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HCLI
Known to the public as H&C Logistics Incorporated, it is a multinational company that operates primarily in the shipping industry. Run by Floyd Hekmatyar, he has two children named Kaspar and Koko. Unknown to the public (except for governments, criminals and "other groups"), HCLI operates in the arms trafficking business in providing weapons and needed equipment to its clients, depending on their needs. For a short time, they assisted in the transportation of people into the Balkans. The company operates on various continents from Africa to Europe to most of Asia.
In General
- All There in the Manual: An intelligence briefing acquired by Hinoki through the NSA has some info on where HCLI first started
. - Band of Brothers: Ultimately, they're all incredibly loyal to one another and to their teammates; Koko calls the team a family as Jonah is inducted. Even the Mole prefers this company to the CIA's.
- Blood Knight: Every single member of Koko and Kasper's units are shown enjoying or looking forward to combat at least once, except for Jonah.
- From Camouflage to Criminal: The overwhelming majority of Koko and Kasper's bodyguards have military backgrounds, many even having served in special forces or black operations units. Their work is technically legal on the surface, but HCLI sometimes supplies arms to insurgencies and criminals, and their operatives periodically engage in such illicit tasks as smuggling, kidnapping and murder, not to mention countless public gunfights and occasional open hostilities with law enforcement, intelligence agencies and national militaries.
- A Lighter Shade of Gray: Besides their professions, the protagonists (bar perhaps the Hekmatyars themselves) really lack villainous or even amoral traits. The ex-military bodyguards in particular are as professional in their job as they would be in the military, and off-duty they are all fairly nice, sociable people willing to spare time from their breaks to teach a child soldier. On duty, they're all noted to relish killing a bit too much, but actually prefer sparing their enemies (see Boss Dominic's crew or contrast with CCAT) and certainly try to avoid civilian casualties.
- MegaCorp: Known to be this in the public sphere, especially since it has a PMC and an aerospace division. HCLI has launched 126 navigation/communications satellites. For comparison, the American military GPS network has only 24 satellites.
- Multi National Team: Koko's bodyguards come from the United States, Germany, Finland, Italy, Japan and, vaguely, "a certain West Asian country" and an unnamed country in Asia.
- Private Military Contractors: Koko, Kasper and Floyd keep several ex-military personnel on retainer as bodyguards and operatives.
Koko Hekmatyar
The main protagonist of Jormungand, Koko is a young woman who's a member of HCLI's Europe/Africa Shipping Division - aka, an arms dealer. She travels the world with her team of mercenary bodyguards, and while she's a shrewd negotiator and businesswoman, she can also be rather childish at times.
- Ambiguously Bi: She's not shy about feeling up Valmet in general, and she also sounds interested when Dr. Miami tells her that Baburin is surprisingly well endowed. At the same time, she's an utter shotacon for Jonah.
- Beneath the Mask: It is very, very rare for Koko to be completely honest with her feelings to anyone, be that clients, her family, or her own team, with R at one point commenting on how her constant smiling makes it hard to tell what she is thinking. When she finally does drop the facade after explaining what Jormungand will do, it comes as a shock to her entire team.
- Benevolent Boss: While this is discussed with Lehm in regards to loyalty when Valmet departs for her personal mission, overall Koko plays this trope unerringly straight; her bodyguards all respect her beyond that of a mere employer (as remarked by Lutz as he tried to shake the guilt of potentially gunning down a child soldier for her sake in the future) and she outright calls Valmet in particular a "sister, teacher, and more". Most of them call her the "Little Lady" in the English translation.
- Berserk Button:
- Trying to pay her in drugs. It's one of few, if not only, times Koko actually kills someone personally.
- Also killing her team members will get you a B-52 Airstrike.
- Trying to take Jonah away from her is another one. Even if it's just harmless teasing, Koko is very adamant about keeping Jonah for herself.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She is incredibly eccentric, but still frighteningly competent.
- Byronic Heroine: Fits all the common characteristics: Cunning and able to adapt; very attractive physically; has a lot of charisma, sophistication, and intelligence, as well as emotional sensitivity; cynical and jaded; mysterious Dark and Troubled Past; Disrespectful of rank and privilege (despite being very rich) and has a distaste for social institutions and norms (in this particular case, geopolitical ones); social isolation; is extremely passionate, with strong personal beliefs which conflict with the values of the status quo, and she views them as superior to others' beliefs; Emotionally conflicted and possibly bipolar; perceptive; world-weary; Mysterious, magnetic, and charismatic; rebellious; Self-critical and introspective; Sophisticated and educated; Struggling with integrity; Self-destructive (possibly); and is socially dominant (maybe sexually dominant but we never see her in a sexual relationship).
- Cassandra Truth: Her objective really is world peace. Or at least it is in her mind.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Koko Hekmatyar's default facial expression, which is actually a sign that she'll still negotiate with you. When she loses the smile, you're screwed.
- Creepy Blue Eyes: On occasions complete with Creepy Shadowed Undereyes and a Slasher Smile.
- Cuddle Bug: Whenever she's around Jonah, Koko tends to hang off of him and just give him a little hug whenever she feels the urge. The same goes for Valmet (especially her big breasts), much to the former FRDF Major's delight.
- Dark Messiah: When she reveals the details of Jormungand her rant comes off as more along the lines of seeing herself as trying to save the world rather than god like.
- Drowning My Sorrows: She hits the bottle really hard for a while after Hex kills R.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Koko when she was in Britain briefly.
- A God Am I: When Koko reveals the true extent of her machinations, a civilian researcher asks if she has a god complex. Koko responds by referring to a biblical event where God sent an angel to wipe out an army. She further states that God basically acts like a soldier and thus her plan makes her greater than God. In truth, while one may be apt to think that Koko desires to become a god, she has something more of a messianic complex, desiring to become some kind of twisted world savior. Either way, her megalomania is undeniable.
- Guile Heroine: This is how she operates in Africa and Europe.
- Hime Cut: She has blunt bangs, cheek-length sidelocks, and waist-length straight hair. She's called "Princess" by her squad, so the hairstyle suits her.
- Lady Drunk: Likes her liquor. A lot. Despite that, most of the time she's seen with some form of Brand X Cola. Ugo worries about it when she gets wine during a dinner with Chan, and in an omake chapter in the manga, this is poked at for fun.
- Madden Into Misanthropy: Unlike her brother Kasper, Koko genuinely hates her job as an arms dealer and spending her entire life witnessing the violence and destruction people cause with weapons has left her with a profound hatred for other human beings.
