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Main Heroines: The Priestesses of Suzaku and Seiryuu
The Priestess of Suzaku: Miaka Yuuki
Voiced by: Kae Araki (Japanese, TV series), Noriko Hidaka (Japanese, radio dramas), Bridget Hoffman (English, as "Ruby Marlowe")
- All-Loving Hero: This young woman loves near everyone and is immensely forgiving.
- Ass Kicks You: Her hip attack in the first episode.
- Attempted Rape: Frequently a victim of this as rape is supposed to neutralize her priestess powers.
- Badass Adorable: Book dumb and irresponsibly goofy but also sweet and loyal and definitely kicks ass when she's serious.
- Big Eater: One of the most emblematic female examples. It should be noted that, by
Word of God, she's supposed to be pudgy. - Book Dumb: Subverted: she's shown as more or less average in grades and works hard to get good ones and manages to get in a quite prestigious high school.
- Clothing Damage: Whenever she is attacked, sometimes reducing her clothes to rags clinging to her underwear (which always stays miraculously intact).
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Displayed when she successfully saves her six bodyguards from Soi's lightning attack.
- Curtains Match the Window: Brown eyes and brown hair. Although granted, Miaka's eyes are more hazel than truly brown.
- Damsel in Distress: Often runs into dangerous situations and needs to be saved.
- Damsel out of Distress: Played with. In the first episode she doesn't hesitate to headbutt or pile drive thugs that accost her but she can't hit them hard enough to make them stay down. This means she still needs rescuing. On another occasion, she was trapped in a pocket dimension while a demon used her body to make trouble for her guardians. She badly injured herself to wound the imposter and escape but then she needed a blood transfusion.
- The Ditz: She's not the brightest bulb out there.
- Driven to Suicide: She attempts suicide on more than one occasion.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: She starts wearing her hair down as she matured.
- Good Bad Girl: Miaka is prevented from being promiscuous in practice due to Virgin Power, but it isn't for lack of desire. She and Tamahome are equally frustrated that they can't have sex, and she definitely notices Hotohori and Nakago's good looks. She also decides to try to seduce Nakago to retrieve the shinzaho, albeit she has second thoughts and backs out; and later when she's in Tomo's illusion, she's interested in sex with the handsome illusion Tomo presents to her. All in all, Miaka's desire for sex is portrayed as completely natural and in no way conflicting with her innate kindness or heroism.
- Guilt Complex: Attributed to seeing her mother sad following a divorce. It only gets worse when she's the Priestess.
- Hollywood Pudgy: In-universe, she is called fat, but she's got a quite full figure compared with other anime girls.
- Idiot Hero: Good grades or not, Miaka severely lacks common sense and doesn't think things through.
- Kneel Before Frodo: Is on the receiving end of this when she agrees to be the Priestess.
- Lethal Chef: Her cooking is horrible.
- The Load: Miaka frequently runs off alone into danger, despite having seven superpowered individuals sworn to protect her. In some cases she even tricks them out of helping or protecting her, which invariably makes the situation worse when they do have to intervene. The entire kodoku arc is the result of Miaka doing this, and it results in Tamahome becoming Brainwashed and Crazy, Tasuki nearly dying via No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, and Chichiri and Hotohori in danger of being killed as well. The Suzaku warriors have no choice but to protect Miaka regardless of her reckless actions as she is the only person who can summon their god. With that said, part of Miaka's Character Development is becoming aware of her own dumb and reckless actions and trying to do better, although for most of the series the results are... mixed.
- Love Dodecahedron: She's pretty much the center of it.
- Miko: Technically, as she's the Priestess of Suzaku. Subverted as she rarely wears miko attire nor does she act like a typical one.
- Misapplied Phlebotinum: She wastes Tasuki's spell cards to make snacks (and
Tamahome). To be fair, she wasn't aware of the limits of said spell card's magic. - Never Got to Say Goodbye: Due to being back in her own world at the time, she's not present during Mitsukake's death.
- Nice Girl: Despite having flaws, Miaka is a kind-hearted girl who forgives mostly everyone who wronged her and she is shown to put her friends and others before herself when she summoned Suzaku.
- Obsessed with Food: To the point where she literally can't control herself around food, and daydreams about it frequently. The bad guys (and Taiitsukun) take advantage of this more than once!
- Odango Hair: Miaka's hair is mostly styled in twin buns.
- Official Couple: With Tamahome.
- Ordinary High-School Student: Until she was sucked into the book of The Four Gods, that is.
- The Plan: In the 3rd OVA, it turns out she gave her unborn child to a girl who would use her strong feelings for Tamahome to save the Universe of the Four Gods, which was falling apart as the book became old and worn. Nothing is what it seems, and it was something Miaka did subconsciously. It Makes Sense in Context.
- The Power of Friendship and The Power of Love: While both are important (and critical to winning against the bad guys), this interestingly becomes a central conflict for Miaka during the main series, as she deeply loves Tamahome, but also knows that this is driving a deeper and deeper wedge between herself and Yui.
- Put on a Bus: In Eikoden, Miaka enters a Convenient Coma while Mayo causes havoc in her place as the priestess of Suzaku.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Miaka is the red oni to Yui's blue.
- Say My Name: Tamahome!!!
- Stock Shoujo Heroine: She's a gluttonous Idiot Heroine with average grades who is nonetheless well-meaning and kindhearted. She accidentally finds herself in the middle of a fantastic war and gets two handsome love interests out of the deal.
- Supporting Protagonist: She's the Big Good for Konan as the Suzaku priestess, but her seven star warriors are the ones who usually save the day.
- Talking the Monster to Death: Probably Miaka's main legitimate strength is her ability to appeal to the better nature and compassion of others. Nuriko, Tasuki and Mitsukake are all antagonistic or outright hostile when Miaka first meets them, and she manages to win over all three. This skill culminates with her finally breaking through to Yui in the final episodes, causing the latter to turn against Nakago.
- Teen Pregnancy: Downplayed example: she is 18 years old in the Eikoden OVA, and married to Taka when she becomes pregnant.
- Tsundere: Type B, towards Tamahome.
- Too Dumb to Live: Though Miaka doesn't actually die in this series, that is not due to lack of effort on her part. Time and time again, she runs headfirst into danger alone, despite not having any magic or combat skills, and despite having 7 guardians whose sole purpose for existing is to protect her. She survives only because of the Suzaku seven wage a vigorous battle with Darwinism to keep her alive and the fact that most the enemies just want to kidnap her instead of kill her.
- Virginity Makes You Stupid: Miaka is a virgin, and she's more than a little slow.
- Virgin Power: Her virginity is what allows her to keep her priestess powers.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: In the manga, she constantly tries to get the approval of her well-intentioned but very exigent Education Mama.
- With Great Power Comes Great Hotness: Miaka is told that she gets Three Wishes as the Priestess of Suzaku, and that she can use them for anything she wants. She thinks about the possibilities, and one of them is becoming thinner and prettier and more popular with boys at school. Her decisions as to what to wish for evolve over the course of the series from entirely selfish, to a combination of selfish and selfless, to entirely selfless...and even though she gets three wishes, she only actually uses two.
- Wrestler in All of Us: Shown doing a Jumping Hip Attack and a German Suplex to certain creeps.
The Priestess of Seiryuu: Yui Hongo
Voiced by: Yumi Touma (Japanese, TV series), Wakana Yamazaki (Japanese, CD Dramas), Wendee Lee (English)
- Adaptational Jerkass: She wasn't that bitchy in the manga.
- Anti-Villain: Type II and III
- Attempted Rape: Yui is immediately attacked by two men as soon as she enters the book, which sets the stage for much of the ensuing drama. Though, it was found out Nakago saved her before any real damage could occur.
- Boyish Short Hair: She cut her hair this way in order to keep boys from bothering her.
- Create Your Own Villain: She turned against Miaka after she heard her confession that Tamahome was the reason why she return inside the book
- Cute Bookworm: Sensible and studious, she cut her hair short in an effort to get boys to stop chasing her.
- Defiled Forever: Part of what drives her bad actions is her belief that this applies to her. Ultimately, however, Yui is a complete aversion. She makes a Heel–Face Turn, survives, and goes on to have a healthy friendship with Miaka and a steady relationship with Tetsuya.
- Driven to Suicide: She slashes her wrist after she found out that she was raped. Nakago stops her before she could do ''too'' much damage to herself beyond leaving a scar on her wrist.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Even at her absolute worst, Yui forbids Nakago and Suboshi from killing Miaka. Not that it stops Nakago from outsourcing the job to other Seiryuu lieutenants.
- Face–Heel Turn: Though she pulls a Heel–Face Turn in the end.
- Face–Heel Revolving Door: From Heel as a Rival Turned Evil to Face to Brainwashed and Crazy Priestess of Seiryuu to solid Face again.
- Fanservice Pack: Starts acting and looking more Hotter and Sexier once she became the Seiryuu priestess.
- Fantasy Keepsake: A grim version of this trope. Yui keeps the earring Nakago gave her, not out of any affection or love for him, but because it serves as a reminder of how close she came to giving in to the darkest parts of herself.
- Gaslighting: Yui is a major victim of this at the hands of Nakago, who spent three months convincing Yui she was violently gang-raped and that Miaka had purposely abandoned her to that fate.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Despite having her own bodyguard admirer in the form of Suboshi, Yui actually yearns for Tamahome, one of the Suzaku and Miaka's main Love Interest. This only causes Yui to resent Miaka even more.
- Immodest Orgasm: Appears to have one when Seiryuu (in human form) enters her heart.
- Important Haircut: Cut her hair short in 8th grade so that boys would stop bothering her.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Over-confident outside but underneath she longs for someone to take care of her.
- Love Makes You Evil: Being a Yandere towards Miaka and Tamahome counts as this.
- Must Make Amends: Successfully does this with her final wish, partly because the wish practically killed her. Miaka saves the day, of course.
- Nerds Are Sexy: An exceptional student desired by many boys. It's the reason for her Important Haircut above.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: The only Seiryuu warrior death she witnessed was Soi's.
- Parents as People: Though her parents do care for her, they're shown only once. In the anime, her father doesn't even show up.
- Pet the Dog: Yui is genuinely compassionate to Suboshi when the latter is in grief over his brother's death.
- Power Hair: Cut her hair short in 8th grade so that boys would stop bothering her. She lets it grow out again in high school.
- Redemption Equals Life: She is revived in the end, after a Redemption Equals Death moment.
- Rival Turned Evil: After her own trip inside the book ends in less than ideal results, Nakago exploits Yui's emotionally vulnerable state by manipulating her into blaming Miaka for her misfortunes. Thus begins Yui's growing hatred of her former best friend and eventual rise as the Seiryuu priestess. Thankfully, she later sees the error of her ways before it's all too late.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Siding with Nakago against Miaka is this one, but the Laser-Guided Karma she receives brings her back to her senses.
- Unwitting Pawn: After rescuing her from an Attempted Rape, Nakago took advantage of her vulnerable state for his end goal.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Unlike Miaka who wholeheartedly dives into the fantasy, Yui throws it in Tamahome's face that he's "just a character in a book." The belief that she is interacting with fictional characters (save for Miaka) would explain a lot of her seeming indifference to some of the nastier events Team Seiryuu is responsible for.
- Yandere: She is obsessive over both Tamahome and Miaka.
Past Priestesses: The Priestesses of Genbu and Byakko (Fushigi Yuugi only)
IMPORTANT NOTE: The two following characters have their own series, so only the tropes fitted for this part of the franchise will be list here. For those who wish to understand them further, please refer to Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden, Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Ibun, and Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Senki
Takiko Okuda
Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese, OVA), Satsuki Yukino (Japanese, CD Dramas), Sharon Alsina (English, OVA)
A Japanese schoolgirl from the 1920s, who became the Priestess of Genbu.
- Hero of Another Story: Of the Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden prequel.
- Hidden Eyes: As seen in the only picture of her shown in the original Fushigi Yuugi, which is posted above.
- Kimono Is Traditional: More exactly, she wears a hakama
. Justified Trope: not only she's Japanese but she lived during the Taishou Era (The Roaring '20s), when girls wore hakama as school uniforms and the Sailor Fuku had just been implemented as such. - Long Hair Is Feminine: Traditionally-dressed young woman, wearing her hair really long.
