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General

The main characters of the story.

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• All-Loving Hero: Aladdin, Alibaba, and Morgiana, all tend to try and see the best in people.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Alibaba (blonde), Aladdin and Hakuryuu (brunettes), and Morgiana (redhead).
• Breaking the Fellowship: Has happened a couple of times. Generally it comes with a Time Skip of 6 months before they reunite with each other.
• Chromatic Arrangement: Aladdin for blue, Morgiana for red, and Alibaba for yellow.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Everywhere they go, if they see people in trouble, they will use all their power to help them.
• Flight: They all gain this ability eventually, though in different ways.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: While the most noticeable example is Morgiana, all of them grew their hair a bit after the Time Skip.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Aladdin, Alibaba, and Morgianna have this dynamic up until Hakuryuu joins. Aladdin, being a Magi naturally is the mage while Morgianna is the Fighter due to having the most physical strength of the group and Alibaba is the Thief due to relying more on agility and even uses a dagger as a weapon initially.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Their friendship starts in Amon's dungeon, the Balbadd arc strengthens their bond, and the main trio become friends with Hakuryuu, whilst in Zagan's dungeon.
• Four-Philosophy Ensemble: Aladdin is the Realist, Alibaba is the Optimist, Morgiana is the Conflicted, and Hakuryuu is the Cynic.
• Hard Work Hardly Works: Averted; Aladdin, Alibaba, and Morgiana all had to go on long, difficult training journeys, in order to become the badasses that they are now.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: No matter what they do, it never seems to be enough. If even one person suffers, then they weren't strong enough to help. It doesn't help that these guys are entering into more and more complicated situations.
• Instant Expert: Averted; not one of them has been able to really use their abilities at first. Even after training for a couple of years, they are not yet experts in their respective skills.
• Love Triangle: Hakuryuu ends up falling in love with Morgiana who, while clueless about her own feelings, has for a long time been interested in Alibaba, who is oblivious to her feelings.
• There Is Only One Bed: Aladdin, Alibaba and Morgiana sleep in the same bed when they're in Sindria. They don't see anything wrong with it, but Hakuryuu was very pissed when Alibaba told him about it, especially when he said they had to "force Morgiana to do it" (because she felt she didn't deserve to sleep on the same bed as them).
• Thou Shall Not Kill: All four protagonists were confronted with the chance to kill someone, but they each (save Hakuryuu), chose not to do so in the end.
• Took a Level in Badass: All of them have taken several.
• True Companions: As Aladdin once stated, their lives are united by the Rukh, and their strength comes from their trust in each other.

Aladdin

Voiced by: Kaori Ishihara (Japanese), Erica Mendez (English)

One of the two main protagonists of the series alongside Alibaba. Started the series travelling around the world alongside his Djinn, Ugo. He is one of the Magi chosen to select king candidates. He knows very little about himself beyond that. He is aged around 10 at the beginning of the story.

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• The Ace: At magic after his training at Magnostadt, becoming the only one able to compete with Titus.
• Adorably Precocious Child: Holds a lot of responsibilities, despite being only 11-12 years old.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: He learns magic best by watching others use it and applying his own twist. Such as making fire orbs after watching Yamaraiha use water orbs. He also seems to be able to use the magic of people he's close to best: Fire, from Ugo, Water, from Yamaraiha, and Sand, from Princess Dunya.
• Badass Adorable: He's a small thing, but his magic is very powerful and becomes even more so with training. After he obtains Solomon's Wisdom, there's no denying that he can kick ass with or without Ugo. "Adorable" is debatable after he hits a major growth spurt.
• Badass Bookworm: After learning from Yamuraiha and studying at Magnostadt, Aladdin has started to really enjoy learning and reading books.
• Badass Longrobe: After joining the Magnostadt Academy.
• Balloon Belly: When he eats for far too long without summoning Ugo or using magic.
• Berserk Button: Harming his friends in any way is a good way to get an asskicking courtesy of this Badass Adorable Magi.
• Big Damn Heroes: Pulls one of these right after waking up from a coma, to the immense relief of Alibaba and the others in the vicinity of Jamil and Djinn-possessed Cassim.
• Big Eater: Justified because he needs the power of his stomach to summon Ugo. Continues to be one even long after Ugo's death.
• Black Mage: Most of the magic that he learns are for offensive or battle related purposes.
• Born Winner: Born as a Magi.
• Braids of Action: Has one single, long braid.
• Character Development: Starts off as a naïve child with very little understanding of the world around him. As time passes he begins to turn into a badass mage with a strong moral compass.
• Cheerful Child: More so in the beginning of the manga, but he still retains some of this trope even after everything he's gone through.
• Child Mage: He's only 12-13, but is one of the strongest mages in Magnostadt, if not the world.
• Children Are Innocent: In some ways not so much.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: Since he's a "Magi".
  Baba: "You are "Magi", live together with millions of other lives and build a great world, guiding them!"
• Chivalrous Pervert: Despite adoring Marshmallow Hell, he's still a very good person.
• The Chooser of the One: While most Magi choose multiple kings for multiple nations, Aladdin is tasked with finding the one king for the whole world.
• The Chosen One: He is a Magi whose duty is to select a king candidate, so he's The Chosen One to be The Chooser of the One. After gaining Solomon's Wisdom, it makes him a chosen one even among Magi.
• Cool Shades: Got Instructor Irene's magical glasses that allow him to read non visible characters in old books.
• Curtains Match the Window: Blue hair with blue eyes.
• Cute Bookworm: While studying magic from books. The Alma Toran Arc reveals that after being "born" in the Room of Solitude, he learned about most things from books.
• Deflector Shield: His Bolg.
• Dirty Kid: Likes copping feels of breasts a little too much for someone not even hitting puberty yet.
• Divine Parentage: Aladdin was conceived when his father Solomon was still human. When Sheba was pregnant, Solomon became the new God of the universe.
• Elemental Powers: Heat magic. Application so far is by using it for a really big fireball, a lot of small fireballs that can chase the target, and strengthening Alibaba's Djinn equip.
  • He later learns several more, though Heat Magic is his main affinity, making him a "Red Magician." He can cast Wind, Water, Sound, Light, Lightning and Gravity Magic.
• Flying Carpet: His turban can turn into one.
• Friendless Background: Sort of. All we know of his past so far is that Ugo was his first friend.
• The Heart: For any group he is a part of, and possibly for the whole world.
• Heartwarming Orphan
• Heroic BSoD: Has one after being defeated by Judar and having Ugo go on a berserk rampage.
• I Am Who?: He is Solomon's proxy. Or more specifically, his son.
• Immune to Mind Control: He's immune to the brainwashing Rukh that's part of Sinbad's new Sacred Palace system.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Does not even begin to understand why someone would want to do evil.
• Innocent Prodigy: Is a spectacular magician, but would never use his magic to kill.
• KidAnova: The girls at the pleasure houses just love him, which causes Alibaba no end of resentment and jealousy.
• Kid Hero: Only 12, but is destined to lead the whole world into a better tomorrow.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: After his training at Magnostadt.
• Like Brother and Sister: With Morgiana.
• Like Father, Like Son: As the extras elaborate, Aladdin has slowly taken to Kougyoku over his physical growth period, a sweet but feisty pink-haired girl.
• Little Stowaway: How he first meets Alibaba.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Despite being a child. He doesn't try to hide it at all.
• Magical Barefooter: Goes around barefoot, a trait apparently associated to Magi, although in his case also reflects his childlike, laid back personality.
• Magic Staff: Several, with each one with a special meaning to him.
• Marshmallow Hell: More like Marshmallow Heaven in Aladdin's case, since he loves boobs so much that he even invokes it with a fat guy at one point.
• Martial Pacifist: Aladdin hates violence in all its capacity, and views all lives as valuable, but can and will fight when the situation demands it. That being said, he will still often use non-lethal methods of doing so, such as during Reim's invasion of Magnostadt, in which he simply pushes the Reim soldiers back, and pleads with them to just go home.
• Mirror Character: Aladdin and Judar: Both amazingly powerful magi, even with similar clothing schemes and hair, but Judar is the Dark Magi, Fallen into Depravity, through no choice of his own, simply because he was found by the villains of the series at infancy and Aladdin was protected. Nonetheless, after brutally fighting, with their chosen king candidates, fellow mirrors Alibaba and Hakuryuu, they team up at the end.
• Mythology Gag: In the original tale and retellings, Aladdin's always fallen for a princess. Kougyoku is a princess, and he's pretty close to her. Do the math.
• Naïve Newcomer: Shows shades of this at times. Justified in that he spent a good chunk of his childhood locked up so he wouldn't know much about the outside world.
• Nice Guy: Unbelievably so, his final attack on most enemies is to try and turn them back to the light with Solomon's Wisdom.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: By taking a greater role as a Magi and trying to shift events on his own, he stumbles right into this.
  • By showing to Judar that Al-Tharmen killed his family and has been using him since birth, Aladdin gave to Judar even more reasons to go further into the dark side and wanting to destroy everything; it's just that this time, he's not doing it For the Evulz, but for actual resentment against the world and his fate.
  • He reveals the history of Alma Torran at the summit. Sinbad completely falls into depravity due to what he saw. This allows Davids plan to succeed and connect Solomons world to Ill Ilah by using Sinbad as his connection.
  • He pleads for Kouen's life. By bringing up Judar's "death" (as known by the cast but not the reader) and reminding Hakuryuu of his sins in killing his mother and threatening his siblings, Aladdin pushes Hakuryuu into a psychological corner and cements Kouen's execution.
• Older Than He Looks: He looks like a preteen, and biologically he is. Chronologically he's a lot older since his aging was suspended for years while he was still a fetus.
• Omniscient Hero: The reason Al-Thamen wants to capture him. Thanks to "Solomon's Wisdom", he can interact with the Rukh to know everything.
• One-Man Army: During the war in Magnostadt, he reveals that he could probably destroy the entire Reim army by himself; but his moral code makes him completely unwilling to do this.
• Power Incontinence: After taking the Power Limiter out, to try to stop the Magnostadt vs. Reim Empire war, the Rukh started to flow slowly after months of not being used, but after a while Aladdin was given so much Magoi, that his body wasn't able to cope.
• Power Limiter: When a student at the Magnostadt Magic Academy, to conceal his status as a Magi.
• Public Domain Character: In name, at least. He otherwise has no relation to the more iconic version of Aladdin.
• Reality Warper: He learned to use his father Solomon's magic to literally bend the fabric of time and space and break the laws of physics.
• Reincarnation: Of King Solomon's will at least, although Kouen's Djinns flat out refer to Aladdin as the actual reincarnation of their Great King. However, he isn't really a reincarnation, he's Solomon's son. The Djinns treat him as Solomon's reincarnation because Ugo made the survivors of Alma Torran believe that Aladdin was Solomon's avatar (since as his son, Aladdin's Rukh is similar to Solomon's) in order to keep them united with a single guide.
• Sarashi: Part of his original clothing. Lost it after getting a Badass Longrobe in Magnostadt.
• Ship Tease: After the Time Skip, with Kougyoku.
• Shout-Out: The original Aladdin had two Djinns in a lamp and a ring, not one in a flute.
• Signature Move: Har-Har Infigar.
• Squishy Wizard: At first, but after studying with Myers, who hates this trope, he becomes a Kung-Fu Wizard.
• Status Buff: Sometimes. His magic is Playing with Fire, whilst Alibaba's magic sword has Feed It with Fire properties. Do the math.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He's identical to his father, Solomon. Although one manticore claims that he has his mother Sheba's eyes.
• Summon Magic: At first, his only ability with magic was summoning Ugo; after Ugo vanishes he uses sand magic to summon giant golems that look like him.
• Superpower Lottery: Magi have a large reserve of Magoi, and thus can use the Rukh endlessly.
• Supporting Protagonist: Has shades of this, to Alibaba.
• Sword and Sorcerer: The Sorcerer to Alibaba's Sword.
• Sympathy for the Devil: His main way of dealing with villains is to make them see the error of their ways. He even does this to Ithnan, though it was just a side effect of forcing him to show Al-Thamen's goals.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: He wants to stop wars without sending a soul back to the Rukh.
• Token Wholesome: Averted, Alibaba and Morgiana share his strong moral code, but it's Aladdin who first gets them to believe in others.
• Took a Level in Badass: First he obtains the "Solomon's Wisdom" which with his abilities makes him The Omniscient. Then he keeps leveling up after he becomes a student at the Magnostadt Magic Academy with a Power Limiter on him.
• Tragic Keepsake:
  • Ugo's now-empty flute and Baba's staff.
  • After Baba's staff was destroyed and Mogamett died, Aladdin wields his staff.
  • His use of sand magic. It was the magic of Princess Dunya who died after he became friends with her.
• Warrior Prince: He's the prince of the ancient kingdom of Alma Toran.
• White Mage: Even though he has offensive magic in his arsenal, what makes Aladdin special is Solomon's Wisdom and strong connection with white Rukh. He generally uses his powers to heal and protect rather than stage attacks.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Really wants the world to stop having wars and to end human suffering.
• Wise Beyond His Years: Started the manga as a kid with Simple-Minded Wisdom, but grows up to be very wise, after being reborn as a Magi and gaining Solomon's Wisdom.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: To Alibaba.
  Aladdin: "I don't think so... You're brave! I've known that from the day I met you. [...] Despite your reasons, you still believed in yourself. As long as you do that, you're fine! That's not something a coward could do. So I know you're really brave. Really brave! I respect you, my best friend!"

