Blood+/Characters

Saya Otonashi


Tropes associated with Saya:
 * Action Girl
 * Amnesiac Dissonance: Starts out the series amnesiac, and slowly regains her memories over the course of the first two seasons.
 * Animals Hate Her
 * Anti-Hero: Type II --> Type III
 * Big Eater: An instance of Fridge Brilliance: Saya only receives just enough blood to keep from getting thirsty, but her body still needs more energy. Human food isn't quite enough to match up to blood, which is why she burns through calories so quickly and has to eat so much.
 * Break the Cutie
 * Broken Bird: Once she gets her memories back.
 * Cain and Abel: With Diva.
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * : For a while, but she snaps out of it.
 * Despair Event Horizon: She hits it when Diva.
 * Eri Kitamura: Her first famous role.
 * Even the Girls Want Her: Saya seems to have girls crawling into bed with her with alarming frequency.
 * The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With Diva, Saya is the "smart" sister.
 * Good Thing You Can Heal: Takes advantage of it during her final fight with Karl, when she impales herself through the stomach to stab Karl, who was behind her.
 * Happily Adopted: Too bad it doesn't last..
 * Heroic BSOD: A big one after.
 * Hot Chick with a Sword
 * Kari Wahlgren
 * Kiss of Life: Twice with Hagi.
 * Mistress and Servant Boy: With Hagi.
 * Oblivious to Love
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Towards Diva.
 * Ordinary High School Student
 * The Promise: She made Hagi promise her.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Inverted. The red-eyed Saya is the hero pitted against blue-eyed Diva.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Diva's blue.
 * Reluctant Warrior: Big time during season one.
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Kaori and Minh.
 * Talking to Herself: With Diva in the dub.
 * Took a Level in Jerkass: After regaining her memories in the manga. She even flatly tells  she's going to kill him because he's a chiropteran. Considering what she was going through, it's understandable, and she seems to be uncertain about it afterwards. (Still pretty mean, though, Saya.)
 * Unstoppable Rage: Occasionally falls into this in the first part of the series.
 * What Have I Become?
 * Took a Level in Jerkass: After regaining her memories in the manga. She even flatly tells  she's going to kill him because he's a chiropteran. Considering what she was going through, it's understandable, and she seems to be uncertain about it afterwards. (Still pretty mean, though, Saya.)
 * Unstoppable Rage: Occasionally falls into this in the first part of the series.
 * What Have I Become?
 * What Have I Become?

Hagi


Tropes associated with Hagi:
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Bishonen: In the novelization Mao grumbles about how he's so pretty, it's annoying because it's so distracting.
 * Bodyguard Crush: On Saya.
 * Cannot Spit It Out: Surely taking 130 years to tell the woman you love how you feel must be some kind of record?
 * Crispin Freeman
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * : Poor Hagi, his life is so hard.
 * Extreme Doormat: "If that is your wish" is pretty much his Catch Phrase. To the point that Kai calls him out on it.
 * Good Old Ways
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Wait a second... Is that Kamina?!
 * I Am Not Left-Handed
 * Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Taken to ridiculous degrees. Poor Hagi.
 * Improbable Weapon User: A cello case. With a cello in it.
 * Innocent Cohabitation: With Saya, during Time Skip and probably before as well.
 * Instrument of Murder: The cello is more invincible than Hagi is!
 * I Will Wait for You:
 * Katsuyuki Konishi
 * Kiss of Life: Twice with Saya.
 * Knife Nut
 * Mistress and Servant Boy: With Saya.
 * Mr. Fanservice: Lampshaded in the anime when Saya has to infiltrate a Vietnamese boarding school and Hagi poses as a gardener to protect her. Cue squealing fangirls.
 * Mysterious Protector
 * The Promise: Promised to after she kills Diva.
 * The Quiet One
 * Senseless Cellos
 * Slipknot Ponytail: His hair coming loose from its ribbon is invariably a sign that Hagi is taking a nasty beating.
 * Spell My Name with an "S": Hagi or Haji?
 * The Stoic
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome
 * Undying Loyalty
 * Willfully Weak: Suppresses a lot of his natural abilities because when Saya first saw him use them, she was terrified.
 * The Worf Effect
 * You Shall Not Pass
 * Undying Loyalty
 * Willfully Weak: Suppresses a lot of his natural abilities because when Saya first saw him use them, she was terrified.
 * The Worf Effect
 * You Shall Not Pass

