Main characters
Maeda Atsuko
Portrayed by Maeda Atsuko
- The Glasses Come Off: Her signature way of showing that she's about to fight.
- New Transfer Student: She is one along with Daruma.
- Tranquil Fury: When she hears "serious", that's when her true nature is revealed.
Oshima Yuko
Portrayed by Oshima Yuko
Oshima Yuko is the leader of the Rappappa, the strongest group of students in Majisuka Academy. She is known to be the strongest fighter in the school, but for most of the drama, she remains in the hospital while not attending school.- Genki Girl: Despite being very ill, she has a sunny disposition.
Onizuka Daruma
Portrayed by Nachu
- New Transfer Student: She is one along with Maeda.
- Trademark Favorite Food: The "chicken wings of victory" she keeps in her uniform and eats after winning a fight.
Majisuka Academy Wind Instruments Club "Rappappa"
- Color-Coded Characters: Every queen wears a signature colored sukajan.
- Elite Four: The Four Heavenly Queens (Shitennou).
- Mythical Motifs: As shown on the back of their jackets, dragons (for Black and Gekikara) and a phoenix (for Torigoya). Shibuya gets goldfish instead.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: The Four Heavenly Queens are a formerly institutionalized sadist, a girl with chicken-related PTSD and mind-rape power, a teen single mother with super speed, and a ko-gal gang leader.
Sado
Portrayed by Shinoda Mariko
The vice president of Rappappa, who looks over the group's activities in Yuko's place during her medical leave and reports to her at the hospital.- Combat Sadomasochist: She has the reputation of being sadistic, which shows in her fighting style.
- The Dragon: She's Yuko's right hand person.
Shibuya
Portrayed by Itano Tomomi
One of the Four Heavenly Queens of Rappappa. She has her own gang of followers, one Daruma used to be part of, and an underling named Dance, who she often abuses by punching her and giving her nosebleeds. In Season 2, after graduating, she becomes an IT worker, but becomes displeased with her job and re-enrolls as a student of Yabakune, becoming an antagonist for that season.- Alpha Bitch: Leads her own gal gang in addition to being a Queen.
- Gyaru Girl: Her attitude and clothing are all gyaru.
- Hopeless with Tech: As an Office Lady, wipes out her entire laptop just by pressing the keys randomly. Averted with cell phones.
Black
Portrayed by Kashiwagi Yuki
- Ascended Extra: Is the main character of the Lost in the Supermarket stage play.
- Struggling Single Mother: And she'll hurt you if you dare to ask who her son's father is.
- Super-Speed: Useful for fighting and for her job at a supermarket.
Gekikara
Portrayed by Matsui Rena
- Ax-Crazy: Perhaps the most extreme version of this trope.
- Bloody Horror: Her debut episode actually got censored by broadcasters because of how much blood there was.
- Breakout Character: She's very well received in season 1, which leads to her receiving more focus in season 2 and the stage play.
- Catchphrase: "Are you angry?"
- Character Development: Though she starts out as little more than a maniacal sub-boss in season 1, season 2 and the stage play delve into her more subdued and tragic side.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Her thing.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Was raised by an alcoholic single mother who took out her frustration at her failing musician career on her young daughter.
- The Dreaded: And for good reason.
- Evil Laugh: Her laughter is the stuff of nightmares.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Her skirt is longer on one side than the other, and she also wears some kind of black sash around her waist.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has two scars above her left eye, apparently sustained from a fight before the series.
- Meaningful Rename: Renames herself Amakuchi in season 2 to represent herself holding back from her violent tendencies in season 1.
- Parasol of Pain: One of her many torture instruments.
- Revenge by Proxy: It's worth noting that when Maeda beats up her friends (the other queens) Gekikara gets back at her by brutalizing Maeda's companions.
Torigoya
Portrayed by Kojima Haruna
- The Cameo: Reappears in season 4, season 5 and Cabasuka Gakuen for a single episode each.
- The Ditz: She's the scatterbrain of this Shitennou.
- Erotic Massage: She uses her mind reading powers to satisfy her clients' desires.
- Feather Motif: To represent her chicken powers.
- Gold Digger: She lives off her huge alimony from her divorced ex-husbands.
- Mind Rape: Can force people to relive their worst memories by touching them.
- Pretty in Mink: She usually wears mink coats.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Although she seems to have gained control over her powers even in her normal form by season 2.
Team Hormone
Team Hormone is one of the main groups in Majisuka Season 1 who are in the same class as Maeda. After they're beaten up by Maeda for bullying Daruma, they become reluctant allies before eventually becoming friends with them. In Season 2, they ascend to become official members of the new Rappappa.Wota later Ageman, then Scandal
Portrayed by Sashihara Rino
The leader of Team Hormone. In Season 4, she renames herself "Scandal" and it's revealed she was suspended from Majisuka Academy for two years after a scandal broke out about her having a boyfriend. She transferred to a school in Fukuoka and renamed herself "Ageman", her past being touched upon in further detail in Majisuka 0. "Wota" is a reference to how her actress in real life is an idol otaku, while "Scandal" references an actual scandal that she was involved with and resulted in her transferring from AKB48 to their sister group HKT48.- As Herself: Appears in Cabasuka as her actress, famous idol Sashihara Rino, although she's still "Scandal" to her comrades.
- Coat Cape: In 0.
- Combat Stilettos: As Ageman, she fights wearing red heels (although we can clearly see that her actress switched to flats for the fight scene).
- I Have Many Names: Chronologically Wota, Ageman, Scandal, and finally back to her real name Sashihara Rino.
- The Leader: She is the leader of Team Hormone.
- Not a Morning Person: Episode 0 opens with her cuddled up in bed in late morning and reluctant to get up to join the school trip, despite her lover's urging. She makes it to the final battle anyway.
- Retired Badass: Stays out of the power struggle in 4 and lets her junior Sakura take the spotlight. Becomes an idol in Cabasuka.
Mukuchi
Portrayed by Komori Mika
- Elective Mute: Often will use gestures to convey something.
- The Heart: She becomes this in Season 2 after deciding to speak up more, often supporting her teammates and rallying them up when morale is low.
- The Quiet One: Her name (Mukuchi) literally means "mute".
- Suddenly Voiced: Finally speaks for the first time in Episode 10 of Season 1."I'm going too!"
- In Season 2, she speaks a lot more. At one point, even temporarily changes her name to "Oshaberi (speaks a lot)". It doesn't stick, though.
Other allies
Minegishi Minami / Shaku
The president of the student council at Majisuka Girls' Academy. In Season 2, due to her dissatisfaction of receiving little screen time due to her smaller role, she renames herself "Shaku" and joins the Rappappa as one of the new Four Heavenly Queens.- Meaningful Rename: Abandons her honor student image in season 2 and calls herself Shaku ("screentime").
- Student Council President: Her title in Season 1, but the real power lies with the Rappappa president.
Majisuka Academy first year students
Nezumi
Portrayed by Watanabe Mayu
- Badass Bookworm: Her home base class in the school is full of books.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: She double deals with every faction.
- Dainty Combat: She seldom fights, but her style is very girlish when she does.
- Lonely Rich Kid: She's the daughter of a Corrupt Politician and uses money to get her way.
Ono Erena
Portrayed by Ono Erena
Minami's sister.- Demonization: She blames Atsuko for her sister's death and puts up posters denouncing her as a murderer.
Other cast
Minami
Portrayed by Takahashi Minami
- Posthumous Character: Only appears in flashbacks.
Majisuka Academy
Center
Portrayed by Matsui Jurina
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Which is why she clings to Nezumi despite the latter's backstabbing ways.
- New Transfer Student: She arrives at the school in the season 1 epilogue to challenge Maeda.
Otabe
Portrayed by Yokoyama Yui
- And This Is for...: When fighting Sakura, she returns the attacks Sakura used to defeat the other Queens to her while shouting this line.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Is generally calm and mild-mannered, except for when you mention her many years at Majijo, or threaten her school. In season 5 she shoots a guy in the head after casually talking to him.
- Dragon Ascendant: Maeda made her the Rappappa president before leaving in season 2. In season 5, she holds everyone together after Salt's death.
- The Fettered: Firmly believes in the Rappappa's duty to protect the school and their own honor as the strongest of Majijo. Cries Tears of Joy when Salt finally decides to take her position more seriously.
- Held Back in School: Doubles as a Berserk Button for her.
