Reasonable Authority Figure / Anime & Manga

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• In the undersea horror manga 6000, Wein, the director, is initially set up as a Jerkass Obstructive Bureaucrat who ignores his engineers' warnings that the instillation isn't ready for prime time; once he's convinced there's a real danger, though, he immediately arranging to evacuate the entire instillation at the first possible opportunity — going so far as to avoid informing any higher-ups until everyone is safe (because they wouldn't recognize the danger fast enough and wouldn't approve an expensive complete evacuation), declaring his intention to personally take full responsibility for any objections they have to this course of action.
• Early in Ai Yori Aoshi, Aoi's mother comes to Kaoru's apartment determined to take Aoi home despite her insistence that she stay with Kaoru. However, she soon relents and even enables their Secret Relationship, provided they don't let it get out and cause a scandal. One reason for this is she notices that Aoi wanted to stay by Kaoru so much that she willfully defied her family for the first time in her life.
• Both Koro-sensei and Karasuma in Assassination Classroom treat their under-achieving students with more than a fair share of understanding and trust, especially in comparison to the rest of the campus and even a couple of the kids' parents.
• Bleach:
  • Captains Kyoraku and Ukitake stand out as reasonable compared to the rest of the Captains. Unlike the Head Captain Yamamoto (who follows Central 46 orders to the letter, and embodies blind obedience to tradition above all else), these two will take the time to listen to progressive mindsets from their subordinates and non-combatants, give a fair audience to the accused, and even defy tradition and law when the situation calls for it.
  • Byakuya also becomes a variation of this after Ichigo helps him resolve an issue he had with two conflicting vows, which was the reason he had been compelled to support Rukia's execution despite not wanting her to die.
  • Captain Hitsugaya counts as well, since he realizes that something is amiss, and eventually sets out to find the Central 46 and stop the execution rather than see the Seireitei fall into chaos.
  • When Captain Unohana learns of Aizen's treachery, she quickly commands Isane to spread the word both to the rest of the Captains and Lieutenants along with Ichigo and his friends; even though at this point they are effectively enemies of Soul Society, they too were manipulated by Aizen along with everyone else. This proves to be the right call in the long run.
• Cells at Work: Platelets!: Despite her apparent youth, Leader is a level-headed and effective mentor to the younger Platelets.
• A Certain Magical Index:
  • Pretty much everyone in Judgment and Antiskill are this in the anime of A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun. In Railgun it's not so surprising that Kuroko and Uiharu from Judgment (and by extension, their mentor) are reasonable authority figures since they're in the main cast, but Aiho and Tsuzuri from Antiskill count even for Railgun. They're not major characters, and they'll stop the characters from doing things they shouldn't be, but when push comes to shove, they'll even ignore orders from the conspiracy in order to act as The Cavalry. Antiskill in general, while often incapable of doing their job without the heroes, are savvy enough to help keep things clear for them, trusting that the middle and high schoolers will take care of things.
  • Taken even further in the later volumes with the British Royal Family and the current president of the United States, Roberto Katze. They both are shown to have a deep love of their respective countries, and are willing to accept the bizarre explanations Touma and the others sometimes have to give them when magical forces are at work.
• Claudine: The psychiatrist treats Claude with respect and doesn't ever try to convince Claude that he's not trans.
• Code Geass mostly has to deal with less than ideal rulers from Britannia. Even the Chinese Federation (Eunuchs Are Evil) and the EU (Obstructive Bureaucrat) isn't good on leaders. And then there is the Anti-Hero Zero. Flaws and all, Lelouch does everything he can to make the Black Knights and later the UFN functional, providing them all kinds of support and, discounting a few rare occasions where his weak points are targeted, listening to their opinions and suggestions. He's even helped by people like Kaguya to keep things good come R2. Unfortunately, he's a Cosmic Plaything and his older half-brother Schneizel is good at pretending to be a reasonable authority figure. This results in The Mutiny and it's all downhill from then on.
• Crossplay Love: Otaku x Punk: Kagesawa Aoi, the manager of Cafe Roman, is described as "the personification of common sense".
• In Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Maine warms up to David fairly quickly once he proves himself as an edgerunner in Episode 3. He gives him a fair cut of the eddies as well as a month's supply of immunosuppressants for his Sandevistan. He also becomes a valuable mentor to help David learn the ropes of mercenary life and even encourages him to pursue his romantic interest in Lucy.
