Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple Character Index
Ryozanpaku Dojo | Shinpaku Alliance | The Eight Fists of Ragnarok | Yomi | Yami - Unarmed | Yami - Armed | Relatives | Others
Ryozanpaku Dojo | Shinpaku Alliance | The Eight Fists of Ragnarok | Yomi | Yami - Unarmed | Yami - Armed | Relatives | Others
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Chihiro Takashima
Chihiro Takashima
- The Ace: Was this for the gymnastics club, until Miu showed up.
- Attention Whore: She relished the attention she got until Miu stole it from her.
- Enemy Mine: Attempted this with Rachel Stanley to humiliate Miu. Key word being attempted, because Rachel was not pleased about it.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's always seen with her gymnastics uniform, and has a very nice figure.
- Power Copying: She manages to regain some of her former attention by copying Miu's movements, but not by much.
Yuka Izumi
Yuka Izumi
- A-Cup Angst: Implied, given that she's very jealous of Miu's buxom and curvaceous figure.
- Caring Gardener: She's the president of the gardening club, and only other member along with Kenichi.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Downplayed, but she wasn't very happy to learn that Kenichi was living at Miu's home, and when she visited Ryouzanpaku she engaged in some Passive Aggressive Combat with her.
- Hopeless Suitor: She clearly has a crush on Kenichi, but he's already set his sights on Miu.
- Girlish Pigtails: Wears her hair in a pair of braids.
- Nice Girl: Overall, she's a very sweet and friendly girl.
- Shrinking Violet: Extremely shy and easily flustered.
Shinnosuke Tsuji
Shinnosuke Tsuji
- Back for the Finale: He reappears in the final chapter of the manga as part of Siegfried's musical band.
- Can't Catch Up: Despite taking a level in badass, he still can't catch up with Kenichi, who ends having taken many more levels in the meantime.
- Combat Pragmatist: Wins his first fight with Kenichi by headbutting his fists and take advantage of his now injured hands.
- Took a Level in Badass: Sadly it's not enough, but he still manages to land a good hit on Kenichi, even if the latter was distracted.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: To Kenichi, twice:
- In the Ragnarok arc, Kenichi had beaten the (then) stronger and more skilled Tsukuba and Takeda by taking advantage of them being athletes used to competitions with rules (Tsukuba losing to a combination of techniques illegal in Karate competition, and Takeda losing to low kicks), and was starting to feel quite sure of himself. Then he takes on Tsuji, who from the start is stated to be stronger than Kenichi but also less skilled, initially has the upper hand... And then suffers a headbutt on his fists, injurying them and falling to Tsuji's superior streetfighting experience.
- After Kenichi won the rematch, Tsuji left to train in the mountains and received lessons from a mysterious Master, and upon his return immediately challenges Kenichi even after discovering Ragnarok has disbanded. Kenichi initially has the upper hand, but gets distracted just long enough for Tsuji to score a single hit... And completely knock him out.
Christopher Eclair
Christopher Eclair
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Saves Kenichi and Miu from a high level master class weapon user, but only because Shigure paid him with a bar of gold.
- Combat Pragmatist: Notable even among practitioners of martial arts uncontaminated by sports, as he'll use every dirty trick and then some to get an advantage. Justified in that he practices all forms of Savate, including the pre-World War I street-fighting style and the original battlefield form.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Nearly into Ambiguous Gender territory.
- Even Evil Has Standards: As horrible his personality is, he has some standards:
- During the initial assassination job he goes out of his way to try and not fight Kenichi and Miu in person, as a Grandmaster fighting two Disciples would be just plain overkill. It's only when Kenichi manages to score an unexpected hit that he accepts the fight, and still goes easy to not kill him.
- If you hire and pay him, he'll go out of his way to do the job you paid him for, exactly as you intended it.
- Extremity Extremist: A savate master who specializes in kicks.
- Geo Effects: Gets much stronger when fighting on a boat or similar unstable ground, as Savate is the only martial art originally created to fight on ships and he can keep his stance on such ground that much better.
- Human Shield/Grievous Harm with a Body: Twirls a little girl like a staff in a fight with Sakaki and then later distracts him by throwing her brother out of the moving train car that they're on.
- Locomotive Level: Fights Sakaki on a crowded subway/light rail car and both revels in the fact that Sakaki can't go all out with all the potential victims and uses said Innocent Bystanders against him.
- The Mole: Seeds one of his agents into his target's staff.]
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Sakaki defeated him by punching and kicking him through no less than 3 rooms.
- Only in It for the Money: Pay him enough, and he'll work for anyone as long as it doesn't contradict his current job. Case in point, in his second appearance he's fighting against Yami and on Ryozanpaku's side because he's been hired by the Japanese government, and when Shigure gives him some gold to insure Kenichi and Miu's safety he takes the job on the spot.
- Troll: Has a peculiar sense of humor, as demonstrated when Kenichi asked him why he was an assassin and he told him the plot of a movie as if it was his Freudian Excuse just to pull the rug from under him.
- Wild Card: While he's technically a member of Yami, he can be on anyone's side as long as he's paid for it: he debuts as an assassin after the guy Sasaki had been hired by the Japanese government to protect, and when he comes back he's working for the Japanese government against Yami, who had helped him escape prison after his first appearance, also taking a side job to protect Kenichi and Miu from a high level Master Class weapon user when Shigure gives him a bar of gold for it.
