when she points this out. He starts to mellow out after he kills her.

• "Well Done, Son" Guy: As disobedient as he was, he wanted to hear his father Tatsuya be proud of him. Fuushi hits a Despair Event Horizon when he arrives at the Stream and sees Tatsuya's dead body.

Tropes associated with Shakurou:

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• Height: 183 cm
• Weight: 88 kg
• Likes: Meat, cool stuff
• Dislikes: Rabbits, ghost stories

• Bad Powers, Good People: Uses dark and fire magic for Fire and Brimstone Hell effect. Good Is Not Nice, but he's good nonetheless.
• Bring My Red Jacket: Wears a red jacket pretty much all the time. Cue his younger brother Aoshi's Dangerous 16th Birthday. It was not dangerous for Aoshi, but for him because Aoshi impaled his arm with an ice shard.
• Calling Your Attacks: To intimidate his opponents with his very dark choices of names.

• Fragile Speedster: To a degree, but he is this at least comparatively to his frame.

• Pragmatic Hero: Exact same deal as Fuushi. There's a reason they get along.
• Red Oni: To both his brothers' blue.
  • Hidden Depths: Deep inside, he's in fact the Blue Oni to Aoshi's Red.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Bringing up Aoshi is enough to make him unleash a Cluster F-Bomb.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Shiro, they keep Team Kokujin and Team Mugen synchronized to act against the Operation G staff, though they are pretty spiteful to each other.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Meat.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Less than Aoshi. His reluctance doesn't hinder him the very least bit when in competition, even though he still complains about it once he's done.

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• Height: 167 cm
• Weight: 59 kg
• Likes: Ice cream
• Dislikes: Brainy nerds

• Berserk Button: "Baka." Partly because she feels slighted and it calls back to Miki and Tenko calling her that repeatedly.
• Cell Phone: Makes extensive usage of hers since she's the only one on the team to go alone sometimes. Besides, she frequently contacts Akina and Miki.

• Foil: To both of her teammates, providing some good image with her carefree and outgoing attitude.
• My Greatest Failure: Letting Haruka go while trying to retrieve Houka — and the fact that she got fooled by Niki into leaving Houka with him as well.
• Not So Harmless: She looks like a lightweight idiot, which would make her a bottom-feeder, but she's actually stronger than the standards for girls.

• Trademark Favorite Food: Ice cream.
• Wrestler in All of Us: She occasionally uses the Diamond Dust.

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• Height: 179 cm
• Weight: 80 kg
• Likes: Traditional Japanese sandals
• Dislikes: Anybody who lacks self-control

• Anime Hair
• Badass Normal: Uses magic sparingly, yet he is renowned for being nearly unbeatable head-on and tough as nails.
  • Lamarck Was Right: Most definitely, his sons' strength and skill make him proud (and they definitely got some after him despite his notable lack of presence as a father). Them constantly fighting each other, not so much.
• Clothes Make the Legend: Inverted. Tatsuya is renowned, but the outfit he wore while he was a fearsome fighter has gone unremembered by anyone but himself.
• Cool Old Guy
• Determinator: Along with his body's natural toughness, this attribute explains why it's so hard for him to go down. He takes twice the beatdown Hakkou did from Eiko, but still succumbs.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: He had a long pro fighting career, and many scars due to having fought so much.
• Jerkass: Tatsuya is infamous in the fighting community because of how vocal he is about his distaste for technological progress and its impact on fighting.
• Living Legend: To a degree, since he was as hated as loved. Even while not fighting, he has mixed reception. His unlikely survivals from assassination attempts made some people think he orchestrated fake attempts at taking his life.
• Made of Iron: He's insanely tough, probably being the one who can take the most devilish beating out of the whole cast. He doesn't survive Eiko though.
• May–December Romance: With Natsuki. She's 17 years younger than him. Ginshi even gets a cheap shot at him during the Silverwing Arc.
  Ginshi: "How does it feel to live with someone who is younger than your adoptive daughter?"
• Oh, Crap!: When he sees Hakkou die to Eiko. He still fights her immediately, and gets killed too.
• Pet the Dog: When he is told that Natsuki has used the tournament she organized for research, he expresses concern for Kiyoshi, and realizes getting married to Natsuki was a mistake. Though, he's 19 years too late.
• Refuge in Audacity: He thinks rather flamboyantly, and reacts just as audaciously about the slightest debate.
• Stone Wall: He's known for taking a lot of hits to bring down. Eiko gives him a Rasputinian Death for his refusal to fall down.

