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    Mr. Shrimp 

Boxing Alien / Dover Demon / Peeny-Weeney / Mr. Mantis Shrimp

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Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese), Brent Mukai (English)Other Languages

A Mantis shrimp-like Gig Worker wearing boxing gloves. Later becomes a permanent Earth inhabitant as a dairy farmer.
  • Animal Motifs: Crustaceans. He initially resembles a crab more before the Serpoians force him into his more mantis shrimp-like appearance.
  • Action Dad: He's a single father working to support his son, and he's more than capable of kicking ass.
  • Affectionate Nickname: While his actual name in Earth language is "Peeny-Weeney", most of the cast calls him "Mr. (Mantis) Shrimp" instead.
  • Aliens in Cardiff: He gets a job as a dairy worker to provide for his son, and seems reasonably content lying low there.
  • Anti-Villain: In sharp contrast to his bosses, he turns out to be a decent enough guy who only antagonized the gang out of desperation, since he's a single dad who needs to pay for his son's medical treatment and he's apparently too much of a weakling by the standards of his species to command a good salary or be choosy with his jobs. Unsurprisingly, he pulls a Heel–Face Turn after they show him compassion, even before they reveal Earth has a cost-effective solution to his son's predicament.
  • Anything but That!: He has two examples of this in his debut arc.
    • Whenever his Serpoian employers threatened to dock his pay for being unable to knock out Momo, Okarun, and Aira, he begs them not to. Considering he needs the money for his son's medical treatment, it's hard not to see why.
    • Later, when he was slumped up against a wall, one of his employers berated him and injected him with a drug that forcibly transformed him into his Super Mode, all while he begged his boss not to.
  • Artifact Alias: The main characters all call him "Mr. Mantis Shrimp" even though his mantis shrimp-like form only lasts 24 seconds (and thus, doesn't really see much use).
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: The main characters' group bandaging him up and feeding him curry is apparently the nicest he's ever been treated, and he swears loyalty to them from then on.
  • Bizarre Alien Biology: Mr. Shrimp and his species as a whole have blood close enough to cow milk that it can be used as a blood transfusion for them. Having evolved in an oxygen-rich fluid, Mr. Shrimp is also in the unenviable position of needing to be underwater to use his incredible full potential on Earth, but not actually being able to breathe Earth's water.
  • Boxing Battler: He wears boxing gloves and fights by punching opponents at high speed. The tank extras state he got the gloves during a trip to New England, and liked them so much he kept them.
  • The Bus Came Back: After departing to his home planet at the end of the Loch Ness Monster arc, he returns in the next arc after realizing that a cow would not survive on his home planet or give milk in the oxygen-rich fluid they live in.
  • Clark Kent Outfit: He's incredibly jacked, but when wearing his pajamas, he looks like a chubby stuffed animal.
  • Close-Range Combatant: Exaggerated, even for a boxer. While training against the Space Globalists, Aira calls him out for not even moving from his spot to punch the holograms.
  • Didn't Think This Through: He and the main characters didn't seem to account for how his home planet's environment might not be suitable for a cow to live in, forcing him and Chiquitita to indefinitely stay on Earth and work on a dairy farm so as to get a good constant supply of milk.
  • Expy: His Super Mode’s appearance based on Alien Baltan from Ultraman.
  • Forced Transformation:
    • One of the Serpoians employing him injected him with a drug to force him into assuming his Super Mode, despite him begging them not to. Interestingly, it lets him stay in this form longer than he's able to on his own.
    • Later, the last of the Serpoians who hired him forces him to fuse with said Serpoian and Nessie in a last ditch effort to capture Momo, Okarun, and Aira, with the Serpoian as the dominant mind.
  • Healthcare Motivation: He only works for the Serpoians because he needs to pay for his son's medical treatment and can't get a more legitimate job. When he learns cow's milk can be used for his son's transfusions, he defects firmly to the side of good.
  • Heel–Face Turn: After being one the main antagonists of the Serpo Arc, he learns that Earth can easily supply him with the blood transfusions that his son needs from the main characters since his blood is close enough to milk, which is plentifully available on Earth. He later permanently moves with Chiquitita to Earth and becomes a recurring ally to the main characters in Alien affairs, and helps fight off the Space Globalists during their invasion.
  • Hugh Mann: Dons a large headed human disguise while working his dairy farmer job, apparently it's common practice among aliens while staying in Earth.
  • I Am Not Left-Handed: Mr. Shrimp, having evolved in a fluid like an actual mantis shrimp, can't use the incredible full strength of his punches unless he's underwater or his arms will tear themselves apart. One of the Serpoians, having chimerized both of its gig workers, learns this the hard way... and one of the Space Globalists that tries to fight Mr. Shrimp underwater learns the same lesson from the other end of the boxing glove.
  • I Am Not Weasel: Seiko, who refuses to believe in aliens, assumes that Mr. Shrimp is a Kappa.
  • Mundane Utility: In the anime, he uses a massive spaceship to go to his new Earth home....in fairly short walking distance from the Ayase residence.
  • Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Mr. Shrimp is apparently a wimp by the standards of his Proud Warrior Race, but by human standards he's ridiculously sturdy and has a punch like a shotgun, even when he's not in an ideal environment. Downplayed in that it's implied his deficiency isn't in strength, but endurance, as he can only sustain his Super Mode for 24 seconds without outside help.
  • No-Sell: During the fight with the space globalists, Shrimp not only tanks the mantis/water beetle armor invader's laser claws, but he also expels the invader's venom from his body with a flex and a one-liner.
    I may be weak... But my people are fighters.
  • Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious: His species are stated to be the setting's Dover Demon, fitting with the series' tendency for Earthly cryptids that aren't actually spiritual phenomena to secretly be aliens. He also apparently made a trip to New England at some point in the past, meaning he might actually be the Dover Demon.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: He's only working for the Serpoians to pay for his sickly son's blood transfusions. When the heroes reveal that cow's milk is a suitable substitute for the expensive treatments, he abandons the villain role and becomes an ally.
  • Speaks in Shout-Outs: During his introduction, he mostly quotes ABBA lyrics while fighting, until a Serpoian doses him with some kind of serum, whereupon he instead starts quoting an old Japanese energy drink commercial. This is mostly dropped after he becomes a recurring character.
  • Super Mode: Mr. Shrimp can transform himself into a much more mantis-shrimp-like form (in particular his fists becoming the classic smashing club appendages), and it is in this state that he is at his strongest. However, he exhausts himself rapidly in this state under normal conditions, even in water, making it something he only uses when he really needs to. A Serpo "energy drink" can keep him in this form for 24 minutes.
  • Unfortunate Names: When translating his name for human pronunciation, his name is given as "Peniichinkos", which sound like smushing two words for penis (penis and chinko/dick) together. Every official translation has its own version of this, from the English translation calling him "Peeney-Weeney" to the Spanish translation calling him "Penecito" (little penis). All of the teens present hold in their laughter, and decide to call him Mr. Shrimp from that point on to avoid embarrassment.
  • Verbal Tic: He tends to say "Deej," at the end of his sentences and when he's referring to someone he's talking to.
  • Visual Development: In the Loch Ness arc, he's drawn as tall and muscular, with his eyes being obscured. As soon as the gang gives him medical treatment, he's drawn as short, pudgy and has cartoony eyes on the ends of his antennae, mainly to give him a far friendlier appearance.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: As an alien with a similar biology to a Mantis Shrimp, Mr. Shrimp has a punching power that can easily flatten buildings and go through power armour, and is even more powerful underwater, but doesn't have gills, so he keeps having to surface to breathe. That said, he is so much stronger underwater that in his Super Mode he manages to defeat in a matter of seconds a Space Globalist who itself was using a suit that was best suited for underwater combat. On his home world this isn't an issue, as they live in a liquid that his species can breathe in just fine.

    Chiquitita 

Chiquitita

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Voiced by: Naomi Ozora (Japanese), Brittany Lauda (English)Other Languages

Mr. Mantis Shrimp's cheerful but terminally-ill son in need of a daily blood transfusion. Later becomes a permanent Earth inhabitant to treat his illness.
  • Animal Motifs: Interestingly, his current design more resembles a frog than his father's arthropod-like appearance. His disguise even bears a mascot that teeters between resembling his father and/or a cartoon frog.
  • Baby See, Baby Do: When a female classmate grows suspicious that he is an alien and stares at him, Chiquitita is confused on how he should communicate. He remembers Jiji flirting with Aira and copies him, causing similar negative results.
  • Bizarre Alien Biology: Just like his dad, his Alien Blood is a cloudy white liquid extremely similar to dairy milk, such that raw cow's milk works as a transfusion to treat his illness. However, unlike humans, he can seemingly transfuse by simply consuming milk, and he can drink 10 cartons in rapid succession.
  • Blush Sticker: He's typically depicted with these, either in his true form or his human disguise.
  • Cuteness Proximity: Aira finds him adorable, doing a 180 from her indignation that Mr. Shrimp returned to Earth to welcoming them.
  • Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In his manga debut, he looks a lot more like his father, as in crab-like in appearance. His next appearance gives him a much more cutesy and humanoid look. The anime chose to not use the former appearance.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: Initially he was ostracized by his human classmates for refusing to fight. But after seeing him blow away some older bullies while calling them his friends, his classmates have a change of heart and embrace Chiquitita as one of their own.
  • Gender-Blender Name: In as much that "Chiquitita" is a name in the first place. Despite being male, his name means "little girl" in Spanish.
  • It Runs in the Family:
    • It's mentioned that his mother had the same blood disorder that he has which led to her passing.
    • On a light-hearted note, the anime adaptation shows he inherited his father's love of singing.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Although he's practically the size of a first-grader, he's still able to deliver Megaton Punches like his dad, as shown in the omake of Volume 11 where he blew away a bully in one hit to protect his classmates.
  • Signature Headgear: He's often depicted with an aviator hat in his true form.
  • Soap Opera Disease: He loses blood every time he goes to the restroom, which is why he needs constant blood transfusions. Mr. Shrimp says the same problem killed Chiquitita's mother.
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: He's very well-behaved and sensible for a young child. His father trusts him to pilot a ship at one point and Chiquitita talks Momo out of dangerous actions at least once.

    The Mannequins 

Taro and Hana

Two living anatomy mannequins that Momo and Okarun meet while looking for Okarun's missing testicle. Both are madly in love with each other.


Tropes about both of them

  • Age-Gap Romance: In a strange sense. Taro is in love with Hana, an older immobile mannequin who at first believes that different manufacture dates make them Star-Crossed Lovers.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's not known what brought them to life given that they weren't powered by Okarun's testicle.
  • Generic Name: Both Taro and Hana are given incredibly generic Japanese names that are the equivalent of John/Jane Doe.
  • Out of Focus: They haven't been seen since the Evil Eye Arc, despite one living with the Ayase's and the other visiting every night. Although they do make an appearance in Volume 13's Omake.

