Characters / Dance in the Vampire Bund

The Characters of Dance in the Vampire Bund. Be aware of spoilers.

Main Characters

Wilhelmina Vlad 'Mina' Tepes

^{Click here to see her true form} 

Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (JP), Monica Rial (EN), Susana Moreno (LA)

The main female protagonist and the ruler of all vampires.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Mina's hair is light pink in most of the manga's colored art, but it's blonde in the anime. Eventually, Mina started being drawn with blond hair in the manga as well to match the anime.
• Anti-Hero: Mina has taken some morally questionable paths, and she can be cold and ruthless, but her deep love for those she cares for is unmatched, as is her dream of peace between humanity and vampires. Her kindness to Susie and Jessica is one example, but probably the best single panel that shows it is 200 years past, after Mina spent 20 years on the run in perpetual terror from Rozenmann's minions, when Alphonse busts down the door to rescue her, Mina had been staying with a kind old woman...and she immediately leaps in front of the woman as a human shield.
• Antiquated Linguistics: She speaks in ancient Japanese.
• Arch-Enemy: To the Three Lords, but also the Fake Mina.
• Badass Adorable: She looks adorable with her childlike body and Elegant Gothic Lolita dresses, but don't underestimate her because she's a pure-blooded vampiress and can kick major ass, especially in her true form.
• Badass in Distress: After fake Mina takes her place, Mina spends some time pursued and held captive by Rozennman and his forces. She's eventually rescued through the combined effort of Akira and her maids.
• Bait-and-Switch Character Intro: In the first chapter, Akira is taken to meet the queen of vampires for the first time in seven years. We're then introduced to a voluptuous, black-haired woman sitting at a throne. But Akira isn't fooled by the imposter and identifies the real Mina; a blonde little girl who gave him a flower earlier.
• Battle Couple: Mina is a powerful pure-blooded vampiresss and her bodyguard/boyfriend Akira is a werewolf who was trained from birth to protect her. Together, they protect each other and are passionately in love.
• Benevolent Boss: Her maids are utterly devoted to her, and it's strongly implied she rescued them from the streets once upon a time. Mina also cherishes each and every one of those who swear themselves to her.
• Broken Bird: The death of her mother and being submitted to the control of the Three Nobles who want to force her to bear them a child has taken its toll on Mina.
• Brought Down to Normal: In Scarlet Order, being exposed to a fragment of the Akamitama causes Mina to temporarily lose all her vampiric traits, basically becoming a regular human who can taste food and walk under the sun without burning.
• The Chains of Commanding: The series deals with the many harsh decisions and burdens Mina must carry as queen of vampires.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: She was no older than she usually looks now when her mother was killed and left her the de jure queen of the vampires.
• The Chosen One: Mina is revealed to the youngest daughter of the vampire god and the first vampire queen, destined to stop her father from devouring the world in darkness.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She can get easily jealous of other people who show interest in Akira. Knowing that Yuki had an unrequited crush on Akira made Mina hostile towards Yuki at first, but later warms up to her. Mina also gets mad when Angie brags about how physically close he was to Akira during their werewolf ritual.
• Clothing Damage: Not as often as one would expect, but only because she rarely wears clothes when things go tits up.
• Compulsory School Age: Mina is a 400-year-old in a preteen body, yet she built a school where she's simultaneously the principal and a student just because she wanted to experience a fun high school life with Akira.
• Cute Little Fangs: As expected from a cute vampire girl, Mina has a small pair of fangs.
• Damsel out of Distress: The first time Mina is captured by Rozenmann, she avoids sleeping as much as she can to not give her captors even one moment of vulnerability and takes the first chance she gets to escape on her own. She's only captured again because Rozenmann's men threaten to hurt the humans who gave her shelter.
• Daywalking Vampire: After being exposed to the Akamitama, Mina undergoes a transformation that makes her closer to human, including becoming immune to the sunlight that should be lethal to vampires.
• Despair Event Horizon: She crosses it when Rozenmann informs her Akira is dead. She almost commits suicide here.
• Dual Age Modes: She chooses to look like a child most of the time, but her true form is a beautiful adult woman. She does this because if the Three Nobles found out about her adult form, they would force her into marrying one of them and producing a child with the excuse that it's to preserve the Pure Royal Bloodline.
• Due to the Dead: In a short sidestory, Mina ceremoniously goes to leave flowers at the grave of the human woman who took care of her for a few years, at the anniversary of her death.
• Easily Forgiven: Mina is forced to order Yuzuru to push Nanami to her death in order to stop her from causing a nuclear explosion. When Nanami is revealed to have been saved by Alphonse, Nanami holds no grudges against Mina, understanding that a queen must take harsh decisions to protect her kingdom even if it hurts her. Yuzuru, however, did not forgive Mina until he discovered Nanami was still alive.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: She wears a black gothic lolita dress when out of her school uniform.
• Endearingly Dorky: When Akira is down about Angie's betrayal, Mina cheers him up by pretending her twintails are a mustache. Akira and their friends find the gesture adorably goofy.
• Flipping the Bird: She does this to flip off Rozennman after Akira rescues her from his castle. Hilariously, Mina doesn't even know the meaning of the finger gesture and Akira doesn't tell her.
• Friend to All Children: She befriends the fangless children Jiji, Clara, and Anna who adore her.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Despite her occasionally ruthless actions, Mina is genuinely devoted to peace between humanity and vampires. When she escaped Rozenmann centuries ago, she survived because of the kindness of good hearted humans who took her in. It left her with a deep respect and love for humanity and a drive to create that peace.
• Full-Frontal Assault: You're lucky if she even begins a fight with any clothes on, and even when she does, she inevitably suffers Clothing Damage.
• Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is usually tied up in twin tails to match her youthful appearance.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: Subverted. Mina's wings are bat-like but despite her sometimes morally grey behavior she is decidedly good.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: The anime gave her blonde hair and despite being a bit ruthless, Mina is good vampiress who works hard to create a world where vampires and humans can coexist peacefully.
• Happily Adopted: When she was on the run from Rozenmann's clan, Mina spent several years living under the care of a human woman. Since the woman had lost her own children at the war caused by Napoleon, she was happy to have Mina living with her. They were very heartbroken when they had to be separated.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: She quickly becomes best friends with Yuki, making her her personal confidant and later future secretary.
• The High Queen: Regardless of her sometimes questionable and manipulative methods, Mina cares about her vampire subjects and wants to create a world where they can coexist peacefully with humans.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Akira. Akira's pretty tall for a 17-year-old Japanese highschooler, but not abnormally so. Mina's just that tiny.
• I Am a Monster: She often invokes this, and on some level deep down seems to believe it herself.
  "Akira... try not to have such a high opinion of me. I don't want to disappoint you."
• I Did What I Had to Do: She hated to order Yuzuru to push Nanami to her apparent death, but she had little choice when Nanami was being controlled into causing a nuclear explosion and millions of lives were at stake.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Her deepest, secret wish is having been born as a human girl, growing old, and enjoying a normal romance with Akira.
• Important Haircut: In Volume 13, she cuts her hair short in honor of the senate's death and to distinguish her from the fake Mina.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Mina's hair in colored illustrations from the manga can either be pink or blonde depending on the artist's mood.
• Innocently Insensitive: After Akira needs to kill a crazed Sanin, Mina says that she would die happy if Akira killed her. Needless to say, those words do nothing to comfort Akira and this is the only time he ever got mad enough to hit her.
• Interrupted Suicide: After she hears the news of Akira's apparent death, Mina falls into despair and jumps off the window in her chamber at Rozenmann's castle. She's caught by a mysterious maid who turns out to be Akira.
• Interspecies Romance: Mina is a vampire, Akira is a werewolf, both are in love, but there's a social stigma.
• The Jailbait Wait: Mina fell in love with Akira when he was only a few months old. Both because of her duties as queen and Akira needing to complete his training before becoming her bodyguard, she wasn't directly involved in his life until he was in his late teens. They quickly get into a relationship.
• Lady and Knight: She is a mixture of Dark Lady (public demeanor, ruthlessness, and the un-dead thing) and Bright Lady (core kindheartedness and idealistic long-term plans) to Akira's White Knight.
• Lethal Chef: Justified. Vampires have no sense of taste for anything that isn't blood, so Mina's attempt at making even a simple sandwich results in a Fire-Breathing Diner.
• Little Miss Badass: She looks like a 10 year old girl when not in her true form but is several centuries old. She can also kill you in many different ways.
• Love at First Sight: Mina chose Akira as the love of her life from the moment she first saw his smile when he was just a baby. Him comforting her after her chastity test only made her love stronger.
• Lust Object: Ivanovic feels a very disgusting lust towards Mina, wanting to rape her underaged body for his own depraved desires instead of producing offspring.
• Mama Bear: Mina has nothing short of protectiveness for those who have entered her care, and most of them are much younger than her (Veras is basicallythe only exception, having served Mina's mother). Woe to anyone who challenges her on this.
• Mandatory Motherhood: The other three pure blood clan heads demand her to bear the child of one of them. She's considered as property by the three since, to preserve the pure blood lineage (that they helped destroy), she must have a child with them. And the chastity test is a constant reminder of that fact to her.
• Manipulative Bitch: Mina can be very crafty if her opponent doesn't leave her any choice but to trick and threaten them, including using their relatives as hostages.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Mina is a 400 years old vampire, while Akira is a teenage werewolf. If not killed in battle Akira can be expected to live 150 to 200 years, and there is a method (the "Kiss of the Rose") to at least double that, but we are still looking at life expectancies differing by an order of magnitude here. Thanks to Mina biting him, and he (surprisingly) not dying, Akira has become a "Vampire Werewolf", who will not age.
• Meaningful Name: Mina's name can be derived from the Vlad the Impaler story and Dracula. Tepes is the Romanian word for Impaler, the reason Vlad the Impaler is called Vlad Tepes, and Mina was the name of Mina Murray, the woman that Dracula sought to have as his new bride in the original novel.
• Ms. Fanservice: The story never misses the chance to show off Mina's body and she's often shown either in a skimpy outfit or completely naked.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: By coming into contact with the complete Akamitama, Mina's true form gains a backless and sideless dress that displays a cleavage down to her midsection.
• Not Growing Up Sucks: Downplayed. She has accepted her preteen body because the leaders of the Three Clans would have turned her into their Breeding Slave if she had an adult body. However, her perfect dream reality has Mina admit she would like to grow up into a beautiful woman so she can look closer in age to Akira.
• Odd Name, Normal Nickname: Her name Wilhelmina is shortened to "Mina". Since the setting is Japan, her nickname sounds more natural in the Japanese language than her Western given name.
• Official Couple: Mina is in a romantic relationship with her bodyguard Akira.
• Older Alter Ego: Her true form is a beautiful adult woman.
• Parental Abandonment: Her mother was murdered in an uprising by Li, Ivanovic and Rozenmann. Her father is never seen and what ever became of him is unknown. Ivanovic and Rozenmann call him an 'inferior' and a 'nobody;', which means he was definitely not a pure blood like them.
• Pragmatic Hero: Even though she's naturally a good person with benevolent goals, Mina knows she can't depend on clean methods to defy her political enemies and scumbag vampires who want to control her. If she sees it necessary, she'll resort to manipulation, taking hostages, and reluctantly sacrificing some lives to accomplish her objectives and preserve peace between humans and vampires.
• Princesses Rule: Though she is sometimes referred to as 'queen', her official title seems to be Princess.
• Protectorate: Akira's main motivation is to always protect Mina and keep her safe.
• Really 700 Years Old: Despite her childlike appearance, she is over 400 years old.
• Rebuilt Pedestal:
  • Early on, Akira goes through a period where he seriously questions Mina's choices and moral standing because she had a boy kidnapped and bitten by one of her bodyguards in order to threaten a minister into letting vampires go to school. When there's some vampire rebels trying to take over Akira's school, he almost believes Mina will support them, but that isn't the case because no matter how ruthless she can be, Mina won't support actions that will only make vampires enemies to humanity. After confirming the good in Mina, Akira is sure she's the queen he wants to protect and swears to never doubt her again.
  • In the Li clan arc of A.S.O., Mina has Minister Ryu act as a spy and kidnap Minmei to get the chance to infiltrate the Li clan and put Minmei in power. When Mina wants to kill Emperor Li, Minmei defends him and she confronts Mina about using her as a tool for revenge against the Three Clans. Even though Mina thought Emperor Li was a cruel monster, he protected Minmei from the corrupt court and has sworn to help her lead the clan in the way she deems right, so Minmei no longer knows how much to believe Mina. Her faith in Mina is restored when she learns Mina installed a chip in her brain to locate her and communicate with her through a mouse hologram to make sure she wouldn't be all alone during captivity.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: She has the blood-red eyes and Undeathly Pallor appropriate to a centuries old Vampire Monarch that slaughters assassins with her own hands and plays chess with the lives of hundreds. However, she is at heart a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire who privately tortures herself whenever she is forced to endanger or sacrifice innocents for the greater good.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: At the start of A.S.O., Mina is believed to have been killed in an air raid from the vampire-hunting church. She directly quotes the Trope Namer when she reveals herself to be alive at the rescue of the American vampire refugees.
• Royal Bastard: Mina is stated to be the illegitimate daughter that Queen Lucretia had with an unknown peasant, something that provoked the rebellion of the leaders of the Three Clans. It's later revealed that Mina's father is the creator of the vampire race and the previous Tepes women were all daughters of the creator and the first vampire queen.
• Sadistic Choice: In the Ivanovic invasion, Mina must choose to either have a mind controlled Nanami killed or let her cause a nuclear explosion that make Hiroshima look tame in comparison. Although it pains her, Mina must order Yuzuru to push Nanami and make her fall to her death. Nanami survives, but no one knew for a long while.
• Sexier Alter Ego: Her true form is that of a mature and voluptuous woman who is usually seen nude.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: She wears a backless dress from time to time.
• Shameful Strip: The Three Clans perform one on Mina every 10 years with the excuse of the chastity test. But they're fooling no one. It's simply a way for them to assert their control over Mina.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: She seems having no problem with others seeing her naked. Her true form is nude every time she appears.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: After her secret true form is revealed to the Three Clans, Rozenmann starts developing a drug that'll trap Mina in her adult form so he can force her to bear his children. Fortunately, Mina is rescued by Akira right before she's injected with the completed drug.
• Shapeshifter Weapon: In her true form, Mina can cause a thin exoskeleton-like armor to form over her skin. This modicum of covering is usually all she "wears" when in her true form, and she can also form the material into piercing and stabbing weapons.
• Single-Target Sexuality: In the four centuries that she has lived, Mina has only fallen in love with Akira and has no intention of even considering anyone else as a lover.
• Slasher Smile: Not a sincere one, but she fakes it rather effectively when she feels obliged to intimidate others.
• Sleep-Mode Size: When she unleashes her full power, she changes from her regular childlike form to her true form as a mature and voluptuous adult woman.
• Stalker Shrine: She has a private room that has its walls covered with the pictures of Akira that she collected from Wolfgang as Akira grew up.
• Stripperiffic: When she goes into her true form for a greater ass-kicking, she grows a skimpy exoskeleton-like armor that leaves her breasts and butt completely exposed.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Mina, in her older self, is a carbon copy of Queen Lucrezia. And both herself and her mom are carbon copies of their ancestor, the first vampiress.
• Sultry Bangs: Her true form's hair often covers half of her face, emphasizing her sexiness.
• Super Mode: Her true form greatly increases her already substantial strength and speed and provides her with morphable organic armor.
• Tough Leader Façade: Mina is the sort of person whose first instinct even in the middle of a un-life-or-final-death fight is to protect a human child. Between that and the fact that she looks 12, it is hard to imagine how she can hope to maintain herself as Queen of the Vampires without the whole Stone Bitch pose and a good bit of doing what goes against her better nature.
• Tsundere: Sweet type. Because she's true with her feelings, she's sweet to those she cherishes, but she also is very stubborn and has her tsun-tsun moments, specially around Akira.
• Tsurime Eyes: Sharp and focused eyes for the powerful and strong-willed vampire queen.
• Vampire Lolita Archetype: She is the 400-year-old queen of all vampires while possessing the body of a prepubescent girl with long blonde hair worn in Girlish Pigtails, often wearing a long Elegant Gothic Lolita dress. Her true form is a curvy naked woman.
• Vampire Monarch: Ruler of all vampires and the sole child of the last vampire queen.
• Waif-Fu: Her basic form is a prepubertal body, but she can kick great amounts of ass.
• What You Are in the Dark: Mina is notably agonized over some of her harder decisions. However, when a clueless human takes her in after her escape from Rozenmann, she refuses to harm her or her daughter no matter how hungry she gets for their blood.
• Widow's Weeds: When visiting a grave, she wears a black dress and veil.
• Winged Humanoid: She can sprout bat wings from her back at will in both her forms and use them to attack and defend as well as fly.

Akira Kaburagi Regendorf

^{Click here to see him as a Fenrir werewolf} 

Voiced by: Yūichi Nakamura (JP), Eric Vale (EN), Eduardo Garza (LA)

A werewolf and Mina's bodyguard/love interest.