Team Jundou

Supervised by: Natsuki Irin

Captain: Kiyoshi Irin

Other members: Aoshi Kokuu, Haruka Chinai

Tropes associated with the team:

• Anti Villain Protagonist: Barring Natsuki. The only thing that doesn't make them outright heroes is that they work for the bad guys.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Post Nameless Tournament. They want Operation G to complete, and for that they need to protect Natsuki, but they have a clear grudge against her for experimenting in her own tournament.
• Knight Templar: They think they are on the side of good, and Operation G will benefit everyone. Even when they pit themselves against Natsuki, Kiyoshi's purpose in doing so is to call her out on her messing with the tournament because he wanted to win it fair (and he had a good chance of succeeding given he was in the finals against Fuushi).
• Villain with Good Publicity: An obvious case during the Nameless Tournament, where they look and act like heroes especially by comparison to Team Kokujin. Natsuki, Aoshi, and Haruka tarnish the team's reputation in turn.

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• Height: 181 cm
• Weight: 76 kg
• Likes: Traditions
• Dislikes: People with bad reputation

• Apologetic Attacker: Sort of. He's always well-mannered, and if he feels really concerned (like when he injures his opponent for real, in gameplay defeating the opponent with a special move or stronger), he falls into this.
• Badass Longcoat
• Dark Is Not Evil: Dresses mostly in black, but the white in his clothing is the thing to stand by.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Kiyoshi adores his parents. It's not reciprocal with Natsuki, and once Kiyoshi finds out, he's justifiably angered about that.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Acts cold-hearted to anyone who attempts to meddle with his team or his mother outside the ring, but that's because he cares deeply about them.
• Irony: The leader of Team Jundou (meaning "pure path") has both Demon Brand and Soul of the Beast, that are darkness-based magical afflictions.
• Power of Trust: He starts out strong because his focus is on fighting: he trusts Natsuki to do what's best for him and the team. He finds out that he's a test subject, just like everyone else.
• The Rival: Views Fuushi as this and awaits the day they will fight, though Fuushi's having none of this.
• Slouch of Villainy: Adopts this whenever he talks to his team in formal manners.
• The Stoic
  • Not So Stoic: He cracks when he discovers Natsuki tested on all the contestants in the tournament. He's obviously pissed when he goes say some words to her.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality
• Suicide Attack: Since he lacks control over his own body, in his last moment of lucidity, he dives into the Stream while strangling a Mashin-possessed Lucille, ending the plot at the cost of his life.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome

Tropes associated with Aoshi:

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• Height: 176 cm
• Weight: 59.5 kg
• Likes: Vanilla icecream, camellias
• Dislikes: Meat, grand ideals, loudmouths

• Above Good and Evil: He claims to be this, as he doesn't care about morality.
• Always Save the Girl: Despite being a dick, by his rules, "men and women don't fight". Though, if a girl attacks him threateningly enough, he'll justify himself riposting.

  "Bitches are fair game."

• An Ice Person: Full force.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Was this to Shakurou and Shiro. Both kept rejecting him, resulting in Aoshi's screwed up state of mind, making his Face–Heel Turn a Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.
• Agent Peacock: His third outfit has him dressed like a woman, including heels.

• Badass in a Nice Suit: He usually dresses classy, and is an excellent fighter.
• Berserk Button: Men beating up on girls seems to be the first one, but attempting to mess with his team has him get a lot more expressive with his anger. When mentioning or dealing with his family, he can get unhinged.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: He has his own standards, and does not abide by others'.
• Broken Bird: Has been abandoned and left behind throughout his childhood. Nice Job Breaking Him, Bros.

• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: He insults Akina when preventing her from interfering with Kiyoshi's plans.

• Evil Is Deathly Cold: He looks like the Good Is Not Nice type of person.
• Green-Eyed Monster: His green eyes are an obvious indication of his Fatal Flaw.
• Hidden Depths: He hides a Hair-Trigger Temper that would make him the Red Oni to Shakurou's Blue.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: When he notices Kiyoshi having matters to solve with Natsuki, he shoos off most attempts to help for the sake of his team leader out of genuine care.
• Ineffectual Loner: Notably subverted, he actually cares about Kiyoshi and can sometimes go out of his way to help his leader for no reason at all.
• Jerkass: In the fighting field and nearby, he acts like a gentleman, but outside of the arena, he lets go of his obligations and falls into this.
• Lean and Mean: One of the leanest men around, and also one of the meanest as long as his Hidden Heart of Gold remains hidden.
• Like Brother and Sister: His desperate need for a family leads him to be a better sibling to Haruka than Akina ever was. He actually digs Haruka's personality out of its sealed state simply by being there.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Wears those outside fights, to maintain his "educated gentleman" image.
• Selective Obliviousness: He liberally ignores anyone else's standards, ideals, misgivings, or gripes with him.
• The Stoic: He's almost unflappable in normal situations.
  • Not So Stoic: Hitting a Berserk Button breaks the façade.
• Unstoppable Rage: When he stalls for Kiyoshi, it takes a lot of time and people to bring him down, because of this.