Tropes About Taro

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Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese), Kaiji Tang (English)Other Languages

Tropes about Hana

Voiced by: Fumi Hirano (Japanese), Allegra Clark (English)Other Languages

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  • And I Must Scream: Subverted. As a sentient anatomy doll with no limbs or ability to move, you'd think that being stuck in a landfill with no one to talk to would be hell. Despite this, Hana seemed pretty casual about her fate and only chose to leave when Taro came for her.
  • Flat Character: As far as she has been shown, she is completely immobile, unlike Taro, and is silent in most of the scenes she appears in; giving her little to do despite being part of the Ayase household. In fact she has as yet never even been seen speaking to anyone aside from Taro and nothing has been shown of her personality aside from her love for Taro.
  • The Friends Who Never Hang: Despite living in the same household, Hana barely interacts with Momo, Seiko, or Turbo Granny. However, the Ayases do consider her a part of the family and even take her on a spa trip with Turbo Granny.
  • The Quiet One: She doesn't really talk to anyone other than Taro.

    Manjiro 

Manjiro

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Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino (Japanese), Kevin Andrew Rivera (English)

A Shinto priest who is part of the same guild of exorcists as Seiko, and is also mentored by her.


  • Badass Preacher: He's a Shinto priest and exorcist like Seiko, and also a formidable user of martial arts.
  • Big Ol' Unibrow: His most prominent feature is his monobrow.
  • Casual Kink: He states he is a masochist (he says "one of us is a masochist" in the official translation but ちなみにドMです translates to "I'm a masochist") and might have a crush on or even be in a romantic relationship with resident dominatrix Queen-sensei.
  • Connected All Along:
    • He's introduced as an eccentric priest focused on gaining internet fame, only to be revealed several chapters later to be Seiko's only known disciple and part of her inner circle of trusted mediums.
    • Happens again in chapter 201 with another beautiful woman, which reveals that he and Queen-sensei are quite close, having met some time ago when she took a student to him for an exorcism. He actually seems to know more about her than any of the other characters do.
  • The Cynic: In the Evil Eye Arc, he's the only hero who considers rehabilitating the Evil Eye to be a fruitless endeavor, especially given how close the spirit was to killing Momo. It's because of this that he almost prepares an exorcism ceremony to be performed regardless of what his master or her grandchildren believed, though he is convinced otherwise once Okarun manages to make a deal with the Evil Eye.
    Seiko: As an adult, you wish you could shoulder all your kids' burdens yourself and tell them to do whatever they want.
    Manjiro: It's also an adult's responsibility to show them reality.
  • Early Installment Character-Design Difference: When he first appears in Chapter 35, he's something of a Gonk, with a large nose and even larger jowls, yet he looks considerably younger and more handsome from Chapter 46 onward. This de-aging is reflected in the anime, where Manjiro has a rather youthful voice and appearance with his gonk face showing up as a quick gag.
  • Hidden Depths: He dreams of being a popular Boo (You)Tuber.
  • Like Parent, Like Child: He mentions that calling the shed skin of the snake god a Tsuchinoko was his father's idea as a way to attract tourists, suggesting that his father was a priest too.
  • Martial Artists Are Always Barefoot: He's quite the expert when it comes to martial arts and partakes in fighting the Kito Clan while barefooted.
  • May It Never Happen Again: He explains to Momo that he tells the legend of the Great Serpent so that the people of today can learn of it's horrible history (involving humans being sacrificed out of superstitious beliefs) so they can know better and not do anything so morbid.
  • The Mentor: In the aftermath of the Kozuka Knives Arc, he reveals Seiko told him to be Okarun's new mentor to help him prepare should he be attacked by the knife wielders.
  • Older Than They Look: Sans his debut appearance, Manjiro spends the majority of the time being a Vague Age adult, with his voice making him sound rather young. It isn’t until Chapter 201 that he reveals that he is 36 years old.
  • Poor Communication Kills: When Seiko called to ask him to keep an eye on Momo and her friends, her brief and overly vague message meant he didn't connect the dots until much later. Downplayed as he still figured things out in time to be of some help, which Seiko praises him for.
  • Stating the Simple Solution: Momo suggested that instead of headstands, he could tell the tale of the Tsuchinoko on Boo (You)Tube.

    The Hayashi Performers 

Hayashi Performers/Brave Force

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Voiced by: Marc Hudson (Toshiro, English), Kishow Taniyama (Toshiro, Japanese), Xander Mobus (Hideji, English), Genta Nakamura (Hideji, Japanese), Sean Chiplock (Yoshikichi, English), Kazuaki Furata (Yoshikichi, Japanese)

A quartet of musicians who partake in exorcisms using their epic music.


  • Adaptational Name Change: They were officially given the name Brave Force in the Dandadan Daizukan, which was released a few days before their debut in the anime. Meanwhile, the anime refers to the band as the Hayashi.
  • Adaptational Nationality: Despite presumably being Japanese, the English dub gives Toshiro a distinctly English accent, provided by his voice actor Marc Hudson.
  • Badass Normal: According to Seiko, none of them are spirit sensitive. This makes them perfect for the job since they are less at risk of being possessed by evil spirits.
  • Bait-and-Switch: During their warmup, the band sounds rather amateurish, giving the impression that they are actually incompetent. This all changes during the actual performance, which is so epic that it enthralls Momo, Okarun, and even Aira.
  • Banishing Ritual: They specialize in playing music that can entertain evil or unwanted spirits to drive them to the next world.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: Except for the moustached and less-made-up Patarson, the performers could be mistaken for women due to their makeup and long hair. This is part and parcel of the "visual kei" musical genre they're clearly a part of.
  • Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind: While their fearsome makeup and loud, aggressive stage personas give the impression of being jerks, they quickly turn out to be humble, polite men who are very understanding about Seiko not recognizing them or Jiji choosing not to go through with the exorcism they came all the way out in the country to perform in the rain.
  • Given Name Reveal: The DanDaDan Daizukan reveals their individual names, which are then shown on their individual business cards in the anime.
    • Vocalist: Toshiro
    • Drummer: Yoshikichi
    • Guitarist: Hideji
    • Bassist: Patarson
  • Humble Hero: Their metal superpowers haven't given them swollen heads, and they serve as their own roadies without complaint during their adventures with the gang.
  • Nice Guy: Beneath their fearsome make-up, they're actually friendly men who are quite mellow with accepting requests (and denials) from the Ayase family.
  • Odd Name Out: The Hayashi have Japanese names, save for Patarson who has a distinctly Anglophone name.
  • The Power of Rock: They're visual kei heavy metal artists who use the epic sounds of rock and roll to entertain or ward off youma and akuma. The anime goes even further by showing their music can make spirits rock out alongside their music.
  • The Quiet One: Patarson is notably the only performer who doesn't speak. His English name implies that this may possibly be due to a language barrier. He also has a tuner on his guitar that reads "NO SPEAKING". Anyway he is the bassist.

    Rokuro 

"Rokuro"

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The lone Serpoian who escaped the initial Space Globalist / Kur incursion on Earth. Initially approaches the gang as allies of convenience against a common foe, though he grows to respect them over time.


  • The Comically Serious: Since he's still a Serpoian, and a product of a cloning process that removes (or at least dampens) his emotions, a lot of humor is milked from Rokuro reacting very stoically even in the sorts of ridiculous situations the series is famous for.
  • Distinguishing Mark: The Serpoians are all entirely identical to each other, but Rokuro is set apart by the scars on his human disguise.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: Despite reversing the situation of the Serpoians on Earth and helping drive off the Space Globalist Kur, Rokuro is cast out for deviating from the Serpoian physical and mental template.
  • Energy Weapon: Rokuro's scanner gun emphasizes the second word.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Even he, a Serpoian, is perturbed when he sees the suffering Vamola went though at the hands of the Kur.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: While the extent to which he's this by Serpoian standards is up in the air, Rokuro is able to use a mixture of the nanotechnology used to rebuild his body and his alien know-how to do tricks like hacking complicated computer systems or reformatting his convenience store scanner gun into a particle beam on the fly.
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: Double subverted. Momo assumed Rokuro would use the regenerative technology the Serpoians have to fix the horrific damage he sustained, only for him to reply that the Kur took it from them, so the damage is there to stay. However, Peeny later heals him via a clever application of the construction nanomachines, giving him minor shapeshifting powers to boot.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: Rokuro spends much of the Space Globalist arc missing his lower torso and an arm.
  • Healing Shiv: Rokuro deploys some manner of healing substance through his tentacle, saving Vamola's life. He notes in his current state he can only do it once, and it drains him to the degree that the rest of his body immediately starts breaking down.
  • Klingons Love Shakespeare: While disguised and hiding from Reiko Kashima in a manga cafe, Rokuro pesters Momo to remove the foundation from his face so he can read some manga. Though it's subverted in that he was seemingly trying to lure Momo into a false sense of security so he could attack her when she wasn't looking. It's double subverted when it turns out that Rokuro was actually trying to heal her, indicating that he was actually telling the truth about wanting to read manga.
  • Mook–Face Turn: Rokuro becomes a vital ally for the gang during the Space Globalists arc. Somewhat zigzagged in that it's an Enemy Mine situation, but Momo at least does seem to consider him something of a friend after he sacrifices himself to save Vamola. However, it's subverted since they go back to being enemies as soon as he turns out to be alive. Double-subverted by the fact that Momo's influence caused Rokuro to develop individuality, causing him to get kicked out by the rest of the Serpoians. Rokuro sorta blames Momo for ruining his life, although he does seem to retain enough of the Serpoian lack of emotion that he doesn't hold much of a grudge.
  • Nominal Hero: Putting aside the fact that he's a Serpoian, Rokuro just wants to get a decent part-time job but he keeps getting wrapped up in the gang's adventures.
  • Scars Are Forever: The face of his human disguise bears marks from the Kur attack that wiped out the other Serpoians he was with. Visually helps to differentiate him.
  • Shapeshifting: Shrimp's incidental efforts to save him merge his body with some of Mr. Ludris's nanoskin tech. This grants Rokuro great control over his corpus, but also alienates him from the rest of the Serpoian uniformity.
  • Skewed Priorities: When he, Okarun, and Officer Bega are floating in the stratosphere of a fantasy board game pocket dimension, Rokuro's only real concern is that he needs to get back to work before his boss gets angry.
  • The Spock: Individuality or no, a Serpoian is still a Serpoian, so Rokuro has much of his species' general lack of emotional reactions.
  • Uniformity Exception: Aside from the scars, Rokuro stands out from other Serpoians through his human disguise's eyes having visible whites, as opposed to being shadowed. In addition, the nano-skin used to rebuild himself gives him a taller and more slender build than the orginal Serpoian disguise.
  • Villains Out Shopping: Following the Space Globalist Arc, Rokuro gets a part-time job at a convenience store. He is keen on finding better employment.
  • White Sheep: Rokuro deviating from the cruel Serpoian template makes him the sole Serpoian who can't be called an antagonist, even though in practice he's more a grey sheep than a white one.
  • You Are a Credit to Your Race: After Rokuro seemingly sacrifices himself to heal Vamola, Momo claims that although she hated the Serpoians, she didn't hate Rokuro.
  • You Are Number Six: Literally, his name means "sixth son", but his name in Japanese uses the Arabic numeral 6 instead of any Japanese characters, so it's written 6郎. The reason for his numerical but at the same time human name is unknown, but it's possibly a reference to "Six Sense Organ", one of the Serpoians' names for their abilities.