- Mafia Princess: Daughter of Yoshimune, an Akechi officer in 5.
- Number Two: In season 2, Maeda gave the president title to her before she leaves on her soul searching/vigilante journey. In later seasons, she is Salt's closest friend and advisor.
- Parental Abandonment: Has a very strained relationship with her father, especially after he engineered the events that lead to Salt's murder.Otabe: Clean your neck and prepare for the day I cut it!
- Trauma Conga Line: Throughout the series Otabe's struggles get more and more traumatizing. Starting from what is essentially babysitting the Rappappa in Season 2, to being Forced to Watch her friends get beat up one by one in season 4, to being forced to Join or Die (in this case 'or Gekikara ends up in prison') in the Kyoto School Trip Musical, to having her worst fears come true when Salt dies after a disagreement with the Yakuza, watching Bakamono get shot in front of her, listening to her father dying on the other end of the phone, nearly being forced into Sex for Services by a doctor, reading about Yoga's death in the newspaper and watching Magic Taking the Bullet for her in Season 5. After all that, it's almost a relief when Otabe dies.
Other cast
Female detective
Portrayed by Takahashi Minami
- "I haven't really got a name. I am the female detective."
- Former Teen Rebel: She was a yankee herself back in high school, which is why she's sympathetic to the current yankees.
- No Name Given: She's only called the detective.
Oshima Yuka and Yuki
Portrayed by Oshima Yuko
Oshima Yuko's sisters who arrive to Majisuka Academy after her passing, as per her request to check up on Maeda.- Backup Twin: Or rather, triplet.
- Long-Lost Relative: Yuko considered herself alone in the world despite knowing her sisters, and no one in Majisuka Academy even knew she had siblings.
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Paru
Portrayed by Shimazaki Haruka
Paru serves as the main protagonist of Season 3, arriving in Prison HOPE (aka Majisuka Prison) after being framed for the murder of her close friend, Keita.- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: How Paru finds herself as the head of Team Habu after defeating them all in fights. Even though all she wants to do is prove her innocence and get out of prison.
- Berserk Button: Don't touch her stuff.
- Also any mention of killing Keita, or Keita's death.
- Clear My Name: She was sent to Hope Prison for allegedly murdering her boyfriend, but couldn't remember what happened and believes she didn't do it. The truth is, Miyu stabbed him at first and later Peace finished the job.
- Declarationof Protection: Has a few throughout the series. First for Peace, and then for the rest of Team Habu, and then extended to all of Team Mongoose by the end of the series.
- I Am Not Left-Handed: Paru isn't serious about a fight until she wraps her hair tie around her knuckles.
- Invincible Hero: She doesn't lose a single fight in the entire season. Comes close a few times, but always manages to shake off her injuries and turn the tables.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Can't remember anything about the events leading up to her arrest and Keita's murder.
Peace
Portrayed by Kizaki Yuria
A member of Team Habu. She's able to obtain anything people request for her, such as gifts for her teammates they cannot easily obtain.- Becomingthe Mask: When ordered to kill Paru and the rest of her team, Peace finds out that she has actually become friends with Team Habu and can't bring herself to do it.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Despite having a rather cheery disposition and being the one procuring all the contraband, Peace is not very popular with her team and initially had no friends other than her cellmate Paru.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: The reason Peace gives for being so friendly to Paru at the start. shown to be false during The Reveal, only for Peace to realize that it was true after all.
- Luxury Prison Suite: The one responsible for procuring all of the luxury items that each member of the team desires. From comic books to doll accessories, to even ridiculous things like grills and scissors. it's later revealed that she can get these items because her mother is the warden and she's The Mole.
- The Mole: She was secretly spying on Team Habu for the warden, and was the one who framed Paru for killing Keita.
- Stronger Than They Look: She can hold her own against Paru (who has been undefeated the entire time), and could've possibly beaten her had she not undergone a Heel–Face Turn).
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Just really wants her mother's AKA the warden's attention.
- With My Hands Tied: Kicks the guard's asses after being handcuffed, having decided that Nantene and Komimi weren't going to crack under torture, she 'escapes' to recapture Paru herself.
Uruseeyo
Portrayed by Shimada Haruka
- Ambiguously Gay: She has a very butch style and is constantly making innuendos with supposedly Heterosexual Life-Partners Tetsuo.
- Catchphrase: "Shut the hell up! (Uruseeyo!)" So much so, that it's her name.
- Defeat Means Friendship: How she ends up siding with Paru against Daasu over the hierarchy of Team Habu.
- The Lad-ette: the textbook definition, she's loud, crude, has cropped short hair, wears a tank top and is constantly seen lifting weights.
- Prisons Are Gymnasiums: is usually shown lifting weights and carrying a towel slung across her shoulders.
Tetsuo
Portrayed by Abe Maria
A member of Team Habu. She's often seen alongside Uruseeyo.- Action Duo: With Uruseeyo
- Clingy Jealous Girl: To the point where she has insecurities when Uruseeyo has to get married...in a board game.
Daasu
Portrayed by Oba Mina
A member of Team Habu, and the defacto leader of the team after the disappearance of Nobunaga. Her name means "a dozen", which foreshadows her past before arriving at the prison.- Berserk Button: Don't sit on Nobunaga's chair when Daasu's around.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Daasu never really got over her old gang betraying her and it affects her interactions with Team Habu, particularly her underling Komimi.
- The Lancer: To Paru after she loses a fight, and initially one for Nobunaga.
- Leader Wannabe: Declares herself the leader of Team Habu when Nobunaga goes missing
- One-Man Army: Not exactly an entire army, but she does curb stomp twelve people by herself.
- You Are Not Alone: Reassured by the rest of Team Habu when she's under the impression that they're all against her
Komimi
Portrayed by Yagami Kumi
A member of Team Habu. Her name means "small ear", and references how she has good hearing skills and can easily eavesdrop on any conversation.- Comic Trio: Together with Nanishi and Nantene
- Real-Life Super Powers: Has really acute hearing, and can lip read extremely well.
- Toxic Friend Influence: The victim of it. It's revealed to be how she ends up in the prison, starting with small things like stealing an eraser and then escalating from there.
Nantene
Portrayed by Kimoto Kanon
- Catchphrase: "Nante ne!" To the point where it's almost a verbal tic. Almost because she's once been shown to have finished a sentence without saying it.
- Comedic Sociopathy: makes offhanded insulting comments all the time and no one bats an eye.
- Companion Cube: Carries her doll Sally everywhere and speaks her mind through the doll. Discards the doll near the climax as she has managed to gather the courage to speak for herself.
Nanashi
Portrayed by Kawaei Rina
A member of Team Habu. Her name literally means "no name".- Alone with the Psycho: Or psychos in her case. Nanishi ends up in a room with Messi and Yagi after refusing to betray Paru. It goes about as well as you'd think.
- Cope by Pretending: Regularly writes letters to her parents, and even waits for them to visit on visitation days in order to deny the fact that they're dead. To the point where she knowingly walks into a trap set by Yagi & Messi in order to maintain the illusion.
- Invisible Parents: Unlike the other prisoners, she still has her parents and often writes to them. In reality, they're both already dead and she writes to them and their responses herself as a coping mechanism.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Nantene and Komimi. The three of them are constantly bickering and insulting each other, but are True Companions underneath it all.
Nobunaga
Portrayed by Matsui Jurina
The former leader of Nobunaga, who mysteriously disappeared prior to the first episode of Season 3. In Episode 7, she's revealed to be locked in a cellar deep within the prison under watch by the head of Prison HOPE.- Chained by Fashion: Is restrained in this way by the prison for most of her appearances.
- Respected by the Respected: The writers hyped up Nobunaga (who is only mentioned in the first few episodes) by having multiple strong characters speak of her with awe and/or respect.
Team Mongoose
Annin
Portrayed by Iriyama Anna
The leader of Team Mongoose. She and Nobunaga were considered rivals.- The Leader: The levelheaded variety for Team Mongoose
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: "Did you know? If you go over your pain threshold it feels really good." After using Bunker as a punching bag.
- Worthy Opponent: To Nobunaga, and then later Paru.
Sudachi
Her name means 'citrus' an Actor Allusion to Miori's nickname 'Lemon'Portrayed by Ichikawa Miori
- Trolling Translator: She's Jovijovich's translator even though she doesn't speak Russian. She turns out to be a Completely Unnecessary Translator, since Jovijovich can speak Japanese.
