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A group with the task of dealing with supernatural tasks in Japan. After the apocalypse, the JIDA comes into great power and establishes human cities in Shibuya and Shinjuku and wages war against the vampires. It used to be a paramilitary organization that serves the Imperial Demons, the magic cult established by the Hiragi Family.


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Japanese Imperial Demon Army

    General 
  • Badass Army: Everyone in the army is trained to fight vampires in a post-apocalyptic world.
  • Creature-Hunter Organization: Earth's population is decimated by a virus, and the survivors are attacked by monsters or enslaved by vampires. Elite members of the army are able to make contracts with demons to earn phlebotinum weapons which are the only things capable of killing vampires.
  • Rising Empire: Looking to become this under Kureto, who states his intention to wipe out not only the vampires but any other surviving human organizations for the goal to Take Over the World.
  • Playing with Syringes: Similar to all known magic organizations, JIDA is involved in quite a number of horrific non-consensual experiments with human and vampires, children and adults alike.

Hīragi Family and the Order of the Imperial Demons (WARNING! MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD)

    The Hīragi Family 
  • Big, Screwed-Up Family: The most powerful clan in Japan even before the virus attack and is totally screwed up. The Order of the Imperial Demons used to control the Japanese government (together with the Hyakuya Sect) before the Apocalypse. Besides practically controlling the Muggles and the government, the Family engages in orphan buying and kidnapping, media manipulation, extrajudicial killings, slavery, large-scale horrific experimentation on children and adults alike, etc. This is most evident in the prequel Light Novels.
  • The Clan: The largest and most powerful in Japan. Its members are treated as living gods by the subordinate clans of the Imperial Demons.
  • Feuding Families: The relationship between the Hīragi family and the Ichinose family is not exactly great.
  • A Nazi by Any Other Name: The family is essentially worshiped like living gods within the Order, which is a group of sorcerers who have tremendous power over the Japanese society and Muggles (hell, a massacre in a school administered by the family occurred in broad daylight and was subsequently covered up completely, with no police or media investigation occurring at all). It condones and encourages supremacism, discrimination, eugenics, Social Darwinism and "unethical" human experimentation. Before the Apocalypse, the family even used to have a paramilitary organization that operates extra-judicially and completely obeys its whim (now known as the JIDA), not unlike the Nazi's SS. This is most evident in the prequel Light Novels.
  • Puppet King: In Chapter 57, it is revealed that every head of the Hīragi Family has been possessed and controlled by Shigama Dōji, a demon who used to be the first progenitor of the vampire race.

    Tenri Hīragi 

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese), Christopher Sabat (English), Víctor Covarrubias (Latin American Spanish)

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The former General of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army and former head of the Hīragi family.


  • Chain Pain: In Chapter 57, it is shown that he release chains from his body like Saitō.
  • Eyepatch of Power: Wore a black patch that covered the right side of his face because it had curse marks.
  • Family Eye Resemblance: All of his biological children have the same reddish-brown eyes as him. This makes Shinya's Icy Blue Eyes immediately stand out.
  • Large and in Charge: One of the largest characters in the series and was the General of the Demon Army.
  • Minor Major Character: He was the General of the Demon Army yet was rarely seen throughout the series.
  • A Nazi by Any Other Name: Consistent with the Social Darwinist and supremacist traits that runs deep in the Hīragi Family.
  • The Patriarch: Used to be head the Hīragi family before Kureto killed him in Chapter 57.
  • Pride: He is best described as a proud and harsh individual.
  • Sibling Murder: Killed all 40 of his siblings to become the head of the family.
  • The Social Darwinist: He strongly believed in the concept of survival of the fittest. Due to the weight of this savage principle, he would have seen that the strong lived and the weak died.

    Kureto Hīragi 

Voiced by: Tomoaki Maeno (Japanese), Garret Storms (English), Carlos Reynoso (Latin American Spanish)

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The Lieutenant General of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army and is expected to become the next leader of the Hīragi Family as well as the Japanese Imperial Demon Army. His goal is to exterminate all the vampires in Japan, and have the world under the control of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army.

He also appears in the Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen light novel series.