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• Adaptational Backstory Change: The anime removed the darkest parts of his past involving the ritual where he lost two of his friends.
• Amnesiac Hero: In the anime, he lost all of his memories one year ago, and did not even know he was a werewolf until episode 2. It is later revealed he lost his memory due to failing a mission, and was allowed to live because of his importance to Mina.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: Some of Mina's photos show that he makes a very good looking girl. His disguise as a maid at Rozennman's castle further proves it.
• Battle Couple: With Mina. He's meant to be her protector, but that doesn't mean she won't join him in battle.
• Bodyguard Crush: He was raised to be Mina's personal werewolf bodyguard and they are very much in love.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: Akira may be Mina's bodyguard, but it doesn't in any way suggest that she couldn't look after herself, thank you very much.
• But Not Too Foreign: Half-German, half-Japanese.
• The Champion: To Mina. The boy goes through hell and beyond if it means to keep her safe or rescue her.
• Declaration of Protection: He made a vow to always protect his charge Mina.
• Determinator: He doesn't really let anything slow him down.
• Disguised in Drag: To rescue Mina, he infiltrates Rozenmann's castle while disguised as a maid.
• Eternal Love: Akira becomes immortal like a vampire after Mina bites him. With this, he can be with his beloved vampire queen without worrying about eventually growing old and leaving her behind.
• Faking the Dead: Briefly in volume 12, Akira makes it look like he died in a helicopter explosion to catch Rozennman's forces by surprise when he infiltrates their castle to rescue Mina.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Akira and Mina first met when he was just a few months old. Of course, he doesn't know about it because he was too young to remember and thinks they met when he was 12 and met and comforted a crying Mina in a garden after her chastity test.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Whenever he becomes a werewolf while wearing normal clothes. This stops after he gets a Beowulf's special suit.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Mina. She barely stands to his chest, and it's even more apparent in his wolf form, where he towers over her.
• Hunk: He's a very muscular and handsome young man.
• Ignore the Fanservice: While he is initially flustered by things like Mina calling him while she's taking a bath, he eventually writes off such teasing with a dry "yeah, yeah, you're cute, you're cute" or something else.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Shooting down a missile with a M82 rifle? May be impossible for anyone, but not for Akira after becoming a werewolf vampire.
• Interspecies Romance: With Mina. He's a werewolf and she's a vampire.
• Kill the Ones You Love: He had to kill Graham and Sanin, two of his friends from the werewolf ritual.
• Lady and Knight: He's the White Knight who is willing to go through anything to protect the vampire queen Mina because he loves her and knows that by protecting her he's protecting her vampire subjects too.
• Legendary in the Sequel: In A.S.O., Akira's feats in the first series have made him a Living Legend for the young Beowulf soldiers.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Akira is the light in the darkness that is Mina's life. Ever since he was a baby, his smile alone was the one thing that always gave her hope. When Mina thinks he's dead, she loses it badly.
• Living Forever Is Awesome: The examinations done to his body after Mina bit him reveal that Akira won't age anymore. Akira is quite happy with the news because that means he can now live forever with Mina at his side.
• Mayfly–December Romance: With Mina. Akira is a teenager werewolf while Mina is an over 400 years old vampire who hasn't aged a day since she first met him when he was still a baby. As a werewolf, Akira does have a longer lifespan than regular humans, but Mina will still most likely outlive him. After Akira had the exhausted Mina drink his blood, he didn't die as is normal for werewolves, leaving the possibility that Akira is the first Vampire Werewolf in centuries (albeit he does not feature any vampire aspects aside from no longer aging, and is implied to be something beyond a vampire werewolf).
• Meaningful Name: Akira is literally a ray of sunlight at Mina's darkest moments.
• Mr. Fanservice: We're shown his naked body nearly as often as Mina's and he's very easy on the eye.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Becoming a Fenrir werewolf-vampire gives him a much tougher body than any werewolf, making him practically unkillable. He can come out of an explosion unscathed.
• Noble Wolf: Bodyguard wolf that goes above and beyond the call of duty. After he gives Mina his blood, instead of dying as per usual for werewolves, his wolf form evolves.
• Not Growing Up Sucks: Thanks to Mina turning him into an immortal super-werewolf at a tender age of 19, Akira hasn't aged at all seven years later. He tends to get annoyed by it when brought up by his friends and subordinates, mostly due to the fact that he can't get any taller (a matter that now-taller Shinva brings up at times after the time skip).
• Official Couple: Akira and Mina are in a romantic relationship.
• Older Than He Looks: In Scarlet Order, Akira is 24 years old, but doesn't look like he has aged a day from when he was 17. He later gets a confirmation from his examinations that his body won't age anymore as a result from being bitten by Mina.
• Ordinary High-School Student: He seems to be just a normal highschooler until he's revealed to be a werewolf who works as the bodyguard of the Queen of the Vampires.
• Raised as the Opposite Gender: In Japan, there's a tradition to dress weak boys as girls to make them strong. Guess what happened to Akira in his early years? After Scarlet Order reveals that his brother Yuuhi also gets the same treatment.
• Red Baron: The Jet Black Wolf King by his Beowulf peers and subordinates. There's also Fenrir, Wolf of the Apocalypse, courtesy of the father of the vampires and Mina's mother Lucrezia after he's turned into some kind of advanced/super werewolf by Mina biting him. His many accomplishments despite his realtively young age have made him all the more legendary among other werewolves.
• Supreme Chef: He's praised for his skill at cooking delicious food. After the Akamitama gives Mina a sense of taste for human food, she spends an entire day eating Akira's food and is extremely delighted by it.
• Survivor Guilt: He and Angie were the only survivors of their Alaska's passing ritual and he will never ever forget it.
• Sympathetic Murder Backstory: After Graham was supposedly exposed as a sleeper agent who was sent to kill him, Akira chased after Graham and the boys got into a fight. When Akira regained his senses, Graham was dead in his arms and Akira got marked for life.
• Vampiric Werewolf: After being bitten by Mina, Akira becomes the first werewolf-vampire hybrid known in centuries.
• Voluntary Vampire Victim: During their escape from Rozenmann's castle, Mina is seriously weakened from the lack of blood and Akira has no choice but to make her drink his blood to save her, even though he knows that should result in his death due to the modifications vampires did to werewolves. To his luck, the bite transforms him into a Fenrir werewolf-vampire hybrid instead.

Yuki Saegusa

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (JP), Alexis Tipton (EN), Alondra Hidalgo (LA)

Yuki is a human girl who had a crush on Akira, and later became best friends with Mina.

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• Badass Bookworm: When she can help bring a tyrant's plans crashing down solely on the power of her determination, intelligence and research ability, Yuki qualifies.
• Best Friend: She's Mina's dearest friend, even calling Yuki her soul sister. This is mainly due to Yuki being Mina's only friend who isn't a vampire and therefore isn't conditioned to be loyal to her; Yuki is her friend because she wants to be and Mina deeply appreciates that.
• Comatose Canary: Sort of. She's the only person in the whole Bund who knows about the fake Mina, but in that moment she's trapped in a wheelchair, unable to talk and all her messages are hijacked for the fake Mina since she now control the whole Bund's communication media.
• Cute Mute: She loses the ability to speak after she is almost killed by Angie. It was hinted that the right stimulus will unleash her voice, since her recovery was going very well. She recovered her voice to warn Mina about the fake Mina's ambush.
• Defiant Captive: Yuki finds herself imprisoned by the Vampire Queen's Evil Twin, mute, and largely paralyzed. She still doesn't let any of this stop her from doing a life-threatening move to pass a hidden message to Akira and start researching her captor's true goal.
• Determinator: While not an Action Girl (she lacks the physical prowess and skill for it), Yuki utterly refuses to give up in helping Mina any way she can.
• Dude Magnet: Yuki has many admirers in the Beowulf soldiers.
• Extreme Doormat: Her classmates in middle school saw her as a goody two-shoes who couldn't say no to others, causing them to try and take advantage of her. After meeting Akira and Mina, Yuki found it in her to speak out her thoughts and defy others.
• First Friend: Yuki and Mina are this to each other. Yuki is the friend friend who Mina can freely interact with as equals, free from things like loyalty that binds vampires to Mina. Mina is also the first friend Yuki made since her classmates only saw her as a pushover to take advantage of.
• Friendless Background: Yuki had never been able to make real friends because her classmates looked down on her Extreme Doormat traits. Akira and Mina are the only people she managed to connect with.
• Friends Turned Romantic Rivals: Inverted. When Yuki first met Mina, they were romantic rivals for Akira. However, Yuki gives up on Akira soon enough because she realizes the depth of his love for Mina. Afterwards, Mina warms up to Yuki after seeing her talent as a writer and they become the best of friends.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: After Angie's attempt to kill her, she was given a dose of nanomachines to reconstruct the lost cells of her brain.
• Grew a Spine: For most of her life, Yuki tried to be a "good girl" to not cause trouble for her single mother and her classmates. That was until she called Mina out on not being fair with Akira when the two lovers were going through a nasty dispute. From then on, Yuki becomes one of the humans with the most powerful will in the series, brave enough to defy the fake Mina who holds her hostage.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: After a bit of a rough start because both had feelings for Akira, Yuki gains Mina's favor and the two become best friends. Yuki is possibly the closest person to Mina right after Akira.
• Hopeless Suitor: She had a crush on Akira, but he turned her down both because of his duty to Mina and his nature as a werewolf making it dangerous for Yuki to seek out a relationship with him as women who marry werewolves need to sacrifice their health to bear their children.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: It hurt her to see that Akira would never love her in the same way he loves Mina, but she accepted it once Mina's kind heart won Yuki over too. She knows Akira is in good hands and she gained a great friend in exchange of her lost love.
• A Match Made in Stockholm: Mina's impostor, later named Katie Maurice, holds a crippled Yuki captive in the first series until the real Mina returns. In the sequels, Yuki is forced to join Katie's side as payment for Katie's help in finding the Akamitama. Several months later, Yuki and Katie appear to have become close somehow, with Yuki repeatedly stepping in to defend Katie. At one point, Yuki continues following Katie even though the latter gave her the chance to go back to Mina.
• Mayfly–December Friendship: Her dear friends Mina and Akira are both expected to live for many centuries, while Yuki will only live for a few decades as long as she's still human.
• Morality Pet: Unexpectedly, Katie Maurice develops a soft spot for Yuki in A.S.O. Li's army can tell threatening Yuki is the only way they can make Katie obey them.
• Most Writers Are Writers: She writes her own Boys' Love novels, with Akira as a model for her protagonists.
• Muggle Best Friend: To Mina and Akira. Unlike them, Yuki is a completely normal human. That doesn't stop her from joining their adventures often and later aspires to become Mina's secretary to continue helping her two supernatural friends.
• Plucky Girl: Yuki's determination is truly amazing. She does whatever she can to subvert fake Mina and warn anyone she can.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Her crush on Akira started because he was the only classmate who cared about her feelings and noticed how lonely she was.
• Sympathy for the Devil: She's the first one who understood the motives and pain of Alphonse. Also in A.S.O., spending several months with Mina's Evil Twin Katie Maurice seems to have made Yuki develop a sense of sympathy and care towards her.

Vampires of the Bund

Veratos "Vera" Carmencita Lagasch

Voiced by: Yuko Kaida (JP), Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN), Cony Madera (LA)

Mina's most trusted advisor and closest confidant.

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• Ambiguously Gay: Her interactions with Hysterica and devotion to Mina's mom even after the latter's death give the idea that she might be a lesbian.
• Apologetic Attacker: Brutally slaughters a maid under the influence of the Pied Piper disease. She's not happy having to do it.
• The Atoner: In Scarlet Order, Vera finally breaks free from her own crystal prison when she's given the chance to atone for questioning her loyalty to Mina by protecting Mina from her Evil Twin Katie even though Mina shouldn't hold authority over vampires at the moment due to the Akamitama transforming her into human.
• Badass Boast: "All Fran spoke to me was of regret and farewells. I will give your lordship the same one day." Even better as she's saying this to one of the most powerful vampires in the entire world.
• Conflicting Loyalty: Everything in the final few volumes of the first series devastates her utterly when she's caught between the two Minas. On one hand, she wants to stay faithful to Lucrezia's daughter, but she finds herself unable to defy the other Mina who proves that she does have the Tepes blood that makes vampires obey her. Finally, Vera can't stand it and traps herself inside a crystal when the true Mina returns, unable to face her out of shame.
• Hired Help as Family: She was Queen Lucretia's maid as well as her closest friend and confidant. After Queen Lucretia's death, Vera has cared for Queen Lucretia's daughter as if she was her own.
• I Owe You My Life: Part of her loyalty to Queen Lucretia is that Vera was a Romani woman caught in a witch hunt. Queen Lucretia rescued her from being burned alive.

• Living Forever Is Awesome: She chose to become a vampire because of her devotion to Mina's mother, and when her idol passed away, Mina herself became her all.
  With just one feeling, a vampire can live forever
• Mama Bear: She isn't Mina's blood mother, but Vera will even attack someone as powerful as Ivanovic or Rozenmann if her beloved princess is threatened.
• Meido: She was the deceased Queen Lucretia's personal maid, playing the same role Mina's three maids currently play for their queen.
• Naked on Revival: In Scarlet Order, Vera emerges naked from her self-imposed crystal prison after seven years.
• Number Two: Shares this with Wolfgang. While Wolfgang is the leader of Beowulf, Mina's elite guard, Vera functions as an aide with a lot of authority.
• Parental Substitute: She has been a mother figure to Mina ever since the latter's real mother died.
• Prim and Proper Bun: Vera generally wears her hair done up for official functions.
• Sealed Good in a Can: In the final volume, she encased herself in a crystal. Wolfgang comments that this was because she could not forgive herself for doubting her own loyalty to Mina. In Scarlet Order, she breaks out from her crystal prison at the exact moment Mina needs her help.
• Slipknot Ponytail: Her hair usually comes loose when she fights.
• Super Smoke: She has the ability to turn into what looks to be black smoke, and only powerful vampires can hurt her.
• Tears of Remorse: When she and Mina reunite after seven years, the first thing Vera does is tearfully apologizing for doubting that her Mina was the real one.
• Undying Loyalty: Vera's loyalty to Mina is beyond question. She has been at Mina's side for 400 years and has shown she will do anything to defend Mina from any threat.

Nanami Shinonome

Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (JP), Kara Edwards (EN), Carla Castañeda (LA)

The Student Council President of Akira, Yuki and Mina's school, who becomes a vampire early in the series. Not by her choice mind you.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: She's a blonde in the manga. The anime made her into a brunette.
• Age-Gap Romance: She's at least five years older than Yuzuru. While that's not a very big difference, she at first thinks it's wrong for her to be in love with him because he's still a young boy. After Yuzuru reciprocates her feelings, Nanami makes him her vampire lover.
• Big Damn Heroes: First helped Mina escape, but when she was taken hostage again, she recruited the maids to help her.
• Bonding over Missing Parents: Nanami and Yuzuru were both neglected by their parents, so they became each other's only family and fell in love.
• Cool Big Sis: She intended to be an older sister figure for Yuzuru, but ends up falling in love with him. Yuzuru is in love with her too, but he still calls her his "onee-chan".
• Covert Pervert: Played for Drama. While presenting herself as a serious Student Council President, Nanami had suppressed romantic and sexual feelings towards her preteen neighbor. After she's turned into a vampire, Nanami can't repress the urge to hold and kiss Yuzuru, making her ashamed of herself. She gets over it thanks to Yuzuru reciprocating her feelings, allowing Nanami to express her desires for him.
• Disney Death: Supposedly killed when under control of the Pied Piper, she nearly initiated a nuclear meltdown on the Bund, forcing Mina to order Nanami's lover Yuzuru to push her to her death. However, she was rescued by Alphonse who made her one of his operatives.
• Eternal Love: Yuzuru consents to letting Nanami turn him into a vampire so they can spend eternity together as lovers.
• Happily Married: In the sequel that takes place seven years later, Nanami is married to Yuzuru and they're stated to still be passionately in love.
• I Love You, Vampire Son: Yuzuru allows her to turn him into a vampire so they can live together in the Bund.
• Inconvenient Attraction: Nanami had felt attracted to Yuzuru for a long time, but pretended to not notice because he's still a preteen. After transforming into a vampire, Nanami can't hold back her lustful impulses anymore and becomes terrified that she will "make him dirty" and cause him to hate her. She gets over it when Yuzuru reciprocates her feelings and becomes a vampire to be with her.
• Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: Yuzuru was originally her neighbor. Since their parents were rarely at home, they spent most of their time with each other and this lead to them falling in love.
• Living Emotional Crutch: To Yuzuru. When he thinks she died, he switches sides and sees no point in living forever.
• Manchurian Agent: During the attack on the Bund by Ivanovic, Nanami is ordered by the fake Mina, through her infection with the Pied Piper nanomachines, to place the Bund's clandestine nuclear reactor in a critical state, but is stopped by Yuzuru.
• Meido: After Mina becomes her new master, Nanami is given a job as one of her maids.
• Morality Chain: While Yuzuru is a good person, his stability is entirely dependent upon Nanami's existence. Without her, he grows far darker and colder.
• Ninja Maid: She becomes one of Mina's vampire maids and is just as combat capable as the others.
• Official Couple: Nanami and Yuzuru become lovers after he lets her turn him into a vampire.
• One Head Taller: She's taller than Yuzuru by a head, making their age difference obvious.
• Parental Neglect: After she was turned and forced to relocate to the Bund, her parents just flat out leave the country. It is also the reason she was attracted to Yuzuru as his mother is very neglectful of him.
• Student Council President: The head of the Absurdly Powerful Student Council.
• Took a Level in Badass: Nanami has gone from an ordinary human member of the student council to vampire finding her way in the world to a full on Action Girl able to hold her own with Mina's other maids.
• What Have I Become?: Subverted. She doesn’t care about being a vampire, she hates herself because she's in love with the 13 year old boy she baby-sits.

Yuzuru Shinonome

Voiced by: Mika Ito (JP), Maxey Whitehead (EN), Emilio Treviño (LA)

A boy Nanami baby-sits whom she's also in love with. He allows her to turn him into a vampire so they can live together in the Bund.

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• Age-Gap Romance: He's a 13 year old boy with a crush on Nanami, who is at least 5 years older than him. Nanami reciprocates and makes him her vampire lover.
• Bonding over Missing Parents: His mother didn't even acknowledge his existence and Nanami didn't have parents who were around, or much less payed attention to her. Because of this, the two easily formed a valuable and much needed bond.
• Death Seeker: After he thinks Nanami is dead, he shows signs of just wanting to die.
• Despair Event Horizon: Nanami's 'death'. More specifically, Mina forcing him to kill her to save the Bund. His screams after are utterly heartbreaking. It also makes him join Team Rozenmann.
• Easily Forgiven: His only real punishment for betraying the Bund and siding with Rozenmann is The Three Maids planning to give him a very stern talking to.
• Eternal Love: He lets Nanami turn him into a vampire and doesn't regret his decision because he can now be with his beloved onee-chan forever.
• Happily Married: ASO reveals Yuzuru is now married to Nanami and the two are still very much in love.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: He joins Rozennman's side in Volume 9, out of hatred for Mina who ordered him to kill Nanami. When he realizes that Nanami is alive, he snaps out of the devastation he's suffered since and rejoins Mina. Granted, Nelly has said she'll have some very harsh words later.
• Kill the Ones You Love: He's forced to push Nanami to her death by Mina's order, in a very harsh decision to prevent a controlled Nanami to cause a nuclear explosion. Even though this saved millions of lives, Yuzuru is not fine with having killed his own lover.
• Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: Nanami was his neighbor until she was turned into a vampire. Nanami often looked after him when their parents were out, causing her and Yuzuru to fall in love.
• Lust Object: To Nanami. She always felt attracted to him, but repressed it because she thought it was wrong due to their age difference. After she became a vampire, she couldn't control her lust for him anymore, nearly raping him one night. This makes her feel awful and disgusted at herself, as she doesn't want to corrupt Yuzuru. Fortunately, Yuzuru reciprocates her feelings and allows her to turn him into a vampire.
• Mistaken for Related: People tend to mistake Yuzuru for Nanami's little brother when they first see them together because he calls her "Onee-chan/Big Sister" even though they're lovers.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Although Mina never wanted to make Yuzuru and Nanami suffer, Mina has to force Yuzuru to push a mind-controlled Nanami to her apparent death in order to prevent a nuclear explosion. Yuzuru's despair over this causes him to betray Mina and join Rozennman's side to aid in her capture. That is until Nanami turns out to still be alive, causing Yuzuru to switch sides again right away.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When Nanami not only reveals she's alive but that Mina went looking for her and nursed her back to health. He has this reaction for betraying her when not getting the full story.
• No Full Name Given: Only his given name is revealed in the original series. In the sequels, however, he has taken Nanami's surname after marrying her.
• No Sympathy: Yuzuru coldly informs Mina about Akira's apparent demise and as he watches her cry in despair, he calls her lucky that she didn't have to see her lover die nor kill him by her own hand. While cruel, it's understandable Yuzuru acts like this because he's still bitter about Mina ordering him to kill Nanami and he didn't know Nanami had survived yet.
• Official Couple: He becomes Nanami's lover after he lets her turn him into a vampire to be with her.
• Older Than He Looks: Due to his aging being halted when he's a preteen, Yuzuru still looks the same in the sequel seven years later.
• Parental Neglect: His mother was neglectful of him.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: As Nanami tries to stay away from him to not "corrupt" him with her lust, Yuzuru runs after Nanami and begs his "Onee-chan" to stay with him.
• Poor Communication Kills: More like poor timing. Alphonse didn't inform him of Nanami's survival.
• The Resenter: Gains a fierce hatred of Mina after she's forced to order him to kill Nanami before he finds out Nanami survived and switches his allegiance back to Mina.
• Satellite Love Interest: Most things about him revolve around his romantic relationship with Nanami, with Yuzuru getting little focus for himself.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: He's significantly shorter than his girlfriend/eventual wife Nanami and since she made him into a vampire, he will never get any taller.
• Took the Wife's Name: In the sequel, Yuzuru is married to Nanami and has taken her surname. His original surname is unknown and since he was neglected by his parents, he probably discarded their family name in favor of Nanami's out of love for her.
• Undead Child: Nanami turns him into a vampire before he hits puberty, leaving him as an unaging preteen boy.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Without Nanami, he basically loses the will to live, compounded by having to deal with the trauma of being forced to kill her. When he sees she's alive, though...

Alphonse Medici Borgiani

Voiced by: Takaya Kuroda (JP), John Knell (EN), Óscar Gómez (LA)

Alphonse Marquis de Borgiani runs Mina's intelligence network, and it is to him that she turns whenever a problem requires a subtle, and often ruthless, resolution.

