Line #12 Characters/TheEccentricFamily


1	[[foldercontrol]]
2
3	!!Tanuki
4	[[folder:Shimogamo Family]]
5	!Yasaburo Shimogamo
6	--->'''Voiced By''': Creator/TakahiroSakurai
7	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yasaburo_shimagomo_51816.jpg]]
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9	* AdvertisedExtra: His female form, which appears in the season 1 opening and promotional poster, but is only shown in the first episode.
10	* ArrangedMarriage: Betrothed to Kaisei Ebisugawa before it was broken after his father's death.
11	* AttractiveBentGender: At times he shapeshifts into a female form for various reasons, mostly at the beginning of the story.
12	%% DeadpanSnarker
13	%% IdiotHero: Mentioned at least OnceAnEpisode.
14	* SailorFuku: Wears this when he transforms into a girl in episode 1.
15	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Flashes his panties to a random passerby when in the form of a school girl in the first episode.
16	* {{Shapeshifter}}: He's mentioned as being a good shapeshifter, even amongst other Tanukis.
17	%% {{Tanuki}}: But of course.
18	%% WaistcoatOfStyle
19
20	!Yaichiro Shimogamo
21	--->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JunichiSuwabe
22	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yaichiro_shimogamo_51815.jpg]]
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24	%% AloofBigBrother: At least, he attempts to be this.
25	%% AnimeHair
26	* BigBrotherInstinct: Protects Yashiro from the Ebisugawa twins' bullying.
27	* TheDutifulSon : He aspires to follow in Souichirou's footsteps, and is mentioned by Yasaburo to have inherited their father's sense of responsibility.
28	* HeroicBSOD: After learning that [[spoiler: Yajiro left their father to his death]].
29	* NotSoStoic: While he tries to be stoic and idealistic, he has a tendency to overreact to everything.
30	* PantheraAwesome: Has a penchant for transforming into a large tiger when the situation calls for it.
31	%% TallDarkAndHandsome
32
33	!Yajiro Shimogamo
34	--->'''Voiced By:''' Creator/HiroyukiYoshino
35	[[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yajiro_shimogamo_52113.jpg]]
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37	* TheAlcoholic: Stated that the only thing he was good at was drinking alcohol. [[spoiler:Which is how Yashirou gets him out of the well in Episode 12]].
38	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Is in love with Kaisei who was in an engagement with Yasaburo.
39	* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Saves his brothers from the Friday Fellows and the Ebisugawas using his train form in Episode 12.]]
40	* DespairEventHorizon: After learning that [[spoiler:he pretty much killed his father]].
41	* HopelessSuitor: For Kaisei, his younger brother's former fiancee.
42	* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Blames himself for his father's death.]]
43	%% LazyBum: Before becoming a frog.
44	* ShapeshifterModeLock: Stuck as a frog, [[spoiler:because of SelfImposedExile due to leading his father to his death.]]
45
46	! Yashiro Shimogamo
47	--->'''Voiced By''' Creator/MaiNakahara
48	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yashiro_shimogamo_52112.jpg]]
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50	%% AdorablyPrecociousChild
51	%% BewareTheNiceOnes
52	%% TheCutie
53	%% FourIsDeath: His father died not too long after he was born.
54	* GlamourFailure: His tail pops out whenever he's startled or under stress.
55	* ShockAndAwe: On a small scale - he can charge electronics with his fingertips.
56	%% TheSmartGuy: [[spoiler:Figures out how to save his brothers on his own.]]
57	%% TokenMiniMoe
58
59	! "Mother" Shimogamo / Tousen
60	--->'''Voiced By''' Creator/KikukoInoue
61	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tousen_shimogamo_52111.jpg]]
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63	* {{Bifauxnen}}: Her preferred form when going outside.
64	%% FearOfThunder
65	%% FieryRedhead
66	* LargeHam: When in {{Bifauxnen}} form.
67	%% MamaBear: Do ''not'' mess with her sons.
68	%% NoNameGiven: Until season 2
69	* SoProudOfYou: Even when the entirety of tanuki society labels her sons as losers, she's really proud of them.
70
71	! Sōichirō Shimogamo
72	--->'''Voiced by''' Bon Ishihara
73	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soichiro_shimogamo_52114.jpg]]
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75	%% CoolOldGuy
76	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He let himself get captured to protect his family and to call off Yasaburo's engagement.]] Definitely [[FaceDeathWithDignity Faced Death With Dignity]].
