This is a listing of characters who appear in the Web Original Fiction Buster Girls.

Warning: Pages may contain unmarked spoilers. Proceed at your own risk!

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Main Heroes

The group of heroines the mainline story of Buster Girls is following.

Ingrid Astra/Buster Red

Ingrid Astra/Buster Red/Supernova/Burnout

Buster Red

^{Hyper Buster Red}

A tanned and athletic girl with blazing red hair, who made it her goal to save as many people as possible like her idol, the original Buster Red. As Buster Red she can channel fire through her gauntlets and boots to fight.

The Berserker: Corrupted forms and Dark Hyper usually fall into this category for her, turning into a monster that causes destruction wherever she goes.
Fiery Redhead: Tomboy? Check. Fiery red hair? Check.
Hellfire: Pretty much what Dark Hyper Burnout represents.
Playing with Fire: Summons and mainly uses fire to fight in all her forms.
Power Fist: Her main weapon of choice.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Eri’s blue oni.
Running Gag: Ingrid being turned into a bunny girl.

Eri Kawaguchi/Buster Blue

Eri Kawaguchi/Buster Blue/Snow White/Black Ice

Buster Blue

A cool and arrogant beauty with long, blue hair and silver eyes, who’s the only other Buster enrolled at the same school as Ingrid. Initially she and Ingrid can't stand each other, though over time it develops into a crush on her teammate. As Buster Blue she wields a lance and summons water and ice to fight.

An Ice Person: Mainly uses water and ice when fighting. As Black Ice she switches to exclusively using ice.
The Corrupter: As Black Ice she quickly learns to corrupt humans into Heartless by turning them into ice statues and reshaping them.
Expy: One of her inspirations is Weiss Schnee. Both are refined beauties, who initially clash with their red-themed teammate. Several of her fighting techniques like snowflake glyphs and icicle projectiles are also taken from her.
Holiday Motif: As Black Ice she most closely resembles Christmas with her ice powers and the snow angel minions she creates.
In-Series Nickname: During her Black Ice-phase Valentina likes to call her "Bice".
Long Hair Is Feminine: Has long blue hair and is often described as a beauty.
Making a Splash: Creates and manipulates various forms of water to fight.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Ingrid’s red oni.
Reluctant Ruler: Ends up chosen as Head Maid Victoria's mistress against her will and tries to refuse before being given a (mental) makeover.
Sinister Scythe: As Black Ice she upgrades her main weapon of choice into a large scythe made out of ice.
Unwilling Roboticisation: In Chapter 14 she temporarily ends up being reforged into one of Vulcanne's robotic minions.
Walking Spoiler: It’s kinda hard talking about the Black Ice arc without mentioning that she's its main villain.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: The fight with Midnightmare reveals she's afraid of bugs.

Makoto Maeda/Buster Green

Makoto Maeda/Buster Green/Jetstream/Skyterror

Buster Green

A friendly and usually rather unassuming girl with short brown hair, who wants to make many friends. Has a tendency for snarky one-liners and joking at inappropriate times. As Buster Green her fighting style is similar to Red’s though with a higher emphasis on kicks and utilizing wind.

Big Damn Heroes: Her introduction is saving Ingrid and Eri from Midnightmare.
Blow You Away: Can create and control winds when with her Buster Force.
Boyish Short Hair: Has the shortest hair out of the main characters.
Power Dyes Your Hair: When transforming into her Buster form her hair color changes from brown to green. Notably the only one of the main heroines this happens to.
Power Fist: Her Buster form includes gauntlets.

Raine Albion/Buster Violet

Raine Albion/Buster Violet/Liberation Maiden/Infinity Warden

Buster Violet

A small and dainty looking girl with blue eyes and long purple hair. Lives a quiet and comfortable life with her working, single mother, even if money gets tight sometimes. Secretly she has many chuuni-like interests and hobbies. As Buster Violet she wears an equally purple dress and can shoot out long chains.

Ace Of Spades: During the fight with Illumiere she is turned into the Ace of Spades, Illumiere’s strongest card servant.
Blade on a Rope: She can attach her Buster Edge to the end of one of her chains to increase its range and attack from afar.
Braids of Action: Wears them as Buster Violet.
Chuunibyou: While not as open about it as Eclair, the author has confirmed her as a closet chuuni. This can be mostly seen in her hobbies and attack names. Hyper Mode is when she lets out the chuuni as the Liberation Maiden and wields the weapons she created in her imagination.
Multi-Melee Master: In Hyper Mode she can summon and wield many different weapons she created in her imagination, while a couple are sword variations, they also include a lance, scythe, gauntlets, etc.
Playing Card Motifs: During the fight with Illumiere she's turned into the card servant Ace of Spades, giving her a spade-themed makeover.
Sinister Scythe: One of the weapons she can summon in Hyper Mode is a fancy black and violet scythe named Reaper’s Edge Memento Mori.
Whip Sword: Later in the series her Buster Edge gets upgraded into one.

Monica Ambrose/Buster Yellow

Monica Ambrose/Buster Yellow/Power Princess

Buster Yellow

A boisterous and busty blonde coming from a rich family and being friends with almost everyone. Her favorite pastime is clothes shopping. As Buster Yellow she has impressive raw power with the unfortunate drawback of not being able to control it well. Therefore she mainly uses it to augment her strikes, not even necessarily those of her hammer, and for normal energy blasts.

Awesome, but Impractical: Her Buster Changer allows her to change her appearance into anything she wants. Due to high action focus and the direct way confrontations usually play out it unfortunately doesn't see much use.
Beware the Silly Ones: Don't get on her bad side or you’ll get on the bad side of her hammer. Or worse, her fists.
Combat Sadomasochist: Aikyoshi’s “Heartless Art: Masochism Fist” temporarily turns her into a masochist who derives pleasure from being hit which in turn fuels her transformation into one of her minions.
The Ditz: The ditziest and often silliest member of the team. It's rare to see her without a smile on her face.
Genki Girl: Who but her? Her introduction features her excitedly pulling Raine from their school all the way over to the Buster Headquarters.
Girly Bruiser: The most traditionally girly member of the team… and also the first one to beat you up with a giant hammer.
Humongous-Headed Hammer: Fights with a giant hammer.
Long Hair Is Feminine: Has long blonde hair and is the most feminine member of the main characters.
Playing Card Motifs: During the fight with Illumiere she's turned into a heart-themed card soldier drone in a featureless full bodysuit.
Spoiled Sweet: She's incredibly rich, but also the kindest and most positive member of the cast.
Unskilled, but Strong: She has incredible raw potential as a Buster, but has issues controlling her massive powers.
Unwilling Roboticisation: In "Bad End: Sinnurse" she's turned into the robotic Nano-Nurse B-05.

Saya Amou/Fenraizer

Saya Amou/Fenraizer/Saydra

Fenraizer Fenrir & Saya Amou

^{Fenraizer Phoenix}

^{Fenraizer Anubis}

A loner girl from Makoto’s class, who hates the Busters due to traumatic experiences in her past. She carries the Monster Driver, which allows her to don the Fenraizer armor through which she can channel the powers of legendary monsters.

