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Hinako Sakura
Hinako Sakura
- Lovable Coward: She's an absolutely normal teenaged girl who keeps getting caught up in battles between literal superhumans. Her best chance for survival is to get out of the way and take cover.
- Promotion to Parent: Takes care of her little sister because their parents are overseas.
- Only Sane Woman: Reacts to any given event's awesomeness with exasperation from the ridiculousness of the situation.
- Supreme Chef: In the Distant Epilogue, she now owns a world-famous pudding shop.
Tsukumi Sakura
Tsukumi Sakura
- Kid with the Leash: This adorable tiny girl has the absolute loyalty of Machine Banchou.
Karabi Mitsunobu
Karabi Mitsunobu
- Ax-Crazy: He takes baseball far too seriously, and attacks people who even casually mention a sport other than baseball.
- Irony: The fact that he, a baseball enthusiast, is the minion for the Iai Bancho, a traditionalist samurai, is even lampshaded by the author.
- Starter Villain: While not a Bancho, he's the first enemy from the 23 District Project that Akira defeats.
- The Worf Effect: Kinda sad if you're beaten by a kindergartener, but his defeat by Haruka plays it straight.
Dr. Kouichirou Kagimiya
Dr. Kouichirou Kagimiya
- Just a Machine: After Machine Bancho proves useless, he calls him a failure.
Seitaka and Kongara
Seitaka and Kongara
- Kick the Dog: Beat Oyanana up for trying to protect his friends, even though he's manipulated the latter before with his influence.
Oyanana Hikaru
Oyanana Hikaru
- Character Development: Goes from being a dick and Dirty Coward to someone who stands up for his friends, even calling out Nenbutsu.
- Dirty Coward: Prior to his Character Development. He was a chicken who freaked out when he realized his money and influence won't get him out of trouble with Akira.
- Meaningful Name: "Oya" means parents, which he used relied on to intimidate people before Akira scared it out of him. "Nanahikari" in Japanese is the expression for not being able to shine on one's own, relying on their parent's radiance. Basically, someone whose fame or success is only owed to their powerful parents.
- Smug Snake: Before Akira scared him straight.
- Took a Level in Badass: He manages to take out one of the robot mooks of Machine Banchou and selflessly volunteers to take on Machine Banchou himself, even though he had literally no chance of defeating him.
- Took a Level in Kindness: He goes from a smug little shit from being a kind-hearted, humble, and selfless individual who'd stand up even when he's hopelessly outmatched due to sticking to his own principles of human goodness.
