Characters page for Flower Knight Dakini.
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Main Characters
Eiden L. Schützer
- Action Survivor: He's just an artist who's managed to stay alive in dangerous situations through determination and quick thinking.
- Beetle Maniac: Eiden is extremely fascinated by the giant beetles, keeping an encyclopedia of them handy, and even geeks out at seeing the Great Silver Jaw.
- Blind Without 'Em: Although he shows more foresight than most characters in this trope and has a case full of spare glasses.
- Brutal Honesty: He seems to have a habit of this, as seen in a flashback when he bluntly tells a classmate that her body had gotten rounder, which she seems to take the wrong way.
- Heroic Dog: While he doesn't have Dakini's power, he still is willing to help people regardless. Best demonstrated during Karacuma where he protects the red panda twins from a spider golem.
- The Klutz: Eiden is somewhat clumsy, as he has a habit of not paying attention to his surroundings, with one instance causing his glasses to get broken. He's also prone to making exaggerated expressions.
- Mr. Exposition: Whenever Dakini has a question, he's happy to explain to her, and the audience by extension.
- Mysterious Middle Initial: It's not stated what the "L" stands for initially. It's later revealed to stand for "Lif".
- Non-Action Guy: He's an artist, not a fighter, but he does act as emotional support for Dakini.
- He subverts this later when he does fight Karura's zombie with Dakini's sword.
- The Nose Knows: Being a dog, he has a powerful sense of smell. When separated from Dakini, he uses this to confirm that she is safe.
- Reduced to Ratburgers: He's so poor, he apparently has had to survive off of catching and eating bugs before.
- Slasher Smile: Upon seeing Dakini fighting the golems in Karacuma, he makes this expression. It also happens to be the same way Crain was smiling after shooting Molte.
- Turns out this was his repressed hatred for the Sky Golems surfacing.
- Starving Artist: His art is struggling, and he is rarely able to afford any food during his travels.
- Worst Aid: Upon getting a nasty wound in Karacuma, his first action after disinfecting it is to use staples to close it.
Dakini
- Action Girl: She's capable of destroying golems, but is no slouch when it comes to dangers like beetles.
- Age-Inappropriate Dress: Her normal outfit is far too skimpy for her small body. She does get a much less-revealing Karacuman dress, but it ends up destroyed by the end of the arc.
- Animalistic Abomination: She's a Thunder Beast.
- Badass Adorable: She's capable of reflecting Straight Thunders, something that was unthinkable before, but she is also undeniably cute.
- Black Swords Are Better: What exactly it's made of isn't clear, but the material is strong enough to withstand Straight Thunders and can tear through a Great Silver Jaw's armor. It also looks quite pretty in sunlight.
- Cannibalism Superpower: She can eat things to gain their aspects, such as growing wings and turning her legs into beetle mandibles after eating the Silver Jaw.
- Chameleon Camouflage: Due to eating a Freshwater Crown Squid, Dakini gains the power to change her appearance to match things she's been in contact with. She initially unconsciously activates this upon being set down on a bed, turning herself white to match the sheets. Later, she purposefully disguises herself as Eiden's little sister by altering her fur color and length to resemble him.
- Constantly Curious: Dakini will usually point to something she wants Eiden to explain.
- Cool Sword: Her sword is capable of blocking shots from Sky Golems.
- Covered with Scars: On Dakini's body are several scars, but how she got them is unknown, as she's able to heal from any wound.
- Cute Mute: While she isn't incapable of speech, she seems to have some trouble with it.
- Extreme Omnivore: Fire? Mud? Rocks? Butterflies? Dakini can eat seemingly anything, but that doesn't mean she thinks it tastes good.
- Friendship Trinket: The necklace Eiden made for her out of the Silver Jaw's spines. Eiden later uses it to encourage her to start wearing flowers again. Unfortunately, she accidentally drops it during a rainstorm and is washed down a waterfall while retrieving it.
- Healing Factor: Her body can quickly regenerate from any wound, which makes her scars all the more bizarre.