• In Dairugger XV, Teles was the Reasonable Authority Figure in the Galbeston Empire who wanted to end the war with The Alliance, but he didn't have the authority to do it.
• Digimon Adventure 02: Some militaries don't outright attack wild Digimon and observe them as long as the Digimon do nothing hostile. Special mention goes to the officer leading the Chinese army, who acknowledges that those strange creatures are intelligent beings and he is willing to communicate with them, letting them pass through the country border, knowing that they won't cause any more trouble.
• A Dog of Flanders (1975): Ellina Cogez recognizes that Nello isn't a bad influence on Alois like her husband posits and lets him in the house. She also encourages the two's friendship.
• Mr. Colbert from The Familiar of Zero, eager to commit treason in order to help his students.
• Senzaemon Nakiri from Food Wars!. As the headmaster of the prestigious cooking school where the series takes place, he is revered and dreaded as the "Gastric Godfather" and "Food Demon". However, when looking at his actions it's kind of difficult to see how he got that reputation. For example, he overrode his granddaughter's rejection of the protagonist's entrance application after having a single bite of his food and realising his granddaughter rejected the protagonist out of spite, and will always give a reasoned, well-balanced critique of any food he is asked to judge. He also has a track record of not playing favorites, not hesitating to call out even members of his own family when they don't perform well enough.
• In Freezing, among all the Axe-Crazy of a Blood Knight third years, only the strongest among them, Chiffon Fairchild, is the one who isn't interested in beating Sattelizer into a messy pulp.
• In Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu, the Student Council President. How reasonable is he? Well, he thinks Sōsuke's way of disposing of an unknown item in his shoelocker (i.e. detonating the entrance hall with a high-yield plastic explosive) to be perfectly reasonable. After all, anything could have been in there.
• Bradley in Fullmetal Alchemist seems to be one of these, but like Palpatine, he's really a bad guy.
  • Ling Yao appears to become this. To begin with he was already a Prince with the belief that the duty of a King is to serve his people and that a King is nothing without his subjects, but when he actually obtains what he needed to success to the throne, his first promise is to accept and protect each and every one of the rival clans within the Xing empire, which every generation up to then would war with each other over who will be next to inherit the throne.
  • Basque Grand is without a doubt one of these, doing his best to limit his men's casualties (often by leading the charge himself) and not only accepting the surrender of Ishval's head cleric (despite his own superior's orders to the contrary) but making sure that he gets to see Fuhrer Bradley, no matter what. It doesn't do a lot of good in the long-run, but given the circumstances Grand is being as reasonable as he can be.
• GTO: The Early Years:
  • Once she and the boys reconcile, Mariko shows herself to be a good teacher and fiercely protective of all her students.
  • Despite being a delinquent, Nakajo's pretty level-headed, preferring to not get involved in gang wars unless the other side attacks first.
  • Posthumous Character Kyosuke Masaki was this in his gang, and for the Onibaku too. By the time of the series, he's become The Hero's Idol.
• Henkyou no Roukishi Bard Loen: The Priest Vari Qwezkal Todd acts as the King's official in the Shigwentsa region. But despite his childish personality, upon hearing from Bard Loen how the Coendera Family has been acting lately, he decides to side with Bard and feigns ignorance at Kaldus's attempt to pass his son Zeon as Joulran.
• Agent Axel Hughes in Heroman has a little fun with this. When he reveals himself to Joey and Joey asks what they would do with Heroman; he replies that they'll imprison him and experiment on him. At Joey's horrified look, he laughs and says of course not. They would want to be on good terms with him and hopefully they can peacefully learn from each other.
• Detective Ooishi from Higurashi: When They Cry borderlines between this and Agent Mulder. He's always searching for clues as to the cause of the string of murders and takes any useful information, but is considered too obsessive over the topic and has been urged to step off the case a few times.
  • Dr. Irie might be a straighter example from the same series. Except for the whole, you know, paedophilia thing, and even that might be a joke. The problem is, once he figures out what's going on it's not always to the benefit of the person telling him what's going on.
  • Keiichi's father, Ichiro Maebara (who only really consistently appears in the manga) is this, to a much lesser extent than Dr. Irie. He fully supports Keiichi's efforts in Satoko, regardless the fallout his family faces; on the other hand, he also makes sure to let Keiichi know that he should not resort to violence to save his friend and instead handle it the right way.