Bunker
Portrayed by Yamauchi Suzuran
- Didn't Think This Through: She deliberately went against Annin's orders and started antagonizing Team Habu. Succeed or fail, Annin was going to be mad at her regardless.
- Golf Clubbing: Only ever implied, never explicitly shown on-screen. A reference to the actress's love of the sport.
- Meaningful Name: Bunker is the sand traps in golf courses.
- The Worf Effect: Is initially shown to be a badass, threatening Komimi and cowing Sudachi & Shokakku into submission, only to be beaten viciously by Annin in the next episode. In a later episode she is defeated with ease again to show how strong Miyu really is.
Messi
Portrayed by Takahashi Juri
- Badass Bookworm: She's a scientist and can hold her own in a fight.
- Friend to Psychos: To Yagi, though Messi's sanity could also be called into question depending on how far her sadism goes.
- Hollywood Hacking: In her first appearance, she erases all of the chief warden's debt from his bank's servers in return for a favor. Later she hacks the prison's server to obtain documents of their crimes.
- I Shall Taunt You: Messi's plan to start a war with Team Habu by deliberately provoking Paru into attacking her.
- Pitiful Worms: Used comically when Messi was expecting Paru to arrive, she declares that a snake (Habu) has entered, only to Double Take, clean her glasses lenses, and declares that it's a worm when she spots Nanishi instead.
- Sadist: Complete with Loves the Sound of Screaming and Cold-Blooded Torture.
- Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Only in this case, it's Strong Girl Smart Girl with Yagi
- Teen Genius: Can hack into high security banks with complete ease.
Yagi
Portrayed by Nagao Mariya
- Animal Motif: Yagi means "goat".
- Expy: Of Gekikara, although relatively less terrifying considering she and Messi have Gekikara's traits split between the two of them. Yagi has the animalistic violence and (lack of) impulse control.
- Extreme Omnivore: Attempts to eat paper, and has to be told by Messi that something isn't food. Probably related to her motif as well.
- Human Pet: Seems like one to Messi, but actually they're equal friends, to the point of having connecting catchphrases.
- Psycho Supporter: To Messi, with an emphasis on psycho.
- Restraining Bolt: Wears a chain around her choker that Messi carries, which can be used to hold her back in case she gets too violent.
Jovijovich
Portrayed by Murashige Anna
- But Not Too Foreign: Murashige Anna is of half-Russian, half-Japanese descent
- Stealth Insult: Not exactly stealthy since she says it to their faces, but she insults people (mostly Bunker) in Russian so it usually slips past the radar.
Miyu
Portrayed by Takeuchi Miyu
- First-Name Basis: The only member of the cast to have her character go by her first name
- Mysterious Waif: Doesn't say anything in her first appearance, is recognized by the main character, and then is shown looking at a photograph of herself and The Hero's boyfriend.
- Remember That You Trust Me: To Paru when they're alone and fighting against the prison guards. In Paru's defense as far as she knows, Miyu killed her boyfriend, framed her, and was trying to kill her less than 24 hours ago.
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Sakura
Portrayed by Miyawaki Sakura
- Breaking the Bonds: Frees herself from Magic's handcuffs through sheer willpower.
- Cherry Blossom Girl: Her name is Sakura, her character defining past involves her Disappeared Dad, and she has strong determination.
- Country Mouse: She's a Kagoshima native and went to school in Fukuoka before transferring to Majijo.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father left her family when she was little and her last memory is chasing him in vain as he ran away.
- Excessive Mourning: After Salt and Bakamono dies, she viciously beats up a bunch of Yabakune students who made fun of them.
- Freudian Excuse: Her father ran away on her and her mother when she was a child, which is why she is determined to never run from anything, no matter her odds of survival.
- New Transfer Student: as per usual for the Majisuka series.
- Only Sane Man: In Season 0, she is the only one trying to keep calm and avoid trouble as they are on a school field trip. This trait however is completely absent in Season 5.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "Get out of my way" or more literally, "Open the way" (道を開けろよ michi o akero yo). Used in the fourth season's opening song, Season 0 as her Catchphrase, and as the last line of Majisuka Gakuen 5 when the screen fades to black after Sakura dies.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner:
- To Yoga:Your fist is hot... But someone like you, who has no desire to reach the top, can never defeat me!
- To Magic, in response to her Pre-Asskicking One-Liner:Your showtime is over!
- To Yoga:
- Suicide by Cop: she points a gun at a bunch of armed riot-squad policemen at the end of the fifth season because Everybody's Dead, Dave and promptly gets riddled with bullets as a result.
Salt
Portrayed by Shimazaki Haruka
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Can analyze her opponents' fighting pattern and devise the most efficient tactic to defeat them on the fly, in addition to being insanely strong.To Sakura, after easily catching her fist: You pull your shoulder too far when you punch. That makes me faster and able to defeat you. Be sure to fix that before you come up.
- Character Development: After witnessing Sakura's earnestness, her best friend Otabe's defeat in her hands, and her Queens invade Gekioko by themselves to avenge their ambushing her in season 4, she starts to take her position as Rappappa's president more seriously.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Everybody who faces her, from rival yankees to armed Yakuza thugs, ends up on the receiving end of this.
- Downer Beginning: Triggers this at the beginning of Season 5 when she dies at the end of episode 1, and to show that Anyone Can Die this season.
- Friendly Enemy: Encourages Sakura along the way and offers tips to improve her fighting skills, in the hope that Sakura will become a Worthy Opponent.
- Hates Being Alone: According to Otabe, paradoxically Salt is aloof because she's afraid she'll feel lonelier if she becomes close to someone and loses them later.
- Heroic Neutral: She doesn't really fight for anything other than not to be bothered by weaklings.
- Just Toying with Them: She's doing this during most of the final battle against Sakura, simply dodging her attacks and stopping her punches just inches from Sakura's face.
- Leitmotif: A whistling, Old West tune, and later Ominous Latin Chanting.
- Made of Iron: Has to be hospitalized after an accident during a fight against Gekioko, but escapes from the hospital and defeats Sakura in the final battle a few days after. When Sakura questions whether Salt is even in a condition to fight, she simply walks over to Sakura and gives her a punch that pushes her a few meters back.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: She's slender and doesn't look muscular, but not even Bakamono can defeat her, and she easily blows adult Yakuza thugs across the room.
- Salt Solution: Earned her nickname because the wounds she inflicts in a fight feel like they've been rubbed with salt, increasing the pain.
- Spell My Name With An S: Some stickers and graffiti of her name are misspelled as "SOLT", a direct transliteration of its rendering in katakana, ソルト.
- Smoky Voice: Out of perpetual sleepiness rather than tobacco usage.
- Victory Is Boring: Which causes her to habitually look for danger to alleviate her boredom.To Sakura: Why do you want to reach the top? It's lonely up there.
Majisuka Academy Wind Instruments club "Rappappa" Trope names contain unmarked spoilers
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: The Four Heavenly Queens this time are a yogi, an idiotic musclehead, a magician, and a Held Back in School Kansai girl.
Yoga
Portrayed by Iriyama Anna
- Burial at Sea: Is last seen this way in Season 5
- He Knows Too Much: Why the Chinese triad kills her in Season 5.
- Life Energy: Claims to be able to sense places with good and bad aura.
- Lotus Position: Regularly practices traditional yoga meditation rather than modern yoga exercise (her actress admitted her body isn't the most flexible).
- Neat Freak: Punches Kusogaki in the face because she thinks it's dirty.(zips up Kusogaki's jacket) I hate filthy things. Filthy rooms, filthy clothes... and filthy faces.
Bakamono
Portrayed by Kawaei Rina
- Dumb Muscle: Often seen lifting weights and practicing boxing in the club room.
- Idiots Cannot Catch Colds: She's delighted when it seems that she has caught a cold while waiting for Sakura outside in the wind, and is disappointed when it turns out she's healthy after all.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Inadvertently becomes one after she started working for an Akechi front company. Minami, herself a former Yakuza, insists that she quit immediately.
- Uninhibited Muscle Power: Can activate her "fight-or-flight" heightened state at will as her brain is too unintelligent to prevent overexertion.
Magic
Portrayed by Kizaki Yuria
One of the Four Heavenly Queens of the Rappappa in Season 4. Her name references how she's skilled in magic tricks.- Death Dealer: Has sharp playing cards that can pierce walls.
- Master of Disguise: In season 5.
- Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "Let's showtime!" in English.
