The characters of Daemons of the Shadow Realm.
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Yuru's Group
In General
- Theme Naming: All of the humans have four letter names.
Humans
Yuru
The main character. A young blonde-haired boy who grew up in a secluded mountain village. He's extremely close to his sister Asa, who is being kept in a jail cell in the center of the town for unknown reasons. However, everything changes when the village is attacked by soldiers wielding modern-day weapons, led by a mysterious girl who claims to be the real Asa. Forced to leave his village behind and move to the modern world, he vows to get to the bottom of the mysteries presented to him and learn the truth about why he and Asa were separated.
- Big Brother Instinct: With the first chapter showing the first of the twins was born at night, which Yuru is considering his name, he's the older one and clearly acts this way to Asa...'s doppelganger.
- Fish out of Water: Due to being raised in a mountain village with a medieval level of technology for his entire life, Yuru is completely ignorant of modern technology and society. Also, Played for Drama, as Yuru's bold reactions to the situations occurring and standoffishness are implied to be due to his medieval-esque hunter upbringing. Though it also may be that he's defended his life against "bandits" (who were more likely actually assassins sent against him) multiple times.
- Idiot Hero: Downplayed, but due to his Fish out of Water status, he can come across as very simple (or, in other characters' words, savage).
- I Just Want to Be Normal: He declares that he wants himself and Asa to have a normal, happy life as a family in chapter 21. Considering his parents have disappeared for years and apparently so has his sister until recently while he's been fighting off assassination attempts under the guise of bandits since he was young, it's an understandable want.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: In chapter 8, Yuru manages to shoot a man in the shoulder despite the fact he never saw the man in the first place, he was only told of the general direction of the guy, and it was pitch black in the middle of the night. It's kinda understandable that Asa was overwhelmed by it.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Downplayed in Chapter 4, where Yuru just went out for a walk (albeit while armed...) and quickly feels overwhelmed by the size of the city he's in when he takes it in. Unfortunately, he then reasons out a plan to locate Asa based on how his Tsugai can smell out her blood, which Left and Right are happy to oblige. Then he bursts out to "Asa" once he sees her with Jin while Right tries to warn him that the scent of "Asa"'s blood is old so he knows something off about her, leading Yuru to get caught in Ai's mouth because Jin expected Yuru to try to locate Asa in this way.
- Punny Name: Yuru's name sounds like the Japanese word for night...though he has blond hair while his twin's dark.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: While he tries to be standoffish during his conversating with the Kagemori group, seems to be outright uncomfortable as Asa cries or bows during the events of Chapter 11 and even reacts with outright horror when she hugs him from behind as he's leaving (because if she was a bear doing that, he'd be dead), he admits it was worth going to the Kagemoris to hear Asa say that their parents regretted being unable to bring him as well and is overwhelmed with emotion after Asa's hug convinces him that she was indeed his true little sister.
- Tsundere: He's usually more of a Sugar-and-Ice Personality, but he gets into this a bit in chapter 25 after he (tries to) refute Danji being grateful for him appearing to help with rescuing hostages from Higashi village, including Danji's other half. Funnily enough, his sister does the same five pages later.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He is understandably not willing to just let the Kagemori's attack on his village killing many of the people he lived with slide. In particular, since Gab was willing to claim responsibility for killing the villagers when Yuru asked her in the second chapter, he started butting heads with her the moment they first met in Chapter 8.
Dera
A man who was living undercover in Yuru's village. When the attack happens, he manages to kill the soldiers and rescues Yuru, giving him an amulet that allows him to control Left and Right.
- Disappeared Dad: Not unlike the fated twins, his father suddenly disappeared without a good explanation, though Dera has a bit more of a lead on his father than Yuru or Asa.
- Plausible Deniability: The Sole Survivor against Ivan ambushing the meeting wonders why Dera is at the meeting when he shouldn't know about it, suspecting that Hana told him about it. Dera claims that one of the now-dead bandits told him about the meeting, an explanation which is swallowed without a hitch.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: He works for Higashimura who appears to want Yuru and Asa's powers for their own gain, but declares that he has no interest in having a position of power by sacrificing the lives of two kids.