George Miyagusuku


Tropes associated with George:
 * Badass Normal
 * Boisterous Bruiser
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Parental Substitute
 * Papa Wolf
 * Supreme Chef
 * Supreme Chef
 * Supreme Chef

Kai Miyagusuku


Tropes associated with Kai:
 * Badass Normal
 * Ben Diskin
 * Big Brother Instinct
 * Emo Teen: At first.
 * Happily Adopted: Both he and Riku were adopted by George.
 * Hiroyuki Yoshino
 * Hot-Blooded
 * Idiot Ball
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: To Saya.
 * Love Hurts: Both romantic and familial.
 * Motorcycle on the Coast Road
 * Not Blood Related: To Saya.
 * Oblivious to Love: Ironically, just as Saya doesn't notice his romantic attraction towards her, Kai doesn't realize that Mao loves him and is confused when she kisses him.
 * Redheaded Hero
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Manly Man to Riku's Sensitive Guy.
 * Took a Level in Badass: After the timeskip.
 * Use Your Head / Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Using a combination of the two is probably his most notable Character Tic in the manga.
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Manly Man to Riku's Sensitive Guy.
 * Took a Level in Badass: After the timeskip.
 * Use Your Head / Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Using a combination of the two is probably his most notable Character Tic in the manga.

Riku Miyagusuku


Tropes associated with Riku:
 * Akiko Yajima
 * Break the Cutie: And oh, it hurts.
 * Children Are Innocent
 * Cross-Dressing Voices
 * Happily Adopted: Like the rest of George's kids.
 * James Bondage: Frequently in the manga.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Kai's red.
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Sensitive Guy to Kai's Manly Man.
 * : In the manga.
 * Took a Level in Badass: Also in the manga.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Kai's red.
 * Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The Sensitive Guy to Kai's Manly Man.
 * : In the manga.
 * Took a Level in Badass: Also in the manga.

David


Tropes associated with David:
 * : With Julia.
 * Badass Normal: "David the Invicible"
 * Good Is Not Nice: He completely pounds Kai early on to teach him a lesson about the kind of world they're in and forces Saya to fight despite knowing it's emotionally breaking her.
 * Drowning My Sorrows: During his BSOD.
 * Heroic BSOD: After.
 * He's Back
 * Salt and Pepper: With Lewis.
 * Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Julia.

Julia Silverstein


Tropes associated with Julia:
 * : With David.
 * Hot Scientist
 * Unresolved Sexual Tension: With David.
 * Hot Scientist
 * Unresolved Sexual Tension: With David.

Lewis


Tropes associated with Lewis:
 * Badass Normal
 * Big Eater
 * Salt and Pepper: With David.
 * Supreme Chef
 * Sunglasses at Night

Joel Goldschmidt VI


Tropes associated with Joel:
 * Crispin Freeman

Aston Collins
Tropes associated with Collins:
 * Steven Jay Blum
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Halfway through season four, he
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Halfway through season four, he
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Halfway through season four, he

Mao Jahana


Tropes associated with Mao:
 * Demoted to Extra: Only appears as a very minor character in the manga, first bullying Saya because she's jealous that she lives with Kai, then recruits Saya to be in the school play in hopes that Kai will come and watch.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: To Kai.
 * Odd Couple: With Okamura.
 * Shipper on Deck: Makes a couple of attempts to set Saya and Kai up during season four.
 * Matchmaker Crush: Despite having feelings for him.
 * Spoiled Sweet
 * Stalker with a Crush: Mao steals four million yen from her mob boss father's untraceable cash stash to follow Kai across the world.
 * Tsundere: Dere for Kai, tsun for everyone else, especially Okamura.
 * Yakuza Princess

Akihiro Okamura


Tropes associated with Okamura:
 * Intrepid Reporter
 * Odd Couple: With Mao.

