History Characters / FushigiYuugi

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: When he's drugged kodoku from episode 19 to 22.

* ClothesMakeTheManiac: The earring was part of the kodoku spell.

* BellyDancer: Her priestess outfit is pretty comparable to something a belly-dancer might wear.

* TheArcher: Tomite uses ice arrows as his main weapon of offense.

* EyepatchOfPower: He wears one on his right eye, in which no reader nor anime audience would ever know the story behind it. WordOfGod [[AllThereInTheManual once warned]], "Whoever sees his eye [[OhCrap will see Hell.]]" [[spoiler: "Genbu Kaiden" reveals Hikitsu uses it to cover his celestial symbol which is literally in his eye!]]

* EyepatchOfPower: He wears one on his right eye, in which no reader nor anime audience would ever know the story behind it. WordOfGod [[AllThereInTheManual once warned]], "Whoever sees his eye [[OhCrap will see Hell.]]"

-> Voiced by: Midori Nakazawa (Japanese), Sherry Lynn (English, as "Katie Ashley")

-> Voiced by: Creator/TomokazuSeki (Japanese), Creator/KappeiYamaguchi (Japanese, CD Dramas), Creator/KoukiMiyata (Japanese, ''Suzaku Ibun'' game), Randy McPherson (English, as "Sean Mitchell" and "Mitchell Ray")

-> Shunkei voiced by: Creator/HirokoKonishi (Japanese), Lenore Zann (English, 1st voice; as "Zan"), Carolyn Hennessy (English, 2nd voice, as "Ramona Lee")

-> Yuiren voiced by: Creator/AkemiOkamura (Japanese), Creator/SandyFox (English, 1st voice; as "Marie Danielle"), Mona Marshall (English, 2nd voice), Creator/JulieMaddalena (English, 3rd voice; as "Judy Asher")

-> Voiced by: Creator/AkikoYajima (Japanese), Creator/BrianneSiddall (English, as "Ian Hawk", OVA 3), Mona Marshall (English, OVA 2)

-> Voiced by: Creator/JunkoNoda (Japanese), Lynn Fischer, Sherry Lynn [Child] (English)

* GutturalGrowler: In both Japanese and English versions, the latter more so.

* GirlyBruiser: Nuriko has the strength of 10 or more grown men, but isn't all that tall or muscular or ''masculine'' and in fact is proud of his cuteness.

%%* {{Bokukko}}

* CloningBlues: There's more than one of her, and they're all the same.

* {{Bishounen}}: [[spoiler: It runs in the family.]]

* BoobsOfSteel: In her prime, she's very well endowed and is a formidable fighter.

%%* PeekABangs

* TheIdiotFromOsaka: Tasuki fulfills many aspects of this trope, as he sports a KansaiRegionalAccent, and his bluntly insensitive commentary and irascible personality are often a source of comic relief.

%%* KansaiRegionalAccent

* AttractiveBentGender: '''''HELL NO.''''' Notable, in that he is the ''only'' guy in the Suzakuu group to not be able to pull this off.

* DiedInyourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Both Hotohori and Houki held him as he died.]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:After rescuing her from an AttemptedRape, Nakago took advantege of her vulnerable state for his end goal.]]

* WeddingEnhancedFertility: [[spoiler: When she marries Taka/Tamahome in "Eikoden," they conceive a baby on their honeymoon, making that baby extra special. It's the LivingMacguffin needed to summon Suzaku again.]]

%%* BodyguardCrush

%%* SuperStrength

%%* BrainwashedAndCrazy

%%* HospitalHottie

%%* TheMedic

* AintTooProudToBeg: [[Before being killed by Nakago, he begs him to spare his life, and offers him money and the throne in exchange for his life. It doesn't work]].

* DepravedBisexual: He found an [[eleven-years-old Nakago]] so beautiful that he didn't care he's a boy and turned him into a SexSlave.

* LudicrousGibs: [[Nakago reduces him to dust with his powers]].

%%* DepravedBisexual

%%* TheEmperor
* {{Foil}}: To Hotohori; where Hotohori is handsome, young, chaste, and rules with kindness and fairness, the Emperor of Kutou is HollywoodHomely, old (relatively), lecherous, and rules with an iron fist.

* BadassBaritone: In the Japanese version.

* BadassBaritone: His voice is deep in both the Japanese and English versions.

* SunglassesAtNight: Outdoors, indoors, day-and-night, he just can’t go about his day without donning his sunglasses.

-> Voiced by: Katsuya Shiga (Japanese), Jeff Nimoy (English)

* AllThereInTheScript: His name [[NoNameGiven was never mentioned]] within the anime, and was only until the credits rolled in that we learned of his name.

