Characters / Outlaw Star

Ships

Crew of the Outlaw Star

In General

• Color-Coded Characters: Gene - Red, Jim - Yellow, Melfina - Blue, Aisha - Green, Suzuka - Orange
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: A hapless bodyguard duo, an exiled warrior, one of the galaxy's most deadly assassins, and an artificial human who has no business piloting the most advanced ship in the galaxy. Except for Melfina who was designed to do so.
• True Companions: They become tight-knit after sufficient adventures together.

Gene Starwind

Voiced by: Shigeru Shibuya (JP), Bob Buchholz (EN, credited as Robert Wicks)

"I am Gene Starwind. An outlaw not in the habit of listening to warnings."

An outlaw, pilot, gunman, and jack-of-all-trades. Business partners with the computer prodigy Jim Hawking, Gene runs a semi-legitimate business dubbed, "Starwind and Hawking" on Sentinel III. When he was 14, Gene lost his father in a what appeared to be a brutal Space pirate attack and has since been terrified of space. At 20 years old, he is offered the chance of a lifetime when he meets an outlaw named "Hot Ice" Hilda and acquires a state-of-the-art ship, the XGP 15A-II, and a biological android named Melfina, with the ability to find and unlock the galaxy's biggest treasure - the Galactic Leyline.

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• Accidental Pervert: During the Hot Springs Episode, he accidentally crashes into the hot spring Aisha was bathing in and sees her completely naked. Aisha is amused - especially when he falls in the red-hot water. Suzuka lets him have it ("it" being a magnificent bokken smack to the face) when it happens to her on the other hand.
• Act of True Love: Could have asked for Melfina to make the Leyline literally give him anything but all he really wanted was for her to stay with him.
• The Alcoholic: Melfina tried to get him to stop drinking at one point, only made him drink even more.
• Badass Longcoat: More like a yellowish cape, but it fits the spirit.
• Badass Normal: Compared with other cast members, he has no fancy skills, he's just an ordinary human with a bunch of weapons.
• Barehanded Blade Block: Gene tries a version of this with a modified light shield against Suzuka and it works... briefly.
• Big Eater: Not as much as Aisha, but still high enough to be below the Shonen line.
• Bodyguard Crush: Gene seems to be prone to these, considering it happened with Hilda and Melfina.
  • Played every which way but straight with Fred Luo, for whom Gene is briefly a bodyguard well after Fred Luo's obvious crush on Gene is shown.
• Brains and Brawn: The Brawn to Jim's Brains because of his caster gun and greater athleticism.
• Character Catchphrase: "I'll pay you when I make it big." He uses this so often to try and skip out on a bill that Swanzo and Mikey even muse about it in the finale, wondering if "I'll Pay You When I Make It Big Gene" should be his new outlaw nickname.
• The Chosen One: During the Hot Springs Episode, one of the three mages muses on the significance of "a red-haired man with a Caster". Either there's some prophecy going on, or it's at least somehow important. Unfortunately, it's never brought up again.
• Combat Pragmatist: Gene's tactic for winning a duel to the death? Straight-up cheating, of course!
• Covered with Scars: It's implied that many of his scars are the result of his escape pod crash-landing on Sentinel III when he was fifteen.
• Did They or Didn't They?: With Hilda. Left unanswered for much of the anime series, until the flashback in Episode 25. They did.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Straddles the line a bit, considering only about half of them are covered by his shirt.
• The Gunslinger: He does his best fighting with a gun in his hand and is shown to be very good with one.
• Hand Cannon: His caster gun, an overpowered exotic thing that he rarely has ammo for and only uses in boss fights anyway.
• Handsome Lech: Goes after every hot lady he meets.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: In episode 13 Gene wears an absolutely pimpin' suit for a date.
• Hunk: He's quite well built.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: Gene has a habit of pulling whatever gun is appropriate for the situation pretty much out of his ass, as he wears a skintight jumpsuit under his duster coat with no evidence of holsters. Also, the writers may have been going for laughs; throughout the series he goes through pretty much the whole array of Standard FPS Guns; "...the usual line-up of melee, pistol, revolver(one loaded with paintballs), Sawed-Off Shotgun, Grenade Launcher, overpowered exotic thing that he rarely has ammo for and only uses in boss fights anyway..."
  • But strangely, no machine gun.
• I Like Those Odds: Predictably, Gene reacts this way at the prospect of taking a dangerous shortcut between two quickly-orbiting planets during a race.
• Important Haircut: Right at the end of the series. He gets a buzz cut after returning to Sentinel and being locked up for the crimes he committed in fleeing the space pirates there. It also signifies his growth and letting go of a lot of his emotional baggage.
• Instant Expert: Downplayed since he has the Outlaw Star for several weeks before getting into his first space battle, but despite having no prior experience he's able to defeat multiple opponents who've presumably been engaging in grappler combat for years.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He'll stick to a promise with a girl to find her past, but is rude to everyone except a lady.
• Ladykiller in Love: Established as a lecherous womanizer since the beginning, Gene eventually abandons his skirt-chasing tendencies as he falls in love with Melfina.
• The Leader: Of the Outlaw Star's crew.
• Lovable Rogue: Gene is a lecherous loudmouth with a knack for trouble, and he can be a right asshole on his bad days, but he helps those he has a bargain or promise to. A lot of characters in-universe even recognize this attribute.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: The very first episode establishes Gene as a womanizer, by having him grope Iris immediately after his tussle with "Death Rob". Then he uses part of the bounty to spend a night on the town that ends with him shaggin' a callgirl.
  Gene: (while hugging Iris) "Aww, Iris... it's okay."
  Jim: (deadpan) "Is that why you have your hand on her ass?"
  (Gene promptly lets go of Iris's buttocks)
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: His gloves are able to generate protective forcefields, one for each hand.
• Magitek: His caster gun is a pistol that fires magic spells contained within a shell casing.
• Manchild: Despite a wealth of Hidden Depths, Gene's largest, inarguable flaw is that he can be cripplingly childish. And that includes the whole package: Zero social filter, bullheaded stubbornness, tendency to throw tantrums when things don't go his way, and just general irresponsibility all around. It's pointed out multiple times that poor Jim has no choice but to be the adult around Gene, though fortunately he largely grows out of this by the series' end as part of his Character Development.
• Mr. Fanservice: Let's see: red hair, roguishly handsome, reasonably athletic, shirtless every other scene, scars on every inch of his body, and we can safely assume he's good in bed since he Really Gets Around.
• The Not-Love Interest: Unexpectedly for an anime with three adult females and one adult male as the main characters, Gene never shows any real interest in Aisha or Suzuka, nor vice versa. ...aside from a few involuntary leers during the Hot Springs Episode, each time haranguing himself with cries of, "I didn't come here to get an eyeful!" And getting dipped in lava/smacked with a bokken for his mistake.
• Official Couple: With Melfina, when Gene wishes for her to stay with them and she reciprocates, near the end.
• Parental Substitute: Zig-zagged. Gene is technically Jim's guardian but in reality, Jim is the parent Gene needs to remember his adult responsibilities.
• The Protagonist: He's the star of this show; he fights the battles (spaceship and hand-to-hand), he leads the group and this is generally his story.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Jim's Blue Oni since he is more hotblooded and less analytical.
• Robosexual: He's a human who falls in love with a highly advanced bio-android, Melfina.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Gene is forced to disguise himself as a woman in order to infiltrate the Strongest Woman of the Universe competition. He turns out to be very convincing with a little makeup, a wig, and a dress.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Gene is very much afraid of space at the start of the series because it reminds him of his father's death.
• The Worf Effect: Those oh-so-rare caster shells he prefers are incredibly powerful – except against enemies that factor into the plot, in which case only serve the "Wow! This guy is powerful!" effect. Gene has to rely on even rarer shells in those cases.
• You Killed My Father: He believes Ron McaDougal was responsible for his father's death, due to having seen the Shangri-La^note the name of Ron's ship during the attack on their ship. But when he finally confronts Ron about it, Ron couldn't remember due to all the jobs he's accepted over the years. Especially since Gene couldn't narrow it down beyond, "10 years ago".

Jim Hawking

Voiced by: Rica Matsumoto (JP), Brianne Siddall (EN, credited as Ian Hawk)

"Damnit, I'm supposed to be the brains of this outfit!"

An eleven year old outlaw and co-owner of "Starwind & Hawking Enterprises", along with Gene. Jim is the brains of the outfit and the one who handles the business side of things, whether it be procuring supplies, or negotiating deals to try to keep the crew from getting any deeper in debt.

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• Adorably Precocious Child: Jim may be small, but he isn't afraid to speak his mind and tends to be blunt; especially when dealing with Gene.
• Beleaguered Assistant: To Gene, whose habit of leaving things to chance drives Jim up the wall.
• Brains and Brawn: The calm, fiscally minded genius to Gene's reckless, frivolous self.
• Free-Range Children: Eleven years old, no parents, and nobody bats an eye that he's a professional bounty hunter. One could say that he's bounty hunting with his legal guardian but considering Gene immaturity it's not really any better.
• KidAnova: He's not shy about beaning Gene with a frying pan so he can use Melfina as a Lap Pillow. Aisha's pretty affectionate with him, too, though usually in more of a "partner-in-crime" kind of way, with the occasional hug. He discovers his true power on Tenrei, where the ladies just can't get enough of him. Marshmallow Hell squared to the power of bikinis.
• Love at First Sight: Felt instantly attracted to Hammyo upon seeing her for the first time, becoming quickly enamored with her and deeply regretted when she apparently left when he came back after an intense fight unbeknownst to him, Hammyo was killed by his plan because in actuality, she was an assassin, a member of the Anten Seven, the elite fighters of the 108 Stars of the Kei Pirates sent to kill the crew of the Outlaw Star including him. The tragedy is compounded due to neither coming to realize who the other was, with Jim being unaware of killing his first crush and even if he did know, their loyalties to opposing factions makes them enemies by default.
• Meaningful Name: His name is very close to Jim Hawkins, the protagonist of the literary classic Treasure Island. Both are adventurous youths who join the crew of a ship under the mentorship of a more experienced rogue.
• Not So Above It All: He can be just as hormonal as Gene at times, but still in a less perverted way.
• Only Sane Man: Someone has to help Gene prioritize and focus on business, otherwise "Starwind & Hawking Enterprises" would've gone under a long time ago.
• Parental Abandonment: His genius dad didn't have time for him.
• Protectorate: To Aisha. He acts the more level-headed and mature voice of reason to Aisha's impulsive and childish nature making the lackadaisical Gene who Jim often has to be the adult for, seem mature in comparison.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Gene's Red Oni because he is more cautious and less intuitive.
• Shorter Means Smarter: He only comes up to Gene's waist, is the shortest of the Outlaw Star crew, and has a better head for business than any of them.
• Side Kick: He is Gene's kid partner and strikes a contrast with him in terms of personality and skill-set.
• The Smart Guy: Jim is pretty much the brain of "Starwind & Hawking" and is the one who drums up business for their operation. He also gathers intel on whatever bounty Gene decides to go after, and negotiates deals to reduce the costs for their ship's repairs and docking fees.
• The Straight Man: He reacts with frustration at Gene's antics.
• Teen Genius: He's very good with mechanical repairs, has good business sense, can hack pretty decently, knows how to prioritize and negotiate, and in general acts like a very intelligent adult man... except he's only 11.
• Wise Beyond His Years: Way more practical than the much older Gene is. He handles most of the business side of things.

Melfina

Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (JP), Emilie Brown (EN)

""Why was I made? Who made me? And what did they make me for?"

An advanced bio-android created by Professor Gwen Khan in conjunction with the XGP 15A-II with the sole intention of finding the Galactic Leyline.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the manga, Melfina is somehow able to instinctively channel the power of the Galactic Leyline remotely, using it to heal Gene after being mortally wounded by Hilda and even creating an explosion to defend herself against Aisha.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Manga Melfina lacks any of the inherently sweet nature she displays in the anime and is more confrontational in her relationship with Gene.
• Amnesiac Hero: She has no recollection of her past or why she was created.
• Artificial Human: She's a highly advanced "bio-android" created by Gwen Khan.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's as kindhearted and pure as they come, but even she won't suffer an evil cactus trying to possess Jim and make everyone else eat crappy ice cream. She proceeds to stomp on it until it's mush and begging for her to stop.
• Damsel in Distress: Justified, as she's pretty important to the one thing everyone's after in the series, and furthermore she is the one female member of the Outlaw Star crew who isn't a semi-immortal alien or an assassin.
• Damsel out of Distress: She forced the very, VERY creepy Harry to flee all by herself when he came after her.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: All she wants is, to know who created her and for what purpose. After Hilda's death, Gene looks after Melfina and promises to help her find out about her past.
• Deuteragonist: She's the next most pivotal character, after Gene, and gradually becomes his Love Interest. The Kei Pirates, the MacDougal Bros., and Hanzankou, are also after her because she's the key to unraveling the secrets of The Galactic Leyline.
• Digital Bikini: Not in the original or the uncut DVDs, but given one for the edited American broadcast on Cartoon Network.
• Do Androids Dream?: Really wants to, and sleeps in a position so she can dream.
• Evil Twin: Implied in the manga, which ends right after the crew leaves Sentinel III, where a second android appears working alongside Gwen Khan.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: She wears a single gold bangle around her left ankle, as part of her standard attire.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: She does the ship's cooking but the trope is played with as she needs help from Suzuka, the elegant lady of war.
• Good Is Not Soft: Stomped the alien cactus to death when it tried to mind control Jim and as the Outlaw Star's navigation system, she frequently engages in battles to the death alongside Gene and the others against enemy ships.
• The Heart: The only female that doesn't kick ass on a daily basis. Instead she tries to make everyone get along.
• Hidden Buxom: While not as top heavy as Aisha or Suzuka, in instances when she's not wearing her cloak (such as inside her navigation chamber) Melfina is shown to be fairly well endowed for her build.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: She doesn't show any hatred towards any of the forces seeking to claim her. Not even Harry MacDougal despite the abuse he puts her through. Even after being on the receiving end of a breaking speech from Hazanko and fearing Gene saw her as nothing more than a tool to be used for his own end, Melfina offers to use the Leyline to grant whatever he desires. Make no mistake though, if you threaten anyone she cares about (as the alien cactus found out the hard way) she won't hesitate to fight back.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: She's nude whenever she's functioning as the ship's navigation unit, though her arms are always crossed over her chest and a metal strip outside the tank obstructs any view of her nether region. Given her general innocence, she seems like the type that was never introduced to the idea of there being anything wrong about her not having clothes on. Though being nude seems to be just a side effect of being the navigation unit, since she enters and leaves fully clothed.
• Intimate Healing: She does this for Gene when Yase poisoned him. Something about the navigation module enabled her to heal him.
  • In the manga, she's shown to be able to do this without the chamber.
• Leg Focus: Has more than a few shots showing off her long slender legs thanks to her short skirt, grey tights, and single anklet.
• MacGuffin Super-Person: She's sought after by the bad guys because she's the key required to pilot the Outlaw Star, and to unlock the Leyline's power.
• Mama Bear: Didn't hesitate to kill the alien cactus after seeing what it was trying to do to Jim.
• Manchild: Not in the obvious manner as Aisha, but beneath her usually polite and even-tempered personality that appears mature, she's actually a scared little girl in a woman's body unaware of her true identity and her experiences in the real world- while she has prior knowledge as bio android, are that of new experiences. Her safe room being portrayed as a little girl's playroom emphasizes this. She does mature by the end as she overcomes her insecurities.
• The Mermaid Problem: In a sense. Gwen Khan said to Harry MacDougal, "You'd probably have some problems trying to mate with her" implying not so much that Melfina can't have sex but more like the end result of a successful breeding would be something completely unheard of.
• Mysterious Waif: A girl in a box that's connected to the special starship. The mysteries surrounding her drive a large part of the plot.
• Naked on Arrival: She first appears naked when Gene and Jim find her inside a box. The official reason is unknown but it may have to do with the perception of who ever put her in the box of her as Wetware CPU instead of human.
• The Navigator: Or rather, the navigation system itself.
• Nice Girl: A kind and friendly girl. She even shows pity to the absolutely vile Harry MacDougal.
• No-Sell: The cactus monster tries to use mind control on her, but it doesn't work on machines. Thus, she was the only one of the main cast who could deal with it... by stomping it to death
• Official Couple: With Gene, while they're at the Galactic Leyline, she asks Gene what he wants. He says he wants Melfina to stay with him, but realizes he's being selfish. So he asks what she wants. Melfina says it's to stay with him and the others and remain herself. So Gene makes that his wish, then seals it with The Big Damn Kiss.
• Out-of-Clothes Experience: If she's inside the Outlaw Star's navigation, module she's naked (unless you're watching the Cartoon Network edited version, where she has something like a two piece swimsuit).
• Parental Substitute: Jim sees her as a surrogate mother figure.
• Phlebotinum Girl: She was created to locate a legendary space treasure built by an ancient alien race.
• Rei Ayanami Expy: An artificial human with a mysterious past built by a secret conspiracy to obtain some enigmatic goal that has potentially world-shaking consequences.
• Shrinking Violet: Notably shy for a girl who spends most of her time doing her job naked.
• Spaceship Girl: Melfina seems at first to be a shy teenage girl, but she is soon revealed to be the living navigation system for a very advanced starship. The rest of the ship's functions, however, are controlled by Gilliam II, the ship's male computer system.
• Take a Third Option: During the time Gene was poisoned, Yase gave the crew two options: either hand over the Outlaw Star and Melfina so they will receive the cure (although Jim implied that he never kept his word) or Gene will die from the toxin. Melfina cured Gene herself.
• Town Girls: The Femme to Aisha's Butch and Suzuka's Neither due to being by far the most gentle, polite and caring female member of the crew.
• Unusual User Interface: She isn't a navigator, but rather the navigation system for the Outlaw Star. This requires her to jump into some backlit chamber and remove all of her clothing for some reason. Notably, she always enters and exits the navigation chamber fully clothed, the stripping appears to be involuntary and automatic.
  Aisha: The ship won't move unless you're naked? Well, that's very kinky, wouldn't you say?
  • Averted in the manga where wires connect directly to her skin to allow interface with the Outlaw Star.
• Wetware CPU: She is a walking, talking, breathing navigation system for the Outlaw Star .

Aisha Clan Clan

Voiced by: Yuko Miyamura (JP), Lenore Zann (EN, credited as Zan)

"Who are you calling an animal!?"

A Ctarl-Ctarl and former officer of the Ctarl-Ctarl Empire. Charged with the task to search for the Galactic Leyline, Aisha hunts would-be outlaw Gene Starwind and later joins his crew in search for answers.