- No Sense of Personal Space: She often glomps Jonah, fondles Valmet's impressive breasts (which Valmet enjoys very much) and once climbs into Schokolade's restroom stall.
- Omniglot: Koko can speak the major languages in Africa, Asia and Europe.
- Slasher Smile: Occasionally her Cheshire Cat Grin morphs into this.
- Stepford Smiler: Koko smiles all the time, as a means of disguising her true feelings.
- Straw Nihilist: She thinks this world is so utterly lost that killing 700,000 people to achieve world peace is nothing in comparison to what's to come if the world continues like now.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Often seen drinking Coca Cola. Her reaction to a dinner invitation in episode 6 and reactions while eating in episode 7 suggests she also likes Chinese food but it's not brought up as often.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: To her brother Kasper.
- The Unfettered: Koto runs her organization with ruthless efficiency and nothing checks her ambition.
- Weak, but Skilled: In contrast to her mercenaries she never wears body armor or carry any weapons for self defense, likely due to her own hatred of weapons, making her entirely dependent on her squad for protection if a gunfight breaks out. Despite this, her leadership both in and out of combat saves her squad on multiple occasions, and on the very rare occasion she does use a handgun even her own bodyguards are impressed by her skill.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: She aims to achieve world peace by using the Jormungand system to control the entire world's logistics, starting with shooting down every aircraft currently in the sky, which would result in the deaths of nearly 700,000 people.
- White Hair, Black Heart
- Womanchild: Capable of being businesslike one moment... and then rolling back and forth on the table, crying childishly, before morphing back into business mode.
Jonathan "Jonah" Mar
The Deuteragonist, Jonah is a Child Soldier from West Asia recruited by Koko to join her team, which causes a certain unease in the team as many of Koko's bodyguards have been on the opposing sides of child soldiers. Hates guns and arms dealers, and ironically is working for an arms dealer. As time goes by, he's becoming something of a mascot/surrogate younger brother to Koko's team.
- Afraid of Needles: They reason why he wouldn't take the operation to have the bullet from his buttcheek removed. At least not until episode 21. Lampshaded by the team.Everyone: What are you, a kid?! Oh wait, you are a kid!
- Ambiguously Brown: Jonah's ethnicity is never explored. His homeland is only ever mentioned as "a certain West Asian country", and he never talks about his religion or culture. It might be a real unspecified nation or a Fantasy Counterpart Culture. Based on the rough location, geography, and state of his home country, it most resembles Ruritania or Qurac.
- An Odd Place to Sleep: Sleeps curled up in a corner with a weapon close at hand.
- Badass Adorable: He once wiped out a team of adult soldiers all by himself, before being subdued by Chiquita. He's also cute enough for Koko and Chinatsu to consider him attractive.
- Book Dumb: When it comes to math, science, and other educational matters, Jonah is hopeless. It isn't really his fault, as being a Child Soldier meant he never had a chance to go to school. Of course, he's not particularly interested in getting an education either. Koko and her team are trying to home school him, though to their exasperation he frequently finds ways to sneak out of the lessons. It's mostly the math stuff he has trouble with; he's actually pretty good with language and history, and has even expressed a fondness for reading.
- Child Soldier: Was employed in a mountain infantry unit before he deserted it.
- Clark Kent Outfit: He does look like a more or less normal kid his age, but has a surprisingly muscular build for a likely malnourished child soldier.
- Clueless Chick-Magnet: He's a kid who doesn't think of girls "that" way (yet), but he already has them lining up. Koko is the most obvious since she gropes and hangs all over him every chance she gets, going as far as to sneak into his bath, stark naked, and surprise him for more groping. Valmet swings the other way but is very maternally affectionate towards him, especially when he helps her get revenge on her former unit's killer. Chiquita also becomes incredibly fond of him and Minami develops the hots for him like Koko. This trope may have inadvertently saved his life as Chinatsu prevents her partner from firing on him despite having a clear shot, stating that it would be a shame to kill someone so cute. Despite all this attention from the opposite gender, he never reciprocates it, even when Koko outright lampshades it.
- Crying Wolf: See I Need to Go Iron My Dog.
- Dark and Troubled Past: One of the orphans he looked after was used to detect landmines by stepping on them. So he went on a rampage and turned against his masters by shooting everyone in the base.
- Expy: Of Raiden from Metal Gear. They're both white-haired, have very unclear ethnic backgrounds and fought as child soldiers in their young age.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: He's seen deflecting a rocket launcher shot with a grenade. A grenade!
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog: When he's having subjects in his "home"-schooling by Koko's crew he doesn't like (mostly anything to do with math), he's off to the loo. He used that excuse very often, now they don't believe him even if he has to go for real.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Jonah's a skilled guerrilla warrior, but he has a tendacy to employ what Lehm describes as "All-or-Nothing" tactics, such as charging head-on into enemy fire. An unfortunate Truth in Television; Child Soldiers are often used as shock troops by their handlers, because most sane people would hesitate to shoot a child. Lehm is working on getting it out of him before he runs into somebody who lacks such qualms (like himself).
- Mathematician's Answer: Fittingly, this is his frequent response to math questions.Jonah: [That plane] has a lot of wheels.
Valmet: 22 to be exact. So how many wheels would three planes have?
[Long pause]
Lehm: [Uh... why's he taking so long?]
[Still no response from Jonah... until finally...]
Jonah: A bunch.
[Everyone Face Faults] - Morality Pet: Koko recruited Jonah for this purpose. She has big plans and needs someone who is loyal but will keep her from becoming a monster, according to R.
- When Chiquita manhandles Jonah for trying to assassinate Kaspar on Koko's ship, Koko tells him to leave.
- Not So Stoic: Very stoic much of the time, but this facade slips as early as the first episode, where he smiles and laughs when a bunny toy falls into the car after an explosion.
- The Quiet One: A boy of few words.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: He's got red-eyes and is a damn good shot too.
- Significant White Hair, Dark Skin: His dark complexion coupled with his white hair and red eyes despite being a young Child Soldier help him to stand out as the show's deuteragonist.
- The Sneaky Guy: Jonah was a Mountain guerrilla before he began working for HCLI, so he's very good at hiding and using the terrain to his advantage. He's also pretty sneaky when it comes to dodging his home-schooling sessions (to the amusement/annoyance of the rest of the crew, who quickly learned that it's darn near impossible to locate Jonah if he doesn't want to be found).
- The Stoic: Almost always has a straight face on.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: He keeps a stoic mask on around others, but can also laugh and be a kid.
