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1	[[center: [-[[Characters/RurouniKenshin Main Character Index]] \| [[Characters/RurouniKenshinMainCharacters Main Characters]] ([[Characters/RurouniKenshinHimuraKenshin Himura Kenshin]]) \| [[Characters/RurouniKenshinSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]] \| [[Characters/RurouniKenshinRivalsAndVillains Rivals and Minor Villains]] \| [[Characters/RurouniKenshinTheMeijiGovernment The Meiji Government]] \| [[Characters/RurouniKenshinOniwabanshu Oniwabanshu]] \| [[Characters/RurouniKenshinTheTenSwords The Ten Swords / Juppongatana]] \| [[Characters/RurouniKenshinTheSixComrades The Six Comrades]] \| [[Characters/RurouniKenshinAnimeOnlyCharacters Anime Only Characters]] \| '''Manga Only Characters''' \| [[Characters/RurouniKenshinKenkakuHeiki Kenkaku Heiki]]]]-]
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5	[[folder:Oibore aka the Geezer]]
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7	!!Oibore aka the Geezer
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9	* CoolOldGuy: A rather kindly old fellow who gives Kenshin advice [[spoiler: when he stays in the WrongSideOfTheTracks after Kaoru's apparent death]]
10	* TheReveal: [[spoiler: He is revealed to be Tomoe and Enishi's father, and Kenshin's father in law. While he did recognize his son-in-law, when he and Enishi met it's not clear whether he also recognized his grown-up son.]]
11	[[/folder]]
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13	[[folder:The Higashidani family]]
14
15	!!The Higashidani family (father Kamishimoemon, mother Naname, first son [[spoiler: Sanosuke]], daughter Uki, second son Outa)
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17	* ActionDad: Kamishimoemon is a rather good fighter, though [[spoiler: Sanosuke]] turns out to be better than him.
18	* BlushSticker: Outa, nicknamed "Apple cheeks" for his perpetually red face.
19	* TheBusCameBack: An older Outa appears in the Hokkaido Arc, [[spoiler:having listened to Sano's advice and joined the Kamiya Dojo.]]
20	* LikeFatherLikeSon: Kamishimoeomon and his eldest son [[spoiler: Sano]] are rather similar.
21	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler: Neither Sanosuke nor Kamishimoemon tell Uki and Outa that Sano is their long-lost brother, though it's implied that Uki realizes it in the end.]]
22	* MissingMom: Naname died of pneumonia few after Outa's birth.
23	* ParentsAsPeople: Kamishimoemon is a good man but he's had quite the hard times between raising his children after his wife's death, the failure of the family business, etc.
24	* ShrinkingViolet: Outa is shy and weak, and needs Uki's protection constantly. [[spoiler: Sanosuke]] teaches him to be stronger and more capable, [[spoiler: and some years later he joins the Kamiya dojo.]]
25	* TeamMom: After Naname's death, [[PromotionToParent Uki]] has become the motherly figure in the house.
26	[[/folder]]
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28
29	[[folder:Hanabi]]
30
31	!!Hanabi
32	[[quoteright:186:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hanabi.PNG]]
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34	* GenkiGirl: She is a cheerful, kind young woman and quite the contrast with the snarky, bitter and slightly sad Yumi. [[spoiler: Of course, [[KillTheCutie the poor girl gets killed off]] [[CynicismCatalyst to kickstart Yumi's recruitment into the Juppongatana]].]]
35	* HiddenDepths: She has quite the knowledge about ships... [[spoiler: and accidentally blurts it out in front of Ichigase, who [[DisproportionateRetribution cruelly kills her]] [[HeKnowsTooMuch because she could ruin his plans]].]]
36	* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Probably, since she is the companion and best friend to the most expensive and beautiful HighClassCallGirl in the RedLightDistrict of Tokyo.
37	* MoralityPet: Both she and the twins were this to Yumi, who hesitated to leave Yoshiwara [[{{Protectorate}} to try protecting them]]. [[spoiler: It horribly fails when poor Hanabi is bloodily murdered by Ichigase.]]
38	* TextileWorkIsFeminine: She's a very good seamstress and is seen sewing back the buttons of a shirt belonging to [[spoiler: Houji Sadoshima]], while singing happily. [[spoiler: After Hanabi is bloodily murdered, Houji [[PetTheDog kinda repays the favor]] by shooting one of the culprits dead ''exactly'' on the spot where a chest button should go.]]