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• Action Girl: Gene or Jim wouldn't have a chance against her unless they cheat (which they do... a lot)
• Amazonian Beauty: She's often shown flexing or otherwise showing off her muscles, and Gene certainly appreciated the view when he accidentally saw her naked.
• Amusing Alien: She's a childish alien egotist who suffers comic abuse for her arrogance.
• Badass Adorable: Aside from when she's pissed, pretty much every expression she makes is absolutely adorable.
• Berserk Button:
  • Never destroy delicious seafood when Miss Clan Clan is watching. She will pulverize the entire building!
  • Also, she really hates being called an animal, though her behavior still does plenty to warrant it.
• Big Eater: Eats as much as a Shonen hero.
• The Big Girl: If you want brute force, Aisha's your girl. She even has a Super Mode.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Loud and kicks ass.
• Braids of Action: She keeps her hair tied in a braid with a large ring, even when in combat.
• Butt-Monkey: She gets the most comic abuse out of the Outlaw Star's crew.
• Can't Argue with Elves: Played with every which way. Aisha won't hesitate for one second to remind you of her race's superiority, get into trouble due to her childishness, or bail out the crew when brute strength is needed. But she's frequently in as much debt as everyone else due to destroying wherever she works in a pointless fight. She is once on the receiving end of Screw You, Elves! when she wants to enter the Universe's Strongest Women tournament, and is told Ctarl-Ctarl are banned because they're seen as a danger to the tournament's competitors and its spectators because the last one that entered went on a one rampage that killed HUNDREDS of people and injured thousands more.
• Cat Girl: The ears, the "nya", the Cute Little Fangs, her tendency to Faux Paw, the bell on her collar, and the feisty attitude all point to this trope. She even turns into a tiger-thing!
• Character Development: Very subtle, but initially when she's forced to work to pay off her debts, she's loudly complaining out of bitterness or playing to a forced facade of obedience. By the end, she's casually wearing a fast-food server's outfit to make end's meat without any complaint.
  • More subtly, while her Large Ham traits never fully vanish- she goes from authoritative and angrily vengeful to get her old life back as she views the Outlaw Star as an enemy to having a more relaxed attitude while treating the crew as close friends.
• Clothing Damage: Aside from when she gets blown up, she shreds her outfit when she turns into her tiger form.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: She's a childish buffoon, but she's still an immortal Ctarl-Ctarl with skin like iron and crazy amounts of brute strength.
• Cool Big Sis: To Jim. It's lampshaded later in the series.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: When she entered the Universe' Strongest Woman tournament she easily defeated every opponent she went up against until she faced Iraga.
• Cute Bruiser: Acts like she's twelve and kicks a lot of ass.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: If Aisha could go were-tiger at will, only certain foes such as the Anten Seven would really be a threat (and even then she trashed another Ctarl Ctarl werewolf of said group with no aid or significant difficulty). Well, that and if she were a bit smarter.
• Great White Feline: Aisha can transform into a white tiger.
• Iron Butt-Monkey: If it's bad, it's probably going happen to her. Such as being shot in the face point-blank by Gene. Getting hit with a set of bombs even has results that are more comedic than harmful.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In spite of her obnoxious behavior, Aisha does have a sense of honor and has a soft spot to Jim.
• Large Ham: She is even more expressive than Gene, making him seem like the Only Sane Man in their conversations.
• Lethal Chef: She claims the stew she makes is a Ctarl-Ctarl delicacy. And that may be true, but the fact is humans can't handle it - just ask Suzuka. It gave her a stomachache bad enough to leave herself open to Leilong. Worst timing ever?
• Let's Get Dangerous!: She gets serious in a fight on two occasions. Both times she demonstrates exactly why Ctarl-Ctarl have such ferocious reputations as fighters.
• Lightning Bruiser: Being a Ctarl-Ctarl means Aisha is much stronger, faster, and more durable than humans. She once brought down a building, by accident.
• Ms. Fanservice: The series puts her in more outfits than Melfina or Suzuka, along with ample Clothing Damage, copious amounts of Male Gaze, and she even goes topless in the Hot Springs episode.
• The Nicknamer: Aisha calls Twilight Suzuka "Suzu", which noticeably irritates the latter.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Aisha boasts about the strength of the Ctarl-Ctarl and when she's no subject to slapstick she can typically back in up. When she entered the Universe's Strongest Woman tournament she easily won every all of her matches prior to the final round. Iraga, the only opponent who could prove a challenge, turned out to be shapeshifter as well.
• No-Sell: Gene once hit her with a knife. The knife broke without making a scratch on her.
• No True Scotsman: She's insulted by the idea that Iraga could possibly be a Ctarl-Ctarl, insisting that no Ctarl-Ctarl would ever stoop to being an assassin for lowly pirates (given that Iraga turns into a wolf-like creature instead of a cat, she might actually correct, though).
• Our Werebeasts Are Different: The Ctarl-Ctarl are werecat-space-people. Their super mode requires a moon.
• Phrase Catcher: "Shut up, Aisha!"
• Pride Before a Fall: This gets lampshaded during the opening narration of Episode 5, which recounts how and why Aisha lost her former position and status.
• Proud Warrior Race Girl: ...and won't let anyone forget it. Expect to hear about "the mighty Ctarl-Ctarl Empire" at least once, or twice, whenever she's onscreen.
• Riches to Rags: It's barely touched on in the series, but per her backstory at the start of episode 5 she comes from a very wealthy and influential family and at the start of the series she was the commanding officer on the largest and most powerful warship of the Ctarl-Ctarl Empire. Then she was promptly stripped of her rank due to screwing up when she encountered Hilda and the crew in Episode 3 and was stuck working menial jobs until she signed up with the crew of the Outlaw Star (where she was still stuck mostly doing menial jobs).
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: She didn't mind Gene seeing her stark naked, during their trip to Tenrei's hot springs resort. If anything, she was amused by it and teased him for getting flustered.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Aisha is legimately strong, but her pride as a Ctarl-Ctarl outstretches her ability given her frequent boasting of the Ctarl-Ctarl's superiority.
• Significant White Hair, Dark Skin: She's a Cat Girl alien in a crew where everyone else looks completely human. The contrast of her platinum blonde hair and dark skin makes her stand out even more.
• Super Mode: Whenever she activates her were-tiger mode, which is an inherent ability amongst the Ctarl-Ctarl, her already high combat ability goes even higher. So long as there's a moon present, that is.
• Super-Strength: Enough to destroy robots that could shrug off Gene's caster shells, and in another episode, when beating up a group of thugs she also brought down the entire building.
• Super-Toughness: To say Aisha is durable would be an understatement. When Gene has a go at her with his knife in Episode 5, the blade shattered from striking her skin; she was unharmed. At the end of the same episode, she survived being shot point blank between the eyes by a #12 caster shell, though the impact knocked her unconscious. The Hot Springs Episode also had her finding most of the springs too cold, and the only one that was warm enough proved scalding hot to anybody else in it resembles molten lava.
• Town Girls: The Butch to Melfina's Femme and Suzuka's Neither because she's boisterous, rude and a warrior, in contrast with her definitely feminine crewmates.
• Unanthropomorphic Transformation: Can transform from a fearsome cat-girl into an even more fearsome giant cat form equipped with fangs and claws.
• Unusual Ears: Apart from the obvious Cat Girl thing, Aisha's ears do have a bit of a jigokumimi look to them.
• Verbal Tic: In the original Japanese, she adds "zo na" to the end of most of her sentences for emphasis. In the English dub, she'll let out a "Nya" when expressing emotion.
• Voluntary Shapeshifter: She can go full werecat at will, provided the planet she's on has a moon.
• Womanchild: She has zero maturity or impulse control, often making Gene, an impulsive womanizer, appear to be extremely mature by comparison.
• The Worf Effect: She was also one among the first to be taken out by Shimi, who dropped her with a set of explosives, to demonstrate why he is one of the Anten Seven.
• Work Off the Debt: Aisha was forced to wash the dishes at a seafood restaurant she worked at to pay for the damages she caused while fighting several pirates.
• World's Strongest Woman: While she did break the rules to enter, and the whole place burned down, but she defeated the assassin Iraga, who easily defeated the four time reigning champion... yep Aisha earned this one.

"Twilight" Suzuka

Voiced by: Sayuri Yamauchi (JP), Wendee Lee (EN)

An "Ultra Class A" assassin who is known for killing her victims during a setting sun. Suzuka joins up with Gene Starwind and the crew of the Outlaw Star, claiming that she finds them to be all rather interesting people, and teams up with them in their fight against the Kei pirates.

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• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Her bokken can cut through anything.
• Action Girl: When Suzuka picks up her bokken, somebody's ass is about to be kicked. She’s probably the strongest member of the crew in a one-to-one.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's tall (almost six feet), has long black hair and is the most attractive female in the main cast. She's quiet, composed and so aloof she barely even seems to be part of the crew.
• Always Someone Better: a whole episode involves her killing high profile targets and living comfortably while Gene chased down pettier criminals for a fraction of the reward while barely keeping his head above poverty.
• Can't Bathe Without a Weapon: In the Hot Springs Episode, Gene ends up landing in the hot spring where she and Melfina were bathing and she quickly reacher for her sword that she kept within reach.
• Combat Stilettos: She's a samurai in high-heels, which do not slow her down. They may as well be track shoes.
• Defeat by Modesty: Seen near the end of her introductory episode, when Gene grabbed her Sarashi and unravelled it. Suzuka was forced to forfeit in order to cover up.
• Defeat Means Friendship: She joins the crew after Gene (barely) defeats her.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She doesn't do a personality 180, but she grows kinder and more willing to care about other people over the course of the series.
• Everything's Better with Samurai: The only reason she's in this Sci-Fi universe is because Samurai are cool. Suzuka has no real place in the series, which is a semi-futuristic world with magical Space Pirates and ships with arms, likely only there to add a sense of Japanese culture and fetish appeal.
• Hidden Buxom: Hides them under both her kimono and her Sarashi wrap. When she's relaxing nude in the hot spring, she's almost as big as Aisha.
• Hitman with a Heart:
  • She has no obligation to help the crew, but does so out of boredom.
  • She later protects Melfina and some civilians from a rampaging Kei pirate, showing that she’s really not all that bad as long as she hasn’t been hired to kill you.
• Honor Before Reason: She holds herself to timed kills out of pride for her skill, and will actually relent for at least a day if she can't kill the person that sunset. Once Gene manages to cause her to have this happen, she near-immediately targets him personally in disregard of this shtick, and even continues this after he defeats her - all while refusing to accept either a loss or a draw because Gene's Combat Pragmatist methods personally peeved her off, even admitting it's because of her pride.
• Hypocrite: It's never directly addressed in the series, but when she first meets Gene she calls him out for fighting to protect Fred Lo for money rather than loyalty or ideology even though her only reason for trying to kill Fred was for money.
• Improbable Weapon User: Suzuka wields a bokuto, or a wooden training sword. And with that, she cuts trucks in half and can smash clean through a ceiling in a single slash in pure Charles Atlas Superpower fashion.
• Lady of War: All but lampshaded during the opening narration of her introductory episode. Suzuka is literally a space-aged samurai and upholds their classic ideals of honor and chivalry.
• The Lancer: With her cool demeanor and skillful use of a wooden sword, she makes quite the contrast with the hotblooded gunslinger who leads the crew.
• Martial Arts Headband: She sports a strip of cloth tied around the head because she is a samurai.
• Ms. Fanservice: An interesting example in that normally Suzuka is fairly modest, reserved and not at all intent in sexual matters. But when the cast has to strip down, Suzuka is the one that usually wears the least, and the uncensored opening for her introductory episode pretty much cements her as this with a sitting nude shot from behind while the narrator comments on her beauty.
• Nerf Arm: Of course, given how she uses it, it might as well be a lightsaber.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: To Gene, after losing to him. It's a matter of pride since she lost to him previously.
• Professional Killer: Gene tarnished her reputation, but she still kills people despite this. It's probably the only reason she's not dirt broke like the others.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: An alluring beauty with jet-black hair and pale white skin, as the narration for her introduction episode points out.
• Razor Wind: One of her many, many sword techs is creating attacks with wind by slicing it.
• Red Baron: She's known as "Twilight" Suzuka, because that's the time she feels is most beautiful for carrying out assassinations. It also gives the victim time to say their final goodbyes.
• Samurai Ponytail: She is a samurai and ties back her long tail.
• Sarashi: She wears one around her chest because Samurai!.
• Secretly Wealthy: It's not precisely a secret, given that she's famous as an extremely expensive assassin, but she lives a fairly modest lifestyle. It's hinted that she could finance the Outlaw Star by herself but doesn't because she refuses to give or accept charity.
• Single-Stroke Battle: Most of her fights end quickly. Down in one blow by Leilong.
• Statuesque Stunner: The tallest member of the main cast according to official size charts, and directly referred to as the "Beautiful Assassin" for a reason.
• Town Girls: The Neither to Aisha's Butch and Melfina's Femme because she stands between the two. She's unquestionably feminine compared to Aisha, but while Aisha is more of The Lad-ette, Suzuka is pretty much a Lady of War while Melfina isn't a fighter.
• Wooden Katanas Are Even Better: She uses a bokkuto (a Japanese wooden training sword) to do everything from blocking gun fire, to cleaving through metal. Normally a bokken is used for training; Suzuka's is used to cleave, among other things, a bus, lengthwise, as it's barrelling towards her.
• Worf Had the Flu: Happens against Shimi a.k.a Leilong. She actually stood a much fairer chance of fighting him evenly than the rest of the crew, but right in the middle of the fight she gets....a stomachache (blame Aisha and her stew). It left her open enough to be taken down quickly.

Gilliam II

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi (JP), Peter Spellos (EN, credited as G. Gordon Baer)

"My library is on par with that of a Space Forces cruiser."

The XGP 15A-II's artificial intelligence system.

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• Benevolent A.I.: He is polite and helpful to the Outlaw Star's crw.
• Catchphrase: Gilliam would like to remind you that the Outlaw Star is the most advanced ship in the galaxy.
• Cool Ship: He is the mind of the most advanced ship in the galaxy!
• Deadpan Snarker: Makes valid complaints, not that the crew listens.
• Do Androids Dream?: Parodied. Gilliam is programmed with a mental block that prevents him from questioning or meditating on his existence or purpose – so instead of contemplating his navel, he contemplates his inability to contemplate his navel. Meta.
  • One stops to wonder why when you realize this is Gilliam II, despite the XGP itself being a prototype. Did Gilliam I contemplate his navel and go rampant?
• Not So Above It All: While he's the straight man and is usually pointing out the foolhardiness of his captain, when Gene enters them into a space race Gilliam gets pretty competitive himself.
• Not So Stoic: when he sees hordes of Mecha-Mooks charging up his gantry, he does a proper Wild Take. His interior manipulator drones are much more expressive than his terminal, and, hey! He's the most advanced ship in the galaxy. He can handle a few dozen enemy craft. Getting besieged while stuck on the ground, however, is something neither he nor the ship can deal with efficiently.
• Only Sane Man: Constantly points out the recklessness of the crew.
  My crew is a bunch of lunatics.
• Robot Buddy: In his pink mini-robot form; Jim painted one pink to make it friendlier and distinctive.
• The Smart Guy: He's the AI for the "most advanced starship in the galaxy", of course he's the smartest in the group.
• Surrounded by Idiots: He has a crew where the Only Sane Man besides him is a child, who still goes along with whatever reckless plans Gene comes up with. Hard to argue with him when he says his crew are lunatics.
• The Stoic: When he detects enemy spacecraft and/or space hazards, he indicates it through a rather bored-sounding "Oh my".
• Super Prototype: He's the prototype of "the most advanced starship in the galaxy" and damn proud of it.

Outlaws

Hilda

"Hot Ice" Hilda

Portrayed By: Toshiko Fujita (JP), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (EN, credited as Melissa Williamson)

"No one is going to give you a map, you've got to walk your own path"

An outlaw with an enigmatic past and a sworn enemy of the Kei Pirate Guild and the MacDougall brothers. Prior to landing on Sentinel III, she stole the prized possession of the Kei pirates, the XGP 15A-II and the bio-android Melfina.

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• Action Girl: She defeats both tavern thugs and space pirates. The latter has been trying to kill her for a while.
• Adaptational Villainy: While Hilda was no saint in the anime, the manga removes any of her humanizing moments and identifies her as a pirate rather than an outlaw, who uses Gene as a means to an end to get Melfina, with her assumed closing bond just being a facade to lull them into a false sense of security.
• Artificial Limbs: In the Manga. In the anime, only one of her arms is shown to be fake.
• Body Horror: Again in the Manga, her Artificial Limbs do NOT look natural at all, hence why she wears really long gloves.
• Decoy Protagonist: She's set up to be an equal partner to Gene in their search for the Galactic Leyline. She isn't one. She dies in the 4th episode.
• Did They or Didn't They?: With Gene. It's left unanswered for much of the anime series, until the flashback in Episode 25. They did.
• Eyepatch of Power: She's missing her right eye and covers it with an eye patch. She's not a pirate.
• Face Death with Dignity: She handles her impending death with grace and acceptance, calmly using her last moments to implore Gene to become an outlaw and go find the Galactic Leyline while also imploring that he should also handle her death in the same way.
• Four Is Death: She dies in Episode 4, which is appropriately titled: "When the Hot Ice Melts".
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Next time you watch the first episode, check her alter ego/disguise/fake ID. Amongst other things, the date of birth is 1988.
• Hollywood Cyborg: She has a cybernetic left arm.
• I Work Alone: In episode 25, she admits during her night at intimacy with Gene that as an outlaw you should be on your own without relying on anyone else outside of the occasional need for the warmth of another body and temporary assistance from outside help one needs if one can't do it on their own before resuming being alone again. How she speaks implies that she's speaking out of personal experience rather than a guideline with a hinted falling out between herself and Ron MacDougal that the latter mentions being the cause.
• Kick the Dog: After escaping the pirates pursuing her on Sentinel, Hilda shoots Gene point blank in the stomach, who only survived because Jim's PA just happened to be in the right spot to block the bullet. Whether she intended to kill him or not is up for debate. Afterward, she softens up and becomes a stern but more supportive figure to Gene who helps to create the foundations of his outlaw beliefs.
  • In the manga, Hilda shoots him multiple times in the back and then promises to do the same to Jim after she has no further need of him. This coming after developing a seemingly close enough bond after working to defeat the Kei Pirates and an intimate session of romance with Gene.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: Hilda imparts her value system to Gene (her motivations, philosophy and code of honor) before her death.
• Mysterious Past: Very little is really known about Hilda; her origins, her past, and her exploits are mentioned vaguely at best. The best that can be said is that she got into several scuffles with the Kei Pirates and every faction in space, had several allies including Swazo, and was in an implied relationship with Ron before they went their separate ways.
• Nominal Hero: She's loyal to those she considers friends but if you haven't earned her respect, she's just as likely to stab you in the back if it serves her interests.
• Red Baron: She's known as, "Hot Ice" Hilda.
• Sacrificial Lion: She's The Herald and the reason Gene finds the Outlaw Star in the first place, and her death serves as a catalyst for Gene to find his path as an outlaw. Had she remained as an ally, Gene wouldn't grow into his own as an outlaw, having to rely on her as the more experienced individual
• Taking You with Me: When she realizes there's no possible way to escape, she grabs onto Soi Len and detonates an explosive in her tooth, killing them both to prevent the latter from killing Gene and his friends.
• Would Hurt a Child: Implied in the anime where, after betraying and shooting Gene, she threatens to do the same to Jim if he doesn't load Melfina's case into their car. In the manga, she outright promises to kill him after she no longer has any use for him.
• Younger Than They Look: From her appearance, reputation, and the way she carries herself, one would assume she's in her late 20's-early 30's at least. But according to her profile, she's only 21. But then again, it's only referenced vaguely in the manga info pages with a question mark and in the anime, it references her birthdate in the year '''1988''', heavily implied to be the only factually true indicator in her false Rachel identity.