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• Abusive Parents: His dad was quite the hardass, both verbally and emotionally. It's revealed that it was to protect Alphonse from falling in love with Mina, to save him from the pain that would result of it.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: He has dirty blond hair in the anime, but manga colored art depicts him with silver hair.
• Back from the Dead: Only for a few hours. After his death, Akira and Mina find one beautiful flower blooming in Alphonse's garden, and realize it's him. After Mina weeps, Akira gently places it into her hair, informing Alphonse his long-held wish has finally come true.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: He's always seen wearing a crisp white suit, although sometimes, when he's gardening, he removes the jacket and rolls up his sleeves.
• Beneath the Mask: He is kind, wise, deeply virtuous and more than willing to become the scapegoat at the end.
• Bodyguard Betrayal: He joins the doppelganger Mina. Except not really.
• Brutal Honesty: He in no uncertain terms tells Akira his romance with Mina is impossible and to give it up. Of course, the truth of this is very different.
• Caring Gardener: Alphonse loves his garden and has been taking care of it since he was a child.
• The Chessmaster: It's amazing how deep this man's plans run.
• Cool Car: Alphonse owns perhaps the nicest car in the Bund.
• Cool Shades: He's a cool-headed and stoic man who is almost never seen without his shades.
• Cryptic Conversation: Everything he says has layers within layers.
• Despair Event Horizon: Alphonse hit it when he found the two Minas. Even though, deep down, he knew which was the true one, he allowed himself to dream that the fake Mina was real and could be his.
• Dirty Business: Alphonse handles the less glamorous runnings of the Bund. If the Bund needs a five year old boy to be bitten and used as ransom for his corrupt grandfather? Alphonse will have it done and never hesitate.
• Disappeared Dad: Saw his father die in battle against Rozenmann's forces.
• Fake Defector: He pretends to join Fake Mina's side, but was on the true Mina's side the entire time.
• Has a Type: His little Elegant Gothic Lolita squad? They only dress like that because he really, really likes Elegant Gothic Lolita girls, especially those with blonde Girlish Pigtails. Nina, who has unrequited feelings for Alphonse, wears the Gothic Lolita "uniform" and a twin-tailed blonde wig because she wants to please Alphonse.
• Hopeless Suitor: He's in love with Mina, but is painfully aware that her heart belongs to Akira. His vampire nature making him subservient to his queen made it impossible for him to have a normal romance with her anyway.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He's been in love with Mina all his life without her ever reciprocating his feelings. Despite this, he resolved to serve her to the best of his abilities and watched her find happiness with someone else, and not once, up until the moments leading up to his death, did he voice a single complaint.
• I Will Find You: After Mina went missing during an attack from Rozennman, Alphonse spent decades desperately looking for her until she was found under the care of a human family.
• Love at First Sight: He fell in love with Mina at first sight when he was just a boy.
• Love Hurts: Knowing his love for Mina was impossible destroyed him.
• Mirror Character: To Akira. Both had fathers who were, while well-meaning, almost abusive in their attempts to groom their children to be suitable protectors for Mina. Both of them met Mina at a young age and fell in love with her, and both fight for the sole purpose of protecting her. The only real difference between the two is who Mina fell in love with.
• One-Winged Angel: Like any other pureblood, he has a true form. It's a shining, crystalline knight, perfectly reflecting Alphonse's soul.
• Really 700 Years Old: He's over 200 years old despite looking like a man in his thirties, the age where he stopped his aging by entering his true form.
• Reincarnation: In a twist on this, Alphonse is strongly hinted to have done this, but as a flower, fulfilling his deeply held wish of coming back only for a few hours, just to decorate the hair of the woman he so loved.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Usually seen in a sharp white suit.
• Silent Scapegoat: Deliberately. He left behind a record saying that he was responsible of the fake Mina's usurping and Tokyo's vampirism infection to protect Mina of the blame.
• Single-Target Sexuality: He loved no one but Mina for two centuries. Since Mina can only love Akira, Alphonse felt guilty and ashamed that his reaction to knowing about the fake Mina was hope that he could have another Mina to himself.
• The Spymaster: Pretty much his job in the Bund is everything related to espionage.
• Stealth Mentor: His self-appointed role? To train Akira so he can become a great warrior and protect Mina.
• The Stoic: He's very cool-headed.
• Strike Me Down: "Release me from my regret! DESTROY ME, AKIRA!"
• Subordinate Excuse: As a vampire and Marquis of Borgiani, it's his duty to loyally serve his queen Mina. He yearns for romance with her, but his vampiric impulses towards complete servitude left no room for that. Therefore, he conforms himself with being her most loyal servant.
• Suicide by Cop: He goes down at Akira's hands on his own terms as part of his Thanatos Gambit.
• Surrounded by Idiots: He has a low opinion of most of the vampires of the Bund.
• Thanatos Gambit: He forces Akira to kill him, both to end the life he no longer wanted and so that he could paint himself as the scapegoat for the vampire attacks that happened across the city on the orders of Fake Mina so that no concrete blame would fall on the Real Mina.
• Undying Loyalty: To Mina. The Fake Mina bitterly comments that even Alphonse chose the real Mina in the end. Even his own honor and reputation mean nothing to him as he sacrifices both to restore Mina to power. Akira says it best: "You did it, Alphonse. You protected her all the way to the bitter end."
• Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: He knows Mina won't ever love him back because Akira is her only love, but he continues pining after her to the moment of his death.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: A cute, innocent little boy grew up to be the cold, calculating Alphonse.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Constantly living for and loving a woman who would never love him back made him tired of his immortal life, and once he was sure that he had done everything he could, he welcomed death as a release from a life he was tired of.
  Alphonse: I have had quite enough of immortality, thank you. In my next life, I want to be a flower. Blooming at night, and wilting at dawn. And if in that short space, I could decorate her majesty's hair... that would be enough.

Nelly, Nella and Nero

Three maids who are the protagonist of the side yonkoma "Dance with the Vampire Maids"

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• Action Girl: Their very first appearance is absolutely butchering soldiers sent to kill Mina.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: They appear to be goofy comic relief most of the time, but they're actually very efficient bodyguards and prove to be very useful during times of crisis.
• Cuteness Proximity: Around Yuuhi, they are absolutely helpless when faced by his cuteness.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: As long as you're not a threat to their princess, they're really very sweet vampire maids.
• Luminescent Blush: They blush heavily when the werewolf elders are telling a rather racy story.
• Memory Gambit: They infect themselves with the Pied Piper as to 'reprogram' themselves and be taken in by Rozenmann as his servants... with added instructions to help Mina and eventually reprogram themselves as her loyal maids again.
• Ninja Maids: They work as Mina's maids, but are actually Action Girls.
• No Sense of Direction: They accidentally wind up in Egypt at one point.
• Plucky Comic Relief: They're the otherwise dark manga's biggest source of light-hearted humor, especially in the after volume extras.
• Spanner in the Works: They reprogram an entire city of Rozenmann's vampires into being Mina's loyal servants.
• Theme Naming: The three have names that start with "Ne".
• True Companions: Though it takes being pinned under fire for Nelly to admit it.
• Undying Loyalty: They're all very loyal to their Princess Mina. To only a slightly lesser extent, they respect and look up to Yuki, who they call 'The Maestro.' After Yuki's incident and consequential paralysis, they help her up to write her newest novel.
• Yaoi Fangirls: They're the greatest fans of Yuki's yaoi novels besides Mina.

Nelly

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (JP), Trina Nishimura (EN, as Anita Neukar), Cristina Hernández (LA)

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• Animorphism: She can shapeshift into a mouse.
• Berserk Button: She gets very annoyed when people call her mouse form gross.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She's jealous of Akira for his closeness to Mina.
• Gatling Good: With the others, she totally wastes a bunch of Rozenmann's soldiers with a Gatling gun.
• Godiva Hair: Because her True Form is a little mouse, she always ends up completely naked when she transforms back to human form. Her hair tends to cover her breasts in these moments.

• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Akira, unknowingly for him. She does not like him.

• Vegetarian Vampire: Before Mina found and took her in, Nelly made sure to live off rats as her main source of blood. Since then, she's had nothing but Stigma.

Nella

Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe (JP), Terri Doty (EN), Mariana Ortiz (LA)

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• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her hair covers the left side of her face and she's the most standoffish of the maid trio.
• May–December Romance: She fell for an ancient mummy vampire in the final omake of the first series. But that was a tale for another time.
• Only Sane Woman: Next to her two quirky companions, she comes off as the most levelheaded.
• Prim and Proper Bun: She's the most serious of the maid trio and wears her hair up in a bun.

• The Stoic: She's the least expressive of the three maids.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's usually quite stoic and aloof, but still a very caring person.
• Would Hurt a Child: Would bite, kidnap, and vampirize said child for the good of the Bund... and then give him a vaccine to stop the transformation and then give him a teddy bear to show how sorry she was.

Nero

Voiced by: Asuka Tanii (JP), Abigail Hartman (EN), Christine Byrd (LA)

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• Cloudcuckoolander: Nero is something of a spacey weirdo.
• Expressive Hair: Her Idiot Hair reacts to turn-ons.
• Genki Girl: She's the perkiest of the maid trio.
• Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is tied in low pigtails and she's the most upneat of the three maids.
• Otaku Surrogate: A very fierce anime fan.
• Vegetarian Vampire: Nero was actually born to vampire parents and was raised on nothing but the artificial blood substitute Stigma. As she puts it: "My mama taught me only bad girls drink human blood!"
• Yaoi Fangirl: They all are, but Nero deserves special credit.

Jiji, Clara, and Anna

From left to right: Anna, Jiji and Clara

Jiji is voiced by: Aiko Ookubo (JP), Terri Doty (EN),

Clara is voiced by: Asuka Tanii (JP), Jamie Marchi (EN)

Anna is voiced by: Rie Yamaguchi (JP), Jasmine Mendigo (EN)

Three fangless vampire children living at the Bund. They like playing at the ventilation ducts, giving them great knowledge about how to move around in the Bund.

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• Animorphism: Later on, Anna gains the power to transform into a cat.
• Compulsory School Age: As a reward for helping Akira escape from the assassins of the Three Clans, the three ask to be allowed to attend to Akira's human high school. At least they can go to the high school grades instead of the elementary school despite what their physical age would make others expect.
• Free-Range Children: Their adoptive parents have no problem with them going to venture the Bund's ventilation ducts and getting into all sorts of dangerous places, something that Akira finds concerning.
• Happily Adopted: They have adoptive vampire parents who love them.
• Heroic Bystander: They're little fangless children with no real combat skills, but they prove to be very helpful allies to Mina's team, such as when they help Akira hide from the assassins the Three Clans sent after him.
• Older Than They Look: They are stuck as small children forever. The author revealed through side materials that Jiji and Clara only have 3-4 years of being vampires, but Anna is 25 years old in the first series.
• One-Winged Angel: Jiji's True Form looks like a large rhinoceros-like monster.
• Sexier Alter Ego: Clara eventually gains the ability to transform into a beautiful naked woman, much like Mina.
• Took a Level in Badass: During the climactic confrontation with the True Ancestor, Jiji, Clara, and Anna awaken their vampire powers to enter their True Forms and become more helpful in the action.
• Undead Child: The three were turned into unaging vampires as very young children.

Akira Fujisaki

^{Click here to see his true form} 

A young vampire first seen in the final volume of Dance in the Vampire Bund as a minor character, but becomes the protagonist in Dive in the Vampire Bund where the first volume is about his story and how he gets to meet Akira Kaburagi.

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• But Not Too Foreign: He's a fourth-generation Japanese-Brazilian.
• Child of Two Worlds: He was born in Brazil before his family moved to Japan when he was still very young. Both in Brazil and Japan, he felt alienated because of his mixed ancestry so he finds becoming a vampire to be liberating.
• Extremely Protective Child: He killed a Yakuza boss as revenge for sexually assaulting his mother.
• Insecure Love Interest: Akira doesn't believe he deserves Ruli because of his anger issues and background as a murderer. Akira insists that he wants Ruli to live in a bright world away from him, but Ruli can't bear to not be with him even if they can't see each other often. Akira then decides to stop keeping his distance and they start dating.
• Instant Armor: Instead of changing shape, his true form manifests as a black mist that covers his body in a monstrous-looking armor.
• Love at First Note: He falls in love with Ruli after she calms him down with her singing.
• Mayfly–December Romance: After he becomes a vampire and Ruli stays human, the thought that Ruli will eventually grow old while he's immortal weighs on Akira's mind. Subverted as despite his own wishes for Ruli to live as a human, Akira has to turn her into a vampire to save her life after the True Ancestor fatally injures her.
• Named After Somebody Famous: He was named after his grandfather's favorite Japanese actor and singer, Akira Kobayashi.
• Official Couple: With Ruli. They're stated to be a couple in Scarlet Order.
• One-Winged Angel: His True Form is a suit of monstrous-looking organic armor that covers his entire body from head to toe. On the practical side it increases his destructive power greatly and allows him to be exposed to sunlight for a short period without damaging his actual body, on the symbolic side it illustrates how he has maintained his humanity despite becoming a vampire (i.e. inside the armor his body is unchanged).
• Platonic Life-Partners: He becomes close friends with Nina and is seen working with her often in the sequels.
• Significant Name Overlap: He shares the same given name as the werewolf Akira, although the kanji is different. Exploited near the end of the first series. The fake Mina has started to hunt down Akira once he discovered she's not the real Mina. As she ordened all vampires in the Bund to find "Akira", Akira Fujisaki agreed to be a bait to allow Akira to escape the Bund to rescue the real vampire queen.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He kept the fake Mina's eyes on him while the fangless managed to get Akira out of the Bund so he could rescue Mina.

Nina

^{Click here to see her with her wig} 

The leader of Alphonse's bodyguards and warrior squad. Seemingly stoic and devoted only to Alphonse's desires and orders, she is in reality a kind, strong individual who follows her ideals wholeheartedly.

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• Ascended Extra: She's introduced relatively early on in the story, but it's not until years later in the second Dive volumes that we learn anything about her, including her name.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: She's noted to be a very good singer and many vampires from the Bund come to hear her performances at the streets.
• Boyish Short Hair: Beneath that twin-tailed wig, Nina has very short hair that suits her serious Action Girl status.
• Brutal Honesty: She comments on how bad a streamer's videos are right in front of the streamer himself.
• Changing Yourself for Love: She wears a blonde wig and the Elegant Gothic Lolita dresses to please Alphonse because it makes her look like his unrequited love Mina. After Alphonse dies, Nina quits the wig and lolita fashion because she only wore them for Alphonse's sake.
• Dark and Troubled Past: When she was still human, Nina lived with an Alcoholic Parent who made her provide for both of them, something that forced her to resort to even prostitution. Things were looking up to her when she was offered to become a professional singer, but some thugs, who disapproved of her singing at the street, beat her up and told the music agency about her prostitution. Not longer bearing such a life, Nina went to Alphonse and asked him to make her a vampire to be with him, even if only as a "replacement" of Mina.
• A Day in the Limelight: Her character gets considerably more focus in Dive in the Vampire Bund volume 2, expanding on her growing friendship with Akira Fujisaki and including a flashback of how she met Alphonse and came to work at his service.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: She's always seen wearing a Gothic Lolita dress, but it's not really because she's into it; gothic fashion is effectively her squad's uniform. She stops wearing this fashion after Alphonse dies.
• Embarrassing Nickname: She finds the 'Goth' nickname annoying and after finally revealing her given name, coldly informs Akira Fujisaki to never call her by it again.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Akira Fujisaki. They get on good terms after she helps him get out of some dangerous situations during some of her missions. At the end of Dive, Nina admits that now she's helping Akira not because of her job as an intelligence agent, but because he's her friend.
• A Friend in Need: Why does she go to help Akira Fujisaki when he goes after Ruli's kidnappers? Because she realizes he's her friend. The only one she has.
• Girlish Pigtails: In the first series, she wears a blonde wig with twintails, combined with odango hair. She got the wig specifically because she hoped Alphonse would like her more if she looked like Mina.
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold: She used to be a prostitute before she became a vampire, but is a decent person otherwise.
• Hopeless Suitor: She's carrying a torch for Alphonse, but she always knew that she could never replace Mina in his heart.
• Humanizing Tears: After Akira kills Alphonse, Nina is seen shedding tears over her master. It's possibly the first time she shows emotions in the main series.
• Identical Stranger: Invoked. Her Gothic Lolita outfit and her wig make her look oddly like Mina. She later reveals that this is pretty intentional, given Alphonse is quite the fan of the look.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: She fights with a knife while wearing an Elegant Gothic Lolita dress that she considers to be her work uniform.
• Little Miss Badass: She looks like a living doll with her small size. When she draws her sword, watch out.
• No Full Name Given: Dive reveals her given name is Nina. Her surname, however, remains unknown.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Both Akiras only called her "Goth" until she finally reveals her name.
• Platonic Life-Partners: She becomes good friends with Akira Fujisaki after the latter turns into a vampire and in the sequels, they're seen working together often. Their bond is purely platonic because Akira is dating Ruli and Nina will need time to get over Alphonse after the latter's death.
• Platonic Prostitution: When she was human, she was forced into prostitution to support her alcoholic mother. Alphonse was the only one of her clients who only paid to hear her songs instead of sexual services, leading her to fall in love with him and asking him to make her a vampire to be with him.
• Satellite Character: Subverted. In the first series, it appeared Nina's only role was working for Alphonse and her name wasn't even mentioned. The Dive spin-off started to develop her by finally revealing her name and she's given significant interactions with more characters, mainly her growing friendship with Akira Fujisaki. In the sequels, Nina continues working as an intelligence agent long after Alphonse's death, making her a fully independent character.
• Secret-Keeper: She's the only one who knew about Alphonse's plans to help Mina and Akira against the fake Mina all along.
• Shipper on Deck: She seems to think Ruli and Akira Fujisaki belong together.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: In the sequels, she has abandoned her Elegant Gothic Lolita dress, changing it for black pants and a jacket with a rose pattern which she keeps open enough to show her bra. This is due to Alphonse's death and Nina swearing that she would never wear goth fashion again because it no longer has meaning if Alphonse can't see her in it.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Like all her squad, Nina is a trained spy and has no issues pulling this.
• Street Performer: On her spare time, she can be found playing her guitar and singing on the street at the Bund. Back when she was human, she did this to earn money for herself and her alcoholic mother.
• Subordinate Excuse: She has romantic feelings for her boss Alphonse and is very loyal to him even though he doesn't reciprocate.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Nina is cold, aloof and unemotional about almost everything. She does, however, possess a strong moral center and follows her ideals in pursuit of justice. She also cares greatly for Ruli and Akira Fujisaki, going to help the latter on a deadly mission simply because she realizes he's her Only Friend. In another instance, a child vampire confesses his love for her. Nina gently informs him she already has someone she loves, but earnestly thanks him for his feelings and confession as warmly as she can.
• Undying Loyalty: She's loyal enough to Alphonse as for him to trust her with his real plans to turn the tables on the fake Mina.
• Waif-Fu: She resembles a small teen girl. She's also capable of kicking all kinds of ass.

Vittoria Spallanzani

A vampire born to a low-ranking aristocrat in the 19th century, Spallanzani is a hematologist who focuses on the improvement of "stigma", intending to create gourmet artificial blood. Though highly intelligent, his narcissism and excessively chatty nature haven't given him the greatest of reputations.

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• Fantastic Racist: Downplayed. While Spallanzani isn't too fond of humans — and if in fact loathe to have the director of a vampire research facility be a human — he does see benefit in human science at the very least, and his rocky relationship with the Director improves during the joint research on the creation of stigma.
• Good Hair, Evil Hair: Of the Questionable variety; he has a very thin, curly moustache.
• Sabotage to Discredit: Averted. It's actually discussed, when the Assistant Director is killed during a critical time in the research and development of a new kind of stigma. Cunningham, however, knows Spallanzani isn't the type to stoop to sabotage.

• Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: His character profile in the official doujinshi collection. More than likely drawn this way to accentuate his eccentricity.

Natasha

Mina's personal photographer. Her true identity is Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the only survivor of the Russian Imperial Family.