Aloof Ally: While she also wants to protect the city, due to her hatred for the Buster Force she initially refuses to associate with them. Over time she starts to warm up to them though.
Cool Helmet: Fully going with the tokusatsu-inspiration she wears a full head helmet as Fenraizer. Color and details adapt to whichever form she's using.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Her main character arc so far is about learning to rely on and trust others. She's gone from not wanting to be anywhere near the other girls to attending team meetings of her own accord.
Disease Bleach: Her hair turned a silver-y grey as consequence of the experiments done to her to turn her into a wielder of the Monster Driver as well as the effects it has on her body. Using Ragnarok makes it start to go white to indicate the strain that form has.
Henshin Hero: The Monster Driver allows her to transform between the various armored forms of the warrior Fenraizer.
In-Series Nickname: Monica likes to call her "Fenny". She may not like it, but at some point she just stops correcting anyone using it.
Scaled Up: Her Heartless form as Saydra is that of a giant multi-bodied hydra.
Second Episode Introduction: Doesn’t appear or is even hinted at until the second arc.
Sixth Ranger: Not one of the Busters and initially refusing to cooperate, she warms up to them throughout the “Heartbreaker” arc and even starts attending team meetings.

The 6th Buster Spoiler Character

Buster Gold

After learning Ingrid's secret identity Akira Kintaro got fed up with watching her friend fight from the sidelines. She confronted Riry, who saw in her not only sufficient Buster potential, but also a solution to Hyper Mode’s power problem. As Buster Gold she can create electricity and summon a special motorcycle to fight. Using the Buster Spark she can not only give the Buster Girls power boosts, but also allow others to temporarily transform into Busters.

See Akira Kintaro’s entry for more details.

Tendou High

Students and faculty of Tendou High, the school attended by Ingrid and Eri.

Akane Amaha

Akane Amaha/Breaker Yellow

A gyaru with tanned skin and bleached hair. Rarely showing up to class, she’s a troublemaker that tries to get Ingrid in on her trouble.

After having been captured and brainwashed by Valentina she becomes Breaker Yellow, an extremely destructive woman who takes pleasure in fighting.

Combat Sadomasochist: As Breaker Yellow she takes pleasure from fighting, often shouting in an erotic voice and groping herself mid-fight to get even more excited.
Evil Counterpart: To Monica. Unlike other Breakers she doesn't share a personal connection to her counterpart, but rather represents a dark reflection of a Monica without her kindness or restraint.
Gyaru Girl: Tanned skin, bleached hair and often skips class, a typical gal.
Sixth Ranger: To Ingrid’s friend group following her ultimate defeat as Breaker Yellow.

Yoko Amakusa

Yoko Amakusa/Head Maid Victoria

A gray haired girl with glasses who serves as Megumi’s second in command. She is almost like a secretary, strict and on point in everything she does.

Head Maid Victoria does everything to support the person she chooses as worthy enough to be her master, whether they initially want it or not. Her various cleaning implements can turn others into fellow devoted maids.

Ninja Maid: Head Maid Victoria is not to be underestimated. She's skilled enough to fight off most of the Busters with her cleaning implements.
Secret-Keeper: One of the people who learns the Busters' secret identity during the "Black Ice" arc.
Secret Secret-Keeper: At some point she figured out the secret identity of Ingrid. It's later revealed that she was the one to inform Ingrid of the Heartless after receiving a warning of Megumi.
Smart People Wear Glasses: A glasses-wearing hypercompetent assistant.

Eclair “Eclipse” Andrews

Eclair Andrews/”Eclair Eclipse”/Illumiere/Buster Umbra

A stylish and handsome girl with short dark blue hair. Her attitude is that of a complete chuuni, acting over the top and over dramatic about everything. A member of Ingrid’s friend group, she's the first to learn her secret.

Illumiere is a Heartless dressed like a stage magician, who employs devious magical tricks and illusions to turn her victims into part of her show.

Chuunibyou: The most direct example of one in this story. Going by the name “Eclair Eclipse” she has an affinity towards flowery language and speaking in riddles to appear more mysterious.
Death Dealer: No matter which form, she's quite fond of throwing cards as projectiles.
Playing Card Motifs: Employs these for many of her minions. During the fight Raine gets turned into the card servant Ace of Spade, giving her a spade-themed makeover, while Monica is turned into a heart-themed card soldier drone in a featureless full bodysuit.
Secret-Keeper: During the climax of the first arc she figures out the secret identities of the Buster Girls. From that point on she puts in the effort to cover for Ingrid whenever necessary. However…
Secret Secret-Keeper: Apparently Monica neglected to inform the others about Eclair, because Ingrid doesn't realize her knowing till Chapter 32.

Milly Evergreen

Milly Evergreen/Ringelaine

A silver haired girl that Ingrid used to hang out with through the track team. Short and lithe, she now performs as an acrobat at the circus.

The energetic clown Heartless Ringelaine is only interested in making the viewers of her circus show laugh, whether they want it or not.

Magical Clown: Her Heartless form, Ringelaine.
Pie in the Face: How she converts most of the audience into laughing clowns. By shooting them out of cannons.

Mina Gardener

Mina Gardener/Kakerusagi

A toned girl with a long blonde ponytail that knows Ingrid. She’s a track star that loves to work out.

Kakerusagi is a voluptuous white bunny girl, whose kisses can turn other females into rabbit girls like her.

Little Bit Beastly: The story describes her having bunny ears and tail, but whether she has fur is unclear.
Magic Kiss: Turns other girls into more rabbit girls via kissing.
Not Quite Back to Normal: It’s noted that everyone turned into a bunny girl by her still retained some urge to make out with girls afterwards.
Playboy Bunny: With a tight bodysuit and actual bunny ears and tail, she's very obviously meant to invoke this image.

Yuu Ichinose

Yuu Ichinose/Breaker Red/Catrina/Tigress/Buster Orange

Ingrid’s best friend, a rather plain looking girl with short brown twintails. She has a playful personality and loves to joke with her friends.

Making use of her insecurities, Valentina convinced her to join the Heartbreakers. As Breaker Red she's very aggressive and only focused on beating Ingrid.

Catrina is a weak cat girl-themed Heartless that can turn others into more cat girls. Tigress is her upgraded form after receiving another dose of corruption, making her much more physically powerful and giving her a tiger theme.

The Atoner: Becomes this after her stint as Breaker Red. She jumps at any chance to support Ingrid.
Evil Counterpart: As Breaker Red she’s one to Buster Red. Wielding similar powers she only cares about beating Ingrid.
Playing with Fire: As Breaker Red she utilizes fire to fight in an obvious parallel to Ingrid.
Power Fist: Copying Ingrid, she uses gauntlets to fight as Breaker Red.
Secret-Keeper: The distress she has over learning Ingrid's secret is what Valentina uses to convince her to become a Heartbreaker. Following her time as Breaker Red she becomes a proper one after Ingrid gave her the full truth.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Very much afraid of clowns. Guess what happens, when she meets Midnightmare?

Lyra Lightfield

Lyra Lightfield/DJ Lyrave

A cute girl with teal hair holding a music note accessory. She is in charge of the Music Club at school.

The musical Heartless DJ Lyrave turns the area she's in into her personal dance club and the people around can't help but dance to the hypnotic rhythm and slowly convert into rave drones.

Alliterative Name: Lyra Lightfield.
Mind-Control Music: Everyone who hears her music can't help but start to move to the rhythm. The longer you’re subjected to it the more likely it is for you to end up as a rave drone.
Secret-Keeper: One of the people who learns the Busters' secret identity during the "Black Ice" arc.

