History Characters / BusoRenkin

* TheArcher: Ouka's Buso Renkin, Angel Gozen, consists of a gauntlet, a little animated doll and a bow-and-arrow.

* TheHero: Kazuki is the central protagonist of the series. He is a NiceGuy, if a little naive, and is determined to do the right thing no matter what. He is turns out to be the only one who can stand a chance against the BigBad.

* BladeOnAStick: Kazuki's buso renkin, the Sunlight Heart, is a lance-type buso renkin that consists of an oversized blade that is almost as long as the shaft it is attached to coupled with an energy emitting cloth. Later in the series, [[spoiler:due the Kazuki becoming a [[WalkingWasteland Victor]]]], the Sunlight Heart [[EvolvingWeapon evolves]] into the Sunlight Heart Plus, a shorter weapon with a blade that can split into a size-changing [[LaserBlade energy blade]].

* NextTierPowerUp: Half way through the series it is revealed that Kazuki's kakugane is actually one of the three black kakugane capable of turning its wielder into a super-powered WalkingWasteland that drains the life from everyone around them. [[spoiler: The upgrade actually becomes the driving force of the second half of the story, since Kazuki needs his kakugane to live, and the transformation is supposedly irreversible and will eventually cause him to remain in that form permanently, causing his former allies to turn on him.]] The transformation also causes a more standard upgrade, in the form of a new [[BladeOnAStick Sunlight Heart]].

* AdaptationalWimp: While she is [[DownplayedTrope just as badass in the first half of the series]], Tokiko Tsumura, the ActionGirlfriend of StockShonenHero Kazuki, had most of her fight scenes in the second half of the anime cut out because the animators removed most of the many scenes from the main character's side of the arc so that they could play up the threat posed by the BigBad. Adding that to the fact that in both versions of the story she spent half the first arc being sidelined due to injuries, and she comes across as far less impressive a fighter than she was in the original manga.

* TheDogBitesBack: After becoming a homunculi, he goes all out on his family, intending to spare one if they remembered he’s not Jiro. No one does and they’re all killed. [[AssholeVictim Given how neglectful they were of him, it’s hard to say it wasn’t karma.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Goes on one after becoming immortal on his family, planning to only spare those who remembered who he is. No one except Kazuki does it. [[AssholeVictim Not that they didn’t deserve it.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Yeah, his siege on his family was brutal, but considering they barely remembered or cared about him, it’s hard to say it wasn’t well deserved.

* AnAxeToGrind: In keeping with his barbarian warrior look, Victor's Buso Renkin, Fatal Attraction, is a great-axe that, after his transformation[[note]]we never get to see what it looked like beforehand[[/note]], manifests as a jagged, lightning-bolt shaped axe with [[GravityMaster gravity control powers]] that can be [[BifurcatedWeapon split into two smaller axes]].

* DoppelgangerAttack: The ability of his Buso Renkin, Satellite 30, allows Moonface to create 30 versions of himself, each one representing a phase of the moon with a head of the corresponding shape[[note]]the new moon one is headless[[/note]]. Each version is also real and its own version of the Satellite 30 so, while only 30 copies can be produced at any one time, they all need to be destroyed to defeat him.

* HeelFaceTurn: While he had been [[FriendlyEnemy fighting on the side of the heroes for a while]], Papillon finally gives up his plans to burn the world after being spared Kazuki defeated him in a rematch and gave him a PatrickStewartSpeech, and eventually becomes a beloved urban legend.

%%* AwesomeMcCoolname: Seriously, read his name out loud.

* DivingKick: Captain Bravo's [[CallingYourAttacks Meteor Bravo Kick]] attack sees him jump high into the air before crashing down on the target foot first. Bravo uses the attack a couple of times during the series and, at one point, the attack is shown to be powerful enough to seriously damage the metal telephone pole [[IHaveTheHighGround his target was standing on]] after they dodged out of the way.

* NiceHat: The hat part of Bravo's Silver Skin buso renkin shares the NighInvulnerable nature as the rest of the ensemble and resemble a silver-coloured cross between a slouch and a tricorn. When using the upgraded Silver Skin: Alternative Type, the hat transforms into a large blue, bicorn-like hat with long tassels.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Tokiko had no clue that the Kakugane that she used to revive Kazuki [[spoiler:was one of the hidden Black Kakugane and that, by using it as a replacement heart, Kazuki would eventually transform into a WalkingWasteland that the Alchemist Army would want to hunt down and kill]].