  • Aloof Big Brother: He has a distant relationship with all his younger siblings.
  • Always Someone Better: His half-sister Mahiru was regarded as more powerful than him despite being younger.
  • An Arm and a Leg: He loses his right arm during his fight with his father Tenri in Chapter 57. He gets reattached with Raimeiki's power.
  • Bad Boss: Pretty much doesn't give a crap about sacrificing his soldiers if he thinks it's worth it.
  • Big Brother Bully: In the prequel, to intimidate Guren, he had Shinoa strapped to a chair with evidence on her that she had been tortured. Kureto even threatened to have her raped in his interrogation of Guren. While he didn't actually torture her, he surely would do it if he deemed it necessary for his goals.
  • Entitled Bastard: He expects everyone to submit to him with absolute loyalty and as such doesn't tolerate any disrespect from lower-rank families.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Even though he's not above torturing and betraying even his own subordinates, Kureto will not commit any cruelty that he sees unwarranted. For example, in the prequel, he protested against his father's order to execute Guren's father to the end, as he was satisfied with Guren bringing a vampire hostage and the sword Asuramaru for research.
  • Forceful Kiss: When forced to act on his repressed desires to stop the First Vampire from possessing him, he kisses Aoi by surprise. She actually likes it, though.
  • Four-Star Badass: He is the Lieutenant General of the JIDA and wields a Black Demon Cursed Gear.
  • The Fundamentalist: He fervently believes that he's just and right in using his soldiers as blood sacrifices and attempting to subjugate the whole mankind. He says this to Narumi as he sacrifices his own soldiers in an experiment to appease Abaddon, one of the Seraph of the End.
    Kureto: Don't fuss. Their death was a glorious death for the sake of humanity's progress. Thanks to the few sacrifices of this experiment, many will be saved. This is a right thing to do. This... is justice.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Towards Mahiru and Guren, for both being capable of trying and succeeding in pursuing their greed and desires, something his own standards are preventing him from doing.
  • I Just Want to Be Loved: He maintains emotional distance from everyone because he believes that the only person you can trust is yourself. This emotional regulation even helps him control his weapon's demon. However, deep down what he wants more than anything is to be able to have someone he can trust and rely on.
  • Knight Templar: Kureto's goal is to exterminate all the vampires in Japan to let human rule the country again and firmly believes any action he takes for that goal is righteous and justified. He fuels a seraph experiment, sacrifices a large number of soldiers to keep it under control and is ready to kill anyone he has no use for.
  • Lack of Empathy: He's ready to use, torture and kill with no remorse in order to further his plans.
  • Manipulative Bastard: He'll try to deceive and use anyone for his own gain.
  • Married to the Job: He's so committed to his duties as a Hīragi heir and military leader that he has no personal or social life to speak of.
  • Necessarily Evil: He aims to take control over the world from the vampires and knows that humans can't never win the war against vampires through moral means. To bring down the vampires, he experiments with the seraph, turns a little girl into a biological weapon, and sacrifices the lives of many soldiers.
  • Noble Demon: Even though he's done some terrible things himself, he believes sacrificing lives without a reason is plainly evil, and thinks a king is no one without people to protect. Although if it is for the sake of humanity, he's willing to make as many sacrifices as needed, even if it means giving up his own life.
  • Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He is willing to unite humanity under the banner of the Hīragi Family by destroying all vampires and any other human organizations that survive the Apocalypse. Given his actions, however, it is more than likely that his so-called good intentions are lies. He murdered his own father in order to claim control over the Demon Army, so his "uniting humanity under the Hiragis' banner" actually meant "uniting the world under his banner".
  • Obliviously Evil: He doesn't seem to realize or care that if he has his way, he'd be no better than the vampires.
  • Patricide: Kills his father Tenri at the end of their fight in Chapter 57.
  • Pet the Dog:
    • Briefly in the Catastrophe novels where, despite having the opportunity and perhaps, even the need to torture Shinoa to coerce Guren and especially Mahiru to comply with his demands, he doesn't do so, and instead, opted to just have her put on make-up to give off that impression to them.
    • And while it doesn't last long, he also offered Shinoa the chance to join him in his quest for power using the Seraph of the End. But since he just willingly slaughtered many of their comrades in front of her for the sake of his plans, she naturally refuses.
    • He also seems to care enough about Aoi to a degree based on his reaction to her nearly getting hurt in Chapter 57.
    • While he's still a Knight Templar about it, he seems to adhere to the idea that kings shouldn't stand alone, hence, hinting that he values camaraderie above all else.
  • Pride: He takes great pride in his heritage as a Hīragi as well as being a wielder of a Cursed Gear from the Black Demon series.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: As the firstborn of the Hīragi family, he has the highest rank in the military and is the strongest fighter in the family after Mahiru's death.
  • Ship Tease: His demon states that he feels attracted to Mitsuba's older sister, Aoi.
  • Shock and Awe: His Black Demon Cursed Gear Raimeiki (which translates as "Thunder Demon") is able to enshroud him with streaks of electricity as both a defensive and offensive mechanism.
  • Smug Super: He's both a Hīragi and wielder of a weapon from the Black Demon Series. He takes great pride in his power and makes sure to make everyone be aware of it.
  • Student Council President: In his teenage years, Kureto was the student council president of First Shibuya High. His claim to Guren that his decisions hold more weight at the school than the principal's was no exaggeration.
  • Take Over the World: His goal is to overthrow the vampires and be the ruler of a world where humans dominate them instead. He's also plotting to annihilate the surviving human magic organizations and subjugate the whole humanity.
  • Tall, Dark, and Handsome: He's a tall, handsome man with short black hair.
  • Tautological Templar: On his own terms, anything he does in the name of exterminating the vampires and letting human rule the planet again is righteous. This includes performing human experimentation on a child and killing tons of soldiers to control a seraph.
  • Tough Leader Façade: Believing that a leader must be responsible for their followers, Kureto assumes the role of a cold, unfeeling and merciless superior. His most repressed desires are to let go of his responsibilities and ask help from others, but he can't bring himself to do that until he's in danger of being possessed by the First.
  • Übermensch: He believes that he is right and will do anything to further his own ambitions.
  • The Unfettered: Kureto will use any means at his disposal to win against the vampires.
  • The Usurper: After creating a seraph weapon and taking control of Sanguinem, Kureto stages a coup d'etat against his superiors and kills his own father to claim the position of ruler of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army.
  • Utopia Justifies the Means: He dreams of creating a "paradise" where humans dominate the world again and he rules as the king of one big nation made of the remaining human population. To make that a reality, he's ready to break the taboo by experimenting with a seraph and sacrifice as many lives as he deems necessary.
  • Visionary Villain: He has an ambition of wiping out every vampire on the planet and create a "vampire-free paradise." He also plans to make Japan the center of all nations by gathering every surviving country and uniting them as one in a campaign for world domination.
  • You Monster!: Shinoa, his own sister, remarks that he is a monster, even though she does not say it directly to him.