Megumi Miyazaki

Megumi Miyazaki/Queen Bee/Buster Leader

The pink haired student council president of Tendou High. She strives to do her best for the school, but also expects the best out of everyone else.

Queen Bee is a Heartless who takes over Tendou High and its students to improve them by making everyone her studious bee-themed drones.

Alliterative Name: ‘’’M’’’egumi ‘’’M’’’iyazaki
Secret-Keeper: One of the people who learns the Busters' secret identity during the "Black Ice" arc.
Student Council President: The proud student council president of Tendou High.
Supporting Leader: Her style of leading is to support everyone whom she deems willing enough to fulfill their goals. In a more direct example both times she got powers it was the ability to strengthen others.

Mika Sakamoto

Mika Sakamoto/Miracle Buster-Chan/Magical Buster

A playful girl with blonde twintails. She has a childish personality and as a result often ends up getting into fights over silly things. A member of Ingrid's friend group.

The Heartless Miracle Buster-Chan considers herself the true heroine of the city. With pink hair, frilly dress and staff she makes the world a better and cuter place and shows all those meanie villains the error of their ways with her magic.

Magical Girl: Miracle Buster-Chan is the most straightforward example in this series and an ironic parody to boot. As Magical Buster she plays this trope entirely straight though.

Aika Shenrai

Aika Shenrai/Aikyoshi

A tough girl with very lengthy black hair. Tall and toned, she has a constantly scary expression and is extremely good at fighting. She doesn’t intend to cause trouble for anyone however in spite of her reputation.

The martial arts-obsessed Heartless Aikyoshi is a powerful fist fighter, who turns everyone she beats into one of her faithful students.

Power Dyes Your Hair: When switching into her Shin Aikyoshi form her hair turns from black to blue.
Secret-Keeper: One of the people who learns the Busters' secret identity during the "Black Ice" arc.

Kotone Virika

Kotone Virika/Midnightmare

A quiet girl with long black hair and large glasses. She is a bookworm who rarely speaks up.

Midnightmare features black skin and hair and red eyes and markings. She turns everyone she makes eye contact with into their worst fear. A member of Ingrid’s friend group.

Bookworm: Described to be one.
I Know What You Fear: As Midnightmare she has the power to turn others into their worst fears.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Midnightmare has red eyes and making eye contact with those begins the transformation process.

Miss Saori Kanzaki

Saori Kanzaki/Dominstructor

A mature teacher at Tendou High with short violet hair and glasses. She regularly gets drunk when off the job and complains about her life.

Dominstructor is a Heartless in red bondage gear, who literally whips others into identical model students.

Lady Drunk: Regularly goes drinking after work.

Nurse Lucy Katsuragi

Lucy Katsuragi/Sinnurse

The green haired nurse of Tendou High. She’s a very chill and relaxed person, making her easy to talk to.

Sinnurse is a Heartless with various medical-related abilities. Most dangerous is her Relapse Virus, which can turn someone back into their Heartless form.

Naughty Nurse Outfit: Sinnurse’s outfit is a tight black latex parody of a nurse outfit.
School Nurse: The school nurse of Tendou High.

Phoenix High

Students and staff of Phoenix High, the school attended by Monica and Raine.

Erica Diodeus

Erica Diodeus/Lady Luck

A Phoenix High student who uses trickery to scam others out of their cash. Sporting purple twintails and amber eyes the girl is an expert at games, cards especially. Her cheating abilities are second to none and she has a way with words that makes manipulation a simple matter.

The gambling Heartless Lady Luck is the owner of the Lady Luck Casino, where winner gets all and losers have to work off their depths by becoming part of its raunchy personnel.

The Gambler: Almost always tries to gamble her fellow students out of their money, particularly the stubborn Monica. Her Heartless, Lady Luck, takes this to the extreme with her own casino.
Playing Card Motifs: To fit her gambler theme, Lady Luck’s clothing and makeup are littered with card suits.

Natsuki Ene

Natsuki Ene/Glamillionaire

The treasurer of the Student Council at Phoenix High, a very money oriented girl who ends up stuck with more work than she’d usually like. Her skin is dark and eyes are brown, black hair in a ponytail while glasses adorn her face. She may be a hard worker but she’s one who isn’t afraid to complain at or sass her higher ups. She wishes the position of Student Council President was her own.

Decked out in green, gold and cash symbols, the filthy rich Heartless Glamillionaire shows that with enough wealth you can buy everything.

Logical Weakness: Monica, an already rich girl, is immune to her money-based control.
Money to Throw Away: Not only does Glamillionaire throw out her money to brainwash citizens, she can shoot it as literal projectiles.

Kira Fuudo

Kira Fuudo/Beach Queen/Kiracken

A tough and tomboyish swimmer with dark red hair. She is extremely competitive and sees Aoi as her rival.

The Heartless Kiracken is a swashbuckling pirate with the lower body of an octopus, who’s always looking equally for treasures or more members of her crew.

Hybrid Monster: Half pirate, half octopus.
Our Mermaids Are Different: An octopus mermaid with equally pink skin on her upper half.
Unscaled Merfolk: Being based on an octopus, she has shiny, pink skin across her whole body.

Aoi Ibuki

Aoi Ibuki/Ciaren

A friend of Monica’s with lengthy black hair. She is one of the best swimmers at the school and has the aura of an older sister.

Ciaren is a blue-scaled mermaid Heartless, whose melodic voice can brainwash others into servants of her aquatic kingdom.

Anchors Away: In “Movie:Eternal Wonderland” she’s briefly granted one as a weapon by the power of the Eternal Blossoms. She’s quick to get rid of it though, as it isn't her style.
Compelling Voice: Uses her singing to brainwash people.
Making a Splash: In “Movie Eternal Wonderland” the Eternal Blossoms briefly give her the ability to control water and form it into a weapon. As the Heartless Ciaren she has full control over water. She also uses it to move around on her tail.
Our Mermaids Are Different: She features blue skin, a blue tail, arms fins, can control people with her singing and has hydrokinesis.
Secret Secret-Keeper: “Movie: Eternal Wonderland” reveals that she is aware of Monica being Buster Yellow. By the end of the “Black Ice” arc she's the only known character left this still applies to.
Sirens Are Mermaids: Not only can she control people with her singing, her name even is a pun on siren.

Kuroi Kanata

Kuroi Kanata/Nocturna/Darkbuster

A grumpy silver haired girl with gothic makeup on her face. She has trouble making friends, but she has opened up to Raine.

The Heartless Nocturna is a wicked and coldhearted gothic puppet, who controls shadowy strings that transform people into her loyal dark puppets.

Ninja: During “Movie: Eternal Wonderland” the power of the Eternal Blossoms temporarily turn her into a ninja with all associated powers.
Ninja Log: In “Movie: Eternal Wonderland” this is the trick that ultimately allows her to beat Cheshire Cat Raine.
Puppet Permutation: As Nocturna she can turn others into her dolls by catching them with her strings.
Secret-Keeper: Being Raine's girlfriend, she is aware of her double life as a Buster, though it's unclear how long this has been the case.

Nia Lullaby

Nia Lullaby/Insomnia

A cyan haired girl usually seen in the library. She sleeps the vast majority of the time.