    Banga 

Banga

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An elderly Sumerian woman who rescues a young Vamola from an active war zone and becomes her adoptive mother.
  • Action Survivor: She not only survives the initial genocide by the Kur, but also hijacks a Kaiju suit after being left for dead on a battlefield after an injury. After she forcibly warps Vamola away for her own safety, she is shown to still be alive.
  • Cool Old Lady: She's an old woman fighting an alien invasion!
  • Does Not Like Men: Banga has a distaste for the men of her race. Her reasons being that many of them did a piss-poor job with crafting their society and how they were quick to give up when the Space Globalists arrived.
  • Insistent Terminology: She insists that Vamola refer to her as "Ms. Banga" instead of "mama" or "mother".
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's cold and abrasive, and constantly rebukes Vamola referring to her as "mama". But she loves her adopted daughter so much that she can't bring herself to kill her after Vamola reasons Better to Die than Be Killed, and warps her away from their home planet for her own safety.
  • Last Request: Before sending off Vamola to another planet with the high chance that she would die, she tasks her daughter with finding a strong man worthy of marrying so she can have strong children and prolong the Sumerian Legacy.
  • Promotion to Parent: As much as she denies it, she begrudgingly becomes Vamola's "mother" due her being an orphan and presumably the last Sumerian child in existence. Even though she kept the girl at arm's length, she still had a heavy role in raising Vamola throughout her adolescence.
  • Rousing Speech: While piloting the kaiju mech suit, she orders the imprisoned and broken Sumerian men to use their anger to fight back against their oppressors. It works and it turns the tide in the Sumerians' favor.
  • Uncertain Doom: Vamola isn't sure if Banga was killed by the Kur after she warped her away but Momo gives her hope that she's still alive. As revealed at the end of the Space Globalist Arc, she was right, and Banga and her buddies are currently flying off into space to reunite with Vamola.
  • We Have Become Complacent: Cites this as a major reason she believes her people were mostly destroyed. They had a prosperous, peaceful society, and their leaders were convinced war would not come. This left them underprepared when they were invaded.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her Last Request for Vamola inadvertently causes an awkward love triangle between Vamola, Okarun, and Momo (quadrilateral if you want to count Aira), due to Vamola's interpretation of it.

    Mai Kawabanga 

Mai Kawabanga

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A yokai possessing class rep Rin Sawaki. Later revealed to be the spirit of her deceased childhood friend, Mai Kawabanga, transformed into a yokai by her Unfinished Business.


  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: While normally rude and dismissive towards Aira, she begs for her help when Rin is captured by the Headless Dribblers.
  • Animal Motifs: Turtles. Noticeably cuter post-exorcism.
  • Anti-Villain: She starts out as a Ombusuman yokai who was unintentionally driving her friend to death because of her past regrets.
  • Bows for Cuteness: Her defining feature, in both her human and spirit forms, is the big bow she wears on her head.
  • Death of a Child: She was a young girl killed in a car accident alongside her mother.
  • Demonic Possession: As someone who died filled with regrets during their childhood, Mai has turned into an Ombusman possessing her childhood friend, Rin. She isn't able to consciously remember her memories until she's exorcised, however.
  • Education Mama: Variation. Mai wants Rin to be an idol, and nothing else will do.
  • Good Is Not Nice: Even though she's a good-natured spirit, she does not mince words or hides how little she thinks of those around her.
  • Gravity Master: As a former Ombusman, she is fully capable of levitating herself and others, or pressing down with an immense weight.
  • Guardian Entity: Following the exorcism, Mai's spirit doesn't enter into the afterlife, but instead stays around Rin until she can achieve her dream of becoming an idolnote . Unlike before, however, her original personality is still there. Despite mostly nagging Rin to become an idol, she proves her worth when she frees Rin from the Fairy Tale Card's Mind Control.
    I'm Rin's producer. And Rin...will not become a puppet for you to control.
  • Shout-Out: Her turtle-headed form post-exorcism pairs with her surname being Kawabanga, a soundalike to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' famous catchphrase in the 1987 cartoon.

    Officer Masamichi Bega 

Officer Masamichi Bega

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A police officer from the local station in Kamikoshi city. Stone faced, serious, and dedicated to his job despite the low pay.


  • The Anti-Nihilist: Bega admits that the world is unfair and unjust. Even so, he refuses to abandon compassion and kindness.
    "I don't want to be beaten by this shitty world."
  • Badass Normal: Bega's only armed with a gun, a nightstick, some armor, and his own two hands, but doesn't hesitate in going up against youkai that could kill him much more easily than they can kill the main characters. As a consequence though, he suffers a lot of damage and has to be hospitalized.
  • Consummate Professional: To a Comically Serious point. Dude's the definition of true police and he never quite truly switches off. He's playing cop even while at a completely chaotic supernatural kerfuffle.
  • Cool Old Guy: Very much so. Even in his clearly advanced age, he's physically able and can keep up with the very chaotic fights of the series.
  • Driven to Suicide: Very nearly. By his own admission he occasionally thinks about tracking down the killer of his wife and daughter, killing him, and then taking his own life. Any time he comes close to it, however, he remembers his daughter's face and aborts, not wanting to end her connection to the living world.
  • Famed in Story: Apparently he's a legend among the local police for his martial arts skills, and has earned the nickname "the Demon Bega." When Rokuro, disguised as a cop, puts forth the cover story that he picked a fight with Bega out of a desire to spar with a famous fighter, the suspicious Bega buys it immediately.
  • Family of Choice: He became Zuma's guardian after learning about his background.
  • Heartbroken Badass: His wife and preschool daughter were killed by a man lashing out on anything that had happiness because he viewed the world as a rotten place.
  • Immune to Mind Control: As shown in chapter 191, he's immune to being controlled by the Fairy Tale Card.
  • Not So Stoic: When Zuma wakes up after almost dying, Bega's stoicism crumbles and he can hardly hold back his tears at the sight of his son still being alive.
  • Red Baron: "Bega the Demon," for his martial arts prowess and stern demeanor.
  • Papa Wolf: He's only a regular policeman with, at best, a degree of awareness towards the supernatural, but nothing will stop Bega from saving his adopted son, even from the likes of an actual demon.
  • Parental Substitute: He becomes Unji's adoptive father as he wants to save the boy before he can lose hope and be crushed by the darkness of the world. Unji is originally cold to him, but grows to respect and care for Bega, especially during the Danmara arc. By Chapter 181, Unji openly calls Bega "Dad".
  • A Shared Suffering: He and Unji both tragically lost their families, and they're able to form a bond through understanding each other's pain.
  • Shout-Out: To Street Fighter. His permanent scowl and police cap evoke Dictator (M. Bison in the U.S., original name in Japanese Vega) and his name when abbreviated (M. Bega) sounds like a combination of both of Dictator's known names, but what really seals the deal? One of the other officers at his police box is named Baison (as in Boxer; Balrog in the U.S., original name in Japanese M. Bisonnote ).
  • Sympathy for the Devil: Bega still thinks about killing the man who killed his family (and then killing himself), but acknowledges the man was correct to call the world rotten. It's heavily implied that he sees a lot of that man in Zuma and wants to prevent Zuma from going down that same path.

    Renjaku High School 

Renjaku High School

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Unji Zuma's high school, which is filled with to the brim with delinquents.


  • Badass Normal: They're as tough as they come and aren't afraid to scrap at a moments notice, including against Fairy Tale Card.
  • Big Damn Heroes: They alongside Zuma's gang invade the Danmara and help out Momo and Zuma right as they were about to be overwhelmed at the Castle Seige.
  • Blood Knight: They love to fight, to the point where they actually have a schedule devoted to which classes fight which at what time.
  • Crush Blush: At the end of the Danmara Arc, several of the boys do this when they see Seiko ordering them to enjoy their hard-earned meals.
  • Dustbin School: The school building is riddled with graffiti and every student there is a Hot-Blooded brawler.
  • Japanese Delinquents: The entire student body is filled with rowdy and fight-happy teenagers.
  • Noble Demon: They may be thugs but they have rules and standards of their own, such when a large student forces his classmate to apologize to Momo for touching her hair without permission, citing that men who cause women distress will not be tolerated.
  • One-Gender School: There don't seem to be any girls in attendance there.
  • Touched by Vorlons: One of the students, Toriumi, gained the ability to see spirits after touching the golden ball in Zuma's possession. The entire student body becomes spiritually attuned after plunging into the Danmara.

    Unji Zuma's Gang 

Unji Zuma's Gang

A gang of disfranchised young men and women who have been taken under Zuma's wing. They're fiercely loyal to him and are willing do anything for his sake.