- The Watson: Jonah plays this role, allowing Koko to explain her paradigm.
Lehm Brick
Voiced by: Unshō Ishizuka (Japanese), Christopher Corey Smith (English)
The oldest member of the team (in terms of both age and likely service) and an ex-Delta Force operator, Lehm is the unofficial and de facto leader of Koko's bodyguards. He has excellent tactical planning and his leadership is unquestioned, and he's the Cold Sniper of the team. Prior to the start of the series, Lehm was married to Chiquita, the leader of Kasper's bodyguards.
- Battle Couple: Used to be part of one with Chiquita, way back when they were Floyd Hekmatyar's bodyguards.
- Cold Sniper: Lehm's primary role, though he's also a good marksman with pistol and assault rifle. Interestingly, he's cold when on the scope; when he's not sniping, he's a rather approachable person.
- Combat Pragmatist: Lehm's guiding principle. He doesn't believe in fighting on the enemy's terms.
- Majorly Awesome: Was formerly a Major in the US Army, before quitting to work for Floyd Hekmatyar.
- Old Soldier: Oldest member of Koko's bodyguards, and pretty much the leader figure among them.
- Perpetual Smiler: His default expression is a friendly, easygoing smile.
- Seen It All: A more mundane version, he's been with the company long enough to be able to confidently say, for example, that Koko shouldn't take her business to the air in Dragon Shooter Phase 1.
- Sergeant Rock: He was actually a Captain in Delta Force, but this is basically his role among HCLI.
- Would Hit a Girl: As the Orchestra arc shows, Lehm has no problems with shooting anyone who's a threat.
Valmet / Major Sofia Velmer
A former Finnish Army officer with the Finnish Rapid Deployment Force, Valmet is the group's CQC expert. A good shot with a rifle, but CQC is where she really shines: Valmet is considered unbeatable when it comes to knife fighting. She is one of the longest-serving members of the team, personally recruited by Koko and seen as part of her group when they recruited Ugo.
- Action Girl: An ex-female soldier and the team's close combat expert.
- Amazonian Beauty: Valmet is very muscular, and quite tall, but she's also considered to an attractive Dude Magnet.
- Ambiguously Bi: Very minor. Despite being straightforward with her attraction to Koko and seemingly other women as well, Valmet also doesn't seem to mind getting friendly with dudes, even seeming a little smitten when R initially approached her at the beach, before he crossed the line by trying to cop a feel.
- Bodyguard Crush: She's utterly devoted and in love with her squad leader Koko, and due to being the only woman in the team she often serves as Koko's personal attendant and bodyguard.
- Boyish Short Hair: She gets a shorter haircut later.
- Breakout Character: Was voted as the most popular character in a poll conducted by Sunday GX which ran from June through September 2012.
- Butch Lesbian: Played With. She repeatedly declares her dedication to Koko in mind, body, and talent, gets a nosebleed when a panty-less Chinatsu flips past her or when Koko dives headfirst into her boobs, is very muscular, and gets a shorter haircut later to complete it. On the other hand, she can be quite stereotypically girly at times (usually involving Koko) and she has a very feminine face.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: She's an Amazonian Beauty with an impressive bust, something her colleagues frequently focus on, especially Koko who likes to grope her.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She doesn't like it one bit, when her beloved Koko compliments other women about their looks (e.g. those of Amalia Trohovski, the Russian actress-turned-weapons-dealer) or glomps Jonah.
- Covert Pervert: Despite her usual composed demeanor, she has immense attraction to Koko which often has her acting like a pervert or being rendered witless at any special attention that Koko pays to her.
- Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female: When helping a very drunk, unresponsive Koko to the shower, Valmet pretends to hear Koko invite her to join. She then acts as if the still-silent Koko asked to spend the night in the same bed. She excitedly undresses Koko and promises to show her some "moves" to put her to sleep, but the scene quickly transitions and nothing is said of it the following morning.
- Dude Magnet: Despite her attraction to Koko being known to other team members, she attracts attention from her male team members, especially at the beach.
- Eyepatch of Power: How she looks like after the disastrous UN peacekeeping mission in Africa.
- Eye Scream: She lost her right eye in the fight against Chan Guoming which got her entire platoon killed. She often touches her eyepatch when thinking about the incident.
- Generation Xerox: Valmet joined with the Finnish Army since her family has served in the military for many years.
- Get a Hold of Yourself, Woman!: Delivers a slap to a panicking young Koko before she learned to put on her eternal smile.
- In the Blood: She comes from a family with a long tradition of serving in the military, with both her grandfather, father, and brother being ranked officials.
- Majorly Awesome: Used to be a Major in the Finnish Army, before resigning her commission and following Koko.
- Military Brat: She was raised in a military family since she was young, and ended up becoming a soldier herself as an adult.
- More Dakka: She provides the suppressing fire and support for the others with an M249 light machine gun.
- Ms. Fanservice: Shee's an Amazonian Beauty with a huge chest who's a Lust Object for most of her male squadmates In-Universe. Her rippling muscles and buxom figure get plenty of Male Gaze shots, and gets into fanservice moments like Shower Scenes, Workout Fanservice, and wearing a Barely-There Swimwear on the beach. Even the anime OP has a gratuitous shot of her Toplessness from the Back.
- My Greatest Failure: Getting the squad under her command wiped out in Africa, something that ruined her military career and that she feels great shame and guilt for.
- Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight: Played With. Her combat expertise is in CQC, and she's a master with at fighting with a knife, and she's fast and agile enough that she's been shown to dodge bullets, but she's still a decent marksman and often fights with a pistol and a knife in hand, or even with rifles if necessary instead of only relying only on her CQC skills.
- Not So Stoic: Played for Laughs. She's usually a composed and collected, but her composure usually falls appart when it comes to Koko.
- Revenge: She's obsessed with finding out and seek revenge on the fighter who is single-handedly responsible for wiping out her platoon and taking out her right eye.
- Single-Target Sexuality: With very few minor instances of showing attraction to others, Valmet pretty much exclusively pines for Koko, even once declaring her boobs were only for herself and Koko.
- Sole Survivor: She was the sole surviving member of her platoon after it got single-handedly wiped out during a battle in Africa. She only managed to survive by hiding under the corpses of her fallen comrades. She's developed quite a bit of Survivor Guilt due to it.
- Survivor Guilt: Being the Sole Survivor of her squad is not something she's proud of. Part of the reason she's so loyal to Koko is that she gave Valmet the opportunity to seek to avenge her fallen comrades after she had been discharged from the military for her failure.