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40	[[/folder]]
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42	[[folder:Akari and Kogari]]
43
44	!!Akari and Kogari
45	[[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/twins.PNG]]
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47	* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: As the picture shows.
48	* TheCutie: They're always happy and cute and adore their CoolBigSis Yumi. [[spoiler: So of course [[BreakTheCutie they get broken]], but at least they live.]]
49	* MissingChild(ren): [[spoiler: As Yumi is mourning for her dead "sister" Hanabi, she realizes that the twins aka her other "little sisters" aren't anywhere on sight and have been taken away by Ichigase's Wadatsumi troops.]]
50	* MadeASlave: [[spoiler: After killing Hanabi, Ichigase kidnaps the two little girls and intends to sell them as slaves to foreign crews, who have "taken a fancy to Japanese things", like the two "porcelain dolls". This is foiled by the Juppongatana, as Yumi [[PleaseIWillDoAnything offers herself to Shishio]] in exchange for saving the girls and punishing Hanabi's death.]]
51	[[/folder]]
52
53	[[folder:Sameo Ichigase]]
54
55	!!Sameo Ichigase
56	[[quoteright:208:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sameo.PNG]]
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58	* AnimalMotifs: The shark.
59	* BloodKnight: A rather crazy one, even.
60	* EvilIsHammy: A thoroughly rotten bastard, but also entertainingly loud and flashy.
61	* FauxAffablyEvil: Seems to be a cheerfully militaristic fellow with rather flowery speech patterns, but then he shows himself as quite the megalomaniacal BloodKnight.
62	* TheGeneralissimo: An official of the newly created Imperial Japanese Navy, and prides himself after his work out in seas of Osaka Castle.
63	* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: When Yumi refuses to perform for him since she doesn't want to work with anyone affiliated to the Meiji Government, his reply is this:
64	-->"If I cannot buy your company, I shall buy '''you'''. Perhaps you shall less easily refuse the company of a ''master'' rather than a customer" [[note]](This is an allusion to the "mi-uke" practice, in which a geisha's customer would buy her freedom from her master/s to have her as his wife or mistress)[[/note]]
65	* IronicEcho: A villain that would probably get even Kenshin gnawing at his leash: the worst remnants of the Tokugawa Shogunate strained to perfection and mixed with the justifications and motives of the Imperialist and pro-Facism movements of the Western world. Made even more ironic in that he fought under the Isshin Shishi, the side that denounced the samurai caste and essentially the ''han'' caste system that all of Japan had followed for the last near 1500 years. He even seems like an upgrade of Ujiki, the bloodthirsty CorruptCop of Ruroken's earliest chapters.
66	* JustFollowingOrders: A major example of his militaristic DayOfTheJackboot philosophy. Anyone who is considered an extreme liability to his own progress- and by that, his self inflated idea that he ''is'' the government by extension -even by accident is so much as subject to his [[DisproportionateRetribution self righteous command of a death penalty.]] This so much as includes innocent civilians and even children who so much as accidentally nudge him in his way of progress.
67	* MeaningfulName: His name, as written, literally means "Shark Man".
68	* SocialDarwinist: Just like Shishio, Sameo believes in a society where the strong survive and the weak are their slaves or die. Much ''unlike'' Shishio however, where his world would be anarchy where anyone can be strong if they will and impose themselves to be, Sameo prides his philosophy of how [[DayOfTheJackboot the government, especially the military, should have precedence and even sovereignty over civilians.]] [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, he's not the strongest. Shishio is.]]
69	* SmugSnake: While an excellent fighter, he's also very prone to killing people [[DisproportionateRetribution for mere details]] (like [[spoiler: Hanabi]]), very fond of using others for his plans ([[spoiler: like Akari and Kogari]]) and, in the end, has an overinflated sense of his own might. [[spoiler: And when he tries to go the EvilVersusEvil way with Shishio is after Yumi's PleaseIWillDoAnything gives them the chance to fight, Shishio is more than happy to cut him down.]]
70	* VictoriousLoser: [[spoiler:Even if this guy is a future embellishment for ''Ruler of Flame'', Sameo's ideals can be considered more in line with the Empire of Japan on a tangible level.]]
71	[[/folder]]
72
73	[[folder:Alan Inoue]]
74
75	!!Alan Inoue
76	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alan_2.PNG]]
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78	* ButtMonkey: Often finds himself at the receiving end of AmusingInjuries.
79	* TheCharmer: He has the better social skills of the new trio and tries to be this.