Alibaba Saluja

Voiced by: Yūki Kaji (Japanese), Mutsumi Tamura (child, Japanese), Erik Kimerer (English)

One of the two main protagonists of the series alongside Aladdin. He meets Aladdin while in charge of a caravan and decides to go travelling with him. He is also the third prince of Balbadd and the king's illegitimate son, and fled the city after a major disaster at the castle that he was responsible for. Aged 17 at the beginning of the story.

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• Absurdly Sharp Blade: The blade can cut through steel and monsters with ease. Justified, because his sword Amon is a metal vessel with magic powers.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: When he performs his Djinn Equip his hair and eyes turn red like flames, but in the anime it barely changes color, it just appears that his golden hair and eyes become barely a bit more "orangeish".
• All-Loving Hero:
  "No matter what you did wrong... it is impossible for a person to become trash while he lives. If there people like that around the world, I want to try to stop them."
• And I Must Scream: Alibaba's soul is currently separated from his body, and he lived for one hundred years in another dimension as an entity made only of his own consciousness.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Amon's sword, at first, since its large size makes wielding it cumbersome and inefficient in Magoi consumption. He wins most of his fights by abusing Absurdly Sharp Blade properties to its conclusion.
• Badass Adorable: Don't let his Humble Hero demeanor fool you, this page is full of examples. Most recently, he survived being forcibly ejected from his body and successfully reconstituted himself into a form composed only of his own consciousness. The only other people known to have done this were members of Al-Thamen - magicians from Alma Toran who knew Solomon personally and benefited from his teachings. Alibaba did it on his own, and was able to return within the span of a few weeks from the standpoint of the world he left.
• Betty and Veronica: The Archie to Morgiana's Betty and Kougyoku's Veronica. And also the Betty to Hakuryuu's Veronica and Morgiana's Archie.
• BFS: When Amon is properly equipped.
• Big Brother Instinct: Has shades of this towards Aladdin, and later also towards Olba once he becomes a part of Alibaba's Household.
• Big Damn Heroes: In Chapter 176. He stopped Mu's attack with Amon's sword, saving Aladdin's life. He's really progressed in this as well—saving entire cities in the nick of time has become a recurring theme with him. Still not as much as Sinbad though.
• Blatant Lies: No, he not jealous of Toto and Olba's budding relationship.
• Butt-Monkey: It's not just his state after Elizabeth and Margaret. The whole of Chapter 122 is even dedicated to it. And then Chapters 200 to 204 play with it again.
• Cain and Abel: Though the two aren't actually blood related, he is the Abel to Cassim's Cain. Even with all that happened between Cassim and him, Alibaba never stopped considering him a close friend and loving him as a brother.
• Came Back Strong: Averted in that he didn't exactly die, but in a world where the dead can always be consulted with through the rukh, he was in an even worse situation. Three years after the time skip, he makes it back with enhanced powers of concentration. Even more than that, Alibaba seems to have grown emotionally. He easily accepts Sinbad as a Big Bad Friend, and then talks Kyogyoku into making him her Prime Minister. Even Sinbad appears to be surprised by Alibaba's new leadership qualities. He hasn't retrieved Amon's sword yet, so time will tell if he has gained more proficiency with his Djinni Equip.
• Can't Catch Up: Alibaba is constantly meeting new friends or foes who are much stronger than him at first. Though post-timeskip, he has begun to break out of this habit. His reunion with Aladdin has him block the blade of Reim's leading general, that could have potentially destroyed an entire city.
• Chick Magnet: He was able to bring out the dere of at least three different girls who were originally kuu and tsun towards him. Not that he notices it.
• Childhood Friends: With Hassan, Zaynab and also with Mariam and Cassim obviously.
• Chivalrous Pervert: He is just as bad as Aladdin, if not more so, and acts as his enabler. He loves going to the pleasure houses. He just isn't as lucky as Aladdin, though.
• The Chosen One: It's revealed that Aladdin has selected him to be his candidate for King. In the final arc, everyone else offers to give up their vessels to make Alibaba the True King, but he refuses the offer.
• Combat Pragmatist: Perfectly willing to dominate an opponent with magic rather than a swordfight, when he's pressed for time.
  "Sorry, but I'm not fooling around."
• Conflicting Loyalty: Kouen and Koumei force him to choose between his loyalty to his homeland Balbadd and his loyalty to Sindria by offering him authority over Balbadd if he cuts his ties with Sindria and marries into the Ren royal family.
• Curtains Match the Window: Blond hair with... blond eyes?
• Cuteness Proximity: In Chapter 203, when considering if Morgiana loves him, when he goes to see her he can't even look at her, because she looks so cute to him.
• Desperately Craves Affection: He eventually grows desperate for a girlfriend.
• Determinator: Once he gathers his resolve, he won't stop until he's accomplished his goal.
• Empty Shell: After being stricken by Hakuryuu's scythe, his spirit was ejected from his body and thrown into another dimension.
• Establishing Character Moment: When he yells at the wine merchant and chooses to save the little girl from the Desert Hyacinth instead of the goods. This was also the moment that cemented Alibaba's image in Aladdin's mind.
• Fatal Flaw: Alibaba's lack of confidence, especially in the Balbadd arc, made him indecisive about helping his people and trying to stand up to his older brother.
• First-Name Basis: Uses (unadorned) first names with people he considers good friends, see: Aladdin, Morgiana, Cassim, Hakuryuu and Kougyoku.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Mother Dragon took three entire years to bring Alibaba's soul back to his body. When Alibaba returns he's utterly shocked by how ridiculously advanced civilization became in only 3 years, such as now having airships and futuristic cities.
• Flash Back Echo: Every time he encounters a situation that is reminiscent of the Balbadd ordeal.
• Gold Fever: Started with this as a byproduct of his past in poverty. The motivation to go Dungeon Crawling.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has the hair color and personality type, though he's far from innocent.
• He Who Fights Monsters: In the anime, all his rage against Ithnan, plus the curse plus having to relive with Dunya the whole Cassim situation, make him kill Ithnan.
• Hearing Voices: In the anime, he was the one bit by Ithnan's snake and was cursed earlier; the curse starts moving after seeing Hakuryuu's face and starts hearing voices motivating him to hate him.
• The Heart: His supposed death shows it the best. Things didn't really start to go down until he is gone from the picture.
• Heroic Bastard: He was born out of wedlock.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: He's a bit low on self-confidence. When Sinbad tells him that he's going to be king, he immediately backs off saying that "he's not meant for something like that." Although at one point Aladdin manages to encourage him, he still feels doubtful sometimes later on.
• Hidden Badass: Shows he has actual fighting skill when dueling with Jamil.
• Hope Spot: After all this time wanting a girlfriend, he thought that Morgiana's "I want to be with you forever-" words were a confession. Actually she meant "-as a member of your household". He turned into an oozing, blubbering mess, acting like a hurt wild animal because facing his mistake hurt more than he could handle.
• Idiot Hair: With a particularly thick, triangular point.
• Immune to Mind Control: Having died and resurrected outside Sinbad's new system in the Sacred Palace made him immune to his mind control.
• Ineffectual Loner: Tries to solve most of his problems on his own, but he becomes lost and confused without his friends support.
• Inelegant Blubbering: After finally becoming 'the man he was expected to be', he's crying streams of tears and looks totally silly and childish.
• In Love with Love: He's absolutely desperate for a girl to fall in love with him and become his girlfriend. Any pretty girl will do, as long as they can be a cute couple together. Even Judar lampshades his desperation to have a girlfriend in an omake.
• Interspecies Romance: With Morgiana. The Fanalis are anything but human.
• Irony:
  • The woman he claimed he was lovers with fell in love with the younger, little brother figure that he tried to impress with said lie.
  • So far, everything that happened to him post Time Skip is essentially a long streak of irony. The first big thing he does after his return is essentially getting a position of authority in the Kou Empire, before offering the former crown prince a position in the country.
• It Was a Gift: Another huge Ship Tease-y moment, Alibaba gives a beautiful necklace to Morgiana.
• I Want to Be a Real Man: Desperately wants to prove himself to Sinbad, and get a girlfriend.
• I Will Wait for You: Since Morgiana doesn't know how to act and react like a lovestruck girl, she asks him to teach her more about romance and wait until she's ready to respond to his feelings. He accepts and when he returns three years later Morgiana accepts his feelings.
• Jack of All Stats: A little, video game based illustration on one early volume, shows Alibaba with balanced HP and MP of 500 each, contrasting endless MP but 500 HP's Aladdin and 8100 HP but just 81 MP's Morgiana.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Initially comes off as being smug but soon proves his kindness by choosing to save a little girl over protecting the goods in his caravan. Now though, after he's debt-free, he's a full blown All-Loving Hero Nice Guy.
• Ki Manipulation: Is able to use them after his training with the Yambala Gladiators.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Alibaba used to be (and still is, to a large extent) a huge Sinbad-fanboy. Now he's a dungeon conqueror and king's candidate in his own right.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Pulls one of these in Balbadd, to Sinbad's surprise.