- Offing the Offspring: Keisuke finds out thanks to his research that she was at the receiving end of this, when her father Einosuke realised that her illness was caused by Genbu devouring her from the inside as a consequence of being a Miko. He then went the Murder-Suicide way.
- Posthumous Character: She lived and died almost 70 years before the story began.
Suzuno Osugi
Voiced by: Midori Nakazawa (Japanese), Sherry Lynn (English, as "Katie Ashley")
Another Japanese schoolgirl from the 1930s, who became the Priestess of Byakko.
- Big Fancy House: She lived in an old Japanese home with her caretaker, Toki.
- Girlish Pigtails: Had long hair and kept it in twin braids.
- Hero of Another Story: Of the Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Senki prequel.
- Plucky Girl: This girl survived her Miko trials without suffering the downside of being devoured by the God from the inside. Also, in the anime as an old woman, Suzuno pretty much kept herself alive out of pure sheer willpower while attended by Tetsuya, Keisuke and her family, refusing to die until she and Tatara could be reunited as the snow fell on them.
- Sailor Fuku: As a youngster, she was shown wearing a blue one. Again, a Justified Trope: she went to highschool few after the seifuku replaced the hakama as the average uniform for girls.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Tatara, one of her Seishi. In the anime, they ended up Together in Death.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: A miko with an iron clad spine, and lives in a traditional Japanese home. In one of the Watase illustrations, she's seen wearing a kimono alongside the other girls.
Persons from the Real Universe
Miaka and Yui's Friends and Family
Keisuke Yuuki
Voiced by: Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese), Derek Stephen Prince (English, mainly, as "David Umansky"), Matthew K. Miller (English, ep. 2 only, as "Kermit Beachwood")
Miaka's older brother.
- Big Brother Bully: Of the fun type towards his sister, Miaka. He would be slightly mischievous and pull jokes that would scare/annoy the heck out of his sister.
- Big Brother Instinct: He loves his little sister Miaka and will do anything to help her.
- Drama King: Due to his sister being sucked into The Universe and is consistently on the "read," he's shown to dose himself with all the drama that played out much too seriously. From over-the-top weeping, to sparkly eyes, he's shown them all.
- Stupid Sexy Flanders: He's quite fond of Tamahome, and gushes over Tamahome when he first met him. But he pulls this mainly as one, to grab Tamahome's attention, two, cover Miaka's fear of letting Tamahome know that Tamahome himself might be a fictional character, and three, Keisuke is simply hyped to actually witness a "supposedly fictional character" being real.
- Unfazed Everyman: He handles all the craziness around with surprising aplom...until all craziness appeared in his world.
Tetsuya Kajiwara
Voiced by: Ken Narita (Japanese, mainly), Nobuyuki Furuta (Japanese, ep. 8 only), Kirk Baily (English, as "Bo" and "Paul Williams")
Keisuke's friend and classmate. He's in on Miaka and Yui being absorbed into The Universe of the Four Gods, and is committed in aiding Keisuke solve the mystery behind it.
- Beautiful All Along: Underneath that goofy personality and beloved sunglasses, he's a very handsome-looking man.
- Brutal Honesty - Deadpan Snarker: Doesn't have much of a brain-to-mouth filter.
- Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: Yui and Tetsuya eventually get together, although their relationship is humorously one-sided on Tetsuya's part.
- Those Two Guys: With Keisuke.
- Sunglasses at Night: Outdoors, indoors, day and night, he just can’t go about his day without donning his sunglasses.
Mrs. Yuuki
Voiced by: Misa Watanabe (Japanese), Mona Marshall (English, mainly), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (English, ep. 2 only, as "Dorothy Melendrez"), Diana Perkins (English, ep. 26 only, as "Diane Perkins")
Miaka and Keisuke's mother.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Does care for her two kids, but after having to raise them alone for years, she's become quite embittered and over-exigent.
- Education Mama: Constantly pressures Miaka to do well in school, and to take the entrance exams to get into the prestigious Jonan High School.
- No Name Given: We don't know her real name
- Parents as People: As said above, she does love her children but in her desire to do her best, she can be self-righteous and arrogant.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Is not seen at Miaka's wedding in the Eikoden OVA, or at the birth of her grandchild. It's implied that she no longer has contact with Miaka.
Takiko and Suzuno's Friends and Family
Toki
Voiced by: Katsuya Shiga (Japanese), Jeff Nimoy (English, credited as "Josh Zorenson" and "Gregory Kuhn")
The caretaker of Suzuno throughout her last years. After Suzuno's passing, he aids Keisuke and Tetsuya in researching Suzuno's belongings for further insights regarding The Universe of the Four Gods, which eventually, found the key letter written to Takao Osugi from Einosuke Okuda. His relationship with Suzuno as of the anime is unclear, but he seems to know her since his childhood.
- All There in the Script: His name was never mentioned within the anime, and was only until the credits rolled in that we learned of his name. He is finally called by name in the first OVA.
- The Caretaker: He's implied to be this for Suzuno throughout her last years.
- Cassandra Truth: He never believed Suzuno's claims about The Universe of the Four Gods until he's called to meet with Keisuke and Tetsuya.
The 28 Celestial Warriors
The Seven Celestial Warriors of Suzaku
Tamahome
Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa, Motoko Kumai [Young] (Japanese), Toshihiko Seki (Japanese, CD dramas), Mamoru Miyano (Japanese, Suzaku Ibun game), David Hayter (English, as "Sean Barker"; most media), Dave Wittenberg (English, as "Dave Lelyveld"; Eikoden)
- Accidental Pervert: He often accidentally catches Miaka topless and naked. Not only accidentally looking at, but also groping her.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Was bullied by other kids because of his Facial Markings.
- Badass Longcoat: His final showdown with Suboshi happened in the real world, while Tamahome is wearing modern clothes including this one.
- Belated Love Epiphany: In episode 10, after he saves Miaka from an attacking tiger and scolds her out of worry, she ditches his concern. Instead of firing her back, he hugs her while confessing that he has been missing her as well as realized to have fallen in love with her while she was gone (back to her world) for 3 months.
- Berserk Button: If you don't want to risk being kicked into the sky, do not call him "Obake-chan". Or threaten Miaka/harm or kill his family.
- Big Brother Instinct: He loves all his siblings and was pissed as fuck when Suboshi killed them along with their father.
- Bishie Sparkle: He does this the most often...
- Bodyguard Crush: On Miaka.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: When he's drugged on Kodoku from episode 19 to 22.
- Chick Magnet: Loved by Miaka. Desired by Yui and Mayo.
- Clothes Make the Maniac: The earring was part of the Kodoku spell.
- Conveniently an Orphan: Midway through the series, his family gets slaughtered. This conveniently removes any reason for him to stay in his world instead of going to the real one to live with Miaka.
- Country Mouse: Lives in a poor village, works many jobs to provide for his family. As Taka, he's a youth from the Japanese countryside who studies and works in Tokyo.
- The Dutiful Son: To his sickly father and four younger siblings. Part of Tamahome's seeming coldness and greed in early episodes is actually the result of him prioritizing support for his family over everything else.
- Embarrassing Nickname: In his childhood he was mocked with the nickname "obake-chan," owing to the mark on his forehead. Tasuki jumps all over this the instant he finds out.
- Even the Guys Want Him: Object of Nakago's obsession. Vitriolic Best Friend with Ho Yay hints to Tasuki. Nuriko loved to tease him and once kissed him. Keisuke fawns over him quite a few times when he's at the real world.
- Evil Costume Switch
- Facial Markings: His Suzaku mark is located on his forehead.
- Fights Like a Normal: While Tamahome has a Super Mode, he's always been a martial-artist and fights as such. Once Taiitskun grants him his Mid-Season Upgrade, Tamahome's new Ki Manipulation ability allows him to perform Supernatural Martial Arts.
- Fish out of Water: He was transported to the real (modernized) world along with Miaka near the end of the story.
- The Hero: With Miaka being the Supporting Protagonist, Tamahome does most of the heavy lifting even amongst the Suzaku warriors.
- Heroic BSoD:
- When he loses his whole family. Complete with Berserker Tears and him being THIS close to cross the Despair Event Horizon.
- Played for Laughs earlier, when Miaka returns from the real world for the first time. Nuriko tells that Tamahome went into a milder case of this due to depression, showing it in small details—like chewing on an empty dish and not noticing until Nuriko points that out.
- Informed Flaw: He is supposedly greedy and money-hungry, but is later shown to protect villages in exchange for a bare minimum amount of money (and on top of that, is not doing it out of personal greed, but to support his impoverished family).
- Jack of All Stats: He's strong, but not as strong as Nuriko; fast, but not as fast as Tasuki; can use ki attacks, but isn't as skilled with ki/magic as Chichiri. Nevertheless he's probably the best all-around fighter on the Suzaku team.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When he first met Miaka, he rudely asks her for money because he had to feed his family without her knowing until, she met them and they have few arguments but they love each other.
- Ki Manipulation: Once Taiitskun uogrades his Super Mode, Tamahome can now do ki blasts like Nakago and even has a Battle Aura.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He was introduced wearing a ponytail. It was chopped off by Suboshi's Killer Yoyo during their fight after he killed Tamahome's family.
- Manly Tears: Upon losing his family and later Nuriko.
- Missing Mom: His mother died when he was very young.
- Money Fetish: When first introduced, Tamahome is obsessed with money to seemingly jerkish levels. This tendency mostly vanishes after his family is killed, whom he was desperately trying to provide for.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye:
- To his family except his youngest sister, who immediately dies upon seeing him.
- For his fellow Suzaku Warriors, he was absent in Mitsukake and Hotohori's deaths due to being in Miaka's world at the time.
- Nice Guy: He loves his family much and grows to love Miaka and treat her decently despite their arguments, he's even more nicer when he was reincarnated in the real universe as 'Taka'.
- Official Couple: With Miaka.
- Out-of-Clothes Experience
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Tasuki's Red Oni.
- Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: Despite his Money Fetish, he's competing with the Emperor for Miaka's love. Miaka chooses him anyway.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: When witnessing his entire family are slaughtered by Suboshi.
- Satellite Love Interest: A very egregious example of this trope. After Suboshi kills his family, his entire character can basically be summed up as "Miaka's boyfriend" and very little else. He even says he was "created solely to love her."
- Say My Name: And how...
- Super Mode: Tamahome's celestial powers enhances his battle stats, but he more or less still Fights Like a Normal. Taiitsukun's Mid-Season Upgrade to him once the real Suzaku seven assembled is more of a textbook example, as it engulfs Tamahome with a Battle Aura and allows him to perform Ki Manipulation.
- Talk to the Fist
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: At the end of the kodoku arc, Tamahome delivers a devastatingly succinct one of these to Yui: he's genuinely sympathetic to what she endured, but her actions are still unforgivable. It crushes her.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Tamahome discovers he's a fictional character from a book, and initially freaks out about what he really is. He ends up making peace with it.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Tamahome accepts his own power and duty as a Suzaku Warrior after his family's death and vows to love and protect Miaka at all costs.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Tasuki. It's even stated that after he endures the horrific murder of his family that Tasuki's obnoxious teasing is a welcome bit of normalcy for him.
- Your Universe or Mine?
Hotohori
Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu, Ayumi Kida [Young] (Japanese, TV series), Yasunori Matsumoto (Japanese, radio dramas), Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese, Suzaku Ibun game), Kirk Thornton, Emily Brown [Young] (English)
- Authority Equals Ass Kicking: He's The Emperor of his Konan and an excellent fighter.
- Backup from Otherworld: Shows up in the Final Battle along with the other deceased Suzaku Warriors possessing the Nyan-Nyans' bodies, mostly to guard Miaka from Nakago's attacks.
- Bodyguard Crush: On Miaka, the Priestess of Suzaku, that he must protect as one of the Suzaku Warriors.
- Camp Straight: He really gets into the "beautiful serving girl" act when he and Nuriko are infiltrating Mt. Reikaku, to the point that even Wholesome Crossdresser Nuriko is put to shame!
- Celibate Hero: Has an entire harem, but never really makes use of it (despite pressure to pick an empress and produce an heir), holding out for the legendary priestess. He eventually selects Houki, after seeing that Miaka is happier with Tamahome.