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• Height: 163 cm
• Weight: 52 kg
• Likes: Hearts, the wind, hats
• Dislikes: Anything complicated

• Calling Your Attacks: Her attack-naming conventions are odd, since her special attacks are named in one word. All the other attacks have some psyche undertones.
• Cheerful Child: She looks like one when speaking (even things one shouldn't smile about).
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: An extreme case, due to the psychic seal on her by Akina restricting her ability to think. It even lead to her running away from the orphanage because she forgot where she was going. Then Aoshi found her.

• Dissonant Serenity: She always sounds cheerful or serene. One could think her to give positive vibes, but she's the total contrary.
• The Drifter / Walking the Earth: A short stint, triggered unwittingly by Houka. When she left the orphanage behind, Haruka didn't come back from her search party role. This resulted in her wandering aimlessly until found by Aoshi.
• Emotionless Girl: At the start, when not talking or interacting in any way, she has a blank face.
• Girly Girl: Oppositely to Izumi (at least in terms of behaviour).
• Hope Is Scary: She is scared when Kiyoshi and Aoshi give her a diction lesson, even though she loves speaking to people.
• Lack of Empathy: She has no sense of remorse about beating people, instead cheerfully jumping around in victory.

• Parental Abandonment: The reason all her upbringing was left to her big sis' Akina.
• Show Some Leg: Her third suit. Akina threw a fit when she saw it, thinking Aoshi and Kiyoshi were making her look like a prostitute, but when she gets to Aoshi (the one she judged guilty for it as he was dressed very similarly to her despite being a man), he tells her that Haruka composed her attire herself this once.
• Sugary Malice: Her actual personality.

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• Height: 165 cm
• Weight: 58 kg
• Likes: Simplistic things
• Dislikes: Brutality

• Absurdly Youthful Mother: She's 39, but looks in her early twenties.
• Abusive Mom: To Fuushi. She was very caring of Kiyoshi. But it was an experiment for her to guess which of the two would turn out stronger.
• Action Mom: This once, it's not a good thing.
• Batman Gambit: She loves toying with Fuushi, knowing how much he hates her. Her ability to manipulate him despite himself is the reason the Anti-Hero Team Kokujin is relatively ineffectual.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: She invoked it by marrying with Tatsuya.
• Broken Bird: Has been broken at the tender age of 13 by a former executive of the then-illegal ''Number Zero'' (none other than Tang's grandpa), who kidnapped her and experimented on her. She lost all sorts of moral compasses and took all the man's possessions for herself after he died.
• The Chosen One: Perhaps the cause she was experimented on was her inborn holy power.

• Evil Matriarch: She messed up Tatsuya and Fuushi's life and played with them for experiments.
• Fallen Heroine: She becomes a villainess.

• For Science!: Her justification. Even her marriage and offspring are an experiment to her.
• Guinea Pig Family: She drugged Kiyoshi more than once, and at the tournament she organizes, she drugs every single participant by hiding a serum in the food.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Has inborn holy powers, but forgot how to use them after her traumatic childhood.
• In Love with Your Carnage: To Fuushi, shortly before he kills her.
• Kick the Dog: She indirectly kills Tang, stalling him when he planned to get back at Ringoto. She had no reason to do that other than a grudge against his grandfather (who she has already killed long ago).
• Lack of Empathy: A pretty extreme case. After her kidnapping early in life, she lost it.
• Lady of War: Averted. While not fighting, she is poised, graceful, and elegant. While fighting, all the mannerisms are lost and she becomes minimalistic at best, creepy at worst.

• Powered by a Forsaken Child: Inverted roles: she stole a part of her kidnapper's lifeforce to power herself up.
• Pragmatic Villainy: She intervenes rarely, and if so it's for an experiment, or to stall Fuushi.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Killing Tang's grandfather was not enough for her; when Tang is recruited in the Operation G staff, she immediately gives herself a secondary goal to kill him. And she uses the first opportunity she can to make good on it.
• Vain Sorceress: While not a witch, she abuses magic to remove the adverse effects of aging on herself.
• Wicked Stepmother
• 0% Approval Rating: Shown to have almost no redeemable feature and is far past the turning point. Among the lives she's screwed are not only the Mashima, but she also messed up the already-orphaned Kokuus even more after kidnapping Shiro for a short time. Worse yet, she attempted experiments on him with Ringoto for the pre-early stages of nothing less than Operation G itself.

Team Kouei

Supervised by: Akina Chinai

Captain: Rigan Yoshimoto

Other members: Yuuji Uramichi, Akemi Reitou

Tropes associated with the team:

• Highly-Visible Ninja
• McNinja: Rigan and Yuuji are born American.

Tropes associated with Rigan:

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• Height: 177 cm
• Weight: 86 kg
• Likes: The color white
• Dislikes: Conformism

• Bash Brothers: Averted with Tae-yeong, who left him alone. He is looking for him when not in business, without success. He dies before meeting up with him properly.
• Disappeared Dad: His father was killed. He doesn't seem to have as much Revenge as Tae-yeong in him. Mostly because the man responsible is already dead.