Old Man

Old Man "Gramps"

Portrayed By: Kenichi Ogata (JP), Mike Reynolds (EN)

''"You must search for your own dream, young outlaw. And then fight for it - fight to make it all yours."

An old Outlaw, looking for a ship and a crew capable of infiltrating a mysterious planet with an incredibly valuable treasure inside.

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• An Arm and a Leg: He lost his right arm and left leg long ago.
• Artificial Limbs: Has a cybernetic right arm and left leg.
• Badass Longcoat: He wears one as a part of his pirate motif.
• Determinator: Vows to find the lost treasure of the pirate ship containing dragonite and avenge his comrades.
• Expy: Of Captain Ahab of Moby Dick. He's an elderly man who becomes obsessed with killing a massive aquatic animal that killed his comrades and lost a leg in the pursuit of that revenge. Unlike Ahab, he retains enough humanity to be a helpful individual.
• Eyepatch of Power: A metal eyepatch.
• A Father to His Men: He lost his crew to the sea monsters of the Water Planet long ago. All he has left of them is a picture.
• Handicapped Badass: Despite losing his arm and eye, it doesn't hamper his determination and will at all.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He crashes a mini-sub into the mouth of the Demon King sea monster and blows himself up, allowing Gene and his crew to escape.
• Taking You with Me: He blows himself up (using explosives embedded inside his cybernetic arm), taking the Demon King of the Water Planet with him.

Kei Pirate Guild

In General

• Asian Rune Chant: The Tao Magic they use works this way.
  "Pagua Sonfa, Pagua Sonfa, Pagua Sonfa...!"
• Greater-Scope Villain: We know practically nothing about Hazanko's superiors, the Tendo King and the Tempa Emperor. However, considering that Hazanko, who is no slouch himself, felt he needed something like the Galactic Leyline to take on either of them it seems reasonable to assume that they are beyond terrifying in terms of raw power.
• Once per Episode: Expect to hear: "Pagua Sonfa, Pagua Sonfa, Pagua Sonfa...!" every time they cast their Tao magic, with Soi Len being the main offender.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: The Anten Seven fit the bill for the Kei Pirates as a whole since they are a special group of assassins.
• The Smurfette Principle: Soi Len is the only known female in the group outside of the Anten Seven.
• Space Pirates: Well, yeah. They plunder other starships.
  • Ironically, all the named Kei pirates are never actually seen committing piracy, although they are involved in various other nefarious actions. Instead, they are trying to recover an expensive ship and android developed by their R&D department and stolen from them. Since they hold high positions in a large criminal enterprise, though, it's not unreasonable for them to be too busy and important to commit petty crimes.
• Starter Villains: The first trio are Gene and Hilda's primary antagonists for the first four episodes until they're killed near the end of the fourth episode. From then on after episodes seven and eight where five of them are the enemies as the dual episodes' villains, the MacDougall Bros. and the Anten Seven led by Hazanko take over as the main antagonists of the series for its remainder.
• Too Dumb to Live: While they're after the XGP, instead of waiting to when they were out of the gravity well first to try and gain it back. They instead decide that it would be an ample time to attack Gene and Hilda when all were in danger of falling into a sun after the MacDougalls decide to betray the pirates and push the meteorite everyone was on towards it.

Leadership

Tempa Emperor

The Tempa Emperor

Portrayed By: N/A

• Always a Bigger Fish: Implied. As powerful as Hazanko is, he desires the Galactic Leyline's powers to be on equal footing with the Tendo King. And the Tempa Emperor is heavily implied to be even greater, hinting at his terrifying power that eclipses that of a being that requires one to rely on becoming a reality-warping god to contend with.
• The Emperor: He is the implied ruler of the Tempa Empire, a massive territory in space, including the Hoppo system where the Kei Pirates established their territories, and the Heiphon system, where the heroes set up shop.
• The Empire: The Tempa Empire he lords over is implied to be malevolent. In one episode, Heiphon's government was accused of being a puppet to the Tempa Empire by Crackerjack, and their Viceroy was willing to sacrifice the hostages, though there is no confirmation. Given that Crackerjack is a thief pretending to be a political terrorist, he's probably just spouting nonsense. Possibly a coincidence considering most of the major villains were able to gain access to Heiphon III, just to kill Gene Starwind and take back the XGP. The Space Forces group that hired the MacDougall brothers to terminate the XGP might be the Tempa Empire's branch, considering the ties to the Kei Pirates and the Leyline Project.
• The Ghost: He makes zero appearances, only ever referred to by Hazanko himself, making him even more of an enigma than the already mysterious Tendo King.
• Greater-Scope Villain: He's the superior of the Tendo King, the leader of the Kei Pirates, and is implied to be so powerful that Hazanko himself fears him, even more so than the Tendo King, but he's never seen.

Tendo King

The Tendo King

Portrayed By: N/A

• Always a Bigger Fish: Implied. Hazanko in spite of his vast powers and abilities, desires the Leyline's powers to even stand a chance against the Tendo King, which given the reality-warping powers of the Leyline, suggests the Tendo King is truly godlike in power with only the Tempa Emperor surpassing him.
• The Ghost: He makes zero appearances, only ever referred to by the narrator and Hazanko through dialogue or narration.
• Greater-Scope Villain: He's the leader of the Kei Pirates and is implied to be so powerful that Hazanko himself fears him, but he's never seen.
• King of Thieves: The Tendo King is the head of the entire Chinese Guild. Hazanko is one of the Kei Leaders who works for him.

Hazanko

Hazanko

Played By: Seizō Katō (JP), Tom Wyner (EN)

"Not just the Tendo King! The power of the Galactic Leyline surpasses that of the Tempa Emperor! No, its power is even greater than that!!"

A member of the Kei Pirate Guild and leader of the 108 Stars. A key player in the creation of the Outlaw Star, Hazanko seeks ultimate power through the mysterious Galactic Leyline.

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• Abusive Parents: Technically speaking as one of the overseers of the Keyline Project, he is technically Melfina's creator alongside Gwen. Both see her as a puppet to get to the Leyline and have no issue shutting down her autonomy when it's convenient. Hazanko's arguably the worse of the two as he brutally kills Harry in front of her in a traumatic fashion and even emotionally abuses her with the possibility that Gene sees her as a pawn as well.
• Asian Rune Chant: It's subtle and never directly called out in-universe, but Hazanko's mastery over Tao Magic is such that he doesn't need to use these chants when casting spells, performing them wordlessly, something not even the Anten Seven could accomplish, hinting how much talent he has over the other Kei leaders. It's to the point that he can essentially undo being reduced to oblivion via his Tao Magic mastery, the same Caster that doomed Hamushi, his subordinate when it was used on her, someone who was already immune to conventional Caster Shells that would one-shot a normal Tao Master. This naturally demonstrates how much of a monster he truly is.
• The Assimilator: He assimiliates the crew of the Geomancer to form his new physical avatar and later planned to do the same to Gene during their fight in the cyber-scape, only being thwarted via the combined energy of his crew working together.
• Ax-Crazy: His moments of pure, unadulterated, unhinged rage, really contrast his usual stoic, regal manner. Makes sense that he is the leader of the most brutal sect of the Kei Pirates, and his kills are infamous enough that Gwen Khan recognizes his handiwork. He also has enemies or those who displeased him beheaded and presented on a plate at a dinner table.
• Bad Boss: Kind of. Despite his fearsome reputation for brutally killing people, he is apathetic to the deaths or well-being of his fleet of grappler ships, and is very demeaning and authoritative with the pirates loyal to him- not caring when several of them die in the pursuit of his selfish ambitions. He seems willing to be patient with his underlings giving bad news, and surprisingly overlooks Tobigera's failure to kill Gene Starwind with nothing more than guard duty for his starship, the Geomancer... until he merges with the Geomancer, with his remaining assassin and crew still inside, getting gruesomely liquidated into blood.
• Beneath the Mask: He usually acts in the manner of a regal, reserved, and seemingly loyal member of the Kei Pirates, doing brutal acts to ensure the stability of the Tempa Empire. As the final three episodes reveal, he's actually an extremely power-hungry psychopath whose violence is propelled by narcissistic anger and genuine psychopathy while using the Tempa Empire as a means to an end to get to the Leyline to achieve absolute personal power.
  • It's reflected in his cyber avatar form. While he portrays himself as a noble stature adorned regal blues and golds, his avatar is completely purple while looking barely humanoid in comparison to every other cyber avatar who are identical to their human selves, while also being much more emotive what his mask usually allows.
• Berserk Button: After Harry manages to destroy part of his Cool Mask, he immediately subjects him to a Family-Unfriendly Death that had to be censored on the original Toonami showing.
• Big Bad: He is the leader of the 108 and commands the Anten Seven, which makes him the biggest threat to the Outlaw Star crew.
• Body Horror: His merger with the Geomancer causes the crew to melt violently as they're assimilated into the new physical avatar of his power. It manifests as a bluish mass of warped faces that eventually results in a form that be best described as a misshapen abomination that is both mechanical and biological with Hazanko and Tobigera's faces on the left arm with a "tail" protruding from this arm with the other segment leads to a right shoulder with a long arm attached. It then fires an energy blast that initially takes the form of a wailing face implying it's powered by the souls of the crew itself.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Hazanko fully embraces ambition enough to overthrow his superiors in a bide for ultimate power via the Leyline, has a reputation for being extremely violent against his enemies- with his sect's displayed behavior implied to be abnormally barbaric amongst the guild, and lacks the humanizing traits that other villains the MacDougal Brothers and even several of his subordinates possess, marking him as the most evil character in the story.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Hazanko is rather infamous for inflicting these in-universe, if Gwen Khan's comments have anything to go by. Notably, the onscreen kills he is responsible for are far more explicitly grisly than the standard deaths; all of them are censored. From beheadings to painfully fracturing arms, legs, and spine, or turning his victims into bloody messes, Hazanko fittingly suffers one in the end.
• Cool Mask: Destroying part of it is a major Berserk Button for him.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: An utterly ruthless pirate boss having a level of Tao Magic that makes him comparable to an incomprehensible demon already, a very grisly death is the usual outcome of those who anger him or get in his way. Especially since his ultimate desire allows him to become an eldritch abomination.
• Death Glare: His one visible eye usually has this as default, but he goes into a terrifying miosis before he crushes Harry to death.
• Decapitation Presentation: In the photos, he has a head on a plate on display for a horrified individual in his expository introduction.
• Devour the Dragon: Hazanko eventually merges with the Geomancer – including Tobigera and the rest of the crew.
• The Dreaded: The most terrifying figure among the Kei Pirates, and possibly the whole universe outside of the Tendo King and the Tempa Emperor, that Gwen Khan is familiar with and doesn't want to cross. Even Suzuka seemed worried about this guy.
• Entitled Bastard: He wants the Leyline to achieve absolute power to overthrow the Tempa Emperor and the Tendo King because he feels inferior to them. This is despite how he's ranked very high in the Kei Pirates due to his methods with vast amounts of political, supernatural, and military power at his disposal already. And he's still not satisfied, throwing all of his resources to gain absolute power for himself because his over-bloated ego can't tolerate anything less.
• Establishing Character Moment: Episode 15 shows Hazanko in a more enigmatic yet intimidating light while not hinting at the sinister personality hinted at in the narration of Episode 7. It's Episode 24 that shows who Hazanko is on a fundamental level. He has two elderly sorcerers continue with their ritual despite them being exhausted without considering their condition. When confronted by the Overseer, he initially hides his actions as being a necessity to get to the Leyline. When pressed further, he bombastically declares his ambitions to overthrow both the Tendo King and the Tempa Emperor. He then has him killed along with his guard to hide the evidence. This shows Hazanko as a ruthless and ambitious man willing to do anything to get what he wants even if it means to use and dispose of even his own allies without any concern for their well-being.
• Evil Counterpart: Subtly to Gene surprisingly enough. Both defy the laws of their society, rely on sorcery as their trump card, and are willing to use the pragmatic means over the honorable means to get what they want. Gene desires more to settle the debts that he suffers due to the expenses of his ship- never truly getting rich, and fulfilling his dreams of exploring space, and is infamous for being underhanded in fights. However, he has standards as he won't break promises, treats his crew with respect, and only kills those who legitimately deserve it- the ones who go after him first more than often enough. Hazanko on the other hand, has more than enough power and influence in the Kei Pirate Guild to live in leisure for the rest of his days and still isn't satisfied with being a subordinate to the Tendo King and Tempa Emperor despite all the luxuries he's earned. So he attempts to use the Leyline to get absolute power to resolve his colossal ego. Additionally, Hazanko has no respect for his subordinates who die in the pursuit of getting back the XGP and Melfina. And he will backstab his employers the moment the opportunity presents itself, having no loyalty to anyone but himself. While Gene can be impulsive, he can be level-headed when the situation calls for it. Hazanko gives the airs of an unshakeable, stoic leader but he can surprisingly be angered if one pesters him enough- having a reputation for fury and excessively brutal violence.
• Evil Is Bigger: He towers over his minions including the already tall Hitoriga, but especially Gene and is essentially the most evil character in the story. It applies to his personal Grappler, the Geomancer, which is large enough that the Outlaw Star can be literally grabbed in its pincers like a small toy. When he merges with the Geomancer, it increases to an even more gargantuan size.
• Evil Genius: Implied to be the major architect of the entire Leyline Project along with Gwen Khan, and is intelligent enough to figure out a way into the Leyline without the navigation system. As a Kei Leader of the Pirates, he handled the logistics of his organization. His unquestioned skill in Tao Magic requires immense knowledge, as he is familiar with old magic used for caster guns as well. He is also very evil.
• Evil Old Folks: An old man who can crush your body if you anger him. He's also an extremely brutal boss who at best is apathetic to their deaths and at worst, assimilates them into his ultimate form, disregarding their individuality completely. This isn't even getting into how he's technically Melfina to whom he's especially emotionally abusive towards.
• Evil Sorcerer: He's like the Sorcerous Overlord from a fantasy genre but (In space)
• Evil Sounds Deep: He has a powerful, booming voice with a metallic echo.
• Evil Plan: Acquire the XGP and find the Galatic Leyline so he gains enough power to overthrow the Tendo King and Tempa Emperor.
• Eviler than Thou: He is the leader of the 108 stars, the most brutal pirate faction within the Kei Pirates, which is already an infamously cruel guild. In just a few short moments, he has the Tendo King's servant and his assassins killed, and despite the MacDougall Brothers' usual spotlight-stealing villainy, he quickly shows them exactly why he is the Big Bad by murdering Harry MacDougall in cold blood. Unquestionably the most brutal and ruthless of all the villains in his pursuit of power.
• Faux Affably Evil: He has his moments, whether reporting to the overseer, or gloating to the crewmates. There is this line he says to a captive Melfina after calling her a puppet, and murdering Harry in front of her eyes.
  "Come now! Be a good little girl, and open the gate for me."
• Genius Bruiser: Extremely well versed in Tao Magic to the point where a caster gun will not work, even counteracting an extremely rare, forbidden shell, he figured out a way, on his own, to penetrate the Leyline's defenses without a navigation system, while plotting against his leaders. He is also familiar with the Leyline Project commands, and generally very knowledgeable. He is also quite large, unimaginably brutal, and more than capable of close-quarters combat.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: One of his eyes on his mask glows red when feeling particularly ominous. Both of them glow red in his One Wing Angel form when being particularly malicious.
• Hero Killer: He is every bit the ultimate Tao Master he is built up to be. Just ask Harry. He even succeeded in killing Gene when they finally confront each other, though he was killed in the process. Both got better via the Leyline, and he managed to get all his power from the Leyline.
• Humanoid Abomination: Downplayed. Seemingly a normal human Tao Wizard, his regal attire, scary mask, and mannerisms seem to emulate something much more horrifying. His more unique Tao Spells and his ungodly level of power veer heavily into this territory. His virtual spirit form just looks wrong and off-putting compared to every other cyber version of the person who all looks like themselves except wearing cybernetic clothing, while he in comparison, has no visible neck with his face appearing like a clumsily put on mask on the protruded lump, his upper/lower torso/arms are divided by spheres, and his upper legs/lower arms having widened hole gaps- appearing like a misshapen creature that is barely trying to look human. This is in contrast with his usual elegant blue with golden ascent robes, showing how much vanity and inferiority he hides behind his pretense of reality.
• Hypocrite: He calls the MacDougal Brothers loathsome jackals for being backstabbing killers who have no real loyalty outside of who gets them what they want. While he's correct about this fact, Hazanko is infinitely worse as he's just as backstabbing as they are, having moments before killed the Overseer for getting in the way of his ambitions, let alone his plan to screw over the Tempa Empire by using the Leyline to become a Physical God to kill its leaders, despite having all the authority and privileges given to him for being brutally efficient in terms of literal and political power- using them to get what he wants of them before disposing them. And unlike them, he doesn't have the same sole virtues of doing it for the sake of loved ones, being cruel, selfish, and abusive to the people he knows.
  • He has the gall to call one of his elderly sorcerers, an old man despite he himself being elderly.
    • For all of his Bad Boss traits, while physically powerful, he constantly relies on his minions to get to his intended goal. He relies on Jukai to get to Melfina, relies on his assassins to kill his enemies, and has to rely on his Geomancer's crew to construct a body to face Gene and company.
• It's All About Me: Hazanko despite having all the political and supernatural power in the Kei Guild outside of the two leaders, isn't satisfied with even this, desiring the Leyline to become a Physical God to overtake them and views all of his subordinates as extensions of his will to be thrown to their deaths if it means fulfilling his colossal ego.
• Jerkass: Very nasty to those he deems inferior to him. Considered Shimi, arguably his most reliable assassin, worthless after he finds out he died to Gene Starwind. Regards the MacDougall Brothers as loathsome jackals to their faces, and never hesitates to remind Melfina that she is just a puppet while emotionally abusing her.
  • This particularly stands out in contrast to the other introduced Kei Pirates, who even at their worst, are concerned with the deaths of their colleagues, Hazanko is apathetic at best at their deaths and at worst, will literally disregard their individuality by assimilating them into his ultimate form.
• Kick the Dog: The man emotionally breaks Melfina, before and after suspending her personality. By first killing Harry, a normally reprehensible killer, in an excessively brutal manner when he attempts to save her and then vocally toys with the false notion that Gene only cares for Melfina as a tool to the Leyline.
• Knight of Cerebus: The few times he is involved, things get very bleak. In his introduction, he sends his best assassin who very nearly kills Gene and his crew, and the stakes are raised even higher when his true plans for the Leyline are revealed.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Certainly not a Squishy Wizard by any means. He can put up a fight, and eventually pummels Gene in a virtual reality fist-fight
• Lack of Empathy: He tells his two exhausted and elderly subordinates to continue regardless of how they are feeling, he brutally kills Harry in a nightmarishly violent manner disregarding Melfina's distress, and then proceeds to play mind games on Gene to make him believe he's using Melfina for selfish reasons like himself. This isn't even counting how he threw his minions to their deaths or even assimilated them into his final form without caring about their deaths.
  • This trait particularly stands out in comparison to the MacDougal Brothers and the other Kei Pirates, who despite being malicious criminals, care for their comrades. Which in turn make Hazanko even more heartless in comparison.
• Large and in Charge: He towers over his minions and is by far the strongest member of the group.
• Large Ham: Generally is fond of dramatically speaking, and really devours the scenery when he gets excited or surprised. He tries to be stoic yet speaking with dramatic emphasis but his violent nature causes him to go over-the-top anyway.
• Lightning Bruiser: For a Tao Master as huge and seemingly immobile as a statue, this may come as a nasty surprise to those who fight him hand to hand. If he isn't tanking hits with his Tao Magic, he can effortlessly dodge superspeedy cyborgs, and as Gene found out, he is a muscular beast in hand to hand.
• Mask of Sanity: Both metaphorically and literally. Hazanko wears a mask of a neutral yet intimidating figure while acting in a regal and authoritative manner. However, breaking the mask literally and emotionally exposes him for the excessively violent and cruel monster he is deep down with several people including Gwen being aware of his brutal handiwork by sight alone. When merged with the Geomancer, his normally mask-like face warps to expose the deranged monster he hides deep down.
• Mechanical Abomination: To make up for Gene destroying his physical body, his spirit merges with the Geomancer to become a warped, mishappen monstrosity of bio-organic material with his and Tobigera's faces on one of the arms. He also has the power to generate energy blasts made of souls along with several implied abilities''.
• Narcissist: It's not obvious at first, but Hazanko is heavily implied to have an overblown and bloated view of himself as the perfect being deep down beneath his regal persona. He prefers to have his face covered in a mask at all times to not appear as a lowly mortal and to cover his scars and missing eye. His disproportionately violent reaction to Harry breaking his mask when before he was mostly indifferent speaks volumes.
  • It's also implied for all of his political and physical/supernatural power, he's not satisfied because the existence of the Tendo King and the Tempa Emperor threatens his worldview of being the best, and wants to the Leyline to make him a Physical God to correct this assumed mistake.
    • He also dresses in regal and refined regalia at all times. When he faces Gene, he's implied to be less irate for Gene defying him but for forcing him into grotesque, mishappen bodies that clash with his pretense of nobility. Even though they reflect the true monstrous nature of his soul after destroying his physical body in their final clash.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: He is deadly serious, if extremely brutal with his enemies. If regular pirates are not cut out for his missions, he usually sends in his most reliable assassin Shimi, first and foremost. When it comes to his overall goal, he is careful enough, and works efficiently to achieve his ultimate goal. He prefers the pragmatic route over the risky one.
• Not So Stoic: He can get really mad if something unexpected happens, especially if someone breaks his mask.Gets a bit more expressive when he merges with his ship with his faces distorting into demonic visafes.
• One-Winged Angel: Hazanko merging with the Geomancer during the climax of the series.
• Orcus on His Throne: Does barely anything for most of the series. Prior to the finale, he barely even appears.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Terrifyingly averted. Harry MacDougall is an unstable hired killer who terrified Melfina in his earlier encounters so his dying at Hazanko's hands would normally be a cathartic moment for everything he did up to that point. Instead, Harry gets killed by Hazanko so horrifically and pitifully, that it was censored in certain versions, which earned him sympathy from Melfina, the object of his twisted obsession. Hazanko only did it not because he was in the way but because he exposed part of his face by breaking his mask and Harry, despite his own selfish ulterior motives, was fighting for Melfina's safety against someone who was not only using her as a means to achieve a far more heinous goal than either MacDougal Brother would stoop to, but also completely disregards her very autonomy. Without prior context and even with that context, Harry comes across as a failed protector despite the horrible he committed, only satisfied with being Melfina at his side at best without even considering using her for the Leyline and the more moral of the two and it pushes Hazanko into the truly irredeemable role for further traumatizing Melfina.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Hazanko specializes in this.
  • After four of the Anten Seven fail to get Melfina and the Outlaw Star, he utilizes his Tao Sorcerers to open the Leyline themselves. Finding both just as they were opening it was serendipitous on Hazanko's end, which he more than exploits with Melfina.
  • He tends to use assassins to be as low profile as they can to not draw the attention of the Ban Pirates due to the Outlaw Star being in their territory, but it's actually to gain the means to use the Leyline before the Tendo King and Tempa Emperor find out.
  • Rather than continuing to engage with Gene in a fisticuff in cyberspace, he opts to just assimilate him. This leads to his downfall as the pushback from Gene's sudden power boost from thinking about his comrades, causes Hazanko to lose the battle of the minds, which soon leads to defeat on the physical plane.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: He leads a group of space pirates and is the most powerful among them, but also among his fellow leaders with the only ones implied to be above even him are the Tendo King and Tempa Emperor.
• Reality Warper: He escapes nonexistence itself, thanks to counteracting the number 4 caster shell, which essentially creates black holes, and sucks in anyone, at the cost of the user's life force. Hazanko reopens the black hole, pulling himself out in the form of some kind of spiritual demon back into existence, and re-emerges.
• Seven Deadly Sins: Hazanko manages to commit every sin in his pursuit of power.
  • Wrath: He is known for being so excessively violent that Gwen can guess it's his handiwork when he sees a mutilated Harry who was put in that state for angering him by breaking his mask.
  • Greed: He wants more power despite being in a position that allows him all the power he can ask for only because he's only satisfied with being the most powerful being in the universe.
  • Gluttony: While not traditionally gluttonous in terms of consuming vast amounts of food, he wants more excess power despite having all the power he needs. To the point, he assimilates his entire remaining crew when he achieves it.
  • Sloth: He rather rely on others to do his dirty work and put the minimum effort by doing the more practical option over a risky one unless one enrages him.
  • Lust: He has an all-consuming lust for power, wanting the Leyline to usurp the Tendo King and Tempa Emperor.
  • Envy: He's heavily implied to despise the Tendo King and Tempa Emperor for being even more powerful than him despite having all the power both politically and physically. It's also implied he dresses in a regal and elaborate attire to hide his physical defects.
  • Pride: Hazanko is colossally egotistical, desiring power despite being in a position to have all the power he needs, gets irate when one challenges his perfection, and being selfish even by Kei Pirates' standards.
• The Starscream: It was hinted that he was more powerful than the other leaders, but his real goal is to use the Galactic Leyline in order to overthrow the Tendo King and the Tempa Emperor.
• Slasher Smile: When merged with the Geomancer, his mask morphs into unnerving, Eldrich grins, just staring at the tinier Outlaw Star.
• The Sociopath: Out of all of the already murderous rogues gallery, Hazanko is the one who is a genuine high-functioning sociopath that's played frighteningly realistic despite his supernatural abilities. He has a colossal lack of concern for both the minions he constantly throws to get back the XGP- not caring for when they die outside of mild annoyance and how his ambitions cause harm to others- notably lacking the trait of camaraderie for comrades that even the MacDougal Brothers and his own subordinates share. While genuinely powerful in political/supernatural power, Hazanko egotistically believes that absolute power should be his- not his superiors- the Tendo King and the Tempa Emperors and that his minions are just pawns. While he abides by the rules of the guild, it's more of a means to an end to get to the Leyline- rules he throws away once the Overseer starts to pry further into questioning his motives. He's heavily implied to use a mask (both literally and metaphorically) of charisma to hide his truly psychotic and megalomaniacal personality. While he tries to be calm at all times, he will lash out with disproportionate violence to those who anger him to the point he's known for his reputation of being the most brutal of the Kei leaders with Gwen immediately guessing his handiwork upon seeing Harry's mangled body, and proves to be the most monstrous enemy Gene and company face.
• The Stoic: His mask and neutral regal tone do a good job of hiding what a psycho he truly is under that royal façade.
• Tin Tyrant: A high-tech example.
• The Unfettered: The low-level minions know he will stop at nothing to have his missions complete, and he proves it, with his sheer determination to reach the Leyline before anyone else. He doesn't care who has to die, even if his own minions die in the process, as long as he gets his ultimate prize.
• Villainous Breakdown: Briefly goes into this when his mask is broken. Gets utterly unhinged when he faces off against Gene in the final battle.