  • All There in the Manual: Volumes 19 and 20 reveals Classes A-E and their top 3 strongest students.
    • Class A: Benzou Togari, Mao Kurogami, Ranzan Ookuma
    • Class B: Minehisa Mita, Akira Takahashi, Reo Yomoda
    • Class C: Toramaru Sodenashi, Kento Yomoda, Kaoru Hanawa
    • Class D: Unji Zuma, Raiya Kazama, Ouga Toriumi
    • Class E: Ryuichi Yamazaki, Eisaku Yazawa, Takemi Nezu
  • Anti-Villain: At their core, they're just a bunch desperate kids trying to save their friend. However their willingness to sacrifice the old man as well as their general recklessness put them at odds with Okarun and Momo for a large chunk of the Danmara Arc.
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: The entire gang is indebted to Zuma in some way shape or form, which makes them loyal to him to a fault.
  • Big Damn Heroes: They show up during the Castle Seige alongside the students of Renjaku High to help turn the tide on the battle.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: The main unifying thread between them besides their devotion to Zuma is the fact that for one reason or another, none of them can go back home or to school anymore and have nowhere else to go. The pigtailed girl for instance was bullied at school by her teachers and had a bad home life, leading her to attempt commit suicide by overdose. Fortunately, Unji and Raiya stop her and take her under their wing.
  • Gender Rarity Value: The majority of the gang is comprised of dudes. At least three girls can be seen in Unji's gang however.
  • Japanese Delinquents: They're a thuggish group of dropouts and runaways who're perfectly willing to escalate to violence at a moment's notice.
  • Psycho Supporter: They veer into this at times, seeing as they were perfectly willing to throw Daichi the old man back into the Danmara just to free Zuma, an act that would have undoubtedly left him incensed.
  • Touched by Vorlons: They all gain supernatural awareness due to their close proximity to cursed artifacts like Okarun's ball and the Danmara.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: They call Okarun out for his seemingly passive attitude towards Momo's capture and his unwillingness to try and save her as soon as possible. Okarun fires back by stating that he wants to get as much info on the Danmara as he possibly can before diving in, because if they screw up and die because they went in half-cocked, there will be no one left to save either Momo or Zuma. It's telling that they have no real rebuttal to this.

Raiya Kazama

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A member of Unji's gang, and presumably his second-in-command.
  • Art Evolution: In his debut, Raiya has much smaller and narrower eyes. In later chapters, they're drawn bigger and less narrow, giving him a more welcoming look.
  • Ascended Extra: He is originally a nameless thug part of Unji's gang who was ambiguously his right-hand man. It's only until the Kozuka Knives arc where he returns and joins the main gang (albeit only Momo, Seiko, Jiji, and Vamola) in helping to reverse the curse escaping the Danmara caused for Momo, Unji, and Daichi.
  • Because You Were Nice to Me: His loyalty to Unji stems from him rescuing him whilst he was being beat up by bullies.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Shortly after being freed, the Fairy Tale Card poesseses Raiya, forcing him to attack Unji and get him to open his eyes, immediately causing him to be possessed as well.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: When Fairy Tale Card takes control of Raiya, we see a glimpse of him being savagely beaten by bullies while his teacher looks on in apathetic disgust.
  • Devoted to You: He is deeply grateful for Unji not only saving him from bullies but also for adopting other lost souls as well, and as such is very loyal to him. This is why he's so adamant in forcing Daichi back into the Danmara to free Unji.
  • Every Scar Has a Story: As revealed in a flashback, Raiya's scar was a result of being knived in a bathroom by his bullies.
  • Given Name Reveal: Chapter 192 reveals his name to be Raiya. The extras in Volume 20 reveals his last name.
  • Must Make Amends: He and the rest of Zuma's guy friends tried to attack Daichi and return him to the Danmara in a misguided attempt to save their leader. But in the next Story Arc, after Daiki is cursed with Rapid Aging, Raiya devotes himself into being the old man's personal valet while asking for his forgiveness.
  • Rugged Scar: Raiya has a scar over his eye.

    Pygmies 

Pygmies

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A strange race of cryptids who devote themselves to helping people who can see them.


  • Bond Creatures: They're neither created nor bound by Kouki's spiritual powers; the pygmies simply like helping anyone who can see them and be thankful to them.
  • Commonality Connection: They are protective and supportive of Kouki due to relating to her feelings of loneliness and being unseen.
  • Fairy Tale Motifs: Based on Kouki having a surname that translates to "Snow White", the Pygmies would fill in as the dwarves who appear in large numbers and are both protective and affectionate towards the princess they come across.
  • Homage: Their battle with Okarun and Aira is a big one to Stand battles from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, specifically those involving Harvest and Bad Company with the Pygmies using their vast numbers to weaponize mundane items and use their environment to their advantage. Additionally, using sewing needles they are able to stitch clothing, hair and other body parts of the protagonists to each other and random furniture. They're also helping an opponent that was stabbed by a knife in order to use their power, alluding to the effects of the Stand Arrows in Parts 4-6. What's more, due to her altered state, only Momo can see them.
  • Invisible Monsters: Can't be seen by normal people due to their origins as the figurative-turned-literal lost souls of society. Even the spiritually attuned are not necessarily able to see them. This ends up causing trouble for Okarun and Aira who can't coordinate an attack because they can't see them. Luckily Momo is able to see them, perhaps because she has become similar to them, as is Queen-sensei.
  • Killer Rabbit: Not only do they utilize deadly traps and weaponry to fight their opponents, but dozens of them directly tried to maul (as she was shrunken at the time) Momo to death. Notably, their tactics allow them to actually defeat Aira and Okarun, and would've killed them if the chase hadn't revealed to Momo where Kouki was hiding as it was the one part of the lab the pygmies never attacked.
  • Mask of Confidence: They are considerably more aggressive with their snarling war-masks on. Once the fight turns against them, they drop the masks and the attitude.
  • One-Gender Race: Even though the pygmies are described as the spirits of people who lost their identities over the generations, the majority of them are presented as male-coded given their mustaches.
  • Our Gnomes Are Weirder: According to the folklore shared by Queen-sensei, the pygmies are the spirits of people who were driven out, abandoned, or neglected. They have lost their identity, but still yearn for someone to acknowledge them—just like Kouki.
  • Ridiculously Fast Construction: Construct a piano in what has to be minutes for Kouki to play during the battle with the headless basketball players.
  • Superpower Lottery: On top of the invisibility, intelligent tool use, and the disquieting skill to sew practically anything together, these things can fly at high speeds relative to their size.
  • Synchronized Swarming: As an army, the pygmies are able to coordinate themselves into large masses to escape or protect their princess. Mai even works with them to create a basketball player body in order to save Kouki.
  • Tickle Torture: They subject this to Aira and Okarun in an attempt to escape from their wrath after Kouki is knocked out.

    Payase and Kashimoto 

Payase and Kashimoto

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A pair of paranormal object collectors Seiko meets with to discuss how to unshrink Momo. Both of them have supernatural abilties.


  • Calling Your Attacks: Kashimoto invokes the Great Old One known as Aphoom-Zhah with each Ice Flame punch.
  • Casting a Shadow: Payase can shift to an augmented state (not unlike the gang) that allows him to meld with and manipulate shadows.
  • Cold Flames: Kashimoto's Ice Flame is a curse flame that emits cold to as low as absolute zero. It's strong enough to cause the Minotaur's iron skin to become brittle and break.
  • Collector of the Strange: The two make a living collecting cursed objects that would bring instant doom to any average human. Payase doesn't mind the after effects and considers the spirits/dark energy to be "cute".
  • Combination Attack: They pull off a team attack that looks like a flaming taijitu.
  • Exhausted Eye Bags: Payase noticeably has dark circles under his eyes.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: Payase is unbothered by the misfortune cursed objects bring, believing he is immune due to his fixation and even calls them cute.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: Payase and Kashimoto are based off of the urban legend broadcast duo Yasuhiro Hayase and Makoto Kishimoto, also known as the Toshi Boys.
  • Odd Friendship: Payase is energetic (despite his imsomniac appearance) and generally more talkative, emotional, and impulsive, while Kashimoto is quieter, reserved, and stoic.
  • Smarter Than You Look: Despite being more impulsive and childish, Payase recoginzes the Kozuka knives after defeating the Minotaur while Kashimoto does not.

Kami High School

    Momo's Ex 

Momo's Ex

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Voiced by: Ryunosuke Watanuki (Japanese), Ben Balmaceda (English)

Momo's first boyfriend. A scumbag who just so happened to resemble her Celeb Crush.


  • Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: The only reason Momo fell for him was because he looked like her crush Ken Takakura. Alas he doesn't have the nobility and gentlemanly charm of the original.
  • Hate Sink: The only scene he's in is meant to show how much of a lousy "boyfriend" he was and how Momo was better off without him. It's also made clear that her friends, Miko and Muko, did not approve of him and Seiko tried to kill him when Momo brought him over.
  • Jerkass: His first (and only) scene shows him being a total jerkhole to Momo by insisting that she pay for their dates, either with money or her body (or if they go to a love hotel, both), and dumping her when she gets upset.
  • A Man Is Always Eager: His idea of a date was for him and Momo to visit a love hotel.
  • Never My Fault: He blames Momo for being the reason their "relationship" didn't work out while dumping her.
  • Noodle Incident: It's hinted that Momo took him to see her grandmother and Seiko almost murdered him.
  • Small Role, Big Impact:
    • He's a minor character and you'd be forgiven if you forgot he existed. But it's through him breaking up with Momo (horribly) and putting her in a bad mood that puts her on the path to meeting Okarun which would change their lives for the better.
    • Thematically, his only scene of expecting sex from Momo and hurting her when she fights back sets up one of the series' themes of exploiting one's autonomy (particularly against women) and how it harms the victims.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Shows zero hesitation in kicking Momo back after she kicks him.

    Miko and Kei-san 

Miko and Muko

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Kei-san/Muko (Left), Miko (Right)
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Muko Voiced by: Miyu Tomita (Japanese), Anairis Quiñones (English)Other Languages