- Commuting on a Bus: Hotohori remains behind to run Konan while Miaka and the other Suzaku warriors adventure off to Hokkan, occasionally checking in with Chichiri via magical communication means.
- Condescending Compassion: Played for laughs when he visits Tamahome's home village and makes a complete ass of himself expressing shock and pity at the level of poverty he finds. Notably, even Tasuki (normally the king of insensitive remarks himself) is appalled at one point.
- Cool Sword: Hotohori is gifted a special holy sword by Taiitsukun, and gifts it to Miaka for her protection. Miaka absolutely wrecks Soi's shit with it later on.
- Cultured Badass: Refined, sophisticated, and a skilled swordsman.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: He looks very effeminate to the point that Miaka and a few characters have mistaken him as a girl.
- The Emperor: Konan's reigning emperor by the time of the (original) story.
- Even the Guys Want Him: Nuriko, Nuriko, Nuriko... Also, one of the bandits from Mt. Reikaku.
- King Incognito: Pulls this on Miaka, then later travels with Tasuki and Mitsukake for a few days before letting them know he's the Emperor. The latter two are mortified at this discovery, as they'd both been quite rude and antagonistic to him upon first introduction.
- Lady of War: Fights like one.
- Lonely Rich Kid: He was one of these in his childhood when he was educated and sheltered in Konan's palace as the prince before becoming the emperor at the age of 14, because of these he never went outside Konan's palace and city, make friends and experience love even from his previous emperor father and his mother. He was aware of these and when he learns that he is a Suzaku warrior and the Suzaku Priestess will come to his world, he wishes that the priestess will help end his loneliness and find true friends who will accept him as a person.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: So much that Miaka mistakes him as a girl.
- Love Dodecahedron: Hotohori is in love with Miaka, who is in love with Tamahome. Meanwhile, Nuriko is in love with him.
- Loving a Shadow: Was in love with Miaka's image as the Suzaku no Miko, rather than as the person she truly was.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: He was never present in any of his fallen fellow Suzaku Warriors deaths.
- Proud Beauty: While he doesn't brag about it loudly or arrogantly, make no mistake that Hotohori knows he's a beautiful man.
- Red Is Heroic: In addition to red being Team Suzaku's Color Motif, Hotohori is mostly clad in said color.
- Replacement Goldfish: He looks just like his unbeknownst-to-him half-brother Tendou, who once shared a relationship with Hotohori's later wife, Houki.
- Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor: Is the Rich Suitor twice. Miaka picks Tamahome over him first, then Houki picks him over his half-brother.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: The Emperor. A reasonably good politician and administrator. A really badass fighter.
- Second Episode Introduction: Introduced in the anime's second episode.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: "I'm so beautiful, it SCARES ME!"
- Someone to Remember Him By: His wife Houki is pregnant with their son at the time of Hotohori's death.
- Stupid Sacrifice: Engages in a suicidal charge at Nakago after Nakago informs him he's calling off the invasion of Konan.
- Supporting Leader: Being The Emperor, he's the highest authority figure of the protagonists. However, Miaka is the Supporting Protagonist while fellow Suzaku Warrior Tamahome is The Hero.
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Hotohori pulls this on one of the Mount Reikaku bandits. The bandit is so smitten he doesn't really care. That, and in his first appearance he dropped a Bridget on Miaka herself...
Nuriko
Voiced by: Chika Sakamoto (Japanese), Minami Takayama (Japanese, CD Drama), Junko Minagawa (Japanese, Suzaku Ibun game), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (English, as "Melissa Williamson")
- Agent Peacock: Nuriko has the strength of 10 or more grown men, but isn't all that tall or muscular or masculine and in fact is proud of his cuteness.
- Ambiguously Bi: He's in love with Emperor Hotohori, but there are subtle hints that he might have also developed feelings for Miaka in the time before his death.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Nuriko stated in volume 9 that his female side liked Hotohori, but his male side loved Miaka... and neither returned his feelings.
- Attractive Bent-Gender: He's a guy and yet he was selected to be in the emperor's harem. Though it seems that almost no one knows that he's a boy at first.
- At first Nuriko only wears female clothes and looks good on them, but later he puts on male clothing more frequently and damn is he handsome.◊
- At first Nuriko only wears female clothes and looks good on them, but later he puts on male clothing more frequently and damn is he handsome.
- Backup from Otherworld: Shows up in the Final Battle along with the other deceased Suzaku Warriors possessing the Nyan-Nyans' bodies, mostly to guard Miaka from Nakago's attacks.
- Big Brother Mentor: Suzaku Hi Den states that he played this role towards a girl named Houki, his Identical Stranger and Hotohori's eventual wife.
- He is also always willing to give Tamahome advices on his relationship with Miaka.
- Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Nuriko is the first of the seven Suzaku warriors to be killed off, ushering in the Anyone Can Die phase of the story.
- Boisterous Bruiser: He's proud of his looks, but also VERY proud of his strength.
- Characterization Marches On: Nuriko is mostly established as a fun, sensible ally... so it's pretty strange to look back at the early incident where he almost let Miaka drown in a pond out of psychotic jealousy over Hotohori.
- More than letting her drown, he was hoping to make her look like a fool in front of Hotohori. Miaka proved him wrong and even slapped him for that, then brought him a small, cute pebble she found in the pond anyway. This proves to be quite the Humble Pie eating moment, and from then on Nuriko shapes up into the character we know and love.
- Cute Bruiser: Adorable and the Suzaku warrior's main muscle.
- Dead Person Impersonation: He tried to cope with the death of his beloved sister Kourin by dressing up as a girl and living a life similar to the one she would've probably lived.
- A Death in the Limelight: Nuriko gets several focus episodes leading up to his death, mainly revolving around his gender identity and changing feelings towards Miaka.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: He's a crossdresser and had everyone, both In-Universe and out, fooled that he's a woman.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The main cause of his death is Ashitare impaling the left side of his body with his claws.
- Important Haircut: To symbolize that he was not going to chase after his sister's shadow anymore and begin living like a man. Too bad, it didn't last long...
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Like Hotohori and Tasuki, he loved Miaka too, but unlike them, he never fought with Tamahome over that. He did confess his feelings to Tamahome, but quickly assured him not to worry, because he also liked Tamahome as well as everyone else, so he wanted them happy together.
- Jerkass: At first towards Miaka at the start of the manga and anime when he assumed Miaka will ruin his plan of falling in love with Hotohori and begins to treat her badly even worse he attempted to have her drowned, it didn't work and Miaka tells him off by smacking him in the face then gives him a pebble as a act of kindness and he begins to treat her more respectful as a friend.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: After Miaka treats him with kindness, he becomes this as he decided to help Miaka return to her world and once she comes back, he helps her once again in search for the other Suzaku warriors proving he's compassionate and loyal to his friends despite mocking Miaka in a childish way and having bit of a bad temper.
- Large Ham: He sometimes speak very theatrically.
- Kill the Cutie: Nuriko's death is the series' first Wham Episode that officially kickstarts the Cerebus Syndrome.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Justified as he was crossdressing. He later cuts it off.
- Love Makes You Crazy: His earliest behavior towards Miaka.
- Meaningful Appearance: He has a tragic mole under his left eye. It gets quite the focus in a very tragic scene of his past, when his child self's face is shown while he cries his heart out after the death of his younger sister, Kourin.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: He is pretty slender, but he is stronger than all the Suzaku warriors combined.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye:
- To his eldest brother, his last sibling, as Nuriko dies in a mission on a far away land.
- Only Miaka and Tamahome were with him in his death bed. His fellow Suzaku Warriors either are in Konan (Hotohori) or arrived too late (the rest).
- No Bisexuals: Averted. When Nuriko starts to develop feelings for Miaka, he states that his male side has feelings for her while his female side still has feelings for Hotohori. While this could be considered problematic for other reasons, Nuriko's attraction to someone of the opposite sex does not instantly cancel out attraction to the same sex.
- Odd Friendship: Nuriko desperately yearns to have the body of a woman, Tasuki is a He-Man Woman Hater. They nevertheless develop a fun, teasing rapport, perhaps best seen when they join forces to cheer Miaka up at the Star Festival after a major setback. Fittingly, Tasuki is one of the characters who takes Nuriko's death the hardest.
- Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Nuriko battles against Ashitare, and wins, though he loses a lot of blood in the process. To make matters worse, he is determined to get the Shinzaho for Miaka, and walks towards the cave and moves the heavy stone blocking the entrance. All this results in Nuriko hemorrhaging to death.
- Personality Powers: A subversion. Nuriko takes pride in extremely ladylike behavior, but exhibits super strength.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: In series, but especially in the Eikoden OVA, where he is reincarnated as a Moe little girl with Super-Strength.
- Real Men Wear Pink: A dude who crossdresses and behaves rather femininely in female clothes, but when he ditches his female side, he is actually very manly.
- Sacrificial Lion: First member of the main cast to bite it.
- Silent Credits: A variant. Unlike in the death episode of the other slain Suzaku Warriors, the regular ending theme did not play in Nuriko's but rather a different one but played in a very monotonous manner.
- Snow Means Death: He dies in a snowy field.
- Stupid Sacrifice: And in the end, it didn't accomplish a lot.
- Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person: Implied in Eikoden, in which Nuriko is reincarnated as a little girl.
- Super-Strength: His celestial power as one of the Suzaku Seven.
- Took a Level in Kindness: After Miaka gives him a Humble Pie he begins to treat Miaka nicely while not above insulting her in a playful way.
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: How Miaka finds out his gender.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Dresses like a girl and is one of the good guys.
Chichiri
Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese), Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese, CD Dramas), Kōki Miyata (Japanese, Suzaku Ibun game), Randy McPherson (English, as "Sean Mitchell" and "Mitchell Ray")
- Asian Fox Spirit: Chichiri isn't a literal kitsune, but numerous characters remark that his Cool Mask makes him look like one. His celestial powers, mostly based around illusion and shapeshifting, and his trickster-ish personality also line up with folklore of kitsune.
- The Atoner: Both Chichiri's fiancee and his best friend died while he was on bad terms with both due to a Love Triangle situation. His friendly, philosophical demeanor is an attempt to move on from that pain.
- Attractive Bent-Gender: In the manga.
- Beware the Silly Ones:
- Chichiri is a Stepford Smiler who generates some of the goofier moments among the Suzaku warriors. He's also a skilled enough mage that he is one of the very few people able to thwart Nakago's Superpower Lottery on a regular basis.
- Then there is his Dark and Troubled Past, in which Chichiri flew into a murderous Unstoppable Rage when his best friend attempted to steal his fiance.
- Commonality Connection: With Mitsukake, as they are the oldest and most mature of the Suzaku warriors. They also both lost loved ones in the same flood in the past, as well as each losing the woman they loved to an early death.
- Cool Mask: A permanently smiling mask that conceals his true expression and his missing eye.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Was involved in a Love Triangle. It ended badly.
- A Day in the Limelight: Chichiri's focus episode in the second OVA, which tells the story of his Dark and Troubled Past, is widely regarded as one of the best parts even by fans who don't care for the OVAs otherwise.
- A Deadly Affair: In his past, although it is more complicated than it first seems. Chichiri's best friend kissed his fiancee, causing the engagement to be broken. In betrayal and rage Chichiri attacked his best friend, intending to kill him, but when the friend fell into raging floodwaters Chichiri had a change of heart and attempted to save him. He failed and lost his eye in the attempt. Chichiri's fiancee also died in the same flood. This led him to become The Atoner and to cover his disfigured face with a smiling mask.
- Defiant to the End: Alongside Tasuki in the main series finale, he too mocks Nakago's aspirations to godhood and vows to fight as long as he can.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Alongside Tasuki, he's fearless about mocking the grossly overpowered Nakago's about-to-be-realized pretensions to godhood.
- Emergency Impersonation: He temporarily masks himself into Hotohori to take over his royal duties as so Hotohori can have a chance to travel with Miaka and perform his Celestial Warrior duties.
- Everybody's Dead, Dave: In his backstory. The floods that killed his best friend and fiance also wiped out his family of origin and most of his hometown as well.
- Eyes Always Shut: Subverted. It's actually just a mask.
- Eye Scream: Subjected to this in the past when he tried to rescue his best friend from drowning as a tree trunk stabbed him in his left eye.