The Anten Seven

Shimi

Played By: Yusaku Yara (JP), Steve Bulen (EN)

The first assassin Hazanko sent after Gene, for good reason...

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• Affably Evil: Even with his exasperation over his job in killing people aside, Shimi still sent his student, posing as him to his potential death and showed no regard if he died and would've killed Gene and company had it not been for their display of friendship causing him to throw the fight and fake his death to cut ties to the Kei Pirates. Despite this, the amicable personality providing worldly wisdom to Gene proves to be his genuine personality even after he Leilong reveals himself as Simi.
• Anti-Villain: By the time he faced off with Gene, Shimi expressed his exasperation in killing people and went as far as to throw the fight and fake his death to permanently cut his ties to the Kei Pirates.
• Badass Normal: Shimi appears to be the only member of the pirates lacking either sorcery or supernatural powers, but is arguably the one who comes closest to killing Gene and the rest of the crew collectively out of all of them with only Hammyo coming the closest.
• Curbstomp Battle: As noted, the crew had no chance against him. It was completely one-sided.
• Defector from Decadence: Leilong throws his fight with Gene and fakes his death to cut ties with the Kei Pirates after seeing the dedication of Gene's companions and being tired from killing that made him feel empty inside. Certain hints from his dialogue with Gene imply, that he was never fully on board with Hazanko's vision and only did so because he had to due to some incident in the past that forced him under the Kei Pirates and never got the sadistic thrill of killing as the others and years passing along only increased that self-loathing of working under Hazanko's barbaric group.
• Faking the Dead: He pretends to die in his duel with Gene in order to retire as a Space Pirate.
• Heel Realization: It's heavily implied that Leilong had this prior to his task to eliminate Gene. Unlike the other members of the Anten Seven, while he always had misgivings about killing others for the sake of Hazanko, but always repressed it until years of doing it disillusioned himself of any grandeur of this life. so he used Gene as a means to fake his death and leave his life.
• I Let You Win: Shimi , *ahem* Leilong, had deliberately allowed Gene to win as part of his intention to retire.
• Implacable Man: His light shield was strong enough to withstand a missile barrage, followed by a direct hit from Gene's rocket launcher, and a shot from his caster, before it was finally disabled. Except getting through his shield was the least of Gene's problems.
  Gene: (radios Jim, after firing rocket) "Jim, is he dead...?"
  (Shimi's light shield appears through the dust cloud)
  Gene: (exasperated) "What IS this guy??"
• Knight of Cerebus: As Super Eyepatch Wolf notes in his video on Outlaw Star, the first fourteen episodes of the show are a fun romp, in which Gene and the crew quite easily defeat every villain they come up against. The arrival of Shimi presents the first time Gene actually has to be faced with the real fact of his mortality, and the tone of the episode in which he appears is significantly bleaker, with Shimi soundly defeating every single member of the crew in close combat, including the experienced Lady of War, Suzuka. It's also his arrival on the scene that forces some of Gene's Character Development, as he is faced with what he's up against for the first time.
  • His apprentice manages to change the tone even bleaker even more so than Leilong, with his onscreen appearances having a tense air of threat and lacking any comedic elements like the latter fight, including Aisha's comedic reaction to the trap- being a skilled gunman with a serious demeanor played completely straight. With there no background music playing in the official duel until Leilong's fight starts, which ironically makes the tone lighter.
• Mook Chivalry: Inverted. Aisha, Jim, and Suzuka politely wait until Shimi's got Gene on the ropes before they intervene, and they subsequently attack him one at a time.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Shimi" is his alias, his real name is Leilong, widely regarded as one of the most feared members of The Anten Seven, to the point that he's infamous in the underworld.
• Noble Demon: Nothing short of polite to Gene during their initial encounter, and after he defeats Gene fairly and soundly in combat, offers to settle things with a duel. His dialogue in the bar implies that he doesn't show the same bloodlust in killing people as the other Anten Seven and has viewed it as something he had to do to survive at first, but gradually became disillusioned as he killed more and more.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Deconstructed. While Leilong genuinely acts as a decent person off-duty and only reserves his villainy in his missions. However, over the years, he's come to the realization that his banality in working with Hazanko can only justify so much before he becomes increasingly disillusioned by the killings he does, realizing he's not living the right way and unlike the rest of the Anten Seven, he's not amoral to ignore the moral ramifications of his actions or sadistic enough to revel in the act of killing. so he used the job to assassinate Gene as a means to fake his death and leave his life as a Kei Pirate assassin.
• Retired Badass: Seeing how close Gene and his crew were is what made him change his mind about killing him. They were good people, and they were loyal to each other. So Shimi threw the fight in order to fake his death. Once he was certain they were gone, he dug himself out and said he was done with being an assassin.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: Sends out a student to fight Gene first, and doesn't seem overly concerned that Gene killed him.
  Gene: So this guy was your flunky, is that it?
  Shimi: He was more like a pupil, really. He didn’t have any talent, so he died. That’s all it amounts to.
• Sole Survivor: By the end of the series, he is the only member of The Anten Seven who's still alive.
• Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Double subverted. Since he's the first of the Anten Seven that the crew encounters, he would be expected to be the weakest of the bunch. However, he turns out to be an incredibly tough opponent and gives the entire crew the worst beatdown they receive in the whole series, turning the algorithm on its head. And then it's played straight when he turns out to be the least evil of the Kei Pirates or at least the least dedicated to their goals, so he turns out to be the least threatening of the Seven after all.
• Strong and Skilled: While the rest of the Anten Seven are genuinely powerful, they tend to be skilled in only one particular area with nothing else other than their trademark to fall back on. Shimi, on the other hand, is skilled in various weapons- always carrying a large metal case containing any weapon he might need for the situation at hand, but is also immensely skilled in martial arts without them. It's heavily implied that Shimi was the strongest of the seven with only subtle signs of self-loathing at his job that prevented him from killing Gene's group outright and faking his death to leave the guild, leaving Hazanko, having to rely on the weaker but still dangerous other members to finish the job in their area of expertise- though their combined failures gradually build up until Hazanko outright gives up on sending them to their potential deaths in individual missions altogether- keeping the remaining ones as his Praetorian Guard to face any dangers in the Leyline.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Compared to the other extravagantly dressed and creepy-looking members of the Kei Pirates, but especially the Anten Seven, Leilong is much more normal looking in comparison- being a rugged man who initially appears to be just a bar patron in average clothes, which makes The Reveal of his identity of Shimi all the more shocking as his apprentice's sinister appearance was more in line with the Kei Pirates' aesthetic. Even when he reveals his nature as an assassin, he dresses in modest robes for the most feared assassin of the Anten Seven. Justified as blending in without being noticed and not drawing attention is key assassin traits.
  • This reveal is made more apparent as he has an apprentice that has a more traditionally menacing appearance in a tight trenchcoat with a raised collar and hat that obscure his face, being presented initially as the real Shimi until Leilong reveals himself.
• Token Good Teammate: He's the only one of the Anten who seems to follow a code of honor, preferring to challenge Gene openly to a one-on-one duel and keeping collateral damage to a minimum. Fittingly, he's the only one of them to survive.
• Walking Armory: Shimi a.k.a. Leilong has a lot of weapons including a light shield, a device that allows for flight, a sword, etc.- to the point he always carries a huge case for any weapon he might potentially need for any situation as his trademark. He's also not entirely reliant on it as a skilled martial artist.
• Walking Spoiler: Unlike the other Anten Seven whose identities are far more straightforward, Shimi/ Leilong's existence hinges on the fact, that he's using a proxy apprentice to serve as him.
• Walking the Earth: Right as he took his leave, he said he'd just wander aimlessly after faking his death to leave the Guild.

Iraga

Voiced By: Chiyako Shibahara (JP), Barbara Goodson (EN)

The second assassin that Gene and the crew encounter.