• Lonely Rich Kid: When he moved to the palace, Alibaba was very lonely since everyone kept distance from him because of his position as the king's bastard child and his father didn't have much time to spend with him.
• Love Revelation Epiphany: After Olba tells him Morgiana has feelings for him, Alibaba starts seeing her in a new light and realizes that Morgiana is a really cute girl. He even accepts her "confession" and is crushed when Morgiana tells him she wanted to be by his side "as member of his household". But he accepts to slowly teach her about romance and wait for her to be ready to correspond his feelings.
• Magic Knight: After getting Amon's sword, which he combines with fire magic.
• Manipulative Bastard: According to to Hakuryuu, Alibaba unconsciously attempts to manipulate and use other people's feelings to his advantage in order to make them do things he wanted or agree with his beliefs, as mentioned in the "Reason You Suck" Speech leading up to their disastrous fight. Since he's returned back to his body he has now consciously used it to his advantage, playing on Sinbad's emotions to make him extend the deadline for Kou's debts in order to help Kougyoku and the Kou Empire.
• Man on Fire: Alibaba has to deal with this at first with his Djinn equip. He doesn't seem to be hurt by the flames at all though.
• Marry for Love: When Kouen and Koumei say they want him to marry one of their sisters as part of his alliance to them, Alibaba says he can't get married like that while recalling Morgiana and his promise to always be with her. Koumei then suggests that if Alibaba has a special someone he can make her one of his concubines, but Alibaba finds that dishonorable. Though he never brings it up specifically, this attitude is likely spawned from the realization of the hardships his parents faced because his father was a king and his mother the low class mistress, despite his father's genuine feelings for her. When he learned this, he decided he didn't want to repeat his father's mistake.
• Master Swordsman: He has some serious skill with a knife or shortsword.
• Mirror Character:
  • Cassim and Alibaba were childhood friends who grew up on the same streets, both taking comfort in Alibaba's mother. When Alibaba returns to Balbaad while Aladdin is working to find his way back to him, Alibaba joins Cassim's gang to upend the social structure in the country, as Cassim needs his light and heart, as well as Alibaba's royal lineage.
  • Alibaba and Hakuryuu are likewise mirrors as princes of their countries who were so far down the line of succession they were never expected to take the throne, but who were chosen by magi as king candidates and conquered dungeons with the help of their friends.
• Modest Royalty: He's a prince, but he never brings it up or flaunts it in any way.
• Must Make Amends: He wants to become stronger enough to get Balbadd back to its former glory, since he still feels guilty for the robbery of the national treasury, the people's misery and Cassim's fall into depravity and death.
• My Greatest Failure: His failure to keep Balbadd free and sovereign.
• Naked People Are Funny: Pretty much all his nudity is played for laughs.
  • While checking out his wounds during the Balbadd arc, Alibaba ends up in a very awkward position just in time for Morgiana to walk in and get an eyeful of his entire exposed lower half. Both of them end up screaming in horror.
  • Alibaba passes out drunk on a ship for Reim and wakes up completely naked, having been robbed.
• Negated Moment of Awesome: Was about to use his "Extreme Magic" for the first time against 30 Black Djinns but missed his chance when Kouen appeared in a Big Damn Heroes moment.
• Nice Guy: While at first, he is more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, he ends up becoming a much nicer person.
• Not Blood Siblings: With Mariam and Cassim, after Anise adopted them.
• Oblivious to Love: He fails to notice Morgiana's feelings for him. After a chat with Olba he starts putting two and two together.
• Official Couple: After eventually returning in the timeskip and finding the others, Morgiana finally reciprocates his feelings and the two even decide to get married.
• One Head Taller: Than Morgiana. Changed in the anime, making Alibaba look shorter than in the manga.
• Only Mostly Dead: Although his physical body has died, Judar ends up encountering Alibaba's pill-shaped consciousness after arriving in Alma Torran. Alibaba spent over 100 years in another dimension before Judar found him.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Alibaba's feelings when in Sindria.
• Pet the Dog: We first see Alibaba as just a petty, greedy caravan driver. Then he puts Honor Before Reason to save a little girl by sacrificing his client's precious cargo instead and we see that he will be one of our heroes.
• Playing with Fire: Obtains a Fire Djinn named Amon after conquering his first dungeon with Aladdin.
  • Flaming Sword
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: When performing his Djinn Equip his hair grows and is tied in two loose hair tails.
• Professional Butt-Kisser: Used to be one as a caravan driver.
• Rags to Royalty: He was raised at the slums with his mother working as a prostitute. Shortly after his mother's death, the king revealed to Alibaba that he was his father and brought him to live at the palace. Unfortunately, Cassim entered the palace through a secret tunnel Alibaba used to escape and stole its treasures. Feeling guilty, Alibaba ran away and ended up working to pay off debts.
• Really Royalty Reveal: In the manga it occurs quite early, when he was battling Jamil in Amon's dungeon, while the anime keeps the whole deal surrounded by mystery until Alibaba tells Aladdin and Morgiana about his childhood.
• Rebel Leader: Temporarily leads La Résistance against the king of Balbadd during the first six month time skip. Actually, he was just The Face since Cassim was the one who made most of the decisions.
• Royal Bastard: Alibaba is the illegitimate son of King Rashid and his maid, Anise. Alibaba didn't know anything about this until his mother died and the king came to retrieve him from the slums.
• The Runaway: Ran away from the palace after a certain incident.
• Running Gag: A lot of people joke about his unpopularity with girls.
• Scars Are Forever: His left arm bears the teeth marks from when a carnivorous ape tried to bite his arm off.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Money doesn't really motivate him as much as he would like people to believe.
• Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: He says Toto is his girlfriend, but the following chapter reveals that it was a huge lie.
• Shout-Out: The original Alibaba did have a brother named Cassim, who had a slave called Morgiana.
• Smarter Than You Look: Much to his chagrin.
• Smoking Is Cool: He seems to think so, as he tries to catch the habit of smoking but can't do it without coughing his lungs out yet. After Cassim's Rukh fused with his and took a few of his tracts he keeps trying to smoke, but is still unable to do it.
• Son of a Whore: Alibaba's mother was King Rashid's maid until she left the castle after becoming pregnant with him and moved to the slums where she worked as a prostitute.
• Street Smart: More apparent in the beginning of the series, in contrast to Aladdin's lack of common-sense.
• Strong Family Resemblance: While he is not a clone of his mother, like Hakuryuu and Hakuei are, he does look a lot like Anise. Sinbad's Adventures reveals he also took a lot from his father, mostly his Ahoge.
• Super-Reflexes: When Alibaba comes back he displays the ability to slow down time (at least, in his mind), and dodge or counter anything that's thrown at him. Yunan speculates Alibaba got this power by experiencing an extremely prolonged moment of death - which is said to slow down time to the point where your whole life flashes before your eyes. As evidence of this theory, Yunan believes Alibaba's subjective 100 years time spent in another dimension couldn't have been longer than one or two days.
• Sword and Sorcerer: The Sword to Aladdin's Sorcerer.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Alibaba says this when he discovers that Sinbad has been using Kougyoku as his unwitting spy.
• Took a Level in Badass: He finally masters his full Djinn equip in Reim, and reveals it in Chapter 181. Alibaba's also a match for the greatest swordsman in Reim, and survived his soul being separated from his body.
• Tragic Keepsake: Alibaba ends up wearing Cassim's earrings after his death.
• Troubled, but Cute: His past is pretty heavy and things aren't really looking up for his future.
• Troubled Fetal Position: Played for Laughs, he does this after finding out about Olba and Toto's marriage and kids.
• Virgin-Shaming: Koumei teases him about this only to realize, oops, he's right; Alibaba has never even touched a woman, let alone had a girlfriend. Kouen finds it hilarious.
• Warrior Prince: Third prince of Balbadd from an affair.
• Weak, but Skilled: In the early parts of the series Alibaba was just a normal, if not skilled in sword fighting, human. He had to rely on his wits and strategy until he began understanding Amon's powers. Now a days not so much.
• Why Can't I Hate You?: While trying to decide what side of his Conflicting Loyalty to choose, he admits that if Kougyoku were as despicable as her brothers, it would be easier, but he can't hate her because she's his friend and she's quite the Wide-Eyed Idealist.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: He's very idealistic and believes that only with goodness can the world change; but when faced with examples of the morally ambiguous things that a king needs to do in order to protect his country, he's horrified.
• Wise Beyond His Years: His rough life made him this. Umm Madaura even says that he, Aladdin and Morgiana, despite their age, already had the mind of adults. It's implied that this is one of the reasons Alladin made him his King's Candidate, as Alibaba is wise for how young he is.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Barely a couple of chapters after he accepts to wait for Morgiana after her confession, he is then blackmailed into an Arranged Marriage with Kougyoku.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Resolves to say this to whomever may need to hear it, since he firmly believes that this is the truth. Though he sometimes ends up being told this by his loved ones too.
• You Need to Get Laid: Everyone seems to be worried about his lack of a love life. His childhood friends, his mentors, his friends... And Ohtaka just enjoys playing with it.