Diva


Tropes associated with Diva:
 * Akiko Yajima
 * All Women Love Shoes: Rare anime example. She once sees a guy with cute sneakers, kills him, takes said shoes and wore them for the rest of the episode.
 * Bifauxnen: After the timeskip.
 * Big Bad
 * Brown Note: Her singing, oh God.
 * Cain and Abel: With Saya.
 * Cry for the Devil
 * Cute and Psycho
 * Cute Psycho in the Tower
 * Dead Person Impersonation: Tries this on Kai by creepily imitating  as a way to convince him to join her. Doesn't work, though.
 * Double Standard Rape (Female on Male): Completely averted in-story, as  is shown as her Moral Event Horizon crossing.
 * Evil Counterpart: Diva is what Saya would've been like if  (Compare Zoo!Saya to Modern!Diva, for example.) , Saya even holds her hand and calls her "my other half" (Japanese dub only).
 * Evil Diva
 * Evil Twin
 * Face Stealer: Spends much of seasons three and four.
 * Fan Disservice: She gets a Toplessness From the Back shot right before
 * Faux Affably Evil
 * Freudian Excuse
 * The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With Saya, as the "pretty" sister.
 * Kari Wahlgren
 * Light Is Not Good
 * Meaningful Name: Because she, you know. Sings really well.
 * Motive Rant: Gives one to Saya right before they fight at the opera house, in the hopes that her sister would agree and they wouldn't have to kill each other.
 * Not So Different: "No, we're the same!"
 * The Ophelia and Psychopathic Manchild
 * Pimped-Out Dress
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Saya's red.
 * Stalker with a Crush: Poor, poor Riku.
 * Talking to Herself: With Saya in the English dub. Averted in other dubs and in the original.
 * Actually played straight in the original... but with Riku instead of Saya.
 * The Vamp
 * The Vamp

Diva's Chevaliers

 * Blood Brothers: They all share Diva's blood, operate closely together and refer to each other as brothers.
 * Men Of Wealth And Taste
 * One-Winged Angel
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: Their eyes glow red when they pull out the guns.
 * The Renfield
 * Undying Loyalty: Towards Diva, by instinct.

Amshel Goldsmith


Tropes associated with Amshel:
 * The Chessmaster
 * Complete Monster: Probably the most prominent one in the entire series.
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * The Dragon
 * Dragon-in-Chief
 * Evil Genius
 * Face Stealer: First appears, then kills a Red Shield operative and spends the next few episodes disguised as her. And in the last few episodes, he arrives for the final battle to buy time against Saya.
 * Harmless Electrocution:
 * Impaled with Extreme Prejudice:
 * Mad Scientist: He wants to know everything there is to know about chiropterans and will do anything to learn.
 * Mad Scientist: He wants to know everything there is to know about chiropterans and will do anything to learn.

Solomon Goldsmith


Tropes associated with Solomon:
 * Anti-Villain
 * Bishonen
 * Blade Below the Shoulder: His weapon of choice. He shapeshifts his hand into one.
 * Light Is Not Good: Described to have the face of an angel and wears white to symbolize his devotion to Diva., he starts wearing all black instead.
 * Man in White:
 * Parental Favoritism: According to James, he was "Diva's favorite boy."
 * Shapeshifter Weapon
 * Stalker with a Crush: To Saya.
 * Undying Loyalty: Towards Diva.
 * Stalker with a Crush: To Saya.
 * Undying Loyalty: Towards Diva.