The Heartless Insomnia has the power to infect the dreams of her chosen victims and turn them into nightmares. If they don't manage to break out of her illusions, these nightmares will become reality upon waking up.

Dream Walker: Insomnia has the power to travel between the dreams of others.
Nightmare Weaver: Insomnia traps her victims in nightmares in which they've become Heartless.

Kiriko Morimoto

Kiriko Morimoto/Mii

A stylish beauty with turquoise hair. She’s friends with Monica and cares deeply about beauty.

The dazzling beauty Mii can be recognized by her blue hair and reflective attire. With her mirrors this Heartless gives everyone the necessary makeover to become just as beautiful as her.

Clone by Conversion: With her mirrors Mii can turn everyone into almost perfect copies of herself.
Glass Slipper: Mii wears them as part of her glass-themed attire.

Northern Gale

Students and staff of Northern Gale High, the school attended by Makoto and Saya.

Tsukiko Kaguya

Tsukiko Kaguya/Lunatic

A beautiful young student at Northern Gale who commands a strong and mysterious beauty to her. Sporting long lavender hair and a beauty mark on her face she is determined to become a capable and confident person after spending her previous years bullied as a nerd.

The Heartless Lunatic is an otherworldly beauty in night sky-themed attire, who channels the power of the moon to turn students into her children of the moon.

Lunacy: The Heartless Lunatic has, big surprise, lunatic powers.

Bridget Lucio

Bridget Lucio/Wedding Belle

A demi-human who lives with her father, her Monster Race mother distant and rarely seen. Sporting pink eyes and short white hair with wing-like sections, she’s a girl in love with love. She loves romance and gossips about relationships all the time.

The bride Heartless Wedding Belle is only focused on having the perfect wedding with her groom, Princess Charming, and wants the whole town to celebrate the joyous occasion with her.

Feather Motif: Part of her white hair is styled to look like wings, indicating her heritage.
Glass Slipper: Wedding Belle wears those.
Idiot Hair: Her hair has a strand coming up curved like a heart.

Lysa Maxwell/Black Knight Princess aka Lady Noire

Lysa Maxwell/Black Knight Princess aka Lady Noire/Queen Noire

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Black Knight Princess aka Lady Noire

The younger Maxwell sister, shorter than Saki with black twintails. She has a somewhat bratty attitude, not enjoying relying on others.

Black Knight Princess aka Lady Noire is one of Valentina’s top enforcers, who repeatedly support the other Heartless with their fighting powers. Clad in pitch black armor she wields a massive broadsword and can summon animated armors that can take control of anyone forced into them. The only one she cares about is her sister, Princess Charming.

BFS: Wields one that's bigger than herself.
Black Knight: If the “Black Knight” in her name and the pitch black armor weren't already dead giveaways.
Brains and Brawn: The brawn to Princess Charming's brain. With a bigger weapon she usually just tries to crush her enemies with it.
Evil Duo: Forms one with her sister, Princess Charming.
Sanity Slippage: She doesn't take the defeat of Princess Charming lightly. She locks the two of them up in her room and holds tea parties with Saki while dressing her up as Princess Charming in hopes of bringing the Heartless back.
Villainous Princess: A Heartless and one of Valentina’s best enforcers on top.

Saki Maxwell/Princess Charming

Saki Maxwell/Princess Charming/Charming Buster

Princess Charming

The elder Maxwell sister, a handsome woman with short black hair. A dependable girl who is enjoyable to be around.

Princess Charming is one of Valentina’s top enforcers, who repeatedly support the other Heartless with their fighting powers. With her supernatural charm this Heartless can make any girl swoon and slowly turn them into weak, demure maidens. Extremely cunning and calculating, she initially tries to present herself as a hero to get close to the Busters.

Brains and Brawn: The brain to Lady Noire's brawns. She prefers trickery and rarely fights when the odds aren't manipulated in her favor.
Evil Duo: Forms one with her sister, Black Knight Princess.
Prince Charming: Pretty much a female parody of one, using her powers to charm any girl for evil.
Royal Rapier: Obviously she wields one to complement her image.
Villainous Princess: A Heartless and one of Valentina’s best enforcers on top.

Ayashi Raiga

Ayashi Raiga\Breaker Green\Whirlwind Buster

The former class president of Makoto’s class, her cyan hair done up in a ponytail. A natural genius at many things, she is very pushy about getting things done.

Breaker Green is an arrogant self-proclaimed prodigy, who doesn't rest until she has utterly proven her superiority. She fights using a rapier and can control winds, similar to Makoto.

Blow You Away: Just like Buster Green, Breaker Green fights using wind.
Class Representative: Initially she's the class representative of Makoto's class and embodies most of the classic traits of this type. Following the “Breaker” arc she resigns from this position to do some soul-searching.
Evil Counterpart: As Breaker Green she's one to Buster Green. While they use similar powers, Buster Green is kind, helpful to others and takes things at her own pace, while Breaker Green is arrogant, only focused on herself and obsessive in achieving her goals.
Secret-Keeper: In Chapter 38 she figures out Buster Green’s secret identity, as the heroine wouldn't have had any reason to trust her, if she didn't already know her personally.

Oryou Sakurahara

Oryou Sakurahara/Ryukishi

A handsome and confident woman who is part of Northern Gale’s theater club. A somewhat masculine woman, she wears the school’s male uniform because she believes it adds to her charm. Short red hair and silver eyes surround a serious face that combined with her husky voice makes girls swoon. She regularly outdoes even the male theater club members in claiming the leading male roles. She can however be rather arrogant about her skills.

Ryukishi is a massive Heartless in red-scaled, dragon-themed armor. Wielding dragon fire and a big sword, her goal is to turn the heroes into her personal treasures.

Bifauxnen: When describing her appearance the focus is almost always on her masculine and handsome looks, to the point she’s making a habit out of stealing the make lead roles for herself.
Dragon Knight: Her Heartless form, Ryukishi, applies wholesale.

Irma Warren

Irma Warren/Otaqueen

Makoto’s dorky friend has dark green hair in messy twintails and swirly glasses on her face. A nerdy but intelligent girl who is very interested in the Heartless.

Calling herself the queen of losers, the nerdy Heartless Otaqueen is a fan of brainwashing, corruption and similar themes and lives these fantasies out through her victims utilizing her massive Doujinizer.

Evil Nerd: As the explicitly nerdy Otaqueen she’s able to live out all her corruption-themed fantasies on unwilling victims.
Horny Scientist: Pretty much what Otaqueen with her lab coat, swirly glasses and giant machine weapon is meant to represent.
Opaque Nerd Glasses: Otaqueen wears cliché thick, swirly glasses.
Pointy Ears: For some reason both the power of the Eternal Blossoms and being turned into a Heartless temporarily give her pointy elf ears.

Elizabeth Wayland

Elizabeth Wayland/Milla D’Arc/Vampire Buster

A tan girl with shining red eyes and short blonde hair. As the child of a vampire of the Monster Race and a human, she is a demi-human known as a Dhampir. In spite of that she tries to get along with people. The new class president of Makoto’s class after Ayashi resigned.

Milla D’Arc is the result of her latent vampire genes being forcefully brought to the forefront via the process of being turned into a Heartless. Trapping everyone under a blood moon of her own creation, that also empowers her, she has access to all the powers of a real vampire.