• Center-sensei from His Coool Seha Girls is a fair teacher who tries to help the Sega Hard Girls whenever he can, but is not above withholding medals if he thinks the girls did not earn them (although Sega Saturn seems to get the worst of it, in this regard). For example: in the Virtua Fighter lesson, Dreamcast and Mega Drive were given no medals because they each attacked an opponent before the round actually began; then in the Space Channel 5 lesson, he awarded no medals to Sega Saturn because of complaints lodged by the Space PTA concerning her flagrant use of sex appeal to drive up ratings.
• Kotori Minami's mother, the director of Otonokizaka High School, in Love Live!, who allows μ's to perform in the opening campus on the condition that they pass their final exams.
• Lyrical Nanoha:
  • The Time-Space Administration Bureau at the start of the series is a surprisingly understanding and helpful instance of The Federation. They're perfectly willing to cooperate with the heroine even though she's Just a Kid (it helps that Midchilda apparently lacks age of majority or child labor laws) and are quite understanding of the franchise's numerous Anti-Villains. Lindy Harlaown is by far the most representative of this...some of the higher-ups, less so. Nanoha's Muggle parents are also quite understanding and helpful, for a Magical Girl's parents.
  • Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever is somewhat of a partially alternate universe, but even with that caveat, Nanoha's parents (and siblings.. and shop assistants..) are about as Muggle as a desert is wet. They just don't use magic the same way, if at all.
• In Magilumiere Co. Ltd., Koshigaya's father is one of the heads of the magic deregulation political faction pushing for the removal of limits on magic engineering. While he's a stick in the mud and disowned his own daughter for defying his wishes, he's furious when he realizes that Tsutsumi rigged a test against Magilumiere Co. Ltd.'s demonstration of the Alice System by empowering an already nigh-unkillable Group C Kaii. He then declares that he has a responsibility to be an impartial arbitrator and that his daughter has nothing to do with his work or his judgments. He then sees Tsutsumi removed from his position for his highly dangerous and corrupt actions.
• Mischievous Twins: The Tales of St. Clare's:
  • Mr. and Mrs. O'Sullivan. In the twin's flashback, they're both shown to be very doting and close to their children, and they sent them to the titular school with their best interests in mind.
  • Miss Leopold is willing to make exceptions and provide aid to students that deserve it, such as Hillary (who's father suffered financial hardships) and Catherine (who stole, but had good intentions in the end).
• Prime Minister Wong in Mobile Fighter G Gundam is portrayed this way in his first appearances. Cheerful, friendly, applauding the hero's victories and inviting him to his penthouse for a drink, he's a stark counterpart to Master Asia. And then it's revealed he's a villain and he rapidly stops applauding Domon and starts rigging the matches to get him killed.
• Mobile Suit Gundam:
  • General Revil is the leader of the Federation Forces and the Big Good of the original series. He's quite even-handed and understanding to the protagonists as he pushes towards ending the war as quickly as he can. Other Federation higher-ups, Admiral Tianem, Admiral Wakkein, and Admiral Gopp are portrayed as this trope to varying degrees. None of them are upstanding or moral as their leader but all on the side of good and looking to save the Colonies and the Earth from the fascist state of Zeon. At the end of the war, most of them ended up dead, and in the decades to come the Federation became more corrupt.
  • Noa Bright is the commander of the White Base and A Father to His Men. Under his leadership, the protagonists make it through the war. Since the first series, Bright rose through the Federation's ranks. When the Titans emerge as a malevolent force within the Federation, Bright defects to the AEUG and becomes one of their main captains during the Gryps Conflict eventually becoming the organization's leader in the First Neo Zeon War. When the AEUG is absorbed back into the Federation, he is placed in charge of the elite Londo Bell unit for the Second Neo Zeon War and from there eventually becomes a colonel. It's notable that as the Federation becomes more and more corrupt, Bright remained one of the few noble commanders respected by many soldiers within it even by those critical of its leadership. His retiring from the organization following him being tricked into ordering the death of his son by his superiors was seen as the point where the government was too far gone and beyond saving.
• In The Mute Girl and Her New Friend, there's the main characters' homeroom teacher, Ms. Sanada. She tries to treat all her students equally, which, well-intentioned, causes problems when the cafeteria staff don't hear about the fact that Mashiro, one of Sanada's students, can't speak, and thus can't order normally. What really makes her this trope is when Mashiro's friend Kokosaki confronts Sanada about this and calls her out on it. Sanada doesn't get angry or act defensively, but listens to the criticism, apologizes to Mashiro and makes more of an effort to reach out to her, such as using sign language. Sanada is hardly perfect, but she's willing to listen to her students, own up to her mistakes and improve herself.