- Wrestler in All of Us: A master of wrestling throws. As he himself reminded Sakaki, old-style Savate includes throws from a wrestling style practiced in Paris in the 19th century.
James Shiba
James Shiba
- Animal Lover: Surprisingly enough, he has a soft spot for pets and even names some of his moves after them.
- Big Damn Heroes: Totally unexpected from him, but he saves Nijima from Saiga
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Saiga (actually Senzui) crushes him without even trying.
- Expressive Hair: Or rather, expressive mustache!
- Eyepatch of Power: He lost an eye after being defeated to Saiga in the past.
- The Gambler: Enjoys playing pachinko on his off time. When Takeda becomes his disciple, he enters him into underground fighting rings as part of his training while betting in his favor and earning a fair bit of money on the side.
- Handicapped Badass: One of his legs is in bracers. He can still easily knock you out with one blow.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He does everything to deny having one, but it's pretty clear that he has a hidden one. Such
- Manly Facial Hair: Take great pride in his mustache and the prospect of having to shave it after losing a bet is treated with the same gravitas as someone committing Seppuku.
- Meaningful Name: Since there's no "v" in Japanese, his name could also be read as Shiva, God of Destruction.
- Retired Badass: Was once an undefeated underground boxing champion but fell out of martial arts after getting beaten and crippled. Meeting Takeda ends up reigniting his spirit.
- Renowned Selective Mentor: In the sense that he's never actually had, or ever intended to take on, a disciple before. And while he's not as honorable as other masters, using his disciple as a source of income for example, he proves pretty good at it nonetheless.
- Revenge Before Reason: Subverted in that he's obsessed by revenge against the One Shadow and abandons the rest of his allies during the final battle to get it. However, he determines that the best way to get revenge against Senzui is to ensure that his plan fails by helping Nijima reach the control room to stop the missile launch.
- Sitcom Archnemesis: He's one to Akisame, with the two constantly getting into petty squabbles around each other, which is rather hilarious when you consider how composed the jujutsu master normally is. When their respective disciples decide to have a sparring match against each other, the two masters are much more fired up about the matter compared to Kenichi or Takeda.
- Snipe Hunt: In an attempt to get Takeda off his back, he promises to make him his disciple if he can find a legendary pachinko ball (in reality, he just made it up) and, when that fails, forces him to run all the way to the sea and back to prove his resolve.
Jennifer Grey
Jennifer Grey
- Badass Normal: Maybe, she is able to block a master class attack, but she's not on Sakaki's level, may be a low class Master
- Clingy Jealous Girl: To Sakaki. Has once mistaken Shigure as her "competition".
- Gun Fu: Low level Gunslinger Master.
- Guns Akimbo: loves to duel wield with a big gun on her back
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Able to fight with guns but not kill by destroying her enemies weapons.
- You Killed My Father: Fortuna killed her father, which is the reason she seeks revenge against him. She doesn't get to kill him, but does arrest him once he is defeated by the Shinpaku Alliance.
Tsutomu Tanaka
Tsutomu Tanaka
- Alliterative Name: Tsutomu Tanaka
- Big Damn Heroes: Saves Ryuuto from his Heroic RRoD and Kensei
- Character Death: He dies after having his skull crushed.
- Crusading Widower: Ogata killed his wife and unborn child, driving Tanaka insane.
- Death Seeker: Ogata calls him out on it. Tanaka isn't truly prepared to kill Ogata, he merely wants to die by Ogata's hands and join his family in the afterlife. He gets his wish.
- Fatal Flaw: Revenge. It was called out by the Ryōzanpaku Masters and conformed by the time of his death.
- Henpecked Husband: Outright admits he's whipped and sees Kenichi going down the same path. Then again, he's not really speaking to his wife on the phone. He's pretending to be a henpecked husband, speaking on the phone to his dead pregnant wife is a coping technique for his tragedy.
- It's Personal: Ogata killed his master/father-in-law.
- Knight Errant: Tends to commit random acts of heroism in his search for revenge.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: He's always been looking for a chance to take revenge against Ogata. Now his time has come.
- Mangst: Talking on his cellphone
- Shotgun Wedding: Married at 18 thanks to this.
- Together in Death: Niijima and Renka see Tanaka and his family leave together after Kensei killed him.
- Took a Level in Badass: When he fought Kenichi, he's stated to be slightly superior in power; not quite a master, but much stronger than a disciple. Now, he's able to fight on par with Ogata, meaning Kenichi can't be too far behind.
- Your Head A-Splode: Kensei kills him with an elbow to the head in a very graphic explosion.
Kei Retsumin
Kei Retsumin, the Human Calamity
- Ax-Crazy: Got his nickname by calmly wiping out a whole village to avoid having to find his target's hiding place. Said to have killed more people than any plague.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Fights with Pisuke, a Myna bird, in a cage on his head.
- Head Pet: Pisuke
- Morality Pet: Subverted. Pisuke isn't a pet. It's there to die to serve as a warning that he's going too fast and risking his health.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: On the receiving end of Apachai's "Fist You Don't Let Good Children See".
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: The basis of his martial art, Honshiken.
- Speed Blitz: His fight is hard for non-master level fighters to even see.
Suzuki Hajime
Suzuki Hajime
Sakaki and Hongo's friend and referee.- Awesome by Analysis: Becomes a high level fighter just by watching Hongo and Sakaki fight.
- Dying as Yourself: Asks to be killed in a duel so as to not die a dishonorable death in a hospital.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How Hongo kills him.