Hana
A woman allied with Dera. Yuru first meets her after fleeing the village in her car. She pretends to be Dera's husband, much to her chagrin.
- Blatant Lies: Tells Yuru that her car has a horse in it so that he'll get in and they can escape.
- Celebrity Crush: Has an extremely blatant one on Jason Statham. She's upset when Dera shaves his facial hair because it was the only Statham-like feature he had.
Tsugai
Left and Right
Yuru's Tsugai. They're twin beings who were worshipped as deities in Yuru's village, and they come to his aid as Tsugai when the village is attacked. Right takes the form of a huge, hulking, musclebound man while Left takes the form of a tall, strong, very curvaceous woman.
Unusually for Tsugai, they don't fight based on Yuru's commands, not because they're rebellious, but because Yuru (who thought of them as gods) was reluctant to command them, so he gave them carte blanche to act on their own. That said, they will still listen to Yuru's orders when he gives them, they merely act with a greater degree of freedom than the average Tsugai.
Tropes that apply to both of them:
- Barbarian Long Hair: Their long manes of hair going down to around their knees go along well with their medieval-esque style of clothing.
- Blood Knight: It's pretty obvious that they relish a fight. Their response to Yuru boldly declaring he has no intention to run or hide when faced with the conundrum of the Higashimura and Kagemori conflict (while Asa, who has suffered numerous assassination attempts on her for years, is vehement on this being a bad idea) is to comically sparkle and be pleased at hearing this.Right: (grinning from ear to ear) As Tsugai, we must obey our master.
Left: We can't help it if troubles come our way. - Immune to Bullets: In chapter 4, they both stand still in a hail of gunfire as they're pelted with shots from pistols, rifles, shotguns, and even a grenade launcher, and remain undamaged.
- Insistent Terminology: While most simply refer to them as "Left" and "Right," they refer to each other as "You on the Left" and "You on the Right" almost exclusively.
- Mark of the Supernatural: Both of them look almost completely human, except for the small horns on their heads. Right has two small horns growing out of the left and right side of his forehead, while Left has a single horn growing out of the center of her forehead. They also have strange, multicolored hair, with Left's being predominantly white aside from crimson bangs and Right's is predominantly crimson while his eyebrows and some of the hair on the top of his head as well as by his temples are white.
- Muscles Are Meaningful: The duo are quite muscular (Right in particular looks like he'd be a shoo-in for the World's Strongest Man competition) and are formidable indeed, even almost being Nigh-Invulnerable. The Kagemori head states in Chapter 11 that Left and Right should have been in the hands of someone other than a twin destined for the power of Fuu so now no one would be able to stop Yuru, meaning Left and Right are so formidable that they stand a chance against the destined powers of Kai and Fuu.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: Both of them are said to be made of stone (like the statues they were in), and as such, they're extremely resilient to damage, able to shrug off gunfire, explosions, and attacks from both blunt and bladed weapons. However, they're not completely unstoppable as two Tsugai against them quickly prove - one manages to immobilize Left by floating above her and applying a huge amount of force that she isn't able to shake off, and another just knocks Right around with martial arts, though by the end of the fight, neither Left nor Right still don't seem to be especially harmed. As chapter 8 declares most of the Tsugai that were used to attack the Kagemori mansion as having been killed, the pair having this trope makes them exceptional. Ivan's Tsugai swords, however, can actually cut through them.
- Odd Couple: Yuru's Tsugai, which consists of the male, more boisterous and usually smiling Right, and the female, more severe and usually stony-faced Left. This is exemplified in Chapter 4 when Yuru tells his Tsugai he intends to find his sister and get her to bring him to their parents and so asks them for their help. Right laughs that it sounds fun and he's eager to do something after four-hundred years. Left tells him that he should stop making light of the situation while their master is being serious, so Right asks for her opinion. She responds that she is more suited to hunting than being hunted in such a grave tone that Yuru understandably finds her answer to be quite intimidating (Right just continues smiling eagerly at it).
- One Head Taller: Both Left and Right are taller than any other normal humans in the story, but the male Right's still a whole head taller than the female Left.