- Heroic BSoD: After Karacuma, she's become afraid of her own power, viewing herself as a monster, and no longer wearing any flowers in her hair. Eiden cheers her up by telling her to wear flowers again so their reflections can shine from her necklace.
- In a Single Bound: She's only able to do this when fighting golems, as Eiden notes.
- Instant Armor: Her bracelets and anklets can expand into shields.
- Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: She was created specifically to destroy all the golems.
- Meaningful Name: A dakini is a sacred female deity in Buddhism. In the context of Japanese Buddhism, the dakini is associated with foxes and kitsune.
- Mind over Matter: This power first manifests when Karacuma is about to be destroyed by a Straight Thunder, signified by her growing a Third Eye.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Yet another power of hers. They also don't have to be duplicates of her own arms.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Dakini is able to sense where she needs to go by spontaneously growing a horn, which can be retracted back into her head.
- She's also able to detect golems, but there is a major flaw with this, however, as she's only able to detect combat types.
- Mysterious Waif: Dakini is a little girl with incredible powers and was given the driving goal by her mother to destroy every golem.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: Dakini is frequently uncovering more abilities throughout the manga. However, as they are only coming to light because the situation calls for them, it's implied that after all the failures the Thunder Beasts produced, that Dakini's mother became Crazy-Prepared and gave her them all just to be thorough.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She can easily move Prakasha, while Eiden was struggling to even lift her.
- Playful Cat Smile: An expression frequently made by her.
- Red Baron: "Flower Knight", which she gets from the way the gleam of her sword slashes look in the sun.
- Split Personality: Has one that activates upon entering her 'combat mode'. While in this mode, she will prioritize dodging attacks except when they're totally unavoidable, even when there are innocents or buildings in their path.
- Stripperiffic: She's dressed in only a swimsuit most of the time. Considering her natural toughness and the fact that her bracelets and anklets can turn into shields, it seems she doesn't really need armor.
- Super-Strength: Dakini is able to easily perform feats of strength, and this is apparently something she can do regardless of if there's a golem in the area.
- Super-Toughness: She takes a direct hit from a Straight Thunder and gets right back up.
- Swiss-Army Weapon: Her sword is capable of transforming into a spear.
- Third Eye: One opens up on her body when she uses her telekinesis.
- Trauma Button: After taking a bite out of an Amasan Bloodmato, one look at its insides reduces Dakini to a crying, shrieking wreck, possibly because the shape reminded her of her mother.
- Vague Age: She looks around pre-teen age, but mentally acts much younger. Eiden even brings up her lack of round shape compared to girls around that age range, so even he is unsure.
- Waif-Fu: She's incredibly skilled with her blade, even without being in her 'combat mode'.
- Walking Swimsuit Scene: Dakini is clad in only a bikini plus some bracelets and anklets. Eiden does buy her some Karacuma clothes, but they end up in tatters by the end of the arc.
- The Watson: Dakini's questions serve to expound upon the world, as in the previous mangas, the audience had only seen a few towns that were focused on.
Prakasha
- Big Eater: She folds pizzas up like crepes, and can complete a Mega Meal Challenge by herself.
- Black Bead Eyes
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Downplayed, while she's not especially eccentric, she does have a massive appetite, and in spite of that, she's dedicated to her studies and research.
- Cowardly Lion: She openly admits to being terrified of Yatagarasu, but presses on with wanting to learn more from him and makes that her reason to keep going.
- Heavy Sleeper: Even with all the action happening around her, she doesn't wake up until the end of her introduction chapter.
- Huge Schoolgirl: Though she doesn't have any sort of self-image issues concerning her height.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: She more closely resembles a fox like her mother, but has large claws like her father, a small tail, and hooves.
- Nervous Wreck: She freezes up when the people on the bus get suspicious of her when she says she thinks she knows when and where the next Sky Golem attack is and runs away. A similar thing almost happens in Karacuma's Central Hall, but Kayoh being there gives her a boost in confidence.
- Yatagarasu frightens her, and even calls her out for trying to make up for her past mistake of running away. Prakasha doesn't deny this, but wants to turn her desire to learn the truth into her strength and fight through her anxiety.