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• Ambiguous Situation: Exactly what species Iraga is unknown. When it's initially implied that she's a wolf subspecies of Ctarl-Ctarl, Aisha, a Ctarl-Ctarl herself with full knowledge of her race, insists that Iraga can't be one. Meaning Iraga belongs to an unknown race of two-tailed werewolf shape-shifters.
  • It's not directly stated, but it's heavily implied that she was the Ctarl-Ctarl that caused the ban on the race competing for the title and the reasons she hides her true nature so no one can identify her. Certain dialogue between her and her "coaches" implies that she's aggravated at the possibility of another competitor taking the title of the strongest, entering the tournament herself to claim it for her own- which is in line with how aggressive and egotistical the tournament check-in attendant said to Aisha about this Ctarl-Ctarl was, leading to her aggressive and disproportionately violent attack on the stadium five years back.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: When the strongest woman in the universe tournament was announced, she took intense offense that someone other than her was considered to be a title winner and disobeyed Hazanko's directive to compete to show off her skills. She only begrudgingly took the mission on once she had no other choice.
• Butterface: She's got the body of a toned female but her face is mannish with gaudy lipstick and her special eyewear makes her even more freakish. That's before it's revealed that she's concealing her natural lupine eyes that she's implied to be unable to repress.
• Curbstomp Battle: She defeated Reiko Ando, who was the former four-time champion of the Universe's Strongest Woman competition, in an offscreen match. According to Jim, the match was quick.
• Evil Counterpart: Like Aisha, she's a physical hand-to-hand fighter who can transform into a quadruped animal, in her case, a two-tailed wolf to Aisha's white tiger. Also, both are shown to be egotistical in wanting to prove their might and undergo disguises to enter the tournament. The major difference is that while Aisha can be tactless at times, she's ultimately caring for others while Iraga is ultimately so selfish that she prioritizes her own egotistical goal over the mission until she's left with no other options.
  • On a more personal note, Aisha is vocally proud of her heritage, never willingly hiding her traits with the sole exception of the tournament but that's only because a Ctarl-Ctarl is legally not allowed to enter. Iraga on the other hand, even outside of the tournament, goes to great lengths to hide her racial traits in order to pass as a human until circumstances outside of her control force her to reveal her true nature when presented with no other option.
• Fair-Play Villain: For her unpleasant traits, she legitimately attempted to win fairly within the rules, only trying to kill Aisha/Fire Cat for being Gene's ally and only using her animal traits when forced to reveal her identity.
• Fight Like a Normal: During her fights in the tournament until Aisha/Fire Cat, she fights within the boundaries of a human. She only discards it to fight as her true lupine self when presented with no other option, when she's exposed.
• Inhuman Eye Concealers: Iraga constantly wears an unusual headgear that conceals her eyes completely outside of two narrow lenses even outside of combat, which makes Iraga look naturally off-putting, even before it's revealed that it conceals her naturally lupine eyes.
• Jerkass: Her comments to her coaches are to yell at them for giving sensible advice of just killing Gene over getting the tournament, even insulting the weight of the other one, and calling Gene an idiot. Also, the fact, that she chooses her selfish impulses over her mission at first until the situation forces the mission to be the only option to take, paints her while not as sadistically monstrous as the four masked Anten Seven members, easily less sympathetic than either Shimi/ Leilong or Hammyo.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: She's a Ctarl-Ctarl, or at least implied to a lupine variant or a similar race to the Ctarl-Ctarl except more lupine focused, who entered a tournament where everyone besides Aisha was human. Besides Aisha, none of them could provide a challenge.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: Implied to be a two-tailed wolf variant of the Ctarl-Ctarl. Aisha, however, denies the idea, insisting that Ctarl-Ctarl only morphs into cats, nothing else.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Differently and less sympathetically than either Shimi/ Leilong or Hammyo. While she will ultimately carry out her mission. She happened to find out the World's strongest women competition in the universe/galaxy was taking place at the same time her mission was tasked. She takes it as an insult that someone else might compete and take it, so she enters herself to take the title and then take Gene later at her leisure. She continues with this desire right up until she's exposed as a lupine alien and with the reveal made apparent, she decides to forego the fight in dealing with Gene.
• Token Non-Human: Iraga is the one confirmed non-human of the Anten Seven, being either a lupine variant of the Ctarl-Ctarl or a separate lupine alien.
• World's Strongest Woman: Iraga entered a tournament for the strongest person in the universe/galaxy and has a pretty good chance of winning, but since her goal was to kill Gene she blew her disguise as Ctarl-Ctarl. She beat the four-time reigning champ in less than twenty seconds. But still loses to Aisha after a heated fight.

Hanmyo

Voiced By: Tomoko Kawakami (JP), Rebecca Forstadt (EN, credited as Reba West)

The youngest member of the Anten Seven, who travels with a pair of sentient cats named Kemi and Matta. She pilots an advanced ship, the Toruratta, which separates into three subsections, each equipped with its own grappler and weapons.

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• Affably Evil: While her introduction with the other members present Hammyo was another confident and sadistic assassin, her focus episode reveals that she's normally bubbly, romantic, and chipper outside of her job- starting a budding relationship with Jim while both being unaware of the other's identity.
• Alas, Poor Villain: She's a cute girl who developed romantic feelings for Jim without realizing his true identity. Her death is an emotional scene as Jim never realized he killed Hanmyo.
• Anti-Villain: While she's initially presented to be just as arrogant and sadistic as the other members, her focus episode reveals her to be bubbly, romantic, and friendly outside of combat when interacting with Jim, when not aware of his identity as Gene's friend. Downplayed as she still relishes her duties and plays the role of the villain without explaining her identity to Jim, leading him to have to unwittingly kill her when she goes after the crew again, dying because she chose her mission over the potential chance of redemption.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Being affable off-duty or not; Hammyo, Kemi, and Matta are all shown to be supremely confident in their unique Grappler Ship technique and look down on their enemies.
• Badass Normal: Outside of the use of two telepathic cats, serving as the pilots of the "arms", Hammyo is just a skilled prodigy of a Grappler pilot without any overtly supernatural powers such as sorcery or being of wereperson.
• Cats Are Mean: Kemi and Matta are shown to be very dismissive and overtly smug about their superiority, especially retroactively with the revelation that they're actually intelligent cats. It's heavily implied they encouraged Hammyo to remain evil as a metaphorical double devil on her shoulders.
• Confusion Fu: What makes fighting Hammyo so dangerous isn't that as skilled as she is- she's just one target- it's that the ship is actually three Grappler Ships that usually act as one but if cornered, will split into three equally skilled Grappller ships- the "arms" and main body can all turn into individual Grappler Ships. As the initial fight with the Outlaw Star goes, anyone without that knowledge will have difficulty fighting off these three targets that can alternate between who's attacking from unexpected angles or corner the enemy with more numbers. It takes Jim coming up with a special plan to force the Outlaw Star to fight beyond its normal limitations to properly defeat all three.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Initially, it's in her favor as the Outlaw Star wasn't prepared for the seemingly normal Grappler to split into three separate and competently flown Grappler ships, leading to the crew barely escaping with their lives. The 2nd fight due to Jim's plan to Divide and Conquer while also maxing out the Outlaw Star's fighting aspects, led to Hammyo being on the receiving end leading to her death.
• Dramatic Irony: Jim leaves believing that Hanmyo left him for unknown reasons unaware that he had orchestrated her death as she was an assassin sent to kill his crew unbeknownst to him.
  • The audience having watched Episode 15, knows that Hammyo is a member of the Anten Seven, and is destined to be Gene and by extension, Jim's enemy, whether she knows of their true identity or not. And that their friendship is destined to end in tragedy due to Hammyo being resolute in taking down the Outlaw Star. The only true surprise with her focus episode is that Kemi and Matta are actually sentient telepathic cats.
• Dying Alone: In the end, she died dejected and alone in space, having lost Kemi and Matta to the Outlaw Star.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She views her two cats, Kemi and Matta, as family helped by the fact that they're actually super intelligent enough to comprehend her thoughts and is distraught when they're killed by the Outlaw Star with Hammyo soon following suit.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Subtle but noticeable. When off duty, her tone is peppy and high as expected of a young girl. On duty however, there's a slightly lower and menacing tone as she takes the role of an assassin.
• Improbable Weapon User: Hanmyo being a master of "Space combat with cats" certainly invokes this trope. Ultimately, it means she pilots a grappler ship with two detachable arms, each piloted by a super-intelligent cat.
• The Fatalist: Hammyo believes heavily in the concept of fate, thinking that meeting Jim was fated to happen, it's heavily implied she didn't realize she could've walked out of her profession and gotten together with Jim due to an implied fatalism in working under the Kei Pirates.
• First Love: Was this to Jim whom he unknowingly killed because she was an assassin sent to kill him and his crew without either realizing the identity of the other.
• Foil: To Shimi/Leilong, the members of the Seven that rely on technology rather than the arcane fighting style or supernatural powers of the other Anten Seven members
  • The former is a jaded adult who realized that his actions on duty have moral ramifications regardless of how affable he is outside of the job, with the compounding delusion of his profession over the years making it more apparent. He uses Gene's assassination attempt as a means to fake his death. He proves to be a Cool Old Guy outside of combat and he reveals his deception to Gene once he deals with his apprentice serving as his proxy. He fights with any weapon he can fit in his large iron case or his martial arts.
  • Hammyo is an impressionable young girl who is too duty-bound and woefully young to realize the moral implications of her actions, so regardless of how affable she acts outside of the job, she's too dedicated to the completion of her mission and doesn't consider a way out of her profession. She dies in her duty, not realizing it was brought about by the target she unknowingly befriended. She fights with a Grappler that can split into three bodies to attack with greater numbers to corner the enemy with the use of two other sapient, psychic cats, but is otherwise a normal person.
• Kill the Cutie: Done by the crew of the Outlaw Star, who weren't aware they were fighting a grappler ship battle with a child. The damage to Hanmyo's ship was so extensive, that she was killed in the ensuing explosion.
• Last Words: Uttered as her ship's main console was crackling with electricity, mere seconds before it exploded:
  Hanmyo: (quietly) "A dead ship... the Toruratta won't respond. Kemi... Matta..."
• Nice Girl: Outside of combat, she's perfectly affable, excitable, and friendly in her interactions with Jim. On the job, she's just as ruthless and confident as the other Kei Pirates.
• Punch-Clock Villain: While her initial introduction paints her as a confident and even arrogant assassin, her focus episode shows her off-duty as a sweet, playful, and surprisingly poetic girl when not being forced to kill anyone.
  • This aspect is deconstructed in the opposite way than Shimi. While she's initially presented as another confident and sadistic assassin like the rest of the Anten Seven, her talk with Jim shows her to be bubbly, sweet, and romantic. Unfortunately, she died because she was too focused on the job aspect while on the clock as she nearly defeated the Outlaw Star as an enemy and then again, she is killed through Jim's plan to get payback- with neither realizing the identity of the other- treating her as another villainous Kei Pirate to kill as Jim believes that Hammyo had gone somewhere else while not aware he had her killed. Had Jim and the others been aware of what Hammyo's personality and identity were off duty, perhaps things would've turned off differently. If Hammyo had been more honest and had more misgivings about her profession, she would've come to the same conclusions as Shimi to leave the group before things got too extreme.
• They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: To a lesser extent than Shimi. Hanmyo appears as a normal girl with two cats to the average onlooker who doesn't know of her true nature as an assassin. She dresses much more normally than the other five of the Anten Seven who look decidedly extravagant and even inhuman in the case of Hitoriga and Jukai.
• Token Mini-Moe: Were it not for her introduction alongside the rest of the Anten Seven, you'd never know that cute little girl was an assassin. Neither did Jim.
• Villainous Crush: She had Puppy Love for Jim but neither ever knew the other's true identity..

Tobigera

Voiced By: Hikaru Midorikawa (JP), Michael Lindsay (EN, credited as Dylan Tully)

The fourth assassin sent out to kill Gene Starwind.

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• Bait-and-Switch Character Intro: Tobigera is initially presented just as potentially menacing and equally as dangerous as the other members of the Anten Seven due to being a potential Master of Disguise to trick the group. Then his focus episode occurs and he's unable to harm the crew- not from being physically outclassed- but '''serendipitous events happen to comedically knock him out away just before they notice him let alone fight him. He also dresses in the bare minimum for a disguise- which would've been ok since they didn't know what he looked like- except he's wearing his iconic mask and weapon in plain sight of everyone.
  • That said, while he's an abysmal assassin, he proves to be just as powerful as the remaining four members as he manages to deal with the Overseer's own minions with ease like the others.
• Born Unlucky: Tobigera's ineptitude has nothing to do with his lack of combat skills or espionage skills as they prove to be legitimate- even in the case of the latter being especially refined given his rather minimal disguise when it's his turn to assassinate Gene. It's that Tobigera manages to attract the worst amount of bad luck at the worst possible time as he's forced away by serendipitous events that were completely out of his control.
  • In a more serious example, heavily implied as punishment due to the aforementioned incident in the hot springs, Hazanko had Tobigera remain on the ship. and gets promptly assimilated into Hazanko's One-Winged Angel and becomes a glorified preliminary target before Gene finishes off Hazanko.
• Butt-Monkey: The Hot Springs Episode. He tries to assassinate Gene and company but events completely out of his control cause him to utterly fail despite it not even being his fault. He's then denied to fight with Hazanko and the others- likely due to his abysmal performance and is unceremoniously killed off as he's assimilated into Hazanko's One-Winged Angel and is essentially a non-sapient head that killed off with no fanfare before Gene finishes off Hazanko.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Tobigera had been ordered to remain aboard the Geomancer until Hazanko's return. Once Hazanko's wish was fulfilled, he fused with the Geomancer, which killed Tobigera by dissolving his flesh in horrific fashion.
• Evil Redhead: An Evil Counterpart to Gene. Both have extraordinarily bad luck in getting what they want. The difference is that Gene's bad luck comes from reality causing him to be perpetually in poverty from having to deal with the maintenance of the Outlaw Star and the consequences of his adventures while managing to pave his own way in the world and proving to be very competent when it matters. Tobigera, while an implied skilled fighter, is an inept assassin with extraordinary amounts of bad luck both on mission and in duties ordered to stay behind and having the misfortune of being unceremoniously assimilated into Hazanko because he just happened to be there when the latter was going mad with power while simply accepting them and not taking initiative to take control of his life.
• Four Is Death: Played straight....except it's to himself. Four is usually an unlucky number, but in his case, he manages to not only the worst luck in dealing with the heroes as the fourth assassin to be sent out but gets unceremoniously absorbed by Hazanko- being the fourth to die of the remaining four assassins.
• Informed Ability:
  • Tobigera's a member of the Anten Seven, Hazanko's elite group of assassins, but his first attempt on the heroes was pure comic relief during the Hot Springs Episode, and after that, he never gets a chance to prove himself.
  • He's also supposed to be a master of disguise, but never gets a chance to prove it. You'd think wearing an evil-looking mask all the time wouldn't do much to disguise you, though. To be fair though, Gene never even notices Tobigera's several attempts on his life so perhaps he does have some talent regarding stealth.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He was so comically inept that Gene never even noticed Tobigera was trying to kill him. Nor were any of the other passengers bothered by his mask, or the fact he was brandishing a weapon in public.
• Iron Butt-Monkey: He may not be that great of an assassin, but Tobigera manages to survive unscathed despite being crushed against a rock and falling off a very tall cliff, among other things.
• Irony: Tobigera manages to simultaneously be lucky for being in a very unlucky situation and unlucky for being in a normally lucky situation.
  • Despite his incredible amount of serendipitous misfortune, he managed to have the good fortune of being the only assassin of the Anten Seven as Shimi/Leilong was assumed dead after faking his demise to live the guild to return alive from his mission due to his bad luck kept him from being noticed by Gene and promptly killed.
  • Despite not being involved in the final battle due to being told to remain on the ship implied due to the aforementioned event he manages to survive from, somewhere he'd be nominally the safest, he ends up dying- twice technically anyway first horrifically and unceremoniously assimilated into Hazanko's new form because he just happened to be on the ship when Hazanko had the idea to manifest his power by assimilating his remaining crew, Tobigera included- leading to the Outlaw Star finishing off Tobegira's physical body by impaling his face.
• Laughably Evil: While he's normally a very serious enemy, during the infamous Hot Springs Episode, he tends to suffer astronomically coincidental bouts of bad luck that prevent him from completing his mission without any effort from the crew of the Outlaw Star, let alone becoming aware of his existence. He also proved to be hilariously inept as a supposed master of disguise, deciding to keep his mask and weapons- brandishing the latter in broad daylight.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Seriously. The guy tried to pass himself off as a tourist (complete with a Hawaiian shirt and flip-flops + a camera around his neck), which might've worked if he hadn't also been wearing his mask and his claws in plain sight. Not that anyone cared.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: His death clears the field for the dramatic conclusion.
• Shout-Out: Hair color aside, with his face mask and wrist-mounted claws he is a near match to Street Fighter's Shadaloo assassin, Vega(Balrog in Japan).
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Very briefly but despite his skills being mostly an Informed Ability and pretty much treated as a joke, he DOES get to join the other Anten Seven members in cutting down the Overseer's team. Not much, nor is much shown, but still something.
• Too Dumb to Live: Dressing as a tourist like everyone would've worked since Gene and others don't know what he looks like nor suspect a normal passenger...had he not decided to ditch his iconic mask and weapon to show in plain sight in public. Ironically, his intended targets didn't notice him let alone realize he's an assassin despite his blatant displays of his identity- mainly because luck itself seems to deal with him before they even realize his existence.
• Undignified Death: Tobigera gets assimilated by Hazanko just for being on the Geomancer when Hazanko in his new power-craze, decided to assimilate the ship into his ultimate form- dying as an individual. To add insult to injury, his physical presence manifests as a 2nd face to target before finishing off Hazanko- with the Outlaw Star promptly doing that to what remained of his physical presence before Hazanko explodes upon his death.
• Wolverine Claws: Wrist mounted and nearly a foot long. They also retract into a bracelet only an inch long.

Hamushi

Voiced By: Mako Hyoudou (JP), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (EN, credited as Dorothy Melendrez)

A temptress with a history of luring men to their deaths through seduction. She barred Gene's path as he was searching for Melfina in the Galactic Leyline.