- Forgotten Phlebotinum: Chichiri gets hit with this pretty hard. Early in the series, he's a skilled enough shapeshifter to impersonate both Hotohori and Nakago flawlessly, and also demonstrates that he can teleport (taking other people with him!) over very long distances. These abilities are mostly forgotten around the time the Suzaku warriors arrive in Hokkan.
- Handicapped Badass: Well, he is a formidable Warrior Monk who is missing an eye.
- He Cleans Up Nicely: He's quite handsome under the mask.
- Keeping the Handicap: He has a massive scar where his left eye used to be. He has the magic power to get rid of it permanently, but chooses not to as a form of penance for his greatest failure. Instead, he covers his face with a permanently smiling mask.
- Kill Us Both: He attempts this in the second OVA, but survives.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: Team Suzaku's resident magic user, but that doesn't mean he's not skilled in physical combat.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: He's almost always easygoing and kind. Pray to the Four Gods if he's not joking.
- Magic Staff: His weapon. Aside from using it for magic, Chichiri can also use it as a bo staff for physical combat.v
- Murder the Hypotenuse: Tragically deconstructed in his backstory. The hypotenuse in question was Chichiri's best friend. In the midst of attacking him, Chichiri had a moment of regret and tried to stop, but it was too late and his friend died. This devastated him (to the point of attempting suicide in one of the character novels) and led to him becoming The Atoner.
- My Greatest Failure: The deal with his old girlfriend and his friend.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: To Nuriko, who was notably the only time Chichiri missed a fallen fellow Suzaku Warrior's final moments.
- Nice Guy: Even though he wears his mask to appear cheerful, he's polite and respectful to everyone even his enemies.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
- There is a very iconic moment in the series when he loses his cool, and unleashes the mother of Shaming the Mob speeches to a bunch of Kutou and Konan warriors Mitsukake just DIED to heal, as they were about to go at it again. They fall silent.
- In the final episodes, he shows up alongside Tasuki in the real world to defend Miaka from Nakago. Tasuki proposes his usual Hot-Blooded Attack! Attack! Attack! approach... and the normally calm, philosophical Chichiri completely agrees it's time to kick some ass.
- There is a very iconic moment in the series when he loses his cool, and unleashes the mother of Shaming the Mob speeches to a bunch of Kutou and Konan warriors Mitsukake
- Pals with Jesus: Chichiri trained under Taiitsukun directly, and is on quite friendly terms with her and the Nyan-Nyans.
- Right-Hand Cat: After Mitsukake dies, he keeps the other's kitten.
- Scars Are Forever: One in his left eye.
- Shirtless Scene: In one of the OVAs, and turns out to be ripped.
- The Smart Guy: Chichiri is generally the go-to person for explaining some of the magical forces the Suzaku warriors encounter, and tends toward misdirection and trickery in battle (although he can kick ass when needed). He's also insightful about other people, and assesses Yui's state of mind with dead-on accuracy very early in the series.
- Stepford Smiler: Behind his mask with a scar covering his entire left eye and half of his nose bridge which he got attempting to rescue his best friend.
- Tranquil Fury: Against Nakago in the final episodes of the anime. Where Tasuki is ready to go down in a blaze of glory, Chichiri just coldly and methodically states he's going to bring Nakago's head to the fallen Suzaku warriors as a gift. Bottom line... do not piss off Chichiri.
- Unreliable Narrator: A sign of how deeply his Dark and Troubled Past affects him. He tells Miaka that he killed his best friend, but a later flashback shows it was a tragic accident and Chichiri actually tried to save him. However, Chichiri is so guilt-ridden over the incident that he sees himself as his friend's killer all the same.
- Unstoppable Rage: Occurred in his backstory.
- Villain Respect: He gets this from Nakago of all people, who is legitimately impressed when Chichiri manages to repel one of his chi attacks.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Chichiri is arguably the first (and one of the few) of the Suzaku characters to call Miaka out on being childish and irresponsible, albeit he's fairly polite about it. Unfortunately, it ends up as Advice Backfire as it prompts Miaka to take some extremely foolish risks in the name of being "responsible."
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Chichiri gets a beautiful speech to this effect from the Suzaku warriors in the second OVA, when he's struggling to face the (literal) demons of his past.
Tasuki
Voiced by: Nobutoshi Canna (Japanese, TV series), Kazuki Yao (Japanese, radio dramas), Kosuke Toriumi (Japanese, Suzaku Ibun game), Daran Norris (English, as "James Penrod")
- Absurd Phobia: Tasuki's hatred/phobia of water is so extreme that not only does he have Super Drowning Skills, he's also violently seasick throughout most of the Suzaku warriors' voyage to Hokkan. This is almost entirely played for comedy and is a frequent source of Vitriolic Best Buds style teasing from Tamahome.
- Animal Motifs: In his bandit days, he was known as the Phantom Wolf, and has Cute Little Fangs, indicating his rougher personality.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: He's pretty much the honey badger of the Suzaku warriors, eager to settle things in combat and utterly refusing to back down from a fight even when badly beaten or disadvantaged.
- Badass Longcoat: His signature outfit in the anime series is a long, dark blue coat with lighter blue trim.
- Big Brother Instinct: To Chiriko, more emphasized in the manga than the anime, but it gets a callback in the Eikoden story when he's the one most often seen playing and interacting with baby reincarnated Chiriko.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: During an episode of the second OVA, in which he tries to force himself on Miaka. The responsible for it turns out to be Hiko, one of the Four Demon Gods.
- Calling Your Attacks: Notable as one of the few characters in the series who has a signature attack to call.
- Chewing the Scenery: He is very theatrical.
- Combat Hand Fan: Tasuki's signature weapon is his flaming war fan. Taiitskun's Mid-Season Upgrade turns the fan from metal into crystal.
- Combat Pragmatist: His first line of attack is a fan that shoots fire, and he's not above combining it with a Dynamic Entry. Nor is he above taking hostages, or attacking while his opponent is talking or otherwise distracted. On the rare occasion he's put Honor Before Reason, he explicitly regrets it.
- Defiant to the End: Pinned down near death at least twice in the series, Tasuki responds by straight up laughing in his opponent's face and continuing to charge into battle.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Nakago, at one point vastly more powered and on the verge of godhood, asks Tasuki if he wants to be known as the first man struck down by a god for his defiance. Tasuki responds by laughing in his face and continuing to taunt.
- Driven to Suicide: After being Brainwashed and Crazy and attempting to force himself on Miaka.
- Fiery Redhead: An orange haired person with literal fire powers.
- Good Is Not Nice: The rudest of the Suzaku warriors with a tendency to have bad manners and insensitive remarks to everyone but he's still a good guy.
- He-Man Woman Hater: Due to his five very short-tempered older sisters.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Kouji... or not, depending on your interpretation.
- How Dare You Die on Me!: Tasuki flies into a hysterical rage upon seeing Nuriko's corpse, shouting for Nuriko to get up and stop playing around.
- The Idiot from Osaka: Tasuki fulfills many aspects of this trope, as he sports a Kansai accent, and his bluntly insensitive commentary and irascible personality are often a source of comic relief.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Way more jerkish than Tamahome and Nuriko as he tends to be rudely insensitive and fights with Tamahome. Still, he strongly values friendship as he cries in mourning for Nuriko, Chiriko, Mitsukake and Hotohori's death.
- Kill It with Fire: His Combat Hand Fan generates fire.
- The Lancer: Particularly after Hotohori goes Out of Focus, Tasuki comes to fill this role to Tamahome. Where Tamahome is more introspective and levelheaded, Tasuki is Hot-Blooded and extroverted, and often takes point in situations where Tamahome is unable or unwilling.
- Lightning Bruiser: His primary gift is speed, but Tasuki also wields incredibly powerful fire magic and can withstand a great deal of damage.
- Loveable Rogue: He's the leader of a none-too-savory bandit gang (albeit not one guilty of any major onscreen crimes), makes his introduction by kidnapping Miaka, and initially tries to lie his way out of joining the group. Nevertheless, he's as loyal as it gets once he officially throws in with the Suzaku warriors.
- Manly Tears: Although he is hotheaded, he's capable of doing this when anyone close to him dies.
- Minion with an F in Evil: When first introduced, he makes a very fearsome show of kidnapping Miaka and threatens to make an example of her... only to back down immediately when she fights back, and to promptly get steamrollered by her optimism and energy. He and Kouji even remark on this when the whole episode is over, baffled at themselves for treating her so nicely.
- Near-Rape Experience: Poor Miaka...
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: He missed Nuriko, Mitsukake, and Hotohori's final hours.
- Odd Friendship:
- Tasuki is a He-Man Woman Hater, yet becomes thick as thieves with Wholesome Crossdresser Nuriko; they both enjoy teasing if not outright trolling Miaka or Tamahome and often join forces to do it. Fittingly, Tasuki is one of the characters who takes Nuriko's death the hardest.
- Also with Chiriko, with whom he develops a surrogate big brother relationship, despite the fact that Tasuki is a Book Dumb Boisterous Bruiser and Chiriko is a soft-spoken teen genius.
- Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Some of Tasuki's rude remarks are intentional (generally those directed at Tamahome), but he also has a tendency towards accidental unfortunate bluntness as well, such as when he attempts to defend Miaka from criticism on her cooking.Tasuki: Just because the food sucks, doesn't mean you have to say it!
- Personality Powers: He's brash, abrasive and Hot-Blooded, so naturally, he also wields a powerful fire attack.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Very little actual banditry is seen from the Mount Reikaku thieves. Despite being their leader, Tasuki himself is rarely, if ever, shown actually committing theft.
- Rebel Leader: In his case, Bandit Leader.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Tasuki is the walking embodiment of Red Oni, and ends up with three Blue Onis over the course of the series: Kouji (his blue oni in the Mt. Reikaku bandit gang), Tamahome (with whom he becomes Vitriolic Best Buds), and finally Chichiri (as they are the only two Suzaku warriors left alive in the book by the end of the series).
- Super Drowning Skills: Tasuki is deeply phobic of water and cannot swim. The one time he does demonstrate any swimming ability, it foreshadows that something is actually wrong with him.
- Talk to the Fist: He pulls this on Nakago of all people, deciding to cut off one of Nakago's evil monologues by simply chucking a sword at his face. Unfortunately, Soi takes the bullet instead.
- Undying Loyalty: One of Tasuki's strongest virtues is his fierce loyalty. This is what initially causes him not to join the Suzaku warriors, as he was bound by his old boss' dying wish that he lead the Mt. Reikaku bandits. Once he's able to throw in his lot with Suzaku he becomes one of the team's staunchest fighters, at one point willing to sacrifice his own life in a desperate attempt to buy time for Miaka and Chichiri to save themselves. (All three survive, but Tasuki just barely.) In addition, the ONLY time Tasuki falters in battle is when circumstances require him to fire on a friend, which he abjectly cannot bring himself to do.
- Unfriendly Fire: Played for comedy. As part of their Vitriolic Best Buds relationship, Tasuki has a habit of "accidentally" roasting Tamahome with his fire attack.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Tamahome. They got off to a rocky start (first meeting when Tamahome was Brainwashed and Crazy and nearly killed Tasuki), but their relationship evolves into more brotherly squabbling than anything genuinely antagonistic.
- Worf Had the Flu: Tasuki purposely holds back in his battle with Brainwashed and Crazy Tamahome after Miaka begs him not to cause serious harm, and is beaten nearly to death as a result.
Mitsukake
Voiced by: Kouji Ishii (Japanese), Jurota Kosugi (Japanese, CD Drama), Kenta Miyake (Japanese, Suzaku Ibun game), Richard Epcar (English, mainly, as "Richard George"), Michael Gregory (English, ep. 51-52 and OVA 1, as "Mike D'Gard")
- Attractive Bent-Gender: HELL NO. Notable, in that he is the only guy in the Suzaku group to not be able to pull this off.
- Backup from Otherworld: Shows up in the Final Battle along with the other deceased Suzaku Warriors possessing the Nyan-Nyans' bodies, mostly to guard Miaka from Nakago's attacks.
- Beautiful All Along: We met him as a man in rags and with Perma-Stubble...