Momo's friends, classmates and fellow gyaru girls.
  • The Bus Came Back: The two are Put on a Bus after informing Momo and Okarun about a rumor of a floating golden ball at an apartment complex, setting up the Kaiju arc. However, the pair would return in an extra chapter in Volume 18, where they draw a mocking picture of Sanjome with Momo, and laugh when they see the real Sanjome and become more involved after Momo loses her memories.
  • Cassandra Truth: Neither of them show sympathy to Momo after her breakup with her first boyfriend. The reason being that they knew the guy was garbage and warned her about him but Momo gave him a chance anyway since he looked like her Celeb Crush.
    Momo: There's nothing weird about liking strong, silent types like Ken Takakura!
    Miko and Muko: There are no dudes alive like that anymore.
  • Cold Ham: In the 10th episode of the anime, Miko states her absurd theory that Momo and Aira were fighting over Okarun's love in "nude gladiatorial combat" with heavy theatrics, but still using her aloof and languid vocal cadence.
  • The Dividual: Since the two characters are always a part of Momo's social circle, they are often seen together and never apart.
  • Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In her debut appearance, Muko is shown to be wearing heavy manba-style gyaru makeup, and the anime also gives her blue-eyes, as opposed to her later brown eyes.
  • The Gadfly: When it comes to Momo and Okarun's growing relationship, they won't hold back in teasing the two lovebirds and making them squirm. This is best shown when they drag Okarun to a maid cafe that recently hired Momo as one of the servers.
  • Gossipy Hens: They love to poke fun at Momo and Okarun's unsubtle crushes on each other, and later assume that Momo and Aira were fighting over Okarun's love after the three are seen when in their underwear/nude after defeating the Serpoians.
  • Gyaru Girl: Kei-san's blonde hair, tan skin, and heavy makeup in her early appearance make it clear that she is a gyaru. Miko also counts since she's often accessorizing or putting on makeup whenever she's in class.
  • Identically Named Group: Miko and Muko. Momo could also count due to also being a girl with a two-syllable name that starts with M and ends with O.
  • Insane Troll Logic: When they see Momo sulking which unbeknownst to them, was because she saw Okarun almost kiss Aira, they claim that she was possessed by a mantis shrimp spirit. They also came under the impression that Momo was being trained in boxing by the mantis shrimp in biology class for her underwear brawl with Aira.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: Despite being besties with Momo, neither of them know about the supernatural adventures she and Okarun get involved in, let alone Momo's psychic powers.
  • Named In The Adaptation: Kei-san is given the name Muko in the anime.
  • Out of Focus: Obviously, as ordinary girls, they play no part in the supernatural elements, so they come across as The Friends Who Never Hang, especially after the Evil Eye arc.
  • Right for the Wrong Reasons: They arrived at the conclusion that a jealous Momo was fighting Aira over Okarun's affection, and that it somehow had to involve them brawling in their underwear in the school hallways. Momo was indeed jealous of Aira's presence around Okarun, but they weren't directly fighting one another, and the circumstances of them all being stripped down to their skivvies (and Okarun stark naked) were wildly more different and otherworldly than either of them were aware of.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Played With. They're not interested in romances themselves but the reason they ship Momo with Okarun is because of how thoughtful he is and genuinely cares about her. Miko even brings up how he stood up for Momo when the kids in Class C were yapping bad rumors about her which is proof enough to call him a good guy.
  • Ship Tease: Miko is originally annoyed by Jiji's playboy persona, but does a 180 when he calls her cute, flustering her. Muko is also swayed when Jiji calls her a cutie magnet.
  • Shipper on Deck: They are completely on-board with Momo and Okarun becoming an item and are regularly playing Romantic Wingman to them. When Momo loses her memories and Okarun is resigned to trying to rebuild their friendship slowly because he hates the thought of acting Entitled to Have You, Miko and Muko decide to take matters into their own hands and push Momo into a date with "her boo" that is actually surprisingly successful at reigniting their romantic chemistry.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: They set the events of the Kaiju and Space Globalists arcs in motion by informing Momo about a rumor of a floating glowing ball at an apartment complex. This leads to Momo and Okarun (with Kinta spying on them) investigating the rumor, meeting Vamola, and then stopping an alien invasion.
  • Social Circle Filler: Averted. Even as the main cast grows, Momo is still seen hanging out with them rather frequently. They even get involved in shenanigans from time to time (such as dragging an unwitting Okarun to the maid café where Momo just got a part time job in order to watch the two of them squirm.)
  • Terrible Artist: Muko's drawing of Sanjome, isn't the most detailed...

    Hase 

Hase

Voiced by: Hikaru Tanaka (Japanese)
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Okarun's classmate and a former bully of his.


  • Adaptational Jerkass: As if he needed it. A flashback in the anime revealed that he target Kinta as well, bullying him for his love of mecha and his weight, calling him a "tubby kid."
  • Bouncing Battler: By poking himself with a Kozuka Knife that was infused with the Jumping Crone's power, he can bounce anywhere he wants, creating mass destruction that's beyond compare.
  • The Bully: His original calling was Okarun's bully who rallied fellow students to pick on him. Flashbacks in Chapter 190 make it clear that it's gone back a fair while and been really vicious.
  • The Bus Came Back: After debuting in Chapter 1, he isn't seen again until Chapter 167.
  • Casanova Wannabe: He tries to flirt with two girls, who are disgusted with his behavior and disrespect of Okarun, whom they both have a crush on.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Becomes fully intent on killing Okarun just for unintentionally showing him up at gym class and becoming attractive to girls and having friends.
  • Dual Boss: Okarun and Kinta must face him alongside the Jet Booster Kur when they ambush them in the school after getting separated from Shiratori. Thankfully, while both of them are locked onto Takakura and cannot agree on who will face him, Kinta's presence is preventing both of them from just ganging up on him.
  • Evil Is Petty: As a bully, he picks on kids just for being awkward and specifically tells Okarun to 'kill himself' just for being interested in the paranormal. When Okarun is no longer an easy victim and even found attractive by girls, Hase barely hesitates accepting a deal for power to kill Okarun just for moving beyond a socially acceptable target.
  • Evil Knockoff: In Chapter 188, his yokai form bears a resemblance to Okarun's Full Throttle Form due to their similar appearances, having powers based on an old lady yokai, and having to fight while barefooted.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: He initially started off as a nameless extra who only existed to torment Okarun. But by Chapter 180, he's recruited by Count St. Germain to attack him and his friends after being gifted the yokai power of the Jumping Crone.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: He is tempted into giving himself powers in order to steal Okarun's powers by a mysterious voice, fueled by his envy for how popular and athletic his former victim became. He brushes the whole thing off as a joke... but accidentally does so anyway.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: While he wasn't exactly a good person before, the influence of Jumping Crone after he gains her powers turns him into a smoldering cauldron of fury who constantly lashes out at everyone around him, including his allies. This is the single biggest contributor to his defeat; it makes it virtually impossible for him to cooperate meaningfully with the Jet Kur and interferes with his ability to think clearly or come up with an attack strategy beyond Attack! Attack! Attack! until Okarun and Kinta are able to outsmart and outmaneuver him with creative tactics and use of the nanomachine mech suit.
  • Ineffectual Loner: His refusal to fully cooperate with Jet Kur results in him trying to take out Kinta and Okarun by himself in Chapter 190. Without her help keeping the duo off balance, they're able to focus on just dealing with him, which is how they ultimately and literally come out on top.
  • Jerkass: He belittles and picks on Okarun for no real reason. He also calls Kinta "lardass".
  • Laser-Guided Karma: He volunteers to be Okarun's gym partner simply to humiliate him and make himself look better. Fittingly enough, Okarun blows him out of the water in every activity, even effortlessly breaking his previous track record of 6 seconds by .2 seconds. When he tries to bounce back by using the Jumping Crone powers' to defeat Okarun, the latter and Kinta defeat him due to his inexperience despite his best efforts.
  • Logical Weakness: Even though he gains the Jumping Crone's power and can use it to deliver serious damage to the heroes, Hase still gets worn out with each use since his human body can only handle so much of the yokai's energy, much like how Okarun underwent tremendous pain when he had Turbo Granny's powers. Also, if he can't actually reach people with his legs, his powers are completely useless — Okarun getting inside his effective range by bear-hugging him followed by Kinta restraining his legs leaves Hase a sitting duck as his upper body is no stronger than it was before he got his powers, allowing the two to dispatch him with a power bomb into the dirt.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: After Saint-Germain gifts him the Jumping Crone's power, he partners with the Jet Booster Kur woman to take down Okarun and Kinta and finally defeat his former target. Unfortunately, he's far too obsessed with getting revenge on Okarun to think rationally and work out a strategy with the Kur warrior, let alone listen to anyone's orders, to contrast the other boys' teamwork despite disagreements. His single-minded obsession drives him to beat down his partner first when she gets the first hit in, leaving him at a disadvantage against Okarun and Kinta who, despite initial struggles, gain a Heroic Second Wind and defeat him while his former partner leaves him behind.
  • Nightmare Face: Unlike Okarun, Aira, and Zuma, his mask when possessed covers his whole face and is a hideous effigy of the Jumping Crone.
  • Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: He's a relatively athletic guy, but as shown in Chapter 167, he intentionally pairs up with classmates he deems easy prey in gym class just to prop himself up. That is to say nothing about how insignificant he is compared to all the insane things Okarun and co. have seen and done by this point.
  • The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: He becomes dead-set on beating Okarun to a pulp and will be exceptionally hostile if anyone tries to attack his target. He even resorts to beating up the Jet Kur when she tried to kill him to fulfil her vendetta.
  • Scarf of Asskicking: He gets one when he embraces the Jumping Crone's power and becomes a full-blown supervillain.
  • Suicide Dare: A flashback depicts him telling Okarun that he doesn't deserve to live because of his interest in the occult.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: His short temper is a bad mix with the Jet Kur, and he repeatedly confronts her on who gets to fight Okarun. It eventually leads to Hase attacking her unprovoked when she ignores his order to attack Kinta, and then threatening her to not get in the way of his vendetta.
  • Unknown Rival: When he meets Okarun again in Chapter 167, he thinks he can pick up where they left off and go right back to hassling him. However, Okarun clearly hasn't thought about him at all since meeting Momo and all he feels towards Hase is slight annoyance at him for forcing him to be his partner instead of someone who'd be closer to his skill level. It's telling that Okarun doesn't even care that he just showed up his old bully, instead simply expressing shock at how fit he's become.
  • Villain Team-Up: He surprise attacks Okarun and Kinta while accompanied by the Jet Booster Kur, though they lack any kind of teamwork whatsoever compared to their targets.
  • Would Hit a Girl: He doesn't hold back on the Jet Booster Kur when the latter goes after Okarun, whom he marked his primary target.
  • Walking Spoiler: Without spoilers Hase is just a bully with very little screentime who made his return after a very lengthy hiatus. Him getting mixed up with Saint Germain's plot and getting Yokai powers is a major twist for what is originally a very basic antagonist.
  • The Worf Effect: His return mainly just serves to highlight how far Okarun has come physically through his strength training and constant death-defying adventures, ultimately showing that even without Turbo Granny's powers, he's no longer the spineless doormat he was back in Chapter 1.

    Aira's Friends 

Tsubame and Anzu

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Tsubame Voiced by: Aya Yamane (Japanese), Jenny Yokobori (English)

Anzu Voiced by: Natsu Yorita (Japanese), Brittany Lauda (English)

Aira's former best friends and cronies.
  • Best Friend: They were this to Aira initially, barely questioning helping with her rather insane scheme to exorcise Momo. Aira revealing she spread the rumors about Momo being promiscuous and a overall terrible person caused the pair to avoid her for a time as they felt like they no longer knew or could trust Aira (who herself had changed a lot on adventures they knew nothing about). They eventually reconnect and reconcile due to the encouragement/insistence of Jiji (or rather, Evil Eye using Jiji's body). In Volume 19's Omake, their friendship and trust is fully restored.
  • The Dividual: They don't exactly have very defining personalities apart from being Aira's partners.
  • Everyone Has Standards: They were okay with Aira manipulating innocent boys with fake kindness and kidnapping her enemies to exorcise them, but they were appalled when Aira admitted to have spread the degrading rumor about Momo. It's because of this that they temporarily turned their back on her.
  • Evil Counterpart: Downplayed as they are not evil, but shallow and catty. They are this to Momo's two best friends: Miko and Muko.
  • The Generic Girl: Not the most memorable or interesting girls in the world of Dandadan.
  • Named In The Adaptation: The anime gives these previously unnamed characters the names Tsubame and Anzu.
  • Unexplained Recovery: They are flung into a pile of wooden planks by Momo when trying to exorcise her and are left unconscious. They appear a few episodes later no worse for wear, especially notable in the anime where Momo throwing them appears harder and more violent than in the manga.