Class Representative: Is elected into this position after Ayashi retired from it.
Dhampyr: The child of a human and a vampire, though, aside from some physical features, she usually doesn't have access to any vampire abilities.
Drama-Preserving Handicap: As a demi-human her adaptability to the Buster Force is comparatively low, which leads to her transforming back in the middle of a fight after Buster Gold granted her powers in Chapter 38.
Secret-Keeper: In Chapter 38 it’s revealed she knew Saya’s secret identity.
Secret Secret-Keeper: Knew of Saya’s secret identity long before it was officially revealed to her in Chapter 38.

Buster Force

Active Heroines

Naomi Takeda/Captain Buster

A member of the Buster Force known as Captain Buster. With short blue hair and a navy blue military-like outfit with a coat, she trains new Busters in fighting. Back when she was still on active duty she was a Top Ten Buster.

Anchors Away: Fights with a giant anchor, which she swings around like it’s nothing and has some neat extras built in.

Caitlyn Matthews/Buster Guard

A girl clad in glasses with curly brown hair. Known as Buster Guard she tries her best to defend others. She is being called to Delta City to support the team in the fight against Hollow Eve, but goes mysteriously missing shortly after.

Early-Bird Cameo: Makes a short appearance at the end of “Bad End: Akiraider EX” trying to stop Akiraider and the corrupted Buster Girls.
Power Fist: As Buster Guard she fights using gauntlets.

Tenshi Olivier/Buster Angel

The Rank 1 heroine of Buster Force, known as the guardian angel and the so-called second coming of the legendary Buster White. A determined blonde-haired woman from Renais. As Buster Angel she fully invokes that image with white and gold armor, angel wings and the power of light.

A Day in the Limelight: “Gaiden: Angel” is solely focused on her, as she teams up with other Busters to fight a lich lord.
Light Is Good: One of the srongest heroes and she wields light powers.

Llayn Artesia/Vermilion Buster

Llayn Artesia/Buster Red/Vermilion Buster

A stern woman with short, blond hair and scarlet eyes, who is ranked 4th among the strongest Busters. She once was the second user of the name Buster Red, before she watched her mentor burn herself out to uphold her beliefs. Now as Buster Vermilion, the armored terror that strikes down evil, she doesn't show any remorse to her victims.

A Day in the Limelight: “Gaiden: Vermilion” is entirely focused on telling her backstory.
Meaningful Rename: After she gave up on the ideals of her idol, the original Buster Red, to not end up like her, she changed her hero name to Vermilion Buster.
Powered Armor: To fight she summons a mech armor whose features include flight and attack drones.

Kirumi Danzou/Shinobi Buster

A sharp woman clad mostly in green and a long, black ponytail, who is Rank 6 among the strongest Busters. Born as a prodigy of the Danzou Clan, a group of ninja assassins who uphold justice in their own way, she was exiled when she chose to become the heroine Shinobi Buster. Despite that she often acts as a liaison between the two organizations.

The Exile: She was exiled from the Danzou Clan when she decided to work for the Buster Force.
Ninja: Even before becoming Shinobi Buster she was already a highly skilled ninja.

Jeanne Lucca/Buster Platinum

A cool and stylish woman with tanned skin and short, silver hair, who is currently ranked as the 7th strongest Buster. As Buster Platinum she fights with flashy techniques and platinum colored weapons she can summon into her hands. She is temporarily called to Delta City to help protect Tendou High against Hollow Eve.

Laser Blade: Among her powers is the creation of a lightsaber.
Light Is Good: Among her abilities are flashy light-based attacks, including the creation of a lightsaber.

Sylvia Moonlight/Buster Sniper

Buster Sniper

Rank 9 member of Buster Force and the one eyed sharpshooter known as Buster Sniper. With black and white-themed clothes and wearing an eyepatch she usually operates close to Delta City. Currently she's searching for the elusive “Buster Hunter”.

Big Damn Heroes: In Chapter 30 she arrives just in time to protect Eri from the sudden appearance of Anti-Buster.
Eyepatch of Power: Despite an eyepatch over her left eye she's a terrifying markswoman.
Multi-Ranged Master: Her powers allow her to summon various gun-type weapons and you can bet she's proficient with any of them.

Yuri Inoue/Buster Black/Buster Queen

One of the original two Buster Girls, who protected earth against the threat of the Monster Race. With red eyes and silver hair, she's the levelheaded half of the pair and uses lightning powers and a poleaxe as Buster Black.
Following the creation of the Buster Force, she became its leader and renamed herself to Buster Queen. Even if she rarely enters the battlefield herself nowadays, she's still a powerful force to be reckoned with.

A Day in the Limelight: The "Buster Duo" chapters are entirely focused on her and Buster White's adventures, back when they were the only two Busters.
Expy: Buster Black and Buster White are obviously homages to the original two Pretty Cures, Cure Black and Cure White.
Shock and Awe: She utilizes lightning powers when fighting as a Buster.

Kikyo Tsukiyomi/Bushido Buster

A member of Buster Force known as Bushido Buster. She was one of the earliest members to join the organization, once a shrine maiden and solo hero calling herself Miko Sword Kikyo. She wears red and white, and has a long black hime cut.

Aloof Ally: Initially she didn't want to be associated with the other two Busters and only occasionally agreed to work together when their goals aligned. It's unknown how they eventually managed to convince her to join the Buster Force.
Hime Cut: How she wears her hair.

Anti-Busters

Bailey Barnum/Smile Buster/Anti-Smile

A jovial young woman who doesn't just want to fight evil, but also give a reason for people to smile. One of the Busters who mysteriously disappeared after encountering the "Buster Hunter".

Anti-Smile is an evil jester whose clownish tricks force her victims into a madness that will never make them stop laughing.

Magical Clown: Her usual appearance as Smile Buster resembles a clown. As Anit-Smile it's closer to an evil jester.
Oh, Crap! Her only reaction before being blasted by Magical Buster's giant laser attack is a flat "Oh shit–".
Sexy Jester: Her outfit as Anti-Smile is definitely on the more fetish-y side and leaves little to the imagination.

Faye Alistair/Doll Buster/Anti-Doll

One of the Busters who disappeared after encountering the "Buster Killer" and later reappears as one of the Anti-Busters. As Anti-Doll she uses her powers to create and command dolls to ruin the reputation of the Buster Girls.

Evil Puppeteer: Fully embodies this trope as Anti-Doll.
Mythology Gag: The appearances of the fake Buster Girls she uses are based on old beta designs for the main team.
Puppet Permutation: One of her powers, at least as Anti-Doll, is to turn others into dolls she can control.

Former Busters

Hinata Koizumi/Buster White

A spunky, black-haired student of Hibiki High. As Buster White she’s one of the original two Busters, who protected earth against the Monster Race. She fights by augmenting her already impressive fighting skills with sparkling energy.
Her current whereabouts are unknown.

A Day in the Limelight: The "Buster Duo" chapters are entirely focused on her and Buster White's adventures, back when they were the only two Busters.
Expy: Buster Black and Buster White are obviously homages to the original two Pretty Cures, Cure Black and Cure White.

Rika Redfield/Original Buster Red

Rika Redfield/Buster Red/Blazing Buster

A casual but determined woman with orange hair, who was the first to carry the name “Buster Red”, before allowing Llayn to take it over. Her goal is to save as many people as she can, even if it means letting a villain get away. During the Tyrant incident she burned herself out to protect everyone, leaving her unable to use the Buster Force anymore.

