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Voiced by: Masumi Asano (Japanese), Carrie Savage (English)
The protagonist of the series. She is busty, blonde haired (light red in the anime), green-eyed, not terribly bright but immeasurably powerful despite only being a D-ranked toushi. Hakufu cares little for the politics involved between the toushi, only caring about fighting for the sake of fighting, but is staunchly against unnecessary violence and killing. Lately, however, with trouble brewing all around her, she is beginning to take up the mantle of a leader to protect her friends and family. Hakufu possesses a unique gift for predicting enemy moves very accurately by reading the flow of chi around her opponents, which occasionally makes her seem brighter than she is. For instance, she will put an end to a fight simply by stating the next moves of an opponent with frightening accuracy, breaking his will to fight after he realizes the futility of fighting her. She is also very good at "delayed striking"; basically she makes a feint attack in order to leave an invisible "chi bomb" which detonates moments later while the enemy's guard is down. She is skilled at "inner striking," which is another chi attack where she sends her chi into a person, causing damage to manifest at unusual places. She also inherited Master Chouchou's knowledge of chi magic, and, while currently unaware of this, is able to use it partially by instinct. Choushou passed it to her spiritually while Hakufu was unconscious; this is how she healed Koukin after she stabbed him and extracted the evil chi from his body into her own. She still has the evil chi contained inside her. It appears on her body as a skull-like mark and is slowly creeping up to her heart. Hakufu harbors a powerful dragon as one of the Three Great Rulers. Before joining Nanyo, Hakufu lived with her mother, Goei, outside of Kanto where she practiced feminine things like flower arrangement and the tea ceremony while paradoxically training heavily in martial arts. Goei was hoping to spare Hakufu her fate, but after Hakufu pummeled a travelling toushi looking for easy prey, they moved in with Koukin. She is very girlish and happy-go-lucky but is capable of wisdom though she has very bad luck. For instance, in one scene where she is just about to deliver a finishing blow to Kannei, her panties get caught on a branch, tripping her over.
Her anime version is superficially similar but otherwise very different from her manga counterpart. While in the manga, Hakufu is a low ranked but extremely skilled fighter the anime Hakufu is both a low ranked and low skilled fighter. She has demonstrated none of her unique fighting gifts or chi powers and is arguably stupider. It takes her longer to figure out that people are trying to take advantage of her, is more prone to doing dumber things, and either doesn't mind or is unaware of people harassing or hitting on her. She demonstrates none of her momentary wisdom either. She relies heavily on her dragon or her personal skill alone. Even when possessed by her dragon, she is easily stopped by main characters she fights before any damage can be dealt, as opposed to her manga self which is extremely difficult to stop and required the aid of artifacts. Kanu, Saji, Ryofu and Ukitsu were able to stop her without any help. She also doesn't inherit Master Choushou's chi magic (who does not exist in the anime); instead this scene is replaced with training with Ukitsu's master Choukou. She is possessed by Toutaku at the end of the first season but is saved by her dragon who devours him.
Hakufu's role in Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny is relegated to that of a minor character to allow other characters to have more show time. She only became a major character in the last few episodes, when the Battle of Chibi nears. She is still oblivious at how important a toushi's destiny is, especially her own. However, in this sequel her character wasn't portrayed to be as idiotic as the first season. She is actually more of a ditzy character than an idiot. Upset at being the cause for much of the violence in Kanto, she travelled to Kyosho to challenge Sousou to a duel in order to end the conflict. She had to take on Kanu instead, who took Sousou's place. During the fight Hakufu became possessed by her dragon. Sousou appeared while in full control of his own dragon and dealt a powerful blow that sent Hakufu flying out of the area, leaving all three schools to think she was killed. Her unconscious body was discovered in a lake by Hakugen, who brings her to Choukou. He performed a revival on Hakufu's but was only able to wake her dragon. Ukitsu gave her life in order to revive Hakufu's soul. Hakufu thus recovered and gained complete control of her dragon. She returned at the Battle of Chibi to fight Sousou, where she and Ryubi teamed up and defeated Sousou. At the end of the series Hakufu and Ryomou now work for a cosplay cafe, dressed as cat maids. She hopes to use the money to go on a 'battle tour' around the world.