- Sword and Gun: As a CQC combat expert, she has adopted a Dual Wielding fighting style, with a knife in one hand and a pistol in the other.
- Tattoo as Character Type: She has a black tattoo of a winged fist gripping a knife on her left shoulder blade, which is from her time in the Finnish military.
- Undying Loyalty: She is Koko's most devoted and loyal subordinate, stemming from Koko recruiting her after her military career fell apart due to the incident in Africa.
Akihiko Tojo
Voiced by: Kazuyuki Okitsu (Drama CD), Hitoshi Yanai (Anime) (Japanese), Christopher Bevins (English)
A former JGSDF soldier with the Ministry of Defense's black ops unit called SR Team. Tojo was originally recruited to HCLI by Kasper, before joining Koko's team. Serves as a communications and intel specialist.
- Asian and Nerdy: By far the most intellectual of the group. As he finished the mission that would ultimately result in him leaving the SR team, his (ex-)comrades mocked him for being nerdy and participating in the technical side of the military.
- Bad Ass Bookworm: Despite being on the technical side of things, he's no slouch when his former comrades pay a visit with automatic weapons.
- Death Faked for You: He was this after he was recruited to join the SR Unit from the JGSDF as he was stationed with an electronic warfare unit in Hokkaido.note
R / Reonard Socchi
Voiced by: Tomoyuki Higuchi (Drama CD), Katsuyuki Konishi (Anime) (Japanese), Ian Sinclair (English)
A former Italian Army Bersaglieri soldier and a veteran of the Bosnian War, R appears to be both a communications/intelligence specialist and shooter.
R was the sixth member of Koko's (present) team recruited, following the death and subsequent replacement of Lehm and Wilee's comrade Echo.
- Becoming the Mask: Downplayed a bit. He was more informant than traitor to his employers, and both of them respect him at his funeral. However, when forced to choose between following a CIA directive (albeit one that quickly goes awry and stops being a directive shortly after his decisions) and revealing his allegiances, he chooses the former.
- The Casanova: Claims to have a woman in every port and makes a pass at Valmet during some downtime... Only for her to kick him hard enough to send him skipping across the water like a rock for touching her boobs "by accident."
- Cross Counter: In the end, he and Hex shoot each other at the same time in the eye.
- Eye Scream: His ultimate fate is getting shot in the eye.
- Informed Attractiveness: He's singled out by multiple characters of both sexes for being particularly handsome. Hex even recognizes him as the famous "R the hottie" the first time they met, based on his reputation for good looks.
- Institutional Allegiance Concealment: His infiltration into HCLI was done on behalf of the CIA when R was recruited after finishing his tour of duty in the Balkans.
- The Mole: R has been working for a CIA agent codenamed Bookman since the Bosnian War.
- Redemption Equals Death: Subverted, Koko forgave him and was willing to ignore his connections with Bookman, but he chose to cover her escape. If only he'd lasted for another minute...
Wilee / William Nelson
Voiced by: Kazuhisa Tanaka (Drama CD), Kenji Nomura (Anime) (Japanese), Akron Watson (English)
A bespectacled former soldier with the US Army's 20th Engineer Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps and veteran of the First Gulf War, Wilee serves as a communications specialist and as a spotter for Lutz. He also specializes in demolition. Also, one of two team members on the FBI's blacklist, meaning he can't enter the United States (the other being Koko).
Wilee is seen in flashbacks as the third member of Koko's team recruited, following Lehm and Chiquita (who has since swapped to Kasper's team).
- Badass Bookworm: One of the most educated and erudite of Koko's men, often seen to be reading a book during his downtime, and is still about as badass as what you might expect from someone in Koko's employ.
- Black and Nerdy: Downplayed, and only by comparison with his teammates. He surprisingly joined the military after graduating with a degree in architecture, like his parents and grandparents before him.
- Beat Them at Their Own Game: He loves rewiring bombs in order to turn the tables on the bombers.
- Close-Call Haircut: A lasting example: A bullet grazing his head during the First Gulf War results in the hair there not growing back, so he ends up cutting the other side of his head to match.
- Mad Bomber: Gets a little too happy when he's around bombs. In season 2 episode 7, he is even called "explosives freak" by his army comrades during the flashback.
Lutz
Formerly a sniper for a police SWAT team (implied in the animé to have been the German GSG 9), Lutz is the Friendly Sniper to Lehm's Cold Sniper.
- Butt-Monkey: Of perhaps the most literal variety - almost every time someone on the team gets injured during a fight, Lutz will get Shot in the Ass.
- Friendly Sniper: Well, compared to Lehm, anyhow.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: He hesitates to fire on Chinatsu and tries to disable her weapons; he's partially successful. He goes through a bit of angst on whether he did the right thing. Justified in that his whole paradigm as a police SWAT Team sniper was on taking out criminals and terrorists, not teenaged girls.Lutz Am I a failure 'cause I couldn't shoot a little girl? I was trained for sniping thugs who have their guns pointed at hostages or terrorists who got their finger on a bomb switch... Nobody ever trained me to shoot kids.
Ugo
Voiced by: Yuki Ono (Drama CD), Kiyoshi Katsunuma (Anime) (Japanese), Cris George (English)
Formerly a driver for a mafia group, Ugo serves as the resident Badass Driver. He's also quite attached to the cars he drives.
- Badass Driver: This is his role.
- Badass Normal: Every other member of Koko's unit has a military or paramilitary background and training, with some even being former special forces or counter-terrorism. Ugo, however, was nothing more than a common mafia chauffeur. A group of hitmen chuckle at his dossier, taking him for the weak link in the group. They're dead wrong.
- The Big Guy: Despite being Koko's driver and rarely fighting or shooting, he is shown to be far and away the strongest member of the crew, if not in the entire cast, when he lifts a large man with one hand and slams him through a wall.
- Everyone Has Standards: The fact he was visibly upset at the idea of paying for a transaction with drugs is the only reason Koko lets him live when she has everyone else involved in the transaction killed.
- Gentle Giant: A really nice guy and he's also the largest member of the team.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Uses his Desert Eagle on Boss Dominic while reversing at high speed in a car chase.
- The Mafia: Unlike his colleagues, Ugo has no military experience. He was a driver for the mafia when Koko recruited him.
- Mugging the Monster: A member of Boss Dominic's crew tried to target him, believing he would be an easy kill. The second an opportunity occurs, Ugo sends the guy flying through a wall and immediately starts beating the stuffing out of him.