• My Hero Academia:
  • Basically all of the teachers. Aizawa threatens to expel the student who scores the lowest but changes his mind when he sees that the student in question has potential — and while he has expelled students before, he allows them to come back after a month, as a harsh but not permanent lesson. Principal Nedzu gives All Might a tongue-lashing for using up his limited time saving people when there are other heroes who could have done that, but now All Might can't teach his class. And All Might himself, while not that great at actually teaching, does everything he can to judge fairly and without bias despite one of his students being his personal protege.
  • The police as well. Chief Tsuragamae is willing to ignore the fact that the students technically broke the law by bringing down Hero Killer Stain, but firmly reminds them of why the laws exist in the first place.
  • My Hero Academia: Vigilantes: Using Quirks in public is slightly illegal, and using those Quirks to engage in vigilantism is very illegal. The main characters are, in the eyes of the law, villains who can be taken down without mercy. However, every pro hero they meet quickly decides to look the other way, as they are mostly Small Steps Heroes who just keep the real villains away from civilians until the real heroes arrive. Eventually the hero Midnight works with the vigilantes to get all their actions written up legally (mostly under self-defense and civilian arrest laws), and Eraser Head grudgingly passes it along to the police.
• Both the Third Hokage, Sarutobi and the Fifth Hokage, Tsunade from Naruto, have fulfilled this role over the course of the story.
  • Another example is post-timeskip Gaara. Notably, he's the only one of the Five Kages apart from Tsunade, below, who pushes for cooperation between the ninja villages in response to the threat of Akatsuki.
  • Tsunade appears to be this because of the way she's always generous to Naruto... but that's just it, she's always generous to Naruto. She sends him up against the people who are after him, consistently allows him to go after Sasuke (as well as not actually seek to eliminate Sasuke, which would be standard procedure) and refuses to place restrictions on him that would better protect him (and the Eldritch Abomination inside him) from his enemies. She chooses to do these things entirely based on her personal feelings and opinions of Naruto, which is realistically an unreasonable thing to do. There is the fact that Naruto is The Hero of the story, is marked by a prophecy to become a Messianic Archetype, and has defeated powerful enemies that nobody else could and ruined some of the plans of the major antagonists (even if admittedly he has been in mortal peril and requiring help many times), so Tsunade's trust in him is not entirely unfounded.
  • The Third Hokage is later on shown to be a deconstruction or subversion; He was too reasonable. A lot of problems in Naruto's world are the result of Orochimaru and Danzo being allowed to do as they pleased, and they all could have been stopped had the Third learned to put his foot down.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi has Konoemon Konoe, the principal of Mahora. All he needs is his granddaughter, a lesbian half demon Samurai, and a talking ermine to show up with a message from a ten-year-old that said ten-year-old's supergenius Chinese descendant from the future is going to use an army of robots to break The Masquerade, and he sends out for a huge shipment of weapons from the Magic World, and helps organize the student body into a Redshirt Army. It helps that he's at least an amateur chessmaster himself, and, being a mage in a Rule of Cool universe, has probably seen weirder in his day.
• One Piece has former Fleet Admiral Sengoku. You'd think that, being in charge of the Navy, he would be one of the most evil characters in the series — but he genuinely puts the safety of the world first. His superiors in the World Government, as well as his successor, on the other hand...
  • Former Admiral Aokiji and Vice Admiral Garp are also examples. They're harsh on pirates but will go out of their way to protect civilians. Likewise for Vice-Admiral Smoker and Captain Tashigi, Captain Coby, and even more so with the brief character Commander Ripper from the Captain Morgan arc... really, despite the fact that many Marines are lawful but evil, there are some lawful and good ones as well.
  • Smoker and Tashigi get to show just how much they are this trope during the Punk Hazard arc. Tashigi is even willing to beg Trafalgar Law, a pirate, to free her not for herself, but as she tells Smoker, because they cannot go help their comrades or the kidnapped children if they remain in chains. They then direct the rest of the Marines to work with the Straw Hats to evacuate the children before Caesar's gas kills them all.