- Stage Magician: Constantly practices tricks in her spare time.
- Taking the Bullet: For Otabe in Season 5
- The Trickster: Fights using magic tricks and various flashy moves.
Team Hinabe
Uonome
Portrayed by Takahashi Juri
- The Leader: She's the leader of Team Hinabe.
Dodobusu
Portrayed by Kato Rena
- Embarrassing Nickname: She doesn't like her nickname, which means "super ugly".
- Fortune Teller: Becomes one in Cabasuka. Her power seems to be real.
- Ironic Nickname: Despite her name meaning "super ugly", Kato Rena herself is considered cute and pretty.
- Temporary Name Change: Changes her name to Tenjou Tenge Yuiga Dokuson (天上天下唯我独尊, "unrivaled in heaven and on earth", a phrase from Buddhism) in a Gaiden episode, but changes it back after it turns out that the team and even herself cannot remember the Overly Long Name.
Kusogaki
Portrayed by Oshima Ryoka
- The Big Guy: Held her own against Bakamono in the past.
Jisedai
Portrayed by Mukaichi Mion
- The Lancer: Uonome's right hand person and often gives her advice.
Kenpou
Portrayed by Uchiyama Natsuki
- Badass Bookworm: Is always seen with a Constitution book, which she seems to have memorized.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Declines to join the Final Battle and resigns from Team Hinabe in season 5. Real Life Writes the Plot since her actress is about to graduate from AKB.
- The Smart Girl: Memorizing the Kenpou is no mean feat.
- Speaks In Shoutouts: She speaks by quoting the Japanese Constitution.
Majisuka Academy first-year students
Kamisori
Portrayed by Kojima Mako
- Absurdly Sharp Claws: has nails that can slash skin like a knife
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: She and Zombie calls Gekikara "30 Yen Guy" after mugging her in the Kyoto School Trip Musical.
- Mundane Utility: once used her powers to open food packages
Zombie
Portrayed by Owada Nana
- Forgot About Her Powers: Her skill is only demonstrated once, in season 4. She also doesn't survive being shot in season 5.
- Mugging the Monster: In the Kyoto School Trip play, she and Kamisori rob Gekikara. They get away with it because Gekikara was distracted and attempting to keep out of trouble.
Other notable students
Katabutsu
Portrayed by Okada Nana
One of the students in Sakura's class. While she plays a minor role in Season 4, she ascends to part of the main cast after Season 5 and plays a major role in "Lost in the Supermarket", as well as the Alternate Timeline sequel Cabasuka Gakuen.
- Ascended Extra: Went from a minor role in Season 4 to a main character in Season 5, Cabasuka, and the second musical Lost in the Supermarket. Real Life Writes the Plot since her actress only entered the Senbatsu (the elite ranks of AKB) in 2016.
- Boyish Short Hair: Her hairstyle in Cabasuka. Doesn't stop customers from fawning over her, including her stalker who has a similar haircut.
- Nice Girl: Buys her customer a drink to ease his nervousness in Cabasuka.
- Sorry, I'm Gay: Pretends to be a lesbian in Cabasuka to drive away a stalker. An allusion to her actress, who is Ambiguously Bi.
Lost in the Supermarket only
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Her street outfit is all red leather.
- Survivor Guilt: She is initially shunned as a traitor for being the only survivor of season 5's events.
- Traumatic Haircut: She cut her hair in frustration due to her Survivor Guilt.
- Vigilante Man: She and Black patrol the night as masked vigilantes.
Gekioko High Nursing Department
- Battleaxe Nurse: Despite being yankees, they actually have nursing skills. They can patch themselves up after fights and use Truth Serums.
Antonio
Portrayed by Yamamoto Sayaka
Leader of the Gekioko High school Nursing department.- Carpet-Rolled Corpse: Taunts the Yakuza by telling them that they aren't real Yakuza unless they're doing this to her in Episode 1 of Season 5.
- Heel–Face Turn: Breaks her school's alliance with Yabakune after Salt saved her from the Yakuza.
Kobii
Portrayed by Watanabe Miyuki
Antonio's 2nd-in-command.- Faux Affably Evil: Acts sympathetically to her underlings who are defeated by Team Hinabe before brutally punishing them.
KY
Portrayed by Tani Marika
- Butt-Monkey: Constantly receives physical abuse due to her inability to read the mood.
- I Do Not Speak Non Verbal: Her name is short for "Kuuki Yominai" ("cannot read the atmosphere"), a Japanese slang for people who can't perceive the mood of a room or situation and behave accordingly.
Other cast
Minami
Portrayed by Takahashi Minami
- Identical Stranger: Has the same name and face as Maeda's deceased friend, but is a Majijo alumna.
- Retired Badass: Runs a diner and is a former Majijo yankee and Yakuza enforcer.
Majisuka Academy
Katsuzetsu
Portrayed by Kodama Haruka
- Always Second Best: To Sakura.
- Friendly Rivalry: Maintains one with Sakura (somewhat like in real life).
- New Transfer Student: She transferred to Majijo some time before the events of the story, but laid low until she can take over the school in the chaos.
- Speech Impediment: Other characters comment on her lisp.
- Tanktop Tomboy: Or rather, tubetop tomboy.
- The Usurper: Claims the Rappappa head's throne during the chaos after Salt's death, mainly to provoke Sakura. Both Otabe and Center later ask her to take care of the school while they focus on investigating the crime gangs and finding Salt's killer.
Yabakune High school
Candy
Portrayed by Murayama Yuiri
- Those Two Guys: Often seen with Rookie.
- Trademark Favorite Food: A lollipop.
Team Kebab
- Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Bote is the Tomboy to Sankaku's Girly Girl.
- Secret Relationship: Bote and Sankaku keep their relationship a secret from the others.
Mibuichi High School Shinsengumi "Dendeke" band
- Named After Somebody Famous: They're nicknamed after members of The Shinsengumi.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Many of them are the younger sisters of Majijo students from season 5 and played by the same actresses.
Team Monja
One of the two teams that divides the students of Majisuka Academy.CG
Portrayed by Sasaki Yukari
- Actor Allusion: Her actress was the body double for Eguchi Aimi, a fake AKB member who was actually a computer-generated (CG) composite.
Otona
Portrayed by Tanaka Miku
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She and Namaiki are the smallest characters and their beatdown of a group of Show's gang members starts the plot.
- Practice Kiss: Coaches Otona in the art, although it's not mentioned whether she herself is experienced.
- Sweet Tooth: Often seen enjoying sweets with Namaiki.
Namaiki
Portrayed by Yabuki Nako
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She and Otona are the smallest characters and their beatdown of a group of Show's gang members starts the plot.
- Sweet Tooth: Often seen enjoying sweets with Otona.
Narushi
Portrayed by Kojina Yui
- Vanity Is Feminine: Like her actress, often seen checking herself in the mirror. Even her nickname came from "narcissist".
Bouyomi
Portrayed by Tomonaga Mio
Goukyuu
Portrayed by Motomura Aoi
- Prone to Tears: Her actress also has this reputation in real life.
Ogi
Portrayed by Ota Aika
- Actor Allusion: Her actress is originally an AKB member and was transferred to HKT in Fukuoka.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: Can speak in both Fukuoka and standard dialects since she's originally from Tokyo, but her friends think she's mediocre in both.
Aquarium
Kashiwagi Yuki/Anago
Portrayed by Kashiwagi Yuki
- Good Is Boring: The Aquarium girls correctly guessed that her fiancé became addicted to visiting the club because she's too nice and obedient.
- Identical Stranger: To Black.
- Shrinking Violet: Until she becomes Anago.
Wakasagi
Portrayed by Matsuoka Hana
- Con Man: She's Really 17 Years Old but claims to be 18 in order to be accepted to work at the Aquarium. She was hired by the Corrupt Cop to give them an excuse to arrest and interrogate Saionji in exchange for cash to treat her ill father. Turns out she also conned the police, since her parents are in good health and she only wants the money.
- Meaningful Name: Wakasagi (若鷺, Japanese smelt fish) includes the word "young" (若 waka) and sounds similar to wakasugi ("too young").
Hana-gumi
- Floral Theme Naming: All members have a flower name as part of their real names.
- Four-Philosophy Ensemble: A subtler example.
- Realist: Lily, the quiet leader of the group who sticks to her code of honor but isn't above joining forces with Kaiser in an Enemy Mine situation.