Morgiana

Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu (Japanese), Cristina Valenzuela (English)

The barefoot deuteragonist of the series. At the start, she is one of Jamil's slaves. She is originally from the Dark Continent and a member of the Fanalis Tribe. Aladdin and Alibaba help to free her from captivity and she eventually reunites with them after a six-month time skip. Aged 14 at the beginning of the story. She is a very smart and quiet girl.

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• Action Girl: The genuine article, too. An average size girl, but with titanic strength, power, and fighting ability.
• A-Cup Angst: Hinted to suffer from this because of a certain Covert Pervert. Though her current appearance in the manga suggests her breasts are now large.
  Pisti: I wonder why guys like such flabby women...
  Morgiana: Yes...I wonder...
  • The anime subverts this, as her tone was more of confusion than sad.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: A minor case; the anime gives her a more pinkish hair and eye color than the "Fanalis Red" in the manga. Since Masrur also has the same coloring as her, it is possible that the production team decided to use that shade instead... but the "Fanalis Corps" do have the same shade of red as in the manga.
• Affectionate Nick Name: Aladdin calls her "Mor".
• Badass Adorable: She starts as a cute 14-year-old girl, who can easily one-shot giant, man-eating, poisonous tigers.
• Barefoot Poverty: She starts out barefoot due to being a slave. Subverted, as even after being freed, despite a couple scenes with shoes, she still elects to go barefoot for the rest of the story. As a Kick Chick with super powerful limbs, any shoes she did wear would probably just get destroyed within minutes of entering a fight. She hits hard with her bare feet
• Beautiful Slave Girl: She was one of Jamil's slaves since childhood, which plays heavily into her Character Development and Defrosting Ice Queen status. Pretty much everyone mentions how cute she is upon meeting her, including Alibaba and Aladdin, who referred to her as Pretty Big Sis, before learning her name.
• Beautiful Tears: Hakuryuu and Alibaba think Morgiana is the cutest girl in the world when they see her shedding Tears of Joy.
• Belated Love Epiphany: In chapter 281, Morgiana admits to Hakuryuu that she realized she is in love with Alibaba after he died and she thought she lost him forever. Fortunately, he comes back and they decide to get married.
• Berserk Button: No wonder her hair is red. She has several of them.
  • Slavery. It's a delayed fuse with her, but when it goes off, you better be on another continent...
  • Another one is people refusing help and stubbornly doing everything alone. Probably because it reminds her of her old self.
• Betty and Veronica: The Archie to Alibaba's Betty and Hakuryuu's Veronica.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: She doesn't have much patience for what she considers idiocy, and her fighting abilities are on par with Aladdin and Alibaba, even without much magic.
• Big Damn Heroes: In Chapter 194.
• Big Sister Instinct: She's very protective of Aladdin. Messing with him is one of Berserk Buttons.
• Breaking the Bonds:
• Breakout Character: Possibly one of the most well-recognized characters in the series.
• Brainwashed: Her Rukh is changed by Sinbad under his new system. Although she does want to aid Alibaba and Aladdin, she is unable to go against Sinbad and his desire for everyone to return to Rukh. She eventually knocks herself out of it, and helps during the final battle.
• Bridal Carry: Her favorite method for carrying people. Needless to say, first-time male carry-ees were feeling a bit awkward. She does this rather frequently to Alibaba.
• Broken Bird: Was broken into being something of an Emotionless Girl, due to years of being beaten by Jamil while under captivity. She eventually starts to show signs of recovery.
• The Bus Came Back: In Chapter 194. Lampshaded by the end of chapter credits.
  "The moment the whole world has been waiting for! Morgiana is back!"
• Chain Pain: Her Household Vessel is a pair of chains connecteted to the anklets she wears in her feet.
• Character Development: Eventually moves past the years of fear slavery brought her, in order to help a girl being made into one. This starts her Defrosting Ice Queen status.
• Character Tics: She usually puffs up her cheeks or stomps her bare feet on the ground (and breaks it, by the way) when mad or jealous.
• Chaste Heroine: She's very inexperienced when it comes to romance. She admits that she doesn't really understand how a romantic relationship is supposed to work, since while she was a slave she never considered such things. It could be one of the reasons she isn't able to recognize what her feelings towards Alibaba really are.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She gets really mad at the sight of Alibaba flirting with another girl, for obvious reasons.
• Commitment Issues: Her inexperience with romance makes her notably awkward when it comes to entering in a serious relationship. She freaks out to the point of tears when Hakuryuu suddenly proposes to her, and later tells Alibaba that she doesn't feel like she knows enough about love and relationships to become anyone's girlfriend, so he should give her some time.
• Curtains Match the Window: Red hair with red eyes.
• Cute Bruiser: Unbelievably cute, unbelievably strong.
• Dark and Troubled Past: She was enslaved at a young age, and spent YEARS of Jamil physically and mentally breaking her into an obedient and near emotionless slave.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Slowly warms up to strangers and becomes more willing to express her feelings.
• Determinator: What Morgiana becomes. It culminates in her breaking out of her supposedly unbreakable cuffs through sheer strength to save a little girl.
• Dissonant Serenity: The first time she activated her Household Vessel, she burned through her body's supply of Magoi. She's smiling and happy that she can finally be useful to the group... while blood is streaming from her eyes and mouth.
• Effortless Amazonian Lift: She is capable of carrying several people at once, even adult men much bigger than her. Though this trope is particularly used as a Running Gag, as the person she bridal carries more often is Alibaba.
• Elemental Hair Colors: She has red hair, along with a fire-based household vessel.
• Emotionless Girl: She comes off this way, due to being broken by Jamil. She has feelings, they're just buried. She's gradually loosened up and lost her emotional distance thanks to Character Development and The Power of Friendship. It's actually a bit more pronounced in the anime. In the manga, for example, her face turns red in humiliation when Aladdin and Alibaba first see the chains on her ankles denoting her as a slave. She does still try to cover up the chains in the anime, but looks a lot less embarrassed over them.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: After The Bus Came Back, her hair has grown much longer.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: But just with her hair. Thought she wears some type of net leg warmers that go from her knees to her ankles after she is free from the chains in her feet
• Friend to All Children: Very sweet, gentle and kind towards children, who are amongst the few things that can make her smile.
• Her Heart Will Go On: Alibaba's death made Morgiana realize she was in love with him. She's clearly affected by his loss and she blames herself for his death, but she still has decided to live on for him. Luckily for her, Alibaba comes back alive and she becomes a couple with him.
• Heroic RRoD: Activating her household vessel took almost all the Magoi she had inside her (and it isn't much, by the way) and she was on the verge of death because of it.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Despite having saved Aladdin and Alibaba in millions other desperate situations, she seems to genuinely feel useless whenever she's unable to do something with the situation, even though it might not be her fault at all.
• Hero-Worshipper: To Aladdin and Alibaba. She even refers to them as "her two heroes".
• In a Single Bound: She can jump so hard and high, that it looks like she's gliding.