  • Prince Fukaboshi of the Neptune Army. Most people would have freaked out if they heard that their father was being held hostage inside the palace and the kidnappers started making demands (especially since said kidnappers are prophesized to destroy Fishman Island). Fukaboshi was very calm, agreed to the demands in return of the hostages, and then passed on Jimbei's message for Luffy to Zoro as part of his duty to Jimbei, whereas most people would have been "screw that" to the kidnappers.
  • With Aokiji's leaving his post, new Admiral Fujitora has stepped into this role in a big way. Upon realizing Dressrosa is full of New World Pirates due to a tourney its ruler Doflamingo is holding, he instantly... calls in medical teams for the inevitable fallout, and gets a count of how many civilians are in Dressrosa so his men know who to protect. His goal as an Admiral? Demolish the broken Warlords system that allows scum like Doflamingo to get away with atrocities. Doflamingo's crew is attacking everyone on the island now? Work alongside the good pirates to keep them safe. His superiors will want to twist the truth of what happened on Dressrosa, where pirates saved the day? Fujitora gets out the information of what really went on to neighboring islands before reporting in to them so they can't change the story, fully understanding that Akainu will want his head for this.
  • Luffy himself. He is, after all, The Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates (as well as the Straw Hat Grand Fleet) and considered to be The Fifth Emperor. It's an understatement to say he's fiercely protective of his crew and close allies and cares for their well-being over pretty much anything else.
  • The judge in charge of Tom's trial may be as ruthless as some members of the World Government, but he's willing to listen and make compromises. While he sentences Tom to death for building Gol D. Roger's ship, the Oro Jackson (although Tom was guilty of the offense), he agrees to delay Tom's sentence in order to allow him to build a Sea Train(which will connect Water Seven to other islands in order to save the Dying Town), and to grant him a pardon if he is successful. After Spandam frames Tom and his apprentices, the judge allows Tom to use his pardon to nullify his and his apprentices' crime of attacking the town, which prevents the blueprints for Pluton from falling into Spandam's hands.
  • Axe-Hand Morgan's second-in-command, who takes over after his defeat and imprisonment. He is grateful to Luffy for saving the town, but says that the town cannot afford to shelter pirates and asks Luffy to leave, which is what Luffy was about to do anyway. Despite Coby being associated with Pirates as an unwilling cabin boy on Alvida's ship and Luffy's friend, he allows Coby to join the Marines after warning him that it won't be easy. The Marines see Luffy off with a salute, after which the leader says they will forfeit dinner for a week as punishment for violating regulations.
• In Pokémon Adventures, despite the fact that White did forcibly draft Black into her talent agency by footing the enormous bill for the movie equipment he destroyed, she doesn't actually expect him to be able to pay off the entire thing. She acknowledges that he does have his own life and dreams to follow. That said, she still tries to get him to understand the world of showbiz and business a little better, and is quick to call him out whenever he ruins a potential job opportunity.
• Rebuild World: When Akira first brings in a strange relic from the Kuzusuhara Ruins, he's outraged that Nojima, the clerk at the relic exchange office, only gives him 300 aurum for it: barely enough for a meal. Even after Akira is tempted to pull a gun on him, Nojima tells him that his anger is understandable and to come back tomorrow after the relic is fully appraised. When Akira does return, the clerk hands him 200,000 aurum for the relic along with the relic he just brought in. Given the number of shady figures in the office the first time, it's implied that Nojima purposefully withheld payment to protect Akira from those who would mug or kill him for the money.
• The Japanese government in Re:CREATORS treats the appearance of fictional characters in the real world in a very pragmatic way: instead of silencing everything, makes a special committee with these characters' creators working back to back with government agents, doesn't bother too much with The Masquerade since it's almost impossible to control the net and every electronic device, and instructs its agents to learn about their country's popular culture. However, the show goes almost too far in the opposite direction, since at times the people in charge seems too eager to believe in the words of several costumed whackos who know nothing of the world they found themselves in.
• Rosario + Vampire:
  • Despite his rather...reserved attitude towards the insanity in Yokai Academy on a day to day basis, Headmaster Mikogami really supports Tsukune and friends, is a very fair individual (though not above bending the rules if it's harmless amusement) and is a true advocate for peace between monsters and humanity. And he used magic to keep human deaths to a minimum when Fairy Tale's HQ fell onto a human city.
  • Ms. Nekonome is one of the few teachers who isn't a Jerkass or horribly deranged and is actually helpful and non-prejudicial to her students. When Kuyou has Tsukune scheduled for execution and Mikogami forbids her from intervening, Ms. Nekonome calls him out on it, reminding him that Yokai Academy is supposed to support human/monster co-existence.