- Optimist:
- Bara in the series, who is the one most passionate for freedom and willing to take an electric bullet for the enemy.
- Hina in the stage play.
- Cynic/Conflicted:
- Hina in the series, who wants a better life for everyone and defects to Kaiser's side after being convinced of the benefits of honorary citizenship.
- Bara in the stage play.
- Apathetic: Sumire, just along for the ride and quietly supports her comrades, and almost unilaterally disbands the Hana-gumi in their Darkest Hour.
- We Help the Helpless: They help the commoners for however much their clients can afford.
- We Used to Be Friends: In Rai, only Lily is still in the group out of all the founding members.
Shimizu Sayuri (Lily)
Portrayed by Oguri Yui
- Clear Their Name: Her brother, Shimizu Ryuta, is accused of killing their mother, and she came to Arashigaoka to find the real culprit, who dropped an Utopia Arashigaoka loyalty card at the crime scene. Why she didn't give it to the police is anyone's guess.
- Code of Honor: The Pledge of The Lily, passed down from her mother.
- Combat Pragmatist: Lily isn't above using moves like Groin Attack and blinding her opponent (by hurling a mouthful of blood to their face). This proves useful in her fight against Shinigami, an aspiring pro Muay Thai fighter who treats their duel like a ring match instead of a brawl.Lily: (between Punctuated Poundings) Don't misunderstand! This is a brawl! There's no "down" in a brawl! There's no "count" either! Strength comes from anger! And right now... I'm extremely... FURIOUS!
- Cultured Badass: In the stage play, she reads No Longer Human.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Slowly warms up to the other Hana-gumi after the fight against Shinigami Joe.
- Finishing Move: Lily usually finishes fights with a Roundhouse Kick which exposes the lily embroidery inside her skirt. Maybe also a Panty Shot, but her opponents are too busy having their faces smashed in to care.
- Heroic BSoD: Lily's resolve to continue the revolution is shaken after Garake's assassination attempt gets Bara hospitalized and learning about Manji's declaration of war, which leads her to make a deal with Kaiser to defeat Manji in order to prevent the war and avoid more casualties. She is further disheartened after learning how Gosaki Land has ruined the lives of the Arechi people, including Manji's father, and refuses to fight her.
- In the stage play, she comes to the conclusion that there a constant amount of "tears" in the world and one's happiness must always come at the expense of another. Ero-sensei snaps her out of it by urging her to fight to build a world where everyone can be happy.
- He Who Fights Monsters: She becomes Black Lily before confronting Yaksha.
- Iconic Outfit: She wears a lily embroidery patch on the inside of her skirt, which is an heirloom.
- Jeanne d'Archétype: Invoked by Master, who predicts that somebody like Joan of Arc will come and and put an end to Kaiser's tyranny. Hina later explicitly calls Lily their Joan of Arc. The lily, or Fleur-de-lis in French, is also associated with the historical figure.
- Knight in Sour ArmorDon't you know? Fighting isn't a pretty thing. No matter how many reasons you have, in the end it's dirty people beating up each other. But I will take on any fight given to me. Do you know why? Because my flower has withered. Any flower should be blooming when it dies someday!
- Lady of War: Aloof, well-mannered powerful fighter with a Code of Honor. She's also a Warrior Poet who tends to share her wisdom during a fight.
- Missing Mom: Her mother was apparently murdered by someone who lives in Arashigaoka.
- Not in This for Your Revolution: After witnessing her strength, Bara asks Lily to join her, Sumire, and Hina to fight back against Kaiser. This is more or less her response, as her goal is finding her mother's killer. Even after they formed the Hana-gumi, Lily is still unwilling to spearhead a revolution, instead encouraging the other students that they have the capability to do it themselves, which motivate her friends to found a new, democratic student council to overthrow Kaiser's student council. She eventually takes a more active role after Sumire is stabbed.
- Not So Stoic: Lily has a habit of going down and laying spread-eagled on the floor when exhausted.
- Perpetual Frowner: Rarely seen smiling, except when she is exiled back to Tokyo.
- The Power of Love: I'm the stage play, she mentions that her strength comes from her love of the town and its people, which triggers Akainu.Lily: Strength comes from anger? I agree. But I've come to realize that it can also come from somewhere else. It's love! When I came to this town, everybody was a stranger. But there are people crying and suffering here. Eventually this town became my town too. That's why I'll keep taking on their fights. Because they're the people I love!
- Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "Don't stand in my way!" or more literally, "Don't stand in front of me!"(私の前に立つんじゃねえ!)
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "With one last look at the lily, go to hell!" (百合の花を見納めに地獄へ行きな!) before high kicking the opponent and exposing her lily symbol.
- Real Name as an Alias: Sayuri literally means "little lily". Yuri by itself means "lily", but it's rather heavily associated with something else.trivia
- Talking to the Dead: Lily regularly visits a local shrine, "reporting" to her late mother about her investigation.
- Unstoppable Rage: While beating Shinigami Joe into a pulp, she says that her strength comes from anger.
- We Help the Helpless: She always requests payment to fight, partly to avoid making it personal and more concretely to pay for her brother's legal defense costs.
Asahi Hina (Hina/Null)
Portrayed by Okabe Rin
- Adaptational Heroism: In the first stage play, she doesn't become Null. She is in the next two, though.
- Badass Longcoat: Wears a brown one in Rai.
- Bound and Gagged: In Episode 2.
- The Chains of Commanding: As she always says in LOUDNESS, "the King will always be a target".
- Character Narrator: She's the narrator in the series and for the Hana-gumi side in the first stage play.
- Evil Laugh: Lets out (an awkward) one to Lily after her Face–Heel Turn.
- Face–Heel Turn: In Rai, she has left the Hana-gumi for the student council, allegedly to represent the commoners, but ends up becoming just like them.
- In the series, she defects mid-season after being offered honorary elite status by Kaiser.
- Heel–Face Turn: In Rai, she only became ruthless because she thought Airu's father would grant her family honorary elite status, and resigns as student council president when Airu's ruse is exposed. Not the case in Loudness, where she stays haughty even after Nero's Rousing Speech.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Even if she has to join the evil student council to achieve that.
- Number Two: She's the unofficial vice leader of the Hana-gumi.
- Penny Among Diamonds: In the stage plays, she attempts to keep her commoner upbringing a secret after she became Null, although everybody eventually knows.
- Properly Paranoid: In LOUDNESS, she's having nightmares every night of Lily and the Hana-gumi getting back at her for her betrayal, and can't trust her mostly elite subordinates who she (correctly) suspects will attempt to overthrow her for being a commoner.
- Recognition Failure: In RAI, nobody from the student council recognizes her as a former Hana-gumi, including Tausend who met her several times in the first stage play.
- Shout-Out: Her goal of making Arashigaoka "pure, righteous, and beautiful" (kiyoku, tadashiku, utsukushiku) is the same as the motto of Takarazuka Revue.
- Unreliable Narrator: Despite being one of the characters in her narration, sometimes Hina sounds like she's talking about somebody else.
Kuwabara Ikumi (Bara)
Portrayed by Mukaichi Mion
- Face–Heel Turn: In Loudness, she has transferred to Arechi.
- My Fist Forgives You: Almost fatally strangles Zwei after the latter boasted that she burned the Kuwabaras' shop down, and is the first to accept her as an ally later.
- Riches to Rags: Her family moved from Arashigaoka to Tokyo before LOUDNESS, implying that her father got promoted to a position there, but then he got fired and the family had to move to the poor town of Arechi.
Yamamoto Sumire (Sumire/Yaksha)
Portrayed by Kuranoo Narumi
- Actor Allusion: In RAI, the Hyakki Yagyo holds an online meeting with their Kumamoto chapter, of which her actress is the representative in Team 8.
- Bound and Gagged: In the first stage play.
- Face–Heel Turn: In RAI, she leaves the Hana-gumi and joins the Hyakki Yagyō (Hundred Demons Parade), which members are named after folklore demons.
- Friendly Target: She is stabbed by Kyoukai to discourage the Hana-gumi in the series, and abducted by Queen Bee to lure Lily in the stage play.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: In RAI, she feels left behind by Lily and Hina, who have become the respected leaders of Hana-gumi and the student council, respectively.
- Rage Breaking Point: In RAI, between her deteriorating relationship with the Hana-gumi, needing money for her ill mother, and taking care of her brother, she finally snaps when Adler makes fun of her for hanging out with the refugees.