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• The Bait: Knowing that Ivanovic is still obsessed with her, Natasha reveals herself to him when he's invading the Bund and forces him to chase her until she leads him to the Cradle, where Mika and Akira corner him and finally kill him.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: In this manga, Anastasia not only survived, she was turned into a vampire and became a photographer working for the vampire queen herself.
• Camera Fiend: She carries a camera with her in all her appearances.
• Historical In-Joke: The fact that she's a photographer is a reference to the real Anastasia's hobby of taking photos of herself and her sisters.
• Interrupted Suicide: After her family was murdered by the Bolshevik revolutionaries, she was going to kill herself before Ivanovic could turn her into his plaything. Mina arrived to save her and took her under her wing.
• Lust Object: Ivanovic, also known as Rasputin, lusted after her because of her resemblance to Mina. He only spared her life so he could rape her, but thankfully, she was saved from that Fate Worse than Death by Mina.
• Older Than She Looks: She's over 100 years old, but still looks like a teenage girl.
• Really Royalty Reveal: She's introduced as a common vampire and photographer, only to be revealed to be the only surviving member of the Russian Imperial Family.
• Revenge: She plays a key role in Ivanovic's defeat by helping Mina and Akira corner him in the Cradle. Then it's revealed she wanted him dead to avenge the downfall of her family, as Ivanovic lead them to ruin while disguised as the monk Rasputin.
• Sole Survivor: Because of Ivanovic's disgusting lust for her, she was spared and turned into a vampire when the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. Mina then rescued her before she fell into Ivanovic's depraved hands.

The Three Clans

The last three pure blood vampires aside from Mina. Since they killed Mina's mother, Mina has to marry and bear the child of one of them to preserve the lineage of pure blood.

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In General

• And Now You Must Marry Me: They killed the other clans along with Lucrezia, making it necessary for Mina to marry one of them.
• Arranged Marriage: They at least let Mina decide which one of them she'll marry. Of course, this is to humiliate her more. After she won the bet and the freedom to choose her future, they decide to screw that and resort to invasions and kidnappings.
• Dark Secret: Unknown even to them, they are not actually pure blooded vampires, i.e. the sons of the Father of All Vampires. Indeed the only actual pure vampires are the Queens and the Father of All Vampires. The other clan heads are simply the descendants of humans who The Father gave a small part of his power to in ancient times to turn them into more powerful than normal vampires. Finding this out, among other things, utterly breaks Rozenmann.
• Guilt-Free Extermination War: With just Mina being forgiven.
• Monster Lords: After Mina, Rozenmann, Li, and Ivanovic have the highest authority among the vampirekind.
• The Older Immortals: They not only look considerably older than Mina, but they are so by both relative and absolute measures.
• Really 700 Years Old: The Three Clans' leaders are all several hundred years old.

Rozenmann

Voiced by: Kenji Hamada (JP), Todd Haberkorn (EN), José Gilberto Vilchis (LA)

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• Abusive Dad: Scarlet Order reveals that he is Katie's father, by blood, and abused her every way imaginable, including sexually, and would constantly berate her as "an inferior copy" of Mina.
• And Now You Must Marry Me: With Telomere's help, he successfully spirited Mina away as his bride.
• Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: His plan when being faced with only 'five mangy old mutts' is 'rush 'em.' He has an Epic freakout when they proceed to hand his army its ass.
• Bad Boss: During his temper tantrums, Rozenmann is more than willing to assault anything nearby, loyal or otherwise. Oh, and don't tell him your research has hit a 'dead end.'
• Berserk Button: Mina calling him 'vile' is the thing that makes him finally lose his composure. Mina flipping him off after her escape sends him into apoplectic fits.
• The Chessmaster: It must be said that Rozenmann's machinations are nothing short of impressive. Ivanovic never realizes the extent to which Rozenmann has played him until it's too late.

• Demoted to Dragon: In Scarlet Order, he went from a legitimate enemy to Mina and leader of one of the most powerful vampire clans to Katie's minion who follows her orders obediently after losing all his influence and power.
• Depraved Bisexual: He openly declares Angie to be utterly beautiful and would relish a chance to 'taste' him.
• Dirty Coward: Under all that arrogance and bravado.
• Evil Laugh: Indulges in these from time to time.
• Eyepatch of Power: His left eye is covered by an eyepatch. It hides the eye that Vera took from him.
• Faux Affably Evil: Polite and never loses his cool, but you can feel the hate in every single word.
• Graceful Loser: Charmingly accepts his loss to Mina in the Carnival of Killers game. Of course, he's already got another plan going. He is far less graceful a loser otherwise.
• Humiliation Conga:
  • Oh, lord, does he ever deserve this one. Mina escapes, with her boyfriend who's really still alive. Then his famed army is absolutely crushed by five old werewolves and his castle gets blown up. Oh, and to top it off, the Three Maids turn every vampire in one of his cities against him so he has to flee an angry mob when he arrives. Rozenmann sure had one bad day.
  • Gets even worse for him in the sequel series. He is eventually revealed to have become a masked slave of the fake Mina (a being he actually created), he is still very powerful but his mind has been utterly broken by all he has lost and the revelation that the whole system the clans were based on was a lie all along.
• Light Is Not Good: Wears a white suit and has a pleasant demeanour, but he's far from good.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: He's wicked to the core, but no one can deny his suit is of very good taste.
• Monster Clown: As Katie's slave, he dresses like a jester and is still a monster in a fight.
• One-Winged Angel: He reveals his monstrous true form in his fight against Hama.
• Scary Impractical Armor: Rozenmann wears a pretty awesome set of armor. To be fair, it would probably be fine against human weapons, but against the opponents he'd face...
• Smug Snake: The man likes to present himself as a Magnificent Bastard, but he has neither the chops nor the charisma. He's not nearly as competent or intelligent as he thinks, he underestimates his opponents, and he suffers a Villainous Breakdown when the Earth Clan Elders annihilate his entire army.
• Villain in a White Suit: He's dressed in a white, western-style suit with a cape over his shoulders. He's also one of the most depraved villains in the series.
• Villainous Breakdown: When his entire army was wiped out by five old werewolves alive past their prime.
• Villainous BSoD: Look at him when his castle is destroyed after his army is wiped out. He is flatly shellshocked.
• Would Hurt a Child: He attacks the fangless children trio after they spot him sneaking in the Bund.

Gabe

A vampire crime boss in New York who pledges his loyalty to clan Rozenmann.

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• Attempted Rape: Tries to pull this on Susie Harlin, a girl who can't be more than 5 or 6, before Mina intervenes.
• Faux Affably Evil: Gabe is usually seen smiling and making an attempt at friendliness, but he constantly sneaks in a hint of lust at Jessica's daughter towards her and makes it clear he can do what he want since his gang runs that turf.
• Dirty Coward: Gabe has zero interesting in sticking in situations that may actually result in harm to his person.
• Pædo Hunt: Makes no bones about his appreciation of little girls. He also runs a child pornography ring that's heavily implied to engage in 'home movies.'
• Sadist: Easily the cruelest 'flunky' vampire we've seen.
• Smug Snake: He might try to be charming, but he's utterly slimy, sleazy and a total punk who never should've been given immortality. His veneer of confidence only lasts as long as he thinks he can't suffer repercussions for it.
• Too Dumb to Live: Making lewd comments over a pissed off Mina and asking if he could have little Susie when Mina 'finished' with her was a surefire way to incur her wrath. And it did.

Li

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Voiced by: Tora Take (JP), Chris Ayres (EN)

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• Affably Evil: He's very courteous and well-mannered in his interactions with Minmei, which leads her to think there's good in him. However, she's warned that villains can show their good side to their close ones while still being capable of evil and cruelty.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Bing Bing reveals her intention to turn Minmei into her new vessel, Li begs her to stop and offers himself as her puppet to save Minmei.
• Animorphism: He turns into a naked mole-rat when his true form is revealed.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: When he begins losing his temper a bit, Ivanovic backs down rather than force a confrontation.
• Bystander Syndrome: He views himself as a mere observer of history. To him, the Three Clans usurping power of the Tepes family, Lucretia's death and Mina's many humiliations were events destined to happen regardless of him and he never felt the compulsion to intervene in the flow of history.
• Commonality Connection: Poetry is one of his very few interests. The fact that his twin sister Minmei loves poetry is what sparks Li's interest in bonding with her.
• Empty Shell: After sharing a brief meeting, Minmei can only describe Li as "empty" as he lacks any emotion or interests of his own. Li quickly takes an interest in Minmei because she knows about many things he hasn't been allowed to know before.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He sure wants to get his twin sister back from the Bund and expends quite a bit of effort and resources to do so. The clan was only interested in getting Minmei to force her to bear her brother's child, but Li doesn't have interest in such depravity. Instead, he wants to learn more about his sister and her interests.
• Even Evil Has Standards: His mother raised him to be a cold emperor who only does anything for the glory of the Li clan. However, he's very disturbed and unwilling when his mother orders him to rape his own sister to produce an heir. Even after she tries forcing him to do it, Li can't go through with it.
• Extreme Doormat: Being raised by a controlling and abusive Evil Matriarch has caused him to only do what she orders him to. It's not until he meets Minmei that he finds someone who encourages him to make his own decisions.
• Fantastic Racism: He refers to werewolves as 'dogs'.
• Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: In comparison to Mina, Akira is more willing to accept Li's Heel–Face Turn as he sees Li really cares about Minmei and won't do anything that would hurt her. However, he still tells Li he hasn't forgotten the time Li and the other heads of the Three Clans sent assassins after him.
• Freakiness Shame: He's very self-conscious about his Scary Teeth, hence he keeps them covered by his handfan. Minmei, after the initial shock, tells him his teeth aren't as scary as Mina told her.
• Frozen Face: Li's reason for his fan is his mouth is perpetually frozen in a hideous, fanged grimace.
• Grew a Spine: For his hundreds of years of life, Emperor Li never had any reason to defy the teachings and orders of his mother. However, he finally has enough when his mother tries to force him to rape his own sister. Li then makes the decision that he and Minmei will rule the Li Clan without his mother dictating how to do it.
• Heel–Face Turn: He eventually decides to go against his mother's orders and asks Minmei to rule the clan at his side to guide it into the right path.
• Hide Your Otherness: He always has a handfan over his mouth to hide his monstrous teeth. He stops hiding his mouth after Minmei helps him accept himself and build confidence to stand up against his mother.
• High-Class Fan: He's a vampire noble who carries a fan in his hand all the time.
• I Let You Win: When Mina and Akira infiltrate his palace to fight him, Li doesn't even go into his true form and does nothing to stop Mina from capturing him and putting Minmei in power. After Minmei frees him, Li admits that he was going to let things go as Mina wanted if that's what Minmei wanted too.
• Love Redeems: A familial love example. His sister Minmei is the first person who has shown him love and seen the good in him. Li comes to care for Minmei so much that he opposes his evil mother for Minmei's sake.
• Monster Brother, Cutie Sister: Downplayed. Li is seen as a ruthless emperor and his teeth look very monstrous, while his sister Minmei has grown as a normal and gentle girl. Once Minmei gets to know him, however, Li is nowhere near as bad as others think he is. He still can be a merciless monster to those who threaten him and Minmei.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: His territory got infected with "Pied Piper", a nanomachine that would make believe any vampire that any order someone gives to them comes from Li. Of course this would cause chaos; best solution? Kill them all. This causes many vampires to escape from China and seek shelter in the Bund.
• Near-Rape Experience: After being pressured into it by his evil mother, Li is forced to attempt raping his sister Minmei. He stops himself because Minmei will hate him if he rapes her and he doesn't want to lose the only positive familial bond he has made.
• No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: After a brief conversation with Minmei, he asks for her to join him and their mother for dinner, as a sign that he wants to know more about her. However, Minmei ends up throwing up when she realizes her family has freshly killed humans for dinner.
• Nominal Villain: Unlike the other leaders of the Three Clans, Emperor Li doesn't have any evil intentions or ambitions, and certainly didn't take any satisfaction out of overthrowing the Tepes family and treating Mina like property. Li has been merely living according to the orders of his evil and domineering mother, which left him unable to really think for himself until he starts bonding with his sister.
• Not So Stoic: While he's not prone to Rozenmann's... hysterics, and certainly nowhere near Ivanovic's short sighted outbursts, Li shares his fellow lords' temper and when outwitted or challenged by those he considers his inferiors, he can and will erupt.
• Prehensile Hair: He can freely manipulate the growth and movement of his hair, along with using it as a shield or to cut people as if it was a blade.
• The Quiet One: Of the Three Lords, Li is the most quiet and laid back. It should not imply he isn't a monster.
• Redemption Earns Life: To save Minmei, Li rebels against his mother and plays a key role in her defeat. Afterwards, his mother's robot cats try to kill his naked mole rat form, but Akira rescues him and Minmei takes him with her now that they're both free.
• Reformed, but Rejected: Minmei earns Emperor Li's trust and he decides to rule the Li Clan alongside Minmei so she can help him lead it in the right direction. However, Mina refuses to trust Emperor Li and she can't forgive him as he was one of those who were responsible for the death of her mother and her centuries of humiliation.
• Scary Teeth: Of all the trueblood vampires, Li is the most deformed. Take away the fan he uses to hide it, and you see a mouth full of razor sharp fangs.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Soft, polite, and clearly enjoys tormenting those he dislikes.
• The Stoic: He's very calm and inexpressive overall.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Li rarely shows emotions, giving the impression that he's cold and unfeeling. Minmei sees a much more human and sentimental side to him once they get the chance to bond.
• Token Good Teammate: Compared to the other leaders of the Three Clans, Li isn't anywhere near as bad as Rozenmann and Ivanovic. Instead of purely evil, he's more of a Puppet King who was raised by an Evil Matriarch. He's also the only clan head who gets sympathetic and humanizing traits.
• Tranquil Fury: Generally gives this aura when he's angry. When he's really pissed off, it ain't so tranquil.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Having analyzed the overpopulation of elders and low birth rates in China, Li wants to turn all the young population into vampires to turn the entire country into an eternal and prosperous vampire empire. However, Minmei is mildly horrified that Li is planning to turn millions of people into vampires without properly thinking of the consequences. It's because of this that Mina steps in and places Minmei in charge of the Li clan.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: He has grown weary of immortal life, comparing himself to an old tree that still looks full of life on the outside, but is actually rotting inside.
• Wicked Cultured: Even though his mother forbade him from reading books and raised him to be a heartless emperor, Li does appreciate poetry and memorizes the poems he can learn.

Ivanovic

Voiced by: Kissei Kumamoto (JP), Patrick Seitz (EN), Gerardo Reyero (LA)

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• Bad Boss: It's a wonder Ivanovic has soldiers, given his willingness to smash their faces in if they even imply him chasing a personal matter in the middle of damn war might be unwise. Oh, and when most of his werewolves fled his service, Ivanovicwas so incensed he tortured the ones who remained into mindless, feral beasts.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: He was Rasputin, the monk who was a close friend and advisor to the Russian Imperial Family before its downfall. In this manga, he's revealed to have manipulated the family from the shadows to bring them to ruin.
• The Caligula: By far the most vicious and unhinged of the Vampire Lords

• Dirty Old Man: Though the three are after Mina, Ivanovic's looks and behavior stands out the most. Going as far of assault her when she's alone and trying to rape her; in the last case he almost succeeded, but at that time Telomere's leader had already replaced Mina.
• Eldritch Abomination: His true form.
• Fantastic Racism: Shares Li's prejudice towards werewolves.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Rozenmann and Li aren't exactly pictures of stability, but Ivanovic has a habit of flying into volcanic furies at the drop of a hat.
• Hate Sink: The three clan heads are all despicable bastards, but Ivanovic is especially disgusting because of his pedophilic lust for Mina. His defeat at hands of Mina and Akira is one of the most cathartic moments in the series.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How Mina and Akira defeat him.
• Insult Backfire: Occasionally snarls that Mina is just like her dead mother. Mina always takes it as a compliment, much to Rozenmann's amusement.
• One-Winged Angel: Like any other pureblood, he has a true form. It's a massive, hideous beast that resembles the demon Baphomet, oozing with pus and rot.
• Pædo Hunt: During Mina's chastity test, Li is openly bored and Rozenmann doesn't look particularly interested. Ivanovic is openly leaning in with an expression of lust. He expressed a desire to enjoy Mina's young body to the fullest extent and lusted after another girl Mina saved because she resembled Mina as a little girl. The guy is the sickest of the Three Lords.
• Sadistic Choice: Forces one on Mina: surrender or he will execute the Fangless.

• Villainous Breakdown: His army is defeated by The Fangless of all people but what drives it home is Natasha (aka Anastasia Romanova) making him see she's very much alive.

Hysterica

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (JP), Stephanie Young (EN), Laura Torres (LA)

A vampire working for the Three Clans (Telomere in the anime).

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• Arc Villainess: She's the villain of Volume 3, which ends with her death.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: She has a large pair of eyebrows.
• Evil Redhead: She's a terrorist bomber with dark red hair.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: She made Nanami into her minion, only for Nanami to be reprogrammed to be loyal to Mina instead. Mina then orders Nanami to stab Hysterica.
• Mad Bomber: She organizes a small army of vampire suicide bombers to send Tokyo into chaos. Each of the bombers had an ampoule containing a chemical agent that causing vampire blood to explode, which implanted close to the heart.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: "Hysterica" is an alias. Her original name was Francesca, as revealed by Vera.
• We Used to Be Friends: Vera turned her into a vampire when she was on the verge of death after losing her family to the Spanish Flu. She and Vera appeared to be very close, but becoming Mina's enemy made Hysterica an enemy to Vera too.

General Nabokov

Ivanovic's second-in-command and the leader of his armies. Unlike his master, Nabokov is a pragmatic, far-sighted vampire and fully willing to pace the good of his clan over his own desires.

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• Affably Evil: Just being a soldier under Ivanovic probably means he's done a variety of nasty things, but he's quite reasonable, friendly and loyal to his people. There is no reason whatsoever to believe he is faking it.
• The Dragon: To Ivanovic. While he's presumably far weaker, Nabokov is also much smarter and more pragmatic than his petty lunatic of a boss.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: It's...pretty clear that Nabokov micromanages the little things like actually leading the clan. He's also far less willing to smack an underling's head off just for questioning him.
• Meaningful Name: It's hard not to notice when a character in a series so (in)famous for it's appeal to Lolicon and Shotacon is named after the writer of the original Lolita. Probably a Genius Bonus joke.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Genuinely loyal to Ivanovic and the clan as a whole. even though Ivanovic has done next to nothing to deserve anything resembling loyalty from anyone.
• Pragmatic Villainy: His alliance with Clan Li was wholly based on this. Unfortunately, it rather backfired.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: For Clan Ivanovic.
• Revenge Before Reason: Utterly averted. Nabokov admits he's not really happy about current circumstance, and many of his comrades want to fight to the last as revenge on Clan Tepes, but Nabokov can't bear the thought of his clan being wiped out and is inclined to negotiate.