77	* PlotTriggeringDeath: Most of the plot is centered around finding out the true cause of his death and the effects of it on the characters.
78	* PosthumousCharacter: He was killed and eaten by the Friday Fellows way before the events of the series begin.
79	[[/folder]]
80
81	[[folder:Ebisugawa Family]]
82	! Kaisei Ebisugawa
83	--->'''Voiced By''' Creator/AyaneSakura
84	[[quoteright:224:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kaisei_ebisugawa_52117.jpg]]
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86	* ArrangedMarriage: Betrothed to Yasaburo before it was broken by her father after her uncle's death. [[spoiler: The actual reason is much more complicted as seen below.]]
87	* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen:
88	** Never seems to appear as a human or tanuki; she's always disguised as some random object. [[spoiler:Her human form is finally shown in episode 9. Yasaburo never gets to see her, at least until far off in the end credits of Episode 13.]]
89	** The second series finally shows her in both forms and reason why she never shows herself to Yasaburo: [[spoiler:just looking at her causes his GlamorFailure]].
90	* MoralityPet: Her brothers and father genuinely care about her.
91	* OfficialCouple: Yasaburo reinstates his engagement to her at the end of season 2
92	* OlderThanTheyLook: She's supposedly the same age as Yasaburo, but due to her short height, looks much younger.
93	%% PinkMeansFeminine: Is often shown wearing a pink sweater.
94	%% SirSwearsALot
95	%% StalkerWithACrush: Which forms an unusual dynamic given her tsundere nature.
96	%% {{Tsundere}}: For Yasaburo.
97	* WhiteSheep: While the rest of the Ebisugawa's are jerks (barring Kureiichiro), Kaisei herself had been kind and helpful.
98
99	! Ginkaku and Kinkaku Ebisugawa
100	--->'''Voiced by''' Kosuke Hatakeyama and Shuya Nishiji
101	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ginkaku_ebisugawa_52116.jpg]]
102	[[caption-width-right:250:Ginkaku]]
103	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kinkaku_ebisugawa_52115.jpg]]
104	[[caption-width-right:250:Kinkaku]]
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106	%% AlwaysIdenticalTwins
107	* TheBully: Both aspire to makes the Shimogamo family's lives in general, and Yashirou's in particular, a living hell.
108	* {{Jerkass}}: They're both pretty big jerks, especially towards Yashiro.
109	* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Kinkaku's bangs are parted in the middle, while Ginkaku's bangs are swept to the side.
110	* RunningGag: Getting themselves thrown into extremely cold water by the Shimogamo family. They even lampshade it in episode 12.
111	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: They try to use long and complicated words to make themselves sound smarter, but since they don't know what the words mean it makes them seem dumber instead.
112	* TricksterTwins: They love to cause problems for the Shimogamo family, though they aren't as smart about it as they like to think they are and their tricks tend to backfire on them.
113
114	! Soun Ebisugawa
115	--->'''Voiced by''' Creator/NobuoTobita
116	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soun_ebisugawa_52391.jpg]]
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118	* BigBad: Ultimately the source of all of the Shimogamo family's troubles but he is only the BigBad for the first season.
119	%% BigBadWannabe: For the second season.
120	%% CainAndAbel: The Cain to Soichirou's Abel.
121	* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:He is set up to be back to being the main villain only to be killed in the second season]].
122	%% EvilUncle: Pretty much had been mean to the Shimogamos.
123	* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:He gets Soichirou killed because he wanted his wife and the Nise-mon position for himself]].
124	%% {{JerkAss}}
125	%% KarmicDeath
126	* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:He transformed himself into a one horned oni to kill Yasaburo, Unfortunately for him that cost him his life since he transformed into an oni in front of oni-fearing Jyurojin, who promptly shot him.]]
127	%% SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:He only dies in the second season.]]
128	* SympathyForTheDevil: Yasaburo felt this way about his death.
129
130	! Kureiichiro Ebisugawa
131	--->'''Voiced by''': Creator/YuuichiNakamura
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133	* NiceGuy: So far, he had been friendly and willing to make peace with the Shimogamos. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] that it was actually Soun in disguise. DoubleSubverted that the real Kureiichiro showed up in the near end of Season 2 and is a true blue nice guy.]]
134	* WhiteSheep: Like Kaisei, he's a decent NiceGuy, unlike the rest of his family.