Karl Fei-Ong


Tropes associated with Karl:
 * Ax Crazy: Juuuuuust a little bit.
 * The Brute
 * Camp: His flamboyant personality combined with his choices of attire:
 * Malevolent Masked Man: Stylized to look like bat wings
 * Ominous Opera Cape with High Collar of Doom
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: To a point. He wears an ao dai, which isn't exclusively a woman's garment, but it's certainly most common.
 * In Love with Your Carnage: To Saya. Also, it's implied, to Diva.
 * Love Makes You Crazy: To Saya.
 * Quinton Flynn
 * Red Right Hand
 * Stalker with a Crush: To Saya.
 * Tragic Villain: Karl was made a chevalier against his will.
 * The Unfavorite
 * The Unfavorite

James Ironside


Tropes associated with James:
 * The Brute
 * Fantastic Racism: His hatred of the Schiff.
 * Irony: After an encounter with Saya leaves him fatally wounded and unable to regenerate, to stay alive. Doesn't help afterward that Diva loses interest in him.
 * Tragic Villain: Perhaps the only one of Diva's chevaliers to be genuinely devoted to her, Diva.
 * Undying Loyalty: To Diva.

Nathan Mahler


Tropes associated with Nathan:
 * Agent Peacock
 * Anti-Villain
 * Beware the Nice Ones: Despite working for the villains, he's actually quite friendly. But the few times he does threaten someone, it's freaking creepy.
 * Not-So-Harmless Villain
 * Camp Gay
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Insinuates he's probably stronger than James and Amshel.
 * He's probably the single most powerful being to appear in the show, period.
 * Dark Chick
 * Enigmatic Minion
 * Flamboyant Gay
 * Large Ham
 * ... although
 * Obfuscating Stupidity: Drops a big, whopping hint that he was
 * Voice of the Legion
 * Voice of the Legion

Van Argeno


Tropes associated with Van:
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Crispin Freeman
 * French Jerk
 * Genius' Sweet Tooth

The Schiff

 * Anti-Villain
 * Dark and Troubled Past
 * Dark Is Not Evil: They start out as this, then gradually move to being characters of the light.
 * Exotic Weapon Supremacy
 * Pointy Ears
 * Secret Project Refugee Family
 * Super Soldiers
 * The Worf Effect: The Schiff are frequently victims of this.
 * Tragic Dream
 * Undying Loyalty
 * Tragic Dream
 * Undying Loyalty

Moses


Tropes associated with Moses:
 * Bishonen
 * Break the Badass: Goes through this over an episode or two once he realizes that
 * Friendship Moment: With Karman
 * Heroic BSOD: Again,
 * Martial Pacifist
 * Meaningful Name: He inspired the Schiff to escape the research facility where they were created as test subjects.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Karman's red.
 * Sinister Scythe
 * Steven Jay Blum
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Karman.
 * Steven Jay Blum
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Karman.

Karman


Tropes associated with Karman:
 * Break the Badass:
 * Dave Wittenberg
 * Friendship Moment: With Moses
 * The Glasses Come Off: Averted. Karman has his glasses on in every fight he participates in.
 * Jerkass
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite acting like a jerkass towards most of the people he meets, he seems to genuinely care about his fellow Schiff.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Moses's blue.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Moses.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Moses.

Lulu


Tropes associated with Lulu:
 * An Axe to Grind
 * Genki Girl
 * Lara Jill Miller
 * Never Got to Say Goodbye: To
 * Never Got to Say Goodbye: To

Irene


Tropes associated with Irene:
 * BFS
 * Dirty Business: Irene admits to both Ghee and  that she does not want to kill anyone anymore, despite having little choice in the matter.
 * Hyper Awareness: Irene is the only one of the Schiff who possesses this ability, being able to sense any target within a fairly wide distance of herself.
 * Reluctant Warrior
 * Proper Lady
 * Proper Lady

Ghee


Tropes associated with Ghee:
 * Bishonen
 * Broken Bird
 * Dirty Business
 * Elfeminate
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy

Darth


Tropes associated with Darth:
 * Bald of Awesome

Gudrif
Tropes associated with Gudrif:
 * BFS
 * Bishonen
 * The Worf Effect

Kaori Kinjou


Tropes associated with Kaori:
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Saya.

Minh


Tropes associated with Minh:
 * The Cutie
 * Genki Girl
 * Meganekko
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Saya.
 * Woman in White

Muey
Tropes associated with Muey:


 * Genki Girl
 * Inspirationally Disadvantaged