80	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: As a half-blood, Alan longed to find his actual place in the world and that's implied to be why he followed the "Occidentalization" social movements that came out when Japan stopped being isolated.
81	* FireForgedFriends: He and Ashitaro are comple opposites, but at the end of ''Ashitarō zenka ari'' they've reached this.
82	* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Not only does he have a foreign first name and light hair, but his teacher Kaoru explicitly says that Alan's father wasn't Japanese. In fact, up until the end of '' Ashitarō zenka ari'' he dyed his hair black to avoid being abused for his heritage.
83	* RecruitedFromTheGutter: As shown in ''RK Ibun: Ashitarō zenka ari'', Alan was a thief until he got caught trying to smuggle into a boat to the USA, jailed for a while (and he met Ashitaro in jail) and ultimately was taken into the Kamiya dojo, where he and Ashitaro are live-in students.
84	* SharpDressedMan: Unlike Ashitaro and Asahi, Alan wears Western clothes.
85	* SonOfAWhore: The BigBad from '' Ashitarō zenka ari'' speculates that Alan's mother was one of the prostitutes who made a living out of "pleasing" Westerners in the harbors.
86	[[/folder]]
87
88	[[folder:Ashitaro Hasegawa]]
89
90	!!Ashitaro Hasegawa
91	[[quoteright:238:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ashitaro.PNG]]
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93	* BerserkButton: Wasting food, oh yes. In ''Ashitarō zenka ari'', one of his opponents throws some riceballs that Asahi had tried to use as bribe and Ashitaro gets VERY ANGRY.
94	* BigEater: As a consequence of his past, one of his biggest traits is how he's always hungry. [[spoiler: If not for his unquenchable hunger, he wouldn't have been taken into the Juppongatana.]]
95	* BlackSwordsAreBetter: [[spoiler: Shishio's Mugenjin, which he now posseses, now has a blackened, charred appearance, since the last time we saw it was in Shishio's hands when he and his headquarters burned to the ground]].
96	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Ashitaro was first an orphan, then a lowly thief, then a low-ranked ChildSoldier and errand boy of [[spoiler: the Juppongatana]], ''then'' [[spoiler: was jailed for five years after the Juppongatana was disbanded]] and, before [[RecruitedFromTheGutter being taken into the dojo]], had to cut a deal with the police to stay there. Heck, the guy has [[spoiler: Shishio's sword the Mugenjin]] ''and'' [[spoiler: he's seen using one of Shishio's techniques, forcing [[RetiredBadass Kenshin]] to use the Sakabato to stop him.]] Kenshin himself is ''seriously'' worried that, due to his hardships and [[spoiler: Shishio]]'s influence, [[spoiler:''he might become the second Shishio''.]]
97	* ExtremeOmnivore: Due to his terrible past, he's capable of eating almost anything. In ''Ashitarō zenka ari'' he's seen trying to eat something he pulled from the trash before a squicked-out Alan stops him, and later he also attempts to eat thrown riceballs until Alan stops him again - but now, for the sake of Ashitaro's self-worth.
98	* FlamingSword: Current wielder of [[spoiler: Shishio's Mugenjin, THE flaming sword of the series, which he ended up grabbing as he was escaping from their burning Mt. Hiei base]].
99	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
100	** In ''Ashitarō zenka ari'' he refuses to [[spoiler: let go of the Mugenjin]] because he wants to sell it for a good price, then get nice food... and give the rest of the money to Alan so he can fill his dream and go to the USA. Alan is driven to tears when he hears it.
101	** He got into the HUGE brawl featured in the ''Hokkaido arc'' beginning because he tried to help Asahi against her abusive owner and her BadBoss.
102	* MeaningfulName: His name literally means "Bad Taro" and was given to him by the villagers who's food he used to steal. [[spoiler: Later, when joining the Kamiya Dojo, the chararacter for "Ashi" in his name is now changed so that it means "Tomorrow"]].
103	* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: [[spoiler: Indicated that he was chosen by the Mugenjin, seeing as he was the only one able to draw it out in ''Ashitarō zenka ari''. Kenshin contemplates on whether this was the case and the sword chose him, or if it was he who chose the sword]].
104	* NeverLearnedToRead: Being a former street kid and a [[spoiler: Juppongatana]] really didn't help him get a decent education.
105	* RecruitedFromTheGutter: ''RK Ibun: Ashitarō zenka ari'' finishes with Kenshin and Kaoru doing this for him and Alan.