- The Big Guy: Subverted. Although Mitsukake is the largest and most physically imposing of the Suzaku warriors, he is mostly a Non-Action Guy who serves as the team's healer.
- Cast from Hit Points: His powers can only be used once a day, and even then he's left very drained. The time he uses them twice, he dies.
- Commonality Connection: With Chichiri, as they are pretty much the only grown-ups among the Suzaku warriors, and both suffered similar losses in their past.
- Deadpan Snarker: "The Emperor is rather popular..."
- Defrosting Ice King: When Miaka first met him, he coldly rejects her plea for help because of his failure to rescue Shouka from dying, he quickly warms up to the former when he put Shouka out of her misery to save her.
- Hachimaki: He's always wearing a bandana.
- Healing Hands: Not only is his Suzaku mark in his right palm, but it's also where his powers come from.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He sacrificed his entire life force to save everyone in war-ravaged Konan even the Kutou soldiers when he met a woman with her baby also named Shouka, who was close to death.
- Hospital Hottie: Or rather, the closest you can get to it in an Ancient China themed fantasy. Mitsukake's celestial power is the power to heal people, and he's very easy on the eyes.
- Important Haircut: He cuts his long Messy Hair and shaves his Perma-Stubble right before joining Miaka and the others.
- The Lost Lenore: He arrived too late to save his lover Shouka, and quietly carries that guilt with him to the end of the series. Mitsukake is at least partially inspired to commit his Heroic Sacrifice to save a sick child by the same name.
- The Medic: To the Suzaku Team, given that the ability to heal others is his celestial power.
- My Greatest Failure: Failed to save his girlfriend and fellow healer, Shouka. She Came Back Wrong.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: He missed Shouka's initial death. He also missed Nuriko's.
- Right-Hand Cat: Tama-chan.
- Rousing Speech:
- Mitsukake doesn't talk a lot, but damn does he make it count when the team is shattered by the death of Nuriko. In the anime, the episode closes out with a powerful speech on why the tragedy matters and how they have to keep going.
- He also leads off the You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech to Chichiri in the second OVA, empathizing with his losses and reminding him of how much good he'd done in spite of that.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: The tallest Suzaku warrior and is a Hospital Hottie.
Chiriko
Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakaminote (Japanese, TV series), Minami Takayama (Japanese, radio dramas), Akiko Kimura (Japanese, Suzaku Ibun game), Lenore Zann (English, as "Zan")
- Adaptation Distillation: In the manga, Chiriko's Split Personality is much more fleshed out (he is a mature Teen Genius when his constellation character is showing, but a normal and somewhat immature 13-year-old when it isn't). In the anime, it receives far less if any focus.
- Backup from Otherworld: Shows up in the Final Battle along with the other deceased Suzaku Warriors possessing the Nyan-Nyans' bodies, mostly to guard Miaka from Nakago's attacks.
- Big Brother Worship: Although not literal brothers, Chiriko very much has this attitude towards Tasuki, whom he looks up to as a "manly man." Tasuki in turn is quite protective and affectionate with Chiriko, despite being otherwise impatient and easily annoyed by children.
- Big Damn Heroes: Chiriko arrives just in time to save the other Suzaku warriors from Amiboshi's attack during the first summoning ceremony.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Forced to stab himself to death to prevent Miboshi, who has possessed Chiriko's body, from doing further damage. The manga takes this a step further by making the point that Chiriko's constellation character is NOT showing, meaning he's just a normal 13-year-old kid when he does this.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: You wouldn't know he's a guy if anyone didn't say so.
- Heroic Suicide: Since he couldn't expel Miboshi from his body, he took a third option and offed himself.
- MacGyvering: Lacking a musical instrument of his own, Chiriko uses a blade of grass as a whistle to disrupt Amiboshi's Musical Assassin attack.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: He missed Nuriko's final moments.
- Older Than They Look: Is in fact 13, but looks like about seven.
- Shrinking Violet: His true personality when his celestial powers are off.
- Tagalong Kid: The youngest member of Team Suzaku.
- Teen Genius: When his celestial powers are on, that is.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: His celestial power.
The Seven Celestial Warriors of Seiryuu
Nakago
Voiced by: Tōru Furusawa (Japanese, TV series), Ryōtarō Okiayu (Japanese, radio dramas), Michael Deak (English, as "Jack Hammer")
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: And eventually the other way around.
- Badass Cape: Nakago heads into battle in his military cape and is all but confirmed to be the most powerful fighter in the story.
- Best Served Cold: Oh, boy. Nakago bides his time for years as a seemingly loyal servant of the Kutou Emperor. The entire war with Konan is part of his plot to tie the Emperor's forces down elsewhere — so that Nakago himself can return and slaughter the Emperor in retaliation for decimating Nakago's tribe and taking Nakago himself as a child sex slave decades earlier.
- Big Bad: He is the main antagonist and Final Boss of the story.
- Coitus Uninterruptus: Suboshi walks in on him having sex with Soi at one point. Nakago isn't the least bit bothered. Is also on the receiving end, when he goes to talk to the emperor, who is in bed with 3 concubines.
- Depraved Bisexual: Has Soi as his lover. Also kisses Yui. Is fixated on Tamahome and even gives him a Forceful Kiss.
- Deus Sex Machina: Having sex with Soi heals his injuries and recharges his chi.
- Disproportionate Retribution: He used and punished innocent people who has nothing to do with his suffering.
- The Dog Bites Back: Although perhaps not in the way you'd think. After serving the Emperor of Kutou for most of the series—the same Emperor who had incidentally wiped out his tribe and sexually abused him as a child—Nakago finally rises up, stages a coup, and murders him.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: In the final battle, when Seiryu is finally sealed and losing his power, Nakago finally just gives in to be defeated by Tamahome. When Tamahome asks him why he didn't dodge his deadly punch, he's pissed off, because he hates to be pitied.
- Dragon-in-Chief: Although Nakago nominally serves The Emperor of Kutou, he is always the driving force of Seiryuu's plots as well as the biggest physical threat. After he bumps off the Emperor, he becomes the Big Bad.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Never actually wanted to rape Miaka if only because he'd been through that trauma himself. (In fact, that was Tomo's idea). Suzaku protecting her was just a Convenient Excuse to not do it, and just let Miaka believe he did.
- Even the Guys Want Him: Tomo is in love with him. The emperor also used him as a Sex Slave when he was young.
- Evil Counterpart: To Tamahome.
- Facial Markings: His Seiryuu mark is located on his forehead.
- Four-Star Badass: Is the general of the Kutou Army.
- Freudian Excuse: One that's revealed at the very last minute, right as he's dying.
- Godhood Seeker: He wants to be a god. This is actually the main reason why he manipulates Yui.
- Hero Killer: He is directly responsible for Hotohori and Mitsukake's deaths. He also rendered Tamahome Only Mostly Dead during the Final Battle until the Suzaku warrior found a Heroic Second Wind.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: His Chessmaster tendencies indirectly blow up in his face. He stokes Yui's jealousy of Miaka and Tamahome to such an extent that, on an angry impulse, she uses her second wish to try to separate them instead of giving Nakago the godhood he had requested. By the time her third wish rolls around, Yui has already had her Heel Realization and turned against him.
- Icy Blue Eyes: His blue eyes match his cold and calculating demeanor.
- Ki Manipulation: His celestial power allows him to use his own energy.
- The Kingslayer: Nakago has the distinction of killing two Emperors — Hotohori as well as the Emperor of his own country Kutou.
- Kick the Dog: This happens so frequently that dog kicking is practically Nakago's other superpower, but in one scene in particular, he's seen taking a songbird out of its cage and crushing it in his bare hands.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He's a good looking man. Miaka even compares him to a star when she first sees him.
- Love Epiphany: For Soi when she died protecting him. If him carrying around her corpse from the battlefield in Kounan back to the palace in Kutou is any indication. Watase also said in a free talk or interview that Nakago loved Soi but realized it too late.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: The former general of the Kutou army, Kouyuu Gi, is actually his Disappeared Dad. Nakago finds this out too late and kills Kouyuu, apparently to get a Klingon Promotion.
- No Body Left Behind: He dies in the real world, so his body vanishes when Tamahome kills him.
- Pet the Dog: In Soi's flashback, when he saved her from being abused by her pimp.
- Rape as Backstory: Part of his Freudian Excuse.
- Self-Made Orphan: As a child, he accidentally killed his mom when he tried to save her from her rapists, since he couldn't control his newly awakened powers. As an adult, he kills the Shogun of Kutou to get his rank... and later finds out he's his Disappeared Dad.
- The Starscream: He's plotting against the Emperor of Kutou from day one and actually does succeed in overthrowing him, although his ambitions are much greater than mere rulership of Kutou.
- Superpower Lottery: Nakago definitely got a winning ticket. His ki manipulation powers allow him to cast impenetrable defensive shields, use ki blasts against opponents, fly, teleport, negate the Suzaku warriors' powers, and pass through solid objects.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Downplayed. Nakago is directly told at one point that he's a character in a book, and his response is "Who cares?" while he goes right on with his evil plan.
- Xanatos Speed Chess: Nakago is excellent at finding new ways to be an effective Manipulative Bastard no matter how many wrenches the Suzaku warriors throw into his plans. For example, he does not predict the fight between Tasuki and Brainwashed and Crazy Tamahome, but he is quick to exploit it in the hopes one will kill the other. In another case, he exploits Amiboshi's death (a major loss for Seiryuu) by urging his grief-stricken twin to take revenge against Tamahome's family — which he correctly predicts will harden the rivalry between Suzaku and Seiryuu and allow him to further isolate and control Yui.
Amiboshi
Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (Japanese, TV series), Tetsuya Iwanaga (Japanese, radio dramas), Steve Staley (English, as "Steve Cannon")
- Anti-Villain: Type IV.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: Chooses to fall into a river when cornered by the Suzaku warriors.
- Easily Forgiven: When he apologizes to Tamahome for being The Mole when they meet again after Amiboshi saved Miaka, Tamahome tells him to forget the past and calls him a friend. Downplayed and justified in that he hasn’t killed anyone from the Suzaku squad and he genuinely wants to make up for his mistakes.
- Heel–Face Turn: While one of the least evil enemies, coming in contact with Miaka helps him pull this.
- Irony: The first presumed casualty of the Seiryuu Warriors ultimately becomes the Sole Survivor.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Two instances. The first time, after being saved from his fall to the river by an elderly couple and have them feed him a memory-erasing drink, he pretends to drink it and pretends to lose his memory. Due to this, he ends up saving Miaka from an accident (with her mistaking him for Suboshi at first) and helps protecting her from Tomo. The second time, after Suboshi killed Tomo and saved him, Amiboshi tries to persuade him into drinking the aforementioned drink and live a peaceful life with him and the elderly couple. Suboshi refuses the offer and feeds him the drink mouth-to-mouth instead, which leads him into losing his memory for real and survives the war as a result.
- The Mole: He pretended to be Chiriko in order to infiltrate the Suzaku army, but due to both the real Chiriko’s intervention and his own morality, he ended up killing no one and threw himself to a river instead.
- Morality Chain: With him around, Suboshi was merely kind of a Jerkass. When Suboshi thought he was dead... all he needed was a push from Nakago to fly off the deep end and kill Tamahome's family in revenge.
- Morality Pet: One of the only two people Suboshi treats nicely, the other being Yui.
- Musical Assassin: He fights using his flute.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: He missed all of his fellow Seiryuu Warriors' deaths, including his twin brother's.
- Not Quite Dead: He survives his supposed fatal fall in the river.
- Parental Abandonment: His and Suboshi's parents died in their country's civil war.
- Promotion to Parent: He was the older twin, so he had to help Suboshi survive.
- Redemption Equals Life: He truly wants to make up for being The Mole back then, saves Miaka, protects her from Tomo, and tries to persuade Suboshi into forgetting everything and just live peacefully with him. While Suboshi refuses the offer, Amiboshi still gets his wish to live peacefully and ends up the Sole Survivor of the Seiryuu.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue Oni to Suboshi's Red Oni.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: His younger twin Suboshi is a Jerkass and capable of truly immoral acts, while he is pleasant and can’t kill anyone even if his life depends on it.
- Sole Survivor: The only Seiryuu warrior to be alive by the end of the story.