Tsubaki Miu (Tsubaki)
Portrayed by Takahashi Ayane
- Ascended Fanboy: She's a Lily fangirl and eventually joins the Hana-gumi.
- Friendly Target: She's attacked by Arechi students to intimidate the Hana-gumi in the series and stage play.
- Invisibility: In RAI, she has obtained the Become Stone Jutsu which renders her invisible. She implies that this superpower was an extension of her mundane existence.
- Major Injury Underreaction: In the stage play, her bones and teeth are broken after being attacked by Arechi students, but she just laughs it off after released from the hospital. To be fair, it doesn't affect her much aside from having to wear casts for a very short time.
- Motor Mouth: In the stage play, she tends to speak quickly when excited or afraid.
- Traumatic Haircut: She is kidnapped and has her hair cut off by Majin-G to terrorize the commoners.
Nomura Ayame (Ayame) / Iris
Portrayed by Yamauchi Mizuki
The Hana-gumi's classmate. Joins the student council after Hina/Null in LOUDNESS.
- Ascended Extra: She's more prominent in the stage plays than the original television series (probably because her actress has become more popular among the fans).
- Broken Pedestal: In LOUDNESS, she left the Hana-gumi and joined Null in the student council because she admired Null's ambition, and plots to overthrow Null because she's disappointed at the paranoid mess Null has become.
- Class Representative: She's one in the stage play.
- Evil Chancellor: Even though she's also a commoner, the conspirators to overthrow Null name her the new president since she's still the vice-president.
- Face–Heel Turn: In Loudness, she has joined the student council and changed her nickname to the German (and English) translation of her name.
- What the Hell, Hero?: In the stage play, she scolds Hina for complaining against the student council, and again after her best friend Tsubaki is attacked due to her perceived association with the Hana-gumi. Since she idolizes Null, her "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the latter in LOUDNESS can also be seen as one.
Student Council
- Numerical Theme Naming: The Shin Schutzstaffel officers are named after German numbers according to rank.
Gosaki Aran (Kaiser)
Portrayed by Honma Hinata
- Affably Evil: In the flashbacks, when she was recruiting followers.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Calls herself Kaiser and is the first main antagonist.
- Evil Laugh: Lets out several.
- Let's You and Him Fight: In the stage play, orders Zwei to persuade the Hana-gumi into stopping Nero's forces, then arrest them after the Arechi people is defeated.
- Rich Bitch: Her father's company owns the town and she treats commoners like dirt.
- She Is the King: Kaiser ("emperor") is a girl ("empress" is Kaiserin).
- The Unseen: Kaiser in the stage play, while her actress cameos As Herself. The student council enforcers still work under her orders, but she's only seen as a large painting in the backdrop.
- Villain Respect: Kaiser seems to develop one for Lily.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Kaiser is taught by her father to aim for the world, which drives her to build a Utopia and eventually surpass him and earn his approval, since he is emotionally distant and cares more about his company.
- When She Smiles: Eins and Zwei were drawn to her cause by her smile, and defected to the Hana-gumi to make her see the errors of her ways and eventually show them that smile again.
- Wicked Cultured: She's a fan of Richard Wagner and claims to follow his philosophy.
Bismarck
Portrayed by Ogino Yuka
- Hime Cut: Her hairstyle.
- Meaningful Name: Named after Otto von Bismarck, the German Empire Chancellor who served under three Kaisers.
Eins
Portrayed by Kato Minami
- Informed Ability: The number one enforcer is the most quickly defeated. Maybe she got the job thanks to her special relationship with Kaiser...
Zwei
Portrayed by Taniguchi Megu
- Adaptational Villainy: In the stage play, she's the most prominent Shin Schutzstaffel since Kaiser is The Unseen and the others are Adapted Out. She also doesn't defect to the Hana-gumi.
- Always Second Best: Her nickname says it all, at least in the series.
- Hopeless Suitor: She wants Kaiser to notice her, but the latter is already in a relationship with Eins.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Zwei really craves Kaiser's affection, going so far as torching Mrs. Kuwabara's shop to provoke the Hana-gumi to fight her and starting a terror campaign against commoner students. Unfortunately for her, she lost the fight and is banished from Kaiser's group for having been witnessed committing the arson.
Arashigaoka Gakuen Faculty
Goshirakawa Noriko (L'Amant/Ero-sensei)
Portrayed by Yokoyama Yui
- Affectionate Nickname: Her students call her Ero-sensei.
- All There in the Manual: She's called L'Amant only once in the series.
- Former Teen Rebel: In the stage play, she is a capable fighter and was a junior of Lily's mother, who was the top dog of Majisuka Gakuen. Whether or not she is actually Otabe is not explained.
- Hot Teacher: She isn't called "Ero-sensei" for nothing. At least one male student has a crush on her and even the female ones can feel her "pheromones".
- My Greatest Failure: She assists the Hana-gumi because she regrets not supporting another rebel group years before and letting them be subdued by the student council.
- Older Than They Look: Despite looking like she's in her late twenties, she was junior to Lily's mother in Majisuka Gakuen (the school).
- Reasonable Authority Figure: The only one in the whole series.
Arechi Technical School
Manji
Portrayed by Takino Yumiko
- Affably Evil: Before the Time Skip.
- Knight Templar: Manji wishes to destroy Arashigaoka to bring justice for the Arechi people whose lives were ruined when the town was built, no matter what that would cost.
- Tanktop Tomboy: Manji wears her top unbuttoned with a red tubetop underneath after she becomes the top dog of Arechi.
- You Killed My Father: Manji seeks to destroy Arashigaoka because her father was Driven to Suicide due to his debt to Gosaki Land.
Garake
Portrayed by Jo Eriko
- Big Brother Worship: Looks up to Kaba, his older brother, and enrolls in Arechi because he's there, although he doesn't like fighting like his brother. Despite that, he and Hakase later become Manji's Co-Dragons and the three of them take the top of Arechi, the position previously held by his disgraced brother.
- Crosscast Role: Played by Jo Eriko of NMB48.
Others
Rin (Lin Wenqin)
Portrayed by Ma Chia-Ling
- Actor Allusion: Her actress's idol persona also plays up the fact that she's from Taiwan.
- Ascended Extra: In the stage play, she's promoted into a supporting character with a little more involvement in the story. She's also revealed to have come from Taiwan to Japan to study, but is stuck working part-time jobs due to her poor Japanese. She also participates in the final battle.
- Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Her Japanese speech pattern is rather inappropriate for a café employee, who is expected to speak politely to all customers, since she's not very good at the language.
- Funny Foreigner: Mostly serves as a background character who speaks broken Japanese in the TV series (her actress is particularly unhappy about this). In the stage play, she just learned a few Japanese curse words and uses them randomly.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: In the stage play, she slightly disapproves of the Hana-gumi hanging out in her café since they're noisy teenagers, but eventually they become friends and fight the Arechi forces together in the climax.
Arechi Technical School
- Classical Elements Ensemble: The Shitennou. Nero is water. The first and last things she does in the story is cry, and she often talks about Arechi's overflowing tears. The Final Battle against her also takes place in a rainstorm.* She's also described as a carefree person, at least in the beginning. Kinda ironic considering her namesake, although she's also obsessed with destroying Utopia Arashigaoka. Queen Bee is air, the only flying animal among the four and the most sociable. Her fight with Lily happens in an Arashigaoka Gakuen classroom, which has the highest elevation of all the fight locations. Zombie is earth, who has the highest endurance and often talks about putting enemies in their graves. Her fight with Lily also seems to take place in a cemetery. Fire is Akainu, who wears red and has scars from a house fire.
- Dark and Troubled Past: All the Shitennou have this.
- Improbably Female Cast: Although Arechi is a mixed-gender technical school like in the series (since Kaba is the former leader), all the students who appear are female. Maybe because the boys Wouldn't Hit a Girl, even if said girl is a capable fighter.
- Mythology Gag: Like in Majisuka Gakuen, the top four Arechi fighters are called the Shitennou (Four Heavenly Queens).
Nero (Houjou Saori)
Portrayed by Okada Nana
- Actor Allusion: When they are having a discussion about justice, Lily argues that Nero has lived life too seriously all this time which eventually drove her to become evil, a reference to Okada Nana's early public persona.
- Badass Longcoat: Wears a black leather longcoat.
- Batman Gambit: She provokes the three strongest Arechi student to a four-way fight to prove that she's an equal to them, and then persuades them to join her cause when they're defeated by Lily.