• Hard Work Hardly Works: Rigan's on par with Tae-yeong. Even though Rigan trained much harder.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: He invokes this.
  "Ninja should be invisible by their own discretion, not that of their clothing."
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy
• Masked Luchador: He trained several years in Mexico and has several lucha moves, even though he has no mask. He wrestled with Torou some times before the story.
• Street Urchin: Was this after the murder of his father. He ran from the States to Mexico, and then to Japan where he became the ninja he is.
• Technician Versus Performer: When you compare him to Tae-yeong, he's the technician. But if you compare him to Yuuji, he's the performer.

Tropes associated with Yuuji:

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• Height: 185 cm
• Weight: 95 kg
• Likes: Mixed cultural influences
• Dislikes: Racism

• Badass Normal: Next to no magic talent, but still manages to be a contender.
• Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Yuuji is only the big guy to Team Kouei (and by a small margin at that), but he's the first character to die out of the entire cast.
• Boring, but Practical: He lives by this.
• But Not Too Foreign: Averted. He's fully American-blooded, but raised in Japan.
• Fragile Speedster: Defied Trope. Even though he's a ninja, he refuses to neglect his sturdiness. Yuuji is physically sturdier than Rigan.
  • Fridge Logic: He's born in the States, and his usual philosophy and fighting style are just Americanized versions of what he was taught.
• He Knows Too Much: He spots Niki posing as Chouji killing the Reitou Clan's leader, and Niki kills him for it.
• Lightning Bruiser: He moves fast, hits fast, and hits hard. His weakness is his near-inability to use magic.

Tropes associated with Akemi:

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• Height: 178 cm
• Weight: 67 kg
• Likes: Butterflies
• Dislikes: Swagger

• Bad Powers, Good People / Dark Is Not Evil
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's generally nice, but her magic is deadly. She even kills Niki.

• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Due to her general lack of attention to anything that isn't Rigan or Yuuji, and later her focus on Revenge.
• Dissonant Serenity
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Not in fighting, but outside competition she was almost on par with Houka at drinking contests.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: She pretends to be stupid just so nobody looks at her.

• Playing with Fire: She can use some fireballs.
  • Technicolor Fire: Those are pure white.
• Troll: Towards Teams Jundou, Konryuu and Ougoku on their failure. Though Lucille trolls her soon afterwards, revealing that she got fooled by an impersonator of her own brother.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: She breaks out of this while concerned though.
• You Are Already Dead: Her quote once she pops out her Ultimate.
• You Killed My Father: To Niki, when she meets him over the corpses of her father and Yuuji. She kills him in the ensuing battle.

Tropes associated with Akina:

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• Height: 164 cm
• Weight: 49 kg
• Likes: Reading and writing, intelligent people
• Dislikes: Excess of light

• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: She's extremely careful with her developed Psychic Powers, with this as the reason.
• Ascended Fangirl: Of both Hakkou and Tatsuya. She even worked with Hakkou on TV. Which makes their successive deaths all the more hurtful to her.
• Badass Bookworm: She could inflict a Curb-Stomp Battle on her sister, despite being usually the bookish type of person.

• Broken Bird: Even more so once everyone dies. She's almost Driven to Suicide.
• Cool Big Sis: For Haruka, though given how blank and devoid of feelings their interactions are, it doesn't look the part.
  • Team Mom: She was this to a good part of the girls. Houka, Tenko, Izumi, Haruka and Akemi all have been trained and raised to differing degrees by her.
    • Survivor Guilt: They all die and she doesn't, so she's grief-stricken after the plot ends.
• Cute Bookworm: Many of the older characters call her one.
• Dark Magical Girl: She's distant and aloof to hide her emotions, wears a black cape and has dark-elemental powers as well as light.

• Extra Eyes: Usually manifests her Psychic Powers blatantly via an eye opening in the air out of nowhere.
• Friend to All Children: Works in an orphanage where she raised Haruka.
• Kaleidoscope Hair: Always dyes her hair big time. Usually pink, but blue is not unseen.
• Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me: Since she exposes her powers so blatantly, you'd think she never bothered to hide them, like she wants everyone to know of her being a psychic.
• Magical Girl: Acts like one on duty. It's an act: normally, she's The Quiet One.
• Morality Chain: She was this for Haruka until the beginning of the plot. She was a physical chain as well, preventing Haruka from drifting.
• Superheroes Wear Capes: Her default outfit, even though the cape is black.
• Toku: Yup, she's a fangirl of this. Houka calls her a silly nerd for this.