• Innocently Insensitive: She unwittingly destroyed Alibaba's hopes of finding a girlfriend in her when she says that she wanted to be by his side "as member of his household". She learned her mistake and made something for it. See I Will Wait for You in Alibaba's section.
• Interspecies Romance: With Alibaba. As a Fanalis, her real form is a Red Lion, the second most powerful species of Alma Torran.
• I Owe You My Life: She feels this way towards Aladdin and Alibaba.
• It's All My Fault: She blames herself for Hakuryuu's fall into depravity and Alibaba's death, as she believes that if she had stopped Hakuryuu when he left the group, they could have avoided all the bad things that happened later.
• It Was a Gift: Another huge Ship Tease-y moment, Alibaba gives a beautiful necklace to Morgiana.
• Kick Chick: Powerful limbs are a speciality of her race.
• Lightning Bruiser: Her speed is second to none, and she's the strongest physical hitter in the group bar none.
• Like Brother and Sister: With Aladdin. They act like a protective older sister and her cute little brother.
• Magically Inept Fighter: Morgiana is a super strong girl with amazing martial arts ability, but almost no magic ability at all. Using her Household Vessel to its full power nearly kills her. After training with Yunan, she is now able to use it.
• Magic Skirt: And thank goodness too, considering all of those high, acrobatic kicks she is doing; she obviously isn't wearing anything beneath any of her outfits.
• Martial Artists Are Always Barefoot: She fights solely with her hands and feet, and keeps both of them bare at all times. Justified due to her race having superhuman toughness.
• Memento Macguffin: Her old slave chains.
• Nice Girl: Consistently described by the rest of the cast as a caring and kind girl who always stands by those who are less fortunate.
• No Social Skills: Because of being a slave since she was a little girl, Morgiana isn't aware of social norms. This usually results in awkward moments for her and those around her.
• The Nose Knows: She can track any of her acquaintances through scent alone. In one omake, she even described some of the main characters' scents.
• Not So Stoic: The few times she shows her genuine emotions just hit that much harder.
• Oblivious to Love: She doesn't notice Hakuryuu's feelings for her until he proposes marriage to her and kisses her.
• Official Couple: Reciprocates Alibaba's feelings when he returns three years later and the two decide to get married.
• One-Woman Army: Most of her fights have been against large groups of people, animals, and monsters; all of which she effortlessly destroys.
• Out of Focus: With the whole trouble between the heroes and Al-Thamen, and between Sindria and the Kou Empire; Aladdin and Alibaba get the most screentime, whilst she gets downplayed as their primordial support.
• Perpetual Frowner: Her default expression is serious and more than a bit sour. More from sadness than rage, though.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She is a lot stronger than her size would lead you to believe.
• Playing with Fire: Her household vessel, Amol Seisera.
• Prefers Going Barefoot: Even after she isn't a slave anymore, she goes barefoot by choice of herself.
• Proud Warrior Race Girl: ''I am a conqueror of the Dark Continents. I am stronger than any other.... For I hail from the Mightiest Warrior Tribe of All; The Fanalis!!"
• Put on a Bus: After leaving for her home country, she hasn't been seen for a while.
• The Quiet One: She isn't one for talking a lot, but when she does, its almost always important.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes are always red, which should tell you plenty.
• Redheads Are Ravishing: Morgiana has the trademark red hair of the Fanalis Tribe. She's introduced as a Beautiful Slave Girl, and becomes a love interest to Alibaba and Hakuryuu.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: It's eventually revealed that she and the entire Fanalis clan are actually Red Lions, a powerful species from Alma Torran. It's also noted how if she so chose, Morgiana could return to her real form, but at the cost of never being able to see her friends again. Needless to say, she has no desire to become a Red Lion forever.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Alibaba barely recognized her when she put on different clothes during a celebration at Sindira.
• Sherlock Scan: She's good at reading a situation and seeing the best way to utilize her strength. In Zagan's dungeon, she noticed that even though the golem's armor was too hard for her to destroy with kicks alone, they could be broken with something just as hard.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She's attracted to Alibaba's best traits.
• Spell My Name With An S: Is it Morgiana, Morgianna, Moljiana or just "Foot Fetish Fuel"?
• Stay in the Kitchen: Tried on her a couple of times, but it never sticks.
• The Stoic: She is almost always seen with a passive expression, but this is more because of her upbringing than any lack of emotion.
• Strong and Skilled: Morgiana's inhuman strength and martial arts ability make her a formidable combatant. She becomes even more capable after learning to use her Household Vessel.
• Subordinate Excuse: It's hinted that Morgiana has feelings for Alibaba, and that's the real reason why she sticks with him even though she's not necessarily obligated to do so. She eventually drops this once they finally get together.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Morgiana is very stoic, but she's a truly sweet and kind person at heart.
• Super Drowning Skills: She's unable to swim. Something Aladdin mistakenly believes might be a racial trait.
• Super-Scream: She can scream in the ultrasonic range, making most animals flee from the high-pitched noise.
• Super-Speed: Her speed is off the charts, and she has saved Aladdin and Alibaba and a whole bunch of others countless times with it.
• Super-Strength: All Fanalis are unbelievably strong, fast and durable.
• Super-Strong Child: She is able to easily keep up with Aladdin and Alibaba, even without much magic ability.
• Tears of Blood: After overusing her Household Vessel.
• Tender Tears: When Alibaba tells her he wants her to stay with him his whole life, she cries Tears of Joy that nearly cause Alibaba to explode from how cute they make her.
• Took a Level in Badass: Thanks to training from Yunan, Morgiana can now use her Household Vessel without overusing her magoi. Heck, she can even use it to fly! She takes another one during the 2nd time skip by training with her people - the Red Lions of the Dark Rift. When she comes back to help Aladdin fight, she is able to challenge Arba to single combat and come out on top.
• Trademark Favorite Food: She seems to prefer fish dishes.
• Trapped in Villainy: Morgiana willingly goes along with Jamil's requests no matter the way he treats her, or what horrible things he forces her to do because she's his slave and she's just been broken so badly, she's afraid of being killed.
• Tsurime Eyes: Her sharp eyes reflect her stoicism and strength of character.
• Undying Loyalty: She has absolute loyalty to Aladdin and Alibaba, who freed her from slavery.
• Unknowingly in Love: She isn't aware that what she feels for Alibaba isn't just friendship and admiration. Eventually, everyone (including Alibaba) notices Morgiana loves him before she does so herself, but she doesn't feel ready to have a romantic relationship and asks Alibaba to wait for her to learn more about romance so she can fully understand her feelings for him. She comes to terms with her love for Alibaba after his death and when he returns three years later, they finally hook up.
• Vapor Wear: She's not wearing anything underneath that one-piece dress.
• Variable-Length Chain: Her household vessel.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: For Alibaba, as part of their Ship Tease.
• Waif-Fu: And how. She can lift dozens of people at the same time. She kicks so hard she can run up walls. She can swing the chains on her household vessel hard enough to rock climb.
• What Is This Feeling?: When Alibaba lies about Toto being his girlfriend, Morgiana feels very shocked and distressed, being unable to understand that she's jealous.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: She admits that since was a slave most of her life, romantic feelings and relationships are things she knows little to nothing about.
• When She Smiles: Whenever she smiles, everyone else seems captivated by it.