- Never Gets Fat: Despite the size and quantities of food she eats, Prakasha never seems to gain weight anywhere significant. This may be partially justified by being a half-giant Rare One.
- Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid: She's half-fox half-dog, and shares some of the Rare One traits of her parents.
- Seeker Archetype: Prakasha wants to learn about the Thunder Beasts, and her desire to discover the true history of them leads her to uncovering secrets of the world that had been lost.
- Shared Family Quirks: Much like her father, she's a Heavy Sleeper and won't wake up unless it's of her own accord.
- Spin-Offspring: Prakasha is the daughter of Kayoh and Cosith. Have fun figuring out how that happened.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's a few feet taller than Eiden, who's at least average height.
- Sweet Tooth: Is stated to have a love of sweets.
- Unlimited Wardrobe: Her outfit changes every few chapters.
- Weight Woe: Averted. As one drawing shows
, she's implied to be proud of her weight.
Kayoh
- Action Mom: In her entrance to Karakuma, she leaps from the platform she was supposed to be introduced on to save a child from falling.
- Kayoh also is quick to defend Prakasha from the angry mob by beating them up.
- Asian Fox Spirit: Unlike the previous manga, Kayoh seems to be developing powers of her own by some unknown means.
- She later believes she may be closer to being a Thunder Beast to a Rare One.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Kayoh no longer has the knives she used previously and instead uses hand-to-hand techniques.
- Black Bead Eyes: Though at certain points, her eyes have the same design as the Thunder Beasts.
- Character Development: She was formerly mostly stone-faced, but now is much more open to smiling and displaying her emotions.
- Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: With Cosith, resulting in Prakasha.
- Mama Bear: When a couple of people in the mob try throwing rocks at Prakasha, Kayoh intercepts them and protects her daughter.
- When Yatagarasu tries touching Prakasha, she kicks him in the head so hard that he gets knocked through a wall, revealing another part of the chamber.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: She's a nine-tailed fox with horns.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's taller than Eiden, though ironically, she's the shortest member of her family, with Prakasha and Cosith beating her out in height.
- Red Baron: She was once known and feared as the 'Ninety-Nine Tailed Fox' when she was living in the outskirts of Karacuma in her youth. She often stole things from the citizens to survive, though she never retaliated against anyone trying to hunt her down.
- Wild Child: When she was young, she was one of these. She had no memory of being anything else, though she could already speak the same language as everyone and had the power and skills necessary to survive. This period in her life ultimately ended when she chose to lead the similarly outcast Cosith to Rare Village for sanctuary.
Cosith
- Canis Major: He currently stands at roughly three meters tall as the result of his size contraction period.
- Happily Married: He dearly loves Kayoh, and reassures her that she won't lose control of herself because of her newly awakened powers.
- Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: His relationship with Kayoh is this, even at his current size.
- Sizeshifter: Giant Rare Ones go through growth and shrinking periods. It's also known to be exceptionally painful for them. Cosith is in the middle of a shrinking period.
Karacuma
Mayor Hoff
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: His eyelashes and ponytail are particularly prominent.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: While it's not entirely up to him, once the council is convinced of Prakasha's report, he immediately starts work on evacuating the populous.
- Young and in Charge: He's only 28 years old and is in his fourth year in office. This isn't all that unusual for this world, as the standard is that young people bring their passion and ideals to the positions, while older folk provide their wisdom as advisers.
Bugmaster Tribe
Alsh
- Asian Fox Spirit: He has a mild mutation on the end of his tail that splits it into two.
- Dub Name Change: Changed from Arju to Alsh to prevent confusion with his son.
- Happily Married: To Damini.
- Hunter of Monsters: His job is hunting beetles and selling their parts at towns.
- Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: He is a fox with raccoon dog traits, which are common among his tribe. His ancestors were two knights, one fox, and the other a fox-raccoon dog mix.
Aljun
- Barely-Changed Dub Name: His name in the English translation went from Arjun to Aljun by swapping out a single letter.