Mao
Voiced by: Hidenori Takahashi (Drama CD), Go Shinomiya (Anime) (Japanese), Patrick Seitz (English)
Formerly a soldier with an Asian army (so far not stated), Mao was the Sole Survivor of a training accident that wiped out his artillery unit. Primarily serves as a shooter, though the Dragon Shooter arc proved he still knows his stuff. Mao is one of the longest-serving members of the team, and was seen as early as when Ugo was recruited.
- The Everyman: He's basically the closest thing to plain vanilla normal in Koko's crew. As he notes in Dragon Shooter, unlike Lehm he wasn't an elite soldier and just happened to have been recruited by Koko when she was in Asia at the time.
- Fatal Family Photo: Averted; not only does he survive after showing it to Jonah, he actually gets a brief moment to shine.
Kasper Hekmatyar
Voiced by: Masaya Matsukaze (Japanese), Eric Vale (English)
Koko's elder brother, who likes teasing her. At the same time he also seems to care deeply about her; a number of Koko's bodyguards (particularly Jonah) were recruited by Kasper and sent to Koko. He is officially the head of HCLI's Asia-Pacific division.
- Blood Knight: Cheerfully embraces the fight against the SR squad as he orders his men to kill them.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Just like Koko.
- Cloudcuckoolander:
- He admires an Urumi (curling blade) that was used for an assassination attempt against him moments earlier before a full scale attack by the SR Team.
- During the assassination attempt itself, he admits to Chiquita that he spaced out and for a moment was just smiling as before while Chiquita unloaded her pistol into the assassin.
- Perpetual Smiler
- Pet the Dog: Kasper both gives the impression of, and actually is, quite a bit more violent/creepy than his sister is. Still, like her, he is a good boss and upholds his promises.
- While being willing to hurt Jonah back in his child soldier days, he didn't want to hurt the other orphans Jonah knew and made efforts to relocate them to Tokyo.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: With Koko.
- White Hair, Black Heart
Chiquita
Voiced by: Yumi Touma (Japanese), Clarine Harp (English)
Kasper's right hand woman, and the leader of his team - who, in comparison to Koko's crew, appear more like a conventional special forces team. Prior to the start of the series, Chiquita used to be married to Lehm. And then they got a divorce. Multiple times.
- The Ace: This woman is good at her job. She has served under all three Hekmatyars, and in the present she's skilled enough to rush into a group of armed SR soldiers with only a knife — and slaughter them all while Kasper and his remaining bodyguards stand and wait for her to finish.
- Amazonian Beauty: Not as toned as Valmet, but broader, bulkier, and slightly taller. Also, hot.
- Battle Couple: Used to be part of one with Lehm, back when they were Floyd Hekmatyar's bodyguards. Possibly remained, albeit not officially married, when they continued service under Koko's team until Chiquita was moved to Kasper's.
- Combat Pragmatist: Aside from liking to go all stab-happy, even when firearms are available, she is very much this. What does she do after she knocks out a would be assassin via a knee to the face? Shoot her twice in the head while she is out cold to make sure she doesn't wake back up for a 2nd attempt.
- Cuteness Proximity: Develops this for Jonah. She was distraught and rather cross when her boss let him leave his security detail.
- Double Tap: She is very fond of this, making sure that neutralized targets stay down for good.
- No Kill like Overkill: Standard operating procedure for her as demonstrated when the SR fire team try to conduct a hit on her boss. She goes through many magazines in ensuring the hostiles she takes down are dead.
- Perpetual Smiler: She's almost always smiling, but hers is a disconcerting style compared to the Hekmatyar siblings.
- The Nicknamer: When she first meets Jonah, Chiquita christens him "мишка" (Mishka; Russian for "bear cub," or "funny little bear") for his ferocity. She also refers to Lehm as "Old Man" from time to time.
- The Unsmile: In contrast to the Hekmatyar siblings, who smile in a relatively cordial or friendly manner all the time, Chiquita's smiles are almost constantly menacing or creepy smirks, even during mundane and harmless activities.
Floyd Hekmatyar
Little is known about him, except that he's known in the business world for heading HCLI. Floyd is also the father of Kasper and Koko, and Lehm and Chiquita were formerly his bodyguards before they left to lead the bodyguard teams for his children.
- The Chessmaster: Appears to have shades of this; the Dragon Shooter arc was orchestrated by him to curry favor with both Outspoken Doctors for Human Rights and the CIA, which succeeded quite well.
- The Ghost: While he's brought up in conversation a lot, Floyd himself never makes a proper appearance in the story.
CCAT
Known to the public as Curry's Company Aerial Transport, it operates directly from Britain as a transportation company. It's also known to be an arms dealing company and is a rival of HCLI in the business, to the point that they won't mind getting on top of each other if it suits their interests.
Mr. Curry
Voiced by: Katsuhisa Houki (Japanese), Kent Williams (English)
President and owner of CCAT, and a rival of sorts to HCLI.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Decides to bow out and retire, realising that Koko and Kaspar are launching a gamechanging gambit, and that he won't be able to keep up.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Used his RAF and British Military connections to get his business started.
Mildo
Voiced by: Ayumi Tsunematsu (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)
A woman who likes knives. A lot. Far too many knives to be sane. And considers herself a rival to Valmet.
- Awesome, but Impractical: She carries an awe-inspiring number and variety of blades on her person, but Valmet points out that these limit her movement and agility in a knife fight and she'd be better off keeping a good grip on a single knife instead.
- Comically Lopsided Rivalry: Her only real goal in life is to best Valmet. Not only does Valmet easily outclass her skills, she also isn't nearly as interested in Mildo as Mildo is in her.
- Genki Girl: For a soldier, anyway.
- The Rival: To Valmet, but purely one sided. Valmet is mostly bored with Mildo's presence.
- Trigger-Happy: Well, with knives, but she single-handedly compromised one of her bosses' operations by killing the escort soldiers that were sent along with them by their client, just because those soldiers were pissing her off.
- Slasher Smile: She's certainly wearing one when she kills the two soldiers in the second episode.
- Straw Nihilist: Downplayed. Mildo makes a little speech in the second episode about how she feels a soldier's life is pretty much empty, but aspiring towards defeating Valmet is a good way to alleviate that for a while.Mildo: Expecations? I gave up on those a while ago.... I just think that beating you would make life a little less empty.
- Walking Armory: On a realistic scale. She carries too many knives.
Lou
Voiced by: Manabu Sakamaki (Japanese), Jeremy Inman (English)
The Only Sane Man (more or less) of the CCAT trio.