- Spoiler Opening: The actual Chiriko is constantly shown in the OBB since the very first episode, rendering the twist of Amiboshi being The Mole useless.
- Sympathy for the Devil: Gets this In-Universe by Miaka. She thinks that someone who makes such nice and calming music like him can’t be a truly bad person, and gets extremely distressed at his supposed death.
- Token Good Teammate: Aside from being The Mole, he's the most moral member of the Seiryuu warriors.
- Twin Telepathy: The moment Suboshi dies (and calls Amiboshi’s name), Amiboshi sheds tears and says that his chest hurts, despite not remembering anything.
- Twincest: Him and Suboshi give quite the vibes, and it's NOT helped by Suboshi giving him an Intimate Healing. And definitely not helped by Miaka's thoughts during that episode either...
Suboshi
Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (Japanese, TV series), Tetsuya Iwanaga (Japanese, radio dramas), Steve Staley (English, as "Steve Cannon")
- Angsty Surviving Twin: He did not take Amiboshi's supposed death, well.
- Anti-Villain: Type III
- Ax-Crazy: Fierce and Impulsive.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Yui comforts him after his brother's death, and is perhaps the first person besides his brother to act in a kind and nurturing way towards him. This earns Suboshi's fanatical loyalty for the remainder of the series.
- Big Damn Heroes: Despite being a villain, he pulls off a pretty good one for Amiboshi.
- Bodyguard Crush: On Yui.
- Despair Event Horizon: Crosses the first when he loses Amiboshi and believes he's dead, which sends him into a mental breakdown and he kills Tamahome's family as revenge, believing him to be Amiboshi's killer.
- Determinator Loyal and dedicated. He does not know what quitting is.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Tomo makes the very, very, very stupid mistake of trying to kill Amiboshi. Suboshi proceeds to put the "killer" in Killer Yoyo.
- Evil Counterpart: To Tamahome. Both are defined by their strong loyalty towards their family/siblings and then later towards their priestess (whom both also fall in love with). However, Suboshi exhibits the darkest aspects of these qualities, becoming The Unfettered where vengeance for Yui and Amiboshi are concerned, and forcing a kiss on an unwilling Yui.
- Freudian Excuse: His parents' deaths in the middle of the war, Amiboshi's loss, being repeatedly rejected by Yui whom he adores, etc.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Killed by his own Killer Yoyo. Doubles as Karmic Death.
- Hotblooded: Stubborn to a fault
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His own Killer Yoyo fatally pierces through him.
- Intimate Healing: His notorious kiss with Amiboshi.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: His brother.
- Karmic Death: Died when hit by his own Killer Yoyo. Even more so if you believe that he truly was held in place by the souls of Tamahome's siblings, whom he killed in his Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
- No Body Left Behind: He dies in the real world, so his body simply vanishes upon death.
- Parental Abandonment: His and Amiboshi's parents died in their country's civil war.
- Rape and Revenge: Tries to rape Miaka in order to avenge Yui's rape, which Yui blames Miaka for.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red Oni to Amiboshi's Blue Oni.
- Redemption Rejection: Upon reuniting with his Not Quite Dead twin brother, Amiboshi urges him to leave the Suzaku-Seiryuu conflict to live with him in peace. Suboshi declines both for his Bodyguard Crush on Yui and believing he has come too far.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After he believes his beloved older brother is dead, which leads him to cross the moral event horizon horrifically.
- Sir Swearsa Lot: On his Light Novel.
- Stalker with a Crush: On Yui.
- The Unapologetic: He's Obliviously Evil who sees the world in Blackand White Insanity.
- Would Hurt a Child: He killed Tamahome's siblings.
- Yandere: For Yui and for his brother.
Ashitare
Voiced by: Ryūzaburō Ōtomo (Japanese), Richard Epcar (English, as "Richard Rahl"; TV series), Kevin Seymour (English, OVA)
- The Brute: He is literally used as the muscle of Team Seiryuu.
- Evil Counterpart: To Tasuki, sharing a wolf motif as well as the same thirst for battle.
- Eye Scream: Nuriko burns his left eye with a firecracker.
- Facial Horror: Nuriko burns most of the left side of his face using a firecracker.
- Forced into Evil: Nakago beats him savagely in punishment for any transgression, and it's strongly implied that his terror of further punishment at least partially drives Ashitare's actions.
- I'm a Humanitarian: His favorite meal is beautiful young virgins.
- I Owe You My Life: To Nakago. Invoked, as Nakago holds his over Ashitare's head in his usual sadistic manner.
- Neck Snap: How Nuriko kills his human form.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: He starts out as a hulking, rather wolfish humanoid. After his death, he resurrects in the form of a wolf.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Only appeared in a handful of episodes, but in those appearances he managed to directly cause the death of Nuriko and steal Genbu's Shinzaho for Team Seiryuu before dying.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Nakago says this to him almost verbatim before killing his final wolf form.
Soi
Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese), Melodee Spevack (English, as "Sonja S. Fox")
- Alas, Poor Yorick: Nakago is seen carrying her corpse for months.
- Anti-Villain: One of the most sympathetic Seiryuu Seishi, she specifically says she doesn't have anything against Miaka and Co. but must fight them anyway for Nakago. She even tells Miaka that Nakago didn't rape her and envies Miaka and Tamahome's love.
- Dark Action Girl: Her fighting skills are nothing to sneeze at.
- Deus Sex Machina: She can use sex to raise or drain a man's ki, and she often has Intimate Healing sessions with Nakago.
- Evil Counterpart: To Nuriko
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: While she has antagonized Miaka and co., she mostly does so out of loyalty to Nakago. She's sympathetic to Ashitare, points Miaka to Tamahome's direction and tells her that Nakago didn't rape her, pledged to take care of Nakago (in the Seiran Den novel), and in the Ryuusei Den novel refused to obey Nakago's order to kill a girl.
- I Can Change My Beloved: In the Nakago-centric novel Seiran Den, she vows to do her best to save Nakago from the darkness that's consuming him. She believes that there's still some good in him deep inside.
- Leg Focus: She always displays her left leg and it's also where her celestial symbol is. Because why not.
- Love Makes You Evil: If only Nakago had not been her savior...
- Love Martyr: Willingly lets Nakago use her to boost his ki and even dies protecting him.
- Ms. Fanservice: Her powers have Deus Sex Machina, so she's naked quite a lot. And the clothes she's usually wearing highlights her legs.
- Rescue Romance: She fell in love with Nakago after he saved her, years ago, from being raped.
- Shock and Awe: Fights using her lightning manipulation abilities.
- Single-Target Sexuality: Ever since Nakago rescued her when she was 12, Nakago's been the only one for her.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's a tall and smoking hot woman.
- Taking the Bullet: Takes a sword meant for Nakago.
- Undying Loyalty: To Nakago, to the point that she'd even sell her soul to the devil if he asked her to.
- Villain's Dying Grace: Sacrifices her life to save Nakago's when the latter is distracted and doesn't notice an oncoming strike.
Tomo
Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (Japanese), Kevin Seymour (English, as "Rena Heinrich" and "E.T. Varney")
- Depraved Homosexual: 'The boy's screams excites me more!'
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Played straight when wearing his makeup, due to Chinese Opera makeups being mostly white based, but subverted without his makeup as he's seemed to have a healthy complexion; which is in fact, more in tune with Raven Hair, Ivory Skin.
- Evil Counterpart: To Chichiri in general terms of his illusion based powers, and by further revelation, Hikitsu in terms of Mind Rape, and Magical Security Cam abilities. Unlike Hikitsu, who records and use the absolute facts of his targets, Tomo invades, and manipulates the "sense of reality" of his targets based on his targets' backgrounds.
- Evil Laugh: Especially prominent with the English dub version.
- Facial Markings: Tomo comes from a family of Chinese Opera performers. Therefore, he dresses under the role of “the male warrior”, complete with the represented makeup to make himself more in tune with his duty as a Celestial Warrior. However, as per Watase's manual, underneath his heavy makeup, he's a good-looking man.
- Master of Illusion: His powers allow him to trap targets in an illusionary world that feeds on their desires and to manipulate his targets to have full sensory within that world to inflict successful physical injuries. His illusions also allow him to view, and safe keep the desires and worldview of his targets in a similar matter as stored documents, in which he uses seashells as mediums to store. Nakago found the data of Miaka (and by extension, Yui's) world that Tomo left behind post death, and became interested in conquering "the priestess' world".
Miboshi (Walking Spoiler Warning)
Voiced by: Midori Nakazawa (Japanese), Barbara Goodson (English)
- Ascended Extra: In Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Ibun, and probably Byakko Senki
- Bald of Evil: Though Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Ibun reveals that he used to be a Two-Faced Long-Haired Pretty Boy.
- Creepy Child: Subverted. The reader sees him in Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Ibun as a handsome adult man, and as far as the narrative shows this seems to be his original body rather than the child one seen in Fushigi Yuugi.
- Demonic Possession: His better known powers. He can also use magic to render someone else mute.
- The Reveal: Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Ibun shows several things about his past. His birth name is Raneisei, he used the alias "Nirusha", and used to be a kind person who helped an abused little girl named Reipin/Neiran to discover her origins and her inner strength. How much of this former kindness is fully true and how much is a facade is still unknown, but the narrative all but states that he did start as a silent but kind guy and then got rotten somewhere along the way, ultimately ending up as the thoroughly evil Miboshi.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: He only appears in 2 chapters and get killed off quickly, making him the most least developed celestial warrior character along with Ashitare. Then his backstory is finally revealed in Byakko Senki, see above.
- Would Hurt a Child: Prefers to possess children, because it's easier to overtake their small bodies and innocent souls. His known victims include an unnamed young Buddhist monk/monk-in-training (the body he uses now), and Chiriko.
Genbu Warriors (Fushigi Yuugi Only)
NOTE: This place only lists the warriors and tropes shown in this part of the story. For those who wish to understand them further, please visit Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden.
General Tropes for both Hikitsu and Tomite
- All There in the Manual: Regarding the location of their celestial marks, basic profiles, and basic cause of death.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: They were selected as the trope image for this for a reason. Though, “perhaps”, half of the credits goes to them being Dead to Begin With.
- An Ice Person: Hikitsu likes to form his ice into snakes to do range attacks, while Tomite shoots with ice arrows and forms deadly ice discs to strain an enemy to slowly cut them in half.
- Just Toying with Them: And they never showed anyone their true colors, one bit.
- Manly Tears: They shed them once they've fulfilled their duties.
- Posthumous Character: They've been dead for at least two centuries, appearing only as Virtual Ghosts.
- Small Role, Big Impact: While they were originally meant to be one-time characters, it's their no-nonsense, undyingly loyal personalities, and frightful badassery that shuns even The Big Bad Nakago to back out in directly assaulting them is what caught the attention of every reader. Which ultimately triggered their prequel.
- Threshold Guardians: Hikitsu and Tomite are tasked to guard The Shinzaho of Genbu, and has to make absolutely sure the recipient is either the Priestess of Suzaku, or Seiryuu. But witnessing the country of Kutou being corrupted for centuries and not repenting back anytime soon. They would expel all persons coming for their Shinzaho in the name of Seiryuu, and await for the Priestess of Suzaku to come forth instead.
- Undying Loyalty: To their Priestess of Genbu, and their duties as Celestial Warriors.
Hikitsu
- Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese), Skip Stellrecht (English, as Henry Douglas Gray)
- Eyepatch of Power: He wears one on his right eye, in which no reader nor anime audience would ever know the story behind it. Word of God once warned, "Whoever sees his eye will see Hell." The manual hinted his celestial mark occupies his right eye, however, Genbu Kaiden reveals Hikitsu’s right eye also holds a power that is not used on the Suzaku warriors.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Hikitsu's a tall, elegant-looking Bishounen sporting long, and flowy platinum-blonde hair. Word of God initially stated she gave Hikitsu this image for the sake of contrasting his image from Tomite.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Hikitsu comes off cold, snarky, and harsh towards everyone who invades their territory and will not hesitate to off people's heads if he deems the intruders are coming for their holy artifact—The Shinzaho with ill intentions. If the intruders meant well, and past various tests he sets towards them to prove their intentions, Hikitsu, by then, will give them his warm welcome.