Alija Petervic

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The former direct subordinate of General Nabokov, who in Dive In the Vampire Bund Volume 2 has defected to the Tepes clan. Alija was a Bosnian Muslim in his human life whose only reason for existing is to hunt down and kill Radovan Elichenko, the Cudoviste (Monster) who destroyed his home and killed his beloved daughter Katja

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• Badass Boast: "You do not know what a true Cudoviste is, Radovan. Burn this image into your eyes. This is your first-and last- chance to see one!"
• He Who Fights Monsters: Alija remorsefully confesses that, as a soldier in the Yugoslavian Wars, he participated in horrible crimes as well.
  Alija: "As they did to us, I did to them."
• Heroic Sacrifice: Implied that after Elichenko is dead, Alija heads behind Ivanovic's lines to sabotage the Ivanovic Clan in the coming war. He, and all of the other saboteurs, are never heard from again.
• My Greatest Failure: He blames himself for failing to protect his daughter, Katja. Even worse for him is the knowledge that they killed her alone of all the women because she broke under rape and torture and declared her father was a soldier.
• One-Winged Angel: Alija's true form is barely seen, but it is absolutely monstrous and leaves Akira Fujisaki utterly shaken.
• Outliving One's Offspring: He lost his only daughter in the Yugoslavian wars. Ever since, his only goal has been getting revenge on her murderer Elichenko.
• Papa Wolf: Alija was devoted to his daughter Katja. The knowledge she was raped, tortured and killed by Elichenko has kept him going. When he learned Elichenko became a vampire to escape human justice, Alija became one himself without any hesitation in order to hunt him down.
• Rape and Revenge: He murders the Serbian war criminal who raped his daughter to death.
• Relative Button: Elichenko mocking him over his daughter and crudely stating Alija must have slept with her himself to control her is what clearly sends Alija over the edge.
• Revenge: Alija's number one goal is to kill Radovan Elichenko for raping and murdering his daughter.
• Slasher Smile: Gives a vicious grin when he's finally about to take Elichenko on.
• Tranquil Fury: Alija barely raises his voice or loses an expression of utter calm, even when he is preparing to rip Elichenko apart.
• Unknown Rival: Hunting Elichenko is the most important thing in his life. Elichenko isn't initially aware Alija exists, let alone wants him dead.

Radovan Elichenko

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A Serbian war criminal who became a vampire to escape human justice for unspeakable crimes committed during the Yugoslavian wars. Initially a member of Clan Ivanovic, Elichenko attempts to defect to Clan Tepes while being unknowingly hunted by Alija Petervic for the murder of Alija's daughter Katja.

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• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Elichenko can't recall raping or murdering Katja, dismissing the crime by saying he'd done 'thousands' of Bosnian women.
• Dirty Coward: Under his bluster and bravado is a craven man fleeing justice for his many crimes.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Elichenko killed multiple vampires in a bar in a rather brutal fashion for making fun of his accent.
• General Ripper: A Serbian warleader who led a marauding band of killers and rapist.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Elichenko has a nasty scar on his cheek.
• Hate Sink: A racist war criminal guilty of rape, torture, and murder of multiple Bosniak women. And he taunts one of those women's father about what he did to his daughter. You feel like cheering when Alija slaughters him.
• It's All About Me: Elichenko doesn't give a damn about ideology, loyalty or clans. He's simply out for his own hide and will betray any master for a better deal.
• Karmic Death: He gets what's coming for him when he's killed by the father of one of the many Bosniak women who he raped and murdered.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Cudoviste, which translates to 'Monster.'
• One-Winged Angel: Like most vampires, he has a true form. It's a hideous monster, worthy of the nickname Cudoviste.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Willing to take any chance to better his situation and stab whoever he has to in the back when a chance presents itself. Also bonus points for throwing away his humanity to become an immortal monster to evade a just punishment.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He raped and murdered several Bosniak women for no reason other than racism and misogyny.
• Post-Rape Taunt: Elichenko mocks Alija about how he raped Alija's beloved daughter Katja, and just to twist the knife, lewdly muses Alija must have done the same to her.
• Serial Rapist: By his own admission, he'd 'done thousands of Bosniak sluts' and not a one was willing.
• Sociopathic Soldier: Elichenko was a sadist as a soldier who prided himself on raping, torturing and murdering Bosnians.
• Torture Technician: He inflicted Cold-Blooded Torture on the women he captured. A flashback shows him with Katja, holding a pair of pliers.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When Alija reveals he was General Nabokov's direct subordinate, Alphonse decides Elichenko is expendable and allows him and Alija to settle their fight.

Minister Ryu

A minister of the Li clan.

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• Double Agent: He's secretly working for Mina in order to get her help in changing the Li clan.
• People Puppets: He has the unique ability to use psychic tentacles that can control people's bodies and make them do his bidding.
• Raised in a Lab: In his early years, he was a test subject in an occult facility of the Li clan where they performed experiments with sorcery to create a new vampire subspecies that feeds on life force instead of blood. Ryu was the only successful specimen.

Bing Bing (SPOILERS)

The matriarch of the Li clan.

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• Abusive Mom: She treats Li as her puppet and sees Minmei as a mere Breeding Slave to create even more powerful heirs. When Li refuses to impregnate Minmei, she physically assaults him, mocks his deformed face and orders him to rape his own sister.
• Age Without Youth: She has lived since the Ice Age and has kept herself alive by absorbing life energy, but her true body has deteriorated to the point that it's just a corpse hopelessly clinging to life.
• Ambition Is Evil: Her greatest ambition is to replace the original Tepes queen as the True Ancestor's consort. After trying to reach that goal for thousands of years, she has become evil to the core.
• Bald of Evil: Inside her dragon body, she appears to Li and Minmei as a slimy substance that takes the shape of a bald woman.
• Deep Sleep: Turns out Bing Bing's real body went into a deep slumber after she put all of her life force into giving birth to Li and Minmei. However, she kept control of the clan by using several avatars as her eyes and ears for centuries.
• Energy Absorption: After researching the successful experiments of Ryu's psychic tentacles, Bing Bing figured how to absorb energy through life force instead of blood. For 400 years, she has been absorbing bit by bit the life force of all humans and vampires in China, giving her endless power reserves when she releases her dragon form.
• Evil Matriarch: She's the mother of Emperor Li and way more evil than he could ever be.
• Familial Body Snatcher: Her true plan all along was to steal her daughter Minmei's body to turn her into her new host once her original body has reached its limit. She fails thanks to the interference of Li, Mina and Akira.
• Hate Sink: There's no words to describe how hateable she is for raising her son as an emotionless puppet and trying to force him and Minmei into Brother–Sister Incest.
• Hive Mind: She developed a method to control other vampires in the Li clan, seeing and hearing through their eyes and ears, while her real body was recovering from childbirth and went into sleep.
• I Was Quite a Looker: She was attractive in the past, but the centuries turned her into a wrinkled and crippled old woman. The old woman turns out to be just one of her avatars, but her real body turns out to be far worse as it looks like a decrepit, rotting corpse.
• The Older Immortal: She was one of the vampire progenitors created by the True Ancestor, making her far more ancient than any living vampire.
• Rape as Backstory: She was raped by the male vampire progenitors that turned against the females in an attempt to rebel against the True Ancestor.
• Sole Survivor: She's the only survivor of the vampire progenitors created by the True Ancestor.
• Time Abyss: She was one of the first humans vampirized by the True Ancestor in the Ice Age, having lived for 70,000 years.
• Weredragon: She can transform into a giant dragon.

Refugees of the Clans

Tatianna Humoresque (SPOILERS)

The older sister of Sanin Humoresque. Shortly after her brother is killed by Akira, Tatianna arrives to Japan with a large number of Chinese vampire refugees who fled from the Li clan after being infected with nanomachines. Secretly, she's working with Mina's impostor from Telomere in a plan to cause a vampire pandemic in Tokyo, using the nanomachine-controlled vampires from the Li clan. She's eventually revealed to be a highly rare female werewolf.

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• Consummate Liar: Almost everything she says should be put into question because there's no way to know when she's lying or manipulating the truth.
• Cool Big Sis: She has a sisterly relationship with Minmei. She also plays the part of a kindhearted older sister figure when interacting with Phoebe, but her intentions aren't completely clean here.
• Forced into Evil: Under Ivanovic's control, she violated the coming of age ritual for Akira and his three buddies, causing chaos by making Sanin try to kill Akira. When Graham tried to stop him, Akira mistakenly believed Graham was the assassin, and then everything really went to hell. However, Mina's information about Tatianna's terrorist activities dating before this suggest Tatianna may have not been so forced into it after all.
• Freudian Excuse: She claims that she manipulated her own brother into trying to kill Akira because she was kidnapped and abused by Ivanovic due to her ability to shape-shift into a rare female werewolf. However, this becomes questionable after Mina reveals Tatianna wasn't Ivanovic's prisoner anymore by the time she met Sanin at Siberia.
• Knows the Ropes: In A.S.O., she fights using ropes equipped with explosives.
• Manipulative Bitch: She earns people's trust through convincing lies and emotional manipulation.
• Mysterious Protector: In A.S.O., she repeatedly shows up in the werewolf rookies' rite of passage ritual to protect Phoebe whenever the kid is in serious danger. She's doing it deliberately to get Phoebe's trust and convince him to leave with her.
• One Degree of Separation: She's Sanin's older sister, who the boy believed dead, but was kidnapped and abused by Ivanovic.
• Promotion to Parent: Her mother was driven insane by the stress of giving birth to a werewolf. Tatianna then took up the responsability of raising her younger brother Sanin in their mother's place.
• Red Herring: The audience and characters are lead to believe Tatianna was the attacker who put Yuki in a coma. The true attacker is revealed to be Angie.
• The Smurfette Principle: She's the only known female werewolf alive^note Phoebe is yet another physically female werewolf, but identifies as male.
• Taking You with Me: She ends up getting sucked into a black hole to take two of the True Ancestor's minions down with her.
• Vampiric Werewolf: She's not only a female werewolf, but the only existing Fenrir werewolf-vampire hybrid in the current era, besides Akira later on.

Minmei (SPOILERS)

A vampire refugee who arrives with Tatianna to the Bund.

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• Big Brother Worship: She develops a mild case. After she finally meets Emperor Li in person, Minmei discovers he isn't the monster Mina told her he is and grows to have a lot of respect and admiration for him because he treats her as an equal and protects her from his corrupted court. While she can't defend him being one of those who made Mina's life so harsh, she still can't let Mina harm him.
• Commonality Connection: Unexpectedly, she bonds with her twin brother, the Emperor Li, through their shared love for poetry.
• Damsel in Distress: In A.S.O., Minmei is captured by the Li clan because she's Emperor Li's long-lost twin sister and the court is planning to force the siblings to conceive a child together, although luckily for Minmei, her brother doesn't intend to go through with it.
• Go-Go Enslavement: When held captive by the Li clan, Minmei is forced to go to the emperor's chamber wearing nothing but lingerie to "awaken his interest", to poor Minmei's horror. Thankfully, her brother doesn't even touch her when they're alone together.
• Mandatory Motherhood: Turns out that the only reason why her mother didn't have her killed right after birth was because she realized she could use Minmei to give birth to vampires with power on par with the Tepes bloodline. For this twisted reason, the Li clan is expecting Minmei to bear the children of her own twin brother. Needless to say, Minmei is horrified to learn this.
• Matricide: She transforms into her true dragon form and kills her evil mother at the end of the Clan Li arc.
• Meido: In Scarlet Order, Mina has taken her in and given her a job as one of her personal maids.
• Morality Pet: Her bond with Emperor Li greatly humanizes him by showing he's capable of genuinely caring about someone, unlike the other heads of the Three Clans. He goes as far as to officially give Minmei authority equal to him over the Li clan.
• Really Royalty Reveal: A.S.O. reveals Minmei is Archduke Li's twin sister, making her a legitimate successor to the Li clan. Mina hopes that Minmei can replace Li as the clan head.
• Rip Van Winkle: 600 years ago, the Li clan put Minmei in a deep slumber right after her birth. However, she somehow ended up waking up and being raised in a rural town.
• Separated at Birth: She's Emperor Li's twin sister who was sealed away right after birth by their mother 600 years ago. She finally meets her brother in the A.S.O. sequel.
• Shameful Strip: She's forced to strip naked in front of the Li court's attendants and guards, all while they laugh at her tears of shame.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Her mother's younger self looks like a more mature and taller Minmei.
• Weredragon: Like her mother, Minmei's true form is a dragon.
• What the Hell, Hero?: During the climax of the Li clan arc, Minmei is very angry at Mina for sending Minister Ryu to kidnap her and leave her in the clutches of a corrupt court that wanted to turn her into a Breeding Slave.

Other Vampires

Nicole Edelman

Voiced by: Ayaka Kodama (JP), Clarine Harp (EN), Carola Vázquez (LA)

A CNN Newscaster and Counselor Josephine Reiko Gotoh's twin sister. She turned into a vampire to attempt a suicide bomb on Mina during a press conference. She's stopped by Akira and killed by Vera.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: She's blonde like her twin sister, but the anime made her a strawberry blonde.
• But Not Too Foreign: She's half-American on her father's side.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: Nicole and Reiko are identical twins. The only thing that's different is the place of their beauty marks (Nicole's is on her chin while Reiko's is on the corner of her left eye).
• Imposter Forgot One Detail: Hama started to figure out Nicole wasn't Gotoh when he mentioned the handkerchief Gotoh gave him and she didn't know about it.
• Love Before First Sight: She started longing for Hama after Gotoh kept sending her mails where she described the heroic soldier who rescued her in Afghanistan. This drove her to date Hama while pretending to be Gotoh.
• Not-So-Small Role: In the first series, Nicole's only role was being killed to save Mina and prove the existence of vampires to the press conference. Memories of Sledgehammer gives her more importance by revealing she and her father were working on a document that exposed the secret influence of vampires across human history and a cult of Vampire Hunter fanatics are searching for it since the document was lost with Nicole's death. Moreover, Nicole sent a mail to her sister to warn her about Hama being in danger during his attack on Mina's mansion, which ultimately saved Hama.
• Posthumous Character: She was killed in Volume 1. We learn more about her and her motivation for trying to suicide bomb Mina in the side-story Memories of Sledgehammer, which takes place a few years after her death.
• Revenge: Her suicide bomb attempt was actually Nicole trying avenge Hama. She didn't know Hama had survived the attack on Mina's mansion and was picked up by Gotoh.
• Twin Switch: She assumed her twin sister Gotoh's identity to date Hama for some time. Hama broke up with her when he realized the charade.

Mamekichi / Okiyo

A former geisha who became a vampire 170 years ago to wait for her lover John Arthur Young.

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• The Bait: Kajikawa kidnaps her in order to lure Arthur to him and get the piece of the Akamitama that Arthur carries.
• Gender-Blender Name: Back in the Edo period, geisha of Fukagawa were given male work names to hide the existence of the Red Light District from the Bakufu. This is why Mina and Akira are surprised that Mamekichi is in fact a woman.
• I Will Wait for You: She has stayed in Fukagawa for 170 years awating for her lover Arthur to come back for her, like he promised.
• Kimono Is Traditional: She's a beautiful Yamato Nadeshiko who almost always dresses in a kimono.
• My Grandson, Myself: She has lived at Fukagawa for almost two centuries, repeatedly pretending to be replaced by her "granddaughter" when enough years pass. Although, not everyone in the town was fooled by her cover story.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Graceful, well-mannered, devoted to her beloved, and admirably strong-willed.

John Arthur Young

Okiyo's lover who turned her into a vampire. 170 years ago, Alphonse sent him to Japan on a mission to find the Akamitama. Although he did find it, Yajirou Kajikawa stole the case from him and trapped him inside a coffin. Arthur managed to survive because of the small fragment of the Akamitama that he ate. At the start of Scarlet Order, he's freed from the coffin and goes to search for Okiyo.

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• And I Must Scream: He spent 170 years trapped inside a coffin, at the bottom of the sea. He only survived because of the piece of the Akamitama that he ate. After being freed and reuniting with his lover Okiyo, Arthur is still afraid that he could "wake up" and find himself trapped at that dark coffin again.
• Love at First Sight: He fell in love with Okiyo when he saw her bravely standing up to a samurai who tried to force himself on her friend.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: Okiyo said his blue eyes are beautiful.
• Wife-Basher Basher: He always steps in to beat up some bastards that try abusing women.

The Telomere Clan

A mysterious organization which influence can be tracked in many of the events of the manga. SPOILER ALERT.

Katie Maurice (SPOILERS)

Katie Maurice

A vampire who looks identical to Mina and poses as her after Ivanovic's invasion.

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• Affably Evil: She's malevolent and cruel, no doubt about that, but that doesn't stop her from being affable and charismatic.
• All for Nothing: She finally gets her hand on what she's been searching for since her first appearance in Scarlet Order, but leaves it behind because she didn't think fighting Mina, Akira, and The Father of All Vampires in a brutal Mêlée à Trois was worth it.
• Animal Motifs: A scorpion. Her true form may be a mess of mixed animals, but the scorpion is the biggest aspect, and she's just as cruel and petty as the real animal.
• Arc Villainess: She's the villain of the final arc of the first series, where she steals Mina's identity and causes a major uproar by putting vampires and human from Tokyo against each other. The direct sequels put her on the road of becoming the Big Bad.
• Arch-Enemy: She becomes Mina's biggest nemesis after the fall of the Three Clans.
• Bad Boss: One of the things that set her apart from Mina is that Katie treats her subordinates like garbage in contrast to Mina who is a caring leader.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Double Subverted. She succeeds in usurping the vampire throne, but Mina soon reclaims her throne back; but Yuki reveals that the fake Mina was actually looking for the Necropolis under the Fuji mountain. It looked that the fake found the "Elixir of life" inside but the bowl she found was empty.
• Berserk Button: Few things make her lose composure, but the one thing that'll make her really pissed is saying she and Mina are alike.
• Cain and Abel: She's Mina's evil half-sister and takes every chance to try and steal the throne from her.
• Child by Rape: Scarlet Order reveals that she's not a clone of Mina, but rather the result of Rozenmann raping the dormant original Tepes and siring her.
• Cruel Mercy: She's not going to let Rozenmann die, not after all he's done. She's going to keep him alive, as her slave, to suffer a continuous Fate Worse than Death.
• Daddy's Little Villain: She's every bit as evil and despicable as her father Rozenmann. His abuse is the main reason why she's like this too.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She spent her formative years going through a hell that makes Mina's experiences at the hands of the three Vampire Clans look like a picnic by comparison. Her early childhood was peaceful, living as the daughter of Rozenmann, but when her father found out that the "knock-off" he created was faulty due to the effects of mixing the blood of a regular vampire with that of the first vampire queen, Katie was abused, tortured, and humiliated cruelly. When Rozenmann's men got bored of toying with her, they threw her into a pit full of rotting corpses. She only survived because a disfigured vampire mutant in the pit did everything she could to keep her alive and eventually died helping her escape.
• Daywalking Vampire: Like Mina, being exposed to the Akamitama gives her immunity to sunlight.
• The Dog Bites Back: The payback for all the abuse she suffered at Rozenmann's hands? Putting him in a harlequin outfit, and brainwashing him into a puppet, to face a constant Fate Worse than Death.
• Don't Look At Me: She yells at Mina to not look at her when the Tainted Veins appear in her face.
• Driven by Envy: Everything she does is driven by her envy of all Mina has and a burning need to take it from her. She makes offers to Mina's friends to become her friends instead and enjoys trying to steal the love of the men who love Mina.
• Eldritch Abomination: Whereas Mina's true form is that of a mature, supple, buxom, and very fertile adult woman, Katie's form is a walking Joe's Crab Shack dinner special.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Katie is seriously pissed when she realizes Yuki tricked her and modified the nanomachines in her body to stop her from starting WWIII. However, learning that Yuki was willing to shoot Bing Bing to protect her leaves Katie stunned as she doesn't know how to process that Yuki does care for her.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She genuinely grows fond of Yuki after spending several months together between Scarlet Order and A.S.O.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She's disgusted at seeing Li's army having their vampire soldiers attack innocent humans and immediately forces them to stop it, even using her nanomachine-controlled soldiers to threaten them.
• Evil Is Petty: Though she claims otherwise, she's cruel and vindictive purely because she can be over the merest slight, real or imagined, though mostly imagined.
• Evil Twin: For Mina, though she's not a completely pure-blooded vampire... Except, she's Mina's half-sister as a result of Rozenmann raping the original vampire queen decades ago. She is noted to have been the last child the ancient queen produced, as her fertility was waning after so many millennia, and the only one not sired by the being known as the Dark.
• Fangs Are Evil: Her fangs are more emphasized than other vampire, especially when she does the Slasher Smile, and she's Mina's Evil Twin.
• For the Evulz: Her occasional motivation is merely to make Mina and those she cares about suffer.
• Freudian Excuse: Not only is she a Child by Rape, but she was abused by her father in every way imaginable, constantly decried as "inferior" to Mina. It's no surprise she wants to take everything from Mina even though she isn't at fault for what Katie suffered.
• Half-Breed Angst: She's the daughter of the first vampire queen and Rozenmann, making her of mixed blood because the only true pure-blooded vampires are the Tepes women. This makes her body weak and unstable in some manner, reason why she's seeking the Akamitama.
• Hive Mind: Katie infected herself with the nanomachines of the Pied Piper in order to spread it like a virus that causes the other infected vampires to follow her will as if they were extensions of herself.
• Immortality Seeker: The object that she was looking for under Mt. Fuji is the Akamitama, an ancient vampire relic that can make vampires live at their prime forever without drinking blood. Katie, who has a fragile body because of her nature as a mixed blood, wants the Akamitama to gain a true immortal body.
• Love Is a Weakness: The Li's army recognize Yuki as Katie's weakness and take her as hostage to make Katie submit to them. It works.
• Manipulative Bitch: She manipulates everyone in the Bund when impersonating Mina.
• A Match Made in Stockholm: While posing as Mina, she holds a crippled Yuki captive after the latter figures out she's an importor, with Mina eventually returning to rescue Yuki. In the Scarlet Order, Katie blackmails Yuki into coming with her in exchange for giving Mina a lead to the Akamitama. In A.S.O., the months Katie spent with Yuki caused her to develop an attachment for the human girl.
• Meaningful Name: Yuki names her after Katie Maurice, the Imaginary Friend of Anne of Green Gables, because of her role as Mina's Evil Twin and impostor.
• Misplaced Retribution: She was made to suffer by Rozemann, but she targets all her hate and vitriol towards Mina, who had absolutely no role in it whatsoever.
• Never Given a Name: For a while, she's only known as "Fake Mina". When Mina asks her for a proper name, she reveals she doesn't have one since all she was given by her creators was a meaningless alphanumeric sequence. In the sequel series, Yuki gives her the name Katie Maurice (after the imaginary friend of Anne of Green Gables), which she accepts.
• Really 700 Years Old: Her body is that of a child much like Mina, but is at least over 200 years old.
• Sarcastic Confession: She matter-of-factly tells Akira right to his face that she's a fake and the true Mina has been kidnapped. Akira refuses to believe it because she smells the same as the Mina he knows and he doesn't want to risk doubting Mina ever again.