106	** [[spoiler: It turns out that he became a member of the Juppongatana after being caught stealing Shishio's food ''and'' staying defiant after he was captured and beaten, so Shishio ''sorta'' did this to him as well.]]
107	* WrongSideOfTheTracks: He spent some time in a slum before being jailed, and came back with a not-exactly-thrilled Alan when released [[spoiler: to retrieve the [[MacGuffin Mugenjin]], which he had buried there.]]
108	[[/folder]]
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110	[[folder:Asahi Kubota]]
111
112	!Asahi Kubota
113	[[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/asahi.PNG]]
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115	* ChekhovsGun: She carries a mysterious envelope... [[spoiler: It contains a photo taken in Hokkaido, and the guy featured on it turns out to be... ''Kaoru's DisappearedDad Koshijirou Kamiya'', who was believed to have died in the Satsuma War.]]
116	* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Asahi once was a low-ranked errand girl of the Juppongatana. In fact, the reason she was there was because she was MadeASlave by some shady people who lent her out to Shishio's group before eventually being adopted by Kenshin and Kaoru. Turns out it's even worse, as she was an orphan raised by the remnants of the Yaminobu from the Jinchuu arc. She assumes Kenshin will kill her for the Yaminobu's involvement in Tomoe's death.]].
117	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In ''Ashitarō zenka ari'' she has very long hair, but in ''Hokkaido arc'' she reappears with a fluffy bob.
118	* TheFashionista: In ''Hokkaido arc'' she's seen wearing a very cute ''hakama'' and taking pride on how she styled it personally.
119	* HoneyTrap: In ''Ashitarō zenka ari'' [[spoiler: she's forced to try befriending Ashitaro solely to try getting from him a "treasure" that he had found between the Juppongatana's dissolution and being thrown in jail: Shishio's sword ''Mugenjin''.]]
120	* MadeASlave: Like Tsubame, she was a vassal to rather shady people.
121	* [[FatherIDontWantToFight Master, I Don't Want to Fight]]: Doesn't want to get involved in any more violence and would rather "shine in this new era", which is problematic as the people who took her in as a war orphan are mercernaries who want to sell her services as one. [[spoiler:That said, she does know how to fight when she wants to. Ashitaro learns this the hard way when she is able to floor him with ease.]]
122	* NeverLearnedToRead: Vital, in her case: [[spoiler: she thought that gathering a certain quantity of money would be enough to purchase her freedom, but the ''real'' price was much higher and her abusive owner not only didn't disuade her, but wanted to sell her off to a far worse guy. If not for Ashitaro's intervention, who knows what would've happened to her.]] When she joins the Kamiya dojo, Ashitaro asks Alan to teach her to write/read and Alan happily accepts, on the condition that Ashitaro joins their study sessions.
123	* OffhandBackhand: Asahi's final blow on Ashitaro when he tries to get her to return to the Himura family is an elbow to the gut followed by a backhand to the face.
124	* RecruitedFromTheGutter: ''Hokkaido arc'' has Asahi being rescued from her new "masters" and, like Alan and Ashitaro, being taken in by Kaoru and Kenshin.
125	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In ''Ashitarō zenka ari'' she manages to escape from the criminal [[spoiler: and ex-Juppongatana]] group she's stuck with.
126	[[/folder]]
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128	[[folder:Sugimura Yoshie]]
129	* BladeLock: Weaponized with his "San Rendousa" in his battle with Soujirou. He locks blades with his opponent's sword in such a way that the opponent is unable to move due their center of gravity being supressed.
130	* CharacterNameAlias: Sugimura Yoshie is his Meiji alias. His true identity is Nagakura Shinpachi, former Second Division Captain of the Shinsengumi.
131	* CoolOldGuy: He is the oldest member of the team gathered to fight off the Kenkaku Heiki and he is the most laid-back. He is also the Second Division Captain of the Shinsengumi and as his fight against the much younger and nimble Soujirou shows, age has not slowed him down in the slightest.
132	* MartialPacifist: States that he is no longer a wolf who follows 'Aku Soku Zan' but instead a dog who doesn't kill.
133	* MyGreatestFailure: Nagakura regrets the split between the Shinsengumi and the Goro-eiji, which eventually led to the downfall of the Shinsengumi. The death of Todo Heisuke, in particular, still haunts him.
134	* TheLeader: Of the the reinforcements Saitou called for, which include Anji and Soujirou.

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