- Bifauxnen: Many people thought she's a Crosscast Role until her actress confirmed otherwise.
- Blood Oath: Makes one with Queen Bee to earn her alliance.
- Break the Cutie: Hyena mentions that she's an Ojou before her family was murdered.
- Childhood Friends: With Dragon and Hyena, who knew her as Saori.
- Drunk with Power: When she becomes the boss of Arechi, even her childhood friends become nothing but soldiers to her.
- Evil Makeover: Nero's look is a long way from the ladylike Saori.
- Evil Wears Black: Wears all black except for her white heel boots and thin red belt.
- Expy: She's pretty much the stage play version of Manji. Both are also portrayed by STU48 members.
- Genius Bruiser:
- While she can hold her own against the other Shiten'ou, she'd rather let Lily defeat them and then recruit them into her cause in their moments of weakness.
- In LOUDNESS, she's studying astronautics to someday turn the impoverished Arechi into a space center, and can use her Doorstopper book to defend herself. She also convinces everyone to stop fighting by paraphrasing Carl Sagan's "we are all starstuff" speech.
- Meaningful Name: She's named after Emperor Nero, and is just as crazy. She also dresses in black (nero in Italian). As a possible Bilingual Bonus Casting Gag, her actress's character in the Lost in the Supermarket stage play, who is a completely different person in a different continuity, is mentored by Black.
- Ojou: Described as one until her family was murdered and she becomes Nero.
- Parental Abandonment: Her family was murdered before the events of the story.
- Retired Badass: She tries to be one in LOUDNESS since she's applying for university, but circumstances force her back into the game.
- Secretly Wealthy: Only Dragon and Hyena know her real name and that she's actually rich.
- That Man Is Dead: After she becomes Arechi's leader, she refuses to answer to Saori and tells even her childhood friends to address her as Nero-sama. She snaps out of it at the end.
- Unable to Cry: As Nero, she scolds a crying Queen Bee. Averted at the end when she comes to terms with the loss of her family.Lily: Saori-san, let's meet again someday. But as people with the same scars, as friends.
Nero: Oh? ... I'll come back after I'm done crying. - Villain Protagonist: Both she and Lily are main characters.
Hyena
Portrayed by Sasaki Yukari
- Character Narrator: One of the narrator duo from Arechi's side.
- Childhood Friends: With Dragon and Nero.
- Those Two Guys: She and Dragon are the narrators from Arechi's side and Saori's loyal friends.
Dragon
Portrayed by Iwatate Saho
- Character Narrator: One of the narrator duo from Arechi's side.
- Childhood Friends: With Hyena and Nero.
- Small Name, Big Ego: She initially boasts that she and Hyena will become Arechi's top, until Nero shows up.
- Those Two Guys: She and Hyena are the narrators from Arechi's side and Saori's loyal friends.
Queen Bee
Portrayed by Muto Tomu
- Alpha Bitch: Queen Bee is another name of this trope, after all. Her Sailor Fuku is styled like a cheerleader uniform (short skirt and sleeveless), she intimidates others with her knife, and is always surrounded by her "worker bees".
- Animal Motif: She's the queen bee, guarded by her worker bees, and they sting opponents with knives.
- The Bartender: She takes over her mother's job at a bar after graduating, but hates everything about the job.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Keeps in touch with her mom by phone even while holding a hostage.
- Expy: She's a knife wielder like Kyouken, but has her own gang.
- Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: She and her team are defeated by Lily, who rarely uses weapons and especially has a thing against knives.Lily: This is the weapon of a coward. Fight honorably with your fists!
- Struggling Single Mother: Her mother makes ends meet by working in a nightlife establishment, and is implied to be a prostitute as well.
- Weapon-Based Characterization: In line with her bee motif, she uses her knife to "sting" her opponents.
Akainu
Portrayed by Ota Nao
- Alternate Character Reading: The writing on her coat is not actually akainu (赤犬, "red dog"), but 捇犬. The first character is the old Chinese character 捇 (huò, meaning "crack", "dig", or "attack") which is not used in Japanese; the left radical 扌 ("hand") is stylized to resemble 犭 ("dog") and the right one is 赤 ("red").
- Badass Longcoat: Wears a bosozoku-style red longcoat.
- Blood Knight: She doesn't care about Arechi's power struggle and only wants to fight. She even accepts Nero as the new school leader, even though she hasn't been defeated by Lily.
- Bring My Red Jacket: Her red coat is said to conceal the splattered blood of her enemies.
- Cool Mask: It covers the scars around her left eye.
- Covered with Scars: Although they're hidden under her long dress and coat.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: She's the only survivor when her family home was burnt down, and the burn mark on her face is covered by her mask.
- I Work Alone: The only Shitennou without followers.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: She believes that she's the one strong enough to defeat Lily. She does so not by strength but by sending her into Heroic BSoD.
- Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids!: Believes love is merely an illusion due to her dark past.
- Unstoppable Rage: Believes that true power comes from rage, which is probably the only thing she and Lily agree on.
- With My Hands Tied: She only fights using one hand at a time, the other holding her coat to prevent it from opening up and revealing her burnt body.
Zombie
Portrayed by Fukuoka Seina
- Healing Factor: Like season 4's Zombie, she's a quick healer.
- In the Hood: Wears a purple hoodie.
- Made of Iron: She's not good at fighting but her endurance got her into the Shitenou.
- Posthumous Character: Her Only Friend died due to bullying.
- Unskilled, but Strong: She has great endurance, but lacks fighting skills.
Student Council
Hundert
Portrayed by Kojina Yui
- Mook: The Shin Schutzstaffel codenames are German numbers indicating seniority in the group, and she's #100.
- Those Two Guys: Always seen with Tausend, usually following Zwei.
Tausend
Portrayed by Oda Erina
Zwei's underling in the first play and the Schutzstaffel commander in the next ones.
- Ascended Extra: She's a minor character in the first stage play, but plays a more significant role in the next ones and also got her own side story stage play, performed as part of AKB Team 8's concert in her actress's home prefecture of Kanagawa.
- As Long as It Sounds Foreign: She makes fun of Schnabel for not knowing the English word for kuri (chestnut), which according to Tausend is marron (that's actually the French word).
- Catchphrase: "Sine, cosine, Tausend!" which Schnabel makes fun of.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In LOUDNESS, she scolds Elgar for not following the play's script.
- Mook: The Shin Schutzstaffel codenames are German numbers indicating seniority in the group, and she's #1000. Subverted in Rai, where she's the commander and commands lower numbered subordinates like Elf (11) and Zwölf (12).
- Rank Up: She has risen into the Schutzstaffel commander in Rai.
- Those Two Guys: Always seen with Hundert in the first play, usually following Zwei.
- Undying Loyalty: She becomes Null's right hand in RAI continuity, and they had made a promise to become leaders of the student council in that of LOUDNESS.
Guest Stars
- As Himself: All the guest stars portray entertainers/undercover cops who attend Arashigaoka Gakuen.
- Fair Cop: They're all cops who can pass as high school students.
- Improv: The consulting scenes have minimal script, with varying results for each guest star.
- Real Life Writes the Plot: They consult the Hana-gumi about a problem they have in real life.
- Undercover Cop Reveal: In addition to being entertainers, they're also undercover cops investigating juvenile delinquency. Despite being undercover, they took the time to put on their full police uniforms for the reveal.
Suda Akari
Portrayed by herself
- As Herself: She's Suda Akari who placed second in the 2018 AKB General Election as in real life. However, she is also an undercover cop.
- Product Placement: Asks the Hana-gumi for tips to promote her real-life photobook, which sold rather poorly.
Onishi Momoka
Portrayed by herself
Appears with Suda Akari and is not listed in the playbill (only one guest star is listed for each showing).
- As Herself: She's an entertainer and radio personality, but is also an undercover cop.
- Nice Guy: It doesn't take much to persuade her to let the Hana-gumi guest in her radio show.
- Product Placement: Consults with the Hana-gumi about her radio program (Onishi Momoka no Shibuya de Paradise on Shibuya Cross FM in real life) and also shows them her real-life photobook.
- Undercover Cop Reveal: She's Suda Akari's junior in the force.
Takino Yumiko
Portrayed by herself
- As Herself: She portrays an Idol Singer who's in the same group as Okada Nana (STU48 in real life).
- Identical Stranger: To Manji.