• Spotting the Thread: Yuki discovers she isn't Mina because she assumed Yuki's laptop is named after "Anne" from The Diary of Anne Frank. That's wrong; it was named after Anne of Green Gables. Only Yuki and the true Mina know this.
• Tainted Veins: Sometimes, black veins appear on her face as if her skin was breaking. It's apparently a side effect of being a mixed-blood. Turns out not even the power of the Akamitama could fix this for her.
• "Take That!" Kiss: She kisses Akira in his sleep and leaves behind a photo of the kiss to mock Mina about it.
• Tsundere: At the end of Scarlet Order, she keeps Yuki at her side to take Mina's best friend away from her. After several months together, Katie still tries to claim that she personally doesn't care about Yuki, but she almost instantly surrenders to Li's army after they take Yuki hostage and only fights back after she learns Yuki is safe.
• Twin Switch: She's introduced impersonating Mina and is later revealed to be her identical half-sister.
• Two First Names: Yuki gives her the name Katie Maurice. While it can be used as a surname, Maurice is also a common male first name.
• The Usurper: She usurped Mina's throne after the events of Ivanovic's invasion. She is eventually unseated.

The True Ancestor and his Minions

True Ancestor (SPOILERS)

True Ancestor

The father of all vampires, as revealed in Scarlet Order.

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• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: He has an intense fascination with human arts and entertainment. According to Yajirou, the True Ancestor spent three days staring at a Buddha statue. He's also fascinated by Ruli's singing and the latter uses this to keep him distracted while everyone else desperately tries to save the vampires trapped under the Bund.
• Archnemesis Dad: To Mina. After it's revealed the True Ancestor is the father of Mina and every vampire queen before her, the previous Tepes women ask Mina to stop him from consuming the world in darkness.
• Badass Longcoat: He wears a black long coat and he's the god creator of vampires. Of course, he's a super badass.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind: Inflicts one on Mina to try to sway her to his side. He forces her to relive memories of the many loved ones she has lost over the course of her centuries of life, to try convince her that he is the only being who will actually be able to stay with her, that no one else ultimately matters. It actually seems to be working, until Mina's mother reappears and snaps her out of it, reminding Mina that Akira has himself become a being powerful and long-lived enough to share Mina's life.
• Big Bad: Scarlet Order starts shaping him up as the biggest, most powerful villain of the series. Mina and Katie are asked by the spirits of the Tepes women to stop the True Ancestor from devouring the world in his darkness, no matter the method.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: He apparently doesn't have a heart and his severed limbs turn into blood before he grows them back.
• Bloody Murder: He can create weapons, like guns and a blade, out of his own blood. Anyone who makes contact with his blood will either be enveloped by it and turned into a creepy-looking mook, or drained of all their blood in a second.
• The Comically Serious: A human accidentally draws a smiley face on the True Ancestor's forehead. It looks hilarious on a Humanoid Abomination with absolutely no emotions.
• Dark Is Evil: He's a black-haired man dressed in a completely black bodysuit and is built up as the biggest Big Bad of the series.
• Domino Mask: He wears a mask that hides his eyes.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: He appears as a man with jet-black hair like the night and skin white like a ghost. His true identity is a God of Darkness that wants to destroy the world.
• Evil Wears Black: He's the literal embodiment of darkness who plans to destroy the world and as pected, his outfit is completely black.
• Godzilla Threshold: He is one. He's considered so odious, the entire female lineage of vampires doesn't care who eliminates him or how, regardless of collateral damage. They just want it done because if his goals are met, the outcome would be so, so much worse.
• Guns Akimbo: He fights by dual wielding revolvers that produce projectiles far more powerful than should be possible for guns their size.
• Life Drinker: He can drain humans from their lifeforce and force Rapid Aging on them.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Scarlet Order reveals that he's the real father of Mina and all the Tepes women before her.
• Mask of Power: Wears a mask at all times, and is so powerful, even Mina and Akira in Fenrir form working together can barely match him, and that's while he's weakened fighting inside the Bund.
• Medical Rape and Impregnate: His entire methodology. He sired every vampire Queen by raping the original Queen and taking her fertilized eggs, Mina's mother being the last one he artificially inseminated. He did all this so he could create the "perfect" bride, one who was actually fertile (as to spite his efforts the original Queen put all her power into making sure every daughter produced by her eggs was unable to produce children of her own) and able to produce children who bore all his power, to help him "consume the world." Mina is the culmination of his efforts, the one he has sought to create for so many thousands of years. That is the original Queen's strength had waned to the point that Mina became the first truly fertile Tepes.
• Monochromatic Eyes: Under his mask, he has all-red eyes.
• Monster Progenitor: The father of all vampires is the first vampire in existence, and is the creator of all of vampirekind through his one hundred "children" and their descendants.
• No Name Given: His name is never mentioned. Akira once sarcastically calls him "Father", but that's as close as it gets.
• The Older Immortal: As the creator of the vampire race, he's the oldest immortal in the setting.
• Omnicidal Maniac: The Father of all vampires intends to consume all life on earth.
• The Quiet One: He very rarely speaks unless it's absolutely necessary.
• Sadly Mythtaken: The legends concerning him are almost entirely false. The fact that he sired the vampire race, is true, and that's pretty much it. His "99 sons" for instance were actually just humans he granted a small portion of his power, they were never "pure bloods" in the sense that later generations thought they were. As far as he is concerned the rest of vampire kind exist only to protect and serve his daughters, who themselves exist only to give him the spawn he longs for.
• Sensual Spandex: His outfit is a skintight black bodysuit.
• Single Sex Offspring: All of his known children have been female.
• Story-Breaker Power: His true strength is as yet unknown as he's only been seen fighting when his power was being restrained. Even then, the guns he uses are somehow powerful enough to rip a huge hole in the Bund's outer walls, destroying much of it in the ensuing flood of sea water.
• Time Abyss: He has been around for tens of thousands of years at least, his origin being described as from a time when darkness took human form.
• Villain Takes an Interest: He takes an interest in making Akira his minion and sends one of his minions to kidnap Akira's younger brother for this reason.
• Walking Spoiler: Learning about this character will turn everything you know about Dance In the Vampire Bund on its head.
• Walk on Water: He's able to walk on water.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Water is the only weakness he has. He can't even walk under the rain.

Yajirou Kajikawa

An officer of the Oniwaban from the Edo Period. He was turned into a vampire by the True Ancestor to help him on his quest to recover the Akamitama. He stole the case from John Arthur Young and trapped the latter in a coffin before the ship they were in sank under the sea, only to find the case was empty. He waited 170 years for Arthur's return to find his lead to the Akamitama again.

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• Because You Were Nice to Me: Akira asks Mamekichi to find Kajikawa's surviving descendants. Kajikawa is so grateful that he warns Mina about the True Ancestor sending one of his minions to kidnap Akira's brother at Siberia.
• Despair Event Horizon: He fell into despair after he thought all his human relatives died in an air raid at WW2, coming to hate his lonely immortal life. After Mamekichi reveals that his bloodline did survive the war after all, Kajikawa finds some peace.
• Heel–Face Turn: He has a change of heart after Okiyo tells him he does have living descendants and allows him to say his goodbyes to his elderly great-granddaughter. From then on, he helps find a way to counter the True Ancestor and save the vampires trapped underground in the Bund.
• Living Distant Ancestor: After the True Ancestor made him into a vampire, Kajikawa looked after his human descendants for generations until he thought all of his bloodline was wiped out by the air raids in WW2. Thanks to Akira, Okiyo discovers Kajikawa's great-granddaughter did survive the war, and had many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
• Super Smoke: Like Vera, he has the power to transform into a black mist.
• Tears of Joy: Mamekichi shows him pictures of his great-granddaughter who survived WW2 and her big family. Kajikawa can't help but cry at seeing that he does still have a family after all.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: After losing his descendants in WW2, Kajikawa came to consider immortal life to be a hell from which he can't be released until he finds the Akamitama. Mamekichi telling him that his descendants did survive helps him overcome some of his bitterness towards immortality.

Werewolves

Werewolves, collectively known as The Earth Clan, once served all of the powerful vampire families. In the present they owe their loyalty exclusively to the royal family, and have served Mina and Mina alone for the past 300 years or so.

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In General

• Good Thing You Can Heal: At one point a werewolf took a bullet to the eye. Even though the bullet passed right through his skull, not only did he survive, his eye had regenerated in less than a minute.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Werewolf warriors are always found in pairs, and the bonds between partners are extremely strong.
• Noble Wolf: 300 years of exclusive loyalty to one master certainly counts as noble and if it doesn't then their Proud Warrior Race Guy culture does.
• One-Gender Race: Most members of the entire species are commonly male, while female members are rare and borned through atavism.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: They are a mix of hereditary and genetic condition with a bit of a twist: only males are able to inherit the genetic lycanthropy due to a voluntary genetic engineering process done by the vampires to stabilize their numbers (even then, there are only 30% capability of the Y-chromosome kids getting it and it can only be triggered in stressful conditions. Plus, a werewolf child can only be conceived when the male has sex with a female in his wolf form). They can transform at will while keeping their sanity intact, and can have all five variations. However,there are signs that the female werewolves are returning...
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: Even their scholars are this. They value strength, honour, and dedication over everything.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: The entire Earth Clan fits into this. A young werewolf's rite of passage is getting dropped into freezing wilderness, such as Alaskan mountaintops or Greenland, in groups of four to six and being told to survive a month. The best part is that they have no supplies or clothes, not even underwear. Either they learn to transform into a wolf, or they freeze to death.

Beowulf

The Earth Clan's fighting force. The Beowulf traditionally served as The Tepes Family's bodyguards, but now their duties have expanded to include maintaining the security of the entire Vampire Bund.

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In General

• Badass Army: Each Beowulf is undoubtedly badass, but they still suffer casualties in pitched battles against opposing armies who possess numerical superiority.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Invoked and Lampshaded by Wolfgang.
• Walking Armory: The warriors of Beowulf all carry an assortment of swords, pistols, shotguns, assault rifles, and the occasional sniper rifle.

Wolfgang Regendorf

Voiced by: Joji Nakata (JP), T.A. Anger (EN), Andrés García (LA)

The Commander of Beowulf, Mina's force of elite werewolf bodyguards, and Akira's father.

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• Canis Major: His beast form is a truly massive silver wolf whose head alone is larger than a man's torso. He even shrugs off werewolf-killing silver bullets like they are nothing.
• Clark Kent Outfit: As shown in the final volume, the man is seriously ripped underneath his unassuming uniform.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: He invokes this with the following quote:
  Wolfgang: ''"Do not rely upon guns. They only slow the enemy. The true weapon of a Beowulf is the sword! Draw your blades!"
• Interspecies Romance: Wolfgang married a Japanese woman, which is unusual as werewolves traditionally marry in their own circles.
• Number Two: Shares this with Vera. He's in command of Mina's army.
• Older Than They Look: Wolfgang doesn't look it, but he's over four centuries old when werewolves only live to be 150-200. The reason for this is he, alongside the elder lords were given "the Kiss Of the Rose" by Queen Lucretia.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: With a bit of Asskicking Leads to Leadership mixed into it. As the Beowulf is an organized military group, leadership is based more on the ability to lead than the ability to kick ass, but the Beowulfs would never let a pushover give them orders.
• So Proud of You: To Akira. After learning that Akira offered his blood to Mina, by vampire bite, he first berates Akira for being reckless and foolish... then realized that Akira not only survived, but... changed to become the werewolf ideal, and praised him before heading off to battle one last time.
• To Be Lawful or Good: When Fake Mina takes over, he knows that she is the fake and he offers her no loyalty, but she is still the sovereign of the Vampire Bund and he refuses to break his code and strike at his queen. However, he is not above counseling others, who have less compunctions about being Lawful, to do the right thing, and he handed over Beowulf to the Earth Clan Elders so that it wouldn't fall under Fake Mina's control.
• Tough Love: He treats his son like absolute shit most of the time, but it's to make the latter stronger. When it's really necessary, when Akira really needs support, Wolfgang stands with his son. For his part, while Akira is a tad bit resentful of his father's treatment, he appreciates what his father tries to do for him.
• Undying Loyalty: Wolfgang's loyalty to the vampire monarchy, specifically to Mina, is beyond question.
• White Hair, Black Heart: Subverted. While he's always been extremely hard on Akira, he has nothing but love and admiration for his son, and has the best interests of his people and his queen at heart.

The Elite Eight

The Elite Eight are the eight greatest warriors in Beowulf, led by a man called Remus. They serve as Mina's personal bodyguard as well as the Beowulf's elite strike team.

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• Badass Longcoat: Part of their official uniform.
• Bash Brothers: Each of the two-man teams are this.
• Big Damn Heroes: They do this so often it may as well be their Modus Operandi.
• Chekhov's Gunman: A few of them were seen in the background when Mina's mansion was attacked in the first chapter, almost a full two and a half volumes before their proper introduction.
• Demoted to Extra: Not as much as Seiji, but they're still barely seen in the anime.
• Elites Are More Glamorous: They're the best Beowulf has to offer and the only members who are even given names aside from Akira, Wolfgang, and Angie.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Each of the individual two-man teams.
• Noble Wolf: Elite bodyguard wolves!
• True Companions: They are shown to trust each other with their lives.
• Undying Loyalty: To Beowulf, the Earth Clan, and Mina.

Elite Eight Pairings

As with all Beowulfs, they are split into two-man groups:

Heinrich and Leroy

Heinrich is voiced by: Kenji Takahashi (JP), Jackson Frolick (EN)

Leroy is voiced by: Hiromu Miyazaki (JP), Kevin Douglass (EN)

Heinrich and Leroy are the members of the Elite Eight who receive the most attention from the narrative.

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• Badasses Wear Bandanas: Leroy wears a bandana around his head and being a member of the Elite Eight qualifies him as a badass.
• Blood Knight: Leroy seems to enjoy fighting quite a bit.
• Dual Wielding: Leroy likes using two katanas.
• Eye Scream: Leroy gets shot in the eye, not that it bothered him much.

• The Glasses Come Off: Heinrich takes off his glasses before going into his werewolf form.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Both of them seem to think so.
• Not So Stoic: Some things can piss Heinrich off enough to make him this.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Heinrich is the Blue to Leroy's Red.
• Rugged Scar: Leroy has a nice long one running down the right side of his face.
• Scarf of Asskicking: Heinrich can often be seen wearing a scarf.
• Specs of Awesome: Heinrich wears glasses while operating as one of the Elite Eight in the Earth Clan of werewolves.
• Stoic Spectacles: Heinrich is a very collected, serious man with glasses

Remus and Romulus

Remus

Romulus

Remus is voiced by: Takayuki Fujimoto (JP), Herb Nadel (EN)

Romulus is voiced by: Nobuyuki Kobushi (JP), Jojo Krako (EN)

Remus is the commander of the Elite Eight, and Romulus is his partner.

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• Blood Knight: Romulus is one of the few werewolves who actually seem to enjoy combat instead of see it as a duty.

• Theme Naming: They're named after Romulus and Remus, the two brothers who supposedly founded the city of Rome.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Not as blatant as some examples, but Remus is noticeably more calm and level-headed than Romulus.
• Royal Rapier: The weapon of choice for both of them.
• The Stoic: Remus is the serious, composed type.
• What the Hell, Hero?: The two of them call out Wolfgang for leaving Akira to take out all three of the vampire lords' assassins on his own as they believed him psychologically incapable of taking a life.

Camille and Hyunte

Camille is voiced by: Takayuki Kondō (JP)

A pair of warriors in the Elite Eight. They seem to be the calmest and most laid back of the bunch.

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• Cold Sniper: Hyunte comes off as this a bit thanks to his tendency to go long periods of time without speaking. He's also the one most likely to take up a sniping role.
• Eyes Always Shut: Camille. Justified in that he's blind, so whether he opens his eyes or not is immaterial.
• Gender-Blender Name: Camille is a French girl's name.
• Handicapped Badass: Camille is blind, yet he kicks as much ass as the rest of the team.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Hyunte, whose hair covers the right eye, is the most aloof and quiet of the Elite Eight.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Hyunte is good enough with a sniper rifle to shoot a man through his binoculars.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Camille has long hair and a very pretty face.
• Perpetual Smiler: Camille almost always has a calm smile on his face, even in the thick of battle.
• The Quiet One: Hyunte rarely speaks.
• Royal Rapier: Camille's weapon of choice is a rapier.
• Warrior Poet: One of the few times Hyunte spoke was when, after he pointed the way to Nanami for Yuzuru, he explains his actions to Camille by saying "one cannot stop the flow of water." Camille immediately calls him out on it.

Goto and Shinva

Shinva is voiced by: Kenji Akabane (JP), Joel McDonald (EN)

The final pair of warriors in the Elite Eight. Shinva is definitely the youngest member, and Goto appears to be the oldest.

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• Badass Longcoat: Goto wears one of these as part of his personal outfit. So does Shinva, but because of his small size, it's only really long for him.
• Fastball Special: Goto once used his axe to hurl Shinva at a group of enemies.
• I Got Bigger: By the beginning of the second season, Scarlet Order, the small Shinva grew much taller, while Akira stayed the same height, which annoys the latter.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Shinva is much younger than Goto, yet the two of them are as much Heterosexual Life-Partners as the rest of the team.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Shinva's teeth are all filed into points.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Being a werewolf makes Shinva much physically stronger than his small size would suggest.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Goto is the Blue to Shinva's Red, likely because he is much older and experienced than his partner.

Other Werewolves

Angel Arvento (SPOILERS)

Angie is an old friend of Akira's who comes to work for Mina, but is revealed to be a double agent working for Telomere.