Broken Pedestal: Seeing Rika's broken form, unable to use the Buster Force ever again, made Llayn give up on the ideals she upholds and become much more viscous as a heroine.
De-power: Overuse of her powers left her permanently unable to use the Buster Force.
Playing with Fire: Just like her most recent successor, her main ability is to control fire.
Power Dyes Your Hair: In Buster form her hair turns ruby red.

Technical Support

Lamia Riry

Lamia Riry/Gorgandroid

A scientist of Buster Force who once fought against Buster Black and Buster White as a wicked villainess. With the lower half of a serpent, a labcoat and long silver hair she works on gear for the organization.

The Heartless form of Riry, Gorgandroid is a giant mechanical lamia covered in dangerous weaponry. Her lasers petrify her victims into metal statues, which soon evolve into robotic monsters like herself.

The Atoner: She feels personally responsible for the anguish Saya had to go through due to having become associated with the Monster Driver technology she originally invented.
Eye Beams: Gorgandroid can shoot lasers out of her eyes to turn anyone hit into metal.
Heel–Face Turn: At some point in the past she gave up evil and instead became one of the most important supporters of the Buster Force.
Hypnotic Eyes: She may not have much use for them nowadays, but she can hypnotize others with her eyes.
Old Shame: She’s come to see many of her actions during her time as a Monster General that way. The biggest of them all, the creation of the Monster Driver.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Gorgandroid's red glowing eyes can petrify anyone hit by their beams.
Snakes Are Sinister: While she nowadays fully averts this, she once was a high ranking general of the Monster Race and had no qualms or morals regarding the abuse of others to achieve her goals.
Snake People: She's a proper lamia.
Unwilling Roboticization: Anyone hit by Gorgandroid's beams first turns into a metallic statue, before "hatching" as a mechanical monster girl like herself.
Wise Serpent: One of the head scientists of the Buster Force, who constantly supports the girls with her knowledge and ingenuity. Even as a Monster General she was mainly known for cunning intellect.

Catherine Albion

Catherine Albion/Breaker Violet

Raine’s mother, a hardworking woman who raises her daughter alone. With long violet hair and a mature motherly body she is a sweet woman who spends much of her time at her factory job to raise money for her daughter. After being freed from Valentina’s control and learning Raine’s secret identity she’s given a job by the Buster Force as Riry’s assistant.

Using the promise of a better job, Catherine is tricked into signing one of Ceona’s Soul Contracts and recruited as one of the Heartbreakers. As Breaker Violet she has the power to manipulate liquid mercury with the same amount of finesse her daughter does with chains. Her motherly facade hides a cruel and controlling personality.

Arc Villain: While all Breakers qualify for the “Heartbreaker” arc, her and Breaker Red are the only ones that actually make it to its finale, where she takes on most of the team on her own.
Evil Counterpart: As Breaker Violet she is one to Buster Violet, utilizing her control over mercury in similar ways as Raine with her chains.

Anne Valestir

Anne Valestir/Vulcanne

A Buster Force scientist, short in stature with red hair in a bun. Wearing a black suit and a white lab coat over top she is a rival to Riry.

The robotic Heartless Vulcanne is one of Valentina's most trusted Heartless. With her mechanical body she aims to reforge humans into mechanical perfection. She’s the creator of both Hyper Mode and the Heartbreaker devices.

Small Role, Big Impact: Vulcanne doesn’t last longer than one chapter and is one of the first of Valentina's Heartlesses that's beaten, while Anne only gets occasional minor appearances. Despite that Vulcanne’s influence as the creator of Hyper Mode and the Heartbreaker devices is felt throughout the rest of the story.

The Blackhearts

The main antagonists of Buster Girls, mysterious beings from another world who can corrupt humans into Heartless.

Hollow Eve

Hollow Eve/Evelyn

Hollow Eve

The first of the generals of the Blackhearts to attack Delta City. Appears as a pale, young girl with long, silver hair wearing Halloween-themed witch’s attire. During fights with Heartless she's often close-by to taunt her opponents and join in, if necessary.Evelyn is the cover identity she uses to infiltrate Tendou High in an effort to get closer to Ingrid.

Arc Villain: The main antagonist of the first arc of ‘’’Buster Girls’’’, aptly named the “Hollow Eve” arc.
The Corrupter: As a Blackheart she has the power to corrupt humans into Heartless.
Face–Heel Turn: During her time in prison she slowly starts to come around and begins to support them in small ways, like giving information about the other Blackhearts or training Ingrid to control Dark Hyper.
Holiday Motif: Very obviously based on Halloween.
Starter Villain: The first of the Blackheart Generals to attack Delta City, the main villain of the story’s first arc and the first Blackheart beaten by the Buster Girls.
Super Form: She has a powered up form that increases her fighting powers and gives her a more mature appearance, though she can't use it after creating a Heartless.

Valentina

Valentina/Ophelia Burnings

Valentina

One of the highest ranked Blackheart Generals. A lewd and sadistic woman with pitch-black skin and heart markings all over. Under the cover of Hollow Eve’s she takes over many companies and criminal organizations to form a network of dangerous Heartless at her beck and call. She’s fascinated by human emotions and often goes out of her way in attempts to make her enemies despair.One of the many cover identities she uses to go across the town is that of Northern Gale's new vice principal Ophelia Burnings.

Card-Carrying Villain: Much prefers to stay in the background and lets her various evil plans work in tandem to whittle down the Buster Girls. She used Hollow Eve as a distraction to build an underground empire of dangerous Heartless. Despite being active since the first arc, the main characters don't encounter her personally until the third one and still have yet to actually fight her.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To her fellow Blackheart Hollow Eve. Eve was brash and direct, often just turning whoever was closest into a Heartless and being ready to fight alongside them against the Busters. Valentina is indirect and prefers to stay in the shadows to build up her forces. She specifically targets those who have the potential to become powerful Heartless, but doesn't interfere either when they act against her plans or end up in trouble.
The Corrupter: As a Blackheart she has the power to corrupt humans into Heartless. She usually does so by kissing.
Energy Bow: Her Black Regalia bow fires pink energy projectiles that hunt down her target.
Holiday Motif: With all the hearts and the dark cupid appearance she invokes a Valentine’s Day motif.
Homing Projectile: The energy projectiles of her Black Regalia bow hunt down their targets
Magic Kiss: Corrupts humans into Heartless by kissing. While a peck would be enough, she usually turns it into a full tongue kiss to enjoy herself too.

Anti-Buster

A mysterious robot woman acting as a Blackheart General despite not being a Blackheart herself. Also known as the “Buster Hunter” she specifically tracks down Busters, who all mysteriously disappear after encountering her. She has the power to copy the abilities of any Buster she encounters.

Powers as Programs: If the “EXECUTE” that sounds out of her everytime she uses a copied power is any indication, then all the abilities she copied seem to be saved like programs inside of her.
Power Copying: Has the unique power to permanently copy the powers of any Buster she comes across without any of the usual drawbacks.
Robot Girl: She's a robotic woman of yet unknown origin.

Empress

The regal leader of the Blackheart Generals, who commands them from the shadows to spread corruption across the planets. Shrouded in mystery she has yet to take major action herself.

