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  • Famous Ancestor: Most students in the series are "descendants", people who are distantly related to various folklore figures across the world and have abilities related to them.
    Kazushige Sanda 

Kazushige Sanda

Voiced by: Ayumu Murase (Japanese), Edward Mendoza (English)

The Hero of this story, who is the thirty first descendant of Santa Claus. He can switch into his other form by wearing any sort of red clothing item and reverts back to normal by consuming a type of candy called Bratty Beans.


    Santa Claus 

Santa Claus

Voiced by: Hiroki Tochi (Japanese), Ben Balmaceda (English)

Father Christmas himself and the alter ego of Kazushige.


  • Cool Old Guy: Being Santa Claus himself makes automatically like this. That being said, he's a muscular old man who can hold his own in combat.
  • Friend to All Children: Invoked. As Santa Claus, he has to be a positive figure for children or else he'll lose power. Being able to transform into Santa also hinges on him not falling in love or having dirty thoughts about children, even if Sanda is only a kid himself.
  • Healing Factor: Santa is basically immortal and can heal from any injury no matter how severe it is. The one exception to this is reindeer blood.
  • Immune to Fire: He'd have to be in order to slide down people's chimneys.
  • Older Alter Ego: Is this to Kazushige

    Shiori Fuyumura 

Shiori Fuyumura

Voiced by: Umeka Shoji (Japanese), Morgan Berry (English)

A tall, lanky, and withdrawn middle school girl who is willing to commit dangerous acts out of a desire to find Ono with the help of Sanda's dual identity.

    Hitoshi Amaya 

Hitoshi Amaya

Voiced by: Yūki Shin (Japanese), Jonathan Leon (English)

A classmate to Sanda and Shiori. After a brief stint as an apparent antagonist, he turns out to also want Santa and Christmas to become celebrated again in so his parents' cake shop can be saved by selling Christmas cakes. After the situation gets cleared up, he becomes one of Sanda's closest allies.


  • Meaningful Name: His last name contains the kanji for "sweet", and he's shown to be quite the skilled sweets maker. Furthermore, his parents are shown to run a cake shop.
  • Supreme Chef: He's an exceptionally skilled baker and candy maker, which comes in handy once the Bratty Gummies stop being made and he needs to create a substitute to let Sanda become a kid again.

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    Ichie Ono (SPOILERS) 

Ichie Ono

Voiced by: Anna Nagase (Japanese), Abby Trott (English)

Shiori's closest friend who went missing. A part of her still believes in Christmas.
  • The Lost Lenore: It's shown that her relationship with Shiori went beyond just a close friendship, but that they were actually in love. Her death causes Shiori to become even more cold and distant than previously before her dam finally bursts.
  • Shes All Grown Up: Played for Drama. It turns out that the reason she went missing was because she fell asleep after a night of implied intimacy with Shiori, causing puberty to hit her like a truck. Knowing that the school would go after her if they saw her no longer having a childlike body, she decided to flee. Furthermore, her entering puberty so fast took a big toll on her body... such a big one, in fact, that she's revealed to be dying when she returns.
  • Still Believes in Santa: Despite living in a world where childhood myths were left forgotten decades ago, Ono still believes in them. This is why Shiori seeks out Santa Claus, as she believes that Santa can use this belief to find Ono after she goes missing.
  • Your Days Are Numbered: Her entering puberty all at once did some severe damage to her body, meaning that once she enters the story again, she's shown to be close to dying. She passes away at the end of the School Festival after spending her final moments with Shiori.

    Niko Kazao 

Niko Kazao

Voiced by: Misato Matsuoka (Japanese), Brittany Lauda (English)

    Hifumi Oshibu 

Hifumi Oshibu

Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese), Lucien Dodge (English)

The Headmaster of Daikoku Welfare Academy. He's determined to make sure his students follow his rules at any cost.


  • Cyborg: He admits that he can't stop the march of time from claiming his body, but lord knows he'll try. Most of his body, at this point, is steel and cybernetics holding up whatever flesh is left. Near the end of the series, he's not even eating food anymore, preferring to get his nutrition from oil and molten steel.
  • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Because age hit Toyo harder than it did Oshibu, she comes up to, at most, his knee, while he towers over her and several adults. They were much closer in height in their youth.
  • Kill the Ones You Love: Ochibu strangles Toyo to death after one last bout. The act is consensual, not that Sanda is able to comprehend that by walking in on them in the moment.
  • Older Than They Look: He's really 92 years old, but he uses plastic surgery to retain his youth. Only his hands look his proper age.

    Saburo Yagiuda  

Saburo Yagiuda

Voiced by: Hiroaki Hirata (Japanese), Kirk Thornton (English)

    Toyo Tetsudome  

Toyo Tetsudome

Voiced by Masako Nozawa (Japanese)


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