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• Alliterative Name: Angel Arvento
• Camp Gay: His appearance and behavior would make anyone mistake him for a woman. He's also attracted to Akira and is antagonistic towards his girlfriend Mina.
• Childhood Friend Romance: He has obvious feelings for his childhood friend Akira who only cares for him platonically.
• Covered with Scars: After surviving Sanin's assault, Angie is left with many scars all over his body. He's actually proud of now having his own scars.
• Covert Pervert: He has said he would like to eat Akira's ass. Akira thinks he's joking, but it doesn't look that way.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Angie fears Akira's relationship with Mina will make Akira forget about him, so he considers the best way to ensure a place in Akira's heart is making hate him to death or die by his hands to give him yet another trauma.
• Depraved Homosexual: He has a romantic attraction to Akira that's quickly revealed to be a Yandere level obsession. His ways of expressing his "love" for Akira involve repeated betrayals and murder attempts.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Yuki mistakes Angie for a woman until she sees him in the boys' school uniform and Akira tells her werewolves are a One-Gender Race.
• Enemy Mine: He teams up with Mina when Akira's life is on the line.
• Escape Artist: He can escape from almost anywhere and even free himself from handcuffs.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Besides Akira, he deeply loves and respects his grandfather Lord Scott even though they've taken different sides. Angie is distraught when his grandfather dies.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: He's so yandere that one day he sees helping Akira fight Telomere as loving him, and the next day, trying to hurt Akira as an ally of Telomere is equally "loving." He makes a permanent Heel–Face Turn after he finally reconciles with Akira and Mina forgives him for his past betrayals.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: The most charitable interpretation of what he wants with Akira to be his best guy friend and equal to Mina in his eyes. However, he screws it up for himself by working for Telomere.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His obsession with Akira turns around to bite him when Akira uses his own paralytic agent against him, paralyzing him for hours, so he sees how it feels to be completely helpless when his princess is under attack.
• Hopeless Suitor: Angie is obsessively in love with Akira and resents Mina for being the love of Akira's life.
• Incompatible Orientation: Akira isn't homosexual and Mina is his only love. Angie harbors romantic affections for Akira who does care for him, but only as a childhood friend.
• In-Series Nickname: His name is Angel, but people call him "Angie".
• It's Personal: He has a personal grudge against Tatianna because she was the one who ordered Sanin to kill Akira, which triggered the events of the Tragedy of Siberia.
• Ironic Name: His given name is Angel. Other than his face, there's nothing angelic about him.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has long white hair that reaches his back, making him look very feminine.
• The Mole: Angie is secretly working for Telomere while he's acting as one of Mina's guards.
• Never My Fault: For years, Angie blames the Tragedy of Siberia on Tatianna for ordering Sanin to betray and kill Akira. It's not until Tatianna calls him out on hiding secrets that Angie finally confesses to Akira that he was the one who started the bloodshed when he tried to kill Sanin and let Graham cover for him, which resulted in Akira killing Graham.
• Significant White Hair, Dark Skin: He has dark skin and white hair. Besides his personal connection to Akira, he's the only Beowulf member to become a villain.
• Sissy Villain: He's very feminine-looking, obsessed with Akira, and works for the Fake Mina later on.
• The Speechless: Yuuhi rips his throat up, rendering him mute. He gets better when he gets a device implanted in his throat to simulate speech.
• Stalker without a Crush: Tatianna refers to Angie as her stalker because he has been trying to find her since the Tragedy of Siberia and even joined Telomere to have a better chance at taking revenge on her.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: His feminine appearance caused some awkwardness for Akira, Sanin and Graham when they were all naked together in the snow.
• Take Me Instead: When he learned that Sanin was ordered by Tatianna to kill Akira, Angie offered himself to Sanin if he left Akira alone. Sanin refused because he couldn't bring himself to do anything to Angie.
• Tomboyish Name: Gender-Inverted. His name is Angel, but his nickname "Angie" is one of the many reasons why he's mistaken for a woman until Akira clears the misunderstanding.
• Undying Loyalty: Angie is genuinely loyal to the leader of Telomere, Katie Maurice.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Neither Akira nor Mina ever kill him when they have the chance, and he keeps "thanking" them for their mercy by turning around and trying to traumatize them, horribly, every chance he gets, deluding himself into thinking he's actually doing them a favor in the process.
• White Hair, Black Heart: He has long white hair, secretly works for Telomere, and his obsessive love for Akira makes him drives him to do many villainous actions.
• Yandere: Angie is so obsessed with Akira that he wants to threaten and kill anyone who he sees as an obstacle to have Akira to himself. He antagonizes both Mina and Yuki, even causing a near fatal head injury for the latter, because both have feelings for Akira and are currently closer to Akira than him. As if this wasn't bad enough, in Scarlet Order, he paralyzes Akira temporarily while Katie is hunting down Mina, trying to kill her after the latter lost her vampire powers. Angie even displayed these traits when he was younger as he tried to kill Sanin after he discovered the latter planned to kill Akira and tried to persuade Graham into helping him.

The Earth Clan Senate

The Earth Clan Senate is made up of five ancient werewolves who have served the Tepes Family for their entire lives.

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In General

• Bash Brothers: All of them, but especially Lords Ernest and Connery.
• Beware the Silly Ones: They tend to act pretty silly and carefree, Scott excepted. Don't think that makes them any less badass.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Except for Edward, they have large and hairy eyebrows.
• Blood Knight: All of them.
• Boisterous Bruiser: They're the very best of Beowulf are terrified of them because they consider sparring matches in which they reportedly shatter bones to be good fun.
• The Casanova: Back in their days, they were all extremely desirable.
• Chivalrous Pervert: With Scott's possible exception, the lot of them can be rather lecherous. Despite this, they're incredibly gallant and respectful of women. When Yuki is injured and mute, Edward, Ernest, Connery, and Antonio head to cheer her up with stories of their adventures.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: They administer one to an army that outnumbers them one hundred to one.
• Dirty Old Man: All of them are perverted old men, except for possibly Scott.
• Failure Knight: They failed to protect Queen Lucretia from being killed by the Three Clans. The only thing that has kept them going for 400 years is honoring their queen's final wish; for them to protect her daughter, Mina. They end up giving up their lives while protecting Mina from Rozenmann's army.
• A Good Way to Die: All of them are joyful at the end of their lives, because they can finally return to their queen's side.
• The Dreaded: Played for laughs. Even Elite Beowulfs are terrified of training with these guys who, quoth Leroy, "break bones like they're twigs!"
• Heroes Prefer Swords: At least Lords Scott, Connery, and Edward do.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: They couldn't protect Queen Lucretia from the Three Clans. They have never forgiven themselves for their failure.
• I Like Those Odds: When faced with an army that outnumbers them one hundred to one, they just grin, tell each other to take care of themselves, and comment on how for once, they won't need to share any kills with someone else for a change.
• My Greatest Failure: They regret not having been able to prevent Lucretia's death at hands of the Three Clans.
• Named After Somebody Famous: They get their names from actors. Lord Ernest is based on Ernest Borgnine, Antonio on Anthony Quinn, Edward on Edward Fox, and Connery on Sean Connery.
• Old Soldier: They didn't live to be four hundred years old by being easy to kill. Indeed, their centuries of experience give them power beyond even the elite Beowulf warriors.
• One-Man Army: They take on Rozenmann's entire army to buy Akira and Mina time to escape and utterly annihilate them, unfortunately sacrificing their lives in the process.
• Really 700 Years Old: They look to be in their mid fifties, but are all more than four hundred years old.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: In contrast to Wolfgang, when faced with the Fake Mina, despite her technically being their liege, they essentially give her the finger and walk out with the entirety of Beowulf to find the real Mina.
• Undying Loyalty: They appear to be this to Mina, but in reality, they are absolutely loyal to Mina's mother, Lucretia, though they all love Mina as well.
• You Shall Not Pass!: To give Mina and Akira the chance to escape, they stay behind at the Cradle in the Amazon to hold back Rozenmann's army of five hundred vampires. And they do kill them all before dying a warrior's death.

Lord Scott

Angie's grandfather.

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• Badass Boast: He gives one which doubles as a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Rozenmann and his entire army:
  "It was not long ago that Rozenmann's army was a thing of exquisite magnificence. Their disciplined lines and intimidating numbers could crush any foe. They were rightly known as an army of terror. But what of you now? Whence the rugged lines of heavy infantry? Whence the waves of polished spearheads, charging towards the enemy? Now you are naught but a mob of weaklings! You have grown old, Rozenmann! Old and frail! This will hardly be a battle at all! Let us show you what it truly means to be a warrior!"
• Died Standing Up: Scott dies standing after beating Rozenmann's soldiers, using his large bow as a support.
• Go Out with a Smile: As he dies from his wounds, Scott smiles and wishes to see Lucretia in the afterlife.
• My Greatest Failure: Scott is later torn by guilt for not seeing Angie is a traitor.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Scott had lost all his sons long ago, with Angie as the only surviving member of his family. He believes this blinded him to Angie's treachery.
• Unwanted Assistance: He tells Angie not to interfere in his final battle. While they've chosen different leaders, they're still wolves and Angie cannot sully a warrior's last stand. Angie is driven to tears by his grandfather's words.

Lord Ernest

• Covered with Scars: He's covered in scars.
• Eyepatch of Power: He's a werewolf veteran with an eyepatch.
• Mercy Kill: He views the slaying of Ivanovic's werewolves as this, given Ivanovic had the poor things tortured into insanity. After the battle, he informs the corpse of one he'd slain to come for him in Valhalla should he still bear a grudge in the next world.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: He doesn't have a high opinion of a werewolf's long life, because as he says, "all you get are wrinkles and regrets."

Lord Antonio

• Bald Head of Toughness: He's the largest and toughest member of the Earth Senate. He also happens to be the only one who is completely bald.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: Befitting his status as the group's Big Guy, Lord Antonio seems to really like using heavy bludgeoning instruments. When all the other senators use swords or spears, he uses a giant sledgehammer. When all of the senators decided to use maces and hammers against an extremely resilient foe, he used a massive concrete street post instead.
• Eyes Always Shut: He normally keeps his eyes closed.
• Implacable Man: He's next to impossible to bring down.
• Improvised Weapon: During the fight with Ivanovic's berserker werewolves, Antonio just rips out a giant pillar from the wall and begins clubbing his enemies with it.
• The Quiet One: He's only ever said a single line in his very first scene.
• Self-Destructive Charge: When he's getting shot to pieces by a number of Rozenmann's soldiers, he just charges at them and takes them with him when he jumps off a ledge.

Lord Edward

• Badass Bookworm: He was a scholar before he joined the senate. That's right, even werewolf bookworms can kick a ton of ass.
• Dissonant Serenity: When fighting Rozenmann's army, he calmly counts how many soldiers he can kill before his sword breaks and he has to switch for a new one.
• "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: "Weapons these days have no quality at all. I must register a complaint with the smiths."

Lord Connery

• Back-to-Back Badasses: Unlike the others, who all fought alone against Rozenmann's army, Lords Ernest and Connery fought together.
• Badass Longcoat: He wears a longcoat during the Earth Senate's Last Stand in volume 13.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: He seems to be especially close to Ernest. It's telling that when the five of them held off Rozenmann's army, they split up to fight alone, but Ernest and Connery fought back-to-back until the end.
• Taking the Bullet: He dies taking a spear that would have hit Ernest in the back.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Ernest constantly ribbing each other, but they're closer to each other than they are to the other senators.

Werewolf Rookies

Yuuhi Regendorf

Akira's younger brother. His werewolf characteristics didn't manifest until he was six years old, causing his training to start later than other werewolves. Akira didn't want Yuuhi to get involved in his dangerous lifestyle at first, but later trains him himself.

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• Agent Peacock: In A.S.O., Yuuhi has grown into a very feminine-looking Long-Haired Pretty Boy and he's a very capable werewolf rookie who makes his brother proud with his skills.
• Ascended Extra: He had a very minor role in the first series, but later becomes one of the main characters in A.S.O.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: Yuuhi looks incredibly pretty when dressed as a girl. Phoebe gets a crush on him that remains even after learning about his true gender.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's a sweet boy, but mess with his loved ones and he will have little compunction about literally ripping your throat out, as Angie learned the hard way while tormenting Akira where Yuuhei could see it.
• Big Brother Instinct: Inverted. Yuuhi won't let anyone get away with picking on his dear older brother. Angie tried it and ended up getting bitten on the throat for it.
• Big Brother Worship: He absolutely adores his older brother who he calls "Onii-chama". This trait remains even when he's a young teenager, causing Phoebe to tease him about his brother complex.
• But Not Too Foreign: Like Akira, Yuuhi is the son of a German man and a Japanese woman.
• Covert Pervert: While he never acts perverted, he nonchalantly joins Phoebe in the shower despite knowing about Phoebe's assigned sex and hugs Phoebe while putting his hands on Phoebe's chest and crotch.
• Cross-Cast Role: A bonus chapter mentions Yuuhi once put on a dress for a School Play and looked so cute that he gained his own fanclub.
• Foil: In A.S.O., he becomes this to Angie. Both are Long Haired Pretty Boys initially mistaken for women and are very important people to Akira who they adore. However, Angie's twisted love has made him repeatedly betray Akira's trust and hurt him and his other loved ones. While Angie did care about Sanin and Graham in the ritual, he always put Akira first and ended up trying to kill Sanin for planning to kill Akira. On the other hand, Yuuhi's love and admiration for his brother are healthy and he would never betray anyone.
• Instant Fan Club: It's mentioned that he has a fanclub at school because he's such an Attractive Bent-Gender.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He befriends a large Gargantua werewolf who keeps saving his life.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: When a white tiger appears in the grounds of the ritual, Yuuhi orders his friends to leave the deer meat they're carrying behind so the tiger stops chasing them. Phoebe insists four werewolves can take down a tiger, but Yuuhi doesn't want any of his friends to end up hurt or even dead.
• The Leader: He acts as the leader of the werewolf rookies, being the most levelheaded and coming up with rational solutions to the problems he and his friends face.
• Living MacGuffin: Yuuhi is the target of "Father's" generals to get leverage on Akira, by kidnapping him and holding him hostage.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Yuuhi has let his hair grow long as a young teenager. This is one of the reasons why Phoebe mistook him for a pretty girl at first. He later confesses that he did this to look like a girl since his chosen partner Phoebe identifies as male.
• Love Before First Sight: His father told him about Phoebe from a young age. Over the years, Yuuhi became very interested in meeting Phoebe and when he first saw Phoebe in person at New York, Yuuhi knew Phoebe was his destined partner.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Yuuhi is gentle and looks like a girl, in contrast to his chosen partner Phoebe who is a very masculine transgender boy. Yuuhi actually invokes this as he thought he should be the "girl" of the relationship since Phoebe identifies as male.
• Nice Guy: He's a very sweet, patient, and mature boy.
• Opposites Attract: With Phoebe. Yuuhi is calm, patient, and cautious, in contrast to his partner Phoebe who is impulsive, emotional, and hotheaded.
• Practically Different Generations: He's ten years younger than his older brother Akira.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He's the more mature and calm Blue Oni to Phoebe's rash and overly emotional Red Oni.
• Secret-Keeper: At first, Yuuhi is the only one of the rookies who knew that Phoebe is a transgender boy. Aaron and Cal find out until after they see Phoebe naked at the start of the rite of passage ritual.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Yuuhi wanted no one but Phoebe to be his partner. He also loves Phoebe regardless of the gender Phoebe identifies as.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: Phoebe makes a joke about Yuuhi being so girly that his naked body could make Aaron and Cal get an erection when they're dropped in the snow naked at the start of the ritual.
• Supreme Chef: He learned cooking from his brother and his friends enjoy the food he prepares.
• Team Chef: He cooks for his friends during the ritual, having studied primitive cooking methods to make soup in a cave.
• Understanding Boyfriend: He wholeheartedly accepts and respects his partner Phoebe's male identity. He loves Phoebe just for being Phoebe.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Yuuhi has taken to looking and dressing like a girl over the time-skip between Sledgehammer and ASO. He did this because he heard Phoebe liked cute girls.
• Wise Beyond His Years: He's only fourteen in A.S.O., but he already has a great level of maturity and calmness for his age.

Phoebe Schroeder

A young werewolf who escaped from "The Pure Church" in the US and lived in New York with a caretaker named Holden until Yuuhi arrives to recruit Phoebe shortly after Holden was killed. During the werewolves' ritual site, Phoebe is revealed to be a very rare werewolf that is physically/genetically of the female sex, but identifies as the male gender.

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• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Phoebe wants to be seen as a werewolf, not as a "girl" and gets rather cross with preferential treatment due to his sex.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Subverted. After Tatianna tells Phoebe that Yuuhi, Aaron, and Cal were selected as his companions in the ritual so they could impregnant him, Phoebe feels betrayed and scared, not having any idea of who he should trust anymore. Yuuhi then tells Phoebe that he went to New York for him because he always wanted Phoebe to be his intertwined branch and truly loves him. Encouraged by Holden's final message to trust people, Phoebe believes Yuuhi.
• Fearless Fool: Even though Yuuhi told everyone to stay away from the tiger, Phoebe still goes after the animal to get their deer meat back because he wants to prove that he's a strong werewolf to his friends. If Tatianna hadn't been around, Phoebe would have been eaten.
• First Period Panic: When his first period hits in the middle of the werewolves' ritual, Phoebe's response is confusion, shock, and unmitigated terror, thinking he was wounded by the True Ancestor's Elite Mooks.
• Gender-Blender Name: Phoebe initially doesn't like the name Holden gave him because it's a girl's name. He embraces it after Yuuhi tells him Holden named him after a character who is the sister of a guy named Holden from his favorite book.
• If It's You, It's Okay: Phoebe identifies as a heterosexual boy, but he develops a crush on the Wholesome Crossdresser Yuuhi and learning that Yuuhi is a boy doesn't change his feelings.
• Living MacGuffin: Being a rare female werewolf who can transform, Phoebe is sought out to use as a Baby Factory (though it turns out this practice was banned some time ago).
• Love at First Sight: Phoebe is attracted to Yuuhi's feminine beauty from the moment they first see each other. Despite being surprised to find out Yuuhi is a boy, Phoebe confesses to still think of Yuuhi as his destined partner.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: With Yuuhi. Phoebe looks and acts masculine in contrast to Yuuhi who looks and acts feminine to accommodate to Phoebe's male identity.
• Meaningful Name: His caretaker Holden named Phoebe after the character in The Catcher in the Rye who was the sister of the character also named Holden. Yuuhi says this is proof of how much Holden loved Phoebe because the book's Phoebe is the most important person to her Holden.
• Opposites Attract: With Yuuhi. Phoebe is impulsive, emotional, and hotheaded, in contrast to Yuuhi who is calm, patient, and cautious.
• Past Experience Nightmare: Phoebe has recurring nightmares of the attack on the Pack 42 village where he sees the soldiers trying to capture him and people sacrificing themselves to protect him.
• Queer Establishing Moment: Phoebe establishes himself as a transgender boy when Aaron and Cal see him naked for the first time. Yuuhi admits he knew about Phoebe's gender all along, but didn't say anything out of respect for Phoebe's identity.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The emotional and impulsive Red Oni to Yuuhi's more calm and rational Blue Oni.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Tatianna reveals the Awful Truth about the Earth Clan planning to use Phoebe as a Baby Factory, he leaves the ritual site with Tatianna in disgust and rage. However, Mina later reveals Tatianna was lying and Mina had already banned that Baby Factory practice long ago.
• Survivor Guilt: As Phoebe gets back his memories, he feels terribly guilty and mournful for the people at Pack 42 that sacrificed themselves to help him escape, especially after Phoebe learns that Cal's pregnant mother was one of the casualties.
• Trans Tribulations: When he comes out to his new friends Aaron and Cal, they start treating Phoebe like a girl which he finds frustrating and makes him feel the need to prove himself as a male werewolf. To make it worse for him, his period hits at the most inconvenient of times when he and his friends are being pursued by enemies. On top of experiencing gender dysphoria, his weakened state makes him feel like a burden to his friends.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Phoebe had lost his memories due to the trauma of the attack on Pack 42 and witnessing so many people die while helping him escape.