- Take That!: She approaches the Hana-gumi to ask for advice on how to get closer to Okada Nana, the captain of her idol group. They suggest that the two of them travel on a ship together, and Yumiko remarks that such a trip has been planned for two years but hasn't come to fruition yet (a reference to the STU48 shipboard theater, which at the time was in Development Hell and would only be launched half a year later).
All the regular cast are members of AKB48 Team 8.
Hana-gumi
Minami Sakura (Sakura)
Portrayed by Sakaguchi Nagisa
- The Creon: She's quite influential in the Hana-gumi, even more so than its co-founder Sumire, but defers to Lily like everyone else.
- One-Steve Limit: Shares her name with the protagonist of Majisuka Gakuen 4, 5, and Cabasuka Gakuen (whose actress is actually named Miyawaki Sakura).
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's only 148 cm tall.
Manaka Karin (Karin)
Portrayed by Sakagawa Hiyuka and Tokunaga Remi
A first year Arashigaoka student who befriends the Hana-gumi.
- Actor Swap: The role is double cast between the two youngest Team 8 members at the time, both born in 2006, who take turns portraying the character each showing (it was originally triple cast, but Hasegawa Momoka left the group shortly before opening day due to a scandal).
- Ascended Fanboy: First approachs the Hana-gumi as a client, and becomes its new leader as they graduate in the end.
- Passing the Torch: Lily gives the lily patch to her before confronting Yasha. She also learns the Become Stone Jutsu from Tsubaki.
Hyakki Yagyō
A group consisting of "refugees" from Tokyo, which Sumire later joins. They're not war refugees, but people who left Tokyo due to unemployment or other reasons.
- Invading Refugees: The student council sees the refugees as these as the town's crime rate has risen after they came.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: The group's name means "Hundred Demons Parade" and its members are nicknamed after demons and spirits.
- Superpowered Evil Side: They got in touch with their "inner demons" to become strong.
- Wrong Side of the Tracks: They're struggling to make ends meet and the student council are prejudiced against them.
Satozaki Airu (Han'nya)
Portrayed by Yokoyama Yui (Team 8, different from Ero-sensei)
- City Mouse: She moved to Arashigaoka from Tokyo, but doesn't really think much of Tokyo.
- Corrupt Politician: Her father resigned from the Parliament due to suspicion of corruption and her family moved to Arashigaoka to start anew. The mysterious figure who advises Null also claims to be the daughter of a local politician, foreshadowing that they're one and the same.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a burn mark on her face due to being bullied, which is only visible when she focuses on her inner demon.
- Kids Are Cruel: Because of her father's case, she got bullied at her previous school, including having boiling water thrown to her face.
Hikawa Ryoko (Jaki)
Portrayed by Suzuki Yuuka
- Abusive Parents: She and her mother went to Arashigaoka to escape from her abusive father.
- Ms. Fanservice: She has a voluptuous body and wears the most revealing outfits in the group.
Gomi Reina (Rakshasa)
Portrayed by Shimizu Maria
- Homophobic Hate Crime: She moved to Arashigaoka due to this.
- The Lad-ette: She's a Butch Lesbian who uses masculine pronouns.
Student Council
Adler
Portrayed by Nagano Serika
- Animal Theme Naming: Her name means "eagle".
- Ascended Fanboy: She and Falke are fans of Null.
- Bullying the Dragon: She taunts Sumire, whose mother and brother are being treated at the hospital where her father works as a doctor, and Sumire beats her up in response.
- Praetorian Guard: She and Falke are Null's personal guards.
Falke
Portrayed by Hama Sayuna
- Animal Theme Naming: Her name means "hawk".
- Ascended Fanboy: She and Adler are fans of Null.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She's only 150 cm tall.
- Praetorian Guard: She and Adler are Null's personal guards.
Elf
Portrayed by Hattori Yuna
- Show Some Leg: Her skirt is much shorter than the other Schutzstaffel.
Arashigaoka Gakuen Faculty
Sakamoto Ikumi (Harenchi-sensei)
Portrayed by Gyoten Yurina
The Hana-gumi's homeroom teacher, who teaches Japanese history.
- Badass Teacher: Turns out she's pretty good with a wooden katana, inspired by the samurai warlords she teaches about.
- Cool Teacher: She's pretty close with her students and is willing to get directly involved in their revolution.
- Fan of the Past: She's very passionate about her subject, especially the Sengoku Period.
- Hot Teacher: She's an attractive teacher who wears form-fitting dresses.
- Ms. Fanservice: Her name literally means "shameless".
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She is very similar to Ero-sensei, whose actress isn't a member of Team 8 and therefore doesn't appear in RAI.
Guest Stars
There is a different guest star each showing, both from Team 8 and other teams, who interviews as a prospective Hyakki Yagyō member.
- As Herself: They use their real names and background.
- Improv: Their lines are minimally prepared and a lot are made up on the spot.
Shitao Miu
Portrayed by herself
- Book Dumb: She shows this in her interview, such as fumbling the multiplication table.
- Verbal Tic: Tends to say "Assha!" before speaking.
Arechi Technical School
Crow
Portrayed by Mogi Shinobu
The current leader of Arechi.
- Animal Motif: Named after the crow.
- Broken Pedestal: She looked up to Nero and is rather disappointed that Nero has retired from fighting.
- The Lad-ette: She uses the masculine ore pronoun.
König
Portrayed by Murayama Yuiri
- Agent Provocateur: She goes around provoking Arechi inhabitants to get them to rise against the hilltop.Right now, this town is nothing but Utopia's sewage dumping ground. But I'll transform Arechi's simmering anger into boiling magma! The hilltop people will know that there's a volcano ready to erupt, right beneath their feet!
- Jeanne d'Archétype: Crow mocks her as a Joan of Arc wannabe after she explains her motive.
- Long-Lost Relative: She's the illegitimate daughter of Gosaki Land's boss, which makes her Kaiser's half-sister. That's probably why they take similar nicknames.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: She taunts Zombie and Queen Bee since they've been working menial jobs after graduation.
- She Is the King: Her name means "king".
- Tragic Keepsake: Her necklace is named Monarchie and a Gosaki family heirloom, identical to another owned by Kaiser, and she wears it as a reminder that her father left her mother dying in poverty.
Student Council
Elgar
Portrayed by Chiba Erii
The Second Squad Leader, despite still in her second year.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Shares her name with Edward Elgar, an English composer greatly influenced by Richard Wagner.
- Young and in Charge: She's the only second year to have become a squad leader.
Licht
Portrayed by Kitazawa Saki (replacing Kubo Satone)
- Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: Her name means "light", in contrast to Schatten.
Schatten
Portrayed by Nishikawa Rei
- Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: Her name means "shadow", in contrast to Licht.
Schnabel
Portrayed by Shitao Miu
First Squad Leader and Tausend's friend and rival.
- Friendly Rivalry: She's comparable in strength to Tausend and questions why Tausend is the Schutzstaffel commander and she's the First Squad leader. Tausend claims that it's because Schnabel is Book Dumb.
- Identical Stranger: Her actress cameos in RAI as a refugee army candidate.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: She stands by Null because she doesn't approve of plotters and usurpers.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Shares her name with German musicians Artur Schnabel and Karl Ulrich Schnabel, who were father and son.
Guest Stars
There are two guest stars in each performance. They show up shortly before the Mensur, show off their special skills, and run away after getting beaten up by the regular cast.
Fujizono Rei
Portrayed by Fujizono Rei
She's actually a rich kid from the hilltop and already an elite. She's also the best golfer in the Arashigaoka country club despite being only 16 years old.
- Red Baron: She's the "right hand of Kagoshima's Saigo Takamori".
- Slumming It: She claims to have enough money to buy out both Utopia Arashigaoka and Arechi.
- Wooden Katanas Are Even Better: Her weapon of choice.
Kawahara Misaki
Portrayed by Kawahara Misaki
- Bullying the Dragon: She exposes various embarrassing incidents involving the actresses portraying the main cast, and gets beaten up in the end.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: She discusses the main cast's actresses.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: She's the Mad Dog of Saga.
- Shovel Strike: She wields a small spade.
Rena
Portrayed by Kato Rena
- Compelling Voice: Apparently nobody can resist her commands.
- Pipe Pain: Her weapon of choice.
- Show Some Leg: She wears hotpants that exposes her legs.
Kuru
Portrayed by Suzuki Kurumi
- Cuteness Overload: Her special skill is charming others with cuteness.