    Shinya Hīragi 

Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Japanese), Jerry Jewell (English), Juan Carlos Román (Latin American Spanish)

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A Major General of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army.


  • Abnormal Ammo: His Black Demon Cursed Gear Byakkomaru (which translates as "White Tiger"), looks like a rifle. It's ability is demon manifestation (or tiger manifestation in this case). His Cursed Gear essentially unloads a streak of white tigers instead of normal bullets.
  • Adopted into Royalty: He was adopted by the Hīragi family, who are basically royalty to the Japanese magic society.
  • Adoption Angst: At a young age, Shinya taken away from his birth family and put through torturous training to become the fiancé of a woman who didn't even love him. He became an adopted son of the Hīragi family, but he was treated coldly and looked down on by other members of the family because of his adopted status.
  • Ambiguously Bi: His strongest connection is definitely with Guren (whether romantically or not). The fact that he seems to flirt with Guren 24/7 has not gone unnoticed. Even Byakkomaru, his own demon, believes Shinya to be in love with Guren. In the past, however, Shinya did seem to be attracted to his former fiancée Mahiru, but not for long considering he grew to dislike her very quickly.
  • Arranged Marriage: The Hīragi family brought him in as Mahiru's fiancé who had the traits to provide her superior offspring. However, they didn't get married both because of Mahiru's love for Guren and eventual transformation into a demon.
  • Back from the Dead: In Chapter 47, it is revealed that he died 8 years ago, just before the Apocalypse happened, but was revived by Guren using the Seraph of the End power at the cost of 90% of humanity.
  • Beneath the Mask: Because of his harsh, Hunger Games-esque upbringing, Shinya associates his self worth with winning and being the best. (During the gruesome selection process he developed a cheerful and polite facade as a coping mechanism.) He viewed Mahiru's rejection as his first loss, so he became obsessed with winning her over and eliminating competition. He eventually considers his ingrained competitive nature selfish after realizing (and idolizing) Guren's drive to help others. It is implied that he suffers from self loathing and probably depression over having to take the lives of other children for his own sake.
  • Children Forced to Kill: He was forced to kill other children during the "tests" he needed to survive to gain the right to Mahiru's hand.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: His childhood was pretty much hell. His biological parents sold him into the Hīragi family for three hundred millions yen at the age of five. After that, Shinya was forced to take part in a program to select the ideal partner for the Hīragi heiress, Mahiru. Shinya had to compete in both studies and combat with other boys, with any failure meaning death. Shinya lived every single day killing his rivals in order to survive until he was the only one left. He was welcomed into the Hīragi family as an adopted son and Mahiru's fiancé, but his life didn't improve that much because Mahiru didn't even like him and only talked about how much she loved Guren while the rest of his adopted family treated Shinya like dirt.
  • Death Amnesia: Like the members of Guren Squad, Shinya can't remember that he died eight years ago and is only alive now because of Guren resurrecting him at the cost of 90% of the human population. If Shinya were to recall his own death, he would turn into dust.
  • Desperately Craves Affection: In his younger days, Shinya was very dependent on Mahiru and desperately tried to win her over, even going so far as to consider suicide when she said she didn't love him.
  • Died in Your Arms Tonight: Shinya died in Guren's arms eight years prior to the series.
  • Extreme Doormat: Around his adoptive family, except for Shinoa, Shinya acts very submissive and has never protested against their cold treatment of him since he was only kept alive to be Mahiru's fiancé and taught to be subservient to her family.
  • Four-Star Badass: Shinya is a Major General and as a wielder of Black Demon Cursed Gear, he's one of the strongest human fighters in the series.
  • Friendly Sniper: He is one of the few Hīragi family member who gets along with Guren. It does help that he's only adopted and not related to them by blood.
  • The Gadfly: He very much enjoys picking on Guren.
  • Hopeless Suitor: He tried to get Mahiru to like him, but she only ever had eyes for Guren.
  • I Let You Win: He deliberately held back during his training sessions with his adopted siblings, often to let Seishirō think he was stronger than him.