- Only a Flesh Wound: As their fight against Ivan in chapter 20 indicates, dismembering one of the limbs isn't much of an impediment to them - while they will lose the function of the separated limb, they don't find the loss painful or incapacitating, and they can just re-attach the dismembered limb with stone adhesive.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: The two are capable of transforming into white-colored doglike-and-demonic forms (though with only two arms that are also capable of grasping like primates) choke full of jagged edges making up their appearance. Much like how their Nigh-Invulnerability is explained by them having been in stone statues, this is also probably because they were in dog statues. Indeed, they actually appear in these forms first in the series, bringing down two helicopters, before going into their usual humanoid forms. They transform into these forms in Chapter 4 to quickly search for the scent of blood like Yuru's to help him find Asa (carrying him with them), implying that these forms move faster and have an even stronger sense of smell than their humanoids forms much like how dogs would generally outmatch humans in those regards. They are also capable of turning back into their statue forms at will as well.
Tropes that apply to Left:
- The Comically Serious: Despite still being drawn in a comical manner for sight gags along with Right, Left continues to have an unemotional expression or frown on her mouth.
- Death Glare: She is frequently drawn as having such an expression, portrayed with the face being almost featureless aside from her eyes and the center of it being framed in shadow.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's a tall, fit, busty, and very beautiful woman.
Tropes that apply to Right:
- Boisterous Bruiser: Downplayed - he doesn't have an especially larger-than-life attitude to him, but he remains an almost-constantly-smiling, more energetic, and pleasant individual to contrast the steely gaze of Left.
- Mr. Fanservice: He is a very tall, muscular, and handsome man.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: He's completely shirtless, only wearing a small vest on his upper body.
Kagemori Family (Asa's group)
In General
- Ambiguously Evil: Other than their bloody attack on the village, they haven't done anything particularly villainous as of yet. And considering how Asa swore revenge on Granny Yamaha before she left, they very well might have had it coming.
- Benevolent Boss: In relation to Evil Is One Big, Happy Family, the higher-ranking Kagemoris treat their lower-ranking family members and initiates with respect and kindness. When they find out a woman hired to attack their stronghold only took the job because she desperately needs money for her mother's medical bills, they take her on and agree to cover the debt themselves. Hikaru says that he abhors the brutal violence and betrayal that his family's business regularly requires and feels guilty that the other people have been brought into their fold to bloody their hands in his family's world, blurting out to Haruo and Makoto to quit working for them and find some other job.
- Even Evil Has Standards: A big reveal is that the family arguably isn't evil, with the worst thing they've done being killing many of the adults in the village. It's later made clear that they are under the impression that most of the people in the village were all coconspirators in efforts to kill Asa and highly likely involved in her parents' apparent deaths. It's made clear that they never harm children or non-combatants.
- Evil Is One Big, Happy Family: They all treat each other like beloved family members and are generally jovial and kind to each other, far more than you would expect from a villainous group. However, the Kagemori brothers are not completely united in opinion and goals over the powers of Break and Seal.
- Theme Naming: All of their major human characters have three-letter names. However, the Kagemoris' henchmen (such as Akio and Haruo) do not follow this trend.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: They are quite offended in Chapter 8 when a man of the group who attacked the Kagemori mansion reveals he treats Tsugai worse than livestock, not even naming them. Gab gets Gabriel to threaten the man with decapitation in fury over this, and Haruo's Tsugai speaks up to further cure him of his attitude.
Humans
Asa
Yuru's younger twin sister. First seen with the soldiers attacking Yuru's village and breaking through the cell grate in an attempt to kill the doppelganger behind it, she clearly does want Yuru to come with her...and is capable of magical power.
- Action Girl: She has dangerous supernatural powers outside of the standard gifts of being able to see and command Tsugai.
- Back from the Dead: Chapter 8 has her mention that She's already died from all of the assassination attempts on her once...but that's the end of her speaking for that chapter. Chapter 9 expands on it...
- Big Brother Worship: Asa seems to like Yuru a lot more than you'd expect despite recently thinking he might have been dead and having just saved a friend from being killed by him - we can only assume he left his mark on her in the time that two actually did spend together. Her portrait of him is...kinda bishie. While she meets him in person, she constantly requests to hug him and declares him acting aloof is so cool when he refuses. Chapter 20 sees her is "helping" Hikaru by doing supplementary artwork for his manga, but she's not proving very useful this time as she's repeating "I want to see Yuru" over and over and drawing all of the background characters as Yuru.