Tomite
- Voiced by: Tetsuya Iwanaga (Japanese), Michael Lindsay (English, as "Dylan Tully")
- Ambiguously Brown: The anime gave him this, which is very awkward. The Genbu Kaiden franchise fixed him over though, but then again...it just further stresses the factor that "there's no way he can possibly get a tan given his circumstance."
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Tomite gives quite an impolite attitude towards their intruders compared to Hikitsu; even as Hikitsu gave him the green light to place their trust towards The Suzaku Team, Tomite initially was still cautious of them. But after a few chats down the line, he's shown to chill down and gave a nicer tone toward Team Suzaku. Word of God hinted in her in-between-story message indicating Tomite "had that attitude not because he was truly a jerk, but rather 'a spirited teenager' who doesn't hold back (his tongue)."
- The Stoic: Compare to Hikitsu, it's clear that Tomite is straight out unsympathetic towards anyone other than his own fellow teammate.
Byakko Warriors (Fushigi Yuugi Only)
NOTE: This place only lists the warriors and tropes shown in this part of the story. For those who wish to understand them further, please visit Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Senki.
Subaru
Click to see her in her youth.
Voiced by: Mika Doi (Japanese), Barbara Goodson (English)
- Action Girl: In her prime and when she reverts her own age and Tokaki's during the Suzaku-Seiryuu Era.
- Battle Couple: With Tokaki.
- I Was Quite a Looker: She is a very cute elder lady, but as the hidden picture shows, she was SMOKING HOT in her prime. And since her power revolves about time, she can temporarily revert to the white-haired girl she was when young!
- Mystical White Hair: A white-haired woman with time manipulation powers.
- Never Mess with Granny: In her elder years.
- Time Master: Her Seishi power, strong enough to keep Tatara's body as young and strong as in his prime for decades. As long as he doesn't either overuse his powers or step away from the place she casted the spell in. Which he doesn't mind since having to stay put in the resting place of the Shinzaho helps him a lot to guard it 24/7.
- What Does She See in Him?: She and Tokaki. It's stated that he actually met little Tamahome when Subaru kicked him out of home and he had to become a traveller by force.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: A sweet and loving wife, she can still keep her lecherous husband in line and won't hesitate to tell him when he's wrong. That, and she's very devoted to both her family and her beliefs as an ex Seishi.
Tokaki
Click to see him in his youth.
Voiced by: Kouji Ishii [Elder], Katsuya Shiga [Youth] (Japanese), Tom Wyner [Elder], Bob Buchholz [Youth] (English)
- Battle Couple: With Subaru.
- Dirty Old Man: Played for Laughs mostly, except in the backstory. The exact reason why he was kicked out of home for a while is that Subaru got fed up with his lechery.
- I Was Quite a Looker: He was a white-haired Pretty Boy in his youth. Until Subaru uses her magic on him too.
- Mystical White Hair: A white-haired man with teleportation powers.
- Old Master: The man who thought Tamahome martial-arts.
- Shipping Torpedo: He did not support Tamahome and Miaka's love and made it clear. It was a facade though, as he and Subaru knew well what happened to Suzuno and Tatara and tried to prevent it from happening again.
- Teleporters and Transporters: His Seishi power.
Tatara
Voiced by: Jin Yamanoi (Japanese), Darian Sewell (English)
- Bodyguard Crush: On Suzuno.
- Combat Tentacles: Can use roots and vines this way.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: In those of his old friend and fellow Seishi Tokaki.
- Green Thumb: His Seishi power.
- Longhaired Prettyboy: Yet another long-haired Bishounen in the list.
- Older Than They Look: Tatara looks like he's in his late teens/mid 20's although he's around the same age as Tokaki and Subaru. This is mostly because Subaru, the local Time Master, put a spell on him so he'd be able to protect the Shinzaho; according to Word of God, this happened when he actually was 17/18.
- Snow Means Death, Star-Crossed Lovers, and Together in Death: With Suzuno. Sniff.
Persons from the Universe of the Four Gods
Taiitsukun and Nyan-Nyans
Taiitsukun
Voiced by: Hisako Kyoda, Catherine Battistone (English, as Catherine Luciani)
- Big Good: The closest to a God in this place, aside of the Four Gods themselves.
- Cool Old Lady: Her chosen form in the original series.
- Slapstick: On one hand she's among those who send the Nyan-Nyans flying when they screw up, and has hit Miaka upside the head at least once. On the other, it's not like she's less harsh to guys: she's also seen beating up Tamahome and Hotohori for being rude to her.
The Nyan-Nyan
And there's a full brigade of her.
Voiced by: Kyoko Hikami, Hiroko Konishi and Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese), Melissa Fahn (English, as "Melissa Charles"; mainly), Christina Carlisi (English, as "Marie Downing"; OVA 1)
- A Twinkle in the Sky: "Aiyaaaaa!"
- Butt Monkeys: Any time they show up, they goof up in some way...
- Catchphrase: "Let's help, help!" "Let's heal, heal!" "Aiyaaaaa!"
- Grand Theft Me: Can be used as temporary vessels for disembodied souls with unfinished business.
- Healing Hands: One of their more useful powers
- Kawaiiko: So cuuuuuute!
- Physical God: As the aides of Taiitsukun
- Really 700 Years Old: As goddesses, they don't age, but they usually look like little girls.
- Saying Too Much: The main reason why they get hit (mostly by Taiitsukun) is because they can't seem to keep their mouths shut.Nyanyan: (to Nuriko) "Let me heal you!"
Nuriko: "Thank you, but I'm not hurt..."
Nyanyan: "I'll heal your perversion!"
Nuriko: (punches the offending Nyanyan into the stratosphere)
Nyanyan: "AIYAAAAAA!" - She Is All Grown Up: Normally appear as cute little girls, but make a brief appearance as beautiful women towards the end.
- Also, in the second OVA, one appears as a young teenager rather than a young child.
Persons related to The Suzaku Warriors
Tamahome's Family
Tamahome's Father voiced by: Katsumi Chou (Japanese), Louis Michael Haller (English, as "Mike Fisk")
Chuei voiced by: Yoshiko Kamei (Japanese), Mona Marshall (English)
Shunkei voiced by: Hiroko Konishi (Japanese), Lenore Zann (English, 1st voice; as "Zan"), Carolyn Hennessy (English, 2nd voice, as "Ramona Lee")
Gyokuran voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese), Lenore Zann (English, as "Zan")
Yuiren voiced by: Akemi Okamura (Japanese), Sandy Fox (English, 1st voice; as "Marie Danielle"), Mona Marshall (English, 2nd voice), Julie Maddalena (English, 3rd voice; as "Judy Asher")
Tamahome's family consists his single father, and 4 younger siblings: brothers Chuuei and Shinkei, and sisters Gyokuran and Yuiren.
- Backup from Otherworld: The siblings' ghosts appear during Tamahome's final showdown with Suboshi to help their eldest brother give their killer the overdue Karmic Death.
- The Cutie: Yuiren.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Yuiren holds on long enough to die in Tamahome's arms..
- Dying Moment of Awesome: It appears Chuei attempted to fight off Suboshi. Tamahome commended him for it.
- Good Parents: Tamahome's dad is a very sweet man and does his best to be there for him, nevermind his terrible health.
- Killed Offscreen: All except Yuiren were just corpses by the time Tamahome discovers them.
- Kill the Cutie: Yuiren dies along with her father, older sister and her two brothers.
- Missing Mom: She died giving birth to Yuiren.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: Only Yuiren holds on enough to see Tamahome before dying.
- Strong Family Resemblance: If Chuuei lets his hair down, he looks like a younger Tamahome.
- Those Two Guys: Shinkei and Gyokuran, as Chuhei and Yuiren were at least given screentime to stand out.
You Houki
Voiced by: Chika Sakamoto (Japanese), Emily Brown (English, TV series), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (English, OVA, as "Dorothy Melendrez")
- Ascended Extra: Didn't have much development in the series or manga, but the Suzaku Hi Den novels and OAV gave more insight into her past and personality.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Averted! She was a pretty decent empress dowager and regent.
- Go Through Me: She stands in between Hotohori and her Unlucky Childhood Friend Shuu Tendou to keep them from duelling.
- Hot Consort: Of Hotohori.
- Identical Stranger: Looks suspiciously like Nuriko, who was close friends with her before dying. Enough to momentarily fool the rest of the Suzaku warriors into thinking she's his ghost or his reincarnation... until Miaka hugs her and feels her breasts.
- Nice Girl: A very kind and soft-spoken person.
- Rags to Riches: She actually was from a very poor family, but was taken into the court due to her extreme beauty. She wasn't too keen on it, but accepted to help her family out.
- Remember the New Guy?: Houki was evidently hanging around offscreen as far back as the kudoku arc.
- Shrinking Violet: With purple hair to match.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Houki clearly sees through Mayo Sakaki, but treats the girl with abject politeness and bides her time. At exactly the right moment, and without so much as raising her voice, she very calmly and courteously shames the shit out of Mayo and arguably contributes to the latter's Heel Realization.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: She looks the part of a Japanese lady; beautiful, soft-spoken, traditional clothing etc. She's not lacking for inner iron either, especially as the Empress Dowager.
Shuu Tendo
Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (Japanese), Steve Blum (English, as "David Lucas")
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Hotohori's Abel.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: To Houki. One of his fatal flaws.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Both Hotohori and Houki held him as he died.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Envied Hotohori like Hell not just for Houki, but also because he should be the Emperor of Konan. It became his biggest Fatal Flaw, as it left him open to be manipulated...
- Hidden Back Up Prince: Tendou was the actual Crown Prince, and Hotohori's Gold Digger mother Motaiko wanted him dead. His and Hotohori's father, The Emperor, sent Tendou away with the intention of retrieving him when everything had cooled off... but that never happened. As a result, Hotohori ascended to the throne that should have been Tendou's, and Tendou himself was stuck as a commoner.
- Hot-Blooded: Another Fatal Flaw.
- Unlucky Childhood Friend For Houki.
- Walking Spoiler: The man only shows up in Suzaku Hi Den, so his in-story role can't be fully revealed without tossing in lots of info about the novel/OAV's plot as a whole.
Chou Kourin
Voiced by: Chika Sakamoto (Japanese), Julie Maddalena (English, 1st voice), Michelle Ruff (English, 2nd voice, as "Georgette Rose")
- Half-Identical Twins: Subverted, she and Nuriko were NOT twins (he was one year older), but were so similar in looks that people apparently thought they were twins.
- Ojou: Since her and Nuriko's family is a pretty rich one, she's the sweet type.
- Trampled Underfoot: She was trampled to death by a bunch of maddened horses. In front of Nuriko. YEOWCH.
Chou Rokou
Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue (Japanese), Steve Blum (English, as "David Lucas")
- Big Brother Mentor: Subverted. Rokou was sickly and cowardly as a kid, so Nuriko protected him instead.
- Broken Bird: Male example, as the death of his beloved brother Nuriko has affected him greatly.
- Remember the New Guy?: He's never mentioned in Nuriko's backstory until he conveniently gets in the way of Miaka obtaining a Plot Coupon from him.
- Tragic Keepsake: A jewel ball belonging to his younger brother, Nuriko. He refuses to give it away to Miaka and Co. in the OAV since it's the only real memento he has of Nuriko, but with some help of Chiriko's and Nuriko's spirits they manage to convince him.
Kouji
Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese), Ezra Weisz (English, as "Ethan Murray")
- Badass Normal: Unlike Tasuki or any of the other celestial warriors running around, Kouji is a normal man with no superpowers to speak of. Yet he charges into battle against Nakago's forces and actually gets him to back off.
- Bash Brothers and Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Tasuki.
- The Cavalry: He shows up, along with the rest of the Mt. Reikaku bandits, to intervene when Kutou has invaded Konan and the remaining Suzaku warriors are pinned down.
- Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: One of the light novels is filled with scenes of him obsessing over Tasuki, including Tasuki's good looks, quickly followed by assurances that it is in a completely one hundred percent platonic and heterosexual way.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Tasuki's red oni, as Kouji is the (relatively) more sedate personality who settles into leadership of the Reikaku bandits, while Tasuki goes off adventuring.
- Running Gag: "Knock knock!"