  • Icy Blue Eyes: Shinya's eyes emphasize his precision as a sniper and also immediately sets him apart from his adoptive siblings who share the same reddish-brown eyes.
  • In Love with Your Carnage: Whether Shinya is actually in love with Guren or not is a matter of perspective, but when they were teenagers, it's pretty clear that he had no tolerance for a Guren who pretended to be a whim with a fake polite tone - in fact, he was disgusted and even called him "trash" once. It's only when Guren showed his true power and true personality that he became interested and affectionate again. In the present, it's implied that even though Shinya has to stay back to smooth things out in meetings after Guren behaves disrespectful, he's actually amused by that and finds that an endearing trait of Guren.
  • Irony: Shinya was Mahiru's fiance, and Guren was in love with her. You would expect them to fight each other over her, but no. They actually joined forces to stop her from messing with the world, and Shinya fell for him, not her, while Guren didn't seem to be that bothered with Shinya's flirting either.
  • The Lancer: In the prequel, Shinya acts as Guren's closest friend and right-hand man as well as Foil in personality and behavior.
  • Last Het Romance: For a while, he tried to actually win Mahiru's heart and taunted Guren about the fact that it's Shinya himself who was her fiance. However, he gradually grew to dislike her very quickly. His response to the question in the guidebook of what he looks for in the opposite sex is him basically saying that since Mahiru was female and he had an awful experience with her, he isn't interested in women anymore. Now, he seems to be happy just being near Guren.
  • Living on Borrowed Time: As per the repercussions of being Back from the Dead, he can only be revived for ten years, having only two left, and if he knows the truth, he will crumble to dust.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: Guren can't let him know anything about his hidden agenda because Shinya will die again if he ever finds out Guren broke the taboo to resurrect him once. Shinya becomes more and more frustrated as he can tell Guren is hiding something extremely important and wants Guren to rely on him instead of carrying the burden all of his own, but Guren vehemently refuses to tell him anything of what he's going through and let him be part of it.
  • Love Martyr: He gradually develops into this for Guren. Shinya learns of Guren conspiring with Kureto to sacrifice many soldiers to a seraph weapon, gets thrown in jail by Guren who refuses to give explanations and even knocks him out so he doesn't hear about his plans to resurrect the death. Eventually, Guren betrays everyone and becomes a demon like Mahiru did. Despite all that, Shinya is still determined to not let Guren go down the path of destruction and loneliness.
  • Meaningful Name: Shinya's name means "deep night". He found it fitting as he was brought up to be eclipsed by the "sun" that was Mahiru.
  • Mistaken for Gay: When he was 16, he and his friends had to stay the night at a love hotel for a mission. When someone saw him and Guren together, they thought they were at the hotel to have sex.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: He likes getting a little too close to Guren during their interactions.
  • Pragmatic Hero: As a teenager, Shinya used to be a lot more ruthless and sly, due to the harsh upbringing he received as a child where only the fittest child is allowed to live. He is not afraid to kill civilians or use dirty tricks.
  • Princely Young Man: As a teenager, he was treated like a prince in First Shibuya by the other students, because of him being an (adopted) Hīragi and his good looks. However, his treatment at home was way less than favorable.
  • Stepford Smiler: Shinya usually has a smile on his face, but his backstory reveals he developed this as a defense mechanism that allowed him to survive when those that got angry or shut down didn't.
  • Unable to Cry: He hasn't cried since he was five ever since he learned to shut down his emotions.
  • Undying Loyalty: Guren is the only person Shinya would never abandon or give up on.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Guren. He likes to pick on Guren and get on squabbles with him, but still considers him his best friend.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: Subverted. While he does have a darker side to him, he's mostly a good person, unlike his adoptive siblings and stepfather.
  • White Sheep: Unlike most Hīragi, Shinya lacks any cruel or murderous behavior, as he treats others kindly and politely.
  • Worth Living For: He said himself that Guren is his reason for living, and that he didn't have any reason to live before he met him.