Greater-Scope Villain: The leader of the Blackhearts and the one most likely responsible for everything, though she has yet to take major action herself.

The new Blackheart General Spoiler Character

Black Ice

Giving into her growing inferiority complex and coming to the realization she may not care about saving others, Eri Kawaguchi embraces the corruption of Dark Hyper and joins the Blackhearts. Now going by Black Ice, she becomes a cold-hearted and ruthless woman, who specifically targets those close to her former friends. Her only goals are obtaining enough power to evolve into a true Heartless and making her love Ingrid hers and hers alone.

See Eri Kawaguchi/Buster Blue’s entry for more details.

Delta City Residents

Residents of Delta City

Ashley Andrews

Ashley Andrews\Chemica

An investigative reporter and Eclair’s older sister who uses her journalistic skills to fight against injustice. She has violet hair in a bob cut and a camera around her neck, yellow shirt and dark pants on her body while a yellow jacket hangs off her shoulders. She is an activist that tries to get dirt on those harming the environment or doing other unlawful things, putting herself in harm’s way for the sake of it. She’s also old friends with Rosetta Aquamarine.

The Heartless Chemica appears in a hazmat suit with an exaggerated female figure, whose toxic fumes turn everyone into mindless zombies. Hiding under the protective rubber suit is an even more dangerous slimy threat.

Alliterative Name: Ashley Andrews.
Hazmat Suit: Chemica initially appears in an exaggeratedly sexy hazmat suit.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Chemica’s true form has fully red eyes.
Slime Girl: Chemica’s true form is of a purple slime girl.

Rosetta Aquamarine

Rosetta Aquamarine/Hypnotikaeru

A rather classy looking businesswoman with lavender hair in a bun and red eyes. Clad in a standard black business suit and sporting tasteful makeup she looks like the average worker, but behind her boring adult life face she’s actually the chuuni Rose Queen of Paradox Palindrome. She desperately tries to hide her secret double life.

The Heartless Hypnotikaeru is a slimy, woman-sized frog who traps her victims with her long tongue and hypnotic eyes. She was beaten by Buster Green alone before the start of the story.

A Day in the Limelight: Despite never appearing in the main story, she has gotten her time to shine in her own Bad End-chapter.
Expy: Hypnotikaeru is one of the Hypnotoad of all things.
Hypnotic Eyes: Her pulsing eyes can hypnotize her victims into obedient helpers.

Yuzu Kawamori

Yuzu Kawamori/Mechsia

A mature mechanic woman who serves as a “mercenary” of sorts, assisting in repairing machines for people all over the city. With short green hair equipped with a white flower and a tall mature build she wears a stylish white and green outfit with a jacket, long stockings and shorts. She knows Akira through work.

Not much is known about the Heartless Mechsia, as she's been beaten by Buster Sniper before the start of the story.

The Ghost: We never meet the Heartless Mechsia, as she's already been beaten before the story began.

Akira Kintaro

Akira Kintaro/Akiraider/Buster Gold

A young blonde haired woman who works as a delivery girl for Radical Good Deliveries. An orphan just like her roommate Ingrid, she is a spunky tomboy and loves training with her.

Akiraider is a gruff biker-themed heartless, who only cares about causing chaos and increasing the size of her gang by turning them into fittingly themed minions.

Cool Shades: Wears them as part of her Buster Gold outfit.
Dual Wielding: Wields two hand axes as Buster Gold.
Meaningful Name: Kin is the Japanese word for gold.
Puppet Permutation: During the fight with Anti-Doll she is turned into one of her mindless dolls.
Sixth Ranger: Joins the team as the sixth proper Buster during the “Black Ice” arc.
Super-Empowering: With the Buster Spark she can temporarily grant other civilians Buster transformations. Strength and abilities depend on the individuals affinity for the Buster Force.
Walking Spoiler: Joins the team as Buster Gold during the “Black Ice” arc.
Weaponized Car: The handlebars of the bike she uses as Buster Girl can be removed and turned into twin handaxes.

Olivia Knight/Checkmatron

A woman who works at Almatech. Sporting simply black hair with bangs and a bun she wears a skirt-clad business suit and works hard, but believes her talents aren’t being appreciated as much as they should be.

For the Heartless Checkmatron everything revolves around chess. A dangerous tactician, who doesn't challenge anyone without having a winning strategy already prepared beforehand. She's a member of Valentina's council of Heartless.

Chess Motifs: Checkmatron and her minions are all themed after chess pieces. She even challenges the heroes to an altered form of it as her fight.
Smart People Play Chess: Checkmatron is often seen playing chess and she proved herself as smart and dangerous enough to become part of Valentina's closest circle of Heartless.

Leona/Ceona

A serious woman who works as the personal bodyguard of Mr. Sanada, leader of the criminal organization Shadow Puppet. When taking over the organization, Valentina transformed her into her right hand Heartless Ceona. She's a shrewd silver-haired businesswoman, who handles all the companies and organizations the Blackheart she's devoted to takes over and has a knack for making her employees do exactly what she wants.

Bodyguard Betrayal: Formerly the bodyguard of Mr. Sanada, after being turned into Ceona she had no qualms about supporting Valentina's takeover.
Magically-Binding Contract: If you sign one of her Soul Contract’s you’re quite literally signing over your mind and body to her to do with as she pleases.

Maya Mifune

Maya Mifune/Shingun

The boss of Radical Good Deliveries, the delivery business that Akira works for. Sporting brown hair in a long ponytail she has a mature yet casual vibe to her. A black tank top holds her large chest and a loose white jacket flows around her arms, tight pants on her legs. Despite her laid back nature she’s good at managing things, and makes sure that her business runs smoothly. She's a school friend of Suzune.

The Heartless Shingun is the ruler of the castle that appeared in Delta City alongside her creation. Clad in shogun's armor her sword technique doesn't just cut through reality, but also through the wills of her victims to make them loyal vassals.

Dimensional Cutter: With her sword Shingun can cut through space itself to create portals to parts of her castle.
Master Swordsman: Already quite skilled with a sword from her youth, being turned into the Heartless Shingun took her fighting capabilities to new levels.
Soul-Cutting Blade: Her sword can quite literally cut down the identity of her opponents to turn them into loyal followers.

Fumiko Miyazaki

Fumiko Miyazaki\Miss Management

Megumi’s powerful and influential mother who serves on the Board of Directors for Almatech, a successful technology company. Sporting a gorgeous black suit with pantyhose and skirt she has short styled pink hair and red eyes. She expects great things out of her daughter and trained her well, caring about her family while being cutthroat in the business world.

The Heartless Miss Management is a faceless corporate drone, whose only objective is to increase the power and influence of the “HEARTLESS INCORPORATED” brand by claiming any property in its wake and converting humans into worker drones or shilling customers.

Eyeless Face: Her face is entirely featureless save for the Heartless Inc brand logo..
Sigil Spam: Everything Heartless Inc owns gets branded with its logo. This includes most of her body parts.
Symbol Face: Most of Miss Management’s featureless face is taken up by the Heartless Inc logo.

Aya Nijima

Aya Nijima/Arcadia

A girl clad in a hoodie and dark pants, her hair a vivid blue. Known also as Kenjin, she's a fighting game pro, always happy to battle someone in games. She’s also a part of Eclair’s online friend group Paradox Palindrome.