- Achey Scars: He's got one on his cheek. But the series doesn't say how he got it.
- The Stoic: Most of the time. He doesn't have problems interacting, especially with his HCLI rivals.
CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency is an external intelligence agency based out of Langley, Virginia in the United States of America. The division involved in the series is the National Clandestine Servicenote , of which George Black is the head of the European Desk.
Scarecrow
Voiced by: Yuki Ono (Drama CD), Tooru Nara (Anime) (Japanese), Robert McCollum (English)
A loudmouthed and uncouth CIA agent, who is chasing Koko so that he can take over her operation and divert her earnings to the CIA.
- Hate Sink: There's really nothing to like about him, In-Universe and out.
- Jerkass: Known to be one publicly.
- Named After Somebody Famous: In the Dubai arc he gives his name as Jerry Schatzberg, an award-winning director who made a movie called Scarecrow.
- Overt Operative: Introduces himself as working for the CIA while in Dubai.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Sees himself as someone that could bring Koko down who really views how little he is.
- Smug Smiler: His smile is a lot different from Koko's; it makes him look like a puffed-up self-important jerk who knows nothing, compared to Koko's knowing smile.
- Would Hit a Girl: He punches Koko in the face hard enough to draw blood from her nose.
Schokolade
Voiced by: Ami Koshimizu (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)
One of the CIA's assets based in South Africa.
- Big Eater: By implication at least. Often seen trying out the local cuisine in decent sized portions.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite her quirks, Schokolade is a very competent agent and is highly skilled at both electronic and signal intelligence gathering.
- Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough: Inverted. Schokolade is a lot more civil than Scarecrow who appears to be her superior in the CIA hierarchy. Her willingness to do favours for people like Koko sometimes accomplishes more than Scarecrow's much more abrasive approach.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Is usually responsible for planting bugs and other methods of electronic surveillance.
- Meaningful Name: She has Big Eater tendencies, and her name "Schokolade" means "Chocolate" in German.
- Punch-Clock Hero: At least considering the Villain Protagonist's state. Schokolade does little more than what her boss explicitly tells her to do and otherwise spends as much time hanging out with the crew as with the CIA, giving information on Valmet's grudge mission for example.
- Verbal Tic: She ends most of her sentences with "-ssu".
Bookman / George Black
Voiced by: Tsutomu Isobe (Japanese), Mark Stoddard (English)
Hex's superior and creator of Operation Undershaft in an effort to "tame" Koko. He's Chief of the National Clandestine Service's European Desk.
- Big Eater: You can see that he can eat a lot. Which makes his wife worry about his eating habits.
- The Chessmaster: Behaves like this; he's got many plans and assets reporting to him, and is running a plan called Operation Undershaft.
- Code Name: Has a lot of them. He's also known as Burattinaio, Adeeb and Saw, along with many others.
- Face–Heel Turn: George Black agreed with Koko's vision of forcing humanity off war through blocking air travel with her Jormungand system and even wrote an Engrish memorandum about it.
- Gamebreaking Injury: Suffered a severe back injury in a helicopter crash just after being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps; this killed his military career, and led to him eventually joining the CIA.
- Pet the Dog: Evacuates a family R had been staying with before they were killed by Serbs for helping the UN.
- Rank Up: After the timeskip, he becomes the CIA's Director of Clandestine Services.
- Semper Fi: Was a Marine for a few short months before his Gamebreaking Injury.
- Shout-Out: Maybe a reference to Jack Ryan, since both characters were Marine Second Lieutenants, both had a back injury in-service that forced them to change careers from a helicopter crash, both went to the CIA and both were involved in some shady shenanigans (though, since he was the protagonist, Jack Ryan was of course portrayed in a much, much more positive light than George Black, eventually becoming the President).
Hex
Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (Japanese), Jamie Marchi (English)
A radical patriot and ex-member of the Wide Range Communications Platoon, which was suppose to be a planned all-women Special Forces unit, until she was recruited by Bookman to tame Koko after high dropouts from special forces training and opposition to consider women in special forces missions forced the US Army to disband the unit. Had seen action as an operator with the Special Activities Division prior to being recruited as part of Operation Undershaft.
- Arch-Enemy: Of Koko. Hex has gone after Koko and her group before and killed Echo, one of Koko's team. And then came very close to kidnapping Jonah and assasinating Koko, and she killed R.
- The Baroness: The Sexpot with shades of the Rosa Klebb type. She's a very attractive woman who is willing to use her sex appeal to manipulate people, but she's also a ruthless and effective hunter who is willing to kill a child just to get back at Koko.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: Shoots herself just before she's hit by the better part of a B-52's payload, though it's not clearly shown whether she actually shoots herself before the blasts engulf her.
- The Dragon: Bookman's left hand woman in Operation Undershaft. R is the right hand.
- Eye Scream: She and R shoot each other in the eye in their confrontation. Hex comes out better in that she still loses that eye but survives the encounter, though not for long.
- Hero Killer: Her SOG team was responsible for taking out Echo in Eastern Europe. She personally took out R.
- The Lost Lenore: Her fiance died in the 9/11 attacks when she was stationed in Afghanistan. Her later radical methods caused concern within the CIA that some officials have sounded the alarm for someone to keep an eye on her before she does something scandalous.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: She's been on this ever since 9/11.
- See You in Hell: Just before she gets blown up by the bombers, she declares that she'll prepare for her next battle with Koko in Hell.
- She Who Fights Monsters: Is on a vindictive and destructive streak against terrorists. Her brutal methods make her no different or perhaps even worse.
- Would Hurt a Child: She would do this to Jonah, especially since he's associated with Koko. She would do the same to Koko if Echo didn't try to stop her during on her SAD ops in Eastern Europe.
- Villain with Good Publicity: A known special forces operator from the aborted WRCP unit. Her activities with the SAD are otherwise kept classified from the public.
- X Meets Y: Fellow CIA agent Spin tells her she scares her colleagues because she's "The Gestapo meets Cheka in high heels"
Daxinghai Company
Daxinghai is a Chinese multinational company that operates out of the African continent, with most of its dealing done on behalf of the People's Liberation Army. Most of its personnel are African and Chinese.
Chan Guoming
Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (Japanese), Jerry Russell (English)
Formerly a Major in the People's Liberation Army Ground Force, Chan is running Daxinghai as a PLA-allied company to counter the influence of HCLI.
- Bayonet Ya: His pistols both have blades attached to the bottom of their barrels, which he used to cut through enemies at point blank range. They aren't bayonets in the traditional sense, as they appear to be welded directly to the guns.