• The Roman Emperor from Sound of the Sky is never shown in the anime and is only mentioned as the guy Rio's older sister, Iliya refused to marry even if it would end the war. When episode twelve roles around Rio appears right before the final confrontation and claims that due to her recent marriage to him, the war is now over and during the ending credits she returns to the Bastion and tells them that the emperor is a pretty reasonable guy and granted her any one wish because she ended the war.
• Silver Spoon: Sakuragi shows himself to be this several times. The first time is when Hachiken brings back a puppy to the school. Where most teachers would have told him to get rid of it, Sakuragi just sighs and says that one more animal among the thousand-odd pets and livestock at the school won't matter. He does expect Hachiken to pay for its food, though.
  • Later, a rumor starts that Hachiken had made Mayumi Yoshino pregnant. Instead of discussing the matter with other teachers, contemplating expulsion for the sake of the school's reputation and dropping the hammer on the two, Sakuragi calmly hears them out, determines that the rumor was completely unfounded, and tracks down and drops the hammer on the rumor mill.
  • The Dorm Manager is also a pretty chill individual, in spite of his Moment Killer tendencies (though, then again, given that he is the dorm manager at a Boarding School for high-schoolers, it is more likely than not literally part of his job). For example, when he catches Yugo and Aki sneaking off the grounds, he hears them out, decides they have a good reason for playing hooky, and recommends "helping out back home" as an excuse for their absence.
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime:
  • Rimuru never abuses his authority to force his subjects to do anything they might object to, and makes a point to always listen to their input during a crisis.
  • After Vesta incriminates Rimuru and Kaijin, King Gazel Dwargo presides over the trial until he can't be bothered to pretend that the whole thing isn't a sham. He then allows Rimuru and Kaijin to go free and calls out Vesta for his own shortsightedness. Later, he formally establishes an alliance with Tempest after realizing how powerful a nation it was going to become and frequently offers advice to Rimuru over how to be a proper ruler, both before and after Rimuru becomes a True Demon Lord.
  • Unlike the rest of the Lizardmen, their chieftain is bitterly aware that his people cannot possibly hope to deal with the Orc Disaster on their own. When Souei shows up to propose an alliance on behalf of Rimuru and a Lizardman offends Souei by insulting Rimuru, the chieftain quickly begs Souei to spare the offender's life before he can kill him, then agrees to meet with Rimuru in order to discuss the terms of their alliance. This ends up saving his people when Tempest arrives to save the Lizardmen from being wiped out by the Orc army.
  • Following the fight with Charybdis, Demon Lord Carrion arrives to apologize to Rimuru for Phobio's recklessnes and offers compensation for the mess his subordinate made.
  • Elalude travels to Tempest on behalf of Sarion to determine whether or not Rimuru might become a threat in the future. After seeing for himself what Tempest has to offer and assessing Rimuru's character, he agrees to start a formal alliance.
• Voltes V:
  • Hamaguchi is in charge at Big Falcon, while he's concerned with stopping the Boazanian invasion force, he also keeps his pilot's circumstances and feelings in mind, like allowing Ippei to have his horse at the base and consoling the Go brothers over the loss of Kentaro.
  • Kozo Sakaonji started out as an unreasonable, uptight Drill Seargant Nasty, but Kenichi learns that he doesn't truly intend to put the team in harm's way and speaks from experience.
  • Kentaro warned the Earthlings of the incoming Boazanian invasion, General Oka was one of the few to heed it. He is also a supportive father figure to the Voltes Team, and when Dr. Sakonji mistreats them, they decide to go to Oka instead.
• World Trigger:
  • Jin's boss, Takumi Rindō of the Tamakoma Branch, is an easygoing guy who is willing to support Jin's plans during board meetings and accommodate the requests of his subordinates. He even went as far as to help Osamu convince the higher ups to allow him to add one of the instigators of the Large Scale Invasion to his squad by bringing up a pre-rehearsed argument against his case that Osamu was prepared to counter.
  • General-Manager Masafumi Shinoda is a level headed superior who is mostly interested in keeping peace and has had friendly interactions with Neighbors in the past. He opposes Commander Kido when he tries to take Yuuma's Black Trigger by force, and when Kido attempts to go through with it he sends Arashiyama Squad to back up Jin and defend Yuuma.

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