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• Anti-Magic: Her Tao magic was advanced enough to effortlessly negate caster shells, forcing Gene to resort to using the first of his three forbidden shells to overcome her.
  Hamushi: (smirks) "Is that a caster...? That isn't gonna work."
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: While she's implied to be normally justified in her defenses given that she can negate Caster shells that can one-shot normal Tao Masters, she due to both her confidence and lack of knowledge of the forbidden shells, doesn't even attempt to dodge the attack which leads to her memorably gruesome death.
• Combat Hand Fan: She carried a feather-lined one, with a concealed blade and was able to negate several of Gene's caster shells with it.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: By being sucked into a miniature black hole, which seemingly turns her inside out as it compresses her, after it's created by Gene's #4 caster shell.
• Eye-Obscuring Hat: She wears a special headgear that hides her eyes. This gives her attractive appearance an inhuman quality.
• Faux Affably Evil: While she calmly flirts with Gene, it's obvious she views him as an inferior gnat to kill off and her flirty nature is to lure men to their deaths as implied in her introduction.
• Femme Fatale: According to the narration, she lured many men to their deaths, in the hope they'd have the chance to spend the night with her, in bed. The implication being, that none of them survived long enough for it to happen.
• Implacable Man: She is able to withstand Caster Shells that would one-shot a regular Tao master with ease, forcing Gene to use his special Caster Shells to finish her off.
• Informed Ability: Her ability as a seductress is talked about but never actually demonstrated- she didn't even succeed in making Gene hesitate at all.
• Lady in Red: She dressed the part, was said to be alluringly beautiful, and was quite the seductress.
• No-Sell: She is able to nullify all of Gene's normal Caster Shells due to being that skilled of a Tao Master. Considering that they can normally one-shot a regular Tao Master with ease, it hints at how powerful she is in comparison and by extension, how powerful Hazanko is when the latter manages to come back from what killed her.
• Tempting Fate: After negating Gene's first three caster shells, she asked how many he had left. Gene replied, "four," so she told him he had that many 'til his death; not realizing he was referring to the #4 caster shell he was about to use...
• Underboobs: As seen in the accompanying image above, she reveals the underside. She's a temptress after all. Those, however, were edited in the first run on Toonami Cartoon Network.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Out of the Anten Seven, she's the least developed in terms of personality. Shimi/Leilong is a jaded man who builds a friendship with Gene, Iraga is a lupine alien that turns into a two-tailed wolf with an ego that priotized her pride over her mission, Hammyo is an impressionable girl outside of combat that befriended Gene, Tobigera is memorable for how utterly inept and unlucky he is, Hitoriga is defined by his pretense of politeness as well as his psychotically mad obsession with Suzuka, and Jukai has both incredible arrogance and intense loyalty to Hazanko in addition to his unique fighting style/deranged appearance. Hamushi...is just a confident sorceress whose lustful sinister nature is implied rather than stated, with her most memorable trait being her iconically nightmarish manner of dying.
• The Worf Effect: It works in two ways, the first is that she's immune to the vast majority of Caster Shells that would normally one-shot a normal Tao Master by simply nullifying it by her superior skill. And she serves as the first victim of the special Caster Shells border on the truly Lovecraftian and arcane in terms of power, being enough to one-shot normally unstoppable enemies as Ron would later demonstrate.
  • It also indirectly hints at how much more powerful Hazanko is in comparison, as he's able to come back from the nothingness that wiped out Hamushi, showing how much more skilled he is in Tao than even her.

Hitoriga

Voiced By: Kiyonobu Suzuki (JP), Barry Stigler (EN, credited as Gil Starberry)

Hitoriga was responsible for the deaths of Suzuka's entire family, which was the reason she joined the crew of the Outlaw Star in order to kill him. Despite that fact, he became fixated on her, going so far as to adopt Suzuka's likeness as his own.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: To Suzuka. He took an unhealthy fixation with her to the point he modified his face to look like hers and planned to keep it that way so he may look at it forever. This was after he killed her family and even brushed this fact off when Suzuka came to avenge them.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Hitoriga of all people gets this. Despite vocally declaring his monstrous intent and an inability to understand Suzuka's pain, when he finally dies, it's as expectedly pitiful as Yase given his shown character but takes it as calmly as Kyokan did, beyond it due to Suzuka's face. Suzuka's solemn and silent expression not showing satisfaction hints that there was much more to their relationship before he became the psychotic Kei Pirate and it was especially painful but necessary to put him down as the man he once was.
  • The light novels expand on the past, stating he was a fellow student of Suzuka's master and his killing of their master, which caused the irreparable rift between them.
• Archenemy: Suzuka despises him for killing her family and his unhealthy fixation with her to the point that he modifies her family to resemble her own in an attempt to satisfy his shallow lust. Dealing with him is mentioned and hinted throughout the series that Suzuka was targeting the Kei Pirates specifically for him.
• Ax-Crazy: Beneath his soft-spoken tone, is a deranged killer with such an unhealthy and obsessive fixation on Suzuka that he had his face altered to resemble hers as a warped display of his lust for her.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Shizuka told Gene she was staying behind because she had a score to settle with Hitoriga, he sarcastically quipped:
  Hitoriga: "What could you possibly have against me? Just because I killed your entire family is no reason to hold a grudge."
• Deceptive Disciple: The light novels expand upon his past, being an apprentice to Suzuka's master, learning his arts before killing him.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He dismisses Suzuka's legitimate grudge as a minor annoyance and takes pride in being a killer. He even lampshades how Suzuka and himself won't ever reach an understanding due to a fundamental difference in moral ideology.
• Dragon with an Agenda: It's implied he's loyal to Hazanko just to kill and to seek out his lust for Suzuka. He's arguably the most vile of the Anten Seven as he's not even motivated by duty- whether reluctant or loyalty-bound, but to continue killing people for the sake of his fantasies.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: He deliberately made himself into the mirror image of Suzuka.
• Entitled Bastard: He tells Suzuka that she belongs to him and that he should have the right to use her face. Given that he killed her family with no remorse and is implied to have clashed with her with attempts to kill her in the past, this attitude is incredibly entitled.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He believes as fellow killers that he and Suzuka understand each other, but Suzuka points out that Hitoriga sold himself out to be a lackey of the pirates in order to indulge in killing while Suzuka remains her own individual who kills because it's a job for money and not of sadism. The fact that he dismisses her legitimate grudge of wanting him dead due to killing her entire family is also a major factor in why she hates him. Later in the fight, they both come to the agreement that neither understands the other's feelings given Suzuka lives for her individuality while Hitoriga is a parasite who relies on others- the skills of his former master, the Kei Pirates for influence, and her own face to settle for a half-measure to indulge in his lust.
• Evil Counterpart: Besides how his unmasked self resembles hers, the two are hired killers who kill for their employers. The distinction is that Suzuka only kills for the sake of a job and takes pride as an individual while Hitoriga kills for just the sake of killing and is a parasite that latches onto the skills he took from Suzuka's master, the influence from the Kei Pirates, and Suzuka's own face to fulfill the emptiness of his being.
• Evil Old Folks: His voice gives the impression he is a much older man who lusts after Suzuka, which is heavily implied to have started when Suzuka was much younger when he began to fixate on her. This implied age difference paints Hitoriga's already twisted obsession in a much revolting light.
• Face Death with Dignity: Despite being an utterly abhorrent person, he ultimately dies with a calm expression after Suzuka lands the killing blow.
• Faux Affably Evil: He has a casual conversation with Suzuka even though he casually brushes off her desire to avenge the family of hers he murdered and is an obsessive stalker towards Suzuka anyway.
• Fight Like a Normal: Despite being an implied Tao Master, he primarily fights with his sword when dueling Suzuka. This isn't for honor as it's part of his deranged attempt to become the true Suzuka.
• Foil: To Harry of all people. Both are dangerously obsessed with women who don't love them back and go to great lengths to prove it despite their strong connection to Gene. Harry can't convey his feelings healthily without resorting to physical/emotional abuse despite his best attempts, but gradually loves her enough in his unique way to let her go. Hitoriga's willingness to kill his love is implied to be shallow lust at best, has apathy towards her plight he directly caused, and is content on taking on her facial features to look upon them after he kills her. Hitoriga ironically dies more gracefully while Harry suffers one of the most violent deaths in the series.
• Foreshadowing: His deep connection with Suzuka is hinted at in his introduction with his unsheathed blade showing Suzuka's reflection within it. This implies that they've faced each other in the past and know each other on a personal level long before it's revealed in the penultimate episode.
• For the Evulz: It's heavily implied that Hitoriga killed Suzuka's family and that of the countless he killed for the Kei Pirates for sadism. This along with his repugnant obsession with Suzuka, makes him morally the worst of the Anten Seven as the others were either doing their out of loyalty to Hazanko or a pragmatic means to pay the bills.
• If I Can't Have You…: He was in love with Suzuka but knew full well he could never make her his woman so was content to just kill her like he did to her family. This is the reason he altered his face to look like her, thus he would ultimately be able to at least look at her face by looking at himself.
• I Just Want to Be You: When he removes his mask, he reveals himself to look like a male version of Suzuka. She was so beautiful to him, that he took on her likeness, but felt only one of them had the right to have her face. Unlike most examples, it's not driven by a somewhat sympathetic sense of inferiority, but an utterly shallow and unsympathetic display of lust and narcissism- given that he intends to look upon his face modified to look like hers to bask in his twisted lust.
• Jerkass: While he speaks politely, he's easily the most morally repulsive of the Anten Seven in his short focus in the series. He dismisses Suzuka's legitimate reasons- the deaths of her family- for wanting to kill him as a minor annoyance and she should get over it already. He also takes on her face in order to bask in a twisted sense of vanity and shallow lust.
  • And unlike the rest of the Anten Seven who do their duties out of loyalty to Hazanko's vision or to pay the bills, Hitoriga uses his position for the sole sake of killing people and as a twisted means to an end to locate the target of his lust, Suzuka, which is both entitled and psychotically obsessive. Making him easily the most morally repulsive even when compared to Hazanko.
• Lack of Empathy: He downplays his act of killing Suzuka's family to dismiss Suzuka's legitimate grudge against him.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Courtesy of Suzuka for the very reason mentioned at the start of their duel. And she did it using "Crimson," which she created specifically for him.
• Loving a Shadow: His love for Suzuka is implied to be very shallow at best, given that he casually talks about killing her family and is willing to kill her and be satisfied with looking at his face modified to look like hers after he kills her.
• Mad Love: He's attracted to Suzuka to the point he alters his face to resemble hers so he may look upon it after he kills her as a reminder of his shallow lust.
• Mask of Sanity: While the true depths of his insanity are exposed when his mask is literally destroyed, he talks very casually to Suzuka despite being an unhinged and incredibly entitled stalker who modified his face to resemble the object of his lust if he couldn't win her affections.
• Narcissist: An unconventional and extremely entitled variation. He modified his face to look like Suzuka's in a shallow attempt to at the very least have her in his reflections, as a sign of lust and entitled narcissism.
• Nightmare Face: His normal mask is that of a saggy bag with two black dots with a white jagged smile, making him look like a deranged scarecrow.
  • His unmasked face isn't as terrifying but sinisterly off. He warps Suzuka's calm expressions with deranged facial warpings as if it's a creature barely able to get the basic grips of a Suzuka-like mask.
• Never My Fault: Outside of his attempt to replicate Suzuka's face so he may bask in having her looks to stroke his shallow lust, he downplays his deed of killing Suzuka's family as a factor while Suzuka won't be his.
• Psycho for Hire: While the Anten Seven contain some mentally unstable members, they usually hold it in check for the sake of their mission. Hitoriga is heavily implied to use the title just to murder people as much as he wants and to seek out the object of his lust, Suzuka. He's arguably the most vile member of the group for this reason alone.
• Terms of Endangerment: Refers to Suzuka as my dear despite callously disregarding Suzuka's feelings about her legitimate desire for revenge and his twisted lust for her that resulted in him replicating her face.
• Vocal Dissonance: He keeps the eerily calm and deep masculine voice of an older man even after he reveals his face resembles Suzuka, creating a very creepy dissonance.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: He continues to speak in a calm tone even after dismissing his grudge and admitting to his heinous scheme to keep his face resembling Suzuka's to bask in his shallow lust.
• Yandere: A uniquely extreme example. He felt such a strong obsession over Suzuka that he remodeled his face to look like hers to gaze at her face forever after he killed her as a sick form of lustful narcissism.
• You Killed My Father: He killed Suzuka's family and judging by his last comments to her, he not only doesn't care, but he tells Suzuka that it's not much of a reason to hold a grudge. And given that he plans to keep her face to bask in his obsessive fixation and shallow lust, this comes across as incredibly entitled.

Jukai

Played By: Masashi Ebara (JP), David Ellenstein (EN, credited as Richard Plantagenet)

The last of the Anten Seven, who served as Aisha's opponent at the Galactic Leyline.

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• Alien Blood: He bleeds out blue blood or actually water after being killed by Aisha despite being apparently human.
• Ambiguously Human: When he bleeds to death, it's either entirely blue or actually water. Either way, it's apparent what Jukai is or if he were ever human, he's implied to be or has become something unnatural in human form.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: His brief characterization gives the impression that despite his loyalty to Hazanko, he views himself in high regard in terms of his power and is baffled when he's defeated.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: It's implied that he either bleeds water, or his blood is blue after he was slain by Aisha.
• The Dragon: He is Hazanko's most loyal and trusted follower.
• Evil Old Folks: Jukai sounds like a geezer with a wheezing, raspy, tone that reverberates through his mask and it's heavily implied he's the oldest of the Anten Seven.
• The Faceless: We never get to see what he looks like.
• Evil Gloating: Both before and after his duel with Aisha. He told her she was being kind by sending Jim ahead, so he wouldn't have to watch her be humiliated. Then after they exchanged blows and Aisha collapsed, he started to gloat again.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: His gloating is cut short when geysers of his own blood suddenly erupt all over his body. Each one marked a spot Aisha had attacked, too fast for his eyes to perceive them.
• Marionette Motion: Because he's restricted by what appears to be a straitjacket, his movements are reminiscent of an animated corpse. Particularly when he casts his Tao magic on Hazanko to enable him to warp to the end of the Leyline.
• Spin Attack: During his clash with Aisha, he became a vortex of spinning blades. Unfortunately, it was no match for a Ctarl-Ctarl's hide, or her claws.
• The Spook: While the rest of the Anten Seven's past is implied or hinted at through their introduction in Episode 15, Jukai stands out in that his narration describes his powers and therefore his past is shrouded in mystery. His body gushing out what appears to be either bluish blood or even weirder, water, makes who or what he actually is or used to be if he were once a human even more vague.
• This Cannot Be!: His last word is an incredulous "Impossible!".
• Undying Loyalty: He stands out of the Anten Seven as the most loyal member, using his Tao Magic to teleport Hazanko away and fights Jim and Aisha to halt them in order to stop them from impeding on Hazanko's quest for power.
• You Are Already Dead: When Jukai manages to stand after Aisha seemingly falls after their clash, he gloats only to realize Aisha's blows were fatal, leading him to die immediately after.

Other Members of the Guild

Soi Len

Voiced By: Wakana Yamazaki (JP), Wendee Lee (EN, credited as Wendee Swann)

• Creepy Child: She is small, pale, and ruthless. "Pagua Sonfa, Pagua Sonfa, Pagua Sonfa...!" is a monotone. She also has an eerie habit of widening her eyes to almost encompassing her face and in the manga, she tends to warp her face into grotesque distortions.
• Disk-One Final Boss: She is the final one of the trio to be defeated in the first arc, when the heroes first acquire the titular ship.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She might be a murderous witch, but she does seem to care about her comrades. She's rather upset when Roi Fong is killed.
• Evil Sorceress: "Pagua Sonfa, Pagua Sonfa, Pagua Sonfa...!" conjures some magic effect for some unfortunate victim.
• Enfante Terrible: Looks like a pre-teen, but she's a callous space pirate who has zero compunctions with killing anyone in her way.
• Karmic Death: In the end she succeeded in bringing about Hilda's death, which ultimately resulted in her own.
• The Leader: She appears to be in charge of this Space Pirate cell.
• Oh, Crap!: She has her moments of panic, such as when she sees that Gene has a caster or that she is about to be pulled into a star.
• Pint Size Power House: She might be a child but she's still a powerful Tao master. It's hinted she could have destroyed the XGP as Gene and his friends were escaping with just her own power.
• The Stoic: She's reserved and quiet most of the time...

  • Not So Stoic: ...but when things turn against her, she gets more emotional and ultimately terrified.

• Taking You with Me: She tried this on Gene and the others as they were escaping but before she could pull it off, Hilda showed her how it was done.

Roi Fong

Voiced By: Takeshi Watabe (JP), Simon Prescott (EN, credited as Simon Isaacson)

• Evil Old Folks: He's one of the older Kei Pirates seen and is trying to kill the crew of the future Outlaw Star in order to give it back to Hazanko in his plan to betray the organization to become an all-powerful Physical God.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He's appalled when the MacDougall Borhters double-crossed them despite helping them find the XGP because they had a better offer from their clients to wipe them out. For as murderous sorcerous pirates they are, they don't stoop as low as being money-grubbing jackals with no loyalties to anyone outside of themselves.
• Evil Sorcerer: He's a powerful Tao wizard working for the space pirates.

Guugaku

Voiced By: Tetsuya Sakai (JP), Steve Blum (EN, credited as David Lucas)

The first of the Kei Pirates to go after Gene and the first to experience the power of the Caster Gun.

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• Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: When he first casts a spell, he twists and contorts his body in extremely unnatural ways.
• Bald of Evil: A space pirate who shaved his head.
• BFS: A sword bigger than himself.
• Red Right Hand: He's got weird screws protruding from his neck and other parts of his body, marking him as evil.
• Starter Villain: The first Kei Pirate that Gene and others face, proving how conventional weapons don't work against Tao Masters and it requires Genes's signature- the Caster Gun to do any damage.
• The Worf Effect: In two ways. The first is that conventional weaponry doesn't affect Tao sorcerers and that Caster Guns are extremely effective against their magic, given that Guugaku dies immediately after being hit by a shell.

Yase

Voiced By: Akira Ishida (JP), Robert Martin Klein (EN, credited as Bob Marx)

An assassin who poisons Gene and attempts to steal the Outlaw Star, only to be killed off by Suzuka.