- Blood Knight: Never directly stated, but his manic expression in flashbacks of his past on the battlefield and his preference for fighting up close and personal suggest he very much enjoyed combat. Even handicapped and cornered, he draws his weeapon with an eager grin.
- Guns Akimbo: His fighting style.
- Handicapped Badass: Chan's leg was injured when he stepped on a landmine, which caused him to lose the ability to run and force him to take a desk job.
- Hero Killer: Responsible for wiping out Finnish soldiers on a PKO mission in Africa. Valmet was the lone survivor.
- Leeroy Jenkins: His preferred tactic in his military days was to charge straight into the enemy's midst and slaughter them in close quarters.
- One-Man Army: Slaughtered an entire peacekeeping unit on his own back in his heyday. By the way others speak of him, this wasn't the only time he pulled off something so impressive.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Tells Karen not to kill Scarecrow's PMC bodyguard simply because it might cause problems.
- Retired Badass: Chan is the man responsible for wiping out a FRDF patrol on a UN peacekeeping mission in Africa, killing Valmet's subordinates and her career. When he first appears, he's retired from the PLA and is running Daxinghai.
- Younger Than He Looks: He appears to be elderly, but is actually in his early fifties; the shock of being unable to run anymore caused him to age rapidly.
Karen Lo
Voiced by: Saori Kato (Japanese), Shelley Calene-Black (English)
Chan's Sexy Secretary and Hypercompetent Sidekick, who can actually give Valmet a run for her money. She's formerly an officer in the PLA with the rank of 1st Lieutenant. Following the death of Chen Guoming, Karen is currently employed by Dr. Amada to serve as her official bodyguard and secretary alongside Mokoena.
- Break the Haughty: Courtesy of Valmet and Jonah. Over the course of the arc she features in, Valmet wounds her, slaughters much of the personnel of the Daxinghai organisation, assassinates her boss and when she tries to retaliate, Jonah empties his sidearm into her She then suffers a nervous breakdown and only recovers when Dr Amada offers her a job.
- Easily Forgiven: Zig-Zagged. Considering that the next casualty to her team is repayed with an airstrike just to kill one person, Koko choosing to not hunt down Karen after she nearly kills Valmet and remaining cordial when they do eventually meet again is pretty surprising. That said, by this point Karen is Minami's assistant and had lost just as much, if not more than Valmet did due to their grudge.
- Femme Fatale: A downplayed example; we only see this strategy once, but Karen isn't above using her beauty as a weapon, hiking up her skirt to distract Scarecrow's bodyguard before hitting him with a roundhouse kick.
- Foil: To Valmet. She fights with a similar gunkata style and swears revenge for her defeat and the deaths of her subordinates. Valmet notes that she's exactly how she used to be ages ago.
- Irony: Considering that she was employed by the very woman she was assigned to kidnap for China.
- Redemption Equals Life: Courtesy of Dr Amada.
- Sexy Secretary: How she initially appears.
- Stocking Filler: Wears garter stockings.
- Undying Loyalty: To Chan. Even though she's treated like crap after she fails to secure Minami Amada and destroy Koko's team, she still respects Chan and is utterly loyal to him. When Valmet succeeds in killing Chan, she tries to avenge him, but is foiled thanks to Jonah.
- It then transfers to Dr Amada when she helps Karen get cleaned up.
Orchestra
A known criminal/terrorist group that does assassinations, it was originally made up of 8 members. Over the years, most of its members were killed by engaging in shootouts with police forces. The group was destroyed after its last two members were killed by Koko's team in the United Arab Emirates.
Maestro
One of the two surviving members of Orchestra.
- Captain Ersatz: He's basically Postal Dude with shark-like teeth.
- Likes Older Women: Implied in the manga when he questions Chinatsu's lack of underwear. When she asks if she should seduce him he responds that he wouldn't be interested even if she were naked but she'd be a great MILF in a few years.
Chinatsu
Maestro's protege. In the anime, it's suggested that he took her in after her parent were wiped out during an opera presentation in a mass shooting spree.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Chinatsu's folks were killed in a mass shooting spree orchetrated by the Maestro.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Chinatsu doesn't even like Koko because of her arms trading business.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Chinatsu used to be a normal schoolgirl. Now she's an assassin with spider sense.
- Going Commando: Justified. She never wears panties when going into battle. On her first job, she'd gotten soaked and secretly taken them off and soon realized that her aim was better without them. The one time she's wearing panties onscreen, her spider sense is sufficiently muddled that she can't pick up Lehm.
- Stockholm Syndrome: Appears to have this towards Maestro.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: After Koko tried to get Chinatsu to join up with her, but was killed by Lehm after attempting to assassinate Koko for killing her master.
Boss Dominic's Crew
A trio of hitmen working out of a camper van somewhere in North Africa, hired to assassinate Koko and her crew.
Boss Dominic
Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese), David Wald (English)
The leader of the crew, and clearly the oldest member of them. Dominic wants to get this job over with, and is seriously considering retirement.
- Beleaguered Boss: He finds his subordinates' enthusiasm exhausting. He's more interested in easy work than carnage, but his crew really likes to fight.
- Only Sane Man: He feels he's this towards his crew, who tend to enjoy their work a bit too much.
- The Pessimist: Unlike his partners, he mopes and complains about the difficulty and danger of their work.
Grégoire
Voiced by: Yoshihiro Koyanagi (Japanese), Jeremy Inman (English)
A large man, face perpetually hidded by a digital camoflage balaclava. Grégoire is the melee combatant of Boss Dominic's crew.
- Blood Knight: Really enjoys combat.
- Dissonant Serenity: He always seems calm and amiable, even when killing.
- Improbable Weapon User: Uses bolt cutters to behead targets.
- Real Men Cook: Is mentioned to be a good cook. Boss Dominic was thinking of opening a restaurant and having him cook for it.
Lilianne
Voiced by: Kana Asumi (Japanese), Lara Woodhull (English)
A youngish girl who's the last member of Dominic's crew. Very fast and agile.
- Blood Knight: Like Grego, really likes her violence.
- Underestimating Badassery: When she realizes Ugo was a mere mobster, not a soldier like the rest of Koko's crew, she laughs herself silly. The crew thinks Ugo will be an easy first target, but they couldn't be more wrong.