Aaron and Cal

The sons of Remus and Romulus respectively. Aaron and Cal are Yuuhi's friends and after a rough start because of the tragedy of Pack 42, they eventually befriend Phoebe too. They join Yuuhi and Phoebe in their rite of passage ritual.

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• Fire-Forged Friends: Akira sends them along with Yuuhi and Phoebe on a mission in the deserted surface of the Bund so Aaron and Cal warm up to Phoebe and they can become friends. It works.
• How Do I Shot Web?: It takes them a while to figure out how to enter werewolf form so they don't freeze to death in the ritual.
• Interrupted Suicide: Aaron is brainwashed and nearly forced into a Psychic-Assisted Suicide by Minmei's kidnappers. He's saved by the Gargantua werewolf who knocks Aaron out before he shoots himself in the mouth.
• Mission Control: While everyone else infiltrates the Li army's base, Aaron stays outside to monitor the situation from the computer.
• Mr. Exposition: Aaron gives the Info Dump of the situation and dangers he and his friends face.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Aaron is the more intellectual Blue Oni to Cal's brash Red Oni.
• They Died Because of You: Cal is initially resentful towards Phoebe because his pregnant mother never returned after the attack on Pack 42 where she sacrificed herself to help Phoebe escape to New York. After Phoebe remembers Cal's mother's final moments and Cal sees just how guilty Phoebe feels about it, he realizes it wasn't Phoebe's fault and befriends him.
• Undying Loyalty: After they hear the Earth Clan intends to use Phoebe as a Baby Factory, Aaron and Cal would choose to spend their lives on the run with Phoebe before letting something that disgraceful happen to their friend. They're relieved when Akira and Mina tell them the forced reproduction of werewolves was banned long ago.

Humans

Inspector Seiji Hama

The appointed liaison between Bund Security and the Japanese police. Though he is now in the Japanese civil-service, he was once a very well known mercenary called "Sledgehammer." Seiji Hama is the son of a Japanese woman and a Native American man who lost his parents at a young age and ended up joining the United States special forces until he was critically injured on a mission in Colombia. Accepting a chance to be more than a helpless cripple, he was used in an experimental procedure by Rozenmann's forces, becoming an artificial Beast Man forced to serve Rozenmann until he found a chance for freedom. His fate is inextricably linked to Reiko Gotoh as well.

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• Action Dad: In the sequel seven years later, Hama is now the proud father of Reiko's daughter and is still as much of a badass. His daughter loves him for this and wants to be able to fight like him.
• Arch-Enemy: To Bolton, who has been present at almost all of the live-changing events of Hama's life and carries a deep hatred for Hama.
• An Arm and a Leg: At Bogota, his torturers cut off his arms and legs with a chainsaw. He grew back the limbs thanks to the modifications done to him by Rozenmann's scientists.
• Breakout Character: He's apparently popular enough to warrant his own side-story: Memories of Sledgehammer.
• Broken Ace: Let's face it, the guy's good at almost everything. Despite this, Hama carries a lot of baggage in being forced to serve Rozenmann for the sake of his life and his men. He's also tormented by how he blames himself for the death of Reiko's sister Nicole Edelman.
• But Not Too Foreign: His father was a Navajo Native American and his mother was Japanese.
• The Champion: Much like Akira would do anything for Mina, Hama would do anything to protect Reiko.
• Chekhov's Gun: When he still was under Rozenmann's orders, he had an escape plan, that was later on used by Akira to escape the Bund under the fake Mina's nose. Furthermore, his mercenary past left him with a lot of acquaintances in the CIA that were extremely helpful in finding Mina's whereabouts.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Once defeated by Akira-and when Reiko is safe- he defects to Mina's side.
• Emergency Transformation: After he was captured by enemy soldiers during Eli's rescue, Hama was tortured, mutilated and burned alive. He agreed to let Rozenmann's scientists transform him into a werepanther in order to survive and get his missing limbs back.
• Fair Cop: He's a very handsome and hunky cop.
• Famed In-Story: He has quite the reputation as a legendary mercenary called "Sledgehammer," so much that he has the full respect of the Beowulf Guard.
• A Father to His Men: Although they were almost all killed before he was even introduced, it is clear that Seiji is extremely dedicated to his men. As he sat in a cell, waiting for Mina's judgement, he cared more about how the bodies of his men were treated than he did for whatever unpleasant fate awaited him, and he was visibly relieved when the Beowulfs told him that despite being their enemies, his men were honourable and worthy opponents, and were treated as such. We see in the past that Hama was a soldier who cared deeply for the lives of his men who were willing to die for him.
• Forced into Evil: He's introduced as one of the assassins targeting Akira, but he isn't at all evil, just temporarily forced to side against the heroes because Rozenmann threatened Reiko's life if Hama didn't go back to work for him.
• Friend to All Children: Hama absolutely loves kids. The Fangless Children idolize him, and he practically wiped out a Cartel force by himself to rescue the toddler daughter of a Colombian senator.
• Happily Married: By the third series, Hama is married to Reiko and they have a daughter. Albeit business often keeps them apart, Hama loves his wife and daughter very much, taking out all enemies that target their lives.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: After he thought he was free from Rozenmann's clutches, he's forced to work as an assassin for him once more when the leaders of the Three Clans make a bet on whose assassin can kill Akira. After Akira wins their fight, Mina makes sure Gotoh is safe from Rozenmann and Hama is finally let free. He stays an ally to Mina and Akira for the rest of the series.
• I Owe You My Life: One of the reasons he's so devoted to Councilor Gotoh is because she saved both him and the few of his men who survived the assault on Mina's castle when they were abandoned by the people who sent them in the first place. However, it turns out this goes both ways; the two have known each other for a long time and have been rescuing one another ever since they met.
• Insecure Love Interest: He's deeply in love with Reiko, but doesn't believe he has the right to be with her due to her sister dying in a failed suicide bomb mission in a pointless attempt to avenge him, not knowing he had survived the attack on Mina's mansion. After Reiko tells him she loves him despite of that, they get married.
• Living on Borrowed Time: He should have died when he was tortured and mutilated at Bogota. Rozenmann's experiments saved his life by transforming him into an artificial werepanther. However, he still needs to take injections regularly or he will die. By the start of A.S.O., Hama has received the treatment he needed to expand his lifespan without depending on the injections anymore.
• Love at First Sight: He has loved Reiko since the first time they met at Afghanistan.
• My Greatest Failure: When Hama carried out the assault on Mina in the first volume which resulted in his men being slaughtered, Nicole Edelmann believed he was dead and attempted to perform a suicide bombing on Mina as retribution. Hama blames himself for Nicole's death.
• Nephewism: His father was a soldier killed during a naval operation and his mother committed suicide when he was only ten years old. He was then raised by his only remaining relative, his paternal uncle, until the latter was assassinated in a political conflict.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He got fired from the American army because he disobeyed orders in order to rescue a civilian (Reiko) who was held hostage at Afghanistan. When he was working as a mercenary at Bogota, he went to rescue the kidnapped 4-year-old daughter of a cabinet minister. As a result, he was captured, tortured and horribly mangled. He only survived thanks to becoming a test subject in Rozenmann's artificial beastman project.
• Nominal Villain: He's just an honourable soldier whose values would (and do) make the Beowulf proud, but someone he cares for was used as a hostage by one of the bad guys to gain his services.
• One-Man Army: Even when he was fully human, Hama has shown he could wipe out an entire group of Afghan Militants and Colombian Cartel soldiers without much issue. As an Artificial Beastman, he's even stronger.
• Papa Wolf: Don't touch his daughter if you don't want him to blow you apart with a grenade launcher.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: When he finally gets to face Rozenmann in A.S.O., Hama calls him out on how he became a pathetic clown after discovering he spent centuries dancing in the palm of the True Ancestor's hand.
• Red Baron: He's widely known as a legendary mercenary called "Sledgehammer."
• Relationship Upgrade: He's clearly deeply in love with Reiko Gotoh, but keeps her at an arm's length due to guilt over his own relationship with Reiko's twin sister Nicole and Nicole's death. At the end of Memories of Sledge Hammer, Hama and Reiko finally make a relationship official.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Hama disobeyed orders in Afghanistan to rescue a woman who turned out to be Reiko Gotoh (the first time he'd ever meet her). He describes this as the first decision he'd ever made for himself and he will never have regrets for it.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: He's never seen with any weapon besides a shotgun.
• Single-Target Sexuality: He has never loved anyone but Reiko. He did date Reiko's sister Nicole for a while, but only because Nicole was making herself pass as Reiko to get close to him. As soon as he realized the truth, Hama made clear he could only love Reiko.
• Spanner in the Works: Hama has managed to foil a shocking number of carefully constructed plots he's not even really aware of just by doing the right thing. A notable example was his first meeting with Reiko when he saved her in Afghanistan. Bolton's fanatics staged a mock execution to get her father to confess to the location of the Edelman Report. When it looked like he was finally going to break... Seiji saved the day and foiled the plan.
• Super-Soldier: He's the sole successful human experiment of Rozenmann's secret project to create artificial beastmen soldiers. Because of this, Hama can transform into a werepanther with capacities equal to werewolves.
• Tragic Keepsake: He kept Nicole's pendant after the latter's failed suicide bomb attempt on Mina. This pendant is also the key to getting the Edelman Report that Nicole and her father were working on.
• Worthy Opponent: The Beowulfs see him as one because of his strength, his reputation as a skilled mercenary, his dedication to his men, and his sense of honor.
• Your Days Are Numbered: The process to turn him into an Artificial Beastman wasn't quite perfect, leading to him regularly needing to inject himself with a serum to prolong his life, though his lifespan has been massively shortened. It's revealed at the end of Memories of Sledge Hammer it should be possible to grant him a normal lifespan.

Gotoh

The previous Mediator for the human and vampire worlds of Japan.

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• Badass Bureaucrat: He has been the Mediator for several decades for a reason though that may be due to other circumstances.
• The Chessmaster: He helped orchestrate the attacks on vampire citizens not in the Bund and is revealed to be on in Scarlet Order as he was the one to motivate Katie into overthrowing Mina to get information about the Akitama.
• Fantastic Racism: His main drive to kill all the vampires in Japan as he wished to save the 'purity' of his nation by using a program called Pied Piper to have all vampires in hiding come out during the day and burn themselves alive. He even has the same views within his own family which leads to saying that his own granddaughter would enver understand his ideals because of her mixed blood.
• Half-Breed Discrimination: He condescendingly calls Josephine, his own granddaughter and pupil, a mixed blood half-breed due to her American father.
• Martyrdom Culture: He was willing to die for his plan to succeed, even goading his own granddaughter into killing him.
• No Full Name Given: His given name isn't mentioned, but we know his surname through his granddaughter.

Josephine Reiko Gotoh

A counselor who works in negotiations between the Japanese government and the Bund. She's also Hama's boss and most important person.

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• Badass Bureaucrat: She's hellbent in preserving peace between humans and vampires through politics. One of the best examples is when she tells her terrorist grandfather to his face that she won't hesitate to order a sniper to shoot him dead if he doesn't hand over the device that controls the nanomachines implanted in the vampires of the Li clan.
• But Not Too Foreign: She's half-Japanese. Her father was American.
• Happily Married: Reiko and Hama are married with a little daughter by the time of the third series. They were separated for a few years both because of his treatment and him hunting down people targeting Reiko's life. When they reunite, the family couldn't be happier to be together again.
• I Owe You My Life: Hama saved her from a mock execution staged by Bolton's fanatics.
• Interrogated for Nothing: The Vampire Hunter sect kidnaps her because they believe she must know where her sister Nicole hid the Edelman Report, a detailed account of vampire and human social relations. However, Gotoh didn't even see Nicole since their parents' divorce and she never heard of the Edelman Report before.
• Iron Lady: Her job is to maintain the political balance between humans and vampires. She does her work with a very professional and strong-willed disposition.
• Nom de Mom: Her father's surname was Edelman, but Reiko has the surname Gotoh because she was chosen for her mother's family's job as the mediator between humans and vampires. Her twin sister Nicole did have the surname of her father due to being sent to live with him at USA.
• Relationship Upgrade: She becomes an Official Couple with Hama at the end of Memories of Sledge Hammer.
• Rescue Romance: She first met Hama when he rescued her from a Hostage Situation in Afghanistan. Since then, she has thought of him as her beloved guardian angel.
• Sultry Bangs: She's a beautiful and buxom woman whose hair usually falls over her right eye.
• What the Hell, Hero?: When the Fake Mina/Katie takes over, she calls out the servants who had been previously been loyal to Mina about how they would undo everything the real Mina worked for and how they put a bloodline over the bonds they forged with Mina for the past 400 years. It's enough to send Vera into tears.

Jessica Harlin

A single mother and stripper living in New York, trying to make ends meet to support her little daughter Susie. By pure chance, Jessica finds a starving, exhausted Mina and believing her to just be an ordinary little girl, takes her in before discovering she has the queen of the vampires in her little apartment.

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• Alpha Bitch: In the past, she was this in school. She got a hefty dose of reality after a few years in New York and became a much better person.
• Damsel in Distress: Jessica is captured by Rozenmann's men to force Mina's cooperation.
• Dumb Blonde: Jessica's not the smartest person around.
• Fallen Princess: Jessica went from the most popular girl at high school and prom queen to a struggling Single Mom Stripper after being abandoned by her husband.
• Good Parents: Jessica loves her baby daughter and honestly wants to give her a good life despite how much she struggles to provide for them both.
• Hooker with a Heart of Gold: She works as a pole dancer, but that's because she has no other way to provide for her baby daughter. She is one of the kindest people around and a perfect example of how Mina and Akira's faith in humanity can pay off.
• It's All My Fault: Jessica blames herself for Rozenmann recapturing Mina, though Akira assures her it wasn't her fault.
• Living Forever Is Awesome: After knowing the real identity of the girl she just took in, Jessica considered turning into a vampire. It would mean eternal beauty, never getting ill, and never aging. It would be perfect to continue her career and thus give Susie a better life. However, Mina talks her out of it by making her see that being immortal would mean eventually outliving Susie and possibly living a lonely eternal life.
• Mama Bear: Jessica has no reservation mouthing off to a pedophile gang leader who makes no secret of his interest in her little daughter Susie. Even when said pedophile is revealed to be a vampire, Jessica has no hesitation threatening him if he touches her daughter.
• Single Mom Stripper: Jessica pays the bills and provides for her daughter through stripping.
• Struggling Single Mother: Susie's father went out 'for milk' when he found out Jessica was pregnant. Never came back. Jessica has been struggling to raise Susie on her own since. She couldn't find a good job, forcing her to become a Single Mom Stripper.
• You Said You Would Let Them Go: Mina surrenders back to Rozenmann on his retainer Gerhard's assurances he will not harm Susie and Jessica. Gerhard promises, but Gabe, the pedophile vampire crime boss makes it very clear he has zero intention of not coming back for Susie. Gerhard has zero issue with Mina ripping Gabe in half before she surrenders and allows Susie and Jessica to go free.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: After knowing the real identity of the girl she just took in, Jessica considered turning into a vampire, but when Mina told her that she would watch her daughter grow old to the point where she would die in her arms, she changes her mind.

Sister Laura

Voiced by: Yuu Kamonomiya (JP), Jessica Cavanagh (EN), Maggie Vera (LA)

A teacher at the school founded by Mina.

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• Good Shepherd: She's a nun and believes that her students are her flock.
  Sister Laura: Protecting you is my duty as an educator and servant of God
• Naughty Nuns: Averted Trope. She acts with the decorum expected of a "servant of God". This is why Jean-Marais wanted to give her the Kiss of the Vampire and make her invoke it.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She's sympathetic to the students whether they are human or vampire, and doesn't approve of the way the new students are behaving.

Ruli

An upcoming singer who was kidnapped and bitten by vampires to be sold in the black market. She's found by Akira Fujisaki in an abandoned house at the Bund and both go on a quest to find the guy who has the vaccine that can make them human again. Ruli and Akira fall in love, but Akira lets Ruli get the only vaccine shot left so she can continue singing for him in the human world.

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• Ambiguously Bi: She's dating Akira Fujisaki, but it's implied she and Nina became very close during the 7-year Time Skip. In A.S.O., the way Ruli talks about her relationship with Akira and Nina comes with heavy Threesome Subtext.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: She's praised as having the singing voice of an angel.
• Damsel in Distress: In the last chapter of Dive, she's kidnapped by the men who wanted to get back at Akira for busting their child trafficking ring, driving Akira to go and save her.
• Emergency Transformation: Akira Fujisaki is forced to turn Ruli into a vampire to save her life after she's mortally wounded by the True Ancestor.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a beautiful and kindhearted woman with blonde hair.
• Idol Singer: In Scarlet Order, Ruli has managed to become one of the most popular singers in Japan and joined the Music Division of Mina's Ministry of Culture in the Bund to help the relationships between humans and vampires.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The True Ancestor impales her with a blade through her chest. She's barely saved by Akira Fujisaki turning her into a vampire.
• Inconsistent Coloring: The first volume cover of Dive depicted Ruli as a redhead, but all other colored illustrations of her show her as a blonde.
• Married to the Job: She can't see her boyfriend Akira much because being a famous singer gives her a tight schedule.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Her boyfriend Akira becomes an ageless vampire while she'll eventually grow old and die as a human. Despite that, Ruli wants to be as close to Akira as she can be. Subverted as Ruli is later turned into a vampire by Akira, to save her life after she receives a mortal wound from the True Ancestor.
• Naked First Impression: She's naked when Akira finds her inside a briefcase.
• Naked on Arrival: She's first found naked inside a briefcase.
• No Full Name Given: She's only ever known as Ruli and her surname has never been mentioned.
• Official Couple: With Akira. They're stated to be dating in Scarlet Order.
• Satellite Love Interest: She does have some background and her career as a singer, but her role in Dive is mainly focused on being Akira's love interest. Subverted in the sequels where she uses her career as an idol to gain fans from both of the human and vampire sides, trying to help achieve coexistence between both species.

Maria Isabel Garcia

The daughter of the Colombian president. She escorts Nanami and Yuzuru back to Japan in the side-story Memories of Sledgehammer, but she really came to meet Seiji Hama, the man who saved her life when she was kidnapped ten years ago.

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• Chekhov's Skill: Hama taught her how to dislocate her thumb. This allows Eli to take off her handcuffs during captivity.
• Damsel out of Distress: When captured by the Vampire Hunter sect, Eli dislocates her thumb to free herself from the handcuffs and saves Gotoh from having a pear of anguish shoved into her vagina.
• In-Series Nickname: She's nicknamed "Eli" because "Isabel" is an Spanish variation of "Elizabeth".
• Odd Name, Normal Nickname: Her name in Spanish is Maria Isabel, but uses the nickname "Eli/Eri" since it's easier to pronounce in Japanese.
• Precocious Crush: She has had a big crush on a man 20 years older than her since she was only four years old.
• Rescue Romance: Ever since the day Hama saved her from her kidnappers, she has wanted to marry him.
• Trauma Button: When she and Gotoh are surrounded by the mercenaries of the Vampire Hunter sect, the sound of guns firing at them causes Eli to panic as this brings back the traumatic memories of her kidnapping when she was four.
• Younger than She Looks: She's fourteen years old, but Mina and Gotoh admit Eli has very developed figure for a girl of her age.

Nicole Hama

The daughter of Seiji Hama and Josephine Reiko Gotoh. She appears in the third manga series.

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• But Not Too Foreign: Both of her parents are half-Japanese, half-Americans.
• Cheerful Child: She's a bright and playful little girl.
• The Cutie: Hama and Gotoh are blessed to have a daughter as adorable as Nikky.
• Daddy's Girl: She thinks her father is the coolest man in the world.
• Dead Guy Junior: She was named after her deceased maternal aunt, Nicole.
• In-Series Nickname: Her parents nickname her "Nikky", most likely to set her apart from her late aunt.
• Plucky Girl: She's utterly fearless, not even shaking when she's in the middle of a car chase with assassins trying to kill her and her mother. She actually finds it fun.
• Strong Family Resemblance: She takes after her mother in looks.