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• Bald of Evil: Even has a noticeable bulge on his bald head.
• Crazy-Prepared: He left lookouts, bugged Jim’s car, and set a trap for Gene. It goes even further bribed the air traffic controller to secretly assist him, and had grappler ships coming in if anything went wrong.
• Creepy High-Pitched Voice: He has a slithering, high voice that compliments his underhanded and repulsive personality.
• Dirty Coward: Suzuka straight-up calls him this to his face before killing him. He prefers to poison his victims and is very confident that the crew won't be able to retaliate while Gene is incapacitated. When Suzuka corners him, he immediately tries to beg for his life and tries to take her life immediately afterward in a split second. He also never attacks without backup, even when trying to make a bargain with Jim for a cure for Gene's condition. This trait especially stands out as none of the other Kei Pirates show any displays of cowardice, going out without begging for their lives, and fighting till they die.
• Faux Affably Evil: He presents himself as polite to the crew, but it's obvious it's barely hiding the smug coward he is, he's only doing it to rub it how hopeless the situation is, how much he relishes Gene's suffering, and how sure he is of his victory.
• Foil: To his partner, Kyokan even if they never interact onscreen. Yase is an underhanded, smug, cowardly fighter who prefers ganging upon his enemies with multiple footsoldiers with battlesuits as a safety measure while also using poison darts to slowly kill his victims, and is sadistic with no respect for his enemies- dying with no dignity as Suzuka mocks him for his cowardice. Kyokan is honorable, respectful, and noble despite his pirate allegiance and a lone fighter who prefers to fight alone. He also is a skilled martial artist and Tao Master when his own flail weapon doesn't work. He respects Suzuka enough to tell her to not interfere and later acknowledges her skill as a warrior when he dies at her hands- dying with his dignity intact.
• Jerkass: Outside of Hazanko and a few of the Anten Seven, Yase is the most unpleasant member of the Kei Pirates, lacking the noble traits of some of the members and taking too much enjoyment in the suffering of others while twisting the knife with fake sympathy.
• I Surrender, Suckers: He tries this on Suzuka almost immediately after he begs for his life. It doesn't work.
• Looks Like Orlok: Has pointed ears, fangs, grey skin, creepy fingernails, a long nose, and is hairless with a bulbous bulge on his head.
• Monster Clown: While more of a Space Pirate Assassin, Yase has the eye-markings, acrobatic, and sinister appearance of a jester. With an equally unpleasant personality to match.
• Ninja: Not a heavy hitter of the Kei Pirates, he resorts to sneaky tactics. He leads a bunch of Kei Ninja mooks, uses poisoned weapons, and even behind-the-scenes bribery to throw the crew off.
• Smug Snake: Even for an underhanded pirate, he takes far too much pleasure in tormenting his targets, and is easily the most arrogant and condescending pirate apart of the Kei Pirates without the power to back it up, casually mocking the crew if he thinks he has the upper hand. When he's finally cornered, he's exposed as the pitiful coward he is.
• Super-Speed: He's very fast and agile. Unfortunately Suzuka is much faster.
• Undignified Death: Suzuka simply slashes him as he makes a pitiful attempt to attack her before slumping down, not even giving the typical dignified smile Suzuka's victims usually do.

Kyokan

Voiced By: Hisao Egawa (JP), Joe Romersa (EN)

An assassin who was sent to take Melfina but faces Suzuka instead only to die at her hands.

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• Affably Evil: Implied. He respectfully tells Suzuka not to interfere when she prevents him from taking Melfina, comes to respect as a fighter, and fights fairly for a Kei Pirate.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Not as self-loathing of his profession as Shimi/ Leilong but not as underhanded arrogant, or sadistic as any of the other members. He tries to capture Melfina on his own, tries to talk Suzuka into not interfering and genuinely comes to respect her as a fighter, even as she kills him.
• Epic Flail: He tried to capture Melfina using this, only to be deflected by Suzuka.
• Foil To Yase, his implied partner. Yase is a sadistic, constantly smiling Dirty Coward that relies on one tactic and on allies, beefed up with additional battlesuits for an advantage. Kyokan on the other hand, is heavily implied to be a Noble Demon that attacks without any aid to back him up, is versatile in Tao Magic and martial arts outside of his one flail, and never smiles outside of his death. The former dies without dignity with a feeble attempt to kill her after his own underhanded tactic fails, and the latter dies with respect for Suzuka after one final slash.
• Face Death with Dignity: He accepts his fatal defeat by Suzuka with silent grace.
• Noble Demon: Not directly stated, but implied. Unlike the other Kei Pirates, he fights Suzuka on his own without the backup of the robotic minions, never shows the typical sadistic arrogance, and uses dirty tricks to get the upper hand. He respects Suzuka's skills as a fighter and genuinely compliments her for her technique as she kills him.
• Worthy Opponent: He's rather impressed by Suzuka's skills and even compliments her.

Tendo King's Overseer

Voiced By: Nobuyuki Tanaka (JP, uncredited), Dave Mallow (EN)

The overseer sent by the Tendo King to keep an eye on Hazanko.

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• A Lighter Shade of Black: While he's ultimately a member of the Tempa Empire, he's portrayed as very by the book and loyal to the Emperor, with none of the displayed arrogance and sadism that the Kei Pirates have shown with only a few notable exceptions. While he does wanted the Leyline for the Tempa Empire, it's implied it's not for the absolute power-hungry reasons that Hazanko desires it for- being a means to an end to maintain authority in the underworld. It indirectly implies and hinted through episode 7, that Hazanko's brutal and malicious methods are unnatural for the Guild and Hazanko proves to be an outlier with vast personal ambitions when he reveals his true nature.
• Almighty Janitor: Though a mere overseer for the Tendo King, he has a duty to observe the infamous Kei Leader Hazanko, and is high ranking enough that Hazanko has to somewhat defer to him.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He tries to kill Hazanko for betraying the Tendo King, and has a look of pure disgust when Hazanko reveals how power-hungry and treacherous he truly is.
• He Knows Too Much: He notices something was up with Hazanko when he wasn't reporting his progress, and figures out that Hazanko intends to take the Leyline for himself. Hazanko has the overseer and his guards killed immediately for getting in his way.
• Mook Lieutenant: He is high ranking and trusted enough to watch over Hazanko, and leads a group of Kei Pirate assassins who is loyal to the Tendo King.
• Mouth of Sauron: Since the audience doesn't get to see the Tendo King, he functions as this. He takes his job seriously as an overseer, and Hazanko has to report to him.
• Praetorian Guard: He has his own personal group of assassins to assist him if he needs to handle a problem. Unfortunately, that problem was Hazanko and the Anten Seven.
• Undying Loyalty: To the Tendo King. He would fight Hazanko to the death for him. Hazanko refers to him as the Tendo King's sycophant.
• Villainous Valor: However brief, and possibly foolish his attempt was, he is loyal to the Tendo King, and without any fear at all, he tries to kill Hazanko. Keep in mind, Hazanko is the most powerful Tao Master among the other leaders and is arguably the most ruthless one. To the guy's credit, he's not alone, and Hazanko needed to bring his personal group of assassins to kill the overseer and his team.

The MacDougall Brothers

In General

General trope

• Bling-Bling-BANG!: Their twin gold-plated grappler ships, the Shangri-La and the El Dorado, piloted by Ron and Harry, respectively.
• The Dreaded: The duo has a reputation that leads to being feared as much as entire factions. Ron, it turns out, built much of it up on his own.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The two brothers do genuinely love each other and Ron is particularly upset when it looks like Harry's been killed. We also find out that while his obsession with Melfina was pretty far from healthy, in the end, Harry at least cared enough to help Gene rescue her before dying.
• Knight of Cerebus: Beyond being the primary reason for Hilda's death, the two of them come very close to winning whenever they show up.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Initially, this was inverted with the Kei Pirates. Despite being murderous space pirate sorcerers, they were driven by their loyalty to their superiors and had camaraderie. The MacDougal Brothers on the other hand, are mercenaries that are amoral by nature, taking any job from any of the three factions as long as they get paid and will literally backstab their latest client once their newest client requests their demise. They also contrast the usual implied nature of an outlaw, while against the law, outlaws have a code of honor, fight for their dreams they bet, and are willing to take risks- which the careful and plotting MacDougal Brothers never do.
  • Once Hazanko reveals his treacherous and megalomaniacal ambitions, the MacDougal Brothers become the less evil of the two opposing factions- for as amoral as they are, they're mainly motivated by money and their genuine love for each other- Hazanko notably lacking the latter and his ambitions have potentially universal and truly malevolent consequences should he win.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ron is the Blue Oni – the calm, composed planner. Harry is the Red Oni, being the impulsive and destructive sibling. Funnily enough, they dress in opposite colors.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Ron is calm, focused, and rational. Harry is obsessive and prone to hysterics.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: A villainous example. They get far more prominently featured than the Kei Pirates, and fighting them gets far more focus in episodes.
• Wild Card: They're willing to take jobs from any of the three factions, as long as it pays well. The Wild Card aspect REALLY comes into play when they finish a job for the Kei Pirates... only to start on a job they got from the Space Forces that involves killing said pirates.

Ronald "Ron" MacDougall

Voiced by: Kazuhiro Nakata (JP), John Snyder (EN, credited as Jack Emmet)

The elder MacDougall Brother, and the pilot of the Shangri-La. Always calm, he is the brains of the MacDougall's entire operation. Ron has a past with Hilda. He uses a Caster gun like Gene, but it is basically the barrel of a Caster fashioned in the style of a Shakujo, the staff often carried by Buddhist monks. Ron is a man who will take on any job so long as the money is right and he ends up finishing ahead of where he started. Be it pirates, Space Forces, or private contractors, he will consider anything viable and carry out the job only as it is stipulated, and no further than that.

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• Affably Evil: Ron is the more personable of the two brothers, being sophisticated and all business despite ultimately being a constantly backstabbing money-grubber who betrays all sides for the most profit.
• Archenemy: Gene despises him for causing the death of his father one of the countless deaths he caused he's long forgotten about, for being the cause of Hilda- a person who shaped Gene's ideology about being an outlaw and had become a surrogate mother figure/lover, and for the many attempts on the lives of Gene himself and his comrades. Ron until Harry's death left him emotionally vulnerable enough to take him more seriously only sees Gene as a roadblock to get to Melfina and the Galactic Leyline.
• Badass Longcoat: A fur-lined trench coat.
• Badass Normal: Unlike his Cyborg brother, Ron's just a normal human with incredible skills.
• Beam-O-War: His caster duels with Gene are inconclusive as their shots cancel each other out. At least until Gene upgrades his arsenal a bit.
• Big Brother Instinct: Harry may be unhinged, but he's still family to Ron. When Hazanko butchers his brother, Ron takes it personally and decides to settle the score: starting with Gwen Khan and Gene.
• Big Brother Mentor: Ronald shows his brothers the trade of being a mercenary bounty hunter and genuinely cares about him evident in both times Harry gets severely injured, especially what Hazanko does to him.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Gene confronts Ronald about the death of his father, Ron casually states that he doesn't recall:
  Gene: "Don't gimmie that! I know it was you!"
  Ron: (calmly) "Look, I'm a busy man, you can't expect me to remember every job I've ever pulled. And "10 years ago" doesn't exactly narrow it down. Though I suppose it could've been me."
• Evil Counterpart: It's not immediately obvious at first, but it gradually becomes obvious that Ron represents the business side of Gene willing to do anything for money, to the point that they have contrasting versions of Caster Guns. However, Gene does anything even if it's menial but stops at anything that is immoral in action, only killing those who deserve it- aka murderous pirates/assassins/killers, while being loyal to those who employ him regardless of what he says otherwise, especially Fred who constantly annoys him while doing his requests begrudgingly, and is very dedicated to his crew- which he sees as his True Companions. Ron, on the other hand, has no scruples in his jobs, stooping to even murdering countless targets- several implied to be innocent- to the point, that he doesn't even recall certain jobs unless you're specific enough, and has no loyalties to any client as it's common for him to backstabbing the people who employed him moments beforehand once another offer to turn on them appears just for money, and outside of Harry, doesn't seem to carry about anyone else that doesn't further his goals.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Ronald has a scar across the left side of his lip. Makes it look like he's always smirking. He probably is.
• Hero Killer: Ron was responsible for Hilda's death, by ordering Harry to cut her towline.
• Oh, Crap!: Aptly sums up Ron's reaction at the end of his duel with Gene, at the Galactic Leyline. He thought their shots had canceled each other out until Gene told him he had just fired a #9 caster shell:
  Ron: (at Gene) "You keep trying the same thing over and over... Well, now you're gonna suffer LIKE HARRY DID!!"
  Gene: (grimly) "For your information, that shell I just fired was a #9."
  Ron: (eyes wide in alarm) "No. 9?? Do those really exist..?? But... it doesn't seem to have done any damage at al--
  (the effects kick in at that moment, sending Ron flying off the cliff)
• Old Flame: Ron's banter with Harry after Hilda's death, implied that Ron may have been romantically involved with her in the past.
  Harry: "Man, what a waste."
  Ron: "C'mon, we don't need the the XG-P. We already have the fastest ship in the galaxy."
  Harry: (smirking) "I meant Hilda. Didn't you say she was really cute?"
  Ron: (upon reflection) "...sorry, Harry, she wouldn't have been your type."
• Parental Substitute: To Harry. Harry was a clone made to be Ron's younger brother, so despite being considered siblings Ron is actually the closest thing Harry has to a father..
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Harry's Red Oni. Ron is the crafty, experienced brains of the duo.
• Revenge Myopia: Despite having gone out of his way to harass, provoke, and attempt to straight-up murder Gene for the entire series, and there's the little thing with Gene's dad too, Ron ends the series swearing revenge on Gene for the loss of Harry's body, even though Gene had absolutely nothing to do with that part, and even if Gene did, it would have been warranted, considering how Harry repeatedly traumatized Melfina.
• Villainous Breakdown: During their final confrontation, Ron in contrast to his usual suave and smug self, is shouting and in a state of fury when facing Gene. Justified as moments before, he sees his brother's mangled body- the handiwork of Hazanko and Gene happened to show up while Ron was emotionally distressed over his brother's death by happenstance rather than the stress of Gene's persistence getting to him.
• Villain Has a Point: While it may seem that Ron was evading Gene's question, he makes a fair point about Gene not being specific enough for him to really say whether the accusation was true, or not. Especially considering the sheer number of jobs Ron has accepted over the last decade.

Henry "Harry" MacDougall

Voiced by: Tsutomu Kashiwakura (JP), Steve Staley (EN, credited as Steve Cannon)

The younger of the MacDougall Brothers, and the pilot of the El Dorado. Though usually calm and arrogant, he is prone to intense fits of rage and insanity. He develops an obsessive infatuation with Melfina; claiming whenever they meet that they are one and the same due to both being bio-androids and are the only ones capable of understanding each other.