135
136	[[/folder]]
137
138	!!Tengu
139	[[folder:Akadama and his son]]
140	!Professor Akadama (Nyoigatake Yakushibou)
141	--->'''Voiced by''' Creator/HideyukiUmezu
142	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akadama_51813.jpg]]
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144	%% BrokenBird: A somewhat literal example.
145	%% CrackOhMyBack
146	* DirtyOldMan: His infatuation with Benten is one of his defining traits, and he refers to (beautiful) women as one of the few things he can look forward to at his age.
147	%% GagNose: Comes with being a Tengu.
148	%% GrumpyOldMan: Extremely grumpy and very proud.
149	* LimaSyndrome: After abducting Suzuki Satomi (Benten), he eventually fell for her.
150	* RetiredBadass: Excels mostly at excuses after injuring his back.
151	%% ScrewPolitenessImASenior
152	%% TheSvengali: In spades, except for Benten.
153	%% {{Tsundere}}: To the Shimogamo family in general and Yasaburo in particular.
154
155	!Junior
156	--->'''Voiced by''' Creator/JunjiMajima
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158	%% AntagonisticOffspring: To his father.
159	* WouldHitAGirl: He doesn't hold his punches [[spoiler:when he fights Benten in the season 2 finale]].
160	[[/folder]]
161
162	!!Human
163
164	[[folder:The Thursday Club]]
165	!Hotei (Professor Yodagawa)
166	--->'''Voiced by''' Takehiko Higuchi
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168	%% AntiVillain: Type IV.
169	* BigDamnHeroes: He sneaks into the Friday Club's annual tanuki hot pot wearing a mask and busts Yasaburo and Kaisei out of their cage.
170	* CoolOldGuy: He's a friendly man who befriends Yasuburo.
171	* DirtyOldMan: Like Akadama he has an infatuation with Benten.
172	* EvilTastesGood: He's aware tanuki are sentient beings, but he loves them so much he has to eat them to profess his love.
173	* HeelFaceTurn: When he sees that the tanuki Jurojin ordered (Mother) was the same one he saved all those years ago, he says ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight.
174	* MeaningfulName: Hotei is a jolly old god that is overweight and known for his altruism. Other than the overweight part everything else fits him.
175	* NiceGuy: He even had a friendly conversation with Soichirou before the Friendly Fellows cooked him.
176	* NotWhatItLooksLike: Yasaburo pushes Benten onto him in the final episode in order to get Akadama angry.
177	* ObliviouslyEvil: Despite the fact that he had a conversation with Soichiro after having been captured, he doesn't seem fully aware of the fact that tanuki are sentient beings.
178	[[/folder]]
179
180	[[folder:The Friday Fellows/Friday Club]]
181
182	!Suzuki Satomi ''a.k.a.'' Benten
183	--->'''Voiced By''': Creator/MamikoNoto
184	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/benten_51814.jpg]]
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186	* AffablyEvil: While she is the primary member of the antagonist group the Friday Fellows, she's very affable and plays the grey line on the evil part.
187	* BrokenBird: There's a heavy burden on her shoulders she feels she cannot truly break free from. [[spoiler:From ending up eating Yasaburo's father to watching with mixed feelings of vindication and guilt over seeing Professor Akadama being stripped of his tengu powers, Benten has had a ''very'' hard life.]]
188	* {{Deuteragonist}}: While Yasaburo is the main character, she's clearly the second most important and has a part in everything.
189	* FemmeFatale: Very attractive and very powerful. She can usually be found flirting with leaders and influential people.
190	* {{Flight}}: Despite being a human, she knows tengu magic and is able to fly.
191	%% RapeAsBackstory: Implied in her abduction by Akadama.
192	%% ReplacementGoldfish: Potentially this for [[spoiler: both Akadama-sensei and the Nidaime]].
193	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She has no problem skinny dipping in front of Yasaburo and Yashiro. [[HypocriticalHumor Though she'll get mad if Yasuburo takes her form for fanservice]].
194	* TokenHuman: Among the main cast. However, considering how she knows tengu magic and how tanuki believe HumansAreCthulhu in this setting, this makes her very dangerous.
195
196	!Jyurojin
197	--->'''Voiced by''' Creator/YasuhiroMamiya
198	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jurojin_the_eccentric_family_53777.jpg]]
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200	* EscapedFromHell: Managed to somehow escape from Buddhist hell.
201	* GreaterScopeVillain: He is mostly the one responsible for the whole plot which includes the death of Sōichirō Shimogamo. [[spoiler: He plans to control the skies of Kyoto for himself]].
202	[[/folder]]

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