- Cheerful Child: He's never seen without a smile on his face.
- Dub Name Change: Changed from Arjun to Aljun to prevent confusion with his father.
- Keet: He's very excitable and over the course of his first appearance, tries to go with his father on his search for Eiden. After a short nap, he tries again, this time climbing onto his father's mount, and only relents when Damini tells him it would make her sad for Aljun to leave her alone.
- Playful Cat Smile: His default expression.
- You No Take Candle: He speaks like this. Justified, as he is a young child. In Japanese, he speaks in very rough hiragana.
Thunder Beasts
In General
- Body Horror: From the artistic renditions in the reports, they seem to have several members that are particularly frightening-looking.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Every Thunder Beast has black fur, but are ultimately good, as they are the only things capable of damaging Golems.
- Raijū: Thunder Beasts are the only beings able to destroy Golems. They're tough enough to take direct hits from Straight Thunders and get back up.
'Dakini's Mother'
- Body Horror: In addition to her multiple arms, her body is constantly dripping blood.
- During Dakini's nightmare, her face underneath the mask seems to be grotesque fusion of faces. Again, it was a nightmare, so it might not be what she really looks like.
- Fingore: Her mask seems to be affixed to her face with a bunch of sharp spines. When removing it during Dakini's nightmare, she impales her thumb on a few, with no reaction of any kind.
- Maker of Monsters: Responsible for creating the Thunder Beasts, as well as Dakini.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: She has four arms that she uses along with dozens of needles and threads to create new Thunder Beasts.
Damini
- An Arm and a Leg: At the end of chapter 11, it is shown that she lost her left arm after being defeated by a Sky Golem. She has a prosthetic arm in its place.
- Early-Bird Cameo: She makes a unnamed but prominent appearance in chapter 6, before being introduced properly five chapters later.
- Happily Married: To Alsh.
- Identical Stranger: She looks like Dakini if she was an adult.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: She lost her memories following her defeat, only vaguely recalling that she had a mission that she needed to complete no matter the cost.
- Super-Hearing: Her ability lets her tune in and listen to any sound of her choosing. By focusing on the sounds coming from Dakini's throat, this allows her to understand her.
The Golems
In General
The Greater Scope Villains of all of Sho's mangas, the golems are seemingly invincible threats that have been destroying towns and cities across the world. They are opposed by much of the world, but only Dakini and the Thunder Beasts have been shown to have any sort of effect on them.
- Arch-Enemy: Of Dakini and the Thunder Beasts' mother.
- The Dreaded: Everyone lives in fear of the Sky Golems, since there's nothing they can do but run away.
- Golem: Obviously, though what they're made of is unknown.
- Invisibility: The specialty of the Shokera golems.
- Light Is Not Good: A recurring theme among them. In the 'Variant Wizard' lullaby, the Straight Thunders are described as 'pillar[s] of light pregnant with darkness'. This 'darkness' inside the Straight Thunders ruins the soil and seems to induce symptoms such as paralysis if people are too close to the blast.
- The Shokera are feminine insect-like figures with pure white clothing.
- Made of Indestructium: All Golem remains stay intact aside from any initial wounds and never breaking any further than that. This is true of even the Mokumokuren heads.
- Not So Invincible After All: While remains had been seen of them in previous stories, they had never been seen taking any damage except when Jacka's horn destroyed the Mokumokuren heads in his possession. In the first chapter, we now know how those golems were destroyed in the first place.
- Teru-Teru Bōzu: A Golem type, nicknamed due to its similar appearance to the doll, that can shoot multiple exploding beams by opening and closing their eyes.
- Those Were Only Their Scouts: At first, the Sky Golems are believed to be the only threat to true peace. Then it's revealed that there are many, many more types of golems, all equally impervious to conventional weapons.
- Wave-Motion Gun: The Straight Thunders.
- Yōkai: Some of them are named after obscure yokai.
- The scouting types are called Mokumokuren, named after yokai that watch from holes in walls and floors.