    Queen Sensei 

Joō

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The nurse at Momo and Okarun's school who is as intimidating as she is beautiful, and yes, Queen Sensei is her legal name.
  • Adaptational Dye-Job: In the manga, her hair has heavy light highlights. The anime however, gives her solid black hair.
  • Adaptational Weapon Swap: In the manga, she is shown wielding a club in her introduction. In the anime, it is changed to a flogger whip which reinforces the dominatrix motif.
  • Badass Teacher: She first appeared offering to help Momo, Okarun, and Aira if they were being bullied after the Serpo Arc left them naked in school. In her next appearance she appeared in Empty Space and revealed that she can see Pygmies and other supernatural events.
  • Berserk Button: Bullies, of course. But she especially detests the Wounded Gazelle Gambit.
  • Bully Hunter: Has an intense hatred of bullies and has offered to hunt them down and beat them up for her students.
  • The Bus Came Back: She makes her debut at the end of the Serpo arc and isn't seen again for 149 chapters, wherein she plays a role in the Kozuka Knives arc.
  • Catchphrase Insult: She has a habit of calling those around her "bald" or "baldie", regardless if they are really bald or not.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: She first debuted all the way back in chapter 25 before finally playing a big role in chapter 174.
  • Connected All Along: Chapter 201 reveals that she's fairly close with Manjiro, having first met him when she came to him for help with a student who had a haunting problem. It's also suggested that Manjiro has feelings for her (or is in a serious relationship with her). She trusts him in her school office unsupervised, and he casually reveals that he's a masochist which fits perfectly with her being a dominatrix.
  • Consummate Liar: Joō questions if Okarun's group really attacked Kouki, insisting she won't be mad over the truth. Kouki admits she attacked first, while tearfully apologizing, then Joō literally slaps her off her feet and calls her a "little shit".
  • Custom Uniform of Sexy: Her nurse outfit is definitely not regulation or suited for a school; featuring thigh-high boots, a very short skirt, and a white coat that leaves her shoulders and cleavage exposed. She very much invokes a dominatrix playing to a sexy nurse motif rather than a actual school nurse.
  • Dub Personality Change: A subtle example. In the original version, her speech pattern is blunt, rougher and informal. Whereas in the English Dub, she speaks with more a polished and refined pattern.
    Queen Sensei (original): Ya damn baldie! I told ya don't open the door without knocking first!
    Queen Sensei (dub): Ya bald weasel! How many times do I have to tell you to knock first before entering?!
  • Equivalent Exchange: Aira explains that Queen Sensei can heal anyone in need but as a penance, she has to endure an illness based on the level of healing she can provide to her patients.
  • Has a Type: Manjiro, after implying he is very close to her, says he is Queen-sensei's type, and also states he is a masochist. Fitting given her dominatrix tendencies.
  • Healing Hands: Awakening spiritual perception also gave her the power to heal, Kinta stating she undid the damage to his face (from her knocking him out earlier) with a single touch, and Jiji agreeing she must have some kind of power. This is more explicitly seen later when she heals Aira's injured back in the time it takes them to reach the hospital, simply by rubbing her hands up and down her back until the tissue damage is gone. However, her healing has a cost to using it, in that Queen Sensei will become sick afterwards in proportion to the degree of healing she did. Healing Aira leads to her throwing up in the hospital restroom for close to an hour.
  • Hero of Another Story: In her second appearance, she informs Kouki and her new friends that she's witnessed multiple exorcisms and visited supernatural sites as part of her job of helping her students with their personal problems.
  • Hospital Hottie: She's the resident school nurse and she's as beautiful as she is intimidating to everyone around her.
  • Hypocritical Humor: Despite her reputation as a Bully Hunter, she berates and (in the anime) whips a teacher for entering into her office without knocking. She also calls him "baldy" (an insult she uses regardless of whether someone is bald or not, admittedly).
  • Older Than They Look: She looks like a stunning young woman, but according to the 36-year-old Manjiro, she's actually older than him.
  • Perpetual Frowner: Her default expression, especially in the anime, shows her with a grumpy scowl. She even has one in her official ID card (which also shows her legal name is literally "Queen Sensei").
  • Reasonable Authority Figure:
    • Despite her grim attitude towards bullies while being strict with the young heroes, she assures them that she's on their side and has no intention of punishing for them being in their underwear/naked on school grounds.
    • In Chapter 200, she supports Kouki when she gives her testimony against her coworker Murakami. She also offers to supervise Aira when she's taken to the hospital to treat her injuries.

    Miss Adachi (Unmarked Spoilers

Mika Adachi

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One of the few seemingly normal teachers at the main characters' school, where most teachers are colorful, over-the-top characters. She's in charge of Class E and sits next to Sanjome/Saint Germain in the faculty office.


  • Anti-Villain: While the one behind the Jiangshi attack, she likely only did so due to wanting a cure for her ailing mother.
  • Go-Go Enslavement: Downplayed. Murakami forces her to wear a skimpy bunny suit so she can receive financial support for her sick mother, though she agreed to this with the ability and intention to take him down at any time (as she can make the jiangshi appear anywhere around her). She only waited to see if she could determine the nature of his powers before she took them from him.
  • I Gave My Word: She convinces Murakami to give up his yokai power by claiming to be responsible for the surprise swarm and will only help him if he yields. Rather than leaving him to suffer, she then orders her Jiangshi to help her fend off the insects.
  • Minion Master: She has the power to command the jiang-shi via paper seals.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: After tricking Murakami into giving up his power so that her ailing mother will be healed, she tries to present the power to her benefactor. To her misfortune, the benefactor points out that Murakami was another Kozuka Knife Wielder and not a designated target. Her actions, mixed with her kind heart, ultimately result in the benefactor releasing Miss Adachi while demanding that she return her Jiangshi power.
  • Playboy Bunny: She's forced to wear this outfit by Mr. Murakami, in exchange for money to support her sick mother.
  • Reluctant Fanservice Girl: In exchange for money to pay for her mother's medical bills, Mr. Murakami makes her put on a risque-looking bunny suit to satiate his perversions.
  • Ship Tease: Subverted in the worst possible way with Mr. Murakami. Initially, the two act very friendly with each other, with Murakami inviting her to a singles mixer. However, this is before we find out about Murakami's true perverted nature, where he's coercing her for sexual favors in order to help pay for her mother's medical expenses.
  • Token Good Teammate: Among the civilians given a Kozuka Knife, she's regarded as the most kind-hearted among them, something her benefactor uses to criticize how she would never discard her morals to steal Momo and her friends' powers.
  • Victoria's Secret Compartment: Stashes a Kozuka knife in her cleavage to hide it when Murakami has her wear a bunny girl outfit.
  • Walking Spoiler: The fact that she's important enough to have her own entry in the first place makes it hard to hide she's more than she seems.
  • Xanatos Speed Chess: Even though she's coerced into Mr. Murakami's apartment to be sexually exploited, Adachi goes along with it with the intention of attacking him using her Jiangshi army. Then, when a swarm of insects surprise attacks the pervert, she takes credit for the swarm and forces him to admit defeat so she can steal his powers, promising to save his life if he does.

    Mr. Murakami (Unmarked Spoilers

Takeshi Murakami

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A large and friendly gym teacher. At least on the surface...


  • Bait the Dog: Introduced as a friendly Lovable Jock gym teacher, Murakami turns out to be a pervert and a dangerous sexual predator who manipulates high school girls into doing his bidding and giving him stroke material, on top of seemingly having some sort of dangerous supernatural power based on the "headless basketball team" urban legend that can outright strip the heads off his victims and, by draining their life essence, turn them into more minions for his power.
  • Blackmail: His general MO appears to be extorting sexual favors and power via blackmail, either by threatening female students who broke school rules into sending him lewd photos, or by making Miss Adachi financially indebted to him through her ailing mother.
  • Crazy-Prepared: Learning from Kouki's mistakes, he set up Aira and the girls to be trapped in the school gym while fending off his Headless Dribbler Yokai. He does so while monitoring them from his apartment in the middle of Kamigoe City.
  • Creepy Gym Coach: A gym teacher who preys on women and blackmails high-school girls into sending him lewd images of themselves, like Kouki. This isn't just limited to his students, as he takes advantage of fellow teacher Adachi and coerces her into sexual favors for money.
  • De-power: He gives up his ability to control the Head Dribbler yokai after Miss Adachi tricks him into yielding.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: There's a panel of him watching Aira and the girls fighting his dribblers while he's riding on a pedal bike in his underwear. The way he seems to enjoy their ongoing torment mixed with the unsettling reveal of him forcing girls to send him provocative photos makes it come off as him pleasuring himself.
  • The Dog Was the Mastermind: He appears several times before the revelation that he is the teacher responsible for Kouki's predicament.
  • Heroic Build: He's in really good shape, even by high school gym teacher standards. Exaggerated and played for gross-out points once he's exposed as a villain; Murakami's then drawn so his bulging musculature looks unnatural and disgusting, especially in comparison to his cartoonish head.
  • Humiliation Conga: Just before he could sexually exploit Miss Adachi, he's suddenly attacked by a swarm of insects. In a vain attempt to stop the swarm, he willingly gives up his power to control the Headless Dribblers so Miss Adachi can save him. It doesn't work as he's immediately brought before Acro Aira who beats him up on the spot which is then followed by him being arrested as Kouki testifies against him. All of this happens while he's wearing nothing but a thong.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: For long period of time, he's been able to blackmail countless high school girls into giving him suggestive photos. But after being defeated by Kouki and her new friends, his crimes are exposed and he's swiftly arrested.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: When he's attacked by a swarm of insects and Miss Adachi claims to be responsible, he accepts defeat, if only to get her to stop the swarm. Then when he's brought to the girls and roundhouse kicked by Acro Aira, he holds onto his composure and offers to delete Yukishiro's lewd photos and call it their win. He also doesn't put up much of a fight as he's escorted by the police.
  • Minion Master: Much like Adachi, he's able to command an army of Headless Dribblers to attack the teens with attitude from a far location.
  • Obvious Villain, Secret Villain: He's the secret villain to Saint Germain's obvious villain. While Saint Germain clearly has sinister intentions despite how mysterious they are, Murakami is a pretty unassuming minor character. However, it's revealed that Murakami is a vile sexual predator who has been blackmailing Kouki as well as other girls.
  • Sinister Surveillance: He had cameras set up in the gym so he can watch Aira and her gal pals be brutalized by his Headless Dribblers.
  • Ship Tease: Subverted with fellow teacher Ms. Adachi. Initially, the two act very friendly with each other, with Murakami inviting her to a singles mixer. However, this is before we find out about his true perverted nature, and further subverted when it's revealed that Murakami is coercing sexual favors out of her in order to help pay for her mother's medical expenses.
  • Sadist Teacher: He searches the social media accounts of his female students to see if they violated school rules, to blackmail them into sending him lewd photos. In addition, he sees the Head Dribbler yokai attacking Aira, Rin, and Kouki from his home while working out and laughs at their expense.
  • Secretly Wealthy: Despite being a gym teacher, he's well-off enough to own a high-rise apartment, and blackmails Adachi through paying for her elderly mother's medical bills. He claims his wealth comes from stock trading.
  • Walking Spoiler: Murakami isn't merely the gym teacher at the school, but is the instigator for Kouki Yukishiro's plight and has his own supernatural power, both impossible to talk about without giving away multiple plot twists.
  • Weak Boss, Strong Underlings: In spite of his muscular build and intimidating aura, he's not so tough when it comes to physical combat. He relies on his Headless Dribblers to wear down the heroes and is easily knocked out by Silky's supernatural strength when he's dragged into kicking range.