Ren Hakuryuu

Voiced by: Kensho Ono (Japanese), Darrel Guilbeau (English)

The tritagonist of the series. He is the Fourth Prince of the Kou Empire, and the younger brother of Hakuei. He meets Alibaba and the others later during his stay in Sindria. Aged 16 at the beginning of the story. In the manga, he eventually becomes the Fourth Emperor of the Kou Empire.

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• Abdicate the Throne: Some time after he was crowned emperor, he resigned from his position and the crown was passed on to Kougyoku.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: He confesses to Morgiana, proposing marriage and asking her to be the empress of the new country he intends to create. However, she hesitates in giving him an answer, prompting him to realize that she doesn't feel the same way, because of her affection towards Aladdin and her crush on Alibaba. He promises that he will come back and propose again someday. He appears to have given up on it later on, since when Morgiana admits to him that she does have feelings for Alibaba, Hakuryuu doesn't force the issue and silently accepts her confession.
• Anti-Hero: Well-meaning, but ruthless.
• An Arm and a Leg: He gets both of his legs burned off by Alibaba in their duel, but he also managed to score a decisive blow that sends Alibaba's spirit out of his body.
• Armor-Piercing Question:
  • He questions Hakuei (more specifically, his conscience impersonating her) on why she supports the Kou Empire, despite knowing that they have been up to no good and have been siding with Al-Thamen ever since their brothers died.
  • He asks Aladdin whether falling into depravity is really a bad thing. He starts to explain that some people did sincerely have noble goals from the start, but decided to take a different approach since fate wouldn't let them achieve said goals. He even points out the possibility that the concept of cursing one's own fate saddens Aladdin since it meant they would not live the way he wants them to. This gets Aladdin to consider his words and rethink his own opinion about falling into depravity.
  • He gives another to Kouen, stating that Kouen could have done something about Gyokuen when he himself couldn't, and then proceeds to ask why he would defend the very organization that was responsible for Hakuyuu and Hakuren's deaths, whom Kouen highly respected.
• Artificial Limbs:
  • He loses his arm due to Ithnan using him as a Living Bodysuit, but later replaces it with a wooden one that he can control.
  • He loses both legs after Alibaba cuts them off in battle, but he replaces them with wooden ones he can control as well. They eventually disappear when Kouen uses Phenex to regenerate Hakuryuu's original limbs.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: He attacks in a berserk manner when he was temporarily influenced by Madaura's power, going all-out against Alibaba and co. and not holding back in the slightest.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: Being a prince of the Kou Empire is enough of an indicator that he isn't to be taken lightly.
• The Beastmaster: Of a sort. His power in Zagan's Djinn Equip allows him to enhance the microscopic fungi in the atmosphere, allowing them to grow into grotesque monsters.
• Berserk Button:
  • Anything to do with his mother.
  • Telling him to give up on his revenge won't elicit a positive reaction from him.
• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Alibaba's Betty and Morgiana's Archie.
• Beware the Honest Ones: He's actually a very naive and honorable guy, with Zagan even describing his Rukh as being "painfully honest"... though it doesn't mean that he isn't a capable fighter. And sadly because of this, he's unable to swallow his hatred and suffers from Black-and-White Insanity.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • Although he's the younger of the two, he's fiercely and violently protective of his sister Hakuei. He wants power to protect her and support her right to the throne. This changes however when he falls into depravity, and now he seeks to claim the throne himself, albeit only since doing such would mean having to kill Gyokuen.
  • He also shows shades of this trope in the anime towards Kougyoku, who is also older than him, shielding her from Ithnan during the latter's invasion of Sindria.
• Big Brother Worship: He admires his elder brother Hakuyuu and has taken a lot of his personality, dresses the same as him, and Gyokuen has noticed that Hakuryuu's glare is even identical to Hakuyuu's.
  • He also thinks highly of his older sister Hakuei.
• Big "SHUT UP!": Does a good one in Zagan's dungeon after breaking down, and he makes sure everyone in the room gets their share of it.
  To Zagan: SHUT UP, YOU MASKED PERVERT!
  To Alibaba: SHUT UP, YOU HAPPY-GO-LUCKY IDIOT! ^note This one is exclusive from the anime, but still applies.
  To Morgiana: SHUT UP, SUPER WOMAN!
  To Aladdin: YOU SHOULD SHUT UP TOO, CHIBI ASSISTANT!
• Black-and-White Morality: Oh so much. He believes that if one hates someone, or if someone wronged them, then the only way to solve the problem is to kill them. No compromises can be made, and no one is an exception if they're on the receiving side of his hatred.
• Blood-Splattered Innocents: To help him escape from a fire unharmed, his elder brother Hakuyuu stabs himself and soaks him in his own blood.
• Break the Cutie: His traumatic past — his father died in a revolt and he was witness of the horrible deaths of his elder brothers — courtesy of his very own mother. Not to mention that he was later reunited with said mother... after a really, really, messy situation that left him at odds with his friends.
• Broken Pedestal: Ohtaka's comments for Chapter 278 mention that part of why he becomes incredibly hateful towards someone. At first, he respected them and expected them to live up to those expectations, and when they fail to live up to them he develops a hatred towards them. Alibaba and Kouen are perfect examples of this, since he respected them once, but grew to resent them over time.
• Brutal Honesty: Hakuryuu won't hesitate to say what he thinks, whether he means well or not. Zagan even describes him as such, seeing it through his Rukh.
• Cassandra Truth: Played with. When he reveals to the main trio that Gyokuen is the leader of Al-Thamen, they were more concerned with the fact that he intends to kill his own mother than the fact that she's the cause of the all the evil happening around the world. Played straight with Hakuei however, since she didn't believe him when he revealed the same truth to her.
• Character Development: From a Naïve Newcomer and a Wise Prince to a more grounded Byronic Hero to a rage and revenge-driven Villain Protagonist to a combination of the former two (minus the naivete).
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Due to his ability to manipulate the Magoi in his body.
• Chekhov's Gun: Kouen giving his arm and legs to Hakuryuu is what prevents Arba from possessing him, since it means he isn't completely of her blood.
• Combat Pragmatist: He'll do whatever it takes to end his opponent, if he hates them enough. He even bites down on Gyokuen's neck during their battle, much to the latter's shock.
• Dark and Troubled Past: A fire took the life of his father and two elder brothers. It's made worse when he finds out his own mother was responsible.
• The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: The more he is consumed with revenge, the more callous he becomes towards his sister, whom he once dearly loved. Although protecting her from Gyokuen and supporting her right to the throne used to be one of his primary motivations, he coldly decides to kill her after his venture into Belial's dungeon.
• Deal with the Devil: He treats his joining of the Seven Seas Alliance as this after losing Judar.
• Death Glare: He gives a lot of these, especially in the recent chapters.
• Decapitation Presentation: He does this after beheading Madaura, showing her head to the child pirates. This serves as a sign that he's more merciless than he seems.
• Defector from Decadence: Most of the Kou Empire is war-mongering and imperialistic, so he does not care for them. It's subverted when he actually couldn't care less about what they do or don't do, he just wants to kill the woman who killed his father and brothers and is willing to shatter the Kou Empire in order to do so, which ironically makes him far worse than any of his siblings.
• Defrosting Ice King: Subverted. He starts out as a loner who only cares about becoming stronger and opposing the Kou Empire, eventually beginning to open up to Aladdin, Alibaba and Morgiana through The Power of Friendship. That's until Umm Madaura makes him recall his past and his hatred for his mother and he becomes even worse than before, turning his back on his newfound friends. Thankfully, they reconcile by the final arc.
• Determinator: While being restrained by Phenex, which causes him so much pain that he falls down on his knees, he's still able to resist enough to move on his own. He even stabs his leg to prop himself back up, while shouting that Kouen cannot stop him with this. Phenex is even surprised by how he could still move despite her magic binding his nerves.
• Dogged Nice Guy: To Morgiana. Even though she rejected his proposal, he hasn't given up on her and promises to someday come back to propose once again. He eventually gives up after she confirms her feelings to Alibaba later in the manga, although he hasn't exactly moved on from her completely.
• Easily Forgiven: By Alibaba, whose soul he had banished to another dimension, effectively leaving his body dead in the process. Alibaba doesn't seem to hold any resentment towards him at all for this act when they reunite.
• The Emperor: Assumes control over the Kou Empire after killing his mother.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He's so bitter that he can't see the possibility of a world united by peaceful ways and forgiveness; this side of him surprised and scared Hakuei. He also considers Alibaba's forgiving ways hypocritical. Considering the kind of mother he has and all that she had done to him, it's quite understandable.
• Evil Counterpart: To Alibaba. Both are the youngest prince of kingdoms that were usurped by Kou's forces, but Alibaba tries to reclaim Balbadd in a pacific way in order to protect the citizens, while Hakuryuu took Kou by force, not caring for the civil war he could unleash (even thinks it would be better if it does) and both are the sole king candidate of two polar opposite Magi.
• Face–Heel Turn: Chapters 196, 197, and 198 show that he's now working hand-in-hand with Judar. Though both undergo a Heel–Face Turn by the time the final arc kicks in.
• Fallen Hero: Hakuryuu's past wasn't already helping with his personality, which was slowly consumed by his need for revenge, even if the reason why is understandable. But then what happens onwards, just after he made some friends, pushes him closer and closer to the Moral Event Horizon until he falls into depravity. He goes back to being a hero again after the Kou civil war.
• Fatal Flaw: Hakuryuu's desire to avenge his father and brothers has led him to isolate Hakuei, the one person he wanted to protect, and caused him to do anything to seek the power to do attain that revenge.
• Fingore: Suffered from a variation of this in Belial's dungeon. While confronting his conscience that manifested as several illusions, he suddenly falls down a chasm, and in an attempt to climb back up, he breaks off all his nails.
• Forceful Kiss:
  • Gives one to Morgiana when confessing his feelings for her, and asking for her hand in marriage.
  • He also gets one from his own mother.
• Foil: To Alibaba. Both of them have suffered hardships due to or alongside their family, though while Alibaba is idealistic and an All-Loving Hero who tries to see the good in everything and everyone, Hakuryuu is borderline pessimistic and a Byronic Hero harboring a Black-and-White Morality.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Ithnan, who claims that the air of Sindria is thick with white Rukh and hard to breathe, then tells Hakuryuu that it was very comfortable living inside his body.
  • In an extra chapter, Zagan tells Hakuryuu that he sees him as a likable master due to his honesty, although he expresses some worry, and a small panel shows a few black Rukh fluttering in with the white. This gets repeated in the first opening of the second season: during Hakuryuu's brief segment, both white and black Rukh appear around him.
  • After Hakuryuu formally meets Aladdin and Alibaba, the latter mentions that Hakuryuu reminds him of someone but he isn't sure of whom... Aladdin, obviously noticing the resemblance between the siblings, answers by saying how he looks just like Hakuei, but Alibaba says that he wouldn't know as he didn't meet her. After the Umm Madaura arc, Alibaba finally notices that the person he was reminded of when he first met Hakuryuu was actually Cassim.
  • When he first arrives in Sindria, he describes Kouen as greedy and bloodthirsty and speaks more of "destroying" than of "reclaiming" the Kou Empire. (At the time, the protagonists have no reason to assume anything different about him). He also speaks of Kouen as someone who is plotting with Gyokuen, at the time that the emperor kicked the bucket. We later learn that Hakuryuu sees him as an usurper to the throne and blames him for working with Al-Thamen and Gyokuen instead of attempting to get rid of her.
• Freudian Excuse: When he was a child, his brothers were killed by his mother to usurp the throne. He then learned that Al-Thamen is manipulating the Kou Empire from the shadows, yet whenever he would tell this to others, no one takes his words seriously and always tells him that he should forsake his revenge, which leads him to do the exact opposite, making him more extreme in the process.
• Friendless Background: A more subdued example, but he admitted to Aladdin that before he met him, Alibaba, and Morgiana, the only person he ever opened himself up to was his sister. Not to mention, he became somewhat of a pariah in the palace after the tragedy that claimed his brothers' lives.