Team Magou

Supervised by: Ginshi Kesshaku

Captain: Kintou Teisou

Other members: Tsuyoshi Seichi, Lucille Rousseau

Tropes associated with the team:

• Ambiguously Evil: Much like a Wild Card team. They manipulate the Villain Protagonist teams, but are villain protagonists themselves, and their intentions aare unknown. Until the end of the arc, where Mashin leaves in front of everyone, thus revealing their failure.
• Batman Gambit: Their way of manipulate the Operation G supporting teams is giving orders "from Ringoto" that conflict with their supervisor's orders, knowing that the other teams will disobey and align with their team leaders.
• Card-Carrying Villain: They admit being outright villainous to the other teams just so they don't meddle in their true carefully-planned goal.
• Enigmatic Minion: To the Operation G staff. Though they are kept in the dark for most of the real thing.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: They lead teams Jundou, Konryuu and Ougoku respectively to abject failures, leaving Ginshi, Ringoto and Mashin unprotected.
• The Power of Friendship: The team is one of the most closely-knit in the cast. Kintou and Lucille are genuine friends to Ginshi. And Tsuyoshi lives with her like an adopted child. Ginshi's friendship is strong enough that she manages to hold off Miki (who is otherwise stronger than her) while she crashes the Silverwing, all to save Lucille. Their friendship is strong enough that Kintou manages to hurt Ringoto before dying despite Eiko's presence, and Tsuyoshi and Lucille's desire to at least avenge their fallen friends lead them to defeat Mashin, and Lucille's desire to save Tsuyoshi holds off Mashin's mind.
• Supporting Protagonist: They brief the other teams, claiming it's for Ringoto's security fairly often, but they do it wrong to Epic Fail effect. This was revealed to be done wrong on purpose, to bring Mashin to the eyes of all to thwart his plans.

Tropes associated with Kintou:

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• Height: 182 cm
• Weight: 69 kg
• Likes: Swords
• Dislikes: Poneys

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Makes one out of light.
• Aloof Big Brother: Though he is the youngest main character of his family, he has younger brothers. But he's standoffish about his entire family, little and big brothers alike.
• Blue Blood: The Teisou family are all noble and powerful fighters.
• Calling the Old Man Out: His objective after his Mercy Kill on Tang. When he does, Ringoto kills him.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's a Sleepyhead who does not attack his opponents very seriously, but he's much more clever than he lets on and quickly adapts to and supplements Lucille's gambits. Which explains Lucille catching up so quickly after her return.
• Evil Laugh: How he sets his team up as Obviously Evil.
• The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort: Defied. In battle, he's unwilling to drop his guard even though he's one of the world's greatest fighters. Though, he does attack like if half-heartedly, so it would be an attacking counterpart of this trope.
• Insufferable Genius: He's one of the strongest fighters of his generation, so he takes many opportunities to boast about it.
• The Proud Elite: Oh so much. The Teisou family is known for being a breed of extremely good fighters.
• Rule of Cool: He attacks with smooth and nonchalant gestures.

Tropes associated with Tsuyoshi:

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• Height: 188 cm
• Weight: 124 kg
• Likes: Worthy opponents
• Dislikes: Morality

• Above Good and Evil: Taking upon oneself to be good or evil is a good way to earn his disdain, as he thinks himself above petty monikers. He's okay with feigning evilness, but dislikes the idea.
• Aloof Big Brother: He treats his little Seino only as someone he "trains".

• Badass Back: Indulges in this heavily.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Though, in his case, Dark is still uncaring, violent, and alien, as well as a villainous Supporting Protagonist.
• Death from Above: His Splitting Purifier Limit Break. The first part is just an overhead chop, but the second part is that exact same chop, done while descending of a hulk jump.
• Evil Counterpart: He looks like this to his younger brother Seino.
• Ground Punch: His Gouchizuki Ultimate.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's extremely brutal and has no qualms hitting anyone if it means the team can advance unhindered (that's basically his role). Despite this, he usually stops at knocking people unconscious, and he could go as far as leaving the unconscious body to the partners just so they allow the victim to rest properly.
• Kamehame Hadoken: He fires ki from his hands and feet.
• I Need You Stronger: Tries to invoke a good challenge by "training" Seino.
• Meaningful Name: Tsuyoshi means strong.
• Older Sidekick: To Kintou and Lucille. He's a trustworthy Secret-Keeper while also being The Brute.
• Stealth Mentor: As part of Lucille's plans to lure the allied teams in the wrong place, he attacks Seino and Team Konryuu to make his point. Turns out his intent was to have Seino safe by driving him to the wrong place.
• World's Strongest Man: Strives to be this.