Other Characters

    Mr. Shiratori 

Mr. Shiratori

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Voiced by: Daisuke Takahashi (Japanese), Keith Silverstein (English)

Aira's dad. A devoted and bespectacled single man with some wacky quirks.


  • The Bus Came Back: After a lengthy period where he is not seen or mentioned, he returns in the Daizukan.
  • Comical Overreacting: In the Daizukan, when Aira blows off his pleas to spend time with him, he immediately hugs a photo of his late wife and cries about how their daughter became a delinquent. The display is so pitiful that Aira relents and agrees to eat breakfeast with him.
  • Doting Parent: To the point of clinginess. In the Daizukan, he poutily refuses to pick up his socks unless Aira spends time with him, much to her chagrin. When she calls him annoying, he cries to a portrait of her mother about her becoming a delinquent.
  • Good Parents: For the most part, he's a decent man who tried his best to raise Aira on his own.
  • Lying to Protect Your Feelings: Because Aira's mother died when she was only a little girl and she didn't understand what had happened, he chose to for the time being tell her that she had gone somewhere far away and that it would be a long while before Aira could see her again.
  • Porn Stash: He has a den full of dirty magazines and X-rated movies that Aira has easy access to.

    Mr. and Mrs. Enjoji 

Mr. and Mrs. Enjoji

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Mrs. Enjoji voiced by: Yukari Watanabe (Japanese), Kristen McGuire (English)
Mr. Enjoji voiced by: Ikuji Nose (Japanese), Kaiji Tang (English)

Jiji's parents who were almost victimized by the Cursed House.


  • Drives Like Crazy: When driving a family truck, Mrs. Enjoji is shown to drive without a care for traffic safety.
  • Like Parent, Like Child: Jiji gets a lot of his high energy and goofy personality from his mother.
  • Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Because of the Mongolian Death Worm's influence, the two of them tried to hang themselves outside of their balcony. Thankfully, they were saved by their son and were hospitalized since.
  • Small Parent, Huge Child: Both are a lot shorter than their son.
  • Unfazed Everyman: Mr. Enjoji doesn't even react to his wife's wacky antics and only tells her to "settle down" with minimal effort.

    Kito Family 

Kito Family

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Naki Kito voiced by: Masako Isobe (Japanese), Morgana Ignis (English)
Juichi Kito voiced by: Shiro Saito (Japanese), Kirk Thornton (English)
Jugemu Kito voiced by: Shunichi Maki (Japanese), Sean Chiplock (English)
Juhiko Kito voiced by: Michitake Kikuchi (Japanese), Kaiji Tang (English)
Jurian Kito voiced by: Yusuke Sasaki (Japanese), Doug Erholtz (English)
Jugenna Kito voiced by: Yuki Tamai (Japanese), Xander Mobus (English)

A wealthy and influential family living in a small hot spring town who worship a snake god and sacrifice newcomers to it on occasion, claiming it is necessary to prevent a catastrophic volcanic eruption.


  • Alliterative Family: With the exception of Naki, all of the Kito's first names start with "J".
  • Ambiguously Human: Despite presumably being human, they are drawn with a disturbingly "realistic" style to their unattractive faces, and the anime gives them gray-greenish skin and black blood. While their "mother", Naki Kito, is confirmed to be a Subterranean in disguise, the rest of them are currently only classed as "human (?)" according to bonus pages in the manga. They're later shown to be able to survive on the surface of the moon.
  • Ambiguously Related: While the Kito men, (or at the very least Juichi) are explicitly confirmed to be Naki's sons, it's not clear if the Kito women are her daughters or other relatives.
  • 0% Approval Rating: From what little we see, nobody in the town seems to actually like the Kito family. When their actions cause the local bathhouse a ton of damage, the locals jump on the opportunity to have them arrested and punished (making it clear this is far from the first time they have caused damage and that there is a lot of animosity built up toward them), though it doesn't stick thanks to them having cowed the local policeman. Because they own most or all of the town's land, the populace has to put up with them to some degree, their remote location giving them few options to do otherwise, and their matriarch heavily implies anyone who doesn't cooperate risks dying in a hunting "accident."
  • Batman Can Breathe in Space: Apparently, the matriarch and her boys are able to breathe just fine on the Moon after they were all stranded there by Momo, only commenting on how the air was thinner than they were used to.
  • Blatant Lies: Turns out, the Kito family will make up self-serving lies at the drop of a hat;
    • Their insistence that they're only sacrificing people to appease their great serpent so the volcano doesn't erupt is undermined by the revelation that they sacrificed the child who is the core of the Evil Eye by dunking him into a lava flow, and goes right out the window after Momo kills it. They immediately start screaming that they'll sacrifice her to "the great volcano" without missing a beat.
    • Their second appearance has them insist that they're taking revenge for the people who died from the volcano — even though nobody did die, and everybody there knows it.
    • Downplayed in that it is ambiguous if any of them except Naki (who seems to have secret motives) actually even knows they are lying, with the rest of the Kitos seeming to mindlessly believe anything Naki says and adopt it as their reality.
  • Bullying a Dragon: In their second appearance, the matriarch has zero qualms about antagonizing the Evil Eye residing within Jiji even after knowing how powerful he is and how much hatred he bears for her family.
  • The Bus Came Back: After over a hundred chapters of absence, the Kito Family made their grand return in chapter 192, ready to go after Momo once more.
  • Calling Your Attacks: The Kito matriarch shouts "Jennifer! Lopez! ANACONDA!" when performing an attack.
  • Contrasting Replacement Character: To the Serpoians. Much like the aliens, the Kitos are a group of creepy, smiling, grey-skinned figures who sexually abuse women and exploit those under their control. The difference is that the Serpoians are alien clones who are motivated to advance the biology of their species while the Kitos are a family unit of Earthly origins who seek to maintain their control over their hometown. They also are arch-villains to Momo Ayase. But while the Serpoians want to abduct her to steal her powers, the Kitos simply want to kill her for foiling their plans.
  • Cult: They worship a Cryptid that they mistake for a snake god, and have been secretly sacrificing people living on the house on the hill to it for years. Their matriarch, however, is implied to have had another purpose and to have known all along it was not a god, her goal actually having been to increase the worm's size for an unknown purpose.
  • Devil in Plain Sight: They subvert Villains Blend in Better very hard, as they don't bother or are barely able to mask how they ooze malice. Every non Kito in the town dislikes them and knows they're up to no good but are unable to do anything to stop them because the Kito family own most of the land and there isn't any evidence of any serious crimes that can be used to arrest them. At the end of their debut arc, the local police are able to finally arrest the majority of them, until they manage to escape prison around the time Momo is shrunken and flying across the country to reverse her condition.
  • Dragon Their Feet: Even after Momo kills the Mongolian Death Worm that they worship, they continue to attack her for vengeance.
  • Eaten Alive: The Death Worm eats them when they try to offer Momo, Okarun, and Jiji as sacrifices. Though they manage to escape its corpse after Momo tricks it into committing suicide in the sun. Over a hundred chapters later, it happens again when they foolishly attempt to betray Momo after a tense, desperate alliance against the Typhoon Human; a few panels later they've been gobbled up by one of the midair sharks.
  • Enemy Mine: The Kito Matriarch, Naki, teams up with Momo and Manjiro to fight the Evil Eye, realizing that he will kill all of them if she doesn't. And during their rematch on a plane, they have to settle for a ceasefire due to the batshit situation of being caught in a sentient typhoon that has both human traits and the ability to shoot flying sharks out of its nose.
  • Eternal Villain: The perm-wearing Kito matriarch has been present at the Kitos' sacrificial ceremonies for centuries, based on the Evil Eye's memories and her own words about having worked for two hundred years to grow the worm.
  • Evil Is Petty: The family (in particular Mrs. Naki) hold a grudge against Momo not only due to her foiling their schemes and avoid becoming their victim, but also for calling out their hypocrisy of pretending to be equanimous and fair while wanting to kill and create havoc just because they want to. They're entirely aware that they're not in the right, but have made Momo their scapegoat for not accepting their "rightgeousness".
  • Evil Sounds Raspy: Both dubs give Naki a raspy and intimating voice.
  • Fat Bastard: Juichi is the most rotund of the Kito men, and he his both Naki's second in command, and the ringleader of his gang of rapist brothers.
  • Faux Affably Evil:
    • Several men join Momo at the hot springs and have a casual conversation with her about "gators"...then they gang up on, and try to force themselves, on her.
    • Naki politely greets Jiji when he returns home and offers him and Okarun some snacks...right before whipping out her shotgun and threatening the former with it for inviting a "spirit medium" to her house.
  • Full-Frontal Assault: In addition to attacking Momo in the hotsprings, the men who beat Jiji and Okarun are stripped to their loincloths.
  • Gossipy Hens: In their first appearance, Naki and the Kito women are shown gossiping while gorging themselves on snacks.
  • Hate Sink: While many of the antagonists are shown in a sympathetic light due to their tragic pasts, the Kito Family are never shown as anything but pure, irredeemable scum. At best, they're snobbish assholes, and at worst, they're murderous cultists and outright rapists.
  • Humiliation Conga: From being beaten up perpetually by Momo and Evil Eye, to being eaten whole by the very thing they worshipped, to being marooned on the moon after failing to sacrifice Momo and her group after defeating the Typhoon Human, The Kito Family suffer embarassing loss after embarassing loss every time they appear on-screen.
  • Jerkass: Even putting aside the fact that they're a cult who sacrifices people to a giant worm, the Kito Family is pretty much written to be as unlikable as possible, not helped by the nigh constant creepy expressions they wear.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: They lasted for several years free of legal consequences thanks to their threats and connections with the local police. But after the Haunted House Arc, their crimes are fully exposed and all of them are arrested except for the runaway matriarch.
  • Karmic Butt-Monkey: Although never suffering legal consequences after their defeat, the Kito family suffer from a variety of misfortunes. The men are beaten up by Momo and Turbo Granny, get eaten by the Mongolian Death Worm, and all get arrested sans Naki. During their rematch their battle is ruined by the Serpos teleporting the Typhoon Human in their direction, the family gets eaten by a giant shark (and are shortly forced to work together with Momo and her friends to survive the typhoon that's creating the sharks, which leaves Naki supremely pissed off) and somehow gets marooned on the moon.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Their whole MO involves feeding innocent humans to their deathworm for sustenance. So it's only fitting that they're swallowed up whole themselves, first their own worm, then eventually by a giant shark.
  • Momma's Boy: The men are so completely dependent on their mother that they can hardly take any actions without her approval. She even scolds them for not being able to think for themselves.
  • More Deadly Than the Male: Played With. The Kito Men are the main fighters among the family while the women stand by and watch; their only offensive input is ineffectively whacking Jiji and Okarun with brooms when they attempt to push the men into quicksand. But the matriarch Naki is considered the strongest in the family in terms of fighting skills and physical strength.
  • Mundane Horror: They're only ordinary (if disturbing-looking), somewhat strong humans, but are by far the scariest antagonists in the series up to that point. Subverted at the end of the Haunted House Arc when it's revealed that at least their matriarch is a Subterranean.
  • Named In The Adaptation: Three of the Kito women are named in the anime: Juriko, Juju, and Juteim.
  • Never Mess with Granny: They're all mostly versed in hand-to-hand combat, but their matriarch Mrs. Naki is a powerful master martial artist who can even dodge spiritual attacks.
  • Never My Fault:
    • During their rematch with Momo and Jiji, Naki specifically blames her for causing the volcano to erupt, while the males accuse her of sending them to jail "for no reason," ignoring that they nearly raped her, not to mention their many other crimes they've committed over the years. Naki also blames Momo for the deaths caused by the eruption, despite, as Momo points out, nobody actually died, and they've been killing innocent people for generations.
    • Then in Chapter 200, she immediately blames Momo for sending them to the Moon, thinking that it was her master plan without considering that it was her bragging about sacrificing them which motivated the Evil Eye into attacking her.
  • The Nose Knows: They apparently have a superhuman sense of smell, having used it to track Momo across a great distance.
  • Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: They genuinely believe that they're doing a hometown a service by sacrificing people to appease their great god and keep it from destroying everything. Of course, this involves sacrificing innocent people for hundreds of years while acting like everyone should praise and spoil them. Except when it turns out that at least the matriarch knows perfectly well it's not a god, and they've actually been feeding it for some other, darker purpose.
  • Opportunistic Bitch: As soon as the Typhoon Human is defeated, Naki tries to take Momo and her friends to their hideout so they can feed them to their new deathworm.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: In their next big appearance, they walk around in public wear only shades and face masks despite being wanted criminals. The matriarch doesn't even bother changing her afro hair or flashy wardrobe.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Naki can't directly take revenge on Momo and Jiji while stuck on a plane with them, due to the Typhoon Human's threat. So she decides to "help" by summoning a new death worm to attack the cryptid.
  • Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Some men from the Kito Family try to sexually assault Momo in a public bath. Unlike the Serpoians, who at least have the excuse that they don't think like humans and can't reproduce on their own thanks to weird biology, these guys are just massive creeps.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Having the local policeman under their thumb let them sweep murders and rapes under the rug (at least to a degree, as he warns them there is a limit to what he can do). The jig was up as soon as they got investigated, however.
  • Shout-Out:
    • The matriarch has an attack called "Jennifer Lopez Anaconda", referring to the actress and the movie she starred in.
    • Design-wise, Naki Kito's true Subterranean form resembles Alien Hipporito from Ultraman Ace, continuing the series many homages to Ultraman.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Evil Eye was merely one of many victims in their human-sacrificing rituals.
  • Younger Than They Look: They look like a bunch of 60-plus year-olds while being hundreds of years old. They don't look "young" in the whole sense of the word, but they're not withered prunes like the immortal Struldbruggs in Gulliver's Travels.