    Seishirō Hīragi 

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino (Japanese), Justin Cook (English), Víctor Tabarez (Latin American Spanish)

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A major general of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army.

He appears as a popular student in the Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen light novel series.


  • Big Jerk on Campus: In his high school days, he used his position as a Hīragi to be a big jerk and bully members of lower branch families, especially Guren and co.
  • The Bully: Back in high school, he was one of the main bullies who enjoyed tormenting Guren and his retainers.
  • Delinquent Hair: While his hair color is normal, it is styled as a mohawk.
  • Dirty Coward: Kureto calls him one. Considering he falls to pieces when Kureto draws his sword on him, he's likely right.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: He's quick to get angry and violent at the slightest provocation.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: Though born into the Hīragi Family, Seishirō has always been inferior to Mahiru, Kureto, and even Shinya. This inferiority complex is the likely source for Seishirō to treat everyone in a lesser social position like dirt.
  • Jerkass: He is rude and disrespectful towards the lower branch families.
  • Minor Major Character: He is a major general of the Demon Army yet doesn't appear that often.
  • Miles Gloriosus: He has never stood on the front lines, according to Kureto.
  • Out of Focus: Out of the Hīragi siblings, Seishirō barely gets any lines or screentime even after over 100 chapters.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: According to his profile, he's actually powerful and competent, but compared to his much more powerful siblings, he gets overshadowed very badly.
  • Pride: He's very proud of being a Hiragi.
  • Sore Loser: He really doesn't take losing well.
  • Successful Sibling Syndrome: All of his siblings are more powerful and talented than him, which was a big blow to his ego.
  • Would Hit a Girl: In the Catastrophe light novels, particularly his fight against Sayuri.

Other

    Aoi Sangū 

Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese), Sarah Wiedenheft (English), Gabriela Pérez (Latin American Spanish)

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A colonel of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army in the Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign manga series. She is the daughter of the noble Sangū family and the servant of the next head of the Hīragi family, Kureto Hīragi. She is Mitsuba's older sister.