Tropes associated with Lucille:

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• Height: 165 cm
• Weight: 51 kg
• Likes: Card games
• Dislikes: Imitators

• Action Girl: Tries to avoid looking like one.
• Ambiguously Evil: She was good all along.
• Bifauxnen: She looks slightly male, especially in her clothing style, but her gender never is ambiguous since she makes it clear she's a "pretty girl".
• Combat Pragmatist: Relies on her looks to be mistaken for "just a pretty girl".
• Crossdresser: She dresses like a Pretty Boy.
• Dance Battler: Some of her kicks resemble dance.
• Driven to Suicide: When Mashin possesses her and she regains consciousness. Fails because she can't kill herself due to Mashin's remnants of will stopping her, so it takes Kiyoshi diving both into the Stream to end Mashin's existence.
• French Jerk: She lived her first eleven years in France, and can be jerkish. She notes that the Japanese are much nicer than the French... except for her grandfather.
• Hair Flip: A frequent taunt of hers.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her hair hides one of her eyes, highlighting her deceptive nature.
• Killed Off for Real: Double subversion, can even count as zig-zagged if we take more into account. She was supposedly a goner after Tenko and Miki trapped her inside a dimensional fissure within another dimensional fissure. Though, Miki's death and Tenko's lack of proficiency means Lucille was able to escape being trapped forever. She still gets possessed by Mashin in the following arc, but her will still gets through to a maddened Kiyoshi who can't quite strangle her enough. She finally dies when he dives into the Stream with her.
• Long-Lost Relative: Was this to Mashin, because she has lived her eleven first years in a French orphanage.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: She has a lot of narcissistic manners for her to overplay, in order to hide her Hidden Depths.
  • Also, she manipulated Team Ougoku into distrust, doing the most difficult part of the work when it came to drawing the teams to utter failure.
• Smug Snake: Behaves like this, though she's actually a Smug Super.
• Technicolor Fire: Her fire is neon green.
• Troll: Notably, she underlines Akemi's failure to realize that she got fooled by an impersonator of her own brother.
• Turned Against Their Masters: She turned against Mashin just before her apparition. In fact, she kickstarted a plot involving half of the cast, in order to force Mashin to reveal himself.

Tropes associated with Ginshi:

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• Height: 178 cm
• Weight: 94 kg
• Likes: Orchestra music
• Dislikes: Losing

• Absurdly Youthful Mother: She's 39, and even though she took in Tsuyoshi like an adoptive son, she looks nowhere near her age.
• Action Girl: Her weight is all muscle.
• Affably Evil: She's usually civil and polite, but she's also fond of Disproportionate Retribution and Cool and Unusual Punishment.
• Arms Dealer: And she knows what she does enough to get approached by Ringoto.
• Artificial Limbs: Her right arm is a prosthetic.
• Audible Sharpness: When using magic to make slashing Hard Light.
• Badass Bookworm: She spends some of her free time reading.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Dresses like her wealth allows for, and very strong.
• Big Fancy House: How about a giant aircraft as a home? Yes, the Silverwing Tour is her organizing a tournament in her home.
• Blood Knight: She likes making use of her Power Copying, but enjoys the battling itself.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Somewhat literally, but living airborne alone qualifies her as eccentric.
• Cool Ship: Her tournament is organized in a giant airship.
• Deadpan Snarker: She has her moments.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She isn't happy to hear about Miki abusing her good PR for shady deeds, and even less about her effectively killing Lucille. Her desire for revenge gives her a second wind and she gets back at Miki, dying in the fight but denying Miki a way out of her crashing airship, killing her and saving Lucille in the process.
• For the Lulz: Her reasons. Though she knows Operation G is about enhancements, so she thinks about replacing her right arm prosthesis as a bonus she can get.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: She has a pretty ugly scar under her chest. She takes care of hiding it.
• Happily Adopted: She has been adopted by Tatsuya when she was 7, and their relationship only went south when Tatsuya wanted real progeny.
  • Same applies to Tsuyoshi as her somewhat-adopted son, since she takes him in when he needs.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She usually fights when it's about killing off or seriously dissuading someone, so many are weirded out by the fact that outside a fight (or business) she's actually affable and helpful, as Team Magou can attest.
• Kamehame Hadoken: She can fire big energy balls. Titan Drill isn't named so for nothing.
• Kung-Fu Clairvoyance: Has a sensory ability she acquired by training.
• Lightning Bruiser: Leans toward Glass Cannon, usually. But in comparison to the other girls, she is definitely this as she has the build of a tall man.
• Narcissist
• No Guy Wants an Amazon: She alludes to it as the reason she's alone, but she chose to commit to increasing her fighting ability by all means necessary.
• Omniglot: Speaks proficiently at least four languages (English, German, Chinese and Japanese).
• Playing with Fire: Her Tactical Lance is a fiery projectile. But its upgrade Limit Break, Titan Drill actually isn't on fire.
• Poisoned Weapons: She copied a magic skill of poisoning from Niki who himself learned it. Comes in handy to paralyse Miki and keep her in place for the airship crash to kill her.
• Power Copying: Holds some gift that allows her to do this. Known copy victims are Niki (poisoned hands), Kintou (slashing Hard Light), and Tatsuya (lightning).
• Raised by Dudes: She was raised by Tatsuya alone.
• Red Baron: Nicknamed "Silvertongue", when alluding to her business practices, and her affinity for silver.
• Slouch of Villainy
• Spirited Competitor: She is skirting the line with Blood Knight.
• Statuesque Stunner: At 5'10", she's the tallest in the setting tied with Akemi. Unlike her, Ginshi is very muscular.