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Zig-zagged. In the first OVA, he shows up to take his revenge on Nakago-in-Tamahome's-body; however it's also stated that much of what happened during that confrontation was actually an illusion generated by Tomo, leaving it ambiguous whether Kouji was really there at all.
- Talking to Themself: Kouji's biggest quirk is his habit of holding both sides of a conversation when introducing himself.
Lady Motaiko
- Missing Mom: Motaiko died right after Hotohori became the Crown Prince.
- Stage Mom: She did everything to ensure that Hotohori, her son, would be appointed as heir.
Boushin a.k.a Emperor Reizeitei
Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Brianne Siddall (English, as "Ian Hawk", OVA 3), Mona Marshall (English, OVA 2)
- A Child Shall Lead Them: Formally ascended to the throne before he turned 10 years old. Though technically speaking, he was already Emperor since his father Hotohori died before he was born.
- Cute Mute: His first words? "Papa!"
- He Is All Grown Up: Sorta. We meet Boushin as a baby◊, then get to see him as a pre-teen◊.
- Wise Beyond Their Years
- What the Hell, Hero?: Telling Mayo to shut it and stop lying about Miaka.
Hikou
Chichiri's childhood best friend, and a major part of his Dark and Troubled Past.
Voiced by: Wataru Takagi (Japanese), Peter Lurie (English, as "Chuck Farley")
- Came Back Wrong: After dying in the flood that destroyed Chichiri's village, he was resurrected as a demon god servant of Tenkou.
- Dying as Yourself: After his demon form is defeated, he regains some of his humanity as he dies, and absolves both Chichiri and Kouran of guilt for what happened in their past.
- Love Triangle: Between Hikou, Chichiri, and Chichiri's fiancee Kouran. It ended badly for all three.
- Unlucky Childhood Friend: To Kouran, who got engaged to Chichiri instead of him.
Persons from The country of Kutou
The Emperor of Kutou
Voiced by: Ryuji Mizuno (Japanese), Bob Papenbrook (English, as "S. Scaley", "Weston Rice", and "John Smallberries")
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Before being killed by Nakago, he begs him to spare his life, and offers him money and the throne in exchange for his life. It doesn't work.
- Coitus Uninterruptus: Has no qualms about talking to Nakago while in bed with two or three concubines.
- Depraved Bisexual: He found an eleven-years-old Nakago so beautiful that he didn't care he's a boy and turned him into a Sex Slave.
- The Dog Bites Back: Is killed by Nakago, the same guy whom he enslaved, molested and then made The Dragon.
- The Emperor: Of the country of Kutou, and serves as a foil to Hotohori.
- Foil: To Hotohori; where Hotohori is handsome, young, chaste, and rules with kindness and fairness, the Emperor of Kutou is Hollywood Homely, old (relatively), lecherous, and rules with an iron fist.
- Ludicrous Gibs: Nakago reduces him to dust with his powers.
- Pædo Hunt: Kept Ayuru aka Nakago as an eleven-year-old Sex Slave
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Compare his looks to those of his concubines.
Other Priestesses
Mayo Sakaki
Voiced by: Junko Noda (Japanese), Lynn Fischer, Sherry Lynn [Child] (English)
- Abhorrent Admirer: To Taka. Mainly because he's already in a Seduction-Proof Marriage with Miaka, and because Mayo is a former student of his, but she persists anyway and lies about their (nonexistent) relationship.
- Berserk Button: Any mention of Miaka drives her into a frothing rage.
- Evil Redhead: Though she could also be strawberry blonde.
- Character Shilling: Possibly the biggest recipient of this in the entire franchise, as the Suzaku warriors all profusely thank her for... uh, existing.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: To a man who wants nothing to do with her, no less.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: She contrasts with both Miaka (who, while notoriously Too Dumb to Live, was at least usually trying to do the right thing) and with Yui (who was also consumed with jealousy, but generally stayed on the right side of Even Evil Has Standards) from the original series.
- Driven to Suicide: After she realizes what she's done. Tamahome rescues her, though, whether the audiences want it or not.
- Hate Sink: Mayo was designed to be unlikable, being a selfish and rude girl who is obsessed with her own love story.
- Hot for Teacher: The guy she loves is her P.E. teacher and coach... Taka Sukunami a.k.a Tamahome.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Unfortunately for everyone around her, she is, by virtue of being a priestess.
- It's All About Me: Every action she performs is for selfish reasons.
- Jerkass: Yui at her worst looks like Tohru Honda compared to her.
- Karma Houdini: Even worse than Nakago. At least the guy did go through some pretty horrific shit that explains why he turned out like that.
- Kick the Dog:
- To Miaka, every chance she gets.
- She's also cruel to Hotohori's son Boushin, at one point going out of her way to tell a disparaging story about Hotohori to the young boy — especially cruel considering Boushin was not yet born when his father died and has no direct memories of him.
- Kneel Before Frodo: Gets this from Konan, just as Miaka did.
- Love Makes You Evil: Although the "love" part is downplayed (being more of an obsessive crush), the "evil" part isn't.
- Malicious Slander: Her specialty. Once she travels to Konan she spreads the rumor that Miaka is a slut who was two-timing Hotohori and Tamahome. She later tells Hotohori's teen son that his dad never loved him or his wife. She is later called out for her lies.
- Morning Sickness: Subverted. She sits up in bed heaving, thinking it's just morning sickness (in her mind, a small price to pay for bearing Taka's child, especially instead of Miaka), but instead, she vomits up a magical orb that lets her see what Taka is up to.
- Moral Myopia: She tells everyone that Miaka is a selfish bitch who only thinks of her own happiness. Well, this is the girl who is willing to fuck up a whole universe just so she can steal Miaka's husband Taka and their unborn child.
- Must Make Amends: After she has her moment of My God, What Have I Done?.
- My God, What Have I Done?: As she realizes how much of an asshole she's been.
- Mystical Pregnancy: She is a (presumably virgin) 16-year-old girl, with no boyfriend to speak of, yet is three months pregnant. The baby is Miaka's, and has been transferred into Mayo's uterus by supernatural means. That was Miaka's doing, in order to save Konan, though everyone in and out of universe is led to believe that Mayo stole the fetus.
- Nun Too Holy: As the Miko, she's supposed to be using her wishes for the benefit of Konan (not herself), and she's supposed to treat her warriors and her attendant with respect. Does she? No. She also spreads vicious rumors about Miaka.
- Parental Abandonment: Supposed to be her Freudian Excuse, as her parents are about to split up very messily. Comes off more as Wangst to Westerners, who aren't necessarily aware of the HUGE social stigma coming from divorce in Japan.
- Prayer of Malice: Is tricked into using this to facilitate the destruction of Konan.
- Primal Fear: Being killed by Taka via a Traumatic C-Section. This is what motivates her to pray to Fake!Suzaku for the destruction of Konan.
- Shorttank: Short-haired, tomboyish, athletic...
- Straight Edge Evil: Doesn't drink or smoke, and is (considering that she summoned Suzaku) presumably a virgin, but still quite depraved.
- Take That, Audience!: She was created as a response the series' fans who expressed desires to become priestesses and get hot boyfriends for themselves.
- Teen Pregnancy: Is 16 years old at the time of her Mystical Pregnancy in the book.
- This Loser Is You: Supposed to be a symbol of human weakness, especially in matters of the heart.
- Traumatic C-Section: Is threatened with this.
- Unwitting Pawn: For the fake Suzaku.
- Villain Protagonist: By sheer virtue of how horrible she is.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Gets this from Tamahome and from Boushin.
- Would Hurt a Child: She threatens to kill Miaka and Taka's unborn baby if Taka doesn't do her bidding. Also attempts to murder a baby reincarnated Chiriko and reacts in rage when it fails.
- Yandere: Threatens murdering Miaka and Taka's unborn baby just so she can have Taka to herself.
From The Suzaku Ibun Game
General tropes for Madoka Ootori and Misaki Himuro
- Expy: Of Miaka and Yui. Though Misaki is not taken back to Japan after she and Madoka get swallowed inside the book.
- In Madoka's case, Word of God says that the game manufacturers created her as Miaka's replacement because they thought that it would be contradicting for Miaka to be the main character in the game as, in the original media, she was only deemed to love Tamahome.
- In Madoka's case,
- Sailor Fuku: Madoka and Misaki's school uniforms look like Western ones, but the collars look a lot like those of a seifuku.
- She Cleans Up Nicely:
- Madoka, as the Player Character who becomes the Suzaku no Miko, looks really nice in the Miko robes that Miaka wore in the manga/series. She also looks super cute when she wears normal Chinese robes in the "Staying Behind" endings, or when she's in a Western wedding gown in Mitsukake's "Reincarnation Ending".
- Misaki is also seen in really nice clothes when, just like Yui, she's appointed as the Seiryuu no Miko.
Madoka Ootori
The protagonist of the Suzaku Ibun game, she finds herself lost in the Universe of the Four Gods with her friend Misaki. After Tamahome rescues her from some thugs and helps her escape after she was imprisoned, she learns that Misaki has disappeared. Madoka agrees to become the priestess of Suzaku to find her friend and return home.
- Always Save the Girl: Madoka's main goal is getting Misaki back no matter what.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: The normally short-haired Madoka is seen with far longer hair in Nuriko's Reincarnation Ending.
- Expy: Of Miaka, in terms of disliking studying and being lazy about it, being rescued by Tamahome and becoming the priestess of Suzaku. She does adapt quite faster to her Suzaku no Miko role.
- Fix Fic: The player can sorta pull this through Madoka, since depending on their actions they can make her prevent the deaths of the Suzaku Senshi who kick in in the original (Nuriko and Chiriko included) or keep Amiboshi from falling into the river...
- Foreshadowing: Madoka's uniform's collar and ribbon is red, indicating her becoming the priestess of Suzaku.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: She and Misaki are best friends and Tamahome even lampshades that they seem more like sisters to each other than friends.
- Lap Pillow: She can do this to Chiriko, but only if the player does NOT manage to save him.
- Meaningful Name: Her last name is spelled with the kanji for Female Phoenix. Ootori means Big Bird.
- Psychic Powers: She has an ability known as Danger/Death Perception, which is basically a sort-of Spider-Sense that lets her sense when her loved ones are threatened.
- Multiple Endings: This being basically a Dating Sim, the players can give Madoka more than one ending. This includes: "Normal Ending" (few love points with anyone), "Friendship Ending" (Misaki has the most points), Disappointing Love Ending (Madoka gets a guy to love her but must go back home without him since their love points aren't enough), "Reincarnation Ending" (Madoka has enough points with her beau to get him to be reincarnated a la Taka Sukunami), and "Staying Behind Ending" (if the player unlocks a certain scene and also gets Madoka enough love points with a boyfriend, one can choose between the Reincarnation Ending and a new one where she stays in the Book with her beloved).
- Player Character: Madoka, as the girl who takes Miaka's "place" in the Suzaku Ibun game.
- Shower of Awkward: A sort-of Running Gag that happens once per route is having Madoka trying to take a bath and then seeing one of the guys naked. Including Nuriko, excluding Chiriko.
- Your Universe or Mine?: If she has enough affection with a Suzaku Warrior, she can ask Suzaku to either have the warrior be reborn into her world or make it so that she can remain with him in the Universe of the Four Gods. It's easier said than done, however.
Misaki Himuro
Voiced by: Ryōko Ono
The antagonistic priestess of the Suzaku Ibun game, she's best friends with Madoka. When the two are studying, Madoka finds the Universe of the Four Gods and both find themselves in Kounan. When some thugs try to pick them up, Misaki tells Madoka to run away by herself and Misaki will bait them to help her. After Tamahome helps her get away from the thugs, Misaki gets taken by some men to Kutou, where she becomes the priestess of Seiryu.
- Expy: Of Yui. She's best friends with Madoka, both land in Kounan at the same time and get rescued by Tamahome. Misaki eventually becomes the priestess of Seiryu and Madoka's enemy.
- Foreshadowing: Her becoming the priestess of Seiryu is foreshadowed in her uniform, which is identical to Madoka's, except her collar and ribbon are blue.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: She and Madoka are best friends and Tamahome even lampshades that they seem more like sisters to each other than friends.
- Long Hair Is Feminine: Misaki has long hair, contrasting with Yui's boyish haircut as well as Madoka's own.