SR Team
Known somewhat "officially" as the Special Research Team of the Ministry of Defense, Defense Intelligence Headquarters, Joint Staff 2nd Division. The SR Team was Tojo's former workplace and is a black ops team of the DIH specializing in intelligence gathering and covert action. It was formed during the Vietnam War to provide intelligence support in places the Americans could not go publicly. Based out of Jakarta, Indonesia, SR uses the Ganville Trading Company as its front, and is engaged in a profitable (and illegal) side business of actual arms dealing in Southeast Asia, which sets them against Kaspar's HCLI Asia-Pacific division. One of their recent actions is with the Iranian nuclear program controversy, as SR provided the Iranians with needed material while conducting espionage in Iran at the same time.
The entire unit was defeated in Jakarta and Tokyo thanks to Koko and Kaspar's efforts.
In General
- Becoming the Mask: Due to a lack of funds, SR was forced to use their front company to conduct arms dealing to stay afloat and build contacts. By the time Hinoki came onboard, Ganville Trading Company is a highly successful trading company in its own right, with SR being financially independent of the Japanese government's black budget, to the government's chagrin.
- Blood Knight: Hinoki says his subordinates are hungry for action.Hinoki: There may be an outbreak of war-like situations.SR Operstives, in unison: We hope there is, Colonel!
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Played Straight with their ambush on Kasper, with his bodyguards slaughtering them fairly easily. Downplayed with their attack on Koko, where Tojo does get injured.
- Death Faked for You: All SR operatives are officially listed as deceased.
- He Who Fights Monsters: They're starting to show signs of this. And this came back to bite them in the butts when all SR Team operatives were killed.
- Elites Are More Glamorous: Given that they're a DIH black ops team.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Totally don't understand Tojo at all.
Yosuke Hinoki
Voiced by: Hidetoshi Nakamura (Japanese), Bill Jenkins (English)
A Colonel in the JGSDF, and the 5th CO of SR. Formerly Tojo's mentor and the man who taught him all he knew (which is not the same as all Hinoki knows). Pulling the strings behind SR's actions. He's known to be married to a Thai woman, to protect his "cover".
- The Chessmaster: Has multiple plans for dealing with multiple situations. He orchestrated SR's downfall, letting them start a fight with HCLI that led to their annihilation, allowing him to retire.
- Fake Relationship: His marriage to an unnamed Thai woman, which is all part of protecting his cover as a Japanese businessman. Except it turns out that they're Happily Married for real, and have a daughter.
- Mentor Archetype: To Tojo.
Kurosaka
Voiced by: Yuka Komatsu (Japanese), Leah Clark (English)
An SR operative who appears to be Hinoki's pointman (well, woman) in Jakarta.
- Motor Mouth: Talks really fast nonstop.
- Perpetual Smiler: She's never seen without a smile for the entirety of her screentime. Even when attacking.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Chiquita takes her down in one hit. And ventilates her on the spot.
- Whip Sword: Tries to kill Kasper with an Urumi.
Kaburagi
Voiced by: Isamu Yusen (Japanese), Gregory Lush (English)
The only other named SR operative. While Kurosaka is sent after Kasper in Jakarta, Kaburagi leads the attack on Koko's unit in Japan.
- All Part of the Show: Japan is such a safe country that the witnesses to his gun fight with Tojo and Jonah think the whole affair is an action scene for a movie or TV show.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Despite catching Jonah by surprise from behind, he unloads an entire clip without hitting the boy once. When Tojo arrives, the two face each other straight-on only a few yards apart, but even after firing an automatic weapon continuously for a few seconds at a target dead ahead, Kaburagi only manages to graze Tojo's shoulder.
- It's Personal: He appears to hold a grudge against Tojo for abandoning the SR, calling him a traitor during their confrontation.
- More Dakka: While Kurosaka infiltrates her target's defenses under false pretenses and attempts an assassination with a concealed blade, Kaburagi unloads a MAC-11 at his targets in a crowded public space.
- Perpetual Smiler: Like Kurosaka, he's usually seen grinning.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He's cut down almost immediately when he attacks Tojo and Jonah.
Civilians
Minami "Miami" Amada
Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi (Japanese), Gwendolyn Lau (English)
A Japanese scientist working for Märchen in South Africa and the best friend of Koko Hekmatyar. Prior to getting into the field of robotics, Minami had previously studied at the Imperial College London (under the Faculty of Engineering) and at Caltech.
- Ambiguously Bi: On one hand, she is totally smitten by Jonah and would LOVE to add him to her team, on the other hand she would like her new bodyguard, Karen Low, to have big breasts like Valmet for her to fondle.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Highly respected Roboticist, but tends to act like a child at times.
- Also has an unhealthy obsession for butterflies. She is willing to hike across snow over mountain just to see a rare poisonous butterfly.
Valmet: You think she spends all her time chasing after butterflies?Koko: Probably so. She does have an abnormal obsession with them. She's an officer in some worldwide butterfly group apparently. - Cloudcuckoolander: Has a tendency to blow off prior arrangements in favor of going looking for things like butterflies and seashells like they're the most important thing in the universe, if her assistant tries to keep her in line...Koko: I was ditched for shellfish?
- Humans Are Bastards: What she thinks of countries (and their militaries) that try to take advantage of her robotics research for military purposes.Minami: It doesn't bother me if people want to take my research and use it to make weapons to kill other people. That's just fine. I'm a lot more concerned about the butterfly's continued survival. They're the ones in danger. How many billions of humans are there in the world? Too many. We're overpopulated.
- Just Between You and Me: Apparently has something going on with Koko. Their plan is named Jormungand
- Meaningful Name: Minami means "South" in Japanese, which is significant since she's based in South Africa after she studied robotics.
- Womanchild: Like her friend Koko, she's got a habit of rolling back and forth on the ground crying when she's not getting her way.
Mokoena aka Moko
Voiced by: Takahiro Fujiwara (Japanese), Chris Rager (English)
Minami's assistant. He tries to make sure she doesn't wander off to go after butterflies or other types of animals, but he ends up following her in the end. Before Karen was employed by Minami, he used to do bodyguard duties aside from being her assistant.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: His main job to make sure Minami doesn't go wandering off.Mokoena: (After he finds out that Minami wants to get a butterfly and plans to ditch her meeting with Koko) I came by to make sure you were not serious [about going to the mountains]. But I was wrong.
- Gentle Giant: Mokoena's really a nice guy, even though he's capable of handling small arms.
- Jaw Drop: Moko's reaction when Minami stumbles into and recruits a dismayed Karen off the sidewalk.
- Sweat Drop: Gets into this due to his boss' unbelievable actions that he's forced to follow her.