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• Archenemy: While Ron is the driving reason why Gene goes about the brothers, due to Ron's indifference towards Gene outside of being a target, it's one-sided on Gene's side. Harry and Gene, on the other hand, gradually become deeply antagonistic towards each other due to their relationship with Melfina, leading to a very personal grudge on both sides. Gene hates Harry for causing Hilda's death, abusing Melfina both emotionally/mentally while trying to take her away from him, and trying to kill him several times. Harry despises Gene for causing his gradual descent into losing his body parts, but more significantly, getting in the way of him taking Melfina for his own. Eventually, the two come to an understanding that Gene is the better fit for Melfina as Harry sacrifices himself to allow Gene to rescue her.
• Artificial Human: Similar to Melfina, he is also a synthetic human, a test tube baby created in a lab using genetic material from that of another individual who had earlier died.
• Artificial Limbs: After a minor injury during his first appearance, Harry gains a prosthetic arm, which seems to give him super-hacking abilities. Later on, most of his body is replaced.
• Ax-Crazy: He is definitely unstable and given to immature violence, though he slowly gets more and more sane as time goes on as he becomes more mechanical.
• Bishōnen Line: In the third direct encounter with the crew of the Outlaw Star, Harry fights with a bulky suit with arms longer than his torso with two gun torrents on the shoulders- while dangerous in long range, it is clumsy to maneuver in and it's easily taken down once Harry's fallen on his back with no means of fighting back when Gene guns him down. When his upgraded suit made by Gwen when they enter the Leyline, is a streamlined, form-fitting body suit that greatly enhances his physical properties including homing spike missiles and a mini-machine in his hand. Given that it manages to break Hazanko's mask- implied to be an impossible task to do even as a skilled Tao Master, the implications are that had he faced anyone else, including Gene with his limited Caster Guns and the remaining Anten Seven, he would've come up on top.
• Brain Uploading: A copy of his mind and personality continues to exist in his brother's ship at the end of the series. It has no idea that his human body was destroyed.
• Camp Straight: He has a lot of behavior that can be seen as "fruity" but he's clearly interested solely in Melfina.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Inverted. If anything, Harry becomes more stable the more cybernetics his body takes on.
• Bullying a Dragon: Trying to take on a high-level Tao Master, such as Hazanko, on his own was not the brightest move in Harry's career even if it was a noble thing protecting Melfina as Hazanko was easily the worst of the two, even with Harry being a crazed bounty hunter.
• Character Development: For what was introduced as Psychopathic Manchild with little character depth at first, Harry undergoes a subtle but noticeable shift in character as he becomes more robotic, specifically in his interactions with Melfina. Initially, he comes across as an obsessive stalker, undergoing severe mood swings as he physically and emotionally corners Melfina. In their third interaction, he has a significantly more civil conversation that still doesn't lead to Melfina accepting him. In their fourth interaction, Harry attempts and fails to protect Melfina from Hazanko. With his last actions, he allows Gene to save her, knowing he's ill-suited for her, and acknowledges his one-sided love before he physically dies.
• Characterization Marches On: Given Harry's ability to ability to mask his psychosis under a suave and civil facade and extremely unhealthy obsession with Melfina; it's unusual to see his initial introduction in episode 5 that paints him as much more one-dimensional psychotically childish and even lecherous, given his lewd comment about Hilda.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Harry doesn't like the idea of anyone being close to Melfina, except him. Anyone who does is perceived as competition for her affections and, for him, that's unacceptable.
• Dartboard of Hate: Harry, while adjusting his bionic arm, throws darts at a picture of Gene.
• Death Equals Redemption: Love him or hate him in the end at least Harry was able to realize that Melfina's safety and happiness were more important than his own gratification and was able to help Gene save her before his body gave out.
• Dissonant Serenity: Played extremely, frighteningly well with Harry, going from pleasant to lashing to apologetic to screaming to eerily calm to furious, all in episode 17 in his Yandere obsession with Melfina.
• Entitled to Have You: Harry feels that he and Melfina are perfect for each other, and it frustrates him that she doesn't agree.
• Evil Counterpart: Harry represents what if Gene gave in to his lustful impulses without his morals and Jim to keep him grounded as a somewhat decent person. His and Harry's relationship with Melfina has inherent selfish motivations. In Gene's case, he's indecisive about using her to get to the Galactic Leyline or indulge in lust, but ultimately comes to love her as an individual- the worst he does is try and force himself on her twice- once stopped by Jim in a comedic moment and the latter being a coping mechanism for dealing with his fear of dying in a duel. Harry at first, is obsessed with her on the sole basis that they're bio-androids, feeling that alone makes him entitled to have her. However, as he becomes more mechanical, he becomes more humane, wanting affection from her, but gets pushed away when he's denied. His dying moments have him realize that he's not fit for her and decides Gene is the better man to save her.
  • He's also this to Melfina. Both are bio-androids who are (or in Harry's case, eventually) optimized to be the navigation system for their ships and are deep down very childish. The difference is that Melfina is a genuinely sweet, non-violent, and compassionate person who only hurts one person directly- only to help save one who is trying to find her own identity outside of being a bio-android made to find the Galactic Leyline. In Harry's case, he is initially a psychotic lunatic who kills and goes along with Ron's backstabbing, who initially has extreme emotional mood swings that lessen as he becomes more and more mechanical.
• Family-Unfriendly Death: Harry has his insides crushed by Hazanko, which is so brutal that it was edited out in the original Toonami version.
• Flawed Prototype: Harry was a beta test clone raised by Ron to be his younger brother; needless to say, it's not hard to guess how flawed he is.
• Fur and Loathing: He wears a yellow leather vest with white fur trimming.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He loathes Gene for being the focus of Melfina's attention, despite Melfina rightfully being wary of Harry himself due to her initial two encounters having physically and emotionally invasive trauma.
• Hopeless Suitor: Harry tries again and again to woe Melfina towards him, but is doomed for failure for two significant reasons. First, is that Melfina already had implied feelings for Gene that blossomed into actual romance and second as well as more importantly, his initial two invasive interactions, both emotionally and physically, caused Melfina to rightfully avoid his mood swings.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Complete with a pink bow behind his hair.
• Mad Love: Melfina is terrified of Harry for his unhealthy obsession with her and wants nothing to do with him. Rather than drive him away, her rejection of him simply makes him even more determined to win her love.
• Mask of Sanity: His persona as a racer in the space race heavily implies that Harry usually acts in a casual and civil tone to the average person. In reality in private and on jobs, he's initially a very psychotic, violent, and emotionally unstable man at least until he becomes more mechanical and ironically more humane.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: When Gene grazes his arm, Harry completely falls apart and whines like a spoiled brat, despite being a psychotic killer who's killed an innumerable amount of people. This trait gets downplayed and subverted as his enhancements strengthen both his pain tolerance and emotional stability to the point, he calmly opens the door to get to Melfina despite being given easily the most violent fatal injuries in the series.
• Mood-Swinger: What made Harry's pursuit of Melfina so unnerving was that he could go from caring one moment, to violent the next, at the drop of a dime. It was so natural for him, that it left Melfina terrified.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Harry attempts to get rid of Gene in episode 21, once he realizes Melfina is in love with him. And tried to do the same to Hazanko for coming between them at the Galactic Leyline. Neither attempt ends well for Harry, especially the latter.
• Psycho for Hire: He takes jobs to kill people and is certainly unhinged.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Initially, for all of his smooth talking and suave persona in public, he's an emotionally volatile, violent, and extremely sensitive brat in the body of a young man. However, this is downplayed as his cybernetic enhancements allow him a greater sense of clarity that allows him to speak to Melfina in civil terms about his feelings when in his 2nd meeting, he exposed her to his most emotionally unstable self.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Ron's Blue Oni. Aside from being much younger and less experienced, Harry is also impulsive and unstable.
• Sanity Strengthening. Harry starts as an Ax-Crazy Stalker with a Crush to Melfina, but as the series goes on he generally becomes more calm and stable, albeit still delusional about his relationship with her even coming to terms with his inability to get Melfina, realizing that Gene is the better fit.
• Stalker with a Crush: Harry becomes obsessed with Melfina from the moment he lays eyes on her, and spends the remainder of the series trying to make her his own. Especially in Episode 17, and it's never been more terrifying as the scenario becomes eerily reminiscent of domestic abuse.
• Villainous Crush: Ron had only ordered Harry to kidnap Melfina since she's the navigation system of the XGP. Instead, he fell in love with her — by which we mean went full-blown stalker/yandere; especially when she rejected him. Harry spends the remainder of the series shifting from trying to coax her with heartfelt pleas to trying to murder Gene for being too close to her.
• Took a Level in Badass: He starts as, while a skilled killer, Harry tends to fall apart when he's actually hurt like a whiny child. In future confrontations via his enhancements, he becomes much more pain-tolerant and a more physical threat. By the time he gains a fully cybernetically enhanced body, Harry is briefly able to clash with Hazanko and manage to break his mask, which earns him an incredibly violent fatal attack and still manages to stay alive long enough for Gene to access Melfina before succumbing to his injuries.
• Villainous Breakdown: While Harry starts off as insufferably smug when cornered by Gene, he immediately folds when Gene actually shoots him in the arm, whining like a child and showing intense fear when Gene has a gun to his head. When he manages to escape, Harry repeatedly talks about blowing the crew of the Outlaw Star up while looking completely irate. This instability continues into his next appearance where he switches between eerily serene and violently infuriated with Melfina. It takes until the third appearance for him to completely mellow out and begin to react normally.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Harry under the alias surname, William, is a favored and popular contender in the race with several fans adoring him when in reality he's a crazed mercenary for hire.
• Wet Ware CPU: Much like Melfina, Harry is later able to connect to the MacDougal's ship, which only fuels his obsession even further.
• The Worf Effect: It works in two ways. Harry loses to Hazanko to show how much of a threat he is compared to even a greatly augmented cyborg. However, destroying Hazanko's mask, an implied impossible task that not even other Tao Masters are capable of, implies that had Harry faced any of the other Anten Seven members, he would've had a far easier time dealing with them and would've likely cornered even Gene given how limited his ammunition is and how blindingly fast his speed and reflexes were. So Harry had the misfortune to face the one person who would conventionally one-shot him and survive the encounter.
• Would Hit a Girl: Harry gets frustrated and hits Melfina in episode 17 when she refuses to come with him. Coincides with Yandere mentioned below.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: Harry seems to be under the impression that he is valiant protagonist who will ultimately get the girl, Melfina. This goes against the reality that he's psychotically obsessed with Melfina as a false love interest to the actual protagonist, Gene, let alone his initial interactions were invasive and even emotionally/physically abusive. This revelation dawns on him as he as he's graphically killed by Hazanko and fails to save Meflina, settling for allowing Gene to be the savior she needs.
• Yandere: Absolutely crazy about Melfina, and he will try to get rid of anyone who gets near her. Best shown in Episode 17, which depicted an unsettlingly realistic portrayal of an abusive relationship with a bipolar psychopathic stalker, with Melfina being the victim.

Other Characters

The Wizards of Tenrei

Urt is voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (JP), Clara York (EN, credited as Sara Syphers)

Lord Hadul is voiced by: Koichi Kitamura (JP), Steve Kramer (EN)

Ark Manaf is voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (JP), Kirk Thornton (EN, credited as Sparky Thornton)

Three wizards named Urt, Hadul, and Ark Manaf who landed on the planet Tenrei a hundred years ago, hoping to find a powerful element known as mana. Gene seeks them out to find caster shells numbers 4, 9, and 13, all of which were needed in the final battle at the Leyline.

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• Beware the Silly Ones: Despite being comedic lechs from overt to subtle, their Caster Shells, include causing a target to be turned inside out via a gravity singularity, a spell that blows you a great distance while near fatally killing the target, and a draconic spell that kills the user it taking a literal Deus ex Machina to revive them.
• Big Eater: Lord Hadul, who eats a sushi platter, several bowls of udon, steak and potatoes, soba, two chicken legs, and a sundae...for lunch.
• Bold Explorer: The three set out from their home planet(s) over a hundred years ago, hoping to find a new source of mana, but presumably found nothing but hot springs. Seizing the opportunity, Urt turned the planet into a tourist destination.
• Crazy-Prepared: Urt, knowing full well about Ark and Hadul's perverse nature, set several traps on the route to Mount Nyotai.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Caster shells no.s 4, 9, and 13 are extremely rare and just as dangerous to use, as each one drains a portion of the user's lifeforce when fired. But, above all, the user is warned not to fire all three consecutively, or they'll die. Guess what Gene ends up doing?
• Dirty Old Man: Lord Hadul, though Lord Ark could technically count as well since the trio is over 100 years old.
• Dirty Old Woman: Urt is quite perverted herself. Not only was she happy to make a nude video of herselfeven if it was rigged to self-destruct, as a reward if Gene beat her in a ping-pong match, she asked for a rematch and requested a nude video of him if she won.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: There was a time Ark, Hadul, and Urt were revered as sages... but since casters have become outdated, no one needs their services anymore. So Ark and Hadul have been reduced to selling souvenirs just to get by, and Urt has abandoned them and now runs a women-only hot springs resort at the summit of Mt. Nyotai.
• Mr. Exposition: Not for long, but Ark's brief lecture in episode 23 provides the only clues that viewers get into why Casters exist and how they became so rare, as well as establishing that Caster magic vs. Tao Magic is a case of both Magic A Is Magic A and The Magic Goes Away.
• Ms. Fanservice: Ark, Hadul, and Gene certainly thought so when it came to Urt, during her strip tease. They were so busy ogling the video she sent them, that they completely failed to notice the countdown in the video display (though Gene did ask about it, only for Ark and Hadul to dismiss it), until she pointed it out to them.
  Urt: (laughs seductively) "I can't believe you're still watching this. You men are such fools."
  Ark, Hadul, and Gene: (in unison) "Huh...?"
  Urt: (finishes countdown)' "3... 2... 1... 0." (video self-destructs)
• Lady Land: Urt banned men from the summit of Mount Nyotai, and as Ark put it, "Lords over everyone there like a queen."
• Mood Dissonance: Scenes with Ark and Hadul frequently use this trope - serious one moment, perverted and funny the next, or vice versa.
• The Tease: Urt distracted the guys with a self-made video of herself doing a strip tease, which self-destructs moments after she's taken everything off.
• Wizards Live Longer: Despite being over a hundred years old, at least, Ark and Urt both still look like young people in the prime of their life. Even Hadul hasn't seemingly aged since he discovered Tenrei with them a century ago.
• Worth It: Hadul said that he can die satisfied that he got to see Urt naked after the tape self-destructed.

Professor Gwen Khan

Played By: Takeshi Aono (JP), Milton James (EN, credited as Richard Barnes)

A scientist and a member of the Keyline Project.

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• Abusive Parents: Is technically Melfina's "father" but has no problems shutting her down to force the crew to comply with his demands. Then at the Leyline, he happily echoes Hazanko's sentiment that she's nothing more than a puppet to be used. He's only barely better than Hazanko as he's not as emotionally abusive.
• Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: In the end, he remains inside the Galatic Leyline while the Outlaw Star crew leave. Becoming information itself in order to study all information in the universe.
  Gwen Khan: "I am data and data is me."
• Bullying a Dragon: Considering that he wouldn't last five seconds against Gene, Suzuka, or Aisha, Khan should be thankful that after gaining the coordinates to the Leyline, the crew decided to abandon rather than kill him for using Mel as a hostage.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: For most people, the thought of Ron MacDougal holding them at gunpoint would have them shitting bricks, especially if he was blaming them for Harry being dead. Not Khan though, he just stands there calmly stroking his beard, while only mildly perplexed by why Ron's blaming him. What makes it even funnier is his response:
  Gwen Khan: {matter-of-factly} "Now that's utterly preposterous. It's not even logical."
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Has a habit of riding on the coattails of anyone who can get him closer to his goal, then ditching them once they've taken him as far as they can.
• The Comically Serious: In addition to the Casual Danger Dialogue entry, Khan is more than a little eccentric, bordering on Cloud Cuckoolander at times, despite being dead serious! Such as when he brags at length about the monopole Gene asked him to make:
  Gene: "So did you bring it?"
  Gwen Khan: {produces monopole} "Yes, yes. I have it right here."
  Gene: {takes monopole} "And did you rig it, like we discussed?"
  Gwen Khan: "Indeed, I did, though I have no idea what you intend to do with it. Of course, I'll have to ask you to be careful with it, since I'll need it back. It was quite expensive, and a fine piece of craftsmanship, if I say so myself."
  *pause*
  Gwen Khan: {proudly} "It was made by someone else."
• For Science!: In the end, all he wanted was to know the answer to all the mysteries of the universe. Which is foreshadowed, when he briefly discusses Melfina with Ron and Harry MacDougal.
  Ron: {astonished} "You mean, Melfina's too great a mystery, even for you, Professor?"
  Gwen Khan: {frustrated} "Yes, yes! That's it precisely! Oh, to think that there are so many mysteries my brilliant mind can't fathom!"
• Department of Redundancy Department: The way he talks is a waste of words.
• Karma Houdini: Betrays and uses practically every major other faction and not only gets off with hardly any comeuppance outside of Gene briefly knocking him out and stranding him alone for shutting down Melfina but also gets everything he wants in the end by becoming one with the data of the Leyline in order to gain all the knowledge of the universe.
• Lack of Empathy: He sees Harry's unfortunate remains as a result of Hazanko's handiwork with indifference and is perplexed on why he should listen to Ron's request to remain with Harry as a sentimental request as if it were something absurd, not seeing how distraught Ron was about Harry's condition as a brother.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Said "It was I, Who Created Melfina" word-for-word, when he shuts her down to force Gene to comply with his demands, at the end of Episode 21.
• Mad Scientist: It doesn't take long to see that Khan ain't all there. Or... he's just really, REALLY "eccentric".
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Designed Melfina, the Outlaw Star, and repaired Harry's damaged body after he was wounded at the Grave of the Dragon so at the very least he's an expert in bioscience, mechanical engineering, programming, and cybernetics.
• The Sociopath: Not as barbarically violent as Hazanko, but Gwen is a surprisingly realistic one in a world of Tao Magic, armed spaceships, and shape-shifting aliens. He puts on a public persona as a favorable figure in the public eye but on a personal level, he is perplexed by how people function beyond the rational- being bewildered by Ron's request to remain with Harry and how emotionally distraught he is at the moment, having a grandiose sense of entitlement for omniscient knowledge no matter who he uses to get there, can be surprisingly impulsive in getting what he wants, and he states' horrific condition that left Harry fatally wounded as a mark of Hazanko's handiwork in a nonchalant manner while not showing any truly powerful emotional response to the sight.
• Verbal Tic: He habitually repeats himself or restates his previous statements with slightly different wording. Also whenever there's a close-up of his face, we see that his eyes never stay still, and are constantly jittering ever so slightly.
• Wild Card: For much of the series, it's hard to tell whose side he's really on, since he teams up with Gene, the MacDougal Bros, and even worked with the Kei Pirates at one point, prior to the start of the series to help create the XGP and Melfina. No surprise, he was in it for himself the entire time, using everyone to get to his goal of gaining absolute knowledge.

Fred Luo

Played By: Toshihiko Seki (JP), Ezra Weisz (EN, credited as Ethan Murray)

"Oh Gene, I've missed you! You never call; you never write!"

A weapons merchant, and the son and heir of a rich corporation. A close friend of Gene Starwind and Jim Hawking, Fred often supplies them with odd job opportunities and weapons for the Outlaw Star.

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• Arms Dealer: Gene gets the Outlaw Star's armaments from his company.
• Arranged Marriage: To Reiko Ando, an engagement complicated by Fred's preferences...
• Camp Gay: Boy, is he ever. He is very effeminate, very emotional and very interested in Gene as more than a friend or a good customer. Not even the edited Toonami broadcast was able to cover this one up (doesn't mean they didn't try. It's just that some of the lines in the edited version can be considered DubText if you watch it with the uncut version to compare and contrast).
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Typically he's a jerk with 'exact words' such as initially refusing to pay Gene for not beating Reiko Ando. However a day later he admitted her remembered their talk saying 'if you take the job' so he paid up so he can throw a bone or two.
• Incompatible Orientation: Not that Fred seems to mind. Fred's too busy making Gene blush and stutter to even care that he can never have him because Gene is heterosexual.
• Manipulative Bastard: His affection for Gene is genuine, but he has no problem using his boy-toy for any number of dirty schemes, albeit not maliciously.
• Manly Man and Sensitive Guy: Fred's sensitive guy to Gene's manly man.
• No Guy Wants an Amazon: Subverted, it initially looks like his refusal to marry Reiko Ando was because of this, but he makes it clear he didn't want to marry her because he's not attracted to women.
• Queer People Are Funny: He is hilariously comical in homosexuality.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Fred is more than willing to make use of his finances to bribe inconvenient people so he can get his way.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Because of his business connections, Fred is used to getting his way, and will shamelessly exploit his ties to people to get what he wants.

Swanzo & Mikey

Swanzo voiced by: Takeshi Aono (JP), Doug Stone (EN, credited as Gully Jimson)

Mickey voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (JP), Shannon Presby (EN, credited as Chip Nickey)

Two mechanics that work at Blue Heaven and Swanzo in particular is loyal to Hilda for saving him once.

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• Frog Men: Outside his suit, Swanzo's appearance resembles a humanoid amphibian implied to be the size of an actual frog outside of the suit.
• Space Suits Are SCUBA Gear: Swanzo wears a suit with a translator (which occasionally glitches) because he cannot adapt to human environments.
• Those Two Guys: They're partners who work as mechanics at Blue Heaven.

Clyde & Iris

Clyde voiced by: Toshihiko Nakajima (JP), Steve McGowan (EN, credited as Elliot Reynolds)

Iris voiced by: Akiko Kimura (JP), Rebecca Forstadt (EN, credited as Reba West)

Clyde is the bartender at Gene's favorite haunt, back on Sentinel III. Iris works there as a waitress and nurses a crush on Gene.

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• Fanservice with a Smile: Not only is Iris a babe in a miniskirt, she allows Gene to feel her up to both their satisfaction. She only gets upset when she has to stop, to get back to work. Near the end of the final episode, she's seen sighing in contentment while letting Gene do it again.
• Muggles: They're just ordinary everyday people.
• Not So Stoic: The only time Clyde's ever been surprised by anything, is when he realized Death Rob had walked into his bar. That was short-lived, however, since he knew Gene could handle it.
• Super-Stoic Shopkeeper: Few things seem to bother Clyde, including when thugs and assassins show up looking for Gene, or when fights break out in his bar. He just puts the cost of the repairs on Gene's tab and continues calmly cleaning his beer mugs.

Death Rob

"Death Rob" Kane

Voiced By: Kazuhiro Nakata (JP), Gavin Glennon (EN, credited as Hannibal Harris)

A criminal of some renown, he claims to have killed a dozen men, a fact which does not impress Gene in the least.

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• Cyborg: His right arm was replaced with three metal tentacles that can merge into one with a sharp hand-sized blade. He also modified himself that a gunshot to the head doesn't kill him and requires slicing his ribcage at a specific angle to truly kill him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He sought to avenge his brother, Butch, who was killed at the hands of Gene.
• Ironic Death: Gene could have ended up as his 31st kill. It went the other way around.
• Serial Killer: He is notorious for at least 30 deaths.
• Starter Villain: He's the very first person that Gene kills, though not instantly thanks to Rob's cybernetic enhancements allowing him to survive normally fatal blows.

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