-> Voiced by: Creator/HikaruMidorikawa, Creator/MotokoKumai [Young] (Japanese), Creator/ToshihikoSeki (Japanese, CD dramas), Creator/MamoruMiyano (Japanese, ''Suzaku Ibun'' game), Creator/DavidHayter (English, as "Sean Barker")

-> Voiced by: Creator/TomokazuSeki (Japanese), Creator/KappeiYamaguchi (Japanese, CD Dramas), Creator/KoukiMiyata (Japanese, ''Suzaku Ibun'' game), Randy McPherson (English, as "Sean Mitchell")

-> Voiced by: Creator/KoujiIshii (Japanese), Creator/JurotaKosugi (Japanese, CD Drama), Creator/KentaMiyake (Japanese, ''Suzaku Ibun'' game), Creator/RichardEpcar (English, mainly, as "Richard George"), Michael Gregory (English, ep. 51-52, as "Mike D'Gard")

* BadassCape: Nakago heads into battle in his military cape and is all but conformed the most powerful fighter in the story.

-> Voiced by: Creator/YujiUeda (Japanese, TV series), Creator/TetsuyaIwanaga (Japanese, radio dramas), Creator/SteveStaley (English, as Steve Cannon)

-> Voiced by: Creator/YujiUeda (Japanese, TV series), Creator/TetsuyaIwanaga (Japanese, radio dramas), Creator/SteveStaley (English, as Steve Cannon)

-> Voiced by: Creator/RyuzaburoOtomo (Japanese), Creator/RichardEpcar (English, as Richard Rahl)

-> Voiced by: Creator/AtsukoTanaka (Japanese), Melodee Spevack (English, as Sonja S. Fox)

-> Voiced by: Creator/NobuoTobita (Japanese), Kevin Seymour (English, as Rena Heinrich and E.T. Varney)

* FacialMarkings: Tomo comes from a family of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_opera Chinese Opera performers]]. Therefore, he dresses himself under the role of “the male warrior”, complete with the represented makeup to make himself more in tune with his duty as a Celestial Warrior. However, as per [[WordOfGod Watase's]] [[AllThereInTheManual manual]], underneath his heavy makeup, he's a [[{{Bishounen}} good looking man]].
* MasterOfIllusion: His powers allows him to trap targets in an illusionary world that feeds on their desires and to manipulate his targets to have [[MindRape full sensory]] within that world to inflict successful physical injuries. His illusions also allows him to [[MagicalSecurityCam view, and safe keep]] the desires and worldview of his targets in a similar matter as [[MagicalDatabase stored documents]], in which he uses seashells as mediums to store. [[spoiler: Nakago found the data of Miaka (and by extension, Yui's) world that Tomo left behind post death, and became interested in conquering "the priestess' world"]].

-> Voiced by: Creator/KyokoHikami, Creator/HirokoKonishi and Creator/TomokoKawakami (Japanese), Creator/MelissaFahn (English, as Melissa Charles)

-> Tamahome's Father voiced by: Katsumi Chou (Japanese), Jeffrey Stackhouse (English, as Mike Fisk)

-> Shunkei voiced by: Creator/HirokoKonishi (Japanese), Lenore Zann (English, 1st voice, as Zan), Carolyn Hennessy (English, 2nd voice, as Ramona Lee)
-> Gyokuran voiced by: Creator/TomokoKawakami (Japanese), Creator/LenoreZann (English, as Zan)
-> Yuiren voiced by: Creator/AkemiOkamura (Japanese), Creator/SandyFox (English, 1st voice, as Marie Danielle), Mona Marshall (English, 2nd voice), Creator/JulieMaddalena (English, 3rd voice, as Judy Asher)

* YamatoNadeshiko: She looks the part of a Japanese lady; beautiful, soft-spoken, traditional clothing etc. She's not lacking for inner iron either, specially as [[spoiler: the Empress Dowager.]]

* HiddenBackUpPrince: [[spoiler: Tendou was the ''actual'' Crown Prince, and Hotohori's GoldDigger mother Motaiko wanted him dead. His and Hotohori's father, TheEmperor, sent Tendou away with the intention of retrieving him when everything had cooled off... but that never happened. As a result Hotohori ascended to the throne that should have been Tendou's, and Tendou himself was stuck as a commoner.]]

-> Voiced by: Creator/AkikoYajima (Japanese), Creator/BrianneSiddall (English, as "Ian Hawk")

-> Voiced by: Creator/JunkoNoda (Japanese), Lynn Fischer (English)

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: As she realises how much of an asshole she's been.

* BadassInCharge: TheEmperor of a country and a formidable fighter.

%%* TriangRelations

* TriangRelations: Him, Soi, and Nakago.

* BoobsOfSteel: In her prime, she's very well endowed and is a formidable fighter. Doubles as GagBoobs when Miaka attempted to eat them, thinking they're food.

* GagBoobs: They were used just to point out that she's not Nuriko after Miaka hugs her.