    Daiki Hakono 

Daiki Hakono

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An old man who had been trapped within the Danmara for years before being accidentally set free by Unji Zuma's gang.


  • Break the Haughty: When he was a schoolboy, he liked to brag about his dad's job and belittled another boy for not being as privileged as him. In the present, he believes his experience of being trapped in the Danmara was punishment for his poor behavior.
  • Cassandra Truth: When he is reunited with his parents, they refuse to believe that the old man before them is their child, whom went missing a mere four years ago, and assume his presence is a cruel prank by the police.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite being immature and easily spooked, he managed to survive within Danmara for what was likely decades all by his lonesomeness. His sword is also capable of cutting Momo's telekinetic hands.
  • Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the isekai protagonist. He's a realistic look at what would happen if you sent a young boy to a fantasy world filled monsters with no conceivable way home: A traumatized and ill-adjusted man who desperately wants to return to to his old life.
  • Expy: Of Alan Parrish, Robin Williams' character from the original 1995 Jumanji movie. A Manchild from a well-off family who was sucked into a cursed board game at a young age and was forced to spend his formative years growing up in a hazardous environment surrounded by monsters and traps native to the game. Unable to escape until the next group of unwitting children pick up the board to play.
  • Go Mad from the Isolation: He's not all there in the head, but given the fact that he'd stuck in the Danmara for several years in game, with the non-hostile NPCs from Snow Town likely being the closest thing to friends he had before being released by Zuma's gang, it's a miracle that he's as sane as he is.
  • Hidden Depths: His father is an airline pilot and he used to teach him how to to fly via a simulator. Daiki proves to know enough about piloting to do so when they need to turn the plane around to grab Momo, Zuma and Jiji.
  • Manchild: Tragically justified. He was sucked into the Danmara back when he was in the Fourth Grade and had been trapped there fighting for his life for four years. While he may have grown physically, he's never had the chance actually mature as a person.
  • Meaningful Name: His family name contains the kanji for 'box,' and sounds like the phrase for 'of the box' or 'in the box.'
  • Must Make Amends: After being inspired by Zuma's kindness and Raiya's dedication, Daiki voices a new desire of breaking his curse so he can apologize to a classmate that he bullied.
  • Never Going Back to Prison: The Danmara was essentially his own private hell for years and he will do anything to avoid going back there, especially when Zuma's gang attempts to throw him back in in order to free their boss. This includes frantically attacking any random person he thinks might be trying to take him back and begging Momo and Okarun to save him after they get him restrained.
  • Unwitting Pawn: After Zuma's gang stumble on the Danmara, Fairy Tale Card releases him in order to act as bait to attract people strong enough to break the seals keeping him contained and manipulate them to do his bidding.
  • Vague Age: He appears to be pretty old but his apparent decrepitude could just be a result of the horrible conditions he's been living in. When asked about his age, he forlornly states that he doesn't even know anymore. Chapter 181 reveals that he's technically middle-school age since it had only been four years outside of the diorama since he was trapped.
  • Younger Than They Look: Tragically so. Despite only being four years older than he was when first transported to the Danmara, Daiki looks a middle-aged man thanks to the passage of time inside the diorama, and even when out of the game, a curse makes him still rapidly age and looks very elderly. So when Officer Bega tracks down his parents, they refuse to believe that he is their son.

    Minotaur 

Minotaur

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A bull-headed entity that attacks Seiko in an attempt to seize her power. Subtle as a brick, but strong and sturdy.


  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Just before being shattered, he begs to be spared and offers to reveal his master's name to Seiko.
  • Anti-Villain: Just like Kouki, he didn't really want to hurt anybody but attacked Seiko because the person who ordered the attack promised they'd help his terminally ill wife.
  • Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: In addition to being an actual kung fu master, he loves to boast about how any damage he takes only makes his body harder.
  • Combat Pragmatist: In spite of his arrogance, he takes special care to prevent Seiko from grabbing her bag when he notices her reaching for it, realizing that it might contain something that would allow her to turn the tables.
  • Combat Sado Masochist: He loves being struck, as any physical damage he takes only increases his already absurd durability. He's notably less enthused by the prospect after Seiko, Payase and Kashimoto manage to break through his iron-hard defense.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: Given the fact that his body gets harder the more physical abuse he takes and his proclaiming that it makes him him feel hot, calling the parallels between his ability and BDSM play "thinly-veiled" is the understatement of the year. Particularly highlighted when Seiko and Payase both individually strike him with ineffective crotch shots, causing them to remark on his… hardness.
  • Fairy Tale Motifs: Given that he was paired with the Chinese Jiangshi, he may be inspired by Ox-Head, a bull-headed warden who guards the Chinese underworld.
  • Full-Frontal Assault: He fights in nothing but a pair of tighty-whiteys.
  • Hot-Blooded: The minotaur speaks at full volume, likes fighting, and even yells about getting "HOT, HOT".
  • Human All Along: After Seiko shatters his shell, it's revealed that underneath is an ordinary-looking salaryman.
  • Literally Shattered Lives: Kashimoto's Ice Flames give Payase's shadow hands and Seiko's god-empowered kick enough of an edge to overwhelm the minotaur's iron like toughness to sever his arms and smash his face. Given the lack of blood and viscera, his claims to be made of iron might not be hyperbole.
  • Pants-Positive Safety: Knife edition. The minotaur carries a blade rather like Saint Germain's down the front of his underpants (the only item of clothing he wears, and thus the closest thing he has to a pocket). Given his whole deal about being hard the drawbacks of keeping a blade so close to your unmentionables is negated.
  • Shadow Archetype: His true form, a timid and weak-willed salaryman, represents what Okarun would have become if he remained timid and passive all the way into his adult years.
  • Turns Red: The more hits he takes or dishes out, the tougher and stronger he gets.

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