• Good is Not Nice: The way he acts in the Umm Madaura arc.
• The Good King: During his brief time as emperor, he tried his utmost to improve the Kou Empire after its resources (mainly, military power and slaves) were severely depleted from the new rules of the Seven Seas Alliance. However, due to the alliance's tight rules, there were too many problems that couldn't be addressed properly, and he stepped down from the throne as he felt that he failed to help his country. The amount of effort he gave in ruling the country even impressed Olba, who is vengeful towards him, that the latter could no longer bring himself to kill Hakuryuu.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has burn marks around his left eye and in various areas on the left side of his body.
• The Grim Reaper: Belial's Djinn Equip looks like a skeleton and his guan dao turns into a scythe that can pretty much destroy people's nerves and cause brain death.
• Green Thumb: His Djinn, Zagan's power.
• Hair Color Dissonance: His hair is either dark blue or black, depending on the artwork. It most likely falls under the "stylized black" category.
• Handicapped Badass: He loses his left hand, either to Isaac's blade in the anime, or Ithnan's magic in the manga. Later, he loses his legs to Alibaba, although he regains all lost limbs thanks to Kouen after the latter's capture.
• Hearing Voices: He apparently has a voice inside his head that prevents him from seeking redemption within Belial's dungeon. Just like his mother...
• Heel–Face Turn: Eventually, after stepping down from his position as emperor he decides to dedicate himself to helping Aladdin and Alibaba save the world, also wishing to support his sister Kougyoku's rule.
• Heroic BSoD: Goes through three, each lasting only for a while before he returns to his senses. The first is when after Hakuei decided to side with Kouen instead of him when Hakuryuu told her the truth. The second is when Judar was sent to space. At that time, he was silent and almost detached towards everything for a while. And the third (and most severe one) was after Kouen's execution, as he was so conflicted over everything Kouen had said and done that he nearly committed suicide.
• He Who Fights Monsters: He starts off as a genuinely nice guy, but becomes more and more unhinged as the manga continues.
• Hopeless Suitor: His feelings for Morgiana end up not being requited due to various factors such as him Jumping Off the Slippery Slope and Morgiana's feelings towards Alibaba. When Alibaba returns three years later, he and Morgiana hook up, putting the final nail in the coffin.
• Hypocrite:
  • He shows utter contempt for Kouen's goal to create a utopia by uniting the world under one rule for the latter uses brutal force and even slavery to meet that goal. But he also has his own plans to create his own utopia by killing anyone who gets in his way of his ideals without any mercy, even if they are undeserving of it. Subverted when it's revealed he struck against Kouen due to a misguided belief that Kouen wasn't living up to the standards he had set for him.
  • He himself accuses Alibaba of being this, stating that Alibaba acts as if he cares for the best interests of others, but is actually manipulating their emotions and thoughts with what or who matters most to them in order to get them to agree with him.
  Hakuryuu: [...] You can understand when people in front of you are the most vulnerable [...] I have finally realized what kind of person you are. You naturally approach someone while telling them that you wish for their happiness, then you take what is in his heart that he doesn't want anyone to touch, and rip it out, and do anything for them to realize what you think is right.
• I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: A completely non-romantic example towards Judar. He wonders why Judar wants to work with him when the latter always expressed greater interest in people like Sinbad or Kouen.
• Immune to Mind Control: Having falling into depravity meant that his black Rukh exists outside Sinbad's new system in the Sacred Palace, allowing him to retain his free will.
• In Vino Veritas: In one of the volume extras, Hakuryuu is shown to be weak towards alcohol, and under its influence he becomes very vocal of his thoughts and feelings, although it's Played for Laughs.
• Ineffectual Loner:
  • In Zagan's dungeon he realized that, while capable of fighting on his own, it was not enough and that he needed help to move forward.
  • After the Umm Madaura incident, he's right back to doing everything solo, which is repeatedly lampshaded by Judar and later Kougyoku — although he's technically recruited a large army via Mind Rape, he's nearly all alone with very few actual supporters, in stark contrast to Kouen or Alibaba who are respected and loved by many of their friends and subordinates.
• Inelegant Blubbering: After being taunted by Zagan, Hakuryuu ends up sobbing and wailing loudly. Despite this, it was actually quite adorable.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: He resents Alibaba for being so much more capable at helping others than he is, though he eventually gets over it.
• Interrupted Suicide: After Kouen's execution, Hakuryuu almost committed suicide had he not been stopped by Morgiana.
• It's All About Me: He has some selfless moments at first, but after falling into depravity, he's set to have his revenge no matter what, the political stability of the Kou Empire be damned.
• It's Personal: The reason why he wishes to destroy the Kou Empire. When he was first introduced, it was easy to assume that it was only because he doesn't agree with their ideals and sees them as tyrannical despots that need to stopped. Then the later chapters reveal that it's more than that: the empress, who is also his mother, killed his brothers to take over the throne, and he intends to avenge them.
• I've Come Too Far: The reason why Hakuryuu can't let go of his hatred, and decides to fall into depravity instead. He's aware that what he's doing goes against what his brothers fought for and isn't the right thing to do, but he suffered too much for too long to simply let it go.
• I Work Alone: His seriousness about getting Zagan without help drove him to this attitude, although he later understood the greatness of The Power of Friendship. He plays this straight once more after his revenge drove a wedge between his relationship with his friends, then somewhat subverts it when the later chapters show Judar as his other — and only trusted — ally.
• Jerkass: He evolves to this when he falls into depravity, losing all the kind traits he once possessed, to the point that he shows no hesitation to kill his friends, and even his family, if they get in his way. He eventually stops after the civil war with the Kou Empire, becoming more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, with the jerk part heavily downplayed.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Aladdin and Alibaba find his quest of revenge against his mother to be wrong, as his motives are more from a personal vendetta than anything else, and Hakuryuu even became worse because of his revenge. However, Gyokuen is the leader of Al-Thamen, the organization causing many of the "irregularities" around the world, and she's also the one who brought the downfall of Alma Toran and his brothers' deaths — making Hakuryuu's desire to kill Gyokuen justified and understandable.
  • When Orba tries to avenge Madaura's death by attempting to kill Hakuryuu, the latter immediately gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech (see entry below) that points out how hypocritical the pirates are acting and how much they are in denial over the fact that they always knew Madaura only saw them as tools and nothing more.
  • While arguing with Hakuei about how Kouen's philosophy of "the world is one" is impossible, he adds that Kouen professes such a thing, yet his actions completely contradict his goal. True enough, while Kouen had noble intentions, the Magnostadt arc and the Second Balbadd arc proved Hakuryuu's point. A union with the Kou Empire does not come without the threat of "subjugation or annihilation", and while its citizens appear to be living peacefully, they are stripped of many civil rights and slavery exists in the system.
• Kick the Dog:
  • A brief one, but after beheading Madaura, he grabbed her head and showed it to the pirate children to terrify them, and didn't even flinch or show remorse when he's confronted about it.
  • Another is when he infused his soldiers with mind-controlling plants. As others succumbed to the its effects, a soldier tearfully begged him to stop... and Hakuryuu force-fed him with the plants nevertheless.
• Kick the Morality Pet: In Chapter 244 he cuts down the illusionary forms of his sister and Morgiana, and declares that he will then do the same to the real ones. However, he has yet to actually do so, so it's ambiguous if he truly meant it. Although he did, in a way, kill Alibaba by sending his spirit to another dimension, and he felt no remorse about it, which makes it possible that his threats are genuine.
• Kick The Son Of A Bitch:
  • While it may have marked the beginning of his fall into depravity, Umm Madaura definitely had it coming when Hakuryuu offed her for good.
  • Hakuryuu may be right for the wrong reasons, but Arba deserved to die. It's only too bad she didn't stay dead.
• Knight Templar: Kouen fears that if he becomes king, he would be the only person left in the world because he'll kill anyone who does evil in his eyes.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: Inverted since he's the younger brother, but when he sees his mother and she suggests the idea of her killing his sister Hakuei, he immediately uses Full Djinn equip and tries to kill her. This changes after he falls into depravity, although it's played straight once more when he undergoes a Heel–Face Turn.
• Made of Iron: He can keep on fighting despite his life slowly draining from overusing his Magoi, and can even brush off his legs being cut and burned off like it wasn't that important.
• Man Bites Man: He does this to Gyokuen during their fight. It shows just how determined he is to finish her off.
• Meaningful Name: Hakuryuu means White Dragon.
• Mind Rape: He can combine the powers of both Zagan and Belial to grow mind controlling plants over the head of people, which roots connect to their very brains. Hakuryuu can alter their memories or what they sense... and it does not look pretty.
• Mirror Character:
  • Alibaba and Hakuryuu are mirrors as princes of their countries who were so far down the line of succession they were never expected to take the throne, but who were chosen by magi as king candidates and conquered dungeons with the help of their friends.
  • Hakuryuu and Judar both had their families killed by Al-Thamen, causing them to harbor intense hatred for Gyokuen, who is responsible. When both were confronted about their revenge, they both refused to give up their hatred and became more determined to avenge their families. Once Gyokuen was killed, both knew that their revenge wouldn't stop there, yet they agree that it's inevitable and embrace that fact.
  • Played with in Kouen's case — Hakuryuu is shocked to learn that Kouen highly respected his brothers and wanted Gyokuen dead just as much as he did, (complete with picturing him in his younger self's place), but at this point, this similarity in their goal only serves to lampshade the difference in their methods and character.
• Mommy Issues: Understandable with the kind of mother he has. All of his life's purpose and drive thus revolves around his mother and his desire to take revenge on her.
• Morality Pet: To Judar. He's one of the very few— if not the only person Judar genuinely cares for and is unfailingly loyal to, even before they officially become allies.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: When he's in Belial's Djinn Equip, he has four arms.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits:
  • He does NOT approve of the friendly relationship between Hakuei and Kouen. He also was quite agitated that his sister had such highly fond memories of a certain Aladdin man, who saved her life, though Hakuei was teasing him on purpose.
  • He becomes exceedingly wary and displeased whenever Aladdin is physically close to Hakuei, but considering Aladdin's love for well-endowed women, it's not hard to see why.
• Mythical Motifs: A dragon, obviously. When he uses Zagan, he can create wooden projectiles or monsters shaped like dragons, and Belial's Extreme Magic also takes the form of a dragon.
• Naïve Newcomer: Hinted at by Sinbad when Hakuryuu first asks for his help in opposing the Kou Empire. This painfully comes true when he can't do anything in his first dungeon against Zagan, and ends up getting saved a lot.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • Confronts Gyokuen head-on and dethrones Kouen (who judged her to be unkillable and wanted to amass more knowledge of her true nature before removing her) for tolerating her presence and activities in the imperial court; In the end, Kouen turns out to have been right after all, Gyokuen/Arba lives, and what's more, she's possessed the one person Hakuryuu ever cared about/wanted to protect: Hakuei.
  • He starts a massive civil war to reclaim his empire, albeit ends up throwing it into poverty (unintentionally, however) by surrendering it to the Seven Seas Alliance, with him eventually abdicating the throne. Although to be fair, it's possible that even without his actions, Sinbad would still pull some strings so that the Kou Empire would be in his debt.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Briefly gives one to Gyokuen when her powers were nullified by Judar's anti-magic barrier.
• Not So Above It All:
  • He carries a serious, no-nonsense demeanor most of the time, and his weaknesses are jokes. Despite this, he was enjoying himself when he and Aladdin messed with Alibaba, and was amused on how their indirect prank left Alibaba a crying mess.
  • When Alibaba later asks him on whether he has mastered Zagan's Djinn Equip or not, he gives a mischievous smile and says neither yes nor no.