Ringoto Teisou

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• Height: 188 cm
• Weight: 79 kg
• Likes: Religion
• Dislikes: Politics

The man responsible for the events. He's a zealous half-Japanese Christian Mad Scientist. He got expelled from the Church because of his warped morals. Since he feels like the entire world is lacking anything moral, he plans God's descent onto this world, by creating a powerful emissary nobody will ever be able to contradict. That is Operation G in a nutshell.

Tropes associated with Ringoto:

• Affably Evil: Ruthless and zealous, but polite and well-intentioned.
• Badass Bookworm
• Badass Preacher: So much that he's willing to create a living vessel for God.
• Baddie Flattery: He never underestimates anybody, and cites their good points as reasons for him to be serious, even though the praise is not hypocritical at all.
• Blow You Away: His primary means of attack is Razor Wind.
• Flash Step
• Gratuitous English
• The Heavy: He's the one in charge of Operation G, and as such the one all team supervisors are protecting.
• Kick the Dog: Oh so majorly. Once Operation G is over, he unceremoniously leaves everyone behind without the slightest care. When Seino and Gilberto call him out on not even paying them for their trouble, he kills them. When he meets Torou face-to-face, he kills him. When Kintou and Setsuna call him out on that, he sics Eiko on them, killing Kintou in the process. Later, when Eiko refuses to keep fighting (because she fell for Shakurou and broke out of her passive brainwashing), he forces her to give him her power and throws her into the Stream.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: He considers himself a hero and his morals don't take others into account. After Eiko refuses to fight, his case becomes obvious, as he uses a brainwashing spell to force her to give him all her power before he throws her into the Stream. As Fuushi points out, he was so self-centered, he put a brainwashing spell on God.

• Villainous Breakdown: Once Eiko starts to disobey him and refuses to fight Team Kokujin, who in turn refuses to fight her.
• You Have Failed Me: He kills Eiko for this when she starts to break out of her brainwashed persona and starts crying because she didn't want to kill anyone, yet killed four people (seemingly five) while brainwashed.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Operation G is over, he unceremoniously fires Niki, Tang, Natsuki, and Ginshi. When Seino and Gilberto call him out for this, he kills them.

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Mashin Kisei

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• Height: 188 cm
• Weight: 76 kg
• Likes: Big buildings
• Dislikes: Being in a hurry

An old half-Japanese half-French scientist involved with dubious affairs regarding drugs and doping, he got chastised and expelled by the martial arts competitive field. He formed a group of scientists as crazy as he is, keeping his experiments off of the eyes of those who despised him for that. He planned his vengeance in secret, aiming to take back his place and write any taboo off of the fighting field so he can take his place back. Also, he secretly planned for over 40 years to become God, sowing seeds of corruption by taking away parts of his soul to corrupt other people, to take the souls back when they'll have grown with the persons he infected and become a God. This makes him responsible for the Soul of the Beast.

Tropes associated with Mashin:

• A God Am I: His reason to participate in the project was so he could say this. He actually becomes a Physical God to a degree, but not enough to stop everyone.
• Clipped-Wing Angel: Once his physical body is destroyed, he possesses Lucille. His Lucille-possessing form is much less powerful than his previous Physical God form, and even though it does beat several people to the dust, it cannot strike any killing blow. It just takes Kiyoshi to erase him.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He ascends to almost God levels, is the only one to use his Ultimate in canon, and that attack kills the entire Team Mugen in one shot. Yet no more than nine persons were necessary to not only kill him, but erase him from existence altogether.
• Eviler than Thou: Pulls this on Ringoto, revealing he was "destined" to become the God Ringoto longed for, only doing so required him to reclaim the portions of his soul in several people's blood by having them sacrifice themselves for him. Turns out Ringoto was one of the victims.
• Immortality: His objective. He acquired Type 1, but got his body destroyed. His soul managed to possess Lucille, who in fact held him back for him to be killed off.
• Lack of Empathy: He chastises Tang on being "bad at even recruitment". Note that Tang is sick and close to death should his condition get worse. And Mashin himself is doing absolutely nothing.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Tang was utterly fooled when he tried recruiting Chouji, since he didn't know that Niki was impersonating Chouji.
• Pragmatic Villainy: To some degree, since he only acts for his own advantage.
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Tries it on eight persons simultaneously. It works on four of them, and he does manage to kill the four others later anyway.
• Surrounded by Idiots: What he says he is. Ringoto muses internally that Mashin must like complaining.
• The Unfettered: Mashin is driven by self-interest and has no care for other people's reactions.
• Villain Ball: He chooses the wrong moment to kill Ringoto ^note Ringoto was doing pretty well, after all... He's still justified by the fact that Ringoto had the upper hand on Team Kokujin, a major component of his Psychic-Assisted Suicide-aided ascension to godhood..
• Younger Than They Look: Abused aesthetic surgery to look young at age 66.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: He steals the souls of no less than eight persons, four by Psychic-Assisted Suicide, four by Soul Eater because the former method didn't work. This kills all of them off permanently.