She appears as a student at First Shibuya High in the Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen light novel series.


  • Adaptation Dye-Job: Several different works in the series depict her with different eye colors. In the manga, they are purple like Mitsuba's; in the LN series and the manga based on it, they are blue; and in the anime, they are green.
  • Aloof Big Sister: To Mitsuba. Even though they're sisters, Aoi thinks nothing of Mitsuba and doesn't give a rat's ass if Mitsuba dies after she deserts the Demon Army.
  • Blind Obedience: She agrees with all of Kureto's decisions and blindly follows his orders, even when he sacrifices nearly all the soldiers in Nagoya to control a seraph.
  • Bodyguarding a Badass: She is Kureto's servant and it's her duty to protect him, not that he needs her to when he's several times more powerful than her thanks to wielding a weapon from the Black Demon Series.
  • Bodyguard Crush: As Kureto's retainer, defending him is part of her job, which she happily does because of her secret feelings for him.
  • Childhood Friend Romance: Aoi began serving Kureto when she was seven years old. She also has very obvious feelings for him that go beyond servitude.
  • Extreme Doormat: She has no will of her own as she believes she only exists to serve Kureto, readily agrees with Shinya when he calls her Kureto's pet dog, and wouldn't hesitate to die if Kureto orders to.
  • Foil: To Mahiru. Both are the older sisters of the two main heroines, and are extremely excellent and powerful. They additionally overshadow their younger siblings and have intimate feelings for black-haired males. However, unlike Mahiru who genuinely loves Shinoa, Aoi is rather indifferent and uncaring towards Mitsuba, to the degree that she was willing to sacrifice her in Nagoya.
  • Girlish Pigtails: When she was a teenager, her hair was pulled into pigtails.
  • Honor-Related Abuse: As a Sangū, she believes it's her familial duty to follow all of the Hīragi family's orders without question. She finds it shameful and dishonorable that Mitsuba chose to desert the Demon Army instead of allowing Kureto to sacrifice her alongside tons of soldiers, even calling out Mitsuba on how she doesn't deserve to live for disobeying the will of a Hīragi.
  • Humanizing Tears: She cries after Kureto loses consciousness after he kills Tenri, as she desperately begs him to wake up. This is the only time she ever loses her composure.
  • Hypocrite:
    • She calls Mitsuba and her comrades traitors and that they don't deserve to live. When Yuu points out that Kureto was the one who betrayed them, killing some of their comrades and even some of his own soldiers, she scoffs at that.
    • She also wonders if her sister slept with Yu and that is what made him join her group of traitors. This coming from a woman that follows Kureto, who betrayed and killed his own subordinates, mostly because she has a secret crush on him.
  • Jerkass: Aoi is heartless and callous to everyone except for Kureto. She's especially cruel and condescending towards her sister.
  • Lust Object: Kureto lusts after her, but doesn't act on it until he kisses her after Raimeiki pushes him into letting out all of his forbidden desires to give her enough power to delay Shikama Dōji's possession.
  • My Master, Right or Wrong: She follows Kureto's every order without hesitation, no matter how gruesome it is.
  • Satellite Love Interest: She's completely defined by her absolute loyalty and romantic feelings for Kureto, even calling herself Kureto's pet. Her relationship with her sister Mitsuba also takes a backseat to her role as Kureto's assistant/love interest.
  • Selective Obliviousness: She considers most of the main characters as traitors for standing against Kureto, their superior. This is while ignoring the obvious fact that Kureto's faction murdered their own comrades and committed a coup d'état against the Hiragi family, making both her and Kureto the actual traitors. Of course when Yu starts telling the truth she orders her soldiers to ready their arrows in order to silence him.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: Aoi is submissive, stoic and professional, as opposed to her bossy, hotheaded and emotional younger sister Mitsuba.
  • The Stoic: She hardly shows any emotion her face.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: As a teenager, she looked like a taller and more buxom Mitsuba, especially with the pigtails.
  • Subordinate Excuse: She loyally follows Kureto as his retainer not just because it's her family duty, but because she has feelings for him.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's extremely coldhearted, aloof and uncaring towards anyone not named Kureto. Her loyal and caring side is reserved solely for Kureto.

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