"Not So Different" Remark: Judar. had their families killed by Al-Thamen, causing them to harbor intense hatred for Gyokuen, who is responsible. When both were confronted about their revenge, they both refused to give up their hatred and became more determined to avenge their families. Once Gyokuen was killed, both knew that their revenge wouldn't stop there, yet they agree that it's inevitable and embrace that fact.

• Numerological Motif: The fourth child of Hakutoku. Then the Fourth Prince, soon the Fourth Emperor, of the Kou Empire. He's even the fourth protagonist to appear. Coincidence? It may not be, as in Chinese culture, the number four is associated with death, which plays a heavy role in Hakuryuu's life from the past to the present.
• Off with His Head!: His preferred method of killing his opponents. The most notable recipients were Madaura and Gyokuen. Kouen narrowly escapes that fate.
• Old-School Chivalry: This goes well when he meets Morgiana.
• Only a Flesh Wound: While he's clearly in pain from having both his legs burned off, he immediately claims that it doesn't matter, since he won the battle, and Alibaba's injuries are far worse.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Hakuryuu, when compared to his siblings.
  • Also compared to Alibaba in Zagan's dungeon, who is on the other end of this trope for once.
  • Subverted later in the manga, as he becomes the third King Candidate to own more than one Djinn, and he shows that he can wreak havoc with Life Magic alone.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: He lives by this philosophy for as long as he can remember.
  Hakuryuu: Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do... is erase the one you hate!
• Pet the Dog:
  • When he and the group set out to conquer Zagan, a Toran native offers to accompany them since her parents disappeared in the dungeon. He promises to look for them in her stead, and when she follows them all the way inside, he watches over her.
  • He lets Aladdin go even though he was responsible for sending Judar to space, when he could have used his remaining strength to kill Aladdin while the latter was in a state of despair.
  • When Kouen requested Hakuryuu to spare his brothers, even if it would be a safer option to do otherwise, he appeared to have honored Kouen's last request, sending them into exile and leaving only Kouen to be executed. In the end, he decided to fake Kouen's execution and simply exiles him along with his brothers.
  • Despite turning on most of his friends and not hesitating to use just about anyone for his own means, he did sincerely care for Judar, as the mere mention of Judar after the latter's apparent death would evoke expressions of either shock, sorrow, or anger out of him.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: Like most King Candidates in their respective Djinn Equip, when Hakuryuu is in Belial's Djinn Equip, his hair turns white.
• Prepare to Die: While not word-for-word, what he says to Alibaba after the latter makes the mistake of bringing up Hakuei is along the lines of this.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: Hakuryuu was presented as a idealistic, noble if somewhat too serious prince. Umm Madaura remind him of his hatred towards his mother and he started to get jaded, but he went right downhill after losing to Gyokuen and accepted Judar's help. When the story focused back on him, he decides to reject forgiveness and redemption, fell into depravity, conquered a second dungeon and enslaved the Djinn by force, killed his mother and usurped Kou and he's downright opposing Alibaba and Aladdin.
• Put on a Bus: Since Chapter 148. Chapter 242 brings him back and the manga then starts to show where the bus took him to.
• Put Them All Out of My Misery: He falls into depravity after realizing that, subconsciously, he knows that his path of revenge is not the best solution and, in the big picture, is against his brothers' philosophy. But he can't forgive the world for all the misery he lived through. When a part of his psyche, in the form of his Morality Pets tell him that the world just works like this, he says that he'll destroy it then and remake it, making his motivations a mix of reasons 3 and 4.
• Pyrrhic Victory: The outcome of his fight with Alibaba. Sure, Hakuryuu wins, but he loses both his legs, and Judar — courtesy of Aladdin.
• Real Men Cook: Despite being a prince, Hakuryuu is a very skilled cook. He states that Hakuei — ironically — taught him such so he could be self-sufficient.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • His response to Orba after the latter tried to kill him for beheading Madaura.
    Hakuryuu: How many people did you kill in this city? There were even women among them, right? Weren't they the mothers of someone else? What about their children?! And only after your own mother's death do you behave like that?! Don't you find that to be be just a little too self-serving? The truth is, you were starting to realize the truth, weren't you? The fact that the Great Holy Mother was just using you. Why were you kidnapping all those children? Wasn't it for the purpose of grooming them as pirates and lining that woman's pockets? Did any of you gain even one thing from all that? There's no need to grieve. After all, you were never loved in the first place.
  • While rejecting Alibaba's claim that the world can be united in compromise.
    Hakuryuu: Those are nothing but empty dreams, because you are... nothing more than a King's Vessel who always worked under someone else, never able to accomplish anything on your own.
• Redemption Rejection: In Belial's dungeon, a manifestation of his mind (in the form of his sister, Morgiana and Alibaba) tries to convince him into letting go his anger towards the world. Hakuryuu tried to, but his hatred would never let him forgive and forget, so he falls into depravity, wanting to destroy the world that sees him as being wrong. Then, he kills the manifestations of both his sister and Morgiana while promising to kill them for real.
• Reformed, but Not Tamed: In the final arc, although to a lesser extent compared to Judar. There's no doubt he's with the good guys once again, but the change in personality that he underwent through the time-skip still sticks, with him being far more sardonic and pragmatic than before.
• Revenge Before Reason: His entire goal is to split the Kou Empire in half with war in order to get revenge on his mother — a member of Al-Thamen for killing his father and his two elder brothers, without considering all the collateral damage a war could cause. After completely falling into depravity he both knows and doesn't care, since he plans on destroying the entire world.
  • This becomes subverted after the time-skip. While he still intends to end Arba once and for all, he's now capable of seeing reason, and thanks to his Character Development, is now on the good side once more.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Towards Al-Thamen and Gyokuen for orchestrating his brothers' deaths.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: It should be noted that despite his intentions, he is the very first to make an actual move against Al-Thamen.
• Sanity Slippage: The moment he fails to convince his sister to side with him and loses to his mother, he begins his fall into depravity. The next time we see him, he's fallen off the deep end.
• Self-Made Orphan: He finally kills his own mother in Chapter 250, with a swift decapitation.
• Serial Prostheses: Hakuryuu loses an arm in Zagan's dungeon, onyl to replace it with a wooden on once he claims the djinn for his own, but he loses both his legs to Alibaba during their fight in the Kou Empire arc and also has to replace them with prosthetic wooden limbs.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Hakuryuu has this attitude, believing absolute peace cannot be achieved, and war and discord is inevitable even among those of the same faction or bloodline. This contrasts greatly with Alibaba and Hakuei's beliefs.
  Hakuryuu: The world is one? Such a thing... is impossible.
• Sinister Scythe: When in Belial's Djinn Equip, his polearm transforms into this. While it cannot physically cut through objects, when it cuts a person, it can sever their senses and send the part of the soul that was cut to another dimension.
• Sixth Ranger Traitor: After leaving the group he has fallen further and further into depravity, in his quest for revenge.
• Slasher Smile: Sports one after rendering Alibaba brain-dead, and it appears quite creepy. Like mother, like son...
• Start of Darkness: Hakuryuu became embittered after Madaura made him remember his past. Later, when he confronted his sister and told her the truth about their mother, Al-Thamen, and the Kou Empire, Hakuei did not him and distanced herself from him. Then after attempting to kill his mother when she threatened to kill Hakuei, he was hopelessly overpowered. And when trying to conquer a second dungeon to attain more power, when confronted with his conscience, he was told that he should just accept the tragedies that come his way and he should not fight against his fate. This enrages him and he decides to defy his destiny and finally fall into depravity.
• Stepford Smiler: He has a really serious problem under his calm, Nice Guy exterior, as shown in his Pay Evil unto Evil tendencies in later chapters.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He takes strongly after his mother. As he physically matured, had it not been for the burn scars, he may as well be the splitting image of Hakuyuu.
• Sword and Sorcerer: The Sword to Judar's Sorcerer.
• Taking the Bullet: In the anime, he lost his arm shielding Alibaba from one of Isaac's attacks.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Hakuryuu does something like this in Belial's dungeon when confronted about his hatred, stating that if cursing his fate is the only way for him to attain his revenge, then he'll do just that.
• Token Evil Teammate: Hakuryuu's philosophy is if you hate someone or if someone hates you, then you should use all your power to make them disappear.
• Took a Level in Badass: Gains two Djinn and kills Gyokuen as well as taking over the entire Kou empire.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: As a result of becoming more unstable.
• Took a Level in Kindness: When he was crowned emperor, he contemplated on everything that had happened, and turns away from depravity, with his Rukh turning white. While not as kind and naive as when he was first introduced, he's definitely no longer revenge-driven, and thinks about the welfare of his kingdom before his own. By the final arc, he is firmly on the heroes's side once again.
• Tragic Hero: He wanted to do the right thing, but he couldn't swallow his hatred.
• Tranquil Fury: When not outright expressing his anger, he exhibits signs of this instead.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: He and all his other siblings look like his mother.
• The Unfettered: Nothing and nobody can stop him from having his revenge.
• The Usurper: With Judar's help, he kills Gyokuen and takes over both the Kou Empire and Al-Thamen. Though from his point of view, he's simply taking back his birthright as the son of Kou's first Emperor. A claim supported by many and reinforced by the two generals who were his father's right-hand men pledging their loyalty to him.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He used to be a sweet little boy who looked up to his brothers, but after their deaths, his evil mother turning out to be their killer, and Madaura screwing over his head, he has gone off the deep end.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: He is hit hard by this after killing his mother. He's lived off of The Power of Hate for so long that he doesn't know how to live without a target. He immediately latches on to Kouen as his new target, claiming to do it for the sake of the world, but Judar knows better... and couldn't be happier, since he feels the same way.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Alibaba. Later in the manga, he also becomes this with Judar.
• Walking Spoiler: Since the Umm Madaura incident, Hakuryuu's section has gained a good amount of spoilers.
• Warrior Prince: One of the first princes we see fighting from the Kou Empire. He concentrated on becoming a warrior to help his inferiority complex... and kill his mother.
• Was It Really Worth It?: After winning the war against Kouen, he is starting to question if all the effort he did to take out his mother and reclaiming the empire was worth for all those that were lost (Alibaba, Judar, Kouen) and was about to commit suicide from the thought of it. By Chapter 281, he seems to put an end to the cycle, deciding that enough is enough and slowly lets his hatred go, since he knows it is what his brothers would have wanted.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Although his reasons to kill Gyokuen is to satisfy his personal vengeance more than to protect the world, he did wish to rid his home of Al-Thamen's influence and protect his sister from their mother.
  • This becomes subverted when he falls into depravity. Even after Gyokuen is dead, he directed his hate and killing intent to another person because he had been focused on his revenge for so long that it was impossible for him to live on without it.
• We Used to Be Friends: The incident with Madaura shattered his bond with Aladdin, Alibaba and especially Morgiana. As of Chapter 198, he says he's now turned his back on his former friends and the path they walk; and although he's sorry, he doesn't look like he's changing his mind any time soon.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • He gives one to the pirates after killing Madaura, pointing out that they killed so many innocent people, yet show no remorse only until after the person responsible is dead. He even points out that she was simply using them, and that one way or another, they have always been aware of it.
  • Hakuryuu calls Alibaba out on what he believes to be an attempt on emotional blackmail by mentioning Hakuei when they express disagreement over how Hakuryuu plans to take back the Kou Empire, and how Alibaba uses the same tactic with others to get them to agree with him.
• When He Smiles: He's not a Perpetual Frowner, but considering his past, it's nice to see him smile, particularly when it's genuine and not merely a formality.
• Wise Prince: Kind of falls off this later in the series.
• With Us or Against Us: When he fell into depravity, he started to adapt this philosophy, as he stated to Alibaba that anyone whose opinions are not the exactly the same as his will be killed even if they show no intention to be his enemy, much to Alibaba's horror and disgust.
• Would Hit a Girl: Doesn't hold back even in the slightest against women, albeit with some cause.
• Would Hurt a Child: While he's normally kind to children, he won't treat them any differently like his other enemies if they turn out to be hostile. He didn't even hesitate to hit Olba when the latter charged at him, and before Alibaba intervened, it appeared as if he was ready to kill the pirates.

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