Ryomou Shimei (呂蒙 子明): Lü Meng
Voiced by: Yuko Kaida (Japanese), Willow Lane (English)
An odd girl with short blue hair and green eyes, a distinctive mole on her left cheek and a very strange history, mainly tied to her mysterious left-eye patch. Powerful and a B-rank, she is one of the Four Devas of Nanyo. She has a habit of wearing a blue miniskirted French maid outfit and specialises in professional wrestling moves, throws, and joint attacks, which she uses in conjunction with a pair of handcuffs she carries; she is also very proficient in making chi blasts. Her earlier life before she became a Toushi is unknown but is hinted as being tragic and painful. She, Teifu, and Saji have been best friends long before the start of the series. Ryomou is in love with Saji and cares for Teifu (who loves her). Ryomou has always fought for the fun of it and considers herself no one's woman. Presumably because of her dragon she has a minor split personality; one is fairly shy and normal and the other is psychosexual. Her psycho side is not nearly as bad as Ryubi, Sousou and Hakufu. Three years prior to the start of the series Ryomou fought Ryubi when her dragon had awakened and saved her life right before Ryubi attempted to rip her own heart out. In the process Ryubi's dragon possessed Ryomou's left-eye and now perfectly coexists with her. Its power even healed her completely after being mortally wounded and stabbed through the heart by Teni. No other characters seem to be in harmony with their dragons as much as Ryomou, but she still seals it with her eye-patch and is believed to be dying because of it. Very few are aware of this, and it is not stated whether she shares Ryubi's dragon or now has her own. While she has it, she is as powerful as the other Three Rulers. Her magical eye may be a reference to the Chinese idiom "To look at a person with a new eye" or reevaluate them or not to judge them by their appearance, an idiom attributed to Lu Meng who was as brilliant a scholar as he was a warrior.
Ryomou's anime incarnation is much more taciturn and serious than her manga self to the point of being almost unemotional. She is not shy or spoony and acts uninterested in relationships. In one scene she isn't even phased when Saji puts his hand down her shirt and gropes her. Her magatama is also shown as being silver in the first season, and by the second season she is arguably as strong as Myousai, though she retreats during their first battle in order to protect the Dragon Jade. She doesn't have a past relationship to Seito and Ryubi either. Instead her dragon appears to be her own, though how she got it is not known. She also appears to be closer to Hakufu than she does in the manga and goes out of her way to help the Nanyo leader whenever she can. She even went out on her own to find the Dragon Jade to save Hakufu. She was badly injured after being ambushed by Teni. Chou-un came to her rescue but Ryomou awakened her own dragon, defeating Teni. Chou-un was able to knock out Ryomou, bandage her and return her to Nanyo after stealing the Dragon Jade. Chou-un stated that if Ryomou was not injured during the awakening of her dragon, Ryomou would have been able to defeat her. Ryomou recovered to full strength and played a part in the Battle of Chibi, defeating Myosai. She is now working along with Hakufu in a cosplay cafe, dressed as a cat maid (Ryomou even wears a heart-shaped eye-patch).
Shuuyuu Koukin (周瑜 公瑾): Zhou YuVoiced by: Satoshi Hino (Japanese), Ted Sroka (English)
Hakufu's rich cousin and an attractive pretty boy; both Kanu and Ukitsu have expressed exclusive interest in him. Although only a C-rank, his lack of confidence and his short resume of victories (or battles for that matter) keep him from becoming A-ranked despite already having the power of one. He has a crush on his cousin and is generally shy and well-meaning, making life very difficult for him. Oddly, Hakufu doesn't seem to mind being naked around him, showing how much she trusts him. But at times she thinks he is a pervert whenever he is caught in an embarressing situatuion (such as Hakufu catching him staring at her). He showed some great power when he defended Hakufu and Kakouton from the Ugan gang. He stayed behind to fight and eventually was captured, allowing the other two to escape. While being held captive in Kyosho, he was seduced by three beautiful girls (one of them being Seito's spy, Shoukan, who reveals her identity to him afterwards) in an attempt to make Koukin betray Nanyo and fight for Sousou. When that failed to work, he is brain-washed by Bunkei's kiss and sent to attack Hakufu at the end of volume twelve.
Mostly the same, he is still a well-meaning young man who is attracted to his cousin (though the sexuality of it is toned down) but has yet to demonstrate his considerable power and serves even more so for comic relief than in the manga. He is the only character whose after-episode biography in the first season poked fun at him, saying that after he got lost in a forest Hakufu nicknamed him "The Lost Koukin-chan". As a child he was called "Crybaby Koukin" by other children, because he always cried when others bullied him. Hakufu was usually there to protect him from bullies. Koukin was unable to stop Hakufu's dragon when she fought Ukitsu; instead he got pummeled half to death in the attempt only to have Hakufu stop her dragon on her own. After hearing of Hakufu's demise, he blames Koumei for manipulating the events that led to Hakufu's fight with Sousou. However, Kanu proved to him that it was Hakufu's choice to challenge Sousou, and her fight with Kanu was one out of respect as toushi and not out of hatred. This leads to Nanyo and Seito forming an alliance to face Kyosho. He is now considered to be one of the Four Devas of Nanyo, taking Kannei's place. He returns to being a student after the Battle of Chibi.