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Houka-2

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• Height: 173 cm
• Weight: 66 kg
• Likes: Didn't decide on anything yet
• Dislikes: Houka

A clone of Houka that Mashin whips out to ensure his escape along with Ringoto. She doesn't reason much, and attacks everyone on sight, especially Houka.

Tropes associated with Houka-2:

• Ax-Crazy: Houka-2 is obviously violent.
• Berserk Button: Her profile says it: "Dislikes: Houka".
  • Several attack names of hers tell even more: Oni Danzai (Demon, Guilty!), Houkabarai (Houka-exorcising), and Houka no Shittsuitou (Houka's Descending Cry) engrave her dislike of Houka in stone, since it's like her attacks were designed to kill Houka. Houka eventually dies by Houkabarai.
• Blood Knight
• Brainwashed and Crazy: She is born brainwashed, and was so during her first fight. She was then abandoned. Not knowing what to do, Brainwash Residue ensued and she found her way back to Ringoto, Mashin, and Eiko. Even though she made a friend of Eiko, Ringoto shooed her off, and Mashin didn't care the slightest bit. This breaks everything in her, except her berserk rage towards Houka.
• Divergent Character Evolution: From the start. Mashin gave her genetic material belonging to other people like Fuushi and Karyu on top of Houka's.
• Evil Knockoff
• Expendable Clone: She's treated as such by Mashin, her creator, and Ringoto doesn't even spare a thought — he even denies her the right to talk to the only person who could understand her: Eiko. Houka-2 never lets go of the feeling of betrayal even though she dies furthering their goals, though at that point she doesn't care.
• Goroawase Number: Her attack codes. Most mean nothing, are pronounced wrong, or result in Gratuitous English.
• Knight of Cerebus: She first appears to stall for Ringoto and Mashin's escape. This means Operation G is a success, and since Mashin gets out, Team Magou's machinations were for naught. She's also the first to talk about killing someone, and even though she's not the first to succeed and only gets a Mutual Kill, her arrival shifted the tone to dark.
• Never Say "Die": She's the one to break the trope. Even referenced in her Type 504 - Mureishi / Hitokiri no Honoo (Spiritless Death / Killing Flame) attack.
• Nietzsche Wannabe: After she gets rejected by Mashin, she just wants to destroy the world. Her "plan" after killing Houka was to destroy the Stream, in hopes of blowing up the whole world with it.
• Playing with Fire: Same as normal Houka.
  • Pyromaniac: Different personality.
• Powers as Programs: Even though she's not a robot, her attacks have a codified name. ^Example: Type [number] - Goroawase Number / [attack's name]
  • Readings Are Off the Scale: Her unique moves' numbers are in the single digites, not counting decimals. Her special moves' numbers are usually in the triple-digits, but then her Limit Break attacks are in the five-digit scale (82879 for Anti-Houka Rising and 23564 for Houkabarai). Her third super is Type 88888888.
    • Spoofed with her Ultimate: Type 007 - Marumaruna / Houka no Shittsuitou, where she references James Bond and her desire to burn everything to nothingness, but the number isn't higher than the other attacks.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• Shadow Archetype: Evidence is evidence.

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Eiko

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• Height: 163 cm
• Weight: 55.5 kg
• Likes: Nothing
• Dislikes: Nothing

The supposed "God" whose existence means the success of Operation G. Part-magical entity, part-human and part-machine, detaining battle data recorded by Tang, permanently on various self-enhancement drugs composed by Natsuki, a nigh-perfect magical energy flow based on Niki's theory, and ability to use and make all kinds of weapons Ginshi recorded in her database make her the "perfect being" Ringoto longed for.
Her mentality and personality, though, isn't quite what he expected. She is not only mellow, but quiet and human-loving. Ringoto then remedies to this by forcibly controlling her.

Tropes associated with Eiko:

• Artificial Human: Though she looks much like a Robot Girl.

• Brainwashed and Crazy: Her second appearance. At her first, she was just a playful girl walking at Ringoto's side like a child, and once she snapped out, she started crying, refusing to fight, and calling out Ringoto for making her kill people.
• BFS: Drops one made of solid dark magic, in one of her Super moves, Extinction Sword.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Poor Tatsuya.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": She kills off both Hakkou and Tatsuya in less than ten minutes. She then easily slays Tae-yeong.
• Meaningful Name: It means "shadow child", referencing how she is just a doll obeying Ringoto and never getting the opportunity to express herself in the spotlight.

• To Win Without Fighting: How she's defeated. She breaks through her brainwashing by simply refusing to hurt Shakurou.