- The Shokera's appearance is inspired by one account that describes the yokai as 'an insect'.
- The Kissha that end up puppeting Karura's body may be a reference to Kasha, which are yokai that steal corpses.
The Leader of the Golems
- Ambiguously Human: What little of them that can be seen implies they're vaguely humanoid-shaped. However, unlike every other character in this world, they have five fingers on each hand. The significance of this is yet to be revealed.
- With Yatagarasu's introduction, it's heavily implied the Leader is, or at least was, a human.
- Arch-Enemy: The creator of the Thunder Beasts is this to them.
- The Faceless: Very little of what they look like can be made out. Only their eyes are visible.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Of Sho's mangas as a whole.
- The Man Behind the Monsters: Possibly. Given the number of fingers he has, he may very well be human, but how he remained alive for centuries to lead the golems is still unexplained.
Karura
- An Arm and a Leg: Gets his arm sliced off by Dakini.
- Back for the Dead: He, or rather, his puppeted corpse, reappears in chapter 11 before being killed for good.
- Black Speech: Starts off talking this way, but he switches over to speaking normally after watching the guards fail to do anything to the golems.
- Clipped-Wing Angel: His zombie form is terrifying and still fairly strong, but is much weaker, to the point that Eiden wielding Dakini's sword is able to reduce him to a head.
- Die Laughing: He goes out laughing even while being split in two.
- Feathered Fiend: Half of his head looks like a beak and he has talons.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Dakini cuts him in half at the conclusion of their battle.
- The Heavy: He does most of the work for the golems during the Karacuma arc.
- Hope Crusher: Deliberately destroys the evacuation buses so as to cause despair among the populace.
- It Can Think: Part of what makes him so terrifying is his sentience. He can laugh, purposefully destroys the buses to keep people inside the town, and even strategically commands the golems in an attempt to overwhelm Dakini.
- Meaningful Name: The Karura is a giant fire-breathing bird in Japanese mythology.
- The Minion Master: He's capable of spawning multiple Mokumokuren golems from the heads around his neck.
- Not Quite Dead: Subverted. In chapter 11, he shows up again, still trying to kill Dakini. However, as the author's notes reveal, he really is dead, and his corpse is being controlled by a golem type called Kissha that can repair it to a point.
- Two-Faced: The right side of his head looks like a Sky Golem head, while the other half and right lower jaw are a long beak face with sharp teeth.
Mirror Man
- Arc Villain: Of the Karacuma arc.
- An Arm and a Leg: Occurs when Dakini's sword is pulled away from his grasp with her telekinesis.
- Fighting a Shadow: Given that it's not his real body, it's safe to say that the leader wasn't harmed in the end.
- Light Is Not Good: The body takes the form of a mirrored surface.
- Literally Shattered Lives: The mirror body falls to pieces once Dakini slices it apart.
- Oh, Crap!: After watching Dakini destroy every single golem in the area before turning her sights on him, this is his reaction right before the mirror body is destroyed.
Yatagarasu
- Ambiguously Evil: He acts polite normally, but he drops it temporarily when Prakasha questions him about humans, even sinisterly calling her a 'pseudo-human'. He also has an as of yet unknown agenda.
- Artificial Intelligence: He describes himself as an 'evolving-type artificial consciousness'. His true body is the structure found in the ruins. The bird-like robot is what he uses to interact with the world.
- Creepy Crows: As of his introduction, he's a morally ambiguous robot modeled after a crow with an unknown goal. He also briefly and supposedly unintentionally menaces Prakasha before being subdued.
- Deflector Shields: He passively generates a barrier around himself that blocks a bullet, but shatters when Kayoh kicks him.
- Hard Light: His limbs are constructs made of light that can analyze things just by touching them. They are also capable of passing through mechanical objects and glass, presumably because light can pass through them normally.
- Lying by Omission: While he is truthful a majority of the time, he leaves out details unless pressed for them, such as what the humanity he's referring to is.
- Meaningful Name: The Yatagarasu is a mythical crow in Shinto mythology with three legs who's purpose is to provide guidance to humans.