Saji Genpou (左慈 元放): Zuo CiVoiced by: Showtaro Morikubo (Season 1), Kōji Yusa (Season 2), Justin Gross (English)
A mysterious man with blond hair and a light tan, his real identity in Ouin Shishi. One of Ryomou's oldest friends he has feelings for both her and Ryofu. However, he is a complete womanizer. His goals are uncertain as are his rank and power but he is easily an A-rank. One of his goals was to remove Toutaku from power. He is one of the Four Devas of Nanyo.
He is more sinister in the anime than in the manga going so far as to have Kannei murder Enjutsu which drove him insane in order to take control of Nanyo for himself. He has the power to hypnotize and mind control humans and treated them more as pawns than friends. He is more obsessed with Toutaku's demise as well and tried to control Hakufu but failed when Toutaku took over. He resolves to atone himself afterwards and has secluded himself in the mountains somewhere. He reappears stopping Koukin from travelling to Kyosho to stop Hakufu from fighting Kanu. When he returns he already goes back to his womanizing ways by flirting with Ryomou, Ryubi, Chouhi and Bashoku at separate points in the anime. He and Ryomou defeat Myosai at the Battle of Chibi. He returns to his womanising ways again at the end of the series.
Gakushuu (樂就): Yue JiuVoiced by: Hajime Iijima (Japanese), Ivan Buckley (English)
A large muscular man with a scary face but a very nice personality. A man of honor to the very core, he prides himself in this and in his rippling muscles but usually gets beaten by all but the weakest of opponents. He is a B-rank and one of the Four Devas. He learned how to use chi blasts after Ryomou blasted him through a wall without even twitching. Despite his strength and training his skill is far poorer than that of Ryomou and Ryofu.
He plays a slightly more important role in the anime than in the manga, serving as a sort of de facto commander when Enjutsu and Saji go silent. He even investigates Enjutsu's odd behaviour and is first to find out he is dead but is captured by Kannei. He gets beaten even more than the manga only to miraculously recover an episode later. He is also shown as liking sweets and even holds a meeting with Koukin in an ice cream shop. In Dragon Destiny he becomes a lot tougher and was able to have an even fight with Myosai. At the end of the series he gets a job in a store, but risks getting fired for throwing a customer through a window when he would not stop harassing a woman.
Kannei Kouha (甘寧 興霸): Gan NingVoiced by: Yoji Ueda (Japanese), Taliesin Jaffe (English)
A pervert and a highly dishonorable fighter but still one of the Four Devas. He specialises in using a pair of tonfas with hidden blades. Myosai used a pressure point move on him that would kill him in ten days. She promised to remove the effect if Kannei would kill Hakufu but he has failed to do this so far. Kannei is briefly seen again in volume twelve so the effect must have worn off by now.
He is crazier in the anime than in the manga and can be best described as a deranged chimpanzee. Saji drives him insane by making him kill Enjutsu. He then hypnotizes Kannei into believing Enjutsu is still alive and gives him orders which he suicidally follows. He is confined to an asylum at the end of the first season where he still remains. However, after Bashoku's framing of Kannei for the death of Kakuka, he mysteriously vanished from this confinement, which lead Koukin and Gakushuu into suspecting Seito may have been involved. His whereabouts as of right now are still unknown and he had no role in the second series.
The presumed deceased former leader of Nanyo and once Toutako's lapdog, a complete weakling at that. Myosai mutilated his face when she attacked Nanyo looking for the Gyokuji. He played a role in Ryubi's first awakening of her dragon three years before the start of the series. Kaku offered to help Enjutsu get revenge on Teifu for pushing him around. They staged a phony video of Enjutsu's henchmen about to rape Ryomou (Kaku disguised as her) and showed it to Teifu, threatening they would go ahead with the rape if he would not obey Enjutsu. When Teifu fell for the trick, Enjutsu sent him to assault Seito and attack Ryubi, eventually leading to her dragon awakening.
Dead before the anime even begins, he is killed by Kannei and only his withered corpse is seen.
Voiced by: Mikako Takahashi
A cute bespectacled junior of the other characters, she has recently joined the Nanyo gang with the intention of helping them beat Sousou. She is skilled in making poisons. According to Lu Xun's history (both in the manga and from other sources), Lu Xun is sometimes credited with the defeat of Guan Yu, not Lu Meng. The manga states that Rikuson defeated Kanu and Ryubi on Ryomou's orders, but history books variably give full credit to either Lu Meng or Lu Xun for coming up with the plan that led to the defeat of Guan Yu's forces (although in any case both are very important to this victory). History also states that Rikuson was Ryomou's protege and eventual successor, which perhaps foreshadows a relationship between the two. This is proven when Hakugen first meets Ryomou. She sprints towards her and hugs her tightly, much to the confusion of Ryomou.
Although she is still a student in Nanyo, Hakugen is only seen with Ukitsu and Choukou in the anime. We find out that she was also trained by Choukou. She was the person who found Hakufu unconscious in a river after her battle with Sousou. She visits Ukitsu's grave with Choukou at the end of the series. She now helps Choukou train young toushi.
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