The Heartless Arcadia has full control over the arcade and can bring games into reality or the other way around. If you dare challenge her you need to beat her in her video games of choice or find yourself becoming a part of her gaming collection.

The Game Come to Life: One of her powers is to bring video game characters into reality to fight for her.
Gamer Chick: She can almost exclusively be found in the arcade, where she beats others in fighting games.
Trapped in TV Land: Her powers include trapping her opponents in video games where they will become a part of it unless they beat it.

Suzune Totsuka

Suzune Totsuka/Swordmistress

The caretaker of Saya Amou, a mature woman with blue eyes covered by glasses and lavender hair in an over the shoulder braid. She tries to distantly support Saya, but finds it hard to interact with her.

The armored Heartless Swordmistress sees herself as the greatest swordswoman and the greatest blacksmith. With the power to turn everything she touches into a weapon she’s looking for a sword powerful enough for her to wield.

Motherly Side Plait: Wears her hair that way. Her character profile literally describes her hair style as “dead anime mom braid”.
Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Throughout the fight Swordmistress’ armor forms into four additional arms, which all get to wield swords.

Cynthia Winters

Cynthia Winters/Masquera

A former theater performer turned actress was once a rising star in the acting. Nowadays the busty and mature-looking blonde has trouble getting rolls and jumps from audition to audition.

Masquera is an enigmatic Heartless, whose face is covered by a featureless, white mask. Her ability is to trade out the “masks” people wear in public to ones that, in her opinion, better help them achieve their desires, entirely rewriting their personalities.

White Mask of Doom: The Heartless Masquera wears one as part of her mask-theme.

Others

Characters from outside Delta City and Heartless with unknown origins.

Aquila/Breaker Blue

A tall and busty mercenary with blue hair and golden eyes that goes by the codename “Aquila”. She's an old acquaintance of Leona.

Breaker Blue is the cold and silent tactician of the Heartbreakers and was personally recruited by Ceona. In fights she prefers to stay back and snipe opponents from afar with water and ice powers similar to Buster Blue’s. Her only goal is to complete her missions as efficiently as possible.

An Ice Person: As Breaker Blue she can utilize ice just like Buster Blue.
Evil Counterpart: As Breaker Blue she is one to Buster Blue, having similar powers and role in the team as tactician and backline support.
Making a Splash: Breaker Blue by creating and controlling water, just like Buster Blue.
No Name Given: We only ever learn her codename.
What Happened to the Mouse?: She disappears from the story after the defeat of Breaker Blue and has yet to reappear. This is most likely due to her being the only Breaker not to share a personal connection with any of the Busters.

Chloepatra

The Pharaoh Heartless is a member of Valentina's inner circle and cited to be one of its strongest members. With tan skin, black hair and gold eyes she's wearing silk robes and golden accessories accented with Egyptian symbols that make her look like an ancient beauty. Her goal is to build an empire for herself using powers that align with her theme. Not much is known about her civilian identity aside from being a short-haired, classy-dressed, tan woman with glasses.

Mummy: One of the ways she can turn others into loyal minions is by making them mummies.
Nepharious Pharaoh: A Heartless clearly themed to be an evil pharaoh.
No Name Given: Aside from a short description of her appearance we don't learn anything about the human Chloepatra was made from.

Hifumi Danzou/Junoichi

A member of the Danzou Clan, a group of ninja assassins protecting the world from the shadows. She mysteriously disappeared only to show up again in Delta City as a Heartless.

Junoichi is a silent yet deadly Heartless under Valentina's command. A skilled ninja clad in a blue leotard with facemask, fishnets and scarves. She overwhelms her opponents with her jutsu and numerous traps set beforehand to turn them into her loyal ninja followers.

Ninja: Both her civilian identity and that of her Heartless work as skilled ninjas.

Hauteclair/Hotclair

The classy Heartless, Hauteclair, walks around in the fanciest dresses and plans to turn the whole world into her idealized form of beauty. After getting a makeover by Breaker Yellow she goes by Hotclair. With bronzed skin and her curves on full display the trashy Heartless turns everyone around her into more sexy sluts and ganguro girls. Not much is known about her civilian identity.

Gyaru Girl: Following her time with Breaker Yellow she walks around in ganguro fashion and turns others into fellow ganguros.
No Name Given: One of very few Heartless whose civilian identity is never mentioned.

Lachesis

A villain from the extended world of Buster Girls. The personal maid and bodyguard of Viktor Magnus, leader of the Magnus Corporation, whom she's absolutely loyal to. Her unique eyes with cross-shaped pupils allow her to “change the fate” of anyone staring into them, rewriting their identities to whatever she seems fit.

The Cameo: Her appearances, like most characters of the extended Buster Girls world, are exclusive to, at best, ambiguously canon side stories. However her popularity with readers granted her a small role in the mainline chapter “Gaiden: Beach Party”, where she was the one to turn Kira into that chapter’s villain.
Exotic Eye Designs: Her eyes feature cross-shaped pupils.
Hypnotic Eyes: Has the power to rewrite the mind of anyone staring into her eyes.
Icy Blue Eyes: Has blue eyes and the power to change the mind of anyone staring into them.
Ninja Maid: Always dressed in a maid outfit, she's a competent fighter and the personal maid of an evil businessman.

Carol Lookingglass

The main antagonist of “Movie: Eternal Wonderland”. The former heroine of another world named Fantasia that was destroyed by the Blackhearts, she has come to Ryusei Island to harness the energy of the Eternal Blossoms in order to turn this world into a restored version of her home.

Fallen Hero: Once the hero of Fantasia, after its destruction she now only cares about bringing it back at whatever cost.
Magic Knight: Her fighting style utilizes spells with swordplay.

Mima Monochrome

A Heartless that appears entirely in monochrome save for a bright red scarf. As a mine she can create invisible walls and weapons. She can suck the color out of everything and everyone, turning them into similarly mute mimes.

Alliterative Name: Mima Monochrome.
Deliberately Monochrome: She can drain the color of anything she touches and herself is entirely monochrome save for a red scarf.
Enemy Mime: Obviously.
No Name Given: We never learn her real civilian identity.
The Voiceless: As a mime she obviously doesn't produce any sounds and this extends to anything she drains the color of.

Iris Tachibana/”Airis”

Iris Tachibana/”Airis”/Divagami

A beautiful and successful idol that goes by the stage name Airis. Sporting blue twintails and a blue and white idol outfit she charms everyone with her beautiful singing voice. While she acts as peppy as can be on stage however, the idol lifestyle has caused a great deal of stress for her and she’s begun to resent her position.

The Heartless Divagami is essentially a personification of Iris’ hatred for the idol business. Switching to the punk rock-genre she plans to tear down the establishment with the help of her adoring fans after she convinced them with her hypnotic songs. A member of Valentina's council of Heartless.

The Atoner: She blames herself for potentially contributing to Buster Blue’s fall to darkness while being Divagami and returns to Delta City specifically to help.
Compelling Voice: Divagami can hypnotize people with her singing.
Evil Diva: Iris’ Heartless, Divagami.
Idol Singer: Iris Tachibana is a popular idol in-universe.
Mass Hypnosis: With her singing Divagami is able to hypnotize the entire concert stadium in one swoop.
Secret-Keeper: She’s among the people who learn about the Buster Girls’ secret identities to help bring Eri back during the “Black Ice” arc.

Characters / Buster Girls

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