- Came Back Strong: In addition to the prophecy predicting it, chapter 9 reveals just how she got her power - she was killed by assassins, sending her to a tsugai who resides in a land between the world of death and the physical world. She was then given the choice by the tsugai to accept them, return to life and have the power of Kai even if this power will cause people to be very interested in her...or simply die, and so, she revived with her power.
- Eyepatch of Power: Asa makes it clear she's distinct from her doppelganger by wearing a large eyepatch over her eye, and she proves the power part of the trope's name soon after.
- Hates Being Alone: Chapter 8 reveals that the time she spent in captivity in the village traumatized her and she has an intense fear of being alone. When trapped by the Yin-Yang Tsugai, she nearly has a nervous breakdown after a minute or two of isolation and doesn't calm down until Right puts a hand on her head to comfort her.
- Mark of the Supernatural: Chapter 9 revealed why she wears an eyepatch - that eye's sclera is black with a white iris and lacking a pupil. She got it after reviving with her power.
- Punny Name: Asa can mean morning. It should be noted that Asa has dark hair, unlike Yuru's blond hair.
- Revenge: We're not sure why yet, but Asa swears to exact retribution against Granny Yamaha before leaving in chapter 2. This is because she sincerely believes that the adults of Higashimura were the ones who killed her and her parents.
- Tsundere: She's generally more pleasant than her brother is, but she is still just as quick to abundantly deny the possibility that she cares about Danji after she saves the hostages from Higashi village as her brother is. Appropriately, Danji remarks that the two are like peas in a pod (to Yuru's further grumpiness).
- Trauma Button: In chapter 8, she reveals that she's terrified of being alone.
- Wham Line:Asa: I've already died once. I was killed by the assassins of Higashimura.
Gab
A young girl that participated in the attack on Yuru's village. She controls Gabi, a Tsugai that manifests as a massive, many-eyed set of jaws that can bite nearly anything clean in half.
- Action Girl: It comes with the territory when you're a Tsugai user working with the Kagemoris. She's out on the front lines with Gabriel during the manga's beginning and shown to be active in an effort to rescue Asa during a flashback.
- Punny Name: Name after the onomatopoeia for biting.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: She has the highest confirmed body count due to her having Gabriel massacre the adults in Yuru's village, but she leaves the children alone.
Jin
An ally of Asa and Gab. A serious, bespectacled man who controls two Tsugai named Ai and Makoto. The former is a massive anglerfish-like creature that can swallow anything, while the latter is a much smaller fish that can regurgitate whatever Ai swallows.
- Older Than He Looks: Downplayed - with his severe expression and facial hair, it's a bit surprising to know that he's actually the youngest of the Kagemori brother trio. However, he's still clearly not far from his brothers' age and they are all obviously adults - just the other two look much softer than Jin.
Tsugai
Gabriel
Gab's Tsugai. A massive set of disembodied jaws that can bite through anything in an instant. They can also assume a much smaller and cuter form.
- Fun Size: He's capable of appearing in a much smaller form. This makes him look fairly cute for a disembodied black flame with two sets of three eyes above and below a mouth of flat teeth. His teeth are also more symmetrically-sized compared to his larger forms, which are more realistic and unevenly-shaped.
- Hidden Depths: You probably didn't expect a disembodied black flame with two sets of three eyes above and below a mouth of flat teeth to be a decent artist in the ukiyo-e style, but nonetheless Chapter 4 shows that Gabriel is. Indeed, as his depiction of Right adequately portrays the proportions of the muscles in his arm, Gabriel could even be considered a better artist than many surviving historical examples of the art style.
- Punny Name: Name after the onomatopoeia for biting.
Ai
One of Jin's Tsugai. A massive anglerfish-like creature that can swallow just about anything, and use its "light" to attract unsuspecting prey.
Makoto
One of Jin's Tsugai. It is a small, cute fish that can regurgitate anything that Ai swallows up.
